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his efforts would strengthen the power of the Diet without mar kedly decreasing the position of the emperor or altering his cur rent status under the constitution.
 These sources quoted Konoye as saying that Hirohito has been seriously considering" the possi bility of abdication, which has been repeatedly rumored here.
 Votes For Women
 The enfranchiSement of women was one of five major points which MacArthur stressed in his directive for social reform, but no mention of lowering the voting age was made then.
 The newspaper Mainichi said that, according to a 1942 census, there would be 21,600000 women eligible to vote after the Diet ap- proved the two measures, a pro- cess necessary to their becoming law.
 Asahi estimated the lowered vot- ing age would increase the number of male voters from 21.230.000 to 42,920,000.
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IN AGAIN

PASADENA, Calf. Frightened reports to police of Peeping Toms, traffic being directed by strange little man" and odd noises from treetops, have ended.
 After three days AWOL from a backyard pen, Jimmy, the pet monkey of Hawaii-based Machinst Mate 3fc Richard Alten, has been captured, gamboling along a street five miles from home, by the sailors mother, Mrs. Frank Alten.
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WILLING

METCALF, In.-Aboard ship off Okinawa, Seaman Hugh Rhode Of Metcalf received a summons for jury service back in his home town.
 "I'n be more than glad to serve if you can arrange for my return" ]" Rhode wrote to Sheriff Allen Bell of Edgar County.
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RUSSIAN VIEW ON BREAKDOWN
 LONDON TALKS

MOSCOW, Oct. 13-The general public in the United States and Brit ain has not yet been elightened by explanations from Secretary of State James r. Byrnes and Foreign Sec retary Ernest Bevin as to what hap pened at the breakdown of the Foregn Ministers conference, Red Stars political commentator assert
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ed in an editorial today.
 The Army newspaper said it ap- peared from the foreign press ac- counts that the failure was inter- preted as a triumph of British and American diplomacy.
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FROM SEATTLE

M. Baker. representing the Ma tional Cash Register Company, of Seattle, is registered at the Bar anof Hotel
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BACK TO SCHOOL

ROCHESTER. N. Y.-Mrs. Ada King, 81, decided she'd like to know something about philosophy. She enrolled at the University of Rochester, becoming the Univer- sity's oldest coed.
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Robert R. Burns, of Excursion Inlet, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
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GERWEL HERE

Walter E. Gerwel, of Capt Yaka- toga, is guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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ARRIVALS FROM SEATTLE

Geo. Harvey and Thos. R. Mo. Peak, of Seattle, are guests at tho Gastineau Hotel.
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MANNING IN JUNEAU

H. F. Manning, representing the Ethyl Corporation of New York, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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Latin America has population of l30,000.0O0.
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Empire Want-ads bring resmtsi
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Empire want-ads bring results,
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NIP WOMEN GIVEN RIGHT
 CAST VOTES
SCHOOLS OuT-

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The union times., 1945-12-22
Building Trades
 Working On Pact
Continued from Page One) ANTI-LABOR DRIVE

Please be advised that we must emphatically oppose any legislation curbing or encroaching upon the rights of labor. We won the war without labor drafts and our no-strike pledge was 999@o effective. We will win the peace, too, if Congress real izes that it represents all of the peo- pie, and that anti-labor legislation will aggravate the problems it mis- takenly seeks to cure. Yours for more, not less, democracy"
The union times., 1945-12-22
Consumers Can Break Business Sit-Down Strike
Government Officials Help less; Weekly Calls On
 Treasury To Act

A few government officials, finally recognizing that the manu- lecturers are deliberately holding back production until l946, are now holding up their hands in despair and crying: There's nothing we can do to break the sellers strike. It's up to the consumers.
 Consumers can and should protest against this undercover strike but the government does have the power to act immediately to break the reconver- sion log-jam.
 BLACKMAIL
 The manufacturers are holding up production to blackmaiI OPA into raising ceiling prices, to gain windfall profits from the elirnina- ton of the excess profits tax after January l and to starve out tho workers rather than meet organized labor's demand for wage increases. There's one simple way in which the government can spike this, ac- cording to Bread & Butter. weekly newsletter:
 Tax specialists have suggested that Congress empower the Treasury to al- locate corporate profits made in 1946 to 1o45-if it can prove the business transactions which normally would have been conducted in 1o45 have been postponed to 1o46 for the purpose of diminishing tax liabilities.
 This proposal is similar to Section 45 of the Internal Revenue Code which authorizes the Treasury to allocate in come and deductions among several organizations, where they are con- trolled by the same interests and where the Treasury finds that the al location of income and deductions is necessary to prevent tax evasion.
 EXAMINE BOOKS
 Under this plan-and it could
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ave Unemb Program Noqv Looming Before Natio

