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^ A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 39TH YEAR, NO. 5Q — 44 PAGES VKITEU PBKSi WIr* Nsws ••rrtee WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1945 • • The Weather Partly cloudy, continued cool. PRICE TEN CENTS NEW DOCK STRIKE THREAT Government Believed favoring IS to 20% Boosts in Basic Wage « i- Coming Conference ^ Holds up Statements; Coal Strike Goes on, Many More Pending Washington, Oct 13 (UP)—The administration's stabilization policy tonight appeared to be crystalizing «n a 15 to 20 p«r cent basic wage rate increase, with compensating price increases. Officials, however, were believed delaying any formal statements until the forthcoming national labor-management con¬ ference has had a chance to deal with the matter. President Truman, Reconversion Director John W. Snyder and Sec¬ retary of Labor I^ewis B. Schwel¬ lenbach were understood to feel that any advance announcement going beyond exiating executive orders and legislation dealing with wages, prices and labor disputes would have an adverse effect on the conference beginning bere Nov. 5. Wallace HlnU Intentions Secretary of Commerce Harry A. Wallace, however, gave a hint about admjipistration thinking in n radio interview last night In which he said the gON-ernment should help labor to obtain 15 to 20 per cent of its 30 per cent wage incrcise demand and allow compensating price Incrcsses where neces.>iary to cover the higher labor costs. Meanwhile. National I.iabor Re¬ lations Board figures revealed that union demands for higher wages arc the cause of 60 per rent of thr record-breaking number of strike vote notices filed at the hoard. This was disclosed as the Congress of Industrial Organiza¬ tions struck back at critics of its demand for a 30 per cent wage rate boost to offset the loss of wartime take-home pay. Coatly Coal Strike Goes On Tbe rising storm over tbe na¬ tional wage-price policy over¬ shadowed Schwellenbach's seventh day of conciliation meetings with soft coal operators and President John L. Lewis of tbe United Mine Workers in an effort to end the strike which Is costing the nation more than 1,000,000 tons of fuel a day. The weekly CIO News charged In an editorial that corporations "are drluging newspaper readers and radio listeners with propaganda to persuade them that CIO'.'^ wage de¬ munds are unreasonable, impractl- csl. ruinous and inflationary." The publication scoffed at Im¬ plications that labor had "an in¬ sane desire to wreck the means from which It draws Its livelihood." It charged that, while wages were frozen during the war, the cor¬ porations increased profits five times before taxes and doubled them after taxes. Wouid Avoid Depression The CIO also publL«hed a state¬ ment by President Philip Murray in which he said that "the way to avoid another big depression is to institute a general wage Incrensc of $2 a day that will raise pur¬ chasing power of steel worker.s." Murray, who also heads the United Steel Workers (CTO), said thc steel industry sets the wage pattern for all Industries and that, therefore, '"we must not make thr same mistake" of the 1920's when steel wage.^ rose only f/i per cent while production went up 46 per cent and profits 1,^7 pcr cent. "'Frozen slccl wages during the (Continued on Page A-2) HOOVER CALLS A'JUST PEACE' MOST ESSENTIAL Warns on Creating 'Cesspools of Hate' With Our Victory Chambersburg, Pa. Oct. 13. (UP) —Former President Herbert Hoov¬ er, today urged the United Nations to promote a '"just peace" for Ger¬ many and Japan and refrain from reducing their "coming generations to the low levels of an agricultural state." Aaserting that the brutalities of war had "clouded our vision of jus¬ tice," Mr. Hoover said that while justice required punishment of the men responsible for the war and the destruction of military castes and material, "justice also requires that we do not visit upon the chil¬ dren of millions of Germans and Japanese the sins of their fathers. "Ceaspoola of Ilate" "Vengeance and revenge are not justice." Mr. Hoover said. "Meas¬ ures which reduce the economic life of the coming generations to the low levels of an agricultural state are neither justice nor good policy. That will create gigantic cesspools of hate, poverty and conspiracy agfiinst the world. "There Is no such thing aa a 'hard peace' or a 'soft peace.' It must be a just peace if we ara to restore justice in the world. And without justice there la no peace." Mr. Hoover spoke at the TSth anniversary of Wilson College. He called for "a reconversion of our