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Show 1 - i i Traffic Viojatiohs To Prove More Costly Under New Penalties Increased Up To 600 Percent As ?rovo Officials Fall in Line With State Movement to Curb Death Toll From Traffic . Breaking traffic laws in pensive in about two weeks than it now is, and pedestrians is well as motorists will be called to account. The long-awaited - revised list, of minimum bonds for raff ic violations was' announced by city. officials today, re letting" increases up to 600. percent," in line with the stiff er jenalties being invoked throughout the state. A significant Dart of the. new; program is a $1 bond for jaywalking pedestrians pedes-trians and a promise of rigid enforcement. . The -new schedules,in comparison -with 'the ones now in if feet, follow: - .'- 3FFENSE ... - i Drunken driving, no injury 3runken driving causing slight (No bond when injury is serious) feckless Driving r First Offense Second offense Third offense lit-and-run Car tick -only, - no injury j Slight injury rv.,. if (No bond when- injury is serious) Speeding- Five miles in excess of speed limit Each mile above five-mile excess - led light f.....t. Stop sign hi o "driver's license . mproper or no -registration Expired driver's license allure, to yield right-of-way ........ Driving on wrong side of street mproper -passing 10 state inspection . 10 tail light or one headlight, report to police within 48 hours with -trouble repaired, otherwise . .... . .... .. .".v 'edestrian .crossing against Ughti Pedestrians crossing at other than designated spots 4 - -. i J1 t Dpen cutout. Or unnecessary noise J-turn in a restricted, zone ..... Driving on sidewalk ......'...". failure to stop for pedestrians crossings Dvertime parking :.: Truck zone and all other parking In. line With a general -revision of the minimum ball list, the ouowing schedulewas announced DEFENSE 3attery fighting (ordinary brawl) i Disturbing the peace lewdness in a public place (aggravated cases) . Drdinary lewdness ...... --. . Striking or resisting an officer nsulting a female Gambling .i Operating a gambling house three Gunmen Captured Aftr terror Reign VANCOUVER. Wash.. March 7 1 JJO-Police today announced the apture of three gunmen who terrorized western Washington ist night, evading road blocks in tolen automobiles and engaging fficers in two gun battles. Apprehension of -the three men fas completed with the arrest of Lrever Pemberton, 20, who was aptured without a struggle at he gang's hideout near. Guild's ike in northwest Portland. Vancouver police crossed . the Columbia river Into Ore- k gen to join with Portland emcers in making the cap-, cap-, tore. They found a -quantity . of loot stolen .in robberies throughout the area. ''Pemberton fled 'on foot last Jght after the stolen automobile a which he was riding with Jack toberts, 20, smashed into a row f parked cars in an attempt to low through a police road block, emberton, hurt in the crash, left 1 trail of blood for police to f ol- 3W. Roberts, an AWOL soldier from amp Beale, calir, was taken rom .the wrecked car, dazed and leeding from a nose cut. Police aid, he -had a California police ecord for automobile theft. I J The third member of the gang. len -R. . Smith, an ex-convict, as- captured at Olympia, Wash., fter police shot him in the leg, A statewide alarm and a warn' ag to western Washington, resi- ents to "stay indoors- was visaed vis-aed .last night after the three ten robbed a store at Portland hd stole machine guns from a National Guard armory at Cen- raua. wasn, ponce said. . z ftlvmnla fh war ifnnnul y ruueemu 4iu uunu. J-ney aised the car windows and fired. : . 1 . . mmr rating Gustan slightly. Gustan Jred back as they fled. i They abandoned the" stolen car l impia, ana -pouce xouna in it v shotgun and a '.22caliber rifle, Schedule Provo will be a lof more ex New $125.00 injury 200.00 Old $100.00 200.00 S 35.00 70.00 100.00 F 25.00 50.00 100.00 25.00 100.00 35.00 100.00 15.00 1.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 5.00 7.50 15.00 15.00 5.00 .50 5.00 2.50 5.00 2.50 2.50 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.00 .. 15.00 . 5.00 S.00 1.00' 14)0 5.00 5.00 7.50 15.00 .50 1.00 'T.'.V.'.TTTf ' 2.50 1.00 2.50 at designated violations... .50 1.00 1.00 for criminal offenses: New Old $ 25.00 15.00 15.00 $ 35.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 ; 15.00 . 15.00 ........ .. . . . . 50.08 50.00 , loo.oo 100.00 50.00 50.00 ..........i 200.00 . 