Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Maroons g yams the u6 staying demonstration of 6reweter aircraft workers word waa received that Roosevelt had asked government agencies to deter mine whether other work could be Given the new York president Roose velt is investigating the unusual 5ircumstances surrounding the situation at Brewster aircraft fac tory on Long Island where Wor kers went on a sit Down strike following the cancellation of their contract by the Navy sleep ing at the Plant and establishing picket lines by workers charge that the Navy terminated the com pants War contract without no management and government authorities Are by the unusual conditions and attitude of who have offered to work without pay pending the so Lution of the other com Pany seeking to enrol Brewster workers for their met almost unanimous refusal explained that they wanted to keep their own Force intact that they were receiving More Money with in the investigations Are being Brewster presi Dent testified before a Senate subcommittee that the Navy had neither notified other proc rement agencies that it was plan Ning cancel the nor had prepared necessary measures to assist the company when the contract was the Quick to Point out that the navys action was sound economically since Brewster was producing fighters More expensively than other also stated that the Case illustrates Tho necessity of Long Range careful preparations for the switchover from War to in the new York a Simi Lar sit Down strike was in of workers were living in the sleeping on make shift Beds and digging into their five Day Supply of food in the com Pany aircraft workers at Brewster in followed logging Camps Idle the Wildcat walkout which spread like wildfire through 100 logging log booms and lumber products plants in the Facik Northwest is continuing Ai if More than workers Are Tho a to i lbs refusal a wage is severely censured by Union of both Cio and Al leaders met in Portland Over Tho week end to study the in 15 officers of a rebel Lious Union chapter were ousted by Cio authorities for their part in the recent Wildcat strikes against Chrysler a direct violation of cios no strike War time scribes sleeper7 fails to elicit frs intentions ans presi Dent Roosevelt laughed heartily last week when newspapermen at a press conference reminded that More than enough delegates had Boon pledged to him in state conventions and primaries to re assure one correspondent said i am not asking you to Tell us what your decision i am Askinis whether Yon have made a the president remarked Nini Cable that he thought the question of his intentions had been put in every conceivable form but con fessed this was a now when pressed for an the president remarked that time would according to Connecticut democrats instructed an in vote Deletra fion to ballot As a unit for Roose belts renomination while utahs democratic convention decided to cast its 10 votes for this elevated the presidents convention Delegate strength to a record breaking total of who will speak predicting that new Yorks Thomas Dewey would be the he publican democratic Filbert Thomas of Utah called for the presidents reelection to pro vide experienced americans a Tho peace after this War is there will seated around a table the spokesmen of four treat three of them we know Are Truing to be seasoned realistic chiefs of who will sneak for Ameri Ca if that one be not the match of his shrewd he will search for missing woman uncovers body the nude body of an elderly woman was recovered from East Wood Lake last week by searchers seeking to solve the mysterious disappearance of Edward wealthy upon Ville woman who had been miss ing since May police believe that the body is that of her Edward Jewett was arrested soon after her disappearance and indicted for the alleged Marti Squar ters bad disclosed an unsigned will Leavier a Large share of her estate to him also a number of items including bloodstained do his own people and the world As Well a said managers for the presidential Canna in of Ohio Lobi Lyric scr last week to Gifu Flie first of a series of Good luncheons in Washington to which e1 in Nejiu Lilian congressman will and according to cd Howe of several of my guests arrived for lunch committed for Tho Mas Dewey and left with open Bricker optimistic Tricker Back in Ohio after a swing through Louisiana and told re haters that he found Many Dele Rales who would support him at the Chicago pessimistically but Hall of Minnesota said he still plans to place Harold Stassens name for nomination in the gop convention but it looks to me like Trot a kind of Tough Job on our stars and italian pos Calif fort Swancutt Voss Folt Ltd of murder by i courts