European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse June 1948 the stars and stripes Page 3 newest Columbia flood Heads to Ward Portland Marie Clark commander of the 6th makes tour of inspection of the Vanport flood area to see if the army can be of further assistance to the flood stricken accompanying on his tour of the town in Dock is theron Weaver right of the army june 13 another flood Crest swept Down the Columbia River yesterday and was expected to reach the Portland area the weather Bureau predicted the Columbia will reach 30 feet Tomor tuesday and the previous High Mark during the cur rent series of Spring floods was feet june two Days after the Vanport City army engineers described Virtu ally All dikes downstream from Portland As the red sheriffs National guard and civilian Volunteer Dike workers were prepared for a continuing crisis which May last two or three More of the most dangerous Point yester Day was the Campbell Road guarding the Reynolds aluminium Plant near Northeast of water from fridays Dike break raced12 Miles along a strip of suburban flooding Ufa probes death of girl by Dwight staff correspondent june 13 army agents and austrian police were investigating death a 26yearold austrian Gill whose body was discovered yesterday i morning on the sidewalk below the econ Story window of a amid Bachelor officers j the pm apparently had died in Niall from army of finals a camera and other Farb cles belonging to the occupant of room were found on her she appeared to have been into i investigators Vienna communist news paper carried a lengthy the on the Case stressing location of the i a rectify across the Street from Ufa then motive preliminary investigations has led lift the belief that the girl had entered the officers room alone in i to steal some of Bis pro officials a inserted from inside Ibe was found in one of the locks of the officers investigators expressed belief feat when the girl sound herself locked in the she tried to climb out via foe slipped and fell to her death they said it had not yet been determined whether of room or anyone else bad known Fae girl was in the the was discovered by an aus Trian Pitt burghers warble Best f Oklahoma june 13 up four other of last night won the 194849 championship of the society Tor the and encouragement of Barber shop singing in i children Suff Ocate in refrigerator As june 13 up Frank nearby decided that a Large unused on s her Back porch was a Hazard to her 4year old daughter Nancy and her play she hurried Home from a neigh Bors to tie a rope around the Teny Earold Jimmy Wolcott was playing behind the Murta his sleeve caught on the refrigerator and the Dooc swung Jimmy screamed when he looked neighbor lady pulled out the still bodies Murtas and 4yearold Samuel Mitchell the Little and girl had squeezed inside the the door snapped they suffocated be cause the insulated Wall deadened their frantic cries for German reds Endaz Pealor leftist Rule by Joe Fleming staff correspondent june 13 Many communists today closed their Campaign to enlist popular support for a future leftist govern ment for All of the Campaign was carried on under the mask of a Peoples petition for germans were asked to signify that they favor a draft Law stating that Germany is an indivisible democratic re the plebiscite was sponsored by the front German Peoples at some future Allied officials Here the Congress will attempt to pro claim a new government for Ger on the basis of popular the circulated from May 23 until would constitute the recognized by soviets the Congress is recognized Only in the soviet zone and soviet officials already have publicly referred to the Congress As the foun Dation a future Central German As All regardless their political desire a unified Germany with the of and German leaders consider the plebiscite Rio thing but a Means 6f creating the impression that the Peoples Congress had wide popular in opposition to the party spa Haa labelled the an instrument of soviet foreign signers of the the spa were supporting communism Anda policy based and and French military governments banned circulation of the petitions in their zones and Berlin the they called the plebiscite unnecessary and permitted it in soviet occupied on other the plebiscite was twelve million signatures were sought and no communists wryly predicted that this goal probably would be Safe to withdraw planes from Cyprus june is special air Force planes which have standing on the of Cyprus for the past several weeks evacuate american nationals will return to their bases in the zone of Safe x a of the truce in a it deemed unnecessary to keep planes at Cyprus for evacuation withdrawal of the planes will begin parades at 107 James sole surviving civil War Veteran in Monroe donned his old uniform to Lead a memorial Day Dewey leads in first ballot june 13 the Republican National committee said yesterday that with All convention delegates now Thomas e Dewey of new York leads wifi 137 elected first ballot votes for the presidential the committee asserted that