European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 17,1950 the stars and stripes Page 1 Philly woman lost 4 months stumps police Philadelphia feb. 26 up four months ago mrs. Dorothy Forstein telephoned a woman Friend and made a shopping Date for the next Day. She never kept it. In less than two hours Between that Telephone Call and the return Home of her husband a City Magis trate mrs. Borslein vanished. Behind her she left a mystery that has baffled her family her friends and some of the Best minds on the police Force. Clues have been numerous and fruitless. A special detail of Detec Tives under capt James Kelly has spent Lour months of patient plod Ding police work. But Kelly admits frankly that he is still up against a Blank  foul play or amnesia the husband magistrate Jules Forstein can offer no explanation for the sudden disappearance of his 40-year-old blend wife. She is either a victim of foul play or amnesia he said. The clue of the moment is one that has shifted the investigation to another  the name of the City or even in what Section it is located has been withheld. It might Hurt the police investigation said Arthur Cooper brother of mrs. Forstein and family spokes Man. Follow up planned if the new clue crystallizes the magistrate Kelly and i will follow it up probably next week Cooper said but we be had these things be fore he said. They All look Good until they Are tracked  Cooper reflected the family s frustration at Tfaye deepening mystery when he said there have been a lot of questions. We would t Hesi Tate to answer them. If we knew the  one slim clue that police had been working on was that five years ago an intruder entered the Forstein Home and brutally beat mrs. For Stein. She never quite recovered from that attack. Shoulder injured the beating left her with a shoulder injury that requires treat ment every four months or so. On this fact the family s Hopes hinge sooner or later mrs. Forstein will appear at some Hospital to have her dislocated shoulder fixed. One of the first clues now largely discounted by police was an account by mrs. Forstein s step daughter Marcy that a stranger carried her Mother out of the House. The 9-year-old girl told her father when he came Home and found his wife missing that the Man patted her on the head and said go Back to sleep Little one your Mother is All  that Marcy said the stranger went downstairs and out of the h ouse the Panama Clad mrs. For Stein clasped in his arms. From All indications mrs. Forstein was not planning to leave. At the time sh.3 was nursing her 5-year old son through an illness and her purse compact and household Money were intact. Marshall says reds ride tide of events Honolulu feb. 26 Cap Gen George c. Marshall in a speech Here compared communism to a hawaiian surf rider just Riding in on the Crest of the  there is no doubt in my mane we Are in the Middle of a world revolution and i do not mean communist. They Are like your surf riders they Are just Riding in on the Crest of a wave the revolution i am talking Abou is that of the Little people All Over the world. They Are beginning to learn what there is in life and wha they Are  Rescue by helicopter from wintry Atlantic helicopter to the Rescue Sailor r. L. Beasley who was knocked overboard from the Carrier mid Way during a fueling operation dangles from the Carrier s Heli copter above after it picked him out of the Ocean and returned him to the deck of the ship. Right White Arrow Points to Beasley in the cold Atlantic. The Rescue took Only three minutes. Acme coast to coast gems twisted in Brink 9s loot _ Boston feb. 26 up a classified advertisement in a Boston newspaper indicated that the loot in the unsolved $1,500,000 brinks inc., Holdup included $300,000 Worth of diamonds. The advertisement offered a $25, 000 Reward for return of the stones. Deputy police superintendent James f. Daley chief investigator in the Brink s Case said it was news to me that the loot included jewels. But a spokesman for the com Mercial Union Assurance co., ltd., which insured brinks said when told of the advertisement this in t any  the advertisement read "$25,000 Reward for the return of three uncut diamonds in a Small purse Type Chamois bag taken in the brinks inc., Holdup Jan. 17, 1950. These stones marked for cutting Are worthless to any other persons than the original owners or the person to whom  a 25,000 Reward for the gems would increase total rewards