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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Bryan Says Ruling
Convention
Will Confuse Voters

Alexandria's Commonwealth At
torney Albert v. Bryan held today
that the Virginia Supreme Courts
ruling that limited the proposed
constitutional convention to removal
of barriers to new war voters act
will confuse the voters when they
cast their ballots in the referendum
May 6.
When confronted with a 300-word
preamble to the convention ballot,
the voters will not realize that if
they vote for the convention they
will be getting one with limited
power, Mr.. Bryan explained. He
added that the courts action in
deciding that the State Legislature
was empowered to pass an act call
ing for the referendum on a lin
tied convention makes the con-
vention the shadow of the Legis-
lature."
1.-THE contrary Is true" Mr.. Bryan
said. "A convention is body equal,
if not more powerful, to the Legis-
lature because it derives its power
from the. constitution"
Chief Justice Dissents.
In the only dissent from the
majority written opinion of the
court, handed down yesterday in
Richmond, Chief Justice Preston
w. Campbell declared that the
fundamental question involved was:
Which shall prevail, expediency
or legaHty?"
IF expediency is to prevail" the
chief justice wrote, then our boys
who have died in order that liberty
and democracy should continue,
have died in vain.
1T cannot be denied" he con-
tlnued, that the General Assembly
is the creature of the constitution,
and, that being true, then it is a
paradox to say that the creature, by
legislative fiat, can become greater
than its creator,
The chief justice declared that the
referendum act, designed to limit
the convention by an informatory
statement on the ballots, is Sub
vers1ve OF my every concept of demo-
cratic principles"
Son Killed In Action.
Justice Campbell commented that
he had three sons to volunteer for
foreign service shortly after Pearl
and that the eldest was killed
in action.
Il have no fear whatever that I
will be charged with disloyalty to
our service men and women" he
said.
"AS one of two State officers who
for so years has been affiliated with
what is known in Virginia as the
Organization I have no apprehen-
sion of being charged with being
an Organization batter
AS the youngest member of the
constitution convention of 1902,
voted for the poll tax provision
of the Constitution.
"Hence5T approach this vital and
question without bias
=. The get in question is sub
versive OF my every concept of DEM
ocratic principles > =.
Though 1T be. admitted that the
act has its genesk in the benefcent
purpose of furnish ing the service
man medium for the exercise of
the right Of suffrage without the
of poll taa., its revelation
is to deny him the light of demo-
cratic action in selectang his public
servants to serve in Unconstitutional
convention unhampersd by legis-
lative restriction" 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Girl Scouts Collecting
Clothes for Philippines

AS their contribution to interna-
tional friendship month, the Alex
andria Girl Scouts are collecting
cotton clothing to. be sent to the
people in the Philippines who are in
desperate need of garments of all
sorts.
1t. Col. Alexandra Melchor, Philip
pine Army officer stationed at Fort
Belvoir, will have the clothing sent
to the islands.
Boxes may be left at the Norton
Memorial Building of st. Paul's
Church on South Pitt street and
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, High
street and Russell road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
French Envoy Back in U. 5.
With Economic Aid Plan
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Jean Monnet, French economic
envoy-at-large, has returned from
Paris, bringing with him the French-
approved supply program proposed
by the United States February 8.
Allied supply officials who negoti.'
ated the civilian and military sup.
ply program with Mr.. Monnet said
the French ENJOYS chief problem
would be to specify French needs for
all of 1915. He returned yesterday.
The program, based on a com.
bination payment schedule of lease
lend and cash-and-credits, calls for
81, SOC, 900 900 in United States ex-
ports and about $1,000, 000, 900 In
French reciprocal aid to the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27

Miss Miller told police that as
she was driving her car along a
highway in Prince Georges County,
near the District line, he drove up
beside her, forced her car to a stop
at the side of the road, broke a
window to gain entrance and beat
her into Inconsistencies. He then
left her on the roadside, she said.
When she regained consciousness,
Miss Miller told police, she drove
to the hospital where she was adj
mitted and treated for body injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
State Council 10 Hold
Hearing in Alexandria
On EquaIizing Taxes
March Ia Session Lost
Of Three by Advisory
Legislative Group

