European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes july Page 3 the 5taio air atm cd my Hunts artworks missing 15 months Congress postpones Truman merger Bill july 21 action on president Truman army Navy merger program has been postponed until the next session of Congress at Truman own chairman Elbert of Senate military affairs acas but a e Resen favors unification As much As but believes delay is advisable in View of Congress Hopes to adjourn late a said the tense atmosphere Marks turkeys first free vote july 21 in turkeys National election today began in a tense atmosphere of Mutual recriminations As democratic Djelal Daya declared there is no question of free elections but we Are participating As National at the same time police in Stan enforcing the rigid ban on pub Lic posters and the distribution of arrested Shefik Leader of the newly formed socialist labor and peasant party for sticking posters and con ducting a Public Campaign to boy Cott today in Istanbul voters went to polls in a regular manner in what Are called the first free elections in turkeys their task is to elect 465 first results Are expected around Midnight this v Thomas lauded the presidents j he observed that to press i for action now would create unpleasant relations Between the army and Navy and possibly endanger the nations future the existing while Are not incapable of Solu if further time for discussion and deliberation is Thomas chief remaining obstacles Are Navy objections to proposals which would place All armed services under a single Cabinet Secretary of common put All land based naval aircraft under the air the Senate military affairs group approved a Bill to authorize the army to raise its officer strength from to it also approved a measure to Grant partial retirement benefits to Reserve and National guard per in addition the Bill provides a revised retirement system for regular army it authorizes a five Man selection Board to review the qualifications of officers and deter mine which should be required to show cause for the officers then would be granted a hearing before the Board 4 which would in turn make recommendations to the Secretary of the Board likewise would govern retire ment pay House passes Diplomat Bill july 21 apr the House yesterday passed by voice and sent to the Senate legislation providing for a Broad overhauling of the state depart ments foreign sponsors of the measure said it was needed to put americas foreign service on a Par with those of the other principal one of its chief provisions is to boost salaries of nearly All career worker including an increase from to annually for am proponents said this action would open foreign service work to persons who Are not financially Able to accept such posts the House also passed by voice vote another measure establishing an office of under Secretary of state for economic Institute to be established a major Section of the reorganization Bill would establish a foreign service making possible a postgraduate training school for service officers similar to that now attended by army and Navy another provision would Call Lor automatic retirement of officers not qualifying for promotion As often As specified in the standards outlined the Bills sponsors said this would permit the department to clean out the dead Wood among its employees More the provisions would also require service officers to spend least three of their first 15 years o work in the United states and take Home leaves every two years Thev Are abroad to keep them of affairs the United Imp i members of the Pearl committee members of the joint congressional Pearl Harbor investigating committee Are shown in one of their sessions in the nations left to they Are Owen Brewster Bertrand Gearhart Scott Lucas Alben Barkley Jere Cooper d Walter George Homer Ferguson and Bayard Clark d not shown Are the other two Frank Keefe and John Murphy Konev viewed As new chief new 21 Hal Ivan Konev is Bdie Ved to have replaced marshal Georgi Zhukov As commander of All red army ground forces under circumstances suggesting that red army com Manders who associated More or Ess closely with Western allies Are eing relegated to unimportant no announcement of the change has been made from How the United press Learned reliably that Konev has succeeded the second victim in the shakeup is believed to be marshal Novikov who headed the red air forces during the his present position is but he had seen replaced by col Kon Stantin who was com Mander in chief of the air forces and Deputy minister for air in the armed forces ministry headed by the possibility that the shakeup is motivated by a desire to reduce the importance of commanders who were relatively closely associated with the Western allies Rose from the fact that both Zhukov and Novikov had Many intimate dealings with Western there Are known to have been a number of other red army but names of those involved have not been abreast picked germans to train for teaching under soviets july 21 from the democratic sections of the German people Are to be trained As teachers in three year courses at German universities in the occupation Moscow radio re continued from Page 1 Best Way to stimulate exports from the american commander said that the has Hopes of reaching a Calory daily food average for the average German by october and stated that a merger of zones would not bring about a decline in the proposed ration if exports from the world crop surplus Are Kenarney said that he had received no word from Washington concerning his proposal for a scrip currency for occupation troops but that the sooner we have the Tetter off we he announced that German Industry in the zone was now producing at 29 per cent of its capacity in All no War Industry this is an increase of eight per cent Over Tass charges ally hinders ported broadcast said children of workers and poorer sections of the population will Start their studies beginning this courses will be Given free of charge and 75 per cent of the students will 2luu t a be the radio to albanian tribunal