Lichfield Prisoners' Escape Thwarted
Kilian Loses EUROPEAN EDITION USAFE WEATHER FORECAST FRANKFURT: Cloudy, showers. MUNICH: Partly cloudy; showers, His Fight to THE STARS A IPES BERLIN: Cloudy. BREMEN: Cloudy. Unofficial Newspaper ol U.S. Armed i LtzfiC^ Forces in (he European Theater VIENNA: Partly cloudy; showers. Avoid Trial Volume 2, Number 169 Wednesday, June 19, 1946 From Press Dispatches BAD NAUHEIM, June 18— Soldier-prisoners being held as prosecution witnesses for the Lichfield trials were foiled in Twister Lashes Detroit Area an escape attempt yesterday with the discovery of a parti- ally dug four-foot long tunnel through which they hoped to Soviets Pare 17 Killed, Hundred Hurt, pass under a barbed wire "prison wall" to freedom. Discovery of the escape passage, which had been dug with a stove Demands on River Rouge Is Battered poker and tin can, was announced today by Army Public Relations officials. Italy Issue DETROIT, June 18 (AP)—A tornado which officials said Although the tunnel, which was exceeded 250 miles an hour late yesterday swept through the started beneath a small closet in PARIS, 3fune IB (APH-H the guardhouse had only progressed towns of River Rouge, Mich., and the Windsor, Ont., area in four feet in length, Army guards, Compromise between the Soviet* who discovered the crudely dug pas- Union and the western Allies Canada and left at least 17 known dead and more than 100 sage during a surprise inspection, seems likely on the hotly- injured. estimated that it would have taken S & S Map By Robert Clark The tornado first struck River Rouge, in west Detroit, and, only a "few more nights of digging" debated issue of Italian repara- to bring the men outside the prison tions. Path of Tornado cutting a swath 100 yards wide and 15 miles long, twisted into area. The Russians have taken a The twister struck first at River adjacent Ontario, with the tiny town of Sandwich bearing Prisoners Roles Studied Rouge, then swept across the De- more lenient attitude regarding troit River into Canada, hitting the the brunt. Public Relations said last night the total bill which Italy should tiny town of Sandwich the hardest. that it had not definitely ascertained Estimates, meanwhile, ranged as high as 40 dead in the how many prisoners were involved be asked to pay for her fWindsor area alone, and participation in the war and it was in the plot, nor what disciplinary authorities indicated that it action would be taken against pris- supposed by persons close to the Trolleys Halt oners known to have been impli- American Secretary of State,«James New Army Weapon might be some time before the cated in the tunneling action. F. Byrnes, that the Allies might full toll was known. The total In one of the most tumultuous accede to Russian reparations In Vienna Due Hurls Liquid Metal property damage was expected to court room sessions which the Lich- demands more readily if there is run into millions of dollars. field trials have seen to date, a scaling down of other economic Miles a Second Many in Hospitals penalties against Italy. Col. James A. Kilian tpday lost his WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— Canadian authorities listed 13 two-day fight to avoid trial on Would Lighten Burden To Food Crisis The Army lifted the edge of its According to these American in- identified dead, while four were charges of cruelty to American VIENNA, June 18 (UP)—Part of blueprint briefly to disclose a fan- known dead in the United States. soldiers imprisoned in the Army's formants, Soviet Foreign Minister Vienna's public transport halted this tastic weapon that may develop into Vyacheslav M. Molotov declared At least 60 others were in Windsor 10th Reinforcement Depot of which afternoon as street car and subway a defense against atomic rockets or hospitals and 40 in American he was once commander. that he wanted to make the burden workers staged a "hunger" strike armored space ships laden with hospitals. After six and a half hours of on the Italian people as light as A-bombs. Hundreds-of persons were home- heated argument and half-success- possible. following an appeal by Mayor The weapon is a jet of molten Koerner to UNRRA Director General less as the wind toppled houses like ful attempts to question two major The whole question of compensa- metal which has an initial velocity straws, wrecked business buildings generals and several colonels, the tion has been left open, pending Fiorello H. LaGuardia for aid in the of almost five miles per second. city's growing food crisis. and tossed motor cars about like (Continued on Page 8) further study by the Council, but Although still in the research and playthings. The Weather Bureau it was clear that Russia, whose Some street cars continued to planning stages the possibility of said the tornado ran its course in nationals have no property in Italy, operate in the early afternoon, but the horrendous new weapon has about 10 minutes, then dissipated in would oppose extensive levies on others halted one by one as striking Army Ordnance experts enthusi- Lake Saint Clair. Loan to Britain Italian resources to reimburse operators stood on the tracks and astic. They concede however, that Fire was reported to have started British, American and French appealed to fellow operators to join adapting it to robot anti-atomic sky in debris left in the wake of the private citizens. them. defense is going to require a bit of doing. twister, and general fire alarms were Moves in House This afternoon, the ministers are Appeals to La Guardia sounded. As the swirling funnel to discuss reparations, the Italian Strikes also spread to a number of First hint of the molten jet was crossed the Detroit River, violent WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— colonies, the status of Trieste and private factories. Meanwhile, a dropped in a dully worded War waterspouts were raised. The House Banking Committee the Italo-Yugoslav border. workers delegation convened ' with Department announcement which 5'esterday formally reported its 20 Public Nutrition Minister Hans reported postwar research of the Rescue Workers in Buses to 5 approval of the British Loan, Frenzel and Allied Council represen- ordnance arm was gradually out- Rescue workers were sped to hard- and declared that an agreement will tatives. moding many standard weapons hit Sandwich in Windsor city buses. be helpful to America, Britain, and used a year ago. USFET Grips Koerner cabled LaGuardia that They reported ■ countless persons the entire world. Would Replace Bullets trapped in debris and whole families The committee said that the the crisis in Vienna and surround- ing area reached a peak. Maj. Gen. Everett S. Hughes, Chief wiped out. The Red Cross rushed "alternative would be to risk a divi- Currency Reins of Ordnance, is of the opinion that aid to- stricken communities. sion of the world into conflicting "We are all afraid of the future. If The River Rouge plant of. the Ford The Stars and Stripes Bureau no help arrives, there will be a the high explosive bullets and pro- economic blocs, with the ever pres- jectiles fighter pilots pumped into Motor Co., one of the largest fac- ent danger of economic warfare." FRANKFURT, June 18—Further spiritual breakdown of the popula- tories in the U. S., just escaped the efforts to tighten the circulation of tion. As Mayor of Vienna, I ask you enemy aircraft probably. will be The House next week begins the replaced in a few years by the new path of the tornado. This industrial loan debate when a battle is prom- currency in Germany and to pre- ardently to come to Vienna to look suburb of Detroit has a population vent Allied visitors from being for yourself. We can't do it any high-speed metallic jet traveling at ised by the opposition led by three an initial velocity of 25,000 feet per of 17,000. Republicans and one Progressive. stranded here without acceptable longer," the cable said. Radio station CKLW in Windsor, funds were indicated today in a second. „ The question of Britain turning The transport strike is similar to If the jet travels that speed—a broadcasting with an emergency over Atlantic bases to the U. S. by USFET