European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the Start and stripes proday january 31, 1969 of Aid too far from Coronado Calif. Up the . Navy called on the air Force to Send planes to the Zaidof the Pueblo but was informed aircraft could hot get to her for two or More hours the former commander of naval forces i Japan said wednesday. Rear adm. Frank l. Johnson told a court of inquiry invest gating the loss of the intelligence ship that the Navy itself did not have planes or warships in position to help cmdr. Lloyd m. Bucher and his  was Bucher s Superior officer with Headquarters i Japan. The aircraft Carrier enter prise was 600 Miles from the scene of the incident which too place off the North korean coast Johnson said. The treaty wit Japan forbade Send hug land based planes from that nation Ona combat Mission he added i with the 41 year bid Fischer listening in silence vice adm. Harold g. Bowen jr., president of the court snapped at Johnson you have testified about planes arid other help being Onvall. That is somewhat mislead ing because actually it prove nothing was on  said that he was absent from his Headquarters at Yokosuka when the first word of trouble was heard from the Pueblo Jan. 23, 1068. Tie said his staff there immediately contacted Pacific Fleet headquarter sin Pearl  the staff officers advise Headquarters in Hawaii that the . 5th, air Force had Bee asked to Send planes to the Aid of the Pueblo but that they had replied there would be a delay of two or More  planes available were in Okinawa 000 Miles from the scene. Rear adm Marshall a White said sharply � we had a contingency planto use forces which did not  replied that he never expected such an incident i View of the precedent that a . Navy ship had not been seized at sea for 150 years1 if you were a betting  Odds a bookmaker would have Given you on that happen ing. The Odds would have been so fantastic that not even a Manas Rich As Howard Hughes could  off he  s civilian attorney e. Miles Harvey asked Johnson whether he now would Send out a intelligence ship unprotected knowing what he knows now. I want to Tell commande Bucher and the Crew of the Pueblo that if i had been concerned they were in jeopardy i would never have sent the ship out without requesting and getting proper  Johnson said he inspected the Pueblo before 6he sailed on her first and last Mission and that he was favourably impressed by Bucher As commander. When Johnson finished his testimony Bucher came Over to him and clasped his hand. Johnson said he was address ing a conference in Tokyo when he got word from Yokosuka that the Pueblo was Ift trouble and May be  he flew., by Heli copter to his command Post but by that time the intelligence Shipways steaming into Captivity a id change is possible by this july Conui Well from Page it i no unwed the command definitely will make the switch by the tar get  spokesmen also de Nied that personnel offices nonmilitary installations will be shouldering most of the Burden in implementing the change. Contrary to earlier assumptions the3.5 million servicemen will not be required to get new identification tags identification cards or 201 personnel files Only  used in automatic data processing will be affected administratively. Servicemen will use the Susanin the same manner As they now use the service number Al though officials concede  May be some slippage in in pie men action. New additions to the military after july 1 will not be assigned service numbers. They will use the sans they had in civilian  the new system goes into effect All of the old distinction that formerly were contained in service numbers will be  looking at an individual s service number it will be impossible to detect whether he is a general or private draftee or enlisted airman or Sailor Man or woman regular or Reserve Active or retired. Weather partly Cloudy with occasional Rains Ana Gusty Windi in the afternoon. Little change saturday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 41. Low 35. Temperature recorded thursday get i 4am pm 30 Adana 45 61 Athens p 36 39 Aviano f 39 41 Berlin Al 41 45 Brussels cd 37 39 cop no in r 36 45 Frankfurt p a Cleart cd Cloudy i a rain to tog. Am pm 34 48 London p 41 so Madrid c 36 43 Munich p 41 46 Paris p 46 43 pre Tolck r 55 54 Rome p 48 64 wheelus p a partly Cloudy 2nd weather Wing guards. By Glenn mass a Augsburg Bureau chief Munich is a two Dachau army stockade guards were acquitted late thursday of charges of prisoner assault and maltreatment. . 4 Ricky l. Bodle and pfc. Manuel a. Rivera were found innocent by a four Man special court martial Board after45 minutes of deliberation. Edward j. Belleri civilian counsel for the two defendants a presented a 50-minute argument the court based primarily or the existence of reasonable Dou due to inconsistencies in the Testi Mony  witnesses several wines is who were then Priis ners at the stockade in August and september Testi fied thursday that fiddle and Rivera of several occasions struck them without cause. Bodle was also charged in connection Withan aug 12 incident in which welcoming party tactics were american exc warns of new York up alarm Dat heavy trading volume and particularly at a Sharp Rise i speculating in Oil and mining Lemnitzer. T continued from Page 1 european  Holzapple 54, was assigned Here from Washington where he was air Force Deputy chief of staff for research and develop ment senior air Force member of the . Military staff com Mil tee and military director of the Usan scientific advisory Board. About 200 airmen from three units stationed at Lindsey air station and Wiesbaden air base paraded with the Safe band before the three generals Anda packed  of German and american guests who included Gen. David a. Burchinal Deputy commander in chief Neucom vice adm. John a. Tyree jr., Neucom chief of staff and . John a. Hentges usar eur Deputy commander in chief for seventh army. Shares the american Stock Exchange asked its member firms wednesday to put of the  Exchange issued its warn ing with one Eye on the daily trading volume figures arid the other on the persistent arid troublesome paperwork backlog in the brokerage firms. While the current request was going out to the brokerage houses their customers were pushing the volume to 9,268,230 shares from the