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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1946
PRICE TEN CENTS
750,000 STRIKE TONIGHT
Iran Gives
UNO First Serious Test
Charges Russia Has Interfered, Incited Revolution — Asks For Investigation
London, Jan. IU. (UP) — Iran formally appealed to the United Nations Security Council tonight tn intervene in its dispute with Russia in flrst direct test of the new world organization's authority.
Acting on orders from Tehran, tlie Iranian delegation presented '.he explosive iasu*. to the security council which camp Into being only three days ago.
The Iraniai's charged flatly that Russian ofliciiils anif Russian troops had interfered in Iran's internal Affairs by inciting the recent Arer- baijan revolution which tore a large segmert of Northern Iran from Tehran'.s sovereignty. Ask Only Invrsttgation
Their demand merely requested, however, that the security council "investigate" the situation In Azer¬ baijan and "recommend appropriate terms of settlement." It did not leqiieht Ihc council to take action jigainst the Soviet Union, na might hive been asl<ed i>nder the UNO charter.
Thus, within n week of its first formal assembly, the UNO found Itself threatened by a major con¬ troversy that might challenge the efficacy of the security council, up¬ on which rests the world's hope for an enduring peace.
Chief Iranian Delegate Beyed Hassan Taquizadeh, who is also Iran's ambassador to London, first raised the Soviet issue informally in an address to the general assem¬ bly early this week. But he told the assembly then that he had no in¬ tention of placing the dispute be¬ fore the UNO tmless a bi-lateral ¦ettlement with Russia could not be reached before the end of this meeting.
New Instructions arrived from Tehran that night, however, order¬ ing the Iranian delegation to throw the matter into the hands of the t.TNO without further delay. Reds Hint New Crisis
(The official Russian Tass News .\gency indicated that a new crisis was brewing for the Iranian gov¬ ernment, already plagued by the Azerbaijan revolt. Tass ssid tribes¬ men In Bahtisria. in south-central Iran, had protested to Tehran ngainst their provincial government nnd were hinting at an armed uprising.)
There was little assurance, how-1
ever,  that  Iran   could obtain  more ]
than a  public  airing of its  griev-!
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Stowaways Deported
Kimmel Objected Defense Idea
Covernmenf Abandons tn Preventing Walkout in
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Kaiser Signs up with Union
Felt His Mission At Pearl Harbor Was for Offensive; Disagrees with Short
Joan  Scott, \eft,  and  Veronica { in   New   York   aa   they   boarded
Curtis,   both   of   Cheshire,   £ng- i ihe "dti  Argehiina  to be  deport*
land,  who  recently  stowed  away I ed   bark   to  England.   The   giria
on the SS Raymond Clapper out . seemed   to   have   enjoyed   tnelr
of   Liverpool,   ara   shown   above i lark. y
End 3-Month Strike of 15,000 Glass Workers
Columbus, C, Jan. it (UP)—Thei    Froescb said  several details  ra- Fedsration  of Olaaa,  Ceramls  and!main   to   be   worked   out.    Minor
Silica Sand Workers of America tonight concluded negotiations with the Libby-Owens-Ford Olaas Co. and the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will end a three-month strike of approximately 15,000 workers in seven states.
Joseph Frocsch of Columbus, president of the CIO International, said  that the strike,  which  began j
8 FARBEN BUILDINGS BLOWN UP BY ARMY
Oct. 19, will end when maintenance! the strike employees   return   to  work  tomor- Asked 10 ('.enta row.  Other workers will be called back when needed.
Froesch said that the settlement included a 10.7 cent hourly wage increase for maintenance and pro¬ duction workers. The new contract also called for an adjustment of 7 cents hourly in certain mechanical rates.
The new contract is retroactive to Oct. 2, 194S. he said. It may be re-opened once during Its life, which  will  be until  Feb.  1.  1947.
rate adjustments will be arbitrated bv a three-man panel, which will Include one representativa mt the company, one of the union and one Impartial member appointed by President Truman.
Negotiations on ths new eon- tract were resumed Jan. 6 follow¬ ing a breakdown In negotiationa last   October,   which   precipitated
The union's original demands called for a 2,'>-cents-hourly wage increase and "certain Improve¬ ments in working conditions." The strike involved 12 plants of the two gloss companies in seven mid- western states.
