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Evening star., 1946-02-06
SteIIe Urges Legionnoires
To Be 'Wotchdogs' on VA

ny lue ASSOCldteQ FreSS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6 (P).-John
Stelle, national commander of the
American Legion, today urged Le-
gionnaires of the 13, 400 posts to be-
come the "watchdogs' for the rights
of veterans.
He said he would recommend to a
special meeting of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee in Indianapolis
February II that a monthly state
ment on the activities of the Vet
erans' Administration be issued by
the Legion's national headquarters.
I'VE would start from the admit
ted deficits and shortcomings of the
Veterans Administration and give
credit. for any improvement" the
commander asserted. "On the other
hand, if delinquencies, delays and
inef1ciency continue in the Veterans
Administration, these would be ruth
lessly exposed.
The American Legion will permit
no person, persons, groups, bureaus
or divisions in Government to go
unexposed where treatment of the
veterans Is not in accord with the
letter and spirit of existing laws
which reflect the desires of the
American people"
Evening star., 1946-02-06
PUG Hears Request
For Bus Service TO
Army Map Buildings

A spokesman for approximately
LOO employees of the Army Map
Service today asked the Public
Utilities Commission for bus service
to their buildings at 6101 MacAr-
thur boulevard and $500 Brooks
lane, in Montgomery County, just
beyond the District line.
The request was presented by
T. L. Sharkey of the Map Service
at a public hearing called by the
PUG to investigate the need for
extending an existing bus line to
the area and to consider the need
for service along Nebraska avenue
and Loughboro road.
The Nebraska avenue -Loughboro
road line was approved by the PUG
in December, 1912, but it never went
into effect because the Office of De-
Tense Transportation ordered cur
tailment during the war emergency.
Citizens Groups Represented.
The commission will decide
whether this line should be insti-
tuted and extended to the map
service buildings, or whether, the
Macarthur boulevard bus line, now
terminating at Nebraska avenue,
should be run out the boulevard to
the buildings.
Attending this mornings hear
ing were numerous representatives
of citizens groups and home own
ers in the vicinity of Kent and
Briarcliff subdivisions interested in
the proposed Nebraska avenue
Loughboro line.
The map service buildings are
how served only by the Cabin John
streetcar line, which is some dis
tance away.
Only Rush Hour Service.
Dean Locke, engineer of the Cap
ital Transit Co, indicated that if
! bus service was provided to the
map plants, 1t should be an extern
sion of only one of the two lines
He further felt that only rush h-hour
service should be provided and the
streetcar line was adequate for
other times.
Mr. Locke said that because of
Evening star., 1946-02-06
Yukon 5 Passengers
Battered by Waves,
Aerial Survey Shows
BY BOB ATWOOD,


ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 6 (P)
- From a plane flying over the
wreck of the steamship Yukon, lying
broken in half at the foot of a mile
high mountain south of Seward, it
was obvious late>yesterday that the
passengers clinging to the rails
dared not seek shelter inside the
half ship left on the rocks for fear
it would crumble and trap them.
At the same time standing on deck
brought constant danger of being
washed overheard as waves crashed
against the steel plates of the hull
and slowly battered the ship to
pieces. And the water had calmed
yesterday morning compared with
the raging seas of Monday.
The eight rescue ships standing
by rode at anchor easily, pitching
in the large swells.
SweIls Batter Ship.
These same SWellS crash with a
fury against the sides of the rigid
Yukon on the rocks, and break over
her.
My chartered plane was over the
wreck at 1915 pm. after little more
than an hours flight from Anchor
age. Below, small open boat
crowded with people rode SO low in
the water it appeared to be almost
taking water as it pushed through
the waves toward a large steamer
nearby.
AS our plane circled the wreck
each time, could see passengers
standing at the rail awaiting rescue
They all appeared to be dressed in
raincoats, and seemed rigid as they
clutched the cold rails.
The only movement visible on
the wreckage was on top of the
smashed pilot house, where two men
were walking.
Bow Is Fast.
The bow of the ship is almost
hard against the foot of the noun
tain which pilot charts show to be
O,OlO 1CCO IllBll. 4IlC lihlloN al
that might be called beach is swept
constantly by waves which smashed
against the hard rock of the noun
tain.
1t looked impossible for a person
to leave the wreck to scale the
vertical rock wall.
The water was streaked with OF
and some debris which fioatec
around, but could see nothing that
looked like the stern of the ship
which broke off almost exactly il
the center.
The stern, entirely disappeared
left the inner structure of the for.
ward half dangling out in the open
constantly battered by waves.
Evening star., 1946-02-06
OF False Statement OF
Hospital DismissaIs

