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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 16, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1 the stars and stripes thursday february 16, 19ff labor ignores . Help in election drive London feb. 15 up  dollars and the Marsha plan Al most lost out in this British nations election Campaign. The labor government would have been in a bad Way Wilhour them but the labor Campaign plat form does not mention . Aid a All. Labor orators do not talk about it much either. Winston Churchill and Bis conservative party campaigners Are scolding labor for that. The Liberal party no. 3 in British politics also is making an Issue of . Aid. Ash acknowledgement conservatives and liberals Tell voters labor s socialist program would have been swamped by unemployment sub marginal diet anti economic stagnation but for Aid from overseas. What they demand is that labor s leaders frankly acknowledge the effect of . Aid and More import ant explain How they will prevent economic disaster when the mar shall plan ends in 1952. Labor has not answered that one. British Campaign platforms Are called manifestos. The Liberal party manifesto Lor the feb. 23 National election for a new House of com Mons says the generous help we have received from our Commonwealth partners and the United states has helped us immeasurably but it will not Long continue. Full production we Are living beyond our Means. Unless we practice Thrift and get full production lower rations and mass unemployment Are inescapable when american Aid  Churchill is slugging harder than that he told . Authorities Dur ing the War that when peace came Britain would be bankrupt and now holds that Only . Aid prevented bankruptcy and enabled labor to carry on its socialistic program. Dec television film Tob shown sunday in Frankfurt Casino Frankfurt feb. 15 is i Christma television the film produced by pid Neucom Here last december and telecast in the states during the Christmas holidays will he Given its first Neucom showing at 9 pro sunday in the  room of the Frankfurt Casino. Col David m. Fowler chief of the Public information. Division Neucom has extended an invitation to All participants tvs air friends and others interested in the film to View the showing. The cast consisted of armed forces personnel department of the army and Hico civilians and dependents. The film was made by the army signal photographic co 7796, unit no 1, under the direction of Paul e. Welsh chief pid Neucom. Rear with the cooperation of Harold a. Williams of the Baltimore Sun. The film was made in the Frank Hurt Casino through the cooperation of Frankfurt military Post. Kidnap suspect counterpart a id fund released for Berlin sgt John t. Frankey 29, of Madison wis., and another to a. Soldier have admitted receiving about $270 from a soviet sponsored Kidnap ring for abducting a viennese civilian. Army authorities Are trying to determine if they can be charged with working for a foreign Power. In Berlin feb. 15 is . Officials announced Here that Ber Lin s Marshall plan advisory com Mittee held its second meeting at Hico Berlin element he follow ing the release by the West Ger Man Federal Republic of the City s promised 100,000,000 Marks in Ega counterpart funds. The funds totalling 5,000,000 Marks More than the originally planned allocations were turned Over directly to the Berlin industries Ank which is completing preparations to allocate the credits to specific projects. Howard v. Jones acting Deputy commissioner of Hico Berlin element described the meeting As highly  Jones said City government economists Are now drafting a program of Alloca Tion for an additional Grant of 65, 000,000 Marks to be supplied when the initial Grant has been fully Al located. He predicted that the released funds will bring about an increase in production and a decrease in unemployment in West Berlin by  the advisory committee meeting was held under the chairmanship of or. Paul Hertz City government economic expert skor Zeny stay Jeanette 2, flying t to i t to parents in .inr ran Elegal Europe Waits 400, new York feb. 15 a . Tourist travel to Europe expected i break All records this year has already begun its 1950 upward swing. The american express co re ports a new upsurge in february and March cruise bookings with some lines sold to near capacity. Thousands of holy year travel ers Are swelling the Normal flow of tourists. In addition Continental festivals Are expected to draw rec Ord numbers. We expect More than 400,000 american visitors to the 17 coun Ries represented by the commis Ion and we Are All set to receive hem said Arthur Haulot presi Dent of the european travel Corn tourist commissioner lieutenant to be tried monday in 3 Auto deaths Heidelberg feb. 15 special first it David a Tucker of Hei Delberg military Post will be tried by a general court martial in Hei Delberg monday the Neucom judge advocate division announced. Tucker is charged with Feloni Ousby and unlawfully killing three germans by hitting them with his Uio Mobile Jan. 8, 1950, near the Csc Unity of Bissau in the French zone i Mission and it Belgium. Haulot revealed that member lations on the commission agreed after 3 series of conferences to eliminate Many Border restrictions. Customs inspections have been seeded up and currency controls eased he said. Hulot said steamship and air lines consider that the european tourist season has been extended two months. This Means that april and May will be full fledged travel months this year for the first time in history he said. Col Lee assigned to dec engineers Heidelberg feb. 15 special col Willis a Teale chief Engineer Neucom has announced the arrival of col Richard Lee and Bis assign intent As chief of operations Branch Engineer division., Lee had been Engineer for the it. Peck engr District in Montana. His wartime assignments included service As executive officer. It. Belvoir va., from March 1941 to june 1944 staff work with 10th array from june to october 1944 Island Engineer new Caledonia and Engineer for the Southwest Pacific base command until july 1945. A graduate of the . Military Academy in 1918, Lee is the grandson of Charles Carter Lee a brother of Gen Robert e. Lee. Versailles feb. 15 a police have seized memoirs by