European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1953 the stars and stripes Page j headline Roundup Iza Tion Congress headed news by Douglas Jennings staff correspondent Al two gavels saturday pounded out the top news event of last week opening of the 83d this time it was a Republican dominated second since 1930 and the first since her Bert Hoover was president to work under a Republican chief in the 70minule Senate Robert Taft Ohio was formally chosen Senate majority floor Leader and styles Bridges became Senate president pro Joseph took Over the Job of speaker of the the open ing session passed without any of the expected Senate fights on disputed seats and anti filibuster huge Berlin funeral in other news of the week in which 1952 gave Way to the new two stories dealing with death played the vast City Hall in West Berlin was packed As mayor Ernst Reuter delivered a funeral oration for a West Berlin Herbert who was slain by a soviet Tommy gunner Christmas Day while trying prevent a an mated berliners filled the Square and lined the simile route of the funeral y death Drew close for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in sing sing prison As the week the convicted atom spy couple Are under sentence to die the week of Federal judge Irving r Kaufmann on Friday denied their Appeal for Only one Hope is left for the Appeal to the big plane raid biggest Allied air attack since August destroyed a red military Center Southwest of a total of 200 planes rained napalm and rockets on the France still sought a Premier after the bids of Jacques Fol lower of Gen Charles de and former Premier Georges Bidault in in a report to Congress and the defense Secretary Rob Ert Lovett said production lines Are ready now to handle All out War mobilization if president Truman told his last news conference of 1952 that the prospects of avoiding an other world War Are better now than they were a year Lovett also announced that legis lation is being drafted to give another pay increase to members of the armed military construction suspended a group of senators slapped a spending of millions of dollars for military construction in Nifte and pending president elect Dwight Eisenhower reaction to a special Senate report the four favourites won the major bowl games new years scores were Southern California Over in the Rose bowl Texas Over in tiie Cotton bowl Georgia tech Over in the sugar bowl and Alabama Over Syracuse in the biggest major bowl rout in in the Orange wife sues circus veep ired at rail car Home 4 the wife of Henry Ringling North sued the circus executive for a divorce yesterday charging he would rather live in a Railroad car than at Home and that he had con parted openly with an italian Wom an to Elizabeth Palmer North asked for a month from the Vic president of the Ringling Broth Barnum and Bailey she charged my with extreme malay women up in arms to protect themselves while members of their Koala Bumpur Home guard Are these Malaya women have undertaken Rifle they Are typical of members in some 300 units in the malay states who have been recruited Tor Home press photo army can tche Cis on reported move of Dean to China 4 army spokesman in Tokyo said yesterday that far East come he has no Way of knowing exactly where maj Gen William Dean is being held by the communists the statement was made in an answer to a published confirmed report saying that hero of the Battle of Taejon when he was 24th inf div cd had been moved out of North Korea and into Manchuria by his communist the army spokesman said after the first Exchange of prisoner of War lists by the allies and the reds the communists have never Given an indication of the names or nationalities of prisoners of partic ular in the original Exchange the reds did report the locations of Camps and said that Dean was held at a Camp near he was reported to have been moved some months ago to a new Camp in North Korea but the army spokesman said we have no Way of knowing in which Camp might in june Dean daughter of the said the family last heard from him in the Middle of novem letters received at that time were dated Williams said the letters were postmarked pow Camp 17 whereas earlier ones were Post marked pow Camp Williams said her father made no reference letters his obvious removal from one Camp to French quizzing 7 on sea smuggling 4 France opened an investigation of Large scale smuggling i the Mediterranean yesterday when Magis trate Marcel Batigne began interrogation of seven men extradited from Tangier for three Netherlands an a a Frenchman and a stateless who arrived Here were questioned by Batigne on the High sea hijacking of the Netherlands ship combi Natie off 4 american Sidney Paley was convicted 19 by an american consular court in Tangier of comr Plecity in the affair and French authorities indicated they might seek his extradition also to assist them in their the seven extradited men charged with organizing a piracy Are Italy vote Law wins 3d test 4 govern ments controversial electoral re form Bill cleared a major hurdle in the chamber of deputies yesterday but faced further communist delay ing actions before it could come up for a final after a wild 11hour the chamber voted 307175 to proceed to an examination of the text of the governments Premium plan for conducting next years general it was the third major vote and third government Victory in the bitter monthlong electoral but All tests thus far have been on procedural matters rather than on the Bill guaranteed majority the Bill would abolish the proportional representation plan used for 1948 elections and substitute a majority so called guaranteed this allows parties to run As single the party or bloc getting or More per cent of the vote would automatically get or 64 per of the 590 seats in the new the Christian democrats Are air ready Allied with the righting liberals and republicans and have the Best Chance of grab Bing the majority Hirohito brother Dies of tuberculosis at 50 4 c i c