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Evening star., 1941-07-02
Film Artists Refuse
To Negotiate Strike
Through Bioff
Disney, in Advertisement,
Tells Employers About
Settlement Offer
By the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, July 2.-Ths
Screen Cartoon Guild reported to-
day it had refused to negotiate with
William Bioff, agent Of the Inter-
national Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees, in its strike against
Walt Disney Studios.
A negotiations meeting had been
scheduled yesterday between guild
and Disney representatives. Howard
Baldwin, guild spokesman, said:
I'VE found out that in order to
make a deal, we would have TO deal
with Bioff. We were supposed to
meet with Disney, Biof and other
agents at Bioff's home. When we
explained 10 the membership at
special meeting, they voted unani-
mously to have nothing to do with
Bioff.
"As far as We know, they're still
waiting out there for us to show
up and they can go right on walt
ing"
Indicted on ExtOrtiOn Charges.
Bioff is under indictment in New
York on charges of eXtorting $3.50
900 from four leading film produC-
ers and distributors under threat
of calling a strike which would tic
up the entire movie industry
George E. Browne, president Of thc
I. A. T. S. E. is Bioff's co-defend-
ant under the anti-racketeering
| laws.
| Bloff was indicted earlier in Cali
/ fornia on charges that he failed 10
report or pay taxes on 100000 in
cash and $4,000 in stock which he
Is alleged to have received in 1887,
| Shortly before the scheduled ne
gotiations meeting, it had been re-
ported settlement was probable.
The Guild struck five weeks ago.
/ demanding a 10 per cent salary in
crease for all cartoonists, a Is per
cent increase in the lower brackets
/ and a closed shop.
The guild said cartoonists start
at SIS a week, mixers at Sl8 and
painters at s16 1t did not report
top wages or the number in any
bracket. 1t claims 450 of its $40
members are on strike.
Disney Tells Offer in Ad.
Disney inserted a page advertise
ment in Variety magazine toda'
addressed to my employees or
strike and stating:
81 believe you are entitled e
know why you are not working to
day. I offered your leaders ti-"
following terms:
81. All employees to be relnstat|
to former positions.
%. No discrimina ton.
"3. Recognition of your union.
a. Closed shop
IS. Fifty per cent retroactive p
for the time on strike-somethir
without precedent in the American
labor movement.
Is. Increase in wages to maxi
yours the highest salary scale in the
cartoon industry.
"7. Two weeks vacation with pay.
Il believe that you have been mis-
led and misinformed about the real
issues underlying the strike at the
studio
L address you in this manner be-
cause l have no other means Of
reaching you"
Evening star., 1941-07-02

each will consume about $500 tons
of steel. Another expansion of the
commissions double program, long
range and emergency, will probably
be announced in the next few weeks
since it is calculated that facilities
for 283 added ships will become
available in l943.
Other Ideas.
Among suggestions which have
been presented to the commission
are strings of barges to be drawn
by sea-going tugs, hulls of wood OF
concrete in place of steel, and a
program of mosquito cargo boats
to replace or supplement the Lib
erty Fleet"
These would have draft of seven
or eight feet, under which many
torpedoes would pass harmlessly;
a speed of Is to 80 knots, with which
it is calculated, surface submarine
attack would become impossible and
the chance of successful assault
with torpedoes or bombs would be
diminished.
They would be about $50 feet
long, with narrow beam and cargo
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Roosevelt Restores
Plane Plant 10
North American
Action Follows Signing Of
New Contract; President
Warns Owners, Workers
BY p staff Correspondent of The star.

bN SNdI4 COIIcspOIotiIN Va 4hc . O'oi'
HYDE PARK. n. Y, July q
President Roosevelt today formally
turned back to its private owners
the North American Aviation Co.
plant in Inglewood, Calf.
The plant had been under posses
sion and operation of the Federal
Government since June 9, five days
after its employees went on strike.
The company and c. I. O.-U. A. w.
officials met today TO sign new
contract giving about $1,000, 900 a
year in wage increases to about
5000 employees.
Today's action. taken by executive
order, was accompanied by state
ment from the President saying he
expected the management and
workers henceforth will fulfill their
important responsibilities without
further interruption" but adding
pointedly:
Should efforts be made again to
interfere with this essential produc-
ton. I will not hesitate to take
whatever steps may be necessary to
assure continuance"
Evening star., 1941-07-02

