PAGE -PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE; 'April 7, 1945 Death MAGEt On Frias Ar. Western Allies Slashing Forward 4 HI Subsidies for Babies Provided In Senate Bill Graded Scale of $500 to $1,000 Proposed By Lawmaker With Four Daughters ORTH aSwXSSI -SltlliLI. ff I Slolttnau ff f7, 1 1 -V WV 111-KM AYJso mius would agree to go home and look after their families. This would curb juvenile delinquency, he indicated. To the widows of war veterans he offered increase to pensions.
To the farmers he offered an amendment to the Federal Farm Loan Bank act to prevent the bank in the future from refusing to make loans in states which have laws outlawing deficiency judgments. North Dakota has such a law, the senator explained, and as a result the Federal bank refused to make loans there. To employes of the Government Printing Office he offered a better schedule of sick leave. Having tossed off lightly that batch of incipient legislation, the senator wound up with a bill to amend the Constitution so that convictions in impeachment proceedings would be by a majority vote of the Senate instead of by a two-thirds vote. I Favor Higher Pay for Mine Supervisors Panel Recommends Group Receive More Than Rank-and-File (Continued From Page 1) These disputes were certified to the board last fall when 437 of the mines were in Government possession because of strikes.
All were ordered returned to private ownership and possession on February 24. The hearings did go into questions involving bargaining rights and alleged discriminatory discharges, which come under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. Contract Not Violated Although the panel fyound that the UCTSF "is simply a branch of the UMW A and that its policies are subject to veto of the UMWA" it held by a 2-1 split finding that the UCTSF, "technically speaking," had not violated the UVWA contact with the operators, since it was not a party to the contract. On the question of compensation, the panel reported: "It has been found that some instances exist in which supervisory employes are receiving less compensation per average hour of work than other employes who are under their supervision or who are below them in the direct line of promotion. This is a condition which the panel believes to be inequitable and unsound from the point of view of efficient administration." On the question of grievance nKturi rf Vsti MILES Sumperk ,1 I Srrm 0mn i i ilU fiXnTrr.
'c- III' 'I I a 7 ill tft'jrfj FuUn Chemnitt miir lif Jchwtmfurt Mats 77t Hoi I 'Nuernberg 700 Piisen negensDurg i us, CZECHOSLOVAKIA Aichrn ft net Bonn. LUXEMBOURG. jf tf Irirr U. S. 7th 7tui FR.
rat tour a WWW fit1' Burl 7urlrh SWITZERLAND, Berne JO -SUPERHIGHWAY" IT Tfflirr Mu I house it Prerov Brno rrJ7j Ma I i vsky Bar I A Wiener nam tiupnanq Magel. cf j- grandfather of Mf. Friends received at H. yvine wnere erv, T'-t Monday afternoon at 2 iy, -MeK ISSOCKOn April 4. 1945.
at his late' Howard Belleviie i Birdie E. Wright Earl McKIssock of Roy of Sewickley, hrnttv- mcmssock or Hen Avon, or urn Avon and or iimiaa. exaj, th, Friends and m.nnb.r ef av, 657, F. A A. M.
received Daugherty Funeral Bellevue. Services' 2 o'clock. rRK'E At Veteran ton, D. C. Friday, L.
W. Price, of formerly of Bellevue Loretta nd Service April 9 at RAISBF.CK Kilied'inac'io, 1944. near ir- vwijn aisoeck, ap. Jessie Stevenson and 2 I. Ml Brighton road May Hiliner of brother of Cadet Patricia Louise.
V.nvr be held Sunday. i the First Central rv.Ui Arch below Ohio Wednesday. April 4 VV, daughter of Herman k' anY of 1420 Blackadnre Ave r'. survived by 2 brother, in 11. S.
Navy; James Friends may call at Home. 9311 Frankstnwn F. ices will held Satu-iia 2 p. m. 11 V.
