European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes March 1950 36 Berlin yanks tied to Racket Blac Market ring in gift parcels is smashed by Dwight scheme staff correspondent March 1 six members of the american Community in including 25 sol Diers who have been court mar were involved in a highly organized foreign gift package Racket run through a German Ping firm Here prosecutor Irvin bobbins disclosed the Racket involved the Purchase of More than Worth of gift package coupons at the american express Robbins the packages later were resold in the Black Market for profits running into thousands of Marks the court articled soldiers received fines ranging from Jio to after having been found guilty of engaging in prohibited transactions with military payment employees charged members of the 7751st customs unit were sent from Frankfurt to Berlin to Aid in the germans three Dis placed person and one chilean have been charged in the Sec Ond District court Here with violating foreign Exchange transaction some of these persons were employees or connected the firm sector Forward lug Petrakos import License has been eight of them have been convicted and fined in the District court one was sentenced to six months in prison three months suspended and was Marks after having been found guilty of forgery in connection with the the 22 District court defendants also face German court charges of tax one suicide a German woman employee of the a Trako described by Robbins As a very important committed 1 none of the americans in the Case was involved in the actual Black marketing of the food and bobbins they merely were used by the Black Market operators to Purchase gift package coupons sold by the Ceu trocar of through the american express for some of the americans made a 10 percent profit on their others received no payment at Many were unaware there was any thing Shady in their trans bobbins among those who purchased Cou Pons for the Blac Market ring were an american Proste Tant min ister and a British employee of a us commercial film in Bobbles no records kept according to no records were kept at the express company of the supposed recipients of the Only the names of those who purchased the coupons were four soldiers bought Worth of coupons Between Robbins Twenty thousand cent Rocare packages ranging in value from to 915 were confiscated at the be Trako the Case had been under investigation both Here in the zone since August arrest of an awol Soldier while buying coupons at the express company helped crack the As did the suspicions of Ger Man police concerning the Large number of packages handled at the be Trako 334th Ord co mess rated bad Tolz March 1 the 3341 depot co won the rating of in the quarterly dining constabulary troop to Mark 116th year troopers of 1st co slab trophies received from the 1st Cav brie in William Price of a 14th army reviews of the units with which he fought in the far East with the 1st Cav first it Edward blunders brigade checks Battle rings on the he to Pic John Mullen of he readies trophies for organisation Day Sboto March 1 constabulary oldest he 1st will celebrate its unit organization Day at Camp Fieri Here the brigade commanded by Brig Gen Arthur g Trudeau will stage ceremonies and individual competitions in the two Day Celebration with Cash prizes and passe for Ibe Headquarters was organized As a constabulary unit in since it has taken on the history and traditions of the 1st Cav which was deactivated As part of the 1st Cav div in Japan in the Spring of As a part of the troop ers will receive the trophies and flags of the 1st Brig recently shipped from the program will include snack bars Given drink guide March 1 a fully illustrated yes food manual has been distributed to All snack bars for guidance in preparing food and drinks the american the Neucom Exchange system the new with its 70 photo graphs of Standard snack bar is designed to obtain uniform Quan Quality and appearance of food and service throughout yes snack snack bar managers Are encouraged to use initiative in preparing a few specialities of the but it is recommended by food and beverage experts at yes he that for Basic suggestions in the food manual be attended movies in dec during week March 1 a total of dec moviegoers attended 35 my film during the week ending according to figures compiled by the Neucom motion during the same attendance figures reveal that movie fans saw 553 showings of 16 my Rifle and skeet and Basket Ball a Retreat Parade will feature presentation of unit Tro contests in the mammal of disassembly of tire Chang ing against and selection of the Best constabulary uniform will be staged by he Trudeau will present awards to winners at a Parade ground the troop will look Back 116 years to March when co 1st regt of was first organized at it co b fought through every major Campaign in which the regular army won Battle honors in the Indian wars in new Mexico from 1849 to 1855 and in Kansas and Oregon until civil War record it participated in eleven major civil War including Shenandoah the cold Harbor end then it returned to California and Oregon for further Battles with renegade through the Early St fought in the Philippines end saw duty on the mexican it per formed Relief work in san fran Cisco during the 1906 in co h was predesignated he 1st Cav based at in world War the unit fought wit the 1st Cav div through new the Admi Ralty the Bismarck Archi Leyte end the troop was twice awarded Hie unit los Negros is where it landed against heavy and again on where it was among the first units to it was immediately shipped to Tokyo at the close of the War served there with the 1st Cav div until the Headquarters waft deactivated in that look Lassie March 1 a potential Hollywood movie Star departed from Airport by plane