European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday february 16, 1950 China treaty aimed at Acheson policy agreement May Cut Hope of conflict Washington feb. 15 api diplomatic authorities said Here to Day that the user and communist China apparently designed their new treaty in part As a weapon for cutting the ground from under . Policy toward China. . Policy As stated Jan. 12 by Secretary of state Dean Acheson was based on the Hope of conflict in interests Between the soviet Union and China in North China., particularly in Manchuria. If the user actually returns the Changchun railway d a i r e n and fort Arthur As promised in the treaty the effect would be to minimize this conflict. Meanwhile state department officials Are certain that both Moscow and the chinese communist regime will make propaganda capital of the fact that the user has entered into a treaty to relinquish special rights assailed by the . As a form of old fashioned imperialism in China. They appear convinced that the document As made Public does not represent the extent of the agree ment reached in prolonged conferences and added that the full import of suspected secret agreements May appear Only gradually. Something that May be secretly included is the question of soviet ships and planes for communist China which the communists want to counter nationalist bombing. Observers feel China gets second Best in Buss Deal Hon Kong feb. 15 up observers Here said terms of the chinese soviet treaties prove China came out of the Deal second Best despite the surface appearance of soviet they pointed out surrender of soviet rights to the Changchun railway and Dairen and port Arthur was merely giving Back something stolen from China. On the other band China was seen As surrendering the right tract independently in foreign policy and roust be tied to the user. " Strong soviet position observers said that by 1952, when the russians Are required to evac uate Dairen and port Arthur and return the railway to chinese operation the soviet position in Manchuria will be so Strong it will not make any difference. In any Case the russians will still be permitted to use port Arthur in Case of War. As a result observers said China has become a True soviet satellite As far As Independent action is concerned which Means China will add another vote to the soviet bloc at the United nations and also consult the user before making any move in the Field of foreign affairs. Collins says troops Are on Alert continued from Page 1 atom bomb with increasing capability on her part to deliver it will tremendously reduce the Mili tary advantage the u. S. Had be cause of the monopoly of atomic weapons. This will tend to return the emphasis to conventional concepts of ground sea and air forces. Gray said while the u. S. Had considerably improved combat effectiveness since 195, our potential adversary is known to possess an army overwhelming in strength equipped with modern weapons and deployed advantageously for effective ground combat. These facts have been recognized and weighed in our estimated that . Forces overseas in the coming year will total some 265,000, including 202,000 on occupation duty which would mean 32 per cent of the total army strength abroad. Collins told congressmen that the user s achievement of the atomic bomb emphasized clearly the wis Dom of our decision to make com Mon cause with our friends in Europe for prevention of War Only by Mutual Aid and encouragement can forces be constructed among the free Peoples of the world of such a capacity that they can clearly discourage the threat of totalitarian aggression Collins said our objective should Ever be to prevent wars rather than merely to win them after they Start French general says West could lose War in 2 Days Paris feb. 15 ins a top French military figure warned yesterday the West must unite immediately or else live under the threat of a soviet Victory within 48 hours of the outbreak of a War. It Gen Pierre Billotte who re signed recently As head of the French military Mission to the United nations said the user in two years will be in a position to win a lightning Victory Over the West in a two Day War. Arms Aid shipment delayed 3 months Washington feb. 15 a . Shipments of arms to Western Europe will not begin until Early next month nearly three months behind schedule. Government officials said yesterday. Technical problems of reconditioning packing shipping and the preparation of Docking facilities in Europe were blamed by the official for the delay. This tentative new timetable gives the administration Only three months to spend the $1,000,000,000 Congress approved