1 1 un irlriay, Apr" a. Sarah Rubin, at. wife of the late Samtiei Mrs. Jerome Seder, sisu- 'f. netc, -rtarry Rouse of Rosenzweig of Pottsvillr p.
rniweiR una K. w. N. J-: also two grandi received at the 5o9 Center where held on Sunday, Apru Intermentjrree' of Life i.NKEV Oa-Wednesday" Thomas agP Ts Vf; Maud Clement Sankey Ruth M. Jones, brother James Win.
ir received at the famt. r. cvanKeV Boulevard. rarrieb 1 2 o'clock, tery. Interment in Su'h 'Ur; 'it SCHMttKI.
suddenly- "a f' "15 residence iv Joseph Sfhlesel, beloved Therresa Roesoh Schleco! "''85 "4 tinier, Airs. Alice Leone. Mrs. Freda O- rsorma Mannka; also Mrs. John Sandrock.
and 1 Funeral services o'ciock from ttv a runerai Home, 1330 r. rncnas invired. 'in'uu un Friday. Ann! i ranK son of John, John Schmitt and Mrs. W-il H.
verona, fa, friends nerai nome of Jiin Fifth Ave. Interment SMITH On' Wednes Tin tw A i.Vie niis apecK mother lnir fl 11. runerni services cowrie Memorial Hume 1 H'T trnu 1. tat asyivania Ave 1 urday at 2:30 p. m.
of Ida May Rebekah Chester Siste M. and 11, M'OHN On and tre of M. 4 p. Joseph hushand e( Rei-nr lamer of Harry K. Spohn of 2710 Friends rcr.iyed at the Frank XV Services on Saturday (itrm.u0 o'clock.
A 4 On at 4 p. at the family hnnv .1., ueorge Trs 41. Wer. or 6ue Mimes, and lath- rf T. fit.
A-- rnernj reeevert ir neral Home of Gilbert nT at 46th, where servi.es urday evening at o'clock. then he made to Vnnu. New Bethlehem. where nigral', be held Monday afternoon af 2 n-Members of Fort rut l.o.ice A. Pennsylvania O.nsutorv' a S.
R. Syria Temple. A. A. 0 and Lodge 472, Broth.rho.it cf Engineers, are invited.
TRt'AX Suddenly. 0-on Thursday, April 5. 1045. R'-, H. iruax, of An MeKeos Rooks, l.eioy.
hunuH n-. Truax, father of Paul M. Srr ih, of Cora Bell Satohe and t- Friends received at the ciev.r s- runerai Home. 5.14 Island Ave Rocks. Funeral services on rsiv 9.
at 2 WISE On Wed nesila v7A pril" ArtS; Powers, -wife of Adlington H. wotisul Rebecca WWkmshurg. ani ir Mrs. Edward Cowhand. Friecls Inv I at the Kree huneral Home, M2 K.r...-t a Ave.
(at Hay St 1. Wslklnsbtirt. H. mass of refjuiem at St. Jamei 1 Church, Wilkmshurg.
on ftaturday. at 9 a. m. after the remains he viewed at home until day at 10 a. m.
Interment in Alt', Innsbruck i -r 1 a A 3 I I A CAXADIAXS DRITiXG NORTHWARD have almost completed the sealing off of German rocket homh launching bases In Holland, together with the greatest citi.js of the Netherlands. If the Germans attempt an escape by sea, Allied planes are ready to take their toll. To the south, the Allied armies have shattered the Nazis' Weser river defense, and still farther south gains have been made along the lengthy front. German reports place the United States Third Army only 90 miles from Berlin and 132 miles from a junction with the Russians. The Allies have not confirmed this.
Mine Parley Breaks 'Down; Dispute Will GotoWLB Death Notices BRVBACH Elizabeth, S15 Aspin beloved mother of Mrs. Harrison, Jar-ratt and Henrv Brubach. Funeral from W. N. Winter Funeral Home.
4730 Friendship on Monday, April 9, at 2:30 p. m. Friends invited. CHANCE Suddenly, at Rufus, Oregon, on Fridav. April 5, at 7:25 p.
Sgt. Ralph Douglass Chance, U. S. A. of 6631 Woodwell Pitt.iburph, of Pauline M.
and Elwood T. Chance, brother of Charles H. Chance of Pittsburch. Elizabeth and Virginia Chance, Los Angeles, California. Friends received at H.
Samson's, 537 Neville St. Time of arrival in Pittsburgh to announced later. CLAY SMITH On Friday afternoon, April 6, 1945, Catherine Devine, wife of Joseph J. Claysmith of 1416 Wareman Brook line. Funeral from the home of her mother, Mrs.
