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50 Trains of Coal
Rushed to Yorkshire
From Other Mines
ly tht AssoeioRrfsi
LONDON. Sept. 6.—Fifty train
loads of coal were rushed to the
Yorkshire area from other mine
fields tonight to replace industrial
stocks which have dwindled during
a 26-day unauthorized strike in the
nationalized coal mines of that
northeastern English county.
Gas companies were ordered to
bum only enough coal to provide
supplies for cooking at specified
hours. The British Press Associa
tion said fears of widespread indus
trial unemployment walT rfefngt
Sixty thousand workers were (die
because of a controversy'direetly’In
volving only about 150 men. In
dustrial coal stocks were dwindling
and unemployment was threatened
in hundreds of factories.
Committee to Investigate,
The Yorkshire area council of the
National Union of Mine Workers
named a committee to investigate
the issue at stake if and when the
strikers go back to work. The
British Press Association said the
council's action ‘‘raised hopes that
the strike will end this week end.”
The walkout began August 11 at
Grimethorpe. a Yorkshire mining
town, when a committee repreesnt
ing the mine union and the Na
tional Coal Board, which operates
all British mines for the govern
ment. ordered approximately 150
miners to work a 23-fhot ‘‘stiht,”
or coal face, instead of one measur
ing 21 feet, The order was issued
in connection with the British drive
for higher production.
The dispute provided material for
a series of week-end political
speeches by opponents of Prime
Minster Attlee's government. In a
typical attack, Walter Elliot, a con
servative member of Parliament
said:
"If the Coal Board can't get on
with its men and deliver the goods,
sack the Coal Board. If the fault is
with the fuel minister, sack the
minister. If, as seems certain, the
fault is wtih the government, sack
the government.”
Morrison Voices Defense.
Deputy Prine Minister Herbert
Morrison defended the government’s
overall efforts to meet the economic
crisis in a political speech in Lon
don.
"Where is the counter plan of our
political critics?” Mr. Morrison
asked He disclosed that Britain's
four-year plan, which he announced
earlier this year, "is now being mod
ified to cut out the frills and con
centrate on essentials.”
"It is unreasonable to ask the gov
ernment to produce, in a flash, a
master plan to solve all the diffleuli
ties of a disorganized, uncertain
world,” he said.
“I deplore the party attacks made
at this time with the idea of ‘getting
the socialists out,’ whatever the cost
to the nation may be.”
Three Killed in Blasts
in Portugal and Spain
ly th» A**©cio*#<J P'«»*
LISBON, Sept. 6—Two workers
were killed and six others were seri
ously injured today by an explosion
which destroyed a section of a gun
powder factory at Barcarena on the
outskirts of Lisbon.
The first report of the accident
came from crewmen of an airliner
who said they felt the shock while
their plane was flying over Bar
carena. The factory is owned by
the Portuguese Army.
ALCALA DE HENARES. Spain.
Sept. 6 One man was killed
and 11 others injured tonight in an
explosion of two powder magazines
at the Cuesa Zulema army arsenal
near here.
The mayor's office confirmed that
the explosion was that of powder
magazines, but refused further in
formation. Hospital attendants re
ported that 12 injured persons had
been brought here and that one had
died while receiving emergency
treatment.
An unconfirmed report said still
other injured persons had been
taken to Madrid.
Connecticut CIO Proposes
Insurance Profits Probe
|y Associated Press
WATERBURY, Conn.. Sept. 6.—
Ihe State CIO wants Congress to
investigate Connecticut's many in
surance companies and firms in a
dozen other classes of business and
industry, stating it is "certain" that
most of them are “making profits
and accumulating savings at a
startling rate.”
The request was addressed to
Senator Baldwin. Republican, of
Connecticut, a member of the East
ern subcommittee of a joint Con
gressional Committee about to
launch a nationwide investigation
of high prices. Hearings tentatively
are scheduled to be held in Connec
ticut September 25 and 26.
John J. Driscoll, secretary-treas
urer of the State CIO Council, tolfi
the Senator he believed specific in
vestigations should be made, not
only of insurance companies, but of
food wholesalers and retailers, meat
processors and distributors, build
ing materials suppliers, metal goods
producers and fabricators, leading
mercantile stores, textile and gar
ment manufacturers, dairy firms,
laundries and dry cleaning firms,
rubber manufacturers and public
utilities.
