European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Pace it the stars and stripes sunday february 19, 1950 Belgium recruiting to unload arms Brussels feb. 16 up a spokesman for Tyve belgian ministry of Adonai defense said today tiie army was recruiting 200 Soldier Keg Sheremen to handle . Shipments due m Antwerp shortly under the Mutual defense assistance program. The spokesman said the army was toying to fac Spuit 300from civilian life for a period of three years. The communist dockers action in Antwerp Ostend have announced they will refuse to unload arms shipped therefrom the . More italian dockers vote to unload american arms Rome feb. 18 a dockworkers in three More italian ports have voted to unload . Arms coming to Italy under the Mili tary Aid program published Dis patches reported today. The reports said that dockers atthe sicilian ports of Palermo and voted by a Large majority to unload arms Laden ships. A Manfredonia Southern Adriatic sea port workers voted unanimously to unload All ships a dispatch said. Previously dockers at four other italian ports including Naples agreed to unload the arms. West replies to Kotikov continued from Page 1 Cal your apparent intention to Dis regard the formal commitments accepted by your government in the Paris agreement they told Kotikov. Today s letter was written in answer to a feb. 4 letter of Koti Fedov Ivsich in turn constituted a reply to previous Western protest letters of Jan. 21 and 26."the Western commandants note with regret that your letter contains no Assurance that you will take action to end transport slow Downs the commandants s3 id despite the formal obligation accepted by the government of the user in the pans agreement of last Western comma n d a n t s cannot accept your statement that there has been no deliberate interference with the Normal traffic arrangements Between Berlin an the Western tones the record of events during the past several weeks leaves no doubt that a series of measures have been taken or authorized by the soviet authorities with the Clear intention of seriously obstructing this traffic by administrative maj Gen Maxwell d. Taylor,. Berlin commander and his French and British counterparts maj Gen Jean Ganeva and maj Gen Geoffrey k. Bourne told Kotikov that his references to smuggling do not justify the deliberately protracted delay i Clearing properly documented ship user crushed plot paper reports continued from Page 1 ministry and other communist party arid state newspaper attributed its report to circles associated with the soviet control commission in aim of the plot was the establishment of a great Russia Republic with Leningrad As its capital the newspaper said. Head quarters for the plotters was said to be Leningrad. Experts on the soviet Union at tribute the resistance movement to the fact that responsible realized that wartime promises that the soviet people gradually would attain a higher Standard of living have turned out to be Noth Ilia but lies the newspaper said. Vogeler says he was spy asks mercy continued from Page t colonel from Fli War department after the Ehi of executive of the International Standard electric works whom he named As col s. Behn ordered him to Europe to take charge of the firm s operations in Eastern Europe. Sosthenes Behn Board chairman of it to who is in Santiago of cafe telephoned a statement to the Newyork office saying the charges against Vogeler and Edgar Sanders British defendant who pleaded guilty were fantastic and totally Behn said he believed the alleged confessions could have been made Only under circumstances of extreme duress coercion and establish contacts Vogeler told the court that Beh ordered him to establish contacts in Vienna with military and diplomatic intelligence and asserted that 20 persons were sent abroad at the same time and were similarly instructed. Vogeler named Standard electric works vice president w. E. Ogilvie As one of the chief . Agent similarly instructed when he was sent to Hungary As an intelligence agent. Behn connections he said he worked directly under Behn whom he described As a banker who has close connection with president Truman Secretary of state Dean Acheson former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau and1 former Secretary of state George c. Marshall. Speaking quietly and carefully through an interpreter Vogeler testified he went through an feb school in 1942 and had been trained As a specialist in intelligence operations. Vogeler appeared in. Court neatly dressed in a Black suit White shirt and Black tie and his hair carefully brushed. Must