European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes april we Italy Fate in balance As nation Stone polls new Venus Model 29 million expected to cast ballots continued Pope 3 would Block formal Ion of the new in such a would be a dangerous Situ Alio possibly erasing National president May dissolve the Parlia ment and Call new the president serves for seven regardless of How Many governments the one Bis party in this election is the anticommunist Christian democratic while she one big bloc is the communist Domi popular consisting mainly of communists and extremist virtually every other party or bloc is against the the Christian democrats major allies Are the re publican party and the anticommunist French reds drop plan against de Gaulle speech april 17 communists in Frances reddest City tonight backed Down on threats to upset a major meeting tomorrow of Gen Charles de Gaul Les Union of the French As the government took stringent measures to keep order de Gaulle will speak following the first National convention of his ref some Dele Gates will end a three Day Congress Here when de Gaulle will make another More Aid authorized for says Hoffman april 17 on the eve of the italian the economic cooperation administration said today that More in Coal and other commodities will be shipped to that France and the Paul said these shipments will be in addition to in Aid authorized for the three countries earlier this Italy army depots raided by reds ominous rumbling came from Italy Frontier regions today after three communist ant italian As two against army ammunition dumps near Udine and one of nationalistic organizations in Gor a planned expedition of slovene communists spread to Gorizia Nen Midnight last attacking head quarters of italian anticommunist in Street fights which Fol two leftists were hospitalized and another 11 slovenes were bitterly anti com since the peace treaty gave part of the City to Yugoslavia and made it an outpost on the new is also nationalistic and with less than 24 hours remaining before sundays not one poster of the communist party had yet appeared in the another ceremony and Public demonstration was set for late today when an album containing signatures of Triestino demand ing the cites return to Italy will be carried by a procession to the main there a delegation will Board Small boats to move to in italian to present the Book to italian Gen eral Peppino Pope quoted As confident of Victory Over left Vatican april 17 High Vatican circles have stated Pope Pius Xii is confident the communists will be Defeated in the italian a to ranking prelate explained that reports from various italian bishoprics indicated the anticommunist parties would score a decisive Jap penalty photos banned april 17 is unlikely that photographs will be made of the execution or scenes in if any of the 25 major japanese War crimes defendants Are Douglas Macarthur Public information army photographers made pictures at the Nurnberg executions of nazi leaders and these were used to divert rus ordered engines april 17 the War assets administration announced yesterday that 46 steam locomotives originally consigned to Russia under lend lease have been taken Over by the associated press extends greetings Kent general manager of the associated said we in the associated press Salute stars and stripes on the occasion of its sixth the vigor and skilled news handling of stars and stripes Are representative of the Best in american mayor sees Italy deadlock by Ellie april 17 the eve of the Al important italian 54yearold Antonio mayor of this Northern Industrial predicted the com munis dominated popular front and the anticommunist Christian democrats would emerge with Al most equal portions of the Greppi thought these two major groups would Corral about 70 per cent of the expected total he said the Sarraga right Wing of which he is a staff correspondent would poll at least 10 per in the Piazza Duomo last a dark haired girl claiming to be an american student named Anna of new York made a five minute speech urging some listeners to vote for the pop ular speaking in which was later she denounced the Marshall plan and the Western Allied proposal to re turn Trieste to i she reportedly said she was a i member of the Wallace third party in the ii a p p y film actress Ava Gardner poses with a statue of sculptured by Joseph who used m i s s Gardners measurements rather than those of the original miss de two for scrip dealing april 17 Carl Ruesewald and Richard Wagner were convicted in Wiesbaden my summary court today for illegal Possession and Sale of Mili tary payment while Ruesewald was Given a nine months four months were Wagner was put on probation for All of his five months term on the condition he works on rubble Clearing the pair were arrested when they attempted to sell an Amer ican Soldier for they said they had bought the Money from another German Given 30 Days for Riding Allied train april 17 Walter of was sentenced in Wiesbaden my summary court today to 30 Days at hard labor for unauthorized travel in an Allied at the same time Herbert Gawronski confiscated 40 Cartons of Cigar ets Hackethal had obtained in the Frankfurt Market on the grounds that Hackethal had at tempted to evade German tobacco continued from Page 1 Durance that there would be Rio official control exercised Over the the stars and stripes reported All of the news and did not Mirror the opinion or the private beliefs of the army High command Dur ing the there has been no change in this i feel certain that the stars and stripes will continue to be worthy of the tradition of a free press which is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United Keyes tribute continued from Page 1 settled Down to serve the forces of the not Only As a Chron icle of events in the european com but also As a link connecting us to the daily life at the Job of reporting this turbulent period of history has not been but you have met the test by winning the approval of your Soldier and civilian readers and that is the True Mark of newspaper i wish for your continued Suc Cess in your Smiths greetings Joseph com Wiesbaden said on the sixth birthday of the stars and i to extend sincere congratulations to All who contribute to make the stripes z Fine in your six stripes has moved with and often ahead of physically As Well As Jour you have not Only accepted a difficult Challenge in your role As a daily newspaper in a foreign with a great variety of readers and but you Are winning the in so doing you have established a Confidence so easily lost and so difficult to attain among today Peckham of arc april 17 Howard Pom Mander of the american Graves registration Only major registration said on behalf of the military and civilian personnel of the american Graves registration european i wish to extend Best wishes to the stars and stripes on its sixth we of the american Graves registration com stationed in the Netherlands and the United always find the paper fresh Reading and highly informative although distance pre vents its reaching us until 24 hours after distribution in the occupied Beeves statement Lewis com Mander of the Kitzinger Basic training said we have marked april on our Calendar As the sixth anniversary of the stars and it with special in Terest that we note this As the unofficial publication of United states occupation forces in Europe this newspaper is its journalistic contribution to a wide Field of readers has been for this achievement we extend the congratulations of this russians Cut staff by half in year april 17 the soviet Union is steadily ing the number of russians to duty in the it known american officials reported soviet chasing and miscellaneous person including dependents have Bereij trimmed below 350 Urilt 766 a year soviet personnel in the Ujj 1946 totalled while about were Here in officials ssh the decrease probably is due in Large part to the fact that tin soviet purchasing am tog is having trouble buying America official records now show Only 164 including 2 Are living in Moscow officials said the american Colony is not being allowed to come in Contact with soviet except on important official yol utne draws crowd april 17 scores of readers of the Start Aid stripes accepted the invitation to take a look at facilities today in commemoration of sixth among the guests were Brig George Eunok Provost marshal Otis Jfe Neucom chief col Frank Neucom inspector general William technical Ift formation special and director communications signal tonight the personnel of flu stars and stripes celebrated sheif birthday with a party at their the chateau mus was provided by Frankfurt 4271 special services to same band which recently Playa a command performance before King of Norway in fans special events depart Mes carried a special broadcast from the with Bruce inv Gram at the Carrier visit postponed april 17 aph the Navy 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