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TON DAILY established ru so isos LEWISTON MAINE WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 19 1945 PRICE THREE CENTS chief i firegheh escape AS 1BI VOTES FOR EMPLOYES Trapped on Top Floor as Sprinkler Is Turned Off by Employe Who Like Sound of Departments of Two Cities in Long Battle in Severe Weather No Official Figure on Loss you un SENATE INCREASE GOV'T Averages 11 Estimate 1100000 to Benefit if House Approves 1 DOWNEY URGED 20 WASHINGTON Dec 18- -A Hiding-scale pay Increase averaglnii 11 per cent for an estimated 1100- 000 Government workers was ap- proved in the Senate today and sent to the House Senator Byrd (D-Va) who backed the measure as a substitute for a more liberal one by Senator Downey (D-CalU) said it would offset the Increased cost of living for all workers now under classified Civl-Service He said however that It covered only one-third of the 3000 Continued on Page 4 Column SNOW TO BRING LITTLE RELIEF FROM THE COLD Heads for East After Depositing One to 7 Inches in Midwest COLD REST OF WEEK (By The AsncUted Press) A new snow storm began enveloping the eastern half of the nation last night bringing some moderation but no lasting relief from one of December's bitterest cold spells More than 4 deaths already have been directly attributed to weather conditions in the current cold wave The new snow increased traffic A four story brick warehouse at the Max Miller junk yard west of Oxford Street and south of the Grand Trunk yard waa wrecked in a four-alarm blaze Tuesday Herbert Miller president of the firm declined to place an estimate on the losa set unofficially at between $75000 and $100000 More than 12 hours after the first alarm by telephone at 11 :35 AM half a dozen Lewiston and Auburn fire companies were still pouring water on the ruing of the structure which was first cotton mill built about 90 years ago and known as the old Lewiston MilL The blaze caught in a picking machine used in connection with processing cotton waste The warehouse also was used for storage of wool waste and paper Starting on the fourth floor worked its way to all corners of the big L-shaped building Chief and Firemen Endangered Chief Zephirin Drouin Capt Ernest Verderber and Pvta Albert Moreau and Armand Toutain battling the blaze on the top floor soon after the department arrived were forced out Continued on Page 10 Column 1 ENGINEER KILLED FIREMAN BADLY HURT MCRR ENGINE BLOWS UP NEAR PITTSFIELD 4 AT THE HEIGHT OF TUESDAY'S FOUR-ALARM BLAZE that ruined a four story brick building at the Max Miller Junk yard just south of the Grand Trunk Railway line Lewiston Firemen of both cities battled many hour in extreme cold before they got it under control The structure was the first cotton mill in Lewiston was erected about 80 years ago by the Franklin Co or Union Water Power Co and sold ti the Lewiston MilL Factory Workers Double Holidays 124 Meant 15c an Hour More for All Production Workers-Resume Conference Tomorrow-GM Non-Strikers Barred by Pickets from Flint Plant-Oil Board Awaits Price Decision RESCUED AFTER MIRED 5 HOURS IN QUICKSAND Railroad Trackman Is Held Prisoner Near Thomaston in Cold BROTHER AIDS RESCUE THOMASTON Dec 18-JP-A railroad trackman wu hauled to tfety tonight from quicksand and clay in which hia left leg had been track for -almost five hours in near zero temperatures Soaked to the waist and thoroughly chilled Malcolm Tracy 34 of Cherryfield was hospitalized at Rockland for exposure Also in the hospital suffering Continued on Page 4 Column 7 HOUSE VOTES UNO MEMBERSHIP BY MARGIN OF 344-15 Bill Practically Same as Voted by Senate-Critics Are Bitter COMMUNISM HIT WASHINGTON Dec House voted 344 to 15 today to make this country a full partner in the United Nations organization The roll call vote came on a bill authorizing the President to name the United States representatives 4oB-the orgtnIzationnd to empower him to use economic sanctions and troops if necessary against aggressors The troops including Americans would be assigned to the world i Continued on Page 8- Column 2 NEW WINTER STORM LASHES BRITISH ISLES 76-Mlle Gale Which Has Damaged I II Warships Unabated LONDON Dec 18-JP-A 70-mile an-hour gale that damaged two famous American warships recently turned into troop the aircraft carrier wasp and the cruiser continued to buffet the British coast tonight with no signs of abating The Augusta en route to the United States from Le Havre had to turn back for Portsmouth or Southampton Her starboard aide was crushed in an inch or Iwo and bulkheads were damaged The Wasp stripped of much of her fighting equipment to make room for 6000 bunks was en route to Southampton to pick up troopi when she ran ipto the storm Sunday Steel curtains on her hangar deck were washed away She returned to Plymouth for repairs No casualties were reported on either ship The high seas washed up mines along the Channel Coast and one exploded at Rottindean