European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes Page 7 Senate group seeks data to justify draft March 20 be Senate armed services com Mittee moved yesterday to pry Loose any secret information Secre tory of state George Marshall and defense Secretary James Forrest so May have to justify a revival of Che wartime 1 the Oom Mattear decided in sex session to recall the two Cabinet officers next prob ably for a secret hearing which they will be asked to elaborate on testimony they gave thais week in support of the draft Universal military glittering generalities chairman Chan Gurney declined to say what information was but other  members made it Plain they were dissatisfied with the reasons pres ident marshal land for Restal have Given for demanding an immediate Milhart preparedness heard too Many glittering one och Mittleman fundamental change two committee members radiated group wanted mainly to know what new foreign policy develop ments had it to warrant drafting Young men into the armed forces they said they had been told nothing to indicate a fundamental i Bange in the International Situa Tion which would raise the imminent threat of wed vote for it the draft in a minute if we thought War has one senator another regarded selective serv ice As m War measure and won dered Why the president and his aids linked it with Universal informal polls of both the Senate and House armed service committees indicated a Clear Cut najor Hyford some form of selective serv but the Senate seamed Bent on getting a closer look at the administrations facts before Senate committee report to seek Industry War plan March 20 sen Owen chairman of the War investigation said yesterday his committee will release a report within 10 Days calling for Industrial mobilization for to go into of feet at any time Congress May i want to the pro visions on the statutes so that Industrial to Bili Patlon will not be As far behind As it was at the opening of the last Brewster tornadoes in 9 states kill injure 300 j finds brother Santa March 20 former War Secretary and ambassador to said he will have to Post Pone temporarily a reunion with his Lon lost the William Patrick 65yearold ranch disclosed his identity last the Hurley family had believed he was killed in a mexican revolution 40 years v Hurley said he could not come to California until next week or possibly not until the Middle of new look set for of b29s March 20 the air Force announced yesterday the flight Hanger and an adjacent building at the Plant of Boeing aircraft will be reopened for modernization this reversed a statement by the of thursday that no new activity is planned at the Wichita a spokesman said there was a he said the plan to reopen the flight Hanger still is in the Girie ering Boeing has advertised for some but no factory workers Are required the main withdrawn from surplus last is still in a standby the spokesman said it has never been he said operation of the flight Banger will be a he could not estimate How Many persons would be employed and declined to discuss How Many b29s would be 6 die in Gas explosion at Centra Lia tavern from press dispatches March persons were known to be dead today and authorities feared 10 trapped in dead in the series of explosions that wrecked a tavern Twenty three persons injured in the blast thursday night which wrecked the two Story building housing the Pool Hall and two upstairs the explosion was believed to have been caused by a Gas accu1 mutation while the tavern was crowded with neighbourhood res who had gathered to listen to a broadcast of the state High school basketball some of those who stood Vigil about the demolished building As fireman worked to free those trapped in the fire that followed the had also waited for Simi Lar news in the mine explosion Here that killed 111 miners March f Bishop lifts Iron Cirtain new March 20 the methodist Bishop of 11 european countries said yesterday All religions operate on an equal foot ing in the four nations behind the Iron Bishop Paul Neff whose Headquarters Are in said a news conference the four were Yugoslavia and in these he he was advised the methodist Church was free to carry on its work and the governments regarded All the As another nation in the russian Shef e of has had Normal religious life in the the Bishop asked if he believed this would he said i think who has been in Europe Jack Benny gets pm Florence Hubbard gives comedian Jack Benny appreciative a Well fihe Hubbard won Worth of prizes after answered correctly the question put by a radio Qulex b the Man Benny was walking Man and he 1 with Hubbard As appeared in his show to Philly explosions drive thousands from March 20 four persons were overcome and thousands were driven their Homes in a series of Gas which a 16squareblock South Philadelphia area dozens of residents of the area were made ill by