Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1949 — Page 6

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Work Stoppage Hits Washington Papers Halts Publication Os Capital Papers Washington, Apr. 6 — (UP) — Publishers of Washington's four daily newspapers, hit by a wildcat pressman’s work stoppage, said today they not resume contract negotiations until the pressmen return to work. The work stoppage was called unexpectedly last night by local G of the International Printing Pressmen’s Union (AFL). It prevented publication this morning of | two capital newspapers, the Washington Post and the morning edi-l tions of the Times-Herald, which 1 publishes around-the-clock. It appeared unlikely that the; first editions of the afternoon papers, the Washington Star and the Daily News, in addition to thd afternoon edition of the TimesHerald, would be published. The pressmen scheduled a meeting for ] 10 a. m. EST today, ordinarily! about the time -the afternoon pa-1 pers would be going to press. For the Post it was the first i time it did not publish in its 71year history. The work stoppage left greater J Washington's 1.000,000 residents | without a newspaper. Radio stations put on more local news pro-; grams. Contract negotiations between the Washington Publishers association. negotiator for the four dailies, and the union have been underway for some time. At dispute mainly is wages. Peyton R. Evans, association executive sec-

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| retary, said the publishers offered $8 weekly increases, but the union I wanted a "good deal more.” “The work stoppage Tuesday! night came without any notice or I warning of any kind." Evans said. ‘ The Washington publishers asso-1 ciation stands ready to resume j orderly collective bargaining j whenever members of local No. 6 I abandon a work stoppage that is ' at a variance with every principle ’ j that has governed a generation j of amicable relations between the ■ I International Pressmen’s Union 1 and the Washington newspapers.” I The four dailies employ about I 1 ■ 140 members of the local. The ; contract between the pressmen * : ' and the publishers expired Feb.77l. 1 . Despite the intervention of federal j i mediators, the negotiators have j failed to agree on a new contract. ■ The pressmen called a continu- f ’ ous local meeting last night at 6 i I o'clock. At 10 p. m.. the session : was recessed until today. Local president George T. Walker declined to call the work stpppage a strike. He said the meeting was called merely to discuss I the contract dispute with the pub- i ; lishers over "higher wages, hours i I and several’ other things.” Trick Good Only Once Providence, R. I. (UP)—When Russell Mowry, theater cashier, rei ported himself a robbery victim i for the second time in four months, i police became suspicious. They arrested Mowry and said he conI fessed faking both “robberies,” i which yielded $5,567, because he couldn’t live on his $46 weekly (salary. Dairy cows will show an increase ' in milk production of from 5 to 10 i per cent when water is available i to them at all times.

pg / wMMI wi > few I t \ ■ ; ¥ W--’ill » *Hi R* \ V- . ; JRI ■Mt -WzWw - w ■ - j THIS "LITTLE" PIG went to Bikini, not to market, and now she’s being given by Navy to the Washington zoo so visitors can see a live survivor of an atom bomb. She’s famed Pig 311, and was locked in washroom of Jap cruiser Sakawa on June 30, 1946, near center of explosion. She weighed 50 pounds. A’ day later, after the Sakawa sank ’with all hooves, she was found swimming in Bikini lagoon. Now, nearly three years later, she weighs 600 pounds. Scientists who studied her all that time don’t know whether it was the explosion which made her unable to have little pigs, or whether she was that way already. The one with her is a descendant of another survivor of the Bikini bomb tests. (International)

f — ” ' ”” jfe. . 1 L,, iS j Uy.: '-■’SSL' Wi >• irk PROTESTING VOCIFEROUSLY, Morris Stamm, chief steward of a CIO United Electrical Workers local, is led away by club-armed Cleve.land sheriff’s deputies after 50 officers used clubs and tear gas to break up pickets’ attempt to parade before strikebound Fawick Aitflex Co. This is Stamm's second arrest in a week for violating a court's "peaceful picketing" injunction. (International)

