Show SALARIES I Report Highest In earning movie mag mat magnate magnate nate Louis B. B Mayer enjoyed the top income in the U U. S. S S for forthe the cal cal- calendar calendar calendar year 1943 or fiscal year ending in 1944 the treasury report report- ed Far behind Mayer Charles E. E Wilson president of General Mo Mo- Motors Motors Motors tors drew to rank No 2 with Thomas J. J Watson president of the International Business Ma Ma- Machines Machines Machines chines corporation No 3 with Fred MacMurray's topped Copped movie star salaries with other peak Hollywood incomes incomE's including Dean- Dean Deanna na Durbin Barbara Stan Stan- wyck Bing Crosby and William Powell General Motors officials were among the highest paid of the na na- nations nation's nations nation's na- na nations nation's tion's executives other GM big big- bigwigs bigwigs bigwigs wigs besides Wilson in the top lop brackets including Ormond E. E E Hunt Albert Bradley John Thomas Smith Don Don- Donaldson Donaldson Donaldson Brown and Charles CharlesF F F. Kettering TRIBUNAL Faces aces Test First great undertaking of its it kind kindo to o provide a precedent for the th pun- pun punishment punishment of war-makers war the Allied tribunal trying top Nazis in berg erg Germany will receive its stiff stiff- stiffest stiffest est st test if defendants press their efforts to get prominent personages in n the U. U S. S and Britain to testify test y yas as s witnesses Under regulations drawn up by bythe bythe the tie U. U S. S Britain Russia and France Trance the tribunal is empowered to o subpoena witnesses in other coun- coun countries countries tries ries in which case the latter could then lien appeal app al to their own national courts against being forced to ap- ap pear ear Upon the verdict of these judi- judi judicial judicial cial ial bodies then the authority of ofle the le tribunal would be legally de de- de- de fined Under the tribunals tribunal's charter the defendants themselves cannot chal- chal challenge challenge lenge enge its validity their early pro- pro protests protests tests ests having been denied and their proposals for a mixed court of al- al allied allied lied neutral and German judges re- re As the case proceeded U. U S. S prosecutors outlined the conscription I tion ion of hundreds of thousands of for- for foreign eign ign workers for slave labor in Ger Ger- German I I many man BIG THREE foreign Chiefs Meet Simultaneous with Sec of State James ames F. F Byrnes' Byrnes departure for the meeting of foreign ministers in Moscow Mos- Mos MosI I cow ow the U. U S. S state department re- re released released leased eased its plans for the economic reorganization of Germany limiting I Ithe the he Reich's industry to necessities i at t the outset and pegging its living standard to the European average Pressing European and Asiatic I diplomatic problems as well as the I control of atomic energy were high I General Eisenhower left sees I Secretary Byrnes off to Moscow on n the Big Threes Three's agenda as the Moscow parley took shape Imme Imme- Immediate Immediate Immediate diate cause of concern lay in the troubled Iranian situation where Russia has resisted proposals for a withdrawal of its troops from the north in the midst of a Red backed Red Red- backed autonomy movement in Azerbaijan province aiding the extension of communist influence in the rich oil-rich middle east In advancing its plan for the eco eco- economic economic economic revamping of Germany the U. U J. J S. S said food shipments to the Reich leich will be necessary during the reorganization period of two years After that the Reich should be able to o supply its minimum needs and also produce enough to export goods to balance import require require- ments TROOP TRAVEL Claims Rail Cars L With 35 per cent of all coach seats and 75 per cent of all sleeping space on railroads diverted to troop use civilians faced difficult transportation tion conditions over the holiday sea sea- son Charged with the task of moving a million men during December alone with debarking on the west coast the railroads anticipate an equally heavy load during Janu Janu- Januar ary ar No less than 40 to 50 trains a day are needed to keep Pacific ports clear with 90 per cent of all the beds and seats for eastward travel occupied by the military Of at the men moving inland from the I west each day 85 per cent travel to destinations east of the Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi sippi riv r. r Profits Down Railroad profits during the the first nine months of this year declined to million from million dol dol- dollars dollars lars in the corresponding period I dOl-I last year figures show In view of this showing the prospect is that annual profits in 1945 will be smaller than thanin in 1944 Operating revenues during the first nine months and especially in September fell below b low the record high rate in 1944 while operate operating operating ing expenses on the other hand were at the highest rate in history I |