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The union times., 1945-06-02
On nTheScene
 19 Washington
By Travis K. Hedrick

Chairman Harry A. Mills of the NLRB will leave his post in August and appointment of a successor poses hot, new question for Pres. Harry s. Truman.
 Millis is i'll, beyond retirement age. and has decided not to seek re-appOintment when his present term ends.
 On the board, Mills has joined with Member John M. Houston in frequent decisions to override the vote of Member Gerard " Reilly. Reilly has been the target of a good deal of sharp criticism from all ranks of labor because of his obvious inclina- tion to go along with the idea of management in most sharply drawn controversies.
 The AFL, CIO, railroad brother hoods and the independent unions have publicly appeared together at board sessions to oppose Reilly's efforts.
 On the other hand, Mills has been bitterly attacked by AFL Pres. William Green, who wrote of him that, ''I would be happy, I would celebrate when his term of office ended and he passed out of office.''
 KNIFE MAN
 Back of most of the trouble in U. S.-Soviet relations is the cultured hand of w. Averell Hartman, am- bassador extraordinary and plenipo- tentiary. Hartman makes no bones about his dislike of Russia and it can be said f1atly that he is responsible for the low-ebb we have reached in the official and diplomatic level.
 It was on recommendation of liar riman that lend-lease was curtailed and that Army efforts to do more for the Soviet Union were checked.
 Hartman showed up as a guest at the Soviet embassy here last week when the Charge d'Affaires and Madame L. Nivikov were hosts in gala cocktail party celebrating complete victory over Nazi Ger many. A senior officer of the armed forces who knows what goes on in top circles commented, "It's a wonder Hartman doesn't choke'' on that vodka! He has had his knife so far into Russia's back il isn't funny!''
The union times., 1945-06-02

tical and sentimental misunderstood ing; to such misunderstanding we are all liable. Look at the Equal Rights Amendment without preconceived no- tlons. You will see-what? A piece of special or industrial legislation? Perish the thought! It is an addition to the American Bill of Rights, the statement of principle without which no modern democracy can be true to its name.
 Mrs. Florence L. C. Kitchelt.
 Connecticut Committee for the
 Equal Rights Amendment,
 New Haven.
 (Mrs. Mitchell errs in beIieU- ing that the American Federa- tiOn Of Labor has renOunced its opposition to the sO-cGIIed Equal Rights Amendment .'- EditOr.)
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The People-The Court of Last Resort NEW HAVEN. CONN, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, lo45
Dr. Winsloav Gives Us Facts!

"The people of the United good unified n Ssa,n.s national ma 6eah program" Yale Medical School in pamphlet issued by the Public Today spending year medical Dr. wnsow and for that amount they should really M we were to spend half much again the Yale professor Dr. wow average where % a nd ae% doo 'en o all % where there there is market for their services
 "A relatively small of wetodo, get along 5 Rln ae1e n % M cost of illness without hardship but could the "A still larger with below s2Ooo to be supplemented by their employers and the state miams mus. be paid from public funds: cpaing physicians dentists and be we'll paid This sena he contends the highest practitioner be obtained sa. op ] s o ss % sssOO For every physician making $lOOOO there I've do better than by ]" s & R Wi w1ow o should
 LITTLE LUTHER
 "A who sleeps with dogs said Little Luther "houd "whas DIworh looking up Pegler "oh, nothing said his saying something
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 hospitals help the is throw into the anybody who aren't getting care."
 "Oh Luther, you're going far here" MT. DIwoh protested "Nfr. Rankin himself he's "A couple of friends like him and the enemies" said Little Luther The of concen ntration camps Q be carcerated?" MT. Dilworh
 "No said Little Luther "I Rankin would glory f like the Naz he could his colleagues time they something he doesn't k Pm thinking secuted that other boutv eterans'
 "America Germany, said of something else."
 y" Luther "but John Rankin has beat it. He's the oldfashioned O a
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The union times., 1945-06-02
AS WE SEE IT

(Continued from Page One) sell his services under OPA regula- tions as ''something new" If food and tobacco and liquor producers can get away with it, he figures labor producers can, too.
