European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast f�4inkfu�t--Partty Cloudy Mitmon temperature 27 Munich bloody. Showers 35 Bremen Clondy showers 40 Berlin Cloudy. Sowers Vienna Cloudy to ,38 Rome Naples partly Cloudy Trieste partly Cloudy a Paris Clear foe. 38 Stutt oat Chudy 89. European edition unofficial publication of u. S. Occupation forces in Europe biscuits and water just to see How Little food a Man needs to keep alive 11 gis have been living on biscuits and water in new York. Their health is still Good but not their  on Page 6. Volume 1, number 98 � cents a copy �1.25 a month saturday March 13, 1948 1vi e y e r s guilty an 3 counts from press dispatches Washington March 12 maj. Gen. Bennett e. Meyers retired today was found guilty of inducing his War time financial associate Bleriot Lamarre to lie under oath to a. Senate investigating committee. A Federal court jury of 10 men and two women convicted the sex air Force purchasing officer after deliberating 2 hours " earlier Story on Page 7. To minutes. Meyers under the Subo nation of perjury conviction faces a possible maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment. The jury received the Case after hearing an hour Long charge from Federal judge Alexander Holtzoff. Holtzoff instructed the jury they Knust not draw any unfavourable inference from the defendant s Tei lure to take the witness stand. During the 53-Day trial the former air Force procurement officer did not testify in his own defense or continued on Page 12 study on Russ in t note victim of Vienna incident. Bulletin Lake Success March 12 a the chilean request for a United nations investigation of Russia s role in the communist coup i Czechoslovakia today was placed on the provisional Agenda of the Security Council meeting wednes Day., Lake Success March 12 up Chile today formally called on the nations Security Council to inter so Vene in the czechoslovakian of crisis and take action against rus ii Sia for allegedly supervising the at communist seizure of Power. Of Chile s action would make it necessary for. The Security Council to place the Issue on the docket and conduct debate on recent Evetts in and around a Prague. But Russia could Block any Concrete edtion using its veto Power. It. Chilean Delegate Hernan Santa " continued on Page 12 f i f 1 Gustaf reaches Nice Nice March 12 up King # Gustaf a of Sweden arrived Here today on his annual visit to the 7 French Elviera. The aged Monarch travelled in life private Royal Blue Vitt Tleiji rat sift Ani 2onj Titi to Praet it. Verna m. Corl of Gibsonburg Ohio adjusts the traction device holding the Arm of pfc Jack l. Grunden of the 796th of bn., who was shot in the shoulder by a russian Soldier in Vienna. Sig. Corps yes changes ration period starting today bad nauheim March 12 Spe Cial a new ration card period will be initiated in pcs effective immediately for accommodation and better service yes announced today. According to yes operational bulletin number eight dated March 11, the ration period be ginning tomorrow will end tues Day. This Means ration Coupon number eight is Good tomorrow through tuesday. Ration Coupon number nine be comes Good wednesday. All ration periods thereafter will begin on wednesday and continue through the following tuesday. The change is being made yes said in an attempt to Cut Down line  and customers to make it easier for get at tobacco and other pm ration counters on Satur Day. Gottwald puts red machine in High gear after 2 weeks Bago March 12 a two weeks to the tiny that president Eduard Benes. Swore in his new government and then retired to his Premier Klement Rmer eme Gottwald Nad his political and 4 police machinery in full motion to communist control of parliamentary Rovel Vrtol is program to make8 911-Powertul in Industry Wade and Ive every Farmer 3 More than 100 acres of land the ipremier to veg speedily to form its committees with communists taking powerful roles. The czech co inform organizer Rudolf Slansky was emerging As the floor Leader and communists were chairmen of the important budget and foreign affairs committees. Other committee Organiza Tion went Forward today. Parliament was to recess Tomor Row for the state funeral of Jan Masaryk the foreign minister who plunged to his death from a. Foreign office window in his Czernin Palace continued on Page 12 a yes reports on shooting Vienna March 12 is it. