Manchurianarea Open Battlefield, Communist Says
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Germany Edition Weather: Details on Page 3 One Year Ago North and west—Fair with haze Nazis hold before Berlin. South and east—Fair with haze Ruhr trap cut. Bordeaux Berlin—Partly cludy pocket hit. Reds capture Saint Bremen—Fair with haze Poelten. First town fails in Gironde push. Unofficial Paper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater Volume 2, Number 12 Tuesday, April 16, 1946 20 pf., 2 fr., Id Ball Season to Open Today ManchurianArea Open Battlefield, Communist Says CHUNGKING, April 15 (INS)—Hope of a quick cessation of armed clashes in Manchuria appeared dim today on basis of reports telling of the troubled situation in Changchun, the capital of China's northeast province. A General News Agency dispatch said that Chi Fe-se, garrison commander at Changchun, invoked martial law after the Russians completed evacuation of the city yester- day as previously agreed upon. PLAY BALL! Joe DiMaggio, Yankee outfielder: (Associated Press correspondent Spencer Davis in Muk- Hal Newhouser (upper right), Tiger pitcher, and den reported the arrival there of a three-man peace com- Bob Feller, Tribe hurler, start in today's games. mission whicfi is holding conferences with senior truce team representatives. (While their mission is to obtain information to present to Record Crowds Wait Gen. George C. Marshall upon his arrival in Chungking, Davis said neutrals in Mukden regarded the presence of the Return of GI Players trio as likely to prolong negotiations and possibly avert in- creased hostilities between Communists and Government NEW YORK, April 15 <AP) troops.) —Genuine prewar baseball Jerries May See Truman Hits The Chinese commander estimated that 30,000 Chinese returns to the major leagues Communist troops were massed around Changchun awaiting 'Great Dictator' an opportunity to seize the city in the wake of the retiring Soviet troops. tomorrow with all the hip- The attitude of the Communists on the Manchurian situation was set FRANKFURT, April 15 (AP)— Wars' Causes hip-hurah of a welcome-home WASHINGTON, April 15 (AP)— forth yesterday by Communist Gen. Chou En-lai who told a news con- Charles Chaplin's "The Great ference, that the area now is an open battlefield. parade down Main St., as Joe Dictator" which caricatured Hitler President Truman today called Chou charged that the Nationalist troops are using their authority DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Mussolini will be shown to upon American republics to help in Manchuria to launch a civil war. German audiences if the film can Johnny Vander Meer, Terry eradicate "the poverty and despair" The Communist leader insisted that his forces have the right under be obtained, Brig. Gen. Robert A. which breed wars". Moore and hundreds of other McClurc, director of information the Sino-Soviet treaty to participate in taking over Manchurian areas. control in the U.S. Military Gov- In an address prepared for the Chou added his specific belief that the Communist troops have the former GIs return. ernment of Germany, said today. Pan-American Day observance, the right to enter Changchun following the Russian evacuation. With a golden sports boom al- McClure said he had been trying President declared willingness to Chou, however, emphasized that the Communist factions are willing ready spiraling toward a new peak, to obtain the picture but "for some use force if necessary to prevent to cease hostilities if the Nationalists also will cease them and begin record crowds are expected all reason we haven't succeeded yet." even the threat of aggression. political discussions on the disputed issues in Manchuria. around the National and American "Underneath Nazi madness was Chou also expressed his belief that Marshall's return to China will leagues. ease the situation. (Probable pitchers, as reported material distress and spiritual star- by the United Press, for the major CIO Asks End vation born of poverty and despair. league openers today: Danger of war will never be com- American League: St. Louis, Of Draft Law pletely wiped out until these eco- Gatehouse; Detroit, Newhouser; nomic ills are themselves eliminat- Cleveland, Feller; Chicago, Rigney; WASHINGTON, April 15 (INS)— ed," the President said. Boston, Hughson; Washington, Wolff The CIO called upon Congress to vote against the draft extension bill Catholic Vets Protest and substitute voluntary enlistments Russian Complaint for compulsory military training. NEW YORK, April 15 (INS)— Withdrawn by Iran Catholic war veterans protested The position of the labor organiza- to the New York Yankee base- tion was set forth in a letter from NEW YORK, April 15 (AP)—In- ball club requesting postpone- CIO Legislative Director Cowan to structions to withdraw Iran's com- ment of the American League House Speaker Sam Rayburn, of plaint against Russia reached Hus- opening in Yankee Stadium on Texas, House Majority Leader