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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22
Gen. Albert W. WaIdron
Is Wounded in Pacific

Brig. Gen. Albert w. Waldron was
seriously wounded in action in the
Southwest Pacific area, the War De-
partment announced today. Gen.
Waldron. In 1910 and 194l, was at
tached to the War Department Cen
eral Stan In washington. His home
Is at Rockville Center, N. Y.
The War Department said he i
the second general omcer wounded
recently in this theater Of opera
lions. Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider
was hurt'in the fighting In the same
area.
Gen. Waldron b 4 graduate Of the
Military Academy and served in
France during the First World War.
Shortly before being sent to the
Southwest Pacific, he Was on duty
With the It'll Infantry Division Ct
Fort Ord. Gait.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22

zenith to the west driveway of Eight
zenith street.
Southeast.
Alabama avenue-From Nichols
avenue, east to Tenth street, no
parking on the north side at any
time.
Howard road-From the entrance
to the Tree Nursery to Nichols ave-
nue.. no parking on either side at any
time.
M street-From 4th street to
Eleventh street, no parking on the
north side at any time.
One-Way, Northwest.
Cathedral avenue-Make all Of
avenue one-way north bound from
4 to $50 pm. every day in the week
except Sunday.
Devonshire place-From the west
building line of premises No. 276o
to Cortland place, for west bound
trafic only.
One Way, Southwest.
E street-That E street be made
one way from Eleventh to Twelfth
streets for westbound traffic only.
The Trafic Council meeting was
held in the ONCE Of Trafiic Director
william A. Van Duzer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22
Traffic Council Plans
Specific Program 10
Cut Pedestrian Toll
Suggests Meeting With
District Leaders in
Congress Invited

In an effort to halt pedestrian
traffic fatalities in the District, the
District Traffic Advisory Council
last night voted to ask the Commits
sioners to hold a special meeting
with representatives of the council
at which time specific recommends
lions will be made.
The council will ask in a letter
that Police Superintendent Kelly
and police precinct captains attend
the meeting. In addition, the coun-
Gil will suggest that the Commits
sioners invite to the meeting Chair
man McCarran of the Senate Dis
trict Committee. Senator Burton
chairman Of the Senate Traffic Sub
committee; Chairman Randolph of
the House District Committee and
Representative Dirksen of Illinois
ranking minority member of the
House District Committee.
The council delegated its chair
man, Whitney Leary, District OPA
director, to deliver the letter in per-
son to the Commissioners.
Wender Asks Action.
Stressing the fact that the Dis
trict's fatalities to pedestrians alone
Is practically up to last years total
traffic deaths, Harry S. Wender de-
clared something drastic had to be
done to prevent the needless deaths
OF pedestrians. MIR. Wender is
chairman of the councils Legisla-
tive and Enforcement Committee.
The present pedestrian traffic toll
this year is 70 dead, as compared
with a total of rs last year.
Figures were given for the first
70 days of November of this year
as compared with the same num-
Der Of days last year to show the
sharp increase in pedestrian IA
talities while traffic injuries gen.
orally declined. The figures follow
Pedestrian traffic deaths - No
vember. 1912, 10: November, 1941
4; pedestrian traffic injuries-No-
vember, 1912, 1863; November, 194l
1T; personal injuries Gin vehicle
mishaps)-November 1912, 342; No.
vember, l94l. 204.
The council voted to accep,
changes in parking recommended
by the Committee on Parking and
Expediting Traffic, of which H. M
Bedell is chairman.
na11Auyirn ora tho o~L
recommendations:
Northwest.
E street - From Twenty-third
street to Virginia avenue on the
south side, no parking at any time
Irving street-Prof1ibiting of park
ing at all times on the south sid
of street between Mount Pleasant
and Sixteenth streets.
l. street-From the west building
line of premises at $3.50 to Penn
sylvania avenue on the south side
no parking at any time.
That the present regulation pro-
viding for no parking at any time
on the west side OF Tenth street from
Massachusetts, avenue to New York
avenue be amended 50 as to pro-
hibit parking between Z am. and
$50 pm.
Northeast.
Division avenue-From Blaine tt
Grant street, no parking at any
time on the west side.
Rhode Island avenue-No parking
on either side from Eighteenth stree
to Queens Chapel road, and no park.
J ing on the south side from Eight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22
Moi. Gen. {. N. Harmon
Gets GulIontry Award