Farley Says He Will Back
Truman 'With Pleasure'
ly th* Ai»ec<ot*«l Pr««
LYNCHBURG. Vs.. Sept. 8.—For
mer Democratic National Committee
Chairman James A. Farley said to
night he would support "with
pleasure" the nomination of Presi
dent Truman but refused to make
a political forecast on whether 1948
would be a Democratic or Repub
lican vear with the explanation:
"I don’t care to make a definite
observation because I can’t make
an honest evaluation. I’m just not
in touch as closely as I was.”
Here to speak at a cattleman's
meeting Mr. Farley told a reporter
that he believed that continuation
of prosperous times should aid the
Democratic chances and that he
would gladly support Mr. Truman
next year.
“I like Mr. Truman verv much
personally.” he said, "and want to
see him elected."
Beer dregs made chrysanthemums
grow 2M feet higher at Langley,
England.
PRESS CONFERENCE TEA—Lady Inverchapel, wife of the British Ambassador, serves tea and
biscuits to ladies of the press at the British Embassy. It was Lady Inverchapel’s first press con
ference since her arrival in Washington. —Star Staff Photo.
Lady Inverchapel Pours Tea, '
Tells of Her Affection for U. S.
By Katharine M. Brooks
"I am ag much an American. I
believe, as any of you." Lady Inver
chapei told a group of women news
wrtters yesterday. “I love everything
| about this country. Its people, its
'cities, everything!"
The doll-like wife of the British
Ambassador, Lord Inverchapel, re
ceived her guests in the drawing
room of the Embassy and poured
tea for them.
Lady Inverchapel is the youngest
' hostess the British Embassy has ever
I had. She is 36 and resents state
| ments that she is "fortyish". A
i native Chilean, she has blond hair
worn in ringlets all ground her head.
! which with her very fair skin sets
off her deep-brown eyes and long
black lashes. She tries to say she is
five feet two inches tall, but says
"as no one believes me, perhaps I
am only five feet one."
Interested in Polio..
She loves people and good times,
but she has a serious side. too. She
has a deep interest in the fight on
poliomyalitis—"not sitting in com
mittee meetings, but working with
my hands.”
Her interest in this work stems
from her illness as a child. Polio
affected only one side but she could
not walk for two years. It was her
uncle. Dr. Eugenio Dies, a noted
Chilean surgeon, who brought her
through with no ill effects. His
treatment, she said, was not unlike
that of Sister Kenny. Lady Inver
chapel would like to study with
Sister Kenny, whom she has met.
Some part of her time in Washing
ton will Jbt devoted to,, this yorjc
though she does not yet know how
or where.
Before her marriage, Lady inver
; chapel was Marie Teresa Dies y
Salas—Salas is her mother's maiden
name—and at the- time of her first
marriage to the Ambassador she was
regarded as- the most beautiful girl
in Santiago:' She met Lord Inver
chapel at a Chilean seashore resort
and Hodge, the diplomat's favorite
dog took a fancy to her immediately.
So did his master. The Inverchapels
were marrie din 1929 and went at
once to Sweden, where Lord Inver
chapel had been transferred as min
ister. After that they went to
Baghdad and then to China. Hodge
died there.
Divorced in 1945.
Lord and Lady Inverchapel were
divorced in 1945. some years after
Lady Inverchapel had come to New
York, a city where she said yester
day she had always wanted to live.
There she worked with Bundles for
Britain, but immediately after the
attack on Pearl Harbor she went
into a class for nurses' aides. She
worked in New York hospitals
throughout the war. Then she
trained to work with polio patients.
She was remarried to Lord Inver
chapel in Scotland on August 19.
It was while she lived in New' York
that she learned to cook. She had
an apartment of her owm with “a
maid, not a cook.” So she learned
to do the simple things, boil an egg.
broil steaks and chops.
The youthful diplomatic hostess
w'as educated in Chile w'here she
learned to speak English, and then
went, to France to school. She says
she has no special gifts, does not
sing or play a musical instrument..
| but she is an excellent swimmer.
_ loves tennis and hopes to ride
horses in the fall and winter.
