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The union times., 1944-10-14

Friday, Oct. l3, at 7:45 PM. on Station WNAB. Concentrated ac- tivities in New Haven to see that all members of organized labor become voters, and vote on Nov. z, were reported by New Haven. Tim Othy M. Collins, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Joint Council No. 64, reported that the Council had unanimously voted to endorse the candidates of former Gov. Robert A. Hurley, Brian McMahon, Mar garet Connors, and the complete state Democratic ticket.
 The unanimous endorsement of President Roosevelt and Sen. Harry F. Truman by the Connecticut State Building Trades Council was an nounced, and announcement was made that a statewide labor broadcast sponsored by the Democratic State Central Committee, and originating or Station WDRC on Sunday, Oct. IS,
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 was illegal because it was intended to force the War Labor Board to approve a wage increase regardless of whether it confOrmed to wage stabilization rules.
 Since then, bosses galore have fired workers who struck in pro- test over stalling on wage negOtia- tiOns. Arrangements claimed the right to do so under the American News" decision. However, in each case so far, the board has ordered the employers to restore the work CTS to their jobs with back pay.
 This week the board did like wise in a controversy involving the Union-BuffalO Mills Company, Fairmont, s. C. Its weavers had walked out after the company re- fused to negotiate a wage adjust ment. The management discharged the strike leaders, falling back on the boards American News'' ver- dict as justification for its at- tempted union-smashing, but the N. L. R. B. decreed they must be put back. The American News' yardstick doesn't apply to cases where companies stalled on nego- tiations, the board asserted.
 CAME a recent call to the Boise (Idaho) Statesman: ''What time
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State Committee Cites Resolution
 Of Convention
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 the state were represented at the meeting. Reports on political action were given by Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven, and other cities. The State Federation Political Action committee congratulated Hartford la Dor on its fine meeting held at the Bushnell Memorial Sunday, which was attended by more than 2,5OO people. Bridgeport reported that the A. F. L. had voted to- support Brian McMahon for U. s. Senator, and Margaret Connors for Representative.
 It was announced that the first of series of radio broadcasts spOn. sored by the A.F.L. NOn-Partisan Political Action Committee of Greater Bridgeport would be held
The union times., 1944-10-14

Among those who attended the meeting, and helped prepare plans for a vigorous campaign in the last four weeks of the election drive were William Morris, Hart ford; Clifton ScOry, MiddletOwn 1; and Harold V. Fe1nmark, New Ha- ven, all vice-presidents of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor; Fed eratiOn President Collins; Peter Benard, president of the Bridge port Central Labor Union; and Sen. William A. Scott, president of the Hartford Central Labor Union.
The union times., 1944-10-14

at 6:15 PM, would include a repre- sentative of the A.F.L., CLIO. and the Railroad Brotherhoods. Speaking for the A.FL. will be Timothy Collins, secretary-treasurer of the Waterbury Teamsters and of Teamsters Joint Council No. 64, and president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor. w. F. Donoghue, state chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Hartford, will speak for the railroad men. The CLIO. representative will be Edward Lavery, president of the Con- necticut Industrial Union Council.
The union times., 1944-10-14

WHEN it comes to giOing we never think of W ourselves as labor or management Republican or Democrat We're Americans all That's why the great labor unions lined up with chambers of commerce and manufacturers associations in support of the annual War Fund drive of their community That's why AF.L., C.Lo and the Railroad BrotherhoodS- unionS-are urging their members to give generously.
 These WAR SERVICE AGENCIES are supported entirely by your gifts to your local War Fund: U.SO.-with lounges and canteens, with camp shows both here and oOerseas. War Prisoners Aid delivering games books, athletic equipment to boys in enemy prison camps United Sean7en's SerUice- helping hand for men doing lonely, dangerous war jobs.
 LOCAL COMMUNITY CHEST AGENCIES also have been banded together in this great Local services supported by this big drive include family and child welfare work, maternity care for wives of service men, day care for children of workers public health activities projects designed to combat juvenile delinquency
 These are OUR boys and girls in the service, OUR friends and neighbors at home There more who need our help this year than ever before. WE won't let them down now! We're giving generously. PROVE YOU CARE = GIVE YOUR SHARE Greater New Haven Campaign A
 OCTOBER 9 to B "a Community Chest and National Wdr Fund
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Divorce Sought
By Man After
| 3 Silent Years

