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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Today
I'm Gasoline Strike
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the United States Cancellation
Service, various local heads of the
IOWU. and top representatives OF
the industry.
Presiding will be Judge William
L. Knous of the Colorado supreme
court, aided by Conciliators James
o. Hubbard of Houston and Au.
gust M. Hummert OF st. Louis.
The union delegation will bs
headed by Knight and an unde.
termined number of affiliates, in.
cluding Fell, IOWU business
agent and Ivan Haven, business
agent of Local 456, of Trenton.
1t was the walkout of 300 So.
cony-Vacuum Co. employees nj
Trenton, members of Local 456
on Sept. Is that touched off the
nationwide strikes.
BOTH SIDES FIRM
There was no indication at pre-.
meeting conferences that either OF
the principals would deviate from
their previous stands; the unioH
demanding a 30 per cent pay hike
or 50 hours pay for 40 hours
work, and the oil industry reply
ing with an emphatic no"
WANT STATIONS SHUT
Mayor Jeffries called this
mornings meeting after he and
Ballenger attended last nights
session Of the Retail Gasoline AS
ISOLATION, attended by 200 deal
ers who demanded that all De.
troit service stations "be closed
until the strike end" and police
supply essential drivers from
storage facilities at The various
police precinct stations.
Peck said the resolution wat
passed unanimously. Briefly. il
would eliminate the stations nov
being supplied with gas for essen'
tial drivers and instead make pre-,
cinct stations the emergency
feeder points.
PONTIAC BUSES RESUME
The Pontiac bus service. sus,
pended Sunday afternoon and
stranding the city's 10000 indus
trial workers. resumed late yes9
terday after General Manager
Vern A. Westover appealed ia
the Detroit union for supplies.
Pontiac bulk plants had denied
his requests.
Mayor Arthur J. Law also an.
nounced that two stations had
been opened exclusively for ener-
gency drivers, those essential 10
public health and safety.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
CIO Lure
To Vets
n. Dssroit Times WAshinrton Burcas

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-A
nnineograph QUESTIONABLE pre-
sentsd to a number of senator's by
a d@fyation of CIO men and
womeh Yin Washington last week
indicated that the CIO is prepar-
ing to Mold out a mirage of S50.-
000, 900 900 bonus to draw veter-
ans into its political orbit.
The QUESTIONABLE provided
spaces on which senators and rep
ressntatives might pledge them
selves TO back the SIS for IS
weeks unemployment compensa-
ton bill; the Wagner full employ
ment bill and its companion piece
in the House; the 65 cents an hour
minimum wage bill; a permanent
fair employment practices COM
mittee; abolition of federal poll
taxes for voting, and the bonus
issue.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Vets Oppose U. 5.
Barinq Atom Secret

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-Vet-
erans' voices were raised today in
opposition TO America ever giving
away her atom bomb secrets.
Officials of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars are Fastening drafts
OF resolutions 10 60 before the or
ganization's national encampment
in Chicago next week, calling for
the nation to closely guard war S
most devastating weapon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
PEACE AID PROMISED

In written answers regarding
the democratic future Of Japan,
the emperor said that he believes
that an immediate revolutionary
change of the form Of government
OF Japan is neither possible nor
desirable.
The emperor said that he would
like to ask people of the United
Nations TO observe the future
trend Of Japan closely now that
the nation has started on what
he described as a new road Of
peace in furtherance of which he
said he would employ every means
al his disposal to reach the de-
sired goal,
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
In Dark ON Plea
For Palestine

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 CINS)
White House Secretary Charles
G.. Ross said today that he had
no information on stories from
London which stated that Presi'
dent Truman had requested the
British government to permit i'm
migration of 100000 Jews into
Palestine within short time.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Free Japan,
Mikddo' 'sAinn

EDITORS NoTE-A demo.
srsfis FERN Of soVsrnmsnt viH
sVsIvs eventually in Japan, ET-
psrsr Hirehito soys in the fol.
lovins infsrvisw with Hugh
B@IIis, prssi6snt Of the United
Pysss. In the course Of his IS
s,inuts taIk with BGillis. HUohito
ssiS that he expected to have a
Visit seon vith Gen. Macarthur,
sugrsms Allied commando IN
yapar.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Run Into Entrenched Enemy

