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Miners
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6 cents, respectively. These are the
amounts set by Fred M. Vinson last
week In his directive on fringe,
wage adjustments for 'noncontinu-
Gus" industries of which mining Is
one.
3. Vacations: Mr.. Lewis asked
that the $50 allowance be increased
to 500. The operators proposed
this be placed on a percentage basis
with 2 per cent of earnings for those
with one year or more of service and
1 per cent for those with five years
or more with a maximum of $50 and
500, respectively, for each OF these
categories.
4. Hours and earnings, combining
two OF Mr.. Lewis demands: He
asked for return to the 35-hour
week, with full time for underground
travel and overtime for working
hours beyond 35. The operators
proposed full time for the portal
to-portal travel, making a 9-hour
day overall and adding approx
mately % cents day to the pay of
the inside day worker. The weekly
earnings of this class of miner
would be increased by this pro-
posal from $57.06 to $58.75.
Recess to Tomorrow.
S. Although rejecting Mr.. Lewis
proposal dealing with mine foremen,
the operators suggested re-defining
mine workers to specifically exclude
the mine foreman, assistant mine
foreman, fire bosses, bosses In charge
OF inside or outside labor, coal in
spectors, weigh bosses, watchmen,
and members of the executive, su-
pervisory, sales, clerical and TECH
nical forces of the operators.
The negotiating committees re-
sumed sessions behind closed doors
long enough only for the operators
to present their response to the de-
mands and then recessed until to-
morrow.
One operator likened the bar
gaining that will take place in the
next few days to a chess game in
WIIACll potu SlocS give dIlu Jake.
Meanwhile, the United Mine
Workers Journal accused the oper-
ators of conducting "make-believe"
negotiations. The publication said
the operators had planned their
conference procedure far in advance
and were stalling so that the Gov
ernment would intervene and pos
sibly take over the mines.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Ambulance Service
|0f AWvS Approved
by Health Officials

Hospital and Health Department
omcials in special conference to-
day placed their approval on the
present system of ambulance opera
ton at certain hospitals by woman
drivers Of the American Women's
Voluntary Services.
The conference had been called to
consider the situation growing out
of reports that patient had died in
a Casualty Hospital ambulance
manned by two women while en-
route to the hospital.
Following the conference which
lasted for over an hour at the Health
Department formal statement was
issued through DR.. Melvin Isamin-
ger of the Health Department.
Praise Ambulance Service.
Hospital and Health Department
officials, the statement said, today
praised the ambulance service given
the community by the American
Women's Voluntary Services.
They cited the contract between
the District government and hos
pitals in regard to ambulance service
and state that all requirements of
this contract have been met.
"The contract provides, according
to the statement, that the ambu-
lance is in first-class condition, that
it respond promptly when called and
that it be stated by a physician or
any other person adequately trained
in first aid.
"All drivers" continued the state
ment, qualified in special training
for first aid as we'll as ambulance
service under a physician for at
least eight months"
Hospital Chiefs Attend.
Among those attending the meet
ing were James Capossela, superin-
tendent of Emergency; Miss Eliza
beth M. Rogers, superintendent of
Casualty; Mrs. Ben Lambe, director
of publicity for the American Wom-
ems Voluntary Services; DR.. Paul
Dickens, director Of the District
Medical Procurement and Assign
ment Committee of the War Man
power Commission, and Douglas N.
West, head OF the hospital permit
bureau Of the department; Mrs. Will
liam j. Flather, head of the Cas-
ualty Hospital ambulance detail,
AWVS; Miss Belle johnson, head of
the AWVS rescue squad, and I'hom-
as Hickman, a member of the Board
Of Casualty Hospital. Mr. West
presided.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Windsor's Sudden Resignation
Creates Surprise in Bahamas
Bermuda Official
To Succeed Duke
As Governor
BY the Associated Press.

