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WALKOUTS IN AKRON RUBBER FIRMS SPREAD
71 Chrysler Tank Plants In Detroit Back in Full Production.
By UNITED PRESS
Six thousand more workers joined in the mass walkout in the rubber industry at Akron, O., but thousands of automobile workers at Detroit resumed work Monday amid congressional demands for passage of anti-strike legislation. In the most serious wave of | strikes since Pearl Harbor, members| of the United Rubber Workers) (C. I. 0.) at the Goodyear Tire &| Rubber Co. joined strikers at ne { |
B. F. Goodrich Co. and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in protest against war labor board poli-| cies. A total of 38,000 workers were
idle. A back-to-work movement at three plants of the General Tire]
Co. permitted resumption of opera-
tions. The General Tire workers | had walked out in sympathy with
workers at the other plants. In Detroit, workers voted
night to end the unauthorized walk- | ‘ out which had crippled production! Planes Fight Bad Weather at seven Chrysler Corp. war plants. | ‘ \ To Relieve Comrades
: Return Tomorrow A company spokesman said all Near Vincennes. Wabash river flood waters today
plants, including the huge Chrys-| ler-operated tank arsenal, had ‘‘re-| turned to normal.” He said ab-| were gradually closing in on several Senteeisin along returning WOLk - thousand beleagured army air corps men Was “only a little higher than ons and WAACS marooned at Usual. | George field west of Vincennes in
A spokesman for the Goodyear | ;,0 ic.
company, largest rubber manufac- | turer in Akron, admitted that only| ip: RE : Sep 2. com manger about 50 per cent of the 6000 work-| hin. a ers on the 6 a. m. shift had re-| adius of 200 miles yesterday for ported. The company employs aP=| 10,000 sandbags. C proximately 18,000 on three shifts.| He said that unless the sand Half of the 6000 workers on the 10/ was flown in by planes it might p.m, shift last night also failed 0 pe necessary to evacuate the whole report, the ' company spokesman|gaq including patients in the hossaid. A 8 6 | pital there, At Washington, D. C, Rep. E. C.| Gathings (D. Ark.) and Rep. Clare] Shu os Xyei E. Hoffman (R. Mich), participat-| Also the marooned troops were ing in a radio debate with labor running out of food and emergency representatives, demanded passage|orders were sent out for 20,000
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bf the Connally-Smith anti-strike pounds of milk, meat and vege- |
bill, which comes before the house! tables. this week. { All day vesterday every able8000 to Return { bodied man and WAAC at the field
| struggled with sand bags to hold the |
About 8000 members of the United water back from the hospital and Automobile Workers (C. I. O.), Tep- |, qinele runway still out of water. resenting the Detroit strikers, voted| giout field here took over the to end the walkout late yesterday|iooq project and rounded up the 20,after their leaders assured them at gg hounds of it but just as the first two mass meetings that their| , 0 was joaded the weather closed grievances would be considered by, .p4 the pilots had to fly entirely the management and the war labor by instruments.
board. | Sandbags Go by Air
The strikers also called upon R. J. Thomas, union president, to-remove| About 5000 pounds of food was Leo Lamotte as director of the taken down to the island field yesU. A. W.-C. 1. O. Chrysler division. |terday from here and 15,000 pounds Lamotte charged Friday that the more were to be flown down today. strikes were fomented by Walter P.| Meanwhile, the sandbags were beReuther, vice president and director|jng flown to the marooned troops «af the union's General Motors de-| from Chanute field, Ill, in huge partment, for “political reasons.” |army transports. Officials of the C. 5 O, United | George field, located four miles Rubber workers said the AKron «uth of Lawrenceville, Ill. has been strike was “unauthorized and spon-| completely surrounded by water for taneous.” The strikers protested|geveral days. a WLB decision granting thet 8) Worst IS Over three-cent hourly wage increase, : which they said fell short of the Army engineers believed the worst Litile Steel formula. They had|danger to Vincennes had passed asked for an eight-cent increase. |when the river crested at 20.3 feet,
Meanwhile, western Pennsylvania about five feet higher than the 1913]
coal miners returned to work, end- | level. si ; ing a walkout which reached its Most families in the land surpeak last week when 6000 miners| rounding the Brevort levee at were idle. | Vincennes have been evacuated and other parts of Vincennes were beTrailer Employees Back lieved comparatively safe if the The Trailer Co. of America &t levee holds. Cincinnati resumed production of war orders today when 1100 strik- | ing members of the United Auto-| mobile Workers (A. F. of L.) re-| turned to work. | Full operations also were resumed) at six eastern Ohio coal mines at St. | Clairsville, O., today when 3200 miners returned to work. |
Hoosier Heroes
Indiana Men Decorated For Heroism
Missing
SGT. EMMETT LONGSTAFF, who enlisted in the Royal Canadian air force a year ago, has been listed as missing in action, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
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O'Neal airport at Vincennes lies blanketed with heavy flood waters as rivers and streams continued their rampage in the worst flood since 1913. A large fleet of small planes was evacuated to other fields
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Emergency rations for flood victims at the isolated army air base |mairider were released after bein at George field, Ill, were dispatched last night from Stout field, headquarters of the I. T. C. C. Capt. W. A. Somerby Jr. operations [slight shock. officer, supervised the loading procedure.