teering bill and the Smith Connally Act amendments.
 NEW YORK-Using the speci. Ous battle cry equality under the law,' the National. Association of Manufacturers convention planned frontal assault in l946 on the protective legislation organized labor won under the New Deal. Robert R. WasOn was elected new president of the NAM, succeeding Ira MOsher.
 ST. LOUIS-In virtual admission of their errors, the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners announced that they would begin revision of the police manual, basis for most of the grievances on which Local 549, Amer ican Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFL), has been organized
 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. = Wage boosts for the nations ship builders to help them meet the in- creased cost of living were demanded by AFL and CIO union leaders here at the Natl. Shipbui1ding Conference.
 HOLLYWOOD-AFL Pres. Vii. liam Greens 3-man committee to carry out provisions of the recent studio strike settlement is here and meeting with representatives yof film unions.
 NEW YORK-FaiIure of recon. version planning in the period fol. lowing VI Day has resulted in a huge casualty list among American workers, with Negroes, women. veterans and aged persons most widely affected, Pres. Truman was informed in report by the Ma tlonaI Committee on the Human Aspects of RecOnversion.
The union times., 1945-12-22
Covering American Scene
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON - By a voice vote the House voted for the Hobbs anti-racketeering bill despite the vigorous opposition of labor and sent the measure to the Senate, where it died in l943. The bill is directed especially at the Inter- national Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the most progressive AFL unions in the United States.
 WASHINGTON-AFL Pres. Will liam Green predicted that the Tru- man fact-finding plan to settle labor disputes would lead to persecution oi unions under conspiracy charges and injunction proceedings. Another wit ness before the House labor commit tee, which is holding hearings on the Norton bill embodying the Truman plan, was Pres. John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers, who called the bill an "evil, foul, smelly mess"
 WASHINCTON-A report giving strong backing to continued federal operation of the U. S. Employment Service was issued by the labor committee of the National Plan- ming Association.
 PITTSBURGH - (FP) Faced by the refusal of the steel industry to reach a peaceful settlement of its demand for a $2 daily wage boost, the United Stockholders wage policy com mittee set Jan. IA as the date for a nationwide strike.
 WASHINGTON -- Gathered in emergency session, the AFL executive council opened an a1l-out campaign tc defeat the three major anti-labor bills pending before Congress-the Morton fact-hnding bill. the Hobbs anti-racke-
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be enacted in few days if enough pressure were placed on Congress the Treasury would examine the business records of corporations next year. If it found sales that normally would have been made in l945 had been postponed to l946, the Treasury would allocate the profits on these sales to l945 and thus subject them to the excess profits tax and higher corporate in- come tax that prevails this year.
 It would no longer be profitable to withhold merchandise from the market until 1946, the Treasury could obtain taxes to which it is properly entitled and consumers would finally get a chance to buy some of those fabulous postwar products they've heard about but still haven't seen.
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Medical Bigshots
 Are Frightened!
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Continued from Page. One) free public school system. If com pulsory support of a national hea1tl program can be proven socialistic, then indeed, the U. s. has long sup ported socialized public school sys- tenn in each. of its several states.
 As for AMA's top command spoonful of soda with Carter's Little Liver Pills seems indicated.
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MEMBERS of Western Michigan College basketball team were scheduled for an odd experience in a UP. story which said: ssThe Broncos will open against Percy Jones Post of Battle Creek and two days later meet CaIuin Coolidge at Grand Rapids" It meant Calvin College.
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USES Must Remain
 In Federal Hands

