European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Thi stars and stapes Page f Neucom chief on bad Tola visit Gen Thomas Handy talks with sgt Gordon of the 1st Sig during Landys visit to 1st inf div to photo Gen Handy inspects units 1st the Neucom commander touched Down again at the bad Tolz air strip am and made a fast moving inspection of the 1st div he Handy was particularly interested in Flint Kaseane troop quarters messes and stopped briefly at Headquarters staff escorting Handy on his inspection of Kaseane units were Brig Gen George assistant 1st inf div col Edward division chief of and col John 1l incoming division chief of Randy was also conducted by he special Trp co commanders in the company commanders were capt Eldeen he co capt Augie 1st Sig and capt William 1st he photographic display in the signal company Handy witnessed a demonstration of radio link equipment by 1st it Lunceford he also inspected signal message Center under the direction of sgt Gordon and a photographic Laboratory display set 19 by sgt Paul during his tour of Flint Handy looked in on an 011 class conducted by maj John assistant division he visited the Headquarters Chap Ter room of the 1st div although he has observed 1st div troops Many times in the this Wai bands first visit to the Home at the end of his inspection of the he said he was impressed with the installations Randy took off from the division at pm in an lit piloted by maj Alexander Rankin with so Hofen As Hie next bad april 4 Gen Thomas commander inspected 1st inf div at bad and the 1st 18th inf regt at on a split second arriving at Leng Gries by train in the Handy inspected the 18th inf regt the 3d 6th army Cav regt constabulary at and the 1st div he before Handy used division Liaison planes to Sandwich a flying visit to the co Stab unit Between his inspections of troops in the bad Tolz an hour after his arrival at the Isth inf Handy was airborne on his Way to Degern Dorf in an piloting the l5 was capt John of the divisions Light aviation he was accompanied by his maj James in a second l5 piloted by 1st it Harold Kaseane inspected Corporal receives first prize for Small arms Patch april 4 prize winners in a command wide contest to design a shooters Patch for the 1950 Neucom Small arms Competition were announced Here after a committee had considered 213 the organization and training he sponsored the the design submitted by Cpl Leo of he and he 7871st was picked for the first prize of a savings his which shows a Brace of old Flintlock of Small arms to Ward a Neucom flaming word will be made into an insignia to be worn by contestants in matches at Grafe Wohr july the words european command Small arms 1950 Circle the the second prize of a 525 savings Bond was awarded to m sgt Joseph of 99th pm so the Bond for third prize went to col Henry of ten other designs were selected by the Board of judges for honorable men two War criminals win reduced sentences april 4 special on the of the War crimes modification approved by the Neucom com the sentences of two War criminals confined in Landsberg prison have been the 30year sentence of Philipp Blum has been reduced to 15 Leo Kowitzke life sentence was reduced to the Modifica Tion Board considered that the of participation of Blum and Kowitzke in the of which they were convicted was such that reductions in sentence were War Safe personnel Parley set v in the zones West Berlin reply9 to East rally april 4 Berlin is preparing in Advance its reply to the May 28 March on Ber Lin by communist dominated so Viet zone mayor Ernst Reuter declared speaking before a social democratic party spa rally in the sector near the soviet zone Reuter said the West Berlin May Day demonstration will prove that the City is prepared to meet any provocations planned by the free German youth adj who reportedly have threatened to invade the Western sectors during their Whitsuntide resistance pledged Reuter told United press that the West sector germans will show the world their pronounced resistance to communism and Russia when they meet in a mass demonstration May Are not asking for Reuter said in an exclusive inter but we Are warning them communists and russians that to will not be subjected to communist Reuter estimated that upwards of berliners would attend the rally near the burned out Reich Stag building on the soviet sector Border if the weather is at All German students to see local councils in action april 4 a countywide program to interest students in local Community affairs has been started in Kreis Unter it was disclosed by William county resident to familiarize the pupils with the work of their elected Community each school in the county is selecting pupils from its higher classes to attend a Public meeting of the Community Council and to observe the deputies in Swiss photo contest open to dec camera fans april 4 for the information of camera enthusiasts in the special serv ices Calls attention to the opening of an International camera contest