Ship Strike Impends; World War II, Maj

USAFE WEATHER FORECAST One Year Ago Today NORTH & WEST: Cloudy with scat- tered showers, Max. 75, Min. 55; SOUltt B-29s blast Yokohama, leave & EAST: Same, Max. 75, Min. 54; BkR- 60,000 houses blazing. French shell LIN: Showers, Max. 81, Min. 64, BREMEN: Same as N & W, Max. 74, Damascus. Britain approves war Min. 52; VIENNA: Showers, Max. 80, trials for Axis criminals. Min. 64. FURTHER OUTLOOK: Con- Unofficial Newspaper of U.S. Armed tinued warm with afternoon showers. Volume 2, Number 149 20 pfg„ 20 gr„ 2 fr., 1 d Thursday, May 30, 1946

Bong's Widour Accepts U. S. Grants Medal for Flying Ace Mrs. Mar jorie Ann Bong, widow Loan, Credit of the American flying ace of Ship Strike Impends; World War II, Maj. Richard Ira Bong, holds the British Dis- To France tinguished Flying Cross post- humously awarded to Bong for WASHINGTON, May29(AP) "outstanding and meritorious ser- —-The United States announced vice in aviation." Mrs. Bdng now Coal Mines Stay Idle today that it had extended a is living in Los Angeles. $1,370,000,000 credit to France. '* WASHINGTON, May 29 (AP)—While hope continued for Leon Blum, the French finan- an early settlement of the nation's soft-coal strike, the Govern- cial envoy, signed ; the com- ment turned attention today to a threatened shipping strike which prehensive economic and finan- could halt shipments of relief supplies overseas. cial agreement with Fred M. Lewis Schwellenbach, Secretary of Labor, called represent- Vinson, Secretary of the Treasury, and James F. Byrnes, Secretary of atives of shipping lines fund, maritime unions together in an State, in a ceremony at the State effort to avert a strike scheduled^ ' Department. to start June 15, tying up ship- The signing of the agreement ping from Atlantic and Pacific ports. Allies Accuse climaxed 11 weeks of negotiations. Six unions have joined the Na- President Truman and French President Felix Gouin announced tional Maritime Union, CIO, in Yugoslavia of the conclusion of the financial con- demanding a 30 per cent wage in- versations in a joint statement crease, an eight-hour day and other released simultaneously in Wash- benefits. The seven shipping unions Unfriendly Acts ington and Paris. claim a membership of 200,000 on Loan in 2 Parts 3,100 ships. LONDON, May 29 (AP)—Great Britain and the United States have The American credit, to help Curran Rejects Offer • protested formally to Yugoslavia France begin a four-year reconstruc- Joseph Curran, chief of the NMU, against what was discribed as "ob- tion program, is divided into two on Monday rejected an offer ad- struction" to the Allied military portions. vanced by 39 ship owners operating government in Trieste and Venezia One is a direct loan of $650,000,000 from Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Giulia and the Tito government's from the Export-Import Bank. ports. general attitude toward western The second is a credit of ¥720,000,- Curran said he expected the nations, a foreign office spokes- 000 which would permit the French owners to make fresh proposals, j man said today, to settle their lend-lease account and adding, "If they do not it will be a Texts of the notes, which were purchase United States Army and difficult situation, and I mean it." Navy surplus supplies now in sent.May 20 and 'which have not France and French overseas ter- In the coal dispute, one official been answered, were not made ritories. expressed the opinion that the strike public. of 400,000 miners would end today. In addition, the United States The foreign office spokesman said promised to grant France an Meanwhile, an Associated Press the British government concluded additional credit to purchase approx- poll today showed that President "that Yugoslavia is trying to isolate imately 750,000 tons of American- Truman's strike draft plan faced herself from the West" and that the owned .merchant shipping. almost certain defeat in the Senate British had made this a main point The governments of the two if the coal dispute is settled. in their protest. countries hailed the results of the Among the 62 senators willing to Demonstrations Protested negotiations as "a substantial step state their positions, 44 said they The British note includes protests towards achievement of inter- were opposed to the section of the about Yugoslav demonstrations-in national economic cooperation which emergency bill which would em- Venezia Giulia during the visit of is the prerequisite of a peaceful, power the President to conscript a four-power border investigating prosperous world." those who strike in Government- commission. It was understood that Blum left immediately by train seized industries. The House has the British charged the Yugoslav for New York en route to Paris to already passed the bill. Eighteen government with inciting "lack of participate in the last five days of other senators said they would cooperation" and "obstruction" to the French political campaign. support the proposal. Allied authorities in the disputed Bill Seems Doomed area under military government. V. S. LOAN WILL RESTORE There seemed little doubt that the The British also complained about FRENCH ECONOMY, GOUIN SAYS Army Newsmen in Paci fic number opposing the bill would in- difficulties in their embassy and PARIS, May 29 (AP)—President crease provided the coal dispute is consular communications from Yugo- Felix Gouin predicted today the settled quickly and the labor scene slavia and about the Yugoslav American-French loan agreement Hit Censorship, Ask to Quit brightens, even temorarily, The refusal to allow British business- would set French economy back on opposition included 19 Democrats, 24 men to inspect their property in its feet. MANILA, May 29 (AP)—The entire staff of the Daily Pacifican, Republicans and one Progressive. Yugoslavia. , The Socialist president, for whom U. S. Army newspaper in the Pacific area, requested transfer, to other Fourteen Democrats and 11 Republi- The British spokesman also an- fellow-Socialist Leon Blum's Wash- duties today, charging they were required by superiors to "twist, omit, cans declined to commit themselves. nounced that the Foreign Office ington triumph came virtually on bury ^nd deceptively present news" so that the Pacifican was no longer Senators favoring the proposal in- hag dispatched a note to Albania election eve, said France's economic a "free and honest" newspaper. cluded 15 Democrats and three expressing dissatisfaction with Al- effort had risen to the level of the Directives to the War Department relating to Army newspapers con- Republicans. banian explanations for shots fired crucial period of 1929. sistently have been violated by the Any new dispute in the coal con- at British cruisers passing near the With the American credits behind ' Western Pacific command, the troversy is likely to alter the Albanian coast recently. it, he said, the country's recovery ET Holiday Today Pacifican staff charged. situation, but opposition to conscript- The spokesman said that Albania's drive now could reach its objectives, A statement signed by Ithe staff ing men for work appears to be so explanation that it was not realized by concentrating on obtaining coal, On Memorial Day said there and been increasing pres- strong that this section of the bill the cruisers were' British was no raw materials and machinery. The Stars and Stripes Bureau sure to suppress all criticism of Gov seems doomed in its present form. explanation at all. FRANKFURT, May 29—Tomorrow, ernment officials or agencies and Greek officials said that the Memorial Day, will be observed as that stories which tended to satirize Albanians had fired because they ROCHESTER STRIKE ENDS thought the ships were Greek. Glass' Widow Reported an official holiday in the European offiasr-enlisted man relationships WITH VICTORY FOR UNIONS Theater., had been suppressed.,. Considered for His Seat Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, 'ET ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 29 (INS) Say Column Is Censored —The paralyzing general strike of River Floods, Tidal Wave , WASHINGTON, May'29 (INS)— commander, has instructed all sub- Editors also charged that the The widow of Sen. Carter Glass ordinate commands to maintain CIO and AFL workers in Rochester Mailbag column had been censored ended today under terms which per- Threaten Iran Oil Refinery (D.-Va.) was mentioned today as a only those forces necessary for when letters were critical Of Army "temporary" successor to the seat minimum operation. He also re- mits a city employe the right to TEHERAN, May 29 (AP)—Gather- policy. They asserted that letters join any organization he pleases ing floods from the Euphrates and of her husband, who will be buried quested that War Department which requested writers' names be tomorrow in the soil of his beloved offices give a holiday to civilian which is loyal to the United States Tigris, combined with a predicted held in confidence had been removed and does hot claim the right to 27-foot tidal wave in the Persian state. personnel, where possible, without from the Pacifican office by officers. Mrs. Mary Glass, former school loss of pay. strike against the public. The strike, Gulf on June 2, are threatening teacher, was said to be under con- McNarney is scheduled to speak News stories pertaining to Philip- which was called yesterday and the giant Anglo-Iranian oil refinery sideration for an interim appoint- at ceremonies at Henri Chappelle pine affairs were stricken by orders virtually paralyzed New York State's at Abadan. ment which would last until the and Margratan Cemeteries of from "the top," even when Gen. third largest city, was a complete Sections of Khoramshahr, port November election decides the suc- American war dead, in Belgium Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied victory for the unions. city, are already under water. cessor for the remainder of Glass' and Holland respectively, only 12 Commander, was discussing Philip- %iiles apart. pine affairs, they alleged. term, ending in January, 1949. Other charges were that censor- ship extended to American news- 13 Lichfield Witnesses Refuse agency stories which the Pacifican French Invaded Territory, received, that stories pertaining to 6 demobilization were killed regularly, To Testify in Si|ence Strike* that cartoonists likewise had been subjected to censorship with gags BAD NAUHEIM, May 29 (AP)—A "This situation has become sfli Seized Land, Siam Tells UN and cartoons deleted by a colonel mass refusal of prosecution wit- difficult the prosecution feels it NEW YORK, May 29 (AP)—Siam sion, Siam is steadfastly and pa- because, he asserted, they depicted nesses to testify forced a two-day should be reported to the appointing has complained to the United Na- tiently adhering to a policy of non- officers as "puny looking." adjournment today in the trial of authority," said the prosecutor, Capt. tions ■ organization that French resistance. 