0< nr\^ EUROPEAN EDITION USAFE WEATHER FORECAST One Year Ago Today NORTH & WEST: Partly cloudy to 500 Superforts hit Nagoya. cloudy with scattered showers. Max. o£ Min. 40; SOUTH & EAST: Cloudy to Clay announces stern control of overcast with light local raw- Ma^™' THE Min. 40; BERLIN: Partly cloudy, M". Germany. DeGaulle proclaims 58, Min. 39; BREMEN: Partly cloudy, French Republic Max. 56, Min. 43; VIENNA: Cloudy to Unofficial Newspaper of US. Armed $^*^V* Forces in the European Theater overcast: Max. 54. Min. 45. - Volume 2, Number 136 20 Pig* 3 fr., 1 d. Friday, May 17, 1946 Kilian Trial Mine-Strike Big 4 Adjourn Is Postponed Talks Called Until June 17 By Truman Without Accord BAD NAUHEIM, May 16 WASHINGTON, Mayl6(AP) (AP) — Another postponement —President Truman last night today delayed the six-month- scheduled a new conference On Reich Peace old trials of American soldiers for today with John L. Lewis, accused of brutality to prisoners president of the United Mine PARIS, May 16 (AP)—The Council , of Foreign Ministers in the Army guardhouse at Workers, AFL, and Charles conference ended tonight with an adjournment until June 15. Lichfield. O'Neill, the mine owners' American quarters said that in the final session the Ministers spokesman, in an effort to initialled revised Italian armistice, terms. Postponement until June 17 settle the soft-coal dispute. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes planned to leave Paris was granted Col. James A. Kilian, Meanwhile, railroad negotiators for the United States tomorrow morning, accompanied by Sens. former commander of the 10th Reinf. raced against time in efforts to Depot and key figure in the case, avert a nation-wide transportation Tom Connally and Arthur H.f in which six officers and eight en- strike set by two railroad brother- Vandenberg and their wives. listed men are awaiting trial. Two hoods for Saturday. American quarters said that no | Soldiers Held enlisted men have already been con- A spokesman who participated in agreement had been reached on! victed. the 45-minute meeting with the the question of a peace treaty for Kilian, who was accused of in- miners and operators held at the Germany, nor did the ministers In Dual Killing timidating witnesses and cited for White House last night said the appoint a special commission to contempt of court in a previous trial, President and his advisers would decide after today's session whether study German problems in advance At Nurnberg has been unable to prepare his Coi. James A. Kilian of any conference on Germany. defense because he has been under it would be worthwhile to resume court orders not to talk to any < i • defense wasn't ready negotiations, deadlocked by the Russia Backs Probe The Stars and Stripes Bureau prospective witnesses, his attorney operators' opposition to Lewis' de- Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister FRANKFURT, May 16—The wea- said in pleading for a postponement. mand for a 7 percent levy on pay pon used in the slaying of two to finance the miners' health and Vyacheslav M. Molotov informed American soldiers in Nurnberg last Recalls MeNarney Piedge Army to Keep welfare fund. the council that his government had Friday has been found and The attorney, Maj. James C. Most Miners Return accepted an American proposal to "several Negro soldier suspects" Burnette, also reminded the court of All but 98,000 of the 400,000 men send a Four-Power commission to are being interrogated, the Theater Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's recent 2-Year Limit involved were back at work at the the four zones of Germany to in- Provost Marshal's office announced pledge that "there will be no undue end of the third day of the truce vestigate the state of German dis- today. haste" in the trials "no matter how armament, an American informant much we desire speed in the conduct Until June 30 in the two-week coal strike. Although no confession has been of these cases." Representatives of the railroad said. obtained, officials said they expected brotherhoods of trainmen and loco- 3V2 The prosecutor, Maj. Joseph S. WASHINGTON, May 16 (AP)— After a -hour meeting this the case to be cleared up soon. The Army will keep discharging motive engineers planned a resumed morning, 'devoted entirely to dis- The United Press, quoting a re- Robinson, joined Burnette in urging conference with operators today. the continuance. men with two years' service or 40 cussion of Germany, the ministers portedly reliable source, said sus- points until June 30 despite prospec- Other labor developments: It was the fourth consecutive held " this afternoon their last picion had narrowed to one soldier. tive slim pickings of new manpower LEGISLATION to block employ- meeting until June 15. He was seized last night, the UP postponement since the trials were under