European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast a Pianki the partly Cloudy. In b try. Minimum pc Raturi. She n -.l, i  St Stuart f Wiir. 1 Hil Nich flu ii Orra . ?.k blk Man i attly morning of a.  2.". Vienna s.1ihp, i Aris in Rivine has i6 Home Fly. 4  sanu1. 46 a c Oudy. 33.air weather Central european edition  Fin Only 1 saw a i a a a a unofficial publication of . Occupation forces in Europe Industry Rooming Ijes tie Thi my r strip and ration ins of Coal in some i a. Areas Elf citric Power output and the coun try s steel Mills Iii urn peaks in weekly production. For a compleat Story of the National business out look this week turn to i age 6. Volume 7, number 279 5 cents a copy $1.35 a month tuesday january 24, 1950 president asks Cut in excise tax Washington Jan. 23 ins president Truman to Day recommended reductions in some wartime excise taxes and increases in corporate git i. And estate taxes to pro vide an additional 81,000, 000.000 in Federal revenues. The chief executive made no recommendations for an Iii Csc in personal income taxes in his Long awaited special tax   which he sent to Congress total in. Hero Are the tax revisions or. To ii Nuin asked i reduction of wartime excise to disc s on transportation of properly. Irons Orl Ilion of persons i cog Dis Uii ice Telephone and Telegraph . And the entire Goriup of retail excises including such hems As toilet . Jul be and handbags. I revision of the Cliate and tout tax. And corporation tax Laws to cot. On Page 13, col. 2 Ali Josh want1/ shaves minutes 56,700 extend coat walkout Pittsburgh Jan. 23 a thous ads of John l. Lewis strik j i a Coal miners have voted to con s timid their two week Lori  of 94,150 diggers who Voied duri Jiff the weekend on Lewis yug Sci Iii 10 end the strike. United milk workers officials got Buck Tuvin Kok Tys from Only 37.450. By disgruntled workers no least 2,000 die ers who a i ipod to go Back to. Work in Ives Virginia. T in Reull against Lewis and Vita to it site the three Day work week ii imposed on the Industry was entered in West Virginia ind Pennsylvania. It was in these two sue last Creek thai thousands of run and file ump members of ruled Down Field lieutenants try ing to Cari a out Lewis orders. Building named for Arnold Berchtesgaden Jan. I3 special the apartment building at the Buechte Sunden command Post known As the red House is been renamed Arnold House in Honor of the Date Gen Henry h Hap Arnold it was announced by col Stanley j. Grogan co of the recreation area and sub Post. F51 spans . In 292 minutes new York Jan. 23 a Speed flier Paul Mant. Yesterday spanned the continent in four hours 52 minutes 58 seconds and claimed a new West East record for planes with gasoline fuelled engines. Mantz time shaved by about seven minutes the time established last March by former army maj Joe de Bona. De Bona flew from California to new York in a single engined pro peller Type plane in five hours five seconds. Lands at a Guardia flying a converted f51, manti1. Landed at Laguardia Airport Al 3 cd pm est. He took off irom Lockheed air terminal. Bur rms calif., at 10 13 am est. The Laguardia arrival time was recorded by Fred h. Wilkinson official timer of the National aeronautics Assn. Wilkinson however said he had not figured the Elan cd Timo of he flight and added Keurt will be checked All i did was record the official time Over Laguardia. 1 will submit my report to Headquarters in Washington where it will be deter mined if the flight has established a transcontinental  before taking off in Burbank. Mantz said he hoped his flight would be the last of the transcontinental Speed runs with  fuel cd engines such engines he said apparently have reached their Peak in Speed with differences in flight time now due mainly to weather factors. Dutch renegade s army seizes Java City in coup Jakarta Jan.23 up Bandung. Indonesia s third largest City was today by a band of Ger led by a dutch deserter r b. Turko Wester Ling by sources reported. Westt ring attacking at the head of his private army struck the City at ii in reports said and had com pm sort his coup by afternoon. Military sources in Jakarta said the Republican troops had retired from she City first casualties re ports reaching Here said ii re publican troops had been killed Dur ing i 10-rm Nule Battle for the Republican army he in the City. Indonesian military police tonight arrested John Hitman former Netherlands government spokesman and director of dutch foreign of fice Public relations on suspicion of involvement in the  police also took into custody a Kosak staffer of Batavia s Nice salad and former Mili tary associate of Westerling. Dutch press reports in Jakarta s � d to life largest dutch paper in Bandung. Pera Gerbode carried an interview with Westerling today in which Wester Ling said his sole aim was to drive the Republican army from West Java and restore peace. He said he was not opposed to the