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Munich -and Dusseldorf sent: the

.and fighters bucked dirty weather

. fire and bad weather.

| TUESDAY, "APRIL 25,

GREAT FIRE RAID

~ STRIKES REICH]

500000 Incendiaries Fall

On .3 Cities; Yanks

Pound France. (Continued From Page One)

by steady processions of lighter planes on the Pas de Calais coastal strip across the neck of the chan=nel. The daylight bombardment ‘and a powerful British night assault on the German rail hubs of Karlsruhe, |

tonnage of bombs dropped on west~ ern Europe in nine days rocketing past the 31,000 mark. More than 1000 Forts, Liberators

and temperatures as low as 30 below zero to plaster the air fields at Metz, near the German border; Nancy, 25 miles to the south, and Dijon, 110 miles southwest of Nancy. Liberators striking later at the Pas de Calais were escorted by Mustang fighters. Lightning fight-er-bombers escorted by Lightning fighters ranged deeper inland to hit air fields in northern France. Nearly 200 Marauder medium bombers and Havoc attack planes hit scattered targets in northern France shortly before noon. They encountered heavy anti-aircraft

R.A F. Blasts Reich Some: 800 to 1000 British night

bombers dropped the bulk. of -theirt 5n8 of Blockosters BIT GBT = © diaries on Karlsruhe and Munich, |’

starting big fires, and divided the balance between Dusseldorf and Chambly, the latter a French railway depot 20 miles north of Paris. Upwards of 2000 American Flying Fortresses, Liberators and ‘escorting fighters further cut into the Luftwaffe's waning power yesterday with attacks on aircraft factories at Friedrichshafen in southwest Germany and airflelds in the Munich area. A total of 103 German planes was shot down in aerial combat, 66 of them by fighters and the remainder by the big bombers, and an additional “large number” was destroyed on the ground, an American communique revealed. Thirtyeight bombers and 17 fighters were Jost, but 12 were known to have landed safely in Ewitzerland.® Bombing results were described as “generally satisfactory.”

STIMSON APPROVES ARMY, NAVY MERGER

(Continued From Page One)

4 low,

1944 WAC Unit Has New Chieftain At Base Here

: THE NEW eommanding officer’ of the Stout field WAC detachment is 1st Lt. Lillian E. Neal, who has replaced Lt. Elnora Garnow on duty at Bow+ man field, Ky. | Lt. Neal came here from Lawson field at Pt.

was § company officer with the aircraft warn- 2 ing service at Wilmington, N. C, and Camp Polk, La., before joining the troop carrier command at Lawson field in May, 1943. A native of Greensboro, N. C,, she was a recreation supervisor there before joining the WAC. She attended the Women’s college of the University of North Carolina and took post graduate work at Duke and Chapel Hill universities,

U. S. PLANES AID AT HOLLANDIA

Use. Caplured Air Strip. to

vinnie

- Lt, Neal

Troops. (Continued From Page One)

dang and at least 300 miles from the new beachheads. Front dispatches said American and Australian fighter planes and cargo ships landed at Tadji only 48 hours after the first wave of American troops landed on the Aitape beaches. The strip was one of the three Tadji airfields seized by U. 8. troops, soon after the landing Saturday.’ The veteran jungle fighters reached the approaches to Aitape village after crossing the mouth of the Raibu river. Front dispatches placed the forward lines at only two miles from the village Sunday night. In the drive the troops captured Tumleo Seleo and Alf islands offshore near Aftape. While a communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters did not mention the presence of any Japanese troops in the area,’

garrison at Aitape had fled the village.

committee on post-war military policy, Stimson said creation of one| department of national security is | “essential if our nation is adequately and most effectively to carry on its wars under modern conditions.” Experiences in the present war, he said, have abundantly brought| out that -voluntary co-operation,

“no matter how successful,” under

wartime conditions cannot be as effective in handling great military problems as some form of combined, concentrated authority “at level of staff planning, supervision | and control.”

Under our present organization | east. rapidly were moving up a mo- | youn in a narrow of separate war and navy depart-!tor road connecting the two bays, |

ments, he said, disagreements have to be resolved at very high levels |

Front dispatches continued to report that thousands of Japanese were pushing northward in a do-or- | die thrust from the by-passed We-

it was reported that the enemy |

4 ARRESTED IN HOLOUP SERIES,

Bandit Hands His Victim Wrong Pocketbook; Re-

port Confession. .

