European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse November 19jo the stars and stripes Page 11 quartermaster school inspection instructor Sec Roland of the Usa eur pm explains a Field bakery to left to James wife of the school commandant Thomas wife of the Neucom commander chief George wife of the Neucom and Man ton wife of the the ladies inspected the schools photo by Waller civilians in dec rate second in world idea drive 9 civilian employees of Usa eur had the second highest participation rate in the worldwide army employees suggestion program for the 1950 fiscal Neucom Usa eur had a per cent participation together with the third highest rate of adopted of suggestions per cent were for Usa eur civilian including submitted highest number of suggestions and had the highest number adopted of any major army civilians contributed 568 and civilians Lor a total of 602 of submitted throughout the of the Neucom 241 were adopted out of a world total of German employees of Usa eur received Marks in awards for suggestions submitted in suggestions effected a potential yearly savings of Neucom soviets order town 9 soviet town commander of Wiener Neu Tadt has ordered the City attorney Here to drop All charges against persons arrested in connection with the communist riots last Wiener Neustadt is in the russian about 30 Miles South of rioters seized the main Posto Tice there and held it for most of two Days during the communist attempt to Call a general strike in Otto austrian minister of reported the latest soviet interference in austrian internal to the which unanimously decided to Send a note of protest to the russian High com missioner and a similar note to the fou Power Allied about 12 persons were arrested in Jit Iener Neustadt following the restoration of government Khz forces Augsburg Relief fund 9 the Community Chest committee Here has set aside to be administered by the Council for Grants w Loans to personnel of the Augsburg military when Ever the red Cross or the army emergency Relief fund is unable to provide the necessary Wiesbaden starts Center for Hesse handicraft sales 9 hessian the Wiesbaden Community project designed to bring the work of hessian craftsmen to the will open at the old sugar bowl shop Helen chairman of the the nonprofit organization is under the auspices of american and German women of the Wiesbaden and is sponsored by James land com missioner of Hesse minister president John wife of the Safe and wife of Wiesbaden lord started last summer after a tour of refugee handicrafts projects in Fulda by a group of american the new shop will offer Ivory Wood Handwoven musical and other the grand opening saturday will Start at 11 the shop will be open to the Public daily from 10 am to 7 4 yank deaths reported Nec 9 four american two As a result of vehicle were reported in the zone Between 31 and first it Michael of the 7499th composite Wiesbaden air died 5 from in juries received in a vehicle Accident at the car which Dobrowolsky was driving collided with another vehicle and he suffered a fatal Haemorrhage from a severed left he is survived by his Anna rein of pvt Charles of flight 2d air postal died from a brain concussion suffered in a motorcycle Accident the Accident occurred four Miles North of Rhine main air base on the he is survived by his Joseph of new and his Emma Blevins hav of Rocky two other deaths resulted from Railroad pfc Yale of co 7888th special died 4 while on leave in he was fatally injured when struck by a he leaves his John of Christina was found dead beside the railway tracks near Hanover she presumably fell from a Bremen Frankfurt the victim had arrived at Bremerhaven on the liner Washington Friday and was on her Way to visit her daughter at bad top ordnance Supply units presented plaque by Hare 9 special Brig Gen Ray Usa eur chief or presented win ners plaques during a recent Ord Nance conference in Garmisch to the outstanding ordnance organizational Supply rooms and maintenance unite under the awards were accepted on be half of the winners in the latest ordnance organizational Supply room and maintenance by the following ordnance officers col James Walters for the Bremerhaven port of embarkation col John Henderson for the constabulary it col James Fraser for Augsburg military Post it col Manfred Haas for Munich Mili tary and maj Charles Sage for Wurzburg military the competitions were initiated in november 1948 with the approval of it Gen Clarence then and have aided materially in raising Supply and maintenance discipline to its present High Hare dutch expos Call existence in Russia life of toil by Steven Williams 9 Neth Erlander going Home after More than five years of hunger and bond1 age in Russia As prisoners of awoke today to a new life and eagerly poured out their gaunt and Freedom starved and bitter Over their treatment by the russians who forced them to live a life of hell and toil and the men crowded about this correspondent in a German red Cross Camp Here and tearfully re lated tales of barbarous treatment and appalling living the russian people As Well As for pausing in Berlin before moving to West Germany for the last leg of the journey the most of whom were members of the nazi of russians in rags and near bareness fighting like animals Over garbage of rus Sian women trying to sell them selves for of russian Chil Dren dying on their feet As they going Home after All that is like going from hell to was the tearful comment of Jacobus Stee of the who was taken prisoner by the nazis in Latvia and captured by the soviets in treated very badly because of my he i could not work Well and was in i was treated very even though i was ill and tired they forced me to try to mud that reached my we had to Clear swamps and who left a wife and eight children in the Hague said when the party first arrived in the russian sector of Berlin they re ported that conditions were Good in Russia Only because the russian officers were still with he we can Tell the Cornelius Van Der of who joined the nazi is in 1944 and was captured shortly said he was kept in a labor Camp near everything you read in the rus Sian zone papers and in the rus Sian papers is Complete the russians themselves dont be Lieve a word of they really know the the people of especially the who Are supposed to be the Backbone of live a terrible the great god who is supposed to love the gives them a quota for if a Man Breaks his Back doing More than his they give him a higher quota for the next die like flies Cornelius Van of put in the russian people die like flies from overwork and Little russian children used to crowd about our Camp in Odessa and cry for Many were dying on their we had to refuse we received Only 600 Grams a Day of we share it or we would die the women would come and ask us to sell them bread and when we refused they would offer to give we have we were watched he added sometimes we would save up a Little extra bread and sell it and buy we didst smoke the tobacco is almost Fritz of also an Exna i said the women and children were dressed in rags and always shivered and had Bare the in the cities they looked a Little bet Ter not in the Winter Many people wrapped their feet in rags or wore Felt the russians Are hungry and they seem they steal anything they can said Leo Van Der of also a former Wehr Macht and they scrounge in the would often fight like Savages Over a Rotten Van Der who in a Camp in said the average russian worker earned Between 600 and 800 rubles a month and a loaf of bread Cost rebel the he Are fed up with their form of they hate they hate their govern if they they would rebel without they will do that the first Chance they a Man cannot believe it when he is forced to live like an animal and is told that this is a Good Cornelius de of his eyes nervous and searching As he said the russians told us that every thing in Russia is Fine and Good and that everything in the West is bad and they told us of great poverty in the West and of Many people going around without legs and begging in the even in America they told us every Day that the Western allies Are preparing an other War and that the soviet Union seeks Only de Boer de for All these years we had no news of what really was they just gave us but we did not believe any of did the Only the party members Are Loyal to the gov russians told us that Many asked in they brought Back any souvenirs of one of them retorted rheumatic anything better reminded that they might have a difficult time upon their return Home for having served with the the men shrugged and Van Der Hofft said anything will be better than what we have a Netherlands foreign service who asked that his name be said he believed the men might be confronted by a Little but nothing adding after most of them were boys when they joined the and that was a Long time i think it May be that they will be the official said he believed the russians were glad to be rid of these they were troublesome to the they were the Only prisoners who any the mental resistance of the Ger mans and the others was very he said that about 300 More nether Landers were believed still prisoners in Adenauer raps police in heckling incident 9 Stuttgart police were in trouble with West German Chancellor Kon Rad Adenauer for allegedly failing to bar groups of Young communist hecklers from the Hall where he delivered a political speech Satur after the hecklers finally were Adenauer told his audience he intended to complain to the state government of Wurttemberge Baden on police laxity he described the hecklers As the fifth column created by soviet