new indonesian government. Soviets cripple traffic hold up 3 . Trains Bourne terms Russ tactics pinprick Berlin Jan. 23 is maj Gen Geoffrey. Bourne British Berlin commander a id today he does not believe the russians Are reviving at tempts to drive the Western allies from Berlin by Force. Bourne said the soviets instead switched to More Subtle tactics using pin pricks such As traffic slowdowns and political penetration their peace with Unity propaganda Campaign among the Ger mans will be pushed to the absolute limit during the mining year the British commander to a a luncheon meeting of Berlin Cor respondents. Having failed in their direct blockade tactics last year he said cont. On pave 12, col. 3 1st Nesli checks arrive in dec by airmail Frankfurt Ian. 23 checks for the first Nau Onni service life insurance Premium rebates arrived in Neucom Over the weekend and were distributed today hundreds of a s soldiers and sex servicemen in the zone. Totalling uncounted thousand of Doharis the checks represent Neucom s share of the first Batch of rebates mailed by the a cleans administration Jan. 1g. They arrived n the zone by aim Iii. Firs Check delivered today by til 3 Frankfurt military Post he mail Oom went to maj Edward a Snake bars Ftp signal officer West authorities Sid. Snakenburg s $396 Check delivered by it col Bernard v. Merr late p adj unit will go straight into lie b my the Signa officer declared. Be said he Mcwan making Premium payments in september i 12 on his 1 0,000 Nesli policy. Mother of sicilian Bandit freed under amnesty act Palermo Jan. 23 ins Maria Lombardo Mother of notorious sicilian Bandit Salvatore Giuliano has been released from prison under the holy year amnesty Al though convicted of aiding and abetting her son s Robin Hood crimes a Palermo court had sentenced her to three years and four months in jail and fined her s100. Two years of the sentence and the Fine were suspended because of the am Nesty. Most dec roads dry Heidelberg Jan. 23 special the Neucom Provost marshal today reported roads icy and Slippery in the Garmisch Augsburg and Munich areas. All other roads throughput. The zone were reported dry. Mccloy sees settlement in Saar Washington Jan. 23 up John j Mccloy u. S. High com missioner. Said yesterday he has no doubt that the problems of final control of the Rich Saar Basin and getting along with the russians in Berlin can be solved. He made this statement to re porters upon his arrival at Washington National Airport for a Veek ions series of conferences on was German problems Wilh president Truman and top state Dep Armien officials. Mccloy who will Confer with or. Truman my Secretary of state Dean Acheson today said that while they plan to go Over the whole Range of German problems the Saar and the Uncertain course of  re lations in Berlin will have priority. I Hope both these problems can be solved he said for i have no doubt that they can  Mccloy said he expects to return to Germany next week. He is scheduled to discuss German affairs with the Senate foreign relations committee wednesday. He will return in March to. Explain West Germany s Money needs to the House appropriations committee. He said he also May make one or two speeches during his present trip outlining his views on German mat ters. Mccloy had nothing to say about cont. On Page 12. Col. 2 freed swede flies Home from Prague Prague Jan. 23 a Holger Hjelm 26-year-old swedish Busi Nessman who was sentenced to three years imprisonment Here has left for Stockholm by air after being released by czech authorities. Hjelm director of a Stockholm import and Export firm was convicted of Industrial sabotage anti helping czechs escape the country. His Appeal against the decision was rejected by the czech supreme court last saturday. But earlier this week the swedish legation announced that the czech foreign ministry had decided to release him and expel him from the country. Trucks choke autobahn at Helmstedt from a stars and stripes correspondent and press Dison Mcfie Berlin Jan. 23soviet Border authorities today forced a slowdown on . Military trains and German truck traffic in route to Berlin. A . Military train going from Berlin to Frankfurt was held up nearly seven hours by the russians. Two other . Trains bound from Bremerhaven and Frankfurt for Berlin were held up by . Order at Heimstedt British russian  Border until the first train was cleared by soviet officials. At Midas Ternoois. It was reported that the russians with no explanation and permitted Highway traffic Between Berlin and the West to proceed at half Normal volume. However later reports said Ger Man trucks a heh Siedt were going through the checkpoint Al four an hour. Normal rate is from 15 to 20 an hour. One Hundred four trucks were reported stalled at the checkpoint tonight. . Vehicles unhindered . Border authorities reported that american vehicles were going and coming unhindered. German rail traffic w