European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                October 1950 the stars and stripes Page i German says East gaining in radio Duel 5 Wem Ger Man official said Here the West is in danger of losing the radio cold far Wilh Russia in Rudolf chairman of the parliamentary radio said powerful East German stations were blotting out no communist stations in on third of Western the British broadcasting German language programs also Are being shouted Down in parts of West Germany by communist programs Voge he said the voice of powerful Munich transmitter can to heard throughout West and East losing its Ger Man radio audience by inept Selec Tion of Vosel and other German radio of fac Iris pave this picture of the advantage the russians have grabbed in their propaganda drive inside Germany red propaganda East Germany stations in Berlin and Leipzig Are blanketing Western Germany daily with communist but the weaker West German stations can not be picked up inside East Ger or in 33 per cent of Western in Bonn Berlin and Leipzig can be heard clearly both Day and the Bonn radio station is being blacked out at night by some unknown the soviet station at is using the same wave length As radio once one of West Germany strongest stations with Many listeners East of the More powerful radio Riga can completely Black out Stuttgart any time the russians install a directional Antenna to concentrate its Broad casts on Stuttgart Many radio listeners in the Frank Furt area cannot hear radio Frank Furt because of interference from communist or West european Sta new wave lengths Vogel said Western Germany was opened to communist propaganda by this years allocation of new wave lengths among european a the big european Powers took wer several wave lengths previously used by West German the communist East european countries and Western Europe received additional the High commission rejected these decisions and permitted lations in the zone to Broad cast on frequencies assigned to other As a interference from other stations has weakened West German broadcasts beamed to East Ern Germany and West German combined exercise in Berlin British taking part in a combined exercise for Western Allied troops in Are briefed on the Gomm mortar by two sol Diers of co 3d 16th inf in a Grunewald training Wiesbaden Roa delays meeting to 17 oct 5 next monthly dinner meeting of the Wiesbaden Reserve officers scheduled for ocl has been postponed to oct it was announced Here by 1 chapter the meeting will Start at pm the chapter rooms at Alexandra All reservists Are invited to at for they should Edl maj David Rosendale at 63d to in to Mark birthday tomorrow with open House 5 the 63d he to in will celebrate the second anniversary of its activation tomorrow at Sullivan with an All Day Ope House program featuring the morning entertain ment will be free tank jeep radio communications and refreshments for All military and civilian a battalion review is scheduled at when distinctive insignia awarded to the 63d he to in will be presented to the battalions the battalion awarded by the department of the will be unveiled at the the battalion was awarded the distinctive insignia and colors of the 745th to its Parent which was deactivated in 1945 and reactivated in 1943 As the 63d he to afternoon events will include at Tendance at the football game be tween the 1st inf div up tips and the 2d army Cav co Stab at Mannheim an evening Chapel service will follow the game at the Sullivan Barracks when new stained Glass donated by battalion will be an evening with free will be held at 6 and the Allday Celebration will con clude with a dance and floor show at the tankers enlisted mens club and a Buffet supper dance at the Sullivan Barracks officers the 63d he to in was activated on oct at As the organic tank battalion of the 1st inf commanding the battalion is it col Creighton War time Leader in the 4th army West German exports set Mark in August 5 Toul value of West German exports reached a postwar in it i announced the  in Dex soared to 114 per cent of the 1936 level this compared with 87 per cent a year ago and per cent in chaplains to consecrate Bells ocl 5 Church Bells of the recently erected Campanile of the Sebastian Chapel in Frankfurt will be consecrated by Louis Bishop of Fargo and Regent of the apostolic Nuncia Ture in on sunday at 11 the assistants to the Bishop will be the Howard Smith chaplain maj Henri Hamel of Rhine main air base chaplain capt Ernest piers All of celebrant of mass will be Chap lain col John chief of Chap Lains in the Sermon Wii be delivered by chaplain capt Herbert formerly assigned to the Sebastian Chapel Bonn charges soviet spy net 5 rus Sia is building a vast spy net work inside Western Germany to funnel military information to the West German officials Many of hitlers former intelligence experts have already been recruited for this secret communist army of the officials the East German Security serv ice directs the this organization works entirely for the russians instead of for the communist government of the soviet occupation to insure this new soviet spy service has no connection with the West German communist party of the horde of saboteurs and agitators funnelled into West Germany by the the officials even the highest party officials do not know the identity of the networks leaders and the officials said the sole Mission is to report to the Kremlin on Western defense plans inside the organization f police forces and the location of military Eddy visits Hanau Friedberg finance school 5 Gen Manton visited the Hanau Chemi Cal and signal Eddy conducted a thoroughgoing inspection of the depots and left by air in the afternoon for Fried where the Usa eur finance school is Germany youth seen turning of democracy by Helen Fischer 5 More than of tax payers Money has been poured into a vast Effort to turn German youth toward democracy since the and american