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department, but had not yet reached
official hands.
The Labor Secretary said The
need for this extension and develop
ment of our system was emphasized
by President Roosevelt in his an
nual message to the Congress of
January 7 when he said When
you talk with our young men and
young women you will find out that
with the opportunity for employ
ment they want assurance against
the evils of all major economic
hazards-assurance that will extend
from the cradle to the grave .
and this great Government can and
must provide this assurance
Would Cover All.
Miss Perkins said farm workers.
domestics and all persons employed
in firms of less than eight employees
would be covered.
The contribution rate in the
United States for comprehensive
contributory social security system
at the outset" she asserted, would
be about 10 per cent of payroll,
which would be shared equally by
the employees and employers.
For the first 10 years of such a
system there would be no necessity
for the Government to contribute
out of general revenues since the re-
ceipts would exceed the disburse-
ments."
Would Abolish Dread.
She said that when the cost be-
gan to exceed 10 per cent because
Of the increased old-age retirement
benefit rights being built up" the
Government could well pay for the
excess until eventually there would
be equal triparte distribution of the
cost"
"The demobilization of those now
employed in wartime industries and
their reassignment to peacetime pro-
duction," she said, would be cush-
ioned against the doubt and dread,
fear and uncertainty with which to-
day so many persons view that pc
riod."
Sees Sterilization.
Miss Perkins added that "the
sense of security which returning
soldiers and sailors will have because
their families are protected as we'll
as themselves, if such system is
put into its beginning operations
now. will do much to stabilize our
political and social development in
the future"
The Labor Secretary made it plain
that attainment of all objectives
OF the plan would involve STEP
by-step process.
Instead of a soldiers bonus after
the war, Miss Perkins said she
would prefer "a steadier method
such as offering opportunities to
the soldier for training and educa-
ton, supplementing what he has
already had I would make full use
of the United States Employment
Service and in the meantime pay
him benefits while he was looking
for work"
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Contracts
Continued From First Pagv

scious of the undesirability of ex.
cessive profits" he said
He advocated continuance of the
Naval Affairs Committee special
authority to investigate the costs of
war, paying particular tribute to its
work in disclosing the profits of de-
tense brokers" in soliciting war
work on a commission fee basis
from Federal departments.
Mr.. Vinson reported yesterday
that the committee had discovered
that 121 of these sales engineers. y
operating here, had earned ap-
proximately SIS 900, 900 since 1899.
Mr.. Forrestal told the committee
that the Navy had stopped" those
excessive" fees after their dis
closure by the Naval Affairs Com
mittee.
When Representative Fish, Re-
publican, of New York commented
that there must have been some
carelessness" and asked why the
Navy had not done this itself?"
Mr.. Forrestal replied that the de-
partment had initiated the steps
leading to the renegotiations and
had co-operated with the commit
tee.
There was no carelessness, he
emphasized.
Mr.. Vinson interposed that the
Navy Department could not have
undertaken the study the committee
made because it lacked the power OF
subpoena.
I'VE are working in perfect har-
mony," commented Representative
Mas. Republican, of Minnesota
ranking minority member of the
Naval Affairs Committee.
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Coal
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I have been in the mines II years
and I know those are the senti-
ments of the men,
Talk Freely.
Individual miners talked freely
with the understanding their names
would not be used.
They can't mine coal with bayo-
nets one declared, obviously re-
ferring to the possibility that troops
might be used to enforce the Presi-
dents demand. Whats the use of
sending disgruntled man back to
work? We only want some assur-
ance that we'll get square deal in
stead Of the runaround."
Another said the miners at a
meeting of the Woodward local last
night were damned determined"
TO stay out. I'VE feel we can't be
any worse off under the Govern
ment than we are now" he said.
We have to sign our lives away
to get piece of meat. What's the
use what's the use. :"
Report to White House.
The Presidents order for the
strikers to return to their jobs fol-
lowed the War Labor Boards action
yesterday in bringing to the White
House report on its efforts to end
the strike.
The WLB report, submitted to
White House Secretary Marvin Nc
Intyre, follows:
The National War Labor Board
regrets to inform you OF the very
serious strike situation in the an
thracite coal regions which contin-
ueS in violation of the labor Indus
toy no-strike agreement and of a
unanimous directive order of the
National War Labor Board dated
January Is l943.