order that no military entry the Qne which halted publication of speed known to be possible—the generator, reported that the storm deed has no place in consideration permits into the theater will be Vienna's newspapers a week ago. spurting flash of molten metal could struck the town of Ojibway, about of the loan, the committee said. issued without guaranty of the The Office Workers Union de- catch up with a V2, which travels (Continued on Page 8) visitor's dollar backing. clared that the food situation had- at only 5,000 feet per second. A All major commands and U. S. assumed alarming proportions re- bullet lags along at 3,000 feet a second. Telephone Wedding military attaches in national capitals sulting in unrest in all the offices Sound drags along at 1,120 feet per of countries in and adjacent to the and plants. second. China Needs Peace, Planned by Chaplain European Theater have been in- The jet-firing mechanism is en- formed that June 20 is the deadline visioned as an airplane weapon. Red General Warns FRANKFURT, June 18 (AP)—A for entry permits with currency ex- First it would hurl out a rocket to NANKING, June 18 (AP)—The stocky paratrooper chaplain from change records supported by U. S. Gen. Gaffey Killed be guided by radar or drawn by commander of all the Chinese Com- Fort Worth," Texas, who has married dollars or by a currency which can eletronics to a skyborne enemy be readily converted into U. S. In Bomber Crash munist forces in Manchuria, Gen. scores of Americans in Frankfurt, target. As it closed in, it would let Lin Piao, said today that further will be married tomorrow by trans- dollars. FORT KNOX, Ky., June 18 (AP) go with a stream of molten metal. English pounds, Swiss francs and —Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey and two civil war could only bring catas- Atlantic telephone. trophe to China. Chaplain Dwight L. Baker, 25, of Danish kroner, USFET said, are con- other Army officers were killed and German Ammo Headed the 508th Prcht. Inf. Reg., will go vertible into Allied military marks four enlisted men were injured "For the sake of the peoples' to a phone booth at 5 p. m. Frank- or Austrian schillings. when a B-25 crashed as it came in For Bottom of North Sea welfare, our present stand is to furt time and be married by his for a landing at the Goodman FRANKFURT, June 18 (AP)— realize peace," Gen. Lin said. Baptist-minister father standing by Senators Drop Jackson Case Field here. Loaded with 5,000 tons of German "If the Kuomintang (Nationalist his bride-to-be in Fort Worth. Gaffey, 51, commander of the 2nd ammunition, a German ship manned Party) will cease attacks, peace is WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— and 4th Armored Divs. in Europe by a German crew is expected to sail at hand," he added. Baker—who is the second Amer- The Senate Judiciary Committee ican to be married by phone from during the war, was commanding from Bremerhaven tomorrow to Frankfurt—has booked a 12-minute decided that it has no "authorization officer of the Armored School at dump the Nazi war cargo into the or jurisdiction" to take action on Fort Knox. North Sea. Electric Storm Fails to Faze telephone call for the ceremony. charges made by Supreme Court Baker said he was being married The others killed were Lt. Allan Bremerhaven public relations of- Ohio Flagpole Sitter Justice Robert H. Jackson against J. Hoenig, of Trenton, N. J., and Lt. ficers said the ship would be es- by phone so he could bring his Justice Hugo L. Black. COSHOCTON, Ohio, June 18 (AP) bride overseas. He will .get married Robert A. Peter. cortedjo the dumping area by a U. S. —"Mad" Marshall Jacobs, seated - again when she arrives. The bride- Navy escort ship. Simultaneously, atop a 176-foot flagpole at the Cos- to-be is Miss Emma Elizabeth the Liberty ship Thomas B. King is hocton County fair grounds, received Weatherly, 27, of Swannoa. N. C. AFN to Air Louis-Conn Bout scheduled to sail for the United Ave shocks during Sunday night's States with a cargo of 3,500 tons of severe electrical storm, he said. The championship bout of Joe still-needed American and Nazi am- But he was still on his perch today (War Dept. Asks Congress Louis and Billy Conn will be broad- munition. % and insisted he would be there cast by AFN at 3 a.m. tomorrow July 4. He ascended May 30. To Double RA Officers morning on a short-wave pickup of One Killed in Hotel Fire WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— a ringside announcer. GARY, Ind., June 18 (AP)—One The War Department today asked Another broadcast of the bout person was killed and nine injured legislation to increase the author- will be carried by the network at when a flash fire raced through the Late Bulletin ized commissioned strength of the 3 p. m. tomorrow. 52-room Imperial Hotel today. Regular Army from 25,000 officers AFN officials said today that all PARIS, June 18 (UP)—Col. J. to 50,000. stations will remain in operation Typhoon Threatens Luzon W. Durant and his wife, WAC The Department said, in a letter throughout the night, filling in with MANILA, June 18 (AP)—The Navy Capt. Kathleen B. Nash Durant, to Speaker Sam Rayburn (D.-Texas), music and, in event the Wednesday has reported a typhoon moving held in connection with the Hesse that it hoped to keep many national evening fight is postponed stateside, toward the general direction of jewel theft, arrived in Paris by Guard ' and reserve officers who the same re-broadcast scheduling Luzon from a point 350 miles east air at 6:05 p. m., en route to applied for permanent commissions, joe Louis will be carried over* Billy conn of Mindanao. Frankfurt to stand trial. Wednesday, June 19,1946 Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES
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> Wednesday, June 19,194$ Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES U.S. Proposes to Help Train Chinese Army Program Calls Big Problems For Force of Face Congress 1,000,000 Men O i Final Lap WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)—The WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— 79th Congress skidded around a The United States is ready to help corner today on what may be the in training a Chinese army of last month's lap of work with half 1,000,000 men, provided Congress dozen Administration legislative agrees. projects barely hanging on. The training would include both The next four weeks of Capitol Central Government and Communist Hill action may place this country troops, in a ratio of five to one. on a foreign policy course in line with President Truman's broad • Gen. George C. Marshall, special recommendations, but on a domestic ambassador to China, has approved route which he hardly can accept a program developed by the U. S. without some protests. State, War and Navy departments Six major problems, still awaiting calling for an "effective small army" solution before the Legislators .quit of 60 divisions. to go home about July 15, include extension of price controls, renewal Aim to Preserve Peace of military draft, establishment of That description came from offi- atomic energy controls, creation of cials who said the objective is to: emergency labor disputes powers, ENABLE China to maintain her approval or rejection of the British internal security. loan and merger of the armed forces. HELP preserve peace in China. Truman May Break Even COOPERATE in whatever way Is On basis of present prospects, necessary with United Nations peace President Truman can figure to break forces yet to be organized. about even on these. The goal of 60 divisions, composed Indications are British credit will go through, atomic regulation will of 50 divisions of National Govern- be established in a form fairly satis- ment troops and 10 of Chinese Com- factory to the White House and a munist troops was laid down by pared down version of labor controls Marshall last January. $52,000—And No Bull may be set up. The proposed training program A real silver domino Hereford Bull sold for of Jack Turner at Dean Ranch, west of Fort Worth. At best, the President apparently has been planned in expectation that $52,000 at the Silver Crest Hereford dispersion sale It is led by John Tarr of the Dean Ranch. can get only a shadow of the full Marshall's program for making price controls he sought. The draft peace between the two Chinese fac- York Strikes Oil may be extended in a way he prob- tions will succeed. ably can accept, if not applaud. But Ex-PWs Meet Near His Home VetsAsk9Point any action on unification of the If that should fail, America would NASHVILLE, iTenn., June 18 armed forces seems out for this have no alternative but to give (AP)—World War I hero Alvin C. Italian Treaty session. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek its To Form Club York has struck oil near his home On other still pending issues, the full support, officials said. MILWAUKEE, June 18 (AP)— at Pall Mall, Tenn. State geologist WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP)— Chief Executive seems unlikely to Prison camp life normally isn't H. B. Eurwell said that it is fare even that well during final days Twenty-one American veterans of of the Congressional meeting. something to talk about around the "one of the better wells in the the Italian campaign came here area." The Administration's minimum Reserve Board dinner table but a group of Mil- under the auspices of Sen. James wage bill and long range housing waukeeans will do just that today. Burwell said, "The well Is turning out a very good grade of Mead to tell the Senate Foreign Il- program appear to be tightly wedged Foremost in the discussion will be oil." But he had not completed lations committee their views on an in a House road block. The Senate Hits Tax Cut formation of a national "barbed wire tests to determine the exact Italian peace treaty which Secretary minority holds are an effective fili- buster threat over bills to establish WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— club" composed of former PWs of gravity. of State James F. Byrnes is attempt- both the Japanese and the Germans. ing to negotiate in Paris. permanent FEPC and to abolish The Federal Reserve Board today York said that his 732-foot well state poll taxes. opposed further general reduction Azzan McKagan, Air Force staff was pumping oil at the rate of 13 Forest J. Tate, of Brooklyn, who of taxes but declared "prudent sergeant shot down over Cologne in barrels an hour. lost an arm at Cassino explained the economy should be effected in gov- April 1943, conceived the idea for views of his comrades on Trieste. ernmental operations." the club. "I saw a lot of what the Italian AAF to Develop Figuring such a policy would more One of the reasons for the club Is Indian Chiefs Ask people went through. I want them than balance the budget, it called to talk over experiences and reshare Representation to feel ex-GIs haven't forgotten for use of excess funds to reduce miseries suffered in prison camps on them. They deserve a break from Arctic Bases the national debt. It opposed in- Uncle Sam during this critical time." creasing the interest rate on Govern- both sides of the world. There are In United [Nations WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP)— ment debt obligations. other reasons too. STAMFORD, Conn., June 18 (AP) The veterans urged: Trieste re- Reliable sources here said that the main Italian and if internationalized The Board's views were set out "We want to cultivate friend- —Five Indian chiefs and a squaw Army Air Forces has a chain of air in its annual report to Congress. ships," McKagan explained, "And that it be placed under Italian ad- bases stretching across the Arctic were named delegates, represent- ministration. In setting out its opposition to we" want to honor our departed com- ing North and South American In- Circle which it plans to develop as higher interest rates, the Board rades. Also we want to seek justice dians^- with authority to petition The boundary between Italy and a bulwark against possible air at- pointed out the debt had grown by and righteousness in political and for a permanent seat for Indians in Yugoslavia be the Wilson Line or tacks from the European continent the end of 1945 to nearly six times economic issues." the United Nations and its Secu- as modified by the State Depart- The bases are operated by the At- its size in prewar 1940, It said that ment. interest charges rose from less than rity Council at its September ses- lantic division of the Air Transport That the Italian-Austrian bound- one billion to more than five billion Los Angeles Zoo Wants sion in New York. Command, and official AAF sources a year. Announcement of the delegates ary remain as present. said it is the first time in history "As result of this five-fold in- To Trade Hungry Animals was made at Woodside Park by Pre-fascist Italian colonies remain that the AAF has been given mili- crease, the interest charge has LOS ANGELES, June 18 (AP)— chief Swimming Eel of Stamford, Italian or under Italian administra- tary command of all U.S. Army become the largest single item in tion. the budget, aside from expenditures A shortage of hay and grain has representative of the "chiefs grand troops on communication bases in a All plans for punitive reparations geographical division. for veterans pensions and benefits hit Griffith Park zoo. council," and its affiliates at a against Italy be laid aside. for the fiscal year 1947," the Board The park commission wants to tribal council and pow-wow. That the Italian merchant marine The vast network, covering 26,493,- added. sell or swap four elk, seven black The chief said the War Depart- be restored so the Italian govern- 000 square miles of ocean, was con- and two white fallow deer, one ment contemplates moving Indian ment can take its own steps to feed ceived by Army airmen as the first Kreisler's Condition Critical brahma calf, one Utah mule deer, families from an improved and the Italian people. line of combat defense against any eight karakul sheep and lambs and cultivated reservation at Fort That the Italian government be enemy who might attack from the NEW YORK, June 18 (AP)—Vio- Bethold, Elbow Woods. N. D., to declared a friendly nation instead of linist Fritz Kreisler, 71, was des- four mountain sheep and lambs. the Missouri bad lands, where, the east, and some of the air arm's best Replacements will be animals whose an enemy nation as is now its tech- talent has been assigned to it. AAF cribed as in critical condition today chief said, "the land is uninhabit- nical designation. with peritonitis, which developed appetites are less difficult to satisfy able and unfit to live in." Commander, Gen. Carl Spaatz, is in after an emergency appendectomy. under current conditions. Italy be admitted to the United command. The headquarters is at Nations. Fort Tooten, Long Island, N. Y. 64 Children, Grandchildren All remaining restrictions on Italian sovereignty be forthwith The division is new, and many men Epidemic Sweeps Barnyards; Attend Couple's Wedding abolished. are green, since most experienced LOS* ANGELES, June 18 (AP)— personnel has been demobilized, but C. W. Miller, 82, and bride, the for- recruits are being trained rapidly, Hens Ain't Happy About It mer Mrs. Emma King, 80, are New Remedy Kills Ticks and bases and routes are kept alive WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP)— their breath comes fast and they honeymooning today after their JOHANNESBURG, June 18 (AP)— by service performed in the move- Do your chickens snub their nest are even too weak to eat. The dis- wedding ceremony Saturday night The new British insecticide gam- ment of essential mail supplies and and refuse to lay eggs? Are they ease is contagious among chickens attended by 64 children, grand- mexane has had considerable success high priority military personnel to but there is no danger of human children and great-grandchildren. in combating the cattle killing ticks nervous, rundown? They may be in South Africa. and from the U. S. occupation instal- suffering from Newcastle disease, a contagion. They met two months ago. lations abroad. malady that has the Agriculture Department worried. Terry and The Pirates (By Courtesy of News Syndicate) It has been very destructive to By Milton Caniff flocks in Europe, Asia, and has be- come fairly widespread in the United States in recent years. Dr. Bennett Simms, chief of the department's Bureau of Animal In- dustry, said the problem has be- come very serious and steps have been taken to meet it. He said that a special committee of poultry vet- erinarians and pathologists has pub- lished a study of the ailment and tried to find an answer. Experts hope a new vaccine may hold the cure, but the treatment Is still in the experimental stage. The disease was first discovered at New- castle, England, two decades ago. The stricken hens stop laying, Wednesday, June 19,1948 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page S
