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a a a a a a a a a a PAGE TWO. SPOKANE CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, JUNE 1944. WAR LABOR HEAD EXPLAINS WARD PLANT SEIZURE WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP) -William H.

Davis, chairman of the war labor board, told special house committee today his agency had to act in the Montgomery Ward labor dispute or admit that 15,500,000 people in various industries "would be free to strike." Davis, first witness house Investigation "mall order plant seizure in Chicago last month, asserted' that the WLB intends step in wherever there is a work stoppage until congress "tells clearly" that there are segments of the national economy that not concerned with the war. Representative Dewey Ill.) sponsored the investigation on the theory that the Ward mail order plant should not have been seized because it is not a direct war production concern. Davis said the only way to have an effective no-strike policy is "to ban all strikes" and set up the WLB as the forum for settling all Explains Position. "It is our opinion," Davis declared, "that failure or refusal the government in time of war furnish a means of peacefully resolving disputes directly involving the employees of this company the slightest doubt lead to substantial interference with the war effort. It is the unanimous, opinion of our members company is engaged in activities directly related to the successful prosecution of the war." If it should be decided that Montgomery no-strike Ward pledge, is not Davis subject said, to the employees in distribution, transportation, service trades, wholesale retail services would have no obligation to remain on the job either.

Davis emphasized you've got a significant strike-1 mean one significant in numbers and publicity--you've got to stop it, because the people can't tell the difference between permitted and prohibited strikes." Davis: said that anybody who doesn't a support no-strike, nolockout program "is doing less than his duty to his country. I don't care whether he's on the labor side or the industry side. He's not good, citizen." Strike Is Ended. SPRINGFIELD, May 22. (UP).

Smiling and apparently happy. over settlement of a strike that had kept them idle for 16 days, 300 men and women employees of the Hummer Manufacturing company, a Montgomery Ward subsidiary, returned to work today under the jurisdiction of the United States government, which seized the plant yesterday. Astronomer Finds New Star in Sky LOS "ANGELES, May 23. (P)- Astronomer F. J.

Neubauer has announced discovery of a dark third body in the twin-star system of Beta: Corona Borealis, a group which appears to the eye as a single star. New Wage Decision Revives Coal Tiff WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP) War labor board approval of the bituminous wage agreement Saturrevived instead of ended the year The old decision coal case. makes no change in the daily wage rates and working conditions which have prevailed since last November under government administration of mines, but uniformity ceases there" because about the miners will $40 back pay in four monthly installments on June 1 and apparently the others will not. This distinction, which was not a choice of the WLB, is not expected to pass quietly.

The explanation is that members of the: Southern Coal Operators' association are not parties to the contract which more than 70 per cent of the industry and the United Mine Workers (U. M. signed and submitted to the WLB. The portal contract travel time settled claims covering to three -months last spring for $40 per miner. Would Suppress Disease WASHINGTON, May 22.

(A)- The agriculture department's bureau of animal industry would be authorized to cooperate with state and municipal authorities in suppression of rabies under bill by Senator O'Mahoney Wyo.) The senator said "recent statistics clearly indicate that the spread of rabies throughout the country has been so rapid that immediate steps should be taken to control it." Swanky Parley Sits WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP) -Financial delegates of the United and Associated Nations will get a chance to ponder the money ills of the world in country flute surroundings. spot Pinehurst, N. is the probable location of the international monetary conference which President Roosevelt is about to call. Home Inflation Warning A warning against a "runaway" WASHINGTON, May 22.

(P). price movement in city homes, coupled with inflationary mortgage lending on such property was issued Saturday by John H. Fahey, commissioner of the Federal Home Loan bank administration. Fahey said the trend in many sections paralleled the boom market of the 20s which, he noticed, "collapsed in a tide of foreclosures." "With prices on existing homes far above normal because of the stoppage of the construction of houses for all except war workers, mortgages in unjustifiable amounts are now being made in an increasing list of cities and towns throughout the country," Fahey said. ASSIGNED DAD'S SHIP.

KINGSTON, Mass. -A tew S. Balley Kingston. boarded minutes after ten Lieutenant Robert the ship which was to convoy him to England, he discovered that his father, Lieutenant Commander Bailey, was the captain. DEWEY AND F.

