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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

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Evening star., 1944-12-05
WLB Reply Due Soon
In Phone Wage Case

A final decision in the wage dis
pute between the Washington Tele-
phone Traffic Union independently
and the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co. probably will be
handed down by the War Labor
Board within the next few weeks, q
WLB official said today.
A final draft of the recommenda-
tions made by special panel has
been signed by Judge Henry Ellen
bogen OF Pittsburgh, public member
and sent to the industry and labor
members of the panel. The recon-
mendations are expected to reach
the WLB within the next few days.
The paper then will be transmitted
to the union and the company fol-
comment. Both sides will be allowed
10 days to file briefs before the de-
cision is handed over to the WLB.
The panel was set up last Septem-
Der, after telephone operators here
threatened to strike. A strike die
develop on Thanksgiving Day, bu,
1t was largely movement in sym
pathy with the week-long strike OF
Ohio operators.
Telephone girls here are seeking 8
IS increase on their starting salary
of $50 week. They also are asking
for $40 after five years service in
stead of the present $33 after II
years, and s25 Christmas bonus
The issue Of bringing in out-of
town workers and paying them q
cost-of-living bonus was not in.
volved in this case, an official said.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Atlanta Papers Cut
As Printers Stay Out
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated HTesS.
ATLANTA, Dec. 5.-Atlantans be-
gan the second day of news diet
today.
A dispute over a new Internationa
Typographical Union contract re-
duced both daily papers, the Journa,
and the Constitution, to four-page
photoengraved editions.
The printers have remained in
continuous meeting" since Sunday
afternoon on proposed new con-
tract, under negotiation for the last
five months.
Representatives of the newspapers
and r. T. Pavlovsky, president of
the printers local No 48, said there
were mo developments" in the situa-
ton.
Union demands, Mr.. Pavlovsky
said. include changes affecting work
ing conditions and social security
provisions, as we'll as new scale.
AMARILLO, Tex, Dec. lP.-This
city went without its morning
newspaper, the Daily News. today
and there were no immediate pros
poets for publication of the after
noon Globe as the papers printers
remained in continuous session, -
discussing contract terms.
The controversy involved hours
and wages, the management said.
Evening star., 1944-12-05

Minister said I'VE and our Amer.
lean Allies are doing our utmost tt
give assistance and our troops are
acting to prevent bloodshed."
House members cheered the Prime
Minister when he said 1T is deplor-
able that an event like this should
take place in Athens scarcely g
month after the city's liberation
and feeding"
When Mr. Churchill declared the
British and Americans were doing
their utmost to prevent bloodshed
he was generally applauded. but a
few Labor members cried No
The Prime Minister then repeated
Ito prevent bloodshed."
But sometimes it is necessary to
use force to prevent greater blood
she'd" he added The main burden
falls on U.s. The responsibility is
within our Allied military sphere
that is. our military sphere agreed
upon with our principal Allies. ="
If the damage of four years of war
and enemy occupation is to be re-
paired and if Greek life and econ
omy are to be rebuilt. their internal
stability must be maintained and,
pending a general. election under
fair conditions, the authority of the
constitutional Greek government
must be accepted and enforced
throughout the country"
Evening star., 1944-12-05

Mizrachi, Junior Hadassah and
Business and Professional Women's &
HadaSsah have combined quota OF
an additional $500,000, and Isadore
Hershfied, chairman of the COM
bined groups, estimates they will
raise approximately 100000.
The taxi drivers of Washington
have sold total of $262, 900 in bonds
to date, it is announced. Their quota
is 5000, ,O00-the price of a B-2e
Fortress. Members of Workman s
Circle 80 have exceeded their goal
of $4,000, the price of a pursuit
plane, by almost half, piling up a
total of $74,750. And employees of
the Export Import Bank here have
subscribed 251 per cent of their
s6,645 quota, raising a total of
S23 ,253, E. F. Bartlett of the Inter-
departmental War Savings Commit
tee announces.
Two Rallies Tonight.
Two bond rallies are scheduled for
tonight. The Workmen's Circle will
AASSO az 4oul tCCiltli dllu OIL CCLS
NV. at $50 o'clock, under the
auspices of the Washington Loan
Association, and the I'd Division
Post % of the American Legion
will meet at $50 o'clock in the New
Colonial Hotel.
The theaters' caravan will be sta
toned during the evening in front
of the Uptown and Avalon Theaters.
From II am. to pm. it will be at
and F streets NV.
Mayor Robert D. Graham of Fair
fax, chairman of the Fairfax County
campaign, announced that bonds
for S244 ,906.75 have been purchased
as of November "a. The county's
quota is $590000.
Mr.. Graham has requested resi-
dents to purchase their War Bonds
and Stamps at banks and post Offices
IN the county, so they may be cred
tied to the county quota.
-Four United Nations Girls "War
Bond Commando" will be honor
guests at the Lions Club luncheon
meeting in the Mayflower Hotel at
1915 pm. tomorrow. The girls, who
are leaders in the groups War Bond
drive, are Lavonne Olson, Patricia
Whitesell, Benelee McCool and Mary
Sampogna.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Inquiry Into Nominees
For Surplus Property
Posts 10 Be Reopened
Ry the Associated presx

