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Evening star., 1946-01-15
Negotiations Resumed
lin Effort 10 Break
Ford Pay Deadlock
Py the Associated Press.

Ey ttc hSSOCldttu FfSSS.
DETROIT, Jan. l5.-The 17la per
cent wage increase recommended
by the presidential Fact-Finding
Board to settle the General Motors
strike faced its second crucial test
today as the CIO United Auto
Workers resumed negotiations with
the Ford Motor Co.
Scaling down its industry-wide
demand for 80 per cent, the union
announced it would propose the
fact-finders' report as a means OF
breaking it's wage deadlock with
Ford, whose offer of wage increase
of Is cents an hour or 12.4 per cent
was rejected by the UAW- -CIO De-
cember 18.
GIN Offer Still Stands.
General Motors last week termed
the recommendations unacceptable
in whole or in part" and said its
latest offer of about IL per cent
made several weeks after the strike
of ITS, 900 production workers began
still stands"
While the union has threatened tc
revert to its 80 per cent demand un-
less GIN reconsiders its decision by
next Monday, it is generally be-
lieved here that settlement with
one member of the automotive big
three on the 171a per cent basis
would hasten agreements with the
others.
The Government board empha-
sized it did not wish to set a pat
tern or a precedent when it rec
commended that figure in the GIN
dispute, but the union apparently
interpreted its report as just that
The Fact-Finding Board set the
pattern for the entire industry
Richard T. Leonard, national UAW.
CIO Ford director, said last night
Chrysler Talks Suspended.
Throughout several months oi
negotiations with motor car man
ufacturers union officials have sale
that any wage gains for GIN work
ers would be used to obtain similar
concessions from other firms.
The fact that the presidential
boards recommendations involved
General Motors-biggest of the big
three - unquestionably Influenced
the unions decision to bring them
into the Ford dispute.
Negotiations between the union
and Chrysler Corp, third member
Of the big three, have been sus-
pended pending outcome of the GIN
strike.
| About $4,000 Chrysler workers
have been working without a bar
gaining contract for several weeks,
but union leaders have said nc
walkout would be called at this
! time.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Americans Questioned
In ; AMG Murders
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. Is
High American Army officers said
today that many persons, including
Americans, were being questioned in
connection with the investigation
into the recent murder of three
American military government Off
GERS at PaSSau.
The officers added that no evil
dence had been uncovered of Ger
man resistance activity in connec-
ton with the case. One investigator
said mo definite motive" yet had
been determined and denied reports
of extensive black market activities
in the area.
There was mo doubt" the Off
GERS were murdered before theil
isolated billet near the Austrian
German border was fired by gaso-
line, the informantS said.
The victims have been identified
as Maj. Everett S. Cofran of Wash
ington, D. c., of the Pasau military
government detachment; Capt
Adrian Wesseler of New Rochelle
N. Y, from the Regensburg mill
tary government detachment, anc
1t. Stanley Rosewater of Omaha
Nebr.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
UNO
Continued From First Page.)

tions would administer territories
placed under UNO control.
Bevin Call for Action Expected.
A call for quick action on the
trusteeship question was expected to
be made by Mr.. Bevin on the floor of
the Assembly this week during the
general policy debate.
There was some disagreement
among the American delegation as
to exactly how much control the
United States would lose if she
agreed to United Nations sovereignty
over the Pacific Islands. Some
sources said it was unlikely that
the delegation would propose trus-
teeship arrangement without stipu-
lating that the United States alone
should act as controlling agent for
the UNO.
Under an agreement such as that,
the United Nations would have SOW
erengnty over the islands and the
United States would have immediate
control over them.
Delegates said the State Depart
ment could be expected to adhere
to the policy of not. asking for the
United States any special CONNER
cial privileges in trustee territories
;she controlled.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Byrnes' opening
speech In the debate yesterday was
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Mine
Continued From First Page)

steel mine rails in order to find
their way to the opening.
Two mine inspectors, Ed Chaffin
and Walter White, and some volun-
teers were among the first to enter
the mine after the disaster.
Among the volunteers was Louis
Godoski, an employe of the company
who said he had a brother and son
working on the day shift inside.
Neither mine officials nor rescuers
hurriedly assembled would specu-
late on the fate of others still un-
accounted for.
The Mullinses said the blast ap
peared to have centered in wha
they called "the dip" entry, bu
there was no official information or
how far back that would have beer
from the bottom of the shaft.
Mine department records indicated
that in normal operations, tn,
Havaco mine employees almost sol
men.
Witnesses at the mine entrance
which was roped oil to give reScuerI
full command of facilities, said non,
of the injured brought in earl,
relays appeared to be bloody o.
mangled, only dazed.
About an hour after the explosion
the workers began coming up tn,
long shaft steps, singly, or in pair!
and threes.
Those not injured usually were
giving an arm or almost dragging {
less fortunate fellow worker.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Seattle Free Of Strikes
First Time in I Months
Ey the Associated Press.
rr.k