For eight years Emil Johannes
Christesen, 1900 block Of Seven
teenth street NV, and his wife
shared the same apartment.
In all that time they had exactly
six conversations, he declared yes
terday in filing suit for divorce in
District Court.
In the last three years they
haven't spoken to one another at
all, he said.
Through Attorney Nathan M. Lu-
bar, Mr.. Christesen, q hotel waiter,
said he and his wife occupied sep
arate rooms. Both ate their meals
outside the apartment and lived In
dividual lives. Mr.. Christesen said
he left money In the apartment for
his wife's use.
The wife, Mrs. Katherine Eliza
beth Christesen, now lives in the
1900 block Of Tenth street NV, ac-
cording to papers filed yesterday.
The couple was married In Massa-
chusetts In September, 1928, and
have . 12-year-old daughter, living
with her grandmother in Massachu.
sets.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
8-MiIe Fall Kills Army Doctor
esting High-A|titude 'Chutes

and the same type of bail-out
oxygen equipment regularly issued
air crews, official said.
Before his jump, officers reported,
Col. Boynton emphasized that his
venture was a continuation of ex-
periments begun by 1t. Col. W. RAN
dolph Lovelace, chief of the Aero
Medical labatory of the Materiel
Command at Wright Field, who
made 4o.00o-foot jump at Ephrata,
Wash, in June, 1943. In that leap,
Col. Lovelace suffered only shock
and a frostbitten hand.
Col. Boynton originally planned
to Jump at $4,000 feet and open his
chute at 5000 feet. He had made
experimental jumps in Florida and
at sealey Lake, Mont, into weather,
mountainous territory and dense
woods.
Before entering Army duty in
1s41. Col. Boynton was q practicing
obstetrician In Chicago and a mem
Der Of the faculty at Northwestern
and Chicago Universities.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

Delegates OF the worlds three
greatest military powers - the
United States, Great Britain and
Russia will gather around a
huge table at Dumbarton Oaks
tomorrow morning and begin
work on a master plan to keep
the peace, by force If need be, In
the postwar world.
Secretary Of State Hull and the
chief British and Russian represent
atives will open the conference with
keynote speeches which will be
made public. Thereafter the con.
ferees will step behind veil Of
secrecy which will be lifted only te
the extent of periodic communique:
from the press relations officers oi
the participating powers.
The atmosphere Of secrecy will bt
thickened by the presence Of Mill.
tary Police who will patrol thu
grounds of the old Georgetown es.
tate. granting entry only to ofncial.
and clerks who bear credentials.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
| Dies as Gangp|ank
Dumps 50 in River
By the Associated Press.

~ VAC AScOSlatcu I4GHS
SALEM, N. j., Aug. 19.-An un-
determined number Of persons, esti-
mated at as many as so, were
thrown into the Delaware River at
Riverview Beach today when the
loading platform Of a river steamer
tilted.
The Salem Hospital said % per-
sons had been brought in for treat
ment and one died early tonight.
The victim was identified as Bessie
Kirk, So, of Chester, Pa.
Miss Mary Saltera, nurse in
charge of the dispensary at the
beach, said half a dozen persons
were given flrst-aid treatment there,
Many Of those thrown into the
water were women and children
Lawrence c. Christman, manage,
of the Riverview Amusement Park
said a check Of families did not
reveal anyone missing.
A number of men jumped into
the water fully clothed and formed
a human chain, first handing up
the children, then the women.
Sergt. william Burton, a Cana
dian paratrooper home on furlough
leaped into the water and rescued
three children. Then he Joined the
human chain to help save others.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
New u. S. Rocket 7hunderboIts
Help Destroy 10, 900 Vehicles
Tremendous Chaos and Confusion Created
Among German Divisions Racing for Seine

some respite this afternoon, but not
before 615 military vehicles and 81
or more tanks had been knocked
out.
In performance, the rocket-firin
Thunderbolts are as sensational as
the rocket-bearing British Ty-
phoons. They have been secretly
participating in recent attacks on
the retreating Germans, it was an
|nounced at an American 9th Air
Force Base in France.
While many details of the new
weapon still have not been an
nounced, it can be stated that they
throw highly explosive armor-
piercing rocket that will split the
toughest Nazi tank in half from
either high or low level.
The rocket is a new type Ameri-
can developed projectile-not the
same as the rocket carried by the
Typhoons. The rockets are aimed
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Tears Dim So|tonsto|I's Eyes
Honoring Hero, Grievinq for Son

