European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page i the stars and stripes april men can be called in 90 Days Hershey prepared to Alert 50 of drafters april 7 a i the first Batch of 18 to 25yearolds drafted within 90 Days after Congress enacts a proposed Emer gency selective service Gen Lewis Hershey said Here the wartime director of selective service told interviewers nation wide draft machinery will be Click ing soon after the draft becomes Hershey estimated 50 to 60 per cent of the personnel Active on selective service boards during world War ii will be available he predicted some difficulty in hiring clerks and renting office attending army Day observances expressed doubt Many fathers would be drafted under the peacetime we went pretty easy on fathers during the War and i imagine if of them will be taken under this peacetime he but in he everybody goes and it is just a question of Wedemeyer cites danger in Power mad dictators los april 7 Albert director of the army plans and operations warned yester Day that individuals whose lust for Power has Over balanced their sense of reason can plunge the world into a disastrous global in a speech prepared for delivery before the military order of world wars at los an called upon the to enact a temporary draft and univer Sal military training so this nation could assume the Leader ship the world so sorely needs and thereby prevent world War the former chief of staff to Chiang Waishek deplored americas rapid demobilization after world War he declared the should have he we realize and should have known that dictatorships exploit weakness and respect strength draft files May be reopened judge spares negro families life april 7 death sentences imposed on a 40 year old negro woman and her two teen age sons for the slaying of a White sharecropper have been commuted to life judge William of southwestern Superior ruled that Rosa Lee and her sons were on Circum Stantial evidence and that under Georgia Law he thus was permitted to set aside the death Hoffman sees his Jol As fight tokeeppeacl6 these files in the basement of the selective service records head quarters in marked and sealed with steel May be gathering their last bit of revival of the As urged by president would make the Headquarters a Busy spot in the nations acts to tighten defences in Arctic april 7 has moved directly to tighten Arctic defences to strengthen no ways hold on strategic Polar the direct action was signalled by joint Navy and air Force plans to restrict for All but military use the string of Aleutian these stretch out a fog shrouded line toward Russia held Kamchatka and the they also cover the approaches to dutch which the japanese at tacked along with Pearl the action on the other front came in the navys announcement that a Carrier task Force will visit both moves were described officially As moves listed but behind Label this was the background the Secretary James Forrestal revealed two weeks ago that alaskan defense forces consist of Only troops and less than 100 fighter at the same Navy officials reported one of three mystery submarines said to have been sighted in the Pacific Folsom admits love tryst with paternity suit Filer april 7 James Folsom has admitted he had Clandestine relations with a re haired Divorcee who charges that he is the father of her fool Sam that his relations with Christine put Nam Johnston constituted a com Mon Law governors attorneys filed papers in chancery court answering a paternity filed by John Ston a month and second suit to her Folsom common Law the answer raised 99 specific objections to the it did not acknowledge or deny that he fathered Johnstons the answer said Folsom and Johnston never had agreed to be come wife and husband or made a Mutual agreement to be husband and wife followed by cohabitation their the answer were Clandestine and under cover As related to the general Deport ment among tie people where they was spotted off the present plans Call for an increase of troops Manning alaskan but there is no statement on what additional air strength is secondly navys announcement of a Goodwill cruise attention anew on o r t e d 1 y under russian visit explained in the same term used to de scribe earlier missions and turkish ports at times of strained relations with the Navy said visit be continuation of the navys policy of making visits to Friendly countries for the promotion of Goodwill and furtherance of the norwegian de is due to leave on a flying trip his visit is also described As president Truman openly expressed concern Over developments in in his Patricks Day address to 46 Hurt at circus Redwood april 1 including 20 were injured yester Day when a reserved seat Section in the main tent of the Bailey Brothers circus there were no critical most of the injured were released after treatment in from press dispatches april who was named y Day by president Truman to administer global said Here he regards his new Job As an Opportunity to a fight for the 56yearold president oif the Studebaker who has returned from an Industrial Survey of Japan for the met press Only a few hours after his nomination to head the huge new program was announced by he replied to a barrage of in testimony before the Senate foreign relations committee last 23 the Auto manufacturer stated the key to the maintenance of free societies and free economies in Western Europe is he if production can be in creased by on third Western Europe will be on the Way to and Prosperity is a powerful antidote for com warns of failure he warned that the program might fail and that it would in crease inflationary pressures in this he there is a much greater risk in a do nothing Hoffman said the administrator for economic title he will Bear once the Senate con firms him for the a Cabin Trank have wide authority and be completely Independent of the state depart that would give the Secretary of state an he explained Case of protests european countries about the administrators Businesslike stresses Trade the reporters questions yester Day found him Trade Between Western Europe and Russia and Herstel Lite countries could be restored the United states cant save Western Europe but can assist that area to help assurances that he plans a business adminis although Erp is much More involved than just besides running he will have much to say about other foreign Aid programs including the voted by con Gress last week Hoffman lists himself politically As a Republican and is generally regarded among businessmen As a he was married the former Dorothy Brown in years after he joined the Stude Baker organization As a and they now have seven he worked himself up through the fir to successive jobs As Branch sales and finally president far East May ask shift in Jap policy april 7 us t Secretary of the army Liam and a joint group of government officials and industrialists returned yesterday from a Survey of far East economie and Export 1 informed quarters said the group is expected to recommend to Arajj Secretary Kenneth Royall Complete reversal of administrating policy toward j would build up under the proposed Japal would be built up As the Industrial Hub of the in tire far Eastern the program would be signed to make Japan ing and get occupation off 1 american taxpayers such a program was re comme recently by overseas a nonprofit Obj new York therein known to be Strong opposition within the state department to the reversal of policy in ident Truman is expected to Resol the the Survey conferred Douglas supreme Allie commander in for will Ith Piti Noite the Inte will Dps fairs and reps Jorfi in Svei real and Ead service civilians Al found increasing april 7 oth the armed services employee three times As Many civilians w Man in uniform in february e this year As they did during wartime Peak of Seni f Byrd Byrd is chairman of the v congressional committee of essential Federal said he his military manpower in recent military recommend Tii he noted that in or to the current revitalization nations armed the Cei a services were employing milians to every 14 men in this he said contrasted two civilians for every 12 m uniform in june of new Romance for Gable former flame Dolly Obrien Dorelis and Clark Gable Yorks Stork Dorelis and Gable were formerly seen Ether nightly in new York and West coast circles until Dolly last she has since divorced