John sein Ala, Iranian delegate to the Good Friday. W. McCormack, of Massachusetts, United Nations Security Council, and House Minority Leader Joseph from Teheran six hours before the or. Leonard; New York, Chandler; W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts. Council was due to convene today. Philadelphia, Newsome. Cowan said: There was no immediate reaction National League: Brooklyn, "We believe the U. S. should main- Gregg; Boston, Cooper or Sain; from the delegates to the latest tain sufficient forces to fulfil our oc- decision from Teheran, but it had Pittsburgh, Ostermueller; St. Louis, cupation duties in former enemy Beazley; Philadelphia, Judd; New territory and to discharge our duties previously been expected that Rus- York, Voiselle; Chicago, Passeau; under the charter of the United sia's demand that the Iranian case Cincinnati, Vander Meer.) Nations. We believe sufficient men be dropped would bring a two to The opening-day schedule lists: can be raised for these tasks by the one split in the Big Three. Author- National League — Brooklyn at voluntary system, providing obsta- itative American and British sour- Boston, Philadelphia at New York, cles to recruitment are removed." ces had said that the U. S. and (Continued on Page 6) Cowan described these obstacles as British delegates would firmly op- "the low pay scale and discrimina- pose the insistence of Soviet Am- Bad Timing Spoils tion." bassador Andrei Gromyko that the "Our inducted GIs who have been Council reverse its position.. Cripple's Last Wish serving at home or abroad these last months or years ought to be reliev- OAKLAND, Calif., April 15 (INS) ed and discharged at the earliest Language Barrier Foils •—The final wish of an Oakland possible moment. We oppose com- Chicago Cops, Lost Tot cripple to give the cornea of her pulsory military service in peace," eyes to a blind veteran was foiled CHICAGO, April 15 (AP)—For today by bad timing of her suicide. he said. • two hours, 3-year-old Goelle Moreau Miss Grace Jewett, 65, bed-ridden had police at the Hyde Park Sta- with arthritis, wrote a note be- Snakes Kill 'Cobra Woman' tion in a state of anxiety. queathing the- cornea of her eyes LONG BEACH, Calif., April 15 The tot was lost. She could speak —i ;r—»—ifJir-a-i I n » — so some blind veteran might see. (AP)—Miss Elsie Marks, 58-year-old no English; the police could not Then she ended her life by firing ' cobra woman" in a reptile show, understand a word of French. Then HOT SPOT: Changchun, scene of controversy between Chinese Gov- a bullet through her mouth. How- died in the hospital of rattlesnake her mother appeared and explained ernment and Communist troops, is centrally located as capital of ever, late finding of the body made bites suffered Saturday during her that they had come from Paris only Manchuria, from which Russian occupation troops are presently the plan unfeasible. «, performance. five months ago. withdrawing. —S&S Map by Bob Clark.* Tuesday, April 16, 1945 Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Official Insanity Rise Bulletin Of Reds Seen This official bulletin column is published in conformity with By American letter AG 000.76 GAP-AGO HQ PORTLAND, Ore. (INS) — An USFET 22 Sept. 1945, subject: epidemic of mental breakdowns "Official Bulletin Column in in Russia was forecast by Leo The Stars and Stripes," to in- Gruliow, representing the Amer- sure rapid and complete dis- ican Society for Russian Relief. semination of official announce- Gruliow told of talking with ments to all USFET personnel. the chief surgeon of a Leningrad hospital while touring Russia. STATE DEPARTMENT EXAMINA- TION FOR FOREIGN SERVICE "The . doctor was alarmed at the OFFICER, UNCLASSIFIED obvious mental breakdowns of his The following is a list of personnel people since the fighting had who successfully completed the State stopped," Gr.uliow said. ( Department examination for Foreign . "He told me that during those service officer, unclassified, which two years when the war uprooted were held last fall. The oral exami- half of Russia's people, there was nations will be given within the next 60 days; the dates of the oral almost no mental breakdown. examinations will be publicized thru ''The doctor's explanation for The Stars and Stripes and AFN. this was that the struggle for sur- Baron, Samuel H., 1-Lt. vival brings out reserves of ner- Beigel, Edgar James, Sgt. Bernstein, Samuel, Pfc vous energy. The Russians kept Bradshaw, John Alden, Capt. going through the strain. Breed, George, Cpl. "But when the fighting ended Cameron, Brodnax, 1-Lt. they let down. Now there is Cleveland, Stanley, M., T-5 Colton. Joel G., 2-Lt. trouble ahead." Conte, Samuel Daniel, Pfc Gruliow said 800,000 Russian" British Explain German Success Cook, Earl Ferguson, Cpl. men and women have lost arms THE INQUIRING Cotter, Thomas P., Pfc or legs, more than 60 times as Donovan, Thomas A., 1-Lt. In Running Gauntlet of Channe PHOTOGRAPHER Dunlaj, Henry A., S-Sgt.