European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Al t Pagel the stars and stripes tuesday february 21, 1950 i i 1 if Harriman says Marshall Aid will create West bulwark Paris feb. 20 up completing the Marshall plan will enable the Western world to become a United bulwark for Freedom w. Averell Harriman economic cooperation administration roving ambassador told american citizens today in Aradio broadcast recorded Here. Ega Mission chiefs from eight Marshall plan countries giving on the spot recovery Progress reports joined Harriman in the broadcast which was carried by the american broadcasting co., network. Harriman said it was unthinkable that the . Would not carry through the Marshall plan. It would mean losing the gains already made he said. It would mean wasting the Effort and the Money americans have wisely and magnificently in vested in it. It would mean endangering our very added that when the Marshall plan began political and social conditions were endangering the planning a Check Post in Berlin Pender seen As us envoy Frankfurt feb. 20 apr. Hermann Pender on of the few German postwar officials with foreign experience will probably be named Germany s first postwar consular envoy to britain., Western West Berlin s police chief. Johannes Stumm second from left goes Ever plan with Bia subordinates in just How to Check communist inspired demonstrations from spilling Over into the . Sector of Berlin. The German official Are mapping plans to prevent any serious incidents Fasold such demonstrations occur. Acme reds held forming fighting brigades for Berlin rally Berlin feb. 20 up communists have formed fighting Bri Gades in East German factories to take part in the youth Marc through West Berlin at Whitsuntide the official British High commis Sion newspaper said saturday. Die Welt said the brigades were composed of Only physically Strong and reliable the newspaper said each brigade numbered 250 men. The brigades will be used As Protection squads when 500,000 communists assemble in Berlin May 27-30 for a rally called by the free German youth East German communist youth organization the paper said. The newspaper said the brigades were being trained two hours weekly by officers of the Peop is police East German Para military Force. Allied officiate said Here. The 6 year old Pender dismember of the right Wing Christian Denio Craitic party and a Deputy i parliament where he Heads the european recovery program com Mittee. E officials said Tuftie Paris consular Post is expected w go either Kjor. Anton pet fief or or. Gebhar Seelos both members of parliament. . Officials had said earlier that r. Hans Schlange Schoeninger will be Consul general in the Ujj Munich Post probing hit run Accident Munich feb. 20 special Mil itary authorities Are investigating a hit and run Accident Here allegedly involving an american car and a German National. The Accident occurred on lands Berger str., in downtown Munich. The victim Hans Reiter was allegedly struck Down by an Amer ican vehicle which did not could not be found to give any information As to the License number color or Type of automobile involved Reiler suffered bruises on the head and a broken Teg. O Connor writes Cannon on successful dimes drive Wiesbaden feb. 20 special the successful Safe March of dimes Campaign received recognition from Basil o Connor presi Dent of the National foundation for infantile paralysis in a letter to it Gen John k. Cannon cd Safe it was announced. While the Telly of contribution Sis not completed results from several bases show that previous records toppled under smashing campaigns. Very survival of free free institutions Are gaining vitality. Aggressive communism Ison the defensive in Western ambassador Milton Katz Deputy to Harriman introduced the eight Mission chiefs who reported on Progress in their respective coun from the reports follow John Kenney Mission chief United kingdom last year was year of financial crisis for great. Britain but it was also a year of accomplishment. Industrial production reached an All time High about 30 per cent above per Man hour climbed steadily the figure for 1948 being5 per cent above 1947, and another 5 per cent gain was recorded Las year. Exports soared to a new level 50 per cent above 1938. Inflation was kept under e. Hunter Mission chief the Netherlands Industry has made its Gratifying increase in 1949 by eliminating bottlenecks in raw materials by replacing and modernising lost and worn equipment and by working out expansion plans for Large Basic industries such As Power and steel. Lift in air1 Leo Dayton acting Mission chief Italy this year there is a lift in the italian air. New buildings houses and factories arc going up. The people in the streets Are less shabby than they were last year. There is no Mouveen Mission chief Bel Gium Luxembourg rationing of imported butter and Rice was Dis continued during the first Quarter of 1949, thereby ending the last vestiges of the War and postwar rationing controls. The belgian franc remains hard currency. The Belgium Luxembourg economic Union did not receive any direct Aid from the Marshall plan last full production however has been maintained and made Avail Able for european recovery by in direct Aid which in effect i the changeling of Aid for other european countries through Belgium food situation in German Charles a. Marshall Mission chief Denmark Eca has been a Leto furnish not Only great quantities of raw materials for danish industries but also modern machinery so badly needed after the German occupation. Robert Hanes Mission chief Western Germany the food Situa Tion has improved enormously Over the last year and a half largely through Marshall plan imports. But unless Germany raise considerably More of its own food than it does now there is Little Hope of attaining economic self sufficiency by 1952. John e. Gross Mission chief Norway american assistance through the Marshall plan bag enabled the entire recovery machinery to work in Norway but the efforts of the norwegian peo ple have been most important norwegians accept the necessity to do without consumer goods which have to be imported and put up with an austerity living Standardi order to put As much Money As possible into imports useful reproduction. Dec deposits