WESTERN EUROPE EDITION One tear Ago Today Russians on outskirts of Posen. The Weather Today First Army takes St. Vith. Seven- PARIS: Cloudy, max. temp. 46 teenth Airborne spearheads Third THE STARS A S. FRANCE: Cloudy, showers—46 Army advance. Yanks 10 miles TRIPES DOVER: Cloudy, showers—it from Clark Field on Luzon. GERMANY: Cloudy, snow—34 Unofficial Newspapers of U.S. Forces* in the European Theater Vol. 2—No. 190 2Fr. Id. Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 Police Use Tear Gas in California Strike Outbreak U.S. to Take Over Plants Saturday In Meat Strike

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP).—The White House announ- ced today that the Department of Agriculture would seize America's strike-bound meat-packing houses on Saturday. The decision for Government operation of the struck plants followed closely the meeting of President Truman's fact-finding board with Chicago mea; packers yesterday. The President had said earlier UNO Meeting that he was reluctant to place the meat concerns under Government operation, and would do so only as a last resort and because the na- Off, Action on tion would be faced with prolonga- tion of a severe meat shortage. Atom Delayed " Vote to Continue Strike In New York, striking members LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP).—The of the United Packing House Work- .Violence broke out at Los Angeles subsidiary of General Motors Corp. last week, and police used tear gas meeting of the United Nations As- ers (CIO) voted against returning to quell it. In the action, shown above, several persons were reported seriously injured. sembly scheduled for today was to work even if the government postponed suddenly shortly before seized the plants, unless they were noon, upsetting plans of U.S. Secre- ordered to do so by officials of the tary of State Jatnes F. Byrnes for national union. The vote was taken Bruised Lichfield Prisoners Gouin Elected immediate creation of a commission after a ur.ion leader had declared to set up atomic-energy controls. that government seizure "will not The meeting was put off until to- be in our favor, but in favor of Hidden From 1G, Guard Says As President morrow morning. Americans said the packers." the delay was a technical one. Meanwhile, fearing a communica- BULLETIN Meanwhile, top men of UNO's tions tie-up between western and Felix Gouin, diminutive 61-year- five principal powers, meeting se- By Art White cretly in Byrnes' office, were report- Stars and Stripes Staff Writer old Socialist, was elected President Steel Firm Provides of the Fourth French Republic ed reliably to have failed again to LONDON, Jan. 23.—S/Sgt. James M. Jones, one of the by the French Constituent Assem- reach an agreement on, a candidate accused in the Lichfield trial, testified today that prison bly late last night by 497 out of for Secretary General of the new Comforts for Strikers officers at the Tenth Reinf. Depot guardhouse had had advance 555 votes. security organization notice of IG inspections, and that before one investigator had Gouin, who presided over the The office of Gladwyn Jebb, CHICAGO, Jan. 33 (UP).—The Assembly since October, succeeded UNO executive secretary, explain- Inland Steel Co. today sent 5,000 arrived, they had sent prisoners who bore marks of beatings "to ed the meeting had been canceled the coal dump." Gen. Charles De Gaulle, who paper cups to the picket line tendered his resignation Sunday. because of the necessity of getting around its plant so that striking Jones, one of three accused who the political and security com- De Gaulle received only three steel workers could be served hot volunteered to return to the stand votes in last night's balloting. mittee's report ready for the as- WBS Outlines to give further evidence under a sembly. coffee. grant of immunity from perjury The French Assembly adjourned Atom Plans Awaited The steel concern als1» furnish- charges, told the court that before yesterday afternoon after a per- The master plan to help safe- ed coke for stoves in the vicinity Demob Plans Lt. Col. Lawrence W. Varner had functory five-minute session with- guard the world against atom wars of the picket line so that mar- visited the guardhouse last year, out fixing a time for meeting was drafted by Britain; the U.S. chers could stop and get warm. Western Base Section plans to 1/Lt, Granville Cubage had phoned again, while party leaders con- and Canada, and was announced A room in a nearby building was have all EM with 54 or more points, Sgt. Judson H. Smith, the provost tinued negotiations for election of after the foreign ministers' con- rented by Inland and turned and possibly all 53-pointers, and sergeant, and told him: "Pick out a successor to Gen. Charles de ference in Moscow. over to the strikers as head- those with 36 months or more of all the men with marks of beatings Gaulle Speculation is centering around quarters. Friday will be payday service in the redeployment pipe- and send them to the coal dump." Felix Gouin, president of the As- recommendations the commission line by the end of February, WBS Jones said he had picked out might make. It could suggest that and checks will be issued as sembly, apparently still had the usual, an Inland spokesman said. 01 officials announced yesterday. about 19 men from his block who support of the three major parties all nations pledge never to use Officials explained that this did bore marks and sent them to the —Communist, Socialist and Popular atomic energy in war. It could also Bot necessarily mean that all the dump. Republican Movement (MRP) — propose that the "atom powers" eastern sections of the U.S., Mr. men in those categories would be The present trial is Smith's, and halt research on atomic weapons Truman created an emergency out of the ETO by that date. The for the position, but the MRP was Cubage is one of two former prison withholding formal approval of the (Continued on Page 8, Col. 2) board to investigate the dispute Schedule applies only to shipments officers awaiting trial. between two Chicago railroads and from the section to Category IV Socialist leader until an agreement Asked by Capt.. Earl J. Carroll, was reached with the other parties the Brotherhood of Railway Train- iinits, assistant prosecutor, to select the on a program to be followed by the Mexico Reported men. JThe schedule for WBS until the guards he regarded as having been Appointment of such a board of June is a follows: new coalition government. by the President usually delays end the toughest on prisoners at Lich- (The Associated Press reported Supporting Giral March—All GIs down to and field, Jones named "Bikel and automatically for 60 days any strike probably including 50 - pointers, Baker." that MRP leaders said the party action other than votes by the with the possibility some would Neither is among the accused. would support Gouin and would NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (Reuter).— unions.. Strike votes, according to Start into the pipeline by the Jones said he had seen Bikel knock participate in formation of a coali- Dr. Jose Giral, Prime Minister of H. P. Whitney, Brotherhood presi- middle of February. a prisoner down three times and tion government.) the Spanish Republican government dent, were being scheduled. April—Men with 45 points, and then pick him up, only to fell him The conditions the MRP are de- in exile, said today that Mexico's re- Steel Pinch is Felt men with 30 months of service as again with blows in the stomach manding were said to be: presentatives at the UNO assembly in London would ask for recogni- The nation was beginning to feel Of April 30. He added that he had seen "a Ser- 1—Provision for a two-chamber the effects of the mammoth three- May—42-pointers and up. geant Wilkins," also not among the Parliament in the Fourth Repub- tion of his government. This move, Giral said, will have day steel strike. Railroads, ship- June—40-pointers and up, and accused, beat a prisoner "for be- lic's constitution. builders and binding concerns in men with 21 months of service as tween 30 minutes and an hour." Z—Recognition of rights of the initial support of Guatemala, Panama and Venezuela. Britain, general were feeling the pinch, and of June 30. Jones told the court he had re- family and professions (intended big container factories were already turned to the stand to say that as a brake on any Communist at- he said, is "less decided than France and the U.S. about break- closing for lack of material. what he had done at Lichfield had tempts at an all-out nationaliza- (The United Press reported that Rapido Assault been done under orders. He declar- tion program.) ing diplomatic relations with ed that he had landed in Normandy 3— Agreement on freedom of Franco Spain." (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) Laid to Alexander on D plus One, and was posted to education, with no suppression of SVASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— Lichfield in December, 1944, after church schools, Orders for the 36th Div. Rapido treatment for -psycho-neurosis. 4— Guarantee o f sufficient Irate War Wives Collar Ike, River attack "did not originate According to his testimony, upon powers to the executive. with Gen. Mark Clark, but came arrival he was told by Cubage, The MRP also desired certain from Brit :h Gen. Sir Harold Alex- "You'll have to be strict here," and key cabinet positions, it was said. bander, his superior in the sector," by another guard, "Treat them Vincent Auriol, minister of State Demand Release for Husbands Rep. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) rough—that's the way they want it in De Gaulle's government, is here—everyone is behind you." said to day. widely accepted as successor to charged if all the married men Gouin as president of the Assembly. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— A score of irate servicemen's wives were released now." Army fathers waylaid Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower alone total 700,000, he added. Captured Ship Returns on his way to a Congressional hear- The protesting women declared Wife Poisons Returned Vet: ing yesterday and demanded a that they were a delegation re- After Serving Jap Navy speedup in the release of their presenting the Servicemen's Wives' Wanted to Nurse His Love Back husbands. and Children's Association. KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands, Confronted outside the office of It was charged also that the re- Jan. 23 (UP).—The USS Stewart, Rep. Andrew J. May (D.