the stop-gap draft law, a ment of any Federal worker who transferred here last month from British Foreign Secretary Ernest reported, with five other Negroes War Department spokesman said belongs to a union that "asserts the who shared billets in the vicinity London, with the announced purpose today. right to strike against the Govern- Bevin informed his colleagues of his of speeding up the proceedings. government's acceptance of another of the shooting, and all were taken Both the draft extension voted ment" was recommended by the to Erlangen for safekeeping. Kilian is acused of authorizing yesterday and the Army's demobili- Senate Appropriations Committee American proposal for a 25-year and permitting the imposition of zation schedule will expire then. today. mutual assistance pact to assure Weapon Believed Carbine "cruel and unusual punishment" on In the meantime, officials were The committee voted to prohibit German disarmament, an American The weapon used by the killer, guardhouse prisoners who, the pro- hopeful that President Truman use *of any of the $609,450,000 al- source saidy adding that Bevin said believed to be a U. S. Army Car- secution alleges, were beaten, dosed lotted the Department of Agricul- Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee bine, was found after Capt. Claude with castor oil and forced to stand ture for employment "of any person would make a statement later in the WASHINGTON, May 16 (AP)— Nichols, of Wichita, Kan., CID bal- long periods in positions. who advocates or who is a member House of Commons on the pact. listics expert, had fired several Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry (R.-Neb.) of an organization of Government served notice on the Senate today Molotov Asks for Time hundred weapons taken from Army employes that asserts right to strike personnel in a "shakedown" raid of that he would attempt to increase against the Government." When Byrnes first proposed sending 22 Die as Airliner the disarmament investigation com- the shooting area. Army pay. IN ATLANTIC CITY, Philip Mur- Wherry said it was necessary to mission last Monday, neither French Victims of the double slaying Crashes on Farm ray, president of the United Steel- / review reemployment provisions Foreign Minister Georges Bidault were S/Sgt. William R. Timmons, workers, CIO, said its wage policy nor Bevin raised any objections. Near Richmond shortly, and he- would attempt to committee would "most certainly" 21, of West Haven, Conn., and T/4 amend the pay scale then. Molotov said he wanted to study Paul R. Skelton, 21, of McKinney, consider establishment of a guaran- the proposal. RICHMOND, Va., May 16 (INS)— teed -annual Wage in industry as a Texas, both assigned to the fiscal section of The Stars and Stripes. Twenty-two persons were killed would act to make available for 1947 contract demand when it meets France has accepted the pact today when a two-engine Viking induction a pool of some 15,000 men next fall. The present contract ex- proposal, but Russia said that the They were slain while riding in a Airlines plane bound for Atlanta, in the 25-29 age bracket. pires next Feb. 15. extent of Germany's disarmament jeep with four companions on their Ga., crashed on the Whitlook farm, should be studied first. Molotov way home from an evening at a GI about five miles southeast of Rich- An official, who asked anonymity, maintained this attitude at today's night club. said an order from the President to mond, i meeting, saying that there was no Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selec- Meteor's Fall Injures Suspicion centered on the Amer- The plane reportedly' developed tive Service director, would suffice. hurry about the matter since it would ican soldiers after the "shakedown" motor trouble after taking off from not take effect until after the occu- failed to produce evidence against This would set aside a ruling by 28 in North Mexico pying armies had withdrawn from Byrd Field and plummeted to the the Chief Executive issued after German civilians. The bullet whfth ground two miles away when the Japan's surrender, confining further MEXICO CITY, May 16 (INS)— the Reich. killed both men was recovered at pilot attempted to return. draft to men 25 and under. Dispatches from Nuevo Leon in Molotov repeated today his state- the autopsy, leading to identifica- The airliner was said to be carry- northern Mexico reported that a ment of yesterday that Russia tion of the weapon. ing 19 passengers and three crew falling meteor had destroyed or da- wanted to know what was going on Senate Passes Prostitution Law maged all buildings on a remote in the Ruhr, saying that Russia had members. The bodies were brought ranch at Santa Ana and had injured to Richmond. WASHINGTON, May 16 ,(AP)— heard of a scheme to nationalize the Iran Seen Keeping 28 persons.