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STRIKE CAUSES
UPSET IN WAR
PRODUCTION
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DETROIT, Oct. 4.—-(AP)—The j
huge war production program in j
Detroit area, was impaired as j
maintenance workers, in more j
than a score of factories began to 1
strike.
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Their union officers said that
the strike had earlier been de
ferred pending a meeting of the
War Labor Board.
Before noon, 3,000 maintenance j
employees left their jobs. Eleven j
plants closed down and more than !
50.000 workers were sent home. ■
Maintenance workers in 10 !
other factories left their jobs and I
additional closings are affecting!
another 50,000 or more workers, j
> A spokesman said that the j
strike was due to a dispute be- ;
tween the maintenance and con- i
struction and powerhouse work
ers’ council of United Auto
Workers and the CIO over the j
procedure of handling wage de- 1
rpands. V
The council represents 38,000 j
maintenance men and more than !
- 300 plants in the Detroit area.
This includes virtually every
large and small automotive plant.
Union officials said that the!
strike of all maintenance work- '
ers directly or indirectly, will!
affect sveeral hundred thousand I
workers in the Detroit area and 1
paralyze the war production ef
fort.
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SAN FRANCISCO
WINS ANNUAL !
BASBALL TILT
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.— |
vAPl—San Francisco yesterday
defeated Los Angeles, 4-2, win-'
ning the Governor’s Cup play-off
series, among the first four teams!
of the Pacific Coast League.
San Francisco won four games
to Los Angeles’ three.
Los Angeles won the league
championship the last two years,
but San Francisco won the last
two $10,000 playoffs.
MARRIED LAST
MONDAY EVENING
....Maude Teetuk became the
bride of William Watkins in a
ceremony peformed Monday eve
ning at the Lavinia Wallace
^ • Young Mission, by that church's
, pastor. Miss Constance Erickson.
£!rs. Ruth rQuiwater ■ and Nels
Nelson were witnesses at the oc
, ' caaipn. which occurred, aVseven
» thirty.
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CROU N-0 CUW-mumw j. B. Sterling, Jr.. Western
▼ille, K. Y.; 8gt Louis Young. Glrardvlllt, Pa.; Cpl. Charles
Kumpf, Buffalo, N. Y.; and Cpl. Roy M. Kelly, Chicago (left to
right) giro h BIT i checkup la England. *
OIL STORAGE
TARGET OF U.
S. BOMBERS
By MURLIN SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ON
NEW GUINEA, Oct 4.—CAP)—
Japan’s three million barrel oil
storage center at Balikpapn, in
Bornea Bash, which is the most
lucrative strategic target in the
Pacific, was pounded powerfully
on Saturday by more than 60
Liberators, which flew from ad
vance bases, from where they
will repeatedly pounder the cen
ter on which Japan leans heavily
for ability to wage war and move
essential cargo.
The communique said that tow
ering fires were staffed by bomb
ers, three of which were lost.
Parachuting Yank airmen from
a crippled plane, were strafed by
machine guns from about 30
Zeroes, which bitterly opposed
the raiders.
The bombers were finding
their targets through the clouds
and accurately dropped 74 tons.
Complete destruction of the
oil center was not claimed by the,
■communique, but ..the bombs were
said to have caused heavy, dam
age.
ARMY MEN ARE
KILLED WHEN j
SHIP HITS MINE
U. S. PACIFIC FIELD HEAD
QUARTERS, Oct. 4.—(AP>—
Eleven army men were killed and
22 others listed as missing, after!
the Navy-chartered Liberty ship,
Elihu Thompson, struck a mine
while entering a south Pacific
port.
A patrol craft remvoed the sur
vivors.
A navy salvage unit beached
the Thompson and it was found
to be in a repairable condition.
The accident was reported in
a communique which reported
the continuation of the mopping
up operations against the Japan
ese.
The enemy is still holding ten
aciously to the Bloody Nose Ridge
on hte Peleliu Island and one
pocket on Agaur Island.