 FROM time to time, we plan to reprint the Economic Bill of Rights proposed in the late President RoOsevelt's message to Congress last January. We suggest you clip it, and read it carefully. This is what F.D.R. favored:
 The right to a useful and remu- lucrative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the na- tion;
 The right to earn enough to pro- vide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
 The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at re- turn which will give him and his family decent living;
 The right of every businessman, large and small. to trade in an at- mosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
 The right of every family to a decent home
 The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
 The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unem- plOyment;
 The right to good education.
 GUARANTEEING an annual wage is impossible and may cause lowered wages and unemployment, says the chairman of the US. Steel Corp. OK, then, maybe he can dig up a wage cut that will guarantee higher pay and more jobs.
 AN arbitrator serving in a conn mercial case in New York had to suspend the proceeding when sum- moned to his plant by telephone, to deal with labor dispute with his workers.
 SELECTIVE Service Director Lewis B. Hershey rushed to the newspapers this week to prOpagan- dize a far-fetched interpretation of the job reinstatement provisions of the Selective Service Act which, if put into effect, would wreck union seniority safeguards and pit vet erans against workers for jobs.
 Organized labor supported by some veterans organizations, has taken the position that the law re- stored to ''vet" his ''job rights''
The union times., 1945-06-02
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-08
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

PILSEN, Czechoslovakia, May g.
The German radio Is broadcasting te
troops that the war is over. Pilsen
is scene of wild, waving, cheering
people, weeping with Joy and shout
ing with jubilation as American
troops march through the streets
and Czech Partisans march their
German masters Of yesterday to the
concentration camps through jeer-
ing, cursing lines, prodding them on
with bayonets.
A nation was experiencing liber-
alton after six years In chains. The
people were celebrating in the heart
of the land whose seizure led to the
start of the war.
Yanks Join Celebration.
The Americans shared in the feel
ing of liberation for they have
reached harbor Of friendship after
fighting through a bitterly hostile
land. Joyful Czech women are kiss
ling Undiscovered soldiers and pelting
them with nlacs.
The American and Czech troops
entered the real Czechoslovakia only
yesterday after passing through the
Sudetenland, where the population
appeared sullenly hostile. The Su-
detenland is entirely German. All
Czechs were forced out and their
lands appropriated and resettled by
Germans in the early occupation
Now the Germans know they them
selves must 60, fact that increases
their hate.
But there was no fighting. We
passed dead German sprawled
across the road. We passed mile
after mile Of great evergreen forests
and villages filled with hate-filled
spectators. The almost absolute
silence was broken only by birds
singing.
Sullenness Disappears.
Suddenly, there was a miraculous
change as we entered the real b.
hernia of friends and war partners
The emotionalism in the villages
was beyond description. Hardened
old Regular Army officers were in
tears. The soldiers reach Climm-
Pilsen. the site of the great Skoda
munition works employing 10000.
1t was two-thirds ruined since the
Raj bombing Of two weeks ago.
People say the previous bombings
were largely failures.
Pilsen actually was entered by an
armored division fresh from the
States and in battle for the first day,
closely followed by the veteran I'd
Division.
All the way the Czechs were sing
ing their national song, This Is
My Home" and shouting at Ger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-08
Byrnes Sees Truman;
May Continue Talks

James F. Byrnes. former war
mobilization director, spent an
hour and half with President Tru-
man late yesterday and told news
men, as he left the White House
that he might return today.
Mr.. Byrnes, who had been at his
home at Spartanburg, S. c., since
the middle OF last month, said the
President telephoned him last week,
saying he wanted to discuss a GER
tain matter, and that when he
came to the White House yesterday
they took up several matters. The
former OWN head said he expected
to be around several days as he had
some dental work to be done and
also was thinking about making a
trip to New York.
He would not discuss any of the
matters he had taken up with
President Truman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-08
Dr.. Herbert Newly Mccoy,
Radioactivity Expert, Dies

Ey the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 8.-Dr. Her
bert Newly Mccoy, "a, noted chem
list, expert in radioactivity and for
Is years professor of chemistry at
the University of Chicago, died at
his home yesterday.
