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General Motors
Gives 1 Itiinatnni
To Union
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DETROIT, Nov. 28—CP}—Gen
• eral Motors Corporation informed
the United Automobile Workers
CIO that unless it was willing to
modify its ‘/‘unreasonable” wage
demand and abandon its efforts to
f bring in the issue of “selling
prices and profits,” there was
nothing to bo gained from further
discussion of the wage question.
The company charged the union
was “creating a situation of law
lessness,” by illegal picketing of
General Motors plants and offices
and asserted that the only point
on which discussions would be of
present value was “illegal picket
ing by members of your union.”
The statements were in a letter
by H. W. Anderson, vice-president
of the company in charge of per
sonnel. Replying to a request from
Walter P. Reuther, vice-president
of the union, in charge of its Gen
eral Motors department that nego
tiations be resumed.
The letter was delivered on the
sixth day of the strike, which has
tied up almost all General Mo
* tors operations in the country.
Earlier Monday the Ford Motor
Company announced that because
of strikes against fifteen compan
ies supplying it with parts it
would have to lay off forty thou
sand production employees and
workers in eighteen hydroelectric
plants for the remainder of the
week.
Nome Lagging
In Victory
Bond Sales
JUNEAU, Nov. 28—Victory loan
sales through Nov. 24th total
$747,842, of which E sales are
$507,356.50. Individuals other than
E sales are $142,228, and corpora
tions $98,228.50.
The breakdown of E sales is as
follows: Fairbanks/ $250,068.50;
Anchorage $81,281.25; Ketchikan,
$61,775.00; Juneau, $33,300; Pet
ersburg $17,118.75; Cordova $15,
206.25; Kodiak, $13,050; Seward
$10,956.25; Nenana, $4,987.50;
■ Sitka, $4,181.25; Valdez $3,258.75;
Wrangell, $2,625; Skagway, $2,025;
kHaines, $1,954.25; Palmer $1,818;
Nome $1,181.25. No report from
Seward this week.
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Gen. Groves Says
Bomb Manufacture
Is Necessary
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—«P)—
Maj. Gen. Groves told the Senate
atomic energy committee he con
siders it necesasry to continue
*feiaking atomic bombs until we
nave a suitable supply on hand
land the question of international
* control is determined.
JET A I R C R A F T—-These Gloucester Meteor fighters, Jet-propelled, look about the same as
other aircraft except that the propeller is missing and the tail projects higher.
Indonesians
Musi Evacuate
Bandoeng
BATAVIA, Nov. 28— (/P) —The
Indonesian governor of western
Java asked the British command
to halt military action at Bando
eng, and was told the Nationalist
forces must evacuate the residen
tial area north of the east-west
railway line by noon tomorrow.
In the midst of the tense situa
tion in the summer capital, the
Javanese governor approached the
British headquarters at Bandoeng
under a white flag the official
British statement said. Earlier
strong Allied patrols were ordered
out in Bandoeng, about . seventy -
fivo miles southeast of Batavia, to
disperse Indonesians who were
gathering in the city, in one area
of which some sixty thousand
former civilian internees of the
Japs are crowded.
Brilsli Girl Stows
Away To Marry
Yank Soldier
NEW YORK, Nov. 28—A twen
ty-year-old British girl, who said
she was engaged to “an army
man” and wanted to come to the
United States to marry him,
stowed away on the former Ger
man liner Europa, on its trip from
Southhampton as a transport, the
Third Naval District said yester
day.
. The Navy identified the girl as
Miss Kathleen Moody of Bristol,
England. It said she climbed a
hawser to the stem of the ship as
it was getting ready to sail, and
was not discovered until the ves
sel was one hundred fifty miles at
sea.
WLB Employees
To Get Pink Slip
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—(/P)—
Saturday will be pink slip day at
i the War Labor Board. About one
thousand of the fifteen hundred
members of the staff will be noti
fied that their wartime jobs will
end January first.
The others will remain with
the wage stabilization division,
whose chief job—until the stabil
ization act expires next June thir
ty—will be to head off wage cuts.
