European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 195 Truman Memoir offer of reported n sir 4iia Kansas 26 president Truman will write his memoirs for a new York publishing firm at a figure expected to run to More than during a period of several one of the former presidents closest friends disclosed this to associated press in addition Truman will make periodical lecture Tours along lines of his own he will be completely free to write and say what he the source for this information on Truman plans would not be quoted by the details of the agreement Are being handled for Truman by Matthew his 1 Secretary at the White the source would not identify the publishing firm making the contract for the memoirs of who served nearly eight years As president of the Truman rejected More than one offer to serve As sales manager for commercial he believed they might try to exploit his name in a manner unfitting a Man who served As pleven terms new arms Aid vital to France 26 a French defense minister Rene pleven told parliament last night France could not increase her armed forces Dur ing 1953 unless she received More foreign from the a further francs he pointed enable him to add another men to the army besides adding specialists to the air France at present has men serving in Europe and North pleven spoke at a special sunday session of the National Assembly which met to consider French military estimates for the current he warned the deputies that nothing had occurred to Lessen existing world pleven claimed that 1952 despite the Burden of the French War with communist led forces in been a year of in disputable improvement for the French armed he had fulfilled the engagements she undertook at the Lisbon conference of the North Atlantic treaty her land forces stood at 12 divisions at the end of while her air Force had 27 he that is not to say that All 12 divisions of the land army Are on War footing or that the air Force squadrons Are All at the desired army times plans daily paper in us 26 the army times publishing announced yesterday it will begin publishing a daily newspaper in London 16 for air Force personnel in great Britain and North the to be named the air Force will contain general world american spol news of european area and published in tabloid it will sell for 5 executive editor of the new Dally initially will be Melvin president of the army times pub Lishing the firm will continue publication in Frankfurt of three weeklies for servicemen in Europe Coffee cops seize stolen armoured car 26 Coffee cops seized an armoured car loaded with pounds of Coffee after a customs patrol had forced the vehicle off the the Aachen customs command reported the smugglers tried to set fire to the car and Coffee Load before but the Coffee cops extinguished the Blaze and saved the car and customs authorities said the a Mored car was one of three vedic armoured cars and radio from a belgian army Cavern near Aachen several weeks one was recovered two weeks ago after a Breakneck the radio car is still the armoured car crashed through a steel customs barricade As if i were a matchstick and the vehicle heavy tires rolled Over a pronged anti smuggling Chain stretched across the Road without even authorities said investigation i still in Progress to determine How the three former army vanished from the Vatican paper says Pope improving Vatican 26 Pope confined to bed in his first major ailment since he be came head 5f the roman Cathola officially was reported improving in its second bulletin since the pontiff took to his bed last thurs Losse Vatore Romano con firmed that the Popes condition is now other authoritative Vatican sources say the Pope has been suffering from bronchial pneumonia As Well As the Vatican newspaper also con firmed that the 76yearold pontiff ailment was More serious than a first Losse Vatore sail that the irritation of the respiratory tract that accompanied the Popes ailment had taken a some what acute it added that he is now actor Dies in borne 26 american stage and screen character died yesterday after a Long he was Eisenhower discuss Korea Speed it Gen Maxwell Taylor confers with president Eisenhower at the White House on his new Job As 8tb army cd in photo Italy protests endive report 26 the italian government has vigorously denied that an imported shipment of endive caused the cur rent typhoid epidemic which has been raging in this area the past four it was Learned Here the italian consulate after receiving an official statement from branded the report Asen tirely without and made a protest during the weekend to City authorities Over the publicizing of the in the official statement re leased the italian government pointed out that its health authorities conducted a thorough investigation and found that not a single Case of typhoid had been re ported in the italian area from where the endive had been shipped to cases decline German health authorities Here disclosed this morn ing that there has been a noticeable decline in both typhoid and Grippe cases in this area during the past a Sevenman team of Mili tary personnel has been assigned to help German authorities deter mine the source of the typhoid according to it col John Stuttgart District sur no yank deaths reported in Munich flu wave 26 american personnel have died in the influenza epidemic which has proved fatal to at least 25 bavarian the past two the office of the Munich District surgeon announced officials added the epidemic would be More correctly described As an upper respiratory illness with influenza this officials appears to be on the at least three fourth of All military personnel in the District received flu