European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast my Toady rain minimum m partly Cloudy with rain m s2 weather Central european edition business Roundup steel production has reached a 12month but unemployment is foreign Trade is on the according to Phil lips weekly business for details read the Story on Page unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe volume number 149 5 cents a a month april 1950 Russ push for Victory Mccloy april 3 current intense soviet pressure on the West is a sign that the communists feel the immediate Hope of in the opinion of High commissioner John Mccloy summed up that belief in made Public by the House appropriations committee on the need for occupation for education and would not be Frank with you if i did not convey to you my sense of the Rea crisis that k Imp ends in is not a sense of inferiority or far of attack that leads the rus sians to put All this pressure on the to build up vast air fleets and submarine cont on Page 2 Bixby forced Back to India from press dispatches april and Robert attempting to set a world record flight in a converted Mosquito returned to Cal Cutta today after engine trouble they had taken off for Tokyo forced this put them at least four hours behind the record set by the late Sill Odom in five minutes and ii record Tucey Are trying to the nonstop Jeg from Calcutta to Tokyo is the Bixby also planned to Stop at Midway is land before returning to the san Francisco starting Point from which they took off saturday the who Are taking turns it the Are flying a Silver and red converted Mosquito Light nicknamed the v and Diana Bixby kiss for food Luck wider the Cowling of converted bomber Jet before they started their Mcauth world Tot agents slay Kidnap Boss in Vienna by Bernard Liebes staff correspondent april 3 Lon sought Leader of a gang of kidnappers and smugglers operating under russian was wounded fatally last night in a gun Battle with French and army Blum was shot six times after he answered with two shots an order to he died an hour later in an austrian austrian Hospital authorities revealed Blum died without having talked to army he lived about 90 minutes after the but All he murmured to austrian doctors and investigators was i am Benno French and agents trapped Blum in a French sector apartment after acting on a authorities reported that who for Dif Feren reasons was the object of an intensive search by both russian and Western had come last night to the apartment of a Alexandra Krauss to say Good by and Tell her he was leaving Krauss was identified As a Russia born Blum was accompanied on his on Page s nationalists report soviet built planes Down 2 fighters april 3 built planes Down two chinese nationalist fighters sunday morning Over hang Law nationalist air Headquarters announced the announcement said the two nationalist Mustang fighters were strafing communist junk sin hang Chow Bay off five Miles Southwest of when the russian planes it said four or five russian planes immediately Downing one nationalist plane and damaging another so that the Pilot had to bail it said the Pilot of this second plane was rescued and had returned to seven chinese red planes damaged by Tim bombs april 3 seven of 71 transport planes taken Oyer by the chinese communists from the nationalists were sabotaged by Tim bombs Here yesterday the bombs went off at 10minute intervals at Hong Kongs none of the planes was seriously Marshall says Aid Cut would peril Erp goal Strong Europe aids world april 3 of state Dean Acheson said today Europe recovery is import ant to the whole world be cause Europe is a great workshop As Well As a great the recovery which has been made there has extended its influence to Many other coun to countries in South Amer Africa and Southern it is greatly to the interests of All of us to have Western Europe Strong and Acheson Acheson said it was unfortunate that Only Western Europe was Able to participate in the recovery pro Gram and that russian satellites in the East were forbidden to take when the Marshall plan Acheson the communists filled the air with propaganda asserting that Erp would end with domination of Western the result of the program to he has shown How dishonest and insubstantial this propaganda 1st arms id cargo unloaded by French april 3 troops began unloading fighter planes and bombers Early today from the French aircraft Carrier which brought them from they were the first supplies to France under the Atlantic pact arms there was no Chance for communist troops from the Sidi Ahmed naval air base be Gan taking off the 48 hellcats and corsairs at a Docking place on the Lake of the unloading place was within the naval base area and surrounded by deserted the communists have been Agi Tating throughout Tunisia the last urging widespread demonstrations and by dockers to unload the Fri Hunts pro nazi linked to mystery sub Santa catalina1 april 3 31yearold German born Detroit sent to prison with treason during the vanished at sea near Catalina Island today amid Navy reports that a definitely not America been seen off the Southern Cali Fri agents investigating the strange disappearance of Theodore Donay said a search of Donas hotel room in Avalon disclosed papers evidencing extensive Commer Cial dealings with the search for the businessman began Early yesterday when a boat he had rented while a guest at a Catalina Island hotel was found Drifting in the main eight Miles East of the Navy officials at san Diego reported that a submarine had been seen yesterday eight Miles off the Southern coast of Cali the on the basis of coast declared it was the second time in five Days that a submarine of unknown identity on Page 2 president asks be closed key april 3 president Truman said yesterday that it is of major importance that the close the Dollar Gap Between its own exports and imports to strengthen free nations against subversion or Daggres he formally ordered retiring army Secretary Gordon a trained to develop a plan to create a balance in the Trade now being maintained by annual Grants totalling the memorandum released by the White compiled from official summed up the problem thus since the end of the world Trade has been maintained by the huge volume of exports needed for postwar Relief and we Are now exporting annually on Page 1 urges Battle on full scale 1952 april 3 George mar shall said today to win the struggle Between democracy and communism in Western Surope the must not emasculate or reduce the foreign recovery winning this the sol die statesman told dip congressmen and Ega is As vital to the peace probes seek Mcarthy file aprils Senate investigators called on Joseph Mccarthy yesterday to hand Over documentary evidence which he says will prove his spy charges against Owen and hinted they May subpoena the papers if Mccarthy promptly replied he was ready to produce some affidavits and letters he outlined in his Senate speech last but said he will withhold the names of other even if it Means defying a Truman formally files to senators key april 3 president Truman today formally notified Millard Tydings that he has ordered officials to ignore subpoenas asking them to surrender loyalty files of accused state department no president has Ever complied with an order of toe legislative Branch directing the executive Branch to produce confidential Docu ments the disclosure of which was considered by the president to be contrary to the Public Truman wrote Bridges juror Iii session delayed san april 3 Yick a chinese juror in the perjury of australian born head of the longshoremen a and warehouse mens Union became ill yesterday and the jury adjourned deliberations until this the jury received the Case Bridges is alleged to have committed perjury in swearing at a citizenship hearing thai he was not a communist april 3 president Truman declared today that the Marshall plan has averted the threat of communist aggression in Many european coun tries but warned that Many difficulties and perplexing problems he the presidents state ment was contained in a Telegram to Paul economic co operation and Prosperity of the world As any military Campaign in we Are engaged in a perilous struggle with an implacable we must carry this Battle to the he who As Secretary of state fashioned the european re covery referred to Russia or communism simply As the opposition and the implacable he addressed a Celebration Honor ing the Halfway Mark in the four recovery pro Marshall shared the speakers platform with Secretary of state Dean Acheson and Eca administrator Paul at the same it seems Clear on Page 1 eclipse of Moon this showing the begin Ning of an eclipse of taken sunday in Fht in Frank later the Moon totally having fallen completely within the Shadow of the the eclipse was not visible in the photo by