ONE YEAR AGO TODAY EUROPEAN EDITION USAFE WEATHER FORECAST lit. Gen. Simon Bolinvar Buckner NORTH & WEST: Continued overcast with rain and cool temperatures; Mas.«, demands Okinawa Japs quit. Min. 54; SOUTH & EAST: Partly cloudy TWO YEARS AGO TODAY to overcast with showers; no change in THE STARS A temperature; Max. 67, Min. 56; BERLIN: Allied forces penetrate 13 miles. Partly cloudy to cloudy with showert>; U. S. troops capture Lison, France. cooler; Max. 68, Min. 58; BREMEN: Con- Unofficial H» wiptper of U.S. Armed F*K*S in tht tuwpean Theater tinued overcast; rain and cool. Volume 2, Number 161 20 ptg., 29 gr» S frn 1 ifl Tuesday, June 11, 1946 C-54 Crash in Canal Zone Kills 23 •<s> Army to Get Low-Point Fathers Leave Plaue Rams Berlin tor U. S. Thursday GI Views on By NADEANE WALKER, Staff Writer Mountain on BERLIN, June 10—Within the next week 1,688 fathers from all Berlin commands will be States-ward bound under Occupation the June 4 directive ordering the return of low-point fathers Panama Hop By EDWIN E. DOWELL to the U. S. for reassignment, Berlin District public relations WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Staff Writer revealed today. June 10 (INS)—Twenty-three FRANKFURT, June . 10— The first shipment of 1,000 will leave Thursday from persons were killed today when Wannsee RTO for Marburg, in the largest group to be rede- Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, an Army transport plane theater commander, today or- ployed from Berlin in several months. dered an exhaustive and special The second shipment will be on its way June 16 to sail crashed in the Panama Canal inspection of all company-size from Brefnerhaven. zone. military units by the Inspectors Soldier fathers affected by the reassignment ruling rep- Officials at Morrison Field, General's office. The office has resent about 10 per cent of the' total troop strength in Berlin, West Palm Beach, where the been expanded temporarily in according to latest strength figures. flight originated, said 19 bodies the theater with the addition of had been recovered before the field grade officers, USFET search was abandoned because of headquarters announced today. darkness. The inspection will be conducted Shooting of Slam's King The plane was reported to have to determine the state of discipline among troops; to study company crashed into a mountain off Taboga punishments and the workings of Island, near the Panama Canal. The the court martial system; to In Palace Called Accident C-54 plane was carrying six crew examine training and recreational Prof. Harold J. Laski members and 17 passengers. One BANGKOK, June 10 (AP)—King Ananda Mahidol, 20-year-old facilities; to determine the soldiers' . would share secrets passenger was a civilian and the rest opinion of the occupation mission; monarch of Siam was found shot dead last night in his palace. He was were military personnel. succeeded to the throne today ,by his brother, the 18-year-old Prince to inspect the living conditions of The flight took off from Morrison EM and officers, and to make an Phumiphon Adulbet. Field at daylight today on a regu- inquiry into the fraternization, Laski Salutes The new king was unanimously chosen at an emergency session of venereal disease and AWOL prob- the Siamese legislature. The legislature also appointed a three-man larly-scheduled run to Panama. The lems. regency council to guide king Phu-f>. crash occurred around noon. , Full Reports Due Soviet, Britain miphon. According to reports received at The USFET directive provides The new king *vas born in Boston, iMore Arrests Due Morrison Field, the plane crashed that a representative cross-section when his father, Prince Songkla, was about 150 feet from the top of the of EM be questioned. As Peace Hope studying at Harvard University. In Kronberg Case; mountain, then exploded. It was as Full reports will be submitted by BOURNEMOUTH, England, June A servant found Ananda Mahidol though the crash occurred as the all commanders not later than 10 (AP)—Prof. Harold J. Laski de- dead in a bedroom at the Barom- Smuggling Traced plane was approaching for a land- June 15. Under the directive, unit clared today that Socialist govern- pinan Palace with a bullet wound By ROBERT R. RODGERS ing. commanders are being asked for in his head. ments, "like the Russian and our Staff Writer Search for other bodies was to sworn replies to 33 questions cover- The Siamese police director gen- own, are the surest hope of peace," be resumed tomorrow. Names of ing conditions of discipline, frater- if they combine their strength. eral, and the director of the FRANKFURT. June 10 —The nization, arms, training, I & E, Chulalong Korn Hospital, who were Kronberg jewelry case is "definitely personnel aboard the plane will be