officials said last week they could begin to see the kids Are catching on and they like a Hico youth activities official told american and Ger Man correspondents on a fou Day tour of zone youth its the grownups we have trouble weaning from their old not the youngsters Lawrence chief of the Hico Community activities said Germany had lacked trained youth leaders Long before Hitler and that German schools and universities had never offered the courses n child Psychol group activities and other subjects which have Long been Avail Able to youth leaders in other West Ern countries study schools help Lack of trained leaders has been the chief problem in the americans five year Effort to help the Ger mans help their own study trips to the and other and four american i danced leadership training which have Given Short courses to nearly youth leaders so have begun to fill the meanwhile the germans them with encouragement and considerable material have gone ahead to establish a network of youth open door Community youth and Myr iad other starting from with Allex listing youth organisations sum Marily dissolved while the nazi Blue overcoat okd for airmen As part of initial allowance ocl 5 Sale of the Blue overcoat is authorized to All airmen who enlisted before july 1 who have an estimated credit of at the time of according to in formation received from Usan such Sale will be part of the initial allowance and will be processed if the airman has been paid the balance of the initial allowance in the overcoat May be sold for any airman May Purchase the overcoat for Cash Sale regard less of Date of Exchange of the regular Olive drab overcoat for the Blue Over coat is previous instructions authorized Exchange of the serviceable army Type overcoat for the Blue further instructions on this matter Are expected no Blue uniform items will be sold to of officers in Europe unti All airmen Are equipped and specific authorization is tainted were sorted they have built up an Overall membership in a dozen organizations of More than together with forums and other which also take in unorganized have been estimated to reach More than half of West Germany in the 1025 age american help As been but carefully doled to make the Money and to make it work for it has been Given Only to projects which Promise to be open to All regardless of religious or other projects scrutinized Only projects where the germans themselves put in at least half of the in Cash or have been we Arent Santa one Hico official we want our Money to go where it will really get and it wont get them if we just hand it out on a Hico also checks every project on the spot to make sure it will democratically More than one Community has had to replace appointed officials by an elected Board before it could get its project even considered by persuading authoritarian minded German officials that youth should have a say in running its own of and persuading authority con scions youth to speak up in have been Long and difficult educational still far from but last week i saw it it had worked for the 11yearold who stood up quietly in a super heated youth forum at Ohringer and calmly told three communists Why he wanted none of their kind of other examples cited it had worked for the Young Refu gees at Friedens Dore peace Village who last month seriously and then a proposal to invite volunteers from the East to join the scandinavian and other students who have helped build the we decided they would Only come in order to prop and we didst want a 16yearold told newsmen above the Clatter of the workshop it also had worked for the 100 Young students and workers at the Munich Massman plat who lived in put in hours of Volunteer labor to build their own houses and Are now vigorously promoting International Friendship by arranging exchanges of Young workers Between Germany and other and it had worked for the Young sters in Nurnberg on their own worked out a six week program of lectures and visit to municipal installations where kids found out How their government worked this German film chief raps nationalism 4 head of Germany postwar movie Curt resigned his Post in protest against what he described As a nationalistic drive by the Bonn government and German producers to push american films out of the German the resignation came As a Climax to a five week open War Between German producers and intensified by an unprecedented press Campaign against movies and in favor of rigid German controls and both Oertel and High com Mission sources agreed with Marc representative of the motion picture association of Amer Ica that the ant Holly Wood Campaign is being pushed by former nazi elements and a group of Ruhr industrialists who played a major role in the nazi film monopoly which the Western pow ers recently ordered dissolved and sold at head of the Spitz Norgan Isa Tion Der 5ilmwirtscnaff directed negotiations with Paa which resulted in minor increases of american film imports for 19505l draft Law squelched last year the 10 major companies 20th United Warner Universal and Monogram agreed to self limitation of 15 films each per independents brought in an additional it was agreed that 180 Paa films and 20 independents would be brought in this exhibitors and distributors were heartily in favor of the the German producers countered with a proposal for a drastic Bill limiting foreign distributors to 60 licenses per or about four per company and excluding companies which have no distribution agencies of their own in the latter would hit United Republic and Paa immediately intervened through the High which squelched the draft Law be fore it reached last weekend the High com Mission called a meeting of German government and German and film Industry representatives in an attempt to reach agreement Tor 195051 Rudolf head of the bundestag committee for radio and refused to recognize the spi Ompah Accord and demanded drastic reduction of film fan