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= MONDAY, DEC. 24, 19% ; | “Hint Steel 1 President May Invoke Taft-Hartley Law; Rank-File Want Peace’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP) —CIO Steelworkers Union probably will reject President Truman’s appeal not to strike on New Year's day, government and union officials predicted yesterday.

If so, the President may in-|

voke the Taft-Hartley law to prevent the threatened walkout,

. which would cost the nation 2

million tons of critically-needed steel a week. = A union official said CIO President Philip Murray will reply today to Mr, Truman's no-strike plea Saturday to 650,000 steelworkers. In referring the deadlock wage dispute to the Wage Stabilization Board, the President said the workers would not be doing their duty to their country If they permitted a stel stoppage “for even a single day.” The union spokesman said the plea will not be officially recieved at union headquarters in Pittsburgh until today at which time Mr. Murray, who also heads the stéé! union, is expected to reply. Both government mediation

. officials and union representatives

saw little ' likelihood = that Mr. Murray will back down ifsgm his statement that a strike at midnight, Dec. 31, is “inevitable” unless the steel industry makes major concessions. There is no sign of such concessions.

Cite Big Tonnage Loss

Highly - qualified sources believed the union might call off the strike two days later, on Jan. 3, at a 2500-delegate convention it has called for that date in Atlantic City. . But there was strong doubt in official quarters that the President will wait that long to use a Taft-Hartley act injunction . to keep the steel mills going. Government experts pointed out that steel mills must begin banking their furnaces about Dec. 27 for a Jan. 1 strike, and it would take an equal time after a strike stopped to get them back in operation. Thus, one official said, a threeday walkout actually would amount to a two-week production stoppage and a loss. of 4 million tons of steel to the defense effort. The steelworkers have asked for an 181; cent hourly hike plus several other fringe demands. It is generally believed the Wage Board could legally approve most of these under its existing procedures. The Wage Board's recommendations would not be binding on either the union or the company, which has said repeatedly it will not grant a wage boost without a compensating hike in steel prices. . Federal price officials have said the steel industry will not get a price hike to cover any wage increase.

‘Sign Your Middle Initial'—

Smith Family Heads List Of Card Index in VA Offices

By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—If

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 24 (UP)— Rank-and-file steelworkers in the Pittsburgh district don't want to strike but they will walk out New Year's Day to back up their wage demands, a spot check Wy the United Press disclosed yesterday. Some of the workers wouldn't talk. Others freely expressed their opinions on the wage deadlock between the CIO United Steelworkers and the producers. Several said they are willing to werk under the Taft-Hartley ay provision, if necessary. Peter Gill, a machinist in a Lawrenceville district steel mill, believes the steelworkers are reasonable with their wage demands. But he allowed they could be just as stubborn as producers if they don't get more in their

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at St. Mary's School look over a box filled with decorations and party material destined for patients at the U. S- Army Hospital

at Camp Atterbury. Red Cross

Schwegman, Jane Norris, Marcia Johnston and Ethel Chastain.

'U.-S. Backs British Plan on Russ Meeting

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP) American. officials yesterday welcomed London reports that | British Prime Minister Winston {Churchill will not press for a Big Four meeting with Russia when {he comes here for an official visit early. next month. | Both White House and State | Department ‘sources said Mr. {Churchill's reported about-face {will probably result in a generally ETE : {harmonious meeting between the i a {British leader and President Truman, >is Members of the Junior Red Cross | Mr. Truman is dead set against lany meeting with Soviet Premier {Josef Stalin at the present time. He repeatedly has insisted that |any dealing with Russia should be |done through the United Nations,

members are (left to right) Sally

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Bails Out Too Late—

paychecks. Ready to Compromise

“Sure, we're willing to compromise but industry won't give

us enough,” Mr. Gill said. “Then

we'll strike. We can be just as|

have to.” | Sebastian. Coco, a laborer at the Crucibe "Steel Co., advised patience but said he would/strike. “only as a last resort.” ~ . | | “You can't get anything unless {you fight for it,” he said. “If the, steelworkers have to strike to get;