They by-passed Truk and en
countered anti-aircraft fire which
damaged two bombers.
ODD. FELLOWS TO MEET
The Odd Fellows will meet
this Friday evening at the
■ home of: Brother Robert' • Led
gerwood.
DEWEY MAPS
PLANS FOR TAX
DECREASES
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ALBANY, N. Y„ Oct. 4.—'AP)
—Governor Dewey, today, pro
posed the reduction of individual
and corporation income levies as
part of the complete overhaul of
the federal tax system.
He said that this must be ac
complished after the war to re
move the road block in the way
of progress.
The governor made known his
views in an address over a na
tion-wide radio hook-up.
The republican presidential
nominee asserted that, while the
nation cheerfully pays high taxes
to meet the cost of war, peace
time objectives of expansion and
recovery could not be obtained by
taxes which eat into the income
of those already below’ the decent
America standard of living. He
proposed the following program
if the republicans win*
A revision of personal income
tax exemptions so that the man
who makes as little as 11 dollars
a week no longer has to have in- ;
come tax taken out of his pay en- |
velope; reductions in income tax
rates; revisions and the lowering
of corporation taxes; eliminations
as soon as possible to the excise .
taxes, except on alcoholic bever-1
ages, tobacco and gasoline; com-1
plete overhaul of the existing
confused complicated tax laws;
the establishment of a consistent
national tax policy directed to
ward achieving full employment
and raising the national income.
THIRD ARMY
CAPTURES
FT. DRIANT
LONDON, Oct. 4.—(AP)—
American Third Army troops
captured Fort Driant, the strong
est bastion fortress in he ring
guarding Metz, by assault, it was
reported today.
Their First Army comrades are
125 miles to the north and have
shoved deeper through the back- i
stop defenses which are guarding
the Rhine and Cologne.
The First Army is battling the
hastily gathered German re
serves, who were severed from
the main escape route north of
Aachen. : ! v.;
Fort Briant fell after a two-day
battle by the doughboys. The last
of the Germans were finally
burned out by setting fire to crude
oft, which was sprayed on the
tunnels and fortifications.
McQUIN’NS
HOMER BEATS
CARDS 2 TO 1
LOUIS. Oct 4.—(AP)— Geo.
McQuinn's fourth inning homo
run, with Gen? Moore on the
bases, gave the St Louis
Browns a 2 to 1 victory over
, the St. Louis Cardinals, in the
first game of the World Series,
before 33,242 fans, in Sports
man park here.
This is the first time in the
history of baseball that all games
of a World Series are to be play
ed in St. Louis.
Although the Browns, American
League pennant winners, won the
first game, it was no easy push
over. The Cardinals played up to
their true 1944 form, which kept
them at the top of the National
league, bring them the pennant at
the end of the season
Summary;
R H E
St. Louis Browns ..... 2 2 0
St. Louis Cardinals ..1 7 0
Batteries; Galehouse and Hay
worth; Cardinals, M Cooper and
Donnelly and W. Cooper.
RUSSIANS USE
GUIDES FOR
SPEARHEAD
MOSCOW. Oct. 4.~(AP>—Rus
sian machine gunners, with
American Jeeps and Yugoslav
partisans acting as guides, made
a spearhead to the westward
along the Danube, less than 20
miles from Belgrade, it has been
reported
Nearly all of the Yugoslav ter
ritory to the east of the big el
bow formed by the confluence of
the Danube and Tisza rivers, are
reported swept clean of German
resistance
The Red Army is sweeping
like a flood through the foothills
of the Transylvanian Alps, more
than 50 miles beyond the iron
gate.
Scouts of Marshal Tito’s parti
san army, ferried across the Dan
ube to mee the Russians on
the northern bank and helped
lead them westward toward Bel
grade.
Field dispatches said that east
of Belgrade the Yugoslavs helped
speed up another Russian spear
head, which is thrusting for the
Trans-Yugo-Balkan railroad, over
which some 50,000 Germans in
the lower Balkans may still try
to escape to Ixvestia