European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast fair. Oiin Fitim sub Oprah edition ii Heidelberg Sain. Stirt Tabt sae. 41 Munich set tit Bremen same. 40 Brb-hn-5,, v i f n s a a a Llor  Paris fair. Rome Only Cloudy. Naples Sam Trieste sine so air of rather Central the stripes unofficial publication of . Occupation forces in Europe helping hand for nines Svery i baseball in or Gerra aay has a real Friend in a. B. Happy Chandler top Man in organized base Ball according to  Butler Chandler s right band Man who is accompanying major leagues lecturing at the Gart Nisch baseball clinic. Story on Page 19. Volume 7, number 301 s gents a copy $1.85 a month wednesday february 15, 1950 operators Lewis to meet today Pittsburgh feb. 14 up the nation s Coal re serves dropped to less than 11 Days Supply today As John l. Lewis soft Coal miners persisted in their general strike. Heavy industries and rail roads accelerated plans for Sharp new cutbacks while400.000 United mine workers ignored Washington feb. 14 ins the White House reiterated today that president Truman has no intention of seizing the nation s strike bound soft Coal mines. Presidential Secretary Charles g. Ross told a news conference that the Coal dispute is out or the White House and now in the hands of the courts. For the second Day president tru Man s National emergency injun cont. On Page 12, col 5 rain threatens new floods Chicago feb. 14 apr a i n splashed Over the Middle and lower Mississippi Valley today raising the threat of new floods in the area already hard hit by overflows this Winter. Heavy rainfalls were reported by the . Weather Bureau in a Kansas Louisiana and Mississippi. More rain also fell in some parts of Indiana Illinois and Missouri. The Mississippi and Ocio Rivers the two biggest streams which have been the cause of most con Cern As Well As smaller streams were reported rising in Many areas a new evacuation was started by some 3,000 persons from the new Madrid flood Way below Charleston in Southeast Missouri. The rain Belt extended from ten cont. On Page 12, cot. 3 b36 feared Down in Pacific s e at t l a feb. 14 ins a widespread International search by planes and. Surface vessels was in Progress today for a . Air Force. B36 Superb Niber believed to have crashed into the North Pacific off British Columbia after three of its six engines caught fire u a and Canadian planes and ships were thrown into the Hunt that extended from the Northern tip of Canada s Queen Charlotte sound Down to Neah Bay at the Northwest Corner of Washington state. The Gigantic bomber flying South from Fairbanks. Alaska was cae trying a Crew of 16 and one civilian Pas Enger when flames broke out in three of its engines Date last night the crippled plane s Crew wag ing a grim Battle nearly six Miles in the air apparently had succeeded in extinguishing the fire in two of the three burning engines before its Pilot reported by radio he was considering ditching in the frigid North Pacific. In Washington d.c., of a said a b36 has never previously been reported missing in flight but one of the great bombers crashed into Lake Worth near fort Worth Tex last sept 15, killing five of the 13 persons aboard pontiff reported Albed with slight touch of flu Vatican City feb. 14 up a High Vatican source said today tha t Pope Pius Xii contracted a slight touch of influenza during the night and has been confined toned by his private physician. The source said the 73-year-Oldpontiff did not celebrate his usual Early morning mass and that All his audiences today had been cancelled. Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi Lisi the pontiffs private physician was summoned to the papal apartment Early this morning. The source said Galeazzi Lisi diagnosed influenza with attendant fever. Churchill urges East West talk peace at top level soviet a bid invited Washington feb. 14 a the . Has issued a virtual invitation to the user to enter into new negotiations for atomic control. The change of tone towards the soviet Union was revealed during a talk by assistant Secretary of state John Hickerson to reporters yester Jay he made it Plain that if the user has any new atomic proposal to Lay before the United nations the . Will consider it sympathy it  said this is no change in policy but the emphasis of Hickerson s remarks was somewhat different from policy declaration last week by president Truman and Secretary of state Dean Acheson who ruled out any dramatic new peace approach to the user. Hickerson s statement is believe to be aimed at showing the rus sians that the . Has not slammed the door on further discussions. Reaffirming . Support or rigid system of International inspection and control