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TROL STRIKE TI JP TRAFFIC PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1—W Hundreds of thousands of work bound Philadelphians were left stranded on street corners today by a sudden unheralded work stoppage that halted all urban buses and street cars and vir tually paralyzed the city’s sub way and subway-elevated lines. Vital production was slowed in plants throughout this metropolis of 2,000,000, termed by the War Manpower Commission the second highest war producing center in the nation, as thousands stayed at home and other thousands straggled in one, two and three hours late. A spokesman for the Philadel phia Transportation company, op erator of the city’s entire trans portation system, said the com pany believed the bus, trolley and subway drivers quit in protest against the hiring of negro op erators. Negroes were upgraded to plat form (operative) jobs several weeks ago in accordance with the WMC’s employment stabilization plan and the first group of eight was to have made practice runs today for the first time. The up grading,, brought about by the president’s fair employment prac tice committee, was protested by both the company and the trans port workers union (CIO). A union spokesman emphasized there was no strike. Many drivers had reported in ill. Others told reporters they were “too sick to take the cars out.” About 6,000 took part in the movement, which spread to repair shops. -V Truman Asked To Stay As Committee Leader WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.— W» Two Republican members of the Senate’s special war investigatinf committee urged today that Sena, tor Truman (D.-Mo.) be retained as chairman. This is despite his announced intention to resign a£ a result of his nomination as the Democratic vice - presidential can didate. Senators Ferguson (Rj - Mich.) and Burton (R.-Ohio) told report ers in separate interviews they thought Truman's entry into the presidential election campaign would not necessarily disturb the non-partisan program of the com mittee. The same view was expressed by a Democratic member, Sena tor Kilgore of West Virginia. -V Dairy Farmers Seek Higher Milk Increases MEMPHIS. Aug. 1. Wl —South ern dairy farmers entered the fi nal session of their two-day meet ing here today after hearing lead ing producers call for an end oi government subsidies and an in crease in milk ceilings. The big task ahead for the dairy farmer, B. E. Stallones of Hou ston, Tex., told representatives from six states yesterday is ‘to eliminate the subsidy and get a substitute for it.” L. F. Friend of Memphis, sec retary - manager of the mid-south group, declared the OPA had fix ed the price of milk in the Mem phis area at $4.28 a hundred pounds ‘‘while our cost here is about $6.25.” | Ten Thousand Waves Mark Second Anniversary j I At a mass rally on the Washington monument grounds in the nation’s capital, 10,000 Waves, all from posts in Washington, stand at attention as the y take orders from their chief, Comdr. Mildred McAfee, for a program including speeches by top-ranking Navy chiefs. Navy Secretary James V. For festal told the Waves at the celebration of the sec ond anniversary of the forming of their service that he hoped the Navy women’s arm would serve over seas. (AP wirep)oto). With The AEF Mr. Dixon Has Language Trouble By KENNETH DIXON WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, July 21—(delayed)— iff) — An open letter to the boss: Dear Boss— Distinctly do I remember the day I left New York. You call ed me into your office and said among other things that if I expected to be a foreign correspondent I certainly should learn a foreign lan guage. All I can say at this point is: Boss, you didn’t know the half of it. In North Africa they spoke French, so I soon was sling ing bonjours, bonsoirs and merci beaucoups around like nothing. Here and there I even picked up a few words in elementary Arabic. It seemed like a cinch. Then came Italy. Regretfully I abandoned the French les sons and began in Naples to learn Italian. Now you may think all Italian is spoken trie same, but it isn’t. A Roman has as much trouble under standing a Neapolitan as • Texan does a boy from Brook lyn. But, bit by bit, the buoin gl ornos, buona seras and the gratsis and the pregos began to roll out more smoothly and I was just beginning to capish Italiano when I had to go to Sardinia. Well, in Sardinia they speak Sard, which is a language whose mother is Italian, but whose father is some roving Latin no one has ever been able to locate. Then came Corsica, which ■peaks its own version of French, and then, back to the mainland, where the Polish were in action against the Ger mans. Boss, did you ever try to learn Polish in the midst of an artillery barrage? Also the French forces were in the line by that time, which added a touch of French, Arabic, Morroccan and whatnot to the confusion. In desperation, I dropped off to the east side—Bari and Foggia—and ran smack into a barrage of the Balkan tongue. The partisan situation was hot and the Yugoslav, Croatian and Serbian phrases were flying like campaign promises in October. On top of everything else, throughout the campaign the need to talk to prisoners brought a smattering of Ger man into the vocabulary. That brings us up to today. Boss. I had to find the camp of the Brazilians who recently arrived. I started out in a command car driven by a Neapolitan who spoke no Eng lish fand by now my 16 Italian words have a marked Roman accent). It took only a minute to dis cover the first military police man didn't know the Brazilian bivauac from Brooklyn. But it required 15 minutes for the second MP, an Italian, to ex plain he didn’t know either. n ' r i r * r The third was French and' spoke neither English nor Italian, but after half an hour he got the idea and showed us which way to go. He was wrong. A British tommy got us started in the general direction. However, it required only about three minutes for us to reach a fork in the road and get lost again and then we saw three Brazilian soldiers and thought our troubles were over. But Brazilians, as you know, speak Portuguese, which was all that was lacking in this theater up until now. These three spoke no English and no Italian, so I gave them words combining three of the lan guages listed previously, with a touch of border-town Mexi can I picked up years ago: “Com esta, signores’ pouvez vous bien me dove el campo de Brazil?" They didn't get that, but they sure were