European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday february 24, 1950 Helmer urges in Aid to get citizens Back Vienna feb. 23 is minister of Interior Oscar Helmer has asked that the austrian government make a direct Appeal to the United nations and International labor organization to Force Russia to re lease several thousand austrian citizens being held in the soviet Union. ". A the official trader his suggestion to parliament and at the same time asserted the russians have abducted at least 1,000 austrians for political reasons since the Start of the occupation and in addition Are holding some 5,000 prisoners of War. Helmer charged that he has received no satisfaction from official soviet occupation authorities concerning two major incidents in 1947and 1948 involving russian occupation soldiers. Never. Even apologized he referred to the Saint Peter mass murder in which russian sol Diers killed an austrian family of 11, and the Annaberg incident when a berserk russian Soldier wielding a machine gun fired into a dancing party killing three persons and in Juring 21 others. In the latter incident a soviet Soldier became angry when austrian girls refused to dance with him. The russians have never even apologized to us let alone offer any information concerning the Type of punishment Given to the culprits Helmer declared. East zone aids in Koch Case Frankfurt feb. 23 up Ger Man authorities preparing charges of mass murder against use Koch have disclosed that they Are getting help from an unexpected Quarter officials in the russian zone. Haas Zukow bavarian lawyer whose Job it win be to prosecute the redhead who once ruled the Roost at Buchenwald concentration Camp is flabbergasted at the Sud Den deluge of cooperation from the East in the earlier stages of preparing his Case which will probably go to trial in april Ilkow got nothing Buta run around when he tried to get information from the russian zone where Buchenwald is were told to keep quiet and Ilkow got nowhere american officials said. Now the situation i reversed Max Fechner East zone Justice minister ordered full co operation with Western authorities. No official explanation has been Given for the Changi. Use got out of Landsberg after serving four years for crimes against non German inmates of Buchenwald originally sentenced to life her term was Cut to fou years by Gen Lucius d. Clay who found the evidence insufficient to support a life sentence. Russians Dor t believe their own broadcasts Vienna feb. 23 is the other night the russian con trolled austrian network beamed there is no fear in he people s democracies one can write or say a n y thing he a few Days later at a parliament session a socialist Dep Uty revealed that an 18-year-old austrian youth had been sentenced by russian occupation authorities in lower Austria to seven years imprisonment in a soviet Union labor Camp be cause he had written a satirical poem about Stalin. The youth was identified As Ernst Divjak of Berndorf. I a i burial plot yields a of tvs of 27 victims Munich feb. 23 is a Small burial plot containing charred re Mains of at less 27 concentration amp victims has been discovered near Herrbruck in Northern Bavaria it was Learned yesterday according to Philipp Auerbach head of the state restitution office ashes and bits of Bone were located a few inches below the surface Ata spot identified by local citizens As the scene of at least one funeral pyre in november 1344.a witness told of having seen at least 27 bodies of Spain concentration Camp victims cremated on the lonely plot. Political prisoners the Herrbruck concentration Camp was known to have housed approximately 1,000 political prisoners chiefly French czech polish an belgian local residents said the Cam crematorium was overworked in the last half of 1944 and several truck loads of bodies were burned at the recently discovered burial ground. Won t yield on treaty Austria says Vienna feb. 23 a Austria will never sign a state treaty which includes political concessions for eign minister Karl Gruber said Here yesterday. Reporting on the delay in the austrian state treaty negotiations before the budgetary committee of the austrian parliament Gruber said the deciding factors for the accomplishment of our treaty Are resting beyond our own responsibility. The fact that we agreed Tob ear certain economic sacrifices does not mean that we Are willing to sign a treaty at any he told the committee that Russia is still studying Austria s counter proposals to Settle payment for soviet Aid deliveries to Austria which is blocking continuation of treaty negotiations. Emphasizing there Are no obstacles on behalf of the Western Powers to prevent the successful conclusion of the negotiations Struber said it is now up to the soviet Union to show its1 willing Ness to come to yank gets 3 years army dismissal in traffic deaths Heidelberg feb. 23 is first it David w. Tucker of Heidelberg military Post has been found guilty by a general court martial of manslaughter in connection with the traffic deaths of tire germans in the Fronch zone. Tucker was sentenced to Dis Missal from the service and Jimree years confinement at hard prosecution introduced wit Nesses who testified Tucker had been drinking prior to the Acci Derit and was Noi driving safely athe time his automobile skidded1 out of control on wet pavement and Slouch Down four German pedestrians near the town of fourth German was critically injured but recovered witnesses included three enlisted men Riding with Tucker at the time of he Accident Sec Cecil Nara More of Northport Ala. Pfc Theodore l. Meekins of Phila Delphia and pvt Don w. Colley of Sharon a. Tucker s Home is in Harrison defense contended that Tucker was not intoxicated and Tuiai the stretch of Wei pavement on which the car went out East Ger Many s foreign minister Georg Dertinger in a formal policy declaration test night attacked commissioner John a Mccloy and demanded the removal of their Power Western High com Mission from before the lower House of the communist appointed ear German government in Berlin Der Tinger renewed the russian instigated demand for a United Germany on soviet said Mccloy had returned two weeks ago from Washington we direct orders to interfere in the Normal functions of the West Ger Man state. Mccloy had bluntly told West German leaders in Stuttgart b would not tolerate the placing of former nazi officials in important West German government posts the rebirth of nazism or the Rise of destructive nationalism will be eliminated if the germans fail by the Allied Powers Mccloy had said Dertinger said Mccloy s Declara Tion meant the . Would interfere with matters which were strictly German. He called this America East German official also attacked the Western Powers tee interference in West German mat ters even prior to Mccloy s address. This interference has included such vital matters As the occupation statute the Ruhr statute and Tatj alleged splitting of Germany Jcj establishing a separate Western charged the . With building up West Germany As part of the atom Hydrogen bomb West Germany is being prepare for use As a springboard Tor Amer ican imperialism he asserted. Dertinger said the people of go Many must be Given a peace treat and reiterated the communist a peal for withdrawal of Oce Upatoi troops. Fritz Oppenheimer in zone Frankfurt feb. 23 special Fritz Oppenheimer of new Yort said today be is in Germany private business and not As a cod sultans to the state department he added that a Iceni conversation in Stuttgart referred to in the were of purely private nature old personal friends. Warning to hijackers this sign warns would be thieves thai they alone will be responsible if they Are shot cuter ing this track. Long distance Drivers Are using the warning signs. In spa i. T