intellectual, moral and spiritual life from the shock of a war to a life of peace" aa the "first neces¬ sity" to post-war civilization. "I'neommon Men" Needed Hc urged educational institutions to provide "uncommon men" for leadership in this reconversion and decried whnt hc ealled thc "cult of the common man" whic.i hc said implied that mediocrity was an Ideal. Hc said colleges had a great obli¬ gation to "restore our moral and spiritual losses from thc war, to re¬ new our ideas of freedom to re¬ gain our sensitiveness to wrong and to provide the nation with renewed supply of trained leadership." "Unless wc rebuild this new era on these foundations. It mcan.s the war hns been lost. It means more. It means that civilization is lost," Mr. Hoover said. 98 YANKS DIED IN OKINAWA TYPHOON Pearl Harbor, Oct. 1.1. (UP) - Ninety-right American nnval per¬ sonnel were killed or counted miss¬ ing and 4i'3 were injured by the typhoon which swept Okinawa on Wednesday thc Navy reported to¬ night. B,000 Young Koreans in Japan Without a Country—and Food Atsugi Airport, Honsliu, Oct. 13 (UP)-Sinken I..rc. H-ycnr-old lender of a band of "forgotten" Chinese, would like very much to .vee his parcnt.s in Formosa. Hc has been hungry for 18 montlis, hc , has very little clothing—it's get¬ ting cold In Japnn—but it looks as k if he will remain right here. Tk Lee became an employee of the ¦V .lapanese government in Formosa 'f a couple of years aRo, lured by high wapca of"l.'i yen ($1) monthly. At first he worked as a stevedore. But later hc labored aboard ship and one day he was shanghaied to Japan. g,000_>Io»|Iy Young "There were 8,000 of us in all," I.*c said throuRh an interpreter. "None of us wanted to come to Japan. Many of our men arc even older than 1 am, but most are my HRc and some are j'oungcr. Loe was Interviewed at tho air¬ port when ho nppcnrrd ns "hond iiinn" of a crew of h dozen un- "llicinl Hiclr.i to liclp unload oxceaa frright from a triinaport p'nno. A Korcnn-born American GI act- e I 11.1 trnn.slntor. Ivoc said tho Impressed Inborcrs . Worl<ed in mines until thc war k,( tiided. Thry then were assembled J^jm§t AtsiiRi tn clean up thc airport fc f\ f In Today'a 'aaue < la>isllird .! B—11 Movlr% B—10 Sporls B—1 Radio B—4 Outdoor B—IJ Kdltorlal O—2 Horlal „ O—4 nnd prepare for Ucu. Douglas MncArthur'a arrival. "Nobody WantM Is" "Now the work is fini.shed and nobody wants us," he said. "Amer¬ icans think we aro Japs. The Japs hnve other things to worry about. •They still give us a cup of rice dnily, but no clothing or shoes." Tho bright-eyed, alert little Chin¬ ese npparently hnve been forgotten for thc present. A mi.sslon of seven Chinese oflicers under a brigndier genernl I.s expected to lenve Chung¬ king nnd look into thc matter eventually. But the youngsters will probably be both hungrier and (Older by then, although their pre¬ dicament already is critical. He tried unco to return to his homeland by air. "Can you take I'.s back to For- .Tio.sa in this big airplane," Lcc asked a pilot. Thc pilot regretfully told him that hc couldn't do it today. But the crow helped ease the children'.s liunRor tempornrily by contributing their flight lunches. Afraid lo Tnke Food "We fear the Japanese guard.s will take these honorable gifts from us." the youngster said. "May wc not have a document to certify th.it it is truly ours?" They wore given a statement on a torn piece of notebook paper, promisir.fr on behalf of the United States life imprisonment to any¬ one confiscntlng the lunches. That seemed to take care of the matter. The ragged, starved young¬ sters howed low nnd doffed their leaps. Lee aald he thought America I must he a very nice plare. but that he would like very much to return Ito his native Formosa. Triumvirate Will Rule Argentina still No Sign of Real Government; Special Court of Elections Resigns By HUGH JENCKS Buenos Aires, Oct. IJ. (UP) War Minister Gen. Eduardo Avalos and Navy Minister Hector Ver- ncngo took over all cabinet posta except two tonight and, with Presi¬ dent Gen. Edehrniro Farrell, form¬ ed in effect a triumvirate to rule Argentina. Avalos announced that he would take over the ministries of interior and finance while Vernengo would become minister of foreign affaira and education In addition to hia navy posts. The ministries of publle worka and agriculture will be filled next week, Avalos said. Future Still Uncertain There was no indication whether the new Avalos government waa merely a transition one to handle present administrative neceasitiea or whether the succe.ssors to C^ol. Juan D. Peron, deposed and arrest' ed strong man of