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 mand for . 90 percent wage in- crease will resume Monday.
 MEAT PACK1NG-Federal Con- ciliators assigned in Chicago after walkout was set for Jan. 16 against Armour & Company, Swift 6 Com- pany, Wilson & Company, and Cud- ahy Packing Company. Strike acc ton hinges on union demand for 17M cents an hour wage increase.
 STEEI-U. s. Steel Corporation and C.I.O. United Steelworkers will be asked to resume negotiations on demands for a $2-a-day wage in- crease when President Truman's fact-finding panel meets Saturday. A company counter-offer might avoid a walkout If OPA agrees to c steel price increase.
 TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT = walkout of 17.40O Western Electric employees in New York and New Jersey set for Il a. m. today and expected to spread to include 6S,O0c across the nation. Union willing to retreat from its 30 percent wage demand if company will raise it's IS percent offer.
 ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURE ING-Labor Department may cal joint conference of General Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and CI.O. United Electrical Workers. Union said 1t would resume nego- tiationS with Westinghouse and GEE. only if they made accepta- ble counter offers to union demands for 6 $2-a-day wage increase. Gen. eral Motors Electrical Division has offered 13h cents an hour increase, Strike dates against all three com- panies will be set Saturday.
 SHIPBUILDING - Shipbuildine Stabilization Committee continues session. Companies have rejected A.F.L. and C.I.O. demands for gen. eral wage increases of 25.9 and 4t percent each.
 OIL L-L Labor Department fact. finding panel considered new appea to companies and oil Workers Union (C.I.O.) for negotiations or union demand for 30 percent wagt increase. Companies have not vel replied to first appeal Dec. al. GLASS-Federal ConciliatorS stil unable to settle the three-months. old strike by the Glass Worker (CI.O) against Pittsburgh Plat Glass and Lbbey- Owens-Ford com panies.
 GREYHOUND-La Labor Depart. ment panel meets to organize ana plan procedures for settling issuei in dispute between Pennsylvania and Central Greyhound Bus com panies and the Street Electric Rail way and Motor Coach Enployei (AFL.). Strike was scheduled tt end at 5 a. m. today.
 WESTERN UNTON-MetropolitaI New York employees, members O the American Communication As sociation (C.I.O0, rejected Q 12- cent hourly wage boost approved by the National War Labor Boart and voted to strike Jan. 6. Wash ington Western Union employees however, voted to accept the award and postponed" their strike. They are members of the Commercial Photographers Union (A.FL).
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! An American cereuHpoaaont back from the Pacific arena was ohlect- inR Co Englands use oe lend-ieAse equipment to fight colonial up- risings. On Java, he said young British leftenans dashed up oo his colonel and rcporteds ~Slr, the rn- oonesians have keptchered three of our tankslS The colonel received the news calmly. Lucky thing" he saidb they weren't paid fort"
 
