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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-21
National Spotlight
BY BRUCE CAPTION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Washington, Dec. 21-There never was a stranger last act to strike than the transcontinental telephone conference which ended the trou-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-21

@ruOe Cation last got to polnl where 12 strike-closed mills in Ia coma remained.
 These strikers were willing to set tle-provided a settlement could al SO be reached at two logging camps back in the hills. The loggers hac walked out more or less in sym pathy with the Tacoma mill hands and the mill workers insisted they wouldn't sign until the loggers were taken care of.
 Chief trouble was that the heads of the two logging camps were out of town and couldn't be located.
 
 AWAY
 LOOKUP
 It developed, then, that one oi them-L. T. Murray, president o1 the West Fork Logging Co.--was in New York, attending the conyen- tiou of the National Manufacturers Association.
 Learning this, Cancellation Com missioner John Steelman of the Labor Department explained the situation to E. D. Bransome, presi- dent of the Vanadium Corporation of America, and industrial repre- sentative on the labor advisory staff of the Defense Commission Bransome hunted up Murray in New York, told him what was up, and sold him on Steelman's idea for long distance conference.
 Next day a four-way telephone hook-up was arranged. Steelman got on the phone in Washington. Murray picked up his phone in his New York hotel. On separate phones in Seattle were E. P. Marsh, Steelman's west coast rep resentative, and Earl Hartley, president of the Puget Sound Dis trict Council of the United Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners.
 These four men talked for 50 minutes, at an approximate cost to Uncle Sam of just about $100. When tli;t got through, they were in agreement. Murray accepted the scent raise, and in lieu of paid vacations = which just aren't fea- sible in logging camps = offered a further increase in pay to make up the difference. This, in turn, satisfied Hartley, who agreed that the remaining logging camp could be taken care of later
 Result was that the last of the struck mills reopened next day.
 |
 NEW IDEA
 FOR WAGE CHANGES
 Steelman is elated by the settle ment for more reasons than one. First, he is tickled by the way in- dustry, labor and the defense con- mission worked togeSher-"It was really Bransome who made the con- ference possible he remarks-and second, he sees possibilities of vast importance in one cause of the agreement which ended the strike.
 This clause. m brief, says that there will be further negotiations concerning wages next March, by which time special study of con- U1IlOlLo III t1lC oOu6Ado HI 4Il0toUAJ is to be completed by Dexter Keezer, president of Reed College.
 Dr. Keezer is to make this study for the workers and employers to- gether, assisted by experts sup- piled by Dr. Isadore Lubin of the Labor Department. The hope is that it will be possible to tie wage rates in the industry in with the price of lumber in such way that the worker can automatically get his share of price increases, and pay his share Gin the form of reductions down toward a basel. agreed-on minimum when hard times come and prices go down. If this can be worked out, there is chance for enduring peace in the northwest lumber industry.
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Evening star., 1940-12-29
Inter.Faith Church Body
Asks Arms Be Given Britain

3! the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The Inter-
Faith Committee for Aid to the
Democracies, composed of promi-
nent Catholic, Jewish and Protestant
clergymen and laymen, urged today
that planes, ships, munitions and
food "be freely given or lent" by
the United States to Great Britain.
The committee. its members en-
listed from several parts of the
country, elected DR.. Henry Sloane
Coffin, president of the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, chairman, and DR..
Henry A. Atkinson, general secre-
tary Of the Church Peace Union,
secretary.
Their declaration added that "if
we recognize that she CBritain) is
fighting for freedom against tyr
amy, it is shameful to drive bar
gains with her for the necessary
weapons to continue the struggle.
Further, we urge that the Presi-
dent call a conference of the rep
reSentatives Of all democratic peo-
Piles (both those whose lands have
been invaded and those still indie
pendenD to counsel together for the
defense of our liberties and to set
forth our common purpose to achieve
a world in which free men can
live"
Evening star., 1940-12-29
R. A. F.
Continued From First PageO

