European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1951 senators quiz to Viott widow cites on War profits charge appointee claims exoneration 24 Harold president Eisen Howers appointee As air Force has testified that he and his associates were completely exonerated of War profiteering charges after world War i in testimony Given 16 and made Public Talbott said the for 11 years in the by the government returning in tax overpayment to the Dayton right plane manufacturers in world War Richard Russell questioned Talbott and defense Secretary designate Charles Wilson about the matter when Talbott testified before the Senate armed services Russell based his questions on a world War plane report made by Charles Evans Hughes at the request of president w o o d r o w Stock in 3 firms Talbott also testified that he owns Stock in three companies that do business with the defense department and said he to dispose of his Stock in one of he said his holdings in companies doing defense business Are bought for a which would Cost in capital gains taxes to Chrysler Stock is currently listed at about a shares bought for about a which would Cost about in capital gains tax should it be Talbott said the Stock is now listed at about 56 and estimated his interest at about packing shares which he proposes to purchased at 6 or the Stock is now listed at 12 and capital gains taxes would take about  15 Yards from foe continued from Page 1 canal and almost froze in Europe during the Battle of the in most areas of the Eastern the opposing forces Are dug in hundreds or even thousands of Yards but at sandbag a Little band of United nations soldiers is close to communist underground a Little barbed three shattered Trees and Are All that separate them from the the men of Charlie company live inside the Castle in a world of bumping their Heads on Threefoot ceilings and crawling like gophers through tunnels to reach firing enemy Bull sessions they can even hear enemy Bull and interpreters Tell them what the reds Are talking at the end of one of the pvt Dale of Idaho mans a machine it gives a Creepy he we heard them talking last night then they started sing ing some crazy korean capt Keith of said the greatest fear of the is we could never get out if the commies swept around he m sgt Bill of South said he heard the Beds talking one they were talking about korean Whis he one of them was asking when they were going to get More they were griping about the just like we and moaning Over a shortage of 2 More face fight Over stocks continued from Page 1 and common sense they should sell their stocks in companies doing business with the Anderson said he has Given up business interest that might his government and Deputy defense Secretary Des Ignate Roger Kyes has announced sell his general motors who owns Stock in a textile Sirni Selling to the defense department told the armed serv ices committee last week it would be severe for him to unload and Talbott said he has Stock in three companies doing business with the Knowland sounded his warning after chairman Leverett Saltonstall said in a radio interview that his armed services committee May reject i think there Are a number of questions that will be asked of Saltonstall and in not cer Tain the committee will feel it can confirm testimony released the Senate armed services com Mittee has made Public testimony taken in closed hearings last week from Talbott and Ander Stevens has promised senators to sell All but his two largest Stock holdings and to avoid decisions involving those two Stevens is former chairman of the Board of Stevens one of the nations largest textile which sold Worth of cloth to the armed forces last but he said those contracts Are let on a competitive bid basis and would not normally reach his desk As army Stevens said he owns shares of the textile firm founded by his of Owens Corning fibreglass and lesser amounts of other including pan american world general electric and Texas Oil and cattle testified he has no personal interest in the tidelands Oil Dis Pute that might Embarrass him As Navy he said if a presidential order making the so called tidelands a naval Oil Reserve is i would do my very Best to preserve the interests of the Navy in the Texas vigorously opposes eral control of the Anderson said if he becomes Navy i would disqualify myself on any matter that involved any company with which i have even had a prior is at Bradour 24 of the widows of Orad Pursur glane testified today that the sol Diers of hitlers is Das Reich division were laughing and in Good humor before they carried out the massacre of 642 villagers on june the who gave her Tes Timony Between sobs and was Atia she lost two aged 13 and and her husband in the wartime destruction of the Little Village in South West by a the is company which carried out the Slaughter missed her Home while they were rounding up the Vic dressed in Black and unable to stand while taking the the Petite widow said she heard the soldiers beating around the Corn Field at her they were joking and she her own life was saved by a German Soldier stationed on the outskirts of the Village who go or you will be 21 on trial Twenty one soldiers of the same among them 14 French men from the province of Are on trial before the military tribunal Here for the a Limoges Streetcar con Marcia told the ironically tragic Story of a Street car employee who met his death because he had an appointment with his the tailor was at the employee was taken off the interurban car by the nazi sol he was unable to make