European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March Miff stats and stripes Pope deplores arms race As cause of fear Vatican March 32 Btl told his Bishops in a worldwide encyclical yesterday e armaments race leaves the of All fearful and the pontiff called for a crusade of prayer on passion sunday March to invoke of god the opportune remedies to the present the Pope said that although War has ceased almost tie Verthe less the desired a solid and stable peace that could happily resolve the Many and Al ways increasing motives of has not Many he place obstacles in each others and As Trust there is a race to leaving the souls of All fearful and rights Downtrodden without mentioning them by the Pope clearly lashed out against communist he were not and where uie rights of of the Church and of human nature itself Are being offended and Down sacred he even though invested with the insignia of High Are either removed their own and or impeded in such a manner that they cannot exercise Scheir the Pope urged the Church Hierarchy to guide especially during this holy to strive to spread the doctrine of the to remove false prejudices and mistaken Calls on Catholic action he the priests cannot reach All and the pontiff urged the militant Lay men of Catholic action to give their support and experience to this the Pope said he planned on Pas Sion sunday to enter Peters Basilica to his prayers Only with those of the people pros we Thoa of the whole Catholic the pontiff urged those be cause of illness or old Are in Able to go to Church that sunday to offer their so that the and the breath and the Wisl of All shall be As Moe Arthurs on hand for sendoff Gen and Douglas Mac Arthur return to Tokyo from Hamda Airport after seeing syn Man president of take off far Seoul after a visit to Clay Tablet relates Story of oldest murder trial March 12 of and Samuel Market continues modest climb new March 12 the Stock Market continued its modest upward trend yesterday Industry stocks the with heavy american steel Chrysler and Bethlehem were up to rails and Bonds were commodities were confused and grains were with wheat mostly higher and Corn most cation options were below last nights total sales today shares Bonds red dockers Call strike Over Stalin picture loss March 12 pro communist Dock workers struck Tor in hour Here last some one had made off with their life size picture of Premier Joseph Stehn Down by the soon two american merchant jaws Franklin and Pat showed up aboard their the african with picture in they turned to the who turned it Over to the too called of the it israeli envoy Dies March if Mordecai israeli min Uter to died Yeslow scientists announced last night Dis covery of the oldest known record of a successful prosecution of a murder Way Back in 1850 the record was inscribed on a Clay Archago leists on a joint univer sity of Pennsylvania University of Chicago expedition unearthed the precious Tablet in graphically described on it is the murder trial of three men and a woman under the Laws of a year old expedition authorities said the Tablet was found on the site of the ancient City of about 100 Miles South of the modern City of it was written in the cuneiform script and in the ancient sumerian translators were Thorkild exiled chief to defy return to african tribe March 12 Young african tribal chief was preparing to defy governments ban against return to his Eaman Wato Seretse whose marriage to a White British girl precipitated a both in Africa and in the British governments foreign plans to leave Brit Ain on tuesday for his native the government already has promised it will use if Nec to prevent him from crossing the Borders of the Brit ish earlier this week the govern ment confirmed that it had banished Seretse from the chief Tai ship of the Baman Watos for at least five it did it to Avert further unrest within Tihe tribe and the pro who was educated at will try to rejoin his former London typist birth Wil she is to have a child n italian soars on tries Breaks leg March 12 Aldo after four years of pinned on his homemade lapping Wing contraption ran off a 120foot platform and flew Ike a he landed flushed with he tried although he flapped More energetically than he dropped life a he was recovering with a broken his wings were Noah of Only 12 scholars in the can read the oldest known form of Here is How scholars reconstructed the facts of the murder a Temple was murdered by three the motive was not the apparently con science told the what they had she kept quiet but As murder will and it the Case was Laid be fore the King and he ordered it to be tried before the citizens As Sembly at nine men in the Assembly Rose to demand the death penalty for the three murderers and the two others spoke in defense of the unfortunate pleading she had no hand in the silenced by fear the Assembly was swayed by this View and exonerated Ninada on the grounds that fear silenced her the murderers were sentenced to be killed in front of the Temple chair of their Max professor of comparative Law at the University of acclaimed the Docu ment As significant for the Light it throws on the cultural and political state of the he explained the very fact that murder was prosecuted before a Public Agency and punished As a Public crime by Public authority in the year 1850 indicates a Long development of fairly High civilization in ancient it took Many centuries in such Complex and highly