European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes clemency unit to hear War crimes pleas april i the High commission announced yesterday the appointment of a Threeman clemency Board to hear petitions filed by germans convicted of War crimes by the War crimes tribunal at the groups functions will be limited to considering matters normally deemed relevant in the exercise of executive the announcement said the group will not review Deci Sions of the Nurnberg courts or in i fire into the adequacy of evidence presented to the recommendations of the group will go to High commissioner John j the Board is composed of pre judge David Peck of the appellate first department the new York state supreme court Frederick of chairman of the new York state Board of and Conrad member of the staff of Legal adviser to the state de sentenced in 12 cases Are now held at Landsberg these include to prisoners sentenced to All prisoners under death sen in neg have filed clemency petitions and additional Hareas Corpus Peti the announcement said Mcc icy will await the decisions of the courts in the Hareas Corpus petitions and the disposition of the clemency petitions before carrying Cut death the Hoard will have no jurisdiction Over top nazis sentenced by International tribunals and now ctr f i n de in berlins Spandau returns to states april 1950 maj Albert who served As chaplain at the Kalerta training 24h it in and 547th has returned id the on photo Frankfurt Gunsmith fined for handling yank bought rifles april 1 a German Gunsmith was fined 650 Marks and Given a suspended six month prison sentence after being found guilty in a District court Here of illegal Possession of Walter of was convicted of violating control coun Icil Taw governing Possession of firearms by according to Kelber procured eight All of which he sold to1 Welbers defense was that the rifles had been ordered by the Pur and that he had merely served As the buying them in the French new at Hersfeldt sub Post april 1 it col Eugene con Stab and maj William Hersfeldt sub Post officiated at the dedication of the Hersfeldt Post Chapel guest speaker was col her Man co Stab chief Chap sub Post chaplain is Joseph lady Lucks smile turns to frown As Miltton fade april 1 Carpenter Here has told a hard Story which should top them Carpetner Ernst Kohler Learned through the mail he had inherited in pounds left by an Uncle in the same Day this news arrived Kohler fell from his break ing both but with the inheritance news in his pocket the Accident did not seem too another letter arrived from a London Law firm stating one too Many zeros had been added to the Pound Kohler had actually been left in this was not too great a Shock until the postman Ranf dear Kohler this is to inform you you must share your recent inheritance in equal amounts with 65 other sunday on her Way to Kohler slipped and broke her Eastern european agents l showed interest in Karpe april 1 department Siirid Here vat soviet satellite intelligence agents had demonstrated Groat interest in the activities of capt naval attache ii Bucharest before he was mysteriously Karpe was found dead 23 alongside the tracks in a Railroad Tunnel near he had fallen or been thrown from the speeding Arlberg of the Eie or on which he was i who repute thy knew Mote than any other american about so Viet troop dispositions in Public affair s chief s meet in Berlin april 1 Hico office of Public presided yester Day at a conference of Hico Public affairs officers from the Bremen and Berlin at Headquarters attending the one of a series designed to coordinate in formation and reorientation pro were Public affairs officers Howard and Alfred of Frankfurt Duncan d of Bremen Howard of Stuttgart Ernest Neu of Wiesbaden Oharles of and1 Kenneth of maj Gen Maxwell Berlin briefed the conferees on the Berlin its soviet Kidnap gang broken april 1 Benno Blum gang of kidnappers and which worked under direct russian supervision and has been forced out of business in the army said last an army statement said 15 of the gang had been arrested by the Are in russian in or have fled from the gangs primary task was to Kidnap displaced persons in the zone of fake them across the zonal and hand them Over to soviet army in return for each the gang was Given one months Protection in smuggling Cigar ets for Oral Hungary to Austria Blum arrested by russians from the smuggling was said to have amounted to it was known that the gang kid naked at least four probably according to the was arrested by the russians shortly after the announce ment that ring had been he was said to have escaped from his russian it was not known whether he has been four russian officers of the four russian officers directly linked to the three were said still to be stationed in a it col who directed the gang from his Vienna was called to russian head quarters at Baden to explain to his Superior How the americans had managed to arrest most of the his explanation apparently was trial set for tipster in Austria Kidnap ring april 1 austrian communist who plied information that helped agents smash a Russia backed kid Naping ring operating throughout was ordered to stand trial april bail of schillings was set on request of Bairs Farewell for Trudeau april 1 special the he he 1st co Stab will have a Farewell review at pm monday honouring Brig Gen who is leaving wies Jaden and command of the 1st co Stab Brig to be assistant com and about russian Black sea was in route to the diplomatic sources in Paris told this Story of How Eastern european intelligence operatives displayed keen interest in Karpe before he