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The union times., 1943-08-14
Members Of Labor
 Board Hear Arpaia

The Labor Advisory Com mittee of Conn. O.P.A. at its last meeting heard Anthony w. Apaia, state director, urge the need for subsidy payments to ease the hard-pressed plight of the dairy farmer and to keep milk prices from in- creasing.
 Members of the committee felt that Congress should enact legislation providing these sidies.
 Donald Hammerberg, Conn. Milk Commissioner, at the re- quest of Arpaia, appeared before the labor committee and explain ed in detail the seriousness of the plight of the farmer who has had no increase in the selling price of milk since December, 1041.
 The labor committeeman felt that while the retail price of milk, 17c qt., is high enough, the dairy farmers selling price of 8.1c qt., under present-day conditions, cre- ated an undue hardship on the dairymen.
 Arpaia suggested that there were two alternatives by which the farmer could be aided without ebreaking the hold-the-line policy on living costs:
 Direct subsidy payments to milk producers to ease the increased cost of production, or subsidies to feed growers and processors to reduce the price of feed, the largest single item in the increased cost of dairy farm operation in Connecticut
 The uniOnists said they would take the matter back to their fel- low members with the suggestion that Congress be prevailed upon to provide subsidy program to deal with the situation.
 Another matter that came up for considerable discussion was the black market situation in the state. Director Arpaia has pledged him. self to drive the black markets out of the state, he told the laborites, appealing to them to aid him in this task.
 He emphasized that labor can play a large role in this fight by doing three things: CD Learn the ceiling prices of all ost-of-living items; (2) pay no more than ceiling prices: (3) fight side by side with the honest re- taller in combating price chiseling.
 Arpaia asked the advisory commit tee members if they thought it would be possible to enlarge the committee, in order that larger representation of organized labor be included in dis cussions.
 This matter will be taken up at a special meeting of the committee called for August 20.
 The Labor Advisory Committee consist of: Thomas Shea, assistant secretary of the Conn. Federation of Labor; Samuel F. Curry, Div. 28l, New Haven TrOlleymen; Mrs. Alfred MartinO, B-1O13, Electrical Workers, Hartford; Dennis P. Byrnes, Local l9O, Bridgeport Painters; and Thomas Brennan, Local 1885, Waterbury Machinist- all of the A.F.L.
 Also, Thomas MollOy, East Hart ford; Joseph Leeds, Hartford; Mrs. Sadie Boyle, ThOmpsonville; Clar- ence Wyman, Plainville; John Driscoll, Waterbury, CLIO.
The union times., 1943-08-14
Conference Call Brings Union Action
(Continued from Page One)

record. Certainly his vote for the Smith -Connally Bill, legalizing strikes, can hardly be called such, neither can his vote for the Dies Committee be considered an example of winthe- war motive. His vote which in effect vetoed President Roosevelt's order freezing salaries at $25,000 was cer- tainly blow to the morale of work CTS, whose wages were frozen while taxes were increased. Neither can he escape responsibility for his vote on the Rurnl, skip-the-rich, tax plan.
 ''The Republican block of which he was a conspicuous member re-
The union times., 1943-08-14
DIDN'T MENTION PLEDGE

WASHINGTON-The subject of the no-strike pledge was not men toned at the more than two hours discussion a three-man AFL commit tee had with Pres John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers on the UMW's proposed return to the AFL.
The union times., 1943-08-14

''It is small wonder then that Labor can say of Congressman Compton that his lOO%0 record has smeIIed to high heaven of partial ity, discrimination, and narrOwness of principle. We are fighting war to eliminate these things among nations and labor will fight to eliminate these same evils, when- ever and in whatever form they ap- pear on the home frOnt.'
The union times., 1943-08-14
LAWYERS BLAME RIDDLE

WASHINGTON-Failure to in augurate a vigorous, continuing pro- gram of action to prevent increasing civilian violence against the Negro in uniform was attributed directly to Atty. Gen. Francis Riddle by the Ma tional Lawyers Guild.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-04

