EUROPEAN EDITION USAFE WEATHER FORECAST One Year Ago Today NORTH & WEST: Partly cloudy with showers, Max. 70, Mill. 45; SOUTH & 400 Superforts raid Tokyo in- EAST: Partly cloudy, Max. 73, Mln. 45; dustrials areas. V. S. carrier BERLIN: Partly cloudy, Max. 70, Min. 48; BREMEN: Cloudy and slightly Franklin is damaged in attack by THE ST»ArJlfTR!PES warmer, Max 56, Min. 46; VIENNA: Japanese aircraft. Partly cloudy, Max. 75, Min. 50« Unofficial Newspaper i Sunday, May 19, 1946 Volume 2, Number 138 20 Pfg„ 2 fr, 1 d. U. S. Seizes Railroads as Strike Impends Stalin Shuns Nation Faces Crisis U. S. Appeal As 250,000 Workers On Food Aid WASHINGTON, May 18 Await Union Orders (AP)—Generalissimo Joseph V. Stalin has rejected President WASHINGTON, May 18 (AP)—Despite the seizure by the Truman's appeal to work with Government of American's $2,700,000,000 rail system under an the United States and Great executive order signed last night by President Truman, the Britain in meeting the world threat of a strike by 250,000 engineers and railway staff fixed famine crisis, a Government for 4 p. m. today (9 p. m. GMT) still remained. official said last night. The Thus the nation was on the brink of one of its greatest spokesman said the Russian rejec- industrial crises. <*> ~* tion was based on the contention that the appeal came too late. there will be an almost complete Stalin was said to have pleaded that breakdown of rail transport services Childless jVIen he had prior commitments. on the heels of the soft-coal stoppage, In Moscow, Peter Orlov, Soviet in which a truce has been declared ■radio commentator, said that Rus- until May 25 but which already has 26-29, Receive sia had pledged more than 1,100,000 thrown reconversion efforts out of tons of grain to four hungry Euro- gear. pean nations but that her own food Developments have caused con- Draft Orders supplies .were still limited. fusion among railroad workers WASHINGTON, May 18 (AP)— Orlov listed Russian food commit- throughout the country, who, reports Selective Service has ordered local ments to Finland, France, Poland indicated, have expected union boards to call up draft-eligible childless men 26 years old through MADRID, May 18 (AP)—Spain ATLANTIC CITY, May 18 (AP)— 29 for physical examinations. will inaugurate rationing of low- Fists flew and for 10 minutes Philip This was the first step in carry- priced clothing in eight of her Murray, CIO president, rapped for ing out President Truman's in- largest cities Monday in an order at the closing session of the structions to expand the draft to attempt to provide necessities for United Steel Workers convention. include these men. Mr. Truman had low-income groups, a government . Fist fighting broke out during a said that the step was necessary "in announcement said today. order to save what we can from debate over raising union dues Cloth and clothing is available the near-wreckage of the Selective without coupons, but at high rom $1 to $1.50 a month. The Service system." prices. convention voted to increase dues In a telegram to state Selective after an organ player struck up Service officers ordering the exami- and Rumania. The largest pledge was "Pack Up Your Troubles" and nations, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her- one of 500,000 tons to France in diverted the attention of delegates shey specifically excluded men who from the row. April. May and June. had been discharged from the armed forces. He said also that men with A UNRRA official in Moscow said He Who Gets Slapped "manifest" physical disabilities that unless rain came in the next leaders to clarify the month-old Because he slapped the bald head of Hideki Tojo, upper right, with order to strike. should not be called for exami- two weeks, the entire grain crop of whom he is being tried by the International Military Tribunal in Tokyo, Both A. F. Whitney,. head of the nation. the Ukraine—the "breadbasket of Shumei Okawa was assigned a personal guard. Here an American MP Russia"—was threatened with dis- Brotherhood of Trainmen, and Al- 15,000 Eligible colonel stands over him before he was removed to a hospital for sanity vanley Johnston, leader of the aster. tests. Cases of men 26 through 29 should Marshall McDuffie, American chief Brotherhood of Engineers, have said be "reopened and reconsidered, of the UNRRA mission to the they would not ask the men to stay Hershey directed if they are found Ukraine, told a press conference that on the job, despite President Tru- physically fit. man's seizure. drought over the last two months Japs to Stage Catholics Oust The War Department has esti- had brought the grain crop danger- The railways