Army-Navy Heads
Favor Gov'l Aid
Metals Production
SEATTLE. Wash., —(A>)—High
ranking officers on the United
States Army-Navy munitions
board now favor government aid
for production of metals partic
ularly vital in wartime, Leverett
Davis, Boise. Idaho, told a con
gressional sub-committee on min
ing Monday.
Davis, veteran engineer for the
Callahan Zinc-Lead Company,
t said that during recent consulta
tions with board members in
Washington he learned the inter
national situation is so uncertain
that the board members urgently
want the additional metal pro
duction. Not only for stock-pil
ing but to place the mining indus
try in condition to produce heav
ily in time of war.
Chairman W. H. Stevenson,
Wisconsin, and M. W. Rowell, ex
ecutive director, called the wit
ness into secret session after the
public hearing was over.
The two said that the board
previously had opposed House res
olution 1,602, which congress ap
proved but which president Tru
man vetoed and which would
provide $35,000,000 to subsidize
copper, lead, zinc and mangan
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The council accepted the offer
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salvaged to advantage.
The bulkhead committee re
ported that the preliminary work
was finished and that concrete
would be laid soon.
The matter of a new fire and
police chief was discussed and a
call was ordered for publication.
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MRS. GEORGE BAYER NEW
BASE LIBRARIAN
Mrs. George Bayer has been
awarded the appointment as Base
! Librarian, at the Nome Airbase.
She succeeds Mrs. Dan Jones who
: plans to leave for Fairbanks soon.
; ese production.
Witnesses besides Davis includ
; ed Arthur Erickson, vice presi
' dent of a Seattle concern selling
1 machinery to Alaska miners, C.
| J. Johnson, president of the Al
I aska Miners Association, and I. A.
; Castleton, operator of placer gold
i mines near Nome.
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GOP Defeats
Demoerat
In Pennsylvania
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (^—Repub
lican Franklin H. Lichtenwalter
has retained for GOP forces Penn
sylvania’s eighth district seat in
Congress, soundly defeating a la
bor-supported Democratic oppon
ent in a special election that had
as its central issue the Taft-Hart
ley labor law.
Lichtenwalter, speaker of the
state house of representatives, was
chosen to represent the rich in
dustrial and farming district of
Lehigh and Bucks counties over
‘ Democrat Phil H. Storch, presi
dent of the CIO-Lehigh valley
newspaper guild.
With only one of the 214 pre
cincts missing, Lichtenwalter had
I pulled up a bigger margin of vic
! tory than his predecessor, the late
Charles J. Gerlach, did in three
! previous elections.
The new congressman had re
ceived 47,512 votes to Storch’s
29,967. The total registration in
; the district was 73,000 Republi
cans and 46,000 Democrats.
Despite Lichtenwalter’s victory,
his supporters and the backers of
Storch took differing post-election
j views on the results.
G. Mason Owlett, Republican
,national committeeman from
I Pennsylvania, declared in a state
| ment that the vote “was a smash
I ing rebuke to the radical labor
l bosses who chose to make the
1 Taft-Hartley labor management
! act the paramount issue of the
election.”
Lichtenwalter—who will fill the
unexpired term of the late Charles
L. Gerlach, five times Republican
winner of the Congressional seat
—in expressing appreciation for
i “this vote of confidence,” said:
“Your vote definitely reflects
your decision on the issues of this
campaign.”
Meanwhile, a statement issued
j by the united labor division of the
Storch-for-Congress committ e e ,
and signed by officials of unions
affiliated with the CIO, AFL and
railroad brotherhoods, said:
“tVe carried seven of the eight
wards <in Allentown! where we
concentrated our forces. We’ve
just begun to fight. We don’t con
sider the vote as a repudiation on
the Taft-Hartley labor law issue.”
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Stassen Throws
Hat In The Ring
WASHINGTON, UP>—Harold E.
; Stassen announced yesterday he
i will enter the Wisconsin Presiden
tial preference primary next April
6 in his quest for the Republican
i Presidential nomination.
