European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes monday february 27,195 Heath says bulgar split was inevitable Trieste feb. 26 Cap Donald r. Heath former . Minister to Bulgaria said Here today the . Had no other alternative than to break off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. I bad a feeling the bulgarians were unhappy it had to happen Ai. This time he said. Heath accompanied by 47 members of the . Legation staff in Sofia and their dependents and two . Citizens arrived Here on the Orient express in route to Paris and the . Heath said the split in relation which resulted last tuesday in his recall to Washington was the re sult of a Campaign of slander Ami he said both British and americans were subject to abuse but added we got the worst of it Heath said All . Legation personnel and their dependents were on the train but that 58 american citizens remained in Bulgaria. The bulgarian government he added claims that 35 of them Are bul Garian of the two . Civilians aboard the train was Mary Haskell. 81, a sister of a former Kansas i y Star editor and a missionary a Bulgaria for 60 years. Heath said she was ordered to leave Bulgaria by March 1 and got a visa Only through efforts by the . Legation two hours before the party left Sofia. Throe children were among the group Heath was met Here by Thomas Judd acting . Political adviser in Trieste Charles k. Moffly Al lied military government am information director and other . Military and diplomatic officials. Us policy seen bipartisan continued from Page 1 unlikely to commit Britain to new Long term International obligations and that the government also it ill probably put off some less pressing cooperation in foreign affairs is threatened mainly by those diplomatic situations in which British economic policy is Churchill s conservatives have also often criticized the labor government s dependence on . Aid and its relations generally Smith the us. Ruling Britain with a skimpy majority in the House of cart icons will be a delicate Job of Tightrope walking. London papers predict elections by fall London feb. 26 up British election analysis and comment dominated All papers Here today and political writers almost unanimously predicted a new election Wald be held before autumn. Analysts in the conservative press said the liberals were responsible for tie conservative party s Nar Row defeat and editorial writers attacked the liberals for fogging issues and preventing the voters from making 3 Clear All newspapers said the labor party would have to water Down its socialist program to avoid an immediate crisis. A labor newspaper. The people suggested Tiia prime minister Clement Atilee Ard Winston Churchill meet As honoured opponents to void National link swedes Honor mrs for Stockholm. Fea. 2s up Gustav a King of Sweden has conferred the Prince car medr.,1 on mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt As gratitude for her Idnani Tarisai s a Tivi or it was announced Tossiy. A bombers More than doubled continued from Page 1 Louis a. Johnson and the joint chiefs of staff were reported Reli ably to have approved a plan to increase Ira dually Over the next few years he number of practical ground support plans and possibly the number of groups in the of. Defense officials also disclosed that a procurement of the controversial b3ft intercontinental bomber will be stepped up Accord ing to plan. This six engined Craft according to the of can deliver atom bombs anywhere in the world from u. S. Bases without Success Ful interception. Total delivered is secret As a result of Navy criticism of the b36, the National military establishment s weapons system evaluation made an exhaustive study it i it was said has now approved is big bomber. The group s or i Minary report a been outlined to president Truman and his b36 procurement program Calls for increasing current Pur chases from 34 to 47, making a total of 216 orders. How Many have been delivered is a secret. It is expected thai the plan will be submitted soon to president tru Man although or. Truman s fiscal 1951 budget limits the of to 48 groups and 8,800 planes of nil types. Defense department officials had High Hopes that he will approve an increase in air combat strength. Non Chrobat savings the planned of expansion Dis closed yesterday Calls for Little if any extra Money. Officials said they believe the necessary funds can be obtained through savings inso called noncombat activities. The increase in the number of b2ss in opera Ion was a hefty shot in the strategic air Arm. Although the b29 does not have the perform Ance of the b36 or the b50, it will continue to be the Backbone of the strategic air Force in being for several years until the better bombers Are produced in sufficient quantities to replace it. At the present the . Has b29 bases in England Western Europe and the Middle East. Bases so situated would offset the fact that Tho b29s combat radius is Only 2.000 to 2,300 Miles. Pentagon officials denied charges that Johnson s Economy cutbacks have dangerously weakened the nation s defences. They said the savings had been effected by slicing overhead fat without cutting away any military muscle to support this Contention they said that combat manpower of the army has increased from 212.000 to 274,500 since Jan. 1. 1949, although its Over Ali manpower has decreased from 675,000 to 615,500. A $40,000,000 allocation for anti submarine warfare work has been tripled. Money saved from reducing non combai1" activities is being used to buy new equipment such As tanks and antiaircraft guns. Such savings were estimated to have reached a rate of $750,000,000 a year. Son of fireman held for alarms Washington. Feb. A Cap a youth whose father Heads the Al firefighters Union wuss had under �1,500 Bond yesterday on charges of setting off 10 false alarms. John m. Redmond 19, of Silver Springs my. Also is charged with commuting 12 traffic violations. Mis lather John o. Redmond is both president of the firemen s Union and editor of i publication. The International firefighter. Police said they arrested Young Redmond Friday after setting a trap in a Dow blown area of Washington that h and five false alarms last a Eck and Twenty since Jan. 1, late Winter Surprise a sudden late Winter snowstorm turns the Woods Silvery along a Road in the Darmstadt area. The Snow was caused by a jew mile cold front stretching from South of Bremen and Hamburg to about 50 Miles Sonja and East of Frankfurt according to air weather Central which reported no abnormally Low temperatures. Is photo by cur Van Hungary shifts Cabinet Post Budapest feb. 26 up Hungary in a sudden