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Truman Reported Ready to Tell
Wallace to Keep Quiet or Resign
From Cabinet at Meeting Today
Baruch Confers
With President
Silent on Topic
(Text of Wallace letter on Page A-S i,
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman today con
ferred with top advisers prior to
a meeting with Secretary of
Commerce Wallace this after-;
noon which was expected gen
erally to bring a showdown on
the cabinet officer's right to con
tinue his controversial foreign
policy discussions.
While the White House refrained
from comment on the Wallace visit,
reports were circulated in high quar
ters that the Secretary was to be
told to keep quiet on foreign policy
or get out of the Government.
Bernard Baruch, American repre
sentative on the United Nations1
Atomic Energy Commission and con
fidant of both the Roosevelt and'
Truman administrations, came to
the White House at noon with John
Hancock, New York banker, who!
long has been associated with him
on administration assignments.
They were accompanied by Act
ing Secretary of State Clayton, who
was making his second trip to the
White House today, after an earlier
visit with Assistant Secretarv Rus
sell.
Baruch Silent Alter Visit
Mr. Baruch, whose plan for con
trolling the atomic bomb was criti
cized as inadequate in a letter from
Mr Wallace to President Truman,
made public yesterday, told reporters
Byrnes Is Silent
On July Letter of
Wallace to Truman
By thu As*ocio‘«d Pr«ss
PARIS, Sept. 18—The offi
cial spokesman for the Ameri
cf n delegation to the peace
conference said today Secretary
of State Byrnes had made no
announcement of his stand on
'the July 23 letter of Secretary
of Commerce Wallace to Presi
dent Truman.
Further, the spokesman said
Mr. Byrnes has not stated his
attitude “toward the wishes of
the exereme left wing of the
Democratic Party that is criti
cal of his foreign policy as it i
affects Russia.'1
It was learned that Mr.
Byrnes had not gotten in touch
with President Truman “direct
ly or indirectly” up to 3 pm.
'9 am. EST) regarding the
Wallace letter.
as he left his 25-minute conversa
tion with the President that he was
not talking
"President Truman will do all the
talking—whatever there is.' Mr.
Baruch said.
“Is he going to do any talking?”
a reporter asked
“You all know about that," Mr.
Baruch responded.
Mr. Hancock was one of those who
colalborated with Mr. Baruch on the
atomic bomb plan which was sub
mitted to the Atomic Energy Com
mission and he also worked with
him on the famous wartime rubber
report.
No Background Offered.
When Mr. Baruch's name ap
peared on the White House calling
list today. Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross was asked by reporters if
he had any background on the
visit, and he said no.
Asked if there was any connec
tion with the Wallace incident, the
press secretary replied. "That I don't
know.”
Meanwhile, one of Mr. Wallace's
aides told reporters that his chief
was considering titling a speech he
is scheduled to make at Providence.
R. I, next Tuesday, "The People
Make Foreign Policy ’
This official stressed that this title
was tentative and added that the
speech had not been fully drafted
and consequently Mr. Wallace was
not expected to take it to the White
House with him today.
The aide commented that he did
not thmk that Mr. Wallace would
(See WALLACE, Page A- ,'
Navy Is Reported
Preparing Plane
For Hop Record
Bv Keyes Beech
foreign Correspondent of The Star and the
Chicago Dat'y News.
HONOLULU, T. H , Sept. 18.—An
Army-Navy race for the world s non
• 'op flight record appeared to be in
•he making today.
This correspondent has learned
that a specially equipped, two
engine Navy patrol bomber is at
Perth, Australia, being readied for
a secret 11,600-mile, non-stop night
to Washington.
This disclosure comes at a time
when the Pacusan Dreamboat, a
souped-up Army Air Force B-29. is
being prepared at Hickam Field for
a 10,000-mile, non-stop hop from
Oahu to Cairo, Egypt. The Dream
boat, dogged by bad luck, has been
repeatedly delayed in its takeofl.
Meanwhile the Navy planp is re
ported to be ready to take off from
Perth by the end of this week.
It is believed that the Navy plane
will follow the Great Circle route
io Washington. This would take it
over Seattle.
The Navy plane is a P2-V and
is Lockheed built. It is reported
to have a cruising range of 12.500
miles. It is reported to have a jet
exhaust to help it ge: off the
ground with ir,s gasoline load, esti
mated at 7.000 gallons.
