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It Press Pittsburgh Closing Market Prices PRICE FOUR CENTS morning. Cloudy and cooler Saturday, (COPYRIGHT, 1946, by Pittsburgh Press Co. All Rights Reserved.) PITTSBURGH, Entered as second-class matter Postofflce, Pittsburgh uu E2 TO West inghouse Prepares To Reopen 23 Plants As 11 5-Day Strike Ends Workers Expected to Ratify Settlement Terms Reached by Union Leaders, Company Officials Other Westinghouse News i 1 I i Lid's off in East Pittsburgh Full text of Westinghouse, It's up to the rank and file Westinghouse, Union loss Westinghouse Electric Corp. officials today turned their efforts from the conference table torthe tremendous task of getting 23 plants back into operation after 115 days of strike-idleness. Union officials, meanwhile, went ahead with plans to Work in Pits Resumes Monday; Union Asks For Retroactive Pay Labor News on Inside Pages rage Strike truce comes amid national crisis 4 Friend of labor now calls lor restrictive legislation 5 New union called "front" for Reds 5 Bus strikers want parley on settlement 5 Strikes cost nation 2 billions since V-J Day 13 WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP) John L.

Lewis today ordered a two-week halt in the 40-day coal strike that had begun to paralyze the nation's industry and transportation. Mr. Lewis suddenly directed the 400,000 striking United Mine Workers to dig coal for two weeks beginning next Monday. He said this was the United Mine Workers' "contribution" to rescue the nation from the deadlock caused by the "selfish greed" of the operators. The union president's only stipulation was that any wage increase finally negotiated should be retroactive for the two-week period.

The soft coal operators, apparently taken by surprise at Mr. Lewis' sudden move, called a meeting immediately. It was presumed they would agree to the condition. Mr. Lewis made his unexpected announcement shortly after President Truman had stepped personally into the strike, summoning the mine leader and a representative of the operators for a conference at the White House at 5 p.

m. (Pittsburgh time). Government officials held high hopes that a new soft coal contract finally could be agreed upon during the two-week strike holiday. In that case, the miners would stay at their jobs and coal production would continue without further interruption. If no.

agreement is made in that time, the miners would stop work again on May 25 unless Mr. Lewis extended the truce. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky announced on the Senate i FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1946 Page UE statement 6 6 132 2 millions 7 But current industrial conditions tinged jubilation with a hue of pessimism. "We can't say anything," T.

I. Phillips, vice president in charge of operations, said last night, "until we can get into the plants and look them over. Mr. Phillips said maintenance men, janitors, tool specialists, internal transportation men, and other essentially- non-production personnel would go into the East Pittsburgh plant on Monday. Then, he said, after a cleanup, full scale operations- would be (Continued On Page 1, Column 3) District Hit Hard By Rail Embargo Mills Are Paralyzed; Only Heinz Is Normal By W.

L. RUSSELL Press Business Editor The rail freight embargo today was a big blow to Pittsburgh's steel mills and general industry, pushing business to below depression-year levels. Factories, already throttled back to minimum operations because of lack of coal and steel, now cannot ship out finished products or receive raw materials by rail. Only one major company here was at near-flormal operations. That was the H.

J. Heinz Co. It can continue despite the rail embargo because its food products are exempt from the rail restrictions. All operations at the National Works of U. S.

Steel National Tube Co. in McKeesport will halt at midnight. With some finishing mills producing, the plant operated at 15 per cent of capacity this week. Six thousand employes will be affected by the shutdown. "Big Steel" will have to lay off additional thousands during the week-end because of lack of fuel and the freight embargo.

A total (Continued. On Page 14, Column 3) An Editorial" B(Qgfc House Group Backs Move To Curb Lewis Angry Senate Pushes Strike Measures WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP) A House Judiciary Subcommittee today agreed to approve a bill aimed at outlawing the tonnage royalty demands of United Mine Workers Chief John L. Lewis. The House Subcommittee's decision came as the Senate also prepared to consider labor legislation in the heat of anger at the coal strike. When it completes work on the British loan, set for late today, the Senate will take up anti-strike bills; House Subcommittee members aid their formal approval of proposed legislation would not come before Tuesday, when they will meet again to study a final draft of the bill.

To Combine ills They said the subcommittee had agreed to combine the anti-royalty bill of Rep. A. Willis Robertson and a bill by Rep. Howard W. Smith, both Virginia Democrats, which would apply the principles of the recently-passed Anti-Petrillo Law to all forms of commerce, instead of just to radio.

