European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1fso the stabs and stripes occident rate Ell in army reports i March 15 special i substantial decreases in accidents Tov Oving army motor vehicles and property damage costs Are noted fac Accident injury experience figures Fie ported by for As compared with totals for la accidents where military vehicles Iff ured dropped from in 1948 to last according to statistics id eased by the Usa eur safety at the same the Finan dal Cost of property damage incidents went Down from to on the red Side of the were increases in disabling injuries to military personnel and to civilians employed by the 97 in armed forces ninety seven armed forces Mem Bers were injured fatally last year while on As compared with 79 file year More encouraging is the report thai fatalities to Mil itary personnel in accidents involving army vehicles dropped from in 1948 to 31 in disabling injuries to military per Lonnel on duty went to 18 per event Over the 1948 and injuries on of duty hours increased 14 per 10 civilians ten civilians employed by the army were killed in accidents in solving army vehicles last in contrast to 23 killed in this Type of tragedy in fatalities to civilian employees while they were on the Job were almost on third lower than for 1948 but in the same disabling injuries to civilian personnel while at work exclusive of army vehicle connected accidents were on third although the number of fires More than the value of properly damaged or destroyed was much less compare 1 with a motor vehicles inflicted the heaviest the property dam the reported from army vehicle connected accidents totalled last compared to in the previous 12 the average Cost per incident went up from to army vehicles were involved in More than half of the reported Accident and injury army vehicle accidents also accounted for 16 per cent of the disabling injuries to military and for 10 per cent to civilian motorcyclist killed by tank retriever March 15 special Joseph German motor of was killed1 saturday when he was thrown beneath the wheels of a tank retrieving unit carrying an m26 a Provost marshal report the a unit of b 73d Ord was driven by Cpl Thomas and was in route from Straubing to the army according to was passing the motorcycle when the trailer brushed it and Hausladen was thrown under the Berlin admits knife death of 76 March 15 Susor police reported yesterday that Karlheinz a 13year old has confessed to the murder last week of a 76yearold widow for whom he frequently ran police said the Twy admitted dubbing the Selma with a pair of tongs and1 then subbing the motive was Rob police the proceeds were 5 West Marks and 480 East Murks of a total value of less than High court bars civil review of court martial procedure March 15 the supreme court has ruled that a lower court was wrong in free ing a Soldier convicted of Mur Der by a court martial in it remains to be seen whether the tribunals 80 decision will put Eugene Preston Brown Back in of was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting a polish guard near Feuerbach on Christmas later his term was Cut to 20 still in december he was released from the Atlanta Penitentiary on a finding by the circuit court in new Orleans that the military court which tried Ham was not set up circuit court the circuit court said his court martial was Replete with highly prejudicial errors and irregularities and declared he did not get a fair trial even under military it said he should be freed Pend ing a further hearing As to whether takes oath As aviation Cadet Richard Holt takes oath As aviation Cadet from it John John Wiesbaden air base recruiting before leaving for training at Randolph air Force first aviation Cadet to be accepted in Holt made application in the before joining his father who is on duty in the dec with the 7844th Ord the Holts Bome is in photo 4zone delegates to attend town planning Congress March 15 some 800 delegates from the four zones of Germany Are expected to attend an ally e r m a n town plan neg Congress in Berlin May the Institute of Public affairs planned by the German association for housing and town and country an affiliate of the German Public affairs in this years Congress will be held in berlins it will be opened by West Ber Lin lord1 mayor Ernst the tentative Agenda includes lectures by noted and dutch the Congress also will include open forum five similar meetings have been held in Frank marburg and the German Institute of Public affairs is a joint Enterprise of the four leading German municipal associations and other professional operating in the in Terest of the general working closely wifi German governmental agencies and appropriate offices of it facilitates professional interest in matters of Public concern pro motes research into the Organiza techniques and methods of Public administration sponsors round table discussions and and issues publications which Are circulated throughout Western Ger Soldier wins acquittal March 15 a court martial Haa acquitted pfc Edward of co 709th my so of a charge of stealing the private car of a Hico employee pid completes video show on leave Center March 15 special sgt Dorothea of the 2d was so in recently returned from 15 Days trying a Misch where she and two two one two soldiers and an airman portrayed occupation personnel on leave in Germany for a newsreel and television the show was made by the Public information Paul director of pid in Frank directed the four cameramen and their supervisor were assigned to the the television show will be re leased to the Public from Wash the newsreel will be shown in Frankfurt and possibly other dec cities