European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Age 16 the stars and stripes saturday april 17, anti reds say foe got arms via Valley by Ernie Reed Sta a correspondent Genoa april 16 is Italy s communists have shipped vast quantities of guns and ammunition this Mediterranean seaport area in recent months anti communist sources reported weapons which reportedly include hand grenades and machine guns were shipped Overland via the Pov Illey and not by sea these sources said. The seas around Italy have been closely watched. However Genoa s comr unit mayor Gelasio Adamoli said re ports of communist planned trouble in Case sunday s elections go wrong Are pure propaganda. Adamoli an sex partisan fighter against the germans also denied Christian democratic charges that his communist City administration would hamper voting by anti communists. He snid he hoped have All voters at the polls. Genoa voted communist in the 1946 National elections and again in the 1947 municipal elections. Handling 600,000 tons of shipping monthly the port is the largest in Italy and the fifth largest in Europe. Italy bolsters election guard continued from Page 1 them with All parts of the nation. Heavy formations of Mobile army Carabiniero and police were concentrated in key areas. Averages of. Guesses in Italy s elections lottery in which bettors pay 100 lire about 18 cents and More on Italy s election Page 4. Predict the election s outcome Day gave the Christian Democrat party of Premier Alcide de Gasperi the biggest vote35 per cent. The pro communist popular front was Given 31 per cent. Italian anti fascist warns of austrian red Putsch. Rome april 16 ins Don Luigi Sturzo wartime anti fascist exile Leader warned yesterday an at tempted communist Putsch in aus Tria May follow the italian elections next week. \ in an exclusive interview the founder of the Christian demo cratic party which i fighting the communists said. After Italy Austria la the most crucial danger spot in Europe. If the communists should win the elections in i Aly which is highly unlikely Austria s turn will come in a matter of communists shoot Down plane scattering leaflets Rome april 16 ins communists shot Down a leaflet drop Ping plane in Northern Italy today. The plane an american built Piper cub was being used scatter political pamphlets Over the town of spi Limburg in Udine province not far from Trieste. According the italian ministry of the Interior communists opened fire with machine guns. Finns ask parliament ratify Moscow pact Helsinki. April 16 a the finnish government yesterday for Mally asked parliament ratify the Moscow p set. Parliament will presumably Dis cuss the up i at its. Meeting Tomor Row and refer he government s ratification Bill the foreign affairs committee. Presenting the Bill the government said the pact was in tended strengthen Friendly re lations Between Fin and and the soviet expansion boosts soviet resources key symbols 9 Cool if o Lutol Oil q 0 Timber q Nickel vae Tell e i o Toton a Kerlik 9o it Arr i Orr Writt mum Toni pm Cal n0bl Denom a for a Fjor borr. ,1 Europe Lear Teot Towl Pradt Fitl total population 1.003.1 4 7.020.ltj u.w7.0xj a i 1,177.000 i5.4i6.is3 t.,o,la. H 100.000 military might Amrei of notion within rot. In okie 1.012.000 me in 77 fully armed do. Lion. 150.000 161.000 c 140.000 Lomono 125.000 Hung Orr 65.000 Libonio 60.000 57.000 Finland 10.000 total Aiea in Tuart Mikeil Albanio. 42.m9 Ritchot Lakia 4.1u Finland ij4.su Hon Gay Poland 120.111 9i.5u Yuan Iloilo aed in port a pc nod 01 Europe leading Cool producer Worgelt due at Silesio or German nation Kei Alir made great Industrial Prog i Tince Aro hos poll of Dan tag Plant or if san. Europe target u on turn mint at Zoochi Mishol orid. laroe.producer Ite Neon outlet Hai second Lor Baut. tier i in Europe Large Mineral Depont. Of chief says survival depends on air Power los Angeles april 16 a american survival depends on american air Power. That comes from Gen. Hoyt s. Vandenberg new air Force chief of have a deep conviction that no free nation can remain secure which does not forge for itself an unchallengeable air Power Vandenberg told a con Ference of aviation leaders last a Pernt. Of safety lies Only in our preparedness he said. The map shows the tremendous increase in Russia s resources As a result of pacts with satellites and other neighbors. Acme hungarians irate Over dec ouster threaten reprisals continued from Page 1 the u. Protest on alleged looting of american equipment from a hungarian repatriation train last january and counterchanged that american soldiers on the train had sold the missing equipment Hun Garian civilians finance a Drunken Binge in the Frontier town of Hegy shalom where they had stayed after having been refused entry with the train. The u. S charge that russian soldiers had plundered the train was also sharply denied the com Munique said the soviet train did pass through Bui stopped More than one Kilometre away spent Only 30 minutes there and no one left the train and no one approached the american stripes display Plant on birthday confirmed 1 Pool on Oberstadt Strasse the old Plant for a tour of the stereo Type department the presses an i the circulation department. Sunday the old Day the Battle Days of the stars and stripes will Bee recreated in a special an broadcast scheduled for 6 05 . A sgt. Emil Swietzer who wrote the show traces the six years of is history hectic merry wild but never Dull from its beginnings in London its present Home in of Ungstad. Fitzgerald named head of food Aid division Washington april 16 a Dennis Fitzgerald one of the Foremost food authorities of the u. S., will head the food division of the economic cooperation administration. The appointment of Fitzgerald who is Secretary of the inter National emergency food com Mittee was announced today by Hoffman Ega administrator. In begins race against time Check Zion War continued from Page 1 jewish troops struck at Arab forces today break their stranglehold on Road communications through out Palestine. Jewish quarters said that coordinated attacks in Central and Northern Palestine during the last week have achieved a consider Able measure of the arabs were forced aban Don the Village of saris eight Miles West of Jerusalem following a night Long jewish assault. It was Ruo red in Arab circles that Fawzi Al Kaw Kuji self pro claimed Leader of an Arab holy War against the jews in Battle yesterday. 