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WLB Panel Report
In Phone Wage Case
DispIeases Union

The Washington Telephone
Traffic Union today expressed
dissatisfaction with a special
War Labor Board panel report
which recommended wage in
creases ranging from So to 81 a
week for 2,45O telephone opera
tors of the Washington area and
disapproyed the union claim for
a $25 Christmas bonus.
The panel, which conducted hear
1ngs here two months ago following
a dispute between the independent
union and the Chesapeake g. Poto-
mao Telephone Co., suggested that
the starting wage Of operators be
raised 81 to $24 a week and that
maximum pay be increased So to $50
per week. It also recommended that
top pay be attained in eight years
rather than the current 10.
Both sides now have 10 days In
which to file arguments for final
WLB decision in the dispute which
is not expected until early next year.
The union indicated it would con-
test the findings of the panel while
company spokesmen deferred direct
comment pending further study.
Elimination of Transients.
The panel suggested that the COM
pany be directed to carry out its
agreement with the union to elimi-
mate all transient operators by Feb
ruary Is next year if it can be done
without impairing telephone service.
Operators should be borrowed"
from other localities only in event
of emergency, the report stated, and
then special monetary allowances
for living expenses should be limited
to four months.
While imported operators were
not so much of an issue in the Wash
ington case, similar situation in
Ohio late last month caused a strike
Which in sympathy" spread to this
area. The telephone company has
been paying operators brought in to
handle wartime traffic an average of
s18.25 a week living expenses above
wages.
Transient operators here have
been paid extra living expenses for
as long as % months, although the |
company in carrying out the agree
ment with the union had reduced |
the number of borrowed" workers
from 335 in September to 157 on De-
cember l.
Union Will File Comment.
The union issued statement
through its attorney, A. P. Kane,
which follows:
The recommendations made by
the panel are not satisfactory to
the union. Under the rules of the
National War Labor Board. the
union has until December "a to file
Its comments on the panel report.
The union intends to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity to file
a brief, and it will work strenu-
ously to convince the board that it
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Senate Passes Bill 10 Curb
PetriIIo Union Actions

By the Associated Press.
The Senate late yesterday passed
legislation designed to prohibit
James Caesar Petrillo's American
Federation of Musicians from inter-
fering with broadcasting of nom
commercial cultural or education
programs.
The measure, sponsored by Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Mich
igan was approved by unanimous
voice vote during a routine call OF
the calendar of unopposed bills. It
now goes to the House.
The legislation grew out of Mr..
Petrillo's cancellation of broadcast
by the National High School Sym
phony Orchestra from the National
Music Camp at Interlochen. Mich.
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Nuzi Peace Move Denied

ROME, Dec. Is GA high Allied
diplomat, accredited to the Vatican,
today described as absolutely with
out foundation" reports published
abroad that the Germans were seek
ing through the holy see to obtain
a more precise definition of the
Allies demand for unconditional
surrender.
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Representative Scott
Will Take Navy Duty
By the Associated Press,


PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14.-Rep-
resentative Scott, Republican, OF
Pennsylvania said today that he will
go on active duty with the Navy
when his term expires January 8.
Mr.. Scott has been in the Naval
Reserve since 1910 and a lieutenant
commander since January IA, 1941.
He requested active duty immedi-
ately after the election, in which he
was defeated by Herbert Nc
Glinchey.
Mr.. Scott, who Is 43, went incog-
nito to England on a tanker last
spring with Representative Can
field, Republican, Of New Jersey and
lated visited the Normandy battle
fronts.
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Weather Report

District of Columbia-Sunny, with
temperature rising to near 40 this
afternoon. Fair, low near % to-
night. Fair, windy and slightly
warmer tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair, not
quite so cold tonight. Fair in east
portion tomorrow, increasing cloudi-
ness in west portion; windy and
slightly warmer.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls.
Report for Last n u~u.~
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Rev. William c. Hicks,
Associate Of Buchanan,
Dies Of Heart Attack

The Rev. william Cleveland
Hicks, A, . close associate OF DR..
Frank Buchanan in the development
Of the world wide Moral Rearma-
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Humidity Report

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
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Record for Last "a Hours,
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, "a, pm. Year ago, 26.
Lowest, "a. am. Year ago, Is.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 9S, on June 1S.
Lowest, II, on January 8.
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Monthly precipitation In inches in tht
Capital (current month to date):
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LOST RATION COUPONS.

