European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the and stripes March Erp Parley monday to include 16 nations March 13 men of 16 Marshall plan nations win meet monday to set up what May become a permanent economic general staff for non soviet dominated the nations participating Are aus great ice the Switzerland and it probably will be the greatest get together of european foreign ministers since world War All except Iceland and Switzerland Are sending their foreign office aside from the formal conference diplomats Here predicted the opportunities for private hotel room and embassy meetings of foreign ministers May have far reaching effects later in the organization for Sel defense and eco nomic reconstruction of Europe o the soviet Iron formal opening session of the coherence takes place at 3 monday in the historic clock Salon of the French foreign office where the peace treaties with Italy and the minor Axis satellites were signed it was Learned that Ait mondays opening French foreign minister Georges Bidault and Ernest British foreign Sec will propose admission to great France and the Benelux shown in Black have set the stage for Mon Days 16nation Erp conference in Paris by their negotiations for a Western european Union at Brussels this was discussed As a potential Union member and will be represented at the the conference of representatives of the commanders chief of the three Western occupation zones of they probably would be accompanied by German experts from the three but merely in an advisory germans will not be admitted to sit at the conference table French miners strike for higher wages March 13 thousand French miners affiliated with the communist led general labor confederation struck Paris electrical and Gas workers also struck for a half hour at noon yesterday As a first warning in their demands for increased the unrest began Only three Days before the opening of the 16nation conference of Marshall plan More trouble is but not a general strike such As the com tried to Engineer in no vember and unofficial dec staffs Mav lose pm continued from Page 1 Oji chased in dollars and pay the German owners in the official under the plan being in would also operate Jei sponsored commissaries and sell other goods purchased in j it was estimated that the Jena plan would raise the Cost of living for foodstuffs As Jena charges stateside but might lower the Cost of rent below the army an army rented House costing per Here would have a prewar Mark rental of approximately 140 Marks a the 30 cent Mark would make the rental on the same House per there was that Dollar hungry Jena night Peg its Mark costs the present army seducer not prosecuted March 13 siamese police sub lieutenant who kidnapped and raped a school will not be prosecuted the civil service Board he was a police officer at the time the crime was the was dismissed from the Torce after an earlier suggestion his salary be Cut to discourage him from repeating the offence was turned Senate slows vote on Erp continued from Page 1 the Senate Defeated the move led by Robert Taft to slash from the Erp by 56 votes to Taft led a hopeless fight to trim the program to for the first reduction of about 23 per cent from the total the administration regards As the irreducible the Senate vote appeared to re move one of the last major Stum bling blocks in the Way of final Senate approval of the it provided a vote on what Republican revisionists regarded As the Strong est bid to alter the 51months re covery Taft took personal command of the revisionist fight in a lengthy arguing that in Aid before april would be the Republican presidential aspirant bold the Senate he favored giving help to Western european democracies because there is a Chance it will Aid in the Battle against he clashed briefly but sharply with Vandenberg Over the length of the commitment which Congress would face if it passed the Erp Taft obligation european fill their said he recognized no beyond one year if countries failed to Ful crowded gallery this was the first direct clash Between the two Republican Lead ers on the earlier Tom said inhere Taft he wanted to know got the he said the foreign relations committee Sid amount not pull its out of the that it was the result of care Ful screening by the committee and the he said he was willing to admit there were hazards in the program and that it might prove to be a great but with out it Europe might go Down into gloom possibly come under the subjection of totalitarian Twenty four republicans joined 32 democrats in the voting against tafts reduction Twenty three republicans and eight democrats voted for during the Republican chairman styles Bridges of the Senate appropriations sought Assurance from Vandenberg that if the Senate authorized the full tils group would be free to act on it As it would see 30 aboard plane lost on sea hop March 13 Seattle civil aeronautics authority control checking on a North West airlines plane overdue at de reported today it had been informed by the Gulkana Range station a fire had been sighted on 200 Miles East of the Gulkana about 50 Miles West of the said the plane had reported it was Over head at no further radio Contact was made with the four engined Craft carrying 24 passengers and a Crew of six on a charter flight from Northwest airlines officials Here said they had no Crew or passenger but said the 24 passengers were Oil company employees from Texas and California in route to new missing plane landed safely Days ago March 13 american Curtiss plane which was r e p o r t e d to be missing in route from Geneva to landed safely two Days ago at Del Lago in the Arezzo an official of Milan Rescue Center announced this the Pilot of the