European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes March Madsen trial opens today in Frankfurt by Howard Kennedy staff correspondent March 5 the full Story of the Madsen slay ing is scheduled to be unfolded in the beginning Here tomorrow in District of the 22 year old dependent wife am Mother of two children charge with shooting her handsome at Force lieutenant husband to death defense lawyer Elmo Gower disclosed that Yvette j Madsen will describe in intimate detail the circumstances leading up to the firing of a army Pis to Bullet through the hear 1st it Andrew last Madsen and her husband were alone in the living room of their buc Schlig near Rhine main air at the sanity Issue his Gower pointed is now the Only person who can present an eyewitness account of although Madsen has been declared mentally competent to stand sanity Issue will be raised tomorrow when Gower enters for his client an additional plea of not guilty by reason of in sanity at the of the commis Sion of the alleged she is charged under German Law with first degree for which there is no death prosecutors Fred Johnson and Worth Mccauley Are prepared to Call As witnesses a half dozen Rhine main officers and their wives who first saw following the plus technical witnesses on bal Gower announced tie plans to Call other witnesses in addition to court attaches predicted the trial first Iri the Frankfurt District court involving a dependent wife charged with slaying a Mem Ber of the armed last seven or eight Ybarbo Case the Madsen trial is the first of its Type in the zone since the trial in marburg in december 1mb of Wilma convicted of slaying her Soldier verdict will be handed Down by a judicial p a n composed of presiding judge Fred 3cohn and associate judges Herman elegant and John who has been con fined in Wiesbaden military Post Hospital since the will be temporarily kept in guarded special quarters in Frankfurt during the trial she will be guarded by Mem Bers of the 709th so both in court and at her and have an attendant present in the courtroom will be mad Sens Alfred of who flew Here two weeks headline Roundup Reikard to address Roa March 5 Brig Gen Roy chief of Euc omy special will address the weekly luncheon meeting of Nurnberg at the grand hotel Here by Lowell Blankfort staff correspondent lying untouched deep under the surface of made the biggest and blackest headlines last eight months after miners first began to slow Down production and seven hours after president tru Man asked Congress for Power to seize the strike bound John l e w i s United mine workers reached an agreement with soft Coal operators that will Send 000 strikers Back to work the hailed by the Union As a climaxed a critical week during which negotiations were broken then and in which the ump was acquitted of a govern ment charge of not having Faith fully carried out a court order to end the the miners had defied two Lewis orders to the contract was greeted with Relief by a nation scraping the Bot Tom of the Coal the strike strike tops had idled workers in Allied forced dim outs in new York and other big reduced operations in the Railroad and steel and lowered thermostats in hospitals and Public although Relief was in sight on the Coal there was no setup in the n a t i o is concern Over problems involving atomic and Secretary of defense Louis while saying that the atomic bomber Force bad been in admitted that in event of War some cities must expect to be Mcmahon proposal sen7 Brien Mcmahon chairman of the joint congressional committee on atomic proposed that a special United nations general Assembly meeting be convened in but Truman said he would never go to Moscow As Long As he was in Klaus Jekyll and Hyde Genius of British atomic was sentenced the 14 i prison for betraying secrets to his brought an order for an investigation of Britain secret More discomfort troubled labor government War minister John to head the was denounced As communist in the newspaper of the Arch labor lord Beaver the charges were stoutly denied by both Strachey and prime minister Dement elsewhere on the cold War front the defense department replied to critics by disclosing thai atomic bomber strength had been sharply increased and further air Force expansion the barred americans from entering Bulgaria on private business an3 High commissioner John later backed by Secretary of state Dean called for German unification on the basis of free elections in All Exgene rals plan for armed units March 5 Ger Man government has admitted that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer received plans on the of German armed units from a Ger Man Exgene ral late last after months of the government press office issued an official announcement which admitted that German Earmy Gen Hasso von Manteuffel had submitted his expert views on the establishment of Light German armed the official announcement said the discussion in the German and foreign press last november about the establishment of so called Light German units made the for Mer Gen Hasso von Manteuffel submit a letter to the Federal Chancellor Adenauer in which general von Manteuffel explained Ais views on the Issue from the technical the announcement said Adenauer Only acknowledged receipt of the letter through his secretariat Adenauer himself repeatedly said in had never seen Manteuffel Dur ing that Only recently Adenauer disclaimed All connections with the so called Bruder Schaft an Organiza Ion of former of which Manteuffel is a leading French legion posts March 5 Loyed Young germans Are applying by the score for enlistment in the drench foreign the Federal ministry for refugee matters disclosed that As Many a applications Are received daily rom German Many of Tjem the ministry estimated that in All t Germany there Are now some exp Ellees from Eastern Ter in the Western ones and More than the Oviet Neucom lists five deaths March 5 special five americans died Neucom Between 23 