Civil War and had no children. The
title then passed to Christopher's
father, nephew of the Christopher
Columbus who was the last direct
descendant of Columbus. Christie
piers father was the son of the
Dukes sister. The Spanish govern
ment recognized the title.
Mothers Family Famous
Last year Christopher's father
died leaving the youth as the head
Of the house Of Columbus. On his
mothers side, too, young Christie
pl1er inherits q proud name.
His mother, sister of the Duque de
Santo Domingo, is a direct descend
ant OF Fernandez de Cordoba, famed
as Ell Gran Captain" of Spanish
history, leading soldier of Columbus
day.
1t was perhaps from this side Of
the family that young Christopher
got his lively sense of humor, for
not among the least famed Of Ell
Gran Captains exploits was the
account he turned in to Fernando
FL Catolico when that monarch
listened to those who said the SOL
der was pocketing crown money
and asked him for accounts.
Rebuked Ruler.
The accounts read:
Ten thousand ducats for per-
fumed gloves to spare the troops the
stencil of the bodies of their
enemies.
"One hundred and seventy thou
sand ducates for taking over and
renovating broken-down campaigns
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bers OF Congress to use in making
speeches.
Mr.. Mellett organized a really eff
ficient government information
service, branched out into doing
spade work for such things as the
Wage and Hour Law. He took
over, too, the controversial study
of economic conditions in the
South.
In 1899 NEG was absorbed into
the new Office of Government Re-
ports, which Mr.. Mellett headed.
OGR's functions have now been
taken over by the Office of War
Information. Mr. Mellett heads
Owls motion picture division. Some
see this as come -doWn for him,
but others point out that he re-
mains on the Presidents pay roll
and is consistently, if unobtrusive-
ly, present at FDR's press confer
enCeS.
Refuses to Take Glory.
Another bashful member of the
executive family Is Mr.. Coy. He
dislikes to talk about his job, re-
fuses to take the glory for anything
which may be one reason for his
success in Washington.
An Indianan, like Mr.. Mellett, Mr..
Coy spends his days in conferences
with worried officials and in DASH
ing by auto among the numerous
buildings which house the mani
fold DEM agencies.
The descendant of an Irish pio-
neer, Mr.. Coy had a struggling
youth and manhood until he
climbed on Paul McNutt's band
wagon. He helped elect him Gov
ernor of Indiana, was put in charge
of State relief (Which gave him
contacts with Harry Hopkins) and
rode the bandwagon on into Wash
ington, becoming assistant Federal
Security administrator when Mr..
McNutt took over the Security
Agency. Mr.. Hopkins introduced
him to Mr.. Roosevelt, and since then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-04
BY HERMAN ALLEN,
Associated Press Writer.

