European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday february 17, 1950 French move against red arms Boycott Paris feb. 16 up the French Cabinet today ordered a tightening of Security measures to guard against communist agitation to Block Atlantic pact arms shipments and the flow of arms to indo officials were told to take All necessary Steps to insure Public order and the Protection of Public services and military ship system will be set up to make troops quickly available at trouble communists have called for two strikes tomorrow one a two hour railway strike and the other a 24-hour miners strike. Urging strikes in arsenals two Days ago 2.000 strikers in Nice pushed 120 police aside and dumped a rocked launcher into the sea. The communists Are urging workers to strike in arsenals and refuse to Load arms for indo China or unload . Arms shipments to unions have re fused to join the rail strike due from 8 to 10 am. They have also repudiated the Eoal strike. West studies Barge Block by Dwight schea Stafl correspondent Berlin. Feb. 16 is a new soviet order restricting Barge traffic Between Berlin and Western Germany was under study by West Ern officials Here today. British authorities said the import of the order is not yet Clear. The order demands new Docu mentation for Barge operators. Meanwhile transport officials re ported German truck traffic on the main Highway connecting Berlin and the Western zones was More or less Normal today. Trucks to and from Berlin were processed at the soviet Helmstedt Marie born checkpoint at the rate of approximately 12 pet hour. In the 34-hour period ending last Midnight 313 German trucks reached Berlin from the Western zones and 245 left in the opposite direction. Between Midnight and s pm the totals were eastbound 109 westbound 108. Chief of chaplains visits Frankfurt Post areas Frankfurt feb. 16 is maj Gen Roy h. Parker army chief of chaplains is making his official visit to Frankfurt military Post today on his tour of Neucom installations. Tomorrow morning Parker will Call officially on col Basil h. Perry Ftp co will Sprajc to troops of the 7811th Sci and will participate in the dedication of the new military Chapel in the Atterberry Betts area at 10 am. He will lunch with . High commissioner John j. My cloy and with sub Post commanders and chaplains. At 3 pm Parker will address troops at the Hanau sub Post and signal depot. Mardi gras party Frankfurt feb. 16 special the Frankfurt teen age club will hold a Mardi gras Parry from 7 to 11 38 tomorrow night at the club on Holzhausen str parents and teachers of members Are invited. Secret pact clauses reported new York feb. 16 a the chinese communists have secretly promised to Send a Large labor Force to the user and to give the rus sians control of Dairen port arts or and five other yellow sea ports in the event of a. A new York times dispatch from Paris said today. F the chinese have also agreed to give soviet advisers key positions in Tfaye chinese army secret police and communist party the report concessions if. Added were believed to be in secret codicil signed in Moscow prior to the announcement of the soviet chinese pact. Poles czechs finns seen forging China Trade pact London feb. 16 a Poland Czechoslovakia and Finland were reported yesterday to be forging. In concert with the user a Multi million Dollar Trade pact with communist from the three coun tries have been in Moscow during the lengthy talks which culminated in the signing of a new sino soviet treaty. The effect of such an agreement which would be on an interlocking basis would be to Weld european and asian communism even More closely together. Figures have not been mentioned by Eastern diplomats Here who revealed the treaty moves but they Are expected to be Large. The pact would serve As a tre Russ spurn . System but Welcome dollars London. Febi 16 ins the soviet Union which regularly predicts the imminent collapse of the . Capitalist Economy has apparently changed its mind. Under terms of the new sino soviet agreement the user i extending China credit to Pur Chase soviet Industrial equip chinese Are to pay it Back in Tea. Raw materials Gold and . Dollars. To endows stimulant to China s pro Gram for reconstruction and eventual industrialization. Through it China would get the machines steel and tools needed to convert her present preponderant by agricultural econ omy into an Industrial one. The Eastern european nation would also profit through Access to China s vast stores of raw. Materials and natural resources such As Coal Iron and Tungsten. Nationalists Call Accord aggressive Alliance Taipei feb. 16 up foreign minister George Yeh today formally charged that the chinese red agree ment with Russia was an aggressive military Alliance with the . As the principal target. In the first official nationalist government reaction to the Moscow agreement Yeh said Russia s actions in violating the j945 sino soviet treaty was Hitler like and that regardless of the decision of the United nations in China s Cas against Russia those treaty obligations still stand. Two year old takes a trip Jeanette Markunas 2, gets ready to Board an american overseas airlines plane at Rhine main Airport for the flight Back to her parents sex i Joseph p. Marf Eunas 24, and his austrian War Bride wife in Baldwin n. T. Holding Jeanette is hostess Jane line of Jackson Heights n. Y. Aoa photo my give two years in theft of Auto Frankfurt feb. 16 is an army court martial today convicted a . Military policeman on charges of stealing an automobile which allegedly was to be used As a getaway car in planned holdups of Frankfurt Banks and taxi stands. The court sentenced ret Andrew h. Huff 21, of the 540th my so in to two years at hard labor Dis honorable discharge and total forfeiture of pay. Tomorrow another court will be Gin trying pfc Edward f. Lucas cob 709th my so in on charges of participating with Huff ant a Ger Man sex convict in the Jan. & theft of a Sedan belonging to Frederick h. Wegman a Hico employee. Huff testified today that the car was stolen by the sex convict Peter Ruthe 20, whom a . District court Here last week gave 15 months in prison for theft. Canadian Auto record Ottawa feb. 16 apr last year canadians bought Over 275,530 cars More than at any other time in. Tie country s history. Gang Rule charged by mayor continued from Page i to $2,000.000,000 was the other big Racket group. We have Good reason to believe that the Slot machine Syndicate is controlled by Frank costello he added. Morrison has accused costello of seeking to influence the new or leans City government a charge the Gambler has shy and retiring Czar of the Slot machine Racket always under states his interest in rackets and government in his Public denial of the facts about his Potency arks in fluence Morrison said. irom a John i. Lewis United mine workers Leader and soft Coal operators met today in Washington seeking solution to the Coal strike dead s conference got off to a Stormy Start when the Southern operators walked out in protest against Industry wide bargaining. Two hours later. Joseph e. Moody Southern Leader re entered the meeting. While Lewis and the mine owners bargained for the second straight Day tension mounted in the Coal Fields and at Junior. W a five men were shot in a clash Between nonunion miners and of the wounded were admitted to Myers clinic Hospital in Philippi w.va., with Shotgun wounds. One was identified As Meline Girdich brother of Joseph Sirrieh president of West Virginia s largest ump local. Three others were identified As Arnold Moore 36, of Simpson Roy Hoffman 37, of Everettville and Wayne Martin 23, of Grant police identified the fifth wounded Man As Bill Williams owner of the Williams Coal co., 11 b36 survivors rescued by boat six still missing continued from Page 1 tree on a Cliff where he Hung head downward for 10 hours before capt Harold l. Barry of Hillsboro 111., Pilot of the ill fated bomber and 1st it Raymond p. Whitfield jr., of san Antonio Cut him Down from the tree brought him to a eve spot on the 3,000-foot Cliff face and bedded him Down on Pine s foot was caught in a Crevice of the Cliff in his fall. Both his legs were reported gangrenous. S sgt Dick thrasher 29-year-old gunner from Chilton tex., told interviewers last night that he landed in a big tree and had to Cut my shroud lines with a knife. I was hanging next to the trunk. After 1 Cut the lines i Slid Down the trunk and slept until the survivors were brought to the Hospital Here. In addition to Trippodi thrasher Barry and Whitfield they were identified As follows it col Daniel v. M Don Aid observer of Arlington a. 1st it Ray. Darrah 28, observer Martin s ferry Oblo 1st it Paul Erhart. 