The strike in question began
early in January. 1t was engaged in
by members Of the United Mine
Workers of America. who mine an
thracite coal in Pennsylvania. BY
January 6, the strike had reached
serious proportions and by January
9 approximately 10000 miners in
the anthracite field were on strike
This strike was not authorized by
the United Mine Workers OF Amer
lea, whose present contract with the
anthracite mine operators does not
expire until April 80 l943.
The strikers gave as their reason
for leaving work an increase in the
| deduction Of dues from their wages
| said increase having been author
| lied by the constitutional conven-
ton of the United Mine Workers OF
America held October to IA, 1912
AS the strike continued, demands
were also made for an increase OF
81 per day in the wage rates. despite
| the fact that the contract with the
operators does not expire until April
30, 1943.
| "A committee OF the striking
miners made the threat that unless
the demand concerning the check
off and wage increase were met. pro.
duction would be stopped in all an.
thracite mines by January Is.
The case was certified to tn,
National War Labor Board by tn,
| Secretary Of Labor on January IL
l943. After telegram ordering
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Arlington Officers Son
Missing on Plane Flight
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. l9.-
Three Naval Reserve flying officers
and two petty officers have been
missing from routine navigational
flight since Saturday night. officials
of the Jacksonville Naval Air Sta
ton announced today.
Parts of the big patrol plane, a
ply, have been located at sea off
Brunswick, Ga. but no trace has
been found of the occupants, Navy
officials said Next of kin have
been notified and the search is
being continued
The men were listed as Ensign
Leonard c. Urquhart, 20, Pittsburgh,
Pa; Ensign John j. Sullivan, %,
Elmhurst. N. Y; Ensign Philip S.
Walsh, 26, Watkins Glen. N. Y;
John S. Hawkins, 18, aviation ma
chinist's mate, third class, Los An
geles, Calf, and Cecil H. Boland, 30,
aviation radio man third class, Pom
totoc, Miss.
Ensign Urquart is the son of 1t.
Col L. c. Urquhart, 1916 North Six
teenth street, Arlington, and Mrs.
Jane Urquhart of the Fort Belvoir
Hospital.
A native Of Ithaca, N. Y, he at
tended school there and at Penn
State. He enlisted in the Navy last
February and after completing tests
for Naval Aviation was sent to At
lanta, Ga, for training. He later
was transferred to the Jacksonville
Air Station.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Lifting of Siege of Leningrod
Ends Heroic 515-Doy Struggle
Soviets' Second Population Center Holds
Endurance Record for Ma or Cities

Leningrad, August 81, 1s4l-Janu-
ary 18, 1943.
Leningrad came under attack from
virtually all sides nearly year and
five months ago when Adolf Hitler's
armies drove to Schluesselburg, 20
miles east of the City on Lake La
doga, and completed the ring from
the south.
To the north Finnish and Ger
man armies had cut the city's last
land link with the outside world by
driving down the Karelian Isthmus
between the Gulf of Finland and
Lake Ladoga.
From then on the city's huge
working population endured the ter
rors and dangers of the front
trenches.
Supplies Struggled In.
They were shelled in their factory
buildings and apartments. They
were bombed. They were subjected
to the slow effects of disease, malnu-
triton and cold.
But they never surrendered.
The city never was cut off COM
pletely from outside resources.
When the severe northern winter
closed down and froze the ice on
Lake Ladoga the Russians built a
tiny railroad across it and kept the
population supplied.
When the ice went out in the
spring they still kept it supplied
just how they never did say, but
probably by boats and even planes.
Months after the siege had begun
the Russians boasted that they were
still getting aluminium for their air.
plane plants from Leningrad's big
aluminium plant.
Evening star., 1943-01-19

resumption of work had been ig-
nored, the National War Labor
Board held public hearing on
Friday, January Is, to determine the
anthracite miners were on strike
against the national nom strike
policy.
"As result of the calling of this
hearing, the general strike, which
had been threatened for January IL.
was averted. At the expiration of
the hearing the National War Labor
Board ordersd the striking miners
Immediately to resume operations
and to settle such grievances as the
men may have according to pro-
cedure set forth in executive order
9017. This order OF the board was
accepted by the officers of the
United Mine Workers of America
and by the local leaders.
Serious Situation.