Argentina, would continue In power until the eleC' tions six months hence. Avalos also announced lifting of all press restrictions. Polica had seized thc regular • p. m. edition of La Critics. Elstablishment of a triumvirate composed of himself, a navy vice admiral and tlie figurehead presi' dent indicated Avalus had failed to carry out his expressed intention to form a government with proml nent civilians. All of Arsentina'a three main political partiea and Induatrtal, commercial and Mnanclai leader* had mada It clear they would not participate tn any goremment Avalos might attempt to aet up. Election Ooort Qolta The federal electoral court aet up by Peron In anticipation of hla own attempt to become elected President of Argentina, resigned today. Peron, who was taken Into euS' tody by federal police at 4:30 a. m. today, had given the court full powers, beyond appeal, over all matters connected with elections and reorganization of political parties which he desired to bring about. It had failed In ita efforta to reorganize the three traditional parties, the Radical, Socialist and Conservative. It attempted to set up 15-man reorganization conunlt- tces, but party leaders rejected their appointments as committee¬ men. Avalos Gaining Power This latest change in Argentina's political set up came as efforts of a section of the armed forces to oust President <3en. Eklelmlro Fai«- rell and to tum the government over to the Supreme Court ap¬ peared to have reached a stalemate. Adm. Hector Verenengo Lima and Juan Fentanea were sworn in today as navy minister and labor secretary In a government hou.se ceremony which was described as extremely cold. When Farrell en¬ tered thr room, the majority of navy officers present abstained from the applause the President traditionally receives at such occa¬ siona. Girl Tells of Peron Arrest The arrest of Col. Juan D. Per¬ on, fallen strong man, was con¬ firmed by his protege. Radio Ac¬ tress Evita (Little Eve) Duarcte, who said police entered his apart¬ ment at 4:30 this morning and took him away. He was snid to be held aboard the gunboat Indepcndencia an¬ chored in the new section of the Buenos Aires jort known as Puer¬ to Ncuvo. Tho area Is surrounded (Continued on Page A-2) HOLD FARMER AS BOY, 6, DIES FROM WHISKEY Haleyvllle, Ala., Oct. 13. (UP)— An elderly farmer was held with¬ out hond tonight for thc "Tobacco Road" murder of a six-year-old hiied boy who died in a cottoli fleld from drinking too much corn whiske.v. Thc boy, Fletcher Lee Sellers Jr., was one of several children hired ta pick cotton by the farmer, Chnrles W. Tayloi-. HO. His sister, Poberta, 11. was ; notlier m'-mbcr of the group. According to '.Vin.slon Tount.v Solicitor J. A. Po.sry, Taylor pass¬ ed a half gallon juj; of co-n whii- key among the childrr.i .!i'lc thcy v.'cre at work. Later, Po: (v .snid, the children took the momshliic into the field. The Sellers boy was found by I.is older brother, Samuel, 18, on n pile of cotton. He was In a drunken stupor. He died without regaining consciousness. Po.scy said that Taylor wa.s nlso being sougjit on charges of adult- cry involving hia cook. The Sellers boy's father Is in the federal peni¬ tentiary for illicit whiskey making. None nf the other children suf¬ fered any ill effects from the whiskey. No More Battle Fields Sir HaroM Alaxandar, fomtr BriUsh Ftaid Marahal and tha Suprama inlad Commandtr tn the Mediterranean Theater, wlU ¦oon asaume new duties aa the Oovernor-<3eneraI of Canada. He ia ahown with Lady Margaret and Brian. Idonesians Declare War on Dutch in Java Seizing Large Towns; Japanese Ordered To Fight Revolt By JOHN B. BOWEB Batavla, Oct 13. (UP)—A procla¬ mation calling for all-out guerrilla warfare In the Batavla area was issued today by the commander of the "Indonesian People's Army" and clashes between native forces aiid Hurley to Return Tb CMna Post Waahington, Oct. 13. (UP)-- Secretary of State Jamea F. Byrnes today authorized an¬ nouncement that Patrick J. Hur¬ ley, U. S. Ambassador to China, will return to hla post In Chung- King after a short rest in tliis country. The Byrnes announcement evi¬ dently was made to quiet pcr- MacArthur Goes After Jap Silk Valuable Stock Can Buy Food for People; Women to Get Vote, IJnions Get Rights Tokyo, Oct. 13. (UP) — Gen Douglas MacArthur today nioved in on Japanese silk stocks while the cabinet approved universal suffrage and gave Japanese women the opportunity to swing next January's general elections nfter centuries of unquestioning bondage to their men. In what may result in a flood of silk for the legs of American wo¬ men, MacArthur ordered the Japa¬ nese to report on both present and future Bilk stocks In order to as¬ certain how much may be export¬ ed to pay for the importation of food and other supplies for Japa¬ nese civilians facing a disastrous winter. The cabinet acted on election re forma only 48 hours after MacAr thur ordered universal suffrage and other basic constitutional re- fornu. The cabinet also lowered the general voting age from 25 to 20, and the minimum age for of¬ ficeholders from 30 to 20. Breaks 8llk .Monopoly MacArthur ordered the govern¬ ment to dissolve three organlza- tiona controlling the silk Industry and to revoke previous orders which would have reduced the pro¬ duction of silk. It appeared hc was Baclc'to-Wforlc MoveOpposedby Maritime Union Supports Longshoremen Rebels By Shutting off Steam, S/ocJkf'ng Efforts of AFL Men fo Resume Unloading of Ships in New York New York, Oct IS (UP)—The National .^laritlme tnlon (CIO) tiireatencd today to block a bark-lo-Mork movement among AI>'L longshoremen whose IS-day strike has crippled shipping In New york Harlior and slowed up troop redeployment As officiala of the Longshoremen's Association. AFL, reported that .iicmbers had begun to work at some piers, a spokesman for the NMU »aid no steam for ship winches would be provided for unloading until all longshoremen had voted to return to work. The NMU threw support behind Insurgent strikers who want to appoint a rank and file commlttea STREETCAR SME AFFECTS 660,000 Is Latest Dispute In Strike Picture From Coast to Coast Chicago. O-t. 13. (UP) -- More than 660.000 commuters living In acting to provide tho Japanese with | the vicinity of Boston were strand Dutch and Japanese troops threat .— .-- ened to flare into full warfare' s^'stent rumors that Hurley, who throughout all Java. . "•** ••**" "" t*>e United States for Japanese military police posted! '"'^^J'"*' wcp'^s. w-ould resigr hi.s machineguns and tanks In Batavia. a means of obtaining funds for essentia] imports. The Allied na¬ tions havc announced they were not prepared to feed or clothe the Japanese. Dissolved were thc Japan .Silk Controlling (Jo., the Japan Raw Silk Manufacturing Co., and the mutually prosperous Silk Reeling Co. It was estimated that exist¬ ing stocks of low quality silks were worth some .$18,500,000 and produc¬ tion next .year would total between 13,000.000 and 18,.'iOO,00 pounds. ed today when employees of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Rail way went on strike. The workers were asking for a 40 per cent wage increase for mechanics nnd 10 cents an hour more for drivers and motormen. Across thc continent In Holly wood, striking AFL unions. In a bitter juri.sdictional tight, answercn the government's appointment of a conciliator by picketing two more movie studios. This brought to four thc studios under siege by tlie AFL painters' union Warner Columbia and to deal with shipper represents lives on a new contract in an an> parent attempt to oust Joseph P. Ryan, president of the longshore¬ men's union. Charge Communist Influence While Ryan's staff reported that 1.000 of thc estimated 35,000 strik¬ ing longshoremen were on the job, the NMU said the AFL officiala had "put a few longshoremen tn the piers in an attempt to scare the rest back." The rebel group—charged hf Ry.Tn supporters with being "Com¬ munist influenced"—voted not ta return to work before a masa meeting tomorrow at which thojr will elect representatives for their bargaining rommittrc. The group includes six large Brooklyn locals. Local 791. however, largest ot the striking locals, reportedly waa returning to work throughout the dav in protest against what busi¬ ness Agent Eugene Sampson de¬ scribed as "attempts to inject Com¬ munist Influences." John Rogan. chairman ef the NMU's negotiating committee de¬ scribed the rebel strength aa "solid." NMU circulars were dla¬ tributed throughout the day to re¬ turning workers. :>lan Beaten up The first outbreak was reported and set up barricades and road¬ blocks after sporadic but savage attacks by the populace. The Indonesians, seeking freedom from Dutch rule, were reported to be taking over control of cities In central and western Java, arresting both Dutch oflicials and Japanese troops and preparing for a "holy war." Report War Declaration (The Dutch news agency Aneta reported that Indonesian military headquarters had declared war on the Dutch, effective tonight, and had ordered the native population to resist with every weapon at its command.) In the big port of Soerabaja in eastern Java, all Dutch personnel were reported to have bern