European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes november 1950 draft of 18yearolds seen Force of 3 million May require action 23 defense and congressional conferees yesterday said 18yearolds May have to be drafted to fill the minimum requirement of a 000man armed Force to meet the threat of communist the studying Mili tary manpower needs for the next 20 agreed that a drastically changed draft jaw was needed and that it should include a Universal military training program to be put into action when the world Situa Tion eases seeking answers to defense prob lems that will confront the 82d con the conferees said there was a Choice of lowering the draft age to Call up youths the age of High school or to order a Large scale callup of said is More Likely to Call up boys of in than to extend the draft beyond the present 26 year old and make Many veterans subject to Only eligible the conferees were assigned to their task when Congress failed to agree on amt last fall they said one of their chief problems is the mustering of an additional men Between now and next summer out of a usable Pool of Only eligible from 19 to a spokesman said the cold War manpower problem was More complicated than that of world War ii and would actually be simplified if a new War were touched if there was an fallout he it would be quite everyone would cant understand Why we Are worried about getting a total of men when during the some were put into but during the it was the duration plus six months now we must rotate draftees every 21 although Congress May extend the draft larger Pool the spokesman pointed out that in world War ii there was a larger Pool of potential soldiers to while at present the draft is limited to a smaller age group and is barred from talking he added we will need a revision of the draft act to get a plateau of men for an indefinite Senate armed services commit tee members favor the principle of amt but believe it should be placed on a standby they Point out that with commitments in to office instructors cannot be spared to train the youths at this they said it would probably be made an integral part of any new draft Law to go into effect when the world situation italian band for Frankfurt 23 Tullio Mobiglia and Bis italian orchestra will opt an engagement at the Frankfurt Casino 1 the orchestra was acclaimed at the Casa Carioca Garmisch last ruins of red Headquarters f 0ii is i three marines search a bomb battered former communist Headquarters at near the Chain in North left to right Cpl Frank of Cpl Robert of and Cpl Gilbert of jury convicts pair of conspiring to Block probe new 23 Apa Federal court jury last night convicted Abraham Brothman and Miriam Moskowitz of conspiring to obstruct Justice in a grand jury probe of their relations with atom spy Harry the jury gave its verdict after nearly four hours of Brothman and miss Moskowitz were charged with conspiring with Gold to defraud the government of its function of enforcing the Federal criminal the government additionally charged Brothman advised and persuaded Gold to give false testimony july before the Federal grand jury investigating espionage and subversive Federal judge Irving Kaufman set 28 for seven tear maximum Brothman could receive a Maxi mum penalty of years in prison and a and miss Moskowitz two years and s Brothman is a 36yearold Chemi Cal Engineer and miss Moskowitz his 34yearold business at one Gold was employed by chief prosecution witness and a Mil mannered biochemist from is a confessed former go Between for Klaus imprisoned British atomic and a russian spy Gold testified that Brothman turned Over to him important tech Nical secrets Lor relay to soviet agents and later induced him to lie about his relations with Brothman when the government started look ing into the miss Moskowitz was charged with helping manufacture the Story Gold told before dismissing the Kauf Man praised the group and said its verdict was an intelligent in accordance with the 3 gis get jail in bus assault 23 a a court martial yesterday sentenced three soldiers to prison terms totalling 15 months for assaulting a group of swedish tourists near Here last the soldiers were convicted of disorderly behaviour and beating the who were Riding in a bus near the soldiers bad pleaded not pfc Russell of Belle was sentenced to six months pfc Vincent of to four and pfc Eugene my of new York to five All three also were reduced to the fray occurred when the tourist on the Way to Ober was stopped and the allegedly told the swedish passengers that they were looking for a nazi in the quarrel started when the tourists told the soldiers that there was no German aboard the horror scene at wreckage new 23 head poked out of the Star ing wide eyed with blood streaming Down the it was one of the that horror stricken mask stared at still clawing workmen four they ripped away the wreck age of two Long Island rail Road trains to pull out the dead and to the faint cries for help which still sounded for Many hours after the it was a scene of utter the Lead car of one train had telescoped into the rear car of the it was what Railroad men Call a perfect stated on track neither car jumped across the it was simply that one car slowed into the sheared off the and sat on this mass of twisted steel Rescue workers doctors Hung precariously from ladders and from windows of the train and perched on Bent girders holding plasma bottles whose Little red tubes fed within the mass of steel where the injured Lay caught almost Between the two cars was one alive and visible from the doctors reached in and swathed her head in bandages arid stuffed in a Blanket to protect her from the Chul there was not a word from but she was she would move her hand toward her Bead and then she would slap it