DR.. Mccoy, credited with many
achievements in science, including
important discoveries in the rela-
tionship of radium and uranium
won the willard Gibbs Gold Medal
of the American Chemical Society
in 1887.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ethel Mccoy, also well known II,
chemical research.
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Attack by U. 5. Fighters
On Tokyo Area Reported
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-Tokyc
reported that IS to 10 American
Mustang fighters, lied by a few
B-29s," attacked airf1elds and NUM-
tions plants in the Tokyo area
around noon today I'll pm. Monday
EWT)
Another report, also recorded by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, said Super Fortresses earlier
had raided airflelds and installations
on the mainland islands of Shikoky
and Kyushu.
The Kyushu attacks already had
been announced by BIG commands
at Guam and Washington. It was
the 18th B-29 strike against that
island since March ~.
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Yonks Find Welcome in PiIsen
After Hostility in SudetenIund

mans the Czech national slogan
Truth Always Wins
while the American entry was a
surprise to many, the way was pre-
pared days before by the Czech
Partisans, probably the most perse.
cuted and the most efficient resist
ance group in Europe. There was
almost no opposition to Allied en-
try in Pilsen. The underground had
collected many German soldiers and
directed Allied troops to where
others held out.
The commanding general of the
Pilsen defenses, Gen. George Won
Maijelewski, blew out his brains as
the Allied troops entered.
City in Good Shape.
The city was in relatively good
shape when taken over by Mai
Julian Andrews of Evanston, III.
and Capt. Pettus Kincannon. for.
mer Washington lawyer of TITS Chi
cago avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
The water, gas, electricity and the
telephone system were functionine
and what is left of the Skoda Work,
reopens tomorrow.
But the sufferings of the people ir
the last seven years are incredible
They were starved, beaten or shot
for the slightest offenses. For the
last six months even primary
schools have been prohibited and
there has been practically no educa.
ton for Czech children through the
occupation.
The land was under the heel Of
one Of the worst gauleiters, Karl
Hermann Frank, former Sudeter
bookseller with one glass eye. PEG.
pie say, "One could distinguish the
glass eye for one of his eyes seemed
to show a trace of pity when wit.
Messing the most extreme cruelties
That was the glass eye"
Frank disappeared with a large
haul of money.
Pilsen is the site of one of the
worlds great breweries. 1t is only
slightly injured by bombing and is
resuming operations. There Is
plenty of the famous Pilsener beer
for the Yanks, guests for the first
time IN months at friendly firesides
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-08
10000 Followers
|0f MihaiIovich
Stream Into Italy

~~~~S~N~s~~
WITH THE 9Th ARMY, Northern
Italy, May 6 (delayed) About TO-
900 men. women and children from
the battered army Of Gen. Draja
Mihailovich, a mixture Of regular
Yugoslav Army soldiers and Chef
niks, began streaming into an Ital-
ian concentration camp south Of
Udine yesterday.
They posed a perplexing postwar
problem.
In farm wagons, on motorcycles,
in broken-down German vehicles
and on foot they came into the
British 9Th Army lines with all their
arms, after fearful trek which
started more than six months ago
when Russian troops entered Serbia.
Gen. MISUNDERSTANDING Peters
war minister when the Germans in
vaded Yugoslavia-was not with
them, but officers said they believed
he, too, would soon come out. MAR
shall Tito, leader of the Yugoslav
Army of Liberation and head of the
present provisional government, has
repeatedly accused Mihailovich Of
aiding the Germans-a charge Mi
hailovich has hurled back at Tito.)
Three Divisions In Trek.
On the trek from Serbia, three
divisions represented here - the
Shumadiska, Dinarska and Litschka
divisions-fought in turn against the
Germans, against Marshal Tito,s
Partisans and against Croatia's
Fascist Ustachi troops.
One lieutenant said 5000 persons
died Of hunger, typhus and smallpox
in Bosnia.
Fifty-two officers died of typhus,
he said.
These weary travellers were loud
and apparently unanimous in their
hatred OF Tito.
1--WE want our king to return i'm
mediately and Tito doesn't" one of
them said bitterly.
Troops Loyal to King.