(]ol. Snvder Head
Of Surplus Sales
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28—(/P)—
Ickes said Col. Melvin C. Snyder,
Kirkwood, West Virginia, will su
pervise the sale of surplus prop
erties in Alaska, as head of the
Alaskan Surplus Property office,
in Interior Department’s Division
of Territories headquarters in An
chorage. Col. Snyder was recently
released from the army after serv
ing forty-nine months, mostly in
Alaska.
Two Children Die
In Cahin Fire
CASCADE, Idaho, Nov. 28—(IP)
Coronor Lowell Titterington said
he had received word that two
small children had been burned
to death Saturday in a lonely
cabin at Deadwood, a snowbound
mining camp fifty-seven miles
southeast of here. The two chil
dred were Robert Alonzo Pardee,
four, and Carl Emmett Pardee,
two. They were alone in the cabin
when the fire started and had no
chance to save themselves.
Dead Ami Injured
In Palestine
Disturbances
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 28—Unof
ficial reports placed the toll in
Monday’s disturbances in the
Jewish area of Palestine at nine1
Jews killed and at least seventy
five wounded, and the Jewish Na
tional Council called a half-hour1
work stoppage Tuesday as a
“token of mourning” for the dead.'
The General Federation of Jew
ish Labor cabled a strongly word- 1
ed protest to the British Labor
Party and to British and United
States labor organizations.
Tension subsided gradually as
British troops withdrew from the
trouble zone north of Tel Aviv.
The British had thrown a cor
don around six Jewish villages,
and armed with mortars and ma
chine guns, and supported hy
tanks, had entered villages in
search of persons responsible for
attacks on Coast Guard stations.
The cordon was lifted Monday
night.
School Children
Drown When Bus
Skids Into Lake
CHELAN, Wash., Nov. 28—UP)
—Lake Chelan’s deep icy waters
still held the bodies of thirteen
school children and the driver of
a schooj bus which swerved off
a twenty foot embankment Mon
day morning. Divers recovered
two bodies but found no trace of
the bus and its grim cargo, after
descending two hundred feet into
the snow fringed lake. It is esti
mated that the bus might be at
least three hundred feet below
the surface. Six families lost two
children each.
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Pale Hearings
To Proceed
Despile Protests
SEATTE. Nov. 28—i/Pi—Alaska
Attorney General Rivers asserted
the “very economic survival of
Alaska is at stake," at the opening
of the Maritime commission’s
hearing of the Territory’s water
freight and passenger rate struc
ture.
He asked examiner Thomas
Underwood, former Maritime
Gommission member to postpone
the session at least six months, or
to limit it to preliminary matters;
arguing that the Territory had
been given no information as to
the financial situation of the com
panies in Alaska, their operating
efficiency or other data.
Woodward postponed a formal
ruling, but said the hearing must
proceed as scheduled. The War
Shipping Administration operat
ing the companies during the war
petitioned for a complete examin
ation of the rate schedules.
Rivers’ efforts to delay the ses
sions were also backed by Mal
colm Miller, Washington, repre
senting OPA; O’Neill of Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc.
President Skinner of Alaska
Steamship Company said “gener
ally it has been found that all
costs have substantially increased
and freight rates have not kept
pace.”
(Communists Seize
Highway Center
Of Feisiang
CHUNGKING Nov. 28 — —
The Chinese government admitted
the loss of the important southern
Hopei province highway center of
Feisiang to the beseiging Com
munists. but the Nationalists
meanwhile reportedly began the
long delayed landings at the cap
tured Manchurian seaport of Hu
lutao after the evacuation of Com
munist forces.
The report didn’t say whether
U. S. transports were being used
at Hulutao, which provides a
strategically valuable landing site
for the troops to be used in the
Nationalist drive toward Chang
chun, capital of the Province.
The World Daily News said the
Chinese and Russian agreement
had reached two points. National
ists may land airborne troops at
Changchun and Mukden in Man
churia and ground crews may
proceed immediately to both
points. Russia withdrawal from
Manchuria will be completed by
mid January. There is no indica
tion of what China might have
promised in return.
Canada has biven over two bil
lion dollars’ worth of mutual aid
to Britain, Russia, China and
others of her allies.