European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page i the stars and stripes 1948 Navy Marks 150th birthday today Fleet once was under command of army Washington Navy will celebrate its 350th anniversary today with nationwide speakers at the various naval districts will recall the Day when naval affairs were taken out of the War departments control and made a separate for 10 years the sol Diers had bossed the to the satisfaction of practically no although the Navy department was officially created april there had been an american Navy Many years before that and it had already taken part in the Early since colonial coastal Waters afforded essential food and the Prin Cipal Means of local transport maritime activity had Given this new nation a Busy shipping by american built ships were engaged in the com Merce of great Britain out of a total of whenever the Mother country was at Many colonial ships participated actively As the dispute with great resulting in the revolutionary was largely maritime in a the first naval forces of the revolution were drawn from the merchant state navies were principally by Mas Pennsyl Virginia and South in Congress brought the Continental Navy into being by voting to fit out armed the first Squadron of eight vessels sailed from Philadelphia under Commodore Ese Hopkins in it captured Nas and brought Home Large quantities of much needed soon after the War the Navy went out of existence and was not reestablished until 1794 when Congress provided for the construction under the War depart ment of six in answer to depredations of the Barbary Powers upon our important rapidly growing Mediterranean later the Force was brought to a total of 54 vessels with Commodore John Barry As senior explorer seek aborigine data Darwin australian american expedition has moved into Australia Northern unknown to probe the mys Terie Sof the country Stone age the 12 members in this party left Darwin by Royal australian air Force Catalina for their first base on groote this Little known Island in the Gulf Carpentaria is 500 Miles East of later they will move into big aboriginal Reserve East of aborigines they will meet have Little knowledge of the White in some aborigines have a reputation for murderous Spear throwing assaults on such Small groups As have landed on the Coal goal evades japs Tokyo produced tons of Coal during the year ended March japanese authorities production was per cent of the goal of 000 tons set for the today is the 150th anniversary of the creation the Navy throughout the wherever Navy men Are the occasion will be marked with special the concussion of the 16inch guns of the battleship Iowa flattens the sea in this wartime action landlocked yank sailors enjoy life As londoners London yanks have Bassy canteen where seamen a not left Piccadilly who correspond to Buck privates in the eat at the same table with one Seaman second class said its just like holding Down a civilian except for routine watches we come in to our offices on Grosvenor Square at 9 in the morning and leave at 6 All the navys offices Are at 20 Grosvenor the same building which served As Dwight Eisenhower sheaf during the rear George Hender Conolly chief of now Nln cd Livrati occupies Eisenhower old office and some of the maps on the Wall of hendersons office were used by Eisenhower in planning his the Northern european task Force includes one Light the Fresno one Supply the Hamul and two the uss William Rush and the uss the Mediterranean Force consists of about 10 destroyers and supporting Ondon yanks have not left Piccadilly there Are 200 american naval officers and sailors stationed Here on the staff of Richard commander in chief of All naval forces in the East Ern Atlantic and living in a unique setup for they Are on their they Billet at their discretion some living in London some boarding with eng Lish while they Are on most of them eat at the american pm seized be Craft Bremerhaven pcs d Only naval detachment is stationed in this City to furnish Security for former German fight ing tenders and merchant Marine vessels now tied up in the Dock areas at one time the sailors Here operated Security Craft on the Weser River but this duty now been taken Over by Mai Jie Security officials of military gov in addition to Security the Navy super intends maintenance on seized Navy Headquarters Here and billets for the sailors Are in the Marine compound where army troops and unit Headquarters of some organizations Are from time to time the naval base is Host to cruisers and destroyers which arrive on operational Navy Headquarters Here announced that no special Cerebra tons had been planned for to Holcomb is com manding officer of the naval advanced base firm up Start producing new Cyclone engines Washington Wright will Start mass production soon on a and More powerful version of its famous 18cylinder Cyclone the company said the new in believed to be the most powerful 18cylinder enjoin a in the will be built