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Montana labor news., 1945-06-21
COMMITTEES NAMED
FOR FOURTH OF
July CELEBRATION

The names of all committee members
for Butte's Annual Fourth OF July OBJ
servance were announded Saturday by
Mayor Barry oLeary, general chairman
in charge of arrangements of the Min
ing city's traditional patriotic tribute to
Independence day.
The committees follow
Executive-Mayor Barry OLeary, chair
man: Tom Kelly, vice chairman; Mary
Mcdonald. secretary treasurer; Ward
Tanning, Arnold Jacobsen, Al Mcleod e.
G. Leipheimer, Judge T. E. Downey,
Judge J. j. Lynch, Max Dean Walter
Barnard. p. j. DriscoI Gus Weinstock,
Roland Jobe, Mrs. c. Sheehy Robert G.
Brown, Helen Harstead Gar Donaldson,
Mrs. E. Semmens, George Tippett, Mrs
Margaret LaForest, Brandon Mcmahon
James p. OBrien, Jr., Mrs. J. Byrnes,
Frank Venable, j. R. Crawford, L. H.
Bradley Frank Birmingham, DR.. Harry
Farrell, w. A. Brown, Neil Weston
George Haney, Francis Dolan, Dennis
Shea. Frank Reardon, Paul Cannon, R.
D. Callahan, Roy Murray, Joe Wilson
Sam White, George Schotte, Carl Rowan,
Beryi Wilson, Mrs. Anna M. Quinn, Al
bert Boyle, Leonard Haggerty, DR.. H. l..
Casebeer. NJ. D. O'Connel, Phil Doherty'
William Renouard, William Curran, John
Lindquist. Neil Leary, Frank Doherty'
John j. Haggerty, Frank Moran, H. B.
Strasser, Ray Kunz, Emmett Kelly, John
McCartan, Jack Lloyd Al Huffman,
James OBrien, Joe Lester, Elmer Shea,
Adds McGrath Frank Roe, Mollie Drew
and Phemia McPhail
Publicity - Law Risken, chairman;
Colin Raft, Frank quinn, Edward Coyle
Walter Nelson, Clarence Blewett, BOZ
Newcomb, Magaret Sammons, AL Gus
dorf and Ed Craney.
Finance-Bart j. Riley, chairman
John O'Donnell, vice chairman; William
Lappin. Harry Gronfein, Tom Kelly
Myles Newcombe, William Tiddy, Dar
ONehl, AL Mcleod, Ward Tanning, JOIN
Duggan, Frank Benich James Comba
John Duggan, James Mooney, Morris
Schwartz, Harvey Girard and Eddit
; Price.
, Parade-John Duggan chairman; Johl
Crawford, Charles johnson, George W
Tippett, Brandon Mcmahon.
Sports-William Pickthall, chairman
Bill Cullen, David Reese, tsanlcy Grit
; fifth. Brother C. B. Regan, John Good
t Harry Dahlberg, Bill Sweet and JAG
, Healy.
! 1t is the plan of the July committe
/ to make Butte the center of July OBJ
r servance for Montana this year, com
e mittee heads said Saturday.
: Although plans for the observance ar
S still in the tentative stage, a patriot
+ parade on the morning Of the Fourth
followed by a sports program attractiv
e to young and old, are among the project
o being outlined. Numerous other enter
IS tainment activities, including the Gus
= tomary street dance on the night Of tn
o third will be included,
l. Members of the parade committee sal
e that owing to war time restrictions, bus
e ness houses would not be asked to emf
: floats of the type used in prewar day.
+ prizes would be offered for the bes
p decorated business vehicles in the patr
j. otic pageant and also for similar vehicl'
!, sponsored by civic, patriotic and unic
W organizations of the city.
e Complete plans for the observance wi
d be drafted at meeting of all commi
Ig tees to be held at the city hall Mondf
-e evening at 1880 O'Clock.
Montana labor news., 1945-06-21
Aircraft Again
Beats Schedule

HELENA. Aircraft production went
over the top of uota in May for the
third consecutive month, announced
oscar A. Baarson, Helena WPB district
manager, this week.
While the schedule called for s,345
planes, production for the month totaled
6,354. Even with recently announced
cutbacks, the combined aircraft program
of the Army Air forces and the Navy
calls for a production rate in the last
uarter of this year only % per cent
lqower than that of the first quarter.
This means that the aircraft industry
will still face heavy production lead.
Montana labor news., 1945-06-21
Clarence E. Blewett
in Hosnital

