50,000 WORKERS
STILL ON STRIKE
gv The Associated Press
Workers in Detroit war plants
,tv.o Ohio cities accounted for
Lore than half of the nation’s
fj]e veF(erday as the number of
1 -kins employes in the country
Lain topped 50,000.
Detroit’s work stoppages, affect
. L" 04 600 workers, involved pro
Laion of tires, steel products,
i, a heavy total of lumberyard
"‘ loves also out. The Ohio dis
*•.”* ' which idled about 5,000
L'rker= affected telephone and
transportation services in Warren
and'aeronautical workers in Cin
“xLv stoppages included 4,500
nk:2ht aeronautical workers at
Cincinnati in protest against sus
ppnsion of three foremen; 4,000 em
,r Pf the Joseph E. Sagram
and Sons distillery plants in Louis
ville,' Ky.; Baltimore, Md., and
t -wrenceburg. Ind., who announc
ed "they were “going fishing,”
while company and union offi
ciats negotiated a new contract,
md 1 750 workers in the mae'nin
in„ division of the International
Hervester Company, Ft. Wayne,
plant. No reason was given
f... t'-o latter walkout.
Some S.OOO UlU-unuej nunoei
Wo"ker.< in the motor city, out
finer July H, refused to return
despite picas from the Army and
War Department. Fourteen thou
sand lumberyard workers, whose
walkout forced closing of nearly
209 yards, also were urged to re
rirn because lack of wooden crates
for the Armed forces was becom
ing critical.
OM-er continuing strikes in De
trei; included Graham-Paige, 2,
POO workers, American Metal Pro
ducts, 500. and Midland Steel
employes, 1.200.
In Warren, Ohio, drivers and
maintenance men tied up bus lines
of the city's transportation com
pany. Some 160 telephone opera
tore, maintenance men and office
employes were out since Monday.
The bus drivers struck in protest
over overtime pay, while tele
phone operators struck over pay
increases. Only emergency calls
were being handled.
Other continuing disputes includ
ed 6.500 Tampa, Fla., cigarmak
ers. protesting rollbacks in wages;
1.509 St. Louis, Mo., Packinghouse
workers, involving wage adjust
ments; miners’ strikes involving
2.700 men in Kentucky, and 450 at
Pittsburgh newspaper printers in
Bayonne, N. J., 18; Jersey City,'N.
-10; Birmingham, Ala., 130, and
Ft. Wayne, Ind., 60, and Electro
Metallurgical Company, Alloy, W.
Va„ 2,000.
MRS. WEBB NAMED
TO SCOUT GROUP
Mrs. J. S. Webb, commissioner
of the Girl Scout council, Cape
Fear area, has been appointed to
serve as representative from East
ern North Carolina on the Juliette
Low Regional committee of the
National Girl Scout organization, it
was announced at local Scout
headquarters yesterday.
Mrs. Webb will leave in Septem
ber to attend the Regional com
mittee meeting at Atlanta, Ga.
She hag been active for many
years in Girl Scout work, both
here and in Washington county.
Md. where she was a Council com
missioner. She also did much work
in assisting her husband in Boy
Scouting activities. While a resi
dent of Hagerstown, Md., she was
active in organizing the Sea Scout.
She was elected to the Cape Fear
council in 1942 and served as pro
gram chairman. She was elected
a commissioner in 1943 and has
held the post since then.
In addition to her work in Scout
ing. Mrs. Webb has also been
active in other organizations. She
is a member of the Board of Di
rectors of the Travelers Aid, The
Community War Chest, where she
serves as secretary and St. John’s
Episcopal church.
The Juliette Low committee, is
•omprised of members from Geor
gia, Florida and the Carolinas.
The committee members are cho
sen because of their personal qual
ifications and their past contribu
tions to the development of Girl
Scouting.
All appointments are approved
by the National board and the
committee acts as an advisory
body on scouting matters for the
lection.
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German Civilians Pig Potatoes i
pump.i„naEt
Threatened with a food shortage during the coming winter, these
German men and women are gathering potatoes on a farm at Eschbon,
Germany. This exclusive photo was ' ■■ken by Peter J. Carroll, Associ
ated Press Staff Photographer. (AP Wirephoto)
Truman May Cut rederal
Payroll As War Advances
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President Will Confer With
Byrd When He Returns
From Potsdam
(By The Washington Staff of the
Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, J u 1 y 21. —(IP)—
Look for some action by Presi
dent Truman to shake down the
number of federal employes when
the war with Japan gets well
along.
Senator Byrd (D.-Va.), who re
cently suggested that the end of
the German war made it possible
to dispense with 300,000 federal
workers, immediately, has been
asked by Mr. Truman to talk with
him about the matter wh'en the
President returns from Potsdam.
