European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Year ago today Japan sends peace feelers to and two years ago today troops Are driving germans out of european edition thes mtg spiff of armed Safe weather forecast Frankfurt Cloudy Munich Cloudy Berlin Cloudy Bremen Cloudy Vienna partly Cloudy volume number 197 army Force called vital july 17 a for a permanent Reg ular army of men and officers confronted Congress after a close door session of the Senate military affairs the prewar 1939 strength was senators who listened to top ranking army planners said the Long Range setup Calls for in the air in the ground service forces some lawmakers have questioned the need for doubling the present strength of regular army officers to armed with carefully covered charts and detailed army leaders explained they not but at least officers to Lead the peacetime in addition to professionals or career they said another must be obtained from the National organized Reserve and similar these officers must be taken for Titre year Tours of Active with some qualifying for regular soviets deny holding yanks july 17 Siao authorities have told the United states army that two american officers who supposedly disappeared into the russian zone of Berlin on july 4 cannot be it was announced Here officially George Public relations chief for announced j tonight that the russians had asserted they have been unable to locate Harold Cobin and George Wyatt and that to the Best of their knowledge they being held in the russian Cobin and Wyatt were last seen 14 Days ago boarding a train for the russian it had been believed in Berlin that the two american officers were being held As hostages for russians which the red army has asserted United states authorities were 20 20 2 1 d july 1946 my or Peoples peace difficult to Vandenberk Burton Wheeler Wheeler trails opponent in Montana vote july 17 reported precincts in Montana Small towns and wide open spaces held the answer to Burton wheelers Jid for renomination for a fifth with most Urban areas heard the frequent objector to new Deal foreign and Domestic policies but who nevertheless received a helping hand during his Campaign from president Truman was More than votes behind Leif former state supreme court in 629 of  had Wheeler incumbents renominated the race diverted National interest from three other tuesday primaries in Arkansas and Wyoming which resulted in the renomination of All the incumbent Congress members who hammered at Wheeler As a prep Earl Harbor isolationist and declared he was biased against organized was backed by the brotherhood of railway James Murray and James Roose write draft of 3 treaties v plans to omit big names at next Paris conference july 17 delegation to the Paris peace conference on july 29 will almost certainly consist of James f Secretary of and a of experts on the projected treaties with the Balkans and a state department spokesman said last night in plans being formulated by the i Jug f ouf state department do not contemplate making the delegation up of big names such As Are sometimes sent to International he Byrnes is known to feel that the Job at Paris be one for diplomatic experts who will be capable of explaining to the representatives of other nations the reasons for the decisions already made by great the United s1 and France at the foreign ministers new meeting slated Tom Connally Texas and Arthur Vandenberg Are not expected to attend the peace unless Byrnes reaches an agreement with the big Powers for a new foreign ministers meeting to be held at the end of the july 29 Byrnes intentions to press for this would be for the purpose of putting the draft treaties into final Means that there will be two More foreign ministers conferences this the one tentatively agreed upon in Paris last week is expected Lttie held following the United nations general Assembly on when the future of Germany will be Senate warned world goal is still far Distant july 17 Arthur Vandenberg told the Senate yesterday that substantial gains had been made towards world but the goal stall remained far from the senator had taken the floor to discuss foreign ministers Confer ence in Paris and he voiced a Ull endorsement of the Confer ence report which Secretary of state James Byrnes gave to the nation monday Vandenberg told reporters before he began speaking that he would make what he termed a Frank appraisal of american russian a the senator said that Russia has states Russia kans at Long last it Antly concluded tonight when july 17 trea ties for Finland and the bal will be completed foreign ministers deputies meet in their last session before the 21nation conference to approve draft draft treaties will be immediately dispatched to the 21 United nations who will attend the peace con Ference july almost exactly one year since the big four foreign ministers first met to discuss treaties meanwhile the commission on the statute of Trieste and a sub com july 17 Dorsay announced the receipt of answers from Canada and Yugo Slavia to peace conference velt Mihailovici shot at Dawn july 17 w official communique issued said that the execution of drama Mihailovich and others sentenced to Mittee on the port of Trieste continue meetings until they hav lie too closely construed the 1945 mos cow agreement among the big this microscopic Liberal he might carry the domination of the big four to the Point of monopoly and if it was not checked in the task of writing the peace soviets threw up Block Vandenberg added that it had Vanucie Yucis t become difficult to attain a Peoples toward which he contended the s was he hailed the calling of the 