European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4 the stars and 1941 pcs report yanks held As soviet slaves june 9 mining specialists and Ger Man pcs of world War u Are being worked by the russians As slave labor in the Lead mines of the Arctic fran Joseph archipelago above the of returning German pcs have disclosed in the British licensed newspaper die the returnees said the americans and other mining experts had been to hard labor during the great Moscow show trials More than 10 years the paper re the pcs stated they forced to 14 hours daily in the which lacked even the most primitive technical mining equip Austria police slay yugoslav in gun Battle june 9 ministry of Interior announced last night that austrian police shot and killed a National during gun Battle in the soviet the whose name was was Riding together with several other persons in a car which came from czech territory and did not Stop for inspection by the austrian Frontier guards at Ottenhausen some 40 Miles North of Vienna in the soviet police at alerted by Frontier attempted to Stop the car but met heavy gunfire which seriously injured a police police give Chase the report said motorcycle police men then chased the car which fled toward Vienna and managed to and kill one the others were Able to escape in the night and were still being the communique a spokesman for Public safety said czech authorities had riot yes replied to an austrian note on the the1 spokesman said to fact in the opinion of the government the purpose of the trip was either smuggling or communist agents work in Auerbach demands new Laws june9 bavarian director for sharply criticized the Denali fiction Laws yesterday and charged they permitted Active nazis to avoid he demanded new legislation to prevent former members of the nazi party from holding made these Laws and approved it is not alone the fault of the German Auerbach he blamed loopholes in the Law for classification of Willie Messer Schmitt As a Follower on the basis of his own statement that he did not profit from the nazis olympic air fares Given june 9 pan american airways today announced special munic London fare for the olympic games of one Way and round everything had to be done by they they asserted their Camp lacked All medical facilities and did not have a Camp Lio Spital until when the existence of the Camp was discovered by the swedish red Cross which urged the russians to set up a the working prisoners had to live in caves and deserted Lead mines which caused a High mortality the pcs the returnees explained they were part of a shipment of about Ger Man pcs to be released from rus Sian Captivity because they were sick and unfit for their transport from Franjo Seph land to the North russian Harbor of Murmansk took six during the course of which men died of Lead according to the they declared the remaining 300 pcs of the group passed on their Way to Moscow Many former Ger Man red Cross nurses and former Wehr nacht women auxiliaries who said they were being sent to work i mines on the Arctic Spitz Bergen British deny German reporter was Western spy june 9 and american authorities today denied russian that German reporter Dieter Friede had served As a spy for the Western Powers in the soviet after denying for seven months that they knew his the russians announced last night that they held Friede rus Sian controlled newspapers printed facsimiles of an alleged confession attributed to Friede stating he was arrested for espionage while gather ing reports on the soviet zone for his the America Licens de Berlin daily Der and for British and american British and officials recalled that soviet commandant Alex Ander Kotikov had repeatedly denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of who was seized last november after he was lured to the soviet sector of Berlin by a fake Telephone nazi says he sabotaged plan to Deport Able roman males june 9 col Herbert nazi police chief of who oversaw the 1944 reprisal slaying of 335 roman hos pleaded at his military trial yesterday that he saved the from worse i he argued that his is incensed at the bomb killing of 32 German soldiers in the streets of would have shipped every Able bodied roman male Between 15 and 65 to labor battalions in he said he personally Felt that Home deserved no and by demanding not Tobe spared German soldiers Lor the work and interposing other tech Nical he put off carry ing it out until the plan was you mean to the presid ing judge that you sabotaged the plan that is the pure Kappler Kappler sought to explain the fact that 335 italians were although his orders called for the execution of 10 hos tages for each of the 32 germans the germans assigned to r the death squads seemed very pained when they told him about he murmurs from the hostile courtroom crowd greeted this re As Moore headed for capital Bryant former commander of troops in and Moore shortly before they boarded plane at Rhine main for the general will become chief of the Public information division of the department the around world Greks to execute june 9 press dispatches from in Northern reported today that a court martial had sentenced 12 persons to death communistic eleven were acquitted and 29 others were Given prison North of guerrillas ambushed Atrain and sent it roaring Down the track at 38 Mph without an Engineer the station master telephoned ahead and a collision was averted by putting an oncoming train into reverse at the same Bologna farmhand strike ends june 9 the 17day strike in Bologna pro Vince ended yesterday As agricultural workers returned to their jobs tending cattle after nearly three weeks of labor violence against strik Breakers and Farmer Danrige to the cattle and Dairy Industry was estimated at More than 600 million us lists executions of 156 germans june 9 one Hundred gift six germans were executed in the British zone of Germany Between Flay and the end of last the House of commons was told Christopher under Secretary for foreign 54 were executed As a result of sentences in courts set up by the British control 91 by decree of British military tribunals trying War and 11 As a result of sentences in Ordinary German India extends Pursuit of Border raiders new june 9 Secretary to the ministry of said today that the government has ordered the Indian army and police to enter Hyderabad if necessary of Border drop school prelate tells Hungary june 9 Cardinal Joseph Catholic primate of has told the government to its plans for nationalizing Church Budapest papers reported As Church state relations reached a postwar Low on the Issue of who shall Supply textbooks in Church the ministry of Interior announced the arrest of 15 persons in the second Village riot against those favouring turkish prime minister resigns june 9 prime minister Hasan Saka resigned late last night after Strong criticism was levelled against him Over the sugar the inferior Quality of bread and difficult living con president Ismet has asked Saka to form a new h user improving Northeast passage june 9 marines Are Busy reestablishing the important waterway North of the Northeast the Stock Holm newspaper tid Ningen quoted Moscow papers As saying the paper said the russians Are moving military equipment from the former German naval base of Wilhel shaven to Murmansk to make this Harbor a russian naval stronghold which is Likely to be Europe largest naval of win keep ends tents at in june june 9 no More than new enlistees will be accepted by the air Force in and enlistments will be limited during the following three months to keep Safe personnel within planned strength according to information received by Safe from air Force priority will be Given to High school graduates who qualify for the safes aviation Carder under even before they eligible men can apply and be assured specialized tech Nical training of their enlistment quotas do not apply to men with prior military service who reenlist within 90 Days of during new enlist ments were bringing the air forces May 1 strength to approximately officers and Vizonia signs 2 food pacts june 9 bipartite officials yesterday announced food contracts of tons of meat and tons of Beans have been signed with various european Export agencies for this months German the tons of corned beef and of a Canadian luncheon was purchased through the belgian economic mis Sion at a Cost of first shipments of the meat were due in the Biz onal area this bipartite officials the balance will be delivered within two most of the meat will go to the Ruhr it was contracts for tons of Beans were negotiated with hungarian government Agency and with private Export approximate Cost of the combined contracts was estimated at food strike ends in French zone june 9 a today strike of workers the first Large scale walkout in the French ended the who had protested general exhaustion because of food were assured by military government that promised sugar and vege tables would be forthcoming workers said they returned to their jobs on condition pro would be Witton three injured Trieste Soldier blown to 97th june 9 an american injured when a Load of fuses he was carrying sex has been brought from Trieste by emergency plane to the 97th in announced the pfc Bernard of is being treated for multiple slight wounds on the face and hands and a in jury to his right Eye which a foreign object he will be evacuated by plane to the probably Lor further treatment to his bites today for Soldier june 9 services for pfc John 16th Soldier who was drowned in wan see on june will be held tomorrow at Roosevel Barracks Chapel at the body will be flown to for