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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
LABOR:
Open Steel Farley

With the United States Steel COM
pany leading the way, more than $50
steel producers agreed to enter. into
wage negotiations with the CLIO, rep
resenting 100000 workers in the in
dustry.
Employing 10000 workers, the
United States Steel company is the
nations greatest producer, operat-
ing through five subsidiaries which
turned out 81, 064, 900 tons last year.
CLIO demands II cents an hour
pay boost to Offset rises in living
costs which have allegedly increased
% per cent since January, 1871,
while wage raises have been limited
to Is per cent. Present hiring rates
are rs cents an hour.
In the meantime, the independent
union Of the National Steel company
asked minimum wage of 81 an
hour for 10000 employees, who
thrice previously had been granted
wage increases while CLIO and other
steel producers haggled over terms.
Senate Votes Boost
An eight cents an hour raise for
l,100,000 incorporating rail workers
was approved by the senate by
vote Of "a to 4 and sent on to the
house for consideration.
Composed Of clerks, machinists,
and cleaners, the unions originally
asked for 20 cent increase. A spe-
cial board appointed by the Presi-
dent recommended an overall eight
cent raise, but Economic Stabilizer
Vinson opposed it, proposing a SUBJ
stitute plan embracing a sliding
scale ranging from four to ten cents
more per hour. This latter schedule
would cost the railroads IS million
dollars a year less than the fiat eight
cent raise. s@
Opposition to the raise in congress
was based on the anti-infiation policy
of the administration, Vinson stating
that in his opinion, the eight cent
increase is q violation Of the Little
Steel formula, limiting wage IN
creases to IS per cent over January,
l941, levels.
Sen. Clyde Reed (Kan.) said
that If the senate rejected the plan
the workers would set strike date,
and then the government would have
to seize the railroads within four
or five weeks"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
CONGRESS-:
Surplus Funds

Government agencies with un-
spent appropriations would have to
turn their SURPRISES over to the U. S.
treasury under an amendment
adopted by the U. S. senate.
Sponsored by Sen. Kenneth Nc
Keller (Tenn.) the amendment was
part of $3O8,0O0,O0O deficiency APP
preparations bill later sent to joint
senate-house committee for settle
ment of differences between the two
congressional branches.
The amendment was directly
aimed against the budget bureau,
which recently took control over
$13, 1000, 900, 900 saved by the army out
Of its 81, 900, 0O0,0 appropriation.
The amendment also prohibited the
army from transferring 10 per cent
Of appropriations to other funds.
Said Senator McKeller: 6.
We (congress) don't want to sur
render our power to appropriate and
designate the purpose for which
money shall be spent"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
Better Rural Roads

The National Highway Users con-
ference calls my attention to a bill to
create within the Federal Works
agency a Rural Local Roads adj
ministration, independent of the Pub
lie Roads administration, to coop
crate with the states and their local
subdivisions in the construction Of
rural local roads. 1t is proposed
in S. 1893 by Senator Stewart Of
Tennessee.
The bill would authorize appropri-
atoms of 81, 125, 000, 900 by the federal
government to be made available at
the rate of $375, 900, 900 a year for
each Of the three years Immediately
following the end Of the war for con-
struction of all-weather rural local
roads.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Steady Progress Marks Allied Drive
In Italy; Repulse Maxi Counter Blows;
Steel Producers Open Wage Parleys
AS Go Asks Tic an Hour Pay Boost

DIToRs these they are noss
by Newspaper Union --
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24

greater resistance
TO the Germans.
Thus did the
garbled Jugoslav
situation take a
new twist. Brit
aims support Of
the communist
backed Broz came
after its formal
reco gnition Of
King Peters gov
eminent, but in
explaining its
about-face, Brit
ain said its policy
was to let the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
PRODUCTIONS:
Sees Long Var

Declaring 1914 munitions output
should rise to peak of 80 per cent
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
DADS DRAFT:
Million to Go

