Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 17

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L) intended to meet tonight to frame its answer. Demand 15 Per Cent Boost. Leaders of the union, which has asked a 15 per cent flat wage in- crease, claimed that a strike would pull out 15,000 of the city’s 37,000 employes, and a tie-up of the city’s transportation system was feared. Donald V. Addy, city budget di- | ector, sald wages ranged from $900 for me:ssengers to $3,300 for head | clerks among salaried employas and | | that hourly pay rates for unskilled | | labor ranged from 65 cents to 90 cents. The highest paid city executive is the Mavor, who receives $15.000 a | year. Most department heads are | paid $10,000. Junior executives earn upwarls from $3,600. A second A. F. L. union, the Amal- gamated Association of Street, Elec- tric Railway and Motor Coach Em- ployes of America, took a stand that if pitket lines were thrown around transportation system property they | would be respected. This union also | has been seeking a wage boost. |/, Last August a strike crippled the | transportation system for five days. | Now, since the rationing of tires end | war orcers halting automobile pro- | ductien February 1, many workers | h~ve put away their own cars end {ta%en to the city’s buses and street- | cars, | Mayor Is Hopeful. | Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, how- | ever, held out hope that there would be no strike. “I won't believe,” he said, “that a handful of people can make such & serious mistake until I see it.” The City Council, by an 8-to-1 vote, turned down the union’s wage demands. The union claimed that the raise was necessary, particularly for employes paid less than $2,000 a year, in order to meet rising living costs. | The council decided that there | | would be no wage increases for the rest of the fiscal year, in effect | | freszing present pay scales until | | July 1. Fo-mer Reno Editor Dies | RENO, Nev., Jan. 22 (#).—Graham | Sanford, 65, prominent in Nevada newspaper and political circles, died | vesterday. He was editor of the| Reno Evening Gazette for 25 yéars, retiring in 1940. |3-Way Compromise |dict by a union of city employes | L] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942, Pressed in Effort To Free Price Bill Conferees Want Senate, House and President To Yjeld Some Points By the Associated Press. | A three-way compromisé was | pressed by Senators today in an ef- fort to break the legislative log jam | on wartime price controls, The compromise admittedly in-| volved some concessions by the| House, by the Senate and by Presi-| dent Roosevelt as the joint congres- sional committee trying to adjust conflicting interests resumed clcsed | sesslons. Senators walked out of the joint | conference yesterday explaining that | they hoped the five House conferees would agree among themselves on the compromise proposal. Members of the Senate delegation said they would be willing to drop the controversial attempt to tie farm prices to urban wage levels, as pro-} vided in an amendment sponsored by Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming, which the Senate ap-| proved, 55 to 30. | Ask House Acceptance. | ‘They asked the House conferees to artept Senate provisions for licensing | of business, a single price adm! istrator, and granting the Govern- ment broad powers to buy and uu\ commodities as a factor for controll- ing their prices. . President Roosevelt was expected to withdraw his outspoken objections ‘ to giving Secretary of Agriculture Wickard a virtual veto power over | any farm price ceilings fixed by | Leon Henderson, acting price admln-; | istrator. Although the Chief Executive| asked for a “single responsible ad- ministrator,” Senators pointed out | |that the President could end| mntly anv disoute between two ppointed subordinates. | Leaders Back Provision. | Poth Senator Brown, Democrat, of Michigan, chairman of the Sen- ate conferees, and Senate Maiority Leader Barkley were reported back- | ing this provision written into the | Senate bill under sponsorship of Senator Bankhead. Democrat, of | Alabama and the White House was expected ta go along. One of the five House conferees | said they had been unable to reach | an agreement on the compromise at | their session yesterday. He reported | that a majority of the House spokes- men opposed licensing of business, the broad buying and selling pro- visions, and elimination of a special | review board voted by the House.| ‘That board would have power to override orders of the administra- tor. ' Both House and Senate conferees were reported in agreement on the farm price provisions. These would bar any price controls until farm | products rose above average farm | prices on October 1 or December 15| last year, average prices during the | period 1919-20, or 110 per cent of "Olp; R\ parity prices computed by the Agri- culture Department, whichever was highest. Senators estimated that these re- strictions would permit a general rise of about 10 per cent for agri- cultural commodities before controls could apply. A few products, such as wool and beef, which have risen above so-called parity levels recent- ly, could face immediate controls. After the conference committee reaches an agreement, its report must go back to the Senate and House for final approval, with por- tests expected on some of the com- promises, Spurned Lover Acqu.ited In Face Squirting Case BY the Associated Press. DENVER, Jan. 22—A jury yes- terday acquitted Ray Rennison, 34, on a charge of squirting ammonia in the face of Verda Sodia, 25, el- evator operator, who spurned his proposal of marriage. He was charged with assault. ‘The eagle can look at the sun unharmed—by drawing a thin membrane across its eyes. HOLES o TEARS ¢ BURNS Re-Woven AS GOOD AS NEW 1 Crewmen of Plane Forced Down at Sea Saved Affer 74 Days Craft Drifted 400 Miles; Navy Praises Heroic Work of Victims B3 the Assoclated Press. BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan. 22.— Seven crewmen of a Navy plane | which was forced down at sea byl motor trouble have been rescued and brought back to port after drifting | for seven and a half days, Navy headquarters announced yesterday. The Navy said the herolc work of | 1319 F NW. Rm. 208 OWNERS OF CAN Tum‘cdm im very _quiekly rts at mederate or. better still, CONSTRUCTION CO. Westory Bldg. Dist. 6006 605 14th St N.W Like Senate Beer Senate Ale Yo oy Comppaony y the crewmen made possible their rescue. ‘The crew consisted of Lt. Willlam Sutherland, Normal, TIIL; Ensign William Lahodney, Milton, Pa.; Ra- dioman (First Class) Laverne Weiss, ‘Watertown, 8. Dak.; Aviation Ma- chinists Mate -(Second Class) Jesse Miiler, Ashland, Ky.; Seaman (Pirst Class) Harold Martin, Lynchburg, Va.; Radioman (Third Class) Wil- lam Valyou, Burlington, Vt., and Radioman (Second Class) John Carlson, Olympia, Wash. Drifted 400 Miles. On their arrival here, the men told & story of buffeting waves which kept the plane rolling, with wings slapping the sea, from the time it came down, January 9, until rescue was effected by a plane and ship Saturday. By the time they were picked up they had drifted 400 miles, they sald, “fter being forced down some- where within 1,200 miles of Panama.” No more specific designation of the place the plane came down was given, nor was it announced whether it was in the Pacific Ocean or the Guif of Mexico. ! ‘The men lost 12 to 18 pounds each. Otherwise they seemed in good | health. Radiomen Are Praised. Lt. Butherland especially praised the work of Radiomen Weiss and | Valyou, who, he said, patched to- gether a workable radio from odds and ends of wiring and established communication which led to the rescue. (A correspondent of the Chi- cago Dally News foreign service in Balboa reported that the 8.08. which brought aid to the * A-15 to keep the plane afloat and two distilled water from the sea so the men could drink. They had three- quarters of a pint of drinking water @ dey, distiiled by making over a windshield water pump. The men calculated their position by weather reports received on their radio and by the time of sunrise. Our Loyl at the front need a steady flow of supplies. You can assure this by systematic purchase of United States Defense savings bonds and stamps. plane crew was heard not by vigilant planes, ships or canal stations, but by a Pennsylvania monitor station of the Federal Communications Commission.) 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