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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of the stars and Stripe monday Moy ,3 Farmland in Texas san Antonio Tex. Up floodwaters from we Klong downpours slopped Over River Banks in North and South Central Texas saturday cover ing hundreds of acres of farm and ranch land. Heavy rain struck san Antonio cutting off Power and forcing the closing of roads. Deluge in Houston Force evacuation of 75 Homes in the Southeastern part of the Cit yearly saturday but most of the families were Back in their Homes by noon. Two persons a Man and a boy drowned ingrain swollen Houston drainage ditches. Tornadoes began moving out of the South. Texas area. Where they had stirred up misery for almost a week and began hitting North Texas. One twister striking before Dawn ripped through the tiny Hill county town of Osceola. House moved the Tornado slammed into Osceola just North of Waxahachie about Midnight Damag ing several Homes arid barns. At least one House was shifted of fits foundation. -.,. The torn adic winds picked upon huge barn slammed one Mobile Home Over on its Side a roofed a store and took the roofs off Many barns. One resident of the area said every barn Between Osceola and Hillsboro a distance of about seven Miles was damaged. Crops in the area also took Abad beating. No one was sure exactly How much moisture fell because the rain gauges that were not broken by Hail were washed away. Rains began easing Over sections of the state but a morning deluge at san Antoni sent water gushing. Across Low water Crossings. San Antoni police and Bexar county sheriff s officers rescued four persons whose cars flooded. Tyr j Rev fax i w Vav i \ so Ujj " r of a mane Street the City of arnhem Holland now has an animal preserve on its outskirts which includes among its 18 bandits invade . For movie London a sixteen e a m a n Messe Schmitts the planes that fought against spit fires in the Battle of Britain landed in England saturday Nighth a peaceful Mission to make a  flight is believed to be the largest number of me109s to have landed in Britain. The were accompanied by two Hein Kel 111 bombers. All carried their world War h markings of swastikas and Iron crosses but were flown by Spanish pilots the old planes gathered fro Europe and the United states have been in Spain for  flew to Ramsgate on the English Channel coast where their arrival once would have seen heralded by the signal  later they flew to East Anglia for filming at world War ii air  40 Lions brought from Africa. V then will Bethey Are living in a Cage Only until they. Believe the s. 8n w get used to their new surroundings and speeding motorists. A. I t c i. Trie to roam. Would v tanks in Prague for film report czechs out false pm a Flatt " / at \ an a mix i  an i _. Tufi. Prague a an Ameri can movie director said saturday that his film company brought some old . Army tanks to Prague. Not to conquer but to make a movie. We certainly did t expect Roget into politics said Newt Arnold an assistant director of the film to be shot near Prague next month. He was asked in an interview about a communist East Ger Man report that the film was really a ruse to get . And West German troops and tanks into Prague. We brought 34 pieces of american equipment Here from Austria about three weeks ago to make the film v he said. He said the equipment included eight m24 tanks six jeeps three half tracks and three a �222��-.f1 Tan hide arty pranksters practice their Craft on a two billboard and for a Sun Tan lotion Mored cars. All Are in working order and Are to marked at a Prague film studio he said. The film deals with the Cross ing of the Rhine by american troops at Remagen Germany at the end of world War in \ a Hie original Bridge at Rema Gen the Only one not blown up by retreating German armies collapsed a few weeks after the first american crossing. We looked in several coun tries for a setting that would duplicate the one at Remagen and settled on a Bridge in the town of Dave South of Prague Arnold said. Worl look. Ution Crew is now Jon tie Bridge to make a the original railway. _ Bridge across the Rhine. German Story on the movie " company caused some raised eyebrows in Prague. A Prague newspaper said ii the Advance of democracy i Czechoslovakia such a painful Thorn in the Eye of our East Ger Man neighbors that they intend to take every Opportunity to Dis credit the Czechoslovakia re generation process it called the East German re port a falsification in extremely bad taste _ Hess Parachute jump re Enoch by German off n of i Glasgow Scotland apr a German professor parachuted onto a Farmer s Field near Glas Gow sunday a few Hundred Yards from the Field in which Rudolf Hess made his alleged peace Mission Landing 27 years ago he carried out the stunt in Campaign to gain Freedom for Hess Adolf Hitler s forme Dep Uty who is in Berlin s Spand Aii Jiff is after the Professori also a German draw attention nor. Berthold Rubin of Cologne said he had made the bring attention to the caught in the busches of mrs Humphrey homa Iff Ioa Fiji  
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