European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T temporary bottleneck slows redeployment g pile plaid to shortage of 1st berths by Edwin do Well staff writer july 23 spokesman today confirmed reports of a temporary bottle neck in redeployment through the port of Bremerhaven where some enlisted officers and War department civilian employees Are awaiting transportation to the United reports from Bremer Haven said under the authority of a Usset officers below the Grade of major and Civi lians with a Caf rating below 11 were being allowed to sign waivers accepting lower standards of troop accommodations on vessels returning to the Al the operating Section at the 3rd depot said that ships used for redeployment have Only firs class accommodations for about ten per cent of the total he the number of civilians and females awaiting shipment far exceed ten per cent of the total number of personnel in the depot at this waivers purely voluntary he added that the waivers for accommodations were purely Volun tary and if any officer or civilian decides not to sign a waiver to his right to firs class he will remain in this depot until such time As firs class accommodations can be made a breakdown of personnel within the staging area showed a total of persons being g3 said that less than were in coming approximately 148 170 War department employees and enlisted men Are awaiting return the for g3 said that reports from the Bremerhaven Stag ing area were substantially and that the Usset directive authorizing waiver of firs class accommodations had been dispatched about the Middle of last it was intended he continued on Page 8 Bolivia backs rebel regime la july 23 provisional president in stalled by student and worker rebels who yesterday assassinated pres ident Gualberto Villarroel announced that the revolutionaries apparently were victorious through out the he there had been no bloodshed in Interior cities but that the revolutionary movement had won declarations of support fro mall meanwhile the casualty which was unofficially estimated As High As dead and was still proceeding in dispensaries and private Homes jammed with victims four Days after the Guillen promised free democratic restoration of civil liberties to the Freedom of the release of All political prisoners and an invitation to political exiles to return to in the govern Mcnarney adviser studies polish jewish situation special to the stars and stripes july Philip adviser on jewish affairs to Joseph has departed from Here unofficially to investigate the condition and attitude polish Usset Dis closed an outspoken critic of antisemitism in who recently admitted that formal protests to the polish government on ant jewish attitudes in that country had no deter mine his itinerary after his arrival in the announcement european edition the stars a unofficial of aimed volume number 203 20 20 2 1 d Safe weather forecast Frankfurt Cloady Munich partly Cloudy Berlin Cloudy Bremen Cloudy Vienna Cloudy july 1946 pm leave pay of expected red offensive shifts toward banking area july 23 american built destroyer escorts and j six minesweepers were stripped for j action in the Yangtze River j ready to defend the napkins Shanghai area against that the nationalist government described As a ferociously1 mounting communist attack from the scores of gun bristling Pill boxes lined the River Bank near the banking railway and other defense positions have been erected to reinforce the Navai which Are the latest additions to the chinese government sources claimed the communists were across the River and poised to swarm Over into banking and disrupt the napkins Shanghai railway at any the reported communist threat was said to be increasing sentries kept a 24hour Wadi be tween the Low built which Are camouflaged against possible air Truman nominates Dunn As ambassador to Italy use lend lease aircraft lend lease including lightnings and Thunder flew Many undisclosed mis Sions from the Airport the out skirts of full loaded Mitchell bombers took off sometimes returning with their Bombrays an entire division of nationalist troops marched through banking streets in the direction of the rail Way station and ferry apparently to bolster the River in North where nationalists reportedly have opened an offensive to regain communist held rail there were conflicting claims of attack and the newspaper Hsin min Pao quoted a government spokesman at Chenkang As saying that communists had been Defeated at Yanc Ghow and after suf Fering 3rd yank who wed German expelled july 23 other american civilian has been expelled from occupied Germany for marrying a German girl in Vio lation of the army ban on Ger Man american army officials disclosed the latest civilian to be expelled was identified As Ralph a former whose marriage was revealed when like the previous two asked the army to ship his wife to the at government James Dunn july 23 president Truman has nominated James assistant Secretary of state for political As the new ambassador to Dunn is presently in Paris in connection with the forthcoming peace he will succeed Alexan Der Dunn has been with the state department since the time of former Secretary the italian govern ment announced this morning Dunn s appoint Tiit was 56yearold native of new started his diplomatic career with a variety of top advisory including directorship of the departments office of political he has been in London and Paris almost ten months As Byrnes Deputy on the foreign ministers plan Calls for payment in Bonds july 23 a the s Bill to provide terminal pay for Mil Lions gis of was former and current ready today for amen will probe reports of Watson confinement july 23 John confirming that he will represent David Watson in the Hesse Crown jewels said he will immediately investigate reports that Watson has been confined in a