ny tne Associated Press.
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee decided today to reopen its
investigation of two of President
Roosevelt,s nominees for the Sur
plus War Property Disposal Board.
Senator Chandler, Democrat OF
Kentucky, said the group voted at a
closed session to throw wide OPEN
a hearing next Monday on the nom-
nations of former Gov. Robert A
Hurley of Connecticut and 1t. Col
Edward H. Heller.
Today's decision, Senator Chan
dler said, was agreed on generally
by the committee after Senator Aus
tin. Republican of Vermont. sug-
gested that "the scope of the in
quiry be broadened."
Loan Investigated.
Chairman Reynolds had an
nounced after a one-day hearing
last week into a $2,OO0,0O0 Govern
ment-guaranteed loan to the Mar
ragansett Machine Co., Pawtucket
r. l., that there would be no fur
ther hearings.
Mr.. Hurley recently resigned as
vice president of the company. Col
Heller, an Army finance officer, had
made certain inquiries for the War
Department in connection with the
loan
Senator Chandler said Col. Lewis
B. Sanders, War Department Of
flcer attached to the committee, had
been directed to make certain in
quiries" in advance of the hearing.
No Charges Made.
"The committee just wants to find
out something about Navy contracts
of the Narragansett company and
had broadened the scope of its in
quiry to cover these contracts" Sem
ator Chandler told reporters.
Nobody made any charges in the
committee this morning. There isn't
any disposition to delay ultimate
Senate action.
We are going to try to get vote
in confirmation at this session, pos
sibly next week. 1t is just a question
OF getting clarifying information.
He said the hearing would be
thrown open to any one having in
formation bearing on the nominees
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Athens
Continued From First Page. J

under command Of British Maj
Gen. R. M. Scobie as part of the
armed forces of Greece, they now
are charged with direct mutiny. In
the British view, seizure of police
precinct headquarters comprised a
direct assault against the legal gov
ernment.
The strikes have hindered seri-
ously the inflow of relief supplies.
British officials said Investigations
thus far failed to support charges
by right-wing Greeks that the cur.
rent disorders were engineered by
Axis agents in EAM ranks.
ELIAS troops were reported last
night to have taken control of &c
to Is police precincts in the Athens
area. Papandreou's government de-
manded that ELIAS members leave
the Athens area by midnight tomor-
row.
One more person was killed and
three injured last evening in a new
outbreak of shooting near the Athens
railway station when police tried to
disperse sympathizers returning from
the mass funeral of 81 persons
killed in Sundays disorders, precipi-
tated by the governments decree
that the ELIAS diSarm and dis
band.
Earlier in the day 400 ELIAS mem
bers armed with rifles and machine
guns attacked the Greek naval COL
lege at Piraeus, port of Athens, and
were dispersed by British tanks only
after they had forced their way into
the hospital wing.
An NBC broadcast from Athens
this morning said no American
troops were in Greece, and quoted
United States Ambassador Lincoln
MacVeigh as saying: 1--WE will give
liberal support to any government
the Greek people may want, but with
civil war hanging over the country,
American aid to Greece has had to
| stop.
The ships in Piraeus harbor may
have to move out and all our relief
work has had to stop. Thus. if real
civil war breaks out and goes on for
some time. the people of Greece may
| face more months of starvation"
Evening star., 1944-12-05
De Mile BoIks at 81 Union Fee
Faces SIS 900 Weekly Loss