The Capitals mystery men-those
administrative assistants President
Roosevelt chose because of their
passion for anonymity'-are living
up to their advance billing in vary
ing degrees. On the whole they've
managed to keep themselves fairly
dark.
Although Congress authorized the
President to appoint six admins
trative assistants, he at present has
only four on his staff. They are
David K. Niles, William H. Mercy
noids, Lauchlin Currie and Lowell
Mellett. Ranking right alongside
with them, however, are Eugene
Casey, listed as an executive assist
ant, and Wayne Coy, liaison officer
between the President and the Office
OF Emergency Management. overall
agency which heads up WPB, OCD,
OPA and the rest of the wartime
establishments.
The one who has most consist
emily buried himself in anonymity
Is Mr.. Niles This short, stocky
veteran of Massachusetts politics. a
Harvard graduate, was assistant to
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he has grown more and more sohdly
into the Presidents esteem.
Attends Social Events.
Youngest of the Secret Six" Is
37-year-old Mr.. Casey, originally
slated to be the Presidents agricul-
tural adviser but who really does a
little bit Of everything.
More than any Of the boss as
sistants, I suppose, serve as his
eyes and ears he told me. Il
appear for him in answer to a
good many invitations he can't meet,
andry0u'd be surprised at>how much
you can pick up about what people
are thinking and saying"
SonsSfiA Washington plumber, Mr..
Casey sold papers, jerked sodas,
saved his money, finally was able
to finance some housing projects
during Washington's building boom
Of the '30s. Now he owns several
farms In Maryland, sells 500 gallons
Of milk day from them.
Mr.. Casey thinks this about the
anonymity system:
1T prevents conflicting statements
from coming from those around the
President. If I should make a state
ment in speech and Mr.. Currie
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with 20 much pealing Of bells Tor
new victories achieved each day.
"One hundred million ducats for
my patience upon hearing yesterday
that the King asked for accounts
from the man who gave him a king
dom. 80
Young Christopher Is a bright,
energetic and husky youth, quick to
laugh and quick of decision. He's
an enthusiast about ships and the
seas first OF all. If pressed, he'll
admit to enthusiasts for, horses
and swimming and the Americas.
Lives With Brother.
His room where he lives with his
brother In large Madrid apartment
Is mirror to the young dukes
character.
It's good sized square room with
two comfortable and neat bunk
type beds built in the corners of
one side. Directly opposite any one
who would be lying in the dukes
bed Is wall and In that wall are
some holes made by BIB shot.
The duke and the reporter looked
at the holes, and then ut the air
gun standing in q rack on the wall.
Then they looked at each other
and the duke grinned.
"Vamos," said Christopher, "just
target practice"
Studies NaviEation.
In the middle Of the room was a
combined table and desk and on
1t were piled sheaves of paper filled
with lOgarithm notes, complicated
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60 to the United States. the. Antilles,
Mexico City, Rio de Janetro and
Buenos Aires.
Its not Just . dream" he said.
After all II you're q naval ofiicer
you're bound to sail somewhere.
Perhaps after the war - ."
His mother says the whole family
plans to 60 to Buenos Aires Or
New York during the first vacation
that the Duke gets after his "a.
trance In the naval academy.
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Harry Hopkins when Mr.. Hopkins
was administrator of WPA and Sec
Rotary OF Commerce. Later Mr..
Miles became an adviser on labor
matters in the OPM and WPB. He
was appointed an administrative as
sistant last August, the most recent
appointee.
Keeps Out Of Papers.
He has kept himself out Of the
newspapers, off the radio, away
from lecture platforms He never
theless has an enormous first-name
acquaintanceship and can get al
most any job done for the President
by simply picking up phone and
calling some big shot.
Mr.. MeReynolds, q Government
servant for 40 years, has known
Mr.. Roosevelt since his New York
days. He's a smooth looking, gray
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ing man. who will smoke several
cigarettes during q half hour inter-
view.
To Mr.. McReynolds, a personnel
expert, goes the credit for simplify
ing the civil service rules for the
duration of the war. He also takes
proud credit for arranging for many
wartime agencies to use existing sta
tistical and research outfits rather
than set up new ones.
Mr.. Currie. unobtrusive, sandy
haired, a native of Nova Scotia, is
the Presidents contact man with
China, where he Travelled last year
on an economic assignment from Mr..
Roosevelt, and Canada. Modestly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-04
Youthful Descendant
|0f Columbus Plans
Spanish Navy Career
Christopher, II. Studies
In Madrid for COMING
Entrance Examinations
BY CHARLES s. FOLTZ, Jr.,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
MADRID, Jan. Admiral Chris
topher Columbus, who dearly loves
the sea, hopes he'll pass his exami-
nations and can enter SPANS naval
academy as cadet this June.
Christopher is II. He's an admiral
by inheritance. for he's head OF the
house of Colon Spanish for Co
lumbuS) and a descendant of the
great admiral. He'll be the first of
his line In generations to 60 to sea
as an officer under SPANS nag.
His full name is Cristobal Colon
de Carvahal y Maroto, Duque de
Veraguax, Duque de Ia Vega de la
Isla de Santo Domingo and Admiral
and Adelantado Mayor Of the West
ern Indies, Marquis OF Jamaica and
= grandee of Spain.
Christopher's great-mcle was
shot by the Leftists in the Spanish
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navigation problems and pages OF
history notes.
I'm working like . dog" said the
Duke. Examinations for the naval
academy come in June and I've got
to pass them"
The Dukes 16-year-old brother,
Juan Manuel, who is studying to be
. naval engineer, said with consid-
cradle respect:
They're terrific, those exams.
Two thousand take the exams and
so pass"
mot 2,oo0," said the Duke. Five
hundred"
"Weil, = lot anyway" said Juan
Manuel.
May Visit United States.
His great-great uncle, the Duke Of
veragua, went to the United States
In 1892 as an honor guest at the
Columbian Exposition. Later the
same man became SPANS Navy
Minister during the Spanish Amer
lean War, but even he had never
been to sea as professional sailor.
Young Christopher is anxious to
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he will admit that Il believe may
have been of some slight service to
the President from time to time"
Mr.. Currie toys constantly with an
ivory cigarette holder while talking,
but he actually smokes few Gig
arettes. There is signed portrait
of Chang Kai-shek on the mantel-
piece Of his ornate State Department
building office. (All the assistants
Are Quartered in a row in that VEN
cradle old monument)
| Quit 10000 Job.
Mr.. Mellett-Called by some "the
most dangerous man in Washing
ton" and by others zone of the most
Hmportant"-was editor Of a WASH
ington chain newspaper for is years,
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Presidents Administrative Assistants Vary
In Successes as Capitals Mystery Men