200.00 Officials pointed out the fore going bonds, to take effect in about two weeks after a program of wide publicity and education, are minimum, and in aggravated cases may be. more. Motorists or pedestrians -so ticKeted have the privilege under the law of plead- not guilty and fighting, their case, or. they may forfeit the bond set 88 tnete- line. Bond forfeitures fe!fi7 seeme5t for case only when the offender is released on bond with no provisions provis-ions 'for a mandatory court ap pearance. ? Announced by Judge The new schedule .was announced an-nounced today by City Judge W. Dean Loose, the off icial bail offi-f offi-f icer for the city under the law. It' was drawn up with the approval ap-proval of Chief of Police E. W. Mower, City Attorney Dallas HV Young,. County Attorney Arnold Roylance, Juvenile Judge Dean Terry, Mayor Mark Anderson, who is head of the public safety department, and -the city commis sion. It was presented late yesterday (Continued on Page Two) Why Men Are Wolves? Women Like Them That Way Says One By CLAIRE COX United Press Staff. Correspondent CHICAGO, March 7 (U.R Beauty culturist Elena Moneak said today that "men are wolves because women like them that way" . Miss Moneak; director of the "Arm With Charm" Beauty School, said women always set the pace for their relationships twith men. They'd probably be disappointed disap-pointed in a man If he didn't turn out to be a wolf," she said bluntly. "It's too' bad, too,;- because I believe that all baby boys are born for gallantry. Women are to blame for the fact he men arent gallant today." That, is the theme of lesson No. 7 in-Miss Moneak's 10-lesson course in "capsuled culture for working girls." The others deal with "related subjects," such as reading, tact, poise and the social graces. HouseiPSsses Much Diluted Housing Bill Look To Senate For Inclusion office Ceilingson nlpuses WASHINGTON, March 7 ue) . The house today passed a diluted version of the Fat-man Fat-man housing bill after beating beat-ing down a final move to kill the measure. The vote was 357 to 24. - Rep. Jessie Sumner, R., 111., opposing the measure by which the administration hopes to build 2,700,000 homes in the next year, moved to shelve the bill by: sending send-ing it back to the banking committee. com-mittee. Her proposal was rejected, 304 to 76. Administration forces lined up solidly In passing the bill. Many Democrats earlier had Joined Republicans In rejecting reject-ing several features' urged by President Truman and Hons-Administrator Hons-Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt Mr. Truman and Wyatt hoped the senate would add price ceilings ceil-ings on existing dwellings and $600,000,000 in subsidies to stimulate stim-ulate production of building materials. ma-terials. Both were rejected in the house by a coalition of Republicans Republi-cans and southern Democrats. . The measure as approved by the house would be valid until June 30, 1947, and would authorize these things: 1. Price ceilings on new homes. 2. Allocation of scarce materials materi-als where needed: 3- Veterans' preference in cur- chase of available home! and in new construction. 4. Broad authority Tjv admin? istrator over government agencies to speed construction." " f , 5 Authbrity for adminis trator to curtail or stoD exports of -lumber while, scarcity continues. contin-ues. . " 6 Increased government authority au-thority to insure home mortag-ages mortag-ages by $1,000,000,000. ' 7. Ceilings on buildlmt ma terials, to -reflect a reasonable margin of profit. Opium Ring Is Uncovered LOS ANGELES, March 7 (U.R) Climaxing two years of secret federal investigation, four men said to be members of one of the largest opium rings ever uncov ered, were-arrested here today, in cnarges oc, conspiracy to violate federal narcotics laws. investigators said - they- were named with 30 other persons in a tederal grand -jury indictment, xne others are scattered throughout the United States, in vestigators said, in n operation which had agents in Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran' Cisco, New York City, Norfolk, and. Richmond,; Va.t ;- . . . Arrested here were Abe Elenl vitch, alias Abe Allen; his brother, broth-er, Sam Elenivitch, -alias Sam Allen, Al-len, both of Santa Monica, and John Fisher and E. J. Sugarman, Dotn'Oi ixs Angeles. Authorities reported that dur ing the investigation more than si, 000,000 in narcotics transac tions were -made. MICKEY ROONET OUT OF.THE SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, March 7 (U.PJ Screen Actor -Mickey Rooney was en route by train to Holly wood today to resume his" film career following his discharge rrom yne army at t ort uix, SSI, j, "By tBe time a girl has finished lesson seven, .she knows how to tnVl handle any aggressive man," Miss Moneak said. "And