European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                18, the stars acc stripes Page 11 pm slave Pool Laid to user . Authorities say 400,000 still in Camps continued irom pure 1 it fanfare of noisy propaganda Joe or tier conclusion is possible than the russians intend to hold the0.600 pcs still in their hands and in Dwy their  Liwa believed. . Officials Cdr thai the bulk a the pcs still detained in Russia were former is i n or those convicted by russian Inbi Nafe of crimes against human , they added Many re Tvr Ltd pcs report that a number it men still held we skilled technician whose services were much Chi Erht after. K was Poi voted out that at the Moi of conference of 1947, the russians Agre a to return a pcs by Mic end of 194s v m. Molotov the i soviet foreign i Kiister said i that time treat Only 892,000 pcs War Siw in russian hands. Since i hrs the russians have returned 1.131.328 German pcs. Refuting a Freir own figures and casting doubt in Uto sequent statements on the pm Yue lion tire spokesman said. 12,000 alerted on Mississippi continued from Page i m Northwest Aad localized Bliz Zards blasted some areas. Subzero cod gripped the Northern Border states from Michigan West Ward to Washington and the cold air mass Rode eastward to the at lactic Seaboard on Gusty winds. Cd Louis h. Foote District army Engineer warned Southeast Missouri residents from the Arkansas line North to 29 Miles above Cairo 111., that they will have to abandon their Homes in the Mississippi Bot Toms if the big Birds Point new Madrid flood Way has to be opened. Downriver the Mississippi broke through a levee at Eloise tenn., and tanned out Over farmlands. Dyer county sheriff John Yarbro said the Eloise break was relatively minor but volunteers were Sand begging furiously to save another Dike near ten Emo  some to or 500 families were driven from their Homes by the rising Waters. A coast guard unit and convict is borers were scheduled be arrive today to Aid in Rescue  Kentucky the Trad water Cumberland and Green Rivers rushed toward a turbulent Junction with. The Ohio. High Waters Eft 156 families homeless there and closed the two entrances to the Eity. Emergency stations were set up in churches As amphibious vehicles from it. Knox ky., shuttled Bati and Forth from it coded Homes. About 400 families were homeless in Hardin and Gallatin counties in Flag will Fly at half staff for Arnold Wiesbaden Jen. 17 special by dire Gustav Krupp Gustav von. Bohlen und Halbach but Hiji name was changed to Krupp when he married into the multimillion Dollar munitions fam ily. H became head of the Krupp works at Essen in i9c6 after serv ing in Tite German diplomatic serv ice since 1898, in world War ii he practically retired leaving the business in the hands of his son Alfred now serving 12 years at Landsberg prison for the plunder and spoliation of property in France and the Netherlands and participation in Trifi Fezi slave labor program. Ownership of the vast Krupp estate is in a leg in tangle. The nazis by decree trip cd to Force Berttia to turn of ownership to Alfred but the disposition of the firm has not been settled by the allies. Taylor asserts East could blockade Berlin at will continued from pugs 1 Tufit he russians have shown from the Start that they a after political Flutro of Berlin As the key to con Rel of Germany which in turn is the key to control of Europe. Berlin i 9tit?  Taylor pointed to not by russian bayonets but by economic Lawf. The East West Mark Exchange rate virtually exc Ucles Trade with the City s Hinie Lanei in la East zone while exports the Western Germany arc partially Feiock Kisded Duel i Berlin s inability to com Pete with West Gentian industries in Marty Fields Taylor said. The Ami in commander said production costs Here Are 15 to 29 per cent higher than in the Western zones. The City is still attempting to re cover be said Flora the russian stripping in 1945 of 35 per cent fits Industrial plants. W�1 Berlin mayor Ernst Heuter predicted to the editors that a restoration of the City s economic life during 1950 would result in a vast increase of pressure from the East on the Western sectors. Bridges. Continued from Page 1j sentenced him to six months for contempt Hallinan read a recent dispatch by columnist Drew Pear son which said in part. It s ironic that Jiggs Don Hue who has contacts with the Maragon costello crowd is now retained by the Justice department to prosecute  the unexpected announcement by Don Luke came Ait str 3c Dys of Bridges is in trial with j. H. Robers a and Henry Schmidt  High ranking officers in the inter National longshoremen s and warehousemen s Union Cio. They face terms of seven years if convicted and Bridges could be deported to his Aasc be Australia if found . The government previously  twice to Deport him tout the supreme court ruled there was no sufficient evidence to indicate he was a. Communist and he could no be deported. Guns for germans still in future continued /7-Cjti Page 1 erroneous impression gained from repeats of a discuss icon of the subject by the Allied High commissioners at their meeting in Bonn Jan. 12. The question arose in the High commission the Hays statement said As a result of recommendations