USAFE WEATHER FORECAST NORTH ft WEST: Clear to partly One Year Ago Today cloudy, Mix, 72, Mln. 38: SOUTH & BAST: Clear to partlv tloudy, Max. 7*!. 15th Army is assigned to occupy Min. 59J BERLIN: Partly cloudy to 14,000 square miles of Germany. cloudy with showers, Max. «*» TRIPES Mtn, IS; BREMEN: Partly cloudy to Tokyo warned of approaching cloudy with showers, Max. S4, Min. Wi U.S. task force. VIENNA: Clear to partly cloudy, Max. Unofficial Newspaper of U.S. Armed C^S^F Force* in fee European Theater 75, Min. 51. .Volume 2, Number 139 20 Pfg., 2 tr, I 1 Monday, May 20, 1944 Franco Hits Rail Strike Postponed S Days; France for Interference Schedules Snarled for8Hours OVIEDO, Spain, May 19 "(AP)—Generalissimo Francisco WASHINGTON, May 19 (AP)—Pres- ponement until Thursday just 24 hours weary people jammed the station. Else- Franco, addressing a crowd in ident Truman today announced a five-day after the Government seized the railways where across the country, similar confusion the central square. of Oviedo, postponement in the threatening railroad in a bid to avert the strike, assured union reigned. Spanish mining capital, attacked strike, but before official word reached leaders that further progress toward wage The two labor disputes, involving the France today for bringing "Ma- the strikers many of the country's 337 agreements had been made in renewed railways and coal — both interdependent sonry and political parties to railways were thrown into confusion negotiations. because most trains use coal and prac- Spain in the last century," which lasted for hours. Trains were delayed here yesterday for tically all coal is moved by trains, posed and criticized France for the treat- Officials of the five railroad brother- up until eight hours, and not until this grave problems which must be solved ment accorded to Eepublican re- hoods, who issued the strike call, agreed morning were rail services nearly normal this week. fugees after the Spanish civil war. Failing in this the present truces—the Franco also denounced the Soviet on the five-day truce order at their again. Union, and praised his own regime's Cleveland headquarters. The chaos in New York" was the worst soft-coal-strike truce ends next Saturday economic and social efforts. Oviedo Mr. Truman, announcing the post- since the 1922 rail strike. Thousands of (Continued on Page 8) was formerly a Socialist and Com- munist stronghold. "Treated Like Cattle* Asserting, that Spanish Republicans, who fled to France after "Spain de- 76 Yanks Slaughtered feated anti-Spain," were sent to con- centration camps, Franco said they were "installed there like cattle, after which they were taken to work By Jap Submarine's like animals on farms." He admitted that many European countries had a higher standard of living than Spain, but argued that this was because these countries had Crew, WD Discloses colonies where workers "earn miserable wages for the benefit of [WASHINGTON, May 19 (UP)—Seventy-six American sea- Europeans." men were slaughtered in the Indian Ocean on July 2, 1944 by a crew of an enemy submarine, the War Department revealed MANY SPANISH OFFICIALS today. VISITED U.S., MOSCOW SAYS Five of the victims were mowed down by machine gun fire LONDON, May 19 (AP)—Radio as they struggled in the water after their vessel, the Jean Nicolet, Moscow said today that many Spanish Fascist officials had recently had been torpedoed while sail-^ visited the U. S. and other countries ing unescorted from San Pedro, to search for machinery for in- Calif., to Colombo, Ceylon. Sixty creasing uranium production in others were pitched overboard from Anders' Army Spain. the submarine deck after they had The broadcast said Tass news been forced to run a gauntlet of agency in New York named Gen- clubs, bayonets and swords. Eleven Expected to eralissimo Francisco Franco's under- others were left to drown. secretary of state, Tomas Suner, and 23 Survivors Picked Up Disband Soon the Spanish army's chief of staff, Twenty-three survivors were Gen. Aizpuru, as among the visitors. picked up by a British ship July 4 LONDON, May 19 (AP)—An after they had been left floundering authoritative British source said in the water when the submarine today that Gen. Wladyslaw Anders' Active-Duty Status dived to escape an Allied plane Polish army would be brought to overhead. Another was saved when Great Britain and disbanded in the Offered by Army he posed as a "diplomat" and was taken to Japan aboard the sub- immediate future. Neither the British war office in To 6,400 Officers The 'Crown Prince' marine. WASHINGTON, May 19 (AP)— The atrocity was disclosed by the London nor Anders' headquarters Looking very puzzled about the whole thing, little James Melli Jr. The