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The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-18
j. j. Jones Named
Chamber Secretary

J. j. Jones will continue to act
as secretary of the Coolidge Cham
Der of Commerce, following his re-
appointment at a meeting of the
board of directors Monday evening,
it was announced. Mr. Jones has
held the job of secretary for sever
al years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-18
McEuen Elected
President CUHS
Lettermens Club

Mack McEuen was elected presi-
dent of Coolidge high school Let
termens Club at a meeting of the
group held Wednesday. Oscar
Montgomery was ele cte d vice
president, and Jack Prefer, secre-
tary-treasurer.
During the meeting plans were
made for initiation of new mem
bers and for spring semester &C
tiyities.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-18

1t. William L. Merrill, who has
recently been placed on in
active st tus after many
months service in the Euro
pean theater, plans to enter
the University of Arizona with
the opening Of its next semes-
ter this month. Merrill served
as a navigator on a B-24 Lib
orator bomber during which he
participated in many bombing
alta cks over enemy territory.
He has awarded the Air Medal
with three Oak Leaf Clusters
and the ETO theater ribbon
with three campaign stars. He
is the son of Mrs. Kathleen
Merrill.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-18

"a. E. Brown has recently COM
pleted the building of modern
cabin in his auto court. He ex-
poets to enlarge and modernize all
his cabins in the near future.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-18

OMrs W. W. Trout is employed
at Bloch's Variety Store, where
she began her new duties Thurs
day.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-18

OMrs. Elsie Bishop returned Mon
day from Tucson, where she under
went major operation three
weeks ago. She is now able to be
up and around.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Result Due March II
On Bus Wage Ballot

A mail referendum of union men,
bers should be completed by March
IL on the question of whether they
will accept fact-finding panels
recommendation of IA per cent
wage increase for Pennsylvania and
Central Greyhound bus employes
the Associated Press announced in
Chicago today.
The proposal affects about 1000
workers, including 420 in the Wash
ington-B Baltimore area, and was Of
fered as final settlement of a dis
pute which sent bus employees out
on strike from November l to Jan
uary 4.
Following the lead of o. David
Zimring, union counsel and member
of the fact-finding panel, a joint
council representing more than 20
locals of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street, Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employees of America
(AFL) announced it would recon-
mend accepting the report.
The company has announced II
would not make its reception of the
panel report known until after the
union has acted.
Mr.. Zimring said in Chicago the
union Joint council would recon
vene in Cleveland March IL.
In Washington, 180 garage en-
ployes and l20 drivers would benefit
by the wage increases, while in Bal.
timore l20 terminal and garage EN-
ployeS are affected.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
$4,000 Ford Workers
To Work on Monday
BY The Associossd Press

DETROIT, Feb. pa back-to-
work summons went out today to
50, 900 Ford workers who have been
idle since January Is because of a
shortage Of steel.
Ford officials directed them to re-
turn to their jobs Monday in manu-
featuring divisions of the Rouge and
Highland Park plants in the Detroit
area.
Also called back were workers at
the Ford Iron Mountain plant, where
station wagon bodies are built, and
at all Michigan hydro plants.
Company spokesmen pointed out
however. that the Ford and Mercury
body assembly in the Rouge plane
press steel building and branch as
sembly plants throughout the coun-
try win not resume operations be-
N. L. Bricker, vice president in
charge of Ford manufacturing op-
erations, said the delay in reopen
ing of assembly plants was due to
the necessity OF accommodating a
float" of parts to be used by the
assembly lines.
steel and other items from
strikebound plants which have
forced us to suspend operations are
coming in sufncient quantities to
permit us to resume manufacturing
and we hope to continue without
further interruption" he explained
T. w. Skinner, general manager
of the Lincoln division, disclosed
that the unit, which operated for a
week after other plants were forced
to close, is still short of parts from
suppliers and will remain closed fol
the present.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Police Hunt 4 Youths
In $500 Store HoIdup