(Continued From Page One)

by police and held under $3000 bond for questioning. He was found at the home of Humpress, Police first started on the trail of the gang when they received a call from Stanley McMahan, 1401 N. Aladama st, Apt. 6, at 10 p. m. Mr. McMahan said he was walking near his home when two men approached him, one sticking a knife against his back, the other placing a revolver against his stomach. They took his billfold containing $40. When Mr. McMahan requested the return of his billfold, one of the men obliged. Upon inspecting it, police found the holdup~man had erred and given Mr. McMahan a billfold containing Hall's ,draft and iden tion cards. Mr. McMahan said the men drove away in a green coupe. At 11 p. m. Miss Eris Graves, 2134 Highland pl, reported that as she was walkihg at the south end of the Fall Creek bridge at Boulevard pl, a man got out of a green coupe, drew a revolver, took her billfold from her purse, and drove away.

Drops His Billfold The next call came at 11:30 p. m. from William Adamson, 1537 W. Meares Rtakte ERE 400 block on Reisner st. on His way from work at the U. 8. Rubber Co. when a car drove up beside him. Suspecting a holdup, he quickly dropped his billfold én the ground. Two men approached, took the change from his pockét, and his leather jacket, and Mr. Adamson retrieved his billfold. When the ‘men in the coupe approached Tom Johnson, 1826 N. Tibbs ave., as he was driving south in the 100 block on Richland ave. Mr, Johnson told them, “You haven't got nerve enough to shoot me.” A fight followed and Johnson was struck on the head with the gun, but the holdup mien got no money.

Fepiling. in ! thei

They drove away,

Sedition Lawyer Urges Roosevelt "To Cancel Trial

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.).—The quest for a jury con=tinued today as the sedition trial -went into its sixth day with a defense attorney asking President Roosevelt to call the whole thing off to prevent “a wave of hostility and bias toward the Jewish race.” Presiding Judge Edward C. Eicher dismissed 45 of the 86° prospective jurors in the second panel yesterday when they admitted that they had already formed opinions on the guilt or innocence of the 28 men and two women accused of conspiracy with the Nazis. Not a single juror was chosen during the first five days ‘of the trial. 2 = J The plea for presidential intervention in the trial was made by James Laughlin, attorney for defendant Edward James Smythe and Robert Noble, who said its continuance would “see class arrayed against class and race against race.” The attorney repeated that he intended ta show that “many prominent Americans” had attacked “certain Jewish elements far more vehemently” than any of the defendants. He again named Henry Ford, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Father Charles E.

nen hp. Sale first reference to-him with a formal statement decrying it as a “malicious attempt” to obscure

the alleged misdeeds of persons accused of disloyalty.

VICTORY PLEDGED

(Continued From Page One)

Nikopo! and the Ukraine, famous las the “bread basket of Russia.” The Russian army advanced on the various fronts from 500 to 715

square miles of Soviet soil, the

Find Adamson Jacket

Patrolmen Jessie Francis William DeJarnette arrested Hall when they found him lying on the; front seat of a green coupe in front of his home about 12:30 p. m.

and Harold Goodman, accompanied

arrested Humphress, Bean and the 17-year-old youth at Humphress'| nome. The jacket taken from Mr | | Adamson was also found there, ! police said. In confessing to the holdups, the!

{ wak area, 85 miles south of Aitape. In the Hollandia area, 125 miles

: White river,

| above Altape, two forces were driv- |

|ing from the east and west on Hol-! dandia’s three airfields in a valley

range. { Planes Strafe Airfields | Troops which landed at Tanah-

the merah were reported five miles from |

the main airdrome,

behind the high Cyclops mountain

KILL 10,000 JAPS IN IMPHAL BATTLE

(Continued From Page One)

and |

Meanwhile, Detectives Lee Oliver)

by Sgt. J. J. Sullivan and his squad,

youth told police they had aiso robbed a man and woman sitting in a parked car, on S, West st. near

Moscow summary said.