'Injustice to Every Soldier' Lt. Granville Cubage, of Oklahoma David M. Proctor Jr., of Kansas City, colonial troops from Indo-China "The population in attacked and "To aid in this mishandling of City, who is accused of mistreating Mo. crossed the Mekong River May 1, 25, adjacent areas are abandoning their news is to participate in injustice prisoners at^tne 10th Reinf. Depot at He obtained an adjournment until and 16 and "forcibly seized Siamese homed and rice fields at a time when to every soldier who depends on Lichfield. Friday afternoon and said he would territory which they continue to my government is striving to the this publication to bring him ' Thirteen successive witnesses called confer in the meantime with officers hold," it was learned here yester- utmost to fulfill its obligation to news," the staff statement said. to the stand by the prosecution of the judge advocate's office who are supervising the trials. day. produce and deliver a maximum "Therefore we request that unless refused to answer any question, even A cable from Pride Phnomyong, quantity of rice to famine-stricken War Department regulations are when threatened with military All the witnesses who balked were president of the Siamese Council of areas." enforced as regards this newspaper punishment. named in Cubage's indictment as Ministers, to Trygve Lie, UN sec- The complaint concluded with an and unless it is freed from un- They complained they were being victims of his alleged cruelties at retary-general, said the incidents appeal, "In interests of peace and warranted censorship, that we, be unfairly treated by the Army. Lichfield, and consequently were "must be considered a concerted on behalf of starving peoples in this relieved of our duties on the Paci- When the 14th witness, although regarded as key witnesses for the action against Siamese sovereignty area, for your sympathy, your fican." not refusing directly to testify, prosecution. and the preservation of peace." assistance and your cooperation in Cpl. Don Lawder, managing answered every question with "I All are confined in an Army A Bangkok cable dated May 27 re-establishing a peaceful basis fcfr editor of the paper, said ranking don't remember," the prosecution guardhouse, some serving court the achievement of humanitarian officers of Information and Edu- finally called a halt to the proceed- added: martial sentences and others, recently "Against this unjustified aggres- objects. (Coniinued on Page 8) ings. (Continued on Page 8) Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, May 30, 1946

Memorial Day Services fo Honor ET Dead 2,000 Vessels WillSleepIn 'Magic Cloaks' ASHINGTON, May 29 (INS)— Enveloped in an air-tight Address all letters to: B Bag W protective "magic cloak" of Editor, The Stars and Stripes, plastic film, more than 2,000 U. S. APO 757. U. S. Army- Include warships are going "to sleep with name and address. (Names are deleted on request). Due to space one eye open" at stations on both limitations, letter may be cut for - coasts. publication, provided such editing Guarded by modern science does not alter the meaning of against deterioration for 20 years, the original. these slumbering vessels, ranging from battleships and carriers down Road Repairs Asked to tenders, will constitute a standby Few mistakes of our -oc- armada for future national defense. cupation army and of military This is in contrast to the situation government are as inexcus- at the end of World War I, when able as the thorough neglect immense quantities of new ships of German roads and high- and weapons had to be scrapped or ways. sunk simply because it would have Indeed, it is bad enough to have GI vehicles reissued 0 been too expensive to keep them in condition. which can hardly be called ENTRANCE to the American cemetery at Belleau Wood, France. "fair" and "good" without Air-Tight Spray being guilty of a gross t&* By Joseph L. Ranft The new process consists of spray- aggeration, to have trucks and DARIS, May 29 (INS)—A miniature 1 ing all destructible material with jeeps fly by you on thesa American flag will blossom to- roads as if they were in deadly morrow before each of the crosses air-tight, moisture-proof coats of marking the graves of 135,000 U. S. resinous solution based on vinilite, fear of missing the last boat one of the plastic developments of to the U. S. and to read at fighting men who gave their -lives least once a week of a GI in Europe in World! War II recent, years. The operation can be done by killed in a motor accident. But Members of the American Graves to see miles and miles of Registration Command planted the the crew in a few days. road, often right next to an flags at the graves early this morning When the ships are wanted, the SS internee camp, with holes in 36 American military cemeteries "magic cloak" can be stripped off, deep enough to hide every in seven nations, as U. S. forces still ,in a matter of hours. in the European theater planned to bit of a Hoffman character, honor their dead on Memorial Day. In one recent test, the crew of makes me wonder more than "Taps" will sound and volleys a 3-inch gun ripped the coating off ever over our concern of GI ring out in each of the burial the piece and was ready to fire it lives and GI equipment. grounds, situated in France, Belgium, in 90 seconds. • Why aren't the internees The Netherlands, England, Ireland, The inactivated ships include put to work repairing these Luxembourg and Switzerland. High units of the 16th fleet in the east death traps? Why can't the officials of the host nations and and the 19th fleet in the Pacific. remaining displaced persons other Allied countries will partici- Among them are 13 battleships. be asked to help and paid ac- pate in the services. cordingly by the German Grease Useless authorities? Wherever one goes Five Ceremonies Such material as was not junked in the U. S. zone, there are Five major ceremonies will com- young and healthy men loaf- memorate the fallen heroes—one in after World War I was covered with grease. Deterioration was 70 per ing in villages and towns. each of the liberated countries and Perhaps it would be a good one in the United Kingdom. United cent. The new plastic coat is ex- CROSSES at St. Mere Eglise, Normandy, where 4,798 American pected, on the other hand, to keep idea to emulate the Russians States Army, Navy and Marine in this case: If you don't units will form honor guards and soldiers, most of whom fell during the invasion, are buried. ' the fleet in practically 100 per cent order. This means that, when the work, you don't eat; in their chaplains will offer invocation, zone, people are not receiv- prayer and benediction. The rites magic cloak is stripped away, the guns and instruments beneath it ing food ration cards unless will conclude with the playing %f they satisfy the authorities the National Anthem by service will be just as they were when that they are engaged in work, bands. * "put to sleep." essential work. * Gen. Joseph T . McNarney, Euro- A framework of tape is first Some will probably answer pean theater commander, will speak stretched around the objects to be that this is a matter for the at both Margraten and Henri-Chap- protected. A primary cdat of the German authorities, but if we pelle cemetries, in The Netherlands resin in filament form is then cannot direct and correct the and Belgium, respectively. The two sprayed on, making a kind of Germans on failures and mis- cemeteries—largest American burial cobweb over the tape. takes, I don't know what we grounds in Europe—are only 12 On this, there is sprayed a are here for. miles apart. —Unwilling Traveler. Officers and men of the 3rd Army moisture-nroof coat of the same will conduct services at Hamm material Third, a pigmented top- cemetery, Luxembourg, where their coat is applied to shield the equip- '0600' Is Defended famed wartime leader, Gen. George ment from the elements. Your conception of art, Pfc S. Patton, is buried. Covers Anything T. J. B., is a little naive. I Linking Two Wars Finally, the air is exhausted from found 'Sgt. Cartiero's prize- Ambassador Jefferson Caffery will the interior and a chemical desic- winning painting, "0600," in- deed breathtaking. It ful- lay a wreath and deliver an address cant, or moisture absorber is placed at Solers cemetery, SO miles south filled the most important re- inside. Delicate recording gauges quirements for fine art: name- of Paris. The main observance in are placed behind a window of England will be at Cambridge ceme- ly, the evocation, in a few transparent vinilite set in the subtle strokes, of an immense tery, 50 miles north of London. envelope. These instruments reveal, In Ireland, there will be a cere- variety of thought and , feel- at a glance, any change in ing, of a whole epoch in fact mony at Lisnabreeny, near Belfast, DIGNITY with which American personnel are laid to rest is illu- temperature or humidity within. where American' dead are buried. —if our occupation of Ger- In Switzerland, the American lega- strated here, as the burial party gives the salute while taps are The impervious magic cloak con- many can be called an epoch. tion will conduct a ceremony for played at Luynes cemetery, just north of Marseille. ^ forms to the shape of the object Apart from the artistic the 62 Americans buried at Mun- protected by it, regardless of ir- value of ,the painting, it is a fingen, near Berne. regularities. Any object from a tiny positive achievement in de- Perhaps the most unique ceremony ballbearing to a 16-inch gun can be picting the GI's conception of tomorrow will be at the cemetery of enveloped. the occupation; better than a St. Laurent, Normandy, where 3,800 Cost averages $10,000 a ship. 1000-word news story. It is soldiers of the Omaha Beach landing Maintenance is figured at $4,000,000 something for the foiks back lie buried. Nearly 6,000 French civ- annually for both fleets, exclusive home to see and reflect upon, ilians, who have "adopted" graves of pay of personnel. whether it's "verv nice" or not. which they visit regularly, will par- . —Pvt., USFET. ticipate. EDITOR'S NOTE: The In more than one European German Reconversion Stars and Stripes Magazine, cemetery, bowed heads will recall Weekend, will devote a page the now famous words of the Requires Ingenuity in its June 9 issue to the prize Canadian poet, John McCrae, which winners at the art exhibit, DERLIN, May 29 (AP)—Germany including the much-discussed seem to serve as a link between the w two wars: is beating her swords into plough- "0600." "In Flanders fields the poppies grow shares, with hand grenades being Between the crosses, row on row, made into salt cellars and aircraft All Take the Rap parts into kitchen utensils »and That mark our place, and in the sky, cutlery. The other day another com- The larks, still bravely singing fly, pany in our. battalion screwed Scarce heard amid the guns below. - To fight critical shortages in raw up the works for us. They materials, the American Military came up with six cases of If ye break faith with us who die, Government has released old Wehr- VD, and now the whole bat- We shall not live, though poppies macht and Luftwaffe stocks to Ger- talion is having to pay for blow. man industry. their foolishness. In Flanders fields." After years of improvisation and We used to have a little ,. ersatz materials, German inven- time to fool around, as the tiveness has been sharpened and, in rest of the GIs do They now combination with American in- have bed check so early we genuity, some remarkable results don't even have time to go have been achieved. to a movie. I think it is In Nurnberg, the plant making pretty rotten that every guy salt cellars is also producing in the battalion has to take the rap for a few guys who general-purpose containers from old are fools. Vol. 2, No. 149, Thursday, May 30, 1948 German gas mask cannisters. Ar- The European Edition Is oublished mored plate from captured and —Troubled Private. at Altdorf. near Numbers. Bavaria, destroyed German tanks is produc- for the O S armed force? under the ing steel for ploughs. Goose and Gander auspices of the Information and Education Service, USFET Tel' A factory in Geislingen, which Equality for all is the foun- Numbers Civilian Switch, Altdorf 160 made 88 mm. shells during the war, dation of our America. It's CorresrnMer.ee to this edition should crumbling if 18-year-olds and be addressed to AFO 124 T7 S Army is now converting its remaining married men are not being New York Office 205 Past 42d St stock of shell cases into milk cans. drafted, and - the ones over This Is not an official tr>b,i =>"on of Meanwhile, an independent firm the O S. Arm? Entered « second has announced that it is ready to here are not home. What's class matter March 15 IMS at the good for the goose is good ooctnffloe New Vnrlr N V under produce 80,000,000 nails a month for the gander. from old rifle cartridges. —Cpl., 15th Inf. Thursday, May 30, 1946 Page 3 THE STARS AND STRIPES Superforts Stage Dress Rehearsal For A-Bomb Test World Control Try outs at Bikini Of Atom Urged Called 'Perfect'