for the Dis covered Fey an Ari Merican Talent scout near Lasso von Der a German Scooter left for Hollywood to follow in the Steps of the immortal Kin tin Fuchs gets 14 years As Aspy for soviets continued front Page 1 bad him Refuge from the attorney general sir Hartley the said Fuchs knew he was giving away secrets of the maximum Fuchs was chief of Harwell research stations theoretical physics theoretical physics is the nerve Center of All atomic As division scientists and government officials alike Fuchs was the top Man of Britain atomic Energy of in on ajl atom secrets that the shares with her British Fuchs uttered a 65word statement fro the Dock when Goddard asked Bun if he had anything to say be fore the passing of in he i have also committed some crimes other than the ones with which am when i asked my counsel to put certain facts be fore i did so in order to atone for those other i have had a fair i thank my i thank my counsel and the governor and the staff of Brixton prison for their considerate his reference to other crimes was not he meant contacts he had with soviet agents in addition to those mentioned in the his counsel had said he says am i realize i have done wrong and in so far As i can i repair the i can not take Hack information but i will give he has backed up his statement with valuable practical assistance to the which is As much As you could expect any Man to he cannot do More Man give every bit of information he which i Hope will be of use to the agents unknown an Appeal presumably could be based on the Contention that be had Given invaluable help to anti Espoo nage agents Here and in the in a confession made after his arrest the attorney Gen eral told authorities that virtually an russian agents he dealt with were unknown to it was that he could provide descriptions of them and other details which would help in a spy Fuchs bad said that on rate occasion he passed information at the Ruffian embassy in neither the nor Britain could prosecute russians with diplomatic either could demand that the Kremlin re can them to Fuchs admitted having repeated contacts wit ii soviet agents during his 18 months in the of vital Imp if in Goddard in re turn for your offer to put at the service of the country the great gifts that Providence had bestowed upon you in scientific you were granted British from that regardless of Jour you started to betray secrets of vital import for the Pur pose of furthering a political held in Abhorrence by the vast majority of your object being to strengthen that Creed which then was known to be inimical to All Freedom Loving your you have imperilled the right of Asylum which this country has hitherto we now give shelter to political refugees who May be Fol Lowers of this pernicious Creed and Wao May Well disguise themselves to bite the hand that feeds in a related the attorney general had said the trial of this repentant communist must serve As a warning to others the Shaw Rosa referred specifically to Fricha statement that he hoped to help communism Rule the then began to feel that he served a base apparently recent spy trials behind the Iron curtain in the judge and even de sense counsel emphasized in open court that Fuchs confessed of a own free will and was brought promptly to face eighty journalists covered the among them being representatives of the soviet and the official czech news about 25 american correspondents were we Are not under any sinister influence which prevents us from speaking out in a court of Shawcross we have seen Fuehs and he is in his Pica of entirely of is own Voli freely and knowing full wed what he is Curtis Bennett then said that he Masef had been permitted to see Fuchs at will to help prepare his to a courtroom crowded government Obs err vers and British it Clear that the Jurist and attorneys 1 were drawing a contrast Between this trial for example the recent Budapest trial of Robert Vogeler and Edgar who got 15 and 13 years on espionage Vogeler and Sanders spoke confessions in court after Long periods in and Western officials speculated that they had been perhaps enemy mentioned although Russia and the communist world seemed to be in the minds of Goddard and the there was no mention whatever of Russia in the formal indictment on which Fuchs was the indictment mentioned Only an Shawcross said this need not mean a present it could mean a future in the Fuchs he the nation referred to was he our relations with that country leave much to be during the Brief Curtis Bennett described the political forces among which Fuchs grew up in Germany and claimed it was natural that Fuchs should join the communists in 1932 because they were the Only people then fight ing he said Fuchs went underground in 1933 lend eventually made his Way to he was a known Curtis Bennett and be pretended to be anything while Curtis Bennett was Dis cussing the defendants state of mind and his ideological Goddard interjected what i am concerned with that this Baa Given secrete of vital importance to he stands before Ane As a sane Man and not one relying upon Curtis Bennett argued that As Russia waa a Western ally in 1943 and it would be difficult to see How any information Given to the soviets at that time would be prejudicial to the of smacked by Fri even though Fuchs was tried and sentenced under British it was the ssi that first came upon information unmasked him As one of Western greatest i Shawcross said the Fri discovered a leakage of atomic information sometime last the word of i h was hurried to most exhaustive inquiries were at once and j eventually suspicion was narrowed Down to Pucha the Fri itself bad Fuchs earlier As Man his eyes blink ing through thick Wattul nimbly from the courtroom whal his trial court officials sorted him to a Ceil to await Fer to a prison not yet