Mary Pevine, 4423 Geneva Lawrenceville. Nrotice of time later. FRIE.NDntdliyTApriI 6, 1945, at 6:45 p. Theodore W. Friend, husband of Lillian McClure Friend, father of Theodore W.
Friend. brother of Mrs. William Howard Parke and Mrs. Leslie Johnston. Funeral services at his late residence, 1426 Shady Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Interment private. Please omit flowers. GEVERdiT Thursday morning. April 3, 1945. at his residence.
3534 Shadeland North Side, Jacob husband of Anna Erdman Geyer, father of the late Edna Zapf and Mrs. Lillian Graver of Cleveland Ohio; three grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren. Friends received at the Edward T. Daugherty Funeral Home. 366 Lincoln Bellevue.
Services Saturdav afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Interment Mt Royal Mausoleum. HOWARD On Fridav. Anril 1Q4S 3:30 a. Frank E.
(Toot) aon of Elmer and Louise Haisch Unw ta brother of Mrs. Katherine Kischner and Robert F. Howard. Funeral ervii-. the James Lowrie Memorial Home, 14i7 Chateau, at Pennsylvania on day at 2 p.
m. Friends Invited. KESSLF.R On "Thursday, April 5, William A. Kessler. brother of Miss Fmm v.i.
Friends received at his late residence, 6323 uarungton Koad, Squirrel Hill. Pa. Funeral Monday. April 9. at 10 a.
iriuiMn jiisn mass ar 10:30 a ni at St. Magdalene'a cnurcn, Homestead, Pa. JFnday- APr" George hushand of Helen Vi.v of Rachel M. Kirk, of 1327 Franklin vv ikinsburg. Friends received at the Eaton Wilkinshtirr wnere services will be held Sunday after- noon at 4:00 o'clock.
LKRARf ON On iriday morning at hTs Frnh'P W.IIUm Rowland Lebarton father of Cpl. Rowland G. Lebanon. Mildred A. Harmon and Mercedes Kramer, brother of Edward Lebarton, Mr.
Alice Kopf, Mrs Ada Engstler Mrs. Mae Thompson and beloved friend of Mary E. Cavanaugh. Friends received at McCabe's s.inn a tice oftime later. LEAHY On Wednefirlav TViii a n'jTT late of 29 Paxirn St dearly beloved wife of Thomas j.
beloved I mother of Pvt. James F. and Wirtn, sister of Mrs. Margaret ers. John thy R.
Kelly. Friends received" In he rAT." Of the A Xl Home. 1512 Lincoln Ave f. on Monday at 8MB m-h Cn.l.. Church at 9 a.
m. CHRIST METHODIST I i 1 1 i s' ft V. 4 J. "''r 1 I i i sir! If! 1 "i I Mi Hit 5 i I i machinery, the panel recommended establishment of definite levels of appeal (not to exceed) up to and including the president of a com pany or someone cesgmated by him. Stand on Seniority As to seniority, the panel said it was against the board's policy to order straight seniority where there is evidence such an ar rangement mie-ht interfere with safety and efficiency.
It recommended an order stating that "seniority shall govern in deter mining promotions, demotions, layoffs, call backs or transfer where the factors of ability, apti tude and aptitude toward safety are approximately equal" leaving disputes over decisions on such qualifications to the grievance machinery. Members of the panel were: Attorney William Spohn of Madison, a veteran of many WLB panels; Charles Gregory, professor of law at' the Univer sity of Chicago; and Harry J. D. Working, attorney and public member of the Cleveland Regional War Labor Board. V-E Dav to Be Crisis Itself Quick Shift of GIs To Pacific Held Vital Washington, April 6 (JP) Gen eral Marshall appealed today for public understanding and support during the redeployment of Ameri can forces from Europe to the Pacific.
