European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday february 17, 1950 of f Icia asserts Dep y pm sex Pisa cats soviet agents by win fanning so correspondent Ulm feb. 16 to a the russians Are using returned pcs As agents to work underground in Western Ger Many a repatriation official charged Here yesterday. According to Konrad Eckert director of the pm processing Cente Here Many returning pcs from Russia have failed to show up a 1heir Homes Afier being processed through the do Camp. In some cases prisoners in units not eligible for repatriation from the russian pm Camps have taken the names of dead or missing com rades to enable them to get on shipping lists Eckert stated. Disappearances most of these men reveal their True names upon arrival Here but some through lingering fear of authority do not establish their True identities until they reach of Weir Homes. However in Many cases the deception has a much More sinister motive the director disclosed. Disappearances Between this Center and the presumed destination of returnees Are much higher than you May think Eckert said. Despite an intensive search not single disappearance has been solved by Trieste police quell strikers Trieste feb. 16 up several persons were injured yesterday Whan an estimated 18,4 00 com pm isl led strikers attempted to torm be City Hall of the Anglo 17j5. Zone Here j the strikers were turned Back by. Italian police working under esders f of British and us officers. Police had to turn fire hoses on the strikers before they dispersed. Several other minor incidents Between police and sinkers were reported As the 43-hour general strike Drew to its scheduled close at Midnight. Leea while the City and its port were completely paralysed. All bops and offices were closed. Bail Way service was partially suspended and the Harbor was at a standstill. Several . Ships which tried to unload Marshall plan Aid ship ments for Austria left for alternate ports after they were unable to discharge their cargoes. Dry drinks to be sold in pcs Kuhnberg feb. 2fi special Canada dry products including Giager ate soda and soft drinks Moll be som a the dec about March 1 at Frankfurt Wiesbaden. Heidelberg and Wetzlar Post exchanges the Neucom Exchange system announced. Bail Saip mints from the bottling company in Frankfurt will be made to other exchanges where volume warrants officials said. Retail prices not including cooperage de posits follow a Case of 24 six ounce bottles $1.20 a Case of 24 12-ounce bottles $�20. Conservatives take Lead in us poll col fan i l. Singer has been designated Deputy Provost mar Shal Neucom succeeding Brig or Hnorman Schwarzkopf who is going to Italy. Army photo nazi baby plan bared at trial Munich feb. 16 a Heinrich Himmler s former chief of staff testified in a German court yester Day that every is Man was ordered in Lio to father a child before Biog to the front. Paul Wolff the Gestapo s chief of staff said the order was issued by Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess. Wolffs statement was made Dur ing the trial of seven germans for alleged participation in the nazi program of mass production of children for the the order to father a child be fore going to the front did not apply to the wehrmacht but to the Sonly Wolff said we feared that he population would be disturbed if it were extended to the Wehr Macht. As ii was women vigorously opposed the order the seven defendants Are accused of having operated child bearing rare is at which unmarried women were induced to Bear children by approved specimens of pure Ryan manhood1. One of them. Max Sollman Testi red that about 6,000 children were win to norwegian women on such farms in Norway. The children he said were brought to Germany and distributed among German families to be raised As germans. A letter from one of the doctors connect text with the was introduced in Evi Dence yesterday. Addressed to Soll Man it suggested a plan to Send norwegian women to Germany for use in baby Breeding. Sollman a former is officer denied he had any influence in the Leben born organization in nor Way. Craft contest Nurnberg feb. 16 special the flaming sword service club Patton Barracks in Heidelberg is staging a Craft contest during february. Deadline for entries is feb. 21, to be followed by judging on feb. 24. �1 win 2o.ooo Toto schillings Vienna feb. 16 is a Ufa first sergeant picked 12 winning teams and won 20,000 schillings in last