Ry the Associated Press.
Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon, who
personally directed efforts Of men
unloading ships during the African
invasion November 3, has been
awarded 4 silver star for gallantry
in action, the War Department re-
ported today.
Gen. Harmon, -, commander Of
an armored unit In French Morocco
was born In Lowell, Mass. and last
year was acting chief Of star Of the
Armored Force at Fort Knox, Ky
His wife, Mrs.. LeonA T. Harmon,
lives ct Vienna, VI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22

Six Japanese American soldiers on
seven-day leave from Camp Nc
Coy, Wis, so completely flabber-
gasted a Washington hotel clerk
yesterday that he dashed to a phone
and called up Army Intelligence
after an Intermediary had called
him to arrange for nights lodg-
ing for the visiting sightseers.
The six Japanese ma
tives of Hawaii who were stationed
at Schoneld Barracks at the time of
the sneak Jap attack. solicited the
help Of Travellers Aid soon after
their arrival at the Union Station.
They were referred to the Govern
ment Housing Authority, who called
several hotels and finally was able
to arrange for three rooms with
double beds for the men.
According to the hotel manager,
he began thinking about his &C
ceptance Of soldiers called "Japa-
eses-Americans" and decided to
call Army intelligence. When the
men arrived at the hotel, he fol-
lowed the instructions Of the mill
tary authorities and had the men
produce their identification tags.
On Hasty Tour.
Then he registered the men, re-
layed the information he had re-
ceived to intelligence, and sat back
with sigh of relief.
The six soldiers took their re-
ception matter = Of factly. Their
concern was the extreme cold and
desire to see as much Of the Ma
tons Capital today as they could
before leaving back for camp to-
night.
Their names are Corp. G. Full
kawa Of Army Ordnance and p. F.
c. S. Watanabe, Sergt. K. Yoshi-
motto. Pvt. Y. Takenouchi, Pvt. r.
Ikawa mad Corpl. F. Shimadsu, all
Of the infantry.
Cautious about disclosing military
secrets, the soldiers said they had
been stationed at Camp Mccoy since
arriving at 4 West Coast port, but
would not <divulge the date of their
arrival. They said their aim was to
see as much of the country as pos
sible on their seven-day leave and
that they had spent two days in
Chicago and three days in New
York before coming here.
Hope for Combat Duty.
Were second generation Japa-
nese and American citizens" one
of the men explained.
at makes no difference where we
fight as long as we fight for the
United States" another of the
group volunteered in response to a
question. But we do hope for
combat duty soon," he added.
All Of the group were in the
Army before Pearl Harbor. They
had either volunteered, been called
up with a National Guard unit or
been drafted. They were porn and
reared In Hawaii
They described the unexpected
Jap attack as nightmare. After
the initial attack, they said, they
were put to work stringing barbed
wire along the beaches.
"A number of our buddies were
killed or hurt when the Pearl Har-
Dor attack came-most of hem
civilians" one OF them stated
grimly.
Asked about the weather. the
group shivered obviously and replied
almost unanimously, Give lis
Hawaii any time" They said hey
had gotten q taste of cold weather
at Camp Mccoy.
Topmost in the sights they would
like to see here Is Congress in SEES
sion and the Lincoln Memorial. Il
would like to sit in Congress" said
one Of the soldiers good naturedly
Saw New York Shows.
In New York the men said they
had visited as many points Of in
terest as possible, including Broad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22
0PA Counsel Cites
Gas Company Income
In Rate Increase Suit
Points to Extraordinary
Prosperity Even in
Depression Years


