European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1948 the stars and stripes Page 3 Rone world one Zion Battle leads news of world by Howard Katzander staff correspondent the slow moving mechanism of the United nations was stirred into motion on the Palestine question last week by a growing threat to the shrines of holy alike to christians and on the heels of the Havanah Vic tory at came reports that stirred near panic in the holy an fallout offensive was reported in the making to drive Arab forces from within its wealthy Arab residents of Jerusalem were re ported packing their treasures for flight As the first rumblings of the Battle for the approaches to the City the warfare in Palestine had developed in dynamic fashion in re cent from scattered attacks with rifles and machine guns against isolated settlements held by arabs or it had grown in to modern warfare on a limited scale with planes and such warfare could devas Tate Jerusalem in Short truce arranged at Lake negotiations brought a truce agreement for Jerusalem until a solution could be two Days after the Auto Matic gunfire was still rattling through the streets of Jerusalem As the Battle for strategic Hills in a temporary truce halted the Battle for the Arab City which abuts on jewish Tel Airgun Vai Leumi forces launched an attack on Jaffa Early in the Over the opposition of then Havanah joined forces with Airgun to drive the arabs from the strategic Man Shieh Quarter from which much of the sniping and shelling at Tel Aviv had been beyond the Borders of in trans Jordan and Arab armies were being mobilized for an imminent invasion of the holy land in an Arab crusade to drive Ittie jews into the should such an attack it would con front in machinery with the gravest test its Powers have yet Stassen Star rises in the All eyes were on the meteoric Rise of Harola Stassen to a commanding position As 1 in the Republican hit Stas sen had already walked off with presidential popularity honors in Wisconsin and where he faced Down determined campaigns by Thomas of new last in he repeated his Pennsylvania has no presidential preferential primary its delegates Are chosen a pledged and the names of prospective candidates do appear on the More than Pennsylvania voters wrote the name of Stassen in on their Dewey came next in votes below Lassen supporters immediately claimed this Victory in the Matching his popularity in the assured him the Republican nazi undertones in local elections were held in Hesse and Bavaria with no startling How was the Strong resurgence of the extreme in the form of the National democratic which had Strong nazi in Hesse in Gen Lucius Neucom Clung to his position of adherence to fou Power directives on the control of move ments through the air despite unilateral russian threats to change communist premiers meet Premier Georgi Dimitrov of counters with Premier Klement of during Dimitrove recent visit to around the world in gems stolen in Tik zone april 30 Worth about has been stolen from Celle in the British German police reported the gems were part of the collection of the German state museum in they were transferred from the German capital to Celle Castle by British Celle Castle is a turreted and medieval building in the old town of 75 Miles South of it was requisitioned by British military government As a store for Art police officers said Many Golden earrings and necklaces of precious stones have disappeared since the last inventory was taken in the summer of Csech reds reach goal april 30 newspaper rude Provo announced that the czech communist party had reached its goal of two million members by May figures tabulated by april 26 gave the party a total of an increase of More than Over the membership claimed three months the party received votes in engineers to join May 11 rail strike april 30 brotherhood of locomotive engineers has joined two other railway unions in ordering its members to strike May the unions Are seeking a Day increased chinese reds Mote toward great Wall april 30 after column of chinese communist troops were reported marching southward toward chivas great possibly for the opening of a manchurian most military observers expect the communists to begin the manchurian offensive within 10 greeks smash at trapped guerrillas april 30 army troops were today beating guerrillas trapped in three pockets in sout Central Greece i the first phase of the Spring Thrasivoulos 1st army corps announced in Lamia according to press that 685 casualties were inflicted on communists in the previous 24 the disorganized guerrilla units were being methodically he West Union oks Erp adjustment april 30 for welding Western Europe economic and financial Structure to the european recovery program were approved at the closing session of the Brussels treaty finance ministers conference the ministers of the Netherlands and Luxembourg ended their today talks and announced their approval in principle of proposals for facilitating intr european payments in the period covered by the week old baby a stowaway by William staff correspondent april a week old baby hidden a suitcase was smuggled aboard the army transport which left Here monday for Bremerhaven port officials reported announcement