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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 15, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                October 1950 the stars and stripes Page 3 imposes new curbs on credit buying of i14 a the Federal Board yesterday a Sharp of the consumer i curbs it Jaid Down less than nth lightening up order the payoff limit on in purchases of from 21 to 15 while leaving the Down payment at one third of the the new rules Ifie Sli fest world War ii Unis on the Down payment on radios and major appliances from 15 to 25 Jer rent and cuts the payoff time ram 8 Moths to the Down payment on furniture from 10 to 15 per and cuts the payoff limit from in to in the Board applied e Dow payment requirements to All regulated articles costing 550 or the initial terms fixed sell exempted articles costing up to other controls listed the Board also required that instalment Loans granted u Purchase any of the articles subject to con trois be subjected to the same limits applied to instalment sales of it reduced the payoff limit from if to 15 months for instalment Loans granted to Pur Chase articles not subject to con terms on goods other than cars still will be below the wartime which called for a 12 month payoff and Down payments of 20 per cent on furniture and one third on the other the household appliances affected Are food cooking dish washing clothes sewing vacuum a i r conditioners and Only this the Board imposed 3 drastic set of controls on Home mort3ge requiring non veterans to make Down payment of 10 per cent on Homes under to 50 per cent on Homes costing above veterans Down pay ments were fixed to Range from 5 to 45 per cent childless husbands to be 1a in Texas Wichita h Wichita Falls draft Board has announced that married men without children will be reclassified monday to 1a and will be eligible for immediate Wade clerk of the said we have a great number of men who married he that reclassification of married men was not specifically being taken because of the sudden marriage childless married men will be drafted in sequence with single men in similar age Starnes in maj Gen Lewis selective service i said he had no firsthand knowledge of draft boards reclassifying men and that there had been no lifting of the presidential ban on such he said he was unable to explain the Wichita Falls population 152 census Bureau reports of Bijj the census Bureau sri mated today tit population totalled on including persons serving in the armed forces the Bureau placed the civilian population at and the number serving in the armed farces within the Continental at court hears Hiss weighs ruling new 14 circuit court of appeals has reserved decision in Algor Hiss a peal from his perjury the three judge court panel took the Case under advisement yesterday after hearing three hours of arguments by defense and government the defense claimed that the conviction was based on a figment of the psychopathic imagination of self styled a communist courier Whit taker 46yearold former state department was accompanied by his As he appealed to the court against his conviction and five year perjury he has been free in bail since he was found guilty last Jan uary of falsely denying he slipped secrets to Chambers for a prewar soviet spy a previous trial ended in a jury handling the prosecution was assistant attorney Clarke who took Over the Case recently after Thomas Murphy resigned As a Federal prosecutor to become new York City police municipal Law prevented who handled the prosecution in both Hiss from appearing in the Appeal Gen Anderson gets new Post oct 14 maj gun Orvil sus Pended head of the air War College has been assigned to an air train ing cd Anderson was suspended i from the War College Post at Max Well after he had talked publicly about the advantages and disadvantages of a preventive War against the soviet the air Force announced that Anderson will be commander of the 3750th tech training Wing at Sheppard air Force the command is now held by Brig Gen Emil whose new assign ment was not the 3750th is one of two technical training wings operated by the air farce for schooling in engine main electronics and tech Nical the air Force said that no Deci Sion has been made yet on a new commandant at the air War Andersons suspension came after he was quoted As saying in an interview that he was ready to bomb the five bomb nests in the user if so Woi Isan reds massacred 530 in cemetery in Korea Ikas a United nations Flag files at a in cemetery for troops killed in the fighting is dedicated near legislator vows special Bill to readmit alien Gib ride 14 Chatham Veteran today won the backing of Donald Nicholson in his against a Legal Barrier which prevents his Gilbride from returning to him from Nicholson said he would introduce Specia legislation to permit Elizabeth to reenter the with her american born wife of former a bust at crime 14 lice arrested a woman yesterday for concealing numbers Racket policy slips in Hei Lathda lighter in Row 14 Mary Frances of strouds celebrated her 35th birthday hours after giving birth to her Lith consecutive Gillette physician said he thought she had set some sort of record by having ii girls in 15 years without a i dont care much about the smiled Gillette from her Hospital i dont mind at All having All someone commented that the Harold Lee probably was disappointed in not having had a you cant have Gillette fund Lack slows jews Relief unit says 14 of Money is threatening to bog Down the flight of jews from an official of the leading jewish welfare organization said Moses vice chair Man of the american joint distribution we Are frankly concerned that american jews