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EUROPEAN EDITION DSAFE WEATHER FORECAST One Year Ago Today NORTH & WEST: Warm and partly cloudy, Max. 76, Min. 36; SOUTB & EAST. Hirohito's home reported ia Warm with thunder showers, Mas. <i, flames. Churchill picks interim Mln. 54; BERLIN: Same as N & W, Max. RIPES 74, Min. 52; BREMEN: Partly cloudj to cabinet. UN discusses security THE STIRS A cloudy, Max. 72, Min. 52; VIENNA: Sams as S & E, Max 78, Min. 64, FURTHER force. Fo J in ,h tu,0pea Th OUTLOOK: Continued warm. Unofficial Newspaper of U.S. Armed^ '" « " ""' Volume 2, Number 145 20 pfg., 20 gr., 2 fr., 1 d Sunday, May 26, 1946 25,000,000 Heap Nazis Bare President's Speech NEW YORK, May 25 (INS)— President Truman's radio address Truman Says Army New Bulge on the railroad strike was heard by more than 25,000,000 adult Americans last night. Blood Bath A survey made for the Columbia Broadcasting System by C. E. DACHAU, May 25 (AP)—A Hooper, radio measurement firm, showed that Mr. Truman was Will Run Railroads massacre of Amerian war prisoners almost as great as the heard by 95 per cent of the U.S. Malmedy slaughter was revealed listening audience. From Press Dispatches today by two Nazi SS men on WASHINGTON, May 25—President Truman told the nation last night that trial for the slaying of Amer- the Army would operate the railroads if the 250,000 rail strikers failed to ican soldiers at Malmedy. return to work by 4 p. m. today (10 p. m. Central European Time). In confessions read to the American court, the Germans said In a bristling "report to the people," Mr. Truman said that he rep- that more than 100 American prison- resented 140,000,000 people and that he would not let two men—A. F. Whitney, ers were killed at Le Gleize, Belgium, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and Alvanley Johnston, in a three-day reign of terror during president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers—cause "terrible havoc" the Battle of the Bulge. The Amer- icans were slain in a wholesale mas- through the rail strike. sacre in a small schoolyard. "This strike," the President said, addressing himself by radio directly The Le Gleize killings were dis- to. the railway workers, "is a strike against your government." closed in the last pages of a 16-page statement made by 20-year-old The President broke off negotiations today with the railway brotherhoods Gustav Sprenger, one of 74 SS of- and prepared to enforce his threat to use troops to operate the 337 railroads ficers and men charged with the throughout the U. S. Malmedy slayings, and in the 11- .Government officials said they would use two Army railway operating page confession of Joachim Hofman, another defendant. battalions as a nucleus with which to take over the railways. 'Heard Shooting' The Navy ordered all commanding officers in the U. S. immediately to Hofman said that when he and determine what naval personnel had railway experience. It also called back three other Nazi soldiers went to 1,000 reserve pilots to man transport planes. Le Gleize church to help a wounded Auto Shutdown Feared German, he saw 80 to 100 guarded Americans standing in a schoolyard. The Famine Emergency Committee said starvation on a massive scale After he had been in the church a threatened many parts of Europe and Asia if the rail strike were prolonged, short while, he said, he "heard while the Department of Agriculture estimated that at least 45,000 carloads of machine-pistol and rifle fire from the direction of the school." There was grain for needy areas already were stranded on railway sidings. a "good deal of shooting," he said. The American Meat Institute predicted a meat famine in the U. S. by Twenty minutes later, Hofman Tuesday unless the strike ended immediately. testified, he came out of the church and looked into the schoolyard. "The The automobile industry, employing 750,000 persons, said its entire produc- American soldiers were lying on the tion would be halted if the strike continued over the weekend. ground and as far as 1 was able to The U. 3. Steel Corp., world's largest single steel producer with 275,000 observe, they were not moving and workers, is slowing down operations toward a complete stop Monday. showed no signs of life," he said. The next day, Hofman said, "more Bethlehem Steel, the nation's second largest, shut down all furnaces and Americans were bumped off." ceased processing. Sprenger recounted how dozens of As the movement of mail was sharply curbed, the office of defence trans- other Americans were shot in sheds, portation ordered railways to remove passengers when necessary to carry mail against cemetery walls and where- ever else Americans were dis- on those trains still operating. Not in years has a chief executive spoken out covered. Sprenger said the orders "fwith such vigor against power- were "no prisoners" and he