WASHINGTON, May 29 (AP)— KWAJALEIN, May 29 (INS)—* Supreme Court Justice William .O. American Superfortress airmen have Douglas and Secretary of Commerce completed their first full scale, on- Henry A. Wallace joined with a the-spot dress rehearsal for opera- group of scientists today in calling tion "Crossroads," the atom-bomb for international control of atomic tests. energy to preserve peace. This was disclosed by Brig. Gen. Douglas, speaking during a special Roger Ramey, chief of Tactical Air radio broadcast on atomic energy Forces assigned to the Bikini tests. asserted, "There can be no absolute Ramey said more than a score of guarantee peace will be maintained B-29s participated in atomic-bomb as long as any nation has the sov- tryouts in the Bikini Atoll for nearly ereign right to decide questions of three hours. He termed the results war and peace itself." excellent and conclusive. Wallace said, "Every leader of Disclosure of formal rehearsals public opinion who has taken the marked the final stages in Air Force trouble to think the thing through preparations for X-day operations logically has come to the same con- against fleet target ships which will clusion." concentrate around Bikini as soon The program, originating in the as weather permits during the first Library of Congress, was devoted week in July. to a discussion of the "method and B-17s Guided by Radio cost of survival in an atomic age." Col. Alan Clark and Col. John Sutherland served as aerial task 3 SEEK SWEDISH PATENTS group and aerial scientific com- Preparing for Atom Tests FOR NEW ATOMIC DISCOVERY manders, respectively. Army plans call for a careful tryout of protective right models a parka. The cold-weather face mask STOCKHOLM, May 29 (UP)— They said the decision to stage a clothing to be worn by personnel during and after is shown on the left. The effect of nuclear energy on full-dress rehearsal was made when the atomic-bomb tests in the Pacific. The man on the Three scientists living in France all types of clothing will be tested. • have filed an application to the forecasters predicted ideal weather. Swedish patent office on a method A novel feature of the tests was to produce radiation energy by the inclusion of radio-guided B-17 Want a Close Shave? splitting atom nuclei, it was dis- "drones" which operated for the 9 Die as Floods Just Look for 'Grace' U. S. Imports closed at the Scandinavian Engineer- first time in and around a bomb- ing Conference here today. carrying Superfort, testing out SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 29 simulated radio-active areas which Bring Ruin in 2 (UP)—If a three-fingered barber Their names were given as Koliotn, will be encountered by the pilotless Rise, Exports Von Halban and Korwarski. with the name "Grace" tatooed on planes the day "big baby" is dropped. his left arm starts to shave you, With Col. Paul Tibbett at the Eastern States walk or run—if you can—to the Drop Slightly RADIO-OPERATED V-BOMBS controls and Maj. Thomas Ferrabee, REPORTED OVER SWEDEN as bombardier, the lead B-29 left its NEW YORK, May 29 (AP)—At nearest exit. Kwajalein base and patrolled the WASHINGTON, May 29 (AP)— LONDON, May 29 (INS)—A Daily least nine persons were drowned and Idaho state police notified local Commerce between the United target area on four "dry runs" before four others were missing as muddy Mail dispatch from Stockholm said Clark, Tibbetts and Sutherland gave officials that William Charles Ald- States and the other nations of the today that Swedes who say they flood waters fed by four days of ridge, 46, a barber with a mania the "Okay" to drop the practice almost continuous rains flowed re- world is slowly moving toward a have seen . V-bombs passing over for cutting throats, had escaped bomb. lentlessly into homes and business balance, although the United States Sweden are convinced the Russians Jap Ship Target from the Ontario (Ore.) mental in Germany are experimenting with establishments in south central New is sending abroad more than it is The perfectly synchronized opera- York and north 'central Pennsyl- hospital and was believed to be buying. radio-controlled bombs. in San Diego. tion had aircraft staggered from very vania. American exports during the first Twice within a week, the dispatch low to extreme altitudes and in- Estimates of the damage exceeded two months of 1946 totaled $1,471,- said, thousands of people in southern cluded, in addition to the B-17 $3,000,000, and thousands of persons 038,000, compared with exports Sweden declared they had seen drones, eight photographic aircraft were homeless. projectiles passing at a^considerable under the command of Col. Paul The swirling waters of .the Employers Attacked valued at "$1,789,453,000 in January height. and February of 1945, when lend- Culien of Los Angeles. Susquehanna River raced virtually The drones used the Japanese out of control and struck hardest at For GI Bill 'Racket' lease was in effect. battleship Nagato as their point of Williamsport. Eye witnesses said KANSAS CITY, May 29 (AP)— American imports for January Black Market Ring operation. this central Pennsylvania community Joseph M. Stark, national com- and February, 1946, totaled $710,025- Culien maneuvered over the ap- of 43,000 persons lay helpless in the mander of the Veterans of Foreign 000, compared with $659,344,000 Broken in Montreal proximate area where key target most crippling flood since 1936. Wars, charged that many employers during the same period in 1945. MONTREAL, May 29 (UP)—What ships are to be anchored, while Eighty percent of the city's industries were "racketeering" by using dis- Tibbetts and Ferrabee centered their were flood-bound and 60 per cent of This indicated that the nations of was described as the biggest black charged servicemen as "cheap the world, which during the first market ever exposed in Montreal, attack on the target range. the residential area was under Waiting for the planes at the labor" under on-the-job training two months of 1945 required $1,130,- involving counterfeit ration coupons several feet of water. provisions of the GI Bill of Rights. for millions of pounds of butter and Kwajalein base—exactly as will Elmira, N. Y, looked "Old Man 109,000 in dollar credits, required happen on X-day—was the special Stack said in an interview that only $761,013,000 credit during the an equal amount of sugar, has been River"—the Chemung, a Susque- smashed by the Royal Canadian Skymaster transport. Thousands of hanna tributary—right in the face. "training was being prolonged first two months of 1946. beyond a reasonable length of time Mounted Police here. photographs taken with special high-' One-third of the community's 50,000 speed cameras were loaded aboard in too many cases." The lack of equilibrium in trade The operations of the black inhabitants were battling raging with many nations has been tem- and the craft took off for Washing- "In some cases, employers have market counterfeiting ring, dealing torrents at every turn under more porarly balanced by credits from ton, where armed services leaders will than five feet of water. Utilities were stretched the minimum four-to-six- among the provinces, were on a examine the photographic results. disrupted and all roalJs but one week course to two years, forcing the Export-Import Bank, or from scale to threaten the entire ration- Ramey pronounced this initial were closed. The flood, in New York the Government to pay part of their other sources. ing system of the nation if they had rehearsal as "perfect for scientific State centered here. operating expenses." not been halted, the police said. purposes and outstanding for bom- Four arrests have been made in bardment accuracy." He indicated Pulitzer Scholarships Montreal, with more expected. The additional tests will continue until black marketeers operated in Quebec the actual dropping of the atom 'Grapes of Wrath' and 'Strange Fruit' Won by 3 at Columbia and Ontario and extended as far1 bomb, with three all-inclusive re- NEW YORK, May 29 (AP)— as the U. S. border. hearsals now scheduled. Just Sour Apples to School Board Three students of' the Columbia The Criminal Investigation Bureau, University school of journalism have which made the announcement, said ASTORIA, Ore., May 29 (INS)— The teacher declared he never received 1946 Pulitzer traveling police seized thousands of bogus Strangles Wife, Leaps to Death A controversy over two novels, had ordered any pupil to read any scholarships of $1,500 each, Dean checks by which coupon supplies MIENEAPOLIS May 29 (AP)— "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Strange book and added it was "preposter- Carl W. Ackerman announced. are drawn from coupon blanks. Police said Wesly J. Kapalin, 34, Fruit," ended yesterday with the ous" for school directors who were Winners were Myrick Ebben Some of the counterfeit documents an optical worker, had slashed his resignation of the principal of the '"neither psychologists nor educa- Land, of Kilgore, Texas; Laura already had been found in the throat and leaped to his death from a Nehalem Valley High School. tors" to presume to dictate regard- Hoyle Davis, of Santa Cruz, Calif., butter and sugar trade. The arrests third-floor hotel room after stran- Colin McEwen said he had re- ing books that might or might not and Barbara Nell Neblett, of Miami came as a result of months of gling his 25-year-old wife with an signed after school directors, had be used. Beach.* investigation. . \ electric-iron cord. ordered him to remove the two novels from the school library, Blondie (By Courtesy of King Features Syndicate) which also is used by adults in that By Chic Young community of 200 population. In a letter of resignation, Mc- Ewen declared he could not teach modern literature if he was "not permitted to use books of novelists who in the course of great realistic portayals of life present with fidelity the. manners and morals and, indeed, the speech of real people." Editor Receives Silver Star SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (UP)— Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal highlighted his inspection tour of San Francisco naval instal- lations by personally presenting the Silver Star to Paul C. Smith, editor and general manager of the San Francisco Chronicle. Smith was dec- orated for "bravery on Guam where he commanded a rifle platoon in the 3rd Marine Div.