unexplained Cabinet reshuffle for the first time in history has named a non Catholic As minister of religion and Educa Tion. The government announced today the resignation of Gula Ortutay minister of religion who was under heavy attack from Home during the sri i of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. And Istvan Kossa communist min i user of finance. The government immediately named communist Joseph Darvas up to now building minister As the new religion Misier. Darvas is a protestant. Hungary s population is 70 per cent Catholic. The vacancy in the ministry of building was filled by a newcomer. Laszlo Sandor 40. Veteran of the wartime communist underground. The unexpected resignations meant the communists increased their Cabinet majority from 13 to 14 and reduced the number of smallholders party ministers from three to two. Convict acquitted in Reuther shooting Detroit feb. 26 a a jury acquitted Carl Bolton charged As the gunman who shot United Auto workers Cio chief Walter Reuther nearly two years ago. Bolton former vice president of a Law local Union was charged with assault with intent to kill Reuther who was seriously wounded by a Shotgun blast april 20, 1948 to 1 ton a convict now serving a 10-15 year term for burglary leaped for Joy at the verdict. The conviction could have meant life imprisonment. Canadians wan . May face Arctic attack continued from Page 1 against this continent Mcnaugh on said but Shore is convincing evidence that such a consolidation is within the thought of some of those who Are concerned in the policy of the soviet Union As a course of action which might be undertaken when circumstances become More prop , former president of the Canadian atomic Energy control Board said a russian attack across the North pole regions was the Only real threat North Amer Ica has to fear. This North american continent has become literally the Arsenal of democracy and no longer is it immune by reason of distance from the scene of War he said. Soviets set up naval ministry continued from Page 1 and Day on a three shift Jane s said that the user planned during the five year plan which ends in 1931 to produce 1.000 sub marines. The reorganization of the top level army Navy command was revealed just two Days after the Cele bration of red army Day. Radio Moscow s announcement quoted a decree of the presidium of the supreme soviet. The Brief announcement gave added impetus to the warnings from . Admirals and others in the West that Russia was going Al out to build the red Fleet into wha Russia already claims it is the world s fund sough to defend Sander Manchester n. H., feb. Up formation of a defense continues to raise an estimated %2qm for or. Hermann n. Sander s Mere murder trial expenses was a yesterday. J the development came during in weekend recess of the trial that a been under Way five Days author George Woodbury former i Harvard University Anthrop Otogur made the announcement As. Man of the or. Hermann n. Sand $ fund experts have estimated that leg fees and other trial expenses eluding autopsy costs and pret ii investigations will total about s3fi i 000 for the doctor who is accuse of killing a dying cancer Pili mrs. Abbie c. Borroto ii9, a Manchester. Counsel for Sander threw a bloc against state efforts to prove the the husband of the woman he charged with slaying had to Hing do with her mercy death. Chief defense counsel Louis Wyman Obi e c t de when Sher Thomas e. O Biden testified in prosecution had a signed from Borroto. The statement said that borrow claimed he had nothing to do with or. Sander in judge Haroid e. Wescott Sua Tai cd Vyman s objections and o t dered the sheriff s Tesla Mon stricken from the record. Italy convict Soldier As spy Padua Italy feb. 26 up court martial yesterdays Nolc jct a Soldier. Alberigo Chiesa to is years and six months imprison Man for divulging army secrets to communists. Three years of the sea Tenee were Cor muted the military tribunal charge Chiego with having been a spa in a Milan robber band known Dove que everywhere we had communist connections and passing of he Milan band repo on the strength preparations j military defense of the state. The italian police a hold three More persons charged w revealing military secrets to Foj eign Eastern Powers . Fashion show set for Eagle club Wiesbaden feb. 26 spec Isle a display of . Fashions f women and men will be shown i the Eagle club Rotunda and tuesday from 10 am to 6 p the display featuring new Ere Lions of 22 . Firms is a available through the tuners age icy new York and is being sponsored by the Baden military Post officers v club. Keep Karpe in mind mrs. Vogeler warn continued from Page 1 Bucharest for the last three years was on his Way to the states via Paris and London when he met his death. Meanwhile a three Man army and Navy Board appointed by Ufa he to investigate Karpe s death was preparing today to make a close study of the autopsy re port. The report was brought Here today by army couriers from she 9bth go in Munich. According to an unofficial re port received her yesterday by . Authorities no proof of soul play could be established because of the mutilated condition of the body. The battered body had been found in a railway Tunnel about an hour s train ride from Salz Burg. Austrian newspapers continued to Call the incident a deliberate and planned official army and Navy personnel Here How Ever have not taken such a definite stand and Are tackling the investigation cautiously austrian police meanwhile acting on the request of army authorities today asked French officials to return Here the Porter of the Arl Berg Orient express death car in which Karpe was Riding. A police official in Salzburg said the army acted after investigating the car As it passed through Salz Burg last night in route to Vienna. Railroad officials in Vienna explained that Wagon lit Headquarters were in Paris and when the Porter arrived there Friday night he was rotated to another run before being returned to Vienna according to usual practice. Tie death car which Here last night from the p. Vienna Arlberg run was Rete. To the Railroad by . Author. Today. They finished exam tin of the Sleeper which will be turned to the Paris service Tor Row a Railroad official said. The Salzburg police official French police late Loday had answered the request for the Rei of the Porter. said thai although there geared liitle likelihood that the a avs Captain could have from the door of the Sleeper it opened inward we have Durance he was not in another witnesses said they saw the. Tain going to the diner hour before the train enter j curving Tunnel. 20 Miles sq-1 Salzburg
