Chrysler Workers
Leave W ork
DETROIT, —Approximately
8,500 employees of Chrysler Cor
poration’s Dodge main plant were
made idle today as the result of
disciplinary action taken against
16 workers the management
charged left their jobs without per
mission yesterday.
The 16 walked out yesterday, a
management spokesman said, to
celebrate V-J day. Today two were
dismissed and the others given
one to two day layoffs. When a
group of other workers in the
body trim department left their
jobs in protest this morning, most
of the main Dodge day shift was
sent home.
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Senate To Hold
Hearings On High
Cost Of Living
PALO ALTO, Calif. (/P)—A U.
S. Senator Arthur V. Watkins, <R.
Utah', said here yesterday he
would hold a hearing in San Fran
cisco next month, delving into fac
tors of the high cost of living.
The Senator said he had been
named chairman for the western
states of the recently formed joint
Congressional committee on econo
mic reports.
He and three other members of
the Senate public lands committee
will leave Seattle Aug. 27 for
Alaska where they will study the
problems of Indians in the Ton
gass National Forest, and later
may recommend amendments to
the bill recently passed authoriz
ing private lumber mills to cut
timber in the park area.
Hearings in major West Coast
cities on the high cost of goods
will be held as soon as the party
returns from Alaska, Senator Wat
kins said.
The Senators accompan y i n g
Watkins are Hugh Butler (R.-Neb.i
chairman of the public lands com
mittee; Ernest McFarland <D.
Ariz.), and Zales N. Ecton, <R.
Mont.).
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Embargo Shipment
Of Coal To Canada
OTTAWA, (i—An embargo on
shipments of United States coal
into Canada over Canadian Na
tional Railway lines was sched
uled to go into effect at midnight
tonight and official quarters here,
perturbed about the situation,
foresaw the possibility of a Ca
na lian embargo on shipments of
newsprint to the United States as a
counter move.
Canadian transport minister
Lionel Chevrier was expected to
ma’ct a statement today on the
Washington action ordered by the
office of defense transportation
which said Canadian National
Railways had failed to soeed re
turn of coal cars in sufficient
numbers to the Uniter! States. The
Canadian Pacific Railway is no!
affected by the embargo.
Meanwhile a high government
official here say the “threat” of t
Canadian embargo on shipments
ol newsprint into !he U. S. in a
statement issued yesterday at
Montreal by R. C. Vaughan, pres
ident of the C. N. R. Vaughan
said the U. S. embargo had been
made “arbitrarily and without a
careful weighing of factors in
volved.” charged U. S. lines with
failure to return C. N. R. box cars
to Canada and hoped this would
Pepper Will
Support Truman
For Re-Election
WASHINGTON, <&)— From the
White House steps Senator Pepper
<D.-Fla.» voiced his support yes
terday of President Truman for
re-election.
I don’t think there is any ques
tion but that the President should
be and will be nominated, and
should be and will be elected ’’
Pepper declared to reporter- after
a call on the President.
Adding political significance to
the Florida Senator’s remarks are
the particular position he occupies
in the Democratic party.
Pepper is close to the CTO and
other labor groups. He also i- a
warm friend of Henry A. Wallace,
former vice president vvno w:o
ousted by President Trumt'.i as
commerce secretary after they
clashed over foreign policy.
not result “in our inability to pro
vide all the cars needed for paper
1 loading to the United States.
The official said that while
Vaughan’s statement could be in
terpreted as a “threat”, the C. N.
R. had not communicated it as
such to Washington authorities
so far as was known.
Alaska SS. To Sue
For Loss Of Ship
And Rich (largo
SEATTLE, UP) — An Alaska
Steamship company attorney said
today a $5,000,000 admiraTty suit
will be filed in federal court for
loss of the Motorship Diamond
Knot and its rich Alaska salmon
cargo early Wednesday in p Strait
or .Tuan tie Fuca collision.
The attorney. Claude E Wake
field. said tne action, now under
preparation, would ask $1,000,000
for the 5.525-ton vessel and $4,
000.000 for the lost cargo.
The D.amond Knot was in col
lision with the 10-601-ton Fenn
Victory, operated by the Ameri
cun-Hawaiian Steamship com
pany, and sank in 50 feet of water.
The suit will allege “excessive
speed in the fog” as a “principal
fault” of the Fenn Victory, Wake
field said.
Meanwhile, divers at the scene
awaited favorable weather condi
tions before starting survey oper
ations for possible salvage of the
154.000 cases of canned salmon.
Officials of the Foss Launch and
Tug company said water was too
rough yesterday to send divers
, down.
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