European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast maximum temperature 78 68 64 party Vienna 72 Trieste is weather edition ripes unofficial pub Chon of occupation forces in Europe gop convention highlights highlights of the Republican National which opens tomorrow in will be presented in a special feature in mondays edition of the stars and Story on today preliminary developments on Page 6 volume 197 s cents a a month june 1948 Russ Cut of f rail travel to Berlin r i Striate approves 21month draft Bill i i i y id id ill v drama ends filibuster by Glen Taylor june 19 Senate passed a Compromise draft Bill to Call a men 1925 for 21 months of military service after a filibuster that ended in one of the most dramatic scenes to Senate the House was in recess but was expected to pass the Bill and Send it to the White House late Glen Taylor d once a leading Man in Stock company abandoned his filibuster against the draft after a series of Swift and spectacular climaxes almost without precedent to tha turbulent history of the tribute to colleagues Exco boy Henry Mark spending spree in swim lie Tal Lea is the eur Lif Ive of fallacies third party i huskily paid tribute to the Inte Prity of his Senate his brow and sat after these things happened who talked from yesterday to when be was relieved by William linger resumed the floor Tat presently he began to read from telegrams he had re at he read a wire stat Inge was the Only honest Man most of the senators the chamber were a a Alert Owen brews Maine leaped to his Taylor loses floor Brewster protested to Irv ing Ives in the fee honest Man remark violated Rule prohibiting imputation of improper conductor Dis honest motives to chair ruled Taylor had Wirt the j Compromise report on the draft was whipped continued on Page 16 bulletin june 19 Hie Senate passed and sent to the White House today a Bill to admit homeless Europe ans to the during the next two v e a r earlier Story on Fage women crowd around a counter loaded with inexpensive gew Gaws in a Frankfurt department anxious to buy anything that would help them get rid of to be 6ccnes reminiscent of bargain Days were enacted All Over West Ern Germany in the last minute spending photo by Briggs mar Hoffman called to Parley on european bul Fitin june 19 Secretary of state George mar shall and Paul nomic cooperation administration and other top officials were called to Capitol Hill today for an emergency meeting on the Senate House foreign Aid spending dead june in styles Bridges strove today to break a Senate House deadlock which threatens to Cut Aid to he said he would try to arrange another meeting today of the Senate House conference committee which broke up last night in a deadlock after failing to reach agreement on Aid Bridges led the Senate group in the joint the Senate had voted separa Tabilos on foreign re Lief the House slashed the funds asked for by administration by More general strike in France proves  june 19 led French labor launched a hour nationwide general strike but the stoppage was Only rally in walkout lasted from 11 it was called by the com dominated general con of labor Cut in sym with the strikers at the Ber Tugnan rubber Plant in Clermont but it also was to serve warning to the government e strength of communist red French i Only disturbance reported occurred in front of the Paris City Hall where garbage collectors with their and a few Hearse Drew up their they refused to move and blocked police barricaded All streets Lead ing to the City Hall Square and a Short scuffle during which garbage workers threw refuse at reports from All parts of the country showed Only a part of the workers supposedly continued on pa0e 3 be Foo i arrives in Jerusalem Tel june 19 cheering Jerusalem today watched the first food Convoy arrive after a perilous trip through bad Al wad mine three Hundred truckloads of eggs and Cigar ets arrived safely despite the dangerous United nations observers travelled with the the israeli govern ment told in mediator count Folke Bernadotte that Israel is ready to Send its delegates to the peace opening truce observers report Nazareth skirmish june 19 nations truce observers reported today that one Arab woman and a child were slightly wounded yester Day afternoon when firing Between arabs and jews near outskirts of Ara held american and French observers continued on Page 3 Congress expected to pass deadline june 19 speaker of the House Joseph Martin held Little Hope today that Congress will be Able to adjourn for the session before the Midnight deadline despite the end of the draft Fili the House and Senate still have to reach an agreement on appropriation of funds for the european recovery the Long Range farm pay rises Tor Federal employees and housing legislation 4zone Mark awaits declares Washington june the government said last night that currency Reform will be applied to of Germany if and when rus Sian opposition to unification of the whole country a joint state department army statement on currency announced in described the Steps a technical non political and prerequisite to effective German participation in because of soviet the economic Unity of Germany has never been achieved and the economies Western Germany have largely been the statement a separate currency Reform is the logical consequence of this Lon recognized need the United states has Long ree need for currency re form and has to take the Lead in seeking quadripartite action to this the soviet withdrawal from the control Council machinery terminated negotiations for an agreement on currency Reform for All Germany at this in View of the Long delay and increasing needs for the United the United and France continued on Page 16 currency Reform to necessitate pm Price adjustments bad june 19 special the currency Reform announced for Western Germany increases the Cost to the Neucom Exchange system of indigenous labor and thereby making necessary immediate Price adjustments for articles sold in Post yes announced Here the Exchange system will continue every Effort to offer Mer Chandise and services to dec personnel at the lowest possible prices consistent with operating Condi exchanges will be closed Mon Day for taking of inventory and making necessary adjustments to meet the situation created by the currency in some exchanges May be closed tuesday they will be reopened As soon As possible after taking of invent announcement said Post exchanges in and in the zone of Austria will be but Only for their Normal monthly inventory the Trieste Piks will remain 12 drown As Dock collapses june 19 least 12 persons were drowned today when a wharf collapsed at strata and plunged about 30 into the the italian Agency Ansa reported from strata that panic broke out when the wharf collapsed under weight of 100 voyagers arriving from and impeded Quick Rescue Seal zone iwo teen Economy by Joe Fleming staff correspondent june 19 Russia sealed off its occupation zone from the Western allies1 zones today and halted All passenger traffic to four Power on the heels of currency Reform in West Ern All vehicle traffic on the autobahn to both Al lied and was for As Well As the entry or exit of passenger the soviet All passes held by germans to enter the soviet zone were declared the soviet military administration said the new rules had been adopted to protect the Economy and currency in the soviet zone and Berlin from the effects of the illegal Western German marshal Vassily Sov Iet military in a sum continued on Page 16 soviets guard printing Plant june 19 troops with fixed bayonets cordoned off the official Russia licensed Taglicht Mundschau late a German source inside the build ing said the Plant was being used to print new currency for the Sov Iet no official confirmation of this the building is normally used to publish Taglicht it is located in the Schuetzer Strasse continued on Page 16 saturdays baseball scores National league Louis 000 100 1 8 new York 010 313 is papal of Garagiola Hartung and Pittsburgh 002 000 14 Philadelphia 000 220 12 1 Higbe 9 and Fitzgerald Dubiel Heintzelman Heusser and Lakeman Chicago 002 000 Brooklyn 000 100 1 1 Rush and scheffing 9 and Cincinnati at american league Washington 009 201 2009 81 Chicago 022 003 17 1 Harrist Ferrick Thompson Candini 8 and Evans Judson 7 and Philadelphia 000 000 0 3 0 Cleveland 002 020 6 1 Mccahan and Rosar Chris Gopher 8 and new York 000 104 j Louis 000 101 5 it Lopat and Berra Biscan Widmar Shore Dreisewerd and Boston Detroit 001 200 10 0 Ferriss 9 and Tebbetts White Pierce 4 and