I Page 4 Thursday, May 30, 194S THE STARS AND STRIPES Escaped Soldier Slain, Sale of Jeeps To Be Handled 3 Captured in Tavern On Auto Lots

ieeps and other Army surplus Gun Fight With Patrol vehicles to military and civilian personnel will be temporarily sus- The Stars and Stripes Bureau nended, pending the establishment FRANKFURT, May 29—One American soldier was killed, one wounded of used-car lots at convenient points and two others captured when an Army patrol discovered the four throughout the occupied zone of recently escaped 1st Div. prisoners in a German inn 30 miles from the Germany, it was announced today Swiss border early Sunday morning, USFET disclosed today . by USFET headquarters. Alfred Marino, 19, of Co. C, 18th Inf. Regt., was fatally shot in the Under the plan, now in prepara- chest three times after raising tion it will be possible to make all his pistol at a member of the 84th arrangements for purchase, inspec- FA Bn. patrol which had surrounded tion and licensing of vehicles at any the inn at Thalkirchdorf following Himmler's Aide one of the used-car lots to be an air-night chase. established. ' The wounded soldier is Eugene At present, all approved applica- McMasters, 31, of Hq., 1st Div., Arrested Af ter tions must go to the Office of the who was shot in the left armpit by Foreign Liquidation Commissioner in a stray bullet. Paris for processing. The rush of Raymond Riley, 19, of Hq. Co., Year's Search personnel to Paris to purchase 2nd Chem. Mortar Bn., and William HERFORD, May 29 (AP)—Oswald vehicles is in excess of the OFLC's Pearce, 29, of Hq. Btry., 32nd FA Bn., Pohl, second in command of the capacity to make prompt retail surrendering to the tactical patrol in SS under Heinrich Himmler, was SH-6S* Thalkirchdorf, between Obershaufen arrested by British special investi- Consequently, processing of ap- ^and Immenstadt, are no win the gation officers Monday, it was plications made in person has re- custody of the 819th MP Bn. revealed today. quired a week, and requests by mail Fifth Member Caught « Pohl was discovered working as have taken two weeks or longer. A fifth member of the group a farm laborer under an assumed Applications Face Delay Which broke out of the stockade name, after a year-long search. Applications already approved at Regensburg a week ago and fled As chief of staff to Himmler, will be processed, officials said, but in stolen automobiles gave himself Pohl was responsible for the ad- unit commanders have been advised up to military police in Bamberg, ministration of all German con- to withhold further approvals until the Army announced. He was Robert centration camps. He is expected new purchase arrangements are Pane, 22, A. U. Del, 17th Repl. Depot. to be accused of complicity in the completed. deaths of concentration camp vic- Upon narrowing the chase for tims. Under the plan heretofore in the four others to the inn, the effect, it was necessary to purchase sergeant patrol leader was informed Known as the brain behind vehicles in Paris and then secure by Germans inside that the fugi- Himmler, Pohl is said to have been delivery at ordnance depots tives were upstairs. He withdrew the first to have instituted the gas throughout the theater. All surplus to organize his men and call for chamber. property in France is frozen now in more help against the prisoners In the last year, British war expectation of the successful comple- known to have weapons. crimes investigators followed his Striking It Rich tion of a bulk sale to France. Two of the escapers were then trail from Bavaria to Hamburg, , Smoking a cigar and scanning the $100,000 he insisted be paid him If the sale is completed, all future detected through an open window, where he was reported to have been in *$50 bills, Ulrich J. Arsenault, Northwest Territories prospector, purchases of motor vehicle's will the Army related. When they were seen pushing a handcart; to Bre- closes a deal in Toronto with Samuel Ciglen of the Beaulieu Yellow- have to be made in Germany. called upon to surrender, they men, and finally to a farm in the knife Mines, Ltd., for his gold-mine claims. Arsenault received 250,000 Personnel travelling to Paris or to attempted to escape through the Hanover plain, where he was known as Ludwig Gniss. shares of stock in addition to the money, but almost didn't close the ordnance depots in connection with back door only to find their' exit deal when he realized it was the 13th of the month. the purchase of private vehicles already blocked by a member of Two vials of poison were found must go on leave and not on tem- the patrol. on him when he was arrested. porary duty. Travel to Paris for The scuffle which followed the Pohl will now be flown to Nurn- this purpose must come within artilleryman's attempt to disarm berg for questioning before the American Railway Express leave Marino resulted in the shooting. International Military Tribunal, it British Hope to Maintain was reported. quotas authorized to major com-! ______/ mands unless private accommoda-c tions are available. SUB PENS AT HAMBURG German Divorces BLOWN UP BY BRITISH Zone Ration Till June 23 'Poor* Means Overhauling Nearly Eight Times LONDON, May 29 (INS)—The In clarifying classifications of ve- British Broadcasting Co. reported hicles, USFET officials said that a grade of "poor" indicates that that Rate Betore War that engineers had blown up the big UNRRA Sees Gain Later Allocation vehicle requires a major overhauling Blohm and Voss naval construction to be put in serviceable condition. BERLIN, May 29 (INS)—The facilities at Hamburg, where the In Austrian Food 4 Hinges on Harvest payoff for Nazi production-line Nazi built many of their submarines Car purchasers were reminded that marriage campaigns is going on and other warships. the current vehicle and traffic code provides that privately owned today in German divorce courts, By ARTHUR NOYES BERLIN, May 29 (AP)—The British where up to 6,000 couples are being vehicles must be able to pass a Staff Writer expect to maintain the 1,000-calory mechanical inspection before being split up monthly. U.S. Zone Air F orce food ration for normal consumers in The divorce rate, which has risen VIENNA, May 29—A "general licensed for operation in the occupa- increase in the Austrian food ration their zone of Germany up to June 23 tion zone. to nearly eight times its prewar To Have 2,700 Ships but are "making po official promises level, reflects the fate of Adolf was predicted today by Brig. R. H. Only under exceptional circum- WASHINGTON, May 29 (AP)— R. Parminter, chief of the UNRRA beyond that date," a high military stances will "poor" vehicles pass Hitler's "quick marriage and big An American occupational air force government official said today. families" program. mission to Austria, who said that such a test. Spare parts to recondi- of 2,700 planes, including 800 long- UNRRA shipments in sight and He said that "although we are tion or maintain vehicles are not A large percentage of. divorce range B-29 Superfortresses is being fairly confident" this ration could applications are from returning "really vigorous steps regarding available from military sources and planned for Europe, the Army Air home production'j should lead to a be maintained also until next must be procured from commercial German prisoners of war, and Forces announced today. adultery is the most common charge. July ration basis 'of 1,200 calories a TOKYO, May 29 (AP)—The concerns in the United States. Air Force, official journal of the person daily. Negotations are being made to Many of the broken marriages were AAF, said 750, fighter-bombers, Japanese press, alert to the food made during the war by proxy, a Parminter said that because of a crisis, discovered that Yasurei secure spare parts from the United about 100 medium bombers, 650 States, but officials estimate that scheme by which German troops transports and a variety of spe- 15,000-ton food contribution by the Kanda, a school teacher, had re- could be married without ever leav- American Army and a 7,500-ton gift ported that he did not eat, he none will be available for sale for cialized planes also would be in- at least 90 days. ing the front line. cluded. by the Red army, Austria would be just drank four bottles of beer able to maintain an 1,100 calory daily. USFET officials also pointed out ration through June. "Doctor's orders," said Kanda, that although personnel making per- He urged the Austrian people j-to adding that he had been doing it manent change of station are author- Axis Partners Blamed Franco match the American and Soviet gifts 15 years, as the result of a stomach ized shipping space for privately by a most vigorous campaign ailment. owned vehicles on Army transports throughout the country to make from ports of embarkation in the For Defeat, Records Disclose available to the appropriate author- harvest there could be no guarantee European theater, such shipment until official allocations had been will be made only as space becomes NURNBERG, May 29 (AP)—Adolf ities every possible scrap of in- ranean or Atlantic, to defend these digenous produce." made. available after normal Army cargo Hitler and Benito Mussolini, tasting with all means. The official said that while there shipment. the bitter dregs of defeat at Stalin- "Should the English, therefore, In answer to complaints in the was no starvation in the zone there Consequently, there is no assur- grad and Tripoli, agreed that land in Portugal, Franco would Austrian press that UNRRA supplies were "definite signs of deteriora- ance that the vehicle will be trans- Generalissimo Francisco Franco had march in. are being used to feed displaced per- tion" and the death rate among old ported at the same time that in- robbed the Axis of victory by re- "Perhaps a landing soon of the sons, Parminter reminded Austrian people and infants had risen. dividuals leave the theater. fusing to attack Gibraltar. English in Portugal would be to the editors and politicians who have Industrial absenteeism has risen Redeployment of individuals from But captured records of the Ger- advantage of the Axis, for then campaigned against the gifts' of on the average of 25 per cent and the theater will not be delayed in man foreign office disclosed that Franco would be drawn into the war UNRRA food to the former slave in some cases as high as 50 since order that they may have time to Hitler attempted to salvage some- on