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ability to pay union demands TO,
higher wages.
Costs To Be Weighed.
The board, headed by DR.. Edwin
E. Witte, said it would take into
consideration the cost of each cen,
per hour wage increase to the pro-
'duction workers involved in the
present disputes"
The board said it also would con.
slider the price controls to which
the industry is subject and subsi-
dies and special price provisions af-
fecting meat packing.
1t will also undertake to determine
the total operational picture of the
companies involved, such as profit
and loss statements for war and
preWar years, business volume and
margins, and operations prospects
for the remainder of the contract
period. The board will study data
on output per worker and per man
hour, and any available informa-
ton on significant changes in re-
cent years, plus the prospects with
regard to productivity of workers.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
went into effect January /, 1853.
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Labor
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proposal is not accepted he and his
supporters will 60 along with ANY
reasonable compromise" in order to
get floor action.
The legislation requested by Mr.
Truman would establish fact finding
boards to make recommendations
for solution OF major labor disputes
1t would give them power to SUBJ
poena records and would ban strikes
during 30-day period while they
deliberated.
Under the Lands amendment, the
power of subpoena would be denied
the board and the section providing
for 30-day cooling of" would be
eliminated.
Bill Seen Acceptable.
Representative Hoffman. Repub-
lican OF Michigan. asserted that
with these controversial sections
stricken from the bill it will be
acceptable to supporters of both
management and labor"
Representative Barden, Democrat
Of North Carolina declared that the
Lands plan takes all the teeth out
OF the BILL" but said he would sup
port any type of strike-control meas
ure so We can get something to the
floor and get vote"
Some members said they would
try to get the power of subpoena
merely limited, instead of abolished
In addition, some asserted they
wound agree to elimination of the
section making strikes illegal during
the 30-day period, but would try to
write into the bill language express
ing the desire of Congress that the
cooling of" period be observed.
Definite Action Forecast.
Regardless OF the version approved
Mr.. Randolph said the group def
nitely would take final action of
some kind" on the issue Tuesday.
He said this is necessary because
"as tension mounts throughout the
country there will follow insistent
demands for drastic legislation and
we must forestall unwarranted ac-
tion along those lines"
Chairman May Of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee told news
men that If the labor group does not
act this week he will try to bring up
for 4 hoor vote a bill providing
stringent penalties for unions vio-
lating no-strike contracts.
Some members of Mr.. Mays COM
mittee favor move to attach the
Presidents fact-finding proposal as
an amendment to their legislation,
Meanwhile, the Senate still has
pending a motion by Senator East
land, Democrat of Mississippi. to
take the fact-finding plan away
from its Labor Committee and send
1t to the floor for an immediate
vote. However, the Eastland mo-
ton Is not expected to come up at
once, because of the fllibuster over
the Fair Employment Practice Com
nittee.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

