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Evening star., 1943-05-25
Produce Firm Is Sued
By 0PA for S1,411
In Potatoes Sale
Treble Damages Asked
In District Court in
Over-CeiIinq Case

The Office of Price Adminis-
tration today filed suit for
S1,41195 in District Court for
treble damages" against Eman-
uel Cohen and Jacob Lehrman,
said to be co-partners of the
Washington Produce Co. of the
1900 block of Fifth street NE,
for alleged above-ceiling sales of
potatoes.
John L. Laskey, chief attorney for
the District OPA, said the amount
of the suit represented three times
the alleged total overcharge on the
potato sales. Explaining that the
OPA had recourse to civil action,
Mr.. Laskey said it was the intent
of the price-control agency to take
the profit out of over-ceiling sales.
The suit quotes an OPA regulation
as the authority for the treble
damages sought. When told of the
suit, Mr.. Cohen said he had no
statement to make Immediately.
The suit claimed that on May 10
the defendants sold and delivered
to the Square Deal Market, Inc,
thirty 50-pound sacks of potatoes
for total amount of $96.60, which
the OPA contended was S29.7O more
than if the potatoes had been sold
at ceiling prices.
The suit also claimed that on the
same day the defendants sold 2e3
50-pound sacks of potatoes to the
Giant Food Shopping Center. Inc,
for S94346. In this transaction, the
OPA said the transaction exceeded
the maximum price ceilings by
$288O7.
On May Is, the suit alleged that
the company sold another 273 So
pound sacks to the shopping center,
exceeding the ceilings on that oc-
casion by sl5268, The suit asked
that the company be enjoined from
any further selling or making of de-
liveries above ceiling prices.
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Earlier Story on Page A-16.)

NA~s~~ AASA oSOAJ OAA l "6S n-AVsJ
Many women in the United States
may have to go barelegged, not be-
cause of any dictate of style, but
chiefly because rayon yarn, the
stuff that hosiery is now made of,
has gone to war.
That disclosure was made this aft
ernoon before House subcommittee
investigating Office of Price Admin
istration proposals to substitute off,
cial grades for brand names of
consumer goods.
T. H. Mueller, president OF. Julius
Kayser & Co., New York, testified
that the recent monthly allotment
of rayon hosiery yarn has been cut
Is per cent because the material
is used in the making of synthetic
rubber tires and for other purposes
that are more important to the
war effort than the manufacture of
rayon hosiery"
He also complained that hosiery
manufacturers may be forced to go
out Of business altogether because
Of OPA price ceilings.
Mr.. Mueller said his Arm suspend
Evening star., 1943-05-25
dead Officers
Infant Daughter
| Receives Medal
the Associated Press.

BOSTON. May 25.-Unaware of
the significance, Tiny Patricia Gail
Kehoe, 7-month-old daughter of
First 1t. Kenneth Francis Kehoe,
today received Purple Heart medal
"a posthumous award to her IA
ther-from Maj Gen. Sherman F..
Miles, commanding lst Service
Command
1t. Kehoe formerly of Lawrence,
was killed in action in the North
African area on March 30. He never
saw his daughter
The blue-eyed child looked up
wonderingly at Gen. Miles as he
pinned on the medal on her pink
sweater. She was held in the arms
of her mother, Mrs. Alicia Lang
ford Kehoe.
During the ceremony in the Office
of Gen. Miles, the baby played
with the silver first lieutenants
bar which the mother wore on her
dress.
1t. and Mrs. Kehoe we're married
on Christmas Day, 1910, six months
before he left for service They
had been childhood sWeethearts in
Lawrence
Evening star., 1943-05-25
1orpedoed Ships Captain
Dies in Swim 10 U-Boat
Bv the Associated Press.