Because the services will require
1000, 900 men to build up the armed
forces to 10000 by July, 1914,
approximately 100000 fathers face
induction, Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey declared.
The other 1000, 600 men will be
obtained by recruiting 100000 IL
year-olds for the navy or marines,
and drafting 100000 18-year-olds,
SOC, 1000 formerly deferred because of
occupations, and 100000 reclassified
AIS and farm-exempts.
Deferments will be more difficult
to obtain and older workers will be
favored, Hershey said. Once the
services have attained their goal,
only about 100, 900 men will be draft
ed month, he added.
For the home front, the War Man
power commission trimmed esti-
mates for new workers by 100000
to 100000.
RUSSIA:
See-SdtU
Fighting see-sawed in Russia, with
the two giants clawing at each other
along 600 miles of snowy, wintry
front.
To the west Of the Ukraine's CAPT.
tai Of Kiev, the Russ fell back under
the heavy pressure of the Germans,
while farther to the south, the Reds
chewed deep into Nazi lines above
the iron center of Krivoi Rog.
Russian positions along the front
disrupted German use of north-south
railways. In the Kiev region, the
Reds blocked the line to Leningrad
and the north, while in the Krivoi
Rog area they snapped railroad
running along the whole German de-
tense system.
METAL SALVAGE
Stock piles Of strategic metals are
now considered sufficient for any
foreseeable needs. apparently, as
the Steel Recovery corporation has
lust been dissolved, its task full
filed. Only q week earlier, the Cop
per Recovery corporation began dis
solution. Similar action has been
taken by the aluminium organization.
There are huge supplies in the
hands Of thousands Of dealers, job
hers. retailers and customers, it is
stated. The metal stocks were UNI
covered by questionnaires.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
Too Long FurIong


Calker = You say you were
locked $40 this week because you
went on furlong? You mean q
furlough.
Rigger-No, I mean furlong-I
went too fur and stayed too long.
Improved Description
Dofs-Don'f you think l slioiO disfiHc-
tion in my clothes?
Jimmy-Well, err, that is, think dis
finctly iCould be better tUord.
Conservative
Woman (whose car had stalled
in the middle of the street)-Why
did you bump into me? Couldn't
you have driven around my car?
Man-Lady, only have an "A'
card.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-24
Remove Feed Duties

To encourage additional feed inn
ports for shortage areas, the house
Evening star., 1943-08-04
21,52O Tons Of Bombs
Rained on Axis-HeId
Europe in Month
BY the Associated Press.

by lne ASsQCiateQ freSS.
LONDON, Aug. 4-American and
RAF bomoers thundered down 81 $40
tons of high explosives on Hitler
dominated Europe during July
more than So times as much as the
Germans ever dropped on British
city in a blitz raid
The greatest air offensive of the
war made Hamburg its major tar
get, 1910 tons being dropped on
that battered seaport.
These figures, given today in an
Air Ministry review, did not include
the thousands of tons of bombs
| dropped on Mediterranean areas by
! Allied air forces based in Africa
! Nor did it include the tonnage
| dropped by RAF and American me-
dium and fighter bombers in day
light forays across the Channel
Tonnage totals in these raids were
not released
1902 Axis Planes Downed.
During the same period of July
Allied aircraft maintained better
than tWo-to-one advantage over
the Axis air forces in aircraft loss
es, shooting down 1902 over Eur
ope. England. Malta. North Africa
and the Middle East for the loss
of 596.
Major targets in the bombing as
sault from Britain included Cologne
twice, GelSenkrchen, Aachen, Essen
and Remscheid, all in the Ruhr.
Italy was attacked four times by
planes from Britain. Turin was hit
on July II, then Lancasters at
tackled power stations feeding the
railway system on the nights of
July Is and 16. The Lancasters
went on to African bases and on
their return attacked Leghorn,
Northern Italian port, with high
explosives.
The heavy assaults forced the
Ruhr drastically to reorganize its
defense services, the Air Ministry
said.
Five hundred of the Axis planes
destroyed fell to United States heavy
bombers and Thunderbolts based in
Britain, while 108 Flying Fortresses
failed to return from raids.
Britain Bombed Eight Times.
The North African Allied air
forces shot down 496 Axis planes
Tor the loss of 100.
Home-based planes of the Raj
destroyed 129 enemy planes and lost
258, most of them heavy bombers, in
night attacks on Germany.
In the Middle East II Axis air.
craft were destroyed, against the loss
of 80 Allied planes.
The Raj lost one plane over
Britain.
In contrast to the violent attacks
against Germany, Marshal Goering's
highly -touted Luftwaffe made only
one day bombing attack on Britain
during the month and seven night
assaults. German planes over Brit
ain during the month totaled less
than $50, fewer than during any
previous month in the year and less
than any single one of the big
Allied attacks
Evening star., 1943-08-04
Argentina Admits
Success Of Allied
War on U-Boats