Equalization of State and local
taxes will be considered by repre-
sentatives of Northern Virginia COM
munities at a hearing scheduled for
10 am. March II in Alexandria.
The local session is the last of
three hearings in the State by the
Virginia Advisory Legislative Coun-
Gil. The council was empowered by
the Assembly to call the hearings
and make the study.
The program grew out of a joint
resolution seeking to improve on a
revenue segregation act adopted IS
years ago giving the State power to
tax incomes and bank revenues,
while local communities were to tax
real estate and tangible personal
property.
This act, officials said, didn't go
| far enough because local government
income didn't increase proportion
ately with the States land, the pri-
mary source of local taxation, al
ready was heavily burdened and
communities were more severely af-
fected by the depression than was
the State.
The Legislative Council plans to
make comprehensive study of State
and local taxation and the need for
reapportionment. Findings will be
submitted at least 80 days before
the next session of the General As
sembly.
The council will not consider any
recommendation on the sales tax
or the report of the Denny School
Study Commission, it was said.
Eight copies Of any recommendation
should be submitted to the group.
Stating the segregation act has
outlived its usefulness in view of the
States rapid development, Arlington
County Manager Frank C. Hanra-
han said he views this study as one
Of the most important" steps taken
in the field of taxation in many
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Cut in Alexandra
Torpedo Production
To Reduce Personnel
Cutbsek Ordered as Fleet
Requirements Are Filled;
Experiments PIunned

A Navy order curtailing torpedo
production at the Alexandria Naval
Torpedo Station will release an un-
determined number Of workers for
transfer to other war industries,
Capt. r. B. Simons, station COM
mander, notified employees yester-
day. He added that the station
would get considerable volume of
experimental work.
Capt. Simons said the order,
which also will affect torpedo sta
tons at Newport, R. l., and Forest
Park, H., will become effective in
midsummer. At present, he said,
it is not possible to determine the
number Of employees to be released
by the Alexandria station.
The Navy said the cutback was
ordered after it was determined that
fleet requirements for certain type
torpedo had been fully met. The
cutback will be gradual, it was said,
to lease the effect on the employees
and to expedite their diversion into
other war production"
To Keep Station Open.
Capt. Simons said the Ordnance
Bureau has given assurance that the
Alexandria station would be kept
open in view of its splendid record Of
achievement. The development Of
new weapons and the ranging and
overhauling of experimental type
torpedoes from other stations is ex-
pected to supply a great volume Of
work for the Alexandra station, he
said.
Capt. Simons said an effort will
be made to transfer personnel to
other agencies. The commander ex-
pressed his appreciation for the
loyalty of the employees and said
the notice was given with regret at
the temporary inconvenience it will
cause workers who must be trans
ferred.
Production Tripled.
In the last four years, the pro-
duction of the Alexandria station
has more than tripled and the cost
of torpedo has been halved. The
station recently received the fifth
star on it's Navy &c" pennant, put
ting it in the highest class of pro-
duction excellence.
Torpedo station employees recently
asked the help of city officials and
Influential residents in an effort to
keep the Alexandria station open.
The City Council last week agreed
to pass a resolution to be sent to
Virginia's congressional representa-
tives indicating the city's desire to
retain the station, and it is planned
to invite Gov. Darden and other
State officials to tour the station
to enlist their interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Red Cross Elects

Mrs. David L. Wing has been re-
elected president of the Fairfax
County led Gross Chapter. Other
officers, all Of whom were reelected,
include Mrs. r. B. Northrup, Mrs.
Lomax Tayloe and Mrs. Edward
Howrey, vice chairmen; Miss Az
legra Maynard, treasurer, and Mrs.
j. Hunter Mack, SECRETARY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Woman Complains to Police
OF Beating by Ex-Sweetheurt

Miss Marjorie Miller. 80. of Clin-
ton, Md, was being treated at
Emergency Hospital today for in
juries she received, she told police,
at the hands of a former sweet
heart.
Reporting to District police, Miss
Miller said that her former boy
friend, whom she identified to
police, recently threatened to kill
her when she stopped keeping
company" with him. Yesterday, she
said, he almost did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Col. A. E. Potts Is Given.
Camp Pickett Command

By the Associated Press.
CAMP PICKETT, Va, Feb. 81
Col. Adam E. Potts, SIS, of Richmond,
"a former aide to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and in command of the 98th
Antiaircraft Regiment when the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, will
assume command of Camp Pickett
tomorrow, succeeding Col. Frank b.
Lannon's.
Col. Potts has been commander at
Camp Davis, N. c.. for the last two
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
lsHRshoni;nq


Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4, red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps IT'S
through KS good through April
%; stamps Y-5, Us, Az through
d. good through June 2. Stamps
E-2 through J-2 to be validated
March and be good through
June 30.
Canned Goods, Ec.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Us, Az and
BE- good through March 81;
stamps CO through CO. good
through April %: stamps H-2
through M-2 good through June
2. Each stamp worth 10 points.
Next series to be validated March
! and be good through June 80.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound OF waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar-Bock 4. sugar stamp "a gooo
for S pounds through February 2s.
Stamp IS valid for pounds
through June 2.
Gasoline-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81
B.s, C-5. B-6 and c. coupons
good for gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps !, 2 and 8
In Book No. 8 good Indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two. three
and four coupons good for 10 GAL
Ions per unit through heating
year. Period five coupons become
valid March 1. Old period four
and five coupons from last win
ter good through year. Consum-
ers in this area should not have
used more than n per cent OF
their ration as of today.
Degree days-Total for month, oS4'
f0fal f1r ~1o~av. ~ d1fe z 5SS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27
Purent-Teucher Meet