Robert Taft of Ohio is second with 85 elected delegates and former Harold of Minne is third with the committees research Divi Sion pointed out its tabulation was based delegates legally pledged to candidates by primary elections or otherwise bound by ironclad a continuing poll of Republican delegates now places tafts first ballot strength at Dewey is second in the poll with 268 votes and Stassen third with Tavoris test strength the poll shows that All of the big three among the presidential aspirants will gain strength from Favori Teson delegations after the first strength after the first is estimated at 384 delegates and Stas 1 favorite son pledges and commitments include Arthur Oddson dark horse for the with Michigan 41 delegates Cal 53 Edward Pennsylvania favorite 73 vote Sand Dwight the 56 Favori Teson votes of Truman tells soviet to prove peace desire continued from Page 1 and Loose with mans Hopes for peace by making deals with other great Powers atthe expense of weaker v cleavage that exists to Day is not Between Russia but Between the soviet Union and the rest of the and her satellites should withdraw their Aid guerrillas in Greece and permit North Korea to with South the world lives today la a Twilight Between a War so dearly won and a peace that still eludes our the president the he lies largely in the attitude of one the soviet what the world needs in order to regain a sense of Security is an end to obstruction and a he Truman said not a single one major unsettled questions today is primarily a disagreement Between the and he said the is not struggling against Russia Lor any territory or for economic he the proved Ita peaceful intentions by dismantling the greatest military machine in history 2 de mobilizing the armies that swept across Europe and the Pacific 3 proposing to share its secrets of atomic Power under proper guarantees for its peaceful 4 contributing nearly in Loans and Grant to other he has 1 rejected participation la the european re covery program 2 mane Vered for delay and for propaganda effect in every International con Ference 3 used its veto excessively and unreasonably in the United nations 4 used indirect aggression in Eastern Europe and pressure against others in the Middle and 5 intervened in the internal affairs of other countries through communist parties directed from mos mans Hope for the pres ident is too sacred to be trifled with for propaganda Pur or selfish by any individual or we Are interested in the president and added that the is deter mined to keep Strong for the Sake of Gottwald gets Helin of czech state today june 13 carpenters will be elected pres of Czechoslovakia a communist since the who spent the War Yearsin will be the nations third chief of Thomas Masaryk and Eduard co founders of the Pip smoking Gottwald has been Premier since june when the communists won 38 per cent of the votes and became the largest party since then he has succeeded in boosting the communists to top Robottom control of the nation and in shifting its political alignment due son from a partner of the soviet Union in foreign but with Strong Western sympathies and in under Complete communist has become a solid member of the so Viet satellite who forced this role on the was born in the son of a Small he served on the Eastern and the italian fronts in world War be fore after creation of the new czech Gottwald served one term in the and then left to work As a Cabinet maker engineered strikes Gottwald became a Leader of the left Wing democrats and Fol Lowed them when Tiey formed the communist in 1929 he was elected to who engineered strikes and demonstrations in the be came known As a moderate within the party after the since the february the tag has been Best sources Here indicated Gott Wald did not want to become pres some observers believed he was being kicked upstairs to give the left Wing of the party More it was expected the Cabi net to be formed tomorrow would last until 28 when the five year plan Wii to be inaugurated and the leftists would reshuffle the Hungary warns arrests another priest june 13 Uty Premier Matyas Rakosi yesterday declared the hungarian government was losing patience with the Catholic and warned democracy list immediately strike anyone violating the same ministry of Interior announced the arrest of another Catholic priest for incjt1 ing against democracy from the Parish priest in a was charged with constantly inciting his followers against democracy and telling them to protest the nationalization of said that in Church which the government now wants to democratic teachers and students were Perr secured and the democratic spirit was shut food rationing proposed for Poland by in group 13 rationing system in Poland to As sure equal distribution of scarce foods has been recommended by committee of the United nations food and agriculture the 10member committee made is report after a tour of it listed the rationing system As the first of a number of Steps it considered necessary to a state of merger Fly found in Poland agriculture and