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Catholic Archbishop Arrested
By Tito on War Crime Charges
Prelate Faces Collaboration Trial After
Priest and Ex-Secretary Implicate Him
By the Associated Press
BELGRADE, Sept. 18. Premier
Marshal Tito’s government an
nounced today the arrest of
Archbishop Alojzijc Stepinac on
a charge of “crimes against the
people'’ and made provision for
trying him with 18 prisoners al
ready before a court.
Archbishop Stepinac heads the
Roman Catholic Church in Yugo
slavia. The government said he was
arrested in Zagreb.
The public prosecutor obtained a
seven-day postponement in the
trial of the 18—who include 12
priests- on charges of war crimes
and collaboration in order to pre
pare an indictment against Arch
bishop Stepinac so he could be
placed in the ddck with them.
The main defendant in the trial
is Col. Eric Lisak. who was chief
of the security police of Gen. Draja
Mihailovich, racently executed.
Lisak fled to Austria after the
(war, but later returned and Is I
charged with organizing terrorist
Ustachi bauds under the name of
''Crusaders."
Ivan Schalie. the archbishop's
secretary, testified in the trial of
the 18 yesterday that Lisak had
spent a night at the archbishop's
house and that the "Crusader" flag
had been blessed in the archbishops
chapel.
The arrest was believed to have
resulted from this and other testi
mony allegedly linking the arch
bishop with the Ustachi. The gov
ernment did not announce details.
Archbishop Stepinac was attacked
(several months ago by the Zagreb
newspaper Vjesnik. which accused
him of aiding the Ustachi. a terrorist
organiaztion of the wartime puppet
regime, and opposing the present;
government.
«The newspaper attack was
characterized as "Tito propa
ganda" by a spokesman for the
" iSee ARCHBISHOP; Page A-2.'
4 Homers Give Nats
7-0 Lead in Tilt With
Cleveland's Indians
Robertson, Vernon, Early
And Spence Blast
Out Round-Trippers
WASHINGTON
Robertson. 2b
Lewis rf
Grace. If
Vernon, lb
Spen e. cf
Travis. :'.b
Early, c
Hitchcock ss
Haefne: p
Umpires—Messrs
and Boyer.
CLEVELAND
Price ss
Ross :}o
Seerey. If
Edwards, rf
Fleming, tb
Mitcheli. cf
-v§Bc k. 2 b
Hegar.. c
McCabe p
Rommcll. McKinley
Special Dispatch to The Stor
CLEVELAND. Sept. 18. Wash
ington blasted four homers in
the early innings of today’s game
to take a 7-to-0 lead over Cleve
land at the end of the fifth
inning.
The first Nat four-bagger came
in the third. Robertson driving the
ball over the right-field wall.
Vernon, in the same inning, also
homerea with Lewis on base.
Jake Early got a round-tripper in
the fourth with noneon, and Spence
duplicated his feat in the fifth with
one on.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON — Robertson
doubled to right-center. Lewis
grounded out. Price to Fleming.
Robertson taking third. Grace
bounced to Mack, Robinson scoring.
Vernon singled to left, then Vernon
went out stealing. One run
CLEVELAND — Price grounded
out, Hitchcock to Vernon. Ross
fouled to Early. Seerey out, Travis
to Vernon. No runs.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON—Spence walked.
Travis and Early fanned and Hitch
cock flied to Mitchell. No runs.
CLEVELAND—Edwards beat out
a slow bounder to Vernon. Fleming
forced Edwards at second, Robert
son to Hitchcock. Mitchell forced
Fleming, Robertson to Hitchcock.
Mitchell stole second and took third
on a bad throw' by Early. Mack
walked. Hogan flied to Robertson
back of second. No runs.
THIRD INNING.
WASHINGTON—Haeffner popped
to Mack Robertson hit a home run
over the right-field wall. Lewis was
hit by a pitched ball. Price threw'
out Grace, Lewis taking second.
Vc-rnon hit a home run over the
right-field wall, scoring Lewis ahead
of him. Spence walked. Travis
flied to Mitchell. Three runs.
CLEVELAND—McCabe grounded
to Robertson. Price went out,
Vernon to Haeffner who covered
first. Ross flied to Spence. No runs.
FOURTH INNING.
WASHINGTON—Early hit a home
run over the right-field wall Hiteh
j cock flied to Edwards. Haeffner
struck out Robertson grounded out,
Fleming to McCabe, who covered
first. One run.