arrest¬ ed by the Indonesians. The Japa¬ nese garrison at Serang in western Java was attacked by an armed mob on Thursday and forced to withdraw after Inflicting casual- Ues. The Japanese lost two killed and two wounded. The nationalist movement nlso was reported gaining strength in Bali, the tin.v Dutch-owned island just east of Java. Orders Japs to Fight Kevolt Maj. Gen. Sir A. F. Philip Chris- tlson, Allied commander-in-chief, sent an ultimatum to the Japanese to use their predominant forces to stamp out the uprising but it wag apparent that only in the cupitai city of Batavla did the Allies and the Japanese have enougii strength to keep thc situation In hand. A Dutch patrol was attacked by mobs of well'-armed natives yester¬ day when It attempted to occup;- the natlonalst police barracks al Meester Cornells In the southrnst suburbs of Batavla. In heavy fighting, at least 10 Dutch soldiers were wounded. C^^ualtics among the Indonesians were not known. Japanese patrol.s raided Indo¬ nesian homes for hidden weapons (Continued on Page A-2) Ort Bill of Rights Thc electoral changes were made I Bros., Universal, .„u,,.i..,^.» "-"i, . , .. ,. __ ,.,u.;_ ._ by the cabinet in its second ex- RKO-Pathe. bi?,TmeXr Rnbert Mart^S ?t dZ''Vo""dr,cu"srMa"cArthu%%'m7' ^'^"*'' developments across the '^ ",,X'?^,%^«;Xcmen'Si h^ nZf "Hri^ncr^ti^.^l^n-' nrdrr ofi""""^'^ ''¦''^ U»S distrlbU ing circUlarS Urging Cr^dar;rh«d"d^'Xd%'r"ule^>;"«»''»'-7 «''"'"'"« U^ f'X-^" to'stay out until . Baron Kiiuro Shidehara to write al 1 A back-to-work movement vote to return had been taken. bill of rights into the .lapanese a=no",8 At L longshoremen at New The incident caused Joseph jl Yorks hurbor began but the 13-|stack, the NMU's port agent, to iimbassadorship. Hurley, himself, i „n_„,itiitlon nrovlrtinir unlvrranl;'«""k s nuioor ucBaii out ii and" PreSr-rruma'!; ^^rli^; '-Xse-T dlSTo'a?k foTk'1^^^^^^ any more men get todav.^^^fr' .^r"'n,„T^ r: crmg of the voting agc~ permlttlngj'^.rt^^"'/''PP^« ?"'* '"'"'"= | dumped we'll gn a lot farther than unionisation of labor, democratic-!-^!^.V;"^P-,^^^'';y^«^^^J ^.^n,^.^ „J ju.« shutting off steam." today, would not discust- his future plans. He said, however, ]. that hc waa suffering from "ac- '" cumulated fatigue." Japan's economic institutions, it:, demand for a 30 per cent pay Stack said the NMU shut ott Tn'O GERMANS ESCAPE Pcterboro, N. H., Oct. 13. (UP)- Two German prisoners of war, Gus¬ tav Sievert, 22, and Werner Tute, 20. escaped from a work project on the Morrison fnrm here today, the FBI nnnounccd tonight. The FBI also announced the cap¬ ture at Dublin of Gustave Sitz- mann, another German prisoner, who escaped from a Hollis worit project Sept. 29. Gen. Patton Hurt In Auto Crash London. Oct. 13. (UP)—The Luxembourg radio said tonight that Gen. (jeorge S. Patton, com¬ mander of the U. 8. 15th Army, was Injured today In a motor car accident LAVAL WRITES LETTERS AWAITING EXECUTION Paris. Oct 13. (UP) — Picrr'.- Laval wrote letters of farewell to his wife and daughter from his prison cell today and smoked one cigaret after another a.s he await¬ ed his death before a firing squacl.i The former Vichy premier lintl httle hope that Gen. Charles dc Gaulle would order a new trinl on the plea that he did not receive a fair trial in the high court that sentenced him to death for trea¬ son. Laval was reported to have expected he would be executed lo¬ day, since he hns always consider¬ ed "13" his particularly unlucky number. There was no word from Di Gaulle, who l;u,t night hcTrd thc plea of Laval's lawyers Ihat hc bc given a ncw trinl on Rroiuids his turbulent hearing did not conform to the rulea of IcRal procedure. He told the attornc.vs. Albrri Naud and Jacques Bnrrnduc, that he would "examine Ihe case an<i give my decision." but it was con¬ sidered certain that he would no' intervene. libernlizing education, and substi-^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ,^^^ ^^ weekly steam on two ships today. Ap- tutinK justice for the tools of in-' .^^^j,,,^ j^^^^.^^^^ p^y The weekly proximately 385 ships were report quisition. Ujo News said corporations were ediv tied up in the harbor by the Under tlie lowered voting nge, ..jpi^ j newspaper readers and strike. It was estiniHted tliat Japan s dec-[,._.^jjg listeners with propaganda tol \"Ju}!^,.'Z?"^'^ '"' ''¦'¦!''