He declared that period will be even more critical than the battles now being fought. The chief of staff, in an army day address to the military order of the wrorld wars said the attitude of the people at home will be of the "utmost importance" to army morale and fighting efficiency during the redeployment phase. "At the very moment that European hostilities end it is im perative that we start the movement through the Suez and through the Panama Canal of the units needed in highest priority for the acceleration of the cam paign in the Pacific," he said. "Any dela3 any loss of momentum in that campaign means the unnecessary loss or mutilation of more young Allied Drive Isolating Dutch Ports Canadians Cloee To Cutting Last Nazi Land Escape Route (Continued From Page 1)' The powerful offensive by this northern quartet of armies was swiftly weaving a pattern of destruction, hemming in or outflank ing' the big ports of Bremen and Emden, and cutting off escape or two German armies from Hol land's rocket coast except by sea A late dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Wiant said it was impossible to confirm the report by DNB that the Third Army had reached Eisle- ben, which would put Lieutenant General George S. Patton's forces 90 miles southwest of Berlin and 132 miles from a union with the Russians in the east.
Field dispatches, reporting the Third Army only 50 miles from the railway city of Plauen, whose seiz ure would cut Germany in half at the waist, placed the nearest ar mored columns 40 miles from Eis leben just where they were the day before. New Crossings by Ninth Against the background of Nazi broadcasts which might be an attempt to learn where the much-feared Third Army would strike next were the confirmed reports that the Weser Line had been shattered by combined British and American forces. The enemy now must stand on the Elbe, 50 miles from Berlin. With the Second and Fifth Armored and the Thirtieth Infantry Divisions already across th Weser Thursday, the Ninth Army made several new crossings with fresh infantry forces. These vanguards were at least five miles beyond the stream and probably 18 miles or less from Hannover.
The British Second Army's Eleventh Armored and Sixth Airborne Divisions farther north likewise drove five miles east of the Weser and were 25 miles or less from Hannover. Armored Golumns Roar North Mushrooming out over the North German plain, British armored columns also roared due north to within 35 miles of Bremen, big North Sea port which was being outflanked by the river crossings. Farther west the Canadian First Army took off on a 25-mile gallop that overran Coevorden, a Dutch communications center only 12 miles from the last German rail fescape route from Amsterdam, Hotterdam, the Hague and Utrecht. Another parallel column raced 15 miles to the northeast into fr.Ieppen, 48 miles due south of Emden, and sent forces on nine miles within 35 miles of the North tea. The United States Ninth and First Armies turned to the clean-bp of the big Ruhr pocket with redoubled fury.
The First Army Went over to the attack on a 70-mile front and the Ninth marched unopposed into Hamm, the Ruhr's giant railway center, indicating German withdrawal. On the southern end of the front, the United States Seventh Army hammered closer to Nuernberg and still battled in Hcilbronn, 15 miles north of Stuttgart, while the French First Army cut in deeper behind the Black Forest on the route to that city. Lieutenant General William H. feimpson's United States Ninth A.rmy, first to break across the VVeser river, was nosing through the foothills south of Fighting in Hameiin farther north likewise was enlarging its bridgehead. Street fighting still raged in the Hed Piper city of Hameiin, between the crossings sites.
The bew crossings of the Weser were made by infantry units near captured Minden. The United States Ninth Army fc-as three miles from the Ruhr tity of Dortmund. Refreshed by five days of rest, Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges' powerful LTnited States First Army once more surged eastward, joining the United Btates Ninth and the British Second Army in the assault on the vVeser river line, and reaching it Muenden, 45 miles southeast of the Ninth Army crossings. Armored spearheads raced 22 hiiles east of Paderborn where the First Army had outflanked the Ruhr to near 164 miles west of Berlin.
Civilians Fire Baiookas Farther south infantry and tanks smashed eight miles through Elite SS troops and bazooka-firing civilians to within half a mile of the river north of Muenden. Lashing out simultaneously in the opposite direction, the First Army pressed along a 70-miie front against the 125,000 or more German troops trapped in the bypassed Ruhr. A field dispatch reported a five-mile advance by the United States Third Army's Sixth Armored Division, a six-mile advance by the Eleventh Armored and a four-mile gain by the Fourth Armored Division. These gains put the Fourth IS miles southwest of Weimar, birthplace of the post-World War I German republic, the Sixth Armored 10 miles east of Muehl-hausen. and the Eleventh Armored 23 miles southeast of Gotha, wners it was 58 miles from the Czech border.
On the south flank the Eleventh Armored Division cleared by passed Meiningen, 28 miles south west of Gotha. Prisoners said the town had been defended by 800 Hungarian and panzer troops. General H. D. G.