France. This U-boat base has been
bombed four times in two days.
The announced results of the
earlier and broader foray included
these:
The harbor and shipping at
Haugesund, Norway, dive bombed
and machine gunned; a 5,000-ton
German supply ship thrice hit and
left erupting in flames and ex-
plosions; hits scored on harbor jet
ties and warehouses.
The docks at Cherbourg and
Lorient and a major airdrome at
Bordeaux, all in France, attacked !;
Lorient's stores, barracks. drydocks
and power station hit and Cher
bourg's docks straddled by falling
bombs; shipbuilding yards at st.
Nazaire, France, also bombed.
Subsequently, the Air Ministry
also disclosed that the Merignac
Airdrome, near Bordeaux, was at
tacKed with Dotn lncenQlarleS ana
particularly heavy" explosives.
Wide Pattern of Attack.
1t is Merignac Airdrome from
which the Nazis have been sending
out big bombers to cover British
sea routes, and it is from Lorient
that many of their submarines have
been operating.
The wide pattern of this attack
appeared especially significant, since
it has been observed that in any
attempt to land troops in Britain
Hitler might be expected TO use
his larger ships from Norway for
the 300-mile run direct to Scotland,
while along the English Channel
the relatively fiat seas might be
traverSed by barges.
On the defensive front, Britain
now is attacking the problem of
night raiders by new night patrols
against the continental airports.
Under the new British plan, long
cruising ighter-bombers hop the
Channel in the evening and dodge
about the Nazi advance airports
until the lights are flashed on for
take-offs or landings. Then they at
Evening star., 1940-12-29

apparent from an examination Of
its more recently decided cases"
In this connection, the report
called attention to the New York
Times case and the order the board
issued August "a last, and comments
as follows:
1T becomes matter of extreme
moment to the welfare of the coun-
try at large, particularly at a time
when national unity, directed to-
wards achievement of national de-
fense, depends upon cooperation of
all, that a Government agency and
its employees should, in the exercise
of their duties, foster and protect
Communists. The committee con-
siders this particularly reprehen-
sible when the same Government
officials have it within their power
to force American industry to re-
tain those whose sympathies are
such as to endanger the process of
production"
Evening star., 1940-12-29

In the final months Of the World
War the average life Of a submarine
was six trips.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
By LELAND STOWE,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
SOMEWHERE BEHIND THE AL
BANTAM FRONT, Dec. IS Delayed)
The youngest soldier in the Greek
Army is Corpl. Anastasius Charala-
mopOulos, 13-year-old Athenian boy,
who slowed away on one of the first
troop trains during the mobiliza-
ton at the beginning Of the italian
invasion. Anastasius told his father
good-by, then slipped unobserved to
the rear car on the same train. He
was not discovered until the troops
had almost reached the northern
front. Then he begged to remain
with the army in any capacity and
was given uniform.
I happened to meet the smiling,
bright-eyed little Anastasius today.
He only came up to my armpit, but
he was wearing the regulation
Greek Army cap and complete out
fit, down to road puttees. When
asked what this boy was doing in
uniform, was informed that he was
in active service, with the rank of
corporal, and sure enough he had the
corporals gold stripe on his arm.
Then the Greek officer proudly
told me how Anastasius had cap
tured an Albanian spy, winning his
promotion to corporal. The boy
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Greek Volunteer, Is, Captures
Spy and Is Promoted by Army