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 4.-Argen-
tina last night acknowledged the
success of the Allied war against
submarines by ordering its state
owned merchant ships to use the
port of New York instead of New
Orleans, thereby disregarding the
German blockade.
An official announcement said a
decree ordered by the former gov
ernment of President Ramon S.
Castillo which forbade Argentine
ships from entering the German
blockade zone along the eastern
shore of the United States has been
abrogated.
The ships were ordered to use New
Orleans instead of New York In July,
1912. after Germany announced its
blockade June 6, 1912. The Germans
offered to permit Argentine vessels
to use the blockade zone but the
offer was never accepted. Since
then rs per cent of the Argentine
ships have been sent to the West
Coast, the rest to New Orleans.
The decision by the new govern
ment of President Pedro Ramirez
Evening star., 1943-08-04

appeared to have no connection with
any possible defiance of the Axis
governments or break in relations
with them.
The new Argentine government
has announced that it is willing to
cooperate with other American gov
ernments. but has given no sign that
it intends to break diplomatic rela-
tions with Axis governments. 1t ap-
peared, rather, that American patrol
and attack measures, which have
greatly reduced submarine sinkings,
have made the route along the East
tern United States coast relatively
safe.
Argentine ships. as the ships Of a
neutral, always have travelled fully
lighted and in some cases have noti-
fed the Axis of their course.
The action also reasserted Argen-
tines rights of free navigation as a
neutral-rights which the previous
government claimed in principle but
relinquished in practice.
Evening star., 1943-08-04

Stan Laurel. movie comedian. was
granted $500 temporary alimony
monthly yesterday pending trial OF
her suit for separate maintenance.
She charges cruelty.
Superior Judge Goodwin J.
Knight also granted her $4,000 on
account for attorneys fees. Her
husbands lawyers told the court
she already receives $3.50 q month
from real estate, insurance and a
salary agreement with Mr.. Laurel,
who testified his gross income SO far
this year was S48,800.
Evening star., 1943-08-04

background Of cooperation and
friendship on which to base their
future co-ordinated efforts to meet
the problems Of war and peace.
Earlier. Mr.. Atherton presented
MS credentials to the governsr-
general. the Earl of Athlone, at
Rideau Hall.
Evening star., 1943-08-04
Roy Atherton Takes Up
His Duties at Ottuwu
BY the Associated Press.

bs tHe hSSOSfNttu FTeSs.
OTTAWA, Aug. 4.-Formally tax
ing up his duties as new United
States Minister to Canada. Raw
Atherton said at his first press con-
ference here yesterday that Ameri-
cans hope for "a continuation of the
exchange of goods to our mutual ad-
vantage"
He remarked that Americans and
Canadians have tremendous
Evening star., 1943-08-04
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Evening star., 1943-08-04
Stun loureI's Wife Gets
$500 Monthly AIimony

BY the Associated Press.
Los ANGELES, Aug. 4--Mrs. Vir-
ginia Ruth Laurel, estranged wife of
Evening star., 1943-08-04