-Ky.), tention of married men in the an ancient four-stack destroyer, was armed forces was a contributing LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (UP),— from the Army Dec. 21, his wife chairman of the House Military factor to the breakup of countless Mrs. Virginia McElhiney told police put three drops of poison into a en route to San Pedro, Calif., today, Affairs Committee, the five-star once more under American colors marriages. "How do you think we today that she fed her husband cup of coffee she brought to his general invited the women into feel when we see pictures of frater- poison in his coffee "so I could bed. He didn't get sick, so three after serving a hitch in the Jap- May's office, where they fired a anese Navy. nization going on in Europe, the, tuu , • 'i'tn and coBvince him that days later she did it again. He barrage of questions and complaints Pacific and everywhere else?" one it was >>'in I loved and no one protested the coffee tasted bitter, The Stewart is the only ship in at him for more than half an hour. the history of the US. Navy to be woman demanded. else " But he died. but his wife told him it would help Eisenhower was told that fathers Mrs. Nancy Muller of Pittsburgh As she awaited arraignment to- his nerves. captured, used by the enemy, then Should be released at once and that recaptured and recommissioned. asked Eisenhower to consider this day on a murder charge, Mrs. While suffering from the poison- immediately afterward, childless proposed platform: McElhiney, 28, sobbed in her cell: ing, McElhiney's bed caught fire married men should be discharged s'l didn't mean to kill him." and he suffered burns which sent Belgian Official in Capital in order that "they might start the 1— Raise the draft age. Evaett McElhiney, also 28, died him to the hospital. His wife WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP).— families they have been prevented 2— Reinduct young men. Paul Kronacker, Belgian Minister from founding." 3 increase allotments to young Dec. 30 in- a veterans' hospital. He denied setting the blaze. He died servicemen to enable them to go bad suspected his wife was not true the next day, and an autopsy re- of Supplies, has arrived by plane Eisenhower listened to the women from New York to organize transi- patiently, and then told them: to school while overseas. to him while overseas, and police vealed arsenic in his blood. 4— Continue the draft. said she admitted there was ground "No soldier who came home ever tion of Belgian commercial activ- "There will be no armies of occupa- ities in the U.S. from government tion and we won't have anybody to 5— Lower Army physical stan- for his suspicions. had a lovelier funeral than the one dards. When McElhiney returned home I bought for him" the widow said. agencies to private interests. process those who should be dis- Pase 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Ian. 24, 194166 Co-operation Between Nations Is a Tough Job, But It's Working in Berlin, U.S. Officials Agree

Seeks Money Adjustment By Wes Gallagher On the contrary, Americans and Russians have been together Associated Press Staff Correspondent on problems as often as they have been apart. Sides change con- 1 am a GI family man approach, tinually, depending on questions discussed. tag discharge. I have a wife and BERLIN, Jan. 23.—Can Russia and the western powers success- fully work together on an international basis? There are two stalemated questions on which no common ground two children to support and must has been reached. First, the French move to block centralization ol be realistic about facing the chal- For five months, in what amounts to a political laboratory, the four powers have been working together in Berlin under the Potsdam German administration has affected almost all departments. lenge of civilian life again. I am Second, the western powers have failed to meet with the Russians 31 years old do not want to go to Agreement. To find an answer to the question, the Associated Press inter- on the question of rress and radio. The U.S.S.R. thus far has college or go into business for declined to participate in discussions of this subject myself. All 1 want is a chance to viewed every American representative on major directorates and equalize my finanoial loss with committees working under the Allied Control Council. Generally speaking, lower-level administrative committee repre- that of the average person not There were 18 on the list, ranging from Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay sentatives were more optimistic on future four-power negotiations directly engaged in the 'war The and Political Adviser Robert Murphy to technical men. than those on high political levels, although all were bullish on the GI Bill of Rights offers plenty. They included civilians and Army men. Some had come to subject. But it does not offer a thing to a Berlin feeling that the four powers never could work together. Part of this caution on highest levels is due to disappointment fellow in my circumstances. Although questioned independently, 17 of the 18 interviewed over the French position, which is felt to be blocking the entire agreed generally on the following conclusions: situation, and to a feeling of uncertainty as to whether the increased Our salaries have never caught confidence and lessening of suspicion on the part of Russians in up to the sharp increase in the Each committee started negotiations in an atmosphere of Berlin is reflected all the way back to Moscow. cost of living in the early war mutual suspicion and formality, with each country's representatives Clay summed up the feeling on progress thus far by saying: years. Wnen the draft came almost determined not to give an inch. "We have reached a situation where we can get mad and argue about all my savings were eaten up m This atmosphere lasted for some weeks, and progress was one point, reach a compromise, and not have it affect our personal the necessary adjustment of mov- almost nil. This period gave rise to many anti-Russian, anti-British and relations, nor any subsequent points we might take up." ing my wife and family back to her Many of the negotiators pointed out that, as agreements were folks. With dependents' allotments anti-everybody stories that are still current and creating erroneous reached, the "area of doubt and disagreement receded," making future they were able to get along, but . impressions. we will have no savings to start In the last three months this atmosphere has given way slowly negotiations easier. out on again. There are many of to one of mutual confidence and good will on the part of all "It is interesting to note that everyone assumed the Russians us in the same boat. delegates. would not try to understand our views," said Leo Werts, deputy We are not asking charity, merely Agreement has been reached on an "overwhelming majority" of director, manpower division. "It has worked out, however, that they our rights as proposed by the Vet- problems, particularly on lower committee levels. There is a gen- have made more attempts to understand our views than we have erans of Foreign Wars in their eral feeling now that there are no problems that cannot be solved made to understand theirs." Adjusted Pay Plan. We would by four-power negotiation. Brig. Gen. W. H. Draper Jr., director of the economic division, have a fighting chance if our pay No one country has had a monopoly on making concessions; said: "The very fact that Germany could be governed in a situation were .brought up to that of the the Russians are giving in as much as anyone else. unparalleled in history by a four-power body bespeaks itself for the folks who stayed home and now The Americans also agreed that there have been various coalitions future. I do not mean to say this is ideal machinery, 100 percent have sufficient savings to carry of powers despite early Russian suspicions that the three western efficient. It is not. Agreements are reached slowly, with difficulty, them over the reconversion period. powers would form a bloc. but they are reached, and that is what is important." The pertinent points of this plan include $3 per day for home ser- vice, maximum: $3,500; $4 per day A Kiss for Mary for overseas service, maximum $4,500; $500 additional for wounded Spain to Buy vets. Money would be paid in bonds under certain restrictions outlined in the bill. 5 U.S. Planes It is estimated that the total Time TODAY cost of such a plan would not WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP).— 1200-News . 1845-Magic Carpet amount to the cost of 10 more days The State Department disclosed 1205-Off the Record 1900-Musie of war We did our share to shorten today that it had • approved the J300-At lour Service 1930-Music Hall the war. This is one way the sale of five U.S. Army surplus J305-Sports Review 2000-Ignorance Pays transport planes to the Spanish 1315-Remember 2030-Dinah Shore government can recognize our ef- 1330-Asked for it 2100-Nuremberg forts.—GI Dad (and 46 other signa- Iberian Airline and that airport 1400-Love Songs 2115-Speak Low tures, Ed.) Co B, 655th Engr Topo construction equipment would be 1430-Information 2130-AFN Playhouse Bn. sold to a Spanish government pur- 1500-News 2200-Music we Love * # * - chasing agency. 1505-Beaucoup Music 2230-Words Music A spokesman for the State De- 1600-Symphony »315-Bandsland iVo Margin for Effort partment said that the airport 1700-Duffle Bag 2330-Merely Music 1800-News 2400-News This is a request for clarification: equipment would be used to im- l«15-Personal Album 0013-Midnight Paris Two days a week we are busy prove the international airport at 1830-Supper Club 0200-Sign Off preparing for and awaiting inspec- Madrid, and that no surplus mili- TOMORROW tions. tary supplies were involved in the 0600-News 1500-News Several times a week my armorer transaction. Total value of the 0615-Morning Report 1505-Beaucoup Music is required" to pull 24-hour guard in goods sold or approved was put at 0715--Hymns 1600-Symphony addition to having to do most of more than $300,000. 0730-Fred Waring 1700-Duffle Bag (The International News Service, ©800-News 1800-News the handiwork that should be done 0830-Repeat Perform. ]S15-Personal Allium. by our Kraufc labor. which estimated the value of the 0900-Modern Music 1830-Supper Club At least one day a week is spent goods sold at $2,500,000, reported 0930-Take Ten lS45-Magic Carpet on an orientation movie or some- it was emphasized in Washington 0940-Listening 1900-JubiIee that future Spanish requests for 1000-Barn Dance 1D30-Kate Smith thing of its kind. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. kisses his one-time stepmother, Mary Pickford, With that finally out of the way surplus articles must be approved 103*-Hcre's Horace 2000-Melody Hour individually.) when he arrived in Hollywood from the Pacific wars. 1045-Easy Does it 2U30-Duffy Tavern and a whole company asking, 1100-Lynn Murray 2100-Nuremberg "Where is my month-old dry-clean- 1115-Aeross the Board 2115-Music ing or six-month-old salvage?" U.S.-Sweden Line to Reopen Singapore Trials to Start ]130-At Ease 2130-AFN Playhouse 1145-Melody Roundup 2200-Shower of Stars and RSO beating their* gums be- LONDON, Jan. 23 (Reuter) .—The SINGAPORE, Jan. 23 (UP).—The cause I haven't been able to make 1200-News 2230-Harry James Swedish-American steamship line is first trials of 1,101 persons, includ- Prinz Eugen 2300-Words Music j 1205-Off the Record a request pickup, the motor pool expected to reopen trans-Atlantic ing several Japanese generals, as 1300-Help Wanted 2315-Spotlight Bands can't spare a jeep because they are i service in March with the Swedish war criminals were to start in the 1305-Sports Review 2330-MereIy Music preparing for an inspection or out liners Gripsholm and Drottning- Singapore Supreme Court today. Aids Tr oopship 1315-Remember 2400-News to a required movie. ! tiolm, which were used as repatria- Another tribunal, sitting at Kuala 1330-Asked for You 0015-Midnight Paris Three weeks elapse... I finally Lumpur, also planned to begin war 1400-Love Songs 0200-Sign Off 1 tion ships during the war, Stock- NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UP).