4U± WESTERN EUROPE EDITION On* Year Ago Today Montgomery's Anglo-American The Weather Today Armies gain 1,000 yards. War can PARIS: Cloudy—max. temp.—33 *nd in 1945, Roosevelt tells Con- THE STARS A S. FRANCE: Fair—50 fess. Americans capture Marin- TRIPES DOVER: Cloady—35 jluaue Island in the Philippines. GERMANY: Foggy—22 Unofficial Newspaper ol U.S. Forces js*^ in the European Theater V

TOKYO, Jan. 6.—The pos- WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 sible release on March 20 of (ANS).—Two-year men over- Army veterans with two years seas are not likely to be re- of service is still being studied, leased on the basis of length Secretary of War Robert P. of service March 20, as pre- Patterson said yesterday. This viously "promised by the War remark was coupied with a Department, Lt. Gen. J. Law- declaration that the "disinte- ton Collins revealed in a pres3 gration (of organized Army conference. divisions) following too-rapid In answer to a question by a a discharge without replacements" reporter as to whether men wi:U has caused "an already critical con- two years of service would be re- dition" in some places. leased in March on the basis of a "Discharge criteria gradually will remark to that effect made last fall be lowered to reach the minimum by Gen. George C. Marshall, former Bread- is being distributed to some of the 5,000 Jewish refugees from Poland who arrived in Berlin re- chief of staff, Gen. Collins said: cently. The bread is rationed at the rate of one loaf a day to everv four persons. The refugees established overseas requirement of 797,000 July 1," the Secretary said "When Gen. Marshall said that spent five days on a train, during which many suffered from" star vation, and most of them left we would reach a point where we children in the care of the UNRRA. in written answers to questions asked by newspaper reporters. would discharge two-year men by 'System Not Changed' The full text of Gen. Mc- "The point system has not been Narney's statement on redeploy- Morgan Determined to Stay> GIs in Manila changed," Patterson said. "VJ-Day ment appears on Page four. is still the date to which points were accumulated. In the past, as 'Surprised' by News of Recall men could be spared and moved to a certain date, he said we hoped Demonstrate home stations, points required for to do- that. Now, it is true, that discharge have been successively pinned down to a figure as to when reduced. Apparently I was mis- that date might be, somebody gave FRANKFURT, Jan. 6 (AP).—No instructions to return On Shipments understood on this point by The the spring figure of the 21st ol to London have been received by Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan Stars and Stripes reporter on March, or something of that sort. MANILA. Jan. 6 (AP).—Thou- Guam." "But that was something that we and he is holding fast to his determination not to resign as Patterson referred to an interview hoped to be able to do last fall. It chief of UNRRA, an official spokesman for Morgan's office sands of GIs demonstrated at sep- in which a reporter of the Pacific may still be possible. It is within the arated points in Manila today, edition of The Stars and Stripes bounds of possibility that we may said today. shouting their resentment at the wrote that the Secretary of War be able to hit that fairly close. The spokesman said that Morgan recent War Department order de- seemed surprised to learn that Right now, it doesn't look as if we was "surprised" to read a news laying return home of some troops point scores were frozen as of VJ- are going to be able to make it. Final Leave eligible for discharge. Day, Sept. 2, 1945. "But that doesn't mean those report saying he had been recalled Gen. George C. Marshall, then men going will be held very long. to the British capital because of Military policemen broke up one band of enlisted men marching to- chief of staff, said last fall that At the most, chances are on the ForEMPushed remarks concerning the Polish Jews late in the winter the Army would average a man will be delayed two ward headquarters of Lt. Gen. W. or three months longer than would immigrating to the U.S. zone in D. Styer, Commander of Army be in a position to -elease two-year WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 (ANS) forces in the Western Pacific. veterans. Maj. Gen. Stephen G. have been the case otherwise." Germany that he made at a press Henry, general staff personnel of- In a statement explaining the The American Legion announced Another mob was dispersed on conference here last Wednesday. Quezon Bridge, where traffic was ficer, later told Congress that redeployment and* demobilization, yesterday that it would request im- "It was the first ne had heard held up for half an hour. March 20 had been set as the ten- slowdown, Collins said yesterday mediate hearings on terminal leave tative date for the beginning of that while the Army has been of the report, and it can be stated Half a dozen Army outfits issued legislation for veterans as soon as mimeographed calls for action by such releases. When this subject dropping its discharge requirement Congress reconvenes Jan. 14. he has received no official word to enlisted men urging a concerted was mentioned to Patterson on factors at about the same rate each Announcement of the Legion's return to London," the spokesman campaign of letters to Congress. Guam, The Stars and Stripes re- month, the rate of decrease in position was made by Col. John said. One group announced it would porter said, he asked what the sig- February on both points and length Thomas Taylor, Legion director of Named Successor nificance of the date March 20 of service would be (ess than in legislation. Terminal leave meas- assess each enlisted man two pesos The report had said that Morgan each for a fund to buy advertising was. previous months. ures are now before Congressional Commenting that shipping would He said troops would be brought committees. was to be succeeded by his deputy, space in U.S. newspapers to "turn Civilian employees of the Federal Brig. Gen William Arthur Mac- the heat on the brass hats." 'Continued on Page 8, Col I) IContinued on Page 8. Cot t) Government, Taylor said, accrue Donald Stawell, whose appointment, paid vacation time and he describ- an UNRRA spokesman said, was ed this as the equivalent of term- temporary. inal leave. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, 2,000 GIs March, Hit Sailing Delay; "The soldier, sailor and marine USFET commander, when asked if who were at battle positions didn't he had any comment to make on have these pleasantries," Taylor the controversy, ^said "Gen. Morgan said. "I do not believe anyone can is an honest, conscientious and ef- deny that those veterans were very ficient administrator, and he will Japs to Go Home in 100 Libertys much in the Government service." be extremely hard to replace." Taylor added that inasmuch as McNarney said he did not care officers are entitled to terminal to comment further, as the matter leave enlisted men and women was UNRRA's responsibility and 56-59s Protest at Camp Boston, Nip PWs, Civilians should have equal privileges. not his. Knighted for Job Irked After 4th Change in Date To Use U.S. Boats Morgan was the head of the Slim Summerville, group which drafted the plans for TOKYO, Jan. 6 (AP).—Informed the D-Day operations, and for that CAMP BOSTON, Jan. 6.—Pro- Organized by their NCOs, the testing repeated delays in their de- men had marched in formation to sources reported today that 100 Film Comic, Dies work was knighted and given the U.S. Liberty ships would shortly be Legion of Merit by the U.S. During parture for the U.S., approximately camp headquarters, and they listen- 2.000 men of four Category IV ed quietly while McGee spoke. turned over to Japan for use in the battle of Western Europe he repatriating thousands of Japanese LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. Jan, 6 was Gen. Eisenhower's deputy chief units marched on camp head- There was no disorder. (AP).—George J. (Slim) Summer- quarters early today to deliver a still in China and on islands of of staff. In their letter, the four units the South Pacific. High Allied of- ville, 54, motion picture actor and He played a large part in deter- letter addressed to Gen. Joseph T. complained that they had been director, died at his' home here Sa- McNarney, in which they asked the ficials confirmed the report but mining the "Morgan Line" of de- given four readiness dates—Dec. 15, refused use of their names. turday night. marcation which still divides the theater commander to help remedy 20, 27 and Jan. 2—and now had Summerville had suffered two the situation. The 7,000-ton war-built freighters Allied and Yugoslav zones of oc- been informed that they would not will supplement the smaller LSTs strokes and had been confined to cupation in the Trieste area. Just Lt. Col. Alan M. McGee, camp leave for the port area until Jan. bed by his physician. Handing ships tank) which are now before the recent storm broke he executive officer, received the letter 15 or later. in operation between China, Korea Summen'iJle, born in Albuquerque. had announced plans for reorganiz- in front of the men—all 56 to 59- (A Le Havre POE representative N. Mex., first came to Los Angeles and Japan returning Japanese ing UNRRA. pointers—and promised to forward told The Stars and Stripes that the troops and civilians. in 1913 and later became a member The statements by Morgan which it to Gen. McNarney. four units now had readiness dates of the famed "Keystone Cops." pro- Large numbers of Japanese are have caused the protests were: The men were to be shifted today of Jan. 8 to 10, meaning that they still in New Guinea and the Philip- duced in Keystone comedies by "They (some of the Polish Jews from Camp Boston to nearby Camp should move into the port's staging pines as well as in China and Mack Sennett. Later ne was featur- flooding the American zone from Pittsburgh. They came to Boston areas between those dates.) many remote islands. ed in a series of comedies and in the East) don't act like persecuted from Camp Baltimore when that They also asked, if there was a Today Larry Tighe, American 1934 signed a long-term contract people; they are well-dressed, well- installation closed. McGee said the shortage of ships, why the 82nd Broadcasting Co. correspondent in with 20th Century-Fox after ap- fed, rosy-cheeked and have plenty new move was ordered because Airborne Div. and Second Armd. Tokyo, broadcast that some of the pearing with the late Will Rogers of money; they all have the same Camp Boston also was closing Div. were allowed to return to the ships already were in service with. in "Life Begins at 40." story about pogroms," and "I be- down, and because port officials re- U.S. with low-pointers, and why Japanese crews and with no Ameri- Summerville's wife, who was vita lieve they have an organized plan ported a shortage of transportation transportation was being furnished can inspectors aboard. They sail him at the end, survives. to get out of Europe." at the present time. (Continued on Page 8, Col. 5) under orders of Rear Adm. Momsen. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Jan. 7,194Q

A 48-Point Outfit Gets the News ©THE 40*

