European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse One year ago today Carrier based planes at tacked air around two years ago today Caen taken by British and Ca Nadian european edition the stars a fews Pipta of amed 20 20 2 1 a Theiler Safe weather forecast Frankfurt Munich Cloudy Berlin Bremen Vienna Cloudy july 194ft death roads to be fixed by germans the stars and stripes Bureau july Hundred tons of Asphalt have been borrowed by German Highway authorities from army stocks to repair badly pocked and substandard roads in the As a military government official in the Road Branch of said today that Lack of tar and Asphalt and a shortage of a German labor has delayed Standard maintenance of the zones rutted secondary the theater Provost marshals of fice in Frankfurt officially reported two american Auto fatalities in july caused by Road recommendations to my Are now being prepared by the minister presidents of the three which Are directly responsible to the control authorities for Road the Omegus officer the germans will outline maintenance plans for a Road network considered essential to carry out the approved Economy of Germany and the requirements of the occupation supervises germans military roads used As Supply routes for the army have number one the Omegus Highway specialist adding that each of the three land my detachments has assigned one officer whose responsibility to supervise the efforts of the germans in smooth parking and rebuilding maintenance is a Ger Man he army approves Home leaves the and stripes Bureau july and furloughs to the Are now authorized to an army men who have a minimum of 24 months continuous overseas Usset announced if the applicant for a stateside vacation has obtained an Extension of Bis overseas tour of duty for at least one additional year or has signed to accept civilian employment with an government Agency in the it for a he will be time at Home not in excess of 30 Usset s furloughs or leaves for less than 15 Days will not be granted to Usset adding that Only eight per cent of any command in the theater will be absent from unit including fur passes or temporary atom bomber races Stork to America july 8 super fortress Daves which dropped the atom bomb Over Bikini took off for the United states the Crew has been reassigned to the for the Woodrow the return flight will be a race with the his wife is expecting a baby any Day the a crack team of Pacific War was retained to drop Hughes Hurt As test plane hits 3 houses Culver july 8 a former Holder of the worlds land plane Speed was reported in a critical condition today following the crash of a new Model photographic plane which he was widely known for his fabulous ventures As a motion picture pro Hughes was taken to a hos Pital with a punctured a pos sible broken a fractured and third degree Burns sustained in the flying alone in his latest develop the twin engined f 11 photo graphic ship on its Maiden flight Hughes hit three houses and a garage when attempting an emergency Landing on a Culver City Golf on test flight millionaire sportsman had been test hopping the plane for 90 minutes before the crash when the ship struck a House bounded onto smashed a struck a third and then buried itself in a building lot where the fuel tanks Hughes remained conscious for 3c minutes before collapsing and being oxygen said that they held Only an even Chance for his the full which Hughes was flying at the time of the was a twin engined plane with a Speed rated at Over 400 and with a ceiling of Over unofficial observers had reported the plane As the fastest Long Range Craft in renowned for exploits l one of the houses into which Hughes crashed belongs to Charles chief interpreter at the Nurnberg exploits of the 41yearold flier have been indelibly etched in the annals of Aerial history since sep 1935 when he established a new worlds Law Laplane Speed record with an average Speed of 325 two years he established a transcontinental Speed and in 1938 accompanied by four Assis Tants set a Rounth Ewold who also dabbled i manufacturing and movie product was probably Best known in the latter Field for his work on the epic scaled world War i film Hells Angels and the Jane Russel Western the delays currency control soda sales skid 1st Day i by Nadeane staff july new anti Lack Market Coupon currency system got off to a false Start this As a last minute shortage of some chit books won a weeks respite for army personnel the moving up of the effective Date for the new system was announced by it Berlin District Deputy adjutant Gen this but Only after pcs army messes had already begun clipping Coupon Early who lost by the had to Bear their indignation in for As Orcutt pointed they have no squawk unless they to admit they were not spend ing Legal sixteen thousand pin backed in denominations of 55 to already been v distributed and deducted from currency control books for use in purchases under 55 in army unwilling purchasers complained that they were too big for fitting into together with the new outsize currency control folders and other practically necessitated the carrying of a briefcase by every overnight