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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Seize Dronne
On Mindanao

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HQ., Luz
ION, March 13 INST h e
Eighth Army's 4lst Division in
fantrymen smashed forward to-
day against surprised and disor-
ganized japanese troops on the
Zamboanga Peninsula, with the
principal city on southwestern
Mindanao and the big San Rogue
airdrome already in American
hands.
Within three days from the
time of their lightning thrust
into the last strategic Jap-held
territory in the southern Philip
pines. the veteran American
doughboys overran elaborate steel
and concrete Jap defensive posi-
tons. adding Zamboanga city and
the San Rogue drome with its
4,000-foot bomber strip 10 the
four coastal towns and the Wolfe
airstrip captured Immediately
after they stormed ashore Sat-
urday.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Retdke
Lost i. Base

kIAG-Marchl hl2-uIP4
forces have recaptured
Suichwan and are driving toward
kanhsien. both former American
air bases in western Kiangsi prov
ince, a Chinese communique said
today
On the Burma front. Chinese
forces have resumed their often
sive in the Lashio area and are
driving toward the Hsipaw Rail-
way southwest Of the town
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
HIGHER EFFICIENCY

30 fifings.he said strikes
went down and efficiency went up.
Murray Corp. similarly raised
efficiency from 10 to 20 per cent
by a gradual Tightening up of shop
rifles, Col. Strong said, and this
was done in the face OF -laYoffS.
The efficiency level in one de-
partment at Murray jumped from
80 70 9S per cent, ne added.
Christopher, Packard's presi-
dent. laid the company'S troubles
in part 10 quadrupled unit output
land a mushrooming of pay rolls
from 1000 10 $4,000. He esti-
mated his aircraft plants eff
cheney at 76 per cent.
The witness SAID he always had
sought to cooperate with the
union, but had noted strained
relations dating from the local
unions election of new admins
tration, which appeared, he de-
clared, 10 have no control over
its members.
He expressed the belief a fac
tional fight in the union was a
factor in the situation.
Wher Col. Strong and Chris
topher had finished speaking, Sen
ator Mead suggested a conference
with Packard union officials.
Labor, management and army
spokesmen agreed TO schedule an
early meeting.
Richard T. Frankensteen, UAW
vice president. declared the pic
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
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Continued from Page Onel
in Washington" he added
"The committee will appreciate
any additional suggestions or
Information -Mhich- -Iepre>entA-
tiVes Of labor or management
may desire 10 submit"
When the hearings are COM
pletcd he said. tho fun committee
Of 10 senators. Of whom three
Senators Mead, Homer Ferguson
TR1 0f MIC EfCan and Hugh
FfTTCHTii pr ~ washington
took part in the Detroit phase of
the investigation. viii study The
record and make final recon-
mcndatlOnS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
INVESTIGATORS STAY HERE

-4Rpe~t+ea+erS- employed -hs-tl4e
committee F'iiillll REMAIN here To
maintain Detroit contacts.
Management SpokeSmen for
War-vital forge and foundry plants
furnished the final testimony in
the hearings here. They de-
clared that neither unions nor
piecework pay plans hold the an
Swer 10 critical manpower short
ages in those lines
A foundry official declared that
whiie the union m ms plant gains
in power. strikes and the number
of man-hourS lost through strikes
pyramid.
He said that stoppages had null
tiplied siX-Told since The UAW-CIO
won maintenance of membership
rights.
Two General Motors Corp forge
plant managers said the efficiency
OF their employees was 10 60 20 per
cent below standard in spite of
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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Staying Suspect Hunt
Centers in Michigan

LANSING, March Estate
police today were on the alert for
Joseph Medley, 45-year-old es-
capped convict after a former
employe of Jackson prison re-
ported seeing the man who is
sought for questioning in the mys-
teriouS deaths of three women.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
France Pays 40 Million

ASHIN GTON. March i;
QNSD-Payment by France of e
$40, 100000 instalment for sup
plies to the French North and
West African Administration dur
ing the last two years has been
announced bV the FEA.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
PRODUCTION TROUBLE