The subcommittee held two days of hearings on the measures earlier this week. The Anti-Petrillo Bill, signed by President Truman last month, was aimed at the practices of James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians (A. F. of Outlaws Royalty It specifically outlawed collection of a royalty by the union from radio broadcasters for the use of phono graph records.

Presumably if this bill were broadened to apply to all commerce it would outlaw the collection of any royalty by any union. The bill provides a $1000 fine and up to one-year imprisonment for violation. It also outlawed such Petrillo practices as forcing an employer to hire more men than he needs, such as stand-by musicians, and forbade Petrillo to interfere with educational, cultural, noncommercial or foreign-origin broadcasts. Meanwhile, Rep. Stephen Pace, Georgia Democrat, demanded that the House put aside everything but labor legislation "this minute." Senate Bills Listed The field for possible action byj the Senate was wide open.

Among the possibilities were 1 The House-approved Case Bill which would require a 30-day "cooling off" period before any strike or lockout; empower Federal courts to grant restraining orders in labor disputes; outlaw strike violence, boycotts and foremen's union, and make unions liable to suit for violation of collective bargaining contracts. 2 A Senate Labor Committee sub stitute setting up in the Labor Department a new five-member "Federal mediation board as a (Continued On Page 10, Column WEATHER Cloudy and mild today. 62, No. 317 TWO SENIOR QUEEN Doris Kalmenson was named Senior Queen at Tap Day exercises at Pitt today. She will be crowned at ceremonies scheduled for June 11.

(Story and other pictures on Page 10.) Italians Accent Humbert as King Cabinet Acts After Victor Abdicates ROME, May 10 (UP) The Italian Cabinet today accepted Humbert II as king of Italy, but only after lopping off, the traditional designation "By the grace of God and will of the nation." The cabinet sidestepped a Government crisis by its compromise on the wording of the terminology to be accorded Humbert, who ascended the throne yesterday on the abdication of his father, Victor Emmanuel III. Meets for Five Hours The cabinet was in session five hours debating the situation precipitated by Victor Emmanuel's abdication and departure for voluntary exile in Egypt. The Communists objected violently to the abdication at this time, threatening the overthrow of Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition cabinet. Humbert pledged to accept the verdict if the Italian people vote on June 2 to abolish the monarchy. Communists, Socialists and Action Party members or the cabinet considered the abdication a violation of the monarchy "truce" and an effort to gain support in the June 2 referendum, Sail on Cruiser Victor Emmanuel and former Queen Elena were sailing across the Mediterranean toward Port Said, to live out their lives in voluntary exile in Egypt.

With them on the Italian cruiser Lulge de Sovoia Due Degli Abrazzi were 50 packing cases stuffed with clothing and possessions accumulated during the King's reign of almost 46 years. The cruiser sailed from Naples at 7 p. m. yesterday, seven hours after Victor Emmanuel signed over the throne to his son in a five-minute ceremony, in his Neopolitan Villa. Politician Ding Offers Fair Skies For Your Vote Donnie (The Politician) Ding-" bat addressed a mass meeting at the Weather Bureau today.

He was running for Weatherman. 'Elect me head crystal gazer around here and things will be different," he told the cheering crowd. "If I am elected, you can call me Donnie, not Colonel or Your Highness. I'll balance the Budget by giving everybody a raise. "To show you I can do the job, the forecast Is 'Increasing cloudiness today followed by showers late tonight and Saturday morning.

Moderate temperatures today and tonight. Partly cloudy and colder Saturday. Remember," he cautioned the voters, "a vote for Dingbat is a vote for good weather." v. 4 -4 -1 Showers late tonight and Saturday SECTIONS 40 PAGES Admirals Face Punishment in Supply Scandal Furlong Among Those Accused at 'PearP WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP) The Senate War Investigating Committee today sought more evidence on 18 Hop-ranking Naval officers implicated in mishandling and black-maiketeering Naval supplies at Pearl Harbor. Rear Adm.

William R. Furlong, former commander of the Navy-Yard at Pearl Harbor, was among those accused of negligence. Rear Adm. Austin K. Doyle, Navy deputy inspector-general testified for the second successive day concerning a seven-month investigation of the Hawaiian Naval base.

