Evening star., 1947-05-22
Fioncee Brings Vienna Bouquet
For New Home in Vienna, Va.
Arrives BY Plane
Here With 80 Others
Planning TO Be Wed
By George Beyer;dge

Maria Teelbacher today settled
down for long-awaited look at
Vienna, Va. after presenting her
fiance with q bouquet of slightly
wiited flowers she had bought two
days ago in Vienna, Austria.
Miss Teelbacher was one OF 81
Austrian brides -to-be who landed
|nere yesterday when their Pan
American plane was forced to by
pass New York City because of bad
weather.
The man Miss Teelbacher most
wanted to see, Stanley Mehr, 20, an
Agriculture Department economist,
didn't show up at the airport. He
was waiting in New York for her
plane to arrive, as he had been since
it first was expected on Sunday.
Plan to Live in Silver Spring.
So she sat calmly for three hours
at the airport until friends of Mr..
Mehr arrived to take her to the
home of friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Sid
ney Gottlieb, at Vienna. Va.
Miss Teelbacher, having sent all
her mail to the Vienna address,
thought that was her prospective
husbands home. Mr.. Mehr merely
had been using it as permanent
mailing address, however, Mr.. Gott-
|lieb said. After their marriage and
a honeymoon in New York, the
Mehrs will live in an apartment at
500 Ritchie avenue, Silver Spring,
Md.
During the wait at the airport,
Miss TeeIbacher tightly clutched the
flowers she had brought. Missing
from the bouquet were a few roses,
which a customs official explained
may not be brought here because of
plant quarantine regulations.
Others to Meet Fiances.
The small, 21-year-old girl speaks
little English. But she told of meet
ing Mr.. Mehr In June, 1945, when
he was stationed in the Army near
her home in Linz, Austria.
Most of Miss Teelbacher's wait al
the airport was shared by the other
Austrian f1ancees, who had to wait
confirmation from New York that
$500 bonds had been posted to in.
sure their marriage within three
months. Later. some left Washing
ton to go directly to their destina-
tions. Others boarded trains fol
New York to meet the former serv-
icemen waiting there.
| Six of the women, widows or di.
vorcees, had children with them
The oldest was 9, the youngest,
months.
| Children Are Quiet.
For the most part, the youngster.
sat quietly with their mothers. They
got their first American treat wher
airport personnel discovered they
had never tasted ice cream. Large
cups of 1t were promptly furnished
Four-year-old Kurt Aplethalel
viewed the strange food with some
suspicion until his mother induced
him to try it. He soon was making
sizable inroads in the cup, occasion.
ally looking up at his mother te
connnlent: Gut"
Another youngster, Ernst Saffert
s, marched out of the customs ofIict
carrying large violin case. Tht
boy later opened it to show the othel
children a battered, worn violin.
His mother, Mrs. Jaroslava SAT.
fert, explained Ernst's father, who
was fine violinist, used that instru-
ment when he was years old ano
began taking lessons Mr.. Saffert
she said, was killed in Italy and the
violin was one of the few family
possessions saved when her home ir
Vienna was burned after a bombing
To Marry Rancher.
Ernst will begin taking lessons ir
two years. she said.
Mrs. Saffert is on her way te
Brentwood, Calf, where she will