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go to Kwajalein, Johnston, Honolulu, San Francisco,” Kansas City and Washington, the latter the
starting point of the flight. _
Hits Updraft Tt was last midnight that this round-the-world flying machine lumbered up from the strong smelling city of Calcutta and headed
across the Himalaya mountains, |
which is known to aviators as the Hump. Capt. ‘Richard H. Drake, Riverside, Cal, chief pilot, said that since we didn’t have to worry about Japanese, we were flying the southern. or lower, end of the pile of rocks at an altitude of 12,000 feet. Then, woosh. An air current picked up this glant C-54 and in a matter of seconds lifted it to 14,500 feet, like a high-speed elevator, only more so. My head hurt; so did everybody else's. The flight clerk fixed that by passing out oxygen masks. So 1 sat there, staring into the rain and wondering whatever impelled me to become a world traveler, when the tips of all four propellers caught on fire. “Very pretty,” commented a veteran of the Hump in the next seat. “Ulp,” 1 said. “An odd phenomenon known as gt. Elmo's fire,” he added. “You
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TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 1945 _ _
Nation Is Threatened With
First Double
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substance by estimation. that at least half of the oil refineries are closed ‘today by strikes for a 30 per cent wage boost. In addition the stage is set for a big increase in the probably 200 coal mines already struck because of a dispute over unionization of foremen and other supervisory emyyees. : “This doiible headache over fuel is a large part but still only a part of the troubles before Secretary Schwellenbach, who has a commission from President Truman to Pacify the turbulent industrial scene. So far he has depended on conciliatory appeals to “men of good will” to behave themselves. They are not behaving, in numerous industrial fields. The coal and oil unions, are remote from each other as organizations and are different in other important ways. The coal union is the United Mine Workers, headed by John L. Lewis. He founded the C. 1. O, of which the oil workers international union is a part, but has no affection now for the C. I. O. in general. May Be Tieup There is nothing to show that the coal and oil strikes are synchronized for organizational purposes, but the astute Mr. Lewis is believed not likely to have overlooked the possibility of tying in coal with oil under present circumstances.
Fuel Shutdown
The latter is in its first big struggle. Its backers hope it will emerge as the dominant union of the oil industry: taking over refineries now organized by the A. F. of L. or independent unions. ere’s a big difference, also, between the leaders of the U. M. W. and the oil workers. Bellicose “John L.” has been orating around Washington for a dozen years, getting into politics of various kinds, founding and splitting labor movements, and for a short period being considered as a presidential candidate, Still Doing Business
His political days may be over, but he's still doing union business at the old stand. : The president of the’ Oil Workers’ Union, O. A. Knight, talks and looks more like an accountant than a labor leader. He is slight and wears glasses. Whether Mr. Knight will develop into a Lewis depends on the outcome of the oil negotiations, which resisted another late session last night, despite all the “good will” pressure from Schwellenhach sources, and despite a seven-day run of the negotiations in Chicago and here.
Oil Compromise Seen The management men in the two disputes - also offer comparisons. The coal men are headed by Charlie O'Neill and .Ezra Van Horn, well above the 200-pound mark. The oil men average well below that.
A main difference between the two unions is that the United Mine Workers has / half million mem-
don’t often get to see it.”
The fire died down a little, but the plane kept swooping like a giant doing the Blue Danube waltz. | Somehow 1 didn’t feel sleepy. Two| years later, at 4 a. m. we landed] at Kunming, where it was as cold as the nose of a Chinese dog. That is accurate reporting; there was a yellow dog there with gray spots and its nose was something to feel. “Gulp and Scram” The commandant and all his helpers were up, waiting breakfast for us; Chinese eggs, fried; Chinese bacon, and Chinese hot cakes. We had to gulp same and scram, because we were holding up traffic on the airport, one of the world’s busiest. - En route to the plane over an expanse of rocks and mud I think I spied three Chinese in blue cotton pants, but it was dark and I wouldn't swear to it. 1 figured the only thing left was to get a look at China from the air at dawn, which was turning the sky slightly pinkish, I kept looking out the window. My eyes stung from sleeplessn2ss and I decided to close 'em for a minute. This was & mistake. Seven hours passed forever from the life of Othmun. So did China. When I woke up we were over the China sea, the flight clerk said. I have no reason to doubt his word, but I can’t confirm it. At this writing we're plowing at 200 miles per hour through a world of wet cotton batting, which is wringing itself out on our wings. We're headed for home, where the war department says we will arrive Thursday night. Liked India I don’t think the war department knows what it’s talking about. The way I figure it, we take off Wednesday from one Pacific isle, and land seven hours later on another where it'll be Tuesday. Unless somebody's confused, and I don’t see how it could be me, we'll arrive in Washington around midnight Wednesday.
world party—fast living. “I thought I would like to settle down in India, but the pilot said nothing doing. ‘That Gunga Din business appealed to me. +I hadn't been in India for 10 minutes when so help me I had my private, bare-foot striker to tote my stuff, shoo away flies, and clear the way for the emperor. (That was me) That wasn't all. There was another gent in a furban who went ahead and brushed my path with & broom so I wouldn't stub my toe. Plenty of Waiters Boy, boy. When Globester number one jolted gently to the field and Col. Edward H. Holterman said
maybe I'd like some coffee, there
~ were seven walters to serve same.
