European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse T i int Stutt weather forecast partly m minimum u St comm in morning 33 beb Jutte Artler 38 38j partly 40 of Tom Lunial sit partly weather Central the so european edition ripes morale weather and food help keep Shamrock morale a 1st div officer the Story is found on Page while Page 2 carries Pio Treg of tier Spring it two unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe volume 337 5 cents a a month March 1950 draw generals cite realism advanced Field joint task March 22 which ended Drew unanimous Praise from ranking generals As the Piort realistic command Post exercise Ever conducted in the it Gen John Safe cd and the exercises raid that staff work and planning on the exercise were Cannon termed the joint Field operated by maj Gen is ground forces and Brig Gen Thomas 3d air div the Best Ive Cannon said it excise procedures were sound and All Camp Sites very Fine cpx maj Gen Frank Dep Uty exercise it was a very Fine if Secretary of defense Louis Johnson could Jee be have to worry about White said he was particularly pleased at the ease with which the constabulary and the 1st div bad been integrated into powerful task extremely Gratifying and demonstrates our he voiced special Praise for work done by the serv ice maj Gen John 1st on Page 1 North Atlantic storms delay ships new March j2 storms in North Atlantic from Nora Scotia to the British Isles pounded eight new Yor bound liners yesterday causing delays up to three the Queen Mary and if a i t e d Stales lines Washington bucked Westerly gales and mountainous winds up to 65 Mph churned Mas to dangerous reports from the shipping lanes winds up on defense by Omer Anderson staff correspondent joint task Force 22 largest command Post exercise Ever conducted in the ended to Day with us forces on the defensive All along the 250mile Rhine River i in the Northern the 1st co Stab Brig stabilized the aggressor drive and launching counterattacks to relieve pressure on toe Southern where the 18th inf div withdrew across the Rhine Over Bridges at Jastatt and crossing of the Bridges waft the Isth withdrawal was screened by the 2d and filth army the 1st Brig was still holding the Bridge at Mainz As a main withdrawal if at Mannheim and Karlsruhe were destroyed previously by bombing and forces were estimated to be facing to aggressor 8m air missions in 4he the aggressor was estimated to have mown approximately 800 missions blasting rail Heads and troop the outnumbered Force flew a much smaller number of but bagged 214 aggressor including 35 of 42 transports loaded with the Navy reported it had destroyed floating mines on the Rhine and intercepted two explosives Laden barges in route sabotage we Klong exercise opened with a theoretical aggressor air attack on a Friendly troops moved to the West Bank the Fox purposes of the exer Cise the Eastern Boundary of the and seized with table and files set up among the we Paul Warrio Tim leu and pfc of work on records in the Field during exercise Kioto says he knows of no top spy on staff to tin approves Unity proposal March West German government today officially accepted High commissioner John Mcc toys proposal for unification of Germany politically and economically split West and blast in a the West government Cal Tod upon the tour occupation Powers to promulgate a Call Al German presumably this fall Britain receives first four of 70 election would choose delegates to an Al German National Assembly to draft a Constitution which would unite germans in tie West and now behind the Iron curtain in the communist Dom Ina Ted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer handed a copy of his governments acceptance of my Cloya free elections proposal to March ass a Secretary of state Dean Acheson said today that american officials in West Germany Are giving the closest possible attention to preparations far dealing with scheduled mass communist det Nocitra tons in Berlin May members of Allied High com Mission at a conference late today in commissions Petersberg acceptance by the West govern oame less than two weeks after East German min ister George Dertinger declared Mcclous proposal is completely and foreign minister and leading spokesman of the soviet controlled government in Eastern Dertinger mirrors the official views of the soviet occupation conditions listed the soviet zone state said it would proceed with its proposed 15 which scribed As a device which will Block German v in its the West Ger Man government called upon Public opinion1 to sup free Al German elections under the following election Law shall be by the four occupation calling for a ballot on deputies to a constitutional National election shall be con trolled by a fou Power commis Sion or by a United nations com entire German shall vote on acceptance re on Page 5 arms id b29s March 22 b29s landed Here after a transatlantic hop today and were turned Over to Britain tinder tie program to bolster the defense of the anticommunist North Atlantic maj Gen Leon head of the 3d air based in said at the Transfer cer Emony that the arrival of the planes of a Fleet of 70 super forts consigned to to serve notice that the Atlantic pact nations want nothing except to be left you know and i know that the bombers will never be used to strike Johnson they will Only earlier on Page 160 escape As fire North March 22 fire last night razed the 50yearold cistercian monastery of our lady of the Valley four monks of the cloistered order were carried to safety from the in All residents and some 160 escaped the flames that levelled four lost in the fast moving flames were invaluable manuscripts and records including do c Uin in to salvaged from a monastery established in Nova Scotia More than a Century be to strike we will be Strong and one of the four engined planes developed an Oil leak on the last leg of the flight from Andrews and was forced land in a thick fog on three engines an hour before tie the disabled ship was brought Down successfully bythe capt Wil an Page 3 adm Sherman due in zone sunday March 22 Forrest Sherman of naval will arrive in Bremerhaven to inspect the naval advanced base and the port office of the military sea transportation service Sherman will arrive by plane accompanied by rear Johi naval following his Sherman will leave for where he will Confer with High ranking military and state department Sherman is naval member of the joint chiefs staff and ranking officer of the naval to his present assignment he was 6th operating in Mediterranean More of fighter units to guard atomic works March 22 the air Force Toddjr ordered add tonal units to the Pacific Northwest to guard air approaches to the and other vital defense the of said the Headquarters o 8lst fighter Wim and two of its fighter squadrons Are being transferred to Washington state from new answer made to senators charge March 22 of state Dean Acheson said today that if the top russian espionage agent in the is connected with the state depart charged by Joseph Mccarthy r does not know Acheson replied briefly and flatly when a reporter questioned him on toe latest charge made by is True Teaf the top russian agent in this country is connected with the state department Acheson was Acheson replied that if so he did he told a news conference that ambassador Large Philip Jessup was entirely Correct when he told a Senate subcommittee that Mccarthy charges were harming the conduct of american foreign the Secretary refused on Page 4 court upholds March 22 the court of appeals today upheld the constitutionality of governments loyalty the Threeman tribunal ruled that any government worker May be fired by a aboard acting under an order from president the decision was banded Down in the of Dorothy a employee the Federal Security miss Bailey was suspended from her Job in november on the ground her was question in february 1949 she she sued Tor reinstatement to her among other the Contention that the whole loyalty program was unions Tito ordered by pref on Page 2 bulletins March w ins Secretary of state Dean Acheson declared today he would give the deepest and most respectful consideration to a proposal for a Spe Cial Tenet inc of the in Security Council to end cold Story on Page i March 8s foreign minister Robert scan Man today rejected Elfran Wogerman economic that help build All Western Europe by Jal inf in the Council it w
