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Curtailment Of War
Production Ceases
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needed for warships, tanks, guns and
other war equipment to a point
where it was estimated operations
for the week would be only 81.3 per
cent Of capacity.
Last week, because of the Christ
mas holiday, production was SO per
cent of capacity, the American Iron
and Steel Institute said, but the
week before it was 1913 per cent.
Early response to Murray's order
came from William Donovan in
Cleveland. A regional director of
the union, Donovan said the mes
sage was "just what the doctor Or
dered" and reported that men in
his area would return to work.
Favorable responses also came
from Canton and Youngstown, O.,
where regional directors said work.
ers were expected back on the job
today.
In the Pittsburgh area, workers
themselves indicated they would
resume production today.
Larger Firms Hit
Among the larger steel firms hit
by the strike were the Republic Steel
Corp. and the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Co.
Here was the picture in the steel
states at the time Murray's order
went out to the men:
Ohio-Kentucky area, 65,6 men
idle; Pittsburgh area, $4,000 out;
Indiana Illinois, 1921 idle; Michi-
gan, 1000; New Jersey and eastern
Pennsylvania, 200; New York, 700.
Five West Virginia plants were
closed.
Troy, NJ Y, Dec. 28.-(Up)-Ap-
proximately 200 employees of the
Republic Steel Corp. plant here
failed for the third consecutive day
to report for work, despite an ap-
peal by CLIO President Philip Muir
ray urging striking steel workers
throughout the nation to return to
their jobs.
E. v. Fylm, district representative
of the United Steel Workers union,
said the workers were determined
to remain out until given assur-
ances that their contract with Re-
public Steel will be extended"
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any wage adjustments in new con-
tract would be retroactive to the
expiration of their old contract
Christmas eve.
Previously the WLB had refused
to promise the $4,000 workers COW
cred by the old contracts that wage
adjustments reached in negotiations
for the 17-cents-an-hour increase
sought by the USWA would be retro
active. AS result, nearly half of
the workers refused to continue
work
Murray, also president of the
USWA, stressed the need for "un-
interrupted production of steel and
steel products essential to the war
needs of our nation" and told union
men that the WLB order came at
the direction of President Roose-
velt.
The president had urged contin-
ued production, and promised that
pay adjustments would be made re-
troactive.
FDR's Appeal
Mr.. Roosevelt's Sunday appeal,
however, appeared to have had little
effect on the workers as more and
more locals went on strike yesterday,
cutting production of the steel
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Close In
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enem's bivouac area, smashed by
Allied bombs and deserted by the
Japanese and ran into two REIN
forced pillboxeS and snipers barring
the road to the airfields. A hurry
call was sent in for artillery support
and a barrage cleared the path. The
perimeter Of this beachhead totaIed
more than two miles.
Capture Of the airffields would
give Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air
fleets new striking bases from which
to dominate the Bismarck sea and
it's three major Japanese strong
holds, Rabaul, 275 miles to the east
northeast; Kavieng, New Ireland,
$50 miles to the northeast, and the
Admiralty islands, $50 miles to the
north.
Some so miles southeast Of Cape
Gloucester, Sixth Army forces land
ed on the Arawe peninsula on the
southwest of New Britain nearly two
weeks ago repulsed three Japanese
counter attacks, the first in any
strength encountered since the in
vasion, east of Arawe.
Attack planes bombed and Strafed
trials in the jungle farther east in
support of ground forces.
From Admiral William F. Hal
sey's south Pacific headquarters
came word that the American car
rier task force which raided Kav-
lent harbor Christmas day success
fully fought off three Japanese air
attacks while enroute to its home
base.
The carriers, whose Avenger and
Hell Diver planes sank a destroyer
and three large cargo vessels at
Kavieng, were attacked Christmas
night by 10 twin-engined Japanese
bomberS, but suffered neither dam
age nor loss. The attackers were
driven off, spokesman said, but he
did not disclose whether any of
them had been shot down.
Two other tWin-engined bombers
attacked the carriers while they
were retiring from Kavieng and
both were shot down by American
fighters. A lone reconnaissance
plane made the third attempt, and
it, too, was destroyed.
On Bougainville, American pa
trolls advanced in the wake of dive.
SU1rfbsng ana straf1ng attacks that
all but smashed Japanese defenses
near the west bank of Torokina
river inland from Empress Augusta
bay.
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FDR Calls Move
Only Temporary
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confident that the three recalcitrant
operating unions were about to
retreat, but Mr.. Roosevelut decided
not to risk 1t.
II cannot wait" the president said
last night, until the last moment
TO take action to see that the sup
plies to our fighting men are not
interrupted.
Il am accordingly obliged to take
over at once temporary possession
and control Of the railroads to en-
sure their continued operation. The
government will expect every rail-
road man 10 continue at his post of
duty.
THE major military offensives
now planned must not be delayed
by the interruption of vital trans
portation facilities. If any employees
of the railroads now strike, they
will be striking against the govern
ment of the United States"
No Legal Penalty
Union spokesman said they knew
Of no legal penalty which could be
assessed against strikers or their
leaders. Solicitor General Charles
Fahy, who drew the executive order,
agreed that no legal penalty ap-
peared applicable If the rail workers
did strike. There was general con-
fidence here. however, that the
strike threat had been ended.
Mr.. Roosevelt ordered seizure of
the roads by virtue Of the general
authority vested in him by the
constitution and laws of the United
States. But specifically, the seizure
was by authority of rider attached
on August 20, 1915, to a War De-
partment appropriation bill. 1t was
under that authority, also, that
Wilson seized the roads and directed
the late William G. McAdoo to run
them.
Somervell Is boss of a better rail
system. There are $4,000 operating
and 100000 incorporating en-
ployes. There are 300 roads with
100000 miles Of track-a carrier
system unmatched elsewhere
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defending the approaches to the
borderlands.
Highway Cut
Crossing the FaStov- VinnitZa