| The campaign freed 370 towns and more than 65,000 inhabited localities. German losses as given by the Moscow broadcast included about 5000 tanks and self-propelled guns, 10,000 field guns, 130,000 trucks. | MOSCOW, April 25 (U. P)— | Russian siege armies and assault | planes were reported pouring tor- | rents of sheels and bombs into Sevastopol today in apparent preparation for the showdown battle of the Black sea naval base. Powerful squadrons of the Soviet lair force and the fleet air arm threw everything they had at Sevastopol and the sea lanes of flight {for the beleaguered German and Romanian garrison, sinking 15 vessels and destroying 36 planes in # Fry

reported that the Rusda th attacking strongly at

while fOrces|,,. reccue of a cornered British Sevastopol after completing their

{ from Humboldt bay, 20 miles to the | regiment that had been pinned re-grouping for the siege.

with the Hollandia, Cyclops and Sentani airfields in between.

corner of the city for more than a week. While the communique reported | that there has been “no material

| Russian battle planes were reported unprecedently active in two major zones of operation—at Sevastopol and over the Lwow-Stanis-

or even by the President himself — | The communique said the Hum- | ongpy \ge” in the situation there yes- lawow area where the Nazis per-

a necessarily slow and inadequate boldt bay troops seized Hollandia to qav jt suggested that the allied sisted in

process.

reorganization should not be made |

“at a critical moment of war” because the difficulties, dangers and complications likely to result “would more than offset its advantage.”

FORECAST RAIN FOR FLOODED MIDWEST

By UNITED PRESS Additional heavy rains were forecast for tomorrow, following a 48-

- hour respite from showers, in the

Mississippi watershed where already overflowing streams have inundated thousands of acres of

"farmland and forced the evacua-

tion of towns in the Mississippi flats. Four persons lost their lives in Missouri because of the floods, three were drowned in Indiana and one in Kansas. Most of the victims were children. Two were coast guardsmen who were sucked under a metal barge at St. Louis by the rapid Mississippi current. Federal troops, state guards and volunteer workers in Missouri, Illinois, Jowa and Kansas worked steadily under army direction to sandbag levees and seawalls where weaknesses developed. Crests along the major rivers were expected over the week-end. y

“TYNDALL STRESSES

GUARD OVER POLLS

“We don’t want to steal the election, but we want to make sure that nobody steals it from us either,” Mayor Tyndall told department heads and Republican Victory committeemen at a political powwow today in his office. His statement was in connection with his appeal for some 400 counters and 150 watchers to represent the Victory organization in the primary. Assistant City Attorney Henry Krug, appointed chairman of a “fair practices” committee, said the

“friends and supporters” throughout the city for the counting and watching jobs. He said the Victory group, city

"hall fraction of ‘the Republica Mo party ‘opposing the regular G. 0. P

county organization, intended to station 75 watchers at precios at

efforts to hamstring

jtownship, Pim village and Leimok | forces were smashing the remnants Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's prepStimson said, however, that the hill to the south and captured huge ,¢ the enemy forces around Kohima 'arations for a new campaign.

airfields.

struck three key airfields at Hollandia, Wakde island and Sawar, all in Dutch New Guinea, destroying 101 enemy planes and damaging 17 others in the air and on the ground, while naval forces sank two small cargo ships and numergus barges and small craft. The enemy suffered its biggest losses at Hollandia, where U. 8S. fliers destroyed 67 planes on the ground at the three airfields and heavily bombed buildings, ammunition dumps and fuel and storage facilities. Twenty-one more planes were destroyed on: the ground at Wadke island, 110 miles west of Hollandia, and at Sawar, 11 miles farther west. planes were shot down in combat.

quantities of supplies and equip- | ment in the advance toward the’ | arrival of the first relief column at was drying out the southern front

An official observer describing the | Kohima said allied tanks, infantry-

rear of the Japanese siege line while formations of vengeance dive bombers sprayed the enemy with bombs, and machiné gun fifire, Picked troops of British home counties and north England regiments led the final assault and

onet point, (Japanese propaganda reports re-, newed the claim that Kohima had been captured and asserted that the renegade Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose was about to establish a government seat in eastern India.) The plight: of the Japanese invasion force was worsened by re-|

supply lines.

burst through into Kohima at bay-|

The northward advance of spring

and melting the snows from the

Planes from Adm. Nimitz’ armada | men and artillery struck into the central and northern front, where

German nervousness evidently reflected fears that the army soon will be in action again.