That Explains It Dep'f. About Oct. 20 I received word from home that my brother had been killed in action and that mt mother, who has been ill for several years, was in a serious condition. Mv father notified the Red Cross whr> sent several telegrams requesting my presence. None ever reached me. u Now it is Dec. 21, and after re. ceiving no mail from home for two weeks I finally heard the storv today in a letter from my father He had received a telegram from the Red Cross, Washington DC stating: "Have been unable to con tact serviceman as he left for the States from Le Havre on Nov 22 and will be home soon." it ' , dated Nov. 26. wwaas If anybody is interested I wish they would take a look in my tent in Lerquex, France. Believe me as of Dec. 21 I'm right here. On Dec. I, I was eligible for dis- charge on points and in a few davs I'll be eligible by length of service I'm not bitching. It's too late now' But I do know why I never re- ceived those cables. I already went home a month ago.—Sgt. Bill Mes. sicr, 535 AAA (AW) Bn. * * * 'Sad Sack' Saved I am five foot three inches tall and built small. I have no field 'An Editorial'. jacket and my 34 small size ETO jacket and overcoat do not fit me VK Admiralty Board When I wear either of them I look * * Gl * * like a DP. With two years of serv- Demobilization vs. Replacement Plans Anti-Atom Navy ice the only thing that fits me is the web belt. Everytime trousers LONDON, Jan. 6 (AP).—The are issued to me I must have them The widening gap between Amer- the over-all needs 'of the Army ha ve London Daily Mail said a special BILLBOARD cut down and quite often we are ican demobilization policies and the been estimated at 1,550,000 men. not near a tailor. need lor replacements has at last This number can be secured by Admiralty Commission is now working on revolutionary plans I'd gladly buy my own clothes been made manifest to all in a retaining in service men who Paris Area if I only lmew where? I try to painful manner—by a cut in the might otherwise have been dis- for a new anti-atom navy for Britain. MOVIES TODAY look my best but to these Krauts rate of returning troops to the charged to make up the lack of MARIGNAN—"You Came Along," Ro- I must look like a Sad Sack. Why United States and consequently in replacements. But under the pre- The commission's report, ex- bert Cummings, continuous 1400-2300. can't I get at least one complete demobilization.'. his slowdown is not sent incipient military policies of pected to be delivered in March, Metro Marbeuf. uniform to fit me?—Cpl. A. S. because of shipping, the point sys- the United States there would be will decide whether the 40,000- ENS A PARIS—"Diamond Horseshoe," Durso, 314 FA. Bn. tem, the number of merchant sea- no similarity of structure in a Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Metro Mar- Editor's Note: This letter was re- ton battleship Vanguard, which beuf. men available, the .weather or any force composed partly of men kept is due for her trials late this ferred to the Office of Theater Chief of the other causes which have over after the end of hostilities, OLYMPIA "Sing Your Way Home," Quartermaster who replied: been cited in the past as delaying partly of new draftees inducted month, will be the last present- Monday only, continuous 1430-2300, Me- From complaints outlined In your the return of service men. It is under an emergency law and partly type battleship the Navy will tro Madeleine. letter, it is the conclusion of this simply, in the words of Lieutenant of volunteers with fixed terms of build. STAGE SHOWS ^ office that your battery commander and supply sergeant are unfamiliar ENSA - MARIGNY—"French Ballet," General Lawton Collins, because service. The Daily Mail predicted that with the procedure necessary for re- "troop requirements overseas dur- every branch of the Navy will Ballet International, French Folk Bitterness and indiscipline thrive Dances, Bohemian Feast, France 1900. quisitioning non-tariff size clothing. ing the first half of 1946 will exceed in such a confused atmosphere; a be affected by the commission's Have your battalion S4 get QMC the rate at which the Army is man cannot plan his future nor can findings. MISCELLANEOUS Form 404 and have your supply Ser- capable of maintaining troops the authorities make long-range PX Fountain SHOP—Adjacent to Main geant take the proper measurements, through replacements." programs. The tendency would be PX at Rue de Provence and Rue du Ha- place them on above form and have This condition will intensify dis- vre. Open daily except Sunday 1300- it forwarded to this office. Corrective to leave American security at the 2130. Malted milk, ice cream, sundaes, action win be taken which will ensure content at home and among the mercy of chance and pressure beer. soldiers abroad, especially those that you are supplied with properly groups rather than adapt the PX BARBER SHOPS—12 Rue de Seze fitted equipment. who meet the point requirements mmtmmmm— — armed forces to the needs of the (opposite Rainbow Corner), weekday; * * * for discharge. It does not affect country. 0800-2000. Sundays 0900-1700. with beauty many troops who have had combat Numbers are not all, nor even parlor. 146 Champs - Elysees, 0900-1900 Radios Wanted service, since General Collins points weekdays only, with beauty parlor. 48 I was with a hospital unit in the out that the number of men still perhaps the major part of the Time TODAY Avenue Kleber, 0900-1900 weekdays only, problem. There must be training no be.auty parlor. UK for three years and there overseas who "heard a shot fired 1200-News 1900-James Melton in this war" is not very great. for the specialized duties of occu- COLISEUM CLUB—Enlisted men and always seemed to be plenty of pation and skilled cadres available 1203-Off the Record 1930-Burns-AIlen guests only. Metro Anvers. radios available. My unit had Nevertheless, the failure to clarify 1300-HeIp Wanted 2000-Inform. Please the exact responsibilities of the for general service. But without LE PRADO CLUB—Enlisted men and about 60. man still in uniform under Selective concrete knowledge of the number 1305-Sports Review 2030-Comedy Caravan guests only. Metro Ternes or Etoile. Now T am stationed in Frankfurt Service and the lack of any fixed of men who will be on hand and 1313-Remember 2100-News ARMORIAL CLUB—Officers and quests where '.here are no radios except the length of time they will be 1330- Asked for it 2105-American Music only, 14 Rue Magellan. Metro George V. some Kraut iobs a few fellows have policy for the future are certain to been lucky °nough to find. Most add to the difficulties of discipline in service, training programs will 1400-Love Song 2130-PIayhouse OFFICER-EM CLUB—Lunch and dinner be shotgun affairs aimed at giving by appointment RIC 64-41. Hotel Louvois. of the hospitals have been dis- and morale sitta which the Army- 1430-Information 2200-Music a smattering of military skills to Louvois Sq. Metro Bourse. banded, and there should be a lot Is now trying *to deal lion-News 2230-Guy Lombardo Replacements tor the Army come as many men as possible in the of radios stocked somewhere that hope that some will stay in service 1303-Beaucoup Music 2300-Bull Session Marseille would be greatly appreciated by all from two sources: men taken in 1000-Symphony Hour2315-Spotlight Bands ALCAZAR—"Strange Affairs of Uncle BDder war-time Selective Service Ions enough to be of use in the Harry," George Sanders, Ella Raines. personnel. and ,-omnteers The latter have great variety of special categories liOO-Duffle Bag 2330-Merely Music I long to hear some good music which are needed. This would be CAPITOLE—"Love Letters." Jennifer come in (or remained in) at a rate 1800-News 2400-News Jones, Joseph Cotten. during the day. At night it is which breaks all earlier records, but disastrous in war; it can be hardly 1815-PersonaI Album 0015-Midnight Paris necessary to thumb a ride to some which does not meet requirements. less so in peace. Leadership is 1830-Supper Club »200-Sign Off Mets club, where occasionally a good Selective Service Is supplying less imperatively demanded to bring 1843-Magic Carpet SCALA — "Anchors Aweigh," Gene band Is playing. There must be than its quota and by law will end order out of the growing chaos. Kelly, Frank Sinatra. plenty of radios somewhere. We TOMORROW can use them in Frankfurt.—Music on May 15. unless extended. And —From the N.Y. Herald Tribune. O«00-News 1430-Inform. Hour ROYAL—"Lost Weekend," Ray Mil- land, Jane Wyman. O«13-Morning Report 1500-News Starved, Hq., TSFET (Main). •715-Village Barn 1303-Beaucoup Music Actor's Son Dies in Fall from Hotel 0130-Fred Waring IGOO-Symphonv Hour 0800-GI Jive liOO-Duffle Bag Lovers Appeal to President 0815-News 1800-News 0830-Repeat Perform 1815-Persona| Album 0000-Modern Music 1830-Suppe Club r OU'iO-Bul] Session 1845-Magic Carpet 0943-String seren. 1900-Barry Wood 1000-8 to Bar Ranch 1930-Fibber McGee 1030-Interlude 2000-Showtime 1045-Easy Does tt 2030-Bob Hope 1100-Carroll Sings 2100-News 1113-Across the Board2105-Here's Music 1130-At Ease 2130-PIayhouse 1143-Mei. Roundup 2200-Mail Call 1200-News 2230-Tommy Dorsey 1203-Off the Record 2300-Na Report vy 1300-Al y-ur Service 2315-AFN Bandstand 1303-Sporls Review 2330-Merely Music 1313-Remember 2400-News 133*-Asked for it 0013-Midnight Paris 1400-Love Song 0200-Sign Off Short Wave 6,080 and 3.565 Meg. Paris 610 Kc. Normandy 1,204 Kc.

This Is not an official vublication of the VS. Army Western Europe Edition Printed at the New York Herald Tribune Plant. 21 Rue de Berri. Paris, for the U.S. armed forces tfhder aus- pices of the Information and Educa- tion Division TSFET. Tel. ELYsees 40-58. 41-49. Other editions: Pfungstadt and Alt- dorf. Germany. New York Office, 205 E. 42nd St. Entered as second-class matter, ^ Sgt. Russel Gleason, 36, right, son of James Gleason, film comedian, March 15. 1943, at the Post Office. New York. N. Y., under the act of Marine Sgt. Raymond Eccles, who married a Eurasian girl, Margaret and Mrs. Gleason, died recently in a fall from a fourth-floor window March 3, 1878. Silver Eccles. in northern China, in 1941, has appealed to Freside?! in a New York hotel where he was billeted with other servicemen. Vol. 2, N«. 173 Truman in an attempt to bring his wife to the U.S. Under the He appeared in pictures before entering the Army. law he is required to wait two years. After their marriage, both wei* detained in a Japanese prison camp. Sfonaay, Jan. TMG THE STARS AND STRIPES U.S. NEWS Page 3 21 Dead, 127 Hurt in Texas Tornadoes

LaGuardia Turns Over Office to O'Dwyer The American Scene Twisters Leave

21 U.S. Representatives Won't Aecept riMmmr Trail of Ruin $2,500 Expense Money Voted byHouse In 4 Counties PALESTINE, Tex., Jan 6 (ANS). WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (ANS).—Twenty-one House members have —The toll of dead stood at 21 today declined to accept the $2,500 voted each Representative for expenses during 1945. and the injured at 127 in the wake of Friday's tornadoes which swept Kenneth Romney, sergeant-at-arms, made their names public today East Texas. One person was miss- and announced that the unused money had been returned to the ing. Rescue crews continued to Treasury. Ever since the initial payment of $1,250 was made last sum- search for additional victims des- mer, Romney had kept secret the names of the 13 Republicans, seven pite lashing rain and mud. Democrats and one Progressive who elected to pass up the money so as to give them until the last day of the year to change their minds. Trails of wreckage in at least tour The Republicans were: Prank A. Barett (Wyo.), Howard E. Camp- counties were left by the twisters. bell (Penn.), Howard H. Buffett (Neb.), Clave E. Hoffman (Mich.), Telephone and power lines were Walter H. Judd (Minn.), Harold Knutson (Minn.), John C. Kunkel torn down, scores of homes de- (Penn.), Reid P. Murray (Wis.), Edward H. Rees (Kan.), Frederick C. molished, and at least one village Smith (Ohio), Karl Stefan (Neb.), Lowell Stockman (Ore), and Jessie was isolated from outside communi- Sumner (111.). cations. The Democrats were: Paul Brown (Ga.), Jere Cooper (Tenn.), Joe At Decatur the tornado derailed W. Ervin (N.C.), A. S. Mike Monroney (Okla.), Tom Murray (Term.), a Ft. Worth-Denver freight train, Samuel A. Weiss (Penn.), and Hatton W. Sumners (Tex.). damaging two farmhouses and The Progressive was Merlin Hull of Wisconsin. injuring seven persons, including The expense money, voted last June, is to be used to "assist in de- five trainmen. fraying expenses related to or resulting from the discharge" of official Gymnasium Destroyed duties. Each member is entitled to decide what constitutes legitimate Fourteen were dead here with 32 expenses. The Senate declined to vote itself a similar fund. others injured and one missing. Other heavy casualties were at Nacogdoches, which reported four Truman Endorses Drive in Juvenile Delinquency deaths and at least 85 injured, and WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP).— Shiloh St. Paul, where five Negroes have increased in excess of 350 were crushed to death when the President Truman has endorsed percent since Pearl Harbor." the Justice Department plan to storm demolished a gymnasium The volunteer panel will ad- where a basketball game was in enlist welfare agencies and state, vise the Justice Department in county and city governments in a progress. handling teen-agers who violate Two thirds of the injured nere drive against growing juvenile Federal laws. Scores of nominees delinquency. were in serious condition at the have been recommended to Clark city's three already overcrowded In a letter to Attorney Gen- from all sections of the nation. eral Tom C. Clark, Truman said hospitals, where rescue crews were The panel will be selected this hourly bringing in dead and in- it was "alarming to ilearn that month. The first conference will some categories of juvenile crime jured. be held here a little later. At Nacogdoches an emergency Fiorello H. LaGuardia, former Mayor of New York, extends con- hospital was set up in the fire gratulations to William O'Dwyer, his successor, as the latter takes station to relieve the City Memorial Doctor's Widow Sentenced for Slaying of Rival office. LaGuardia plans a series of commercial radio programs. Hospital, where victims filled every SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 (AP).—Mrs. Irene Mansfeldt has been available room and lined corridors sentenced to serve a one to ten-year prison sentence for killing Mrs on cots and mattresses. Vada Martin, a nurse whom she suspected of having a love affair with 2 Dead at Lufkin her physician husband. U.S. to Expedite Wheat. Coal From eight to ten homes were A jury decided the 45-year-old society matron was sane when she destroyed in nearby Lufkin, which killed Mrs. Martin. Previously the same jury had convicted her of manslaughter. counted two deaths and 12 injured. Torrential downpours accompany- Her husband, Dr. John Mansfeldt, committed suicide soon after As Europe's Supplies Dwindle the killing ing the tornadoes deposited three inches of rain in less than 90 min- WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP).—Reconversion Director utes in the Palestine area. High Maj. Bong's Brother Enlists winds and rain continued to lash Denies Harriman Resigned John Snyder yesterday created a special committee to ex- the stricken areas, as well as MILWAUKEE, Jan. 6 (AP)._ WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP) Dallas and San Antonio yesterday, The Presidential press secretary pedite the shipment of 6,000,000 tons of wheat and 2,000,000 Carl Bong, 19, of Poplar, Wis., tons of coal-to liberated Europe in the first half of 1946. the velocity at Dallas reaching 50 brother of Maj. Richard I. Bong, Charles G. Ross said yesterday as miles per hour. far as he knew W. Averell Harri- The committee, which includes representatives of the the nation's ace of aces who was man had not resigned as Amer- killed in a test flight at Burbank, ican Ambassador to Russia and State, Defense and Agriculture De- Congressman Predicts Calif., last August, enlisted in the added that he knew of no plans partments was formed after it was Army here Friday and said ne to replace him. said that some districts in Europe U.S. Should Stay Defeat for British Loan hoped to get into the Air Forces. His observations were made in now possess less than two weeks' Bong passed his physical and response to questions about pub- supply of bread grain. left for Ft. Sheridan, 111., for The committee will have power to Friendly to Reds, WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP).— lished reports that Harriman was Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R.-Ind.) processing and reassignment. expected to return to the U.S. establish export priorities when Bong has 21 hours in the air as necessary. Snyder's office said that said yesterday that a "confiden- with prospects that he would not 53% of GIs Think tial poll" of Congressmen showed a student pilot. go back to Moscow. to supply minimum needs to liberat- j ed regions- it would be necessary to "enough votes to defeat" the pro- ' increase wheat shipments from the WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 (ANS).— posed loan to Britain. 1945 rate of 750,000 tons monthly to Fifty-three per cent of American Landis did not explain who had 1,000,000 tons monthly. soldiers in the ETO think it is im- taken the poll or how many Con- Minimum requirements of liberat- gressmen were polled. Several mem- ed countries and other areas for tne portant for the U.S. to be on bers, questioned by a reporter, said first half of this year are 17,000.000 friendly terms with Russia, "but they had not been polled. tons of wheat, while the highest not so important that we should goal Canada, the U.S., Australia make too many concessions to Dutch Get British Planes and Argentina can attain appears her." a War Department poll dis- LONDON, Jan. 6 (AP).—The to be only 12,000,000 tons, half of it closed. Royal Netherlands Navy will equip from the U.S. Twenty pet cent thought we its air arm with British planes, a * Despite efforts to expedite the should "make every possible effort" joint statement by the Dutch Ad- December coal shipments, only a to keep on friendly terms; 15 per miralty and the Fairey Aviation Co. little over 1,000,000 tons were ex- cent held that "there is no reason said yesterday. ported instead of almost 1,400,000 why we should make any special tons as scheduled. Snyder said that effort to be friendly," and five making up the deficit in coal ship- per cent voted: "We shall be better State Official in School ments would be secondary only to off if we have just as little as pos- the wheat program. sible to do with Russia." In a second poll, to see whether soldiers prefer English, French or Firm Asks Court German civilians, 48 per cent said they preferred the English, 23 per To Force Bing to cent chose the Germans, and only Croon for It Only 16 per cent voted for the French. NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (ANS).— All Greece Depending The State Supreme Court was ask- ed yesterday to force crooner Bing On UNRRA, Aide Says Crosby to continue his appearances on a radio show which Kraft Foods WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP).— Among interesting exhibits of strange money, shown at the Phila- Co. has sponsored since 1937. The entire population of Greece delphia University Museum, is this necklace of whale's teeth, worn The company, in a suit seeking a will be dependent on UNRRA for by Mrs. Laird Myers. Teeth from the giant sea mammal were once declaratory judgment, also asked many months, Brig. Gen. Stayner, used as a medium of exchange in the Fiji Islands. an injunction to ban Crosby's ap- chief of the supply bureau of the pearance on any other radio show. UNRRA mission to Greece, pre- The crooner and screen star, who dicted today. He said resumption Five Nations Accept Bids to Trade Talks in U.S. has been on leave from the show of internal transportation, restora- since June 28, was served vith a tion of faith in Greek currency and . WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 (AP).—American trade officials said today summons here. Frank Morgan, recovery of maritime strength were that Canada. Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and Cuba accepted the film and stage actor, currently is necessary for Greek recovery. TJ.S. invitation tc a trade conference tentatively scheduled for some appearing in Crosby's place on the time this spring. program. The session would be a preliminary to the general international John H. Kraft, president of the 2 Boys Hold Up Astor, conference on trade and employment company, charged Crosby has re- Nations which have not yet answered are Belgium. Luxembourg. fused to continue appearances in As Audience Sees Film Brazil, China. Czechoslovakia, France. Holland, India, the Union of the show under his agreement with South'Africa and the Soviet Union. the company. He said that the contract originated in 1937 and NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP).—Two gave the company options to renew youths, described as about 16 or 17, Boy of 13 Shoots Himself, Leaving Love Note it each year into 1950. held up the executive offices of the Astor Theater on Broadway and SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 6 (AP).—A 13-year-old boy, Lionel Dod- escaped with $10,500. while an au- son, shot and killed himself at his home Friday after leaving a note French Cut A of O dience of 2,000 watched a film. telling of his love for his 12-year-old neighbor girl and bequeathing French occupation forces in Ger- William Sr. Livengood Jr.; 45-year- her his bicycle, police said yesterday. Police said the youths were armed old Secretary of Internal Affairs many and Austria are being cut with pistols and forced a woman in Pennsylvania, is going to school The boy left instructions to give his other possessions to his from 200,000 to 150,000 the Army playmates. manager to remove the money from again to obtain a legal education Ministry announced yesterday. a safe behind the stage. as an aid in his present work. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Jan. 7, l94g Here Is Text Nice! On the Riviera and in California Red Lights Burn Bright Of Statement * * * - * * * Bordellos Set to Go 'Underground' By M'Narney As Date Nears for Official Closing The Stars and Stripes Bureau FRANKFURT, Jan. 6.—Follow- The 100,000 prostitutes and the 178 registered bordellos of p ing is the text of Gen. Joseph T. aris McNarney's statement of Saturday are still conducting business as usual, the United Press said yesterday on redeployment: almost three weeks after the city police ordered them closed. I would like to Invite your at- The brothel proprietors are taking full advantage of the three-month tention to the article on page 3 period allowed by the decree for the closing of all houses of prostitu- of vesterday's Stars and Stripes KGermanv edition). This article tion, and reports are circulating that they are preparing to continue tells a story of 4,000 soldiers sta- operations "underground" after the March 31 deadline. tioned at a supply depot at Bur- tcnwood, England, paying for ca- The evening paper Ce Soir reported thatthe owners of the "maisons de joie" were mustering forces 'for a "counter-offensive." The p bles to the U.S. which express aper objections to war brides' ship- asserted that the proprietors and the procurers of girls had set. up ments. ^ "Committee ol Professional Defense" with a working capital of This is a good example of what happens when the individual con- more than $400,000 to protect their interests. cerned does not understand the factors which affect his particular Although police have not yet moved in on any of the houses of situation. ill-repute they have intensified their raids on the hangouts of an I hone this conference will result estimated 10,000 men who live off the girls and they conduct nightly In helping the soldiers here un- derstand those factors. If they roundups of unregistered streetwalkers. do understand them I know we The police are also forming a "Women's Vice Squad" whose can count on their co-operation. personnel are to be chosen carefully from candidates of 45 years or Approaching End of Job older who have "the most serious references of morality." The U.S. :s approaching the end of the greatest demobilization in It was said that the number of unregistered prostitutes, estimated history. The European Theater's part in that program was the re- at 92,000, had doubled since the war and the number of minor ladies deployment of over 2,500,000 Amer- of the evening was eight times greater than in 1939. ican Ground. Air a*nd Naval forces According to Ce Soir, many of the police operate in collusion since VE-Day. As a result our re- with the madams and their girls and are reluctant to see them put deployment has been largely ac- out of business because they are good informers. complished. The Theater strength is now 616,- ■ AH bordellos are to become city property by the end of March 000. This outflow was possible be- under the provisions of the Municipal Council ordinance of Dec. 17, cause of the efforts of many sponsored by Mme. Marthe Richard, famed World War I espionage' thousands of men and women and agent. Plans call for the turning of the bawdy houses into venereal through the use of every allocated Screen Star Elizabeth Scott relaxes on a California beach between disease clinics and the use of the others to relieve the acute housing Shipping, space during the past pictures. It's a bit windy, but she seems to enjoy it. shortage. eight months. Theater must be the determining In addition to this redeployment factor. accomplished the American Forces Two tasks remain. First, the long in Europe nave established military term one of assuring the effective- government in the U.S.