; There undoubtedly will be con
siderable entertaining at the em
bassy, but only small groups will be
guests at luncheon and dinner,
which will be in keeping with
present-day English austerity. There
probably will be no large cocktail
parties which have become so popu
i lar in postwar Washington,
j The Ambassador and Lady Inver -
I chapel are planning a trip west in
i October and shortly after their re
] turn will have a visit from the lat
Iter’s younger sister. Senora Olga
I de Guzman Diez. There also will
I be visits from their parents as their
! father. Javier Diez, has extensive
i interests in this country and comes
j frequently to New York.
The ambassadress did not express
her tastes in dress, flowers or in
terior decoration. She wore a gown
made in. this country of pearl gray
crepe. The skirt was short and the
bodice, sleeves and peplum were
embroidered in silver sequins and
crystals. On her left arm she had
a gold bracelet set with a topaz
half an inch square flanked by
smaller square cut topazes. Her en
jgagement, ring is a large diamond
I from a Brazilian mine and beau
itifullv cut. It is surrounded by
j smaller stones and the whole is
about a quarter of an inch square.
As for her taste in flowers and
| furnishings. There were large
clusters of deep rose dahlias on the
[tables and she said she had done
| nothing to the embassy except add
g few of her own trinkets and some
'mbs comfortable cr&irs. ’
Julius F. Brenzinger Dies;
Pioneer Tin Can Inventor
ly the Associated Press
a'AIRFIELD, Conn., Sept. 6.—
fus- F. Brenzinjef? W, Inventor
and pibneer in the development of
the tin can, died today in his home
here after a short illness.
Mr. Bredzinger had been active
as general manager and vice presi
dent of the Max Ams Machine Co.,
with wijich he had been associated
for *55 years, until his recent illness.
A native of Baden. Germany, he
came to this country at the request
of Max Ams in 1892. His early ex
periment In double sealing tin cans
for the safe and sanitary preserva
tion of food was regarded by some
as highly impractical at the turn
of the century. His work was con
ducted at that time in an attic lab
! oratory on Washington street, New
York' City.
The growth of the new industry
was slow. However, the inventor and
his colleagues persisted in their con
j viction of the merit of their product
and by 1910 the Max Ams Machine
1 Co., which had moved from Man
hattan to Mount Vernon. N. Y.. in
1903, had become a thriving con
' cern.
Bib! el and Is Setting
For New 'Comic'
A modern boy and girl, Jack
and Judy, find themselves in
the land of the Bible, sharing
in the adventures of biblical
characters. The result is a
new and different kind of
"comic" strip which has the
approval of churchmen of all
denominations.
Parents and others interest
ed in the welfare of children
will welcome “Bibleland.” And
the children themselves will
enjoy the wholesome adven
tures it depicts, starting to
morrow in
uJhp Snpntng £>tar
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Cloudy in
the morning, some sunshine in the
afternoon with highest in mid
dle 80s.
Virginia—Cloudy in the morning,
becoming partly cloudy in the after
noon with scattered thundershower?
southeast portion. Slightly warmer
in the afternoon.
Maryland—Cloudy in the morn
ing, partly cloudy 8nd somewhat
warmer in the afternoon.
River Reperl.
'Prom United Stetes Engineers.)
Potomee River eleer at. Harpers Ferry
and alightly muddy at Great Falls; Shen
andoah clear at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
. Yesterday—
Noon _ 90 S p.m. _89
: 4 p.m._*4 10 p.m.-98
Record Temperatures This Tear.
Highest. 96. on August 14.
Lowes'. 7. on February 5.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High_1:05 a.m. 1:58 a.m
Low _8:03 a.m. 9:11a.m.
High _ 1:25 p.m. 2:21p.m.
Low _7:46 p.m. 8:59 p m
t The Sun and Moen.
Rises. Seta.
Sun. today 6:42 7:30
Sun. tomorrow -- 6:43 <:28
Moon, today -_11:30 p.m 1:50 p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation m lnchee In thi
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1847 Average. Record
January _ 3.16 3.55 7.83 87
February _ 1.27 3.3? 8.84 M
March _ 1.02 3.75 b.84 91
April __ 2.48 8.27 9 13 89
May _ 4.44 3 70 19 69 ’89
June . 6.86 4.13 10.84 00
July _ 3.47 4 71 tO.RS 86
August _ 1.81 4 01 14.41 28
.:6R ||l 'Iti M
2SS85 :::: :::: If ?:88 %
Temperatures In Various Cities.
High. Low. High Low.
