European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of weather forecast 1 o u d minimum 48 m u n i c it b r e m e 46 45 33 by 46 Stutt c the stars european edition u i i 1 n c unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe you Are invited to attend the sixth anniversary Celebration of the stars and stripes at of Ungstad on details on Page volume number 131 cents a month april 1948 arrive Pird c pro Aid to ass com ism a in the e rope nit Al ins com Day in or the raining id said eed to until it Creary recon i under i tips up by said on May restores 3d age and Ted age re is s locating Regis id Erin should but i plans re not d such s army chief urges 12 divisions april 14 army of at least 12 regular combat divisions Pas asked today by Omar he said Russia has More than 170 Active divisions right the army chief of staff testified before the House armed services committee in support of a draft Bill to raise the army total strength from men to has Over 170 divisions in being at the present he told the and our intelligence advises us they could raise that to Over 300 in less than 60 then there Are about 95 divisions that could come from the satellite Bradley did not say How Many divisions the army has continued on Page 12 Lewis denies guilt in court april 14 John Lewis pleaded not guilty today of contempt of court for not calling off the strike nine Days ago As instructed by a fed eral although he failed to act Lewis did order the miners Back to work two Days Welly entering the cited Lewis instructions on monday to end the Hopkins argued that by Theisac Tion Lewis complied with the court order served on april 5 to Call off the Lewis has maintained he never called the it was a voluntary cessation of government lawyers began presenting evidence tending to show the seriousness of the four week Lewis backs work order on monday followed an agreement granting a month pensions to miners Over about half the nations miners returned to the others Are apparently await ing the outcome of Lewis As widow unveiled Roosevelt statue Franklin Delano Roosevelt is shown with King George of England As the folds of two huge flags drop away from the statue of the late president Franklin Roosevelt in London heart of the War Effort in Hughes tool firm faces tax claim of april 14 a report to Congress today labelled As obviously corrupt the wartime negotiations Between millionaire plane builder Howard Hughes and Bennett Meyers and recommended that a Hughes com Pany be assessed in Back the Senate War investigating committee which drafted the Docu ment called Law to Deal with any future Case of the the final report of the seven year old committee once headed by president Truman covers the groups sensation packed hearings of last continued on Page 12 America letters it Many Long is l s summer time starts sunday april 14 Many will Advance its clocks one hour to summer time at 2 in Hristian nent d it to spread Popolo report gives dec yanks clean Bill of health april 14 up Orville Chicago at Torney and special investigator for army department Secre tary Kenneth today exonerated americans in Europe of charges of Black mar immorality and in a preliminary report after three month Survey of eur he told Royall conditions were no worse than in an Amer ican Community of comparable Taylor said he found signs of Black marketing among americans stationed in Europe is extraordinarily he Jay a bikers fined by police in Etoile by Gene Levin staff correspondent april 14 walking across the Etoile today Cost tardy yanks 20 French in a Campaign to make pedestrians use marked Cross ing have started to Issue on thespot tickets to most of the pedestrians spotted by the police were but several arc employees were i got Detroit police to censor Cori pics for red data april 14 Detroit police have been ordered to read comic commissioner Harry toy called for a crackdown on comic Book sales because Many of them Are loaded with com Stassen wins in Nebraska april 14 Stassen lifted himself into the top rank of Republican presidential candidates today with a sweeping Victory in Nebraska gop his clearcut win clubbed new York Thomas Dewey into political submission for the second week in a Dewey was shut out in the april 6 Wisconsin primary when Stassen won 19 of the states 27 nominating the results from of the states precincts were Robert Taft of Arthur Vandenberg of Douglas Earl Warren of and House speaker Joseph the former Minnesota governors Victory bashed the prestige of it built new fires under the Good Marbut Antwin theory that has dogged the Taft it All but snuffed out the dying continued Page 3 Ike vacations in Georgia april 14 Dwight d his mind apparently far from arrived Here yesterday for a rest and shot a round of Golf Over the Augusta National club played Golf with George the former White House Berlin squeeze wont drive Clay states by Arthur staff correspondent april 14 expect the russian pressure to drive us out of Berlin will but we Are not going to be Lucius military said Here to attend conferences with German Biz onal officials and the and British advisers to the Biz onal adm Nistra Clay announced that two or three sections of Omegus no longer operating fou Power agreement will probably move to the this will involve Only a handful of he i to repeat he that i can assure you Omegus is not moving from Berlin and we have no intention of Leav ing sections named Clay said among the few Omegus sections probably moving to the zone Are the property control and restitution property con he would probably be assigned to two representatives of the property control Section were in Wiesbaden to Day investigating housing Condi Clay and sir Brian Robert British my met Here with Pierre French zone my Clay reported the three generals discussed the co ordination of speeches at the signatory conference of the committee for european economic cooperation Conti Mied on Page 12 West German Rule urged by Ehard april 14 hand bavarian minister president and president of the by Zonia today called for an immediate state of peace with the Western occupation Powers and the establishment of an interim Western German it is my opinion that the creation of a Trizonis instead of a Vizonia is absolutely Ehard but it would not make any sense just to add the French zone to the already existing combined British american a new solution must be found for an interim Western German govern ment and i believe that it could be fulfilled with the establishment of a preliminary Federal Heinkel fined As nazi Aid april 14 Ger Man Denali fiction court today classified Ernst Heinkel a Follower of the nazi regime and fined the renowned air plane designer Biz one of Erp april 14 German officials of the Biz onal economic administration today asked that approximately on third or them Are loaded with com of the Money to be allotted for the Monistic sex and racial economic reconstruction of 14 West toy ordered All precincts to seize Sample comic books from Magazine stands and scan them for objectionable Era european nations under the Marshall plan be Given to the merged British and american the German officials in a plan presented to Lucius military and sir Brian British my said would be necessary in 1948 to begin the re building of the Biz onal area under the Marshall the estimated total to be allotted by the to All 14 nations is Clay refused to comment on the German we have not studied them Russ Boycott inquiry into plane crash by Joe Fleming staff correspondent april 14 today boycotted a two Power com Mission set up to investigate the collision of a British transport and a soviet fighter in which 15 per sons soviet delegates refused to attend today secret session of the com Mission after the British refused to exclude eyewitness testimony of germans and British members of the commission continued the probe alone with american and French observers the soviet walkout came As Ber Lins Russia sponsored perhaps foreshadowing new soviet demands to restrict air traffic to again accused the Western allies of numerous deviations from existing flight the Taglicht official German language newspaper of the soviet Many British and american pilots Are highly in experienced and need strict con 50 witnesses ready the Mundschau expressed the Hope that the rules now govern ing flights to Berlin would be re examined and All necessary Meas ures taken to Lay Down a strict flying code for the air corridors which connect with the Western the russian Boycott of the collision inquiry was seen Here As a russian attempt to discredit or at least ignore the mass of Eye witness testimony expected to be had the russians succeeded in barring american and German they would have ruled out observers who could continued on Page 12 bulletins new april 14 in spokesman announced the Security Council had reached general agreement today on a Resolution calling for a political and military truce in april 14 inter american conference re convened formally today after being interrupted last Friday by a bloody insurrection set off by the assassination of Liberal party chief Jorge april 14 House of commons voted 245222 tonight to abolish the death pen Alty for murder for a five year trial