European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 2, 1950 the stars and stripes Page s Jet b in it hit h a. Tbs 10&n or of e f la in the zones . Centers in Berlin win Praise her Lin feb. 1 Sasi Ralph Nicholson direct , Hocog office of pubic affairs his toured  information and Reorg Tanta Ion Cen ters in Berlin. Nicholson a noised work a Tomiji Ishad in the Center. Speaking briefly at America House n c h o j o n lauded the "open-mmdednes.1 Han i people in West  seeds for 4h clubs Vienna feb a .s&5 packages containing enough assorted Garden eeds to raise a in s Supply of Vegelahn or a family of five wih soon be Given to austrian 4h club Tamberi by the american Friend service Ommittee it was announced jest Day. Distribution will be made immediately Filer arrival of the seeds from new York gift of the seeds will make possible a 4h Garden project or 1350, with prizes being awarded to the bust truck of rovers. Murder admitted Berlin feb. 1 an e2 year old British Schmor resident his confessed to the murder of his 75-year-old wife last saturday i h a Hatchet. Police said Emil Zimmer admitted burning the body of his wife Dora in their Kitchen stove after he had felled her with a Hatchet following a quarrel Over what to do with the funds in their recently unblocked Bank account. Charred Bones and bloodied hits of clothing were found in he Slove. Zimmer was arrested the Day of the murder several hours after he had reported his a Ife As missing. I refugee boy aided Munich fire. 1 is the Elk City Extension club of Valley neb., has selected a Fugee child in Degendorfe As most deserving of financial support by club members for period of one year. Selected is 14-year-old Gunther thaing a refugee from Silesia and one of nine children. The Mother of the family is dead and the lather is hospitalized. Gunther will remain in his present borne receiving Only financial and material Aid. Far the past two years the Nebraska club id been supporting b French boy through donations of food and clothing. Recently uie boy s Mother informed the club that she was Able to resume full financial support of the buy. Post pay hailed Vienna. Feb. 1 is off Jacial no Iii a  in International by Iii is i Cibu Over the Sale of  j i  of . Army sur plus jute p in. Tri l a French a my. A you  to i of of Fob 2 1 has hoi i of i l Oji i officials ii 5, for vie pro him iary hearing Ujj the  l he of i la. liar Jos pie Erix d  a inn a or Noa. . Leu i buy his i Uimer of the dimes for a worthy cause of these Brand new dimes counted out on the table Are part of a consignment of flown Over from the states to Aid the March of  ramp Ign in a Wie Styden carnival. Counting them arc left to rim  Ediar b. Stansbury. Wife of u col Edgar � Stansbury  of personnel service to Safe mrs. Robert w. Douglass jr., wife of maj Gen Robert w. Douglass jr., Safe chief it Slak and Mai Gen Harold r. Harris retired vice president and general manager of american overseas Ai Linca. Is Imioto by Curvan employer British businessman George Dawson. Meanwhile a mysterious British visitor George Chatterton arrived by plane in Frankfurt from England for a conference with District at Torney w Fred Johnson on Hie ca5 one of Munich s biggest postwar murder trials opened before a German Crim Inal court Here. Defendant Johann Miller 37, a journalist is accused of two murders that of a member of an is patrol in Taly during the War and the 1947 slaying of a refugee woman in the Woods outside Munich. Mijer is accused of murdering the woman in order to get her jewelry and of ransacking her apartment in Paderborn. Later it was alleged. He returned to Paderborn to Force the dead woman s daughter to give him some furs and jewelry but this attempt was unsuccessful. Miller was arrested dec. 6, 1948. The trial is expected to last about a week. More than 45 witnesses Are scheduled to appear. Gya Craft con lest Berlin feb. 1 is approximately 15,000 Berlin youths Are competing in the handicraft contest sponsored by the Berlin military Post Gya suction. Act Ordinor to Cape j. Zuko Tii Post Gya officer an additional 10,000 Are expected 10 enter before the coolest closes on May 7 when the final judging will be held at the a us Der jugend. Entries winning first prizes in each of the our age groups of the 14 categories will be sent to Munich for Zon Owide Competition May 23-33. # air lift to Tripoli Wiesbaden feb. 1 t special the list Carrier Wing a Rhine main air Rise h n a i sport ing , Soufl and maintenance Rorsi Hrvol a to Uris gunnery n of now by Ini.  Ivy she 21 air div a we Ehui air base Tripoli. Ail rail for the to Gnu hnve1  i ii nlvi1 both j.5e till and Olst Tcori a on Jan. 15. Tie initial move was made with six cs4 sky masters and five cs2 flying boxcars. Rhine main s participation in the current meet has been Coordie naked b maj w. E. Cory of win he id quarters. In the fifth to Carrier in the initial move was supervised by col Jay d Bogue operations officer assisted by capt Rissell a Miller. Operations for the list were in died by Moj w. L. Gibbons a misled by Cut n. T. Lawrence of the 14i h to Carrier so. Embezzler jailed Augsburg feb. 1 special a former yes employee was sen tended to two years imprisonment by the . District court for embezzling $12, 75.40 in pm funds. Lorenz Schev Tiggart a German employee who had been in charge of a fund in the main pm Here pleaded guilty to the charge. Schwaighart who was arrested by army agents after a Check of this accounts disclosed the shortage he convened the dollars into 70,000 or 80,000 Marks. He testified be lost the Money gambling in Munich Wiesbaden and Augsburg casinos. When caught he had Only 100 Marks left. 2d Cav Banks pay Augsburg. Feb. 1 special co Stab he reports have disclosed that the troopers of the 2d amid Cav regt Are leading All co Stab units in Soldier deposits. The 2d regt had 523,905 entered on the monthly report followed by the 6lh a