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Evening star., 1943-02-17
Railroad Wage Par|e\
Ends as Both Sides
Invoke Mediation
Emergency Board Due
To Institute Processes
Beginning Tomorrow
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-Wage nego-
tiations between representatives of
railroads and $4,000 members of
five operating brotherhoods were
terminated. today without agree
ment and the services of the Ma
tlonal tRailWay) Mediation Board
were invoked Jointly by both sides.
Mediation processes will be insti-
tuted in Chicago tomorrow, Phil
Otterbach, spokesman for the car
rier5. announced.
The union wage demands were
for 80 per cent pay increase or a
minimum raise of So day, and filed
the formal request with the carriers
on January IS.
The first direct conference nego-
tiations between management and
labor were begun yesterday.
Complex Rate Base.
Present rates of the operating
employees embrace complex classi-
f1cations based on the type of work.
Engineers are paid a minimum of
about $3.50 day. Some sWitchmen
earned about $582 day in the low
est bracket for operating employees.
The operating s>nployes are loco
motive engineers, firemen and en-
ginemen, conductors, trainmen and
switchmen.
The negotiations are separate from
the demand of Is cooperating
brotherhoods of incorporating per-
sonnel, embracing about 100000 per-
sons, for a wage increase OF 20 cents
an hour, with 70-cent minimum.
Emergency Panel.
Wage demands of the non-oper-
ating workers went through nego-
tiation and mediation without
agreement and now rests with an
emergency mediation panel under
procedure outlined in an executive
order by President Roosevelt Feb
ruary 5.
Representing labor in the operat-
ing unions case were Alvanley
Johnston of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers; D. B. Robert
son of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen;
H. w. Fraser of the Order of Rail
way Conductors; A. F. Whitney of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, and T. c. Cashen, Switchmen's
Union of North America.
Management representatives were
H. A. Enochs, chairman of the East
ern Roads Conference Committee;
John B. Parrish, Southeastern roads.
and Daniel P. Loomis, Western
roads.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
House Lops S180,00(
From Budget Bureau
By 84-to-36 Vote
Cut Follows Slash of
81 ,400, 900 in Funds for
Planning Board
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congress struck another direct
financial blow at a presidential
agency today by looping $4,000
from the Budget Bureau alloca-
ton as debate was resumed on
the $2,621, ,1O4,379 independent
offices bill, already slashed of
ST 100000 for the National Re-
sources Planning Board.
The new cut in the bill came on
a standing vote of "a to 36, despite
plea from Representative Wood
rum, Democrat. of Virginia, and is
subject to a later roll call vote.
Urging the House not to be penny
wise and pound foolish the Vir-
ginian referred to the elimination
OF funds for the planning board and
said this (the Budget Bureau is
the only other agency which the
President has to give him con-
fidential information in these trou-
bled days"
Hands outstretcled, he turned to
the Republican side. asserting: I'm
willing to go along with you on any
real economy. But this is not
economy"
Speaking of the aid he said the
bureau has given the House Appro-
priations Committee in studying
Federal expenditures, he quoted
Representative Dirksen, Republican,
OF Illinois, one of the leaders of the
minority's economy bloc, as praising
its work.
But Representative Taber, Re-
publican, of New York shouted
that the bureau had been Serving
every other function except that
for which it was created-that of
saving money"
Evening star., 1943-02-17
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Feb. 17.-Three Brit
ish submarines, rowing the Gen.
tral Mediterranean, have de-
Stroyed six and probably seven
Axis supply ships and damaged
one other, the Admiralty an
nounced today.
-Four of the ships were sunk and
two others were damaged so badly
they had to be beached, it was an
nounced.
The actions ranged from the east
ern shore of Tunisia to the coasts Of
Sicily and Italy.
One submarine in a daring oper-
alton, Shelled a train in a railway
station. on the northern coast of
Sicily and scored many hits, the
announcement said.
In addition to the Axis supply ships
destroyed or damaged, another was
torpedoed while travelling in a strong
escort and probably was sunk, the
communique said.
This ship was travelling with an
Evening star., 1943-02-17
j. ). Purchase Of Live
Animals Proposed TO
Curb Black Market
Registration Of Public
Also Advocated by
House Committee
BY the Associated Press.