BOSTON, May 25.-Survivors of
an early-April, mid Atlantic torpe-
doing of medium sized United Ma
tions merchantmen, in which 42 of
80 crew members are missing, re-
ported today after arrival in Boston
that their captain disappeared in a
raging sea after obeying the enemy
U-boat commanders order to swim
to the submarine.
Before the sinking the ship was
pursued by a submarine in a run
ming fight in which numerous shots
were exchanged. Heavy seas made
the submarines fire inaccurate, but
the freighter's gun crew scored sew
eral very near misses and the at
tacker. giving up the chase, sub
merged.
That night, however, the vessel
was torpedoed Approximately 25 of
her crew, trying to launch motor
lifeboat, were killed when torpedo
struck close by.
After five days adrift two boat
loads OF survivors were picked up by
Canadian and British rescue ships,
but the third is presumed lost, for
an overturned lifeboat was found in
the vicinity.
Evening star., 1943-05-25
WlB Refuses 10 Act
On Grievances Until
Akron Strike Ends
Calls on Rubber Workers
To Remain Faithful
To Unions Pledge
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)

NEdIIlcT StoIy OH rage A-E.)
The War Labor Board today
called on striking Akron rubber
workers to return to their Jobs
at once. asserting it will not act
on a union petition for rehearing
of the wage decision that touched
off the Walkout while the men
are in violation of their no.
strike pledge"
The text OF the boards statement:
The National War Labor Board
unanimously calls upon all striking
rubber workers in Akron to honor
their no-strike pledge to the Nation
and to return to their work at once.
The board has been officially noti-
fed by President Dalrymple that
the union wishes to have a hearing
on its petition for reconstruction of
the boards decision. The board will
take no action on this petition while
the rubber workers are in violation
of their no-strlke pledge.
Despite the unauthorized strike
Va eAiS eccSl "ol Vic UOdl u
unanimously reaffirms its confidence
in the good faith and patriotism of
Mr.. Sherman Dalrymple. interna-
tional president of the United Rub
ber Workers of America. even
though he has strongly challenged
the soundness of the boards deci-
sion. President Dalrymple has
placed his duty to his country above
all other considerations and has
urged the strikers to return to work.
The board unanimously holds that
this is prerequisite for the con-
sideration of any petition which
they wish to bring to the attention
of the board. The immediate re-
turn of all rubber workers in Akron
to their jobs is their main obEga-
ton to their country and their fell
low citizens on the fighting fronts"
Evening star., 1943-05-25
| Don't Use Bus
OrCob for Fun.
| Is sODT's Plea

The public of Washington and
other eastern cities was asked this
afternoon by the Office of Defense
Transportation not to use taxicabs
and buses for amusement, recrea-
ton, social and other non-essential
purposes.
ODT said the drastic curtailment
in bus and taxicab operations, forced
by a 40 per cent slash in T rations.
meant that only the most necessary
transportation services could be
maintained
Use of taxicabs and buses for
pleasure seekers" would deprive
workers of necessary transportation
ODT pointed out.
ODT suggested that wherever pos
sible the public walk or use street
cars, avoiding vehicles that require
oeasoline.
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Late Races
Charles Town

FOURTH RACE-Purse. $500: CLAIMING.
4,year-ods and upward about 7 furIonss
Light Tide (Grant 3O0 49,
Freds First (Kirk) IzS
Time, 1:27.
Also ran-Alsace. Brokers' Bud. Sir
Jerome. Rolls Rough. Real Boy. Ok
FIFTH RACE-Purse. s4oo: claimin,.
4-year.olds and upward; about z furionrs'
Doctors Nurse tGranD 1900 s 20 a.
Electric tPrain) 80 5'S4
FAC Pam tBracciale) q AZ
Time, 1:26+s '.oo
O. Also ran-Remolee, Exarch. Clock Tina
stormcock, Macie Margaret. AAe'
SIXTH RACE-Purse, $500: Allowance.
= and 4-year. r.olds; Ga furlonss.
SSs1IoS ffxsR ssss SlsJs1 ,Ki5k }u,,.r, $40 stsS
Also ran-chir chaf1. Brocade, Grand
Archer. liam"
SEVENTH RAcEPurse. $500; cla,r-
ing; 3-year-olds and upward Charias
Town course. ies
Isn:st TsTIy Ysy Roy tRoGn ;a,,,o, 600 $50 900
Thespian (Austin) Ss9
Also ran@pittsbursh. Ginger MAJ,
Chance Oak. Marandan. Copperette. sn'
EIGHTH RACE-Purse. s4oo; claimin..
tasy 1;;sg 1sHsvSEt5 ess K,ssG 7ed 4S's 500
Trostar (Prain) % *
Also ran@placement. Purport. p.nu,,,
Chronos. Dark Ace. "u1's'
Evening star., 1943-05-25
BULLETIN.

