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.