European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse Fog 2 the stars and stripes Friday May 11, after surviving gop assault Trade plan faces demo threat Washington up presi Dent Kennedy s Trade program sur Vived its first Republican assault but was threatened with major surgery by a group of recalcitrant democrats. The democrats proposed that the president foe barred from granting any Trade Concession to Europe s common Market until american farm products Are granted better Access to that mar Ket. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges protested that this would wreck the administration s Trade program. He voiced the complaint at a closed meeting of the House ways and Means committee As the panel began voting on the administration s Trade Bill. Earlier the administration Defeated a Republican attempt to Cutty three years the five year Dura Tion for the Tariff cutting authority sought by the president. The rejected amendment was offered beep. Bruce Alger a Tex rep. Burr Harrison d-va., then offered the disputed amendment designed to Force the common mar Ket to Retreat from or set limits to the protectionist farm policies it has agreed upon. The committee wrangled Formost of the Day Over the Harrison amendment but put off a vote. One member said afterwards that it would have been put to a vote and approved by a lopsided vote if Hodges had not exploded and said if you adopt this you might Aswell not pass the Bill " administration strategists were hoping to line up a majority of the committee in support of a Compro Mise amendment that would give the president Power to withhold new Trade concessions but no make this mandatory. Harrison s amendment would bar Trade concessions to any country or group of countries which maintains any no Tariff restrictions or unlimited variable import fees against american Industrial or farm products which Are not in accordance with International agree ments. Spain strikers spurn state Church pleas from press dispatches. Madrid stubborn pockets of striking miners in Northern Spain thursday resisted government pressures and Church pleas As they wound up the fifth week of walkout that has spread to in Austria workers across the nation. With at least ?0,000 and possibly As Many As 80,000 workers and miners idled As the result of the walkouts the government was re ported preparing the machinery for a general wage increase. Some workers who left their jobs asserted their action was More a show of strength than to Force employers to Grant higher pay. In Bilbao where an estimated 25000 employees of key industries including two plants in which american firms Are partners left their jobs. Movement seen waning labor spokesman told one fac tory manager we Nave nothing against you or this Plant we joined the strike to help show the strength of Hie Survey indicated some improvement in the Over All Situa Tion with Law officials in Bilbao reporting there Are some Indef rite signs Here that the strike is waning and a Back to work move ment May Start at any but in Leon province in North Ern Spain an estimated 3,000 Copland Iron mine workers walked off to tar jobs. Labor officials said this was about 10 per cent of the Leoa mine work Force. The new strikes were partly i support of striking Asturias Coal miners in the North and partly to Speed up negotiations for collective work contacts. In Asturias there was Little change in the situation with an estimated 10 Iper event of the orig Inal strikers still off the Job. Jul the Barredo mines in micros 3qo Rii Iners staged Art eight in Jie mine shafts to tiie order for medi Cal item Etelbo foe for Vilners to Asti Orfes a that employers Caufy writing pay increases previous Maryland Branch sets convocation wednesday Munich ass seven awards and two scholarships Wil be presented during wednesday s convocation and Tropia exercises of the University of Maryland s Munich Campus plants Hvass danish ambassador to Germany will address Stu dents during the ceremony be ginning at 10 30 . In the Munich High school auditorium. The name for the ceremony Tropia is a greek word which Means awards. Thirty faculty members in full academic regalia will Parade Dur airman Soldier killed in Europe Road accidents an Lirman and a Soldier were killed and four other airmen seriously injured in two Highway accidents reported from Italy an Germany. From Aviano. Italy air Force officials said a2c Ronald e. John son a member of the 2ts7th communications so from moot head Minn was killed when the car in which he was Riding hit a steel Bridge girder tuesday night. John son died of head injuries while in route to the Hospital. The Driver of the Auto and three other occupants All airmen second class were airlifted to the Usan Hospital i Wiesbaden Germany. Us cd As seriously injured at the Hospital Are Amer i. Plourde 19,fall River mass., the Driver and tame f. Rood 19, Canandaigua. . Jafeth members of the 2187th Roland c. Adams 19, Enumclaw waste and Dennis p. Joyce 21,, i members of the 7227th combat support apr the army reported a Soldier from the 36th arty was killed in stantly wednesday when he fell from a 5bi-ton truck and was run Over by a trailer which the truck ,._. _. Of the. Deceased who Ichler Jutt Jyh uth of erlangelii1 get