and public money aggregating half
a billion dollars.
When the Ugly Ducklite' pro-
gram was announced Janpary by
President Roosevelt, the Maritime
Commission disregarded mi tsern de-
velopments of naval warfare and
adopted as sole factor in the sit
uation the necessity of discovering
a design under which the largest
number of freight ships could be
put into the water in the shortest
space of time.
1t happened that the British were
building in this country so cargo
boats of a type worked out during
the first World War at the Clyde
yards in Scotland. This design was
taken over, with some improvements,
for no other reason than that plans
and specifications were Immediately
available. Triple e-expansion recipro-
eating engines, long since outdated,
were reSorted to so as not to inter-
fere with the Navy's demand for
modern steam turbines and Diesel
motors.
Invitation to Submarines.
The result is vessel with an over
all length of AIS feet and a beam
of 81 feet, offering a mark which
dive-bomber could scarcely miss.
A speed of II knots is offered to cope
with surface speeds of II to 10 knots
which are at the disposal today of
ocean going Nazi submarines.
The length of the ship, its draft
of nearly % feet and its sluggish
speed are considered so many invi-
tations to submarine attack with
torpedoes. A speed of at least Is
knots is required, according to mer-
chant marine captains who have
traversed the war zone, in order to
give freight vessel any hope, by
putting down a smoke screen, of
escaping submarine surface pursuit.
These ships are to have a dead
weight tonnage of 10000, and each
will cost about s1,610,OO0. The
first, under present plans, will be
launched next December. An output
of three week is promised for
January, 1912, and one a day for
next March. With hull and engines,
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Data Sought in Probe
OF Newspapers Ties
With Radio Revealed
Procedure for F. c. 6.
Hearings Starting July q
Is Announced
By WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY.

Questions to be determined by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion in its forthcoming public hear
ings on the subject of newspaper
ownership or control of radio broad
cast stations were outlined yester-
day. The commission also made
known the procedure TO be followed.
and announced notices of intention
to appear and offer testimony must
be presented by July Is. The hear
ings are scheduled to begin on
July %.
The hearings will be conducted
before the full commission. which is
now short one member. The term
of Frederick l. Thompson expired
last Monday, and the President has
not nominated his successor.
The hearings will collect a mass
of information on which to base a
policy concerning the issuance of
licenses to applicants for frequency
modulated stations associated with
newspapers, and for the future &C
QUESTION of standard broadcast sta
tions by newspaper interests. 1t was
asserted that any policy concerning
these new acquisitions probably
would affect presently owned news
paper stations, because their licenses
must be renewed annually.
Data to Be Sought.
The 10 divisions on which the
commission is to seek evidence were
outlined in formal order as follows:
To what extent broadcast stations
are at present associated with per-
sons also associated with publica-
tion of one or more newspapers, the
classification (in terms of power, To-
cation, network affiliation, etc. of
broadcast stations so associated, the
circumstances surrounding such as
sociation, and the tendency toward
such association in the future
Whether Joint association of news
papers and broadcast stations tends
or may tend to prejudice the fair
presentation of issues and informa-
ton over the air, or to cause edi-
torial bias or distortion, or to in
ject editorial policy or attitude into
the public service rendered by broad
cast stations as medium of public
communication.
Whether such association tends to
restrict or dlStort the broadcaSting
of news, or to limit the sources of
news for the public or to affect ad-
Versely the relation between news
gathering service and broadcast sta
tions.
Whether it has any effect upon
freedom of access to radio discus
sions of public issues.
Question of Competition.
Whether 1t tends 20 lessen or in
crease among broadcast stations
or to result in the monopolization
of local broadcast facilities.
Whether it tends to increase or
decrease concentration of control
over broadcast facilities to the Use
thereof.
Whether it constitutes an undue
concentration of control over the
principal media CT public COM
muniCatIon.
Whether it tends to result in the
utilization of improved facilities
and skilled, experienced personnel
for the procuring and dissemination
of information and opinion by
broadcast stations.
Whether it tends to insure
greater economic stability for
broadcast stations ard to encoura ge
the maximum chronological de-
velopment Of radio.
What considerations influence
newspaper =. interests to acquire
broadcast stations.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Weather Report
Furnished by the