Pilot Gives Life to Prevent Plane From Hitting Town

stubborn as the producers if we| ‘FLINT, Mich., Dec. 24 (UP) His parachute didn't open enough

A pilot parachuted from his crippled B-29 bomber too late to escape death because he stayed at the controls tq head the plane away_from this industrial city before bailing out,.gne. of seven survivors said yesterday. First Lt. Robert Phelps, 28-

their demands—then I'm for it. year-old World War II veteran “T think the union should give'from Andover, N. H., was in comthe government «all the time it mand of a Superfort en route from needs to try to settle things be-| Minneapolis, Minn. to Griffith tween the producers and work- | Air Base, Rome, N. Y. | ers.” | First Lt. Andrew Redlin, 28, J. Richard Strahl, a clerk at the Chicago, one of seven men who U. S. Steel subsidiary works at| parachuted to safety, said the Irvin, near McKeesport, thinks |plane developed engine trouble at|

Cite Position of West In addition the President is said

‘Russians on a basis of equal |strength, and therefore does not {want any face-to-face meeting now. American experts preparing for) the Churchill-Truman meeting] “He was more concerned about had been apprehensive that Mr.

to break his fall.

keeping the ship from crashing Churchill would insist on wics| Yule Turkey

into the residential areas than in|/with Mr. Stalin next year. { saving His own life,” Lt. Redlin,, They . knew that the Britishj said. “1f ,only it wouldn't have leader waged his.successful retaken quite so long to turn the election campaign partly on the plane around.” {promise to have another try at Others saved besides Lt. Redlin personal diplomacy wifh Russia.

were 1st Lt. Dave Pigoni, 27, Gets French Support

Chicago, 4 navigator; 1st Lt. Ed- . ward Burtsavage. 34, Wilkes, Paris reports said, last week

Barre, Pa, a navigator; T,Sgt./that Mr. Churchill had French Donald Flansburgh, 30, Lima, Support for such a meeting. But N. Y., crewman, and S/Sgt. Elliott, more recent London reports said Miller, 31, Lucerne, Pa. the British Prime Minister has

Most of the men's families live! abandoned the idea in favor of

[to feel that the West is not yet| |strong enough to deal with the|

Hess and six other top aides bf, Adolf Hitler will be given plates of American turkey and an op-!

owd 160 Yeers Ago— = | Wife Reports

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Original Santa Claus Mate Said He - Buried in Italian Port Killed Baby chant seaman reappeared -after an eight-months’ absence yetserwho died 1600 years ago. > |day and told his wife that he St. Nicholas identified by most people as Santa - Claus, was born at P ia, i : : her, Milo Susmilch disappeared atara, Lycia, in Asia Minor. He again, his wife Audrey, 25, told police. Tp He was said to have gained a reputation for rar south as San Jose and polige «helping «the poor when he surreptitiously bestowed [in Fresno where Susmilch’s dowries on three improverished girls who wanted to [mother lived, and St. Paul, Mins, San Francisco police began an : a . $a intensive city-wide p- for St. Nicholas first was buried in Myra. After the |Susmilch, who was turned down Turkish invasion a group of Bari fishermen sailed there | in 1087, stole the body and returned here in triumph. Wife Taken to Hospital Mrs. Susmilch was taken to San » . | derived from the Latin Sanctus Nicolaus. rantise , Doapiial "Where, wis Sh s— {with his 10-months-old daughter Hess, Pals to- Eat f 4 Any TTT iCathleen. Mrs. = Susmilch told 9 ‘Lord Has Been police she and her husband had a lreturning to her little flat found .~ —Tuesday will: mark a double this note: . occasion for Miss Elizabeth | “Dear Audrey—I have taken McCarthy, a resident of a home

] SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 24 BARI, Italy, Dec. 24 (UP)-—This Italian port {killed their infant daughter, became bishop of Myra and soon hecame noted for his : A police search was ordered fn : y ; the seaman’'s home town, were wed but whose father was about to send them in to a by the Army in 1943 because of a It then was reburied here. {lapsed into a semicoma. violent argument in the morning. . ! ) BERLIN, Dec. 24 (UP) —Rudolf Extra Good to Me |Cathleen for fear that you may for the aged here.