week s Tolo the austrian gov in nonet s soccer lottery. First sgt Carl e. Staab det a w63d Sig operations in whose Home is in York. Pa., said he had invested Only two schillings 20 Groschen a few cents in Toto. Which involved soccer games i Britain France and Italy. He is the first american known in Austria to in the lot Tery similar to . Football pools. Staab will have to give 25 per cent of his winnings to the aus Trian government for taxes. London feb. 16 up the conservatives led the socialists by 21 per cent in a poll published in the conservative daily mail. The poll conducted for the Mai by the Bureau of commercial re search forecast these returns in the feb. 33 general election i conservative 37.2 per cent socialist 34.7 per cent Liberal 8.5 i per cent Don t know 10.3 per cent won t say or won t vote 8.4 per cent others .9 per cent. The mail said the poll was a objective record of How a representative Cross Section of the people said they would vote in the elections but that it cannot and does not presume to be an entirely accurate forecast of the result the Bureau s poll was Only .2 per cent off in predicting the socialist Victory in 1m5, the mail said. On the basis of these figures the mail said the conservatives Wouldhave a majority of 62 parliamentary seats. However it warned one false step by either major party could sweep their opponents into the latest poll published by the conservative daily express showed the tories and socialists even and the last Gallup poll carried in the Liberal news chronicle gave the socialists a l to per cent Lead. Philadelphian s letter protests us nationalizing London feb. 16 a the London evening Standard published a Tetter of protest from a Philadel phia taxpayer yesterday against the Way the labor government was spending his Money. The letter signed by George Raymond Allen of Lansdowne said our Money which goes to eng land is being used at least in part in Aid of nationalizing British Industry. That we abhor. Our Money in the. United state Sis being made by individual enter prise and our wealth has been accumulated by the same is what made England great. It will do it again but never under two sinn seiners conduct Campaign from prison Belfast feb. 16 a the old sinn fein party s two candidates for the British parliament Are writ ing their Campaign speeches in Bel fast prison. The candidates Hugh Mcateer of Londonderry and James sleeve of West Belfast Are serving sentences on treason Are conducting their campaigns. The Northern Ireland Home ministry announced that the candidates May be visited once by their agents to discuss election strategy and turn Over addresses they Are preparing. They demand that British troops be withdrawn from Northern Ireland and that Ulster unite politically with the Irish Republic. Austria Parley stalled by Russ London feb. 16 ins the meeting of big four deputies As signed to work out an austrian peace treaty broke up yesterday when the soviet Delegate announced he had no information from mos cow on procedure. The soviet Delegate Georgi Zarubin said he has received no instructions on the Progress of negotiations Between Moscow and Vienna on payments by Austria to the user for services rendered since the War. The deputies scheduled another meeting for March 1, although . Sources said Zarubin plugged for an earlier meeting without setting an exact Date. Trial opens for i in hit run death Heidelberg feb. 16 is the prosecution opened the hit run driving court martial of Cpl John k. Wisniewski today with testimony from four German witnesses and three army agents. German witnesses testified to discovering the body of Wilhelm Klein German labourer near sul Livan Barracks. They said Klein was dead when they reached him and the bicycle he was Riding was smashed. Army agents testified that Wisniewski was taken into custody at Sullivan Barracks handmade a statement in connection with the traffic fatality. Wisnie Wati is accused of having struck Klein while driving an army staff car which he allegedly took from a Mannheim motor Pool without permission. Gen Horkan to be guest at Munich pm luncheon Munich feb. 18 is maj Gen George a. Hor an pm chief Neucom will at the bavarian o luncheon tomorrow the luncheon Tell beheld at the Munich pm depot Home of the chapter at 12 3f pm. Guest of Honor inter pm Assn. Aunt says Cecile Fiance planned to live in East zone Berlin feb. Is a american Secretary Cecile von Goelz and