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The union times., 1944-06-03
LET CONGRESS KNOW

ORGANIZED labor is letting Congress watching - the vote of members the following:
 Price Control. Senate House bills on renewing price control act due for early introduction keep up OPA and prevent nfaton Labor is unitedly fighting against amend ments to weaken the present
 CI Bill of Rights House has adopted the Rankin bill filled with changes from the Senate passed Conference committee attempt adjustment with labor insisting kill ing Rankns weakening changes and his bad open shop clause.
 Reconversion (S l893) Bill by Sen. Kgore protects work in postwar reconversion. Law rushed through senate guards only the rights of industry, emitting the human lem Labor is writing congressman include 1893 the House version
 Forced Labor (S l864) is regarded as far than the old labor draft proposal Calls for forced la bor bataions for who leave jobs without permission Senate Military Affairs committee has it.
The union times., 1944-06-03
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BENITO MussOlini (remember him?) has decreed a new flag for Italy. A black eagle with opened wings will replace the arms of the House of Savoy. That black eagle must be the crow Benito has been eating these past months.
The union times., 1944-06-03
FROM the Warren (Ohiol Trio

FROM the Warren (OhiO) Trib- une Chronicle classified page:
 REBUILT ORGANS
 and PIANOS
 For delivery later part of
 May. We hatch only eggs
 Evenings by Appointment
 BARRE FOR PIANOS
 THE BATTING average of foes of labor in state legislatures so far in 1914 is the lowest in years exactly zerO-the Department of Labor revealed this week.
 Seven regular sessions were held, as we'll as special sessions in a number of states, mainly on the soldier vote issue, but in none did the proponents of anti-labOr legis- lation get to first base. All pending oppressive bills were defeated.
 This is in marked contrast with last year, when heavily-fnanced Hobbies put over bills to shackle workers in nearly dozen states. However, authorities in most of the states have been decent enough to suspend enforcement, pending the outcome of suits by labor to test the constitutionality of these measures in the courts.
 FROM the classified advertis- ing section of the PhOenis Arizona Republic:
 5O-HELP WANTED, FEMALE l MO Jersey bull. Good for ser vice. 5-4837.
 CARPENTERS, No. 79, New Haven, have just received an un- usual communication. The Car penters Brotherhood, like many international unions, sends out millions of uniOn-made cigarettes to U. $. servicemen in all parts of the world. A card is enclosed in each carton, telling the recipient that the cigarettes come from the Carpenters, wishing the soldiers the best of luck, and suggesting that the card be returned to let the Carpenters hear from the ser- vicemen.
 Somewhere across the waters is It. Howard J. Sullivan, who was with the New Haven Housing Au- thority before he entered the ser- vice. It. Sullivan apparently was given carton of the cigarettes sent out by the Carpenters, be- cause he sent the card that came with it to John A. Johnson, busi- ness agent of ON 79, with thanks and with regards to all. It's small world.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Virginian Pleads Guilty
On ll!eqa! Gas Coupons

John B. Exum, %, welder from
Front Royal, Va, pleaded guilty
yesterday in Municipal Court to
charges of illegal possession of gas
oline coupons. while two other men
were granted jury trials on charges
of violations of the rationing regu-
lations.
Exum, whose case was referred to
the probation officer, will be SEN
fenced April "a by Judge Brice
Clagett. Exum was arrested after
he was stopped for driving with
dead tags and, police said, they
found coupons worth 545 gallons of
gas in his pocket.
Arraigned and granted jury trials
on May 9 were: Richard Henson,
"a, of 219 Virginia avenue Sc,
charged with possessing unregis-
tered tires, and John A. Brown, COL
ored, 49, charged with illegal pos
session of two gas coupons.
Henson, arrested on a traffic
charge March %, was driving with
two six-ply tires that had not been
registered with the ration board,
police said. Brown, originally
brought in on a disorderly conduct
charge, Saturday had T and an A
coupon in his pocket, police de-
clared.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
llsWRshoniing
.Remiinders@a