The rift between the Veterans
Administration and the Ameri-
can Legion grew wider today as
Veterans Administrator Omar
N. Bradley accused Legion Com
mander Steele of spreading false
information.
Gen. Bradley declared in letters
to members of Congress that he
, had learned that the Legion had
sent kilograms to department COM
manders asserting that "the Vet
Grams Administration is attempting
to dismiss from their hospitals
1916 total non-service-connected
cases."
Gen. Bradley told Congress "the
statement is absolutely without
foundation in truth"
Bradley Cites Danger.
There is great danger that it
will cause unnecessary fear and
anxiety among sick veterans and
their families" Gen. Bradley said.
The kilograms sent by the Legion
IN the name of Mr.. Stelle called on
"our departments, divisions and
posts and upon every Legionnaire
to contact your Congressman and
tell them how you feel about It,"
The kilograms referred particu-
larly to tuberculosis and mental
cases now in veterans hospitals.
Law Determines Priority.
Gen. Bradley reiterated a state
ment he made last Friday after Mr.
Steele asked for his replacement
with a businessman because of a
tragic breakdown" in the admin
istration.
Under the law" said Gen. Brad
1ey's letters to legislators, priority
must be given to rvice-connected
cases. Non-Service-connected cases
will be hospitalized wherever pos
sible. I have not, nor will I, advo-
cate any change in the law which
would provide for disqualification of
service-connected cases only.
That statement still holds good.
We are not dismissing nonservice-
connected cases of any character
from our hospitals as long as they
are in need of disqualification"
Gen. Bradley explained in his let
ters that the answer to the tele-
grams was being given so that you
may reassure any constituents who
write to you that there is no basis
OF fact to this allegation"
Members of the Vincent B. Co.'S
tello American Legion Post, one of
the largest in the District, last night
approved a motion "deploring the
action of the national commander
for individually demanding the res
ignation of Gen. Bradley without
consulting the National Executive
Committee"
The motion will be sent to the
District representative of the ex-'
ecutive committee who has been
summoned. to Indianapolis for a
meeting at American Legion Head
quarters there February IT.
Evening star., 1946-02-06

the distance of the Brooks lane
building from the District line, an
extra fare zone into Maryland
would have to be created. The
service to the Macarthur boulevard
building. if ordered, however, could
be offered at District rates, he said.
Sitting with Chairman James H.
Flanagan at the hearing today was
Joseph S. A. Giardina, transporta-
ton engineer of the Maryland Pub
lie Service Commission.
Evening star., 1946-02-06
D. E., Richmond Still Listed
As Job Surplus Areas
BY the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
The Labor Department today
listed Washington, Peoria, Ill, and
Richmond, Va, as the only i'm
portant cities in the country re-
porting more jobs than jobseekers
Robert c. Goodwin, director of
the United States Employment
Service, declared a sharp rise in
January unemployment reports was
caused by seasonal trends, a recon-
version showdown and 'the recent
heavy influx of returning veterans.
A USES survey as of February l
showed a jump from 18 to 81 in
the number of labor market areas
reporting severe" unemployment
Evening star., 1946-02-06
Gen. Macarthur 10 Decide
On Yamashita Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOKYO, Feb. 6.-Allied headquar-
ters today announced that Gen
Macarthur would complete his
review tomorrow of the death SEN
tence imposed on Gen. Tomoyuk
Yamashita and release his decision
to the press Immediately.
There is still not the slightest
indication as to his decision" said
a statement by the public relations
office.
Yamashita, conqueror of Malays
and former commander in the
Philippines, was convicted by ar
American military tribunal in Manila
and the sentence was upheld by the
United States Supreme Court. Gen
Macarthur is his last hope for COM
mutation of sentence.
Evening star., 1946-02-06
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Evening star., 1946-02-06
Steel Picket Bon Sought
By Jones & LuuqhIin
,y the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Feb. GA new
antipicketing injunction suit, the
fourth filed against the CIO United
Steel Workers since their Nation
wide strike began January 20, was
before the courts today.
1t was brought by the Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp, which charged
mass picketing at its Pittsburgh
plants, and asked that pickets be
limited to 10 at gate, walking at
least 10 feet apart.
Evening star., 1946-02-06

