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Yankees Hack
Away at Japs'
Line at Limon
Enemy Offers Desperate
Resistance in Effort to '
Hold Coast Bridgehead
RENERAI, MacARTHUR
HEADQUARTERS, PhilipDines,
Nov. 22 (Ah") American inlan
trymen hacked away at Limon's
defenses today in the face of an
evident Japanese intention to
hold its positions at almost any
units of the 32nd division
had relieved to some extent the
pressure on the gaunt and battle
weary 24th infantry, which has
carried the weight of the entire
Leyte battle, and which yester
day smashed back another strong
enemy attack on a road block
across the Ormoc highway.
The 32nd division was subiect
ing Limon, Japanese stronghold,
to steadv pressure and Nipponese
installations were being put out
of commission one bv one.
It was the ohlv helD available
as yet for the 24th. holding the
storm-drenched slope positions to
which it has cluner for 10 days.
General MacArthur's communi
que said "the enemv has commit
ted his First division in a des
perate effort" to hold its bastion
at Limon, and the belief was the
Japs were preDared to sacrifice
the whole division if need be.
Limon Sole Barrier
The Americans have occupied
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
GERMANY'S western front,
where our side is making a
jjetermined attempt, backed by
great air power, to win the war
in Europe before winter closes
, down, still holds the. center of
our interest as It has since it
started.
We are MAKING PROGRESS
pushing the Germans back
along the whole 400-mile front.
PATTON flows around Metz,
leaves it and its great forts
behind to be cleaned up later,
and PUSHES ON. His rampag
ing tanks are operating inside
Germany, in the edge of the all
important Saar basin.
A hundred miles to the south,
the French by-pass the fortress
Belfort, as Patton by-passed Metz,
and REACH THE RHINE.
THE big. battle (at the moment)
Is east of. Aachen, in the Co
logne plain.
Here three allied armies the
American 1st and 9th and the
British 2nd are smashing at Co
logne and the Rhine itself. They
are advancing slowly, against
FANATICAL German resistance.
Our air reconnaissance reports
signs of the beginning of a Ger
man WITHDRAWAL toward the
Rhine, which is bridged at Co
logne and again at Dusseldorf,
some 25 miles to the north. Our
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Bobbysock Shoplifters, Many From
Good Families, Hard Problem for
Portland Officials, Business Men
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 22. ( AP ) Bobbysockers who shop
lift for fun are baffling juvenile officials here and have Portland
retailers walking on their heels.
Young girls, who seem to skip classes to shoplift as casually as
boys play hookey to go fishing, have been arrested from nearly every
high school and grade school in
town and from some of the city's
better homes.
The thefts practically all for
personal use, not for sale have
been increasing for two years.
The bobbysock brigade seems to
be doing its Christmas shoplifting
early, and police say it beats any
thing they've ever seen. I
A 12-yoar-old was caught with
$150 of cashmere sweaters, beads
and bracelets in a shopping bag.
A girl of 17 admitted stealing
$700 worth of goods In seven
months to send as gifts to her
sailor sweetheart. At one glove
counter a detective caught five
girls, each with a stolen pair of
gloves in her size.
One deDartment store official
said shoplifting had run Into so
many thousands of dollars that
his auditors held up Inventory re
ports, thinking there must have
been a bookkeeping error. "I've
teen nothing like It In 34 years,"
he said.
Jteqsrd It As Fad
Police Capt Elizabeth Moorad
P. G. Wodehouse, Crt of Butler
Jeeves, Recently Freed ay Gestapo,
Put Under Arrest by Paris Officials
LONDON, Nov. 22. (AP) P. G. Wodehouse, the English au
thor, and his wife have been arrested by French authorities in Paris,
a diplomatic source said today.
Details of the charge were not made known. It was said that
questions of procedure were under, discussion between French and
English authorities.
Wodehouse and his wife were
moved from Berlin to Paris by
the Germans before the enemy
was driven from France.
The 63-year-old British humor
ist, creator oi tne turner Jeeves,
was caught by the Germans late
in May, 1940, in his villa at Le
Toquet, France; and spent nearly
a year in prison and internment
camps. In the period between his
release and his return to France,
he was permitted to move around
in Berlin freely.
