First of U.S. FamiT^TArrive Today Official Parties at Port EUROPEAN EDITION THE SJm A For Hearty Welcome Forcci in the European Thetlar Sunday, April 28, 1946 Volume 2, Number 117 By ALLAN DREl'FUSS, Staff Writer BREMEN, April 27—A year and a day after victorious Kilian, 13 British troops marched into Bremen, U. S. forces in this northty Anthracite western German port city prepared to meet the spearhead of an army of some 30,000 wives and children of American military ToFaceTrial personnel expected to come to the European Theater in the Walkout Is next 10 months. The 250 women and 100 children scheduled to arrive at At Nauheim Bremerhaven tomorrow -night aboard the converted troop ship Threatened Thomas H. Barry represent the first European shipment of By the Associated Press The Stars and Stripes Bureau American dependents of servicemen permitted to rejoin their The ,UMW served notice on BAD NAUHEIM, April 27— husbands and fathers under the provisions of a recent War the nation's anthracite mine Col. James A. Kilian of Chi- Department directive. operators that they want con- cago, two majors, one captain, Tides and weather conditions permitting, the Barry will be met by a cessions similar to those de- two first lieutenants and eight party of five army processing officers, a Medical Corps officer and a CIG manded from the soft coal enlisted men are scheduled to agent, who will board the vessel from a Navy tug three hours before she be tried at Bad Nauheim in ties up at the Columbus quay, which formerly berthed some of the blue operators and are willing to ribbon liners of the North German Lloyd Line. During the three-hourr call a strike to obtain them. the coming resumption of the shipboard inspection, passengers will be given perfunctory physical exams The governing body for 75,- Lichfield trials, Army officials for communicable disease, a short talk on security and currency control, 000 anthracite miners took that announced today. and baggage, passport and personal identification ehecks. action at Haxletori, Pa., by Names and hometowns of the When the Barry finally ties up at her berth at about 8 o'clock, Red authorizing the filing of a 30-day others to be tried: Maj. Herbert W. Cross comfort aides will mount the gangplank to assist troubled wives strike notice and listing general Bluhm of Chicago; Maj. Richard E. and mothers in solving problems ranging from diaper changing to locat- contract demands for an unspecified Umberto next on throne? Lobuono of East Pittsburgh; Capt ing strayed children. Included in the boarding party will be members wage boost, shorter working hours, Joseph A. Robertson of Akron, Ohio; and the creation of a health and 1st Lt. Leonard W. Ennis of Peek- welfare fund. Italian King skill, N. Y.; 1st Lt. Granville Cubage Demands Dae May 19 of Oklahoma City; Cpl. Louis L. TO THE ARRIVING FAMILIES: The demands will be presented to Rebson of Kansas City, Mo.; T'5 As the Commanding General, United States Forces, the anthracite operators at a con- May Quit to Aid Ellis D. Adcock of Hot Springs, ference scheduled to start in New European Theater, I am happy and proud to have the York May 10. Ark.; Pfc Austin D. Gheens of New- privilege of welcoming the wives and families of the Hard coal miners currently are Royalist Cause port, Tenn.; Pfc Thomas E. Warren paid 58.39 daily for a seven-hour, of Plain view, Texas; Pfc William C. members of our occupational forces. five-day wosk week and time-and- ROME, April 27 (AP)—King Vic- Lovelace of Parma, Mo.; Pfc William JOSEPH T. McNARNEY, half for overtime. They now receive tor Emmanuel of Italy is expected B. Norris of Birmingham, Ala.; Pfc $54 weekly, working six days. to abdicate between May 10 and 15, Arthur B. Duncan of Elizabethtown, General, U. S. Army, Commanding Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach in favor of Crown Prince Umberto, N. C, and Pfc Adolph Zortz of said he would call John L. Lewis Monarchist circles here reported. Milwaukee. and the soft coal operators back This move would be made to Ennis will be tried by the into joint negotiations early next strengthen the monarchy's chances first court starting April 30 and of the circulation staff of The Stars and Stripes, who will distribute week,. in the national referendum, to be Cubage will be tried by the second comics and a special welcoming edition of the newspaper. According to It also was learned that the held June 2, to decide whether Italy court which convenes May 1. Neither present plans, the passengers will remain aboard the Barry Sunday night Secretary of Labor ^had requested wishes a kingdom or a republic, officer has as yet been arraigned. and will start the process of debarking Monday morning. soft coal operators * to meet with these sources added. Although the dependents will ultimately