European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes March jews prepare to create own state b bag army in Zion to fight for country Aviv hebrew state is being born whatever its chances for eventual sovereignty or International rec Arab resistance has already driven Home the realization to jews that their state will never be formed out of orderly is of United nations they Are convinced and deter mined it will have to be created in Blooml and the potential jewish state Al ready has its police and its Basic systems of Law and finance in process of organi it has a population of just Over this figure excludes some jews in Jerusalem and More than to Vari Ous settlements inside the Arab held there Are also roughly waiting in Cyprus Camps to come besides an Unest mated number elsewhere in the army of the is hag of it has the essential infantry weapons automatic mortars and bazookas it has armed and armoured cars but so far As generally known no tanks nor any considerable strength in these and Ether arms were sex made up swiftly by arms shipments which were to pour into Haifa and Tel Aviv starting May 15 with the formal end of the but it is now questionable whether they will come As quickly and directly As had been the jews Mally they will not accept trusteeship in any Tempo Rary or but they realize it could come into at Legal existence without their consent or television Industry makes record number of sets Washington up manufacturers association has reported the Industry produced television sets during feb an the association said the february production was sets january it raised to the number of Tele vision sets produced Vij Lebanon sea of Haifa i Nazareth Tel Aviv Jaffa Jerusalem Bethlehem Palestine s3 jewish International Egypt address All letters to b bag stars stripes Apo 3 in elude name and address names Are deleted on due to space letters May Cut for provided such editing Doet not alter the meaning of the i years March 1943 fighting continues on three Sec tors of the tunisian March 1944 merrills marauders capture Sha Uzup in the and continue their attacks As the chinese Roll into Mog Aung March 1945 Toi army forces Clear up the remaining German West of the River so that the entire West front is moved East of the March 1946 the United nations Security Council holds its first meeting in interim Headquarters in Hunter new York March 1947 president Truman proposes a plan disloyal americans of the civil service estimated will Cost approximately to carry isolation of the jewish colonies in the sea of Galilee Region 1 is feared the aim of the Arab liberation army reported massing along the narrow corridor 2 to the the Council of Palestine jews at Tel Aviv 3 approved a Resolution for a Cabinet of 30 to head a jewish provisional arabs at Jaffa 4 reported the jewish Cor Ridor was hemmed in British authorities at Tiberias 5 permitted Havanah to patrol the area with armoured Acme used car prices in nation drop in four months Chicago car prices have dropped 10 per cent in the last four but Many 394ff and 3947 models still Are bringing higher prices than new it has been general Man Ager of the National used car Market said that even prewar cars still command Good whatever their con there was the usual Winter slump in used car Leukhart but most dealers expect a Sharp spurt in As soon As the weather people begin thinking about Flowers and Birds and Auto mobiles to ride out to see Leukhart declined to quote civic bit said a Survey of 20 cities showed prices on six popular makes averaging about 10 cent lower than in no the highest used car prices were reached a year ago this he and the Market held firm until last the Pacific coast has suffered the sharpest slump in used car sales is and big Sive cars Are not Selling Well any Leukhart said a very bigger cent age of cars Are not in Good condition As a result of poor maintenance and hard usage during the but those cars Are still bring ing Good he people who Are still buying anything with wheels to get marriage rate seen failing new York leap year marriage rate fall noticeably below the Al time Peak of marriages per population set in the metropolitan life insurance has predicted suggestions offered to further safety Campaign upon leaving the compound at there is a Large attention to the fact that automobile accidents Cost the per impressive though that sum May the loss lives and injured does not permit evaluation in terms of strenuous and adequate precautions appear to be in effect governing the operation of vehicles by occupation but there obviously a Lack in the restrictions governing operation of by or Lack of enforcement of existing it would be interesting to obtain a summary of Accident cause to determine How Many Are a result of inadequate lighting of be vehicles and flagrant disregard of accepted parking procedure by Man like most individuals we Are inclined to Sun to conditions As they As a line of least within our group of is far from zone id inadequate or nonexistent lighting parking Are respond sigh for five accidents one one Blind and and injury in the remaining it requires restraint to keep Letu within the Bounds of printable urgently recommended solutions Are ordinance requiring proper lighting of German veil Cali if such an ordinance enforce Lack of Supply of is not an adequate excuse for improper if these items cannot be made available by the German they should be and distributed through my the Cost of the these items and enforcement of the my ordinance might Well red the dec Accident s further ordinance requiring that parked unlighted anddte1 tabled vehicles be pulled Weir off the where Auch cannot be Light of some sort such As lighted can of soaked with Oil or should be placed behind the enforce this it is Felt that extremely serious consideration should be allot to his Overall certainly no Effort or expense can be f great if its expenditure results in a decrease in unnecessary death and injuries due to vehicle since the month of March has been designated safety Montpl there Are a few suggestions i would like to first of Eyer Jwj is being made to show the occupation forces the High deaf Lif and injury rate caused by vehicle accidents Why not try to teach the German people the necessity of Safe the German police Are doing a Good Job in the cities and town Jujj in cracking dowry on reckless but out on the highways there Are no Law enforcement authorities it is very difficult accidents due to the reckless manner in which most germans in the past ten Days i Vave been crowded off the Road twice German i mean on both occasions after Ujj being pushed into the ditch the Driver laughed about if you Slof and try to explain the danger of such things he will say does f regardless of How Safe one person drives if the fellow drives carelessly we will continue to have Here is my suggestion Why not organize a police German or similar to the state police Back in the stat ii and let it be their sole duty to patrol the highways in Plain vehicles and Correct the reckless of theirer laity or the constabulary does a Good but it jul As their Speed All Drivers readily the constabulary vehicles and when they see a constabulary jeep they refrain from reckless driving until they afe out of sight then the same thing starts Over careless u Frank let editors note both German Law and military regulations require that German vehicles be equipped with lights or reflectors and German police Are constantly insure compliance with this More rigid is to be expected in the future because of the increase in the of German while at the present time Domestic enforcement Roulo Lfong is inadequate due to insufficient transportation and trained personnel for traffic inspection and regulation Many Accident could be avoided by defensive certain fundamentals skillful motor vehicle operation which Are included in the term defensive driving Are overdrive your of the unsafe acts of other users of Public always control your own vehicle so that it adequately for the unsafe acts of no 110 March editor chief col executive executive manager chief of distribution ass Maurice kirkwood3 Bernard news bureaus 2281332814 Stuttgart 2228023202 Munich civil my or the european edition to published daily at for the occupation forces under the auspices of troop information and education service Neucom Tek for the stars and correspond Nice be addressed to stars and stripes Apo Mali to the new York office should be sent to Washington y this to not Anton tibial publication of the reentered As second class matter sept at the Post new under the actor March