European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1948 the stars and stripes Page 7 Truman warns inflation endangers Epp Yugo protest on project x turned Down april 18 he state department has brushed aside a yugoslav protest against a mysterious project x to finance anticommunist underground forces behind the Iron it was Learned last chairman styles Bridges of the Senate appropriations com Mihee on March 24 gave the Tipoff on the Clandestine anticommunist he said in a Senate speech that the should encourage the underground behind the Iron cur and seek to undermine tyranny in areas Al ready 1 yugoslav ambassador Sava a Kosanovic protested to the state department March the state department rejected the protest april the yugoslav protest said Aid to underground forces in a Friendly nation would be Contra dietary to All moral and Legal principles so far upheld by civilized Bridges the yugoslav protest could not be considered an irresponsible statement made by an irresponsible individual be cause of his important functions in Congress and the High place where the speech was the state department replied the acting Secretary of state does not consider that the remarks of a member of the Congress of the Are a proper subject for representations by a government under the constitutional system of the does not feel called upon to comment cabbie pastes on Button by list Toni Tokyo raiders meet again april 18 it James Doolittle told his famed Tokyo raiders Here last night that the cannot afford two air he called for his Strong coordinated air Force operating under one directing head in order to accomplish the air Mission effectively and Doolittle spoke to 40 of the 61 survivors of the daring Tokyo b25 raid who opened their anniversary of the memorable Date it is obvious1 to All of Doo Little that we  have two armies or two it should be equally obvious that we cannot afford two air 3 offer to wed German woman april 18 three More ohioans have stepped Forward by mail and volunteered to marry a 38yearold in Germany so that she can come to the without going through government red Gerda of bad Cannstatt near Ger wrote to Thomas Herbert for Helpin finding an american she emphasized she is very serious about want ing to marry a gentleman in the United states so she can escape the chaos in flame soars Over Alaska april 18 observers said a Bright Orange flame travelling at a High rate of Speed in a South Westerly direction was seen Over Gravina Island and heading out to new april 18 up in taxicab Driver Max Vogel is waging a Oneman Campaign against his is a pinup with not whoever hails Maxs cab will get a White and Blue Button resembling political Campaign the buttons portray Uncle Sam holding aloft the american Flag As he tramples on the Hammer and and his have six ranging from Michael who is5 one and a half to Frieda has been getting More and More worried recently about the possibility of another Max says he end Frieda got to wondering they could do to help prevent another but what can two people do by and what can any body do without Money there was Only his wife special fund of c hed saved carefully out of grocery Money to buy some badly needed but she decided she didst need new furniture that r Here she said one take the and go put and see what you can do with Max took up the All the political Campaign buttons people Are wearing this year gave him the he went out and spent the Money on several thou indians ask to return Oil lands april 18 Norman former assistant attorney has asked the supreme court to give the disputed California tidelands Back to the he has filed a petition in behalf of two individuals and 20 bands of Mission indians in Southern he said title to the Oil Rich lands off the California coast was guaranteed to his clients forebears by the mexican treaty of the respected their title until the wild Days of the California Gold according to after a prolonged Legal the High court decided last year that the Federal government owns the California asked to have a master appointed to Settle certain Boundary questions the area in dispute is the so called marginal extending from the Towwater Mark out to the three mile cabdriver Max his wife and two of their six sons look Over some of Vogels allegiance buttons upper one of the buttons is Sand most of which now adorn his no sooner does the cab Stop at its first Stop than congenial Max turns around in his seat with a handful of but tons and offers one to each person in the How about wearing another he says there in style this read what it says around the Edge i pledge allegiance to my Flag fight there my private fight against the one of the first fares Max offered a Button to mind your own Damn crack or ill paste you on the but that took some says Max who weighs about 200 pounds and looks but i figured what in trying to do is Stop not Start so i shut another Guy wanted to give me a Check for he another an admitted gave Max such a High powered Sale stalk on communism Max  get a word in was that Guy says he almost Burnt the cab Max has been giving out pins for Only a few Days but he says business is he gives out about 300 pins a night arid about 10 per cent of his customers wont take 78 yanks to be decorated april 18 the retiring British ambassador to lord will present decorations to 78 members of the armed forces april in a British it was announced editor reject censorship in peacetime april 18 the american society of news paper editors voted yesterday against peacetime the editors also pledged support to the training of newsmen for handling atomic asked clarification of postal Laws on lotteries and urged state acts to recognize the rights of newsmen to keep confidential their sources of inform in a recommended the state department Issue visas to All Bona fide news reporters from the Resolution said the United states government should not ask More from other governments in the Way of Freedom of information than it is willing to training courses called upon the government to maintain fullest possible Freedom of atomic and authorized a standing committee to set up training courses in handling atomic information for newspaper they urged the committee on Security to consider promptly charges of discrimination against some american correspondents in in another they expressed Hope the associated press United press would furnish actual and adequate news sum Maries to the state department for broadcast overseas for the duration of the world both the a and up have declined to furnish their news re ports to the state department for such Monitor editor elected president of Asne april 18 Erwin editor of the Christian science was elected president of the american society of newspaper editors yes he succeeded of the Cleveland girl loses finds husband new april 18 Maria the girl from who Learned upon her arrival in America last december that her Fiance was killed while she was in yesterday married Anthony also 21 years k about 400 relatives and friends attended the ceremony and about 500 people were present at the reception where Maria she is the happiest girl in ears rises menace Joine front april 18 president Truman said last night the nations Economy is in serious danger from High he demanded enactment of his ant in Flatiron program immediately be fore it is too the in an address to the american society of newspaper said the Success of Amer ican foreign the basis of which is depended to a Large extent on the strength and stability of the Domestic Economy in danger we Are striving to avoid an eco nomic crisis by protecting our Prosperity while we still have we Are striving to avoid a War crisis by being firm before it is too he told the Plain fact Truman that our Economy is in serious danger As a result of High prices and Truman recommended a 10 Point economic program to Congress last including standby wage and rationing he also asked for curbs on considering All he the danger of inflation has not diminished within the last few it seems to he that the Basic question is it is whether we take action in time to do some Good or whether we delay until a crisis is upon it is simply a matter of taking out insurance before the House catches exact opposite the president said the american people must not be misled by those who oppose a reasonable ant in Flatiron program and a reasonable defense it has been said that the present administration is trying to create an economic crisis or an inter National he the exact opposite is the the welfare of our own the effectiveness of oui foreign and the strength of our defences All depend on our pros Only if we preserve the soundness of our through prompt and adequate measures to control can we contribute our full share toward peace in which Freedom and democracy will a ghost tells his Story april 18 special what it is like to be a generals ghost is told spook in he april Issue of the infantry who remains describes the weird military duty of writing a generals Al says Erp averted 1948 business recession april 18 the Al said yesterday a business recession was averted by enactment of the european re covery tax reduction increased military said the Means an end to All threat of business recession this year and a real dancer of new shortages and More Price the threat of higher prices should be met by voluntary the Union reiterating its opposition to wage freezing which it said is implicit in a Price control divorce rate in drops new april 18 divorce rate dropped one fourth in 1947 from the 1946 Al time insurance statisticians said metropolitan life insurance estimators said the decrease showed effects of the War on family life Are wearing the researchers found Nevada had a 34 per cent South Michigan and Minnesota had decreases of 20 per cent or if there is any Comfort to be derived from the divorce record of recent the statisticians it is that about three fifths of the marriages dissolved were and that a considerable proportion 01 the divorced lost Little time in