European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 11 the stars and stripes january 195 held raiding fleeing jews 23 Ger Man Security police today arrested a jewish communist Leader of aiding jews fleeing antisemitism at the same time the communist party ordered nationalization o the soviet zone last stronghold of private enter West Berlin socialists said Brun jewish chairman of the East zone communist party Central committees education and religious affairs was arrested of allegedly covering the flight to the West of seven East German jewish the seven fled to West Berlin along with 400 other soviet Zon the leaders headed the jew ish communities in East Berlin Halle Magdeburg and new refugee record the flood of refugees into Wes Berlin continued today and Brough the total for the month close to exact figures were unavailable for they Are not Tabu lated on for the past refugees hav been arriving at the daily rate o the previous monthly High of set in december already has been the communist party politburo today ordered the eradication o All capitalist influences in whole Sale Trade and a drive to place Al retail Trade under government at the present time almost at wholesale businesses Are privately forty per cent of retail Trade is in private privately owned factories produce Only one fourth of the soviet zone Industrial assault Falls 45 feet Short continued from Page 1 previous night were shot Down by the North ten b29 super forts drove to with in 15 Miles of the Yalu River Early today to rain 100 tons of bombs on 300 buildings of a communist troop housing area at within a few minutes flying time from the big enemy Jet base at one Allied aiding party drove enemy troops from a position West of old Baldy last two Chi Nese companies counterattacked and the a troops withdrew under 20 reds killed near Little which i Northwest of an Allied patrol collided with an enemy com Pany last night and called for rein the communists also apparently called for help at the same time and the two units met in the the chinese thought they had rejoined the original enemy unit and fell in with the Allied the raiders held their fire until they had the reds trapped and then opened a deadly crossfire that killed the Allied reinforcements joined the first unit in a bitter fight that lasted until shortly before mid Allied tanks for the 10th straight Day blasted red bunkers along the base of Iron the tanks knocked out about 100 bunkers Madsen placed in mental institution continued fro Page 1 found that Madsen was not insane at the Tim of the shoot ing the court she was a psychopathic personality with diminished responsibility and for this reason gave her 15 years rather than a life former is men on trial in mass killing French police flank some of the seven germans and 14 alsatian standing trial in Bordeaux on charges of taking part in the 1944 massacre of 642 French villagers at  by members of hitlers Das Reich other exes men Are being tried in press photo Van continued Page 1 ment on such speculation although it is acknowledged he has always wanted to return to where he was military adviser in the War against the communist Ger always an aggressive Van Fleet told reporters a Little wistfully that he would like to have led the 8th army in an offensive to end the korean War if such an offensive naturally i would like to be in command of such an he i do not have the say so on Clark regret loss of Van Fleet 25 James Van fleets decision to retire rom military service has been received with great regret both Here and in South South korean president Syng Man Rhee yesterday expressed the deep disappointment of the entire korean nation at Van fleets forthcoming retirement As 8th army cd in supreme in commander Gen Mark in a statement Here said the army was Osing one of its most outstanding officers who has earned the Gratis Ude of his country and the free chemical in ditch leads to hot foot 25 Boise ditch master was in the Hospital today because his shoes Clarence Martin said he put sodium chlorate in some ditches about three weeks ago to prevent Weed the weather was wet and his shoes apparently soaked up some of the explosive As he was installing a he set a grass fire to Clear a he kicked some morning trash into the fire and his hoes leaving the uppers n he ran across the Street and jumped into a puddle of shortly he entered Hospital with first and third degree Fri investigating 3d Case of on trains continued front Page 1 sengers and was going an estimated 70 Mph when it hit the flinging from the tracks and driving it into the railway officials insisted it was absolutely impossible for the rail to have gotten on the tracks a it came from a another train had passed the spot earlier yesterday and a track Walker had passed the location an hour before the passenger train without noticing anything Engineer prevents wreck sabotage seen 25 Eagle eyed Engineer prevented the possible derailment