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ft Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Sunday, May 26,1946 Japs Aimed 9,000 Balloon Bombs The Army

At U.S. — Sfill Waiting Reports The Official Bulletin column is published in conformity with Letter Marches On AG 000.76 GAP-AGO Hq. USFET, 22 Sept. 1945, Subject: Official Bul- letin Column in The Stars and Stripes, to assure rapid and complete World War II History dissemination of official announcements to all USFET personnel. To Fill 120 Volumes Dependents School System s administrators and supervisors with \A/ASHINGTON, May 25 1. In the fall of 1946, kindergartens, YY elementary schools and high schools will advanced degrees and broad school (AP)—One of history's open for children of military and civil- CX big history-writing jobs, a ian personnel within the occupied zone. b ^Experienced teaching specialists in the fields of industrial arts, household chronicle of the Army's part Where school enrollment justifies it, in World War II, will be ready each military community will have a arts, commercial arts, physical science civilian-staffed school varying in size and physical education. / ___... in about five years. and type from a one-teacher school c. outstanding teachers with recent At work on the final history with all elementary grades to a graded experience in rural and city primary, are possibly 500 officers, en- elementary and secondary school school extending from kindergarten listed men and civilian histo- through grade twelve. The majority of education. , _ ,., communities will probably have an in- 4 In order to ascertain the eligibility rians, culling reports, inter- sufficient number of pupils to justify and availability of military and civilian views, photographs and draw- separate high school plants; hence, it personnel for employment upon expira- tion of present service commitments, ings which in many instances will be necessary to establish a few originated under enemy fire. centrally-located schools and furnish the accompanying questionnaire form transportation for students from neigh- is printed for dissemination throughout The result is expected to be boring towns or accept them on a the theater. Interested and qualified a monumental narrative of boarding school basis. individuals are urged to complete the probably 120 volumes, the 2. General Order No. 132, Headquarters form and forward it direct to Depen- USFET, 4 May, established the Depen- dents School Service, Headquarters most comprehensive chronicle dents Schools Service as a headquarters USFET APO 757. of any war and the first for .staff division charged with responsi- 5. Community commanders were re- any conflict in which Amer- bility for planning, establishing, and quested in letter cited in Par 2 above, ican troops have been engaged. supervising the new school system. AG to reproduce comparable questionnaire letter 352 GAP-AGO, Headquarters forms and make them available to From the start of the war, USFET, subject: "Schools for Minor military and civilian personnel. The the Army was organized to Dependents in the European Theater," form printed herein supersedes that make a complete record of the OKYO, May 25 (INS)—Japanese know whether any more reached originally distributed, but the earlier dated 4 May 1946, outlined the func- conflict. Historians were as- military men still are bewildered America, and we are not going to tions of the Dependents Schools Service, form may be utilized until the supply T plans for the school system, and is exhausted and the new form re- signed to each theater head- by a number of war episodes, but tell them," he added. requested assistance from community produced by community commanders. quarters and to each field one of the greatest mysteries from The whole idea of the balloon commanders in -surveying facilities and A form may either be secured from army, air force and technical their standpoint is the lack of effec- bomb was frenzied retaliation. The personnel resources. community commanders or typed by service. In later stages, teams tiveness of their -or-miss revenge 3. The Dependents Schools Service the individual submitting it. It is Doolittle raid made the Japs so mad emphasized that this form is not an of historians went into action weapon, the "balloon bomb." has urgent need of the following they wanted to hit back at the Amer- categories of personnel to assist in application for employment, but an in- with combat troops. American authorities know mors ican homeland. Ordinary weapons planning the program now and to as- formation questionnaire to assist the If five years seems long, Dependents Schools Service in evaluat- about the almost-childish missile were useless to them, so, frustrated, sume school positions in the fall: note that the official history a. Elementary and secondary school ing personnel resources. than do the Japanese. At least they they turned to the fantastic idea of of World War I is not ready know where and approximately how a wind-carried weapon. SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYMENT even yet. It is a compilation IN DEPENDENTS SCHOOLS many of the wind-transported mis- Nothing happened. The Japs of battle orders and other siles landed in the United States. (to be forwarded when completed to Headquarters, United States Forces, European watched the balloons soar and dis- Theater (Attention: Dependents Schools Service), APO 757). significant documents, rather .The Japanese still do not. appear, and then traced their course 1. Name: . than a narrative, and is now Date Counter Question by radio. The radio stopped and the Surname First Name Middle Initial expected to be completed in 2. Address: a year or so and to require Japs wondered. They are still Telephone No.. And no one is going to tell them. Temporary, until what date . some 28 volumes altogether. American intelligence officers wondering. 3. Eligibility requirements for employment are as follows: a. At least two years of teaching or comparable school experience. The 128-volume collection worked five months piecing together More balloons were released and still nothing happened, except the b. Graduation from four year accredited institution of higher learning. Applicants of records of the Civil War the details about the bombs. They for administrative and supervisory positions should have adequate graduate did not appear until 1902. had to do it through interminable single American report of the tragedy in Oregon. The Japs moni- c. Current teaching certificate in the grades or subjects you desire to teach or interviews, for before the occupation tored every American broadcast and appropriate certificate for administrative and supervisory positions. began, the Japanese destroyed all the 4. Present position: _____ Gl Cleaning Harmful, read all the magazines and news- finished bombs on hand, all records papers they could find, searching 5. a. Category status and length of service (for officers). Scientist Reports and all manufacturing equipment. b. ASR and length of service (for enlisted men and women). for clues. c. Termination date of present contract or service commitment. And everywhere they went, the T\ ETROIT, May 25 (AP)— Altogether, the Japs sent about 6. Check One: Date of Birth Marital Status Japs tried to turn the interview The time-honored Army 9,000 balloons into the air, hoping . Male Month Day Year into a cross examination by asking: custom of cleaning barracks the prevailing eastward winds would Female "How many bombs landed in Amer- once a week may have done carry destruction to America. 7. Position desired: ica?" or, "How far inland did the A. Indicate order of preference by placing appropriate numbers after position more harm than good, accord- listed. ing to a report received by bombs land?" or "How much damage Reaches Peak Administrative or suervisory position at Headquarters staff level did the bombs do?" School superintendant . the American Society of Bac- It was a terrible strain waiting teriologists. The Jap's just don't know. Col. for 9,000 reports and getting just one. High school and/or grade school principal W. S. Wood, chief of the War De- Elementary school teacher Maj. Clayton G. Moosli of In addition, it cost the Japs 10,000 Junior High school teacher - ' • the University of Chicago, partment intelligence unit, which yen to make each balloon bomb, B. (l) List in order of preference the elementary grades (kindergarten through 8) coordinated the work of 46 intelli- that you dasire to teach. Underline those in which you have had experience. said the cleanup of barracks, whether the balloon was of silk or (2) Are you prepared to teach the following subjects in tie grades for which especially making beds, was gence outfits in Japan, said the bal- paper. The component parts were you apply? loon bomb damage was the best kept shown to raise sharply the made in scattered places and the Music Art Physical Education bacterial content of air by secret of the war—and it's driving finished product assembled in a C. List in order of preference the subjects you desire to teach and underline those the Japs crazy. in which you have had experience. stirring up germ-laden dust central factory. Junior High School within the room. Senior High School , Know of One The Japs stepped up their balloon He said the Army had ex- 8. List the activities such as library work, counseling, dramatics, vocal and Instru- "They had radio sound devices on barrage in late 1944 and reached mental music, journalism, club work, physical education etc., that you can conduct. perimented with oil, which the bombs, but they could only hear their maximum effort in early 1945. Underline those In which you have had experience. applied to floors and bed Two factors forced them to drop NAME LIST clothing, catches barracks dust the sound waves part way across 9. Teaching certificates held: the Pacific. After that the bomb was the whole idea. One was an increas- and thus lowers the bacterial lost to them and they never did know ing shortage of material. Description including type, subject or grade, and state Date of Issue Term content of the air. what happened," Wood said. But the second, and very impor- An emulsifying agent added Description including type, subject or grade, and state Date of Issue Term to the mineral oil breaks down "They know of one bomb that tant factor, was that American 10. A. List any rural teaching experience: landed in America, the one that got newspapers and radios, working the oil so it may be added to as far as Oregon and killed a family under voluntary censorship, kept Where Grades Dates rinse water when bed clothing that was on a picnic. But they don't quiet. is washed. Where Grades Dates Non-irritaing, odorless and 11. Place check after the type school in which you would be willing to teach: indistinguishable, the oil One Room Two Rooms Three Rooms Four or more Rooms application may be renewed 12. Education: whenever bedding is washed OVER HERE By Oarke Name and Location of Dates Attended Title and Date College or University From To of Degree Major Minor or cleaned.