-occupied Pole Escapes, zones of Germany and Austria, ness of military government in an have maintained law and order in orderly and law-abiding Germany. those areas and have made con- Secondly, the close-out of the wars Tells of Trial siderable progress in repatriating residual military responsibilities. displaced persons, disposing of Ger- Today we estimate the occupa- man prisoners of war and in inven- tional task will require about 300,000 By Russians torying and safeguarding surplus American forces throughout 1946, American property and ?nemy war the close-out approximately 316,000 materials. as of January 1, 1946. Thus the ROME, Jan. 6 (AP).—The first present theater troop strength of account of events leading up to 2,708,000 DPS Returned 616,000 will have been reduced to Likewise, the above activities the occupation force total of 300,000 their trial in Moscow by one of the have been administered and main- by July 1, 1946. 15 Polish underground government tained by U.S. Service Forces and Reich Task Defines leaders imprisoned by the Russians by non-military personnel under after being invited to the Soviet their supervision. Over 2,708,000 The occupation force in support displaced persons have been re- of military government must main- capital last year, was given here turned to their native countries by tain law and order among 16,000,000 yesterday. the American Forces in the Euro- Germans in an area of approxi- The story was told by Zbigniew pean Theater. mately 60,000 square miles. Troops Slightly more than 600,000 dis- are required in 55 major centers Stypulkowski, 41-year-old Warsaw placed persons remain in our care. of population, at airfields, depots attorney and leader of Poland's That number is expected to be re- and dumps. National Democratic Party. He Though the use of non-military duced oy July 1, 1946, to less than would not say how he arrived a 300,000, many of them stateless per- manpoyer is increasing, American sons. troops must guard certain vital Italy, but admitted "the journey Similarly, of the approximately installations, must supervise main- was unofficial" and. that he made 15,000,000 prisoners of war in our tenance and development of water, rail, road and signal communica- it because ""conditions in Poland custody in the European Theater tions. today are such that it is impossible at the war's end, just under 1,000,- 000 are now held. Medical and other services must for me to work there." be provided, training continued, Stypulkowski said he was the . Nuremberg Outcome Awaited schooling and entertainment pro- only member of the Polish delega- This number, increased by 375,000 vided. German prisoners being returned Reduction Cited tion who resisted pressure to ad- from the U.S. during the coming Constant study of the occupation Although it's January, residents and visitors at Nice on the Riviera mit guilt, and that the Russians months, is being progressively re- requirements is maintained, result- take a dip in the surf. told him he was the first person duced and should total 160,000 or ing recently in a reduction from tried in Moscow's Columns Hall less by July 1. The fate of that 363,000 to a current estimate of ped home but not to the disadvan- since 1917 who did not plead guilty. 300,000. But even the current fig- Europe longer than absolutely ne- last increment of Nazi and SS tage of any eligible U.S. soldier who cessary. To this end a "liquidation Reds Sought Information members will depend on the results ure is not fixed We are ever seek- can be spared from the necessary and manpower board" has been Last March, he continued, the of-the Nuremberg trials. ing means of insuring law and tasks at hand. Created to check Into every activity More than 5,000,000 tons of sur- order in the U.S. zone in Germany Secruiting Effect in the theater. Russians invited JankowtKi. oep.. ., plus U.S. property, having cost value through more efficient use of the Polish Prime Minister in London, American military personnel: Actually the strength figure ol If corners can be cut without re^ and Gen. Leopold Okuhcki w In. the U.S. of $7,000,000,000, has 616,000 assigned to the theater on ducing below an acceptable level of been collected In the United King- The 300,000 occupation force will discuss the security of Russian consist, after July 1, 1946, of a Jan. 1 gives a false picture, since efficiency, if more non-military per- communication lines during their dom, the liberated countries and sonnel can be utilized, if tasks can .Germany, where it 1s being made constabulary force of 38,000 first- 163,000 of them are non-effective last offensive against Germany ana The recruiting program, for exam- be eliminated or phased out more conditions- upon which Polish un- available ;'or sale class troops which will patrol the rapidly than expected, we will re- Approximately 1,500,000 tons of entire zone in armored cars; of a ple, nas an appreciable effect upon derground leaders would reveal mobile reserve of three divisions, the theater strength since each en- quest additional shipping of the their identities to the Russians. this surplus is being returned to listment carries with it a furlough War Department to take these ex- the U.S to meet our own post-war an air force and requisite support- tra men home. "We concluded that such a re- military requirements. Of this total, ing and service echelons. Adding travel time to and from quest was within international law ^50,000 tons has been shipped. Before the theater strength can the U.S. we are deprived of the To Quicken Close-Out and a refusal would give the BUS- In the past our goal was to gel be reduced to the occupation total services of each soldier for periods With the major portion of rede- sians a chance to claim sabotage, the bulk of the U.S. forces home. by July 2, certain responsibilities varying up to four months. ployment completed we will con- so we accepted," Stypulkowski saw- The shipping available governed over and above those (listed above) In each of the first three months centrate on accelerating the closing On the pretext. of going to see must, be fulfilled. out of the residual military respon- Marshal Zhukov as guests ol tnt that redeployment flow. Now, how- of 1946, more than 40,000 volunteer l ever, the fulfillment of American 'Responsibilities' Named re-enlistees will be so carried against sibilities.- By so doing we may com- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, >- y" resbonsibilities in the European These responsibilities are the the theater strength. Another large, plete the close-out of the U.S. forces pulkowski affirmed, he and theio involved more rapidly than our pre- other delegates were flown to Mos- guarding of German prisoners, as- ineffective group is made up of cow. In the capital, a Russian gen- sisting in the care of displaced those in rarious stages of rede- sent estimates indicate. With the m persons, inventorying and safe- ployment. completion of this task we shall be eral greeted them and took the guarding of U.S. surplus property, free to concentrate all our energies in limousines to an imposing bunu Despite the problems confronting on the remaining problem of Mili- ing—the famotts Lubianka Prison- destruction of enemy war mate- us, no soldier will be retained in rials, demolition of enemy fortifica- tary Government in Germany Interrogated 120 to 220 Times tions, disposing of real estate hold- "We were held there for two ings in the United Kingdom and and a half months," he contiaiieo. the liberated countries, registering Airborne Rhine Crossing Earns "Each man was interrogated 120 the graves of our war dead; these 220 times, each interrogation and many others are fortunately ing three to nine hours. diminishing requirements. Battle Citations for 17th AB "The trial lasted only three days, Those remaining after July 1 will during which testimony that woiuu be taken over by the occupation fill 40 volumes was introduced, vve force By a Stars and Stripes StafI Writer and the 680th Glider FA Bn. They were accused of directing sabotage New Redeploymena Plan FRANKFURT, Jan. 6.—Six units were cited for action in the Wesel and other charges including col- Consequently, that portion of the of the 17th Airborne Div., which sector from March 24 to 26 of last laboration with the Germans, 616,000 men now assigned to this participated in the airborne Rhine year, when they dropped behind which was specially abhorrent be- theater above the occupation force River crossing near Wesel last German lines and Into heavy- cause we had all- been in concen of 300,000 will be returned to the March, and three other outfits enemy fire, suffering heavy casual- tration camps and lost member- U.S. in six equal monthly incre- have been awarded battle honors ties. ' of our families during the occupy ments of approximately 50,000. for action in Germany, the USFET The First Bn., 517th Parachute tion." An additional 20,000 to 25,000 men adjutant general's office announ- Stypulkowski was sentenced to Inf., and the 109th FA Bn. were four months imprisonment. Foui will return home monthly as re- ced today. cited for action in the Ardennes in placements arrive. Therefore ap- The 17th Airborne Div. outfits December, 1944. The 517th Para- members of the delegation were proximately half a million of the cited are the First, Second and still in jail, including Gen. Okulicki chute Inf. was attached to the 3D who received a sentence of Kl\ 616,000 men now here will have left Third Bns. of the 513th Parachute Armd Div. during the Ardennes years. The Russians announce0 the theater by July 1, 1946. Inf., the 466th Parachute FA Bn., campaign. The 109th FA Bn. is Gen. McNarnev The war brides also will be ship the 244th Airborne Medical Co.. that one of the delegation died be- with the 28th Inf. Div. fore the trial started. Monday, Jan. 7, 1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5 Mikhailovitch Guerrillas Gird for Showdown with Marshal Tito I NO, a World's Hope, To Be Born Thursday

. LONDON, Jan. 6 (AP). - As a large American contingent led delegates of 51 countries into London for the birth of the United Nations (Organization Thursday, a six-man com- mittee assigned to select the site for UNO's permanent home left for New York to make their decision. There was speculation that Aus- tralia, China or one of the South American countries might ask the assembly to reconsider San Fran Jap Cabinet Cisco, previously ruled out as a UNO site, but general feeling in- dicated that eveh if the question of a site were reopened, the seat Studies Mac's would still be established in the Eastern states. The momentous meeting, at Purgoe Order which the first president of the General Assembly will be elected, TOKYO, Jan. 6 (AP).—Japanese will open Thursday afternoon in Premier Kijuro Shidehara today the flag-draped Central Hall. King called his cabinet into an emer- George will welcome delegates gency session to discuss Gen. Dou- Wednesday night in St. James' glas MacArthur's order to purge Palace at. a state banquet, the first the government of all who helped since the war. lead Japan to war. The U.S. delegation includes The sweeping order, which would Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Senators virtually reorganize the govern- Tom Coiinally (D-Tex.) and Arthur ment, - has caused speculation that Vandenberg (R-Mich.). Mrs. Frank- the cabinet would fall because of lin D. Roosevelt «five alternate the large number of members delegates and more than 100 minor believed affected by the directive. State Department officials and It is believed that only Shidehara typists. James F. Byrnes, Secre- and Foreign Minister Shigeru tary of State, will fly to London Yoshida would* be untouched by the before Thursday to head the group. purge. Tokyo newspapers have mter-. Bread and Butler Problems preted the order as a move to give In the mountains of Yugoslavia are 70,000 Job for UNO, Says Mrs. FDR Japan new leaders The Kyodo Chetnik guerrillas of Gen. Draja Mikhailo- LONDON, Jan. 6 (AP).