European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes september 1950 Senate passes Bill to control 707 measure provides for internment in wartime 13 the Senate last night passed a drastic subversive control Bill pro Viding for the immediate registration of All communists theorizing the government to up them in concentration Camps in the event of or it was despite and Vance warning from president tru Man he will veto the concentration amp provision included at the last minute after the Senate earlier rejected it while the vote was Over the two thirds majority required to override Truman May be Able to kill the legislation by a pocket veto if Congress adjourns House measure Milder the House previously had passed a less sweeping but it is expected to go along with the sen ate version and Deposit the whole bundle of political dynamite on the White House Doorstep by the end of this the president then will have 10 legislative Days in which to and if Congress quits in the mean time he merely has to withhold his signature for the Bill to die Auto in committee testimony released yesterday before the senates Pas Sage of the Fri director Edgar Hoover advised the Senate a new and stepped up underground movement among communists poses a Security problem that makes world War ii fifth columnists look very Hoover tells of underground he told the appropriations committee that since the korean fighting Large num Bers of communists have been going he added that the problem which we had in the last War with the nazi fifth column was very Small compared with the problem we have today in this country and in our territories from communist and soviet the underground movement among Hoover is nothing but in the last few months it has become wide he said they in every Way they possibly endeavoured to cover their trails to destroy to destroy to close head to find hiding places for their key members and to be pre pared for operations it and when open War should be or if and when the communist party finds it expedient completely to disband in a technical sense in a factual still be in opera Hoover was asked if communist activities were greater in some parts of the country than he said they particularly enlarge Industrial Clark at Darmstadt pm school Coldstream unit Home 13 2d Coldstream after fighting guerrillas in the Malayan Jungle for nearly two arrived Home Gen Mark chief of army Field is greeted by col co of the quartermaster school daring a Brief inspection it Gen Man ton cd left shakes bands with Brig Gen it com adjutant who is standing just behind col Basil co of Frankfurt Mili tary is at Mcdowells photo by Penn foam of controversy subsides free frontline Beer continued 13 troops in Korea who like Beer will continue to get this is on the word of a High army official who declined use of his name lest he get All foamed up in an army order removing the on Canaday ration in raised a howl of protest heard As far As the source said today this has resulted in a combat troops had been getting a Small can of Beer As a free some of the boys who dont like Beer wrote Home about there were Beer was stricken trial set 28 for 2 germans As soviet spies sept 13 preliminary hearing of two Ger mans on charges of conspiring to give plans and formulas to the rus sians ended today and the scheduled for trial 28 in h1cog District the appearing for the first time in court with defense Are Gunther a chemist formerly employed by the military Security Board the tripartite Liaison Board in and her Mann a at the request of District at a Arney Fred judge John Speight denied the pair bail and in the interest of that neither could be visited by anyone except their wives and defense evidence at the hearing alleged that Scholz passed on to the rus sians maps and plans of military and Industrial installations in the the men were betrayed by a soviet zone Hildegard who fled to the zone and told officials of the alleged activities of Scholz and Cosmann Schacht acquitted again 13 a Hjalmar former president of hitlers was acquitted today on charges of the acquittal was announced by a German Denali fiction court after a three week the prosecutor had demanded schachts classification As a minor nazi of the financial wizard has been in and out of courts Ever once toe after he was acquitted of War crimes by the Allied tribunal at Nurnberg the germans started prosecuting him on charges of being an Active in announcing the the presiding judge said that although Schacht had glorified Hitler in his speeches and had favored German it was proved that he was not a convinced had resisted nazism after and later had joined the resistance movement from the what was not made Clear Back Home was that the Beer was in addition to Normal rations and did not take the place of other said the bottles of soft drinks also Haie been Given to frontline men and Many chose cokes Over and there was always Coffee and no appropriated funds under the new no More Beer will be furnished troops from appropriated Money allocated by but the army has Nona Propri ated this is Revenue from Small charges for various items in Post exchanges and theater admin the source said Beer will not be free to rear Echelon they can buy but the men at the where its 24hour duty and no time for will get a can almost every if they want soft drinks will continue to be we have no intention of Circum venting the will of said the Congress has the Power to direct How Public funds should be