—The 1430-Information get to my destination and everyone holm radio stated today. crimes hearings. is out because they had to attend former German cruiser Prinz Eugen Short Wave 6,089- and 3,565 Meg. is speeding to stand by the troop- Paris 61Q Kc. Normandy 1204 Kc. something or are on guard.—Per- carrying Liberty ship Frederick C. plexed Supply Sgt. 1st Bn. 310 Inf. Willie and Joe By Mauldin Hicks, which developed a crack UNRRA Ships Spring Seeds * amidships in heavy, seas 280 miles i WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— southeast of Halifax. Nine European countries and China Life-Lights The captain of the Hicks re-*f will share 50,000 tons of seed which, Here's a suggestion for the ported that she was not in need of UNRRA reported, is now being Army's safety program, and I assistance and was proceeding to shipped for spring planting. The guarantee it will save lives im- Boston "at good speed." The Prinz program covers Italy, Czechoslo- mediately. Eugen has been diverted from her vakia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Add to every army vehicle three course toward Boston as a routine Poland, Austria, Byelo-Russia and safety flares, so that when a sea precaution. the Ukraine. vehicle is disabled on the road, the flares may be put to ad- vantageous use: Place one flare 100 yards to the rear of the vehicle and a second the same distance in front. The third should be placed GI. BILLBOARD adjacent to it on the side nearest the center of the road. Let's make this a must! It's worth it.—S/Sgt. Jerome Vaiana Co. D 135 AAA (Gun) Bn. Paris Area Mets SCALA—"Fallen Angel," Dana Andrew* * * * MOVIES TODAY Alice Faye. MARIGNAN — "Dolly Sisters," Betty j ROYAL—"Col. Effingham's Raid.'' Grable, Jack Payne, continuous 1400-2300. Fraulein Was Demoiselle Metro Marbeuf. Officer Tours This is in reply to a "gripe" by OLYMPIA—2330 only. Same as Marl- ' FROM MAYFLOWER CLUB—Fontaine* T/3 R. A. Williams, Hq. Company, gnan, Metro Madeleine. bleau - Sundays, Thursdays 0900. Ver- ENSA PARIS—"Road to Utopia." Bob | sailles - Daily 1330. City Tour - Daily VI Corps, concerning the "Fraulein" Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, ' 1000, 1400. who displaced him from my jeep. continuous 1400-2300. Metro Marbeuf. I When the jeep arrived I was not STAGE SHOWS on hand, and arrived a few minutes ENSA MARIGNY—"Marigny Variety." later to find three soldiers waiting OLYMPIA—"Syncopated Journey," Va- in it, I had with me a young riety, 1430, 2000, 300 Civilian Tickets woman, an Allied French National Available per Show. This is not an official publication on proper orders from her own MISCELLANEOUS ol the U.S. Army station, who was also returning to PX Fountain SHOP—Adjacent to Main Western Europe Edition Esslingen, my home station. Since PX at Rue de Provence and Rue du Ha- vre. Open daily except Sunday 1300- Printed at the New York l£Srald the basic load of 1/4-ton vehicle is 2130. Malted milk, ice cream, sundaes, beer. Tribune Plant, 21 Rue de Bertv vsris, four passengers and a driver, I of- for the U.S armed lorces under aus- PX BARBER SHOPS—12 Rue de Seze E U fered to take two of the men with (opposite Rainbow Corner), weekdays ! pices of the Information and ^ £*T tion Division TSFET. Tel. ELYsees me but they declined because all 0800-2000. Sunday 0900-1700, with beauty three wished to return together. parlor, 146 Champs - Elysees. 0900-1900 40-58, 41-49. , ' i OT,d The men were asked, not ordered, Other editions: «unBstt weekdays only, with beauty parlor, 48 Altdorf, Germany. New York Office. to make room in the jeep, and the Avenue Kleber, 0900-1900 weekdays only, 205 E 42nd St. _,«ttpr impression that a German fraulein no beauty parlor. Entered as second-class matter, was taking their place was quite COLISEUM CLUB — Enlisted men and March 15. 1943. at the Post Office. wrong. I sincerely dislike frater- guests only. Metro Anvers. New York. N. Y.. under the act » nizing and certainly would not OPPICER-EM CLUB—Lunch and dinner March 8, 1878. cause any soldier to be embarras- by appointment RIC 64-41. Hotel Louvois, Vol. 2. No. I90 sed by a German.—W. J. Strehle, "Mom says I fotta stop seeing you, Butch, you got minorities Louvois Sq. Metro Bourse. COLUMBIA ARC CLUB—"Over Twenty- WOJG. or something." One," Irene Dunn, Charles Coburn, 2000.1 Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES U.S. NEWS Page 3

The Vet Hunts for a Job—and Becomes *a Xuisanee4

By toe Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau sional experience he gained in the Army isn't being re- to side with the House-bill faction. It is possible, however, that President Truman might induce him to vote for the WASHINGTON, Jan. 23._Sixty thousand veterans cognized by his former employer. It is this trend which makes an unheralded meeting of Senate measure. of World War II now are existing on the $20-a-week un- Senate and House conferees this week tremendously im- Mr. Truman personally favors full-employment legis- employment insurance in New York City alone. The portant, especially to men still in uniform. They'll decide lation. In his address to the nation last Jan. 3, Mr. Tru- number of veterans throughout the nation being sup- what kind of "full employment" bill is to be presented to man came out strongly for job planning. The Senate full-employment bill in its own wording government dole 0,118 into Congress for enactment. of thousands hundreds Two such measures have been passed, one by the Sen- is "an act to establish a national policy and program tor The palmy days for returning soldiers are about ate and one by the House. The Senate measure would assuring continuing full employment and full production.' over. One already hears veterans being referred to in establish machinery for planning for jobs. The House The House committee which produced that chamber's casual conversations as "a nuisance." The volume of measure, which is much weaker than the Senate's, would weaker version presented its product in a report which such comment, it is true, is still small, but it will directly create jobs for three men—"economic advisers" contained this significant passage: inevitably grow larger. for the President. As their title implies, the advisers "Full employment never has and never will be main Jobs, decent jobs, are hard to get. Even "en- would have only advisory authority. Practical powers tained under our system of free competitive enterprise lightened" corporations are sticking to the letter of the would not be created. except in wartime under huge deficits . . . The right to law in rehiring veterans. World War II soldiers are The kind of measure that will emerge from the con- work isn't synanymous with the rhjlit of freedom." getting their old jobs back if they want them, but noth- ference depends ironically on the stand taken by one Manasco, the man who holds the key vote in the all- ing better than their old jobs. man, Rep. Carter Manasco (D-Ala.). Under Congres- important conference committee, comes from a district This writer knows personally a veteran who entered sional rules, the Senate and House delegations of the with a population of 285,000. There were 23,000 voles conference committee each must vote as a unit on the cast in the 1944 primaries, and he was elected by a we Army four years ago from a copyboy's spot on a New margin of lets than 1,000 ballots. Yofk. newspaper. In the service, he worked on Army bill. In the Senate delegation, the genuine full-employment Whatever the outcome of the conference, veterans' job publications continuously. In his last year as a soldier legislation demonstrates to ex-servicemen the importance he edited a newspaper whose standards were as high as advocates have a majority. Five of the eight members favor the Senate bill. The House delegation has five of voting in district elections. The choice of one Alabama those of a commercial enterprise at home. district is affecting the welfare of the people of the entire His old paper will rehire him as a copyboy or not at members. Two favor the Senate measure. Two are un- alt. It would prefer he didn't come back. The profes- alterably opposed. Manasco, the fifth member, is inclined U.S. Serrefftr.es of Slate, War and Navy Named To Board to Run U.S. Intelligence Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (INS).—President Truman has set up a four-man national in- telligence authority to assemble and evaluate all information relating to national security and to organize a central intelligence group to function "outside the U.S. and its ^posoes- sions," it was announced today. Named to the board are the Secretaries of State, War and the Navy and a personal Presidential representative. The President will name soon a "central intelligence director" who is'to be responsible to the national Vet Suspected I Disability Pay intelligence authority and will sit as a non-voting member of the board, a White House spokesman In Degnan Case, Favors Officers said. The President's action ends the I WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 (UP).— controversy between the State and TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 23 (INS).— Based on disability records, the War Departments over the kind of' sidnev- L. Sherman, 22, Northwest- distinction between officers and en- peace-time intelligence service the l ... , listed men continues after both are U.S. should foster it was said. | en> University student and war in civvies, figures showed today. Under the new board, "all Fede- veteran, disclaimed today any know- On, June 30. 1947, an estimated ral and foreign intelligence activi- ledge of the Chicago kidnap-murder 1.711.348 enlisted veterans of World ties will be planned, developed and of Suzanne Degnan. War II will be drawing disability co-ordinated so as to assure the pensions averaging $42 a -month. most effective accomplishment of Sherman, the latest in a long On the same date. 37,328 officers the intelligence mission related to 1 line of suspects in the Degnan atro- retired for disability will average national security." , city, departed for Chicago accom- $212 a month. The central director will co- defectives parlv thw While enlisted men draw pensions ordinate the work of intelligence Pam«* hby detectives early this based on the degree of disability, agents of various government de-! morning. It is reported that Chi- ranging down from $115 for total partments. j cago police want to question him and permanent disability, disabled It was pointed out that the group : about a nandkerchief found near a officers get 75 percent of base pay. will not exercise police or internal . D. V. Walker, Disabled American cesspool in wnicn part of tne six Veterans commander, commented security functions Investigations year_old giri's ^dy was hidden. The inside~ .1-.the. TU.ST O . ...ilwilll Kbeo tTnaHmadeo "nnl"onlVy i £handkerchie ,. , • f,T was J marke, d, wit- ,h the when the figures were released: "It as provided by law and presidential name Sherman and a list of num- costs disabled enlisted men just as directives." bers, apparently an Army serial much to live as it costs a disabled The American Scene: number. officer." Senators to Gel Nasi List Of Party Members in U.S. Grief-Stricken Father Dies; WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— The Nazi party's card-index file of 80,000 members in this country and South America soon will be turn- Sons ttejailed After Funeral ed over to a committee headed by Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (D-W.VA.) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (UP).—Three brothers were back in jail The committee also plans to look .today after attending the funeral of their father, who, friends said, died into reported transfers of German Of a broken heart because his sons were in jail. personal assets to South America Chester and Jester Bait, 21-year-old twins, pleaded guilty to charges since VE-Day. Of burglary and are awaiting sentence, while the third brother, who pleaded innocent to the same charges, is awaiting trial. They are accused New Super Dive Bomber of a series of robberies of couples in a Los Angeles "Lovers' Lane." Announced by Navy Lifer Breaks Jail, Gets 99-Year Term HOUSTON. Tex., Jan. 23 (UP).—Red Mullins laughed today when a WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— judge gave him a 99-year sentence. Mullins, who has escaped more jails The Navy announced today the development of a new bomber capa- than most people have seen, already faced a lifetime term. ble of diving on targets at more than 500 miles an hour with two Dreaming Paratrooper Leaps from Window tons of bombs, rockets or torpedoes. PORT CHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 23 (INS).—Tom Thomas, 36, was won- The plane, known as the Mauler, dering today whether he should sleep wearing a parachute. was designed and developed by the Thomas, a discharged paratrooper, said that while dreaming his Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore. sergeant had given him the order to "jump" he leaped from his second- With a full load it has a level- story bedroom window and plunged 30 feet to the bottom of an airshaft, flight speed of 350 miles an hour but escaped uninjured. His landlady tossed him blankets to keep warm and a maximum range of 1,700 until the fire department came to the rescue. miles. The motor is a 3,000-horse- power Pratt and Whitney, known Cold Sober, Finds an Alligator on Doorstep as the Major. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23 (UP).—When Thomas Russell, president of a moving and storage concern, came to work today, cold sober, he found a washtub containing a four-foot alligator on his doorstep. As Russell School of Press Agentry walked toward the tub the 'gator snapped at him hungrily. Russell called the police. Now it's up to the Humane Society to Established by Army move—or store—the alligator. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 ((AP).— Wac Rescued After Bailing Out in Storm The Army established an informa- PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., Jan. 23 (UP).—WAC Lt. Bertis Roberts, 27, tion school today to train officers was recovering from exposure and a broken leg at Valley Forge General and enlisted men as specialists in Hospital here today after parachuting from a disabled Army training public relations and educational plane five miles south of Pittstown. She had crawled 30 yards in blinding duties. snow and fashioned a pup-tent from her parachute when she was found The school is at Carlisle Barracks, by the searching party. Pa. Half-Million Veterans Already on Jobless Pay VES records for October show how this worked. Only WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP) .—Veterans Administrator Lewis B. Hershey, who has been on the board from its 110,600 of 417,000 World War II veterans who asked for start. Omar N. Bradley, meeting with little success in what may In his five months in office as Veterans Administrator, jobs got them. Job hunters of all classes totaled 911,900, of whom 601,300 were placed. prove his toughest job—finding jobs for veterans—has Bradley has had his hands full reorganizing the Veterans' VES has 259 employees and spends $1,000,000 a year. Administration. It depends on 1,734 USES offices to put its policies into told the House Labor Committee that 500,000 former Bradley told the House committee that he was not yet servicemen already are drawing unemployment checks at effect. ready to make any recommendations about the placement In many sections, notably Florida and California, USES the rate of 5500,000,000 yearly. board. Previously, he had told Congress that finding jobs "The trouble is we don't have authority to enforce our offices are handling ten times the load they were set up for veterans was critically important. Satisfactory employ- for. Veterans get skimpy attention under those circum- policies," Bradley said. ment, he said, will wipe out most of the ex-servicemen's As chairman of the Veterans Placement Board, which stances. other worries. The size of Bradley's job is revealed by a Selective operates the Veterans Employment Service, Bradley is Orders of the placement board call for prior preference boss of the continuing job search ordered by Congress Service report based on interviews with 1,000,000 men at of veterans on all jobs handled by the U.S. Employment discharge. It showed that only one-third of ex-servicemen when it wrote the GI Bill of Rights. Service, through which the Veterans Employment Service had a claim on old jobs and intended to return to them. others on the placement board are Labor Secretary operates. Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Selective Service Director Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Reds Say Iran Bandits The Magna Carta Returns to England Greek Rebels Agree to Peace Receive Foreign Rifles After Shelling

LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP).—A Moscow broadcast today KALAMAI, Greece, Jan. 23 (APL charged tribesmen and bandits in southern Iran were being Two thousand rebel monarchists armed with rifles of foreign make. asked for' a truce and agreed to negotiate peace terms after govern- The broadcast quoted an Iranian paper as saying arms ment troops had subjected their were pouring into the area through smaller ports on the mountain stronghold to more than i Persian Gulf an hour's heavy shelling, it was The radio, quoting a Teheran learned today. paper,, said a "famous foreign (In Athens, Premier Themistocles agent" called Khans of the south- Sophoulis today ordered dissolution U.S. Interests err, Iran tribes to a conference at of the rebellious monarchist "X'' Shiraz to discuss distribution of organization which sought to seize arms "sent from inner Iran." control of southern Greece, the In Bases Safe, The same radio, citing a Tass International News Service re- dispatch from Teheran, reported ported. that 300 Arabs recently crossed the (This declaration coincided with jaySaves Acheson Irak border into Iran and looted reports that the insurrectionists had the town of Khoramshahr. Tass released some 180 persons held as WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (INS) said they were led by Sheikhs . hostages in an effort to stave off —Acting Secretary of State Dean Dzhaseb and Abdul Azis, both sons j an attack by government troops. Acheson told a news conference of Sheikh Khazal, who died while (Monarchists entrenched near yesterday that the United Nations being held by Iran's former Shah Kalamai were reported earlier to procedure for handling trusteeship Reza for leading an Arab separatist have killed at least eight of the control of bases fully protects U.S. rising in southern Iran. hostages. interests. Other reports said Sheikh Abdul (It was reported 21 were still Acheson was asked by newspaper occupied the palace at Feliah, held.) reporters if veto powers of the Big which was formerly occupied by The government commanders Five on the UNO Security Council his father, and proclaimed himself could block one power seeking in- "Lord of Khuzistan," the province One of the world's most precious documents, ^"^^^J* ^Xfu^Xfs ftf £2 dividual trusteeship. in which Khoramshahr and Feliah has been in safe-keepng in the U.S. since 19.59, has been reiurnea Prriisqarv with wnrri that Wn He replied that if a nation actual- to England. It is shown being prepared for th<, trip by members of ^tK^onto wtth Bri^b Cof. are located. the Library of Congress staff in Washington. ly in nossession of an area asked As Iranian forces moved toward M&x NoWe Qn pe&ce terms one-power trusteeship, its position the area, however, it was said, _ . left unaccompanied to confer with would not be harmed by denial of Sheikh Abdul withdrew across the the application. Shatt al Arab River to his place 26 Suspects Seized in Blasting If the base were regarded as in of exile in Basra. _ ^ -| ^ 1 Removal of British Troops a security area, Acheson said, the # nation's trusteeship would have to urged b EAM Delegation be negotiated with the Security Iran Parliament Delays Of Palestine Loast-Guard Base y Council. This procedure, he added, Selection of New Premier | MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (UP). —Im- would require unanimity of the Big Five and thus any single power TEHERAN, Jan. 23 (AP).—The JERUSALEM, Jan. 23 (AP).—Twenty-six suspects were , ttom^Greew 'was' urgeTat could veto the arrangement. Iranian Parliament, scheduled to held in Hadera today, following searches and interrogations a press conference today by mem- If. however, the U.S. were in pos- meet in secret session to select a in connection with the destruction of the Tower of Givat h«** * £ eek EAM Ration session of an area and the Security new Prime Minister, did not con- us a Council failed xo agree, the situa- vene yesterday due to lack of a Olga coast-guard station Monday night. i one delegate declared there were tion would remain as it was—the quorum, and deputies expressed the Altogether, 932 persons were questioned in this small j ^^^"ff^ gffffig s ^ U.S. would stay. opinion that there would be no de- Acheson also revealed that: cision before Saturday or Sunday Jewish town halfway between Haifa - continued presence of these troops 1— The U.S. was carrying on Supporters of Qavam-Es-Alteneh and Tel Aviv. not only has failed to establish talks with Russia regarding estimating their strength in par- In Jerusalem, nearly 1,000 were order but is aggravating conditions, Standard Oil Co. properties in liament at from 65 to 80, continued Arabs Reject he said. compaigning among minority groups interrogated and nine detained for Object of the EAM visit to Rus- Hungary. further questioning. 2— Internal transportation dif- and predicted his selection "because sia is to inform the Russian gov- ficulties in the U.S., Canada and he is the only man who can nego- (Large military operations in- Plea for Jews ernment of the situation in Greece Argentina were seriously threaten- tiate with Russia." volving several thousand troops and and to ask Russia to join with ing the delivery of wheat for extending for some 35 miles along JERUSALEM, Jan. 23 (AP) In Britain, the U.S. and France to hungry Europe. the main road between Haifa and an official reply to the Palestine help establish a democratic and 3— President Truman's message Jaffa appeared to be going on to- High Commissioner's request for representative government, dele- urging approval of a $4,400,000,000 Annamites' day, Reuter reported from Haifa. 