IXIE WERE edgng along back trail toward the canehed
w when suddenly walked right into whole company
of Japs dug in and ready for
There least $50, maybe Their machine guns
began and scattered and hit the dirt.
marine sergeant named Eckstein and were carrying
the flares We Immediately doused hem but not quite soon
enough.
Ny sergeant hit FIVE times twice in the stomach.
The OF ducked fast but the Japs had the whole
covered, and pinned down.
Bullets screamed around US incessanty; each
moment thought would surely be my last
and his buddy Sheldon, another marine, erawied
get Eckstein. Brown to Sheldon while ne
dragged Eckstein to
They crawled along their somachs We watched
The Japs spotted all alone began yelling and
started charge to get them.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Russia Views Franco
As a War Criminal

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 QNS)-
Nikolai Novikov, acting head of
the Soviet embassy in Washing
ton. said today that the Soviet
Union considers Gen. Francisco
Franco, head of the Spanish gov
ernment, a war criminal.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
New Berlin Newspaper

BERLIN, Sept. 25 QNS)-The
first independent Berlin daily
newspaper, Der Tages Spiegel'
The Daily Mirror, will start
publication Thursday.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Biddle on Tribunal

WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 (INSD
President Truman today named
former Attorney General Francis
Biddle 10 be a member Of the in
ternational military tribunal which
will try war criminals.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
PONTIAC BUSES RESUME
Navy Asks More
Beds in Hospitals

WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 CUP)
The navy recommended today
that the bed capacity in naval
hospitals be more than doubled.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
laps List
Blow to
Output

TOKYO. Sept. IS CINS)-The
Japanese government turned in
report on the nations shattered
productive capacity today in re-
sponse to instructions from Gen.
Macarthur. IN
The japanese report which was
released by MacArthur's economic
and scientific section showed that
Japan suffered staggering drops
in production during the last fam
ing months of the Pacific war.
MacARTHUR PROGRAM
The Jap report on production
came as one of the first steps in
the execution of MacArthur's oc-
cupation program which has
brought almost all phases of Japa-
nese life under Allied supervision.
MacArthur's instructions to the
Japanese government concerning
economic controls promised to
bring about a "bloodless" revolu-
ton in the conquered country
which possibly will see the
breakup of the big industrial fam
lily combines which hold the major
share of the nations wealth.
MEETING UNLIKELY
Cooperation of the imperial
government with the occupa tion
program prompted a spokesman
for the supreme commander to
declare that there was no need"
for a discussion between Gen.
Macarthur and the emperor.
Questioned AT occupation head
Quarters concerning a possible
meeting between the two men,
Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers, chief
of the Allied information section
for Japan, said:
General Macarthur w ou d
not accept an invitation from
the emperor-if IL were prof
fered-and he In not going to
invite Hirohito here unless it 10
necessary to effect Americas
will"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
WORRIED By WINTER

Hirchito said that Japan was in
urgent need Of food.
He is much concerned ahet4tt the the
prospects for winter when mil
lions OF japanese will be without
clothing. shelter and fuel
According 10 court procedure,
my questions were submitted in
writing several days before the
audience and as ! left the imperial
household departmental building
the questions and written answers
were handed 10 me.
However, my conversation with
the emperor lasted 25 minutes
during which tea was served. Dur
Ing this conversation. the emperor
said that he expected To have a
visit with Gen. Macarthur very
soon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
Nimifz u. S.-Bound

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25
GINS The navy announced
today that Fleet Adm. Nimitz
would arrive in San Francisco
Oct. z.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
BY HUGH BAILLIE

world cspynEht. ls4s. hy United Press
TOKYO, Sept. 25-Japan
now is on an entirely new
footing and will prove itself
equal to membership in the
family of nations, Emperor
Hirohito told the United Press
today.
The Emperor said that demo-
cratic japanese form of govern.
ment will evolve in time may not
necessarily follow the exact pat
tern of democracy in the United
States and Britain, but IL is his
desire and intention that his peo-
pie be made 10 appreciate the
value of democratic government.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

