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Evening star., 1945-07-16
Newspaper Strikers
Stay Out, Ignoring
Dismissal Threat
ny the Associated prets.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 16.-Despite
warning from publishers that fail
ure to report for work today would
mean their dismissal, New York's
newspaper deliverymen continued
strike now in it's third week-against
IA metropolitan dailies.
Joseph Simons, president of the
independent Newspaper and Mail
Deliverers' Union, said the members
decided at a meeting yesterday to
stay on strike, although no formal
vote was taken.
Mr. Simons said, Several unions
affiliated with the newspaper indus
try have agreed to support the strike
financially" He did not name them.
Edwin S. Friendly, general man
ager of the Sun and representative
of the Publishers Association of
New York City, commented in a
radio broadcast yesterday that the
strikers decision wrote one of the
blacklist marks in the history of
trade unionism."
He asserted that irresponsible
leaders" had misguided the unions
f,700 members ito the brink of dis
aster," and added, 1.-The newspapers
will continue to roll from the presses
and the publishers will see that they
are delivered"
Last Saturday night, publishers
notified the strikers that immediate
dismissal would follow their failure
to return to work on their regular
shifts today. The Daily News first
shift, which goes to work at $50
am, did not report today.
The War Labor Board Cancelled
the closed shop provision of the
unions contract last week. The
publishers then said that measures
would be taken to resume deliveries,
but no further details of the distri-
button plan have been announced.
The WLB subsequently Cancelled the
union contract in its entirety.
The strike, which also affects
three racing papers, began when
union and publisher representa-
tives were unable to agree on a new
contract to replace one that ex-
pired June 80.
The principal issue In the strike
is demand by the deliverers' union
that publishers establish a welfare
fund for union members.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
|Odd Rain of Fire
| hSpoin Starts
| Property Boom
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, July 16.-A land rush"
was reported today around a @
square-mile area of the province
of Almeria, where provincial author
tiles have reported fire falls from
the sky.
Spectators had staked out more
than 1000 land claims on the theory
that radium or some unknown min
eral attracted fire from the at
mosphere.
The phenomenon, first reported
last month, had been confirmed by
scientists-one group said a rain
of fire" ignited a box of its instru-
ments.
The fires attracted so many scien-
fists and tourists to the village of
Laroya, near the area, that food
shortage developed and prices
scared.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Midway Mural TO Mark
Navy Academy Centenary
By the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, July 16.-The Navy
has commissioned 1t. Comdr. Grit
fifth Bailey Coale to paint a 25-foot
mural, titled Victory at Midway"
to be unveiled here October 10 at
ceremonies marking the Naval Acad-
emy's Tooth anniversary.
Comdr. Coale, a resident of Ston-
ington, Conn, has been painting a
record of the Navy at war. At the
start of the war he was assigned to
a destroyer conveying ships in the
North Atlantic.
He was only mile from the sink
ing Of the Reuben James, first
American combat vessel to 60 down,
and many of the survivors were
taken aboard Comdr. Coales de-
stroyer.
After Pearl Harbor, Comdr. Coale
journeyed there to record that fate
full event for the Navy Department.
His next stop was Midway, where
he spent four months gathering
sketches of actual battle scenes.
On his return, Comdr. Coale fin
ished the pictures and wrote book
dedicated to Admiral Nimitz.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Printers May Answer
|WLBToday;LoeaIAsk
Dismissal Of Taylor

International Typographical Union
officials today were expected to
answer War Labor Board action sus-
pending consideration of printers
union contracts now before the
boards Newspaper Commission.
The action, a penalty for the
unions refusal to end a 30-day- -old
strike at two New Jersey papers,
yesterday was followed by passage
of a resolution by the Columbia
Typographical Union. ITU Local
101, of Washington, asking Presi-
dent Truman to dismiss WLB
Chairman George w. Taylor. The
Washington printers charged DR..
Taylor's expressions are not i'm
partial but biased in favor of pub
fishers"
Following a hearing Saturday the
board said the unions failure to
resume work at the Jersey Journal,
Jersey City and the Bayonne Times,
unless the owners accept the unions
new bylaws as part of the contract,
is a violation of public policy.
Other Considerations Deferred.
The board ordered its Newspaper
Commission in Chicago to defer con-
sideration of about 20 other agree
ments to determine If they were
brought about by the ITU policy the
board questions.
Meanwhile Theodore Lockwood,
president of the New Jersey local,
last night said in a statement he
had appealed to Jersey City officials
to call a conference of publishers
and union representatives.
He said "if the publishers will re-
peat at the conference" an offer
made Friday to grant stated de-
mands of the composing room en-
ployes If they return to work, "the
workers will consider it,"
Publishers Offer Agreement.
The publishers in an open letter
Friday offered to sign an agreement
granting a two weeks vacation and
$64.40 weekly wage, which pub
fishers said was the highest wage
permitted under the Little Steel
formula.
The District printers resolution,
adopted unanimously, pledged the
locals support to the unions Exec
utive Council in refusing to make
TTU bylaws subject to arbitration.
1t charged DR.. Taylor has shown
willingness to coerce members of
the ITU into accepting the OBJ
noxious conditions proposed by the
publishers"
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Col. Henry Cabot Lodge
Is Here for Reassiqnmenf

