European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1953 sex Strooper Teruso rebuke at massacre 16 Tough is warrant officer Karl Lenz told the French military Tri Bunal Pierc today while the Village of Bradour sur glane burned and dying women and Chil Dren his company com Mander reprimanded him for being improperly first of the accused troopers to be interrogated about his actions on the Day of the Mas june staked his defense on his claim that animosity Between himself and capt Otto Kaltun prevented from having any Active command during the a packed courtroom heard his testimony during the fifth Day 61 the helmet not All i did was to walk around the Village and keep watch for possible attack by Lenz when i happened to meet capt he snapped me to attention and told me my helmet was not straight and my watch Chain was at the Bradour was in flames and the cries of the dying filled the told to Trace his movements step by step on a Wall Lenz held the Long Pointer at arms for 30 minutes As he sex his face grew beetroot red with the he admitted seeing 20 bodies lying in a Village but denied taking any part in the firing squad action or seeing anybody actually eighth nazi hunted in plot continued from Page j Leader of the was Goebbels six leading former including were arrested in a series of lightning raids in the Early hours of yesterday at their principally in Hamburg and a seventh Karl exp Aleiter of was picked up last British authorities said they did not believe that who also was a leading figure in the Goebbels is in the British bavarian escape report were reports that he had fled to Bavaria to escape British acting Deputy High commissioner Eli Debe queried on these said the British could request Hico to have Bornemann picked a British spokesman said Evi Dence scrutinized so far showed the Neo nazi plotters had worked to infiltrate the Large organized righting such As the free German party and the refugee the former High nazis also apparently maintained close ties with Neo nazi movements in Spain and the Middle their movement was believed liberally financed and to have had links with the East German communist it was hid out in Eastern Germany from 1945 until when he settled in Road conditions 16 special military police reported that As of noon today roads were Snow covered and icy in Frank Stuttgart and Wiesbaden icy in Heidelberg and Munich wet in Bremerhaven and Snow covered in the Brenner pass Wuerzburg and Garmisch reds arrest foreign cd i in East zone continued from Page 1 minister in october he has been a of the Volk Skam Mer East zone parliament since october Ber inborn Dertinger remained in Germany during world War in and reportedly was Active in resist Ance he was named press Dhuet of the soviet zone cd in 1946 after that his Rise in the communist controlled regime was in West the committee of free jurists and the fighting group against both Well informed on East German political expressed Surprise at the arrest and were unprepared to give an opinion on the As foreign Dertinger was the chief architect of a pact with Poland which ceded former German territory East of the Oder and Neisse Rivers to Der was one of the principal rightist officials who collaborated with the he supported the bloc system in which the communists gained Power by abolishing party tickets in elections and urged his party and the Liberal democratic party to cooperate with the continued from Page i to say what action he would take in the clemency Appeal of the doomed atom Julius and Ethel Rosen if the matter were put up to Truman urged that the Cus Tom of presidential press conferences be continued so that the channels of communication with the Public May be kept he said that the president is the Only chief executive of a great nation who submits regularly to any question on any subject from any he said this is a Good thing because it enables the Public to know what is in the presidents he added that the Public has a right to the tidelands Oil question was a major Issue in the 1952 presidential Campaign with president elect Dwight Eisenhower favouring state ownership of submerged Oil the supreme court ruled in 1947 that the Federal government has Paramount rights to such Truman said that the question of deciding the Fate of the Rosen bergs has not come to him As yet and therefore he was unable to comment on the the president disclosed that he has not yet decided How he will spend his time after he retires but said he would certainly do Noth ing which could be regarded As exploitation of the High office he Las Truman began the press con Ference by receiving in a Side reception room reporters wishing to shake hands with him in easy does it King Paul visits Florence 16 Paul of Greece arrived Here last night by automobile from Naples on a five week vacation a wartime bomb is gingerly defused in the ruins of a bombed Frankfurt it was the first of two found in Frank Furt during the dug defused in Frankfurt fair area 16 a live wartime bomb was defused and removed tonight from the Frankfurt the British bomb had been found this morning by construction workers who were preparing new buildings for the coming Spring Trade fair and automobile Hesse demolition experts were rushed to the scene and after find ing that the bomb still carried a live fuse ordered All workers in the surrounding area to police sealed off an area of some 800 meters to and All including buses and vehicles heading in the direction of the was