European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse April 10, 19j3 the stars and stripes Safe holds i & k conference at bad Kissinger More than 75 air Force airmen and officers from bases in West Germany France North Africa and the United kingdom gather for the 1953 Saff information and education conference at bad kiss Ngen. At left of maj Richard �. Kyle right chief of the a safes education Section discusses the conference Agenda with or. Ray Dean of the University of Maryland College of special and continuous and it col cart b. Bros chief of the us Reub troop information Branch. The entire group of conference delegates poses Center. And at right Kyle with Book holds education briefing with left to right maj ii. Pan Swan chief of the a the Afie Branch t set George l. Lndgren 5th air div French Morocco tap i William a. Fletcher 73d air depot Wing France and 1st u Otto. Fishera chief of the 3d of i a Branch eni Sund. The three Day conference which ends today was aimed at eliminating jute problems arising oat of the of austerity photos by Vestal v German keep Cuk cultural s _ centers open a Bonn. April 9 a fifteen if " Cerman towns have voted to pay a $119,000 a year to keep British a information centers telling their v communities about the British to Way of life. A the centers which have foi1 i a five years provided lectures films ? books plays and musical recitals a to show germans the culture of to Britain and the Commonwealth of were to have closed Down this a ninth because British official glands had been slashed. Centers popular. The 24 centers in the British t zone called die Bruecke the Bridge were popular with Stu dents teachers and music the towns of Luebeck Olden Burg get Tongen Brunswick Bonn Cologne Dusseldorf Aachen Wuppertal. Essen Dortmund Rechlin Hausen bochum Biele of fold and Muen sir voted funds to Vert the centers Hamburg Han of fat Berlin and Frankfurt Wal Ebe kept open at entirely British four to close. Pay one official l the remainder will be entirely Iio ported by German funds sex tit for the salary of one British official at each the us High commission i plans to keep similar centers y sen. Joseph r. Irthy . Two invest Roy Marcus Cohn and ird David Shirie Are now in Many on behalf of the sub Littee. Woman . Dies Inklin april 9 a Wegscheid first woman t obtain a doctor s degree in Ger i. Died Here yesterday at the of 82 from a stroke. She was Tor of in Munich april 9 pvt William d. Miller he and he co 2d in 14th army Cav regt was convicted Here by a v corps court martial on two charges of As Sault and sentenced to forfeit 567 per month for three months. He was charged with assaulting Christof Nicl a member of the German Federal parliament and Johann Georg Lang a train conductor. The offences were committed March 6 on the Stuttgart Hof Railroad train. Drench to to sgt in slaying is april 9 up a Ypung a airman who shot and i his 19-year-old French Torch i sweetheart in a Montmartre of passion will be tried by court uie . Air Force fenced "yesterday.,Donaldh oads Eft West i Iowa meanwhile was to have shown a phenom " from a self inflicted Bullet wound in the head. A spokes Man said his paralysis has entirely gone. R under a Legal agree ment crimes committed by Amer ican forces on French soil against French citizens Are punishable in French courts unless the Pentagon specifically asks for an exception. None has been asked in this ease Hie air Force official said. 42 tentative. Or i Jacob son Are charged with smuggling thousands of Cartons of. Cigar ets and about 9,000 pounds of Coffee into Bavaria. In shipping the illegal goods the gang used nine cars and two motor cycles it was alleged. Part of the contraband was taken to Laufen and part was shipped to trial is expected to last about 12 Days. Sex wac director to report for Post at Usa eur he the s a Washington Washington april 9 the for Mer director of the women s army corps wac then a colonel but now it col Mary a. Aharen has been assigned to the staff of is expected to report about the end of the will not be her first experience in to her military career which began in 1942, the diminutive and dynamic officer she stands tall tomake the 5-foot height requirement lived in Paris and other euro Pean capitals and travelled through the Mountain Region in Yugoslavia. Commanded wac it col Hallaren commanded the first women s auxiliary army corps wac separate battalion in eng land in july 1943, which was attached to the 8th air Force. Later she became staff director of wac contingents attached to the 8th and 9th air forces. During her service in Europe she became wac staff