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Evening star., 1945-12-17
Labor
Continued From First Page.

Navy has operated the properties
since that time.
The Navy announced following
settlement that the IL properties
of Sinclair would be returned to the
company at midnight. Four seized
properties of other companies had
been returned earlier.
8,400 Workers Involved.
Involved in the Sinclair case are
8,400 workers. Harry F. SinclaiN
company president, said the settle
ment agreement provided that the
company could cancel the contract
on 10 days notice if a new strike
occurs and the union could do like
wise In event of a lockout.
Neither the fact-finding panel air.
ing the oil case nor the one appoint
ed for GIN has any statutory au-
thority, including the power to sub
poena witnesses and records as Mr..
Truman requested in his legislation.
The boards are altogether depend
ent on the voluntary cooperation of
the parties.
In this connection, the oil indus
try 10 days ago served notice on its
board that no company books will
be made public, that it will present
its case on plant-by-pla basis
and that it does not regard profits
as a yardstick to be used in de-
termining wage questions.
The GIN panel undoubtedly will
face the same situation, since the
corporation and the UAW have ar
gued for weeks over the question of
profits and prices in relation to
wages.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Olympic Society 10 Hold
Rally and Dance Toniqht

Representative Weiss of Pennsyl-
vania. q National Football League
referee, will be master Of cere-
monies at q rally and dance given
by the Western Hemisphere Olym-
pic Society in the Shoreham Hotel
at $50 O'Clock tonight. All dis
charged veterans, convalescents and
service personnel have been invited
Admission Is free.
Organized to promote a better
athletic relationship between the
United States and Pan-American
countries, the society will hear ad-
dresses by Senator Radcliffe. Dem
ocrat, Of Maryland; Julio Heurte-
matte, commercial counselor of the
Panama Embassy; Otto Vega, Sec
ond secretary of the Dominican
Republic. and John r. Rudy, assist
ant to the president, National Fed
Grafton Of American Shipping.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
0PA Sues D. {. Firm
For $3.50 DAMAGES

The once of Price Administra-
ton filed suit in District Court
today asking 1880 treble damages
against Columbia Wholesalers, Inc,
1900 block of l. street NV, for
allegedly selling washing machines
and ironers at above-ceiling prices.
The alleged overcharges of $500
were incurred by billing dealers at
anticipated increased prices instead
of at prevailing prices, an OPA
spokesman said. The suit was filed
here by Enforcement Attorney Carl
w. Berueffy and Assistant Enforce
ment Attorney ]. Grahame Walker.
A Chicago manufacturer of the
machines used the same practice
in delivering the machines to the
defendant and to other distributors,
it was asserted in a statement by
the OPA.-
A treble damage suit against the
Chicago concern for $l50,000 is
pending In Federal Court In Chi
cago, the CPA said.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Labor Department
Studies Greyhound
Fact-Finding Panel

The Labor Department had under
consideration today the appoint-
ment Of fact-f1nding panel to hear
the wage dispute In the Greyhound
strike.
No announcement can be ex-
pected today on the matter, how
ever, a department spokesman said.
Union officials were reported to have
expressed willingness to cooperate
In the panel proceeding.
The Central and Pennsylvania
Greyhound lines still are strike
bound, tieing up bus transportation
north Of Washington and east OF
st. Louis, since November /. But
strike Of the Greyhound SOUTH
western division was settled Satur-
day. and buses started rolling out
of Fort Worth, Tex, early today.
The southwestern strike had tied up
transportation in eight States since
November 4, and made 1000 idle,
according to the Associated Press.
Terminal workers returned to their
Southwest jobs yesterday morning
after new contract between the
company and the Amalgamated AS
sociation OF Street Railway and Mo-
tor Coach Employees (AFL) was
signed Saturday.
Under the new contract South
west division drivers and terminal
employees will receive pay increases
retroactive to August l8, date Of
expiration Of the wage stabiliZation.
The union had asked that the in
creases be made retroactive TO last
January 30.
Drivers will receive pay increases
Of from 3.84 cents per mile for en-
ployes of one to six months to 5
cents per mile for drivers with three
or more years service.
Terminal employees were allowed
SIS per month raise on minimum
and maximum grade rates and re-
duction OF the automatic increase
period from five to four years. Ter
minal employees will receive a 12b
per cent wage increase. figured one
base pay, when switch from 48 to
40 hour week is made.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
|WLB Recommends
Raise for Women in
Electrical Plants
By the Associated Press.