sponsored by the Swiss International photo Competition is open to proves new assignment will Lime life Cor respondent in who assigned to cover new England signal and Amateur cameramen and prizewinning entries will be published in camera and placed on sex contestants May submit six photographs not later than entry forms containing full particulars May be obtained by writing Rayelle camera photo con 5700 Oxford Philadelphia air Force changes policy on Safe reservists april 4 official notification has been received by Safe from air Force he that there will be no fur ther separations or conversions to no flying status of Reserve officers within Safe during the re of the fiscal year previous information indicated that Safe Reserve officer personnel would suffer no further separations during the fiscal but monthly conversions to non flying status would continue through june three exl Ift officers requested by Tunner april 4 three officers of the air transport have alerted by Mats Headquarters for duty with air task Force Swar at Pope maj Harold navigation and briefing officer for the 1629th an Rhine main maj Sterling co of the Mats detach ment at and 1st it William Public information officer of the 1602d at he in wies will join the staff of 0maj Gen William Tunner at Pope the who were requested by name by the former combined air lift task Force were Witti the general and his staff during the Berlin air Tunner recently was appointed commander of All air transport operations for exercise Kolb asks Bonn to release Frankfurt office space april 4 loser in the fight last fall with Bonn Over location of the West Ger Man Frankfurt now is applying pressure to get Federal personnel moved of and apartments still occupied Frankfurt mayor Walter Kolb Laid formal claim to the space still retained by Federal employees in the old Biz onal administration build Frankfurt needs the room to expand her Commerce and Kolb the former5 German Biz onal eco nomic department Here ceased to exist March and transferred 670 of its 970 employees to the Federal ministry of economics in two Dps arrested looting 2d army Cav billets april 4 special arrest of two polish Dps a the con Stab Barracks Here brought recovery of nearly in clothing and effects taken from men of the 2d army the Provost marshal olek Sarubin was apprehended in the quarters of the 1st in Ink co with Worth of clothing n an old Barracks and Bruno Migo was caught in the billets of c co with Worth of both admitted illegal Entrance and the marshal the poles Ware turned Over to Ger Man 100 men to attend talks in Wiesbaden april 4 a military personnel which will include personnel specialists representing All Safe in will be conducted at Rose hotel Here beginning april a Safe announcement approximately 100 officers and airmen will attend the today purpose of the conference is to formulate plans and policies for the Safe personnel program which will facilitate the maximum utilization and Economy of allotted officer and airman the conference will be opened by col Leo Safe chief of military on thursday officer personnel including the effect of the conversion of rated officers on Pilot forecast require ments and schools will be the discussion on officer subjects will be led by it col Thomas assistant chief of the officers Safe military personnel airmen problems it col Reinold chief of the airmen will begin the discussion of airmen problems and plans on thursday airmen subjects will include strength and utilization of schools and school demotions and elimination of Friday capt Harold Safe recruiting will explain new recruiting direct extensions of enlistments and foreign service and the implementation of a new Safe recruiting career program during Friday prob lems and Progress of the airman career program will be presented by maj Gardiner chief of the Safe audit and classification guest speakers at the conference will include maj Anna airmen information and education officer of Wiesbaden military Post who will speak about the univer sity of Maryland courses being con ducted in and capt James records processing officer at the Brenier Haven port of who will discuss processing of personnel for return to the zone of the Interior by water it col Milton Rosen appointed Heidelberg is april 4 it col Milton Rosen has been assigned As Heidelberg military replacing it col Jack Wio has returned to the for assignment with the 10th inf div at who completed 20 years service this was formerly chief of training for the organized Reserve corps in new York Nickel bargains at pm include Kitchen items april 4 special the Penn Wise Neucom House wife can find some excellent Nickel bargains her Kitchen among the household wares on Sale in Rifae Exchange the Neucom Exchange system an t to Quality alumni nun ladles have been reduced from 25 to 5 also reduced to a Nickel Are cake which former Lar Tor 15 recently Oaly limited quantities of these items Are and they Are not 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