line, the Russians also cut the Ber-
dichev-Belaya Tserkoy highway,
while other forces pushing south
ward broke the Berdichev-Ctf1tomir
highway
"a British broadcast quoted Mos
COW dispatches as saying Red Army
columns were less than 10 miles
from Zhitomir.)
The Soviet advance west of Kiev
appeared to be gaining momentum
by the hour as the Germans, bled
white by their abortive six-week
counter offensive, reeled back to-
ward Zhitomir and its companion
functions of Berdichev and Kazatin
under the heaviest Russian attacks
this winter.
"a German broadcast estimated
Vatutin's forces at 100000 men and
1000 tanks) ...
General Nikolai F. Vatutin's First
Ukrainian Army swept up another
100 towns and villages yesterday in
14-mile advance along a 20-mile
front that broke every German at
tempt to make stand on prepared
defenSeS and sent the enemy reel
Ing back in disorder. More than A.
600 Germans were killed and SIS
tanks destroyed or captured.
Advance Columns
Advance columns swept through
Stepok, railroad town only 16 miles
southeast Of Zhitomir ard rs miles
southeast Of the old Polish border,
and Vcheraishe, "a miles east of
Berdichev and 1876 miles northeast
OF the former Rumanian border.
Huge quantities OF arms and am
munition, abandoned by the enemy
in his precipitate withdrawal, were
being seized. Many prisoners also
were captured.
Some $50 miles to the north, the
Russians completed the isolation of
Vitebsk from three sides by cutting
the Moscow-Riga railway some-
where east Of vitebsk, leaving the
stronghold dependent entirely upon
the highway and rail line from the
south for supplies and reinforce
ment. The east-west highway five
miles north of the Moscow Riga
railway was cut two days earlier.
Red Armies tightening their siege
arc around Vitebsk captured 80 ad-
ditional localities to the northwest,
northeast and southeast. killing
more than 200 of the enemy in one
sector. Northwest of Vitebsk. the
Germans brought up reserves and
counter-attacked 20 times, during
which some villages changed hands
repeatedly, but the effort exhaust
ed the enemy and he finally fell
back.
The Germans also failed in an
attempt to dent Soviet lines north
OF Kirovograd in the northern half
OF the Dnieper Bend. Six hundred
Germans were killed and nine
tanks disabled.
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cooperate
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Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander
of the Army Air Forces, which stated
that the railroad strike would have
the effect of virtually paralyzing
the war effort of the Army Ali
Forces" He said the seriousness
could not be exaggerated.
The strike would Immediately stop
the flow of Army Air Force techni-
cal supplies, the export of drum gas
cline and exhaust the supply of avia-
ton fuel in the United States in five
days.
Each days interruption of rail-
road traffic from strikes, Arnold
said, would represent the equiva-
lent of the loss of days production
of about 300 airplanes and could
never be made up.
Somervell said Arnold's appraisal
of the effect on the air force would
apply equally to the ground and SER
vice forces and interrupt the move
ment of troops overseas.
Assemble Forces
Somervell said army officers and
men with railroad experience were
being assembled at key points so
they could be used if necessary in
operation of the railroads. He said
it was the intention to use them as
necessary to supplement railroad
men who chose to stay on the job.
Those who want to work would not
be replaced.
Somervell said security arrange
mentS were under the authority of
the nine service commands. He said
no move was being made to augment
the military police now assigned to
railway property, but this would be
done If necessary.
The railroads as Of 7 p. m. last
night became federal property to
which federal law applies. Somervell
said the th-Connally anti-strike
act and conspiracy acts specifically
would apply to strikers He said there
were other laws that could be ap-
piled, but did not enumerate them.
For the purpose Of operating the
roads under federal control, the War
Department divided the nation into
seven regions and commissioned
railroad men as colonies to act as
regional administrators for the gov
eminent.
Somervell and Major General c. P.
Gross, chief Of transportation, Army
Service Forces, who were designated
by Stimson to carry out the seizure,
appointed Martin w. Clement, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
as their adviser here. He will hold
the rank of colonel.
Somervell said the Army started
from scratch on Christmas eve on
the tremendous job of organizing
for the assumption of authority after
the War Department had been asked
to get ready. The only ARMY plan
for such operation on file was drawn
up In anticipation of entirely diff
ferent circumstances.
The seven regional heads were
summoned to Washington. Five
were here when the Army took over
last night. R. B. White of the Balti-
more and Ohio was travelling and ar
rived this morning, Whileralph Budd
OF the Burlington was kept away by
illness.
The new regional heads fitted
themselves out with colonies uni
forms at the post exchange here this
morning.
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ported attacking an important height
IN central Italy, to which the Ger
mans chung stuppornly.
COmmunique
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower COM
munlque reported that Canadian
troops Of the British Eighth Army
made further progress in clearing
Ortona, the Adriatic coastal anchor
OF the German line where one of the
flercest battles Of the italian cam
palgn had been raging for days.
Both the Canadians and Indian
tured prisoners, the communicated
units fighting around Ortona cap
tured prisoners, the communicate
said.
Inland from Ortona the Germans
were defending Crecchio from
heights north Of the town, but
Eighth Army units seized features
only half mile to the south.
The 334th German infantry di-
vision was reported in action on
the Eighth Army front. This was
the 14th German division to be
Identified as on the italian front
in recent weeks, bu. there was no
indication all were in action at any
one time.
Marauder medium bombers of
the Northwest African Air Forces,
attacking Italian communications
for the fifth consecutive day, yes
terday bombed the Rocco and Zoagli
vyfQd11rtS m Tho Horno Coa1;n
coastal railwa;' and the town OF
Poggibonsi on the alternate rail
route paralleling the Legghorn-
Rome main line.
Marauder crewmen reported ex-
cellent results at Rocco, which car
ries three lines on 1,500-foot 20
arch bridge rs feet high. Hits also
were reported on the Zoagli viaduct
and the town Of Poggibonsi, 20 miles
south Of Florence.
For the first time it was an
nounced that Spitfires reached
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CoIoneIcies
For RI Heads

