From the S&S archives:
First coal to be flown into Tempelhof today

BERLIN, July 6 — The U. S. tomorrow will attempt the gigantic job of supplying Berlin's coal by air.

Maj Gen George P. Hays, deputy American military governor, said that about 300 tons of coal will be flown into Tempelhof Airport tomorrow.

This first shipment will be an experimental one, but Hays said that after July 15, when the total July food supply for Western Berlin will have been brought in, all planes will carry coal for the rest of the month.

The new American effort to render the Soviet blockade of Berlin ineffectual came as Russia took another step to separate the Western sectors of Berlin from the Soviet Sector.

Police patrols early this morning began to enforce Soviet orders against the "export" of food, scrap metal and building materials from the Soviet Sector to Western Berlin.

Patrols were stationed at principal boundary points such as Brandenburg Gate, but most of the patrols roved up and down main highways to check westbound trucks. .Passenger vehicles were not stopped.

Trucks Halted

William T. Babcock, deputy drector of Berlin's U. S. Military Government, said trucks with shipments to the West not approved by the Soviet Military Administration were halted and their drivers taken to a Soviet headquarters.

The patrols consisted of three men — two German policemen and a plain-clothesman believed to be Russian.

In another, separatist action, Berlin's, police president, Paul Markgraf, according to the American-licensed Tagesspiegel, told leading police officials to take orders only from Russia.

The paper said Markgraf told his subordinates that Russia now is the only representative of the four-power Allied Kommandatura declared dead by Russia last week.

American officials, however, said they had no confirmation of this report.

Bad weather during the night curtailed the air lift to Berlin and the number of flights dropped sharply. At 8 pm 97 planes, including 16 C54s, had arrived at Tempelhof.

The British, who record flights from noon to noon, reported the arrival of 184 planes.

Increased Flights

Clearing weather during the day raised hopes that tomorrow's flights would be back at the peaks reached over the weekend.

Hays said the coal shipments to Berlin would be made slowly at first and would increase until July 15 when they become the only supplies flown in.

The 300 tons due tomorrow will be packed in 100-1b. bags. The coal will be landed not dropped.