it's all d6ne witn a laugh." Miss Moneak said she 'teaches her girls ranging from 15 to 55 mat they never should say "no to a man. "That's too blunt." she said "Besides they'd be lying if they saw tney didn't like affection.' Miss Moneak prefers, instead, that women have finesse enough to fend off advances with something some-thing snappy like "Well, 111 have to Juy you a teddy . bear to snuggle." i "That does the trick she said. Ana it's cute." Miss Moneak. a widow and grandmother, said she spoke from experience. She - was a concert violinist for 27 years. ' "I had all the attention any woman could want", she - said. "Now I want to help other wo- '. '7 WAC Corp. Ottilie Schmakal, Vienna-born girl from Astoria, L. N. Y., is one of first three Americans granted permission to marry Austrians by Gen. Mark Clark. Shell wed childhood sweetheart, Dr. Frederick Blodi, Vienna ophthalmologist liberated from concentration camp by U. S. troops. She had not seen him since . 1939. Pauley Defends His Right To Hold Office WASHINGTON, March 7 (U.R) Edwin W. Paulev today bitterly attacked what he called "the strange, mysterious and utterly unexplained ' theory that, a man who has been In the oTlrbtKftss snouia not noia oiuce m tarn, nary department." ' This contention was. advanced yesterday by former Secretary of Interior .Harold L. Ickes, who testified as a private citizen be fore the senate naval affairs com mittee, which is holding hearings on Pauleys nomination to De navy undersecretary- Irrespective of Ed Pauley .- just leave him. out of the argument-lt is high time that this utterly unsupportable canard be blasted out Of existence," ex-istence," Pauley said in- a statement released as the committee began Its ' .sixth week of hearings on his nomination. nom-ination. Today's committee session last ed only SO minutes. Pauley an nounced he would testify when the hearings resume .tomorrow. He said he intended to spend ..the rest of the day in preparation for tomorrow s session. Pauley said he- would concen trate on Ickes' charge that, he offered to raise Democratic cam paign contributions of $300,000 from California oil men, if the government' would drop efforts to obtain title to tideland Oil. Other i ta i j i ,.iiui ' cnarges, n saia, iina utrcu. eliminated elimi-nated in a welter of contradictory testimony. - He said the simple complaint that he was an oil man seemed to be the principal objection to his nomination: I want to grab that bull by the horns," he said. 'If men in the oil business were ' good - enough, " experienced. skilled, energetic and patriotic enough to hold high government posts during the war crisis, good enough to meet the prodigious and unprecedented demands of the army and navy for a vast va riety of petroleum products, what will Mr. Ickes, and all the disciples of a fantastic philosophy please explain in plain, logical and . understandable language is wrong with them now?" "Why should they. be. accept able in wartime and so definitely in. the doghouse thereafter? Why should their knowledge of . this vital industry, their technical skill and their years of invaluable and irreplaceable experience disauali fy them from peacetime service with -the navy department, to which petroleum is absolutely es sential?" Reds Criticize MacArthur Again MOSCOW. March 1 U.R--Genl Douglas MacArthur's-administra-l tion ot Japan came under Russian fire again today. The Soviet army organ Red Star published a critical criti-cal article charging : that . Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's purge of Japanese militarists mili-tarists and industrial cartels was not being carried out satisfac torily. .. .'.y-v Written by -Ivan- Plyshevsky; It said - the ' Japanese government although ' formally adhering to MacArthurs directives was evading evad-ing execution of measures intend- Okay to;Wed ied. to .democratize the ".country" SupporiFor Gineviilrged AtSeanie - i' Mahoney Speaks To Seattle Group About Geneva Possibilities SEATTLE. March 7 uj Western states need steel' for expanding industries, and the source- in Utah, according to Dr. J. R. Mahoney, director of the bureau : of economic research re-search at the . University of Utah. Mahoney spoke here todav at an industrial lunch of the Seattle chamber of commerce; and advo cated united western action to maintain- a source ot raw supply convenient to -the Pacific coast and adjacent territory.