2lnation peace conference As the greatest achieve ment of the Paris Vandenberg said that before invitations for the peace conference had been the soviets threw up another Road demanding twid keep the conference substantially in the grip of the big great Britain and the United jeep crash kills go july toll hits 15 tote stars and stripes Bureau july death announced by the theater Uttmi v Provost marshal today raised the july death toll in it traffic accidents to pfc Samuel Manning of the 66th was found dead in a Stream near Berchtesgaden on july 4 when the vehicle in which he was Riding went off the Road on a Steep the pfc Robert j Gerber of the 60th was taken to the Hospital Union Nurnberg hearings May conclude soon july 17 the present Progress is it is expected that the International Mili tary tribunal at Nurnberg will have heard the cases against All the individual defendants by the end of next the final defense summary of Baldier von the Hitler youth Leader and former Gau Leiter of is to be taken up by the court v earlier in his von Schirach reversed his opinion of the calling his onetime idol a million fold trial Story on Page continue meetings until they Nav great Britain Ana me ironed out the final headaches of the Vandenberg had re Adriatic port for submission to the Strait the out 21 american Deputy James Dunn will leave tomorrow for a weeks visit in Berlin and a tour of the american zone of return ing to Paris july 25 to Lay the final groundwork for opening the peace with completion of the draft since the offered for the conference proce the suggestions were not and the conference was ree to adopt its own the senator thus it is for Eastern communism my Western democracy to find common late bulletin Baltic of the memos 5 the stars and stripes Bureau july difference in the methods of occupation administration adopted by the four Powers Here was illustrated today when a memorandum from the Berlin Allied Komman Datura was Given the following distribution the americans received 140 the British the rus sians ii and the French july Nieolai Redin was today acquitted by a Federal court jury on espionage conspiracy the russian was found innocent on brought by the gov ver Memy that he purchased secrets about a new destroyer tender from Herbert a shipyard a jury of seven men and five women brought in the verdict after almost 24 hours the trial lasted 22 death has taken presidium of the National Assembly rejected petitions for Pardon of the traitors and War the executions of and others have taken the ministry of information re fused to specify the place and Well informed but unofficial sources account of the executions said that they took place at Dawn this morning on the grounds of the same military training school in the Belgrade suburb where the trial was these sources said the firing squad was selected from a crack this Story was in aes will sell cars in twide lottery the stars and stripes Bureau july Chevrolet and Plymouth will be sold on the basis of a theater wide lottery As soon As they Are received from the army Exchange service officials announced Here purchasers of the new american cars must be military or civil Ian personnel with at least six months More to serve according to tentative plans drawn up for the applicants cannot already own a car either in the it or in the lottery forms will be distributed by the end of and 111 w a it form of the treaties comes the even stronger realization that none of the compromises serves the purpose of satisfying any of the interested but in View of the year Long frustrating which at times seemed almost certain to break up into an East West these drafts stand out As a definite army Mountain troops to test new rations july 17 troops in Mountain training in Colorado will test two new army rations in the War department said the rations Are the new Cornea or e ration and the new Type 10 intones with five different menus including a hot i shot dead near Trieste july 17 Amer ican Soldier was shot and killed and two others were Hurt when their jeep was ambushed in a Hail of Auto Matic weapon fire shortly before Midnight last about 14 Miles South of on the Gorran Trieste according to United states army three army vehicles in a line were caught in the officials one of the injured men was shot and the was Hurt when his vehicle crashed out or patrols from the 88th to which All the men were set out to comb the area constabulary to Gripe to not to b bag typhoon lashes Manila july 17 wind lashed Manila today As a Pacific typhoon roared across North Ern the drawing will be held in Britain gets German Timber july 17 the first five months of this tons of Timber were imported from parliamentary Secretary to the Board of reported in the commons today by Dan staff writer july troopers of the 13th of the 6th stood a formal inspection yesterday for their Ernest the thoroughness of this routine inspection by a brigadier and several colonels reminded the troopers of the Basic training inspections in the As Harmo alighted from the Steps of Bayreuth Railroad he immediately lifted the Hood of a jeep As if to emphasize the importance of alertness to the con arriving at the Parade Headquarters of the 13th Harmon was greeted by a Cannon Salute that startled the German civilians lined up outside the at the close of the inspection the troopers were Given a Pep Taui by Harmon who told them that if you have any complaints or gripes you should let officer know about but dont write to the b asserting that bag is not the place to air difficulties among sol Harmon told his men that i dont intend to answer any b bag of the new occur continued on Page 3