1,500 Jewish immigrants during the gates said. loan to Britain would be sent to (All traffic was diverted inland interim period prior to the study Congress "soon " but probably not as light armored, cars and Bren-gun of the problem by the Anglo-Ameri- Greek Says Iran Question this week. Shots Miss GI carriers were posted at vantage can inquiry commission, the Arab points. Higher Committee of Palestine sub- Brought Reds' UNO Move (Along the road, cages had been mitted a statement which declared: ATHENS, Jan. 23 (AP).—Premier 3 Powers' Envoys SAIGON, Jan. 23 (AP). —An- built for the detention of suspects. "The Arab people are of the opinion Sophoulis last night described Rus- namites were said by French ar- It is believed that this operation that the question of Jewish immi- sia's demand for a UNO inquiry Quitting Moscow rivals reaching Saigon today from is part of the search in connection gration was definitely settled by into British operations in Greece Hanoi to have fired two shots at an with the explosion at the coast- the White Paper." as a "counterpoise to the Persian American corporal who sought to guard station.) The committee's statement said question." MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (AP).—The capture them after they had fatal- that Sir Alan Cunningham's request Sophoulis declared: "The proposal Soviet Union soon may be tempora- ly wounded the father of a U.S. for additional immigration was a ! has no connection with the present rily without the presence of the Army interpreter on a Hanoi street. concession to the aggressive de. situation but comes within the ambassadors of the others of the Andre Blanchet, correspondent Italy to Resume mands of Jews under the pressure field of general questions con- Big Five powers. for France Soir, said the corporal of terrorism. fronting the great powers." U,S. Ambassador W. Averell Har- was David M. Lobach, who escaped "What the Jews desire fn Pales- riman is scheduled to depart for uninjured. the U.S. tomorrow. The British Foreign Trade tine is not merely refuge and habi- The slain man was said to be tation, but to become a majority," Halifax Planning Ambassador, Sir Archibald John Stephan Arsoux, 65,, father of Mo- the report added. Kerr Clark Kerr is expected to ar- nica Arsoux, French interpreter for ROME, Jan. 23 (AP).—Italian rive in England today en route from the six-man U.S. Army China firms will be able to resume trade To Quit in May Berlin to Java as a special envoy. Theater Search Detachment No. 8. with Britain, the British Empire Army to Recruit Danes Neither is expected to return to The detachment is hunting missing and America early next month, WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP).-» Moscow in his previous capacity. American fliers. Enzio Storoni, Undersecretary for For Civilian Work British Ambassador the Earl of Gen. Georges Catroux, the French Meanwhile, French Army head- Foreign Trade, announced last Ambassador, is reported to be pre- quarters said 17 Japanese, includ- Halifax is planning to retire this paring for a trip to Paris in con- ing an officer, had been killed night. FRANKFURT, Jan. 23 (AP).— spring, probably in May, it was The Foreign Trade Ministry, USFET announced yesterday that learned here today. nection with the recent government fighting in Annamite ranks as the Storoni told a meeting of indus- changes. He may not return. The French drove south from the agreement had been reached with A reliable informant who asked Chinese Ambassador, Foo Peng captured Gulf of Siam port of trialists, was encouraging contracts the Danish Ministry of Labor to that his name be withheld, said under which the Italians pay with recruit and employ Danish citizens Halifax knew nothing about his suc- Sheeung, is in London at the UNO Hatien. labor. conference. as U.S. Army civilian employees. cessor beyond "what he reads in the Storoni quoted as an example Army representatives will open of- papers." The informant said Halifax the recent agreement under which fices at Copenhagen Feb. 1 to select planned to return to Yorkshire but Victory Ships to Sail UNO Will Form industrialists will send finished 600 qualified workers who are need- would probably keep his House of goods to South Africa and receive ed immediately. It was estimated Lords seat and take an active part For U.S. Half-Empty Drug Commission 85 percent payment in wool and 2,000 ultimately might be chosen. in matters involving foreign affairs. 15 percent in currency. The only control on resumed trade, he said, LE HAVRE, Jan. 23— When there LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP).—The would be that of currency. are insufficient troops in' staging obliteration of world traffic in Only one third of the imports Delta Base Bows Out Today, areas to fill ships bound for the narcotic drugs is planned through which the government planned U.S., Victory ships will carry as few the Social and Economic Council would be provided for under the as 600 redeployees, 16th Port of- of the UNO. UNRRA program. Of 536,000 tons ficials announced today. Up until A narcotic - drug commission, of gasoline needed only 100,000 After Redeploying 700,000 now the usual load has been ap- when formed, will call for figures were provided for by UNRRA: of proximately 1,500. on the production and sale of 11,000,000 tons of coal, only 5,000,- Two Victories, the Blue Island opium, cocaine, Indian hemp and By Joe Mackey , As the German Army was being 000; of 172,000 tons of cotton, only stars ana stripes stall Writer crushed, personnel and materiel and Rock Hill, with loads of 1,210 its sister products. 18,000, and of 57,000 tons of wool, and 1,167 respectively, sailed from Victor Hoo, one of the Chinese only 14,000. MARSEILLE, Jan. 2323.-—Delta I began to ship out of Marseille for Le Havre today. The Zanesville delegates and an authority on Base Section will cease to exist at the Pacific theater, and after the Victory, which returned to port narcotic-drug problems, said the midnight tomorrow, when it will Japanese collapse, Marseille became more than a week ago for repairs, commission would advise each be absorbed by Western Base Com- a redeployment center. will reload and sail tomorrow. Due country on the limits of its produc- Red Cross Says mand with headquarters in Paris, Marseille was hardly usable as a in port tomorrow are the Montclair tion of narcotics and would seek it was -announced today. port when the Americans moved in. and Waycross Victories. to control their sale. 'No' to Frauleins At the same time, it was revealed Germans had blocked the western that redeployment here would end entrance with seven oceangoing when the last of DBS 55-to-59- vessels piled together at a depth of By a Stars and Stripes Staff Writer pointers left the Calas staging area six fathoms. Other entrances and the main berth were obstructed by Czechs Want 'Lidice Butcher' FRANKFURT, Jan. 23.—The in the next day or so. DBS G3 "Eintritt Verboten" sign is still up said that more than 19,000 men almost 150 cargo and passenger had sailed from Marseille in Jan- ships. But American Engineers had at Red Cross clubs in Germany, 45 berths in operation after only To Live—But Only to Testify and there is no immediate prospect uary, while the present Calas po- pulation was less than 5,000. six weeks' work. that German frauleins will be able Another part of DBS here was PRAGUE, Jan. 23 (AP).—The torate," Rudolf Biernert and Profes- to crash the gate at GI recreational Included in the 19,000 was the the Calas staging area, which Czech Parliament probably will pass sor Jaroslav Kreyci. centers, according to William Ste- 700,000th man to he redeployed phens of Brooklyn, Red Cross com- covered ten square miles. A maxi- a special law giving Karl Hermann Also to be tried is Rudolf Beran, from this port. mum of 70,000 troops were process- Frank, "the Butcher of Lidice,'' who was Czechoslovakia's Premier missioner for Great Britain and Marseille has been used as a port' ed there at one time" time to testify against Czech between the Munich pact and Ger- Western Europe. by the U.S. since Sept. 1,1944, when j According to present plans, Calas Quislings if he is condemned to many's annexation of the country. "The Army told us that the de- elements of the Continental Base will be turned over in the near death, it was indicated today. The trials of Biernert, Kreyci and cision on whether to admit Ger- Section came in with the invading! future to the Office of the Foreign Frank would otherwise be put to Beran are expected to open before man civilians to Red Cross clubs Sixth Army Group. A month later, Liquidation Commissioner for di- death within three hours if con- the Czech National Court next as guests of uniformed personnel part of CBS became Delta Base sposal. victed by the Czech People's Court. month. was for the American Red Cross under Brig. Gen. John P. Ratay. j DBS also was the parent organiza- He may be wanted as a witness Frank is now in Pankrac Prison to make," Stephens said at a press The mission of DBS until the tion of the U.S. Riviera Recreation against two former Premiers in awaiting trial by the People's Court conference, today. "So far, the de- German surrender was the hand- Area and of Biarritz American the Nazi-organized puppet "protec- in February. cision has been against it." ling of Sixth Army Group supplies. University. Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5 Chinese Leaders Shake Hands Big 3 Agree Late Today? Show British Troops To Split Reich This to the Old Man Needed in Java, MONTREAL, Jan. 23 (UP).— An employee's tardiness in re- Fleet Equally porting for work foiled a bank- Premier Says robbery attempt here. LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP).—An Three men walked into a BATAVIA, Jan. 23 (AP).- Pre- Anglo-Russian-American communi- branch of the Banque Cana- mier Sutan Sjahrir said last night que announced today that "opera- dienrie Nationale before counters that if the Russians did not mind. ble surface" ships of the German had opened for business and at- Indonesians preferred that the Brit- ish remained on the if'pnd until fleet, together with 30 submarines, tempted to force the manager, the Japanese had been removed. would be divided equally among the who was alone, to open the vault. Big Three. "If the British withdrew now. ' He explained the vault had a The British government has of- the head of the Indonesian Nation- fered to transfer a number of her double combination which he alist Government declared, ''the share of German warships to the shared with accountant Louis Japs might refuse to lay down their French government, and discus- Tremblay, who had not yet ar- arms and might resist." sions are now going on, it was rived. Sjahrir hoped that the British would be sufficiently convinced that disclosed/ After trussing up the manager, Indonesian administrative ability The communique, which was the would-be bandits fled. Trem- made at a Berlin conference, would enable tho British to quit blay walked in soon afterwards, Java promptly once their assign- provided that German ships which ten minutes late for work. could not be made operable "with- ment was completed in a specified time" be destroyed. Attlee Expresses Hope The agreement covers 1,789 ships. (In London, Prime Minister Cle- Among them are two cruisers, 30 j ment R. Attlee told the House of destroyers and torpedo boats, 30 British Dissent ; Commons that the British aimed submarines, 48 depot ships and i only at "an amicable settlement" '"other units." including minesweep- 1 between the Dutch Government ers and harbor boats. On Germany's and Indonesian Nationalists in Besides ten U-boats apiece, each Java. nation gets the following: (Attlee said that the situation in The U.S.