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PRESIDENT REPUDIATES WALLACE'S SPEECH
Foreign Policy
Unify Demanded
By Vandenberg
Says 'We Can Only
Co-operate With One
Secretary of State'
By th« Associated Press
PARIS. Sept .14.—Senator Van
denberg. Republican, of Michigan
called for unity on American for
eign policy today, declaring "we
can only co-operate with one
Secretary of State at a time.”
‘•Rightly or wrongly, Paris is
doubtful of this unity this morn
ing,' said the Michigan Republi
can. adviser to Secretary of State
Byrnes at the Peace Conference.
His statement, issued by the
American delegation, apparently
w^s designed as an answer to the
Thursday night speech by Sec
retary of Commerce Wallace. In
that speech, which President Tru
man said he approved. Mr. Wallace
differed in some respects from Amer
ican foreign policy as outlined by
Mr. Byrnes.
Peace Conference sources said Mr.
Byrnes had not been consulted about
the Wallace speech, either before or,
after its delivery.
I’nitv Is Road to Peace.
Senator Vandenberg said:
"The authority of American for
eign policy is dependent on the de
gree of American unity behind it.
Rightly or wrongly, Paris is doubt
ful of this unity this morning.
“Our bipartisan foreign policy
during the last 18 months has had j
overwhelming bipartisan support in
the behalf of the unselfish aim for
- which we fought the war. Though
differing in some points, most Re
publicans have been glad to join
with most Democrats in thus pre
senting a united American front to
the world. This is the only road
to organized peace and collective;
security.
•'Those who leave this road jeop
ardize the very objective which they
profess to embrace.
“I am sure most Republicans, j
despite inevitable differences inj
some aspects, will be glad to con
tinue to seek unity with the admin- :
istration in bipartisan foreign pol
icy on a sound American basis h
which rejects dictatorship by any-'
body, which is neither hostile or
subservient to any other power on:
earth, and which defends human
rights and fundamental freedom.
“But the situation equally re
quires unity within the admiriistra- j
tion itself. We can only co-operate
with one Secretary of State at a
time.’’
A delegation spokesman told re
porters: “That's the Senator’s own
statement. He has a right to make
one. I don’t know if it represents
the Secretary's views or not.” *
Speech Like Thunderbolt.
Inquiries as to whether Mr. Byrnes
had telephoned President Truman
to determine whether the speech
heralded a change in United States
foreign policy received this reply
from an American delegation1
spokesman:
“Any announcement of Mr. Byrnes
telephone conversations with the
President will have to come from
the White House.”
There was no doubt that the Wal
lace speech, having the President’s
indorsement as it did. hit the Amer
ican delegation here like a thunder
bolt yesterday, but it seemed un
likely that Secretary Byrnes would j
change the delegation's policy with- i
out specific instructions from Mr.'
Truman.
An American spokesman refused
to answer when correspondents
asked him if Secretary Byrnes had
spoken with Mr. Truman by tele
phone during the night and ex-;
pressed his personal opinion that
Mr. Byrnes would not comment"
either officially or otherwise until
Washington’s attitude was clarified.
But correspondents continued to
besiege Mr. Byrnes' office and con
tinued to receive from members of
the American delegation the same
reply: “It's entirely up to Washing
ton to straighten it out.” Members
of Mr. Byrnes’ entourage were un
usually guarded in their remarks.
“We’re as much on the sidelines
as anybody.” one delegation member
commented. “We don’t know what’s
happening over there and until we
do there just isn’t anything anybody
can say.”
One American source said unoffi
cially. and without permitting him
self to be identified: “American
foreign policy is set by President
Truman, not Secretary Wallace.
The President has not informed us
(See BYRNES, Page A-3.) ~
Quick Leads Bishop,
2 Up, at End of 18
(Earlier Story on Sports Page.)
By the Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD. N. J., Sept. 14.—
Smiley Quick, public links cham
pion from Inglewood, Calif., led Ted
Bishop of Dedham. Mass., two up
at the halfway mark of their
36-hole final match for the national
amateur golf championship today.
Two down at the 10th, Quick
won five of the next seven holes
as Bishops game cracked on the
incoming nine.
A gallery of about 4,000 followed
the exciting morning round in which
Bishop came from two down at the
sixth to two up at the 10th before
running into a streak of overpar
golf.
