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. r—~ ~~i YOU are strong AND WELL That’s fine. You hope to remain so; That’s natural. *ou m«y be disappointed; That’s possible. You will die; That’s sure. You want to be be saved; That’s wisdom. 'tou don’t know the way? Then Attend the holy church of JESUS CHRIST South Third and Marstellar Sts. ELDER g. L. AKERS, Pastor Sen-ices Tuesday and Thursday 8 P. M. Sunday School ... 10:00 A. M. Preaching .... n :0o A. M. and 8:00 P M. Radio Program.—Sat. - 8:00 P. M. 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 ★-—-• I 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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