Legislation to prohibit the
imposition of poll taxes as a
prerequisite to voting in pri-
mary or general elections for
Federal officials was passed by
the House today and sent to
the Senate.
Debate on the anti-poll tax bill
was interrupted in the House today
when a young sailor stepped out on
the gallery ledge directly opposite
the Speakers chair and said, I'D
like to speak for the men who can
not be here. Why pay tribute for
the right to vote"
Representative Bulwinkle, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina, who was pre-
siding, raped for order and gallery
attendants moved down to the
sailors perilous perch close to the
edge of the rail and 20 feet above
the floor.
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Nazi Employment Bureau
In France Is Bombed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, May 25.-The
German employment bureau at An
remasse, France, has been demol-
ished by several bombs placed in the
writing room, a dispatch to the
Journal de Geneve said today. The
dispatch said the incident was one
of several new manifestations of re-
sistance to forced labor and de-
portation of French workers.
No persons were injured in the
blast, but the damage was described
as important.
The Vichy government has
warned French youths between 20
and % again that they must have
working cards by June l or risk
severe penalties.
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Soldiers and Police
Halt Free-for-a||i in
|5hipyards al Mobile
Assignment Of CoIored
WeIders to Work With
White Men Storts Fight
BY the Associated Press.

by tHe hSSoCldIeO fIeSS.
MOBILE, Ala, May 25.-Sol-
diers and police were called into
a large shipyard here today to
quell disturbance which start
ed, Police Chief D. E. McFadyen
said, when colored Welders were
assigned to work with white
welders.
Mr.. McFadyen said Several of
the colored men were beaten up"
and that order was restored when all
colored workers in the yard, operated
by the Alabama Drydock & Ship
building Corp, we're sent home.
Police authorities took several
moves to prevent a spread of the
disturbance, including the closing of
all liquor stores, and the prohibition
of the sale of beer anywhere in the
city.
In addition to the colored workers
sent home from the shipyard, ap-
proximately 1000 others were idle
when Frank Jones. president of the
Central Trades Council of Mobile
(AFL, ordered all workers who were
engaged on any construction jobs in
the city as members of an AFL union
to return to their homes.
Company spokesmen would not
estimate the number of colored
workers sent home. but said that all
in the yard had left. Other sources
placed the number at several
thousand"
The company announced that
eight men-seven colored and one
white man-received first-aid treat
ment following the incident, which
started about $50 am. The sopkes-
man said that there were no colored
welders on the day shift, but that
there had been some on the night
shift, and added that an investiga-
tion was under way to determine
if this was the reason for the fare
up between the races.
The police chief said that prelim-
mary reports from his men indi-
(See FIGHT, Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Porta|-to-Porta|
Time in Pits Left
To Bargaining
LoophoIe in Six-Doy
Week Plugged; Pay
For Vacations Hiked
Earlier Story on Page A-4)

