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FEBRUARY 26. 1946 Copyright. 1946, by lYianele Publications, Inc. Vol. 234, No.

57 CIRCULATION January Average: Daily Sunday 1,149,471 117th Year a THREE CENTS Allies Accused Union, Go E. Agree on Trace In Mass Picketing Here; Living Costs Going Higher, Eccles Warns Increase Is Linked Today BrownelPs Resignation Party Girds for '48 Given Freer Hand 'Liberals' Jubilant Dewey Big Factor Pittsburgh Strike Postponed U. S. Urged To Restrict British Arms Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.

Senator Owen Brewster asserting that the United States is "embarrassed by the use of American-made equipment against the Jews in Palestine, the Egyptians, the Indians and the Indonesians," today urged that this country "sterilize" surplus military equipment on Lend-Lease to Great Britain. Senator Brewster proposed that the Senate War Investigating Committee ask Secretary of State James F. Byrnes for a statement of policy on the question. SALE NEVER INTENDED The question arose during examination of Thomas B. McCabe, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, in private life president of Scott Paper Chester, Pa.

Mr. McCabe was questioned on the terms under which more than $4,000,000,000 No Violence Expected at Plant Today Illustrated on Page 2 In defiance of a court order, 1100 strikers staged a mass picketing demonstration yester ILabor Summary The Pittsburgh power strike, scheduled to go into effect last midnight, was postponed for one week, while two other major cities made frenzied last-minute efforts to avert disastrous walkouts. In Philadelphia, fears of a clash between General Electric pickets and police were allayed. The situation: PHILADELPHIA Defying a court order, 1100 General Electric strikers staged a mass picketing demonstration at the company's Eastwick plant. Union and management, however, agreed to make concessions which would avert any such occurrence today.

The company announced it would not try to send any employes, except maintenance men, into the plant. PITTSBURGH A second blackout in the Pittsburgh area was scheduled to start at midnight by employes of the Duquesne Light Co. and its affiliates, but last minute negotiations resulted in a one week's postponement of the walkout. Trolleys already had been.taken off the streets. The union demands a 20-percent pay increase.

NEW YORK With a strike of C.I.O. transit workers scheduled for midnight tonight, 6000 A.F.L. workers said they would not join the walkout, and Mayor O'Dwyer was authorized to operate the metropolis' transit lines with city employes. HOUSTON, Tex. A city-wide "holiday" of 40,000 A.F.L.

workers was called for today as a one-day sympathy demonstration in support of 700 striking municipal Stocks Drop $1 to $13 In Heavy Selling Wave, Slump Worst Since 1937 NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (A. heavy post-holiday selling today touched off the sharpest stock market relapse since Oct. 18, 1937, with leading steels, motors, rails, liquors, utilities and To Truman's New Wage-Price Policy By FRANK II. WEIR Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb.

25. President Truman's new wage-price program may boost the cost of living 40 percent over pre-war levels, 10 percent more than now, Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve System, predicted today. If the bulge in the anti-inflation line can be held down to 10 percent, he said, it will represent a "fairly good job." CHALLENGES POLICY Appearing before the House Banking Committee to urge extension of price controls at least until mid-1947, Mr. Eccles took issue with the new policy, which authorizes price Increases to offset wage raises under certain circumstances.

"Wage increases can be justified only when they can be met out of increased productivity and profits without increasing prices," he insisted. "Clearly, wage increases that result in price increases to the consumer are inflationary." BOWLES GETS AUTHORITY Other developments in the controversial wage and price field were 1 President Truman re-estab- lished the Office of Economic Stabilization abolished last September and gave its new director, Chester Bowles, almost complete authority to fix and administer wage-price policies. 2 The President followed the publication of his OES executive order by lunching with the Administration's economic stabilization high command John W. Snyder, director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion OPA Administrator Paul A. Porter and Mr.

Bowles in the office of Post- Continued on Page 4, Column 4 Social Security Expansion Urged By ROBERT BARRY Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Wide extension of the Social Security program to include virtually all persons gainfully employed in the United States was recommended to the House Ways and Means Committee today by Dr. A. J.