AT the meetings yesterday (Sun-
day, nevertheless, a large propor-
tion of the miners voted not to re-
sumo operations. There now are
approximately 1880 miners on
strike today Monday, according to
the best information that is avail
able.
AT a meeting of the National
War Labor Board held today. jan
uary Is, it was decided by unani-
nous vote to notify you of the seri-
Gus situation which exists as result
OF the strike of the anthracite coal
miners and respectfully suggest that
YOU proceed with such action as
you deem proper"
400 Back at 3 Plants.
The largest break in the strikers
ranks came when 2,700 workers
took up their jobs again at the Eddy
Creek, Miles Clope and Grassy
Island Collieries of the Hudson Coal
Co in the Scranton area.
Operations also were resumed at
the Hazleton Shaft Colliery of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Co, employing
about 1,400, and the Edison Anthra-
cite Co.'S Nesouehoning operatio
with about 900 workers. Both
groups joined the walkout only yes
terday and were the only ones idle
in district 7.
The Hudson Coal Co. mines are
in district l, where the strike orig
mated
Meanwhile, War Manpower Chief
McNutt told press conference he
would decide whether he favored
using the draft to terminate strikes
when the question arises. But it is
up to local draft boards, he added,
to say whether men in essential in
dustry forfeit their right to occu-
pational deferment when they
strike.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Flyer Is Killed in Futile
Attempt TO Save ; Others
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 19.-Three Amer
lean airmen were killed despite
heroic rescue attempts by Capt.
Bertram G. Martin of Butte, Mont,
in crash at British military air.
port last Saturday. Capt. Martin
lost his life in trying to save the
others.
They were First 1t Everett E.
Haskell of Chillicothe, Ohio; Second
1t. Joseph H. Bagley of Suffolk, Va,
and Sergt. James r. Lowery of
Philadelphia.
The accident occurred when an
Raj plane in taking off went out of
control and smashed head-on into
United States bomber piloted by
Capt. Martin. 1t Bagley and Lit.
Haskell, bombardier and navigator
of the bomber, were pinned in the
glass nose of the ship.
Capt. Martin climbed from the
burning wreckage and assisted sew
eral members of his crew to safety,
including Sergt. Lowery. But when
he went back for 1t. Bagley and 1t.
Haskell the fuel tanks exploded,
killing Capt. Martin and the two
crewmen. Sergt Lowery died later
from his injuries.
Army records showed Capt. Mar
tins family to be living in Ridge
wood, N. Y.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Leningrad, second largest city of
the Soviet Union. reputedly was
built on human bones.
There are many more bones there
now after a frightful siege which
certainly is one of the greatest in
all history.
The Russians said yesterday that
the siege had been lifted after SIS
days.
Since August 81, l941. its 5000 900
people and thousands of Red Army
sailor, peasant and worker defend
ers had endured conditions of un-
imaginable privation and the terror
of almost daily shelling and bomb
ing.
There have been longer sieges.
The siege of ancient Troy, accord
ing to literature, lasted nine years.
But never in history was so large
city compelled tc endure for so
long.
Other Important Sieges.
Here are some of the most i'm
portant sieges of this war:
Warsaw. September 8, 1889 Sep
tember 81, 1899.
Odessa, August 10, 194l-October
II, 1941.
Tobruk, April IL, December
10, l94l.
Singapore, January 81, l942-Feb-
ruary Is, 1912
Corregidor, April 8, 1942-May g.
1912.
Sevastopol, November 7, 1941-
July 4, 1912.
Stalingrad, August 25, 1942-Octo-
ber %, 1912.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Small Business
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that hundreds of communities
throughout the country have alread,
been for weeks without adequate
supplies of meat and dairy prod
uctS."
Where has the food gomez" she
asked, pointing out that more was
produced in 1912 than ever before
What has become of it?"
The shortages, she testified, were
induced lin part, at least, by bu-
reaucratic bungling and a refusal
on the part of the Office of Price
Administration to accept q working
principle that neither producers nol
distributors can reasonably be ex-
pected to continue to operate at q
loss"
She recommended statutory re-
| organization of existing agencies OF
delegation of authority to establish
civilian supply administrator,
with power to determine essentia,
civilian requirements for goods ano
services and for materials, labor anc
facilities to produce and distribute
| them.