Clarence E. Blewett, editor of the
Montana Labor News, entered Murray
hospital last week for a complete check
up and much deserved rest. 1t is the
fisrt time in many years that your
editor has been absent from his job of
publishing labor's side of the story.
The staff Of the Labor News is carry
ing on to the best of its ability and hopes
the many readers will have patience with
its shortcomings.
Montana labor news., 1945-06-21

In the Is months before We Day
l25.OOO men received American Red
Cross directed combat swimming in
struction in Hawaii, and now the pro-
gram is being stepped mp. at military
request. for troops awaiting re-deploy-
ment TO the Pacific
Montana labor news., 1945-06-21

NAM in 1914 SPENT NEARLY TWO MILLION
ON ANTI-UNION PROPAGANDA, LOBBYING

NEW YORK.-(FP) The National Association of
Manufacturers spent close to two million dollars in 1914
its postwar campaign to destroy unos get rid of gov
erment controls and insure for the big monopolies an
unchecked race fer profits and world domination
Montana labor news., 1945-06-21

Secure heavy attacks against our enc
mics and safe landings for our flying
sons. Buy more War Bends
Montana labor news., 1945-06-21
OPA Advisor Visited
Butte Last Week

James B. Cape, OPA assistant regional
labor advisor, and E. B Winter, district
labor coordinator, were in Butte last week
calling on various labor organizations
49,, ,.oDr xr.p poNrDS TODAY
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Legion Chief Calls
For Citizens Army
By RE Associated Press

Dy 'i-e AoSoSiotcu Htrss.
John Stelle, national commander
OF the American Legion, declared at
a congressional hearing today that
the United States must keep a gun
cooked" through adoption of univer-
sal military training.
Submitting to the House Military
Affairs Committee the Legion's plan
for four months of intensive train
ing, Mr.. Stelle said:
That gun can be in the form Of
a large. standing armed force or it
can be in the form of small, highly
trained regular force and trained
citizen army and reserve COM
ponents."
The first is repugnant to our way
of life, but the second conforms to
it, he added
S. Perry Brown, Beaumont. Tex,
chairman of the Legion's national
defense program, then outlined to
the committee the training program
which the Legion adopted at its
Chicago convention last month
The Legion plan calls for up to
four months of intensive, basic
training for all youths between 1a
and 20, and those of II who have
parental consent. Trainees would
then be given several optional ways
of completing the remainder of their
year of training-either in the
armed forces. National Guard, r. O..
T. c., college or industry.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
House Passes Measure
To Return War Dead

By the Associated Press.
Legislation directing the War De-
partment to return for burial in
this country an estimated 100000
bodies of Americans killed abroad
was passed by the House late yes
terday and sent to the Senate.
The bodies to be returned are
those of servicemen and civilians
whose death since September 16
1910, was directly attributable tc
the war or to Government service
and whose next of kin desire their
return.
They would be reburied in ma
tional cemeteries or in places chosen
by relatives.
Representative Skies, Democrat
Of Florida, who handled the bill fol
the Military Affairs Committee
estimated at $700 the cost of each
reburial, including transportation.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Inventor Of BIockbuster
Awarded Legion Of Merit
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Legion of Merit, Degree of Off
GER, was awarded yesterday to Brit
ish Air Commodore Patrick H. Hus-
kinson, blind inventor of the IA
nous "blockbuster" bomb. 1t was
presented by Gen. Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces commander.
The citation credited the RAF
munitions expert with material aid
in initiating new methods of load
ing bombs, improving the armament
capabilities of aircraft and
contributing greatly to the bomb
ing efficiency of bomber aircraft OF
the United States air forces"
Gen. Arnold, in presenting the
award, told him the great assistance
rendered to the air forces in Europe
by persons like himself had made
American aerial success against
Germany possible.
The commodore, accompanied by
his wife, is in the United States tt
consult with air forces officials on a
bigger and better bomb
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Fiscal