Altmeyer, chairman of the Social Security Board, and Theodore Compton, spokesman-expert for the National Association of Manufacturers. The broad new coverage, as proposed, would include farmers and farm workers, domestic servants, small business men, self-employed persons, workers employed by nonprofit organizations and all Federal, State and municipal employes. The proposal would provide standard benefits for most of the 21,000,000 persons now working but excluded from the program. Both experts agreed that the widened coverage would not necessitate an increase in the Social Security Continued on Page 4, Column 6 Reds Seek Pact With Argentina MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (U.

It was reported reliably today that a Soviet delegation has left for Argentina to negotiate a trade IIv John C. O'Brien Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. THE resignation of Herbert Brownell, Republican National Chairman, who managed the Presidential campaign of Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York in 1944, is widely interpreted by Republican leaders as a move to give the Republican Party a freer choice in the selection of a candidate in 1948.

Brownell, in a formal statement issued today, said he would present his resignation to the National Committee on April 1. He gave as his reason for relinquishing the post the necessity of considering the needs of his family. Brownell had Insisted on serving without salary, although the committee offered to put him on at salary basis, because he believed that he would have more freedom of action as an unpaid chairman than as a paid employe. Notwithstanding Brownell's statement, Republican leaders indicated that pressure had been brought to bear on the National Chairman to step aside so that the party would not enter the 1948 Presidential campaign with a chairman identified with the interest of a former candidate who may again seek the same designation. Brownell's resignation was hailed as a victory for the progressive wing of the party, which believes that the party's chances in the 1948 election would be greatly enhanced by the nomination of a "liberal" Republican such as former Governor Harold E.

Stassen of Minnesota. Stassen's supporters were said to have taken the stand that the Chairman of the National Committee should have no entanglements with any candidate for the nomination. Before he made his decision to retire from the chairmanship, Brownell, it was learned, talked the matter over with Governor Dewey. The New York Chief Executive has not indicated to Republican leaders, it was said, whether he will be a candidate in 1948, but he has informed New York Republican leaders that he definitely intends to run for reelection in New York this fall. Brownell has told Republican leaders that he may take a hand in the effort to re-elect Governor Dewey this fall.

Since re-election as the Governor of the Nation's most populous State would strengthen Dewey's position in 1948, Brownell's retirement from the chairmanship was viewed also as a move to put him in a better position to work for the interests of his sponsor. Discussing his retirement with leaders of the Republican Party in both houses of Congress, Brownell said that he believed his successor should be a man who would subscribe to the main lines of policy laid down by him as chairman. These were that the new chairman should support the policy of broadening financial support of the party and retaining the headquarters organization built up since the 1944 election. When Brownell took over the Republican organization, the Continued on Page 16, Column 1 Of Anti-Red Plot on Assets Former U. S.

Aide -Says Farben Trust Isn't Being Wrecked By NICHOLAS P. GREGORY Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Charg es that elements within the Ameri can, British and French Gqyern ments are attempting to "disunity" the Big Four by shielding from de struction I. G.

Farben, German dye and munitions trust, were made to day before the Senate War Mobiliza tion Sub-committee. Russell A. Nixon, former acting director of the division of investigation of cartels and external assets, Office of Military Government, in Germany, also charged that those opposed to Farben destruction have squeezed Russia out of the Allied hunt for German assets in neutral countries. STATE DEPT. HITS CHARGES "I charge elements in the United States and the British and French Foreign Offices with consciously maneuvering to prevent all four (occupying) powers from being involved in the search for external assets in the neutral countries," he said, "because that would lay bare the Fascist or reactionary regimes in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Argentina and would reveal all the elements of collaboration of certain interests in the Al lied countries with those regimes.

