European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse October 1950 the stars and stripes Page 5 at British training Center personnel of the British Royal army corps train ing area at bal san play Host to tanks of the 2d army Cav regt and other Allied s sgt William Cantril of the Royal army explains the Maneule ability of a British Bren gun Carrier to a mixed group of american and belgian on a 10 minute crowd around a British Toca snack Nobile for Tea and Home of some of the finest tank firing ranges available to troops of the Allied the British zone training area maintains a staff Well qualified to act As Host to Var ious armoured units which train sgt Norris of the 2d in tank is entertained at Tea by British Myca hostesses Betty Wright second from left and Elizabeth trooper Michael of the sits at it col George Witheridge Rac Wel comes col Robert by army Cav regt co to the training maj senior Range looks photos French visit Munich depot 29 chief of Petroleum services for French armed throughout the world visited the pol instal lation at Freiheit to see How the Munich pm depot conducts its vast class Iii Gen 2d class Guillaume de la whose rank equals that of major was shown around the Freiheit installation by col Edward depot and other depot he was accompanied by col Eugene director of fuel services for French occupation forces in Germany arid the French general commended officers in charge of the Frei Heim installation for their competence and after the de Labarriere and Aubet were entertained at a lunch Eon in the Freiheit where they pronounced the go fare sex among depot officers who accompanied the French visitors on their tour were co Maurice a assistant for Supply operations Mai officer in charge of the Freiheit pol in and capt assistant chief of the station Liaison 4 new Bonn consulates to be opened in 29 new West German consulates in the Are expected to be established within the next three an official announcement said the consulates will be opened at san Dallas and the announcement officer commended for acting As Decoy to trap Coffee ring Berlin 29 it Sherman w whom a Blac Market gang attempted to bribe in an Effort to smuggle 30 tons of Coffee from Berlin to Western Germany in an army has been commended for his conduct which Ted to arrest and conviction of leading gang Hardman was chief prosecution witness in the trial of the smugglers before a three judge panel in 2d judicial District court he had pretended to go along with the smugglers enabling army agents to set a trap in which they seized the 30 tons of contraband Coffee from the soviet sector of together with nine members of the ring and several vehicles and trailers used in the integrity hard mans commendations came from col Maurice Berlin military Post and Irvin Rob District attorney who prosecuted Robbins commendation said in part the courage of it Hardman in reporting the incident and follow ing through under circumstances which might have placed his life in danger attests to the moral honesty and integrity of it hard in directing that the commendation be incorporated in hard mans personnel Daniel said to this very Fine commendation i should like to add my appreciation for a most exemplary manner of Eti duct on your hard mans your action in this matter reflects a great credit on the ends Frost bad 29 exercise first Field prob Lem for 1st div he since exercise ended with a critique held in Flint Kaseane Here the first in a series of Winter training problems designed to test communications and staff proce Frost involved Only div he and the 1st 1st signal and 1st pm Headquarters troops were alerted wednesday and moved out to Field positions near Chi Emsee and bad sibling before exercise Frost began with aggressor forces advancing through Austria toward to counter this big red one troops established a defensive line in the Chi Emsee area and held Succes Sive defense positions to the division Forward occupied three command posts during the today moving twice in dark Ness and once in the exercise ended with division units dug in about 20 Kilometres South of the problem was a realistic test of troop mobility under Adverse weather the exercise began during a cold rain which shifted to sleet and units re turned to their Home station through a two Inch snowfall occupation briefs 3d Gya crafts contest announced for zone 23 the third annual German youth activities zone wide handicraft eos test for 1951 has been announced by application Blanks and information about the contest can be obtained from Gya All entry Blanks must be in by handicraft articles made Between and april May be placed in Competition entries will be divided into 14 classes with three age groups in each the classes Are lace tailoring ceramics and dress painting oils and marionettes and group projects by two or More and Mischel the age groups Are 10 through 14 through and 19 through military sub Post and Post contests will be completed before april 30 and finals will be held in it was Safe gets new steam Bath 29 a recent addition to the 86th fighter bomber Wing base is the new steam Bath set up in the Junior Bachelor officers utilized during world War ii by Luftwaffe the Baths seven rooms and equipment went unused until last when it was completely special services moved new equip ment in and declared the Bath open for 3 Heidelberg employees get suggestion awards 29 three Heidelberg military Post civilian personnel received special awards for their employee suggestions which had been adopted to simplify procedures on the col Adolph hip acting executive made the presentations to Clarice of and Hans Thiele and George Brunen German at a ceremony in his new red Cross director arrives at Wurzburg 29 John Higgins arrived Here to become american red Cross Field director for Wurzburg military the f o r m e r philadelphian was last assigned wit the sixth naval District at Higgins succeeded David Hardie who left after eight months assignment to work with the 3d air div in triennial Catholic Mission opening in Wiesbaden 29 a Mission for All Catholic personnel of Wiesbaden Aii will begin in the base Chapel Accord ing to chaplain Capri Francis the directed by Chap Lains John John and Stephan of Usan he in Wash is a series of religious sex held approximately every three years in All Catholic churches throughout the sundays schedule Calls for regu Lar mass in the with the West German population at 47million oct 29 Germany first Federal postwar census recorded a population of the Federal statistics of fice revealed in announcing results of the head count taken this is a gain of Over totals reported by the 11 West Ger Man states after the 1946 census females outnumber males 000 to As a result of War the census with showed a gain of about since the Hesse population topped Mission opening n during the rest of the mass Wii the at 7 am and am in the and the Mission service will be at Munich officer holds 3 in 10 months 29 within 10 1st it Thomas of Munich military Las served As master warrant officer and commissioned a master was Dis charged 9 to reenlist and fill his own on May 16 he was appointed to a and was discharged As an pm to go on duty As warrant on 18 he was discharged to be commissioned first a rank lie has held in the reserves throughout the 298th army band opens Hospital concert series 29 military posts 298th army band has played the first of a series of concerts to be Given throughout the Winter at German orphan Ages and youth col Maurice Post an the concerts Are part of a pro Gram instituted by maj Gen Max Weli Berlin com to make available Tain ment whenever possible to Ber liners who do not have ready Access to the cites cultural according to two Trum band each weekly concert series will consist of popular Folk tunes and International favourites the band first appeared at the Zinn Owald in the 7 Wurzburg units score into in Relief drive 29 seven organizations of Wurzburg military Post were credited with 100 per cent participation in the army emergency Relief according to the final report of capt Floyd chief collecting total were the seven units were the Schwein Furt the 57th Field the 7861st Ord so the 25th base Post the 537th my Svall of the officers of Wurzburg main and the labor supervision White hails 2d army Cav on nil Deposit record 29 the 2d army Cav was praised by maj Gen for exceeding its August quotas of 90 per cent participation in National service life insurance and 50 per cent in Soldier White congratulated the regiment in a letter to col Robert regimental Safe names it Gryk to special services Job oct 29 first it Anthony Gryk has named entertain ment Safe special serv it was of served with the air Force during world War ii at Aloe army air Field and Lowry he was discharged in and returned to the service this Gryk is a graduate of Clark uni and the University of Connecticut school of he practice Law in Man Chester prior to returning to the his wife and two Are in
