European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June the stars and stripes Page 3 seven doctor hanged for wartime atrocities by Julia Edwards staff correspondent june 2 is including the personal physician to Adolf were hanged at Landsberg prison today As the army for the first time car ried out death sentences pronounced by an american military tribunal of after awaiting execution for nine they became the first to pay with their lives for crimes against humanity since the inter nat4onal military tribunal hanged von Ribbentrop and com they paid an Eye for a tooth for in a chilling they died Karl hitlers refused the Solace of a priest and died defiantly calling his sentence an act of political revenge major generals in is Karl personal physician to Heinrich mounted the Black Gallows beside Catholic priest and expressed As his Only regret the existence of More in Justice today than both were is major Rudolf Himmler per Sonal administrative died on his 39th i Viktor in charge of administrative details of the Eutha Karl Brandt cries Defiance Nasia prayed to god for peace with his last Waldemar chief doctor of Buchenwald concentration alone injected a personal note by bidding his wife Goodby and thank ing the German and Amer ican Joachim chief Rygl Enist of the shouted his de Fiance i die As a German sentenced by a brutal director of the nazi Institute for military and scientific put his last words most succinctly in gods name i Greet my death comes quickly a knot developed by the americans at Landsberg brought death it was Over in an All were found Crimi Nally responsible for horrible medi Cal experiments conducted on helpless concentration Camp inmates under the Guise of scientific re these were the first men to hanged since Lucius military called a stay in executions at Landsberg in officials reported they have 98 persons convicted and awaiting the death the seven physicians brought to 14v the number of persons executed by the americans a total of 134 persons convicted War crimes at Dachau have been hanged houses Drift Oregon City North june 2 childrens household goods and smashed today drifted on swirling flood Waters across North Portland from the obliterated City of Van during an hour Long cruise aboard a coast guard motor launch there where you could stand up in the launch and see no end to Hie tides of the sweeping through new Breaks in the Columbia Dike have picked up broken houses and carried them some of the houses came to rest on the track and infield at the million Dollar Portland Meadows race which now lies under a huge Lake of Muddy horse barns at the track were and water reached to v the first Row of grandstand flood reminders everywhere there reminders of housing Community which was destroyed by m 30minute Rush of wild t silk curtains floated alongside r flotsam that carried rats there were kiddy cars and rubber furniture and the original flood which covered approximately 650 acres at Vanport has spilled at least under the Impact of new s our launch moved through the in the Denver inhere Van parts through to the race up to the outdoor movie everybody told us would be to be found when the goes we didst see House gets 6 billion Armya budget Strong Western Europe would Stop Bradley says at the quadripartite Council in military Power is own we have june 2 up army chief of Omar Bradley was revealed today to have told the House appropriations committee that if we had a Strong Western Europe armed with modern we would have communism Bradley testified at closed hear Ings in conjunction with the appropriations Bill for army military his statement on Europe answered a question of Albert Engel who said would restore Power i feel the real Toad to peace must lie in the restoration some Way of the air Force and army of our allies such As on whom we can that when their added to our overwhelming strength which would prevent rus Sia from dropping the first atomic would restore Confidence Bradley replied i think Many people will agree with you on in he if Western Europe was that in itself would restore the Confidence and Security of Engel said if the governments of those countries representing the majority of people had behind them military Force to maintain their governments you would have anything happening such As happened in Bradley said the factors which contributed to the decision to re quest a larger military Force included the Complete taking Over of by communism and the apparent taking Over of j Finland plus the russian attitude it is unreasonable to suggest the communists were Defeated in the elections communism has been halted on the Adriatic or american Public alarmed by the suicidal surrender of Czecho asserted its concern in no unmistakable terms before the italian with telling and obvious but there still persists in Italy and France Large powerful communist blocs capable of serious disruptions in the economic re covery of in soviet tactics aim at embarrassment and eventual evacuation of the Western Powers from expansion of soviet Russia into Eastern Europe has virtually obliterated the National identities of her satellite except for Satel Lite countries have been thoroughly enmeshed in the soviet exp remier of Portugal charged with rebellion june 2 former portuguese prime minister will stand trial Friday with 12 other officers and civilians arrested a year ago charges of implication in the abortive revolution of april an official announce ment said Jose Mendes the former has been a persistent critic of the present the others accused Are six senior army one Junior University professors and a swirling of the Columbia River flow through a Dike break at Arrow in the the Railroad Yards and Lino the Union another Dike m the a several Settens of the downtown Feninez Clay praised in testimony thou Eunit june 2 a Orval Deputy director of ithe army general staffs Logis tics told the House appropriations committee i believe Clay is getting Germany Back to the Point when american help will not be As fast As he can possibly do Cook testified last month during closed hearings on the army depart ment military functions Bill released i believe there is a misapprehension about the resistance of army people in Europe to getting scrap Back to the United he i do not believe there is Resis general Clay has been reluctant to do anything that would perhaps place his government in a position of having to prolong its labors and perhaps require the import of additional materials to support the Economy of committee members had been questioning army representatives on the question of the slow move ment of scrap from Cook explained that an additional Factor is that Clay has to Deal with other and scrap that apparently is most desired in the is heavy Grade Carbon not Alloy scrap which does not help to produce deep draw Grade steel required for Auto mobiles and Sheet strip that is apparently in High demand in the he Verdun Battle hero Dies Saint june 2 a hero of the Battle of died Here yester during the Boury car ried to safety a wounded Comrade Maginot later War minister and the men for whom the Maginot line was fund would Back military Force of june 2 record peacetime army air Force budget went before the House of representatives today in response to official warnings of the alarming menace of russian the Money a intended to support a military Force of men exclusive of the Navy and Marine corps and to finance an air Force of which Congress has already provided approximately 000 this the combined army air Force personnel strength is More than the two services expected to have in uniform at the end of Factor emphasizing the priority that Republican leaders have Given the conscription made the manpower figure compares with a reported soviet military strength of urged by Highfi military officials to lose no time in building up the nations fighting the House appropriations committee the Bill floor for immediate action an then started work on the navys 1949 coupled with the funds remaining from previous appropriations it would make available to the army and air Force for the year starting july the Bill provides for an air Force with a top military strength of and an army of the army expects to have by july 1 and an air of reaching their Peak a year Masefield beaches 70 june 2 a John poet celebrated his 70th birth Day anniversary yesterday and found tee very much like yester he spent Home near Day at Hia soviet school age children ordered Home from new june 2 new York Herald said to Day that All school age children of russian officials in the have been ordered to return to their Homeland in time of attend school this the order applies to children of soviet commercial representatives and the newspaper zot Vica Consul in new was quoted As saying there Are difficulties in find ing educational facilities for rus Sian children in new York it has been a nuisance and a headache try to educate children we have used up All our Energy and time trying to find a suitable building for a school she f the vice Consul said an eviction suit brought by the owners of a building occupied by the Russia ii schooling new York had probably prompted the plan to return Chil Dren to Herald Tribune the said russian children under school age whose parents Are in the u on official business will be allowed to j Cherup Raykh was quoted say ing that 105 in new York and the ii parents Are Happy about the prospects of ing to Russia i