District OF ColumbiaFair humid
about Sc this afternoon followed
likelihood
fair and cooler; Friday temperatures
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. coudne with
late this afternoon and early tonight cooler tonight generally
fair cooler; Friday fair
thunder
tonight and in south portion
Friday generally fair with moderate
West VirginiaMosy cloudy
afternoon
night tomorrow generally fair and cooler
south portion Friday mostly cloudy with
Evening star., 1941-07-02

1OT StuKd DOlnDeTS anu uIlOeTSed
craft could have been hit upon II
Air Marshal Goering and Admiral
Raeder themselves had been called
into consultation.
1t is no secret that responsible
members of the commissions ma
rine engineering staff are far from
happy over the basic design of what
has been boastfully designated as
the Liberty Fleet Anxious dis
cussions are now in progress. One
of the more conservative proposals
is that horsepower should be stepped
up at least to point at which an
ugly Duckling' might have a
chance of escape if submarine
happened to miss with its first tor
pedo.
Scrapping of Whole Program.
On the extreme side are sugges-
tionS that the entire program should
be scrapped here and now. before
it can-posSibly to little or no pur-
pose-absorb 100000 tons of steel
vitally needed elsewhere, the labor
of some 100000 skilled workmen,
building ways of 25 shipyards on
the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Coasts
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Policeman Goes on Trial
In Arrest of Youth

The case of Policeman ]. P. Miller
of No. 9 Precinct, accused of using
unnecessary force in the arrest of
Charles Covington, Is, Of 63l F
street NE, on April 8. opened today
before the Police Trial Board.
The Covington youth testified Pa
trolman Miller struck him in the
eye and mouth. breaking three teeth,
in taxicab after he was taken into
custody at the Uline Ice Arena the
night Of the Baer-Galento fight.
The boys mother, Mrs. Vincent
Giardina and his step-father, Mr.
Giardina, testified as to the youths
bruised condition.
The board recessed at noon. In
spector Maurice Collins IS board
chairman.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
American Engineers
Reported Going
To Help Russia
u. 5. Declared Delaying
Real Aid to See Whether
Soviet Survives BIitz
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER.

A batch of American engineers,
the first of a number. is on the
point of leaving, or has already
left, this country for Soviet Russia.
These are technical experts, who
can help in such matters as trans
portation or, If necessary, in de-
struction. Others may follow.
1t can be authoritatively said that
this is about all the aid that this
country will give the Soviets until
1t Is clear whether or not the Rus
slams are going to survive the Ger
man blitz.
American authorities are deter
mined not to repeat the experience
of France, Yugoslavia or Greece,
when war material, promised or
actually shipped, either did not ar
rive in time or fell into German
hands. This time no important war
material will be shipped until 1t is
demonstrated that the Russians are
not going to be put out in the first
round.
SOviets Offer Cash Payment.
The impression prevails today
/ the Soviets will not ask for Ameri-
can material to be given them gratis
under the lease LEND law. In the
first instance, the Bolsheviks will
offer TO pay cash and their $46,-
000, 900 worth of assets in this coun-
| try will be released to them for the
! purpose. If the war goes on a long
/ time and the assets are exhausted,
/ the Soyiets are more likely to re-
celve ordinary credits than lease
lend gifts.
At the present time Capital opin-
ion is still doubtful whether the
Russians will be able to hold on, or
whether their stubborn resistance
will be borne down by German su-
perlority in equipment, mobility and
dash. The latest information is not
reasSuring. 1t is. however, admitted
that the Russians have put up the
strongest resistance the Germans
have met yet. A report is current
here that the German time table
called for the occupation of Kiev
and Smolensk at the end of the first
week. This has certainly not been
accomplished.
Russians Here Confident.
Russian circles here are feeling
bucked by events and manifest con-
| fldence. Soviet officials also feel
encouraged by the rallying OF most
Of the Russians in this country,
whatever their view of Bolshevism,
to the slogan "All Russians against
| Hitler"
American officials place great
emphasis upon the success or failure
of Hitler's undoubted attempts to
overthrow the Stain regime from
within. If Hitler succeeds in finding
Russian allies and setting up some
sort of Russian quisling as puppet.
then Stalins chances of prolonging
the struggle are rated low. If, as
in Poland, no quisling can be found,
then the Bolsheviks may fight all
the way back to the Urals, if they
can only find soldiers and material
enough and keep them out of sue
ceSsive German pincer snatches. 1t
Is believed that such a quisling, if
found at all. is more likely to be
a diSsident Communist, TrotSkyite,
or the like. than monarchist.
| tCopyrisht, l941, Chicago Daily News. Inc }
Evening star., 1941-07-02

