Germany Edition TRIPES Unofficial Paper of U.S. Armed '*^£J0t%* ^S^^tS^ Forces in the European Theater Volume 1, Number 302 Friday, February 8, 1946 20 Pfennigs U.S. May Ration Meat To Offset World Famine British Halt American Menu Truman Asks H.-NG-DOG LOOK: Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. generalissimo of Continues to Be the Bataaa Death March, as he looked before he was captured, left, and Farmer Draft as he looked at the time a military commission condemned him to death. Best in World Conservation LONDON, Feb. 7 (AP) — Prime WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP)— WASHINGTON, Feb.7 (AP) Minister Attlee announced that —President Truman said to- Death Verdict for Yamashita 8,000 farm workers scheduled for Americans, asked to share their Army induction this year would bread lest millions starve overseas day he would call for a return be left on the land. actually may eat better than ever to meat rationing in the U. S. Approved by MacArthur The government was battening for a while. if it becomes necessary to the hatches against a storm of Bread will be dark, and less • TOKTO, Feb. 7 (AP)—Gen. MacArthur today upheld the death public criticism over a return to prevent 10 to 15 million sentence passed by a Manila tribunal upon Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yama- whisky and beer will be available, the lowest wartime rations. The but there should be a temporary people from starving to death shita, the Japanese commander in the Philippines at the time of the leader of the House of Commons Bataan Death March. increase in pork, beef, poultry, Herbert Morrison, promised a full- abroad. (' I reviewed the proceedings in a vain search to find some mitigat- scale Parliamentary debate next eggs, and some dairy products. The President explained he ing factor; I find none," the United*- Continued availability of the week on the ration cut announced was vitally concerned with Prass quoted MacArthur. Tuesday by Sir Ben Smith, food enriched diet depends upon the the prospect of widespread starva- (Death sentences were passed in minister. weather, as bad crops resulting Singapore yesterday on Capt. Hitler Justified Laborities and Conservatives from unfavorable weather could tion in war-torn countries, accen- tuated by losses of wheat crops in Komai Mitsui and Sgt. Maj. Iljima 9 alike pelted Smith with questions diminish supplies of animal pro- Nobuo, convicted of causing the Hess Flight, But ducts until rationing is necessary some countries and other grains about the loss of*dried eggs to the elsewhere. death of two British prisoners of British table, which he said were again. Mr. Truman last night ordered war who worked on the notorious Condemned Him cut off because it would cost 100 President • Truman Wednesday Siam-Burma railroad, the UP re- ordered Government agencies to the discontinuance of the use of million dollars a year to keep up wheat in direct production of al- ported. By ALLEN DREYFUSS the flow of dried eggs at the 1944 draft emergency rules cutting con- (The first death sentences on Staff Correspondent sumption of wheat. cohol and beer and limitations on lend-lease rate of 300,000 tons. the use of other grains as part of civilians for collaboration offenses NURNBERG, Feb. 7 —Although Smith, however, pledged a per The cuts will take these forms: were pronounced at Singapore, ac- 1—Millers will be required to a ninepoint food conservation pro- Hitler was "completely taken capita distribution of at least 40 gram designed to meet the world cording to another UP dispatch, convert larger portions of every aback" by the flight of Rudolf Hess shell eggs during the next 16 w^eks, food crisis which he said "may when the British court found to England in May, 1941, he felt compared with 26 previously. bushel of wheat into flour. Doreen "Wales de Silva and her %—Whisky and beer producers prove to be the worst in modern that the irrational action _pf his Meanwhile, the British cabinet times." husband Manuel guilty of acting deputy could be explained "by a met to discuss again the food will not be allowed to use wheat. as informers in the pay of the Jap- 3—Farmers will be asked to feed His program also calls for an im- kind of mysticism and a state of crisis. It was the third meeting this mediate campaign by all Govern- anese military police. They are al- mind caused by illness." The flight, week for the cabinet, usually sum- less wheat to livestock. leged to have given information The President's action was neces- ment agencies to obtain consumer Hitler felt, was promised only by moned only once weekly by (Continued on Page 8) on local residents that led to tor- Attlee. ■ sitated by a greater increase in turing.) idealistic motives, eliminating any possibilitiy of unfaithfulness on the wheat consumption since the last part of Hess to either the Fuehrer harvest