q statement in an interview at
variance with it-and both were in
conflict with q statement made by
the boss at q press conference--you
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Thousands prefer Star want
Ads" There must b . reason.
And there b: Quick results y the
answer. Phone MA. ~.
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but quit his go. 00o-a-year job in
1887 because he and his boss couldn't
agree about President Roosevelt. He
soon became head Of the. National
Emergency Council, then a slow
pokey agency which did such chores
- looking up information for mem
Evening star., 1943-10-31
BY Bainbridge Crist.

Several years ago when commercial
pilot used his radiophone to the National
Airport-or any other airport-to re-
port his position and altitude at given
points along the route, a mans voice
would respond from the ground station.
Now when the pilot reports, he's very
likely to hear woman.
It's that old manpower problem again.
Today the five airlines using the Ma
tional Airport at Gravelly Point-Amer-
lean, Eastern, Pennsylvania Central,
Transcontinental & Western Air and
United-have some 16 women operating
radiophones, devices which are broad
casting units for ground to- plane con-
facts.
These women find their jobs inter-
esting and, at times, exciting. 1t calls
for calm nerves, particularly in bad
weather when messages become in
creasingly important and more difficult
to hear. To the unframed ear. the
messages sometimes sound like Donald
Duck talk" But the airlines say the
women are doing swell job"
One of Youngest.
One of the youngest and newest
members of the growing staff of woman
radio operators is 21-year-old Michelena
Vella of American Airlines. Formerly
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Women Take Over Airport Radio

percentage of women in jobs closed to
women in 1889 are: Reservation sales
agents, 95 passenger relation agents,
rs; ticket agents, 95; operators agents,
40; ramp service, which includes load
ing and unloading of mail, so; radio
operators, 25 traffic representatives, 80;
commissary clerks, So apprentice me-
chanics, 7, and stock clerks, 25. Only
women are now used as meteorology
clerks and link trainer operators.
Similarly, American Airlines is now
using women to meet planes, check the
passengers and to see that the proper
flight forms get aboard Women are
now computing loads, which calls for
rapid and accurate calculations on the
estimated weight of passengers, the
weight of gasoline, mail, express and
cargo. They decode and compile weather
reports. They drive the tractors that
sccot about the fields and handle the
food and commissary equipment. Mucn
of this work, it is said, takes "a quiet,
sedate girl" and school teachers are
said to be pretty good at it. Depart
ments which had no women year ago
now have 80, so or more per cent
woman personnel.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

New York bound steamer burned on the
way from South America. Several hun
dred persons drowned. Among the pas
sengers were four men from Oklahoma.
Sigrid's editor in Oklahoma called and
assigned her to find out what happened
to them.
Where in city of 100000 would four
men from Oklahoma be staying? If they
were in hospitals she could call for a
week and perhaps not find them. If
they were not injured, finding them
would become even more highly i'm
probable.
Miss Arne, with forthrightness in
herited from her Swedish ancestors de-
cided four men from Oklahoma who had
been in South America would have been
there on oil business. So she started at
the top. She called Walter c. Teagle,
president of Standard Oil.
"They are right here beside me in my
library" Mr.. Teagle said. I'll make an
appointment for you" Sigrid considers
1t her luckiest stroke of intuition. Her
Evening star., 1943-10-31

ing reporter of the Associated Press,
reads like highly fabricated script
for thrill film. Her actual expert
ences would bring doubling expressions
to the faces Of such accredited experts
in fabrication as Sam Goldwyn, the
Warmers ct al.
She was born in New York City, on
West Goth street. (She was perfectly
willing to tell her age but cooler heads
dissuaded her. She might want to keep
1t secret at later date, they said, cau-
tioning her that once 1t is told, the
longest 10 years in womans life is
between SO and 40)
Her father owned a small overcoat
factory. The family was not wealthy;
just comfortably fixed. When Sigrid
was 4 her parents took her to Sweden
for year to show her where they were
born When they returned, they settled
in Cleveland. New York, they decided,
was not the place to bring up little girl.
She went to Willard Grammar School
and West High School in Cleveland.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