Crerar's Canadian First Army provided one cf the big gains of Friday in the drive which has almost sealed off the Germans in Holland. The Germans may try to pull cut by boat under the guns and bombsights of waiting Allied By Ingrid Jewell Fot-Gitt Washington Bureau Washington, April 6j Tempestuous Senator William Langer, Non-partisan League Republican from North Dakota, filed a fistful of bills today, aiming to do good to one and all. To parents lie offered subsidies for babies. The first baby, apparently, is on the house, as Senator Langer didn't mention it. But for the second, he would have the Federal Government pay $500; for the third, $750, and for the fourth, $1,000.
Senator Langer, father of four daughters, did not press the matter beyond the fourth baby. The death rate exceeds the birthrate in the United States, he said, because large families are economically impossible for most couples. To men in service who are past their thirty-eighth birthdays and married, the senator offered honorable discharges, if the men To jo Reported In Cabinet (Continued From Tage 1) Before the report of the cabinet formation was broadcast, the Japanese foreign office had said defiantly that the "country was ready to meet any developments which might arise as the result of Russia's denunciation. (Tokyo radio, heard by the Federal Communications Com mission, said that Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shige-mitsu reported to the emperor Friday and it was assumed he discussed the Russian denunciation.) Anxiety was evident in both Japanese and German broadcasts on the pact breach. Japan, while insisting that It was not surprised, and asserting that it was prepared to face the consequences, said that the pact must remain in force until mid night April 24, 1946, because one year notice of denunciation is necessary.
Preparedness Stressedi Tokyo radio said that the Imperial foreign office would make "the greatest effort" to maintain neutrality with Russia but added "It is fully prepared and ready to respond to and cope with any and all situations that might arise." The denunciation was "not un foreseen" by the foreign office, Tokyo said. "Maintenance of neu trality between Japan and the So viet Union, it said, "has con tributed not only to peace and stability in the Asiatic situation but also to the welfare of all man kind in a world engrossed in the greatest turmoil In history." Sermons on Radio The Reverend Harry Fisher, pastor of the Pitcairn United Brethren Church, will speak on the Church Services on the Air, spon sored by the Council of Churches of Christ of Allegheny County, to morrow morning on Station WCAE from 8:45 to 9:15 clock. On WWSW, from 9 to 9:30 o'clock, the Reverend Jean A. Vache, assistant pastor of Calvary Episcopal Church, will preach. From 9:30 to 10 o'clock the Reverend Alvin E.
Teichart, pastor of St. Matthews' United Lutheran Church, Crafton, will deliver the sermon on KDKA. Sites for New Airport Structure Are Inspected Allegheny county's commissioners and engineers yesterday inspected proposed alternative sites for the postwar administration building at the partly completed $12,000,000 Moon township airport. Inspection also covered connecting roads to main highways, which are to be a part of the complete develop ment, when county takes over from the army. will preach on "The Case for Thomas" tomorrow morning.
"Unreality" is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churchp of Christ, Scientist, tomorrow. The Golden Text is-: "Judee not accord ing to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" (John At the East Liberty Presbyterian Church tomorrow Dr. Stuart Nye Hutchison's subject will be "The Pillars of the Church." In the evening he will speak on "Removing Mountains." "All That Jesus Began" will be the topic of the weekly Sunday afternoon vesper service delivered by Dr. William R. Farmer, University of Pittsburgh chaplain, at 4 o'clock in the Heinz Chapel.
Dr. A. R. Robinson ofjthe Sixth United Presbyterian Church, East End, will speak on "God's Silent Times" at 11 a. m.
tomorrow. At 8 p. m. Dr. Daum will preach on the theme, "As I Was Busy." Dr.
Clarence Edward Macartney will preach on "All the Angels Are Not in Heaven" tomorrow evening at the First Presbyterian Church. At the morning service his subject will be "Cast Thy Burden on the Lord." Communion will be celebrated in the morning. Tim Iii Sundays PILGRIMS' HOUR WCAEel2Naon OLD FASHIONED REVIVAL HOUR KQV, 9 A. M. Charles Fuller, Director 'I'll i Sunday afternoon CHURCH 1 ineny Aienncs n.
Mark Depn. Mlnl.W ii.uw A. M. "THE CASE FOR THOMAS" THE MI VIST KR WILL I'KrAlH "1. 82.
