European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes january 1953 dec heralds Dawn of superpower Era Jan 29 atomic program plunging into a new Era of super weapons and that is the Gist of the atomic Energy commissions 13th semiannual report to issued noting that the first decade of atomic development came to a dose in the six months covered by the the dec in of More than a symbolic sense this latest has witnessed the crystallization of important lines of research and development that began earlier in the the commission was not talking Hershey eyes draft boost of dads 29 selective service director maj Gen Lewis Hershey said he soon will recommend that president Eisen Hower tighten deferment of col lege students and he told newsmen that eventually a Man will be an unusual Case if he gets schooling before military weve got to careful not to substitute schooling and scientific training for military her Shey noting that a Happy medium must be found Between scientific and professional groups think were losing the race in developing technically trained men and those who wonder Why Doest go into the As the first step toward draft ing Hershey he will seek executive order ending deferments for men who become lathers while in College under de ferment and then request a second deferment after graduation on grounds of scores he Sale proposed order also would that College fresh men stand in the upper Quarter instead of upper half of their class and score 75 instead of 70 on the selective service College qualification he said he does not plan to seek the changes from but depend on an executive he said to col lege men could be drafted under stricter deferment Hershey said several orders for changing deferments have been studied by selective service officials and the manpower committee of the office of defense mobilize but none has reached the final Hershey said there is no plan at present to lower the draft age from he noted that selective serv ice will Start calling 19yearolds in Large numbers next air valve blamed wreck 29 a partly closed air valve has Bee blamed the spectacular wreck in which a runaway train plunged off the end of its rails and into the concourse of Washington big Union a Parade of witnesses at a hear ing held by the interstate com Merce commission gave testimony that added up to this everything on train the Pennsylvania Federal express from Boston seemed to be work ing at Baltimore the a morning of but when it reached Only the Crakes on the electric locomotive and the first three cars worked the brakes on the final 13 cars didst function All the train hurtled off its dead end almost no one was but More than 40 persons were strike cat steel profits new 29 55day steel strike that started last june 2 Cut earnings of the steel in 1952 to the lowest level since its quarterly re port of Hydrogen bombs it was also of new and better atom bombs and atomic Power for planes and the dec did not amplify its previous guarded statements about last novembers Gigantic Hydrogen tests at eniwetok in the except to note that former presi Dent in his final state of the Union pointed out their High and sombre billion investment in that earlier this Truman called the eniwetok results he proclaimed a Era of destructive Power in yesterdays report the dec told Congress current expansion greatest in the programs will give the nation a capital investment in atomic Energy of times what it was when the dec took Over six years of atomic raw materials is with Many new sources being exploited in South Canada and the the atomic Power past six months development has made longer strides than in any other Hal year of the full scale land based Model of the first atomic submarine engine is substantially completed and manufacture of a seagoing version is under Way for the uss now under sob engine on the land based Proto Type of a second submarine engine for the uss sea Wolf is Well advanced and atomic Power for aircraft carriers is in the on atomic Power plants for planes has yielded promising results and a station is being test built for plane engines now under the dec anticipates Large scale participation by Industry in atomic Power development some 225 firms have expressed interest and is studying the necessary legislation to encourage 8 plans Are being made for construction of a atom smasher to Speed research into new ways of releasing nuclear the dec it is pushing improvement of current weapon models and developing new models for the armed it is preparing for new test explosions this Spring at the proving ground in scene of 20 atomic before departure to far East Spellman tells of wide dope use in Korea Gen Lawton Collins army chief of shakes hands with Robert Secretary of the just be fore leaving for also shown Washington National Airport Are it Gen Anthony Mcavliffe army personnel and acting Secretary of the army Earl press photo in those United states m9arthur feted at 73 new 29 Douglas Macarthur held a reunion on his 73d birthday with Many of the top military leaders who worked with him to bring Victory Over Japan in world War the general of the army spent the Day quietly at his Waldorf Astoria Reading congratulatory messages and receiving visitors be fore going to the dinner guaranteed to make him feel at least 10 years the Host at the private get together of about 70 of the Pacific War maj Gen Sverdrup described the party this Way its just a Bunch of old timers getting together to talk Over of