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Tops 1944 Big r L'NA TELLING VOL), DODO DON'T LET ME CATCM THAT TRAMP AROUND HERE- ALL Money Makers HE COULD EVER GYVE-YOU I WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— ' . IS TROUBLE. I Movies, horse racing and motor making accounted for the first five places in the Treasury Department's listing of 593 top-paid Americans in 1944. Movie producer-director Leo Mc- Carey, with 12-month earnings of $1,113,035, headed the list easily, while Charles H. Strub, vice pres- ident of the Los Angeles Turf Club, was lengths behind in second place with $466,537. Movie financier Charles P. Skouras and actor Fred MacMurray stood Food Rations third and fourth with $393,000 and King Urges Scientific $391,217, respectively, and motor- maker Charles E. Wilson, president For Germans of General Motors, was fifth at $362,954. Growth Despite Danger Listings Exclude Taxes LONDON, June 18 (AP)—The "infinite possibilities for good and evil" To Be Raised The figures cover corporation in scientific discoveries like atomic energy "must never be used as an By NADEANE WALKER payments of $75,000 or more for the argument against scientific research," King George VI said yesterday. calendar year 1944 and business Opening the first empire scientific conference, the King said he hoped Staff Writer fiscal years which ran into 1945. All it would be the forerunner of "closer contact in scientific affairs within BERLIN, June 18^-Dried milk and salaries were listed before deduction the empire" and added the "empire is a laboratory stored with materials." vegetables from the U. S., sugar of federal, state and other taxes, "We must see to it that the avail-*?* from the Russian zone and fish frorn which in most instances trim actual able resources, both in money and Scandinavia have made possible the cash by 50 to 90 per cent. manpower, are efficiently applied. AESWill Sell forthcoming increase in food rations Top-paid woman and 35th in the To do this implies careful planning in the U. S. zone, according to the list, which included fewer than a Military Government weekly report dozen of her sex, was film actress and close cooperation," he said. Commonwealth cooperation, the Only 'Fair or released today. Effective June 24, the Carmen Miranda who received average consumer ration will be $201,458. Actresses Paulette God- King observed, can . "develop a 9 increased to 1,225 calories daily. dard and Betty Grable were her greater and wider field of scientific Good Jeeps The report revealed that 6,000 tons closest rivals, with $187,333 and investigation than any other com- of food, over 46 per cent of which $172,000, respectively. munity, always excepting the United FRANKFURT, June 18—Ten "used originated in America, was supplied Four businessmen and a movie Nations." car lots" where surplus jeeps in "fair" to Berlin during the week. Plans executive made up the lower half or "good" condition may be purchased were completed for an increase of of the top ten. BARUCH PROPOSAL CALLED for $430 or $590 respectively, are 248,000 hectares of crops, over the Sixth was E. H. Bobst, of Mont- CHALLENGE TO NATION 1945 figures. clair. N. J., president of the Hoff- now being organized in Germany, man-Laroche drug firm, with $300,- LONDON, June 18 (AP)—The France and Austria, Army Exchange Serious Barrel Shortage 000. Seventh and eighth places London Times said that the Amer- Service announced today. It was stated this week that the went to Ormond E. Hunt and Albert ican plan for atomic energy The sale of jeeps on payment of herring season is starting with a Bradley, General Motors vice pres- control, advanced by Bernard Ba- U. S.-approved currency or by bank serious shortage of barels. Of 350,000 idents, who drew $287,745 and ruch on Friday, "draws together the draft, cashier's check or money order needed only 80,000 are on hand. $276,019, respectively. May Solve Mystery Rail freight movement into the U. S. The snapshot of an American product of anxious minds and acceptable to the PX, will be made zone from the Bremen Enclave Army nurse found in the pocket troubled consciences that have been on a first-come, first-served basis to totalled 93,175 tons, and the enclave of an American flier* killed in continuously, exercised over the all military personnel and authorized ports were cleared of~ backlogs as a Vienna Thieves Italy may solve the mystery problem of nuclear energy in the civilians, the Army said, without result of slow arrival of incoming surrounding his identity. She has 10 months since Hiroshima was specifying exact opening dates of cargo. been identified as Lt. Betty Hencfce, destroyed." the lots. Other events of the week, as out- currently stationed at Stuttgart. Steal 237 Autos The Times saw in the plan "a Lots will be located in Berlin, lined by the MG report, included:« clear challenge to international Bremerhaven, Nurnberg, Munich, the feasibility of producing penicillin VIENNA, June 18 (AP)—A total of Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and in Germany. It is indicated that it 237 U, S. Army vehicles were stolen statesmanship to take the bold step Wiesbaden, in Germany: Paris, will require two years to fill the in Vienna between the start of the Fun-Bound GIs forward—a step, be it noted, in the France, and Linz, Austria. : penicillin needs of the zone. American occupation in August and direction of world government, Conditions of sale Sculpture attributed to Leonardo May 1, a report by Col. W. P. which was the instinctive demand da Vinci was returned to The Aid French Kids Because of a limited supply of Netherlands, and literature stolen Yarborough, provost marshal of the of so many when the danger first parts and repair facilities, AES said Special to The Stars and Stripe* appeared." from the Channel Islands by the Vienna Area Command showed no jeep will be sold if classified Nazis was returned to the UK. today. FRANKFURT, June 18—American below the condition of "fair," and Of this total 113 were recovered. soldiers passing through Mulhouse, no vehicle will be offered for pur- Blocked Funds Released The worst month of the occupation France, Swiss—Rome leave center, Request 12,000 chase until it has been inspected by Five million reichsmark were have contributed generously to a ordnance and then accepted by in- released from blocked funds in the for stolen vehicles was January spectors of Army Exchange Service. U. S. zone to a former I. G. Farben when 61 were stolen. In April, due fresh air fund for under-privileged There will be no sale of insurance plant at Ludwigshafen in the French to stricter safeguards, the number French children, Theater Special ET Dependents zone, and the Soviet zone released Services announced. or license plates by AES in France, t had declined to 10 stolen and nine The Stars and Stripes Bureau the announcement said, although $6 and equal "amount for the same pur- recovered. In a letter of appreciation to Col. FRANKFURT, June 18—A total plates and the approximately $85 pose. Statistics prepared by Yarborough Frederick P. Pitts, Commanding of- insurance will be available in Ger- Three new periodicals, two of them of 7,062 applications had. been filed political publications, were brought showed that crime in Vienna was ficer of the leave center, the director with USFET Hq. today by military many. Registration cards and private still a serious problem with an of the fund, the Entraide Francaise, drivers licenses may be