European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1950 the self ars and stripes allies relax curbs on German output May 8 Confidence that the germans will co operate in staying the Western allies today relaxed some of their controls Over German some control functions were turned Over to the germans themselves under the new anti rearmament Law published by the Allied High com we Are quite optimistic Over the degree of German cooperation be said maj Gen Peoples cop says battalion set for rally by Dwight Schear staff correspondent May s former Peoples policeman who fled to West Berlin last week testified to Day in District court Here that Hia alert1 battalion was transferred from Leipzig to Berlin in order to defend the German democratic Republic during the May 28 communist youth Werner told judge John Sabo when we arrived in we were told we were to maintain order in East Berlin should there be any inter Ferenee from the we were to put it Pullmann testified As a prosecution witness in the trial of six Peoples policemen charged with wearing paramilitary uniforms and carrying weapons in the sector of the trial was expected to end Date these instructions were to pertain Pullmann to he said his unit was transferred Here from Saxony because the Peoples police unit at the Berlin suburb of treptow was considered unreliable and too Friendly toward Berlin no witnesses in a Surprise trial in Fritz defense informed prosecutor Irvin Robbins that he intended to Call no but would merely argue the Case on the Kaul contends that the court has no jurisdiction in matters re Garding the training organization and duties of the russian zone police earlier Herbert a former Peoples testified to his training with pistols and russian machine guns at a Peoples police tank training school in the soviet zone province of the six plus Heinz Nocht and Wilhelm Roloff who pleaded guilty and turned states were arrested by sector police april 13 while Riding in a truck in route from the soviet zone to the soviet they were armed with sub machine guns and 4 Navy ships visit Spanish Isle Palm a de May 8 the Cruiser Newport and destroyers of tiie Mediterranean Fleet arrived at from Nice Tor the first american naval visit this Spanish Island has had Tor 27 the which destroyers included the Thomas end was under the of vice adm John an other unit of the Mediterranean Fleet visited Ferrol last sep Only the commander of the Patina naval base and other local authorities were on hand to Greet who plan to leave or Lisbon an american embassy spokesman in Madrid said the visits object was to give the of the four vessels chore James chairman of the Allied Security which will stand guard against German we Are accepting in Good Faith the assurances we have received from the he reminded by a reporter of what happened after the last Hodges told press conference eyes not we Are not approaching this with our eyes we Are fully aware of what happened before and we Are watching for any signs of a Hodges expressed Confidence that enough enough Allied being maintained to insure against regrowth of Ger Man War the Allied High in its official said the new Law aimed at giving the allies a tight grip Over any German activities which might pose a genuine but Only the necessary controls consistent with this objective have been the communique Hodges pointed out besides the 250 Allied members and employees of the Security the Board will have the assistance of the staffs of the three Allied High commissioners in avoiding favouritism Hodges explained that the allies had not wanted to be put in the position of being Able to show favouritism to any individual German where total production of certain industries is the issuing of production permits to various firms was left to the the steel for is limited ingot tons production the allocation of that allotment to individual firms would be done through German issued the supervision of the col Lection of reports and information from Industrial concerns for the military Security Board would be in German he the Law provides for imprison ment up to life terms and fines up to Marks for Hodges said the Board is fully aware of German fears that through its operations German Industrial secrets May be Given to compete he said the Board would see that Industrial secrets were not the which combines previous French and regulations on disarmament and Demili completely bans some Industrial enterprises and sets limits on affected list banned Are of anything specifically designed for military Poison of strategic materials like primary synthetic rubber and synthetic 3storage of Bauxite and alumni limited shipbuilding and production of Ball and roller synthetic beryllium and primary a previous Law control German activity with radioactive a wide Range of Industrial activity also was freed from the communique explained that it technically fell with inane scope of the Law but was not considered a threat to military wrote on China Agnes Smedley Agnes Smedley Dies at Oxford figured in espionage Case May 8 Agnes author and journalist accused and cleared of being a soviet spy in the far died in an Oxford nursing Home it was announced a Friend from the far East who announced the said miss who had been in England six months writ ing a came to Oxford three weeks ago on a visit and was admitted to a nursing Home 10 Days ago when she became Sloss declined to say what caused miss medleys miss Smedley was accused last Iti a report from Gen Douglas Macarthur head quarters in of assisting soviet espionage in the far during the she had travelled with chinese communist armies and wore the uniform of the red both rout miss s Medley described the charge