prison stockade while and Jack Durant Are living in the luxury of Frankfurt finest amen said that a Young officer with a Brilliant record of three years overseas service and belgian and russian decorations had been used As a Pawn by and amen said he would investigate another report that Watson was forced to make formal state ments without advice of which he repeated and his request for copies of these statements have not been amen said he had heard that discrimination had been used against Watson unlike col and made no attempt to leave the it on the re Quested extended foreign amen said he would be assisted by two other his principal Legal assistant will hell Smith of Iowa and formerly senior attorney with the Security and Exchange com Mission Brookhart has been an assistant trial counsel on the staff of Justice Jackson in the Nurnberg troop ship turns Back new july 23 troop ship Robert l bound for Italy with replacement put Back into new York Harbor today with engine arc May allow Frau veins in dabs to attend fetes july 23 american red Cross Headquarters in Wiesbaden today announced it would play Host to Fraulein if there is an increase in Soldier demand for German for some tune the red Cross has been studying popular Soldier opinion in View of the possibility of admitting German girls As guests to certain social events in red Cross following the decision of the military to cancel its project of screening German girls for admit Tance to army functions on a theater wide it was decided by red Cross Headquarters to postpone its decision on the matter pending an increase in Soldier demand or until officers from National head quarters i Washington had the Opportunity of studying the Situa the announcement red Cross officials denied Emp hat that they had at any time considered the possibility of hiring German girls As hostesses in red Cross passage by the Senate As Edwin Johnson predicted its Quick under the described by Joseph Ball b As just a Bonus in discharged servicemen would receive five year Federal Bonds carrying per cent payments for furloughs they didst As passed by the House without a dissenting the Bill would give ail enlisted personnel the same terminal leave benefits granted to officers upon their release from Active sponsor of the revised told reporters that it would wipe out favouritism shown discharged officers who have received Cash offers amendments Ball offered amendments that would Force the deduction of mustering out pay already granted enlisted men and bring world War i veterans the if we make this we might As Well make i really the which is backed by president was drafted As substitute for the House approved Bill that would Grant immediate Cash it was written by Navy and Treasury officials in cooperation with the budget Bureau which had warned that the House measure was not us Accord with Truman anti inflation it has been pointed out by con Gressional aides that the Only major controversy now entered around the method of the House ordered a Lump but in redraft ing the Bill on a suggestion from president the Senate Mili tary affairs committee called for the issuance of the Bonds for amounts exceeding British zone to use scrip Money by Marieanne Greenough staff writer july Market ing will be even less profitable for the British Tommy than the Amer ican i Fae ginning when All British troops on the continent will be required to use scrip Money to pay for All purchases and services rendered in military orders issued by Headquarters of the British army of the Rhine will invalidate occupation Marks in the British zone for All purposes excepting purchases made from the by this unprecedented move to in Germany to Issue scrip Money backed exclusively by its Home cur Rency and constituting the Only Legal the British action May foreshadow a similar move in the Joseph Mcnarney told Frank Furt press correspondents july 9 that he had recommended to Washington the creation of a Dollar backed scrip currency for the zone which would be interchange Able with the military goods of the British at a press conference in the theater commander said the scrip currency plan was still under consideration in Washington and salaries of British troops and civilians attached to the army or to the British control commission will be paid directly in the form of British armed forces special which in paper scrip Money in various denominations of English pounds and plastic Penny and Halfpenny tokens will also be it will be forbidden to Transfer the new vouchers to any individual who is not entitled to draw them from official this prohibition Means that the scrip currency can Only circulate among britishers curb Black Market operations and the sooner we have the better Tom the latter May Exchange vouchers protect the value of the British Pound Britain will be the first of the four occupation Powers off we the operation of the new British currency system is very the for Marks cannot be redeemed in new pcs to service military the stars and stripes Bureau july entire military families in Static com theater special services announced today that a system of Central exchanges is being established to Supply As Many of the Ordinary consumer items now Avail Able in the As is All authorized personnel military communities in the theater will even Aliy be Able to buy such items As household sporting phonographs and radios at Community shopping the general merchandise centers will be concentrated in one building or in a compact group of together with no Exchange depart ments such As the pm sales com forces to participate in us ceremony 15 the stars and stripes Burro july announced today that the original August which had been designated As Battle of Britain was in and that ceremonies in Observance of the occasion would be held on september troops Are scheduled to participate on the latter