RATION BOOKS NOS. 8 AND 4, issued ID
W. L. Lacy and Mr., and Mrs Int,, 3 ~
HoofnaRle' 1721 st. Sc. II. 72II
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ALtcmobile lights must be turned on
one-hah hour after sunset.
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River Report,

Report for Last ~ Hours.
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LOST.

BILLFOLD, black leather, BENJAMIN Frank
I'm Post ONCE, Interstate Commerce Com
mission Bldg, or on Anacostia bus line
contains money, identification, gasoline
coupons, etc. Finder please return to
LELAND w, WARNER, 1865 I. c. c. Bldg
or 1922 18th st. Sc Reward.
BILLFOLD. red leather; lost with WAVES
identification card, pictures and personal
papers. Reward. Call TIE. 749I after 6
.
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JET PROPELLED
AIRCRAFT PROVES
ITS EFFICIENCY

NEW YORK. Jan. 8.--The jet
propelled aircraft, with terrific
speed. has proven its efficiency ct
great attitudes and will be high
ly important tactical weapon
against the Axis and it may even
be used in the expected invasion
OF Europe from the West, Major
Alexander Deseversky predicted to-
day
The noted aeronautical engineer
designer and air warfare strategist,
explaind in an interview, the prin-
ciples Of its use and estimated that
it might double the speed Of ordin-
airy planes but believed for the pre-
sent it will not be used to any great
extent
Its long sustained flying ability
might help in flash performance
enabling heavy bombers to take off
easier with heavier loads or in cata-
putting from carriers.
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GAS WORKS
CITY &c / 5
DEATH BLOW
Chemical Center Of Lud-
wigshafen Completely
F|atfened Out

LONDON, Jan. British wood
en- Mosquito bombers, raiding Ger
many for the seventh consecutive
night, hit targets in western Reich
last night without loss, in the wake
of strong American daylight attacks
which, reports from Sweden said,
gave the chemical city of Ludwig
shafen its death blow.
The Stockholm paper declared
that a force of hundreds of Fort
resses and Liberators bombed the
German poison gas works city,
which now looks completely flat
tened out
Other reports said the twin city
Of Mannheim was struck in a joint
British and American raid
The communique failed to identi-
fly the targets for yesterday and
last night, but said that during the
large scale American operation AZ
German fighters we're shot down
and IL bombers and seven fighters
were lost. The bag raised the total
OF fighters destroyed in the three
major raids OF the month to 149.
More than $50 other Allied war
planes delivered daylong attacks
on the invasion coast, and continued
today for the seventh time in 10
days of such raids.
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The W ashingto
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
,,r.tor robert Q. Allen ON active dutyJ

WASHINGTON - Don't be sur
prised if the railroads remain IN
the hands of the Government Tor
the duration. There is one factor
pointing strongly in this direction.
Dave Robertson, chief of the rail-
road firemen and enginemen, to-
pether with Tom Cashen OF the
switchmen and H. w. Fraser OF the
conductors, held secret meeting
in which they decided to demand
better terms than the compromise
proposal offered by the President
as Federal. arbiter. Also, there was
talk of calling another strike when
the railroads were returned to pri-
yate operation-if the wage terms
weren't met.
That is why the railroads may be
kept in the hands of the Govern
mental least until the three rebel
unions definitely agree on wage
settlement.
It didn't leak out at the time, but
two brotherhood leaders staged a
terrific row during one phase OF the
negotiations, and ]. j. Policy. rep
resenting the railroad operators
had to pacify them.
1t happened after A. F. Whitney
head of the trainmen. accepted
Roosevelt's offer to act as arbiter
In the presence Of the other brother
hood chiefs and the railroad exec
utives, Dave Robertson launched
stream of abuse at Whitney, accis-
ing him of trying to curry favor
with the President.
Whitney shot back that 1T would
not only hurt the nation, but be
suicide for the brotherhoods to
carry their strike threat too TAI
in wartime.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 8.-Troops of the
First and Second Ukrainian armies
poured through great gaps in the
German lines in swift advances.
The units which surrounded Kir-
ovograd have smashed three miles
into the city in one place, in the
Dnieper bend country the Red win
ter offensive continued their up
surge, and advance units of the
force which captured Klesow are
plunging deeper into Rovno Pro-
vince of old Poland.
The German High Command said
in their Saturday communique that
fierce fighting is raging in Kirovo-
grad, and front line dispatches said
the fate of the German garrison is
already decided.
Farther south some Soviet forces
have lunged forward to within 10
miles of Dolinovka, western rail-
way junction which feeds Krivoi
Rog.
Ludwig Sertorious, Nazi military
analyst declared the Soviet often
sives are mot to be moderated in
their menace"
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Nazis Now on Road 10
Bombing Ruin; Warfare
Has Smashed Factories
BY w. w. HERSCHER
AP Features

