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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 184
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1945 »
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
PICKETS PUSH ES TO 2ND
Aircraft Machinists Join Film Workers in
Backing Demands;
Spreading Over Nation. Strikes at a Glance
By UNITED PRESS Strikes and shutdowns kept some 453,000 American workers away
from their jobs today. The major
COAL—Union and soft coal industry representatives met again in an effort to halt a walkout of 182,757 miners over unionization of foremen. The solid fuels administration placed production losses at 1,015,751 tons daily, half the nation’s output, and warned that domestic users would feel the pinch within three or four days. STEEL—An estimated 17,000 C. I. O. steelworkers were out in scattered eastern mills, and other plants were expected to shut down
as a result of the fuel shortage. operations would drop fo 25 per
unless coal production was restored promptly. MOTION PICTURE-—-Picket lines spread from the Warner Brothers studio in Hollywood to Universal studios as rival A. F. of L. unionists continued their sevenA. F. of L. machinists from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. reinforced the picket lines in an effort to bar workers from both studios. SHIPPING—New York port operations remained paralyzed as a back-to-work movement failed to gain ‘support.
nearly 400 vessels were idle at
harbor as 30,000 A. F. of L. longshoremen struck in- defiance of
top union leadership. \
LUMBER—Stockpiles dwindled alarmingly in the Pacific northwest, where a strike of 61,000 A. F. of L. lumber and sawmill workers
was in its fourth week.
AUTOS—Production continued at near-normal in the Detroit auto motive center, but forthcoming strike votes against the industry's big three—Ford, Chrysler and General Motors—darkened the
labor picture.
TRANSPORTATION—Negotiations continued between representatives’ of 2700 striking A. F. of L. drivers and the Pacific Greyhound Co. in an effort to end a seven-state walkout,
By UNITED PRESS
Picketing stead to a second Hollywood film studio to-
day and union and industry fifth day at Washington in an
Five hundred A. F. of L. machinists from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. joined the picketing film workers already lined up before Warner Brothers studios. Then some 650
‘FOREMAN ISSUE
pickets moved over to the Universal studios. About 2500,
pickets remained at Warners. The Lockheed workers drové up oy Warner Brothers in a 80-car caravan. Warners had raised an . American flag over the studio and the pickets joined in singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach said that President Truman had expressed a
LONDON, Oct. 11 (U. P). —
Fifteen hundred more dock work- | WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.~This ers along the Thames river struck |e pe the fifth day of Secretary today, paralyzing the port of Lon- lgchwellenbach’s zealous one-man
estuary town of Tilsbury. As the strikes already threaten to force a reduction in Britain's food rations, troops were moved into a third dock area to unload perishable foods.
desire for a quick end to the coal walkouts, “The President told me he was very anxious for the miners and operators to get together,” Schwellenbach said. Government officials warned that the strike in the soft coal fields unless settled by the week-end, would reduce steel operations to 256 per cent of capacity. The solid fuels administration said
Both Sides Stubborn on
effort to stop the coal strike, which continued to spread.
ful than in the oil strike, depends on the small chance of retreat from their adamant positions by old adversaries, expert at holding out— John IL. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and the spokesmen for bituminous coal operators.
by the solid fuels administration,
production is being lost—82 mines were added in a day to bring the total of struck mines to more than 800, with more than 180,000 miners
i steel operations in the East and industrial plants in Virginia, North | and South Carolina already had - been seriously affected by the fuel shortage. ° Domestic users, who have not received coal for a week because of emergency shipping controls, will feel the pinch within three or four days, SFA sald. _ Development along the explosive labor front: ONE: New shutdowns in the soft .eoal fields boosted to approximate-
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WASHINGTON, Oct’ 11 (U. PJ). «President Truman told congress today that the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration is just about broke and needs & quick transfusion of U. 8. dollars Hit 8 cminng Sy wort of
TIToia fourth report 10: congress participation
Truman Asks More Funds 8 For Relief Work in Europe
| render to the liberated peoples.”