politely flush ed for 15 minutes. When a sergeant from the Bronx drove up and came over to help he tried German, Lith uranian and French without success. But finally he found common ground in pure Span ish and got the right directions for us. I aimed to get his name and streets address, but things were so confused by then that he drove away grinning while I was still trying to think of what language to think him in. See what I mean, boss? ODT ANNOUNCES TRUCK MEETINGS The Wilmington Office of De-' fense Transportation yesterday an nounced meetings of growers, haul ers, processors and receivers of leaf tobacco and of cotton and cotton seed products in 19 eastern Carolina counties will be held in Lumberton August 16 and 17 re spectively to elect Industry Trans portation Advisory Committees. “The Office of Defense Trans portation is attempting to insure an orderly and continuous move ment of tobacco, cotton and cotton seed products from farms to mar ket with a minimum of truck mile age and motor fuel, ‘G. T. Mussel man, district ODT manager said, “and is calling on these industries for assistance and advice.’’ At 8 p.m. Wednesday, August 16, producers, haulers, dealers and receivers of leaf tobacco will meet in the Joe P. Moore grammar school auditorium in Lumberton to elect a Tobacco Industry Trans portation Advisory Committee. At 3 p.m. Thursday, August 17, producers, haulers, dealders an re ceivers of cotton and cottonseed products will meet at the same place to elect a Cotton and Cotton seed Products Industry Transpor tation Advisory Committee. “These committees,” Musselman said, “will make recommendations to the district manager of ODT con cerning the issuance, recall, re view, reconsideration, suspension, cancellation or revocation of certi ficates of war necessity pertaining to commercial motor vehicles us ed or to be used in the transpor tation of the confmodity with which the committee is concerned. “As such recommendations may vitally affect the operation of all producers, haulers, dealers, and receivers of these commodities, the importance of their attending this meexing cannot u« ed.” Counties affected are New Han over, Pender, Dublin Onslow, Blad en, Craven, Carteret, Pamlico, Jones, Hoke, Scotland, Cumber land, Robeson, Columbus, Brons wick, and Sampson in North Caro lina, and Marion, Dillon and Horry counties in South Carolina. -v Messages have been exchangee between ships and shore for cen turies by means of flags and lights. -V Ice cream is 10 to 20 per cent butterfat. * nation Boards Owen Names Of Motorists CHARLOTTE, Aug. 1.—(/PI— Dis trict OPA headquarters disclosed today it had collected the names of 400 western North Carolina mo torists spotted at beach resorts in the Carolinas. The names, it said, were being forwarded to local boards for ac tion. Car checking is now being made at various resorts in an ef fort to curb travel for non-essen tial purposes such as vacations. YOUNG VANDALS DAMAGE SCHOOL Young vandals, a few of whom have been apprehended by officers of the sheriff’s department, enter ed the Chestnut Street school sometime over the week-end and damaged the property to the ex tent of hundreds of dollars, it was learned yesterday. Names of the youths have not been disclosed, pending further in vestigation of the affair. School authorities have not yet concluded their appraisal of the; damage, but appeared ‘‘disheart-j ened and discouraged” at the; amount of wreckage done. It was reported by school of ficials that at least two-thirds of the window lights of the building, newly occupied last year, had been broken out. Glass doors with in the building were broken out, and pictures on the walls were smashed. Architect Leslie N. Boney was at work yesterday estimating the amount of work and supplies re quired to put the school into shape for occupancy by September 4, the date set for school opening. It is believed that the delin quents will be handled by the juvenile authorities when the in- , vestigation of the affair is con- ! eluded. I Six youths were up for question j ing before the authorities today, j Break-ins at local schools have ! occurred over a period of several 1 months, police observed, but there j has never been damage to equal that at the Chestnut street build ing- ^ | The first cash register was in vented by James Ritty of Ohio in 1879 5MIIH NOMlntt OF FIRST PARTY DETROIT, Aug. 1—OPh-Gemid L. K. Smith is the presidential nominee of the America First par ty he organized, but Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, selected as Smith’s running mate, says he is a candidate for vice president “on the Republican ticket only.” “I know nothing about it." Bricker declared when informed at Columbus that he had been given second place on the America First party slate. “I know no one connected with it. I shall not per mit my name to be used in any such connection.” At its first convention here last night the party also selected an electoral college slate to ' support Smith and a complete state tick et. Smith urged delegates at the recent Republican national con vention in Chicago to support Bricker for the Republican presi dential nomination. . -V NAMED MANAGER LONDON, Aug. 1—UPt—'The board ; of directors of reuters announced to-! day the appointment of Christopher John Chancellor as sole general manager. [merican Airmen Warned By General Germans Desperate ROME, Aug. 1 —df)— Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, com mander of the 15th Air force, warned American airmen in the Mediterranean theater to day that the German air force was dangerously desperate and must be given no chance to recover from their steady ham mering. In a message marking the 37th anniversary of the found ing of the United States Army Air force, Twining told his men they could nullify the en emy’s air power by relentless pounding at the enemy’s indus trial centers. “Our enemies are desperate and in desperation there is often hidden strength,” he said./ “No opportunity must be given them to recover.” __. BEAT,BE HEAT W Soothe smart of heat rash, itch of mosquito bites, cool burning -f ^ r— itch of healing sunburn with <— Mexsana. Contains ingredients often used by specialists for re- *_ “* hef of these discomforts. Yet -* costs little. Greater savings in ~ — the larger sizes. So get a supply *“ -» today and beat the heat with ’‘Ej 2. MEXSANAliJ SOOTHING MEDICATED POWDER it********-:"*********-::-*^** DEPENDABLE WATCH REPAIRING See B. GURR Jeweler 264 N. 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