European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes Page 7 a i s e storm toll o 53 dead m March 22 hit the midwestern states is yesterday and a storm lashed the As the three Day toll of Doweather deaths across the nation to 141tftrte Mississippi River and some of fee alas tributaries surged Over the Jow and into some towns in Iowa also plagued sections of h Nebraska and wis rain sweeps Oklahoma ground crashed unit asks Oklahoma was swept on night by Hail and which injured five persons caused estimated damage dollars to several an air Force installation at i Junker 1 by new Rains the Mississippi to feet above the flood at Iowa and workers began erecting sandbag barricades protect Industrial plants along Iii he  Waters of the Des Moines washed into the Lowland Sec off Iowa and 20 were evacuated from their by volunteers with horse court Mother of 5 i in roomers death Nova March 22 Kathleen on itral for a slaying which had been admitted by her 13yearold son was acquitted last night by a supreme court 34yearold wid owed Mother of five was with murdering Philip f Douglas a Roomer in her h Shiers was killed in Decem her by a Shotgun blast in the a preliminary hearing 3 Saccary Testi he fired the fatal the who was said Shiers Ras advancing on his Mother with automobile raised we his head in threatening i was Mother Ould be Johnny store profits 21 last year jew March 22 rations department stores made 21 cent less in net profits last than they did in the con leers Congress of the National dry goods association an of juiced tie shows that stores 1947 did a business spared with the a before and made a net profit of per cent of their in compared per cent f Ither trends noted people Are ing fewer purchases but Are ing bigger things when they do the sales volume last year 4 per cent greater than in file fact that the number of i actions fell to 95 per cent of t March 22 every airline Pilot surviving a major Accident should be grounded for a an air safety report from Capitol Hill said the released by the Avia Tion subcommittee of the Senate Commerce was prepared by Carl it cited findings of Horn the air Force medical Branch that pilots who had just an Accident were nearly Iten times Likely to have another Accident in the Days that to follow than were Accident free the report then added All pilots Whol have had major accede its should have their certificates can celeb automatically and should be reinstated after approximately one and then Only after a thorough the grounding recommendation was challenged by d a i d president of the Al air line pilots As ridiculous in the Behncke said our experience has been that the conclusion an Accident makes a Pilot Likely to have another Accident just int our pilots will fight that one i year grounding recommendation with every Power at their among other the sub committee told the civil aeronautics Board to make its regulations easier to the re port also accused the cab of turn ing from its More important functions by concerning itself largely with the problems or routes an More time and it said should be invested in studying the problems of air safety which in the final is one of the chief concerns of the travelling How America welcomes an exiled King former King Michael of shown left with Queen Mother faces a Battery of reel cameras and microphones on the deck of the Queen Elizabeth in new York the exiled King said he sees no Means of ridding his country of communism Short of gis destroy flaming Cross March 22 angry soldiers last night destroyed a crude flaming Cross fashioned in the shape of a Kun flux klan police the Cross was so poorly1 put that police attributed it to the prank of boys rather than the work of they said that when the living in a nearby converted bar rushed out to the burning a Mere push of a foot was sufficient to topple the two planks to the a police officer said he under stood that when the klan burned a they wrapped the planks in Burlap and soaked them in he added there was no friction in the French band to tour new March 22 manager Adams announced a contract has been signed or the French orchestra National under the direction of Charles to tour the and can Ada lifter Prober assailed March 22 m e n d e 11 Rivers Lair called on August to turn Over to eone else his proposed invest ton of the increase in butter Cial House agriculture investigate is the a knowl Leader of the butter bloc in Prev butter jumped to a Pound in Many areas after House Agri culture committee voted Down legislation which would have re pealed or modified Federal taxes on said chairman of a who was Leader of the anti repeal announced his committee would look into the Price Rivers joined southerners in lighting the Oleo and therefore against Margarine Waldorf vet refuses Money in fight for Home new March 22 Richard House Hunting Veteran who moved his family into a per Day room at the Wal Dorf Astoria eight Days has asked his friends not to contribute Money for his Hetel he said that was the cites whose Bill for room rent alone is now said he did not accept a Dollar Check sent him by a san Antonio we Are deeply grateful for the current interest shown to us by those who contributed to our hotel in a sincere attempt to keep us from being but actually our principle is to create a debate for which the City administration is for this reason we ask our friends not to contribute any Money to our he charter drafted for world Republic March 22 proposed Constitution for a new Federal Republic of the world was made Public today six University of Chicago faculty members and five other College which took two years to provides for a world legislative Council and system of 2 drowned Hunters found March 22 a bodies of Kenneth Huff and John Aber who were drowned when their boat capsized on Pym tuning Lake while Duck Hunting last nov were found yesterday on the Lake Shore by huffs lather and 3 tots killed Mother held March 22 34yearold Chelmsford Mother was committed for 10 Days observation to the Worcester state Hospital last a few hours after she and one child were found unconscious in a rented automobile containing the bodies of her three other Evelyn Roche was taken to the Hospital after police started an investigation of the tragedy which took the lives of John Peter Mary Evelyn and Catherine Elizabeth 3 near death in the Lowell Hospital was their 5yearold Peter police said Roche had been despondent since receiving word of the death of her husband 131 million to Ford heirs March 22 total of has been distributed among of the late Edsel nation urged to build up College plan March 22 the presidents commission on higher education yesterday handed president Truman the sixth and final volume of its report urging a federally aided expansion of higher it gives the statistics on which the headed by George chairman of the National Council of education based its earlier the proposals include a Dou bling of College enrolments by b free tuition through the Sopho More c an end to d creation of Anet work of Junior or Community and e a multimillion Dollar program of Federal scholar fellowships and building As the report shows present enrol ments Ait including about Veteran above the Normal College under the heading of lost Leader the commission estimates that nearly Young men and women who Are not now in College would receiving education if its program were now Road crash kills 1 17 Hurt March 22 one woman was killed and at least 7 other injured yesterday when a Sedan crashed Headon nto an eastbound greyhound bus be mile East of Highway patrol reports said Tho orce of the crash overturned the Leavy which was in route rom Stockton to with 2 passengers the Driver of the Mary Adeline of was officers said her a was travelling at a terrific rate if Speed and apparently was jolted nto the opposite Lane of traffic As t crossed a Railroad fifteen of the injured bus Pas including Driver William of were taken o the Escalon Hospital where physicians said two seriously two other passengers were used to a Stockton Highway patrolmen said the bus Ivas thrown on its spilling passengers out into the i9 2 injured n Ohio brewery fire March 28 and fumes from lire f undetermined in a base ment of the old Columbus brewery overcame 49 firemen and injured to others t the Blaze broke out among some discarded Beer cases stacked n the 25footdeep basement of be old although damage Vas estimated at fire men equipped with Gas masks said ii Blaze was one of worst in everal police solve Hawaii murder March 22 police announced they had solved the murder of wealthy 68yearold Therese Adler widow of a hawaiian shipping whose body was found bound and gagged in her palatial suburban Home March officers said a 19yearold Oahu prison inmate confessed entering the Wilder Home March ii during a today escape and beating Wilder during search for the Johm also implicated a Jellow who escaped with and is still at he identified him As James both escaped from a prison work squad outside prison Walls March 10 and Palakiko was recaptured two Days the murder the wealthy who had lived alone in her spacious Home since her husbands death in aroused a widespread Hunt for the in a move unprecedented since the Hono Lulu Board of supervisors offered a Reward Fortis the Honolulu chamber of Commerce voted an additional for the arrest of the