LONDON, Jan. 5. = Behind the
promise of Air Marshal Sir Arthur
Harris to "emasculate" 80 centers
of German war production there lies
a coolly calculated program of de-
struction, much of which already
has been accomplished.
Few cities in the history of war
fare have been smashed as thor
oughly as the port of Hamburg or
the industrial center OF Cologne.
Kassel has been ruined economically,
and the shattered cities of Dussel-
dorf, Duisburg. Essen, Mannheim
and Ludwigshafen furnish stark
examples of what the air marshal
meant when he spoke of emascula-
ton.
Berlin's turn came last month.
Now thousands OF anxious eyes are
lifted to the sky in other German
cities as the population wonders not,
When are we going to get it?' but,
When are we going to get 1t again
like Berlin?"
The highest circles in the Royal
Air Force believe that the aerial
bombardruent of Germany has now
reached a point where even the de-
struction of a pot and pan factory
will shorten the war. That is not
to say the war can be won by air
power alone. 1t is rather a state
ment that the war in the air is
achieving all that its advocates
claimed for it.
Size of Attacks Increases
The RATS heavy bombardment
is done at night and its technique
is saturation. 1t pours an over
whelming load of high explosives
and incendiary bombs on one spot in
the shortest possible time. If the
attack is successful, there should be
nothing left of the target area when
the big four -engined Lancasters and
Halifaxes and Strings go home.
All this year the size of the at
lacks has been increasing, not only
because the Raj has more planes
but because authoritatively it has
discovered the bigger the force it
can put into the air the less it's
percentage of loss becomes. Great
forces of bombers can overwhelm the
present German anti-aircraft de-
Tense. The Raj has not announced
percentage losses, but they are re-
ported unofficially to be phenomen-
ally small.
AS German cities crumble, the
Nazi transportation system breaks
up with them. Bombings not only
destroy war plants, but level work.
ers' homes and send tens of thous-
ands of Germans wandering through
the country seeking shelter.
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GERMAN
RAIDER
IS SUNK
Combined u. S.-BraziIidn
Units on South Atlantic
Blast Supply Carrier

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 8.-The
Brazilian Government News Service
announced that combined units Of
the United States and Brazilian
fleets sank German surface raid
err in the South Atlantic.
The announcement quotes Capt.
G. E. Blaine. Chief of Staff of the
United States South Atlantic fleet
at Revipe saying patrols located the
raider which was carrying war sup
plies to Germany from Japan. After
an intensive search, the units OF
both the Brazilian and U. S. fleets
sent their Aviation Arm against
the raider and it was. sent down.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-08
AMERICANS
AREM0vING
ON CASINO
Strong Defense 10 Miles
from Rome Are Now
Being Attacked

