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Stoppages In Industry Leave218,000 IdleUnion 'Hopes' StrikeWon't Be NecessaryTo Force Decision OnGM Wage Increase UrumCHI PltHlSStorm Velocity 143Fire Breaks Out At RichmondMIAMI, Fla.—(/P)—Over 200 persons were reported injured Saturday night in a fire at the Richmond navy blimp base as a violent tropical hurricane that reached a peak velocity of 143 m. p. h. swept inland across the Florida keys.Hurricane warnings were ordered hoisted over all of peninsu a Florida, 50,000 persons were driven to seek emergency shelter in south Florida alone, and at least one death was reported.Flames whipped by the great winds threatened to destrov the giant navy blimp hangars at Richmond, 30 miles from Miami, which were described by the navy as the world's largest single-arch wooden construction hangars.Ambulances were called to Miami's municipally-owned Jacksonmemorial hospital to remove 70(By the Associated Press)The number of idle through work stoppages in major labor disputes in tiie nation rose to 218.000 Saturday, as the CIO-United Automobile Workers announced its decision to petition for a strikevote among 325,000 workers in 135 General Motors plants.The CIO-UAW announcement, following closely a shutdown order at the Ford Motor company plants, said General Motors had been singled out as the “moststrategic spot” to launch the union's drive for a 30 per cent wageincrease.Union officials saidthat no strike will be following issuance of the strike vote petitio tion, the union sai/To Tell AllWill Discuss ChangesIn War DepartmentBy ERNEST B. VACCAROKANSAS CITY(IP)Presi-“We hope necessary'’ notice of The pcti-would bedent Truman said flatly Saturdaythat he would tell reporters allabout rumored changes in the war department it his press conference next Tuesday in Washington.Hemade the statement shortly after he had told an informaliforwardedMonday.59.000 Idleto the governmentFord company officials ordered a shutdown of their plants in the Detroit area because of what they described as “crippling and unauthorized strikes” in plants supplying Ford parts. The shutdown order made some 59,000 workersidle.The largest single continuing labor dispute, involving 47,000 Westinghouse Electric corporation workers in six eastern cities, turned into a fight between two unions on the question of a bargaining agent for 12,000 clericalworkers.Involved in the unions dispute were the CIO - United Electrical,Radio and Machine Workers ofAmerica and the Association of,vacanc'anpress conference that lie could give a better answer to any question relating to that department upon his return to the capital.There hav e been persistent ru- I juries have been reported, mors that Henry L. Stimson. set- Ru,h EnHsled Mfn retary of war. is anxious to retire iand that his departure would he Three hundred enlisted ir,*n followed bv that of Gen. George from the Miami a.r base at Opapregnancy cases to make room for injured from the blimp base.Mercy vehicles that sped to the Richmond lighter-than-air station carried 200 units of plasma, and 75 additional units were rushed there later. An emergency call was sent to Red Cross officials in Washington for 250 additional units to be sped here by plane.The extent of the disaster at the blimp base was kept hidden by ripped communications, floodedroads and washed out bridges.The Red Cross reported that the blimp base tire was caused by anexplosion of undetermined originwhile heavy winds roared outside. Six doctors reached the scene to treat victims, and some injured already have entered the naval dispensary at Miami.Wooden structures at Homestead, 40 miles south of Miami, were badly damaged by the storm, the Red Cross said, but no in-C. Marshall, chief of staff.ILock a were dispatched as rescueLeaving his office in the federal workers and fire fighters to Ricn-building, the president was told mond. his answers concerning the war | department had occasioned considerable excitement among re-f f*a d k-porter s.No Decision Oil JusticeMr. Truman replied that he hadn’t told them anything specific but that he would tell them all about it next Tuesday.The president, however, made it clear that he has not decided upon his choice for the supreme courtHe said flatlv he wouldIWestinghouse Salaries Employes.A ClO-union spokesman said hundreds of association members were signing UERMWA cards be-Tau.se they were “tired of bucking, a stone wall without competent leadership.” The official said the riO union would launch an im-nediate campaign to enroll thedrikers in the CIO union. Thework stoppage began a week agon a disjiute over wages.Hore StoppagesOther major continuing woik stoppages and the number ol corkers involved included B.•\ Goodrich Rubber company, \kion, O.. 15,780: Midvale Steel ompany, Nicetown. Pa.,0.000 painters in Now My: 7,000 Hollywood Set Decorators; 6.500 Hudson Motor Car !o., Detroit, workers; 4,500 at Celsey-Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit; .000 at General Motors, Warren, ).; 4.000 in four coal mines in thehttsburgh-Uniontown. Pa., areas; .500 dried fruit workers in the anta Clara Valley, Calif., and 3,-00 at the Murray Corp., in De-roit.The turbulentcene in the vastustrv shaped up1—The UAW /ould petition for1 135 General Motors plants if ic corporation does not meet the ,ago demand. Such a walkout ould affect more than 300,000 workers.2—The union said Chrysler orkers would ballot Sept. 23 to ecide whether they also would etition for a strike vote later, bis would involve from 80,000 to00,000 employes.3—The Ford Motor company’sig plants were almost completelylosed as the' corporation declared could not continue work be-»usc of strikers against suppliers : parts. About 50.000 workersere affected directly, and 75.000directly.I Million In Fundnot have an announcement on that post when he discussed hts appointments at a news conferenceat the White House late next Tuesday afternoon.Mr. Truman, reporting to reporters at his offices in the federal building on earlier calls on his mother, his barber, and a former haberdashery store proprietor. also disclosed.