European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast Mora Ine Foft Man Mim a m a Tutt 21 morning toe morning 25 partly Moraine in morning m o t n 1 n g 27 occasional ral Snow weather Central european edition ripes unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe tide of toys the american legions tide of toys has bit Bremen with the arrival of nearly playthings from children of the for Chil Dren of for Story and Pic see Page volume number 315 s Cento a month March strike Throat Mccloy Calls free vote steel unemployment passes Mark 28 cuts in steel production idled thousands More As Industrial effects of the Sof Coal strike snowballed across the with Washington developments failing to Budge striking United mine workers from their no no work unemployment passed the new big jumps in idleness were hours the Idle miners losing about a Tchiang Toplake Over Helm again today basis for German Unity 28 Chiang Waishek announced today be will resume the presidency x nationalist China Chiang said he will also assume the Post of commander Nehie of All nationalist Chiang retired from both jobs in january and Vic president i now recuperating in a new York Hospital from a surgical became acting pres Chianos message did not say whether i has concurred in Hie Generalissimo in a statement circulated through the official news Chiang said i have decided to return to the Post of president from March since i Tsungjen departure in november last year the state has been without a president and tiie on Page 3 ship aground 28 drowned Reykjavik 28 Twenty eight men were re ported drowned in the icy North Atlantic today when they took to lifeboats after the British Tanker Clam ran ashore on the rugged coast 30 Miles from the lifeboats were swamped and the men were thrown into raging they were drowned immedi officials it was believed there were 25 survivors among the Obman Crew from the which was in Tow from Reykjavik to Britain after damaging her steering ment in an earlier May 20 designated armed forces Day 28 president Truman today proclaimed May 20 As die nations first armed forces armed forces Day will replace individual Days previously set aside to Honor each Branch of the Mili tary the president said in a Procla mation that the armed As unified Are currently per at Home and across toe tasks vital to the Security of the nation and to the establishment of a durable von prey sing sees Pope Vatican so Day in the strike costs the nation More than 000 tons of Coal normally mined each employees of the Buckeye Coal West said they had been threatened by pickets who told them youd better clows Well be fuel piles drop the Alabama Power offered Reward Lor identification of persons who dynamited a Small nonunion Coal mine and Power company substation 30 Miles from More fuel piles got dangerously Low or gave out Carnegie Illinois steel said supplies had dropped from 96 to 53 per cent of the biggest subsidiary of the steel is reducing blast fur Naces in use from 25 to 11 in the Pittsburgh other big steel subsidiaries on Page 4 Konrad Cardinal von of was received yesterday by pop Pius Xii in a 70minute private terror Leopard found Back in sleeping it off Oklahoma 23 a the fugitive Leopard which has been muted All weekend around Here re turned to the Lincoln Park zoo from where it escaped and was found to to pit asleep from knockout drops placed on horse meat Pat zoo said the Leopard was a drugged sleep in his old pit from which he raped to Freedom zoo officials had ordered doped meat to be spread for 20 Miles Northeast of Oklahoma City in an area where the beast was believed the Leopard was sighted Early this morning sleeping peacefully in the corridor leading to his old from which he escaped by leaping 18 feet heavily armed officers and zoo officials immediately surrounded toe but the Leopard was docile As a Murphy said that chunks of doped horse meat placed As bait were As zoo officials and reporters closed the giant cat rolled Over and 1st Loose a mighty Roar that sent them scampering for the beast staggered druse Kenjy to its growling intermittently at the Trudeau assigned to Post at army War College 28 Brig Gen Arthur 1st co Stab has been assigned is assistant commandant of the War College at it the army said maj Gen Arthur now assigned to Bhe office of the military attache in has been reassigned As commandant of the h pit okla i artillery the army announcement France facing labor crisis Idle 28 tonight faced an explosive labor front crisis More acute than at any tune since the paralysing com munis led strike movements of 1947 and nearly automobile and engineering Industry workers were Idle in Paris and the Anc toe strike movement spread hourly a Paris