Beer is an expense and we would not do it if we were not aware of the rugged situation our fighting men Are facing without 260 polio cases in Hesse sept 13 two Hundred sixty polio cases were reported in Hesse Between april 23 and sept the Public health department Twenty of the cases have been Wiesbaden has the highest total of any City in Hesse with 70 summer is finished in Korea Foxholes by Jimmy Cannon reprinted by permission of the new Yorac copyright hew York Post with the 27th inf summer lightning twitches on the horizon and competes with the artillery in harmless we soaped up and used the tepid rain As a Shower the other mild after occasionally men fall sick with the heat As they climb the sweat darkens the fatigues and turns the dust into mud on your you become languid and sleep is not beneficial if you neglect to take Salt Many have to Chew on them to prevent but few Duck on the Road the dust belongs to the the Trees Are Green and there is no evidence that foliage has changed since i came Here Early in but tonight in the Foxholes the season is we who Are professional spectators of War live in a schoolhouse and commute to the Forward areas by hitching in the last week weve been drinking less in Early August the canteens were empty before noon when we started out at in the classrooms we use As bar Racks we placed our cots so they would be under the broken paned last night i noticed the we greased ourselves with Mosquito repellent three weeks ago and slept in our underwear and passed up the nets because they were too we use a Blanket our nights Are pleasantly but in the holes the Summers until this week we sat on the Balcony of the press Billet in our undershirts and watched the flares Rise like indolent and Florid stars above the rim of our we stalled until the Small talk ran dry Jimmy now on the staff of the new Vork served As the stars and stripes correspondent with the 3d army during its Advance across France and because sleeping was Tough in the Clammy but last night we wore our the sounds from the compound below belong to sum Merthe people stopped singing their crying songs and went to bed always it gets colder quicker in the it is that Way in every War on every they still run sweat in the daytime but the heat prostrations have decreased and Al ready the infantrymen Are talking about the it gets very cold in Korea and snows a lot and up in the mountains it will be a bad place to the last couple of nights from around 3 until Dawn it want like said pfc Arthur of sinking we could have have used i wonder Why they dont Issue you remember the 4th inf div in Eto when they were up in the mountains it was snowing and there want a pair of gloves in the they wore summer under and Field jackets were the Only Protection they had from the dont mind it said pfc Alfred of but there Are Guys who you monastery 800th year 13 the former hog Worth monastery near Here is celebrating its 800th the which formerly belonged to the Salzburg new is a childrens get All sweated up and then you Cool if youre dug in a fixed position its not bad in the Landis you can chop some logs and put them Over the top and it aint so but if youre in a new Posi Tion and digging holes hour or its you recall the White Hills of Luxembourg and the germans in their Snow suits which concealed we had nothing like that and when our troops moved Down the slopes they made Fine the motto creators called us the bes equipped army representing the richest nation in the and we begged sheets and underwear and tablecloths from the people of Luxembourg and the riflemen wrapped themselves in that for Snow you cant dig too deep on account of the rocks in the said pfc Hughie who comes from everybody wants a Landis but they claim they cant get we got raincoats but a poncho can be used As a shelter if you get cold in this country you really the last couple of nights we were wrapping blankets around us and we were still you wonder if the Winter clothing is on the remember they had years to prepare themselves for the Winter in Europe and they we rent its been a terrible even with Winter Issue it wont be maj Banning says he returned to with 13 Harold arrested at an Isol ated guest ranch near Here for allegedly misappropriating in funds Ai Berlin military was ordered transferred to St army Headquarters at the Presidio in san Francisco the handsome army Here for a was arrested at a Pyramid Lake resort by army criminal investigators and sheriffs off ice i had in Bills no larger than 20s when i landed inner York from Germany 25 but customs officials did not open my Banning said he that he came by the currency through illegal i had the Money with me when i went to Berlin and i had it when i came he while officials at the Berlin Post finance office said there was no Money they noted certain funds were misapplied while be ing converted from dollars to Banning said he deposited in the Chase National Bank in new spent for two Diamond rings for himself and his wife and paid for two new the finance officer said he left his wife in Berlin when he left reds again interfere with Barge traffic Sepu 13 Berlin transport officials today re ported a renewal of soviet zone control Point interference with in Ter zonal Barge Raff fifteen barges loaded with West bound Berlin goods were stopped yesterday at the soviet zone wit Tenberge control Point and had not been released by this officials soviet zone guards reportedly claimed the Barge Crew Roste were not in
