European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1948 the stars and stripes Page 3 dec this year May decide Truman says parcels lost in ship fire May 3 Hundred sixteen sacks of parcel mail for Neucom personnel destroyed in he Sio Cean fire in the hold of the freighter american which docked at Neucom revealed in sacks of Par cel Post mail and 61 pouches of letter mail were badly damaged by the freighter carried a total of sacks of a postal investigating the stated its location in the ships hold indicated the pos1 Sivility combustible material in j the no other cargo was the investigation into i the cause of the fire is j postal authorities Are every Effort to Salvage As much As possible 116 sacks which were All of the mail damaged by water will be forwarded to personnel through Normal postal All damaged mail a been tagged by postal officials a in order to Aid i the filing of claims for any insured mail losses which May hav been May 3 a president Truman said today that this year May Well deter mine the worlds the president did not specify what events he had in but in a message to the up Holst Crews International convention Truman wrote you Are meeting Here in a year which May the worlds future and whether Liberty Loving people every where Are to remain secure in the freedoms they have gained through the we in the United states arc determined their Way of life and our Way shall not perish from the i crowd Mart at barter closeout Connie finally gets her Man by Russell Jones staff correspondent May 3 Connie of Brookdale who followed her German sweetheart from a pm Camp in the to a ramshackle House in sub Urban finally got he Man last thursday when she mar ried Karl Klein in the Wiesbaden City registrars authorities said Connie who has had More than her share of trouble in the last still has More to they said Are not sure the ceremony was in getting married con Nie showed the same determination she did in following him by marry ing a British Sailor to get to eng divorcing him to go to then dropping off the train when she got Wiesbaden requirements waived to get permission to she first got a temporary residence then used it to get an identity card and used the identity card to get a waiver of certificates required of foreigners to be married in Omagh authorities said that As far As they were concerned no German had the right to waive the certificates without approval by american amont other Connie gave the registrar a copy of an honorable discharge from the army of the if the guesses by the authorities Are wrong and the marriage is there is still the question of con Nies by american she is an Amer ican citizen and will continue to Leone until she renounces her citizenship in a formal by British Law she became British when she married the under German Law she is now a citizen the nonexistent German tvs complicate things further there w the child Connie claims will be in five authorities wont even Hazard a guess As to its Navy ships leave Norway May 3 Navy task Force comprising the Carrier Valley the Cruiser Fresno As Well As four destroyers one destroyer left the Western norwegian port of Pergen after a fou Day us zone chief lifts news ban after protest May 3 sir Brian occupation temporarily suspended today several new controls placed on the press by the British control commission for Germany follow ing protests by a delegation of British new controls would limit the press in gathering news on the control commissions policies and activities by forcing it to work through the commissions press following representations made this afternoon to Robertson emphasizing the restrictive nature of the new an official announcement it was agree they should be suspended pending further discussions Between High British officials and Tress Branch in charge the press Branch must arrange All press and radio the circular you depart ment Heads should inform Al members of your staffs that no official on Oroff the should be Given to press or radio except at the request or after consultation press informed British said the new tightening up action was taken after some control commis Sion officials had been censured for giving correspondents information for news reports directly Over the especially during recent tense relations with the russians Over the Berlin traffic soviets charge raid on Bogota staff May 3 Las protested to the colombian government against an alleged armed raid april 12 on a House in Bogota n which were living members of he Sovie legation radio mos my Gove cow said this the soviet government insists on an investigation being made into the arcu stances of the raid on the House of members of the staff of the on the return to them of he stolen valuables and belongings and that the culprits of his should be brought to strict account for their criminal radio Moscow the note said there is no doubt hat the alleged raid is a Conse Quence of the unbridled ant soviet Campaign which is being conducted n Colombia with the direct encouragement of the colombian czechs bar mail for Zion May 3 min Stry of posts announced today that czech pos offices will henceforth refuse to accept any mail for pales for either surface or air mail until further two Law branches of Omegus move to number g Palace 3 branches of the Omegus Legal division have been transferred from Berlin to the Nurnberg Palace of it was announced the administration of Justice headed by Charles with 19 american and