WASHINGTON-An unem- ployment problem ''equal to any the nation has ever faced'' was predicted by the Labor Committee of the National Planning Association.
 COMMITTEE EXPRESSES VIEWS
 The committee made this predic- ton in calling for permanent fedora operation of the United States Elm ployment Service.
 Under legislation now pending in Congress, USES would be broken up into g state and territorial systems, setup which the commit tee said has proved simply not adequate in past emergencies.
 The committee, made up of a score of AFL, CIO and other union lead CTS, added:
 s'This retreat from responsibility means that the federal government will turn over the operation of the employment service to the states but go right on paying 100 per cent of the cost.
 ssNO WORSE TIME"
 With millions of veterans and war workers looking for jobs, there could be no worse time to disrupt the na- tional employment service"
 Under state control there is dan- ger, the labor planning group said, of using USES to ''force down the workers standard of living by driving labor into cheap jobs"
 This, the report argued, could re- suit from provisions i'll nearly all state unemployment compensation laws under which employers contrib ute less money to the state compen- sation fund if they have good rec ords for stable employment, which is measured by the smallness of pay ments to workers they have laid off.
 EMPLOYERS ADVANTAGE
 ssIt is to the immediate advan- tage of the employer in these states when a laid-off worker, instead of receiving benefits, can be referred to the first job on file in the USES, even though the job is be- low the workers skill and just earnings the committee said.
 Tn every state there is some pres sure to favor this kind of referal pol icy in order to keep wage rates down. .
 USES HELPLESS LOCALLY
 Laid-off war workers and dis charged veterans are on the road again seeking new jobs, the conn mittee said, and local USES offices cannot help them s'unless labor transfer and information services can transcend state lines and en- compass the country as a whole. :"
 Publication of the report was au- thorized by the National Planning As sociation's board of trustees, which does not necessarily imply agreement of the industry, agriculture of other groups of NPA.
 The statement was made public by Clinton s. Golden of the CIO United Steelworkers and Marion H. Hedges of the AFL International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, chairman and vice-chairman of the labor com mittee respectively.
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EXAMINE BUUkS Under this plan-and it could
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PROPOSES 35-HOUR WEEK
SEES LEWIS BACK

Detroit-(FP) )-AFL Pres. Wm. Green told the Michigan state fedora tion convention that he expects John L. Lewis and the coal miners back in the AFL by midWinter.
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New York A.F.L.
 5 New Proposals
Unemployment Insurance, Compensation, Educa- tional Provisions Urged
 In Legislation

ALBANY, N. Y. (FP)-The New York State Federation of Labor's l946 legislative program was be- ing assembled here this week as delegates from affiliated unions met and proposed 39 legislative measures and l6 resolutions on un- employment insurance, workmen's compensation and education.
 President Thomas A. Murray spoke in favor of passage of President Tru- mans program for medical aid and compulsory health insurance but said the federation's legal aids had been in structed to draft a state measure. of the same kind for presentation to the legislature, should a national act not be passed.
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Screen Workers Win $4OO,OOO In Back Wages
1,2OO SOEG Members At MGM, 2Oth Century
 Fox Get Plum

HOLLYWOOD lFP)-Here's q big feature that wasn't in the 1945 production schedules of the major movie studios.
 Giant M.C.M. and 2Oth Century Fox studios have paid $4OO,OOO in retroactive wages to l, 200 members of the Screen Office Employees Guild. Local l42l, Brotherhood of Painters (AFL). The bonanza back pay covered Jan. Is, 1914, to July l, 1945.
 SOEG has also won a 79o wage increase totalling some $S00,000 for its 2,30O members at the two studios and Columbia, Universal, RKO, Re public, Go1dwyn and Technicolor. Uni versal and RKO have paid already to the tune. of about $150,000 and the others are about to follow.
 PROPOSES 35-HOUR WEEK
 The union is proposing con- tract for l946 incorporating the 35-hour week, 3O% wage boost, improved overtime, vacation, hOli- day and sick leave pay, severanc> pay and other plums that the film white collar workers would love to find in their Xmas stockings. This proposal is being submitted to Coldwyn, Technicolor, Central Cast ing Corp. and PRO Productions.
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TRUMAN CRITICIZED

Praise of Truman's national pol icies was mingled with criticism of his proposals for fact-fnding conn missioners and strike cooIing-off periods in a discussion on the floor.
 Among the proposals from delegates were denunciations of a sales tax, modernization of state civil service and the ending of war emergency regula- tions which lifted laws protecting women and minors in industry.
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ARE YOU INSURED?

In study made in Vermont, it was found that the average damage to an automobile involved in an ac- cident was $56.2O when it was trav- cling 10 miles an hour or less. When the car was travelling over 50 miles an hour, the average accident damage was .$454.67, according to the National Safety Council.
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Scattered Stocks Up,
But Selling Depresse,
Most Leaders
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Aseaeka a. AA DrAaa Etnn '. nixI stw{fa