Quick, who putted badly on the
last few: holes of the outgoing nine,
recovered to come back in even par
for a medal round of 73 Bishop
was out in 35. one under par, but
came home in 39 lor a 74 total.
m /
Won't Alter Policy
Without Consulting
Byrnes, He Explains
BULLETIN
President Truman today repudiated the New York
speech of Secretary of Commerce Wallace “as constitu
ting a statement of the foreign policy of this country’’
declaring in the statement that there has been “no
change in the established foreign policy of our Govern
ment and there would be none without discussion and
conference between the President, Secretary of State
Byrnes and congressional leaders.
The President, holding a special press conference
at 2 p.m., said there had been “a natural misunderstand
ing ' concerning his indorsement of the Wallace speech,
prior to its delivery at a political rally at Madison Square
Garden, and that he was doing no more than approving
the right «*f Secretary Wallace to make the speech.
(See "Speaking of Inconsistency”
on Page A-3.i
Acting Secretary of State Clay
ton conferred with President
Truman today and shortly after
ward word spread that the Presi
dent would make a pronounce
ment shortly on the cabinet
cleavage over Russian relations.
The report making the round, ac
cording to the Associated Press, was
that Mr. Truman will strongly back
up Secretary of State Byrnes’ con
ception of administration foreign
policy, as contrasted with some
views expressed by Secretary of
Commerce Wallace in a speech at
New- York Thursday night. Mr.
Wallace railed for a softer policy
toward Russia and espoused a two
spheres-of-influence idea which had
been repudiated by Secretary
Byrnes.
The State Department confirmed
initial reports that Mr. Clayton had
talked with the President but other
wise refused any information on the
subject. The word that some presi
dential action was in the making
spread rapidly, through official
Washington, however, as both Sec
retary Byrnes at Paris and Mr. Wal
lace here remained silent on the
controversy over their divergent
ideas.
The confusion caused within the
State Department by the Presi
dent's approval of the Wallace
speech was indicated by Mr. Clay
ton at a news conference late
yesterday when he said it was not
clear to him just what the President!
had said or Intended.
It was learned, meanwhile. Mr.
Clayton had telephoned White'
House Press Secretary Charles G.
Ross soon after Mr. Truman’s
Thursday news conference at which
the President had given his in-1
dorsement to Mr. Wallace's speech
and that Mr. Clayton had warned
Mr. Ross the speech would be em
barassing to Secretary Byrnes and
troublesome.
Mr. Clayton and other depart
ment officials, it was learned, had
no advance knowledge of the con
tent of Mr. Wallace’s speech until
it was made available to the press
Thursday afternoon w'hen copies:
were obtained at the National Press
Club and hurriedly studied. Mr.!
Clayton emphasized at his news'
conference yesterday that the
' See” WALLACE.PagT~A-3j i
British Minister Calls |
On Municipal Leaders
To Resist Squatters
Immediate Eviction of
Illegally Held Premises
Prescribed by Bevan
By th« Associated Pres*
LONDON. Sept. 14.—Minister of
Health Aneurin Bevan called on
municipal authorities through
out England and Wales today to
resist squatter invasions. Scot
land Yard assigned picked de
tails of police and plainclothes
men to guard vacant London
buildings.
Mr. Bevan’s letter reiterated the
"very serious view” taken by the
government of the Communist -
sponsored squatter movement and
prescribed immediate eviction to
clear premises illegally occupied.
While more than 1.500 men, wom
en and children prepared for a week .
end "sit-it-out” campaign in luxury
apartment buildings seized in Lon- j
idon. Communist leaders organized
a mass demonstration in Hyde Park
* for tomorrow.
A ruling is expected Tuesday in aj
legal test case designed to oust 1.500
men, women and children completing
their first week of sleeping on pal- j
lets and eating food smuggled1
through windows of now bare pre
war luxury flats.
In a London working class district,
meanwhile, legitimate tenants set
out to beat the squatters at theirj
j °wn game in an "operation check- j
imate.” Alderman G. F. Rowe an
: nounced at Wandsworth town hall
: that he was advising 250 families on:
! the local housing committee s wait
ing list to take matters into their1
! own hands.