—Eleanor news agency said the first reaction among politicians was one of bewil- vitch, reportedly girding lor a revolution Roosevelt believes the world should concern itself as much about the derment and quoted a member of to overthrow Marshal Tito's new Yugoslav bread and butter problems of life the Progressive Party as saying the Republic Above Mikhailovitch, with a U.S. as about the terrors of the atomic orders . meant that practically all carbine slung on hit back, talks with his bomb if the United Nations hope to members of the present Diet would prevent wars. be unable to run for re-election. followers. Upper right, a Chetnik guerrilla, The widow of President Roosevelt Other newspapers speculated that killed in a patroi clash liet in his coffin. —the only woman on the U.S. de- the directive would get rid of such Lower right, Mikhailovitch consults with legation te the United Nations men as Baron Kantard Suzuki, who Genera) Assembly—has taken a was Premier when Japan sur- some of the girls who serve as soldiers in leading role in emphasizing the rendered, and Prince Higashikuni, his mountain 'forces. economic and social hopes of the first Premier under Allied occupa- new world security organization. tion. '"',■.' She kept the delegation's expert advisers hopping to answer her questions at "briefing sessions" dur- Romania Gets ISew Provost Marshal on Job ing the six-day crossing aboard the Shanghai Raid Queen Elizabeth, and stepped into the controversial European refugee Another Party To Tackle 7 Berlin Slayings problem by proposing that the As- Nets U.S. Drugs sembly take emergency action at its opening session for the relief BERLIN, Jan. 6 (AP).—Col. George Busbey, a cavalry- of displaced persons SHANGHAI, Jan. 6 (AP).—Quan- —And a Puzzle One of her main United Nations tities of U.S. Army medical sup- man, took over as new American provost marshal in Berlin interests, Mrs. Roosevelt indicated, plies, including vials of penicillin, .LONDON, Jan. 6 (UP).—The yesterday with the immediate task of trying to solve seven will be the 18-member Economic sulfa drugs, vaccines 'and vitamin foundation of a Democratic Pea- and Social Council. Several delega- tablets were seized at three Shan- sant Party in Romania, headed slayings which occurred in the U.S. sector in the last fort- tions have already expressed the ghai drug companies by the Army's by 70-year-old Dr. Nikolai Lupu, night. belief that she might be named to Criminal Investigation Department has created a completely new si- So far the military police, working -that group, which will be formed and municipal police. tuation not foreseen by the Mos- with the Army's Criminal Investiga- early in the session. Earlier raids on various establish- cow decisions, informed quarters tion Department, have "cracked" Cost of U.S. Calls "Public interest has been focused ments yielded small quantities of here said. It. was believed that principally on the Security Council powdered milk, coffee, sugar, butter only one case. and chocolate, as well as Govern- no prominent 'National Peasant In that connection an American In Reich to Come because of the atomic bombs." she representative was likely to enter Negro soldier has been jailed and told reporters „ ...11.. ment clothing. the reshuffle of the Romanian charges are being prepared against "Fundamentally, the Economic Criminal Investigation officials government.. him for slaying a German man. Out of MoneyBooks and Social Council will deal with announced yesterday that 25 Ameri- For the third time in less than matters that bring about war, and can officers and men had been 20" years, Dr. Lupu broke away Two GIs Slain Stars and Stripes Staff Writer therefore in the long run is of arrested on charges of theft and from the National Peasants to Still unsolved in the American FRANKFURT, Jan. 7.—Begin- equal importance. The Economic sale of Government property, in- found a new party. The officers sector are : the slaying of two GIs ning Thursday GIs booking trans- and Social Council will have as cluding Air Forces instruments, and central organization of the in the Teenpelhof area the night of Atlantic telephone calls to the much influence on our hopes for watches, cameras, binoculars, cloth- new group are said to be opera- Dec. 23 as they were walking with States will have to pay the $12 future happiness as any other part ing and food valued £t more than ting already. frauleins; the killing of a Russian charge in either postal money ord- of the organization." $50,000 Although Moscow decisions pro- officer, believed done by another ers or Treasury checks and the vided only two cabinet seats for Russian; the kihing of a Russian amount will be deducted from cur- The General Sees Stars the Romanian opposition, the enlisted man whose still uniden- rency control books, USFET an- creation of the Democratic Pea- tified body was believed thrown nounced yesterday. sant Party brings the number of from an auto; and deaths of two At the same time, officials an- opposition parties to three. The other German civilians. nounced that no more bookings for situation may enable Premier Also unsolved is the slaying of an calls from Germany .would be ac- Pietr Groza to eliminate the Na- American corporal New Year's Eve cepted until Thursday. The large tional Peasant Party from the at a night club in the British number of bookings on hand will reshuffle and allocate the two sector not permit calls to be cleared for seats to the Democratic Peasants Ideal For Crime » at least four days, they said. Calls and the Liberal Party, according "Berlin will stack up with cities placed Thursday, it was explained, to informants in the Groza gov- will be for the following four-day of 3,000,000' people almost any- period. ernment. where," Busbey said, "and nowhere Lupu is described here as the The requirement that calls be most suitable opposition person- else will you find equal elements paid for only in money orders or conducive to crime and friction— Treasury checks is intended as a ality for a cabinet post because of thousands of occupation troops of his leftist views and his opposi- further currency control measure, tion to King Carol's dictatorship. four nations with language and USFET said. social barriers, living j in a beat- It was said that he left the Na- Trans-Atlantic telephone booking tional Peasant Party because of up town whose streets and ruins offices were opened last Saturday its refusal to nominate him as are ideal for crime and whose in Frankfurt and Munich. Offices people are hungry. are to be opened soon at Heidel- minister. "Our joint American-Russian and berg, Nuremberg, Kassel, Bremen, British-Russian military police pa- Stuttgart and Berlin. Bulgar Leaders to Study trols are doing a good job cutting through the international and lan- guage barriers," he said. Shipping News Soviet Plan on Regime Busbey added he did not consider the recent shootings a "crime SOFIA, Jan. 6 (UP).—Premier wave." Le Havre Kimon Georgiev today invited the Departures Dpposition—Agrarians and Social- . Ships Load Sailed ists—to appoint negotiators to con- No Marseille Shipments Henry Q. Conner 684 Jan. 6 sider the Moscow decisions broad- C. Weiser (UK leave)... lie Jan. 6 sning the Bulgar government. The Of GIs Made in 3 Days Expected Arrivals Agrarians appointed Nicolas Pet- Ships Load Date ■cov, Dimitri Guitchev. George Yor. MARSEILLE, Jan. 6.—For the USAT Q. Washington... 6,384 Jan. 7 ianov and Professor Stoyanov. The third successive day, no troops left Borinquen 1,435 Jan. 7 Socialist faction has not yet ap- Gustavus Adolphus Vic. 1,500 Jan. 7 this port, but some men of the Zanesville Victory 1,500 Jan. 7 pointed representatives. 100th Div. are scheduled to sail Maritime Victory 1.500 Jan. 7 tomorrow. Redeployment for the Tufts Victory 1,500 Jan. 7 More Bread for Berlin month so far is only slightly above StcrJfcoas Victory 1,500 Jan. 7 4,000. Several huDdred prisoners LONDON, Jan. 6 (UP).—Berlin also have sailed. Marseille radio said today that with approval Expected Arrivals of the Allied Kommandantura Ships Load Date holders of Class Five ration books Russians Hang 8 Germans Johr, M. Brown Lib... 550 Jan. 6 would have bread rations increased MOSCOW, Jan. 6 (AP).—Eight F.A..C. Muhlenberg Lib. 55" .Ian. 6 by 100 grams a day. Sugar rations Germans, sentenced to death by a In Port Gen. R. L. Eichelberger, who was entertained at a cocktail party given will be increased five grams a day. Leningrad District Military tribunal, Samuel Adams Liberty.. 556 Jan. 7 in his honor by Kay Kyser, expressed a desire to meet some movie This order is said to apply through- were hanged before a large crowd Edward Rutledge Lib... S7S Jan. 7 stars. Seated on the arms of his chair are actresses Marguerite out the whole Berlin area. in the city square yesterday. William Wilkins Cargo. 120 Jan. 9 Chapman, left, and Mary Meade. Page 6 SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES Jfon3ay,Taii. 7, T94& Giants Obtain Walker Cooper From Cardinals for $175,000

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6 (AP).—The St. Louis Cardinals yesterday announced the sale of star catcher Walker Cooper to the New York Giants and infielder Jimmy Brown to the Pittsburgh Pirates in two trans- actions opening what may prove to be a record talent-selling year for any major league baseball club. Cooper was sold for $175,000 in one of the three biggest money deals in all baseball history. Brown, regular second baseman of the 1942 championship Red Bird team was sold lor an undisclosed amount of cash which the Pirate officials said "ran into five figures." Sam Breadon, the Cardinals' president, declined to disclose or discuss the amount of money involved in the two transactions, which were straight cash deals and involved no other players. The sale of Cooper marked the Luke Appling, first big deal ever made by the Cardinals that right, star short-. sent away a first-line regular with no matching stop of the Chi- replacement in sight. Breadon said the sale of cago White Sox, Cooper was not going to weaken the Cardinals spends vacation this year. "Prospects are that Walker will remain term with Paul in the Navy through part or most of i the 1946 season so he wouldn't be Gillespie, CUDS' available for duty." King Joe Louis, catcher, on Cooper said he considered going left, "triple" Georgia- rabbit with the Giants the "best break I champ Henry hunt. ever had." He confirmed that ne Armstrong, had asked Breadon to be traded. With Harry Danning retired, center, and ban- Ernie Lombardi nearing his 38th tamweight title- birthday, and young Clyde Klutz holder Manuel regarded as still a year away, the Hawks, Canadiens acquisition of Cooper gives the Ortiz pause for | Giants a receiver not only badly a chat during a needed but topped by no one in the lull in the Holly- National League. wood movie As part of one of baseball's most Win; Still Share Top famous brother batteries, the fast, they're making. good-hitting, fine-throwing Walker That "reel" life and right-hander Mort were chief training can't be factors in bringing the Cardinals doing the Brown NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP).—The Chicago Black Hawks and three straight pennants from 1942 Bomber too the Montreal Canadiens were still tied for the top slot in the through '44 and two world cham- pionships. much good for National Hockey League after last night's games in which the Born m Atherton, Mo., the 195- his projected Hawks blanked the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-0, and the Canadiens pound Walker was the National downed the Boston Bruins, 4-2. League's All-Star squad catcher title go with Chicago's Max Bentley, the loop's from 1942 through '44. He equaled Billy Conn. leading goal-maker, and Goalie Mike Feller Plans to Back the World Series record of hitting Karakas staged a sparkling offen- safely in every game of the five- sive and defensive exhibition before Minor League Nine game 1943 set which the Cards lost a packed house of 13,705 fans in to the New York Yankees and set a the Maple Leaf Gardens. Bentley record of accepting 55 chances in All-America Loop Plans belted in two goals in the first and WAUKEGAN, III., Jan. 6 the six-game 1944 series in which last periods while Karakas handled (ANS). — Bob Feller, speedball the National League champions 37 Toronto shots brilliantly. Clint pitcher cf the Cleveland Indians, trounced their City neighbors, the Smith accounted for the Hawks' prepared to turn baseball mag- Browns. ^Secret* Football Draft last tally in 13:31 of the last period nate tonight. His two errors in the 1943 set, on on a play with George Allen and the other hand, equaled the Series' Pete Horeck. Feller said he would back the "high" mark. Allen also teamed with Doug Denver team in a proposed Class A product of the Cardinals' farm CHICAGO, Jan 6 (AP).