26,radar observer of Gerr Cantown Paist it Ernest o. Cox 28, Engineer Olampa. Tex. T sgt Martin b. Stephens. 30, gunner of san fran Cisco s sgt James r Ford 28. Radio operator of Holdenville okla. Cpl Richard j. Schuler 33. Radio Mechanic of Miami. Air Force lists 15 men on b29 which crashed Spokane feb. 16 up the Spokane air Force base released the following list of 15 men aboard the b29 which crashed at great Falls Mont yesterday missing maj Clyde i. Butts Spokane com Mander capt Lester John or Spokane Pilot capt Jonathan m. Herbold Spokane Copilot 1st Therbert s. Findley. Mossy Rock wash., navigator 1st it John s. Bom Berg. Aurora col Bombardier s sgt Robert e. Fisher Roseville. Engineer Cpl Iames Dipierro Spokane radio operator Cpl James Fulton. Spokane Raduc operator. Great Falls firemen and police said eight men died in the air Force Public information office Here explained that tace men listed above Are termed missing rather than dead because positive identification has not been made yet survivors 1st it Frederick n. Woulard pet Al Uma. Calif. S sgt Victor j. Jacquot Chula Vista Calif. Sgt Clarence . Memphis m sgt Earl e Evert. Grand rapids s sgt Troy . Del Monte. Calif. S sgt Carles j Ollson pones City. Raymond Brandel. Johnstown a. Protests grow Over Hedler acquittal Neu Munster. Feb. 16 up protests against acquittal of right whig bundestag lower House Deputy Wolfgang Hedler spread All Over Germany today. In Kiel Trade unions asked All workers to Down tools to attend a mass protest meeting in front of the City Hall Hedler who publicly endorsed Hitler s racial program was acquit Ted by a court Here yesterday of charges of anti semitism. Officials of the British zone state govern ment of Schleswig Holstein Date said the three members of the court. Were former members of the nazi party named to the Bench after being Dena Ifield. In Munich political parties the organization of nazi persecutes and Trade unions joined u schedule a protest rally tomorrow in Bonn practically every bundestag member told reporters of his disappointment dissatisfaction or even stronger feelings about he verdict. Social democratic parly Leader Kurt Schumacher described the acquittal As legally untenable and extremely dangerous from the political and human Point of View because from it world opinion will. Draw its conclusions on the political mentality of the German Christian democratic bundestag action Leader Heinrich von Bren Tano said Hedler should be deprived of his civil rights for the in famous statements which brought him to trial at Neu Munster. Punitive action sought for anti semitism Bonn feb. 16 up the West German ministry of Justice announced Here today it was work ing on a supplement to the Crim Inal code which v Ould retake anti semitism punishable. Ail official announcement said the supplement to be submitted to the Cabinet soon will also provide penalties for actions against peace As Well As for High treason. Duke finds taxes taxing Arundel England feb is up the Durfee of Norfolk. England s highest ranking Noble will sell so buildings because taxes Are so High he can t afford to a door open Truman says continued from Page 1 in the new York times last tues had quoted the president As saying in an interview that if a political Campaign had not been in Progress in 1948. Or. Truman would have sent Fred Vinson chief Justice of the supreme court to Russia to try to straighten out Stalin and other russian Leaden about . also quoted the president As saying that maybe that would Bufi the thing to do sometime. Be Truman indicated he was correctly quoted. He said further he does no believe the time has come to see Stalin. At the same time he said he would be glad to see anyone who wants to come to Washington to see said he had authorized the interview with Krock in the form in which it was published. The president said this is not the proper time to press for things like a political Union of Atlantic pact nations. There Are other things More important he declared. On International matters Mac Truman said the . Is still read to negotiate on any question that might come up in the world sn4 that . Ambassadors in every capital of the world Are Anafla of for consultation. The president said the . Be walked out of any International meeting and never used its veto the United nations. Its doors Are always open be Sal and Wal continue to be talks on any subject. Add b w v in p Fri by r y v
