European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 17. 1948 the stars and stripes Page 3  Fie splay with revolt Howard Kat Amer at service for air crash victim sit r. Fit 0 Neir we Tot Elk or lot in t Gor. 14on Ion us am a we ing. My no e is Good a vie sire ame turn Nain very Over ions. Yet is it is of and stall a his very Lydier guilty and of 5 and Sas and u be to g out a do it Gil is ers a ills Jod Jan 65 7lm 7590 15jo use the flirt nil my. Tony. Fice Sotny american Renvoi Turnn would normally receive so int Ion from he world ? pros last stole the news Piny from the and the problems of the in Germany reasons Jar diary of state George c. J Jujj Ribald and top foreign affairs of rials of All american republics a pfc in. The thick of it. 2-the  Confer Gnu Kos temporarily disrupted fac revolution was probably the Joast thoroughly covered South american revolt in history thanks to the presence in Bogota of an impressive corps of journalists from a Over the Western hemisphere. F despite the talents of these 1 wined observers of political events jul purer the Colombia revolution maintained the tradition of South a american revolts for confusion Garshall Laid the rioting to world inn monism. He was seconded by president Truman. Karl holds spotlight by week s end the Center of in Terest had returned to Europe Rte re tomorrow s italian elections Jod the meeting of Erp nations in Paris held the political and Diplo Matic spotlight. Comparative Calm reigned in Laly. But there were scattered out posts of violence i Rome where fee fascist splinter of the com Mon Man party known As the italian social movement pasient a band of 200 Young thugs into he jewish Quarter for an Jami Seni Itic demonstration. Russia was not Idle in the a Spring the week in its War of Krives. In Berlin the soviets de Moded withdrawal of a tied teams maintaining Telephone and Tele graph lines Between the Western 2�cs and Berlin. They effectively ruptured the j to russian British inquiry into Berlin s fatal air crash last week. 6j refusing to admit testimony of americans or germans and the stylish proceeded with the inquiry Bine. Soviets ask identity cards in Vienna the soviets resorted la the Needle with a demand that British produce identity cards Rich photographs in addition to jew four Power Gray cards Hith futo accepted at All russian Check w its As adequate. The British do my carry identity cards bearing Tot graphs. Americans do. This move was followed by the Lection of a Check Point on the Highway Between Tull air base fed Vienna. Here the russians began Check g Grey cards without warning. Simili was that Many americans have no cards because they pre never before had need of item were unable to pass pile blockade was hardly water Fet. A second Road much longer ton the main route was left open checked. Mast americans re wed to this route. Gen. Lucius d. Clay . Mui or governor reacted decisively i Lull report of an incident that a place within the Borders of Gary last january when mems of the . Army guarding Repati ration Tram returning hungarian Dps were denied per Mission to accompany the train to destination and were later related. The train was looted i russian troops. Failing to of satisfactory explanation Clay four members of a Hung repatriation team and 11 of carers of a hungarian Restito a Mission to leave the u. S. A of Germany within 48 hours. Spy charge false writer tells Smith Washington april 16 up it. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith u. S. Ambassador to Russia said yesterday that Robert Magidoff Abc Moscow correspondent has denied As entirely false charges that he was engaged in espionage. Smith in a message to the state department added that he could personally deny As false charges that Magidoff was instructed through the american embassy to obtain information about air raid shelters and other underground construction in the soviet Union. Dispatches from Moscow reported Magidoff had been ordered expelled \ from Russia within three Days be i cause his american born Secretary j Cecilia \ Nelson reported to the newspaper Izvestia that he was asked by the Mcgraw Hill pub Lishing co. Of new York to seek such information. Gen. Sir Brian h. Robertson Cigut British military governor in Germany and mrs. Robertson leave the Kren Kirche Cross Church in Berlin after a memorial service for the victims of the crash at gatow Airport when a russian fighter plane and British transport plane collided killing 15, including two americans. Xvi Riwa in Den Safe planes still flying special missions to Berlin Frankfurt. April 16 is special Mission flights Are still carrying passengers cargo and mail from Rhine main air base to the u. S. Sector of Berlin Neucom transportation officials announced today. From april 8 to 14 inclusive Safe c47 transports carried 312 passengers. 30,333 pounds of cargo and 52.9w pounds of mail to Berlin a decrease of 87 passengers 515,994 pounds of cargo and 36,875 pounds of mail from the april 1 to period transportation officials also announced that at planes leaving the dec for the . From april 8 to 14 carried i cafes pounds of cargo 24,694 pounds of mail and 194 Pas sengers. Specially equipped ambulance planes evacuated 27 patients from the dec to the u. S. Dur ing the same period. Visa system shift opposed by u. S. Geneva april 16 a the u. S. Will not permit any fundamental modification of its visa system according to a report of the United nations transport and communications commission published today. The report was compiled from replies sent by various governments to a in questionnaire regarding the simplification of passport and visa formalities throughout the world. The american reply said certain suggestions for the abolition or modification of visa requirements vere unacceptable. The shortest reply was that of the soviet Union. It said the government of the user looks upon the question of pass ports and Frontier formalities As a matter which pertains to the internal affairs of countries and is not subject to decisions by organs of the United  Ford cuts prices in us London april 16 a Ford motor co., ltd., today announced immediate reductions in prices in line with the British government s Campaign against inflation and bid for increased exports. A War foreseen by 1953 unless controls voted Copenhagen april 16 a the russians will be in Possession of the