obtained out, and 23 new books and pamphlets and civilian personnel to bring were published. average of approximately 1,500 cases declared that the soldiers had con- from provost marshal offices set up 12,307 dependents to the European near the used car lots. There was a continuing upward being reported to Vienna police each tributed in excess of 200,000 francs. Theater this year. trend-in VD and tuberculosis cases week. A breakdown of crimes by The French Red Cross drive has A breakdown of figures showed reported. also been assisted by 'American zones shows that more crimes are that 5,094 officers, 1,479 enlisted 1,618,000 Live in Vienna donors. The letter to Pitts stated that VIENNA, June 18 (AP) —The committed in the Russian districts personnel arid 489 civilians had of Vienna than in any other, the the voluntary contributions had aided population of Vienna which reached Dutch Nazis Riot in Camp greatly in creating good will for applied for dependency travel to proportion being about 50 per cent a low point of 1,323,000 at the end THE HAGUE, June 18 (UP)—New American soldiers among the French the theater. Dependents of the of hostilities has climbed back to riots broke out this morning at the in May. people. . • / officer applicants totaled 9,250, 1,618,000, a census of the cities 26 internment camp for Dutch Nazis at The British districts are a close dependents of enlisted personnel districts disclosed today. In May, Duindorp near here. Shootings second to the Russian, although 2,268, and 789 dependents requested 1939, the population was approxi- occured in which one Nazi was other statistics show that British Lack of Fodder for Horses by civilians. mately 1,930,000. In the present pop- believed killed and one wounded. A troops commit fewer crimes than Closes Garmisch Stables Applicants asked for a total of ulation there are 270,000 more state of' alarm in the camp is continuing. the troops of any other occupying Special to The Stars and Stripes 554 family members to be moved in women than men. army. MUNICH, June 18—Lack of June, 4,689 in July, 3,513 in August, Approximately 90 per cent of the fodder to feed the horses at the 99 in September, and a total of 38 crime in Vienna is committed by Garmisch recreation center has during October, November and Austrians or persons whose national- caused 3rd Army authorities to December. Three officers have asked ity is never ascertained, the report close the riding stables which were a popular attraction with GIs vaca- for shipment of dependents in indicated. tioning in the German mountain January of next year. * ——————— resort. Requests for the shipment of Jeffrey" Lynn Discharged The horses have been shipped to automobiles totaled: officers, 2,316; FORT DIX, N. Y., June 18 (AP)— the Remount Depot in Donauworth enlisted personnel, 170; and civilian, Capt. Jeffrey Lynn, one of the first and will be reassigned either to the 120. movie actors to enter the armed Constabulary or sold to German i farmers. forces, was discharged today. Greater Hesse Will Train Public Welfare Workers Soviet Writer Blames Allies The Stars and Stripes Bureau WIESBADEN, June 18—Land Greater Hesse will underwrite the For Danube River's Paralysis training of 30 young Germans as public welfare workers, MG an- MOSCOW, June 18 (AP)-British bear direct, immediate respon- sibility." nounced today. and American forces paralyzed On Bevin's recent speeqh on the Nazification of German welfare Danube traffic by seizing the major proposal for internationalization of agencies created a scarcity of trained part of the river fleet, while Foreign Danube navigation control, Marinin workers to care for the more than Minister Ernest Bevin and others wrote: 200,000 individuals receiving relief falsely blamed the Soviet Union for "The peoples of the Danube coun- tries understand very well what that from local Greater Hesse offices, the present position, a writer in MG said, and greater strain is added Pravda charged today. policy means, and to what it would doom them. to local agencies by the absorption "No objective person could fail to "They see it as the restoration of of both refugees and exiles. recognize that the Soviet Union has the pre-war situation, when the The three-month course for the Wm done everything possible to provide Danube states were in fact deprived selected students will include two transport on the Danube," the writer, of their independence, and were months of theoretical training and Sleek Lines made the objects in a game between one month practical work in the Jerry Core and Jeanne Underhill demonstrate the smooth appearance M. Marinin said. of the Salisbury 85, a new two wheeled motor vehicle. With salesgirls "If it has not been developed, then the different imperialistic states. land ministry and important sub- "They do not want what is past." agencies. like these the Salisbury should soon shatter sales records. Britain and the United States must Page 6 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, June 19,1946
Louis Favored, 11-5, Over Conn Tonight
NEW YORK, June 19 (UP)—Under making the 22nd defense of the crown year build-up, should draw a gate reports that the gate might fall below dazzling ring" lights at the Yankee he wrested from Jim Braddock in 1937, ranging between $2,000,000 and $2,000,000, declared heatedly today: Stadium, Joe Louis and Billy Conn— is favored at 11-5 in heavy betting to $3,000,000. It may exceed the record "Why, we've already got more than two ex-GIs—will meet again tonight in repeat his victory over Pittsburgh Billy, receipts for a sport attraction—the two million in the till." He refused the most ballyhooed sports event of all who threatened to take the title on June $2,658,650 drawn by the second Jack to predict just how high the gate time, and perhaps the richest, with the 18, 1941, but was knocked out in the Dempsey-Gene Tunney extravaganza would go, but expects at least 80,000 world heavyweight title at stake. 13th round after leading on points. at Chicago in 1927. customers to pay for watching. Brown-skinned Joe Louis, of Detroit, This "big fight," blessed by a five- Mike Jacobs, irritated by the published Irish Billy, who went into his first ^bout with Louis a 4-1 under- dog, put up such a magnificent fight that many experts believed Cards Tight en he could have "coasted" to the title LOUIS had he not made the mistake in the 13th round of trying to slug it Race by Taking out with the champion, who had been punch-groggy and on the verge of collapse in the 12th. 2 From Braves Question to Be Settled BOSTON, June 18 (AP)—Base- WEIGHT What would have happened if ball's best travelling men, the St. Conn hadn't lost his head in the Louis Cardinals, who do better on 13th? That was the question that the road then in their own park HEIGHT swept the boxing world—the ques- swept both ends of a doubleheader tion that has been asked by millions from the Boston Braves, 9-6, and ever since then, in peace and in the 1-0, to move within two games of REACH war, during which champion and the league leading Brooklyn Dodgers, challenger were in the army more who were idle, than three years and gave boxing Howie Pollet gave the Braves only exhibitions for their buddies at six hits in the second game, while CHEST home and on many foreign fronts— his mates could get only one more (Normal) that's the big question that the "big off big Bill Lee, fight" will settle. . ^ . . The only run in the nightcap was The war-caused delay of their scored after an error on a potential CHEST return battle raised another question, double play. Pollet himself singled almost as potent as a build-up to center after one out in the sixth. (Expanded) vehicle. Both men have aged five Jeff Cross banged the ball down the years, sending Louis into the ring third-base line and Billy Herman at 32 and Billy at 28. Thirty-two is grabbed it. He threw to Connie Ryan a ripe age for any professional to erase Pollet, but Ryan's peg to fighter, and particularly for 'a de- first sailed by Johnny Hopp into fending champion. the Cards' dugout, allowing Cross to BICEPS Because of Joe's age, a major point take second. is this: has their four-year