European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes february 1953 Marthur hails idea of 7th Fleet removal Callstrom inaction serious error new 1 Douglas Macarthur yesterday lauded the reported intention of president Eisenhower to order the 7th Fleet out of the Formosa Strait the former far Eastern com Mander said the action would Cor rect one of the strangest anomalies known to military the original 7th Fleet order issued by former president Harry tru Man was described Macarthur As a fundamental error which has contaminated the entire far East Ern comments were made in a statement issued for him by his maj Gen Courtney reds Macarthur said Truman action placed a restriction on the activity of the free chinese and gave Public notice that the chinese reds were to enjoy unprecedented Sanctuary in the Strug Gle for Asia Between the forces of communism and those of the free the generals statement then added it was undoubtedly this Deci with its which emboldened the chinese communist forces to intervene in increasing strength in in in and along the entire Periphery of their aggressive Advance in tug strike hits Eastern ports new 1 three Hundred tugboat and Oil Barge workers in new Phila Delphia and struck Lor higher wages Early threatening to immobilize the Busy new with memories of a crippling walkout seven years faced Power and fuel a relatively Small group of 350 workers of four companies took to Shore in with a pledge from another Dock workers to observe picket they seemed capable of tying up the Hampton roads the 450 men involved in Phila Delphia handle the Docking of most of the ships arriving in that the strikers Are members of the United Marine inter National longshoremen there Are of them in the port of new York working on 450 eighty tugs and barges Are tied up in 28 in in All military cargoes seemed free to the Union promised in new York that they would not be Road conditions i special military police reported As of noon roads were wet at Munich and Nurnberg at Garmisch and and Snow packed at i support indicated in Congress 1 up powerful support built today for president Eisen Howers reported plan to free Chi Nese nationalist troops on Formosa for on red reported divulge his intentions in his state of the Union message to Congress but Robert Taft Senate majority said yesterday there is no under standing that the message would contain that Taften Dorset the reported it is a step in the right direction and probably As Long a step As should be taken at this Taft Fleet adm William who was wartime chief of staff to the late president Franklin Roosevelt and former president Harry conferred with Eisenhower for 15 minutes but said the formosan situation was not but Leahy if anyone wants to let the chinese nationalists help clean up the problems along the China that is a Bright foreign reaction the reported Fleet action created some anxiety among foreign a but no apparent official sources in Britain said the British would reluctantly go along with abandonment of the neutralization William Fulbright said that if the nations military leaders say the plan is he would not quarrel with Alexander Smith a member of the foreign relations it May be one of the most effective Steps we could take in the direction of settlement of the korean Homer Ferguson said he has always thought it bad policy to keep the chinese nationalists Frozen on atomic Shell tests set on Nevada Range 1 the army huge 280mm Cannon will be used to fire atomic shells at the Nevada proving grounds this Spring after Crews Are trained maj Gen Arthur commandant of the artillery said the gun also will be fired Here but emphasized no atomic shells would be the big gun can fire both conventional and atomic there Are several guns Here for training but the army is withhold ing the exact Harper said two will be shipped to Nevada for tests to be conducted by the atomic Energy Norstad confers on decaf 1 vice marshal Godwin of the Royal Canadian air Force and Gen Lauris commander of Allied air Central conferred at Allied air Headquarters Here yesterday on problems of supplying Craf units in yanks feared victims in flood heroism of rescuers recounted continued from Page 1 through a Stout sea Wall and Shat Ter scores of a number of american airmen and their families from nearby Sculthorpe air base were known to be renting i some of these destroyed houses there is no Esti mate of the number that actually were occupied by americans or britons when the sea struck and destroyed a a spokesman that some were but he said the number was very the 67th Usan air Rescue so from Sculthorpe was called to action in a novel role last night when news of the disaster reached the air since an estimated so american airmen and soldiers have worked continuously to Rescue the some of them have toiled ceaselessly in biting wind and near freezing temperatures without res others have worked in shifts to ensure sufficient men Are on the Job to Man lifeboats and keep the lifesaving machinery going with outa about six of including have been admitted to Frankfurt miss dimes of 1953 Billie Jean who was named miss dimes of 1953 at the pal Garden service club in