- . He pointed out - that the gov ernment-owned plant, at Geneva, Utah, built at a cost of $200,000,-000 $200,000,-000 was due to be sold to the highest bidder on May 1, and could "furnish .the raw steel the west needs." Murdoch Gets Into Argument On British Loan WASHINGTON. March 7 (UJQ Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., suggested sug-gested today that Great Britain may use part of the proposed $3,-75,000,000 $3,-75,000,000 British loan to rebuild Its armed forces throughout the woria. , ; Assistant Secretary. of estate William L "Clayton agreed in testimony tes-timony hefore. the senate bahking committee ,'that BritaM"could.use oan. fundi ,i or Jnllitar burpdies abroa'd. " He: added, however, that sterling .undoubtedly would be used for military purposes within tne united Kingdom: . : .. Clayton, .told -the , committee that ' Britain . may . never r use all funds provided by - the contem plated loan. The spirit and . letter of the agreement would hot be kept unless un-less 'Britain "tises as little of the money as possible,'.' he said. Taft disagreed. He asserted that Britain has "no moral or legal obligation" to refrain from' taking - the 'full amount. Taft asked Clayton to submit any notes taken .during loan negotiations Indicating that the full amount' might not be used. . No such indications are In the proposed 'loan agreement agree-ment as written, Taft said. . ..-- Taft and Sen.' Abe Murdock. D.. Utah, questioned Clayton 'about use of South American gold for establishment' of dollar credits. The jr contended that gold mined in South Africa -was- under Brit ish' control iand could be used to build up dollar balances for Brit ain . f . ' Clayton at first argued that gold- mined in South-. Africa- was controlled exclusively by mining interests 'tnere, ana cud not enter into tne picture. . However, after consulting with aides, Clayton agreed that dollar credit derived from-South African Afri-can gold would be subject to the restrictive British dollar pool; thus limiting South African pur chases in this country. Wrong Tablets Fatal To Two MADISON, WIS- March 7 (UJO Twelve child influenza suffer ers,, two . of.? whom . died, ; were treated erroneously at Camp McCoy Mc-Coy ..hospital with .state-furnished phenobarbital tablets which were labeUed . "one grain 'aspirin,? the state welfare department - an nounced todar. h - The tablets were furnished by the .University of W lsconsin Dharmacy school. The children were from' the state public school," Sparta, where 38 young persons were , stricken by an m fluenza; epidemic .last .week. The Pharmacy school regularly makes one-grain -aspirin for . the Sparta school, and the tablets involved were sent there Teb. c -t Three state agencies, the .University, .Uni-versity, the "welfare department and state, health (departments. have begun an investigation. NAVY BAND-LEADER . ANNAPOLIS, Md March 7 ! (U.PJ i Officials disclosed. today thatf the 58-year-old leader of the NaVal academy band, Lt. William R. Sima. is beinir held pending in vestigation of alleged irregulartnipset -the , very delicate balances ties, in performance of his duties. The Investigation is believed to deaL with. Sim's: system of igiving raungs -.in ine xamouscvana. Threatened Phone Stwke Called Increases Accepted NcVr WageProposal' Accepted Only 30 Min. Before Walkout Was Scheduled To Begin; Pattern Established for Ending Disputes By RAYMOND LAUR United Press Staff Correspondent ' . ' r WASHINGTON, March 7 The threatened nationwide nation-wide telephone strike was called off today when the National Nation-al Federation of Telephone workers accepted a new wage proposal at 5:30 a.m., EST, only 30 minutes before the walkout was. scheduled to begin. The settlement was announced at 3:45 a.m. MST, by Director Edgar Xu Warren of the U. S. conciliation service. The agreement called for average. wage increases of from $5 to $8 a-week, or 17.6 cents an hour.' The -union had demand ed 18 cents after scaling down from 25 cents. . . . . Although the agreement ap-plied ap-plied directly , to only one NFTW affiliate the long lines with its 19,300 members Warren said a '"national pattern was established' for ultimate settlement of all disputes dis-putes among the telephone, industry's in-dustry's 250,000 employes.' This will be done by local negotiation between NFTW affiliates and companies of the Bell system. Warren said the 17.6 cent hourly hour-ly wage was accepted for settlement settle-ment of the long strike of Western West-ern Electric employes at Kearney, N. J. - Joseph A. Beirne, president of the NFTW, sent telegrams to all affiliated unions at 3:45 a. m. advising that the strike had- been cancelled. Asked. by newsmen if all union 'members would com ply, he 'replied:-"Absolutely. .The agreement was worked out late last - night' following more -than tl-hours' of almost con-! tinuous conferences - betwen repr