Ert that he hanged for of four Perisone in affray which foe Gim at the Camp anon officers do Tab and nearby inthe shoot Swancutt killed two it Kifft girl Dorothy Douglas ass Lourdine both Aubrey serf Hig anti a Side police tie wounded four More per italian prisoners at fort ind who were formerly prisoners of War have had their status changed to special noncombatant members of the the badge on their uniforms is now displaced by the word one of them is shown sewing the new badge on his these Volunteer soldiers have been formed into an army labor battalion and military guards have been press Western writer Dies san Dieg Warold Bell 72yearold author whose works once made him the read novelist in the nation died1 among his the winning of Barbara Worth sold seven million Chaplin Case goes into final innings los Angeles Charlie Chap already cleared of two charges by Joan last week answered her suit alleging him to be Tho father of her reply contained a de Nial of fatherhood and contended that his former protege needs Only monthly for the support of her daughter now seven months chaplins statement revealed that he Irbid miss Barry More than on condition that the suit would be dropped if blood tests proved that be was not carols father which they How the state supreme court ruled that the Case would have to be tried Tiger coach Dies Princeton Keeno Fitzpa trick who served 43 years As foot Ball and track coach at died Swancutt based his defense on the plea that to was temporarily the defense placed three psychiatrists the stand to con tend that Swancutt is suffering from a form of epilepsy arid sub Giett to periods of amnesia sword cutt himself testified that every thing was sort of Black and thai he didst remember the courts martial that the army officer was sane when Tho four persons lawyer goes on trial in Paramour slaying Oik trial for Robert Miller ont of Washington most successful criminal hearer his blon 42yearold wife testify this that she took Money him to pay the expenses or John noted Psychia Trist and senior medical offi cer at governments Elbiza Beth Miller testified that the victim had been More than a Friend to her for five she said that she had provided Lind with about weekly and had otherwise helped him because he threatened to expose me to Miller 67 years is being tried for slaying his wife Lover As Lind and Miller sat in a parked car on a downtown flood threats follow in Wake of Midwest storms lbs Moines Iowa siege of storms floods is continuing As the swollen Des Moines on rampage from above Des Maines to readied its holiest flood level in 40 eleven lives have been and property damage had already reached Mil Lions of dollars while heavy Down continue to aggravate Early in the Farmers were working Day and night below Des Moines to prevent the Avery levee Hawkeye state now has girls f own stepping my the Brogam of the who have gone off to the the women of 135 have brought then City the distinction of being the Only Community in the United states with All women holding Down their civic jobs Between sessions at the washing machine and needlepoint Are left to right mrs Florence assessor miss Isabelle mayor Elisabeth and Blanche clerk the brass have also been removed from the City Council the five members of which Are also giving the fair sex a grand slam in the cites wide world photo f i of breaking and unleashing flood Waters Over thousands of acres of Fertile array engineers were ordered from fort Leonard on sunday to proceed with amphibious equip ment to Tho stricken area for res in army Engi neers ordered 48 of the 119 spill by Gates of the Keokuk pm opened last sunday As the Missi Rose eight feet above flood level Many Industrial plants in the area closed As the water reached their proper ties in residents of Canton Flad from their Homes As the Mississippi threatened to sweep Over Sand bag lower sections of the City Are Al ready under six feet of gis do emergency duty in tiie neighbouring state of Illi the Hunt drainage District levee North of Quiney crumbled on Jim Lav morning and inundated Over acres of at least additional acres were threat fixed in the Lima Lake District hundreds of joined Lour state guard companies and 400 army troops from near fit Camp Ellis in an Effort to save the weak ened the red Cross estimated that the damage to buildings alone in id Northwest and Central Iowa counties in the first six Days of storm and floods is nearly two and a half million this figure does not include damage in Cen trial and Southeastern Iowa nor docs it cover crops and other the Harroon which con votes with the Des Moines River a i do the City is still rising a break in Des Moices Focas sent flood Waters Over certain sections of the