Washington, December %. -
(UP) - Seven railroad executives
were commissioned colonies in the
Army to administer seven regions
into which the railroads have been
divided for government operation.
The men, all railroad presidents,
are:
Eastern region Frederick E.
Williamson, New York Central.
Allegheny region - r. E. White,
Baltimore and Ohio.
Pocahontas region, headquarters
at Roanoke, Va. william J..
jerks, Norfolk and Western.
Southeastern region - Ernest E.
Norris, Southern Railway.
Central-Western region - Ralph
Budd, Burlington.
Northwestern region Charles
E. Denney, Northern Pacific.
Southwestern region - Lewis w.
Baldwin, Union Pacific.
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newly invasion command
soon in a broadcast to the nation
or speech in parliament follow
ing his recovery from pneumonia.
Tedder, whose appointment as
Eisenhower's deputy was announced
by Churchill's Office last night, was
credited with blasting the Luft-
waite from the skies over Africa,
Sicily and Italy during the success
sive Mediterranean campaigns and
his elevation to the second-in-com-
nand of the invasion forces empha-
sized the Importance in which the
Allies hold the task of clearing the
skies over Europe.
The appointment OF Gen. Sir Ber-
nard Paget, since 1941 commander
of Britain's home forces, as Allied
Middle-E commander under
the supreme Mediterranean COM
mand of Gen. Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson, also was announced by
Churchill'S office.
Paget Shift
The shift of a man Of Paget's
standing to the Middle-EaSt sup
ported q growing feeling in London
that the first cracks in the Axis en-
pire may come suddenly in eastern
Europe. He led the abortive Anglo
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Clark street, Boston;
Joseph Aryisais, 655 South Caro-
lima avenue, S. w., Washington, D.
c.;
David Walton, 81 Bay State road,
Boston; g.,
James Flaherty, 6o3, 1911 First
street, New York;
Mary Barron, 2o8 Highland street,
Worcester, Mass.
Pvt. Charles Stewart, 491 High
street, Clinton, Mass;
Robert Dresser, Newport, Me-;
Anthony Santana, Brooklyn, N.
Y. (only address available).
Hospital attendants said they
were treated for minor decorations
and bruises.
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LoneIyVi
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ket some distance away and Law
down on 1t.
Shortly afterward the bodies of
Jones and his daughter were brought
to the surface. but Boy" refused
to move.
Snarling and swapping, even at
members of the family, the dog re-
fused to bulge and remained on
the ice in mid-stream after the
sad group had reached shore and
driven away.
Just before dark members Of the
family returned to the river but
Boy growled and backed away as
they approached.
So they left him there on the
blanket with dish Of food nearby.
He was there as friends drove the
family back over the long highway
to Mrs. Jones' relatives at Gran
vile. He was still there when
townsfolk passed by the river road
today.
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The Germans
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The Rhodes commandant, these
reports said, has established a TOO
p. m. curfew for all civilians on
the island, and has ordered his
troops to shoot on sight anyone
found on the streets after that
hour.
In Stockholm, the NYA Dag
bladet published dispatch from
Budapest reporting that fresh units
of South African troops have joined
the British 9th and 10 Armies in
the near east in preparating for a
landing in the Balkans to coincide
with an allied thrust into western
Europe.
The dispatch said allied aid forces
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French expedition to Norway in
1910 and evacuated his forces from
Aandalsnes without the loss of a
single life.
In short-wave broadcast to
Norway last night, he told the peo-
pie of the occupied country that
while "in 1910 there was little we
could do to help you. we did all we
could"
Nov we have built up very pow
erful forces which will avenge the
past" he said.
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southern France, shooting up a ra-
dio station near Nice and a factory
near San Stephano on the Italian
Riviera. Other Spitfires hit a tug
off La California near Nice.
United States MitchellS bombed
two ships off the Jugoslav coastal
town of cara. British Spitfires shot
up locomotives near Citanova and
invaders bombed the Civitavecchia
harbor north of Rome. hitting a
merchantmen.
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in the near east are reported to

