European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                12 the stars and stripes september Europe army reported okd at pact talks new 26 North Atlantic treaty Council is reported to have decided to set up a combined Force for the defense of West but not to make a firm decision now on the question of forming German military units informed sources said the Council will announce its decisions in final communique after its meeting they said the Council decided create an integrated Force establish the posts of com Mander in chief and chief of with the Latler to Start coordinating the various elements immediately no one has yet been decided on for commander in earlier Story on Page make no decision now on the German streamlined program announce measures for streamlining the work of the coun cil and reducing some of the the informed sources said the decisions were not published sooner because the scandinavian countries wanted to consult their govern ments on committing their forces to a combined the informed sources said it had been decided not to act now on German units because of Stern French the need to equip other european forces and because it would be at least 18 months before any German troops be trained and 80 miners die in us pit fire continued from Page 1 other 77 men were alive below the whole underground disaster area was being sealed off tonight behind Walls of the night shift was working feet underground when at 4 am 5 am Germany time a of fire jumped like lightning along the Black of feeding on the rubber belts of a newly installed conveyor system and Timber roof the fire raced through the it knocked the ventilating system out of exhausted the oxygen and left a deadly Cloud of min Union government inspectors and officials of the National Coal which operates Britain stat owned went underground to Survey the their verdict was any attempt to recover the bodies wis bound fail and such attempts would inevitably involve further loss of Justice Jackson stays sentence of 10 reds 26 Justice Robert Jackson of the supreme court has allowed free Dom on bail pending an Appeal for 10 of 11 communist leaders convicted of conspiracy to advocate forcible overthrow of the govern stay of sentence permits the convicted leaders to remain free unti a final supreme court action on a formal Appeal which will ask for the convictions by a new York jury to be Jackson declared there would be a disastrous effect on the reputation of american Justice if i should new Send these men to jail and a full court later decides that their conviction is he added the right of every american to equal treatment before the Law is wrapped up in the same constitutional bundle with that of these if in anger or disgust with these defendants we throw out the bundle we also cast aside Protection the liberties of More worthy who May be in opposition to the government of some future the request for stay of sentence did not include Eugene Dennis communist party general Secretary now in jail on a separate charge of contempt of a new York circuit court had up held conviction of All 11 they were convicted in october it year after a trial lasting nine months before District judge Harold Medina in new one was sentenced to three years and the rest to five All were fined desperate struggle makes shambles of South Korea capital continued from Page 1 Only a Short Way from the american and they had captured the Seoul railway Sta Tion and on their right 7th inf Day units were cleaning up Nam san Hill the big South Mountain Park Heigh that dominates All of not in two wars have i seen any thing to equal the Battie for this fighting through smoke filled streets is eerie and with flames leaping from buildings and lacking out at the marines As they dash Down the debris filled streets and past buildings crashing to the round after the fires have gutted sky aglow at dusk the sky was aglow with the fire of great red flare hat silhouetted the dark mountains for Miles it was a Bonfire of All the bitterness and hate of War concentrated on one the reds chose to defend and the americans Are not sparing any building where the reds had established and strange things happen in the battered streets such As the Marine racing Down a Street into Battle with two live ducks strapped to his packs and quacking madly such As the red platoon that marched out of the flames and smoke squarely nto muzzles of american this was a Brief and wild Slaughter of he dec forces warned on Coffee imports 26 special All members of the armed forces in Neucom must comply with a re cent Hico ordinance amendment which prohibits occupation person net from importing Coffee into the zone of Germany through army Post office according to a new Neucom any member of the armed forces who violates the provisions of the Hico ordinance governing prohibited transactions and activities will be subject to disciplinary a the ordinance is applicable within the states of Hesse and and the sector in practice session 26 a French antiaircraft Battery of lie men arrived Here for two weeks firing practice with bottles of 24th div tankers free 1st i pcs continued from Page 1 67 he escaped from the communists once and then was re captured when he crawled into a truck with a North who was wounded by a mortar was the Only survivor in a group of eight who were a Chin gunned in a ditch by the North he was wounded in the foot when it became dark he crawled away to a Hilltop where he Lay nine Days until some North korean ambulance men found All three said they were treated Well by North korean troops but were mistreated by the North korean police the three americans said they were fed a handful of Rice three times a they had to sit in one position for 16 hours from the time they got up until they went to Norse to raise taxes 26 norwegian government has announced that the state tax on in come and property will be in creased 20 per cent to help pay for intensified defense Prepa Austria reds Block rails continued from Page 1 soviet zone was reported still at a standstill lines were open in the Western army officials Here announced that the two Mozart Mili tary trains would leave on schedule tonight one of the trains was to leave Salzburg at pm and arrive in Vienna about 6 the other was due to leave Here 9t 9 to night on its Way to Salzburg and the Mozart trains have to pass through the soviet zone on their Way to and fro the like is a four Power Island entirely surrounded by the soviet the most important