European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Age 12 the stars and stripes september 1950 glimpse of Rainbow front forces in exercise Rainbow yesterday withdrew along a 120mile front to defense lines anchored at the main and Neckar Rivers Between Frankfurt and in the first Days White arrows indicate the five column aggressor Black arrows show main concentrations of map aggressors gain continued from Page 1 units along a Nurnberg Wurzburg Bamberg Battle fanning said the aggressor air Force was in Complete command of the skies and had destroyed 53 tanks and so Many vehicles it is impossible to get an accurate the aggressors flew 232 sorties today maj Donald aggressor 10th army reported the Situa Tion favourable on All who has the aggressor rank of major said units of the 682d recon in and the 174th and 116th inf regts had wiped out f co of the 14th army he also reported that a British Arm Redcar Squadron had been struck in the rear by the 682d recon and Man Euver umpires con the aggressor for this last in the far aggressor he claimed to have advanced beyond while units were re ported to have dropped Back on a line Between Nordlinger and Ulm along the Stuttgart setting defense positions stars and stripes correspondent Norbert Ehrenfreund reported from the Friedberg North of Frank that the 1st co Stab brie tonight was setting its defensive positions along a 35mile front extending Southeast to Aschaffenbur following an orderly most of the defensive he fell along the which he called a natural defensive Posi Ehrenfreund said 1st co slab Brig officials reported minor Skir mishes had been fought by flank and rearguard units but that in were the troops Able to slow the enemy on the the i4th army Cav was digging in East of Ehrenfreund while the 2d 18tij inf attached to the 1st co Stab had made Contact with the enemy at Segnitz and again at Wurzburg in 361 aggressor troops get real promotions aggressor 11 were presented to 361 enlisted men of the 2d army Cav regt Here today As they took part in exercise Rainbow As members of aggressor the promotions Are the real thing and will not end when the aggressor gis take off their Green suits and return to array seven soldiers were promoted to master sergeant 47 made sergeant first class 127 were promoted to and 180 men Beiana falling Back to prepared four aggressor planes attacked withdrawing troops at stars and stripes correspondent Ernie Reed reported from where he is with the 2d co Stab that units began falling Back toward Stuttgart at he said a up has been established in below he said units held the Ulm Nordlinger line most of the Day to allow the 16th inf 1st inf to pass through co Stab lines from Graf in Wohr on their Way to new positions Reed spent this afternoon in a Liaison plane with 2d co Stab Brig Brig Gen Bruce c the general said co Stab troops had withdrawn in Good order and that he was Well Satis fied with their Clarke reported Only minor Contact with enemy born named air assistant for exercise Rainbow 11 special Brig Gen Charles Deputy chief of staff for has been announced by joint head quarters of exercise Rainbow As special assistant to the Deputy director for air for the fall training who served As Deputy com Mander of the 15th air Force during world War was Deputy for air operations during exercise har the Neucom joint training Man Euver last Shaw fractures thigh 11 George Bernard 94yearold playwright whose pen has made him a legend in his under went a grave operation Here tonight after he fractured his thigh Bone in a fall in his an official Hospital statement said Shaws condition was satisfactory at but noted that the operation in a Man of his age must be regarded As Shaw slipped and fell yesterday while taking a stroll along the Steep slopes of the Garden at his Home at Ayot but was not brought Toa Luton Hospital until a member of the Hospital staff said Shaw would be unconscious for several the critical moments will come sometime Dur ing the he Vishinsky reaches Paris 11 foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky arrived Here tonight by air in route to the United nations general As Sembly meeting in new Jan Dies of stroke in South Africa continued from Page 1 the then the Smuts was a scientist and was coauthor of the covenant of the league of drafted the preamble to the United nations and in two world wars kept South Africa solidly behind Britain by overriding a Strong isolationist faction at he coined the term British Commonwealth of born May 1870 in the afrikaans town of of dutch Smuts was graduated from Cambridge University and was a rising politician at 25 when fighting broke original commands Smuts got some of the Farmers together and began carrying Brit ish lines with the techniques used by the rangers and British commandos in world War the War of 1899 to 1902 ended in a British Victory and Smuts went to London for the he returned with a charter granting Independence to Transvaal and the Orange free in largely through his Britain sanctioned their Union with Nepal and the Cape Colony to form the Union of South Smuts became defense minister in prime Dur ing world War i he commanded the British and South african