Adm. Doyle's report to Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal recommended "disciplinary action" against 18 Naval officers, including five admirals. The recommendations are being withheld. Tells of Heavy Gambling Adm.

Doyle told the Senate com mittee today at two Navy cap tains were promoted to rear admirals after a Navy investigation disclosed they had permitted organized gambling to be carried on in a Navy-supervised civilian recreation hall at Pearl Harbor. The officers named were Rear Adm. R. W. Paine, USN, and Rear Adm.

C. O. Kell, USN, wh now commands the Naval shipyard at Pearl Harbor. Adm. Doyle said "organized gambling" was carried on in the recreation hall until December, 1944, when a Navy investigation resulted in it being closed.

He referred to the gambling as being, "the sky is the limit." The Senate committee, which instigated the Navy inquiry, studied the Doyle report which told of: 1 Beef sold to a restaurant and bar by an admiral. 2 Merchandise stolen from a submarine Ship's Service store and sold in local shops. 3 More than 15,000 pounds of shortening taken from Navy stores and sold to a civilian restaurant owner. 4 A Naval lieutenant who trucked between $4000 and $4500 worth of materials from a poorly-guarded supply dump to be used in constructing his new home. 27 Million Income Among those cited for1 "negligence" were Rear Adm.

C. O. Kell; Rear Adm. E. W.

Hanson, now commanding the Pearl Harbor naval base, and Vice Adm. D. W. Bagley, former commandant of the 14th Naval District. The Doyle report charged that negligence at the base had resulted in establishment of "collateral activities on a large scale beyond the scope of law." During a 39-month period, it said, this "collateral" business had a gross income of "more than 27 million dollars." The court-martial acquittal of Cmdr.

Laurence H. Blodgett, was called a "miscarriage of justice." Cmdr. Blodgett commanded the West Loch submarine base. In his locker were found large supplies of meat and butter tagged as his "private property." Rear Adm. John J.

Gaffney, district supply officer, was censured for selling 7000 pounds of beef loins for S2627 to Kemoo Farms, a restaurant and bar near Schofield Barracks, under circumstances "such as to generate suspicion ot an ulterior motive." THE WEATHER Friday. May 10. 1946 Local Increasing cloudiness today followed by showers and possibly a thunderstorm late tonight and Saturday morniiig. Moderate temperature today and tonight. Partly cloudy and becoming colder Saturday afternoon.

Highest temperature today near 65 degrees, lowest tohisht near 42 and highest Saturday near 65. Temperatures at Pittsburgh (last 24 hours Highest 7. lowest 42. mean 54. Highest and lowest temperatures a year ago.

50 and 41. Raining. Temperature readings reported by the United States Weather Bureau: Midnight 9 a. 52 1 a. 50 10 a.

57 2 a. 43 11 a. 59 3 a. 4t Noon 62 4 a. 44 1 p.

66 5 a. 4 i 2 p. 67 6 a. 3 u. 69 7 a.

4. p. 67 8 a.m.. 4ti Sunrise a. sunset p.

m. River stage at 8 a. lti.S pool FIVE-DAY FORECAST Saturday. May 11. through Wednesday, May 15 Western Pennsylvania.

Ohio arid West Virginia Showers endins Friday night followed by cooler weather over Saturday and Sunday. Occasional rain late Sunday or Monday with a total amount for the period near one inch. Slowly rising trend in temperature Sunday afternoon. Average for the period near normal to four degrees below normal. The average daily normal temDerature at Pittsburgh for the period is 59 degreesr the average normal maximum is 70 degrees and the average daily minimum is 51 degrees.

DETAILED REPORT ON PAGE SS VOLUME Reds Blocking Peace Parley, Bevin Charges Remark Nearly Breaks Up Big 4 at Paris Read an editorial. "Hold the Peace Conference," Page IS. PARIS, May 10 (UP) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin today accused Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov of trying to block the holding of a peace conference.

Mr. Bevin said that Molo-tov's insistence upon Big Four agreement on all fundamentals of the peace treaties before submitting them to a 21 -nation peace conference constituted, in effect, a veto over the treaties. The Bevin-Molotov exchange left the Big Four ministers as dead- rcked as ever over the treaties and peace conference. In a desperate effort to get to some' kind of agree- ment the ministers scheduled an informal meeting for later today to thresh the situation out. Hands On Doorknobs The ministers all but had their hands on the doorknobs to call it quits 'when they reconsidered.