him self understood and was herded into a group of Bradour villagers being taken to the Market he had walked Only a few Steps when he turned his head to say something to the Ger mans pumped four bullets into and he fell sabres continued from Page 1 week of 1723 was the most successful for its sabres since the week beginning 21 the total of destroyed migs was 16 prob ably one the communists downed Only one Sabre during the past the of it was the first f86 lost to the reds since the week ending three other in planes were downed by enemy ground fire Dur ing the week ending f80 shooting a Navy Cor Sair and an f9f Panther Dulles Kin picked to head Cia continued from Page 1 earlier disclosure that the pres ident has accepted the resignation of adm Alan Kirk As director of the psychological strategy George Deputy direct has become acting the president told former ambassador to he appreciated the additional measure of service which Kirk had Given to his country in accepting the strategy Board a world War ii is a foreign service officer who served under both Kirk and Smith when were ambassadors to soviet he later was with psychological warfare apparently was the topic for a White House meeting today Between Eisenhower and William a new York it was reported earlier this month that Eisenhower had asked Jackson to head a planning commission to review psycho logical strategy in the cold War against Jackson is a former Deputy chief of the press photo Allen Dulles retiring Korea cd Gen Van Fleet leaving with great sadness Ike Gen Taylor discuss Korea Conti nixed from Page 1 to serve under him again As com commanded the 101st an div in the european theater in world War ii while Eisenhower was supreme Allied he will leave monday for Tokyo and a tour of the korean Battlefront before taking Over from the retiring Van in lauding Van Fleet As probably the Best qualified combat officer in the armed said the passage of time resulted in the loss of his services in Van Fleet says successor is great Leader 24 James Van Fleet today said he is pleased a Man of general Max Well Taylors Quality has been selected to succeed Taylor was named to succeed Van Fleet As 8th army commander in Van in a statement released by an army said it is with great sadness i say Goodby to the 8th army in this country and its with whom i have worked so closely and with Complete i have known general Taylor of Many he is a great sol Dier and i am pleased that a Man of his Quality has been selected to succeed Frenchye Portuges treaty ratification 24 French Cabinet last night approved a re port urging ratification of the european army treaty in the National both the treaty and the report will be submitted to the Assembly next week after a formal approval of the document at a full scale government the Cabinet has started study of four additional protocols to the army informed sources said the main modification would allow France to part of her forces to Cope with emergencies in overseas soviet Warne East property Jii 24 a the has warned soviet Russia that she will be held for damage to the estimated Worth of american erties and interests in Eastern Ger Many and soviet occupied a format note sent to Moscow last Friday Laid Down the american attitude and simultaneously rejected soviet russian claim that such matters Are strictly in the hands of the so called German Peoples the note called on the Viet government to cancel actions by the s o v i e dominated East German authorities which prevent americans from visiting or inspecting their plants involved numerous factories and plants owned 4y big american tons Are in East these include branches of general general Standard Oil of new Dupont and the Corn products refining state department officials Esti mated their value at More than or about on third of the in american in vestments estimated in 1941 to be located in All j in rejecting soviet russian Handoff the said it will hold the soviet government answerable for resulting unless Moscow takes satisfactory action to revoke the East German Road conditions 24 special police reported that As of noon today roads were icy at Augsburg and wet at Wiesbaden and Snow packed at the Brenner pass and Snow packed and icy at Snow covered and icy at and dry at Tollari Sestos in Munich flu continued from Page 1 of the workers at the Badisch Dye works in Mann Heim were with 18 per cent of the teachers All City schools were shut Western area come gives flu shots round clock 24 Spe against influenza got under Way in the Western area come and were to continue on a 24hour Roundt Hemlock schedule until All military person Nel in the command have been the serum arrived it was distributed to All six military districts and to lodger units of the command through the Rhine medi Cal col Ellis co of Lan Stuhl army medical said that there was no flu epidemic in the Western area come at this the inoculation program is purely Stuttgart Grippe wave held worst in 20 years 24 sharpest wave of Grippe in 20 years has struck this German health authorities disclosed they believe the wave can be kept under no deaths have been physicians with Large practices were treating approximately 100 patients a Union army Dies in Only 2 left los 24 William Allen one of the nations three remaining Union army veterans of the civil died yesterday at the age of who had been in a since suffering a stroke at Wadswort veterans administration Hospital without regaining con the old Soldier ran away from Home to become bugler in the Union army in the civil War and remained in the army until