Sussex but caused no casualties High tide isolated the channel town of Sandgate Three deaths from drowning were reported from channel town TRUMAN STATEMENT PRAISED BY CHIANG Generalissimo at Peiping gays It Shews CHUNGKING Dec IB-JP-Gener-alissimo Chiang Kai-shek said today President Trumans recent statement urging peace and unity in China showed a "verr clear of the situation He told newsmen that he hoped to achieve "a peaceful and cordial witn the Chinese Communists and that a broadening of the base of China's government would be one of the purposes of the national assembly convoked to meet next May The Ucneraiissimo made these assertions at a press cunrerence he id at Peiping just betore he and Madame cniang boar'ed a plane lor Nanking He said that at Nanking or Hanxow he would confer wild General Marshall the new American ambassador to China Marshall was expected to arrive in Shanghai Thursday Asked if he though the prospects of national unity had been increased the arrival of a Communist ace delegation in Chungking the pi received word of their arrival and did not yet know what their attitude might be Continued on Page 4 Column 4 EMBARGO ON FREIGHT FOR BUFFALO NY City Still Digging Pet from Week end Beeerd Inch Snowfall BUFFALO Dec 18-JP-Buf-(Ala's mayor tonight ended a state of emergency brought on the city by a record-breaking blizzard but an embargo was clamped on all freight movement including mill tary shipments Mayor Joseph Kelly proclaimed the emergency Sunday night at the height the storm that slopped today after heaping 68 inches of snow the area All Buffalo schools and city offices will reopen tomorrow The Car Service Division of The Association of American Railroads ordered the embargo moat rigid ever placed here Frank Riley Lehigh Valley terminal agent said Passenger trains approached normal schedules after delays up to six hours The Railway Express Co announced a partial embargo on shipments in and out The blizzard and a similar storm at Watertown had caused si least eight deaths Firemen tonight had controlled blaze of undetermined origin in Buffalo business building after working eight hours The Fire Com missioner estimated damage at $100000 The 50-Inch snowfall at Water-town had dwindled to flurries today IDEAL WEATHER FOR ECLIPSE OF MOON Success! The eclipse scheduled for Tuesday evening arrived on time reached totality as per the almanac and was all over Just when it should have been According to The eclipse editor last night's phenomenon was no better end no worse than usuaL He said it was caused by the passage of the Earth between the Sun and the Moon and that the Earth was apt to do this every now and then He couldn't say when the next time will be net having received his 1846 almanac The eclipse-viewing weather was ideal The sky was cloudless the temperature comfortable (indoors TEMPERATURES BOSTON Dae SI-JPKazImiim-irmpfrB-turaa Air 13 fcoura endlna 7:30 PH end minimum temperatures for 3i koun coding 1:30 FM City Albany Han nor Ronton Bufralo Burlington Chicago CinctnngU Concord Hartford Hattrrae Jackaonvtu Xanana City LEWISTON PITTSFIELD Dec 18-JF-A freli engine exploded near here tonigl killing the engineer and injuring the fireman Mown out of the cab The dead engineman was Harold MilleM about 55 of Bangor Fireman Rice about 26 also of Bangor waa taken to a Water-ville hospital where Dr John Towne said he was in critical condition from head injuries The locomotive Vafthe second of two hauling 88 cars from Portland to Bangor The rest of the train was not damaged The accident at the ton of a hOl half way between Pittsfield and Burnham Junction tied up the Maine Central Railroad line tor several hour ight Jht critically RAIL JAM KEEPS -82000 YANKS IN PACIFIC PORTS They Will Spend Xmas There Unless Tieup in Traffic Is Ended RAIL LINES SPURRED WASHINGTON Dee 18-JP-The Army said tonight that 82000 GIs from the Pacific would have to pend Christmas in west coast ports awaiting transportation home unlesi the rail jam cleared up The Navy announced that many of its men scheduled for discharge or furlough will be in the same fix too but gave no figures Hoping to relieve the situation some the Office of Defense Transportation ordered all railroads west of the Mississippi to move troop trains as fast they do their regular passenger trains" from now until March The order directs western rail- Coa tinned on Page 10 Column 1 104 WARSHIPS IN NEW YORK ON DEC 25 NEW YORK Dec Third Naval District today announced that 104 an arm- Pi ada more than twice as large as the 47-ship fleet that anchored in the Hudson River on Navy Day Oct 27 would be berthed in New York harbor Christmas Day They will be here in keeping with an order bNavy Secretary ames pos- personnel sible be permitted Christmas leave cr liberty The battleships New York North Carolina Missouri and Washington and aix carriers including the Enterprise and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were included in the