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes u. S. High commissioner in Austria said today he has forwarded an interim report on the shooting of pfc Jack Grun Den by a russian solder to the department of the army. Keyes declared however that the u. S. Military investigation will not be completed until a state ment is obtained from Grunden. Meanwhile col. Bernard f. Hur less Ufa Provost marshal said Hospital officials had asked that no More visitors be permitted to see Grunden now. Keyes said the Case was not brought up at the four Power Allied Council meeting tonight but that last night the to. S. And soviet ver Sions of the incident were presented at a meeting of Vienna s inter Allied commission. Senators press toward Aid vote Washington March 12 a in an air of tension the Senate pressed today toward a vote on the european recovery program. The question is whether it should approve �6,300,000,000 or �4,000, 000,000 for the first year of Aid to european countries holding out against communism. The foreign relations committee recommended the larger figure and sen. Robert Taft a Ohio propose the smaller one. The atmosphere is tense because this Issue is in doubt and because of Secretary of state George c. Marshall s Declara Tion that a great crisis is grip Ping the world. Brussels March 12 a Britain France and the Benelux countries committed themselves today to a 50 year treaty setting up a permanently functioning regional Union unprecedented in the history of  this was the description by a highly qualified source of the draft completed today which will not be made Public before the treaty is signed in Brussels on wednesday by the foreign ministers of Bri Tain France Belgium the four nations search Alps for Airliner from press dispatches Geneva March 12italian, Swiss and French aircraft today joined american air Force planes from at least four us afe bases in Germany in search of a Curtiss commando commercial plane miss ing since yesterday on a flight from  to Rome. Early reports said the plane carried four or five americans but that they presumably were All Crew members since no passengers were listed. The Curtiss com Mando in air Force terms is known As the c46. The owners of the missing plane were not immediately known but the Craft was described As american. X the search today was spread generally Over the area of the great St. Bernard pass but col. Etienne Primault in charge of the air Force Section of the Swiss Federal Mili tary department said there were few indications As to the possible route of the missing Craft since the Pilot did not inform Geneva air port authorities of Llis intended course. No radio Contact has been made with the c46 since it left Geneva at 2 14 p. M. Yesterday. The Pilot was listed Here Only As Gardner an american. The plane was reported to have flown Here from Iceland via Shannon Eire. Five More Safe planes were continued on Page 12 . Zion consulate gets bomb threat Jerusalem March 12 a the . Consulate in Jerusalem was evacuated just after noon to Day when a Telephone warning was received that the building was to be bombed. I police moved in to search the consulate premises which consist of three buildings in the Arab area 300 Yards. From the jewish Agency which was blasted yesterday by a bomb Laden car stole ii the same Day from the american consulate. When no explosives were found police permitted the consulate staff to return to their office a an hour after the evacuation. I Rome honors Coronation Rome March 12 up Rome and the tiny Church state of Vatican City today celebrated the ninth anniversary of theil Coronation of Pope Pius Vii. Whiite and yellow papal flags were flown from Vati can buildings and government and Church buildings throughout Rome. Netherlands and Luxem Bourg. The source said the treaty when ratified by the parliaments will bind its signatories to harmonizing their production european defense standards of living Legal systems and Trade practices. It will set up a european Union open Only to countries in Europe. Any country joining will however have to be accepted by All and will in turn have to accept co ordination with the other members of the Union in matters touching virtually every Field of National activity. A non european country such As the u. S. Wishing to associate itself with the work of the Union would have to Deal with the european Union As a whole. It could not join and have a voice continued on Page 12 Survey team opens office Berlin March 12 is the state department team formed to Survey military government in preparation for the transition from army to civil control was assembled in Berlin  of the team arrived yesterday by air from Paris to join Brig. Gen. Stuart Cutler . Army retired head of the Mission and Robert e. Stufflebeam the team which will Confer with my officials both in Berlin and the . Zone took up offices in Omegus he on the same floor the army Survey team. The teams will work along parallel lines and report to a joint state department army. Depart ment committee. ,. State. Department specialists who arrived yesterday were John Pryer Furman Arthur c. Nagle Coburn b. Kidd Frederic o. Bundy Henryj. Kellerman Hans Speier Stanley r. Goodrich William d. Wright. Reed Harris Alfred Giovetti m. Holli s Kannenberg Forrest Mccluney Robert Klaber Walter h. Fairman Charles e. Hulick jr., David l. Wood Jerome Jacobson Laurence a. Dawson Harry Mckittrick Louis c. Scherer William l. Carpenter and Robert. O. Swain. Ben Hill Brown is scheduled to arrive monday. Red emergency in Chile Santiago March 12 ins the chilean government declared a state of emergency in All areas containing electric Power plants today explaining that communist sabotage made the move Neces sary. The government said investigations showed communists were responsible for recent Power breakdowns