Whitey. Of the Berow Munich Euto Bangi is being withheld Pend log notification of Kin. Ing the ceremony. The full dress procession will be the first at a Munich Campus awards ceremony. Attending the ceremony will be or. Ray Ehrensberger Dean of University College University of Maryland College Park md., Mason g. Daly the University european division director and or. John f. Parr resident Dean of the Munich Campus. Pcs map ram air with is Rich Fite Outlook for 1 . Today Cloudy with scattered rain nov from Scandinavia through Northern Germany. Remainder of continent will be partly Cloudy and Cool with isolated of showers. Is. Temperatures by United press International feb lit we to a Ftp Bifaia Cut trinae Otner Gifu Lew h w 7 60 64 46 7j 4j 63 43 m 31 84 43 99 ii h 43 Het Tutt tort i the at a Tuitama it Ai Cut pm a Teri ill Miami a act Kwh Lew 90 87 62 39 81 62 71 3� 73 m 87 55 89 to 82 73 new Ohmit in Stirk 47 34 79 fit h 0 04 42 is 92 is sign a 9ft 0 59 3� to to 21 it i. Pm. St. In a a san Fra time v3 Ujj Silt ski Civ k i san talc m 4 Diw City u st Kah h � soldiers role in trapping agent Prais continued from Page i ing been contacted by Borger re ported his interest to their superiors. In some instances the prosecution said Borger portrayed him self a an israeli intelligence agent american intelligence agents planted false information on Bor Ger which he in turn passed on tothe reds the prosecution says. Borger s German attorney her Man Marx of Munich told the court his client did not realize the information he passed on to the reds could harm tense Effort because Borger the nato de never got beyond primitive attempts at espionage said Jagusch and because he never delivered any vital information to his East German contacts the sentence was relatively Light. A thin tvs use but the court said. That Borger would not be permitted to Appeal his sentence because of the serious nature of his crime. Borger who left the air Force in 1948, said he was concerned about the regrowth of National socialism anti semitism and militarism in West Germany endangering Israel and that because of it agreed to gather information for agents in East Germany who he believed worked for court regards his belief that he was working for Israel As a thin excuse said Jagusch. The presiding judge added that the court Felt Borger used this excuse chiefly to make his life easier when he returned to the United states Borger said that following a business trip to Russia in 1359, he met Gerhard May in East Berlin and that May representing him self As an East German Trade offi Cial enlisted his help on behalf of the Israel intelligence Borger testified that he was aware that documents he was asked to deliver to East Berlin contained some secret information but he never questioned what i Terest they might have for Israel. Among the information sought by Borger was data on chemical and biological warfare the Afert plan of a us. Unit details on the new m60 tank engine the evacuation plan for dependents in the event of an emergency and details of 1d60 and 1961 . Military Maneu vers in Germany and the units participating in them. Borger s. Attempts to gain information Froid two servicemen Jagusch said in summation particularly helped Security agents close in on the Dapper new yorker. The five red Robed judges of the High court were told during the trial that Borger attempted to persuade a Young Soldier. Interested in zionism to help Israel by procuring a new Type of Gas mask and military information. However the Soldier pfc Mark e. Kleist formerly stationed with a Usa eur unit got in touch with his superiors and working with Security agents helped to Lay the groundwork for Borger a arrest la Nuernberg. Borger the court report revealed asked Klein Lor information on rocket launching Sites uj3, vers in Germany the Alert plan of his unit As Well As to help him obtain one of the army s m17masks. Working with Security Klein promised Borger i Formati and agreed to hand Over army documents at a March,1961, meeting. Borger was arrested at that i ing and admitted he intended deliver the documents to his German Contact. A Usa eur officer. Capt h. Hackworth 31, said h approached by Borger to Sun him with information. Hackwo who reported Borger to Bis priors and was advised to cont Contact with for data on biological warfare. Said he chemical after Learned he had attended Aon the subject. Sought tank data another Serviceman stationed Nuernberg sp5 Eldon Pettit Tif iad earlier that he was As for information on the m60 engine by Borger whom heat a party. The balding Amerie businessman also approached an announcer in Nuernberg James Mcdermid to secure mask said the presiding judge his summary. Jagusch said one of the s in the eyes of the court Guenter Mae net. A former of in the East German int Ellige service whose testimony month led to the conviction espionage at is. Air fore Joseph p. Kauffman at a Baden court testimony Maennel said Job was handling american is for Pankow before he fled to West nurse found at Drux air base miss Joe ski bore who ha9 been left 00 % club woman we cd naked t y Amerl cai"1bd"cow of finals Here alone o5 their assistant Field Alrec tvs. Air in Droit France the room of til a Kenmore had been listed in the will of
