European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1948 the stars and stripes Page 3 swede official asks stronger armed forces april 22 proposals to give Sweden a stronger air Arm and More Mobile army units against airborne attacks were Laid before parliament in a 500page minister of defense Allan said the defense question should be seen against a Grimmer and that military preparedness should be to correspond to the current he proposed local mobilization and military depots at locations where an might make air borne the Home guard should be strengthened and sup ported by infantry units with Strong fire lie the air still considered the Best air should be strengthened by increasing number of planes by 50 per Cenaj and creating a night fighter Vougt he added destroyers and sub marines should be maintained in commissioned status and the num Ber of torpedo boats soviet leads in robot says swedish general april 22 the soviet Union has better robot weapons than the germans Ever and better than the will have for several Sweden general Helge Jung indicated the does not at present have any Long distance missiles comparable to the German v2 or he said in a statement attached to the governments new defense he added that Russia might be ahead of the in this respect and that better robot weapons of the Type Are in All likelihood in and could reach Sweden from surrounding As soviets blocked Vienna Airport Road armed russian soldiers Man the barricades at a soviet Roadblock on Road from Vienna to the american occupied Airfield at in the russian a traffic Between the Airport and the City was interrupted when russians at the roadblocks asked for passes not formerly Aid asked for navajos april 22 Secretary of Interior Krug asked Congress to Start a 10year program Rescue the Navajo indians from abject pro Verty and to meet this country heavy moral obligation to the i consider the inspection of a comprehensive Navajo program one of the major responsibilities of the Interior the Congress and the Krug vets in prison listed april a House veterans subcommittee re ported yesterday that on fourth of All new inmates at Federal prisons Are veterans of world War sed asks soviets to clarify plan for reparations april 22 communist dominated socialist Unity party today appealed to the soviet Union to clarify its reparations Otto chairman of the Russia sponsored in a speech marking the party second Anni said the soviet zone economic rehabilitation could not be accomplished without definite know ledge of what plants Russia would remove from Grotewohl did not criticize soviet reparations policies but he we again Appeal to the occupation to provide As soon As Possi a clearly outlined plan on reparations so can actually exec Ute the economic planning now the party meeting was told by Wilheim its Moscow trained that the Marshall plan would mean the exploitation of Germany and the Complete enslavement of German workers in the reporters receive Surprise soviet invitation april 22 rus sians surprised american correspondents today by inviting them to one of their rare press Confer which is to be held at the soviet press the official soviet news Bureau refused to disclose the subject of the conference or who would con duct except that it would be someone from the soviet military my Aid assures germans will not desert then april 22 the German people need not fear that the government will abandon Germany to russian John consultant to the director of the civil administration said last speaking before the american German club at Elliott said when the time comes for us to get out of Germany we propose to give Germany Back to the Ger mans and not to the we will not leave this country until we have achieved the purpose for which we came to Germany in the creation of a German United under a truly demo form of Elliott As an example of the growing determination of the West to resist the rising tide of Elliott cited the recent London con Ference for a Western european passage by Congress of the Marshall plan for Aid to and the favourable response con Gress gave president Truman a peal for the re adoption of the selective service Elliott cited As most encouraging in the anticommunist offensive the rejection of communist Leader ship in Italy recent stand for a United but also for an Independent Ger Elliott and we do not wish to see Germany United in the form of a satellite state taking its orders from the Kremlin like Poland and the Baltic my May oust nazi mayor Schwabish april 22 authorities Here Are ready to use their ultimate authority to rid this town of its nazi mayor elect even if he was named by the United press the towns backed by the local Denali fiction have accepted Franz Konrad despite his Blacka Edwhite record As a nazi administrator Here from 1937 to military government is convinced that Konrad and the tribunal were dealing themselves and each other in on local political Maneu vers when the tribunal declared Konrad not an offender under Dena Ifica Tion 7he first exoneration was thrown Back to the tribunal by my Asun the review of the Case turned out the same and again authorities refused to recognize it As now they Are pondering a Means of actually keeping Konrad out of office since records prove his nazi they and any Whitewash of Konrad is considered a German killed in arrest april 22 a 15yearold German boy was shot killed by an american officer Early tuesday morning when he resisted arrest after being found inside the compound near a Large Hole in the compound head quarters command reported the report said my an army investigating shot the Kurt after he and a Carl refused to surrender to the Pfeiffer also was to have attack Mcelroy came to the scene of the incident after being awakened by Frederick an other who spotted the two germans going through the Hole in Fence at approximately 4 sentenced for robberies april 22 special four germans convicted of robbing the Homes of lieutenants James Hopkins and George Riggs in the buc Schlag military Community were sentenced Here Fred my court sentenced Karl Hurst Bauer and Martin Amend to four years Julius Kramer Drew a 2year All four were residents of Frank Bogota Parley urged to pledge red Fig april 22 Strong anticommunist Call ing on All american nations to impede and uproot every alien and subversive activity in their was introduced at the inter Amer ican conference yesterday by the Chile and voicing United condemnation of All totalitarian particularly those of International communism which violently destroy civil rights and freedoms and them with a tyrannical the Resolution charged that such activities Are a threat to free demo cratic and Republican institutions and to the very Independence and sovereignty of american it Calls on All Western hemisphere countries to undertake the widest interchange of information regard ing such activities in their Territo combining purely repressive provisions with constructive meth ods to discourage the Resolution voiced firm determination to maintain and encourage a social and economic policy designed to raise the Standard of living of the american opposes plan to end Europe colonies in West april 22 Secretary of state George mar shall told the inter american con Ference meeting Here that the opposes the Resolution to end european colonies in the Western he said the opposes any Extension of european colonies in the Western but like Wise opposes any Resolution which prejudge the claims Friendly european of Boeing plants shut by strike april 22 up auction on military and commercial air planes at two Boeing aircraft plants was stopped Here today by a strike of Mem Bers of the Aero mechanics Union the strike was not sanctioned by the unions International head local presi said he had been instructed by International president Harvey Brown to Tell his men to stay on the the mechanics walked out Des Pite the picket lines were set up at every Gate to the sprawling Plant 15 minutes before the strike deadline of company1 officials reported that Only two men reported for work on the graveyard which has a Normal Crew of the Aero mechanics Are a subsidiary of the Independent machinists the two plants employ a total of workers the strike held up production on planes valued at Brazil purge of reels nips May Day plot Rio april 22 up nearly 800 communists have been arrested in Brazil in a Campaign Fco Block a revolutionary plot allegedly scheduled to break but on May of the total 400 were in Rio official reports other centers of anticommunist activity were Sao Porto Alegre and key cities in Southern and Recife in the latest reports from Porto capital of Rio Grande do said police raided communist meeting arresting 50 persons and Seiz ing Large quantities of communist books and Porto Alegre police asserted a vast plan called for the Start of disturbances in the outskirts of the City in order to attract the police while the bulk of the communists attacked key Points in the Center of the new regime takes Over in Costa Rica revolution san Costa april 22 militiamen were killed As the new government of pres ident using armoured acted to vice out armed bands still shooting in san Joses former president Teodore who agreed to peace terms aimed at ending the country civil War and turned the presidency Over to her left by plane for the fighting started March 12 after the february presidential elections were annulled by the two quakes Rock dominican capital Ciudad april 22 of persons spent the night in Parks or streets after a second earthquake rocked this capital of the dominican there was Only one one person became panic stricken Dur ing the first quake ran in front of a truck and was several were reported injured and Many buildings including the Santa Basilica British Flattop visits Trieste planes of the has an British aircraft loom Over the Trieste this was the first visit to Trieste by a Flattop the end of the
