European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1953 the stars and stripes Page 3 congressmen ask probe of atrocities 12 up two congressmen called for a special congressional investigation of communist atrocities against american prisoners of War in to Timothy Sheehan be would offer a Resolution to Day to set up a select committee empowered to go to Korea to find out what has happened to thousands of taken prisoner by t h e was a member of the committee which last year investigated the world War ii massacre of thousands of polish officers in Aie Katyn Forest in he said they had received reports of similar atrocities in j Ayres backs move William Ayres Ohio said he supported Sheehane in a member of the House veterans Ayres urged All Korea veterans to turn Over any information they May have about the treatment of american prisoners of it is High time we attempted to find out How Many of our prisoners of War have been subjected to Ayres it is not Lair to the parents of America Iobe kept in suspense any Feen Matthew Ridgway said in november 1951 that Amer ican prisoners of War had been reported killed by communists but defense officials said at the time actual proof was limited to 365 parallel seen atrocities in Korea were so parallel to revelations made about Sheehan that members of the committee were unanimous in the opinion that Congress should undertake immediate investigation of atrocities against United nations prisoners of War in Korea so that the american Fie Ople and All the free Peoples of the world May know the late of soldiers who have fall a prisoner to the said there was Little Chance the in can make a Thor Ough investigation because of so Viet russian veto in defense Post Michigan state College presi Dent John who has been named by president elect Dwight Eisenhower to replace Anna Rosenberg As assistant Secretary of defense in charge of the armed forces Man Power and conductor arrives in new 12 Victor de conductor of the la Scala opera in arrived Here aboard the liner United states to begin his annual  concert he will conduct in los an san Jontreal and probably 3 women injured As Paris elevator plunges six floors 12 italian born wife of air Commodore air attache at the British embassy in was one of three women seriously injured when an elevator plunged Down six floors Ina Paris apartment building last Francisca Elton and the other injured mrs Alex Andra de representative of the Spanish red Cross in and Yvette a native of were taken to the Amer ican Hospital at suburban Neuilly after being picked out of the shattered wreckage at the foot of the none of the women lived in the building where the Accident of which is in the fashionable Passy District in the West of Paris reports said the Cable drawing the elevator snapped just after it had passed the fifth plunging the Cage Down the Shaft at increasing girl killed by falling piano Mountain 12 Linda Hill was killed by a piano which fell on her during instruction in the school gymnasium Bull refuses to follow script bullfighter Miguel Dominguiz leaps aside too late and is gored by the Bull at the Edge of the his injuries plea reported for Britain to bolster role new l2 a the few York times said today that Secretary of state Dean Acheson made a personal Appeal to prime minister Winston Churchill of Brit Ain to provide More leadership in Western Europe and the Middle the Washington by dip Phatic correspondent James res said it is understood the plea was made at a private dinner at the British embassy last thursday night in the presence of general of the army Omar Brad chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general Walter Bedell who will be under Secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration Averell Mutual Security and various other United states and British Truman not present the times said president tru Man was present at the dinner but he left before Acheson completed this observations on the differences Between the United states and Britain in West Europe and the Middle the article said ache sons thesis was reported As follows by great exertions in the last 12 years unusual Progress has been mad toward greater Unity in West Europe and the Middle at the present How efforts to create a unified european army and the beginnings of a political Union in West Europe had slipped also at the present moment there seemed at last to be a Chance to reach agreements with the iranian and egyptian urged bold decisions these situations required immediate and generous Leader from both the United states and and Britain leadership is especially important in the coming months which would necessarily be a period of transition in the United Acheson said that in his judgment this was a historic moment when bold decisions might produce historic re and he urged the prime minister to do whatever he could to seize the the official View Here is that the British Are overeating their strength in the Middle East and underestimating the danger in both Egypt and it is also Felt Here that with his love of guards brigades and his Lack of enthusiasm for International has hampered the formation of a euro Pean army by a lukewarm Diplo Macy in both Paris and the times said Acheson Felt Churchill could do More in the future toward urging the French and germans to create a european unenthusiastic response the