^A "¦'^''.''T''iper.suadc thrm that ClO'a wage do-1 n,./!;./, /'„/! Troona •J1.H80 00O women eligible ag-iinst a ;„„„j, „^^ unrea.soiiable . . . and »""«" ^"" Iroopa potential 21.200,000 males, ti.2.30,000 of whom are overseas and will be unable to vote in Jniiuary Only 13,000,000 men ca-st ballots at the general elections of 1942. IMay Moon Hold Oflice Japanese women still may not hold oflice. although it was possi¬ ble thry will bc permitted to do so .'oon if thcy so desire. After thc cabinet meeting, the premier met with former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoyc. iicwly- appointcd special a.ssistant to thc lord privy seal, to discuss Mac- Arthur's ordered constitutional re¬ forms. II was understood the premier contends revision was unnecessary 'vhilc Konoyc was prepared to recommend necessary changes. It was reported tlmt Dr. Yasak.i Takagi, an authority on the U. S. Constitution, probably would be ap¬ pointed advi.scr to Marquis Kolchi Kido, lord keeper of the privy seal, to nid In fornihiK revisions. 9 Puppets Arretted The U..S. flth Army meanwhile inflntionnry." .^llnrrH Arn Idle 3. Thc soft coal labor dispute, with almost 200,000 miner.s idle in eastern fields, continued dead¬ locked. The nation was losing more thnn 1.000.000 tons of conl daily. Thc dispute arose over thc United Mine VVorkers' demand for recognition ns bnrgalning agent for supervisory workers in the pits. 4. The National Labor Relations Board said it received 200 petitions for strike vote.s during thc first 10 days of this month. Last month a record number of petitions - 307 was filed. More than 70 pcr cent of the companies named In Sep¬ tember's jiotitions wero in Chicago. Kansas City. Ncw York, Detroit and Bnltimore. 5. Deliveries of milk in New (Continued on Page A-14> GIRL Rl RNED TO DKATH Boston, Oct. 13. (UPl —Barbara Jackson. 12. of thc South End was To Get Food from Shtpa London, Oct. 13. (UP)—Britain called troopa back from the con¬ tinent today to help unload food supplies from ships tied up 17 days by an unauthorized strike of ap¬ pro.ximately 54.000 dock workers. The first reinforcements from the continent were expected to arrive Monday and join some 4,0(X) sol¬ diers who began unloading meat, butter, eggs, bacon and other pcrisiiable foods from ships In I-iondon, Liverpool, Hull. Grimsby, Manchester and Middlebrough to¬ day. Nation Nerds Food There was no indication how many men were being withdrawn from Europe, but British news¬ papers called for as many as neces¬ sary to "save the ration" for British civilians, now receiving lesa than normal supplies of food. The strike began when a smalt number of dockmen walked out in a wage dispute and spread through- announced the nrrcst of nine ofH-j bu""''.t" death tonight In a three- out England as unoflicial strike (Continued on Page A-14) alarm fire which swept a five-story brick apartment house causing damage of $10,000. A fireman suf' fered minor injuries. Several oc cupants fled to the street un harmed. leaders made demands for a guar¬ anteed $5 a dny wage and a 40- hour week. Resentment against the striker* was spreading. At several London (Continued on Page A-I> five Injured in fight At Hollywood film Strike Allies Start Search In Hungary For Reported New 'Death Ray' Hollywood, Oct 13. (UP)—Five persons were injured today as striking film workers picketed three additional studios and con¬ ciliation meetings opened in an effort to end the 30-weck old AFL jurisdictional dispute. Work was halted at Columbia I Pictures in Hollywood nnd at RKO- Pathe studies in Culver City, bring¬ ing the total number of studias crippled lo five. Picketing nt Uni¬ vcrsnl Studios bcgnn Thursday and at Warner Bros, on Oct. 5. Try lo Crash Lines Thc injured persons — four pick¬ ets and Chief of Studio Police Maurice Carlton — were caught in a fracas which developed at RKO- Pathe when a non-union carpen¬ ter attempted to cin-sh the picket lines in his automobile. Two hundred pickets man-hed on thc Technicolor. Inc.. studio late today, hajnpering production. A picket. James A. Smitli. was ar¬ rested on a charge of violating a gone far enough to enable the In¬ ventor to kill small animals at a range of 300 yards and Induce a stupor lasting five to six houra In other small animals at rangea up to 1.000 yards. Bv RONALD CLARK "Vienna, Oct 13. (UP)—Allied scientists arc on the trail of au alleged "death ray" developed by a Hungarian to near thc stage where it reportedly rould kili human beings at great distance, j,^ Le,j ,„ stupor it was disclosed today. Some Allied officials believed thc j According to the story, a man story cnough to stnrt au actual;who stepped accidentally into the .search to confirm it \ ray's range at 200 yards was left picketing ordinance after he scuf¬ fled with a policeman. Tho Screen Writers Guild offici? reimrtcd that Warners had laid