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23,000 Workers Vote
. To End Walkout at
Wright's Ohio Plant
By the Associated Press.
The Nation’s strike total dropped
to around 41,000 today, the lowest in
a week, as about 23,000 workers at
the Wright Aeronautical Corp. in
Cincinnati ended a five-day walk
out.
The striking workers at the big
plant engaged in the production of
engines for B-29s voted last night
to go back to their jobs on today’s
first shift. The vote came after a
stormy three-hour session and fol
lowed a War Labor Board back-to
work directive and an appeal by
Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio.
George Meyer, president of Local
847, CIO United Automobile Work
* ers, who announced the decision to
end the stoppage, said workers ‘‘will
resume their jobs on the first shift
tomorrow.” Union officials had
termed the strike the “culmination
of a long list of grievances,” and
said it was "touched off last week
when 14 foundry employes were
transferred to lower-pay jobs in the
same department.”
Two Other Strikes End.
Workers in two other plants also
voted to end stoppages today. At
Jamestown, N. Y„ 600 employes of
the Worsted Mills, on strike since
August 1, agreed to return to their
jobs of making uniform material for
the Army. They ratified an agree
ment to continue negotfations on
wage classifications.
Possible settlement of two other
labor disputes affecting some 15,000
workers in Detroit hinged on union
management meetings scheduled
today.
Officers of the AFL Building
Trades Council and representatives
of operators of 145 lumber yards
in the Detroit area were due to
discuss contract differences that led
to strikes in 12 yards and shutdowns
In 200 others.
An estimated 12,000 workers are
affected by the stoppage.
The Executive Board of Local 202.
CIO United Automobile Workers,
was due to resume a meeting that
began yesterday when they consid
ered a Navy request that 2,000 work
ers return to their jobs at the Fed
eral Mogul Corp. No decision was
reached during yesterday's day-long
conference.
At Springfield, Ohio, 350 members
of the AFL International Molders
and Foundry Workers voted to go
back to work at the National Sup
ply Co. "for the good of the war ef
fort." The walkout started Monday
In protest against discharge of a
worker at the plant, which manu
factures Diesel engines for naval
craft.
15.000 Made Idle.
Six thousand CIO steelworkers
were idle at the Wheeling Steel
Corp.'s Porthmouth (Ohio) works
today, the steelworkers union re
ported, in a strike involving a dis
pute over incentive pay.
Approximately 150 men are in
the plant's bombshop are involved
in the protest. Their stoppage
made 500 production workers idle in
the bomb shop, where 500-pound
bombs are turned out for the Army
and Navy. A few hours later 5,500
steelworkers in both basic and fab
ricating steel departments quit in
protest, the union said.
Federal Seizure Indicated
lntGeorgia Rail Strike
AUGUSTA, Ga.. Aug. 8 (/P>.—Gov
ernment seizure of the strike-bound
Georgia-Florida Railroad appeared
the only solution in sight today to
end the walkout of 125 operation!
employes.
The strikers, members of the
Brotherhood of Railway Engineers,
left their jobs yesterday, demanding
a wage raise making their pay com
parable to employes of other rail
roads serving Augusea.
The Georgia-Florida line extends!
480 miles from Greenwood. S. C.,
through Augusta to Moultrie, Ga.,
and Madison. Fla.
Han Denies Charging $18
For One-Way Norfolk Trip
John M. Bragg, 4200 block of Fifty
third street, Bladensburg, Md., who
was arrested Sunday night charged
■with operating an unlicensed vehicle
to haul sailors from Washington to
Norfolk, Va., denied yesterday he
had charged passengers *18 each for
a one-way trip, as Pvt. Lawrence
Johnson of the police hack inspec
tor’s office reported. •
Bragg said he contracted with the
eight sailor-passengers for a fare of
*18 each for a round trip. He said
he answered a telegraphic order for
the service. He said he drove a ve
hicle which had a Virginia contract
carrier license into Washington Sat
urday. The vehicle broke down
while here, he said, and he had a
Maryland-licensed limousine for the
return trip when arrested.