Boston_ 79 65 New York 83 70
Chicago .. 87 83 Phoenix ._ 102 .9
I Cincinnati- 82 86 Pittsburgh . *4 64
Detroit 84 66 Portland.Me. *0 56
tlPaso:.-. 91 87 8t. Louis 91 66
Galveston 92 78 San Antonio 96 69
Kanaaa City 99 65 8. Francisco 69 55
Los Angeles 86 55 Beattie_ 80 46
Loulsville_ 85 66 Tampa_8< 73
Miami_ 87 72
V
Missing Minister's Auto
Is Found in Germany
By Associated Press
BERLIN. Sept. 6.—The newspaper
Hesstsche Nachrichten of Kassel said
today that the automobile of Dr.
Rudolf Paul, minister president of
Soviet-occupied Thuringia who dis
appeared from Weimar Monday, had
been found in the Russian zone
northeast of Kassel.
The car, its tires cut. was found
near a village in the Heiligenstadt
district close to the point where the
American, British and Russian zones
meet, the paper said.
! Russian border police were re
ported to have been carrying out a
close search for the missing govern
ment head, his wife and two police
officers who were with him.
United fetates authorities specu
lated Dr. Paul may have taken ref
uge in the home of friends in the
American or British zones.
! The only notice taken of the case
by the press of the Socialist Unity
Party <SED>. to which Dr. Paul be
longed. or the official Soviet army
paper was a short announcement
that Dr. Paul had not returned to
Weimar and that "the strange cir
cumstances of his absence are being
investigated.
Oil Union Denies Suit
is CIO Test of Labor Act
ly the Aitoe toted Pres*
PORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 6 —
O. A. Knight, president of the Oil
Workers' International Union, de
nied 6>day that' fifs tihions suiti
against a National Uabor Relations*
Board official here is part of a CIO
plan to test the Taft-Hartley law,
but conceded “it may have the re
sult of breaking through the law.
Mr. Knight told a reporter the
union's sole purpose in asking Fed
eral Court to force Edwin A. Elliott.]
: NLRB Uilfectorifop Tepcas, Oklahoma j
and New Mexico, to continue a bar
gaining election under way on Au
gust 22. the day the Taft-Hartley
law supplanted the Wagner Act.
is to have the election completed.
The hearings set before Federal
Judge Whitfield Davidson here
Monday, also will furnish a court
precedent for a number of NLRB
actions pending when the new law
went into effect, including 35 other
cases involving the OWIU.
In addition, the case may be the
country's first court test of whether
labor unions can be compelled to
submit financial statements and
their officers forced to certify they
are not Communists.
Wife Held in Slaying
Of Gl, Home from Tokyo
By th* Associated Pres*
! HOUSTON. Tex.. Sept. 6.—First
| Sergt. J. C. Sandlin was shot to
death at his home near Highlands,
i near Houston, early today, a few
I hours after he arrived from Tokyo
on an emergency furlough, and his
wife has been charged with murder,
Justice of the Peace R. R. Zierlein
of Pelly said today.
Sergt. Sandlin’s 28-year-old wife
was charged with murder before
Justice Zierlein and released under
S3.500 bond.
Mr. Zierlein said that Sergt Sand
ilin, a member of the 12th Cavalry
Division in- Tokyo, was shot three
; times in the head with a pistol. He
had flown to Texas from Japan. Mr.
Zierlein said, to attempt to settle
: an Impending divorce suit,,~
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Taff-Hartley Labor Ad
'Working Very Well,'
Senator Ball Says
Sy Afttocicitod Fr#s*
Senator Ball, Republican, of
Minnesota, said yesterday, the
Taft-Hattley Labor Act “is work
ing very well” and Is being “quite
generally observed by both em
ployers and unions.”
Senator Ball, who was one of the
authors of the act and who heads
a Senate-House Committee set up
| to study its .operation, made these
points at a hews conference:
1. "The predictions that were
made that ^he act would inaugurate
a period of heavy industrial strife
have not bega borne out,” and the
labor relations scene is more tran
quil than has been Jn years.
2. “I haven’t seen anything (in
the act) that needs changing.”
3. NLRB General Counsel Robert
Denham was clearly within his
rights in ruling that top officials of
the AFL and the CIO must sign
pledges that they are not Commun
ists, although Congress did not con
sider the matter.
