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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-25
Holman Williams
Wins 9TH in Row

OAKLAND, Cal. May IS (UP)
Holman Williams. Detroit
middleweight, made il four
straight over Jack Chase of Dem
yer. former California state cham
pion. by taking a 12-round de-
cision al Oakland Auditorium last
night.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-25
SUBSIDIARY SEIZED

Now comes the government
seizure Of a subsidiary OF Mont
Gomery Ward, the Hummer Manu-
featuring Co. which really does
make war goods. CThis follows the
futile seizure Of the Chicago stores
and warehouses; But what has
been settled?
The striking Go unionistS "a
back 10 work for the government
But does anybody want the gov.
eminent as the permanent ems
ployer of labor, with all strikes
ruled out?
The big issue in this case 10 tive
union maintenance provision. Has
this been settled? IL so, how, and
by what authority?
Meanwhile, the farm bloc W
warming up for putting across de-
mands for higher farm prices. and
defending the farmer against the
costs imposed by the demands Of
labor.
These are war times. Who ia
responsible?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-25
Records Reveal Tremendous SIauehterine

extraordinary rate of saughtering since last November
records In the period November through
slaughter of hogs 40S cent higher than IN me
60 cent above the 1883 Is average te
that of the previous year by H. per
cent and the fouryear by % cent slaughter OF
record the previous year
and per the and the slaughter
as cent above the previous year
perc above the fouryea average
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-25
Dividends
Detroit Stocks
In zoos Hish Low II

Hoskins. % 13is 49, 1874 y
Ktnsei Drug 2 so so 80 .....
Udylite Corp 81 B. 49,
Dividends In the foregoing table are the
amounts declared or paid "a far this year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-25
Detroit Strike
Settlement Hif
Nv LEWIS HANEY
Professor OF Ecsuomirs, n. =. .'risef

fTofessor OF Econ0nnrs, y. Y. university
While much progress has re-
Gently been made on the war front
abroad, one may well ask. what
progress has been made at home?
Has anything been settled on the
home front? Is The nation more
hunted? Is our democracy more
assured and effective?
These questions are highlighted
by the fact that when the pres
sure of public opinion was brought
to bear on the Detroit strikers
who were tying up the production
OF war planes, II was through sucfr
subordinate officials as Gen.
Arnold. FDR didn't speak. The
inference is that he wants TO
convey the impression that he is
not against anything that may he
done by the labor organizations
which favor his candidacy. Against
Montgomery Ward. kilograms and
orders have poured out of the
White House. But that is different.
The sad part of IT is that. al
though the striking foremen have
gone back to work, and presumably
the production of planes has been
resumed. we have no assurance
that similar situations will not
arise again.
WLB POWER INVOLVED
The power of the WLB 10 handle
war labor was involved, but, all
though brother Davis said some
things TO the strikers, the gist OF
his remarks was. you can't win
That doesn't establish any prin-
clpleSl
The great problem of effectivs
and equal collective bargaining is
involved. Are the foremen and
their new union part of or
gained labor Or are they
closer to management? Nobody
knows. The foremen Just decide
to 60 back TO work (for the
presently, and things are quiet for
a while.
Again, the Go political action
committee is being challenged and
Investigated, but goes on its way
rejoicing. Apparently II has ac-
tually used It's power To such good
effect that three of its political
enemies conservatives have
already been eliminated from the
next Congress, Martin Dies il IN
retire.
LAWS NOT ENFORCED
Why is il that the terms Of the
law which forbid such groups from
using money TO influence elections
are not applied? II there is any
lack OF clarity. why not clarity?
Again. nothing is settled!
In this connection. note the
gyratlons of the Communists in
our midst. They are changing
names and policies so fast that II
takes well posted observer 10
keep up with them All we know
Is that they are still boring from
within, and nothing is settled.
At long last, the WLB last week
officially ruled in favor of tho
arrangement made with the mine
workers, allowing them increased
wages under the guise of portal
to-portal pay. But doesn't this
really violate the Little Steel
formula? Hasn't the WLB itself
been successfully flouted? What
has been settled aside from the
fact that John L. Lewis got what
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Nazi Prisoners Reach
Camp on Eastern Shore
BY the Associated Press.


