European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and Steps saturday March 10, Marshall says great crisis threatens . Continued from Page 1 Fri reds win the april election. Alten referring to the italian people Marshall said if they choose to Voi a into Power government in. Which the Domi Nant political Force would be a party whose hostility to keep the door wide Opan. F a any general conciliatory moves.". Then he continued 5old and truculent. We Are sincerely anxious to find a sound basis for reaching agree ment which will terminate once and for All the present dangerous Situa Tion. We shall continue to do every thing possible to reach agreement. But until such time As. A. Real settlement can be reached How. Ever it must be our policy to Dis courage and to oppose further encroachment of the rights and lives of free peoples.". Toward the close of the speech he reiterated that America is Deal ing with a situation As grave As an that has Ever confronted the Marshall recalled the communist Voves that organized the satellite states took Power in Hungary and fomented strikes in. France and Italy. He said the recent Assi option of communist control in Czechoslovakia was both bold and truculent. In p r o d u r a quit evidently staged to impress the people of Finland and the reminder of the free states of West Era then he added it should now be Clear the procedure is in accordance with the Frank declaration / of the soviet government and communist parties to every Way pos sible the development of the european recovery program. In View of All tha has already been said and the statement by the president on wednesday before the joint session of the Congress i am Uncertain a to what i might add to convince the american people a at this is a worldwide struggle Between Freedom and tyranny be tween the self Rule of the Many As opposed to the dictatorship of a ruthless few. It should Nowlie perfectly Clear that Rule based on. Threats and lore instead of on. Reason and Ustine must not be allowed to spread further Uncle Cfred British red editor uits communists continued from Page 1. Been associated with British communists for 20 years said i have since the end of the War been increasingly disturbed by rus Sia s foreign policy and appalled by what happened in Czechoslovakia. It is an indication of what May by expected in. Italy and France even Britain. I believe the new line of the communist party introduced after the formation of the comin warm to fight the Mai shall plan would if successful bring nothing but misery to the common people of a. V. Unruffled q a s. To oust former spy Washington March 19 a the Justice department announced today that Grace Buchanan Dineen who was convicted of wartime espionage for the nazis has been released from prison and. Will be John l. Lewis strolls in Vash in ton unperturbed by threats of court action to halt the nation s bituminous Coal strike. Acme jobless mount in Coal crisis continued from Page dictations that John l. Lewis and his United mine workers would get together with Coal operators on the umps demand for $100-a-month pensions for aged miners Industry in general awaited a possible invocation of the Taft Hartley. Act. Railroads have been ordered by the office of defense transportation to curtail passenger traffic by 25 per cent where Coal burning used. ,. In Chicago millions of pounds of meat in strike bound packing houses throughout the nation were threat ened with spoilage As the striking Cio Union announced it would Call out refrigeration workers if the packers try to resume operations. Company rejects offer by atom Plant workers Washington March 19 up a spokesman for the Carbide & Carbon chemicals1- corp. Said late today it would be impossible to maintain present working Condi editions at the Oak Ridge atomic laboratories unless a Federal court injunction is issued. " Silas j Pickering company vice president flatly rejected an offer by the Al atomic trades and labor Council to Call off their threatened strike without an in Junction if the. Company agreed to maintain present working conditions for 60 to 80 Days ?47 hero recounts soviet by Joe Fleming staff correspondent Berlin March 19 is a sgt. Ray l. Dudley Crew chief of the crippled c47 whose occupants parachuted into Berlin esterday was credited. Today with making their escape possible. When the order to abandon the Nurnberg bound transport plane was Given. Dudley frantically searched for an emergency exit found none and then battled a raging wind tit open the plane s door. Although Jie dislocated his right shoulder in the struggle the 29 year old Soldier thrust a i m be h against the door and managed to Force it open a few inches. Despite his pain he braced himself against the door s sides and attempted to pass out passengers under his opened legs. Kicked them out when that did t work he said today at the 279th Sta. Hosp., i reached behind me grabbed their stuck them into the opening and kicked them along with Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Nii Triberg s chief. Of War crimes counsel and seven other americans including three women Dudley baled out of the plane when engine trouble developed soon after it took off Fram Tempelhof air Field the plane then was landed i tic. Out mishap by its Pilot and co Pilot if there was an emergency ex.11 on that plane i could t find it Dudley said. I even