European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stabs and stapes much 11 belgians new strikes dockers Back March 21 24rhour which immobilized the port of Antwerp finished today on first reports from All Industrial areas of the country indicated that yesterdays strikers were Back to work Cabinet caretaker Gaston yes kens told reporters this Marnma that a National solution of the Royal question was now As difficult As squaring the another 24hour Gen eral strike in the Walloon Industrial area and Brussels was enthusiastically voted for Friday Gates of the so Calis controlled action Spaak urges King to yield of son March former socialist Premier Paul Henri Spaak urged King Leopold today to abdicate in favor of his spa acc addressed the King in an open letter to be published tomorrow in the belgian socialist Organ Spaak recent Royal referendum does Noi permit your majesty return throne in Calm and appeasement it permits Only a teat of strength based in some Legal retake cities continued from Page 1 communication lines open across the River despite loss of the three losses of men ant Materiel were termed moderate and the communique said they did materially affect the function ing of the aggressor air Force was re ported to have gained superiority flying a estimated 826 sorties against f o r c e aggressor airmen strafed and div Bombe bases of the 86th and 36th fighter bomber the communique said the 36th wings Field was blasted out of use for 10 hours and 15 planes were destroyed on the runways at the 86ths base of commission six hours and four aircraft were destroyed on the 327 sorties despite enemy the 2d air div 327 off stroking 31 aircraft in the air and 19 on the the joint task Force Civila fairs Section reported that refugees and displaced persons in the zone of heaviest action were evacuated to camis outside the fighting area give them protections non combatants under International rules of land warfare Uresti Venesa among civil population territory was reported with two Banks and Kronberg Castle having been looted by 4 die in Wales crash of cargo plane March 21 up four men aboard a two engined cargo plane were killed today it crashed in a vegetable Garden less than five Miles from the spot where 80 perished in the Tudor v March j the plane the freighter ver Sion of the Bristol which can carry and a Crew of of Iivo Battle for corridor continued from Page i 20 plane picked up messages Strung Between poles to a Clearing Forward he relayed orders Back and Forth without having to land at either end of the 1 As problems of civil administration Hugh i cog resident officer in and his John today visited the division Forward he to Gam immediate knowledge of Shamrock bring Gen Bruce c 2d co Stab also visited this Headquarters Lor a conference with at Brig Gen Charles Harts 1st div artillery head Quad orders were received for All to support gon Stab units holding aggressor forces in the while 1st div infantrymen w Drew toward f Bridge guarded the 33d a in with the 26th Tihe 7th a in with 16th and the St a in general support of the have been engaged in the 48th aaa and the 552d aaa bus have been guarding neck arrived Bridge Sites throughout the Advance phase of the division artillery s3 it col Harry Elkins said communications had been excellent through out he credited 1st it Glenn assistant communications with haying achieved a remarkable degree of training within his signal unit radio Contact has been Nown Terr erupted throughout Shamrock Elkins said the problem has been very realistic for the col William gon Stab a up and Shamrock artillery officer under maj Gen cd Stab said the working together constabulary and 1st division artillerymen has proved beneficial to both copt Kurpe is buried at Arlington tar the body of capt Eugene former naval attache at is buried with full Mil tary honors at Arlington National Karpe was found dead beside the tracks in a Railroad ton near he been a passenger on the Orient How he met his death has not been he was a close Friend of sentenced in Jet Mary As a flying saucers in Portugal Lisbon March m of were reported by coast guardsmen off tie North Portugal coast flying inline and other the guards men said they were moving West than it Raper red unions in Rome Call general strike March 21 munis dominated unions called on workers tonight to stage a general strike in Rome tomorrow afternoon in protest against new government police the strike was set to Start at 3 pm in Home the unions also ordered workers in Rome province to strike All Day the new strike Call followed strikes and demonstrations in Many Northern Industrial cities dec Road conditions March 21 the Neucom Provost marshal today reported roads dry at All other roads throughout the zone Are wet in defense fund approved continued from Page 1 Cottrol work of the army engineers taking the biggest