Troop Vaccinations ■ i Semester Aid Influenza Fight 13. List four chief undergrad\ hours List four chief grad subjects Semester subjects credit PHILADELPHIA, May 25 f (AP)—Vaccination of the entire U. S. Army with a well- developed vaccine against the 14. Credentials on file »t! commonest form of influenza has indicated that protected 15. LIST ALL TEACHING EXPERIENCE persons have a nine-to-one Place From 19 to 19 chance of escaping the dis- City State Month Yr Month Yr ease. Exact title of position This was reported to the Detailed description of duties and responsibilities American College of Physi- cians by two researchers for Names, titles, and addresses of Immediate supervisor, principal, superintendant or board member: _____ . the Army's commission on in- fluenza. Reason for Leaving At the same time, the re- If more space Is required, use a sheet of paper size sxioy, inches. Write yoUr porting scientists—Dr. Thomas name on each sheet. Francis Jr. and Dr. Jonas E. Salk, both of the University of Michigan—said single in- PTs Ease Home Shortage War to Wheat jections of the vaccine -have MANILA, May 25 (INS)—U. S. BEARDSTOWN, 111., May 25 (UP) "a significant effect for as Navy PT boats are helping to solve —About 1,500 acres of land which long as a year at least." Manila's critical housing shortage. constituted the wartime site of They said reactions to in- fluenza vaccine correspond in The Navy has been holding 150 Camp Ellis will be leased and planted to wheat. severity and character to re- vessels at Samar Island and plans actions following inoculation to scuttle them almost were approv- with typhoid vaccine. They ed when someone thought of ad- declared that the symptoms vertising the ships as dwelling usually last no longer than places. THESfAR^#RIP£S one day and that these consist of swelling, redness and ten- The vessels—which originally cost derness at the site of Inocula- $200,000 each—were advertised for tion. sale at $1,000. Immediately, house- Vol. 2, No. 115, Sunday, May 26 1946 The European Edition la published The scientists said the Sur- hungry hordes flocked to Navy at Altdorf. heat Numbers, Bavaria, geon General had ordered the headquarters clutching their check for the U S. armed forces under the vaccination of the entire Army books, and in a period of two days, auspices of the Information and to begin in the fall of last Education Service, USFET, Tel : the entire lot was sold. NurnberB Civilian Switch. AltdoH 160 year, and they declared the In the advertisement, the ships Corresrnndei.ee to this edition should development of a widespread were described as having 100 square be addressed to APO 124. V S Army epidemic of influenza in New York Office. 308 ffist 42d St. November and December meters of floor space, complete with This ts not an official publication of a stainless-steel kitchen, electric the O S. Army Entered as second "provided the extraordinary stove, electric refrigerators, electric class matter MBrch tB. 1943, at the opportunity for observing the postoffice. New York. N V., under vaccine's effect q» a large fans, showers and sanitary facilities ♦he Act nf March 3. 1879. 'Oh, no, she's not mine—I'm just holding her for a friend." and slepping space for nine people. scale." Page) Sunday, May 26, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES Father to Sue Vet Marksman In "Bride Ship' Admits Texas Infant's Death Slaying Series NEW YORK, May 25 (INS)—The LOS ANGELES, May 25 (INS)—J£ father of one of the five babies who youth who identified himself as died as the result of an epidemic Ralph B. Baumann, 21, discharged aboard the "bride ship" Zebulon Vance prepared today to start a Army Air Forces gunner, has been negligence action in court. arrested here in the six mysterious John J. Kotcis, of Brighton, Mass., slayings which have terrorized the after burying his 3-month-old Texarkana (Tex.) region. daughter, announced his intention The Los Angeles Examiner said to sue as his Belgian war bride was Baumann appeared in the editorial placed under a doctor's care. office of the newspaper soon after An Army medical board of in- midnight and said to Richard Hat- quiry diagnosed four of the deaths chock, a reporter: as resulting from summer diarrhea, "I want to sell you some murder but declined to comment on charges that unsanitary conditions aboard information. I know who and where the ship had caused the epidemic. the Texarkana killer is. Give me $5 and let me have an hour's start and 8 Babies Still 111 I shall put the information in a- The Vance arrived here Monday sealed envelope." after a 13-day voyage from Le Havre bearing French, Belgian and Dutch Goes to Shooting Gallery wives and children of American T Hatchock took him to the city soldiers. editor and then went to a restaurant Twenty infants and two mothers Just a Few of Thousands of Idle Army Vehicles from which he could watch the ent- aboard the Vance became ill. Three rance to the newspaper building. babies died on the vessel, one in a These sedans are among thousands of Army I Depot. The Atlanta Journal said recently that more Soon afterward, Baumann left the New York hospital and one later in vehicles lying idle at the Atlanta (Ga.) Ordnance I than 25,000 vehicles were stored at the depot, newspaper and went to a nearby Paris, 111. Eight children remained shooting gallery. in a critical condition. Hatchock telephoned his' office and A sixth baby, one of two taken ill was told that Baumann's note read: aboard another "bride ship," the Ukes Navy Sent to Hawaii Senators Study "On a certain day in March I was Brazil, which docked here Sunday, in a Texarkana theater watching died in a Pittsburgh hospital. the Pathe news of the war. When Variety of Bills a party of persons acted wise and Giving Senators the Blues said it was 'overacting,' it kinda got CHILDREN IN 'GOOD HEALTH' me. I followed them home/1 killed WHEN THE VANCE SAILED WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)—Wartime shipment of ukuleles to On Service Pay them within a period of three days." PARIS, May 25 (UP)—Children Honolulu—"like sending coal to Newcastle," said Sen. James Mead (D.-N. Y.) WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— aboard the Zebulon Vance received 23 Straight BuIIseyes —twanged a sour note at a Senate investigating committee hearing. Sen. Chan Gurney (R.-S. D.) said a two physical inspections before the Hatchock called the police, who Shipment of hundreds of musical instruments was disclosed in the wide variety of pay-increase pro- ship sailed from Le Havre, and all arrested Baumann while he still held committee's inquiries into alleged "irregularities" involving movement of posals for the armed services would were found to be in good health, $500,000 worth of supplies at Naval expense. a rifle he had been firing in the Western Base Section public rela- come before the Senate when it takes shooting gallery. The newsman said Rear Adm. Austin K. Doyle, from the Navy's Office of the Inspector up legislation to extend the draft tions office quoted Le Havre port General, said that merchandise in excess of that amount had been diverted Baumann had just scored 23 bull- officials as saying. beyond July 1. seyes. from ships? stores at Pearl Harbor by business establishments in violation Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley Two doctors, seven nurses and The Examiner quoted Baumann as of Naval regulations. (D.-Ky.) scheduled Selective Service two Red Cross girls were aboard telling the police: "I came here to Mead termed it "queer" that no Naval officers had been punished for as the next item of business after the Vance, -the PRO added. their parts in "this scandal," although a number of Honolulu civilians had go to work. I thought I had killed The Vance, a converted Liberty the Senate disposes of labor legis- enough people. Besides, I don't get been indicted for conspiracy. lation. ship, sailed with 40 less than the The committee turned its attention to Pearl Harbor "irregularities" % those spells any more." usual passenger list of 476, port Among the pay-increase proposals Baumann's note said he had been after writing finis to another investigation which brought a "severe rep- is one already passed by the House officials said. The PRO said the port rimand" to Vice Adm. Robert C. Giffen—action which committee counsel discharged from the AAF May 26, commander had inspected the ship which would increase the present 1944, "by reason of a neuropsychiatric said was unprecedented in naval history against so high-ranking an officer. $50 monthly pay for Army privates on the day of departure and had psychoneurosis." found no evidence of overcrowding. and equivalent ranks to $75, cor- The Vance was completely provi- Sailor Gets $555,555 porals from $66 to $90, and ser- sioned at New York prior to sailing geants from $78 to $100. All other for Le Havre, and no food or water As Refund by Mistake U.S. to Treat noncommissioned officers, as well as Truman Signs was taken on board at Le Havre, SAN DIEGO, May 25 (AP)—A lieutenants, would receive a flat 20- per cent increase over present base port officials said. Navy fireman has just been in- Leprous Wife formed that a Federal income-tax Pay-Raise Bill Top-ranking warrant officers and refund check for $555,555.55 SAN FRANCISCO, May 25 (INS)— all commissioned officers above cap- WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— arrived by mail at his home. Mrs. Gertrude Hornbostel, 55-year- tain would get a 10 per cent raise. President Truman yesterday signed A naval information officer old leperous wife of a San Francisco OPA Boosts Estimated cost of the boosts is $632,- legislation increasing the pay of hastened to explain to the 18- Army major, was officially trans- year-old sailor of Dunkirk, N. Y., ferred to the care of the U. S. Health 000,000. about 1,000,000 Federal employes by that it no doubt was all a mistake. The costliest bill is one offered by 14 per cent or $250 a year, which- Auto Prices Service by the Army yesterday. Chairman Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) of the ever is the greater. The sailor had expected a re- By this action, Maj. Hans C. Horn- House Naval Affairs Committee. He WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)—The fund of about $20 and tax autho- bostel, her 65-year-old husband and proposed increases only for enlisted The bill boosts Federal payrolls Office of Price Administration has rities confirmed the larger sum survivor of the Bataan death march, men, ranging from 100 per cent for by an estimated $321,000,000 at the raised retail price ceilings for 16 was an error. temporarily lost his fight to spend privates and apprentice seamen present level of employment. It makes of new automobiles, with all his time With the afflicted mother down to 30 per cent for master ser- requires that three-fourths of the boosts ranging from $33 tb $167, to of his three children. geants and chief petty officers. amount be offset through a reduc- Federal health officials had previ- offset higher costs for steel, other Boy, 9, Shot in Head tion in personnel. It aims at cutting materials and parts. ously denied Hornbostel's request the number of Federal workers from The boosts apply to cars built by Rides Bicycle Home that he be permitted to enter the Illinois Court Lifts Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Government leprosarium at Carville, 2,400,000 to 1,600,000. Hudson, Nash, Packard and Stude- And Waits for Help La., where his wife will be under Heart Balm Ban on The new law sets a maximum baker. BALTIMORE, May 25 (AP)—Nine- treatment. salary of $10,000 a year. Persons in Dr. Walter I. Harrison, Federal The higher prices may be charged year-old Donald Fesenden not only Appeal of Soldier lower pay brackets are permitted only for cars shipped by manufac- Health Service district officer in a maximum increase of 25 per cent, lived to tell about being shot through SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 25 (AP) turers on and after May 22. Other San Francisco, said Mrs. Hornbostel with the average leveled off at 14 the head, but mounted a bicycle would be transferred by train to —The Illinois Supreme Court held cars must be sold at previous ceil- per cent. ings, the OPA said. after being wounded, pedalled home, the leprosarium as soon as trans- unconstitutional a 1935 "heart balm" and waited for a