of the red traffic working actions apparently was occurring at 37 Miles West of Vienna and on the rail line passed by the at about communists were reported sitting on the austrian rail officials said the Polten reds were aided by two soviet tanks which parked directly on a Section of communist riot in Vienna some shouting communists demonstrated outside the government of these rioted in front of the american occupied Bristol austrian police riot squads finally dispersed the but not before it had beaten up several pedestrians and completely paralysed City traffic for at least two the reds yelled at the americans inside of the which is located in the heart of the International go Home and hands off army officers and dependents stayed inside the hotel in order to avoid the this correspondent saw several Young communists brutally beat up o Middle aged pedestrians near the several communists at tacked Sec William of the 7691st he and who was driving in front of Viennas City Hall the reds turned Over the Plymouth Coupe with Henley inside of considerable damage was done to the but Henley escaped with Light Lead in drives make linkup Seoul Falls continued from Page 1 correspondent Bernard the in driving sout from Seoul and North from the Taegu reached a Junction in the Chonan 34 Miles South of us which is 20 Miles below Seoul associated press reported first Eon tact was made Between Osan Anc other forces Pur sued red troops fleeing North from Seoul toward the 38lh the Junction of forces was achieved at am yesterday am Germany time when two tanks of the 1st smashing northward met patrols sent out by the 7th div which captured in 12 Days since the in amphibious offensive was launched a i in forces achieved the goal of the Nutcracker from the perimeter of the old Pisan front in Southeast the Swift striking 1st Cav had North More than Joo Miles House obtuse Battle for Seoul described 27 wednesday nations forces were battling House Yhouse against the Las ditch enemy defenders of Flam ing Seoul Early throughout Las night tanks Anc flamethrowers reinforced the in foot soldiers creeping cautiously through the crooked Honey Dombec Flushing out snipers and hidden machine gun nests around the South Mountain and on its Northern the bulk of the communist Gar Rison already had fled in disorder toward the 38th incomplete tabulations showed the communists had suffered Over casualties in killed and wounded or captured on All fronts in the 12 Days since the Landing at freewheeling american columns slicing out of the old Pusan Beach head virtually had Cut off the entire southwestern third of South Korea on a line from North Eastern hinge of the old beachhead to s red divisions trapped six North korean1 divisions were trapped Back of this with a strength estimated on sept 15 at men air and ground attacks had Cut them up badly since that Date with heir loss of tons of ammunition and their effectiveness was All around the former Pusan beachhead Battle maps were Chang ing from hour to More than x towns fell in half a reports from the fronts last night ave these on the East Rok units had reached Pyon Hae and were still Lushing in the y o n g j an important rail was from there Westward the old front presented a series of Sharp Spear one pushed up from Ham Chang toward the second my major spearhead reached up through Cho Chiwon to 25 Miles South of another spearhead had reached on the Road to phone girls admit Brazen thievery continued from Page 1 criminal offence has been com no one will sign i cant file Telephone Betty and Marie before they were released on writs of Hareas Corpus said that during the past two years they had some Imes taken As much As f 150 a Day from the counting detective Newton estimated the loot at at least nearly was police it was not disclosed whether this Wilt be returned to the the Case broke when one of the Girts reported the robbery of 000 from a Cedar Chesl at her Home and police found several suitcases there filled with we sometimes took four or five Rolls of quarters very often As Many As Corrigan it Hurt 23 feared dead in Korea lift crash a air 28 four engined c54 transport carrying troop reinforcements from Japan to Korea crashed into the Korea Strait today during a air Force officials feared 23 persons officially one person was listed As 22 As missing and 28 As sur but the officials said they doubted there would be any More those aboard the plane were 43 passengers and eight Crew the passengers included two nurses and two army the survivors were 25 including a heroic and three Crew including the All names were withheld notification of plunges in water Gen Douglas Macarthur head quarters said the participating in the second airborne troop operation of the korean plunged into the water about a half the end of a South Japan airbase runway at am pm yesterday Germany head quakers said some of the survivors were seriously injured and others suffered from Shock and All were survivors said they owed their lives to pieces of wreckage and bag which kept them the surviving who not was credited direct ing Rescue operations from the water despite her own Barrier Battle ends in Berlin 26 we Klong Anglo russian Battle of the Barrier ended at dusk tonight without British soldiers pulled Down 1 Border Barrier which the russians last week pushed some 175 Yards into British territory at the West Ern outskirts of the the russians watched British push the Barrier Back to the orig Inal Frontier Between the British sector and the surrounding soviet zone this evening and offered no British commandant maj Gen Geoffrey said earlier that the soviet authorities had agreed in negotiations to recognize the Border strip As British Ter Stalin Truman talk favored by Malik continued i meeting has not been raised for some when it last came Truman made it known that would be Happy to meet Stalin any time the russian Leader came o this was taken to mean that the president would not go o meet the Maryland committee circus ated a peace petition last claiming which t presented to the in in dismisses Malik bid As propaganda proposal 26 the state department last night dismissed As a Brno Oral bid by russian Jacob Malik for settlement of major difficulties Between the and the soviet a spokesman Soh m have answers to questions submitted by a 9 a 111 m o r e group smacks of the Stockholm peace press officer Lincoln White said we have had enough of Inhat is needed now is action to give practical effect to these expressions of Good