
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200434
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: DALLAS                                LENGTH: Short

INVENTORY ORDERED OF GERMAN ARTWORK

A federal judge has ordered an inventory of medieval artwork believed stolen by a U.S. soldier from a German mineshaft during World War II and stashed in a small-town bank vault in Texas.

The Lutheran cathedral in Quedlinburg, East Germany, is suing to recover the artwork from the First National Bank in Whitewright and the family of Joe Meador.

Meador, a former Army lieutenant, is believed to have stolen the objects and stashed them in his hometown of Whitewright, about 60 miles north of Dallas.

The treasure disappeared in 1945 from a mine shaft in Quedlinburg, a castle town occupied by U.S. troops at the end of World War II. Meador died of cancer in 1980.

-Associated Press

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