the House group trimmed than per jibe president Truman asked for the Navy and air Force for the fiscal it cart pined those who might seek deeper cute nation cannot safely further re 4uction except stepping up amounts requested for the National guard and and Haval civil engineering and the com Mittee the totals untouched or the amount finally approved was less than the granted the defense depart ment last the Navy Felt the paring knife the it asked Tot and was Cut by the air forces request for was Cut by army estimate was reduced by the House group sharply criticized president Truman for Block ing use of the Money Congress appropriated last year toward adding 10 groups to tie the president had the committee commended de sense Secretary Louis Johnson for his efforts to reduce civilian but that the present ratio of one civilian to two uniformed personnel still eight Hurt As blast rips fuel tank of ass largest plane san March 21 an explosion ripped out a Wing fuel tank of the worlds largest military land and injured eight workers at Kelly air Force air Force officials blamed explosion in the fuel cell on Static there were 41 technicians aboard the Aerial Only plane of its kind in the air when the explosion ripped out the tank and Tore Loose the inboard the huge with a 230foot was scheduled for april 15 delivery after extensive Modifica Tion and overhauling at Kelly agents probe continued from Page to Exchange scrip illegally for trav Elers Bank or other Dollar instruments which were to be sent to new York for preliminary investigation revealed the take in the zone of Germany alone probably runs into millions of dollars a year officials i v they asserted the illegal currency transactions apparently the sales of Blac Market Coffee and Cigar Eta As the5 most lucrative Rattet in the Par of the heaver in flux of tourists and  into the zone muting investigators and ment agencies Iti Frankfurt first the rings activities when they arrested arid filed charges in february against a self styled exc ban Oskar who jumped his bail avoid stand in g trial on charges of illegal transactions in scrip and travellers checks aggregating officials investigators now Hunting vases in Paris and Are prepared to Erot radiate him As a Early month hungarians and George and of charged illegal transactions to macs ing and Erkoc Yakowec ctr Brussels a was charged in it District court Here Weth illegal Trane Cottons to Boying and Hsi in East Possession of in envoys meet today in Rome Page 1 adviser Edward Berlin office of the High and col Alan Gerhard Mcclous the talks Wilt Start close the heels of Secretary of state Dean ache sons disclosure of the seven minimum Steps necessary from soviet Russia for any real East West gathering for the Rome meeting were am b ass Aid o r Douglas of great b r i t a i Bassadore David Bruce of ambassador James Dunn adm alan1 Ambas Sador to the user John Mccloy High for and Averell european meeting with them will be George assistant secretory state for european Berlin truck traffic restored to Normal March 21 traffic on the soviet zone Auto Bahn to Berlin was restored to nor Mal following reimpose Tion of soviet checkpoint slowdown tactics Borough out Sie the backlogs of from 30 to 40 vehicles had accumulated on both sides of the zonal Border during the the rate of processing was eight to 11 an officials reported this slowdown cannot be blamed on the spokes Man Ifa political poles Tell to Cut Staffi March 21 the state department ack Noi edged yesterday that Poland asked the to reduce its a Faval air staff in the polish was a mildly worded it asked reply by april Poland said Milit staffs in Warsaw now Are lat than before the but gave other reason for the requested the state department department press officer mint Mcdermott said the move fell f Lithe very definite pattern of Viet satellites trying to red Western representation Iron Hungary also has asked Tor a in military personnel attack to the legation at Mcdermott said the state j Merit will consult defense offie about reply to the Truman supp4 aches Psi policy  Page i president to avoid Guvi Senate subcommittee even us Access to secret loyalty files for investigation of alleged commit within ache sons said Statt member refs to see that Fauk people Are not besmirched and prevent the disclosure of sources of 7 4 Eisenhower defend Jessup in probe March a Gens George Marshall Andrdw Igic Eisen lower today defended Raffl Philip Jessa against charges that he has unusual a Trinity for Comra r their defense of Jesup Agal charges made by Joseph Mccarthy were in letters read into the r Senate foreign relations Minfee investigating the acc Matt Marshall said he Job distressed by Mccarthy on he recollect the the Berlin blockade and Jessup As Greal source strength in critical Eisenhower wrote no one has known Torami the a so your Devotion to the Pri