European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse 2 the stars and stripes april 1950 czechs at Erding grateful for food j charges by Prague refuted March air Force official at Erding air base chuckled when he heard of the complaints of american mistreat ment broadcast from Prague by a Cefas who were unwilling Pas on Toree refugee planes which landed Here last be just plumb t no one could criticize the Way those people were but we kind of expected them to apparently that the Way the communists do he said the were Given the same food As airmen at the base and even had their meals in the i mess on sunday morn they All had Bacon and and one of them two eggs and i can eat them both the same Day while they were at breakfast sunday be an of sergeant walked by with a tray bearing Bacon and four eggs on one that would be a four month for one of the czechs they ate ravenously and they certainly acted grateful of personnel Beds one official they were Given Bath Good clean and everything else they probably Many things that they did not get in they lived As Well As any Ameri can Soldier while they were i cannot imagine what there Mak ing All the Row about for using Gestapo another 1 suspect they would be hanged if they said we were Nice to the czechs were interviewed by newspapermen they a agreed that they had been treated extremely Many of them asked reporters for and one tried to snatch the whole pack when this reporter offered him Only one complaint was registered while they were at that was by one passenger who complained that been forcibly removed from Bis plane because he refused to had harangued the other Pas asking them to stay aboard with him and when he dared s military policeman to come m and get the my tie really asked Lor an official if his Finger was Hurt in the he didst say anything about it to West plans to ease travel in Germany March 31 Allied High commission has ordered its subordinates to make tourist travel in Germany a communique said the three High commissioners directed Ahmed economic experts to report on factors which Are impeding development of the tourist Trade in Ger and instructed the combined travel Board further to liberalize and simplify travel into and out of this was ordered despite recent liberalization of German travel which presumably did not have the desired effect of in this successful program March 31 the first Quarter of 1950 has proved the most successful period in the Gansch military Post pro sgt Robert Post almost 20 per cent of Gap personnel Are enrollee in one or More courses with 30 ged being taken by the communists claim mistreatment March is sengers and crewmen who returned to Czechoslovakia after their forced flights to Western Germany have accused military police and army agents of using Gestapo methods pressure and on the accusations were levelled in a recorded interview on the Prague radio with persons who were aboard three czech planes which dramatically escaped to erd ing near Munich last fifty eight persons out of 85 returned to Prague bus tues the returnees Sadd some of the comrades were questioned in typical g e s t a p o faces to the and chased from one Corner of the room to be buttons were torn off and i suffered a Bruise on Onie my lorce1 6t tie he said be refused get off until resent Tive czech diplomatic Repp but they put me into a drove me to their ordered me to get rid of All my things and left me Only a then they questioned me Well past mid night on Friday and asked me state secrets like whether i was in the when they finished the vain they sent me to a jail where i was in solitary confine with an armed Soldier As my guard for the whole be Wetinsky the passengers said the Ameri cans took away from us oar communist parly badges and member ship they added american soldiers first tried to get the badges voluntarily but another passenger said when Comrade Man aboard the Brno plane protested against the forcible treatment of the an american most probably of czech told shut up or Youh get Paris museum showing Moser altar piece March 31 special the world famous Attar piece painted by Lukas Moser of Weader Tadt in now the property of the Parish Church of Wurt is included in exhibition of German Art at fee orangerie museum in it was announced by old we Wurt sponsored by French and includes also 51 pictures from the zone of cultural chief for the mass celebrated it St Anns Chapel american worshippers Kneel at the altar of Anns Chapel in Heidelberg As maj Neucom Deputy chief High the mass was broadcast Over the Netherlands photo Boyd red youth plans using gliders in paper says March 4l official Neue said the Central committee of the soviet backed free German youth adj plans to drop propaganda pamphlets gliders Over West Berlin during the scheduled May 28 youth March on air Force officials Tempe hot base Eaid any glider flying Over any part of Berlin would have to be announced in Advance at the four air safety they said the Western Powers would undoubtedly protest any such flights on the grounds of safety there in no veto Power in the air safety officials pointed out glider flights Over Berlin could not be prevented if sponsored by an occupation the Neue Zeitung said soviet zone adj glider groups have been training since january for the May 28 the newspaper said former Luftwaffe Earl is in charge