Police today were searching for
four colored youths, armed with a
butcher knife and revolver, who
bound and robbed a 74-year-old
clothing store proprietor OF $500
yesterday. The holdup victim suf-
fered heart attack shortly after
calling police to tell them of the
robbery. .-s
Thomas L. johnson, co-proprietor
Of johnson 81 Parks, Inc, 745
Eighth street Sc, was alone in the
store when the quartet entered. AS
he bent over the counter, the youths
showed their weapons and de-
manded money. When Mr.. johnson
refused to open the safe, they
bound and gagged him, police said
forcing him into a washroom
They took his wallet and rif1ed the
cash register. police were told.
Mr.. johnson freed himself ano
called police. When police arrived
they found him unconscious on the
floor.
The daylight holdup took place
just across the street from the
Marine Barracks, Eighth and ]
streets Sc.
Mr.. johnson was revived by Sergt
c. l.. Langley and Pvt. Everett v
Will of No. S police precinct. The,
took him to his home, 1113 X stree,
NE. His condition had improved
today.
Police said Mr.. johnson operated
the store alone for the last six years
because his partner, William Parks
"a, OF 800 East Capitol street, has
been suffering from a heart all.
ment.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
AttIee Warns Britain
On Economic Situation
BY the kssocioted Press

LONDON, Feb. 28-Prime Min
lister Attlee yesterday in Parliament
described Britain's economic posi-
ton as difficult and called on every
Briton ito join in a campaign for
prosperity"
Serious manpower shortages, lag
ging coal production and a big de-
fcit in foreign trade by which
Britain lives were spread before the
people in a CARLSON -the-table talk.
Even if the pending $3,750, 600, 900
American loan wins American con-
gressional approval, Mr.. Attlee de-
clared, Britain cannot lie back and
take things easy"
In this connection. Conservative
Oliver Lyttelton said the nation S
deficit in exports was running about
81, 400 900 600 a year which could
exhaust the American loan in about
10 months unless Britain could
boost production sharply.
Mr.. Tttlee said 1.-The hard fact is
that this country is paying economi-
cally as well as humanity very dearly
for our victory, He urged employ
ers to make the most economic use'
of manpower and added: Il also
appeal to the older people to stay in
industry during this difficult time.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
|Papertroop Salvage
Nets 20 Tons in Day

A collection of nearly 20 tons of
Wastepaper was recorded in the
third district of The Evening Star
PTA Salvage campaign yesterday to
bring the grand total of the drive
to 22,491 .282 pounds.
Largest collection yesterday was
that of Sherwood High School,
which turned in $3.50 pounds of
newspapers and 4.580 pounds of
magazines. total which will net
the PTA more than SITS.
Other collections of half a ton or
more included w. B. Powell, 5,263
pounds; Raymond 2,033: Park View,
'l,150; Sumner Magruder. 1895;
Adams, 1904; Seaton, 1000: Bright
wood, 1852; West, 3,542; Shepherd,
5000.
Collections tomorrow in the fifth
district, with the leaders listed, will
be as follows:
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Britain 10 Withdraw
Indian Troops From
|ndonesia Tomorrow
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, Feb. 28.-A Reuters
dispatch from New Delhi today
quoted Gen. Sir Claude Auchin-
leck, British commander in chief
in India, as saying the with
|drawal of Indian troops from
Istrife-torn Indonesia would be-
gin tomorrow.
Gen. Auchinleck made his state
ment in an address before the Coun-
Gil of State-upper house of the In
dian Central Assembly-the dispatch
said.
Indian Nationalist leaders have
been critical of the use of Indian
troops against Indonesian National
lists. whose aspirations for independ-
ence have won expressions of SYM
pathy in India.
Gen. Auchinleck's statement was
in reply to Congress party men,
Der who had moved for a general
debate "on the continued employ
ment of Indian troops in Indonesia
for the purpose of suppressing the
Indonesian Nationalist movement
for independence"
Allied force headquarters in the
Netherlands Indies denied yesterday
reports that British troops would
leave Java in April
Evening star., 1946-02-28
BowIes Suggests Transfer
OF GIN PorIey to Washington

Sterilization Director Chester
Bowles has proposed informally to
presidential advisers that stalled
negotiations to end the General Mo-
tors Corp. strike be transferred here,
his Office revealed today.
Mr.. Bowles has not discussed the
move with President Truman, his
Office said, adding that the new
stabilization director thought it
would be a good idea to summon
officials of GIN and the CIO United
Auto Workers to Washington for a
continuation of their wage talks.
Charles G. Ross, White House
press secretary, denied, meanwhile,
that the President had any plans to
accept the Bowles proposal. He did
not say whether or not the Presi-
dent had heard of the suggestion.
Mr.. Bowles was represented as be-
lieving the remaining differences be-
tween the parties could be isoned
out if the conferences were moved
here, as was done in the steel in
dustry dispute.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Striking Indian Troops
Rounded Up and Confined