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps A-8 through K-8 good
indefinitely. Blue stamps L-8
through Q-8 valid May l and good
Indefinitely. Each stamp worth 10
points. Blue tokens are peing used
as change.
Meats. Fats, Etc.-Book No. 4, red
stamps A-8 through Ms good in
definitely. Red stamps N-8, P-8
and Q-8 valid April %. Each
stamp worth 10 points. Red tokens
are being used as change.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn in.
Sugar-Book No. 4, stamp 80 valid
for 5 pounds indefinitely. Book
No. 4, stamp 40 good for pounds
for home canning through Febru-
airy %, 1915. Stamp No. 81 good
for 5 pounds indefinitely.
Gasoline-No. ga coupons good for
3 gallons through May 8. B-2,
ca, B-3 and C-3 coupons good
for 5 gallons each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. and S cou.
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 30. Consum-
ers in this area should not have
used more than "a per cent OF
their total yearly fuel oil ration az
of April II.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Court Pressroom Converted
To Modhouse by Sedition Trial

A young woman reporter with a
notebook in her hand and the CLINT
of hot story In her eye darted into
the District Court pressroom, took
one wild look at the rampant mad
ness and departed in great haste as
any sane person would.
Lots of other people who are COW
ering the trial of 80 persons charged
with seditious conspiracy, didn't de-
part, however, which is why the
pressroom is such a madhouse and
viii remain a madhouse during the
four months the case is expected to
last.
The young woman, whose city
editor was probably chewing his tie
for her very hot story, draped her.
self over the first six steps on a
staircase nearby and spent half an
hour furiously writing in longhand.
The bedlam that has invaded the
pressroom is something that should
MT happen to any well behaved re-
porter. Along the wall where the
couch used to stand, with its cargo
of legal briefs, yellowed clippings
and tired reporters, a long table
with four brisk telegraph operators
and their equipment has been in
stalled. All day long the telegraph
KEYS are clicking,
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Servicemen's Aid Council
In Bethesda Area Studied

The establishment of a Service
Aid Council to provide assistance
and counsel to families of Bethesda
Chevy Chase servicemen was recon-
mended to the Board of Directors
of the Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce at meeting Monday night.
The Civic Development Committee
will report on the proposal at the
May meeting.
Carl Bachschmid, president, an
nounced the following committee
chairmen: Commercial develop
ment, William K. Hodges; civic de-
velopment, William H. Hisey; legis-
lation and legal action, Clarence
Keiser; publicity, King Mularkey;
public utilities, Tom Elward; roads,
streets and bridges, Sam Stone
braker; safety, A. J. Bargagni, and
welfare and education, Thomas w.
Pyle,
Evening star., 1944-04-18

The room Is about n feet square
and has desk, telephone and type
writer for each of the newspaper
reporters from the local papers as
signed to cover the courthouse
beat" Normally, the room Is none
too large for the regular reporters.
Now they haven't a chance to get
near their telephones or type
writer's.
And they're pretty sore about it.
too. What they will do about the
sweet young women reporters who
are getting perfume scents all over
the telephones is going to be a
problem in gallantry.
Signs have already been posted all
over the room saying This tele-
phone is not for the use of out
siders," and please do not use this
typewriter" And there's a big
printed one on the door that says
Stay out of the files ="
One of the beat" men moved out
Of the pressroom half an hour after
the men arrived with the telegraph
keys and took up emergency quar-
tiers in the Municipal Court press
room across the street. Occasional
ly he drifts back and looks visit
fully at the tangled room and then
goes quietly away again.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Maryland tobacco Men
Oppose Price Ceilings
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Proposed price control of Mary
land cigarette tobacco met with
strong opposition yesterday from a
delegation of growers, dealers, man.
ufacturers and warehousemen.
The group voiced protests at a
hearing with representatives of the
tobacco section of the Office of Price
Administration and agreed to select
committee for further discussion
with agency officials Thursday.
The price schedule, OPA is plan
ming, would cover sales of the 1943
crop of Type 80 tobacco, produced
principally in Maryland. Specific
ceilings have not been determined.
The average price received by
Maryland growers for their 1912
crop was 56la cents pound, while
for 1941 tobacco it was only 3O.1
cents, OPA said. The agency gave
no indication of the level at which
ceilings might be set.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Speeder Gets Five-Month
Sentence on ) Counts