 New Years nay Street-Scenes A Dept of Sanitation worker was flushing 6Srd Street and 2nd Ave- nOe with e mighty force from the corner hydrant. A weaving drunk owlishly took m the golngson--and then stepped over to the street, cleaner. Tapping him gently on the shoulder, he asked him in a warning tone: Hey, Budl Whad- daya think this is-Hallowe'en2" Jack Waldron, one of our pet clowns. has ueen absent from the Broadway sector for three years doing the War-Front Clrcut He re- turned last night, went to Reuben's and told a sableful of notorious wisecrackers: i've been away three years. Has anything been said around here-worth repeating2"
 FOOtsore and fed-uR Q returned veteran (after many weeks of ape artment hunting) wrote this note to % friends: I've goC more blisters on my feet than I ever got in the Army. I've worn out a pair of shoes and I've gotten more phony prop. ositionS than a chlorine while lock- ing. for place to live with my wife. I've been turned down oftener than an old pal who needs five bucks, so I think I will join some group such as Gerald l.. K. Smiths and start trouble. now deteSt all landlords, renting agents and building super intendents, but Love Youl There- fore, since you are counted high on my list of favorite friends, If my wife and I do not find Q place to live by January 1st-we are mov- ing in with you!"
 P s: They found him an Aptl
 Paul Smalps Sum-up of Q Broad wayite: He can't invest in stocks because his money is all tied up in rubber bandS!"
 Scrambled Eggs: Paula Lawrence, who dropped her real name which is Paula Josefa Manuela Marie The resa de Lugo y Alba (so she wouldn't be typed into Spanish roles) will play the pashy Queen of Spain in The Duchess Misbe- hayes. Ben Hecht will write an- other Madison Square Garden pa- geant for April, tentatively tagged:
 The Birth or a Nation. Insiders say novelist Louis Bromfield's se- cret ambish is to be Gov. of Ohio. George Jean Nathan yesterday was planning to write his flrst fan let ter to a newspaper-on its recogni- tion of the late Theodore Dreiser,s genius. The executed Vidkun QuiSlings brother removed the nameplate from his Brooklyn ves- tibule. Last weeks knifing be- tween small fry banditti at a swank East Side spot remains hushed up, Many editors have ordered full page layouts on the life of the President because he persists in taking precarious plane trips. Those week-endS on the Potomac include terrific poker games. Milton Berle's lament: My book, Out of My Trunk is selling like hotcakes. 2 wish 1t sold like honksl"
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Scarcity of screen coal has caused suspension of express trains on the government railway between La Calera and La Serena in Chile.
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The Mexican Army has just or- ganized 8 corps of commando troops.
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Russia will open shortly watch factories in Erevan and serdohsk.
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Venezuela plans to modernize ita telecommunications equipment.
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Alcohol fumes were responsible this morning for . slight blaze In . sedan owned by Robert LeckO, ThOmaston, firemen said. Men from Truck Company 10 responded to the alarm at 11:30 a. m. The car was parked in front of the State ArmOry on Field street.
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A chimney fire at GA Wall street, brought three companies of fire men to the scene at 11:3S ?. m. yesterday. Damage was slight, 1t was reported.
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Bert Lahr was in HowieNs the rendezvous for showfolks, when a small-timer (with whom he once tiffed) went by and cut Bert dead The others at the table leased him about it. "Ho, hol" they ho- bod.
 Makes no difference" observed Bert. If that punk had said what was on his mind-he'd still be speeches..
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epsrts raaloaator Bill stern was an Clro's New Years Eve where he made a crack that was resented by 0 drunk.
 Over my dead bodyi" challenged the latter.
 'That. cooed Bill. ''eould become ny favorite route"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-03

Jack Waldron, one of our pet clowns, has peen absent from the Broadway sector for three years doing the War-Front Circuit He rec turned last night, went to Reuben's and told a sableful of notorious wisecrackers: i've been away three years. Has anything been said around here-worth repeatingq"
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Ada Bsnchleyana: A pest entered a midtown tavern one night fea- turing a beautiful shiner. Pointing Co his damaged orb, he tried to ex- plain 1t with: 'NOh, something flew into my eye"
 ''Somethingi" Quipped Boh." Don't you mean SOATEBODY?"
Evening star., 1946-09-15
I raveIer's Notebooks
BY W. H. Shippen, Jr.
Aviotion Editor OF The Stor