arbitrarily make up his mind 10,
him that he must support or oppose
any proposition on the ballot?"
Declaring himself "a union man
and supporter of and believer in
unions" Mr.. De Mile said after the
election he was informed IF I did
not pay the dollar assessment could
not work" He added:
Surely, this is not the free Amer
lea we are preserving on the battle
fields OF the world today"
In answer, AFRA issued state
ment declaring, "AFRA considered
proposition IL outside the realm Of
partisan politics, regarding 1t purely
as an attack on the right Of union
to bargain collectively for a union
shop-a fundamental principle of
American unionism.
THE assessment was made by
unanimous vote Of the Board of Di-
rectors, ratified by a membership
meeting and by our national Board
Of Directors. -
I'VE believe that If, as he says, Mr..
De Mile considers himself a sup
porter and believer in unions, he
should pay his dollar in support of
his unions rights"
Evening star., 1944-12-05
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 5.-Because
Of a dollar, Producer Cecil B. De
Mile may lose his radio program
for which he reputedly is paid 5000
week.
This issue arose when the Ameri-
can Federation of Radio Artists is
sued a 81 assessments for funds to
combat State proposition No. II on
the November ballot, described as
being designed to establish ''the
right Of employment, free from in
reference because an employe does
or does not belong to a labor organi-
zation." The proposal was defeated
Mr.. De Mile refused to pay, as
serting, II cannot afford to lose my
rights as an American citizen, OF
my respect for myself as SUCH"
AFRA has set the deadllne fol
payment of the dollar at S pm. next
Monday, an hour before the radio
drama hour which Mr.. De Mile di-
rects and narrates.
Yesterday the pioneer Hollywood
figure asserted the question is: Can
any organization, as such, usurp the
rights Of an American voter and
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Crop Diversion Plan
Proposed by Wickard
To Cut Cotton Surplus
By the Associated Press.

~ taAC xaopOkAotcu
Hunting a solution to the cotton
problem, congressional committee
yesterday heard Secretary of Agri-
culture Wickard recommend great
crop diversion program to cut pro-
duction of the staple.
Worry over the prospects of a
10000, ,000-bale surplus of cotton at
the close of the war and likelihood
of expanding low-cost foreign cot
ton led to the meeting.
Under Mr. Wickard's proposal
American cotton would sell at world
market levels. Only the most pro-
ductive lands would be left in cot
ton. Full use would be made of
mechanical equipment to lower pro-
duction costs. Farmers who turned
partially or wholly to other crops,
or to livestock raising, would receive
payments based on the adjustment
made.
VIA Head Cites Two Factors.
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones, who preceded Mr.. Wickard
before the committee, declared that
the success of any program worked
out for cotton depends first upon
maintenance of full industrial en-
ployment and second upon negotia-
ton of international trade agree
ments.
The two officials testified at the
opening of what is expected to be a
week long hearing called by Chair
man Pace at which representatives
of every phase of the cotton indus
try are scheduled to give their views.
Secretary Wickard declared that
a crop conversion program would
have to be supplemented by credit
plan enabling farmers to buy needed
machinery and livestock. He con-
ceded the plan would cost the Gov
ernment heavily in the beginning,
but contended it offers the only
sound course to avert the eventual
payment of large subsidies.
Must Improve Quality, Sales.
Also appearing before the COM
mittee at its opening session was
Oscar Johnston, president of the
National Cotton Council. He said
If the cotton industry is to survive
it must improve the quality of the
staple. lower production costs and
increase its sales efforts in both do
mestic and foreign markets.
Discussing competition, particu-
larly from synthetic flbers, Mr.. |
Johnston said rayon now is deliv-
cred to textile mills at 25 cents per
pound while the partly price of
15f16th-inch cotton is ap-
"a cents per pound de-
livered.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Tilted Woman Sues
SchoeIIkopf for $500, 600

Walter Horton Schoellkopf, jr
youthful diplomat and member oi
the wealthy family which developed
Niagara Falls power, was made de-
fendant in a s5O0000 breach OF
promise suit by papers filed in Dis
trict Court today.
Mr.. Schoellkopf, vice consul and
third secretary of the American
Legation at Beirut, Syria, is being
sued by Mrs. Esther Dean Lawler
who holds secretarial position fol
the State Department at Dakar
West Africa.
The papers allege that Mr.
Schoellkopf, while at Dakar last De-
cember, asked her to marry him
that she consented and that in jan
uary he married Miss Eleanor Flood
niece OF the late Representative
Henry D. Flood Of Virginia.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
War Bonds
Continued From First Page.)

