ONE YEAR AGO TODAY TJSAFE WEATHER FORECAST United States planes raided Na- NORTH & WEST: Partly cloudy and goya, and Naruo aircraft plants. warmer with scattered rain showers, Max. 75, Min. 58; SOUTH & EAST: Partly TWO YEARS AGO TODAY cloudy, Max. 85, Min. 54: BERLIN: THE Partly cloudy, warmer, Max. 73, Min. 56; Allied forces advanced to within BREMEN: Partly cloudy, warmer, Max. H miles of Cherbourg. 72, Min. 53; VIENNA: Partly cloudy. Unofficial Newspaper of U.S. Armed I '-T>*V Peicet in the futopean Ihealer Saturday, June 8, 1946 Volume 2, Number 158 20 pfg., 20 gr., S fr., 1 d Argentina Unions See Vinson Is Named Sets Up Tie Ship Strike With Russia As Certain As Chief Justice; BUENOS AIRES, June 7 (UP) • NEW YORK, Jane 7 (AP)— —It was announced officially to- Five thousand seamen of the day that Argentina and Russia American Federation of Labor, Snyder Moves Up have established diplomatic rela- who left work temporarily to tions for the first time since the attend a caucus on the state of From Press Dispatches 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. contract negotiations, were to- President Truman yesterday appointed Secretary of the Foreign Minister Juan Attilio day ordered back to their jobs Treasury Fred M. Vinson, of Kentucky, to be Chief Justice of Bramuglia made the announce- by their union leaders. the United States. ment at a special press con- Meanwhile, a spokesman for He also named Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, of ference attended by President the two AFL unions affected Missouri, to the Cabinet seat which will be vacated by Vinson's Juan Peron and the Soviet trade said in New York that a strike of mission. elevation to the nation's highest tribunal.' 62,000 seamen on three coasts ap- Bramuglia said that the negotia- The President also appointed John L. Sullivan, of New peared certain, although there might tions for the resumption of be some delay. Hampshire, to be Undersecretary of the Navy. This was the diplomatic relations had been car- post in which he recently sought unsuccessfully to place Edwin ried ' out in Buenos Aires between The AFL walkout had two ap- the Argentine government and parent reasons: W. Pauley, Democratic Party leader. Chairman Konstantine Chevelev TO PROTEST against delays in After announcing the appoint- f ' negotiations between west coast ments at a press conference, Mr. | g--w ^ of the Soviet trade mission who 7 operators and the unions over wages acted as the Russian envoy. Truman said that House Votes The news was released simultane- and hours. the Office of War ously in Moscow and Buenos Aires. TO DETERMINE whether AFL Mobilization and Seafarers should support CIO In Washington, State Department of Reconversion, maritime workers if they proceeded Accrued Leave officials made no comment. Lt. Leonard W. Ennis with their strike June 15. which Snyder has Observers pointed out that the . witnesses won't testify. directed, would be Truman Studies Strike agreement marked one of the most terminated. Pay for Troops extreme reversals in Soviet foreign In Washington the maritime strike Vinson. 56 years policy. During the war Russia al- situation was considered by Presi- Trial Witnesses old, succeeds the WASHINGTON, June 7 (AP) ways denounced Argentina as pro- dent Truman and his cabinet. Re- Nazi and fought bitterly, but with- conversion Director John Snyder late Harlan Fiske —The House of Representatives, out success, to bar that country Again Refuse was reported to have termed the Stone who died with manifest enthusiasm voted from membership in the United outlook "pretty bad." April 22 after col- to pay some 15,000,000 past and Nations. Negotiations at the Department of lapsing on the present servicemen an average Labor, intended to prevent the CIO supreme bench. He To Testify Vinson of $250 each to cover furlough POWER POLITICS SEEN strike, continued today, but ap- becomes the 13th since the establish- IN SOVIET DIPLOMATIC MOVE BAD NAUHEIM, June 7 (AP)- parently little headway was made. Chief Justice time missed while in uniform. Urgent relief shipments will not ment of the Federal judiciary in WASHINGTON, June 7 (AP)—The For the second time in 10 .days, .Its backers, led by Reps. D wight be affected by threatened maritime Washington's first administration. initial reaction of diplomats here in prisoner witnesses in the Lichfield strikes, an informed source said The President's L. Rogers (D.