Mr. Rowe said the committee al
ready had requisitioned all available
property, pending the completion of
building repairs, but that squatters
had begun moving in. So now he is
telling the first of some 15,000 on the
waiting list to "go and do likewise—
first.”
The second person arrested in
i connection with the squatter activity
j w’as to face a misdemeanor charge in
j court today, and reports circulated
| that the 1,000 squatters in Duchess
| of Bedford house, in Kensington, in
; tended to send a delegation to see
■Prime Minister Attlee.
| Alexander Denies
, That He Walked Out
Of Paris Session
5 By the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept, 14. —First
Lord of the Admiralty A. V.
1 Alexander denied today he had
i walked out of a session of the
> Paris Peace Conference Military
. Commission yesterday.
.j "It is quite untrue to say I
walked out,” Mr. Alexander said
. as he arrived in London for the
, week end.
"I was called away to keep an
> appointment and left the debate
l in the ordinary way.”
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Albania Demands Parti
i
Of Surplus Italian
War Goods at Paris
Delegate Turns Attack
Away From Greece in
Military Commission
BULLETIN
PARIS 'A\—Russian For
eign Minister Molotov warned
the Paris Peace Conference
today that “it -would be dan
gerous to ignore the Soviet
Union” if peace was wanted.
Addressing the Italian Polit
ical and Territorial Commis
sion in regard to Trieste, Mr.
Molotov said: If the United
Nations wanted to defend the
peace without the Soviet
Union or even against the
Soviet Union, it would be
doomed to failure.”
By the Associated Press
PARIS. Sept. 14.—Albania de
manded a share of Italy’s surplus
war material before the Military
Commission of the Peace Con
ference today.
Col. Hysnil Kapo of Albania had
been expected to oppose Greek de
mands for Northern Epirus. Instead
he turned his attack against Italy,
and declared Albania expected to
be counted as a full-fledged ally
when Britain. France, Russia and
the United States allocate distri
bution of Italian ships and arms
that she is not allowed to keep
under the peace treaty. He said
Albania expected her share without
having to put in a special request.
Sharply. Brig. Gen. Jesmond D.
Balmer of tne United States re
< See CONFERENCE,'Page ~A-2. •
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Porter Assails
Predictions of
t
Meat Famine
OPA Lifts Ceiling
On Sugar 2 Cents
A Pound Next Week
Predictions of a meat famine
later on this fall and winter will
turn out to be only “irrespon
jsible” rumors, Price Adminis
! trator Paul Porter today told
American housewives.
As the price chief was telling shop
pers to stop worrying about a meat
famine, the OPA prepared to raise1
the price of sugar 2 cents a pound,
effective Wednesday—an increase!
that will add from $160,000,000 to
$200,000,000 to food budgets in the
next 12 months.
The Agriculture Department, in a
separate announcement, predicted
the supply of sugar in. 1947 will be1
greater than this year, but still far;
below normal. This year’s supply!
amounts to 73 pounds a person, com-1
pared with a prewar average of
nearly 100 pounds. No estimate was!
given for next year.
Ceilings to Be Held.
In his weekly radio address Mr
Porter declared “the much-publi
cized ’meat famine' will be disclosed
for the irresponsible rumor that it!
is." He also promised that ceiling
prices on meats would be maintained
and strictly enforced.
Mr. Porter said a shutdown of
some meat plants and lack of meat i
at some butcher shops was a natur
al result of the big rush to market
livestock while prices were uncon
trolled.
“Were paying now for the ab
normal glut of meat we ha£ in July
and August,” he said. 'That was
the time when the sky was the limit
as far as prices were concerned.”
Meat supplies should be “fairly
good,’ Mr. Porter predicted “after
we get over the hump of the next
six or eight weeks.”
Promising a stiff fight against
black markets, Mr. Porter said some
OPA agents "will work in butchers’
aprons right behind the counters
of retail stores, with an ear open
for any illegal shennanigans by
meat suppliers.”
Sugar Agreement Cited.
“It will be pretty tough on the
chiseler,” he added.
Meanwhile, OPA said the in- j
crease in the sugar price is required
by the buying agreement between;
the United States and Cuba, cover
ing this and next year's crop of
Cuban raw sugar.
