European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                One year ago today Twentyfive enemy warships in Kobe kure two years ago today Tito says who germans were killed in european edition the stars unofficial Newi Popet of armed tripes Safe weather forecast Frankfurt partly Cloudy Munich Clea Berlin Clear Bremen partly Cloudy Vienna Clear volume number 206 20 20 2 1 d july if 46 mail service pleases postmaster general holds by Nadeane Walker staff writer july in most places seem Well pleased with the mail service they Are getting and further speedups will result if the proposed reduction to five cents per airmail ounce is Post master general Robert Hannegan said on his arrival in Berlin together with Stuart assistant Secretary of War for Gail assistant postmaster and John Cannon of the War Hannegan has completed an extensive tour of the Pacific and which included the first Bikini atom bomb Secretary in reply to a said that he had not come to Europe to Check up on the re ported weakness of the aah pointing out that he handled Only policy he commented that the aah has had a difficult task because of but it has been handled Well under the Cir and morale is he called the Bikini test a magnificent but said he did not believe it proved the Navy a death a Firnberg Kuiv the first crowded courtroom in several both ican Arifeh chef prosecutors today asked for the full punishment for the 22 Dan sets the prosecution demands were made by Justice Robert h Jackson for the United state Ted by sir Hartley for great before the International military to Taat the first two of the four prosecutors delivered their final closing addresses m the eight Mont hold trial of shrunken Hermann Goering and his nazi demanding full punishment for the accused on grounds that they were As guilty As Jacksons speech for making aggressive War and sanctioning Robert Hannegan the air Force is for a Strong he the postmaster general said he has attended a meeting in Switzer land of foreign mail officials and will meet with them again in the next few Days to discuss the desire to increase the amount of air mail and the possibility of sending parcel Post by atom bomb results veiled by radioactive Waters aboard the uss appalachian in Bikini july 26 what extent the giant hand of the atom bomb Laid its deadly grip on the 75 target ships anchored in the radioactive Waters of Bikini Lagoon was still being determined this much is 10 including the battleship Arkansas and the aircraft Carrier Are resting on the Ocean it was also officially reported that Bikini failure Laid to aah second Bikini bomb had so damaged the japanese battleship nagato that she was listing the under water blast left the destroyer Hughes in imminent danger of Sank some lighter Craft and spread so much radioactivity 24 hours 36 Square Miles of water was Tiu Crews alerted the radioactivity continued to prevent a thorough Check of the while the Crews were alerted to watch for the southward Drift of the radioactive observer ships carrying scientists and naval who were to assess the reentered the Lagoon on vice William task Force commander of the opera said that the subsurface bomb probably would have killed All men on he added that Aerial observers reports that five submarines had been sunk were based on inconclusive an associated press who flew Over the Lagoon reported that continued on Page 8 sub spots disrupt services signal july 26 Thomas Hart for Mer commander of the Asiatic charged today the first atomic bomb at Bikini missed its target because the army air corps refused to be Eft out and thus miss a Chance for the Gray haired former Admiral made his charge attacking the proposed merger of armed forces in a Senate he said the air corps attitude possibly jeopardized accuracy and the extent of damage done in the first Bikini he pointed out that if the bomb was dropped from an army bomber from so High that accuracy was bound to be a it always has been a he he said the bomb exploded Sev eral Hundred Yards off Center which naturally affected the results and from press dispatches new july tonal radio communications were disrupted for several hours by Sun spots scrambling the the associated press said Athelston professor of meteorology at new York univer explained that Sun spot activity runs in cycles with Short Perio he said that the present activity was not a major Cycle of unusual intensity and should not last for More than 24 new copy to the stars and stripes was delayed five hours while Telephone communications Between Europe and the states were sus Pended in most Strong Gale threatens japanese Home islands july 26 100 Milia hour typhoon was reported roaring toward Japan the typhoon was located Halfway be tween Guam and Tokyo and was expected to reach within Iso Miles Tokyo by tomorrow the Quantity of the data according to Hart the proper method would have been to suspend the bomb from an anchored Kite he said that method would have eliminated the great difficulties in timing the entire operation and made it simpler and cheaper All Truman disavows demo purge talks july 26 president Truman declared he had no intention of taking the stump in Missouri against Roger asked at his news conference whether he will make any speech against the democratic representative whose renomination he of the president replied in the the president told his last news conference he was against Slaughter in the fifth District because of the tetters opposition to his legislative program As a member of the House rules French expect 1500 delegates at be acetates july 26 sources today said they expected the number of delegates to the 21 nation peace opening her on july to total it will have the largest with about 300 the United states is expected to Send about sizeable delegations include the yugoslavs with 170 and the czechoslovakian with the French have tentatively set the opening for 3 get next when at least 17 nations will hear the draft treaties prepared by Britain and this first plenary session will be opened with a welcoming address by the French foreign Georges after which French sources expect the first clash will occur Over the question of presidents of the favor rotating presidency the foreign ministers