(1) That he will look into labor disturbances at Detroit on his return to Washington but that he has no intimate knowledge of the it-uation at the present time. Fifty-thousand Ford Motor company employes were thrown out of work last night when production ceased 6 500 : at various plants throughout theYork country.lt;21 That he has no knowledgeconcerning published reports that Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, en-route home from China, wants to resign his post as ambassador to that country.Another fire sprang up on th» northwest fringe of downtown Miami, destroying a furniture tory and a tile manufcatu^mg plant and casting a great red glow' up against the rain-whtpped skies.Relief w-orkers went into the Florida keys as the core of the storm raged over the Everglades in a curving northward movement. Hundreds of homes were reported damaged in the Keys.where the hurricane reached an ol finally recorded velocity of 143 m.p.h. at Carysport Light, 40 m.ies south of Miami.Winds of 99 m.p.h. roared over-Miami itself but damage was held to a minimum by the tightly boarded up city.An unconfirmed report sa-d 57million worth of navy and private planes, shifted from the Miami area to the hurricane-proof Richmond blimp base, were endangered by the fire there.Weather Bureau Warningbv the(CVVT ,r -An advisory iv»ued w-eather bureau at 8 p m. said:“Extend hurricane warningsp. m. of Florida peninsula to elude J acksonville and St. Mark -“The severe hurricane is central over the Florida Everglades 60 miles west of Miami, attended by winds of full hurricane force.“Highest wind reported at Miami was 99 m.p.h.reconversionautomotive m-thus:announced it the strike voteai country j 1S apparently moving north-Hurlev asked permission to re- westward at 12 to 16 m.p.h. with a turn home to report on the Chinese ; tendency toward a slow northward situation, the president said, but 1 curve which will probably terrr .r-ate in a definite northeastward movement while still over Florida interior close to the gulf coast or after emerging a short distance out in the Gulf of Mexico. This movement will cause the storm toaffect all of peninsula Florida andadjacent water area.“Destructive winds are indicated for central Florida late Saturday night and Sunday and ever north Florida Sundav. Hurricanesaid nothing to him about resigning.Communist* Left OutHe added, however, that Russian recognition of the central government had left the Communists out of the picture.A reporter asked if the appointment of a successor to retired Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts was any nearer.The president said. no. that he (winds that now prevail over ex-was still studying that matter and | t »;«*»«* south Florida will begin to trying to find the right man.Theright man is often hard to find, hecommented.He was asked about his choiceas successor to Paul V. McNutt asfederal security administrator. Mc-( Nutt was appointed a few days agoas high commissioner to the Phil-! ippines.He said he had no comment onj f -j tiJlil I .“How about the war depart-i ment”” a reporter pressed. •The president said he would Plans of the UAW-CIO to throw-1 know about that when he got back \ million into the campaign were I to Washington. He thougnt he•Sre strikes. Page 2» '■ could give a better answer then.uzuki Fears Wrath Of People;%t For New Emperor Is Told(By the Associated Press*Mann, Mutual Broadcast-■ompany in Tokyo, said in a clcast Saturday night he had[1 Japan's last wartime pre-, Adm. Kantori Suzuki, whom iroadcaster described as a man ng from place to place in hid-o escape the wrath of Japa-blaimng him for the end of var.inn said Suzukis home had burned by indignant Nip-The broadcaster quoted as saying the Japanese even to install a new emperor Hirohito and Suzuki met to an end of the conflict.ared MilitaryMann's report on the interview ludod these angles;The day Japan surrendered. Su-lt;i fled in a minono up a back E*y. He feared the wrath of rc-mng military officers. ifhe emperor and Suzuki were 1against the war with the United States from the beginning. Suzuki said Hirohito had to approve the attack on Pearl Harbor—but didnot order it.It was Suzuki—so the admiral claims—who approached the Soviet Union last June with a peace feeler. Suzuki said he later convinced the emperor that Japanshould accept the Potsdam declaration.Mann said he learned from another source “so close to the imperial household that I felt it is virtually unimpeachable” that there had been a plot prior to the surrender to kidnap Emperor Hirohito, to liquidate Suzuki and his associates and carry on the war.Mann reported this plot was foiled by the resignation of Suzuki and the appointment of Prince Ha-gashi-Kum as premier. Suzuki, j(Sfp SUZUKI. Page 2tdiminish slowly after midnight ! “Hurricane warnings are now displayed over the entire Florida peninsula.”Sweeps Across KeysAt 8 p. m., the winds in Miamihad ebbed to 68 m. p . h.The highc.-t unofficially repcTied winds at West Palm Beach were about 60 m p. h.Full hurricane warn;r;v w ere displayed from Palm Beach around the southern Florida coast to Tampa and at 5:45 p m. storm w .irnir.g- were ordered up along the east 1 coast to Fernandina, near the , Georgia state line, and St. Marks on the west coast south of Tallahassee.The hurricane swirled viciously across the Forida Keys and at 4:45 o'clock (CWT) its center was in Florida bay about 50 miles nortn of Tavernier, a little fishing village at the southern tip of Key Largo The storm was pointed towards Everglades city on the mainland.I Ninety-nine mile winds roared through Miami and Miami Beach, smashing plate glass, earningawav colorful beach cabanas, lift-—ing roofs off a few buildings, overturning automobiles and flooding deserted Collins avenue, along the oceanfront.The weather bureau said the wind direction had changed to southeast at Miami and should begin to diminish in this area about 10 p. m. after increasing to approximately 110 miles an hour.Fruit Crops ThreatenedGrave fears that South Florida's multi-million dollar grapefruit, orange. lime and avocado crops would be destroyed were expressed. Many fruit trees were uprooted. A number of Miami's streetswere blocked bv fallen trees..The police department halted all traffic over the three causeways
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