capacity of about 1000 tons. Such
craft, requiring crews of s or 10
men, could be rolled of assembly
belts in swarms, as Henry Ford pro-
duced the 200-foot Eagle" boats of
the first World War.
officials high in the commission
admit it would be desirable to in
crease the speed of the Ugly Duck
lings" to Is knots, but protest that
neither small size nor speed have
proved to be a protection for sur
face craft against dive -bombers
British corvettes of SO or more knots
are said to have been sunk with
''pitiful ease" in the Channel by
Stuka planes. Without air pro-
lection, an estimate is made, a sur
face boat has about one chance
in hundred of surviving such on
slaughts.
500 Ships in 10 Years.
The commissions emergency pro-
gram is apart from its long-range
one. which began in 1888 and has
already delivered SO ships of various
types to the Army, Navy and mer-
chant marine. The chief of these
was the 35,000-ton America, the
largest passenger vessel ever built
in this country, which was intended
to replace the Levia than. 1t has
been taken over by the Army as q
transport, and is already In service
with its passenger fittings ripped
out, under the new name of West
Point.
The long-range program calls fol
the construction of 500 merchant
ships of several types in a 1O-yeai
period In contract to the ugly
Ducklings," these boats are planned
for speeds Of 1512 to more than 1s
knots. Already 119 have been
launched.
All of the ugly Ducklings" are
to be thrown into Atlantic routes,
according to present purposes. How
this shall be accomplished is a prob
lem which the commission will not
face for several months. If current
conditions then exist, the feet may
be transferred directly to Britain
or placed under some foreign flag
such as that of Panama.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Puerto Rico to Get
100-MiIe Sidewalk
To Assist Defense
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. July
2.-To aid in national defense,
Puerto Rico is to have a side
walk 100 miles long, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The walk will parallel a part
ly new and partly extended mil
itary highway running from
Fort Buchanan to the Army air
base at Punta Borinquen, now
under construction, to provide
a quick motor transport be-
tween these island main bases.
To provide for pedestrians.
who now trude the highway and
frequently are killed, the w. P.
A. will build 6-foot walk for
the entire distance between The
bases.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The fans at all the big league
baseball games Friday afternoon
will hear President Roosevelt's
Fourth of July speech.
Director La Guardia of the Of
flee of Civilian Defense announced
yesterday that arrangements had
been made to carry the Presidents S
words to the shirt-sleeved thousands
by radio and the public address sys-
TENS of the various baseball parks.
The Presidents address and at
tendant ceremonies, all lasting 10
minutes, will begin at pm. Ma
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Baseball Fans Will Hear
Rooseve|t's July 4 Address

tional unity is to be emphasized
and there will be a pledge of fealty
to the flag.
Veterans organizations and COM
munities holding special exercises
also will receive the ceremonies by
radio. One feature, Mr.. La Guardia
said, will be that when the Marine
Band starts playing "The Star
Spangled Banner from Washing
ton, bands the country over will
join in. 1t will be the first time
in history, he said, that bands
throughout the country have played
the national anthem simultaneously.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.
TODAU

TODAY.
Senate:
In recess until Thursday.
Judiciary Subcommittee hears
testimony by Solicitor General
Francis Biddle on administrative
procedure bills 90 am, E. S. T. .
House:
In recess.
Rivers and Harbors CommittS
hears defense leaders on ST. Law
renee seaway project Q0).
Ways and Means Committee put7
final touches on tax bill G0l.
Merchant Marine Committee con-
tinueS hearing on Presidents re-
quest for emergency maritime pow .
ers Q0D.
YESTERDAY.
House and Senate in recess.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Union Leader Protests
North American Contract