'there ig little to be gained by a strike. : “I can see no reason for strik-| ing. Okay, so you get.a raise and] prices go up. It's the same old|

merry-go-round again. I think]

13,000 feet and began losing alti-

{tude while flying over central

Michigan Saturday night. Find Victim's Body “Phelps took over the controls

near Rome, their home base, and| |they were returning with Christ-| {mas presents they bought at]

a solo trip by himself to Moscow. Mr. Churchill will open his White House talks with the President on global strategy Jan. 4,

| portunity to sing of “Peace on| . {Earth;, Good Will Toward Men" to

mark their fifth Christmas in Spandau Prison, ARderican officials announced yesterday, The United States: holds the

rotating chairmanship of the] S c tate Consumers Appear {about jumping off the Golden

prison this month and, despite the displeasure of the Russians, prisoners will get an American Christmas dinner with almost all

(UP)—A burly 26-year-old mettown is the burial place. of the original Santa Claus, “Then after“beating and kicking generosity, - {the San Francisco Bay area as \ : alerted. life of sin. |PPeSnee personality.” The name of Santa Claus Is believed to have | Susmilch disappeared April 17 Later she went marketing and on ALBANY, N.Y, Dec. 24 (UP) {take her life as you continue reMiss McCarthy will celebrate

Christmas and her 103d birthday. Of her health and longevity, she said: i ~ “The Lord has been extra good to me.”

To Be Saving Money

BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP

|peating about taking yours, Per{haps you may snap out of it if I'm gone for awhile. You will hear from me soon. Milo.” Mrs, Susmilch said somewhere during the course of her envenomed discussion with her husband she had. said something

Gate Bridge. ) ‘Didn’t Mean It’

{Minneapolis. Lt. Phelps had!

President Truman was right jn from me but saw that nothing,

asking us to stay on the job. Hope We Don’t Strike

“If a government settlement can’t be reached, then perhapsia two-mile radius before the four-| the President should invoke the|engined plane crashed into a field Taft-Hartley Act.” {about 10 miles from here. | “Gosh, I hope we don’t strike. | Lt. Phelphs, his body tangled The country’s in an uproar asin the shrouds of his parachute] it is.” was found 500 feet from the Charles Carlson, a loader» at wreckage. i Irvin for 13 years, favored the| Crew members said Lt. Phelps) President's “good citizen” appeal.istayed with the plane until it was, “But I'll strike if the union only 500 feet from the ground.!

one to bail out,” Lt. Redlin said.

purchased gifts for his wife and according to Precent plane, ae the trimmings. | oc indiana Songumers appeal tol «But I didn't mean it” Mrs. 8-month-old daughter. {was to have arrived Jan. u e| Besides Hess, the Spandau some © eir money 1 “Ila “But our safe return is the best Liner Queen Mary, on which he inmates include ya Karl because of high prices, the Indi- Susi id said, hE a sieeve

|could be done so he ordered every-| Christmas present our families| Will travel, is running behind

could possibly get,” Lt. Redlin|

“He said he would follow us.” |ggiq, The men landed safely within :

Bag Suspect In $500 Gas Station Theft

i "ABERDEEN, 8. D. Dec. 24]

says so. I don’t favor strikes—| I've been through ’em before. Maybe the union and producers should have those 60 days under the Taft-Hartley Act to talk! things over.” George Petro Jr., a veteran of 14 years service in U. 8. Steel's Homestead Works, was hopeful of a settlement before the deadline. “Personally, I don’t think we'll go out—I'm just hopeful. None of us like to strike. But if we have to go out—we’ll go out.”

The mail comes from all over and is sorted here and sent lalong to the various regional

you are a veteran and are mad | gm es It takes a staff of 172,000

Loses Chase, Faces Court

A 22-year-old filling station attendant today faces three traffic charges as a result of losing an

argument with an off-duty policeman about who was driving reck-

lessly.

