eas Report® ® USAFE WEATHER FORECAST One Year Ago Today NORTH & WEST: Partly cloudy, Max. Nazis quit by thousands; Baltic 75, Min. 46; SOUTH & EAST Clear to partly cloudy, Max 80. Min. 46; collapse expected. Americans and BERLIN, same as N & W. Max. 70, THE STIRS A Min. 44; VIENNA: Same as S & E. British meet Russians. Allies begin BREMEN: Same as N & W, Max. 72, roundup of Italy foe. Min. 44. Unom«i*l Newspaper of US. Armed Volume 2, Number 122 20 Pfg., 2 fr„ 1 d. Friday, May 3, 1946 Book Gives Put ton Credit For St. Lo Breakthrough Coal Crisis Returns NEW YORK, May 2 (UP) — Gen. it and used not only 1st Army George S. Patton, even though dead, troops but also a number of his own was right back today where he al- 3rd Army units." Wallace does give ways liked to be—in the middle of a Bradley credit for his foresight in hot argument. placing Patton in command of the Dimout to Chicago Col. Benton G. Wallace, a staff! breakthrough itself. officer under "Old Blood and Guts," With his 3rd Army dander really has written a book which is sure to up, the colonel also charges that burn the Army's brass. It is called rolling Thirders — presumably after "Patton and the Third Army." they captured Argentan — were Wallace says that Patton was New York Seen ordered to stop dead in their tracks chiefly responsible both for the pfen- and were not allowed to close the Adriatic Isles Given ning and for the execution of the bloody Falaise gap, a maneuver famous St. Lo breakthrough, which Facing Sharp swept on past Avrahches and even- which would have trapped the entire tually hurled all German armies out German 7th army and might have of France. ended the war right then. Yugoslavia by Big 4 Cut in Power The credit for the battle up until "A restraining line was placed now has gone uncontested to Gen. along the north of our present posi- PARIS, May 2 (AP)—The string of Dalmatian Islands along the eastern CHICAGO, May 2 (UP)—The Omar N. Bradley, who later com- tions, beyond which we were not to coast of the Adriatic sea was granted to Yugoslavia today by the Council shadows of wartime nights came manded the 12th Army Group. For move," Wallace said. "History may of Foreign Ministers, it was learned from British sources. the brilliant execution of the plan, one day explain this matter more AIS07 dissatisfaction with the progress of the Paris meeting was given back to Chicago last night as many experts point to Joseph fully." as a reason for the indefinite suspension of formal sessions at the con- dwindling coal supplies, result- (Lightning Joe) Collins, corps com- The official explanation at the ference. The ministers decided to hold only daily informal meetings in the ing from the nationwide soft mander in the 1st Army. time was that higher headquarters future, a qualified American source ^ coal strike, forced the ordering But Wallace, who served as wished to allow Allied planes to of a dimout in the city and assistant chief of staff in G-3 for come in and strafe the 6-mile gap. Meantime, a three-way telephone They did and did an effective job. the 3rd Army, writes: "The 1st conversation between President Tru- Street Fighting, throughout the state of Illinois. Wallace cautiously refused to Army is given the credit, whereas man, Secretary of State James F. (New York also faces a drastic,, Gen. Patton'planned it and executed (Continued on Page 8) Byrnes and Foreign Secretary curtailment in steam, electricity and Georges Bidault of France, was the General Strike subway service unless mining is Berlin Army Hospital subject of speculation and elation in resumed soon, according to H. R. Paris and the Luxembourg Palace, Clutch Tyrol « Searing, vice president of the Con- 19 Incidents Get* 1st Baby Patient scene of the conference. solidated Edison Co., the largest power supplier in the city, Inter- Politics Not Discussed BERLIN, May 2 (UP)—One- The Stars and Stripes Bureau national News Service reported.) year-old Susie Nummey, whose Principals in the trans-Atlantic VIENNA, May 2—A brief general Ornamental Lights Banned By Russian illness caused her to be taken off conversation, however, preserved strike in Austrian North Tyrol and the dependents' train near Bruns- silence on the subject of the talk. The coal-conserving order in wick last Monday, is now recover- But a combined press department's street fighting in Italian South j Chicago bans all use of lighting for ing from a cold in an Army hos- statement, issued by the Americans Tyrol were reported this morning by | decorative or ornamental ^ purposes, Pilots Bared pital in Berlin. She is the hospital's and French, reiterated that political the Austrian chancellor's office fbl Other lighting is ordered reduced to the smallest amount possible, first