Nation yesterday were: "E" bonds,
$871 100000 of a quota of $780,
100000; total individual sales, in
cluding "E" bonds, $2,021 900 600, 40
per cent of the $4,000, 100000 quota; |;
corporation sales, $500, ,000, 900 of a
$4,000, 100000 quota, and the grand
total, S8,941 100000 of a $4,000, ,0O0,-
600 quota.
Almost $4,000 in bonds was sold
yesterday at the bond-selling car
avan, sponsored by motion picture
theaters, which was stationed at
Eleventh and F. streets throughout
the day. One spur to the sales was
the reward of a pack of popular
brand cigarettes for every 500 War
Bond purchase. Two persons paid
ST 900 for their cigarettes, while two
others paid $500.
Zionists Due to Exceed Goal.
The Louis D. Brandies Zionist Or
ganization here has sold over $780,
600 in bonds, Louis G. Grossberg
chairman, announced. With a quota
of S1,000,000, the organization is ex-
pected to oversubscribe it by $780,
600, the chairman said. Other
Zionist organizations of the city
including Hadassah, Pouli Zion
Evening star., 1944-12-05
|0PA Business Rent
Control Bill Killed
By Senate Committee

The move to give OPA control
over commercial rents in any de-
fense area was killed by the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee
today, 10 to 7.
AS originally drafted by Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York, the
bill would not have applied to the
District of Columbia, because Con-
gress passed a separate Rent Act
dealing with residential property in
Washington, but petitions had been
filed with the committee for and
against inclusion of the District.
Voting against the bill were: Sen
ators Bankhead and Radcliffe, DEM
ocrats, and Tobey, Danaher, Taft,
Thomas of Idaho, Butler, Capper,
Buck and Hawkes., Republicans.
For the bill were Senators Glass,
Barkley, Maloney, Clark of Idaho,
Downey, Mcclellan and Wagner, all
Democrats.
Opponents of the bill argued the
situation was not so critical as to
justify Federal control and con-
tended the States should determine
the question.
There were indications the pro-
posal would be considered again
when extension of the Price Control
Act is taken up in April.
Opposition to Government con-
troll Of commercial rents in Wash
ington came from H. Clifford Bangs,
speaking for the Real Estate Board.
He said there are some II 900 COM
mercial leases in effect here and that
only dozen" complaints of rent
gouging have been made. Investi-
CATION of these, he said in a state
ment filed with the committee yes
terday. showed that only two or
three were justified.
Mr.. Bangs maintained that it was
therefore unnecessary to burden the
city with a commercial rent regu-
lation system In view of the limited
cause for complaint.
A different view was taken by
J. Nelson Anderson, general counsel
for the federation, which he said Is
composed of % member associations
representing approximately $500
business men and women in the
District.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Rockets
Continued From First Page }

bolts and Mustangs, and the Navy,
TBF torpedo planes and Bell-man-
Iufactured jet-propelled planes.
Effective in Crucial Phases.
Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barley
commander of the Navy's 7th Fleet
Amphibious Force, was quoted as
reporting that rockets are "particu-
larly effective during the crucial
phase of establishing a beachhead
after naval guns and planes have
bombarded the shore and the first
wave of assault troops Is going in ,
Fired from multiple deck tube,
on landing craft, rockets spread de.
struction among enemy machine
gunners as they wait for the troops
to hit the beach," the report con-
tinued.
The bazooka, pioneered by the
Army Ground Forces, is credited
with destroying II Of a concentra-
ton of IS German tanks at Caen ir
the Normandy campaign, owl said
The newer 45-inch "M8" rocket
is roughly twice the diameter ano
length of the bazooka and equals ir
f1repower the 105-mm. medium ar.
tillery gun. owl reported. Yet its
launcher costs $104, compared with
So, ,406 for the artillery piece.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Tokomo Park Group
Pluns Forum Series

The Community League Of Takoms
Park voted last night to sponsor q
series Of public forums on questions
of State and Nation wide interest.
The first forum will be held next
month in the community center
when the question of postwar COM
'pulsory military training for youths
will be discussed. All organizations
in Takoma Park will be asked to CO.
operate.
A resolution urging repeal of the
Maryland Declaration of Intentions
Act was adopted. Copies of the
measure will be sent to members Of
the Senate and House of Delegates
in the State Legislature from Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Counties
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Destroyer Fronk Knox
Enters Service Monday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 5.-The U. S. S
Frank Knox, a 2,200-ton new-type
destroyer named in honor of the late
Secretary of the Navy, will be COM
missioned at the Navy yard next
Monday.
Described by the Navy as one OF
the largest and most powerful de-
stroyers in the world, the Knox was
launched at the Bath Me.) Iron
works Corp. September II. 1t was
sponsored by Mrs. Knox.
Comdr. Joel c. Ford, jr., U. S. N.
"a, Of Auburn, Ala, will accept com
mand of the vessel
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Hans Hope

