European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes May 1950 East cop trial ends civil War peril cited judge will deliver verdict monday May 9 the d strict court trial of six soviet zone Peoples ended Here late yesterday after Frita defense presented no witnesses and rested his Case with the argument that the court bad do competence in the judge John Sabo announced he would Render his verdict next at the request of prosecutor Irvin Sabo Dis missed two of the five charges each defendant the Youthful aged 19 to Are of carrying weapons and wearing paramilitary uni forms in berlins sector in violation of Allied Council Allied Komma Datura in his closing Robbins said these offences were among the worst possible under the occupy military training this Case he on whether these accused Are policemen or holding aloft a Subra canine gun confiscated from the defendants at the time of their Robbins Eseed what civilized police Force in any country in the world has to feds Type of weapons with which to perform its duties bobbins charged that in postwar Eastern Germany 19 and 2fl year old youths went straight from the Hitler youth into military train he said this was one of the greatest crimes in the world organization of the Peoples police Robbins along military indicates lha possibility of civil War in Germany and Marks continuation of that which men fought to destroy in the last in his prominent Berlin communist declared thai it is not the place of the prosecutor to probe into the conditions of the German democratic Kaul said it naturally occurred to him to exam Ine the question of How far the control Council Laws Are still valid zones of occupation other than but i resisted this violations of Law Kaul based his argument on two main that the court bad no competence in the and that the defendants had entered the sector by mistake and were not aware they were violating any taws when april 13 while Riding Tat a truck containing automatic bobbins answered the District court has authority to try violations of Allied control Council Laws and that ignorance of the Law is no defense a string of prosecution All former East zone Peoples had testified that there were Between Mea in soviet zone police now undergoing full scale infantry train ing with artillery and utrecht Silver medal to Mai Gen Rawlins May 9 honorary medal has been presented by lord mayor de Ranitz to maj Gen raw whose 49th div liberated utrecht in in the utrecht youngsters staged an open air culminating in a tribute to the allies and the dutch who was a guest of together with Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and the princesses Beatrix and was pre rented with a boy a coulis drawing of the Tower of the Utecht Ca soviets of election if troops leave continued from Page 1 not be silent before the deep de sire at Berlin to be in addition to withdrawal of All occupation pro posed that the National front and other communist mass organizations be permitted to operate unhampered in the Western he also proposed abolition of All sector Borders and Extension of the franchise to All former nazis who have not been denied such by specific court this would include those former nazis whose rights were recently restored in the soviet another condition called for establishment of a German election containing equal rep from each sector Bat from West and East Berlin Jel Isarov specified that the work of this commission be by the four occupation occupation statute in Jel Isarov demanded abrogation of the Little occupation statute which defines relationships Between the three Western Powers and the West Berlin City govt and is closely patterned on the occupation statute of Western the Western commandants have previously refused to consider Euch an action Orang similar step which would restore the soviet veto Power in the Allied officials said the Jel Isirov letter was being Given very serious immediate reaction of West political leaders was perhaps Best summarized by Carl Hubert Berlin free democratic party Ftp who said a withdrawal of All Allied troops from the City would mean thai the Western troops Wcur have to move Back to the while the russians could stay perched on the City the British Mai Gen Geoffrey Al it is very disappointing to note that the russians have not Only repeated the five conditions made by soviet foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky at Paris last but have added two Freedom of government he scoffed at soviet suggestions which would nullify the Little occupation statute for Berlin and bring about withdrawal of occupation removal of the statute would take from berliners the Freedom of government which they now he the presence of Allied troops in Berlin did not interfere with the 1946 elections and there is no reason to suppose that their presence would have any harmful effects the Bourne in the 194s Ibe russian backed communist party suffered a stunning defeat As the City voted overwhelmingly in favor of the social Christian democrats and Liberal West Berlin mayor Ernst quoted Fay United said the proposal to abandon the sector Divi Sions of Berlin and to withdraw occupation troops without prior agree ment As to who Wii actually control these elections is to me simply a women air chiefs meet cot Geraldine May director of the women air is greeted at Northop Airport la London by at commandant Felicity director of the British women Royal air they were to hold a series of Loter service arms classes Start in dec May s first contingent of specialist troops from seven european