The Wilmington morning star. [volume], December 22, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Page 5, Image 5

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PARLEY FAILS
rREENSBORO, Dec. 21.— (#)
controversy over operations at
-1 jrnitv Manufacturing Co., anc
fo-cnces o, workers’ committee
[cr, 0ff-ic;als oi the company with
•"p Brewer, Department of La
' representative, tonight appear
W have been unsuccessful and
*“ °aje probably will be certified
,ho War La.)or Board for settle
l^t. Brewer said.
Brewer said that no further con
®nt.’ef have oeen scheduled,
|e‘,a- 0f die conciliation group hav
f. been concluded early tonighl
®T r a night conference with strik.
t- -mployes Wednesday and all
jh'. "intermittent sessions today
,'th a seven man committee re
Jresenting employes and officials
t the company
Conferences today were held with
, seven-man employes’ commit
; representing all departments of
Ue plant. Controversy centered on
I company’s proposed new plan
:Lork which Weavers complained
. s a stretch-out, a system which
Contemplates 'hat each weaver cp
ate 58 instead of 32 looms, as in
hC past and that they accept a
reduced scale ol earnings in the
outset of the added work load.
NICE CEILINGS
OS LIVE CATTLE
ARE DISCUSSED
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. —OP)—
Trade representatives and Gov
r,ment officials talked tonight of
pr:Ce ceilings on live cattle .vhile
senators from livestock states ar
ranged an opposition conference for
tomorrow
The ceilings were demanded by
jfew York City and New Jersey
reat dealers, on the contention
t),at lack of such control has sent
beef into the black market and
j.a(je it impossible for dealers to
ooerate legally at a profit
Spokesmen for the delaers pres
ented their rase of an Office of
p.jce Administration industry
council meeting today.
Shortly after the closed meeting,
representatives of the Government
agencies concerned said “on the
;4f' ceilings were under Admin
istrator Chester Bowles, and the
War Food Administration.
Vinson has rejected such plans
previously, but OPA is known to
favor it
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Police Hold Two Men
In Penner Kidnaping
PATERSON. N. J., Dec. 21.—CP)
-Acting Detective Captain James
j. Smith said today two men were
being held on open complaints in
connection with the alleged kid
naping and robbery of Mrs. Eleanor
Penner widow of Comedian Joe
Penner. and that a $10,000 diamond
ring stolen from the woman has
been, recovered.
Police Chief James Walker dis
closed yesterday that Mrs. Pen
ner. who resides at the St. Moritz
hotel, New York, complained to
police here that she was kidnaped
by five men m an automobile and
robbed of the diamond ring and -a
bracelet insured for $10,000 last
Dec. 9. after a tour of taverns with
■Jiree i her men.
Tov OKa .
SNIFFLES
OUE TO A COLD^
discomforts
_ Uoudmaker
Artificial clouds, created in a bottle of liquid air and warm water,
are used at Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
to test insulating materials for the electrical systems of new bomb
ing planes. Showing how the clouds are made above is Research
Engineer Arthur M. Stiles, who also can reproduce a small snow
storm by the same method—if a snowstorm is needed.
Twice-Wounded Veteran
Deplores GJ_Hospitals
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. — (ff) —
A twice-wounded veteran of World
War I has hitch-hiked here from
an Arizona veterans hospital to
protest against a letter to his
mother discussing burial plans “in
the event of your son’s death.”
Fred Wesley Thomas, 44, said the
letter was written from the Vet
erans Administration Office at
Whipple, Ariz. and made him so
dog-goned mad” that he left the
hospital and returned to his Pas
saic, N. J., home where he found
his mother “ill from worry.” From
there he came to Washington.
Thomas added that when he in
formed hospital officials of his in
tention of protesting in Washington
about the letter and what he term
ed “deplorable treatment” of vet
erans in the hospitals, he was told
“remember tnere’ll always be a
veterans hospital but Congressmen
come and go.”
Before entering the hospital a
year ago because of heart trouble,
Thomas said, he worked as a lock
smith in Knightstown, Ind.
Thomas told his story to Rep.
Wilson (R-Ind) who termed it
“proof of the deplorable conditions
in veterans hospitals.” Wilson said
he intended to introduce legisla
tion to provide additions to city
and county hospitals throughout
the Nation for exclusive use of vet
erans.
LIONS CLUB HEARS
CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Members of the Wilmington
Lions’ club enjoyed a program of
Christmas music under the direc
tion of Paul T. Marshburn at the
club’s regular meeting yesterday.
Members of the club sent Christ
mas gifts to service men who
will be at the Harbor Island USO
club Christmas morning, it was
reported. Maior Elme; Mass direc
tor of the club, will hat e charge
of the presentations.
President W. E. Yopp appoint
ed a committee to be responsible
for an oyster roast next Thursday
night at the Harbor Island club.
Major Moss, Luther Rogers, Paul
Marshburn. Gus Meyland and J. T.
Nickle were appointed.
Guest at yesterday’s meeting
was Hardy Ferguson, juvenile
judge of New Hanover county, who
was presented by Recorder H. Win
field Smith.
Solon Says More Supplies
Might Have Brought Yanks
To Berlin In First Push
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.——
Plentiful, fast-flowing supplies
from the home front to Americans
fighting in Europe might have
prevented the powerful German
counteroffensive, Rep. Brooks,
(D-La.), member of the touring
House Military Affairs Committee,
said today.
If supplies had kept up with
them, American troops might have
reached Berlin in their first, cru
cial thrust into Germany, declar
ed the Louisianian, who returned
with his colleagues yesterday from
a month’s trip to European bat
tlefronts.
Lack of munitions in Allied hands
at the front, Brooks said, allowed
the Germans a respite in which
to build up their current counter
blow.
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Ficst worsted million Bradford,
England, was erected nearly 150
years ago.
G I's Want News, Arms
Instead Of Pin - Ups
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. — VP) -
Soldiers overseas want more am
munition and news direct from
home instead of pinup girls and
phonograph records, says Rep.
Paul W. Shafer (R-Mich.)
As a member of the House Mili
tary Affairs Committee Shafer re
turned yesterday from a month
tour of European battlefronts. The
picture he painted was one of shor
tages—of trucks, tires, supplies,
and news.
“Our soldiers are not dancing
their way through this war, and it’s
time the people ever here realized
it,” he told a reporter. ‘‘Ammuni
tion is being rationed to so many
rounds a day on the Western and
Italian fronts. The Fifth Army has
only one eight-inch gun on the en
tire Italian front.”
Shafer expressed belief the peo
ple at home heve too rosy an out
look on the war because there has
been ‘‘too strict a censorship of
news overseas, while on this side
the War Department has neglected
to give proper information.”
He said he recommended today
to Secretary Stimson that the War
Department issue a daily com
munique giving the people here the
exact information they should
have.
Declaring that the Office of War
Information has “utterly failed”
in keeping Europeans posted, Shaf
er said the French believe the J
British instead of the Americans j
equipped the First Army. On the j
other hand, he said, they think the .
Americans, not the British, de- j
stroyed the city of Le Havre.
“This is because the British ;
Broadcasting Company is the only j
system giving out news broad- j
casts,” he said. "Our own men ,
have to wait weeks to get news j
from America and then it’s in peri- j
odicals four to five weeks old.” :
Citing need for a locally edited |
American newspaper in Paris, Sha- ;
fer, himself a newspaper editor, :
said the French editions of the (
Stars and Stripes is “poorly edit- i
ed with little actual news cover- i
age.” He added that the Mediter- [
ranean edition "while it could be j
improved, is much better than the ,
French which goes in chiefly for <
propaganda.” !
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