EUROPEAN EDITION TJSAFE WEATHER FORECAST One Year Ago Today NORTH & WEST: Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered showers, 7,000 Japs killed in Balete. Min. 40; SOUTH & EAST: Cloudy with Kaltenbrunner taken in Tyrol scattered showers, Max 55, Mm. THE STARS A BERLIN: Same as N & W, Max. 5* chalet. Patch thinks Japs will Min. 42; BREMEN: Same, Max. 54, Min. fold in year. 42; VIENNA: Cloudy to overcast with Unofficial Newspaper «f U.S. Armed M Forces in the European Theater rain, Max. 60, Min. 12. Volume 2, Number 135 20 Pfg., 3 fr., 1 d. Thursday, May 16, 1946 Congress Extends Shackled Draft Russia Says U.S. Strives 45-Da V Bill Bars Dads, British Shun To Halt Rail, Teen-Agers From Call Ruhr Quiz Coal Rows WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)—Congress passed a stop-gap 45-day draft extension law last night less than six hours before PARIS, May 15 (AP)—The From. Press Dispatches the Selective Service Act was due to expire, and President Tru- Council of Foreign Ministers There was no marked im- man reluctantly signed the amendment-loaded measure just four plunged into the German ques- provement on the U. S. labor hours before the midnight deadline. tion today, with sharp words front today, but Government Confronted with the alternatives of accepting the amend- directed at the British policy and union officials were making ments or letting the whole war-®" in .the Ruhr by Soviet Foreign an effort to settle "the prolonged time Selective Service law Minister Vyacheslav M. Molo- expire, the President chose the Yank Mistaken coal dispute and to avert a "lesser of two evils," as his press sec- tov, and Secretary of State threatened tie-up cf the nation's retary, Charles G. Ross, put it. James F. 3yrnes calling for a general Tailroads at separate confer- Ross told reporters the President As AWOL Slain German peace conference next ences in Washington. regarded it as a "bad bill," which Nov. 12. While propects that the more had been passed because the two Molotov asserted that the Russians houses of Congress were unable to By French MP than . 400,000 striking bituminous get together in time on a longer had not been able to get information miners would return to their jobs extension. By ALLAN DREYFUSS about measures the British had put under the 12-day truce brightened, Staff Writer into effect in the Ruhr, an Amer- Bar Father Induction soft-coal mine operators created a Under pressure of time, the Senate LUDW1GSHAFEN, May 15—A ican source said. The Russian temporary stalemate in negotiations member of a Negro quartermaster minister said his country wanted to accepted House amendments prohibi- know what was going on in the when they rejected the demand of ting induction of fathers and youths service company stationed in Mann- Ruhr at the present time. John L. Lewis, > president of the IS and 19. heim was shot and killed last night United Mine Workers, for a seven At the White House, Ross in- by a French military policeman who Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, formed newsmen: of Great Britain, protested that the per cent pay roll levy to finance a mistook him for one of four Amer- "The President doesn't like it at ican AWOLs who had reportedly British had answered all requests miner's welfare fund. all but feels, as some of his offi- for information received from the Called Social Theory cials do, that it will be better to escaped into the French zone. Allied Control Council in Berlin. Willie Francis The dead soldier, who was a cook . . . seeks petition for life The Associated Press reported No Decision on Meeting that operators regarded Lewis' sug- WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— with the 310th QM Serv. Co. was apparently unaware of regulations There was no decision made on gestion as a social theory, the effect Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (D.-Mpnt.) the Byrnes proposal that the foreign of which would extend to every today introduced a bill to provide forbidding entry except on official ministers meet again in Paris Execution Survivor up to 120 days of terminal pay business into the French zone, industry in America. As such, it which begins, on the opposite side June 15. should be considered a national for enlisted men who had not Georges Bidault, French foreign Will Donate Eyes used all the furlough time they of the Rhine from Mannheim. He minister, raised the question of con- problem and not one relating to the were entitled to during the war. crossed a bridge with a companion, sidering the Ruhr and Rhineland It Appeal Fails coal industry alone, mine owners "Officers and men certainly are 1/Sgt. James Madison, of New political separation from Germany DALLAS, May 15 (UP)—Willie entitled to equal treatment," Brunswick, N. J., without being and giving France complete control Francis has willed his eye's to blind Meanwhile, President Truman Wheeler said. stopped at either the American or of the Saar. Rufus Allen, Dallas Negro, should acted to halt the strike of some French MP check points on either He said economic measures affect- 250,000 railroad workers scheduled sign 4t than to have the confusion end of the bridge. ing the Ruhr and Rhineland were the Louisiana Supreme Court decide to start at Saturday afternoon. that he must face electrocution a that will result from failure to con- Walked Through Town not sufficient. International News Service reported tinue legislative support for armed According to Madison, the pair Bevin then insisted, American second time. that the President had made an Francis, 17-year-old Negro con- forces induction." walked about three kilometers to quarters said, that discussion of urgent request to railroad executives Secretary of War Robert P. Pat- the outskirts of the French-occupied Germany be on the, basis of the victed of a slaying, consented to and representatives of five railroad terson said "I hope that before July city for relaxation, and then decided whole country, not by zones. He give Allen his eyes in answer to .a brotherhoods, and negotiations were 1 an extension of Selective Service to return to their Mannheim camp did not want one zone singled out plea from Mrs. Wilmer Cox., the resumed last night. for one year will be adopted by because of the darkness. As for, attack, an informant quoted him blind man's sister. New York May Face Crisis Congress in such a form as to per- Madison's companion walked to the as saying. Francis sent his consent from If the strike is not averted, New mit the War Department to carry Opposite side of the* road in an Molotov followed with his asser- his .New Iberia (La.) cell and asked out the task expected of it by the effort to hitch a ride, an unmarked tion that the Russians had not been York City will face the worst fuel that petitions be circulated for a and food crisis in its history, accord- nation." sedan drove, up and a French able to get information on what the change in his sentence to life im- None Over 26 policeman jumped from the vehicle British were doing in their zone. ing to the United Press. Business life prisonment. in the natio'n's largest city, which Selective Service headquarters an- with a carbine while a French Nov. 12 Meeting Urged Francis escaped death earlier this imports three-quarters of its food- nounced that its present ban on officer remained in the car. Byrnes then proposed that a month when the Louisiana electric stuffs by rail, would be "tied up in induction of men 26 and over would At the gendarme's shouted order general peace conference on Ger- chair failed to work and merely a knot" within a week, the Com- be continued, despite the fact that to_ halt, the soldier raised his hands "tickled" him. above his head taking a few -short many be held Nov. 12 and that rer merce and Industry Association pre- the act as renewed permits the preventatives of the four power's steps backward to get out of the dicted. drafting of men through 29. street and onto the - sidewalk. Ap- meet immediately, draw up a treaty The board of health already has In a telegram to state draft direc- draft, and prepare for the foreign U. S. Asks Soviets been alerted for an emergency meet- parently interpreting the backward tors, the agency also formally halted steps as an attempt to escape, the ministers here in June a report on ing to declare a "state of imminent induction of teen-age youths. It Germany's economic status. To Release Clerk peril" if the strike materialized. This French policeman fired one shot, said, however, that men 18 and 19 hitting the soldier in the chest and Byrnes urged the immediate and WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— would give the city power to seize would still be required to register. killing him instantly. long range importance of Allied The United States has demanded all available fuel and food, and to Only men 20 through 25 will be accord on Germany. In presenting a enfonje strictest rationing. Military police of the 381st Bn., that Russia drop a charge of drafted. This reduces Selective Ser- Co. D; are currently conducting an program for study he said that if "hooliganism'1, against an American • CIO Denies Red Charges vice to a comparatively tiny reser- the present economic situation in embassy clerk in Moscow, and allow investigation of the incident in con- The CIO Steelworkers Union con- voir manpower. Officials estimated junction with French authorities Germany continued it would result him to leave the country immediately. there were only 59,000 eligibles left in chaos in the western zones of oc- Russia has refused. vention today unanimously indorsed cupation by next winter. the policy that Communists and in this age bracket, of whom per- This was learned Wednesday from haps 50 per cent would be found Two Shots Fired at Train He disclosed that the United American diplomatic officials who Socialists would not be permitted States will have sent to the Amer- indicated that the case of Waldo "to infiltrate, dictate or meddle in physically unfit. Carrying Soldier Families ican zone of occupation by July I, Ruess was becoming a full-blown our affairs" the AP reported from Raising the limit to include merf26, FRANKFURT, May 15 (AP)—Two 1946, imports valued at $200,000,000, diplomatic incident involving the Atlantic City. The policy statement 27, 28 and 29 would provide only, shots were fired at a train filled with and that another $200,000,000 worth State Dept., the embassy in Mos- was read to the convention by an additional 13*000 registrants for dependents of American soldiers and would be sent in the following fiscal cow and the Kremlin. Philip Murray, CIO president. possible induction, they added. civilians near Giessen, Germany, year. Murray, who also heads the steel Four-Hour Speech last night, Army officials disclosed, 17 Escape in Crash Landing workers, presented the statement at tonight. No one was injured, they Eisenhower Flies to Iwo Jima the opening session of the union's The Senate vote came after Sen. said. SEOUL, Korea, May 15 (INS)— HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., May "victory" convention and made clear William Langer (R.