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Bare s Reds' Policy
To Rule or Ruin
Ree Von Wirgand, part 1, Page 1
FORD, CHR YSLER SIGN WITH UA W
GIVING RAISES OF 18 AND 18'h CTS.
CIO Tells Meat Workers
To Return to Their Jobs
Hints U. S. to Give
Fflct-Finder Raises
CHICAGO, Jan. 26 (INS'
—The ClO's Packing House
Workers Union announced to
day that it was calling off it*
nation-wide strike against thi
government, some 12 hours
after the department of agri
culture had seized the pack
ing industry on order of Pres
ident Truman.
The union stated that it was in
structing its members to return
to work Monday. It dispatched
orders calling on the ('lO striker
to withdraw all picket lines around
packing companies at 5 p m. to
day. .
When the government first
seized the plants, CIO members
defied the government by main
taining their picket lines.
CONTIM E \\ %GE FIGHT
"In going hark to work," the
union statement said, "our
member* are attempting to co
operate with the government,
which Is attempting to co
operate with them.”
Lewis J. Clark, president of the
union, said the CIO would con
tinue to press its wage increase
demands against packing firm"
It was beheved that Clark nad
been given assurances by Secre
tary of Agriculture Anderson that
the government would grant an>
wage increases granted by a fact
finding panel now delving into
the controversy
The AFI. s Meat Cutters ani
Butcher Workmens Un**n pt<-v
nwsly hRd announced tha* its .*>s -
(*tO striking meml>er- would go
hack to work, so the pack.rvg
industry will be ah!** to
full operations w ith the CIO
capitulation to government seiz
ute.
SHIPMENTS DELAW D
* •
However. became of lagging
livestock shipments '•>nrc the
strike smarted. full in
mnM plants cannot beg.n for four
or five day*. Spokesmen for the
Industry said that it would b« from
10 days to two weeks before nor
mal supplies of meat move to
retail channels
The steel strike, meantime en
tered its sixth dav with no sign
of peace between the CTO ho .
workers and the industrv.
. Three-quarters of a million
'steel workers remained off tf«ir
jobs, and thousands mote in
fnnatrd industries werr id e be
cause of the giant work stoppage
It was estimated that .Vifi.oof 1
men vvill be out of work in the
autorbohile industry by Fch 1 if
the steel, automotive and glass
strikes continue Railroads re
ported their freight shipments
were seriously curtailed ard Hw
shipping industry said it is b< gin
ning to feel the pinch
Hurley Renews Fire
On Career Diplomats
BALTIMORF -tan 20 MT>
aj Gen Patrick .1 Hurley for
mer l' S ambassador to China
charged tonight that the govern
ment is withhrlding from the
T' S puhlir facts about its for
eign policy that were "made avail
able to foreign organizations by
leaks’ from department career
men
He said the state department
\> as keeping secret government
documents which he said sup
potted his contentions that Com
munist rarrer men had under*
mined his work in China
3 Judges Uphold Teaching
Of Religion in City Schools
CHAMPAIG N 111 Jan. 20
flNS)—The right of the city of
Champaign to teach religion on
arhool property during school
hours wcs upheld today by a
llhree-judge court.
After four months of study, the
court denied the petition for man
damus filed by Mrs. Vashti Mc-
Collum. 32, wife of a University
©f Illinois processor.
Mrs. McCollum contended the
•chords had no right to teach
religion on a school property even
though students in the religious
classes could not enroll without
Diary of Mussolini’s Girl Friend
Petacci Bewails
Her Downfall
EDITOR’S NOTE —Cleiretta Petacci, the daughter of
an obscure Italian doctor, climbed to wealth and notoriety
as mistress of Mussolini. Her life ended, along with his,
m a farmyard y\rar the Swiss border where they were shot
bj Italian anti-fascist patriots last April,
Confined to a jail cell in Xovara, Italy, after Musso
lini s downfall in Ilf*3, the girl it rote a diary in which she
recorded her lore far the dictator, whom she refers to as
“Hen.' In the first instalment which follows, Claretta tells
how she u as jailed and pens messages of len t to her “Ben.’’
