European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August the stars and stripes Page Arab delegates seek Popes intervention in Palestine controversy pay penalty for massacres a crowd of witnessed the execution at Danzig of eleven War convicted of taking part in the murder of More than jews at concentration Camps and crematories during the War at seven men and four women went to the Vatican 3 Pius this morning received a five Man Arab delegation which came Here 10 Days ago to seek papal intervention for a settlement of the jew Sharab controversy m in the course of a half hour the pontiff gave the head of the Amin by a typescript presumed to contain an expression of the Popes opinion on the Palestine it was expected to be made Public later the delegation called a news con Ference for later at which the text of the Popes pronounce ment was expected to be in an earlier the vice chief of the Joseph say said it was asking papal intercession to protect the safety of the holy India moves troops near Iran Border French clerks defy Union As strikes spread 3 Wildcat Telephone and Telegraph strike spread to 40 of Frances 89 and threatened to be come general despite the postal employees unions urgent appeals for discipline and return to defying top Union leaders the strikers have organized a countrywide strike committee which has demanded the general postal there were no mail deliveries in Paris today and seven Telephone exchanges Are paralysed in the capital proper As Well As a majority of the suburbs International phone and teletype communications still were thus presently not seriously inconveniencing the peace conference except for slight difficulties in getting through to some parts of the help rushed to food ship destroyer Perry raced toward the crippled and Crew less american food ship american Farmer today in the Wake of two tugs dispatched the Fleet destroyer left Plymouth Early this naval authorities and was expected to reach the american Farmer some 700 Miles West of the Southern coast of eng land Early tomorrow two powerful tugs had set out toward the which was located in the Atlantic by a Royal air Force bomber making a patrol flight damaged in collision it was feared at one tune that the which is carrying tons of processed lard and other food for great had sunk after a collision with a sister the William bound for Crew and passengers of the Amer ican Mariner were first transferred loathe Riddle and later to the Ben Jamin a Liberty ship bound for new the United states owner of the damaged Patricia Mountbatten to wed Young British officer 3 and lady Louis Mountbatten announced the engagement of their eldest the Patridis month third Cousin of Princess to Young lord a lieutenant in the famous cold Stream the who spent the Early years of the War in the United states and later served four years in the women Royal naval is lord Bijj the son of a former governor of Bombay and red officers charge yanks treated them like criminals9 Berlin 3 red army officers recently held More than a month by american authorities for suspected espionage charged today Thev were treated like one claimed the americans tried to Force him to betray his Home land and adopt United states in the first official soviet report on the arrested red army German language red army news paper Taeg Liche Mundschau published a Long interview with Schulkin and their Kus a red army enlisted they were arrested by american counterintelligence agents in Berlin june 14 and released to the russians july 17 at the zonal Border town of Hof in northeastern their interview was believed to be a reply to statements recently made to the american press by four Amer two of whom were held for 15 Days by the russians and the other two for 26 the red army paper claimed that while the three soviet soldiers were being held by the the russian commandant in Alexander repeatedly had asked the american Frank whether they were in Keating answered that the american military authorities did not arrest the russian Taeg Liche Mundschau this same answer Keating gave Kotikov to repeated similar this is the Story the two russian officers told the official soviet news Bureau on june 14 we drove from pots dam to in route we suddenly were raided by eight american policemen equipped with machine we were forced to keep our bands up and under guard we were brought into wan see prison in the american occupied Here we were locked into a cellar and forced to i completely we stood 20 minutes until our personal clothes were our officers watches and other personal belong Ings were taken away from the following Day both of us and our Driver were brought to Frankfurt by plane where we immediately were put into this prison we remained for 34 during this time we were treated like we also were questioned about details concerning the red the americans at tempted in questioning Schulkin to Force him to betray his fatherland and Force him to adopt american germans Hunt f Star athlete 3 German political leaders close to the russian military administration have requested the soviets to investigate the strange Case of German track Star Rudolf it was Learned k Holder of world records for 800 and was re ported killed in action in August 1944 on the Eastern front where he was serving As a sergeant in the but last june reports circulated that he had written to a Friend in the Rhineland from a russian Pris Nero War according to these Harbig said he was in Good physical was already training in track and hoped to return to Germany wife receives no word although several German news papers carried the they were never confirmed and were largely discounted since harbits who lives in had received no word from her All of harbits requests to the red Cross in mos cow and Mannheim for an investigation of the Case have brought no czechs mete life sentence to nazi appointed Premier 3 