The Fairfax Parent Teacher As
ISOLATION will meet at pm. to-
morrow at the Fairfax Elementary
School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-27

Degree days-Total for month. 694,
total for season to date, $685.
normal for season to date, $3.50.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
WLB Inferprefs
Reduction

WASHINGTON, April g.
(LPA)-A reduction of working
hours without reduction in pay
can't be construed as a wage in
crease, if the result is to in
crease workers efficiency.
So the Natl. War Labor Board
held this week when it granted
demands of the Marine Engi-
neers & Longshoremen that an
hour be Topped off the working
day of tugboat employees in the
Baltimore area without any cut
in their earnings. The result of
the order was to place most of
the employees on an eight-hour
day, compared to a previous g.
hour schedule. Industry men,
bers dissented, contending that
the award amounted to dis
guised wage increase.
That contention was riddled
by the public-labor majority,
which declared that the reduced
work day, coupled with certain
changes in working rules, would
boost efficiency and result in no
real increase in operating costs
of the tugboat companies.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
Local Ia Unit Gets
WLB Ruling

Maintenance of membership
and checkoff were the principal
gains made by the Toledo Ma
chine g. Tool Unit of Local IA,
UAW-CIO, in a directive re-
ceived this week from the War
Labor Board, it was announced
Tuesday by Cloid Lichtey, Inter-
national Union representative in
Regional Director Gosser's Of
flee.
Included in the directive was
clause calling for payment to
members of the Units negotiat-
ing committee of regular wages
during working hours when en-
gagged in negotiations. Other
clauses ordered by the directive
were four hours pay for call in
time, wage grievance adjust
ments with retroactivity to the
date the grievance occurred and
vacation pay.
Employees with less than five
years seniority will receive va
cations not to exceed 10 days.
Those with more than five years
will receive not more than IL
days vacation.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
Workers SOLve
Convention Ruling

PHILADELPHIA, April IL -
(LPA)-The American Fedora
ton of Hosiery Workers-CIO.
believes it has found a way to
overcome difficulties by cancel
lation of its convention.
The solution was hard to find
because the unions two-year ma
tional contract with full-fash-
ioned hosiery manufacturers ex-
pires on Aug. 81 and the con-
vention has always formulated
the policy taken in negotiation
with management.
The AFHW plans to submit to
its national committee, CON-
posed of all delegates to the LAST
convention, a proposal that a
small group of representatives
meet with it as Wage Scale
and Contract Policy Committee
to review suggestions made by
local branches and determine
what contract revisions should
be asked. National committee
members are required by the
unions constitution to act only
after the local branches they
represent have indicated their
desires at meetings and to fol-
low the wishes of the majority
in each branch.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
NLRB Strengthens
Foremen's Move
Continued from Page /

tions; they do not determine the
days the mine shall work, and,
in fact, have no authority other
than the simple performance OF
a unit crew member"
Railroad Brotherhoods Off
cials pointed out that the whole
question is meaningless to them
because for 20 years or more
the Brotherhoods have organized
foremen, and it has been taken
for granted. In some instances
the foremen have formed their
own unions; in others, they have
logically been absorbed into the
rank-and-file unions.
Additional indications that
major labor organizations are
going after unorganized foremen
as a result of the NLRB decision
is evide d in campaigns
planned by the International
Associations of Machinists-AFL
in the aircraft industries and
other AFL and CIO unions in
other war production fields.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
ANA Fights Coop
Health Plan

MINNEAPOLIS, April 10 =
GPA)-The American Medical
Assn. fight against cooperative
health care plans which would
provide low-cost health protec-
ton for low-income groups FLAIR
ed into the open last week in the
Minnesota legislature.
A bill, which the states at
torney general said would pro
hibit citizens who are not doc
tors of medicine from forming a
non-profit medical service plan
corporation" passed the House
79-43 and is now scheduled for
vote in the Senate.
Rep. Richard Silvola charged
that the bill was "un-American"
and would extend the monopoly
which doctors already properly
have on surgery and medicine"
to a monopoly on an insurance
business covering their own
services" An all-out attempt
by the medical monopolists to
steamroller the bill through the
Senate failed after vigorous op-
position by labor, cooperatives
and other groups. However, it
was expected that the same
measure would be reported out
of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee to which it was sent for re-
consideration. One of the bills
to which labor and
cooperatives particularly object
is a requirement that any CO.
operative medical care plan
must be set up by no fewer than
81 doctors.
"What is the sacredness of
these 21 doctors" demanded
Sen. Charles Orr, majority lead
er. Members of the medical
generally are known
as the poorest business men we
have. They're on every sucker
list in the country. On a mat
ter as important as this, why
not have at least one business
man to make it work"
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
PIane Output
Pumps 1870

