European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes March 1956 49 crash develops defense missiles hits new Low March 13 up military aircraft accidents last year destroyed 930 planes and Cost 718 lives lowest casualty rate since the War according to a Survey covering 323 fatal accidents in both the air Force and the average of fatalities pee 000 hours for the two services was in compared with in 1946 in and to statistics the two services were 1846 1947 1946 1949 fatal accidents of 274 i9s 210 198 Navy m6 h4 130 124 fatalities of 56s 5m Navy 471 224 291 194 aircraft damaged beyond repair of 757 510 539 465 Navy 932 617 520 465 fatal accidents per hours of 86 55 Navy 4 fatalities per hours of 24 17 k Navy 7 aircraft damaged beyond repair per hours of 21 15 13 h Navy service spokesmen said compari sons should be made with one reason the air Force has a higher fatality rate is that big Ger planes carry larger a b29 Accident will Send the fatality rate higher than will a Navy at tack bomber a spokesman one sex Pla nation of the navys higher rate of aircraft damaged beyond repair was the difficulty of retrieving a Carrier fighter that dives into the service safety experts agreed that the largest cause of military aviation accidents was Pilot or accounting for about 70 per cent customs clerk held in theft of refugees gems san March 13 up Roy 50yearold customs service faced charges today of stealing in jewels smuggled out of nazi Germany by an boy Earold attorney Reynold Golvin said sales of some of the which disappeared from custody nearly two years have been traced to Tsie owned by Theresa now of san were sent to the in a suitcase ahead of her when Fie fled Ger on her she found the suitcase last hey Man filed two damage suits of 000 charging the jewels were lost through the negligence of government she is the widow of a Berlin teachers Honor Einstein new March 13 the teachers Union has awarded its 1950 award to Albert Ein Stein for his inspiring service in the cause of education for peace and 4 projectile types under study March 13 the is developing guided mis Siles which May prove to he the Lon sought defense against atomic their defense department sources will be to shoot Down atom bomb carriers before they arrive on three weeks ago defense officials for the first time announced development of several self propelled guided missiles with ranges of More than 500 in further discussions they have revealed that four different kinds of guided missile Ere being devel oped As rapidly As four in various stages of ate sur surface to projected International surface attacking bomber the defense department said the Surfac Etnair missile is equivalent an antiaircraft Shell of Jar Superior Range and it such missiles May become effective countermeasures to High Hig Altitude inso far As defense from the ground is this Type of projectile presumably would be Able to Stop an attacking bomber hundreds of Miles from its intended the departments research and development Board will not hint which kind of missile it feels most urgently but it said it considered Airt air missiles very the department said it also is working on surface surface guided missiles with ranges varying from a few score to a few thousand Miles it said development is already Well advanced for those of a few Hundred equivalent to super Long Range that May be fired from shipboard against enemy ships or from land against enemy troop important Supply communications centers or its developers Hope that ultimately can be launched with accuracy against targets on other continents if truant guardsman draws 9day term Long March 13 National has made a court martial sentence stick against a member who missed pvt Glenn was ordered to serve nine Days for fail ing to appear at scheduled because there is no military jail he was put in the City his attorneys demanded his release on a writ of Hareas contending the guard acted without but Deputy District at Torney Ted Sten it col Willis Lyman of the guard argued judge Fred Miller ruled the National guard has the authority to discipline its members who fail to abide by its the colors for the Arizona the Flag is raised Over the less Arizona at Pearl Harbor to Honor the men killed when he battleship was sent to the Bottom Many of the dead still rest in the biologist says he was forced to yield streptomycin rights March 13 Young biologist has charged he was to give benefits As co discoverer of the drug streptomycin under threat of being barred from further scientific employment Albert assistant professor of biology Brooklyn col made the charge in a filed in new Jersey state Superior court schatz1 suit said he was forced to assign a Patent application to the Rutgers University research endowment foundation by the position and of Selman recognized discoverer of the suit said Waksman threatened to see to it that Schatz would see never again find