He was severely criticized both
in Britain and the United States
for talks he made on the German
radio in 1941, but in Sept. of this
year in Paris he denied reports
that he lived in luxury.
Misunderstood He says
"The world completely misun
derstood my purpose in connec
tion with the broadcasts from
Germany," he said at the time.
He added that he had been re
leased by the gestapo in the us
ual manner after a year's intern
ment, as were numerous other
British civilians.
He said his talks were merely
his manner of letting his friends
know he was well and acknowl
edging their packages and letters
and their help in seeking his re
lease. He said the Germans did
not dictate what he was to sayi
Reds Gain Further
Ground in Hungary
LONDON. Nov. 22 (AP The
Red army drive for control of
northeastern Hungary's rail net
work has captured Verpelet,
eight miles southwest of Eger and
is- edging closer to the strategic
rail junction of Miskolc and Hat-
van, Moscow advices said today.
Still another threat to the Ger
mans in that general sector was
seen In a Berlin announcement
that the Russians had uncorked a
fresh push in Czechoslovakia
southwest of Ungar, 75 miles
northeast of Miskolc. The nazis
said seven to eight Soviet divis-P
ions nad ripped several holes In
German defenses between the
Ung and Latorica rivers.
A Moscow communique said
German forces pocketed in south
west Latvia had made 40 vain
counterattacks in a single day be
low Jelgava, losing 13 tanks, but
the announcement still did not
confirm Berlin assertions that
the Russians began a major of
fensive Sunday.
The Russians, however, did an
nounce the virtual clearance of
the Baltic Island of Saare (Osel)
guarding the entrance to the Gulf
of Riga.
There was no new word on the
continuing siege of Budapest
from points south and southeast
of the capital.
McElligott Nomination
Favorably Reported
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AP)
The nomination of Richard Mc
Elligott as register of the land of
fice at Roseburg, Ore., was re
ported favorably to the senate to
day by its committee on public
lanas ana surveys.
opined that the youngsters look at I
shoplifting as a fad not a crime.
It's like boys tearing down street .
signs on Hallowe'en. "I guess It is Grand Chancellor Crum' advls
stealing," one tearful teen-ager ed the Knights that an orphans'
confessed. "Only I didn't think of
WOMAN'S PREROGATIVE
BRISTOL, Conn., Nov. 23
(AP) Assistant Prosecutor Jos
eph M. Donovan told the city
court that a 22-year-old woman,
charged with pilfering a dress
from a department store, had
been arrested when she brought
the garment back to the store and
asked that It bei exchanged for
another that would fit her.
It that way. It was an adven
ture, sort of. The other girls were
doing It"
"They make a game out of
It," said Cataln Moorad. "A girl
friend boasts about how she lifted
cosmetics and Jewelry. They try it
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ROSEBURG, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1 944.
P. G. Wodehouse
and his script was passed through
tegular German censorship chan
nels. He had been quoted last Sept.
Dy a iJaris aispatcn to tne umunn
Daily faketch as saying that hi:
talks were "a terrible mistake."
Death Takes Savant Who
Forecast End of World
CAMBRIDGE. England. Nov,
22 (AP) Sir Arthur Eddington,
professor of astronomy fat Cam
bridge university and director of
the Cambridge observatory, died
here last night. He was.bl.
Wilting in 1935. Siu Atthur nio-
tured 'the end of the universe,
with no more earth or stars, but
only radio waves.
"About every 1,500 million
years," he said, "this ball of ra
dio waves will double its diame
ter, and it will go on expanding
forever. I may describe the end
ot the physical world as one stu
pendous broadcast."
Unionists to Head
Zone's Bond Drive
At a meeting held Tuesday in
Reedsport, organization for the
Sixth War Loan drive was com
pleted with M. F. Wrenn, saw
mill union, A. r . oi L. ana w. u
Harris. I. W. A. of the C. I. O.,
elected as co-chairmen for the
community, according to a report
by Bruce C. Elliott, Douglas coun
tv sixth war loan chairman.
The meeting was conducted by
Mr. Elliott, with Mrs. Helen Wim
berly, chairman of the women's
division, explaining the work to
be undertaken by the ladies of the
lower umpqua district.
