European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Das Lieben Freundel oos be Gelort uns Luns Allenah my Deor German friends boasts East sniping a to of us or has it been changed too f j303sw by Ernie staff writer in the soviet zone of nothing Needles the communists More than the pinpoint jabs of the refugee cartoonists who draw for a West Berlin underground humor Magazine called to which Means Tarantula in the satiric pocket Magazine is the brain child Heinrich who was once a political cartoonist for a Berlin returning from the russian front after the Baer found that his paper was in the East where All publications followed the communist after a clash with his Baer ended up the loser and a guest in one of hitlers old concentration which was under new management during his three years behind barbed wire he got the idea for when Baer was released he fled to West sponsored by anticommunist he put out his first Issue of Taran it was smuggled into communist East Germany by inside of bottles which floated Down and by other  the stinging bite of Tara Tel began to annoy the East German government the underground Magazine was found stuffed into communist party literature in closets and desk drawers of hotel copies were left on subway As Well As in mail boxes of the party faithful living along Stalin some even showed up Between books stored on the shelves at the soviet German Friend ship the communists began their Campaign against Tara Tel by handing out stiff prison sentences to those caught with a copy in their then they started a political humor Magazine of their hoping to Needle the trouble was that the reds happened to pick As editor a Man who had been sur East German communist Bow Walter holding together shattered East target for to Raithel repetitious by supplying Tara Tel with some of the most bitter anticommunist mate rial Ever to appear in the one Issue of the communists new Magazine was destroyed because party Bosses objected to an objectionable article was smuggled to which republished it in a special edition for distribution throughout East Germany As a service to its the editor of the communist humor Magazine packed up his portable typewriter and fled to West he now works for Tara Tel today circulation of the eight Page now printed in runs Fig of three to four Hundred thousand a some special such As a comic strip satire called a Short history of the have almost reached million editor Baer has found it too difficult to get cartoons from his sources in East the greatest risk is that the artists style May be or that some one bringing in a Bulky drawing will picked up at the sector Boundary by the red the ideas for drawings Are now smuggled into West the cartoonists on Taranteles mostly refugees from the do the because the German communists would dearly love to get their hands on the editor of Baer leads a cloak and Dagger life even the name Baer is his Home address in West Berlin is a carefully guarded Tara Tel is no longer a Oneman oper As it was during its Early even if the reds did manage to Kidnap its the underground Magazine would still go on biting the East German communists where their party line hurts the most 958 the stars and stripes Page 13