at times and his eyes were wet az
he read his speech-prepared the
day before he heard Of Peters death
And wet, too, were the eyes of
many of the spectators, assembled
to see high-ranking Marine officers
present to Mrs. Hanson the country's
highest decoration, the Congress
sional Medal of Honor, awarded post
humously for her sons feat in shoot
ing down rs Japanese planes in aerial
combat.
Ihe people Of our State" said
Gov. Saltonstall, his voice shaking
only q little as he spoke of 1t.
Hanson's deeds, share in the grief
Of his parents that he Is missing In
action"
When he had finished he resumed
his seat on the platform, where he
remained to the end Of the program
with no other show Of emotion ex-
cept when Brig. Gen. Lewie @.
Merritt. commander of the 9th Ma
rine All Wing. and Mayor Maurice
:. --ooin Of Boston expressed the
(See SALTON8TAII. Pa1A I.i0.7
Evening star., 1944-08-20
BY the Associated Press.

..
DAYTON. Ohio, Aeg. 19.-Lt. Col
Melbourne w. Boynton, 80, chief of
the Medical Safety Division of the
Office of Flying Safety, with head
quarters in Winston-Salem, N. C..
was killed today in a high-altitude
test jump at the Clinton County
Army air base near Wilmington
Ohio.
Officers at nearby Wright Field
said Col. Boynton dropped through
the bomb bay doors of a Flying
Fortress at $4,000 feet in an at
tempt to develop procedure for air
crews bailing out at high attitudes.
His parachutes never opened.
The Fortress was nearly over the
airport when he began his Jump at
1:13 pm. He fell into a cornfield
near the port minutes and IS
seconds later, officers among the
crowd of more than 100 persons who
witnessed the Jump reported.
Col. Boynton wore standard cloth
ing, standard chest and back 'chutes
Evening star., 1944-08-20
By the Associated Press.

BOSTON, Aug. ia tall, SET
jawed man stood before 1,OOO-odd
spectators on Boston Common to-
day and in trembling voice, ex-
pressed the public's sympathy with
Mrs. Jean Dorchester Hanson OF
suburban Newton for the loss OF
her son, First 1t. Robert M. Hanson
Marine aviator missing in action In
the South. Pacific.
May I express my pride in the
sacrifice in which you so directly
share, and my heartfelt sorrow for
your loss" Gov. Leverett Salton-
stall said in a part of his brief
speech directed personally to Mrs.
Hanson.
Gov. Saltonstall didn't mention
that less than "a hours before he had
received . Navy Department tele-
gram reporting the death Of his own
son, Sergt. Peter Saltonstall, q,
killed In action while serving with
his Marine outfit in Guam.
Gov. aaltonstall's chin trembled
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Three Great Powers to Initiate
Security Talks Here Tomorrow
Greatest Secrecy to Surround Conference
After Opening Keynote Speeches

Coming, as 1t does, at time. when
Germany appears to many observers
to be on the verge of defeat, the
preliminary conference here may
we'll open constant train Of ne
gotiations among the United Ma
tions which will continue until shat
tered Europe has been reorganized
on normal, healthy basis.
Secretary Hull already has re-
vealed that the big-power meeting
beginning tomorrow probably will
be followed by a conference this
fall of all the United Nations, large
and small, to consider the plans
for a postwar security organiza-
ton which are to be drafted now.
The three-power talks are ex-
pected to continue for about three
weeks, to be followed Immediately
by conversations on the same sub.
ject among the United States, Grea,
Britain and China. Division Of the
conversations into two phases re.
suits from the fact that Russia
which Is not at war with Japan
ICno CEVVTYn INV me- oO
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Laval Flight 10 Town
Near Border Reported
Py the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ON THE FRENCH-S FROM
TIER, Aug. 19.-Chief of Govern
ment Pierre Laval arrived at Belfort
at noon today and Marshal Petain,
Chief of State, was expected there
soon, according to frontier reports
tonight. Belfort is in France about
Is miles west of Basel, Switzerland,
and about the same distance from
the German border.
The reports, which could not be
confirmed, said Laval was estab-
fishing administrative Offices at
Belfort.
A German Transocean News
Agency broadcast, heard in London,
said Laval had fled Paris with Ger
man Ambassador Otto Abetz and
other Nazi officials. The Vichy gov
ernment is considering quitting that
city. the broadcast said, "and it is
possible this transfer may already
be in progress"
The Algiers United Nations radio.
In broadcast recorded by the As
sociated Press, told of reports that
French Forces of the Interior al
ready are in control of Vichy and
have set up their own courts.
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Nazis Scutt|e Ships
Caught in Biscay Ports
BY the Associated Press.