with a total of $15.465. Third place went to the 34th regt with $6,630. The 2d regt had a grand total of $71.000 fur the last three months. Deposits during the preceding six months totalled $�0,000. Tidies in a Criden t Stuttgart feb. 1 specie pfc Donald l. Keef or. Of to a 97th Sig so was killed Jan. 24 in the Karlsruhe area when the jeep he Way driving turned Over the constabulary Provost marshal office announced. A passenger sgt Robert w. Scott also of to a was thrown Clear and suffered a broken left Arm and minor lacerations. Neucom conference urged to aim for efficient personnel Heidelberg i b. I special substandard j Erson nol should in wooded out from among . Army officers enlisted men and civilian employee. In the dec to provide a More efficient . Occupation Forre operating on pared Down budgets speakers told a conference if go and 51 representatives at Neucom he. The conference was one of a series to be conducted quarterly by it editor joins Hico Public affairs staff Neucom personnel and administration division to discuss policies and projects affecting military and civilian personnel of . Army Europe. Discussions covered the personnel Field intruding jul a topics As re Newal of officers Tours of duty career guidance plans for enlisted men employment policies Bath . And German civilians. Forecasts on the number of . Of Uji Ilies coming to Germany be of l Wakkur Central welfare funds. Mart registration of motor vehicles Huebner guest of Honor a highlight of the conference  luncheon held in the can room of the Neucom Casino attended by 65 guests from both the a a division and subordinate command conferences. I Gen Clarence h. Huebner cd . Army Europe was guest of h inor at the luncheon in welcoming the group of 35 Usa eur personnel officers to the meeting col John b. Murphy director of the Neucom personnel and administration division presented feature items of the worldwide a i conference he attended in Washington d. C., Early in january. With army budgets continuing to be curtailed All measures to improve efficiency must be fully explored and Good management principles maintained Murphy asserted limited recruiting disciplinary repeaters should be swept from the enlisted ranks in Neucom he said. No further it Bujor reductions in the army officer corps is contemplated but in renewing categories of Reserve officers on Active duty Only those with outstanding qualifications will be retained. Recruiting will be extremely limited in Neucom this year. All requests for extensions of Tours of overseas service will be referred to Neucom he for a decision. Disciplinary record of the applicant will be sent to Headquarters along with the request. Heretofore com Manders have had authority to Grant overseas your extensions. Individual me i in reviewing the army s new pol Ity on negro troops Murphy said Alj soldiers will be selected for schools on the basis of individual Merit and noncommissioned offi cers in career Fields will be chosen without regard to race or color. Negroes who have one of 40 critical military occupation specialities May if qualified be assigned to White units needing such specialists.  fund available to Neucom agencies such As the troop information and education division May be Cut Back this year because of decreases in revenues. Murphy said. Earnings from Post exchanges Are expected to drop be cause of increasing compel Ilion from German and european stores uni markets. Sales of alcoholic beverages in Neucom outlets i so have been falling in recent months. M Atout covers of juicers pm civilians Vienna Jor ,., so fat e u in e n t a r to who eighth or school a in by 81 he c to it men in. For a five Ifni Vienna  i Washington feb. I Sas Shephard Stone  sunday editor of the new York times a officially begun his duties As Deputy director of the office at Public affairs Hocog. Stunt took the oath of office at m informal ceremony in the presence of High commissioner John a. Mccloy and Henry a. Byroade. Director of the Bureau of German affairs of he state department. Mccloy in welcoming Stone to his staff expressed his and thai of the state department to the new York times Eor its co open Alion in extending a leave of absence to Stone. Expert on German problems Sune wih go to Frankiin Mccloy this week to assume his Post As Deputy of Ralph Nicholson. Director of the office of Public affairs. Stone has Ell ready spent three months in Germany As a consultant to Mccloy. Stone was born in Nashua n. H. End was graduated from Dartmouth. In 1929. He received his pm. D. A european history from the univer sity of Berlin to 1933 after graduate work at the University of Heidel Berg and the University of Berlin. He wrote on foreign affairs and in particular on German problems for the new York times until 1942. He then entered the intelligence staff of the 1st army serving in England. Normandy and Germany until the end of the War. He obtained the rank of lieutenant colonel. Stone remained in Germany until the beginning of 19-Lti in order to assist the army in establishing in formation services in Western Germany. He returned to the Timea in 1040. . Reading room opened in Hamburg Frankfurt feb. 1 say the first America House Reading room to be established by Hico outside the . Zone has been opened in Hamburg. The ceremony marked the begin Ning of s plan for interchanging i n f orm a t Ion Center and Reading room facilities in the British French arid american Rones mrs. In Delden chief of i centers Bruin a Saul. Speakers at the  in the new Reading room a no. Fees Lanade were cd. Charles h. Jeffs. Us. Land commissioner for Bre men  Prauer mayor us a n Bur. And Duncan d Macbri be chief Public affairs div upon olb slip Cifuen. Others part i in Itin in Tho Coroi Nuiry a Sre Robert t.  a in . L on ills ii Ai at Hamburg or.    Rod chief Fuk ii1coc Etui a Ion and civil Uril division Ami mrs. Denu foil i v i a if  Islip. B .-.-a-?r