European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast Frankfurt partly , of Easi onal rain mini mum tempera Tore if Heidelberg june a Stutt cart same. A Munich same 35 blk Msj same. A Berlin same 3s Vienna Sam. 35 Paris same a Rome fair 45 map Litls same 4s Trieste same 44. Air weather Central european edition in in How 9 m a by of the stars and stripes unofficial publication of . Occupation forces in Europe broken Promise president Truman in an interview in the new York times says he docs not believe the russians will keep their word on any agreements made with the c. A. But nonetheless is hopeful of the final outcome. For the full Story of the president s views on the soviet Union read Page 3. Volume 7, number 301 & Cento a copy $1.2$ m month thursday february 16, 1950 forces abroad trained Collins Washington feb. 15 up . Army chief of staff Gen j. Lawton Collins told a congressional committee that . Armed forces in both Europe and Japan will be ready within a few months to give an excellent account of them selves if  he said m testimony made Public today that  troops on both sides were undergoing intensive combat training and reorganization to form an effective line beyond which communism cannot pass. Testifying at the same session of the Trouse appropriations sub com  Secretary Gordon Gray warned that although the . Had considerably improved combat of Fec uveness since 1945, soviet pos session of the atomic bomb will tremendously reduce the Western world s military advantage Gray and Collins appeared before closed session of the committee Jan. 19 a regular annual defense department requests for fiscal year 1951.grar said soviet Possession of the cont. On Page 12, col. 2 soviets delay 2d . Train by Dwight schea staff correspondent Berlin feb. 15 " is russian Ronal Border guards held the . I military Berlin Frankfurt train two hours and 18 minutes at the Border town of Marie born last night. This was the second such incident since the russians began a series of harassment of Berlin West German traffic last month. The russians held last night s train on grounds that two Pas sengers George Hoffman and v. Walker a woman travelling on Swiss passports As delegates of the International committee of the red Cross lacked proper documents. # i last night s train was stopped on the zonal Border at 10 45 and was i Lowed to proceed at 1 03 am. Hoffman and miss Walker remained on the train. , officials Here said the papers of both passengers were n order and had been cleared by Ehe to in Berlin. French rail strike set f Paris feb. 15 up communist Eon trolled labor unions yesterday called a two hour general strike of Railroad workers throughout France Friday morning. H to r inmost awful t a Eoo talks spurned by Southern Coa operators Washington feb 15 a Southern Coal operators walked out of bargaining sessions with John l. Lewis today less than three hours after new peace talk be , the 400,000 soft Coal miners continued their Defiance of a Federal injunction ordering them to return to work Joseph Moody president of the Southern group told reporters the Dixie operators want bargaining talks with the Union separate from those with other operator groups. Moody said the Southern group is taking Steps to determine if it must meet with Lewis along with other operators. It was Learned that attorneys for the southerners were on their Way to Confer with Federal judge Richmond b. Keech. Keech issued an order last week directing that new bargaining ses Sions be held and that the Coal miners shop their strike. It had been the first time since cont. On Page 12, col. 3 16 killed by Snow ice thousands flee new floods Chicago feb. 15 a floods and storms dealt destructive blows across wide areas of the South Midwest and East today. Snow and ice storms were blamed for at least 16 deaths. Property damage mounted into millions of dollars. Thousands were made homeless As rising Rivers spilled into Lowland Homes in Louisiana and Missouri. Other thousands were threatened with evacuation in Illinois Indiana Ohio and Tennessee As new floods menaced areas where floodwaters. On Page 12, col. 1 Bonn Deputy cleared of Bias fun cloy raps moral guilt the 16 a bum raft i state Neu Munster feb. 15 Wolfgang Hedler rightist Deputy a the Bonn parliament today was quilted by a German court of barges of anti semitism growing at of a speech in which he said the termination of jews in Hitler s As Chambers might have been swig but that there certainly Ere other ways to get rid of  the court ruled that Hedler As member of tree West German Par Junyent was properly concerned the such issues and that criticism Tud no be  =. High commissioner John a cont. John Vernon a Friend and spokes Man for Ingrid Bergman s husband. Or. Peter Lindstrom has been missing since last sunday his fam ily reported today Vernon 42, was driving a 1&4t car belonging to miss Bergama when he left Home to keep an appointment with a person unknown to his wife. There has been no word from him since his. Family said