shots sat urday and Erma enlistments n army denied Usa eur he 26 special Usa eur he officials today Dis missed As without foundation a Munich newspaper Story that a number of germans have been Al owe to enlist in the pointing out that army policy prohibits such the newspaper said recently that approximately 100 stateless Ger mans and German nationals who had renounced their citizenship had been admitted into the Usa eur officials there never has been a policy that would allow German nationals or stateless germans to enlist in the army and it is not anticipated that such a policy will be adopted in the fun any such policy would not be consistent with the proper Observance of the sovereignty of the West German Federal any German nationals or state less germans who conceal their status in order to enlist in the army would be discharged As fraudulent they the Only germans who would be accepted for enlistment under pres ent the officials would be those who had gone to the and obtained american citizenship through Normal Chan retained Foi yanks in zone continued from Page 1 for High Speed even the which were built fast motor vehicle Are has they because of the Many construction and repair acts under Usa eur officials added thai the Usa eur Nee Ted Accident experience is steadily improving under current Speed controls despite the increase traffic on German aggressive traffic safety educational and enforcement plus the defensive driving attitudes of Usa eur personnel Are largely responsible for Tref favourable they stated the Usa eur announcement i said that the Speed limits to All members of the armed forces in Allied and Neutral civilian employee and their As Well As to the personnel and dependents old accredited agencies or individuals whose private and plate Vei hides Are now registered with the Usa eur motor vehicle diplomatic cars authorized personnel of Matic agencies will be issued an opiate registration for their privately owned vehicles and must adhere to us Reurs Speed Hico aut Oritta will Register and enforce Speed controls for vehicles bearing h Allied and Neutral civilian employees and members of the armed forces and their dependents stationed outside Germany will be required to comply with the usar eur traffic regulations while operating military or civilian vehicle within the area of Usa eur officials said that vehicle registration and related privileges can be withdrawn from members of the armed Allied and Neutral employee and As Well As person Nel of accredited agencies if they or their dependents Are apprehended for exceeding the Speed limits established by tues r Sears Catalon being distributed 26 special the 1953 Roebuck and Spring and summer listing Many new is now being distributed to special order desks in Post it was announced a few of the books have been retained at Sears Frankfurt 1 and will be distributed to customers on a first first served Munich flu expert i 26 Niche chief authority on epidemics was sick in bed victim of West Germany flu wife zoom Down Garmisch bobsled course t Urtiaga t no in the air sledding helmets for Protection in 4 cities report weekend mishaps 26 the first weekend of West Ger Many nose delimit traffic Law passed into history with no Able increase in the number of traffic accidents in Frankfurt Wiesbaden or two persons were killed and were 35 traffic according to police police said motorists had not stepped up the Speed of their driving through City they said the rate was much faster on open the two traffic fatalities Over the in the other in not attributed to in a German by cyclist was killed while a German pedestrian was killed Early saturday by a cat driven Wong Charles it he v corps arts Rhodes car slipped on an icy the report Gen Chiei age As a Sibb in Only to g a f the data cont Forn Hinc is a t Smi con afe int Sillge Seri Sec can Sigl with Hon t big ans to i Larl Nal top Hen Clu Dei 1 i Sec a err act 1 the the the co1 i let Sai i of in be lit de w Sil i 26 Matthew supreme Allied commander in Europe and world War u paratroop had a new thrill Ridgway Rode a bobsled Down the dangerous olympic that was really a thrilling he Fye never done anything so exciting in my said his pretty they Rode on the 2 sled which will race in next weekends Fourman world the sled was driven by Lloyd Johnson of rapid with capt Hubert of Saranac As the general and his wife Rode Between John son and they came Down the curving course in 1 minute seconds slower than the course they averaged nearly 45 the rid ways kept their balance like asked How it compared with Para the general i think i know where i am in the air better than i did on this the sled they Rode is named widow their ride was sandwiched in be tween practice runs by teams from 10 nations preparing for the world championships Here the general wore an army Field jacket and heavy military trousers tucked in his ski ring Way wore dark ski trousers and a Rose coloured ski jacket which set of her Brunet both used the traditional Bob sledding helmets for Protection in Case of but As soon As he hit the the general shed the helmet and put on the kind of fur lined Cap that he wore in the general and Ridgway Are vacationing in they came Here from his Paris head several Hundred out for the practice watched rid ways they were impressed by recalling that very few non bobsled Ders ventured the hazardous prostitution aimed Indore Rhine areas 26 health authorities estimated today that to prostitutes j living in effective prostitution wih l be banned in two More District to of the bringing the total 14 out of 39 the state government also Lesuea new orders for police registration of All transients in an Effort Duce