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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
THE pREsBYTERIAN CHURCH

The Church on the Plaza
REV. JOHN NJ. DEFIANT, Minister
SUNDAY. DECEMBER IA
9:45 a. m.-Sunday School
Glasses for all ages.
11:0O a. m.-Morning Worship.
Sermon by the Minister. Topic:
Gods Prescription for the Ailing
Human Family" Text, II Timothy
4:S.
$50 p. m.-Junfor High and
Young Peoples Society meetings.
Sunday, December Ia, will be OBJ
served as Universal Bible Sunday.
The choir will present a pro-
gram Of Christmas music on Sun
day, December 81, at 7:30 p. m.
A cordial welcome awaits you.
Mrs. Kathryn schumacher will
be at the organ.
Choir rehearsal every Thursday
at 1880 D. M.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
German CoaI Cleaner

A German electrostatic process
for cleaning coal which reduces ash
content by one-tenth has been an
nounced by the u s. department Of
commerce.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
storage Battery Power

Jaston Plante. French physicist. in
1859 produced the first electric stcr.
age battery. Today there are more
than $50 different applications Of
storage battery power.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
prohibition Party

James Black, Lancaster. Pa, who
proposed establishment of pro-
hibition party in 1871, was its first
nominee for President OF the
United States.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
Desert plant Garden

An estimated 10000 desert plants
are growing on S06 acres set aside
for the desert botanical garden east
of Phoenix. Ariz. The garden Is the
only one of its kind in the world.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
When II started

The first magazine of music, the
American Musical magazine, was
published in 1876 at New Haven,
Conn. It printed music in 12 quarto
numbers
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-12
PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH

CHARLES w. BAKER, Pastor
South East Front Street
Church of Fall Gospel
Isaiah 1873, 10
SUNDAY, DECEMBER IA
g:45 a. Sunday School. HUI
bert Passwaters, Superintendent.
11:00 a. m.-Preaching.
1900 to 1880 p. m.-Young Peo-
ples Service. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Sorrells in charge.
7:Se p. m.-Regular evangelistic
service.
Wednesday evening, 7:45 o'clock
Prayer and Praise Service
Evening star., 1947-04-27
May Queens and Quarfets
On Waller Reed PROGRAM

Entertainment scheduled for pa
tients at the Walter Reed Hospital
tomorrow and Tuesday nights
ranges from the selection and
crowning of George Washington
University's May Queen to pro-
gram of songs by barber shop quar-
tets. ....
George Washington University
will present show in the Red Cross
Auditorium at the hospital at 7:30
pm. tomorrow, featuring the selec-
tion of May Queen from among ID
sorority girls. Acts from the uni
yersity's Freshman Follies" will be
presented. University girls will
serve as hostesses.
Chapter 1919 of the Society for
Preservation and Encouragement OF
Barber Shop Quartet Singing in
America will give a concert at 7:15
pm. Tuesday in the auditorium
The quartets are the Metropolitan
Police Quartet, the Diplomats, the
Capitolians, the Potomac Clippers
the Questionnaires and the Fedora
Four.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
New Bill to Answer Objections
OfTrumun to WheeIer's Job

ity that would allow Mr.. Wheeler to
take over prosecuting duties given
by law only to the Attorney General
Senator Brewster says the new
resolution he will offer tomorrow
will carry the following additional
clause:
Provided, however, that nothing
contained herein should be deemed
to authorize such counsel to initiate,
prosecute, maintain, defend or other
wise dispose of any claim, action,
procedure or matter, civil or GRIM
inal, on behalf Of the United States"
Senator Brewster said his group
had not reached decision on an
other difference with the White
House, about what papers the COM
mittee can obtain from the Hyde
Park IN. " files of President
Roosevelt.
The Senate group is looking into
allegation by James A. Moffett, for
mer Government official and oil ex-
ecutive, that the Navy paid extra
millions of dollars for oil from the
Persian Gulf area during the war.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Newburyport Sales Rise
40 Pet. Above Normal

