European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 16, 19jo the stars and stripes Page 7 r i i i s 0 i. E r St in i of yes Ger re ild after Pilot charges lines lag in safety devices Washington feb. 15 ins a Veteran Pilot charged yesterday thai a majority of air line plane. Are not equipped with the bes available safety devices despite a 10-year toll of 7,574 lives. David a Behncke president o Ibe air line pilots assn., said some Gordon c. Mcneilly who saw Active duty As a reservist in 1944-46 and is now serv ing a rotating residency at the Sonoma county Hospital Santa Rosa Calif. The Navy said that Mcneilly s request to head the Tinian Leper Colony has been accepted and he will report to the former japanese stronghold about May 1 with his wife and two children. The Tinian Lep Rosarium has been in operation since sept. 7, 1948. It started with 53 patients and now cares for about twice that number including five children. Pelley is paroled then rearrested terms haute ind., feb. 15 a William Dudley Pelley for Mer Silver shirt Leader left the Federal Penitentiary Here on parole yesterday but was taken into Cus Tody at the Gate by an Indiana  immediately attorneys for the 59-year-old Pelley started a court fight to prevent his being taken to Asheville n.c., to serve a two to three year term for Viola Tion of a suspended sentence. Pelley s attorneys filed a petition with the circuit court seeking is release on a writ of Hareas Corpus. Sheriff John Rierweiler who met Pelley As he left the Penitentiary was served with notice of the Fil ing of the writ. Pelley was sentenced to the fed eral prison Here for 15 years for wartime sedition. Free Access asked for . Press in soviet Washington feb. 15 ins sen. Homer Ferguson a Mich said the . Must get Freedom for its newsmen in Russia before it seeks a pact on atomic and Hydrogen bombs. Ferguson said that any disarmament agreement with Russia would have to be based on a fool proof inspection system. To make inspection fool proof he declared . Newsmen in Russia must have free Dom of Access and communications. He said that newsmen would be a valuable Backstop for govern ment inspectors. It would be harder to bribe the press than it would government officials Ferguson said. I m talking about our free american press. In the press you have a healthy com petition you Don t get in govern ment service. First things must come first in negotiating treaties and keeping them. That is Why i think we ought to Start with Freedom of the press and communications before talking about disarmament  former under Secretary of state will l. Clayton told a Senate foreign relations subcommittee that it would be most unfortunate for the democracies if an arms agree ment with Russia were to be obtained at this time. He explained the democracies would try to keep the agreement and would be lulled to sleep while Russia would break it when the break would be to the Kremlin s advantage. U. S. Predicts More food Washington feb. 15 ins the government said there will be More food available this year than last and that the consumer will pay slightly less and eat a Little More. The agriculture department said . Economic activity is expected to continue under a Lull head of steam this year and that consumer buying Power will stay High. The experts said the . Family Man will have to Shell out a relatively smaller proportion of his income for food in 1950 than he did in 1949. Last year More than 30 per Centof total consumer disposable in come was spent for food. The year before it was More than 32 per cent and in 1947 it was almost 34 per cent the department said. To radar officer did report Shoals Norfolk v., feb. 15 up a radar officer told a naval inquiry Board he did not report to the Bridge of the  Missouri Al though his charts showed she was heading into Shoal Waters just be fore running aground last month. The Board named it John Ells Worth Carr of Norfolk an inter ested party in its attempt to fix the blame for the Missouri s 15 Day stay on a Hampton roads mud Bank. He was the fifth person to become directly involved in the inquiry. Throng looks on As Man leaps to death in . San Francisco. Feb. 15 up grief stricken at the break up of his Home a 30-year-old machinist jumped to his death from the sixth floor of a downtown department store while a throng of onlookers looked on in horror. Edmond Lewis climbed out on a window ledge above the crowds on Market St. And teetered there for 15 minutes before deciding to jump. Lewis sister said his wife. Mildred had walked out of the Home last week after a Long quarrel. She took their two children Edmond jr., 16 months and Valera. 4 months