European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes May 1948 House committee oks measure continued from Page 1 acceptable to All the Navy and air they did not ask that the com Mittee put in any provision for limited training of by Forrestal emphasized that he still believes Universal military training is Andrews has been assured by House leaders that the Bill will be called up for debate next Here Are the Bills principal pro visions provisions listed would raise the total authorized manpower of the armed for Ces to air and Navy and Marine the present total strength is of 18 through 30 would be with those from 19 through 25 liable for two years men in the 1926 group could enlist voluntarily in the regular army for two but in no other veterans would be exempt from but those under 31 would have to plants could be seized by government if they refused to give top priorities to armament orders or if they did not provide equipment at what the Secretary of defense considered reasonable to 45 years old could be drafted for two years the armed forces would be allowed to Call for doctors up to 5 per cent of their total and dentists up to 2 per at full that would put some doctors and dentists into counting those Al ready in ministers excepted divinity students and some conscientious objectors would be exempt from objectors willing to perform noncombatant service would be inducted for such service for occupation would be determined by the Law would expire two after it went into the possibility of a amt rider was brought up by Harry Towe author of the train ing Bill which the House rules committee has blocked for it was approved by the armed services committee last Marylander named As Eca Deputy May Howard of was nominated today to be Deputy administrator of the economic co operation a Baltimore was Maryland member of the democratic party National committee for 14 he will work under Paul Hoff Man if the nomination is approved by the Bruce is now chair Man of the Board of the Worthing ton pump machinery and chairman of the Maryland dry Dock Saboteur loads Cigar for film Buenos May 3 a plot in which a nazi agent obtains employment in a cuban Cigar factory just to Load wins ton Church ills special cigars with dynamite is the theme of a cuban a Marujo a n t i 11 a n or Caribbean enchantment the a thriller now being shown tells Bow the a Brave government foils the villain just in Arab Haifa called almost ghost City by Menno Duerksen May 3 Haifa is almost a ghost official estimates today stated that less than of the arabs who lived Here last Decem Ber Are now in the is estimated that left in a gradual exodus Between Decem Ber arid april then came the sudden British decision to stand on the sidelines and let the Arab and jewish forces fight it out for domination of the a lightning jewish offensive took the town within 24 hours on april 2122 and a Panicky flight of thou Sands of arabs abandoning their Homes and belongings seemed Likely to empty the City in one a after the first the exodus slowed Down to an orderly with arabs taking at least some of their but every Day or jews feared effect the realizing that it would be a political and propaganda defeat if thousands of arabs be came refugees fro the used every stratagem to persuade the arabs to remain in the and at times it seemed As if they would there was even a slow trickle of some arabs but the exodus never entirely to 10 Days after the Arab Haifa has practically ceased to exist As a breathing if the flight in less than two weeks there wont be a single Arab left in in a tour of the heart of the old City Market place on foot my footsteps echoed lonely pavements of the deserted sometimes for several blocks i did not see a single and Long lines of locked shops and stores were mostly currency violator fined May 3 Edward who said he owned a store in new was fined today for attempting to bring 368 pounds Sterling into currency regulations per Mit persons entering the country to bring in Only 10 in route to Ufa Post Robert wartime commander of the 45th talking to reporters at Rhine main air base on his Way to Vienna where he has been assigned to Frederick said he did not know what his new assignment will he said Alexander commander of is leaving for the May orders Job made him military government chief for the sector of at is one of the to hugest two Star generals in the photo by Compton Mills Farrais if rotifer continued Page 1 whom Farran was acquitted of last shortly after far rans Stern gang leaflets appeared in the Al jewish City of Tel Aviv announcing that Barrans time will we shall go after him to the end of the a much decorated whose medals include the american legion of Barrans exploits in seven years include the following on Crete his tank was hit three times by enemy fire and captured by the he in 1942 Farrisn was driving Jock Campbell when their car overturned in the african the general was with 15 he was sent to blow up railway lines North of in late when the bomb was delivered today he was at the Home of William Stirling in us to resist Zion invasion continued from Page 1 this British position has already been made Clear to the govern ments of the Arab states and it is virtually certain it is this which has prevented any military action being taken by those Pope asks special prayers for peace in Palestine Vatican May 3 an encyclical letter to