The plants involved in the strike are located In Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio. Illinois. Missouri, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Clyde M. Mills, WashinBton, served aa con¬ ciliator in the dispute.
Waahlngton, Jan. 19. (UP)—The Primary mission of the U. S. Pacific Fleet In 1041 was to take offensive action in event of war, Adm. Husband Kimmel told the Pearl Harbor Investigating com¬ mittee today.
"Hie 1941 fleet commander tes¬ tified that hs objected strenuously to movea which hs considered "would have a paychologlcal ten¬ dency to divert units of the fleet to defensive tasks."
Kimmel waa rel laved of hia com¬ mand 10 daya after the Japanese sneak attack on Dec. 7. Believed In Oftenaive
n felt that tha real mlaslon of ths Pacific Fleet waa offenalva ^ . . that the fleet commander ¦ihould not ba concerned Iminedl- jatsly with tha Hawaiian frontier," .IkS ¦ts.li. 'ilWi Mi^uiU nava bean free to do other things than con¬ cern himself with the dcfenaa of Hawaii."
In answer to quaatlons by Rep. John W. Murphy, D., Pa., Kinunal testified that deapito his conviet- ions he made plana to uso "Bvery naval facility that happened to be in Pearl Harbor for the defense of Pearl Harbor."
"You felt that the planea of the fleet ahould not ba used to defend tha base bacausa you fait you were out   thera   to   fight,   didn't  you? Murphy aakad. Objected To Waahlngton
"Yes, but I cava all tha planes I could to tha dafenso of Hawaii," Kimmel rapllad.
"But you ebjactad te Washing¬ ton, didn't you?"
"Certainly I objected—and I ob jacted because I  wmntad  to  have those planes free for other things."
Kimmel testified that Adm Claude C. Bloch, commander of the 14th Naval District (Hawaii) and the Army forces thera should have had all necessary meana for de- ((Tontlnued on Page A-14)
40,000 Are Already Out; All Orderly: State Hard Hit
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 19 (UP)—In a gun-jumpinfr pre¬ view of the huge steel strike to begin Monday, 27,000 workers left their jobs at five companies here and in Detroit today and threw picket lines around the idle plants. They brought tlie total of prema¬ turely idle steel workers to 40,000.
All the great mills in this area banked their furnaces and cut production schedules in preparation for the strike set for 12:01 a. m. Monday.
In various local headquar¬ ters of the United Steel Work-
Electric Strikers Offer To Settle for UVi^'^o
Agrees to Pay 18V2-Cent Boost; Truman Appeals To Other Firms
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Kearny, N. J., Jan. 19. (UP>—.company would raise IU offer of Frank J. Fitzsinimons, president IB per cent to 17',» per cent "as of tho striking Western Klectric Was recommended by the fact- BJmployees Association, offered to-[finding board in the recent United night to settle the 16-day walkout | Automobile Workers—Ueneral Mo- of 17,000 Western Electric workers tors dispute case." on the Ueneral Motors fact-flnding Insist "On Own .Merits"
board's  recommendation  of  a  IT'v      The company answered  that thc{_ig.i,t   tomorrow per   cent   increase.   It   was   turned dispute   "must   be   settled   on    lul  "*'"¦   *"'"       "   ' down at once by the company. own   merits." |      The    White    HousC   waited
Fitzsimmena said the refusal left!     Fltzslmmons'   request   that  "fur-  hopefully   but with  little COII-
Wa.shington, Jan. 19 (UP) —The administration aban¬ doned hope tonight of pr«- venting a national steel strike of  TrtO.OOO  workers at  mid-
the only hope of settlement in theitiier facilities be afforded to re- hands of the government. l.iolve the disputed poinl.s other Want New Offer 'than   wages."   however,    was   an-
"We are sick and tired of sitting | .swered   with  the    Hlatemcnl    that down   and   being   faced   with   the I the company "continues  ready    to same   offer   which   caused   us   to  negotiate on all  disputed points." strike," he said. "The company said the offer of a
The  company  said  it would  nol  17'*j compromise setUcmcnt "is not increase Its earlier offer of 15 per acceptable to the company."