By CLARETTA PETACCI
Mistress of Benito Mussolini
T itrtbut*l by le*#rn»Uon»i N*»» R»rvi<-« Word Cepjr.fht A! R.fhu
R***rv»<i lUprodurtion in W'holt or Tart Dtrtctly Prohibits^
XOVARA PRISON, ITALY, Aug. 12, 1943—1
never believed, Ben, that I should continue my talks
with you in this horrible place.
They came after us at the villa at 6 o’clock and, after
they had searched the house they packed us off for
Novara, where we arrived very late.
After half an hour of agony outside the garrison
prison door, they led us to filthy rooms filled with benches
and crawling with vermin. After a few minutes, they
again searched us, this time nude, mother, sister and I
by women, and father bv a man.
Continent Spanned
In 4 Hrs., 13 Min.
NKW YORK,.. .Tan 26 mINS'
Three irt-profwdlrd ’ P-60 "Shooi
ng Star'* '* the arms * fastest
' fight* r planes, th« trans
continental •*|*-ed j-pcord to hits
today, the fir>? screaming across
*h< country in 4 hour.** 13 minutes
and 2b seconds.
The old record wax 5 hours 27
minutes and 19 seconds.
The first plane, pilled by Col.
William T. Council] of Wright
Field Ohio, went through the
stratosphere at an average speed
of ,*>M n !*•> j**-: hour, almost 9 ,
mil* s j* r minuti
The second plane. piloted bv
('apt Martin L. Smith. hu/zed
LaGuarriia field at 5:07 p m
FST. and t h r rhird, piloted bv
('apt. .1. S Babel, swooped ovei
th** airjmrt at 5:22:25 p. m Both
Smith and Bab* I. howo vc r.
stoop# d at Topeka for fuel
The plane piloted by Col Coun
f 11 clip|K*d 1 hour and 19 sec
onds off old official record,
hr d by the Superfort "Dream
, i>oat."
) ('o| Councill. a short, stocky
man dressed in a typical fliers
■leather lacket showed no sign of
the «*rain of his record-breaking
trip.
U. 5. Super A-Bomb
Reported in Supply
SA N FRANCISCO. .Tan. 26
• APt Charles F Moore San
Francisco industrialist said today
that (ien Mar Arthur had told him.
in Tokyo that America is (quipped
with atomic bomhs equivalent to
'jO.mxiOOO tons of TNT nr a
thousand times morr powerful
than the one dropped on Hiro
shima
the written consent of their
parents.
The mother of three children,
Mrs. McCollum contended that
her 10-year-old son. James Terry
McCollum, was embarrassed be
cause other students took the
courses but he did not.
Roth she and her small son
professed atheism.
The decision of the court, which
Mrs McCollum had indicated
would he appealed if she lost, has
fat-reaching effects. More than
one and one-half million students
participate in religious education
.classes in the United States.
Largest Circulation of Any Michigan Xeusf'afer
DETR'eMfipnfolES
(Sunday;
Only Detroit Newspaper with All Three Major New* Service*—lNS, AP and UP
46th Year, Ne. Ml I* C DETROIT 11, MICH., Jan. 27, 1941 Part I II Cts.
fClaretfa’s father. mother
and uster. Mimi. were arrested
with her. All hut Claretta later
escaped to Spain and last were
rtf)orted living near Barcelona )
SHAME. HUMILIATION
I believe we thus have de
sernded to the last rung of shame
and humiliation.
We wait on Not one word of
explanation or anvthing Then,
into a car again and accompanied
by the sound of a mournful siren,
insistent and terrifying, while
Anglo-American planet menac
ingly roar overhead, dropping
their bomb loads, we were trans
ported to Visconti Castle, a
gloomy, massive structure loom
ing mio the night.
I protest violently. I rebel at
this infamous treatment. I ask
the release of my mother, who is
crying Father is pallid and silent
Mimi is terrified at this horrihle
experience, which she doesn't de
serve.
FACES OF’STONE
Our guards have faces of stone
and granite eves, devoid of anv
expression.
The director of the tail arrives
and forces ns down into a shelter
Airplanes pass in wave* over us
Mother sobs and staggers
Without warning, a liomb falls
100 meters from us and the shock
hurls Mimi on top of me—she
strikes her head violently all the
prisoners hold us up.