The War Labor Board has recon-
mended a Accent hourly pay In
crease OF $4,000 women employees
Of General Electric and Westing-
house companies to correct an as
serted inequity with the mems scale
The board acted yesterday after
the companies and the CIO United
Electrical Workers were unable to
agree on details OF adjusting what
the union contended we're intra-
plant inequities in pay between
women's and mems jobs.
The Accent hourly increase recon-
mendation is retroactive to last April
/, when the two companies master
agreements expired.
Means $4,000, 900 a Year.
In New York. Joseph Dermody
and Edward j. Matthews, interna-
tional representatives Of the union,
said the ruling meant $4,000, 900
more annually for the women en-
ployes. plus $4,000, 900 in back pay.
The WLB advised the companies
to set aside an additional two cents
an hour for all women employees, the
exact number Of whom has not yet
been determined. This fund would
be distributed on the basis OF nego-
tiations between the companies and
the union and would not be limited
to the $4,000 women affected by yes
terdays recommendation.
Three exceptions to the recon-
mended Accent hourly adjustment
were specified by the WLB. They
are to be worked out by the parties.
In case Of disagreement, William E.
Simkin has been assigned to try to
work out compromise. Mr.. Simkin
is former member of the WLB Ship
Building Commission and was CO.
chairman of the Steel Wage Adjust
ment Commission in the basic steel
case in 1914.
Exceptions Noted.
The exceptions listed by the board
were:
/. Where the employees recently
received an increase to take care OF
the alleged inequity, either through
collective bargaining or a WLB
order. :
2. Where the inequity Is very small
as between mems pay and women IS
pay.
3. Where the ratio of women to
men in a plant is overwhelming.
The board, in announcing its de-
cision- yesterday, was acting on the
remnants of cases involving more
than 100000 employees at so Gen
eral Electric plants in 80 cities and
another 10000 workers in go plants
located in 80 cities employed by
Westinghouse.
The WLB will wind up its affairs
by January /.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
DR.. Cochran Dies;
Alexandra Dentist

DR.. Thomas Breckenridge Coch-
ran. II, who practiced dentistry In
Alexandria, Va. for 48 years, died
yesterday at Doctors Hospital.
Born In San Antonio, Tex, DR..
Cochran came to Alexandria as a
young man. He received degree In
dentistry from Columbia College,
now George Washington University,
and returned to Alexandria to prac-
tice, He lived at 2l3 Woodland ter
race.
He was Mason, a past master
Of Washington Masonic Lodge. an
Elk, and a member Of the Odd Fell
lows Lodge. A veteran of the Span
American War. he also was a
member Of the United Spanish
Americans War Veterans.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Courteney M. Cochran; son, Rob-
ert Samuel Cochran, Sarasota, Fla;
three daughters, Mrs. Park E. Ticer.
Alexandria; Mrs Charles T. Nichol-
son, Scott Field. ILL.,, and Mrs. War
rem Wright, jr., Lexington. KY.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at st. Paul's Episco-
pal Church. Alexandria. Burial will
be in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
William |. Norton Rites
To Be Held Tomorrow

Requiem mass for William L.
Norton. IS, Of 1923 Columbia road
NV, who died Saturday at his
home, will be said at 9 am. tomor-
row at the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart. Burial will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Norton moved here IL years
ago from Scranton. Pa, where he
had operated a grocery. He worked
for the Government here before
suffering a paralytic stroke seven
years ago.
He was a member of the Knights
of Columbus and the Elks.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Norton; two daughters, Miss
Marian Norton and Mrs. josephine
Bourbonnais, both of Washington,
and two sons, William L. Norton,
jr., who Is working temporarily in
Charlotte. N. c., and Pvt. James
Norton, who Is stationed at Camp
Pickett, Va.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Joan Crawford Plans
To Ask Third Divorce
~ the Associated I-rss.


HOLLYWOOD, Dec. II. - Joan
Crawford and her husband, Philip
Terry, have separated. and she said
today she probably" would insti-
tute divorce proceedings.
Miss Crawford said she and her
third husband had decided only yes
terday to go their separate ways.
1--WE simply haven't been getting
along, and that's about all there Is
to say about our separation" she
told reporter.
Miss Crawford and Mr.. Terry were
married in July, 1912. They have
adopted boy and girl.
Miss Crawford was married pre-
viously to Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
and Franchot Tone.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Auto Workers
Continued From First Page.)