absence Dusak Doubles from competition taken more out of Ernie Dusak promptly belted a Louis than out of the younger Conn? liner to center which bounced by FOREARM Because of their contrasting methods Mike McCormick for a double scor- of training for the fight, no one has ing Cross with the only run. been able to answer this question In the first game, Emie White WRIST with certainty. made his first start since 1942, when Champ's Sparmates Good he then played with these same Louis, sparring at Pompton Lakes, Cardinals. New Jersey, used the best partners He lasted long enough to pitch to 1154 IN that money could hire. He had main- four batters, walking the first two event fighters working with him— and watching two, doubles bounce men like Al Hoosman, Perk Daniels, poff the bats of the next two Red- WAIST 33V4 IN Jimmy Bell and George Fitch. He birds for three runs. paid most of them $50 a round. Steve Roser replaced White and But Conn, sparring at Greenwood two more singles' and a fielder's Lake, New Jersey, employed com- choice gave the Cards five runs. THIGH 22 IN parative palookas-chaps like ancient, They scored single runs in the blubbery Mickey McCavoy, Conn's second, fourth, fifth and sixth, to brother Jackie, Jimmy Smith and make it nine for the game. 14K IN. Mickey Belluscio, an awkward Musial Sets Pace slugger. The Cards made 14 safe blows off Conn boxed nearly twice as many five Boston pitchers, Stan Musial rounds as Louis during the training setting the pace with a homer, ANKLE 9'/« IN. grind and he looked much sharper double and two singles. than the champion throughout. The Braves threatened often, as But no one knows what form Billy they outhit the Cards in the contest would have shown, had he been 15-14, but the best they could do working with men as good as Joe's was to fashion single runs. in the practice-mates. second, third, seventh and eighth, XSWS^^W^SSBSJ^^ w.v.v.v.v.v.v.y.v.v.wf.-.v.v , ..... Doctors Like Conn's Condition and two in the fifth. Recent examinations by Boxing Phil Masi clouted his third four- Commission physicians indicated that bagger in the seventh. Billy South- Joe Reveals Plan to Press Challenger; Conn was in better physical condi- worth used 19 men in vain efforts to tion than Louis and less likely to win the game. tire if the bout last its scheduled Condition Cinches Victory, Says Conn 15 rounds. Both principals are heavier than Phils 7, Pirates 3 _ By JOE LOUIS By BILLY CONN for their previous bout. Louis, who PHILADELPHIA, June 18 (AP)— POMPTON LAKES, N. J., June 18 (INS)—Planning GREENWOOD LAKE, N.J., June 18 (INS)—If weighed 1997a pounds in 1941, ex- The Phils continued their drive to fights as important as mine with Billy Conn tomorrow physical condition has anything to do with winning a pects to scale around 210 tonight get out of the league cellar with a 7-3 and he has grown a full inch, now night is something. heavyweight championship, I am a cinch to beat Joe victory over the Pirates. Bankers think they've got troubles. I'll trade any Louis in the Yankee stadium tomorrow night. registering six feet, two and a half Skeeter Newsome homered in the day. I'm going to press Conn every second we're in I have never been in better shape in my life. I inches. Conn's weight has increased sixth, scoring Johnny Wyrostek that ring. That's my decision. We thought of boxing have no way of knowing how Louis came through the from 174 to 180 pounds and he ahead of him. , Billy, of standing off and letting him peck me and then training grind. He's an experienced veteran and should appears to be hitting harder than Newsome also sent two of four Phil getting him late in the fight like last time. But I' would know his own condition. It doesn't concern me, be- in the past. runs across in the second with a cause I'm ready for the greatest fight But Billy, who fails to get his single. like to nail him fast in this scrap.f"- As I said before, there's too much in my life. It was the Phils 13th win in 18 Move Over, Sinatra; When I started training back in NEW YORK, June 18 (AP)—The games and put them only six per- danger in lashing him right off the bat. He can hit a bit, too, and I might Billy Sings, Too January I weighed 196 pounds. When largest number of newspapermen centage points behind the seventh- I weigh in at Madison Square Garj ever to cover a fight—between place Giants, who were idle. run into a lot of trouble. But I don't LOS ANGELES, June 18 (AP)— like 15 round fights if I can avoid Billy Conn is confidently looking den tomorrow noon, I'll be within a 600 and 700—will be in the Yankee Dick Mauny, who relieved Charley pound or two of 180. The last time Stadium Wednesday when Joe Schanz with the Phils leading, 4-3, them. Everyone knows that. But I forward to a profitable sideline of can't tip my jnitt that I will rush singing cowboy and hillbilly songs Joe and I got together, I weighed Louis defends his heavyweight and the tying run on base with one 174 pounds. That was five years ago championship against Billy Conn. out in the fifth, got credit for the him the way I did that Schmeling. "after I lick Louis." I want Billy to be guessing. Coast Records Inc., which made and it is only natural that I should Twenty-one countries, including victory. pick up a few ounces. I've put added the United States, will have press Four Pirate pitchers were unable Fighters Don't Forget Conn an offer of $35,000 a year weight on my shoulders. My neck to stop the Phils, although their to make western recordings if he representatives at the ringside. You know'one thing. I didn't cut has thickened. I figure I'll be able to teammates got 15 hits to the Phils' defeats the. champion, said the take a better punch—if I have to. It nine. Billy a bit last time—not one bit. I challenger wired acceptance from body behind his punches, never was just knocked him dead with a couple his Greenwood Lake, N. J., train- seems to me that I am faster than I a knockout artist. of good right hand punches. And ing camp. was five years ago. However, Louis has been one of Galen to Arrested in Raid; Billy will always have that in his Battle Won't Be Short the deadliest punchers in ring mind. He can't help it even if it had history. In 21 previous title defenses Charged With Gambling I can't say yet what kind of fight ORANGE, N. J., June 18 (AP)— been ten years ago instead of five. only two opponents lasted the know about things like that. I Scribes Pick Champ I'll make against Louis. I can tell you distance—Arturo Godoy, of Chile Two Ton Tony Galento, former it is not going to be a shorts fight, heavyweight title contender and now remembered Schmeling and his who was knocked out in a return punch. Conn knows what it is to To Retain Crown no matter what Gene Tunney thinks bout, and Tommy Farr of Wales tavern keeper here, was arrested or Joe Louis has planned. I am not by Orange police in a raid on a be knocked out by me, and for all NEW YORK, June 18 (INS)—In a The champion will enter the ring his cocky talk, that's sure to be in poll of the nation's sportswriters on a slow-moving heavyweight, such as candy store at 25 Lincoln Avenue was Max Schmeling, and I am not With only one defeat charged against and charged with gambling. his mind, all the time. _ the Louis Conn fight, the scribes S nCe e rofessi That layoff in the Army rusffd from coast to coast came up with going to be a stationary target for Ju?y 4 i934 " P °nal* on Galento, who seven years ago this Joe to shoot at in those early rounds. month was knocked out by Joe my fighting muscles and I knew it. the composite declaration that Joe Only one man has ever stayed in I never worked harder than for this Louis will be heavyweight champion In predicting my defeat in one or Louis in a championship bout, was two rounds, Tunney hasn't taken my the ring with Louis longer the released in the custody of his fight nor longer and I feel honestly of the world after Wednesday's bout. second time than the first. Bob Pastor I am in the best possible condition. In a survey conducted by Inter- legs into consideration. Gene doesn't counsel. know how fast I can run and I'm not alone prevented Joe from improving Doctors