the Axis side." workers and concentration camp rations were cut in early March. He purchase a surplus vehicle. thing from the Franco defection by Mussolini agreed, the memoran- inmates that "the agreement between estimated a 15 per cent overall signing him to a secret protocol to dum said, adding: "In general, he ! UNRRA and the Austrian govern- decline in worker efficiency. Quints Reported Born fight any Anglo-American landing criticized the earlier attitude of ment makes provision for supplies to displaced persons on a basic BOGOTA, Columbia, May 29 (UP) on the Iberian Peninsula, even if Franco, who had rejected a good op- Cholera Threatens Shanghai —The newspaper El Liberal reported it meant a Spanish march into portunity when it existed, to con- standard equal to that provfded for SHANGHAI, May 29 (AP)—A the Austrian population." that a' woman in the town of Cucuta Portugal. quer Gibraltar, for his rejective serious cholera epidemic is threaten- had given birth to quintuplets. The Light on Franco's wartime rela- attitude had shattered the German "This," he said, "is not taking ing Shanghai, city health authori- babies, born in a hospital, are said tions with the Axis chieftains was plant." food away from Austrians." ties warned. to be in perfect health. thrown at a four-hour conference in Rome on Feb. 25, 1943, between Mussolini and Hitler's foreign min- Terry and The Pirates (By Courtesy ot News Syndicate) ister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. By Milton Caniff "Franco, who had the Duce and Fuehrer to thank for everything, KNO PUL—T^HAZZXYESXIVIUANSVTTHENJOWARD THE END' WHEN VOU GET INTO CIVVIES YOU ARE STRICTLY ] DID THEY ROLL OUT HARP.' \OF VOI/R TERMINAL LEAVE-,) left Germany and Italy in the lurch pa em. PART OF THE OFFSTAGE CROWD NOISE . SOON * WELL, HOTSHOT, THAT REMINDS ME, TERRY, THE" RED FLUSH -^THEY LISTEN WHILE \ LITTLE THINGS BEGIN TO YOU START HUDDLING IN CORNERS ATFARTJES at a decisive moment," Ribbentrop THEY'RE TAKING I MUSTREMEAA5ER TO THING WHEN YOU JVtoll REAP OFF YOUR I HAPPEN... GIRLS WILL WITH THE OTHER RUPTURED DUCK JOKERS... exclaimed, referring to the debacle THE CAMOUFLAGE- SEND MY MEASUREMENTS of the Gibraltar plans in 1941. GOT HOME ~ 7RI5SONS-AND OFfEN/CHANGE THE SUBJECTRIGHT \ THEN IT HAPPENS...YOU EITHER TAfeE THE OLP PAINT OFF THE-WAR.- FOR THE STATUE OF THEYlEE ACTUALLY An official'memorandum in Nazi I IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR JOB AND FORGET YOUR BIG SCHEMES-OE YOU files gave this account of their con- ' WEARY TRANSPORTS ME BEING ERECTED INTERESTED... DESCRIPTION OF A FIGHT... BREAK LOOSE ... I GUESS WE RAW OUR. versations: WE'RE TO FLY.' THERE ON BOSTON COMMON LAST REEL AT THE START OF THE PICTURE / "The Reich foreign minister in- GOES OUR LAST LINK, formed the Duce of the recent con- WITH THE BIG FUSS.' clusion of a secret protocol. Spain m Mpu Wishes to have arms from Germany. CWIFF "In view of Franco's attitude, the Fuehrer has agreed only on Spain's promise, in case ot a landing by English and the Americans on the Spanish islands of the Mediter- [ hi /A Thursday, May 30, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES PageS 28 Dachau Killers Are Hanged at Landsberg Scene Visible Allied Group Blocks From Hitler's One-Time Cell 4-Zone Probe of Arms By IRVING DILLIARD BERLIN, May 29 (AP)—The Allied Control Council's coordinating com- Staff Writer mittee today was stalemated on an American proposal to send a quadri- LANDSBERG, May 29—If Adolf partite commission into each of- the four occupation zones to investigate Hitler had been in his old room at the progress of German disarmament. It was announced that there Landsberg prison today and yester- would be no investigation. day, he could have seen the payoff Fifty steps from the window out of It was not immediately known which power had blocked^ the in- which he looked when he was vestigation, which had been pro- writing ^'Mein Kampf," 28 of his posed by the coordinating com- killers from Dachau' paid with their Poles to Decide mittee's member Lt. Gen. Lucius D. lives von a double gallows, for their Clay, upon instructions from Sec- crimes against the world. retary of State James F. Byrnes. Since approximately one-quarter 3 Big Issues To Issue Communique of a million men, women and children were beaten, gassed An American press relation officer burned, poisoned, shot, starved or In June Vote announced, "The coordinating com- otherwise tortured to death at mittee failed to reach agreement and Dachau, the ratio was one Nazi WARSAW, May 29 (AP)—Eleven the question was taken off the executed for every 10,000 - of million Poles are expected to' vote agenda, so there will be no dis- Dachau's victims. in the national referendum on June 30. armament commission." 14 Hanged Each Day He added that Clay had proposed The principal issues are these: Fourteen of the condemned were an investigation into all fields of "hanged by the neck until dead" 1. Whether Poland shall have a disarmament, including economist, today and 14 were hanged yester- one- or a two-house , parliament. and the implication was that the lat- day, seven in the forenoon and 2. Whether Poles approve of the nationalization of industries and the terlwas the stalemated point. seven in the afternoon of each day. ■ The spokesman said that the com- The executions satisfied Military'' land reforms which broke up the Commission Order No. 4, dated big estates and parceled them out mittee would issue a communique April 23. They bore the approval to the peasants. after its next meeting and * then of Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr., 3. Whether they approve of the reveal the stand taken by each and the confirmation of Gen. Joseph establishment of Poland's western power. T. McNarnqy. frontiers along the Baltic, the Oder and Neisse rivers. The argument over relative dis- The first killer to climb the 13 armament in the various occupa- steps was Friederich Wilhelm Rup- Mikolajczyk Party Dissolved tion zones is months old in the pert, 40, whose crimes included the Meanwhile, the provisional Warsaw four-power council. The Russians slaughter of 90 Russian officers. He regime, whose most powerful posts have repeatedly accused the British left his cell yesterday at 9:27 a. m. are in the hands of the Communist- of maintaining undisbanded Wehr- was hanged at 9:39 and pronounced backed Polish Workers Party and macht units in their zone. The dead at 9:54. The last to stand on its close ally, the Polish Socialist British have countered with a prop- the hangman's trapdoor was one- Party, is proceeding with the dis- osition that a quadripartite group legged Leonhard Anselm Eigh- solution of Vice Premier Stanislaw could come and investigate their berger, 30, who knew the way to Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. zone if it also were permitted to Dachau's crematorium. He died in The first two parties assert that go into other zones and that other midafternoon today. Mikolajczyk's organization is top- matters also would be investigated. Malaria Experimenter Dies heavy with "anti-government, anti- democratic and pro-fascist" ele- Recognizes Two Parties Seventy-four-year-old Dr. Klaus ments. The coordinating committee also Karl Schilling—conductor of Dachau's Mikolajczyk and his party chief- authorized the Allied Berlin Kom- mass malaria experiments on human . —signal corps photo by Bin Logan tains have protested that secret mandatur to recognize on a city- guinea pigs—was the oldest of the Anton Anders, Dachau war criminal, on the gallows at Landsberg Prison police raids against their district wide basis in Berlin both the So- 28. With gray mustache, short, headquarters are a violation of the cial Democrat Party anct-the new pointed gray beard and wav3' gray formation. A lieutenant colonel gallows took about six minutes, Moscow agreement setting up the Socialist Unity Party, which was hair, he more than any of the gave the command of attention most were dead some 15 minutes provisional regime and granting the formed by a fusion of Social De- others, was visibly anxious to have each time one of his majors and after the executioners shoved for- six political parties equal rights to mocrats and Communists. it over with. the four MP guards brought a war ward the red handle which opened participate in the government. This resolved a long-standing As white tapes were tied over his criminal to the doorway between the trap. argument brought about by a suc- wrists and at the ankles of his baggy, -the twin gallows. A captain read Denies Territorism Charge cession of anti-merger Social Dem- patched blue trousers, the old Engelbert Valentin Niedermeyer, the orders. Medical Corps officers 33, was dead only nine minutes The Polish Peasant Party has dis- ocrats. It was agreed that each scientist squinted his eyes into the determined when death came. A claimed any links with terroristic should have equal facilities for bright, warm Bavarian sun which after he fell. At that, life lasted bands such as the NSZ (National former Military Government cap- longer for No. 7 than for his campaigning in the city. The rec- flooded the prison yard both days. tain, now a U. S. civilian in the Armed Forces). ognition of the Socialist Unity When the black zipper-fitted hpod legal branch of the Bavarian MG, victims. An honor graduate of the Continuance of the secret police Dachau school of flogging, he was Party by the western powers ap- was put in place, he twisted hisliead stood on the scaffold to meet the campaign brings Poland closer to plies only to Berlin and not to made administrator of the crema- civil war, officials of the Polish and then dropped it over his chest. possibility of a last s minute legal their occupation zones. He was no. 9. question. tory because of his record. Peasants Party have warned. The gallows, which were in the They were joined in that view Resigned to Death Nos. 1 and 2 were dead in exactly shade of linden and horse chestnut the same time—27 minutes after recently by Karol Popiel,' president Every one was resigned and few trees at the start of the day, were of the Labor Party, which generally U.S. Presents DSM of them accepted the opportunity to they left the cell. This was deemed as taking somewhat too long and employed alternately. While the has stood by the Mikolajczyk or- make a last statement from the rope of one was taut, the other was ganization on most controversial To