confused events that led to the first
prohibition of the use of any ap-
propriated money for the operation
of the Districts testing laboratory
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director
of highways, appeared before the
District subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee on jan
uary II, 1888, to discuss the appro-
priations for the ensuing year. There
was discussion of salaries paid in
the highway department and what
savings could be effected.
That led to a discussion of the
highway departments testing lab
oratory, then to a discussion of the
Bureau of Standards and the pos
sibility of the bureau doing the
testing for the highway depart
ment without cost to the District
Brought up in Testimony.
The question whether the Bureau
of Standards would charge for the
highway department tests was gone
into by Capt. Whitehurst, Repre-
sentative Clarence. Cannon, Demo
crat, of Missouri, then chairman OF
the District subcommittee and now
chairman of the appropriations
committee itself, and Mai. D. j
Donovan, District auditor and bud
get officer, now dead. There was
this colloquy:
Capt. WhitehurSt-"' The ef-
feet of the economy act so far as
the Bureau of Standards is con-
cerned is to have them make a
charge to the District of Columbia
They have set up a schedule which
is comparable to commercial rates
and frequently it is not possible tc
get the service performed prompt
ly ="
Mr.. Cannon-"This matter came
up in another subcommittee with
the Bureau of Standards and we
were advised to the contrary, thai
the District government is not in.
cluded under the economy act ir
connection with that matter.
Maj. Donovan-"I am afraid Capt
Whitehurst is not up to date on this
particular point. We may not have
called his attention to it. You are
entirely correct, Mr.. Cannon. The
question was raised recently wher
we received a number of samples Of
cloth from competitive bidders fol
the making of uniforms for police
men and flremen :. We asked the
Bureau of Standards whether they
would make test and if so wheth-
er they would make charge
We received letter which stated
in effect, that tests would be made
for the District of Columbia without
cost, and that the economy act ir
Evening star., 1945-05-13
John Lawson, Veteran
UNIV Leader, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, May 12.-John R. Law
son, IA, former president of the
Colorado Federation of Labor and
noted for his union work among
miners of the Rocky Mountain re-
gion, died today.
He also was former vice presi-
dent and director of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Co., president OF
District No. IS of the United Mine
Workers of America and member
of the International Executive
Board of the UNIV for 10 years.
While he was president of the
UNIV district he was convicted o1
murder charge that stemmeo
from the miners riots in Southern
Colorado in 1913, known as the
Ludlow massacre" His convic.
ton, obtained in a court at Trinidad
was appealed to the State Supreme
Court, which freed him in June
1917.
In recognition of his work in be-
half of justice for labor, Mr.. Law.
son was invited by Henry Ford tt
be member of the automotive
leaders peace ship party in 1915
He refused to accept, saying he was
occupied with the strike situation
He was born in Philadelphia anc
started working in mines in Colo.
RADIO in 1893.
His widow and a daughter sur.
vive.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
William T. Triem Dies;
Retired Postal Official

William E. Triem, 73, for NOR
than 40 years an employe of the
Post Office Department at the time
Of his retirement three years ago the
superintendent of the railway ad-
iustment division. died Friday at
Emergency Hospital after a brief
illness.
Mr.. Triem lived at 1926 Hobart
street NV. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mary Dickey Triem; a
daughter, Mrs. Doris Chrzanowski.
and a son, Philip N. Triem, a Navy
enlisted man assigned to the Armed
Guard Center in New Orleans.
Mr.. Triem was born in Salem.
Ohio, and had been a resident Of
the District for more than 40 years,
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Hines funeral
chapel, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Dr.. Commons, United in 1914
With Son Missing Ia Years, Dies
Retired Wisconsin
Professor Was Noted
As Economist
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. c., May 12.-Dr.
John R. Commons, 80, retired Uni
versity of Wisconsin professor, died
in hospital here yesterday. of a
heart ailment.
He and a sister, Clara Commons,
had been here several weeks on a
visit.
The body will be sent to Madison,
Wis. for burial.
DR.. Commons was noted econ
omist and formerly lived at Fort
Lauderdale, Fla. He figured in the
news in July, 1914, when his son,
John A. Commons, was found driv-
ing a laundry truck in Hartford,
Conn, after he had been missing
since 1890 John A. Commons also
had been professor of economics
at the University of Wisconsin and
had been declared legally dead in
1888, a year after his wife, Mrs.
Ellen Holland Commons of 28O9
o street NV, Washington, had di-
vorced him.
Mr.. Commons visited his father
at Fort Lauderdale and then an
nounced he was returning to his
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Baron de Gunzburg Dies;
Former Russian Aftache