Council was favourable to rotation of the presidency among their four coun the invited nations Are expected to demand either that a permanent president be elected or that the position be rotated among All 21 the French say they now expect a minimum of 12 plenary they add that they expect a bitter fight to develop Over whether a two thirds majority or a simple majority shall govern conference each country will be limited to 10 delegates in the full in View of the seating accommodation for Only 314 in the Luxembourg dependents1 total in it rises to 3803 the stars and stripes Bureau july total of dependents of military and civilian personnel have arrived in the european theater thus far Usset announced shipment of dependents has been requested in the applications by by and 786 by the heaviest monthly shipment will be in with family members a total of is expected for july in and in the four month period from 1946 through War briton says july 26 ish International military tribunal prosecutor sir Hartley Shawcross asked the death penalty at Nurnberg today for Hermann Goering and his 21 associated nazi ring their guilt As common murder ers and As men who planned and waged a world War in Defiance of treaties and pledges to keep peace is not in he arguing for conviction of the Ger Man chieftains for the crime against the charge which Heads the Long sir Hartley asserted let it be said plainly now that these defendants Are charged also As common that charge alone merits the imposition of the supreme penalty and the Joinder of this crime against peace in the indictment can add nothing to the penalty which May be imposed on these but he said More is at stake Here than the Fate of these it is a fundamental part of these proceedings to establish for All time that International Law has o declare that a War is criminal and o Deal with those who Aid and abet heir states in its army will run All arc clubs the stars and stripes Bureau july army is taking Over the operation of All american red Cross clubs and recreational facilities in the european Usset announced the reason for the apparently effective was not but it was Emp Haj sized that there will be no differ ence in the present Basic policy of conducting the clubs since this is merely an administrative available War department funds will be used As required for the operation of clubs which will be predesignated recreation but professional arc personnel required will be supplied without salary charge to the red Cross athletic and recreational equipment now in the theater will continue to be made available without Cost to the army until the Supply is the red Cross will also Bear expenses of refreshments and food to be served to it was limited red Cross funds will necessitate restricting refresh ments at organized recreational events to three times a guilty As Justice avers july 26 prosecutor Robert Jackson held Hermann Goering and his co defendants collectively and individually responsible today for a conspiracy against peace that plunged the world into the most Temble epoch of cruelty and bloodshed that Man has Ever in a Heavil Docu rented summing up of the american Case in the historic eight month old War crimes Jackson declared it was these men among millions of and it was these men leading millions of who built up Adolf Hitler and vested in his psychopathic personality riot Only innumerable lesser decisions but the supreme Issue of War or they intoxicated him with Power and they fed his hates and aroused his they put a loaded gun in his eager hands his guilt is the guilt of the whole Dock and of every Man in Jacksons barbed remarks of Ted Touchy targets in the 20 defendants in the courtroom full for the first time in several months there was hardly an empty scat in the hitlers Dep Uty fuehrer Rudolf Hess who had a recurrence of his attack of stomach cramps was the Only defendant a the defendants seemed to follow Jacksons speech when he gave figures on the growth of jibe German and air Goering and Raeder began a heated discussion which was ended by Mili tary police von Papen Shook his head sadly when Justice Jackson described him As one of the men who had made Hitler believe in the indecision and timidity of the democratic by name and by deed Jackson flayed the surviving nazi leaders after accusing them contemptuously of seeking to shift their guilt to the continued on Page s Hobo rescued after clinging to trestle tie for 90 minutes Senate confirms Dunn july 26 a the Senate yesterday confirmed the appointment of James Clement assistant Secretary of As ambassador to july 26 66 year old Knight of the Road who dung to a Railroad tie with one Arm for 90 minutes while two freight trains roared above him was rescued from his Perch 100 feet above the ground under the Nickel plate trestle across the Cuya hoga the rescued Man was William who started across the Bridge and saw a train overtaking him As he was Midway Between the two safety unable to leap across the open space Between the sets of Taylor lowered himself Over the end of the projecting Railroad tie and held on with his right Taylor Clung to the tie while police and firemen yelled encouragingly for him to old on and spread a life net below a towering fire department ladder was raised to the Side of the and a Rescue squad climbed to the trestle and then lowered a Small ladder to Taylor and helped him to red mediator Heads for chinese capital july 26 possibility of the resumption of negotiations to terminate chivas expanding civil strife brightened As Chou the chief communist today seeded Back to the capital from Shanghai at the request of George before leaving Chou Menlai said in an interview that the communists wanted an unconditional truce no time earlier news today was that government troops had penetrated 50 Miles into communist areas North of the Yangtze River in Kangsu province in what the communists called a full scale offensive along a 130mile British to permit germans As guests in army messes july 26 can now be guests in British Baor announced types of messes where this facility is granted were not but newspaper correspondents were told they can give hospitality to germans they wish to provided they have the permission of the press officer in