h i b younger brother of emperor died Early today at his Seaside Villa in near after a Long ill Ness of tuberculosis complicated by he was he is survived by his Prin Cess daughter of the late thunem ambassador to the in the unlike his three including emperor had no peril cited in Lack of French airfields 2 lawmakers urge shifting Mesa to state 4 democratic after making an investigation in Western proposed yesterday that the foreign Aid organization should be streamlined and placed under the state they said this was necessary to eliminate duplicate excess and for greater Economy and efficiency among the american and european reps Mike of Mon and Henderson Lanham of acting As a woman made their recommendations in a report submitted to the House foreign affairs they visited Europe in november and Mansfield yesterday became a Sena Tor in tiie new duplication and overlapping the two said the found soms duplication overlapping and among the various pressure seems to have agencies assigned to West also a Lack of centralized authority in key countries and resistance by military officials to civilian Juristic they proposed elimination of the mushrooming office of the special representative to Europe in Paris and All other foreign Aid with their functions transferred to the state Mansfield and Lanham said France made tremendous strides in 1952 to stabilize its Economy and inflationary the French government faces a difficult in maintaining an economic balance because of defense commitments to the North Atlantic treaty organization and the War in Italy land Reform they reported that the italian agrarian policy and land Reform program with american Dollar Aid probably will be of major in they quoted Kalian leaders As saying Italy contribution to nato will depend on continued american economic the timely Supply of military equipment and increased orders for defense equip ment to be manufactured in West Germany reached comparative economic health by the end of they Germany defense production potential will be utilized More fully when All the participating countries ratify the european defense they from the Industrial the situation of Austria is much better than Many other countries participating in the european recovery sgt fined in bogus Deal 4 air Force sgt John Wilder received a three month suspended sentence and a Fine in a French court yesterday for Selling counterfeit dollars Here last Mahon terms lag 1 problem in West defense 4 George Mahon said yesterday after a visit to the greatest weakness of the defense program in Europe is the Lack of developed airfields in such he told the United would be necessary for the ground support of Atlantic pact troops in event of unfortunately the military pro Gram is proceeding at a snails Pace in France by reason of the failure of our two governments to come to terms on Mahon he has been chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on de sense and he will continue to be a ranking democratic member under Republican he said it is his opinion that we can and will reduce overseas spend ing quite decidedly next year and should go slow in making further commitments next Aid seen successful Mahon also recommended that a High level policy committee be named to reexamine the entire overseas spending program before further appropriations Are but he added it is his opinion that foreign Aid programs have been we and the countries of West Ern Europe Are vastly better pre pared to fight a big War than was the Case 18 months the per haps is the Best Hope that we May have an Opportunity to work out International controversies by meth ods Short of he he found no evidence of War hysteria in and one reason Why the military program Over seas is proceeding so slowly is the fact that there is a Lack of urgency on the part of the nations in Mahon he joined other congressmen recently returned from Europe in declaring that there Are far too Many employees and said the number must be Radi Cally army Breaks up Racket in Japan 4 army authorities disclosed they have All but smashed a multimillion Dollar Money order Racket that fed up to a Day to communist China with the help of american soldiers looking for easy the army said 10 months of rigorous prosecution has reduced a once widespread and flourishing operation to a Mere officials said that at one time almost a week was hiding its Way behind the Bamboo cur Tain to Dollar hungry red american soldiers were enticed or tricked into buying Money orders or Bank drafts for persons not eligible to buy spies pressure in Appeal denial new 4 and Ethel Rosenberg yesterday charged that the words of a judges decision denying them clemency smack of political pressure and judge Irving Kaufman on Friday denied another plea of the condemned atom spies for saying he still considered their crime worse than the who Are slated to die at sing sing prison in the week of 12 for conspiracy to spy for soviet were visited at the prison yesterday by their two Small sons and later the Emanuel issued a statement he said was Given him by the Rosenbergs during his Bloch said they had composed the statement hurriedly after read ing Kaufman criticize judge the statement is there no end to indignities we must endure casuistry upon casuistry by what remarkable sleight of hand can the constitutional petitions of de cent citizens for redress of grievances be transformed into vilification and abuse the judges re ported characterization of our alleged crime As worse than murder completely unmasks Nis sanctimonious pretensions to judicial bal charging that the decision showed signs of the Rosenbergs reasserted our inno Cence before god and earlier a Telegram was sent to Kaufman by Jesse National commander of the jewish War who commended the judges Moss Telegram said his group resents efforts to make an Issue of the religious identification of the we despise equally those who would callously use the Rosenbergs to injure the jews and those who would callously use the jews to help the