The State Department later said Nixon's charges were "misleading and unsupportable," filled with "mischievous inaccuracies and mis leading innuendos." Before the war Nixon was Wash ington representative of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (C.I.O.) and has now returned to his post. He charged that: 1 Directives to destroy Farben have not been carried out. As of today, he said, "there is no law in Germany to decartelize and decentralize the great concentra- Continued on Page 5, Column 3 China Unites Red And Chiang Units CHUNGKING, Feb. 25 (A. China consolidated her Government and Communist Armies today into a single national defense force, which in turn is to be progressively reduced to 60 divisions of about men within 18 months.

Not in 4000 years of recorded history has China enjoyed a single armed force free of the whims and intrigues of warlords and politicians, and belonging solely to the State as a whole. PRAISED BY MARSHALL General George W. Marshall, special American envoy who was a prime mover in the unification program, was one of the three signers to the consolidation agreement, declared as he put away his fountain pen: "This agreement represents the hope of China. "I can only trust that its pages will not be soiled by small groups of irreconcilables who for a selfish purpose would defeat the Chinese people in their overwhelming desire Continued on Page 6, Column 4 Rodeo Singer Dies In Arizona Crash CASA GRANDE, Feb. 25 (A.

Powder River Jack Lee, 73, widely known rodeo singer and composer of cowboy songs, was killed last night when his car careened from the road near here and overturned. Leo McCarey Pays $20 Fine as Drunk HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 25 (U. Leo McCarey, who won the Academy Award last year for directing "Going My Way," paid a $20 fine today on a drunkenness charge resulting from a boisterous, early-morningsession outside a cafe. His attorney first appeared alone before Judge Kenneth White, who then demanded that McCarey come there in person to hear his sentence.

The judge threatened to issue a bench warrant unless he appeared promptly. McCarey was arrested on complaint of restaurant-owner Bob Ensign, who accused the movie man of creating a disturbance in front of his cafe. day outside the Eastwick plant of the General Electric but the Sheriff's office announced last night that both the union and the management had made concessions to prevent a repetition today. A few hours before this announcement was made by Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow, he had promised to order police intervention in the event the strikers resumed mass picketing this morning.

NO VIOLENCE EXFECTED "The company has informed me," he said at the end of a 30-minute conference with Mayor Bernard Samuel and other city officials late yesterday, "that it will make no effort to induce any employes to enter the plant tomorrow, except maintenance men, who have the union's permission to go in. "I anticipate no demonstration outside the plant. We hope to settle the whole picketing issue at meetings tomorrow." What concession the union. Local 119, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (C.I.O.), made as a basis for the union-management truce was not disclosed. Both Acting Sheriff Morrow and the local's representatives declined comment.

HIGH OFFICIALS CONFER In addition to the Mayor and Mr. Morrow, City Solicitor Frank F. Truscott, Director of Public Safety James H. Malone and Captain Richard Doyle, head of the police labor squad, took part in the conference in the Mayor's office. This meeting had convened im mediately after Mr.

Morrow ended a conference in his own office with three union representatives, Clayton Dechant, president of Local 119; Saul C. Waldbaum, its attorney, and Harry Block, president of the C. I. Industrial Union Council here. Before participating in either of these meetings, the acting sheriff had declared: "If mass picketing is resorted to tomorrow, police will be ordered to remove the pickets." Mr.

Morrow emphasized that yesterday's action of the G. E. striken outside the company's plant at 69th st. and Elmwood ave. was in fiat defiance of a temporary injunction issued Mast Thursday by Judge Thomas D.

Finletter in Quarter Sessions Court. The injunction prohibited mass Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Ickes1 Successor Delayed by Truman WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (A. President Truman delayed again today the nomination of a successor to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, told a news conference he thought the President had not yet made a choice. The Department is now functioning under Oscar L. Chapman, acting secretary. Chapman is reported among those under consideration for Ickes' post.

Transit Workers (A.F.L.), which Power Men Delay Tieup For a Week Special to The Inquirer PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25. A strike of 3400 utility workers, which would have paralyzed electric power in Pittsburgh, was postponed for one week tonight, less than half an hour hjefore the midnight deadline. George L. Mueller, president of the independent union, representing employes of the Duquesne Light Co and five affiliated companies, an nounced the postponement.

