European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 8, 1950 the stars and stripes Page s with ordnance teams testing private cars conducting safety  of Prii lately owned . And Allied vehicles in Frankfurt in accordance with Neucom directives Are teams from the 78fi5th Ord Mam co. At the Hudder Theira inspection , Sec John a Morris i my dispensary is met upon arrival by get Robert Wooley the takes Over the car for the first tests of Horn Windshield wiper and brakes. The Point can handle 400 cars & Day. Cpl Jack c. Overstreet guides the Driver Over the grease pit far pfc Larver c. Capps to inspect tie rods Muffler Ana underside of car. Next comes tests on headlights Stop lights and License Light. Vie Bernard a. Rayno adjusts testing equipment designed by the Ftp care gives germans gift of $250,000 Frankfurt feb. 7 is the care Mission to Germany announced yesterday the gift of an additional 250.000 Worth of dividend food and textile parcel to the German people. Thia brings the total of such dividend gifts to 11,607,000 during the past three and a half years. Germany. Lik other countries where care operates receives dividend parcels in proportion to its total care volume. Normal de livery of Carfi parcels in Gar Many has totalled Well Over j50, 000,000. The dividend gifts represent the few cents per parcel difference Between the amount the donor pays for a gift parcel and the actual Cost of contents and delivery care said. Provides financial pad this procedure is followed to provide a financial Cushion Aga Irisi Price changes and business conditions but under care s non profit policy All such extra Money is ultimately distributed to recipient countries in the form of additional parcels or other Merchand ise. These dividends Are distributed strictly on a basis of need through German welfare groups and through the american Relief organizations which make up care. During the past year particular attention has been paid to the Mil Lions of refugees and exp Ellees in Germany the local Mission said. Student held in Art probe Hamburg feb. 7 up hundreds of paintings and etchings by Albrecht Durer Rembrandt and other renowned artists were being painstakingly checked by Artex perts Here As police questioned their alleged owner to find out where he got them. Host Stark 25-year-old East Ger Man Art student gave himself up to police thursday after a two month International manhunt had jailed to locate him. Four caches of Art objects valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars Lead meanwhile been turned up by he police search. The 200 paintings and etchings thus far examined came from the first Cache uncovered by police at the Home of Stark s girl Friend Minlu Fleck. Later Stark s Mother handed a number of paintings Overto police another suitcase full of museum pieces was located in an attic and finally a whole trunk crammed with nearly 1,500 items was found in a Lubeck Bank the same Day Stark surrendered m Arthur says soviet holds 400,000 japs Tokyo feb. T ins Gen Douglas Macarthur has released a lengthy report slating that More than 400,000 japanese prisoners of War remain in soviet hands living in squalor in prison Camps and subjected to constant communist indict air Atri Oti. The last official statement made by the russians claimed that 90,000 japanese War prisoners remain to be repatriated. Macarthur s report was issued in answer to a request from col w. R. Hodgson australian Delegate on the Allied Council for  wants the repatriation question kept on the Agenda de spite the fact that soviet die Gate it Gen Kuzma n. Derevyanko has walked out of the last two Council meetings when the subject was brought up for  detailed report based upon searching investigation and close questioning of returned prisoners said that the number of missing japanese ranges Between 48,729 supreme Headquarters figures take into consideration the reportedly High morality rate in some of the soviet Camps. It said malnutrition overwork cold and disease combined to cause a mortality rate of 60 per cent in some instances. ". Reports from returnees round out a picture of abject mis Ery in which japanese internees found themselves obliged to exist everywhere they were forced u perform heavy manual labor while the food issued was both meager and lacking in nourishment the report said the inevitable result of the conditions of starvation Over crowding and filth was that the sickness rate soared and finally assumed epidemic , in making his request said that consideration by the Council of the repatriation problem despite soviet absence has helped to Cocos world opinion upon it an contributed to the return of 5,000 prisoners this Winter. Rhinelander open gayest carnival since end of War Dusseldorf feb. 7 up More than 5,000 Carefree germans jammed Dusseldorf s Rhine Hall to Toast the election of Prince carnival Karl Korling. A 40-year old liquor Salesman and to drown their business and financial Wor Ries in a Cataract of Champagne. While hundreds of cars stood outside in dismal rain their owners laughed danced and drank their Way into the most hilarious Carni Val season the Rhineland has known since the War. Champagne was 2 Marks a Glass but most revellers preferred to drink it by the bottle. Six Well stocked bars retailed a Large selection of dutch and German liqueurs bottles of Champagne lined the Balcony railings As officials form ally declared the carnival season opened. Young american Singer re signs for Vienna opera Vienna feb. 7 is George London Young american Singer who won rave notices in the Vienna press in operas last year before returning to the states has signed a new five month contract with the Vienna state opera it is been Learned Day. London May give a few perform ances Here this june before restarts his contract with the opera in the fall. He also plans to take part in the Edinburgh festivals in Scotland this summer. Hico issues prison journal Frankfurt feb. 7 is one thousand copies of the first Issue of Zei Fach rift fur  the prison journal have been distributed to German prison officials throughout the . Zone the Hocog division office of the Gen Era counsel  new monthly Magazine is designed primarily for the 5,000 prison and parole workers who have daily Contact with prisoners. The first Issue of 64 pages carries articles on the latest penal method used in . Prisons and Germany s use of modern ideas on parole and penology. A Story on the Straubing prison in Bavaria initiates a series of articles on German penal in  journal is financed and published by Hocog with Edgar m. Gerlach Deputy chief of the prisons division As editorial adviser and or. Alfred Mai As chief editorial assistant. State parole boards and officials of the Federal ministry of Justice constitute the editorial staff army identifies Soldier killed by parked truck Heidelberg. Feb. 6 special Neucom he. Has released the name of the enlisted Man killed thursday when the car in which he was Riding collided with a parked truck and trailer la aug  was . So co 2d army Cav regt. Surviving him is his Mother mrs. Susie Wil Liams of Kansas City. F some of the final paper work is done a the vehicle registrar s Fulce. Here w. B. Hooker Glits Morris certificates to sign after the Fety inspection certificate has been issued. 4 v 45 so cd f a. F a l Jysk ibs a we i two a approximately four out of five cars need Chau Light adjustment and Elliis service is performed on the spot in preference to having car owners make a return trip. His  cum Plutt a a d All papers signed. Morris o License plates Cost of registering the plates is f l. Here is feb Fena