European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Much we stars and stripes 3 arms id Accord ratified by France March m aph the National Assembly voted today to ratify fee arms id pact the vote was the vote came after a Long but unexpectedly quiet the com who alone voted against the failed to repeat their violent tactics of last week during a vain attempt to halt an anti sabotage Only about 50 communists attended the Assembly rules permit party leaders to cast All the votes of their the Bill authorized president Vincent Auriol to ratify the agree ment Between France arid the reached at Washington one red amendment i Defeated on Jcj Tilv in 3t three did get one j to the amusement of the senator says Bradley sees no Early War March 16 Elmer Thomas said yesterday that the testimony of Gen Omar chairman of the joint chiefs of before a Senate appropriations sub commit gave no indication that the was facing a hot War Bradley appeared in a closed ses Sion before the military appropriations subcommittee headed by while Thomas refused to reveal details of Bradley testimony on the defense budget for fiscal he said it was my impression that there to no evidence that we Are going to become involved in a hot War in the immediate the next two or three at the same the size of this budget indicates we Are not taking any thing for stocks record 4year High new March 16 new highs since 1946 were racked up by big Board stocks gains ran from fractions to several Points with demand Well distributed throughout the Dow Jones Industrial averages pierced the previous Peak for the last two years of established last sales ran considerably above tuesdays total of Pivotal issues spearheaded the up a Point or do late in the Day were Stock Standard Oil erf Bethlehem steel like Santa Chesapeake and general and do rails As a group continued to per form in Good Metal and mining shares turned Strong in the american smelting Fea Turing with a nearly 2point and Allied chemical continued its adding 8 potato to a similar jump it sold at a new High of total sales stocks shares Bonds Albania to hold election March 16 Albania is to Electa new a to Ozial Assembly on May the Tass Agency reported yesterday from the albanian by a raised hand it was agreed that All changes in the agreement would be submitted to the the deputies smiles were caused by the communists evident eagerness to get some kind of an amendment no matter How the unsuccessful communist amendments were All Defeated by the same one would have forbidden use of arms in police the second wanted to limit the number of americans admitted to France under the and the third asked parliamentary approval for sending raw materials and Patent royalties to the the Bill now goes to the Council of the where approval is defense minister Rene pleven defended the Accord against communist when one of them charged the would Send Only infantry equipment and France would be condemned to furnish the next wars pleven replied in 1939 the proportion of French soldiers in the line was 90 per under the Brussels it is Down to 55 per that is what collective Security Frances share the Brussels pact is the defense agreement uniting Luxembourg and the concluded before the Atlantic pleven said Frances share of arms add would be Worth this is the first time a Cabinet member has come out publicly with a the whole question has been treated As a made even More obscure by the fact that four different methods Are used in estimating value of some materials must be replaced by others need not be re some need Only be re and some must be especially pleven said the considered the real Cost of what France will get at House votes to tighten Security March 16 the in a Sharp reaction to recent spy voted 3692 yester Day to Clamp tight new safeguards around secrets and stiffen the penalties for the which now goes to the would provide methods for dealing with foreign trained spies and saboteurs and give presi Dent Truman wide Powers to protect military the Only no votes were cast by Vito Marcantonio and Adam Clayton Powell the Bill was urged by the governments interdepartmental intelligence a group rep resenting the top agencies charged with guarding military and other government major change the Only major change from the intelligence groups recommendation was elimination of a clause which would have legalized use of evidence obtained by the committee approved the Bill unanimously on grounds that Seri Ous gaps in our present Laws per Mit both citizens and aliens Stalin casts his ballot Norway exports Snow to us March 18 yesterday exported 50 tons of Snow to the norwegian Snow is destined for the Hampstead Heath International Sci jumping meet March 24 and the Snow is a gift from the norwegian travel soviet Premier Joseph Stalin drops his ballot in the Slot in the users nationwide the soviet voting in the Lenin election District of cast his ballot for vice chairman of the Council of and president of the Academy of science of the Seretse gets exile stay March 16 minister Clement acc tree modified yesterday a hotly controversial order exiling Seretse Khama and his White Bride from their african tribal kingdom in pacifying angry labor members of Attlee said the negro chief might live in his British protected Homeland until his English wife bears the child she