list of Navy vessels already in port or on the way here Forres tai (By Tha Associated Press) 'The CIO United Auto Workers promptly rejected as yesterday a Ford Motor Co offer of a 24 per cent wage rate increase The UAW-CIO which is demanding a 30 per rent wage rate hike twice previously turned down offers from General Motors for a 10 per cent pay boost The Ford offer which the com' pany said would represent an ad-ditional outlay of $33000000 annually above the 635000000 it estimated it stood to lose next year on the basis of no salary raises embodied these conditions The increases would become effective when monthly production reached 70000 units they would remain in effect for two years but any boost in the OPA ceiling price on cars would not be a basis for wage adjustments se plan would be agreed on barring wildcat strikes protecting pe and reducing the number of union committeemen Realm Talks Tomorrow The rejection did not create a Continued on Page 4 Column 8 ETHEL DU PONT ASKS GM TO OPEN BOOKS NEW YORK Dec 18-iP-The union for Democratic Action said today that Ethel DuPont acting as an individual stockholder has asked General Motors to accept arbitration and open its books for inspection in ib current dispute with the CIO United Auto Workers union In a letter released by the Democratic Action Group which described her as a member of the prominent Du Pont family of Delaware Miss Du Pont said: of its dominant position in the reconversion program of this country I feel that- General Motors is vested with responsibility for public welfare and should therefore consider itself accountable to the public" JAPANESE KNEW WHAT SHIPS AT PEARL HARBOR Also Had Plan to Attack Fleet Outside Harbor Intercepted Messages PREPARED A MONTH WASHINGTON Dec 18-JP-Teit-imony that the Japanese learned on Dec 6 1841 through Intercepted messages what warships were at Pearl Harbor waa laid before the Congressional Investigating Committee today This information come from General Douglas MaeArthur's staff in Tokyo along with other word that: 1 The enemy had alternate plans to smash the fleet If it was anchored outside the harbor 2 Orders went to the Japanese Continued on Pago 6 Column 2 46 ME RESTAURANTS VIOLATE OPA CEILINGS November Violators to Appear Before Price Paneb for Hearings AUGUSTA Dec 18-X-Stale OPA headquarters said today its survey of 336 Maine restaurants in November showed 46 had violated price control refutations 'Violators arc now being called before price panels for said Anson Cook asaistant to the district director in charge of local boards Cook said a check of 582 persons who sold steel drums disclosed 144 had violated ceiling prices The Lewiston Division of the Peppesell Manufacturing Co will not operate this Saturday' will be open as usual on Monday Next Monday also will be a holiday for workers at the Charles Cushman Co and it is expected at other Auburn factories No plans have been made for closing the Monday before New Year's Day The Bates Hill Androscoggin and Continental will work next Saturday and also 'on Saturday of the following week re- GEN WHIG DEAD RUTLAND VT Dec 19--(Wcd neadsy) Majj Gen Leonard Wing whe commanded tha 43rd DivMon In the Pacific died early today Ha waa S3 year aid He foand dead in bed the victim ef a heart attack He bad been nnder treatment for heart condition as late as ds weeks aga SMALL BUSINESSES URGED TO AID VETS Paul Jones ef USES Says at Anyuta Problem Growing Serlou AUGUSTA Dee 18-JP-PauI Jones State director of the Employment Service uked small business tonight to help solve the unemployment problem which he said was becoming more serious daily Jones reported that 8350 veterans currently were seeking jobs through Maine USES offices A large number of employers with eight or fewer workers do not regu-larly avail themselves of the employment service's facilities Jones declared our Job classification system he said are in a position to furnish men far better qualified for a given job than the employer can get by hit-or-miss BABY SHOES MAILED SENATORS IN MOVE TO "SEND DADDY HOME" WASHINGTON Dee II--Baby shoes and beetles are arriving in Senatorial offices with pleu to my daddy Chairman Elbert Thomas (D-1'Uh) ef the Senate Military Committee today shewed a reporter nearly desrn pair ef the Infant footwear and said: a lobby to gel fathera ant ef the ray I don't hnew what to da with Senator Edwin Johnson (D-Cale) said he was sending hie collection to the War Department with a suggestion to generals there that he a good Santo Clans and release the Clerks af the Military Committee said most of the shoes and booties came from Wisconsin and tame were signed by members ef a Back Daddy Many ef the infants eheee hewed elgM ef wear Senator Revercamb (R-WVa) meanwhile Sled a matlea asking Scute aetiea an bill to re-Irasa all fathers Immediately from the Army and Nary and prohibit farther drafting ef The damaged locomotive -was towed to Pittsfield late tonight Cause of the blast