illuminating Gas fumes from a main windows were shattered and business establishments More than 200 firemen and Philadelphia Gas works employees rushed to the thickly pop plated area to help evacuate res affected District was left without Gas pressure blamed in blast of Little Inch pipeline March 20 up engineers yesterday blamed too much pressure or a fully pipe for an explosion in the Little Inch natural Gas pipeline which blasted a huge Hole in the ground and burned out a 15aore area near Here last three Homes were destroyed by the but state police said no one was injured in the the Hole left by the was big enough to hold two police r v three was former Dean of Senate vetoes proposal Novi Strtt the divinity school at Duke n he came to this coun try to attend the quadrennial con Ference of the methodist Church at Boston next City to probe Case of hotel squatter new March 20 Eugi Richard Earl who moved his family from a tenement into a room at the Waldo Fastoria in protest against the housing has promised action by the yes after he talked with Cox won Promise from the City housing to investigate his Cox has said he will pay the Waldorf what he can afford from his net and will Send a Bill for the balance to the showed Cox applied for space in a veterans housing project two years but his Case failed to come up before the settlement was waiters at the Wal Dorf have agreed to serve break fast free to his and their two children every morning during the waiters will pay for the meals Nimitz Babysitter Job has twins san March a Chester Nimitz duties Here As baby Sitter were on the James gave birth to twin the naval Nimitz has been the lays offi Cial baby Sitter for another 20 months since his retirement last for excess profit tax March 20 the yesterday voted Down a proposal to tax execs profits of  vote was 58 to 28 against Joseph Omahoney made the proposal in the form of an amendment to the re publican sponsored Bill to per Sonal income taxes president Truman recommended an excess profits tax to Congress in homeless two towns in ruin from press dispatches March 20 death toll mounted to More than 52 in the series and gales which whipped across 8 states More than were thousands were homeless and millions of dollars Worth of property was at least two Osterburg and Bunker where were were wiped states affected in the storms which started were Kan in Pennsyl new Oklahoma and Relief supplies were being rushed to stricken areas and the red Cross allotted to Aid victims in Indiana and hardest hit was southwestern Illinois near Louis where 41 were reported storms to vanish the weather Bureau in which reported that Canada had also had Gale like said the storms would prob ably vanish the storm Crest formed thursday night in Texas and moved schools and churches fell before Tor communications were erupted in Many in Bunker about 80 per cent of the town was the death toll was in a Village of 13 were killed and four buildings left residents of Bunker Hill said the Tornado was a Gray Cloua that came bouncing along the Earth toward making a terrific whistling noise it a blinding to driven by winds up to 65 struck the Detroit and killing one five year old boy and in tired several other City asks air sirens Back san March 20 up a Resolution asking for reactivation of san Francisco civilian de sense corps replacement of wartime air raid sirens has been sent to mayor Elmer spinsters quizzed on deaths in horror nursing Home March 20 police today were investigating 16 acknowledged deaths in nursing Homes operated since by two spinster Marie Ani Josephine were held in default of bail on charges of inhuman treatment of a juvenile and false officers found Edna an emaciated 27yearold John arid Mary All identified As occupants of the three room House a few feet from the Pacific shored officer Charles of the los Angeles police juvenile re ported miss Clavey Hal told him of the 16 All of which she said were from natural he quoted her the deaths were j reported to doctors who signed death certify but i dont remember their or the names of the unwed mothers who brought the children authorities said the Wayne boy was one of the worst Case of Mal nutrition they had Ever miss who apparently has been in the of the two women since she was a few has a shrunken body and the mind of a Mary described by miss Vella As the Best of the appeared to be a Good in anticipation of their a the two women returned her to relatives in Santa the expose of the Beach cottage prison began when the stunted Wayne boy was found shivering on a Curbstone Early one he told police he had escaped from a House where he had been held prisoner All his he said he was tied to his bed at night and garbage and scraps of j his Story led to an investigation of inside police found four one love two four 21 two a a careful of Guinea in a Steamer the feeble minded Dinsmore