following of to hold Len chemo March 15 the Frankfurt Branch of the Ameri can chamber of Commerce in Ger Many will Nold a luncheon Friday at 12 Wiesmayer he was being legally but Justice Tom in the High courts said the new Orleans court should not eve have reviewed Browns Clark pointed to an earlier decision involving a japanese Gen eral convicted of War in that Case the supreme court held that the correction of any errors the court martial May have committed is military authorities who Are alone to review its said Clark Law member we thank the circuit Couit was in error in extending its for the purpose of determining compliance with the due process clause of the Constitution to such matters As the propositions of Law set Forth in the staff judge advocates the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain Browns con adequacy of the pre trial and the compe tence of the Law member of the court martial and defense Brown contended the court mar tial was not legally set up because the Law member was not an officer of the judge advocate generals department of the the Cir Cuit courts agreement with Brown on this Point caused the Justice protest in its Appeal to the supreme court to assume to judge on the competency of members of a court martial is treacherous Justice Burton and there is no warrant in the record for the conclusion that the Law member was so incompetent and defense counsel so inadequate As to make Browns military trial agreeing with the Clark said that in a hat Corpus proceeding such As Brown d to win his courts exercise no supervisory or correcting Power Over the proceedings of a court the single inquiry which civil courts May he is to determine whether the military courts had jurisdiction or authority to act in the manner that they Justice Harold Burton wrote an opinion concurring with the major itys Justice William Douglas took no part the shooting for which Brown was convicted occurred while he was on guard a German girl was with him at that he testified that two poles entered the guardhouse and a fight devel oped when he ordered them to one shot was it hit one of the poles in the right shoulder and proved the next step in the Case to the it had no immediate Handy pays visit to units March 15 special on his first inspection tour of the year to the 2d air Gen Thomas Neucom command Erin visited the division head quarters at Landsberg and the 86th fighter bomber Wing at Neu Biberg Berlin paper says reds plan new spy net March 15 Neue Zeitung said yesterday that it possesses a list of communist agents selected for work in Western Germany under the direction of the newly organized German state Security service the Neue Zeitung did not pub Lish the but did carry a detailed report on a recent meeting in East Berlin at which plans were made to extend the sad espionage net throughout All four zones of according to the Neue Wilhelm state Security min ister his Erich Felke state Secretary Anton Ackermann propaganda chief Gerhart Eisler his Albert and members of the socialist u n i t y party sed politburo attended the it was decided that Kislers formation apparatus in Western Germany would be placed under sad the newspaper in higher ranking communist agents in both East and Westr Germany will be to attend a new sad training where sabotage As Well As espionage will be it was re according to this specially picked sad agents will be sent to the soviet Union for further train the entire program the close supervision of the the Neue Zeitung 2 to be tried in Denali Case March 15 August Meyer and Heinz chief figures in the  Sale scandal were released from prison this the state prosecutors office said they were freed after 10 weeks be cause investigation against them was indictments were filed against and they win stand the trial Date was not alleged operator of a mysterious middleman office in nearby and former prosecutor of the ludwigs Burg Denali fiction were accused of accepting bribes to facilitate Denali fiction in thousands of their arrest in january set off a widespread investigation which implicated a number of top figures in the Wurtemberg Baden state gov Turnau services slated March 15 the special services club at Murana now provides Church services for american and Allied personnel every sunday at it has been protestant vespers Are held in the main lounge of the service club and Catholic mass in the theater adjoining the Junior holds answer to tracks wedding by Robert Gowe new March 15 will Tracy marry the Beautiful Ger Man actress will she follow him to America the next instalment of this transatlantic Romance will be decided in the German a holds the answer to the Story which sent Cecil Tracy flying from California to Germany and brought him Back to the without his promised 45yearold is Back from disappointed in the hitch in his wedding but just As enthusiastic Over the charms of actress Sigrid von who started things with a letter to True accompanying it with a with some was a flood of letters poured and the German actress narrowed the Field Down to three two american one in Alaska and one in and with his Brothers and operates a estate near raising cattle and Tracy finally the two began a regular Friendly then her let ters suddenly became urgent As she told of being worried that her a husband was trying to take the boy Tracy asked Sigrid to marry and when she flew to he said that soon after wedding plans were Sigrid Learned her her Bert minor government of was awarded custody of the boy in a court our wedding plans had to be Tracy because she  leave Germany without the he said she was appealing the Case and Felt she had a Good in the he i can Only wait Aad