European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1953 Eisenhower asks divine help attends Church service before taking oath 20 the Man who was to be president bowed his head before his god and prayed for divine help to serve his country Well in his last act As a private Dwight Eisenhower slipped away from his Statler hotel Headquarters Lor a private morning service in Washington historic National presbyterian he and his immediate family filed solemnly in to Pew just three rows behind the Pew of presidents where Many of Bis predecessors Wor shipped before across the aisle were the income vice his family arid members of the n e w Cabinet and other top officials of the Eisenhower administration gathered in the Center the Edward who served under the former supreme Allied commander As a chaplain during world War read from Matthew the advice Jesus gave the jews be know that the princes of the gentiles exercise Dominion Over them and they that Are Graat exer Cise authority upon but whosoever will be great among let him be your Ter and whosoever will be chief among let him be Youir ser the congregation stood and Sung the famous our our help in Ages and then prayed teach us to hate our cleanse us from our secret and forgive our there were More the All in the and world then the god of our life and a when the service was Elson presented Eisenhower a copy of the new testament a Gold engraved one moment with vice president Richard Nixon italian liner racing aboard the liner Andrea 20 through the Atlantic at an aver age Speed of this new italian sea Queen has now covered More than Miles of her Maiden voyage to new capt Piero master of this first postwar built italian Lux Ury reports her As handling an opinion also shared by passengers and Carlo president of the italian who is among the 734 passengers making the first Cross ing to new told newsmen the Andrea Doria will provide an express service Between new York and Mediterranean Maglin off to for new duties As army pm general 20 Brig Gen William army Provost marshal in Europe the past 19 left Heidelberg this afternoon in route to washing ton to become the new army Provost marshal general Usa eur officials said Gaglias successor will be announced until col Shaffer Deputy Usa eur Provost will be acting Provost the general left Heidelberg shortly after lunch accompanied by planned to Call on Gen Thomas Deputy commander chief of the european in Frankfurt before boarding a train for Bremer who will succeed retiring maj Gen Edwin said one of the most important tasks confronting him in his new assign ment is to reduce the number of army personnel in although the number of men in confinement is not Large when you consider the size of our expanded he one Man in confinement is one too a great Many of them Are Young soldiers who have had difficulty in adjusting to army my Job will be to restore them to duty As quickly As Senate groups of All but Wilson for Cabinet 20 Senate committees quickly Cleare the Way yesterday for president Eisenhower new Cabinet to be sworn in today except for the controversial Choice of Charles Wil son As defense Republican senators said the understood Wilson would attempt to win confirmation later this week by promising to keep hands off Al government contracts with Gen eral motors the firm he forr Merly Homer Ferguson predicted this would break the in rapid succession Senate committees approved Sinclair weeks of Boston As Secretary of com Herbert at Torney and George Humphrey As Treasury Oveta gulp Hobby was approved As Federal Security admin which is not a Cabin i Post other members of Eisen Howers Cabinet were approved last All except Wilson were schedules to be confirmed by the Senate to Day and sworn in a few hours after Eisenhower is Wilson will appear before the Senate armed services committee wednesday to clarify his previous statement he would not disqualify himself from acting on pm con tracts if he becomes defense Secre general motors is the govern ments biggest supplier of defense informed sources said Wilson probably will reverse his stand to comply with a Law which forbids government officials to do business with a firm in which they have direct or indirect interest Wilson still holds some in pm commissary privileges available to sponsor 20 special commissary privileges May be granted to military and civil Ian sponsors when they move into government family Type Usa eur he said Usa eur quartermaster officials said that the action was taken to Aid sponsors in preparing their quarters Tor the arrival of their commis sary privileges have not been granted to sponsors until their de Pendents actually plans for Coronation assailed by Shinwell 20 Uel former minister of defense in the labor attacked arrangements for the Coronation As undemocratic in a speech he proposed that Queen Eliza Beth ii should be accompanied by Farmers and steel workers instead of aristocrats when she marches in the Coronation Shin Well said the British aristocracy is doomed and almost Rothkrug bail Cut mistrial denied 20 judge Dewitt White today denied a motion for mistrial in the Case of Michael Rothkrug and then reduced bail on the onetime intelligence Agency employee from 000 to and granted a 30day continuance on Appeal of the de was arrested 19 and charged with illegal posses Sion of 178 classified Docu ments and the unauthorized disposal of unclassified defense counsel Earl Carroll asked for a mistrial and a change of venue to Frankfurt German Quad Dies j a 20 one of born tuesday to a 24yearold German woman died at Wuerzburg University but medical authorities said the condition of the remaining three was Gens wife saved from sea Boa meeting 28 20 the january meeting of the Heidelberg Reserve of will be held at 8 in the Usa eur Casino at it col usar Harvey san 20 a Alys identified by the army As the wife of Brig Gen