Byrd contends the more than
3,000,000 federal employes ought to
be reduced to 1,000,000 when the
war ends, but he’s not urging any
such drastic cutback while the
fighting continues. The 3,000,000
f gure includes many workers in
navy yards and other government
owned war production plants.
FIRST WOMAN GENERAL?
A movement already is afoot in
the War department to up the new
head of the WAC—Col. Westray
Battle Boyce—to the rank of brig
adier general. She was a lieuten
ant colonel when made WAC boss
and was promoted to colonel then.
Her predecessor, “builder of the
WAC’’ Oveta Culp Hobby, held the
rank of colonel.
GAS STILL TIGHT
Perish the thought of getting ex
tra gasoline for those vacation
trips you once planned to make
by train.
Instead of entertaining any idea
of liberalizing gasoline rations,
OPA right now is making a check
to determine whether some local!
boards are handing out “B” ra
tions too liberally.
LONG HAUL
And don’t look for any easing of
congested travel conditions even
when V-J Day comeg.
Many thousands of migrant war
workers and their families, in ad
dition to soldiers and sailors re
turning from the Pacific, will be
seeking travel space. Transporta
tion will be needed also for thou
sands of homeward-bound service
men and women mustered out of
military posts in this country.
WILL STAY AT HELM
Wedding bells will not sound any
farewell for Captain Mildred Mc
Afee as leader of the Waves. The
Navy says the captain, whose en
gagement to be married was an
nounced recently, will remain on
the job.
SLOW GOING
Don’t look for a new map of
Europe on the front pages of the
nation’s newspapers the day after
the Big 3 conference in Potsdam
ends.
If the Big 3 manage to achieve
their overall policy agreements on
Europe, looking toward the set
tling of boundary problems, you
can then expect a series of con
ferences by commissions charged
with the slow task of working out
details.
PASSES TO CONTINUE
Queried whether the national
move to discourage unnecessary
civilian railroad travel would have
any effect on the issuance of pass
es to railroad workers, the Asso
ciation of American Railroad'- said
it knew of no move to discontinue
the passes.
The association says railroad
workers appreciate more keenly
than most people the tightness of
the transportation situation.
ANYBODY’S GUESS
Speculation continues on how
long the senate, which begins de
bate on the United Nations Char
ter Monday, will take on the
measure. Senatorial predictions
range from 10 days to more than
two weeks.
Senator LaFollette (Prog.-Wis.)
says: “Nobody knows—not even
Senator Connally (a delegate to
the San Francisco conference)”.
GILDING THE LILY
The Office of Defense Transpor
tation order placing all passenger
coaches in a pool for use by the
military services actually didn’t
change anything.
The military already had first
call on the cars.
The order simply makes it man
datory for the railroads to do what
they had been doing all along. It
did, however, give the ODT a love
ly opportunity to tell the public
all about the headaches of an un
essential trip.
RUMOR EXPLAINED
Reliable White House sources
have an interesting addition to Ad
miral Ross T. Mclntire’s denial of
rumors that FDR suffered several
cerebral attacks before the one
that resulted in his death April
12 at Warm Springs.
One of the rumors is that the
late president had such a stroke
at. Hyde Park on the trip he made
there in December.
A White House source sayi this
rumor got started because:
When Mr. Roosevelt left Hyde
Park to return to Washington, a
stretcher case was put aboard h s
train as it waited at night at High
land N. Y., across the Hudson
from Hyde Park.
But the patient was not the pres
ident. It w^s Henry Hooker, a
Hyde Park neighbor and friend of
the family. He had suffered a
heart attack and was taken to the
White House in Washington at
Mrs. Roosevelt’s suggestion to re
cuperate.
BIG STUFF
It’s not getting the headlines
now, but you’re going to hear a
lot about a new trade treaty we’re
to seign with China six months af
ter the war ends.
The document will likely be the
basis of our commercial relations
with China for the next half cen
tury. American industries interest
ed in China trade are busy be
hind the scenes trying to mold
their trans-Pacific trade future.
WANT MORE CHIPS
Filipino government officials are
perturbed over the three bills Sen
ator Tydings (D.-Md.) has intro
duced to help rehabilitate the is
lands. One, of 1'ydings’ measures
would pay a maximum of 100 mil
lion dollars for war damage. Fili
pino estimates on war damage run
from one-half billion to two bil
lion dollars.
Navy Plans Floating
Ice Cream Emporium
WASHINGTON, July 21— W -
The Navy, is planning a “floating
ice cream parlor’’ in the Western
Pacific.
A concrete barge actually, the
ice cream stand will be equipped
to serve ships of the fleet too small
to carry their own ice cream mak
ing equipment.
Built at a cost of more than $1,
000,000, it is capable of manufac
turings 10 gallons of ice cream ev
ery seven minutes. The storage
room has a capacity of 2,000 gal
lons.
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