Longshoremen On
Another 24-Hour
Work Stoppage
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intended “to demoralize the wa
terfront,” and that its timing—
with two large passenger ships
due to be handled—was “no coin
cidence.”
There was a similar layoff last
Wednesday, work was interrupted
for 14 hours while the union had
a meeting.
This week’s work stoppage is
scheduled for only four hours
Wednesday. But the union says
that crews which normally would
work Tuesday night are laying
off to “get their sleep.”
James Kearney, spokesman for
the longshore union, said emer
gency gangs would service two
large passenger ships which are
docking or sailing during the’24
hour layoff period.
Frank P. Foise, of the water
front employers association, said
the union layoff for contract dis
cussions was completely unneces
sary. He argued that other unions
hold separate meetings for differ
ent shifts, and keep on working.
Foise, also criticized the decision
of the longshoremen, revealed
Saturday, to boycott an election
on the employers’ lates wage of
fer. The national labor relations
board has ordered the election as
required by the Taft-Hartley act,
but union spokesmen said the men
had voted not to ballot on the
wage offer. In announcing the
boycott, union spokesman said a
September 2 maritime strike is
certain.
SPOKANE, <i^P) — A group of
B-29 superfortresses winged tow
ard Okinawa for an extended pe
riod of over-water training mis
sions. More followed during the
week-end.
The base said the 344th squad
ron of the 98th bomb group took
off Friday night. The 345th squad
ron left Saturday night and the
343rd Sunday night.
In North America there are 600
kinds of birds, belonging to 75
families.
Greek Army Cuts
Guerrillas In Two
ATHENS (A3)—The Greek army
turning north and east from the
Grammos mountains, today rout
ed guerrillas who were moving
toward the Visti area with the ap
parent air of finding a new home
for Communist “Free Greece.”
A communique said the rebels
entered Greece from Albania di
rectly west of Kastoria. Govern
ment troops blunted their advance
and sent them scurrying toward
the southeast. A spokesman said
this stopped their march toward
Vitsi. The Vitsi area consists of
some 20 to 25 square miles. It is
directly north of Lake Kastoria in
the triangle formed by the junc
ture of the Greek, Albanian and
Yugoslavia border at Lake Pres
ba. Kastoria is about 13 miles
.
northeast of Nesoririon, northeast- I
ern anchor of the old Grammos j
front.
Gen. Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy
chief of staff, said earlier that
guerrilla chieftain Markos Vafi
ades is whipped, and communist
“Free Greece” is no more. Amer
ican sources said that up to late
last week the Greek army had
killed about 2,000 rebels and cap
tured another 1,000 in the Gram
mos fighting. Guerrilla wounded
were estimated at 5,000 to 8,000
most of them were evacuated
from Greece and the figures are
uncertain.
Wartime Jap
Threat Denied
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The state
department said today it never
heard of any wartime threat by
the Japanese government to kill
American war prisoners if Japan
was invaded.
A British clergyman yesterday
asked whether such a threat was
the cause of the American gov
ernment dropping the atom bomb.
State department officials said
the main purpose of using the
atom bomb was to hasten the end
of the war, as President Truman
stated in announcing the action.
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U. S. Marshals And
Warrant Await
“Axis Sally” Plane
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WASHINGTON, (A*) — U. S.
marshals waited for Mildred Eliz
abeth Gillars to land from a trans
Atlantic plane Saturday to greet
her first return home in 19 years
with a treason warrant.
Miss Gillars—better known to
GI’s as “Axis Sally”—is being
brought back from Frankfort,
Germany to face a federal grand
jury here on charges she betrayed
her native land by wartime
broadcasts over radio Berlin.
The 48-year-old native of Port
land, Me., was located two years
ago by American authorities in
Berlin, living a precarious exist
ence in the bombed-out German
capital.
She was arrested, but subse
quently released to the American
occupation zone on condition that
she report every two weeks to U. j
S. army authorities.
The justice department, point
ing out that a prosecution for
treason requires exact evidence
and at least two witnesses “to the
same overt act,” said that the in
quiry into Miss Gillar’s radio ac
tivities had presented “a prodigi
ous task.”
Miss Gillars left the U. S. in
1929 to study music in France.
She went to Germany in 1934. The
justice department said she took
a job in 1940 with the official
German government radio, then
primarily engaged in broadcasting
propaganda to England.
After American entry into the
war, the department said Miss
Gillars directed Berlin programs
beamed to American forces in
North Africa and Italy, where the
troops gave her the names “Axis
Sally” and “Midge.”
Her program, called “Home,
Sweet Home,” allegedly was in
tended to persuade American
soldiers to lay down their arms.
Justice officials say they also
believe Miss Gillars appeared on
a series of radio programs after
the Normandy invasion entitled
“Survivors of the Invasion front.”
These programs included record
ed interviews with wounded
American soldiers in Nazi prison
er-of-war camps with string enp
phasis on German “kindness.”
Kids Benefit By
Babe Ruth’s Will
NEW YORK. f/P)—Babe Ruth
set aside part of his estate to be
used for “the interests of the kids
I of America,” his will showed to
day.
The will provided for the home
run king’s widow and daughters
and left ten per cent of the re
mainder for “the kids.”
The will was filed in surro
gate’s court for probate today.
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Seek Support For
Popular Vote
For President
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Southern
Democratic support appeared Sat
urday for a move by Senator
Lodge (R.-Mass.> to put Presi
dential elections on a popular
vote basis.
Senators Sparkman (D.-Ala.>
and Olin D. Johnston (D.-S. C.)
told a reporter in separate inter
views they will back in the next
session of Congress a proposal to
change the present system by
which a state’s entire electoral
college vote is cast for the candi
date who tops the popular ballot
test.
Lodge offered in the last ses
sion and intends to revive a pro
posed constituional amendment
under which each candidate
would share in the electoral vote
on the percentage of his election
day total.
Thus an aspirant who lost out
by only a few popular votes to his
Presidential opponent, would get
nearly half of the state’s support
in the electoral college, instead of
none at all.
Sparkman said he thinks soiith
ern Democrats generally will sup
Princess Margaret^
Of Age; Steps
Into Limelight
LONDON, (IP)—Princess Mar
garet, officially of age, abandons
her role of little sister now.
Sautrday was her eighteenth
birthday and a solemn occasion
for the merry princess whose wit
and naturalness have endeared
her to the entire commonwealth.
All her life, Princess Margaret
has been overshadowed by her
older sister Elizabeth, the heiress
presumptive to the throne of
Britain. But now Elizabeth, ex
pecting her first child in the fall,
has virtually discontinued public
appearances, and it falls to Mar
garet to shoulder some of the du
ties of state.
Actually, Margaret’s coming of
age in this case means only that
in the event of her succession to
the throne she could rule without
a regent and that her social re
sponsibilities henceforth will be
greater. Otherwise, however, she
remains a minor until she is 21.
port the proposal because it
“would go a long way toward do
ing away with minority rule in
! this country.”
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