be dispersed to 27 Army- him in Washington Sunday in ad- The 77-year-old monarch has been established "communities" in the theater, they will be transported from vance of negotiations. living in retirement at Naples since Frankfurt Troops Bremerhaven aboard three special trains, whose destinations will be the Allies captured Rome in April, Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna. Subdivided into three groups by desti- 1944, when he turned over his pow- To Stand Reveille nation, the Frankfurt-bound women and children will be the first to ers to the crown prince in fulfillment debark at 6 a.m. on the gaily decorated pier. They will be greeted by Big Four Turns of a previous pledge. Starting Tomorrow three bands and officers and enlisted men acting as hosts, and "com- It was reported that the Mon- munity" representatives for the various military installations to which archists strongly pressed King Vic- FRANKFURT, April 27 (AP)— the families are to be escorted by rail. To Italian Pact tor to abdicate and thus counteract Orders that all American military Although most commands forbade the appointment as community Republican propaganda that the units in the Frankfurt area must representatives of men whose wives were in the shipment, about eight of PARIS, April 27 (AP)—The throne was tainted with Fascism. The stand reveille at 7 o'clock every the installations, at their own discretion, have sent officers whose wives Council of Foreign. Ministers turned king was said to have agreed, be- morning beginning April. 29 were are on the Barry. to smoother aspects of the" Italian cause retention of the monarchy was issued today—only two days after The Frankfurt train is expected to leave the quayside at 8:15 o'clock treaty today as further complications the only guarantee against Com- Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's announ- in the morning and the Berlin train at 10, while the Vienna shipment, developed in France's proposal to cement that stern measures would made up with sleepers, is scheduled to start at 2:30, dropping passengers add the Ruhr and Rhineland to the munism in Italy. Falcone Lucifero, minister of the be taken to tighten sagging mili- at Nurhberg, Munich and Linz. conference agenda. tary discipline. Assembling for their third session royal house, declined either to con- firm or deny the report. Ten minutes of drill and calisth- in Luxembourg Palace, the min- enics will follow the reveille forma- isters began consideration of the An official of the Allied Control tion, which has not been required Bremen Crews Rush to Finish Italo-Franco frontier, the size of Commission, commenting on the of occupation troops in the past. Italy's future defense establishment, announcement in London Thursday and the disposal of her surplus that Britain has asked the United Prep;taration s to Greet Families shipping. The American delegation States, Russia and France to give Partly Cloudy in U. S. Zone was reported ready to tie in ship- their sanction to the June 2 plebis- WIESBADEN, April 27—USAFE By DOROTHY GIES, Staff Writer cite on the monarchy, said the move ping with the reparations question by was obviously designed to place on weather office today forecast a BREMERHAVEN, April 27—With sanding Columbus Quay, where five assigning Italian bottoms to Allied record the verbal authorization partly cloudy Sunday with a further plans nearly matching in detail the brass bands will greet the arriving nations attacked by II Duce's regime. outlook of increased cloudiness and Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin, made several months ago. D-Day invasion, an army of port wives and children.. This authorization, the official shower activity throughout, the officials, special sevice officials and A reviewing stand has been set it was reported in conference circles, added, released the Italian govern- American occupation zone. Maxi- Red Cross workers rushed today to up for the welcoming speech of the threw a new snag into discussion ment from the pledge not to bring mum temperature in Vienna was put finishing touches on prepara- port commander and an AFN broad- of the Ruhr question by, insisting up the monarchical question, which expected to reach 75. A detailed tions for the receipt of the first cast from the ship will relay voices that Belgian. Dutch and Luxem- was given at the time of the ar- weather report appears on page batch of Army families arriving of the first arriving wives to all bourg representatives be permitted mistice. eight of this issue. here tomorrow aboard the USAT parts of the ET^ to sit in on such negotiations as Thomas H. Barry. The vast new waiting room at the spokesmen for nations which suffered A crew of dock workers has been staging area, long enough to ac- heavily in German aggression.