pulled some of the upholstery out looking for it a door is a Good / right Arm crippled on abandoning the plane Dudley had to pull his ripcord with is left hand because his right Arm was crippled. Dudley landed on the roof of a eight Story building in the. Soviet sector of Berlin and was taken to a German Hospital by. A whole of police after his shoulder was set he removed to 4 russian Headquarters by two German policemen and Tyro soviet soldiers. They asked me. A lot of foolish questions for an hour and a half he said. I Dudley said he could not remember All the questions he had bean asked because he was groggy from Ether at the time. Askell who was aboard however among other things his interrogators a russian officer and a bearded civilian wanted to know Why the plane had been flying in such bad weather who was aboard the highest ranking officer aboard and the Type of plane. Dudley is married and v has two children. He comes from san Franr Cisco and has been in the army nine and a half years. He is As signed to Rhine main s 15th troop Carrier so. B five others who baled out yester Day also were Jin the Hospital. Che ship s radio operator still was a a critical condition according to col. Frank t. Chamberlain Hospital commander report accidents Huebner Frankfurt March 19 is a Gen. Cd a enc a. Huebner Deputy dec com commander today pointed out that it is the civic duty of All Neucom Drivers acid pedestrians to report violations of traffic ordinances and failures to observe Safe driving precautions and that Jit is mandatory that to. S. Army commissioned and non commissioned officers do "".-. I Huebner s statement was issued in support of the current no Accident Campaign. He stated that the army regulation which requires immediate corrective action when a breach of military Law is observed applies equally to traffic violations. It com officials said Many violations of traffic regulations g unreported simply because no Law enforcement representative t is present at the time. Drivers guilty o violations in the absence of military police a i a be considerably deterred by the Knowledg that any witness is liable them As a simple act of duty officials said reappointed to take Post of Masaryk Prague March 19 up Vladimir Dementis today was appointed foreign minister to succeed Jan Masaryk. The official announcement said slovak communist Dementis 45, acting minister since Masaryk s death March 10. Will also con Prague March 19 up the Prague Post office informed the to. S. Embassy today that thurs Day s v. S. Information service bulletin carrying the full text of president Truman s speech had been confiscated. Tine la hold the position of Secretary of state in the foreign ministry equivalent to Deputy minister which he has held since the end of the in internment Camps the official news Agency mean while quoting the. Bratislava communist newspaper pravda reported that four top slovak democratic party leaders who jihad left Batis lava for Prague a week ago had not been heard from since and were believed to have fled the country. The. New. Foreign minister has seen the inside of both French and British internment Camps in the course of his career. Lost cow gets i \ ----.-. A Lily s Goat. Page 1 cow. Cows Are supposed to be part of the German Economy and May not be owned by americans Here even As pets. It. Col. H. H. Wishart of he. Cd. Ordnance Section would also like to find Johnson. Wishart s phone number is 8264. It s been a terrible Day wis Hart said. Col. William c. Mali Ney he. Cd. G2 and g3, said i am not looking for the Johnson fellow or for the cow but i am afraid the Soldier is in trouble whether he did this As a gag or not. If he has to a cow he s in trouble for a bad practical joke. If he lost the cow Ahe will have to explain How he got Van Seaboard cargo airlines plan Ning today to ship a pet Monkey to the u. S. From Rhine main Airport said no one. Had applied to ship a pet cow i headline Roundup draft ? by tru Mati leads new Midwest tornadoes kill 9, injure 200 St. Louis March 19 nation today consists of two i ing divisions30,000 combat toss in the u. S. If the russian an chose to Advance across germs . Forces in the occupied it would hot be Able to Stop the the army from a Peak of 9,009 v Dur Irig the War had dwindled 560,000 men almost half of wifi were on occupation duty president Truman s request a new draft came on the Heel an announcement from mos s that the russian army was Tel a reduced to the classes of its 21 and 22-year-Oldsbut both army and the state depart Abi were Quick to Point out that a russian army would still Vas f outnumber the american forces _ Congress presses for Speed Congress meanwhile was of sing full Speed on the Mars k plan legislation. The Senate Pas " the administration proposal j 55,300,000.000 to finance Terpone year. The usual easter Holly 5� was cancelled by the House Norse � Complete work on Erp before a in Paris the 3s % cooperating tons in Erp voted to accepts f Gates from Anglo american Zonia and the French zone Olgi to help in the work of integral Europe s Economy. A /. A the state department in 01$ two u. S. Pronouncements on,1 is subject told the italian people a if they foil under domination communist re Genii All financial of to Italy including Erp would Cut off. The Justice department prospective italian those who join the Chi Munir " will never be admitted to to