Laurie Daugherty standing was More than two dozen girls competed in the a trophy was presented to the photo by Killpack Usa eur sets up Courtesy patrol 1 beginning a Usa eur officer Courtesy patrol will operate weekdays in the Campbell bar Racks Usa eur he area and weekends in Heidelberg to Check on military conduct and one officer will be on patrol duty twice daily Between 11 am and and 5 pm and 7 lieutenant majors and captains from Usa eur staff divisions will perform this the patrol officer will make on thespot corrections of Courtesy or disciplinary infractions which come to his and report All flagrant Gen Parker retires served 39 years 1 maj Gen Edwin army Provost marshal re tired yesterday after 39 years of parkers successor will be Brig Gen William who will reach Washington within a few Days from his previous assignment As Usa eur Provost parkers office staff bade him Farewell yesterday in a private ceremony at which he was presented a scroll signed by the civilians and officers who had worked with him during his fou year term As the chief army Law enforcement soldiers use Recti less Rifle in Battle to malt Gas Well fire aboard patrol Gulf of 1 soldiers braved scorching heat and ricocheting Whit hot Shell frag ments to blast the top from a Burn ing Gas Well yesterday with a 75 my recoilless behind the infantry men knocked off the top of the roaring Well with their 34th round and sent flames Gey Sering two Veteran firefighters were to use 70 pounds of dynamite today in an attempt to blow out the b 1 a z which 5s 100 feet the payoff Rifle shot was fired less than 200 feet from the blazing the Rifle was on a building erected on pilings driven into the Gulf of Mexico some 90 Miles South West of new the soldiers had a task in hitting the Small top of the a Low blow could have punctured the Well pipe and possibly set off another the coast guard and scores of pure Oil workers have worked around the clock in trying to control the spectacular fire since its unexplained origin last the infantrymen riddled the top of one blazing Well to such an extent last tuesday that the fire fighters were Able to snap it off with a steel Loop attached to a Long by shooting off the top of the other Well it was unnecessary to use the it Raymond of was in charge of the four Man gun Crew from Camp the task of aiming the army Rifle again fell to Cpl Don Dyson of who slammed 30 into the top of the other Well that started the costly pvt John of new York was the loader and sgt Leon of replaced sgt Robert of Nobles As Crew Chancy was of leave to be the Hospital suffering from sure through jumping into the foaming Waters in their lifesaving some observers said they Esti mated 100 and been snatched from the icy Waves by the american airmen who launched themselves on frail rafts and tiny dinghies at the most furious moment of the not the cans wore Bright yellow exposure suits designed for airmen who bail out of but these exposure suits never were intended for the work of seizing marooned men from timbers of collapsing Bunga the suits were ripped to pieces in the exposure casualties the water rushed Caus ing most of the american exposure was How wether on finally yielded to the Waters pour ing in from the North but Many hours of struggle pre ceded his withdrawal from the airman Herman of Gate this unit happens to have the distinction of possessing the toughest command ing officer in the air Burke was in the first truck to reach the flood scene last night be Grimes and with bloodshot eyes but still he was still on j the Job at noon j pie had this to say of the watery havoc which extended from the american Headquarters far along the coast to once peaceful Dersingham formerly favorite Hunting spot of sport Loving King George now entirely under water and strewn with carcasses of drowned cattle bodies crushed in Bushes it was it was the worst flood i have Ever worst things were the human corpses crushed into the i saw i was at during the Hurricane there in this was much another american hero was Reis who launched himself on a inflatable rubber he paddled through the storm from Bungalow to Bungalow until he collapsed from exhaustion and the biting but before then he had saved 18 among them s sgt Douakil Graham of the 1st tactical of Leming was admitted to the Hospital and is recuperating Satis other american airmen who aided the Rescue operation included sgt Earl of made six trips of an inflatable raft and brought bail several survivors and three drinking water polluted he was exposed to the full fury of the Waters for four an other was sgt Maurice l of san capt of Eui Foj was the units duty officer at Sculthorpe who set in motion the Rescue operation when the first warning windswept Hunstanton Iseji was like a beleaguered City Athos the sea had polluted Toto drinking water Supply to this Toutt of and a town crier Wijt around in medieval style ringing a Bell to warn inhabitants against drinking the the Royal air Force distributed drinking water in jugs from Mobile tanks which circulated through the Queen Mary sails Day late 1 the liner Queen Mary left today Cherbourg and new York after be ing delayed for 24 hours by