scientific employ ment if he failed to assign the application to the Rutgers found Schatz said he owns on half interest in All profits from Sale of the and asked in his suit that the Rutgers foundation be ordered to pay him whatever is All profits from the drug were assigned to the foundation by Bis suit Waks Man has reaped both monetary and to his sole and to the damage and injury of the Schatz charged also that Waksman had misrepresented himself As the sole discoverer of the prove ponderous March 13 they said an elephant never forgets a but there Are some around town who wish they could forget baby elephants with husky even the state department is get one official the getting larger by the Ting problem is he was hot department officials Are not punning about these particular elephant the big problem is Bow the can transport elephants from Bombay to Washington with out violating air regulations or Hurt ing feelings All gift from Nehru it ail started when prime min ister Jawaharlal of decided to present a gift to schoolchildren in appreciation of the reception he received during his recent visit he selected two baby male and from the Jungles of each weighing 500 arrangements were made with British overseas airlines to Fly them to a Washington weeks water the airline was All set for the but the elephants were not in two weeks of riotous living in the elephants had doubled their weight to pounds the airline decided it should just Back out at this fran world airlines entered the offering to Fly the elephants Tran world had Only one civil aeronautics Board must agree to the the with strict freight Reg came up with a Quick there the matter cars out of mud Des March 13 motor vehicles will get stuck less in mud and Snow As a result of array assistant Secretary of the army Archibald Alexander said Alexander said army ordnance has developed a new Type of differential which will prevent one wheel from spinning while the other stands in he spoke before the Des Moines advertising when this is it will not Only take an army truck out of the he it should also enable general Chrysler and Ford to give you and me an automobile which will not so often get stuck in mud and Senate candidate quits joins gop Oklahoma March 13 William candidate for the Senate from has switched from the democratic to the Republican Alexander told a news conference the Republican party was the Only available Agency through which democrats and re pub can speak freely against the tyranny that threatens to destroy the Freedom of the common new envoy to named March 13 Luis Esteves Fernandas has been appointed Portugal ambassador to Reynaud says French Unity defeats reds new March 13 former French Premier Paul Rey Naud has said communism in France cannot defeat the combined forces against How a member of the French National arrived in new York on the lie France for a tour of the As chairman of the economic commission of the Council of the former speaking of the recent vote of the French As Sembly on anti sabotage said when the government is in conflict with the communist All the other parties vote for the its hails measure he hailed the passage of the anti sabotage measure As a very Good thing for Reynaud reported there was no revolutionary spirit in the working class in he As the French pay if you recognize that which Are less than francs a month Are too you cant escape giving a Bonus for a he things will not be cheaper after that and the people know Reynaud said he had no doubt that France will eventually get rid of the everything will be settled in a few years if we go together with your country and the British demo he his visit is at the invitation of the american committee for a United May ban Coal strikes March 13 up the Virginia legislature has passed and sent to the governor a measure that would make it unlawful for Coal miners to strike in the act would extend the existing state anti monopoly and antitrust Law to include any group of persons trying to restrict or reduce the production of any natural re violation by the United mine workers would Render the Union liable to suits for damages filed by either the state or Coal 50 of urged for defense March 13 adm Dewitt c Garnsey has disclosed that the aircraft Industry can increase warplane production 800 per cent in 24 j but warned that the air Force must be enlarged by 50 per cent to in sure adequate 4 a Pioneer naval in his service career held three the top posts in sea was chief of the Bureau of commander chief the Pacific Fleet and Vic chief of naval operations he is now president of the Craft industries and Quentlyn Speaks for the Tucker says paper Hurt asks 3 million March 13 would be automaker has filed a age suit against Ning charging that a written Ify a Washington Fri damaged his reputation and his the Federal court suit that the article led to Tucker criminal indictment in Chiea the former machinist was