who have been working on studies
in connection with the plan for a
year.
In making public the suggested
oils and a wealth of statistical data
supporting a fixed formula and a
higher Federal payment, Senator
O'Mahoney said:
Two bills have been suggested
to the subcommittee proposing a
definite formula by which the Fed
eral contribution to the support of
the District of Columbia would be
fixed.
Under the first bill the Federal
payment would bear the same ratio
to the total revenues of the Dis
trict as the land in the District
owned by the United States bears
to the total land area of the Dis
trict.
Water Area Deducted
contribution would be measured by
the, same ratio as applied to the
general fund revenues only instead
Of the total revenues.
I'm determining land ownership
the water area would first be de-
Quoted Then from the total area
owned by the United States there
would be deducted the park areas
the land managed by the Army en-
gineers and the lands under the
Architect of the Capitol after al
lowance is made for United States
land used by the District. The for
mula thus drawn results in a per-
centage amounting to 1856. because
the total adjusted District of Co
lumbia area is 33.095 acres and the
adjusted United States land area
Is 6,l78 acres.
Il hope to call the subcommittee
early in the new year to consider
the proposals.
1T is my belief that there shoule
be a substantial increase. in the
Federal contribution because the ex-
pansion Of the Federal activities has
tremendously increased the cost OF
local government. q burden which
in all fairness should not be thrown
on the local taxpayers, particularly
when 1t is known that the Fedora
Government pays no assessment fol
street paving and no part Of the
Federal payment goes to the water
fund. In other words. the United
States receives free water and fret
streets, steadily increasing gratui,
ty for which the present lump-sun
payment is no compensation at all
A similar plan was considered
Evening star., 1945-12-18

about six months ago by the OMa-
honey subcommittee, which was
making a detailed study Of the
Federal-District financial relation
ships at the direction of the Senate.
Action was deferred last June,
however, for two reasons.
One was that the subcommittee
wished to make the survey report
more complete. The other was that
the fiscal year, which ends June 80,
was about over and the committee
felt the necessity of getting the an
nual District supply bill passed so
that the District operations would
not be affected by time which would
have been necessary for enactment
of LEGISLATION changing the size OF
the Federal payment.
AS the budget is submitted each
January to Congress by the Presi-
dent, 1t usually carries only the
Federal payment in the amount
which Congress had appropriated
the previous year. The plan of Sen
ator O'Mahoney to seek considera-
ton of the suggested legislation by
his committee early in the new year
therefore gives hope that Congress
may act on the Federal payment
question well in advance of the time
when the annual supply bill must
be passed.
Federal Payment Fixed.
The Feeney -Merrick- Scott survey
report traces the establishment Of
the National Capital and recalls
that for many years substantive Law
fixed the size of the Federal pay
ment at so per cent. 1t shows thai
this in more recent years was re.
duced to lesser percentages ane
tables listing the lump sum pay.
ments against the budgets show!
how the percentage has dwindlec
as total District costs rose.
Among suggested recommenda
tions listed by the investigators arr
the following:
1T is believed that it is the desir
of the Federal Government to as
sumo its proper share of the ex
penses for the upkeep and opera
ton of the National Capital. Thi
finding is based upon the following
facts
IL The District of Columbia
the seat of the Federal Government
set aside for Federal purposes, witt
full legislative powers retained b.
the Congress.
District Cannot Expand.
'2 The area of the District O
Columbia is fixed. 1t cannot expand
Therefore when the Federal Gov
ernment purchases property the ia.
revenue previously received on sucl
property is lost to the District ant
cannot be replaced. The residents O
the District in fairness should no
be expected to make up such loss il
revenues by increased taxes.
"3. The enormous increase in tn,
expenses of the District of Colum
bia during the last 10 years has beer
occasioned by the tremendous ex
pansion of the Federal Government
with no commensurate increase il
4 the payment by the Federal Govern
ment. During the last six year
there has been no change in tn
: amount of the Federal payment.
a. The residents of the Distric
through increased taxes have ade
! quately. fairly and cheerfully pro
vided their share of the cost of tn
operation and upkeep Of the Ma
tional Capital"
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Auto Workers
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itiative and aggressiveness of all
available candidates.
3. The company retains sole right
to discipline and discharge employees
for cause.
4. Right of company to establish
and determine, maintain and en-
force standards of production, is
fully recognized.
5. Right OF the company to make
such reasonable rules and regula-
tions for maintaining order, safety
and /or efficiency is recognized.
g.. Judgment of the management
to work an operation or department
overtime shall be recognized.
7. Right of the company to write
off and recall employees is limited by
the sections of this agreement GOV.
ering that subject. Notwithstanding
these provisions it is recognized tha
when it becomes necessary to ia
cilitate operations. management
shall have the sole discretion to de-
termine which employees are neces'
sary to be retained.
Time of Increase.
The increase offered to the unior
would become effective at the be.
ginning of the calendar month dur.
| ing which production of the COM
pany reaches or exceeds 10000 units
The units will include Fords, Mer'
curys, Lincolrs and trucks.
The resultant rates would remair
in effect for period of two year,
from the date they become effective
John S. Bugas, Ford labor rela.
tions director, in letter to Rich.
ard T. Leonard, director of the UAW
Ford Division, said the $33 900 ,00
increase represents a gamble,
which he said the company has de
cided to risk.
Mr.. Bugas declared, theoretical
ly we could ask the Government t.
raise ceiling prices enough to cove
wage increase. We do not tl1inl
it wise to 60 on that road at thi
time, because present Government
policy is based on the belief tina
only rigid adherence to OPA cell,
ing prices would prevent imitation
THAT puts the problem SQUARED.
up to the Ford Motor Co. and it
employees. Unless we give up thu
problem as insoluble, we have NJ
alternative but to take gamble. !
Mr.. Bugas said serious considera
ton was being given by the com
pany for a general increase to al
employees.
j Further GIN Deadlock.
j Meanwhile, the issue of curbinI
Evening star., 1945-12-18
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asked for or are we getting only
what the services choose to give us?"
Attorney Mitchell broke in to say,
Il have been sitting here wondering
what significance there is in this
question, what bearing it has on the
inquiry? Maybe I'm dumb about it,
but perhaps if I knew what point
the Senator is trying to make 1t
would help me to get the informa-
ton"
Senator Brester replied that the
reason counsel had been asked some
time ago to look into the matter
was because the Senator from
Maine had reports that in May and
June, 1941, there were four or five
intercepted messages, indicating the
japanese suspected their codes were
being read.
THE first thing that interests me
now is that, if what Admiral Will
kinson has just said is true, then
the Navy has not been giving US
Evening star., 1945-12-18