the roman Catholic Bishops of the Pope Pius Xii asked that special prayers during May be devoted to imploring the Happy Triumph of peace in the dated May was made Public by the Vatican Britain insists will end May 15 May 3 for eign office spokesman said today that the sending of British reinforcements to Palestine does not alter the governments determination to surrender jts mandate May 15 and Complete the withdrawal of All its forces by August he said the reinforcements of tanks and guns would be used to keep Law and order May then Only to cover the withdrawal of British the spokesman said the Plain fact was that the British command had underestimated the seriousness of disturbances Likely to precede the laying Down of the red Cross May Aid Palestine helpless continued Iron Page 1 accepted the truce on the under standing that it would be can celled if the arabs refused to agree in the forthcoming negotiations to give the jews free Dom of exit and entry through the walled City the arabs previously rejected such both arabs and jews agreed that the terms of the truce should be negotiated in the meanwhile was reported to be ready to press for action on its proposal for a temporary trusteeship for i informed sources said Hope was not abandoned of placing the entire municipal area at Jerusalem under the red sources stressed that red Cross Protection of women and children depended Ara jewish agree renovating House for Royal couple to Cost May 3 government disclosed today that it is spending to alter and modernize a town House for Princess Elizabeth and Prince works minister Charles key said 55 workmen were employed on the project and it would take about a the known As Clarence was formerly the Home of the late Duke of Connaught and was occupied by the British red Cross during the Ronald labor Mem questioned whether the Money should be spent at a time when hundreds thousands of persons desperately needed Emrys another labor said meanwhile thousands of newly married couples in London have to live with commissary cards urged for unwed continued from Page 1 Sion to Purchase least of commissary food per Tupper explained that he could authorize commissary rations for bachelors at present Only if a mess was not convenient for official As Good he reported that for the first time in months the backlog of families waiting for Homes in Munich has been cleared personnel returning Home and not being replaced have made sufficient houses he a promotes Gould May 3 Gould today appointed executive editor of the associated the appointment was made by Kent executive director and Gen eral who said Gould would be responsible solely to him for associated press news and news photo soviets free 3 gis held in Berlin May 3 american soldiers who were arrested saturday night by russian in the soviet sector of the cite were released tonight to american military police a closed interrogation of the trial before permitting them to relate their experiences to the the whose names were not were reported to missing from their stations at army Tempelhof air depot arrested in cafe Ujj according to a German Girth they were arrested on Saquip Day night by the russians while visiting a German restaurant in soviet sector in company with Man no grounds for arrest but the russians in the past have taken some icons into custody Only for visiting the soviet this is contrary to fou Power agreements that travel Between the occupation sectors of the cite of should be the Provost marshals office also disclosed that two other american soldiers were arrested and Brief Lye detained by the sunday of when they bicycled out of and into the surrounding soviets the soldiers had cameras and entered the soviet zone without the required written the russians promptly notified the american authorities of the arrests and handed the pair i Russ i traffic talks continued from Page 1 trains from the american zone to the american sector of we Are not interested in attending meetings on technical or transport matters 1 this problem of Freedom of ment is not on the Agenda of the thursday the British spokesman is the Overall traffic soon after Russia imposed its traffic restrictions oof april soviet Deputy military promised to Call a meeting clarify this meeting has not been in the mean the passage Allied military passenger trains tween Berlin and the Vest has suspended and All outgoing freight shipments White named new constabulary chief continued from Page with Bryant former commander of the 88th inf and present commander of troops in the Trust com officials Here said White will arrive in Frankfurt by air thursday for conferences with Neucom Whites most recent assignment has been in the with the army ground Cigar ets Given to germans last fall still in storage May 3 than american Cigar ets to 15 per cent of them already Over to the Ger mans As work have lain in a warehouse since last German officials said the officials said the Cigar ets were Given to the Biz onal economic Agency by the army from surplus stocks both in Germany and the Twenty per cent of the Cigar ets Are to be Given to transportation workers with heavy workers rations cards and the remainder to workers holding the cards in other the officials Ione the germans was Able say when the distribution would american authorities said it was strictly a German Aad if Alt toe tobacco spoils there is nothing they can