European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes february 1953 yanks in us give help to flood victims 4 Many hundreds of american air Force personnel and their dependents stationed in England have opened their hearts and Latch strings to flood victims in the United sparked by maj Gen Francis cd of the 3d who visited the flood area a Campaign was initiated to collect clothing and other needed items for homeless american and British countless volunteers from soul Thorpe and Burtonwood bases Are working on this project All indications Point to Many contributions from both 3d of and 7th air div bases in the United like department store although the program started Sculthorpe air base is Al ready starting to look like a department according to capt Dan 3d of thirty three families who lost All their possessions in the East an Glia flood have been taken in by Sculthorpe the villages of Snettisham and Hunstanton Are being supplied with water from Sculthorpe by tank trucks and weasels Are being used by Salvage teams in the approximately 350 British self supporting army units Are being accommodated at near to assist in Salvage the 3d of fed homeless British in the flood area last 4 More bodies found toll in us rises to 15 4 bodies of four More americans were recovered from flood ravaged Homes along England battered East coast raising the toll of known american dead to three others were still the four bodies identified today by air Force Headquarters were those of two a air Man and 5yearold All had been listed yesterday among the they Are Dorothy wife of Russell of who was still their two sons Russell and John were listed yesterday As dead Dorothy Virginia wife of Maynard of who was listed yesterday As the Maynard Martins were not related to the Russell Bernard of Ana whose wife Agnes was listed yesterday As their daughter Pamela Dianne was still James Alan son of Rose of at who was listed yester Day among the James Joseph was also listed As dead double trouble 4 Noah was wounded accidentally by her husband yesterday while he was shooting at tin cans in the Back on the Way to a her husband sideswiped another car and his wife Collarbone was 28th inf div pilots on dutch mercy Mission four pilots of the 28th inf dive air Section Are briefed in Stuttgart before taking off on mercy missions to the the pilots Are 1st its Paul Edward William Winters officer charge and Samuel photo 9 Rescue pilots say grateful britons urge High Honor for heroic yank 4 a residents of this battered Norfolk sea resort want the nation to Honor Reis american hero of the the town Council sent a letter to the government today telling How airman Leming snatched 27 persons win whipped tidal wave which swept in from the North Lemings Home is in said Council chair Man As i told the Queen during her visit we do not think the George Cross is too High an award for what this Man he is a stranger among yet time and again he risked his life to save but for him the death Roll must have been very much the George Cross is Britain highest award for bravery off the was careful to keep his feet firmly on the ground As he pushed a rubber raft to fetch survivors across Chi High flood he cant 517th in Soldier Dies during Field exercise 4 Soldier of the 517th Afa in died Early this morning while on a Field exercise near he was sleeping in a Kitchen truck and was believed to have died As a result of Carbon Mono Ide 50 held in pern As reds 4 government spokesman announced ast night 50 persons have been arrested in Lima and Arequipa on charges of subversive communist activities in connection with the recent abortive general strike in 23 Safe in c47 crash at orly 4 two persons suffered slight injuries when an air Force c47 courier plane crash landed Short of the runway at orly this Safe the aircraft was in route to England from Rhine main air base with five Crew members and 18 because of poor the Pilot was flying on instruments at the time he let Down for the land ing at witnesses said that Only the skillful handling of the Craft prevented loss of life or More serious the plane received major damage in the crash and minor damage from a Board of officers is invest v Auto titles needed Type 4 personnel picking up their private autos at Bremerhaven must give up car title papers to the local registrar of motor vehicles As a pre requisite of plate a True copy of the properly authenticated by a summary court or a photostatic copy of title will be accepted in place of the original if the owner so titles filed the title papers turned in Are filed in the Usa eur office of the registrar of motor the owner May request return of the title on leaving the Al though certificates of title issued by the Usa eur registrar of motor vehicles Are generally acceptable in the persons who Register their cars temporarily to drive them to their permanent stations outside Ger Many need not surrender evidence of 40 1 missing