16 countries form Union for recovery continued from Page 1 followed by the acting foreign Mij. Ister of Belgium. Then came tin delegates of Denmark francs Greece Eire Iceland Italy Luxem. Bourg Norway the Netherlands Portugal great Britain Sweden Switzerland and Turkey. Gen. Pierre j. Koenig signed the French zone of Germany. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson who represented Vizonia was. The Las sign. Robertson said he and d. Clay american military error have received Assurance from German authorities that the warmly Welcome the oppo Tunit Given Germany join in the Plai he said \ they have affirmed their de termination play a full part British foreign minister Ernest Bevin closing the plenary Meel ing declared that the Structure s the new organization is one which leaves room for development am earlier revealed it had warned the j for expansion include All eur Bogota Parley called defy communists Washington april 16 Secretary of state George c. Mar shall considered the holding of the inter american conference in Bogota a measure of open Defiance communists who were known be planning demonstrations disrupt the meetings it was disclosed. The Central intelligence Agency state department in Advance there might be an outbreak during the conference. State department press officer j Lincoln White told reporters his j department had received numer i Ous reports from the u. Embassy in Bogota going As far Back As last december which reported plans for efforts interfere with the conference and Embarrass mar shall. Rope an countries who will germ finely subscribe the of in Russ demand us flight halt continued from Page 1 of the occupying Powers will in unburied body of Gaitan Joy free an j unimpeded Access f blocks Accord in Colombia j Aird Romes assigned their respect Bogota april 16 up Bogota j live occupancy and workers ended their week Long j general strike today but the in j buried body of the assassinated Jorge Eliecer Gaitan blocked at tempts restore Tranquillity. The widow of Gaitan and a group of Liberal party leaders were hold of planes carry rations Jerusalem consulate Jerusalem april 16 a three u. Air Force planes carrying 280 cases of u. Army rations As emergency food supplies for the u. Consulate staff landed at Lydda Airport last night it was announced. The u. Consulate general said the supplies will be used Only if the Normal sources of food Are Cut off in Jerusalem and Haifa. 3,000 pro zionists picket Capitol protest policy Washington april 16 up three thousand pro zionist demonstrators picketed the White House Congress and the state depart ment yesterday in a voluble but orderly protest against american policy in Palestine. An schedules unchanged h o c h s april 16 special Louis Adelman an s chief of operations announced today that ithe an program schedule will re main the same and will not be affected by the change Central european summer time when it goes into effect at 2 . Sunday. Ing out for the resignation of presi and american airports outside the Dent Mariano Ospina Perez. Their refusal Bury Gaitan until the president resigned brought a dead lock. The government appeared Hesi Tant about bringing the visiting delegates Back downtown until the Gaitan Issue was settled. Instead the conference went on after a fashion in the suburbs. Russians Cut off traffic airports near Vienna Vienna april 16 a the russians today blocked Road traffic Between Vienna and the British czechs ask soviet planes Prague april 16 up the ministry of transport disclosed Day that Czechoslovakia has asked the soviet Union provide four motored planes for the czech air line s projected routes Bombay and Capetown. City authorities of the two Western nations reported Here. The authorized routes the american Airport at Tuhn. 14 Miles outside Vienna and the British base at Schwec hat eight Miles East of the City run through the soviet zone. An alternate authorized route Tull is 40 Miles Long. The russians achieved their blockade by setting up Road Halo cafes on All three roads and demanding four Power Gray passes of Al non austrian persons military or civilian passing. Americans have not yet been authorized by the army show the Gray passes. Roosevelt wife is 111 Beverly Hills calif., april 16 a mrs. James Roosevelt was taken from her Home Beverly Hills emergency Hospital today suffering from an overdose of sleeping tablets the Beverly Hills police reported. Police sgt. Byron Kilgore said Roosevelt democratic state chair Man of California and elder son of the late president Roosevelt called the police and accompanied his wife the emergency Hospital. Mrs. Roosevelt s doctor said she awoke with a headache and reached for a Box of pills she thought were headache tablets. Instead she swallowed several sleeping pills. The police said Roosevelt told them his wife the former Romelle Theresa Schneider a native of Independence wis., had been suf Fering from insomnia since the birth of their third child. The baby a daughter named Anna Eleanor was born Jan. 10. The Roosevelt also have two sons James 2 and Michael 16 months. Mrs. Roosevelt who was a nurse cared for Roosevelt when he was ill at the Mayo clinic in Rochester minn., then came California with him during his convalescence. They were married in april 1941 v in mrs. James Roosevelt. Wrong