and March according to casualty reports from the Neucom adjutant general the body of a airman who was drowned six months ago also was recovered during this air Force s sgt John who had been stationed in Libya with the 7th Rescue died of natural causes 24 in the Sta Hosp in he is sur Vived by his Virginia of military rites will be conducted this week at the cemetery in the for Cpl Henry Van de Weg of the 526th my so who suffered a fatal heart attack 28 at Klein nauheim near he leaves Bis Hilla Gonda Van de of another hear attack victim was Cpl William of he he died 27 in Bis quarters at surviving him is to of new York the body of an enlisted Man was found March 2 in his car parked off Highway 14 near his name is being withheld pending notification of Ida of hew York who wac staying temporarily in Munich on business died of natural causes in an ambulance in route to the 98th she leaves her Max the body of Cpl Kenneth of he and he 501st air Craft was found near where the airman drowned 31 while boating with his Inez Sager lives in Diplomat leaves Munich March 5 Louis Joseph for almost three years French Consul general in win leave the bavarian capital within the next few Days to take a new assignment in French West for Spring showers Jeanne Neucom Spe Cial services entertainment Spe models one of the new translucent raincoats on Sale in Al the Coats fold into Plas tic childrens plastic raincoats and women toe rub Bers Ace Alto on commissaries add cottage cheese March 5 special fresh country Type cottage cheese will make its first appearance in quartermaster Galea commissaries this week in the the which is packed in waxed will sell for 20 cents test shipments of the cheese Are now being made Froin Denmark the food item Wil be carried As Long As a sufficient number of housewives want according to a Gen George Neucom chief Quarter Captain wins or and prize in Neucom photography contest continued from Page 1 Straubing military sub third firs place Winner in the armed forces on duty and it Leisure Cate tory Cpl Edward 26th inf second prize was awarded to ret Allen 7720th Neucom real and third prize to Cpl Lloyd pro 7877th postal in the landscape and architecture first place was taken by Cpl George 2d air second prize was awarded to it Coj Paul stationed at third prize went to 1st it Al Horton 7796th Sig depot first prize in the people and customs category was awarded to it Robert 130th Sta second place went to pfc Charles 16th inf third prize was taken by sgt Gregory 1st inf of the 293 photographs entered in the final of the 220were submitted by armed forces per All 220 of the photographs can be forwarded to the worldwide second annual inter service contest in Washington if the entrants wha have not already done so will for Ward to tier negatives to the recreation office of the chief of special Apo by March although a photograph May not have won a prize in the Neucom it will still be eligible for Competition in the worldwide con last some photos which did not win Neucom prizes did place in the interservice compete it has been pointed ten honorable mentions were awarded in the Neucom these went to 1st it Walter Frankfurt military Post capt Heidelberg military Posl pfc John Nurnberg military Post pfc Robert Wetzlar Theodore Epe 1st it Stephen Heidelberg military Post Robert be Paul Kelt Austria Cpl Harvey Garmisch military and Cpl Lloyd first place winners each received a super Ikon a b prizes for the four second place entries were Leitz 35mm slide projectors and third prize winners received leather bags for camera equipment Bonn to set up political police organization March 5 of a political police office at Thyl Federal level to probe the activities of subversive and extremist meats within Germany has been approved by the Gennai Cabinet tace new office was described an information collecting uni similar to the Prenzi Ger Moi borne Security bit without the pee motive authority which made the nation feared during the nazi Yean As a medium for secret arrests and designated officially As an of few for the Protection of the constr the new unit will and evaluate the activities of extreme rightist and extreme leftist elements which advocate overthrow of the present West German government by Force and similar organizations Alre exist on a state level in each of Tow 11 West German and Federal office would correlate their various operation and produce Central file and dossier similar to the Fri file on subversive Ete Menta in toe an Garmisch goes on air March 5 a Long awaited dream became reality when an Garmisch Wen on the a full fledged Broadric casting station in its own 1 the Climax of Many months of Banning came Hrew the switch that started Thip new designed to bring bet Ter radio reception to the Gar Muaau and Oberammergau a Short dedication broadcast Only to the immediate is ten ing audience and not carried on the an brought welcoming remarks from col Hamilton Post co cot 25 Oberammergau sub Post and it col Donald k acting Misch recreation an Garmisch will relay the same programs carried by tb4 Munich operating a frequency of 1429 new transmitter is located in an building on Kruzeck Garmisch where an Manta because of the High Mountain surrounding an p trams were received with culty in the and it is de that 1he new transmitter help solve the con Stab assign i 555th engr up March 5 spec the 555th engr of Brussels Heidi onnely under is now i constabulary Coo Stab he col William h co of the unit the 655th will supervise act ies of the 547th combat engr the 54th combat engr the heavy Ponton Bridge co and v 3d tread Way Bridge All con Tab Engineer British engineers to visit Neucom installations March 5 specie a group of 24 Engineer officers he British army of the Rhine we visit Engineer ions Marci at the Ini action of col Willis Neucom chief the British officers will visit Neucom Bridge Park and the Ginger Survey Center at Schwelm the Hanau Engineer and the Neucom Engineer t