in us Carrier fire 4 one Sailor was missing and about 40 injured yesterday when the British aircraft Carrier indomitable caught fire after an explosion at naval doctors were flown by helicopter from Halfar air station to the Carrier to treat the she limped into port Here with the midship Section under the Bridge a scorched mass of officials Are investigating to see if sabotage caused the hundreds of spectators including Many naval wives lined the bastions overlooking the Harbor to watch the Carrier wage clemency Appeal accepted by Hico 4 clemency petition for Martha wage has been accepted by the Hico clemency Board in this Milton attorney for said today following yesterdays action by the Hico court of appeals in reducing wages sentence from two years to 18 wage was convicted of shooting her airman Dan at Ferstenfeld Bruck last fliers of 4 nations in patrol by Harold Melahn Gile the 4 the Amer the British and the belgian pilots were talking about the Days operations and the american said Ive never seen such it leaves you they who had seen some of them and capt Henry heading the 69th air Rescue continued i was working in the to River Valley floods but it was nothing like i picked up 18 people today Andone of them was a Little baby no More than a year at this air base they Call the International Rescue squad assigned to the Netherlands floods opera Tion one knows there 500 helicopters and plane Crews and radio men from four nations at the shattering experience i picked up 18 people Schmaltz and it was the most shattering thing id Ever every place we saw people on rafts and roof livestock dead and floating in the people Fly ing White flags and Many of them the Netherlands with flood Waters All Schmaltz said the biggest problem was we dont know where the people he we just go up and Circle till we find Many of them wave us Down and Point to someone in greater his capt Joseph interjected like that Man in town on the Island of Schouwe where weve been theres a spot there boats cant this Man and another were waiting on some debris Over what had been a when we tried to pick them he pointed to a House where we gathered Bis family people really hurting we took two women and two children out of the showed them How to clasp their hands through the pickup hoist and pulled them then the Man let us pick him he was grinning and Happy when he saw his family and it was quite a Kuhn said he had had seven years of Rescue but Ive never seen anything like it those people Are really hurting out Schmaltz said he was going out again at Dawn with him empty Shotgun Cartridge casings which Are used for throwing Down who reports science near flu Mastery 4 United nations world health organization last night reported that scientists Are on the Point of mastering influenza and Hope to be Able to announce they have finally mastered it by september when who flu experts will meet in their hopeful calculations we based on the having isolated file prime virus As the cause of the current this has made possible the immediate use of vac Cines prepared from it an the Cari trying out of Large scale j whose results will be of immense value in the prevention of who Aid wide j another reason for the the experts said in their report leased was rapidity of this Exchange of information on influenza which they Are receiving from their network of 55 laboratories in 44 c who reported the main i difficulty in conquering the Mon cold was the variety of influenza j influenza can be one of the most deadly who adding that the 19181919 epidemic is believed to have killed at least people throughout the wife slain in Home 4 Omaha 1 physician and his wife were shot and killed at their Home Here year and a few hours later the state safety patrol reported the arrest of a Man at North Platte in connection with the shoot j the slain doctors believed j to have been used by the killer in his was spotted North Platte and the occupant was the patrol patrol identified the arrested Nan i As Nick j armed with 2 guns Omaha police said Johnson had two guns in his an automatic pistol and a both the dead were Byron 75yearold general practitioner described by friends a a Man without enemy in the and his 87yearold wife who was hard of hearing and who apparently was shot As she i the couples 74yearold House Minnie said i she stood terror stricken Behim a a door in her room through it All she collapsed and had horse express jumps track Over belgian River 4 api the tender and six coaches of crack Geno Amsterdam Euprea jumped the track Here today crossing the Ourthe River 20 Kilometres South of j a Quick Survey among the 60 passengers showed that of a three of them were slightly injured clothing collected for flood victims 4 a voluntary contribution of clothing was being collected Lien today for distribution in flood stricken officials said anyone wishing contribute could do so aft dependents the or the Post inc will processed