European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mayor Ernst renter of West Berlin who Learned to hate the communists by having been one and Learned to combat their methods by understanding them from firsthand. Egg egg of  a Agsa. Obit awl a 01TT-.TT-T a group of German children and adults from the soviet sector and soviet zone gather around a Loudspeaker proclaiming reduced rates for them at Western movie houses. West Berlin s offensive. Continued from Page youth and they recognize that the Road to the mind is in Many instances the ear. A few months after Rias began its programming of american jazz the red radio stations which had banned jazz As a decadent capitalistic expression had reintroduced jazz. In fact radio Leipzig most powerful of the radio stations in the soviet zone went Giasone better and not Only scheduled Amer ican jazz but for a time was first.  with the latest american record ing from the hit  recent example of the successful sell ing of democracy has been the erection of a giant electric bulletin Board modelled after the famous times Square Board of the new York times to Flash news from the Western world to the soviet  project was conceived by the West Berlin publisher s assn., and. In a Way is a direct result of  trips to America for German publishers be cause sponsors of the sign were impressed by the times electric  Board contains 2.000 electric bulbs to illuminate news bulletins and is on the top of three 100-foot towers on the Western Side of potsdamer Platz where the soviet . And British sectors meet West newspapers Are banned in the soviet sector and the Only source of Western news left until the establishment of the electric Board was the radio station Rias and Northwest German  Western allies gave full support to the publishers association for the establishment of the Board and some of the news bulletins carried on the Hoard Are supplied by the information services of the ., France or Britain. Most of the news however is either collected by the cooperating newspapers or gained from Reuters associated press Agency France Presse International news service unite press or Dena West Germany Agency. The area where the Board can be seen and read teems with germans using trains which converge at pots Damer Platz. The publishers say it has been impossible for the communist peo ple s police to prevent crowds from read ing the news bulletins. One communist attempt to Stop persons from Reading the Board was a conspicuous failure. The reds turned huge searchlights on the Board but All it did was Call attention to the news clearly visible through the search Light beams. The communists turned huge jamming in devices against Rias and Northwest Ger Man radio but this also backfired when berliners started to miss some of thei favorite programs and blamed the reds. One Way in which Hico has take Nan Active role in supporting the pro democratic propaganda Campaign is witha Hico aided program to allow Ger Man residents of the soviet sector and zone to attend special 25-pfennig show Ings of feature and documentary films in West Berlin movie houses near sector Borders. Hico reported that 112,000east germans saw the films in a three month period. -.--. The us. Official said the East germans were starved for High Quality entertain ment and surf edited with politically loaded communist propaganda shows.". Last fall another propaganda measure that was a great democratic Success was a novel poll of russian sector resident by the three democratic parties. More than half the russian sector electorate some 400.000answered a West Berlin Appeal to mail in Straw votes in favor of free citywide elections and against communist terror. -.-". By radio in pamphlets and by word of Mouth " the Western political parties urged All East berliners who opposed the red regime to show their opposition by taking the Coupon Edge of their september ration cards then expired tearing off the name and number to protect identity Rand Send it to the West Berlin City government. The 400x309 Straw votes were mailed tothe West Berlin City government in spite of the fact that the communists tried to halt the Campaign by announcing that a special food ration would be Given forthe ration Coupon stubs. Treuter said -10,396 East zone residents wrote saying they had lost their ratio cards and to accept the letter As a vote while 33,000 votes from the East zone were received and some 13,000 children s ballots. None of these he said we recounted in the Straw vote total. One of the most popular anti communist programs is Comrade Otto Pieck Witz on Rias. Preckwitz Calls himself a"200 per cent communist and specializes in needling communists in the East  Preckwitz name is a mild Jab at the reds. He took the first name of the East zone s prime minister Otto Grote Wohl and borrowed Pieck from the presi Dent of the red state Wilhelm Pieck. The Witz he says adds the proper russian  Otto refuses to talk about himself or use his right name As he is no very popular with communists and finds More safety in his anonymity. He once started a program with the remark that . Planes bombed an East zone plan with potato pancakes and As a result the Plant exceeded its  205 per cent. Another time he told of an Auto race with cars named red october peace red storm Hammer and sickle and libera Tion. A the cars he said except libera Tion were forced to withdraw through sabotage and a people s police Check Point reported that liberation had just sped into the West zone Comrade Otto is no Bob Hope but sometimes his jokes tickle american fancy As Well As the German funny Bone for which they Are intended. A Good example is his  the East German farm woman who saw Stalm s picture on the Wall of a communist run shop. Is that the owner of this shop she asked. No said the shopkeeper that s the  mar Mari Eveet Fredo Cut put of old paper and scattered along the streets of fast Berlin and the East zone has become a Symbol like the \ for Victory. The stars and stripes