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71 11 p.m. 73 13 mid. 73 FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1946 On Guard for Over a Century Vol. 116 No. 104 Five Cents SHOWERS It will be wet early.

Clouds later. aa rlws a. m. Ban sets 7:33 i Household Goods Get Price Boosts of 3-12 Per Cent Stoves, Washing Machines and Radios Among 20 Items Affected WASHINGTON (AP) Price increases estimated by an OPA official to cost the public "well over $150,000,000 a year" were granted on such articles as radios, stoves, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, toasters and irons. OPA said the increases were re Planes Help Fight Bugs Imperiling Peanut Crop AFL Aide Jailed with Two Others Police Break Up Skirmish; Curran Moving Headquarters to Detroit BY ED ROESER Free Press Staff Writer An abbreviated session of fist-swinging at the Bob-Lo docks enlivened the first day of the National Maritime Union (CIO) strike as Detroit became the focal point in the direction of strike strategy.

Three men were jailed for investigation of assault as police broke up the picket-line skirmish at the Woodward boat terminal. 5. Free Press Wire Services PITTSBURGH Arrangements were being made here to fly 50 tons of insecticide to Georgia, Alabama and Florida in a hurried effort to save the South's $75,000,000 bumper peanut crop from insects. An American Airlines official said that a DC-4 cargo plane uld fly the insect-killer to the affected states in shuttle flights. Employees of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co.

plant at near-by Natrona worked feverishly to prepare the insecticide for shipment. V. WUi Jeivs Shout and Fight in Landing at Cyprus Deportees Reported Wounded in Clash; 2 Children Die on Ship JERUSALEM, Palestine (UP) Two British transports un WILLIAM C. ROUSE AFL official arrested after fight loaded some 1,300 fighting, protesting Jewish illegal immigrants Union Tests Vacation Pay Right of Vets Sues over Alleged Refusal to Worker The first legal test of an em ployer's refusal to pay vacation allowances to veterans for time spent in military service was filed Thursday. The case was filed by Walter P.

Reuther, UAW (CIO) president, with United States Attorney John C. Lehr. The test case subiect Is H. E. Neal, of Lansing, an employee of me Lansing plant of the Oldsmo-bile division of General Motors.

Neal Is a veteran of four years in the Army. IT WILL BE UP to Lehr to pass on the validity of the request. If he decides in favor of the union, the matter will be submitted to the United States courts for a decision. If the suit were successful, the amount of money which em-employers would be required to pay to veterans would run into the millions, union officials stated. There are 10,000 veterans employed in the Detroit area plants of General Motors alone, it was pointed out.

REUTHER BASES his request entirely on Section 8 of the Selective Service Act which provides In part that "any prewar employees who left Ms employer to enter military service shall be restored to a position of like seniority, status and pay." It further states that he shall participate in certain privileges and "other benefits" normally offered by the employer to persons on a leave-of-a status, Reuther contends that vacations ehould be considered, one of the "other benefits." "THE REFUSAL of General Motors to pay vacation allowances to veteran employees constitutes h. clear denial of veterans rights under the Selective Service act," Reuther wrote Lehr. "Without vacations or vacation pay these veterans have not been fully reinstated to their former status of seniority plus accumulated time spent in the armed forces." Neal was inducted Into the Army June 9, 1944. He had worked at Oldsmcbile since Nov. 24, 1942.

IT WAS POINTED out that if his induction had been delayed until July 1, 1942, he would have received $53.76 vacation allowance but that he received nothing. Polio Imperils Schools' Start Possibility that the opening of public schools will be delayed past Sept. 4 because of the threat of a polio epidemic was seen by Dr. Bruce H. Douglas, Detroit health commissioner.

The matter will be discussed at a meeting of State, County and Municipal health and education officials at 1:30 p. m. Friday. Dr. Douglas said he had not yet decided his recommendation.