_CLEVELAND Seerey doubled
~ '.Sec BASEBALL,'Page^A-Tt
AFGE Unit Proposes
6-Month Severance
Pay for Dismissals
Convention Expected
To Act Immediately;
Flemming Speaks Today
By Joseph Young
Star Staff Correspondent
ST PAUL. Minn . Sept. 18.—
The Resolutions Committee of
the American Federation of
Government Employes. AFL, to
day placed before the convention
a proposal asking that all Fed
eral employes dismissed from
their jobs during the current
reduction-in-force program be
given a dismissal sum equal to
six months’ pay.
The convention is to act on the
\ proposal tonight or tomorrow, and
indications are that the recommen
dation will be approved.
AFGE officials attached extreme
importance to the recommendation
since it is felt that many thousands
‘ of Federal workers will lose their
; jobs during the next few months and
face prospects of unemployment.
The 80th Congress will be asked to
act immediately on this proposal
when it convenes in January.
F. S. Should Soften Blow.
Harold E. Smith of Atlanta. Ga„
chairman of the Resolutions Com
mittee. expressed the sentiments of
AFGE officials on the matter when
he declared: ‘These workers who
are now losing their jobs served
their Government loyally during
i the war and the least that their
Government can do for them now
is to soften the blow for them when
they leave the service.”
Stanley J Tracy, assistant direc
tor of the FBI and an AFGE dele
gate at the convention, told the
meeting today that Congress should
appropriate sufficient funds to en
! able the Civil Service Commission
to maintain an investigation staff
large enough to inquire into the
background of each applicant for a
Federal job.
Deploring the lack of funds which
has caused the commission virtually
to cease all loyalty investigations,
Mr Tracy said that all persons ap
| plying for Government jobs should
be thoroughly investigated and
fingerprinted to ascertain whether
they have subversive or criminal
backgrounds
Would Protect Employes.
‘‘This information should be
available before appointment not
only as a means of protecting
! America but as a protection to the
| integrity of the honest patriotic
Government employes,” Mr. Tracy
declared.
Civil Seivice Commissioner Arthur
jS. Flemming will address the con
tention today. After his speech.
| the convention will get down to
| the business of determining the
< See AFGE. Page A-2. > ”
Wallace Lifts Filching Charge,
Pearson Drops Threat to Sue
Columnist Drew Pearson today
abandoned a plan to sue Secretary
of Commerce Wallace for alleged
libel shortly after Mr. Wallace said
he was happy to take the word of
Mr. Pearson that a controversial
letter on Russia was obtained out
; side the Commerce Department.
The columnist had said he would
•sue Mr. Wallace for $3 000 as an out
growth of a statement by the Secre
tary that his letter of July 23 to
President Ttuman had been “filched
.from the files and is in the hands
of a newspaper columnist."
Within an hour after Mr Pear
sons announcement, the Commerce
; Department released a statement
fiom Mr. Wallace which had been in
process of preparation during the
morning.
! Referring to his letter to President
Truman, outlining his ideas on rela
tions with Russia Mr. Wallace today
said:
"I was gratified to learn that the
I columnist who had a copv of my
letter of July 23 has stated eate
Jgorirally that he got it from sources
outside of the Department of Com
i
meroe. I am happy to take his i
word, and I would be interested in {
knowing where he did secure the!
letter.”
Where the columnist obtained the1
letter which he said "came into myi
possession in open and above-board
fashion from sources” outside the!
Commerce Department, created a1
stir as Mr. Pearson hinted he might
have obtained it from any one of
several departments w'hich he said
had copies.
Told that Mr. Wallace had re
ceded from his former position
about the leter "filching,” Mr.
Pearson said he was "happy to ac
cept the statement and will drop
legal proceedings.”
Mr. Wallace's letter was released
to the press in general last night]
after a mix-up that found the
White House first approving its re
lease and then rescinding the order
Replying to Mr. Wallace’s desire
for information where the letter
leaked out, Mr. Pearson said "Mr.
Wallace knows a newspaper man
cannot reveal his sources.”