rejected Mr.. Truman's 1S1a-cent
compromise. Mr.. Murray and the
union accepted.
United States Steel has not an
swered the Presidents request that
it reconsider his proposal.
Referring to the difference re-
manning between the disputants
Mr.. Kaiser said he could not CON
ceive that sum of 3La cents should
be permitted to retard or destroy
the possibility Of real peace and
prosperity for the Nation"
Signed Recent Auto Contract.
The shipbuilder fought Eastern
steel interests all through the wal
and recently signed wage contract
to cover the new Kaiser-Frazer
automobile manufacturing oper-
ations at Willow Run. This agree
ment was made with the CIO
United Auto Workers.
A Kaiser spokesman. responding
to a question, said the contract
agreement entailed no special price
concession from the Government for
his company. 1t has been charging
the general West Coast price of
$3.50 a hundred, which is below the
permissible $685. granted during the
war, he said. Kaiser does not in
tend to charge the latter, he added.
There has been speculation on
possible price relief for the industry
In general. The OPA now is making
study at direction of the Presi-
dent. 1t is to report by February /.
Meanwhile, future plans of the
fact-flnding board the President
appointed to investigate the steel
dispute were uncertain. The three
man board has yet to set date for
a procedural meeting with the dis
putants or to fix the time for the
start of public hearings.
The wage agreement ending the
glass industry strike was signed
IN Columbus. 1t provided for a
fiat 10.7 cents an hour wage in
crease with an additional a cents
an hour in certain maintenance
rates. 1t includes a re-opening
clause under which the union may
petition for new wage rates and
management is required to meet
and discuss the new demands with
in 20 days.
Affected Heavy Industries.
The glass strike has affected
heavy manufacturing industries
widely. C. E. Wilson, GIN president
was quoted as saying a glass short
age would have forced their big
Buick plant to close almost i'm
mediately even If the Auto Work
ers had not struck November %.
Most of the other GIN plants would
have been closed within another
10 days, he said.
The Chrysler Corp. announced in
Detroit Friday that it was closing
its main Dodge plant because of
the glass shortage.
Joseph Froesch, president of the
ClO glass workers and L. g. Bryan,
vice president Of Libbey- Ovens
Ford, issued the joint statement
which ended the walkout affecting
the two concerns. They said plants
would open tomorrow.
The conferees, who included
Clyde Mills, Government. conciliator.
opened contract negotiations on
January 7. They we're joined last
week by Howard Colvin, assistant
chief of the Labor Department
Cancellation Service.
Plants involved in the agreement
are at Charleston, w. Va. Shreve-
port, La, Mount Vernon, Ohio, Ford
City and Creighton, Pa, Toledo,
Ohio, Ottawa, ILL.,, and Crystal City,
Mo.
The union had asked a fiat in
crease of Is cents an hour. Officials
of both company and union did not
give an percentage figure for wage
increases in their announcement of
the agreement.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Union S Offer 10 Take
n4% Raise Rejected
By Western Electric
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Frank
Fitzsimmons, union leader of 1900
striking Western Electric workers
In the metropolitan area, offered to-
day to end the walkout for a 17h
per cent wage increase, but the
company termed the offer mot ac-
ceptable."
Mr.. Fitzsimmons, president of the
western Electric Employees Asso-
ciation independently stelegraphed
President Truman and the Western
Electric Co. that the union would
settle provided the company in
creases its present offer of Is per
cent to 171a per cent as was recon-
mended In the findings of the fact
finding board in the recent UAW-
GIN dispute case"
In telegram to Mr.. Fitzsimmons
tonight, r. J. Hammel, labor rela-
tions director of the big plant of
Western Electric at Kearny, N. j..
said:
"The offer made in your telegram
Of January 10, 1916, is not accept
able to the company. The Kearny
dispute should be settled on its
own merits and not on the basis
OF recommendations in the GM-
JAW dispute referred to in your
telegram"
Offers Is Per Cent.
Mr.. HammePs telegram con-
tinued:
THE company has not with
drawn its offer of December %,
1945, for Is per cent increase)
though it was made in an attempt
to settle the dispute before a strike
was called. The company sees no
justification for increasing this
offer, but continues to negotiate
on all disputed points"
The union originally asked a 80
per cent increase. The workers went
on strike Is days ago.
Henry Mayer, counsel for the
union, said Mr.. Fitzsimmons sent his
offer to Mr.. Truman, the company,
Secretary Of Labor Schwellenbach
and J. r. Mandelbaum, Federal Con-
ciliator, after an emergency meet
ing of the strikers steering commit
tee in Jersey City.
The 1900 striking members of
the union are employed in the man.
ufacture of telephone equipment in
II New York and New Jersey plants
of Western Electric. The WEEA is
afiiliated with the National Fedora
ton of telephone workers.
Cites Presidents Request.
Mr.. Mayer quoted Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons as saying the President of
the United States has indicated that
labor should settle its wage demands
for 171z per cent, based on the re-
suits of the finding board"
I'VE are prepared in the public
interest to comply with the Presi-
dents request, and we know that
every other labor union will do like
wise" the union president was
quoted as saying.
"It is apparent that the great
financial interests which are behind
such enterprises as General Motors,
United States Steel and American
Telephone k Telegraph Co., parent
company OF Western Electric, are
resisting efforts to bring about in
dustrial peace.
I'VE will meet with the Western
Electric Co. as soon as it expresses
its willingness to raise its offer to
that figure"
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Floyd {. Davis, Jr.,
Heads Alumni Group