1t. Col. Henry Cabot Lodge,
former Senator from Massachusetts,
and recently returned from over
seas, is in Washington today await
ing orders from the War Depart
ment.
Col Lodge said he would return
to his home at Beverly, Mass, to-
morrow or Wednesday for 80 days
leave before proceeding to his new
assignment. II am feeling f1ne," he
added.
He could not talk about his ex-
periences abroad because of Army
orders. he said. He is staying at
the home of his mother, Mrs. George
Cabot Lodge. His wife and his Sec
ond son, Harry, are with him. His
elder son. George, he explained
could not be here to welcome him
because he is now undergoing Navy
boot training.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
On the Roll of Honor

'Station of the Post Ofsee before he
enlisted in the Marine Corps in
June, 1914. He has been overseas
eight months. He is the nephew of
Mrs. E. S. Ohler of 324l P street
NV.
Pfc. John Moloney, 81, was
wounded in action with the lst
Marine Division on Okinawa May
%, the Navy Department has in
formed his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John A. Moloney, of 8608 Cedar
street, Silver Spring, Md. Pfc. Mo-
loney received shell fragment
wounds in his right forearm and is
in a hospital in the Pacific area.
He entered the Marine Corps June
1912, after being graduated from
Montgomery Blair Senior High
School, and has been overseas %
months.
Pvt. James H. Campbell, whose
wife, Mrs. Irene A. Campbell, is
listed as residing at 2220 First street
NV, is reported by the War De-
partment today as having been
wounded In action in the Pacific
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Green 10 Ask Court
This Week 10 Declare
Glass Seat Vacant

Arlington County Treasurer John
Locke Green said last night he will
carry out his plan this week to
ask the Virginia Supreme Court
of Appeals to declare vacant the
seat of Senator Glass and to order
Gov. Darden to call an election 10
fill the seat.
Mr.. Green said Thursday he was
preparing a writ of mandamus to
order an election.
Declaring the ailing, 87-year-old
Senator has not answered a Senate
roll call since June 20, 1912, Mr.
Green told reporter:
His seat is either abandoned or
vacated We have courts to decide
just such questions, and I intend
to file the petition and see what
happens
Senator Glass could not be
reached for comment.
Rixey Smith, Senator Glass sec
retary, announced recently he would
seek pair for the Senator in favor
of the United Nations Charter. If
he is unable to secure a pair, Mr..
Smith said Senator Glass planned
to go to the Senate and cast his
vote.
Senator Glass. dean of Congress in
service, was a House member from
1902 to 1918, when he resigned to
become Treasury Secretary under
Wilson. Appointed to the Senate in
1920, he was elected in 1924 and for
three succeeding terms. His present
term expires in January, 1s49.
In Richmond, Gov. Darden said
he had received a letter from Mr..
Green requesting him to take action
in the matter, but that he had ad-
viSed Mr.. Green he has no authority
to act unit la vacancy actually ex-
lists.
illness does not constitute a va
cancy," the Governor said. He indi-
Gated he had no intention of taking
any action in the matter and de-
clined any comment on Mr.. Green's
promise to ask the court tn art
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Taft Urges Adoption
OF Bill Now 10 Reduce
.1o47 Business Taxes