s Writer in fhe Temporary Absence Of Jacques Futree h
Evening star., 1946-09-15

The airlines have gotten plenty
Of plush jobs aloft since the war
and new horizons are opening up in
many directions, but this is no time
for the traveller to forget that most
Of the cushions still are being pre-
empted by citizens who plan ahead
and make their reservations solid
we'll in advance of take-off time.
The day of the happy vagabond,
the footloose and fancy-free is not
yet at hand, however strongly they
may yearn, after seven weary years,
for the release of tropical islands,
the exotic lands south of the border,
the heady air of mountains or
desert, the winter sports of Canada
or the freedom of the seas.
Some of these things can be had
this fall and winter but virtually
all take planning in advance
tickets bought and clinched both
ways as far ahead as possible and
hotel reservations verified before
departure. Pleasure travel as known
before the war will be confined
almost wholly to the Western
Hemisphere for some time to come.
X X X X
Possible exception is Hawaii where
the first postwar trippers were jour-
neying this summer. But the best
hotels, and I speak from personal
experience, were booked up solid;
others were being turned back by
the military or in process Of recon-
version, slowed by shortages of labor
and materials. New construction
was being planned, however, and the
situation should be greatly improved
within the coming IL months.
Air travel facilities to Hawaii, like
those to Canada, Mexico, Central
and South America or the Carib-
bean Islands, are being built up
rapidly. United Air Lines soon will
supplement Pan-American World
AirWays service between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles and Honolulu.
The whole Caribbean area. from
the Gulf of Mexico to the northern
coast of South America, is in for
rapid expansion of air traffic. Some
80 companies, representing - ma
tions, already are operating there,
and IS additional companies have
plans to enter the field.
Travel in this region is expected
to triple in the near future. Repre-
sentatives of air carriers and various
interested nations are meeting in
Washington to set up uniform stand
ards for traffic control, aides to navi-
CATION, landing facilities and air-sea
rescue in event of emergency.
Few sections of the world have
more to offer the vacationist or trav-
eler mixing business with pleasure.
The climate, except for occasional
hurricanes at this season, is rela-
lively stable the year round, with
trade winds pulling the punch from
a tropical sun. Even hurricanes have
been tempered to large degree by
weather patrols and stations which
plot their courses in advance.
From Bermuda on the north
which is regaining much OF its pre-
war serenity, and should be ready to
accommodate large numbers of Wis
itors by Christmas-to Trinidad or
Venezuela on the south, the area
will be criss-crossed by airlines op-
Grating out Of Washington. Balti-
more, New York, Miami and New
Orleans.
Reports of high prices and jammed
accommodations in Mexico, and es-
pecially Mexico City. travel agents
say, have diverted considerable at
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India and China, and on to the
United States by way of Japan or
the Philippines, mid-Pacific islands
and Honolulu.
Meanwhile, Trans World and
Northwest plan to connect a joint
service around the world at Shang-
hal, with Northwest flying a north
ern route to the Orient by way of
Alaska, the Aleutians and Japan.
The Ober Steamship a. Tourist
Agency, oldest independent travel
bureau of Washington, is continuing
operation after postwar reopening
in offices in the National Law
School Building at 818 Thirteenth
street NV.
Founded in 1921 by the late Ernest
I. Ober, the agency is now being
operated by Col Ralph B. Tew and
Richard E. Gentle, both veterans of
World War II. Col. Tew, presently
on duty in the Office Of the Army
Chief Of Staff, will receive his serv-
ice release at an early date.
Col. Tew, formerly of the White
Star Line, entered business with
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Mr.. Ober in 1928 while Mr.. Gentle
became associated with the agency
after Mr.. Ober's death. For the
major part of the recent war, Mr..
Gentle served with the Naval Air
Transport Service. Col Tew, an
Army Air Force veteran of the First
World War. returned to duty at
the outbreak of hostilities after
Pearl Harbor, serving with the Pa
cific division of the Air Transport
Command.
Evening star., 1946-09-15
Mourx PTA to Meet

The Maury School Parent Teach
er Association Of Alexandria will
hold It's first fall meeting at $50
pm. tomorrow in the school with the
following new officers: Mrs. John c.
Barton, president: Mrs. Dean Sny-
der, president; Robert Todd
McKinlay treasurer, and Mrs. Ross
Hunt, secretary.
Evening star., 1946-09-15

tention to places like Guatemala
British Honduras, Panama or the
Caribbean Islands. Yet it would be
difficult to find a postwar haven re-
mote enough not to have felt the
impact of the great Yankee dollar.
Ask any returning traveller.
Hotel and resort construction
halted by the war Is getting under
way again slowly or remains in the
planning stages In many countries
to the south. Whether land accom-
modations will keep pace with ex-
pansion of air travel remains an
open question.
Increasing air services will con-
meet Washington this fall and win
ter with resorts in Canada. where
initiation is still held in check, or
with the great national parks of
Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Utah,
Colorado and California.
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Recreational travel to Europe will
be limited for an indefinite time.
with the State Department dis
couraging visits even to such coun-
tries as France or Switzerland
which are anxious to receive Ameri-
can tourists. Food shortages and a
lack of travel facilities, especially
for the return journey, may persist
for months.
A few tourists visited Alaska bv
air this summer, although accom-
modations for transients were scarce.
The situation likely will be improved
next summer, however, and present
air service will be supplemented bv a
new route granted Northwest Air
lines.
Within the next few months
American Flag Lines expect to estab-
llsh two globe-girdling routes on
regular schedules. State Depart
ment officials are negotiating for
landing rights for Pan American
World Airways and Trans World
Always in India and China.
Pan Am, which is having difficulty
opening its route from London
through Austria, Hungary and Yugo-
slavia to Turkey, hopes to obtain an
alternate route to Turkey through
France and Italy. The airway. as
planned, would proceed through
Evening star., 1946-09-15