"EISENHOWER RATES WAR WRITERS HIGH

NEW YORK, April 25 (U. P).— | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the 58th annual | American Newspaper Publishers’ association in a message today that he considers war correspondents at | his headquarters as “quasi-staff officers.”

His message was read to the

The other Japanese lentless R. A. F. attacks in their opening session of the three-day

‘meeting.

EVENTS TODAY

Order of Eastern Star of Indiana, grand chapter, Murat temple. Indiana Congress of Parents & Teachers, Claypool! hotel. Indiana Bakers association, Hotel Lincoln BY istration of junior police, Howard eater, 3:30 p

m. | warren Central high school prom, school

auditorium, nigh Indiana chapter, American Guild of Organists, glish Linn Church of Our Redeemer, 8:15 p.

EVENTS TOMORROW

Order of Eastern Star of Indiana, grand chapter, Murat temple. Indiana Congress of Parents & Teachers, Claypool hotel Indiana Bakers association, Hotel Lincoln, Co-operative club, Columbia club, noon. Mary Alice Diting, graduation recital, the eon, 8:30 ’ Apartment “owners, Washington hotel, 12:15 p. m

MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records in the county court bouse. The Times, therefore. is not responsible for errots

Edwin David Hicks, 24, of 760 Kétenami Norma Jean Maschino, 18, of 760 Ketcham. Robert R. Keenan, 21, U. 8. army, Stout fleld; Bettie Jean Harritt, 21, of 5310

Donald Weldon Haskett, 24, 'R. R. 16, Box 454; Maria Jane Smith, 18, R. R. 16,

Box Arnold Lewis Page, 21, U. 8. army; Lula Norma Jean Atto, 18, of 431 N. Gray. Robert Paul Bryant, 34, Camp Atterbury, Ind; Ruby C. Barton, 30, of 1701 N.

Jersey. . Beck, 20, Michigan City, Ind.: Beyeniy Edith Barker, 21, Spiceland,

Bicknell Ag Beckwith, 18, U Jean Ellen Boyer, 18

p! ose McCauley, 36, Camp Atterbury, Ind; Pauline Dinwiddie, 38, of 82 8 Ogden Wesley OX mv, Box iia,

Alonzo Jones, 4. som

Doulas, fr R, 18, ice Louise Pd 21,

“of 2051 Kenwood; Blosts Al, of ana N

, of 4233 uy H

Henry C Lane, 34, of 244 N. La Salle: Nutite Marie Phillips, 18, of 244 N. La

Walter Lafayette Neal, 29, of 6111 Lowell; Norma Jane McNabney, 19, of 601 8 v Isaiah Burse, 26, Camp Van Dorn, Miss; Clarice Jones, 21, of 2010 Martindale. Joseph H. Hodge, 19, of 708 N. New Jorsey: Rosemary Marie Deilkes, 18, of 508 N. New Jersey. Chester L. Rogers, 21, of 1530 8, Kappes: Lois Mays Sparks, 18, of 1343 8. Tremont.

Lawrence M. Brust, 25, Ft. Knox, Ky. Ruth Anne Branam, 19, of 2447 N. Talbott George Cleage, 40, of 1014 W. Michigan; Mildred Mallory, 30, of 531 Agne Albert D. Hillock, 35, of 729 Greer; “Esther Barnett, 35, of 720 Greer. Robert L. Brown, 31, Ft Ky Florence Louise George, 27, ot Tors w - Morris. William Sylvester Witsman, 23, U. marine corps; Betty Lavonn Williams, 18, of 1120 N. Keystone. Paul R. Harding, 54, of 1325 Oliver; E. Shulswick, 64, of 1325 Oliver. Lester Ralph Gilbreath, 57, of 2260 Reformers; Catal Warrenburg, 48, of 2319 Beeche Benjamin Prankith Larker, 21, of 1615 Northwestern, Margaret Anne Glenn, 18, of 518 W. 12th. Granville er. 49. of 946 N. California; Lucille Craig, 39, of 946 N. Cali-

fornia. Gene Allen Cowgill, 17, U. 8S. navy, axine Lloyd, —, R.R. 4 EH

Mary

Phyllis M Cary Raymond Parker, 40, ford City, Ind.. Minnie Golda Harris, 39, of 508 E. Michigan, 4.