-N. D.) had talked 15 (INS)—Seventeen coast artillery- that the policy applied tor all CIO for more than four hours opposing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left men from Fort Monroe, Va., escaped Iraq Guards Iran Border today by air for Iwo Jima after unions. peacetime conscription. injury when thejr C-82 cargo plane While Langer still held the Senate BAGDAD, May 15 (INS)—Strong conferring in Seoul with Lt. Gen. The declaration was taken as a made a crash landing here after reply to AFL president William floor, President Truman signed an Iraqi air and ground units were John R. Hodge, American occupa- circling for two hours with the Green who in a speech last Saturday executive order that would have reported to he guarding the frontier tion commander. landing gear stuck. accused the CIO of harboring Com- preserved Selective Service mach- with Iran to prevent the reentry munist elements. inery but permitted no actual in- of Mullah Mustafa al Barzani, Strike activity continued in Kurdish chieftain who took refuge Grace Moore Misses SOS Concert Detroit, where a grand jury in- ductions. The final enactment of the in Iran after leading a revolt in vestigation into the AFL Teamsters (Continued on Page 8) Iraq last year. Union drive to organize the city's To Save Theater, but Where Is She? butcher shops and grocery stores ROME, May 15 (AP)—A Florence expected Miss Moore's appearance was ordered as merchants brought GIs May Take Home Jap Ostriches, dispatch to the Mediterranean edi- to put it back on its feet. When a $500,000 damage suit against the union. ~~ tion of The Stars and Stripes today she failed to appear, money was refunded and the theater was -closed But Not Epizootic-Laden Donkeys said Grace Moore. American so- indefinitely. prano, had failed to turn up for a IRA Hunger-Striker Passes YOKOHAMA, May 15 (AP)—The ease caused by "cryptococcus far- widely advertised, sold-out concert U. S. 8th Army has granted Gls per- ciminosus." GRACE MOORE WAS NOT HEARD His 53rd Day Without Food mission to take ostriches home as in the Communal Theater there Also approved were "domestic OR SEEN IN NICE TUESDAY BELFAST, May 15 (AP)—Officials pets. Nobody knows who asked for wild ruminants." A ruminant seems yesterday. NICE, May 15 (AP)—The mystery at the Crumlin Road Prison in Bel- permission because there aren't any Theater officials were quoted as fast reported "no change" today ostriches here. to be anything with hooves and an saying they had no cancellation —at least momentary—of "what was Grace Moore doing on the night in the condition of David Fleming, The Army circular also said even number of toes that chews cud. from her, learning independently the hunger-striking former Irish donkeys could be taken home or* That's as far as the Army will go. that she was singing in Nice, France. of May 14" deepened as it was denied here that the American so- Republican Army leader. Government ships "if free from ex- Still barred are flying foxes, live Istst ni§ht. Fleming has fasted for 53 out of posure to epizootic lymphangitis." insects, birds of paradise and mon- The dispatch said the theater, prano had been heard or even seen the last 57 days in jail. The dictionary says this is . a dis- gooses (or is it mongeese?) which had been running in the red, in this Riviera city yesterday. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, May 16,1946 Overseas Vets Show Increased TB Rates Ex-Pilof Hopes ASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— FINAL medical examinations of W Detection of "a considerable For 520 MPH number of cases of tuber- the millions of veterans af separa- culosis or suspected tuberculosis" tion centers have revealed that among troops given chest X-rays at In 'Bomb' Car war has still another aftermath- separation centers, has been reported tuberculosis. The Army says that ONDON,May 15 (INS)—Lt. Robert by the Bulletin of the Army Medical Morgan, 26-year-old British, Department. overseas exposure is largely L Fleet Air Arm experimental The report declared. "There are responsible. pilot, hopes to raise the world's land- Address all letters to: B Bag definite indications that the length Editor, The Stars and Stripes, " speed record from 368 to 520 miles APO 757, D. S. Army. Include of the war and cumulative effect of an hour when his revolutionary name and address. (Names are de- exposure overseas finally has taken racer, The Bomb, is completed. leted on request). Doe to space a recognizable toll." limitations, letters may be cut for Morgan disclosed, that his new publication, provided such editing The report said about one man car, now^under construction, would does not alter the meaning of the original. in every 1,000 examined was "found consist of a single giant wheel 12 to have changes in chest X-Ray feet in diameter. It will have a film (as compared with previous streamlined, pear-shaped body 23 Says He Was There examination) requiring further study feet long and 15 feet high. I don't see how the colonel for determination of clinical sig- The single wheel will revolve on who wrote the book giving nificance." oil bearings, and Morgan will drive Gen. Patton and the 3rd Army credit for the break-through from a seat inside the wheel. PWs Susceptible at St. Lo could really have "Motive power will be provided been there. I was in Gen. "Higher rates were found in older by a jet, similar to the V-2 rocket, Rose's 3rd Armd. Div., and in an in younger men in the Army," with liquid gases for the fuel," when we broke through (after it stated, "and certain groups, Morgan said. particularly recovered prisoners tend the infantry punched the hole, to have higher rates than average." Not a Stunt of. course), with the 2nd Ar- mored on our flank, I saw The bulletin did not state the Two small wheels at the rear will nothing in front of us but present hospital admission rate for keep the car upright at the start, France and lots and lots of tuberculosis in the Army. and will be dropped off during the ~ Germans. I had a very good The Army Surgeon Generals run. New automatic instruments will seat, too good, in fact, and if Office said the overall admission operate stabilizing fins at the back rate since the beginning of demo- Patton and his Army were In of the car, and a drag attachment front 'of us, then they must bilization was not yet compiled, but will be used for braking. Retractable have had on invisible cloaks, "spot" checks for January and skids will be used to steady The Incidentally, the above- February this year showed annual Bomb when it slows down. mentioned armored divisions admission rates of 3.7 and 4.7 men "The car is not being built as a were in the 1st Army under per 1,000 Army strength, respectively. stunt," Morgan asserted. "My backers Gen. Bradley at the time. I Meantime, a synthetic drug which will try out new lubricants and fuels would be interested to know was described as the "only potential during the run. There will be in- which divisions of Patton's curative agent" for a type of struments to test my blood and body were in front of us. I have malaria contracted by thousands of reactions while the car is full been told my eyes are bad, servicemen overseas has been out. I may even be able to broad- but they can't be that bad. developed at the University of cast my feelings from start to finish.'' —Ex-3rd Armored. Maryland. Morgan, who served on the British 'Take If Easy' 'Breakbone' Cure aircraft carrier Ark Royal, has flown Bustling Belgiu m Is Expensive, many types of naval aircraft. His I have been in Club 48 in Dr. Nathan L. Drake, head of the new car will cost $32,000 and weigh Berlin for the past three department of chemistry, announced Bui Leads Euro pe in Recovery about 2,240 pounds. nights, and what I've seen is that the drug, now known as SN- "What it really means," Morgan a shame and a disgrace. Think back, GIs; one and a half years 13276, "is the only potential curative such urgently required-raw materials said, "is that I am starting where By Kingsbury Smith ago you were lucky if you agent of vivax malaria which can » as wheat, fats and oil. , the other record breakers left off even got a doughnut and some be used without too great danger of RUSSELS, May 15 (INS)— There is, a food shortage in in 1939. I am taking advantage of Belgium today is one of the coffee out of a canteen cup. accompanying toxic effects." Belgium, but the situation is the experience of five and one half B My complaint isn't about Vivax was described as a common most expensive countries in better than in most of the other years of war and using it to try drinking, but about the way and recurring form of malaria. Europe. European war-devastated nations. to hold the world's land-speed record Dinner in a first class hotel in it's done. If a fellow wants to Further, Army scientists have Belgium undoubtedly is on the for Britain." Brussels costs approximately $8 per drink, that's O.K., but please developed an effective vaccine road back to recovery, and American person without anything more to take it easy in the Berlin club. against dengue—or "breakbone fever" economic observers in the country MPs are on duty there, and drink than a glass of beer. —a tropical mosquito-borne malady predict it will be firmly back on they are told not to go inside An ordinary pair of woman's Experiments Promise which affected more than 84,000 its feet within three years if external the plaza unless it's absolutely shoes sells for 515 while a ready- troops during the war, none of them economic or political developments End of Dental Decay necessary. We don't want the fatally. made man's suit that could be do hot interfere with its progress. guys to be conscious of an\ purchased in Stockholm for $25 costs The Surgeon Generals Office said ITTSBURGH, May 15 (INS)— MP, but he's there to keep law the vaccine had not been employed $75 in Brussels." Tooth aches may be something and order. From what I've The Belgian capital is a bustling P you will have to tell your among troops in the field, but its seen, it's a darn big job. A Mules Come High grandchildren about if current dental effectiveness had been demonstrated city which has an almost normal little more cooperation wouldn't TIENTSIN, China, May 15 (AP)— experiments are successful. by laboratory tests. peace-time appearance, with neon hurt at all. Marines in North China are finding lights and electric signs glittering in Florine, art extract of ordinary —4 Sober Pf cs, 822nd MP Co. the night. that human life. is pretty cheap in sodium, is an amazing chemical this teeming country. which strengthens young teeth to Antics at Show Production Is Up In accidents involving Marine resist tooth decay, according to the Dentist Population Recently ' I witnessed a equipment, the U. S. government is dental surgeons at the 78th annual The country is leading the rest of thoroughly disgusting incident called on to pay about $55 in Amer- meeting of the Pennsylvania State Of Army Is Subject the Allied nation's of Europe in its at the Wiesbaden Opera House ican money at the current North Dental Society in Pittsburgh. recovery from the war. Overall presentation, of "Ladies in China rate of exchange for each However, doctors pointed out that For Capital Debate production is increasing steadily, Retirement." Despite a supe- Chinese life lost. the pew preventive was still in the though it still is only about 50 per rior performance, the EM in WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP) — Where a mule is. killed in a experimental stage and not avail- ¥¥ cent of capacity. The cotton manu- the audience insisted upon Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Smith, of similar accident the government able for practical use. facturing industry is producing 80 throwing paper airplanes (made the Army Dental Corps, said that a has to pay about $75 to the mule They declared that adult teeth per cent of normal. Coal production is • from their programs), and "tight manpower situation" existed up to 75 per cent of normal, although owner. were too far developed to be affected. on Army dentists. But Sen. Clyde generally acting in an uproari- shortage of miners is hampering M. Reed (R.