the Navy under a it will be produced at the Curtis Wright Plant at years april the allies sink at least 6 ships bearing Axis troops and supplies for april 1944 Douglas in new says no to Rumor Sof his being a Republican presidential april 1945 7th army troops enter largest bavarian City arid Birthplace of the nazi april 1946 in India Nehru is nominated by the Congress party for the presidency of the next Indian con april 1947 guerrillas Are reported moving into the Hills to take up arms against the government in genocide held punishable Lake Success United nations committee on genocide has agreed that individuals and groups As Well is governments should be held punish Able for genocidal Geno cide is defined As mass Destro Tion of human to need extra farm hands Washington employment service says America will have to bring in about foreign labourers to help Harvest the huge farm crops forecast for this nine million More acres will have been planted this summer than in according to that is a peacetime record of Robert director of the employment thinks the National work Force will be about the same this year As by that Means Farmers will have to look to puerto Rico or the British West indies for at least As Many foreign farm hands As in the number last year was parallel ends but there the parallel Congress has wiped out the War time arrangement Iby which the government paid the transport housing and other costs of foreign labor needed to piece out the tight Supply of manpower the government is Selling the work which were a big Aid in recruiting foreign and migratory help during the this year those who need the foreign help will have to foot the Congress passed a Law to that transportation alone will Cost about Goodwin Farmers also must provide sanitary housing and Post Bond for payment of wages and return of the worker to the place where he was hired in his Home the employer cant use mexican or other foreign labor to push Down wage he must pay the prevailing while the mexican worker submits to an automatic saving of 5 per cent of his the employer de ducts that from his Jay and gives it to him when the Job is world music test slated at Hague the e h a g u e Menuhin is among the famous artists who will judge at a 25 nation International music con test at Schev Ningen the from May 19 to May some 300 Young and mostly unknown musicians Are to they will come from South the Luxem the scandinavian Hun soviet Latvia and Spanish banker holds on Madrid Goicoechea has celebrated his anniversary As governor of the ban of longest tenure of any Man in this off ice since body oks research at California d atomic Energy commission has agreed to sponsor exploration of the nucleus of the atom at University of California for an other four University pres ident Robert Sproul has an the new which be comes effective july is an Extension of an agreement under which the University radiation Laboratory has been operating since May the Laboratory was the Birthplace of the atomic bomb and the atom smashing contract explained the contract Calls for the opera Tion of the giant Cyclotron which has greatly expanded Manv knowledge of the atomic nucleus since its completion a Little More than a year the commission also will to support the construction and operation of linear and the 60inch med ical Cyclotron in the Crocker radiation provisions also Are made for continued Bio logical and medical research at the Conner medical Proul said the contract terms would enable the University to the applied scientific pro Gram undertaken by the univer sity at los with a Broad fundamental scientific pro Gram on the Berkeley the began to sponsor research in the Radia Tion Laboratory on 194z the Manhattan Engineer which produced the atomic took Over sponsorship in and a method was worked out for the electromagnetic Sepa ration of uranium235 which Wai later applied at Oak in 1945 the radiation Laboratory quit concentrating on research and began a reconversion to its in the fundamental exploration of the atom and searches for new information in biological and medical russian new plants seen rivalling Chicago machine tool efficiency May be higher than americas because soviet Industrial plants Are president of the machine tool builders told his association Spring he has allowed her Industrial Plant to become of and private Industry a the Netherlands and other West european countries find they cannot place orders for american machine tools to re establish their industries because of the Dollar shortage and the present restrictions on the nor Mal flow of the stars and stripes i lie april 1348 editor chief William Summers managing editor Ken Zumwalt sports Jack Ellis executive manager Maurice Kirkwood chief of Bernard Mcguigan news bureaus Stuttgart 9310476516 Berlin 846680 b 47184 48146 Wiesbaden 8341 Bremerhaven 481520 the european edition is published daily for the occupation forces under the auspices of 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