earlier Story on Page A-4)
BY the Associated Press.
The War Labor Board today
refused to grant basic wage
increase to the Nations 45O,000
soft coal miners, but recon-
mended some other concessions
and tossed the portal-to-portal
pay issue back into collective
bargaining with the under
standing it would approve any
reasonable sum agreed on.
Portalto- portal pay covers under-
ground travel time as we'll as tho
miners actual productive time.
The board acted to plug certain
loopholes it found in the operation
of the slx-day work week to assure
the miners "a greater benefit than
they now enjoy"
Vacation Pay Raised.
1t also raised the present $40
vacation pay to $50 and directed
the operators to furnish without
charge to the miners their safety
equipment and working tools. in
Guiding blacksmithing. This, how
ever. is not to include personal wear
ing apparel such as hats, clothing,
shoes and goggles.
WLB Chairman William H. Davis
estimated that the elimination of
these occupational charges would
mean financial gain to the miners
OF s to IS cents a day
The boards decision u,oe o,,t1;oal
In directive issued late today. In
minority opinion the five labor
members of the board dissented
from the decision of the majority to
reject UMWs request for So per day
increase in straight time hourly paw.
The request of the miners is JUS
tlfled because of the tremendous and
uncontrolled rise in the cost of liv-
ing during the past two years." the
minority said.
Unanimous Except on So Raise.
Mr.. Davis said at press con.
ference that the WLB was unani.
nous on all issues except the ques-
ton of the 50 increase.
The board in recommending that
the portal-to-portal pay issue be re-
terred to collective bargaining,
directed that any settlement be SUBJ
mitted to the WLB with supporting
data TO determine whether or not
1t constitutes a genuine settlement
OF alleged claims arising under the
Fair Labor Standards Act and not
an indirect wage increase in VIOLA
ton OF the wage stabilization poll
cies."
The WLB expressed the view that
wage adjustments made in com.
pliance with the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act are consistent with the
national wage stabilization policy
and pointed out that the demand
| OF the mine workers for portal-to-
portal pay rest on the assumption
that such pay is required by that
act.
Refuses to Estimate Sum.
Mr.. Davis refused to estimate
what sum portal-to-portal pay might
entail. The miners estimate under
ground travel at an average of 90
minutes man day The opera
| tors estimate is IS minutes, and a.
Government study showed about 48
minutes.
Presently the miners are working
under a truce arrangement of their
president, john L. Lewis, which ex-
plres May 81. They also are work.
ing with the Federal Government
as their boss, with Secretary of the
Interior 1ckes in charge of the
mines.
Whether the boards recommen-
datlons will be acceptable to Mr..
Lewis remains to be seen. He has
opposed the WLB's having anything
to do with the dispute which almost
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Senate Group
Cuts Barriers
To Subsidies
House Proviso Lifted
From leuse-Lend
Appropriation Bill
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

A Senate subcommittee today
approved the $6,273, ,629 900 lease
lend appropriation without the
House provision against subsi-
dies and also reported favorably
the 34,141,279 deficiency bill,
carrying miscellaneous items for
Federal and District agencies for
the remainder of the present
fiscal year.
Acting Chairman McKellar called
the Appropriations Committee for
1890 I'm. tomorrow to pass on the
subcommittee recommendation be-
fore both bills are reported to the
Senate.
The subcommittee is understood
to have added to the deficiency bill
all but two or three of the list
of laSt-minute District estimates,
amounting to S988,23l, submitted by
the Budget Bureau last week. More
than half of this sum is to meet
the recent pay increases for police
men. flremen and teachers until the
regular District bill passes. AS it
came from the House, the deficiency
bill already contained 1868 900 to
meet the overtime increases for
other municipal employees.
Separate Decision Seen.
The House wrote into the lease
lend measure that none of the
money could be used for the pay
ment Of any subsidy on farm prod
ucts. 1t is understood the Senate
subcommittee felt that the basic
question Of whether subsidies should
be paid is one of policy and should
be determined separately by Con-
gress, after consideration by the
committees dealing with that sub
ject
If these two bills are reported
out of the full committee tomorrow,
they will follow on the floor the
independent Offices bill. which is
due to come up Thursday or Fri
day, and involves controversy over
the future OF the National Resources
Planning Board.
Bill Involves Same Issue.
The same issue also is involved
in the deficiency bill because the
House, after refusing to give the
board any direct funds, stipulated
in the deficiency bill that none Of
the Presidents emergency funds
could be transferred to the board.
The Senate is expected to allow
the planning agency between $780,
900 and S534000 for next year. and
let the final amount be fixed in
conference The Senate Appro-
priations Committee will determine
tomorrow whether to retain the ban
on transfer of emergency funds to
the board.
House adoption of the subsidy
prohibition. by a vote of 2l4 to 96
last Friday, was regarded as sig
nifcant in view of Food Adminis-
traitor Chester Davis recent request
for an additional s1.000,OO0,0OO in
borrowing authority for the Com
modify Credit Corp, which now is
subsidizing production of some food
Evening star., 1943-05-25
0PA Denies
Social Tests
In Hiring Staff
House Group Hears
Labor Controls
Rent Policies

