Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - September 20, 1945, Miami, Oklahoma RECORD 1 SEPTEMBER 1945 rim PRICE Government Muit Owe Congressmen Now Propose Payments Of to War Workers Going BULLETIN Senate voted today to pay way back home for who the jobs they moved to during the In the administration victory after two major defeats on the unemployment a vote of 68 to 14 turned back a move by Senator McClellan to block the travel The majority heeded arguments that since the gov induced these people to take war work away from it ought to get hem By leaders who lost two major battles on the Senate job less pay expressed confidence today they will win a third It involves paying home for stranded War Senator set up the fight by proposing to from the measure a section ing travel allowances up to to send these workers back home or to a new McClellan told a reporter before the Senate gathered for what Was expected to be its last day of debate on the emergency measure those workers who have already gone home would not share travel benefits at This is dis it would permit travel payments Without any showing of irrespective of the high wages a Worker may have been We are too paying something out of the treasury whether a man needs it or It is a trend which alarms Debate so far has shown little to the pro posal beyond Backers say the government induced these people to leave home for war and therefore is obligated to get them f There was crushing opposition yesterday to two ma jor President Truman A vote of 51 his proposal that the federal government supplement state jobless benefits to assure a top of a in every A vote of 56 to 23 returning to the states activities of the United States Unemployment These taken over by the government early in the Truman had asked that they be retained in federal hands until July Continued on Page Four CHAIRMAN WANTS TO QUIT l Taylor Offers Res ignation to Labor Ste rerary t George Taylor today of his resignation as chairman of War Labor board as Secretary Schwellenbach sought to hold the board together by continuing it as a virtually independent l Schwellenbach prepared a decla ration of policy after a conference with the board enlivened by Heated exchanged over futere stat us under his The Labor War er commission and Employ ment service were shifted to the Labor department by President Truman last The labor it was un to permit the board to function autonomously as in the reserving to him self the right to enter a critical dispute for conciliation purposes only when decisive action seemed in the Detroit strikes of the Wheel company which hav Motor Taylor declined t to comment his offered saying that the White House would have to make any announcement He visited Truman on Tues before the announcement of transfer of WLB to Schwellenbach was It was reliably report ed that he suggested he continue as chairman no longer than Taylor has long expressed a desire to return to his teaching post at the University of A year ago he offered his resignation to the late President but was persuaded to remain through the war emer The labor secretary is seeking an understanding with the board which would hold it together dur ing the crucial reconversion Major Airlines Pledge Faster Schedules Soon NEW 1 Swifter commercial tion was promised today four major one of which said it hoped 11hour New York to Lon don service would be ready The airlines said they planned to 1 up passenger transportation to a 300mileanhour level short Pan American world airways said it was aiming at 400milesan hour All the lines said they would use the new Lockheed Constella tion airliners for their Transcontinental and Westren air said it planned to be the first 300 mph with the inauguration of a 14hour New York to Europe service within a few Jack TWA said the first 12 of a fleet of 36 Con would be ready in the i next two permitting a 10 hour Construction Man Is Killed in Fall SOUTH 20 an employe of a Dodge City construction was kelled yesterday in a fall from truck taking him to for construction Earl Sumner county said one of several men being taken to Guth had been asleep and that when 9 he awakened he apparently step ped out on the running board while the vehicle was in When the driver discovered Mc Nees he retraced his route and found the body of the man oh the Warsaws Ruins Visited By War Correspondent By LARRY ALLEN master minds of destruction left nothing untouched in this once beauti ful Polish city not even the tomb of unknown They dynamited that along with including the American embassy and in revenge unsuccessful Polish insurrection last eight months after the and Polish armies drove the Nazis out of War the winds carry the stench of death from thousands of bodies under the In an American jeep driven by Navy William and accom by a pretty blonde insur Miss Xenia I rode over Mines still exploding within buildings tumbled walls earth Inside the papers and filth are