Cunningham for fresfily-painted black platform. the chaplains, escorting officers and hangmen were instructed to being readied to use again. Insofar as issues. Joint Naval Tactics Ninth Div. chaplains from Augs- lighten up. Thereafter the average possible, Catholics and Protestants Against Mikolajczyk and his burg—Catholic Peter S. Rush, of Labor Party friends are arrayed the The Stars and Stripes Bureau Newark, N. J., and Lutheran Karl was about 21 minutes. As the last were alternated as a help to the walk and final arrangements on the chaplains. workers, the Socialists, the Demo- LONDON, May 29—Adm. of the Aimer of Minneapolis, who assisted cratic Party and an independent Fleet Viscount Cunningham, British the German prison chaplains, found organization known simply as the First Sea Lord and chief of the that killers died as they lived—with JNazi Loot Returned First American Baby Peasant Party, which has no con- naval staff, has received the U. S. no regard for human life. Dr. Schil- nection with Mikolajczyk's party. Navy Distinguished Service Medal, ling said merely: "Nein, danke." To French Museum is Born in Berlin highest decoration the U. S. may One repented sufficiently to "for- confer on an officer of a foreign give the court for passing sentence" The Stars and Stripes Bureau BERLIN, May 29 (AP)—Birth of BENES VICTORY BELIEVED SURE service, from Vice Adm. H. Kent and to "thank the Americans for VIENNA, May 29—A carload of the first American baby in postwar IN CZECH ELECTION IN JUNE Hewitt, commander of U. S. naval treating me so well in prison." He objects taken from the Army Berlin was announced today. PRAGUE, May 29' (AP)—The forces in Europe and of the U. S. Was no. 3—Otto Forschner,~44, but Museum of Paris by the Wehrmacht Parents of the 6 pound, 9-ounce election of the president of Czecho- in 1940 and carried to Vienna has 12th Fleet. looking fully 15 years older—who boy are Sgt. and Mrs. Marvin C. slovakia by the new Parliament has Among those who attended the wore a great black overcoat as he been returned to the French, it was Gerber. The father, attached to the been fixed for June 14. ceremony at U. S. Navy headquar- fell to his death behind the black announced yesterday at USFA head- 3,110th Sig. Serv. Bn., is from San The re-election of President ters in London was Adm. William curtain under the scaffold. quarters. Antonio and has been overseas Eduard Benes is considered to be a H. Leahy, chief of staff to President The collection included war three years. foregone conclusion. , Wants Beautiful Germany Truman. trophies dating from the 17th, 18th He met his wife, the former The citation accompanying the No. 10, Josef Seuss, 40, said: "I hope and 19th Centuries, many of them Andree Fortelle, of Amiens, France, award, which was for "exceptionally Germany will grow strong again." taken by Napoleon I. while, he was stationed in Paris Juliana Back From Swiss Trip meritorious service to the govern- Realizing how this remark would Found by French authorities in and they were married there. She AMSTERDAM, May 29 (UP)— ment of the United States" as First be interpreted, he corrected him- the Kunsthistorische Museum and was one of the first soldier depen- Princess Juliana and Prince Bern- Sea Lord from October, 1943, to self: "No, no, no—I hope that Ger- the Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in dents to arrive here. hard returned from Switzerland, September, 1945, said Cunningham many will be beautiful again." He Vienna, the list of trophies included alighting at the Soesterberg air- They baby was born Sunday at had "planned with brilliant judg- was noted for hanging prisoners by suits of armor, lances, shields, flint- drome. Bernhard had piloted the ment and decisive foresight the their wrists and kicking and beat- locks, crossbows, halberds, and the 279th U. S. Sta. Hosp. and was plane on the trip from Switzer- maximum utilization of British ing them to death. battle standards captured in World named Franklin, for the late land. They went immediately to the fleet power in joint naval operations The anti-religion of the Nazis War I. President Roosevelt. palace at Soestdijk. in the European and Pacific theaters." was conspicuous by the absence of reference to God—aside from the (By Courtesy of News Syndicate Co., Inc.) words of the chaplains. An excep- Moon Mullins By Willard tion was Simon Kiern, 32, "hap- pily married" and the father of two children. "Those who take my life," he said, "will have to answer to God for it." Then he asked that his wife be told that he would be "waiting for her in heaven." He carried a wilted bouquet of red and white peonies, brought to him on Sunday when wives were allowed to visit the condemned. He was a block leader, who beat and shot prisoners to death when they fell exhausted from systematic star- VaThe first mass execution by the Army in Germany, it was conducted by the Provost Marshal's section of the 3rd Army as a military Page 6 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, May 30, 1946

Close Call Nats Shade Yanks, 2-1, Leon Culberson, Boston Red Koslo Snaps Dodgers' Sox outfielder, slides back into third base in time to beat Chisox catcher Mike Tresh's snap throw On Leonard's 6-Hitter to Dario Lodigiani. The slugging Winning Streak, 5-2 Bosox made this their 14th straight, winning 7-5. Vernon's 22-Game Flock's Margin Cut Hit Streak Halted As Cards Rip Cubs

NEW YORK, May 29 (AP)— BROOKLYN, May 29 (AP)—Dave They turned the lights on for the Koslo snapped the Dodgers' seven- first time at the Yankee Stadium game winning streak tonight by last night, but they shone only for hurling the Giants to a 5-2 triumph, the Senators, as the Yankees bowed their fifth successive victory. to the knuckleball wizardry of The Giants scored what, proved to Dutch Leonard, who checked them be the winning run in the eighth with six hits, 2-1. when Hugh Casey, who relieved Fans saw the Yanks take a one- starter Joe Hatten, completed the run lead in the first, as George job of walking Bill Rigney with Stirnweiss doubled, went to third bases loaded. Hatten delivered three on Tommy Henrich's fly ball and wide pitches to Rigney whert he scored on DiMaggio's blooping hit gave way to Casey, whose first to center. Thereafter, they saw delivery was a ball forcing Johnny the home team rolling and popping Mize in with the run that broke a out as the veteran Leonard's knuck- 2-2 tie. ler wobbled and jumped most effec- Triples by Buddy Blattner and tively. Jack Graham off Casey helped the Nats Nick Marshall New Yorkers pick up two additional runs in the ninth, assuring Koslo of The Nats meanwhile teed off his fourth triumph. The win boosted periodically on the offerings of the Giants into fifth place, one per- Clarence Marshall, until he was centage point ahead of the idle removed for a pinch hitter in the Braves and cut the Brooks' first- seventh. He was nicked for seven place margin over St. Louis to two hits, but none of them came from games. the bat of Mickey Vernon, who had Mays, Rose Ranked as Favorites to Win New York hopped on Hatten for hit safely in 22 straight games two runs in the second, but the until he was stopped yesterday. Dodgers tied the count in the fifth, The Senators tied the score at one run coming on Howie Schultz's one all in the second, as Vernon first homer of the year. walked and came the rest of the 30th Indianapolis Auto Racing Classic way home on Jeff Heath's fly to INDIANAPOLIS, May 29 (UP)— Cards 11, Cubs 2 left, which Charley Keller couldn't The field of 33 entrants for the 30th quite reach and which went for a Former Speedway Winners CHICAGO, May 29 (AP)—With annual Memorial Day 500 mile race Dick Sisler's grand-slam homer double. M.P.H. M.P.H was completed as nine cars qualified They tied together three singles 1911— Kay Harroun «74.59 1929— Ray Keech . • ? ■ . 97.585 highlighting an eight-run fifth in- in the fourth to score the deciding 1912— Joe Dawson 78.72 1930— Billy Arnold . . . . 100.448 yesterday, barely beating the sun- ning, the Cardinals pounded four 1913— Jules Goux 73.933 1931— Louis Schneider . 96.629 down deadline. run, Cecil Travis, Gerry Priddy and 1914— Rene Thomas ...... 82.47 1932— Fred Frame . . . . 104.144 pitchers for 14 hits to gain an 11-2 Leonard causing the damage. 1915— Ralph DePalma 89.84 1933— Louis Meyer . . . . 104.162 Rex Mays, veteran Long Beach, victory over the Chicago Cubs. •1916—Darlo Resta 84.00 1934— William Cummings . 104.863 Calif., driver, and Mauri Rose, who Marshall was fairly steady in the 1919— Howdy Wilcox 88.05 1935— Kelly Petillo . . . . 106.240 The Cards combined three singles, other innings he worked, although 1920— Gaston Chevrolet .... 88.62 1936— Louis Meyer . . . . 106.069 teamed with Floyd Davis to win the two walks, two errors and Sisler's on a couple of occasions bases on 1921— Tommy Milton 89.63 1937— Wilbur Shaw . . . . 113.580 last Indianapolis race in 1941, rank big blow to clinch the game in the 1922— James A. Murphy .... 94.48 1938— Floyd Roberts . . . 117.200 balls got him into jams. 1923— Tommy Milton 90.95 1939— Wilbur Shaw . . . . 115.035 as the top favorites, although they fifth, at the expense of Claude Pas- 1924— L. L. Corum and 1940— Wilbur Shaw . . . . 114.277 are expected to have plenty of seau and Bob Chipman. Red Adams, Joe Boyer 98<23 1941— Mauri Rose and trouble from Cliff Bergere, Chet Mil- the third Cub pitcher, was touched 1925— Peter De Paolo 101.13 Floyd Davis . . . . 115.117 White Sox 9, Browns 2 ••1926—Frank Lockhart 951885 ler and Ralph Hepburn. for five hits and three more runs in 1927— George Souders .... 97.545 •300-mile race. Bergere has the advantage of the the ninth before Paul Erickson came ST. LOUIS, May 29 (AP)—The 1928— Louis Meyer ...... 