European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Weather forecast j Candy with fog Over Cloudy aver the Low i and Austria with rain in the Ixo countries and Germany and Snow in Eastern and Southern f and Italy mostly Cloudy rain showers in the cooler weather Venice european edition nurse corps birthday tie army nurse corps Cele Brates its 52d anniversary for a history of the oldest of the women military see Page unofficial publication of the armed forces in Europe volume number 288 5 cents a a month february 1953 gales take heavy toll in North Europe yanks feared victims us sub sinks at Dock r s unit helps i in rescuing stranded 1 some Ameri t can servicemen and their i families were feared lost to t Day in devastating floods that overwhelmed this Norfolk l the heroic commander of l a air Force unit was taken to Hospital today Tuff eng from exposure after what deemed a vain bid to save the lives of some of his he was capt Gerald wether of who strove through 10 hours of wind and dark Ness to Rescue men and women of flooded last night when near Hurricane winds com in tend with Spring tides to burst on Page 3 t envoys meet in Paris 1 Secretary of state John Foster Dulles arrived Here today and immediately began talks with the top american envoys la Western c coming from where he spent yesterday on the Start of his pin Day tour of seven Western european Dalles went i wetly from orly Airport to a Busi Cess lunch with the leading Amer ican diplomats assigned to Germany and was accompanied by my Security Agency chief Harold the two sessions with officials of the Ich then go on to five ambassadors and six banisters were to Brief Dulles and in attending today lunch were am Dor to France James issador to Italy Ellsworth Bun on Page 1 in late sports 1 Johnson drove the 2 sled to a world Champion Fourman bobsled racing1 Berlin Cpl confesses Fobbing sergeant of Cor Jwal today turned himself in to to commanding officer and con fessed to the fatal shooting and Ery of a Berlin Mili authorities e Public information office of command released a naming the Corporal As of Ard a member of the 558th guard inf Rifle tie slaying was discovered by German police this morning when they investigated an american car that had been parked two hours with its engine the killing occurred about 11 pm the sergeant was dead from a Bullet wound entered his right Cheek that and emerged below his left the army statement Simpson had in blood stained pcs when he surrendered on Page 1 not leaving Ridgway 1 a Lifeboat loaded with survivors from the ill fated ferry Princess Victoria pulls through turbulent i i a3 v a to Artof n press telephoto Hope is abandoned of finding More us ferry survivors Northern ire Matthew Ridgway said today he j 1 coast was not fed up with his Job As guardsmen abandoned Hope today supreme Allied commander in Eurof finding any More survivors from and he denied published Ruthe ferry Princess mors that he was even thinking crippled by Hurricane lashed of asking to be i dont know the source of these Ridgway said in a com i have not had in the past any such ideas and i do not now have since president Eisenhower elec Paris newspapers have been publishing reports that Ridgway would his Job and be re the gave the source of their we throughout the nato on Page 2 seas toward a Tanker taking part in Rescue tide capsizes frigate in thames Estuary 1 English East coast storm flooded a Royal Navy dockyard last sinking a submarine and capsizing a other Craft were the admiralty reported no the admiralty said a Gale whipped High tide swirled into the naval dockyard at on the South Bank of the thames Estuary about 30 Miles East of undergoing overhaul the submarine Sirdar went to the the frigate Berkeley Castle both ships were in the the Sirdar is one of 20 Sclass submarines of tons Dis placement reputed to be among the Slickest in the British they can crash in 30 in september secret service men went aboard her in nearby Chatham dockyard to investigate suspected the admiralty on Page 5 sabres bag migs at rate of 11 to 1 1 Jet fighters have attained a combat superiority of 111 Over the soviet built the air Force said this sensational ratio was achieved Over two years of fighting the reds in their own backyard Over Northwest the of the ratio formerly was put at in favor of the the 5th of said that Sabre pilots destroyed 548 migs since the planes first went into action in december during that 49 sabres were downed in despite the controversy which has raged Over the relative performance qualities of the two air the of the record stands preponderant by in favor of the Sabre Jet the Scotland to Ireland ferry rolled Over and Sank yesterday about five Miles off this Little Irish port with the loss of 133 United press said 136 persons no women or children an official of the nationalized British which operated the Princess said there were no women and children among the the first Lifeboat to leave the ship carried 30 women and but it the 44 survivors were too heart broken to cry and too dazed to talk but All of them praised capt James who fought the cruel seas to the last trying to Savke his still cling ing to the he saluted in the tradition of the the instant be on Page 2j coastal floods ravage 3 nations 1 Gale whipped tidal seas crashed Over coastal towns and farmlands in Southeast Ern Holland and Belgium today and drowned at least 152 persons in one of history worst weather fears mounted that the final death toll May reach Hun thousands of Homes were smashed into uncounted numbers of Small vessels were sunk at their tie sea boiled up in Mountain Ous Waves in the aftermath of the on Page 4 snows snarl zonal traffic 1 accompanied by howling gusts of wind which hit As High As 60 struck Many areas Oil West Germany snarling rail and Road travel and leaving hundreds of cars stranded on Auto Bahns and other the Highway Between Schaffen Burg and Wuerzburg was reported blocked by seven foot drifts of Snow farther Highway patrols tonight were turning Back All traffic headed for the 70kilometer stretch of autobahn Between Stutt Gart and the military police said 10 minor accidents had occurred on this stretch during the before the on Page 3 subzero cold grips North Central states 1 a numbing cold wave spread Over the Nort Central part of the nation to Day and headed for new England and the Middle Atlantic the weather Bureau re ported an Early morning tempera Ture of 23 degrees below Zero at near the heart of the cold it was 5 below at Mason and 6 above at plan reported to hit 1 government sources have reported president Eisenhower has under consideration an order releasing the 7th Fleet from Formosa guard duty act which would free chinese nationalists for raids on the communist the announcement of this plan May be made in Eisenhower state of the Union message to be delivered to a joint session of con Gress one informant the effect of the proposed order would be to rescind former presi Dent Harry Truman 1950 direct Ive to the 7th Fleet to protect for held by the chinese nationalists under Chiang from invasion by the chinese the Truman announced on june also called on the on Page 4