4. The 'joint Study Committee,
which is required to report on the
law’s operations by next March 1.
probably will -hold some hearings In
the late fail.
5. The committee already has
done considerable work on a study
of the long-term labor relations of
the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and
the Botany Worsted Mills, Passaic,
N. J.. and will make similar studies
of other firms.
6. The committee will steer clear
of taking a role in any current labor
dispute.
Unions Against Wildcat Strikes.
Senator Ball said he is not con
cerned about clauses written Into
contracts In an attempt to absolve
unions of liability to damage suits
for failure to live up to the con
tract.
In all the cases which have come
to the committee's attention, he said,
the unions agreed to take every pos
sible action against wildcat strikes,
instructing their members to cross
unauthorized picket lines. They thus
have taken a stand against the sort
ol thing Congress was trying to halt,
Senator Ball said.
He declared he believes AFL Presi
dent William Green and CIO Presi
dent Philip Murray will sign anti
communist pledges If the NLRB de
nies their affiliated unions a place In
representation elections.
He said the study committee has
abandoned its originally announced
plan to study 10 firms with the “best”
labor relations and 10 with the
“worst.” The firms whose labor rela
tions are to be studied, he said, will
be chosen for diversification of prod
ucts. geographical area and the types
of unions. involved — Independent,
AFL and CIO. Senator Ball did not
say on what basis the first two were
chosen.
Readers' Guide
Sunday, September 7, 1947.
SECTION A.
pengrol News.^
losti foun^ > «'
Obituary. Page A-30
Resorts and Travel. Pages A-32-33
SECTION B.
Sports ond Finonciol.
ftjorts News. Pages B-l-4
Farm and Garden. Page B-5
Financial. Pages B-6-7
Veterans' Guide. * Page B-8
Junior Star. Page B-8
Stamps. * Page B-8
SECTION C.
Editorial, Features, Amusements.
Editorial Articles. Pages C-l-5
Bridge. Page C-2
Crossword Puzzle. Page. C-2
John Clagett Proctor. Page C-2
Book Reviews. Pages C-2-3
Editorials. Page C-4
Editorial Features. Pages C-4-5
Amusements. Pages C-6-7
Service Organizations. Page C-7
Radio Programs. Page C-8
SECTION D.
Society, Women's Clubs.
Society News. Page* D-l-15
Women's Clubs. Page D-9
SECTION E.
Educotion, Classified Advertising.
Educational. Pages E-l-7
Art. Page E-7
Music. Page E-8
Classified Advertising. Pages E-9-22
Where to Go. Page E-22
This edition contains This
Week Magazine of 24 pages, a
I0-po,ge comic section and 16
pages of rotogravure.
Books Led to Riches, Sc*Man
Gives Boston Library 3 Million
grant, presents a certificate establishing a $3,000,000 fund for
the Boston Public Library to Francis B. Masterson, president
of the board of trustees. —AP Wirephoto.
•y Hi# Associated Press
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—An 84-year-old
son of Italian Immigrant parents
who quit grammar school to earn
a living selling fruit, has given a
$3,000,000 fund to the Boston Public
Library where spare-time reading
helped him make a fortune.
John DrPerrari, still active in the
real estate business, has set up a
foundation "to help Boston young
people, particularly young men, de
velop their character and become
successful."
Amazed library trustees, who ad
mitted they had never even heard
of their benefactor until recently,
said Mr. DePerrari's gift was one
of the largest ever received by the
city of Boston.
Mr. DeFerrark. a bachelor, lives
simply in an old North End house
once occupied by his parents and
their nine children. He said his
gift had only one string attached.
When the trust fund—now well
over a million—reaches the $3,000,
000 mark, he asks that a new library
buildjng or wing be named for him
and adorned with his portrait.
The library trustees not only
agreed to this, but have voted $5,000
for painting the portrait.
As Trustee Frank W. Buxton put
it—“five thousand for $3,000,000
seems a pretty fair exchange.”
Mr. DeFerrari said he visited
-:
the library often in his free time in
the '80s when he owned a fruit
store a few blocks away.
He added that his reading tastes
runs to law books and statistics.
."They have been my favorites."
he said, “ever since I used to come
to the old library to look up corpor
ations and decide what stock to
buy.”