: WESTOvER, Md, June 24.--Camp
Somerset, new prisoner of war
camp set up to help relieve the
farm. canning and pulpwood indus
try labor shortage on the Maryland
and Virginia Eastern Shores, re-
ceived its first consignment of Ger
man captives yesterday.
Army officials said several hum
dred prisoners arrived from Bowie,
Tex.
In the original announcement Of
the camps establishment, Army Of
ficials said approximately 1000 Ger
man prisoners would be stationed
at Somerset, a former Regular
Army installation.
Two side camps" have been pro-
posed for Easton, Md, and Cape
Charles, Va, to meet the regulation
requiring that prisoners be located
within comparatively short dis
tance of their employment.
o. w. Anderson, Montgomery
County farm agent, said today that
nothing has been heard from a re-
quest for German prisoners of war
to work on county farms.
Mr.. Anderson said that unless
farmers obtain additional man.
power for threshing, the entire farm
production program in the county
faces setback About 1870 WASH
ington boys, stationed at camps at
Sandy Spring and Gaithersburg, are
aiding in the wheat hardest. he
said.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Senate Confirms DawIey
As Briqadier General
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Connally. Democrat, Of
Texas yesterday withdrew an earlier
protest against the promotion of
Col. Ernest j. Dawley to the rank
of brigadier general, and the Senate
confirmed the nomination.
Senator Connally said he objected
originally because of reports" reach
ing him that Col. Dawley. then a
temporary major general command
ing an Army corps at the battle of
Salerno, had ordered a battalion to
undertake dangerous mission
against the advice of the division
commander.
Gen, Dawley subsequently was de-
NOTED last September to his perma-
nent rank of colonel on orders of
1t. Gen. Mark Clark, returned to
the United States. and now is sta
toned at Camp Hood. Tex.
Senator Connally said he decided
to withdraw objections to the pro-
motion after 1t. Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney, deputy chief of staff. had
appeared before the Senate Military
Affairs Committee in an executive
session yesterday to strongly recon-
mend" the promotion.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Gen. Hale Twice Decorated
For Pacific Air Raids

BY the Associated Press.
Maj Gen. Willis H. Hale has been
awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross and the Air Medal for his
participation in bomber flights over
Japanese strongholds during opera
tions against the Gilbert and Mar
shall Islands.
The awards. the Army announced
yesterday, we're made by 1t. Gen.
Robert c. Richardson, commander
of Army Air Forces in the Central
Pacific. Gen. Hale, now command
| ing general of the Shore Based
Air Force, Forward Area, in that
! theater, was commander of the
7th Air Force at the time ne made
the flights.
The citation said that:
| In the face of extreme personal
hazard because of enemy inter-
ception, Gen. Hale engaged in re-
connaissance and combat missions
in both areas Central and South
Paciflc), thereby gaining first hand
knowledge which not only resulted
1 in more efficient employment of
air strength but also served as an
incentive to the personnel of his
command"
Evening star., 1944-06-24
II Red Cross Workers
Sent From Alexandra

The American Red Cross Eastern
area headquarters at Alexandria,
Va, last night dispatched II disaster
workers to the tornado-swept regions
Of Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
Joseph Carter. director of the dis
aster service announced today
The workers left by automobiles
and arrived in the stricken COM
munities early today. They will
supplement the local Red Cross
STATS there.
The national headquarters today
sent DR.. Courtney Smith, associate
director of the medical and health
service, to Clarksburg, w. Va, to
supervise relief and rehabilitation
work. Assisting DR.. Smith will be
DR.. A. E. Hardison of Atlanta, medi-
cal director of the Red Cross south
east area, who was also en- route to
the West Virginia city today.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Man Killed, Policeman Shot
In Harlem Gun Fiqht
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 24.-In an ex-
change of gunfire on Harlem
street, Patrolman John Gilgan was
wounded in the abdomen and COL
ored man was killed today.
Papers found on the dead man S
body bore the name of Curtis Mad
ison Smith, q, of Miami, Fla,
police said
Patrolman Gilgan, in critical con-
dition at Harlem Hospital said two
Negroes came up to his ear while
he was on duty. He said one
threatened him with revolver, de-
claring "this is a stick up" The
policeman then fired his own gun
and the Negro returned the fire.
Half block from the shooting
police later found James Brown, Is
colored, who had collapsed because
of a gunshot wound in his shoulder
He told police he was bystander
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Ii. Robert W. Nix
Dies in Action in Italy
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
WATERFORD, Va. June 24-Lt.
Robert w. Nix III, 25, was killed in
action in Italy on June /, according
to information received here yester-
day by his parents, Mr., and Mrs.
Robert w. Nix, jr.
1t. Nix had recently been awarded
the Combat Infantrymans Badge
for exemplary conduct in the battle
of the Anzio beachhead early in
May.
A graduate of the Virginia Mil
itary Institute. Lexington, in the
class of 1899, 1t. Nix entered the
Army in January, 1912, and received
his training at Fort Benning and
Camp Wheeler. Ga, and at Camp
Carson. Colo He was sent overseas
last October and served in the North
African campaign before being sent
to Italy.
He is survived, in addition to his
parents, by his widow, who lives
near Denver; a brother Morris, who
will enter the Navy next week, and
9 sister, Miss Mary Nix, Washington.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Three Youths Are Jailed
For ILLEGAL Use Of Auto