The Amer ican consulate in Jasna street and the Warsaws main fice met similar At various places people in tat tered with shovels or their hands into the piles of hop ing gome of their posses Warsaws is now only stone and mortar and with every building burned opera hall and theater square are mere The Germans did one of their most complete jobs of tion on the Warsaw which was the home Continued on Page Four ERIC JOHNSON BECOMES BOSS OF MOVIELAND NEW 20 UP Eric Johnston has been elected to succeed Will Hays as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of president of the Chamber of took over his new post yesterday as resigned after 24 years during which time he became known as the movie Hays will continue to advise It was reported that Johnsons fiveyear contract called for an annual salary of and that Hays would receive annu as Johnson will remain as Chamber of Commerce He began his business career as a vacuum cleaner salesman in Kerr Tells Chief About State Plan interest in an Arkan sas Valley flood development project was taken up with President Truman today by Robert The Oklahoma governor told re porters the who recom mended favorable action on the project in his message to Con made arrangements for him to see Budget Director Harold Smith later in the day to discuss how much money is needed to carry it out Kerr estimated total cost at The Weather in south east tonight increasing cloudiness Friday followed by showers west little change in MISSOURI r Partly cloudy to night slightly cooler southeast and extreme east central increasing cloudiness and continued cool Fri day followed by showers northwest in the cloudiness tonight and Saturday followed by showers north and west portions Friday little change in tempera ture tonight cooler northwest Fri day Price Controls For New Homes OPA officials today sped efforts to write a sweeping price control measure to new homes and the lots they are built The which Price Adminis trator Chester Bowles said would be presented to Congress also existing dwellings through resale Bowles asserted a statement that faces a highly situation because of OPAs of power to check steeply rising home The present new home gaeg out 16 along with all government curbs on Red Skelton Will Return to Coast Red Skelton is coming back to Hol lywood next week but the radio and film comedian will have to rest for about three months he can resume his Reds manager and former Edna said he had been dis charged from the Army at Camp He has been recuperating in a hospital for three months from a nervous breakdown he suffered while entertaining in Mine Brown Is Injured OKLAHOMA chief Okla homa mine was injured in an auto accident near his office was advised Assistants in his office had no information on the extent of his They said yesterdays ac cident resulted from a tire blow Brown was on a whose home is in Coal has been chief inspector 1930 and for eight years previous to that was assistant TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM SET 5 Million Persons To Escape Federal Levies Under New Proposal A compromise plan that would wipe out income levies for some persons began to take form It also would scale down tax bills for all individuals as well as This development came amid mixed congressional reaction to a by the committee on post war tax policy for an ultimate slash of more than 50 percent in present tax The policy a pri vate called for im mediate repeal of the 3 percent normal tax on individual in comes and elimination of the wartime excess profit tax on The reported under discussion within the own tax staff would provide Retention of the normal tax but with a 1946 exemption of present r flat exemption gives the taxpayer no credit for Continued on Two Killed When Car Leaves Road Albert Asbury and were injured fatally early today in ah automobile acci dent on highway 45 two miles north of Albert distributor for the Kansas City Star in the Lan sing was killed almost in Coroner Tom Hulett when he was thrown from the car as it plunged down a 75foot em His father died later in a Leavenworth MAY MARRY GERMANS bers of the Allied occupation forces in Germany may marry Germans provided the respective command ers in chief give specific permis The Allied Control Council announced tonight this relaxation of the ef Troops may visit in German homes and have normal social re lations with Germans without spe permission of their com Faces Medical Treatment With Smile seated in wheel chair upon arrival in New York City from for treatment of muscular the disease that killed Lou With Jerry is his Frank NEA MARSHALL SEES END OF ARMYS POINT SYSTEM of Stoff Start Con ly George Marshall told Congress today that the point point system for demobilization of soldiers can be abandoned by The Army chief of staff advised a joint meeting that the present discharge score of 80 points could be lowered to 70 points by 1 and to 60 points by jWe may reach point in