plane arrived in Rome today and advised the authorities that he and Tine other four members of the Crew were the official zone greets 6friencp train continued Iron Page 1 from the tries to enslave one people after the along with he you the succeed in preserving the West from this sad we have rendered a great service to one Day the entire Wes Tern world will thank the Ameri can other speakers included Francis acting Omagh director Walter Frankfurt mayor and Owen chief of Calog for who acted As master of Armene the representative from the state of made a Short talk in both German and English while Otto Bothne of Joseph Sklower Ralph Bartholomew of and Richard Mckinney of Oregon also Short talks bringing greetings from the people of the Northwest and the 423rd army the Ger Man police band and a chorus of 70 German children took part in the decorated Sterling retiring co of the 18th is shown following a presentation of the French legion of Honor by de la Bre Tesche chief of the French Liaison mis at ceremonies in Frankfurt photo fim truss talks Owen March 22 March 13 prime minister Mauno Pekkala in a radio speech tonight said the finnish delegation will leave for Moscow 20 to negotiate on the proposed treaty of Friendship and Mutual in his 15aninute speech Over the said the negotiations will Start in Moscow March i he Sig inst various re mors circulating in Finland claim ing a part of the finnish people in the last Days have mixed up various arid their activity has done harm to Pekkala said negotiations1with Russia will be carried out in accordance with the finnish Constitution and everything important will be published by the finnish open warfare seen for Zion March 13 the fight for Palestine is develop ing this weekend into Battle of the settlement k six raids in two Days have Cost More than 50 open War fare Between jewish and Arab armies is probably no More than 60 Days preliminary dynamite no and Road which have taken in 3vs Are giving Way More and More to raids by both sides upon the isolated villages of the of these appear to be feeler thrusts to test out defensive they have a More military each Side is trying to Clear its expected lanes of communication and isolate opposition Strong Points in its rear zone of heaviest of the As this new pattern was the Havanah Dawn raid today on the Little Arab Village of As Husena on the Southern tip of Lake Only five Miles from the syrian fifteen arabs were killed and about 20 injured when a group of jews raided the Yemen princes army reported near capital March 13 spokes Man for Prince Abdullah of Yemen today denied reports from Cairo forces of the princes have entered the to oust a rival army trying to seize control of the the rival is accused of murdering the princes the Imam Yehia of who was riddled with bullets last month while driving in the Lana Turner injured in fall March 13 actress Lana Turner is hospitalized today with Back and Arm injuries after a fall on the Herter group t assails policy in Elf March 13 i the Herter committee charged Jyl Ter Day that the is Germany a policy which has come generally discredited but yet fully the said that the Unap result has been chronic Maunu political unrest inimical Longrun democratization objective and a Drain on the tax Jimj As Well As scarce directed by Christian Herter the special hoj foreign Aid committee Laid the ital blame for Iri Ferenti on former attorney general Frani Biddle and former Secretary fort Treasury Henry policy not stated the committee stated in a r to Congress that the Treasury Justice departments were pan mount in the initial formulate of this while it did not Staj what policy it had in committee apparently was refer to the decision made by the la president Roosevelt and wins Churchill to turn Defeated germ into an agricultural t further complicating this is the committee was administration of an essential civilian program by the army that the a cannot be held cause it was prompt in potato this committee flays Argentina for High wheat prices March 13 an518member House of reprise of natives committee accused Tina yesterday of having by indicated a Lack of interest sharing the task of working to Europe economic the Herter which toured Europe last summer in Section with Marshall plan asserted in its report on american aspects of the europeans recovery program that Argentina is bleeding a starving through exorbitant wheat 1 planes aided shelled China March 13 Robert american Pilot of a chinese Airliner fired Pill by two planes bearing russian stars on their said to Daff two Marine planes took to the air tuesday within 30 minutes j attack and flew out about Miles to make certain the Securi of the naval base Tsin Tao was bulls when he was fired his planet was taking refugees from Mukden a in he said at no did his Chennault airline Cora closer than 60 Miles either to Sian occupied Dairen or port Arthurie Buol reported his 42 passengers of them slept through the saying then never did know what heiress to wed March 13 German claimant to the Garrett snuff Fortune in today announced her engagement to american the 23yearold Berlin Secretary said she would Axel Paul of Ongstad is stationed at Tempelhof air Ursula said she would be married in May and then leave for the the engagement announcement was printed As a paid advertisement in today Berlin Ursula told the Berlin newspaper social Democrat that it be double wedding with Friend h i 1 d e b r a n d marrying Ursula first act on arriving the according to the will be to buy a Hor self and the paper said would also try to gain to America for her Ursula is one of to the Fortune left by Henjum Garrett of Philadelphia who Jig died without known survivors she claims Garrett was Cousin of her