Mrs Arnell wrote her sister last
week that she was returning with
her boys to Washington for visit
and would sail on the Yukon.
A native of Washington, Mrs. Ar
nell is graduate of Western High
School and a graduate nurse. She
took her nurses training at ST.
Elizabeth's Hospital and left for
Alaska eight years ago to do nurs-
ing work. Five years ago she mar
ried Edward Arnell, an Anchorage
attorney. The planned trip was her
first one home since she left Wash
ington.
A labor surplus was reported from
SO areas.
USES said the total population
in the severe" and surplus" areas
was 6,400, ,000-or more than half
of the $4,000 900 population included
in all of the 1872 labor-market areas
from which reports were received
None of the reports include work
ers directly involved in current
strikes, Mr.. Goodwin explained, but
they did cover unemployment trends
in areas where work stoppages were
indirectly affecting industry.
Evening star., 1946-02-06

News that all persons aboard the
liner Yukon have been safely re-
moved from the wrecked ship was
welcomed today by Mrs. Julia Pra-
ther, 1855 South Carolina avenue
Sc, whose sister and two nephewS
were believed to be among the pas
sengers.
Il hope with all my heart that this
means that Mary and the two boys
are safe" Mrs. Prather said. Mary
is her sister, Mrs. Mary Ellen Arnell,
who was en- route here with her sons,
Robert, 4, and Frederick, 2.
Evening star., 1946-02-06

FOR LOST AND WANTED DOGS, phone
kcL. b1S3; hours. to 4: closed at noon
,Saturday and all day Sunday. MONT
0Ol6XRY COUNTY SHELTER.
Evening star., 1946-02-06
Eight-Yeor Sentence
Given in Morals Case

| William Drysdale, 33, former
manager Of a Southeast Washing
ton theater, yesterday was SEN
fenced to eight years Imprisonment
by Juvenile Court Judge Fay Bent
| ley on eight charges of contribut-
| ing to the delinquency of minors.
Evening star., 1946-02-06
FOUND.

DOG, large, white. short-haired male,
well trained and gentle: resembles Russian
wolf hound. Al. 7547.
GOLD PIN, antique, pronged, set pearls,
diamond center. Box 461 H, Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Stock Yards Union
Serves Strike Notice

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Frank Mon
Afghan, president of a CLIO stock
handlers local reports the union has
served notice of a strike which would
interfere with all operations" at
the Union Stockyards, affecting
some $4,000 workers.
Mr.. Monaghan said last night the
strike would begin very closely
after September 12," unless nego-
tiations for a new contract, dead
locked during nine meetings with
representatives of the Union Stock
Yard g. Transit Co. are successful
The $50 members of the local, part
of the CLIO United clearinghouse
Workers Union, load and unload
Livestock at the yards, and Mr..
Monaghan said any work stoppage
on their part would stop all live
stock from entering and leaving the
stockyards.
Mr.. Monaghan said the locals
contract with the company expired
June 30, and that the union had
served notice on May % of intent
to reopen negotiations. The union
filed a strike notice with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board on
August IL.
The union is asking a 16-cent-an-
hour pay increase in addition to
overtime adjustments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
U. S. Employees
CONTINUED From First PAGE