of the discovery came in a wire today from the Heintzelman which also stated that two Small dogs and a cat were discovered to have been smuggled aboard the now More than four Days out of the stowaways Are the first in their categories to be discovered aboard a ship leaving this be officials the Heintzelman is the same transport on which bees first girl stowaway recently was the last name of the child was stated in the wire to be Eago the condition of the child and its sex were not i has married 4 girls since 1943 april 30 of Chat has managed to accrue enough woe for an entire Pla Toon of the 23yearold Soldier is awol in the first and among his other according to Knoxville Sims has married four girls since 1943 without obtaining a single admitted guilt in two forgery counts and con fessed robbing a 19yearold us widow 111 after Yugo release her april 30 Inge wife of the ish lieutenant she saw shot and killed by yugoslav guards released from yugoslav custody thursday British authorities announced with her was Philip the yugoslavs Reft ised to hand Over the body of stating additional diplomatic negotiations were first British reports from the Border said Burke collapsed immediately after her release and was taken to the British 31st at Klagenfurt standing costless authorities said she and Marler were kept standing costless for two hours at the Loibl pass while officers argued their authorities said they were kept waiting a few Hundred Yards from the spot where Burke was and probably Lay British authorities said Marler reported he and Burke were kicked and hustled along after burkes but after that treatment had been a spokesman said the Transfer was finally made after Neotia made difficult by a howling wind which made hearing difficult for the two groups of each of which stayed several feet behind the were com be Holiday set for dec personnel april 30 the third anniversary of be May will be a special Holiday in the Neucom head quarters announced the Day will be a Holiday for All Neucom civilian personnel and All Allied except for persons whose services Are essential to the operation of a unit or and supervisory personnel needed to direct indigenous it was similar observances will be held in All four americans die in leg Between april 2329 april 30 four americans died in the dec Between april 23 and tire weekly Neucom a casualty report revealed two of the deaths were from natural one resulted from and one from a vehicle two of the victims were army and two were department of the army Atlantic flights increased april 30 pan american world airways announced today that it will increase its transatlantic service from 42 Crossings weekly to 52 on May space is available on All flights to London and officials Lone i balks Russ soldiers in Kidnap try april 30 army disclosed today that rus Sian soldiers had been caught for the second time within two weeks in a Kidnap attempt in the Amer ican sector of the an official announcement said two armed russians were picked up yesterday in the american occupied 19th where they were searching the neighbourhood for a list of austrians they apparently sought to the two russians were arrested by Richard of a member of the 796th my the official ver Sion of the incident said the rus sians started to ensling their Tommy guns when by but that he Drew his service pistol and they were according to the official the two russians entered the area from the adjacent Russia occupied 26th they first went to the Home of Adolf his wife answered the door and the russians demanded her she said he was not Home and after a search they saying they also were looking for Young men and americas end Bogota Parley april 30 Gates to the ninth inter american conference began packing today to go having virtually completed in 25 working Days the task originally expected to take six Many foreign delegates planned to leave tonight Aiter the closing All will sign the Constitution or charter of the organization of american the new name Given the 58yearold pan Amer ican the 122article charter will trans form the Union into a technical and administrative in making the the majority opposed giving the new body any military Powers for de sense of the continent or More political Powers than the few the old Union the charter proclaims the Legal Equality of All american states with equal rights and duties and also fundamental rights of Man without distinction of nation or sex All american states bind themselves to Settle any controversy arising among them by peaceful nazis cast votes in Hesse election april 30 spot checks of former nazis revealed six of 20 voted illegally in Hesse local James Omagh Dis closed he added that the hessian ministry of Denali fiction was Ligating the charges of hessian election Laws deny voting to All major of fenders and incriminated lesser of Newman said the charges Are primarily a geman matter and that All investigations would be handled by the hessian chinese reds return body of Marine pfc april 30 marines announced today chinese communists returned the body of pc Charles of new j Brayton was fatally wounded Christmas Day when he and four other marines strayed into red territory on a Hunting the other marines were freed by communists april