ES IQe Associated PreSS.
SEATTLE, Jan. Is. Striking
Seattle transit system drivers voted
late yesterday to return to work i'm
mediately, and for the first time in
So days the city was free of strikes
Printers of the AFL Typographical
Union went back to their jobs Sat-
urday night, ending a walkout which
began November 18, and earlier yes
terday Western Electric installers
who had picketed telephone ex-
changes removed their pickets, per-
mitting restoration of service in the
manual exchanges.
Union headquarters for the bus
drivers said it would take some
time to return buses to service,
however.
Mayor William F. Devin said the
union had accepted a wage offer by
the Transit Commission calling for
a wage of SIPS per hour for drivers,
plus bonus of cents per hour for
a total wage of S1.31. There are
100 drivers. The SYSTEMS $50
maintenance men, who sought S1.50
per hour. will get $3.50 per month
and cash bonus of s12O, the report
said.
The drivers had demanded sl.37
per hour, compared to the previous
S1,l5.
Evening star., 1946-01-15

warmly hailed in the London press
Mr. Byrnes asked early action to
establish UNO atomic energy con-
troll commission and said the United
States was conscious of it's re-
sponsibility" in world affairs.
The war really killed isolationism
as a national policy" the Daily
Mail said. 80 3" = Now its obsequies
have been spoken in terms
which are plain, precise and unmis-
taxable"
In the general policy debate, Iran,
China, Denmark and the Neither
lands were scheduled to have the
floor today; Salvador, Ecuador, Ar
gentina, Norway and Poland tomor-
row; Peru, Bolivia, Yugoslavia and
Britain Thursday and Canada,
Greece and France Friday.
AS the Assembly's Steering Com
mittee charted the Assembly's course
this morning and the Legal Com
mittee met to consider a Cuban pro-
poSal that the Steering Committee
be enlarged. the five major powers
remained unable to agree on NOM
inee for secretary general.
The Daily Mail said Winston
Churchill had been mentioned in
cloakroom discussions, but the
western powers were reported to be
still backing Lester Pearson, Cana
dian Ambassador to the United
States, and the Russians supporting
Vladimir Simic, Yugoslav Ambas-
Sador to Washington.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Haiti 10 Hold Election
For Legislature Soon
z, the Associated Press.

2, the Associated Press.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan
15.-Elections for a new Haitian
| legislature probably will be held
within 10 days, and the three-man
military junta which overthrew the
iron regime of President Ellie Lescot
has scheduled a presidential cleo
ton for April Is, it was learned
yesterday.
Candidates for the Chamber of
Representatives and the Senate al
ready were beginning their cam
paigns, as conditions throughout
this mountainous island republic
returned to normal.
The junta, in the first govern
ment press conference in IL years,
said Lescot and his wife and fam
lily had been deported to the United
States.
Oescot and his family arrived
in Miami. He made no an
nouncement of his immediate
plans.)
The junta, comprising Col. Frank
Lavaud, Maj. Antoine Levelt and
Maj. Paul Magloire, said in a COM
munique that members of the gov
ernment would serve in that Ca
pacity without salary and would
accept pay only as members of the
army.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Byrnes Reassures France
On Drafting Of Treaties

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 15.-Secretary OF
State Byrnes has assured France
that the United States, Britain ano
Russia would accord definite weight
to any recommendations by the
other 18 powers interested in draft
ing European peace pacts, it was
learned last night.
Mr.. Byrnes also said the three
major powers have no objection tc
former enemy nations being heard
on treaties they must sign.
Replying to a query by the French
on the status of the Potsdam de-
ciSion that the United Nations Or
ganization would be the final rati.
flying body for peace treaties, Mr.
Byrnes explained the intention OF
that decision was to include only
those 81 nations which were &C
lively at war with the Axis.
The Secretary sent his note tc
answer a request by France fol-
clarification of the recent Moscow
discussions concerning peace treat
les, and the 21-nation conference
to be held in Paris not later thar
May.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
DemobiIizution
Continued From First Page.)