JUNIOR MISSES
Evening star., 1943-03-21
Downed Flyers
Hide in Cactus,
Escape Nozis
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March 20.-Two
American fighter pilots are back
with their squadron after making
forced landing inside enemy lines
in Tunisia within range of a Ger
man anti-tank gun.
No sooner had they landed than
the gun opened fire on them. Both
TAXED over rough terrain and one
managed to take off, but the other
plane was hit by a shell while still
on the ground AS it burst into
flames the pilot leaped from the
plane and ran for cover.
The other pilot in the air saw
what had happened and went for
the anti-tank gun. He knocked it
out temporarily and then landed to
pick up his cOmrade who crammed
himself into the plane.
But the nose wheel sank in a
patch of soft sand and the plane
could not be budged. So. while shells
from other guns were bursting
around them. both flyers ran to a
stretch of cactus.
A tank and mOrtOrCyCliSt came to
get them, but after a long search
during which the pilots lying in the
cactus heard the voices of the tank
crew and sychSt-gave up the job
The flyers hiked overland and
were picked up by British patrol.
Evening star., 1943-03-21
BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, March 20.
Farms which three years ago were
scarcely able to grow weeds after
200 years of one-crop farming are
beginning to flower again at the
hands of the Plain People who have
migrated to historic st. MaryS
County from their fertile hill farms
of Pennsylvania.
Like their forefathers, who sought
freedom in the United States, the
Amish Of st. Marys County left rich
farms to escape strict Pennsylvania
school laws They have taken up
their life again in a section where,
though land is poor, school laws DO
not affect the training of their chill
dren.
And here their farms. said by
natives of the New Market section
of the county to have been among
the poorest land in st. Marys." are
beginning to flower again after three
years.
Neighbors Hail Results.
AS one ST. Marys native who
ton and store and farms a small
tract of land said:
Il suppose it's a good thing the
AmiSh came to ST Marys. If they
hadn't. the Lord knows what would
have become of the land I guess
it would have wasted away to
nothing"
A strict people, who believe in
agriculture as the only way of life.
Is Amish families migrated to ST.
MaryS County three years ago
Honest and Industrious they went
to work straightway to improve
their land and to erect the great
barns which to them are essential
TO farming.
Now their fields stand out from
the barren and denuded land about
them. and their farms. heavily ma
nured, are fast becoming self
SubsiSting.
Almost Self Subsisting.
The Amish people have made no
concessions to St. MaryS land. but
are farming the same way they did
on the more fertile Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1943-03-21
W. & 0. D. Streum|iner to Start
Passenger Service Tomorrow

Engineer G. D. Carneal, who lives
in LeeSburg, will take the train up
from Washington this afternoon in
readiness for the first pay trip
The conductor will be G. N. Cum
ningham.
Commuters who board the train
at Leesburg will pay 75cent fare
plus a Accent tax, officials said. Fares
from other principal points along
the line Will be as follows: Ashburn,
60 cents plus 3 cents tax; Sterling
55 cents plus cent tax: Herndon,
45 cents plus cents tax; Vienna
25 cents Dunn Loring, 20 cents;
Falls Church, IS cents, and from
Fostoria on in to Rosslyn, 10 cents.
At the Rosslyn end of the line, it
was said, the Capital Transit Co.
will have street cars available to
bring commuters to points in the
District.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

Residents of Northern Virginia
who travel each day to jobs in the
District will leave their autos in
their garages tomorrow morning to
ride The Washington 81 Old Domin-
ions new streamline train on its
maiden passenger run from Lees
burg TO RoSsyln-or so officials OF
the railroad hope.
For the first time in two years
a passenger train will leave Lees
burg at am. tomorrow. 1t will
take on Washington commuters at
about 38 stops along the 38-mile
run into Rosslyn, where it Is eX-
pected TO arrive at TAO o oclock-in
plenty OF time for workers to reach
their Offices.
There Is expected to be no hitch
IN the resumption of commuter
service. Oficials of the line said
Evening star., 1943-03-21
Star Staff Photo.

on their effort and attendance,
rather than on results. So far,
Mr. Gallington said, there has been
little skipping" of classes.
An element of competition has
been injected into the course by the
girls, who were said to progress
faster than the boys in electric-arc
Welding Mr.. Gallington explained
that a steady hand is essential in
this type of work, and added that
the girls apparently surpassed in
this respect.
The boys are better in machine
shop work and both groups are
equally as good in sheet-metal
work, he declared.
In addition to practical work. the
students receive training in blue
print reading and shop vocabulary.
They learn, for example, that a
flute" is spiral groove winding
around the body of drill and that
template" is fiat pattern usually
made on galvanized sheet steel.
With most of the boys in the
class scheduled to enter the armed
forces after they are graduated,
Mr.. Gallington said the shop train
ing would prove of value on the
battlefield.
They will understand how to op-
crate machines" he said, "and will
be able to improve and repair war
equipment"
Principal credit for the idea of
setting up the course goes to DR..
H. c. Byrd, president of the uni
versity, Mr.. Gallington said.
The entire project is a co-opera-
tive one, he added, with the univer-
sity providing the Institutional pro-
gram and the NYA furnishing the
machines and other equipment.
Besides the five regular instruc-
tors, experienced students teach
others in the classes.
Evening star., 1943-03-21
St. Morys County Form|onds
Flower Under Hands of Anish