-Kans.) contended "the ous manner throughout the progress in this field. A few Italian entire show. Army has at least 2,000 more den- tists than it can possibly justify." miners, numbering less than 200 Incidents of this type do not Smith, director of the Dental Con- were brought into the country TALES ByHoff man augur well for a discontinu- sultants Division, Army Surgeon recently. German war prisoners are, ance of the so-called "caste system." —Cpl., 1209 Ord. Generals Office, declared that the digging one third of Belgium's coal situation necessitated maintaining at the present time.' An American survey of Belgian discharge requirements for dentists Kids and Veterans at 39 months' service, although dis- industry has shown that hot more charge criteria for Medical Corps than 10 per cent of it was damaged I heartily agree that "kids" doctors was recently lowered. during the war, which is one of the and "oldsters" should be Reed, however, insisted that dis- chief reasons for the country's quick oriented at home and abroad. charge criteria for dentists should be recovery. Maybe we kids do disgrace ourselves and our uniform, but lowered to .30 months' service, same Prices Start Down as the new criteria for ' Medical some of you "veterans" set a Corps general duty officers, an- The labor market remains fairly horrible example. nounced May 1. , cheap, with skilled workers receiving ' Let's remember that kids Reed said he had notified Secre- the equivalent of 50 cents an hour , follow the trodden path of the tary of War Robert P. Patterson as compared with 25 cents before oldsters, and at present that that unless the Army "immediately the war. Wages generally, axe, up path is very crooked. Wouldn't you want oldtimers to set a makes satisfactory arrangements" between .2 and 2l/a times prewar fine example for your kids to for releasing reserve dental officers, levels, but living costs have risen follow? Well, that's all we he would press for an investigation considerably more, so that the kids want today. The actions of the Medical Corps. working man at present is far from In March, Smith said, the Dental of you older men today may enjoying prosperity. Corps issued a call for 750 volunteers be ours today AND tomorrow. Prices in the country are begin- to bolster its ranks and sent emis- —Combat Kid. ning to come down, especially in saries to dental schools to encourage the industrial field. The Belgians Movie Is Back volunteering. realize they cannot compete in world "But so far," he said, "we've only The Army " is taking. great markets on 'their present price level. 15 applications." pains to send deserving vet- They need foreign exchange to buy erans home. They salvage worn-out jeeps, airplanes and disabled trucks. But there are Job Scene Brightens some things that go, on and on, WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)—The despite being broken down, , U. S. employment service reported beat up and suffering from finding jobs for 420,500 persons in terrific old age. I refer to the Vol. 3, No. 135, Thursday. May 16, 1846 March, and declared that employ- movies. "A Walk in the Sun" is Tbe European Edition is published ment prospects' are "brighter than at Altdorl. neat Nurnberg. Bavaria going to make its third ap- for the O S armed forces under th* any time since V-J Day." pearance here since its initial auspices of the Information and The agency's director, Robert C. showing in March. Is Dana education Service USFET. Tel Goodwin, cautioned that the imme- Nurnberg Civilian Switch Altdorl 160 Andrews immune to sun- diate employment, situation is "still Correspondence to this edition shoulc stroke? Maybe they are trying be addressed to APO 124. D S Army serious," noting that 2,700,000 per- to show his genius as a New York Offlc= 208 East 42d St . sons are seeking jobs." He said This Is not an official publication oi strategist, or the durability of 1,300,000 additional veterans soon' the O S Army Entered a9 second GI shoes, for he's been going class matter March 16 1943. at the will be looking for work, with steady since heaven knows oostoffice. Mew York N Y under another 2.000.000 veterans due to when. —Pfc, 70th Ftr W& the Act ot March S IR79 return home by early summer. Thursday, May 16,1946 a* 3 6 Army Areas It's an Elephant, Bnt Not Republican Set Up in U.S. Members of the Academy of U. S. to Buy 25 Per Cent African Art and Research in native regalia present a gift of Reorganization modern African art to Mrs. WASHINGTON, May is (AP)— Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Of Wheat Crop for Export The War Department has an- organization's annual dance and nounced a reorganization, effective June 11, which will eliminate the music festival in New York. nine service commands and convert them to six armies. A™y Service Forces headquarters No Rationing Jfill be discontinued and its func- tions transferred to other branches Of the department. Necessary Yet, Gen. Jacob' L. Devers, head of the Army Ground Forces, will be placed in command of six armies within Bowles Asserts the U. S. WASHINGTON, May 15 (INS)— The object of the reorganization Is to reduce expense and improve The Government will requisition at the Army at lower levels, the de- least one-fourth of all the wheat partment said. marketed in the United States this The domestic military establish- year in order to meet its foreign ment is to be divided as follows: commitments. Secretary of Agricul- FIRST ARMY area, Gen. Court- ture Clinton P. Anderson announ- ney H. Hodges commanding, head- ced yesterday. quarters New York. He did not say when the plan SECOND ARMY area, Lt, Gen. would become effective but declared William H. Simpson, Baltimore. it would remain in effect "until the THIRD ARMY area, Lt. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold, Atlanta. FOURTH ARMY area, Gen. NEW YORK, May 15 (UP)— Jonathan L. Wainwright, San Mayor William O'Dwyer asked Antonio, Texas. New Yorkers to refrain from FIFTH ARMY area, Lt. Gen. eating food containing wheat three Walton H. Walker, Chicago. evenings a week to help prevent SIXTH ARMY area, Gen. JosepK famine abroad. W. Stilwell, San Francisco. In a proclamation, O'Dwyer Under the reorganization, the Air dedicated to "freedom from famine" Forces, under Gen. Carl Spaatz, will evening meals on Tuesday, Wed- have greater autonomy among major nesday, and Thursday. activities. Under Spaatz will be: THE STRATEGIC AIR COM- Government has enough wheat from MAND, Andrews Field, Md., Gen. the 1946 crop to cover its export George C. Kenney commanding. requirements of 250,000,000 bushels." TACTICAL AIR COMMAND, The plan will require farmers Langley Field, Va., Maj. Gen. El- delivering wheat to elevators for wood R. Quesada. storage to sell at least one-half of AIR DEFENSE COMMAND, Planes to Spray DDT as Texas Cities their stock. The buyer, in turn, will Mitchel Field, Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer. be required to sell one-half of this AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND, amount to the Government. Washington, Lt. Gen. Harold L. Fight to Ward off Paralysis Epidemic Export Prospects George, who is also AF director AUSTIN, Texas, May 15 (AP)—A state health However, he emphasized the importance of cleaning ¥n announcing this program, of information. Anderson declared that he would AIR MATERIEL COMMAND, officer said today the spread of a disease resembling up unsanitary conditions. poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) in Texas was ex- San Antonio girded to fight the spread of the dis- advise foreign claimants that on the Wright Field, Ohio, Lt. Gen. basis of present prospects, not more Nathan F. Twining. aggerated, but cities scattered throughout the state ease, believed to be infantile paralysis and encephalitis AIR PROVING GROUND COM- (sleeping sickness). than 250,000,000 bushels of wheat took no chances. Planes will dust the city from the air with DDT. would be available for export from MAND, Eglin Field, Fla., Gen. " Elaborate precautions were made effective in San Donald Wilson. Schools were closed. The streets were deserted by this country during the year ahead. AIR UNIVERSITY, Maxwell Antonio, Corpus Christi, Rockport, Teague and in soldiers as the Army declared theaters and other Meanwhile, Economic Stabilizer Field, Ala., Maj. Gen. Muir S. Kleberg County. public places out of bounds. City crews were draining Chester Bowles said today he would, Fairchild. Another victim was dead in San Antonio. It was swamps of waste water. recommend wartime rationing in the' TRAINING COMMAND, Barks- the fourth death in Bexar County and the fifth in At Corpus Christi a road block went into effect U. S. if the world food situation Hale Field, La., Lt. Gen. John K. Texas. with 300 Texas guardsmen on duty. Buses were being "gets tighter." Cannon, About 23 other cases were being treated. stopped and occupants questioned and instructed. Bowles said, however, that he did Arkansas County refused entry to those under 21. not believe rationing was needed at Dr. J. V. Irons, of the state health department, The Navy at Corpus Christi adopted quarantine the present time. He added, "If it Army 'Detectives' reported that only eight cases of infantile paralysis regulations and planned to spray DDT over parts of looks as if the United States won't had appeared in Bexar County and that the current the city. Bexar County was placed out of bounds for meet its overseas food commitments, To Seek VD Sources alarm "is an example of what happens when people Navy personnel. A city cleanup was scheduled for it would take 30 to 60 days to get excited and rumors begin to spread." tomorrow in Corpus Christi. determine whether a return to food WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— rationing will be necessary." Jthe War Department announced He said his decision would depend today that it would send a score of Army Planes to Get a great deal on the American '"disease detectives" to ferret out Health Policies Wae Stewardesses Judge, 69, Pins harvest this year. fcauses of illness among soldiers in WASHINGTON, May 15 (UP)— Korea, Japan, Germany and the Sold in Illinois Wac stewardesses soon will be Woman - Beater HOUSE UNIT MAY STUDY United States. caring for passengers aboard Army RETURN OF RATIONING The "detectives" are medical CHICAGO, May 15 (AP)—Estab- Air Transport Command planes, GARY, Ind., May 15 (AP)— WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— efficers who have just completed 32- lishment of a prepayment insurance between San Francisco and Wash- Superior Judge Homer E. Sackett, The House Agriculture Committee, 69, left his bench today, grappled week courses in preventive medicine plan to cover costs of medical, sur- ington, D. C, the Army Air Forces which will meet tomorrow for a iat Harvard and Johns Hopkins gical and obstetrical care both in with and twice threw to the floor comrehensive investigation of the announced. Virgil Underwood, 35, 6-foot-3-inch Universities. the home and in the hospital was world food position, may consider They will concentrate, the an- The girls are called "traffic 175-pound tavern owner of Black the resumption of food rationing, nouncement said, on stamping out announced today by the Illinois technicians," but their duties in- Oak, Ind. Chairman J. W. Flanagan Jr. (D.