The hack inspector's office said to
day that permission of the Public
Utilities Commission is necessary for
operation of' a Virginia contract
carrier within the District and that
a mileage fee must be paid here. No
record that Bragg obtained such
permission or paid the fee was found,
the office said. Bragg elected yes
terday to forfeit *40 collateral on
the unlicensed vehicle charge.
Margie Hart Says
USO Barred Her
Overseas Tour
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Aug. 8—Margie Hart,
striptease dancer, said in a letter
to the Stars and Stripes today that
•the USO had refused to let her
come overseas to entertain troops
although she volunteered to read
poetry in a Mother Hubbard dress.
She wrote that she had told USO
officials: "If it’s sex you’re worried
about relax. I’ve got other talents.
I can sing. I can act.”
BERLIN, Aug. 8 VP).—Ingrid Berg
man, Jack Benny and Larry Adler
protested today against Army Spe
cial Service handling of USO shows
in Europe.
"We’re over here to entertain
soldiers, and half the time the boys
don’t even know we are coming to
town,” Miss Bergman said. “We find
the people who were supposed to
make arrangements have made
none.”
"It’s been far worse in the Euro
pean theater than anywhere in
Africa or the Pacific,” Benny said.
“Where we could be playing before
8.000 or 10,000 men, we play before
only about 2,000, such as last night
in Berlin.”
Britons paid $98,000 for duplicates
ti identity cards lost within a year.
Death Reveals Former Playboy
Worked 9 Years as Doorman
F> the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. —For nine
years James Ireland graciously
opened doors and closed them for
visitors at New York’s Hotel Bed
ford on East Fortieth street.
In death yesterday he was re
vealed as Stephen Ireland, 70,
former playboy scion of one of Eng
land’s wealthiest families.
Until the time Mr. Ireland was
45. Victor Roseway, hotel manager,
said, "he had never done anything
except live the leisurely life of a
very wealthy English gentleman. He
had not a bit of business knowl
edge."
Then, after the last war, his
family lost its fortune and he real
lzed he was penniless, Mr, Roseway
said, adding that he believed the
family lived in Devonshire.
Mr. Ireland decided to come to
this country and become a servant,
the manager said, "because that
was the only thing he could im
agine.”
Mr. Ireland took the name of
“James,” Mr. Roseway said, "be
cause it was the traditional name
for r servant and would give him
better stature in that role.”
He was “very gracious and intelli
gent,” Mr. Roseway said, "and his
tall, erect, heavy carriage, gray
hair and mustache and ruddy com
plexion made him most distin
guished looking.”
School Board Control
Of Industrial Home's
Teachers Is Urged
The District Congress of Parents
and Teachers will ask the House
and Senate District Committees to
consider legislation returning In
dustrial Home teachers to the con
trol of the District Board of Edu
cation, it was announced today.
Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins, presi
dent, said the congress Executive
Committee met yesterday to discuss
shortage of teachers at the home,
where only two instructors are
teaching 115 children of all ages.
"We urge that immediate con
sideration be given to setting up an
educational program under the
Board of Education thus fall at the
Industrial Home School,” Mrs. Wat
kins said.
The school board controlled teach
ers at the home until about six
years ago. when authority was shift
eed to the home superintendent.
Mrs. Watkins said the committee
believes school board control would
! produce more teachers of higher
i quality. ,
The committee will write to Chair
j man Bilbo of the Senate District
Committee and Chairman Randolph
of the House District Committee
asking them to sponsor legislation
[Shifting the teacher control, she
said.
Daniel Ahern, home superintend
ent, said he would be glad to have
the board shoulder the educational
responsibility. The board could get
him the seven full-time and three
part-time teachers he needs, Mr.
Ahern said.
The District budget office said
that no board control could be
exercised until Congress passes leg
islation transferring salaries for
teachers from the home's budget
to that of the school board.