Told that a member of his office'
(See LETTER, Page A-2.)~ 1
BalkanAtomBan
At Paris Heads
For Showdown
Peace Parley Stirred
By Wallace Call for
U. S.-Russian Treaty
By the Astocia»«d Press
PARIS, Sept. 18.—The Paris'
Peace Conference, stirred b.v
news of Secretary of Commerce
Wallace's demand for an Amer
ican-Russian atomic treaty.'
headed today for a showdown
on a bitterly contested British!
effort to prohibit atom bomb'
production in the beaten Balkan
nations.
The British amendment—seeking
to add atomic fission weapons and
controlled torpedoes to the list of;
arms prohibited in Bulgaria—al-!
ready has met with violent Slav I
opposition in the military commis
sion, which had the matter on j
Monday's agenda, but put it off'
with a decision to complete work
on the Italian treaty first. Con
sideration of the banned weapons;
clause of the Hungarian treaty also
was delayed.
Italian Appeals Remain.
Now that the military commission
has completed work on all of its
Italian treaty clauses the test fight
on prohibited weapons for Soviet
backed Bulgaria may soon be taken
up. And the explosive issue it
had sought to cool off by delay had
become hotter than ever as a result
of the release yesterday by Mr.
Wallace of his letter on atomic
energy to President Truman. .
The British unobtrusively slipped
the words ' atomic bombs” into an
amendment last week which added
controlled torpedoes to the list of
possible modern -weapons—including
guided missiles—which Bulgaria
"shall not possess, construct or
experiment with.”
The Slav delegations spotted the
words at once, objected and blocked
all immediate consideration of the
i proposal, putting it on the military
commission's schedule for later
j discussion.
New Line Drawn in Parley.
Britain protested that the Slavs
had supported a similar proposal
1 for the Italian treaty, but the Slavs
replied, in effect: Democratic Bul
garia cannot be compared to Italy,
one of the principal initiators of
imperialism and totalitarianism.”
That seemed to many delegates
to draw’ an entirely new line in the
21-nation conference—the issues no
longer lay between the victors on
one side and the vanquished on the
other, but between the Slav bloc,
beaten or victorious, on one side
and the rest of the world on the
other.
The United States has shown in
tense interest in the British pro
posal by holding up consideration
of Romania's banned weapons]
clause until the Bulgarian dispute
is settled.
Italian Treaty Finished.
The military commission set. its!
seal on the military limitations1
clauses of the Italian treaty today,
cutting the Italian fleet to 10 major
ships and limiting the army to 250,
000 officers and men.
Supplerrtenting decisions yesterday
which consigned most surplus fleet
units to the Big Four for division
and requiring Italy, to destroy the
rest, today's unanimous action lets
Italy keep two battleships, four
cruisers and four destroyers, as well
as minor units such as. 16 torpedo
boats, 20 corvettes and auxiliaries.
The Army's armament is restricted
to 200 medium and heavy tanks
among other items.
Under the annex adopted, Italy
may keep the old 1912 battleships
Andrea Doria ana Caio Duilio, the
cruisers Luigi di Savoia, Duca degli
Abruzzi, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Rai
mondo Montecuccooli and Luigi
Cadorna, and the destroyers Carab
inere, Granatiere, Crecale and
Nicoloso da Recco.
Other delegates, meanwhile, made
a three-pronged attack on the
[touchy problem of Trieste, with the
| Italian Political and Territorial
( See CONFERENCE. Page A~2.7~
Bulletins
Drivers End Strike
The United States Concilia
tion Service today announced
settlement of a strike of ready
mix concrete truck drivers j
which has hampered District I
construction since Julv 15. Six
concrete companies and 160
drivers were involved in the
strike.
Ask Bilbo Impeachment
A petition requesting the
impeachment and removal of
Senator Bilbo. Democrat, of
Mississippi from the Senate
was received today by the
Senate's special committee to
investigate elections. Riley W.
Shanks, committee counsel,
said the petition bore approx
imately 50 signatures and was
accompanied by a letter
signed by T. B. Wilson, Jack
son, Miss.
Senator Andrews of Florida
Dies of Heart Attack at 69
Gov. Millard Caldwell.
To Name Successor
For Short Period
Senator Charles O. Andrews,
Democrat, of Florida, a member
of Congress since 1936, died of a
heart attack early today at Be
thesda Naval Medical Center. The
Senator, who was 69. entered the
hospital last week for a physical
| checkup.
A native of Ponce be Leon, Fla
i Mr. Andrews maxie his home at
Orlando. In the Senate, where he
was known as an expert parlia
mentarian. the Floridian was chair
man of the Public Building and
Grounds Committee and the Special <
Committee on Reconstruction of the
Senate Roof and Skylights.