II had trouble getting out
production on schedule" he
testified. "Some OF the employees
who didn't feel like working
would walk around and-it- WAS
difficult to get them back to
their machines. Most all OF
them quit an hour early.
"SOme Of them who wanted to
work hard felt they shouldn't.
/ know of one instance where
the chief steward -tnld-an-e en-
ploye not to work so hard"
In that instance, Schultz teSti
fled, he discovered a woman em
ploye crying because the stewart
had admonished her. He said h,
the steward and on tha
account he was Threatened TO b,
escorted from the premises
a deputy steward, Joseph May
denied any threat haC
been made, but the woman EN-
ploye, Miss Dorothy Perrette, con
firmed other phases of Schultz
testimony.
were short en-a -army-or.
ders," she said. "and l helped
the others after l had my own
work done.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14

clared that disciplinary action in
his plant was opposed without
exception by the union, notwith-
standing the nature OF the offenSc
or the penalty imposed. -
tuIon resistance 10 tTSCIptIUC, t1c
said, resulted sometimes in the
shutdown OF departments.
He testified that his company
had sought aid from union officers
in breaking up the practice OF
quitting early. But instead OF
getting assistance, he said, he
received a demand thaj we give
the hammer crews a half-hour OF
waShup time and maintenance
crews Is minutes under threat Of
complete shutdown
Rebutting UAW Vice President
Walter p Reuther's assertion that
granting of access to plants 10
union officials would nip grieX-
anceS early, he said Timken stop
pages had increased since the
union had been granted mainte-
nance membership.
SToPPAGES INCREASE
In Is months since the mainte-
nance clause has been in effect, he
said, the loss through StoppageS
has been 164.S53 man hours; for
the preceding ID months %, ,696
man hours.
William J. Scott, manager of
The Chevrolet Forge plant, denied
union officers assertions that idle
equipment IN that factory was
suited for making shells. Equip
ment, he testified, is being used
"te the extent of the available
manpower."
He said productive efficiency
was down 10 10 20 per cent in
spite Of an ineentipe-pay- plan
The WINGS new plan for aCcumu-
lated seniority of shifted -waf
workers will help, he predicted,
and his plant has filed acquisitions
for AZ more men.
Joseph tfarbaugh, chevrolet
gear and axle division plant man
ager, estimated that go per cent
of his employees forgot about
quotas and do as much as they
can, working practically until
quitting time.
The remaining 40 per cent start
work late and quit early. he said.
accounting for 10 per cent loss
IN efficiency
Harbaugh testified that produc-
tion on some operations had been
curtailed as much as so per cent,
but added. I'VE didn't allow it 10
stay there
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Cant. Wernluth
Tortured by JapS

NNE of the first American soldiers back from
! the hesh japanese prison camp at Cabana-
- tuan in the Philippines, Pfc. Louis c. Zelis in
Chicago today graphically related how Capt. Arthur
Wermuth the 0le-fndn army and husband of De-
troit nurse, was brutally beaten because he stood
up for his men.
Wermuth whose wife, Jean, is nurse in a Ira
City hospital is believed to be prisoner in Japan
Zeis told reporters
"MOst of all I want to talk about Capt Arthur Wer-
muth. The reporters tell he known the 'one-
man army, and that he killed 163 Japs.
81 wouldn't know about that But know the Japs almost
killed him.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14

White spotlights the action of the First and
Third armies on the Rhine. Upper arrows show where
across the river to depth of four and half miles
width of IL miles with four L. s. divisions than
10000 men, reported the Rhnes east bank The Third
Army Is continuing its CObenz siege and all but ID
miles the west bank of the NOseIe has been cleared
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14

PARIS March ltINS1-T,he
French delegation to the San
Fran cisco conference will be
headed by Foreign Minister Geor-
ges Bidsult, the diplomatic cor
respondent of the French News
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Overseas Navy Man
Free Of Girl sCharQe

NEW YORK, March l3 GNS)
Chief p acists Mate
Frederick Brooks, eXonerated Of
seduction charges brought against
him in Italy. was restored TO full
duty TODAY.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
HELPED OTHERS
I'm n fast worker.

The chief steward said | was
doing too much. l cried and i
told Schultz the steward cussed
me. But there really wasn't any
swearing"
on another occasion, she said
the same steward told her to SLOW
down because a time study was
being made.
You're a fast worker and you
will make IL hard for the 9TH
ers," she quoted him as telling
her.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
luzon: An Aspect

NEW YORK. March 13 (INS)
The japanese Domei Agency
describes the war situation on
Luzon by admitting that the
fighting has begun TO assume an
aspect -
The Detroit Times has more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
BrutaIIy ManhandIed by Officer