expects in news of the governments partial Bac Down leaked out after members criticized their leaders for heeding prejudices of British Commonwealth nations in five tear banishment both Attlee and minister of Commonwealth relations Patrick Gor do Walker reportedly stressed the governments five year banishment order would be invoked after Seretse wife had her then they will be called on to Seretse himself will be asked to Promise he Ster up Trifela whether the Young african will accept British terms was not the animal kingdom beastly trouble resolved new March 16 burst of sub machine gunfire yesterday killed a Hal grown Leo Pardess which had escaped through a Small Hole in its Cage in Auckland zoo 24 hours throughout the night children living near the zoo were locked in their rooms for forty police and zoo attendants cornered the beast after finding the mangled body of an opossum in undergrowth in the zoo March 16 baby e p h a n t bound for the Washington zoo As a gift from i Premier Jawaharlal of will travel in luxury aboard the ship steel Fabricator when she sails for Newyork munching sugar Cane the two weighing pounds have been munching their sugar Cane calmly Here for More than a week while a furore raged Over their Means of trans airliners had turned the Job Down because the babies were too the Isthmian shipping owners of the steel finally came to the Rescue with to Down under offer to transport them March 18 two keepers were injured Here yesterday in a running fight in the Public part of the with a maddened Polar Bear before a third attendant shot the animal the seven foot Polar Bear escaped from an i n n e r attacked a keeper cleaning its and dragged him through an open door into the zoos another keeper tried to shoot the Bear with a but the Ani Mal turned on him and knocked inf a third keeper killed the Bear with a empty pockets vex visiting us inlays March 16 Britain government was asked last night not to Force the parents of English brides of and Canadian soldiers to visit them abroad with empty Laberite Barnett Janner told com Mons special beyond the present restriction should be permitted for such he spoke in of an association of British parents of i which now has a membership of Janner proposed an allowance of for junk eting plus a provision permitting them to buy meal tickets in this country for use on certain railways in the and t opportunities to acquire in formation vital to our National without fear of prose in our the Bill would the statute of limitations from three 10 years for certain types of cases dealing with theft of government the present three year limitation has prevented the government from prosecuting several alleged the penalty for conspiracy to reveal National the new penalty would be a Maxi mum Fine or w years in registration of every one who might have knowledge or have received instruction in spying or sabotage from a foreign country or political except for those trained for government failure to Register As a foreign agent a continuing offence in order to extend the statute of the president and Secre tary of defense Power to make special regulations to protect peace time secrets of military stations and the president would be empowered to extend those regu lations to any area he wishes in Lime of War or National Bishop in Romania scoffs at fears March 16 Gerald papal Nuncio to said yesterday that state Side reports of his impending arrest Are All he spoke to the associated press by Tele phone from Ohara is head of the diocese his Job As papal Nuncio is equivalent to that of an representing the roman Catholic he has been in Bucharest three forces seek secret funds March 16 requests for about Worth of highly secret military install by the armed forces As imperatively came under new study on Capitol Hill military witnesses have told the House armed services committee that these projects should have High they Are part of a amendment to the defense departments Blic works which the com nit tee previously had under con the largest single request is by the which is asking 000 to develop naval including at a secret location outside the Continental United the army is requesting authorization for to begin construction of a classified installation in the 6th army which has head quarters in san no details were Given in the Brief Public announcement except that an additional will be required later to Complete the the army described it of highest strategic the army also proposes to spend on a secret installation in the 5th army for which Chi Cago is the air Force is seeking 900 for classified out of the recently established air Force Security service wants to build a special administration and operations specifications Call for it to be enclosed within a Security Fence of the Hainlink Type topped with three strands of barbed within will be an incinerator Cap Able of burning 12 tons of classified material in 24 us tells Romania Toen propaganda March 16 British minister to Walter Roberts today handed the romanian foreign minister a note asking the romanian legation in London to suspend information cease publication and suspend distribution of its romanian news this measure follows the request made by the romanian government to the British legation Here March asking for the closing of the British information service at