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

DATE: MONDAY, June 25, 1990                   TAG: 9006250016
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: DALLAS                                LENGTH: Short

MORE ART OBJECTS BELIEVED STOLEN IN WWII FOUND

A court-ordered inventory of the contents of safe deposit boxes belonging to the heirs of an U.S. Army officer who is believed to have stolen artworks from Quedlinburg, Germany, has turned up other art objects apparently taken from France and Germany during the final months of World War II.

The new cache of unidentified objects includes a large collection of old coins, with each coin carefully described on a label written in German, said a source close to the investigation who spoke only on the condition of anonymity.

The inventories of the safe deposit boxes, rented by Jane Meador Cook and Jack Meador, were ordered last week by a federal judge after representatives of the Stiftskirche in Quedlinburg, now in East Germany, filed suit to recover artworks missing since the end of World War II.

Cook and Meador are the brother and sister of Joe T. Meador, a former Army lieutenant who is believed to have taken the church treasures from their hiding place in a mine shaft.

They are not associated with the Quedlinburg artworks.

by CNB