marched into Koritza with the Greek
troops late one night. He was
awakened in the hotel by a man
talking in the next room as if over
| the telephone. But there were no
telephones in that room. The young
volunteer listened further and be-
came suspicious.
The soldiers had presented him
with a captured Italians revolver,
so he grabbed the weapon in his
hand and slowly poked open the
door to the next room and caught
the Albanian hat-footed as he was
debating military information into
specially prepared radio apparatus
for the Italians. Pvt. Charalamo-
poulos poked the revolver at the
startled Albanian and yelled:
Hurry, help, I've got a spy"
Despite his peanut size, the boy
acted so deadly earnest with his
gun that the Albanian did not dare
to try TO rush past him, so others
quickly arrested the spy and Anas-
tasius Vas given his corporals stripe.
1ilC yOullS COl pOl al UOlu lIlC llc
had left his mother and three sisters
in Athens He hasn't seen them
since the war began, nor his father
for three weeks, but Anastasius
looks active and is extremely happy
to be in the army. At present he's
serving behind the lines and acting
as an orderly and general handy
man for the general in command
there.
also met another 13-year- old,
who is attached to the ground de-
tachment of the Greek air force
and wears It's blue uniform. This
boy comes from Janina and is
named Efstathios Franistas. He
became the favorite of some Greek
commercial pilots about five years
ago when they found him hungry
and in ragged clothes, fed him and
Evening star., 1940-12-29
tack the field itself or attempt to
catch the raiders off base.
Hard to Repair In Winter.

tack the field itself or attempt to
catch the raiders off base.
Hard to Repair In Winter.
Bombs cannot put these front air.
fields out of operation indefinitely,
Britons explained, but some Of them
are normally summer airports and
are hard to repair in winter
weather.
This British-Worked "airfield trou-
BILE" is believed here to have been
partly responsible for the recent
sharp reduction in the duration of
night raids on the islands.
While the Germans gave London
one of the heaviest poundings in
weeks last night-an assault ac-
knowledged to have killed "a num-
ber" of people, destroyed many
dwellings and started many fires
it nevertheless was less than half
as long as previous raids of similar
intensity.
The great objective of the British
patrol is to thin out the attacks
from short range-to make the Ger
mans fly as far to get to England
as the British must to reach Ger
man objectives.
Evening star., 1940-12-29

later adopted him and provided him
with a good schooling.
When mobilization came Ell.
stathios. who Is equally undersized,
Immediately reported to the nearest
afrfield and announced:
I always 60 with the aviation .
1t was impossible to get rid Of
the young volunteer, who finally
was given a uniform and post a.
orderly for the staff officers. As a
result he has visited all the major
Albanian towns captured by the
Greeks, such as Koritza, Argiro-
castro and Santa Quaranta.
Efstathios always delights the
Greek pilots by bringing back vivid
stories which he picks UP from
soldiers near the front.
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Evening star., 1940-12-29
U.S.. Language Blending Called
Bio Problem for Dictionaries

Language in America is blending
so rapidly that even new edition
every two years can't keep the die
tionary completely abreast of the
times, Prof. Alan H. Monroe of Pur-
due University said here yesterday.
The president of all the speech
professors in the country, Prof. Pur-
due is here for the 25th annual
convention of the National Asso-
citation of Teachers of Speech.
Regional differences in Ian
guages," he said, are breaking down
through the use of radio and ease
of transportation All but few
islands" of dialect, he explained,
Evening star., 1940-12-29

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Evening star., 1940-12-29

tees seek the information through
hearings.
Sees Appropriations Expedited.
Senator johnson said yesterday
he believes such hearings would
expedite defense appropriations, be-
cause, after all, those appropriations
are going to depend on a good
showing" He said also he thought
the unity and morale of the coun-
try would be promoted"
In support of his resolution, SEN
ator Byrd said the most potent
force in any democracy is an
aroused and informed public senti-
ment."
Discussing the question of indus
trial cooperation on defense work
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama said each industry should
be permitted a trial and error" pc
riod, but that the Government
should not hesitate to take over
defense plants If cooperation is
refused.
Evening star., 1940-12-29

like the talk of the mountaineer,
are gradually sitting down to a great
American way of speech.
About 100000 Americans speak
a general American" dialect, Prof.
Monroe said; 26.0OO,000 a Southern
dialect, and 100000 an Eastern
dialect.
Prof. Monroe also said that words
very much in the news of the day,
such as "blitzkrieg," propaganda"
and glamour" are really as old as
language, but changed meanings
make them new.
Glamour" he said, was just as
good a word in Queen Elizabeth's s
day. Only it's used more now."
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Strike HuIts Railroad