By the Associated Press.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
today proposed that Congress write
tax reduction law this year that
will be effective for business in 1947.
The Senate is expected to act this
week on a House-approved revision
Of the corporation tax laws de-
signed to aid reconyersion by
boosting the cash position of busi-
ness approximately 5000 ,000, 900.
While Senator Taft said this
meets his approval, he told re-
porters Congress soon should act
to let businessmen know what to
expect in what he believes will be
the first real surge Of the civilian
economy after reconversion.
1916 Held Unimportant.
II don't think 1t makes so much
difference whether tax reductions
are made in l946." the Ohio Senator
said. Most business then will be
engaged in getting back to civilian
production and they won't be max
ing much money anyway.
But 1947 should see production
in full swing again and business
men, especially small plant owners
and those who plan to build new
facilities, ought to know in advance
what sort of taxes they are going
to have to pay"
Senator Taft said he had no spe-
ciflc revenue proposals In mind but
that he believes the subject should
have immediate study.
Bill Provisions Outlined.
The bill which will go before the
Senate this week-possibly today If
Chairman George of the Finance
Committee can squeeze it in, would
make these changes in the law:
!. Boost the specific exemption
from the excess profits tax from the
present $4,000 to $25,000.
2. Fix next January / as the ma
turity date for outstanding excess
profits tax postwar refund bonds.
3. Hasten refunds on carry-backs
or net operating losses and unused
excess profits credits.
4. Speed refunds on the recompu-
tation of deductions for amortiza-
ton Of emergency facilities.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Handkerchief Is First Clue
To Missing New Jersey Girl
Hy the Associated Press.

MILLVILLE, N. j., July 16.-A
handkerchief bearing a military
laundry mark was uncovered late
yesterday to become the first tang
ihle clue to the mysterious disap-
pearance of pretty Laura Harris,
l9-year.old brunette, missing since
Wednesday.
Police were investigating all un-
occupied cottages in the area in
the belief that the 5-foot-1, 60
pound girl may have met with foul
play. Soldiers at nearby. Millville
Army air base have been asked to
assist
A girl friend told police she met
Laura at dusk Wednesday on a
lonely road near her home. She
said she talked with Laura for a
moment and then went on. The
handkerchief was discovered a short
distance from where Laura's wallet
was found near that road Friday.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Wounded Veteran Uses Tractor
To Rescue z From Burning Auto

car He lassoed the rear bumper
and dragged the smoking vehicle
beyond the electrified area.
Breaking open window, Pvt
Sergi pulled out william F. Pierson,
"a. Police Chief Louis Lynch ar
rived and assisted Pvt. Sergi in re-
moving Charles F. Batten, rs. Both
are from Camden.
Attaches at Cooper Hospital,
Camden, said both men were In
serious condition from burns, shock
and smoke inhalation.
Pvt. Sergi is undergoing treat
ment at the Army hospital for
wounds of his right arm and hand
suffered in Germany.
Evening star., 1945-07-16

following his graduation in June
from Eastern High School. During
that summer he worked for the
Government Printing Office.
Pfc. Harold Ohler McCleaf, whose
wife, Mrs. Dorothy A. McCleaf, lives
at 1914 Wisconsin avenue NV, was
wounded slightly in action on Two
Jima March IL. He is now at rest
camp in the Hawaiian Islands, he
said in a recent letter to his wife.
A native of Washington, he at
tended Gordon Junior High School,
and was employed at the Friendship
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Women sRighfsBattIe
Seen as Report Backs
Constitution Change
By the Associated press.

A battle over equal rights foi
men and women began in Con-
gresS today.
The House Judiciary Committee
touched off the controversy by fl
ing a majority report urging adop-
ton of legislation proposing an equaI
rights amendment to the Constitu-
ton.
The report said such action is
needed to halt what it termed dis
elimination against women in the
form of lower pay schedules, and to
prevent their exclusion from many
Jobs.
Protesting vigorously, seven COM
mittee members filed two minority
reports condemning the suggested
amendment.
JeopardiZes Rights.
They asserted it would take away
many rights women need, such as
special health laws, and that it
would be mischief breeding" and
confusing" 1t would, they said,
raise such questions as whether or
not wife should be equally liable
with the husband for support of a
family or paying alimony.
The majority report, unsigned,
recommended simply that Congress
submit to the States this proposed
constitutional amendment:
That equality of rights under the
law shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or any State
on account of sex. Congress and
the several States shall have power,
within their respective jurisdictions,
TO enforce this article by appropriate
legislation. This amendment shall
take effect three years after the date
of ratification.
The majority stressed that both
political parties had recommended
such an amendment last year and
added that before the proposal be-
came law it would require ratifica-
ton by SO States.
Cites Record in War.
THE arduous and efficient serv-
ice rendered by women - during
the present war has clearly demon
strated that women are capable of
fully participating in the economic
activities of this country" the re-
port asserted. $7,--
One minority report was signed
by Representatives Celler, Demo-
'crat, of New York; Lane, Democrat,
of Massachusetts,; Gorski. Demo-
Crat, of Illinois; Feighan, Democrat,
of Ohio, and Gwynne, Republican,
of Iowa. The other was written by
Representative Hobbs, Democrat, of
Alabama, and indorsed by Repre-
sentative Russell, Democrat, Of
Texas. Said Mr.. Hobbs:
THE power here sought to be
taken away from the States is to
regulate the home, the marriage re-
alton, the welfare of children and
parents, property rights of wives,
widows and orphans and the health,
happiness and morals of most of the
sovereign people. = 1t is with
horror that Congress should con-
template this proposal.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Mrs. Deming, Author
On Indian Lore, Dies
Nv IN. Axsocistsd pr.Ss

