European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Grange chief 4 a farm surplus us april april 17 a Congress pushing military preparedness was advised to look after the country nomie j Albert head of the National said a bigger farm surplus was in the making than that of the 1920s he precipitated the great of the Goss told the Senate agriculture committee that Congress should continue farm Price sports to meet a crisis he said would develop sooner or later when foreign i demands for food Falls sets Ball rolling Congress set the military defense Ball sen ate leaders promised no delay in action on the House passed Meas ure calling for building up the air Force from 55 to 70 combat As the preparedness program Gath ered Chan said the expanded Avia Tion budget approved by the House was Only about half enough to get a 70group air Force Congress also must authorize an increase in the strength of the air Force and make certain that the manpower needed is Gurney there Are a lot of Short term enlistments expiring this and if they want a 70group air there going to need authority to draft if drop writer asks Aprl 17 attorneys for John Howard Law son reopened the defense Case to Day in a Las ditch Effort to get the movie writers contempt of Congress charge thrown out of he is the first of 10 writers and producers to go on trial in Federal court for refusing to Tell the House Una Merican activities com Mittee whether they Ever belonged to the communist in reopening the defense Lawsons attorneys attacked the legality of the subcommittee which originally cited the con Federal judge Edward Curran ordered both sides to file briefs on the question when the proceedings Are resumed attorney for the 53yearold author of such films As counter attack and action in the North Atlantic concluded their Case with a motion for a directed verdict of not Robert Best eyes half closed reason april 17 Mer foreign correspondent Robert Best was convicted of treason a wartime German radio broadcaster on his 52nd birthday yesterday by a 12man Federal court jury that deliberated for three hours and 40 a native of stood with eyes half closed As the jury Foreman announced the Federal judge Francis Ford deferred sentence to an indefinite Date to reflect on the disposition of the Ford gave the life sentence to another former Amer ican Douglas of who was convicted of treason in the same children help Battle rising Ohio River flood april 17 than including women and aided soldiers in a desperate Battle against the rising Ohio River at today As the flood Crest prediction 98 state votes seen going to Truman president lauded Stassen seeks data by committee i on defense new april 17 i april 17 the state democratic committee i Harold made a unanimously commended president i visit to Washington yesterday seek Truman yesterday in a Resolution i ing the most recent development viewed As committing new Yorks j in the defense 98 National convention votes to his the gop presidential candidate to Capitol Hill while in Routi the Resolution slapped hard to Florida to make another bid Henry for accepting i the 15 Republican convention Dele communist support and patted the Gates from that president on the Back for his veto i Stassen conferred for half an How of the Taf Hartley act which was with Chan Gurney is d his civil rights pro chairman of the Senate armed Gram and his far seeing vision services and then by sponsoring the european recovery with other gop the committee differed with the president on Palestine How Robert Tafuro Ioc that partition of the into the Buckeye stale we be effected without candidates Are fighting h convention a nov holy was upped from 64 to 65 prior to the meeting had would not be mentioned because of opposition of some army engineers ordered 300 additional troops from Knox i members to administrations to help Battle the flood at the Kentucky just across the rampaging i Palestine Road bulge As rain soaked Clay Hill moves Ohio from Louisville District urged industrialists to free allem ploys for levee sound trucks were sent into the blaring appeals for Aid for j everyone Over women and Chil april 17 a Dren have been put to work tying Clark urges reelection of Truman to balk War april 17 attorney general Tom Clark said 600foothigh loosened by heavy yesterday was moving h the sandbag barriers fail to toward the Allegheny River at a 35 blocks of Newport will be rate of five eights of Inch an the slide buckled a Riverside Boulevard and moved Pennsylvania Railroad tracks about five trains were still using the tracks but they slowed to eight Miles an hour on the danger two families evacuated their Homes on the moving one owned by Helen began breaking Allen moved out on the advice of big fissures a speared in the Yard of who lives j a fissure on top of the Hill was j three feet wide and half a mile Ireland blamed the slide on heavy rain she said the water soaked into the ground and slicked a Clay bed near the Bottom of