Further Changes In Conservation Posts j Indianapolis, April C — (UP) —: A dozen Democrats today renlac- : ed Republicans as job holders in I the Indiana department of conser- 1 ration as governor Schricker’s Democratic administration continued to "clean house.” Top job to fail to the Democrats was appointment, of former Demo-1 eratic state representative Elmer j Hoehn. Jeffersonville, as director of: the department’s gas and oil divis- i ion. Hoehn, clerk in the lower ' house during the recent session of i the Hoosier legislature, succeeded i A. C. Colby, Sheridan. Trick Tire* Tricky Chicago, (UP)—Automobile tires with abrasives imbedded in the tread will stop a car more quickly than ordinary tires on wet ice. ac- . ‘cording to the National Safety Council. On hard ice in extremely cold weather, however, the newtype tires can stop a skidding car no sooner, the council says. * It’* the Wife Who Pay* Bromley, England, (UP) — George Atkinson, a plumber, was held for trial on charges of setting fire to his wife. She suffered from severe burns and shock. Atkinson told the court "There was no attempt at murder. It is money matters that are worrying me." Trade In a Good — Oeratit

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Circus Elephants Stampede In Texas / Two Men Are Hurt, Property Damaged Gonzales. Tex., April 6 —(UP)— Bailey Brothers circus elephants were reassembled in their wooded pastureland near here today after 18 of them, frightened by pistol j shots, stampeded over a two-mile area, injuring two men and damaging fences and farm homes. The circus uses the strip of wood-, land off the Guadalupe river for I winter quarters. Yesterday circus owner Ben Davenport ordered trainers to take the elephants into the woods to stage a fake stampede for a newsreel cameraman. Two cowboys, riding behind the herd, began firing shots | into the air. The elephants, trum- i peting wildly, rushed through the woodland onto a nearby highway. Rex Williams, 26, head trainer, and Raymond Sreivogal, 30, utility | man. were treated for cuts and : bruises after the stampede. Motorists were terrified by <he I sight of the elephants on the highway. One driver sped into Gon-! zales shouting: “I'm being chased by an elephant.” It took two hours to round up the herd and return them to their j barns. Phil Thomas Joins U. S. Regular Army Phil Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas of this city, has en- ; listed in the army and is now a member of the third armored diviI sion, medical tank battalion at Fort Knox. Ky., according to word re- ' ceived here today. Ret. ThomaS enlisted last week and has successfully passed his preliminary examinations. His address is Ret. Phillip B. Thomas, Jr.. RA : 16310817, Co. C, 32nd Medical tank battalion, Third armored division, ’ j Fort Knox. Ky. Phil is a Decatur j high school graduate and has had j two years of university training. His father, principal of Lincoln i school, served in World War 11. AMERICAN (Cont. From Page One) . chief of staff, and three enlisted ! men each from the army, air force. > navy and marines. The enlisted per- ’ sonnel were Bradley’s guests. Secretaries and ranking officers of the army, navy and air force went to various cities throughout this country to urge strong military defenses to discourage Rusi sia from warlike moves. In New York last night, Bradley I told the Jewish war veterans that the proposed military aid program for the free nations of Europe is , 1 obviously "an essential sequel" to ; i the North Atlantic security pact.

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Gen. Lucius D. Clay, commander of U. S. armed forces in Europe, went from Berlin to Gafenwohr, 40 miles northeast of Numbers, in Germany to review a parade of more than 3,0D0, including a “full combat team.” 200 tanks and 1,000 wheeled military vehicles. Berlin had three parades. And F-S0 Shooting Star jet fighters zoomed over a parade in Numbers. ' The manpower strength of the army still is only a fraction of the World War 11 peak of about 6,000,000 officers and men and nearly 100 combat divisions. But it is larger than on Army Day a year ago.

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| the nations involved is about J a. billion. w Methods of effecting the dfc apparatus of the two treaties J somewhat different. But their * i jectives are about the sanie s j RIO pact says that all M d "agree that an armed attack J : any state against any i state shall be considered an ; attack against all the American d states.” The north Atlantic pact nation ; agree “that an armed attaft 1 , against one or more of them in ■; Europe or north America shall considered an attack against then all.”