Harold R. Dofflmoyer, "a, Stanley,
Va, was sentenced to five months in
the Upper Marlboro Jail in Hy-
attsville Police Court yesterday in
default of payment of fines totaling
SITS on three charges of traffic vio-
lations.
Trial Magistrate Henry H. O'Neill
imposed a 500 fine on charge of
exceeding 10 miles per hour, $50 on a
charge of reckless driving and $25 on
a charge of passing a red light.
Maryland State Trooper H. L.
Kicker testified that he arrested
Dofflemoyer Sunday after an 30
mile-an-hour chase starting at
Muirkirk. He said he finally stopped
Dofflemoyer's car after forcing it
into the curb near Hyattsville.
After completing his sentence,
Dofflemoyer will be held for Hagers-
town authorities on a charge of un-
authorized use of an automobile
Police said the car was reported
stolen there Wednesday,
Evening star., 1944-04-18
1ydings and Sasscer
lndorsed in County
Prince Georges Committee
Supports Nominations

Representative Sasscer and Sem
ator Tydings, Democrats, of Mary
land, were Endorsed yesterday by
the Prince Georges County State
Democratic Central Committee for
nomination in the May / primary
elections as candidates for re-eiec-
tion to the House and Senate.
Mr.. Sasscer is being opposed in
the primary by Edwin A. Glenn,
Prince Georges County. Senator
Tydings is opposed by Charles
Baden. Willis r. Jones, Vincent F.
Long and Stephen B. Peddicord.
Mr.. Sasscer, who succeeded the
later Representative Gambrill in
1889, was State Senator from Prince
Georges County for 16 years. For a
number of years he served as presi-
dent of the Senate, which Is the
same Office as Lieutenant Governor
in other States.
Senator Tydings has served three
terms in the Senate.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Virginia Takes Tile
To n,74O Barrels
OF Bonded Whisky
Stote Liquor Stores Will
Get First Shipments
Within Four Weeks
BY the Associated Press.


PEORIA, H., April 1s.-The State
|of Virginia yesterday became the
owner of 27;740 barrels of the Amer
ican Distilling Co.'S whisky and 29, ].
200 shares Of stock, making it the
|company's largest stockholder.
Two Virginians, Col. r. McC. Bull
|lington, member of the State Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board, and
Abram P. Staples, State attorney
general announced they had reached
an agreement with Gilbert B. Geiger,
trustee for American Distilling Co. s
whisky distribution plan, by which
Virginia receives the 27,140 barrels
of whisky at cost price.
Virginia, through a recent en-
abling act Of the Legislature, was
permitted to buy the 29,200 shares
Of stock.
Cost price Of the whisky, Col
Burlington said, will range between
$12,500, 900 and s13,50O 600, including
Federal taxes. Virginia sells liquor
to its 100000 "rationed" drinkers
through 102 State-owned liquor
stores.
Col. Burlington expressed a belief
that the 27,740-barrel purchase will
result in an increase in the present
ration of one quart a month. Yes
terday's purchase represents about
550, 900 cases of blended, bonded rye
and bourbon, Col Burlington de-
clared. 1t will be shipped in 800
carloads from the American plant at
Pekin, Ill, within the next 10
months.
First delivery, Col. Burlington said
will be made in about two weeks
and the liquor will be placed on
sale in Virginia within the next
three or four weeks.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Miss Martha CIaxton, 40,
Dies in Silver Sprinq

