European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday december 22, 1985isssmaeaaaasaaaawakiaskksssahae they have Money but they Ain t got class from press dispatches court in London. Wealth a hotel pics tsar the worst behaved i on. Walsh promised the Judye she not Selmi Don hotel owners say. Jul bul would offer it on temporary loan to a Musci i _. J r. _ Hay / inn of Man Nihin h i been sell hotel quests Are the worst behaved Lon. I hey Are arrogant rude impatient and often leave without panic their Bills according to a sur vey published in this cur s edition of signpost a i Uidl to British hotels. Married couples arc the worst thieves heist ing television sets telephones and cd sheets said the hotel owners adding thai honeymoon cars pilfer full length bathrobes. reporting answers to a questionnaire submitted to i 55 top rated hotels said most thieves arc souvenir Hunters who take ashtrays South angers and sheets especially if they Bear the hotel s Crest. Clocks pictures and. In one Case an entire set of billiard balls and cues were stolen. However the Book said that 96 percent of guests were Well behaved. Trading horse for horsepower a Ford car Dealership that accepts Trade in mus tangs Mavericks and pintos has taken a Palomino a real one from a couple who did not have the Cash for a Down payment on a 1985 pickup. Hal and Cecilia Moffitt of Lake Park fla., could offer Only a Tan 1972 Palomino As a $700 Down payment for the used truck so be Smith Ford Toolkit. It s no joke sales manager George Hulten said. I be always heard that car dealers were horse Trad ers so i be just become the Moffitte wanted to sell Dandy a 14-year-old Mare for inc $700. But Hulten told them he would Cut the Middle Man and buy the horse. We took a Diamond ring one time on a Trade in he said. Bul this is the first time we be Lakin a living Hulten sold Dandy in Joy Moalc. The Dealership s office manager who lives on a ranch near Indi Antonn. Chili thief robs Church authorities say they Don t intend to prosecute the burglar who broke into a Southeast Missouri Church ate two cans of Chili and left a note apologizing for coming in Here Church officials asked us that if we find him. They want to talk to him about giving him some said police sol. Dale Leichenauer of Sikeston. They re More worried about helping him than giving him any More officials at the United pentecostal Church re ported the break in Over the weekend after they discovered a broken window in the Back. Investigators found two empty cans of Chili in the trash and a Handwritten letter. The note said dear people please Pray for me. I m so sorry for coming in Here unasked. I will pay for the Chili i took. My Mother tried very hard to do right bul Christmas is hard on us and we arc Hun Gry and can t make ends the burglar even cleaned up after himself Sci Chen Auer said and he left without taking such valuable items As donation cans tilled with Money. It s super stewardess in a photo from life Magazine s year end Issue one of the year s top new makers Uli Derickson leaps in the air. The Brave flight attendant was aboard the Twa Jet hijacked to Beirut in june. Cassette players and musical instruments. for a few blotches of Chili on the stove the Kitchen was All cleaned up he said. said the burglar s actions were not that surprising to him. People in Southeast Missouri Are a proud he said. They arc Independent. They won t ask for help but being this Lime of year it gets rough on some trouble crops up the family of a German Field marshal whose Baton was broken Over his head by an angry British brigadier at the end of world War ii has halted the planned Sale of the symbolic staff of office following a hearing at the High court in London. The damaged Baton formerly owned by the late Field marshal Milch was to have been sold by Anne Walsh the daughter of the late brigadier Derek Mills Roberts at the London auction House Phillips. But Walsh agreed to withdraw the Baton from the Phillips auction of War Memorabilia following a hearing before judge sir Philip Ollon at the High court i. Wals the judge she would t sell inc Baton but would offer it pm temporary loan in a museum until the question of ownership has Bee settled. Lawyers representing Mitch s family applied to the i Ligh court to strip her Selling the Baton on grounds it was Tulien not surrendered and rightly belongs to them. Milch s family did not attend the hearing. The Silver and Ebony Baton is is inches Long and is valued at is 1.440. Walsh said her father was enraged by a massacre of concentration Camp prisoners by the germans on the Beach at travel undo in Northern Germany at the end of inc War in 1945 and broke it Over Milch s head. She said a fellow British officer picked it up re paired it and insisted that Mills Roberts a much decorated War hero should keep it As a memento. Valsh told reporters it was put away and forgotten after the War but when she came across it in a drawer she decided it was too evil to keep in he House and decided to auction it. In 1933, six years before the Start of the War in Europe Milch became Germany s Secretary of state for air under Hermann Goering the nazi Leader responsible for building the German air Force. Milch later held the Post of director of armament. But toward the end of inc War Milch s relations with the nazi leadership became increasingly strained. His influence gradually diminished and on aug. I 1944, he was obliged to relinquish his government posts. Milch was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nuernberg War crimes tribunal after the War but was released after 10 years. He died in 1972. Whose bus is this what was thought to be a floating fire engine that nobody claimed turned out to be a Large red bus that a month after it was swept away by floods is still Caus ing confusion in two West Virginia counties. They re still saying it s our fire engine said Par sons assistant fire chief Charles Lloyd. But we found our engine just 300 Yards away from where we lost it and it s already been removed he said. Parsons in Tucker county lost one of its three pumpers during the nov. 4-5 floods that ravaged much of Eastern West Virginia killing at least 39 people and causing millions of dollars in damage. Lloyd said his town is using a hand me Down truck from South Charleston while mechanics dry out and repair what s left of the two remaining fire trucks. Somehow a Large red vehicle laying mangled and upside Down in what used 10 be a trailer Park 25 Miles away in Rowlesburg in Preston county has been pegged As Parsons. They keep claiming it s ours Lloyd said. But if it s ours it s a ghost. We be already Lakin ours to be scrapped at the attempts to push the vehicle on Parsons arc made stranger by its being a Large red bus instead of a fire engine said a Rowlesburg City Secretary. It s a big surplus bus that somebody painted red and it got washed Down the Street she said. They ran a picture in the paper saying whose bus is paperback bestseller now on Sale at most