Most Of the troops wore the crown
insignia Of the regular prewar Yugo-
slav army. Others wore only the
Chetnik insignia with skull and
crossbones.
Gen. Damjanovic Of Mihailovich's
staff came out with the troops and
was believed to have been In con-
ference with Allied military leaders
on the delicate problems involved.
Some of the refugee troops ex-
pressed themselves as opposed to
any return to a Yugoslavia which
would be controlled by Tito. A
propaganda official attached to Mi
hailovich's army declared that Tito
had set up "a military dictatorship"
In Yugoslavia. He warned against
"bolshevization of all Europe and
eventually America" His statement
was given in German. since his
audience did not speak Serbian.
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GI Who BottIed With Germans
THOUGHT War Would End in '46
corpI. Chester Smith
Went Overseas in AZ
With 1st Division
BY GEORGE KENNEDY.

The Gil at Walter Reed who had
done the most fighting against the
Germans said he found 1t hard to
believe that the war In Europe is
over.
II thought it would last until late
1946," said Corpl. Chester Smith
Of the LIST Division.
He had Just rolled his wheel chair
briskly into the sunshine on the
porch Of ward 3l-that's the ampu-
tation ward.
Faid, Celia and Siegfried.
They were much better than us
at Faid Pass" he said. Their tanks
almost drove us into the sea at Celia
in Sicily. They had better equip
ment than we did in Normandy
And when we got to the Siegfried
Line they were well dug in-they
had SO many pillboxes."
Corpl. Smith slid down In the
chair and stretched the legs that
were not all there.
After getting through the Sieg-
fried Line OK, he had stepped on
the trigger Of a German trap-a
land nine-in a little woods on the
Cologne plain on February IL OF
this year.
There were less than Is per cent
Of us left" he said. Less than
q fourth of the 1900 men who went
over in the Queen Mary in 1912,
sleeping in corridors, on tables
anything horizontal.
Different From Movies.
when we finally went from the
British Isles to Oran we found it
was different from the training
movies" he said. THE French gave
our boats q banging around for a
while when we were coming in. But
we found that was easy to bucking
the Germans. The 10th German
Panzer Division gave us quite a wal
looping at Ell Guettar-there was SC
much we didn't know.
I'VE got to be pretty good soldiers
by the time we crossed Sicily. ]
don't think I'll ever feel quite right
again on fiat ground. In hilly OF
rolling country you can take advan-
tage of the terrain-cut down the
range Of enemy fire. We learned to
do that instinctively.
But that didn't help us at Omaha
Beach on D day. We lost 1000 men
there by the time we had estab-
lished our beachhead,
THE strafing from the air was
the most terrifying experience OF
all. The Germans would come over
by night and drop flares. Then they
would shoot at any moving shadow
Best thing to do was to lie still.
Hit by sour Own Planes"
"And sometimes by day it would
be our own planes. I was in q
French town that got it from our
heavies - four = motored bombers
That was terrifying experience
But our PAT (Thunderbolts) with
their rocket guns were worse. We
would send up flares, but that
wouldn't do any good. One day we
shot down one of them. One of oul
boys must have thought that a Ger
man had got hold of an American
plane. The pilot parachuted down
safely. We got hold Of him ano
asked him What the Help He
said he didn't know" He had been
briefed to strafe everything in our
area" .- .-....-
Corpl. Smith looked down at his
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Army Of 100000
Is Peacefime Plan
Of War Department
BY the Associated Press.

Members of Congress today
disclosed War Department plans
for a peacetime standing Army
of about 100000 men, backed up
by an active Reserve of 100000.
Outlined behind closed doors to
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee, the program contemplates, the
committee members said, that Con-
gress will enact a compulsory peace
time draft to provide the reserve
strength.
A standing, or professional, post
war Army Of 100000 men would
compare with an estimated 325, 900
In 1910.
The 100000 reserves, committee
members said, would include an
estimated 100000 to 100000 National
Guardsmen and Officers Reserve
Corps members and 3,500,0o0 youths
trained for one year In the Regular
Army and assigned to active reserve
status.
Train 100000 Each Year.