Coal Strikes Are
disputes: Government officials said steel cent of capacity by this week-end months-old jurisdictional dispute.
Port officials said piers or anchored in the lower
representatives met for the effort to end the coal strike.
TOUGH PROBLEM
Union Demand.
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
Whether he will be more success-
Late coal strike figures, compiled
show that more than half of daily
losing their daily pay. There's a distinct difference be-
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MAY QUIT ATHLETICS IN CAPITAL SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P.). «High school students in the nation’s capital were warned today that unless they cut out “widespread drinking and smoking,” the board of education will be asked to stop school athletics. The warning came from Adelbert Lee, a board member. He said 40 per cent of the students, both girls and boys, smoke and ignore rules against it.
“Through UNRA,” he said, United States is making and ue ‘make its contribution for relief to the liberated peoples. In order that these people may move ahead toward the tremendous task of reconstruction they must have the basic materials to regain their strength. : “Where we at home have shortages and inconveniences millions in other lands lack even the bare necessities of life. Life abroad in
Still Speed King
‘Rick’ Tackles Plans for Big Race in 1946
By BOB STRANAHAN' CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER inspected the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway today and mapped plans for an extensive remodeling program to be carried out this winter and next spring before the May 30 race. In Indianapolis for a CAB meeting, the Speedway president visit= ed the property with his brother, Al Rickenbacker, who has been in charge of the big racing plant during the war,
”, td ” RICKENBACKER, who piloted a car around the historic bricks and asphalt more than three decades ago, already had received a report of conditions from his brother. With characteristic Rickenback=er determination and vigor he said: “There's a big job to be done . . . but it can be done.” “The big problem, of course, will be ‘to get the lumber and materials for repairs.” ” ” » RICKENBACKER didn’t have any idea, but he figured the remodeling Work would be quite expensive. : The stands have weathered badly and most of the buildings on the grounds are in need of repair before another speedway
| TAX REDUCTION SPENDING CURB
crowd can be accommodated. The 2% mile track itself is in good condition save for a little grass which must be removed before the cars can start their practice spins around the oval. This has been an annual chore in the past, however. » » » AN EXTENSIVE traveler in the interest of Eastern Airlines, which he heads, Capt. Eddie said that everywhere he goes the question has been: “When, and where, can we get Speedway tickets?” Brother Al echoed this. He said that letters from all over the world—particularly from speedminded G. I.s—all ask about the 1946 race. Rickenbacker said that the famous “444” address on N. Capi tol ave. which served as down-
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LT. CMDR. SMITH 1S LISTED AS KILLED
Locak Man Dies in Plane Crash in Aleutians.
Lt. Cmdr, George Richard Smith, son of Mrs. Matthew PF, Smith, 1433 N. Pennsylvania st, was killed as a result of a plane crash in the mountains of the Aleutian area Oct. 3. A war department telegram Informing his mother of his death said the accident was due to poor weather conditions. Lt. Cmdr. Smith, who was 28, was the son of the Rev. Matthew F. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian church who died in 1926. A graduate of Shortridge high school, the lieutenant commander was graduated from Annapolis in the | 1939, serving two years aboard the battleship New Mexico before transferring to naval air service. He was a member of First Presbyterian church, He is survived by his mother; his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth King 8mith, and two daughters, residing in Detroit. Mich., and two brothers, Lt. Robert M. Smith, Chicago, and Lt. David J. Smith, Pasco, Wash. Arrangements for memorial services are to be completed later,
Lawnmowers to Stage Comeback
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. B)).
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BACKERS URGE
House May Vote Late Today on Measure Cutting Levies About 5 Billion.
By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.~ The house today set out to pass its first>post-war tax relief bill amid demands for reduced governmerit spending.
