European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse , Moreh 9, 195$ the stars and stripes Page 5 Eddy welcomes Swift As v corps cd maj Gen Ira p. Swift left new v corps cd la greeted by Gen Manton s. Eddy csar eur comi Hanfler in chief at Heidelberg. Swift is former 25lh inf div cd in Korea names 12 judges for Craft contest March is Spe _ _ the . Armed forces As of stance program to German youth t activities Gya has named a teed German american panel of arts and crafts experts to serve As Goges at the fifth annual Gya handicraft contest finals in Munich Tail 16-lfl.1hofe than 500 prize winning items Floi be entered in the finals from 4_ a so eliminations being held at Sya centers throughout the . Zone of Germany and in Berlin Jed Bremerhaven. I contest entries will be in is. Categories such As needlework s of Craft ceramics and Model Taf Road building. Three age groups Sitt-13, i-18, and 19-25, will com " in each of the categories for Kkt judging panel will be com of seven. Germans and five Aine Picans. Several have served in a previous Gya handicraft Are recognized for their knowl of arts and Craft work according to u col Robert a nor Usa eur chief of the Gya judges. We five americans selected Are i ofom a. Noonan Hico cultural t \3t8ates officer from Mannheim of Clyder born arts and. Crafts Tea Faer from the Munich dependent system Sliss Ann Herald Craft director Munich Dis mrs. Robert Taylor american is ppr e s i d e Rit German american women s club Munich " and Colim a. Swan chief Southern come Engineer division. Each of the three within the is on the panel by one the three Are prof. Ernst Hes a prof. Karl Hils Wert Troberg and prof. Oberberger Bavaria. Our German judges were named the Munich area. They Are t. Wimmer wife of the Munich mayor miss Margaret fashion school instructor Minna Blocherer Blocherer of arts and. Mother per parzinger from tiie Schule was a lieutenant in a signal unit. A.,. Wite Werschoff and kor Felt were Berliner flees to West with merry go round army photo Berlin March ibs san East Berlin carnival. With owner and family of three crossed into the . Sector of Berlin arid asked for Refuge according to carnival family brought along two trailer dwellings a merry go round and a giant air Switij. The unit contained four trailers. The owner parked on the .-sector Border and a truck came Over and towed him across. Tha West Berlin refugee Bureau reported that 1,650 East germans reported Here asking for Asylum yesterday. There were 2,085 refugees monday and 1,452 were flown also reported that Walde mar Rehwald 28, who called him self a free Lance reporter was seized by East Berlin police on the sector Border. Rehwald reportedly dropped a briefcase when he was apprehended and yelled for help. Eyewitnesses told police they saw him dragged into the Plant of the communist controlled East zone cd paper Neue Zeit. Meanwhile the fighting group against inhumanity reported that two teen age youths were sentence to death after conviction on charges of belonging to an armed resistance movement. The youths reportedly were Hans Joachim Schulte 11 of Weimar and Georg Kraenkel 19, of Gotha. The report said several others accused of the same charges were sentenced to prison terms of20 to 25 years. Yank learns lesson. To Stop of 8taxi" use by James m. Quigley staff correspondent. Frankfurt March 18 is a yank at Oxford promised he would t use air Force planes As taxis anymore and got a break from a Hico judge v recipient of leniency from judge John j. Speight As Gorman Adams 23, of los Angeles a former California finalist for a Rhodes scholar and a Fulbright student at Oxford University England. He was picked up at the Rhine main air3aie when. He could not produce papers authorizing his wearing of a California National guard uni face trial Iti 1945 i Jeanii of German Frankfurt March is is twp members of a wehrmacht Tsi Urt martial that executed a Ger Man Soldier in Italy near the end of the War will go on trial ill a be Man court Here. Charged with the murder of Eduard kor Felt in May 1945 i Joseph 34, a local Telegraph inspector. Charged with aiding him is Joseph Werschoff a. Dortmund cleric. At the time of the killing in Northern Italy eng Lischen Fraulein a for girls of fee a i Saa Ehen smugglers March 1s is Coffee i used police dogs to Hunt Down smugglers in an Aachen suburb of whom they succeeded in Down with pistol shots the command reported. Cops led by their Coffee in doge were closing in on the jeers in the darkness when the lib of a car blinded them Caus themtd"los4s to Jeff Quarry Cine emptied Bis revolver m the Ion the pair had fled. Of his shots hit a smuggler Abdomen. The second smug got away. Said the smugglers were Abers of a 25-Man coolie col which Ihas been smuggling s Over the Border from Belgium a Knapsack Load at a time. When halted by a Coffee cop of which usually consists of agents the smugglers scatter majority being always certain away to Jhc Law of averages. Soldiers in the same unit. Reported statement kor Felt was reported to have said after the capitulation of the Southern front May 2, 0945that it was about time to Start shooting the officers and that soldiers obey them any More. This was reported to Kie Newil Lin Hoefer who decided that under regulations he was entitled to hold a court martial he named As court members Werschoff a sergeant and another Norcom. Kor Felt later was trial in scheduled for the april session of court. According to the German prosecutor one of the court martial members has emigrated to South Africa and the fourth is living in the e soviet zone. Adviser for. German youth Bonn March is is Carl l nordly professor of p h y s i c a 1 education and athletics at the University of Mume Sota has arrived in Germany to serve As a consultant and adviser in organizing Public and private Agency recreation programs for German youth. told Speight be arrived at Wiesbaden saturday from eng land in an of plane but changed into civilian clothing until shortly before going to Rhine main logo to Athens he was going to try to get a Hight to Athens for some research work in connection with his studies. He said of officers in England had told him it was proper for him to this fashion As Long As head on his National guard uniform. You certainly were guilty of at least irregularity said Speight. But the court feels you did nothing criminal.". The court is going to discharge you but i want you to Promise that in the future you