EDGEWOOD ARSENAL.-When, and
If, gas warfare bolts into the present
conflict the Chemical Warfare School
will be basically responsible for the
American soldiers conduct of such
warfare, for the school has been
given the responsibility of educating
the entire Army in the use of chemical
warfare munitions and fighting tech
nique.
Located here at Brig. Gen. Ray L.
Avery's Edgewood Arsenal, the school,
whose commandant is Brig. Gen Alex
ander Wilson, has not only graduated
thousands of chemical officers from the
officer candidate school division, but has
instructed and reinstructed its own off,
GERS in the newest of gas techniques,
and has taught officers and enlisted men
from other branches of the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps. Coast Guard, WAC and
armies of Allied governments.
Out of the 20 officer candidate schools
located throughout the United States,
only one trains its candidates for
chemical warfare service This is the
officers candidate school at the Edge
wood Arsenal, Md
The OCS has as its main objective to
train officer candidates in the basic
military training which will qualify
them as officers. However, this training
varies from that of other officer candi-
date schools in that the candidates re-
ceive the rigid, specialized instruction
and experience necessary for a chemical
warfare expert.
Not only is. a candidate taught the
basic principles of and provided training
in the use of individual and tactical
protective measures, but he Is given
thorough courses in the use of all chem
ical weapons and munitions He ac-
quires the important knowledge of the
offense and defensive principles of
chemical warfare tactics which will fit
him for combat service.
Should you follow a typical officer
candidate through the day at the Edge
wood Arsenal, you would first be i'm
pressed by the fact that he is rarely
without his gas mask. The candidate
Evening star., 1943-10-31

She was whiz at writing but a Ounce
at mathematics.
Il had a permanent agreement with
anyone in the class to do their themes if
they would do my mathematics"
Begins Newspaper Work.
During high school she became con-
vinced the best way to write and still
earn enough for three squares a day
was in the newspaper business.
After graduating from the University
of Michigan Sigrid landed on the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, going later to
the Muskogee (OklaD Times-Democrat,
the Oklahoma City Times, the Detroit
News and the Cleveland News. In
1882 she joined the Washington bureau
of the Associated Press.
Big Stories.
The baby-buying episode happened
in Oklahoma City. Sigrid set out to
prove babies were peddled like groceries.
She bought 24-hour-old baby boy for
$50, using marked bill, and then wrote
a series exposing the racket Oklahoma
legislators, sigrid hoped, would see the
light and appropriate something sub
stantial for child care.
They voted 100000 for tick eradi-
cation" said Sigrid.
On another occasion Sigrid was con-
vinced an aged, almost-blind man, con-
victed of murder, was irritated to the
breaking point when he killed a small
boy She investigated and wrote stories
of how the boys of the neighborhood
had pestered him without letup, had
stoned him and stolen his pets, his
only companions.
Her stories brought a flood of par
tisanship for the old man. -Four days
were required just to open mail Promi-
nent lawyers volunteered to help out.
She took the mail to Gov. Henry john
ston of Oklahoma, who studied the facts
and commuted the sentence to life i'm
prisonment. Last Sigrid heard, the
grateful old man was a gardener at
McAlister State Prison.
Rare Judgment.
A race riot in Oklahoma lasted three
days and two nights and Sigrid covered
1t without sleeping wink. The rioters
and the National Guard sniped back ane
forth at each other and actual battle
lines were drawn up. In the midst of i
Sigrid had to go between the lines. "Bu
didn't get killed"
sigrid, with only years experience
Is q reporter was In New York when
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w oman Reporter Is Tracking Down Postwar Problems

happened to George, with whom she
sparked when she was 16. Sigrid as
sured her she had passed up a good
matrimonial bet. George had become
quite a successful automobile dealer
and was doing right we'll. The Duchess
was glad to hear it.
That's just one of dozens Of stories
about Sigrid Arne that help explain her
personality. She has helped serve cock
tails at the home of Supreme Court
justice on the day his appointment was
announced. She knows cabinet men,
bers, the top men in Washington. And
she knows the little guy in the smallest
towns. But nothing ever can explain
her tremendous energy and universe
wide interest.
She is attractive in typical Swedish
fashion. Her blond hair is done up as
present fashion suggests; she has pretty,
bright eyes. When she types sparks
seem to jump out of her typewriter; she
is as speedy as any stenographer.