by Iht ASsOCIHIeu FTeSS.
NEW YORK, July 16.-MrS.
Therese Osterheld Deming, author
of 13 books on Indian lore, died
Saturday.
With her husband and six chill
dren she spent much time among
Indians in the United States, Can
ada and Mexico She was made a
member of the Blackfoot and Pueblo
tribes and counted such figures as
Buffalo Bill and Chief Rain-ln-the-
Face among her friends.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Ry the Associated Press.

CAMDEN, N. j., July 16.--A
wounded veteran used a tractor yes
terday to rescue 75-year-old man
and his nephew, trapped in a blaz-
ing car under high tension wires.
Pfc. Joseph Sergi, 20, on leave
from Tilton General Hospital, Fort
Dix, N. j., was sitting in his farm
house when he saw the car skid on
the wet highway, crash into a pole,
overturn and send overhead wires
down upon it. The wet ground sur
rounding the wrecked car was cleo
trified over a wide area.
Pvt. Sergi quickly got a tractor
from the barn and drove it near the
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Train Kills Soldier
Walking Home to
Surprise Family
" the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEIGH, w. Va, July 16.--
Pfc. Armstrong Dawson, rs,
started up the railroad tracks
to surprise his family on
his 3o-day redeployment fur
Tough.
His body was found along the
tracks a few hours later. He
apparently had been struck by
a freight. He had not told his
parents of his arrival from Ger
many a few days ago and ap-
parently left the train at Jaeger
to walk to his home on Hurri-
cane Branch.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Naoman Dawson,
and brother, Naoman, jr., who
still Is in Germany.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
German Movies Resume

LONDON. July 16 R.-UFA, the
German film company which, before
the war exported to America such
Emil Jannings pictures as Variety" 3"
Passion" and ''The Loves of Pha-
roah," is resuming production under
Allied supervision, the Paris radio
said today.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
MorguIies Funeral
To Be in BROOKLYN