Harry r. Booth, counsel for the
Office of Price Administration, today
told Justice F. Dickinson Let's in
District Court that the Washington
Gas Light Co. has enjoyed "extraor-
binary prosperity even in depres-
sion years under its sliding scale
rate plan, as opening arguments in
the controversial 5000, 000 rate in
crease awarded the company by the
Public Utilities Commission were
heard in District Court.
There is no question Of hardship
on the company involved in this
case" Mr.. Booth told the court. THE
company has made very substantial
earnings under its so-called sliding
scale rate plan. Even in 1898, a
depression year, the companys prof.
its went up"
Asks PUG Order Be Set Aside.
The Government is asking the
court to set aside the PUG order
granting the $4,000 increase. The
increase went into effect November
is, according to E. Barrett Pretty
man, company counsel, who will an
swer Mr.. Booths arguments this
afternoon.
The price fixing agencies are ask
ing that the PUG order be set aside
on the following grounds:
/. The order is contrary to the
program of the national Govern
ment to prevent avoidable increases
In the cost of living.
2. The company has failed to dem
onstrate that it would suffer hard
ship without the increase.
3. The commission failed to ac-
cord the price-fixing agencies the
full rights of Intervention, in the
original hearings on the case, to
which they were entitled under law.
Order Termed Arbitrary.
4. The PUG order was arbitrary
and illegal because it failed to make
specific findings" on essential ele-
ments" necessary for determination
Of fair and reasonable rates.
5. The PUG order granting the in
crease was not supported by evi-
dence. =
6. The order disregarded estab-
lished and accepted accounting and
legal principles. ~
Z. The Government was denied
full and fair" opportunity to be
heard before the commission.
According to petitions previously
filed in the case, Mr.. Prettyman will
maintain that the order granting
the increase complied In full with
the act which set up the Once Of
Economic Sterilization. and that the
PUG has complete jurisdiction over
the debated gas rates.
Operating Costs Higher.
/ The purpose of the appeal, the
Government argues, is ito save the
consuming public from this increase
in the cost of living"
Among the arguments advanced
by the PUG and Washington Gas
Light Co. respondents, are these:
Under a sliding scale" rate plan
the increase is due the company,
increases in wages have cost the
company $4,000 more than the de-
bated rate increase. the increase
would cost the average consumer
only cents per month and the in
crease would help the company to
obtain capital economically for ex-
panding its plant to meet war de-
mandS.
In answering the Government s
court appeal the PUG split two-to-
one in its opinion, with Gregory
Hankin, minority member of the
commission. admitting AL allega-
tons contained In the OPA argu-
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22
Fire DESTROYS II Planes

MILES CITY, Mont, Dec. % [P.-
The Northwest Airlines Office, the
municipal airport hangar and IL
small training planes we're destroyed
by fire Sunday. Damage was esti-
mated in excess of 100000.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Employers Held Typical

Pearl. commentators for the ALL.
pointed out that the three employers
interviewed were not exceptional but
typical Of "thouSands of American
leaders Of industry VIII" are working
shoulder 10 shoulder with union labor
today 10 help win the war;
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Seek Presidents Support

Washington. II. {. NlNS(.---prcSi-
DENTAL support of II request for tenn
porarE legislation To pruVid" higher
pay for postal employees was asked by
William Green, head of the American
Federation Of Labor and officers of
postal employees unions at Il visit "a
the White House.
The labor heads lrft with President
Roosevelt Il petition which said that
postal workers have not had nn i'll
crease in their basic rates Of pay since
1929" The petition said that since 1921
there has been an enormous increase In
the productivity of postal workers,
adding that ay"ra@" hourly earnings of
employees in manufacturing industries
have increased - per cent in the same
period.
Increases In the cost of living were
cited and il was declared that real
earnings of postal employees have de
clincd drastically.'
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Higher Pay, Better
Conditions Won By
4,000Cigdr Workers
Union Contracts Negotiated
With Five Leading
Manufacturers

