European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse European edition Wither forecast Mosti Over Europe jew Floc scattered Snow Over North the Eastern Allae Refton and poor visibility injure and fog Over Western and the Italy partly Cloudy to Cloay rate weather service bowl champions Southern californian trojans Defeated in the Rose and Georgia tech crushed in the sugar for details on these and other bowl see Page unofficial publication of the armed forces in Europe volume number 258 5 cents a a month january 1953 14onnee boy wins Stork Derby plants can meet Lloil t Effort Lovett 2 Secretary Robert Lovett reported yesterday that production lines Are ready to handle any fallout War mobilization and the nations armed forces Are so Power Ful that even most reckless aggressor should hesitate to Navy Secretary Dan Kimball disclosed that the Navy now 12 instead of 10 super aircraft carriers to help com 6 Mand sea and army Secre tary Frank said crack scientists developing amazing new including a whole family of atomic in an optimistic report to con Gress and president Lovett 3 in the stars and stripes Stork Derby was Barbara Kay daughter of 1st it and Jack of the 7t42d engr depot Barbara checked in at the 320th go at am weighing 6 pounds 11 photo new year beats baby to us by 20 minutes 2 strapping boy of 9 pounds 14 ounces hustled Home ahead of the Field new years Day to win the fourth annual stars and stripes Stork James the biggest baby Ever to win the was born at am in an american military Hospital in both he and his Mother Are doing the husky 1953 champs dad is m sgt Manger of the 59th shipping and observation at the mangers come from mount second place in the Derby went to Sandra who weighed 3 pounds 14 ounces on arrival at am Rin the 302d fid Hosp at she was placed in an incubator and Hospital officials said she was doing she is the of Page 4 said to be Dies 2 Large turned out for the funeral Here yesterday of a moroccan woman named Lalla who had claimed to be 125 years 49 lose lives la Chile blast 2 up tons of dynamite stored in a Blaz ing waterfront warehouse exploded yesterday killing 49 persons and injuring 360 with More feared still buried in the some of the killed and injured were new years revellers who gathered to watch the authorities said the death toll probably would exceed scores of persons were reported missing softer the blast hurled Flam ing Ever a wide area and wiped out an entire Block As it lad been struck by a giant Aerial reliable sources said 10 to 14 tons of dynamite for use in Road con on Page 3 Bremerhaven hails liner today 2 High commissioner Samuel Reber will take part in ceremonies at Bremerhaven tomorrow welcoming the liner United states on her first visit to a German the crack United states lines ship will Dock Early tomorrow morning on a trip from the via be Havre and her passenger list includes Amer can wives and children Hoare making the trip to Germany under the defense departments contract i with commercial lines for transportation of the United states will sail Sun Day on the return the 3er passenger list for the trip Back includes24 Hico Holiday death toll at 239 2 new years Holiday Accident death toll in use mounted to 239 to Lay with nearly three full Days of he extended fou Day weekend republicans choose Taft As Senate floor Leader Bill drafted for new Rise in forces pay 2 legislation is being drafted to give the armed forces another pay in defense Secretary Robert Lovett disclosed he said the 6 per cent increase granted last May covered less than half the Rise in living at the same Lovett made apparently for doomed plea for Universal military he said the draft must be continued for an indefinite army Secretary Frank revealed that the army took men from the draft during the 12 months ended last june he added that future army cars on selective service Are expected to continue at a High to replace earlier inductees on Page 1 patrols test foes threat 2 allies probed and slashed by land and air at communist positions today in search of any sign that the reds would try tomake Good on propaganda threats of a general Offen Sive starting they found none in unusually brisk patrol jabs along the Frozen front and air attacks ranging from just behind the line to far North Ern the threats have been broadcast by loudspeakers at the Allied airmen destroyed or crippled four communist hit two rail smashed at a North korean Supply Center and assaulted red military at the pan Mun Jom truce site col William new senior United nations Liaison on Page 1 judge rejects spies plea Appeal to president seen new 2 Federal judge today denied an a peal to save the atom spy team of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel from death in the electric the denial was made by Federal judge Irving Kaufman after he heard a clemency plea for the who Are in sing sing scheduled to die the week of Kaufman said in denying Clem ency i still feel that their crime was worse than the Rosenbergs Only Appeal now is to the White if president Truman should stay the the Case might become president elect Dwight Eisenhower responsibility because of the 20 when the Rosenbergs Emanuel Learned of the decision he said he would begin taking immediate Steps to Appeal for White House clemency and on Page 5 said the nation today is better pre pared than Ever before to enforce the world peace it so earnestly the report by Lovett and the individual services officially covers the six months ending last june but Overall conclusions have been reviewed prior to publication in an apparent reproof to presi Dent elect Dwight who is reported anxious to Cut de sense Lovelt made a Vigo Oft Page 1 falling pcs split by tree in England 25 aboard Safe 2 a a Airliner with 25 per sons aboard hit a tree in a crash Landing yesterday and broke leaving the Tail Section caught High in the branches of a sturdy not one of the 22 passengers and Crew of three was seriously in the a dc3 operated by the Are lingus line of the Irish re came Down through a thick Mist in a Field at the nearby Village of spernal Ash after both engines Cut As it hit the 60foot tree the Tail Section of the nearly 25 feet was torn off and stuck fast in the the Forward part of the plane plummeted to a belly Landing in the tearing off both propel smashing through a skidding across a Highway and knocking a Telephone the White faced in the Forward Section of the plane out of the wreckage in the capt and Copilot Peter Whyte were Hurt draft Calls doubled to build up forces 2 ins the departments Semi annual report revealed yesterday that draft Calls Are being doubled because the armed forces have shrunk by nearly men in the past six the army is smaller by about the Navy has lost nearly and the air Force is Down Only the Marine corps has maintained its manpower defense Secretary Robert Lov Ett said that men Are now under he added that the decline set in because of the expiration of draft terms and Steps to release National guardsmen and reservists who were called up Early in the korean 83d Congress convenes today 2 a Republican senators today unanimously chose Ert Taft of Ohio to be their floor Leader in the new the Choice of Selec Tion made certain by behind the scenes jockeying in the months since the was announced after a two hour closed the republicans agreed to meet again late today to Deal with Touchy questions of membership on key committees and proposals to revise Senate rules to make it easier to choke off also picked for key posts by unanimous votes at the morning i meeting were styles Bridges j of new Hampshire to be Senata pro tempore Wil Liam Knowland of California to be chairman of the Senate gop policy j and Eugene Millikin of Colorado to be chair Man of the Republican or which includes the 48 i Republican Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts was chosen whip or assistant majority the new Congress convenes at on Page 2 hits new York new 2 than 100 picketing Al longshore men closed Down at least 30 piers and threw several thousand other Dock hands out of work in a strike that threatened to tie up shipping in the worlds busiest the strike spread to where pickets of the same longshoremen local closed Down one there was a Chance it might spread to Boston and Balti More but so far All was quiet in those major East coast the waterfront strike was the second major strike in the big City within 24 at one minute after Midnight new years workers of eight bus lines c a r r y i n c riders daily walked full effect of the Dock strike will not become noticeable until next monday As a number of piers on Page 1 bulletins 2 styles Bridges to Day said president elect Elsen Hower has assured four Republican senators he would make no commitments in his forthcoming talks with prime minister Winston 2 Senate democrats today unanimously picked Lyndon John son of Texas As their House democrats made retiring speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas their floor