neighbor to drive portation conditions permit. act banning breach-of-promise and him to the hospital. His condition alienation - of - affection suits in Plane Tried to Land was reported as "perfectly satisfac- Illinois. Ex-Colonel Enlists tory." Dog and Wae Again In reversing a Cook County As Master Sergeant Before N.Y. Crash Police said Donald and a friend superior court decision, the tribunal ruled the act violated the state NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)-* NEW YORK, May 25 (UP)—The were playing with a gun which they Separated by Ocean constitution's provision that every found and fixed so it would fire. LE HAVRE, May 25—For more David Kirk, who was Adjutant Army transport plane which crashed person should find a remedy in the His friend was firing bullets into a than two months, Peke, a European General of the 2nd Service Com- into the Bank of Manhattan build- law for all injuries and wrongs Theater dog, has been unable to mand with the rank of colonel until ing Monday night attempted emer- lake and Donald was a few feet in which he may receive in person catch up with his mistress, Pfc he was discharged in February, was gency landings at two New front picking up empty shells. or reputation. airfields before it hit the 90-story By accident, one bullet struck Dorothy Henson, of Charlotte, N. C The opinion was handed down in back in the Army today as master skyscraper, it was reported. The Donald in the right cheek and came The Atlantic is always between an appeal by Stanley Heck, Chicago sergeant. pilot and the four passengers in the out the back of his head. Donald them. soldier, who sued Alvin S. Schupp, Kirk gave this reason for reenlist- plane were killed in the accident. got on a bicycle and rode home. 1 Peke was "bumped" from the former chain-grocery company of- ing: Vincent Coppola, operator at Gen. Anderson, a Navy transport, ficial of Chicago, for alienation of "Since my discharge, I have been Woodbridge field, said the pilot of when Dorothy was redeployed in affections of Heck's wife working for $6,230 a year. Less the plane came' in for a perfect v CMH Presented to Mother April. In response to the tearful income tax deductions, this amounts landing, ran about 500 feet along a Of Slain 8th AF General appeals of a group of Wacs, Lt. to about $400 a month. As master 2,300 foot runway, then took off R. M. Hoppe, of the Army Trans- Windstorm Sweeps Indiana again. WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— portation Office, assumed charge of LAPORTE, Ind., May 25 (AP)— sergeant, I will draw $373 monthly, Apparently he feared the runway The Congressional Medal of Honor, the dog. One person was injured and several and considering retirement privi- was too short," Coppola said, "but awarded posthumously to Brig. Gen. Peke finally sailed on the New- barns and houses were damaged as leges and no worries about finding at the worst it would have been only Frederick W. Castle of the Army burn Victory. He had not reached a severe windstorm swept through an apartment, I think I shall be e crash lading without any serious Air Forces, was presented to his home when his mistress decided to farmlands in northwestern Indiana. doing very much better in the Army." injuries to anyone." ' mother, Mrs. Winifred W. Castle, reenlist in the WAC. She arrived Will A. Parsell, flying instructor today at Mountain Lakes, N. J., the here May 19, but Peke was gone. at Bradley field, said the transport War Department announced. Strip-Teases on Village Green buzzed his field at 7:45 p.m., about Castle, assistant chief of supply 25 minutes before the crash, but of the 8th Air Force in England, Atom Bomb Plant Accident turned away without making a was killed in December, 1944, while Under Probe; Several Hurt Too Much for Staid Amish Folk landing. , ' . . leading more than 2,000 bombers in an attack on German airfields LOS ALAMOS, N. M., May 25 LANCASTER, Pa., May 25 (UP)— hats were arraigned in Lancaster during the Battle of the Bulge. He (INS)—A laboratory accident in the The good Amish folk of the village for disorderly conduct. Hannegan Assures Democrats controlled his flaming plane while Los Alamos atom bomb laboratory of Intercourse settled back to their The picturesque Amish, among Of Impartiality in Primaries the crew jumped, deliberately sac- iri which several persons were in- customary quiet life after putting the most reticent peoples of the rificing himself. world, were shocked to hear of the jured was under investigation today. the lid on the younger generation. WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— A public relations announcement parties which turned the town, elders Robert Hannegan, chairman of the said that one victim had been in- There'll be no more wild horse- claimed, into a virtual rodeo. Democratic National Committee, as- Patent Law Group Head Dies jured, "possibly seriously," and that and-buggy races around the village County Detective Jacob Weller sured House party members that his CHICAGO, May 25 (AP)—Wallace the seriousness of injuries to others green, and teen-age youths won't said there even were complaints office would not take sides . in R. Lane, 70, president of the Amer- "varies considerably" and had not be allowed to throw beer parties to that some of the young girls "did primary election contests. yet been determined. scandalize their elders. Most of the strip-dancing in the triangle." Hannegan made the statement at ican Patent Law Association and chairman of the patent section of The announcement said that all Amish youth were having their "Imagine," he said, "strip-dances a Capitol Hill meeting with the the American Bar Association, died next of kin of those seriously fling, it was revealed, when four of with hooks and eyes. They aren't ••harmony" committee of Democratic • here today. injured had been notified. the black-clad boys in flat, black allowed to wear buttons." Saembers. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Sunday, May 26,1946

King to an Ex-King: Two Captains Coal Exports to France 'And Hour Are You?' That's what King Farouk of Convicted in Egypt, left, might be saying to his royal visitor, the former King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, who Penicillin Sale abdicated in favor of his son, Urn- By ARTHUR NOTES Imperiled by U. S. Strikes berto, in a move to strengthen the Italian monarchy. Victor plans to Staff Writer live in a villa outside Alexandria. VIENNA, May 25—Two U. S. PARIS, May 25 (INS)—American embassy officials warned the French* 4> Army captains, convicted of biacit- government yesterday that the rail and coal strikes in the U.S. probably market sales of penicillin and illegal indicated another cold winter for France." The French ministry of traffic in American dollars and national economy cannot expect any more coal from the U. S. for at least a jewels, today are awaiting the review month and perhaps for several months as a result of the strikes, they said of court-martial sentences while This reduction was expected to cut France's supply by 500,000 tons at the their Austrian accomplice, Norberta be n rench were Grimm, who was "Miss of ™,; . f * clamoring for an Allied agreement to take the 1938," is already serving an 18- 16 mmeS In the CUrrent election cam a 3£ ? f - P i«n. the Com- month sentence in a prison hospital. munist Party was making "political capital" of the situation, possibly in an The officers, both from New York attempt to divert attention from the expected loan grant by the U. S to City, are Capt. Hyman Vernosky, the Leon Blum mission in Wash-* who' received a two-year sentence ington. ,_, „ and a dishonorable discharge, and The Communists were saying that News of the World: Capt. George Neusbaum, a medical in France the workers, allegedly officer, who received a three-month dominated by them, at least stay sentence and a $2,000 fine. Both on the job. Siam Reports officers were from the 63rd Sig. Bn. The ministry of national economy, They were arrested last January by CID agents who trapped them earlier, had said the strikes would in the act of turning over a bottle have an inevitable effect upon Second French of penicillin to Miss Grimm. The France's economic recovery efforts bottle of penicillin, stolen from Meanwhile, in Paris the represen- Army supplies by Neusbaum, was tatives of 22 nations and three inter- Border. Foray one of 10 bottles he gave her. The national organizations had announced BANGKOK, May 25 (AP)—Offi black-market value of the penicillin that unless all governments took cial Siamese sources said today that immediate measures, a world deficit was estimated at $10,000. French forces had crossed the of 40,000,000 tons of coal by June Influenced Neusbaum Siamese border in what they des 1947, threatened. cribed as the second incident in Vernosky was accused of arrang- Would Hinder Industry a month. ing the black-market dealings and The coal experts, in a communi- They said the French had crossed of using his friendship with Neus- que at the end of a three-day con- the Mekong River Thursday at two baum to influence the medical of- ference called by the European points in the area of Thaboh, but ficer to steal the penicillin. Fol- Coal Commission, said that the that Siamese forces had made no lowing the arrest, a search of deficit would lead to widespread resistance. Vernosky's apartment revealed unemployment and seriously hinder In the earlier crossing of the thousand of dollars worth of U. S. reconstruction. frontier, French forces were re- Army rations as well as jewels and They urged all governments to ported to have killed two persons, large sums of American money. wounding others and damaging assure miners of sufficient food, re- The actual purpose of the peni- public buildings by shell fire. cruit more minors, assure high cillin deal was to obtain money to priorities to mining tools, increase * * * buy a large diamond ring for Miss transportation of coal from mines Grimm, but CID agents were able to and tighten control of coal con Soviet Union — make the arrests before any of the sumption in Germany. penicillin reached black-market Generalissimo Joseph V. Stalin's Representatives said they found channels. There had been no pre- reception of Polish leaders on their that delegates meeting in a confer- vious record of penicillin being sold arrival in Moscow on a goodwill ence could do little to ease the Church and Army Rites on the Vienna black-market and mission was noted by foreign dip situation, that it would be decided neither Vernosky nor Miss Grimm lomats as a marked act of courtesy by action of the governments con- were sure of the price it would beyond usual diplomatic practice cerned. bring. Polish President Boleslaw Bierut UNRRA, the International Labor To Mark Memorial Day She arranged to turn over the Organization and the European Eco- and Premier Edward Osubka bottles to a black-market "fence," nomic Commission were represent- Morawski were met by Soviet The Stars and Stripes Bureau but the CID arrested the operator ated at the conference. Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav M. FRANKFURT, May 25—Religious services, a gun salute, a band con- when he tried to sell the first Molotov on their arrival at Moscow cert and a baseball game will highlight Memorial Day in the Frankfurt bottle. The agent broke under airport and saw Stalin later in the area on Thursday, it was announced today by USFET headquarters. questioning and the CID followed day. Flags will fly at half-staff from reveille until midday. At noon, the the trial to Vernosky's apartment, King Crowned Bierut said that the year-old national salute of 21 guns will be fired by the guard in front of the where the two officers and "Miss Polish treaty of friendship with the "*main headquarters building, and the Austria" were arrested. Soviet Union had been "extra "flag will then be raised to the top In Transjordan ordinarily fruitful" and that h§ of the staff. AMMAN, Transjordan, May 25 wanted to see Russo-Polish friend- Attire Appeals Non-sectarian religious memorial Woelul Butchers (AP)—While throngs of celebrating ship strenghtened and broadened. services will be held at 10 a. m. in Arabs milled through the streets of * * * the Roundup Chapel. Jewish Chap- Want to TakeWhoa this newcomer among the world's For Ide ili^m lain Joseph Miller will offer the invocation and read the scripture. Out of Horse Meat capitals, the Transjordan legislative Egypt - EDINBURGH, May 25 (AP)— An address will be delivered by BERLIN, May 25 (INS)—As council convened today for the Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee The Egyptian national Committee Protestant Chaplain Alvin A. Katt, enthronement of Emir Abdullah as told the annual assembly of the energetic campaign is under way of Laborers and Students demanded senior chaplain of Headquarters king. Church of Scotland here today that today to popularize horse meat that Egypt's case be submitted im- Command, and the closing prayer Prime Minister Ibrahim Pasha he believed the world was longing with Berliners. mediately to the United Nations and benediction will be said by Hasham read to the assembly a for peace, but that peace would not Conducted by the Horse Butchers Security Council. Catholic Chaplain Thomas O'Dea. report of the council's actions dec- come "through fear of war or from Guild, the campaign advertises that The committee said it expected Teams of the 508th Prcht. Inf. laring Transjordan a sovereign state a pacifism which is only a hedonistic horse flesh is the "most nutritious "complete failure, as the basis was Regt. and the 3rd Inf. Regt. from and amending its basic laws, i dislike of taking responsibility." and tastiest" of all meats. Horsa not right," of negotiations in which Berlin will play ball at 2:30 p.m. The scene in Amman for this "Peace will come only if men and tongues, lungs and bones, moreover, in Victory Stadium. An account of independence day was like a county Egypt sought evacuation. of British women the world over are filled are ration-free, the leaflets point the game will be broadcast over fair. Flags flew everywhere and troops and the unity of the Nile with a positive conception of what out. AFN. gunshots reechoed from time to time. River valley. human life ought to be and with a The population of Berlin, the 'We warn the British conquerors Flanking Ibrahim Pasha, were devotion to the common service of best fed in Germany because the that the nation will insist on the re- Sheikh Fahmi Hashim, chief justice; mankind as great as that which in- city is supplied almost exclusively alization of her rights and reject 7 UNRRA Openings Mohammed Pasha Shuraiky, foreign spired so many sacrifices in war," with imports, has shied away from any compromise and will destroy minister; Mussallam Pasha al Attar, the prime minister said. horse meat so far and the Butchers those who stand in the way," the In France, Belgium minister of interior, and Omar Bey Averring that sensibilities had be- Guild is worried by the prospect of statement added. "The nation's Mattar, communications. come blunted during the last 30 PARIS, May 25—Seven civilian summer heat rotting their stocks. patience will not continue long, as years, Attlee declared that mate- job openings as special-stores offi- A pound of horse meat in the but- Egypt is ready for a struggle against rialism must give way to idealism cers have been announced by ARABS DEMAND INDEPENDENCE cher's shop costs about 20 cents, British colonization." before the high aims of the United UNRRA. The . jobs will last a IN NOTE SENT U. S., BRITAIN while a pound of black-market * * * Nations can be achieved. probable maximum of six months American corned beef is sold for JERUSALEM, May 25 (INS)—The and are in Paris, Marseille and Liege. as much as $20. Arab higher committee sent a de- Italy - Extensive machine-shop, rail- claration to the United States and Briton U. S.-Bound road-repair-shop or construction A "Neo-Fascist" leader arrested m Great Britain listing the following experience is necessary. Super- Channel Yields Yank's Body Milan in a recent roundup told principal Arab demands: To Claim Millions visors of machine shops and con- The Stars' and Stripes Bureau WITHDRAWAL of all foreign Italian police that underground Fas- The Stars and Stripes Bureau struction foremen are eligible. A HASTINGS, On the English troops from Palestine. cists had formed a military organiza- LONDON, May 25—An English degree in engineering is desirable. Channel, May 25—The body of a ABROGATION of the mandate. tion totaling 25,000 men, the news widow of 47, whose only income is Applicants should write R. W. man washed ashore on the beach IMMEDIATE cessation of Jewish agency Ansa reported. Barker, Hotel Moderne, Place de la here was believed to be that of an immigration and the sale of land to Documents seized by police dis- her pension, is to leave for Amer- ica soon in bid to prove her Republique, Paris. The application American airman. In his pockets Jews. closed that the secret army was di- a should state qualifications and i vided into battalions of 500 men claim to a fortune of millions of were photographs, a map and 2,000 francs. which could be mobilized within dollars. present location. 29 U. S. Army Autos Bring four hours, the report said. She is Mrs. Maud Matthews, of Risca, Monmoutshire, whose great- $53,440 in British Auction * * * grandfather, Robert Edwards, emi- Trial Begins for Two Soldiers GREAT MISSENDEN, England, Greece — grated to New York and bought May 25 (AP)—Twenty-nine Amer- land which today is part of Wall St. ican-made automobiles, formerly The Populist (Monarchist) govern- Since his death his fortune has used by the U. S. Army, sold at a ment of Premier Constantine Tsal- lain idle in the U. S. for want of Captured After Paris Gunfi^ht British government auction yester- daris won a parliamentary vote of a valid claimant. Mrs. Matthews The Stars and Stripes Bureau in, they were each handcuffed to day for a total of $53,440. confidence, 209 to 113, at the conclu- hopes a recently found document PARIS, May 25—Pvt. John Lee, of their seats. A Packard sedan brought the top sion of a debate on the new cabinet will prove her claim. Louisville, and Pvt. Gomer C. Black- The right of peremptory challenge price—$2,856. program. * * * burn, of Wheelwright, Ky., who were was exercised by the defense and Dutch Give Plaque to BBC recaptured in a gun battle here two Col. Frank J. Vida, president of the weeks after they had escaped from court, and Maj. John H. Guyler were Dutch to Check Mail Argentina — For Its War Broadcasts the Paris detention barracks on removed. Lt. Col. Joseph L. Fenton then became the presiding member. For Outgoing Money The Argentine government lifted LONDON, May 25 (AP)—The April 13, went on trial here today Of the 12 witnesses who appeared the nation's three-year-old state of Dutch people thanked the British charged with armed robbery, lar- AMSTERDAM, May 25 (UP)— today, one was an American and Broadcasting Corporation for its cency of U.S. property and escape All letters weighing more then 20 siege. the others were French. Six of them The decree restored to Argentines broadcasts to the Netherlands dur- from confinement, grams (a little less than an ounce) failed to identify either defendant ing the war with the presentation Lt. Abner F. Bound, defense for foreign destinations will be civil liberties which had been The trial of Pvt. Eddy Jones Jr., of a bronze plaque inscribed "For counsel, objected to the defendants' opened by Dutch currency control suspended continuously—except for who escaped at the same time as Fortitude and Consolation." I being brought into the courtroom in ; authorities starting today. a brief period during the recent Lee and Blackburn and was recap- The plaque was officially pres- handcuffs, but his motion was over- All letters containing currency presidential campaign and election— tured in the same gunfight, will start sinec the military government seized ented to Sir William John Haley, ruled. for abroad will be returned to the After the defendants were brought Thursday. sender. power June 4, 1943, BBC administrator general. Sunday, May 26, 1946 Page 5 THE STARS AND STRIPES MG Bans 'Branding' of Child Delinquents

U.S. Technique Dick Tracy (By Courtesy ot Chicago Tribune Syndicate, Inc.) By Chester Gould I'M CLAD THAT* OVER. I WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT'S \i$ THREE Is Employed on [WISH FOLKS WOULD JUSTJ THE UGLIEST ONE HUMAN I ARE IN IT HERE'S THE IOC .MEANWHILE, LEAVE ME ALONE? OP EVER SAW. AND LIVING TOGETHER! DOLLARS 7HEV CAVE 8.0. PLENTy, COURSE,I'M GLAD TO NEXT DOOP tfti AMD WE THREE German Youth ME, MR. DACy. HAWD TALK TO NO BE OF HELP TO UGH' HAVE TO GET IT BACK TO THAT ONE. KEEP JdR. MAC*, .OUT By NADEANE WALKER OLD LADY. IT youR Eyes Staff Writer AIN'T RIGHTFULLY OPEN. r BERLIN, May 25—The use of MINE American technique in handling Germany's juvenile delinquents was described yesterday by M. E. Alexander, chief of the legal di- vision's prison branch for OMGUS, as an important, progressive step toward solving the youth problem in Germany. At a press conference held before his return to his Stateside post as warden of the Danbury (Conn.) Germans Steal prison, the youngest Federal prison Austria Asks Metascope, Tiny 'HeroJ warden in the country declared that in his opinion, Germany's teen-agers 13-Car Train, are not beyond redemption and that Allied Council the best method of saving them Helped Paratroops Land would be to "turn GIs loose among Tour 2 Zones them" after orienting the occupation To Remove DP** WASHINGTON, May 25 (INS)—The War Department brought to soldiers for youth work. light today the tiniest mechanical hero of the war and credited the The Stars and Stripes Bureau The Stars and Stripes Bureau device with hastening the victory in Europe. This instrument—the metas- New Type of Prisons VIENNA, May 25—The Austrian cope—is a little sister of the sniperscope, already cited for gallantry in FRANKFURT, May 25—The theft German officials never understood government has asked the Allied action against Germany and Japan. Until now, a "restricted" classifi- of a locomotive and 13 boxcars by that it was bad psychology to treat Control Council to remove all dis- cation prevented the metascope from taking its bow for speeding the a group of 18 German railway children as criminals, Alexander placed persons from Austria, it was landings overseas of paratroopers.^ employes who ran it from Neustadt, said, but now MG authorities are learned today. Small enough to fit into the watch »T ■ i m r A in the French zone, to Wurzburg setting up separate prisons for boys The government in a letter to the pockets of paratroopers, the meta^ Number 01 Veterans before being appreherided was an- and girls. council said that Austria is the scope was designed in the early part worst possible place for DPs to be nounced yesterday by the office of He described an experiment at of 1945 by the engineer board of Getting Employment the Theater Provost Marshall. Laufen, in eastern Bavaria, where kept because: the Corps of Engineers at Fort a nursery farm has been converted PROTESTS are being received Belvoir, Va., and manufactured by Exceeds Discharges Leader of the group operating into a prison without walls for 200 from neighboring governments the General Electric Corp. the train, Adam Hartman, a rail- (Poland and Yugoslavia) that WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— boys aged 12 to 21. There are no Picked Up Signals way foreman, said that the train cells, no guards, and no guns, but Fascists are being protected in the For the first time since heavy had been brought into the Amer- in the three months of its operation, DP camps. An ' Army officer disclosed that demobilization started last fall, the ican zone to pick up potatoes which not a single escape has been at- THE DPs are not required to by looking through the metascope number of veterans finding employ- had previously been arranged to be tempted, the prison official said. The work and make no contribution to the paratrooper could detect light ment each month exceeds the delivered to the train. inmates do farm work and attend the state. beams from the ground or infra- number discharged from the armed He said that other trains, so he school within the area. THEY .ARE GUILTY of large- red radiation which signalled him services, the United States Employ- had heard, had been taken from Of the 24,000 prison population in scale black market operations. where to land. ment Service reported. Kaiserslautern and Landau into the the American zone, seven to eight x GREAT RESENTMENT is being The snooperscope and the snipers- Robert C. Goodwin, director of American zone for the same