NASSAU, Bahamas, Mar. To-
This tiny colony will bid farewell
next month to the Duke of Wind
sor, the royal governor who
steered the Bahamas safely
through a wartime economic
storm, and to his American-born
duchess.
An announcement that the former
King of England had resigned the
governorship which he has held
since August II, 1910, and would be
succeeded by w. L. Murphy. Ber-
muda colonial secretary, came as a
surprise yesterday even to members
of his official household.
The duke himself said the resigna-
ton should not have been unex-
pected, pointing out that by the end
of April he will have served all but
about three and a half months OF a
term of five years, usually the maxi
mum tenure for colonial governors.
Apparently the duke was some
what surprised himself by the tim
ing of the announcement. He was
reported to have Cancelled golf1ng
date to meet with government heads
when the news was made known
from London.
While Bahamians and Londoners
alike speculated whether the couple
would go to the Windsor ranch in
Canada, to Southern France or live
in the United States, the duke said
he had no immediate plans for the
future, but would probably stay in
the Bahamas for at least another
month.
A Government House spokesman
said yesterday that the dukes first
word of the resignation announce
ment came from an Associated
Press correspondent who called to
ask for comment.
The duke didn't know anything
about it" the spokesman said.
Later, however, it was explained
that even the governors closest
aides were not informed Of his
plans for resigning.
1t was reported today that the
duke had wanted to quit last Decem-
ber when Sir Oliver Stanley, British
colonial secretary, visited here. The
duke was said to have agreed to re-
main at his post until a successor
was named
Recovering from their shock, Ba-
hamians of all walks of life were
almost unanimous in their praise of
the dukes accomplishments as gov
ernor.
Relief Activities Pushed.
They had good words, too, for the
and war relief activities of
the duchess, who served as presi-
dent of the Bahamas Red Cross,
operated children's clinics and de-
voted much time to the welfare OF
colonists.
The duke found Nassau almost
Evening star., 1945-03-16
|BYrnes' Advisers
Appeal 10 Him 10
Ask Their Views

The Advisory Board Of the once
Of War Mobilization and Reconver-
sion Is attempting to effect q closer
working relationship with Director
James r. Byrnes, some Of the MEM
bers feeling that their authority to
advise" the director is not being
exercised to the extent contemplated
by the law.
The board has adopted q reso-
luton respectfully requesting Mr..
Byrnes to inform the members as to
the matters on which he desires ad-
vice, and Chairman o. Max Gard
ner, former Governor of North Caro-
lima, author of the resolution, said
today that the directors reaction
was very cordial"
No Dissension in Board.
Asked II board members felt they
were b9tng by y-passedH by the di-
rector, who put the horseracing ban
and the entertainment curfew in
effect without consulting them.
Chairman Gardner responded that
II can't speak for all members" He
said, however, there was no "dissen-
sion" in the board and pointed out
that the board could not require the
director either to accept its advice
or recommendations.
Mr.. Byrnes has been meeting
periodically with the board, but,
despite this, it was made plain that
there has been no coordination be-
tween director and board so far as
consideration of various problems
is concerned.
Mr.. Gardner explained that the
mobilization and reconversion law
is SO broad that it covers every
thing on the water 'front.'" with the
result that the board, proceeding on
its own authority, has been study
ing certain items which 1t thought
might be discussed with Director
Byrnes, who, to the contrary, was
thinking along other lines.
eve might be thinking about
disposal of surplus property and he
might be thinking about fuel" Mr..
Gardner amplified, adding that I'VE
ought to put our minds on the same
things" and that his resolution was
designed to bring this about.
Wants Notice of Plans.
The Gardner resolution said:
Resolved: That the director be
respectfully requested to notify the
board from time to time of par
ticular problems upon which he de-
sires the advice of the board" and
that the director be further re-
spectfully requested to give such
notice when possible sufficiently in
advance of regularly scheduled
meeting of the board for the matter
to be placed on the agenda of the
Evening star., 1945-03-16
White Covenant Clause
Enforcement Asked

Owners of II homes in the first
block of Randolph place NV. have
filed suit in District Court for an
injunction to enforce a so-called
white-covenant clause.
The suit seeks to enjoin Robbie
Isaac Jefferson and Mrs. Pearl JET
ferson, colored, from continuing to
live in house in the block or from
selling 1t or renting it to colored per-
sons.
The suit also asks that a deed
through which the property was
conveyed to them be Cancelled. In
all there are q plaintiffs in the suit
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Fair and
continued quite warm this after
noon, tonight and tomorrow. High
est temperature in mid Dos this
afternoon, lowest near 60 tonight.
Virginia and Maryland-Fair and
continued warm tonight and TO-
morrow.
Five-Day Forecast.
District of Columbia-Tempera-
lures will be much above normal
Saturday and above normal Sunday
through Wednesday. Rain about
Sunday and again Tuesday or We'd
nesday; total precipitation about
normal.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
et Hsrpers Ferry. Potomac clear at Great
Evening star., 1945-03-16