article said both Bradley and who worked closely with Churchill during and after the last entered the conversation in support of it was a and at times Brilliant discussion Between the leaders of one administration that is leaving the scene and the leaders of another who Are being urged to carry on with greater vigor than in the Acheson suggested Britain could not be complacent about the Situa Tion in the Middle East and implied that failure to act boldly might prove As unfortunate As Britain rigid policy toward the american colonies in the 18th Churchill responded to this according to several of the men who were w i t h o u the times he defended his policy in Europe and the Middle East but apparently agreed with Acheson that events in both areas have now reached a decisive quits in Job David named by Whittaker Chambers As a red is reported o have re signed his Job in the United nations department of photo Leatherneck meets pen pal 12 pfc Rodger Otigho joined the Marine corps to be near Joan met her yesterday for the first time and climaxed two years of letter writing with a big Rodger and Joan said its too Early to talk about a High school and Rodger became pen pals about two years ago after their names were exchanged through the american education Green eyed Blond shortly after the letter writing Rodger decided he wanted to see a pretty Blond with Green he explained his plight to Mem Bers of the Marine guard at the american embassy in they sold him on the idea of joining the and collected Money for his passage to the where the Middlesex lad joined the corps and filed a statement declaring he intends to become an american after completing training at Parris Rodger left by bus for Jackson to meet couple blushed somewhat excited and awed by the reception of the couple blushed and stammered through an i think Hes Joan adding she would take several Days off from school at her Home in in Northwest to show Rodger around the weve gotten along Fine in our letters and i Hope everything will turn out All she no ice in airmen radio folks 12 fourteen All inconvenienced by the states worst ice storm in compared weather notes by radio Telephone with 14 airmen stationed in the airmen said they were better was raining but not freezing in the conversations Between servicemen and members of their sponsored by the weekly Milford were originally scheduled for Christmas Bur were cancelled because of poor reception saturday about 30 members o the airmen families gathered a the newspapers office and the radio phone connection was each had an Opportunity to talk to one of the 14 airmen at Kef Lavik some Miles they talked mostly about to Connecticut More jews expected to flee East zone 12 authorities in West Berlin expect n increasing flight of East Man jews to the Western sector of his fou Power City although Dat ively few jews so far have sked for Asylum a jewish spokesman said just a new of the soviet Sproxt mately jews have fled to the Vest since the first signs several weeks ago that the East German communist government is planning in ant jewish the spokesman did not disclose Low Many jewish refugees were Mong the daily average of some 100 to East germans who asked for political Asylum in West Berlin last some jews Ive in East Berlin and another 500 Are scattered throughout East he said indications Are hat More jews would soon leave Home and property behind and flee omens of purge the spokesman listed the follow no As omens that a purge of East German jews is in the offing German officials Are Cross examining Many jews about their alleged ties with the West and reports say East Ger Man communists plan to oust All jews from Public communists have threatened to halt payment of compensations to jewish victims of i oppression unless they join the communist run league of nazi the spokesman speculated that More prominent jews might flee to thus creating panic among others and inciting them to leave East those who fled escaped for fear they might be arrested As the result of the communist drive against the spokesman jews Are not the Only ones fear Ful of communist arrest in the soviet Farmers flee communists officials said Many Farmers were fleeing the communist state be Rause of growing soviet style collectivization of East German one Farmer the communists increased my delivery quotas to the state until they knew 1  meet then they seized my furniture As Bompensa that did i think i am better off in the even if in unemployed for Many Farmers Are being jailed by the communists for opposing West Berlin has 69 refugee Camps run by the City and the German red they accommodate some City officials have announced they will convert unused factory buildings and make room for room for refugees is scarce in the City despite an agreement with the West German government under which about 30 per cent of the refugees Are flown out to West Germany and accommodated 2 danish princesses unhurt in car Accident 12 a King Frederiks two youngest the princesses and escaped uninjured but severely shaken from a car Accident they were Riding in one of the Kings automobiles with their nurse when their car collided with an other skidded on the icy Road and crashed into a bread poisons 70 italians 12 bread poisoned 70 villagers in near by today 25 were still the others had been released As out of investigators blamed bread a Rural