Mother gasps; the torture con
tinues.
In vain we try to encourage
(Continued on rage Eight)
Paris p ressmen Strike
PARIS. .Tan 26 >IT I—Paris
was left without morning news
papers today as the result of a
strike by rotary pressmen for n
war* increase of 100 francs < ap
proximately Hi* crnlsi a night.
The
SUNDAY TIMES
COMICS
Dramatized!
Children . . .
Adults
Tunc In WJR
10 A. M. Every
Sunday
Hear ' The Parade
of the Comics”
Conducted by
Uncle Toby
Pearl Report
Turned Down,
Short Claims
Original Findings
Spurned by Wat Dept.,
General Declares
WASHINGTON, Jan., 26
(INS)—Maj. Gen. Walter C.
Short ended his testimony
before the Pearl Harbor
committee today with a
charge that the war depart
ment ordered a one-Ynan in
quiry into the disaster at
Hawaii because an army
board's findings were not
“what they wanted.”
The commiftre called Capt. E
M. Zacharias to testify Monday
morning and former Supreme
Court Justice Owen J. Roberts
for Monday afternoon.
Member* will question Zacha
rias about a warn mg he said he
gave to the navy'’'commander at
Pearl Harbor that Japan would
strike by surprise on a week-end
PLAN ROBERTS QFIZ
Roberts will be questioned about
the investigating commission he
headed after the attack, which
Shoit charged "convicted" him on
“of-the.record” testimony
Short who thanked the com
mittee for the opportunity to
testify, said that the 1914 Clausen
investigation was ordered by
Secretary of War Stimson be
cause :
"Thev apparently thought
they could not get what they
wanted from the armv board.”
MARSHALL C RITICIZED
The army Pearl Harbor report
criticized Gen Marshall and Lt.
Gen. Leonard T Gerow. war plans
chief, for “failures’’ m connection
with the 1941 disaster
Short also made charge of
Washington 'hurk passing” spe
cific by naming Gen Marshall,
former Secretary of Wai Stimson
and other general staff officers
Short said that, when he ar
rived the war department of mak
ing him the “scapegoat” for the
1041 attack he had in mind “the
general staff in particular because
they had the primary responsi
bility.”
NO OFFENSE PROVED
Short told the committee that
if he had ever been arraigned
under charges which finally were
reacted hy the war edpartment.
"my plea would have been not
guilty "
He tf-tified that Gen. Mvron
C Cramci judge advocate gen
era!. reviewed all the evidence of
the Roberts Commission, the army
hoard and the affidavits collect
ed by Col. Henry C. Clausen and
“came to the conclusion that ho
couldn't prove am offense,”
SOUND OPINION
e> n Jan 27, 1043, he said Cra
mer wrote:
"tirn. Short's nonfeasance nr
omissions were based on an
estimate of the situation which,
although proved faulty hy sub
sequent events, was. in so far
as | am able to ascertain from
the report of the commission,
made or concurred in hy all
those officers in Hawaii best
qualified to form a sound mili
tary opinion.
“That estimate was that an
attack b> air wns in the highest
degree improbable.”
Cold Wave to Hold
Over Sunday
An Arctic wave drifted across
Detroit and Michigan Saturday,
plunging the temperature rapidly
toward zero mark forecast for
parly Sunday.
Coldest night of the winter
was Dec lb. when Rrtroit ther
mometers recorded 2 below
Low temperatures were ex
pected to hold Sunday, with the
highest trmf>cratiire about Ifi de
gree* It will recede Monday or
Tuesday, the weatherman said,
with temperatures returning to
the 20 s.
The season’* coldest wave ar
rived by daylight, with the lerr
peraturr dropping 7 degrees in
three hours to 10 above at 10a m
Saturday.
Men Gain $63,600,000 a Year;
Big 3 Front Falls in Compromise
Auto Wage Raise
Facts at Glance
Here are some salient figures underscoring the economic
significance of*the wage agreements reached by the UAW
CIO Saturday with the Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler
Corp.:
FORD CHRYSLER
Wage raise granted, hourly 18 cents cents
Workers ultimately to he affected 100,000 63,000
New average hourly wage $1.30 plus $1.32 plus
Old average hourly wage $1.21 plus $1.14
Ford increase in percentage of base pay—ls.l; Chrysler. 16.2.