99.482 White Sox picked up where they ••Called at 400 miles account rain. pole position of the first row, while in to retire the Redbirds. <§>Rose will start in the third row, Johnny Beazley started for the left off Monday night and hammered Cards, but was relieved in the fourth three Brown pitchers for 15 hits and Mays in the fifth, Miller in the sixth and Heburn, who shattered the by Ted Wilks, who hurled the rest a 9-2 victory. Stan Ferens was of the way and was credited with driven from the mound in a four- Assault Made Odds-On Choice track's qualifying record, in the seventh. '.. ■>' the victory. run first inning, while Orval Grove Terry Moore, St. Louis center- held the Browns to five scattered Hepburn Sets Trial Mark fielder, injured his right knee catch- hits. To Capture Belmont Stakes Hepburn, who at 50 is the oldest ing Bob Sturgeon's liner and was Ferens hit Ralph Hodgin with a NEW YORK, May 29 (UP)—As- 510,000 Peter Pan Handicap, which man entered in the speed classic, set replaced by Buster Adams. The in- pitched ball to open the game and sault, fast-stepping Texas bangtail Assault did not enter. The slump a new record for the 10-mile quali- jury was not serious. walked Guy Curtright, and both who won this year's Kentucky accompanied a corresponding rise in fying heat as he was clocked at runners scored on Luke Appling's Derby and Preakness, looms as the enthusiasm of Assault's followers 133.994 miles per hour. The old Pirates 6, Reds 3 single and Hal Trosky's fly ball. top-heavy favorite to capture Satur- with the result that the "Texas record, set by the late Jimmy Thurman Tucker forced Trosky. PITTSBURGH, May 29 (AP)-r-The day's Belmont Stakes and with it the Typhoon" will go to the post odds- Snyder in 1939, was 130.138 miles per Pirates combined a walk, a fielder's After Appling was picked off second coveted "Triple Crown." on in the Belmont Stakes. hour. choice and four singles to produce and with two out, Bob Kennedy Many track fans started to doubt However, the Belmont, at a mile Mays, who has yet to win the four runs in the seventh to overhaul singled and Don Kolloway doubled Assault's ability to add the third and a half, is considerably longer event although he finished second to the Cincinnati Reds for a 6-3 triumph. for two more runs. Wilbur Shaw in 1940 and was Bill Salkeld's double bounced off Mancuso scored for the Browns in runner-up to the Rose-Davis com- Benny Zientaras's glove and tied up the third on a single, Bob Dilinger's bination in 1941, turned ini the the game in the seventh after the infield out and Kennedy's wild throw second fastest of the qualifying Reds had gone ahead in their half. past first base on Joe Grace's marks, touring the 4-lap trail heat Singles by Lee Handley, Jim Rus- grounder. The Browns' other run at 128.861 miles per hour in his sell, and Elbie Fletcher off Joe Beggs came in the seventh, with Walt Bowes Seal-Fast Special, which-is a settled the issue. Judnich scoring on Chuck Stevens' Meyer-Winfield creation. The Reds tallied twice in the single. One Former Winner Entered seventh. Ray Lamanno singled and took second on Ralph Kiner's bobble. An unusual feature of the race is Bahr grabbed Bert Haas' sacrifice and Tigers 6, Indians 1 the fact that Rose is the only former threw it into left field, Lamanno CLEVELAND, May 29 (UP)— winner entered in this year's grind. scoring. Ed Miller's long fly put Haas Freddy Hutchinson limited the In- And Rose himself was not behind across. dians to Ave hits to hurl the the wheel of his car when it crossed Edson Bahr, winning his second champion Tigers to a 6-1 victory. the finish line. Floyd Davis, who straight game, held the Reds to six Charley (Red) Embree. who started had started the race in his own hits, though taken out for a pinch for the Tribe, was charged with car, took over for Rose mid-way in hitter in the seventh inning. Lamanno the loss. the event after his car had been collected three of the six hits. Hutchinson rapped two of De- Assault adds 2nd jewel ... by beating Lord Boswell in Preakness sidelined by mechanical difficulties. troit's nine hits off Embree and gem to the crown after the Texas than the Derby, Preakness, or Peter Two veterans of the Memorial relief hurler Ed Klieman, as the colt, stumbled across the Preakness Pan. This tends to keep Boswell as Day classic are missing from the 'Jumpers' Reveal Tigers tallied three unearned runs finish line just a neck in front of the main threat to Assault, although list of drivers that will roar around in the sixth, and seventh frames Lord Boswell. The latter will also his recurrent "too little and too late" the brick oval. They are Joel Thorne, Verbal Agreement and sealed the contest with a three- run in the longer Belmont classic, performances have brought few wealthy California sportsman, and ST. LOUIS, May 29 (UP)—Max run outburst in the ninth. and at first found plenty of backers dividends thus far. Kelley Petillo, winner of the 1935 Lanier and Fred Martin, formerly Cleveland tallied in the bottom who believed that the Maine Chance race. Thorne is in a Beverley Hills, Farm's entry would snap Assault's Only six horses in the history of with the St. Louis Cardinals, dis- half of the sixth stanza on a walk the American turf have annexed the Calif., hospital, recovering from in- closed as they left for Mexico City and Hank Edwards' triple, but De- streak. juries sustained in a motorcycle by automobile that they had no troit crossed the plate three times But Boswell's stock slumped badly "Triple Crown"—Sir Barton, Gallant accident last month, while Petillo Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirla— written agreement with Jorge Pas- in the ninth on Lake's double, two over the past weekend following' a has been barred from the race by quel, President of the Mexican singles, a walk and a wild pitch. defeat by longshot Mahout in the way and Count Fleet. the speedway officials. League, but they had reached a ver- bal understanding. Li'l Abner (By Courtesy ot United Features! Bv Al CaDn Lanier and Martin said they had been assured "of a pretty good deal YO' KEEPS A-JAWIN' AVJAY HAIN'T ET FO' THREE 1 HERE kMatf-V THERE'S OH, HO» y Or we wouldn't be -going." They "BOUT TH'$9l2.4-r7.4-£ IT'LL DAYS-BUT AH GITS A YA NOTHING LIKE added that they wouldn't have con- COST-BUT YO' MISSES TH ^ SOME NOURISHMENT r ARE. A RARE, JUICY, RIGHT sidered the Mexican offer if they IMPAWTINT POINT-NAMELY OUTA THET (GULP.') /MISTER DOUBLE-SIZED were five years younger. LI'L ABNER MUSTN'T MARRY ROSS- H~AMBURGER - Lanier said a verbal contract with ' THET GAL..'.'-YO'GOTTA TELL Pasquel's agent's would be put in HIM THET, ON TH' RADDlO- fl writing upon arrival in Mexico • EV'RY FIVE MINUTES-DAYA City. 34 AN'NIGHT- — « —* --"' The pair are expected to arrive by Thursday and said they expect to play for the Vera Cruz club managed by Mickey Owen, former Dodger and Cardinal catcher. Johnson Reported Very 111 WASHINGTON, May 29 (AP)- Walter Johnson, famous old-time pitcher, was reported in a critical condition at Georgetown University Hospital and his family was sum- moned to his bedside today Thursday, May 30, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page/

1 onnie Mack Picks Loss of Stars Bos ox to Win Flag Conn Predicts He'll Kayo Louis STAND BOSTON, May 29 (INS)—Cagey Leaves Dyer Connie Mack moved gingerly out By Concentrating on Midsection on a limb today and in diplomatic language picked the Boston Red In Tough Spot Sox to win the American League Billy Declares Body Attack AMERICAN LEAGUE pennant. The 83-year-old manager Will Fold Champion Up w L Pet. GB CHICAGO, May 29 (INS)—The of the Philadelphia Athletics said man who holds baseball's toughest Boston 29 9 .763 "I think the teams wilt wind up GREEN WOOD LAKE, N. J., May New York managerial post today is Eddie Dyer 23 16 .590 6Vt the season in just the same posi- 29 (UP)—Billy Conn is confident Washington 20 of the St. Louis Cardinals. tions they now occupy." 14 .588 7 The situation is a simple and not that a heayy midsection bombard- Detroit 20 18 .526 9 The Sox are six and one half ment is tfie formula for stopping Cleveland especially pretty one. Dyer was games ahead of the New York 16 21 .432 12V» thought to be a dead cinch to bring Joe Louis and his battle plan became St. Louis 16 22 .421 13 Yankees at the moment so it is so increasingly apparent in sparring Chicago the Cards home ahead of the pack safe to say Connie figures Boston 14 20 .412 13 m his first year as manager. sessions that the challenger for the i 9 27 .250 will have its first pennant winner heavyweight title broke down and 19 He'll have a lot of trouble doing since 1918. Results this. But give the peppery little guy admitted it frankly. Detroit 6, Cleveland 1 "You can't keep punching sparring Chicago 9, St. Louis 2 credit. He knew what lay before him partners in the belly every day Washington 2, New York when he succeeded Billy Southworth without people getting wise. But I Only games scheduled Stranahan Tops as manager. And today, now that guess the tipoff, won't make Joe his best pitcher, sparkplug infielder very happy," Conn said. NATIONAL LEAGUE and top relief hurler have left the Sneaking Hunch club in favor of Mexican gold, Dyer Briton to Enter W L Pet. GB. "I got a sneaking hunch during confessed the deck was stacked our first fight that Joe didn't like to Brooklyn 23 11 .676 against him. St. Louis 21 Amateur Finals take it downstairs, and I wasn't 13 .618 2 Terrific Blow really trying to hurt him down Cincinnati 15 15 .500 6 "Allrlght'* Dyer said, "Max Lanier Chicago 16 16 .500 BRIKDALE, England, May 29 there just belting him in the body 6 and Lou Klein and Fred Martin left (AP)—Youthful Frank Stranahan, of to get his hands down so I could get New York 1? 18 * .486 6V the team and they're gone for good. Boston 8 Toledo, Ohio, slugged his way into shots at his chin. During the early 16 17 .485 6Vi We know that. Now am I supposed the fourth round of the British rounds of our coming fight I'll be Pittsburgh 14 16 .467 7 to laugh and say, 'Let 'em go, we Philadelphia Amateur Golf Tournament today, shooting for his head only to get his 8 24 .250 14 didn't want 'em in the first place?' with a five and four triumph over arms up so I can get at his belly. Results No, I can't say that. Lou Klein Marshall Robertson, 27-year-old I'll fold him up. I don't know how New York 5, Brooklyn 2 wasn't startling but he figured very Northern England munitions worker. long it'll take but I'll fold him up Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 3 definitely in my infield plans. Martin St. Louis 11, Chicago 2 Stranahan won all but two and knock him out." Only games scheduled was tops among our bullpen pitchers. of the fourteen holes. On the, 202- A reporter said he figured Billy And Lanier—well, he was headed yard thirteenth hole, he dropped a should be content to outpoint Louis AMERICAN ASSOCIATION thirty-foot putt for a birdie two. this'time after what happened in w L Pet As the small gallery applauded the- first bout. Indianapolis 20 14 .588 the putt—Stranahan's best of the "Outpoint him nothing," declared Louisville 22 16 .579 tournament—he kissed his bent- Conn. "I'll knock him cold this St. Paul 24 18 .571 Kansas City 18 18 , .500 shafted putter, which he calls the time. But I won't try to put him Toledo 18 20 .474 "Blue Goose" because of its goose- away until he's ready to go. When Milwaukee 15 U .441 neck shape. I get ready to knock him out, he Minneapolis 16 22 .421 Columbus 15 21 .417 Stranahan ended the match with won't have strength enough left to Results a birdie four on the 517-yard four- kill a fly. He'll be out on his feet" Conn , , reveals battle plan Indianapolis 5-2, Columbus 0-4 teenth hole. Toledo 1, Louisville 0 Stranahan was scheduled to play Milwaukee 13, Minneapolis S his final match against an opponent Kansas City 6, St. Paul 4 to be decided by a match which was in progress as Stranahan INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE finished. W L Pet. Montreal 24 11 .636 Syracuse 20 13 .606 Baltimore 17 14 .548 NBA to Adopt Newark 18 . 