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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, September 29, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stabs and stripes september 1950 elite jailed in French Bond scandal Paris has Long had a gift for producing scandals which even to the French themselves Are much More sur prising than the scandals of any other and the scandal of the thousand Bonds of Arras comes close to the like All Good French this one hinges around since the thousand Treasury of francs required Only a Lille manipulation to be turned into anything Between and depending on How it was three Hundred of the Bonds had left the Treasury strongroom at Arras on and an other appetite was grow july but no one noticed anything until july six Days a former bar keeper at Lille was caught trying to sell five from then the affair involved higher and higher Levels of the next arrest was a business agent who had gotten entangled i the Sale of 300 More then came charges against a gentleman whose wartime record bad been to say the least be was Jean a member Gen Charles de Gaul Les con Public buying detectors new York Rush on for Geiger delicate instruments that detect radiation from atomic time was when Only scientists and scientific laboratories were but today the Lay population is Labelling out Money for a spokesman for the radial one of the nations largest distribution of Geiger said increased 125 per cent in the last two inquiries were coming from taxi Book Stock o f 11 e a and Many Are spurred by reports of the dire results of atomic one taxi Driver bought one of the smaller models known h the super it Sells Tor but you can buy one Model for according to the the cab Driver he wanted the counter keep in his cab in Case his fare might be an enemy agent carrying uranium or an atom wheelus school Tripoli new school has opened for the 110 american children whose families Are attached to the air base at wheelus for the last two years american children attended the flt ice Rule Active Assembly who had served on the court which tried Petain and he  be found for nearly a along with his mis he surrendered under the terms of a written agreement with the police As to his the next Surprise was the arrest of a Treasury controller and Cash Ier on july he calmly admitted he had removed two lots of Bonds from their but energetically maintained it want his fault at cancel immunity this made things a Good Deal and by the French National Assembly was oblige to cancel parliamentary immunity for one of its gaullist Antoine de who bad been accused by the first two the scandal ran underground for Many months until the sudden surrender of the missing Dordain last july Nineteen Days the chief tax collector of Arras was found murdered francs which might easily have been taken was on the police produced a Dictaphone confession from two i years president Truman orders Gen Dwight in Eisenhower to clean up the alleged shocking treatment of the jews in 1946 government agencies join in an Effort to Avert a strike of steamship workers which threat ens to halt All vessels in Atlantic and 1947 the destroyer Douglas Fox strikes a mine 18 Miles off Trieste and three men Are four critically injured and eight others 1948 the Britain and formally invoke the severest pro visions of the in charter against charging their wartime ally with menacing world peace by the blockade of 1949 the German Federal govern ment officially accepts and pro claims the devaluation of the Mark from 30 cents to and makes the devaluation retroactive to lost is found Denmark thirty six years Niels fed Ersen lost his wedding dig Ging in his a son found his fathers old ring a Day before the Parent Golden wedding Anni editors tots the daily German lessons Ore taken from the Basic course so Jim German prepared by the editorial staff of armed forces Institute men suspected of the tax col lectors murder Florent termer inspector of the French and inspector Charles a third Man was arrested two Days later on a charge that be aided the and with him a fourth cattle merchant by the examining judge was involved in such a tangle of accusations and pressure that be could endure no after having taken shelter with his be was said to have cried out that he bad to get away from pressure from higher he tried to climb Down a rain was taken to the Hospital and later spirited off by authorities to an unknown at the same the local attorney general was relieved of Bis Job by the the local police Captain was sent come others involved suddenly left on Holiday and a new judge was assigned to examine the the French Public is sure that something exciting is going to All that its worrying about is whether it will happen in open court or behind an Iron East courts called joke by Richard Habein staff correspondent Frankfurt prominent criminal attorney from Leipzig who recently fled the