Since July 1, there have been 101 polio cases reported to the Detroit Health Department and 10 deaths. Army and Navy Chief Meet Truman in Secret Near East Tension Believed Topic of Top Policy-Making Officials WASHINGTON (AP) Top policy-ma. ing officials of the State, War and Navy Departments spent 30 minutes with President Truman in an extraordinary White House conference. There was no official disclosure quired by the new price-control law which specifies that profit margins must not be cut below March 31 levels. Items affected are those on which dealers had been required to absorb part of price increases granted earlier to manufacturers.

The price agency itself announced only that the raises ranged from to 12 per cent. The $150,000,000 estimate was given by an official who would not be quoted by name. The increase takes effect as soon as dealers receive shipments tagged by the manufacturers with the new prices. THE AVERAGE retail increases on 20 classes of consumer goods are: On radios and electric phonographs, 3 per cent; electric stoves, CIO asks balancing of prices and pay. Story on Page 3.

9 per cent; gas stoves, 5 per cent; small electrical appliances, toasters, electric irons, heaters and shavers, 4 per cent. Bicycles, 8.5 per box springs, 12 per cent; ordinary household chinaware, 7 per cent; clocks and non-jewel watches, 6 per cent; coal, oil and wood-stoves, 5 per cent; dry batteries, 8 per cent. Household aluminum cooking utensils, 5 per cent; metal bed springs, 4 per cent; metal cots and doubledeck beds, 3 per cent. Metal office equipment, 4 per cent; outboard motors, 5 per cent; photographic equipment, such as cameras, small projectors and light meters, 6 per cent. Portable typewriters, 5 per cent; vacuum cleaners, 7 per cent; washing machines, 7 per cent, and window shades, 10 per cent.

OPA ALSO granted an increase of 8.6 per cent in the price of truck trailers. Higher prices -f or remgerators wiir be" announced shortly. Commenting on Thursday's action and on other recent price increases, OPA Administrator Paul Porter said: "There appears to be some mis apprehension in the minds of the public that. these increases are being granted at OPA's discretion. This is not the case.

"The public should understand that these increases are necessary to comply with the law and that we are required to take these actions within 80 days after the enactment of the law July 25." Porter said he wanted to empha size that the "OPA has not changed its policy of establishing ceiling prices based only on requirements of law or for bona fide supply reasons." HOME BREW Internal Braivl Shuts Up Bar The Federal Bar, 224 W. Lafayette, was closed by the Cleanup Squad after the night man-. ager and bartender were arrested on charges of being drunk. Police said that the manager, Perry Nicholas, 50, of 3818 Junction, and the bartender, Leon Evomson, 53, of 1048 Cass, were throwing beer and swearing at the customers. Nicholas appeared Thursday afternoon before the Liquor Control Commission on charges of serving drunken patrons.

He was ordered to pay a fine of $25. Fishing Allowed TOKYO (TP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur authorized the Japanese Government to construct 211 steel fishing vessels aggregating 24.790 gross tons and 17 wooden fishing vessels totaling 1,940 gross tons. NO. 2 Besides the 50 tons to be sent by plane, 70 tons will be transported by trailer and 35 freight car loads will be shipped as soon as possible.

The total will be from 000 to 3,000,000 pounds. THE INSECTICIDE is a salt derivative. It was reported that insects, velvet bean beetles, were discovered in the peanut fields only a short lime ago. Plantation owners were reported fearful that if the insecticide was not made available within a few hours the insects would destroy the bumper crop, now almost ready for harvesting. to Haifa, Palestine, for new loads of refugees.

Dispatches from Llmassol, Cyprus, reported that the Jews had clashed with British soldiers as they were being unloaded from the transports Empire Heywood and Empire Rival. Reinforcements were rushed in, and some Jews were believed to have been wounded. TWENTY WERE reported to have been taken to military hospitals in detention camps where the Jews will be confined until the immigration issue is settled. But security regulations were so strictly enforced it could not be determined how many of these had been injured in the fighting and how many were ill. Two immigrant children died aboard the transports, and some adults were carried off on stretchers.