Gen. Eisenhower to bring Congress
up to date on the Navy's demobili-
zation plans, briefly described the
Navy's current jobs and postwar
program and left the actual discus
sion of Navy demobilization to Vice
Admiral L. E. Denfeld, chief of the
Bureau of Personnel.
Admiral Denfield told the mem
bers of Congress that the Navy has
made good on its promises to re-
lease one-third of its personnel by
the end of 1945 and one-half by the
end of this month. He added that
the Navy foresaw nothing which
would prevent 1t from reaching its
goal of rehabilitation to its post
war strength by September l, 1916.
Admiral Nimitz said that as rap
idly as ships could be spared from
their duties in the Pacific they were
being reassigned for training or to
an inactive status. He pointed out
that the Navy's task was to support
foreign policy and our occupation
forces, demobilize the Navy, assist
in demobilizing the Army and train
a postwar Navy.
Defending the War Department
decision not to release all two-year
men by March 20 as former Chief
of Staff George C. Marshall had
tentatively promised Congress last
fall, Gen. Eisenhower pointed out
that the two-year prediction was
based on Gen. Marshall's demobili-
zation schedule which had been
stepped up to such a point that
l ,655 GOO more men had already
come home than Gen. Marshall had
anticipated.
Would Hamper Occupation.
"To declare every soldier with two
years service eligible for discharge
on March 20 would mean that in
addition to the 100000 now in
process of discharge, another 2,000,-
900 would have gone out by that
date" Gen. Eisenhower pointed out.
''The results would have been
catastrophe. Our operating forces
in this country would be far short
of the numbers required. Among
other. casualties, it would mean the
complete collapse of the Army air
ways communications system. With
out technicians there would have
been consequent grounding of our
air forces all over the world.
"It would mean the practical
abandonment of billions of dollars
in American equipment. It would
mean such a complete rescramble
of our occupational forces as to
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Radio Program Slated
Tonight 10 Support
Mile O Dimes Drive

AS means of focusing at
tention on the necessity of sup
porting the Mile O. Dimes campaign,
a broadcast on how infantile paral-
ysis is treated in the District will
be made at 11:45 o'clock tonight
by DR.. Richard Todd, staff physician
in charge of new infantile paralysis
cases at Children's Hospital, who
has been trained in the Kenny
method of treatment.
The broadcast will be over Sta
ton WTOP. Also on the program
will be 1t F. S. Terry, U. S. N,
assistant to the chairman of naval
activities of the drive. He will ex-
plain how the Navy Department is
playing its part.
Miss Mary Dudley, radio actress,
of 5000 Hamilton street NE, also
will tell on the same program how
she was affected by the dread di-
sease and how she fully recovered.
To Broadcast From Booth.
Several broadcasts will be made
daily from the Mile o. Dimes booth
in front of the Capitol Theater,
with at least five scheduled tomor-
row over the six Washington radio
stations.
First contributions to the drive
were made yesterday by Mrs. Harry
S. Truman and her daughter, Miss
Margaret Truman, at the Capitol
Theater booth.
In broadcasting an appeal for
District residents to support the
drive, Miss Truman stressed the
importance of continuing research
into the cause and cure of polio
myelitis
This year the need for your help
is still pressing" she said. The
treatment of polio is extremely ex-
penSive; time consumed is often
measured in weeks or months.
Therefore, our help is necessary to
continue the fight against this
dread disease ="
She, her mother and Commits
sioner John Russell Young then
dropped dimes in the Missouri"
bottle and placed some "on the line"
Pose With Polio Victim.
| They posed for pictures with
Richard Buddy" DodSon, 9, of 60o2
Third street NV, former polio VIC
tim who was brought to the cere-
monies by his mother, Mrs. Richard
E. Dodson. The boy spent three
months in Children's Hospital to-
ward the end of 1914, and through
modern treatment. such as the Mile
O. Dimes makes possible, was pro-
nounced cured.
Il knew how important it was to
put dimes in last year, and I hope
all the kids will do so this year."
said Buddy. He is a third-year
student in Whittier School
An appeal for support of the drive
also was made by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt. Her speech was recorded
in London, where she is a delegate
to the United Nations assembly.
You give whatever you can" she
told District residents. go We
know that we have to go on until
the cause of the disease is discov-
cred"
The campaign, which is now in its
second day, closes January 80 with
the annual Roosevelt birthday cele-
bration.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
House Subcommittee
Arrives in Tokyo
BY theaAssociated Press,