off some writers, but actors and direc¬ tors said they hnd received no of¬ ficial notice of intention to lay off oneiliation .Meeting Thc conciliation nieeting. hoadeil by Federal Conciliator Earl J Ruddy, met for 45 minutes. Rep¬ resentatives of the producers, thc International Alliance of Teatrical Stage Employees and the Painters Union, both AFL. all agreed to make every effort to reach a set¬ tlement. Ruddy said. Eric Johnston, successor to Wiii Hays as movie czar, was expected to arrive tomorrow to confer witli film producers and .".it In on peacr negotiations. The painters union called the Tiie scicntUst said that when the strike March 12 when thc lATSEiwar started, there was pressure to claimed the right to i turn the experiments Into an at- set decorators. Mass arrests of tempt to find a death ray. pickets were mnde VVeriii i By the time the Allies overran Experts conaidered his story valid Warners sfter 7,'^ wore injured in'an experimental shop in the Aus-, enough to warrant kioking for the rioting and fist fights. trian Alps, it was aaid, work had | hiding placea. Started in 1938 According to reliable sources, a Hungarian scientist who was cap¬ tured said that in 1938 a Hun¬ garian organization set up a fund to develop a special type of ray emitter for use in medical prac¬ tice in a drunken coma for eight houra and took 36 hours to return to normal. The captured scientist was re¬ ported to have told investigators he believed that with a little more work, a ray deadly to human be¬ ings would have been produced. He said that last March equip¬ ment which had been assembled during the experiments was spirit¬ ed away to three parts of Austria.
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 50 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1945-10-14 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
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Month | 10 |
Day | 14 |
Year | 1945 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 50 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1945-10-14 |
Date Digital | 2009-09-03 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 30231 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
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Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
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^ A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
39TH YEAR, NO. 5Q — 44 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1945
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The Weather
Partly cloudy, continued cool.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW DOCK STRIKE THREAT
Government Believed favoring IS to 20% Boosts in Basic Wage
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i- Coming Conference ^ Holds up Statements; Coal Strike Goes on, Many More Pending
Washington, Oct 13 (UP)—The administration's stabilization policy tonight appeared to be crystalizing «n a 15 to 20 p«r cent basic wage rate increase, with compensating price increases. Officials, however, were believed delaying any formal statements until the forthcoming national labor-management con¬ ference has had a chance to deal with the matter.
President Truman, Reconversion Director John W. Snyder and Sec¬ retary of Labor I^ewis B. Schwel¬ lenbach were understood to feel that any advance announcement going beyond exiating executive orders and legislation dealing with wages, prices and labor disputes would have an adverse effect on the conference beginning bere Nov. 5. Wallace HlnU Intentions
Secretary of Commerce Harry A. Wallace, however, gave a hint about admjipistration thinking in n radio interview last night In which he said the gON-ernment should help labor to obtain 15 to 20 per cent of its 30 per cent wage incrcise demand and allow compensating price Incrcsses where neces.>iary to cover the higher labor costs.
Meanwhile. National I.iabor Re¬ lations Board figures revealed that union demands for higher wages arc the cause of 60 per rent of thr record-breaking number of strike vote notices filed at the hoard. This was disclosed as the Congress of Industrial Organiza¬ tions struck back at critics of its demand for a 30 per cent wage rate boost to offset the loss of wartime take-home pay. Coatly Coal Strike Goes On
Tbe rising storm over tbe na¬ tional wage-price policy over¬ shadowed Schwellenbach's seventh day of conciliation meetings with soft coal operators and President John L. Lewis of tbe United Mine Workers in an effort to end the strike which Is costing the nation more than 1,000,000 tons of fuel a day.
