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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 29, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes october 1950 latest Leica May deflate Black Market 28 Leitz knocked a big Bole in the latest Blac Market rumours Here by revealing that it has a new Model Leica Ever since the War the High priced Leica has been More or less the barometer of the Black shortly after the end of the War the Price of a Leica in German cur Rency rocketed to astronomical with american Cigar ets or other Blac Market goods being the Only practical Means for getting after the currency Reform in june which practically brought the German Economy Back to life the Leica actually appeared m photo shop windows at Lornial then came the korean conflict and a few weeks later Leucas were once More As scarce As the pro Verbial hens hoarded for Ivan the Man on the Street said they were being hoarded to Trade to Ivan when the russians the clerk in the photo shop said his Boss was hoarding the Boss said the Leica company was hoarding company representatives told vague stories about extraordinary Export orders which made it impossible to keep up with the Price jumped from about 800 Marks to almost the other Day a representative of the Leica factory at Frankfurt told United press the the Leitz factory at nearby Wetzlar had Cut Back production in August to prepare for a new with a Photoflash synchronizer and a new Gadget which reminds Tho camera owner what kind of film he has in his Export orders it was too bad that the Model change came just after the korean War started and set off All these he we  ten our dealers the truth because we didst How Long the changeover would now we Are already delivering the new Model on Export orders and we Hope to have them on the Market sometime in the official smiled and admitted that if the German people saw Leira cameras in the show windows once More they would Lay it to the Victory in Blac Market experts predicted that if the Leica camera actually does show up in other valuable articles which followed it into hiding will also they Point out that which practically disappeared from the grocery stores after fighting is no available again since the landings at Babs turns her Back on Europe by hates Thompson 28 who Hopes to return to the said she no longer loved the Europe she grew up in is a i thought with All their centuries of culture and his were the really great people of this who has toured Europe capitals most of her 37 said in an exclusive there still Are some Fine people Here of Ive Learned that americans have the real decent Good qualities which count in she you can have Alj the glittering front that left in Europe Ive had enough of it Barbara admitted her four marital i be of them with have influenced her feelings about but the who said recently her life had pen one of constant added you cant believe the Depths to which some people will stoop for if i could Only Tell interviewed in her Hita hotel who the years has been portrayed in the press As the Rich Girt who sought to buy titles with her said they can say what they want to about but that simply int it never has nor will it Ever referring to her second danish count Curt Haugwitz re from whom she was divorced in she said i fell in love before 1 had any idea who he or that he had a he was the most handsome Man i had Ever Long illnesses Haugwitz Reventlow is the father of barbaras Only 14yearold who is now in who has been reported falsely As suffering from said she Doest know when she will get first she contracted a kidney Dis ease in Paris in she spent four months in a Hospital in Switzerland getting it Only to be rushed Back to the Hospital again within three months of her this time for an intestinal stoppage performed in january from the operation she contracted a form of intestinal Poison which has plagued her Ever two subsequent the last involving removal of 14 feet of her have failed to cure Barbara has remained in her hotel suite most of the time since she arrived Here Early this month from she said she came Here to see old friends and which she had not seen since before the Spanish civil but outside of slipping out for one she has seen Little of either because of her con i i cant see much of i still have a hangover from All of my opera she who failed to find the right Man in four said she was not in love and had no further marriage plans should the Way be cleared by divorce one Day from her estranged rus Sian Prince White at 2d Brig motor Pool maj Gen White inspects the 2d Brig motor Pool after visiting officers looking on Are left to right col Kinsley co Stab Engineer Brig Gen Brace 3d co Stab George Hallanan and it Raymond photo lawyers authorized wider zone practice 2s special Neucom has announced that lawyers authorized to practice in areas of responsibility in Ger Many Are now permitted to represent As Well As they had been permitted to represent Only occupation the said that Law yers authorized to practice under the new directive must give prior Ity to representing occupation per they not request a delay or continuance in an occupation Case because they Are engaged in another Case Noi involving occupation kids sign truce for halloween 28 novel at minimizing acts of vandalism on halloween is being applied Here As an the signatures of All the cites school numbering to Are being sought on scrolls now being circulated in in signing the the ranging up to High school take a pledge to refrain from any destructive acts on the night the goblins and witches Are to knowing that the youth of to Day Are the leaders of the pledge the under signed Junior citizens of pledge ourselves to refrain from disorderly or destructive acts on halloween Canadian arms for dutch 28 was announced that the Canadian cab