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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gen 19 others die in b 29 crash 60 injured in Suisun disaster Fairfield Suisun at 6 at least 20 persons were killed when a b29 super fortress crashed and exploded Here last the air Force announced the dead included Brig Gen Robert base four members of the plane i n c 1 u d i n g the Pilot and survived the the Force the of announcement said it had now been established that of the 20 men aboard the super fortress 16 three ground firemen lost their lives when the big ship exploded and one body was still the number of injured was put at Mai said the were injured in the explosion fire which spread into a trailer housing on the base for families of military he added that casualties might be higher As Rescue operations were not the b29 crashed just after taking off from the runway of Suisun air base Here for a Long Range routine training the plane was on Page 4 t t i Bridges jailed As Mir eat san 6 longshore Leader Harry Bridges was ordered 3 o i i e d immediately yesterday by a Federal judge who labelled him one of the most potent figures in the communist party in judge George Harrip refused Bridges a stay of execution and remanded him immediately to the 4 custody of the marshal to be Gin his five year a convicted perjured who conspired to hide his communist party affiliations when he applied for citizenship in Harris said that the Navy and Marine corps will hold the Beac Theada in our duly is Toj Poleet the beachhead Here from dangers to the internal Security of the United in handing Down his decision fou Day Harris said i am satisfied to a moral certainty and beyond reasonable doubt that Bridges was and is a on Page 3 Harriman in confers with Macarthur 6 Averell Harriman arrived today and immediately conferred with Gen Douglas Macarthur on far Eastern after president Truman be w special assistant on foreign affairs he attended the regular b r i e f i n g by Macarthur on the korean these european edition stripes weather forecast maximum 82 7s 73 Ber 76 s3 t r i k sex weather Central unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe volume number 111 5 cents a a month 1950 two red battalions i after crossing Nat orig Reiyei in action wins of at Strasbourg g Europe for eign meeting at the Council of Europe upper yesterday officially endorsed the United nations stand against aggression in the ministers in their joint message to the councils consultative or lower urged the Assembly to express its support for Security Council resolutions on the korean the Assembly is to meet Here the message branded the North korean regime As a violator of inter National Law and condemned its a Victory for Sforza this represented a Victory for italian foreign m Inister Carlo who waged a strenuous Campaign within the ministerial committee for such a for quite different British for eign Secretary Ernest Bevin opposed sending any message to the Assem Bly at the foreign ministers also officially voted to give Western Ger Many and the Saar associate membership in the Council of Europe upper the ministerial com the decision was contained in a fou Point Resolution approved by the the move described As a deliberate step toward full member on col 5 Hiroshima holds rites for victims 6 Morial services were held Here i Day for the thousands died five years ago when the first atom bomb was dropped on this six religious denominations took part in the of All those in the atom Only one remains in Hiro Shimas he Keyosha whose ngh hand is still crippled and whose scars Are still livid after 15 marines in route to front marching directly from their ships to trains bound for the front in South Korea arc these Mem Bers of the 1st Marine k says divisions to be trained faster new 6 Mark chief of the army Field said yesterday the army is about to Start unconventional methods of training which will shorten to nine months the time needed to ready a new division for previously it has taken about 15 months to train a Accord ing to army officers at the third annual convention of the counter intelligence corps which Clark under the new National guard divisions can Complete Neces earlier Page 3 sary training within five to six Clark we Are cutting put a lot of training previously the world War ii 5th army commander we Are about to put into effect unconventional methods of weve got to develop in a Short time these new methods for training troops because we do not on Page 3 Laguardia estate new 6 late mayor Fiorello Laguardia left assets of when he died in an estate tax appraisal showed his Marie is sole Legatee under his crash French German Horder Gates German Nyhof Terman 6 Hundred University Stu dents representing nine european nations today smashed French Ger 1 Frontier barriers in a two if demonstration demanding Cre a european parliament and in prepared in it Frontier and police said they had no inkling anything was going to Hap As the students they prom ised to return again in larger num Bers to break Down More Frontier the when the converging on the Border from both France and Ger demanded passage free of customs and visa when these were the students on the German Side Tore away the steel guard rail painted in the Blac Goldred colors of the West German Republic and stormed on the French Side the 200 Stu dents who came in Froni Strasbourg first sent a diversion party to the Frontier posing As they engaged the guards in and one pretty on Page col j fighting Breaks out Between police in Brussels 6 fighting broke out in Brussels streets today As goo royalists at tempted to demonstrate in favor of King at least three persons were injured and four the fighting apparently Between police and in the huge Boulevard a Quarter of a mile from downtown Alert police kept the demonstrators out of the heart of the where the trouble could have been Lar More All the demonstrators came from mostly from the ardently Leopol dist City of for an unauthorized scattered sabotage and terrorism plagued Belgium dockers in Antwerp and Ghent who originally have demanded More pay and Shorter hours and have not yes returned to 19 die in Japan floods 6 authorities said today that 19 per sons were 58 and injured in floods caused by rainstorm in Eastern yanks Blunt i11 crossing in South from press dispatches 8th army communique to Day announced that two North korean battalions which had crossed the Paktong River at an undefended part of the front about 35 to 40 Miles North of been annihilated by South korean orces further North korean rooms were holding a Bridgehead on the East Side of Paktong River tonight after a Day of fierce fighting in which counter attacking american infantrymen pushed the invaders Back american infantry in a series of Small fire fights drove the North koreans Back Yard by Yard to three Hills in and on the Northern flank of the River Bend heir crossed in the North koreans had crossed the Paktong under cover of dark Ness in the Chang Yong 23 Southwest of bulk of the communists who crossed at this one or Gen Doug Las Macarthur release in on the East Bank of the River five Miles Southwest of the8th army communique said jes Outh korean defenders in the Hills let the two then closed in and annihilated it possible that reds were Macarthur release said that communist forces continued a Small unit attacks and in filtration tactics Over the entire it said that these coupled with the Paktong Crossings and the buildup in the South and Center sectors Are further indications that on Page 1 Berlin police arrest i or German Asci elitist aug 6 Sec Tor police today arrested German com munis atomic on charges of holding an illegal meeting at which he tried to collect signatures on petitions demanding the atom bomb be German police said they arrested who Heads the com Muni Strun committee of during Garden at in the1 they said him Handin out the petitions to 16 faiths although 1 he bad no to distribute such 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