European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Weather forecast a Kurt Clodt in to in bpm Omiter fair in afternoon min unto Peak Hytron mum . To same Stuttgart f air. 31 a Vic a parity Cloudy. 3z Bre men Saint. 30 Berlin mortising foe fitly Rosr fyn afternoon us viennaicioimlvi3� Paris fair j2 Trieste partly cd buoy 2".air weather fret ill volume 7, number 273 go mar Fatt ii i i i i i the stars and stripes unofficial pub Katiti of . Occupation forces i Europe Spring Maneu vers slated Spring Maneu vers involving units of the army air Force and Navy Are scheduled in the . Zon March 16-23. It Gen John k. Can non cd i Safe will act As com Mander of the joint task Force see Page 2. 9 cents a Eop $1-25 it month wednesday january 18, 195 1 of on or soon i _ Astig Iii Ard no Lin ing our is is i in a co. of by by s icim at that Fol is Skup with Shek de t to was yen the lain get lion up said ident ,500, tial Aling East could impose new siege Taylor by do Girr Schwait stay correspondent Berlin Jan. 17 is maj Gen Maxwell d. Taylor . Berlin commander told 14 visiting . Newspapermen Here today thai the East German puppet state could impose a new blockade of Berlin at any this could be done Taylor said without any overt move by the russians themselves. It could be done without " a single russian being in sight.12,000 alerted irs a problem we Hays against flood on Mississippi Chicago Jan. 17 up the lower Mississippi Valley . Tod in to Light major floods As rain swollen Kentucky and Tennessee streams joined the rampaging and Ohio Rivers in a Low land onslaught. In the first major Mississippi River Alert site 1937, army Engi neers warned 12,000 Southeastern Missouri residents they May have to flee for their lives. The order also alerted thousands of residents of Kentucky Illinois and Tennessee to prepare for High of Lowland residents in the three states were evacuated to fell from the great lakes Westward to the storm weary pacify cont on Pooe 11, col. 1 . Winds up Bridges Case san Francisco Jan. 17 up the government abruptly rested in perjury conspiracy Case against longshore chief Harry Bridges and two of his subordinates yesterday and x Erbai fireworks were set off immediately by the defense. Defense attorney Vincent Hall Inan shouted that the government prosecutor was attorney for Frank Coj Eia reputed Kingpin of the new York underworld and called the decision to rest prosecutor f. Joseph Donohuk is not a regular employee of the Justice department. A private attorney in Washington he was hired As a Spe a jul assistant to the attorney Gen he denied any link with cos Donohue s objections and warnings from District judge George b. Harris who already has cant on Page 11, col 3 big to aground at Hampton roads Norfolk va., Jan. 17 up the battleship Missouri ran aground today in Hampton roads the Navy announced. The Navy said there was no serious damage to the , and there were no reports of casualties or injuries. The 45,000-ton big to Only battleship in the Navy on Al Tive service and on whose decks the japanese surrender was signed ran aground about 6 45 am off thimble Shoals about a mile and a Haf from the old Point Comfort Light in Hampton roads. A dozen tugboats were not Able to get her off the accent occurred it ebb tide the Navy said. Aware Kenneth t. Downs chief of the Kicos Berlin element Public affairs division told the newsmen our intelligence indicates there will be no new blockade at present. The russian game right now is to seek West Berlin s economic col said it was possible but unlikely that soviet trained people s police would launch a Putsch in West Berlin. This possibility be always keep in mind Downs added Taylor and Downs emphasized cant. On Page 11, col. 3 pm slave Pool Laid to user Berlin Jan. 17 is . Authorities in Berlin charged today that a slave labor p k a of 400, 000 German prisoners of War was being held in the soviet Union. Officials said the 400,000 figure was based on careful analysis of interrogation reports other in formation available to German welfare and a Fugee agencies. According to a . Spokesman recent soviet propaganda charges that . Authorities failed to notify relatives of wartime German Battle casualties have been aimed at cover ing up the existence of this labor being sentenced to additional confinement in the soviet Union the spokesman said apparently will not be permitted to write the russians now terminate their program of returning German prisoners of War and during the past weeks this program appears to have reached its Climax amidst cont on Page ii co. I .Steelcwtscredit of striking miners Pittsburgh Jan. 17