Floyd E. Davis, jr., has been
elected president of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School Alumni
Association. Other officers are:
Phil Maloney, vice president; Rob-
ert c. Ragan, treasurer; Christine
Schneider, recording secretary, and
Marion Lee Hardesty, correspond
ing secretary.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Stanley Walker Weds
Former Music Critic
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Jan. 19.-Stanley Walker,
author and former city editor of the
New York Herald Tribune and Miss
Ruth Howell, former New York
music critic, were married here
today.
The wedding took place at the
home of friends, Mr.. and Mrs. John
P. Morgan.
Mrs. Walker has been with the
ONCE of War Information in charge
of foreign news service. The couple
will live at Lampasas.
Mr.. Walker was the author of
City Editor" and Mrs. Astor's
Horse"
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ability to pay union demands for
higher wages.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

Commander, also must review the
case before any punishment can
be imposed.
Hicswa Is being held incommuni-
cado in a stockade outside Yoko-
hama. Headquarters officials said he
is imprisoned in warm quarters and
is receiving good treatment.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Furnace Explosion Rocks
Chicago S South Side
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-An explosion
which rocked Chicago's South Side
tonight brought more than $500
calls to police and firemen, many
of them from persons who asked
whether an atomic bomb had fallen
over Lake Michigan.
Police and fire vehicles cruised
for full hour, however, before
discovering the blast. 1t was traced
to dust collector atop blast
furnace at the Republic Steel Corp.
plant. The explosion destroyed a
huge portion of the furnace, but no
one was reported injured.
Police said 1t was caused by an
accumulation of dust in the furnace
Windows several miles away were
reported broken by force of the ex-
plosion.
The Emancipation Proclamation
went into effect January /. 1881
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Steel
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dent her had "sufhcient faith in
this great Nation to humbly take
the Lead in peace-as / endeavored
to do in war-in helping our people
and our world establish the sincere
and honest relationship which these
critical times require"
AS the deadline for the great steel
strike approached, there was no in
dication THAT either the CIO or the
United States Steel Corp. would
bulge from their positions on wages.
The corporation. in effect repre-
senting the entire industry, offered
to raise Avages Is cents an hour and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Cent Rise in Bread Price
Is Effective Today

The price of that elusive loaf of
bread advanced a penny today with
OPA approval.
The increase is effective immedi-
ately, along with price increase of
l cent dozen for rolls.
The higher prices apply to all
kinds of bread except rye. which
went up 2 cents a loaf April 30.
Prices are being raised OPA said.
because bakers production costs
have climbed as a result of a p Der
cent cut in the amount ~ e~'-''
may use. The reduction was ordered
to help meet famine reheI Ie4u..--
ments
OPA said that before the -four
cut, bakers made small profit"
by spreading their costs over a large
output of loaves. 1t added that the
effect of trimming production has
been substantial increase in the
cost per loaf
For, this reason, OPA said, bakers
no longer are in a position to con-
tlnue selling at prices frozen at
March, 1912, levels"
The price increase, the agency
continued, is designed to assure
consumers of as adequate a supply
OF bread and bread-type rolls as is
consistent with the President S
famine emergency program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Charges of Truce Violation
Laid to Misunderstanding

PEIPING, June IL LPy.-A Com
munlst spokesman today charged
that Government Gen. Tu. Lining
had abrogated Gen. Chang Kai-
sheks orders for a 15-day truce, but
United States and Chinese gov
eminent officials said he was mis-
taken.
The spokesman had asserted that
Gen. Tu, government commander in
Manchuria. informed the executive
tSino- American truce headquarters
here that his troops had assumed
the offensive.
Learning of the Communists as
sertion, both American and Chinese
government representative at truce
headquarters gave this explanation
of the Misunderstanding:
The Red version apparently orig
mated at an operational officers
conference when government Off
Ger said that if Communist forces
in Manchuria did not stop attacking
government positions, Gen. Tu would
have to take action.
The spokesman had reported that
a government representative read
cable from Gen. TIL reporting that
National forces had resumed their
advance in Manchuria.
1t seemed to be a case of mis-
understanding verb lenses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Two Identify Hardy
As Whitcomb's Caller

