European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 2 the stars and stripes january 1953 m9arthur hits Truman View on desertions new 11 Douglas Macarthur last is sued a statement saying that president Truman charges he disobeyed orders in the far East were completely and accused the president of responsibility for any desertions from the armed Macarthur issued his statement in reply to charges made by Truman in an interview with Doris Washington correspondent for the Bell in striking Back at the presi Macarthur charged the president with unjust and arbitrary actions and said any desertions could More realer tical be ascribed to a Lack of Faith in president Truman policies of appeasement in indignant at attacks it is difficult for me to conceal my indignation at his unfounded and indeed venomous personal attacks and even More difficult for me adequately to re ply in my own defense in View of the veneration i feel for the High office of president of the United which he still continues to Macarthur the impropriety of a president inking such personal attacks upon an officer still subject to his recall at Willob Active service under him is charge in Jne of his longest and most bitter complaints against tru Macarthur charged the pres ident had attacked him publicly with the fantastic and wholly unwarranted charge that in some strange although retired from Active service for nearly two i Bear some responsibility for current desertions from the armed if such desertions Are indeed despite the recent denials of the defense they can More realistically be ascribed to a Lack of Faith in president tru mans policies of appeasement which forbade Victory to our forces committed to Battle in Korea when such Victory was easily within their grasp 20 months and to the growing fear that such policies will inevitably plunge us into another world Macarthur condemns desertion no one condemns desertion More strongly than and no one is More interested in keeping up the morale and discipline of the armed serv Truman couples me Deri sively with the Chicago Tribune and scrip Showard and Hearst newspapers apparently because these great together with others not mentioned by have not hesitated fear Lessly to discuss and criticize Public policy and to resist the palpable efforts now being made to pre fabricate Macarthur said Truman has at different times Given wholly reasons seeking justification for his Savage methods employed in recalling the general from the far East sabotage suspected on 3 danish jets 11 sabotage w a s suspected As the cause of damage inflicted on three Jet lighters at the danish Karup air Airfield in Northern during a routine Check it was found that the speedometers of All three planes had been put out of it was unofficially stated that the lives of the pilots would have been endangered if the damage had not been Truman at capital party Winston Churchill pins a Flower in the Lapel of president Truman at a dinner Given at the British embassy in Washington in Honor of the prime Churchill now is vacationing in Jet Dud found at bombed in Post 11 far East air Force announced to Day that a Dud bomb with Navy markings was found at the scene of thursdays bombing and strafing of an american army com Mand Post in Central the said 14 sol Diers were killed and nine wounded in the Surprise previous reports had identified the victims As members of an artillery service the announcement said the survivors identified the a 11 a c k i n g planes As Navy Panther it said the Navy and Marine both of which Fly have been asked to Send representatives to the scene for the invest the announcement said the Marine panthers had been scheduled to attack enemy positions to the army Hopes to bar Korea flu outbreak army surgeon general said yesterday he hoped inoculation of All United nations troops in Korea will prevent an influenza we have ordered general inoculation As a precautionary maj Gen George Armstrong said at a in army Hospital four Miles be Hind the there is no threat of an influenza epidemic in Korea at this the army top medical officer arrived in Korea shortly after his Washington office announced that influenza serum was being rushed to North and East of the scene of the mishap on the morning of the of said 15 bombs Are known to have been most witnesses thought two planes were but this was East zone burgers say half of leaders in adj to be fired jan11 nist leaders have pushed ahead of the purge of their own youth corps and predicted that 50 per cent of the free German youths officials would be fired from their the purge of the soviet zone Blu shirted adj was scheduled for next but Erich Hon adj has announced that investigations and fir Ings would begin at according to the germanian Guage newspaper die Neue those guilty of lagging in carry ing out party instructions and those suspected of following Bourgeois ideologies will be kicked out of the loss of membership in the 000member organization would seriously affect the future of soviet zone As the communist masters of adj control schools and Douglas on Magazine Board new 11 former ambassador to the court of has been a member of the Board of directors of Newsweek 4 kidnappers warn Star on Cage play continued from Page 1 Ber the specific conversation in the except that it dealt generally with basketball and his trying to induce them to let him he was not