European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ome year ago today supreme Headquarters in Frank Furt ceased to two years ago today Allied planes Agate attacked Europe am edition number unofficial Safe weather forecast Frankfurt Cloudy Munich partly Cloudy Berlin partly Cloudy Bremen partly Cloudy Vienna partly Cloudy so id Luly Saar blocks big 4 plan on Germany july 12 blocked Steps for the immediate economic unification of Ger Many at the foreign ministers an american source said by asking time to study the future of the Saar Secretary of state James who yesterday said the United states was ready to go ahead with the economic merger of zones favourable to German economic proposed that the Berlin Contro Council be instructed immediately to set up the machinery for such he made this an Amer ican source after a conciliatory French statement in which foreign minister Georges Bidault stated tha the Saar should be excluded from such measures and fully incorporated in the French French want machinery Bidault told the ministers that France would consent to provision ally treat in its actual As an economic France would that machinery for such a merger be headed by Allied not by German Bidault continued in a text made France would demand that such machinery does not include the which should be immediately integrated into the economic and monetary sphere of Byrnes then commented since the was prepared to make an exception of the the Council appeared in agreement on the establishment of machinery for a unified he pro continued on Page 8 Ike sees peril in weak army july 12 substantial numbers of men Are required for occupation of Germany and Dwight Eisen Hower yesterday told the Amherst alumni so Long As our government continues nothing could produce a More dangerous situation than american weakness that would encourage recalcitrance or open he such a result would have pyramiding consequences of grave import for every one of Spaatz lauds aah in it after tour special to the stars and stripes july by Carl Tooey Spaatz of tha operational status of the air forces in Europe was cited by safes commanding to Day in reply to the reported state ment that figuratively the army air forces right now  punch its Way out of a wet paper Edwards said Here that it George stat Meyer obviously i spoke from an Overall View of the worldwide army air yank Fraulein shot on Munich Park Bench july 12 3rd army announced that a Isy Earold american Soldier was killed mysteriously saturday night while sitting on a Munich Park seat with a German the Soldier was identified As pfc Nunzio of the death was officially described As the Martha was wounded in the shoulder by a second shot from the killers Honor George of Val and the 17th has been nominated first lieutenant in the regular formerly an aus Captain in the 3rd was returned to the and reenlisted As a he applied for a commission four months and stripes photo by prosecution ends its Case against Kilian bad july 12 the prosecution completed against col James Kilian today in a strife torn session in which one court member was but sex of being a de sense attorney was held in contempt of and a prosecution witness was threatened with a similar con tempt col Hardin Sweeney of was accused for the second time in the 26dayold trial of being biased in favor of whom Sweeney acknowledged knowing for 29 the military up held Sweeney and refused the prosecutions demand that Fie be re moved from the eight officer court trying Kilian on charges of Sanction ing cruelty to soldiers imprisoned in the army guardhouse close questioner the Joseph made a similar accusation against Sweeney three weeks aut withdrew it then after Sweeney ook the witness stand and insisted his attitude was events since then to my established the Robinson declared citing what has gone on Here in and the questions Sweeney has throughout the trial the Grey moustached Sweeney has been one of the closest questioners of prosecution witnesses and it was his objection which prevented the court from holding Leonard Ennis of in contempt for continued on 8 7 germans seized for penicillin theft july 12 penicillin Black Market ring using drugs stolen from an american med Cal depot has been uncovered at according to a Dana seven German civilians implicated n the ring have been arrested and Are awaiting More than units of penicillin were the ring operated in Heidelberg and the surrounding French suggested As title for colonies july 12 and her Empire shall be named the French the constituent Assembly Constitution committee noted to recommend grounds All flights of giant constellations cd rate hits highest in this War by Robert staff writer july moral and social irresponsibility of the individual toward cd and its effects was scored by the army the censure is made in a report that disclosed the rate of venereal disease among it troops is the highest since the beginning of world War ii and probably the highest american military the theater chief reporting that More than two of every ten soldiers in Europe were infected in underscored the frequent failure of penicillin As a he said that there were 264 cases per men on june 16 and a rate of 241 per for the week ending june a slight decrease attributed to the closeout of United kingdom and Western bases and inclement indifference of the individual sol Dier is hampering