Total wage increase approximately $63,600,000 annu
ally for the two contracts.
Woman Regains
Stolen 51,875
Flower Sa’es Cash
Found on 2 Youths
A tiny old lady who lives by
selling flowers in Detroit tavern«
recovered her life's savings late
Saturday after admitting to police
that ' U id of
the reported SK)O in a purse
snatching. 24 hours earlier.
Hesitantly. Mrs Ju n e "Old
Jume ' R;rhard. 62. of 2950 V.
JefTerson walked into the Palmer
Park po’if* station end identified
the stacks of currency which po
lice reco\ered from a suitcase
earned by two youthful thieves.
Kach hank note, including more
than B<K) $1 hills, was neatly
wrapped in tissue paper, held in
■place with a pin.
KEPT I ORTI \E SEC RET
“Old .Tunic” told police the'
youths grahl>ed her zipper bag as
she walked on Manchester near
Woodward. She reported only
5100 taken because -he wanted to
keep the amount of her fortune
the secret it had been for years
The mone\ was found in the
possession of Augie Yerrot, 20. of
250 W Hollywood and Gene
Sage. 17. of Romeo, who. police
said, parried a gun.
fOM KSS THEFT
The youths were arrested for
investigation of robbery at Seven
Mile and Andover and Anally
confessed the purse snatching
Police had searched all afternoon
for the address of the elderly,
woman whom they had described
as their \ ictim.
Police sf>rnt hour* unwrapping
the currency, none of which wav
in denominations larger than 510.
There was 56262 in coins One
large parcel, hound in layers of
paper, contained a new New
foundland penny.
Expects Early Easing
Of Hosiery Shortage
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26 (UP*
Civilian production adminis
trator John D. Small said today
that the present storking shortage
should disappear in a couple of
months
Small said that 50.000 000 pairs
of nylon stockings were turned
out this month and that pro
duction is increasing
In the Times TODAY
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Tool Firms Assail
GM Work Ban
-w- 1.
Th#* Automotive Tool and Die
Manufacturers Association asked
the UAW-CIO Saturday to call
off its plan to stop all work Mon
day on tool jobs for the strike
bound General Motors Corp.,
invoking a no-strike clause in
contracts of L'AW tool and die
locals.
Eight unfair labor practice
charges made by the union against
GM will he .aired at the National
Labor Relations Board hearing
Monday.
MERELY A ‘STOPPAGE*
An emergenrv meeting of
employe - representatives of 150
tool and die shops was scheduled
for Sunday afternoon to instruct
the workers how they would go
about refusing to handle any jobs
destined for GM. This session
was to be in Cass Technical High
School. #
Matthew Hammond president
of Tool and Die Local 157. said
the stoppage would not bp a
strike hut would merely mean
that “GM work will be put under
the bench”
In its appeal to I'AW President
R. J. Thomas, Hammond and
John Anderson, president of Tool
and Die Local 155. the associa
tion said such a course would he
an "obvious’* contract violation,
inasmuch as "no grievance of
any sort in our shops is involved.’’
VIEWED AS MOCKERY
The association admitted that
"a small employer. or as in this
rasp a group of small employers,
can do little to meet any unyield
ing pressure by a large laboi
organization.
“Nevertheless,” its letter de
clared, "we can protest, and
wp do. ,
“We wish to point out that
notion of this sort makes a
complete mockery of any con
tract arrangement we may have
arrived at In the past or will
arrive at in the future.**
Liner Sails lo U. S.
With 600 61 Brides
SOUTHAMPTON. England. .Tan
26 t APt—The liner Argentina
sailed from Southampton for New
York late today with more than
600 GI brides and babies
Military police had h#!pcd the
women carry aboard the children
and baggage for the six-day voy
age to New* York
Quakes Rock Swiss Area
2d Day, Population Panicky
ZURICH. .Tan, 26 HT'—Earth
shocks shook Switzerland today
for the second straight day top
pling church towers and a chalet
in the Sion area of Valais Canton
Police at Sion said a shock at
p. m (7:40 t n
timet was “extremely heavy.” The
towers of the Sion cathedral were
reported near collapse.
