European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse February 9r 1950 the stars and stripes Page it s 11.l is of & a Lee Nti lit i it a in Ren a Lei in an Reni old in reel wed har nil tit Mac from land Shioi Mir pol Typ Pilj Rich As pub p in 1 of water sorted 7s Boss says Judy eyed Job with counter spies new York feb. 8 up Judith Coplon on trial for conspiracy to commit espionage wanted to gel into the government s ventral intelligence service her former Boss testified yesterday. Asked by the in Cross if he knew anything of miss Coplon s arb Lions. William Foley replied Sho was trying to get an appointment to the government Bic nay which handles counter Ospino Nuiji outside the , Federal Judy pc Ryan interrupted us Cross examination and asked. A there my personal affection Between you a Jrie said Foley Bachi about red reports Lesii fied Alicr excerpts from a Fri Telephone tap report o feb. 14, 10-j9, were read to him showing that the government Gir bad called him on that Date Anc asked Why she had to received re ports on communist activities. Defense attorney Abraham l Pomeranz asked did you report to your Superior that after mis Coplon had been told to Jay off internal Security work she asked to reports 1. " "1 Don t recall Foley testified he testified he did report How Ever two occasions on which mis Coplon asked for a top secret rus Sian activities report dealt with communist activities Pomeranz asked. Purl of it did Foley said. From America action Holdup on reds aids new York feb. 8 up the . Circuit court of appeals re served decision yesterday on whether to uphold or throw out contempt sentences at inst six lawyers who defended the 11 communists convicted of court also put off until May 2 the serving of 30-Day-to-six-month prison terms handed the lawyers by Federal judge Harold r. Medina who was exasperated by their tac tics during the nine month communist Date May 2, follows by one Day the Lime already Sel by the court for filing of documents in the Appeal of he communist defendants Paul l. Ross counsel for the lawyer told the appeals court Medina s action in citing them at the end of the trial without a hear ing May Well be a signal for the wholesale disbarment of lawyer who defend the government represented by Irving s. Shapiro said no judge in this country was Ever subjected to what judge Medina endured and sua.2e.sted other judges will be guided in the future by the appeals Zouri s decision on this Appeal. Queen Mary improves London Fob. 8 up Queen Mother Mary kept indoors by an attack of sciatica was a Little bet Ter and maintaining steady Prog Ress her doctors reported today. Buys from Athens children s City line up for a slice of the 2,380 loaves of bread made from be l,000,000fh ton of Marshall plan Pidto arrive in Greece the Bour was sent from Higgins Jile to. Acme new skipper pilots big to on 2-Day posit repair trial noi1folk, va., feb. 8 a the Battle ship Missouri came out of dry do k yesterday As her command ing officer navigator and operations officer sat As defendants before a naval court of inquiry. Workers have repaired Bottom damage the big to sustained when she ran aground in Chesapeake Bay Jan. 17. She sails today for two Oay Post repair sea trials with a new commanding officer on the Bridge. He is capt h. P. Smith who will replace capt William d. Brown As skipper Atlantic Fleet Headquarters Anno Meed at least until Legal proceedings Are Smith had preceded Brown As to Norfolk tomorrow the Missouri will reload and sail Early next week to resume the refresher training cruise to Guan Tana no Cuba which was interrupted by her grounding. As the big to emerged from dry Dock at the Norfolk naval ship Yard at Portsmouth the naval court of inquiry sat at the Norfolk naval base some 10 Miles Distant. House votes to let Kravchenko stay i ash1ngton, feb. 8 up the Hoise approved a Bill yesterday to permit Victor a. Kravchenko former soviet official who renounced communism to make his permanent Home in America. Tiie Bill already approved by the set ale now goes to president Tri Man. Kravchenko quit As a member of the russian purchasing commis Ion in 194 j and later wrote a Book i chose Freedom on his experiences. He also testified on communist activities before several committees. Reds in states put at 54,000 Washington feb. 8 a feb chief j. Edgar Hoover reportedly told senators yesterday there now Are about 540,000 communists and fellow travellers in the country. Hoover is understood to have used that figure before f Senate appropriations subcommittee in asking additional Money Lor the Federal Bureau of investigation. A lawmaker familiar with what went on at the closed door session said Hoover reported there Are about 54,000 card carrying members of the communist party in the ., arid estimated thai number could be multiplied by 10 to gel the total of members and fellow travellers. The subcommittee is considering the Fri s request for enough extra Money to add about too employees to the Fri payroll about 300 of those would be actual Fri agents. Stocks Sag in face of Coal strike new York feb. 8 ins the Stock Market sagged yesterday on fears that she virtually Complete shutdown of the nation s soft Coal mines would soon Force widespread Industrial cutbacks. How aver Aulo shares closed firm after an Early sell off under the stimulus of the increased general motors dividend. American can dropped 1% Points Allied chemical was off i1/, Procter and Gamble was off Iva and fractional losses were sustained by . Steel Beth Lehem and Westinghouse. Standard of new Jersey was in the oils with a loss of i Points while Ken Necol sagged in the Mel Ais. Nickel plate was hit in the rails declining i i its while Atchison was off volume totalled l,3fio,000 share with 1,490,000 monday. Carol Ann s a in if to i draws Vari new York Fob. 8 up the acquit o of Carol Ann plight who Yas Chi irked with second degree murder in she Merty killing other cancer stricken father Deriv from across the varied reactions non in last n get. In Nev York Rev Charles Francis pour founder and first president of the Tnuva society said the verdict virus q vindication of the society s stolid on mercy Polter stud Public opinion has gone ahead of the Law 1 Imd that he believed there would be a r i tempt to find some Way for or Hermann Sander of Manchester mass. Sander with the mercy killing of a woman patient who was dying of cancer. In Minneapolis Rev. Wendell j. Johnson pastor of Way drum afr i methodist episcopal Church said to could