John Thomas Beckelhimer, 48, of 522 Jones; Helen E. Pence, 47, of 522 Jones Gatget A. Beall, 41, of 527 N. Delaware; Effie Mae Moore, 35, of 527 N. Delaware. i BIRTHS Sieh Chris, Elizabeth Esch, at St. Frantls. arold, Elizabeth’ Patrick, at City. Gale, Thelma Bennett, at Vincent's.

ed, Norma Hert, at St. Vincent's. James, Pauline Linderberger, at St. Vin-

cent’s, Marvin Eleone Reuter, at St. Vincent's. Earl, Helen. Wainscott, at St. Vincent's. isle eman.

Walle: er, Ethel Geisler, at Col Max, Mary Brown, at Me! [1

“| Willard, Ada

IN INDIANAPOLIS-EVENTS-VITALS

[win fam, Pauline Cotes t St. Pran | George, Wilma Curthicer, at St. rans. Gerald, Henrietta Bailey, at St. Vincent's. wards, at St. Vincent's. William, Ruth Fitz at St. Vincent's. Daniel, Eliton Morse, at Coleman. Thomas, Vanita Parker, at Coleman. Norman, Ruth Curtis, at Methodist.

| Robert,

Martha Richmond, at Methodist. | Forrest,

Wilma Williamson, at Methodist.

‘DEATHS

Lou Barbar, 68. at Long, uremia. Lou M. Black, 60. at Methodist, carcinoma. Katherine A, Perry, 65, at myocarditis.

obstruction.

v..! Eva Albertson, 60, at Methodist, cerebral a ley, 77, at 3028 Washington

hemorrh Thomas J olvl., cerebral hemor: rrhage. Lon Lazzell, 55, at Leng, meningitis.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Coughlin as amorig those promi- F aly

‘ON GERMAN SOIL"

miles and liberated about 308,880

Russian

convention of the

{ Clyde. Martha Mae Reimer, at Methodist.

2754 N. Gale, Irving G. Johnson, 44, at City, intestinal

HITLER, ILL DUCE CONFER ON WAR

DNB Reports Mussolini Contributes Little but

Presence.

By-EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent ‘LONDON, April 25 (U. P).— Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, harried by the specter of invasion from the west and a Berlin-bound Russ army in the" east, met at the fuehrer’s headquarters over the week-end for possibly their last council of war before the climactic Serpe of Europe, it was disclosed toy. The Nazi DNB news -agency said that Hitler and his junior partner conferred with their military and political aids Saturday and Sunday “in the spirit of old friendship” and reached an “unshakeable decision” to carry on the war to the bitter end. The DNB account made it clear that Mussolini, ill and decrepit, contributed little but his presence te the conference. With the axis chiefs at the meeting were Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Fascist Un-der-Secretary of State Mazzolini. DNB gave only a vague, undetailed report of the. conference and London observers regarded it primarily as an effort to make a little political captial for the axis -at. a

Parlor Strategists Delve Info

Tide Charts to Dope Invasion

. (Continued From Page One)

“a defined schedule over a pe-

riod of years and this schedule can be found on any nautical almanac, the weather steps in to ball ‘things up. A good sou'westerly gale may delay the arrival of spring rise for many hours. In other words, you may carefully plan to do a landing on a particular spring tide which is due to coincide with darkness and discover that the high tide you want has been delayed unt day~ light. Likewise, a good sou'wester may change things in the other direc« tion. This exposition may “not be exact but it is nearly enough so to convey the idea that the whole thing is very complicated and unpredictable. What headaches our nautical friends must be having in making their plans is shown by a glance at the tidal tables for

~in Brown's Nautical

Nazis Use Felons To Help Troops

(Continued From Page One)

more imprisonment for military

“offenses.

- 2. Physically - fit convicts released from jails and penitentiaries. p 3 Political dissenters who had

nsf odved

western European ports contained Almanac published . in 1942, These show “tidal constants,” the highest levels reached by the sea above the depths shown on nautical charts. The variation between high water and low water on any particular day is slightly less than the fig~ ures indicate and varies from month to month, but the figures do give a fair idea of the rise and fall on which any landing force would have to count. It must be repeated that these names mean nothing for the simple reason that we do not know any secrets, : These are the tidal constants: First, for spring tides—high tides Which come at full and new moon, and second, for neap tides—the highest tides experienced at quarter moon: SPRINGS NEAPS (Figures in feet) Tromso (northern

Norway) 8 0 Trondheim ......... 812 0 Stavanger .......... 212 0 Isbjerg (Denmark).. 5 4 Dunkirk ............ 1914 16 Boulogne ........... 28% 23 Dieppe . ...... eenees 292 23 Cherbourg .......... 20% 16 Granville ....ee0ee.. 44'2 33% St. Malo ...ceieneues 40, «30% Brest ......co0000... 24% 191; St. Nazaire ......... 171% 1312

By the time you get to the Lisbon tidal constants, the spring and neap tides are only 10% feet and 8% feet.

