European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 i Dulles reaches confers with envoys continued from Page 1 charge in Britain minister Julius acting High j commissioner in Germany Samuel Mesa chief in Europe ambassador William his Polit ical Deputy ambassador Frederick his military Deputy ambassador Livingston Mesa Mission chief in France Henry Mesa chief in Britain Lin Coln Mesa chief in Ger Many Michael Harris and Mesa chief in Italy Lincoln tonight the entire group was to meet again at a dinner at dunns Home with the four top american military men in Europe also in on the Gruenther Gen Matthew supreme Allied commander in Europe his chief of staff Gen Alfred Gruenther Gen Thomas Deputy european and Gen Lauris Allied air Force commander in Central will Brief Dulles and Stassen on the state of Western As he did in his first speech to the american people monday night before leaving on his trip and As he did repeatedly in Dulles hammered on the Unity theme on his arrival in to the More than 100 radio and newsreel men who had him pose repeatedly with French foreign minister Georges Draper and others of the More than a score of dignitaries who greeted Dulles declared Salute to leaders now As we plan for lasting we Salute your French leaders since the end of the second world have inspired such constructive and imaginative efforts As the Schuman plan for a Coal and steel Community and the pleven plan for a european de sense Community such creative thinking and planning have caught the imagination of the american people and we want to know More about your purposes and plans for the future so that we can take them into account in our no Trace of of Jet found off Tripoli 1 Heli copter which left the wheelus air yesterday to search a new area for a missing air Force Jet plane found no Trace of a Lighthouse keeper and a Fisher Man reported seeing a Jet flying Low Over the Mediterranean was of Tripoli the Day it Rober of a reported missing on an air gun Nery exercise Over the the which had previously been has now been called off electricity expert Dies 1 a Charles who helped establish the ohm As the inter National Standard of measuring electrical died Here Moon was head of the Inductance Section of the Bureau o where he had worked since 1918 the stars and stripes february 195 family awaits word of missing Ace gales take heavy toll in Northern Europe wife of the Jet Ace reported captured by the Beds after a Battle Over North holds a picture of her missing lieutenant colonel husband in her As retries to explain to their Linda Rae and Hope is abandoned of finding More us ferry survivors continued from Page 1 fore his stricken vessel he was not seen the 10 Crew members among the survivors and sailors on Rescue ves Sels said these three factors contributed to the tragic loss of life Princess Victorias life boats were secured to the davits by wire cables instead of seamen lost precious seconds Hack ing away at these wires to launch the ferry took on a 35degree list As her hold rapidly filled with this spilled the oars out of the boats that eventually were those who reached the lifeboats watched in agony As women and children drifted by them in the raging the boats could not be mane Vered to reach signals from the Prin Cess Victoria confused some res Cue ships in the these vessels at first understood the ferry was near the scottish coast and steamed along instead of along the Irish Only bodies have been recovered thus All were in an attempt to recover More bodies it was thought the bodies of the dead would be washing up on the Scot Tish and Irish coasts for weeks to not leaving Gen Ridgway says from Page 1 Ridgway have a great and vital task to strengthen the defences of the free world against any potential As supreme Allied commander in Ridgway i Shal continue doing everything i As i have done in the to help build up these any rumours to the he Are wholly possibly prompting the rumours that Ridgway would quit were his Public statements that he was Dis satisfied with the recent trend to slow Down Western Europe de sense snows snarl zonal traffic continued from Page 1 Section was finally blocked off be cause of heavy snowdrifts and High winds which made driving practically it was Hope that Sno Clearing machines would make Road passable in the in three persons were tilled by Gables ripped from roofs by Gal strength and weather officials predicted that most of Germany would have More Snow showers tonight and to with particularly heavy Snow in the bavarian Alps Rhine main weather officials re ported Snow began falling at the air base at 2 am the air base was closed to military flights for a few hours sunday morning when visibility fell to less than half a the officials winds up to 55 Mph hit the base Early Frankfurt weather Bureau officials said that by 4 pm sunday eight inches of Snow had fallen on the Feldberg and about two inches in 60 3iph gusts the same officials reported wind gusts up to 60 the winds were responsible for temporary Dis connections in electrical systems throughout portions of including parts of Railroad officials said crack express and International trains were arriving Here As much As seven hours the running Between Wetzlar and came to a com plete halt Between 7 noon today As wind draped Telegraph poles an electric lines across the one fast train Between the Netherlands and was cancelled of a dam break in the in Bonn roofs of a number of dwellings were blown water one foot deep flooded the cob Lenzer the main artery be tween Bonn and bad the High winds Cut off electricity to the 458unit Hico housing project in bad Godesberg for a Short period last night and for ivs hours this continued from Page 1 same Hurricane that Sank the British ferry Princess Victoria in the Irish sea a trawler with 