It began when U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, trying to get a compromise, said that what really mattered was setting a date for the peace conference of 21 nations. He said the United States would suggest either June 15 or July 1.

Georges Bidault, playing a mediators role, suggested that the ministers order their deputies to keep working on the treaties and the ministers themselves reconvene on June 15 to check the progress. It was then that Mr. Bevin launched his attack on Molotov. He -harged that as things now stood, it amounted practically to a single nation holding the veto power over the world. He added angrily that if any nation at this conference holds a veto power, then it denied the rights of other nations at a peace conference.

Would Mean No Conference Mr. Bevin said that stand meant, in effect, that if any y-ne of the Big Four did not agree on a point, it could be described as 'fundamental" and thus hold up final agreement. Such a disagreement. Mr, Bevin said, would mean that there would be no peace conference. Mr.

Molotov clung to his vantage position behind the Moscow declaration which called for completion of draft treaties by the Big Four. Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Bevin said they believed the document left the way open for a full dress meeting before the Big Four finished all draft details. But Molotov disagreed vehemently.

Suggests Adjournment Molotov suggested that the Big Four adjourn until June 5, then make a new try. Mr. Byrnes art" Mr. Bevin thought this only would postpone the inevitable showdown. The meeting today was intended-as a general survey of the situation.

If the ministers should decide they cannot settle the peace conference date without a further lengthy meeting, there would seem little hope for peace treaties until after the September general as sembly of the United. Nations. Belgian Envoy Dies LONDON, May 10 Baron Emile ce Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian smb-jsrador to Britain since 1927, aied rf a heart attack today at the Belgian embassy. He was 74. Important Features On Inside Pages Around Town Business-Finance Classified Ads Comic Pages Crossword Puzzle Death Notices Editorial Page 21 22-23 33-36 37-39 37 33 18 16 38 39 31-32 26-27 23 22 28-30 Obituaries Post-War Column Radio Programs Sports News Theaters-Movies -Vital Statistics Weather Table Women's-Society Press Telephones Classified Ads COurt 4900 Other Dept's COurt 7200 wj IL uu and file membership of the ClOj United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers.

In all quarters there was confidence that the employes would vote a resounding "aye" to the agreement reached yesterday between their leaders and the company offi- cers. When that is done they will be called back to work. Local 601, UE, the huge East Pittsburgh union, will meet at the Turtle Creek High School Athletic Field at 1 p. m. Sunday to vote on the agreement, it was announced late this afternoon.

House Group Votes Stopgap. Draft Bill Approves 45-Day Extension of Law 63 per cent of people favor year's draft extension, Page 9. WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP) The House Military Affairs Committee today approved legislation to extend the draft law until July 1. Committee Chairman Andrew J. May, Kentucky Democrat, asked the House for unanimous consent to bring the measure up for immediate floor action, but was blocked by the single objection of Demo cratic Representative John Sheridan of Pennsylvania.

The House then gave unanimous consent to consider the measure on Monday. Tne committee in less than 20 minutes approved the stopgap measure for floor action. The Senate yesterday hastily passed the legislation which extends the draft for 45 days from the present expiration date of May 15. Mr. May declined to give the committee vote, but said it was not unanimous.

The temporary extension would not affect a previously-passed House bill extending the Draft Act until February 15. This bill provides for (Continued On Page 10, Column 1) It's a Strike Acjainsf the Government! Coal to Come Fast If Miners Return immediate Output 90 in District Near-normal operations can be resumed in Western Pennsylvania coal mines Monday if the miners go back to the pits under the terms of a two-weeks truce offered by UMW President John L. Lewis. Byron H. Canon, executive secretary of the Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators said this afternoon that production would immediately reach 90 per cent of capacity If the miners return.

Two Million Tons a Week This would be close to two million tons per week in the district, he said. John Dresmich, International UMW representative had "no comment" on the news that UMW President Lewis had agreed to a truce of two weeks. "We have only newspaper reports of the truce so far," he said. "We have not been officially notified by the UMW. We will have to find out more about the details before we can say anything." Mr.

Canon said virtually the same thing. Still Awaiting Terms "We have heard reports of the truce but we are still waiting to learn what terms it is to be governed by," he said. "There may be some strings attached." He said he believed that the district operators would be anxious to mine coal just as soon as the miners are ready to go back into the pits, provided the truce terms are acceptable. NOTICE To Suburban and Country Readers Nearly 50 trains will be dropped by railroads serving Pittsburgh tonight. Service on others will be sharply curtailed.