VOTE IS 27 TO 14 The action was decided by a 27 to-14 vote of the union's general committee. It came at the end of an hour and a half meeting. Mr. Mueller added that a general membership meeting of the union would be held next Friday to decide whether a wage issue, focal point of the threatened strike, should be settled by arbitration or strike. The union is demanding a wage increase of 20 percent.

FORMULA SOUGHT Following the announcement, the union's seven-man strike committee made plans to confer with represent atives of the power company and Mayor David L. Lawrence in an at tempt to work out an arbitration formula. The union indicated that it must have a reasonable formula to pre sent to the general membership meeting if the strike is to be averted Before the postponement, Pitts burgh and Beaver counties made whac were believed to be last-minute prena ration for the second power strike in as many weeks. At 9 P. M-, the Pittsburgh Railways an affiliate of the Du quesne Co.

but not itself involved in the strike issue, began taking street cars out of service in order to con serve power. WILL RESTORE SERVICE Immediately after the union's an nouncement, a railway's company spokesman stated that full service would be restored by midnight. In addition to elimination of street car service, the strike would have closed schools, sharply cur tailed the city's food supply and af fected virtually every industrial es tablishment in the greater Pitts burgh area. Before the committee met, secre tary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellen bach pleaded by telegraph from Washington that the union recon- Continued on Page 2, Column 6 3 Powers Protest Spanish Killings PARIS, Feb.

25 (A. Inform ants close to the French government reported today that Britain and the United States had joined France in protesting to Madrid against the execution in Spain last week of 10 Spanish republicans. The executions, including that of Christmo Garcia, who played a leading role in French forces of resistance during the German occupation, have aroused a storm of protest throughout France. Member unions of the Federation of Railroad Workers were directed to suspend all rail traffic to Spain in regions near the frontier. This action followed a 24-hour stoppage of postal relations with Spain by the Postal Workers Union.

him at the time of his death were Metal Shortage Holds Up Medal WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (A. A shortage of metal is holding up the presentation of a British award to Lieutenant General Eugene Rey-bold, the British Information Service said today. The general is slated to be named an honorary commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for the part he played in promoting co-operation between engineers of the United States Army and the British Army during the war. Although the British have officially released news of the award, and other Americans on the same list are receiving their medals, presentation of General Reybold's has been delayed indefinitely because there are no more available.

assorted industrials tumbling $1 to $13 a share. Brokers attributed liquidation partly to renewed pessimism over strikes and their repercussions on corporate earnings in addition to skepticism regarding the workability of the Government's wage-price formula in the adjustment of labor and business difficulties. SCATTERED RECOVERIES While scattered recoveries appeared at the close, most pivotals finished at the lowest levels of the session. Dealings were fast at intervals and transfers for the full proceedings were 2,390,000 shares. The extreme "thinness" of the market, with margins eliminated and only cash transactions permitted, brought spreads of several points between sales of high-quoted issues.

Railway bonds were in supply and commodities generally lower. Another Story and Stock Tables on Pages 26, 27 and 28 Jewish Saboteurs Attack R.A.F. Field JERUSALEM, Feb. 26 (Tuesday) (U. Telephonic reports from the Jewish colony Petan Tiqva said that Jewish saboteurs attacked two Royal AL Force fields with mortars and automatic weapons late last night and that armed battles were raging between saboteurs and the British Army, Air Force and police.

At midnight, several armed men opened fire on guards at Lydda Airport and sent bursts of automatic fire into planes on the landing field. They wrecked two aircraft and caused serious damage to ground Continued on Page 5, Column 2 India Torn Anew By Strike Rioting; Police Fight Mobs Illustrated on Page 16 BOMBAY. Feb. 25 (U. Riotous strikes broke out at Madras and Trichinopoly today, and it was indicated that there was a serious situation at Karachi, where, dispatches said, police fired on turbulent mobs after Communists called a general strike Saturday.