offered in the Brink s Case to $185,000. Woman gives birth to baby at Home carries it to cops los Angeles feb. 26 a a woman accompanied by three children aged 4 to 7, walked into a police station Here deposited a Towel wrapped infant on the ser Geant s desk and said i be just had a . Mary Alice Durant 28, gave birth unassisted to the child in her apartment then walked two blocks to the station. From there an ambulance took her to general hos Pital. Attendants said both Are doing Well although the baby at first was in critical condition. Illinois frees convict in famed murder Case = Chicago feb. 26 up Teddy j Marcinkiewicz 39, has been freed j Here in the Climax of a murder Case that formed the plot of a popular movie several yers ago. For 17 years Marcinkiewicz languished in a state prison convicted along with Joseph Majczek of murdering a policeman in a speak easy in 1933. The two protested their innocence in vain. In 1944 Majczek s aging Mother asked the Chicago times to run an advertisement offering a �5,000 Reward for the real killers. The newspaper Learned that the Mother mrs. Tillie Majczek had worked As a scrub woman to scrape together the Money and began an Independent investigation of the Case which resulted in the son s liberation. Events of the Majczek Case formed the basis for the motion picture Call Northside 717." to � Goodluck admits burglary but Good Luck holds Pittsburgh feb. 26 up assistant District attorney Richard f. Jones stood speechless when the jury acquitted sex convict William Goodluck of burglary charges. Jones thought he had an airtight Case. Goodluck was arrested fleeing the scene of a burglary the clincher a Silver Dollar found in his pocket. The victimized store keeper had reported one stolen. Resigned to the verdict police returned some Bills and the Silver Dollar confiscated after Goodluck s arrest. The defendant smiled but flipped the Silver Dollar Back. No thanks. Give it Back to the storekeeper he said. It s  45 flu cases reported in Kansas u. Hospital Lawrence kan., feb. 26 up about 45 influenza cases were under treatment at the University of Kansas Hospital and authorities described the outbreak As a Defi Nite  or. Ralph i Canuteson director of student health said 30 of the patients entered this Hospital last week and that additional Beds had to be obtained. Lawrence memorial Hospital re ported More than the usual number of influenza cases there. Bing Crosby s twin sons to join dad on air san Francisco feb. 26 a Bing Crosby s twin sons Are going on the air with their dad. It will be the first time the twins Philip and Dennis 14, have aided "the1 Groaner As a guest team the Crosby recorded the pro Gram Here for broadcast on March 15 Over the Columbia broadcasting system. Sing s weekly show already has featured his eldest son Garry As a guest. Bing introduces the twins As two Well scrubbed and fairly uncomfortable Young  Philip sings thanks and is criticized by Bing. Suffer More is the fatherly advice. Dennis1 voice is changing but he does a few bars of flight of the wild  just to show you dad How they sing these  . Begins Selling spuds bought at s1.65, for 1 cent Washington. Feb. 26 a the government has begun Selling for 1 cent per Hundred pounds Maine potatoes it bought for $1.65 per Hundred. With about 45.000,000 pounds of potatoes left Over from the 1949 crop the government stands to lose about $100,000,000 on this Deal Secretary of agriculture Charles Brannan said. Under the farm Price support Law the government is obliged to buy All potatoes Farmers canno dispose of in Normal channels. The government gives the potatoes free to Relief agencies school lunch pro Grams and similar agencies by still cannot get rid of them All. Now the government is Selling potatoes Back to Farmers at 1 Cen per Bushel after dyeing them Blue to prevent resale. Farmers use them for livestock feeding and fertilizer 8200,000 estate bequeathed to Gracie Fields by husband los Angeles feb. 26 a Gracie Fields was left All of an estimated $200,000 estate by her late husband actor Monty Banks in a will filed for probate Here. Banks died in Italy in january. The estate was described As hav ing an income of $19,000 a year. 2 newsmen get Broun prize  cartoonist by. Reporter honoured Washington feb. 26 up Herbert Block cartoonist for the Washington Post and Ted Poston reporter for the new York Post have received the Heywood Broun award of the american newspaper Guild