—Coaches of the newly-organized Bentley to set up Max Bentley's B league, "if everything turns chain, Walker Cooper broke into All-American Conference yesterday proposed a 'secret" draft of opening goal at the six-minute mark out as well as we expect." (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) of the first frame, while Alex Ka- college football stars and at the same time criticized the player leta received an assist on Max's (selection methods of the long- third period marker, established rival National Foot- Cowley May Be Lost ball League. Montreal's victory proved doubly Irate Cuceinello Released by Sox Mai Stevens, former Yale and disastrous for the Bruins, who prob- ably lost the services of high-scor- New York University coach and ing Bill Cowley for the rest of the now mentor of the All-American season when the star pivotman Webber Leading Batting Runner-Up Brooklyn entry, said at a news broke his left wrist in the third conference at the new league's or- period in the game at Montreal. Int. Hurler The Canadiens started off as if 'Surprised' ganizational meeting that the cir- they were going to run off with cuit would pick college seniors the contest as they belted in three NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP).—Les CHICAGO, Jan. 6 (AP).—Third on a limited basis. goals in the opening frame. Boston Webber spent only two months baseman Tony Cuccinello, who was "The National League puts col- rallied for two m the second, but lege seniors on the block like with Montreal but official Interna- nosed out of the American League pieces of property with 500 Blake made the count 4-2 minutes batting championship on the clos- or before that period ended. The tional League pitching averages re- ing day of the 1945 season, yester- more names listed for hire," assert- leased yesterday show the 28-year- ed Stevens. "That practice has first two periods of fast play wore day was given his unconditional irked college* athletic directors down the players and the final old righthander led the circuit release by the Chicago White Sox. and coaches." stanza was a slow, scoreless affair. with an 11-3 won-and-lost record Cuccinello, 37-year-old veteran of Blake scored his first two tallies Stevens, speaking on behalf of and a low earned average of 1.88. 15 major league seasons, was releas- other league coaches, said the All- in the opening frame and Buddy Farmed out by Leo Durocher, ed apparently in a move by the American had written to the Na- O'Connor made it 3-0. Terry Rear- Brooklyn manager, without getting White Sox to rebuild with younger don broke the ice for the Bruins tional Collegiate Coaches' Associa- a single starting chance on June 6, talent, although general manager tion asking for a list of college 30 seconds after the second period Webber hit a fancy stride at Mont- Les O'Connor said Tony had desired players known to be interested in opened, after taking a pass from real, running off one streak of ten to tend a managerial post in the continuing football as profession- Herbie Cain. Cain followed up ten straight victories, and graduated minor leagues. als. - ' minutes later with a sizzling 15- back to the parent club on Aug. 10. Cuccinello led the batting race footer from a tricky angle. Jack He won six of eight starts for most of the season, but finished To Await Coaches' Okay McGill set up the score. Brooklyn in the final six weeks of Tony Cuccinello one percentage point behind second The plan of All-America will be baseman George Stirnweiss of New the big league 'campaign. Unemployed vet. to approach the interested players High winner in the circuit vras York whose last-day hitting spree only after their coaches have given Saturday's Ice Results Jean Pierre Roy, another Montreal gave him a final 309 mark. a go-ahead. tosser, who has been advanced to more catcher who was purchased Prior to last season, Cuccinello National League by the Cleveland Indians, led the "There's no sense in publicizing the Dodgers for EC spring trial. The batted above .300 only four times, a list of players who have no in- Chicago o, Toronto 0 French-Canadian was top winner international league in hitting in his best mark being .315 with Cin- 1945 with a .364 average, according tention of entering the profes- Canadiens 4, Boston 2 with 25 strikeouts, with 139 vic- cinnati in 1931. sional field," Stevens said. American League to official figures released yester- In 1941, the Giants named Tony tims, hurled the most innings, 293, day. "The National League has con- Cleveland 8, Buffalo 5 most complete games. 29 and gave manager of their Jersey City farm ducted this draft system mainly out the most walks. 150. The 21-year-old Fayetteville, Ark., club. He was signed by the Braves Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 2 native drove home 111 runs with to advance its awn game by flaunt- Hershey 2, Indianapolis 1 as a player-coach in 1942. Ten days 169 hits, including 27 doubles, four ing the names of college stars be- U.S. League after he was released by the Braves fore the public eye." NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP).— triples, and 34 homers to capture in midseason, 1943, the White Sox Dallas 4, Minneapolis 1 Sherm Lollar, hard-hitting Balti- the crown by a margin of 26 points. The coaches also criticized the grabbed him. National Football League's free In New York, Cuccinello said he substitution rule, just as owner- was completely surprised by the coach George Halas of the Chi- news and declared that the club cago Bears proposed its elimina- I Nelson Overhauls Snead for Coast Lead | had not informed him of the move. tion at the National League's Reached at his Long Island meeting in New York next week. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 (AP).—Byron Nelson, Mr. Big of American golf, settled into championship home, the 37-year-old infielder said; stride yesterday to take over the half-way lead of the 72-hole Los Angeles Open tournament. His two- under par ft) coupled to Friday's 71 gave him a 36-hole total of 140. "I had no idea I was to be releas- ed, as I was not personally inform- Nelson's sub-par effort over the Riviera course vaulted him from ed by the White Sox officials. Had AF Quintet Wins 1st Friday's five-way tie for fifth position over the heads of the four I been notified, I would have at- opening-round rivals. tended the major and minor league Pacific Olympic Test One of the early starters, the Toledo, O., umbrella man played meetings last month seeking an- nearly flawless golf. He hit all but one of the greens required, bobbled other job. I believe I can still be GUAM, Jan. 6 (AP).—The 20th the fourth green with three putts, and finished with a 15-foot birdie useful to a major league club in Air Force All-Stars defeated the three putt on the 18th to snatch the lead. the role of utility infielder and Army Ground Forces All-Stars, Nelson went out in 35 and came home in 34 against a par 35-36 coach of youngsters. However, if —71 over a 7,000-yard course. 75 to 37, in a Pacific Olympics the big leagues have no place for Basketball game last night, the As a result Sam Snead, defending champion, relinquished the me, I'd like to manage a minor lead by a stroke. At the half-way station, Snead was tied with Jim league club." first of a series of three to Ferrier of Chicago at 141. Ferrier. five-time Australian Open and decide the championship of the Amateur title-holder, posted a 72, three shots over his initial round. First Brownie in Line Marianas. Trailing the bunched-up leaders were four other sharpshooters, ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6 (AP).—Bob Forward John Spencer, former all at 143. They were Harold McSpaden, Sanford, Me., 73-70; Ben Dillinger, 26-year-old infielder, to- Fort Wayne, Ind., High School Hogan, Hershey, Pa., 73-70; Al Zimmerman, Portland, Ore., 72-71, and day became the first member of star, led the Air Force, scoring Jim Demaret, Houston, Tex. 69-74. Former PGA champion Vic Ghezzi Byron Nelson the St. Louis Browns to sign a 1946 21 points. Y^mTo^nliead. of Deal, N.J., tacked up a 74 for a 36-hole total of 144. Back in stride. contract. Monday, Jan. 7,1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 7..,

Enfilade Cops Diamond Dust South Pacific

$25,000 Prize NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—In a "series of announcements during next GI Olympics week," the New York Yankees will announce the selection of Red Rolfe as coach to succeed Art Fletcher, the New York Post reported today. In Coast' Test The Post stated the choice of the veteran third sacker, who com- Lures 5,000 pleted ten years of competition with the Yankees in 1942 and then became Yale University's basketball and baseball coach, would "come Washington 46, Washington St. \\ ARCADIA, Calif., Jan. 6 (AP).— in the nature of a surprise since it was figured that Bill Dickey had HONOLULU, Jan. 6 'AP).— Farragut Naval 44, Montana 43 Enfilade, CoL C. V. Whitney's the inside track for the post which amounts to assistant manager of Across 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean Colorado A & M 40. Fort Warren 3ft speedy filly, yesterday won the the Yanks." a small army of athletes is staging Arizona 64, New Mexico Aggies 27 $25,000 Santa Susana Stakes in Dickey, the newspaper indicated, might be named manager of the one of the greatest athletic con- West Texas St. 55, Mexico Mines 51 rather easy fashion from the fa- Newark farm club in the International League. tests in sports history—the Pacific Hutchinson Naval 4*. Fort Hays St. 37 vorite Honeymoon, of the Louis B. ♦ yfi yft Service Olympics. Canisias 51, Scranton 81 Mayer stable. Levonsite, owned by NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP).— Almost 5,000 officers and enlisted Cornell 66. Columbia 43 Mrs. Max Factor, took third place. men stationed in the Pacific Area East Tennessee St. 51, Milligan 29 George Selkirk, veteran New York are competing for places in finals North Carolina 6",. Fort Bragg 33 Efilade paid $8.40, $2.70. $2.50; Norfolk Naval Air 52. Wake Forest 30 Honeymoon, coupled with two other Yankee outfielder who last played expected to be viewed by more than Arkansas 90. Texas 63 Mayer entries, paid $2.10 and $2.10, in 1942, has been discharged from a quarter of a million men in the Tulane 55, New Orleans Naval Air 46 while Levonsite returned $3.30. The the atoned forces and is seeking latter part of January in Honolulu, Tufts 77, Brown 6* Saipan, Guam, Manila and Tokyo. Harvard 54, MIT 42 winner's time was 1:11 for six reinstatement as a player, the furlongs. The Pacific is divided into four St. John's Brooklyn 51), St. Joseph'* 40 The Whitney horse, starting out- Yankee office said today. main districts: the Hawaiian Kansas St. 5"*, Iowa St. 46 (overtime) side in a . field of ten, got away The Giants disclosed that out- Islands, the Marianas, the Philip- TCL 51, Texas A £ M 41 pines and Japan. The Olympics New Mexico 55, Texas Tech 63 quickly and gradually drew away fielder Morrie Arnovich, who joined Rice 40. Southern Meth. 2!) from the field. She was five lengths the Army after the 1941 season and football championship will be play- Camp Atterbury 68. Franklin 33 to the good at the finish. Honey- saw service overseas, was being; dis- ed in Japan. Valparaiso 72, Brigham Young 58 moon, ridden by Johnny Longden, charged at Superior, Wis., and The Army Transport Command Wyoming 4!>, Washington (J- St. Louis 39 lost ground entering the stretch, should be available for spring is arranging special planes to fly Detroit 40, Toledo 34 West Michigan 51, Central Michigan 49 then veered to the inside. Levonsite Jake Early training. Red Rolfe athletes to their destinations. One responded only halfheartedly in team will travel from Hawaii to Michigan Normal 55, Kalamazoo 44 T*f< Japan, some 5,000 miles, one of the Kentucky 57, Ohio 48 the stretch. Enfilade carried 117 DETROIT, Jan. 6 (AP).