U. S. Seizes Railroads As Strike Impends Stalin Shuns Nation Faces Crisis U
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.
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