on the steel fighting obvious crowd tense police emergency squad men worked under hastily erected spot quietly and Sud Denly one would the crowd of Rescue would a Stretcher would be rushed to the Here it was in the next sturdy arms would reach into the twisted steel and pull out the a doctor would Bend Over and answer the big or alive they carried out the half of a his shoes and pants gone but his socks strangely on his and they carried five hours after the a woman who moved her head and half of her face was smashed they carried out a Man who after they amputated his leg to free they carried out just a the entire neighbourhood was alerted Lor in trains crash continued from Page 1 at this instant that the Babylon its headlight looming larger As it bore hit the stalled train like a giant hand ramming into a emergency Calls sent More than 300 nurses and doctors Rushing to the along with Rescue police and they arrived to hear anguished cries and moans from those trapped in the the limbs of scores of victims protruded from broken windows and gaps in the wreckage and doctors and nurses equipped with hypodermic Needles climbed ladders and gave injections to every limb or body within priests administer rites priests clambered onto the wreck age and moved about on the where victims were stretched and administered spiritual Comfort o the living and last rites to the dead and for what was to have been a joyous thanksgiving was turned into a Bleak thursday of tragedy and a number of emergency amputations and blood transfusions were performed under the Glare of flood residents of the neighbourhood used their automobiles to transport injured to nearby ambulances from throughout Queens shuttled Back and Forth from the scene to clinics and giant cranes were used to separate the dovetailed not until the wreckage had been pulled away did the Rescue workers get an accurate picture of the death Many of the injured were carried to houses near the Resi dents bandaged and cared for them until ambulances could take them to housewives maintained a steady flow of hot Coffee to Rescue workers who toiled in near freezing spotlights set up police emergency squad men worked beneath l hastily erected spotlights quietly and suddenly one would say the crowd of Rescue workers would be a Stretcher would be rushed to the Here it was the next shout sturdy arms would reach into the twisted steel and pull out a a doctor would Bend Over and answer the question dead or alive they carried out the lower half of a his shoes and pants gone but his socks strangely on his feet and they carried hours after the woman who moved her head and murmured with half her face smashed they carried out a who smiled after they amputated his leg to free they carried out just a police lines were thrown up to keep curious people three blocks from the touch est Job this is the toughest Job of said one the As he spoke frantic youth wriggled through the reached Over the restraining ropes and grabbed the officer by both my brother was on that he i gotta get said the officer go you cannot find out anything the youth looked wildly about he dashed to another police again asked and got the quiet William Motorman of the first told police be slowed for a caution it changed to a he but for some unexplained reason Nis brakes jammed and he could not release Howard conductor of the second both the telescoped cars were jammed with and i dont see How any of them could have escaped the scene of the crash is 13 Miles from times Square in the Kew gardens Section of Queens Bor Long Island rail crash 7th worst in annals new 23 the thanksgiving eve Long train crash ranks As the seventh most disastrous in Here Are the death tolls in other rail disasters Jonty March 1876 1887 it is on the Long islands main line from Pennsylvania Sta Tion to the the area is one of private Homes Small shops and towering apartment the first train left Penn station at pro bound for four minutes behind it came the second on its Way to Babylon along the same where the Long Island rail Road disaster of last 17 killed the train stopped for a Lew see said Anthony i then she tried to Start All hell broke the crash came with what Eye witnesses described As a Roar and t Sash of there was no car sheared in half the Lead car at the second train burrowed under the last car of the first accountant Jeff up Senger on the 1 saw steel shooting through the it was sheared right in slice of Fie said there was no Bat that shrieks of the dying followed the grinding As thousands of horrified of cookers the grim resent work commenced beneath search women wept As they sought friends and Schumacher hits arms plan 23 Leader Kurt in a Campaign speech in when elections will held next called the Allied plan to rearm Germany an invitation to disaster for German rearmament can Eassy Lead to a scorched Earth policy fat because West Mifot use germans for a rearguard do tense while they Bur inf the country As they he Schumacher declared that because Russia has Only 20 per cent of the worlds capacity for making War and the West 80 America will lose the final but will win the pointed that Many Fate would be sealed in 1 first what we want is a situation that America can win the Tot he i the West must be Strong in Quill to Stop the East in the first Battle our Eastern then the aggressors Back to the for the second a High Western Allied sour tit commenting on Schumacher cad for Strong enough Anglo american forces to push any aggressor Bacic to the labelled the argument As slightly ridiculous because h such troop strength were built up be Germany there would be no need for German Yule tree Supply 23 approximately Trees from the Black and Sauerland districts will available for Purchase in the for Furt area beginning Al Jujj wholesale Market