Miss Martha Elizabeth Claxton
40, died of heart attack yesterday
at the home of her sister, Mrs
Donald M. Heller, 205 East Wayne
avenue, Silver Spring, with whom
she had lived for the last two years
A native of Washington. MiN
Claxton was graduate of Central
High School, During her youth she
spent 10 years in New York, later
returning here to work for the Klo-
man Instrument Co., where she was
bookkeeper for about seven years
Recently she had been employed
by the Washington Post in the same
capacity.
She is also survived by another
sister, Mrs. Frank Barrows, San
Francisco; two brothers, Arthur B
Claxton, jr., and Philip S. Claxton
both of Woodside, Md, and hel
father, Arthur B. Claxton, also OF
Woodside.
Funeral services will be held al
2 pm. Thursday at the Warner E
Pumphrey funeral home on Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring. Burial will
be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-04-18

pounds each. High-explosive bombs
are fused by the ordnance crew after
loading, but these were already
fused.
Interior Well Lighted.
Pvt. Brooks opened the bomb bay
doors and we ducked under them
into the interior of the plane. Eight
wall lights made the central part of
the ship bright as an operating the
ater. This was new ship. You
got an impression of spotless gray
metal and lot of aluminium, count
less tubes, wires, tanks, gadgets and
handles.
1t was obvious that Pvt. Brooks
knew his way around this maze.
So did Sergt. Henry A. Novak, Mont
gomery, Ala, and Pfc. John A. Bar
tell, Great Falls, Mont, who joined
us. 1t takes three men to load in
cendiaries in clusters and Pvt.
Brooks and his crewmates formed a
team loading those ships in turn.
They went to work wiring the
clumsy missiles together and fasten-
ing them to the shackles. Their
feet slipped in the mud. They kept
blowing on their hands, for it was
bitterly cold and you can't shackle
bombs into place and wear gloves
at the same time. They wore
leather jackets and caps with fleece
Innings. They looked sloppy and
extremely businesslike.
Changes Mean Much Work.
One by one, the bomb stations
were loaded. The upper levels of
stations were high overhead and to
reach them the men balanced on
the catwalks with their heavy and
deadly loads. Loading a bomber,
according to Pvt. Brooks, who was
in 1884 from Washington
Lee High School, in Arlington, is not
such a tough job in itself. The
worst job is a last-minute change of
plans which may make it necessary
to unload a ship you have just
loaded and then to reload it with
different type of bomb. It's not un-
usual for the armorers to work all
night changing bombs two or three
times as the air command changes
its mind about targets. 1t is easier
to change your mind than it is to
change bomb load.
Pvt. Brooks worked with the
Secret Service as Treasury guard
before the war. Unmarried, he lived
with his parents. In June, 1912, he
was drafted and came overseas IA
months later, joining this unit i'm
on his arrivel in the Mid
die East. He was a combat gunner
until January and took part in 10
missions.
At $3.50 pm. two and a half hours
after the job began, Pvt. Brooks and
his helpers had the Liberator loaded
for the next days mission. There
were two more planes to be loaded
that highland the future held a
lot more missions.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Fairfax Board May Buy
Land for Trash Dump

The Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors, at its meeting tomor-
row, will consider the purchase of
approximately four acres of land
adjoining the county dog pound
property, near Germantown, for use
as a county-operated trash dump.
Board members say that the tract
sought Is especially adapted for the
purpose.
The board also will confer with
a committee representing the Prince
William County Board of Super
visors to try to reach an agree
ment whereby that county may use
the Fairfax County Dog Pound.
The board also will hear delega-
ton from Belle Haven regarding
an alleged nuisance existing in that
community caused by dogs roaming
at large
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Way Cleared for Vote
By AIexandrians on
Form Of City Council
April Is Formally Set
For BoIIot After Receipt
Of Authorization