NEWBURYPORT, Mass, April &c
up. - Retail merchants reported
sales 40 per cent above a normal
Saturday today as hundreds of
shoppers from surrounding COM
munities f1ocked into town to par
ticipate in Newburyport's anti
imitation experiment.
Norman j. Randell, executive Sec
retary of the old seaport city's De-
velopment Council, said inquiries
concerning the 10 per cent price
cut plan were flooding in from com
munities from coast to coast.
Most of the inquiries, he added.
were from communities of less than
$4,000 population and he said that
he believed the smaller cities and
towns were most interested because
their merchants were closer to the
people"
Newburyport has population of
$4,000 but is the shopping center for
about $4,000.
The "Newburyport Plan" under
which retail merchants have cut
prices 10 per cent across the board
started last Tuesday and was sched-
uled to run for 10 days, but spon-
sors of the idea are considering
indefinite continuance. Action or
continuing the plan will be taker
at a meeting Monday.
AS the experiment spread few
opposition notes crept in.
At Cleveland, Walter w. knight
executive secretary of the Retail
Grocers Association, said it was i'm
possible to cut items a fiat rate be.
cause of market fluctuations, while
Frank J. Klinger, president of tht
Retail Meat Dealers Association
said that where prices were slashee
on one meat item a few pennie:
were added to another.
In fact" Mr.. Klinger said, there
may be increased prices in better
grades Of meat. especially beef"
T. C. Taber, ir., head of the larg.
est department store in Norwalk
Ohio. called the Newburyport plar
a "glorified dollar day"
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Jones & LoughIin Follows
Pattern Set by u. S. Steel

PITTSBURG, April 26 (Pl.-Jones
and Laughlin Steel Corp, the Ma
tions fourth largest producer, to-
night became the fifth basic steel
manufacturer to reach contract
agreement on 1912 cent hourly
wage increase. plus other benefits
which make the total more than
IS cents"
The agreement is in the wage pat
tern set earlier this week by the
United States Steel Corp.
Bert Hough, chairman of the
unions negotiating committee, and
w. II. Harvey, assistant director OF
the corporations personnel relations
issued joint statement which said
the contract provides correction OF
inequities, additional vacation bene-
Ats, termination pay, and the settle
ment of other economic issues, max
ing the total increase more than
Is cents an hour"
The statement said the new con-
Evening star., 1947-04-27

tract would be signed Tuesday morn
ing. The pact, retroactive to April
I, covers a two-year period but wage
clauses may be reopened after one
year.
Cover 270,000 Workers.
Besides United States Steel and
Jones 81 Laughlin, the Weirton
wv. Va) Steel Co.. Bethlehem Steel
Corp, Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Co. and three smaller steel fabricat-
ing companies and employees have
reached agreement. All told, the
pacts will cover nearly 100000
workers.
ALI agreements were with the
CIO-United Steelworkers except
that reached by the Weirton COM
pany which dealt with an indepen-
dent union of its $4,000 employees.
In another steel industry develop
ment, the National Steel Corp. an
nounced here it had granted 10
per cent wage increase to all sal
aried employees, effective April l.
The Sawhill Manufacturing Co., at
Wheatland, Pa, said 1t had offered
tis 225 employees wage increases of
121s cents an hour, effective April /.
The offer was submitted to the
O-Steelworkers union.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
kinKeep Vigil at Texas Morgue,
Awaiting Blast Victims Bodies

abuzzardsp who have been stealing
money and jewelry from propert,
envelopes Of the dead.
Racketeers Prey on Relatives.
Patrolman Nelson said that $50
called private Investigators are
offering to locate missing bodies fol
relatives for $500 each
ITS q vicious racket, he said
and we're trying to stop IL
Mr.. Nelson and Patrolrnan O. G,
Wheeler are in charge of a property
room at Camp Wallace. where ali
articles and cash taken from dead
bodies were placed in envelopes for
safekeeping.
The contents of the envelopes are
listed on the cover. and the en-
velopes placed on tables.
Mr.. Nelson said today that the
highway patrol has been ir charge
Of the room only for the past two
days, and that prior to that time,
someone had gone through the en-
yelopes and taken money and
jewelry.
He mentioned specifically the loss
of one diamond engagement ring
from one envelope, and ten $40
bills from another.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Lack Of Information
Caused Bolt Mixup,
WAA Official Says
Nv the Associu,sd Press