The weekly CIO News charged In an editorial that corporations "are drluging newspaper readers and radio listeners with propaganda to persuade them that CIO'.'^ wage de¬ munds are unreasonable, impractl- csl. ruinous and inflationary."
The publication scoffed at Im¬ plications that labor had "an in¬ sane desire to wreck the means from which It draws Its livelihood." It charged that, while wages were frozen during the war, the cor¬ porations increased profits five times before taxes and doubled them after taxes. Wouid Avoid Depression
The CIO also publL«hed a state¬ ment by President Philip Murray in which he said that "the way to avoid another big depression is to institute a general wage Incrensc of $2 a day that will raise pur¬ chasing power of steel worker.s."
Murray, who also heads the United Steel Workers (CTO), said thc steel industry sets the wage pattern for all Industries and that, therefore, '"we must not make thr same mistake" of the 1920's when steel wage.^ rose only f/i per cent while production went up 46 per cent and profits 1,^7 pcr cent.
"'Frozen slccl wages during the (Continued on Page A-2)
HOOVER CALLS A'JUST PEACE' MOST ESSENTIAL
Warns on Creating 'Cesspools of Hate' With Our Victory
Chambersburg, Pa. Oct. 13. (UP) —Former President Herbert Hoov¬ er, today urged the United Nations to promote a '"just peace" for Ger¬ many and Japan and refrain from reducing their "coming generations to the low levels of an agricultural state."
Aaserting that the brutalities of war had "clouded our vision of jus¬ tice," Mr. Hoover said that while justice required punishment of the men responsible for the war and the destruction of military castes and material, "justice also requires that we do not visit upon the chil¬ dren of millions of Germans and Japanese the sins of their fathers. "Ceaspoola of Ilate"
"Vengeance and revenge are not justice." Mr. Hoover said. "Meas¬ ures which reduce the economic life of the coming generations to the low levels of an agricultural state are neither justice nor good policy. That will create gigantic cesspools of hate, poverty and conspiracy agfiinst the world.
"There Is no such thing aa a 'hard peace' or a 'soft peace.' It must be a just peace if we ara to restore justice in the world. And without justice there la no peace."
Mr. Hoover spoke at the TSth anniversary of Wilson College. He called for "a reconversion of our intellectual, moral and spiritual life from the shock of a war to a life of peace" aa the "first neces¬ sity" to post-war civilization. "I'neommon Men" Needed
Hc urged educational institutions to provide "uncommon men" for leadership in this reconversion and decried whnt hc ealled thc "cult of the common man" whic.i hc said implied that mediocrity was an Ideal.
Hc said colleges had a great obli¬ gation to "restore our moral and spiritual losses from thc war, to re¬ new our ideas of freedom to re¬ gain our sensitiveness to wrong and to provide the nation with renewed supply of trained leadership."
"Unless wc rebuild this new era on these foundations. It mcan.s the war hns been lost. It means more. It means that civilization is lost," Mr. Hoover said.
98 YANKS DIED IN OKINAWA TYPHOON
Pearl Harbor, Oct. 1.1. (UP) - Ninety-right American nnval per¬ sonnel were killed or counted miss¬ ing and 4i'3 were injured by the typhoon which swept Okinawa on Wednesday thc Navy reported to¬ night.
B,000 Young Koreans in Japan Without a Country—and Food
Atsugi Airport, Honsliu, Oct. 13 (UP)-Sinken I..rc. H-ycnr-old lender of a band of "forgotten" Chinese, would like very much to .vee his parcnt.s in Formosa. Hc has been hungry for 18 montlis, hc , has very little clothing—it's get¬ ting cold In Japnn—but it looks as k if he will remain right here. Tk Lee became an employee of the ¦V .lapanese government in Formosa 'f a couple of years aRo, lured by high wapca of"l.'i yen ($1) monthly. At first he worked as a stevedore. But later hc labored aboard ship and one day he was shanghaied to Japan.
g,000_>Io»|Iy Young
"There were 8,000 of us in all," I.*c said throuRh an interpreter. "None of us wanted to come to Japan. Many of our men arc even older than 1 am, but most are my HRc and some are j'oungcr.
Loe was Interviewed at tho air¬ port when ho nppcnrrd ns "hond iiinn" of a crew of h dozen un- "llicinl Hiclr.i to liclp unload oxceaa frright from a triinaport p'nno.
A Korcnn-born American GI act- e I 11.1 trnn.slntor.
Ivoc said tho Impressed Inborcrs . Worl |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19451014_001.tif |
Month | 10 |
Day | 14 |
Year | 1945 |
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