Mr. DeFerrari, straight and
jaunty despite 8* years, conferred
with the trustees today dressed in a
new grey suit bought for the oc
casion. The jacket pockets were
secured with large safety pins, as—
“I ofien carry important papers and
I'm taking no chances with pick
pockets!”
He said he had never owned a
car, belongs to no clubs, has no
telephone—“although my father had
a fruit stand near Alexander Gra
ham Bell's workrooms!”—and does
his own cooking and housework.
R. H. Booth, trust officer of the
National Shawmut Bank of Boston,
co-trustee of Mr. DeFerraris fund,
reported that at their first meeting,
the elderly philanthropist rattled
off from memory a complete list
of his securities.
“More than 200 of them." Mr.
Booth said, “and when, we looked
them over, we found he hadn't
left out a single item.”
Allis-Chalmers to Build
Copper Smelter in Chile
By the Associated Press
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6.—Allis
Chalmers Manufacturing Co. an
nounced today the signing of a con
tract for $2,225,000 for a copper
smelter to be erected in Paipote,
Chili.
Paul Dietz, manager of the firm’s
export department, said it was the
largest export order received by
Allis-Chalmers. Under the con-'
tract negotiated with the Chilean
government, the American firm will
build and supervise erection of the
smelter and also supervise construc
tion of machine shops, an office
building, a power plant and a short
rail line. 1
Miss Geneva Payne Named
To Central YMCA Staff
Miss Geneva Payne, former West
ern High School student, has beer
appointed to the staff of the Centra;
Branch of the Young Men's Chris
tian Association,
Randolph My
ers, executive
secretary of the
branch, an
nounced yester
day.
Miss Payne,
who is the' first
woman to serve
on the Central
Branch "Y”
staff, will work
with the young
adult group
known as the 17
•‘Y’’ 30 Club,
which was or- '*,M
ganized last November with Miss
Payne as chairman. The group has
been active in sponsoring many
social activities, and has a present
membership of about 150.
A former employe of the Admin
istration Courts of the United States
Supreme Court, Miss Payne served
for two years during the war as
secretary to the director of the
Army and Navy YMCA at the
Central Branch. For the past eight
months she has been employed at
the Central Commission on Chap
lains.
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serving ‘‘pot liquor" as well as the
greens insures against loss of soluble
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If Congress Is Called-.
ly Associated Prost
DETROIT, Sept. 6. — Walter
Reuther asked President Truman
today to recommend immediate
restoration of price controls and
other domestic moves if a special
session of Congress is called to
act on the European economic
crisis.
In a letter to the President, the
CIO United Auto Workers head said
“our own grave domestic economic
crisis” could not be separated from
the foreign problem.
"Unless we solve our own problem
of inflation and scarcity, of ever in
creasing prices, decreasing purchas
ing power and scandalously high
profits, we cannot hope to give
Europe the help It needs and must
have,” Mr. Reuther wrote.
Honalng Action Urged.
In addition to price controls op
food “and all other basic commod
ities,” he asked Mr. Truman to
recommend congressional action on
housing and rent control, steel and
other material shortages and a 75
cent hourly minimum wage law.
The union president charged that
“monopolists who control American
industry are willing to restrict pro
duction arbitrarily at a time of
greatest need in order to reap the
ereatest possible profits with a min
imum of effort and investment."
'How can Congress poss’bly act.1
to ease the European crisis before
it solves the problem of scarcity and
inflation at home?” he asked.
Republicans Sent Copies.
Mr. Reuther said failure to provide
homes to returning veterans and
other citizens was "a national scan
dal." and failure to amend the wager
and hour act was a “national dis
grace.”
He said he was sending copies of
the letter to Senators Vandehoerg
and Taft, as Republican congres
sional leaders, urging both of thehj
“to support the proposal of a special
session that will deal with both thi
European and the domestic crisis?*.
Man Sentenced to Lite
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In Attempted Assault
Special DispetcH ♦« TK# Ster
BERKELEY SPRINGS. W. Va.,
Sept. 6.—James Bullitt, colored, of
Paw Paw, was sentenced to life im
prisonment in the State Penitentiary
yesterday in Morgan County Circuit
Court here on a charge of attempted
rape of a white girl. He was coil-'
vtcted after a one-day trial. 4 •
It was his third conviction on a
felony charge. One previous- coii
viction also involved an attempted'
rape on a colored girl.
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