Community leaders attending
included E. D. Webb, E. S. Dunn,
John Skarlucan, W. A. Burdick,
Frank L. Taylor, Floyd Hicox, C.
R. Elliott, M. F. Wrenn and W. L.
Harris.
Grand Chancellor Visits
Pythian Knights, Sisters
Jesse Crum, grand chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias, domain
of Oregon, paid an oflclal visit to
Alpha lodge No. 41, Roseburg,
last night Roseburg lodge, No. 23,
Pythian Sisters, served a turkey
dinner in the K. of P. hall in
honor of the visitor.
Following the dinner, which
was enjoyed bv some 60 mem
bers of the local Knights and Sis
ters, the rank of page was con
ferred in the order uoon Elmer T.
Lawrence, Glenn Barrows and
John Wesley Rackley, Jr. Those
participating In the degree work
included Harold Hlckerson, W. B.
Stinnett, Dr. Clair K. Allen, Clay-
ton W .Turppnspn. T.. T.. Pntter.
son. Rov V. Dunham. Reoree
Jackson. E. G. High and Thomas
C. Hartfiel.
home was soon to go Into opera
tion In connection with the Oregon-Washington
Pythian home In
Vancouver, Wash., and compli
mented the local lodge for spon
soring a Knight of Pythias drum
corps.
California Eases Entry
Of Fruit From Oregon
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 22 (AP)
California will permit entry of
gift packages of fruit grown In
the Medford region without th?
usual Inspection procedure, the
stite department of agriculture
said today.
However, shippers must file
with the Oregon and California
agriculture departments' lists of
commodities contained in each
box.
Two Fugitive
tons' Caught;
One Wounded
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 22.
(AP) Deputy Warden E. C.
Halley of the state prison
said that Martin C. Broom,
63, escaped prison conviot,
had been shot on the Hatch
ery creek road near Leaburg,
about 30 miles east of Eu
gene, and taken to the Eu
gene hospital. Halley said he
had no details, and state po
illeytshaSdEhe"
from the
Long, 33,
lice headquarters
had not been advised
shooting.
Broom's partner
vember 11 break
prison, Cornelius
was oaptured by state police
last night In the MoKenzie -river
district between Vlda
and Leaburg, but Broom
eluded oapture by running
up a canyon.
Long was serving twenty
years, while Broom is a habitual
criminal serving life.
Long was taken on the trail
near a cabin from which two
rifles had been stolen Monday
night, giving the clue that led to
the capture. Long had one of the
rifles when captured, but officers
took him before he had a chance
to use it.
Broom Shot in Arm
Later information from Eugene
today said that Broom was shot
in the right arm as ho trained a
rifle at the sheriff's posse when
they surrounded him about 100
yards from where Long was cap
tured yesterday. -
The area in which the pair
were taken was intimately known
to them from the prohibition era,
when they frequented the local
ity with an' illicit still, the infor
mation added.
Officer Clair Willimrs waB
making a routine check when he
flushed the pair from their camp
in the brush. He captured Long,
but Broom got away. State po
lice then intensified their search
of the area, and captured Broom
late this morning.
Price of Cranberries
Increased by OPA
WASHINGTGON, Nov. 21.-
(AP) A one-pound can of cran
berries will cost about three cents
more than last year.
The OPA today authorized pro
cessors to base their ceiling prices
on a maximum raw material cost
of $22.38 a hundredweight. This
compares with $15 last year and
OPA said the increase, at retail,
means approximately three cents
a pound.
The higher price Is necessary.
OPA said, to maintain the proper
relationship between cranberries
for fresh use and cranberries for
processing-
Black Market Turkey
Sales Warning Issued
PORTLAND, Nov. 22 (AP)
Housewives were warned today
to watch out for possible black
market turkey sales because of
heavy civilian and military de
mand for the birds.
W. H. McCargar, district OPA
food price specialist here, advised
shoppers to purchase their
Thanksgiving turkeys through
regular channels and pay no
more than the posted ceiling
price.