Mrs. Hart at $500 Woodley road
NV, Is a native of Cuthbert, Ga.
He is a graduate of Alabama Poly
technic institute and a veteran Of
the World War and the Mexican,
Nicaraguan, Haitian and Santo Do
mingo campaigns.
The new public relations head
commanded the oath Infantry Reg
iment of Marines at the taking of
oi-Namur in the Marshalls, re-
ceiving the Navy Cross for his skill
full leadership. At Saipan-Tinian
he won the Legion of Merit. AS as
sistant division commander on 1--we
Jima he won the Bronze Star.
He will continue his duties as
director of the Marine Corps Divi-
sion of Reserve.
Evening star., 1945-12-18

the information asked for" Senator
Brewster told Mr.. Mitchell
That is why I showed some con-
Germ at the start about you wonder
ing in this wilderness of a world
you are not familiar with" Senator
Brewster went on addressing him
self to Mr.. Mitchell. The Senator S
remark had reference to state
ment he has made several times
since the inquiry started. that Mr.
Mitchell knew Washington in a
different, pre-New Deal era"
Admiral Wilkinson told the con-
gressional committee late yester-
day that for some weeks prior to the
attack the location of several battle
ships and several carriers of the
japanese feet was unknown.
Tried to Locate Ships.
In response to a, question by Rep
resentative Cooper. Democrat, OF
Tennessee, Admiral Wilkinson said
that efforts were made at that time
both from the Philippines and from
Hawaii, tor relocate those Jap feet
units.
In one of the earlier naval inves-
legations into the disaster, Capt
Edwin T. Layton, Pacific Fleet intel
ligence officer, testified that on De-
cember 2. l94l, during a conference
with Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim
mel, fleet commander, the admiral
commented on the absence of in
formation concerning the locations
of Japanese Carrier Divisions
and 2.
Capt. Layton, in his testimony on
that earlier occasion, quoted Ad-
miral Kimmel as saying to him
DO you mean to say that they
could be rounding Diamond Head
and you wouldn't know it?', or words
to that effect" Capt. Layton re-
piled he hoped they would be sighted
before that. Diamond Head is a
promontory on the Island of Oahu,
on which Pearl Harbor is located.
Two Problems Considered.
AS the hearings went on today,
committee members were consider
ing two problems of procedure:
l. How much extension of time to
ask beyond January 3, when the
present authority to conduct the in
vestigation expires; g., what to do
about a legal staff to replace the
present one, whose members have
announced they will resign at the
end of the year.
Chairman Barkley of the investi-
eating committee had planned a
closed session late yesterday to dis
cuss these questions, but his doctor
ordered him to bed early in the
afternoon, when he found the Sena-
tor had a fever-probably from a
cold. A resolution extending the
life of the committee is expected to
pass the House and Senate before
| the Christmas recess, but it Is not
certain what new time limit will be
set.
Several members have expressed q
hope that the testimony can be com.
pleted by the end of January, bu
they are not too optimistic of reach.
ing that goal, in view of the number
of important witnesses remaining
to be heard, including Admiral Har.
old r. Stark, former Chief of Nava
Operations Admiral Kimmel anc
Maj. Gen. Walter c. Short, who wa!
Army commander of Hawaii in De
cember, 194l.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Truman Press PorIey
Is Set for Thursday