BOSTON, June II (P>.-Two en-
ployes of the Great Northern Paper
Co. today identified positively a
newspaper picture of a man killed
In New Jersey apartment-wreckine
explosion as a visitor in the office OF
President William A. Whitcomb i'm
mediately before he was shot to
death Monday.
Detective Matthew Egan said Les
ter Smith, traffic manager of the
firm, and Elizabeth Shannon, 23-
year-old receptionist, identified the
photograph of George E. Hardy, 40,
Westfleld, N. j., as the man who
walked calmly from Mr.. Whitcomb' S
Office shortly after employees heard
a muffled sound. Police believe the
killer used a silencer on the death
weapon.
Mr.. Smith said the man had a
pistol in his hand. Miss Shannon.
who greeted the stranger when he
appeared at the Office, said she was
sure Hardy was the man.
Meanwhile, Maine police quoted
Mrs. Ethel Hardy, former wife of the
Westheld blast victim, as saying that
he had BEEN employed by Great
Northern as a machinist about 16
years ago.
The woman, who now lives in
Millinocket. Me, said she was di-
vorced from Hardy IA years ago.
The couples 18-year-old daughter
Dorothy, will graduate from high
school today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Army Halls Demotion
OF Officers Pendinq
Recheck Of Needs

The War Department announced
today its program for demotion OF
officers below the rank of general
will be suspended until recompu-
tation of strength requirements Ii
completed.
In message to all overseas COM
manders, the department explained
that needs now are being recon-
puted on "a more exacting basis"
and that until results of an inven-
tory on June IA are known "it cam
not be definitely predicted at what
date or in what numbers demotion
of colonies and lieutenant colonies
will be resumed"
Under the original plan announced
in April, $500 colonies were to have
been reduced in grade between May
l and September l, and 1000 lieu
tenant colonies denoted to major
between June l and September /.
These demotions were being made
in order to reduce SURPRISES in all
grades above troop basis require
ments in planning the peacetime
Army Since the announcement,
however, the estimated require
ments for colonies have increased,
V lie there has been a decrease in
f Availability of nonvolunteer
colonies. The result has been to
virtually balance out the reduction
originally planned
To date, approximately 700 colo
nels and 400 lieutenant colonies
have been denoted one grade.
Reductions of majors and lower
grades had not been contemplated
prior to September /. Under the
new schedule, these reductions will
not begin until that date and then
probably will be on a reduced scale.
! The War Department last week
a n n I'm ced it h practically
reached its goal of demoting 500
! officers of general rank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Detectives Seekinq
Bernstein Suspect
lin South Carolina