It was revealed that a censorship had been imposed at Karachi Thursday and Friday at the height of the naval strike riots and that dispatches filed to London were suppressed. MOB STONES TRUCKS Mobs at Madras stoned military trucks and police charged them. They charged also, with their long staves, a mob 'which threatened the railroad station. Ten thousand workers struck at Trichinopoly. Bombay and Calcutta, India's two great cities, remained quiet but tense.

In Bombay five courts of inquiry were set up to investigate the Indian Naval mutiny. At Calcutta 500 Indian Navy mutineers called off their strike. FACE PUNISHMENT (General Sir Claude Auchinleck, British commander in chief in India, said in a New Delhi broadcast heard in London that "those re sponsible for undermining dis cipline" in the Indian armed forces would be punished. He promised that legitimate grievances would be taken care of.) Newspapers here estimated that last week's riots had taken a toll of 270 killed, 1260 wounded and 500 slightly wounded, for a total of 2030 casualties. They reported also that the 14 members of the naval strike committee which operated during the mutiny had been ordered transferred to an undisclosed destination.

GANDHI CONFERS Poona dispatches said that Mo handas K. Gandhi, Nationalist leader, started conferences there this afternoon with the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Indian Moslems, and the Nawab of Bhopal, who is chancellor of the Chamber of Princes. A communique Issued here said that Indian Navy mutineers were settling down to normal work without incident and that the situation in the city was completely normal. Noting that the work of clearing up debris had started, the com munique said that street car workers had returned to their jobs, that workshops had reopened and that all mills except one had resumed operations. The communique said that dur ing the riots nine banks, more than 30 shops, 22 government grain and cloth shops, 10 postoffices and 10 police outposts had been looted.

17 Packers to Close Plants In Protest CINCINNATI, Feb. 25 (A. Seventeen independent meat wholesalers voted tonight to close their packing plants indefinitely at the close of business Friday in protest against "harassing restrictions and complicated regulations imposed by the Office of Price Administration." A spokesman for the group, who declined to be identified; said the 17 packers supply 70 per cent of the meat to greater Cincinnati. "It is no longer possible for us to continue business under the harassing restrictions and complicated regulations imposed by the Office of Price Administration," he said. "We are going to shut down our plants to support the movement in St.

Louis where 35 plants are closing Thursday." G. O. P. Poll Shows Defeat of Pauley WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (U.

A secret poll by Republican Senators indicates that Edwin W. Pauley will fail to be confirmed as Undersecretary of the Navy by at least four votes, a high Congressional source said tonight. He said that some of those polled were still doubtful but that their final decision will only increase or decrease the margin of defeat. Teachers' Visits To Aid Pay Drive Board of Education members will be visited in their homes and offices this week by delegations of teachers to determine the extent of their con cern over the "school crisis" and to discover any specific plans for fu ture action regarding a better salary schedule, Benjamin Anton announced yesterday. Mr.

Anton, president of the Phila delphia Teachers Union, Local 556 (C.I.O.), said this "aggressive action" was necessary because the board had constantly ignored requests for open meetings to discuss the situation. A. F. L. PLEDGES SUPPORT At the same time, support from the "entire American Federation of Labor organization" was pledged to public school teachers here in their efforts to obtain higher wage adjustments by Irvin R.

Kuenzli, of Chicago, executive secretary of the American Federation of Teachers (A.F.L.). Mr. Kuenzli; also a member of the National Education Committee, made the announcement after a conference with local officials on the salary situation. Similar action was taken last week when Harry Block, president of the Philadelphia Industrial Council, pledged the entire support of the C.I.O. "The Board of Education seems to feel it is not good business to borrow for salaries," Mr.

