European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes Page 7 at merges with Navy air transport Iii March 1 the new military air transport merging facilities of the air transport command fed the naval air transport was born it was one of the first real evidences of unification of the armed defense Secretary James for Restal ordered the consolidation to eliminate duplication of Laurence air is first commander of the the first move toward merger came when nats personnel and activities moved into the inter National terminal at the National Airport the building was at consolidation will take place Kuter until a is both at and nats will continue to operate flights in and out of the service eventually will operate substantially All scheduled transport required by the armed forces and a Large part of the nonscheduled Truman urges red Cross Aid key March 1 ident Truman asked the american people last to give wholehearted support to the red Cross drive to raise the Campaign opens today and runs through the speaking from the submarine base where he is vacation the president said in a radio Jid dress in this great cause of trauers not How we May differ on press ing issues of the beneath the Flag of the red Cross we Are a United Truman said average of one person in every family in the United states now holds a join for or senior red Cross such wide spread acceptance by the people tells its own Truman attends services key March 1 president Truman attended divine services sunday at the Little Chapel on the submarine base where he is chaplain Paul like the a made no reference to Truman presence in a Sermon in which he said christianity is the Only Hope of a disillusioned gives birth to 2nd leap year baby March 1 Stephanie Kosinski Sematoske gave birth to her leap year Day baby the a was named Raymond four years ago a was bom to Sematoske and her they have two older in nearby twin leap year Day girls were born to and Lee the Sidtis other was born new Marthur cites gop As party of democracy March 1 up Douglas Macarthur has called the Republican party the Champion of personal Freedom and individual responsibility and said it has never departed from the theory that All political Power resides in the the supreme Allied commander in Japan made the statement in a letter to the Republican National congratulating it on opening a drive to set up Young Republican clubs on the nations Macarthur supporters Here immediately hailed the statement As further supporting their belief that the general is interested in the Republican presidential Nomina Calls it masterpiece Miller an original Mac Arthurf presi Dent called the a masterpiece in typical Macarthur he said it would dispel any doubts As to whether the general is a Republican and declared he was certain Macarthur would accept the nomination if offered to thus far Macarthur has not made and direct Landenberg quits trying to withdraw from primary March 1 associates said Here that Arthur Vandenberg has quit to keep his name off april 13 Nebraska presidential Vanden Toerge decision was re ported to have Bee based on Friendly advice that court action probably would be necessary to prevent listing of his de spite his repeated assertions that he is not a the senator was said to have decided not to resort to court action to prove Wien thin ice Cost 50 cattle slim Jim Gavin leaving 82nd All served 5 years with wartime jumpers March 1 up James Slimjim the major general who jumped with the first wave of his paratroopers into four of Europe hottest will soon move into a staff leaving his 82nd a after More than five the 82nd will hold a final review March 12 for the Only Man in the still commanding a division with which he served throughout the the army wants its career officers to have staff As Well As com Mand so a few Days after the review Gavin will hand his division Over to Clovis former chief of staff of the 8th army in the far who is arriving Here goes to 5th army Gavin will become chief of staff of the 5th army in the parting will be hard for the scattering of old con Bat veterans still in held respect for Gavin because he was always the first Man out of his plane in a combat they saw him at the front when the going was packing a Rifle and As Muddy and unshaven As the next Gavin went to Parachute school in 1941 when the army first began plummeting infantrymen out of he brought the 505th James Gavin con make it with the to the 82nd a soon after the division sprouted wings in january Gavin jumped with his regiment to spearhead the  on first american leap in he led his paratroopers from their planes Over Salerno to reinforce the Gavin became a brigadier Gen and assistant division com and led his paratroopers Down the German lines m Normandy six hours before in Vasion barges smacked into the general to head 5th army staff the division liberated town of Mere eglise in those six hours and won the French Gavin took command of the division after Normandy and jumped