European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stapes Pogo 4 zone yanks to hear from Home via an Frankfurt april 10 special four american servicemen to Ger May who requested that their hometowns be featured on the american forces network s Way Back Home will get their wish gating in week starting april 13. Pvt Richard speeds of Reading fat sgt Vernon Mckinsey offa Ripton va., Cpl Glendale Cole Jan of bowline Green ky., ands a and mrs Jodie Cunningham of Forest City ark., All stationed inc Ermany. Wiil Hoar recorded sounds and greetings from the Folk Back Home on Way Back Home broadcast at b pm monday & saturday. Alto on the list of 18 towns to be heard from is the biggest Little Hometown in the slates new York City. Cities and towns to be spot lighted during the week Are monday Reading. A. Jackson Hiss. Hampton. , wis. Santa Monica Calif. Martinsburg . Wednesday Bowling Green by Marion Ohio fat Hogue . Thursday Rockingham . Tex. Hazelton a. J. Friday Forest City Ark new Rork , Sarasota saturday East Liverpool Ohio Indianapolis. Ind. Olean . I. Yank accused stabbing Munich april 10 is a 22 year old american civilian from Detroit convicted two months ago in Hico court Here of assaulting manager of a Munich nightclub yesterday was accused of attempted murder in the stabbing of a Board ing House desk clerk Here wednes Day accused Lindberg Ford trough his counsel waived a preliminary hearing before. Hico judge Leo a Goodman and arraign ment was set for april 15. T according to investigators fore and his German girl Friend had wired for a room at the pension the clerk told them Beno rooms police Ald Ford a Spring knife and stabbed thex Terk twice in the Abdomen void bad been in the air Force a stationed at Ferstenfeld Bruck of arbere he received a bad conduct charge in july 1952 in connection nip with another stabbing incident f,3v 0n feb. L this year he was sen Ribo 4 to 30 Days in jail for assault hts sentence appended however after his told the court his client was to begone to marry a German Girthe would Seturi to the. A if fc4rmoay Hayes addresses troops Salzburg april 10 special 5e� George a Hays Ufa cd i retires the end of this Mont scheduled to speak to troops Mccauley today As an1 Stop in a Farewell tour of the id. Scandinavian festival attracts airmen second German held in construction bribes by William a Hoxey staff correspondent Nurnberg april 10 is Werner Diehle 33. Formerly employed by the Wuerzburg and the Kaiserslautern Post engineers was accused of extortion breach of Trust and bribery in a preliminary hear ing Here before Hico judge Mason Lebaron in a Case which authorities said involved a Large extortion ring in Luenburg. Tuesday Hubert Coetz. 32, of Hochberg near Wuerzburg an other former Wuerzburg Post employee faced similar charges a Wuerzburg. At the time authorities said six other arrests had been made. Generally investigators said the men will be charged with receiving bribes from German firms in return for influencing contracts. Hico District attorney William d. Canfield called on the court to set a High bail. He noted that american Robert Bowen went from the Nurnberg Post engineers to Kaiserslautern where he received $100,000,000 in contracts that were defendant can Leld said went from Wuerzburg to Kaiserslautern. It seems that All Road no longer lend to Home but to Lebaron set bail at 15,000 Marks Canfield said that later Diehle. A 500-Mark-Monthiy employee. In formed him that he would put 09bail. The amount of kickbacks involved in the Case was not specified. No definite Date was set foe arraignment a/1c Richard a Phipps of the 517th air police a at stopwatches Over some of the furs on display during the three Day scandinavian festival at the Bugle club in Wiesbaden this week. Model Lone Wilheln Ransen holds one of he samples. Below the famed smorgasbord proved � popular attraction. Swedish Crystal and danish Silver and tub Ore Beer As Wells furniture ceramics handicraft and travel displays were also featured. Is photos by Peim 479ooo e. Berliners face red starve out Berlin. April 10 a East Germany s communist government prepared Loday a starve out Camp Len against j 47,000 citizens who live in soviet occupied territory. But work in West be rain. A Cabinet decree banned food ration card effective May under 15 years exempted the government charged they had been misusing the swindle Exchange in West Berlin where they had converted their West for these citizen with Only children