European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1953 Germany hits postwar High instep output 2 West German steel production in 1952 zoomed up to a postwar record of tons Over the previous years product West German steel production was pegged at tons annually by the allies in 1947 but after the Korea War was permit Ted to exceed this ceiling provided the excess steel went for Western defense under this authorization West German steel production floated up to tons when the Schuman plan for Pool ing Coal and steel went into effect last july the allies lifted All production ceilings on German steel production and steel Plant Hico economic experts predict with restrictions German steel output will reach its pre1945 Peak of tons annually within two or three perhaps medium wins of to practice 2 petition committee of the bavarian state parliament has approved the request of Maria cres sierer5 which asked that she once again be allowed to practice As a clairvoyant under the name of Maria Bella the 51year old medium told the committee that for the first time in nine years her visions had she reviewed her history of mentioning that at the age of 15 she was an accomplished music medium and trance at the beginning of her she one of her clients was Heinrich former Gestapo who expelled her from Ber Lin when the nazis barred her the clairvoyant said she had to Stop her practice in 1948 when she was fined 50 Marks for violating a police by demand ing Money for her in its findings at that she the court had admitted it could not disprove her Powers As a Clair the bavarian petition com Mittee decided Maria can peer into the future again just so Long As she demands no voluntary donations Are petition committee member and parliament Delegate Max Klotz summed up the general attitude when he said i do not want to make a state ment on this affair because i am of the opinion that things happen be tween Earth and heaver which we cannot understand with our human Maria plans to keep her Eye on the future from her office at Eschenlohr near cars sets Volkswagen record 2 the Volkswagen company rolled up a 1952 postwar production record of compared with the 1951 output of Volkswagen exports climbed this year to against in exports took 40 per cent of total production and flowed abroad to 43 different at tier the Nus nolo Cycle Plant claimed a 1952 worlds production record of this is approximately More than the Plant turned out in 1951 and is claimed to be largest production of any single motorcycle Plant in the world Raf crash kills put Little 2 Royal air Force Jet Trainer crashed onto a football Field during a game killing the Pilot and injuring four j work starts on navys second Supe Carrier construction blocks outline the shape of what will be a aircraft Carrier As Navy Secretary Dan Kimball formally lays the keel of the uss Saratoga at the Brooklyn Navy the Saratoga will be a sister ship of the uss which has been under construction for a Man fasting in Cage challenges Champ by Ernie correspondent 2 Willi who Hast eaten a solid piece of food since has issued a Challenge from his Glass Cage Here to Jack american Holder of the worlds fasting to an meatless wafer last year set the record when he went 74 Days without food in who claims that he once was West Ger Stanys Amateur heavyweight Box ing and wrestling is currently aiming to go without food until 7 for a new record of 75 he told the stars and stripes that he is anxious to meet wafer in new York and under equal Condi Germany cites near doubling of tour Trade in 52 2 Ger Many tourist Trade nearly doubled in earning the Federal Republic Marks in foreign sex German hotels and guest houses lodged a grand total of calculated on the basis of overnight room Munich registered the most Over night room to with followed by Ham Frankfurt and Munich tourist oddly is now greater than be fore the War when it was advertised As a nazi the germans credit the tourist to improved economic con reconstruction within Ger Many and to an energetic govern ment backed tourist promotion the Federal transport ministry is putting up Marks to push tourist Trade in Gold ingots stolen in fatal Auto crash 2 police were Hunting today for a bad Samaritan who stole two Gold ingots Worth about from two dying the theft police after Jean director general of the Ain regional and his father inlaw Georges Aroud died when their car crashed into a police found two Gold bars in Rives coat investigation disclosed it was a trans Fer operation from a Central Bank in except that when the banker set out he was carrying four police said the other two probably were stolen by someone who arrived on the Accident scene before they known in the German entertainment realm As Willi has been fasting on Mineral water and he said that when wafer broke the record he had drunk coca cola during his the German Champ contends that coca cola is much More strengthening than Mineral water and therefore wafer enjoyed an spectators it was at on the afternoon of 25 that Willi first stepped into his 12foot Glass in a prefabricated House in downtown not far from the main railway station to begin his a folding a Couch and a radio Are in the Willi that some including More than american soldiers and have paid from 50 pfennig to a Mark each to see him since he started his fast heros admitted that he is very weak but said he is confident he will go on to break the during the first four weeks of his Willi smoked 60 to 80 mildly blended Cigar ets and drank one to two bottles of Mineral water he has now slowed Down to two Cigar ets and a half bottle of water a he has lost 68 pounds and now weighs Only 100 he said he does not read any More because it taxes his stamina and his c h i of relaxation at the present time is listening to an music he confided that he has received numerous marriage proposals during his he said so Many and some Good looking ones at have asked me to tie the knot that i cant count them one woman even offered me Marks to Stop this Mara Thon but i turned her Down escape Towe sinday 2 rec Ord number for a single poured into West Berlin from the soviet zone Mon this cites refugee office re in 30 soviet zone Peoples policemen crossed to the the former daily record was refugees in highest number of Peoples police for a single came Over refugee officials Lay the current increase of refugees to growing fear that soviet zone officials will completely close the Border to germans after the new Steppe Dup recruiting drive for the new East German Peoples current announced purge of the leadership and member ship of the adj communist youth Many of whose members have been so completely sold by communist peace that they have been resisting recruiting East orders adj to purge Balky youths by Tom Reedy 2 nist masters of East Germany have ordered their own youth brigades purged of enemy the order from the party Central committee was dutifully published in the newspaper of the Blu shirted free German youth the purging process will Start in the adj there Are presently including the Young who Range in age from 6 to the purge order contained surprisingly Frank admission that the communist regime cannot even Trust the one element on which it has been leaning most indoctrinated the red rulers have had the youth to Bend and guide As they would for seven the communist youth training has been in full Only since Early in the past Throe the East German regime has shoved Many other groups aside to butter up the they have been Given Spe Cial priority on sports free entertainments and ego exciting trips to vis Ilett West in More than Blue shirts were brought to the soviet sector of Berlin for a giant Whitsuntide rally thousands who sneaked into the West sectors went Back to the soviet zone with the Clear impression capitalism seemed to have something More to offer than what they a year the world youth sponsored by the Kremlin in attracted again there were Large ranks of youth exposed to Western German sources said the communists had to crack Down sharply on the Blue shirts when they returned to their Homes for passing on what they saw in the West the Central committees purge order stated that the adj must Weed out the enemy elements from its ranks and Sharpen the class fight two possibilities anyone thrown out of the adj faces two unpleasant arrest and imprisonment is loss of All including travel and is the the order did not give any de tails on Why it is now necessary to crack the foreign observers heard for that the East German once pumped full of peace talk by the have been unable to shift their sights to the new which urges volunteering for the new the recruiting program has been a 10 258 january us3 col Henry Richter managing Zumwalt sports Jack Eula general maj Warren Schettner chief of distribution Louis Brown business Frank Mealing directory of news bureaus and circulation offices William Nathan 846581 Raymond 763951 Espen Omer men Jerry j53 ring twice 5568 5266 Ernie 75543 Sam Uel William Robert la Rochelle William j 5111 la Walllce Dennis ext William 49663 Arthur j Albert 73456 demand Monchamp news 5801 Theodore 93296 John 16645 Philip r53067 Norbert the european edition is published Dally at Ger for the armed forces under the auspices of the armed forces information arid education Tel Frankfurt the stars and Apo mall to the new York office should be sent to 641 Washington this is an unofficial publication of toe armed forces in reentered As second class matter sept it the Post office at new under the act of March