European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes monday february 20, 1950 Mon new Rotterdam rises from rubble of Blitz by Glenn Williams r Rotterdam a Rotterdam is Back in business again build ing its Way out of rubbish Heap bomb Are still too few Homes in the battered City. As Many As dozen persons live in quarters that would provide Comfort Forno More than four. But new apartments also Rise inthe replanted City which will not be fully rebuilt for another 20 to 25 lives by Commerce and shipping first thought of the Butch when figh Fng ceased was not Only to make enough new houses for the swiftly growing population but to restore the life cells of War left s Square mile in tiie heart of Rotterdam a seared waste. Now he biggest Bank Struc Ture in Europe rears its rounded Baboon hangar bulk out of the bomb made desert. This is the new Home of the rotted Susche Bank. Behind its grilled windows flow the Golden blood of Commerce wholesale Mart chubs half a mile away the Cement sputtered wooden forms of a huge new wholesale Mart climb is Knobby squares above the Flat Sands. Wholesalers already Are doing business on the ground floor while fresh Concrete flows into a forms two floors higher. Along the waterfront a couple eco Miles Down the new Meuse his a cranes lever the Bales sandboxes of an Industrial world in and out of new warehouses. The Harbor installations mined by re treating German troops groan an Whir again with the traffic of the seas and of Europe s canal system. The Harbor is Back to prewar strength although lagging world economic recovery still keeps it traffic below the old Levels new business enterprises like tie Cal Tex refinery which is ready to begin operations an the Kaiser Frazer Auto Assembly Plant already in use have sprung up. The ease of traffic to and it ism Rotterdam both overseas and into Europe s hinterland make the City a natural for such Ameri can investments. Concentrated Blitz but How was the desert in Rotterdam s heart made most people will readily recall Ibe Story. Its terror marked theims of the phony War and bared the horror of concentrated air Hitler s armoured Rush against Western Europe was four Days Obj the dogged dutch were put Ling up unexpected resistance. Angered the germans Flung Guadron after Squadron of Stuka div bombers upon Rotterdam. For just 40 minutes just after lunchtime on May 14, 1940, the Stukas screamed out of the never ceasing wind off the Gray North sea lashed the flames on about 25,000 dwellings were wiped out so were nearly 6,000 shops offices stores factories and warehouses. Churches mov ies newspapers hospitals the whole catalogue of modern Cit enterprises were blasted and Burn More houses out in the residential Section were wiped out later by an Allied bombing raid which strayed from its target the German torpedo boat shelter inthe . Only four Days after the lunch hour Blitz Rotterdam s City architect was Labouring on new plans for a City. The plans were Laid around the Black and Smoky building housing the Post office the Stock Exchange and the town Hail which still stood. New plans for City but there was no thought of simply trying to reconstruct the old City. Streets Are being wid ened and straightened. M o r Green space is being left the old town contained More than1,675,000 Square Yards occupied by buildings. That area will be 30per cent Smailer in the new City a few living quarters Are being built a the City Center. Instead they Are being constructed in new suburbs. New ideas to the air. For in stance there Are apartments for Small businesses four and five Story buildings for such things As radio repairmen tailors dry cleaners and Rutgers the City s town planning Engineer gave an example of dutch Thrift in the re building program. An old steam powered electric Plant is being restored not Only to generate juice but to provide communal Central heating for the City using the steam to run generators and Thea passing it into this heating unit we can use the Coal twice fiut Gers explains. Building itself is a problem Mako Yerdam. The soil is too soggy to support buildings by piles have to be driven into the ground 40 feet and More to reach a solid foundation. Concrete pilings now the piles used to be made of Wood. But new buildings Are going up on prefabricated con Crete piles. A modern american Cement mixing Plant has been set up to Speed building measured amounts of Sand stones Cement and water Are dumped into a truck with whirling Cylinder bed. By the time the truck gets to the new building where Concrete is needed the Concrete is mixed and needs Only to be poured through a spout on the truck directly into the building. More such Short outs Are being sought to Speed up building. Hal the Blanks Between the empty streets and the straggling Skele tons of communications wires Are expected to be filled in before lt0. The stars and stripes vol 7, to. Ate editor i Chiel managing editor Spons editor monday february 29, 1950 la col William m Summers. Ken Zumwalt Gnu Taylor executive manager chief of distribution Maurice r Kirkwo Edlouis h Brown news . 3i18j-hw1 Darmstadt 190 Berlin m-668 34-fi6ot Vienna b 471mbremerbaven 2lo-21363 Munich my vj26 be european Tinion is published daily by Darmstadt Hesse Germany for the occupation forces under the auspices of Toje army Ai forces troop inform Hod and education division Euco Tel Frankfurt 34141, the stars and Stii addressed 10 the Starr a a Sirios of 15 us army Man in to Etc new Yors of Sce stick to be Etc s41 a in on Strett a v is no in Iff a i a 1c of the us army fic Emer Hias second-c-i3s Mallei 5? 22 9t" at the Post office is new York n. A. Under the act of a March s 1379 the Duke of Windsor puts the finishing touches on his memoirs to be pub shed by a National Maga Zine in the Spring and brought out in Book form next fall. Acme i years ago feb. 20, 1946 the brotherhood of railway trainmen votes a nationwide strike. Feb. 20, 1947 president Truman asses Legisla Tion to end the state of National emergency under which the coun try has lived since 1939. Feb. 20, 1948 Gen Lucius i. Clay challenges Russia to open its sector of Berlin to Allied inspection teams. Feb. 20, 1949 Israel s provisional government accepts Rhodes draft of the israeli Egypt Ian armist i be. Welfare budget supports official family $28 left new York a new York welfare commissioner under fire for Relief cuts fed his family of six on a Relief budget for a month and Enid he had $28.54 left when he showed the food list to his department s chief Home economist she took him to task. Too much meat and not enough milk and vegetables said miss Eleanore Lurry. But she concede that the family ate pretty Well at Raymond m. Hil Kard started the project Jan 1, he said and continued it throughout the month. We kept a careful account fall food purchased and consumed during the month he said. Our total food Bill was sj5j6, if we were on Relief we would have received Ellb for food at Home plus $6.50 for my own lunches a total of 124.50. In our Case the surplus Cash we had left Over amounts to $28-54 for the sandwiches help billiard said he had to Pushback his plate at official lunches a during january in order to keep True to his Sandwich program. As it was he said the Sand Wiches allowed him to save 30 cents of lunch Money a Day. I feel sure that our Relief Rolls contain Many thousands of better Home managers than we Are Hilliard said. I take my hat of to them. I am satisfied however that our own experience show that the department of welfare s budgets Are More than wish our critics would undertake similar 5 murderers included in top Public enemies by Fred Mullen Washington up the Fri has named five murderers four robbers and a kidnapper As the 10 most wanted and dangerous criminals now at Large in the list prepared for the United press brings up to Date a similar list released a year ago. Four of the men named last year Are still a Large and Are included in the current list six of the names Are Aew. None of the 10 is listed As being wanted More than any of the others since the Fri has never listed anyone As Public enemy no new names on the list Are Thomas James h o i d e a 54,Chicago, wanted for the june 5, 1949, murder of his wife Lillian 7-year coma baffles Ohio Phy scions Cincinnati a seven year Sago a Man was brought into Bethesda Hospital Here suffering from a head injury. Gradually elapsed into a coma. He has remained in that condition ver since. And As the Man known Only to the outside world As patient a starts his eighth year in foe Hospital physicians still can t Tell Tor sure whether he is wholly unconscious or whether he just i unable