flies pfc to Hospital Tenfeld Bruck april i a critically wounded Fjury pfc was flown recently Grafe Woehr to the 16th fid numbers in a desperate ave his life Soldier was wounded a m of in the neck by a Bullet ,45-Cal pistol. Three germans pleaded not guilty in a hog court arraignment Here to Harges of stealing a Wing of a vetch crashed dec. 14 near fuer Tenfeld Bruck and Selling the Wingo a German woman scrap dealer or 250 three Are Johann Kraut �5 Ludwig Weigl 43, and Oskar Reg Ner 27. The scrap dealer mrs. Therese ertl 46, of Ferstenfeld Bruck. Was arraigned on charges receiving stolen goods and pleaded not Hugh b. Breen of the 7245th air base so Ferstenfeld Bruck est Ifird that after an investigation Board completed its probe the wreckage was turned Over to him As Salvage officer there was very Little wreckage in the Crater he testified the two wings were found four or five Miles away from the scene of the crash. They were the property of the . Air to the investigators the men defendants approached a Rescue party immediately after the crash and asked permission to take a. Wing. They were refused. Later the court was told the Trio re turned with a tractor and trailer owned by Kraut and seized chewing when it was unguarded chopped it into pieces and hauled it away to mrs. Ertl s shop. Judge Leo m. Goodman set bail at 1,000 Marks for each of the men. Kraut and Weigl raised bail but Regner was unable to and will re main in jail until the three go on trial april 27, mrs. Ertl is tree on 1,000 Marks bail. Her trial was set for May 12. Output Trade tapering off in Germany Bon. April 10 a West Germany s remarkable economic Boom is slowing Down. In contrast to the spectacular advances of 1952, the first three months this year have brought decline in foreign Trade and Only slight increases in Industrial pro government Industry and labor leaders expect economic Progress to continue the oat look now is for a slower rate of Advance at least until military production is resumed with ratification of the european defens Community Edo treaty. Trade experts say it is not yet Clear whether the reduced volum of Trude represents the beginning of a new trend or whether it can be traced to temporary factors. Despite this the germans racked up a february surplus ots3i.goo.ooo in the european pay ments Union pushing their total surplus to 5430,500,000, Gold an Dollar reserves also increased in february. Industrial production climbed 2 per cent in february and another 2 per cent in March to 144 percent of the 1936 level. But it is still 23 per cent below the High Point of 1952-167 per cent in , steel decline two possibly significant declines easter car mishaps killed 17 in Bavaria Munich april 10 is Sev Enteen persons were killed and 42g injured in 389 Bavaria traffic accidents Over the easter weekend bavarian state policy reported yes , the bavarian Interior ministry charged that the driving Public was still acting in a reckless and irresponsible Man Ner. The ministry said a Check made by police in civilian clothes and in Nonorl Iclal cars had revealed that Drivers obey traffic regulations Only when they know they Are being watched by police. The ministry noted that police in civilian clothes Are not author in production already have appeared this year. Output in the textile Industry dropped 4 per cent in february. Three branches of the Iron and steel Industry re ported declines of about 4 per a few significant increases in production have occurred thus far. The machinery Industry hiked production up 11 per Centin february although this Raie is still 4 per cent below a year ago. Vehicle output climbed 4 percent chemicals 6, per cent rubber goods 6 per cent and nonferrous ores 5 per Coal production moved up to 420,000 tons a Day for the firs three weeks of March compared with 412.200 tons in february and 420,800 tons in january. Marc output represents a 2,3 per cent increase Over the same month of 19s2. February output decline although the steel Industry expects to produce 18,000,000 tons this year compared with 15.800, 000 last year steel output declined slightly in february to 1,344.800tons. This amounts to an annual rate of Only 16,700.000 tons. With improving weather registered jobless declined by 417,-000 in March for n total of 1,392, 000, both imports and Export dropped in february for the Sec Ond straight month. The Export figure of 5293.000,000 was the Low est in Over a year. Fiat reports 1952 profi Turin Italy. April 10