- ^venereal breeding dens" and will State Medical Society. clude checking passengers aboard Bailiff Joseph Melzer said Under- Va.) said today. Serve as "courts of inquiry in eli- Dr. Everett P. Coleman, Canton planes, serving meals and checking wood, who was in court as de- Flanagan complained of confused minating the foci of disease." (111.) society president, said the plan safety belts. fendant in a divorce case, during a reports that were circulating about was under a "test run" for more Wac stewardesses were first conference with his wife, her attor- the food situation. than a year in the Rockford area, used last June on flights between ney and witnesses, had struck a "First," he said, "we have reports where -4,000 units participated. He London and Paris. They were so woman witness, blacking her eye. that there is mass starvation. Now, Senator Gets Court Action popular, that a school was set up Judge Sackett grabbed Under- said the test period included all we have a report that Herbert To Oust Persistent Tenant and 75 girls were graduated. wood, pulled him over a three-foot Hoover, President Truman's special cycles of disease occuring in one railing and threw him to the floor. WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— year. food advisor, sees only the threat of The Municipal Court of Appeals for Underwood got up and swung at malnutrition." Insurance Firm to Pay the judge, but Sackett, who is 5 the District of Columbia backed up Vet and English Bride Flour Mills Short Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel (D.-Texas) in The plan, to be operated by the feet, 7 inches, and weighs 165, seized his fight for complete possession of North American Accident Insurance Die From Gas Fumes him around the neck and threw him "We hear that there is plenty of Co. of Chicago, pays a cash in- NEOSHO, Mo., May 15 (AP)— again. Deputy sheriffs took charge grain for our needs and to meet a four-story apartment building he our commitments abroad, then we had bought for a private residence. demnity to the insured patient, who Lloyd Bruce Ennis, a discharged of Underwood. soldier, and his English bride who Sackett returned to the bench, hear that there is not enough The court decreed that W. W. in turn is to forward it to his grain." Brauer, 80, should vacate within doctor. Hospital costs, as dis- came to the United States to join fined Underwood $200 and sentenced seven days the apartment he held, tinguished from medical or surgical him a month ago were found dead him 90 days for contempt of court. Meanwhile, dwindling wheat sup- costs, are not included. from asphyxiation in their home plies at American mills were while 13 other tenants were pack- threatening to force a six-weeks ing up and moving out. Dr. Coleman said the premiums yesterday. would be $1 monthly for a man, Sheriff's deputies said they ap- Wac Replacements on Way stoppage in the output of flour for During the court proceedings, consumption in the U. S. O'Daniel declared he needed the $1.50 for a woman and $1 for all parently were victims of the same NEW YORK, May 15 (INS)—Two building, for which he had paid dependent children of the family gas stove which asphyxiated a groups of Wac replacements, in- However, Chester Davis, chair- $52,000, to house his family and between 3 months and 18 years of couple and their baby in the same cluding 213 reinlistees, are on their man of the President's Famine accommodate visitors from Texas. age, regardless of number. house last October. way to Europe aboard the Saturnia. Emergency Committee, said that the Government should divert wheat for export to the mills in order to keep Moon MuIIins (By Courtesy of News Syndicate Co., Inc.) By WHlard them operating, and that the flour should then be sent overseas.
House Group Would Extend Wartime Prostitution Control WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)— The House Military Affairs Com- mittee today approved legislation extending indefinitely the wartime law setting up controls over pros- titution in the vicinity of Army and Navy camps. The present law, giving Federal authorities the right to take vice- control measures in military areas and to cooperate with local officials in suppressing prostitution, expires Wednesday Page 4 THE STAtfS AMD STRIPES Thursday, May 16, iMj International Agency To Care for Refugees In Europe Proposed L°IP0N: ™ai 15 (AP)-A recommendation that an international BWn Shsd t0 handle Europe's gigantic refugee problem will hf ^ ^ + 1 «Lt ■ «° Unit6d Nations Economic and Social Council when it meets in New York, May 25, it was reported yesterday, nlar^i ;,mted Natlons official said the Committee on Refugees and Dis- placed Persons, which has been meeting in London for more than eight weeks, would complete its report* within the next two or three days. | . „ . (The committee announced that its work must be completed by Satur- Jews Parade day, according to The United Press.) The report, he said, will include On Anniversary a recommendation to set up an international refugee commission as a specialized agency and not as an Of Liberation organ of the United Nations. Under LANDSBERG, May 15 (UP)—Two the United Nations Charter, special- thousand Jewish survivors of con- ized agencies would work in co- centration camps marched in a operation with the United Nations torchlight parade last night In but would be financed indepen- memory of millions of murdered dently. comrades, as Jewish displaced per- Refugees Defined sons' camps throughout Germany celebrated the first anniversary of According to the committee's de- the elimination of the last Nazi finition, a refugee belongs to one of horror camp. the following categories: According to the Jewish calendar, VICTIMS of the Nazi or Fascist dusk-to-dusk services throughout regimes or of regimes which took the world marked one year of part on their side in World War II, liberation. or of the Quisling or similar In the town where Adolf Hitler plotted the extermination of Jews, regimes which actively assisted students, laborers and family groups them against the United Nations, united in a solemn procession past whether or not enjoying inter- a memorial to the Jews who died in national status' as refugees. Germany. VICTIMS of persecution for The Hebrew inscription on the Jeepette, M-l, Troops, For the Use of reasons of race, religion or plaque reads: "God shall remember Too late to win the war but in time to give Ford a ride. Skildred says his brainchild can go 40 miles an nationality, whether or not en- all the martyrs who were killed and and Kaiser some competition is this secret weapon joying international status. hour—on the flat—and will run all day on two tortured and burned and strangled, built from scrap and spare parts by T/4 Harold Quarts of gasoline. Skildred is assigned to the 130th PERSONS who were considered and in the name of God their blood Skildred of Forest City, Iowa, who is shown prepar- Labor Sup. Bn., near Munich, and Cosgrove to the refugees before the outbreak of will be avenged." ing to take S/Sgt. Albert Cosgrove of Elko, Nev., for 1894th Labor Sup. Co., Munich. World War II and who enjoy the international status of refugees. The report will include an UNRRA MEETINGS, CELEBRATIONS Estimate that there are 1,084,000 CONTINUE IN GERMANY Army Returns Berlin Seeks Lost Children DPs in Europe who must be assisted. FRANKFURT, May 15 (AP)— Thousands of Jews throughout Ger- 6 9 9 many today continued celebrations Last Group of To Repair Nazis Worst Crime Illegal Entrants Land and meetings marking their libera- tion from Nazi persecution. By NADEANE WALKER, Staff Writer In Haif aUnderGuard The new "anniversary of libera- Russian PWs BERLIN, May 15—An attempt to repair "the worst crime of the Nazis'3 tion" was observed as a holiday by got under way this week, when the Berlin Oberburgomeister's office As Throng Cheers all German Jewish congregations NURNBERG, May 15 (UP)—Third started a census designed to find and provide for all United Nations and by Jews in displaced persons Army headquarters announced today children in the city. JERUSALEM, May 15 (AP)—A camps. that the third and last forced Cheering crowd of several thousand The survey may even bring to light some of the children of Lidice, repatriation of Russian prisoners who have been adopted by Ger-^ —- today greeted 1,800 illegal Jewish of war from the Plattling camp, in immigrants as they landed in Haifa mans and have almost lost their | from the "arrested" 2,000-ton Ru- 103 AWOLs Seized the heart of the American zone, had identity, a German official said. manian ship Smyrna, according to been completed with only minor Ordered by the four-power - Tommies to Use telephone messages received in In Seven-Day Drive incidents. Berlin Kommandatura, the census will cover not only children of Jerusalem. The Stars and Stripes Bureau In the final shipment, 243 Soviet The ship was escorted by a citizens who had served with the slave laborers brought into Ger- Shriven ham U. PARIS, May 15—A total of 103 Wehrmacht were transported under many during the war, but children British destroyer into Haifa early AWOL soldiers were apprehended by The Stars and Stripes Bureau this morning after being sighted by armed American guard to the Czech born of United Nations fathers and the U. S. military authorities in border, where they were turned German mothers since the occupa- LONDON, May 15—Shrivenhant British naval vessels, while making their seven-day drive throughout for Tel-Aviv. over to the Russians. The movement tion, according to a Berlin District University, which, under the The Jews have been taken in Western Europe which ended May 7. brought the total number of per- Military Goverment official. auspices of the Information and army trucks to the Athlith clear- Only 18 of these were picked up sons repatriated from Plattling Posters will appeal to the popu- Education Service passed some 8,000 ance camp. in the Paris area. under the Yalta agreement to 1,833. lation for help in carrying out the soldiers through 300 university Le Havre led the list with 29, This is the largest single batch of 62 Russians Freed order, and all German newspapers courses last year, has been chosen refugees ever to come to Palestine, followed by Antwerp with 22, and in the city have been requested to as the future location of the British Rheims with 21. Eight of the AWOLs The announcement added that 62 and also the first from Russian- publish articles "telling the people army's military college of science. controlled territory. were rounded up in London and Russians had been discharged, or were awaiting discharge, after an that it is a duty of honor to repair one The Berkshire school's three large The ship left Constanza. Rumania, five at Marseilles. of the worst crimes of the Nazis by last week and had been intercepted During the week's drive, the Paris American investigation indicated barracks will be adapted and ex- by the Russians at the Dardanelles, authorities impounded 79 Army that they had not been Soviet reporting the location of the chil- tended to take care of an expectedly but had been allowed to go on to vehicles which had either been citizens on Sept. 1, 1939, and had dren", the Oberburgomeister's office enormous increase in the student Palestine. stolen or should have been turned not actively participated in the war reported. body. Scientific training will be ex- Meanwhile, a possible outbreak of in by deactivated units. against Russia. In some districts, a spokesman panded both in scope and in the violence was expected in Palestine One of the prisoners attempted said, teams will conduct a door-to- number of officers attending, mak- today as a result of the Arab Higher suicide by slashing his throat, but ing the college one of the largest door census. It is expected that establishments in the British army. Committee's decision to hold de- 100 Hostesses Needed his life was saved, and he was placed many German families which have monstrations coinciding with the aboard the train with the other Present courses include gunnery, adopted United Nations children or mathematics, physics, chemistry, arrival of the 2,014 Jewish refugees To Staff New Clubs prisoners. children of unknown parentage will Who were detained at La Spezia, mechanical engineering, fire-control The Stars and Stripes Bureau To prevent riots and mass suicides not willingly report them for regis- instruments and electrical and wire- FRANKFURT, May 15—Approx- which had disrupted the first tration. less engineering. France