European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes East germans rear Echelon jobs Cut poem Russ Parade allies protest monday october 30, 1967 Berlin a russian an East German troops staged a joint rocket rattling and tank rumbling Parade sunday in East Berlin to commemorate the 50thanniversary of the bolshevik Rev  was Only the second time that the russians had allowed East German military units to join them in a Parade i communist half of the City. The the ., British and French commandants in West Berlin sharply protested what an Allie statement called the ostentatious parading of armed East Ger Man troops in Berlin in total Dis regard of the demilitarized status of the City under four Power agreements and  other protests calling the Parade one of unprecedented size the allies said they did not want to detract from the october revolution As a soviet occasion. Recalling pre Vious protests against the participation of East German Mili tary units in East Berlin parades the statement concluded in View of the scale of this Parade. The commandants Are compelled to draw the at Tention of the soviet authorities in a particularly serious manner to this new violation of the status of greater Berlin which the four Powers should All equally be concerned to  German troops barred under four Power agreement All German troops Are barred from Berlin. The East germans however regularly stage military parades of their own in East Ber Lin and keep thousands of army Border guards on duty along the Wall. Reviewing the soviet and East German troops were East Ger Man party chief Walter Ulbricht and Premier Willi Stop the so Viet ambassador to East Ger Many Pyotr Abras Simov and the commandant of the sizable russian forces in East Germany p. K. Koshevoy. Customs tax hike planned for mail Washington a the Post office has announced it plans a Jan. 1 increase inthe fees charged for incoming overseas mail on which customs duties or taxes Are collected. The boost will be the firs since 1957. The existing fee of 33 cents for each package would be raised to 50 cents. The present fee of 13cents on other items subject to duties or taxes would be hike to 20 cents. To f by John t. Wheeler Saigon a the  Command has stripped away some 5,000 rear Echelon jobs and carried out a major boost i combat strength without enlarging its logistics manpower senior  Military official re is part of a  by the  Command to increase the ratio of combat to noncombat troops in Vietnam. During defense Secretary Robert a Mcnamara s july visit Here he ordered Gen. William  to strip away fat accumulated during the rapid buildup in  Forces. Studies aimed at eliminating unnecessary jobs were under Way at the time  Officials  with reduction of the number of Cooks truck drive Sand the like army infantry battalions Are adding a fourth com Pany and a new Light infantry brigade has landed in  Means 14,000 More men to be taken care of by the fewer support troops. The  Command decline to estimate the Dollar savings of the moves but it probably runs into millions. The logistics base however i expected to Start growing again As new major units arrive under president Johnson s order to expand the  Strength to about525,000. At present it is about 468,500. Protest the Rev. Philip Berrigan a roman Catholic priest pours what he said was his own blood onto files at Selec Tive service Headquarters in Baltimore. A photo priest pours blood on draft records because of the difficulty in determining just How Many men should be classified As being i combat jobs the army says it cannot estimate fairly the present ratio of combat to non combat , the reduction of the rear Echelon was carried out while the number of combat infantrymen was being increase from about 64,000 to 77,000. The numbers of helicopter crewmen artillerymen and those in Simi Lar jobs also have been  in the rear areas still is going  re taking a real look at All the soft skills a High .army official said. More jobs will be eliminated after we can judge the Impact of what behave already done. We know we can do  a Job is eliminated the Man holding it normally is no transferred to a combat Job unless he has special training. For combat infantrymen this Means advanced infantry schooling geared to Vietnam combat. Army officials give two Rea sons for the fat having gotten into the support system in the first place. One is that during a rapid massive buildup it is Al most impossible to keep a balanced mix of combat and non combat personnel. Also it re quires Many More men to set uproar area operations than it does to run them. Cops put on Alert for Bank robbers Northlake i. A web of state and National police were on Alert sunday for two members of a gang which daringly robbed the Northlake Bank of $83,000 Friday and killed two policemen in a Sav age gun Battle. The third member of the masked gang which Strong armed its Way into the Bank was wounded by police fire arrested and charged with two counts of murder in the slaying of detective sgt. John Nagle 31,and patrolman Anthony p. Per a 41.late saturday night the Fri identified two men they Are seek ing in connection with the Rob Bery As Henry Michael Gargano,35, and Clifton o. Daniels 29, former inmates of the Federal prison at Marion i. An Fri spokesman said War rants have been issued charging them with the robbery of the Northlake