European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february in Snow on zone roads 2 american was killed and hundreds of others were stranded in their cars As a snowstorm clogged West Ger Many highways the entire my unit of the Wuerzburg District went on double shift and used All available equipment to help More than 300 stranded ranging from six to 21 blocked All roads out of top cabarets Kai Eupert we linked to vice a Jelke trial new 2 Distant District attorney Anthony Liebler opened the trial of Minot Mickey Jelke today by listing some of new Yorks top night clubs As operating centers for a vice ring allegedly run by the 23 year old Ole Margarine Liebler also told the jury panel that it May be necessary during the course of testimony to bring into the trial the names of Many prominent new yorkers listed As customers of the vice such Plush East Side night clubs Asel la vie in the Little the embers and Armando were listed by Liebler As Headquarters for who is charged with supplying pretty models to cafe society notables for fees of from to a after a seven month in arrested Jelke last 15 and touched off a vice scandal that became the hottest gossip item of the sweltering new York Stocky and 5 feet 4 inches in will inherit a family Fortune on his 25th he is the son of of who sold a prospering Oleo Margarine manufacturing Busi Ness to lever Brothers for five years More cold ground hog warns 2 was up to a burrowing Var mint instead of the Weatherman to decide today what the weather is going to be like for the next six Johnny hibernating descendant of a Long line of to poked his whiskers at the dawns Early Light and promptly fled Back to the Sanctity of his he saw his he thus perpetuated a widespread tradition in the Chris Tion the association of the ground hog with candlemas is the american version of the annual phenomenon on that the ancients claimed and moderns still a sunny candlemas presages a Eold Burg District Provost and capt co 793d m pressed into service eight wreckers and six the vehicles were manned by maps whose passes and leaves were can the death was reported Early sunday when a jeep containing three soldiers from the 63d to in plunged off a Highway near Kitz pinned in wreck one of the soldiers was pinned beneath the wreckage and later was pronounced dead at the Kitzinger his name was withheld pending notification of another Soldier was some 125 cars were hauled out of drifts in the Wuerzburg All roads were cleared by 9 am the Munich Provost marshals office reported that the Munich Chi Emsee stretch of autobahn was impassable ail other roads in the area were Snow covered and icy and the Provost marshal recommended that no one leave on trips farther the autobahn be tween Stuttgart and Ulm was re opened this after having been blocked off Ger Man Snow ploughs worked through the night Clearing the which today was described As passable but still Nurnberg icy the Nurnberg Provost marshal said that roads in his area were Snow covered and that Many secondary roads were blocked and that route 13 from Feucht Wangen to Assenheim was completely his office warned that roads in the Nurnberg area probably will became Micier tonight Europe flood toll rises to 9o5 with a drop in temperature exp Highway patrols at Ulm and Stuttgart reported that approximately 150 stranded americans had spent the night at Java Junction inn and the 10 american Gas Oline station located on the High Way Between the two Road conditions 2 special military police reported that As of noon today roads were Snow packed the Brenner pass and Garmisch wet at kaisers Lau tem and Wiesbaden Snow covered and icy at Bremerhaven and Stutt Gart Snow packed and icy at Munich Snow covered and drifted at and Snow covered and very icy at residents of Canvey Island in the Tsiames hardest bit spot in England Hunt one Hundred bodies Nave been scores of injured were in photo refugees Stream Inland from battered coast towns As 3 nations dig out of storm disaster continued from Page 1 by they never knew what hit Belgium stricken Seaside today presented sad spectacle of lonely devastation As troops and Volunteer workmen struggled to repair dam age inflicted by the regions worst storm in half a this which played a sup porting role in the weekends maritime mourned 22 deaths and counted its property damage at More than proud Queen of the and one of prewar eur ropes Best known Seaside was a half abandoned hundreds missing on thames Isle 2 death toll in Britain worst flood disaster in centuries climbed steadily to night As tens of thousands of res Cue workers dug out dead and injured from smashed Homes and buildings along Britain North sea coast and evacuated inundated islands in the thames the major disaster spot was the Holiday Island of Canvey in the thames Estuary where 100 persons were believed killed and 400 were missing after Gigantic Waves smashed a 17th Century sea Wall and caught Many victims in their Island evacuated Foulness North of Canvey and also in the thames was evacuated this it is a secret experimental station of the British five persons were known Small boats with Walki talkies moved Over the submerged acre Island to be certain that no one was left behind after a Dun Kirk Fleet of fishing boats led by a Dredger moved the population to the for years the islanders have gone about their work experimental shells screaming Over their the Island lies below sea Evel and was protected by an encircling Wah 14 Miles the dreadful magnitude of the tragedy that struck Canvey