an obvious reflection of general Black marketing among americans in was seen in pm sales before the postponement was a Berlin District pm officer re ported the enlisted mens pm and ice Cream usually jammed on almost empty All while Bills in the officers pm were Only half of full ration purchases have been almost 100 per cent in the with shoppers taking everything allowed continued on Page 8 Molotov fears allies plan rubber stamp peace pact on the line an armed jeep and an armoured car of the constabulary pause at the american and russian Border of Germany while troopers make a foot patrol along the demarcation the hut in the background is the russian guard constabulary vehicles Are from the 28th Squadron of the 6th signal corps photos hands across the Border common scene every Day along the Border Between the United states and russian zones of Germany is shown above As Gordon and Rudolph South of the new constabulary talk with a soviet sergeant and private near soviets insist on setting up Parley rules july 8 foreign ministers Council recessed after a meeting today still deadlocked on the question of sending out invitations for a 21nation peace conference on july conference sources the same arguments that have marked opposition of soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov to the Send ing of invitations for the unless they were accompanied by a strict code of rules for its were produced again today in the face of pleas by Secretary of state James Byrnes and the British foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to have the invitations sent out wont Force rules they said they were willing to discuss procedure rules As suggestions to the other 21 but would not attempt to foist them on the Molotov changed Only one in conferences before the weekend recess he talked about a rubber stamp peace conference which he said would be effected if a 21nation steering commission were set British informants he called it a stamping machine con Bevin told Molotov that the resolutions question had not been brought up in the july 4 meeting that set the peace conference then b3rnes pointed his Finger around the table at each of the ministers and said we have one question before us whether the French government should Send out invitations now for a peace Bevin and Georges Frances answered Molotov came Back again with a heavily qualified statement still in sisting on the pre conference rules Bevin demanded that the Infita tons go but reiterated he would be willing to discuss the question of drafting no rules the nations at the Keitel galled too faithful july 8 Marshall Wilhelm von Keitel was pictured before the War crimes tribunal today As a far too Faith Ful Follower of a believer in he fuehrer but innocent of wrongdoing under German or International Keitel initials on War orders meant counsel Otto Nelte insisted in a final defense the High command was without authority to instigate any major Nelte it is known that Hitler did not accept any advice concerning Mili tary he making a 195page Nelte will Complete k e i t e is defense Art treasure found on English Road july 8 trea ures Worth owned by the famous London ans Paris the late Louis were found on the Roadside Between Sheffield and Manchester seven months after they were reported a policeman discovered the mass of Silver and other Valu Ables in Tea chests and other screwball Moran hatches buts eggs Haueter june 8 professional screwball Jim Moran is the father of a on Pound nine ounce rooster the Fluffy which had been pecking at its Shell for two emerged sunday it looks just like Moran said he had been sitting egg since fathers at tired in a special hatching suit of Ostrich now that it is All Over in eggs the professional who during his color Ful career has found a Needle in a sold an icebox to an Eskimo and has gone looking for whales in san Francisco Moran was attended at the crucial hour by pianist Lou Bush and band leaders Alvino Frank de vol and Jack the musicians formed quartet which crooned let me out of Here As the hatching Ostrich pecked its Way through the Shell f to see Raf bombers july 8 a White British Lancaster bombers took off today on the first leg of an Goodwill tour of the United states which will culminate with their participation in army air forces Day festivities at los angelas Lichfield i g to Fine bad july 8 pfc William former Lichfield was and sentenced to a Fine today after he admitted a charge of beating two prisoners at the 10th men the 24yearold Farmer said he struck the two prisoners on a direct order from Leonard Ennis to those men following an attempt to escape by one of a decision is expected tomorrow on the Case of who also is on trial for brutality at Loveless was of three additional charges of whipping and striking other prisoners after the court deliberated More than Loveless is the eighth Lichfield guard to be while a ninth was Raymond special defense counsel for former Lichfield commander James renewed his motion today to Baye the Kilian trial removed to the 1 continued on Page 8 exp resident of Cuba Dies july 8 Laredo former president of died of a heart disease at the age of