115,000 Now Homeless as Midwest Rivers Near Crest
By UNITED PRESS
| Scores of levees built to contain the rivers of the Midwest gave | way today before the pressure of the greatest floods in more than a
quarter century.
Homeless in Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and
Kansas numbered more than 115,000.
Damage to property and crops
was so great it could not be estimated as the water spilled from the
UNIT IN CONGRESS ASKS END OF NYA
‘Recommend Abolishment by!
June 30th.
WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.).| —The joint congressional commit- | tee on reduction of nonessential federal expenditures recommended today that the national youth ad-
ministration be abolished June 30 and that training of war workers be!
The committee headed by Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) made public a report on its investigation of NYA and advised that no part of the $59,304,000 requested for the NYA as part of the war manpower com- | mission budget be granted for fiscal vear 1944, Senator Robert WM. LaFollette! (Prog. Wis.) took exception to the | majority report. He asserted congress “should authorize 100 per cent utilization” of the NYA by removing age and other restrictions on selection of trainees.
[through and over dikes at other
rivers and spread over millions of Midwestern acres.
Loss in life has not been great because most communities prepared for the emergency. Evacuations of hamlets, villages and cities was carried out with the help of Red Cross and army units. There have been
at least 15 drownings in the flood!
areas. Tent Cities Reared The refugees were housed, fed
and clothed in public buildings of |
cities where preparations had been made to receive them by the Red Cross. At some points, the army had erected tent cities to care for those who had left homes, possessions and victory gardens behind in the path of the rising waters.
Up and down the Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi rivers thousands of men worked on the embankments. But for every fight won against the surging streams, another was lost. The relentless waters held back at one spot, burst
points creating inland lakes in the lowlands. Meanwhile flood waters of the Missouri and Arkansas rivers and their tributaries poured into the Mississippi swelling the mighty river (Continued on Page Two)
Film Called
the Communist International.
Press, discusses the picture today Richard Lewis, Times’ movie munist International on Page 8.
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“Mission to Moscow,” the controversial Warner Brothers film. assumes added significance in the light of Russia's disbanding of
Eugene Lyons, former Moscow correspondent of the United
appearing on Page 9. Lyons regards the film as a “lamentable distortion of historical facts for propaganda purposes.”
“Voice From the Balcony,” on Page 13. William Philip Simms analyzes the dissolving of the Com-
_A story of Stalin's banquet for Joseph E. Davies, special Amer-
‘Distortion’
in the first of a series of articles
critic, discusses the picture in
ON BIG RUHR CI
SPEED BLAMED IN RAIL WRECK, 14 DIE, 31 HURT
‘Company Says Atlantic City Express Exceeded Limit
Rounding Curve. (Photo, Page Two)
DELAIR, N. J, May 24 (U.P). — The Atlantic City-New York express | was exceeding the speed limit when] it derailed on a curve near here last! night, killing 14 persons and injur-| ing 981, the Pennsylvania railroad! announced today. W. C. Higginbottom, general man- | (ager of the Pennsylvania's eastern] | region, said that the company’s pre- | | |
Japs Intern 20 State Civilians
Twenty more Hoosier civillans, including seven with relatives or friends here, have been interned by the Japanese in the Philippines, the war department revealed today. They included: Mrs. Rachel Storey, a Pilgrim Holiness church missionary from headquarters here: Mr. and Mrs. Forrest H, Myers, son and daughter-in-law of Mrs. Charlotte Tyner, 4317 E. Washington, who have been in the islands for almost 25 years; Dwight Shouse, with relatives at 3362 Washington blvd.: James E. Chestnut with relatives at 330 N., Pine st.: Mrs. R. J. Hoover, friend of the Leroy Keach family, 4311 Broadway, and Alice Mary Johnson, stepdaughter of Mrs. Flora I. Johnson, 807 E. 63d st. Other Hoosiers interned were Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Baxter and Sidney Baxter of French Lick" Springs: A. V. H. Hartendorp, Lafayette; Mr. and Mrs. A. Karrer, Oarlisle; Mamie N. and Roscoe E. Lautzenhiser,
liminary investigation indicated that
the engineman was exceeding the speed limit for that section of the!
track where the accident occurred. |
“The train was derailed on a 14| | Hamilton; Selma Oftendahl, degree curve,” Higginbottom said,| | Ft. Wayne; R. E. Runyon, ‘and the speed limit on that section! | Shelby; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Wolfe, Rising Sun, and Madge
of track is 15 miles per hour. Workman, Columbia City,
“Barly checks show that the equipment and tracks were in good | condition, but definite indications! are that the train was moving faster than the authorized speed limit JAPS ATTEMPT
when the derailment occurred.”