Reginald J. Wheeler, fugitive COL
ored gunman who police believe
murdered Maurice L. Bernstein.
druggist, in a holdup here last
Wednesday, has been reported in a
South Carolina town, Inspector Rob-
ert j. Barrett told The Star today,
and three detectives left Washing
ton last night by automobile to
arrest him.
The name of the town where
Wheeler is thought to be hiding out
was withheld so as not to jeopardize
the search for the wanted man. but
Inspector Barrett told a reporter
the detectives gave an address and
we consider the source very reliable. "
The men sent to arrest Wheeler
are Detective Sergt. Walter D. Perry
head Of special squad which
solved the Bernstein murder. and
two assistants, NunZio Bonaccorsy
and Harold C. Huffman. Inspector
Barrett said he expected to hear
from them later today. Police be-
lieve Wheeler may have left the
city shortly after reported tele-
phone conversation with his accom-
plice. Jesse James Patton, on the
evening of the Staying.
Describe Details of Solution.
Meanwhile some light was thrown
on the speedy solution of the case
by Sergt. Perry. Detectives Bonac-
corsy and Huffman, and Detective
Sergt. Joseph Hunt.
/ The special squad broke" the case
by checking known colored holdur
men before Patton and Wheeler WERE
named as the killers by witnesses tt
the crime, it was learned today.
Sergt. Perry was assigned to the
case by Inspector Barrett to bring
in the pair who shot down Mr.
Bernstein in the victims drugstore
at Eighteenth and Florida avenue
NV.
| Sergt. Perry and his men were
commended by Inspector Barrett
Yesterday and Maj. Harvey G.. Cal
! lahan, police superintendent. sale
today he intends to issue letter OF
commentator to Perry. Maj. Cal
lahan also said the Commissioners
spoke very highly of the job done by
Sergt. Perry at their meeting yes
terday.
+ Accomplish Held.
~ Five days after the 51-year-old
druggist was slain in the holdup
Patton was ordered held for the
grand jury yesterday by a coro.
ners jury.
Sergt. Perry and his men exam
ined files on known holdup men and
/ persons with a record of arrests ano
convictions for similar crimes. Elm
mating those who failed to fit de-
scriptions given by three clerks and
customer who were held at bay by
Patton while Wheeler shot Mr.
Bernstein. Sergt. Perry and his
squad settled on II men as suspects
Some suspects were eliminated BY
; reason of allbis The others, Patton
= among them. were located and ques.
toned Patton was taken in a col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Chinese Red Attacks
Reported Six Miles
From American Units
BY the Associosed Press

SHANGHAI. June 12.-Reports OF
Chinese Communist attacks within
six miles of United States Marines
garrisoned at Tsingtao airfield
caused concern in Shanghai today
but American authorities withheld
comment
Chinese government and most
foreign quarters said that if the
Communists actually tried to capture
Tsingtao, they would do so with the
deliberate intention of embroiling
the Marines, and hoping to create a
howl in the United States for the
withdrawal of all American forces
from China
They said that if the Communists
forced withdrawal of the Marines
from Tsingtao-strategic rail center
in the eastern province of Shantung
they likely would try the same
thing at other Marine bases, Peiping,
Tientsin and Chinwangto.
These observers suggested the
Communists hoped to force the
Marines to withdraw either by in
volving them in a clash or by caus-
ing them to evecuate their bases to
avoid fight.
Rocky Confers in Tsingtao.
Marine Maj, Gen Keller E.
Rockev few to Tsingtao yesterday
to confer with Brig. Gen. William T.
Clement, garrison commander. The
Chinese Governments defense line
cuts through the airfeld
Vice Admiral Charles Cooke. COM
mander of the United States 7th
Fleet, is in Marking. where he pre-
sumably will discuss the situation
with Gen. George c. Marshall. Whn
is trying to negotiate peace be-
tween the Communists and govern
ment
There were reports that 1t. Gen.
Albert c. Wedemeyer, commander of
American TROOPS in China - might
expedite his return from the United
States. He was scheduled to return
in about two weeks.
Tsingtao effectively is land block
AIDED by the Communists. The gov
eminent could send reinforcements
its garrison is reported outnum-
bered 10000 to 9000-only by sea
with American aid. Because of the
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ored dive" Sunday night and &C
cording to police, gave a full con-
fession when all four witnesses iden-
titled him in special lineup at the
ninth precinct Monday light as one
of the gunner.
Named Companion.
Patton named Wheeler as the in
stigator of the holdup and said his
companion shot Mr. Bernstein in
cold blood when the latter came
into the main part of the store, I'M
aware that holdup was in prog
ress. Patton's share of the robbery
was only s12. he testified at the in
quest yesterday.
Fatton's record disclosed that
he first was arrested September
5, 1899, in Charlotte, N. c., and
charged with larceny. He was
charged with grand larceny here in
September. 1910, and in 1914, he was
charged with HOUSEKEEPING twice.
Wheeler was charged with three
cases of robbery in 1897 and was
sentenced to from one to two years
in Lorton Reformatory for two of
the offenses. In 1899, he served
time for another robbery, and in
1914, he served year in prison for
foroery