director for the entire european theater of operations and was in charge of 9,000 was in England France Germany Austria and Belgium. It col Hallaren returned from Europe after three years duty in june 1948 and was named Deputy director of the wac. She was appointed director May to 1947, an dec. 3, 1948, she was appointed to the regular women s army corps. She was selected to be the first director of the regular vac. Frankfurt to resume Roe Merberg fete plays Frankfurt. April 9 is Frankfurt s Roe Merberg festival plays which had been held Annu ally before the historic Frankfurt town Hall until the outbreak of world War ii Are expected to be staged again there regularly Start ing in 1966. City officials said they hoped that the House scene would be built up again by that time army announces shifts for 4 general officers Brooks to retire Kiefer to get Post Armor expert the ads Washington Bureau Washington april 9 one of the army s top Armor experts it Gen Edward Brooks who led the 2d army div and i corps in Europe during world War ii is scheduled to retire at the end of april after More than 33 years Jervee. Five years in the Perma nent Grade of major Genera. He will be 60 on april 25. Now 2d army. Cd at nearby. It. Meade md., a Post he has held since june 1. 1951, Brooks won the distinguished service Cross in world War i. Then a Captain be drove a loaded ammunition truck to safety under heavy fire after the Driver had been killed. Served in Caribbean following his world War ii service in Europe Brooks was Deputy commander of the 3d army at Atlanta. A and in 1947 was made cd of the . Army in the Caribbean at Quarry Heights canal zone. He left this assignment to be come director of the personnel and administration division of the army general staff at the Pentagon. When the army h e a d quarters was reorganized in March 1950, he was designate assistant chief of staff. Go leaving this assignment for the 2d army com Mand. Brooks entered the army aug. 1917, after graduation in 1916 from Norwich University it and served from june 1915 to july 1916 As a Captain with the 1st Cav Icart of the Vermont National guard. Capt s daughter 5, drowns at Orleans Orleans. April 9 is the 5 year old daughter of an army map Tain drowned in a boat canal on the grounds of the family Home at Laferte St. Aubian 18 Miles from Here. The girl Caroly Francis Moore daughter of Captain and mrs g. F. Moore apparently flipped off s Ione Steps into the water military police said. A 5-year-old French playmate summoned French scouts camping nearby who pulled the child from the water and at tempted artificial respiration but failed to revive her. Moore is with the com z Engineer division. In Europe the s a Washington Bureau Washington april 9 army Secretary Robert t. Stevens a announced routine changes in assignment affecting four general officers. Maj Gen James a Fry cd o the 2d inf div in Korea Wax named to succeed a Gen Homer. Kiefer As commander of the 9th inf training div at it Dix . Kiefer has been Given a new assignment in Europe effective late next month far East Transfer Brig Gen Armistead d. Mead chief of staff of the 3d army at Atlanta. A will go to the far East next month. In june Brig Gen Stuart g Smith 1st army surgeon at governors Island n.y., also will be transferred to the far East. Stevens also announced that Brig Gen Thomas North Secretary of the american Battle Monument commission slated to retire april 30, will continue at his present Post. The army has issued orders recalling North to Active duty effective May 1 to continue in is present assignment. Born in Londo North born in London came to the uj3. In 1911 and enlisted As a private in the army in 1917. He saw overseas service in world War i when he was commissioned a lieutenant. He was Given a regu Lar Arney assignment in july 1920. He was first assigned to the Battle Monument commission in 1923 and organized the european office of the commission at Paris in july 1924. He remained in France until 1929. North served for two years in the . But returned to France in february 1931 to be in charge of construction work and memorial planting work of the commission. During world War ii he was responsible for the daily briefing prepared for the president the chief of staff and other top rank ing in s named Secretary of the commission in april 1946. Nierse Deputy due in Europe the is Washington Burea Washington april 9 the boy Deputy chief of army nurses a tool Rosalie d. Colhoun will leave Washington april 14 for a six week inspection tour in will visit medical installations in France Germany Italy Ati Triu and Trieste