UTvHE officer pulled bit of Judo Capt. Wer-
n,uth, knocking him to The ground.
"Then, While stood by heplessiy they kicked
him.
"They kicked him in the face
"They kicked hin, in the stomach
"They kicked him all his body With their
heavy boots
Unconscious, Capt Wermuth taken to hospital.
lie there for time.
"Then the uery first day he out he started
fighting for all again, paying attention to
the hostility and dntdgons of the Jap officers.
I'VE lost best friend when he left. We don't know
what happened One morning he The camp grape
vine said he had been taken to Japan
Mrs Wermuth when she first learned in Detroit that her
husband missing had planned the army But
but prisoner.
Wermuth's parents live in Chicago but the family
maintains home at Traverse City.
He awarded Distinguished Service his
valiant fighting in the Philippines,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
FIERCE FIGHTING
FAYoRIrE STRATEGY

a Russian war correspond
ent was quoted by the British
radio as saying that in taking
the town THE Russians carried
out one of their favorite occu-
patton movements. One force
by-passed the town from the
north. while another approached
from the south.
While Zhukov's forces toppled
Kuestrin. troops of Marshal
RokoSsovsky's Second White Rus
sian Army plunged on toward the
Baltic ports Of DaHzig and -Gds-
mia, while Russian aircraft blasted
the tvs cities and also bombarded
KonigSberg.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
PRODUCTION OFF

c. w. Wilbur, manager of the
Timken-Detroit forge plant, said
mis- plant should produce Is 10 20
per cent more perman.- -Yetmen
employed at piecework rates allow
production to slump and slow their
work early in the afternoon.
~ won e r why industry Is
praised when conditions like
this. and lasting so long. still
exist" Senator Ferguson OBJ
served "Can the problem be
solved: How can we get more
production and win this war ."
81 can't solve it, Wilbur re-
piled. I'VE have gone after the
union to solve II, but IL we take
disciplinary steps we have a
strike"
William Lutjen of the UAW's
skilled trades department, sa d
there was a ten d dency among
workers not 10 exert themselves
because they realize their life ex-
pectancy is shorten than that for
other trades.
HITS INCENTIVE PAY
He said he believed abandon
ment of incentive schedules and
quotas might help. since there is
fear that the maintenance Of
high wartime rate of production
might affect peacetime piecework
rates.
Some workers also fear that
Detroit may lose many industries
after the war, with resultant un-
employment, Lutjen said.
Isn't falling down on prOduc-
ton standards the easiest way
in the world to lose Detroit's
place as the leading industrial
city," S ma tor Ferguson de-
manded.
Lutjen admitted the senator's
assumption might be true.
BACKS RoMNEY's STORY
Clarence w. Avery, vice presi-
dent of the Automotive Council
and president and chairman of the
board of the Murray Corp. of
America. said Romney's presenta-
tion represented the Joint work of
council members. who would sup
port IL with direct testimony.
First of the management group
10 appear was II. w. Anderson,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14

General Motors Corp. vice presi-
dent in charge OF labor relations.
He submitted a report which was
designed 20 refute the earlier tes-
timony of Reuther concerning con-
dItIUnS IN General Motors.
Guinea pig role IN the commit
tees war plant case history was
played blythe Packard Motor Car
Co s aircraft engine division,
which turns out Rolls-Royce mo-
tors for the army air forces.
Witnesses ran the full gamut
from George T. Christopher, pres
ident of Packard. TO the polisher
and the two grinders whose nap
and checker game, both on COM
pany time, afforded the senator's
a focus for their Shift of charges
that loafing was curtailing war
production.
When the testimony was all in,
Senator Mead declared
We have heard mare than
we had anticipated"
Senator Ferguson said Packard
was chosen for close scrutiny be-
cause an unusual number of
complaints" of gambling and loaf
ing on the job had been directed
against that company's employees.
The last witness in last nights
sessions of the public hearings,
Col. George f. Strong, command
ing the central procurement dis
trict OF the army air forces,
admitted that Packard was in the
bottom one-third of automotive
war plants in respect to man.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Hero Stood Up for His Men

eel WAS member Of Capt Wermuth's detail. shall be
proud forever to be able say with that great
and courageous soldier.
"To those of Who kneV him before
captured he hero; to those Dhe What he
tried to do for after he imprisoned, he Was a
hero.
Capt. Wermuth stood for That Is not easy AS
1t sounds 1t took courage, plenty.
There terrible day when of my buddes,
hardly able to stand because of the of dysenter
ordered to clean away refuse while barefooted.
"Some of the insane with disease
without hesitation, Capt Wermuth complained TO Jap
officer in a which could be Misunderstood
81 can see hin, yet, standing there, demanding 0s
be treated decentiy
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
HEARING HEATED

