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 Forces in the European Theater Unofficial Newspaper «f U.S. Armed M 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.