purpose. displayed by the Austrian people. cope were completed late in 1943 per cent is made up of juveniles. USES, said Bureau of Census German Gave Tipoff Dr. Karl Gruber, Austrian foreign and tried out in the summer cam- figures showed that 600,000 veterans Prison Officers Trained minister, pointed out that the paign of 1945 in the Pacific, where The train was made up in Neu- Teen-age delinquency will con- they were credited with destruction were demobilized in the last month, Austrians would like to make a while 1,000,000 found jobs in stadt and left there shortly after tinue to present a problem to occu- special exception for Jewish DPs as of 30 per cent of the enemy killed midnight on Tuesday. Clearance pation authorities, he predicted, most of them have no place to go on Okinawa. civilian life. from French control officials was unless the present "inadequate and and are waiting to go to Palestine. The two devices consist of an He added that new job applica- gained on the grounds that the overformal" youth programs supple- Gruber said that many of the infra-red light source and electronic tions by veterans in April had engine was going to the Darmstadt ment high-level talk with something DPs worked for the Germans during telescope. totaled 544,000, a decline of 22 per shops for repair. Once over the to command the interests of the war and in spite of this are The metascope was built primarily cent from March. border, the trainmen posed as a youngsters who now have nothing "treated like Allies by Great Britain to detect enemy infra-red rays as work train forging their own orders to look forward to. "Children do not and the United States." He said that a countermeasure to snooperscope World Socialists to Meet as far as Lauda, where they were understand high-level talk," he Russia will back the Austrian and snipercoope by picking up turned back. commented, "and what we ought request and said France has forced their beams which otherwise are Again Nov. 8 in Britain On their arrival in Wurzburg, a to do is show them some favoritism the DPs to work and thus DPs in undetectable. LONDON, May 25 (AP)—Another German employe, noting that the over the rest of the German popula- the French zone are "now a great two-day conference of world So- cars lacked waybills, reported the problem." He said there were no train to the RTO. Investigation tion.'' Soviets Get U. S. Machinery cialist Parties will be held in Great Because American techniques m DPs in the Soviet zone. Britain starting Nov. 8, the British revealed that seven cars were handling youthful offenders are LONDON, May 25 (AP)—Two Labor Party executive committee empty, four were partly loaded with Soviet vessels sailed for Russian coal and the remaining two con- entirely new to Germany, and be- The Stars and Stripes Bureau announced. cause more than 90 per cent of the ports yesterday with surplus heavy A similar two-day meeting ended tained 45 sacks of potatoes. Ger- old prison staffs were swept out by AUSTRIA PROPOSES TO SEND engineering equipment purchased by last Sunday at Clacton-6n-the-Sea. mans said that the coal was for denazification, a school for training LABOR TO SWISS FOR LOANS UNRRA from the U. S. Army. The The executive committee vdted to fuel and not for barter. prison officers has been set up in VIENNA, May 25—Austrian and.) machinery will be delivered to the send fraternal delegates to the The 18 prisoners will be turned Greater Hesse and others will be Swiss officials are working on an republics of the Ukraine and White Finnish and Danish Social Democrat over to the French authorities in Open soon in Bavaria and Wuertem- agreement in which Austrian labor Russia. Party congresses this year. Mainz. berg-Baden, Alexander said. will be sent to Switzerland in exchange for needed financial loans r and credits. GIs in France May Apply The arrangement would help solve Austria's food situation as the For 'Ham' Radio Licences workers sent to Switzerland would The Stars and Stripes Bureau eat Swiss rations. The pay would PARIS, May 25—U. S. military be at the Swiss wage level which personnel in France who meet the is much higher than that paid to necessary requirements will be given Austrian workers. Under the pro- amateur radio licenses, it was an- posed agreement the Austrian nounced by Western Base Section worker would retain the legal headquarters. Austrian wage level and the dif- Through an agreement with the ference would be used by the French government, the Army will Austrian government to help finance be allotted a specific number of the Swiss loan. call signs from the French, which Switzerland expects a boom in turn will be granted to amateur tourist season this summer and has operators of the U.S. forces in a great shortage of hotel personnel. France. Austrian cooks, domestic helpers The amateurs must have their own and hotel employes are renowned equipment and must be licensed throughout the world and are needed U.S. operators in order to be con- by Switzerland to help fill the sidered for the French license. employment gap. Soldiers and Vets Preferred For ET Foreign-Service Jobs The Stars and Stripes Bureau bachelor's or equivalent degree or FRANKFURT, May 25—Written have completed three-quarters of examinations for State Department this requirement when called to appointments as foreign service of- enter the armed services; and are ficers will be held in the European able to read with reasonable facility Theater Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, it was either French, German or Spanish. If married, the wife or husband announced today. Application blanks may be ob- must be an American citizen. tained through unit Information and Persons who took the special Education officers and should be examination Nov. 19-20, 1945, are mailed to the Board of Examiners not disqualified from applying for for the Foreign Service, P. O. box the coming examinations. 592, Princeton, N. J., by June 17. Applicants entering the service in Members of the armed forces and the unclassified grades generally discharged veterans are being given start at the minimum base salary first chance to join the service. of $2,870 a year, although some may They are eligible if they were be admitted at salary levels ranging born between July 1, 1915, and up to $3,860. While officers are This Is the Way They'll Look Back Home July 1 1925; are now American abroad their salaries are supple- Displaying hair-dos for the summer, these four I which hair stylists say will set a trend reminiscent citizens and have been such for at mented by rental and cost-of-living least 15 years; have received a allowances. New York models demonstrate the "short look," 1 of the "boyish bob" that followed World War I,

» Page 6 THE STARS AND STRIPES Sunday, May 16,1946 Three Cardinal Stars Jump to Mexico Loop r _— Ex-Giants Stage McCarthy, Dykes Resign Mexican Mound Duel Lanier, Klein, Martin MEXICO CITY, May 25 (AP)— Two former New York Giant Reported to be Headed From Yanks, White Sox; pitchers, Harry Feldman of Vera Cruz, and Sal Maglie of Puebla, hurled eleven innings to a Dickey, Lyons Take Over scoreless tie yesterday. For Jobs with Pasquel The sensational duel between By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)—Joe McCarthy and stepped the former teammates was halted down today as managers of the Yankees and White Sox, and two of the at the end of the eleventh be- NEW YORK, May 25 (UP)—The Cardinals last night' lost most popular players in baseball, both in their first seasons back from three star players, including their best right and left handed war, were named to succeed them. President Larry MacPhail of the cause of rain. Feldman allowed Yankees handed the job of piloting the game's most, fabulous team to big but two singles during the game, pitchers, to the Mexican League and there appeared to be little Bill Dickey, veteran catcher who is ; while Maglie was touched for hope that any of them would consider .returning to the club. approaching 39 and in the twilight in ill health for the past year and five safeties. The players were southpaw Max Lanier, leading national of a spectacular playing career. had started the season only after Feldman left the Giants for league pitcher with six wins^ The White Sox, headed by Mrs. MacPhail had persuaded him to do the Mexican circuit early this so. He was taken ill early this week and no defeats, rookie right- plane transportation to Mexico. Grace Comiskey, selected as new month, along with Ace Adams. However, if they reconsider their manager the 45-year-old idol of the —shortly after a series of injuries hander Fred Martin, who won two crippled the reserve strength of the Maglie was one of the first games against one defeat, and second decision to go, both owner Sam team's mound staff, right hander Breadon and manager Eddie Dyer Teddy Lyons. Yankees—and after an examination major league players to head baseman Lou Klein. There have south of the border, signing with been some hope the players would of the club were expected to take Resignations of the two veteran by physicians returned to his home in Buffalo. the Pasquel brothers during the not make the jump south of the them back. managers, McCarthy and Dykes, border, but it was dissipated when Hitch May Develop came only hours apart. spring training season. the team returned to its hotel and From all appearances it seemed Dickey First Choice found no trace of them. They had the trio was through with the Car- . McCarthy announced his with- dinals, but a hitch developed when drawal at his home in Buffalo, where m an attorney for Bernardo Pasquel, he had gone to recover from a Strike Forces who, with his brother Jorge, runs recent illness, and a few minutes the league, apparently advised later MacPhail told a press con- against signing players at this time ference in Boston he had appointed Teams to Take in view of the litigation now pend- Dickey, the first choice, as manager. ing against the circuit in United In sending his resignation to Planes, Buses States courts. MacPhail after 15 years as manager The three players, accompanied of the Yanks, McCarthy told him, NEW YORK, May 25 (UP)—A by Bernardo Pasquel, appeared at "My physician advises my health schedule quirk which called for a the Mexican government tourist would be seriously jeopardized if I complete slate of five night games; bureau here shortly and were issued continued, and this is the sole reason and last-minute use of airplanes cards which permitted them to visit for my decision which, as you buses and chartered taxi cabs Mexico. Several hours later the know, is entirely voluntary on my enabled major league teams to get cards, were returned after Jerome part." to new playing sites despite the Hess, PasqueFs attorney, advised the Other Teams Seeking Him nationwide railroad strike. wealthy Mexican not to sign the For the first time since the in- players. The Mexican League, its Dykes, recovering from an opera- McCarthy , , . leaves Yanks ception of night baseball in the owners and representatives, now tion which kept him away from his major leagues, all contests scheduled have injunction suits pending, which team until three weeks ago, said he were played under lights, which were brought by the Yankees, resigned when Mrs. Comiskey refused gave clubs several extra hours to Giants and Dodgers, seeking to en- to sign him now for next season, reach booked destinations. The join the circuit from tampering and indicated that other teams were extra time came in particularly with their players. seeking his services. He is in his handy to the Cincinnati Reds, who Lanier . . . undefeated southpaw 13th year as a major league manager. Players Left with Pasquel made a highway jump from Buffalo Breadon said he,heard a report Both Dickey and Lyons have to Cleveland in seven prewar taxis removed their personal belongings served only their present clubs in from their rooms arid hotel officials that the trio had jumped to the and then continued to their home Mexican League and believed it to their long service in the major field by bus. said they had been "gone for hours." leagues. ' "be true." The players and Pasquel, Priorities on Planes Donnelly Offers Clue who has been here to iflght the in- Lyons has been with the White The only possible clue as to where Sox 21 years, having come straight Most of the clubs hoped to fly around the circuit during the rail the missing players had gone was from the Baylor University campus provided by one their teammates, in 1923. Dickey is in his 17th year pitcher Sylvester (Blix) Donnelly, as a Yankee backstop. BOSTON, May 25 (INS)—The who said, 'Why. I understand For several days prior to his re- Red Sox did not take any chances they're speeding toward St. Louis signation, there had been strong on missing their scheduled series right now in a brand new Cadil- hints that Dykes was in his last with the New York Yankees. lac." He would not eleborate nor add where he had gotten his infor- season as boss of the White Sox, •The Hub City club arrived at but it had not been expected that mation. he- would bow out during the Boston airport aboard a specially Infielder Al (Red) Schoendienst, campaign. chartered plane from Cleveland. Lanier's roommate, came down into Only two hours later the Yankees McCarthy's retirement was not the lobby glumly and produced a unexpected. "Marse Joe" had been Lyons takes over Chisox landed in a plane from Detroit. note from the lefthander which said, ."Keep hitting those line drives, kid. tie-up, but government priorities I guess this is goodbye for now, but slapped on the use of planes I'll see you next Winter, and we'll Dodger, Cub Players Suspended, threatened seriously to cramp the do some hunting together." travelling style of the big leaguers. If the three players make good their jump to Mexico, it will be Fined for Pre-Game Brawl "If these conditions last long, the greatest loss any major league they may play heck with baseball team has suffered to the wealthy NEW YORK, May 25 (UP)—Five*?