-Fla.) and Robert Washington to the opening of diplo- trials refused en masse to testify adding that supplies going to Europe selections were Sikes (D-Fla.) predicted passage matic relations between the Soviet today although threatened with without opposition after a few hours as part of the national import designed in the Union and Argentina was that both military punishment of debate and said chances for (Continued on Page 8) main to do two governments were playing power Six times before the lunch recess, early Senate approval "look good." things: politics a very high order. the president of the eight-man The only amendment in sight is PLACE in the In seeking an explanation of what court trying Lt. Leonard W. Ennis, a non controversial one intended to appeared to some to be a reversal of Peekskill, N. Y., asked witnesses Deputies Mull high office of Chief simplify payment methods. In pre- in Soviet policy, diplomats cited the to recognize their "responsibility to Justice an able liminary form it would permit evidences of Soviet irritation with the government and to justice," and administrator who enlisted men entitled to terminal Anglo-American interference in then ordered them to obey and Claim to Tyrol was not - a party furlough money to claim it by mail eastern Europe, which the Soviet testify. to the factionalism or collect it in cash at local Army Union considers to be her security But in each instance, the soldiers PARIS, June 7 (AP)—The deputy which has torn or Navy offices.. zone. refused. Eleven more witnesses were foreign ministers today discussed the Supreme Couii Provisions of Bill These persons suggested that in without conclusion Austria's claims due to be asked to testify after the for the last few making friends with Argentina, the to a sector of South Tyrol and the Here's what the legislation will do recess. years. Snyder Soviet Union was seeking to counter- disposition of Italian colonies, Amer- if it becomes law: Realize Responsibilities ANSWER the critics of Snyder, 1— Entitle enlisted personnel to balance American activity in Europe ican officials reported. a St. Louis banker, who is a close cash payment for furlough time not by strengthening her own position The court president. Col. Samuel In examining various proposals personal friend of Mr. Truman. L. Metcalfe, gave each witness a on the future status of Italy's used up in service. Payment would in Latin America. Few public officials have had the chance to explain his reasons for African empire, the deputies found be made at time of discharge for service in all three branches of the there was nothing new beyond those still in uniform or immediately refusing "responsibility to the gov- Federal Government — legislative, positions expounded during the for those already back in civvies. It 3YanksDie,17Hurt ernment and to the administration judicial and administrative—that has recent foreign ministers' council. applies to personnel who served at of justice." All answered "yes" been the lot of the soft-spoken The deputies discussed Austria's any time since Sept. 8, 1939. In Jeep-Truek Crash when he asked whether they under- native of Louisa, Ky. claims to the Pusteria Valley 2— Compute furlough time on the BERLIN. June 7 (AP)—Three stood their responsibilities. After serving in the Kentucky (Pusterthal) region along the Italo- basis of two and one-half days for American soldiers were killed and 17 "Realizing that, do you still refuse judiciary, he entered the National Austrian frontier and examined each month of service, with a limit injured when an Army truck carry- to answer?" Metcalfe demanded as House of Representatives in 1923. Italy's rebuttal in the form of two of 120 days accrued. However, fur- ing home GIs from a theatrical per- they appeared successively before Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him memoranda. The issue was then lough time used would first be de- him. All replied "yes." formance collided with an American set aside for further discussion in 1937 justice of the U. S. Court "Do you realize I am an officer in the ducted. jeep in the U. S. sector of the city, later this week, U. S. officials said of Appeals for the District of Co- 3— Authorize the Secretaries of it was announced. Army and that you are a member lumbia, court of original jurisdic- Twenty-five soldiers in the truck (Continued on Page 8) tion for much litigation involv- War and Navy to make payments "on were returning to their barracks ing constitutional questions. the basis of sworn statements" by from a show at the downtown Titania 500 Juke Boxes He resigned from the bench in applicants. This provision, military Tornado, Hail Hit Town committee members said privately, Palast Theater. The collision oc- Purchased for GIs 1943 to become economic stabilizer, curred at an intersection at about MOOSE LAKE, Minn., June 7 (INS) a post which he held until he probably would result in numerous claims for the maximum of 120 days' 11 p. m. —A tornado accompanied by heavy The Stars and Stripes Bureau entered the Truman Cabinet two Names of victims will not be re- hailstones today left several persons LONDON, June 7—Five-hundred years later. In the Treasury, he pay. leased until next of kin can be injured and leveled 30 houses and juke boxes are in the process of succeeded Henry Morgentljau Jr., 4— Direct payments to next of kin notified.