organized societies As those of the european mid dle Ages to stamp out blood feuds and substitute Public the Clay when was the Complete text was with the Aid of fragments of another copy of the same Tablet found by a University of Pennsylvania expedition at nip Pur 52 years trap for in Fuchs confession spy fails to Appeal his sentence March 12 spy Klaus Fucks let the last Day for his Appeal from 14 years imprisonment slip by yester without making a move obtain a change of Fuchs Thomson Hal said the Jekyll Hyde scientist has apparently decided to serve of the maximum term meted out to him for betraying and British atom secrets to no answer Halsall said he had written Fuchs asking him whether he wanted to Lake any action within the 10day limit for filing an but he received no the German born communist was sentenced March 1 by chief Justice lord he affirmed his confession in court and declared after the sentence that he had a fair trial Fuchs was Given the maximum sentence possible for violation of Britain official secrets his defense counsel had said immediately after the trial that an Appeal waa being Japan yank hanged for theft murder of fellow Soldier March 12 pfc Robert died on the Gallows at the 8th army stockade Here yesterday or the robbery murder of a fellow president Truman had upheld death sentence imposed on him by a 5th air Force court the court convicted Keller of stabbing to death sgt Paul Wil of Dur ing a robbery of the Tachikawa air base Post Exchange another pfc James of received a life sentence for participating in the same his penalty was commuted from death to the life term by pvt Robert of was Given a life but it was commuted to 20 Italy hikes prices in rebuilding plan March 12 ital Ian government yesterday boosted the Price of Cocoa and spices to partly finance a 10 year program to build up depressed All affected items Are controlled by the the Price decision was taken in connection with a yearly program to build up depressed areas Over 10 years with on third of the yearly funds coming from the Price the remainder will come from the lire fund built up through the controlled Sale of Erp provided held possible trick to get secrets March 12 a member of the joint congressional atomic Energy committee said the confession of Klaus British atomic May be a trap to trick the into revealing further one of the committee who rarely permit reporters to use their names when they discuss atomic it is obvious the can now disclose to its citizens Ninny facts which have Hith been kept we should at least let the americans know As much As the russians he Challenge made he was challenged by another member who said there was no Way of knowing How much of the Furtis confession is How do we know that Foulis did not Load the confession with in formation he has been unable to Send to Russia betrayed America and England and i see no reason to Trust him he the bes informed sources Here think there will be no change in the atomic Energy commissions information at least until after the congressional elections next they said reason is that Many members of Congress and a substantial portion of the Public were inclined to criticize the removal of regardless of what the russians do or do not aussies seek defense pact March 12 Australia has proposed a de pensive military pact for Asia and the Pacific to draw the Teeth of communist minister of external affairs Percy spender suggested a positive anti communist pact in the new Austral Ian governments first foreign policy statement to he urged the to said communist pressure in the far East coupled with fundamental changes in the British common wealth and the Rise of new states had shifted the Center of Gravity n world affairs More and More to this threat of communism accusing Russia of a major responsibility for the East West cold spender said the Consol Dation of communism in China and to evident threat to South and Southeast Asia underlines the urgency of International efforts to stabilize governments in that he urged that a japanese peace Reaty be signed As soon As pos Ible and reasserted Australia in disputable right to participate directly in he said the growing delegation by America of responsibility to Japan does not quite Accord with the wishes of the australian March 12 Oscar Smith said he would not consent to the mercy killing of the siamese twins which were born to his wife a week a 42yearold hillbilly said he would not allow even if it were legally his if they have to stay As they i will always treasure them the twins Are joined at under tremendous emotional earlier had told reporters he didst wont the Blue eyed twins to grow up if they could not be he said he prayed every night that doctors would operate in an attempt to separate Kathleen Rose and Lexie were born linked at the forehead and at Hie Back of the twins perfectly formed i would thank god if Only one of the wins he but if the say an opera Tion would mean certain death to both i would not ask them to do the twins ate perfectly formed mercy except where joined at the doctors say they Are two distinct persons not by a single each twin moves and functions Independent of the the future of the twins and the possibility of euthanasia has caused considerable comment in where newspapers followed closely the mercy killing trial and to quintal of Hermann the two doctors la the town of Are agreed that an operation to separate the twins would be fatal for at least