baby patient. Q matters were not discussed by Mr. lowing the news that the foreign By ARTHUR NOTES The child's parents, Lt. and Mrs. Truman and Bidault. ministers' council in Paris had re- consistent with safety. No limit on Staff Writer Robert M. Nummey of Cleveland, . Last night, following the con- jected Austria's plea for the return j domestic use was ordered, beyond VIENNA, May 2—While Gen. were the first of the Berlin group versations, sources close to Bidault j of South Tyrol from Italy. The I the order to electric companies to to be reunited. said that the President had talked strike ended at noon today. appeal to their customers to curtail Mark W. Clark, USFA com- their consumption. about the French loan and France's (Although The Associated Press manding general, still awaited food needs. The press statement reported that it had been announced Implementing the order was the a formal reply to his three English Wile Dies today said, in part, "Bidault got on the general strike would last until authorization to electric companies protests against Russian fighter the telephone and exchanged greet- noon, United Press dispatches from to shut off the power of firms ings with President Truman, but failing to cut down on their--use of planes buzzing and shooting at In Gl's Arms After Vienna quoted French headquarters did not discuss political matters." as stating the strike started at 7 electricity,, for ornamental lighting. American transport planes,, it In awarding the Dalmatian Is- this morning and ended two hours Meanwhile, a strong hint of an was learned here today that His Atlantic Flight lands to Yugoslavia, the ministers j later.) imminent break in the strike was added the proviso, however, that the' given when John L. Lewis, president there had been 19 incidents in which NOTTINGHAM, May 2 (UP)— Pamphlets Urge Action Mrs. Joseph Cananzey, wife of the islands must be demilitarized. of the United Mine Workers, AFL, American planes had been fired Details of the fighting were not upon, forced down or buzzed by former paratrooper who flew to The Italian island of Pelagosa, summoned his union's full policy near the boot of Italy, was given known but a report stated that committee to Washington to review Russian aircraft. England to be with her in her last "many South Tyrolese of Austrian One incident involved a U. S. navy hours, died today in her husband's to Yugoslavia, but at the express the deadlocked wage negotiations. insistence of Foreign Secretary nationality have attacked Italian C-54 which was carrying two U. S. arms. Lewis Calls Parley Ernest Bevin and Secretary of State police and Italian government build- senators, two generals and two Cananzey, 22, had flown from the Lewis announced that the 200 James F. Byrnes, Italian . fishing ings" in Bozen, Meran, Brixen and colonels. The senators were James U. S. on funds raised by his fellow committeemen would meet next rights around the barren island, through the entire Puster valley of M. Tunnel, of Delaware, and Wil- townsmen in Taunton, Mass. His which is occupied only by a light- South Tyrol. Tuesday. This move in the past liam Knowland, of California. The usually has preceded major policy wife, who would have been 20 on house and its tender, were guar- The North Tyrol strike was started generals were Maj. Gen. Percy S. decisions. Saturday, was a victim of tuber- anteed. this morning at 7 in Innsbruck Lowe and Brig. Gen. Theodore M. culosis. following distribution of pamphlets Paul W. Fuller. Federal Concilia- Osborne. The former paratrooper, who wed Swiss Expect Italian Royalty in the early hours of the morning tor, who returned to negotiations Transport Plane Damaged her during the war when he fought BERN, Switzerland, May 2 (AP)— urging the people to demonstrate today, after having quit in disgust The Navy- plane in which they over the prolongation of the crisis in this theater, said his wife had Italian sources here believed that the against "this Nazi-Hitler victory." were traveling was buzzed by three last night, was inclined to blame whispered to him just before she Italian royal family would come to The pamphlets said: "We will not be Russian planes during a flight from both the union and ' operators for died, "Goodbye, darling. We will Switzerland within the next few subjected to slavery for a second Rome to Frankfurt on Jan. 20. The the prolonged strike. meet again." days. time." plane had flown over Vienna's Tullin Fuller said that no results at all airfield to get its radio bearings and had been obtained so far in the was harassed shortly after it entered negotiations and hinted that Gov- the Tullin-Linz corridor over the ernment labor experts had been Russian occupied zone of Austria.