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Germans Accused of Attacking Jewish DPs Germany Edition One Year Ago Frankfurt falls. Fourth Ar- Jew Killed, mored 90 miles past Rhine. Russians reach Austria, take THE ST Koenigsberg, Yanks take G«bn, Many Hurt Navy shells Ryukyus. Unofficial Paper of U.S. Armed Volume 1, Number 352 In Gun Play 20 pf., 2 fr., Id Saturday, March 30, 1946 By DANIEL DE LUCE STUTTGART, March 29 (AP)—A Charges Reds Shun . United Nations Relief and Rehabili- Reuther Defeats Thomas tation Administration director to- day charged German police with shooting down "defenseless" Jewish Lacking at For Presidency of UAW UNO Meet displaced persons in a U. S. Army ATLANTIC CITY, March 29 (AP)—Walter Reuther, 38-year-bld vice- authorized black market raid which president 'of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), today took over resulted in a two-hour riot be- CasteProbe leadership of the UAW after defeating R. J. Thomas, incumbent, in a For 2d Day tween 1,800 Poles and 220 German turbulent four-hour roll call at the union's convention here. police. WASHINGTON, March 29 Thomas lost the UAW leadership, NEW YORK, March 29 "The people were defenseless," which he held for seven years, by according to UNRRA Deputy Direc- (INS)—Lack of specific (AP) —The United Nation.3 a slim 125 votes. The official count tor David Clearfield. ' The first shot charges against the Army's* was 4,445 to 4,320. Security Council went into was- fired by German police, cry- so-called "caste system" came Reuther told a news conference its second session today with- ing they had no right to be there. after the election .that he would "The officer who killed Samuel out of the first session today out having a Russian repre- work toward organizing farm Dancygier, 37-year-old former con- of Lt. Gen. James H. Doo- equipment workers, industry-wide sentative in-its midst. Thus, centration camp inmate, shot him little's six-man board to in- collective bargaining in automotives with a pistol from a distance of .for the second successive day, - based on" equal pay for equal work, less than 10 feet. There was no vestigate relationship. be- the Russians, under the and organizing white ■ collar work- return fire. There are no arms tween officers and enlisted ers, engineers and technicians leadership of Chief Delegate hidden in the camp. The chief of men. industry. Andrei Gromyko have" ab- UNRRA police had picked up all Witnesses testifying at the open- He told the convention he wanted sented themselves from the meet- weapons before the trouble started," to "take my place by the side of ings. he said. ing hearing were cartoonist Bill Philip Murray (CIO president) and With the Iranian controversy the The raid resulted in the worst Mauldin, Joe McCarthy, ■ wartime help him carry part of the burden only item in the agenda discussed, riot since American occupation managing editor of Yank and Lt. he has to bear." delegates reported, after last night's troops took over this section of Col. William Kintner, commander Murray, at an earlier session of meeting, that "a considerable area Germany and Was quelled only. of an anti-aircraft battalion in the of agreement" had been found. ■When U. S. Army constabulary European theater. the convention, had praised Thomas The Russiaji consulate, usually armored cars ejected the police and The .board session was held be- in a speech from the floor. open to reporters, was closed to patrolled the camp area. hind closed- doors, and poolittle Twenty minutes of bedlam fol- them yesterday and Gromyko when refused to name the witnesses be- lowed the riominati6ns for the TWO OTHERS HURT located replied: "No comment" t« fore their appearances. presidency. Reuther, who led the all queries directed to him. Two other DPs were wounded. "Both Mauldin and McCarthy, General Motors strike, got a bigger A Seventh Army official announce- sergeants during the war, criticiz- ovation than his opponent when he Waiter Reuther QUERIES FOR RUSSIA, IRAN ment said earlier reports that an was formally named. Will Expand UAW ed . the "caste system'' in' gen- Washington sources said that American soldier had been wounded eralities when they emerged from Secretary of. State James F. Byr- proved to be unfounded. the. hearings. nes, was in favor of asking both the Shortly before Clearfield. made Soviet Union and Iran the follow- his charge, Maj. Robert H. SJimson, DEFENDS ARMY SYSTEM Soft Coal Workers' Walkout ing questions: Military Government officer for . Kintner, a graduate of the U.S. 1— Why are Soviet assurances Stuttgart, said German .police're- Military Academy, pointed out that that their troops are being removed ported they had been fired upon the Army which fought in World Will Double Strike-Idle Rolls from Iran, barring "unforseen" Jjirst. Stimson said he would demand War II with "all its faults—and NEW YORK, March 29 (AP)—The ranks of the labor-dispute-idle, developments, not satisfactory to an investigation. there were lots of them—was the showing a^steady drop for the last couple of weeks in March, nearly the .Iranian government?. Clearfield and UNRRA Director best Army we ever put in the doubled in the last few days. 2— What negotiations are now go- Harry Lerner, who rushed to the field." A shutdown of soft coal operations appeared set for Sunday midnight, ing on between the Soviet Unioa camp before the riot ended, both He termed, the American Army putting 400,000 AFL United Mine<^ and Iran? denied there were any weapons in the most successful of all armies Workers on a strike list which to- 3— Is the removal of R,ed Army the camp, saying Army police, had in this war and declared that it day totaled 460,000. - forces conditional upon these nego- searched it a couple of times with- (Continued on Page 8) Strike by Pupils President Truman said" that the tiations? out finding anything. Government has no plans to seize There is a possibility, probably "We found the German police Called Off When remote, that a motion" to pdstpone ■With dogs walking up and down the Ambassador Smith mines in the event of a strike. But the case will again be made. street while sound trucks bellowed the Government, to assure supplies Teachers Resign At today's session, the first person orders telling all Jews except nurs- for urgent uses, took over the con- Arrives in Moscow SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa, scheduled to appear was Iran's aro- (Coritinued on Page 8) trol and distribution of soft coal at MOSCOW, March 29 (UP)—The March 29 (AP)—The mass resig- (Continued on Page Sj midnight yesterday. new U. S. —ambassador, Lt. Gen. nation yesterday of 13 of 15 teach- Italy's Badoglio Loses Walter Bedell Smith, arrived at The Labor Department's efforts ers of the consolidated school the Moscow airport this afternoon. were given new urgency by a state- here was followed by the return fran Gets Jitters Post in Fascist Purge He was accompanied by Mrs. ment by Civilian Production Ad- to classes of 75 high school pupils ROME, March 29 (AP)—Marshall Smith, his assistant military at- ministrator John Small that speedy who went on strike Tuesday. Over UiNO Crisis Pietro Badoglio, first post-Fascist tache and four members of his per- solution of the coal controversy The teachers gave as the reason SOUKI, TEHERAN, -March 29 (UP* premier of Italy, was ousted from sonal staff. would determine whether the for their action "refusal of the (From London it was reported —Political activity heightened in the senate today by the high court nation had reached the "real turn- student body to recognize the Justice in a Faseist purge measure. that Sydney Fine, Mutual Broad- authority of the school board." Teheran as the UNO Security ing point" in the reconversion A brief announcement explained casting Co. commentator announced Supt. H. ,P. Shedd dismissed Council reached a climax in New that , the action against Badoglio, from Moscow today that Smith said battle. classes "until the situation is York and as Premier Quavam es and five others senators, was taken in a press conference that he was Secretary of Agriculture Clinton cleared." Sultaneh continued to deny that a -Anderson and Secretary of Labor •according to "exclusively political carrying a letter to Premier The pupils said they objected Russo-Iranian agreement had beea Lewis Schwellenbach prepared to criteria." Stalin from President Truman.) to the rehiring of Shedd because concluded. meet with principals in strikes of of his "lack of interest in school Reports of the Kurdish revolt and 42,000 farm equipment workers of affairs." attacks upon Azerbaijan are dis-> International Harvester, Allis-Chal- turbing Teheran circles who fear Royall Arrives in Frankfurt mers. and J. I. Case plants. Peron Victory Assured that these could be used as a Labor Department officials also pretext by the Russians as "unfor- worked to end the CIO-AFL juris- In Argentina Election seen circumstances" to cancel'again On Last Lap of World Tour dictional dispute which has tied up the evacuation. BUENOS AIRES, March 29 (UP) during the war and that of the northern California canneries and Talk between Soviet Ambassador FRANKFURT, March 29—Under- —Vote counting in the federal men sentenced "in excess of 25,000 kept about 60,000 workers idle. Sadchkov and Sultaneh in which Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall capital confirmed Col. Juan Peron have' been restored to active "duty Strike of 7,000 workers in Mon- the ambassador informed the pre- arrived in Frankfurt today on the as president-elect. Of the 287,836 status by Army rehabilitation.