—George Trautman, new general manager Murray State 44, Southern Illinois 37 and was ridden by A. Kirkland. longest football junkets ever made. of the World Champion Detroit Tigers, took over his job today with Many familiar sports figures are Louisville 60. Vanderbilt 27 while Honeymoon had top weight the announcement that Steve O'Neill would be the full boss of the ball Evansville. Ind- 44. West Kentucky 40 of 121. Johnny Adams piloted helping the soldiers prepare for the Morris Harvey 71. West Va. Wesleyan 35 playing. Trautman said he had no clearly defined ideas about his post contest: Jock Sutherland, famous Levonsite. except that Manager O'Neill would run everything on the field. Salem 40, West Va. Tech. 47 The mutuel pool on the Santa football coach: Fred Hoffman, of Shippensburg St. 60, Millersville Tchrs. 43 Susana was $511,998 and the total * » * the St. Louis Browns; Bert Hooper, Kutztown Tchrs. 58. West Chester Tchrs. M day's mutuels for the eight races was CINCINNATI, Jan. 6 (AP).-Ted PITTSBURGH, Jan. 6 (AP).— AAU track chairman for Hawaii; Delaware 38, Suarthmore 24 Kluszewski, All-Western Conference Southpaw hurler Aldon O. Wilkie, Kirby Higbe, of the Brooklyn Westminster 55, Olmstead Flyers 35 $2,751,792. Attendance was 40,000. Temple 70, Lasalle 60 The Boxthron Handicap of six end on Indiana's 1945 champion- of Newberg, Ore., received his dis- Dodgers and Roy Clifford, of Lafayette 65. East Stroudsburg Tchrs. 43; furlongs for four-year-olds and up, ship football team, has signed a charge from the Army on Christ- Western Reserve University. Muhlenberg 47, Penn. State 38 with a purse of $7,500 was won by contract with the Cincinnati Reds, mas and plans to rejoin the Pitts- Gettysburg 44, Juniata 33 Best Effort, owned by Jay Paley, the baseball club announced today. burgh Pirates on their spring train- Pittsburgh 34, Geneva 43 with Bismarck Sea a close second Kluszewski, who bats and throws ing trip to San Bernardino, Calif., Californian Wins Notre Dame 4:5, DePaul 43 and El Lobo third. The time was from the port side and who plays club officials announced today. He Indiana 59, Chicago 34 first base or outfield, is 21 and hails won eight games and lost 11 in two Minnesota 46. Wisconsin 45 1:10 4/5. Marianas Table Western Tchrs. 55, Illinois College 43 Best Effort paid $26.80, $10.70; from Argo, III. seasons with the Pirates. CCNY 53, American Univ. 38 Bismarck Sea, $4.70 $2.90; and El * * * Tennis Crown Worcester Tech. 57. Northeastern 41 Lobo, $3.00. CLEVELAND. Jan. 6.—Roger Peckinpaugh, vice president of the Maryland 47, North Carolina St. 33 Don Ameche's Sir Bim, a heavily Cleveland Indians, disclosed today he was preparing a contract to be Yale 55, Coast Guard Acad. 45 * played contender in several big TINIAN, Marianas, Jan. 6 (AP). Baldwin-Wallace 57, Toronto 37 offered pitcher Bob Feller for 1946. It was reported that the terms —Edward Robbins, California State Colgate 58, Rensselaer Poly. 48 handicaps last year, ran a poor would continue to make the fire-ball ace the highest-paid pitcher in Camp Patrick Henry 40. Bainbridge 37 last in a field of seven. singles champion in 1936, won the the history of baseball. Feller has hinted he may ask $40,000 for the table tennis singles championship Itterbein 55, Fort Hayes 35 season. The last one-year contract he signed in 1941, called for more of the Marianas yesterday by de- Stevens Inst. 43. Union 39 Gulf stream Betting Mark than $30,000. Rhode Island St. 84. Villanova 67 feating Dick Wakefield in three Bowdoin 47. New Hampshire 43 Smashed, Fans Bet $977,571 . * * * straight games in a Pacific Olym- Georgia Tech. 6!. Clemson 46 MIAMI, Jan. 6 (AP).—Betting WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP).— PITTSBURGH, Jan. 6 (AP).— pics contest. Duke 55, Davidson 27 The Washington Senators had four Robbins is from Santa Barbara, Syracuse 68, Rochester 4!j records again were smashed at Returning to his native city, where Richmond VJ Hampden-Sydney 36 catchers in the fold for 1946 with Calif. Wakefield played on the Long t Gulfstream Park yesterday when he got his start in baseball, Ray Marietta 47, Ohio Medical 45 the signing today of Jake Early, Island, N.Y., doubles team in 1940. 13,700 racehorse fans poured S977,- L. Kennedy began his duties as the Bowling Green 65, Puerto Rico 33 571 through the pari-mutuels. returning war veteran. Rick Fer- Harry Fudarsky of New York and West Virginia 88, St. Vincent 30 Mrs. William E. Snell's Black rell. Al Evans and Mike Guerra first general manager of the Pitts- Richard Fox of St. Louis, Mo., won Rutgers 44, Panzer 39 Pepper, ridden by jockey Lo Tucco, were previously signed. burgh Pirates. the doubles title. N.Y. Univ. 61, Connecticut 53 (overtime) Ohio State 5", Purdue 50 sped to a half-length triumph in jfS Kennedy, 50, resigned as business Dartmouth 46, Penn. 45 the featured Swanee River Handi- INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 6 (AP).— Hale Quits Ole 'Miss Post Princeton 65, Rider 50 cap, returning backers $9.60 on a manager of the Newark, N.J., Bears OXFORD, Miss., Jan. 6 (ANS).— Officials of the Indianapolis Amer- to take the new post. Michigan 49, Illinois 48 $2 ticket. ican Association baseball club were An entire new football regime at Miami, Ohio 68, Dayton 33 In winning, the four-year-old notified today that Robert D. * * * the University of Mississippi was Oberlin 65, Ohio Wesleyan 60 missed his own track mark by one- (Lefty) Logan, southpaw pitcher, WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP). assured today with the resignation Ashland 43. Mount Union 42 fifth second as he completed the Carnegie Tech. 50, Case 35 was hi a serious condition in a The Washington Senators today of Assistant Coach Edwin (Goat) Eastern Kentucky 49. Xavier 41 seven furlongs in 1:24 4/5. Springfield, 111., hospital after an received word from Sid Hudson, a Hale, who gave up his post a month Nevada 43, College of Pacific 32 automobile accident near that city. pre-war pitching star, that he would after Head Coach Harry Mehre re- Eastern Washington 84. Gonzaga 49 Bovine Rides 3 Winners The hospital reported his condition be discharged from the Army this signed. Hale also was head basket- British Columbia St. Williamette 27 MEXICO CITY, Jan. 6 (AP).— satisfactory. month after three years of service. ball coach. Lawrence 60, Grinne! 29 Jockey Victor Bovine of New York rode three winners Saturday, in- cluding a triumph aboard Jackstraw in the featured 1,200 Nuevo Laredo handicap at Hipodromos De Las Americas. Jackstraw paid $4.40. N.Y. Racing Commission Announces Track Dates

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP).—New York State tracks will return to a schedule of 189 days of racing in the coming year, an increase of 35 over last season's war-curtailed pro- gram, the State Racing Commission announced yesterday. The main beneficiary of the ex- tended schedule is the historic old track at Saratoga Springs which will hold a 24-day meeting on its own fourse for the first time since !542 Dates assigned for 1946 follow: Jamaica—April 6 to May 4 and Oct. 16 to Oct. 29. Belmont—Maj 6 to June 1 and Sept. 23 to. Oct. 12. Aqueduct—June 3 to June 22 and Sept 2 to Sept.. 21. Empire—June 24 to July 20 and Oct. 30 to Nov. 12. Saratoga—July 22 to Aug. 3 (At Jamaica): Aug. 5 to Aug. 31 (At Saratoga)

'Continued from Page 6) organized ball with Springfield Mo., in the Western Association in 1934. After moving through the Spring- field Rogers (Ark.), Sacramento (Calif.), Mobile (Ala.), Houston (Texas), Asheville (N.C.), and Co- lumbus Minor League Clubs, Cooper came up to the Cards in 1940 to stay during his big-league career. He hit 97 doubles, 17 triples, and 30 home runs, drove in 240 runs and had a lifetime fielding average of .974. In three World Series he hit an even .300. His most notable perfor- mance in the Fall set was in the 1942 affair in which the Cards upset the Yankees. In five games, he drove in four runs and in the deciding game picked Joe Gordon off second base in the ninth inning to ruin a threatening Yankee rally.

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The 'Big E' Takes a Beating U.S. Renews Swiss Reveal Capture Truman^Namesi Siam Relations Of German Saboteurs tRoarH in Rail BERN, Jan. 6 (AP).—Ten Ger- man soldiers entered Switzerland After 4 Years in civilian clothes in 1940 with Strflte^Threal instructions to blow up military WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP).— air i nstallatibns in retaliation WASHiNGgaort, sfea t -mm& The U.S. formally renewed diplo- against Swiss who had shot matic relations .with Siam yester- President Truman acted today; tX> day after a .lapse of nearly four down German planes flying over avert a stride on the St Louis an§ this neutral country, a Federal years. San Francisco Railroad1 by naming Council report on espionage in A State Department announce- an emergency board to inyestigaia ment said Britain would resume Switzerland during the war full diplomatic relations at the revealed yesterday. a" 12-point grievance dispute -fi*5N same time. The plot failed, the report tween the Brotherhood of Railroad Relations between the US. and said. Nine of the ten were cap- Trainmen and the company. The ' Siam were virtually broken off threatened walkout, which reachea tured and sentenced to life im- Jan. 25. 1942. when the .lapanese- a. critical stage during the week, -• dominated Siam puppet govern- prisonment. How the plot was would disrupt the line's service Ul ment was forced to issue a de- discovered was not disclosed. nine states. claration of war agairv.t Britain At the same time the President'^ and America. factfinding board appointed to Center of Allied Spying Study the steel wage dispute com> However, the U.S. never recog- Bomb Revenge pleted its first session here in a final attempt to forestall a striks f nised the Siamese war declaration and continued on friendly terms of 700,000 steel workers scheduled for Jan: 14. .4 - - with the Siamese representatives Coming, RAF Although only U.S. Steel Corp. in Washington. It was later dis- Is ; closed by the War Department The famed carrier Enterprise, which arrived in New York from the involved in the hearing, the CIO United Steel Workers has called for that Siam served as a center of ETO with homeward bound GIs, suffered this damage in an Atlantic Tells Javanese Allied espionage against the Ja- storm. This was more damage than the Japs were able to inflict a walkout in steel mills, aluminum plants and iron ore-processing • panese with many high-ranking *" when the big flattop roamed the Pacific. BAT AVI A, Jan. 6 (AP).—A centers throughout the nation. Siamese aiding U.S. espionage. Royal Air Force Dakota dropped The State Department, announce- 20,000 leaflets over a 50-square-mile No Announcement Yet ment said, it was understood area south ■ of Semarang threaten- There has been no announce- Charles U. Yost, American charge English Cry 'Ghoulish' to Bid ing retaliation for the shelling of ment as yet from either the U.S. d'affaires at Bangkok, would be Semarang airfield which has con- Steel Corp. or the union whether E received formally by the Siamese tinued intermittently for several they will co-operate fully with "the minister to mark the occasion of For 2-Headed Babe's Body days, a British press release said Government board. The corpora- the resumption of relations. today. tion had previously rejected propos- The State Department declared The leaflets warned Indonesians als of Secretary of Labor Lewis B. it was "pleased with the ready and to evacuate villages used by armed Schwellenbach that it negotiate cordial response" the British re- By Art White bands as they were likely to be with the union. presentatives displayed to Ameri- Stars and Stripes Stafi Writer bombed and shelled. The fact-finding board appointed can suggestions during recent ne- LONDON,* Jan. 6.