told to play Well or less just to be less a the spokesman no specific game was it Doest seem like they were big time when they found Schafer could not be reached with a dishonest proposition perhaps they believed they could attain the same ends Fay harassing him to make him received phone Call the College said that Schafer received a Telephone Call at his he was informed that the near the had a package for As he arrived at the he noticed an automobile parked a Man got out of the struck up a conversation and eased him into the after he was let out of the car in front of his immediately consulted the Thomas dormitory and the Fri was the following Schafer played against Millersville on the Home court and contributed 20 Points to Villanova 8879 Cage Star Kidnap victim leads Villanova to Victory 11 a Bob Villanova Sharp shooting scored 33 Points last night to Lead his team to a win Over Xavier of Ohio in the Nightcap of a palestra twin Penn racked up its eighth win in 10 starts by whipping in the Schafer was sensational from the opening jump As he totalled 11 Field goals in 31 his goal production left him one Short of the palestra individual Field goal record set by perms Ernie Beck against Dartmouth two years Ernie who poured in 25 Points As Penn won the brought his seasons total to 258 Points in nine a aver Beck was the nations Lead ing average scorer As the game began with a Road conditions 11 special military police reported the follow ing Road conditions As of noon to Day Bremerhaven and icy Stuttgart and Kcjr with Snow and Graver named in Sampeur ordnance officer 11 special Brig Gen Earl for Mer executive officer in the office of the army chief of ordnance in was named the Ord Nance officer of the today by it Gen Manton Usa eur commander Gruver succeeds col George who became ordnance officer following the re assignment of Brig Gen Ray the announcement of Gravers appointment was released simultaneously with the news of his arrival from the a native of the general is a Veteran of More than years army he enlisted in the army shortly after the entered world War i and later entered the military acad graduating in Gruver served in the Middle and Europe during world Ivar Al he was acting ordnance pilots brie Gen Earl officer for the army forces in the Middle East from july 1942 until he was appointed co of the Delta service come there in november transferred to the european theater of operations in july he was Deputy ordnance officer for the services of Supply Headquarters and later chief of the planning division in the Ord Nance Section of that head Quad returning to the in Early he became chief of the Industrial activities division in the office of the under Secretary of appointed ordnance officer for the department in August he became Ord Nance officer of the army in the Caribbean in november Gruver returned to the in december 1948 and commanded the Erie ordnance at until january 1950 when he was assigned to the office of the chief of ordnance in Wash gop held set to Cut budget by billion 11 Hubert Humphrey d said last night the incoming Republican administration will trim president Truman budget by about he said in a speech was a after the conference he had with Joseph president elect Dwight Eisenhower budget that the new ministration had gone Over Truman budget very extensively and certainly will submit new two Fields eyed there Are two main areas where cuts Are he they Are military expenditures and for eign foreign Aid will get a real scrutiny and May be slashed it depends on How much of the foreign id pro Gram is military and How much is Humphrey said overseas Mili tary assistance would be less susceptible to Bonn finances defense of 4 11 West German government disclosed it will finance the defense of four former German is scheduled to face trial at tomorrow Lor alleged participation in the Bradour massacre of a Justice ministry spokesman said the ministry would pay All Bills for the including those of the necessary it has been Normal practice since the Weimar the spokesman for the government to finance the defense of penniless germans tried before foreign select own counsel this was also done in the cases of the Landsberg War who carried their appeals to the supreme court in a vain at tempt to escape execution in the four German who Are being tried with 15 mainly will select their counsel under an agreement worked out Between French and German the four germans were Mem Bers of the Das Reich is Divi Sion which wiped out the entire population of the Village of Ora including 400 women and children and near 200 in reprisal for French partisan attacks on the German Bonns View the West German government has taken the official position that nobody in Germany wants to minimize the Bradour and nobody doubts was a on the other it should not be taken to prove that this was a typical example of German the four German defendants contend that they Are not personally since they acted under orders from their Superior 11 More soviet aids being sent to in United 11 Kremlin is sending 11 More soviet citizens to work for the unit was up until now there have been Only 18 russians in the secretariat although the soviet Union is entitled to 156 employees under the in quota a Well informed source said the j secretariat hired in mos cow by the in will j work in the Russia language see Tion at the new York j