never condone mercy killing. As a minister of the gospel i teach that the spirit is above Tho Robert Daru head of the Newyork criminal lawyer s assn., said i am not he said he could not comment further until he had studied the judge s instructions to ibc1 jury. V. San us episcopal Bishop elect of Iowa said no one has the right Totake the life of another person. Whether the i acquittal was justified or not. I certainly Don t Rev. Herbert Noonan s. J., philosophy professor at Creighton University Ai Omaha neb., and former president of Marquette University at Milwaukee said objectively what she did was clearly murder but she May not have been subjectively responsible at the time. The jury did harm by acquitting her without making it that what she did was a at Des mines Iowa Rev. Gordon i Vio Alioa of divine jaw.1 Snyder report sees smooth Long term economic Progress Washington f a. 8 up Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder said yesterday the . Economy had safety made the changeover from postwar inflation to a buyers Market and was in a Strong condition for Long term economic in his annual report to Congress Snyder asserted the Treasury s fiscal policies have played a vital part in helping avoid a postwar Boom and bus predicted by Manj China asks in for observers on Formosa Lake Success feb. 8 a or. T. F. Tsiang nationalist China s Delegate has asked the United nations to Send naval and air observers to Formosa o watch for any rus Sian intervention in. Any chinese communist attempt to invade the Island. Speaking in the Little Assembly Tsiang replied to Russia s diplomatic Boycott by demanding that the in find Russia guilty of play ing a big part in the chinese civil War. Meanwhile Russia Czecho Slovakia and Poland walked out of still another in meeting in protest against the presence of a nationalist chinese Delegate. It was the opening meeting of the economic and social Council s Winter session. Us liberals ask a ban London feb. 8 up the lib Era party appealed last night to outlaw the Hydrogen bomb and a top economic spokesman for the labor party admitted that Britain would need Dollar Aid after the Marshall plan ends. Viscount Samuel Veteran Leader of the liberals in the House of lords proposed outlawing All atomic weapons including the Hydrogen bomb with All nations retaining the right of reprisal against those breaking the covenant. Douglas Gay a leading labor party economist said in a Campaign speech that the Dollar Gap excess of Dollar imports Over exports will continue to face us for a Long Allee Churchill leave for grass Root talks London feb. 8 a prime minister Clement a 111 e e and Winston Churchill who wants his Job leave London today to Campaign in the provinces for the feb. 23 general election. Attlee whose labor party has governed Britain since -Inid-19-15. Starts a nine Day tour of England and Scotland in which he1 will make at least 34 speeches. He is travelling in his own car with his wife As Driver. Polls indicate close finish in British election London feb. 8 a two Public opinion polls indicated today a photo finish result in Britain s general Eie cuon feb. 23. A Survey of 400 newspapermen Howe ver predicted a majority of 44 seats for Winston Churchill s tories. Both polls agreed that the float ing vote was still adrift with be tween 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 britons undecided in the race Between the socialists and conservatives. Windsors May end exile London feb. 8 a the evening Star said yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Windsor plan to end their Long self imposed exile from England before the end of1950. Economists he said during the past 18 months the . Confounded Hopes of its communist enemies and inspired new Faith in its democratic allies by achieving what Many had he said the changeover from a Economy of shortages to a competitive Market of ample supplies made without serious Dis locations in Industry and he conceded some industries and localities Felt the Pinch of the mid 1949 recession worse than others. Snyder reported the widening split Between East and West vastly complicated the attainment of sound International finance. The report said there had been numerous and varied demands for manipulation of the Dollar in terms of Gold in the past three years. It added that while most of these have never assumed serious proportion they have required frequent Atten Tion " it said the Treasury in the fiscal year 1949 bought foreign Gold Worth 81,036,000,000 and sold to foreign governments and Centra Banks ,000,000 Worth. It said the volume of both Gross and net Gold sales tothe . Was much lower than during the two preceding fiscal years. The report said operations umber the european recovery program were dominant factors in inter National finance during the fiscal year of 1949." production gains commenting on Erp i a letter of transmittal accompanying there port Snyder said with american financial assist Ance to complement their own individual and cooperative efforts the participating countries in Gen eral achieved substantial gains in production. Many of them also made appreciable Progress toward the attainment of internal financial stability. It was evident however that great difficulties would still have to be overcome if the objectives of the program were to be the report said currency Reform in Germany greatly aided that country s Economy. As a result of the Reform incentives to private Effort wer restored Black markets were largely eliminated and hampering controls Over prices and distribution of goods were reduced to a mini mum. It was then possible to simplify German Exchange proce dures the report stated. Turning to Berlin the report re counted the difficult financial negotiations with the russians and added in addition the peculiarly distressed position of Berlin Aris ing chiefly out of the fact that it is no longer the seat of govern ment and that its population can no longer be employed in govern mental functions and has few other employment opportunities has presented continuing financial difficulties of a most Complex nature 16 million famine victims reported in East China Hon Kong feb. B a More than 16,000,000 famine victims were reported in East China North of the Yangtze in a dispatch from the communist news Agency in Shang Hai this number 2,790,000 were said to have exhausted All their food stocks and to be facing imminent starvation. Famine in communist China has Long been predicted by Western observers. A i