NEW YORK, July 13.--Light SELL
ing was sufficient to pull the props
from under most of todays stock
market leaders although scattered
favorites managed to overcome this
handicap.
Prices began to slip after a steady
start and we're at their worst in the
fourth hour. Dealings picked up ir
the forenoon, then tapered as the
direction clouded. Declines of frac-
tions to point or so predominateo
near the close notwithstanding
comebacks here and there. Trans.
fers ran to around 100000 shares.
There was little In the news te
inspire bearishness. Numerous Gus.
toners, however, trimmed accounts
In preparation for the long week
end. Principal markets will recess
Saturdays during July and August
Thoughts OF antispeculation moves
at Washington persisted as a eau
tionary influence. Idle funds seek
ing income, together with eahnings
and dividends, were helpful.
Armour and Wilson g. Co. issues
enjoyed a furry In the morning on
predictions of a brighter outlook for
the meat packers. Both failed tc
follow through. Occasional resist
ance was shown by General Motors
Santa Fe, American Can, Woolwortl1
and Electric Power a. Light. On the
LOSING end most of the time were
United States Steel, Bethlehem
Chrysler, United States Rubber
Montgomery Ward, Southern Pa
cific. Southern Railway, American
Telephone and Union Carbide.
Bonds were irregular.
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Retail Sales Large
Despite Short Week.;
Stocks Adequate

NEW YORK, July 13.-With a
nod from the weatherman, retailers
did a large business this week de-
spite Saturday department store
closings in many cities, Dun &
Bradstreet said today In review OF
business.
"Women'S summer merchandise
continued to move well, with large
volume being sold without mark
downs the agency said. Stocks
were generally quite adequate since
many deliveries scheduled for May
did not arrive until June.
Retailers emphasized getting the
longest possible benefit from sum-
mer sales; in spite of some early fall
apparel deliveries, uncertainty con-
tinued as to receipts Of fall goods.
Mems wear stores, despite limited
stocks OF better grade shirts and
underwear, reported an active turn
over with sales even or above the
previous week and the 1914 period.
Neckties and lightweight suits sold
particularly well.
Interest In piece goods was high
and the appearance of printed mus
lin, embroidered cotton and rayon
prints brought immediate response
Plastic mesh handbags, including a
few fall models, continued to be
popular. Jewelry sales remained
high. Odd-lot sales increased shoe
volume. Housefurnishings, hard
ware and furniture sold IN greater
volume"
Retail sales for the country as a
whole were estimated at II to II pei
cent above a year ago with the per-
centage increases In the various as
follows: New England, to Is;
East, 10 to Is: Middle West, Is to 20;
Northwest, to IL: South, 10 to 81
Southwest, IS to 10, and Wes'
Coast, II to Is.
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Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. July 10 Up, (wFA) -salsble
steady; Sood and choice bsrrows and giits
at 14o pounds I'D al 1878, ceiling; good
and choice soTs at 14.00; complete clear
salable cattle, 1000; total, 1900; sals.
BILE calves, 500: total, 500: most killing
classes steady, cows slow, bulls firm;
dragsy undertone on strictly grass steers
and grass heifers. peddled at 1900 down
and 1880 down. respectively; several loads
fed steers. 16.50-17.50i latter price to,
mostly; strictly srain-fed offerings alb
sent; cutter COWS, 600 down; heavy
to 1850, veslers, 1900 down; general
clearance broad.
Salable sheep, 500; total, 1900; market
steady except undertone and few scattered
sales Gull and common spring lambs weak
to unevenly lower; good and choice native
springers, 16.25-16.35: bucks discounted
LOO package medium to good !61-pound
weight, 1900. bucks included; few COM
lion under 70-pound lambs, 12.00-l3 90;
common choice shorn native ewes. $50.
dunn and choice kinds.
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Washington Produce

From the Department. Of Agriculture
EGGS-Market very frm. Receipts con-
tinued light and short Of requirements. De-
Ginning nearby supplies were being sup
ern receipts and storage stock. Prices nom
inslly unchanged. Pricese paid for Federal.
stations July IS: whites. browns, mixed
colors. y. 8. grade A, extra large, 4S-49,
average 40; large, 46-47, average 46hs; D.
>. grade A. medium, Al; u. s. GRADE B,
large, q: Y. 9; grade B. edium, 81. q.
s.: GRADE c., So; Commercially sraded.
LIVE PoULTRY-Market very firm.
Four truekloads received By authorized
professors. A. few scattered small lots ar
rived for civilians. Prices paid fob wash.
inston TRANSPORTATION charges included ac-
eording TO mileage: Fowl, 27.e; broilers
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New York Cotton

NEW YORK, July IS P1.-Cotton fu-
lures moved TO the seasons best levels to.
day on new commission house buying In
the distant months Influenced by the low
er crop prospects this season There was
some mill covering in the nearby positions
against textile orders
The advance was aided by a lightenins
in hedge selling. Private advices reported
mill buying of spot cotton was small dur
ing the past week but inquiry for new crop
cotton increased by an issuance of the low
acreage report Monday
Late afternoon values were 20 TO 80
% 10. and Decemher oa Ii