Paul Porter, deputy adminis-
traitor of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration in charge of rent
control, denied today before
House committee that his agency
applied tests regarding social
and economic views in recruiting
regional personnel.
The question arose when Harold
L. Allen, counsel for the Smith
committee investigating Federal
agencies, asked specifically about the
policy applied by Tom Tippett, in
charge of recruitment of OPA
regional directors and field per-
sonnet
The counsel produced a memo
randum from Mr. Tippett to Mr..
Porter dated September Is, 1912,
explaining that it had been taken
from Mr.. Tippett's file when I'VE
so rudely invaded your office the
other day. The memorandum cited
what it termed policy from Wash
lngton recommending that recruit
ing officials consult with labor on
various candidates.
Charges Labor Control.
After the memorandum was read,
Representative Delaney, Democrat,
Of New York asked what was 80
wrong about consulting labor.
Il am going to show" replied Mr..
Allen, that control was taken from
owners of property and given to
labor"
There has been no evidence here
to that effect" retorted Mr.. De-
laney.
Mr.. Tippet was listed as one of
a number of Federal employees rec
commended for dismissal from the
Government payroll by the Dies
committee in 1871. He was de-
Tended, however, by Leon Hender-
son, then OPA administrator. in an
appearance before the committee.
The memorandum read:
That call from Atlanta that took
me out of your office when you
were telling me about Lucy Mason
happened to be from Miss Mason
She was in Atlanta and introduced
me on the phone To Charles GIL
man . he is C1O representative
in Georgia.
He went on to enunciate labor's
objection to Mr.. Oscar Straus (then
OPA regional director in Georgia..
Their objection was impersonal and
had to do with his unsympathetic
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Fire at Triumph Plant
Does $4,000 Damage
By the Associated Press.

bS lne ASSOClaled PfeSS.
ELKTON, Md, May 25.-Fire of
undetermined origin destroyed a
storage building holding flare parts,
along with its contents. at the Tri-
umph Explosives, Inc. plant in Elk
ton last night, S. H. Gilbert, assist
ant to the president, said today.
The Army Safety and Security
Division at Chicago, fixed the dam
age at "at least $4,000"
No one was injured. Mr.. Gilbert
said there was no explosion, and
that the barricade around the struc-
ture served its purpose in confning
the flames to that area,
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Rate-Fixing Bureaus
Would Have Been
Indicted, f, Arnold Says
Tells Senate Committee
Case Was Halted to
Speed War Effort
: the Associated Press.