Under this agreement, prices paid
the Cubans must be lifted when the
cost of -living in the United States
rises.
The new ceilings, OPA asserted, |
maintained the historical price dif
ferential between cane and beet j
sugars necessary “to prevent radical
distortion in distribution of the
two.’’
The retail Increases will apply, |
the agency said, after wholesalers'
and readers sell out present stocks
OPA said it was taking measures
to “prevent sellers from taking
windfall profits by holding present
stocks to take advantage of higher
prices,” through control of inven-!
tories.
The price agency said the ceiling
increase will substantially reduce
subsidy payments to domestic, Ha
waiian and Puerto Rican producers.
Mrs. Churchill Injured
In Speedboat Accident
By the Associated Press
BERN. Switzerland, Sept. 14.—
Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of
Britain's wartime Prime Minister,
was injured slightly yesterday in a
speedboat accident on Lake Geneva.:
A member of the household said j
| she would be “obliged to rest for a !
i few days.”
! All Exchange Telegraph dispatch
! to London from Geneva said Mrs.
| Churchill had suffered a “slight
| concussion of the brain” when the
speedboat in w:hich she was riding
made a sharp turn and she was
thrown against the side of the boat.
The dispatch said, however, that
“her condition is in no way serious.”
Her daughter Mary was riding with
her *at the time.
Mr. Churchills office in London
reported the injuries as ‘“slight
bruises.”
Rebel Poles Come Out of Hiding
In Strange Truce With Police
By Larry Allen
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
RADOM, Poland, Sept. 13 (De
layed).—About 200 members of the
outlawed NSZ revolutionary bands
freely walked the streets of this
Polish city today under a strange
•armistice” reportedly arranged
with the security police of this dis
trict.
Their leader said they had agreed,
after sending negotiators to confer
in Radom, to leave their forest hide
outs, laydown their arms and stop
fighting, if the political prisoners of
Radom Jail were released.
A youthful lieutenant, who iden
tiged himself as an officer of the
NSZ forces in this region, told this
correspondent that if the security
police would completely fulfill the
armistice terms and release political
captives, many thousands of NSZ
men would leave the forests. Six
teen prisoners were reported re
leased yesterday.
The lieutenant said that in addi
tion to the release of prisoners, NSZ
I i
members desire amnesty. Govern-!
ment amnesty, however, expired
months ago, when 40,000 soldiers,
many of them onetime members of
Gen. Bor’s insurrection army, sur
rendered.
The young officer said, “We want
to end civil strife and killing our
brothers in the security pqjice, be
cause we think we will be fighting
along side each other before the
year is out.”
While this unique situation ex
isted here, security police clashed
with a large NSZ band near Rzes
zo'w in Southern Poland, killipg 23
and wounding 20.
A government source in Warsaw
conceded that apparently “some
kind of armistice is in effect at
Radom.”
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said,
however, that a general amnesty for
NSZ bands was “out of the question”
and the only solution was their "out
right capitulation."
1
Deacon, 1943 Champion, Wins
Opening Star Class Race Here
Sails Armade Across Line in 1 Hour 37 Seconds;
Galesville Boat Takes Chesapeake Section
BULLETIN
R. Hammond Gibson of
Easton, Md., today led a fleet,
of 27 comet class boats to
win in this division, the
largest single class in the
President’s Cup Regatta. His
Sj^r Baby II finished nearly
two minutes ahead of R.
Ernest Covert’s Scandal of
Alexandria, Va. Leslie Wright
of Washington placed third.
By Malcolm Lamborne, Jr.
Arthur M. Deacon of Larch
mont, N. Y„ international star
boat champion in 1943, today
sailed his boat Armade across
the finish line off Hains Point to
win the opening race of the star
class—one of 12 divisions launch
ing the sailing phase of the Pres
ident's Cup Regatta, after a lapse
of five years.
Officials aboard the Coast Guard
cutter Dione said the fleet of 127
vessels was the second largest ever
to compete in a cup regatta for The :
Evening Star trophies.
Armade covered the two-lap tri- |
angular course in the fast time of ’
X hour and 37 seconds. The Larch
mont yacht was in second position
at tne halfway mark, with Owen1
C. Torrey, jr., of Scarsdale. N. Y., j
leading. But on the second time;
around, Deacon moved his boat into!
first position.