15 men aboard vanished without a Trace off the the toll of known dead reached 108 in 39 in Holland and five in Belgium As the Hunt for bodies dikes burst the sea burst through Many dikes of Holland and flooded 50 towns and hamlets built on land reclaimed from the mayors sent out frantic Calls for motor boats to Rescue Many of them marooned on the population of the flooded Holland area was estimated at about the Netherlands army cancelled leaves to prepare for wholesale Rescue panic was reported in flooded sections of travel into these areas was authorities declared a state of Waves were reported washing into the second floors of some waterfront hotels at Bel Gia Seaside the storms on the English coast As the worst in Miles of Shore areas were inundated As Waters breached sea Walls and washed away uncounted one thousand persons marooned in Lime sat the Clacton suburb of Jay Wick in Southeast England All available services were mobilized for their but Many casualties were missing tally unknown Kings Lynn reported four known men and two nine were known dead in the Low lying Lincolnshire coast District of Louth and eight More deaths were reported from the Norfolk resort of Hun Norfolk fishing had seven no one knew How Many were Many flooded seawall areas were lined with Flimsy used As weekend Holiday but Many were lived in one mud caked Veteran of wartime said the Yar Formosa continued from Page 1 cot admits killing robbing sergeant i Ihnut turn hours of talk chinese nationalists to cease All air and sea operations against the the effect has been to keep the nationalists penned up on Formosa As Well As to prevent any communist invasion of that it was emphasized by another government spokesman that the proposed Fleet order does not envision any suggested attempt by the to blockade the China As has been suggested in some nor would the order offer any help to Chiang in any attempt he might make to the chinese this official Chiang already is receiving Mili tary assistance and equipment from the and an american Mission in Formosa has been Active in train ing his Mouth devastation was the worst he had Ever the floods picked up huge Tira Bers from the Harbor Side and sent them Bobbing against rescuers struggling through the chested Ujj ambulances and fire trucks toiled throughout the in one Mouth customers leaped on the bar As a Wall of water rushed if the Waves devoured a huge slice of Cliff at North of Yap Cliffside gardens Slid into the leaving houses teetering on the two houses live wire hazards three a 6month old feared dead in col lapsed houses at nearby sea Pali rescuers there faced a new from under ground Power lines exposed by the Job police and military chiefs Spear heading the Rescue work anxiously awaited a new High tide expected this they pinned Hopes on decreasing thousands of londoners spent a sleepless night fearing a major breach in thames River police routed people from base ments As the River inched then the swirling Waters forced Gates of dockland canals and swished feet deep through the no casualties were to Day the whole City was bathed in Spring like dead cattle from nearby marshes floated Down the ancient streets of picturesque Suffolk fish ins Village and noted tourist spot eight ton yachts on the aide River at Slaugh Don were smashed t to not a single building was left standing on Slaugh dons tiny army and Navy units this after noon began evacuating the population from Lowling Canvey on the Essex fire men still were bringing islanders from isolated a bus stranded near she Ernest unloaded passengers five at a time into an amphibious swans swim on Road Lincolnshire civil defense work ers went into full scale operation to handle thousands of refugees trudging in from coastal they set up emergency rest and feeding the storm smashed the sea front at the Cockney Coney at the height of the Batter a fire broke out at a co Algas firemen toiled through tie streets by boat and put it As High tide came to the River overflowed into the streets at a Southwest lond swans swam Over the a pfc merged London transport chiefs sent to watch the whole Watt lapped the base of Cleopatra ancient egyptian that stands on the embankment jul the heart of Many watchers lined they saw the Waters it nine inches below the tops of Wafler House loading then the Tefr slowly began to continued from Page 1 to he admitted having taken scrip from the dead mans the army statement military authorities declared he was being Given a ride last evening by Lliel sergeant that he fired while his victim was Simp son then disengaged the gears and allowed the car to coast to a curb on Finkenstein Allee in the where the car was Simpson then reportedly went by taxi to the Home of his girl Helma about 2 the couple went to the Home of 1st it William co of the 558th inf Rifle after about two hours of talk the officer persuaded Simpson to surrender his missing from his unit since and turned him Over to the state ment the pistol was hidden in a port Able which the Soldier was carrying with him while Riding with the army to return houses requisitioned in Japan 1 Japa nes owned houses used by military forces during the Tion will be released to the Japa Nese government by the end of far East come he said All the houses will be vacated by and Allied forces except those now rented under private agreements with at one time Allied forces occupied japanese owned 633 of j them in the Tokyo British Frigar founder in continued from Page 1 said that a valve had beco temporarily the admiralty said later it sent two helicopters from the so coast base of Gosport to a air Force Field at it said the helicopters available for reconnaissance j Rescue work if required in flooded i the Berkeley Casl was completed in she Antisubmarine weapons and my antiaircraft