European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1950 the stars and stripes 5 jams i Vidt Sho May s thousand a my e d Pijie circus Krone Here and thousands milled outside trying to in trance to the Horace Heidt the  admin Sion free variety review was sponsored by olb Bavaria for the entertainment of the German hundreds of those who had failed to get in remained in front of the building and heard excerpts Broad cast Over a Public address the show was opened by Charles acting for land commissioner Clarence winning pointed out that the performance had been suggested by High commissioner John who wanted to give his friends a Chance to see some typical american gets Chamois Beard Thomas lord mayor of closed the thanking Heidt on behalf of the Munich pop he then presented Heidt and Heidt with bavarian hats Complete with a Gams Bart Chamois billed As 1 Sta maker of Kreidt finds his Talent among Young people trying to get a included in the program were Ben a 250pound sensation whose singing resembles Kate Smiths Pierce 29yearold Blind boy who plays the and Ralph former janitor from Charleston who brought the House Down by singing ave Maria and lords Heidt said the audience was among the most appreciative be had Ever played he said he Hopes to to return to Germany next year to give a series of free performances for germans in leading Good he is one of the most effective and fastest ways of promoting understanding Between Vogeler mapping plan to free husband by Ernie staff correspondent May 5 Lucille who will Fly to London to see Secretary of state Dean said she will suggest a new plan to top government officials which she Hopes will effect the release of her Robert a Vic president of the International Telegraph and Telephone was sentenced in february to 15 years imprison ment by Hungary on charges All attempts by state department officials to see Vogeler have Vogeler said she does not have a definite appointment with Acheson but was confident the Secretary of state would see she would not reveal the nature of her the belgian born wife of the american Telephone official said if talk with Acheson did not achieve the desired results she would Fly to the to see other top american government declared she will even make an attempt to Confer personally with president Vogeler my Bob May still be in prison but he is far from daily i receive All sorts of encouragement through the mail from stateside persons who ask me to keep up my fight to release my this i will never cease she also said that she has Learned that several stateside clubs have been started for the express Pur pose of obtaining her husbands re lease from his Budapest she said that she has been informed that two or three american legion clubs in the states have enrolled in such a Vienna will Honor Jdc director today May 5 of Beaver director of the american joint distribution committee in will be presented with the Honor medal of the City of Vienna tomorrow at a Spe Cial mayor Theodore Korner will make the the Cere Mony will be attended by leading austrian and army a graduate of the University of will be Given the award for his leadership of the cd cos vast program of Relief and rehabilitation for jewish victims of nazi the Jdc has More than in its Relief program in Austria since March 1947 when trobe took it has helped More fijian refugees from austrian Camps go to new austrian official vanishes on hungarian Border May 5 austrian press reported that a customs official had disappeared while on duty at the Austro hungarian Border near Bur he was identified As Josef austrian authorities said they had found his Raincoat about 100 Yards away from the Border on Britain to modify full dismantling of Goering works May 5 British High commissioner Gen sir Brian told the Ger mans that he was willing to slash British dismantling of the giant Hermann Goering steel works near German plans to direct the plants War potential into peaceful Chan Nels and provide work for some of the areas unemployed had been accepted in he subject to certain Modifica the British he pointed represented considerable con Cessions on the original plan for the dismantling and demilitarization of the where a few weeks ago mobs of German workers attacked British Dis mantling destroyed Dis mantling equipment and stoned and spat on British troops sent to restore order in the Plant in a letter to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announcing acceptance of the German plans to retain sections of the works for peacetime in Robertson asked the Chancellor for a firm Assurance that the British concessions would end interference with dismantling of the plants War no in Texas wed by phone May 5 29 year old German Hilda exchanged nuptial with sgt Russel stationed at a Texas Airfield some Miles a 10minute transatlantic Telephone conversation after a Justice of the peace at Goodfellow air Force base read her the marriage the at Tractive Blond typist excitedly whispered i do into the phone she then heard Stofer repeat the vow and the Justice declared them Man and met in 1946 maj Harry of Erding air was the Standin for the a dozen several of them carrying circled the Bride during the Brief Telephone formerly assigned to the 85th general Supply returned to the after the completion of his overseas tour eight