Torrey placed second, a full min
ute behind Deacon. Third place
was taken by Robert B. Dunigan of
Washington, sailing Crash. Duni
gan is entered from the Gibson Is
land (Md.» Yacht Squadron.
The fleet was greeted by a fresh
northeast wind under clear skies
at the start, but as the day wore
on, the wind l^htened. However,
times for the winners were still fast
as sailboats go.
A few minutes after the fle&t of
eight star ooats was bearing down
on the finish line, the first round
bottom Chesapeake twenty received
'See REGATTA, Page A-2.)
One Dead, 9 Injured
As Fire Razes Hotel
In Hot Springs, Ark.
Many Leap Into Nets
As Flames Break Out
At Great Northern
By the Associated Pres*
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.. Sept.
14.—One man was fatally in-!
jured and nine other persons
were injured critically early to
day in a spectacular fire that
destroyed the 75-room Great
Northern Hotel.
John Baima, 51, of Detroit, a
veteran of World War I, died in
Army and Navy Hospital after fall
ing from the hotel’s third floor as
firemen rushed a ladder to his aid.
He was clinging to a window ledge,
but lost his hold before he could
be reached.
Cause of the blaze and the portion
of the building in which it began
were undetermined.
The fire broke out at 12:50 a.m.,
after most of the guests, the num
ber of which is unknown, had re
tired. Many of the building's oc
cupants, some scantily clad in night
cloths, leaped into firemen's nets
and others climbed down ladders.
Several Businesses Destroyed.
Flames shot as high as 75 feet into
the air and walls of the building
caved in at 2:30 a.m.
In addition to the hotel, several
businesses on the ground floor of
the building were destroyed.
Those hospitalized with critical
third-degree burns were:
Louis Barrett, New Orleans; Ches
ter Ross, Denver, Colo.; J. D. Truitt,
Miami, Fla.; Arnold Bray, Hot
Springs; H. H. Johnson, Sedalia,
Mo.; Jimmy Adams and Martha
Adams, his wife, of Arkadelphia,
Ark., and Norman Castle, Hot
Springs, and Vera McBeth, Monroe.
La.
Five others were treated for minor
burns at Levi Hospital and were dis
charged.
B-25 Believed Down
In Carolina With 5,
Including AAF General
50 Planes Searching Area
For Army Bomber Bearing
Maj. Gen. P. B. Wurtsmith
A B-25 Army bomber with!
Maj. Gen. Paul B. Wurtsmith
and four others aboard is be
lieved to be down somewhere in
the Mount Mitchell area between
Greenville, S. C.. and Asheville.
N. C., the Greenville Army Air
Base reported early today.
A Greenville air base official, ac
cording to the Associated Press,
said a flight of 50 planes left the
field to join the search for the plane
which was reported missing last
night on a flight from Selfridge
Field, Mich., to Tampa. Fla.
Gen. Wurtsmith, 40-year-old Pa
cific Theater veteran, who has been
on duty here with headquarters,
Army Air Forces, had been on spe
cial assignment at Tampa for sev
eral weeks.
The four others on the twin-en
gine craft were listed as Lt. Col. F.
L. Trickev and Lt. Col. P. R. Oker
j bloom of Tampa, pilots; Master
Sergt. Hosey W. Merritt, Geneva.
Ala., radio operator, and Staff
| Sergt. Hoyt W. Crump, Tampa, en
gineei
The craft, due at Tampa at 2
p.m. yesterday and with gasoline
enough to stay aloft until 3:30 p.m.
was last reported near the tri
cities of Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson
City, Tenn.
Andrews Field, Md., which re
ported thpt the last radio contact
with the missing plane was about
noon yesterday, sent out searching
I planes but was unable to locate the
• missing bomber by nightfall.
Gen. Wurtsmith, a graduate of
j the University of Detroit, joined
the Regular Army 19 years ago
, He commanded the 13th Air Force
; during some of its heaviest fight
' ing against the Japanese in the
: Philippine area and was decorated
several times for bravery.
Major League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE ,
At Chicago—
Philadelphia 000 0 —
Chicago 000 0 —
Batteries—Flores and Rosar Lonat and
Ha.ves.
i At Detroit—
New York_ —
! Detroit _ —
Washington at St. Louis—2:30 P.M.