Otto skor Zeny the former German Colo Nel who rescued Mussolini from an italian prison it was san ounces yesterday. Skor Zeny disappeared monday after a communist newspaper published a photograph showing him strolling with a girl on the champs i sees. The Interior ministry which controls foreigners in France had nothing to say about him except that he was not on any War criminalist. Investigation showed police said that he entered France legally. Versailles police said he had been living in a boarding House at St g0rmain-en-Laye, just outside Paris used the name Rolf Steiner and said he was working for . News papers. Skor Zeny had been living in Argentina. Left for Rome monday he left for home., Accord ing to Bic Story police got from boarding House keepers saying he return in a few Days. In his room police found two overcoats two heavy Valise and part of to memoirs written in German. Authorities said they turned their attention to skor Zeny at the request of their espionage Agency after the newspaper be soil published a photograph of him and accused French officials of being lax in permitting Horn to enter the country. 3 winners listed in photo contest Augsburg feb. 15 special the three winners of the Augsburg military Post Competition in the 1950 Neucom photography contest have been announced. Cpl Robert Mills of the 7815th Sci won first prize with his dome of  Mills received $25 in Cash. On Parade a photo of 3d army Cav regt tanks passing in review won second place for Cpl Victor a. Martin also of the 7815th Sci. Third place went to Richard Turk yes warehouse employee for his last Lap an action shot of a motorcycle race. As their Valentine Frankfurt feb. 15 is Little miss Valentine took Olf for the . From Rhine main Airport yesterday aboard an american overseas airlines plane. She is. 2-year-old Jeanette mar Kunas who is travelling More than 3,000.miles from Vienna to deliver herself As a personal Valentine to her daddy sex i Joseph p. Mar Kunas of Baldwinn a. It Bijj be a Happy reunion Lor Markunas and his austrian War Bride with their Liny daughter whom they sent last summer to stay with her maternal grandmother in Vienna while they struggled to overcome bad health and a had financial situation. More than a year ago Markunas was stricken with periodic attacks of tuberculosis that hospitalized him and forced mrs. Markunas to find a Job. This left the baby with out proper care so she was sent to her grandmother in Vienna. Recently the picture changed. A philanthropist organization for disabled veterans provided the mar in Nases a new Home on a rent free basis on Long Island and the parents wrote for Jeanette to be sent Back to them Aoa helped out by bringing Jeanette up from Vienna in a plane assigned to Michael George Aoa assistant sales Mauf Igei. And when the transatlantic flight left Rhine main Jeanette had five Aoa personnel looking after her two stewardesses and three airline employees returning to new York. 19 finish Etc course Kitzinger feb. 15 special Nineteen soldiers were graduated in the 14th instructor trainee class at the Kitzinger training Center. They were presented course completion certificates by it col Wil Iam h. Mickelsen Etc executive officer. Teann Swiss weigh new German tourism Bern feb. 15 a negotiations Are in. Progress Between the Swiss and West German govern ments for resumption of German tourist traffic to Switzerland it was Learned Here. The Swiss government is under stood to have suggested that the West German Republic should permit an annual expenditure of $1,400,800 by German visitors to Switzerland germans formed the largest con Tingent of foreign tourists toswit2erland until hitter came to Power in 1933.passion play i Olteia garm1sch, feb. 15 special a monthly lottery has been decided on to distribute passion play tickets to Garmisch military Post person Nellt col Edward e. King Post is announced. Bonn trying trial balloon on steel boost Bonn feb. 15 ins the West German Cabinet decided last night to ask the Western allies to boat the present steel production quota i of 11,000,000 tons annually a mow which a . Official termed v trial  the official member of the Raj High commission said the Ger mans apparently wanted to be How far the Western allies wore inclined to give in to the German on controversial issues. Economic experts attached to the commission said that if a request were made it will require a Thor Ough study for a Long time Asea Issue with International Complick  unemployment question . Officials expected the Ger mans to base their request at i at in part on grounds that a higher steel production rate was to stave off unemployment. A German Cabinet said West German steel Mills Wen now producing at Levels near the 11,000,000 level set by the v.&, Britain and France in 1947, age asserted capacity was increasing. . Experts were s of e w h at surprised by these statements. On High ranking High Colum Siai member said there had in steady decline in steel pro duet. Since last August s High and Uhi had been of More concern us tint allies than the problem of increasing the quota. Bonn to debate formation of Federal police Bureau Bonn feb. 13 is formats of a Federal police Bureau with the West German government wine debated by members of the f Cabinet next tuesday Interior Man j ister  Heinemann disclosed. The Bureau would act As a Clearinghouse for the compilation an filing of Cri Miraj police record and Aid in the detection of it would not have executive Heinemann said the propose Bureau should not be compared to the former  he said it would function Sua Itterly to the records and labor Atory sections of the Federal Bureau of investigation la the 12th to co gets award Stuttgart feb. 15 special for having attained the highest standards in administration supp a training and technical proficient Over the Lart Quarter of 1949, la constabulary s 12th to co it kor Westheim has been authorised the excellence award from Eunok. U. Of Maryland reinforcements for dec University of Maryland assistant registrars arrive at Rhine mate air base. They Are left to right mrs. Verne e. Chattha mrs. Leu Mayer and mrs Ralph Lun Hury. They will assist their Hatsuu who Are engaged in the Extension program in the Mone. Is  
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