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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 11 the stars and stripes Friday february 10, 1950 Bonn plans spending to Cut unemployment Siar Lef in pulpit by Howard Kenned staff Bonn feb. 9 is the West German government s plan so fight rising unemployment with a seven Point 3,400,000,000-Murks spending program was disclosed by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in a speech to bundestag lower House deputies  weapon in the drive to provide jobs for 1,900,000 Idle persons in the Western zones win be a j,500,Odo, housing program designed to give work to 400.000 in he construction Industry and build and rebuild 250,000 units for family quarters Adenauer said. Other measures proposed to Duce unemployment included a 200,000,000-Inark credit to t to -.1 0 German state railway system for 13 y Al us los augmented maintenance work on trackage and right of ways. Not guilty plea planned today Luclis continued from Page 1 there was every expectation that tomorrow s preliminary will be open. Hearing fuchs5 brother attacks ., says Klaus is innocent Davos Switzerland feb. 9 ins Gerhardt Fuchs brother of or. Klaus Fuchs accused atomic spy. Last night attacked the  And declared his brother was in Nocent. Gerhardt Fuchs is a director of a local welfare organization. Probably someone in America needs to make striking electoral propaganda As in the Alger his Scase he said in an interview. A German preacher himself an avowed communist and a German journalist said yesterday in Ger Many that they knew Klaus and Gerhardt Well in student Days and thai both were known As the red foxes because of political activities. Gerhardt reluctant to talk at All refused to say whether he and his brother were known at Kiel University As the red  father defends Fuchs Calls him naive by Hanns  feb. 9 apr. Klaus Fuchs Britain s arrested to atomic scientist has the brain of a giant but the naive soul of a child his father said today. His voice trembling in a Telephone talk with this correspondent 75 year old prof. Emil Fuchs said "3 am convinced my son is not guilty of the charges against him. I have never said that my son was a communist. He was a Freedom Loving opponent of  the aging father is a professor of theology at Leipzig University in the russian  said he would like to intercede in his son s defense at to Morrow s London trial but you see i am helpless he said. Re the  Invites Japan to open 4 agencies Washington feb. 9 disregarding russian objections the u. S. Today invited the japanese government to open official Agen cies in four american cities. The announcement was made by the slate department and by Gen Douglas Macarthur s headquarter sin Tokyo. It is another step toward restoring Japan s Freedom of action. The agencies will be in new York sail Francisco los Angeles an Honolulu. They will be staffed by japanese officials authorized to promote Trad and handle citizenship and property affairs of japanese nationals. Touring students seek entry to Russia Stockholm feb. 9 a forty one students from the Amer ican College at the University of Stockholm left this afternoon for a week s tour of Finland. The students May also attempt Roget into the soviet Union. They have applied for permission and will await the russian answer in Finland. Fifty million Marks to the German pos Toffice for maintenance work. Three Hundred million Marks to finance West German efforts to re gain Export markets lost during the War. Handicraft industries fifty million Marks in credits for Trade and commercial concerns which have Laid off  Hundred million Marks in credits to assist handicraft Indus tries started by refugees in Bavaria. Lower Saxony and Schleswig Holstein. Seventh Point of the Adenauer program was elimination of present residence restrictions preventing 8,000,000 refugees from moving freely within the Western zones. Adenauer pointed out that present residence restrictions tended Tokeo refugees living in no Indus trifle areas where work was difficult to obtain. Free Enterprise Adenauer Leader of the free Enterprise faction of the bundestag told deputies that financial expenditures involved in his unemployment program were provided for in the 1950 Federal budget soon to be  a free Economy geared to a free Market can assure our people Fuller employment and a higher Standard of jiving he  before Adenauer spoke socialist Deputy Erich Nolting openly challenged the administration s program by declaring there was Only one solution to unemployment a planned Economy on a planned  Adenauer said he disclosed his program Only after financial consultations with the Bank Deutscher Lander and the reconstruction loan corp. He cited the following causes of unemployment 1loss of Germany s prewar Export markets. 