Two brought the coffee, another the cream and so on through the jelly, the toast and the peanut butter, That was in Karachi, The Globester number one which started so shiny from Washington, last Friday afternoon had plowed through a storm over the Atlantic, skittered around the pyramids and dipped briefly over Jerusalem and arrived at Karachi with all four engines purring, ‘but with her onee sleek sides spattered with dirt from half the world. She was run into a hangar for an overhaul and a Globester number II was trundled out on the runway (well swept hy some more Gunga Dins in hats that looked like strawberry baskets) for the second leg of the journey to Calcutta, over the Himalayas into China and on to Manila where a third C-54 Douglas Skymaster will take over the final run into Washington.
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POLICE ARREST 2 AS HOME PROWLERS
Two prowlers were arrested by police last night. Lillian Alberts, 29, of 834 Lord st., told police that a man had followed her home from a drugstore and then peeked in her window. Shortly afterwards patrolmen found a man at Pine st. and English ave, who was identified by Miss Alberts as the peeker. He gave his name as Algir Huffman, 52, of 102 N. Walcott st., and was arrested on charges of vagrancy and Peeping Tom. Two residents in the 508 block of Dorman st. last night reported to police that a prowler was in their neighborhood. Mrs. Leslie Johnson, 517 Dorman st. said someone had been on her back porch until she let her dog out to chase the trespasser. Half an hour later police picked up a man, identified by both Mrs. Johnson and Arthur Turner, of 504 Dorman st., as the prowler. He gave his name as Cornelius Abbott, 51, of 6 N. Gladstone ave, and was charged with trespassing. Preston Sellars, 45, of 404 W. Vermont st., is in fair condition at City | hospital today after receiving body cuts when, as he told police, he was attacked by three assailants between 18 and 25 years old.
BAD CHECK SUSPECT CAUGHT IN MIAMI
Accused of bouncing $5000 worth of “rubber” checks among Indianapolis merchants, Edward Boardman, 26, was arrested in Miami last night. : Boardman was nabbed on a grand {larceny charge by Miami detectives, (acting on information obtained from Indiana state police, He is alleged to have stolen a {check certifying machine from the |Prest-O-Lite Co. here, and 103 of their checks. After passing several of these, the forgery artist was trailed by state police to his room at 237 E. 9th st., but he had already fled the city. ’ The officers then pursued him to Kentucky, losing him as he raced further south. State Police Detectives Robert Stewart and Earl Smith will leave’ for Miami tonight to extradite Boardman back to Indiana. He has a previous police record
HUNT NAZI .ESCAPEE FROM ATTERBURY
A German prisoner of war, Ernst
Camp Atterbury since Saturday, the F. B. 1. reported today. The prisoner, who is 35, is five feet seven inches tall and weighs about 117 pounds. He is fair, has blue eyes and is almost bald. Officials said he speaks German, French, Spanish and a little English and is wearing khaki clothes marked “P. W.”
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POLICE SEIZE MAN WANTED IN 2 STATES
Patrolmen George Johnson and Walter Baase today arrested Virgil Taylor, 33, of 608 E. 12th st., alias Otis Taylor, alias John Lee, on a charge of vagrancy. Investigation at police headquarters disclosed that ‘Taylor is at present wanted at La Grange, Ky., where he escaped from prison: while serving a burglary charge. Prior to his sentence in Kentucky, police said, he : from the Ohio State penitentiary where he was serying 10 to 25 years on a robbery charge. Arrested today with Taylor was Barbara Hacker, 22, of 1310 N Pennsylvania st, who was charged
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90,000 MINERS JOIN STRIKES
Over 214 Pits Closed; Oil Disputes Spread. :
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mands for wage adjustments. steelworkers. . The management of Bus service from. Portland tothe ball bearing firm said the shutIdaho and eastern Oregen points down was necessary after 1200 workalready was paralyzed by a walkout|ers at’ subsidiary plants joined a of overland Greyhound bus drivers|sitdown strike of workers at the and drivers of Pacific Trailways. [main plant. Three 8. K. F, Inc, plants at] In New York, Joseph Bierne, presPhiladelphia were closed early today |ident of the National Federation of because of a strike of 2000 C. I. O.| Telephone Workers, said the union's
spreading works stoppages in the industry. | At New York, approximately 7000 longshoremen were on strike at piers in a dispute over contract pro-. visions. The wildcat strike was reported spreading by Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen’s association (A. F. of L).! About 6500 members of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Work- |
Durning winter
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work stoppages, most of them based | wv on demands for wage increases to compensate for loss of war-made| overtime. Approximately 2300 workers were scheduled to walk out at 12 noon! (Indianapolis time) today at the. Union Oil Co.'s Wilmington and Rodeo, Cal, refineries and touch off an outburst of strikes along the west coast. A spokesman for;
ers union (C. I. 0.) went on strike! ° at two Orange, N. J, firms for a . \ $2 daily wage increase. { & , 440,000 Idle |
The new walkouts put the nation's strike idle at an estimated
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A minor back-to-work movement was under way at the strike-bound Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. of Detroit | which might clear the way for re- | sumption of supplies to the Ford Motor Co. where 50,000 have been | laid off. About 100 of a mormal] shift of 2500 reported yesterday in the first break in the 38-day-old Kelsey-Hayes walkout. ' A strike of 100 lower Colorado River Authority employees, seeking recognition of their A. F. of L. affiliated union, yesterday cut off electric power to 23 central Texas towns, 50 smaller communities and some 25,000 rural users.
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NAMED CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL SAFETY UNIT
Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—Wallace O. Lee, vice president of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co., and general chairman of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce safety board, today was elected 8 member of the executive board of the National Safety council. Announcement of Mr. Lee's election to the national safety post was
{involving bus service in seven west-! . {ern states, neared as representa- | tives of Pacific Greyhound employees met to consider strike action. Officials of the A. F, of L. Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees union have been author(ized to call a strike to back up de-
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