Jesse Larsen, acting general coun-
sci for the War Assets Administra-
tion, said yesterday the basic
fault in the agency's contract with
the Palmer Nut and Bolt Co. was
lack of information
The company. in previous testi-
mony before a House Expenditures
Subcommittee, said 1t bought surplus
nuts and bolts from WAA at $22.50
a ton. and some of the material
subsequently proved to be worth
S165 q ton.
Mr.. Larsen said that in negotiate
ing the original contract with
Palmer it was estimated that the
original cost of the surplus nuts
and bolts amounted to between
81 SOC, 900 and $4,000, 900.
Figures Revised.
Later, he said, the figures were
revised so that the cost value
reached more than $35, ,0o0. 900.
When this became apparent, he
said, a new contract was negotiated.
The S2250 ton price was con-
tinued in the second contract. he
said.
Mr.. Larsen, asked by Representa-
tive jenkins, Republican, of Penn
sylvania why the second contract
was drawn "at virtually the same
terms" replied:
well, after we had determined
that the original contract was valid
and binding on the Government, we
did try to get a better deal for the
Government.
THE company, however, pointing
out that we had conceded the valid
ity of the first contract-and that
they were prepared to defend their
rights in the courts-refused to give
in on the price.
Quantity Limited.
The second contract limited the
quantity of material the agency
agreed to deliver. The first had
called for unlimited amounts.
In saying that lack OF informa-
tion constituted the basic fault OF
its contract with Palmer, Mr.. Lar
sen added the Government was at
tempting now ito get the inventory
information we should have had at
the outset,
"And I don't mind saying" Mr..
Larsen volunteered, trying to
ascertain just how we stand on nuts
and bolts is the most difficult job
I've ever tackled"
Evening star., 1947-04-27
16-Cent Increase Granted
10000 Aircraft Workers
BY the Associoied Press

CLEVELAND. April 26.-Annual
wage increases averaging more than
Is cents hourly and totaling $3,00o,-
900 for 10000 employees were granted
tonight by officials of Thompson
Products. Inc, after two weeks of
negotiations with workers represen-
tatives.
Company officials said the raise
was about one cent more than the
l5-cent pattern adopted by the steel
and automobile industries, and re-
ported increases were 13 cents an
hour, plus pay for six holidays and
$3.50 monthly hikes for salaried
employees.
The agreement, negotiated with
the Independent Aircraft Workers
Alliance was described as IAN ex-
cellent deal" by Frank Manning,
union president.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
BY WiIIiom c. Bornord
As,oeiossd Prsss Stuff Wriier


CAMP WALLACE. Tex. April rs.
Here. dozen miles from Texas
City's explosion area, the horror and
tragedy of last weeks disaster lives
on.
Frost whitened bodies and parts
of bodies lie on stretchers in the
refrigerated vault Of 4 frame build
ing and to this building come
stricken relatives of the missing. u
Day after day they keep coming
back, said Miss Martha Bilkovich,
a registered nurse from Corpus
Christi I'VE try to keep them out
OF the vault but many insist on see
ing every new body that's brought
in. Very often the relatives faint
when We open the vault door and
they get a look inside. Sometimes
they get inside and have to be car
ried out. Yesterday man COL
lapsed in the doorway. It's a heart
breaking thing"
While I talked with Miss Bilko-
vich. Mrs. Jessie Parker of Texas
City came in. Her husband. J. F.
Parker, was among the missing.
Mrs. Parker brought a key, a
duplicate of the one Jimmy Parker
had carried. The Department of
Public Safety, in charge of identi-
f1cation, had found a key imbedded
in part of body.
Key Provides Identification.
Mrs. Parker gave her key to High
way Patrolman Foster Nelson. It
matched the one that had been
found.
The stricken woman wanted to
enter the vault for possible further
Identification, but Mr.. Nelson dis
Esuaded her.
Her brother led her out.
Mrs. Ralph Wiggin, Texas City
nurses aide, helped at the Texas
City morgue before coming here.
II have seen things too pitiful tc
tell" she said Every day a woman
with six children comes out. Sc
far, she has found her brother in
law, nephew and uncle. Now she's
looking for her husband. It's amaz.
ing that she has been able to stano
all this. She goes into that vault
every day"
M. w. 'Blackie" Killiam of Texas
1ity, another volunteer, praised iden.
tification work done by the finger
printing department of the Depart
ment of Public Safety.
"They found a hand with just the
thumb and one finger left" he said
From that, they made positive iden-
tification.
Ollie Quinn, an unshaven volun-
teer, has been working day and
night since the explosion. He-care.
fully watches every new body
brought to the refrigerator vault
he hopes to find his missing brother
Luther Quinn, %.
Luther was on one Of the fire
trucks that got to Texas City's docks
just before the blazing Grand Camp
exploded.
Angry highway patrolmen are
seeking persons they describe as
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Record $4,000 Take
Examinations Here
For u. 5. Clerical Jobs
By Joseph Young