As a despicable lie and later was cleared by the depart ment of the army in which withdrew the charge made in Pakistan Premier asks arms Aid May 8 Pakistan Premier Liaquat Ali Khan has made a bid for military declaring his country needs a considerable amount of american weapons to equip its armed he told a press conference he was interested in having up Odate military equipment1 forces because of for pakistani his country important strategic asked to specify what kind of arms he the who arrived for a visit As guest of president All Hoover warns against recognizing communist China May 8 former president Herbert Hoover warned yesterday against recognition of communist China or acceptance of a communist chinese delegation to the United he said that either move would be a further surrender in the cold Hoover expressed these views in a letter to William Knowland with 34 other has asked pres ident Truman for new assurances that the will not recognize the chinese communist regime or admit it to the Hoover cautioned that nor Mal diplomatic relations with the chinese communists would Plant another nest of communist propagandists and agents in the refuses to Back Down he refused1 to Back Down on his p r o p o s a by president t r u m a hat the in be re organized and Russia and her puppet states if the united1 nations is Ever to be useful to the human it must free itself of communist not add to Hoover Knowland Heads a Republican bloc fighting for military and economic add for Generalissimo Chang Kaish eks beleaguered nationalist the group also wants a Guaran tee that Chianos representatives will not be ousted from the Truman is sitting tight on this warns on seating Hoover warned that seating communists in the in would add further to the already dominantly destructive forces it would be a further acceptance of the sweep of the Kremlin aggressive militarism and Imperi he it is a system of and without that we can not accept it would betray millions of chinese still struggling against the slave the former president certainly recognition of a Moscow satellite government in China would be further surrender in the cold which general Omar Bradley chairman of the joint chiefs of Stalf has said we Are Nicaragua Congress elects general president May 8 Anastasio government candidate in this months presidential yesterday was elected president by Congress to re place Victor roman y Reyes who died saturday in a Philadelphia a special session of Congress elected Somoza unanimously to serve out romans unexpired Somoza has been a leading figure in nicaraguan politics More than 15 Heidi plans 31 tour of dec says Mccloy invited him to return May 8 showman Horace Heidt said today that Dixieland jazz is now sweep ing the with the same Fervour of swing music As in the i love Heidt but theres still a place in Amer ican popular music for other who just completed a tour of Germany with his youth Opportunity show said the which features unknown Talent Heidt has discovered from All Over had been such a Success he would try to repeat it again next i american High commissioner for Germany John Mccloy liked the show very and thinks it is wonderful propaganda for Heidt the fact we present Young unknown singers and dancers makes people realize that in America we do not Only depend on the Star system but give others a he said Mccloy asked him to bring his show Back to Germany for the German Public next Heidt presented his show Here last sponsored by the Amer ican All benefits went to the Befort surow childrens tuber Cular exiled chiefs Ore nations meet in capital by Edward Roberts May 8 Congress of men meets Here they will be of nine Iron curtain each with a Price on his the occasion is the annual Congress of the International peasant the Green internationale which Moscow dreads and has sought ruthlessly to behind the fron its members Are in prison or under Many leaders lie in unmarked they died by the noose or firing squad after Hasty trials for treason or other concentration Camps Many of the leaders gathering Here know by personal experience that there is no difference Between a nazi concentration Camp and a communist concentration they have been in president of the Union is Stan is jaw of for Mer Deputy prime minister and Leader of the anticommunist of in november when he Learned the communists had ordered his he vanished the underground passed him by night across the polish across the soviet zone of and finally to safety in the British then there is now Secretary general of the once Leader of the powerful agrarian party in his native he refused the premiership in 1945 in protest against communist a he was placed under escaped and sought Sanctuary in the Home of american political representative Maynard russians sent a regiment of soldiers to take him but Barnes refused to give Hini up and the russians did not dare violate diplomatic immunity of an official american resigned for son another Delegate is Ferenc once prime minister of in the summer while he was vacationing in Hun Garian communists kidnapped his son and held the boy As hostage until Nagy agreed to Nagy met communist agents at the Swiss Border and exchanged his resignation for his others include three anticommunist members of the czech yugoslav peasant Lead ers who resisted the Rise of Tito years before he broke with the Kremlin also will be these men live by their Congress will be devoted largely to plans for the Day when Eastern european nations will once Mora be free of red memorial to Honor Bates May 8 special the late George Bates r who was killed in an air plane crash Here in november will be honoured by a memorial be dedicated at the naval Reserve training armed forum May