A suggestion for Government
purchase of live animals and for
registration of every person who
sells controlled meat as a means
to combat the black market in
meat and to keep small packers
in business appeared to be gain
ing support today in the House
Small Business Committee.
David Ginsburg, general counsel
for the Office of Price Administra-
ton, described the plan as worth
considering" after Chairman Pat
man asked whether it would not
prove feasible to accomplish the
double objective.
The proposal was advanced yes
terday by Wilbur La Roe, jr., coun-
sci for the National Independent
Meat Packers Association, who said
the industry was suffering from
Government action in fixing ceilings
on meat products, but not on the
live animals.
Threat to Ration Milk. .*
A Senate committee was told,
meanwhile, that an OPA order
freezing milk prices to farmers was
the beginning of the bustup and
breakdown of OPA" and would make
inevitable the rationing of milk.
The testimony came from Charles
B. Holman, representing the Milk
Producers Federation.
In opposition to this stand was
radio speech last night by Price Ad-
ministrator Brown in which he de-
clared he wanted "fiatly and vigor-
ousiy' to diSsipate any impression
that he favored appeasement on
price control. He added there should
be no surrender to those seeking to
break farm parity prices and wage
stabilizat ton policies.
Discussing the meat situation
further before the House group, Mr..
Glnsburg contended that ceiling
prices were sufficiently high at the
present time to allow fair profit
tc the major output" Of the packing
industry.
Will Raise Some Prices.
If" he added, you seek to raise
prices where it will cover the costs
Of the least efficient producers. then
YOU have raised them beyond the
point of stability"
"Of course, you've got to raise
some prices" injected Mr.. Patman.
something has got to be done, and
| done quickly"
Mr.. Patman added that the Army,
Navy and Maritime Commission
recognized that small companies
must be given prices high enough to
keep them in business, and declared
Il can't understand why this policy
isn't recognized by OPA."
Mr.. La Roe yesterday declared
that the meat price regulations and
quota regulations have resulted in
the worst black market in the his
tory of our country"
Illicit slaughterers, he said, are
outbidding legitimate dealers who
must operate under packing and re-
failing price controls.
Visions Milk Scarcity.
Mr.. Holman, testifying before a
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee,
said that SO far he knew mo milk
strike will come out of the milk
price-freezing) order"
But. he added, farmers will lose
heart" and there will be an ac-
celeration of the rate at which COWS
| lSao AGP1CIII IrI1PE, pana A 81
Evening star., 1943-02-17
0Conne|| S Resignation
As Postal Aide Accented

President Roosevelt today ac-
cepted the resignation of Ambrose
O'Connell as First Assistant Post
master General and expressed con-
fidence that Mr.. O'Connell will be
a success" in his new venture" as
vice chairman of the Democratic
National Committee.
The resignation and appointment
Of Mr.. O'Connell to the commit
tee post was announced Monday by
Postmaster General Walker, new
committee chairman.
The White House made public to-
day an exchange of letters in which
Mr.. O'Connell told the President he
always would be "eager to serve"
him in any way, and Mr.. Roosevelt
expressed sincere regret" at Mr..
O'Connel leaving Government
service.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
New u. ). Cruiser Biloxi
To Be Launched Tuesday
BY the Associated Press

BY Inc Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb IT
A new cruiser, to bear the name of
Biloxi will go down the ways Tues
day at the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock Co. plant.
Mrs. Louis Braun, wife of a for
mer Mayor of the Mississippi town,
will christen the new warship.
The Biloxi was laid down July 9,
l941.
The Biloxi, first naval vessel to
carry the name, will be the third
ship of her class launched at the
Newport News plant. The Birming-
ham was launched here March 20,
and the Mobile followed on May Is.
Also launched at the Newport
News yards in the past year were
the aircraft carriers, the Essex,
flrSt of a new class, and her sister
ship, the new Yorktown.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
laps Reported Driven
To Within = MiIesof
Mubo, Near Sa|amaua
Allied Flyers BIost
Enemy in New Guinea
And Portuguese Timor
By the Associated Press.