of the glider Canasta cards on Sale in dec exchanges match 31 the South american game that look the by is now in the Canasta Complete with Are now on Sale in exchanges for a Good game for three or four Canasta requires two decks of cards with two jokers for each deuces running titanie9 banned in zone March 31 a previously unannounced Tripar Tite decision to withdraw the Man film titanic from circulation in the effective Tomor has been disclosed by the Hico Public affairs the foreign office said last week it was asking British High commissioner sir Brian Robertson to re port on the which originally was produced at the request of the nazi propaganda ministry in the film purports to show Rich britons being rescued from the sinking of the British liner while German immigrants Are left to explaining the decision to ban showing of the film in the the Hico office said distributor of the version of the titanic now being exhibited previously eliminated some of the vicious ant British sequences from the films screened after careful consideration at tripartite it was considered that further showing of the present version should not be per last authorities Here pointed out that All the occupying Powers had had an Opportunity to screen All films made under the including but tha Britain had not placed it on the blacklist also last authorities in Frankfurt said the film prob ably would be suppressed if Britain requested Berlin press March 31 entire Eft Wing and tailed the announce ment regarding allotment of Eca funds As a definite Rebuff to those who believed in a fadeout of West German and Western Allied inter est m top West German and Berhn leaders announced the appropriation of Marks for the revival of the cites from the political the Neue Zeitung the result of the discus Sions is of greatest importance he cause it shows those who Are grab Bing for Berlin the strength of the Powers backing the British licensed Der tag commented Berlin is not to a world determined to defend its it has become a Symbol of the West has once and for All made up its the Tage Spiegel to attract Berlin More and More by Means of Finan Cial and intellectual be cause it recognizes that Berlin is a Cornerstone in the future political and economic Structure of the soviet licensed Berliner Zeitung said the program Wilt never become a zone building pm networks to a Vert Static March 31 the stat owned radio of and Wurtem Ber Baden in the zone Are building frequency modulation pm transmitters which will untangle Europe crowded air Waves for zone within the next three the German state pm networks will Complete full coverage of the Harold technical chief of the Hico office of Public regular pm transmissions Are already being broadcast by the bavarian radio with four hessian radio with three and Southwest German radio Wurt tember Baden with one 30 stations during the next the Munich expects to have 14 transmitters in Frankfurt six and Stuttgart these will comprise about two thirds of the planned a full broadcasting two different programs from each Sta is expected to be in operation within the following two this planning is contingent upon solution of the financial problems capable of reaching any receiving set in the the state works will be composed of transmitters placed on hilltops through out the three with the highest transmitter operated by radio Munich from the Summit of he the radio Industry is now tooling up for mass production of pm and Large scale radio show ii scheduled for August in Dusseldorf to demonstrate latest Heidelberg Post holds pig Parley March 31 special a Large group of officers and enlisted men representing All sub ordinate units of Heidelberg Mili tary Post took part in the Post Public information conference in Berchtesgaden last shortly after their they were welcomed by col Stanley j Berchtesgaden sub in the Berchtesgaden or Hof the colonel introduced by Cap Gordon Heidelberg Post Public information director of the it col Norman operations who attended the conference in an advisory also building Falls Man killed March 31 a crumbling Brick Wall crushed a killed a 44yearold construction worker Here yesterday near the Security Law okd be allies Allied High commission reached meat in principle yesterday the text of a outlining the activities of the military Security whose Job be to supervise German Industry to make sure does not eater the armaments Field the Law will be published a High commission communique pointing out that the Legisla Tion will fit into the framework of the Allied agreement on Industrial prohibited and restricted in gel the High commission also agreed on a technical definition of steel Industry insofar As it into International agreements of limitation of production details of this decision will be made Public lifter Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has been officially no the communique Trio remanded for trial in do Kidnap attempt March Al men and a charged gift participation la a Russia backed kidnapping were remanded april 17 at a hearing Gisela and a Dolf and Michael both were arrested 11 when aft alleged scheme to abduct Victor a russian displaced living in and spirit him the zone to the soviet har Coal record March 31 har Coal product reached a new postwar Daby of tons March a i Industry report for the third week in Mab averaged tons a