sentences 2 to die by the associated press an albanian War crimes tribunal at Scutari has sentenced one Al Banian and one Catholic priest to three albanians to life in and 14 other defendants to imprisonment for terms ranging from three to 30 All pleaded a Tass quoted by Moscow said the prosecution charged that the defendants collaborated with the germans and italians during the occupation of Albania and after the liberation went underground in order to prepare for the overthrow of the with the support of reactionaries from during the radio some defendants asserted that the British had helped them through their Liaison they said the British assured them that troops would be landed in Albania at an opportune time and then Power the country would be handed Over report of Lowans death shocks Kin july 21 a Elsie sister of Fred was shocked to learn her brother died i october in a soviet detention who was wanted by american authorities for alleged was reported dead by the russians yesterday a Butch Kalten Bach former High school basketball with american occupation forces in Wheeler another is a presbyterian minister in and was an chaplain during the Krueger retires in Texas ceremonies san july 21 Walter who became a doughboy at heart during 48 years of retired yester Day in a ceremony at Sam Jonathan Wain commanding general of the fourth honoured who led the sixth army in Pacific at a special mess for 3 61 pm leave Berlin for redeployment total of 61 enlisted Ven and three officers will leave Berlin today for Bremerhaven for the pm Are made up of soldiers with 22 months service As of 30 and casuals who have been on furloughs or in the tie three officers Are no volunteers with 29 months service As of july 21 news Agency obviously referring to the United today charged that the irreconcilable attitude of one of the allies was hampering solution of the displaced persons problem in Tass reported that out of a total of displaced persons in live in Amer ican occupation zone and in spite of various notes from the austrian government to rid the country of this the Allied Council has not done anything about it so the Agency added that an official austrian government note for Transfer of the Dps was received by the Allied Council May but by the irreconcilable attitude of one of the allies in this question no answer was Given the Story said that the same ally refuses persistently to reduce persons rations to the austrian Canvas by Rubens one of six sought july 21 Art at More than which disappeared from an ancient Castle in this hessian Village 15 months still missing despite a series of Mili tary government and police in has among the missing paintings is Peter Paul Rubens nymphs frightened by which Art experts Here conservatively estimate to be Worth other masterpieces which disappeared Are landscapes by Nicolas Pietersz a dutch and Antonio an and works by the German jewish artist Max Liebermann and the French Painter constant an unidentified portrait is also this is the second disclosure of i treasure disappearing from castles in j the american following by two months the revelation that i Worth of jewelry and other valuables were missing from Kronberg Castle near missed in 1945 i the which before the War Hung in Frankfurt s staedel were first missed late in april 1945 several Days after they were moved to the Buedingen Castle for according to members of the Hohenzollern who now live in the the paint Ings were part of a group of approximately 70 which were stored behind the Iron barred windows of the palaces Albert a museum official who helped move the Art treasures to Buedingen from a Castle in Amor said it would be almost in White notes filed july 21 More than letters and other papers of the late Allen editor of the Epona have been shipped to the Del dlr possible to sell the paintings because they Are any Art dealer would know they could Only have been taken by a Man who wants them for any Art dealer offered a picture by Rubens would Ibok in his books and know where the picture comes he Rapp said he had helped about paintings from the Amor Bach Castle at the direction of an american officer so be he quoted the officer As having told him to pick the most valuable out of the collection and we will move them to Buedingen where we will have them under British appraise jewels found in Luen Efrer cellar july 21 up a number of boxes containing almost priceless including jewels and Are now being valued at Hannover after having been found by the British authorities in a cellar at Lueneburg last the loot is the largest of hundreds of collections which were discovered during the past year in the British t Iii i possibility of separate trials seen for Kronberg principals by Robert staff writer july Here were unable to find out yester Day Why Jack Durant was not mentioned in yesterdays announcement that the Kronberg jewel charges were expected to be preferred Early this week against Only his wife Kathleen Nash and David no mention of the former Usset go executive who still is held at the local Carlton hotel in connection with the Gem disappear Ance from the Kronberg Castle officers appeared to be de liberate in the officers assigned to the investigation were unwilling to answer re porters having been instructed that All information on the Case was to originate from a Public relations convinced of innocence army know whether the army plan for prosecution included a separate trial against Ive found More witnesses Here in Germany than i said who reported that both the Durant have not been shaken m the conviction of their own inno Brumbaugh has been conduct ing his own investigation of the Case since his arrival from the states last David wealthy partner in a nationwide firm of Public who is now in pans after advising his son in the stockade will return to Frankfurt before and will be Able to discuss the hiring of John Brooklyn Racket Buster under Thomas As defense counsel for his it has been Learned that still an army and another officer will become civilians representing their client before the m tv4 31
