European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Got bucket in a Paris cellar French Jolany do Jas hoi is gallic Bobby Sowers enthralled Fly his authentic new Orleans rhythm by Dick staff writer feature Section by Phil Bucknell new York Bureau of know Why i was i sometimes sgt Walter Konetsco i think maybe it was because a lot of Guys did go needed a messenger the Guys who did 170 who died from nazi brutality during the final weeks of the have their messenger All in a sincere Guy who has dedicated his life to keeping promises he to them Back they wanted their folks to know when and they said and i promised to visit their folks when i got and you cant renege on a Promise like Shaf Konetsco cant in the past four he visited families of 40 of the Guys who got mostly in the Eastern in order to visit those who live in the West he in the army in Hopes of being stationed out on the coast so that he can on with his this to How it came about it began on in the town of on the Luxembourg German a 28tti inf div medic who was already wearing the p Urple heart with two was captured some other medics and the Battle of the bulge was under and their fanatical storm proposed to them on the after a lot of Konetsco they agreed to imprison from that it wad a of 1 worsening conditions poor bitter with inadequate clothing and ii tale or no medical the medics in the Patty had 4been allowed to go on caring and the causing seas Bobby boxers to tear themselves 1 apart i a steaming Para c the provender of this clarinet is 27 year old Claude a serious musician who looks More like american College Type with his and Corduroy Slacks than one of Frances greatest hot the club is the Vieux colom Bier Paris left not far from the Deus existentialist hangout t from Tenet time to me Soprano an instrument he beg Euto play jazz tet Patete wife Sidney of new Lufer leads a Dixieland six or seven that lot of people say is fee finest of its kind in the j the essence of Luters music Pri Marily its spirit and say the except for occasional spurts to Jnore modern the band Sticks close to the new Orleans ensemble with occasional solos inter of the musicians has visited the and they heard their first jazz on phonograph because of it is something of a tribute to Luter and his men Tiit they have achieved individuality and style of their Luters English be limited to the titles of the tunes he but Bernard Between numerous help Ings of Pernod and equally Plena Ieuv explained the band and its music to me and Mike a dealer in Ham mers and nails from Minnesota who happened to be in the hardware who also took the photo on this later admitted that Luters music brought him closer to where he thought he ought to be than anything that had happened in this Zacharias is Good Lor but too these pointed to a group of milling Mostof them under do not know what we Are but Only mat it is the beat is the important i started his first jazz band when he washed by the germans in a work Camp during the since the band has changed we have better musicians if he and the band Ever thought his band play the tunes mostly Are and run from t thought i heard buddy Bolden say through Royal Gay dec blues and Muskrat c after picking up the toys a worked head the band arid in in growing now and then a i and sits therell be a Banjo player trombonist the next its atmosphere in joints like but Ferentz the there Are so  the band Doest have saxophone the piano often soundalike the things Jelly Roll Morton used to if you typed the a would come from the period of certainly not much Hen with allies the Gernian prisoners in Colun Ras making a tour Bernard of the would listen f czech we have been Ina movie of you a drop and see t 71 to i s4 of for the a and Ai the cult at where Sta band holds out nights a ii resented by the music of the Al sex Gas formerly heard on l 3 a bouncing 300 pounds at is second to Jimmy Rushing for arid he gets More attention in the joint the Luter Al backed by a Bass and that when he comes the lights go Down kids sit at their tables or the you cant always Tell what Al is going to program is never set voice is bigger than he Al and buddy the Bass frown politely on the Luter till drive you crazy you listen to it Long Banks Ifa just not v of that modern Battle is fought every Day in the music i the states there reviving the Charleston and wira it the Dixieland in the Claude Luter and his Gar cons will continue at until August when it gets top hot and then they will go the March Konetsco was Given the task of keeping track Omose who pages of two Grimes the a one entry German doctor looked at the didst do much a fellow died on me this his name Many of the dying men would to hairy before tiled up my folks san Diego or Richmond or punks Utah Konetsco Woodd Konst cps group was delivered by april but of the 500 that 330 were left that meant that for who was october Mere were 170 families to be the civilian Konetsco worked at a variety of jobs when he got Railroad brakeman and Hospital and whenever he had amassed sufficient funds he has so far spent of his Money on this would off on his he says that his first visits to relatives of Theallen gis were difficult for All of but later he began to sense the questions people wanted answered Southern family was Konetsco i got into town about washed up and telephoned the use about 9 they met me in a treated me like one of the n forthe first couple of Days they interested in what i had then they l3ne questions about How their son time of he when he was he Heaten t my let Tali Ranf making a lot of americans probably be Able d it answer ques but what Claude Luter with background and his band give dancers in the club Colombier of Jety feet the Piant will accept volume by Shirley sports feature r grandmas j by Bill regular report from America cd messenger boy by Fhil z strictly Femina Bridge problems by Josephine Culbertson Book note it by Arthur Noyes by Spra latest dec 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