Thomas M. Cstterton. 18, of the
1700 block of East Capitol street
and Theodore NJ Page, 10, Capitol
Heights, Md, were sentenced in
Upper Marlboro Police Court yes
terday to serve six months each in
the Maryland House of Correction
on a charge Of unauthorized use
of an automobile.
Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie also
imposed one-year suspended SEN
tence in the House of Correction
on Earl j. Marian, l6, Capitol
Heights, who was found guilty of
the same charge.
State Policeman M. L. Gent testi-
fed he arrested the three youths
last Saturday at Marshall Halls,
Md, few hours after they took
an automobile from the used car
lot of the Foote Motor Co. in Capitol
Heights.
In another case, Judge Bowie
fined Howard E. Padgett, Airing
ton, $1l0 on three charges of traffic
violations. Padgett was fined 500
on a charge of driving while drunk
and IS each on charges of reckless
driving and exceeding IS miles per
hour.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
10000 See Growing
OF Masonic Queen
In Night Of Thrills

Spotlighted before 10000 persons
at Griffith Stadium celebrating the
Seventh Annual Masonic Night of
Thrills, Maj. Alan v. Martini, fa-
nous bomber squadron commander
last night challenged the folks at
home to give more support to fight
ing men on all fronts.
What have I done today that a
mothers son should die for me to-
day?" was the question he flung at
the throng, which had just wit
messed an elaborate ceremonial of
crowning of the queen.
IF you can answer that with a
clear conscience fine!' he ex-
claimed, but he warned that those
who cannot so answer will face a
reckoning when the wounded men
come home. Maj. Martini said he
was frankly disappointed" at what
he had sen in some areas. He called
for more War Bond purchases, blood
donations, and industrial produc-
ton
Order Praised for Drive Aid.
John A. Reilly, chairman of the
District War Finance Committee,
who introduced Major Martini,
praised the participation of the
Masonic order in the war fund
drives. He announced, however,
that with only half of the time of
this Fifth War Loan Drive left. the
city is still two-thirds short of its
goal.
Queen of the Night of Thrills,
Miss Alice Magdeburger, was
crowned by Rear Admiral Thomas
L. Catch, judge advocate general Of
the Navy, as her mother, MS. FL
vira Magdeburger, participated in
the ceremony in her capacity as
Worthy Grand Matron of the East
ern Star. The crowning took place
on a throne near the center of the
stadium, where the queen and her
cortege were flanked by two white
uniformed rows of the American
Legion National Guard of Honor.
Others speaking briefly during
the ceremony included Aubrey r.
Marrs, Grand Master of Masons;
Clark Griff1th. of the Washington
Ball Club; and Herbert S. Middle
miss, Worthy Grand Patron of the
Eastern Star.
Queen Reviews Pageant.
From her throne the queen re-
viewed an elaborate pageant OF
bands and uniformed bodies from
the armed forces and Masonic or
ders. under leadership of Rear Ad-
miral Harry G. Hamlet, retired COM
nlandant of the United States Coast
Guard, as grand marshal.
The program opened In the late
afternoon with a baseball game, in
which a team from Headquarters
Marine Corps defeated the Heurich
Brewers by score of TO 5. The
Police Boys Club band played dur
ing an intermission, and the pro-
gram wound up with many acts
In a professional three-ring circus.
Eugene Ditto was general chair
man of the Night of Thrills, which
is staged annually for benefit of
the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home here.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Tornado Toll Is $780,;
Western Maryland
Hit Hard by Wind
Continued From First Page.)