Convening two hours earlier than usual, the members expected to vote late today on the measure proposing $5,350,000,000 in tax relief next year for individuals and corporations. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the ways and means committee, which drafted the bill, opened the house debate by asserting that future reductions “will depend upon curtailment of governmental é&penditures.” « “To accomplish this,” Doughton said, “it will be necessary for special groups to. refrain from requesting federal grants for non-essential projects. “The states and local governments can also assist in helping us to reduce taxes by taking over functions which properly belong to them and which the federal government has been forced to assume during the past several years,” he said. Proposes Lower Taxes, Costs House Republican “Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr, of Massachusetts, said the Republicans would fight for both lower taxes and lower costs of government. “There will come a time—and ;it is not too far off—when the people.
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eannot go on spending ‘the govern-| ment's money’,” Martin said. Rep. Harold Knutson of Minne
ways and means committee, called the pending bill “a step in the right direction,” but said it did not go far enough. Opposed by C. L O. The bill is the first to offer relief from heavy wartime taxes, but it would still hold rates substantially above prewar levels, Fifteen private groups, led by the Congress .f Industrial Organizations, called on thé house to reject the bill and to insist on a “Democratic reconver~ sion tax program” offering greater relief for individuals.
Pre-Halloween Vandals Active
THE PRE-HALLOWEEN pranksters were out in force last night committing acts of vans dalism over the city. B8ix teenage vandals were to appear in juvenile court today for premature celebrations. The six boys were taken into custody by Sgt. John Foran after he caught one of them trying to force a trolley wire off its guyline at Howard and Lee sts. His companions were apprehended nearby. A gang of vans left a string of broken milk bottles in their wake for a 10-block area along Rybolt ave. Police also investigated a report of boys throwing rotten tomatoes at a home on | Luett st.
SECRET PACT WITH HUNGARY REPORTED LONDON, Oct. 11 (U, P.) ~The Exchange Telegraph reported from Budapest today that the United States and Great Britain negotiated a secret agreement with Hungary while “officially” at war with that country. The dispatch quoted Hungarian authorities as saying the agreement permitted American and British planes free passage over
INDUSTRY'S ROLE
of this nation will realize that we
government's
still for planned economies, directed by industry, not government,
bolter Richberg, former general counsel of the National Recovery Administration. town today to address the Associ ated Employers of Indiana.
brickbats from la« bor and manage-
' No Guessing for
RICHBERG CITES
: a sage Former NRA Head Here to Address Employers. The man who helped pilot the most ambitious
“planned economy”--the NRA-is
He's baldish, heavy-set, New DealDonald "
He's: in
His checkered career has drawn
Mr. Richberg
Currently he’s one of labor's favorite targets. Puckish, anecdote-telling Mr, Richberg does
ment alike.
not seem to mind. Labor is also one of his choice targets. They shoot away at each other. He compares “irresponsible” labor leaders to “little boys with loaded guns.” For Industrial Planning
“I'm for industrial planning as distinguished from government planning,” said the ex-NRA policy maker. Government, he points out, ghould sit in merely as “an aid, an adviser.” Mr. Richberg thinks we'll do well to return to.our pre-war standards, He yawns at those who cheerfully predict better and better things ahead. His reaeon. our tax load is too heavy.” “I don't know how we can carry
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Taxes Collector
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 11 (U. P.). —A local tavern owner claimed he had to guess what he owed in federal taxes because the rats had chewed up his records. He presented Collector James P. Finnegan with some torn bits of paper, Finnegan got out the paste pot and decided the saloon keeper
Hungary to attack German targets.
owed $35,000 in back taxes.
To Join No
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 w. P.) Louis F. Budenz turned his back on the Communist party today and his job as president and managing editor of the Dally Worker, the party newspaper, to rejoin the Catholic church. Budenz was readmitted to church last night in a special ceremony |in the baptigtry of St. Patrick's With \him were his wife
cathedral, ‘|and’ hig“three daughters, who were
baptised as converts. Msgr, Fulton, J. Sheen, Catholic educator and one of Communism’s
Red Paper Editor Resigns
tre Dame Staff
for Notre Dame university at South Bend, Ind., to join its department, of economics as a teacher. In South Bend, the Rev. Howard Kenna, Notre Dame directors of studies,
sistant professor Nov, 1. : “Reason and faith have led me to this happy step,” Budzen said, “I have resigned the managing edltorship of the Daily Worker and have severed my associations w the Communist movement. Communism and Catholicism are ir-
Playing With Toys Their Job
The product must be tested before It is marketed these Electronic Laboratories officials agree as they toy with a new Elec-Toy, the BuzzBall, Matching skill are (left to right) William W. Garstang, president, and Norman R. Kevers, chairman of the board. Three other electronic toys will he ready for the Christmas sales.