R. SET FAST PACE By the Associated Press. Selection of convention delegates starts rolling down the home stretch this week, with Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York setting a fast pace for the Republican presidential field and President Roosevelt coasting along with the Democratic nomination assured him if he wants it. Six states will select delegates, beginning Texas Democratic and Republican conventions tomorrow.

Florida will settle its governorship contest with a run-off Democratic primary North Carolina will pick a Democratic senatorial nominee to succeed Senator Reynolds who did not choose to run. Fireworks Promised. The Texas Democratic meeting, bringing the and anti groups into a collision over the state's 48 convention votes, promises fireworks. The Republicans will pick 33 delegates, with Dewey and Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio showing strength.

Maryland and Georgia Republicans also will select delegates tomorrow. The odds were that most, if not all, the 16 Maryland delegates will be for Dewey. Georgia will pick a slate of 14, with one district representative already having been sewed up for the New Yorker. Dewey delegate totals as the week began were 357 pledged and claimed, with Bricker's putting him in second place. North Dakota to Elect.

Wednesday will find North Dakota Republicans picking 11 delegates, who may be uninstructed. Supporters of Lieutenant Commander Harold E. Stassen have some hope of wedging in a delegate or two among the majority expected to support Dewey. Connecticut Democrats will start a two-day meeting the same day, picking a delegation that will cast 18 votes. Utah Democrats will name 10 Saturday.

The same, day North Carolina members the nominate a successor for Reynolds, pick their candidate for governor and name choices for 12 seats in the house of representatives in a primary that will leave the November election only a formality unless it is preceded by a political earthquake. Communists Active NEW YORK, May 23. (AP)-Communists complete organization today of a nonpartisan association to carry out a new role in American politics, The newly formed Communist political association will act independently in supporting candidates for public office, replacing the dissolved Communist party which ran candidates of its own. Officers of the new group will be elected late yesterday, the third day of a four-day national convention. The first action of the new organization was to back President Roosevelt for reelection.

BRIBING CHARGED IN MILLER CASE WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP). The of Attorney Robert I. Miller stood in recess Saturday after a truck driver, described by the prosecution as "undependable." claimed to have been offered a bribe to testify. The trial was interrupted yesterday by appearance the truck driver with his tale of being offered $100 by a Negro to corroborate the testimony not a government witness that saw shoot Dr.

John E. Lind as the psychiatrist sat in an automobile beside Miller's wife, then toss a sec: ond gun beside the body. After five-hour session in the chambers of Judge Ben Moore, Assistant United States Attorney Charles B. Murray and Defense Attorney H. Mason Welch indicated they would not call the truck driver as a witness.

Removal Is Sought of T.V. A. Leader WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP) Senator McKellar Tenn.) demanded in the senate Saturday that Chairman David Lilienthal of the Tennessee valley authority be removed or impeached. McKellar charged in a speech that Lilienthal had "clearly violated the anti-trust act" in connection with agreements between the big government-owned hydro-electric project and private power companies.

"For this alone, in my judgment," the Tennessee senator said, "the President should dismiss Lilienthal and, if he does not, steps should be taken in the house to impeach him for violating the antitrust laws of the United States." Honor Maritime Day WASHINGTON, May 23. (AP) This war-busy nation took time out yesterday to fete its merchant marine, the largest any nation ever boasted. By congressional and presidential proclamation it's Maritime day-125th anniversary of the sailing from Savannah, of the 100- foot Savannah, the first ship to use propulsion on a transocean voyage. HEADS FOR RUSSIA Eric president A. Johnston, the Spokane, United States Chamber of Commerce (center), left Tuesday by plane for Moscow to discuss post-war problems.

With him were W. L. White (left), Emporia, editor, and Joyce O'Hara, his secretary. Johnston was invited affairs. TWO NEW HAVOC VERSIONS IN SKY LONDON, May 20.