—The cruiser Prinz Eu- Steel Quota Java appeared to be "improved," gen, seven destroyers and torpedo adding that he hoped conversations boats, 12 depot ships and 560 other between Dr. H. J. van Mook, who units. BERLIN, Jan. 23.—The British is en route to Java with new pro- The Soviet Union—The cruiser delegation in the Allied Control posals for settlement from the Nuremberg, ten destroyers and tor- Council for Germany has dissented Dutch Government, and the Nation- pedo boats, 15 depot ships and 507 from what was thought to be an alists would be successful. other units. agreement on the quantity of steel (Referring to the Ukrainian pro- Britain—Thirteen destroyers and Germany will be allowed to produce. test to UNO demanding that the Leaders of the previously warring Chinese Communist and Central torpedo boats, 15 depot ships and U.S. political advisers in Berlin situation be cleared up. Attlee said Government factions are shown shaking hands at a Chungking meet- 612 other units. were to fly to London today to that any "fuller statement" would ing with Gen. George C. Marshall, U.S. Ambassador. They are Gen. The merchant fleet, a British seek a settlement with British gov- have to come from Foreign Sec- Chou En-lai (left), Communist, and Gen. Chang Chun, representative source said, will be divided later, ernment officials U.S. sources in retary Ernest Bevin.) of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. although Germans will be per- the German capital said. Sjahrir said that his Govern- mitted to retain fishing vessels to In a statement Jan. 11, the Con- ment had not appealed to the Unit- helo feed the nation. trol Council said Germany would ed Nations, holding such action in All of Germany's battleships were be allowed a steel production capa- reserve if other attempts to reach News Blackout in Red China city of 7,500,000 ingot tons a year, sunk during the war. a settlement failed. and would be actually permitted to Official Opinion oiashes France Satisfied by Offer produce 5,800,000 tons yearly. The British delegation now con- "If any nation is to bring up the Laid to ( hiang by Reporter Of Part of British Share tends that it agreed to these fig- subject of British presence it is LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP).—Al- ures with the understanding that appropriate Russia should do so," though France "is satisfied" with they applied to 1946 only, and were Sjahrir said, "since she is the major NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (AP).—A former correspondent British offers to divide England's not binding on future economy. power with the least direct interest for the Times of London and New York Times in China said share of the German fleet, the It is the first major disagree- in Indonesia and thus better able French allotment in no way "covers ment within the four-power coun- to present the case as a moral last night that "one of the most amazing stories in modern the losses we suffered in warships cil over German economy. All issue." journalism" was that Chiang Kai-shek "was able to black while fighting for the Allies," a agreements of the council must be Education Director Peter Iegstens, French spokesman said today. unanimous. however, said: "This shows how out news of 100,000,000 people in the so-called Communist dangerous it is when a power has area of China." ———— The Shape of Things in the U.S. Russia's glamor and authority but Harrison Forman, who spent five no responsible knowledge of the months m what he termed "the so- ¥7,1 J • t~? Jt real conditions. called Red China," told the Amer- £ laUdlU F TCeO. "It would be irresponsible for ican Geographical Society . that I the British to withdraw and utterly America was "meddling" in China. disastrous for the Indonesians," he He urged that American troops Provisionally added. "A British withdrawal be withdrawn and that the China would mean sacrificing Indonesians problem be turned over to the Uni- to Soviet propaganda. Some Dutch ted Nations Organization. Pierre-Etienne Flandin, former say they could do better without He said American soldiers wanted French Premier, received provision- the British, but it will not be so to leave and "honest Chinese" al liberty yesterday when charges for some weeks or months yet." wanted them to do so. He praised I of intelligence "with the""enemy"and Chinese Communists for their bat- endangering the security of the tie against the Japanese, and al- ■ u j. English Newspapers Assail £tate were no e prossec leged that Chiang kept news of | piandin has been under detention Soviet Complaints to UNO their efforts from the rest of the m a sanatorium to which he was LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP).—Several world. j committed last July. British morning newspapers were ~ _ . I He will appear later before a today sharply critical of Soviet com- jReCOVeFY Ol (^lllllcl court which will decide whe- plaints to the United Nations Or- ther to sentence him to national ganization that Britain was inter- ; indignity for having served briefly fering in Greece and Indonesia. In 3-5 Years Seen ! as Vichy Foreign Minister. The Laborite Daily Herald, how- I At the hearing, Flandin said he ever, while terming the charges SHANGHAI, Jan. 23 (Reuter).— accepted the Vichy post in Decem- "harshly phrased" and maintaining Chinese industrial and economic ber, 1940, in succession to Pierre that the British were in those coun- recovery from the war can be, Laval because Marshal Henri Phi- tries by consent of their govern- achieved in three to five years with j lippe Petain told him he had con- ments, welcomed the development the help of the Chinese National eluded a secret agreement with as tending to "clear the inter- Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- j Winston Churchill, then British national air." tration, "instead of 30 years, as in ! Prime Minister. the case of all previous wars in Chinese history," Dr. Tingfu Tsaing, ! director general of the CNRRA. Mandl No Collaborator, Press to Lose claimed here today. outlining the major tasks of his §ays Argentine Board organization, Tsaing said that aid-1 J » Army Tie-Up ing 40,000,000 war refugees flooding | back to their homes in recovered BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 23 (UP).— areas was the most important Argentine Enemy Property American correspondents in Tne problem facing his organization. Board has cleared Fritz Mandl, France are likely to be disaccredit- Austrian munitions magnate, of ed by the U.S. Army early next Axis connections, and by implica- month, probably Feb. 10, and bar- 'Kind' to PWs, Jap Says tion has given his armament works red from its personnel facilities. SINGAPORE, Jan. 23 (AP).—Ind- in Argentina a clean bill of health. Army public-relations officials said ian prisoners of war were punished The Mandl factories, turning out yesterday. "out of kindness," Sgt. Major To- Withdrawal of correspondents' meyama Mitsugin, witness for the planes and munitions, have a key credentials will mean loss of access prosecution, said at the second role in Argentina's armament pro- to post exchanges and quartermas- day's hearing at the war trial. gram. ter stores, Army billets, messes, dis- pensaries, gasoline stations and Army post offices. Six German Oil Kings Seized Food will be made available to correspondents through the Amer- ican Embassy, and a co-operative mess has been set up to cook it. For Grilling in War Crimes Paris" headquarters of other groups of civilians now granted HERFORD, Germany, Jan. 23 berg, director of Stahlwerke Army facilities, including UNRRA, (AP).—Six men, prominent in the Braunsweig of the Hermann Goering USO and Embassy employees, said German petroleum industry, were Werke Complex. they had heard no talk of losing arrested yesterday by British Field The arrests were made in a time- them imminently. Security Police and 15 others re- table swoop by Field Security Pol- Meanwhile, a ruling was received moved from office. ice between 1 and 5 AM, while the from the Army Judge Advocate's Those taken into custody to "oil kings" were asleep in their office at Frankfurt that corres- await investigation and interroga- homes. All came peacefully when pondents were not entitled to the tion as possible war criminals wyere suddenly awakened. reimbursement made to Army per- Dr. Emil Helfferich, former chair- Police said, as in the case of the sonnel for financial losses in France man of the Deutsch Amerikanische 80 leaders of heavy industry who at the time of the franc devalua- Petroleum Gesellschaft; Karl En- were rounded up in similar "zeuo- tion. gel, managing director of the hour" raids six weeks ago, that Deutsch Vacuum Oel A. G.; Karl these magnates would be interned Indian Troops on Strike Grosse, deputy chairman of the as persons dangerous to the oc- KARACHI, India, Jan. 23 (UP). Deutsche Petroleum A. G. and cupation. —More than 2,000 members of the director of the Beutsche Erdoel A. "All arrested were members ol Royal Indian Air Force went on a G.; Hans Brochhaus, director of the Nazi party," an officer said. hunger strike here today. They the Kontinental Oel ,A. G. and "In several instances, they were protested against slow demobiliza- other companies; Hans Hubrig, involved in the seizure and exploit- former director of the Deutsche ation of oil properties in occupier Evelyn Johnson, who attends a models' school in New York, stands tion, long duty hours and unsatis- countries." in front of a mirror, giving the curriculum a "once-over." factory housing conditions. Erdoel A. G., and Edmund Gellen- Page 6 SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 High, Wide and Handsome Aguirre, O'Rourke Jump NFL; Lambert Resigns Purdue Post