Allied troops on the offensive
in New Guinea were reported to-
day to have driven the japanese
back within 21a miles of Mubo,
only II miles below the big enemy
base at Salamaua, while United
Nations warplanes again blasted
the japanese over a wide expanse
of the South Seas.
Details of the new Allied land ad-
vance. reported by the Australian
Broadcasting Commission, were not
given.
Gen. Douglas MacArti.ur's head
quarters announced, however, that
the main enemy forces were con-
tinuing their withdrawal toward
Salamaua and said Australian pa
trols killed II Japanese troops.
In the air, Allied flyers pounded
japanese forces at Salamaua and
Lac, New Guinea, and reached out
across the Timor Sea to attack jap
anese- occupied Dill, in Portuguese
Timor.
Two bombing raids on Japanese
positions in the Shorthand Islands
area of the Solomons were reported
today by the Navy in a communicate
which said two American planes
failed to- return. Ballale Island and
Kahili, on Bougainville, were the
targets.
Solomons Mystery Ended.
Meanwhile, the mystery of the
missing sea a-air battle of the Solo
mons had been solved and the
scoreboard showed:
japanese losses-17 ships sunk or
damaged and at least 63 planes
! destroyed.
American losses-two ships sunk
the 9,050-ton cruiser Chicago and an
| unnamed destroyer-and % planes
downed
All except one of the blows de-
/ livered to the enemy ships came
from the air; the other involved a
fight between a Japanese destroyer
and American torpedo boats. Thus
apparently, major units of the two
forces never came to blows.
The story of the vanished battle
came in two Navy communiques yes
terday, revealing details of the fight
ing from January % through Feb
ruary Is, including a aforementioned
major effort of the JapS to retake
Guadalcanal.
Shrouded in Silence.
After the original report some two
weeks ago, that action subsequently,
was shrouded by Official silence and
minimizing comments until yester-
days first communique telling OF
the Today battle which paralleled
the smashing of all enemy resistance
on Guadalcanal. 1t covered the
period up to February 4.
The second communique told OF
successful air actions which scored
hits on two enemy destroyers ano
shot down at least two and possibly
three Zeros on February 7, anc
bombed japanese positions or
kolombangara Island and Munda
New Georgia Island, on February Is
No United States planes were lost.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
Habitua||Y Absent Workers
To Be RecIassified
BY the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17.-A
draft board with supervision over a
district heavily populated with Navy
Yard employees announced today
that draft-eligible war workers
found to be habitually absent from
their employment will be reclassified
and given la status.
The decision came after the House
Naval Affairs Committee at Wash
ington initiated legislation designed
to halt absenteeism among civilian
employees of Navy yards.
I'VE feel that an absentee is a
Stacker working in a defense plant
to keep from going into the service"
said A. Lincoln Myers, appeal agent
for Draft Board No. Sc. THE action
will be taken against any absentee,
whether he works in the Navy Yard
or in a two-by-four machine shop"
Some other Philadelphia boards
indicated they planned similar
action.
Evening star., 1943-02-17

Coconut milk, as we'll as colchi-
chine, is an essential factor in ex-
periments such as the SWedeS have
been conducting, DR.. Blakeslee said
when he was told of the above dis
patch from London.
DR.. BlakeSlee, now director of the
Smith College Genetics Experiment
Station, Northampton, Mass, said
today that colchichine gives fertility
to hybrid plants which usually are
sterile-mule hybrids, he called
them-by doubling the number of
chromosomes in the hybrid
He said it could be expected that
hybrid once made fertile would
reproduce ad infinitum.
Many plant hybrids have been
developed in the past, the doctor
said, in grains, tobacco, cotton and
in others. Without colchichine they
would not reproduce
Two steps are necessary toward
getting fertile hybrid, the doctor
/ said.
First, the tiny embryos of the
mule hybrid-each a fraction of a
| millimeter in length-are bathec
in coconut milk. This bath enables
the embryo to grow out into large
sterile hybrid plants.
Then the mule is treated with the
colchichine, which makes it fertile
Chromosomes are cells which con-
jugate and make reproduction pos
sible. Doubling their number in a
hybrid plant turns the hybrid from
sterile into a fertile plant This
is the great accomplishment OF
| colchichine.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
300 ChiIeons Attempting
To Enter Argentina Held

ny me Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 1.-THE
War Ministry disclosed yesterday
that 300 Chilean citizens seeking to
enter Argentina secretly had been
arrested by national military police
in San Juan Province as a result
Of precautionary measures adopted
since Chile broke relations with
the Axis.
The Chileans were ordered held
at San Juan pending the Argen-
tine governments study OF the case
1t was not disclosed whether they
were Axis sympathizers, but War
Minister Gen. Pedro Ramirez said
he had ordered reinforcements of
military police sent to the border
provinces to prevent additional lille
gal attempts to enter the country.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
Admiral Brownrigg, 81,
JutIond Hero, MISSING

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 17.-Admiral Sir
Studholme Brownrigg, 81, a hero
of the battle of Jutland in the
World War and a convoy commo-
dore in the current conflict, was
reported missing today.
No details were announced.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
RAF Blasts Airdrome
At Muqwe, in Burma
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, Feb. 17-RAF
bombers attacked the japanese air
drome at Magwe, Burma, last night
dropping number of 1,000-pound
bombs on the target, a British
communique said today.
Earlier yesterday bomberS es-
corted by fighters raided several
enemy-occupied villages, most OF
them on Akyab Island, it was an
nounced.
All the planes returned safely, the
communique said.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
RommeI Illness Doubted

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Feb. II (P).-A
rumor has circulated on the TuniS-
ian front that Marshal Erwin ROM
mel had become i'll and returned to
Germany but competent officers at
Allied headquarters viewed the re-
port today with the greatest skepti-
cism They pointed out that it
might have been planted by the
Axis.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
Virginia Gold Cup Races
Cancelled Because of War