He was a member of five other
committees: Naval affairs, judic
iary. immigration, public lands and
surveys and rules.
A former justice of the Florida
State Supreme Court, Senator
! Andrews, began his political career
dn 1903 as a bill clerk in the Florida
SENATOR ANDREWS.
—AP Photo.
State Senate. He later served as
Criminal Court' judge of Walton
County and was Assistant Attorney
General of Florida from 1912 to 1919.
Senator Andrews was a veteran
Se*TANDREWS Page~A^2T~
Strike Still Ties Up
75 Pet. of Shipping
After Two Weeks
End of CIO Picketing
Fails to Free Bulk
Of Merchant Fleet
An estimated 75 per cent of
American shipping remained
tied up today—the 14th day of
the great maritime strike—and j
little apparently was being done
to bring ship owners and striking;
workers together.
While the action freeing AFL
manned vessels of CIO pickets eased
the situation somewhat, the great;
bulk of the Nation's ocean-going j
fleet was still immobilized.
Government efforts to bring about
resumption of negotiations on both
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts had
met with no success.
Negotiations Broken Off.
Talks In New York between ship
owners and the CIO National Mari
time Union were broken off Sunday
night when operators demanded that
security watches be returned to
ships. NMU withdrew watches earlier
in the day. The CIO union includes
a majority of seamen.
On the Pacific Coast, negotiations
between operators and the striking
CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards and
the Marine Firemen's Union, inde
pendent. also were at a standstill.
West Coast operators are insistent
! that members of the two unions re- i
turn to W'ork before wage talks are
resumed.
All three unions struck last Friday
for wage paritv with the AFL sea-1
men, beneficiaries of the modifica-;
! tion of stabilization policy which |
gave them $5 higher pay that the1
CIO in the West and $10 on the|
East Coast. Government officials!
have paved the way for the three
unions to get the higher pay boost,
but arguments with ship owners
have thwarted the plan so far.
AFL Seamen Return.
AFL seamen returned to work
yesterday in Atlantic and Gulf ports
after NMU President Joseph Curran
ordered pickets withdrawn from
AFL and foreign flag ships.
Mr. Curran said in New' York to
day that the CIO strike was "100 per
cent effective" with about 900 ships
tied up in all major ports. He said
withdrawal ot pickets from AFL ves
sels "affects less than 300 ships.”
In New' York. 58 vesselr were
worked yesterday, the Maritime
Commission reported. Joseph P.
Ryan, president of the AFL Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Association,
said that thousands of his men had
returned to wrork already and more
would be on hand today. AFL has
the dockw'orkers in the East and
Gulf, while the CIO represents long-:
shoremen on the West Coast.
Blames Operations and U. S.
Mr. Curran blamed continuation
of the strike on J. B. Bryan, presi-;
dent of the Pacific American Ship
Owners’ Association, and the Fed-:
eral Government.
He said Mr. Bryan thus far "has:
arbitraily refused to meet with West
(See MARITIME. Page ^47) ‘
4
District Library Asks
$2,930,000 Budget
For New Fiscal Year
Trebles Current Funds;
$8,646,000 Requested
By Water Department
By Henry A. Mustin
Funds for construction of
three more major branch libra- j
ries and to start work on the sec- j
ond unit of the new Central Li
brary are sought by the District;
Public Library under an over-all
request for $2,930,000 to finance
its work during the fiscal year,
beginning next July 1, Budget
Officer Waltey L. Fowler an
nounced today.
At the same time, Mr. Fowler re
vealed that the city Water Depart
ment has submitted budget requests
to the Commissioners totaling $8,
646,000. a figure nearly double the'
$4,948,725 made available for the fis
cal year 1947. Assigned top priority
among the water supply projects
were funds to expand Dalecarlia
Reservoir and to modernize the
Bryant street pumping station.
More than three times as big as;
the $921,700 allocated to the library j
during the current fiscal year, the'
sum requested would provide $1,613,-!
000 for operating expenses and
$1,317,000 in capital outlay, largely,
for construction purposes.
Central Library Plans.
Of major importance to the li- i
brary program was the request for
$500,000 to begin construction of the j
second unit of the Central Library !
at 495 Pennsylvania avenue N.W.