atom bomb before Jan. 1, 1953, Gunnar Knoes swedish Engi Neer and atom scientist said last  at a press conference in Copenhagen he said there will be an atom War be fore 1953 if no International control based on political Power and a International detective corps has been  today s atom bomb is 600 times stronger than the bomb dropped Over Hiroshima Knoes continued. Atom rockets with unlimited sphere of action Are realities and from 1953 an atom bomb could explode in the u. S. And paralyse the country. America does not want to sex i Prience Pearl Harbor twice Knoes stated. The Prospect is horrible he said. Agrarian party Leader Given life in Sofia Sofia april in a Dimiter Gitchev an agrarian party Leader was sentenced to life imprisonment today. He was charged with spread ing false  Gitchev one of the late Nikola Petkov s chief lieutenants was arrested last autumn when the agrarian party was outlawed. His sentence was accompanied by the perpetual loss of civil rights and a Fine of �1,800. State department identifies accuser of correspondent Washington april 16 a Cecilia Nelson who accused Robert Magidoff an american correspondent in Moscow of spying was identified by the state department yesterday As a native born Amer ican citizen who has lived in rus Sia some 12 years. Press officer Reginald Mitchell said records show she is married to a Tovio Koh Oraen. His citizen ship was not stated. Attended teachers College miss Nelson said she attended Public school in Stow mass., and in Maynard mass., and for two years was a student at the Lowell mass., teachers College. She was employed in the embassy in 1943-1944 As a clerical worker dealing with non confidential routine work. Her application said she had worked in 1942 As a typist for Maurice hindus an american correspondent and part of the following year As Secretary and translator for Edgar Snow also an american correspondent. Sex nazi editor gets hard labor term Stuttgart april 16 is the former managing editor of the Stuttgart nazi is Kurrier was sentenced to serve 300 Days on special reconstruction projects and 50 per cent of his property was ordered confiscated following his conviction by a Stuttgart Denali fiction court last night. The editor Hermann Hirsch was charged with having agitated the German people by editorially persuading them to support the nazi  the nazi journalist con tended he had written his editorials by command from  training closed to dec gis Wiesbaden april 16 is Safe announced today that Nei ther pm nor civilians in the dec will be accepted for training As air cadets. Correcting a previous announcement Safe officials said that All applicants must be in the . At the time i application. Trial ends for to to 24 others Tokyo april 16 up the War crimes trial of former Premier Hideki Tojo who pulled the trigger on Pearl Harbor and 24 other War time japanese leaders ended today after More than 23 months. The Fate of 25 japanese generals admirals diplomats and ministers was placed in the hands of the 11 nation far East International Mil itary tribunal which is expected to hand Down its verdict in six to eight weeks. Defendants were charged with 55 War crimes ranging from murder to conspiracy to enslave the world. The final prosecution plea urged the tribunal to make the defendants Bear the penalty for the guilt of a Choice that plunged half the world into War. The prosecution made no demand for the death penalty for any of the defendants. Only 25 of the 28 originally indicted War leaders survived the trial. Only 23 were in court today when the proceedings ended. Two defendants died. Gen. Yoh Kikiro Umezu who signed the japanese surrender aboard the Battles hip Missouri in Tokyo Bay nearly three years ago was absent because of a cancer operation. Also absent was Toshio Shiratori former ambassador to Italy. He has been suffering from a Throat ail ment. The Nurnberg trial of Germany s War leaders tested 10 months 10 Days. The Tokyo trial ended just 15 Days Short of two years. It started May 3, 1946. 2 reprieved As us debates death penalty London april 16a two convicted killers a Gypsy and a ships Steward were saved from the Gallows today by a dramatic announcement in the House of commons. British Home Secretary Chuter Ede promised Blanket reprieves for All murderers under death sentences while parliament is de bating a measure to abolish the death penalty. The House voted 245-222, wednesday to suspend the death pen Alty for murder for an experimental period of five years. The measure  is pending in the House of lords. It would be abhorrent to Public opinion that an irrevocable sentence should be executed in the inter vening period de said. Only two convicted murderers Are awaiting sentence James camb 31, deck Steward on the Ocean liner Durban Castle. He was convicted of cramming the body of actress Eileen Gay Gib son through a porthole into the sea after a love scene in her Cabin. His Appeal is pending. Joseph Smith 23-year-old Gypsy convicted of the murder of William Bissett a retired businessman. De Gaulle sees Liberty at stake in Italy election Marseille april 16 a Gen. Charles de Gaulle declared today that Italy in its election sunday has Choice Between the shadows of tyranny and the Light of  de Gaulle spoke at the first convention of his French Peoples party one year after he founded it. He addressed 2,000 delegates from All parts of  rumours that the numer Ous communists in Marseille might try to break up the meeting the area was heavily patrolled by mar Seille police. Trouble if it comes will break out sunday when de Gaulle Speaks. Zone railway fetes Century of service Frankfurt april 16 a so Frankfurt s mayor Walter Kolb took Over the throttle of a 1902 Model locomotive from Offenbach to Frank Furt today to Climax the Observance of the anniversary of the railway that has connected the two towns for a Hundred  and Johann Rebholz mayor of Offenbach officiated at Cere monies in Offenbach s goeth Strasse theater during the morning. The antiquated locomotive used for this special occasion with passenger cars also built in 1902, had brought the Frankfurt officials to the Celebration. The train made the three mile trip in 15 minutes. Brussels fair opens today Brussels april 16 a four thousand commercial and Industrial firms from 30 different countries will exhibit in the 22nd Brussels International fair opening Tomor Row