BY the'Associated Press.
TOKYO, Jan. 15-A House Naval
Affairs Subcommittee, inspecting
American bases in the Pacific to de-
termine which should be retained
has arrived in Tokyo for conferences
with Gen. Macarthur and various
section officials of Allied head.
quarters.
The subcommittee includes repre-.
sentatives Rivers, Democrat, OF
South Carolina; Fogarty, Democrat
of Rhode Island; Bates, Republican
of Massachusetts,, and Cooley
Democrat, of North Carolina.
The group leaves by plane tomor.
row for Western Japan and plans tc
visit Kyoto, Sasebo and Nagasaki
thence to China.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Perjury Charge Is Ordered
Against lichfieId Colonel
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-Charges o1
subornation of perjury, conspiracy
intimidation of witnesses and dere-
liction of duty against Cal. James
A. Kilian of Highland Park, Ill.
commandant of an American Army
detention camp at Lichfield, were
ordered prepared today for con-
Sideration by court-martial.
The court, trying nine enlisted
men and two officers for alleged i'll
treatment Of American military
prisoners at the camp, also recon-.
mended Col. Kilian's removal from
the London area, but that he remain
in the United Kingdom, available fol-
recall as a witness.
The courts order was decided or
in private session after Capt
Earl j. Carroll of San Bruno, Calf.
of the prosecution staff, declared
Col. Kilian had instructed witnesses
how to testify.
Capt. Carroll yesterday requested
that Col. Kilian be placed in custody
or in physical seclusion to prevent
him from influencing witnesses.
Capt. Carroll earlier recommend
ed successfully that 1t. Leonard
w. Ennis, Peekskill, N. Y, be con.
tined on the same grounds,
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Court Releases Woman
Lost in Jail for Month
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. Is. Prison
doors opened yesterday for Mrs.
Bernadette Valentine, 81, after her
lawyer contended in Supreme Court
that she had been lost for month
in the Women'S House of Detention.
I've heard of the lost week end,
but this appears to be lost month, -
said Justice Benedict D. Dineen as
he granted her release on a habeas
corpus writ.
Her lawyer, Samuel Bonon, said
Mrs. Valentine was arrested last No.
vember on an assault charge after a
tavern fight, and held in default of
81 500 bond for grand jury action in
December The jury refused to in
dict her, Mr.. Bonon said, but for
some reason she was not released.
He said he had tried to get in touch
with her twice, but jailers told him
she wasn't there. On January 9 he
received a letter from Mrs. Valen-
tine saying she was still in prison
and had been unable to write before
because she could get no stamps.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Third Marine Division
Disbonding Completed

BY the Associated Press
CAMP PENDLETON, Calf. Jan.
15.-Disbanding of the famed Marine
Sd Division which first saw action
at Bougainville in September, 1913
has been completed at this camp
Marine officials announced yester-
day.
A portion of the division previ-
ously was inactivated at Guam.
Formed at Camp Elliott, Calf, un-
der command of Maj. Gen. Allan H
Turnage, the Sd trained in New Zea-
land before smashing at Bougain-
vile. 1t recaptured Guam in July
1914, then moved to the historic bat
tie of Two Jima. Meanwhile. its
command had been shifted to Maj
Gel. Graves B. Erskine.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
| Wounded Yonk's
| Defiance of jap
Firing Squad Told
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, Jan. 15.-American
Sergt. Isaac Landy died an unsuns
hero's death when he and nine COM
rades were executed as wanton re-
prisal for escape of another prisoner
of war, an eyewitness testified today
at the war crimes trial of 1t. Gen
Masaharu Homma.
Sergt. Landy was one of 10 Yanks
singled out for lesson" to lac
Americans who were forced to build
bridges at Lumbang, Laguna Prov
ince, testified Mayor Moses Paraiso
and Police Chief Guadencio Ano-
nuevo of Lumbang. The 10 were
lined up and shot by firing squads
in schoolyard.
The volley failed to kill Sergt
Landy. Struggling to his feet, the
badly-wounded Yank pointed to his
heart and defied the Japanese:
Come on! Come on! Hit me
here. Long live America"
Successive volleys killed Sergt
Landy. His and the other nine
bodies were exhumed last month
and reinterred with military honors
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Virginia Cleric Asks Aid
For Atom Bomb Victims
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 15.-The
Rev. j. A. MacLean, pastor of the
Ginter Park Presbyterian Church,
presented to the Richmond Minis
terial Union at its annual meeting
here yesterday a proposal that the
union adopt as its 1916 project a
movement to raise funds for the
relief of survivors of the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
destroyed by atomic bombs.
The minister asked that the
Richmond union take the initia-
tive in a Nation wide movement to
provide hospital building for
the cities survivors cor in some
other practical way best suited to
the purpose proposed" make use
of the proposed relief funds.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
TWA Pilots Pay Row Delays
FIiqhts of 5000 From Europe