swelled in 1949 Heidelberg feb. 20 special Soldier and airmen savings Deposit sin the dec for 1349 totalled 133,938, 711, the Neucom finance division reported. At the Start of 1949, Only 2.1&s enlisted Perso Ruiel were participating in the savings plan the de posits aggregating $219.259.by the end of the year however 14,000 were making deposits. The greatest gains in percentage were in the . Army Europe. Deposits for december were More than twice those for january 1949.finance division officers did some calculating with the $3,938,711 in vested in 1949 and came up with these statistics interest mounts the annual interest on the 1949deposits would be $157,548 in one three year hitch the interest earned would amount to 9472,645. If this interest were reinvested atthe end of each three year tour starting with january 1950, and i the interests were added to the principal the 1949 investment would grow to $5,004,278 by the end of the third hitch. In releasing the 1949 investment figures col Roy Silverman chief of the Neucom finance division,sai3there is no accurate Way to determine the actual number of persons who mad one or More sol Dier or airmen deposits during the year but that estimates place the figure at 40 to 60 per cent of the total enlisted personnel in Neucom. Thank fut companies of the7811th Sci he Frankfurt military Post invested $29,950,07 in som form of savings during january equal to 40 per cent of the total monthly salaries of the personnel. It col f. Bowlin co said serv ice records show that 73 per cent of the assigned personnel have Soldier Deposit account and that 36 per cent of the men deposited a to Tal of $13,885 during the month. Augsburg the sont Hofen det 7815th Sci made last payday sol Dier Deposit Twenty eight of the detachment e 31 enlisted manmade their in Iaal deposits totalling $1,500. Prior to last payday Only one Man no longer a member of the detachment had made a de posit new Ovberg Soldier Deposit soared to a new High in the 16th inf regt Over the january paydays men of 15 units in the regiment deposited $33,470, an average of$14.02 for every Man paid on the initial payroll highest Deposit by one company is made by to co,1st in As 57 men deposited 14,545, an average of $44.13 each. K1tz1ngenm sgt William handle gained top position in the Soldier savings program Center by placing $1,000 in Soldier deposits. Garmisch on the first pay Day of the new year Here More than $2,000 found its Way into sol Dier deposits. Leading the Way Wae the 10th Gen disc posting a 100�/t participation record. Hico warns germans of claim Racket Frankfurt feb. 20 is German nationals who owned prop erty in the . Before the War have been warned by the Hico of Ike of economic affairs to beware of per sons or organizations claiming Tobe Able to recover such property. Reports that a Racket has devel oped in this connection prompted the warning from Hico that re Tention by persons in Germany of attorneys abroad for such purposes constitutes a prohibited transaction under my Law 53. Inquiries by German National concerning their interest in property vested in the . Office of alien property should be made by mail to the overseas Branch of the department of Justice at Munich Maue Kircher sir. 59, the hic Goffice said. Representatives of the office of economic affairs pointed out that the return of such property is barred by sections 32 and 39 of the Trad ing with the enemy act unless such property was owned by Persona falling in the category of persecuted As to this class except for those who have already filed a claim return of property is barred in Many cases by the statutory limitations of Section 33 of the trading with the enemy act Frankfurt awards contract for new Golden Gate Bridge Frankfurt feb. 20 is the City of Frankfurt has awarded a 4,000,000 Mark contract for reconstruction of the Golden Gate Bridge Wilhelm Brucke across the Mai River which was closed u vehicular traffic last fall. Work wifi Start in March the Bridge is on the direct route from downtown Frankfurt to the autobahn turnoff South of the during the War but temporarily repaired the Golden Gat Structure was for More three years the Only vehicular connection Between downtown Frank Furt and its Sachsenhause suburb. Three other Bridges now Are in 13 months will be required for the reconstruction the contractor Man and Holzmann re ported. Width of the new Bridge will be increased to 92 feet almost twice the Width of the old will carry two Streetcar lines. Is Amoc Pic id. Real Attar or it o tact to Cen in a shr of dip int to tra French officers \ visit Wetzlar Post i Wetzlar feb. 20 special Bri Gen Raymond Chomel assistant cd 3rd French inf div visited Wetzlar military Post he where be met Brig Gen Athur g. Trudeau. ,1st co Stab Brig and col o. A Davidson Post the French Gener Al were col Gabriel Massiat co atthe 3d algerian spams regt and maj Raymond Lemoigne co of tit. 32d French hand to Welcome the general at Post Headquarters was an How ? guard of the 529th my so cd an the 84th co Stab band. 19 1 my . Tour 1st grown tip since 2os, briton says London feb. 20 up the Post War american traveler has grown up since the Gay 1920e, the head of a British travel Agency said. Cmdr b. G. Studd chief of the polytechnic touring assn., discussed american travellers in his autobiography the Holiday Story published in London. He described the postwar .tourist As likeable usually pro British temperamental and a Hus Tler. Of what a Studd said the . Tourist of the 20s was a National coast to coast embarrassment the Man on Ameri Ca s conscience. Educated americans apologized for him. Somehow betas the incarnation of thai crudest of american pen portraits Sinclair Lewis Babbit. He was boastful uneducated and Speaks the postwar . Traveler has come to us after the War for the first time in nearly a decade and bad changed at much a the Skyline of an average american is the unofficial amass Ltd of the fabulous american seen. Symbol of the american Century his literary education is astonishing. So Good is his knowledge off British scene that he often embarrasses Hia guides by slumping the completely with questions they jus cannot listed the places America visit in England in this order up for Don Windsor Stratford on a Flat Oxford Cambridge and