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS—
{+ Smiles of Toys
said Budenz would become an as-
1,250,000 Due Home Pacific By March
MacArthur Tells New Premier to End 3 Bondage, Encourage Labor Unions : And Women’s Suffrage.
By DON CASWELL
United Press Staff
TOKYO, Oct. 11.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that 1,250,000 American troops will be sent’ home from the Pacific by next March. TRis would leave an occus
pation army of only 200,000 in Japan and Korea. At the same time, he directed Japan's new premier at a conference in his occupation headquarters to fwee the
"Correspondent >
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (U. P.)
be expected to resign immediately if a four-power control commission were sent to supervise his activities as supreme allied commander in Japan, C, B, 8. Correspondent William J. Dunn reported today In a Dunn said MacArthur's attitude toward Russian demands for a-four-power control commission in: Japan was explained to him by a ranking general officer on the supréme commander’s staff,
Tokyo broadcast.
~Gen. Douglas MacArthur could -
Parents Cheered As ‘Doomed’ Boy
CONSTANTINE, Mich, Oct. 11 U. P)~Hope flickered again today in the hearts of the parents of 2%-year-old Walter Dye, who is suffering with .a blood disease doctors say is fatal. It was a Christmas hope. Yesterday was Walter's Christ mas. Doctors said he wouldn't live until Dec, 25. Walter smiled at his presents, His mouth is usually twisted with pain. Valter ate, too, and he hasn't eaten more than a pound of food during the last week, none for two days.
HE SMILED first When he saw the loads of presents neighbors and people all over the nation sent him, He picked out a gingham elephant to hold. He smiled again after he had finished eating his jce cream and was given an apple. “He has eaten and he has smiled more than I've seen in many weeks,” Walter's father, a farmer, said. “Those are signs of recovery and I'm not giving up hope.”
» » » MRS. DYER explained her Hope. “You see,” she said, “I always have believed in Christmas.” Gifts poured in from everywhere. Union workers from Detroit brought a car full of prewar metal toys. More toys came from South Bend, Ind., and Chicago. Almost every resident of this small‘ farm community stopped in at some time during the day to bring a gift for the boy.
LA PORTE NAN DIES IN HUNTING AGGIDENT
Shot by Companions During Pheasant Drive.
PIERRE, 8. D, Oct. 11 (U, P.) ~~ Roberto Bummers, 32, LaPorte, Ind, was wounded fatally yesterday while hunting pheasants near Blunt, 8. D, He died in a Plerre hospital a few hours after being shot by one of four LaPorte companions. Police termed the shooting accidental. The hunters said they were driving birds toward Summers when the wound was inflicted. All shot at the birds at the same time, and authorities sald it would be 4inpossible to tell which gun fired the fatal shot, The ' victims companions , were william H. Harrison, Eldon Seetje, | Walter Baker and Mitchell Zoryk.
U. §. PLANES TO FERRY CHINESE TO PEIPING CHUNGKING, Oct. 11 (U, P)~ American army transport planes were scheduled today to begin ferrying two complete - Chinese governs ment armies into Pelping to take over’ that Communigt-controlled city, v Scores of slant C46 ‘transport planes of the U. B, 10th airforce were wr by on air-
LA FOLLETTE IS
Leaders Pledge Support in
Japanese peoples from centuries of government bondage through adoption of a revolutionary five-point program.