Such an administrator, she said
would represent the civilian part OF
| the war economy in administration
of the War Production Boards con-
trolled materials plan
Now. the witness added, seven sep
arate claimant agencies" deal with
civilian requirements. She described
appointment of Secretary of Agri-
culture Wickard as food admins
traitor step in the right direction.
Chairman Murray opened the ses-
sion with statement that the com
mittee planned to devise "construc-
tive measures" to solve the problems
Of civilian food and clothing needs
and to obtain voice for small busi-
ness in administration policy and
postwar planning.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
0A 10 Be Liberal
On Canned Goods
Kept in Case Of Raid
Must Be Declared, hut
Won't Be on Same Basis
AS Recent Purchases

When rationing of canned goods
goes into effect the housewife who
stocked up on such commodities
early last year at the suggestion of
the Government will be required to
declare the amount she then has on
hand, but coupons removed for this
purpose will be computed on more
liberal basis than those taken out
for recent purchases, it was indicat-
ed today at the Office of Price Ad-
ministration.
The general policy toward the
proyident housewife, used to keep
ing her shelves stocked, was describ-
ed in a letter from Leon Hender-
son, who retired as price adminis-
traitor yesterday, to Representative
Anderson, Republican, of California.
The letter was made public by Mr..
Anderson.
Mr.. Henderson recalled that there
were radio appeals last spring for
houSeholders to stock up on canned
goods in case of air attacks or other
war emergencies. There is no dispo-
sition to penalize those who needed
such appeals. he said, nor to punish
the proVident housewife" who al
ways has maintained a well-stocked
pantry.
Canned goods must he declared
when applying for the new ration
books, Mr.. Henderson wrote. But
coupons removed from books for
such declared canned goods will not
be equivalent coupon for coupon
with those surrendered for goods
purchased after the effective date of
the new ration program"
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Glomorize Farms and Keep BOYS
Behind PIows, Truman Urges
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Adding patriotic glamour to plow-
ing and planting is suggested by
Chairman Truman of the Senate
War Investigating Committee as one
way to keep EN- down on the
farm"
The need for promoting farming as
important war service has been pro-
claimed in many letters to his COM
mittee, Senator Truman told report
ers yesterday, and may be an i'm
portant phase of our manpower
study"
You have songs about the Navy,
about the Army, about the marines
and about war workers." he said.
You have entertainment for these
other groups.
Perhaps song in their honor
might help the farm boys to feel
more important in the war effort. A
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Boone N. C.) Students
Strike ut Dance Bon
By the Associated Press


BOONE, NJ c., Jan. 10. - A
student strike broke out at Appala-
chian State Teachers College today
after school authorities rejected
various student demands, including
the right to dance
A spokesman for the students said
500 or 95 per cent of the enrolment
remained away from classes but
President B. B. Dougherty placed
the number of strikers at about 200.
Those who walked out paraded
over the campus and through the
streets of this town carrying
placards reading: "A complete
student government, better cafe
terra service, better dormitory con-
ditions."
Students said present regulations
prohibit dancing under penalty of
expulsion.
Evening star., 1943-01-19

IN front Of the Commerce Build
ing. Two men took her to a first
aid station in the building. She
suffered injuries to the arm and
knee.
At the District Building the wind
blew in a window in the Office of
Commissioner John Russell Young
It also smashed two windows Of the
Office of Geoffrey NJ Thornett, sec
retary Of the Board of Commits
sioners.
The chimney blown over was at
1914 Thirty-SlXth street NV. There
was no one in the vicinity at the
time.
The wind also blew out a plate
glass show window, approximately
u by IS feet in size, on the Twelfth
street side Of the L. Frank Co. deal
ers in Women's apparel. at 1900 F
street NV. The window shattered
on the sidewalk. The cost of replac-
ing it had not been estimated, il
was said at the store,
A large tree was blown across
Canal road about 200 yards east OF
Chain Bridge It was quickly re-
moved by police and traffic was re.
sumed.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
Farm Machinery Held
Inadequate 10 Fulfill
1943Production Goals
Senote Investigators
Told Factory Output
Must Be Increased
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Food Production Administra-
tor M. Clifford Townsend told
Senate investigators today he
was fearful there's no chance"
of meeting 1943 production goals
without an increase in allot-
mentS for farm machinery.
Grove B. Hill, Assistant Secretary
Of Agriculture, said the farmers
needed new machinery up to so per
cent of 1910 manufacture, with 80
per cent of that figure "the absolute
minimum.