entirely dependent on the tourist
trade of visitors from the United
States. This major source of reve-
nue. was cut of soon after his ar
rival, however, by lack Of shipping
and became virtually non-existent
after the United States entered the
war.
With the aid of leading colonists
appointed to an economic council
the duke charted recovery course
which has led the colony to the larg-
est public revenue in its history and
a point where there is virtually nc
unemployment.
He arranged for the sending to
United States farms of more than
5000 Bahamian laborers, who have
sent back more than one million
dollars of their earnings to the
Bahamas.
The duke also planned a revival
Of peasant industries.
The duke and the former Mrs.
Wallis Simpson were married after
he quit the throne Of England in
1886. They lived in Europe until
the outbreak of war, when they re-
turned to England. The duke was
then assigned to general staff work
in France.
His assignment to the governor
ship Of this island colony of some
10000 inhabitants in 1910 was
considered by some as virtual exile
for the couple.
Today the century-old Nassau
Guardian in an editorial voiced the
heartfelt regrets" of Bahamians at
the dukes resignation. The news
paper praised the personal initia-
tive" of the duke in his efforts to
improve the lot of colonists and
declared that the duke helped to
make the colony's finances "sounder
than at any other period in the
long history OF the Bahamas"
Except for occasional trips to the
United States, where they some
times stayed two or three months,
the duke and duchess seldom left
the colony. In Nassau. the couple
engaged in little social activity,
obeying a self-imposed wartime rule.
funds raised on taxing aviation gas,
Maryland, like most other States.
has no money to put into the
program.
Both Mayor La Guardia and Sem
ator McCarran, who testified In
behalf of his bill, urged haste in
completing the legislation so that
preliminary work can get under
way at the earliest possible time.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
ArevuIo Tukes Oath

GUATEMALA CITY, Mar. ie lP)
Juan Jose Arevalo. who won over,
whelmingly in the elections lasi
December, took the oath of offict
as President of Guatemala yester.
day for six-year term.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

meeting and for the members Of the
board to acquaint themselves with
the problem or problems
Evening star., 1945-03-16

OVERSEAS STAR REACHES SOUTH PACIFICTwo former re-
porters for The Star received their old
haunts when edition of the paper
Gently to base somewhere" in the South Pacific Left stan
Sergt James Moser r, of Cupeper, Va Marine combat
correspondent and right Capt. William ParTiott Morgan
town. W. Va -As1ociated Prem Paoto
Evening star., 1945-03-16

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Lowest, 81, $50 am. Year ago, So.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 70. on March 10.
Lowest, 70, on January 25
Evening star., 1945-03-16

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1945-03-16

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1945-03-14
Bucterio Study PIonned

i medium for . more rapid detec-
|tion Il certain types Of bacteria IN
water supplies win be one Of the
topics discussed at . meeting Of the
Warrington Branch Of the Society
Evening star., 1945-03-14
Eden Faces Queries
Today on Blackout
OF Romanian News
By EDWARD P. MORGAN.

l. ~ 0D DVVA1A~A< ANAOAD~lGAANt
War Correspondent for The star and the
CHICAGO Daily News.
LONDON, Mar. 1.-THE British
are becoming increasingly exercised
over the. Russian imposed news
blackout in the Balkans4nd Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden viii be
asked In the Commons today TO ex-
plain what is going on In Romania,
where the political situation Is stu
mystifying.
Mr.. Eden probably will try to avoid
making any detailed statement on
Romania now. since q new govern
menta has Just been installed In
Bucharest, but the press and Par
lament are likely to insist on .
fun review OF events there at the
earliest possible date.
Mr.. Eden also will be asked two
other questions concerning Ro-
mania: l, whether Britain Is pre-
pared to recommend q co-belliger-
ency status for Romania, like Italy,
and 2, how many British newspaper
men there are in Romania and
whether there have been any COM
plants regarding the clearance Of
news from there.
The answer to the latter is that
although there are bare handful
of foreign correspondents in Bu-
charest, nothing even approaching
O c1oor ctorv of fho fell ~ r~v,
Nicholae Radescus government or
his flight to the British Legation,
has yet emerged in print.
Both the Manchester Guardian
and the London Daily Mail deplored
this state of affairs in editorials yes
terday. The Mail criticized British
as well as the Russian secretiveness,
saying: "The habit Of secrecy, be-
gun by the war, has become in
grained in official circles"
The Guardian, whose reputation
for liberalism is worldwide, COM
plains of the unfortunate way in
which Romania and all the other
countries that have been liberated
by Russia have become isolated
from the west" and suggests that
Russia has been acting unilaterally
in Romania, even though the Yalta
Conference provided for joint action
by the Big Three in such matters.
There is no wish and no occasion
to impute sinister motives to the
Soviet government, it says, but the
Russians hardly realize, perhaps,
the disquiet they are causing by
their policy of aloofness and ex-
clusion. ="
'The Russians, for all their at
tachment to their own closed econ
omy, can hardly wish to turn East
ern Europe into a kind of forbidden
territory to which no infidel may
penetrate. 1t is time to throw open
the doors-and the windows" the
Guardian concluded.
Copyright, 1945. Chicago Daily News)
Evening star., 1945-03-14