Traffic on the Chilean section of
the railway connecting africa, Chile
and La Paz, Bolivia, was paralyzed
for 38 hours when employees struck
for more pay.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Huw1ii's First Draft
Eyuder Is Sentenced
B, the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, Dec. 2s.-Harry
Toshi Kochi, %, a Japanese, was
sentenced to two years in prison
today as Hawaii's first draft evader.
He pleaded guilty and was sen,
fenced by Federal Judge Delbert z.
Metzger. Kochi was arrested six
weeks ago.
Evening star., 1940-12-29

The warmest parts of the Indian
Ocean have mean annual tempera-
ture of 80 to "a degrees, Fahrenheit.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Two Senators Seek
Separate Inquiries
On Defense Work
Byrd Would Create New
Committee, But Johnson
Urges Army. Navy Probe
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

Efforts to obtain Senate inquiry
into the progress of the defense
program will be sought from two
| separate sources as soon as the new
Congress convenes Friday, it was
learned yesterday.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, made known he will press for
action "as soon as quorum of the
Senate can be had" on the resolu-
ton he introduced last August, pro-
posing creation. of a special COM
mittee to gather information de-
signed to expedite defense ma
chinery.
At the same time, Senator john
| son, Democrat, of Colorado, who
thinks the inquiry could be made
by the regular Military and Naval
Affairs Committees, received word
that Chairman Sheppard of the
Military Committee would discuss
the question with him at an early
date.
The Colorado Senator, who wrote
to Senator Sheppard and Chairman
Walsh OF the Naval Committee 10
days ago, suggesting joint hearings
to Ind out how defense plans are
| moving, received Senator Shep-
pard's reply yesterday from Tex
arkana, Tex.
Want Public Informed.
Both Senator Byrd and Senator
johnson have emphasized they have
no desire to bring out military Sc
crets Both believe, however, the
public should be fully informed as
10 the progress made, and that the
result would expedite the program.
In suggesting his plan to Senator
sheppard on December 10, Senator
johnson wrote:
In view of the uncertainty in
the public mind caused by the MANY
statements and criticism, official and
otherwise, concerning the unsatis-
factory progress of our national de-
tense efforts, it occurs to me that it
Is imperative that the Senate Com
mlttee on Naval Affairs and the
senate Committee on Military Af-
1alrs hold joint hearing and pro-
vide an opportunity for the various
officials of Government directing
national defense, the representatives
OF organized labor, and the indus
trial leaders of our country, to give
TO the Congress a frank, complete
ana detailed statement relative to
the defense situation. The respon-
sloillty OF the Congress does not end
with the voting of multiplied billions
for defense. Congress must see that
the program for which this money
mas been appropriated is carried
out without waste, without iockev-
ing and without unreasonable de-
lay"
Would Have to Pass Senate.
The Byrd proposal would have
to pass the Senate, since it seeks to
create a new group to be known
as the Senate Committee on Ma
tional Defense, and passage of such
resolution will be difficult unless
the leaders sanction it.
The Virginian's resolution calls for
nine members-three from military
affairs, three from naval affairs and
three from the Senate as a whole.
with authority to require weekly re-
ports from defense agencies and to
call witnesses.
The johnson suggestion, on the
other hand, would not require SEN
ate action, since he is asking merely
that the regular standing commit
Evening star., 1940-05-07