Funeral services for Mrs. Hans
Hoppe, 81, who died at her home
at Rock Crest, Rockville, Md, Sun
day after long illness, were held
today In st. Mary's Catholic Church
Rockville. The pastor, the Rev. j
Gilbert Ham, oficiated and burial
was in st. Mary's Cemetery, near
Rockville.
Mrs. Hoppe is survived, in addi-
ton to her husband, by a son. M. F.
Hoppe. Washington, and two grand
children. She was a native of New
York and had lived at Rock Crest
about two years.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Man, II, Critically Hurt
By Hit-und-Run Auto

John w. Peters, u, of Seneca, Md,
was in critical condition at the
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, today
from injuries received last night
when he was struck by a hit-and-
run driver on route 240 near the
Congressional Airport, police re-
ported.
Police said Mr.. Peters apparently
had been on his way to visit friends
in the vicinity of the airport when
he was struck. Hospital attendants
said he suffered a fractured skull
and arm and leg fractures.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Mrs. BergdoI|, Mother
OF Draft Dodger, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
From Yesterdays Late Edition.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Mrs.
Emma C. Bergdoll, former Phila-
delphia brewery owner and mother
of the World War draft dodgers
Grover c. and Erwin Bergdoll, died
in a hospital today OF pneumonia.
She was SO.
Her health had been bad since
1899, when court appointed Q
guardian for her estate.
Grover and Erwin Bergdon es-
capped from military guards on Au-
gust 2l, 1919, from the Bergdoll
mansion, where they had been taken
in supposed search for a pot Of
gold" Erwin was recaptured and
served two years in jail. Grover
fed to Germany, but returned in
1889 and served a prison sentence.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Ten Nozis Yield
| After Castle
Is Dynumited
BY the Associated Press.

OUTSIDE MUTZIG, France, Dec
5.-The battle for castle fortress
overlooking the Bruche River VAL
ley at the eastern edge of the
Vosges Mountains ended today
when 10 German survivors sur
rendered.
The captives were the last of the
garrison of IS. They had wished
to yield earlier, but officers pre-
vented. The stragglers were down
to their last few pounds of horse
meat.
The 7th Army blew a gap in the
walls with charge of 1000 pounds
Of dynamite, hurtled into the for
tress in truck. Tank guns, ba-
zookas, aerial bombs and incendiar-
les had been thrown at the bastion
and it was believed most of its de-
tenders were killed.
Among the captives was a major,
the ranking officer, and two civilian
carctakers.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Fire Marshal Acts
To Cut Store Hazards

With fire hazards increased by
large shopping crowds and Christ
mas decorations, Fire Marshal r.
c. Roberts announced tnat mis- en-
tire staff will be on hand in COM
mercial establishments beginning
next week to see that shoppers fol-
low requests not to smoke in stores.
Two special inspectors will he
detailed to stores on F and G
streets, in the heart of the down.
town shopping center, and other
inspectors will be given rowing as
|signments.
There is no law to prohibit shop
pers from smoking, but stores carry
signs bearing request of the te-
partment for patrons to refrain
from smoking. Mr.. Roberts said
public response in the past has
been excellent.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Judge Londis Left
Estate of $500, 900
By the oc.ated Press.

BY trt Assoc .ated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-Kenesaw
Mountain Lands, baseball commits
sioner who died November Is, left
an estate estimated at 100000, his
will filed for probate yesterday dis
closed
Leslie O'Connor, Judge Lands
secretary, who filed the will, said
the estate consisted of $700 in cash
$32 900 in bonds and the remainder
in stocks. The entire fortune was
left to the widow, Mrs. Winifred
Reed Lands.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
Army Reveals Cadets
| Used Troopship to Go
| To Baltimore Game
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The
secret Of how the West Point
Cadets travelled to Baltimore for
the Army-Navy game Saturday
was out today-they came in a
troopship.
The Army said that the ship,
a former liner, also served as
a training center for the Cadets
who studied problems of hous-
ing, feeding and controlling the
men aboard.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
|WiIIiom Coffin, 81. Dies

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 5 R.-William
c. Coffin. 81, chairman of the board
of trustees of the University of
Miami for the last nine years, died
yesterday. An architect and en-
gineer before his retirement in 1927,
he designed and built blast furnaces,
steel mills and oil refineries in this
country, Canada and other coun-
tries.
He came here in 1923 from New
York. The body will be sent to
Pittsburgh.