resentatrves-'of the- unkmv"the telephone industry and the con cilUtioiri service: ui . n Kvenisor. the. walkout . wasn't definitely averted until Warren's announcement just 15 minutes.be- forethe- a a. m. strike deadline. President Joseph Beirne was, on the telephone, jduring; most of the early , morning getting ihe- approval ap-proval of union locals for. the settlement, set-tlement, . : . , v Their acceptance ruled .out the tirnttrAiit- whlrh would have 'idled some-250,000 '.telephone' woVkers and cut off long distance and lo cal' manual service immediately. Uulimately the paralysis might haVe spread to dial systems, radio and teletype circuits. The walkout already had be- (Continued on Page Two) Settlement Barely Beats Deadline In Phone Strike A strike which would have tied up the Proved telephone exchange, except for. emergency .calls, was averted, by tne narrow margin or is minutes xnis morning. - - Provo residents placing mom int? calls went to bed last nielli with"-thtf news that' hey weuld have to be called by 6 a. m. or not at all, because the local dper ators were scheduled to go out at that hour in compliance with the national movement. At 5:45 a. m. word was received here that the strike had been averted. The local force had- made ar rangements '- to take '. care of emergency calls, including police, fire, hospital and doctors.. SALT LAKE .CITY. March 7 KUJ9 Operations of the Mountain States ; Telephone and Telegraph Co.' in Utah, Idaho and Montana proceeded today fjust as it there'd never been ja. threat of a striked Utah Manager Franklin S. Cun diff said word that the threaten ed, telephone strike had been called . off apparently spread rapidlyt although the v settlement was reached - just a ' few minutes before the strike deadline. -' Cundiff ". said all emplpyes : of the company repV)rted to work on schedule this; mornWg,. that ; no pickets appeared, and that everyr thing was -proceeding normally, Sta rya vw SipyripusPQliticdr - .WASHINGTON.' March 7 (UJO j Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson told representatives of 38 food'trade Industries today to-day that serious political unrest may result ' from' . starvation abroad.'- ' - ' - Opening a conference "called-, to discuss ways of . saving food, Anderson An-derson said that 'starvation In "any. of the countries where ur troops are stationed" may, unleash pressures and 'forces fthat .'would maintaining existing authority.1 ,4 He asked the conference of grocers.;, gro-cers.;, bakers, restaurant men and others to develop; a -prosrain -."that Truman Plans Steps to Avert Railroad Strike WASHINGTON, March 7 (U.FD The White House said today that President Truman "very shortly will appoint an emergency , board in an attempt to avert the rail road strike called for Monday. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the board might' be . appointed, today. Appointment of the board would at least postpone the threatened strike of 300,000 rail? road trainmen and locomotive mv girieers for 30 to 6Q days.. The case was referred to the White House :by the'national me fdiationibrrd-fter -It" recelvedl official T strike notices from the Brotherhood ; of Railway , Train men and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Lo-comotive engineers. ' General Motors, CIO Break Off Negotiations , . DETROIT, March 7 (U.R). Ne gotiatipns -betweenl GCheral Mo- tnri anrl tho fTC) TInitpH Atitn- mobile ,. Workers were Juroken off today and the union asked President Presi-dent Truman" to remove-federal mediator James F. Dewey and in tervene personally in the 107-day old strike. , No. negotiating sessions , were held todav for the first time' in two weeks : as Dewey went to Washington v to report personally to. secretary. Of Labor LewlsiB. Schwellenbach on the deadlock. Chairman: Alfred Feder ice of the " TJAWs negotiating v committee - appealed to Mr. Truman to remove Dewey and call both sides t the White, Hoase immediately. . , -1 R. 4. Thomas, - International UAW .president, said he wanted to knew what Mr. Truman , "is going tp do" 'about the recom menda tions made -by the presi dential fact-finding -board last Jan. 10. , v Detroit's city council adopted a resolution urging the president to intervene because the prolonged prolong-ed strike 'was harmful to "the whole. economic life of Detroit and had caused increased costs in many city departments." Mob Battles Police in Rome oROME, March 7. UR A'mob fought- a battler with Italian-' r- lice and armv infantrv at Andria io southeast Italy , today,- reports from earby Bari said. '5 Authorities 1 said cthe situatl m was 'brought y under;, control 'at Andria. after violent fighting be- Itween a mob armed,; with' gren- ades and rifles and authorities in the area. v ,----Vg K will' make. It possible ': for. this country 't- to ship;? more food abrMd..Vv'i.vWv-s r" i . "If I we Conserve - on all' foods and eliminate enough , waste," Anderson An-derson said, "We can meet present pres-ent food commitments' and.