After receiving a certified COPY
OF the law authorizing a referendum
on the form of the City Council, the
Alexandria Electoral Board yester-
day officially ordered the April rs
election and arranged for the print
ing Of ballots.
The meeting was attended by the
three members of the board, r. c.
Goodnow, chairman; James N
Colasanto, secretary, and John Bar
ton Phillips.
The board agreed to a suggestion
by Edmund Ticer, ST., member OF
the committee, favoring the change
to an at-large council, that II of the
28 election officials be selected from
advocates of the at-large plan.
Meanwhile Robert G. Whitton
chairman OF the committee for the
at-large plan, answered M. Cola
santos reply to his charges that
Mr.. Colasanto had neglected his
duties in failing to order ballots
printed for the election.
Answering Mr.. Colasanto's de-
scription of his charges as cow
ardly, malicious, untrue and ig-
norant," Mr.. Whitton said he could
see nothing cowardly In stating
facts as they appear; that the fact
that he made no statements until
approached by representatives OF
the press dissipates the charge OF
malice, and that If. Mr.. Colasanto
considers his statements untrue he
will gladly submit his facts to a tri-
bunal at any time Mr.. Colasanto
wishes to present his side Of the
story.
IF calling a spade spade is ig-
norant, then / am ignorant" Mr.
Whitton said, land I pretend to no
knowledge other than being able to
recognize bad situation"
Mr.. Colasanto stated that in his
six years as member of the cleo
toral board his actions never had
been questioned, and Mr.. Whitton
branded this as a weak rebuttal,
since none but routine elections had
taken place in those six years, with
no basis for question. If Mr.. Cola
santo had seen fit to write to the
attorney general on March 18, after
the bill was signed, rather than on
April 13, his actions would not have
been open to question" Mr.. Whit
ton asserted.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Teller Defends Vote
That Rejected Wise's
COP Delegate Slate
virginid Convention
Results Carefully
Checked, DiIlow Says
By the Associated Press.

BRISTOL, Va, April 18.-J. Liv-
ingston Dillow, Narrows, one of the
two tellers at the Republican State
convention at Roanoke Saturday,
declared yesterday that the conven-
tion's vote for delegates at large to
the Chicago national convention
was carefully scrutinized by at least
half dozen of the supporters of
Mai. Henry Wise, including the
major himself"
"All Of them personally stood at
the speakers platform while the
vote was tabulated and counted" he
said, "and not only was the vote
carefully checked, but it was double
checked by those who favored the
majors slate"
Wise Claims Error Made.
Maj. Wise has announced that he
would challenge the vote of the con-
vention on delegates at large at
Roanoke on the ground that a
teller's error resulted in the election
Of a slate recommended by a minor
ity report of the conventions Nom
nations Committee. Mai. Wise,
national Republican committeeman,
was one of four delegates at large
on the defeated majority slate.
"The convention was a sovereign
body and it had the report before
it and the report was adopted. The
slate of delegates at large favored
by Maj. Wise was never even voted
on and 1t is difficult to understand
just what claim can be made to It's
election.
'It has every appearance of being
a case of bad loser.
"Great Confusion"
"Just prior to adjournment there
was great confusion and the tally
sheets which are now the subject Of
dispute passed from one hand to the
other and from one group to the
other when, in fact, the rightful
place for those sheets was in the
hands of the State secretary and not
in hotel rooms after the convention
was over.
Just why this was done I fail to
understand. 1t is rather serious to
claim substantial errors after the
convention has adjourned and gone
home and after the delegates to
that convention have acted.
IF there is any room for contest
1t will have to come before the Gre
dentials Committee of the Chicago
convention, and not by a lot OF
loose talk. ."
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Arlington Trade Boord
Asks Kemp to Speak

Fletcher Kemp, county superin-
tendent of schools, has been invited
to appear before the Arlington
Board of Trades meeting at 8 pm
next Tuesday at Jack Spratts res
taurant on Glebe road to explain his
proposals for school board supervi-
sion of Fairgrounds.
The invitation was extended last
night at a meeting of the groups
board Of directors.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Three From Fuirfux Lose
Druft Class AppeuIs

Three Fairfax County Selective
Service registrants who appealed
la classifications were kept in la
when decisions of the local board
were affirmed by Appeal Boards in
various areas, board officials said
today.
The higher boards continued the
IA claSsifications of Donald C..
Becker, 35, Route l, Mclean, ad-
ministrative assistant, Agriculture
Department; Richard C. Curry, 27,
Springfield, deckhand, Smoot Sand
a. Gravel Co.. and Gilbert Arnold,
81, Mclean, procurement inspector.