WARRENTON, Va, Feb. 1.-THE
Virginia Gold Cup races, one of the
Fasts principal steeplechase events,
will not be held this year because of
wartime conditions.
Cancellation of the 1943 races,
planned for the first Saturday in
May, was ordered by the Race Com
mittee of the Virginia Gold Cup As
sociation, after cancellation of the
Maryland Hunt and Grand National
and other timber races in the Mid
Atlantic section.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
Gondhi Has Better Duy

NEW DELHI, Feb. II l41-Mo-
handaS K. Gandhi, Indian leader
now in the eighth day OF a 2l-day
fast in protest against his confne-
ment by British authorities, spent a
better day yesterday, the govern
ment report on his condition said
today
Evening star., 1943-02-17
American Troopship
Torpedoed, Berlin
Broadcast Claims

b the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. ia Berlin
broadcast recorded by Reuters
News Agency said today the
United States troopship John
Ericsson, Of more than 10000
tons, has been torpedoed eff the
Moroccan coast"
There was no continuation
of the report from any Allied
source.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
New Type of Grain Developed
With Drug Introduced in D. {.
Swedish Scientists Produce Hybrid Which May
Aid in Feeding Millions After War

of the worlds lumber. Colchicnine
was introduced first six years ago at
the Carnegie Institution in Wash
ington by DR.. A. F. Blakeslee.
Evening star., 1943-02-17

(See AGRICULTURE, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1943-02-17

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages Tx and 2-X of this edition of
The Star, supplementing the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

q seaAvem yova HEAD and see for your
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Evening star., 1943-03-21

~EoPLE that live in Topeka,
= Kansas, don't have to worry
much - SO far, anyway -
about enemy airplanes comm
over. But on the coasts there amt
a square foot of sky that amt
looked at from several directions
every minute of the "a hours.
Take the case of Missus Violet
Branch, of little place in New
Jersey. | heard about her from
Jake Bulls, over at Wagon No. 2,
an Jake heard about her from
Lieutenant Carl Tucker. He heard
about her from Colonel Milton
Stout of the Fighter Command,
who got it from a bomber pilot
named Lieutenant Bill Meade.
So you can see how news
travels. Only this happens to
be good news, an not a mill
tary secret any longer.
Well, Missus Branch has volun-
teered to be an airplane spotter.
This means she spends from two to
six hours at a time up on tower
with a pair of field glasses an one
companion, while the two of 'em
spots an Identifies planes. When
they see one they telephone the
Army which says Thank you
Then the Army looks at a chart or
somethin' an say to each other,
"Oh, yes, that's the 5:23 from
Boston, or Los Angeles" or what
ever it is. They know exactly where
every plane is every minute.
The other day, however, Missus
Violet Branch has looked UP in the
air so long she is seein' spots be
fore her eyes. An so she looks out
to sea to rest her optics.
Few minutes later she has got
the Army on the phone.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

Pardon me for worryin' you."
says Missus Branch, "but ! see
something out on the ocean that
just bobbed up from nowhere."
With that the Army's feet
bounced down off its desk, an in
about three minutes Pilot Bill
Meade is in the air headin' for the
spot. Sure enough, there was a
German submarine out there -
and a US. tanker not 25 miles
away!
Lieutenant Bill put an ash-can
depth charge into the sub an saw
oil spreadin' all over the water for
mile. 1t was from the subma-
rine's busted tanks.
A couple minutes later Missus
Branch calls the Army again.
Maybe I'm going crazy" she
says, but a plane flew in from the
ocean just now an cut lot of di-
does right over this lookoutr
So the Army looked at the
chart an told Missus Branch
that this meant she was gettin'
a personal thank-yOu from
Pilot Bill Meade!
An by the way, Lieutenant
Carl Tucker happened to be tellin'
Jake all this because more air
plane spoilers is needed - men
or women. All you got to do, if you
can spend a couple of hours or
more, some time of day, some one
or more days or nights in the week.
is to telephone the Chief Observer
of Office of Civilian Defense in
your town. He'll tell you the rest.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Greenslade Gives Reason
For Smashing Nazis First
By the Associated Press

BY Ihe AsSoclated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 2e.-one
OF the reasons for knocking Hitler
out Of the war first is to enable the
United Nations to build up sufficient
strength in the Pacific Ito make our
peace with Toxic in Toxic" Vice
Admiral j. w. Greenslade said today.
Admiral Greenslade's statement
came on his third anniversary as
commander Of the Western Sea
Frontier.
He said the submarine will be
brought under control by new weap-
ons Of naval warfare. He did not
elaborate.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
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Evening star., 1943-04-29
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