C^. WESTERN EUROPE EDITION One Year Ago Today Russians within 91 miles of The Weather Today erlin. Soviet pincers closing PARIS: Overcast, rain—11 n Breslau and Posen. Seventh THE STARS A S. FRANCE: Cloudy—55 rmy stalls Nazi Alsace offensive. TRIPES DOVER: Overcast, showers —4=L | Sixth Army ttkes Clark Field. Unofficial Newspapers gf U.S. Forces GERMANY: Morning fog—34 in the European Theater Vol. 2—No. 193 2Fr. Id. Sunday, Jan. 27, 1946 After-Dark Convoy in Berlin U.S. Seizes 130 Meat PI ants; Lewis, UM W Back in AI L; Arm v Pol ie v on Pickets Hit Training Bill Delay Paris Printers Strike; Move to Restore Threatened by No Papers on Stands Fresh Meat Committee Parisians were unable to read of activities in the formation of the To U.S. new Frenc'i government yester- WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UP).— day because of a geneTal strike The House Military Affairs Com- CHICAGO, Jan. 26 (UP) .—More mittee threatened today to delay by newspaper printers who are than 130 strike-bound meat-packing action on the universal military demanding a raise in pay of ap- plants-were seized today by the U.S. proximately 100 francs a day. training bill unless the War De- Government in a bid to restore partment modified its policy of Neither morning nor afternoon papers appeared. meat distribution impeded by the Because of recent incidents in Berlin, the British are providing armed forbidding Army trucks to cross 10-day-old stoppage. escorts for their service girls who go out after dark. Three ATS girls picket lines without union permis- English - language newspapers sion. At the same time it was an- are shown being convoyed by two Tommies armed with sub- were not affected. nounced from Miami that 500,000 machine-guns. The threat was voiced by Andrew members of the United Mine Work- J. May (D-Ky.), committee chair- ers, headed by John L. Lewis, re- man, who said during testimony by turned to membership in the Amer- Col. Foster L. Furphy, director of French Crisis ican Federation of Labor, with Survivors of Torture Camps Army Service Forces' industrial Lewis gaining a seat on the AFL personnel division, that the depart- Executive Council. ment was going "too far" with its Ends as Gouin William Green, AFL president, policy. announced that the action was To Take Stand at Nuremberg May said the committee was taken unanimously at the current working on a military training bill, Fills Cabinet council meeting, but branded as but "before we do that we'd better "absolutely false" reports that he NUREMBERG, Jan. 26 (AP).—Marie-Claude Vaillant- decide whether we're going to have would resign so that Lewis could Couturier, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a spineless Army or whether our Appointment of Andre Philip as be elected president of the federa- kids are going to have soup, even Minister of Finance and acceptance tion. of President Felix Gouin's economic and now member of the French Constituent Assembly, will if not steak." In AFL 50 Years the parade of witnesses the French prosecution Six-Year Policy program by the three major French lead for parties yesterday brought about the The Mineworkers had belonged before the War Crimes Tribunal in the coming week. Furphy was explaining the Army to the AFL for 50 years before order forbidding trucks to cross formation of a government and an She and five other former pris- end to the crisis which broke last Lewis revolted ten years ago in picket lines to take meat from favor of the CIO. Green revealed oners from France will testify on struck plants unless unions agreed, Sunday with the resignation of their experiences and observations Gen Charles de Gaulle. that one of Lewis' conditions for which they did. The order was membership included a "hands off" at the Mauthausen, Auschwitz and GI Shot Fatally based on a six-year policy that the Formation of the Cabinet was J^ichenwald torture centers. delayed until Socialists, the Popular policy toward the United Miners. Army would break picket lines only District 50, which takes as members Following their testimony, the when property was urgently needed Republican Movement (MRP) and Communists had agreed to go along workers in many fields across all French prosecution will wind up its By French Cop and could not be obtained by agree- trade union lines. side of the case against Germany's ment between the parties involved. with Gouin's drastic financial retrenchment plan. Only then Formal seizure of meat plants wartime leaders with spokesmen By Joe Mackey Furphy, who described Army rela- throughout the country was made from all of the former occupied Stars and Stripes Staft Writer tions with labor as good, said the would Socialist Andre Philip accept the post of finance minister. at one minute after midnight today untries of Europe, including Nor- MARSEILLE, Jan. 26—A Negro meat strike had tied up 