have disagreed on my con- national News, the boys in "the on a past performance, losing a 10- know" voted 87 per cent that Louis going to hesitate to run away from Budge Outlasts Riggs dition, confusing me with systolic danger in those early rounds. round decision and then going all the MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 18 (AP)— and dystolic talk about my blood will turn back the challenge of Billy pressure. I never had any intention Conn. I hope Louis has trained satis- iu the return match Donald Budge, recent loser to Bobby factorily, too. I want to beat the real of hitting Conn with systolic or^ A consensus of the experts reveals "e *amPion seems to work up a Riggs in an extended pro tennis that a majority of them believe, dis- Louis—the man who has been one nZ, tour, won the Southern Open tennis dystolic—my right hand will be competitive lather when he faces an enough. And my legs are all right. counting the possibility that Louis is of the greatest champions of all time. opponent for the second time his crown from Riggs, outlasting his completely washed up, that a good I am convinced that I can do it and smaller opponent through a five-set If Billy runs as soon as he gets up remembrance of the distance they off his stool, I'll be on top of him big man is still the master'of a good look forward to becoming the next travelled before overcoming his match. The score was 6-2, 1-6, 4-6, little man. world heavyweight champion. 6-2, 6-2. from that momenjt on. natural laziness. \ Wednesday, June 19,1946 THE STARS AND STRIPES PageT
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Helicopters Deliver Press Accuses Jap War Tribunal Upset Von Papen Says Los Angeles Mail WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP)— Helicopters will be used experi- U.S. of Seeking He Sent Peace mentally for the first time to col- By Wrang Answers' lect and deliver air mail in the Feelers to U.S. greater Los Angeles area during Global Control July and August, Air Forces NEW YORK, June 18 (INS)—Rua* headquarters announced. th 3t J apai S warmaker u NURNBERG, June 18 (INS)—The sia's press, which has often anti- whin S«tn - , )- * «ed the nation's school to former leading Nazi diplomat, Franz Postal officials said that if the Los Angeles experiment proves cipated formal Soviet government von Papen, told the Allied War policy, is frigid in its first reaction SK&Qtt as^ffssTpSatssi "the stand that Crimes Tribunal today he served practicable, they will urge im- mediate extention of helicopter to the Baruch plan to control atomic Hitler unsuccessfully in transmitting energy through a supreme world permission to impeach the testimony peace feelers to the late President air mail service to New York, of his own witness. Roosevelt in April, 1944. Cbicago, Philadelphia, Boston and authority. Earlier testimony evoked frowns Von Papen, charged with facilitat- other metropolitan centers as soon The Soviet publication New Times and shocked stares from the defen- ing the Nazis' rise to power, said as possible. accuses unidentified American poli- dants when a witness said that the he acted through a "straw man," ticians of trying to use atomic Japanese had been taught militarism Baron Lersner. He said the Baron secrets to establish a "reactionary for 800 years. obtained from the American diplo- 9 Utopia of world domination by the 'Last Resort United States under guise" of a world The witness was Professor Tokio- mat, George H. Earle, Roosevelt's purported reply, saying, "I will con- state. Just what a "reactionary mias Kaigo, of the Tokyo Imperial utopia" could be is not defined. University. He told the court that fer personally with the Allies as 5 Angle Ties Up militarism in Japan was intensified soon as I receive the German offer. But Russian objection to abolition when active army officers joined the The defense introduced an affi df her veto powers under the Amer- staffs of all schools in 1925. davit from Lersner intended to con- Teen-Age Draft ican plan was expected. Soviet in- firm that "Papen risked his head sistence on veto rights in the United to carry on peace talks after Hit- WASHINGTON, June 18 (INS)— Nations Security Council has been QUISLING'S WIFE PLEADS ler's refusal" to proceed. House and Senate conferees were demanded by the Russians ever since NOT GUILTY TO 2 CHARGES The former vice-chancellor told the deadlocked temporarily on the teen- the San Francisco charter confer- STOCKHOLM, June 18 (AP)— court he declined, with Count Hell- age draft issue today after a com- ence, due to fear of "ganging up" by Maria Quisling, wife of Vidkun dorf Gottfried von Bismarck in a promise permitting "last resort" in- the western powers. Quisling, the arch-collaborator, ap- Berlin restaurant in November, duction of 18-year olds was scuttled 2 Factors Favor U. S. peared before an Oslo court today 1943, to discuss the overthrow of by control of a proxy vote. Two. factors favor the United charged with: Hitler. Von Papen said he placed The conferees disclosed that Rep. States presently in its effort to get Being a member of Norway's Nazi himself at the disposal of the July Andrew May, (D.-Ky.), chairman of quick action on the Baruch proposal party; 20 plotters against Hitler as a pros- the House Military Affairs commit- and these probably will weigh less tee, cast the proxy vote of Rep. Having induced her husband to pective foreign minister. in the long run. United States pos- The defense submitted an affidavit Walter Andrews, (R.-N. Y.), who session of the secret is one factor; use 6,000,000 kroner for his estate. favors the teen-age inductions, She pleaded not guilty./ from Count Helldorf, great grandson the other is the greater technicial of the iron chancellor, Otto von Bis- against the compromise. The session ability presently of the United States marck, stating that Von Papen kept then recessed until tomorrow. Defends Tojo May's action surprised other to maintain a lead in the atomic in contact with the plotters until energy field for many years to come. Capt. John W. Guider, U. S. their venture failed. House conferees, who regarded An- Tunnel Escape Naval Reserve, has been selected drews as a "sure vote" for any plan In a strictly military sense, other by former Jap Premier Hideki retaining 18 and 19 year olds under factors would appear to favor Rus- Tojo as his defense attorney in the GEN. SEPP'S AID JAILED the draft. The New York Republican sia. With her governmental system, Plot Thwarted Far Eastern war crimes trial. FOR ESCAPING GERMANY is absent while serving as a Con- quick action and secret measures in (Continued from page 1) HAMBURG, June 18 (AP)—The gressional observer at the Bikini the atomic field are feasible' once military court overruled Kilian's former interpreter of SS Gen. Sepp Atoll atom bomb test. her scientists break down the motion to quash the charges against Dietrich, Obersturmfuehrer Junge It was understood that May took formula. Nobody knows how far him. Tornado Rips Kach, was sentenced to four years the position, that Andrews favored advanced the Russians are, but imprisonment by a Hamburg military straight induction of 18 and 19 year scientists in all lands concede the "These charges are the result of a court Saturday for illegally escap- olds and would be-opposed to any possibility she eventually will dis- malicious design," contended Kilian's Detroit Area compromise. The resultant vote of attorney, Lt. Col. Raymond E. Ford ing from Germany, Military Gov- cover the secrets. House conferees was four to three Russia Less Vulnerable of Port Pierce, Fla. "They admittedly (Continued from page 1) ernment disclosed. against a plan which won over Rep. perjured testimony obtained by per- 10 miles west of Windsor, leaving Junge Kach, born in Germany of Overton Brooks (D.