Engineer Is Injured 20 RAID ON ATTU The engineer, C. J. Pittock, 48, of
Lambertville, N. J, escaped from the wreck with a lacerated fore-' head. The railroad announced that one of the victims was a child whose | birth was brought on by the shock! of the crash. The mother, still un- | Our Troops. identified, four other women and! eight men also were killed. Only] WASHINGTON, May M4 (U. P). five were identified more than 14 —U. 8. fighters have shot down five
hours after the accident. The identified victims were: Ben- of 16 Jap BUMILETS whith fitenified for the second time in two days, to
Jamin Shapiro, Montclair, N J} Louis Shapiro, New York City, Fire- relieve the pressure against enemy man H. N. Becker, Trenton, Con- ground forces split up and trapped
| ductor C. F. Bohr, New York City, on Attu island, the navy announced |and Christian P, Horn, Trenton. todav
24 Injured Detained Two American planes were lost
Twenty-four of the injured were | but the pilot of one was rescued.
detained at hospitals and the Te-| The navy said that U. S. ground
oy forces were driving ahead against Japanese pockets of resistance and New Jersey state police said a |had wiped out “a number” of enemy three-way investigation by police | positions. authorities is under way. | The locomotive and first seven | cars of the 15-car express, with 1281 passengers, en route from | as in the case of the first attack on Atlantic City to New York with | Saturday, it was believed they were homeward-bound week-end travel- based at Paramushiru, a Japanese ers, left the rails and piled up|naval and aerial installation 630 alongside the tracks as the train | miles to the west in the Kurile is-
Nips Try to Relieve Their Men Trapped by
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|treated for minor injuries
The communique did not indicate
turned toward Trenton. lands. The dead and most of the in- | | jured were in the first four coaches. 0 Si Retuin VIS (Which careened as much as 100 feet| They might have been flown
from the right-of-way. |from enemy-held Kiska, 198 landMany of the victims were return-|miles to the east, but this was ing to New vork after visiting | thought unlikely. The landing relatives in the army. (strips there have been subjected to
case of fire and aided work.
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{mit the takeoff of so many planes |of this type. Assuming the enemy raiders came | from Paramushiru, their feat shows | that
3 INJURED
{| In the Saturday raid, 15 Japanese bombers tried unsuccessfully
Vehicle Plunges 215 Feet: to sink two American naval vessels
Dri operating near Attu. | i er Escapes Death. {planes sank one U. S. destroyer, |
One youth was killed and three Set another on fire, and damaged a companions were injured early today | cruiser.) when their car was sideswiped by a | a ve pay. passing tractor-trailer on Road 31| WILLKIE RECEIVES L.L. D. in the 4100 block south. | BOSTON, May 24 (U. P.).—Wen- | The victim was Granville Gross!dell L. Willkie was one of six perJr., 18, of Louisville, who works here | sons who received honorary de-
of whom are in City hospital, and
here the second wave of Japanese filled | raiders on Sunday came from. But
Twenty fire companies stood by in|heavy American bombing and are| in rescue probably too badly damaged to per-| of
| Ichang, but were checked with heavy
| (Tokyo claimed that Japanese | miles
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RAF BLASTS AT ‘DORTMUND FOR SOLID HOUR
‘London Hints Nearly a Thousand Planes Hammer Flood-Ravaged Industrial Area; Italian Bases Also Pounded.
LONDON, May 24 (U. P.).—A royal air force armada numbering close to 1000 planes blasted the flood-damaged | Ruhr valley industrial center of Dortmund with 33 tons ‘of bombs a minute for a total of 4,000,000 pounds during an hour-long raid last night—the greatest aerial onslaught ever anywhere, “Last night bombers in very great strength attacked Dortmund,” an air miinstry communique said. “Strong de« fenses of the Ruhr were beaten down and over 2000 ‘ons of bombs were dropped in a concentrated attack which was ‘completed in one hour. “Crews reports indicate great damage was done. Thirtyeight of our bombers are missing.