* schedules," an official of Defense ring, preventing park policemen from Transportation said. Latin loop. players who got into a fight before breaking up the battle immediately. Klein in Batting Slump yesterday's Cub-Dodger game at Police called in from outside the It appeared, however, that few, if any, other athletic events would be Lanier, off to the greatest start in Martin . . . stor rookie hurler Ebbets Field were fined by Ford park finally ended the struggle. his career, already had beaten every Frick, National League president, more than inconvenienced by the junction suits, left their hotel rooms strike, and that most events would club in the league but New York, and three of them—Dixie Walker, the only one he hadn't faced. Martin, and could riot be located. go on as scheduled, at least for this It developed, however, that Lanier, of Brooklyn, and Len Merullo and weekend. Forewarned last Saturday, Red Smith, of Chicago—were Ferrier Leads who has won six games this year when the strike was postponed for without defeat, last night told his suspended. five days, the major league teams roommate Red Schoendienst, "I've Walker drew a $150 fine and a Western Open completed plans in the interim for pitched my last game for the Car- five day suspension, Merullo drew keeping their dates. dinals." a $150 fine and an eight day ST. LOUIS, May 25 (AP)—Big Schoendienst, who ousted Klein suspension and Smith, Cub coach Jim Ferrier of Chicago, who blasted from his prewar second base posi- who was energetic in keeping other the PGA a few days ago for in- tion, told reporters, "There is no viting "only top-ranking pros" to Walcott Gains use looking for the fellows. They players and policemen from break- most of its tournaments, exhibited are gone for good." ing up the fight, was assessed $150 his ire again by posting a course Verdict Over Oma Martin, regarded as one of the and drew a five day layoff. record of 8-under-par 64 in the NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)—Jersey most promising rookie pitchers in Peewee Reese of the Dodgers was opening round of the Western Open Joe Walcott, 192, won a unanimous the league and Klein were first fined $100 as was Cub captain Phil championship tournament. ten-round decision from laughing reported to have signed with the Cavaretta. One of Walker's front Traveling the first 18 holes on Lee Oma, 193, at Madison Square Mexico League last winter when they were playing ball in Havana. teeth was knocked out and another the west fairways and under Garden. clouded skies, the Australian-born Walcott, favored 5 to 13 in pre- However, both reported on schedule was broken in the melee with fight betting, clubbed the Detroit to the Cardinals' spring training Merullo' which occurred as the heavyweight broke the Sunset Country Club's competitive course slugger at will to win nine of ten camp. Dodgers were taking pre-game record of 65, set by Walter Hagen in rounds, according to two official Cardinal manager Dyer said, batting practice. the 1920 St. Louis Open. score cards. The round Oma won was "These boys are AWOL. None them Fans See Brawl given him by the Jeresy Negro, when had permission to remain away from he let go a low punch. the park. I may have had to use More than 10,000 earlybird fans WARD'S 273 WINS This win, the most important vic- any one of them." law the brawl which started as the NORTHWEST PGA tory in the Jersey Negro's come- Klein veteran second sacker back, puts him in line for a Shot iat Dodgers were holding their batting SPOKANE, May 25 (AP)—Sig- coming through when other seasoned workout. Merullo, standing near the nalizing his return to competition the world heavyweight crown. Wal- French, Swiss Tied cott hopes to meet the winner of the right handers failed to produce, had cage, was discussing a previous fight, after a wartime layoff, National been the only northpaw on the club In Davis Cup Play which had involved Merullo and Louis-Conn match, which will be Amateur champion Bud Ward, of held next month, sometime in Sep- to start, finish, and win a game until MONTREAUX, Switzerland, May Dodger second baseman Eddie Spokane, won his first postwar golf tember. Johnny Beazley turned the trick. 25 (AP)—France and Switzerland Stanky. Walker, standing nearby, tournament by capturing the $1,500 Klein was regarded as the team's were tied at the end of the first became angered at the remark. Pacific Northwest PGA Open with standout second baseman even day's play in the second round Pep Decisions Torres though he had been benched recently Witnesses said Walker swung on a 15-under-par 72 hole score of 273. of the Davis Cup competition at ST. LOUIS, May 25 (INS)—Willie for failure to hit., Montreaux, today. Merullo, hiting him on the back of Ward carried to. the 72nd hole his - head. Merullo then turned on Pep, recognized by the New York The three players were believed The Swiss number one player, Walker. They clinched and both fell before clinching his one-stroke Boxing Commission as • world's to be with Bernardo Pasquel, vice- Jost Spitzer, beat France's Henry to the ground. Phil Cavaretta. and victory over Chuck Congdon, featherweight champion, won an president of the Mexican league, Pelizza 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, and the French Peewee Reese joined the fray, and long-hitting professional also from easy ten round decision last night. who reportedly negotiated the deal player, Yvon Petra, won against other Cub players formed a close Tacoma. over Aponte Torres of Puerto Rico. I for their services and arranged Hans Huonder 10-8, 6-0, 6-1. Sunday, May 26, 1946 Page t Red* Drop Cards Out of Lead, 5-1; HigbeHaltsPhiJs,8-l,with2-Hitter STAND CINCINNATI May 25 (AP)-The St. Louis PHILADELPHIA, May 25 (AP)—Kirby AMERICAN LEAGUE Cardinals survived a hectic plane flight from Higbe held the Phillies to two hits as his Dodger w L Pet. GB New York but feU victims ?o the Cincinna? teammates pounded three Philadelphia pitchers Boston 27 8 .771 — Reds 5-1, under the Crosley Field lights. The for an 8-1 vicory before a crowd of 34,492, New York 22 13 .629 5 loss dropped the Redbirds into second nlace Detroit 19 16 .543 8 a game behind the league-leadins«= P largest to see a National League arc-light game Washington 16 14 .533 81/* Brooklyn Dodgers. Ewell Blackwell fin Shibe Park. St. Louis 15 18 .455 11 ' scattered four hits to register his The Dodgers scored six runs in Cleveland 14 19 .424 12 second victory over St. Louis in two the third inning oh three walks, 20 .333 14V* Owen Bound three singles and a wild pitch, and Chicago 10 weeks. Philadelphia 9 24 .273 17 In the eighth, Cincinnati exploded a batter hit by a pitched ball. Dick Mulligan, who started for Results' for four runs, knocking Harry By Contract, Detroit 3, Chicago 1 Brecheen, Cards' starter, and Howard the Phils, was knocked out in the Only games scheduled. Krist, his successor, from the Dodgers' big inning and Charlie mound in the process. Dodgers Assert Schanz, who relieved him, pitched to only a few batters John NATIONAL LEAGUE The Cardinals scored their lone ST. LOUIS, May 25 (AP)—The marker in the first inning as Schoen- Humphries finished the game for Brooklyn Dodgers brought into the Phils. Louis . . . unshaven out confident W It Pet. GB dienst singled, moved to second on Federal Court a 1946 amendment to — a ground out and came home when BROOKLYN PHILADELPHIA Brooklyn 20 10 .667 National League baseball rules in ABR H ABR H Eddie Miller threw high to first on St. Louis 19 11 .633 1 their effort to prove catcher Mickey Stanky, 2b 3 2 0 Newsome,ss 3 0 1 Bearded Louis Boston 16 14 .533 4 Enos Slaughter's grounder. Owen was bound by his 1943 Dodger Reese, ss S Wyrostek,cf 10 0 ST. LOUIS CINCINNATI Reiser, cf 5 Ennis, If 3 10 Cincinnati 14 13 .519 4Vi contract when he signed with the Herman 3b 3 McCor'ck.lb 4 0 1 , J. A ABR H ABE H Chicago 15 14 .517 4Vi Sch'die'st,2b 2 11 Frey, 2b S 1 1 Mexican League. Furillo, ri 1 Northey, R 3 0 0 Sure His Punch Pittsburgh 12 16 .429 7 Moore, cf 3 0 0 McC'r'ick,cf 4 Herm'ski, rf 3 Semlnick, c 4 0 0 Musial, 11 4 0 0 Hatton 3b 3 In a brief hearing, attorneys for Galan, If Hughes, 3b 3 0 0 New York 13 18 .419 7 Verban 2b 4 0 0 Slaughters! 4 0 0 Lamanno, c 4 the Brooklyn team introduced as Sehultz, lb Philadelphia; 8 21 .276 HVs K'rowski,3b 3 0 3 Stevens, lb Mulligan, p 0 0 0 Libke, ri 3 evidence Owen's 1945 contract it Schanz, p 0 0 0 Will Stop Conn Sisler, lb 3 0 0 Haas, lb 3 called for ?14,500 per year, and Andrews, o Results O'Dea, e 4 0 0 Clay, If 2 Higbe, p H'mphrles.p 3 0 0 Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 3 a-Wasdell 10 0 NEW YORK, May 25 (INS)—A non- Cross, ss 3 0 0 Miller, ss 3 included the standard reserve clause chalant and slightly flippant Joe Brooklyn 8, Philadelphia 1 a-Walker 1 0 0 Blackwell, p 3 0 0 by which the club could renew the Totals 8 6 Totals 29 1 2 Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 1 Brecheen, p 3 0 0 a-batted for Humthries (9) Louis arrived formally and in state New York 2, Boston 1 (11 innings) Krist, p 6 0 0 contract on written notice by BROOKLYN 000-600-011 8 6 0 today upon the scene of next Brazle, p 0 0 0 February 15, 1946, providing both PHILADELPHIA 000-100-000—1 2 0 b-Adams 10 0 player and club agreed upon salary Batteries— Higbe, and Anderson; Mul- month's Conn heavyweight cham- PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE ligan, Schanz, (3), Humphries, (3) and pionship extravaganza and placidly Totals 31 1 4 Totals 28 terms. Should no agreement be W L Pet. a-batted for Cross (9) Semlnick conceded his confidence was never reached, the contract forbids the Oakland 37 18 .673 b-batted for Brazle (9) greater. Meantime he was seemingly San Francisco 3S 20 .643 ST. LOUIS 100-000-000—1 4 0 player from playing in organized unaware that his second bosom might Los Angeles 31 24 .564 CINCINNATI 000-100-04X—5 7 2 baseball anywhere. Giants 2, Braves 1 Hollywood 26 28 .481 Errors—Lamanno, Miller be showing. San Diego 26 31 .456 Batteries—Brecheen, Krist, (8), Brazle, NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)—Ernie Lombardi's pinch-hit in The punch, he implied with a Sacramento 24 33 .421 (8), and O'Dea; Blackwell, and Lamanno. MEXICO CITY, May 25 (AP)— characteristic, glum-pan drone, was Seattle 23 32 .418 The Mexican League ruled that the last half of the 11th gave the Portland 18 35 .340 New York Giants a 2-1 victory over mightier than the foot and, facing Pirates 6, Cubs 3 Latin Americans who have not a barricade of poised and expectant Results PITTSBURGH, May 25 (AP)— played professional baseball in the the Boston Braves at the Polo San Francisco 3, San Diego ! 