cent wage increase, the flnal offer i 	
made    before    the   WEBA   struck | Wllaon   Points  to  Cost
Jan.  3, because It  "saw no justifi-iOf Mrike Victories
cation." |     New    Xork.    Jan.    19     (UP)
fidence all day for word that United States Steel Corp. would reconsider its rejection of President Truman's pro¬ posal to settle its wage dis¬ pute by raising wages by IS'/i cents an hour. Mr. Truman made a public appeal to the corporation   for   reconsidem-
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5 CHILDREN DIE IN TWO MAINE FIRES
Nuernberg, Jan. 19. (UP)-Thc first of eight big munitions build | ings of the I.G Farben combine I scheduled for destruction in the rampaign to destroy Germany's war potential wa.1 blown up yester¬ day near Ingolstadt, 3rd Army headquarters   announced   today.
Three and a half tons of dyna¬ mite were used to destroy thr se%-en-foot thick walls of a powder- mixing plant, 110 feet long and 29 feet wide. The Germans had de¬ signed it as a "bomb-proof" struct¬ ure.
U. Se Planes to Use Fields Built on British Islands
Hamilton, Bermuda, Jan. 19. (UP) - Delegates to the Bermuda civil aviation conference have reached virtual agreement on An¬ glo-American commercial use of nine military air Belds built dur¬ ing the war by the United States In British possessions In the North
Will Sleep in Capitol to Fight , Southern Oemotrafs Filibuster
Washington, Jan. 19. (UP) — Senate backers of fair employment legislation offered tonight to sleep in the capltul corridors nnd eat their meal off stacks of the Con¬ gressional Record of necessary to break a Southern Democratic fili¬ buster.
Sen. Wayne C. Morse, R., Ore., said he would not vote for another leccRS until the filibuster is broken Normally, tho Senate votes to re- ccrs from day to day. If a major¬ ity of senators opposed to the fili¬ buster could be m-iintaincd in the chamber to defeat such a motion, continuous sessions would be rc- qiiired.
Morse is a strong supporter of lezislatinn to . creat.e. a permanent Fair Employment Practice Com¬ mission to prevent dlscriminntlon against emplovces on grounds of race or reli.";ion. South Democrats started an anti-FBPC filibuster on Thursday. Set For a BatUe
"I will try to keep 49 of our men fa Senate majority) on the floor or sleeping nearby for as many weeks as It takes to wear cut the minority of senators who are try¬ ing to block the majority," Morse seid.
Republicans  decided  at a caucus
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todav to insist on longer Senate sessions than usual on Monday and Tuesday — st least until 6 p. m. Tliis was a tactic adopted tem¬ porarily while a special five-man .stratcpv committee decides whether Republicans nhsll vote en bloc for continuous sessions lo wear out the   filibustering Southerners.
The Southerners have succeeded since Thursday m tangling the Sen¬ ate thoroughly in red tape by in¬ sisting on strict enforcement of Senate rules. Chance for More Talk
W'hen the Senate resumes deliber¬ ations Monday, the question under debate will be whether to include In tbt; InvriiRl for Thumdav the prayer offered by the chaplain at the start of the session. Debate on this question under Senate rules,  is  unlimited.
Most senators agreed, however, that unanimous consent could be obtained to set aside the filibuster Monday long enough to receive President Truman's message on the budget and the state of the Union. Southerners Confident
Southern senators claim thev have enough men to talk around the clock for months if necessary to prevent a vote on the bill. But thev are confident that sponsors of the legislation will admit defea' much sooner than that.
The dispute is heated. Southern¬ ers cry "carpet-bagger" and FEPC proponent reply "Fascist."
Morse aaid that this fight is tho fight of the representaUve form of government
Atlantic and Caribbean  during the war,  it  was  announced   today.
The tentative agreement also calls for the United States to re¬ tain definite military control of the Lend-Ivcase bases, according to Maj. Gen. Laurence f;. Kuter. com¬ mander of the North Atlantic di¬ vision of the Air Transport Com¬ mand. Plan  Commercial  Terminals
Airlines will use military in¬ stallations temporarily, biK even¬ tually will have fhelr own termi¬ nals. The Army will retain charge of the control  towers at the flelds,
Kuter and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, at a joint press confer¬ ence, disclosed that S( -en bases in the Caribbean area and two in Newfoundland will be available tn commercial planes. Bases most likely to bo used as primary land¬ ing flelds include Kindlcy Field. Bermuda; CoUidge Field, Antigua: Benae Field. .Sant I.,ucia. and At¬ kinson   Field,   British  Guinea.