formidable8,221,890 registered on tuesday All but one of the 10 most Active issues were priced under $25 per share and most i. Them were Pijor mining issues. From the Start of the Yea through wednesday volume to tales 133,819,175 shares. This i about two Day s volume less than the heavy sunup in the same1968 period hat contributed to the paperwork Avalanche that finally put the Exchange and others on a four Day  markets were on a four Day week from mid june through the first week of the new year and they have been running Ona Shorter trading Day since. Iraq holds american Washington a two american citizens were arrested in Iraq several weeks ago the state department disclosed  Are Pauj Baij and is wide. Bail was described Cypress officer Robert j. Me Closkey As an Engineer for the iraqi Petroleum co. Mccloskey said they have not been advised of the charge against them. Mccroskey gave this forma to in response to questions but said he knew Uttie about the arrested couple including thei Iuis. Residence. Be said that bail is in prison while his wife is under what amounts to a House arrest.1 in Huntington. W. Va., Howard. Mayes identified mrs. Bail As his daughter and said her Hus band had gone to Iraq about a month ago. He said he believed his son in Law May be charged with espionage but added he had Bee asked by the state department not to comment. Bail was fro Conneautville pa., Mayes said the Engineer was employed by Humble Oil co. In Houston tex., and had been loaned to the iraqi firm. Mayer said. The couple has two children Kathy,-20, a Sophomore at Mich Igan state and a younger son studying at the american schooling Beirut. A member of the belgian embassy in Baghdad which looks after american interests in Iraq visited bail in his prison a few Day ago. Both Bali and his wife the belgian Tola the state department gtd that the were Well treated. There Are roughly 400 Ameri cans in Iraq mostly women married to iraqi citizens by also Jesuit and protestant teachers and missionaries Mccloskey said. He had no breakdown on the figure. Allegedly used to scare 10 troublemaker prisoners transferred from the Nuernberg stockade to prevent any trouble Frota them. The new prisoners had reportedly caused a riot at Nuernberg in which five guards were injured and considerable damage inflicted. Maj. William b. Moore Dachau stockade confinement offi cer testified for nearly an Hourin connection with the aug. 12 affair and the other alleged incidents in the Case. Moore said prisoners handmade no complaints to him about incidents. He said one of the prisoners who had allegedly suffered a Cut Over his Eye Inone of the incidents had told him that he received the Cut when he fell off his bunk. The prisoner Moore said made the statement in response to questioning by Moore during a daily walk through the Cellblock. The prisoner according together Tes Timony suffered the Cut in an escape attempt. Moore said he did not hear of any incidents until mid septem Ber when the lawyer of one of the prisoners relayed a com plaint from the prisoner to him. I was scared sgt. Wesley Williams who was acquitted earlier in the Case and Bodle testified that they told officers investigating therase that they did not strike any prisoners in the aug. 12 incident. Each said he did not Tell the truth because i  but each old the four member court martial Board redid strike the prisoners in the same welcoming party Inci Dent. Concerning the aug. 12 Inci Dent Moore said he left the processing of the 10 new prisoners to his cos but added that he would have done it differently but that does t guar Antee that my Way would have won he said. Moore said he Felt the action was reasonable and within the Law but that does t mean that approve of  witnesses testified that the did not report the alleged strik Ings to either the stockade Chap lain to Moore or to the inspector general because they did no feel it would do any  several prisoners had made sworn statements during the article 32 pretrial investigation of the Case. Norwegians glimpse Sun Oslo Norway up five and one half hours of sunlight were recorded in the norwegian capital during the first four we rfcs of january the meteorological Institute reported. The average for the month is 45. Frankfurt mob u fat . Buildings Frankfurt up Stone throwing leftist demonstrators smashed windows at the .and Spanish consulates and the America House Here thursday night and forced a limousine carrying former Chancellor Lud wig Erhard to a concert to de tour police  said Erhard s car was met with a barrage of stoness it drove up Kaise Strasse. As the car swung around an headed away from the demonstrators prostitutes threw pails of water onto the Heads of the leftists from windows Overlook ing the scene and shouted at them to get a , apparently unhurt was Able to attend the fund raising concert with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger govern ment ministers and sports and business leaders. Theater real aim the students ostensibly were gathering for a rally at a me Morial honouring victims of nazi persecution. Their real aim How Ever was believed to be the theater and opera comple where according to one student spokesman the nazi elite  several Hundred demonstrators were gathered in the Street on which the memorial is Situ ated leading from a Corner of the theater. Almost 1,000 police equipped with water Cannon kept them away from the immediate neighbourhood of the theater. At a downtown meeting of about 100 High school pupils who shortly afterwards left forthe University to join students massing for the March a rally Leader told the youths to keep in squads of 10, so that any of their colleagues could be helped if Hurt or freed if  the first time in Frank Furt according to a police spokesman police were wearing White riot helmets with plastic visors. The concert by the Berlin Phil harmonic under conductor her Bert von Karajan was sponsored by the West German sports foundation to raise training funds for athletes competing in the 1972 Munich olympics. Market closes mixed trading is Active new York a strengthen some Blue chips boosted averages but the Stock Market closed mixed thursday. Trad ing was  and losses were close to equal on the new York Exchange while popular averages Rose some of them because of recoveries by key stocks