2destruction of Industrial plants. 3loss during the War of work ers with special skills. I eight million refugees from Eastern Europe. Soldier charged iia Stab slaying Wetzlar feb. 9 to a pfc Joseph w. Bailey of Sard is ga., has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a German student monday in marburg the Provost marshal s office announced Here  is attached to the 223d pm Salvage and repair co in marburg. Members of the faculty and student body of the University of marburg Topciy walked in the funeral procession of the victim Eberhardt Greifenhagen. 22, theology student. Army investigators said they were investigating reports thai Bailey and Greifenhagen scuffled after a girl Lens Anthoneth in the company of the Soldier asked he student to accompany her Home because the Soldier was annoying her. No visas for Greece Athens feb. 9 a Greece to Day became the 12th Marshall plan country to abolish travel visas for americans. Colleen Townsend her eyes closed in prayer leads the congregation at Punxsutawney first presbyterian Church in her search for  the 21-year old Hollywood Starlet vows she will leave the films and seek Alife As a Christian  1np Rescue party nearing c47 Whitehorse Yukon territory feb. 9 a a six Man Canadian army Rescue team planned a trip up a Yukon Mountain today to Rescue 10 occupants of a crashed c47 search plane the canadians spent the night beside two Snow weasels several thousand feet below the stranded crash  of the five  Air Force men aboard the plane suffered Legand Arm fractures when the c47 crashed tuesday during its search for a c54 which vanished Jan. 26 with 44 persons aboard. None of the five Canadian soldiers aboard was  american search plane spotted the c47 yesterday on the Snow covered Mountainside 84 Miles Northwest of Here.. Airmen aboard the crashed plane included it d. J. King 2dlt h. L. Zachian m sgt c. R. Dunna sgt e. J. Weslosky and pvt r. A Toth. It was not known which of the five were injured. Wife registrar due to Aid dec profs Frankfurt feb. 9 is three members of the faculty of the University of Maryland s Edu cation program in the  Zone Are prepared for a Celebration at1 15 pm tomorrow at Rhine main scheduled to arrive Are three Day needed assistant registrars sent by the University to help handle overflow crowds of students signing up for Extension courses in  registrars will be the wives of profs. Lyle Mayer teaching in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden Verne e. Chatelin Nurnberg and Berlin and Ralph Lunsbury Bamberg an Nurnberg. The wives will assist their husbands. Vain entry i for Hainan la i reported Hon Kong feb. 9 up a Canton dispatch quoting wounded communist soldiers said 50,000 red guerrillas attempted to invade Hainan Island last month but a terrific air and artillery barrage Sank of list invasion Junks. The source said 4,000 casualties arrived in Canton for hospitalization. It quoted soldiers As saying that practically All guerrillas in Southern Kiangtung were mustered for the abortive invasion attempt. Taipei Formosa. Feb. 9 a nationalist bombers hit Shanghai for the third straight Day striking a Power Plant and dockyards today an announcement said two ships in the port received direct hits. Sanity hearing set for mrs. Madsen in Frankfurt feb. 20 Nurnberg feb. 9 ass mrs. Yvette j. Madsen 22, accused of having shot and killed her husband an air Force officer last oct. 20, will face a sanity hearing before a three Man  Court in Frank Furt feb. 20. According to Worth b. Mccauley chief attorney for  Courts depositions taken in the  Will be made available at the hearing to the army air Force medical commis Sion charged with examining mrs Madsen. The court presided Over by judge Fred Cohn will hear pleas and testimony pursuant to the findings of the medical Board appointed to conduct an Examina Tion of mrs. Madsen As to her mental  in addition to depositions from her Mother father brother and sister a record of mrs. Madsen at new York s Bellevue Hospital and a juvenile court record will be made available to the medical Board headed by col John a Copenhaver. If the court finds the defendant mentally competent she will be arraigned immediately Mccauley said. Mrs. Madsen is charged with having shot her husband 1st it Andrew Madsen. After he returned to their buc