European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 20, 1950 the stars and stripes Page 3 t of in for in ent Paris probes on indo China report bribes Paris feb. In up two top ranking French generals and an influential member of the National Assembly yesterday were reported have accepted 2,500,009 francs to influence the appointment of a sew French High commissioner Forindo China the reported payments to the three officiate were revealed by a National Assembly investigating commission which publishes an a. Count of the interrogation by secur Ity police of Roger Peyre a mysterious Contact Man whom Premier Georges Bidault has described As a double  according to the report Peyre handed Gen Georges revers former army chief of staff 1,000,000 francs " and passed out a like amount to in Thomas Mast former director of the Institute of High National defense studies. Socialist Deputy Andre Letro Quet a former minister of National defense and now an influential member of the Assembly s National defense commission reportedly got 500,000 franc from Peyre. The payments of the Throe officials reportedly were for promotional expenses in connection with Mast s candidacy for High com missioner to indo China. Peyre told investigating Security polic he got the Money from Huang Van co indo chinese representative in Paris and handed it out to the three officials to Payfor entertainment and other expenses incidental to boosting Mas for the Job. Us s Campaign strictly Cricket by de Curtis London feb. W a it. Makes you homesick for a Good old Bare knuckle american political fight. With Only four Days before the general election most British politicians have yet to take off the gloves. Their Shell of typical Reserve is cracking around the edges but Only in places. A couple of the big London news papers have tossed a Folksy note into the Campaign Here and there. But most of them Are playing it straight. Two of the papers recently have been headlining Winston Churchill conservative As just Plain win  has gotten chummy with prime minister Clement Attlee. They Call him Clem but the usual style is or. Churchill and or.  tabloid came up with pictures of a Rural candidate astride a Plo horse calling on his farm support ers. Another picture showed a candidate soliciting support from House wives queueing for groceries. The candidates looked stiff and uncomfortable though. They weren t in there hamming it up like the office seekers Back Home can do. But the Campaign has had its moments. Health minister Aneurin Bevan has been called the minister of disease and described As a human  squelch ers Churchill has been dubbed a gut Ter snipe a cock that crows and thinks that it produced the Dawn and warmonger and one Rumor had him  or. Edith Summerskill the food ministry s parliamentary Secretary was heckled with Wolf Calls. Or is that heckling Deputy prime minister Herbert Morrison squelched noisy Youn conservative hecklers at a labor meeting with i would much sooner you were kicking up a Row Here than doing something useful for the tory  but at another meeting sir staf Ford Cripps Chancellor of the exchequer was so goaded he snapped of shut up at two women Heck lers. A conservative candidate Fred Harris complained he had to sell his two racehorses because of socialist government policies adding you know  they have Bee going  yes shouted a heckler i Velosta a lot of Money on  a communist interrupted Trade Union Arthur Deakin with Why Are american atom bombers in this country i wish i could drop an atom bomb on you reported Deakin. In the past few Days party strategists have been warning voters to be wary of any last minute stunt or scare. Maybe things Are warming up House unit to hear Fri "plant5 vlt5th reds b50s leave for Britain Savannah ga., feb. 19 up the first flights of tiie 2d bomb up s b50 bombers took off from Chatham air Force base yesterday Tor a Lour of training duty in eng land. The strategic air cd a 22d bomb up will return from eng land to its Home base at March air Force base Riverside Calif. Air Force has been keeping or three groups of strategic bombers in England for training Ona rotational basis. The a up will be based at la Cen Heath mar Nam and seun Throp. The number of planes Winch left and the number to leave on sub sequent flights were withheld. The planes will Fly Over both Northern and Southern routes stopping at the azores on the Southern course for refuelling and at Westover mass., air Faroe base and Iceland on Tutje Northern route. The first of the b50s Are due in England tomorrow. Washington feb. 19 ins the House in american activities committee yesterday announced that an Fri undercover agent who is member of the Pittsburgh communist party will testify at a Public hearing  committee investigating staff questioned the agent Matthew Cvetic in a closed meeting yesterday. Committee chairman John is Wood a a made the announce ment. Wood said that Cvetic reported volunteered to become an under cover Man for the government in 1941 and actually joined the communist party in 1943. Cvetic was described As Able to Rise to a High position in the party and reportedly was a British Wren charged with killing oven infant London feb 18 up Kath Leen Betty 25-year-old Wren Petty officer was charged in court Here yesterday with having murdered her new born baby in tier Navy Barracks without anyone ver knowing she was pregnant. J. M. Evelyn the prosecuting at Torney said that miss Betty a stated by her physical build was ble to conceal her pregnancy ave her child and dispose of it without any of those in daily con soviet Bonds Rise in . Hope seen for better relations by h. C. Johnsona financial writer new York feb. 19 a some financial people in Wall Street be Lieve that the big spurt of buying russian Bonds this week and the Sharp Rise in prices arose from optimism on the buyers part tha the . And the soviet Union would soon be on better terms. Such a conclusion May have Bee reached by them because Over the years the prices of russian Bonds have mirrored to an extremely accurate degree the current status of relations Between the two countries rails again Lead Market with gains fractional new York feb. 19 a rail Way issues took Over leadership of a rising Stock Market yesterday for the second Day in succession with gains mostly