with it in the invasion of he led the 82nd through the bitter campaigns in the Central Europe and the Battle of the he became a major general in october 1944 at one of the youngest division commanders in the after be Gavin was the american representative on the Allied Koma Datura of claimed most decorations the 82nd left Berlin in october claiming to be the most decorated division in the it held the French and belgian fou Prageres and the highest dutch the order of most of its units won the presidential the 82nd came Back to new York to represent All army ground Force units in the Victory Parade Down fifth commanding said Parade would ride at the head of his the snorted we walked All Over this damned world he i i can make it with the he Forrestal gets  March 1 Donald Vic president of Remington arms was named yesterday As Deputy to Secretary of defense James Forrestal in atomic Energy Forrestal also announced appoint ment of Kenneth Nichols As successor to Leslie Groves As head of the armed forces special weapons a separate army statement said that army Secretary Kenneth Royall is recommending Nichols promo Tion to the temporary rank of major wartime assistant to Groves when he headed the atomic bomb also succeeds him As a Jiember of the military Liaison committee of the atomic Energy Groves recently announced his retirement effective Carpenter becomes the new chair i of the military Liaison com Carpenter has been serving on the Industry advisory committee to the atomic Nichols now is on duty at West sitting on a Frozen Colorado cattle contemplates the loss of 50 head of cattle by drowning the Emile walked out of a barn and wandered across the ice broke under them and they were guard at nears june goal March 1 the National guard disclosed yesterday that on 15 it was Only men Short of its june 1948 goal of it said its strength stood at in some More than on the Force is now larger than at any time in the prewar period except june when it jumped to Congress provided for a National guard of by june with about men in some army units and in 384 air husband decision in divorce Case March 1 heiress Gio Ici Gould Grimditch and her William Grimditch were awaiting decision today in their sensational divorce and child custody judge Mercer who heard the proceedings in Superior court said following summations last Friday that he would deliver the decision sometime next Gioia had filed the divorce with her 24yearold husband countering with a both sought custody of their two diary played role the divorce action had been spiced by the intimate of the Young the clothbound diary had been entered in evidence by grim ditch to support his Cross com in his accused his wife of misconduct with several men in the diary told the Day today Story of a year in the life of the then descendant of the one of the nations greatest monies on the witness stand Gioia asserted some of the passages which her husband charged told of infidelities merely were innocent in Taft predicts Wallace vote March 1 Robert presidential predicted in a speech last night that Henry Wallace May take As much As 10 per cent of the democratic vote next townspeople give Home to blinded War Veteran fort March 1 Glen 32yearold Veteran who was blinded by an exploding land mine in has a new Home the if t of friends in this Western Pennsylvania com the six room especially equipped for Mohrs was presented to him yesterday at a ceremony while his wife and two and 18 looked the built at a Cost of was constructed with Money raised in a drive conducted by the fort City veterans of foreign Wais strike looms in Wall Street new March 1 David president of the United financial employees Union declared that a general Wall Street the first in to appears Aruj May be called sometime this Keefe said the unions contract with the new York curb and Stock exchanges and member firms expire tonight at and that current negotiations Are stale negotiations wit ii the exchanges remain absolutely and i appears they do not want a con Keefe he made his announcement shortly after the Union reached an agree ment with the new York Cotton which employs about 100 Ufeu the Union Leader said although Only Union members Are employed b the two Stock any strike Call would have Elm played in members walk out offers conciliation in Plant labor dispute March 1 the government has labor dispute at the Oak Ridge atomic Plant to try to prevent a possible work stoppage conciliation director Cyrus Ching asked representatives of the Plani and the Union to meet in Washington you Arft doubtless aware that any Cessa Tion of operations May have Gravo National at Issue is a collective bargaining affecting about the present contract expired at Midnight last Esquire wins Varga girl March 1 Varga girls creator is bound by a contract with Esquire Maga the circuit court of appeals decided upsetting a Federal District judges the appeals court ruled against Al 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