Italian Bases Hammered
The attack on Dortmund followed new thrusts by allied bombers and fighter bombers in the Mediterranean, where the axis lost probably 320 airplanes since last Wednesday. American planes hammered the fascist base on Pantelleria island, hitting five small ships and starting fires, while U. S. and R. A. F. planes attacked San Giovanni on the Italian mainland and other targets on Sardinia. The dumping of more than 2000 tons of bombs on Dortmund’s electric, steel, coal and other war works added to ‘the Ruhr valley havoe caused by R. A. F. bombing of three | dams, which loosed flood waters on German industrial centers including the Dortmund area. | Three out of every four of the R. A. F. planes in the armada, which was said to be well over 500 planes and not — ; “| far short of 1000, were four=
JAP FORCES PUSH Fee fot ves rovers TOWARD CHUNGKING
Report Big Explosion Yuyangkwan Occupied New Drive on Chinese. | western part of Dortmund. Despite lack of details, there ap-
(U.P). — pushing parently was no question that the
. attack was the greatest ever staged westward along the Yangtze river by an airforce anvwhere. I. cls
toward Chungking have occupied .,.veq o series of “record” raids by Yuyangkwan and are attacking the R. A. F. and American air forces | Changyang in severe fighting south- in the steadily expanding uesivas . sion onslaught against axis Europe, West OF Jeans, § Cites comm Allied ahs also continued from nique announced today. ‘the Mediterranean area, where | The enemy began pushing west heavy bombers and fighter bombers from Yuyangkwan, 34 miles south- pasted Pantelleria island, Sardinia west of Ichang, along a front more ang San Giovanni on the Italian than 30 miles wide, it was revealed. ainland, continuing a series of Japanese troops from Itu, just south ,qaiqs that have knocked out ap-
the Yangtze, drove toward proximately 320 axis airplanes since Changyang, 15 miles southwest of! ast Wednesday.
Pilots reported that “something really big” blew up with a tremenIN dous explosion during the raid, which started huge fires in the
CHUNGKING, May 24 Strong Japanese forces
losses Nazis Admit Damage
A Chinese raid on Japanese forts The Dortmund attack, however,
U. S. bombers based on Attujon Quemoy island near Amoy, on overshadowed all other raids.
IN CA | ultimately will be able to return| | - H ihe visit. | tained good results and many pris- ocean news agency dispatch said
the southeastern coast of China, ob! A German broadcast of trans-
oners were taken, it was announced. that “competent quarters” in Berlin Chinese forces prepered for de-|gecknowledged “casualties and heavy cisive battles in western Hupeh | damage” at Dortmund. along the Yangtze river, 200 to 300| Shipping and harbor installations east of China's wartime were hammered at Pantelleria, hits capital. |being scored on five small ships, The rapid westward drive by | during three raids by British and superior enemy forces threatened| American planes in five hours. the river forts on the Hupeh-| In London, Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Szechwan border, an official source Devers, commander of U. 8. forces said. |in the European theater, said Amer« [ican forces are ready to play their
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Kenneth Dennis, 19, the driver, of 3002 Madison ave. He was not hospitalized. According to the investigation, the car was hooked by the passing tractor trailer driven by Fay Sisk, 29, of Louisville. The trailer left the road, dove] HOT SPRINGS, Va, May M4 (U. 215 feet into a ditch and then over-|P.).—Rep. Frederick C. Smith (R. turned, but the driver was unhurt.|O. appointed himself today a oneThe automobile left the road on/man committee to guard against (Continued on Page Two) development of any evil plots at
pe the united nations food conferVERONICA AWAITS [ence STORK’S 2D TRIP sions of conference ccmmittees,
Denied access to executive ses- | Smith patrolled the corridors of the HOLLYWOOD, May 24 (U. Po Homestead hotel and picked up Veronica Lake, original exponent of whatever information he could the peak-a-boo hair-do, is expecting about the proceedings. The thin her second child and is retiring walls and occasional open doors from the screen, it was disclosed might be a help to him. today. | When reporters trooped in for Miss Lake, who is the wife of their morning press conferénce with
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Capt. John Detlie, has a daughter Chairman Marvin Jones, Smith was almost 2 years old. : in a co chair
Rep. Smith Appoints Self as Watchdog of Food Sessions
excellent equipment poured in for (Continued on Page Two)
On the War Fronts
(May 24, 1943)
AIR WAR-British bombers hit Dortmund with 2000 tons of ex«
outside a committee room whose door had been left open. “I'm finding out a lot of things,” Smith said. “I think I'll stay here a while.” Smith said he had talked by telephone to Rep. Fred Bradley (R. Mich.) in Washington, and that Bradley said he intended to speak in the house today about the barriers erected against them here. Smith said - also he hoped that ome of his Republican colleagues vould come here to help him “observe” what was going on. Méanwhile, the tumult which na the first week of the food Jommuni Y :onferenceé subsided and interest « es, Zoe Five
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on Germany, losing 38 planes; allied planes attack Pantelleria three times in five hours,
PACIFIC—Japanese reported pre« paring for big-scale offensive against Chinese defenses guards ing Chungkifg approaches: five Jap planes downed in raid on Attu,
RUSSIA—Soviet artillery breaks up troop movements near Kursk.
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