than the Government anti- or the Reich. cipated. A recent Government sur- House Passes 400,000-Man vey showed wheat stocks are 61 Dependents' The record of Hitler's reaction to the "mission of humanity" of million bushels below normal. his beetle-browed deputy was con- Food consumption in the U. S. No-StrikeBiU tained in an interview between Navy Planned has been at record leveifc for Priority Set several months. More meat is ex- WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UP)— Foreign Minister Joachim von Rib- WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UP)—The The House today approved legis- By a Staff Correspondent bentrop and Mussolini three days pected, because reducing wheat for U. S. intends to have a peacetime livestock feeding probably will lation curbing strikes in major in- FRANKFURT, Feb. 7—Officers after the unofficial emissary had Navy of 400,000 men. result in earlier marketing of cattle dustries after defeating efforts to and noncoms who were first three landed in Scotland. Its active peacetime fleet will be graders at the time they came over- Calling the flight "the action of and poultry. weaken the bill. The vote was built around 13 large and fast air- In contrast, more than 140 mil- seas may bring their dependents to a lunatic," Ribbentrop told !he craft carriers and 3,627 aircraft and 197-114. Europe beginning in April under a Duce that for a long time Hess had lion Europeans will have to exist In New York, meanwhile, union only four battleships will be used on less than 2,000 calories per day tentative plan, details of which been suffering from a bilious com- in both the Atlantic and the and company representatives an- Were announced today by USFET. plaint and had fallen into the hands Pacific. for the next few months, accord- nounced they had agreed on a In announcing the regulations and of nature-cure doctors who allowed ing to a review based on informa- proposal for settlement of the three- This was revealed by James tion as of January and published the application forms to be used, his health to become worse. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, day strike in New York harbor today by the Emergency Economic USFET directed all major com- Investigations were being carried in his annual report to President following an all-night conference. mands and units in the Theater to on in Germany, the foreign min- Truman which was published in Committee for Europe. Details of the proposal were with- expedite handling of applications. ister said, to fix responsibility for Washington today. About 100 million persons may held pending the" outcome of a union receive even less than 1,500 ca- USFET authorized units to act on permitting Hess to carry out a 'The aircraft carrjer is today the referendum tomorrow. lories per day, the review showed. Following Government seizure of the official circular to be published series of secret practice flights. spearhead of the modern fleet just Saturday in the Stars and Stripes Despite Hitler's justification of as the battleship was 25 years ago," the tugboat industry in the harbor, and to reproduce locally by type- his deputy's motives, Ribbentrop he said. The Weather Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered the wartime brownout restored to the writing or mimeographing the of- reported, he "took a very severe In addition to the active fleet North and west: cloudy with rain ficial application forms to save attitude under the circumstances, there will be a big reserve fleet in north; South and east: cloudy city as a result of the fuel shortage. time demoted Hess immediately, and which will include five more air- with light rain in morning; Berlin: Strike legislation provisions passed USFET said that several future ordered the shooting of the then craft carriers and six battleships. cloudy with light rain; Bremen: by the House include: announcements affecting GIs who incarcerated flying ambassador if The rest of the Naval wartime cloudy with rain. (Details on 1—Legal liability of unions and (■Continued on Page 8) he returned to Germany." force will be placed in reserve. Page 4.) (Continued on Page 8) Hess Flew Proposal to Unseat Churchill, British Reveal NURNBERG, Feb. 7 (AP)—The bon with the Duke of Hamilton be- give him a parole as he had come was sent to Scotland to interview have to contain provision for re- . British government has officially fore deciding to fly to Britain to unarmed and of his own free will." him, Hess outlined the following ciprocal indemnification of British disclosed that Rudolf Hess flew to attempt negotiations in person with Humble Hess Hears Charge peace terms: and German nationals whose pro- Scotland in 1941 with proposals to the duke. "1—Germany should have a free perty had been expropriated as a unseat the Churchill Government The reports disclosed for the first NURNBERG, Feb.