European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                One year ago today super forts blockade japanese two years ago today forces occupy Stillwell c thes european edition unofficial Newi Caprar armed tripes Safe weather forecast Frankfurt Cloudy Munich Berlin Cloudy Bremen Vienna Cloudy volume number 213 Laguardia charges big food thefts 30 20 san 2 try 1 d August 2 tons of the wholesale theft of to Nora goods earmarked for Yugo and Hungary from the port of Trieste with the knowledge and Connivance or collusion of guards were made by Fiorello in Belgrade estimating that millions of Dol Lars Worth of goods had been the Urra chief described the conditions in Trieste As deplorable and and disclosed the text of a Telegram he had sent to the acting commander of the Allied forces Headquarters in it John Lee on july this All the details of hundreds of cases of and Many cases of entire freight car diversions Are now matters of rec available to there is no use fussing around this matter any either the military govern ment can protect these shipments or else it must openly and publicly and officially confess that it Lee invited to Geneva Laguardius message continued by inviting Lee or his absent sir William to meet him and the representatives of member nations of Urra at be i will await your reply in Vienna before taking the matter up with the combined chiefs of he and if i do not get satisfaction i will take it up with the very highest Levels of government meaning the United states and great Laguardia concluded his Telegram by i must have your author Ity to Call upon the receiving governments to furnish armed and by that i mean armed we do not want we need at a Belgrade press conference yesterday the Urra chief estimated the total number of guards required As three officers and 50 armed guards from five officers and 75 armed guards from three officers and 40 armed guards from the yugoslav guards will look after their own shipments and those for it was Learned in Belgrade that at the beginning of this year Allied forces Headquarters had allowed yugoslav armed guards to escort continued on Page 8 two French ports closed 2 admiralty tonight issued a warning to All shipping that the French ports of Dieppe and be report had been closed because of the South Ern railway cancelled its new have Dieppe service As a result of the Dieppe another Allied vehicle fired on in Trieste 2 military police Headquarters Here disclosed today that still another Allied vehicle was fired on by Small arms yesterday on the Trieste Gorizia there were no Headquarters declined to reveal the nationality of the but it was reliably reported to have been a British 88th issued instructions that american vehicles were not to use the Road unveiled mob storms wounds 8 in election riot Xiv House asked to overhaul Justice 2 House military affairs committee today recommended a thorough Over hauling of the army military jus Tice system in a report to the House following a years study which was prompted by a flood of i complaints during world War the report called for elimination of commanding officers control Over general courts martial and provisions for enlisted men to serve on on third of any special or general court would have to be composed of enlisted men from outside the com Mand of the accused or officer preferring the if the accused so other suggestions included that commanding officers be prohibited from putting pressure on courts martial to influence Deci Sions and that instead of first being subject to review by the command ing decisions would go directly to the judge advocate generals the depart ment could consider direct appeals for new the Law members of a court martial and defense and prosecuting attorneys be members of the judge advocate generals department or of Federal or High state the Law member would sum up the Case impartially for both and would not be allowed to vote on the de that new tables of maximum punishments be set up in time of War to differentiate Between offences committed in combat zones and in zones where conditions were More the table would apply equally to officers and that notice of trials be posted and that they be open to military and civilian hungarian mob lynches two Black marketeers 2 mob lynched two Black marketeers in the hungarian Industrial town of mis one was hanged in the main Square and the seriously was dying in a police made six teen Kine and Queen of freckles Little August shows his Pride at being crowned of freckles in the Lith annual contest sponsored by Chi Wrens Art society in new the Queen is winsome Eleanor the that August had 50 freckles per Square Inch Eleanor topped the King with 58 Beauty spots per Square King proposes plan to Aid Small nations Paris 2 minister Mackenzie King of Canada today aged that we big four foreign ministers which hammered Cut the drafts of peace treaties now under consideration m pans sit con currently with the peace conference to decide problems which the con Ference could not King made this proposal in a speech during the afternoon plenary session of the peace conference As a Compromise solution to the present deadlock of or simple majority he suggested that the two thirds insisted upon by could thus be reduced to the simple majority wanted by the smaller american Mother of 2 children commits suicide in Berlin Home 2 her 2yearold played quietly John 31yearold dependent from today shot herself in the head with a German Mauser in an upstairs she died Vivean Dahal hours later in the army 279th station Hospital after an emergency opera Tion to remove the Bullet it was the first suicide of an american dependent in Germany since the first wives and children of United states servicemen and civilians arrived last wife of a civilian employee in military governments office of political arrived with