European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                0 8 re Toi or fit. He in i j weather forecast Kavki i kit . Rain mom is toe minimum Lempira Diirr 31st Etc.  a in r32 Mei ocl a Kiwi Samp 2 my Vich of Loudy morning foe. A  my a Cloudy rain. Berlin same. ?6 or Kava Cloudy log 37 Pabis of Loudy morning fog a Trieste Cloudy Bio mine fog. A. Air weather Central european edition unofficial publication of . Occupation forces in Europe regimental Day the huh Arnid Civ today Jcj berates ils  Day 1 and is preparing to Mark its 49th birth Day starch 5. The achieve mimics of the regiment through the years Are traced on Page 4. Volume 7, number 288 5 rents a copy $1.35 a month thursday february 2, 1950 president asks truce in Coal Row Washington feb. 1 App resident Truman called yesterday for a 70-Daytruce in the Coal deadlock while a committee of fact finders carry out an investigation. He urged that the truce begin tomorrow. The president made the proposal in a letter to the mine operators. He proposed to act outside the Tail Hartley Law which Grants him the Power to ask court in Junction against the strikers. Eth president s letter which was also sent to the United mine work ers asked for 70 Days full production starting tomorrow and an in vsti�3tion by a three Man presidential Board which would make its recommendations in 60 Days. Neither Side would be Jound to accept the recommendations the letter added. The president s action came As the number of Idle miners in the contract dispute reached 100,000. President Truman said his proposal May be disregarded if Normal production is resumed and if Bot sides inform him of that John l. Lewis head of the ump has ordered the strike slopped but about 100,000 miners Are disobeying him. Dutchman a p. P. Westerling. Farmer re serve Captain of the Royal dutch Indian army is leading a rebel moslem army against the newly established United states of in Donesia. Story Page h. Acme signal stirs Hope for c54 Whitehorse Yukon territory feb. 1 up a faint radio signal intercepted on the distress fre Quency Between fort Nelson b.c., and Smith River was investigate today by a search in the far Flung six Day Hunt for a . Air Force coh transport missing with 44 per sons aboard. At the same time a Squadron of b29 bombers was to search the towering peaks of St. Elias Range 175 Miles West of Here. Officers said today was Ideal for search operations and a maximum number of observers would be inthe air. The signal encoded and of Short duration was heard in an area extending along the Eastern end of the British Columbia Yukon Border. That sector straddles the route Flie lost c54 was raking on ils ill fated flight from Anchorage Alaska to great Falls  air Commodore m. Costello coordinator of the two nation search expressed doubt however that the signal came from the missing plane. 21 tugs haul Sigma free Norfolk va., feb. I a the 45.000-ton battleship Missouri broke her Bonds with the Bottom of Chesapeake Bay today and floated free and Safe into deep water off thimble Shoal. She yielded finally to a Salvage team of 21 tugs plus a High tide a Northeast wind and straining winches after two weeks of forlorn helplessness  adm Allan e. Smith who directed the Effort to free the warship sent the message that took the embarrassed Blush from the Navy s face the Missouri reports for  the mighty to began to move her band ensconced on top of a 16-Inch gun Turret broke into one of the most spirited renderings of anchors aweigh in the history of the . Navy Smith told a news conference aboard the Missouri that the vessel was apparently undamaged except for three Leaky double  he announced that a naval court of inquiry will open saturday. Russ Boycott Council in Japan Over pm Issue Tokyo feb. 1 a Russia boycotted the Allied four Power coun cil for Japan today. The Issue was a . Charge that the user has failed to Complete the repatriation of japanese War prisoners. 1st Hydrogen bomb test predicted within year of fighter net to guard vital areas Washington feb. 1 a the air Force moved to establish an Aerial guard line around All . Major atomic plants  protections were announced for a Long stretch of the Atlantic coast taking in major ports. The obvious aim was to guard against a Surprise one Way air  planes coming within 10q  of atomic installations in ten Nessee new Mexico and washing ton state must file flight plans with defense authorities. The same Rale applies within 200 cont. On Page 12, col. 4 Road condition Heidelberg feb. 1 special the Neucom Provost marshal re ported today that at roads through out the zone were wet Slippery and icy m spots. Sleet Lee a Laze Frankfurt feb. 1 is mixed rain and sleet Laid a dangerous icy Glaze on . Zone roads in the last 20 hours slowing surf ice transportation to a careful Craw and sharply reducing military bus schedules line running roughly from Kosse to Wurzburg marked the Boundary be1 w c c n two weather front Over Western Germany the Frankfurt Meteorol Ngiela Bureau sat has of the line sub reining cold prevailed. Wess of the line Milder temperatures ranging As High As 3? iof s. Volent in the Frankfurt area More than 20 vehicle accidents were reported by the Provost marshal s office up to noon but Only one involved serious injury when a car driven by a  Soldier skidded into tieback of a Coal truck in Frankfurt crushing the German trackman fracturing his Skull and breaking his leg military buses halted at 6 pm yesterday when slush find Snow began to freeze on the roads were permitted to resume schedules in Side Frankfurt this morning but were barred from of earning on la plant1 operated .1 f l i to usual trucks for Berlin Clearing Frontier at Helmstedt by Dwight schea staff correspondent Berlin feb. 1 is the Ger Man truck traffic situation at the Helmstedt Marie born Border