forwarded by the military Security Board. The recommendations proposed a common policy in the three Western zones on German ownership Post session Purchase Sale and use of sporting firearms for sporting Pur poses under certain controls and conditions. While the High commissioners approved principles contained in recommendations of the Board. Hays emphasized that there was no rescinding of pres enl prohibitions against private Possession of fire arms and ammunition by German residents of the . Zone. Bore these present restrictions Are lifted appropriate legislation must be enacted and the question of manufacture of Inch arms under controls must be settled Hays said. Swiss of red China Bern Jan. .17 a Switzer land granted de Jure recon Ion to the chinese communist government today. Wreckage of glider in which 13 died a wrecking truck in for bilk ground is collecting scattered of ". Ruins of a glider in a High 12 air borne soldiers Anil the Pilot died when the Craft crashed at Field. Of . Says Saar Fate must await treaty secret pact denied re Page i ment. We Are not a party to Mcdermott said. Newspaper reports that to . Ha4 joined in a secret agreement to detach the Rich Saar Basin in the French zone from Germany had been attributed to London diplomatic sources. The reports said the agreement Vas reached secretly in Paris by Secretary of state Dean. Acheson by Rush foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Schuman but was not mentioned in the communique is sued at the end of their meeting the Only mention of the Saar by the three foreign ministers in Paris last november occurred when or. Schurwan reported the tentative suggestion of the Council of Europe to i invite the Saar to become an associate member the department spokes Man Sard. Secretary aches an Raia do objection on the understanding that such action would not prejudice a final decision regarding the Saar at the final peace  the spokesman noted to at the Council had Trot met since that time and had therefore not yet acted on proposed issuance of the invitation Mcdermott refused to comment an us opinion of the reported French plan to take a 50-year lease on the Saar Coal mines. 1st Iii div attack shaping up continued from puff 1j attacks have harassed his Advance toward the  the rear of the 1st inf i across the Shine in France the acid 1st army had reportedly completed concentration and was ready to launch an offensive making it possible for the 1st div to alter its  of troops and equip ment of the 26th, 16th and a think regts and 1st div he units to the Man Euver area was completed yesterday Over secondary roads to avoid enemy air  in position parallel with the Rhine Man Euver officials declared a two Day teen Cha lapse which was assumed problem time necessary to consolidate positions but delay was on paper Only in order to assure  enemy activity was reported today by the 18th inf holding the Northern end of the defensive line nor by the 2&th in dug in along the  inf recon detected Light patrol activity on the enemy Side of the Neckar South of Heidel Berg. Supreme court bars Brittle continued from Page 1 iceman Are admitted without usual immigration proceedings. But in High court petted out that entry to the  a privilege not a right. Justice Sherman Minton read the court s a decision. Justices Felix Frankfurter Hugo l. Black and Robert h. Jackson dissented. Justices Tom c. Clarnc and William o. Douglas did not participate Jackson denounced the decision As a backward civil rights step and said it confronts Knauff with a Choice of forsaking his country or his wife. Mrs. Knauff had reportedly served in the Raf and had worked for . Military government mrs. Knauff came to the . In August 1948 hoping to apply it naturalization. Hut she was excluded without hearing on. Grounds that her entry would be against the Best interests of the . S he is being held at Ellis Island  Justice department assert that she was formerly a paid agent of the Czechoslovakia government and reported on american person Nel assigned Tai the civil censorship division in  sees  mrs. Knauff said the statements were untrue and inspired by woman jealous of her husband. Knauff filed a petition for Hab a Corpus in Federal court on his wife s behalf claiming her right to enter As a War Bride or at least to a hearing. A Federal District court dismissed the writ and was upheld by the second . Circuit Coart of appeals. Mrs. Knauff then appealed to the supreme , who wrote the dissent assailed the decision As grossly unfair to Knauff and a step Back wards in the Field of civil liberties. The menace to the Security of this country be it great As it May from this girl s admission is As nothing compared to the menace to the institution inherent in procedures of this pattern. Jackson said the government should either prove its evidence against the girl or allow her to enter. As it is he said Knauff must forsake either his wife or Bis  wrote a separa e Dis Selling opinion saying Congress never intended the War Bride act to be construed1 in such a narrow manner. Pope stiffens rheumatism Vatican City Jan. 17 Pope Pius is suffering from rheumatism and has for several Days Given up his daily walks in the Vatier Garden a Vatican Soure reported today