ject instigators OF wildcat strikes In
Ford plants to discharge and the
participants to fines Of SO to IS a
day
Bolstering the unions pay hopes,
however, was a Ford statement last
night.
The company said 1t will have
produced only 10000 Of the 10000
cars 1t had promised by Christmas.
Asserting "the American people
should know why" the goal will not
be reached, Henry Ford II, presi-
dent. said the company's production
was "limping instead of galloping
along because of insufficient sup
plies-parts and materials"
This situation definitely Is not
the fault of our employees" he de-
clared. Since vi day we have not
had a single unauthorized work
stoppage.
Mere Trickle" Of Parts.
The company, he said. has been
completely cut of by IA major sup
pliers and is getting "a mere trickle"
Of parts from many others. He
listed strikes, price ceilings and a
loss of workers because Of wage
stabilization as the suppliers' major
difficulties.
In an attempt to remedy what he
termed desperate, frustrating
kind Of production" Mr.. Ford In
vited parts manufacturers where
ever they may be TO get supplies
to us, subject only to two things
that they meet our specifications
for quality and meet competition
for prices"
The number / job before the
company today is production-all
our peacetime production" he said.
Production means jobs at high
wages, more and more products for
more and more people at lower
costs. Only maximum production
can end this country's present econ
omy of scarcity"
AS to the General Motors situa-
ton, Harry w. Anderson, GIN vice
president, said additional court ac-
tion would be taken unless picketing
practices, deemed legal by the
union, are modified. About $4,000
GIN employees, including $4,000 Office
workers, have been made idle by
the strike.
Will Come to Washington.
Mr.. Anderson and G. E. Wilson,
GIN president, are expected to head
the corporations delegation when
President Truman's fact-finding
board begins its study of the dis
pute in Washington Wednesday
Walter p. Reuther, UAW-CIO vice
president, and possibly MIR. Thomas
will represent the union.
In London, meanwhile, an OH.
cial Of the British treasury said
Mr.. Thomas apparently had mis-.
construed that governments war.
time control Of foreign securities
as ownership Of stock in General
Motors.
Mr.. Thomas called on Prime Min.
lister Attlee Saturday to intervene
in the GIN strike, terming the Brit.
ish government a substantial own.
er of General Motors stock"
The treasury official said all for.
|eign securities were held by thu
government during the war to boil.
ster its foreign credits, but were
the legal property of the owners.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Atomic
Continued From First Page J

Forces chief, recently said the next
war might bring fantastic trans
Polar assaults with atomic weapons
Military and diplomatic officials
say Canada is on the strategic
routes of attack over the pole, the
North Pacific or the North Atlantic
Thus the same basic pattern of
cooperation used by the United
States and Canada in World War
II now is being developed further
against the possibility of another
and more terrible conflict.
The heart of this pattern Is the
American-Canadian Board on De-
fense, a permanent agency of which
Mayor La Guardia of New York is
the ranking American member. The
boards work now is more intense
than in the closing months of the
war. Whereas it met every three
months year ago, it now is meeting
every two months.
American officials say co-opera-
ton between the United States and
Canada Is typified by the way in
which the two countries worked to-
gether on the air route from the
Northwestern United States during
the war and are working together
now to liquidate the installations.
Canada will take over the high
way sections linking Alaska and
the United States on April / and
the land communication lines tele-
phone and telegraph on June /.
Both of those were developed to
support a series of aerial staging
films which the Canadians built
and the United States helped de-
velop and supply.
American diplomats say the Cana
dians have paid for every permanent
air facility the United States put in.
So far, because OF mutual con-
fidence that a comprehensive de-
tense program can be worked out
against whatever dangers the future
may hold, the United Statse has
not asked for American bases on
Canadian soil. There is no indica-
ton here that the question will
come up.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Mail Fraud Defense
Asks Judge 10 Bar
Fuller Statement