Evidently they were no more reconciled to their deportation than when they were put aboard the ships at Haifa, struggling and defiantly singing the Jewish national anthem. They went down the gangplanks on Cyprus denouncing British Turn to Page 2, Column 5 Wife Sees Pilot Killed in Crash Free Press-Chicago Tribune Wire I A Lt. Robert H. Hinckle, 27, a veteran of the European campaign, was killed, virtually in sight of his wife Doro-they, when his private plane crashed in a suburb here. Arrested were William C.

Rouse, y- 41, president of the AFL Longshoremen; William Stevenson, 52, of 4550 Trumbull, and Robert King, 41, of 1350 Third. They were later released on orders of Traffic Judge George T. Murphy, who guaranteed their appearance at the First Precinct Station Friday morning. POLICE SAID THE clash occurred after the management of the Bob-Lo excursion boats notified AFL headquarters that the CIO pickets were stationed at the docks. Shortly afterward about 15 men arrived in four cars and attacked the pickets, who fled, police said.

Two of the pickets were said to have been badly beaten before they escaped. Sgt. Gerald Greene, who headed a police detail summoned to the scene, said Rouse attempted to strike him and Stevenson struck Patrolman Joseph Podvin in the face during the melee. THE OUTBREAK of violence came after it was announced that headquarters for the strike had been shifted from Cleveland to De troit. Union spokesmen said the move was made because Detroit is the most centrally located port on the lakes and is a recognized center of labor union activities.

The latter fact, they declared, Is important in obtaining "better co-operation" for the strikers. JOSEPH CURRAN, NMU presi dent, temporarily delayed in Cleveland by bad weather, was expected NMU Claims 4,000 on 100 Vessels The striking National Maritime Union (CIO) claims 4,000 members on 100 ships under contract. The nonstnking Seafarers (AFL) have crews under contract on all passenger ships and sand boats and several bulk freighters. Passenger ship engineers and radiomen are affiliated with other CIO unions. to arrive here by plane Friday morning to direct the strike.

Earlier it was reported in Washington that Labor Secretary Lewis B. Scbwellenbach said negotiations were hung up on "dead center" and had been adjourned indefinitely. At strike headquarters here it was claimed that the riverfront walkout was "100 per cent effective." Traffic, they said, was slowed down to a "mere trickle" and disputed ship owners' reports that things are "normal." A SURVEY of lake traffic revealed that more than 40 ships had been tied up during the first day, including at least 15 unorganized vessels. It was estimated that 400 seamen from NMU contracted ships were on strike in Detroit. In Detroit alone, 14 vessels have been deserted hyf their crews, according to Charles Monroe, NMU port agent at Detroit.

A fifteenth will be tied up early Friday morning when the Benson Ford docks at the Ford Motor Co, Pictures on Back Page wharf with a cargo of ore, Monroe said. PERE MARQUETTE and Wabash Railroad ferries to Windsor were deserted by their crews and Turn to Page 8, Column 1 AFTER ONE DAY How Strike Has Affected Lakes Ports By the Associated Press Here was the situation at Great Lakes ports as the strike of the National Maritime Union (CIO) ended its first day: DETROIT Traffic in Detroit River virtually halted. Two docks picketed. Union officer estimates 400 workers idle. Passenger ships operating.

SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. "Business as usual" reported through the locks, world's busiest inland canal through which travels nearly all ore from northern ranges to steel mills. ST. IGNACE, MICH.

State-operated Mackinac ferries still running. Capt. Hillard II. Benten predicts strike will not affect his boats. LUDINGTON, MICH Five Pere Marquette carferries between Ludington and Milwaukee tied up.

CLEVELAND Only the steel carrier, Joseph Morrow, tied up. Portions of some crews walked off job, but work continued short-handed. ASHTABULA, O. Two ships an ore carrier and a carferry tied up. Crews of three other ships expected to leave.