Baron Theodore de Gunzburg, 81
banker and attache to the Russian
Embassy during the Kerensky re-
ime, died Friday in Mount SINAI
Hospital, New York City, after q
brief illness.
Baron de Gunzburg came to Wash.
ington as member of a specia.
Russian mission in 1917. Later he
served as attache under Ambassa-
dor Boris Bakhmetef until 1920, re-
siding at the Netherlands Apart.
ments. He then entered private
banking and had assignments ir
New York, Amsterdam and Paris.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

to perform this work in all instances
except that concerning paving mate
rialS."
The Senate took out the ban.
However, in conference, the provi-
sion was restored.
Commerce Department officials
later said they had notified the
Senate Appropriations Committee
the Bureau of Standards would not
be able to test highway materials
for the District because of the re-
duction in the Bureaus operating
expenses.
Closed in July, 1888.
Despite Capt. WhitehWst's warn
ing and that by the Commerce De-
partment the provision closing the
Districts testing laboratory re-
mained in the bill as finally passed.
The testing laboratory, therefore,
was closed July /, 1888.
The Bureau of Standards per-
formed the testing work and
charged for it.
In the II fiscal years since then
the annual payments to the Bu-
reau of Standards have ranged from
$4,000 last year to S46,273 in 1910
for the total of $313,631.
Capt. Whitehurst, at a hearing in
June, 1941, estimated the cost of
running the Districts laboratory at
5,00O a year. On that basis, in
ii years, the cost would have
amounted to S165 900.
And, in addition, the District has
a relatively unproductive investment
OF 100000 in the laboratory,
Evening star., 1945-05-13
By FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS.

BY FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS.
Before Congress completes action
on the 1916 budget for the Dis
trict, on which hearings are now in
progress, decision will be made again
whether the District Highway De-
partment's testing laboratory at
Second and Bryant streets NV. will
remain closed as it has been since
July /, 1888
Since that time the District has
paid out $313,631 to the Bureau of
Standards for highway department
tests which could have been made
in the existing District laboratory
at an expense estimated at approxi-
mately $165,000. In addition, the
District has had an investment of
100000 tied up in the practically
unused laboratory.
Why the District laboratory has
been kept closed and the District
put to the increased expense of
having the Highway Department
tests made by the Bureau of Stand
ards has mystified many Washing
tonians.
Kept Under Misapprehension.
What has kept the laboratory
closed has been rider placed on
the District appropriation bills. The
rider first appeared in the spring
of 1888 in the appropriation bill for
the fiscal year ending June 30. 1914
The rider has been on every bill
since then. 1t says:
Provided further, That no ap-
preparation in this Act shall be used
for the operation of a testing lab
oratory of the Highway Department
for making tests of materials in con-
nection with any activity of the Dis
trict Government"
Why that rider was first mounted
on the bill is answered by an ex-
animation of the record of the hear
ings on the 1884 appropriation bill
The record shows it was believed by
the District subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee
that the tests performed by the
Highway Department laboratory
would be made without charge tt
the District by the United States
Bureau of Standards.
That presumption was erroneous
Cost Mounts Yearly.
The subcommittee foresaw a say.
ing to the District of $12,690.
Instead of that saving, the tests
by the Bureau of Standards in that
first year cost the District $29, PIT
And in the entire period from July
1, 1888, through June 80, 1914, the
estimated extra cost to the District
was $148,631.
There was an unusual series o1
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Chemists Give Medal
To Firestone Chairman
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, May l2.-
Science may hold the balance of
power between peace and war, John
w. Thomas. chairman of the Fire
stone Tire & Rubber Co, said last
night.
Speaking at ceremonies in which
he received the gold medal of the
American Institute of Chemists. Mr..
Thomas forecast a world in which
research could do much toward
outlawing war by providing needed
resources and developing weapons
so destructive that men will never
dare unloose them"
DR.. Gustav Egloff of Chicago.
president of the institute, presented
the medal to Mr. Thomas at a meet
ing of the Miami Valley Chapter.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Big Three May Meet
Next Time in Reich.
British Press Says
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 12.-Sections of
the British press said today the
next meeting of the Big Three
President Truman, Prime Min- 3
lister Churchill and Premier Sta
lin-might be on German soil.1
and possibly in some Prussiarl
country house near Berlin. ss@
The London Sunday Chronicle
said Premier Stain had rejected
London as the site of the important,
conference on vital problems aris-
ing from victory in Europe, while
the Sunday Times expressed the
belief the meeting would be in Ger
many. The Times suggested that
Mr.. Churchill has travelled more
than the other leaders and should
not again be asked to undertake a
lengthy Journey"
A hint that diplomatic relations
among the three big powers have
reached delicate stage came this
week from Mr.. Churchill when ne
cautioned Commons against a for
eign affairs debate at this time.
The Sunday Observer and others
described Russia as still suspicious
of her Western Allies. The OBJ
server asserted that these suspicious
however misguided" would be ag-
gravated if the British policy
shows any tenderness towards re
naming leaders of the Nezi regime"
or if it seemed that Britain was
looking for allies in reactionary
circles and using her influence
against popular resistance move
mentS."
The Observer cautioned, however,
that sit would be equally wrong if
our policy were to be guided by a
desire to placate Russia on all issues
at any price"
Subjects, which the newspapers
expect to come before any meeting
of the Big Three, are the Polish
and Austrian questions, Allied con-
troll of Germany and inter-Allied
/ trade.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
|FbI Will Gef Pound;
May Bring Him Here
To Face Treason Trial
BY the Associated Press,