,of american Dacteriolesists h the
George Warrington University
School Of Medicine at . pm.
March n.
They ret medals and Woedsn
crosses; We buy War Bonds.
Evening star., 1945-03-14
|Ex-zionIsf Chief lauds
Progress In Palestine

Nrs. Sasia Ehrlich Of Paris. formel
president Of the Women's Interna-
tional Zionist Organization. lauded
|present-day achievements in Pales-
tine and attributed the progress to
the efforts Of American Jewry, at
the annual donor luncheon Of the
Pioneer Womens Organization for
Palestine at the Nayfiower Hotel
yesterday.
Ari. D. II. Alpher, 1871 Center
street NV, delivered the opening
prayer. Following the luncheon, Ms.
Rose Atkins, sos North Capitol
street, Chairman Of the affair, intro
duced Mrs. Enrich, who descsibed
the part women are playing In the
refugee rehabilitation program Ia
Palestine. 80
Dollars from American groups
like this built schools that have BEEN
training young people over there f0r
occupations and trades that make
them. self -sunlcient, independent and
community assets rather than wards
OF charity" she. added.
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Philip 6. GossIer Dies;
Merged Utilities Firms
Is the Associated Press.

BS the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1S.-Philip G
Gossler, "A, chairman of the board
Of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp,
died today at Doctors Hospital after
a short illness. He was a native of
Columbia, Pa
Mr.. Gossler played a leading role
in the 1926 merger of Columbia Gas
& Electric Co. and Ohio Fuel Corp
two of the Nations largest natural
gas systems, into the present Colum-
bia organization.
His widow, Georgia, and two chill
dren by a former marriage, Mrs
Katherine G. Clay and 1t. Col. Philip
Gossler, now serving IN Italy, survive
Educated at Pennsylvania State
College and Columbia University, Mr.
Gossler first worked for the General
Electric Co. at Chester, Pa. Between
1890 and 1895 he was assistant en-
gineer of the United Electric Light
& Power Co. in New York.
He spent six years in Montreal as
superintendent and engineer of the
Royal Electric Co. and from 1901 to
1904 was general superintendent and
engineer of the Montreal Light, Heat
s. Power Co.
He became chairman of the, board
of Columbia Gas & Electric Co. in
1909 after serving as vice president
Of the j. G. White e. Co.. New York,
since 1904. He worked with the late
George w. Crawford, president OF
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Cargo Training Ship
Arrives for Inspection
By War Bond Buyers