of the ice show holi Day on currently showing nightly at the Fairgrounds had feared they would have to cancel tonight but removal of the bomb allowed the program to take police said it was the second live wartime bomb uncovered in Frankfurt within the last few the first bomb was found by workers while Clearing away some Gen Smith nominated for army retirement 16 president Truman today nominated Walter Bedell chief of the Central intelligence for a place on the army retired list with the Grade of Smith has been selected by president elect Dwight Eisen Hower As his under Secretary of typhoid cases continue Rise 16 there appeared to be no Relief to Day in Stuttgart typhoid fever epidemic As City health officials counted 42 new cases of the disease in the that figure brings the total since the epidemic began to there Are now nearly 500 cases in the entire state of army health authorities said yesterday that persons in the Stuttgart municipal District had reported to the 24th Gen disc for typhoid this includes Mili tary and civilian de Pendents and German the Heilbronn detachment has vaccinated and two traditions out two German traditions seemed doomed for the duration of the one was health officials suggested that this custom be dispensed with until the danger of typhoid has Stuttgart residents also were warned to refrain from buying sauerkraut on open display in mar German red Cross officials issued a Call for Volunteer nurses and nurses aids from the Stuttgart additional will be needed to staff the emergency quarters being opened in the former porsche a requisitioned building which the army yesterday turned Over to the germans to be used for hos Pital the building was not expected to be ready use until next in another precautionary Meas about 90 of Stuttgart school children Are now bringing their own and towels to children Are still being served milk in of cancels flight Over inaugural Parade 16 up plans for a flight of 460 military planes Over president elect Dwight Eisenhower inaugural Parade route were yesterday for Economy reasons and because the demonstration would be highly the cancellation was announced by air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter and an of spokesman said safety was a primary consider Ion in the Navy Secretary Dan Kimball said it was Felt the flight would be a who estimated the Over All Cost of the flight at also said it would have created operational problems because the Navy is rather Short of planes now with our asked where the idea the flight he said there was a flyover at president Truman 1348 inauguration and someone thought we had to have one this on second he it was decided the demonstration would not be Finletter said the decision was made after with White other military serv ices and members of Eisenhower Eisenhower was said to have approved the Finletter was represented As having had misgivings about the proposed flight from the Start before cancel ing he consulted with retired of Gens Carl Spaatz and James 2 vets to face court monday on spy charge continued from Page i asked for this High bail in View of the seriousness of this Case and in the Light of the governments experience in communist the two Austria born veterans were handed Over to the shortly after their plane the following diplomatic did not include Novikov in the but in a the soviet embassy requested his prompt departure from the it was the first time an investigation of espionage in the had led directly to the ornate Bronze doors of the soviet pm army employee held for quiz in spy Case 16 officials tonight disclosed the name of an american army employee held in connection with the arrest of two naturalized americans on charges of spying for the soviet the official said Ernest Ludwig of new York a Ber inborn civilian was one of the substantial number of americans held for detailed questioning about activities the arrested in addition to officials have announced that Walter of new York polish born is being detained for like Kurt Ponger and 011 a Lauber was an employee of the Central european a news Agency generally believed to supported by the soviet the Agency is ostensibly owned by and lore Herzog and George new wife moves it was Learned that who with her Hus band had lived in the sector of the had moved to the soviet beyond the reach of american if she should be on the wanted officials stressed that no formal charges have been preferred against a he was born in Berlin on june he fled to the from nazi Germany and was naturalized in Washington on the basis of his service with the sources said that Lauber had been studying politics and economics at Vienna University under the i Bill of he was receiving 80 per cent disability Tran Ocean missile for seen soon continued from Page j it the knowledge gained from that program has been advanced programs of missile Finletter said intense and appalling strides Are being made in atomic weapon these made it imperative that armed forces set out in the fiscal 1954 budget which went to Congress be he those goals were set in Finletter and anyone who thinks they Are still the right kind of forces to aim for does not under stand what is Finletter made Plain that favors heavier emphasis on lands based air he said rational strategy now is entered Aro nor it v Finletter the Force never submitted any Ion approving the Forrest ii class super aircraft of which the Navy wants but he refused to answer questions about Why Tiff air Force opposes the Rier