in the near east are reported to
have been reinforced.
At the same time, radio Morocco
reported that German Field Mar
shall Albert Kesselring, has ordered
the evacuation of all civilians from
the coastal areas of central and
northern Italy. The civilians, this
account said, were ordered to move
into the interior within "a hours,
taking only minimum of their
personal belongings.
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J. T. Whiteford has been appoint
ed Manager Of the Passenger Serv-
ice Bureau, Canadian National
Railways, with headquarters at
Montreal. J. s. Mcdonald has been
appointed Mr.. Whiteford's assistant.
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For disobeying price control or
ders, Michael Deveney, q Dublin
storekeeper, was fined $l60.
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In Smash

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-29
IS HELPING TO WIN DECISIVE AIR BATTLES

those portions of the crude which formerly
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For Beffer motoring fter the Wdr
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Every drop is reserved for military needs.
But when peace comes, the advanced
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InduStry's Initiative Serves
America We'll
Dynafuel was developed by Sunoco with
out government aid or subsidy. We risked
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This is another example of how individual
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SUN OIL COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-29
Thomas Charge,
Labor Bditing'in
Brewster Probe

After being twice refused a
bhearing by the House naval affairs
committee IN its Investigation OF
production at the Brewster Aero
nautical Corp. plants. RI. Thomas,
president of the UAW-CIO, today
characterized the inquiry as a
labor-baiting affair
In a letter 10 the committee,
which had rejected his offers TO
appear as a witness on the grounds
that he had no connection with
Brewster, Thomas went on record
with the charge that other wit
neSses had been bullied and their
testimony about the Brewster
local and its officers deliberately
miSinterpreted.
LABoR-BAITING CHARGE
The UAW-CIO president de-
clared that he helped negotiate
the 1889 contract between the
Brewster management and the
local union and was one Of the
signatorS.
ain the final analysis, am
the chief spokesman for the
Brewster workers." he said
"You have permitted your in
quiry to degenerate into "A
labor-baiting affair.
"As such II has had the effect
Of yitiating. perhaps completely
multiplying, the constructive fea-
lures of the hearings.
FAVORTTISM ALLEGED
"By contrast with the abusive
manner in which YOU inteTro-
gated witnesses who did not
agree with YOU, YOU were most
kind and sOlicitous 81 those wit
nesses, who supported your APP
parently prec0nceived conclu-
sions."
Thomas declared that the com
mitiec was primarily bent on
hanging" the Brewster local in
\particular and the labor movement
POI the country IN general.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-29
Soft Coal Production
Hits 16-Year Hiqh

WASHINGTON, Nov. % GNSl
Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes
reported yesterday soft coal pro-
duction reached a l6-year high
during the first full week Of
operations under the Iekes-Lewis
temporary wage pact.
Ickcs estimated soft coal pro-
ductlnn forSthc week ended Nov
20 ar 12.7O0OO0 tons. a figure not
exceeded since March. 1927. An
thracite production for the same
period was estimated at 1907 000
tons. ickes said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-29

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