Gives Weygand imately 100 hostesses are needed to repatriation effort three months The GI school at Shrivenham was staff service clubs which will be ago, 3rd Army personnel kept the opened on Aug. 1 of last year and Provisional Liberty opened in the next few months, movement secret. Each man had Moscow Says Iceland closed in December. Before that, the his own armed escort, and all PARIS, May 15 (INS)—France's Theater Special Services announced, Resents U. S. Base Claims buildings were used as barracks for today. prisoners were stripped of clothing American troops. feupreme court decided to give provi- Applicants must have at least and searched for concealed weapons. LONDON, May 15 (AP)—Radio sional liberty to Gen. Maxime Wey- Moscow declared today that Ice- gand, 80, French commander in three years' experience in recrea- tional work or a similar occupation. landers regarded the "American Wac Sergeant Major chief during the 1940 collapse. Garmisch Civilian Ban Lifted claim" to military bases in Iceland The Vichy defendant's advanced The jobs pay $2,100 to $2,650 a year, plus a 25 per cent overseas bonus. The Stars and Stripes Bureau as "an encroachment on their in- Gets Commendation Award age and poor health prompted this GARMISCH, May 15—The ban on dependence." The Stars and Stripes Bureau decision. Further information may be obtained by writing to the Theater Chief of civilian travel over the Zugspitze "The reluctance of the Americans PARIS, May 15—M/Sgt. Buenos A. Weygand has been jailed SVs railway on weekends has been to leave Iceland," the broadcast Shears, having been arrested origin- Special Services, Service Club Sec- Dixon, the only Wac to serve as tion, Hq. USFET, APO 757, or by lifted, due to a reduction in soldier added, "arouses surprise and irrita- sergeant major for an Army head- ally by the Nazis when they oc- traffic, officials here announced. tion in all northern countries," cupied Southern France. applying in person. quarters command, was recently awarded the Army commendation By Milton Caniff certificate for "meritorious achieve- Terry and The Pirates (By Courtesy of News Syndicate) ment," the peacetime equivalent of the Bronze Star. 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New Balance for Asia Sought TOKYO May 15 (AP)—Edwin W. Pauley, United States Far Eastern reparations commissioner, has in- formed Gen. Douglas MacArthur that his mission to Japan will try to establish a new economic balance ia Asia, with Japanese control purged. Thursday, May 16,1945 Page 5 THE STARS AND STfc'ir'ES U. S. to Become Egypt Blasts Palestine Report, Dutch to Elect Big Owner of First Postwar European Land Urges Rejection by U.S., Britain Parliament ROME, May 15 (AP)— The U. S. CAIRO, May 15 (AP)—The Egyp- the matter. The Arab League will to keep Palestinian land from falling AMSTERDAM, May 15 (AP>—* Government is going to wind up its tian foreign minister, Lutfl el Said into the claws of the Zionists." Approximately 4,750,000 Nether- disposal of surplus Army and Navy meet soon and whatever the decision Pasha, told the Egyptian chamber Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha and landers will cast votes Friday for properties in Europe by becoming the League takes Egypt will support." El Said Pasha denied reports that members of their lower house the owner of lots of European real of deputies yesterday that "the League officials announced today the Soviet Union had proposed (second chamber). The Netherlands estate. Egyptian government and nation that the meeting of the group establishment of an Egyptian-Rus- is the last nation in liberated That was disclosed yesterday by denounce the Palestine report." scheduled for May 18 in Damascus sian air company. western Europe to choose a post- In a debate on the Anglo-Amer- had been postponed until May 22. The purpose of such a company war parliament. Col. Daniel P. Caulkins, Mediter- would have been to monopolize the Politically without precedent in ranean field commissioner for the ican Inquiry Committee's report on No reason for the postponement Dutch history, the elections are ex- Palestine, the foreign minister said was given. Cairo-Moscow route, it had been Office of the Foreign Liquidation reported. ____ pected to chart the Netherlands' Commissioner. He said the State the government had instructed its Another member in the debate course for the next four years, and Department hoped to acquire $50,- representatives in London and said: "The Palestine report only resolve to what extent she may Washington to explain to the two considers American and English BRITISH TO DEFER follow Great Britain in planned 000,000 worth of embassy and con- interests and ignores the Arabs, the PALESTINE DECISION sulate buildings. governments that the "report has economy and socialization. actual owners of Palestine. LONDON, May 15 (AP)—The Ten parties are contesting for The buildings will include historic caused tension in all Middle Eastern states and needs complete rejection." "If the Zionists in Palestine British government announced today 100 seats, but political observers Margherita Palace in Rome where succeed in establishing their national that it would defer decision on the unanimously agree that no single the embassy now has its offices as El Said Pasha continued, "Our ambassador in London visited the home, they will expand to neigh- Anglo-American report on Palestine group will succeed in gaining a well as consulate buildings in Genoa foreign secretary and many other boring Arab states and will attack until it had conferred with leaders majority. and elsewhere, Caulkins said. British members of parliament and Iraq, Egypt and all Arab states of both Arabs and Jews and had 2 Parties Prominent Property Widely Scattered high authorities and they also surrounding them," he added. consulted with the United States. The Labor Party of Prime A nationalist deputy suggested the "This procedure is in accordance Other real estate will be acquired agreed that the report is impractical Minister Willem Schermerhorn and establishment of an Arab army to with pledges given by his majesty's the historically powerful Catholic in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the and prejudicial." defend Arab interests "as force government when the formation of Netherlands, Belgium, England and "Our minister in Washington met must be met with force." the committee was announced," a Party are expected to lead with 30 elsewhere, he said. President Truman and told him our Deputy Abdul Malin Rady Bey brief statement issued by the foreign to 35 seats. A coalition government stand on the Palestine report," el of these two parties is expected by Of property valued at $401,385,931 blamed Egypt for not offering any office said, adding that Great Britain many, although a cabinet of national Said Pasha declared, "and the practical help to Palestine in the took note of a similar intention on 'declared surplus so far in the Med- President told him he will consider unity is not excluded. iterranean Theater, Caulkins report- past and because she "did not help the part of America. Third strongest party is likely to ed at the end of his first year of be the Conservative Anti-Revolu- operations, material valued at $192,- tionary Party which attracts the 935,895 has been sold for $100,738,942 France Asked Calvinist vote. This group might Or 52 per cent of its cost to the U. S. obtain 10 to 15 seats. Biggest ques- taxpayer. tion marks are the Liberal Party Caulkins pointed out that much Not to Violate (Party of Freedom), the political bf this material had been used or creed of which parallels that of Was adapted only for military re- British Conservatives, and the Com- quirements. Siamese Rights munists. Each party is expected to obtain from six to 10 seats. WASHINGTON, May 15
>OULD May 30 to Be Holiday in ET The Stars and Stripes Bureau FRANKFURT, May 15-IV»emorial Day, May 30, will be a legal holiday in the European Theater, USFET announced today.
I Page 6 THE aUftS AND STRIPES Thursday, May 16,1946 Lesnevich Retains Title,TKOs Mills in 10th Yank Homers Jorge Seeks Female Touch Half-Blinded Gus Floors Briton *. * * Blast Browns; But Ail-American Girls Say Hands Off 5 Times Before Ref H alts Bout LONDON, May 15 (UP)—Gus Lesnevich, former Golden Tigers Lose Glover from New York, retained his world's light-heavyweight ST. LOUIS, May 15 (AP)—The championship here last night by by battering his way to a New York Yankees staged an old- technical knockout over Freddie Mills, British titleholder, after time slugging bee as they clouted ten rounds of gory fighting. Drenched with his own blood and out three homers to account for all "^blinded on one side by a deep eye- of their runs in a 6-2 conquest of cut, Lesnevich floored the game the St. Louis Browns. Marion's Single Briton five times—three in the It was the Yanks' old guard who second round and twice in the tenth took care of the power show. Bill —before a terrific overhand right Dickey, Joe DiMaggio and Joe Gor- draped Mills unconscious across the don, who just returned to the lineup Tripipss Dodgers lower strand of the ring. Referee after a five-day layoff because of Eugene Henderson then stepped in a leg injury, belted out four- In Eleventh, 7-5 and stopped the fight without start- baggers. ing another count, t Dickey clouted his first four- NEW YORK, May 15 (AP)—Marty master of the year with Nick Etten Gus Starts Fast on base in the second inning and Marion, shortstop of the St. Louis Lesnevich started fast and almost Gordon followed Dickey's blast with Cardinals, punched a single into put his opponent away in the second his third homer of the season to center field with two out and bases heat, sending him to the canvas for give the Yanks a 3-0 lead. DiMaggio loaded in the 11th inning to give counts of six, eight and nine. Mills clinched the contest in the ninth the Redbirds a hard-fought 7-5 was out on his feet at the end of inning with a three-run circuit victory over Brooklyn in the first the round, but made an amazing meeting between the two red-hot recovery to completely dominate the wallop, his seventh of the year. National League contenders at The Browns nicked Floyd Bevens, action throughout- the next six who went the route for New York, Ebbets Field. rounds. In handing the bustling Durocher- The ex-RAF sergeant became the for two runs in the fourth inning men their first defeat in their last on four singles. aggressor as he went to work on 10 games at home, the spirited crew Lesnevich's face with short jabs. In from the west showed the stuff the third round he started the blood Senators 15, Tigers 1 champions are made of, and lefty Jorge and Bernardo .... still on the prowl gushing from the American's nose, DETROIT, May 15 (AP)—The Max Lanier pitched the rout to and in the fourth, he cut Gus' Detroit Tigers' eight-game winning achieve his fifth straight win against vulnerable left eye—the one that streak blew up in the face of a CHICAGO, May 15 (INS) —Officials of the Ail-American Girls no losses. cost him his match with Lee Oma. 20-hit Washington uprising that professional baseball league have warned Mexico's Jorge Pasquel he'd The loss reduced the Dodgers' Eye Closes better not make any raids on their organization. Their admonition came produced a 15-1 triumph for lead over the Cards to a single game The eye immediately began to knuckle-baller Roger Wolff. after it was disclosed that Pasquel, in trying to lure major league stars to and gave St. Louis a chance to jam close. From then on, although his Wolff, coasting to his third vic- his Mexican circuit, had also bid for American girl players. the works in the concluding tussle. seconds worked frantically between tory of the season, had a four-hit In a letter sent to Jorge in Mexico City, Frank