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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, May 8, 1948

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes May 1948 cracks Down on gift Black Mart May 7 Commerce department has taken Steps to crack Down on a flourishing Black Market in american gift parcels to the department banned further stockpiling of gift parcels it also lightened controls on shipments by commercial gift packing con the stored exported under relaxed were seeping Model Mother House to open debate on Bill to curb reds May 7 the House rules committee cleared the Way for a debate on the Bill to oust it acted despite protests of Cri who claimed it would be legislative the committee granted the Rule permitting six hours general debate on the measure and allowing Mem Bers to offer any amendments they Karl Mundt author of the said the Bill would Clamp strict controls on activities of the communist party under the threat of severe penal including stiff jail sentences and the possibility of loss of american the purpose of the Mundt is to move against communists in this country in a constitutional and Legal it is imperative today that we do some thing to curb subversive activities in the the Western european Black markets at an alarming organizations will still be Alt to ship a number of parcels in one but they will be required to furnish the Commerce department with the names of Bot ii the givers Here and the receivers no individual giver will be permitted to Send parcels to More than five holders of the old Blanket Type licenses will be Able to continue shipments until the licenses shipments sent Blind under the stockpiling arrange ment which started commercial parcelsending1 firms could get these licenses to Send Large shipments overseas no lists of givers or receivers were the Commerce department emphasized that not All gift concerns were involved in the Black Market but a number of con Cerns found it profitable to sell the parcels instead of soliciting givers in this Dulles urges department of nonmilitary defense new May 7 speech to the Bond club John Foster Republican foreign policy urged the to establish a department of non military defense to contest with the communist party at the level where the party is working and winning said the new department should establish Long Range radio protect the free press by assuring it provi Deasy Lum for refugees from communism and give a future to leaders who fled when their countries were overrun by once we have demonstrated our capacity to win the kind of War fare which the communist party is he then conditions will be Ripe for woman tax rebel warned by Snyder Secretary of the May 7 Treasury John Snyder has stated that the government is going to use All of the resources at its command to Deal with woman industrialist Vivien miss who owns a Cable grip manufacturing Plant in West has refused since 10 to collect withholding taxes from her holding that the government has no constitutional right to make her an unpaid tax she wrote Snyder last daring him to take Legal action against we have adequate Legal author Ity for protecting the revenues of the Snyder replied at a news we Are proceeding to exercise All of the resources at our a maximum penalty of five years in or a or is provided for criminal violations of the Federal Revenue lawyers denounce divorce Laws ask for family courts May 7 american bar association said yesterday that people who seek divorces should be handled like juvenile in a report to the National con Ference on family the association denounced present divorce Laws As it complained that the Laws today requires one spouse to prove the other is a sort of this results in deceit and trickery and makes a mockery of the whole it the association family courts should be set up find out if the ailing marriage can be the courts should have wide Power to decide in a honest Way whats Best for the just As juvenile courts decide whats Best for the sum Dean bars Saron ged dancer May 7 Saron ged night club entertainer was shooed off the Campus of Southern methodist University yesterday just before she could put on her act in a student political Yvette who does what she Calls a sem strip with the Aid of a was whisked away in an leaving several Hun dred disappointed she left the Campus after Dean Willis Tate appeared on the he held a Brief conference with Charles student political Campaign who had dreamed up the idea of having miss dare Oechsner gets state Post May 7 state department today announced the appointment of Frederick former Central european manager of the United to be special assistant to the depart ments director of the office of International Thomas to Mother of six turned Down an offer of a modelling Job by John Powers because she Felt her children and husband rated Fowers then offered them All a Job in his Truman Calls for Homes May 7 president Truman called the hous ing shortage almost fatal yester Day As Congress Republican leaders split wide open on a Way 10 relieve the president appealed for Long Range housing program in an offt Decuff address to the National conference on family of the talks he has delivered without a prepared text since one such extemporaneous speech won Truman told the delegates about one family with a baby and a they were he in a Washington parking but they were forced to move even from the president and they had absolutely no children and dog Truman said with Are As necessary to this country is Wall Street and the As the president House gop leaders were in a Public Wrangle with senator Taft and other backers of the Taft Ellender Wagner Bill on the housing a Bill to renew most of the governments Home loan insurance program was the immediate Bone of Egnew yorker editor named script publisher los May 7 former executive editor of both the new yorker and holi Day has been named publisher of a West coast script is published Here in much the same format As the new with which Shuman was connected for eight and Bruce okd for Aid Job May 7 the Senate yesterday confirmed Howard Bruce of Maryland to be Deputy administrator of the Multi billion Dollar foreign recovery life in the 1 Hurt As planes collide fiver Detroit May 7 men were killed and a fourth 1 seriously injured when two Light planes collided in flight and showered j Glass and other debris Over a two lock area of Eastside j the body of Donald 26yearold student Pilot from port 1 was thrown from his Type plane As it crashed i with a j witnesses said the youths body plummeted toward the smashing through the roof and floor of a it was partly buried in the i the tragedy occurred about feet in the air near the Detroit City the bt13 landed in a other victims were Robert Detroit flying who was in the cub with and Joseph Mckevitz of owner of the flying with Mckevitz was Ralph of the Only Iowa pair wed on skates new May the members of a wedding parly wore roller skates when Dolores of married Wili Ioia of new at roller rink the Bride and her skated around the rink be fore approaching the improvised the bridegroom is the owner of the dowry returned to jilted girl los May 7 French girl today got Back her dowry from an american i who jilted judge Caryl Sheldon ordered Alta a Long Beach shoe to return documents signed by Napoleon and French Kings that Georgette gave him when she promised to marry miss Gambin said these family heirlooms were Worth an appraiser said they were were Worth circus girl Falls 30 feet new May 7 girl aerialist fell 30 feet from a trapeze before circus spectators in Madison Square but suffered no broken Jean fell from a spinning ladder during the matinee performance of barn urn and Bailey Ringling it was her first season wit the big French Bride flying Home May 7 French War Bride stranded in the since her last has been promised an airline Pas Sage to her Home in through his Daniel pledged in the Superior court to pay to on Able his a wife to return to Dauxerre where she said her father was an v paralytic faces eviction new May 7 who i partly paralysed and must spend six hours daily in an Iron said yesterday that his land lord was attempting to evict him and his wife and two children from their stricken with infantile paralysis in 1941 Normandin right Arm is useless and he cannot dress him self or walk without despite these handicaps and the time he must spend in the Iron he has built up a bus iness operating a Telephone secretarial 4 die ii Oil stove Blaze May 7 Youthful Mother and three of her five children burned to death Here when fire swept their Small Home following an died in a Memphis hos her and a 2vveckold died in the boy kills sweetheart May 7 15yearold school girl died of a fractured Skull 14 hours after a spurned Boyfriend pounded her head on a sidewalk for break ing off their police state police charged that Wil Ford Lee Denver hosiery Mill became infuriated last night when Phoebe of refused to kiss he threw her to the ground and beat her head on a Concrete Coffee drinkers strike May 7 Coffee lovers conducted a War of nerves against restaurants that raised the Price of the beverage to 10 cents per cup from the Long established 5 cent former Coffee drinkers filed into cafes in groups asking for glasses of water and nothing1 brain versus machine defeating an adding machine and an Joel 11yearold quiz Calls out Tow Correct answer to a problem while Yon and deity Mcdonald of a business Survey Are still at battling for  
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