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 8.---The victorious
American troops massed around and
captured San vittore, forming a
spearhead to storm outer defenses
of Casino. 10 miles from Rome.
The fall of the fiercely defend
ed little mountain village was dis
closed for the first time yesterday
as Associated Press correspondent
Don Whitehead sent a dispatch
from the front. He said San Wit
torio was seized Thursday after a
violent "A hour house to house
battle in the village six miles from
Casino.
The capture was later confirmed
in communique from Headquar-
tiers which said the Fifth Army adj
vanced all along the ten mile front
In the jagged hills.
Today the Americans are fight
ing in the streets of Giusto, tiny
village.
The Eighth Army, half a mile
north across the peninsula, is en-
gagged in strong patrol activity.
Allied bombers have pounded the
airfield at Perugia, central italy.
and blasted an aircraft factory at
Maribor, Northern Yugoslavia, have
struck the railway yards at Plume,
northeastern Italy and dashed ship
ping on the Yugoslav coast.
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PLAN
ADVOCATED FOR
MEN OVERSEAS

WASHINGTON, Jan. g. Amid
reports the Army is moving relief
troops to Isolated outposts, the Sem
ate Democrats and Republicans
have Joined in urging establishment
of a furlough system for battle
weary men long overseas.
Senator Robert Taft told a r,
porter he believed the War Depart
ment should make provisions fer
short furloughs for men who have
been at least two years in foreign
service.
Congress has heard informally the
Army has already acted to replace
many garrisons in Alaska and the
Caribbean Islands and other out
posts
Senator Taft suggested a rotation
system, let one man out of four
be designated from unit to come
home for a month or more and en-
his return. another soldier would be
given leave.
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80 VESSELS
SENT DOWN
0RDAMA6ED
Widespread Attacks Being
Made in South and
Southwest Pacific

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Jan. 8.-Allied ar
men hunting japanese troop ana
supply barges in the south ana
southwest Pacific have sunk OF
damaged 80 vessels, killing or
wounding hundreds Of the enemy.
widespread attacks on parges
does not indicate this traffic, on
which the enemy depends almost
exclusively for reinforcing supplies
for defense, have increased LATELY
but rather conditions have now be-
come favorable for Allied planes 10
hunt them down instead OF concen-
trating attacks on barge staging
points.
Fighting in the Bergen Bay sector
ON Cape Gloucester, New Britain,
invasion area, has fallen into a luli
with American and japanese hitting
each other only intermittently
Marine lines have remained I'M
changed after week OF savage
attacks and counter-attacks on poth
,~-As..,,cA ~ .JoOa TWO)
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ONE LIFE IS LOST
IN FIRE ABOARD
PRINCE OF WALES
Others Of Crew Of II and
Passengers Saved by
Help Of Juneau Graft

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. g.
The Coast Guard reports that Sea-
man First Glass, Kenneth A. Kraft,
OF Ketchikan Headquarters, is mis-
sing following the burning and
sinking last Wednesday at the
north end of Chatham Straits, Of
the Coast Guard freighter Prince
of Wales.
Others of the crew of II and pas
sengers were saved largely through
the able help of the motor vessel
Stormy Petrol of Juneau. Survivors
were landed at Excursion Inlet and
Juneau, several coming back here
to Ketchikan.
An explosion presumably caused
the fire aboard the 65-foot craft.
On Thursday, January 6, the En-
pire published the story of the dis
aster to a small Coact Guard cargo
vessel in Icy Strait, causing COM
plete loss of the vessel Thursday
morning the Empire had the COM
plete story of the fire and sinking
of the vessel, with the loss OF one
life, but in difference to the wishes
of Lieut.. J.g) Lance Hendrickson,
temporarily in charge of the Coast
Guard Headquarters in Juneau dur
ing the absence of 1t. Caro-, did
not print the name of the vessel
lost as the Coast Guard did not
desire that information to become
public then, neither was it men
toned that one life was lost.
Lieut.. Hendrickson however did
secure authority from the Coast
Guard Headquarters in Ketchikan
to publish an article, released and
sent to Juneau from the Ketchikan
Headquarters, stating fire broke out
about 9 am. below decks and quick
ly enveloped the boat, overcoming
all efforts of the crew to bring it
under control. The commanding Of
ficer ordered abandonment of the
boat shortly after and all hands
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LABOR COLONIES