1 Grounds. pencils, he told the press by way Elvin (Preacher) Roe pitched the U. S. or Cuba will not be con- of elaboration: Hollywood ! :, Los Angeles 2 Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-3 victory sidered "foreigners" and thus will Held hitless for seven innings by Sacramento 14. Seattle 5 over the Chicago Cubs under lights not figure in the foreign-player Ed Wright, the Giants tied the game "It's a cinch Conn hasn't gotten Only games scheduled. at Forbes Field to open a 23-game limits of nine per club. 1-all in the ninth when Willard any faster in the five years since stand at home. Marshall walked and came all the the last fight. But, as far as I can AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Paced by rookie Ralph Kiner's Judge Rubey M. Hulen took that way home as outfielder Tommy see, I punch just as hard as I did W L pet. Holmes fumbled Johnny Mize's then. St. Paul 22 15 .595 three-run homer, his third round- and other questions under advise- Louisville 20 14 .588 tripper in two days, the Pirates had ment and continued in effect until single to right. Won't Tell Now Tnrtiananolis 16 13 .553 to overcome a three-run deficit to June 3 a temporary order restraining Babe Young got the first of three 17 16 .515 safeties given up by Ed Wright, who "I don't aim to tell how I'm going M*nneannlig 13 18 .455 win. Jorge and Bernardo Pasquel, to fight this one except to say I'm TC*n«as rity 14 17 .452 The Bruins got to Roe for three wealthy brothers and promoters of went all the way for the Braves, in iiviTwaiiVee 12 17 .414 the eighth. Mize and Lombardi made satisfied I can win, just like I did Columbus 13 19 .406 runs in the first and third innings,- the Mexican League, and their before." topped by Lou Stringer's homer with agents from unlawfully interfering the other hits. Results one aboard. But over the last six with the Dodgers by seeking to The Braves touched Schu- Asked if he expected to catch T.ouisville 4. Toledo 3 persuade Brooklyn players to break macher for a run in the sixth when Conn earlier than the 13th round St. Paul 7. Kansas City 2 innings, Roe held the, Cubs to four Wright singled, went to second on Only games scheduled. safeties. their contracts.: this time, the champion said it The Pirates knocked Hank Borowy Mize's error and scored on Holmes' wouldn't "be any later than I can help" safety to right. and implied that he planned to move INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE out of the box in the fourth frame. L Pet. Bob Elliott doubled home the final Gallorette Takes BOSTON NEW YORK in on the challenger from the first W ABR H ABR H bell, and stay there. Montreal 21 10 .677 two Pirate runs in the sixth, off Ryan, 2b Blattner, 2b Svra.ruse 18 11 .621 Paul Erickson. Nimba Handicap Hopp, cf a-Cooper He added composedly that he was ■Raltimore 18 13 .552 Holmes, rf Gordon, If Tnrnnto 15 15 .500 CHICAGO PITTSBURGH 221 when he first hit the preliminary 15 13 .500 ABR H ABR H NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)—The Sanders, lb Marshall, lt Workman.lf Ott, rf training camp at West' Baden, Ind., 13 14 .481 Sturgeon, ss 4 i l Handley, 3b 3 1 1 featured Nimba Handicap at Bel- 12 17 .414 Stringer, 2b 4 Russell. If Masi, c Mize, lb and expected to "get down to about mont Park drew half a dozen classy Roberge, 3b Warren, c Jersey City ■ 1 23 .241 Lowrey, 11 4 Elliott, rf four-year-old fillies and W. L. 208" in the remaining weeks at the Cvaretta.lb 4 Fletcher, lb Culler, ss Young, cf Pompton Lakes, N. J., headquarters Results Pafko, cf 3 Gustine 2b Brann's Gallorette, heroine of the Wright, p Kerr, ss Mnntmal 17-11. Buffalo 4-2 Kiner, cf Rigney, 3b nearby. Tvrpwark 4. Jersey CJtv 8 Nicholson.rf .3 recent Metropolitan Handicap, won b-Graham a-Ostrowski 1 Cox, ss the mile test by two lengths in Beard Fazes Reporters T"nri-into 7-3. Rochester 2-18 * McC'll'ugh.c 4 Camelli, e Bartell, 3b Syracuse 19, Baltimore 2 Jurges, 3b 4 Roe, p 1:37 2/5. Mahmoudess was second. Schu'cher.p Louis' aplomb was so complete, Borowy, p 1 The smallest crowd of the New c-Ruekei in fact, that he seemed wholly un- Trinkle, p SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Erickson, p 1 York season, 19,190 fans, came to d-Lombardi affected by the fact that the re- b-Secory 1 Totals 35 1 5 Totals W L Pet. Adams, p 0 - the track by subway, bus, auto- porters stood about owlishly eyeing Atlanta 28 13 .ess Totals 34 3 8 Totals 32 6 8 mobile and on foot, as the third a-batted for Blattner (9) the full beard he cultivated while .58» b-batted for Rigney (8) fltn+tanooga 23 16 a-batted for Erickson, (7) VasfcirOlo 14 .563 day of the AFL Teamster's Union c-batted for Schumacher (8) going on a non shaving "bender" 13 b-batted for Nicholson, (9) strike continued. with the rest of his official party vnw ri*i»ans 21 17 .553 CHICAGO 102-000-000—3 8 3 d-batted for Trinkle (9) TVTr.m nViiS 21 18 .as PITTSBURGH 003-102-OOx—6 8 0 As members of teamsters and BOSTON 000-001-000—1- S I at the Indiana resort. His first 14 23 .;«s Error—Sturgeon 3 _ chauffeurs locals again picketed the NEW YORK 000-001-001—2 3 1 New York appointment, however, Ulrmin^na.m 13 25 .342 Batteries—Borowy, Erickson, (4), track, they were joined by black- Errors—Ryan, Holmes, Mize was with a Harlem barber and his Little Rock 12 24 .333 Adams, (t). and McCullough. Roe and Batteries—Wright, and Masi; Schu- smiths, also affiliated with the AFL. macher, Trinkle, and Warren second a trip to the Yankee Stadium, Results Camelli. ' Nosnville 7. T.ittteTtock 6 site of the Conn meeting, June 19, Mobile 10. Birmingham 1 in time to see Bob Feller pitch his 'Atlanta 11. New Orleans 2 Bruce Gets Bounced historic no-hitter. Chattanooga 5, Memphis 1 After clipping Bruce Woodcock with a vicious right uppercut to TEXAS LEAGUE the chin, Tami Mauriello swings w L Pet. Tigers Rap Chisox Fnrt Worth 27 1 .7*0 around from the force of the blow VI jk II AS 24 14 .B32 as the British heavyweight Tnl«a 24 14 .632 champion sags to the canvas. San Antnnlo 19 17 .5?8 For Newhouser W«»aiimnn|; 19 29 .487 Woodcock lies flat on his back CHICAGO, May 25 (AP)—Hal Shri.Trf.'nort • 16 22 .481 as referee Eddie Josephs motions 13 27 .325 Mauriello to a neutral corner Newhouser fashioned his seventh Oklahoma City 9 38 .243 before starting his count. At nine, victory of the season against 6ne Results defeat when he held the Chicago Forth Worth 2. Dallas 1 the Briton feebly attempts to White Sox to eight hits to give the Shreveoort s. Ran Antonio 3 arise, but can't make it and is de- Detroit Tigers a 3-1 victory. B'aumoiit 13. Hous'on 4 clared out for the first time in his Tulsa 6, Oklahoma Citj 9 career. The sudden knockout came A crowd of more than 41,000 saw in the fifth round at Madison the game, the first White Sox night SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Square Garden. contest of the season. w L Pet. Included in the 10-hit attack Aueusta 21 16 .538 Woodcock, who was giving Tami rsreppviUe 18 17 .528 a battering before he was KO'd, against Orval Grove was Hank Savannah 18 15 .516 is back in England training for his Greenberg's seventh homer of the .laMrcnnvilie 19 19 am season, a prodigious drive that 17 18 .486 bout with Freddie Mills, rnliimhiil 16 17 .485 cleared the left-field scoreboard. U 18 .471 The Tigers punctured Grove for Charleston IS 18 .441 three hits to get their first' run in Results the third, and then scores their Aususta 3. Columbus 0 second run in the fifth on singles OrApn vllle 5. Savannah 4 Columbia S 1, Jar-Vsonville S by Lake, Mayo and Evers. Charleston 5. Macon 4 DETROIT CHICAGO ABR H ABR H Lake, ss 4 12 Moses, rf 4 0 1 If aim* I#n Traders Mayo, 2b 4 0 2 Appling, ss 4 0 3 Evers, cf 4 0 2 Kolloway,2b 3 0 1 Wakefield.if 3 0 0 Jones, lb 4 0 1 G AB H R Pcf. Greenb'g.lb 4 11 Piatt, cf 4 0 0 Vernon, Senators 24 99 39 .394 Moore, rf 4 0 0 Kennedy. 3b 4 0 l T.odisiani. White Sox 19 70 .386 Kc 11, 3b 4 0 1 Hodgin, If 4 0 0 Walker, Dodeers 27 103 .369 RI jhards. c 4 1 1 Tresh. c 3 0 1 Williams, Red Sox 35 124 .363 Ne'houser.p 4 0 1 Grove, p 2 0 0 Musial. Cardinals 30 119 .361 a-C'twright 110 Reese, Dodeers 30 104 .358 Caldwell, p 0 0 0 RUNS BATTED IN Totals 35 3 10 Totals 33 1 8 a-batted for Grove (9) Nations' League American League Holmes, Braves 27 Wllliams.Ked Sox 38 It H £ Slaughter, Cards 26 Doerr, Red Sox 31 DETROIT 001-010-010—3 10 0 Walker, Dodgers 25 DlMaggto. Yank's 27 CHICAGO 000-000-001—1 8 1 Error—Kolloway HOME RUNS Batteries—Newhouser, and Richards; National League American League Grove, Caldwell, (9), and Tresh. Mize, Giants 8 DiMaggic.Yankees 9 Winning pitcher -Newhouser Kurowski Cards 5 Williams, Red Sox 8 Losing pitcher—Grove Kiner, Pirates 5 Keller, Yankees % Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Sunday, May 26,1946

Boys' 'Ball' Turns Out To Be Hand Grenade German Cities Make World Peace Real, CHICAGO, May 25 (INS)—John Suzuki, restaurant operator, was Elect Councils afraid that a group of boys play- ing catch in the rear of his place of business might break his win- At Polls Today President Bids UN Group dow so he ordered them away. The boys complied, tossing their FRANKFURT, May 25 (AP)-* "ball" into a trash can as they Germany's industrial workers Will left the neighborhood. go to the polls tomorrow in 38 Suzuki investigated and quickly American-occupied cities, and United summoned the police when he States political observers said the N.Y. Meeting discovered that the ball was an Mass-Murderer Petiot Army hand grenade. Police said elections might indicate the postwar the grenade was of a high ex- strength of the Communist Party. Of Economic plosive type which, if its pin had The balloting—for joint city- Dies Calmly on Guillotine been pulled, not only would have county councils in Frankfurt, broken all the restaurant win- Munich and other big war-ravaged Council Opens PARIS, May 25 (INS)—Mass- dows, but would have killed the centers—is the first free election for NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)—Pres murderer Dr. Marcel Petiot was boys. city populations in 13 years. The Ident Truman said today in a mes- executed this morning at 5 o'clock. American Military Government con- sage to the United Nations Economic He was buried at Ivry cemetery. siders the voting the significant test and Social Council that the council The "monster of the Rue Lesueur," Plea to Relax of whether Germans under Amer- approaching the ■ moment of his ican rule are turning toward the could make world peace a reality. political left or to the right. The President told the council at death, turned calmly to the Advocate its first meeting in the U. S. that its General, saying, "Now, sirs, I am at Anti-Nazi Laws Expect 80 per cent Vote task was to "achieve freedom from your disposition." German political leaders said today He spent his last 20 minutes they expected an 80 per cent turnout want, encourage production, help of the 2,278,422 registered voters. open up transport and clear trans writing letters to his wife and son. Denied by Clay He handed them to his lawyer and In the last week, campaigning of the portation and assure a higher stan- BERLIN, May 25 (AP)—Lt. Gen four major parties has intensified to dard of living." gave his instructions, smoking a Lucius Clay, deputy American mili- about an American primary level, Trygve Lie, of Norway, secretary cigarette. Then he placed himself tary governor, yesterday rejected a with sound-trucks cruising the general of the United Nations, told before the guillotine block. request by the Supreme Council of '.streets and slogans emblazoning bill- the council, "You carry on your Confronting the executioner, Des- the Evangelical Church in Germany boards. There was, however, no shoulders the hopes of all humanity." fourneaux, he almost grinned and for moderation of denazification visible excitement. Referring to the Economic and then calmly regarded the guillotine. laws in the American occupation In two previous rural elections in Unemployment Commission's report He retained his composure until the villages and small towns, the church- on famine, Lie declared, "We can see end. zone. supported right-of-center Christian no end to this crisis, and we must The knife fell at five minutes The measure the churchmen Social Union was swept to power face it squarely." past 5. Fifteen minutes later the criticized is known as the "Law for by conservative country workers. funeral convoy arrived at the Liberation From National Socialism The left-of-center parties were