Services for Sigmund Margulies
65, of 6817 Georgia avenue NV,
who was manager of the Atlanta
(Ga) Office of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. until he retired and
moved to Washington five years ago
will be held tomorrow in Brooklyn.
Mr.. Margulies was born in Logg,
Poland, and came to this country in
1905. He died Saturday at Doctors
Hospital after a long illness.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs,
Fannie Margulies, and a daughter
Mrs. Minnie Mehl of New York.
Signs of revival are reported by
French industry,
Evening star., 1945-07-16
.24,25O Workers End
WaIkouts, Reducing
Sfrike-IdIe 10 $3.50
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey Jn6 ASSOclaLeQ PreSS.
Some 24,250 persons, long idle
through labor disputes, went back to
work today, reducing the Nations
striking idle to 20, ,750, its lowest point
in weeks.
And conciliation meeting was to
be held today in an effort to iron
out a jurisdictional dispute which
caused 874 AFL Bay Cities Metal
Trades workers to leave their jobs in
San Francisco. The men, working
on nine damaged Government
ships, we're protesting the employ
ment of CIO scalers, cleaners and
painters, but they continued work
on other ships. L
The largest share of the back-to-
work movement developed in Akron,
Ohio, where $500 employees of the
Firestone Tire g. Rubber Co. voted
to end their 14-day old strike. The
men decided by 81 margin to re-
sumo work this morning, and full
maintenance crews yesterday pre-
pared the plants for operation.
$500 Return to Jobs.
The balance of the renewed pro-
duction was at the Spicer Manu-
featuring Co. in Toledo, Ohio. Ap-
proximately $500 members of the
CIO- United Auto Workers returned
to work after 10 days of idleness.
One more note of cheer ap-
peared in the production score. In
Syracuse, N. Y, 1850 members of
the United Mine Workers voted to
return to work today In the plant
of the Solvay Process Co., ending
a walkout which began last Sat-
urday in a dispute over contract
changes and bonuses.
Four soft coal mines were closed
in a walkout of 2,700 members of
the United Mine Workers in Jen-
kins. and McRoberts, KY. Dis
charge of a miner was the issue.
At Pittsburgh, however, six-day
work stoppage ended with the re-
sumption of work by 1850 miners
at three coal mines of Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp. A fourth mine
remained idle.
At Yonkers, N. Y, approximately
400 members of the Sugar Refinery
Workers Local 1476 of the Inter
national Longshoremen's Associa-
ton (AFD failed to report for work
today at the Refined Sugar and
Syrup Co., Inc.
A new walkout began at Warren
and nearby Newton Falls, Ohio,
where ia local and long distance
telephone operators of the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers (AFL)
left their switchboards in a wage
dispute with the Warren Telephone
Co.
Continuing at Warren was a dis
pute of SO Electrical Tool and Die
Workers (CIO) with the Packard
electric division of the General
Motors Corp.
Other labor difficulties included:
5000 AFL cigar makers out in
Tampa, Fla; 1900 CIO-UAW men,
bers out in the Graham-Paige
Corp, Detroit; 500 UAW-CIO men,
bers out at the American Metal
Products Corp, Detroit.
1,100 Printers on Strike.
Some 1,100 printers remained out
at the R. r. Donnelley plant, Chi
cago; 600 CIO-UWA at the Pressed
Steel Car Co., Chicago; 500 Socony-
Vacuum Refinery men at East st.
Louis, Ill.
At Connellsville, Pa, 1000 AFL
machinists and glass bottle workers
at the Anchor Hooking Glass Co.;
81 grain weighers at Minneapolis.
WLB delay and back pay issues
took out lis North Hudson County
IN. j. drivers; 300 at Stran-Steel
Division of the Great Lakes Steel
Corp, Terre Haute, Ind; 900 CIO-
VIVA members at the Bantam Bear
ings Division of the Torrington
Co. South Bend. Ind
Evening star., 1945-07-16

a ] I 2 T o e l II 3
slightly wounded
on Okinawa May
% and is in a
h o spital in
Maryland, h 5
m o t h er, Mrs.
Richard jenkins,
of 1865 G. street
NE, said today.
Pfc. Jenkins
was with the 9th
Marine Division
and had been
overseas about a
year. He joined
the Marines in
Senten1her. 1919.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
U-Boot's Crew Interned
With Men of Grof Spec
BY the Associated Press.

6S tne ASSoClaleu FIeSS.
BUENOS AIRES, July 16.-All
crew members of the German SUBJ
marine U530 including the COM
mander, Capt. Otto Wermoutt, were
brought to Buenos Aires yesterday
morning and placed aboard the
Argentine naval auxiliary ship Cor
moral, which left Immediately for
Martin Gracia Island, where the
U-boat crew will be held as war
prisoners.
Two buses under strong Argentine
guard brought the Germans from
Mar Del Plata, where Capt. Wer-
moutt surrendered his 400-ton craft
to Argentine authorities July 10.
Martin Garcia Island is where off,
GERS and crew of the scuttled Ger
naan pocket battleship Graf Spec
also are held.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
District Blood Donations

Appointments
Saturday -- 66 persons
Appointments broken
Saturday - 27 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District $500 between 9 am. and
$50 pm. weekdays and 9 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Shepherd School 10 Collect
Wastepaper Wednesday

Shepherd School, one of the lead
ers in The Evening Star-PTA
Salvage for Victory program, plans
a wastepaper collection Wednesday
and anticipates a large collection.
Many of the schools Papertroopers
signed pledge to continue their
drive throughout the vacation period
in response to the War Production
Boards urgent appeal that there be
no important drop in collections
throughout the summer.
Because of difficulties In provid-
ing adult committees. Shepherd de-
cided to have two collections during
rthe summer, one this month and
another in August, in the hope
that the Papertroopers would
gather paper. temporarily hold 1t
at home and then bring it to school
in two big collections.
The schedule for tomorrow's col
Iectinns fot1nuJS-
Evening star., 1945-07-16
Wounded

Pfc. Richard Ellis Jenkins, jr., 10,
has returned to the United States