Reports of high prices and jammed
accommodations in Mexico, and es-
pecially Mexico City. travel agents
say, have diverted considerable at
Evening star., 1946-09-15
West Executive Avenue Gateposts as Traffic Menace

trac OF
reopning in another month of West Executive
which 1884
gaeposs the Pennsylvania
Citizens told Of
passing vehicles hidden from view They also
nug OF stone serious traffic obstruction which
CONFUSION especially curing rush hours There
that some organization somebody do something
These massive granite posts all that
formerly
East Executive Fifteenth Pennsylvania avenue
south OF the Treasury Building
YORK avenue Just south OF the State War and Navy
of these locations there
certain times
At the time high Lafayette and
Franklin Squares which
All of these gradually have the
stripped few the benefit
available
these relics suffered
attempted official explanation
sacred requirement made their removal impossible
Now with the
relics of another
question actively agitated IL
job which
the reopnng of these
from complete requirements fully met through the
semoval Of the monumental hazards.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-03-01
GRAIN MOVEMENTS:
Coop Proposals

Holding an emergency meeting in
Chicago, ILL.,, the National Fedora
ton of Grain Co-operatives urged
President Truman to speed up
movement of box cars and clarity
the price and tax situation to spur
tagging shipment of grain to mar
ket.
Representing member groups,
which handle approximately 400 mil
lion bushels of grain annually, the
federation said that the acute short
age Of box cars has been further
aggravated by delays in movement.
Runs that normally required four
or five days from the northwest to
Minneapolis-St. Paul, now take 30
days or more, officials said.
AS long as uncertainty exists over
extension Of federal price controls,
the federation declared, farmers will
keep substantial quantities of grain
off the market in the hope of higher
returns. Further, farmers may be
adverse to selling both their car
ryover and the ripened 1916 crop in
the same year unless tax laws are
revised or loans of actual grain
to the government are arranged
and operators are permitted to elect
the time for collection.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-03-01

showed that the average person will
have about IL per cent less to eat
than in prewar years.
In reporting its findings, however,
the department pointed out that
striking of an average" balance
did not truly reflect conditions
abroad, what with near starvation
levels persisting in Italy, Germany,
French North Africa, France, Spain,
India and China.
Itemizing individual supplies, the
department said that the world sup
ply of bread will remain tight, with
reduced rations in some countries.
Demand for wheat will exceed sup
plies by 200 million bushels and
stocks of other grains will be linn
tied. From IS to 20 per cent less
rice will be available than in pre-
war years.
A shortage Of meat will persist
In Europe and Russia, the depart
rnent said, with increased produc-
ton retarded by use of feed grains
for human consumption. While 1916
supplies of fish will be higher than
last year, cheese and egg stocks will
not meet demands.
The total of fats and oils will ap-
proximate only two-thirds of import
needs while sugar consumption will
fall to the lowest level in a decade.
Only half as much butter will be
available for world trade as in pre-
war years.
In contrast to the tight world food
situation, the American larder will
stay well stocked, barring poor
crops. Only butter and sugar sup
plies are expected to show no APP
preciable improvement, and while
fewer eggs are predicted, available
ity of more meat should cut de-
mand for the product.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-03-01
NATIONAL GUARD:
POSt1Dnr Increase