The largest number of persons
ever to compete here In an examina-
ton for Federal jobs took their tests
yesterday In Government and Dis
trict buildings throughout the city.
Civil Service Commission officials
estimated that more than $4,000
persons took the examination for
permanent clerical positions in the
Government. This easily set a rec
ord for the number of persons COM
peting at one time for Federal jobs,
they said. sN
Another 5000 applicants are ex-
pected to take the same examination
for clerical jobs next Saturday. The
large number Of applicants for the
jobs forced commission officials to
hold the tests on two different days.
Throughout the country it is ex-
pected that some 200 600 persons will
compete for the jobs in tests in
the various States.
Many Slated for Dismissal
Commission officials said it is hard
to determine just how many perma-
nent clerical positions will be made
available as result of these exami-
nations, but their estimate runs
somewhere between $4,000 and
10000 jobs.
Many who took the tests yester-
day already have Government jobs,
but only on war service basis.
Slated for dismissal in the near
future, these employees took the ex-
animation in an attempt to win
themselves permanent Government
jobs
A goodly portion of the applicants
were newcomers who have never
worked for the Government. Many
OF these appeared to be girls just
out Of high school.
Not New Positions.
The permanent positions will not
be newly created ones, but those
Jobs now filled by war service and
temporary appointees. Thus war
service and temporary employees who
come out on top In the tests will be
permitted to retain their wartime
Jobs
War veterans receive five-point
preference in the tests, while dis
abled ex-servicemen get a 10-point
margin. The jobs pay up to ap-
proximately $4,000 a year.
Yesterdays tests were given in
20 District schools throughout the
city as we'll as in most of the Gov
ernment buildings. The examina-
ton lasts nearly four hours.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Mass Friday to Honor
Mother M. Constantine

A solemn high mass will be cele-
brated at $50 am. Friday in the
Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows at
Dunbarton College of Holy Gross,
honoring Mother NJ. Constantine,
C. S. c., mother provincial of the
Sisters of the Holy Gross in the East.
The mass will be celebrated by the
Very Rev. Charles Litzinger, o. P,
prior of the Dominican House OF
Studies, assisted by the Rev. J. Gle
ment Kearney. o. P. and the Rev.
Matthew Hanley. Q. P.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
WAGES
Westinghouse Electric Co., involv
ing $4,000 employees.
ChrysIer Pact Gives 71Hc,
Plus Six Paid HoIidoys
Continued From First Page J