have drugged him mrs. Vogeler say Vienna feb. 18 is they surely must have drugged him mrs. Lucille Vogeler declared today when informed that her husband had confessed to being an american have done something Ter Rible to him to make him confess to such ridiculous charges the belgian born wife of she arrested it to executive said that her 38-year-old husband had never received train ing in an Fri school or any Type of an espionage Are All lies which the hungarians have invented and they used torture to make my husband confirm them she said. Concerning the report from Buda pest dispatches that Vogeler had been promoted from a major to a colonel on completing a . Army espionage Cours Vogeler denied Herin 1945 had been in the . is a graduate of the naval Academy at , a High ranking Ufa officer supported mrs. Vogeler s statement concerning the Armya Agle. If or. Vogeler is a colonel or even in the army it certainly has been a Well kept secret fro a us the officer said. Death on tie autobahn aftermath of a crash Between two Pencer ears and a two trailer truck on the Frank fart Miteb Sam three British civilians Hart one German Driver dead. Hie alleged truck Driver who fled the Alene Emlater arrested in Frankfurt. Is photo by Tolani zone court hears cuban bail jumper is fugitive in Paris Frankfurt of feb. 16 s&9 . District court authorities today believed they have located bail jumping fugitive Oskar Valdes i Paris and made preparations to extradite him from franc for trial Here. Mrs. Marie Valdes 31, wife of the self styled sex cuban Diplomat told . Officials she has received a letter from Valdes in Paris. The letter mrs. Valdes said rules out her 57-year-old husband s threat 1o commit suicide when he disappeared a week ago from Konigstein authorities issued a War rant for Valdes apprehension yester Day after the latter failed to show up for trial on charges of illegal business transactions totalling $110, 000, illegal residence in the . Zone illegal Possession of a Picard and other counts. He had posted 21,000 Marks . Valdes who also faces trial Here March 2 for illegal residence in the zone gave the Case a new fillip today when she informed .officials she is fed up with Valdes and intends to seek a said she would bring the let Ter in monday foe inspection. Sheds German born but has a cuban passport. British. Freighter held at Formosa Taipei. Formosa feb. 18 a chinese nationalist naval authorities today held the 4,455-ton Brit ish freighter Caduceus under arrest no reason was Given. The ship is held at Kao Hsiung on the Southwest coast of Formosa. It could not be confirmed whether the Caduceus has called at communist chinese ports. 1 killed 3 Hurt in zone crash continued from Page 1 crashes when seized an hour Lateran downtown Frankfurt by two Mil itary dead Driver was Hans Tau to 35, employed by Frankfurt military Post motor Pool no. 1. Taken to the 97th go with serious injuries were Burton of Mills 44, British civilian employed in the Ftp comp troller s office multiple fractures of both legs shattered Kneecap and multiple . Burton f. Mills 34, his wife also a British civilian employed bythe adjutant general s office in Hei Delberg concussion of the Brainand contusions. Miss Hilda a. Norfolk British civilian employee of the pm Divi Sion e u c o a Heidelberg Scal lacerations and mild concussion. Three gis girl injured when jeep overturn Darmstadt feb. 18 is three soldiers and a German sir were seriously injured tonight when their jeep turned Over on the Road leading to the Darmstadt autobahn overpass. The injured were taken to the dispensary at the Darmstadt sub Post where the soldiers were tentatively identified As being assigned to the quartermaster school Cen Ter at Darmstadt. The girl was identified at Kate Prensa 27. Like a sore thumb Detroit feb. 18 up police did t have much trouble spotting George j. Trouart when he tried to Cash a Check in a tavern. The 27-year-old truck Driver s description had been broadcast on the police teletype. He was wanted for pass ing bogus checks Troyan is 6 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 263 pounds. 29 lose lives 116 injured in train collision continued from Page i Throat Cut and Wae by e a i h i 04through tub. Thirty sight other were Trot door less serious wounds either a the Hospital or at a medical Center set up at the wreck scene. She other 836 passengers a Flap with bruises or were unhurt. Harkin and been missing Dur ing Iho night and tone Point the poke had assumed him dead Intha wreckage. Treated at scene it turned out that he had been treated for Shock at the scene and a