high school was cut virtually in half
and two Phillips Packing Co. ware
houses were razed.
The Red Cross Immediately sent
disaster relief crews into the
stricken areas with blood plasma,
medical supplies, food and cots for
the injured and homeless.
Civilian defense organizations and
military police and Army Medical
Corps units from Pittsburgh and
other cities worked side by side with
local police, fire and relief agencies.
The devastation was terrific.
Striking at nightfall, the storm
trapped many families in their
homes. Through the night rescue
workers dug by the light of fash
light and torch to extricate the
bodies of the dead and injured from
the ruins.
The storm was described by A. D.
johnson Of McKeesport as a white
whirlwind shape" that came roaring
across the city, then leaped the
Youghiogheny River and travelled
south.
Il saw at least dozen houses
blown right of their foundations, !"
Mr. johnson said. It was estimated
at least 100 homes in the McKees-
port area were demolished COM
pletely and hundreds more were un-
rooted or damaged.
West Virginians described the
funnel-shaped cloud as regular
Kansas twister." Don Potter, Mo-
nongahela tW. Va) Power Co. man.
ager, said:
1T was regular Kansas twister,
funnel-shaped with limbs and sticks
floating around in its middle. 1t
was a greasy green color and lazy
looking. The time was 1851 pm.
That was verified later because lot
Of clocks stopped at that time"
Hardest hit Pennsylvania COM
munities outside of the Pittsburgh
area were the mining towns OF
Clarksville and Charters in Greene
County, approximately 40 miles
south of here.
Virtually every house in CHARTERS,
visited only two weeks ago by a
mine explosion and fire that killed
six men, was leveled. There were
eight known dead there and be-
tween 40 and so homes destroyed.
Neely Calls Out Guardsmen.
"The destruction in CHARTERS is
almost unbelievable" said Stanley
Granger, collector of internal reve-
nue. at Pittsburgh, who lives in
nearby Waynesburg. He added,
THE entire town appears to have
been leveled"
More than 400 were injured In
Shinnston and three surrounding
counties. and ambulance drivers,
frantically trying to get over blocked
roads up Shinns Run, near Shinns-
ton, said they had reports of bodies
along the roads
On orders of Gov. Matthew M.
Nicely, four companies of West Vir-
ginia State Guardsmen went into
the devastated area
Power was supplied to the stricken
area by emergency service from
Parkersburg, but nearby Clarks-
burg, West Virginia's fourth largest
city, had no power until we'll into
the morning.
Corridors of one of Clarksburg's
hospitals were filled with injured
sent there after emergency treat
ment at Shinnston. Scores also were
sent to Fairmont. Is miles north.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Mystery Of Missing WB
File Keeps 500 on Strike
BY the Associated rress.

BY the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va, June 24.-Ef-
forts to get 900 workers back to their
jobs at the Consolidated Textile
Corp. plant were under way today
as the CIO Textile Workers Union
and the War Labor Board disagreed
on what had happened to a file
containing an appeal to the WLB for
certain wage increases. The 600
walked out of the plant, which is
said to have some war contracts, in
midweek to focus attention on their
petition.
Spokesman for the local union
have claimed the WLB lost or mis-
placed a file containing an appeal
for raise in the hourly rate and
that the case has been pending
since March, 1943.
A WLB official yesterday denied
this charge as being absolutely un-
true" and telegraphed an appeal to
the workers to terminate the strike.
Following receipt of the telegram
CIO officials called meeting of the
striking workers for tonight.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
|Meihodisis Elect
DR.. HarreII Bishop;
Voting Continues
BY the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, June 24.--Dr. Costens
J. Harrell OF Nashville, Tenn, today
was elected a bishop by the SOUTH
eastern jurisdiction OF the Metho-
dist Church. filing one of two
vacancies In the College of Bishops.
DR.. Harrell received 206 votes of
3l2 cast last night in the sixth ball
lot-32 more than the number
necessary for election. DR.. w. A.
Smart, Emory University professor
of theology, was second with 1856, a
decline of five votes from the num-
ber polled in the fifth ballot.
DR.. Robert z. Tyler, district super
intendent OF Miami, was third with
1873. a gain of cne vote over his fifth
ballot total when he advanced spec
tacularly from 86 votes received in
the fourth ballet.
The sixth ballot was cast last
night, but was not counted until
today. After election OF DIR. Harrell,
delegates continued voting to fill the
remaining vacancy.
The vacancies were created by the
retirement OF Bishop U. v. w. Darl-
ington Of Louisville, Key area, and
Bishop Hoyt T. Dobbs of Birming-
ham. presiding over the North Ala
bama conference.
Gov. Bailey Speaks.
'Tf the church is to attain it's
greatest usefulness" Gov. Thomas
l.. Bailey OF Mississippi told the
conference last night, "it must as
sumo its place in the life of the
Nation and the world.
The health of the people, their
homes, the conditions under which
they work in industry, agriculture
with its problems of marketing,
conservation of soil and timber and
wild life must have the benefit of Its
inspiration and leadership"
Gov. Spessard Holland OF Florida,
also speaker last night, declared
mot single great woman has de-
veloped out of the war on the Axis
side and called on women of the
church to develop the democratic
conception of life"
Evening star., 1944-06-24
byrd Accuses 6uffey
OF 'Coward|y Attack
On Senator Bailey