Kuenzli said, "but it is even worse not to pay school teachers what the board admits they deserve." He observed that it is a "general practice throughout the United States for boards of educa tion to borrow funds for payrolls." "The board is asking teachers to meet a 30 percent increased cost in living with a less than 10 percent Continued on Page 2, Column 8 Flier Hurt in Fall Is Warned of Death LONDON, Feb. 25 (A. Scot land Yard appealed throughout England today by newspaper and radio for a young airman to tell him that any undue exertion might cause his death. The flier was found dazed at the foot of an elevator shaft two days ago. He was taken to a hospital, but left before X-rays were developed.

He gave no name. The films disclosed a broken spine. R.A.F. Target Chief Missing on Flight LONDON, Feb. 25 (U.

Air Vice Marshal Donald C. T. Bennett, who directed Royal Air Force bomb ers in Continental raids during the war, is reported missing tonight in a plane which left the London air field this afternoon. Bennett was commander of the R. A.

F. "Pathfinder Force," which led bombers to European targets. A. F. L.

Union Balks At N. Y. Transit Strike NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (A. Bernard Brophy, president of the A.

J. Drexel, Dies In Florida at Age of 59 Anthony J. Drexel. grandson of the founder of Drexel Ss Pope Never Approved Of Nazi War on Soviet Illustrated on Page 16 ROME, Feb. 25 (U.

Pius XII today called for a "new order" in the world, pointing to the Vatican as "an oasis of peace" and saying that he had never permitted himself to approve Ger died Saturday of a heart attack at his winter home at Boca city's 32,000 transportation workers, American Federation of Municipal claims 6000 members among the 3Jn W)t Snquirer TUESDAY. FEB. 26. 19-16 Departments and Features Amusements 10 Bridge 22 Business and Financial 26, 27, 28, 29 Comics 22, 23 Death Notices 29 Editorials 14 Feature and Picture Page 16 Obituaries 29 Port in Storm 19 Puzzles 22, 23 Radio 23 Ration Dates 18 Short Story 34 Sports 24, 25 Women's News 18, 19 Pace 14 Page 16 Page 16 Page 16 Page 23 Tage 14 Page 14 Page 16 Page 23 Page 22 John M. Cummings Walter Lippmann Paul Mallon Henry McLemore Louella O.

Parsons Portraits Edwin Way Teale Washington Background Danton Walker Walter Winchell Grande, Fla. He was 59. With his wife, the former Marjorie i Gould, and his son, Anthony, 3d. Mr. Drexel formerly was asso ciated with the family banking firm.

He was born in Philadelphia, edu cated here and at Eton Colleere. land Following his marriage i 1910 he a his wife lived abroad, turning here 11 years ago He main tained a residence at Bryn Mawr unth two years ago. Recently he had spent most of his time at Boca Grande and a Shelter Island, Long Island. A. i.

DREXEL, in. Mr. Drexel had real estate inter- Continued on Page 29, Column 4 said today his union would not support a strike threatened at midnight tomorrow by Michael J. Quill's Transport Workers Union (C.I.O.) against the city-owned transit system. Brophy made his statement at the conclusion of a hearing before the Board of Transportation, and a day after the city corporation counsel had said State law prohibited the city's recognizing any one union as sole collective bargaining agent for the workers.

'WE WON'T STRIKE' "In view of the decision rendered by the corporation counsel, we do not intend to strike against the city government," Brophy declared. "I think Quill is bluffing. With Quill's men out, there might be a curtailment of service for about an hour, but the schedule would then right itself." Quill, American Labor Party City Councilman as well as international president of the T. W. Continued on rage 2, Column 4 many's war against Russia in 1941.

The Pope spoke before an unprecedented collective Papal audience for the College of Cardinals and the Vatican diplomatic corps, making his remark in response to a greeting by Portuguese Ambassador Antonio Pacheco, dean of the Vatican diplomats. UPHOLDS LIBERTY Earlier in the day, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, had accepted titular possession of the Church of Saints John and Paul in an address denouncing attacks an religious freedom in many parts if the world. The Pope said that the international character of the gathering at the Papal audience was "most convincing testimony of the unanimous wish to collaborate in a great restoration of human society (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.