In accordance with plans to keep
America strong in the postwar
world, the national guard will be
increased to 622, 500 officers and
men, more than double the total Of
300,034 in the prewar period.
Of the 622, 500 men and officers,
ST. 1000 will be included in the
ground forces, 1900 in the air wings
and 1000 in miscellaneous services.
This compares with the prewar
establishment Of 295,000 on the
ground and 5000 in the air.
Twenty-Five infantry divisions will
constitute the bulk of the ground
forces, with two armored divisions
and 18 regimental combat teams
making up the remainder. The IL
air wings will be composed Of q
groups, "a squadrons and IL control
and warning units.
With 47,777 men and officers, New
York's national guard will be the
largest in the country, followed by
Pennsylvania with $3.50; Califor-
MIA, 39,568, and Illinois, $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-03-01

Curmudgeon's" action would have
on Democratic chances in the 1916
congressional and 1913 presidential
elections.
In resigning from the cabinet aft
er 13 years of service as one of the
liberal New Deal stalwarts, "Hon-
est Harold" as Ickes is sometimes
known, warned Mr.. Truman that po-
litical pressure for retention of state
control over underwater oil re-
serves could result in a scandal
similar to Teapot Dome. He also
said that pressure to assess admin
istrative personnel for campaign
purposes mig t create a major
scandal.
Although it was long rumored that
Ickes might leave the Presidents
cabinet, his dramatic departure
grew out of his charges that Pauley
had suggested to him that $500, 900
could be raised for the 1914 presi-
dental race if the government
dropped suit the interior secre-
tary instituted to place underwater
oil reserves under federal rather
than state control. When Pauley
denied the allegation and Mr..
Truman declared that Ickes' testi-
mony might be inaccurate, the "Old
Curmudgeon" stated that the Pres
ident's lack of confidence in him left
him no alternative but to submit
his resignation.
Ill feelings between Ickes and Mr..
Truman were further pointed up by
the Presidents order making the
resignation Immediately effective
rather than on March 81 as the in
terror secretary had requested so
that he might push through the
Anglo-American oil treaty (which
chez had nurtured and raised by
bottle from the beginning"
While the liberal Ickes, long
prominent figure in reform poll
tics, said he would not oppose the
Presidents reelection in 1913, he
qualified his statement by pointing
out that he had cast his ballot as
delegate to the 1914 convention for
Henry A. Wallace for vice presi-
dent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-03-01
TIRES:
Good Prospects

With the manpower situation i'm
proving with the return of many
veterans and new facilities sched-
uled to get into production soon, the
tire outlook for 1946 has grown
increasingly promising, though
stocks adequate to meet record de-
mand will not be forthcoming be-
fore late in the year.
With "a million cars in operation,
with many running on tires five or
more years old, the government set
a goal Of Sc million passenger cords
for 1916. Under present favorable
conditions, manufacturers hope to
even exceed the mark. Because of
the continued scarcity of natural
rubber, substantial proportions of
both tires and tubes will be made Of
synthetics.
Since 80 per cent of all tires pro-
duced 60 to the market and only 10
per cent are retained for new auto
mobiles, not many more additional
cords have been made available dur
ing the closedown of auto plants
by the General Motors strike, trade
circles pointed out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-03-01
WAGE-PRICES:

Go Sign
Formulation of the administra-
tons new sterilization policy set
ting pattern for wage increases of
from Is to II per cent and permit
ting price boosts wherever neces-
sary to assure prewar profit mar
gins, represented a victory for the
conservative advisers Of President
Truman.
Spearheaded by John Snyder, St.
Louis banker and director Of war
mobilization and reconversion, the
conservatives held that price as
well as wage readjustment was nee
essary to spur postwar production.
With goods flowing to market in vol
ume, they held, prices would auto
matically find their right level In a
competitive economy.
In announcing the new wage
price policy, which was designed to
settle the major steel, auto and cleo
trical strikes, Mr.. Truman hoped
that it would result In an early
resumption Of mass production that
alone could head off an imitation
airy spiral. In the meantime, he
asked for extension Of price control,
subsidies and ALLEGATIONS and priori-
ties to temporarily hold living costs
in line and break industrial bottle
necks.
In winning his point Of view, Sny-
der was permitted to retain his
overall control over the stabiliza-
ton policy, with former OPA chief
tain Chester Bowles put in charge
of administering the new formula.
Bowles had stood firmly for a more
rigid wage-price program, believing
lower costs would lead to greater
purchasing power and volume, but
agreed to cooperate in making the
new policy work.