be came Clear As Issue workers reached the stricken Island some of Young children were floating of the 3thers were sprawled on rooftops or were entangled in free Benfleet refugee Point across the thames from was turned into a refugee a Benfleet rest Center official made this state yank units rushed to help the Netherlands continued from Pace 1 pick up supplies at Erding and the other two Are to Fly directly to Hilzer Ijen or two Hundred parachutes and supplies of Calcium hypochlorite and Hal Izone for water purification Are being turned Over to the Netherlands who will Par drop the sanitation supplies to isolated elements of Usa eur he Here will work throughout the night to Alert other units As army signal units Are setting up communications Between Eddys head quarters in the embassy in the Hague and Usa eur he in ail american units ordered to Aid in the flood Relief work Are from All units Are Tak ing Fiebel rations for five Days and water for 10 abide air Central euro Headquarters at Fontaine Bleau announced that a truck and trailer Convoy was dispatched to restore Telephone and Telegraph communication Between and the the belgian air ministry was requested to make arrangements to Rush the Convoy through fron tiers without medical supplies needed a c4t loaded with emergency medical supplies was ordered from Landsberg to Gilzer Ijen air base in the if it gets six c119s and three c82s Are standing by at other German bases to follow Allied head quarters eighteen helicopters reached Antwerp tonight on their Way to the Netherlands to help Rescue Headquarters an members of Eddys special staff at the Netherlands Headquarters include Brig Gea Robert Usa eur Deputy chief of staff for operations rear adm Howard commander of naval forces in Germany col Usa eur Deputy assistant chief of staff g4 col Treen Usa eur Deputy assistant chief of staff g3 maj Gen William Usa eur Quarter master col Usa eur Engineer it col Usa eur g4 staff officer maj Usa eur medical staff officer it col c aide to Eddy capt g Usa eur Engineer staff officer capt staff commander of naval forces in air Force officers in Eddys head quarters include col smythe if the Safe surgeons office it coi Safe surgeons office capt Swartz 12th air Rescue and it 60th troop Carrier Wing ment it is estimated that Between 400 and 500 Canvey Island people Are still unaccounted about 100 bodies have been it is known that others Are floating on the Duke of Edinburgh piloted his own Trainer plane Over some of the flood area this morning and later joined Queen Elizabeth in an automobile 6 yanks perish near air base 2 airmen waded neck deep through icy Waters today across the wreckage of a Little Comer of Amer Ica swept away by the fury of the North wind and the North they were searching for survivors of the smashing blow dealt by the Gale and flood which All but wiped Hunstanton and neighbouring Henchman off the map of East eng six wife and four known bodies Lay in the seven oae airman and six were listed As miss ing and feared local authorities feared the tall would go dead identified the dead americans were identified by police As a 1c Maynard Martin Rose wife of an air Force her 7 Saraid Joseph Neil Richard and 4yearoid Sandra Branch two other american children had not been col supervising american Rescue said All had been abandoned for finding anyone As Hunstanton dug out its dead 14 britons Aad americans searched for the least britons and armed air police joined local police in the patrol sea list in 10 nightmarish minutes sat urday the entire face of Hun Stinsoa was ripped up Aad tossed into the con Crete chunks 100 feel Square and three feet thick were tossed like lived Here and in neighbouring from which the Finnep commuted 14 Miles to the air base at 464 reported dead in Holland 2 a which Only a Weer gave devout thanks for its remove Raj from the disasters of Moara fully counted the mounting too at dead today from her age old natural the turbulent North the rampaging which burst through the nations system of protective dikes in 60 to 80 places throughout the Southwest yester had taken an unconfirmed io8 of 4frl lives tonight dark Day in history for the tiny which Baa fought the sea for it was one of the darkest Days in his it was the most both a the number of lives and the Ana since the dim Days of lath the goo Waters surged Over 5 a sixth of the country total land a million Pef Soas were threatened f or made homeless in the 23 islands j of the zealand group and besides its grim Harvest of deaths the boo Waters Laid waste Sands of acres of the worlds richest destroying crops of Winter potatoes and thousands of fruit Hurricane Dies Dowa by the 9emueaahaar Hurricane which sunday lashed seas into a White bad five Hundred american families Down to 22 moving on swollen Spring continued to menace the Western portion of the freezing temperatures added to vast sum of human a week the f proudly told the that it won it f require no direct american Aid lot i through Industry hard work the nation had shrugged off the economic burdens by a crippling and the famine of proclaimed stricken the nation emergency and the government of Willem Dies rushed territorial troops to the world hears cry assistance began to pour in All Over the Western in hundreds of cases it came thirty six hours after first Wall of water broke the the Ciatu Riesold men i women were hanging the or on Queen Juliana her old former Queen w braved Stara aws 1 weather to visit the calamity and extend encouragement sympathy to to feet