Flying Fortress Crash'
Fatal to Five Crewmen
COLUMBUS. O.. Nov. 21 (AP)
Five Flying Fortress crewmen
were killed when their plane
crashed and burned in a wooded
ravine in Pickaway county, 40
miles southeast of here, last
night. The victims, the Lock-
bourne airbase said. Included:
f irst Lt. Jack B. Keimiand, 24,
son of Uus W. Keimiand, Mon
roe, Wash.
Waikeut Hits Flour
Mills at The Dalles
THE DALLES, Ore'., Nov. 22
(AP) A walkout involving 50
employes of the Union mills com
pany here was reported today.
t ne waiKout, according to com
pany heads and officials of the
American Federation of Grain
Processors, Flour and Cereal
workers, resulted from a dispute
over the negotiation of a master
contract.
Motorist Killed in
Crash With Log Train
McMINNVILLE. Ore., Nov. 22
(AP) Injuries he suffered
when his car struck a' logging
train at a downtown crossing
proved fatal yesterday for Glen
fcdgar King, za.
C E. Cavender. Portland, con
ductor on the train, was treated
for bruises caused by the Impact,
which knocked a logging car off
the track.
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AMERICAN TANKS AND TROOPS ENTER METZ Units of the 95th division, U. S. Third army,
move past row upon row of destroyed German equipment, as they fought street by street through
Metz the first time in the history of modern warfare that this fortress city had been pierced
by frontal assault. All major nazi resistance has been wiped out in the bitterly defended bastion.
Signal corps radio-telephoto.
International Peace Calls
For Clearer Understanding,
Institute
Plague Infected
Rats Quarantine
PortofTacoma
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AP)
Declaration of Tacoma, Wash.,
as a plague-infested port by the
u. public Health service and in
structions by Navy Secretary For-
restai tnat an warsnips naving
contact with tne port and ot a
type liable to Infection must un
dergo quarantine examinations
were disclosed last night.
The orders, which were effec
tive Oct. 20, resulted from discov
ery of bubonic plague Infected
rats on the city's waterfront.
Forrestal also ordered naval
craft to try to keep rats from en
tering the ships while in the port.
Naval ships leaving the city
after inspection were directed to
fly the "queen flag" as a signal
to other ships and other ports
that the ship has been in commu
nication with a plague port.
Once before during a period
ending in Nov., 1943, Tacoma was
declared plague-Infested but no
restrictions were placed on ships
entering and leaving the city.
Four trappers now are at work
on the waterfront area.
PORTLAND, Nov. 22 (AP)
A rodent control expert Frank
D. Cramphln has been appoint
ed to head Portland's rat-extermination
program.
He will aid the armed services
here In protecting this area from
rats carrying bubonic plague
and other tropical diseases.
Market Thieves Take
1,400 Pounds of Turkey
CHICAGO. Nov. 22 (AP)
One hundred of Butcher Robert
Anderson's preferred customers
were re-shaping their plans for
Thanksgiving dinner today.
Anderson told Jefferson Park
police that after much effort he
had acquired some 1,400 pounds
of turkey and reserved them for
his best customers.
But thieves broke into his shop,
cleaned out the dressed gobblers.
Anderson said he couldn't replace
them "not for $5,000,000."
Canada Pours Christmas
Trees Into United States
CRANBROOK, B. C, Nov. 23
(AP More than 1,056,000 Christ
mas trees have been shipped from
central British Columbia to Unl
tpd States marker, particularly
Texas, Louisinana, Florida and
the midwest.
Most of th.j t'ees were hau,t-d
to the railroad by horse teams,
although truckers were permitted
to operate within a 35-mllc ra
dius. Labor Relations Advisor
Assistant Appointed
PORTLAND, Nov. 22 (AP)
Leon M. Erikson has been named
assistant regional labor relations
Bflvisor for the Portland. Seattle
and Spokane OPA districts, with
headquarters In Portland, the
OPA said today.
Erickson was chairman of the
system board of adjustment In
San Francisco until recently,
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Speaker Declares
Achievement of a better International understanding as . a pre
requisite to permanent peace was the keynote of the Institute of
Inter-American Affairs convened Tuesday In Roseburg, Speakers
outlining present conditions and postwar relationship between, the
United States and South American
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Ohio Teli
lephone Workers
Refuse to End Strike
. WASHINGTON. Nov. 22;-
(AP) Striking Ohio telephone
workers today rejected a war
Labor board demand that they
return to work, and leaders said
they would invite "any assist
ance" national union affiliates
care to give.