Justice James M. Proctor, presid-
Ing In District Court In the trial
OF Engineers Group. Inc, on mail
fraud charges. today considered the
admissibility Of a statement OBJ
tanned by the sFBI from one Of the
defendants, James q. Fuller, who
was executive vice president of
the group.
The defense asked that the state
ment be thrown out on the ground
that promises Of leniency were made
to Fuller. It also was contended
that the statement was not volun-
tary.
With the jury absent George w.
Chappelear, jr., FBI special agent,
now stationed in Detroit, testified
that he took statement from
Fuller In Brooklyn, which was
signed January 27, 1943.
Fuller. who is serving a five-year
sentence on fraud charge, was
promised. the FBI agent said, that
If he would sign the statement a
special assistant to the Attorney
General named O'Donnell would in
tercede with the sentencing Judge
and the pardon attorney of the JUS
tice Department In an effort to OBJ
tain a lighter sentence.
Mr.. Chappelear declared he made
no threats or promises himself.
Entered Case In 1912.
Cross-examined by Attorney r
Emmett Mckenzie for Fuller, the
FBI man said he came into the case
November 80. 1912, and talked tc
the defendant from time to time
until the statement was signed. The
witness said ne knew that Fuller
had pleaded guilty, but denied that
he heard him told that unless he
co-operated with the Government
he would receive a sentence of &c
years
The FBI man also denied that he
heard any promise TO Fuller that
he would be paroled in the custody
Of his wife and not required TO serve
any time. He conceded that Fuller
had said he wanted to get a light
sentence and Mr.. O'Donnell said
that was up to the sentencing Judge
Representative Curley. Democrat
OF Massachusetts,. Mayor-elect oi
Boston. is one of the fve defend.
ants In the current trial.
Paid $65,000 TO Group.
Edward Turgeon, Providence (R
~ contractor testified today to q
discussion with Fuller about $685..
600 payment by the witness to the
group In conjunction with an alu-
minum process. Nothing came oi
this. however. Mr.. Turgeon said.
Clifford H. Williams, Chicago
sales agent for contractors supplies
former employe of the group, testi-
fed that he had been paid $1,50(
for his services. He told of a meet.
ing in Chicago hotel late in 194l
in which Fuller and Donald Wake.
field Smith, former member OF ths
National Labor Relations Board
another defendant, were present.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
News Of District Area Men
In the Armed Forces

tHosn ton IL Alto1 q, German. Alexandria:
lis. AisSsndli.: ssrat. Vernon &. JsWell
pys. John :1 G Eses. Alsxandris: TI3 Rich
3Gsn j. Mfdsnn Misi.. Arln.tSsn fln,asson and c'r0l
The transport Carlisle, which
docked at Seattle Friday, brought
home these nearby Maryland and
Virginia veterans:
,ps; pie; sush m,,I: I. B,nrdins ssths;as: T55
lnssgs ana Pr Robert r. s0' JeRsses JsRSsss
At San Francisco yesterday, the
following Washington men re-
turned aboad the Napa:
rom.ros H.. ssar. ,trs,. Edw.ra r LSshsr sses
H.. Milton, g3s Acker street NV; Tfb
william b. Hood. ! 1 plorids avenue NE
SW,; Tf6 Hsswood Montasas, 1850 'nsf. Cali.
slS ld,oa Aeks5 s stree. NJ Pc; Sen Ben Rich
Vincent N. TfSpanotfe. ais Third Street street
T Thomas s,sr Psrts r.rn no r5set
ems road Sc: T/5 Clifford Thomas. 838 l.
street sW: &c, Richard Z. Jones, 3Is
Vernon i stree NV, Pis. jshn q t. I, Middle,
/. l." Tolivsr. So7 indiana .senae NV. Pc.
.ssfs .nd sv cs,s cass 4a5 sp.n hssse s.ss
,s5iss ..riss j:sn
Jones. .a64s Rock Creek Church road n W
street NV, Pfc. Freddie T: Tillmsn. 424
| Seventh street NE: TIA Thomas Graves
1911 Sixth street N W: TH John v
% H.s sneeh 's 2a.o TT.s F.ynod. s'rsft si.e. NY P
s,E; Pvt Rudolph N. johnson, Big Forty
sd sadsary ssess Me- Io:a h'E y rssSs aSxley
els or.dy. sas Rhode Island "a avenue emu me Ne
These nearby Maryland and Vir.
ginia men returned aboard the
Napa:
.,pic. PFC. John ": Dorsey. ,oaithsrsburr; IT,
3 gIssrst; g joseph =; orssn: Camp sprinss
T/S Robert Coles, Alexandria.
Nearby Maryland and Virginis
veterans aboard the Kota Agoens
which arrived at San Francisco yes.
terday, we're:
,obT Pfc " joseph eo,,n. W. psrnsil, Berlin Pvt
| John n eountee Lapham. and Pfc. Alex
snder Smith, Clifton Forse.
At New York yesterday and today
aboard the transports Grenvillt
Dodge, Payne Wingate. Marine PAN
ther, Fitzhugh Lee and Boschfon.
tein, were these nearby Maryland
and Virginia veterans:
| Pfc. Register b. Joyner. Alexandria
corp!. Ira H. Baker, Arlington: Herbert 6
| Shepherd fno rank Eiven), Lorton: Sergt
! Frank Z. Hall. Hyattsville: Pfc Edwin W
Dean. Vienna: PFC. CLARK B. Stewart
Chevy Chase; Capt. James Thomas, jr
TakomA Park; Corpl. Louis H. Folks. Staun.
| ton: Pfc. Otis Seward. Alexandria: Pfc
John c. Campbell, Takoma Park; siSergt
Theodric Leith. r.. Silver Spring: r;
Morean P. Gibson. Arlington; Pfc. Geors,
| A. Moran. Capitol Heights: Pvt Georg,
T. Massey, Staunton: Pfc, Derbreen Hook
Etapntop 49,
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Woman Band Leader
In Japan AssoiIs GIs
For determination
~ the Associated Press.