The Senate Investigators de-
voted much of yesterdays session
10 the testimony OF supervisors
and production employees in the
department of 200 in which. on a
surprise visit, they found but one
man al work, one apparently
asleep, two playing checkers and
others standing around idle.
As the hearing became heated,
they were recording, at one and
the same time, the intertwined
stories OF five men and woman
employe.
Eric Schultz, foreman of the
department for years until his
resignation three weeks ago after
he had been denied a transfer,
said he quit because "a few people
in that department had total
disregard for the rules the COM
pany and the union set up" and
because company policies could
not be enforced.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Reds Prepare
Berlin Blow
kuestfiH S+fewH With
Corpses Of Nazis

MOSCOW, March IL QNSl-
Victorious Russians appeared to-
day TO he ready for the final drive
on Berlin.
They surged through the corpse
Strewn ruins OF the fortress city
OF Kuestrin, which had guarded
the eastern approaches 10 the
German capital.
The way was cleared fer a d4-
rect assault on Berlin Wheh
troops of Marshal Zhukov's First
White Russian Army captured
KueStrin yesterday.
FIERCE FIGHTING
FerceneSS Of the fighting was
indicated by the Soviet communi-
que. which added few details 10
Premier Stains order OF the day
reporting the fall OF the Oder
River fortress.
The communique said that the
Germans had converted all stone
buildings in the city which had
q peacetime population of about
1900. into firing points and had
filled the streets with minelields,
barbados and tank traps.
The streets, the communique
said, were literally paved with
German c0rnSeS
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
Mead PrOberS Told Unions
Forced Forge Output Down

ture that committee witnesses
had painted of Packard workers
loafing on the job did not cast a
true light upon the record OF
100000 automotive industry
worker.
He charged that the senators
were being exploited by manu-
facturers to provide "an area for
an attack on labor.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-14
A QUALITY JOB

lie removed part of the sting
from the criticism, however. by
complimenting The company ON "a
quality job-on a very difficult
engine performed in the face OF
Stepped-up production schedules
and the problems arising from
personnel unframed in aircraft
manufacture.
Col Strong estimated Packard
production could be increased 20
10 80 per cent with the same
labor force. He suggested an in
centive plan and Stricter discipline
as possible remedies.
He attributed in part TO strict
disciplinary action the fact that
the Ford Motor Co. today is build
ing Pratt & Whitney airplane
engines in half the time required
a year ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
{. {. Prisoner
Of kazis
Lands in U. 5.

Private First Glass Tommy Slovak,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Slovak,
landed in New Jersey this week and
is now on his way west.
This El Centro soldier was cap
tured by the Germans last Deem
Der 10 and his parents had no word
from him or about him until after
he was liberated last April %. No
trace of Slovak was found until
after We day. The card saying he
was taken prisoner did not reach
Ell Centro until after he was freed.
He was wounded twice, once in
the hand and once in the arm. The
Germans, he told his parents by
telephone from New Jersey, refused
to treat his wounds. At preesnt, he
said, his wounded hand is useless,
but physicians have hope of restor-
ing its usefulness.
When he talked to his parents,
Slovak had not been told whether
he would be allowed to come home
before taking hospital treatment or
not. He was told, however, that he
was to be treated in a hospital in
San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Death RattIer'
Unit Starts Home

HONOLULU, June 20. CUP)-
The Death Rather" air squadron,
including IL new aces, is headed
for home after establishing a new
Marine Corps record by shooting
down 1241a Japanese planes off
Okinawa in less than two months.
1T was like dream said
squadron commander Maj. George
Chg Axe) Axtell, Jr., Baden, Pa.
I'VE trained all that time to shoot
down planes, and then we found
so many that we just sprayed
them
The squadron flew combat air
patrol and worked in close sup
port with the ground troops at
Okinawa.
It's big day was April %. Axtell
and six of his men spotted about
40 japanese planes coming in low,
apparently trying suicide dives into
Navy ships.
1--WE just tore them wide open, y
said Axtell. Man, you never saw
such a rat race. We made pass af-
ter pass on them and we were
shooting so much I had to tell my
men to take it a little easy be-
cause we were tossing out SO much
lead 1 was afraid we'd start shoot
ing each other up" 70
Axtell splashed five japanese
dive bombers and damaged three
others in 25 minutes Maj. Jeff
Dorrah, Hood River, Ore, oper-
ations officer, was high man with
six planes. 1t. Jerry O'Keefe, Bill
oxi, Miss, moved down five bomb
erS.
Axtell said his pilots were so
eager to chase Kamikaze suicide
planes that they followed their
quarry into U. S. anti-aircraft
fire They did this SO thoroughly
that one destroyer skipper radioed
Axtell:
"A Jap plane just took off part
of my stack and a Marine plane
right behind him finished the
job"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
vandenburg Urges
Charter Adoption
Continued from Page d