The others probably will be al¬ ternate landing places, to be used in the event of bnd weather. They are Bernam Field. Jamaica; Carl¬ son and Waller Fields. Trinidad, and Harmon and Argentia Fields. Newfoundland. All have adequate (Continued  on   Page A-3)
PARTY PICKS ROXAS TO OPPOSE OSMENA
Manila. Jnn. 19 <UP) Brig Gen. Manuel Rox:ih ami .Senator Elpido Quirnino today rr "Ived their par¬ ty's unanimous nommiitiov ns can¬ didates for preside^, .id vice president of the Philippin; in the forthcoming general clcction.i. They were acclaimed by more tha.i .1.00(3 delegates nt the "liberal w 1 n g" Nacionalista convention hero.
Roxas, president of tho Philip¬ pines senate and long-time critic of President Sergio Osmcna. charged the latter with Inability to initiate a reconstruction pro¬ gram, breaking the Independence of the judiciary and making "pork barrel" appointments "for the pur¬ pose of getting more votes."
IJvermore Falls, Me., Jan. 19. (UP)—Three children perished in a house fire here late today, bring¬ ing to seven the number of persons burned to death in Maine during the past 12 houra.
The latest victims were the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Phllibert Cairetien, whose one-and-a-half story wooden house was burned to the ground. Dead were Roger Chretien, four, and his sisters, EJlizabeth.  three, and Anita, two.
Mrs. Chretien hsd gone to her mother's home next door when the, .   . ^¦. „
tragedy  occurred.   The youngsters' ers quit.   It was reported the walk fathers,   a  recently discharged  sol- (Ontinued  on Page  A-12)
dier    was   at   work   at   the   Inter- j
ShiilJn'''"'"'"' ""''" "'"'*"! FURNACE EXPLODES
Earlier  today,  a  flash   fire  in  a   »j   CTCCI     PniUIPANY wooden house in Caribou took the '* I    O I DLL   UUWirHIM I
-_.~.'/-^.>« , ¦ J " ''''" ML-ikc sgaiiVJl-.;w coinb<i>riy'<iidiaries
erb" vClO) paiiit was drying on 21 n       y   '   ^    ..   .
picket placards and workers!plant
were stocking food for gaup;°"*>•"^P»'^^ *''"'-°"^'"" "" Wc8-|Win8 a
L.;4'/>ko '^ torn   Electric   employees   through-1 trial   strife   "does
\prK.     .fan.     iw     \\jrt    -r—'n.^   .  r^    .5;^    „. . .   t
liwilBon, president Ol the, ^T"'    " *»'«»  '»<»^  lespoUQ.
ow  Vork  cily  induklrial  area 1 strike-bound  General   Electric  Co., But Henry J. Kaiser, war-famoua
picket   placards   and   workers I plants threatened last week to set said tonight that any party which induatrlaliat,   accepted   the   Presi-
"             "          "                              clear-cut  victory  in Indus- dent's   formula   for   his   relatively
so   at   its   own small Fontana steel  plant in Call-
out the  country,   and  perhaps  an¬ other nation-wide telephone tie-up.
Fltzslmmons' offer, telegraphed to President Truman and other Washington officials as well as to Frank J. Hammel. WE Industrial relations manager, said WEEA would   settle   the   dispute     If     the
kitchens.
Jones tk Liaughltn Steel Corp here reported 18,300 workers out today. There were l.SOO on strike at the AIlegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. In Detroit, 7,118 were Idle at the Great Lakes Btcel Co. plant at Ecorse, the Michigan Steel Co. plant at the same town, and the Hanna Furnace Co., at River Rouge. Refuaed Areeaa to Plant
The first walkouts here began laat night at the Hazlewood and South Side plants of Jones A Lkughlin. A company spokesman aald union officials had demanded access to the plants "at any time durlns the day or night," once the strike began, to inspect mainte¬ nance operations.