inet has approved the immediate shipment to Netherlands of armament and equipment for an Goodyear ups prices of tires by 23 the Goodyear tire and rubber announced a per cent increase on All truck and farm tires and All natural rubber effective White sidewall tires were upped 10 per Goodyear no increase was made in the Price butyl rubber tubes or in the Price of lifeguards or puncture Seal the company said in creased Cost of including natural Rayon and is responsible for the 9year trek ends for refugee pair new 28 ins a German refugee couple were re United Here with their two children and the wife after nine years of flight through three con and Hugo Lewinsohn fled from nazi persecution in crossing the european continent be fore embarking for a Haven Shanghai bes dressed men in include Marshall new 28 years Best dressed As chosen by the fashion foundation of include Gen Dwight defense Secretary George Marshall and new York Yankee shortstop Phil the sponsored by More than 100 custom tailors and clothes merchants of the also named new York cites Tower ing new police Thomas naming americas Best dressed men various the foundation cited Eisenhower for his splendid selection of ties and As president of Columbia univer Eisenhower was picked in the Field of among Marshall was chosen because of his preference for brightly hued in the sports the diminutive Rizzuto was said to set the style for Short men with his Bright but not loud suits and others included bandleader Guy in the music category actor Jack motion pictures builder Fred of Brook real estate chief Delegate Warren United nations actor and master of ceremonies Don television Sidney of Allen Busi Ness Winthrop and executive William the 55yearold d o it o r served As chief physician of the american joint distribution committees jewish War up with them again in China and last Spring the doctor and his fled with104 other refugees to san from where they were brought by train to new immigration rules required that their visas be obtained in their native As a they were shipped Back their admission now was made possible by a provision per mitting the entry of refugees from greeting the Lewinsohn on their arrival aboard ship were Lewinsohn 80yearold Mother Regina who emigrated to the from Shanghai in and their two and the youths arrived in this country several years Lewinsohn expressed her feelings to saying we feel very Happy we have a new state and a new Home we have been homeless and state less so Carney arrives in us for new Navy Post l o o 28 Robert Carney has arrived to take Over expanding forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Meriter on 1 he will relieve adm Richard who will drop Back to the rank of vice Admiral and become president of the naval War College at Rhode Carney has been serving As commander of the 2d Fleet on the East red assault on missions called hider get 28 communists lost their propaganda Campaign in North Korea by Mak ing the mistake of trying to Dis credit Western korean christians said in Pyongyang was Miliar with the american Peter language at Pyongyang and we knew them to be magnificent when the russians painted them As thieving scoundrels we were and Felt if they lied about things we knew they very probably were dishonest in other the communists carried Oji a thundering propaganda Campaign against christianity but failed to undermine the principles taught by the i majority in North north1 korean oddly outnumbered those in South which has twice the Northern most credit for the Christian advances was Given to the presbyterians and the presbyterians pyongyang1 Mission is the largest in the it includes schools and colleges As Well As t the soviet domination of North Korea was carried out As quietly As citizens the puppet regime of Premier Kim Ilsung appeared on the sur face to be the governing body of North Korea but each of the 20 Parr ments was in fact run Bya soviet they in North korean russian engineers and technicians were said to have managed them through North korean one of the first acts of the com song was to abolish the teaching of English and establish russian As the second language in North russian answers considerable Progress was made in the teaching of and North koreans invariably an swered questioning americans in very few spoke the North koreans said the communist taxes were they totalled about 50 per cent of the average mans ten cent was taken from All payrolls and other taxes took another 40 per to Farmers from the Fyon Yang area said the government took one fourth of their Rice and other farm products As there were no wealthy or Middle classes left in North Korea at the end of the five year communist factory owners were dispossessed on charges of inadequate production and inefficient management and were either thrown out or made front men for soviet after the russian army was publicly withdrawn in to left hundreds of agents and civilians in the country As advisers and they usually stayed within the soviet observers Seega reets and Whu Skee 28 whisky and together with cats and will be banned in at least one German according to Adolf North German health even cows and horses will even be kicked of the new town being built on Luneburg Plains near Breist Breist is president of the German vege tarian Union and planned the new Model vegetarian horses and cows will be Toler Only until the new town is fully and then bees will be the Only survivors of the Ani Mal world which will be permitted to serve the towns new being planned 500 families to begin Breist is to serve As an example to the world How Man can live without the diabolic and negative influence of subsisting on the animal there will not even be a hos a health with the Walls painted in colors conducive to  
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