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Ihe
nations daily press that has
clamored for work-or-jail legis-
lation for the past three months
may now find it possible to give
little publicity to what Amer
ican labor is doing by volun-
tary methods, union leaders de-
clared last week.
However, as the Senate buried
the slave bill, the daily papers
gave INSTRUMENTATION to a
report by WPB Chairman j. A.
Krug, which revealed that U. 5.
workers had turned out 7,0o3
airplanes of all types during
March.
This output, King announced,
exceeded the working schedules
of 1858 by 80 and was l2%
higher than the February total
of 6,296. Part of the increase,
Krug said, was due to the
greater number of working days
in March. The average daily
production rate was 261 planes.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
OPA Aids
Price FiQhf

SAN FRANCISCO (LPA)-A
handbook and guide for OPA
Price Panels in the enforcement
of OPA price ceilings has been
issued by the San Francisco re-
gional office of OPA. The hand
book is an unusually clear and
vigorous statement or how to
make retail price ceilings work
and of the purposes for which
price controls were established.
Designed to inform labor and
consumer groups of ways by
which organizations and individ-
uals can assist in making price
ceilings stick, the handbook will
also be of value to schools and
study groups wanting a compre-
hensive picture of the operation
of price controls from the Fed
eral law down to the local store
and community.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
Representative
Is Arrested

FREMONT, April 9-Orvllle
Beemer, international UAW-
CIO representative from the To-
ledo region, was arrested here
last week for violating a city
ordinance which requires pay
ment of a fee ranging from $1.0O
to $500 for a permit to pass
out handbills.
Beemer, who Is active in or
ganizing the National Carbon
Co. employees of this city into
the Auto Workers Union, was
picked up by the Fremont po-
lice when he was passing out a
handbill to National Carbon
workers urging them to join his
union. The authorities were un-
able to tell him how much the
fee would be for him to con-
tinue to pass out daily handbills.
AS result of Beemer arrest,
a meeting called for the en-
ployees of the National Carbon
Co. proved to be better attended
than had been expectd and all
but one worker signed up with
the union and paid their men,
bership fee.
Local $50, UAW-CIO, donated
its hall for the meeting and will
continue to give its cooperation
in the organizational drive that
Is under way.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
Belgium Food
Si+uofion Is
Now Desperate

The food situation in Bel
gium has become desperate,
according to official Belgian
government reports just re-
leased. The extremely small
rations which went into effect
Feb. Is show that the country's
food resources are nearly aex-
hausted.
The total amount of fats is
now reduced to only Ia ounces
a week for each person.; the
meat ration is less than 6 ounces
a week. The allowance of pota-
toes, the staple food Of the Bel
gian worker, is reduced from
500 to 400 grams-less than a
pound a week.
Scarcity of raw materials for
industries means that normal
production has not been resumed
in factories, and 285,000 out of
about eight million were uh-
employed at the end of January.
Louise de Broukere, Belgian
Socialist leader, writes, in lie
Peuple," that the margarine ra-
ton is now only about 5h
ounces month, but that half
the load of a Liberty ship would
suffice to raise the ration to
more than 20 ounces for the
same period.
"Who will maintain that there
cannot be found, to save our
children, that M a shipping
space, which represents no more
than a tiny fraction of the space
wasted by lack of complete load
ing or by slow handling of car
go?" the Belgian leader asks
(LPA).
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-13
No+ionuI DoiIy
TO Back Lubor

WASHINGTON, April g
(LPA)-The Townsend move
ment has launched nationwide
drive among its followers for
funds to help establish a ma
tional daily newspaper. They
are being modified to take out
advance subscriptions at $3.50
a year, equivalent to five cents
copy. The April Z issue of the
Townsend National Weekly"
declares that the paper, when
launched, will have as one of its
purposes to support organized
labor in its battle against labor
batting organizations.
'Townsendites will help or
ganized labor defeat the recur-
ring drives of such reactionary
groups as the Gannett-Rumely
Committee for Constitutional
Government and the so-called
&C hristia a n Americans, the
Townsend weekly points out.
A headline in the paper adds
that "ORGANIZED L A B o r
NEEDS TOWNSEND DAILY;
PAPER COULD SPOTLIGHT
PEOPLES ENEMIES"
The article further cites the
fact that the labor movement
has been active in support of the
Townsend plan, and that Town
sendites in turn should aid labor
against "reactionary forces with
in the state legislatures which
are working to destroy the or
ganizations for which working
men and women have fought
these many years"
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