The company refused, and for Jones A Laughlin the strike was on. The steel workers union mar¬ shalled Its pickets. The familiar pink glow over Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle" district died down In mld-eveninc when the big Bessemer converter furnace was blown out.
Supervisory employees manned furnaces and boilers to prevent damage from a sudden shut down. The company said pickets were preventing regular maintenance men from entering the works to¬ day.
Nine-thousand workers struck at the Hazelwood and South Side plants. At mid-morning today the strike spread to the company's Aliqulppa plants, where 9,300 work¬ ers walked out. No picket lines were formed there yet. • It<>ported Orderly
The other company hit was  the Alleghcny-Ludlum   Steel   Corp.    At ^^^j   ,he  joint  walkouts  of  United dawn   pickets   blocked   the   P'am sipnckinghnusr  Workers   iCIO)   and main  entrance.    About  ^5™) wori<- ,1,^ Amnlgam.iled Meat Cutters and
Butcher    Workers    (AFH    in    the
expense." ] fornia. And signed a contract with
We arc going to harvest wounds the   United   Steel   Workers   (CIO).
and scars that will be worn for a long time, no matter what hap¬ pens," he said in a speech at a CHarkson College Alumni dinner. Wilson aaid Industry could not (Continued  on Page A-14)
'REAL SHORTAGE' OF MEATS !?J DUE EARLY THIS WEEK
Fact-Finders Open Hearings on Strike In Chicago Thursday
Chicago, Jan. 19.   (UP)—Volun- ijiry     meat    rationing     began     in _
butcher   shor»  across  the   country | surge of demands "for drastic labor tonight  aa p-ickera warned  that .»; legislation a.s a result of President "real   shortage'   of beef,   lamb   and |Truman's failure tn avert the auto- pork  products would hit the nation  mobile,  .nteel  and   meat strikes, early   next week.
At   least  anotlier  week   of  meat
SURGE OF DRASTIC LABOR BILLS SURE TO HIT CONGRESS
Randolph Hopes 'Unwarranted Action' Does Not Follow
Washington.     Jan. Congressmen   tonight
19.     (UPl predicted
Si.arcity was the prospect for house
wives as Eovrrnment efforts to end
  he   tivc-day   walkout  of   pncki -g-
house    workers    rested    upon    the
White    House-appointed    fact-find¬ ing   board   which   open.s   hearings
.lere Tuesday. Government    experts    estimated I *'»•<•»« N'»t<on'a Sentiment
       Chairman   Andrew   J.    May.    D..
Ky.. of the House military affairs committee said. "I think the senti¬ ment of the nation Is getting much stronger for action."
Acting Chairman Jennings Ran¬ dolph. D., W.V.. of the House labor committee said that "as tension mounts countrywide, there will fol¬ low Insistent demands for drastic | {'|'^^ legislation.
"I hope  unwarranted  action  will not be taken on such a basis."
I nation's biggest packing plants an.l 'scores of snnller ones had reduced
He   predicted   that   public   opinion would  force the whole industry to come to ttrms with labor. Olher Uinputea .'\lade Critiral The  collapse  of  efforts  to  avert
' the nation-wide steel strike dashed hopes for early settlement of other critical labor disputes — including the nine-week-old strike of 175,000 General Motors workers, the strike of 200,000 electrical workers and the strike of nearly 300,000 packing¬ house workers. When the steel workers go out, approximately 1,670,000 Americans will be on strike.
Administration offlcials had tied their hopes for labor peace to settlement of the steel dispute. The resulting steel wage deadlock threatened to pu.sh the nation into the most bitter industrial strike in
I its history, jeop.irdizing the recon-
I version economy.
The high command of the United Steel   Workers   also saw   no   posai-
:r>llity   of   .-tettling   the   dispute   be-
jf-jre   the    strike   deadline.     Union
I leaders prepcred lo shift their scene of operation.s to Pittsburgh, where they will direct the strike. Kaiser anmunced the signing of a wage agreement with the union after he and Union President Philin Murray conferred at the White House with .Mr. Truman. But the other steel companies were bank¬ ing   blast   furnaces   In   preparation
jfor   the  strike,  which   will   be  the biggest  single walkout  in  fhe  na-
industrinl history. Setiure Considered Informed  offlcials saw only these
fiosslbilities   for  pr-^ventlng  a   pii- onged  steel rtrike-
1.—Government seizure of the In¬ dustry, with worker."  facing penal¬ ties under the Smith-Connallv Law (Continued on  Page  A-12)
May's committee drafted the war
meat   output   nt   le.ist  M  per  cent,  (j^e     .<5mith-Connally     Anti-Strike
lives of four members of another family. Including a mother, father and two of their children. Two other children were hospitalized in critical condition.