Mrs. Truman Leaves
For Washington by Train
I-y the Associated Press.
INDEPENDENCE. Mo., Aug 8 —
Mrs. Harry S. Truman left by train
this morning for Washington to
join her husband at the White
House.
Her daughter, Miss Margaret Tru
man, who has been with her mother
at the summer White House, re
mained here with her grandmother,
Mrs. G. W. Wallace.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
said today that he knew nothing
about reported plans .of President
Truman to take a vacation at his
home in Independence.
He added that he wouldn't want
to commit the President on this
matter, but he added that the Chief
Executive has no plans for the imme
diate future that include such a trip.
A Kansas City newspaper said
last Saturday that the President
was coming home later in the sum
mer.
AFL Raps Congress
For Recessing Without
j Reconversion Action
i Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—The Amer
ican Federation of Labor chided
Congress today for recessing with
out action on "vitally important
legislation" dealing with imminent
reconversion problems.
"Congress has been remiss in its
duty to the American people," said
the Federation's 15-member Execu
tive Council, in quarterly session
here.
"The powerful and progressive
speech made, by Senate Majority
Leader Barkley just before the Sen
ate adjourned indicates that the
leaders of Congress, at least, are
somewhat conscience-stricken over
the neglect of the lawmakers to deal
with human needs during the post
war period.” the council said.
It “hoped” that members of Con
gress would study the pending legis
lation during the recess, scheduled
to continue until October 8. and that
President Truman would “exert his
leadership in this critical situation
and send a special message to the
returning Congress urging immedi
ate action on a wTll-rounded pro
gram of postwar and social justice
legislation.”
The ‘must” legislation which the
council cited includes:
1. The Kilgore bill, "carrying out
President Truman's recommenda
tions for broadening the coverage
of unemployment compensation and
supplementing State benefits with
Federal funds to the extent that dis
employed workers in each State may
receive a maximum of $25 a week for
26 weeks in any year.”
2. Senate labor subcommittee bill
to list wage standards immediately
to 65 cents an hour (instead of 40 or
50 as allowed now under the Mini
mum Wage and Hour Law and pro
vided for a 75-cent floor at the end
of three years.
3. The Wagner postwar housing
bill, "which the Executive Council
>-egards as the most important step
to the prompt attainment of full
employment after victory.”
4. The Wagner - Murray - Dingell
bill, broadening the Social Security
system and instituting a national
program of health insurance.
Library for Blind to Get
$350 Gift From Alumnae
A check for $350 will be presented
to the National Library for the
Blind tomorrow by the Washington
Delta Gamma Alumnae Chapter.
The chapter raised the money
through novelty money banks which
were filled by Delta Gammas and
their friends. The chapter has lent
its support to the library for several
years.
The library is operated solely by
blind workers, excepting the direc
tor, Dr. Paul H. Sperry. It dis
tributes Braille books and records
to the blind throughout the country.
Two Brothers Stricken
With Polio as 5 New
Cases Are Reported
Five more cases of infantile pa
ralysis, including two .brothers
stricken with the disease, were an
nounced by the Health Department
today. The total this year now is 69.
The brothers — 18 months and
four years old—are being treated at
home in the 4700 block of Terrace
Village S.E. until the seriousness of
their condition is determined, the
department said.
This is the first instance this year
of two members of a family con
tracting the disease. There was one
instance last year, the department
said.
Others From Outside D. C.
The other cases are all residents
of nearby counties being treated at
Children’s Hospital. They are an
8-year-old girl from the 100 block
of South Park drive, Arlington, Va.:
a 9-year-old boy of 100 block of
Dinwood avenue. Takoma Park, Md.,
and a 3-year-old boy in the 200
block of Park avenue, Takoma Park.
A total of 34 District residents and
35 county residents now are being
treated here.
The Health Department has em
phasized that a high percentage of
this year's cases are nonparalytic.
Meanwhile, the Baltimore (Md.)
