Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-15

OepdT lIllGIlIo VI LotdLC, SOA4AAliCASS
the Federal judiciary and Justice,
and is, the fourth-ranking member
of the committee for the carrying
out of the Marshall Plan, the Army
feeding of occupied areas, the gen.
eral survey of all appropriations for
United States activities overseas and
our purchase Of buildings. He went
to Europe at the request OF Secre-
tary Of State Marshall and Secre-
tary of Army Royal, and under in
structions from the Appropriations
Committee. He is a practical farmer
and an economics expert. He speaks
several languages fluently and Mrs.
Stefan speaks French and German.
They were thrilled by the spectacle
of hundreds of planes taking OH
for Berlin, some of them big bomb
ers from Hawaii and Alaska and
many carrying lotion loads of coal.
They arrived over the great Tempel-
hof Airdrome in the same convoy
with Gen. Lucius Clay and Ambas-
sador Murphy, but at a higher al
titude. Units of four to six planes
followed each other down the rum
, way. Many of the pilots make three
runs day.
Since Mr.. and Mrs. Stefan were
housed at the summer place of Gen.
Clay and Mrs. Clay (once the home
of Bauer, formerly the Upper king
of Germany they could see British
seaplanes landing on the Wann Sea.
Supplies were taken off in small
boats, another example Of unprec-
edented efficiency. incidentally,
American tourists sleep and eat
only in designated United States
zones.
Guests of Murphy Family.
While Ida and Karl Stefan were
in Berlin they were the luncheon
guests of Ambassador and Mrs.
Murphy and their three daughters,
one soon to be married, one plan
ming a career in motion pictures
and the other student at WelleS-
ley
In our 35-mile drives through Ber-
Inns devastated areas where fam
lilies exc out an existence in the
midst of ruins, I could scarcely
recognize the great German me-
tropolis of happier days." Mrs.
Stefan told me- Here and in other
bombed cities it would seem as if
a hundred years would be too short
time in which to repair the dam
age"
Their crossing was on the Queen
Mary and on their way from Cher
bourg by motor they stopped at the
temporary American military GEM
etery of st. James. Here, the bodies
of 1000 Americans are being dis
inferred and transferred to hermeti-
cally sealed steel caskets. Those
marked A and G are being sent
home. The BIS will remain to be
reinterred in a permanent, beauti-
fully Handicapped resting place, where
a white cross with the name and
rank of each individual will mark
his grave. Mrs. Stefan wishes to
assure their nearest Of kin that
tender, solicitous care is being given
this sacred task by our Quartermas-
ter Corps and their civilian assist
ants, with a mistake impossible so
carefully is the checking being done
Across the way lie thousands of
fallen German foemen, whose graves
are to be marked with black crosses,
according to their national custom.
Everywhere red peoples were In
bloom.
In Munich thew were the quests
of Consul General Sam E. Woods
and Mrs. Brooks. Here they met
such old friends as Mrs James Gle
ment Dunn, wife of our Ambas-
sador to Italy; Surg. Gen. Bliss,
Wild Bill" Donovan. Gen. Seabreeze
and Mrs. Seabreeze. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tom Bailey (he Is in charge of