will first Check to make sure that what you Are doing is completely Adams who conducted his own defense at a preliminary hearing said he had made a similar trip torome last november. He said he had had no desire to put anything Over on anybody.". He produced about 30 looters from High government officials with whom he had corresponded about his travelling problems. One of the letters was one of commendation from mrs. Annam Rosenberg former assistant Secretary of de had served Only 14 months with the army when he was re leased to attend Oxford. Adams said he invented several weapons one of which a hand grenade was for warded to the Pentagon Tor study by army experts. French Mother wins Back girl German adopted by William Mahone staff correspondent Munich March 18 is a 9-Yeur-old daughter of a French Mother turned Over to a German woman for adoption 10 Days after her birth in 1344, has been ordered returned to her Mother now living in ten Neues. France in a repatriation hearing Here before Hico judge Wilhelm h. Roberz. Roberz qualified the decision ordering that the child would not be sent to France until the endow the school year about july 20. The judge made his decision con Tingent on action by the French authorities legitimate zing the child and giving her the name of a French citizen her Mother has since married. The child s father was a belgian. Her Mother. Mrs. Janine Marthe Laforet was working in Germany As u labourer at the time of the child s birth. Signed agreement when the child was born the Mother Agreen to turn her Over to a German woman and signed an agreement under which she would pay All costs of rearing the child if she Ever wished to re claim her. The Mother returned to France in 1945 and married Rene Nicolas at that time a French Soldier. She now has three children. She spent four years in Nortor Africa with her husband and during that time instigated a search for her child through the International child search service. The German woman testified she was. Willing to return the child to her Mother mid mrs. Nicolas presented evidence that her husband wanted to give the child his name. As a Cement Plant Engineer he earns 30,000 francs monthly. German arsonist hunted Stit Tygart March is is German police in this area Are searching for a suspected arsonist. Four farm barns in nearby Buchen have been set afire in five nights. Cabbies out oust it taxis by Kwh Reed staff correspondent 1art, March 3si has Brakea out Here be the Export it and local companies Over fares. 57 Ted striped it taxis in Utt Gart Are used to transport Nebera of the american occupy forces As Well As foreign and businessmen charging about pfennig a Kilometre. The 117 taxis meanwhile charge roughly about 50 pfennig for the but maintain that they have to Fork out More than the difference in profit because of added expenses in using parking lots.-. They Point Ful that the it taxis usually Maku longer trips and con sequently do not have to Park As much. There is a 30 minute parking limit for vehicles in the main streets of the City. The local taxi companies would like to see Baden Wuerttemberg officials take action to outlaw other firms. They Point out that it does not make any difference to the German Economy whether the americans Exchange their Money for taxi tickets or for Marks at the to officials Here there Are about 2,500 it taxis presently operating in the us. Zone of Germany. 328 East refugees going to Mannheim Mannheim March 18 is some 328 soviet zone refugees Are arriving n Mannheim this week and will be sent to Camps in nearby Karlsruhe for processing. Mannheim officials said thai 111 of the families will be billeted inner one to three room apartments in the suburb of apartments originally had been built for 152 do families who have found other quarters. French film banned in Austria red zone Vienna March 18 a so Viet occupation authorities have banned the showing of the French movie the secret of mayerling in the soviet zone of soviets withheld any explanation for the Banning of the film which Teai with the mysterious death of austrian Crown Prince Rudolph of Habsburg. Forces push Supply Unity Washington March 18 a the chief of the defense Supply Agency said Here he has developed an effective organization to simplify and standardize the suppl system of the. Armed services. Rear adm Joseph w. Fowler redhead of the Supply project told a House subcommittee his Agency is rapidly acquiring an Ade quate staff to carry out a la directing the defense department to write a single Catalon for All thai millions of items which the armed services use in common. The defense Supply management Agency headed by Fowler was setup under the Secretary of defense to carry out the Law passed by the last Congress answers accusations Fowler iwas summoned before the armed services subcommittee to answer accusations that he i noticing what Congress ordered. Fowler said the Basic cataloguing Steps such As classification Are substantially completed and his Agency now is Able to shift from Mere identification of unrelated items to concentration on completing the identification of groups and classes of items in this Way he explained it is possible to publish sections of the Catalon and secure the Early benefits fron vets use.". The food Section the first of several projected was completed last november Fowler reported it contains he added 1,183 items com pared to 2,035 food Catalon although imperfect will be adopted by All the armed services july 1, Fowler said. 86 War criminals freed since july Bonn March 18 is eighty six German War criminals have been released from the three Allied War crimes prisons in. West Ger Many since the Allied German treaty was passed by the bundestag lower House last free democratic party the second largest party in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer s three party coalition reported that the prison ers were released from the at Landsberg the British prison at Werl and the French prison at Wittlich. Minnesotans repay visit of germans to new dim Ulm March 18 is a group of 18 american citizens from new Ulm minn., arrived Here sunday to repay a visit from a group of local germans to the Minnesota town last year. " the americans chiefly Farmers were greeted by the mayor and other top municipal old vials. To the evening they attended a performance of the Gypsy Baron yesterday they were taken on unescorted Ulm tour. The visitors will leave wednesday for Wiesbaden ii