~ Lne AbsOClhIeo fres9.
HIRO, Japan, Dec. l7.-Band
Leader Sharon Rogers, one OF
the few American civilian wom-
en- In Japan, terms American
soldiers determination with
Japanese women disgusting
= and makes an American
woman's blood boil"
TITS the rottcnest thing ]
have ever seen in my life. and
the last possible thing I could
have believed our soldiers would
stoop to-" the Army newspaper
Stars and Stripes quoted the
woman who is leading an all
girl orchestra on a tour of
Japan.
Evening star., 1945-12-17

Mesenvey, Bangor, Me-; WAC Capt.
Yvonne Baillod, Fort Bragg, N. c.;
Mrs. Michael N. Gillian, Philadel-
phia; Moses Coppege. train porter of
Richmond.
In Bennettsyille Hospital:
Mrs. Sofia Saliska, Rutherford,
N. j.; Theodore Saliska, Rutherford,
N. j., Henry L. Means, Oakhurst,
N. j.; Elmer L. Martin, Schenectady,
NY
In Bennetsville Hospital.
Additional injured reported at the
Marlboro County General Hospital
at Bennettsville in a list furnished
the Associated Press by the hos
pital:
Mrs. r. H. Bowden, Audubon, N. j.;
Mrs. Julius Makofka, the Bronx,
N. Y; Mrs. Laura Acosta, New York;
Nancy Lou Bowden, 8, daughter Of
Mrs Bowden.
Additional injured at the Hamlet
Hospital, as reported in q list fur
nished the Associated Press by the
Red Cross and the hospital:
Nancy Ann Kwint, Plainfield, N
j.; Yole M. Giacometti, Darragh
Pa; Donald Glenn, Millsburg, Pa;
Mrs. Pauline Iannotti, Amsterdam
N. Y: James Conrad Bland, Ports
mouth, Va; Mrs. Rachel Bland
Portsmouth; Mrs. Doris Mercader
San Juan, Puerto Rico; Mrs. r. B
Bladerson and her son, Henry Leslie
Bladerson, Philadelphia; G. E. Suter
Dalton, Ohio; Mrs. Kathleen Duck
worth, Philadelphia.
Miss Thelma Gomez, Havana
Cuba; Estus Magoon, Havana; Mrs
Ia. Catanese, Brooklyn; Mrs. Irent
Beaver, Portsmouth, Va, and q. z
1streeter. for whom no address VA
j available.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Engineer Killed, 5 Hurt
When ; Engines Collide

BY the Associated Press.
RED WING, MINI, Dec. l7.-An
engineer was killed and five other
trainmen were injured when three
locomotives were involved in a colli-
sion on the Chicago. Milwaukee, st.
Paul & Pacific Railroad here today.
i Coroner Russell Edstrom said he
was told one train, hauled by two
locomotives, started to pull out onto
the main line and collided with am
other train. Both trains were west
bound.
H. M. Anderson, Minneapolis, en-
gineer Of the first engine of the
double header, was killed. Two To-
comotives and a half-dozen freight
ears were tipped over. -------
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Madame Chang Sees
Gtterburg Exhibition
At Peiping Red Cross
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, Dec. 1.-THE
phonograph in the swank Red
Cross Legation Club was throb-
bing out I'm the Mood" when
China's first lady, Nine. Chang
Kai-shek, dropped in Saturday.
That's good American Utter
bug" some one informed Nine.
Chang, who promptly replied
she had never seen It danced.
Sergt. Thomas Kearns,
Queens Village, N. Y, and Miss
Prudence Hemenway OF Buffalo,
N. Y, q vassar graduate who
has been q Red Cross stan
member In the China and
Burma theaters since January.
1945, volunteered for the COM
mand performance.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Five Yonks Held in Jupon
AS Block Murketers
IS the Associated rress.

By the AssociAted Tfess.
IRUMAGAWA, Japan, Dec. IT,
Five American soldiers and two
Japanese civilians were arrested to-
day, charged with black marketing
sugar, clothing and cigarettes valued
at $4,000 yen ($3.333).
TWO Of the Americans, four OF
whom were mess personnel, were
taken OF a transport which was to
have sailed shortly for the States.
The Japanese, in whose homes In
vestigators found some Of the al
legedly stolen materials. were turned
over ID civilian polics.