warned passengers they might be stranded alter 4 p. m. mated there are about 15,000 eligib- ously close to ruin, so much so that les in the 26-to-30 group. the yield, which was expected to be Food March, Lai)or Party in if the strike started as scheduled. approximately 75 per cent of the There was no progress today in Meanwhile, Senate leaders ap- 1940 crop, might fall to half or less. the deadlocked contract dispute be- plied fresh pressure yesterday for tween John L. Lewis, head of the speedy enactment of a new draft- Famine Threat Remains Yanks Alerted Dutch Election United Mine workers, AFL, and the extension law, saying Mr. Tru- Meanwhile, a joint Anglo-Amer- TOKYO, May 18 (AP)—American THE HAGUE, May 18 (AP)—The soft-coal , operators. The truce man's age-limit boost could not ican communique issued by the State troops in the Tokyo area were Netherlands government has offered under which 400,000 striking miners meet Army and Navy needs. Department said that 10,000,000 tons placed on the alert today as its resignation to Queen Wilhelmina were ordered back to work by Sen. Lister Hill, of Alabama, of grain were in sight for the May- organizers of a mass demonstration Lewis ends next Saturday and there following yesterday's election for Democratic whip and member of September period to meet needy asserted that tens of thousands of was speculation in Washington that the Senate Military Affairs Com- nations requirements of 13,400,000 persons would gather at the Imperial the second chamber (lower house) of if a settlement is not reached by mittee, which called for a full tons. Palace tomorrow, to demand more the Parliament in which Prime that time, the government may seize year's draft extension without the The statement asserted that a "risk food. A similar gathering was plan- Minister Willem Schermerhorn's the properties. exemption of teen-agers, told a re- of famine remains," despite the best ned in Yokohama. Labor Party ran second. Anthracite Talks Speeded porter: efforts of the United States and American authorities said it was According to traditional procedure, In New York, committees of "The country and Congress must Britain, and urged that "even more their policy not to interfere but to the Queen requested the outgoing anthracite operators and the UMW meet this issue head on and now. energetic measures" than have been be prepared to protect U. S. pro- There are not enough men in the 20- cabinet to serve until a new gov- planned to continue wage contract taken thus far be put into effect perty and lives if trouble develops. discussions in attempts to avert a to 30-year-old class to provide the throughout the^ world. Sanzo Kozaka, Communist member ernment is formed. threatened strike by 75,000 Penn- numbers of the Army and Navy Herbert Morrison, British cabinet of the House of Representatives, Balloting solidly as a denomina- sylvania miners. The union, whose need. This means that fathers now minister, now in Washington, dis- said that 100,000 persons would ans- tional group, the middle-of-the road present contract expires May 31, in service and men with long over- closed that the threat of world-wide wer the call for mass demonstra- Catholics polled 'almost one-third of has already filed a strike notice. seas service, some of it in combat, famine, at least through December, tions. the 4,760,000 votes cast, and gained A strike by 375 AFL newspaper must stay on duty until there are 1947, had been the prime factor in 32 of the 100 seats in, the Par- delivery truck drivers fjin Phila- replacements." Britain's decision to give up a second JAP ECONOMIC BOARD liament. delphia, which started Thursday, allotment of 200,000 tons of wheat APPROVED BY ALLIES resulted in suspension of publica- USFET SAYS DRAFT BILL FATE in order to increase shipments to Labor Suffers Setback tion by the Philadelhia Inquirer. TOKYO, May 18 (UP)—Allied Schermerhorn's left-wing Labor WON'T STOP DEMOBILIZATION hungry nations. headquarters authorized the Jap- In Los Angeles, the worst public transportation tie-up in the city's The Stars and Stripes Bureau '* It was the second time recently anese government to organize an Party, which had confidently counted history threatened as 2,700 oper- FRANKFURT, May 18—The fate that Britain had given up 200,000 economic stabilization board to on from 35 to 37 seats, suffered a tons of wheat for the needy of other sharp setback as it polled only ating employes of the county's inter- of the draft bill in Congress will formulate basic economic policies urban system voted to walk out not affect redeployment of enlisted nations. affecting production, distribution 1,347,000 votes to win 29 seats.