Army has offered active War Crimes Branch, which described in Rome said they knew anything gapes at the camera. He reigned as "Crown Prince" of the University the incident as "without parallel in about the proposed move, but the military duty to 6,400 National of Wisconsin's senior ball in Madison. His father, James Melli, Sr., is the annals of sea warfare for sheer informant said the decision had been Guard and Reserve officers, who president of the senior class. brutality, abuse, and murder." made "on higher levels" as a con- volunteered to serve at home or The seaman who had posed as a cession to the Soviet Union during abroad, at least until mid-1947. diplomat was freed from a Japanese the Paris foreign ministers' con- The quotas include 4,400 Air prison camp when American forces ference. Forces and Service Forces officers, Nurnberg Slayings Held occupied Japan. From him, in- Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin is in addition to 2,000 who will be vestigators obtained information to expected to make a statement on the accepted for • the Ground Forces. identify the submarine and get a matter to the House of Commons The Air Forces quota, however, list of the submarine crew. They will be brought to trial soon. Wednesday. There are 100,000 Poles consists of only 150 non-pilot tech- Accident, Probe Goes On serving under Anders in Italy. nical specialists. ERLANGEN, May 19 (UP)—Although continuing to withhold some They will be brought here "as of the vital facts in the May 10 shooting of two soldiers assigned to soon as shipping is available" and The Stars and Stripes, CID agents said today they are "perfectly satis- Former GI Ordered probably will be stationed in Scot- Sailor Pleads Guilty fied" the shooting was accidental. Deported to Reich land until they are disbanded, the "Regardless of what else he was shooting at, he was not aiming at British informant said. Of Sabotaging Ship the jeep in which the men were killed," the agents said of Pfc James INDIANAPOLIS, May 19 (AP)— $C. DeVone, Sampson County (N. C.) Frederick Emil Bauer, who admitted HONOLULU, May 19 (UP)—Amer- he attended a German espionage Two Killed as Navy Plane ican sailors aboard the former Plane Hits Joe Stork; the fatal shot. school, but denied he was a spy in Japanese cruiser Sakawa lived in Hits N. Y. Roller Coaster Jim Stork Carries On "It was a million-to-one accident the American Army, was told in NEW YORK, May 19 (UPH-Two constant fear of mechanical failure that one shot would kill two inno- Federal Court he had forfeited his with fires often breaking out in The Stars and Stripes Bureau Navy officers were killed when cent persons. We are perfectly U. S. citizenship and would be de- their training plane flying through the boiler room, Robert J. Eby, LONDON, May 19—The Sunday satisfied with the truth of DeVone's ported to Germ_*iy. low-hanging mist and fog, crashed fireman second class, of Lansdowne, Chronicle reported today that confession," the agents said. Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley into the side of a roller coaster at Pa., told a 14th Naval District during a flight from Durban, South They added, however, that there ruled the dapper one-time patent the Rockaway Beach amusement court martial here today. Africa, to London, an air liner were "several angles" relating to attorney of Washington gave up his park. Damage to the park was One of five fireman accused of piloted by Capt. J. A. Hankins the case that were still being in- American citizenship when he estimated at $75,000. collided with a stork just outside vestigated and they were unwilling sabotaging the ship while she was Nairobi. joined the Nazi army during a visit to reveal for the moment the target to his native Germany. en route from Japan to Bikini Atoll When he landed, Hankins found of DeVone's three shots, one of Lebanese Cabinet Quits to be used as an atomic bomb Bauer was imprisoned several six feet of fabric missing from which passed through T/4 Paul R. months ago while on duty as an BEIRUT, May 19 (AP)—Lebanese target, Eby pleaded guilty to the the fuselage and a message from Skelton, of McKinney, Texas, and Army photographer at Fort Benja- Premier Sami Solh has submitted charges and threw himself on the Great Britain saying his wife was lodged in the body of S/Sgt Wil- min Harrison. After an investigation his cabinet's resignation following mercy of the court. about to have a baby. liam R. Timmons, of West Haven, by Army officers, he received a the withdrawal of two of his Conn. discharge without honor and was ministers and the calling of a The agents revealed they had then taken into custody by immi- general strike by trade unions for also interrogated several German tomorrow.