Health Department has asked for
registration of at least 1,000 nurses
to hold themselves ready to handle
any polio outbreak in the city. Four
cases have been reported in Balti
more so far.
Need 24-Hour Care.
The Health Department. Red
Cross and National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis will co-operate in
Baltimore to see the nurses are paid
and lodged while on cases, the de
partment said. Twenty-four-hour
nursing care is important in treating
the disease, the Health Department
said.
Children’s Hospital here has
enough nurses but has asked for
nurses’ aides to help with its ap
proximately 35 polio patients.
Nazi Production Survived
Bombings, Report Shows
By the Associated Press.
A captured German document
made public last night, lists Nazi
war production as having held out
"amazingly well” to the hour of
defeat, despite massive Allied
bombings.
Summarizing the captured pro
duction report, the Senate Subcom
mittee on War Mobilization said Nazi
Industry never lost its “tremendous
recuperative power.”
“Germany in defeat.” it added, “re
mains a major threat to the peace
of the world.”
The committee, headed by Senator
Kilgore, Democrat, of West Virginia,
has been urging deindustrialization
of Germany as a move to insure
future peace. President Truman,
Prime Minister Attlee and Premier
Stalin, at the conclusion of their
Potsdam meeting, declared their in
tent to control German industry and
all her economic and International
finances “with the aim of prevent
ing Germany from developing a war
potential.”
15.000 in Reich Prisons
Freed by Americans
By the Associated Press.
FRANKFURT. Germany. Aug. 8
—American military authorities said
yesterday they have freed more than
15.000 inmates of German prisons
after a review of their cases disclosed
thPy were unjustly sentenced._
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2 German Destroyers,
Flying Swastika Flag,
Arrive at Boston
BOSTON, Aug. 8 UP).—Two Ger
man destroyer*, manned by volun
teer German crews under American
supervision, steamed into Boston
harbor yesterday, but the reason for
their arrival was cloaked in mystery.
The swastika flag flew beneath the
Stars and Stripes on each vessel.
A Navy spokesman said they were
the first of Hitler’s navy, aside from
submarines, to come to this country.
The warships came from Europe
by way of the Azores, where they re
fueled. Beyond that information
naval officers professed to have no
knowledge of their sailing port or
why they came to this country.
One Navy officer "guessed’’ the
vessels were brought here for "ex
perimental” purposes—possibly by
agreement with Russia and Great
Britain. He expressed doubt they
would be used by the American Navy
because of their short range.
The ships were the Z39, and the|
T35, the latter listed as part of the
German "war navy.”
The Z-39 is 410 feet long, with a
beam of 39.3 feet and 9.5 feet draft.
Her armament consists of five 5.9
inch guns, four 37-mm. antiaircraft
rifles, four 20-mm. antiaircraft guns,
eight 21-inch torpedo tubes and
depth charges.
Observers saw numerous patched-1
up shrapnel and rifle bullet holes in
her superstructure, especially around
the bridge.
The smaller T-35, built low so as
to offer minimum silhouette, carries
one 3.1-inch rifle and numerous
antiaircraft weapons.
The German sailors, officers and
men offered a mixed picture. Some
looked more or less cheerful. Others
were downright gloomy.
A Navy spokesman said the crews,
all of which had volunteered to
bring the vessels to this country,
would be kept under close surveil
lance but would not be interned.
Eventually, he said, they will be re
turned to their homeland.
W. B. McElroy Dies;
Retired Armour Official
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 8 —William
B. McElroy, former general super
intendent for Armour & Co. here,
died yesterday.
His career with the firm began
when he was a boy and he later
managed company plants in Canada
and Argentina. , He retired in 1942,
after being with the company 45
years.
He was a brother of the late
Henry F. McElroy, former city man- j
ager. Another brother. A. D. Mc
Elroy, lives in New York.