New Advisers Shortly after MacArthur
Shidehara a liberalization of the Japanese constitution would “unquestionably” be necessary, the imperial household mins istry announced appointment’ of two advisers, one a con= stitutional expert, to Emperor Hirohito’s lord keeper of th privy seal.
They are ex-Premier Princ
Soichi Sasaki, honorary professor at Kyoto Imperial univers sity and an outstanding authority on the Japanese consti+ tution. . Meanwhile, Shidehara's cabinet at a special ‘meeting ~——1scheduled a special session of the diet for early December, There were reports the ses« sion would be called to cone sider revision of the election
BOOMED BY CIO
GOP Senate Race.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staft Wriler WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Arrival of the Indiana C. I. O. delegation here ‘to boost their federal reconversion program also resulted in a boom by them for Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville Republican, for the United States Senate. Such C, I. O.-P. A. O. leaders as Powers Hapgood, Indianapolis; Arnold Atwood, regional director of the United Automobile Workers, and John Sturdevant, Evansville, joined in a statement indorsing the only “left of center” G. O. P, congressman from Indiana. Supports LaFollette Mr, LaFollette has been noted during his two terms here for voting with the New Deal rather than the Republican party. In addition he has supplied considerable leadership to the minority side in such things as spearheading a drive for a permanent E. P. E C. Speaking for himself, Mr. Atwood and Mr. Sturdevant, Mr. Hapgood said that when they return to the state they will begin actively to seek support for Mr, LaFollette's nomination and the defeat in convention of conservative Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.). “I feel sure that the C. I, O.-P. A. C. people would support Congressman LaFollette against almost
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Mild Weather Forecast Today
A VERY LIGHT FROST ended the cold spell last night if the weather bureau predictions for continued mild weather today and tomorrow come true. Today will be warmer and the light frost last night caused no more damage than had occurred previously with the heavy frost. Although the ‘week-end may be eoider. indications are it will be fairly mild and pleasant for the sports events at college stadiums.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
1 eral. election.
Appointed told Premier Baron Kijuro
e Fumimaro Konoye and Dr,
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ye arthur told the ‘remer all government inquist
women's suffrage and liberalize 3 education. 4
Aims at Religious Freedom 3
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press freedom of religion—a move that well may end the end of state 4
worship. cult completely divorced from gove ernment aid presumably would be permitted. “In achievement of the Potsdam declaration,” MacArthur said, “the traditional social order under which the Japanese people for centuries have been subjugated will be core rected. This will unquestionably involve a liberalization of the cone stitution.”
MacArthur revealed that a new program of redeployment for the Pacific would permit a million and a quarter American troops to return td the United States within the next six months. ’ Only 400,000 troops will Be re« tained for duty throughout the Pacific under the program, he said, with half of them on occupation duties in Japan and Korea, 70,000 for Philippines
Another 70,000 will be kept in the Philippines, 36,000 in the Ryukyu . island chain between Japan and = Formosa and the femainder in the - Marianas and Hawaii, together with service troops for various. Pas cific installations.
Thousands of troops already were on the high seas and by the end of October nearly 250,000 will be back in the United States or on the way as part of this month's quota. Another quarter-million each will leave in November and December, with somewhat lesser numbers eri= barking in January, February and March. It was emphasized that before any unit js returned or ins activated, low-point men will be screened out and re-assigned within the Pacific theater. ¥ By the end of the mass move ment in March, the occupation army in ‘Japan will comprise the
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Army to Send
PARIS, Oct. 11 (U.P). ~The war department plans to send 135,000 men to Europe by January to replace American soldiers with more than, 44 points now on occupation duty. Headquarters of the United States forces in Europe announced yester< day that the replacement force will include - regular army :men, volunteers and new inductees. The initial shipment of 30,000 men is due at the end of this month. It will consist of air force personnel. A be established in.
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135,000 Men
The announcement said the size. of the Anierican occupation force tentatively had been set at ma 000 men, including 39,000 officers, A preliminary survey showed tl there are only 200,000 enlisted mo |
with less then # points ow