the prisons headed by Wade were moved the policy to centralize agencies fou Power functions in the additional Legal units Are expected to move Here As the Nili iffy tribunals Complete their War crimes Hodge visions reds claiming All Korea May 3 John Hodge declared today a communist g o v or n m e n t for All Korea will no doubt be announced soon by North korean stooges of soviet Hodges statement said the re cent North South Unity conference in North korean Capi ought to be called the All korean communist conference in he called it a device to trick people into thinking All koreans approved the Constitution adopted in North Hodge was represented Only by political sponsored and fully approved by the soviet command and South Korea by communist democratic front parties who have been direct ing and operating terroristic Vio arson and Sabo age in South their he is to frustrate the May crowds upper photo at the Sil ver counter the Frankfurt barter Mart below Richard Herman hands out num Bers to the waiting throngs As they file thru the door in the Stampede for the photos by Back May 3 More than women Ard approximately 500 gis stormed the Frankfurt barter Mart Here today and purchased nearly Worth of merchandise As the its closeout v Robert manager of the said that almost All the merchandise has been we should be completely sold Outi i by the end of the when the Mart doors opened at noon More than500 women and about 150 gis were waiting for the the received numbers Given to them at the door and were allowed to make one Purchase at a counter when their number was a second group of customers was allowed into the store with new numbers As soon As the first customers Many women went through the three or four the women described the prices As dirt All merchandise was sold for scrip dollars or trav Elers checks at the rate of 5 cents merchandise formerly had a Point value awarded for barter Branagan said the estimated 000 which the Mart will Clear in the Sale will be divided among Gya groups in All military posts in the he said the customers received bargains in Many types of Mer Chandise but that the fast Selling Silver goods were being sold for prices quite a bit higher than those Volcano spews huge rocks new May 3 which witnesses said Ivere As big As houses were ejected from the North Island on mount Nauru Hoe one of three volcanoes in the Cen of the Nauru Hoe began to erupt on april 30 for the first Ime since 100 escape train wreck West May 3 a More than 100 passengers escaped last night As two cars of the Baltimore Ohio railroads columbian were derailed soviets float 4 billion loan for expansion May 3 soviet Council of ministers in Moscow to Day decreed a new third state loan for the rehabilitation and develop tent of the National Economy of the amounting to rubles about radio Moscow announced the new state loan will be redeemable in 20 it will issued for the period from 1948 to 1968 As with other soviet state Loans lottery Rains included in decisive year radio Moscow said the Council decree ordered the Issue in order to attract the resources of the population for the fulfilment of the state plan of rehabilitation and development of the user National Economy of the year of the postwar five year and fulfilment of the whole five year plan of economic and cultural construction ahead of Bonds will be issued in denominations As Low As 50 and 25 rubles i the entire income on loan Bonds will be paid out in the form of lottery the total sum of these prizes is based on an for the 20year of 4 percent per loan prizes Range from 200 rubles to a 100 Ruble Russ explain Berlin damage May 3 official Russia licensed press told the people of Berlin today their City was destroyed by the indiscriminate bombing of British and american the russians made this allegation against their wartime allies in prop Uganda steeped articles marking the anniversary of berlins All editors sought to represent the soviet army As the germans True while seeking to blame Ern Powers for berlins the soviet press claimed that cites survival was due to energetic Meas ures taken by the soviet army to feed the population and restore pub Lic services after the an article in the official Taglicht funds eau began with this Para graph three years ago we lived through the Roar of american and Brit ish fliers flew at Low Altitude Over the capital and their bombs indiscriminately hit administration buildings and berlins inner City Sank in scrap Hanover workers to strike May 3 ploys of the Continental tire fac tory Here today decided to strike tomorrow in protest against food world threatened by Spellman tells australians May 3 ligation is threatened with crucifixion by Francis car Dinal roman Catholic archbishop of new declared Here with British and foreign roman Catholic is in Melbourne for the Centenary celebrations of the Melbourne roman Catholic he threatens to overcome America and All Liberty Loving nations of the it is foul play for soviet Russia to desecrate and devour the free people of Earth yet that what it is before the tears of the War Are dried upon the scarred faces of Many said the fear must clutch your hearts As tightly As it grips my own As we watch the towering communism spread ceaselessly and mercilessly across Europe and ruthless forces Are pressing to a finish the issues of slavery against As soviet Russia spews Forth her communist hordes Over the face of the adding whole world empires to her orbit of