the then the Earth on top of the Clay started to inundated and about families driven was embattled As it tensely awaited the same watery Fate that has befallen hundreds of upstream the Ohio surged past the 62foot 10 feet above flood at the Queen City and headed for the Crest of 65 Stassen and Taft Are on oppo Silaj sides of the Universal military Tram ing Issue but both support an air return to office for another term would serve to prevent the out break of a third world War and Stem the advancing Shadow of russian speaking at the Erie country democratic committees annual expansion Taft while Stassen has modified his Early support of the to urge that something be worked out which will have the general support of the a Bataan colonel to head vets for Stassen group april 17 up a former army colonel who spent nearly three years in a japanese prison Camp has announced he Wili head a National veterans to Stassen he is Ernest it Grover Cleveland Clark wartime Era termed the soviet nation a godless j Mande of the 194th tank that creature who would destroy civil ii r nation in emphasizing the reality of a current threat to it on and More recently 1947 american legion Miller said he will organize because Harold Sta Seal Republican presidential hopeful pm gets third Extension new april 17 shall publisher of the new York paper says publication will continue up to the Issue of april this is the third Extension made to prospective Pur chasers to make definite offers for the Shannon probes say plane was of april 17 civil aeronautics Board said tonight that the Constellation which crashed at Shannon thurs with the loss 30 lives was free of mechanical the cab absolved the operated by pan american of any responsibility for the Acci it said the plane burned approximately half a mile from its touchdown adding the Pilot elected to use the instrument Landing system for his he made one missed approach and crashed on his police find hate group april 17 policemen were credited yesterday with uncovering a new hate or the Black and the Rescue of a Man from an unmerciful strapping four men were under arrest on charges of and and police held As evidence several crude Black a a leather strap and nearly 100 cards printed with the groups the patrolmen said they found James Bent Forward against a he had been apparently with a heavy leather unto blood vessels a Man crouching behind two cars parked was of heard others crashing through the Brush and three others were tracked Down and Berry was quoted by the chief As saying the men accused him of not supporting his police said they believed the at tackers belonged to a group similar to the now disbanded an anti negro Reuther accused of raiding Union by be official april 17 an official of the Cio United elec radio and machine workers yesterday accused Walter president of the Cio United Auto of sabotaging the drive for a third round wage the charge was made Stanley of president of be District Council Loney also accused the Law of raiding a be local in new he said the raid had been Loney said Reuthers raiding tactics were timed to disrupt the be when it is carrying the Brunt of National wage negotiations in Many key Waller Reuther could better spend his time the thousands of unorganized workers in the general motors division and push ing for a general wage raise instead of pursuing his raiding tactics on a sister Cio Loney Tennessee leaders reject Strong anti Truman stand april j7 not a Fence Sitter and does net Nessee democratic delegates will go spend his time tearing Down Evert to the National convention in philae loins the democrats have Delphia free to cast the states ballots As they but they i must vote As a f the state convention rejected a Strong anti Truman Resolution and voted instead to leave Trie delegates uninstructed on the presidential nomination but instructed to vote As a Jena buys greek tobacco Worth april 17 Purchase of Worth of greek tobacco for the Anglo Amer can zones of Germany was announced head of the by Zonia joint Export import Agency tobacco purchasing said an additional Worth will be bought in if he next few former movie official Dies new april 17 Mer treasurer of Paris ranch of the United artists from 1930 to has he recently retired As an Advertis ing pm Layoff april 17 eral motors announced teds it will All its Automo ii fabricating idling by april 23 because effects of the Coal pm said it was running pig Iron and steel supplies result of the Coal strike but automobile Assembly plants remain in operation As Ion available material tji veterans Burn communist books american Day proclaimed april 17 president Truman has asked i am an american to be observed on May communist books and seized when about 100 vet broke up a communist party meeting recently in Xiv burned by the veterans of foreign wars and Catholic War Vete disturbances were kept to scuffling by police who protected 60 party aids and 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