In the face of a WLB pledge to
do "everything In Its power" to
halt the spreading walkout, Rob
ert G. Pollock, president of the
Independent Ohio Federation of
Telephone Workers, announced
the decision to solicit support of
the national federation's 41 af
filiated unions.
Crop Insurance Program
Is Approved by House
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AP)
Reversing a 1943 stand, the
house today passed a federal in
surance program to protect the
nation's farmers from future crop
losses.
By a roll call vote of 254 to 16
the house sent to the senate a
measure endorsed by both major
political parties providing im
mediate insurance for wheat, cot
ton and flax crops. Eventually
its terms will be extended to pro
tect practically all grain, fruit
and vegetable growers.
Senator McKenna Wins
Out in Multnomah
PORTLAND. Nov. 22 (API-
State Senator Coe A. McKenna,
who trailed Juck Lynch in unof
ficial election returns, forged
ahead today in the official count
to retain a Multnomah county
seat in the senate.
The registrar of voters said the
final check, to be completed short
ly, placed McKenna lar enougn
ahead of Lynch to assure victory.
Pvt. G. W. Shellabarger
Wounded in Belgium
According to word received.
Private George W. Shellabarger,
former student of the Glide school
and grandson of Mrs. W. S. Cre-
rar, who resides on the North
Umpqua, was recently wounded
while serving with the U. S. ar
my in Belgium.
Cigarette Sale Over
Ceiling Brings Penalty
PORTLAND. Nov. 22 (AP)
The sale of 5000 packages of ciga
rettes at 13 cents a package, two
cents over the ceiling price, cost
the Marraeinnl grocery store here
$100 the OPA Bald today.
Oregon War Bond Sales
Near 6 Perct. of Quota
PORTLAND. Nov. 22 (AP)
Oregon's war bond sales climbed
to $6,120,709 In the sixth war loan
drive 5.7 per cent of the state's
$107,000,000 quota war loan of
ficials here announced.
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countries, stressed the Importance
i of thorough study of mutual
nroblems.
' The program Included a. noon
luncheon meeting before the com
bined memberships oi tne juwan-
Is, Lions and Rotary clubs, with
D. ji;. uarr, Kiwanis governor,
chairman, and W. M. Campbell,
president of the Roseburg Ki-
warns ciud, opening anu nosing
me program.
A forum session was held dur
ing the afternoon at Roseburg
senior high school, and a public
program was conducted In the
evening at the junior high school.
Brazil's Problem Cited
Dr. Hernane Tavares, Brazilian
physician, traveler, scientist and
lecturer, who came to Oregon
directly from Brazil to partici
pate in the institute outlined the
changing economy qf his coun
try. Prior to the war, he said, Bra
zil's markets were In Europe. At
the present time, nearly all of
the country's products are com
ing to the United States. Brazil,
however, is unable to buy from
the United States the manufac
tured goods It needs and alreadv
has accumulated more than $600
million In credits. Consequently,
that country, Dr. Travares said,
will be one of the principal cus
tomers of the United States in
the postwar period.
Reoortlng that Brazil has fur
nished the United States with
great quantities of rubber, vital
metals, vegetable fibre, quartz
crystals, etc., he said that her
needs will be railroad equipment,
facilities to reDlace shipping,
amounting to almost one-third of
her pre-war tonnage, lost to Ger
man submarines, and machine
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News-Review to Join in
Thanksgiving Observance
In observance of Thanksgiving
day, there will be ho publication
of the News-Review Thursday,
permitting employes to Join In the
eenerai nonaav. Anv important
news developments will be broad
cast by the News-Review's radio
station, KRNR.
The holiday will be generally
observed In Roseburg by closing
of stores and public offices.
A union Thanksgiving church
service Is being held tonlghti at
the First Christian church, start
ing nt 7:30 o'clock with a mes
safe by Dr. Morris H. Roach.
Thursday services will be held
at the Lutheran church at 10 a.
m.. St. George's Episcopal church
8:30 a. m.; Christian Science
church, 11, a. m.