weeks miss said she met her husband at Ansbach in said she will join her husband in a few dec locator files consolidated at he May 5 the Neucom locator files of the and Juan general machine records Branch have been consolidated with the Central postal now operating at Neucom he requests for information on the location of Neucom personnel should now be made to the Central postal Apo or by phoning Heidelberg 7855 or Twenty Fourour service will be maintained by the directory except on sundays and Mclain reviews comptroller system May 5 performance budgeting for the armed forces based on the known Cost of specific operations will be the next Large scale pro Gram of the department of defense comptroller it Gen Raymond army comp told a conference of Neucom military Post the Daylong session was witnessed by approximately 200 com Manders and representatives of the Navy Force units in Trieste and the comptroller installed in the army less than two years has concentrated on a workable accounting system to determine costs of equipment and operations and to supervise and coordinate joint Supply system speakers predicted that As a re sult of comptroller findings a joint procurement and Supply system for All of the military services will be organized within the next few they also predicted that forces in the future will be financed on an accrual basis rather than by the present system of con Gressional appropriations based in anticipated needs for the fiscal troops and commanders Are be ginning to realize the usefulness of although few Mili tary men at first liked to see the comptroller idea applied to tac tical Mclain told the replacements always had been based on experience or guess but there is no real reason Why we should not be Able to examine and defend the Validity of army procedures or manpower and present them to Congress and the performance budgets Mclain was introduced at the conference by maj Gen Daniel Neucom Vic chief of the department of defense needs performance budgets so that the costs of certain sex postal the Navy or of can be compared with each other and with other govern mental departments before budget needs Are shown to my lain he paid tribute to the develop ment of the Neucom comptroller program and to the Way in which col John Neucom and Usa eur and his staff had sold the Job of the new Ive seen nothing in the United states to compare with the fun the once mighty Krupp steel works at Essen that forged weapons for the Nail legions now lies a mass of scattered Brick and rubble after dismantling orders were carried on this Field of debris the Earth will soon coax Field of covering the ugly bears of toning efficiency of the comptroller he i am particularly impressed with the work simplification program and the imagination displayed in it but at the same time you Are doing outstanding work in less tangible saving Money and saving manpower and saving Man with the economies suggested by we can do More with less and at the same time put More Power on the tactical line by saving Man hours in the a similar opinion was voiced by maj Gen Frank Deputy in a message read in his sold on when the comptroller system was first i wondered what the army was coming i did not want impediments on troops or tactical now i am completely sold on the the principle of command every Dollar saved by Businesslike management increases the tactical despite cuts in budget approx Ria Neucom has been Able to keep Strong tactical and at the same time launch Large housing construction projects and make major improvements in installations and the dependents three Neucom comptroller Field which surveyed and Frankfurt military posts recently to determine their minimum were Able to effect substantial according to a report by maj Irene of the statistical Branch of the Neucom office of the Neucom savings the net reduction in personnel reached with a potential an Nual Dollar saving of and a Mark saving of although some of the posts actually received added personnel and equipment the teams will continue their work until they have surveyed All col chief of the Neucom budget in discussing performance budgets that will give Congress a truer picture of the Money needs for the armed said that it is conceivable that a super Supply system for the Navy and of will be set up by under the equipment would be purchased through one thus eliminating bidding Between the services that now sends costs the supplies would be issued from a Central storage eliminating the necessity for each service to keep reserves of identical items and budgeting separately for Small pieces of such As flashlights and Carbon Labo saving gadgets demonstrations of labor saving gadgets developed under Neucom work simplification pro Gram were presented at the con Ference under the direction of Leon of the management Neucom office of the Burnham reported that 200 Cash awards for labor and Money saving ideas have been paid in the past few months to civilian employees of the most of them German through the Usa eur employees suggestion and Cash awards a new policy allows enlisted personnel to be paid up to for each workable idea that will save labor or the Money coming from Central welfare it col Autrey chief of the management Neucom office of the conducted a question and answer quiz pro Gram on comptroller