BOMBAY. Feb. % up. - British
headquarters at Bombay said today
$50 Indian soldiers who went on
strike at Jubbulpore in the central
provinces yesterday had been
rounded up and confined to bar
racks and that no more troops were
striking.
Headquarters said there was no
violence, no staffs, pistols or bay
onets were used against the SOL
diers and that the number partici-
pating was $50 and not $500, all as
reported yesterday to the Associated
Press from a telephoned message to
Nagpur, the provincial capital
Headquarters said there was no re-
volt.
The men, described as members
of the Indian Signal Corps and
the Indian Electrical and Mechan-
ical Engineers, went on strike in
protest against the seven-year SEN
tence pronounced by a court mar.
tial on Capt. Burhanuddin of the
japanese sponsored Indian Ma.
tional Army"
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Jackson Urges Court
To Convict 7 Million
In Six Nazi GROUPS
By the Assoc;oted Pres,

NUREMBERG, Feb. 28.-Chief
American Prosecutor Robert H
Jackson demanded today that the
International Military Tribunal con-
vict. on war crimes charges six in
dicted Navy groups with an aggre-
gate membership exceeding 100000
The next war and the next
pogroms will be Matched in the nests
of these organizations. he said, if
they escape punishment.
1T would be a greater catastrophe
to acquit these organizations than 1t
would be to acquit the entire % in
dividual defendants" Justice Jack
son declared in opening the prose-
cution's argument on legal and
technical questions involved in the
trial of the Nazi Leadership Corps,
the Reich cabinet, the German
general staff and high command
the SIS, the SA and the Gestapo.
Estimates 100000 Involved.
Sharply differing with Justice
Jackson's estimates, counsel for the
Reich Cabinet told the tribunal
more than 100000 men-roughly
one-third of the total adult male
population of Germany-would be
outlaWed as criminals If the six or
CARNATIONS were convicted.
The prosecutions case against the
individual defendants was completed
yesterday.
Some concern has been expressed
tho r,t,rV,hor nf rxtt,n
might be affected by the declara-
tions of criminality we have asked, "
Justice Jackson said.
Some people seem more suscept-
ible to the shock of million punish
ments than to the shock of five mil
lion murders. At the most, the num-
Der of punishments will never catch
up with the number of crimes"
Will Reconsider Decision.
The tribunal earlier had agreed
to reconsider it's decision of yester-
day banning Winston Churchill as
a defense witness. Dr. Martin Horn,
attorney for Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, former German foreign minis
ter, reminded the tribunal that he
had not yet filed written brief on
the matter, as requested by the
tribunal
Justice Jackson demanded that
the scope of criminality within the
indicted organizations be adjudged
to embrace the following:
/. All members of the Nazi lead
ership corps, down to and including
block leaders, an estimated 500, 900
persons.
2. The Reich cabinet. 40 persons.
! 3. All SIS (elite guard men, AGO.
900.
/ 4. All SA (storm troop men, l.
100000.
i 5. All Gestapo personnel, except
clerks and janitors, 10000.
6. The entire general staff and
high command, lis officers.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Baptist Missionaries
From Sentiments
Greeted by Truman

FTeSlQenG truman To-Day greeted
81 Baptist missionaries from five
| continents who have been holding a
series of meetings here this week in
connection with "World Mission
Week" and sessions of the District
Baptist Convention.
The President shook hands with
each Of his visitors as the mission
aries were introduced by Represen-
tative Allen, Democrat, of Louisi-
ana.
Miss Isabelle Coleman, one of the
group who was teaching at Shang-
hal and interned by the japanese at
| the outbreak of the war, told the
President: "I bring you greeting
and blessings from the University
of Shanghai"
In addition to Representative Al
len, two other Democratic members
of Congress, Representative Carna-
han of Missouri and Representative
Hays of Arkansas, accompanied the
visitors to the White House.
Will Conclude Tomorrow.
The President is a Baptist. A
statement issued by the visitors said
the missionaries will have spoken to
an aggregate audience of 10000 peo-
pie in 300 separate meetings in the
churches of Washington and near
by Virginia and Maryland when
they conclude their weeks effort
here tomorrow.
Representative Hays will speak at
a rally at 8:15 o'clock tonight in
Luther Rice Memorial Baptist
Church, Concord avenue and North
Capitol street.
DR.. A. F. Ufford of the American
Baptist Foreign Mission Society told
the luncheon meeting yesterday in
the YWCA, 614 E street NV, that
a commission of the Christian
churches of the United States re-
ported that 70 cities in Japan
were destroyed and that of 157
Protestant churches in Tokyo only
six were undamaged. DR.. Uf-
ford also declared that 426 of the
l,500 Protestant churches in Japan
were destroyed during the war.
He also related how. of 300 jap
anese Protestant ministers who we're
interned by the japanese, 10 per
cent died because they answered the
question Who was greater, Hirohito
or Christi, with the statement
Christ is greater because He is
divine and the Emperor is human. -
Cites Need for Homes.
Restoration of homes In many
countries reached by missionaries
was one of the great needs cited
by DR.. Jesse r. Wilson, home secre-
tary of the American Baptist For
eign Mission Society, at the meet
ing. Declaring that information
received stated not a child born in
certain parts of Europe during l945
was alive at the end of the year, -
DR.. Wilson pointed out conditions
making for such results were even
more prevalent in Asia. He said
not houses but homes" are needed
for the children who were born dur
ing the war.
Other needs noted by DR.. Wilson
were the restoration of mission resi-
dences, schools, hospitals, colleges
dispensaries and churches in these
countries; restoration of faith; the
bringing in of new equipment to
combat disease and an increase in
personnel, He also declared the
Baptist mission field must advance
into some new territories and should
do this in cooperation with other
Protestant denominational groups
as well as through its own Baptist
organizations.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Woman Held in Death
Of Husband by Arsenic
By the Associated Press

