European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse One year ago today big 3 conference opened at pots dam near two years ago today hand to hand fighting raged in in Northern european edition the volume number 196 ripes weather forecast Frankfurt Cloudy Majnich Cloudy Berlin Cloudy Bremen Cloudy Vienna Cloudy unofficial newspaper of aimed july 20 20 2 1 d demands Russia cooperate russian spy suspects released by Usset july 16 Joseph Mcnarney idea quarters announced today was releasing three russians tothe red army after holding them for two weeks on suspicion of espionage of sector of a formal statement said two of the russians said they were red army officers and All three were wearing civilian clothes apparently for Clandestine operations in the their the statement in no Wise violated any Oral or implied quadripartite agreement in the City policy in the future must be the same or More couple handed Over to Keating by re army freed dependent May face trial three More yanks deaths on roads raise toll to 14 were held yanks report by Nadeane Walker staff writer july officer and Samuel of american couple who had been held by the russians since july 1 after wandering into the soviet zone were returned unharmed last they were handed Over to the custody of Berlin District by Alexander commandant for the rus sector of Foj it was also revealed that their c detention was directly connected with the arrest of two russian senior charged ases peonage agents by the negotiations Between american and soviet officials for the release of the Harrisons at once brought a russian demand that two red army accompanied by an enlisted continued on Page s july More deaths on the roads of Ger raising the july fatality toll to were reported today by the theater Provost Howard West of 524 my stationed at was killed on july 6 near Horschig when his truck left the Highway and struck a Robert Mcneil was seriously injured in the same Accident and is confined 2 August ceremonies announced by Usset the stars and strives Bureau july announced two Days which will be marked by special observances in 1 has been set aside As air forces will signify the Battle of Usset today said that troops will participate at that time in a United kingdom Cere Mony whose details Are not yet the stars and stripes Bureau in the 124th intelligence met his death on High Way n3 North of Frankfurt after he lost control of his jeep july fatally injured when he attempted to mount a to veg Dona Hodges of the 221th chemical warfare service base depot at Frankenburg died on july he was crushed beneath the wheels of the 43 Almedy butchers get death sentence says soviets must help to Avert chaos july 16 a of state James f Byrnes disclosed last night in his radio report to the nation on the Paris conference that the United states risked an open split with Russia in an attempt to Force the economic unification of Byrnes declared that orders giving Russia a Choice Between co operation or economic paralyses1 Germany will go Forward this by Arthur Noyes staff writer july Helen j3 u Al who with her Samuel was re turned to Berlin last night after 15 Days in soviet custody May become the first army dependent in Europe to face a court it was revealed the illegal entry of the couple into the russian zone is being investigated to see if disciplinary action should be although a Hamson is subject to army regulations As one of the conditions under which army dependents were allowed into the both Harrison and his wife told army authorities that they did not know that they were entering the soviet sector when they left on july 1 with two German women continued on Page 8 was Asgis struck Kilian july 16 War department revealed today that two enlisted men were sentenced two Vears ago to 20 years at hard labor after they were convicted of strik ing James of High land a defendant in the Lichfield War prisoner brutality the sentences were subsequently re the soldiers were identified As Lemael Poe and fran Cisco they were tried for striking their on the body and face with their hands and feet on the incident occurred near the 10th re placement depot in july 16 three veterans of the German including Joachim were sentenced to death by an american military court today for the Slaughter of 900 american soldiers and belgian civilians during the Battle of the prison sentences ranging up to imprisonment were Given the other 30 of the 73 germans convicted last thursday in the largest mass conviction yet obtained in any War crimes among those Given life terms was Josef Sepp Veteran of Adolf hitlers 1923 Beer Hall Putsch a Munich and commander of the 6th Panzer army which spearheaded pensive in the Germany counteroffensive in the ardennes in december of it Hermann com Mander of the 1st is Panzer was sentenced to 20 years imprison ment and Fritz Dietrichs 6th Panzer army chief of was Given a 10year Peiper laughs the Only High ranking officer among those sentenced to laughed when a photographers Flash bulb exploded in his face As the sentence was pro Peiper was the daredevil com Mander of task Force an in week to Joseph the orders will be to cooperate with any or All of the other occupying Powers on trans Trade and Russia declined at the Paris meeting to go along either on econ Omic measures and guarantees for keeping Germany disarmed for a Quarter of a Century or the writing of a peace treaty for Russia blamed by Byrnes on those Points Byrnes observed the conference made no Progress at he pinned the blame squarely on leading up to his disclosure of orders being drafted for Byrnes said it was no secret that fou Power of Germany of a zone basis was not working Well under the Potsdam he Germany was to be administered As an economic he she is being run in four closed com and the country is threatened with inflation and econ Omic zone Costa noting that the american zone is costing american taxpayers a he declared this condition must not hence his instructions to the Byrnes granted the time spent on Germany and the austrian questions might not have been a total experience he that armoured formation which included his own 1st is Panzer regt it was his men who participated in the massacre of unarmed american prisoners of War at although the formal death sen tence called for the doomed continued on pane 8 3 doctors charged with mass murder july 16 Ernest the former head of a Provin Cial childrens and two women assistants went on trial be fore an austrian court Here today on charges of mass murder of 250 children in the co defendants with the 42yearold psychiatrist were two women Doc Marianne and mar Gareth the Hospital was used for children up to the age of 18 afflicted with lung and other the charges were that the patients had been Given overdoses of Luminal and tests reaction to new officer i order a sceptical followed by a colonel and asked for a to his they not Only offered but most of them also offered at the the Brash sergeant is putting two wac officers to the who pass with flying a for and Hull cleared by Pearl Harbor committee july 16 aph eight of the ten members of the Pearl Harbor committee Are said to have signed a report absolving the late president Franklin Roosevelt and former Secretary of state Cor Dell Hull from any direct responsibility for the japanese Surprise attack on the majority due to be leased later this is said to place the blame for the american particularly with our soviet cannot be reached until we have gone through rounds of verbal combat in which old complaints Are past positions differences accentuated and crisis the Secretary said he was ready to believe it was As difficult for the russians to understand As it is for us to understand but i sometimes think our soviet friends fear we would think them weak and he went continued on Page 8 Forrestal in Berlin on Way to Sweden july 16 of Navy James Forrestal arrived at Tempelhof Ai drome Here today at time in route to he is expected to spend about three hours in Berlin conferring with Lucius Amer ican Deputy military who returned Over the weekend from the Paris foreign ministers Forrestal said he was returning to Washington after witnessing the atom bomb test at he said he would also visit the Navy Secretary said he would not hold any press con Clay greeted him at the Airport along with other High Forrestal expected to leave Tor Stockholm later Ecuador names new envoy july 16 the government today