of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train Here yesterday under circumstances that have led investigators to suspect the the was in Russ jail Berlin refugee says 25 secret police have arrested 42 employees of the crack Blue which runs Between East Berlin and on espionage a fugitive railway worker said to the German railway workers were charged with giving information on train schedules to polish partisans who have made repeated attacks on the soviet train in the last last july 160 soviets were killed when the express was derailed by polish partisans and plunged into a Lake in Poland near route from Louis to new it was rounding a curve at 50 Mph As it neared Baltimore when Engineer Tom Cavanaugh through the driving a huge Cross tie Laid across the right rail of the eastbound main Cavanaugh applied the emergency brakes and the big nine car Pas Senger with locked Slid along the rails into the tie which the bumper pushed out of the 800 Railroad employees on strike in Midwest 25 800 employees of the Chicago and great Western Railroad walked off their jobs today and tied up operations in five midwestern eleventh hour negotiations col lapsed in Chicago last the strike became effective in Missouri and be the dispute stems from 600 but no pay the strike affects firemen and brakeman of four operating Macarthur 73 today Eustaff to fete him new 25 a Douglas Macarthur celebrates his 73d birthday during the Day it will be business As usual for the five Star general in his Job As chairman of the Board of Rem an aide in the evening a private dinner will be Given at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in his Honor by staff members of his wartime South West Pacific Bonn to open trial of 4 As spies for reds 25 Many tomorrow opens its first Post War communist spy a cloak an Dagger drama featuring As defendants a onetime German movie actress and three discharged Furt police for the first time since1945 mans will face a German court of charges of smuggling secret ment material to a foreign the polish espionage service in the principal defendant is of adept German film Beauty Maria Anna forced to retire from the screen because of permanent facial injuries she received during an Allied bombing raid in she is charged with giving communist Poland vital West Germani secret material and recruiting top police officials for her alleged miss Knuth purportedly mob paid a monthly salary of 400 Marks and All expenses by the poles since secret investigations c also facing espionage charges Are deposed police employees Mann Heinz Fach and Marianne they Are accused Selling government secrets miss Knuth at handsome while employed in Frankfurt police Headquarters from 1949 or 1950 last when they were rounded up in a Surprise swoop by Ger Man pretrial investigations shrouded in and the Nap ure of the alleged secret material is the most mysterious5 character the alleged spy ring is Only As an employee of a Bonn the fou Day trial is expected to reveal his activities ant connection with the miss Knuth will be brought to court from nearby Marien hos where she is being treated while under in addition to wartime injuries which have Para lazed half her she is now suffering from a serious arrested in Post office she was arrested in the of 1952 in the Cologne Post office n she was taking Money and raft from a postal Box which she Bof kept under a false police say subsequent investigations revealed that she worked for authorities in 1948 and since that time has made frequent trips to after her police searched miss Knuths Home and found powerful shortwave radio receiver since she has been in Cial several thousand lice refuse to say exactly How Many arrived at tse Cologne office Box addressed to her through former Frank Furt police miss Knuth obtained documents and police police a Tow com pan Watt to Road conditions 25 special military police reported that As of noon today roads were icy in Nurnberg and Stutt Gart dry in Bremerhaven and Kaiserslautern i Snow packed Brenner pass and Garmisch wet and icy in Frankfurt and Wuehr students pal May solve code9 in death 25 the parents of a chemistry Stu Dent who was found dead of cya Nide poisoning with a coded letter taped to his stomach told police that the youth had the curious habit of sending coded letters to one unidentified Friend in Paul r u b i is Brooklyn neighbourhood told police he might be Able to decipher the typewritten note that has baffled the two words in it were and murder possibility but these developments Only heightened the Puzzle for Coroner Joseph i am keeping in my mind the opinion that this is no he Ominsky said earlier that there was a possibility it was the body of the 18yearold York University student was seat Home to Brooklyn for burial local and Federal authorities to learn How he came to die Day in a ditch at Philadelphia Ter National v j the victims Aad Samuel revealed that the scholarly youth has been Send ing coded messages to friends several