European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast occasional maximum fit is 73 Naples weather Central thesta european edition ripes unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe teamed in Korea maj Icen prank Milt to and col Rinaldo Van formerly with the 1st inf div in Are teamed up again in Korea with i of which Milburn is in for details of their new assignments see Page volume number 168 5 cents a a month october 1950 in units 30 Miles in Korea germans plan to try red chiefs 2 up jail doors swung open today to free most of the communists arrested in West Ger Many but German authorities said red leaders would he held for charged with resistance against the state in planning the unsuccessful series of demons in the British authorities said most of the approximately 850 demonstrators and leaders a a sled yesterday already had been British who asked not to be quoted by said the dismal failure of the communists marked the finish of the West German communist freed British officials said the majority of arrested were merely questioned and turned and Only a few held 1o face charges of breaking throwing and minor acts of in scene of the Only clash in the widely and ire raised City officials said the majority of 130 arrested would be held for several on the resistance which could Send them to for five the reddest thing about the West on Page 4 who afraid of a Snake the Gorilla 2 Park zoos 550pound Bush escaped from his Cage and for two hours roamed the Monkey House yesterday until keepers drove him Back by dangling a Garter take in front of his the sight of the Garter Snake sent him scampering into Hie Cage with frightened i Navy dentist operates from foxhole office 2 snipers were cracking away in All directions on the third Day of the Battle for Seoul when a professional Man began digging his own the professional Man was a his office was a Navy it Charles of win did his work in one of those starched White smocks that dentists on his first Day of operation in Seoul be pulled a tooth for a Marine Rifleman while sitting on the front Steps of a Bank x corps chief has no orders to Cross line korean 2 maj Gen x corps whose troops Are mov ing steadily closer North toward the 38th said last night i have no instructions to Almond told a press conference he had received an unconfirmed air report that a South korean unit on the East coast had crossed the line and was five Miles inside North this dispatch from Tom associated press was timed at pm sunday pm Germany but was delayed asked what might happen if the North koreans ignored Gen Vej Buginas Macarthur surrender Almond replied if there is no we shall receive for whatever purpose i do not but we should hear he estimated that his x corps forces in the Battle for Seoul killed to North koreans and said some who had tried been attacked mercilessly from the i do not think Many North koreans got Back across the 38th parallel from the Seoul the channels of movement to the North Are All occupied by our cornered in a canal Corner a group of North koreans trapped in a drainage canal beneath a Street during the fighting to photo Russ Type 2 ships 2 adm Forrest Sherman said to Day that Navy ships off Korea have found a great Many floating mines of russian chief of naval opera told the House armed serv ices committee an examination of recovered mines indicated they had been recently Laid and not Long out of the last the destroyer Brush hit a floating mine and a Hole was torn in her nine men were 10 injured and five Are the destroyer was Able to make her Way to a japanese Sherman said the mines recovered were Mark 26 russian he described them As a rather Standard Type and containing mines Hitlin j t keds Lgnore demand to surrender 2 1950o South koreans found massacred t a e g 2 Here disclosed tonight that Republic of Korea forces found the bodies of massacred South koreans in the streets of Chingju after the City was evacuated by the j j South korean officials said the discovery raised fears that this Type of which was first encountered in May be the general which will be repeated else Rok troops enough explosives to damage Small he said they were of the moored but that indications were they had been floated Down or perhaps Laid by Small Sherman said in addition to the destroyer there has South korean aided been mine damage to a Small naval j by planes and in did not identify the ship but Miles said there were some Side North Korea tonight Sherman was called before the after surging across the 38th committee primarily for question in a drive to crush ing about the effect of Price rises f t on the navys construction pro ked Rumly War some Congress members torn have estimated soaring prices i the Ever deepening break in Cost the Navy a Subj through across Korea five year i Oid Iron curtain was being pressed before getting Down to the Price by Tocu divisions of the korean on Page 5j republics resurgent thrust ing spearheads up the Eastern sea a third South korean division reached the parallel today and a fourth was approaching it in a widening liberation offensive which started at about the time Gen Douglas Macarthur broadcast a de Mand for the enemy unconditional that the Pyongyang red regime still is planning to continue resist on Page 1 Flowers on March into North the following dispatch was sent by the first american correspondent to Cross the 38th parallel into North by Robert Bennyhoff North 2 South korean army walked into North Korea singing happily and carrying flow if it were going to a everywhere we went townspeople started tearing up pictures of Stalin and North korean Premier Kim we saw lots of trenches and other but we did not see any North korean not even prisoners of when we crossed the 38th dividing line Between North and South we saw a sign Reading you entering North Korea through the Courtesy of the Republic of Korea third i found out later it had been painted by sgt Robert on Page 3 of troops were burning the bodies As soon As they were ident lied by some of the bodies were buried by the reds and others were left lying in the streets tonight a Yongju was a City of resounding with the Waile of the Rok officials requested the United nations to con duct in immediate atrocity invest mass Graves in Seoul stir fear reds slew by King 2 Dis covery mass has raised fears that the communists May have killed As Many As Politi Cal prisoners in a single District of Seoul just before they i saw the bodies of 27 men and women each with bound hands in on Page 3 Pittsburgh papers hit by walkout 2 strike was called yesterday against All three Pittsburgh daily news papers by Pittsburgh mailers Union a local unit of the inter National typographical Union the Pittsburgh Post Only morning suspended publication after it failed to get its monday edition the strike followed a collapse in negotiations Over a new in addition to the Post the cites two afternoon newspapers will be affected if the strike con they Are the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph and the Pittsburgh us troops leave Southampton for Korea oct 2 the troop ship Empire Windrush sailed today with British one battalion of the Gloucester it was the second contingent of British troops to leave for the United nations command in Korea in two yesterday another the first battalion of the Royal Ulster left on the Empire French seize vie Minh fort 2 a Dar ing 36mile dash from the Hanoi Delta area up through the Tonkinese French troops yesterday seized Prin Cipal stronghold of the communist led and overnight re captured the initiative in the struggle for French troops slogged up a rain swept Highway the break into the Mountain communications two flanking columns and paratrooper dropped North of the joined in the final successful the French thrust into the Core of the mountainous vie Minh Posi Tion came unexpectedly from French occupation of Thain Guyen has cancelled out several times Over the recent vie Minh capture of the Frontier o the main body of vie Minh forces remains in North How there was Only sporadic resistance along the route of and some of an estimated regular vie Minh troops Are believed to be concentrated in North Hoffman visits Oslo 2 Hoff retiring Eca arrived in Oslo today for a Brief visit on his tour of Western in shelters new 2 weather went to extremes yester in the Rocky Mountain area Snow fell to a depth of 16 inches while in new York City the temperature reached hottest Ever recorded for the seasons seventh Hurricane with 100mph winds threatened Bermuda the h u r r i e a ims had remained almost stationary for six hours and its future movement was but it is Only 180 Miles South of Bermuda has been told to remain on the Alert and shipping in the area has been advised to use