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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Day March 25, 1953 the stars and stripes Page 15 Sirlin private of since gives up March 24 he became intoxicated and in a quarrel that resulted a for military police. He he then fled and wandered enly into the soviet zone s he was seized Early  by soviet and East German guards. A said he was detained some i in the soviet sector of Ber about August. Of 1951, be was transferred to Bau the soviet zone where Heas a Spray Painter and until his escape last said he walked to Homer boarded a train and Arrin the soviet sector of Ber drily before Midnight Satur staying overnight in  e sector he went to the i his girl Friend. In red hands corps gets few Deputy " Art March 2 Gen Hammond m. Monroe of staff of Vii corps since vation in january js51, to named Deputy cd of Vii h was announced Here maj James m. Gavin is vhf corps a Oali Dornlan who was. Ted from West Point in 1918 i commissioned a second Lieuten the infantry saw action in in world War h As As cd of the 13th an div. Paul r. Weyrauch Deputy of staff has been named Vii chief of staff. He came to i corps about two month Sago a revious by had been with the div As chief of staff. Clark visits Hongji orig a Kong March 24 map . Clark . Tar East Ader today toured Hong the general and his wife Lue to end their Southeast tour tomorrow when they y Back to Tokyo. United Tress photo Richard Applegate f a. Otis of three Mcnese reds. Grill 3 seized yanks As spies report says by Daved Cicero. Hon Kong March 24 on three americans seized by the chinese communists aboard a pleasure yacht off hongkong1, reportedly were thoroughly. Grilled As alleged spies yesterday. He parts reaching Macao and Hon Kong said that. Donald Dixon correspondent for International news service Richard Applegate of the National broadcasting com Pany and Benjamin Krasner a Brooklyn sea Captain were questioned when their towed vessel reached Tang Chiawang. The three men were seized saturday aboard the yacht Kert while reportedly five Miles or More outside chinese territorial Waters. The reports said the men were accused of spying on the defences of Lap sap Mei. Island Between Hon Kong and Macao. Reportedly the communists produced a radio transmitter allegedly taken from the Kert but this correspondent was aboard the Kert the Day before its capture and there was no radio on the vessel the Only camera aboard the Kert belonged to Dixon. There was one pair of borrowed binoculars and no weapons. Yugo Trade team at Bonn Bonn March 24 a a six Man yugoslav Trade delegation arrived Here today. The delegates Are to discuss lists of goods to be exchanged within the framework of the present German yugoslav Trade agreement acid ways of right ing Yugoslavia s Adverse Trade balance. &$%??3i tour guide to Good listening in Europe wednesday american Force network show i shown .3cal pm Molcil. Home at. Nuance i Day Btry or. Tsa Alth a s no music press it Dave Garroway 1200 news world and sports i in record show1300 Yon and theworld1315 piano pent. House1330 Curt Massey 134s bookstall100 news hc2 latin Ameri can carnival 1415 Jack Kirk Wood l0 piano Fiat House 1500 hillbilly Gasthaus Leoe news 1662 outpost concert1655 program highlights 1700 off the record 1750 news1755 local sports soc Back home1815 news a sotes Brad Collins bad always sought a Way out from the time a we Juls partner. Carl Ridgley had gone into business manufacturing and developing radio equipment. Bra not Only bad ideas of his own about the business but they also involvedcarl1 attractive wife ideas that had thus far. Been thwarted at Ever turn. Ira another strange tale a told toy Hie Whistler at mss pm. 1830 sports journal ims vespers Iso music id Theair �000 Groucho Mant k02s  " 4030 services artime Alco report fro Europe Al 15 melotila2130 an play House big town 2155 army newsreel �300 music  u30-the Whistler the Way out s3ss news3300 dance Remote 1315 late Date ass news hoc late Date Hub new two trapped Call fire on own Bunker \ by Stah cab teb \ Western front. Korea March i 24 a two a rattled americans sat buried in a dam Good Bunker surrounded