will fail to contribute sufficiently to carry out the necessary immigration Beckelman told a news Confer ence the committee had drafted a three year program of immigration and welfare work if Suc would enable us to end International jewish welfare activities in All but a few areas of the Middle East and the program Calls for sending jews to mostly from Romania and British will ration newsprint again 14 British press was notified yester Day that the wartime newsprint ration system will be reinstated As a newspapers in this country will be forced to freeze their circulations at present or Cut their size below the present six pages the decision was announced by the newsprint Supply which handles a newsprint Pool operated by British army lieutenant Edgar was caught in Germany by Pas Sage of the new internal Security act adopted by Congress Over pres ident Truman the Law bans the entry into the of any person who Ever be longed to a nazi or fascist fors As a girl of was enrolled in the nazi girls she and the who was born in were to have sailed fat the yesterday from following a visit with her family Michael is not affected by the Law and May enter the Nicholson declared i most certainly will get that girl some i am sure the Law was not intended to break up an american soldiers family this i will introduce a Bill As soon As i get Back to Washington to have her admitted without Forsberg was with the 45th inf div when he met his wife in South Ern Germany in after his arrival Home late in 1945 he obtained a Transfer to the occupation forces in Germany so he could be near they were married in or in Forsberg then re signed his commission and brought his Bride to the Deanna Durbin engaged to director Charles David 14 actress Deanna Durbin and screen director Charles David expect to marry before the end of this David said the 44oldyear director told a re Porter that everything awaits Deanna final divorce decree from Hollywood producer Felix reds obscure czech heroes 14 names of Thomas Masaryk and edouard co founders of the czechoslovak will be re moved from streets and squares in the Bratislava newspaper Lud bomb quote denied by Franco 14 Spanish government yesterday denied an official government published statement quoting Generalissimo Francisco Franco As Sav ing during world War ii that he would look with pleasure for the Day that nazi bombs fell on new Yorks skyscrapers the foreign ministry issued the denial in challenging several sections of the new volume on Francos relations with nazi Germany published by the state department on the basis of documents captured in the Spanish statement described As equally erroneous the charge that German Aid to Franco during the Spanish civil War totalled 5 French reds jailed m 14 a military court yesterday sentenced five French communists to jail for from one year to 15 months for sabotaging War students executed for opposition to regime 14 ing North koreans murdered 5m civilian politicians and prisoners Here 9 As they prepared to leave this East coast it was Dis closed i walked 300 Yards beyond the Western City limits yesterday after noon to a grave on a Hill Overlook ing won san prison and saw scores of twisted bodies lying where the reds made men Kneel while their brains were blown White Clad women and children were wailing a lament for murdered sons and fathers now twisted and bloated beyond recognition in an open most were tenths the majority of victims were Young College and High school Stu All had made the fatal mis take of belonging to one of won sans three anticommunist societies or of making Public speeches protesting against the red some were reported to have been members of the South korean secret i talked to Jung 44 year old minister of Jesus Church in won san who was one of 20 survivors of the mass he said As the communists pre pared to flee from won san when the South koreans they released common then they tied the political opponents together in groups of four and marched them either to the Hillside or Toofic them to the Harbor area to be about 300 died in a Hill Cave and others by the Shore of the Japan Jung said there had been a total of 800 of whom 550 were political the others were common i was dead Jung said he was led to a marched into a Cave and tied to three others with their hands bound behind their Twenty already had been murdered by they ordered us to lie on our Jung guard put his foot on my they were holding candles to Light the he shot two of the men and was about to shoot me when the Man on my left raised his the guard shot him then moved the pistol past his foot which was still on my head and shot the fourth the guard noticed some thing wrong and asked if he was sure i was the brains and blood of the others were All Over my the first guard kicked my leg and was satisfied that i was the reds brought others into the Cave and shot when the Job was finished the executioners blocked the Cave in trance with Jung was knocked unconscious by the blast but regained his senses hours he dug his Way out and among the murdered were two Catholic priests and one korean methodist Jung said two German Catholic priests were taken northward to an unknown lepers threaten March on Athens 14 Colony of 400 lepers has threatened to March on Athens in a Parade of the untouchables demanding a decent life in their isolation Camp and a Bonus of 90 cents a two Hundred other no bolted their Camp on the Island of spin Alonga wednesday and scattered through Crete in a similar were assured that their demands will be met Only 22 of the cretan have been rounded and authorities estimated it will take several at the others Are returned to  
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