control Point improved slightly late to Day 35 soviet controlled people s police permitted b e r 1 i a bound trucks to enter the soviet zone at intervals of about eight minutes. West Berlin Central police head quarters in constant Contact with the control Point at the Berlin end of the Highway corridor said she slight speedup had not however reduced the backlog of trucks wait ing at the Border. As the number of West German trucks attempting to drive to or from Berlin increased the backlogs on both sides of the Barrier like Wise increased to Between so and 100 on the Western Side and 40 on the Eastern Side. The West Berlin main transportation office reported that East Ger Man police have shown no signs of relaxing their detailed and pains taking checks of truckers Docu ments however no confiscations or other irregularities were reported. Groundhog s word awaited today Quarryville pa., feb. 1 a if you be been perturbed by the on again off again Winter weather take heart you have Only until Tomor Row to worry. That is if you re willing to accept without question the report of the Quarryville slumbering Lodge of groundhogs. Tomorrow the Lodge members regaled in nightshirts and High silk hats will receive the prediction of the  the furry Chuck Steps out of his Hoje and spies his Shadow Bill re unit Means six More weeks of Winter if you be had any Winter up to now. If he does t to his . Of .v. those red flan Nels. Spring is Here armed Force of reds cited by Symington Waco tex., feb. 1 a Secretary of the air Force w. Stuart Symington said Loday that communist dictators now have the world s largest ground army air Force and undersea  he voiced a somber warning that the user is capable of launch ing a Surprise atomic attack against which we have no sure defense on any part of the .the of Secretary painted what he called a Bleak picture in a speech prepared for delivery at Baylor University midyear graduating  threat those who reiterate America must be destroyed he said now have "1a ground army greater than the combined armies of the . And its allies."2an air Force whose strength in nearly All categories is now the largest in the world and growing relatively larger month by month."3the world s largest submarine Fleet and an intensive submarine development and construction pro  said if any democracy attempted to maintain in peacetime a comparable regular armed Force the free Economy of that democracy would be  Are three facts which every american should know Symington said because this is the world in which we live 5 minutes flying time behind the Iron curtain there has been an atomic explosion. Be Hind the curtain is the air equip ment capable of delivering a sur prise atomic attack against any part of the . We have no sure defense against such an  at another Point he warned remember russian soil is but five minutes flying time from american soil in Alaska and but a few hours from our great cities. Waco is but an 18-hour flight from Moscow for the bombers we know Russia is now producing in Quan  again and again to the subject of russian military might and communist aggression Symington appealed for support of National spending programs for the armed forces. If reports received from behind the Iron curtain Are Correct he said in a Short time Russia will be at its strongest position in Arma j ments. That position will in crease steadily year by year. I say today that further reduction in our payment for National Security is  2 with $500 Bui sought As Brink s Holdup men Baltimore feb. 1 up Mary land police sounded a 14-state alarm last night after two tall men wanted for questioning in the 81, 300,000 Brink s Holdup in Boston offered to sell a Maryland Oyster Man a 8500 Bill for $150. The Alert went out after the men reportedly driving a 1949 Chevrolet Cetor. Slopped in the town of West Over my. Crude Model to equal 2 a blasts Washington feb. 1 up atomic experts predicted to Day that the . Will produce and test its first Hydrogen super bomb within the  said however it will not be ready for proving new York feb. 1 a the so called a bomb has already been Given a nickname it appeared in bold Black headline Type in morning papers today As Hie  at the new atomic tests scheduled for this Spring at eniwetok atoll in the Pacific Ocean. But they maintained the . Is far ahead of the user in the atomic arms race physicists said the first crude a bomb will be two to 10 times As powerful As toda3 s Best plutonium bomb itself the equivalent of nearly 200,000 tons of int. But the Power of later refined models will delimited mostly they said by the cont. On Page 12, col. 3 Russ reject French note Paris feb. 1 up the  in pans today handed  yesterday s French note protesting soviet recognition of the indo chinese rebel government led by Moscow trained to Chi Minh. The soviet embassy delivered the note with an accompanying note informing the French government that the user considers u Asim possible to receive a note of this sort French foreign office sources said there would be no action taken on the soviet move at the present  too Busy to reply yesterday the foreign office re Quested soviet ambassador Alex Ander Bogomolov to explain his government s action in the recognition of to. Bogomolov. However replied that he was too Busy foreign office sources said. Yesterday s French note branded the soviet recognition an act whose Gravity and consequences cannot be underestimated and said it by nature gravely altered Franco so Viet  bulletins Guatemala City feb. 1 ins four air Force officers were killed today when their c7 crashed near la Tinta in North Ern Guatemala. Those killed were attached to the . Embassy in Guatemala City Washington feb. 1 soviet ambassador Alexander Panto skin said today that a has proposed to the . 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