7 to Center and Liberty Avenues EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT CHURCH SMITHFIELD CONGREGATIONAL 610 SMITHFIELD STRrtT II A. DON'T FEEL LIKE IT1 Mr. Stoerksr Will Preach SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH aniwrjon Ave. and Westminster Place llneh Themios Senl ii A. M.
"A SHELTER IN THE TIME OF STORM'1 IR. KERR WILL PREACH F. M. ORDINATION OF JOHN I1ARVIE THOMSON TO THf HOLY MINISTRY BY THE PRESB YTER1 Of P1TT-BI Kf.H THE SIXTH UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Br. A.
K. Robinson ar 73 to N. Highland Ave. Station M. II A.
MCOD'S SILENT TIMES" DR. ROBINSON 8 P. M. "AS I WAS BUSY" DR. DAUM Quartet! Esther Edmundson, Sarah Jamison Logan, Bernard Markwell.
Ftrcj 4. Clyda English, Organlst-Oireetor. BIBLE SCHOOL 8:45 A. 7 V. M.
YOl'NG MKrllM.l How Armies Stand Along West Front By the Associated Pt ARMIES IN THE WEST Canadian First: Crossed Neder Rhine near Arnhem, Holland; advanced northeast in Reich. British Second: Tanks raced along main road to Bremen across the Weser. United States Ninth: Tanks across Weser bore- down on other troops knocked in roof of Ruhr trap. United States First: Launched powerful new assault eastward, smashed west into Ruhr pocket on 70-mile front. United States Third: Reached points 130 miles from Berlin, 58 from Czechoslovak border.
United States Seventh: Widened wedge of drive on Nuernberg. French First: Menaced Stuttgart. UNITED STATES DIVISIONS Second Armored: Drove east of the Weser toward Hannover. Third Infantry: Gained south- eath of Fulda. Fourth Armored: Advanced beyond Gotha.
Fifth Armored: Took part in Weser drive. Sixth Armored: Reached point 130 miles from Berlin. Eighth Armored: Drove east from Ruhr pocket area. Ninth Infantry: Smashed into Ruhr trap. Tenth Armored: Advanced southwest of Heilbronn.
Eleventh Armored: Drove within 58 miles of Czechoslovak border. Twelfth Armored: Widened wedge toward Nuernberg. Fourteenth A Advanced southeast of Fulda. Twenty-sixth Infantry: Advanced in Gotha area. Thirtieth Infantry: Fought into Hameiin.
Forty-fifth Infantry: Gained southeast of Fulda. Eighty-third Infantry: Mopped up in Hamm. Jap Planes Hit At Yank Fleet (Continued From Page 1) Nimitz reported 539 Japanese were killed and 166 captured in seizing the Kerama islands off the southwest coast of Okinawa prior to the main invasion. The count of 150 enemy planes shot down attempting to attack the United States invasion fleet was still "preliminary and incomplete," the communique said. (A Japanese broadcast recorded by the Associated Press in New York last night said Japanese planes had "suhk or damaged" three aircraft carriers in an offensive against the American fleet near Okinawa and declared the task force was "now in a state of utter 1,212 Enemy Planes Lost The enemy air force already had lost 1,212 planes destroyed or damaged by American naval fliers since the start of the Okinawa operations March 17.
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, commander of United States Car rier Task Force 58, reported to the navy in Washington his fliers destroyed or damaged 954 enemy planes in the air or on the ground. and supporting forces accounted for 258 more. Mitscher also said that 214 enemy surface ships have been de stroyed since his fliers hit Southern Japan, March 17, and then moved into the Ryukyus for the Okinawa invasion, 325 miles south of Nippon. (Continued From Page 1) All indications pointed to Gov ernment seizure of mines at least those affected by wildcat strikes to prevent further harm to the war effort.
More Than 100 Mines Down More than 100 soft coal mines were reported down today, one day after Chairman George Taylor of the WLB said formally that unless they reopen promptly the Government will take over. A week ago Lewis agreed to a 30-day extension, until May 1, of me expired working contract. But thousands of miners in the field decided instead to stay away from work. K. C.