(AP) Two versions of the A-20 Havoc light bomber, each capable of carrying of high explosives, are now flying against the Germans from British bases, Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton, commander of the United States Ninth air forces, announced today. One was described as a bombardier version with transparent the other as an attack type, with machine solid nose Their and six forMath European guns. theater was presence disclosed on April 19 but no details were given then. The sister ships have been flying and bombing together during the pre-invasion offensive.

The attack version releases its bombs in synchronization with the glass-nosed craft which does the aiming. Boasting a speed in excess of 320 miles an hour and a tactical radius of more than 350 miles, the new Havocs can travel faster and further than any previous version, General Brereton said. Each plane carries a new poweroperated turret with a pair of 50- caliber machine guns capable of firing "round the clock." With nine machine- the solid-nosed Havoc is the most powerfully-armed A-20 ever produced. Its six nose guns make it an excellent strafing plane, also. The bombardier version carries a crew of four while the attack ship has three, the pilot releasing the bombs.

Flies Tail First. LONDON, May 20. (AP)- -England now has a plane that flies tail first. It is a "pusher" monoplane. The engine and main in the rear with twin vertical stabilizersrudders--at each wingtip and stubby horizontal stabilizers at the front.

The plane is an experimental fighter designed for extra stability and vision. Called the Miles-35, it is a single-engined version of the twin-engined Miles-39. It was deG. Miles, British aircraft engineer, and his wife, Maxine. CHEMURGISTS SEEK RESEARCH FINANCE OKLAHOMA CITY, May 20.

(AP) -Proposals for coordinated research financed by state and private funds and designed to develop new industry through chemistry were expected to emerge today from closing sessions of the first southwest chemurgy clinic. Resolutions considered for submission to the general meeting included suggestions that each state make special appropriations; that individuals and firms set. aside money for such projects, and smaller firms use established agencies in cooperative research for single industries. LOS ANGELES, May 22. for A search was being made Saturday Richard Bennett, 47, whose wife, Rena, 44, was slain Friday, her body crammed behind a wall bed in her apartment.

Detective Captain Vernon Rasmussen said Bennett, sought for questioning, had a police record, and was released from the county jail only last Sunday. His wife, Rena Larson Hambly Bennett, was seeking an annulment on allegation that he had not been divorced from a former wife. FIND SLAIN WIFE BEHIND WALL BED by Stalin to discuss post-war U. S. Leases 1400 Ships to Britain WASHINGTON, May 23.

(AP)(The United the world's States--now largest the navy- ownhas leased almost 1400 naval craft to the British under lend-lease. They include more than 30 convoy-escort aircraft carriers, destroyer-escorts and merchant ships, a en lend-lease report showed and are in addition to $200,000,000 worth of landing barges, PT boats and other smaller craft sent to the United kingdom. The bigger vessels which sail from American docks under their own power are leased to the allies for the duration. of the war. Title remains United States.

Warns of Optimism WASHINGTON, May 23. (AP) Admiral Ernest J. King, commander of the United States fleet, promises an assault on Hitler's European fortress "in what promises to be the most formidable military undertaking in history." but warns against a public tendency to believe the end of the war is in sight. King, in an address here Sunday, said overconfidence now "will do an injustice to who are about to go into battle," and declared there was "little justification" for believing Germany and Japan were near collapse. Set Cheese Ceiling WASHINGTON, May 23.

(AP) -The office of price administration yesterday established specific dollars-and-cents ceiling prices for limburger, munster brick cheese, and said the schedule will save the mend public about $1,500,000 a year. The revised prices, effective May 27, will reduce the retail cost of brick and munster from 2 to 5 cents a pound, possibly more in some areas, OPA said. The retail price of limburger is expected to stay about the same as at present, despite an increase of 2 cents a pound at the factory level. Posthumous Award WASHINGTON, May 23. (AP)The medal of honor, the nation's highest military award, will be awarded posthumously to Second Lieutenant Robert who killed eight enemy soldiers' before he died heroically during the American advance in Sicily last July.

The medal will be presented to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Craig of Toledo, O. HAD NEVER SEEN WORSE SPELLING WALTHAM, Mass. (UP)-Howard S.