Schlag Home from a parly. Madsen was shot with a .45-Cal. Pistol. The Madsen children Dana 4, and Nancy i1/have been returned to the  Czech arrests reported after mormon meeting Prague feb. 9 a about 20 czechs who attended an american mormon Mission meeting in a town in Central Moravia were arrested last thursday and held for four Days by police who also ransacked their apartments. The reported arrests came Only five Days after two american mormon missionaries c. Aldon Johnson and Stanley e. Abbott mysteriously disappeared while travelling through Moravia on their usual weekly visit to Church Mem Bers living near the polish Border. Berlin traffic termed Back to Normal Berlin. Feb. 9 is Berlin today enjoyed almost unrestricted Road and rail communication with Western Germany British officials described the improved situation on the autobahn Between Berlin and the wast As More or less  late morning British figures showed Only 13 Ger Man trucks awaiting processing on the West Side of the soviet. Helm Stedt Marie born checkpoint while25 trucks headed West from Berlin were backlogged on re opposite Side of the zonal Border British transport officials said East bound trucks were moving through the russian control Point at a rate of 14 or 15 an hour White the hourly rate for West bound vehicles was 10. New checkpoints traffic continued to flow normally along the soviet zone autobahn throughout the Day British official reported this evening. Meanwhile the russian licensed Berlin press announced that on March 1 new soviet checkpoints will be completed and the number of horde a control personnel in creased to frustrate Western plan designed to hamper economic re construction in the German demo cratic  West Berlin City government officials said an overnight ban breast zone Coal shipments to wes1 Berlin apparently had been lifted this afternoon. Czech faces trial As spy continued from. Page 1 graphs of troops moving on the Munich numbers autobahn Las september. A search of his room revealed the military data. Wanka was Given a Short Jav sentence for illegal Emry into Jcj Many. He told Poh be at the he was looking for o Hor czech f nationals who were fugitives in to  Zone of  his imprisonment a apparently under the impression a was talking to a it presen Viive of the czech consulate Here of . Investigator i have fact and figures As Well As Pho of rapids of All  Occupation  he said he had fooled the s cupid americans Fay Deal Robins most of the Materia collected be Rel was  Wanka complained he was paid Only 200 Marks a month and a 3 been Given a camera. He said Pri tests Over the poor salary Bro univ Only the comment. Many German have to live on 130 Marks a month your work in t Worth More the 200." Road condition Heidelberg feb 9 the Neucom Provost ported today roads were Ury in a Berlin Frankfurt and Heidelberg areas. Roads were wet and Slippery 1 in the Bremerhaven Wiesbaden and Wetzlar areas. A other roads were i covered with Snow and ice and were very Slippery. . Cities order Bir snouts in Coal crisis continued from Page 1 imposed at Lansing mich., and Richland Center wis., both of which reported rapidly dwindling Coal reserves. At Richland Center Only necessary lights will be burned after 10 pm. At Lansing Michigan s capital with 180,000 population Street lights were dimmed. Householders closed off  and business firms turned off advertising display lights. The City had a 26-Day Coal Supply. The association of american rail roads estimated that freight traffic will be Cut 11 per cent on a National basis by the government s new Coal saving  Cut in passenger traffic the association said will average about 13 per cent twice As much As a present. Under the curtailment order issued by to e interstate com Merce commission effective Tomor Row Coal burning freight traffic was ordered Cut 25 per  previous 25 per cent Cut in steam passenger traffic was doubled. The Pennsylvania Railroad announced that it will consolidate trains rearrange schedules and withdraw 29 runs from service saturday to comply with the order. At Springfield iii., seven Centra Illinois locals of the ump urged president Truman to seize the a i Han s Coal mines and put the prof its in the u. S. Treasury instead forcing Coal production with tall Hartley act United steelworkers Send $500,000 to Aid Miner Pittsburgh feb. 9 a \ United steelworkers Cio sent a $500,000 Check to the unite mine workers to assist the Nee miners and their families in the l struggle against the Coal operator  
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