CONNEAUT, O. Ships moving and few pickets in evidence. DULUTH, MINN. Seven ships, manned by licensed officers (non union men), cleared harbor, said Edward Hendrick-son, acting business agent. CHICAGO Eleven boats in Chicago-Gary, vicinity lose crews.

SnLWAUKEE Wisconsin lake ports sharply curtail activity. Milwaukee Clipper to Muskegon reported tied up. BUFFALO Five ships with ore and steel reported TOLEDO Six docks picketed. Seventy seamen on three ship' quit jobs. ERIE.

PA. Crews leave three ships and port activities virtually cease. LORAIN, O. Traffic normal. SANDUSKY, O.

Shipping continues. Western Rail Strike Voted SAN FRANCISCO (JP) The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen announced that employees of the Southern Pacific Co. will "peacefully withdraw from the service" at 6 p. m. Wednesday unless a satisfactory adjustment of disputes is reached.

B. W. Fern, deputy president, said the union membership of 8,000 voted 98 per cent to authorize a strike. Negotiations to adjust disputes were opened in October, 1945, Fern said, but approximately 1,700 cases remain unsettled. The company said it had no comment as Federal Mediator W.

F. Mitchell arrived to hear the dispute. Tree Press Photo of the purpose of the meeting, but it was believed to have been con cerned with the mounting tension in the Near East over Turkey and Iran. SOME DIPLOMATIC officials are known to feel that the time has come for the United States to define exactly its interests and policies in that strategic area of the world. A question in this connection is the extent to which the United States may back Turkey in rejecting Russia's demand for a direct military share in control of the Dardanelles.

Present at the White House conference were Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations; Vice Adm.

Forrest Sherman, deputy CNO; Gen. Carl Spaatz, Army Air Forces commander; Gen. Thomas T. Handy, deputy chief of staff in the War Department, and Maj. Gen.

Lauris Norstad, director of War Department plans and operations. There has been considerable concern among top officials here over the situation in Iran, with persistent but officially unconfirmed reports reaching Washington of Russian concentration of troops along the northern border, as well as British concentrations to the south of Iraq. (Radio Moscow Thursday broadcast an official denial that Russian troops were concentrating on the northern border of Iran. It called such reports "provocatory inven Salt Drouth Hits Windsor Windsorites are sitting atop one of the world's largest salt deposits, but they haven't enough to season their food. A strike at Canadian Industries, which supplies the Windsor market, has caused a critical shortage.

Most stores reported their stock exhausted, while several had only a few boxes on hand. On Inside Pages Amusements 19 Bingay 6 Chatterbox 12 Childs 6 Classified 24-26 Crossword 27 Donovan 23 Editorials 6 Fashions 14 Financial 22-23 Guest 6 Horoscope 27 Keeping Well 14 Kitchen 15 Lahey 16 Lyons 28 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Monaghan 12 Pringle 11 Radio 27 Smith 20 Sports 20-22 Teenagers 14 Theaters 18 Town Crier 28 Women's 11-15 on -therlsle of Cyprus. Then the ships turned back TOO MUCH Police, Horse andShoppers Snare Suspect A chase by a mounted patrolman and another policeman on foot, followed by a crowd of downtown shoppers, resulted in the capture of an armed-robbery suspect. Andrew Price, 26, of 6511 Beechwood, was held for investigation of the robbery armed charge. It all started when Mrs.

C. W. Mover, 35, of 1283 Buckingham, Birmingham, stopped her car for a red light at Farmer and John R. A man stepped on the running board and reportedly tried to force his way into the car. Mrs.

Moyer screamed, and the man turned and fled. THE INCIDENT was witnessed by Mrs. Catherine Schiefelbein, of 5185 St. Clair, who cried "Get that man!" Patrolman Henrv Fox, of the Mounted Division, spurred his horse forward at the same time Patrolman Vincent, of the Traffic Division, heard the cry and gave chase on foot. The crowd followed the chase to Broadway and John where Fries was captured.