- still provide the American: people with 10 per .cent more food .than was available In 19457 ;i In v an appearance' before' the house banking coTnmittee a little earlier, Anderson said the. worldwide world-wide wheat shortage will make it necessary to continue food ; sub- sidles for perhaps; another year, He also , endorsed , crlce control eitexaion,- -- UissAnenfs Involved, Says? Working Between New York and Oak Ridge, Tenn. A-Bomb Plant WASHINGTON, March T" UB)-jChaiman John S. Wood, D Ga., said , today that hia house un-American' activities . committee has discovered.: foreign spy ring working be, tween ' New York and 'Oak. Ridge; Tenn., one of the' gov-4 ernment's atomic bomb plants. "V Another committee source' said that the foreign agents were Russian. Rus-sian. Wood refused to say what-naV tion was involved. But a com-- mittee source said "there could be only one foreign nation in volved in this ring Russia." JL Canada recently announced that Russian-agents in that court try had sought information about atomic developments, as well as other secret wartime inventions. Wood had said earlier that the - spy ring was run by foreigner,' but that "there might be some Americans involved." We hsjve gone far enough r in our investigation te snow, -be said, "that there are ele- ;-ments ;-ments la this country who are decidedly seeking Information Informa-tion that oar military author- itlef have not authorised us io be given out," ir And "you know what is goinjfc . on at Oak Ridge," Wood told re porters. T . "As far as we can determine,. ne saia, -tne spy ring centers- on the east coast, here between jNew: Vnrt anH OaV Rlrieut Tmn" - ". Wood said the ring ja not work Ins to.anv ereat extent on the west' coast. '. - At Oak Ridge are Nuclear la boratories and pilot plants for the production of Plutonium 1 xrora U-238. The major. Plutonium production pro-duction center, however,"" Is-at Hanford. Wash. ' Plutonium has fissionable characteristics similar tn-thrXA iftf II-M5 -anil, wli ..hm. bomb used against Nagasaki., , k. Wood said the committee: may hold- public hearings in invest! Mtinff the snv rlnff. He said an undercover-committee inquiry has been going on since August,-when the first atomic bomb was drop- . ped on Japan. . -r The Russian ouest for atomic information In Canada had raised four - that ' Soviet amenta Tfilffht . aim h. AnAMtHiit in ihlf nmmmn However, Secretary " of State James ' F. Byrnes ; said recently that U. S. atomic secrets were be- lieved to be safe. Wood.- was - understood to be seeking a conference with Di rector J. Edgar Hoover, or the, federal bureau of investigation. Committee sources said Wood and committee investigators also have been in touch with war department depart-ment officials in charge of the bomb's security. , The justice -department, meanwhile, informed the sen-ate sen-ate atomie eemmlttee that zl -.. tougher federal statutes were kr, -necessary- to protect - atomw - bomb secrets from foreign fr It urged the enactment' of leg islation that would Impose maximum max-imum penalties of $300,000. fine and 30 years ' improsionment on anyone, divulging atomic informs tion. T Strikes At r A Glance j v By UNITED PRESS Reconversion labor ' disputes kept an, estima'ted. 843,000 U. S. workers away fr&m their, jobs lo day. The major strikes:" Telephone The National Fed cepted a new wage' ; proposal, averting h strfke'ol 250,000 workers. work-ers. t - t ' : Automotive The clfy o De troit sought presidential intervention interven-tion in the 107-day-old General Motors strike, idling 175,000 CIO workers. , " - - t Railroads ' President Truman was. expected - vp - name jta bub-; gency board to- delay for at least 30 days- a nationwide" strike by members " of two " powerful railroad; rail-road; brotherhoods. r- ' '-',. - V Shipping . - CIO londshoremen and Pacific coast waterfront employers em-ployers ' adjourned negotiations for one weekv with, the union an,-noundnir an,-noundnir it would gor'aheadiwith. plans for- su coastwise : dockwork-; era' strike before ;ApriI 1-w 1-w Electrical , The ,CIO Elecfrl-cal Elecfrl-cal WOTkers.-union' said It would resume discussions within a few days with General Electric in an I enort to reacn a seiuement in their.twcklay-old'Trae-'waltout, Congressman f . . . . : .. r-s .... . . ... .. . i |