Continued from Page II
answer the argument THAT the char
ter is nothing more than a three
power military alliance among
Britain, the United States and
Russia.
$50 far as peace enforcement is
concerned, I agree that there is
substance to this contention he
said. But 1 hasten to assert that
so far as force is concerned, the
world is at the mercy of Russia.
Great Britain and the United States
regardless of whether we form this
league or not. Those happen to be
the facts of life"
But, he argued, the world would
be more at the mercy of those
powerful forces without charter
than it would be with it.
Without the charter there is no
curb upon these great military pow
ers except rivalry between them
and military rivalry has never yet
been the harbinger of peace
with the charter there is at least
the restraint of a peaceful contract,
for whatever that may be worth,
and the grim assurance that the
aggressor who breaks this contract
will stand in naked infamy before
the embattled conscience of an out
ragged world
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
FARM GROUPS STUDY
EQUIPMENT LOANS

Interest in group loans for pur-
chase of farm equipment is growing
in Imperial county, Leonard D. Web
ster, county farm security admins
tration supervisor, announced Fri
day.
More than a dozen inquiries have
come to his office within the last
two weeks asking for details on
loans, he said.
Loans are still available, the Su-
pervisor said, for farmers who can
meet a combined need by joint use
of equipment.
Group service loans also may be
used to provide purebred sires for
two or more adiry herds where cost
of individual ownership would be
prohibitive, Webster explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
TEXAS WOMAN SUCCUMBS
AT DAUGHTERS HOME

Mrs. Ada Hurst Meinicke. "a.
mother of Mrs Emmett Dinsmore of
the Ell Centro area, died Thursday
at her daughters home.
She had been i'll at her home in
Texas and her daughter was bring
ing her to California for a visit
when she suddenly became worse
aboard a train.
Survivors include five daughters,
Mrs. Dinsmore of El Centre, Mrs.
Willie Adams of San Antonio, Tex
as, Mrs. F. P. Montgomery of Ft
Stockton, Texas, Mrs. Buster Aug
ustine and Mrs. Ada Davis, both
of Ozone, Texas; and two sons, r.
w. of Long Beach, and Hurst of
Ozona.
The body is at the Lemons-Wiley
mortuary in Ell Centre pending flu
neral arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Central Valley
Views Differ
WASHINGTON 7

WAoHlNGION, June %. (UP)
Rep. Alfred j. Elliott, CD, Calf,
has appealed to Congress to with
hold further appropriations for
Central Valley Power projects in
California until I'VE know what
the program is"
He charged that further power
developments increased the cost of
irrigation water to farmers in his
district.
Elliott advocated the denial of
funds fer power developments af-
ter some Californians in the House
had lamented an appropriations
subcommittee'S action in refusing
$2l5,000 for planning public trans
mission lines and a steam plant
In the state.
He denied that he was spokes-
man for private power companies,
but declared that there was no
profit to farmers in power devel-
opments.
Don't get me wrong" he said.
MY people just believe that if
the San Francisco Bay area is GO
ing to receive the power benefits
they should say they will build the
power lines themselves"
Opposing construction of a
standby steam plant, he said there
was some question whether the
state could spare natural resources
to run it. Both the steam plant
and transmission lines should be
opposed, he said, until we find
out who's going to pay for them
Democratic Congressman Jerry
Voorhis and George Outland saio
the plant and lines were essential
to the development Of the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
BOND DELIVERY COSTS
STATE S262 FOR 2 MILES

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 90.
CUPl-It is only two miles from
the Oklahoma state capitol to the
downtown Federal Reserve bank,
yet it cost the state s262.50 to have
IL government bonds transferred
from the state treasurer's office to
the bank.
The armored car company which
hauled the bonds is limited to liza
bility of s1.000,000 per trip. The
state wanted $10,5O0.000 worth of
bonds delivered downtown. But it
was cheap at that, said Treasurer
A. S. j. Shaw. 1t would have cost
more than $1,000 to send the bends
by registered mail.