Authorities said the panic
stricken population of Sion sj»rnt
the night in the streets At ieas*
one person died of fright.
At St Mauriee the parorh al
rhurrh of the town was reported
threatening to collapse, and many
By JACK CRELLIV
Detroit Time* Labor Editor
Two of the automotive industry’s Big
Three the Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler
Corp.—signed contracts with the UAW-CIO
Saturday granting 165,000 workers wage in
creases in the neighborhood of $63,600,000 a
year.
Ford hiked hourly rates 18 cents. Chrysler 18^.
In return they received from the union assur
ances against wildcat strikes and that “fair produc
tion standards” would he maintained.
The settlements were for approximately half
the FAW's original demand upon all companies
for a flat 30 per cent increase.
The Ford hike represented 15.1 per cent and
Chrysler’s 18 1 o cents figured out to a 16.2 per
cent raise.
Chrysler Signs Complete Pact
The agreements were reached, after months of
apparent stalemate, in a drama-packed flurry of
conferences in which negotiators for the big cor
porations and divisions of the powerful union were
competing to make theirs the earliest settlement.
Ford, last to enter negotiations, was the first to
sign. The Ford negotiators, seemingly left at the
post when word that a Chrysler pact was imminent
leaked out Friday night, jumped the gun in a sud
den, secret conference.
However, Chrysler was first to announce a com
plete agreement and put it into immediate effect.
Union spokesmen said the average Ford wage
still would be higher than the average paid by either
of its Big Three competitors, even if General Motors
grants the 19 1 j cents recommended by a presidential
*Yct-finding committee.
Ford Pays $1.40, Chrysler $1.33
Richard T. Leonard, the UAW’s Ford director, said the
boost would bring the Ford wage average from approxi
mately $1.21 an hour to nearly $1.40. Chrysler’s average
came up from about $1.14 to. nearly $1.33 an hour.
Negotiators indicated that most salaried employes
would receive wage increases corresponding with those
granted hourly-rate workers.
Chrysler and the UAW announced “complete agree
ment” on wages and a new’ contract at 4 p. m.
The agreement included an increase of $32.50 a month
for salaried employes, plant protection and engineering
employes within the union’s bargaining unit and was de
scribed by both company and union spokesmen as “the best
we ever negotiated.”
Office Worker Raise Considered
Ford and the UAW announced their wage agreement
at 1:25 p. m. The announcement did not mention other than
hourly-rate w’orkers, but a company spokesman had said
previously a raise for office workers was “receiving serious
consideration.”
A 19’i-ccnt raise would boost the average wage paid by
General Motors Corp.. which has been strike-bound since Nov. 21,
to approximately $1.32 Hi an hour, according to the union. The
GM negotiators have offered 13*2 cents. They dispute the
union's hourly wage figures.
In Washington, UAW' President R. J. Thomas said he hoped
the agreements reached today would force General Motors to
accept a settlement “at a higher figure.” On the record, the
union indicated it would accept 19U cents, then reverted to its
original 30 per cent demand when the presidential committee’s
compromise proposal was rejected hy the corporation.
Both Thomas and fiery Walter
P. Reut her. CAW* vice president
and director of the union’s Gen
eral Motors department, said
flatly GM could not hope for an
other buildings svere cracked by
a new shock
v Damage uas reported heavy
throughout the Canton Valais
A number of persons were re
ported Injured at Sion yesterday
when the first of the series o!
shocks was felt. This area uas
the apparent epicenter of tw.
shocks described as the heavier ’
in Switzerland since 1855.
Several casualties vs rr e re
ported today in Milan. Italy. a«
the result of the quakes.
MH Kirs iNOW CUB •*» » 7 Mil I
2 r "sir Sno«» Mjnti> Dtncini »t*:u 7pm
—A«v.
FINAL
agreement at the IP or 18'a-cent
I level.
REITHKR DEMANDS ID', CTR.
Reuther, about to board a plane
from Washington for Detroit, de-
I dared:
“We’ll not settle for less than
19' j rents an hour at CJM.”
The Chrysler contract is effec
tive at midnight for one year. El
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