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 23 (AP).—Two more National Phils Purchase (AP).—Ward "Piggy" Lam- Football League stars, Joe bert resigned today as head Aguirre of the Washington basketball coach at Purdue j Redskins and Charley Tabor; Buying University after 28 years of I O'Rourke of the Chicago service during which his teams : Bears, are jumping to the Will Continue won or shared in 11 Big Ten All-America Conference, titles. i Aguirre, 230-pound place-kicking PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23 (AP).— Lambert will continue on the end. told a reporter that he "dis- Young Bob Carpenter, the man Purdue Faculty as a professor of ) likes the set-up" here and he wili with the money and the intention Physical Education and as head sign with Los Angeles, Chicago or to spend it, returned to his job as baseball coach. New York of the new league. Lambert made this statement: Dudley DeGroot, head coach of president of the Phila-Phillies and "I deeply regret giving up my long Los Angeles, said in New York promptly announced the purchase association with Purdue basketball, that O'Rourke will play for him of Jim Tabor, the hard-hitting third but after extended service in a next fall. DeGroot coached the baseman of the Boston Red Sox. strenuous game I am anxious to Redskins to the National League's Tabor thus became the fifth be relieved of the nervous strata^. Eastern Division championship standout infielder acquired bv the and mental punishment that ac-f last season but quit Washington National League's perennial tailend- companies a head coachship." last week. ers within the last several, weeks. Athletic Director Guy Mackey ! O'Rourke, former Boston College The others are first baseman Frank said Mel Taube, who has been star, played with the Bears in 1942 McCormick: second baseman Roy Lambert's assistant, will take over : before entering the armed forces, Hughes and shortstops Skeeter the coaching job for the remainder i National League sources here said Newsome and Joe O'Neill. of the season and will be assisted ! that veteran Sid Luckman stood Carpenter, who was discharged by Emmett Lowery, long associated j between O'Rourke and the first- from the Army last Saturday, said with Purdue coaching and only re- ! string quarterbacking position on the Phillies either will move up- cently back after serving with the the Bears. O'Rourke, they added, wards in the National League or Navy. had told the Bears he wanted to "I'll go crazy. I couldn't take a Lambert during his coaching be on a team with which he could season like last year; I don't see career developed teams that won play regularly. how Herb Pennock stood it. Tabor, 228 Big Ten games against a loss Water ski-ing is a thrilling sport but when the skier transfers from Aguirre and the Redskins appa- I'm confident, will help us advance." of 105, and in all games his teams a speed boat to an airplane it is downright hazardous. Bruce Parker, rently came to a mutual parting The buying spree hasn't ended by won 371 and lost 152. U.S. national water ski champion, makes the change off Miami's of the ways. Redskin officials said any means, Carpenter indicated. shores, then whips along at 70 miles an hour. l the giant Joe did not fit into the "We want to buy players," he said. team's plans for 1946. They said "That's plural. We need several Byron Nelson Tops j the Redskins intended to trade players. No one player would do ' Aguirre to some other National us a lot of good. We" have several Philly Press Poll Hal Newhouser Heads League club. spots to fill." Aguirre'sShiftWill Help PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23 (AP).— Cage Results Byron Nelson, top-ranking golfer, Washington's Housing was named the year's outstanding 'Sporting News' Nine player in a poll conducted by the CHICAGO, Jan 23 (AP).—Owner Louisville 61, Cincinnati 39 Baldwin Wallace 54, Kent State 37 Philadelphia Sporting^ Writers As- George Marshall of the Washington Notre Dame 69, Marquette 61 sociation. Redskins said he was "not at all Dartmouth 6:i, Boston College .33 Nelson's 80-point total was six ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 23 (UP).—The National League, surprised" at the decision of End Alabama 45, Georgia 27 more than the total compiled by paced by the Chicago Cubs with three players, placed seven Joe Aguirre to jump from his club Washington College 50, Delaware 38 Army's Ail-American Fullback "Doc" to the All-America loop. Carbondale 61, Girardeau Teachers 47 Blanchard. Hank Greenberg of the out of eleven players on the 1945 all-star baseball team se- I Quipped Marshall, who stopped South Carolina 66, Citadel 29 Sampson 49, Scranton 39 Detroit Tigers finished third and lected by Sporting News, national baseball weekly. ' in Chicago en route to the west Steve Van Buren of the. Philadelphia coast: "If Aguirre ever makes up California 37, St. Mary's 1* Southpaw Hal Newhouser, 25-game winner of the Detroit Redlands 40, Pomona 37 Eagles' professional football team his mind which city he is going Baylor 59, Dallas NAS 52 was fourth. Tigers, however, was the top to, I will be glad to congratulate vote-getter, being named on that community on relieving the 206 of 216 ballots cast by mem- housing shortage in Washington." Columbia Clippers and the Boss bers of the Baseball Writers As- Unbeaten Irish Owner George Halas of the Chi- cago Bears had no comment on the sociation of America. claim by Dudley DeGroot that First Baseman Phil Cavarretta of Charley O'Rourke, Bears' quarter- the Cubs was second high with Nip Marquette back, will play for Los Angeles. 201. Members of the 21st annual all- I SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 23 (APk star team include: Outfielders —Notre Dame's unbeaten basket- Tommy Holmes, Boston Braves; ball team won its 11th straight Swiv Surprises Andy Pafko, Chicago Cubs; Godwin victory by outlasting a Marquette Rosen, Brooklyn; first base, Cavar- quintet that lost three regulars on retta; second base, George Stirn- ■ personal fouls, 69-67. InHialealiRace weiss, New York Yankees; shortstop, | It was a battle of individual Marty Marion. St Louis Cardinals; snipers. Leo Klier and Vince Boryla NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (AP).— third base, George Kurowski, St. hit 22 and 21 points respectively Badly beaten in Hialeah's Inau- Louis Cardinals; catcher, Paul for the Irish while Kenneth Wiesner gural Handicap last week, Swiv, a Richards, Detrrtt: pitchers, New- and Howard Kallensberger tallied six-year-old bay owned by H. C. houser, Dave Ferriss, Boston Red 139 points between them for the Genter, came back with a smash- Sox, and Hank Borowy, Chicago Hilltoppers. ing triumph in the $4,000 Surfside Cubs. Notre Dame led 33 to 26 at half- purse at the Florida Park yester- Marion and Newhouser were the time, but Marquette began a rally day. only repeaters. Closest balloting after the intermission to knot the Winner of four straight races at centered around third base where count at 41-all. Klier then hit for New England tracks before her Kurowski nosed out Stan Hack of fige hook shots in seven minutes dismal opener here, Swiv made a the Cubs by two votes. and the Hilltoppers couldn't match show of the classy field in the the pace in the stretch. Grace C. event. Twosy was the Wiesner, Myers and Palesse, Mar- 85 cents to the $1.00 choice of the 33rd Division Eleven quette regulars, fouled out in the 16,249 fans who wagered $1,149;533 last six minutes. on the day's card, but she couldn't Trips Clark Field, 20-6 match the fast pace of the winner. Laws Retires from Pro Ball The second choice, Swiv, paid Miss Pat Johnson, Paris Columbia Red Cross Club and the only female $8.60 and was clocked in 1:11 for coach in the ETO, is mapping out the strategy to be used by the OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 23 (AP).— **GREEN BAY, Wis., Jan. 23 the six furlongs. Nowadays fin- The 33d Div. football team, paced (ANS).—Joe Laws, Green Bay ished third, a length and a half Clippers while they look on. * by the former Cornell star Kenny Packers' quarterback for the last behind Twosy. Stofer, defeated the Clark Field 12 years, announced his retirement eleven, Philippine champions, 20-6, from football today. Laws made before 10,000 shivering fans here 132 points and ranks fifth in the War Valor Triumphs Red Crass Hostess Versatile, yesterday. team's all-time scoring table. In San Greal Handicap 11 ARCADIA, Calif., Jan. 23 (AP). Serves L p Court of 'Sinkers —Mrs. Howard Hawks' War Valor1, | Sports in Review ridden by Johnny Craigmyle, led all the way and withstood the By Jack Donovan Thirteen consecutive triumphs stretch drive by Autocrat to score Stars and Stripes Stalf Writer early in the season, climaxed by A squad of National League baseball players returned yesterday i a neck victory in the $5,000 mile There's more to Red Cross work a 64-to-44 win over the highly-re- from an 18,000-mile tour of the Pacific areas where 22 exhibition and one eighth San Greal Handi- than serving coffee and doughnuts garded Orly Field Flyers is the games were played before 223,000 spectators . . The Philly Eagles have cap at Santa Anita Park. * or solving GI problems and Miss bright spot of the Columbia Clip- swapped Rocco Canale for Augie Lio of the Boston Yanks. . . Buddy War Valor carried 113 pounds Pat Johnson, Stockbridge, Mass., is pers' action. The undefeated Chanor Young still is undecided what school he'll attend. . . He visited the and returned $9.80, $4.80 and $2.90 conclusive proof of this versatility. AU-Stars were extended to the UCLA campus recently, which appears to be first choice. to his backers among the 29,500 For Pat, assigned to the Paris limit before winning by a 54-43 Cliff Melton, ex-Giant hurler, has signed with the San Francisco crowd, the largest week-day attend, Columbia Red Cross, not only is count. Seals . . . The National Figure Skating championship will be held at ance at the current meeting. the first, but the only coach of a Of the original players who an- Chicago, Feb. 28-March 1. . . Mickey Haefner, whose pitching record men's basketball team in the-Euro- swered the call, only eight remain. was 16-14 last season, is the first of the Washington hurling staff to Londonderry Navy Five pean Theater. And she's doing all The others have been redeployed. sign for 1946. . . Midwest duck hunters won't be disappointed this right. Twenty wins in 27 starts The starting five are composed year . . . Canadian droughts which caused- decreased duck popula- After More Opposition speaks for itself. of Jack Wimberly (The Citadel), tions aren't likely to recur this summer. A sports enthusiast from the days Andy Batina (Ohio State), Vernard she played basketball herself at a Kemp (Dowling High, Des Moines), Byron Nelson is considering an entry for the British Open, which BELFAST, Ireland, Jan. 23.—The Jim Nelson (St. Johns, Canton, begins July 1. . . Rudy Much, former University of Washington center U.S. Navy basketball team of Lon- Baltimore high school, Pat joined the coaching lines strictly by ac- O.) and Renee Chartier (Norwich, and veteran of 44 months' service in the Navy, has signed with the donderry, N. Ireland, which recent- Conn.). The remainder of the Chicago Bears. . . George McQuinn, traded by the St. Louis Browns ly^ defeated the Langford Lodge cident. Last October she tacked a call for basketball players on the squad includes: Berny Weiss (N. to the Philadelphia Athletics, inked his new contract today, wiping Army passers by 'a 46-27 score; is Y.U.), Frank Zurla (Rutgers), Jim out all doubts that he would retire. . . Steve Lach, formerly with the seeking more worlds to conquer. Columbia bulletin board and when cagers responded—but not a coach Sloric (VPI), Bob Boudwin (Penn), Chicago Cards and Harry Burrus, on the Bears' draft list, have signed Having difficulty lining up op- Manuel Kane (Broadwood A.C., iwith the All-America New York Yankees. ponents, the Londonderry cagers —she took over. Pat is proud of her boys, who Philadelphia), Stuart Vaughn, Vir- Jess Willard, who returned to the States recently during the have issued a call for all teams in- gle Calvert and Sam Selman. height of Atlantic storms, reported that not even Jack Dempsey in terested in meeting the Navy drib- play for the love of the game and his prime could equal the wrath of the tempests. . . Southpaw Al blers to phone the Welfare Dept., not to get out of extra duty, which Pat has nothing but encouraging Smith has been given his unconditional release by the Cleveland In- U.S. Naval Radio Station, London- they don't. One of her top prob- words for the Clippers. She is dians. . .Wisconsin's Badgers will fly to Berkeley for their grid game derry, N. Ireland. The mailing ad- lems is convincing COs to permit thrilled when they win, but down- with California next Sept. 30. . . Ted Atkisym is the leading jockey dress is Navy 220, FPO, New York, the quintet to travel out of the right proud they keep wanting to at Santa Anita, with 20 wins, 13 place and tl shows. N. Y. city. play. Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 7 Spain Tries 15 Stolen Penicillin Girl's Plea Rips White-Slave Ring Sold by Chinese in Charged With Java Black Mart LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (INS).— Police said that operations of a "Then we had an argument. He The girl who touched off a white- ring in which hundreds of young was furious He came out from BATAVIA, Jan. 23 (UP).—Peni- Red Activities slave investigation with a smuggled girls are believed ensnared were behind the bar and slapped me, cillin, reportedly stolen from medi- letter in which she said that she uncovered. beat me, kicked me on the floor cine chests brought in by British, ■ MADRID, Jan. 23 (AP).—The was being held captive in a swank The girl gave the letter to the and pushed me into a bedroom. American and Dutch ships, is now Spanish government announced two - swimming - pool dwelling at butler who, instead of following his "The last thing I remsmbeV was on sale in Chinese biack markets that 15 persons, charged with being Newhall, Cal., was identified today instructions to mail it. took the lying on a bed which was covered here. Communists, attacking the Palange as Jane Cooney, daughter of John envelope to the next-door home of with blood. Then I went uncon- According to conservative estim- district headquarters railway office Cooney, of Jersey City, N.J. Judge Arthur C. Miller, Newhall scious. ates, about 25 percent of the total and executing two fellow Com- The girl said she came to Holly- justice of the peace. "When I came to, I got a glimpse foreign cargo arriving is disappear- munists as traitors, were tried be- wood to seek a career in pictures This description of the events of my face in a mirror and scream- ing somewhere en route from for- fore a military court in Madrid yes- but took a lob as a hat-check girl which led to her asserted captivity ed." eign ports to Batavia docksides. terday. ! in a night-club when her movie was written by the girl: Deputies said that the operators Most coveted objects are medicines, The Spanish news agency said aspirations failed. "Lon Gamble contacted ms in of the alleged ring contacted young such . as penicillin, vitamins, sulfa that the prosecution asked the | Her smuggled letter, in which she Hollywood and took me to Newhall girls stranded in Hollywood without drugs, clothingj cosmetics and com- death penalty for 10 of the defen- ' said she had been drugged, beaten for a party. I had a few drinks, jobs at the end of the war. The fort parcels, which are appearing dants, including Custodio Garcia 1 and attacked, brought about a raid and he gave me a tahlet. What it girls would be enticed to the New- on many "atom markets" in Bata- Granda, whom the government de- on the Newhall house in which two was I don't know, but it made me hall house, attacked and later of- via. The name is derived from sky- scribed as "the Communist guerrilla men and a woman were arrested. a little groggy. I fered jobs as prostitutes. rocketing prices. chief." Granda came to Spain from Prance, where he had been chief of the Spanish Maquis. Li'l Abner Bv Courtesy United Features Barcelona Police Seise 'Communists' After Battle MADRID, Jan. 23 (Reuter). — Barcelona police authorities an- nounced today that the leader of a local "Communist clandestine or- ganization" had been killed in a recent raid on a tavern where 25 members of the group were meet- ing. Many shots were exchanged be- fore police rounded up the group, it was reported. The arrested men will be charged with murdering several persons in recent holdups in Barcelona, police said. Spanish Republican Chief Sees Hope in French Crisis NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (AP). — The leader of the Spanish Repub- By Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Syndicate, inc. lican Government in Exile, Jose Dick Tracy Bv Chester Gould Giral, said yesterday that the French crisis "tends to be favor- able to the cause of the Spanish Republic." Giral declared that the U.S. and France "seemed inclined toward the republican restoration in Spain." The republican leader blamed Great Britain for the Spanish problem, which he said "is a pro- duct of the British-inspired non- intervention." 31 Boy Mascots Reach America Terry and The Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate By Milton Caniff WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP).— Thirty-one boy stowaways. have been taken 'into custody by the "U.S. Immigration Service since the end of the European war, Attorney General Tom Clark announced to- day. Boys ranged in age from eight to , 16 and usually came aboard troop- ships, Clark said. "Mascots" of American fighting men overseas, the boys came from Italy, France, Britain, Eire, Czechoslovakia, Bel- gium, Russia, French West Africa, Albania, China and the Philippines. Five of the youngsters have been placed in American private homes, 12 are still detained and the rest have been sent back to their own countries. Clark said each case was tried by Immigration Service judges on its merits. Best known of the young waifs is Joseph Paremba, 12-year-old Polish lad who walked off a troopship wearing a cut-down GI uniform with ETO ribbon and sharp-1 shooter's medal. He is now in the home of one of the soldiers who \ befriended him after an escape from a German labor camp. Sofia Radio Cites New Bulgar Crisis

LONDON, Jan. 23 (Reuter).—1 . Urging calm and the avoidance of j "disturbances and bloodshed", Sofia | radio announced last night that: the recent three-power attempt to widen the Bulgarian government ] had broken down. Referring to the negotiations, the broadcast said: "The Father- land Front government brought every possible effort and goodwill to these negotiations, but opposi- . tion parties succeeded in wrecking them by agitation and lack of Home-Bound GIs Face Delay If Short Clothes MARSEILLE, Jan. 23.—Home- ward-bound soldiers with clothing shortages which seem to be the result of "wilful sale or negligence" will be held for investigation from now on, according to an order made public at Delta Base Section. Based on a circular from higher headquarters, the order said that some soldiers have left their home stations with complete clothing and equipment but have arrived at re- placement depots, assembly areas and staging areas with shortages. Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Jan. 24, 1946 Patterson Says Dummy Takes Worst Beating Jap War-Trial Civilians May In Movie ^Stars' Free-for-All Plans Revealed Fill AMG Jobs HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23 (UP) .—Details-of a poke at Colt, and then Diana Barrymore, Colt's By MacArthur pre dawn free-for-all at the home of John Decker, cousin and daughter of the late John Barrymore, BERLIN, Jan. 23 (Reuter).— artist friend of actor Errol Flynn, leaked out stepped into the fray. TOKYO, Jan. 23 (AP).—Gen. today. Movie stars involved called it "just a mis- "I got furious when I saw Sammy covered Douglas MacArthur has completed Secretary of War Robert P. Patter- with blood," Miss Barrymore said. "Tierney had son, on the last stage of a round- understanding," and, as usual, nobody wanted to prosecute, but there were several bloody noses pulled his shirt off and was standing there like the setup of international machi- the-world inspection flight, said last Tarzan. I went up to him and said, 'You dreary, nery for the trials of Hideki Tojo night that he hoped it would be and cut faces, as well as hurt feelings. Errol Flynn, in a sheriff's report, called it a dreadful actor, if you want to fight, hit meV his Pearl Harbor Cabinet and his possible soon to replace U.S. Mili- Then, Diana said, she slapped him eight times tary Grovernment personnel in Ger- "scuffle," but persons who saw it said it looked militarists, charged with "crimes more like a knock-down-and drag-out brawl. in retaliation for hitting her cousin. against peace and crimes against many with civilian personnel. Jack La Rue, movie villain, who stepped in If the other Allied powers dis- Decker's party for some of the biggest stars humanity," it was learned today. agree with this plan, a four-power in Hollywood began to get difficult when Sammy to stop the fight, was struck by Tierney and was The Allied Supreme Commander Colt, son of Ethel Barrymore, stumbled into knocked out when his head hit a car. La Rue announced a charter giving detail- conference probably will be required received a cut on the head, one on the nose and for a solution. Decker's back-room bar, smashed $100 worth of ed procedures for insuring a "fair liquor glasses and gave "Mona," a dressmaker's one on the lower lip. trial for the accused." (The United Press said Patterson Other witnesses said that there had been at expected "very shortly" a State dummy owned jointly by Flynn and Decker, who Outstanding points listed in- Department announcement clarify- are partners in an art gallery, a chipped face and least six fights going on at once. cluded: ing whether the War or State a broken arm. Flynn and his wife, Nora Eddington, were not 1— A tribunal majority would Department would assume final re- According to actress France's Robinson, Law-~ involved, apparently having left before the fight be sufficient to convict and im- rence Tierney, screen badman, "sulked in a corner became too rough. Other guests who left before sponsibility for administration of the ruckus began included Ida Lupino, Paulette pose the death sentence, subject the American zone.) all evening," and was "surly" to her. William to review by MacArthur. The U.S. government is trying to Kent, son of a night-club operator, reproached Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Merle Oberon, Jenni- 2— The five-to-nine-man tribunal cut to a minimum the number of Tierney, and the three started downstairs together. fer Jones, David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Alan "will not be bound by technical American armed forces in every "Outside," she said, "Kent jumped on Tierney Mowbray and Harpo Marx. rules of evidence," and even docu- and pinned him to the ground, but Anthony Decker reviewed the fracas philosophically, theater, said Patterson. He declined "There are fights around here" all the time," he ments without proof of signature to comment on the number of Quinn (another actor) pulled him off." may be accepted. Tierney then jumped up, she said, and began said. "Certainly there was drinking. What would fc?