He was arrested after four bullets punctured his car in a

mile-long chase. * Robert L..Fouch, 4911 Rockville Rd., is charged with reckless driving, no operator’s license, failure to stop for a traffic signal and city vagrancy. He was arrested Saturday night by Patrolman Eugene H. Stringer who reported Fouch drove into the path of his car. When Fouch failed to stop when crowded to the curb, the officer reported he fired four shots at the car.

| (UP)—Sheriff’s officers captured! {one of two men who robbed and ‘kidnaped a service station attendant at gun-point yesterday, then dumped him, bound and blindfolded, onto a lonely country road in 15-below-zero cold. Seized behind a snowbank where the two men had wrecked their car was Kenneth Gross, 28, Aberdeen. Police found the $500 taken from Attendant Don Sandmier, in a brief case hidden in another snowbank nearby.

Keller said Gross admited

Brown County Sheriff George

schedule because of heavy storms. The British leader is expected to stay here about four or five days, then go to Canada, and return here about Jan. 14 for further talks with Mr. Truman and an address to a joint session of Congress Jan. 17,

Thieves Set Themselves Up for a Big Dinner | A couple of busy little thieves | have set themselves up for Christ-| mas, complete with turkey for the table and a mink-trimmed fur coat for the wife. Ten dressed, frozen birds were reported stolen from a truck at the Ellis Trucking Co. loading docks, 430 Kentucky Ave.A mink-trimmed coat was reported stolen from an auto near a North Side restaurant while a Lansing, Mich., family was having dinner. Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Handley reported the coat was valued at $1314.

part in the holdup, but refused to identify his accomplice. Hunt Accomplice Mr. Keller said Gross rented the car in Minneapolis’ Saturday, drove it to Aberdeen, and apparently was headed back to Minneapolis when he wrecked it in-a ditch.

Driver Stops for Light;

Relieved of Billfold

Buddy Lee Garret, 20, of 3055 N. Illinois St. ran into a new method of purse grabbing last night.’ He stopped his car for a traf-

Doenitz, Adm. Erich Raeder, Baron Constantin Von Neurath, Albert Speer, Walter Funk, and Baldur von Schirach — all top Hitler aides’ convicted of war crimes by the Nuerenberg International Tribunal. They are serving terms ranging from 10 years to.life.

Strauss Says.

ness Research reported today. vember business level was al

only fractionally higher. the price factor indicated “con siderable stability despite continued high the capital goods industry.”

ana University Bureau of BusiThe bureau said the state's No-

most unchanged and prices were It said

the expenditures in

Police are hunting for Gross’|¢je signal at 11th and Illinois} partner, believed to have returned| gts. A man jerked open the

off a cliff.” She said she saw her husband .|nine days later when he got her into his sedan after promising to drive her to Cathleen, Mrs. -|8usmiich said Susmilch took her ing the course of which he threatened her many times.

on a rambling 10-hour drive dur-

at the Veterans Administration,i(, handle the load.

be sure and sign your middle initial. Particularly if your name is Eisenhower. I just spent a few hours going through the files of the Veterans Administration here. And lookie! Listed among the GIs who write in with complaints are 109 guys with the same handle as the famous general. There are 20 George C. Marshalls—and if any of them have a complaint, they would do well to explain the “C.” The Smiths, Joneses, Browns and Johnsons, naturally, run into the thousands and thousands. Mail Receipts Heavy The Veterans Administration receives almost 210 million pieces of mail’ a year. Headquarters here alone has an in-take of around 300,000 pieces a day—

except on Monday, when the vol-|

ume is doubled because of the week-end pile-up.

to the wrecked car in a taxicab

Mr. Keller said the men called

{but ‘fled when he saw the officers. | fist. and grabbed

the way, is. one

signed by hand and it takes a| mite of signing. Some 130 million administration «records are needed to keep track of all veterans and their families. This does not include 100 million insurance records. The 28 million-odd names that are card-indexed in the master file interested me most. The Smith family heads the parade, of course. There are 325,000 in all, including 12,500 with the front handle of John. There are 100,000 Browns, 6700] of them answering to John. The Joneses number a cool 175,000 with" 2300 named John and 3500 William. The Johnsons total up to 200,000 with 7900 Williams sprinkled through the list.