DETROIT, April 26 LP).-A two
year contract signed today by the
Chrysler Corp. with the CIO United
Auto Workers provides an liz cents
an hour wage increase plus six paid
holidays and some classification
rate changes"
The settlement terms will 60 i'm
mediately to the rank and file in
II UAW-CIO locals, union spokes-
men said, for action which they
expect within a week.
Acceptance by the members nor
mally follows any agreement among
the negotiators.
The agreement also provides a
0 per cent salary increase for SAL
aried employees covered by UAW-
CIO contract with minimum in
creases of $26 a month. About
5000 such employees are involved.
May be Reopened Once.
The agreement stipulates that
the new contract must be ratified
by May 6 in order for the wage
increases to become effective with
the start of the next pay period
which is April % for hourly rated
employees and May l for salaried
workers.
The contract runs until April 26,
1949, with either side having the
right to reopen the wage issue but
once.
Other new provisions in the con-
tract covering hourly rated en-
ployes provide. four hours call-in
pay, a change in vacation pay
eligibility requirements and the in
clusion of one new Detroit plant
local in the contract.
The call-in pay provides that an
employe brought into work but who
Is unable to work through no fault
OF his own will get a minimum of
four hours pay, Previously he was
paid for three hours.
The agreement was announced by
Robert w. Conder. director of labor
relations for the corporation, and
Norman Matthews, the unions
Chrysler director, following an un-
interrupted 11-hour conference to-
day which climaxed solid week of
bargaining.
Ford Company Still Unsigned.
The union originally had de-
manded a 2312 cent an hour wage
increase, union shop and dues
checkof. In the approved contract
there was no mention of union
shop or checkoff
The agreement left only the Ford
Motor Co. among the automotive
big Three" unsigned to the new
1s47 wage pattern which took shape
first about ten days ago when the
CIO United Electrical Workers
, signed with General Motors at the
liz cent figure with paid holidays,
Two weeks ago the union filed a
strike notice against Chrysler after
negotiatir~ since mid-October. At
the time, ever, union heads eaid
the strike notice was a matter of
formality under the contract and
did not stand as the last word for a
walkout.
The union won an 1872 cents an
hour increase from Chrysler jan
uary 26, l946, in a contract that eX-
pired one year later. The Pact had
been renewed three times, on each
occasion for 30 days, and was due
to expire at midnight tonight.
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Driver Given 90 Duys
For Leaving Crush Scene

An Atlantic City motorist yester-
day was sent to Jail for rs days on
charges resulting from collision
involving the car he was driving.
The sentence was imposed upon
Coley Briggs, 36, colored, who
pleaded guilty to leaving after col
liding, driving without a permit and
driving on the wrong side of the
street. His woman companion was
injured in the crash. a,
Evening star., 1947-04-27
NAM
Continued From First Page)

second, with 36,2 per cent reporting
cuts; textile products third with 1873
per cent, rubber products fourth
with 293 per cent and autos, aircraft
and parts fifth with 204 per cent.
Other percentages of companies
reporting cuts included: Chemical
products 1873, lumber, furniture and
pulp 10, iron and steel products 14.4,
other metal products 17.8, oil and
coal products 1872, tobacco Ill, ce-
ment and glass 1873, machinery III
and heavy equipment 10.
Mr.. Bunting laid the blame for
soaring prices after OPA controls
ended on the Governments policy OF
buying grain for overseas shipment
without taking the millers into its
confidence, thereby creating an un-
ruly market"
Had Not Known of Future.
The Governments "unwise pol
icy" sent wheat prices up 81 a bushel
in few weeks, he said, and that
wild increase" then spread across
the board"
Questioned as to President Tru.
mans recent statement that since
business had wanted to carry the
price ball without Government in.
reference, it was now up to busi-
ness, Mr.. Bunting replied:
First, the President may not have
meant NAM; and second, the Pres.
ident may have been misinformeo
about the policies and beliefs o1
NAM"
When NAM contended that with
OPA out of the way prices woule
quickly stabilize, it had not known
about the future in the steel ano
motor industries or what John L
Lewis was going to do to the Goa
industry" Mr.. Bunting said.
Those events paralyzed industry
slowed production and made the
hold the price line impossible, hi
added
Evening star., 1947-04-27
7 Telephone
Continued From First Page

series Of group meetings yesterday, a
union representative said.
Meanwhile approximately $500
members of tbe District Federation
of Telephone Workers were sum-
moned to mass meeting at O'Clock
this afternoon at Turner's Arena.
A DFTW spokesman said the meet
ing would be simply a get-together'
for a general discussion of the strike
Evening star., 1947-04-27
Freighter Irwin S. Cobb
Disabled in Atlantic
By The Assoc;oted Press

NEW YORK, April 26-The Lib
erty ship Irwin S. Cobb, has lost
it's rudder 300 miles east of New
York, the Coast Guard said tonight.
and the cutters Tamorora and
Hornbeam have been dispatched to
render aid.
The ship, enroute from New York
to Rotterdam, is owned by the
South Atlantic Steamship Co.