Ultimate plans call for four units to1
be built at a total cost of $5,000,000.
Though the first unit of the new,
Central Library is not yet open to |
the public, two-thirds of its space
being occupied by the State Depart
ment, Miss Clara W. Herbert, li
brarian. said it was hoped to put j
(See BUDGET. Page A-4. > ~
OPA Asks Restoration
Of Dairy Ceilings as
Vital to Stabilization
Porter Sends Report
To Decontrol Board;
Action May Be Delayed
By the Associated Press
OPA Chief Paul Porter today
urged the Price Decontrol Board
to restore price ceilings on all
dairy products, saying such ac
tion “is essential to the stabili
zation program.”
Mr. Porter sent a lengthy report
on retail and wholesale prices and
supplies of milk, butter, cheese and
other dairy products to the board
as it met to decide the future of
I dairy products, now free from ceil
| ings.
The figures show. Mr Porter told
the board, that dairy product prices
| now are generally above the level of
'former June 30 ceilings plus subsi
dies.
Substantial Increase Feared.
He added that the prices of cheese,
butter and, other manufactured
products ‘‘indicate a trend which if
continued, will in a very short time
lead to a general price level substan
tially and dangerously above the
level of former ceilings plus sub
sidy. ’
A decision on recontrol of dairv
products may be delayed several
days.
A flood of conflicting recommen
dations reached the three-man
panel with various segments of the
dairy industry approving recontrol.
The National Cheese Institute said
cheese prices, previously criticized by
the board, were reasonable and that
supplies will be sufficient to meet
domestic needs, although the Gov
ernment plans export of 60,000.000
pounds of cheese in the six months
beginning September 1.
Butter Below Proposed Ceiling.
Similarly, the American Butter
Institute, claiming to speak for 90
per cent of creamery butter pro
ducers, contended that both whole
sale and retail butter prices had re
mained below ceilings that OPA
w'ould have been forced to place on
butter this month if it had remained
controlled.
On the opposite side, several con
sumer and organized labor groups
urged immediate recontrol of milk
and all other dairy products.
Walter P Reuther, president of
the CIO United Auto Workers, ad
vocated recontrol, telling the board
that butter prices in Detroit are up
as much, as 30 per cent at retail
levels. He said he spoke for 800,000
auto workers.
Admiral Moreell Quits
As Mines Head Sept. 30
By the Associated Press
Admiral Ben Moreell is resigning!
as Federal coal mines administrator!
effective September 30, when he,
retires from active duty with the1
Navy.
This was disclosed by the Interiorj
Department today in making public
an exchange of letters between the
admiral and Secretary Krug.
Admiral Moreell will be succeeded i
as coal mines administrator by Capt.!
N. H. Collisson, now deputy admin-,
istrator.
AirportTaxi Fares Rise to $1.75
After Control Is Dropped
Airline passengers going to Na-1
tional Airport from Washington pay I
anything from 75 cents to $1.75.
The uniform fare of 90 cents from
downtown Wasljjngton to the airport
disappeared about six weeks agoj
when the Public Utilities Commis
sion abandoned control over these
rates. Cabbies unable to count with;
any degree of certainty on picking1
up return fares, have boosted the
rates to $1.25 and on up to $1.75.
The airport administration last
month exercised its authority to
prohibit the transportation of pas
sengers into town except by the
company holding, the airport con
tract—Airport Transport, Inc.
As a result. District taxicabs no
longer were permitted to pick up
passengers at the airport door with
out permission of airport officials
That was when the PUC abandoned
the standard rate
There is a possibility of the tares
going farther out of sight. At the
office of the Taxicab Operators,
Drivers and Garage Employs, Local
219, it was said that a driver could
I charge as much as $2.45 for a trip
to the airport by assessing for the
“use of the vehicle'’ rather than on
the basis of mileage.
Hervie Law. airport administrator.1
said the increases were "co-inciden
tal” with ihe enforcement of the
monopoly order, not the result of it
He said the Virginia jurisdictional
decision by Congress which ended
the control of the Public Utilities
Commission over taxis running to J
the airport was responsible for the
inflated prices.
But taxi drivers and company
heads were of the opinion the up
ward trend could be traced directlv
to the order giving one company'
all the city-bound business
Airport Transport. Inc., operates;
i tSee AIRPORT, Page ~A~-4.i i
A
Truman Orders
Wage and Price
Policy Review
OWMR Advisers Plan
Study to Offset Rise
In Cost of Living
By James Y. Newton
President Truman has ordered
a study of Government wage
price policy, and it was indicated
today that new regulations will
be drafted soon allowing for
sharp rises in living costs in the
last several months.