ROME, Ga, Feb. 28.-The %.
year-old widow of Lindale garage
operator was held for grand Jury
action today, Coroner Dewey Cham.
bers said, after a coroner's jur,
decided the husband, Leroy Hill
died of arsenic poisoning. He sale
the decision was made on the basi.
Of an autopsy report.
The coroner said the woman
Bertha Gossett Hill, was arrested
on a felony warrant several day.
after her 28-year-old husbands
death February IA.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
.GM Strike Reaches
tooth Day, Longest
In Industry's History
BY the Associofsd Press

DETROIT, Feb. 28.-The General
Motors strike, reached its Tooth day
today, having cost management and
labor something in excess of $750r
1000.
The strike became the longest in
the history of the industry. A 90
day walkout of employees of the Ford
Motor Co. of Canada previously held
the record.
To the corporation, its plants
tightly closed throughout the Ma
ton, has lost approximately $780,
100000 in untitled orders; to the
long idle 175,000 GIN production
workers the cost in lost wages was
estimated at from $4,000, 900 to
$128 900. 600; the merchandising di-
vision of the automobile industry
had lost more than s100,000,00o in
sales commissions and other mil
lions were lost by companies and
workers dependent on General Mo-
tors for parts.
Meeting Scheduled Today.
One such concern is the Packard
Motor Car Co. whose 5000 produc-
ton employees have been idle more
than month because of shortage
of parts supplied by GIN subsidiaries.
Against this costly background,
the corporation and the CIO United
Automobile Workers Union sched-
uled another meeting today with
James F. Dewey, special labor medi-
ator, seeking a back-to-work for
mula
Today's meeting of the negotia-
tors began with management and
union representatives still appar-
emily apart on the issues of wages,
seniority and vacations.
Wage Loss Figures.
The union is demanding a wage
increase of 1872 cents an hour and
the company has refused to go
higher than 1872 cents.
The UAW-CIO, basing its calcu-
lations on a 40-hour work week,
placed the wage loss at S113 3,000, 900
and the management, figuring the
week at 45.6 hours, fixed the amount
at S128,000, 900.
In Flint, Mich, where $4,000 pro-
duction workers represent the
greatest concentration of GIN en-
ployes in a single community, 2,076
strikers families are listed as re-
ceiving welfare relief. The aver
age payment is s3806 family each
month.
Evening star., 1946-02-28
Measure 10 EXEMPT
News Agencies From
Sherman Act Urged
~ The Associated Pres.