so Viet said Here that East zone courts Are a burlesque on Justice and make the Legal system of the Hitler regime look like Small the lawyer was attending a meeting of attorneys from West Germany in Frankfurt lawyers from the East also were scheduled to at but none could obtain per Mission to the who asked that his name be withheld for fear of reprisals against members of his family still in the said the nazis barred him from practice in 1933 because he is half he said that no regularly licensed attorneys Are handling criminal cases in soviet zone courts the communist dominated he de has set up special schools for that Are More directed toward political indoctrination than Legal the judges of the old school who still have the attorney Are often More harsh than their communist having served under Hitler they know what it can mean if you dont pass out stiff almost the attorney Are dismissed by the government for not being harsh this applies More often to cases where political deviation is involved than in criminal a new group of students is fill ing the Law schools of East Ger the attorney mostly the sons and daughters of work ers and they Are Good but Are so indoctrinated communist theory by the time they begin the actual study of they Are hopelessly lost cases against germans handled by russian courts Are rarely pub the attorney thousands of the lawyer have been sentenced by state flying courts that pass sentences on criminals and political offenders to 15 or 20 the lowest sentences handed but by these Courte Are 15 years at hard but few Are sentenced to he Neucom ments Heidelberg German american club to continue Aid to needy students by Virginia Webb the Heidelberg German american women club will continue its program of Aid to needy students and welfare work among the unemployed during the 195051 Daniel and Hugo wife of the Heidelberg were elected honorary presidents of the the next meeting will be ii in the Green room of the Stadt Halle with James of Wiesbaden and president of the federation of German american women As German and american officers of the club for the 195051 season Are Walker and Gladys presidents George Winner and Ingeborg secretaries Hall and Elisabeth treasurers Huntzberry and Vera program chairmen Morgan and Kalhe von welfare chairmen Roberts and Charlotte students Ruth chief of the state departments passport Fuesl of Honor at a dinner Given by the Frankfurt press talks with Don club photo the newly formed boy scout troop of the Mannuci Fendenheim urea will have its first meeting monday at pm at the teenagers the Wiesbaden Square and Compass club invited nonmember Mas Ter masons to join their group at a recent meeting in the Eagle the number women club will have a inn Cheon meeting at Stein Castle tuesday at the club also plans a cake Sale 17 the numbers shopping seventy representatives of German and american organizations met at the Home of Cannon recently for and discussion of future welfare activities in mrs Luise of and one of Germany leading social welfare the sont Hofen sub Post Bare special services club held Bridge and Tea party for dependent wives to introduce new facilities at the Rosemary kindergarten teacher in the Munich american will give puppet shows each saturday at am at the dependents the Alt Heidelberg masonic club will meet in the ballroom of the Kropa hotel monday at 8 a Al expense trip to Switzerland is the prize awaiting the Winner of the pingpong tournament tonight at the Burger Brau Keller service club in the Nornberg women club is planning a tour of Berlin on deadline for paying the train fare and reservations is Alta Garmisch military Post will leave for the states in october on Ricjard son of maj and William born the go in Seitz if s3 at Augsburg military the Munich German american mens club coupled its meeting last night with the october fest and honoured or George v land commissioner for with an honorary John wife of the Safe told of her recent trip to Russia at a luncheon of the Wiesbaden air base officers wives a Monte Carto night is being planned for monday by the Schwabish bal ladies Community to raise Money for welfare the stars and stripes tul i 1h editor chief managing editor sports editor september w col Henry 3richter Ken Zumwalt Phil Taylor executive manager chief of distribution Maurice air Mcwood Louis Brown news bureaus Frankfurt 088 ext 67 Darmstadt Berlin Vienna Bremerhaven Munich the european edition is published daily at for the occupation under the auspices of he armed forces information and education Neucom Frankfurt the stars and Darmstadt correspondence should be addressed to the and Apo mail to the new York office should be sent to my Washington Street n y this is not an official publication of the armed reentered As second class matter n 1947 at the pos Ohice at new under act of March  
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