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Lewis May Draft
Wage Bargaining
Policy
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—(/P)—
John L. Lewis may try to draft
a wage bargaining policy on
which labor’s divided forces might
unite. At President Truman’s la
bor-management conference
Lewis last night denounced a res
olution offered by CTO president
Murray, declaring it would limit
labor’s wage gains to price ad
vances of “a bottle of milk or a
pair of shoes or a straw hat.”
With the support of AFL presi
dent Green, Lewis outlined to the
conferences of the executive com
mittee a wage program to free
labor so that they could seek
whatever they could “reasonably”
get.
Murray’s resolution held the ex
ecutive committee since Monday
would put the conference on rec
ord as favoring a full and prompt
collective bargaining under the
wage policy broadcast last week
by President Truman that wage
raises were ‘imeprative.”
Two Army Fighter
Planes Lost In
Aleutians
ANCHORAGE, Nov. 9— UP) —
Two P-38 fighter plane pilots are
lost in a flight from Adak to An
chorage has been announced by
the Alaska Department. They are
Lt. Francis L. Wilkinson of Hill
uards, Ohio, and Flight Officer
William Rousar, Racine, Wis. Wil
kinson’s plane was lost between
Adka and Atka and Rousar’s
between Umnak and Atka.
They were part of a flight of
fifty ferrying to the new station
at Elmendorf field here.
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Communists Will
Oppose Landing
Of Troops
CHUNGKING, Nov. 9 — VP) —
Chinese Communists will oppose
any attempt of the Chungking
government troops who land in
Manchuria to enter any other
“liberated areas” in North China.
A Red spokesman declared the
declaration came as Nationalist
troops began pouring from U. S.
ships at Port Chinwangtao and
fanning out to Manchuria’s south
ern border along which Commun
ist troops are arrayed.
AIR FORCE MUSICIAN — This instructor demon
strating survival at sea for First Air Force personnel at Mitchel
Field, N. Y., looks a little like a bassoon player. Actually he’s
inflating a rubber vest.
Several Killed In
Romanian Riot
BUCHAREST, Nov. 9—(/P) —A
check of hospitals and mortuaries
showed at least seven persons had
been killed and sixty-one wound
ed in a six-hour riot between Ro
manian soldiers and demonstra
tors celebrating King Mihai’s
twenty-fourth birthday.
The rioting was finally halted
last night by a Russian general It
developed in the Bucharest Royal
Square as a crowd asembled in
defiance to the order of Premier
Groza, banning public celebration
on the king’s birthday. The sol
diers participating were from di
vision of Romanians who were
captured by Russia in the siege of
Stalingrad. Soviet troops in Buch
arest took no part in the affray.
It was stopped by Soviet General
Susaikov, head of the Allied Con
trol Commission.
DAVID MAZENS DUE TO
RETURN TONIGHT
Word has been rceeived that
Mr. David Mazen, postmaster, and
Mrs. Mazen, who has been in the
hospital in Chicago, will return
tonight with the Pan American
Airways.
Asiatic Situation
At A Glance
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Chinese Government troops
were put ashore at Chinwangtao
from American ships and faced
the Communists along the Great
Wall, but neither side showed
any inclination to fight.
The American Army command-1
er in China denied that United
States troops had intervened in
China’s civil strife, as the Com
munist New China Daily News de
clared that Yank tanks had spear
headed the Nationalist capture of
the railroad station of Villahe.
In Java British planes sprink
led Indonesian forces in Soeraba
ja with leaflets demanding uncon
ditional surrender.
In Manila two women in mourn
ing related details of the mass
slaughter by Jap soldiers near Ba
tangas, at town in Taal, at the
Yamashita war crimes trial.
In Tokyo a prominent Jap law
yer refused to aid for Premier
Tojo because “Tojo personally is
responsible for the war.”
The Byrd Antarctic expedition
took refrigerators to the South
Pole in which to put milk to keep
it from freezing!
< )fficers Change
Testimony About
Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—<JP)—
Senator Ferguson said he wants
to know why some army officers
reportedly changed their stories
about the Pearl Harbor disaster.
Ferguson told a reporter that he
and Senator Brewster would ask
the Senate and House investigat
ing committee to call before it
some officers which Brewster con
tended “repudiated in substantial
respects” the testimony they gave
before an Army inquiry board.
“We want to know how it is
possible that their memory of
events could be better three years
after the attack than it was ear
lier,” Ferguson said. He added he
was referring to changes in testi
mony he said came about through
the collection of affidavits by
Major Henry Clausen, judge advo
cate of the General’s department.
Plan 10-1 Ioni San
Francisco To
Fairbanks Service
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 9—t/P)
—United Airlines vice president
Harold Crary is here on a flying
visit and said the company plan
ned. subject to approval of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority a di
rect ten-hour San Farncisco to
Fairbanks, Alaska, service.
Truman And Kiiijj
May Discuss
ml
Alaska Highway
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—(/P>—
The Alaska Highway may be dis
cussed by Canada’s Premier King,
during his visit next week. Sen
ator Magnuson told a reporter. He
has an appointment with Presi
dent Truman next week to dis
cuss the proposed inland route.
Senator Magnuson proposed
that the State Department and the
Canadian Premier each name two
representatives to discuss the pro
cedure leading to an agreement
between the countries on the con
struction of the route, and to util
ize part of the Army’s Alcan
Highway. He said that Undersec
retary of State Acheson told him
the State Department had re
quested the information on the
route, which Magnuson recently
suplied the President and indi
cated that the department was(
ready to take some action.
Truman Si^ns
Tax Reduction
Measure
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—</p)_
The Whitehouse said President
had signed the bill giving individ
uals and business a slash of five
billion, nine hundred twenty mil
lion dollars on their nineteen for
ty-six taxes. Truman thus became
the first president in sixteen years
to sign a general tax reduction
measure.
The legislation removes twelve
million low income persons from
the tax rolls and assures reduc
tion of up to ten per cent or more
individuals making up to fifty
thousand annually and smaller
cuts are provided for those whose
incomes are over fifty thousand.
Russians Occupy
Five Jap Islands
TOKYO, Nov. 9 — OP) — Jap
sources said Russia had occupied
five small islands off the east
coast of Hokkaido, northernmost
of the Jap home islands, with rel
atively small Soviet forces. The
sources said they had occupied
Kuneshiri, Shikotan, Shitosu. Sui
sho and Tarakum islands.
He aring ()n F'reiglit
Rates To Alaska
To Be Held
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—(VP)—.
Government shipping experts fig
ure Alaska shipping rates may be
eighty to one hundred percent
above prewar schedules, Delegate
Bartlett said. The War Shipping
Administration has ordered hear
ings this month in Seattle on the
entire Alaska water rate structure
he announced.
The Maritime commission will
conduct the inquiry, which is
necessary because WSA operation
of Alaska carriers is expected to
be withdrawn in a few months.
He said if marine rates must be
established at “fantastically high
levels, we might as well forget
talking about Alaska as a land of
opportunity for the returning vet
eran.”
BERNHARDT INFANT
DIES SUDDENLY
Nancy Bernhardt, 6-month-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. Enos Bern
hardt, died Wednesday evening.
The cause of death was not de
termined. Enos Bernhardt is away
in the Armed Forces.