countries be Gan attending dec classes today on use of weapons supplied under the Mutual defense assistance officers and men rom the and Norway will receive training under the fifteen mechanics were assigned to the ordnance school at Eschwege for a five week a Illery they included five two seven and one to the signal school at Ansbach went two norwegian officers and one enlisted four italian in isted and one French they will study the use of Power units in signal equipment foreign troops who attend the special army courses will instruct others in the operation and care of american instruction periods will vary from one to 10 boys town chief visits with Gross May 9 Nicholas chief of says paid his respects to maj Gen Charles land commissioner for Wurttemberge in coming from Wegner was accompanied by the Hans student chaplain from maj Bernard chief of Stuttgart Mill Ary accompanied Wegner and Fruhstorfer to while in Wegner con erred with Fruhstorfer and several German officials on establishing a boys that min sweeping Long Job May 9 Job of Clearing wartime mines from the North and Baltic seas will take at East until a German water ways official May 9 one Hundred seventy nine army horses been sold for Marks to German nationals on a sealed bid basis for an average Price of declared surplus following the deactivation of army horse the horses were sold in lots of 20 to bidders from the British army horses and no bids were received from the French occupation personnel were not permitted to bid for the department of the army regulations prohibit the Sale of surplus government property to employees who receive their salaries from appropriated or no appropriated Berlin reds thank Russ denounce yanks May 9 communists yesterday thanked the soviet Union for defeating Germany in world War ii and shouted for troops to go communist demonstrations in East Berlin went Handi hand with russian observances marking the fifth anniversary of the wars the communist leaders hailed the russians As liberators who freed them from the East German prime minister Otto in praising the soviet failed to mention the part played by the Western allies in the conquering of Ger after he a group of communist youths stood in their seats and shouted americans go Home americans go Home trip to Frankfurt kills elephant May 9 Fourton elephant was apparently so upset by a train ride saturday that it later it was delivered to Frankfurt zoo with the help of Frankfurt sub who Lent a Crane to help unload the Cage and it had taken a 200mile trip from to lying Down in a huge when the Cage was delivered to the attendants tried to persuade the animal to get up in its feet but it police were they tried firmen were sum they tried but All night through the beast then the animal Lay Over on its Side and col Regan appointed Augsburg Post Engineer May 9 it col Bruce Regan arrived Here this week from Gellhausen to assume the duties of Augsburg military Post the colonel replaced it col act As assistant Post Engineer until his reassign ment in the scheduled for some time in the next two medical director to visit dec May 9 Frenzen director of the department medical service for foreign wid Argrave Here by after thursday for a two Day it was Senate robbers to work ouf of Frankfurt May 9 Frankfurt will be the for the Senate subcommittee charged with investigating state department loyalty and Security Theodore Green announced Green said he and Henry Cabot Lodge would for Germany in the near the exact Date was Green added that he will observe operation of policies in Ger Many with great the two were ordered by the Senate foreign relations committee to make an on thespot Check of the state departments loyalty program abroad in connection with current charges that some communists May have infiltrated diplomatic rope to visit London Green said that state department officials from various european embassies will visit the subcommittee at and that if time he and Lodge also planed to visit Paris and other european capitals to observe the working of diplomatic missions at first he recalled that he once was student in Germany and said for this reason he looked Forward to his trip with particular naturally in be interested to seeing How our policies there Are he but this is the primary purpose of out he declined comment on the administrations present German imports drop in West zone f May v Germany import Whick reached its Peak in when More than Worth of goods flooded into the Western is the British to tool commissions monthly report la in the report ports dropped to valued at is j Little More than Short j the postwar in spite of Shorter working the Trade deficit of was the lowest Lor More than the report exports increase the improvement Over the Vious months deficit of was due primarily to a considerably fall in the value of report but there was a Welcome increase of in a feature of the almost erupted development of the weft German the report cobra was the steady return the prewar pattern of Trade fleeced in the rising exports finished manufactured the february total of goods this category reached a postwar Peak of the Western Germany is now to compete in almost All manuf Imti hired articles except textiles certain consumer goods such bicycles and rubber Max a and manufacturers Are usually a position to give Early Del the report Russ release mommies 9 British enlisted men Are Back their units at Wasserkoff after being held two Days by yet zone it was the two said they into the soviet zone near col Twenty they arrested by East zone u n c l t to c