Smart, Boston Maine railroad freight handler here, tells the story of a freight car containing, among other things, a live burro from Nero, N. billed "1 Burro, crated." freight clerk, checking the came across this one, carefully inspected load, scratched his head, then wrote on theshort 1 bureau. Over, jackass." PRIZES SPUR CHILDREN. CHICAGO. (UP) The novel sight of Chicago school children racing it with one another to see which one can get there first to pick up that piece of scrap paper is the result of $1000 in prizes being offered to children who collect the most waste the Chicago Newspaper Publishers' association.

Three horses at this Iowa near Des Moines moved up to high HORSES MOVE ground around the house Monday as flood waters swept over surrounding land. They found it now permissible to munch on the front lawn grass. (AP wirephoto.) JAPANESE CLAIM MARCUS ISLAND RAIDED BY U. S. By the Associated Press.

The Tokyo radio said tonight that a total of 132 United States: carrier-based planes participated: in seven raids on Marcus island Saturday and Sunday. The broadcast, heard by United States government monitors, said the Americans used "decoying taetics," explaining the United States navy sends out two naval forces. against an objective, to lure. defending aircraft away from a base, the other to strike. The worried enemy, added Berlin radio, sounded air-raid alarms throughout north and east Japan.

"Enemy naval units," presumably, Pacific fleet ships under command of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, approached from the east and launched a two-day aerial blow against the small but strategically situated island. A Tokyo broadcast. added that 32 raiding planes shot down. The island is some 700 miles east lot the Bonin Islands.

miles northwest of Wake and almost midway between Tokyo and (the Pratas Marshalls. island, 190 miles southeast of Hongkong on the China coast, was bombed, the targets being a radio station, shipping and: buildings. The island is 275 miles from the Philippines. Victory in Burma. The most important land fighting of the Pacific war centered in the seemingly imminent victory of Lieutenant General Joseph W.

Stilwell over the enemy defending Myitkyina in northern Burma. The Japanese were boxed in three sides and appeared on the verge of' collapse. Myitkyina is vital to control of the Burma road. Chungking said its forces had achieved successfully their initial objectives in crossing the Salween river toward a junction with Stilwell's forces. The Chinese still held Loyang in Honen province and inconclusive fighting continued the Imphalsector of eastern India.

In the southwest Pacific Americans cinched complete control of Wakde island and turned back counterattacks on the flanking New Guinea mainland. Madame Chiang Kai-shek sits amid Chinese war orphans durMME. CHIANG Smiling, orphan home near Chungking, May 2. (AP wirephoto.) Ballot Box Stuffing Held U. S.

PRODUCTION Illegal by Supreme Court HURT BY STRIKES STORIES PROBLEM IN HOME BUILDING CHICAGO. (UP)-If are planning to build a home there are several things to consider when you decide whether it shoud be one or two stories, says the magazine Practical Builder. Real estate men report that the house is easier to sell that 65 per cent of in one the low-price brackets prefers it, the magazine says. It is likely to have better eye appeal because it lends itself to wider variety in design, it allows future additions, permits a larger basement and saves trips up and down stairs. Its disadvantages are costlier construction, higher heat upkeep, less garden area, greater loss and waste space in halls and under the roof.

For the money expended, a twostory house gives more living space -an important consideration in any homeowner's building, plans. over and dimensions garden of the areas lots can are larger.an Housework is less in twostory house because the entire house is not open to every caller. Connecting halls can be practically eliminated, where in the one-story house they are a necessity. The two-story house is economical to heat and loses less heat than the one-story home. "There are happy families both says Practical Builder.

"It is only necessary for each prospective home-owner to make the right choice." SHOOTING INJURES OPIUM CASE GIRL EL PASO, Texas, May 22. (AP) -old Hortensia Diaz, described by treasury officials as girl for international opium smugglers, was seriously wounded Friday in a double shooting at her home. The other victim, Antonio Torres, 21, died of a gunshot wound in the head. the girl reported Jimmy, she reDeputy Sheriff Hicks said fused Torres' offer of marriage, he shot through the left lung and then shot himself. United States customs agents they were investigating to determine if the shooting were connected with an important opium smuggling case in which the girl is a witness.