Adams, editor of the union 'Journal, disclaimed all UMW responsibility for the idle ness, saying: jmo worK stoppage any mine has been inspired by the UMW wherever the operators and management have agreed to meet the terms of the extended agreement. "We are not responsible for differences which arise locally and become aggravated between management and, men." Adams said in deiense or tne thousands of miners away from work that they are just physically "tired out" after strenuous labor in breaking all production records in the last 18 months. No accurate figure was avail able on the total number of men out, but it, ran into the tens of thousands. In event of Government seizure, Interior Secretary Ickes, as solid fuel administrator probably would be chosen, as he was in 1943, to be the Federal mine boss. He has stressed the importance of coal to war production and Divorce Proceedings Forty-six divorce actions were started in common pleas court yesterday.
They were: Mary J. against Allen Douglas, Eugene against Mildred F. Pcrrine, Irene against James Glaister, Alfred J. against Dorothy J. Cooper, Violet A.
against B. W. Healey, Samuel against Roberta White, Helen against Ahson Akmal. Geor gia P. against Ernest R.
Tanner, Monogene O. against Victor A. Polito, Katherine against Frank L. Douglas, Melvin E. against Louise E.
Bachman, Beatrice against Waymon Hawkins, Ed ward F. against Betty D. Wol- kiewicz. Yetta against Julius Kimball, Thomas E. against Zona Sil-cox, Lucille I.
against Albert L. Papa, Lillian against Frank W. Garnett, Samuel against Lillian Matthews, James C. against Sheila M. Ruse, Regina A.
against William H. Totten, Margaret against John A. Reynolds. Bernyce F. against Roger Steinlicht, Eve lyn against William Pickersgill, Rose F.
against Stanley L. Rut-kowski. Rose V. against Paul Bulewiecz, William against Flora B. Jones, Stella M.
against William P. Miller, Roy A. against Beatrice W. Hughes, Philip against Pearl Americus, Elizabeth M. against William F.
Barefoot, George J. against Alice Brunick, Rachel against Fred Thornhauer, Austin against Eleanor Story, Bernice against James Harris, Whitt against Sylvia Miller, Ruth against Thomas E. Shields. Betty D. against Jack G.
Nied, Russell EL against Jeanne E. Peters, Olga M. against Joseph B. Rak, Henry E. against Anna S.
Paulson, Erdean against John A. Dee-mer, Joseph, against Mary Mikulan. Margaret against William S. Risher, Dorothy R. against Jame's O.
Ellis, Regina P. against Wilbert G. Brickner, Margaret E. against Oscar F. Pflaum.
Divorces granted were: Joseph M. from Julia M. Tomory, Ruth A-from Charles T. Franklin, Mary L. from William L.
Henderson, Helen A. from John H. Dasdorf, Dorcas from Alfred Harriss, Jesse R. from Genevieve Johns, Annie K. from Herbert F.
OShaughnessy, Ruth E. from Ernest W. Meade, Ruth from Raymond E. Scasson, Marian S. from Edward Mellon IL argued against any delay in the seizure.
The Republic Steel Corporation said today it had banked one of its Cleveland blast furnaces and one at Gadsden, to conserve what coal it has. Other steel companies reported similar preparations. Wildcat Strikes Close 72 Mines In District With 72 mines closed and 27,261 workers idle, according to the Solid Fuels Administration, Western Pennsylvania's wave of wildcat strikes and absenteeism at bituminous coal mines swelled into a real menace to war activities yesterday, despite threats of Gov eminent seizure of the strike- bound pits. This was an increase of 12 in the number of mines down and a decrease of 1,936 in the number of idle employes, compared with Thursday's statistics. Miners at some previously struck pits were back on the job but that gain was offset by new strikes flaring at other workings, while rate of absenteeism fluctuated variably in different mining communities.
lesterday's production loss was estimated at 99,262 tons by reason of the strike, and 37,000 tons because of absenteeism, a total of 136,262 tons. Thursday's produc tion loss, from both causes, was placed at 147,188 tons. Steel Production Hit Steel production was hit hard again and dwindling stockpiles of coal, with no immedaite relief in sight, gave mill executives many anxious moments. United States Steel Corporation subsidiaries here, including Carnegie-Illinois, shut down 37 open hearth furnaces. Sixteen of the corporation's 35 blast furnaces in this area were banked or partly closed down.
Six Bessemer converters were down for the second day through lack of iron, costing 4,000 tons daily loss. The Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation reported all four of its captive coal mines still down but its steel production rate not yet affected. Fayette county operations of the H. C. Frick co*ke Company, a United States Steel subsidiary, improved yesterday with seven mines operating, partially at least, as against two on Thursday.