fractional but Well spread through the major groups. Total transfers for the saturday two hour session were about 1,000, 000 shares. Tact with about  her knowing anything Spellman leads 515  new York of a. 19 up Francu Cardinal Spellman Arch Bishop of new York led 515 Cath Olics from a Over the if s. Aboard the steamship Atlantic yesterday to Start the first of seven american pilgrimages to Rome during the 1950 holy year. Hie Atlantic sailed with 640 Pas sengers for Naples where it is due March 2 in time for the Celebration of the Pope s 74th birthday. Speilman said he and his Fol Lowers would return to the Elj. S. March 21. Stamps for Prince Charlie London. Feb. 19 a portraits of Princess Elizabeth and her son Prince Charles will appear on new annual health Stamps -.1 be issued next october. It will Tow first time a picture of the no Prince has been used on a tamp. Princess Elizabeth has appeared on four Stamps. Mercy killing Mother guilty term suspended Copenhagen feb. 19 a mrs. Agnete Sondergaard 43, has been sentenced Here to two years suspended imprisonment for the mercy killing of her 17-year-old mentally defective son the formal charge was Man Slaughter. The sentence Means mrs. Sondergaard will not serve her prison term unless she commits an other major crime within the probationary period of five fears. Pointed to the nationality com Mittee of the National Board of the communist party in 1944. He stil occupies that position Wood s statement said. Cvetic was described As willing to testify about communist subversive activities. He was brought to Washington under a sub pen. Which remains in effect for his appearance in a Public hearing tues Day. Wood s statement said that after volunteering to become a card carrying communist Cvetic held various offices in the Pennsylvania communist party until he got his assignment in the National Organiza Tion in 1944.at tie time he joined the party As an undercover Man Wood said Cvetic was employed employment service. The . 5 generals the try marshal Graziani Rome feb. 18 up marshal Rodolfo Graziani former Eom Man Wight David ii. Imp priest who took czech Post is excommunicated Vatican City feb. 19 a father Jan Decheth who accepted a czechoslovak government Nomina Tion As apostolic administrator wag excommunicated yesterday from the Catholic Church. D e e h e t s nomination for the diocese of Banka Bystrick was described by quotidian official Organ of italian Catholic action As a grotesque gesture that not even the nazis Ever  the Vatican s consist orial congregation one of the 11 congregations that govern Catholic Church affairs yesterday published the notice of his excommunication. Decheth was installed in the slovak diocese following the death of 3ishop Jan Skabik. Or. Daniel Bridon had taken Over the Post after his election by the Church Hierarchy but was forced to resign. Tito bids West fulfil pledges of Money Aid Belgrade feb. 19 a Marsha Tito challenged the . And the West tonight to make Good its promises of financial Aid but defiantly declared that Yugoslavia would rather go barefooted than sacrifice its principles of building socialism in return for assistance. We Are waiting for them to keep their Promise. We shall see whether they Are serious or whether this is Only propaganda he said. Yugoslavia is currently seeking about $36,000,000525,000,000 from the International Bank and �11,000. 000 from the . Export import Bank and the world monetary fund. 50,000 hear speech in his first major speech of this year Tito spoke before a crowd officially estimated at 50,000 in the serbian town of Titolo Uzice where he once had his headquarter during the liberation struggle. Now it is his constituency in Yugoslavia s elections next month. Answering repeated charges inthe co inform press that Tito and Yugoslavia were turning to the West after breaking with the user and its satellites More than a Yea Rand a half ago Tito said the leaders of Yugoslavia can not sell their principles for any machinery at any Price. Those who do not want to Trade on this basis who want to separate foreign policy from our socialist principles need not  us ship held at red owned Taipei Formosa feb. 19 up nationalist naval Headquarters to Day confirmed the detention of the British merchant ship Caduceus an said the seizure followed a tip off of a former Crew member that the vessel had been sold to the chinese communists and was being made ready to sail for a Mainland port. The Caduceus was under command of capt . Smith when it arrive Dat Kaohsiung recently from Keelung in route to Hon Kong. Smith and four other european crewmen were held aboard the ship until an investigation is completed. Adm . Kwiej announced at Kaohsiung that 10 chinese Crew members of the Caduceus admitted under questioning that they were communists and corroborated Theip off that the ship was about to be turned Over to the communists. Reporters were not permitted a question Smith but it was under stood he maintains the Caduceus is a British ship. Sex nazi director ousted after Ruhr protest strike bochum feb. 19 a eight Hundred Coal miners won their fight yesterday against the employment of an alleged nazi As mine director. The mine company agreed to discharge Kurt Sonnenschein the director following a two Day strike y the miners. They charged that Sonnenschein held High posts in the labor front and motor corps. Yule murderess kills self Orangeburg n. Y., feb. 18 up mrs. Camilla Failla 32, who stabbed her husband to death be Side their Christmas tree nearly to months ago committed suicide yesterday at Rockland state mental Hospital. Attendants found mrs. Fail a s body hanging from an overhead ipe in a washroom shortly be Forenoon. She had been committed to the Hospital Only five Days before. Mrs. Failla Mother of two Chil Dren stabbed her husband Joseph 39, 13 times with two Steak knives. After her arrest she said she was angry at him because of attentions he paid other women police said. The stabbing occurred in the Bronx borne of the wealthy dress manufacturer on Christmas morn ing. The two children Joseph jr., 8, and Camilla 10, watched in Hor ror As their father was killed the blood spilling Over the presents beneath their Christmas tree. Among the presents beneath tit tree was a $5,000 Mink coat her husband had bought her