for rearming Atlantis pact countries. Snow ice kill 16 m states thousands flee new floods continued from Page i were fought Only a few weeks ago. The weather Bureau said the sleet and Snow storm which swept across the Middle West and Eastern states was diminishing. It left a Blanket of Snow throughout the Northern states and an abundant rainfall from the Gulf to the North Atlantic states. It also left a heavy toll in prop erty damage and ice coated High ways. Many communities remained isolated from Telephone communication. Trees Telephone and Power lines snapped under the weight of the heavy Snow. Snow Over dome Midwest areas measured More than 20 inches. New York counted 11 persons dead in Accident attributed to the storm. Four deaths were reported in Penn Sylvania and one in Illinois. East Central Louisiana with thou Sands fleeing their Lowland Homes braced for what May be the worst flood threat since 1927. More than 1,300 families were evacuated by floodwaters of secondary Rivers. The floods caused by seepage and backing up engulfed More than 650,000 acres of lowlands Over a rough Triangle from Natchez miss., to Alexandria la., to a Point near Baton Rouge. The lands Are mostly those which Are expected to go under water at High River Sta Ges. The levee system was intact and above the Mississippi level at Baton Rouge. But army engineers said the big Stream was Bank full from Cairo hi., to the Gulf and More Rains May produce a flood com parable to the disastrous one of 1327, warns of general annihilation or. Albert Einstein tells 31 Tele vision audience the armaments race Between the. . And Usoris and that the h Bonsib opens the Way for general Einstein spoke on the premiere of mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt s new television pro Gram. In 8die,7 survive crash of b29 continued from Page 1 went on to great Falls for the night. Mcfarland identified the ship As one from the 99th bomb up. Names of the Crew members were not released to other . And Canadian search planes took off into the rain Laden skies to Hunt for the b36 missing since monday night off the jagged coast of Brit ish Columbia. Sixteen crewmen and an of lieutenant colonel were Pilot of the b36, bound from Alaska to Texas last radioed on tuesday that he thought he would have to ditch the giant Craft in the Pacific. Air Force lists names of crewmen on plane fort Worth Tex., feb. 15 up the both air Force yesterday announced the names of the 16 crewmen aboard its b3s ditched off British Columbia capt Karold. Barry. To. Hillsboro,111., air plane commander 1st it Raymond p. Whitfield jr., 2s, Sanantonio. Tex., observer Cap William m Phillips 30. Garber. Okla., navigator 1st it Hosiel Ascot 37, fort Worth Bombardier 1st it Charles. Pooler 36, Beloit Kan. 2d Engineer 1st it Paul Gerhart 26, Ger Raa town pa., radar observer and 1st it Ernest o. Cox 28, Pampa Tex., Engineer also capt Theodore f. Schreier 35. Madison wis. Copilot t sgt Martin b. Stephens 30, san Francisco gunner s sgt Vitale Trippodi. 23, Brooklyn radio operator s sgt Jamesr. Ford 28, Holden vice. Okla. Radio operator s sgt Neal a. Straley 3fl,gushing. Okla., gunner s set Dick thrasher 39. Chilton. Tex., gunner Cpl Richard j. Schuler 23, Miami radio Mechanic 1st it Roy r ferry Ohio observer and s sgt Elbert w. Pollard. 28, Bowie Tex. Gunner. Southern operators spurn Coal talks continued from Page 1 1948 that Northern Western and Southern commercial operators and . Steel s captive mine interests have met jointly with Lewis. Meanwhile Virginia and new York today prepared emergency Steps to combat the growing Coal shortage which found the . With an average. 10-Day Supply lowest in modern was contemplated by 5ov. John Battle of Virginia and gov. Thomas e. Dewey of new York was empowered by tie slate legislature to ration Coal and limit its uses for 40 Days. After signing an emergency Bill in new York last night Dewey said he expected it would have to be invoked promptly to Deal with the catastrophe threatening the state. Battle indicated he May use a wartime act to seize mines in the next few Days if the strike of 15,000 Virginia miners did not end 3000. Hedler is cleared of anti semitism by German court continued from Page i Mccloy had warned earlier that the world will be watching the outcome of the trial because of the issues involved. Hedler was expelled from the rightist German party do after speech. Following acquittal Hedler strode from the court to be greeted by a crowd of 200 Well wishers in front of the town Hall. They presented with a Large bouquet Beri boned with the red White and Black colors of Hitler s defunct third Reich. State s. Attorney