Holmes, assistant superintendent,
District schools.
p. Y. K. Howat, chairman, WASH
ington Board Of Trade Tranic Com
mittee: Minor Hudson, president
Junior Board Of Commerce: Frank
r. Jelleff, president, Boys Club oi
washington; Starleigh jenkins, vo-
cational director. Boys Club OF
washington; J. Monroe johnson,
Assistant Secretary OF Commerce:
Louis M. johnson, Assistant Secre.
tary Of War: Fletcher Kemp, SUPER
intendent, Arlington County (Va.)
schools; George E. Keneipp, man
ager, Keystone Auto Club; Senator
w. H. King Of Utah, chairman Of the
Senate District Committee.
Whitney Leary. chairman, Traf1ic
Advisory Council; Mrs. G. D. Lowe,
president. District Congress OF Par
ents and Teachers; E. D. Merrill,
president. Capital Transit Co.; ].
j. Molloy, national executive COM
mitteeman, American Legion; Edgar
Morris. chairman, Greater National
Capital Committee; 1t. Col. Peyton
G. lIevitt, assistant to the adjutant
general, District National Guard:
Nicholas Orem, superintendent.
Prince Georges County Md.)
schools.
Frank L. Peckham, president, XII
wants Club; Representative RAN
dolph OF West Virginia, chairman
Of the House District COMMITTEES:
John A. Remon, vice president.
Chesapeake q Potomac Telephone
Co.: Harry N. Stull, president, Fed
GRAFTON Of Citizens Associate
DR.. Garnett G. Wilkinson, first as
sistant superintendent, District
schools" +. e. williams, superintend-
ent, Alexandria (Va) schools, and
j. Elmer Zearfoss, director of man
ual arts, District public schools.
Scholarship Offered.
For the third consecutive year in
Washington, the Soap Box Derby
annually sends its champion to the
national and international finals at
Akron. Ohio.
There he has an opportunity to
win the first prize of a four-year
scholarship to the State university
OF his choice in competition with
the homemade coaster racers driven
by entrants from cities in nearly
every State in the United States.
This year, the Derby Is open to
boys between II and Is years old In
Washington and nearby Maryland
ana Virginia. The 1910 WashinsSaa h
Derby will BE- held July l3.
Derby Director Zeb T. Hamilton
announced Monday that registration
s1oG3 begin fnAnnediately. Rule boo1.s,
entrance blanks and all the neces-
sary material Is available at each
Chevrolet agency In Washington, In
Alexandria and Arlington, and In
Bethesda, Hyattsville and Silver
Spring, Md.
watch The Star for Derby News.)
Evening star., 1940-05-07

zearfoGs. director Of manual arts Ia
the District public schools. Derby
veterans to b intery1ewsd include
Edwin Walter, 312s rifty-f,rst place
NV: Paul b. Cramer, r., 726
Somerset place NV, and CLARK B.
Stewart, 3l2 Elm street, Chevy Chase,
Md, runnerup to Carl Cederstrand.
jr, last years champion.
Leaders Support Race.
Meanwhile. hearty support for the
coaster race for boys between the
ages Of IL and is came from nearly
SO leaders representing the business,
civic and ofhcial life OF Washington.
Heading the Sponsors Committee
Tor the 1910 Derby are District Com
missioners John Russell Young and
Col. David A. McCoach, tr., and Will
liam T. Slattery. District department
commander Of the American Legion.
Other members Of the committee
who have indicated their desire to
Cooperate are:
Lewis r. Barrett, director OF
recreation, District Department Of
Fairgrounds; Birch Bayh, director
Of physical education and health for
divisions one to nine, District public
schools: Kenneth Berkeley, local
manager Of the National Broadcast
ing Co.: Forrest l.. Binswanger, di-
rector OF the Metropolitan Police
Boys Club+ Col Lemuel Bolles,
member, Board Of Veterans Appeals:
DR.. e. w. Broome, superintendent.
Montgomery County (Md0 schools:
Lawson Cantrell, assistant superin-
tendent. District schools.
Washington I. Cleveland, manager.
American Automobile Association:
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mander, District National Guard:
Richard Dean. president, Optimists'
Club; Leonard w. De Cast, general
secretary, Y. M. G. A.; Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle. president, Board OF
Education; Linn c. Drake, District
Boy Scout executive; Thomas L.
Eagan, president, Rotary Club: w,
A. Edelblut. president Cosmopolitan
Club: Robert v. Fleming. president,
Riggs National Bank; Charles M.
Fyfe, director, Boys Club Of Wash
ington; Clark Grifnth, owner, WASH
ington baseball club; E. B. Her1der.
son. director Of physical education
and health for divisions 10 to Is, Dis
trict public schools: Mr.. Chester w.