was not deter-mined The engine blew up Just as the Engineman Cook of Watetf-ville running the lead ngin topped the train immediately He and Fireman Brown of Portland ran back and found Mlllett and Rice beside the tracks Another freight running behind the double-header was flagged The locomotive was detached and carried Millett and Rice back to Pitts-Held Then a doctor pronounced the engineman dead end ordered Rice re-moved to a Watervilie hospital INDUSTRYASSAILS HOUSING SCHEME AS 'UNWORKABLE' Leaders Decry Arbitrary Position They Say Gov't Officials Are Assuming PLEDGE COOPERATION BY MARVIN ARROWSBOTH WASHINGTON Dee 18-tfVCon-ftruction Industry leaders today assailed the Government's new housing program as and They made these assertions after adjournment of two-day Government-sponsored housing conference and following statements by Federal officials that the session had accomplished its purpose Northup Secretary-Manager Continued on Page 8 Column 7 REPORT CHURCHILL TO VISIT US SOON LONDON Dec papers said today Winston Churchill would leave soon for the United States but disagreed whether the visit would be to make a lecture tour or merely for rest The Star which had predicted the trip would be for the purpose of lecturing indicated that the talks would give glimpses of war from the inside The Daily Mail denying the former Prime Minister would lecture said Churchill would visit the for a rest only The Laborite Daily Herald said there was strong belief among Tory P's that Churchill's tour was a prelude to his resignation from the leadership of the opposition" Churchill's secretary would divulge no information other than tha tact that the Conservative leader expected to take a holiday THIS WEEK Saturday Nights of the Shopping Public Many Mill and to Get Pair of Worker! at several Lewiston mills and probably In Auburn factories will get a double holiday next week and mills also will have one the following week The Bates Hill Androscoggin Continental and Libber Co mills will not operate on Monday or Tuesday of next week The first four also will be dosed the Monday before New Day and Mr Libbey said last evening he expected a similar schedule would be lollowed at his plant BILL TO HALT DRAFT OF FATHERS BLOCKED Sen Revereemb Alse Would Make rarenihood Factor in Discharge WASHINGTON Dec lS-JP-Sena-tor Lucas (D-Ill) blocked today an effort by Senator Revercomb (R-W Va to bring before the Senate a bill to halt the drafting of all fathers Lucas objected when Revercomb attempted to get consent to take up a motion to discharge the Military Committee from consideration of the bill The committee voted 8 to 6 Dec 4 against recommending passage of the measure However the West Virginia Senator filed a motion to discharge the committee which he said he will argue tomorrow He told a reporter that Administration leaden are attempting to block the Besides halting immediately the drafting of all fathers the measure would make parenthood one of the factors to be considered in the discharge of men from the armed forces except those who have enlisted voluntarily since Oct 6 NAVY V-l 2 EXTENSION FAGS SENATE DELAY Bill AeUterlsIng CwiUnaanee Through June May Be Sidetracked WASHINGTON Dec IS-JP-Leg-islation authorizing the Navy to continue its V-12 training program through next June may be sidetracked until after the first of the year The Associated Prase stated erroneously yesterday that Congressional action on the proposed authority had been completed with House passage of the bill Actually the Senate still has to act A member of the Senate Naval Committee said today he doubted if the bill could be disposed of in the few I days remaining before the holiday i recess I Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Naval Committee said the V-13 program will have no funds with which to operate after next March unless the legislation is enacted 47700 MORE VETS ARE DUE BACK TODAY (By The Associated Press) Approximately 14700 servicemen are scheduled to debark today from 21 troop-carrying vessels at three East coast ports with an additional 33 000 returnee arriving aboard at least 45 vessels at Pacific points East coast arrivals include: New York 13 ships with about 10800 i men three with about 1-: 700: Newport News Va five with about 2100 Due at the west coast are: At Los I eight ships with about 6-000 men San IS with i about 8061: San 11 with 1 about 500 two with about 3800: seven with about 11-000 two with about 4000 $100d0SABLECOAT IS STOLEN IN BOSTON BOSTON Dec 1S-JP-A table coat valued at $10000 was stolen tonight from the display window of an uptown gown shop The value was placed on the gar-went bv owner of the Ide Claire Gown Shrp who said that shortly x-fore 930 tonight two men re-noved a protective grating from the window smashed the glass and grablted the coat FIRE HAS TAKER TREMENDOUS TOLL LOCALLY la jour infuranefl enough to cover today increased values? 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