of atomic cont. On Page 12. Col. 1 Truman names Pike to chairmanship. Washington feb. 14 ins president Truman today selected sunnier t., Pike As acting chair Man of the atomic Energy com , a member of the commis Sion and the Only remaining orig Inal member of the group will succeed David e. Lilienthal resigned. Lilienthal retires from the chair Manship tomorrow. Joint chiefs report to president returning front their tour of the far East the joint chiefs of staff Confer with president Truman and defense Heads at the White House. Seated left to Rich Are army Secretary Gordon Gray defense Secretary Louis a. Johnson or. Truman Deputy defense Secretary Stephen  Early Aid air Force Secretary w. Sinhart Symington. Ini Winston Churchill adjusts his Scarf after it Campaign speech in Cardiff on his current swing around the United kingdom for the conservatives. Acme bomb set off a finn Capitol Helsinki feb. 14 up police opened an investigation into a bomb explosion at the finnish parliament building today a few hours before 300 electors were to meet in Parlia ment preliminary to choosing a new finnish president the Small bomb blew Glass panes from two double doors that guar the main Entrance. Workers were repairing the damage today when the members of the electoral College entered to present their credentials to assistant Justice Chancellor c. G.  Blom chief of the criminal police said no arrests were made. Two windows on each Side of thee trance were covered with card Board. Outside a fresh snowfall hid evidence of the , meanwhile continued their nth hour Campaign against the re election of president j. K. Paas Kivi to whom a majority of the electors Are pledged. Penna. Vets Bonus Frankfurt feb. 14 is Neucom personnel eligible for the Pennsylvania slate soldiers Bonus May obtain applications and instructions from the army times Frankfurt press Center Apo 757, . Army not Apo 717, As reported in yesterday s is.  a safeguard Edinburgh feb. 14 a Winston Churchill urged to night that East and West locked in the hatreds of the cold War make a new supreme Effort to Bridge the Gulf Between the two worlds by talks at the highest level. The superiority of the j . In the atom bomb the i conservative Leader said was the j surest guarantee of world  he said the Power of the . Protects not Only Britain but the  he criticized the labor govern int for having fallen so completely behind in the mysterious Region of atomic  Churchill came to Edinburgh to make his first major pronounce ment of the feb. 23 election Campaign on International affairs. Churchill recalled a letter he wrote to Premier Joseph Stalin in april 1945, in which he prophesied front. On Page it col. 2 czechs arrest two yanks Prague. Feb. 14 a the czech foreign office announced to Day that state police have arrested two american mormon missionaries on charges of having attempted to enter a prohibited  announcement was made in a note to the . Embassy reply ing to an american request for information on the whereabouts of the two missionaries who disappeared Jan. 28 while travelling through Moravia to visit Church members living near the polish  missionaries Are Stanley e. Abbott 23, of Lehi Utah and  Johnson. 22, of Idaho Falls  foreign office statement to the embassy did not say where the missionaries were being held. It had been authoritatively re ported that they were being held i Olomouc in Central Moravia not far from pros Ejov where they had cont on Page 12, col. 1 queries St in tvs Ali checks Washington feb. 14 up the veterans administration said today it is mailing out 1,000,000 i insurance dividend checks a weekend might be Able to Speed up even More if veterans would Stop writ ing in to ask what happened to their  a spokesman said checks for about half of the first Batch of10,000,008 applications already proc Essed have been mailed out an that the remaining 5,000,000 in that group will have Scheir Money within the nest five to six  has another 4,500,000 applications to process and the spokes Man said their checks will be sent out after the first Batch is completed. Checks covering All 14,500,000 applications will have been delivered he said in about 11 weeks. The spokesman said a has been deluged with letters from veterans with Low serial numbers the pay off order is based on the last three digits who complained they had t received their dividends. He explained that some Low number applications did not get into the first 10,000,000 for various reasons none of them the fault of  veterans the spokesman said forgot to sign their names or made out their applications improperly. In other cases the names or addresses were too Long and had to be hand processed instead of machine proof Arad