The merchant training ship
American Seaman, carrying 1873
young trainees and 127 officers and
crew, docked at Washington today
after a trip from New York and
will be open to the public for four
days beginning tomorrow
Except on Tuesday - National
Maritime Day-admission to the
424-foot converted ocean freighter
will be the purchase of a $25 War
Bony at any of the Metropolitan
Areas IS theaters. The ship will be
open Tuesday without charge. Vis-
iting hours each day are from 10
am. until pm; 2 to $50 pm. and
from until 10 pm. The ship is
docked at $50 Maine avenue S.W.
Highlight of the training vessels
appearance in Washington will be
a memorial service Sunday in honor
of the more than 5000 United States
merchant seamen lost in this war.
Ceremonies Planned.
Ceremonies, sponsored by the
United States Maritime Commission
Post of the American Legion, will
include massing of colors, the drop
ping of a wreath on the Potomac
and a salute by Coast Guard firing
squad.
The District Commissioners will
designate Monday as District day in
the observance of the 126th ami
versary of our merchant service.
City heads, officials of the Maritime
Commission, the War Shipping Ad-
and the Washington
Board of Trade will be guests on the
American Seaman for lunch Mon
day. The affair will be broadcast
over Station WRC.
Washington newsmen met the
American Seaman yesterday morn
ing above Piney Point on the lower
Potomac after the ship had sailed
from New York in what was be-
lieved to be the last coastal convoy
to leave that port under strict war
time security. Her shipper is 46-
year-old Comdr. Gardner A. Coas,
U. S. N. r., who started in the mer-
chant service as an ordinary sea-
man more than 20 years ago.
A veteran Potomac River pilot,
Capt. Harry E. Slye, 423 Oglethorpe
street NV, brought the American
Seaman from the mouth of the
Potomac to her dock here. With
her draft Of close to 20 feet, the
ship occasionally stirred up mud in
the narrow reaches of the river.
Tribute to First President.
Ofhcers and crew lined the port
rail shortly after am. today for
the traditional naval ceremony of
paying homage to the burial place
of George Washington at Mount
Vernon. The ships bell was tolled,
colors dipped and Taps" blown as
engines were stopped abeam of the
shrine.
Lone Washington trainee aboard
was Oflcer Candidate Richard M.
Klopfer. "a, of 2750 Fourteenth
street NV. who has been at sea
with the merchant service since De-
cember, 1941.
The American Seaman Is one of
five vessels training officers and
crews for our merchant service.
Since she was converted in 1899,
more than $500 men have received
the usual three-week training serv-
ice on board.
Evening star., 1945-05-18

Floating by on the Queen Mary's
starboard was the cruisers stern, end
up in the water, her propellers still
turning, the whole enveloped in
thick, yellow smoke.
We ran aft along the deck. There,
off our port stern was the cruisers
bow-perhaps two-thirds of her
similarly upended in the water, her
prov pointing toward the sky. She
also was enveloped in smoke and
steam.
Within five minutes both sections
had disappeared.
went forward to try to obtain an
eyewitness account of the actual i'm
pact.
An American Army MP who had
been standing near the bow had
seen 1t clearly. The only explana-
ton he could offer was that the
cruisers commander apparently had
misjudged his course and the rela-
tive speeds of the two ships.
A moment before the impact, he
said. he had seen an officer on the
Curacoa's bridge gesticulate wildly
and shout:
MY God, it's too late"
Reports from London have said
that the Queen Mary changed course
to avoid a submarine, but I heard
no such report on the liner.
That evening, well after dark, we
moved slowly but safely into port.
Evening star., 1945-05-18
High Winds Unroof
; Northeast Stores;
Two Persons Hurt

Two persons were slightly injured
and considerable property damage
was caused last night when high
winds. heading rainstorn into
Washington, tore off 1000 square
feet of tin roofing from buildings in
the 800 block of H street NE The
roofing landed in the path of
streetcar.
Nellie Velleri, "a, of 2l7 H street
NE, a passenger in the streetcar.
suffered abrasions to the left knee
when struck by piece of flying tile.
She was treated at Casualty Hospi-
tai and released.
Harry Bradley, a. whose address
could not be learned, was struck by
flying glass and treated for a lace
rated chest and hand.
The roofing. police said. covered
part OF building housing Vans
Mems Store, shoe store, a tailor
shop and notions store operated
by Samuel Melnick. Besides the
tin, underpinnings to which the
roofing was attached also crashed
into the street. The streetcar,
which had stopped Just short of the
wreckage, was not struck by the
mass Of the wreckage, although two
windows were broken by fragments.
An automobile was partly covered by
the roofing and slightly damaged,
police said.
Several tiles on the roof Of Deals
funeral home across the street from
the damaged structure were knocked
loose by flying debris. Tarpaulins
were lashed over the damaged build
ings by flremen
During the storm q tree In the
2400 block of Twenty second street
NE. was uprooted and in falling
tore away power lines OF the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co. and Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.,
police reported. The tree caused
damage estimated at $1,000 when
it fell on two houses and 5000 dam
age to parked automobile. The
car was owned by Mario Ruzza. 24o7
Twenty-second street NE, police
said.
Elsewhere in the city awnings
and tree branches were blown
down.