late winter when the point system will cease and all men with years service will be Marshall Speaking quietly and informally in a dark basement room in the old Library of Congress across the street from the General Marshall carefully reviewed the military manpower program since the start of the He asserted that the sudden Japanese surrender had nullified extensive plans for a huge invasion of Japan on That he had reversed numerous personnel plans for the Marshall assured Congress that demobilization was going for ward as rapidly as He said there was no relationship be tween the rate of discharge of men from the Army and War de plans for a postwar Any such postwar he told can wait until the mid dle of next Marshall predicted that soldiers would be released during September and during Thereafter the release will be at a rate from to a he Marshall reported that both Dwight commander in Continued on Page Four Truman To Meet Demo Chief son Chesapeake Bay President Truman will meet inand out of Congress in an outdoor this weekend at Jefferson Island club in Chesapeake Bay near An The White House said today he will leave by automobile Saturday morning and drive to Annapolis to board a ferry for the The club is headed by former Sen ator Harry Missouri Dem and was visited several years ago by the late President Roosevelt to meet personally Dem in the Senate and Leslie Senate said there would be 200 or 300 including repre prominent government and Governor of The White House said Tru man had dinner last night with members of the Alfalfa a so cial organization headed by Secre tary of State James There were no ExportImport Deal Drafted for Reich The Allied Control council today agreed upon an exportimport policy de signed to treat Germany as a sin gle economic The agreement set forth a 10 point program intended to hold German imports to a minimum and ensure suitable distribution of es commodities four occupied except those made in payment for must be available to pay for any it was Imports will be limited at present to the minimum subsistence requirements as de termined by each zone command Eventually imparts will be limited to those indispensible to economy decided upon for oc Make Some DDT Tests OKLAHOMA The State Department of Agriculture will experiment with DDT in control of livestock in President Joe Scott of the State Board of Agriculture said A New Yok firm producing the new insecticide will send an en to Oklahoma next week to conduct tests with the aid of Clyde head of the en division of the state de Livestock ticks have been report ed unusually bad in southeast Okla homa this TULSA WOMAN DIES 20 Theresa Tulsa resi dent for 25 years and mother of Samuel prominent died late last On Way In Japan Progresses To Court Senator Harold Re publican from appointed by President Truman to the United States Supreme He succeeds Owen of a NBA Telephoto Labor Mediator STRIKES GROW IN ALL AREAS About Reported Idle In Indus try Hit THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Disputes along the nations labor which for more than a week have kept strike idle around the spread taking new groups ot workers their work stoppages during the last 24 hours hiked the army of idle to about 210000 and threats of additional strikes in the oil in dustry indicated new high A for the summer would be on the na tional total before the end of the There was comparative calm in the area where some workers are idle by strikes and shutdowns but there apparently was no letup in the CIO oil workers movement to strike in efforts to attain their de mands for a 30 percent wage in Oil workers already have quit their jobs in refineries and plants in West Virgnia and in Texas where the issue threatened to sweep the entire gulf coastal More than oil workers were off their jobs in the Texas plants while in the Chicago area four employing were Other oil workers had joined the strike movement in plants in the Detroit and in Michi gan and West Strike scheduled in several Texas as the idle in the Port Arthur area jumped to more than as three three rubber plants and two affili ated industries closed or were closing because of labor The where CIO Automobile Workers union Continued on Page Four VETS PROGRAMS TO BE OUTLINED IN MIAMI FRIDAY Veterans and families of men and women in service who are in in public laws 16 and 346 relative to education and train ing may obtain first hand information on the subject by contacting Veter ans administration at the War Manpower commission 15 West Central Friday As Griffin will have necessary forms relative to the two pro many veterans will be sav ed a trip to Tulsa by conferring with it was More Shoes To Be Manufactured Soon The War Production board today authorized shoe manufacturers to increase production 25 percent in higher price There are no limits on the production of lower priced WPB said the action was made possible by increased supplies of Occupation Forces Will