factor that causes Budget Bureau
officials to predict a possible down.
ward revision by 10000 in the num-
Der of employees slated for dismissal
is the rate at which Government
employees are quitting to take jobs in
private industry.
War and Navy Hit Hardest.
The bulk of the employees who will
lose their jobs here and throughout
the country are in the War and NAVY
Departments. The War Department
already has announced that $500 of
its employees here will be dismissed
during the next few months. The
Navy Department will have to dis
charge several thousand here, but is
still trying to persuade the Budget
Bureau to modify the cuts.
The Commerce and Agriculture
Departments and the Maritime
Commission offices here will be
heavily affected by the reduction
order, although not to the degree of
the War and Navy Departments.
Commerce Department employees al
ready have felt the sting of the
economy drive, hundreds being dis
missed during the past few months.
Still Another Cut Due.
Another heavy personnel cut is ex-
pected to be announced for the
quarterly period starting Novem-
Der Is. 1t is expected that War
and Navy Departments also will
bear the brunt of this slash in per-
sonnet.
Under the reduction in force pro-
vision of the Federal Pay Act of
1916, the Government has to cut
down to a total of 447,363 CLASH
field employees by July, 1947, and an
overall total of 100000. Top Fed
eral officials declare that drastic
cuts will be made, but expressed
doubt that the total reduction de-
creed by the act will be reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Union Orders Strike
On Long Island Road
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Approx-
imately 10000 Long Island COM
muters were threatened today with
the disruption Of their ordinary
means of transportation to New
York as union official said a strike
on the Long Island Railroad would
be called at midnight even if the
Government ordered seizure of the
road.
The Federal Government invoked
the provisions of the Railway Labor
Act, but spokesman for John l..
Lewis "catch-all" District so of the
AFL United Mine Workers said
about LOO brakemen and ticket COL
lectors nevertheless had been ordered
to quit work at 1901 am. tomorrow.
Ross Foran of the National Media
ton Board, in announcing the Gov
eminent action, explained the Rail-
way Act provides that if either side
rejects arbitration, both sides must
automatically maintain the status
quo for 80 days.
However, William Dalrymple, re-
gional director of District so, said,
The strike order still stands.
whether the Government seizes the
railroad or appoints a fact-fnding
board"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Jamaican Laborers
Reach Charles County
Speeial Dispatch 10 The Stor


LA PLATA, Md, Aug. 22.-Charles
County's acute farm labor shortage
was partially relieved yesterday
when SO Jamaican laborers, 80 men
and woman, arrived here by bus
from Dorchester and Caroline Coun-
ties.
Three, including the woman and
her husband, were sent to st. Marys
County.
P. D. Brown, county agent, as
signed the remaining men to a
group of waiting farmers who had
arranged suitable living quarters on
their farms. Camps prepared here
and at Hughesville will not be used.
The county agent said the group
sent by the British government
through the Labor Department and
county Farm Bureau was about half
the number needed.
The Jamaicans are expected to
remain in the county until Octo-
Der 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Agreement Reported
In Lakes Ship Strike;
Ratification Vote Due
BY the Associoted Pres,

DETROIT, Aug. 22.-Hope for i'm
minent settlement of the eight-day-
old Great Lakes shipping strike rose
today with announcement that q
tentative understanding" had been
reached between negotiators for the
National Maritime Union and Stand
ard Oil Co. of Indiana
Government Conciliator Noel P
Fox disclosed in Chicago late yes
terday that union members there
would receive the agreement for a
ratification vote today.
He declared the terms would not
be made public until the union mem
bership has voted. The company
earlier this week turned down a
union offer to accept 44-hour work
week instead of its original 40-hour
demand
Affects Only Tankers.
Mr.. Fox said the agreement would
affect only Standard Oil's five tank
ers. However, there was some indi-
cation it might prove the basis for
settlement between the NMU and
the Is other strike affected shipping
companies.
The first break in the walkout
followed a f1areup of violence in
Duluth, MINI, yesterday and a COM
pany appeal for President Truman's
Intervention.
Twenty pickets were injured, two
of them hoSpitaliZed, in the Duluth
melee which started when IS police
men moved in on some 80 pickets
who had blockaded an automobile.
Nine men taken into custody by
police were freed without any charge
being filed. The picket line was set
up again today after city officials
and union leaders agreed that peace
full picketing would be permitted.
Appeal Sent to Truman.
Meanwhile, the Cleveland Tankers,
Inc, of Cleveland; Lake Tankers
Inc, New York, and Great Lakes
Transport Corp. Detroit, wired an
appeal to the President to take
prompt action to require the NMU
to live up to its agreements" to
operate Great Lakes vessels until
December 10, 1916, under terms of
their contracts.
In the telegram the companies
declared that "94 per cent of all
tanker vessels" were tied up because
OF the strike. They added that the
walkout came prior to the expira-
ton of the 30-day cooling-of period
required by the Smith Connally Act
and yet is permitted to continue"
Union and company sources con-
tinued to clash in their reports of
the number Of idle vessels. The Lake
Carriers Association said only AZ
boats were tied up, while the union
claimed 1877 ships were strike-bound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Soviet Literary Magazine
'Leningrad' Is Liquidated
BY the As.ceiofsd Press