Washington, -. G. 0LNS). - More
than 1000 cigar workers have secured
increased wages and improved working
conditions under contracts recently ne
gotiated by the Cigar Makers Inter
national Union of America, President
II. +. Van Horn of the union an
nOunceS.
These contracts include the follow
ing:
A complete union shop contract with
John II. Swisher K Son, Inc, Jackson
ville Fla, manufacturers of King Ed
ward cigars.
A modified union shop contract with
Webster Eisenlohr, York, Pa, manu-
facturers of Fancy Tales, Golden Wed
ding, and other brands of cigars.
\ complete union shop contract witt
the General Cigar Go. covering work
erS employed in its stripping plants
in Puerto Rico.
A complete union shop contract GOV
ering slrippers employed by the Ham
burger Tobacco Company, Puerto Rico
A modified union shop contract Gov
ering workers employed by the Win
stead Tobacco Company, in its Ian
caster, Pa, cigar leaf processing plant
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Cunudiun Board
Rejects Request
For Higher PdY
$4,000 Miners And Four
Major Coal Companies
Affected BY Rulings

Glace Bay, n. c. GLNS).-A report
from the Dominion War Labor Board
at Ottawa that the Emitted Mine Work
erS for District 26 based here must
sign new contracts at current wage
schedules and for period ending one
year following the wars end is being
studied by the district executive.
About 1900 miners and four ma jor
coal companies are affected by the
boards rulings The latter came after
Il request was made by the UNIV. for
this district for increased wages Gov
ering all members employed by the
four companies.
In its judgment. the Dominion board
negatiVed the request for the wage
increases and instructed the district
officers to sign new contracts to re-
place Immediately those expiring be,
tween the union and operators.
Further action by the district
UNIV is being discussed by the dis
trict Officers here. No mention has
sumption of the showdown strike which
prevailed last year for about -four
months, and which was considered an
outlaw move by the district and inter
national executives. Ii was initiated
by IL faction dissenting with the ac-
ton of the district executive in secret
~ signing Il One-year contract.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
The Jewish Dolly Forward

The Jewish Daily Forward is unique
impossible to find among theS cores of
other toreign-languagc daiieS in this
country another one which has made
an equal contribution To our intellec-
lual, social and political life. With II
circulation mounting into the hundreds
of thousands and wcll-known AS the
most widely circulated daily printed
in the Jewish language, mere size has
never been It's boast.
This great paper began in the last
decade of the 10Th century when It's
supporters were poor, underpaid, I'M
organized and unrrcogniZrl. As the
people of this country have gone for
ward since then, theS" Jewish people
hay" marched in the vanguard. Th,
improvement in their economic position
has been by no means the most i'm
portant change. They have developed
In every respect and have made con
tribuliunS 10 every sector of our com
munity life. As their trade unions hay,
grown, they have made especially note
worthy contributions toward the dem
ocrating of our industrial and 20
litical institutions. 1t is doubtful
whether the great clothing workers
unions could have developed as they
have throughout the nation had it moi
been for the growth and influence oI
the Forward
70 Abraham tahan, that sterling
and enterprising journalist, should q
Il special tribute on this occasion. |
is because of his boundlesS energy, hi
deep culture and wide range of inter
eSts that his paper has reached ant
| held the loyalty of great masses o
people. Through the inspiration o
his leadership, the Jewish Daily For
ward has become Il great American
| Journal and II representative of i'll
that is best and most idcaliStic I'm on
| life.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Steelmdn Punctures Lie
About Work Stoppdges

Atlantic City, n J. Labor's and
management pledge of full coopera-
tion and continuous production has
been oo.o7 per cent SucceSsful,' John
X. Steelman, head of the L. s. concilia-
ton service, told the convention of
the National Society of Professional
Engineers.
"CareleSS recital of the dramatic
side of strikes in the press and on the
screen and over the radio has given
too many people the impression that
our war efforts are being held up In Il
serious way because of willful strife
in Il major part of American indus
try. This is Il dangerous lie that serves
the purpose of the Axis but serves
no good end among us DR.. Steelman
said
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14