Dead in this flre were Mra. Ed¬ ward Patterson, 48; her husband Edward P., 80: their daughter Shirley, nine, and their son Donald, eight.
Two other sons. Sterling, 12, and Frederick, IS, were taken to a hos¬ pital with severe burns.
Chicago. Jan. 19. (UP) -A blast furnace exploded tonight at the South Chicago works of the Re¬ public Steel Corporation, police re¬ ported. No one was reported in¬ jured.
It was believed, police said that the explosion occurred when the furnace was cooled too rapidly in preparation for a shutdown of the works for the scheduled national steel  strike  tomorrow  midnight.
America's Labor Picture
May R<!quire Selsure
In Chicago, government labor ex¬ perts privately expres.sed the opin¬ ion that only federal seizure of the plants — barring acceptance of the fact-finders' recommenda¬ tions by both sides -- could end the controversy. Even so, they said. It would take several days for production to get into full swing   again.
The fact-finding board will seek a compromise between the demands of the more than 300,000 striking workers and the packers. The CIO union originally sought a 2,'i-cent- (Continued on Page A-U)
72-YEAR-OLD MAN MURDERS SHERIFF
Act and recently rewrote it to im¬ pose     additional     restrictions     on|
unions.    The House, however, voted I  —
to  delay consideration. |    Pottsville. Iowa. Jan   Ifl.   (UP) —
Mav   told   reporters   the   militarv 1^ 72-.vr,,r-old   man  had barricaded
committee haa decided to wait un^' "'"If";'''",';'? J"''"' «^"^« »   "V"'' .11   a. i_ 1 .u-   1.1 ! here tonight hrlriin^- off county and
tii   Tuesday,  when   the   labor  com mittee   Is  scheduled  to  vote  on
police  ofllrials  after he  had   killed
i.K^.   Kill    k.fn..   .i.„:ji «      •..!'*¦*    sheriff    of   Alimakee    county
L.t^^   .n L   o?  ,r  .J^^ ^^^^ '""iRht when  he attempted
next  course   of   action.     May   has.,„   .p^ve   an   insanity   warrant   on (Continued  on Page A-14) him. an eycwitnes's said.
Steel—More than 760,000 United steelworkers of America (CIO) pre¬ pare to walkout at midnight today in the biggest strike in history. Sev- eral pre-schedule walkouts already have been reported Only hope for stopping walkout is acceptance of presidential compromise by U. S. Steel. USW already accepted pro¬ posal.    Three    West    Coast     steel
posals not suitable to UE.   New ne¬ gotiations in  progress.
Telephone — No negotiallons In progress between National Federa¬ tion of Telephone Workera (Ind.) and American Telephone & Tele¬ graph 'Co., although union will strike within 30 days. At least 263.- 000 workers expected to go out if strike    carried    out    over    wages
READY FOR STRIKE OF ALL TRANSPORTATION IN NEW YORK CITY
New York, Jan. IB-(UP) Thr Transport Workers Union (CIO) said today that "complete arrange¬ ments" had heen mnde for a strike of all New York Cily tran.«porta- tion   workers.  Tho  union   Indicated
firms, emplnving 700 men. and thejUnion  demands   30  per   cent more noweyer, that 'f|".f'';!7^ w°"'" ""'  be tried by a military court Within union   reacS-d   .ign-er.irnt.   rftll'ngipnv,.."r,mpftnv.hBJ< made ri counter-'.."e called before the^middle of next^j^,^ ^,^^j^^
V ccK nt ..ic eaiilTo.. ^„    oiricial
for 20 to 25 per cent wage in¬ creases.
>Ieat—Increasing numbers of butchers are rationing rapidly dwindling meat supplies. No hope of restocking shelves seen for at least a week, even if government Seizes struck packing houses, com¬ promise solution found or unions and packers reach agreement. Un¬ ited Packinghouse Workers (CIO) has about 200,000 men out; Amal¬ gamated Meat Cutters (AFD has about l.iri.OOO men out. No negotia¬ tions In progress as strike approach¬ es end  of first week.