15 Families Homeless in Fire
RIMOUSKI, Que.. Aug. 8 (/P).—
Fire which started in a convent at
St. Anaclet, 6 miles from here, last
night spread through 14 homes and
two stores, leaving 15 families home
less and causing damage estimated
at $100,000. Cause of the outbreak
was not known. Seven sisters liv
ing in the convent escaped injury. I
BOSTON.—STARS AND STRIPES ABOVE SWASTIKA—With
Old Glory streaming above the swastika, a German destroyer
lone of two) steams into port here yesterday. Reason for their
arrival has not been announced. Navy spokesmen say they are
the first of Hitler’s navy, other than submarines, to come to this
country.. —AP Wirephoto.
More Premium Gasoline
To Be Sold to Motorists
Civilian motorists are scheduled to
receive an additional 158.000 barrels
a day of premium gasoline, nearly
double the amount now available.
However, the total gallonage of gas
oline for civilian use remains un
changed.
The good news for motorists both
ered with engine knocking came yes
terday frotn the Petroleum Adminis
tration for War. The agency stress
ed. however, that military and other
essential needs will determine
whether the increase can be con
tinued.
Release of tetraethyl lead for up
grading regular gasoline resulted
from reduced military demands for
aviation fuel. PAW said.
Grain Elevator Death Toll
Now Placed at 14
By thy Associated Press.
PORT ARTHUR. Ontario. Aug. 8.
—Fourteen persons were listed as
dead snd nine were reported miss
ing today as the result of an ex
plosion which wrecked a grain stor
age elevator here yesterday.
The blast rocked Port Arthur and
neighboring Fort William, blew out
all four walls of the elevator and
hurled bodies as far as 200 feet i
from the scene. Witnesses said it
let loose *'a sheet of flame 200 to
300 feet long.”
Most, of the casualties were em
ployes in the elevator workhouse.
Estimates of the number of dead
varied yesterday from 13 to 19.
Aufor Reportedly Owned
ByGoering, Arrives in U. S.
Bj the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Aug. 8—A Mercedes
Benz automobile, reported to have
belonged to Reichsmarshal Herman
Goering and consigned to the com
manding general of the 20th Ar
mored Division, Camp Cooke. Calif.,
arrived here today aboard the S. S.
George Shiras.
The vessel also brought in 1,114
veterans of the European war.
Port of embarkation officers said
the commanding officer of the 20th
Armored Division was Maj. Gen.
Orlando Ward when the outfit
went into action as part of the 7th
Army, in April.
.The division is on the high seas
en route to the United States. Camp
Cooke has been designated as the
reassembly point for the outfit fol
lowing 30-dav furloughs.
Officers at the port expressed be
lief that the car was captured when
the 20th captured several high
ranking Nazis in Salzburg, Germany,
in June.
Sloan and Kettering
To Back $4,000,000
Cancer Institute
£jr the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 8.—A *4,000,
000 grant for a new institute for
cancer research was announced yes
terday by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chair
man of General Motors.
The grant is from the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation and the new place
will be called the Sloan-Kettering
Institute for Cancer Research.
A *2.000,000 building will be erect
ed in New York City alongside the
present memorial hospital, oldest
cancer institute in the United
States.
The foundation will contribute
*200,000 a year for 10 years toward
operating costs of the new institute.
Mr. Sloan estimated that amount
as about half what the institute
will need for operation and re
search.
He said the institute is entirely a
personal venture of himself and Dr.
Charles F. Kettering, vice president
and director of research of General
Motors.
The purpose is more effective use
of the aggregate resources now
available for cancer research and
a broader attack on thus disease.
New Zealand House
Approves Charter
B, the Associated Press.
WELLINGTON. Aug. 8 —The New
Zealand House of Representatives
yesterday approved the Charter of
the United Nations and the Inter
national Court of Justice.
Prime Minister Peter Fraser told
the House the choice was between
the United Nations organization or
a wilderness of doubts and dangers
with the possibility of unending
bloodshed in the world.
He said Parliament would be con
sulted before New Zealand entered
any military commitments under
the Upited Nations.
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