—The Sunday Pictorial today charged Meanwhile, the' resignation of Lt.. for. the General Motors strike, gotiations by British and Siamese Gen. L. H. Van Oyen, Dutch Milit- meanwhile, is completing its report % officials on the treaty to end the that "a ghoulish American syndicate has perpetrated the ary Commander in the East Indies, for the President on the CIO Auto state of hostilities between them. crudest insult ever paid to a bereaved mother" in offering was confirmed by the general's Workers' 30 per cent wage increase Unlike the U.S., Britain recognized aide de camp. The resignation of demand which brought about the -Siam's declaration of war. Mrs. Gladys Govro, who last week gave birth to a two- Van Oyen was one of a series of walkout of more than 175,000 GM U.S. officials disclosed several headed baby, $500 for the child's body. The syndicate wants resignations expected to clear the workers. Findings are to be made weeks ago that they had inter- way for the rise of younger officers to put it on exhibition in the U.S. public tomorrow. vened in the discussions in an effort and a new trend in the islands. Mrs. Govro, 21-year-old English to get Britain to lessen. its de- Observers indicated that the re- Another Sore Spot mands on Siam. wife of a former GI, received the signation of Van Oyen would prob- Another labor sore spot develop- cablegram, signed "Buffalo Radio 2-Yr. Release ably be followed by that of his ed yesterday when Frank Fitzsim- Presentations," soon after the child Chief of Staff. Maj. Gen. Uhl. mons, president of the Independent died. It stated: '"Offer 500 Ameri- Adm. Conrad Helfrich resigned re Western Electric Employees Asso- Red Reporters can dollars for preserved body of Delay Seen cently when his command was re- ciation, announced in New York child for exhibition purposes with duced from the overall Dutch East that the three-day-old strike by his 10 percent of gross profit derived Indies forces to the Navy. union against the W. E. Kearney* In U.S. Zone from exhibit." ■ It was addressed: (Continued from Page 1) Meanwhile it was officially an N. J., plant was "just about ready "Mother of the Two-Headed Baby, back from overseas stations at the nounced here yesterday that the to explode" into a nationwide tele- Stars and Stripes Staif Writer Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham." average rate of 300,000 a month U.S. Air Transport Command is phone workers' walkout. The Sunday Pictorial said the FRANKFURT, Jan. 6.—Three for the next six months until the closing its bases at Batavia, Saigon, Fitzsimmons made the warning offer originated with Mr. E. Meyers, Russian newspaper correspondents Army reached its planned minimum Rangoon and Kunming this month, of a possible nation-wide telephone of Buffalo Radio Presentations, and arrived here Friday preparatory to overseas strength of 797,000 next leaving the British virtually in workers' walkout after conferring their U.S. correspondent quoted him July 1. control of the airways in Southern with Joseph A. Beirne, president or making a tour of the U.S. Occupa- as saying: "I am very disappointed tion Zone.. Two other correspon- Asserting that the reduction in Asia. the National Federation of Tele- because I thought there would be dents are to arrive tomorrow. the rate of redeployment and de- phone Workers, and predicted thn money for the child's mother and Other Bases Stay Open 'something will break" by tomorrow Arrangements for an exchange of mobilization was necessary because for me." Meyers added that he of a lack of replacements, Collins (ATC officials at Calcutta said or Wednesday. news representatives was made two could not see why. the mother months ago by Gen. Eisenhower said the War Department had that the bases at Manila, Bangkok, The company's 17,200 worker- should be horrified by his offer as went on strike Thursday in and Marshal Gregory Zhukov. made every effort to obtain replace- Singapore, Chungking, Calcutta, it was "purely a business proposi- ments "but they have not been New Delhi and Karachi would plants in New York and New Jersey • The Soviet writers, who were tion." obtained fast enough to permit the remain in operation, however. It over a wage dispute. The company greeted on arrival by Gen. Joseph The paper charged: "Business had offered to grant but 50 percent T. McNarney. USFET commander, immediate return of every man was also stated that the India men on the other side of the Atlan- of the union's demand for a 30 per- are: Capt Lydia F. Denisova. Sr. Lt. who becomes eligible for discharge Command is dissolving its head- tic are seeking to make capital out without endangering the nation's quarters and moving to Paris.) cent wage increase. Stanislav L. Levin and Sr. Lt. of the tragic combination of cir- Alexander V. Zholkver, all repre- occupation role." The American move out of Java End in Stalemate cumstances which robbed Mrs. Gov- was considered significant in view sentatives of the Soviet informa- He estimated 400,000 men had At Chicago, negotiations in the ro of a normal baby. The hus- of the current strife in the East tion bureau. Capt. Peresvetov and band is an American soldier, a fact been procured for the regular Army seven-week-old strike of 2,000 AFL Sr. Lt. Gogdlin, representing the through the recruiting program up Indies. While the U.S. shared in truck drivers in seven Midwest which doubtless prompted fellow the original decision to permit Red Army German-language paper, to Jan. 1, but he cautioned that states ended in a stalemate. The countrymen to feel that they had troops to be sent to Java, it has will arrive today some claim to this tragic child. . ." this "satisfactory" rate of recruit- CIO United Farms Equipment and ing might not continue. since demonstrated political cool- Medical authorities Birming- Metal Workers of America Union in He said Selective Service had ness to British activities here. ham said today that the baby will announced it would make public on furnished an average of only 37,000 On the battle front, some sniping be the subject of special studies by Monday the date set for a strike Still Studying experts in embryology. men a month since VJ-Day whereas and grenade-throwing was reported at 11 International Harvester Co. the Army had expected 50,000 from Buitenzorg as well as a small plants. monthly. patrol engagement near Surabaya. In Stamford, Conn., the AP 2-Yr. Releases Help Is Asked The War Department plans to Five Nationalist suspects were quoted a Yale and Towne Manu- have on July 1 an- Army of 1,550- arrested in a Batavia suburb and facturing Co. official as saying that 000, a reduction of about 400,000 ten held in Batavia itself after an the company had requested the (Continued from Page 1) In Fuel Shortage in estimates made last September. extensive screening. striking AFL Machinists' Union to "not necessarily be a factor in the The men would be distributed Indonesian sources, in the mean- resume negotiations to end the WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP).— rate of discharge in the future," this way, Collins said: Europe. time, said the British had reinstated nine-week-old strike at the local Patterson said that a Saturday re- The Army-Navy Petroleum Board 335.000; Pacific, 375,000; other non- the Dutch administration in the plant. lease by the War Department "stat- said yesterday that U.S. forces continental areas (outside the northern part of Semarang, while ed that requirements within over- overseas are experiencing a critical U.S.), 87,000; Filipino troops, the southern half of the town was seas garrisons may govern the rate fuel and gasoline shortage due to 50.000 in training; continental still administered by British- of discharge for the next few lack of personnel to man War U.S., 703,000 including 362,000 oper- directed Japanese. months. In some cases personnel Shipping Administration tankers. ating personnel and 343,000 train- Camp Boston may be detained until their re- Adm. F. J. Horne, Chainman of ing, in transit or in strategic re- placements can be dispatched to the Board, said less than a month's serve. Argentine-Brazil Clashes prevent crippling of occupational supply of gasoline was on hand for GIs HhDelay forces. In some cases an already occupation forces in Germany, Regrettable, Says Senator Reported at Frontier critical condition exists due to dis- taking into account cargoes en (Continued from Page 1) integration following too rapid dis- route. He said the margin would On Redeployment End MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 6 for foreign brides and GI prisoners. charge without replacements." shrink to approximately a 15-day WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (ANS).— (Reuter).—Border incidents broke "We are appealing to you to use supply unless sailings were exped- Sen. Chapman Revercomb (R-W. out yesterday on the Argentine- your position of authority to help ited immediately. Va,), a member of the Senate Mili- Brazilian frontier at Paso de los remedy what appears to be an Settle Ruhr Crisis Because of the shortage of sea- tary Affairs Committee, today Libres, it has been learned here. abominable state of inefficiency and going personnel, especially officers, called the decision to end redeploy- The Brazilian Government has misrepresentation of fact," the let- Soon—Me Narney the board said many WSA ships ment on the basis of points "re- ordered the immediate closing of ter continued. "The men in the were immobilized in ports of the grettable." the port of Uruguayana and all camp here represent every branch U.S. Among the immobilized ships "I recognize the necessity of keep- traffic is at a standstill. of the service, and any confidence FRANKFURT, Jan. 6 (AP).— are some 40 tankers. ing a substantially strong Army," (Uruguayana is an inland port they formerly had in the Army is Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, com- The Board addressed an "urgent he told a reporter, "but I am and rail center on the Uruguay being rapidly destroyed." mander of American forces in Ger- appeal" to all mates, engineers and against slowing up the demobiliza- River, separating Brazil from Ar- Units signing the letter were the many, expressed the opinion yes- other seagoing ratings to meet the tion of these men. There are more gentina, about 25 miles north of the 614th Tank Destroyer Bn, the 135th terday that the question of the emergency. men abroad than are required.'' Uruguay-Brazil frontier.) Signal Radio Intelligence Co. the Ruhr and the western boundaries 547 Pontoon Bridge Co. and the of Germany, with which the French 3226 QM Service Co. are concerned, should be settled as Spokesmen for the men said soon as possible. copies of the letter would be cabled Asked at a press conference Egyptian Ex-Minister Assassinated to columnists Walter Winchell and whether the French stand was just- Drew Pearson. Many individuals in ified in blocking any inter-zone CAIRO, Jan. 6 (AP).—Sen. the Egyptian Political Reform man as a thick-set youth who fled the units, were cabling and writing agreement until these questions Arnin Osman Pasha, former Fi- League. Osman died six hours into the crowded Opera House their Congressmen, they added. jvere settled, the general replied: later after an operation. The sus- Square following the shooting. . "The eastern boundaries have nance Minister of Egypt, died to- pect arrested is the 25-year-old Less than a year ago Osman, re- been settled, vhy shouldn't the day of gunshot wounds inflicted son of an Egyptian government garded as strongly pro-British, British to Free Loyalists western boundaries be settled?" yesterday, and it was reported official, in whose home police was assaulted by two knifewield- BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan. 6 found a revolver similar to one ing youths. He is the third public that his assassin had been ar- (AP).—The British War Office has Plane Crashes, 4 Dead dropped by Osman's killer in his figure to be murdered in Egypt in decided to release 250 Spanish OSLO, Jan. 7 (AP).—At least rested. flight. A reward of £5,000 had little more than a year. The other Republicans detained in a prisoner- four persons died Friday night The gunman fired three shots been posted by the Ministry of victims were Lord Moyne, former of-war camp at Chorley, Manches- when a plane, believed to be Brit- into the shoulders and back of Interior for information leading British Resident Minister and ter, the Birmingham Trades Coun- Mi, crashed at Lurde, near Ger- the 46-year-old former minister to the arrest of the assassin. Prime Minister Ahmed Maher cil was told by Labor M. P. C. V. sund, in southern Norway. as he entered the headquarters of Witnesses described the gun- Pasha. Simmons.

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