Merry Christmas— -

Christmas

M-g-r-v-y

...and have a fine

Side filling station where he works at that time. He was arrested in the station. Officer Stringer said at one point in the chase he succeeded in stopping Fouch’s car and got out so that Fouch could see his uniform. He said Fouch then drove away. The charges were continued today in Municipal Court 4 until Jan. 4.

Board Gets Bids For Sewer Project

In its third try in as many months, the Works Board today received bids for the construction of the first leg of a giant Northeast Side sewer. Three bids were opened today, two of them acceptable on the basis of being below the city engineer’s estimate. The project is the 34th St. sewer from Fall Creek to Temple Ave. Bids were from Columbia Construction Co, Indianapolis, $1,407,437.50; the Angelo Mara Construction Co. and the Square Construction Co., a partnership from Cleveland, $1 372,404.50, and the Santucci Construction Co. Skokie, Ill., $1,1446,861.

The Santucci firm's bid Wwas|his daughter's practice of wearing tainly include proper dress.”

over the $1,407,507 estimate. The contract is expected to be let next Monday.

Twice before the Works Board|

has tried to get the sewer under contract, failing the first time be-|

government Was being chased by a “drunk,”|the service station and aked to| lagency which has no truck with who was driving recklessly. He have some gasoline delivered to head and the loss of $3 in cash a rubber stamp. Each reply is said he was returning to the West a stalled car west of Aberdeen. and a $17 check which were in

[Two attendants went out on the call, Mr. Keller said, leaving Mr. Sandmier alone.

Blindfold Victim

The men drove up to the gas station, took $500 from the cash register and forced Mr, Sandmier to accompany them in their car. Mr. S8andmier, forced to lie on the floor, said the men drove around for 15 or 20 minutes before releasing him. He said they left him with his hands tied and a blindfold over his eyes. After freeing his hands and removing the blindfold, Mr. Sandmier - started walking back to Aberdeen. He passed the wrecked car on the way and notified the

door, struck Mr. Garret with his the bilifold|

from his hip pocket. Mr. Garret suffered a bruised

the billfold.

Mount Etna Erupts

CATANIA, Sicily, Dec. 24 (UP) —Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, erupted last night, spewing red-hot lava and sending clouds of black smoke high into the sky.

Dies Leaving Funeral

MERIDIAN, Miss, Dec. 24 (UP) — Carl Frederick Holinbaugh, 36, of Los Angeles, Cal, died of a heart attack here yesterday while returning from the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Ralph

sheriff.

Dugan, at Clayton, Ga.

School Row Rages—

Dad Backs Da

* ANTIOCH, Cal., Dec. 24 {UP)—A battle raged today over the snarly issue of whether a girl is

public with her hair in pin-curls. Steelworker Amos Barton sup-| ported down to the last hair pin!

{her hair “up” at school so she] /may look pretty in the evening. “It's the principle, not the pin-| {curls,” said Mr. Barton. “It's a| {fight for freedom.”

Curl in Bobby

{pal Frank W. Allen, who inundressed when she appears igispected the hair-do, then ruled:

ughter to Last Pin Battle

gard the tight little curls with disdain. She complained to Prinel-

“Pin-curls are a state of undress. If we're to teach good manners, in the schol, we should cer-

Theola, one of nine children, ignored the edict, and her mother backed her up. Mrs. Barton told Theola she

A ChRISTMAS ~~ Prayer -(e thank Thee for this place in which we dwell, for the lobe that unites us, for the peace accorded to us this dap, for the hope with which te expect the tomorrow, for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our life delightful; = Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us

if it may be in all our innocent «endeavors. 3f it may not, give us

could stay home if they did not

nion To Reject Truman's No-Strike Plea

Complains to Principal like the way she looked at school. School officials took the oppo-|Theola put her hair up and stayed site view. They threatened Mr home, and her mother asked the Barton ‘with jail if he does not [State attorney general to back

cause no bids were received, the second because the bid did not) meet legal requirements.

strength to encounter that Which

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Mr. Barton promptly labeled the action a “dictatorial move.” “You might just as well open Cle re h 8 wide for me + A now,” he said. “I wont force her . / ‘to go tb school. Theola will stay . : Jihome, jail or no jail.” Seay : - Ta a

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