Electrical Appliances—Rome 200.- 000 United Electrical workers (CIO) In sixth day of strike against (Jen¬ eral Electric. General Motors and Wcstinghouse. Union, which de¬ manded 12 more pay a day. has scaled It down to $1.20 a day. Eacn company   haa   made   counter-pro-
offer.
Farm Equipment — Fact-finding board meeting in Chicago lo atudy dispute between United Farm equipment workers (CIOi and In¬ ternational Harvester (^orp. over wages. Union has ordered 30,000 men to strike Jan. 21.
Automotive—Ford Motor (3o. con¬ tinuing negotiations with United Automobile Workers (CIO) over wages. Ford has offered union 17.,^ cents more per hour — two cents under union's demand. Meanwhile, impasse continues in UAWs strike of 175.000 workers against Gen¬ eral Motora Corp. strike. 60 days old. was called over wage dispute. Union demanded 30 per cent pay boost, but agreed to accept White House fact-finding figure of 17.4 per cent increase if GM agreed fo it before Sunday. GM offered 13.5 cants, or about 10 per cent.
. J, I    .—    -     announcement   aaid
A TWU strike, threatened In pro- members of the Irgun Zval Leumi test against proposals of the board;jc^.j^t, organization attacked the of     transportation    to    sell     three j radio station and its power supply.
putting  it  off  the  air  for several
powcrliouaes to a private utility concern, would virtually stop all subway, bu.s, street car and ele¬ vated railway lines in the city. It would idle ,'!2.000 transit and power¬ house workers.
Michael Quill, union president, said that barring a change of mind by the board on the proposed sale the joint executive committee of the TWU would set the time of the strike nt a meeting Monday night.
Once out, CJuill said, the TWU would not return to work until the .sale of the powcrhoases was sche¬ duled for a voters referendum, and a $2 a day wage increase and n maintenance of union membership clause hsd been agreed for the transit  workera.
2 British Officers Die In Battle in Jerusalem
Jcru.salem. Jan. 19. (UP)—Twoi A curfew was imposed on the British officers were killed today Jewish section of Jerusalem at 11 In a two-hour gun battle between p. ni. crowds which had taken British troops and police and Jew-[refuge in restaurants, theaters and Ish   terrorists   wlip   dynamited   the | dance  halls  during the  gun   battle
were  allowed  to  hurry home.
All available British army unite in Jerusalem, reinforcing the Pal¬ estine police, continued to patrol the streets. Heavily-armed detach¬ ments mounted guard at strategio points throiichnut the city. Charge Retaliation
Informed .-.uun es Indicated the disorders were provoked by the terroristic Irgun Zval Leumi In re¬ taliation for fhe reported klllinf of two members of the Zionist organization in an Eritrean ae- tenflon camp  two days ago.
The gunmen appeared on the streets late this afternoon and for
power    supply    of   the   Jerusalem broadcasting station.
One terrorist was killed, nnd four wounded members of the Irgun Zvai I.,eumi Jewish organization were   reported   arrested.   They   will
hours.   Several landmines were ex¬ ploded   near  the  station,   overturn ing a   military-   tni'k. Battle Armed Band
Police and British troops, under "."S minutes shot It out with Brit- orders to shoot to kill at the least ish troops and Jerusalem poUco provocation,   exchanged    fire   with squads.
the armed bands in a street battle|    Panic-stricken   crowds   fled   and while panicky crowds fled. | In less than five minutes after the
One British army officer and one warning sirens, Jerusalem was a Britisii   [lolicr   official   were   killed,  dead   city.
Another     police     officer     wasi    Mass   arrests   were   expected   In wounded, j the  Jewish   areas  of  the city    to-
laaac Hanania. a wounded Jew,[morrow. Kor the flrst time In tev- wcnt to Hadns.snh Hospital where 1 eral months, police were able te he was arreated immediately. An- capture some of the terrorists, due other Jew carrying s Bren gun, mainly to a 24-hour alert and ex- grenade and other weapons was cellent co-ordination of the patrol arrested. ' f oreea.