Intra union pickering flared anew
today a few hours before G. 1. o.
United Automobile Workers and
North American Aviation, Inc, Of
ficials met to sign union contract
granting 100000 a year in wage
increases to 5000 production en-
ployes.
Lew Michener, West Coast direc-
tor fthe c. I. O.-U. A. w, who
was suspended for his part in call
ing the strike, wired C. I. o. Presi-
dent Philip Murray in Washington,
protesting that the contract was
forced on the workers. He accused
Richard T. Frankensteen. C. I. o.
vice president in charge of aviation,
of collaborating with company Of
ficialS.
Employees ratified the contract late
yesterday. Terms recommended by
the National Defense Mediation
Board had been approved earlier in
the day by company and union
officials. Negotiations were begun
in Washington six weeks ago.
Many workers taken to Germany
from conquered countries had to be
returned because they could not
stand the climate.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Camp HoppyIond Open
For D. 6. Children

The Salvation Army's Camp
Happyland opened its first three
week period at Chopawamsic, Va,
today with % girls and "a boys reg
istered.
In preparation, pre-camp confer
ences were held by the divisional
commander, Maj. Charles H. Dodd,
assisted by the divisional young
peoples secretary, Adjt. w. L. De-
voto. and the divisional guard or
ganizer, Capt. Evelyn Allison. In
structors have been selected from
college students of the area.
Switzerland will have wood-gas
taXis.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Ahepu Elects PopunicoIos

George Papanicolas, Washington
attorney, was elected district gov
ernor of the Order of Ahepa, a pa
triotic organization consisting of
Americans of Hellenic descent, at its
district convention at Charlotte,
N. c.. yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-07-02

Warm humid air continues to move
northward and northea stward from the
Gulf of Mexico over Atlantic and Gulf
States, Tennessee. and the Ohio Valley but
considerably cooler and drier air of polar
origin is spreading southwark and south
eastward over the Plains States. the Lake
region, and the upper Mississippi Valley
The cold front separating these two air
masses extends this morning from extreme
Northern New York to Oklahoma The
lowest pressure in the disturbance that is
moving eastward over New England. ,OO5 &
millibars t29;7 inchesl, is at Caribou, Me,
mass is .026 millibars t30.31 inchesl, at
jamestown, N. Oak. Pressure remains high
from the South Atlantic States eastward
over the ocean. Wilmington. N c.. 1.O22
millibars (301S incheS). Rather general
showers have occurred during the past "a
hours from Wyoming southeastward to
oklahoma and Western Texas. and scat
tered thundershowers have occurred in New
England: Southeastern New York, the Ohio
Valley, Florida, and the east Gulf States.
Abnormally high maximum temperatures
were registered Tuesday afternoon from
Arkansas. Missouri, and Illinois eastward
to the Atlantic oCast. The highest report
was 103 degrees at Batesville, Ark.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today
Evening star., 1941-07-02
By RICHARD l.. STOKES.

Instead of summoning American inventive genius to out
think what Naz planes and submarines doing the Mari
Commission British type of simpfed
cargo model for 32 Ugly Duckings with
strangehod blockade about the United
Kingdom.
.aving acted thus in headong haste the commission is at
finding speculate targets
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Cargo Boats u. S. Is Building
Held Ideal Targets for Stukos
Maritime Commission, Having Acted in Haste
Now Has Leisure to Wonder

OF articles dndlyztng the defense
program will tolow Stokes Washington
sponden Dispatch The Star printing these
articles BY special permission OF that newspaper.
Evening star., 1941-07-02
Report for Last ~ Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours,
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest 81, at 4:50 pm. yesterday.
Lowest. 70, at e:15 am. today. Year
ago, So.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81. on May %.
Lowest, Is, on March 1s.
Humidity for Last "a Heurs.
Highest, rs per cent. at 80 Am. today.
Lowest. 6S per cent at 11:30 am. today.
Tide Tables.
kr ;fnl 1tata AZ ND
Evening star., 1941-07-02
The Sun and Moon,
Precipitation

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haf hour after sunset.