9,000,000 by Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary ay, Belgium, Holland, Denmark sergeant was fatally shot here last pounds of Army-contracted meat Until late last Friday night, Gouin and Luxembourg. night by a French policeman, ac- and 11,500,000 pounds of carcass had said that unless Pierre Mendes- /Continued on Page S. Col. 2) Prof. Van Der Essen Tacher, a cording to the Provost Marshal's and boneless beef. France were accepted for the history instructor at Louvain Uni- office. He said a meeting of Army of- finance post, he would not be able versity and later a member of the The French police notified the ficers with management and labor to form a Cabinet and would be French underground, is expected to office that the American had been held in Chicago on Jan. 19 resulted forced to resign. Mendes-France, Cleric Defends testify as to Nazi responsibility shooting a pistol wildly in the street in the union and packinghouses however, refused the position when for the second burning of the uni- and that the policeman had tried agreeing to co-operate in remov- the three parties attempted to versity library, and of Nazi policies to disarm him and had been ing meat from strike-bound plants. whittle away his retrenchment Birth Control and actions in Belgium, particularly wounded in the cheek. The police- Furphy said the day before the program atrocities at Camp Breendonck. man then shot the soldier, who meeting he had been informed that Gouin Policies OK'd NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UP).— Earlier in the trial, French pro- was removed to the 227th General Army trucks were crossing picket In written replies to Gouin, both Bishop Bromley Oxnam, president secutor Charles Dubost had assert- Hospital where he later died. lines at struck plants in Memphis. the Socialists and Communists an- of the Federal Council of Churches ed that practices at Breendonck The CID is investigating the case. The order barring Army trucks nounced acceptance of his program of Christ in America, declared last were so horrifying inmates prefer- The French press here said that (Continued on Page 8. Col. 4) without reserve. The MRP also an- night that refusal to use scientific red to be deported to detention the trouble started with a cafe ' ' « nounced agreement in general but means for planned parenthood was centers in the Reich. fight involving Negro American expressed hope that the new gov- "sinful."' Other witnesses will testify to soldiers and Algerians. During the Legislator Assails ernment would not demobilize the "To refuse to use the means alleged Nazi misdeeds in their fight, which continued outside on Army below the safety margin. science makes available for this respective countries, which many of the Rue La Joliette, an Algerian Presentation of the new govern- high purpose is sinful and akin to them observed first-hand as mem- dockworker, Sekouane Ali, was Shipping GI Kin, ment to the Assembly probably obscuritanism that would refuse bers of the underground. knocked out and robbed of 2,500 will take place Tuesday afternoon anesthesia to a woman in travail Himself a victim of Nazi cruelty francs after which the colored Entry of Aliens Principal points of Gouin's pro- because Eve plucked an apple from in concentration camps, Hans Cap- soldier began shooting at random, gram, which he said he realized a primeval tree," he told the twenty- pelen of Norway will give a detailed fifth anniversary meeting of the according to local news stories. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UP).— would prove harsh and unpopular report on policies and acts of the with the people, were these: Planned Parenthood Federation of occupation forces, their Quisling Rep. Hubert Ellis (R-W.Va.) charg- America. ed today that there was "some- 1— Cutting back military expen- Those who say there shall be no accomplices and punishments in- Woman Kills Herself ditures by 40,000.000,000' francs. flicted on prisoners for refusal to thing sinister" about the plan to I expression of love to husband and collaborate in the conquest of their By Bath Electrocution let families go overseas to join 2— Severe slashing of non-mili- wife "except for purposes of pro- own country. their GI kin while at the same > tary governmental expenditures creation are not defenders of the Cappelen is expected to elaborate time a commission was investigat- (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) family," he added. YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 26 (UP).— ing prospects of increasing immi- on an official Norwegian govern- Mrs. Josephine Sartori, 48, was ment report which alleged that 72 gration into the country. found dead today after she com- *Tt is significant that at a time Norwegians were executed without mitted suicide by electrocuting her- trial and without charges as re- self in her bathtub.