MANY TECHS SERVING. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UP)Some 5501 graduates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology now are serving in the armed forces, according to the registrar's figures. WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP) -The supreme court 6-3 today a lower court decision that there no federal statute covering "the reprehensible election fraud commonly known as 'ballot box finding by the eastern Kentucky federal district court was made in dismissing ballot-box stuffing charges filed against eight election officials in two precincts county.

The charges were election brought of after November, the general, which Senator Chandler Ky.) was reelected. The supreme court's majority opinion was delivered by Justice Roberts. Justices Douglas, Black and Reed dissented. The election officials were accused of improperly voting number of ballots for Chandler, The that district court held, established ho a policy of congress, "the protection of the public from such type of election" is left to state laws. In the dissenting opinion Justice Douglas said that ballot box stuffling would have been a federal oftense under the so-called reconstruction legislation passed after the war between the states.

But Douglas said this legislation was repealed in 1894 by an act which was designed to restore control of election frauds to the states. Among other actions today, the supreme court: Upheld 8-1 in a decision by Justice Douglas that OPA has authority to limit sales of a retail fuel oil dealer on grounds that he violated rationing regulations. Ordered reargument of a case ininvolving the treason conviction of Anthony Cramer, naturalized German charged with aiding two of the Nazi saboteurs who landed from submarines in June, 1942. Refused to grant a rehearing of its recent decision that full-time newsboys selling four Los A Angeles newspapers are employees of the papers and are covered by the labor relations act. STRICKEN SEABEE HAS RARE DISEASE LOS ANGELES, May 22.

(AP)Preparations tor a quiet 1 ing were being made Saturday at the home of Jack Gallion, 42-yearold Seabee stricken with acute lymphatic lukemia, who left York yesterday westward bound in a naval transport plane to see his 10-month-old grandson for the first Gallion, a chief electrician's mate and veeran of 15 months' service, was stricken with the ailment three weeks ago in London. Upon arriving at the naval hospital in New for treatment he said he wanted to see his grandson and be near his wife and two daughters. Ball Bearing Probe WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP)Chairman Truman Mo.) said Saturday his senate war investigating committee would "act immediately" on a request by Senator N. for an inquiry into the operations of SKF, the Swedish ball bearing firm.

GOVERNOR VOTES from Going to the their capital home in of Oakland Saccity ramento, Governor Earl Warren and Mrs. California's Warren Tuesday cast ballots in the primary election. Meanwhile Warren's name looms high in G. O. P.

vice presidential talk. (AP wirephoto.) By the Associated Press. The nation's war-time industrial production remained on a somewhat uneven level Saturday as thousands of workers in numerous lines of endeavor continued to stay away from their jobs as governmental agencies sought to settle the diverse labor controversies. However, the picture on the labor front appeared brighter as hundreds of obeying war labor board directives, resumed their tasks, and settlements of some of the disputes were reported immiInent. But today there were an estimated 24,450 employees still not at work as a result of labor troubles.

The disputes, affecting 17 industries, were not confined to any one section of the country, being reported from the eastern seaboard to the Pacific coast. Settlement Important. The settlement of the Chrysler labor controversy would bring to a virtual end the recent numerous walkouts in Michigan war industries. At the Buick aluminum foundry in Flint 1400 were out; 1300 remained away from their jobs at the Chevrolet transmission plant in Stortinaty and 600 at a Muskegon did likewise. Millworkers Quit SEATTLE, May 22.

-Leaders of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union (A. F. of renewed their effort; Saturday, to check the spread of walkouts from Puget sound lumber manufacturing plants that had already drawn more than 5000 men into idleness. Boat Strike Over SEATTLE, May 22. SeatItle's halibut fleet will start for the fishing grounds Saturday, ending a tie-up which has kept boats and fishermen idle more than a month in protest against office of price administration price ceilings.

URGES AVIATION STUDY IN SCHOOL ROCKFORD, Ill. (UP)---Recommendation that aviation be included in the curriculum of 12th grade' students and that science in junior and senior high schools be made more "practical," was made here recently by Dr. Ira C. Davis, of the University of Wisconsin, after a four-day survey of science courses in local schools. Partly blaming the high rate of automobile deaths and accidents on the schools for "failing to prepare young people for the automobile, age," Davis said "unless we (in schools) prepare our students for the aviation age, we'll have all types of schools teaching them to fly." Theorists Criticized.