died Early this an is Rael director of the Hun Garian office of the american joint distribution committee was arrested by the political Jacobson was taken to Budapest political police Headquarters and questioned 20 hours at a stretch in an attempt to link him to alleged spy activities in two weeks Jacobson was released after he had signed numerous statements in which he cannot and had explained in writing his associations and business appointments for the past several interested in Karpe upon his Jacobson re turned to the where spoke with state department officials about his Jacobson reported that More than any other single the Hun Garian interrogators dwelt on tha of they demanded tha Jacobson Tell them All he knew Al Cut Karpes Jacobson maintained he did even know but the Hungar ians nevertheless returned again and again to Karpes name in an Effort to get information about although state department officials Drew no conclusions from this they reportedly con Sider it significant that the soviet satellite intelligence network deemed Karpes activities important army and austrian investigators have tried without Success since Karpes death 1o determine whether he was killed or fell off the train by Karpes obvious inter est to soviet satellite intelligence because of his intimate knowledge of have made it difficult for some investigators to accept the Accident Maudant of the army War it try ruled out in Neumann visits april i no try orders will be personnel of Safe he for visits to Therese stigma list it was the visits Are not considered religious and usae 1651 will not be so some 170 accompanied by capt chaplain Wiesbaden air left thursday for further information on the visits May be obtained from the Safe air chaplains huge ovation Given Straus work april 1 Thun Derous ovation that lasted 65 min utes Drew 28 curtain Calls last night greeted the premiere of Oscar Straus 48th her the 80yearold Vienn Seamer ican sitting in the Bullet proof Box once reserved for Hitler in the Gartne Platz sobbed into a handful of congratulatory cables from Many parts of the world As his first postwar offering got under after the record breaking ova who gave the world the chocolate the Waltz dream and the three said our show seems to be a i expect that it Wilt find its Way to Broadway for the next Straus con ducted the orchestra in an inter Mezzo he wrote especially for the the applause related the opening of the second act by 15 Munich music lovers described the music of the some of which Straus wrote hurriedly just before the As some of Straus Many of the works of who As a jew was driven from his native Austria by have been premiered in acclaimed along with the com Poser were the Lyric Soprano Herta of and Ger Man film actor Karl the audience also cheered Adolf stage to whom Straus paid special tribute for his out standing Rotts production was set on a revolving stage with huge picture frames to set off i series of Back at the end of each of the Many the actors froze As the stage revolved to bring a new set of posed players into new apartments to ease Heidelberg housing Pinch april 1 shortage of adequate quarters on Heidelberg military Post is still according to the accommodations the situation is expected to be greatly relieved by late a spokesman with comple Tion of new apartments now being constructed in Heidelberg and German maids in us april 1 has employed German girls and women As housemaids since the a Hamburg labor office spokesman last critique on shamrock1 set tuesday i i d e Lyell april 1 Spe critique of exercise is scheduled to open at tuesday in the special services Center Heidel during the two hour commanders and staff officers will discuss operations and emphasize lessons Learned from it Gen John and commanding of exercise will Ope the critique with a discussion the purpose and training objective of the toll be follow by comments Conjoint staff or Garif lion and planning col Samuel director organization awl a training who chief of staff during operations analysis joint operations will be by officers on the joint staff the intelligence officer will explain and critique the control system during maj Gen constabulary and commander army forces in discuss army Brig Gen Thomas Darcy Coj 2d air will summarize aft Force except troop Rier which Wilt discussed by Gen Edward 61st to naval operations will be discussed by Comdr Robert c0j Rhine River while signal communications will be explained by maj Gen Jerry chief maj Gen Frank Uty commander of joint task Foris of exercise and non will comment on the exer Cin and before Gen Thomas Neucom commander fib closes the set 5 German jailed for pile ref american Carl april 1 special five germans four of tip 17 years were found a court in Mannheim of and breaking into automat ski belonging to members of the i curation the thefts oct uni Between Christmas and All who had Prev convictions on similar it sentenced to from six to 12 Modi in two other the gang were tried before Man Couit for breaking into Mahowald automobiles and sentenced to terms of one they Arie held for possible 1 before the it was the fourth Case i month involving d ants to be tried before Paul presiding of the 5th judicial All foods off ration As Bonn frees sugar j ing will be completely Western Germany May 1 new ration cards for the Bonn Cabinet ruled Day that enough sugar Wae i to permit rationing to foods came off the ration 3 gis fined for Brawl april i i pc Horace of Brown and pfc Albert All members of the Iiah medical det were sentence Lay by summary courts Orfei Fure of of their of Atli Loveil in a Brawl at Krona in Dege Rioch