he two children Only seven weeks her 4yearold had left for the newly opened american in Hergarten a few minutes before the hearing the shot from rushed to the bedroom where he found his wife unconscious on the he summoned help and removed his wife to the he was at her Side when she the Burnite German House keeper told the United press she had never heard Burnite and her husband quarrel but said during the past few Days Burnite had been extremely nervous and Melan she left no suicide according to one official Burnite had Only yesterday showed his wife How to operate the Ger Man she had requested him to show her the explaining that she might have occasion to use it in the event burglars or marauders entered the House when she was nations without the need for rus Sia to give up any in Solu if the conference failed to reach an agreement on any problem it could thus be dropped into the big fours Kings speech came after Jan czechoslovak foreign min ister made a dramatic opening of today session by pleading for a permanent peace in language which visibly affected some of the foolish or very naughty people who speak glibly of another said Are doing an immeasurable disservice to their unborn gentle a Long and durable maybe even a permanent Masaryk warned the conference not to impose a peace settlement on Czechoslovakia that would leave that Small country with a minority prob Lem such As the one which precipitated the sudetenland crisis of he said his country was Justi fied in expelling germans to pre vent such a future problem and that Czechoslovakia would not again tolerate yank my 4busted for hitting soviet embassy attache 2 Amer ican military policeman who struck a russian embassy attache at the Rome Airport May 29 was con cited of simple assault by a Specia United states army court after a woday the tribunal ordered the accused Merlin to be reduced from private first class t 1jc1 q to in the rules committee meeting which preceded the plenary session most of the time was taken up de bating whether Poland was to be Al Lowed to sit on the commission to consider the hungarian peace the rules thus far agreed to would permit Only nations at Active War with a former Axis satellite to sit and vote on treaties for that coun try and Poland had not been admitted to the hungarian commission after several hours of heated de during which it was pointed out by opponents to the polish re quest that to Grant the request would Lay the Way open to other like Poland agreed to withdraw her delegates loudly applauded this private to be restricted to his pos for one month and to forfeit 40 o Ais pay for two the maximum penalty he Coul have received for the charge six months factions clash in Tennessee sheriff voting 2 up election which reached the proportions of a Over which faction should count the votes in an election for the coveted Post o ended today when 75 special deputies surrendered to rioting War veterans and their As the special deputies walked from the red Brick two Story they were set upon by the crowd which cursed and kicked at least eight deputies were left in the seriously after sending Volley after Volley of fire and Buckshot against the thick walled jail during the the veterans faction resorted to about half a dozen crude bombs were hurled against the crowd cheers the deputies finally sent word to ease fire so they could hey came out with their hands up and without their saying that hey had run out of the besiegers were supporters of an All sex servicemen which challenged the democratic Organiza Ion whose deputies had taken the ballot boxes into the building or the vote a tremendous cheer went up As the ballot boxes were hauled from the jail and taken off in a truck by members of the the veterans faction in a special announcement asserted that it had no Choice in the riot but to meet fire with the Veteran election officials went to the polls to have a fair election As had been a statement issued by the veterans they were met with blackjacks and several Veteran officials were beaten and the ballot boxes were removed to the the sup porters went to the jail to get these ballot boxes and were met by the statement was signed by James Campaign whose towering figure had been the rally ing Point for the veterans through out the the election feud hinged on the Post of sheriff which in Mcminn county carries a bigger income than that of the Vic president of the United according to poli tical authorities the Post had been controlled for nearly a dozen was i years by the democratic political i headed by Paul germans to avenge execution of 5 Remagen Span defenders by Robert staff writer murder by hitlers order of five unsuccessful defenders of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen will be avenged by germans executed As scapegoats to cover the nazi High commands failure to prevent american forces from Cross ing the Rhine into the heart of five wehrmacht officers will be the silent accusers in the trial now being prepared Here by the greater Hesse minister of German lawyers will argue the unprecedented Case before a Ger Man court and with the min ister of Justice demanding vindication of the Honor of the dead officers and punishment for seniors who unquestioningly obeyed the Dis appointed spite order of in order to cover up his own deficiency and to Load the Burden or responsibility for the fatal mistakes made by the German general head quarters on the of so called said German Deputy in the criminal Section of the Hesse ministry of Justice Hitler ordered a certain number of manifestly innocent officers to be two two captains Ana one lieutenant of a wehrmacht company which was assigned to guard the East approach to the Bridge at re Magen were summarily executed after cursory trial All of them Are believed to be residents of greater northernmost of the occupied