1RUN. Spain. Aug. 19.-German
ships in Southwest France, both
naval and mercantile, have been
scuttled in the Bay of Biscay and
IN the Gironde River channel near
Bordeaux, it was learned here to-
night.
The fleet consisted of a number
OF torpedo boats, submarine auxil-
larry ships, light submarines, armed
trawlers and many coastal freight
ers.
The freighters could be seen from
the Spanish shore today. They put
out from Bayonne and st. Jean de
Luz for few miles and were scut-
tied by their crews, who went back
ashore. in nfeboats.
Information reaching here to-
night said the action was similar
In the Gironde Channel.
The Germans evidently chose not
to risk the perilous voyage through
the English Channel to home bases
In light ships. Their heavier u
boats based on Bordeaux left some
0ayS 49os
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Villages Liberated,
Fleeing Nazis Seized
By French Patriots
Police in z Departments
Join Moquis; Surrender
Of Several Gorrisons Neol
BY the Associated Press.

N~-N
LONDON, Aug. 10. French
Forces of the Interior, rising be-
hind the German lines, have
liberated 10 villages in the area
southeast of Paris, are taking
over whole departments of
France and intensifying the cor
railing of Germans seeking to
escape from the southwest, it
was announced today.
The once-hunted men of the Ma
quis-men of the underbrush-or-
ganized in cellars and forest glades
and armed by parachute, have be-
come hunters on gigantic scale, it
was disclosed in a communique from
headquarters of Maj. Gen. Joseph
Pierre Koenig, commander of all re-
sistance forces in the anterior.
All police in the Saone and Loire
Departments have Joined the Ma
quis, he annoupced, and German
garrisons at Thonon, .Evian, Le-
fayet and Ichamonix are negotiat-
ing to surrender. (Swiss dispatches
said the Maquis already had oc-
cupied Thonon and Evian).
Maquis Hold Nantes.
In Brittany the Maquis hold
Nantes, and, aided by American ar
tillery, took Paimpol and Plounez
three days ago, Gen. Koenig's COM
munique said, while four days ago
they attacked the Germans at st.
Jean de Gonville and chased many
across the border into Switzerland.
Vichy French militia in the
Haute Vienne Department who tried
to flee to Vichy were driven back
into Limoges, 1t was announced. In
the Vienne Department the FIJI
blocked German munitions train
In a tunnel and killed hundreds of
Germans near Poitiers.
A German attack on the FIJI near
Cluny with mortars and 37-millime-
ter guns cost the enemy 27O dead
and an equal number of wounded,
Gen. Koenig said.
Successes Confirmed.
1nferentially confirming the an
nouncements of wholesale successes
for the French, the German Trans
ocean News Agency broadcast an
interview with a self-styled expert
on the Maquis" who explained that
so per cent of the Maquis in the
Pyrenees area were Spanish Com
not Frenchmen, and said:
TO get arms, you only have to
go into the forest, flash few lights,
and then you will hear the drone
of masses of American planes and
masses of automatic rifles will be
poured down from the sky; just be
careful not to be knocked on the
head by some of them"
The Paris radio continued to be
silent, and the Vichy radio also
vanished from the airways. Radio
/C.. AZ ~VrC
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Russians Gain 10Mi|es
In Drive on bastions
Guarding East Prussia
Pincers Action Launched
By 300, 900 Men, Aided
By Tanks and Planes
By the Associated Press.