fields. This includes growing corn
and other grains, and, above all, the
production of livestock which fur
nish the all-important manure for
their fields.
Elan Stoltzfus (Which translated
means Proudfoot), one of the
younger Amish farmers and a SON.
in-law Of Benjamin Stoltzfus, lead
er of the colony, said the Amish
farms are now almost self f-subSist-
ing. He said it was necessary this
stock
The farm labor shortage has not
bothered the AmiSh to any great
extent, he said, as members of the
colony help each other when work
piles up. When the great barns were
raised their kinfolk came down from
Pennsylvania to help.
"As I see it," Mr.. Stoltzfus said,
mo one owns the land so completely
that he has the right to let it waste
away
Treat Land as Heritage.
He added that the land is a her-
tage which man should use without
exploitation.
Mr.. Stoltzfus told of a neighbor
who had asked him to haul sand to
repair her road When this loo
was done, he said, she then wanted
to buy a load of manure.
Manure is more precious than gold
to the Amish, since it means more
fertile fields, SO Mr.. Stoltzfus de-
clined to part with even one load
but explained that she could have
her own manure pile if she would
keep a COW or two.
He said this womans husband
works at the Cedar Point naval
project, distance of 27 miles, and
thinks nothing of being on the road
by 5 O'Clock in the morning
Growing Herbs.
This man will do this work as a
matter Of course he said, but
| could not be made to spend the same
amount Of time on his land"
In one field near the house sew
eral hundred sage plants were grow
ing. Mr.. StoltZfus explained that
several Baltimore seed concerns had
asked the Amish tC grow herbs
commercially. So far the sage has
not proved altogether successful,
but it might improve with time, he
said.
He said his wife cans all food for
home consumption but has not yet
tried methods for drying certain
fruits and vegetables His farm pro-
/ duces fruit enough for home con-
sumption, and garden provides
vegetables for summer use and win
ter canned supplies
A herd Of eight cows provides milk
and butter and above all manure for
the land, and the farm work is done
with the help of team of heavy
draft horses. A flock of chickens
for meat ard eggs rounds out his
program.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

For approximately 326 seniors at
the University of Maryland, the
sputtering of electric arcs and the
whirring of lathes have become
familiar sounds. prerequisites for
their college diplomas.
Eight hours each day for Is weeks,
these students must take machine
shop practice, electric-arc Welding
and aircraft sheetmetal work The
university is the first liberal, arts in
stitution in the country to make
such training compulsory, officials
of the school claim
Each student will receive four
weeks training in sheet-metal work,
six weeks in machine-shop prac-
tice and four weeks in electric-arc
welding
After completing the course, they
will be able to get job in any shop
in the country needing men with
such training, according to Ralph
O. Gallington, in charge of instruc-
ton.
Several of the 1913 girls in the
class already have asked where to
apply for jobs after they graduate,
Mr.. Gallington said.
While some of the students at
first expressed resentment at being
forced to take the training. they
later entered into the project very
WE'LL" he said.
Practically all of the students have
progressed SO we'll they are now
turning out material for the Navy,
he said They are paid for the
work by the National Youth Ad-
ministration at the rate of SO
a month.
Since some of the engineering
students had previous experience
in machine shop work, grading
system was worked out, designed to
be fair to all Students are Judged
Evening star., 1943-03-21
Plans Postwar Study

The Arlington County Chamber of
Commerce is setting up a postwar
planning committee to work on en-
ployment and production problems,
it was announced yesterday by Paul
A, Hill, secretary business manager
OF the organization.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-17
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