Criticizing the "theoretical method of teaching Davis urged high schools to make their science courses more practical that the student can get a tical knowledge of the everyday pracscientific things about him and to adapt himself to a rapidly changing world. 'A good thorough course in practical science is as good as, and often better than, a formal, college preparatory said, adding that "science should not be taught just with the idea of meeting college entrance requirements." Davis also pointed to the army and navy's practice of "speeded up" education, teaching pupils how to learn faster without requiring them to work harder, and called upon high schools to follow the example. He said surveys show high school pupils now to be working up to 50 per cent of their capacity. He suggested complete courses in radio and electricity as well as aeronautics. TEETH CLEANING TIME: 1 MINUTE CHICAGO.

(UP) The average person consumes a little more than a minute in brushing his teeth, Dr. H. B. G. Robinson of the University of Washington dental school found In studying the methods of 405 individuals.

He told the International Association of Dental Research that although Americans finally have mastered the approved rotary or up-and-down methods of tooth brushing, they pay too little attention to less accessible tooth surfaces. General Ousted LONDON, May 20. (P)-King Peter of Yugoslavia, has ousted General Mihailovie as war minister in attempt to appease Marshal Tito and it was considered possible the cabinet post might he offered to the Partisans' leader, Ponape Attacked. WASHINGTON, May 22. (UP) Army medium bombers attacked.

Ponape in the Caroline islands on Friday night and again during daylight on Saturday, the navy: announced today. No opposition was met at nape, the chief defense outpost guarding the eastern approaches to Truk. Meanwhile, navy and marine airmen continued their daily attacks on the holdout Japanese bases in, the Marshalls, hitting batteries buildings. They enan countered only meager anti-aircraft fire. VETERANS EXPECT JOB PREFERENCE NEW YORK, May 22.

enty-three per cent of this war's veterans feel they are entitled to job preference, the Iron Age reported today after a survey of former soldiers now working in eastern and middle western factories. be believed The the balance, welfare the of magazine the nation said, depended on jobs for all, soldiers and civilians. The majority group answers, the Iron Age said, included one comment that "ex-servicemen will get what they want. There are too many to get pushed to but 14 per cent providenteds private. enterprise thought the government should supply jobs in civil service if indus-.

try defaulted," the report on the survey said. 'ABOUT TO STRIKE MIGHTIER BLOWS" WASHINGTON, May 23. (UP)U United Nations forces "are about to strike new and mightier 5 the blows" at the occupied east Europe the from south, and west with lend-lease aid that reached $24,224,806,000 on April 1, President Roosevelt told congress yesterday. On the eastern front, he lend-lease supplies will continue to strengthen the Soviet armies "for the new blows that will be timed to our advances." re review Mr. of Roosevelt the gave forthcoming a general offensives in transmitting to congress his 14th report on lend-lease operations.

It reported that aid extended goods and services reached a record-breaking 000,000 during the first three months of 1944. It showed that exports to the United kingdom continued at a high rate; that those to the Soviet Union had dropped after hitting a peak in December, and that those to the Middle East, Africa and the Far East have dropped sharply. Reverse lend-lease British commonwealth nations has totaled $2,000,000,000 the program began and "the rate of aid is approaching $2,000,000,000 year," the report said. Ney Is Appointed WASHINGTON, May 22. (A); Jerome M.

Ney yesterday was p- pointed acting assistant deputy administrator for rationing in the office of price administration, said title meant he would be "operating head for rationing in the Washington headquarters office." Big Liquor Profit OLYMPIA, May 23. (UP) -The state liquor control board yesterday announced gross store and agency sales during April, including 3 per cent sales tax, totaled $4,504,876, or nearly $1,000,000 more than the $3,812,472 figure for April, 1943. CALIFORNIA ANTELOPE. SAN FRANCISCO. (UP)- -The annual survey of the state division.

6147 antelope in the four northern fish, and game shows a total. of counties of Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou land Modoc..