Battles and feeling at least 10 years Sverdrup said the men who moved from hedge hopping the Pacific islands until they reached began the practice of in formally meeting once a year in 1947 in Sverdrup was chief Engineer in the Southwest about 70 colonels and of them re invited to the dinner in the Janssen suite of the Holohan suspect files to be lawyer new 29 application to practice Law in Pennsyl Vania has been filed by former army it Aldo Toho will be tried in absent a by the italian government next month on a chores of Mur Dering Oss maj James Holohan during world War John the slain majors and Michael free Lance writer who brought the Case to Public attention in a Magazine said they had Learned Icardi would appear before the Allegheny county Board of Law examiners in 4 die As plane crashes on farm state 29 persons were killed when their Light in route to new Ork for a food crashed on a farm while attempting to at the Airport three were members of jacks a Novelty food manufacturing firm in South the dead were identified As Irene of South Bend Joseph of president of the firm Wyland of Kansas a and Darwin of South Howard Hughes fights Chaplin film 29 Mogul Howard in response to an american legion said he is making a concerted Effort to get Rio Heaters to cancel their National bookings of Charlie chaplins limelight Loews and Fox Heaters in los banned the Pic Ture after being informed of the legions Roy head of the International Alliance of theater and stage employees said his organization had joined with the legion in demanding the picture be banned in the he Chaplin has shown nothing out contempt for Congress asked to restore Gold Standard 29 a Daniel Reed chairman of the House ways and Means has introduced Provoo denies he beat pm new jai29 former sgt John David angrily denied at his treason trial that he Ever beat a fellow prisoner on Corregidor during world War n or offered his services to the testifying for the second Day in his trial on charges of siding with the japanese and mistreating his fellow american Provoo claimed he passed himself off As a Buddhist priest so he could inter cede in behalf of other he said he acted As an inter Preter for the japanese and in that capacity once asked sgt Joseph Freel to give his boots to a japanese the prosecution charged Provoo beat Freel did you strike this Man de sense attorney George plot Kin asked the defendants face he leaned Forward in the witness chair and pointed a Finger at his at 4tm accused of beating this Man to compel him to turn Over his boots to the Provoo i never i never hit any prisoner of War he then denied he Ever was in Strumental in the beating of any fellow legislation proposing a return to the Gold the Reed would restore the right of the american citizen freely to own Gold and Gold restrain further deterioration of our enable holders of paper Money to redeem it in Gold Coin on demand and establish and maintain a Domestic Goldcoin new 29 government renewed its wit on juvenile narcotic addiction Day As Francis Cardinal just Back from disclosed that army doctors told him a frightful number of american soldiers there Are narcotics addict to the Cardinal told a cathode youth organization of the depressing aspects of there is addiction among 1 doctors have told me of Tot frightful number Are victims of that terrible those who promote the use of narcotics among youth Are guilty in the sight of god and Tat sight of our red paddlers there have been Many that communist agents Are ing dope among american troop in Cardinal Spellman sail he understood the affected youth had become addicts in the fore entering the several months ago the chief at the narcotics told a United commission that communist China is spreading the drug habit through agents in Korea Aad Japan and financing communist activities through the sales of the later korean reports that the Mastermind of the drat traffic among american troops a believed to be a limbless Kotos nicknamed the Seal h marijuana is abundant in sour Korea because of the growing at hemp and use of this narcotic it with users eventually passing on to cocaine and big time vice ring in Midwest broken lured College girls 29 agents struck against a big Tims vice ring that recruited College gmt1 and checked up on the financial ratings of its in cracking Down on the tuition Fri two Little Black books listing those arrested included 11 suspected of being prostitutes two alleged seven customers also were picked opt f later in the an alleged John tiered to Federal authorities Gawron was a of arranging with two women to their Cal girl Gawron is a partner in Johnf bar and fun House at Minne Apos which authorities said was used i a Clearing House for girls procure by the ring for illicit traffic Wisconsin South attorney Alex dim Minneapolis that some of the gun were recruited from the universe St of Minnesota drop in beef prices Laid to increasing Supply 29 american meat Industry spokesman said that prices of beef on the Hoof have been dropping at stockyards All Over the nation because of in creasing numbers sent to prices paid for steers by Chicago packers average around lowest for january since t sgt balks of was at Pentagon 29 up1 25yearold was from the was talked out of suicide leap from a window ledge of the Pentagon Mary Lemons was tog on the ledge when two go arc saw they pleaded with to when an acquaintance t sgt Benjamin of chanced b he was Able to j crawl Back into the Ras taken to Walter Reed for