recreation, mess, inspections, com- Laski, in a keynote address at the not closed" and further arrests in released later, Army officers said. 45th annual conference of the Labor called immediately to the palace, plaints, other unit officers, de- listed the death as accidental. Germany are anticipated, the Thea- pendents and other general subjects. Party which he is executive com- ter Provost Marshal said today. mittee chairman, attributed a large Palace officials said the king had The questions, many of which Meanwhile it was confirmed that have from five to seven parts, are part of Russian suspicion of western been indisposed for the past two democracies to secrecy about atomic days. He arose at 6 a. m. and took Col. Jack W. Durant, who was Shipping Union. designed to yield a complete picture picked up with his Wac wife in of duty and off-duty activities, to- bomb information. medicine, but his later actions were not disclosed. Chicago for complicity in the crown gether with information on personal "Those who possess the special treasure disappearance, was for- Rejects Offer habits of both EM and officers. technological knowledge about The entire nation was plunged merly executive officer of the G-l The question is asked whether a atomic energy seem bent on post- into sorrow by the announcement personnel division, USFET. His WASHINGTON, June 10 (INS)-< unit participates in any organized poning as long as they can that of his death. executive officer was Major David The National Maritime Union today educational or recreational program international control so urgent for Premier Nai Pridi Phanomyong, F. Watson, who was arrested Friday turned down a proposal by the East for German youth. international confidence," he as- who was reappointed on Friday, and placed in confinement here. Coast ship operators to work out a serted. Another question inquires how told the legislature that it would Charges preferred against Wat- settlement of the controversial hours many officers and EM are married be at liberty to recommend a new More Trust from Russia son, whose name plate was missing problem in time to avert a threat- and how many have asked to have Laski urged Russia, "having ex- premier to the king regents. Authori- from his I. G. Farben building desk dependents brought over. ened strike of CIO marine unions perimented with distrust," to "ex- (Continued on Page 8) this morning, were not disclosed at midnight Friday. %r- periment in f ri e n d s h i p" with today by Army officials, although Britain. it was understood that one of them The Sunday night meeting be- "Russian leaders and British was "conspiracy to defraud the tween the operators and officials Fleet to Visit leaders alike have the inescapable Yanks Escape government." broke up at 12.30 a. m. (EST) when obligation to make their socialism CID agents here believe that the the union rejected arr offer of one not narrowly nationalist but gener- case will be closed by the end of day off in port for every 14 days North Europe ously international," Laski said. Shots in China the week. They said that full de- at sea. Federal conciliation director LONDON, June 10 (AP)—Head- "On any other terms, their failure tails of the jewel smuggling by ship Edgar D. Warren said the union TIENTSIN. June 10 (API- and plane to the States could be quarters of the U. S. Naval Forces to understand one another en- Chinese government dispatches from branded the proposal as "imprac- in Europe announced today that dangers the survival of our civili- expected at that time. Tsingtao said that several U. S. tical" and in turn called for "ex- units of the 12th Fleet will soon en- zation." The list of suspects tracked down Marine vehicles were fired on by ploration of other ways of meeting gage in a series of training cruises He applauded -the decision to by War Department police in the its demands." and" good-will visits to northern evacuate Egypt as a means of unknown persons last night as they (Continued on Page 8) returned to the Tsingtao airport. Another meeting between ship- European ports, including Norway, proving to the world "the absence owners and NMU president Joseph Sweden, Denmark, Holland and There were no reports of Marine in a Socialist government of the old casualties. 900,000 Invade Coney Island Curran was scheduled later today. Belgium. and evil lust for dominion." NEW YORK. June 10 (AP)—The Meanwhile, in Nanking, Gen. Curran. Harry Bridges and other The force will be composed of the Laski attacked the three-power year's greatest crowd, numbering maritime leaders were also sched- George C. Marshall, and Com- cruisers Houston and Little Rock and Potsdam agreement as "economic 900,000 persons, swarmed out to uled to meet during the day with the destroyers Warr-ington, Perry, munist Gen.