Fritz Priess served notice that the prosecution will Appeal the acquittal verdict. Or. Otto Paulick chief judge of the court in delivering toe verdict said that Hedler never had been Friendly to the jews and had opposed the German anti Hitler under ground. No political trials but existing Laws do not give grounds for finding guilty the court said. In announcing the verdict the court said nowadays we do not need political trials but tact and fairness Paulick said the court s task was not to decide whether Hedler s remarks were politically acceptable or not. The court did not question that the remarks had been made. Hedler s parliamentary immunity was lifted by a vote of the bundestag last dec. 16 to permit the state to bring to trial for utter ances. His speech delivered in novem Ber at Einfeld. In Schleswig hol Stein caused grave concern in Western Allied quarters and shocked the German press. Hedler a former Weh nacht offi cer trained at an Imperial Cadet school also told the Einfeld rally that Germany was not guilty for the outbreak of world War u. Secretary sent to . Lived in soviet zone Berlin feb. 15 up Deporta Tion of Joan Cecile von Goetz formerly a Secretary on the Allied \ military Security Board Here was i confirmed yesterday by . High commission officials and by . J consular authorities. I miss von Goetz said she had lived for two months at Weimar and Sonderhausen in soviet occupied Thuringia. I she told . Authorities she fled \ to the soviet zone because her Mil itary entry permit to stay in Western Germany had expired an would not be renewed. During her stay in the East zone she was questioned several time by soviet officers and German criminal police she said on her return Here. . Consul Frank Lane said she had voluntarily reported to of j fice that she had gone into the soviet zone and had Given up her i . Passport and army ago t identification card in Exchange Foran East German residence permit miss von Goetz told . Authorities she was accompanied during her two month stay in the East zone by her German Fiance Kurt Tocken Berg. She told interrogators she and Lockenberg fled Back to Berlin be cause they were being repeatedly arrested by Eastern police an questioned on crimes ranging from robberies to two murders. Miss von Goetz was picked up by . Authorities after she left Lane s office on feb. 1. Lockenberg also was taken in for questioning. She was brought before a .district court in Berlin feb. 2. The Case was postponed one Day. Then she appeared again to answer charges of being illegally in the City. She agreed to leave and was Tea ordered deported. Maj Gen James p. Hodges u3. Representative on the military Security Board said miss Voa Goetz was second Cousin. He said she had no Access to any confidential information of the Board up to pacts . Bids Russia continued from Page 1 relations with the soviet Union can be conducted but pointed out thai All nations outside the soviet bloc were making an honest Effort to make the in told the subcommittee the record of the past eight years will show the unusual Effort which has been made by the United states and the Western world in taking the initiative to find possible Points of understanding with the soviet 1he said that on the other hand there have been remarkably few instances of initiative on the part of the soviet Union to find com Mon Points of Contact with the yank girl ousted from Berlin would give up citizenship continued from Page 1 Brown hair she was formerly employed by the Allied military Security Hoard. She quit in August last year and obtained a . Per Mit to stay in Germany until last nov. 30. Miss von Goetz said the army told her she was being sent to the for Security reasons they said i had too Many Ger Man friends and was moving in the International set she continued. They seemed to think i was a spy or the girl also said the army has taken her boy Friend a 23-year old former Kennan Soldier aaa a Kurt Lockenberg into custody. Miss von Goetz said it is not True As . Officials in Berlin said that she left voluntarily. She said there was nothing voluntary Abov it Mother lays girl s plight to love for German Washington feb. 15 api Jean Cecile von Goetz Mother ice Jean von Goetz. Told correspondent yesterday her daughter s troubles started because she fell in love with Germany and sought to Staj there despite passport limitations she said her daughter wrote in january she had been told by Ger Man friends that her residence permit would be extended in went to the soviet zone and the reentered Western Germany apparently she tried Fiat i i think it was very bad advice a Mother said. N to. N o if to h a c y p c