17 .514 Toronto 16 16 .500 Rochester 14 17 .452 Buffalo 13 18 .419 Two New Classes Jersey City 8 24 .250 WASHINGTON,, May 29 (UP^— Results Two new boxing divisions, one Newark 3-0, Syracuse 1-1 between .light-heavyweight and Montreal 5, Buffalo 1 Dyer . . . left holding bag Only games scheduled heavyweight, and the other between for the greatest season he ever had. welterweight and middleweight, I could use all three of them. This is may soon be established by the SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION National Boxing Association. W L Pet. a terrific blow." President Abe Greene disclosed Atlanta 32 14 .711 Would he find players to replace Chattanooga 26 17 .605 them? "That's what I am manager that the NBA would take up the Nashville 20 16 .556 adoption of the new classifications New Orleans 23 19 .548 for," Dyer said. "We've got a good at its annual meeting in Cleveland Memphis 23 20 .535 ball club. The fellows aren't hitting Birmingham 15 27 .357 the way they should but I think they September 9. Mobile 14 27 .341 "Boxing is based upon weight Little Rock 13 27 .325 should iron that out. I'll tell you equality," said Greene, "and the Results one thing right now—we've got a difference between a man weighing Memphis 8, Nashville 2 hefty row to hoe. But don't think slightly over the 175-pound limit Chattanooga 5, Little Reck 2 we're giving up the ghost now be- Birmingham 4-2, New Orleans 0-9 cause if you do, you don t know this and a full-fledged heavy weighing Atlanta 9. Mobile 1 200 or more is far too great." ball team. We're going to fight all The NBA has no desire to "resur- the way down the line." PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Dyer confirmed reports that his rect various junior classes of some w L Pet. all-star outfield of Stan Musial, years ago," Greene added. / Oakland 38 20 .655 San Francisco 38 22 .633 Terry Moore and Enos Slaughter had Los Angeles 34 25 .576 been approached by Jorge Pasquel, San Diego 29 32 .475 president of the Mexican League. 15th Const. Raps Sacramento 28 33 .459 Hollywood 26 32 .448 Dyer said "You could call those Seattle 23 35 .397 offers tempting if you wanted to 2nd Const., 4 0 20 37 \ .351 Portland understate the case. At any rate, WEINHEIM, May 29—Behind the ACROSS 22—Doped 40— Baronet (abbr.) Results Moore, Musial and Slaughter talked seven hit pitching of George Samg- 1—U S. Pacific 13—Portuguese cigarettes « 41— Gave medicine San Diego 6. Los Angeles 2 man, the 15th Const. Regt. defeated base coin 24— Small fish to Hollywood 1. San Francisco 4 the wole thing over with me. We 5—Portico with 14—Beginner (slang) 25— Toil . 42— Gold (symb.) Sacramento 1. Portland 0 (14 innings) shook hands on the matter after a the 2nd Const. Regt. 4- 0. colonnade 17—Gold (her.) 27—Branch of peace 43— Practice 29— Molten rock Oakland-Seattle, ipostponed. rain) long discussion and they promised Samgman, who shut his opponents 9—Sly 18—He rents houses 45— Lexicon (abbr.) 11—Odd-shaped 20—Compass point 30— Full-grown 46— Mountain to remain with the Cardinals." out without a run, allowed only seven 47— Many hundreds wheel or gear 21—Russian river pike TEXAS LEAGUE hits while Holiday who also allowed In Ural area 31— Belief 52— God of war, son seven hits had a weak defense 33-Ogles of Zeus and W 'L Pet. ^> 35—Like Hera 12 .700 A FN Highlights Fort Worth 28 behind him, as his teammates com- YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 36—Paid back 53— Our (Fr.) Dallas 28 .636 .591 mitted Ave errors. 39—Thus Tulsa 26 Frankfurt 1411 kes; Munich. Stuttgart The 15th scored a run in the third San Antonio 21 .538 1249; Berlin, Bremen 1429; Paris 610; DOWN Beaumont . 22 .524 Bayreuth. Normandv 1204. inning, one in the sixth and two in .500 20—Wanderer Shreveport 20 1— It's chewed .326 THURSDAY the eighth. 2— One (Fr.) 23—Skidded Houston 14 Oklahoma City 12 .293 1800 News 2100 News 3— Public notice 26—Prohibit 1805 Sports 2130 AFN PUyhouse 14TH REGT. WINS, 2-1, 4— Join 28—Chill Results 1815 Personal Album 2200 Jonny Desmond ON 5TH REGT.'S ERRORS 5— Sheen 31— Sacred Dallas 7-6. Tulsa 2-2 1900 Fred Allen 2230 Andre San Antonio 3 Houston 2 Kostelanetz KITZINGEN, May 29—The 14th 8—Tantalum interdiction Beaumont 9, Shreveport 5 1930 Music Hall (symb.) Ivar.) 2000 Abbott & Cos 2345 Vocal Touch Regt. defeated the 5th Regt. today, Only games scheduled 32— Packing boxes tello 2400 News as the losers contributed seven 7— Forward! 2030 Dinah Shore errors on the field. The score was 2:1. 8— Put on 34—Liquid food FRIDAY 10— Underwater 37— Large pill for SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Lefty Robbins, who hurled for the rocks horse W L PCt. 0600 News 1330 Command 0730 Fred Waring School of The winning 14th, struck out 14 men 11— Fairly cold 38— Native of Lone Augusta 24 17 -585 12— Crossbows Star State Columbus 20 « -541 0800 GI Jive Air and allowed only four hits. Bob 44—Greek letter 525 0815 News '430 This Is The 15— All-encom- Greenville 2} " Peterman, who hurled for the losers, passing 46—Fool 5 0830 Repeat Story Savannah « « ™ allowed six hits. 48— Hour (abbr.) Jacksonville 21 21 Performance 1500 News 16— "Adam " Columbia 17 M .472 1130 Melody 1650 Vespers The 14th scored their only two 18— Filled with air 49— Eye (Scot.) .462 Macon 1» Roundup 1705 Duffle Bag runs of the game in the seventh 19— Fished from 50— Negatives Charleston 15 23 1145 At Ease 1800 News inning on errors. moving boat 51— Duke (abbr.) . . Results 1200 News Columbus 4, Macon 0 Jacksonville 8, Savannah 4 (By Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Syndicate, toe.) Columbia 2. Greenville 1 Dick Tracy By Chester Gould Augusta 14. Charleston 3 Major League Lt aders WELL.THERE YOU Y YOU'RE SHE'S PULLING OUT TO ARE. THANKS FOR QUITE ' MAKE THINGS LOOK GOOD >JOW, LET'S SMOOTH THAT THE FIVE DOLLARS,\WELCOM E iTO THE WATCHMAN. SHE'LL] G AB R H Pet. GRAVEL BACK JUST AS ' Vernon. Senators 25 114 25 45 .395 LADY THAT'S ,BE BACK FOR US IN> Walker, Dodgers 27 103 18 38 .369 IT WAS. WE'RE " QUITE A WAGE ^A MINUTE. _ Kurowski, Cardinals 27 89 11 32 .360 DOING OKAVV Mutual. Cardinals 34 36 25 48 .353 FOR CHANGING Williams. Red Sox 38 134 34 47 .351 A TIRE. pesky Red Sox 37 159 37 55 .346 RUNS BATTED IN „.M»MI League American League iJffi. Br 27 Williams. Red S 3 .VeV 0X Slaughter Cards 27 Doerr. Red Sox 33 Walker D ers 25 DiMaeeio. Yank's 30 0dB HOME RUNS

K, Sers 5 Greenberg. Tigers 8 --*'■„ Rtg. U. 4 P»L Off.: »•*> * •• ■ K?ner Pirate. 5 Williams. Red Sox 8 Kurowsky. Card's 5 Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, May 30, 194§ Byrnes Denies Molotov Charge SS Captain Admits Order OfBlocatTalks WASHINGTON, May 29 (AP)— To 'Bump Off' Yank Flier Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, yesterday denied charges levelled against him and the United States Government by Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, on DP Slaves Legal, "Magnificent Yankee' He Cried 'Goody' Monday. Wins Land inVirginia Byrnes said that he hoped the Nazi Tells Court NEW YORK, May 29 (AP)— As Soldiers Died Big Four foreign ministers could Louis Calhern, star of "the Mag- settle their disagreements and com- nificent Yankee," won the annual DACHAU, May 29 (UP)—A former plete the peace-treaty drafts " for NURNBERG, May 29 (AP)—Fritz award of the Barter Theater for SS captain told the Malmedy court six former enemy countries when Sauckel, Adolf Hitler's labor chief, "the outstanding performance by they met in Paris on June 15. today how he had received thei told the International Military an American actor on the current Ritterkreuz, Nazi equivalent of the Denies 'Bloc' Exists Tribunal today that it was "legal" New York stage." Denying that Great Britain and Congressional Medal of Honor, be- to conscript 5,000,000 foreign work- The prize: A plot of land on a cause he had ordered an unarmed the United States had formed a mountain near Abingdon, Va. bloc to intimidate the Soviet Union, ers for the Reich war effort. American flier to be shot. Byrnes said he regretted that He insisted that several millions The captain, 25-year-old Georg Molotov believed the existence of of workers had come to Germany Preuss, former company comman- der in the 2nd SS Panzer Grena- such a bloc was behind disagree- voluntarily, and explained that the ment among the three powers. Arab Chieftains dier, Regt., said the incident had association of the SS and the police happened on Dec. 17. 1944, in a He insisted that Generalissimo with labor recruitment was only a Joseph Stalin had once agreed to woods near Buellingen, Belgium, support a treaty to keep Germany "protective" measure. Focus Parley on where his*tank took cover after disarmed for 25 years. Among his Kidnapers' Target? Punishment against entire villages being fired upon by an American for failure to meet labor quotas truck column. In a statement read replies to other of Molotov's charges NEW YORK, May 29 (INS)— were: . were inflicted "locally" and without United Front to the tribunal, Preuss, one of 74 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heir accused SS men on trial here, said THE UNITED STATES did not his knowledge or consent, Sauckel CAIRO, May 29 (AP)—A united oppose reasonable Russian repara- to a $20,000,000 share in the Van- they were hiding in the woods in derbilt railroad fortune, said he testified. . Arab front in dealing with the rest the early afternoon hours when tions from Italy but, as President , Tells of Goebbel's Order of