Gestapo Slays Workers
For Demanding Peace
BERN. Nov. 22 (AP) A dis
patch In the newspaper Basler
Arbelter, nttrlhuted to an "ex
tremely reliable source." said to
day that peitano agents and S3
men mnrhlnentnned Colotrnp
workers duHng Oe'oher tmrlsln"
and killed 2?0 of them. Some SS
men also were renorted killed.
The dispatch said the dlstur.
bnnce started when the people
shouted: "We have had enough
of this dog's life. Peace at any
price."
General Pat ?on First to
Seize Metz Since Atttla
Did It 1,500 Years Ago
E8CHWEILER, Germany,
Nov. 22 (AP) Esohweller Is
In American hands tonight ,..
a sodden ruin of smashed and -damaged
buildings. It was an
Important German city six
miles northeast of Aachen.
(By the Associated Press.)' '
French First armv troops cap.
tured the Maginot line fortress
dtv of Mulhouse todav. took 1,000
German prisoners and part of the)
German 19th army stoff of Gen.
Johannes Blaskwitz, ana ins
nazis were threatened with en
tranment beween the Vosges
mountains and the Rhine.
Breaklnor through the northern
end of this 75-mile front forming
the lower wing of the great allied
offensive, U. S. Seventh army
troops drove to within 23 miles ol
the French frontier city of Stras
bourg on the Rhine. i
Some 70,000 Germans were re
ported sealed against their home
land border south of Strasbourg,
and only three bridges we're said
to be Intact along the 40-mlle
stretch of the broad, swift Rhino
below the city. The nazis were .
pictured as hastily massing bar
ges ana otner, crart in an at
tempt at organized retreat to tha
Siegrled line fortifications of tha
cast bank.
Metz Resistance Collapses
To the north. U. S. Third arm
forces threw back a strong Ger
man counterattack against Its sa
lient beyond the Saar frontier In
Germany near Merzlg In a two-
hour fight, while within fallen
fortress Metz. German resistance
was reduced to one small island.
This resistance' dissolved a
short time later and official fall
of one of the strongest fortress
cities In the world was announced.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patlon became
the trst commander since Attila
the hun to capture the city fron
talis Attila did the trick 1500
years ago. Merz, a city of 83,119,
is ti mues nortnwest oi tnreaten
ed Strasbourg and was ringed by
40 or so forts which made it one
of the strongest positions In the
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MulhitfWSnaW a-hummfmV
Industrial city of 96,697 Is 61
! miles southwest of Strasbourg.
Once a free city of Alsace, it Ilea
nine miles from the German
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Inter-Union Row
Leads to Seattle
Taxicab Strike
SEATTLE, Nov. 22. CAP)
Except for 25 machines permit
ted to answer emergency calls,
Seattle was cabless today as more
than 300 taxi drivers ceased work
In a sudden action last night.
The striking drivers declared
they are In revolt against offi
cers of their un'on, local 465 of
the Teamsters (AFL)- B. Irving
Bowen, union secretary .charged
that eight or ten disgruntled driv
ers are trying to run the union.
A mass meeting will be called
at 8 p. m. at which Dave Beck,
teamster leader, will "be given an
said.
opportunity to speak," the drivers
Albert D. Rosellini was selected
as attorney for the striking driv
ers and instructed to seek a court
order tying up funds of the local
union pending further develop
ments. Would Oust Officials. '
Spokesmen said the men were
striking against policies of their
union officials. They said the
action would continue until new
union officials are elected and
charged no such election has been
held in the past three years.
Bowen said union members vot
ed unanimously in 1941 not to '
hold any more meetings during
the war due to the gasoline
shortage, and officials then In of
fice were to remain for the du
ration. Company officials were advised
by Bowen thnt any drivers join
ing the strike, unauthorized by
the union, would be expelled from
the union.
The action flared up last even
ing with groups of drivers hail
ing passing cabs, ordering passen
gers to leave the machines and
sending the cabs to the barns
with a member of their group.
Police were called to one down
town corner to halt a fist fight
when one cab carrying a ioad of
service men was halted. There
were no arrests
There are approximately 800
taxi drivers In Seattle. Three
hundred cabs are operating In
Seattle on a normal night.
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