Representative Mason, Repub-
lican, of Illinois today called fol
action on legislation to eXemp,
mutual news-gathering co-opera-
tives from provisions of the Sher-
man Antitrust Act.
He introduced such bill last No.
vember, but no action has beer
taken.
In a statement for the Congress.
sional Record, Mr.. Mason said hi
had reviewed the Supreme Court
decision in the Associated Press cast
last year and found it followed "the
present-day tendency of the Su-
preme Court to read into an aci
something clearly not intended BY
the legislative branch when il
passed that act"
AP Followed Court Order.
The court in a 5-to-3 decision
last June upheld lower court
ruling that AP bylaws restrain
trade and therefore violate the
Sherman Antitrust Act. The tri-
bunal directed the bylaws be
amended SO as to prevent AP men,
bers from considering the competi-
tive aspects of an application fol
membership. This was done.
Neither in the debate on the
Sherman antitrust bill, nor in the
committee report that accompanied
the bill, nor yet even in the printed
report of the committee hearing!
on the bill can be found even 1
slight indication that the Congress
intended the act to apply to th'
AP or any other mutual news
gathering agency" Mr.. Mason said
In fact, I 90 so far as to sa.
that not one member of Congress
who voted for the Sherman Anti
trust Act even dreamed that the pro
visions of that act would some da,
be applied to our mutual news
gathering agencies"
Press Freedom Is Heritage.
Yet, he added, the Supreme Cour
held to the contrary.
Freedom of the press" Mr.. Masol
declared, "is a heritage deeply EN-
bedded in our traditions and in
separably linked to our freedom
Down through the ages, people hav,
fought for freedom of expression
"' / cannot believe that an,
member of Congress who voted fol
the Sherman Act ever intended t.
tread upon this fundamental free.
dom which guarantees to the Amer.
ican people unobstructed channel.
for gathering and disseminating
news"
"It seems to me-" Mr.. Masor
added, that our Government toda,
deliberately tries to obtain judicia
decisions that are without founda.
ton in order to strengthen its de.
sign to harness private enterpris,
and individual freedom. Sometime.
these decisions are based on the
distortion of the intent of Congress.
in passing legislation and therefor.
have the effect of statutory law"
Evening star., 1946-02-28
| Removal Of Gas PIuq
Probed in Explosion
AT Gerrity Home

Ofncials investigating the blast
which destroyed the Gerrity home
in Chevy Chase Tuesday will meet
at / pm today at the morgue to
study evidence that an unknown
person used a hammer and monkey
wrench to dislodge a core plug In
the gas main entering the home at
6l09 Nevada avenue NV, where 81
year-old Edward H. Gerrity. a COM
bat veteran, was found dead of gas
asphyxiation four hours after the
explosion.
While an autopsy conducted by
Deputy Coroner Richard M. Rose
berg yesterday revealed that the
youth was either dead or unconscious
when the house blew up, it was
learned that firemen discovered the
tools in the debris late Tuesday.
Today's conference will be at
tended by representatives of the
Homicide Squad, the Fire Depart
ment, the Washington Gas Light
Co, and Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald. Harry j. Gerrity, promi-
nent Washington attorney and IA
ther of the dead youth, also Is ex-
pected to attend.
No Definite Report.
While the coroner's Office would
not say definitely what caused the
death of Edward Gerrity, DR.. Ros-
enberg told reporters the youths
bloodstream contained more than
enough gas and carbon monoxide to
caus edeath. The deputy coroner
said burns on the youths legs were
not severe enough to have caused
death.
Police said paint on the core bore
marks of wrench teeth. Investiga-
tors said, however, that the plug
could be forced from the valve only
with hammer. The three articles
were found close to the valve and
within a few feet of the spot in the
basement where the former air
force veterans body was found.
DR.. Macdonald, who was on the
scene yesterday with representatives
Of the gas company, the homicide
squad and Fire Marshal Raymond
Roberts. said it would have been
impossible for the plug to have
worked itself loose.
All evidence indicates that the
explosion was touched off by the
pilot light burning in another Sec
tion of the cellar, according to gas
men, Sufficient gas could have by
passed the opened valve to keep the
pilot burning while the cellar filled
with gas. a gas company official de-
clared.
Part Of Valve Removed.
Howard B. Noyes, general super
intendent of the gas company, said
last night: "A careful investigation
in conjunction with police, fire and
other officials, reveals that there
were no defective gas facilities at
this address. but that part of the
shut-off valve at the gas meter in
side the house had been removed by
an unknown person"
Young Gerrity, who flew six COM
bat missions with the Air Forces
in Sicily and Italy, was the only
member Of the family at home when
the blast demolished the Gerrity
home.
The family has remained in seclu-
sion since the tragedy
Coroner Macdonald, in the mean
time, has not issued a death certifi-
cate pending further investigation
and the results of chemical analysis
of the body. The coroner may an
nounce whether he plans to conduct
a jury inquest after today's con-
ference with other officials and Mr..
Garrity.
Requiem mass win be said for the
youth at the Shrine of the Blessed
Sacrament tomorrow at 10 a IN. and
burial will be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery, the family announced
YESTERDAY.