Thomas was rescued from the Pacific Ocean Here last patrolman Paul Mcgoran said it was a suicide but the woman Hulda discounted that saying t think she must have faulted on the she often goes for walks Snow added that trap who returned Only two months ago from where trap Nell is was depressed because the general must remain overseas another Trapnell is stationed at Indochina with the military he is a survivor of the Bataan death March and of the japanese prisoner of War Camp at a 1927 graduate of West he had starred As an army football physicians at Park emergency Hospital said Trapnell was suffering from an overdose of bar immersion and she was transferred to the army let Terman where her Condi Tion was listed As Trapnell formerly commanded the 187th an regimental combat team in Korea and participated in Restor ing order among rebellious communist prisoners of War on Zoje Munich Grippe wave hits children hardest 20 health authorities today ordered children in schools affected by a mounting wave of Grippe Here to remain Home for eight at least two persons have d in the wave during the past the City health department there has been a Sharp inertia col  gift Case by Campbell Sanders staff correspondent 20 it col Fred Walters pleaded not guilty As his general court martial opened Here former chief of Heidelberg military Post engineers construction has been charged with to defraud the German government by nonpayment of taxes on 100 bottles of accepting gifts of Marks and five automobile tires valued at Marks from a German architect with whom he negotiated construction pro a false official state ment illicit relations restricted to area Walters has been restricted to Headquarters area come since october when the investigation into the alleged offences was Erst an eight prosecution witnesses were called principally to establish the prosecutions Case on the first two two German employees of a Cham pagne firm told of processing an order for 100 bottles of ostensibly for the hip the Champagne was sold tax free since it apparently was destined for use by americans serving in the prosecution contends the Champagne was bought for Josel a Mannheim contractor do ing construction work for the the order for the Champagne car ried Walters architect witness Otto the Mannheim architect from whom Walters is accused of receiving was the final witness of the he testified he had seen Walters in bad Wil Dungen in september the time the prosecution contends Walters received the gift but Mackensen said he knew nothing about the gift at that the false official statement charge involves a statement Al Negedly made last october by Wal lers before Brig Gen William then Usa eur Provost Walters is accused of Laving said he had never been in Jie presence of both Karle and Robert a second German legally separated who said he and his wife have been separated for about 10 years and legally Sepa rated since is also charged with illicit relations with re haired Isela defending Walters Are maj Edwin Schuck and civilian attorney Phil presiding Over the court martial is col Henry Burgess from Usa eur three colonels and six lieutenant colonels make up the a 10th member of the court was relieved after being challenged by the de assisting maj Marvin Krieger As rial counsel Are 1st it Robert s Trigg and 2d it William j col Charles Berkowitz is Law j i o in incidence acute respiratory r illness among americans of an including according to col Dixon Munich District Holland said that what the Ger mans were referring to As Grippe undoubtedly was the same respiratory illness sweeping military and civilian personnel in this generally the cases Are not be he we have been Abe acc treat them he added that it had not been deemed advisable to close schools or any places of but military authorities would depend on persons voluntarily limiting their especially in those cases where they Felt they might be coming Down with the Anton chief of the Munich Public health said the disease seems mostly to hit children in the lower he warned that the wave had yet to reach its a department spokesman said it was impossible to estimate the number of cases in the City because the majority of those stricken remain at Home and doctor grammar schools at Garmisch and Oberammergau have been ordered closed until 31 As a result of the Grippe Winters worst epidemic of Grippe hits France 20 sneezing frenchmen showed up to work today All Over the but their number was easily matched by those who stayed Home with a hot grog As the worst epidemic of Grippe this Winter swept the medical authorities said there was no real danger in the mild but widespread flu that decimated office staffs and it was tax officially estimated that on third of the nations population was suf Fering from the typhoid deaths reach 7 in bade Wuerttemberg 20 two More deaths from typhoid bringing the total to have been reported in Baden Wuerttemberg during the last 24 and state health who yesterday predicted the Epi Demic would reach its Peak this today were less latest figures show 423 persons in Stuttgart stricken with the Dis in the entire the number with typhoid has reached the ban on endive and Sauer Kraut has been but residents were warned to Cook sauerkraut and All other vegetables Well be fore German accused As spy hangs self British 20 Cap sports reporter Peter arrested last August with a German employee of the British High com Mission on charges of espionage for the soviet hanged him self in his jail cell the state arose tutors office announced the 26yearold prisoners Oody was found during the weekend suspended from a crude rope tied to an overhead heating the rope had been made from a cloth Harald formerly in charge of the British High com missions press room in was arrested with the Case against them was being prepared for trial by the chief Federal prosecutor at