National court sentenced Jaroslav Ger Man appointed Premier of Czecho Slovakia while the country was under German to life in a life term also was imposed on Adolf minister of agriculture in the protectorate government commissary users to increase 150 per cent increase before the Middle of this month in the number of families using the 19 commissaries under the 3rd army is anticipated by pm officers by it is expected that families will be reunited in the 3rd army Many leading German sports figures believe Harbig actually is reports and rumours about one of Germany greatest Al time ath letes Are expected to circulate until 1012 believed killed in Haifa Harbor explosion 3 thirty two survivors of the ton British Oil Tanker Empire Cross were picked up Early today after the vessel burned and Sank off Haifa authorities said it was now believed that Only 10 or 12 members of the Crew lost their earlier reports indicated All had a later Check showed that the ships Crew numbered 50 men and that six of them were ashore atthe time of the authorities said it was believed Many of the casualties were British the Captain of the Empire Cross was the Empire Cross was reported to have been unloading a cargo of aviation fuel when the explosion 4cow flies gis Back to states the stars and stripes Bureau gis were Fly ing Back to the United states in a air plane usually reserved for Kings and ranking the president Truman s personal the sacred brought Secretary of state James Byrnes to the Paris peace con Ference a few Days during the War it carried president Roosevelt to the historic Teheran conference and president Truman to the pots dam the soldiers of Chester utrecht of of c Charles Chupasko of and pvt Walter Fisher of won their seats on the presidents ship when Henry of the informed head quarters of the european division of the air transport command that there would be four available a some official announcement from the comes China drug addicts blamed on japanese 3 Jap anese government promoted the opium habit in Large chinese cities so successfully that one put of every eight in the banking area was an addict witnesses the japanese War crimes trial testified Searles who lived in banking when the chinese capital was under japanese Domi said the japanese induced the drug habit among unsuspecting chinese by employing paddlers who sold the narcotics As the japanese government Fol Lowed a policy of encouraging the drug habit among chinese so that left Wing Cabinet formed in Belgium 3 socialist burgomaster of of succeeded today in form ing a left Wing coalition govern after a political crisis which had lasted 24 the new Cabinet includes prime Camille social foreign Paul Henry Albert August Public Alber Herman Jean non Rene Public Jean Bor economic of Henri Leone lie Trollet resistance would be to japanese he aggression the japanese he used opium As currency to pay prostitutes and military Bates said the japanese con trolled banking government sold ounces of opium a Day for a total Revenue of banking dollars a Sale of heroin yielded banking dollars a russian criminal courts hear bribe cases 3 criminal courts Are hearing several cases of alleged graft and Moscow radio in one an official of the ministry of communications is alleged to have Given a bribe for an Exten Sion of a permit for House some cases concern bribes alleged to have been extorted for travel per mits and tickets for railway and steamship new 3 government of India last night announced that troops Are being sent from India to Basra to protect British the announcement said that the move was being made in order that they May be at hand for the protect should circumstances demand of British and Arab lives and in order to safeguard Indian and British interests in South per there Are Many hundreds of indians employed in oilfields and refineries in South and India depends largely on this source for her vital supplies of the press communique troops left in March under an agreement Between Britain and the United All British troops were withdrawn from Iran last March United states troops had left some time because russian troops remained in Iran after the the Azerbaijan Case caused a juror in the United nations Security in London the India office said the announced troop movement is of no question of troops going into Persia arises and the India office had hoped that a statement to this effect would have been included in the official com reds ask allies to annul Law 3 a special session yesterday the russians asked the Allied Council to annul an aus Trian Law nationalizing including some the soviets claim for their the British and american author declined to act Pend ing further the called by the rus was the first special session the Allied Council has Ever no communique was but it was known that the russians con tended that the action of the aus Trian parliament a week in the face of soviet directives against was illegal under the new control without waiting for the Bill to come before the Council for at which time it would be annulled by a unanimous the russian Kurra Sov asked that it be ruled out in discussions lasted All and at the end it could Only be agreed to carry consideration of the soviet demand Over to the next regular Council fixed for tickets for music festival in Salzburg now available special to the stars and stripes american personnel stationed in Germany May secure tickets to the Salzburg music festival by Berchtesgaden military it was announced at the Berchtesgaden recreation the quota for the in Germany varies from 20 to 55 tickets per Day with the prices ranging from 4 to 40 reservations made by phone must be confirmed the following Day and tickets will be held until 5 the Day of the billeting arrangements must be made by calling Berchtesgaden recreation area billeting office at least 72 hours in the phone number is Berchtesgaden military