told how ful union leaders. "The govern- another German soldier said a Ger- U.S. Acts to Run Legislators Hail ment is challenged as seldom man tank crew shot 15 Americans Few Railmen before in our history," Mr. Truman in front of the Le Gleize school. said. "It must meet the challenge Mines; Truce Talk, but Some or confess its impotence." QUISLING'S MINISTER HeedTruman The President then served this EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD ultimatum: "The railroads must Ends Tonight Say 'Too Late' resume operation, in view of the OSLO, May 25 (AP)—Vidkun Plea to Work extraordinary emergency which Quisling's minister of interior, WASHINGTON, May 25 (INS)— WASHINGTON, May 25 (UP)—A exists. As President of the United Albert William Hagelin, has been The Government took positive steps WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)— Two groups of union engine drivers large majority of members of Con- States I call upon the men who executed, the Norwegian govern- last night for Federal operation of now are on strike to return to their ment announced today. He died and trainmen indicated early today gress today acclaimed President the nation's soft-coal mines. Truman's angry speech to the rail- jobs and operate our railroads. To before a firing squad. Earlier, John L. Lewis, president that they would not return to work each man now out on strike I say of the United Mine Workers, AFL, on the appeal of President Truman. road strikers, and pledged him their Drivers and trainmen at Kansas the duty to the country goes beyond charged seizure of the pits imperiled fullest cooperation in his efforts to any desire for personal gain. the liberty of the 400,000 UMW City, Mo. in the President's home end the walkout. Bankhead Collapses, county, voted to continue the strike, "If sufficient workers to operate members. A few Republicans said, however, the trains have not returned by 4 Vice Adm. Ben Moreell, Deputy asserting that they were striking not Rushed to Hospital against the government but against that the President had waited too p. m. Saturday, as head of your gov- WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP)—Sen. Coal Mines Administrator, an- long before issuing his ultimatum. ernment I have no alternative but nounced creation of a skeleton organi- railway management. (Continued on Page 8) John H. Bankhead II (D.-Ala.) was Sen. Scott W. Lucas (D.-Ill.) said zation manned by naval personnel At Houston, Texas, an official of Mr. Truman's address was a fight- carried from the Capitol yesterday to establish Government operation the Railway Brotherhood of the Southern Pacific Railroad said his ing speech, with no appeasement, on a stretcher after collapsing in a of the mines. and added: "Congress will back committee room a few yards from At the same time, J. A. Krug, men would not be affected by the Chinese Reds President's appeal. him to the limit, in my opinion. It the Senate chamber, where a debate Secretary of the Interior and is unbelievable that these two rail- on labor legislation was in progress. Government mine boss, announced From New York came the an- nouncement that the New York, road-brotherhood executives could He was rushed to the Naval hos- his scheduled conference with Lewis call a strike under such circum- Gain in North pital at nearby Bethesda, Md. The would not be held. There was no New Haven and Hartford Railroad would operate trains, but there was stances." PEIPING. May 25 (INS)—Com- seriousness of his condition was not immediate indication whether the Senate Democratic leader Alben determined immediately. Dr. George two men would meet today. no explanation of how. munist troops in North China were W. Calver, Capitol physician, said As the mine picture darkened, the One Strike Cancelled W. Barkley, of Kentucky, said the tightening the ring around Tsienan Bankhead, who is 73, was suffering Solid Fuels Administration reported At Memphis, Tenn., an official of speech was admirable and to the today and threatening the outlying point. "I think the country will from nervous exhaustion. (Continued on Page 8) the Illinois Central Railroad, one of towns of Chamching, 10 miles the few roads which has maintained respond to it," he asserted. southwest of Shantung's provincial service, said a strike called for last 'Waited Too Long' capital, and Shihchiu, 12 miles to night had been cancelled as a result House Republican leader James the northeast. 2 Soldiers Who Turned Civilian of the President's address. F. Martin, of Massachusetts, said the Far to the north in Manchuria, Within five minutes after the President had pictured graphically Nationalist troops apparently were Wed Germans in Regensburg President ended his speech, an the economic crisis resulting from strenghtening their hold on the official of a Southern railroad said, the strike, but added: "It is un- coveted province.