Judge Thurman w. Arnold,
former Assistant Attorney Cen
eral, told a Senate committee
today Chicago grand jury
would have indicted carrier
te-hxing bureaus early this
year had not the proceedings
stopped.
He added that the proceedings
ended as a result of letters written
by the War and Navy Departments
and the Office of Defense Transpor-
tation, which expressed, he said.
the hope nothing would be done
which would impede the war effort.
Making public for the first time
a confidential Justice Department
memorandum outlining his views
concerning asserted "monopolistic
tendencies of rate-hxing bureaus
and what he charged was their
effect on rail, motor truck. water
and air rates. Judge Arnold told
the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee that the department had
the consent of the War and Navy
Departments to begin the jury pro-
ceedings.
Read Eastman's Letter.
But several months later, the
witness said. a letter was received
from ODT Director Joseph Eastman
stating that the investigation ap-
Eeared to be going beyond fragrant
violations" and expressing fear
that an inquiry into the entire rate
fixing structure might impede the
war effort.
Mr.. Eastman said he was afraid
the railroads would become alarmed,
worried. if we went into the whole
conference structure" Judge Arnold
said.
He added hs didn't know what
to do with the letters, but because
he didn't want to do anything Sub
rosa' he discussed the matter with
(See ARNOLD Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1943-05-25
COAL MINERS DENIED 50 PAY RAISE BY WLB
Churchill Says
Japs Know Reds
Are0pportuniiists
Prime Minister
Attends Presidents
Press Conference

Prime Minister Churchill de-
clared this afternoon that Rus
sia must know that Japan has
watched her with a purely op-
portunist eye, when he was
asked if he believed that it
would be to the self-interest of
the Soviet Union to fight Japan
after the war in Europe is
ended
Mr.. Churchill taking over presi-
Dental press conference at the
White House, said that it is indis-
putable that the tide of the war has
turned. adding that British and
American leaders have arrived at
good conclusions on prosecuting the
war in the Pacific with the greatest
vigor.
The question on Russia was pre-
sented to the Prime Minister by
reporter who recalled the recent
Senate speech of Senator Chandler,
Democrat, of Kentucky. who ex-
pressed doubt as to Russia's follow
ing through after the Nazi menace
had been crushed.
Pays Russia Tribute.
Before answering the question Mr..
Churchill paid warm tribute to Rus
sia, pointing out, as he did to Con-
gresS, that she has borne a heavy
burden of the war, and adding that
he certainly has not felt that he
ought to suggest that his own gov
ernment ask more of the U. S. S. R.
than she is giving
He declared that the Russians
who are not in a state of war with
the Japanese-are grand Allies.
The President and Mr.. Churchill
took care to impress correspondents
with the fact that their conferences
which have been in progress since
November II are not yet completed,
but Mr. Churchill said that exceed
lngly good progress has been made
in planning their future strategy
The stocky Prime Minister COW
cred all phases of the current world
conflict in lengthy talk with the
press, but he emphasized that he is
depending on the force of arms to
bring victory rather than any in
ternal collapse of the enemy.
Outlook Is Good.
He said the United Nations out
look now certainly is much better
than when he was here last June.
The last 10 or II months, Mr..
Churchill commented. must be re-
garded as examples of highly sue
cessful warfare, and he singled out
for special mention the victories in
Tunisia and at Stalingrad.
AS for the future, he hinted at
new blows to come, but disclosed no
specific plans.
Reminded that he and President
Roosevelt had spoken at Casablanca
last January of greater and heavier
blows to be hammered home on the
Axis this year, the Prime Minister
said he thought those expressions
had been couched in the soundest
terms
Discussing the japanese threat, in
response to questions, Mr.. Churchill
said he thought it 10 certainly much
less than when he saw American
reporters in the Presidents Office
shortly after the Pearl Harbor
attack,
Evening star., 1943-05-25
Zivic-Lu Motto Fiqht
Postponed to June 10
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. MAY 25-The TO-
round Forbes Field fight between
Fr1tzle Zivic, the former welter king.
and Jake La Motto of New York.
originally scheduled for last night.
was postponed again on account of
weather today, this time until
June 10.
The postponement necessitated
cancellation of two fights in other
cities.