European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In weather forecast by clo Cly with Enow showers northeastern and the partly aver remainder of and Plattle Chance in weather service thesta european edition unofficial publication of the armed forces i Europe late news 4 a the Senate foreign relation committee today unanimously approved the nomination of James Bryant Conant As High commissioner to Page number 291 5 cents a a month february 1953 new storm crumbles Holland dikes planes Rescue 200 flood victims of Rop Aid trapped 4 Spe armed forces Tes have rescued 200 Vic of the devastating floods ithe copters and Dukes evacuation operations it Gen Manton commander in army in an iced from his american Mili Relief organization he in n army can evacuate three persons and one air Force Heli which can evacuate seven rescued the stranded is in the flooded of by West Holland this a of planes will be increased additional army Heli Peers Hie helicopter made a forced sing on the partially flooded be Owen in dui Veland Island but i on Page 4 1ms american airmen of the 67th air Rescue so help in Hood Rescue efforts near Here they help recover the body of a press photo Miles sees leaders 4 of state John Foster Dulles foreign Secretary Anthony started talks this morning straining Anglo rican and Dulles met at the in office alone for a half private Chat before bringing air i the full session Dulles Ompa Nied by Harold Security director minister in and Lincoln of foreign id pro in Europe defense the top of the Agenda was Dent Eisenhower decision to realize Eden told ouse of commons yesterday suld broach the Formosa with lies later met prime minister Bri Churchill for then Bis talks at the foreign two americans leave to for the next Stop on a tour of seven european Iari becomes chief my veterinarians Heads Washington Bureau for 5areur chief of is new chief Mkrian of the over1 the top spot retirement of Brig Gen i Mccallam a it e f Riore j years new Rok div goes in action 4 James Van 8th army command announced today that a new Republic of Korea division is fight ing on the Eastern front and that enough trained Rok troops Are available for two More Van Fleet announced the 15th Rok div had gone into the 13th Rok div had been Manning the 155mile front along with seven one British Commonwealth division and smaller units from other members of the United billets hit american dive bomb ers poked through dense Clouds to demolish a area at pan Dong after b29 super forts smashed two communist Supply in Headquarters announced reds were killed or wounded in the big Allied raid on uie Western front biggest on Day toll this crippled since Dies at 99 4 Mary Sophia retired Welles Ley College professor who was stricken with polio at 8 and fined to a for the rest of her died yesterday at the age of hundreds set to flee fresh gales off us 4 sweeping out of the North sea brought new terror to Britain flood ravaged East coast tonight with thousands of families under orders to get set for hurry up Many were fleeing Homes in the Lowlyn Kings Lynn nor Folk on the heels of government warnings that a fresh storm was head ing South kicking up High and storm disasters have Cost 546 unofficial Kings Lynn police superintendent Calvert said there is a very real threatened the rising ouse River Tore a i 40yard Gap in its Banks threaten from the Washington Bureau new ambulances on jeep Chassis ordered by army ing persons living along the 15mile stretch from Kings Lynn to Downham Market with an estimated in the 1 o danger of trucks loaded with Granite rocks rushed across the Countryside from Nottingham into the Hamlet of Magdalen six Miles South of Kings Lynn in an at tempt to fill the police cars toured the area with loudspeakers warning of approach ing and troops were alerted for the fifth nigh Long Vigil against the raging winds reaching up to 60 Mph struck the Yorkshire distance North of Kings sir David Maxwell Britain on Page col 3 f Lark raps i curbs by James Quigley staff correspondent 4 Tice William Clark of the Hico ourt of appeals today protested the High courts inability to increase Well As reduce he protested the Lack of Power to increase the three year sentence imposed German Sari who beat to death Cpl William of the 3d 6th army Cav last the presiding armed the sentence for such a brutal crime As being totally in adequate and took to task hic ogs restriction on the appellate the writer takes this occasion to again protest the refusal of the legislative branches of Hico to permit us to increase Clark hic ogs opposition has been based on Lack of precedent in the he adding that Prece Dent worship has perpetrated Many evils and prevented much a precedent has been he the Massachusetts legislature has expressly set up a division fits a on Page s 4 the army announced last night that orders have been placed for a Cross ambulance jeep which will be issued to All regi mental medical production was ordered follow ing ordnance corps and Field forces the medical with a wheel base of 100 inches instead of the Normal will be completely in a forced air Heater will pro vide Complete weather the frontline ambulance will be Able to carry three litter patients or two litter and up to four ambulatory maj Gen Earle Cal Section chief at Field forces said the ambulance jeep will be issued to separate battalions and division ambulance army officials reported that 96 per cent of the parts used in Standard jeeps can be inter thus making maintenance a negligible Aldrich flies to Britain tomorrow As envoy 4 Winthrop was to Day sworn in As the new Ambas Sador to the former chairman of the Board of the Chase National new succeeds Walter if he said he plans to Emp Lane Friday for dutch toll hits still climbs 4 up the North sea churned by storm winds 50mph gusts washed away several temporary dikes guarding villages in the Hood stricken Southwest to night and authorities fought to keep the death toll of in the nether lands from soaring still United press staff correspondent Harold Melahn saw the sandbag emplacements crumble and dikes become undermined under the lashing of Waves and wind when he left the devastated flood zone As darkness fell on what for Many still surviving May be another night of fear and the weather Bureau said the wind direction would veer North the direction most feared by dutchmen who have fought the sea for Gale from Northwest it was a Hurricane from the Northwest that breached the dikes and made people homeless since officially it has killed people thus deaths Are still occurring from in jury and exposure and All the dead have not yet been the storm forced Down copters and Many of the planes which in a tremendous Airlift operation today took off most of the survivors from the hardhat Island of Schouwe the survivors were taken to various bases so it was difficult to estimate the number rescued but officials said it was in the thou Only a few Hundred Are believed still marooned on the but serious news came in by radio on Page 2 bulletins new 4 William 35year old former government econ was sentenced to three years in prison today for lying under oath in denying he passed secret information to a communist spy ring 4 the Senate today confirmed Harold Talbott As Secretary of the air he is the last of the defense departments top five men to win Senate 4 than refugees from the soviet zone of Germany fled into West Berlin during january and the rate is increasing the House of commons was told to Chou Enlal of communist China said today that the Beds were prepared to end the off Hting in but on communist the communist radio