Rao aR ly idm lenges. yr) PEN CR Ah : Hitler ¢ rE can decide how it challenge is to be met. Mussolini, who has no empire and but a few | friends in a nation ‘of unwilling] subjects—and who probably is a very sick man—has nothing to do with it.

REVEALS A. E. F. SIZE

NEW YORK, April 25 (U. P.).— United States forces overseas now total approximately 3,600,000 men, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of selective service,

disclosed last night.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau All Data in Central War Time

Sunrise ..... 5:53 | Sunset ..... 7.38 TEMPERATURE , Avril 25, 1043 T8-M w..ns 54 2p. m ...... es

Way Indianapolis (city) Kansas oy. Mo. Miami, Minneapolis-St. ‘Paul’ New Orlean; New ore

Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 7:30 a. m. .01 Total precipitation Lines J Jan. YL... 14.77 Excess Since JAN. 1 shiv 2.03 The followin a shows th - tupes : Jesterd aay. the tempera . High Low Aa Cee sees Meetup annares 1 52 - BOSLOR i veuveorives ass enes eras 43 39 Cave 44 49 hone 38

STRAUSS SAYS — ——IT'S

WETIY SN CAERNOWY

| tion-camps. to penitentiasies. SOMO tide, ‘at. full “moon - in

Theoretically; members-of these. battalions can be “cleared” after serving their terms, but captured German soldiers report that this rarely is done. Civilians drawn from German jails are given no basic training but are sent into the line with experienced soldiers as tutors— the “foxhole system” of training. The main requisite for release from these punishment battalions, prisoners said, is to shoot down an allied plane or bring in at least five allied captives.

ONE

THESE Vee Eh

T-Cherbouyg is- 19 feet in May, 1944, © Wind and heavy currents cause these advance. notices to go wrong but they are ‘the basic. information on which calculations have to be made. Further information on this subject is to be found in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Sea Scout manuals and other nautical publications, but it will not do any landlubber much good to read them. The problem is beyond the depth of the ordinary pedestrian.

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FIGHT C. I. 0, PLEA

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steel panel after a three-week ree cess which followed presentation of the union case. The U, 8. W. has demanded revie sion of the little steel wage stabile ization formula to allow a general wage increase of 17 cents an hour, = In a statement, Benjamin Faire less, president of the huge United | State Steel Corp., said: > “1 cannot believe that our coun try’s great effort to win this most important of all wars will be ade vanced by discarding, at this time, a wage stabilization policy of the government.” “The taking of such a step must inevitably result in higher wages in

suBkanied. Fairless said.i the. publie:

all industries and in higher prices | for almost everything which all of lus buy.” Fairless said the U. S. W, based |its demands on the argument that | steel workers were victims of wage discrimination but that they were receiving higher weekly, daily and hourly wages than ever before. He said government statistics showed the average steel worker earned $52,49 a week last January, $7.34 above the average for all manuface turing industry and $1.28 above the average for durable goods industries. The steel workers’ weekly earne ings rose 56.2 per cent between Jane uary, 1941, and January, 1944, Faire less said. He denied the union assertion {that ,the industry could absorb the {proposed wage adjustment without | price. increases. | “If the demands of the union are

{will have to fogt the bill by pa linct&ised prices Tor steel They lic ‘will have to pay increased taxes |to make up for any decrease in the taxes of the steel companies.”

STRIKERS APPEAL TO FDR

HAMMOND, Ind, April 25 (U, P.). —The Pullman : Standard Car {Manufacturing Co. and 2000 striking {employees reached an impasse today |Over a contract dispute and the {workers appealed to President Roosevelt to take over the plant, which is devoted to the manufage ture of ordnance materials.

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