Committeeman estimated that
about 500, 900 would be trained each
year and the reserve built up to its
peak strength over period of years.
They emphasized that the pro-
gram is tentative and contingent on
enactment of compulsory peacetime
military training.
Whether Congress will enact such
a law may be determined within a
few months. The House Postwar
Military Policy Committee, which
strongly favors the proposal, will
open hearings on 1t June 4.
The War Department long has
favored relatively small standing
peacetime Army backed by big re-
serve. In memorandum last year,
Gen. George c. Marshall, Chief of
Staff, referred to the large standing
army system as having mo place
among the institutions Of a modern
democratic state based upon the
conception Of government by the
people"
Meanwhile, Representative An
drews Of New York, ranking Repub-
lican on the House Military Affairs
Committee, took responsibility for
disclosure of military information
which drew War Department objec-
lions over the week end.
Mr.. Andrews told the House late
yesterday that he had prepared a
statement for use on We day land
discussed its contents with a re-
porter before going to last Fridays
meeting at which Army officers dis
closed rehabilitation plans.
ut Is my firm belief that almost
every word In the statement of mine
was known generally to the public"
he added. 1T is unfortunate that
made that statement before the War
Department official statement"
Il accept on my own responsibility
the full blame for it," he added.
Mr.. Andrews explained to report
ers later that the figures he gave
to reporters were not based on in
formation he received at commit
tee meeting.
Mr. Andrews statement appar-
emily cleared up ill-feeling that had
existed In the committees ranks
since last Friday.
Chairman May, who earlier had
told reporters he would ask those
responsible for the leak to cease
attending closed meetings, did not
carry out his threat at yesterdays
closed session.
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legs. This" he said, was kinda
hard to take
Half the right foot is gone. The
left leg Is gone halfway below the
knee. He has little sight left in the
left eye.
"shrapnel from the mine pep
pered me all over" he said.
He told about the blast. II got
up" he said. Then when stepped
on my left foot I fell down. 1t
wasn't there. I lay on my back and
shouted. Another soldier came over
and put a tourniquet on me and
sent back for stretcher-bearers."
He was flown back.
Forgot Phone Number.
Eat Mitchell Field" he said, "a
girl came up and said we all could
have a free telephone call home. I
had forgotten our telephone number
but I gave her the address. Ny
mother was out and my sister-in-
law answered the call. knew who
she was but I couldn't talk. I went
all to pieces.
II telephoned again and did bet
ter when I came here. My mother
was here to see me the next day.
She was a good soldier-shed few
tears, that's all, when told her
just what my condition was. All
she had known was that had been
seriously wounded.
I'VE see that here. Right after a
new boy comes in his parents ar
rive. The mothers come in the ward
look down the line of coats and
when they see their boys they start
running to them-crying."
Groans From Vital Pain.
Corpl. Smith told about his next
treatment. For two weeks his left
wrist will be bound to the dissev-
cred right foot-grafting skin. In
side a boy was groaning as a med
ical corpsman dressed his stump
deep groans from vital pain. None OF
the other boys allowed themselves
to show a flicker Of awareness.
Il want to go home" said Corpl
Smith. II haven't been home for
three years. But I'll have to wait
for the end Of the skin grating be-
fore can have furlough."
Corpl. Smith was a boiler man at
the Bethlehem Steel Plant on the
shore of Lake Erie outside Buffalo.
He got $35 a week.
Maybe they'll make me a time
keeper" he said. II won't like 1t but
maybe that's what I'll have to do
What I'd like is gasoline station
Of my own"
He looked down at his legs again.
Il hope I'll be able to swim again, /"
he said. II used to love the water"
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ley here, Mr.. Molotov- said vigor.
ously:
1.-THE question is so simple 1t does
not call for a reply"
But the commissar said it woulc
be desirable for Denmark to have q
place at the Golden Gate Confer
ence.
Mr.. Molotov elso expressed conf
dence that the long-standing Brit
Observation-Disclosures dispute ovel
the makeup of new Polish govern
ment will be settled successfully"
1.-THE principal thing" he added
is that this question should be set
tied In accordance with the wishes
Of the Poles themselves"