I The former Minnesota governor
also told a news conference that
! he will make a major speech in
Milwaukee November 24. He de
scribed this as his opening address
in his campaign for the Republi
can nomination.
Stassen said that committee activ
ity in Wisconsin has indicated
that slates of delegates will be
presented in the April 6 primary
on behalf of Governor Thomas E.
Dewey of New York and General
Douglas MacArthur, but that in
neither case has there been any
“authorization” from those two.
While Stassen was absent from
the country in the 1944 campaign,
a partial slate was entered for him
in Wisconsin and he recalled that
they won three or four convention
seats. Dewey however walked off
with the great majority of them.
Unions Threaten
III ini Round
Of W age Hikes
CHICAGO, </P>—'The AFL ex
ecutive council hinted today that
a third round of postwar wage de
mands could be expected if the
cost of living continues to mount.
Wage boosts were granted to
most major unions in the first year
after V-.I day. Generally, they
amounted to about lSVfc cents an
hour. A secmid increase, ranging
from 11 to 15*/fc cents hourly was
passed on to most big unions this
spring and summer.
The 15 top AFL officers said the
wage hikes were inadequate to
keep pace with prices.
“Inflation has now assumed
alarming proportions,” the coun
cil said. “The purchasing power of
the wage-earners’ dollar has been
cut in half since the war. Food
i prices are now bursting through
j the roof. Economists are predict
ing a dollar dozen eggs and a dol
I lar a pound butter. Meat is going
to be more scarce and expensive.
Substitute foods, because of in
creasing demand, will also shoot
1 upward.
| “Unless the cost of living is
! promptly reduced and stabilized
pressure for higher wages is cer
tain to mount.”
AFL president William Green
said restoration of the OPA was
out of the question, as was a spe
cial session of Congress to clamp
new controls on some commodi
i ties, as proposed by a CIO com
mittee.
The council advocated, instead:
1. Immediate revision of our
foreign export commitments, lim
iting help under the Marshall plan
to those nations “willing to coop
erate with us for the preservation
of world peace.”
2. Encouragement of increased
industrial and agricultural pro
duction.
3. Expansion of transportation
, facilities to move the increased
production.
The railroad car shortage is the
chief obstacle to transportation.
I Green said, and railroads should
be enabled to acquire new rolling
! stock.
V-2 Rocket Fireil
In Secret Navy Test
Bv (Carrier At Sea
'Continued from Page One)
the captured missiles.
The firing from the 45,000-ton
Midway was witnessed by "lead
ing military and civilian person
nel in the field of guided miss
iles,” the navy said.
It added that immediately after
the launching, the Midway’s air
craft took off to complete the dem
onstration of the feasibility of
combining rocket and aircraft in
warfare
The navy gave no indication of
what modifications were required
on the Midway to launch the V-2.
Here are some considerations,
however:
The Midway class carrier has
a deck of heavy armor plate, and
thus would be well equipped to
hold the weight of the missile and
| to withstand the heat at launch
ing.
The hot blast of the rocket
would obviously be a serious
problem, wich the navy may have
solved by locating the launcher
near the deck edge and sending
| the blast into the sea.
Because of its mass the Midway
rides steadily, and when it does
pitch and roll the motion is slow.
It would be possible to launch
with reasonable accuracy from
: the deck, as some officers said
; privately they believed was done.
However, for wartime purposes,
the launching platform could be
gyroscopicallv controlled as are
‘he carrier’s guns.
YOUNGER GENERATION
SURE IS STURDY
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (A>) — At
torney John W. Green, who is
pushing 85. dropped into a down
town law office. Lawyer James A.
Fowler, who soon will be 81, pass
ed through. Later each man com
mented that the other had no busi
ness* out of doors on such a raw
day.
Across the street, standing in the
rain, was Attorney Hu Barton
Lindsay. 88, who marveled that
his aged contemporaries could
brave the elements.
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