a penniless Young Germa planned to live in the soviet zone forever until communist police frightened them the youth s aunt said yester Day. A they were so in love was mrs. Margarete Heimbeck s description of her Nephew Kurt Tacken Berg 21, and his 25-year-old girl Friend from Washington. It is. A pity that Kurt was so Young and did not have a Job and o Only had one suit the aunt continued. They both had marriage in mind but. There were such difficulties. They tried their Luck in the soviet zone from mid november until Jan. 31they would have stayed there forever just to be together but police questioned them about allegations of espionage and some miss von Goetz formerly on the staff of the Allied military Security Board returned to the . Last week following charges for illegal residence in Germany. Cecile s Mother in Washington used to Send Money from time to time and this i changed into East Marks and forwarded to the Young ones. They had no other funds. Those must have been hard Days. When the two of them came Back Here they were downright exhausted and desperate. Cecile bad not tried to hide her american nationality although she spoke German like a German. Pm killed when train brushes him off coach Munich feb. 16 special an enlisted Man was killed Here when a moving train brushed him from the outside platform of a Sec Ond train moving on a parallel track. He was a member of the 558th Ord Mam co. The Emen route to Dachau from Munich was trying to make his Way to a Forward car by hugging the outside step of the rear coaches. His identity was withheld pending notification of Kin. Gaming addict sentenced for embezzling Frankfurt feb. 16 s&5 the maximum penalty of three years in prison was meted out in . District court yesterday to a German accountant who put id cd guilty to embezzling nearly $1$, and 6,200 Marks irom the funds o a , army unit and gambling it All away at the bad Homburg Casino Rou Letalu tables. Judge John j. Speight said he was not impressed with err St a. Eckhardt s defense that the embezzlement was made easy for him because no audit or Check was mud of his accounts by his army super visors during the 14 months of his Peru Latsons Eckhardt 31, & former War Pris Oner told the court gambling be came an obsession with him by cause it was so easy to cover Hij losses by taking . Scrip and Marks from the Safe of the Mph tary train Supply office transportation division Neucom. Maximum penalty prosecutors w. Fred Johnson Ond John w. Mcdonald jr., to emended the maximum penalty because of the size of the embezzlement. Meanwhile. Johnson and Mcdonald prepared to bring so Tri to next tues Day another German accountant who confessed he also played the Roulette wheel at the bad Homburg co is Nofo the tune of nearly 10.000 Marks belonging o she Frankfurt car emission office. The prosecutors said Klaus wern Mann 31, admitted for nth. Name of w. A. Stephens Ca emission chief Here to four payroll checks last month and Gambia no with the proceeds to recoup a 2.000 Mark debt. Weinmann disclosed his speculations in a letter to s epic. Bonn Deputy scoffs at oath Bonn feb. 16 a Ger i urfi civil servants have already broken three oaths to be Loyal unto Deiv to three different regimes so who ask them 10 swear another a Ger Man Deputy asked in the bundestag lower House. Or. Walter Menzel. Social Democrat suggested that a Soi Eraa Promise Anda Good old German handshake would do just As Well he said civil servants had already sworn loyalty to the Kaiser the Weimar Republic and Huser although Many of them to a de Nazif cation tribunals they Nev intended to keep the last. The proposal was rejected w Mcfie gave a Bill regulating civil Servit conditions a second Reading loyalty oath included. Co Stab unit to gel award at Parade Stuttgart feb. 16 special a Parade and ceremony Honorise the 12th. To co co Stab will to held at Vaihinger Kaseane Satur Day morning with maj Gen i. D. White cd constabulary and representatives of col Calvin de Witt j jr., Neucom transportation Chiet taking pan in the second excellence award to the company from to com it was announced. It col Thomas Wood jr., heed the dec Highway Section will Atia. In addition to the Consi Abula band co a 37flth inf 54th sop in 51st army med in and he Spe Cial spa will Parade. R the excellence award is Tot ministrative and technical efficiency. The 12th to co in has a 300 per cent Mark in deposits and Nesli insurance. Rend Quick