bus and subway stoppage was threatened at the end of the building Industry nationalized Gas Ami electricity chemicals insurance local government and Airfield services were swept by labor unrest and strike throughout millions of workers joined in the swelling clamor for higher wages and 38 the state department said today the French aircraft Carrier Dis Mude is due at Satur Day or sunday to take aboard naval planes assigned to France under the american arms id the number nor Type of planes was Gani Zed strike ballots to exert pres sure on new collective wage con tract the whole turbulent Labo front scene was overshadowed by the communist threat to Block american military id shipments in the ports and on the the first cargoes were expected to reach Here in a week or Frances harassed Premier Georges Bidault and key members of his coalition Cabinet conferred Al most continuously on emergency plans to combat the ballooning strike movement and maintain Security guards and police were alerted for possible and reinforcements already were standing by in the Nesli refund done billion already out 28 distribution of the Nesli refund Money stood approximately 43 per cent completed last night the Treasury department said checks foe a total had been turned Check distribution began six weeks victim 9s family Reginald b o r r o t with his daughter reads about the mercy laying trial of Hermann Sander at Man Sander is charged with injecting air into the veins of Borroto a cancer causing her Hubby denies mercy plea 28 up Reginald Borroto has denied that Ever begged Hermann Sander to ease his cancer tortured wife into did you at any directly or ask Sander to shorten your wife life attorney general William Phinney yesterday asked summoned As a state wit Ness late on the sixth Day of the physicians mercy killing replied the 65yearold the prosecution previously had quoted Sander As saying he pumped fatal injection of air into the blood of Abbie at the urging of Borroto also testified that some one at the Hillsborough county where his wife died told him she had been Given enough drugs to preclude any suf All zone roads Slippery 28 special the Neucom Provost marshal re ported today that All roads through out the zone Are icy and Slippery n opens arc drive throughout the european com Mand preparations under Way to push the 1950 fundraising drive for the american red which opened today with a worldwide goal of civilian and military leaders in the dec urged wholehearted co operation by All occupation per Gen Thomas t Neucom commander chief pointed out that in 1949 the red Cross in the dec handled More than cases on which a continued service was High commissioner John Mccloy lauded the arc for also performing a Mission important to the people of i Gen Clarence praised the role played by the arc in aiding troop the full texts of their statements and those of other leaders appear on Page says East plan for election is Sham 28 High commissioner John Mccloy said today that the unification of Germany on the basis of free Al German elections is a major objective United states restating american policy of fostering a politically United Mccloy scored the proposed 15 election in the soviet dominated East zone state As a dishonest device which would Block German Unity and my toys Midden reopening of the Unity question came Only three Days before he is scheduled to leave for Washington to testify before con Gressional committees on the need for appropriations Tor state depart ment activities in he said he expected to be gone about a the High commissioner made it Clear the considered that Ger Many desire for Unity and Freedom Are being challenged by the communists of the soviet zone through on Page 1 soviet boosts value of Ruble 28 soviet government has increased the Exchange rate of the Ruble to four to the and is Bas ing the new Ruble on radio Moscow announced the Ruble formerly was officially pegged at to but in world markets was sold for 12 or eight to the new rate fixed in a decree by the soviet Council of ministers and signed by Premier Joseph Stalin and Deputy Premier Georgi radio Moscow the Council also decreed wide spread cuts in prices of cloth household goods and some Industrial ranging from 10 to 49 per the decree was quoted by radio Moscow As saying from March the rate of Exchange of the Ruble with respect to foreign currencies shall not be concluded on the basis of the but shall be transferred to the More stable Gold increasing with the Content of the it fixed the Gold Content of the Ruble at Grams of Fine the new rate for the Pound on Page 2 bulletin March 1 wednesday minister Clement this morning the composition of Bis new Cabi with no major changes in key earlier