armies which Defeated the germans in their african Lloyd George called him to London to sit in on the War Cabinet and later the Versailles Smuts was one of those who signed the German peace document but said it was too harsh and would not bring lasting inspects Honor guard polio victim flown Home continued from Page 1 Power line from the generators on the truck to those in the the giant Bellows beneath the lung continued to pump life giving Roxy then a German worker at the air base stepped Forward with some Flowers it was his own the boy is he and when a boy is sick he should have Edward was smiling All the at the crowd through the Mirror Over his but he didst want to talk to his and Louis of also left on the Mats they had flown to Vienna eight weeks ago when a 23yearold med ical student at the University of was stricken while on a tour of when he became Edward first was treated in an austrian but As his condition grew the army stepped in and placed him in Viennas 110th Sta the of flew an Iron lung from the 97th go to capt Bruce Bouchard stayed with him night and Day for five Days and saved his Edwards father said we will always be grateful for what the army and air Force have we  have gotten finer treatment in a civilian american Gen Mark chief of army Field inspects Cpl Melvin Guido bearer of the 557th inf Neucom Honor at Clark and his staff Are in Germany to observe exercise photo Seesaw fight rages above Taegu yanks Advance on Pahang continued from Page 1 while the enemy was trying to re american fighter bombers swept they strafed and rocketed communist concentrations and when they left an 8th army spokes Man said there didst seem to he enough of a regiment left for them to launch a second trading punches with the 1st Cav seven Miles North of Taegu were elements of three enemy divisions which could number up to an army spokesman said vicious Small arms fighting was continuing about two Miles South of the walled town of Kasan and on the main Tabucon Taegu the 1st Cav blasted away with artillery and the communists an swered Back with mortar and All kinds of Small arms pushed Back yes one enemy attack pushed the americans Back Yards East of Wae Gwan before it was but on the right flank in the direction of the americans advanced Yards through heavy enemy a Strong communist counter attack then stopped the gis and drove them Back 800 the threat to Taegu has not yet but it is by no Means As grim As it an 8th army spokesman enemy shells fell in the Edge of Taegu sunday and again Early yesterday but Little damage re heavy return blasts from american artillery knocked out three communist on the extreme northeastern where some three enemy divisions had tried to slice South through Yongju toward 47 Miles the 24th div was advancing steadily against mod Erate the division had relieved the pressure on Pahang Airfield and was endeavouring to straighten the which would run from 16 Miles North of through Angang and then West past Yong Hon to Clark honoured at Heidelberg 11 special honors of Neucom he were rendered Here today to Gen Mark chief of army Field by the 557th inf Neucom Honor at Campbell head quarters for exercise the Honor guard was inspected by before performing its intricate music was by the 33d and 427th army Cark and Bis staff Are in Ger Many to observe the joint Navy and air Force training a Clark was accompanied by Gen Thomas Neucom com Mander and director of exercise it Gen John Safe and Deputy director for air operations of the exercise it Gen Manton Usa eur and Deputy director for army in the Man Euver maj Gen Glenn tactical air Force maj Gen Daniel p chief of Neucom a Gen quartermaster of army Field forces and pm inspector for the armed forces and Brig Gen army Field following the Clark and his party were briefed on the nine b29 crewmen missing in plunge 11 far East air Force announced today a b29 super fort plunged into the Chinan sea Friday shortly after Tak ing off from Okinawa and listed nine crewmen As three other Crew members were rescued and taken to a military Pital on the missing Are capt Nathan Clifford it John Tampa it Rau Albert Tampa s sgt Otha Chapel m sgt Jack Home address unknown s sgt Clarence Tampa s sgt Clifton Tampa s sgt Donald and s sgt Leon Charles i j dec officer sought in states for fraud probe ii the army said today maj Harold Dean who flew to this country on leave from is wanted for questioning about the alleged misapplication of Public funds in excess of the Provost marshal generals office said customs and Border patrol officers have been requested to help in the search for the 39yearold in response to a reporters in the army said the european command on 7 cabled the Provost marshal generals office with a request that Banning be a the Cable said he left Germany 25 by commercial Airliner on a 60day leave and had Given his address while on leave As the army said it has ascertained that Banning arrived in new York it gave no further details except to say if he is apprehended he will be remanded to the nearest military a spokesman at Eti com he in Heidelberg said earlier today that an investigation is in Progress involving certain alleged irregularities in financial