by Lie AsSOCldteQ FEeSS.
ROME, May 12.-Ezra Pond, poet
and Fascist propagandist, will be
turned over to FBI agents in Italy,
presumably for return to the United
States where he is under indictment
on a charge of treason, an Allied
official said today.
At Allied Force headquarters 1t
was said Pound was still in the
5th Army's hands the last we
heard.'
An Associated Press report from
Rome that Ezra Pound will be
turned over to Federal Bureau Of
Investigation agents In Italy,
aroused speculation last night that
the embittered author would be
brought to Washington for the trea-
son trial.
The 60-year-o Pound, who estab-
lished himself at Rapallo, Italy, as
he was nearing middle age to de
vote the rest of my days to my
work." was one of eight Ameri-
ican citizens indicated on treason
charges in July, 1943, by District
grand jury.
The indictments accused the eight.
two Of whom were women, of giving
aid and comfort to the enemy by
broadcasting propaganda designed
to persuade American citizens to
refuse to support the United States
An the war. All except Pound were
serving in Germany.
FBI officials here said that al
though they have not been in
formed on Pounds position, it is
likely that the poet, who was cap
tured by the Allies May 7. would
be brought here for trial since he
was under indictment in this juris-
diction.
The FBI said it was likely that
Pound would remain in the custody
of the Army, which has transporta-
tion facilities, until he reaches the
United States. They added, however
that sit is possible" that an FBI
agent would accompany him on the
journey from Italy.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

job in Hartford At the time he was
identified as the former Wisconsin
University faculty member he said
he could remember having been at
the University and then his mind
left him perfectly blank"
Dr. John R. Commons went to
the University of Wisconsin as eco
nomics professor in 1904 and held
that position until 1882, when he
was made professor emeritus. He
had been a member of the Wiscon-
sin Minimum Wage Board and for
eight years was associate director
of the National Bureau of Economic
Research.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Allowance for Truckinq
Poultry Is Increased
By the Associated Press,

By Inc ASS0clated Press.
The Nations annual poultry bill
went up an estimated $25 900 900
yesterday.
The OPA authorized an increase
OF cent pound in the maximum
allowance for trucking live poultry
to markets, except live turkeys in the
Pacific Coast States.
The increase in truckers markups
will increase the cost of poultry in
retail stores by $25,o00, 900, the
agency said.
The increase was authorized, OPA
said, because Of the unfavorable
position" of poultry truckers.