cemetery where Petiot's body, in a Dr, Marcel Petiot and Militarism." Drafted by the defeated badly, but the Communist DULLES SEES UN AS IMPOTENT plain wood coffin, was buried in three German minister presidents of and other left-wing parties say BECAUSE OF SOVIET POLICY the area reserved for condemned • * . goes to death calmly* the zone, the law makes Germans their greatest strength lies in popul- ATLANTIC CITY, May 25 (AP) criminals. responsible for the ousterand punish ous industrial centers. John Foster Dulles, lawyer and con- The body is expected to be claimed guardian barred her on official ment—with detention and fines—of American observers gave the sultant on international affairs, de- by Mme. Petiot this afternoon ac- orders. mildly leftist Social Democrat Party clared that the United Nations Or cording to the privilege of relatives Present at the. execution were many thousands of lesser Nazis and the biggest odds of gaining support ganization was relatively impotent to remove the body to a private private police, Petiot's lawyer and militarists. from hungry industrial and white- and that peace negotiations in Paris burial ground. court attaches. Law Called 'Too Severe' collar workers in cities that include had failed because Soviet leaders She was refused entrance to Ivry Petiot was sentenced to death in The churchmen, in a letter to the Stuttgart, Nurnberg, Mannheim, March for the slaying of 26 persons. considered American ideas of free- this morning when the cemetery Military Government, said the law Kassel, Karlsruhe and Regensburg. dom obsolete. Dulles, honorary chairman of the was in some respects too severe and national laymen's committee of the Sailors Like Garb added that "there is no general con $27,000,000 restoration fund of the Few Railmen viction that the act will promote U. S. Asks Reds Presbyterian Church, told 880 com- So Snits May Stay justice." missioners at the 158th general as- WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— Clay replied that he regarded the sembly of the Presbyterian Church Sailors have demonstrated such Heed Truman law as just, and that it provided for For Air Route in the U. S. A. (North) that Soviet degrees of guilt and the right of ap- affection for ■ their bell-bottomed (Continued from Page 1) VIENNA, May 25 (AP)—The leaders sought "world-wide accep- trousers and familiar blues and peal. parently were back on the job, how- Then he reminded the church Russians have indicated their wil- tance of their system" as a basic goal whites that the Navy may recon- lingness to discuss a new air corri- of Russian foreign policy. sider its plans to change the ever, and local union leaders issued leaders that "the United States confident statements. Military Government has from the dor between Linz and the Vienna uniforms Railroads sought slowly to expand airport at Tullin, which would give Vice Adm. L". E. Denfeld, chief first given its full support to com- GmAL FILES NEW REPORT their services, but only 100 of 17,500 plete religious freedom and it has American planes more latitude in of naval personnel, said it would passenger trains were moving and flying between Vienna and the Amer- ON FRANCO WITH UN GROUP be at least 18 to 24 months before expected the cooperation of church about 240 of 25,000 freight trains. authorities in removing from palaces ican zone of Austria and iron out NEW YORK, May 25 (INS)—Dr. the tars' garb was altered—if at all technical difficulties, it was learned Jose Giral. premier of the Spanish Meanwhile, the rail strike resulted of prominence in Germany those in a wide variety of developments who associated themselves with a today. Republican government in exile filed Gen. Mark W. Clark made this an additional report on General- all over America: party organization which displayed WASHINGTON —The War and request after protesting three times issimo Francisco Franco yesterday U.S. Acts to Run utter contempt for the laws of God against the buzzing of American with the UN subcommittee inves- Navy Departments ordered in- and trampled ruthlessly on the definite extension of leaves and rights of man." planes and, in two cases, firing upon tigating Spain. furloughs of military personnel American planes by Russian fighter The contents of the memorandum Soft Coal Mines stranded by the rail strike. planes in the Linz-Vienna area. As were not revealed, but it was de- The Army left to the discretion of Auschwitz Camp Boss Leaves yet the Russians have shown no signed to amplify Republican char- (Continued from page 1) commanders the granting of leaves willingness to grant freedom of the ges that Spain under Franco was that 502 additional bituminous pits and furloughs to men now on duty, For Warsaw to Stand Trial air over Austria. a threat to world peace. shut down yesterday. The SFA but the Navy banned any further NURNBERG, May 25 (AP)—Surly disclosed that only 1,831 mines out-of-town leaves during the and nervous, Rudolph Hoess, con- PLANE GIVEN YUGOSLAVS Melancholia Blamed employing 155,851 men were operat- emergency. fessed slayer of 2,500,000 persons at REPORTED SHOT DOWN ing, whereas 2,733 employing 216,000 Halt Troop Movements the Auschwitz extermination camp, BELGRADE, May 25 (AP)—A In Girl's Death at was put aboard a plane here today usually reliable source today report- men were closed. SAN FRANCISCO—The Army's ed that a C-47 transport plane Meanwhile, Lewis canceled new port transportation division said it for Warsaw, where he will be tried on charges against humanity. presented to the Yugoslav govern- Officer's Apartment meetings of his 250-man policy had been advised by Washington ment by UNRRA May 15 was shot that train movement of troops had Hoess was handcuffed, along with FRANKFURT, May 25 (AP)—The committee as soft-coal operators nine other Germans charged with down by Russian fighter planes May girl who shot herself to death in conferred with Krug on the terms been suspended until further notice. 21 over Hungarian territory. The Staggering food losses confronted crimes against Poland, including a the apartment of an American of a Federally negotiated contract. Wehrmacht colonel whose orders report said the plane was a total warrant officer at Kassel May 22 The new pact is aimed at averting the Far West in the event of a pro- wreck but did not say whether there longed strike. wiped out several towns where was officially identified by the resumption of the coal strike at Poles rebelled. were casualties. Public Relations Division today as midnight tomorrow after the two With thousands of cars of perish- Gertrude Meach, a German civilian. week truce called by Lewis. able food and livestock tied up in The shooting was"probably suicide," Capt. Norman H. Collison, of New yards, food-producing areas of Cali- said the announcement, which dis- York, was named executive officer fornia alone will require 34,000 rail- Truman Says Army Will Run closed letters found by Army in- to supervise the activities of the road cars for crops maturing within vestigators "indicated she was in a Coal Mines Administration. Collison the next 30 days. state of melancholia over family headed the naval organization which OAKLAND, Calif.—Twenty-four Railroads If Strike Continues troubles and her German fiance." operated oil refineries under Federal four engined Navy transport planes She used a gun belonging to W/O seizure last fall. were speeding from Pacific and (Continued from Page 1) air in Army, Navy and commercial Asiatic bases for emergency use in planes. r. Jack Roach, who was preparing to the U. S. during the rail strike. to operate the trains by using GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, return to the U. S. when the shoot- LITTLE HOPE FOR ACCORD OSSINING, N. Y.—For the first every means within my power." Army Chief of Staff, urgently sum- ing took place, the announcement IN PHILADELPHIA STRIKE time in 97 years a Sing Sing prison "I shall call upon the Army to moned back to Washington, joined said. PHILADELPHIA, May 25 (AP)— inmate had to pay his own fare to assist the Office of Defense Trans- in an hour-long conference with Little hope for immediate settlement get away from the institution. portation in operating the trains Patterson and the general staff on Hoover Sent to Investigate of the 10-day-old strike of news- State law requires the prison to and I shall ask our armed forces the strike. paper delivery-truck drivers was in furnish departing prisoners with rail to furnish protection to every man BOTH HOUSES of Congress flared Food Relief in S. America prospect today as union officials transportation, but when the man who heeds the call of his country with demands that the rail strike be NEW YORK, May 25 (AP)—Herbert announced the drivers had -voted to was released there wasn't a train to in this hour of need. This emer- halted immediately, either by the continue the strike and publishers of be had—so he hired a cab to New gency is so acute and the issue so President or by Congress. Leaders Hoover left here by plane today vital that I have requested Congress for South America as special rep- the three Philadelphia papers in- York, 40 miles away. in both houses pledged the President volved said the union had made a to be in session Saturday at 4 p. m., whatever powers he needed to resentative of President Truman Navy Flights Canceled and I shall appear before a joint to investigate the possibilities of new demand for retroactive pay. prevent further paralyzing walkouts. Meanwhile, children are peddling CHICAGO—elevated trains put session of Congress to deliver my MARINE CORPS headquarters famine relief. every available car in service message on this subject." Hoover declared he wanted to papers for as much as 10 cents. alerted the corps and all discharged because of the extra load of As the President spoke, there men and reservists for any duty find out the "possible extent to suburban passengers. Eight hours were these other developments: which the South American govern- after the strike started, 11-cent ROBERT P. PATTERSON, Secre- necessary in the strike. CONFERENCE IS CALLED THE NEW YORK. Chicago, Cleve- ments will be able to ally them- TO AVERT SHIPPING STRIKE fares became effective, a boost of tary of War, revealed the possibility selves as a solid front against cents. that Army reservists—especially land, Detroit and other stock ex- WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— changes were closed instead of hold- famine.'' Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Secretary PHILADELPHIA—Two men iden- those trained in railroad operation— tified as Pennsylvania Railroad might be called to duty to meet the ing the usual brief Saturday sessions. of Labor, has summoned maritime The President reviewed the inter- leaders to a conference Wednesday employes were held in $5,000 for emergency. Roosevelt's Dies Federal grand jury on charges of JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of national crisis caused by the rail in an effort to prevent a threatened strike. He said 12 UNRRA ships had In Massachusetts at 61 shipping strike June 15 over wage interfering with interstate com- State, helped evolve a compromise plan with the unions to settle the been held up by the strike when disputes. merce" by jamming tie plates into SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., May 25 rail switches. strike, but it was rejected by the they might have been taking 100,000 (INS)—Death today had claimed While strike notices have been tons of grain to Europe. filed by most of the unions, some MEXICO CITY—Freight, pas- railroads. Franklin D. Roosevelt's double. sengers and mail were jammed up THE POSTOFFICE DEPART- In sober tones, Mr. Truman contin- Harold Blaney, 61, whose striking have not completed counting strike ued: "If the operation of our rail- at the border today as the U. S. MENT limited service to firstclass resemblance to the late President votes. More than 200,000 are mem- mail and airmail weighing under 16 roads is not resumed at once, was climaxed when both appeared bers of unions which operate on rail strike caused a critical tieup thousands of persons both here and in Mexico's international railway ounces. Local deliveries will be con- together in a newsreel, died last both East and West Coasts and some tinued. First-class mail will go by abroad will starve." night of a heart attack. inland waterways. service.