Avery, president of Anybody's Game rounds, the swelling continued and shutout until Tiger left fielder Ansel the All-American Girls loop, said: "While we are well able to protect It was anybody's decision until by the eighth round, Lesnevich was Moore homered in the ninth. ourselves with our own players, we believe that for the sake of Marion solved little Vic Lombardi, fighting with only one eye. After tagging lefthander Frank Mexican - American relations, you should forsake any plans for piracy fourth Brooklyn flinger, for the pay- Mills concentrated on Gus' face (Stubby) Overmire for three runs of female baseball talent in the United States." off punch in the 11th. The Dodgers from the fifth round on, alternating on a five-hit attack in the third, "But," Avery went on to say, "we believe that if you wish to had numerous chances in the late the Senators really went hit wacky develope girls' baseball in Mexico, our league setup provides for a innings but each time Lanier bore in the fifth, scoring eight times off business-like approach. I think you will find most of our girls loyal -to down and stifled the hopes of 32,918 Tommy Bridges and George Caster, the Ail-American organization because they have seen us build this league loyal adherents crammed into as 12 men batted and seven hit on an honest, dependable basis. It seems to me we might talk the matter the stadium. safely. over first rather than have your representatives go directly to our girls For a time it looked as though The Nats slugged out eight extra- and encourage them to break contracts they signed in good faith." the Dodgers, who have been leading base blows, including Buddy Lewis' charmed lives recently, might pull three-run homer in the fifth and another out of the fire. Trailing 0-5 seven doubles, three in the ninth, Pasquel Advised to 'Stop, Look and Listen* after 3 innings, they came back Avery proposed that Pasquel should "stop, look and listen" before to wallop Lanier and tie it up continuing his raiding. He offered a hearing, should the Mexican mag- tight at 5-5 at the end of the seventh, nate want to discuss the question of American girls' teams competing thanks to some lusty hitting by south of the border. Billy Herman and Dixie Walker. Avery's letter disclosed that Chicago agents for Pasquel have been Had they pulled it off it would laying the groundwork for what was described as "wholesale raids on have marked the 11th time in 16 girls' baseball and softball talent in the United States". Among the lady triumphs this season that Brooklyn diamond stars contacted was Clara Schillace, of Maywood, Illinois, who had saved a game from burning. But said she has been approached to act as chief scout in lining up four this time Eastern leaders were up against a pitcher who didn't intend female teams to play in Mexico. to lose. Miss Schillace, who plays center field for the Racine, Wisconsin, Belles, said the Mexican offer included flowery descriptions of the country and predictions of great financial gain. However, she said she definitely Braves 5, Pirates 1 wasn't interested. BOSTON, May 15 (AP)—Behind Mills . . . game and willing the four hit pitching of lefty Jimmy Wallace, the Boston Braves won right hooks with sharp left jabs, and their fourth consecutive game by every blow brought a new spurt of WindoverWins at Narragansett; defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, blood. Both boxers, the referee's shirt 5-1. It was the second night game and the ring were well-spattered in Boston's major league history. with it. Lesnevich seemed to be Earshot Captures Acorn Stakes Winning his second game of the weakening although he still landed Lewis . , . Nats big gun season, Wallace faced only 31 bat- the heavier wallops in almost every PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 15 (AP) Carrying a light weight of 106 ters, while striking out six and round. when four more runs scampered —Windover, a three-year old bay pounds, Mrs. E. H. Augustus' Blue walking one. Mills Makes Mistake across. gelding making his first racing Yonder moved to the front early A big fourth inning in which But in the tenth, Mills made his Lewis, with a homer, double and start, came through to victory in and stayed there to win Havre de they scored four times salted the big mistake. He was a bit slow in single in six times at bat knocked the second race at odds of 3124.60 Grace's Wise Councellor purse with game for Boston. getting around to Lesnevich's blind in five runs and Heath drove in for $2 to help set up a juicy 5684.40 a half-length margin over Mrs. E. Bucs Threaten side, and Gus whistled a vicious four with three doubles and a single daily-double payoff at Narragansett Hineman's Blue Dream. Bomar The Pirates were dangerous in right which sent him reeling to the in as many trips. Park. Two Down, first half of the Stables' Billy Bumps, Belmont only one inning, the third, in which canvas for a seven-count. When he combination, won the first race at Stakes eligible and favorite in the they fashioned their single tally. groggily arose, Lesnevich dropped Red Sox 3, White Sox 0 $12.40. field of four, finished four lengths But Wallace never faltered and was him for nine with a left uppercut. behind Blue Dream. Honeytown Mill's eyes were glazed and his CHICAGO. May 15 (AP)—Boston's William Helis' Earshot, loser by a aided by the perfect fielding of his Dave (Boo) Ferriss, with some help ran last. The winner was timed in mates. legs wobbly as he dragged himself neck to Red Shoes at Pimlico, came 1:48 for the mile and sixteenth Only three Bucs were able to hit erect. Gus boomed a right that from Rudy York, won one of his back to score a half-length victory toughest mound duels of the season and paid $6.70. his delivery last night. Frankie knocked him halfway through .the over favored Bonnie Beryl in the Gustine got two of those blows, a ropes, and the ref put an end to the as he beat Joe Haynes and the brawl. ' Chicago White Sox, 3-0. $10,000-added Acorn Stakes for Davis Cup Team Chosen single in the third which drove in The Red Sox could get only four three-year old fillies at Belmont his team's lone marker and a double In his dressing room while the hits off Haynes, but one was York's Park. Rytina trailed the runnerup NEW YORK, May 15 (AP)—Frank in the ninth. doctor lanced his eye, Lesnevich Parker, Ted Schroeder, Billy Talbert The other hits were a double in said, "I'm the luckiest guy in the towering homer into the left-field by eight lengths in earning the world to have won that fight. I stands in the fourth. Ted Williams and Gardnar Mulloy will make up the third by Hank Camelli, and a show position. the U. S. Davis Cup team which single by Ralph Kiner in the never saw anything like that Mills. scored ahead of York. Another was Ridden by Eddie Arcaro, Earshot I hit him with everything I had a double by York in the seventh meets the Philippines in the first seventh. was clocked at 1:37V« for the mile. round at St. Louis June 14-16. The Camelli scored on Gustine's first before he would even start to go that sent Bobby Doerr to third down." from where he scored on an infield The chestnut daughter of Petrose- team captain will be Walter L. Pate, hit and Kiner was rubbed Out in a But. Hermana paid $7.60. it was announced. rapid double play. Ex-Champ Steele Fined Blondie (BT Courtesy of King Features Syndicate) By Chic Young For Assaulting Salesman LOS ANGELES, May 15 (UP)—> Freddie Steele, ex-middleweight boxing champion convicted on assault charges today, was fined $300 and ordered to stay away from poolhalls and liquor for two years. Steele now a movie actor, was convicted March 13 of assaulting salesman Peter Christopher after a poolhall argument. He failed to appear April 23 for sentence and was jailed Tuesday pending a probation hearing. Wieland Wins Walking Title CINCINNATI, May 15 (AP>— George Wieland, 25, Detroit ac- countant, won the National AAU 50,000-meter walking championship, nosing out fellow Detroiter William Mihalo in the final mile. Thursday, May 16,1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page f Baseball Box Scores' Old-Timers Recall Plans STAND National League American League PITTSBURGH BOSTON NEW YORK ST. LOUIS For First Baseball Union AB R H „ AB R H ABR H AB R Handley, 3b 3 0 0 Stirnw'ss,3b 3 Lucadello,3b4 0 Gustine, 2b 4 Ryan, 2b 5 1 1 LOS ^.NGELES, May. 15 (UP)—Robert Murphy's new venture td AMERICAN LEAGUE 0 Rowell, If 5 Henrich, rf 4 McQuillen.lf 4 VRobays, If 4 0 Holmes, rf 4 Keller, If 5 Laabs, rf 4 organize baseball players into his American Baseball Guild, recalled to old Elliott, rf 4 0 DiMaggio.cf 5 Judnich, cf 4 timers how efforts to unionize the national past-time almost succeeded W L Pet. GB Kiner, cf 3 Sanders, lb 3 Boston 0 - Glll'w't'r, cf 3 Etten, lb a Ber'dino, 2b 4 once before. T. J. Hickey, 84, who retired ten years ago as president of 23 , 4 .852 — Fletcher, lb 3 0 0 Hofferth, c 3 Dickey, c S Christm'n.ss 3 New York 17 9 Cox, 2b 3 0 0 Roberge, 3b 4 Gordon, 2b 4 a-Grace 1 the American Association, said World War I and the new deal of the late .654 5V» Camelli, c 3 Detroit 15 11 .577 1i/ 1 1 W'telman, ss 3 Rizzutto, ss 3 Stevens, lb 4 Judge Landis, brought to baseballf t Gables, p 2 0 0 Wallace, p 3 Bevens, p 3 0. Mancuso, c 3 a blighted unionization campaign rule would permit clubs with the Washington 11 12 .478 10 Gerhauser.p 0 0 0 Potter, p 3 biggest bankrolls to gobble up all of St. Louis Wilkie, p 0 0 0 Fanning, p 0 headed by, Dave Fultz, former base- 11 15 .423 lli/s a-Rossell 1 the top players." Cleveland 8 15 0 0 Totals 35 6 10 Totals . 31 ball player and now a New York .348 lli/s Totals so 1 4 Totals 37 4 D a-batted for Christman (9) attorney. Guild Called Impractical Chicago 7 15 .318 13Va a-batted lor Gerhauser (8) R H E "Fultz was making real progress Philadelphia 7 18 RUE NEW YORK 030-000-003—6 10 0 Oscar Reichow, business manager .280 15 PITTSBURGH 001-000-000—1 4 1 ST. LOUIS 000-200-000—2 9 0 abo'ut 1914 in signing up major of the Hollywood Stars, found the Results BOSTON 000-400-lOx—5 9 0 Homers—Dickey, Gordon, DiMaggio. league players," Hickey said. "At Guild "impractical" from another Boston 3, Chicago 0 . Errors—Cox. Batteries—Bevens and Dickey; Potter, New York 6, St. Louis 2 Batteries—Gables, Gerhauser(7); Wilkie Fanning (9) and Mancuso. that time players had reason for standpoint. The present, every-man- Washington 15, Detroit (8) and Camelli; Wallace and Hofferth. Winning pitcher—Bevens. joining the union. Baseball was for-himself bargaining will continue, Winning pitcher—Wallace. Losing pitcher—Potter. Philadelphia-Cleveland (postponed ruled by an old commission consist- he believes, as long as there*is such rain) Losing pitchei — Gables. BOSTON CHICAGO ing of Ban Johnson and Garry Her- difference in the ability of players ST. LOUIS BROOKLYN AB R H ABR H man. and there is such wide range in NATIONAL LEAGUE ABR H ABR H M'tk'vich.rf 4 0 0 Moses, rf 3 0 0 "Players didn't have a chance salaries paid a rookie and a star. Klein, 2b 6 0 1 Ramazotti,3b5 0 0 Pesky, ss 4 Kennedy, 3b 4 0 0 then," Hickey admitted. "Owners W L Pet. GB Moore, cf 6 1 2 Herman, 2b 6 2 3 Williams, If 2 Wright, If 4 0 0 Murphy claims that 70 Pacific Brooklyn Musial, If 5 1 2 Reiser, cf 4 1 2 Doerr, 2b 4 Appling, ss 3 0 1 had everything their way. Condi- Coast League players sought member- 15 8 ;652 Slaughter.rf 5 0 2 F.Walker, rf 4 1 3 York, lb 3 Jones, lb 3 0 0 tions were unsatisfactory and play- Kur'ski, 3b 5 2 4 Furillo, If 3 Piatt, cf 3 0 0 ship and he advised the prospects St. Louis 13 8 .619 1 0 1 • DiMaggio.cf 3 ers suffered many injustices. Boston 13 10 Sisler, lb 4 Galan, lb 4 0 0 Wagner, c 3 Kolloway,2b 3 0 1 that when the majority of the .565 2 a-Adams 1 Reese, ss 2 1 0 Andres, 3b 3 Tresh, c 0 0 War Changed Conditions