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General Motors
> Confers With
U. S. Conciliator
General Motors is not ready to
reopen wage negotiations with the
CIO United Auto Workers, but the
corporation agreed to discuss the
union’s strike with a government
conciliator. General Motors vice
president Anderson is to meet U.
S. conciliation service chief War
ren in Washington, Tuesday with
the aim, Warren said, of getting
the negotiations “resumed as soon
as possible.”
General Motors stood firm in
its refusal to negotiate until the
xinion “modifies” its thirty percent
wage rate increase request, and
halts what the company termed
the “illegal picketing” of GM
plants.
Altogether two hundred twenty
9 five thousand GM employes are
idle. The national total of jobless
in labor disputes stood at five
hundred thirty thousand. CIO rep
resentatives of employes of Mont
gomery Ward in Chicago agreed
to meet with company representa
tives to discuss the proposed sixty
cents per hour minimum wage.
Communists And
Japs Attack
Kweisui
CHUNGKING, Nov. 30— </P) —
Chinese Communists, aided by
Jap Artillerists, opened a new at
tack against Kweisui, the beleag
uered capital of Suiyan in Inner
Mongolia, a Chinese National dis
i patch reported tonight.
The dispatch quoted Chinese
farmers as saying that thirty Japs
commanded by a Jap officer,
manned two big guns being used
in the assault. Meanwhile tfhe
Chinese press and Warsaw radio
reported an agreement by which
Russian forces would remain in
^Manchuria long enough for the
Chinese government to bring in
troops.
FATHER-SON DUO FLY PAN
AMERICAN PLANE
Last evening the Pan American
plane from Seattle was piloted by
the veteran flyer, A1 Munson, who
has been with the company since
it started flying into Nome. He
had with him as first officer his
son, Wes Munson, who will soon
^e a captain with the Pan Ameri
can also. This father and son com
bination is hard to beat.
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CHECKING LISTS —Commander Harold E. Stassen, of
the staff of Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the Third
Fleet, Is given a list of Allied prisoners of war at Nisson Mill
Camo No. 2 by two Japanese officers.
Germany To Be
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FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov.,
30—</P)—General Joseph T. Mc
Narny predicted that Germany
would be occupied for at least ten
years and probably longer.
He spoke at a press conference
as he assumed command of Amer-i
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ican troops in the European the
ater, from General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, new Army Chief of
Staff.
Gen. McNarney said the whole
army policy would be directed
toward turning the military gov- i
ernment over to the civilian ad- j
ministration as soon as possible, j
He said the civilian who would
direct Germany had not yet been '
chosen.
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Gen. Hurley To
Testify To House
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—(/P>—;
The House committee investigat
ing un-American activities have
voted to call Maj. Gen. Hurley to
testify Monday about his asser
tions that Comunistic forces op
erated in the State Department.
International
Fisheries Hearing
Adjourned
SEATTLE, Nov. 30— </P> —The
hearing of the International Fish
eries Commission on halibut fish
ing was adjourned after the pre
diction by the commission that the
season might be shortened due to
attraction of more boats to the in
dustry. Otter trawlers asked that
the permit system now in effect
be liberalized to permit them to
retain more of the halibut which
they catch.
The British Columbia halibut
industry representatives urged
that otter trawlers be prohibited
from retaining any of the halibut.
Colin McKea, British Columbia
spokesman said the present hali
but fleet is adequate for the sup
ply of fish, and permitting others
to share in the catch reduces the
quota for halibut fishermen.
SAN FRANCISCO—(/P)—Win
dow displays nowadays must be
designed to save wear and tear
on clerks—a scarce commodity. A
sign in a liquor store window pro
claims: “There is no whisky in
these bottles.” And this one in a
candy shop display: “These are
dummy boxes. There are no choc
olates in them.”
He arings Ad journ, j
Reopen At Juneau
January 8
SEATTLE, Nov. 30— i/P) —The
Maritime Commission’s Alaska
steamship freight rate increase
hearing adjourned here and is to
reconvene in Juneau on January
3, when merchant shippers and
Alaska citizens may present op
position to the ship lines’ demands
for increased rates on freight be
tween Seattle and Alaska.
OPA also sought to submit evi
dence on the cost of living in the
Territory. Attorney Rivers said
after today's hearings that the
Alaskans would seek in the Jun
eau meeting to answer the efforts
of the carriers to obtain rate in
creases to combat showings of
enormous losses. He said the
steamship lines’ figures were ex
aggerated. S. J. Swanson, man
ager of the Alaska Transportation
testified concerning labor prac
tices in Alaska, which he asserted
have caused the increased opera- j
Rons’ costs. % I
Gen. Miles Feared
Japs Would Attaek
On December 7
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—f/P)—
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles said the
Army Intelligence “very much
feared” the Japs would attack
when the diplomatic note was de
livered at one p.m., December 7.
1941, but they did not know where i
the attack was coming.
Gen. Miles was head of the In
telligence Division at the time of
Pearl Harbor, and he told the Sen
ate and House inquiry committee
that war with Japan had become
a strong possibility in the minds
of Army leaders early in Decem
ber, 1941. He said interception of
Tokyo’s direction to its “peace”
envoys to deliver their note on the
fateful Sunday caused him to call
the attention of General Marshall
to the critical situation.
Amended (AP)
Bylaws In Effeet
NEW YORK, Nov. 30—(tf5)—1The
amended by-laws of the Associ
ated Press became effective yes
terday with the adoption by the
Board of Directors. The by-laws,
as amended, conform to the Fed
eral Court decree which eliminat
ed consideration of competitive
factors in voting upon an appli
cant’s membership.
Gen. Eisenhower
Bids Goodbye
To His Troops •
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30—l/P)—.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who led the Allies to victory in
Europe sent this farewell message
to the American troops who served
with him: “To each of you good
bye, good luck, and my undying
thanks.”
The lanky Kansan, known as
“Ike” to the GIs who followed
him through North Africa, through
France and the Low Countries to
Germany, intended to return to
Europe for a last visit before as
suming his duties as the Army
Chief of St^ff. but circumstances
prevented this he said, adding he
would always regret he could not
give a “personal goodbye to the
many thousands of you as I could
meet.”
General Eisenhower is in the
hospital at White Surphur Springs,
W. Va., recuperating from a se
vere cold. The message was ad
dressed to “every member of the
United States forces in Europe,”
but, said the general, “I mean to
include every American who
served with me in the Mediterr
anean and in the European Thea
ter.”
He told them there was yet
much to do before the peace they
helped to win would ‘‘be firmly
consolidated, and the memory of
those gallant comrades can never
return, and the continued loyalty
to the principles of the govern
ment for which the United Na
tions waged the war. Each one of
us must give our unremitting best
until the job has been fully com
pleted.”
Ask r)istin<niis1ir<I
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Service Medal
For Lindhergli
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—(/P)—
Rep. Mason, Illinois Republican,
declared that Charles Lindbergh
is “the Billy Mitchell of this war”
and demanded the restoration of
the Army Air Force Reserve com
mission which Lindbergh resigned
after a dispute with the late
President Roosevelt in 1941.
Mason asserted Lindbergh “shot
down several enemy planes” while
making test flights as a civilian
expert in the southwest Pacific,
and should be awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for his
work. Army Air Forces made na
comment.