by red chinese last night and called thousands of rounds of artillery Down on their own Heads. They were saved today when Dawn broke Over the battered top of pork chop h31l" the reds were gone or  two men it Allen Craig Zelgert of new Orleans and sgt Wilham a. Cox of Mill Valley  buried five hours while the artillery shells blasted All around them. Dozens of chinese died in the Hail of fire officers  is an artillery Forward observer and Cox is a communications Man. They were with 10 other Amer ican soldiers in a Bunker on the highest Point on the Northwest part of pork chop Hill when the Chi Nese attacked 7th inf div troops on pork Chou Tbone and old Fildy Hills. Heard them coming i was looking out of the Aper Ture of the Bunker Felger said. I heard them coming up the front of the Wir but i could t see them the night was so Black. They were firing burp guns. They came up pretty  started shelling us. A round came in the aperture of the Bunker. After the smoke cleared we saw three bodies. Somebody said Tret s get out of Here the rest everybody but Cox and myself took Oft out the door. They were just a hop skip and jump ahead o the chinese. Later after i got out i heard that some Fereall right some i Don t know about decided to stay the two of us Cox and i decided it would be better to stay in the Bunker. There were just us and the three dead  chinese overran us. They opened the door and three times they let go with burp guns and sprayed the inside. I Don t know Rhy neither of us were i. We did t have any weapons. Every thing got lost when that round came in the aperture. I was in the Corner looking for a pistol when they sprayed the inside i heard the chinese talking on the outside. They got into our trenches out of the Hill. So i called in fire on them. We had radio con tact All the time. I had two transmitters. Thousands it seems like rounds were falling on top of our Bunker. They were firing 700rounds a minute our guns  sealed Bunker t the artillery fire dosed the door of the Bunker most of the Way. Both apertures wore completely  had a Damn Good Bunker. It was the Only one left on pork chop after the Battle. I Don t know How Many rounds hit we were buried there from about 10 o clock. Just before Day Light i heard the americans out Side. They dug us out Felger said i thought the Bun Ker would Cave in any moment. Be fore it was sealed i was praying the chinese would not throw a grenade in the  Gen Arthur g. Trudeau 7th div cd said he thought Felger deserved the distinguished service  kept talking Over the radio directing the artillery All night Long Trudeau said. Aircraft issues Lead wide Stock decline by. Stock Market closing prices by United press Allied Che mall la Trai racers am Meta Lam smelting am Tel & team tobacco Anaconda co Parmour & co Baltimore & Ohi Bethlehem steel Canadian Pacific Amie Copper Chrysler Coso Edison cont steel Corn products cuban am sugar Curtiss Wright upon Eastman Gen electric Gen foods in motor Gillette Goodyear t & Hudson motor int bus Mach int Harvester int  Tel & Tel  air monday 7sv.ss 254/t tsp Tisot s /i98 45�/iwf 55671/ 36vt56% 151/2431/ Friday Witkov 35/iwit 159-72v 43vllvt � /06v 31v. 8pa39v. 6 i so 99vi 4s, 7s 53/67 i 36vi 45 Lone Star Cemen Monte Ward net Cash Regnat distil prod Nat learn a Central Otis elevator Pac Gas & elec Packard pan american Paramount pc Phillips Pelt radio corp of Mareo motor Republic Stee Spoony vacuum Sinclair Oil Standard brands std Oil Cal std Oil ind std Oil ,Swift company Texas co Union Carbide Union Pacific United aircraft jj.9.  rubber . . Steel Warner  Ericc Woolworth ,74vi24v 13 / 33 i /.58v 20/33 to 23v 39 /i6v 11 28 66 Iff it 2w�50v. 3/i42vi 2955 74i/ 73"i39 55%6814 16s49 31451/. 18 /.75v. 25s/, i3v� d3vi63flt 58142qv 33 i a �/�6vt 23 5tfft 35vi 295s i 75 739 a my 69v la 39v so 54hl/i 1sv448 s4 i 4svi Spaak to lecture at Bremen Brussels March 24 a Paul Henri Spaak president of the Strasbourg constituent As Sembly will lecture on problems relating to the United nations International children s educational fund and the european movement Friday at Bremen. Oth closing prices monday a Clud cd Abbot lab 44% Amer Road Para mount. 