have been offered up to $4,000 q
year and are seeking about $4,000
it was said.
The turbulent trans-ocean airline
situation was spotlighted again by
the renewed request of Pan Amer
lean World Anyways that the Civil
Aeronautics Board allow it to fly to
Paris. The company announced or
Saturday that previously author
lied route to Marseille would be
opened on February Is.
An initial rate of $295, the same
as to Lisbon, was announced by Par
American for the Marseille fight
British Overseas Airways and Amer
ican Overseas Airlines have agreed
on $375 fare between New York
and London. Pan American has an.
nounced rate as low as $249 be.
tween New York and Ireland.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Eisenhower Order
Bans Made Work.
To Keep GIs Busy
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

AL Army commands are under
blunt orders from Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower to stop such COM
plaint provoking practices as
processing combat veterans "time
and again" through basic train
ing and other routines "in which
they see no future value" it was
disclosed today.
"A schedule prepared primarily to
keep such men busy for the required
number OF hours has no place in the
Army" the Chief of Staff said in a
memorandum hitting at one of the
commonest of CT complaints.
BY this, Gen. Eisenhower made it
clear to commanders. he referred to
such things as elementary squad
and platoon drill, routine field prob
lens, gas mask drills and the like"
The orders of the Army's Chief
OF Staff were contained in a re-
cent personal memorandum that
was sharply critical of Army leader
ship. The text, copy of which
was obtained by The Star, also i'm
piled criticism of the failure of some
commanders to orient their men
properly in the 'inequities and
sometimes apparent unfairness" of
the heretofore rapid Army demobi-
lization. That demobilization has
resulted to date in the discharge of
100000 Army personnel since We
day.
The memorandum was distrib-
uted over Gen. EiSenhower's sigma
ture to all commands overseas and
in this country short while be-
fore the outbreak of widespread CT
demonstrations. 1t apparently was
issued in anticipation of such
troubles that followed announce
ment of the showdown in demobili-
zation, one War Department source
explained.
Distribution was made December
26 with explicit instructions that
'the Chief of Staff desires that no
changes be made in the memo
randum either by deletion or addi-
tions to the original" 1t was
phrased in language about which
there could be no misunderstanding.
Although there were many prior
signs of growing GI discomfort over
Army policies and camp routine, the
War Department for reasons of its
own, withheld the memorandum
from its own public relations bu-
reau channels. Only when the text
appeared in the current issue of
Army Times, did the War Depart
ment admit its existence.
made Work" Fails.
Gen. Eisenhower, who has long
been familiar with CT gripes, took
the Army's postwar schedule to
task in this fashion:
The test of a successful training
program either in military or nom
military subjects is whether it
arouses and holds the interest of
the troops, and in their judgment
is clearly of value to the Army
or to themselves. Made work will
fail this test ."
Referring to the lack of proper
orientation on demobilization prob
lens, the Chief of Staff told his
field commanders The American
soldier will cooperate and do his
part if he understands the factors
which affect his particular situation,
and if he believes that the Army
is applying sound policy with good
Judgment"
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Bradley Orders Employees
To Drop Military Titles
BY the Associated Iress.

BY the Associated Fress.
The Veterans Administration IS
casting aside some of its nonessen-
tial reminder of the war.
Henceforth, employees who for
merly served in the armed forces no
longer may use their military titles
in official publications, correspond
ence, telephone directories, desk
name plates, signs on doors, and SC
forth
The ban was posted by Veterans
Administrator Omar N Bradley, a
four star general himself, who said
use of military titles presents
practical difficulties such as in the
preparation of official publications
and correspondence"
Mr.. Bradley added, however, this
instruction will not be construed to
prohibit use of titles in conversation
or in introductionS.