BY the Associate Press.
Another sharp exchange between.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
2inia, and Senator Guffey, Demo-
crat. of Pennsylvania, was in the
records of the Senate today.
An earlier tilt between the two
preceded the replacement OF SEN
ator Guffey as head of the Demo-
cratic Senatorial Campaign Com
mittee by Senator OMahoney OF
Wyoming.
The latest incident took place yes
terday while Senator Byrd was on
the floor submitting a report from
his Economy Committee and call
ing for a cut of 100000 in Federal
personnel.
Guffey Severely Rebuked.
Senator Byrd accused Senator
Guffey of making a bitter, vindic-
tive and I think untruthful attack"
on Senator Bailey, Democrat, OF
North Carolina, at a time when he
knew that Senator Bailey had been
absent for some time because Of ILL
ness. Then Senator Byrd declared,
with every evidence Of anger:
Il wish to say in his (Guffey's)
presence that we Southerners do
not appreciate being lectured by
the Senator from Pennsylvania.
We intend to work out our own
problems In the South in our own
way.
"If the Senator from Pennsyl-
yania Is seeking to create disunity
and destroy the Democratic party
in the South, he could not do more
than he has attempted to do here
today"
Senator Guffey had criticized Sem
ator Bailey for q speech weeks ago
in which Senator Bailey called CIO
Leaders Philip Murray and Sidney
Hillman Communists"
Senator Guffey said Senator
Bailey apparently used the term
as an epithet for anybody he feared
or disliked. He read into the record
a letter which he said he had re-
ceived from william Reid Dalton,
sr., an attorney of Reidsville, N. G.
Read Attack on Bailey.
The letter called Senator Bailey's
record of party afflliation "vacillat-
ing, changeable and uncertain" and
declared that North Carolina DEM
ocrats would not be swayed by "a
certain coterie of disgruntled South
ern Democratic congressional lead
ers who are trying to turn the party
and the country over into the hands
of the reactionaries and predatory
interests"
Senator Byrd, who has had sew
eral bitter passages with Senator
Guffey In the past, began speaking
while his adversary was out Of the
chamber. AS soon as Senator
Guffey returned to his seat. however,
Senator Byrd said he wanted to re-
peat in his presence that he be-
lieved the Pennsylvania had made
"a cowardly attack"
"It is said" he added, that the
Senator from Pennsylvania has the
political hide of a rhinoceros, but
when Josiah Bailey gets through
with him, he will hang that hide up
on the floor of the Senate, and l
hope all members of the Senate will
be present to listen, because 1t will
be a rare exhibition" @ s.
Senator Guffey said he would be
glad to be present.
Evening star., 1944-06-24

KIN mas cCIN- Sapt' ~ . As@"Ai"'
pleted 10 combat missions and is
credited with shooting down 10
German planes. In addition to the
Distinguished Service Cross. he
holds the Distinguished Flying
Cross and the Air Medal with Oak
Leaf Clusters.
In the action fer which he re-
ceived his latest decoration, the
young pilot tied the record for a
single days kill in the European
,theater He would have topped it
had he not disclaimed credit for
three other planes because the Nazi
pilots balled out without a fight.
Just Missed Sixth Kill.
He might have had sixth kill
on that day had his ammunition
lasted in the air battle in which
his group, the famed zemke outfit,
shot down 20 out of the 100 to 200
interceptors they encountered.
In his last letter home, dated
June II, Capt. Rankin reported his
10th victory which occurred June 7,
the day after the invasion of France.
His wife is employed at the JUS
tice Department.
Evening star., 1944-06-24
Wreckage ofSuper Fortress
Put on Display, Japs Say
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A Domei broadcast from Tokyo
today said the ''Wreckage of the
enemy's vaunted Super Fortress
which fell victim to our interception
fire" in the raid on Northern Kyushu
June Is had been put on exhibition
at Matsuya department store.
Parts exhibited" included bullet
proof glass, a double -barrelled can
non, shells and cartridges, Domei
reported.
The japanese originally claimed
to have shot down seven of the
planes, but later acknowledged that
they had succeeded in bringing down
only one. They later reported
salvage operations off kyushu in an
effort to find three or four more.
The War Department in Washing
ton has announced that one Of the
bombers was lost over the target,
that another is missing and that two
more failed to get back to their
bases because of accidents.