MOSCOW, Aug. GA special
decree by the Central Committee
OF the Communist Party, spread over
half the front page of Pravda, party
organ yesterday, announced the
liquidation of "Leningrad," one of
Russia's literary magazines, and the
dicharge of the editor of another,
called "Star."
The decree also censured the ad-'
ministration of the Union OF Soviet
Writers, particularly Chairman
Nikolai Tikhonov, and denounced
the two literary publications singled
out for not helping the state edu-
cate its youth and for showing
seryility toward foreign writing
ideas such as art for arts sake"
Both magazines are published in
Leningrad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Report

IFrom q. 8. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah /,
clear at Harpers Ferry
Temperature and Humidity,
(Readings at WASHINGTON National Airport. }
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
AFL Union 10 Ignore
Airport Cafe Pickets

Claiming to represent a majority
Of the restaurant workers at the
National Airport Restaurant, despite
recent NLRB election which fav-
ored the CLIO, employees affiliated
with the ALL will disregard CLIO
picket lines if Local All, United
Public Workers of America, carries
out its threatened strike August 20,
according to Charles E. Sands, AFL
international representative.
Oliver T. Palmer of the CLIO local
charged Mr.. Sands had been given
ample opportunity to present his
position" at NLRB hearing Feb
ruary Is and 10. but had failed to
produce any evidence that he rep
resented more than a handful of
employees.
Mr.. Sands commended he had been
reluctant to make public ALL mem
bership lists, as he was afraid the
NLRB would refuse to take jurisdic-
ton in the restaurant case, having
previously ruled that restaurants
were not subject to NLRB authority.
In an election ordered and super
vised by the NLRB, May Is, the
CLIO affiliate received 80 votes
against 81 for mo union" according
to Mr.. Palmer. Mr.. Sands protest.
ed the failure of the NLRB to place
the AFL union, a local OF the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Alliance
and Bartenders' International
League, on the ballot. He admitted
he had urged AFL members to vote
for mo union" but claimed many
had simply boycotted the election.
Mr.. Palmer said the CIO union
was officially certified as exclusive
bargaining agent with Air Terminal
Services, Inc, operators of the Air
port Restaurant, on June S, but was
unable to secure bargaining rights
with the company and was finally
forced to file notification of inten-
ton to strike, under the Smith
COnnallv Act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Sole of Cattle Todoy

One hundred flfty-two head OF
Holstein cattle, including 100 cows
currently producing milk, were to
be sold at an all-day auction today
at the Clay Plummer dairy farm
near Gaithersburg, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
VFW Post to Give Donce

MANASSAS, Va, Aug. % (Spe-
'ciaD The Francis Cannon Post
1889, Veterans Of Foreign Wars, will
give a dance, starting at 8 pm.
August 80, in the Manassas High
School.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-08-29
Sunday Services in the Churches
of The Community
ST. PAUL'S METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Denver c. Dickens. DID. Pastor

ST. PAUL'S METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Denver c. Pickens. DID. Pastor
900 A. NJ Church Sunday School,
E. Ray Jones, general superintendent
in charge. Glasses for everyone from
the youngest TO the oldest.
The Mems Bible class extends 4
cordial invitation to the veterans Of
World War II to attend this class.
l0:l5 A. NJ. Morning worship ser
mon by Dr. P.ckenS, subject. For
Their Sakes" The choir directed by
Mrs. Thayer, with Mr. Lt,mau as or
ganist, viii sing the anthem, Jest,
Joy Of Mans Desiring by Bach,
and Misses Barbara Smith and Sus-
anna Porter VIII sing, Lord Most
Merciful, by Caesar Frauck
Youth Fellowship viii NOT meet on
Sunday evening
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-08-29
Farm Shop Hours

The Farm shop will be open on
Tuesday night, September ,, next
week instead Of Monday evening, Sep
TENDER :, on account Of Labor Day,
it has been announced by William De-
Berry, in charge