Chicago m 11 10 .524 3 H.Walker.lbO Anderson, c 2 0 0 Ferrlss, p 3 Dickey, c 0 0 members on any one team wish to O'Dea. e b-Lavagetto 1 0 0 Haynes, p 0 0 "Fultz's organization looked as form a union, he would be glad to Cincinnati 11 10 .524 3 Marion, ss Sandlock, c 1 0 0 I Caldwell, p 0 0 though it was headed for places but confer with the club owner on col- New York 11 13 .458 Lanier, p e-Naylor 1 a-Tucker 0 0 41/2 0 0 the first World War changed condi- lective bargaining. Pittsburgh 9 13 .409 5i/ Padgett, c 0 0 0 b-Hodgin 0 0 2 Grege, p 1 0 0 Totals 29 3 4 Totals 0 2 tions. Then Judge Landis came iiLas Philadelphia 5 16 .238 9 Behrman, p 1 0 0 a-batted for Tresh (8) czar to better the players' position Results Herring, p 0 0 0 b-batted for Haynes (8) Lombard!, p 0 and the union just faded away." 0 0 R HJE Llo-Da-Mar Squad Wins x St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 5 (11 innings) f-Stanky 1 0 0 BOSTON 000-200-100—3 4 1 Hickey doesn't believe that Murphy, Boston 5, Pittsburgh 1 Totals 46 7 15 Totals 36 5 9 CHICAGO 000-000-000—0 2 0 a- former athlete and labor relations Team Title at ABC Tourney Cincinnati-New York (postponed a-batted for Sisler (11) rain) Errors—Wagner. BUFFALO, May 15 (AP)—The b-batted for Anderson (6) ' Homers—'rork. councilor, will make much head- Chicago-Philadelphia (postponed e-batted for Sandlock (10) Llo-Da-Mar Bowl squad of Santa rain) • Batteries—Ferriss and Wagner; Haynes, way unionizing players under present f-batted for Lombard! (11) Caldwell (9) and Tresch, Dickey (9). conditions. Monica (Calif.) won the 1946 Amer- R H E Winning pitcher—Ferriss. ST. LOUIS 002-300-000-02—7 15 0 Losing pitcher—Haynes. "There isn't any reason now for ican Bowling congress team cham- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION BROOKLYN 000-301-100-00—5 9 2 the union," he argues. "I feel players pionship early this morning. w L Pet. e-batted for Sandlock (10) WASHINGTON DETROIT are being treated as fairly as pos- The team, sponsored by movie Louisville 16 10 .815 f-batted for Lombard! (11) ABR H AB R H comedian Harold Lloyd, shot 3,032 1^ Toledo 15 10 .600 Behrman (4), Herring (8), Lombardi (10), Torres, 3b '532 Lake, ss 2 0 0 sible. Another thing, the Guild is St. Paul 16 12 .571 and Anderson, Sandlock (7), Padget (11). Lewis, rf 6 3 Mayo, 2b 4 0 0 against reserve clauses, whereby a on May 7, a score which survived the Indianapolis 13 11 .542 Winning pitcher—Lanier. Spence, cf 6- 2 McCosky, cf 1 0 0 player at the end of the season closing week's onslaught. Minneapolis 13 15 .464 Losing pitcher—Lombardi. Vernon, lb 5 2 Cramer, cf 3 0 1 The team championship gave the Kansas City 10 13 .435 Heath, If 6 1 Moore, If 4 1 2 belongs to a club he last played for. Columbus 10 16 .385 Priddy, 2b 6 1 Greenb'g, lb 4 0 0 You couldn't have baseball without Santa Monica squad a $1,500 cash Milwaukee 8 14 .364 Travis, ss 5 1 Mullin, rf 4 0 0 a reserve clause. Elimination of the prize. Results Stanford Star, Evans, c Outlaw, 3b 3 0 0 St. Paul 9, Indianapolis 0 Wolff, p Tebbetts, d 3 0 1 Toledo 5, Kansas City 1 Overmire, p 0 0 0 1 •1 to It Louisville 8, Minneapolis 3 a-Bl'dworth 1 1 i 5 i i 9 10 Milwaukee—Columbus (postponed Kmetovic, Joins Bridges, p 0 rain) Caster, p 2 Totals 47 15 20 Totals 31 a-batted for Overmire (3) 'I INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Pro Grid Ranks W L Pet. WASHINGTON 003-631-020—15 20 0 Montreal 15 8 .652 DETROIT 000-000-001— 1 5 0 IS Syracuse 13 8 . .619 PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (UP)— Homers—Lewis, Moore. • Buffalo 10 9 .526 Pete Kmetovic became the fourth Batteries—Wolff and Evans; Overmire, Toronto 11 10 .524 member of Stanford's brilliant 1940 Bridges (4); Caster (5), and Tebbetts. Baltimore 10 10 .500 Winning pitcher—Wolff. 18- Newark 10 11 .476 backfield to sign with a professional Losing pitcher—Overmire. Rochester 7 13 .350 football team, when he came to<$- Jersey City 7 14 .333 terms with the Philadelphia Eagles n ^4 2b Results of the National League. f m Montreal 4, Syracuse 1 Rochester 3 Newark 2 Kmetovic, 175 pound halfback, n f Other games postponed, rain was drafted by the Eagles in 1942 but entered military service before f< TEXAS LEAGUE he was able to join the team. He was n w L Pet. recently discharged after three years Dallas 20, 8 .714 Fort Worth 18' 8 .692 duty in the South Pacific. San Antonio 16 9 .640 Halfback Hugh Gallerneau, and Tulsa 15 13 .536 Beaumont 13 16 .448 fullback Norm Standlee of the 1940 Shreveport 11 16 .407 Stanford team, both played with the d Houston 12 18 .400 Chicago Bears immediately after Oklahoma City 5 22 .185 graduation. Standlee recently jump Hi Hi Hi iff Results ed to the San Francisco team, of Shreveport 6, Dallas 4 the All-America Conference while r Tulsa 11, Houston 8 ■ Beaumont 1-6, Fort Worth 5-3 their collegiate teammate quarter- « HI Oklahoma City 3. San Antonio 1 back Frankie Albert signed with the Los Angeles Dons. 51 ii SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Rams Sign Strode w L Pet. The other Los Angeles pro team, Atlanta 20 11 .645 53 5H 55 New Orleans 18 11 .621 the Rams of the National Football Memphis 18 12 .600 League, signed Woody Strode, star Nashville 13 12 .520 Negro end at UCLA for three years. Chattanooga 15 .483 Strode teamed with Kenny Wash- ACROSS DC?WN Little Rock li ! 16 .407 1—Insane 35—Optainers 41—Chemical fluid 46—Sherwood Forest Birmingham 10 18 .357 ington, who is already on the Rams' 4—Little devils 37— Women's party 43— Carpenter uses it beverage Mobile 9 18 .333 roster, to form one of the greatest 8—Earth 38— Soldiers 44— Little whirlpool 47—Grain in Results forward passing combinations in 12— Mr., Olsen 39— Varnish 45— Possesses mahogany 13— Blond whistle ingredient 48—Roman bronze Atlanta S, Memphis 2 West Coast Grid history. , 40 Large artery Birmingham 6, Little Rock 2 14— Wind instrument — Chattanooga 8, New Orleans 3 In New York, both the NL Giants 15— Twilled fabric from heart ■„ Only games scheduled 16— Conducting 42—Solitary YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION and the Dodgers of the All-America 18—Long fish 45—Musical Conference announced the acquisi- 20— Arouses instrument PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE 21— Greek letter 49—Bounder I 3 A Q, R £ A P S tion of new talent for the 1946 season. 23— Skater's medium 5»-Drug-yielding W L Pet. 24— Space plant I'- D Q N S U E □ 30 15 .667 Bob Kehler, Nebraska University II ; San Francisco 27—Waterfall 51—Indian tribe - "■ 1 N Los Angeles 28 16 .636 graduate who played with the 30— Glove leather 52— Little goat LL 3 ® A P p E Oakland 28 18 .609 Green Bay Packers of the NFL for 31— Beast 53— Glimpsed .500 O £ L L Hollywood 22 22 three seasons, signed with the 32— Tooth covering 54— Wrangles (dial.) m L San Diego 21 25 .457 34—Halt 55— Tricky s O L A G □ O Seattle 18 27 .400 Dodgers. Kehler entered the Army m R C Sacramento ' 18 38 .391 before the opening of the 1945 DOWN w R Y A N G L 5 W O R M Portland 15 29 .341 season and played with the 2nd Air 1— Additional 19—Postage cost Results 2— Away from wind22—The Altar • 6 L i D S O s HA ' Force eleven. 3— Exhaustion 24—Fighting roosters San Diego 3, Sacramento 1 A H O V" E O A N 5 T E Oakland 2, Hollywood 1 Edward Sexton of Hempstead, Figure—Skater 4— Former Japanese 25—Mimic . Seattle 6, Portland 3' politician 26— Chums s N 4 G R A T E R Only games scheduled N. Y., one of the metropolitan area's Pat Matthews, attractive Austra- 5— Cleans 27— Money m all-time great fullbacks, signed with lian figure skating champion, has 6— In rhyme 28— Poker bet * 1 T 3 I 3 5 7— More severe 29— Channel island EASTERN LEAGUE the Giants. Sexton joined the just been offered a contract with 8— Drunkards 30— Pert.i to ships s A O W A & R E S T w L Pet. Marines in 1943 and expects to Icecapades, biggest ice show in 9— Oriental sash 33—Nothing = S □ PL E i N A r7] A 4 .667 10— Charged particle 36—Everything L Scranton * 8 receive his discharge in the near the U. S. She is currently awaiting r '8 4 .667 11— Lap of race 38—Cow's cry A < T £ R 5 S J= V Wilkes Barre future. passage for her American debut. 17—Part of "to be" 40—So be it L Hartford 6 5 .545 Binghamton 6 6 .500 Albany 5 6 .454 Li'l Abner (By Courtesy ol United Features) Williamsport 5 6 .454 By Ai Capp Elmira 4 6 .400 3 8 .272 Utica GASpf- YOU'RE SO Y-J* POLIC£StANf Results BEAUTIFUL/ ■ I MUST THINK FASTS No games scheduled. ITS EITHER THE CAN'T HELP * REPUTATION OF Major League Leaders MYSELF.'/ k ONE OF THIS COrVIU- N/TY'S FINEST AND G AB H R Pet. MOST BELOVED Pesky, Red Sox 26 113 31 44 .389 CITIZENS-) It Musial, Cardinals 21 85 16 33 Lodigiani, White Sox 19 70 7 27 .386 Reese, Dodgers 23 79 14 30 .380 Williams, Red SOX 27 95 27 36 .379 Walker, Dodgers 21 77 16 29 .377 RUNS BATTED IN National League American League Walker Dodgers, 21 Doerr, Red Sox, 29 Holmes, Braves, 20 Williams.Red Sox 25 Mize, Giants, 19 DiMaggio, Yank's 22 HOME RUNS National League American League Mize, Giants DiMaggio, Yank's 7 Hatton, Reds 4 Williams, Red Sox 5 Mccormick, Phil's i Chapman, A's i Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, May 16,1946 Writers Debate Nazis Rebuilt Navy Democracy in - mm Armed Forces To Meet Threat'of NEW YORK, May 15 (UP)—Argu- ments for and against special pri- vileges for officers in the Army are Poland, Raeder Says aired in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post under the NURNBERG, May 15 (AP)—Grand Adm. Erich Raeder, who was sue* heading. "Should We Have a More ceeded as German ^naval chief by Adm. Karl Doenitz, opened his defense before the International Military Tribunal today. Democratic Army?" Opening his account of the reconstruction of the German navy, in The affirmative was upheld by face of the Versailles Treaty restrictions, Raeder declared that the Jack Foisie, reporter for the San "danger we faced was of an attack by Poland on East Prussia, and our Francisco Chronicle, and formerly efforts, 'therefore, were aimed at* ■ ■ a sergeant assigned to the Mediter organizing so that we could oppose]—^ _ ^ ranean edition of The Stars and such an invasion Stripes. The negative was taken He emphasized that all the recon- lokyo Court by Dwight Gentry, Northwestern struction work was subject to the University graduate student, who approval of the late President Paul was a platoon leader in the 29th r von Hindenburg and, later, of Adolf Is Prejudiced, Inf.