the Antisd Campaign in the army troops Are the surgeon declared in his thai far from being a cd cure often masks the symptoms of primary syphilis when used in the treatment of troop ratio lower even in 10 to 15 per cent of gonorrhoea cases it is ineffectual be cause of resistant strains of the decreasing number of troops in relation to the number of promiscuous women and the relative in responsibility of Young occupation replacements were among other reasons advanced for the High cd on be the cd rate was cases per the surgeon with the incidence highest among service Joseph Tren theater cd control offi said there is not much differ ence in unit rates civilian rate High a High cd rate among German traceable to their economic situation and the states on sorted promiscuity of the and the warm weather were also offered As an explanation for the heavy incidence of the pro portion is cases of gonorrhoea to one Case of intoxication is usually a part of the picture at the time most cases Are the report 96 yanks arrested for Public petting july 12 ninety six american soldiers were arrested by 3rd army military police during the past six Days for Public petting with German Frau it was announced the arrests were made following Joseph Mcnarney ban on outdoor displays of in maps arrested 71 soldiers in a fou Day period be tween july 4 and Many soldiers were ordered to pay were turned Over to their command ing officers for disciplinary Almedy court retires to deliberate is sentences july 12 american military court of one Brig Adier general and five colonels re tired Tschambers today to deliberate on the sentencing of 73 Waffen is veterans convicted of the Mas Sacre of 900 american prisoners and belgian civilians in the ardennes car hits Scooter car loses july 12 a motor Scooter and an automobile crashed at Russell damage was estimated at the colonel held on charges of smuggling july 12 Usset Headquarters command today disclosed that col Lester 50yearold regular army officer from will be tried later this month in connection with the alleged smuggling of Large quantities of Gold across the Swiss officials said Webb had been in formed of the but they had not been Webb was apprehended May 7 by Swiss customs guards at the Border town of Les verries while in route to France and the United the More than Worth of Gold found in his Possession included six solid Gold 670 Gold coins and 75 a Headquarters spokes Man officers said that the Only a fraction of the golds value outside of web Bris not in confinement and is living at Frankfurt Swank Carlton where and Jack Durant Are being held in connection with the disappearance of continued on Page s House is told loan is Likely to promote War july 12 a speech prepared for the House Gerald Landis said that the British loan is More Likely to promote War than preserve administration confident of Victory at the crucial vote Tomor did not agree with Landis that he and other opponents have got the loan action taken after crash of air liner from press dispatches july government today ordered All Constellation aircraft used by american commercial lines around the world after one of the planes operated by trans world airways crashed during a Domestic training flight killing five the civil aeronautics administration announced a 30day emergency suspension of flying permits of the four engined 50 passenger planes and july 12 api four members of the Crew of a b 23 from Keesler Field were killed when their plane dished nine Miles West of an Eye witness said the left Wing of the plane exploded and Tore the Tail Section Large land based commercial service pending outcome of the investigation of the crash near investigators examined tha wreckage near Reading of the Constellation plane piece by piece for possible clues to the ind edition five persons a sixth was injured seriously when the 43 ton Star of plunged to the Earth in flames near the Reading capt Richard Pilot of the was the sole he was in serious con in British overseas air ways announced cancellation of All transatlantic Constellation flights at the request of the United states civil aeronautics a Boac spokes Man presumably will be for 30 the period which cab ordered american flown constellations presumably the action will halt boats transatlantic service since it has no other planes for the continued on Page 8 Mihailovich verdict monday july 12 verdict in the treason trial of general drama former chetnik will be announced it was announced Niemoeller will tour America to explain Germany july 12 Martin Germany outspoken protestant said today that he believed America was to rapid in her encouragement of the growth of free political parties in the Antinazi who was hitlers prisoner for eight said he had accepted an invitation to tour the United states under the auspices of the world Council of churches this Fie would attempt to explain the apathetic state of mind of the German people to the United unreliable judgments by the time i reach he the state of mind of the German people May have but at present the people do not yet see what democracy they have no aim to live As a result of undernourishment and they Are apathetic and he in their political judgments were very in he i cannot attach too much importance to this political there May be something Good in but i dont see he pastor Niemoeller germans have no aim