(Only Games Scheduled)
Today's Home Runs
National League
Lukon. Cincinnati (2di.
Lavagetto, Brooklyn (2d).
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Brooklyn—
St. Louis_00 —
Brooklyn .. fl •—
Batteries—r Brecheen and Garafiola
Branca and Edwards.
At New York—
Cincinnati 010
! New York 0(0 -
Batteries—^Blackwell and Mueller Jones
and Lombardi.
At Philadelphia—
Chicago _0C0 —
Philadelphia 22 —
Batteries — Kush. Chiaman (3d) and
livinaiton; Hushes and Seminick.
i (Pittsburgh at Boston—7:30 P.M.)
J
O'Dwyer Names Panel
For Teamster Strike;
740 Stores to Close
Two New York Grocery
Chains Are Planning to
Shut Down Tonight
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Mayor
William O’Dwyer intrusted to a
six-man board of businessmen!
today the task of unsnarling!
negotiations in the paralyzing j
strike of AFL truck drivers as
two of the city’s largest food
chains prepared to shut their
stores because of lack of de
liveries.
The committee was named last
night after representatives of the
; truck operators and the striking
unions, locals 807, 282 and 816 of
the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, failed to reach an accord
to end the walkout.
“The meeting (of the employer
and union representatives) has not
provided a basis for settlement,
which is an understatement,” Mayor
O’Dwyer said.
“I have requested a committee of
gentlemen of wide business inter
ests to act as the Mayor’s Advisory
Committee in trying to facilitate
negotiations for a settlement.”
Meeting Is Called.
He announced the committee
would meet with both sides this
morning to “continue their efforts to
reach a solution.”
As the A&P. and Safeway Stores
completed plans to shutdown 740
stores at close of business tonight
for the duration of the strike, union
and employer officials said there was
little prospect for a quick end to
the 14-day old strike.
John E. Strong, president of Local
807, key unit in the dispute, said he
saw no chance for an agreement
“for at least a week.”
“It is a very complicated situation,”1
he said. “The best I can hope for:
now is a temporary agreement which1
would have to go back to the
membership.” Union members have1
scheduled a meeting Tuesday.
Michael J. Cashal. vice president
of the Teamsters' Union, said “there j
won't be any (development* for at:
least two days.” He added that the
negotiations might take even longer.” j
Further Apart Than Ever.
An employer spokesman who re-:
fused to be identified by name said
the negotiations were “further apart
than ever” in their discussions and
had not reached the subject of wages.
The strikers seek a 30 per cent
wage increase, a reduction in work
ing hours from 44 to 40 hours a
week and changes in working condi
tions. The operators have offered a
flat $3 a week boost. Mayor O'Dwyer
proposed a cpmpromis wage increase
;of 18' * cents an hour but this was
'turned down by most operators and
union members.
Hurricane Moving
North Along Coast
By the Associated Press
MIAMI. Fla., Sept. 14.—Northeast i
storm warnings were ordered up
along the Atlantic Coast from Cape
Hatteras to Block Island today as
a severe tropical hurricane, believed
to pack 100-mile winds, roared,
northeastward over the Atlantic. j
The center of the fast-moving |
storm was reported by the Federal;
Storm Warning Service to be 320:
miles east of Cape Hatteras, at 10:15
a.m.
‘ Continued northeastward move- j
ment is indicated today and to-'
night,” the forecaster said. “If there I
is no change in direction, the center |
will remain offshore. However,!
strong winds up to 40 miles an hour j
will prevail along the coast from;
Cape Hatteras to Block Island today !
and tonight, with hurricane winds'
some distance ofMhore.”
The storm area has spread out 150
miles from the center, and weather
men said there is no reason to be
lieve that it has diminished in veloc
ity, although ships have scurried out
of its path and first hand reports
from inside the storm are few.
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Officials Predict
Sea Strike's End
Within 24 Hours
CIO Picket Lines
Keep Ports Tied Up
As Tight as Ever
By James Y. Newton
Top Federal officials hopefully
predicted today that the great
10-day-old maritime strike would
be settled in the next 24 hours.
AFL and CIO seamen had swapped
places on the picket lines about
the Nation's ports, and shipping in
most places remained tied up as
tight as ever. Only in scattered
areas did the situation seem some
what eased.