, tOnS on direct engagement of labor is
appreciated by employers, some of
whom have complained that the EN-
plOyment Exchanges are sometimes
slow in supplying them with the labor
they require.
The governing principle of the part
time scheme is that local reserves of
ma rried women over 80 shall he used
locally. The Ministry is taking care
not to wreck its system of mobile fe-
male labor. Instructions have been
given to the Local offices to see that
women who can be transferred at need
to other areas for war work are not
tied down to part-time employment in
their home districts: and employers
will not have facilities to recruit fe-
male labor from other parts of the
country by direct engagement.
Leave in Husbands Leave
Britain's growing army of women
workers is not being treated in any
sense as Il conscript army. The Min
iStry of Labor is vigilant in protecting
them against a too rigorous Industrial
discipline. In one of his recent "direc-
tives" to industry, the Minister of
Labor pointed out to all employers that
it is essential to give encouragement
to married women to take up employ
ment by adopting every practicable
means of enabling them to look after
their children properly, to do the neces-
sary family shopping, and to be home
with reasonable regularity when their
husbands are home. This last named
amenity applies principally to women
| whose husbands are in the Services.
The Minister has therefore let ii be
understood that any woman whose
husband is in the army or air force,
stationed in this country. shall be en-
titled to leave of absence from work,
without pay, for the duration of her
husbands leave, up to Il maximum OF
II days in Il year exclusive of annual
or other holidays to which the worker
is entitled The wife of Il soldier or
airman home on leave from overseas
| is entitled to Il minimum of IA days
leave, with the implied intention that
| husband is home Emba rkatiOn. or
| other compassionate leave is to be
treated separately from these arrange
ments, and the Minister expects en-
ployers to deal sympathetically with
these circumstances.
The same human understanding en-
joins upon employers sympathetic con-
sideratiOn of applications for special
leave made by women workers who
have sons or daughters, parents or
sweethearts in the forces. No hard and
fast rules can be laid down for them
as for wives in the matter of leave:
but the Minister hopes that employers
will refrain from disappointing their
workpeOple unless claims of production
make it absolutely unavoidable.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14

Virtue is largely a matter of temp
tatiOn.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Information On
Social Security

The shift of large numbers of per
sons from job to job and from place
to place brings drastic establishments
| for workers as we'll as for the com
munities involved.
There are few communities which
have not been affected in some manner
by such labor migration.
Some migration has been based only
on "hunch and hope" Many workers
who had been unemployed for a long
period of time and who had almost
! lost hope of ever finding work, started
moving to distinct cities at the bareSt
rumor of job possibilities.
Unplanned migration is dangerous to
! workers, TO their families and to the
cities to which they flock.
The United States Employment Ser
vice tries to eliminate to reduce use
less movement of workers.
Through its nation wide network OF
offices, the Employment Service keeps
informed of employment conditions in
all sections of the country.
/
ers through the Employment Service
and it urges workers to register their
Sllills at the Employment Service office
nearest their home, so they may be
called when and whore they are need
ed.
The Employment Service also urges
employers not To recruit labor outside
of Il local area until the local Employ.
men Service office has had time tC
meet the employers requirements
within the community or through its
clearance system.
| AS jobs open in community, the
local Employment Service office refers
to the employer the workers who have
registered and who have the needed
skillS. In this manner the Employment
Service attempts to keep local workers
employed i'm their home communities
If jobs are not available locally Oh
If workers sufficient to meet the EN-
ployer's needs cannot be found in the
| local community, the United States
Employment Service uses its system
of labor clearance.
Through this system other Employ
ment Service offices in the immediate
area are contacted for workers i'm tn,
occupations specified by the employer
This process is repeated i'm an eyer
widening circle through the state, tn,
region and the nation, If necessary, tC
locate the required workers.
Thus the operation of the labor
clearance system enable the Employ
mcnt Service to move men TO jobs il
other communities when they are moi
needed I'm their home localities, and at
the same time ii enables the Employ
ncnt Service to assist industry In find
ing skilled workers who are not avail
able locally. AimleSS and costly migra
tion Of labor is vOided.
With America at war, maximum
SSperd and efficiency in meeting Labor
demands Of wartime industries are eS
scntial. by the cooperation of labor
and management, the United State>
Employment Service brings the mal
and the job together, near the work
er's home if possible, in the quickest
manner