Police said they had found a gun wrapped in a sweater in the man's arms. He denied he had attempted to hold up Mrs. Moyer. In Coma 52 Days Boy, 13, Revives HUNTINGTON, W. Va.

(JP) Fifty-two days after suffering a fractured skull when struck by an automobile, thirteen-year-old Donald Dial, of Omar, W. recovered consciousness for the first time Thursday in Huntington's Memorial Hospital. The boy was able to speak to his mother, who has been at his bedside since the accident. Newhouser WinsNo.2l Eddie Lake hit two homers and Hoot Evers got the first four-bagger of his major career as Harold Newhouser beat Chicago, 3 to 0. It was the Tiger southpaw's twenty-first victory of the season against five setbacks.

For details of this game, turn to page 20. Truman Takes First Vacation, 18-Day Cruise Speeches Are Out for Trip Up Maine Coast WASHINGTON (JP) President Truman will sail Friday afternoon of his first official vacation trip since he entered the White House 16 months ago. On the presidential yacht Williamsburg, he will cruise up the Maine coast in an eighteen-day absence from Washington. Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, told reporters that Mr.

Truman will make no public appearances and no speeches, although he may go ashore a couple of times. 6Ike' in Mexico MEXICO CIT (JP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Mrs. Eisenhower and his goodwill party, flew here from Balboa, Panama, for a three-day 'visit as Mexico's guest.

Fan Club Hero's Peril of 15332 Santa, Rosa, will assure you. It was organized eight months ago with 20 charter members. Age range of the membership now is from 21 to 40. As Miss Pullin explained it: "There were Perry Como clubs, and Bing Crosby clubs and Frank Sinatra clubs. So why not a B.

O. Plenty Club?" Their favorite man is" in a jam just now. After harrowing experiences with Breathless Mahoney and other ruthless characters, B. O. found romance.

But such charges as robbery and assault might put Cupid's work to naught. THE LENIENT Judge Hayes, who released B. O. on bail, is critically ill. If he dies, the hard Judge Nolan will take over.

He is in favor of putting B. O. behind bars. Will he relent? Will romance triumph? (Continued tomorrow.) O.S.S. coming.

Broadway-Capitol Theatre. AdT. PROTEST SENT TO CARTOONIST KEEP DETROIT CLEANER! It's a Matter of Manners Henry the Vlll dropped greasy bones from his plate to the floor. But have you tried that in your home recently? Manners are one thing people seldom pack in a picnic lunch. B.O.

Plenty Fran tic over BY EARL WEGMANN Free Press Staff Writer Perturbed members of the B. O. Plenty Fan Club are fearful lest the scales of justice tip a beautiful romance right out the window. B. O.

Plenty, as everybody knows, is that lovable tobacco-chewing, scraggly whiskered, tooth-picking character in the adventures of Dick Tracey, detective. His betrothed is that ravishing beauty, Gravel Gertie. Their marriage is imminent. But it seems that prison bars may come between them. (See Page 27 for the latest developments.) THE B.

O. PLENTY Fan Club, which boasts 800 members in Detroit, is registering formal protest with Chester Gould, creator of the comic strip. They want B. O. and Gertie married and no doubt about it.

They even have a wedding present selected, but they're keeping it a secret for the time being. The B. O. Plenty Fan Club Is no myth, as President Lorraine Pullin, SPOT OF RAIN COMING JF'Vre Got Too Many Henry the Vllls Just a Drouth Dampener Southern Michigan will get rain, the Weather Bureau said, but it wont end the drouth. Less than an inch is expected in showers Friday.

Slightly warmer temperatures are expected to return to the state, gripped by a near-record dry spell. When you are hunting a place in the picnic grounds you often have to reject spots because the people before you left garbage lying around? Yet you eat and merrily toss chicken bones over your shoulder. What of the persons coming after you?.