Key to settlement tnat would free
the great ports and the several
thousand ships immobilized there
was the conference in New York
between the National Maritime
Union (CIO' and their ship-operat
ing employers.
Early Agreement Expected.
Federal officials said they believed
it was only a question of time be
fore NMU President Joseph Curran
and Frank J. Taylor, head of the
American Merchant Marine Insti
tute, got together on a new agree
ment embodying the higher wages
for able-bodied seamen W'on by the
two unions of AFL sailors.
The two AFL unions which started
the strike September 5 in protest
of a Government stabilization ruling
reducing their newly won pay In
creases had reached agreement with
their employers and called off the
strike. The unions are the Sailors
Union of the Pacific, on the West
Coast, and the Seafarers Interna
tional Union in the East and Gulf
areas.
The Seafarers ordered their pick
ets withdrawn from the ports after
a settlement calling for higher pay
for able seamen was reached in
New York late yesterday between
i Frank Hawk, union vice president,
and Leslie A. Parks, head of the
Atlantic and Gulf Ship Operators'
Association.
Members of the Seafarers and
[Sailors' Union voted in New York
[and elsewhere, however, to respect
! picket lines of the CIO sailors’ union,
W'hose 90,000 members struck yes
terday for wuige parity with'the
AFL.
30 Cross Picket Line.
About 30 members of the Inter
national Longshoremen s Associa
j tion (AFL) walked through an
i NMU picket line at a New York
! City pier. There was no disturbance,
j However, about 200 longshoremen
at the pier refused to go to work
despite ILA President Joseph P.
! Ryan’s plea that:
; "There’s no need here for a picket
line. Come on. if you want a day's
pay, go in and get it.”
In Baltimore. William Rentz. port
agent for the Seafarers, who earlier
had declared that his men would
resume their duties, said AFL sea
men would respect CIO picket lines
i“for the time being.’ He added:
“We are sending eight or 10 maln
! tenance men to each of the 60 ships
under our jurisdiction.” More than
130 vessels are tied up in the port
now.
AFL tugboat workers, who had
observed picket lines of their own
seamen, were returning to work in
Baltimore. Four foreign-flag ships
were towed from anchorages to
docks. They are members of the In
ternational Longshoremens Asso
ciation. whose membership is made
up largely of dockworkers. A long
shoremen’s official said. "We expect,
all of the men to be back on the job
by Monday.”
Cooks on Coast Are Idle.
In San Francisco Ham- Lunde
berg. leader of the AFL sailors, said
the question of observance of CIO
pickets made little difference since
CIO cooks and stewards are on strike
and a ship cannot sail without them.
“We got them their raise,” Mr.
Lundeberg said when questioned
about the purpose of the CIO strike.
"What are they stumbling around
down there <on picket lines > for
now? If it's for working condition,
we will respect their lines. But we
won't respect them if it's political."
Reports from Norfolk. Va.. and
other Hampton Roads points indi
cated AFL seamen intended to
board their ships.
The end of the AFL strike was
made possible by action of John R.
Steelman, reconversion director and
economic stabilizer, hi amending
stabilization regulations to allow
Government agencies like the Mari
time Commission to pay the same
wage scale as private operators in
the same field regardless of effect
on cost to the Government.
In this way, wages for able sea
men are being raised from the $17.50
monthly increase approved by the
Wage Stabilization Board to $22.50
for West Coast AFL seamen and to
$27.50 for those on the East and
Gulf Coasts.
The CIO seamen had set the "pat
tern" of $17.50 a month higher
(See MARITIME, Page A-3.)
Food, Medicine Flown
To Typhoon-Hit Marcus
By th« Aitocia'td triu
GUAM, Sept. 14.—A Navy plane
today flewT food and medical sup
plies to Marcus Island, American
weather station, which was devas
tated Thursday by a typhoon.
The 100-knot storm destroyed
Quonset huts and a radio shack and
kicked up waves which inundated
the lowr Island. About 20 personnel
are stationed there.
U. S. Carrier at Algiers
PARIS. Sept. 14 UP).—'The aircraft
earner Franklin D. Roosevelt an
chored today in Algiers Harbor, the
French news agency reported.
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