-Div. Hitler. Merit Basis Urged The navy which he built had men "who were respected at home and Defense Savs "Only by removing the stigma abroad because they participated in TOKYO, May 15 (UP)—The Amer- attached to the enlisted man and no atrocities," the defendant testi making his position self-respecting, ican defense counsel for five majof fied. Japanese war criminal suspects will the services attract the quality Raeder's case opened after a of men they are now trying to in- charged that the Far East Allied morning devoted to a vain effort Military Tribunal was incapable of duce with promises of more money, to conclude a part of the defense of good ratings and a chance to see conducting a fair trial and moved the world," Foisie wrote. Walter Funk, Hitler's economic ad- for dismissal of the charges. visor. This had been delayed from The motion was filed by Capfc. He urged an Army and Navy in last week by the absence of a key which all men start at the lowest witness, Emil Puhl, former vice- George A. Furness, followed an at- rank and work up by. merit, and president of the Reichsbank. tack on the validity of the tribunal's called for experiments whereby jurisdiction by Dr. Ichiro Kyose, selected units would attempt a "com- counsel for former Premier Hidekl pletely casteless operation, with a 33 ENTER PLEAS AT START Tojo. Furness charged that the board of officers, enlisted men and OF TRIAL IN FRENCH ZONE tribunal was without jurisdiction, civilians to judge the results. RASTATT, Germany, May 15 (AP) and members representing the Gentry answered the charges that —Twenty-nine men and four women nations which defeated Japan were officers take the best food, quarters pleaded guilty to charges of robbing "accusers," and not capable of con- and recreational facilities by saying and mistreating French and British ducting a fair and impartial trial. that such officers were not un political deportees in the Neue Chief prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan democratic, but inefficient. Bremme Nazi concentration camp asked whether the defense counsel Russia's Experiment Cited as the first war crimes trial in the wanted to "send to Mars" for French zone opened today. neutrals to sit in on the trials. "Stopping officers from using The Leer That Made Milwaukee Famous Keenan suggested, as an alternative, their rank to obtain privileges The defendants, camp commander Master Milwaukee ^Alvin Sweeney, Zllt) receives congratulations Fritz Schmoll and his staff, all that a tribunal be made up of re- would eliminate the abuses resented presentatives from "Argentina and not only by enlisted men but also from Miss Milwaukee (Judy Ann Hertjng, 3) after they had been entered pleas of not guilty to by capable officers," he said. But, adjudged winners in a health and beauty contest at Milwaukee. They charges of murder, with the pos- Spain." he added, discipline would be an were chosen from among more than 400 entrants. sible exception of one who said he In his oral argument supporting impossibility in a more democratic was "a little guilty." his motion, Furness said, "violation Army, because officers cannot live of a treaty might be considered a breach of contract contrary to the intimately with their men, and UN Committee 74 GO ON TRIAL TODAY maintain the impartial and imper- Franco Assails IN MALMEDY MASSACRE obligations of conscience" but that sonal attitude which discipline de- it was not a crime. mands. DACHAU, May 15 (AP)—SS Gen. Maj. Gen. Bruce Blakeney argued Both Foisie and Gentry cited France, Calls Puts Off Action Sepp Dietrich, veteran of the origi- for dismissal of the murder indict- Russia's Finnish-war experiment of nal Nazi beer hall putch, and 73 ment on the grounds that war was eliminating the distinction between 9 of his subordinates Will go on trial legal and killing was part of war. officers and men. Gentry contended Spain 'Noble On Veto Issue here tomorrow charged With the that its failure illustrated his argu- NEW YORK, May 15 (AP)—The slaughter of hundreds of American MADRID, May 15 (AP)—In a prisoners in the Battle of the Bulge. 4 JAPS SENTENCED ments, while tFoisie thought Amer- controversial question of the veto icans could make such a plan work. sharp attack on France for what he A major phase of the case will FOR PW CRUELTIES called her "bad neighbor policy," power has been postponed by the concern the Malmedy massacre in YOKOHAMA, May 15 (AP)— Generalissimo Francisco Franco United Nations committee of ex- which 71 Americans were known to Three Japanese employes of Fu- COURT-MARTIAL CHANGES perts which met in New York today. •DESIRABLE,' ROYALL SAYS yesterday accused her before a have been slain and 43 wounded by kuoka war prison camp were con- The Security Council has been SS machine guns. Six survivors, five victed of mistreating United States ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 15 (INS) crowded session of the Cortes of not following the same "noble and called to meet tomorrow to consider of whom were wounded and left prisoners and sentenced by an —Undersecretary of War Kenneth for dead by the enemy at; Malmedy, Army tribunal to 15 years each in C. Royall said that "some change generous" conduct as Spain. 34 new rules of procedure. In addition to the veto question, have been brought from the U. S. prison. seems desirable" in the present France, he declared, did not have as prosecution witnesses. court-martial system which grants the experts also passed over the Seizo Nagakura, the "mad cor- to worry about her Spanish fron- matter of a quorum for council poral," was sentenced to four years commanding officers equal author- tier during the war, yet it was ity to prefer charges and control the meetings and a boycott of session SALZBURG WAR CRIME TRIALS for torturing Americans at KuskU proceedings. known that on entering the war she by individual members. EXPECTED TO START MAY 20 prisoner-of-war camp. Royall told the Rochester Bar As- had demanded that, should Spain It is understood that Russian insistence on a wide veto right VIENNA, May 15 (UP) —USFA sociation that "it is not too easy to become a belligerent, France should headquarters announced today a decide what the change should be receive Spanish territory and is- caused delay, in arriving, at a tentative starting date of May 20 Draft... and how far it should go." lands. decision. : ' for trials of war criminals before Secrecy Rule Asked Later last night the government- the American Military Commission (Continued from Page 1) controlled Radio Madrid asserted Soviet policy has steadily called in Salzburg on charges of commit- FDR's Sbangri La that the "internal tranquility of for the veto right, even on dis- ting atrocities against American bill, however, made this unneces- Spain was being threatened from cussions as to whether matters be- fliers. sary. Visited by Trumans France." ^ fore the council were of a procedu- Several senators complained they It had been expected that Franco ral or substantive nature. were being forced by pressure of WASHINGTON, May 15 i(AP)— HUNGARY MAY ASK U. S. time to accept the House ban on would make a definite statement on The Security Council tomorrow FOR RETURN OF ARCHDUKE President Truman may make use of a possible return of the monarchy or will consider proposal for a po- drafting teen-agers. But it was the late President Roosevelt's re- the Molding of a referendum, but his licy of complete privacy at some BUDAPEST, May 15 (AP)—The Langer who carried the brunt of the treat, Shangri La, from time to speech was devoted mainly to a meetings and the classification of newspaper Vilagossag said today the fight. \ time during the summer, press defense of his regime. intelligence which might with-hold Hungarian government would ask Sharply critical of conscription in secretary Charles G. Ross announced He made only^ne veiled reference certain "top secrets" from the 40 American zone authorities to ex- peacetime, the hoarse-voiced North yesterday. to the monarchy with a declaration members of the United Nations not tradite Archduke Joseph of Haps- Dakotan talked more than four The President, his wife, daughter that the government, like a building, represented in the council. burg, former Hungarian field Mar- hours in an effort to block a vote. and Mrs. David Wallace. Mrs. Tru- must be built from the foundation The proposals have already been shal, to face charges as a war cri- Democratic and Republican leaders man's mother, lunched/Sunday at upwards. "We will finish this build- approved by the council's committee minal. appealed to him time and again to the rustic spot in the Catoctin ing," he declared, "when we are not of experts on procedure. give up the floor. Mountains, near Thurmont, Md. It pushed from outside." The proposed rules for secrecy Finally Langer sat down and Sen. was the President's first trip there. provide that, in a private meeting, 15 Hurt in Trolley-Train Crash Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.), * On the way, at the Naval hospital He denied charges that his regime was a dictatorship an accusation by |/the council may order the record PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (AP)— acting as presiding officer, gavelled at Bethesda, Md.. the President restricted to "one single copy," Fifteen persons were injured, none the measure through hurriedly. Then called on Rep. John J. Cochran (D.- which "malicious persons abroad" which would be entrusted to Sec- seriously, in the collision of a O'Mahoney and House Speaker Sam Mo.), who is seriously ill there. sought to characterize his rule, retary-General Trygve Lie. Pennsylvania Railroad freight loco- Rayburn (D.-Texas) affixed their motive and a Philadelphia Trans- signatures, along with that of Leslie portation Co. trolley in south L. Biffle, Senate secretary, who SOUTHWEST AFRICA VOTES Philadelphia today. hurried the bill to the White House. First Occupation Mother-in-Law AGAINST UN TRUSTEESHIP JOHANNESBURG, May 15 (AP)— The legislative assembly of South- Is Thrilled by Warm Reception west Africa has unanimously adopted Officer Ruled Father of Child a resolution requesting annexation FRANKFURT, May 15 (UP)—A fathers, she smiled from ear to ear and incorporation of the mandated new regime arrived in the house- as she kissed Sprowl, while camera territory into the Union of South Born 355 Days After He Sailed hold of Lt. Col. Norman Sprowl last bulbs flashed and a military band Africa, instead of its becoming night—and it came with reinforce- blared in the background. "Lordy, how I have missed you,' United Nations trusteeship. NEW YORK, May 15 (AP)-Lt. plea. Daly rejected the contention ments. The colonel's wife arrived The issue is to come before the j.g. Robert A. Lockwood, 24, yester- that a 355-day birth was a physical to join the occupation families and Sprowl said as he hugged his wife. United Nations in September. Sprowl said he hadn't seen either day said he would appeal a New impossibility, stating that in the braught her mother. "present state of medical knowledge Mrs. Mary Leitch, 76, of Cincin- of them" since Oct. 20, 1945. "I have York court ruling declaring him the been married 25 years," Sprowl said, and belief it cannot be said to be nati, said she was so happy to be China Liberalizes Cabinet father of a boy born to his wife 355 impossible that the plaintiff is the "Sort of married to both of them. the first occupation mother-in-law To Avert Military Crisis days after he sailed for a 20-month father of this child." that she had left her rolling pin at Wherever we live my mother-in- tour of duty in the Pacific. The justice also held that evidence home. law lives also. It's always been like NANKING, May 15 (AP)—The The young Navy officer and his furnished by the doctor who Her nervous son-in-law sheep- that. You get used to it." Chinese government today reorga- attended Mrs. Lockwood showed nized and liberalized the ^cabinet in wife, Florence Helen, were married ishly admitted as he paced the Sprowl said his family would live March 12, 1944 and on April 24, that the delivery was abnormally station platform awaiting arrival of in an eight-room house in Frank- an obvious bid for national soli- delayed. The ruling cited a 1921 the train bringing dependents from darity in the face of an increasingly 1944, he left for the Pacific. A nine- furth with "plenty of room, I hope, pound son was born to Mrs. Lock- British probate court decision up- Bremerhaven, "No kidding, she is a for all of us." Asked what part of grave political and military situa- holding the legitimacy of a baby good old skate." wood April 14, 1945. the dwelling Mrs. Leitch would tion'. The court ruling was made by born after a 331-day pregnancy, but The little old lady got a big thrill occuppy, he said, "Upstairs, naturally. The government named two non- ignored a recent Chicago ruling that out of her role. While other party members to two of the three Supreme Court Justice Peter M. You didn't think I would' put her Daly, in denying Lockwood's divorce 349-day pregnancy was impossible1. younger, teary-eyed dependents in the cellar, did you? Or did you?" ministries. clutched their soldier husbands and