The War Department didn't an
nounce it, but 1t. Gen. B. B. Somer-
veil offered colonel's commissions TO
both Whitney and Alvanley john
ston, of the locomotive engineers,
who accepted the Presidents aroi-
tration and were appointed labor
advisers to the Army. Somerveli
suggested that they become colonies
They promptly vetoed the idea,
however.
I've got a son who has been a
colonel in the Army for a good
many years." replied Whitney. He
got his eagles the. hard way and
wouldn't insult him by accepting a
colonelcy on silver platter
Locomotive engineer il Inst On
echoed the same sentiments. They
didn't tell General Somervell, how
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dent was at the bedside at his wife's
passing.
Death came unexpectedly and as
the result of a sudden attack OF the
heart, and took place in the Wal
dorf Towers apartment. The Hooy-
ers had just returned from con-
cert and she appeared in good
health.
Her sons, Allan, California
rancher, and Herbert, Jr.. radio en-
gineer. have been notified and are
flying here.
From childhood days OF bicycling
after school along Iowa roads, Lou
Henry Hoover carried through life
a bent for balancing work and play.
1t was perhaps this as much as
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-08
When Roosevelt Goes
Anywhere White House
Is Taken Along Also
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan 8. When
the President came back from Te-
heran, Cairo, ct al, one of the sill
hest questions asked him was how
he managed ito function as Pres,-
dent that far from the boundaries
OF the U. S. A.
l say the question was silly be-
cause about all it got was a snick-
er from the press corps in attend
ance and a broad grin from the
President and a recocking OF his
long cigarette holder to three quar-
ter mast.
From historical standpoint, the
question wasn't silly at all. AS re-
Gently as when President Wilson
pushed off for the Versailles con-
ference, a former attorney general
pontificated that as soon as he got
outside the three-mile limit, he was
no longer President OF the United
States.
Perhaps he was right. A guy
named Lindbergh hadn't flown the
Atlantic then and more than
couple of weeks was record time for
ound-tripping between here and
the coast of France, without con-
sidering such things as stopovers
while the President debated whetn-
CT to sign or veto bills
But times have changed in the
quarter of century since woodrow
Wilson took precedent by the fore
lock and went abroad. Now, Wher-
ever the President goes the White
House goes also
President Roosevelt has Travelled
something like 100000 miles in his
IN years as chief executive. And
never once has there been any SER
ious contention that he didn't have
the White House, SO to speak, in
his hip pocket.
/, At Teheran, as matter OF TACT,
he was closer to 1000 Pennsylvania
avenue than he has been on sever
al fishing junkets in less turbu-
lent days. Sometimes, then, 1t took
week or ten days to find the
4 President and get an answer from
him. At Teheran, Cairo, Malta and
,, points EN- route, the President was
never more than three days away
from a hand to hand message from
Washington and he actually signed
bills four days after they were pass
ed by Congress. At least, that's
what the White House tells me.
Somewhere in the history OF ayia-
/ ton, there should be little foot
note about how the Air Transport
! Command kept the President in
close contact with Washington
while he was almost half way
around the world. Every few hours
of those days when the President
was hobnobbing with Chang Kali
shek, President Inonu of Turkey
and Premier Josef Stain, port
folio was laid at his right elbow II
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ACTRESS IS DENIED
HER DIVORCE PLEA;
NEVER MARRIED

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Jan. g.
District Court Judge George Mar
shall has denied the divorce suit
of Madge Bellamy, film star OF the
silent movie days, against Albert
Stanwood Murphy, whom she SAID
married her, by consent, in 194l.
The decision handed down holds
the couple was never married.
There is no community property in
volved. The decision also restrained
the actress making any reference
to claim to such marriage relation
ship.
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HOOVER
PASSES AWAY
IN new YORK
Wife Of Former President,
Highly Respected Form
er First Lady, Is Dead

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Mrs- Her.
bert Hoover died last night In an
apartment here The former Presl-
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RED TROOPS
AREp0URING
INT0p0LAND
Swift Advances Made, All
Seetors-Fierle Fight
ing in Kirovograd

BULLETIN - LONDON, Jan.
8. - KOrovOgrad, the industrial
and rail center of the Dnieper
bend, has been captured.
Stain, according to Moscow
radio broadcast, made this an
noncement tonight in an Order
of the Day.
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