Bank. Gargano reportedly was re leased from prison in March and Daniels in january after serv ing sentences for Bank robbery. The Fri spokesman said Gar Gano and Daniels also Are being Baltimore up two anti Vietnam War demonstrators arrested when they poured liquid they said was their own blood Over draft Board record sat selective service Headquarters staged a hunger strike inthe Baltimore City jail Satur Day and vowed to continue without food until monday. Father Philip Berrigan 44, josephite priest and Thomas Lewis an artist had not eaten any solid food since they entered the jail Friday but Warden Hiram Schoonfield said they were taking fruit juices Tea and  father Berrigan Lewis an two others the Rev. James Mengel of the United Church of Christ and David Eberhardt Secretary of the Baltimore inter Faith peace Mission walked into Dummy migs May have fooled pilots Saigon a a  Mili tary spokesman said saturday it was possible the North Viet namese used Dummy migs As decoys to fool american flier attacking their airfields. The spokesman said fake migs could have been among the 19 migs reported destroyed or damaged after attacks on Phuc yen air base 18 mile Northeast of Hanoi tuesday and wednesday. The use of Dummy planes bythe North vietnamese was first reported last summer after a rial photographs showed decoys made of Wood and scrap mate rial on North vietnamese air Fields. The decoys have been observed several times since. The  Spokesman raise the possibility of decoys on Phuc yen in explaining to news men that reports of 19 migs destroyed or damaged were attest estimates by pilots and not necessarily accurate figures. He said there was also a possibility that some of the dam aged planes had been counted twice or that they had been moved from one parking Revet ment to another in Between the  Raids. The spokesman said after the initial raid tuesday on Phuc yen Aerial photographs showed nine migs destroyed or dam aged. This he said was an accurate figure. However after the second strikes on Phuc yen on wednes Day the reports that 10 Mig were destroyed or damaged were based Only on Pilot Obser vation. It was possible he said that pilots were reporting again on some of the migs damaged in the first raid. Additionally the spokesman said it was possible the North vietnamese moved a damaged plane to a different spot after the first raid and that pilots on the second raid reported this plane As newly damaged. Draft Board Headquarters her Friday and splashed blood on draft records to protest the Warin Vietnam. Although the four first claimed the blood was theirs it was reported saturday that on admitted privately the blood was a mixture of their own an that of ducks. Federal authorities ordered father Berrigan and Lewis held in jail Over the weekend because they refused to Promise in writ ing they would appear at a hear ing before  Commissioner Ernest Volkart on monday the Rev. Mengel and Eber Hardt were released when the signed the Promise. Authorities said the fou me entered the office separately. One of them carried a Container full of what they said was their blood. They made their Way to an office opened files and poured the  the men issued a mimeographed  Are entering the customs House in Baltimore Maryland to deface the draft records with our blood. We shed our blood willingly and gratefully in what we Hope is a sacrificial and constructive act the statement said. Sought on a warrant issued i Cleveland Ohio charging them with fleeing to avoid prosecution for armed robbery. They reportedly Are charge Din connection with the Holdup of a supermarket oct. 13 in which two policemen were severely  Del Ranie 35, an sex convict from the state of Washington who was captured in the robbery told police that he women and a woman believed to be the Driver of a getaway car drove from St. Louis to lock port  quoted Ranie who first identified himself As James Randall As saying the robbery gang stole a car near look Portland used it in the Bank robbery. The Fri issued a Lookout for Ajames and Deborah Stewart a husband and wife or brother and sister. The Cook county sheriff s of fice said agents were acting on a tip that the stewarts might know something about the Rob Bery. Ranie was held in the chicag City jail Hospital. He was wounded in the Back and  Michael Cain 26, and Ernest Hustedt 39, were also wounded and reported in fair  believe shots fired by other policemen who raced tothe scene May have wounded one of the two fugitive gunmen or the woman Driver. A car was found abandoned two blocks from the Bank. The front seat was soaked with  $15,000 of the loot was recovered after it was dropped by the bandits when they encountered the police outside theban. Moscow to Tower begins transmitting Moscow up the Moscow television Tower the highest Structure in Europe has begun transmitting Tass said Satur  soviet news Agency said All three Moscow television channels Are now being transmitted from the 1,732-foot Hightower. . Temperatures h lh62 39 Albany 63 38 Atlanta 59 48 Boston 43 37 Buffalo i 38 Chicago 46 38 Cincinnati 47 38 Cleveland 76 36 Denver 45 33 Detroit 76 66 Houston 64 33 Kansas City 70 64 los Angeles 84 73 Miami Beach 38 18 mils St. Paul 71 60 new Orleans 5b 39 Philadelphia 88 52 Phoenix 62 41 Salt Lake City 63 is san Francisco 57 48 Seattle 61 34 St. Louis 5t 40 Washington