Six Frick mines remained down. Operations at "Big Steel's" Clairton co*ke plant dropped to 48 per cent of normal. Strikers at J. L.s Vesta No.j 4 mine, near California, larg-j est of that firm's four pits, have scheduled a meeting for tomorrow to vote on whether to return to work. Lesrion Dinner I Scheduled Monday State and county officers of the American Legion and representatives of the 84 Leegion posts in Allegheny county ynll attend a dinner meeting in the West Deer township high school Monday in honor of Edward N.
Scheiberling, national commander. Crash Kills Navy Flier Washington, April 6 UP) Lieutenant Anthony Salamone, Norris-town. was killed today in the crash of a Navy Helldiver bomber into the Potomac river during a test flight at Dahlgren Proving Grounds, Va. The pilot. Lieutenant Commander Bradford G.
Swo-netz, was reported by the Navy to have bailed out unhurt. PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE Boulevard of Allies and Grant Street Pittsburgh, Pa. Published every morning except Sunday. Price 4 cents per copy. One year by mat onsv Or first and second zones where there is no Post-Gaiette carrier) fS.
Entered as second-class matter the pjftofTict at Pittsburgh, under the act of Usrch 3. 1S79 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press ta exclusively entitled to the usa for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited te thia paper and alae the local news pufcUshed herein All rights aUo reserved. Fifth Avenue at South Negley. Take Can "3 'I Minister: pjtlllmaa Allen Enntrr Church School 9:45 and 11:00 A. M.
II A. M. "EMMAUS, 1945" Rev. J. Watt 8 P.
M. "CBfllSTlAN CULTURE" Rev. On Organist-Director: Dr. Marshall Bidwfll CHURCH NOTES EIXTH AVENUE ttl SMITHrlELD ST. TRINITy CATHEDRAL a.
Holy Communion 11 a. m. "Life Was Given Too'' Dean Moor 6 p. m. Vesper Service Under the Auspices of th Lrn''' Missionary League DAILY SERVICES 11 :45 a.
12 31 p. B-Organist and Choirmaster Alfred Harotr. Bishop Pardue at St. Paul's Church, Mt. Lebanon, a.
m. and 11 a. m. EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Btnart Kye Hutchison, D. U.
pena ad Highland Aran Dr. Hutchiion Will Preach 11:00 A. Me "THE PILLARS OF THE CHURCH" 8:00 P. "REMOVING MOUNTAINS" Choran Choir directed by Dr. Frank Cuthbert THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sixth Avenue at Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
CLARENCE EDWARD MACARTNEY, Minister Dr. Wilbur H. Fowler, newly- appointed pastor of the Emory Methodist Church, will preach his nrst sermon the church tomorrow at 11 o'clock on the subject, "Because He Careth." In the eve ning his sermon topic will be "Life Is What You Make It." Dr. Fowler was the former pastor of the Central Methodist Church at Springfield, O. At the Shadyside Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening John Darsie Thomson will be ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of Pittsburgh.
At the 11 a. m. service Dr. H. T.
Kerr will speak on "A Shelter in the Time of Storm." The Reverend J. Frederick Miller will preach on "A New Wind Arises" at 11 o'clock tomorrow in the East End Christian Church. "Emmaus, 1945" will be the sermon topic of the Reverend J. R. Watt at the morning service tomorrow in the Third Presbyterian Church.
In the evening the Reverend W. HI Gray will speak on "Christian Culture." The Reverend Theodor F. Stoer-ker will preach on the topic, "I Don't Feel Like It" at the 11 o'clock service tomorrow -at the Smithfield Evangelical Protestant Church. Dean N. R.
High Moor will preach the Morning Prayer service tomorrow in Trinity Cathedral at 11 o'clock and his topic will be "Life Was Given You." A vesper service under the auspices of the Laymen's Missionary League of the Diocese of Pittsburgh will be held in the cathedral at 5 o'clock. Dr. Mark Depp of the Christ Methodist Church, East Liberty, 10:45 A. Ms "CAST THY BURDEN ON THE LORD" (Celebration of the LorcTt Supper) Dr. Macartney 8:00 P.
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