15 american by Amund. 49?� Send la aviation 67 Carrie corp 41% celanese corp 31% Dow chemical. C9& Dumont lab 16-v�el paso natural Gas 36% food Mach & chem 3914 Guu Oil 49 Home stake mining 39% lion Oil 36h Owens Corning Fibre Glass 45a Reynolds metals 55% Sears Roebuck 59v�\ United Gas corp 29h West Penn electric 36ts new York March 24 Range of Dow Jones Stock averages for monday changes minus 2.30minus .61 minus .29 30 Indus 20 hails is Tull 65 stocks open 2b3.26 111.45 53.60 113.m close 2st.39 110.79 53.36 112.17 minus .76 armed Bandit robs Fulda Bank Branch Frankfurt March 24 is an armed Bandit held up the Fulda District savings Bank at bad Salz sell of this morning and made off witly 2,000 to 3,000 Marks. The Bandit entered the Bank about s 45 am and at gunpoint or dered an official to turn and face the Wall. He then cleaned Oul a Cash Box. Witnesses said the Bandit drove off toward Lauterbach after the robbery in a Gray Volkswagen. Student music recital Frankfurt March 24 is students of the Frankfurt army education Center music studio will give a recital at 8 pm tomorrow in the studio music room 96 Escher Heimer land str. New York March 24t up prices on the Stock Exchange yesterday fell More than a Point on in creased volume. All departments joined in thesell off. Aircraft manufacturing issues were hit the hardest with a few Pivotal in this group shoving wide declines. Some High priced Oil shares also registered wide losses. Flails were weak. In the main Industrial group steel shares dipped fractionally. The break was the widest since March 4, the Day that it was first announced that soviet Premier Joseph Stalin was off. There was nothing in the Day s news developments to account. Forthe sell off. However expectations that defense spending will be Cut unsettled some stocks. On the favor Able Side was the announcement by the american Iron and steel Institute that steel operations this week Are scheduled at 100,2 per cent of rated capacity with an output of2,259,000 tons of steel compared with 2,288,000 tons last week which was a record. Pacific Oil up Pacific Western Oil was one of the few stocks that managed to counter the general trend. It Rose More than a Point the Selling movement got under Way around mid session after the list displayed firm tendencies in the first hour of trading. In the last hour the automotive joined in the liquidating movement with Chrysler leading Way. Utilities made the Best showing. The Only registered losses amount to a few cents. Bond prices on the big Board also moved lower. . Government slipped 6/32ds to 8/32ds of a Point in Light Over the counter dealings. Industrials utilities and foreign Dollar Bonds showed Small losses. In Chicago grains moved lower. Wheat Corn and Oats had losses ranging to More than one cent a Bushel. Rye was Down More than 3 cents. Lard futures finished i to 22 Points lower. Hogs were fairly Active and steady to 25 cents lower with a top Price of $23-75 per hundredweight off 25 cents. Eye car washers americans warned Frankfurt March 24 is the arrival of sunny weather is bringing a seasonal influx of itinerant car washers Many of whom use the Opportunity of washing a car la Case it Frankfurt municipal District Provost marshal officials warned. They advised against handing Over car keys to the washers Point ing out that there have been several cases in which washers have taken autos on Joy rides and in one in stance wrecked a car. Germans engaged in services such As car washing Are required to carry a Gewelb Sehein f or Trade permit issued by Frankfurt police. This however is not on endorsement of the individual s re liability. Some have pilfered Glove compartments of cameras Gas books and other items which can be easily concealed. Of orders helicopters from us for Yugoslavia Wiesbaden March 24 a the .air Force today announced a $1,000,000 contract for British production of helicopters to be Given Yugoslavia under the military defense assistance program. The Sikorsky s51 helicopters will be produced by the Westland air Craft co., with the Usan supplying the planes Pratt and Whitney engines  
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