-La.), one of four The wide expanses of Russia and verting and disgracing the Army's at least four dead and many missing, Chilean parentage, was taken with House members previously lined up her scattered population centers court martial system." including eight children in one a friend to Denmark in a German against taking teen-agers. make her less vulnerable than The court repeatedly blocked Ford's fishing boat and arrested in Copen- many countries to sudden attack. family. hagen, it was stated. The friend, Figuring in all this, too, is whether efforts to question witnesses about Curiously enough, people in other the background of the Kilian Heinrich Barchet, was sentenced to the atomic bomb is as frightfully parts of the world knew more about two years imprisonment and seven Debt Limit Cnt efficient as its proponents say it is. ' charges, with the law member, Col. the total effects of the tornado than William H. Beck, jr., of Griffin, Ga., other men involved received sus- Many military men, including residents in the storm area because pended sentences. ruling the questions improper or the the wind knocked down power lines, Voted by House Russians, do not expect any scrap- evidence inadmissable. deadened radios and telephones and ping of conventional armaments Twice defense witnesses were al- left the vicinity almost totally de- India's Acceptance WASHINGTON. June 18 (AP)— such as navies, ground armies and lowed to repeat one side of a con- void of communications. The House of Representatives voted general bombers because of the creation or this mass slaughter versation with an Army officer but The wing of a plane identified as Believed Certain without a dissenting voice to reduce forbidden to repeat remarks by the weapon. part of an American Army bomber NEW DELHI, June 18 (AP)—Con- the nation's authorized debt limit other person involved in the conver- fell on Sandwich at the height of the from a record $300,000,000,000 That is one reason for the forth- gress and Moslem League accep- coming Bikini test in the Pacific. sation. '. storm, but no other trace of the air- tance of Britain's plan for a coali- wartime high to $275,000,000,000. i "On what grounds is this inadmis- craft was reported. Any acceptance of the Baruch plan tion interim government was viewed The Senate has already passed a implies not only abolition of the sable?" Ford asked repeatedly. Beck A Detroit city policeman, who saw as a certainty today. time after time refused to explain similar bill by Sen. Harry Byrd atomic bomb as a weapon but aboli- the storm coming, tried to outrace The prevailing sentiment within (D.-Da.) but due to a constitutional tion of war itself. his ruling and once declared sharply, it at 60 miles an hour ip his motor the congress high command ap- "You may not ask upon what car before the debris in the violent peared to be that the party will not requirement that all legislation re- grounds the court rules." funnel crashed down on him. He kill the goose to get the golden egg, lating to revenue must originate in When Ford^ complained that many said he saw electric power lines ex- meaning that the party will not per- the House, the Senate mijist act again Nylon Hosiery on Sale witnesses he" needed in support of plode "like flashes of lightning," and mit quibbling to endanger the at- on the House bill. To Army Dependents his motion to quash were not furn- The legislation marks the "first houses going up "like puffs of tainment of its long-sought goal, in- Special to The Stars and Stripes ished by the Army the court assured smoke." dependence. debt limit reduction in eight years. him he could renew the motion Congress in 1938 cut the limit from NURNBERG, June 18—Nylon when those witnesses were available. Several hundred workers of the $49,000,000,000 to $45,000,000,000 . but hosiery will be sold to any person Chrysler Corp. of Canada, who had entitled to a female ration card and Tomorrow another trial will begin, met at Windsor to take a strike vote, numerous boosts immediately fol- with Pfc Thomas E. Warren of quickly formed first aid squads and lowed. to dependents with a PX ration card, Plainview, Texas, accused of beating hurried to the stricken area when according to Lt. Wilbert J. Robinson, prisoners with fists and clubs. Four they received word of the tragedy. Faints at Wac's Wedding in charge of the Nurnberg Officers enlisted men and one lieutenant Sales Store. already have been convicted in con- One Canadian mother, injured Special to The Stars and Stripes nection with Lichfield operations. when the tornado hit her home, STUTTGART, June 18—June There is an ample supply on hand gave Caesarian birth to a daughter, brides note: The best man fainted at to meet ration requirements of those but both died. Her second daughter, the wedding ceremony here of Sylvia entitled to buy nylons, T/Sgt. James Army Announces 2 years old, also died when their Halpern, 3rd Army Wac, and Marvin Cody said, at the established price home was demolished. Glander, AES employe. of 10 marks, 40 pfennigs. One Windsor resident related that Name of Slain MP the tornado struck a number of bee NURNBERG, June 18 (AP)—U. S. hives, releasing hundreds of bees Army authorities announced today which, crazed by the wind, began Former German General Denies that the soldier who was shot to stinging everyone in the area. death by a German fraulein here last week was M/Sgt. Robert E. He Knew of Bulge Massacre Flanigan, of Peoria, Ill- Nurnberg Red Cross Club Identification of the victim had DACHAU, June 18 (AP)—Waffen 'of the main German attack, was been withheld previously pending Sponsors 2-Day Midway SS troops suffered casualties up to likewise questioned and denied hav- Special to The Stars and Stripes 50 per cent in the desperate Battle ing known of the atrocity at Mal- notification of next of kin. of the Bulge and took 5,000 to 7,000 Erika Krebs, 26, who was quoted NURNBERG, June 18—The Nurn- medy, Kraemer said. American prisoners, the former chief The Witness, one of 74 former SS by investigators as saying the shoot- berg Red Cross will sponsor a of staff of the German 6th Panzer ing was accidental, is scheduled to "Whirl Fair" on June 22 and 23 men on trial, said the army com- Army testified in defense of his life mand issued a special order for the be tried by a military court Thurs- which will feature attractions rang- today. ing from penny pitch stands to a treatment of prisoners "in accordance day Hatchet-faced Fritz Kraemer. ex- " strong man who can lift the weight with international law—after the of a bus with fifty passengers. brigadier general, told a U.S. mili- Malmedy reports. tary court here that his first knowl- Yank Drowns in Fall The midway, which will be open edge of the Malmedy massacre of PARIS DOCTOR REVEALS From Schwanheim Ferry on both days from 2 to 5 p. m. and American prisoners by SS tankers from 7 to 9 p. m. will include a FLOSSENBURG HORRORS FRANKFURT, June 18 (UP)—The came from Allied radio reports DACHAU, June 18 (UP)—The "Smile a Minute Photo Studio," intercepted by German intelligence. death by drowning of MJ-.American acrobats, dart, bingo, and wheel drowning of Allied nationals in soldier was announced today by games and a variety of professional He said the German army com- latrines and other unsavory details USFET. The soldier, a passenger on mand immediately tried to check the of the Flossenburg concentration a ferry boat between Hochst and sideshow acts. Admission will be Hollywood Beckons story and was told that the 1st SS free to all GIs. camp were told today by a Parisian Schwanheim, fell from the boat and Hollywood talent scouts, scouring Panzer Division, the formation con- doctor, Michael Bommejaer. was drowned Monday night. "Ever Loving" Sheds Runyon the ET for new faces and per- cerned, knew nothing about the Bommelaer, who was a Flosssn- The soldier, whose body has not sonalities, bumped heads trying to slaughter. burg victim, testified that he saw MIAMI, Fla., June 18 (AP)—' Col. Otto Skorzeny, spectacular been recovered, was a member of Damon Runyon has been divorced snap up Ilka Windisch, 21-year- defendant Wilhelm Schmitz inject A the 3160th Sig. Ser. Bn. His name old Austrian stage and film star. leader of the German raiders who, patient with camphor of oil, and thai is being withheld pending notifica- by his wife, the former Patrice del had infiltrated American lines ahead I Grande, in Key West, Fla. They hope to bring Ilka to the U. S. the patient died 30 minutes later. tion of his family.