Reach prior to Duration Men Several thousand American Navy men headed for home aboard 17 Third fleet war ships while General Mac Arthurs headquarters re ported Army occupation forces would increase to before dropping to his predicted duration total Robert said he couldnt have asked for an easier Handling occupation problems through the Japanese government has made the Allied move into this conquered nation surprisingly successful and extremely said commander of the Eighth which pies central and northern If the Japanese government been many more Allied troops and much more time would have been Eichelberger told Associated Press Correspond ent Hamilton Weve had a minimum of fric tion with the Japanese authorities and with the Japanese he If when I left Okinawa I could have been permitted to ask for just what conditions would have pleased me I couldnt have asked for better than the working arrangements now and the results thus far ob The Eighth army commander also announced that Japans wartime Hideki Tojo soon will be moved into the local calaboose at to join the rest of his Pearl Harbor The is recovering from his bullet wound and should be ready to move in a Eichelberger The Yokohama prefectural its small but clean cells and simple houses some 32 war Continued on Page Seven President Lauds Henry if Stimson For far Effort te ed the thanks of I the nation to Henry retiring of Under the President the United States Army be came the best trained and best equipped in the Truman expressed his sentiments in a letter accepting resignation effective at the close of business tomor Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson hos been nominated to succeed the 77 who has served time as secretary of war and one term as secretary of state in the Hoover administra The President addressed his warmest greetings to Stimson whom he described as a hail vet eran young in all save No one more clearly than you how the shape of things to come was foreshadowed in the Japanese aggression in Man the President Historians will speculate whether the holocaust which spread over the whole world within a decade could not have been prevented had your advice secretary of state been fol Deadlock in Worlds Oil Reserves Seen conservative British week today predicted a diplomatic deadlock rather than an universal planned control of worlds oil as the likely outcome of the current AngloAmerican petroleum It based contention on these fac tors Desire of American oil magnates to remain free of any control of the Middle The intimate not only of Britain but also of Soviet in the oil resources of Saudi Arabia and Fears and hopes of local governments in the Middle BULLETIN committing the government to policies designed to assure jobs for everybody cleared the Senate banking com The committee 13 to for the 5 on President Trumans list of must The which has biparti san lays down a policy that all Americans able and want ing to work are entitled to an op for and fulltime employ Edgar ap pointed director of the Labor de conciliation is seen at his new office in Washington as he to explore the Detroit labor situa tion In an effort to end the Kel Wheel strike and avert further disputes which might interfere with the recon version of the automobile indus NBA Telephoto FINNISH TREATY UP TO BIG FIVE Foreign Ministers Consider Pact Before Plunging in to Balkan Problems The foreign ministers confer ence discussed the sial issue of a treaty with Finland today before plunging into the complex problem of Balkan peace John Foster an Advisor on the American delegation and specialist on foreign affairs in Thomas Deweys presiden tial campaign last meanwhile was considering a request from Secretary of State Byrnes to take a tour of the continent to gather an independent report for use of the State department shaping A renewed United States pro test against unilateral Soviet ac tion in the Balkans may be pre sented when the foreign minis ters take up the problem of peace treaties with the former satellite Dulles said whether he would make the trip for Byrnes depended on how long the meeting He would visit Austria and but not Moscow nor the Balkan satellites if he should decide to he Britain and signatories of the armistice with car ried the main burden in todays discussions on that Since questions relating to territory and reparations already were defined in the the drafting of a treaty is primarily a question of The after deciding last night to refer the problems of Continued on Page Four Truman To Speak For Polio Funds President Truman will carry the Franklin Roosevelt tradu tion of broadcasting an appeal 30 for funds to fight That is the late Presidents birth Basil president of the National Infantile Paralysis foun disclosed this today and said the drive next year will in elude memorial concerts in the various cities instead of the cus tomary birthday The march of dimes and other of will Drives last January netted over