@NSSON'HeNN
LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 90
Red Army troops advanced up
to 10 miles yesterday in thrusts
imperiling Lomza and Ostrow-
MazoWieckS German bastions
guarding the lower East Prussian
border northeast of Warsaw,
while Berlin said another power
full Soviet army had punched
out a breach in major depth"
in Nazi lines on the eastern rim
of East Prussia.
The Russian pincers movement on
Germany's exposed eastern province
was launched by two Red armies to-
falling 100000 men, supported by
strong tank and warplane forma-
tions, Berlin said. The main CEN
ter of fighting" was near the East
Prussian-Lithuanian frontier, the
Germans said.
Moscow's communique was silent
about the Western Lithuanian front
where Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky
White Russian Army Thursday
reached the East Prussian border,
but dispatches from the Soviet capt.
tai said the Russians there were
awaiting an announcement of the
first Soviet crossing into Reich ter
ritory in 30 years.
80 Localities Captured.
Gen. G. F. zakharov's I'd White
Russian Army began the new drive
between Warsaw and the southern
border of East Prussia, capturing 80
localities, the bulletin said. Curvinp
around below the Wisna marshes.
one column seized Kolomija, only 13
miles from Lomza, and 80 miles west
OF Bialystok, the Soviet offensive
base.
Another column, striking SOUTH
west In a 10-mile advance. captured
Czyzewo, As miles beyond Bialystok
and only 16 miles east of Ostrow-
mazoWlecki. CZyZewo is on the
Blalystok-W Warsaw Railway, and also
is junction on a highway junction
linking Lomza and Siedlce.
The town of Smolevo, Is miles
south OF Ostrow, also was captured
IN this drive which is Hinged up
with Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos-
sovky's 1st White Russian Army is
wheeling movement between the
Ostrow sector and Warsaw. East
and northeast of Praga, suburb of
Warsaw, Marshal Rokossovsky's
troops improved their positions after
repulsing bitter German counter
attacks on their lines from Z to IL
miles from Praga.
One hundred miles below War
saw, on the western side of the
Vlstula River, Marshal Ivan S.
konev's 1st Ukraine Army frightened
its hold on three pocketed German
divisions by capturing seven local
lties,~ and also smashed enemy at
IConl nTYCCYA
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Axis Press Gives "Details
OF Italian Armisfice
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Aug. 19.-The German
newspaper Voelkischer BeobachteI
and the Fascist news agency Stefan.
today published what they said
were the Italian armistice condi-
tions signed on September 3, 1913
by Marshal Pietro Badoglio.
The document gave France re-
gions along the Western Italian
border and the island of Elba, Brit.
ain the island of .Pantelleria; Istria
Fiume and zara to Yugoslavia, and
the Dodecanese Islands to Greece
the German and Fascist report
said
Evening star., 1944-08-20
President Orders NAVY
To Seize 99 Machine
Shops on West Coast
Union Overtime Bon
Impedes War Effort,
Roosevelt Declares
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt late yes
terday ordered the Secretary of
the Navy to take over and
operate SO machine shop COM
panies producing war materials
near San Francisco because of
union refusal to lift an overtime
ban on workers.
The order was made public by the
White House along with a letter
dated Friday from George w. Taylor
vice chairman of the War Labor
Board, recommending the seizure.
The board previously had urged
seizure OF five such plants because
of the refusal of Lodge 68 of the In
ternational Association Of Machinists
(AFL) to accept a board order to
rescind a union action prohibiting
work in excess of eight hours a day
or 48 hours in one week in 104 San
Francisco shops.
The controversy began last March
when the union put ban on over
time while negotiating a new con-
tract with employers.
Case Referred to President.
The union rejected WLB order
to rescind the ban and the case was
referred to the President.
Union officials, asserting over
time was unnecessary. ordered their
members to cease work. Many COM
piled, but in the last few days had
returned to work.
Mr.. Taylor said it was hoped that
seizure of the five plants, which
the President ordered August IA,
would result in removal of the over
time ban on all Of them but the
ban was lifted only on the five shops
over which the Navy had assumed
control and continued on the re-
SO.
Mr.. Taylor told the President the
board has been informed that the
union does not intend to lift the
ban on other shops. He added: I'm
view of this persistent refusal the
board unanimously voted to report
these facts to you for such action
as you may deem appropriate"
War Effort Imrseded.
The Presidents order asserted that
there are existing or threatened
Interruptions of the operation of
said plants and facilities as a result
of labor disturbances" and the war
effort will be unduly impeded or de-
layed by these Interruptions"
Meanwhile, naval officers in
charge of five strike-bound West
Coast war plants were authorized
by the OPA to revoke the supple
mental gasoline rations Of employees
who refuse to work.
The plants affected by the action,
by the once Of Economic
Sterilization, are:
The Pacific Gear and Tool Works,
the Federal Mogul Corp, the Link
Belt Co. Pacific division), the
United States Pipe and Manufactur-
ing Co., and the Enterprise Engine
and Foundry Co, located at San
Francisco.