President Truman will have q
news conference at pm. Thurs
day, Press Secretary Charles G..
Ross said today.
Mr.. Ross also said the President
would leave here about $50 O'Clock
Christmas morning for the plane
trip to his home in Independence,
Mo, where he will remain until
the Friday after Christmas
Mr.. Truman lunched with mem
bers of his cabinet at the White
House today. Secretaries Schwel-
lenbach and Anderson were unable
to attend.
Evening star., 1945-12-18

mands which the GIN management
said must be met when a new COL
lective bargaining agreement is
made.
In a letter to the UAW the cor.
poration asked the union to elm
mate personal attacks, false accusa-
tions and vilification of manage
ment through union publications
handbills, literature and releases"
The only matters to be subjected
to collective bargaining, the letter
continued, would be wages, hours
and other conditions of employment
Evening star., 1945-12-18
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benefit by the proposed program, it
was indicated.
At the same time Commissioner
Mason disclosed he had asked an
interdepartmental committee con-
sisting of representatives of the
controller general. the Budget Bu-
reau and the Treasury to make a
survey of the operations of the audi
tors Office. Purpose of the study,
Mr.. Mason said, was to see if any
changes in its organization were de-
sirable or necessary to effect pay
ment of District employees on time.
Mr.. Pilkerton said he would try
the teacher payroll plan on the
January payrolls.
School representatives included
DR.. Robert A. Maurer, vice president
of the Board of Education and
chairman of it's Personnel Commit
tee: Supt. of Schools Robert l.. Hay
cock, and School Budget Officer A
w. Heinmiller.
Evening star., 1945-12-18

Germ. vas to get a message off that
we were going down. That was
about 8 minutes from the time OF
the first hit.
II said I was going down to the
radio myself and got life pre-
server. I started down the ladder
and the ship took a Is degree list,
I got down to the communications
deck and she seemed to hold at
about 60 degrees, l called not to
Jump unless life jackets were avail
able.
Capt. McVay said when the ship
developed a 90-degree list he stood
upright On the side and walked aft
still thinking that part OF the ship
would remain af1oat. He was pulled
off the ship by waves and after a
short distance he heard swish
and looked up. The ship was gone
he said.
Recalls Moonlight.
Capt. McVay said, on cross
examination that the pressure OF
attempting to get a report out te
the Navy while he was in the hos
pital had caused him to err on the
status of visibility. An extract from
Capt. McVay's report to the Navy
dated August IL, stated there was
intermittent moonlight at which
time the visibility was unlimited"
Capt. McVay said that when he
left the bridge for his cabin at II
pm, July %, the visibility was
poor.
He was asked by Capt. Ryan i
he knew that the water tight door:
on the second deck were open, 81
that a torpedo would cause the shir
TO food and neutralize any at.
tempts to compartmentalize th'
damage.
II not only knew it. I was per.
turbed about it. 1t was an accepted
risk" Capt. McVay answered.
did you give any orders to zig
gag the Indianapolis" he was asket
by defense counsel, Capt. John P
l Cady at an earlier point.
Il did not" replied Capt. McVay
Conditions were such that I did no
believe zigzagging necessary. Visi
bility was poor"
Capt. McVay, who lives at 212
Connecticut avenue NV, is charge
with negligence in failing to caus
the vessel to zigzag in the Philippin
Sea, where enemy submarines nigh
be encountered, and with inefficienc
in failing to give timely orders t
abandon ship.
/ Left Night Orders.
| Capt. McVay declared he had lei
his night orders with the navigate
before he retired. These orders re
quired that he be informed of an
change in the weather, if anythin
4 appeared on the radarscope and il
case of any uncertainty.
mo reports were made to me tha
night he said.
!, Three contacts with enemy sub
marines had been reported. Cap
McVay said he was told at Guam
but it was not considered unusual.
did you make inquiries about a
escort?" asked Capt. Cady.
"Yes. 1 had the usual converse
tons with the routing officer. H
said he would ask for one but non
was available" Capt. McVay said h
thought that was not unusual an
he departed without making a sec
ond request. Immediately after leay
, ing Guam, ship drills were held o
antiaircraft, abandon ship and gen
eral quarters, he added.
Evening star., 1945-12-18

- d ! u a II d II u
Tinian, has been
appointed a direc-
tor OF Marine
public informa-
ton, 1t was an
nounced to-day.
He succeeds
Col. Julian P.
Brown, who held
the post briefly
following t h e
r e c e n t retire
ment of Brig.
Gen. Robert l..
Denig.
Gen. H a r /,