The War Production Boards al
loWance of critical materials to pro-
vide but % per cent of 1910 manu-
facture has been appealed to WPB
Chairman Donald M. Nelson by Sec
cretary of Agriculture Wickard. An
increase of at least 10 per cent was
asked by Mr.. Wickard.
Parts Output Boosted.
Joseph L. Weiner, director of
WPB'S Office of Civilian Supply,
earlier told the Senate War Investi-
eating Committee farmers were en-
tering 1943 with "the greatest aggre-
gate quantity of machinery in his
tory"
He testified that while new ma
chinery production had been cut, re-
pair parts production has been in
creased from planned 145 per cent
to l67 per cent of 1910 output. He
estimated 1943 total production
would be worth 1924 100, 900, or TAI
per cent of the average output dur
ing the l931-1940 period.
Says Farmers Are Equipped.
The increased production of repair
parts was decided on the assump-
ton, he said, that "if we keep
existing machinery in operation by
increasing available repairs more
total machinery will be kept in
operation with a given amount of
material than if that material were
expended in manufacturing new
machinery"
Mr.. Weiner said that with few
minor exceptions" farmers already
have equipped themselves to produce
l943 food goals through their ex-
traordinary farm machinery pur-
chases of 194l and 1912"
He said the farm machinery pro-
gram should result in release of
10000 skilled workers for armaments
manufacture.
Evening star., 1943-01-19
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, Jan. 19-Thirty-on
puzzled British seamen who came
here from South America could not
explain the action of an Axis subma-
rine that used five torpedoes, 25
shells and many rounds from ma
chine gun to sink their 22-year -old
ship.
The 81 men on board abandoned
the vessel after two torpedoes ex-
ploded The undersea raider did not
molest the crew, but kept right on
firing torpedoes. two OF which missed
Evening star., 1943-01-19

little road show in their honor. and
button or ribbon to wear wouldn't
hurt, either"
Representative Simpson, Repub-
lican newcomer from Illinois, mean
while proposed "A" tfor agriculturaD
awards for farmers. corresponding
to the Army Navy "E7 awards for
outstanding industrial production.
Mr.. Simpson told Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard in a letter he
approved of the industrial awards,
and added:
May I suggest that the farmers
of this Nation who are making
tremendous contributions, under
overwhelming handicaps, to the food
program be awarded an agricultural
"A in some form or other? I think
you will agree with me that their
contributions for the Nation and the
world are equally as important as
the manufacturers
Evening star., 1943-01-19

'SoHIlnued from t1rSt Page.)
House, to stop the bureaucrats
seeking to swallow up all legislative
power"
Mr.. Cox recalled that in 1899,
Henry T. Mcintosh, editor of the
Albany Herald, published in Mr..
Cox's home town. sought to obtain
broadcasting permit and discussed
the matter with Mr.. Cox. While the
application was pending. Mr.. Cox
said, Il made many visits to the
commission"
After the license had been granted
and the station had been in oper-
alton about year, he continued
a new corporation was formed to
take over it's operation because OF
the hostile attitude" of the FEC to
newspaper owned radio stations.
Ethical Transaction.
without any knowledge on my
part Mr.. Cox continued, the new
corporation issued stock in the
amount Of $4,000 in his name. the
stock subsequently having beer
turned over to a local charity. The
transaction, he explained, was per
fectly ethical and legitimate"
When he first undertook to in
vestigate the FEC in March. 1912
Mr.. Cox said, he was prompted by
complaints by small broadcasters
that the FEC and Mr. Fly were
undertaking to set up despotic
dictatorship over all media of con,
( versatiOn."
Immediately, he said, MI. Fly sem
out agents" and set a pack Of
wolves on my trail" These men
I described as 'Gestapo" by the Geor.
eian, "rif1ed' files, checked interna
revenue records and sought to OBJ.
/ tain Justice Department investiga
ton, Ito find something on me-" Mr.
/ Cox declared.
/ The FEC, he said, threatened tC
/ refuse TO renew the license of tn,
Herald'S station.
Mr.. Fish told the House the mat.
/ ter involved "the freedom of speech
and the freedom of discussion. ant
/ charged the radio was being used Il
smear people He urged unan
iflous approval Of the resolution.