The Office of War Mobilization
;:nd Reconversion said the Presi
dent, at a meeting yesterday, asked
its advisory board to examine
i stabilization policy. A subcommit
tee of the advisory group, headed
by George W. Tavior. former War
Labor Board chairman, was named
to make the study. Its first meet
ing will be held next week
Coupled with the policy re-ex
amination will be a determination
as to what to do about the Wage
! Stabilization Board, whose recent
' order cutting the size of merchant
| seamen's pav increase was over
ruled by Reconversion Director
Steelman.
All-public Board Probable.
It was believed that WSB will
be retained intact for the time
being, but that within a few months
i its tripartite membership of repre
jsentatives of the public, industry
1 and labor may be replaced by an
all-public board. Industry rnem
I bers have recommended sucn a
streamlining.
Present vage-price policy was
j evolved last February to settle the
big strikes in steel and other Indus
tries. It makes allowance, for price
i and wage purposes, of only a 33 per
i cent increase in living costs sines
; January 1. 1941. base date of stabil
ization formulas.
Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys
| show that now living costs have
risen a total of 43 per cent since
January. 1941. and 11 per cent since
formulation of present policy.
Revision Must Reflect Increase
Any revision of policy, it is be
lieved. will have to reflect the 11 per
cent higher living costs, most of
which has occurred since July 1 un
der relaxed controls over prices
Mr. Steelman, it is said, takes the
position that if the Government is
to remain in the business of stabil
izing prices and wages, it must have
| an up-to-date policy on wages in
readiness when so-called second -
round reconversion wage demands
come pouring in from labor this fall
The contract between the steel in
i See WAGES. Page A-2.'
Airliner, 44 Aboard,
Missing on Sea Hop
BULLETIN
NEW YORK <--P'.—A trarfs
Atlantic plane with 44 persons
aboard was overdue and un
reported today and a report to
the Coast Guard said wrek
age of a plane had been
! sighted northeast of Gander,
Newfoundland.
j -
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—Search
; ing parties have been sent out to
■ locate a Belgian airline plans
! carrying 37 passengers and seven
crew members, which is overdue in
Gander, Newfoundland, and at La
Guardia Airport. Fernand Martens,
j New York agent for the air line—
1 Sabenna—announced today.
Mr. Martens said the plane was
due at 2 a.m. today at Gander—
where the ceiling was only 500 feet
j —and at La Guardia Airport about
10 a.m.
The plane was en route from
Brussels.
In London, the British Press As
sociation said the airliner was carry
iing mostly American and Belgian
, businessmen.
Sabenna officials said H Ruth
Henderson, executive secretary of
| the international division of Girl
; Scouts was aboard.
Other League
Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Chicago—First Game—
New York 110 000 0 —
Chicago 000 000 —
Batteries — Chandler and Rohtnmnt
Havnea and Haves.
At Detroit—
Philadelphia _
Detroit _
Warmuna—Philadelphia Marrhtldnn D»,
trblt. Xewhouser.
Boston at St. Louis—8:30 P.M.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Brooklyn—First Game—
Pittsburgh 020 010 000— 3 7 1
Brooklyn 000 020 000— 2 0 1
Batteries—Ostermueller and Salkeld;
Hiebe. Rehrman tHtht and Eldwardv.
At Philadelphia—First Game—
Cincinnati 100 000 000— 1 fi 0
Philadelphia 000 200 OOv— 2 5 0
Batteries—Blackwell, Hensser <8th> an*
Mueller; Judd and Seminirk.
At Philadelphia—Second Game—
Cincinnati 0 —
Philadelphia 1 —
Batteries—Malloy and Uminno. Schans
and Herasley.
At New York—
Chicago 000 100 0 —
New York 000 001 —
Batteries—Lade and 8cheflfin*. Griston
and Grj>so.
St. Louis at Boston—7 P.M.
Today's Home Runs
American League
Keller, New York <lst>.
Robertson. Washington 13d >.
Vernon, Washington t3d>.
Early. Washington (4th).
Spence, Washington t5th).
National League
Kiner, Pittsburgh (2d>, 1 on.
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