European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1952, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather forecast mostly Continental with intermittent rain Over North Ern the Low countries and sort turn Ali get nun showers 6ariag the Day and Light morning foe Over rent i and son Tiaera sooth Austria and f slightly Wanner weather service thesta european edit1ok unofficial publication of the armed forces in Europe late news 82 Montti Oid government of Premier Antoine play appeared about to fall As the largest party in Bis rights reenter coalition voted to abstain on a showdown vote of Confidence volume number 249 5 cents a 5125 a month december 1952 Austri Avalanche buries bus 23 die 22 up an Avalanche buried an austrian bus in the Arlberg pass killing 23 and seriously injuring at least police were still investigating the Accident to determine the exact number of report of the disaster awas brought to the police by the bus who the bus was in route from on the to ship on reef with 303 in peril 22 of the 113 passengers and 205 Crew members were through raging surf today from the stricken French cruise snip stuck and break ing up on the reefs 300 Yards from the lebanese the Champollion was taking a terrific pounding in Gale winds that sent Waves lashing Over the tilted at a 20degree and making Rescue efforts by lighters and other Small Craft full of the 15 passengers rescued were maritime officials in the ships last said of the 113 81 were pilgrims in route to the holy land for Christ almost All were they included a number of families with the company said there were about an equal number of men and women among the adult most of the bound for Jerusalem and boarded the ship in the passengers could be seen at when heavy rain did not the huddled on the slanted deck of ship Jay the thousands of persons who gathered the Shore close to the inter National air terminal of the ship bad sailed from Marseille week on a Mediterranean the Champollion was not far from the main runway of the internal Lional Airport whose lights it a on Page 4 2 germans joined in big cig Aret ring 22 owner of a German transport firm and Bis Friend were sentenced by a German court today to three years in prison and fined a total of for smuggling almost Cartons of american Cigar ets into Stephan and his Friend Fritz were convicted of masterminding a giant ring which smuggled the Cigar ets into Germany Between 1948 and most of the Cigar ets entered Ger Many from Holland on Rhine River and were declared As duty free gift Cigar ets were shipped to a Camp at Bergen from where they were directed into Blac Market leads in suicides 22 health organization fraid to the had the highest number suicides in total of Survey showed Japan ran a close with Zuvers and All on the Arlberg it was buried by the Avalanche one mile outside while passing a Bridge on its Way to the three famous skiing almost All British to crisis news of the to be the greatest in austrian the entire popu lation of to the scene of the tragedy and Rescue parties were an hour police officials said almost All of those killed were British tourists who arrived the same Day to spend their Christmas Holiday in the austrian one unconfirmed report said one of the passengers who was rescued lost his three children in the the 4ourists arrived by the Zurich Vienna express and took the regular postal bus which connects the Langen Railroad station with the Arlberg bus hurled is feet the air pressure of the huge Avalanche hurled the bus 18 feet from the Bridge into the River at the same killed the police said the Road had already been dosed to traffic because of Avalanche and that they were investigating the Driver to find out Way he chose the the 23 bodies were taken to the Church at where they lying on the ground covered with White the four injured were taken to the Budenz where their condition was described As not Hospital authorities said two of them were from Stuttgart and two from give their but refused to the same travelling the same cont on Page 1 probes ask trial of soviets for Katyn in Assembly rejects Russ pm charge United 22 up the United nations general Assembly today rejected a soviet rest in j other items to German f yank donate to Aid germans 22 special dependents and civilians serving with the army in Germany have contributed More than world court called on to act 22 congressional com Mittee recommended today that soviet Russia be a solution charging the and other items to German rained before unfortunates for this years Christ with mass murder of korean the 455 with 10 Arabajian delegations abstaining and Only the soviet bloc in came after the soviet unions Andrei Gromyko and americas Ernest Gross engaged in a fierce Exchange of accusations in a debate that lasted the predawn the Assembly adjourned after the vote until Gromyko was the first speaker when the Assembly opened its de Bate on his Las minute proposal late last he said the murder of communist prisoners on Pon it Gen Manton us Reub commander in announced personnel serving with the army in have More than Worth of items to French underprivileged for Christ Eddy also English unfortunates received approximately in gifts from army personnel serving Eddy stated that the total for Germany does not include More than Worth of care pack Ages purchased in Berlin by americans As gifts for Gam where 82 korean internees were killed last overshadowed All previous crimes j by the american Gromyko used the Pong am charges to reopen the whole to on Page 2 15 5 missing in Japan Dock blast 22 an explosion shattered a sprawl ing chemical Plant in the Nagoya dockyards killing at least 15 persons and injuring several Hundred japanese police announced besides the 15 known five were they said the death toll May Rise since several bodies were believed to be buried under the in 36 were seriously injured and 189 slightly a Yule message in song grim action halts at front 22 Jet fighters shot Down three migs Over Northwest Korea today and the fighting along the Frozen Battlefront dwindled to what supreme head quarters called a virtual the communists even stopped their propaganda barrage after a week of drumming of the theme of being in Seoul by eight Sabre jets flying cover for Allied fighter bombers tangled with 10 migs in three Short but Sharp dogfights Over Mig the Downing of three enemy jets raised the Allied for the month to 38 destroyed or Navy Panther jets attacked a communist Supply Center North of Midway Between Seoul and super forts from Japan dropped 110 tons of bombs on two new communist Supply centers near the West coast of the targets at eight Miles Southeast of and Yong 11 Miles Southwest of Suk b26 Light bombers reported the destruction of 30 communist trucks in attacks on enemy Supply Francis Cardinal Dwight Eisenhower and a perplexed guest lower left listen to a youth ii choir at the cardinals Christmas party for the new York foundling Chiang forces to fight in Gen Chase hints 22 Gen William head of the american military assistance advisory group Maag hinted broadly today that he expects to see nationalist chinese forces in action in Chase told a cheering luncheon group i make no no but i think business will pick up next think you know what i Kesselring leaves clinic 22 Field marshal Albert Kesselring has been released from a clinic in bochum British tonal court on charges of murdering poles Dur ing world War ii in the a Tyri Forest in a report to the the special committee which has investigated the killings in Western Russia also said the incoming con Gress should undertake an imme Diate investigation of communist atrocities against United nations troops in spent year on probe the committee spent Over a year investigating the disputed blame for uie Katyn Forest both soviet Russia and nazi Ger Many accused each other of the mass murders sometime after Graves containing the bodies of the polish victims were discovered in the Katyn near Smo by German troops in the committee said evidence taken in the hearings in washing ton and abroad painted conclusively to soviet the committee report added that similar atrocities and violations Oil International Law Are being perpetrated in communist tactics being used in Korea Are identical to those Fol Lowed at the report thus this committee believes Congress should undertake imme Diate investigation of korean War atrocities in order that can be collected and the truth sealed to the american people and the free Peoples of the accused chairman Hay Madden d in a personal accused soviet foreign minister an Drei Gromyko of seeking to cover up soviet guilt by his charges that the is was murdering communist War speech at the United nations this past weekend is Noth ing More than following up the typical russian propaganda which on Page 5 bulletins 23 Paris military tribunal tonight handed Down is death ing seven in former members of the wartime Gestapo service be de la Pyrope k Stock Market advanced to a Neir 22year High with gains ranging from fractions to Dollar a 22 earn Warren selected californian 43yearold state con Thomas a be to succeed vice presi Dent elect Kichard Kiron in