Thousands of copies of The Press sent out on trains daily will have to be delivered by other means. We are making: every effort to insure delivery of The Press to suburban and country readers. But some delays and confusion will be inevitable. Please be patient! We will do everything possible to get The Press to regular read-, ers. floor that the truce had been or-i dered.

He said he felt there was "every justification" ior hope that the "unfortunate situation" of a coal strike would not be resumed. But despite the truce, the Senate planned to go ahead with new anti-strike legislation when it completes work on the British loan late today. Planned Action Mr. Truman's action in calling the White House meeting indicated that the President was ready himself to propose some plan to end the crippling strike if Mr. Lewis had not acted.

Mr. Lewis was to represent the mine workers at the meeting. The operators designated Charles A. O'Neill, spokesman for the operators' association in the strike negotiations, to represent them. Mr.

Lewis, in a telegram to all local union heads, said: "This action is the contribution of the UMW to our nation's economy, which is being imperiled by the stupidity and selfish greed of the coal operators and associated financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of hysteria rather than grant justice and fair treatment to the men who mine the nation's coal." Approved by Committee Mr. Lewis gave copies of the telegram to reporters in the pres ence of the 200-man Policy Committee, which he said had approved the truce. "The coal to be mined during this two-week period can be utilized for consumption by essential facilities and the nation's health and security thus safeguarded while efforts to negotiate a contract continue," Mr. Lewis said in his telegram. "Let every member be assured that the members of the National Policy Committee are determined to accept no contract that will not give to the mine workers the essential protection which is imperatively required.

Let each member co-operate with this policy." Mr. Lewis directed that the. local union presidents and mine committees advise local management im-(Continued On Page 4, Column 2) GM May Cancel Shutdown Plans DETROIT, May 10 (UP) General Motors which announced an impending shutdown, said today it would continue to operate "if the rail freight embargo is removed." GM said yesterday it planned to shut down its nationwide system within 10 days because of the coal strike and embargo, idling 215,000 hourly-rated production workers. Ford Motor Co. began laying off 110,000 workers, 90,000 in the Detroit area, Wednesday night in the face of dwindling supplies.

Chrysler Corp. said that it would hold to plans to stop its assembly line operations Monday, but that the remainder of its production would continue. About 10,000 men will be laid off at Chrysler. NEVER in history have we had such a demonstration of official impotence as is being shown in this coal strike. The American people have been pushed around by an insolent, power-mad egocentric John L.

Lewis whose determination to defy the Government and impose his will on a whole people now threatens to destroy the national economy and the public security. It would seem a situation to stir a storm of wrath that would "blow this strutting, beetle-browed tyrant forever into oblivion. Yet the President of the United States, in whose opinion the strike was a national calamity six days ago, now says coolly that it has not yet become a strike against the Government; that if and when it does he, the President, will do something about it. And the President's party leader in the Senate urges Congress to wait for calmer times before acting to correct the biased laws and Government policies which have given Mr. Lewis his power and made this situation possible.

Meanwhile, the arrogant Lewis isn't even attending strike conferences. And what happens while wre wait? Two million people already are jobless or working only part time because of the strike. Their number swells by many thousands daily as steel plants close in Pennsylvania, auto plants in Michigan, factories of all kinds in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and other states. Seventy-five per cent of rail freight is embargoed. Two thousand passenger trains go out of service today; two thousand more next Wednesday.

Use of electric power is drastically restricted over a wide area. Streets of scores of cities are darkened. Their food supplies are dwindling. Their hospitals and schools are running out of fuel. Their water and sewage systems are endangered.

And much, much worse is still to come as paralysis gallops across the land. This Lewis coal strike is, and has been from its start, a strike against the Government. It is a strike against that domestic tranquility and general welfare which the Constitution says it shall be the purpose of the Government to insure and promote. It is a strike to destroy the price and wage controls by which the Government is attempting to protect the people from calamitous inflation. It is even a strike against the National Labor Relations Act, which law.

President Truman says, forbids payment of the ccal tonnage royalty that Lewis insists must be granted before he will even discuss other demands. The issue has gone beyond the merits of an employer-employe relationship. It has" become the simple issue of whether or not one man shall be allowed to wreck our society. This is a strike against the Government. If the President and Congress ever intend to do anything about it, the time is now..