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Capital Transit Wages
Top Federal Average,
Official Tells Hearing
Capital Transit Co. employes re
ceive a higher average annual wage
than Federal workers or other em
ployes of comparable skills, a Wage
Arbitration Board, sitting at the
Raleigh Hotel, was informed today
by the management.
J. Edward Heberle, the company's
vice president and controller, put
into the record figures showing: the
firm's union employes now have
average annual earning' of S3,150,
compared with an average annual
Federal salary of $2,680.
The union has asked a 35 per cent
wage increase, as well as improved
working conditions, paid holidays,
sick leave and other benefits. Nego
tiations, involving 4,000 workers,
previously had stalled and the issues
were then placed before the arbi
trators, wijo completed their second
week of hearihgs today.
Mr. Heberle told the board 70 per
cent of Federal workers receive
$2,644 annually or less. He declared
it requires a rating of "very good"
or "excellent" to reach higher Fed
eral pay brackets, which are now
enjoyed by Capital Transit workers.
More Statistics on Earnings.
"A very substantial number of
Government employes have had im
provements in earnings less than
those of the Capital Transit Co.,"
Mr. Heberle testified. "The Federal
employes represent a very large seg
ment of our customers and they
have benefited to a lesser degree
than have our workers. They have
to pay the bill and we have to ar
range cur schedules to suit the Fed
eral workers."
Mr. Heberle declared 68.4 per cent
of Capital Transit operators earn
between $3,000 and $4,000 annually,
a much higher percentage than
those of comparable skills. Only
16.1 per cent among those with
comparable skills earn that much,
he said. He put in evidence a chart
showing only 17 per cent of family
units with money to spend have be
tween $3,000 and $4,000, as shown by
Federal Reserve Board figures.
Eli E. Oliver, union spokesman,
raised the point the company was
using 1945 figures to show earnings
of kindred workers with comparable
skills, contrasting them with the
more favorable Capital Transit fig
ures for the contract year 1546-7.
Bus and streetcar operators are
in the upper one-third of industrial
workers in America in their eco
nomic standing, Hawley Simpson,
the company's labor counsel, told
the board.
Board Adjourns Until Monday.
The company placed in evidence
10 exhibits at this morning's session.
Shortly before noon, the board ad
journed until Monday, wrten the
company will resume presentation of
its rase.
The company told the board yes
terday. a rate of $1.23 an hour,
with no allowance for overtime pay,
would restore employe buying power
to an equivalent of that of Januai'y,
1941. according to Bureau of Labor
Statistics figures on living costs.
Streetcar and bus operators now get
$1,20 an hour.
Mr. Simpson contended transit
workers were better off in January,
1941, in terms of purchasing power,
than at any period before the end
of the war.
Union officials contend a 3-cent
increase suggested by the com
pany would leave the men no
better off than they were in Jan
uary, 1941, despite an increase in
living standards elsewhere in the
Nation. In addition to living costs,
living standards throughout the
country have increased 15 per cent
since 1941, the union contends.
Arbitration Board Chairman Dr.
. George W. Taylor, former chairman
';of the old War Labor Board, sug
gested a 3-cent wage increase
> would be in accord with previous
practice. Mr. Simpson conceded the
^ practice was to have a wage rate
higher than the living cosc to care
for anticipated increases.
O. David Zimring, representing
Division 689 of the Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric Rail
way and Motor Coach Employes
(AFL), arbitration board member,
. said the workers suffered a cut in
purchasing power shortly after re
cent contracts had been entered
into, due to rising costs. Mr. Simp
son conceded this.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny and
■warmer with highest near 70 this
afternoon. Mostly clear and not so
cool tonight with lowest about 45 in
the city and around 37 in the sub
urbs. Mostly sunny and slightly
•warmer tomorrow.
. Maryland and Virginia—Mostly
clear and not quite so cool tonight
with a few scattered light frosts.
Tomorrow fair and somewhat
warmer.
Wind velocity. 9 miles per hour;
direction, southwest.
River Report.
(Prom United States Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah cleer at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday. Percent Today. Percent
Hoon 2i sam 83
4 η m 44 Ν a.m. , wo
8 ρ m. 1- l 'IOP m. — il
High and Low for Yesterday.
High. 60. at 4:46 p.m.
Low. 38. at 6:14 a m.
Record Temperateres This Tear.
Highest, 96. on August 14.
Lowest. 7. on February 6.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey !
Today. Tomorrow.
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with - 9:27 P.m. 10:07 p.m
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The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Beta.
Bun. today --- 6:05 5:50
Sun. tomorrow — 6.06 ».«
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Automobile lights must be turned on
•ne-hali hour after sunset.
* Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches in the
oital (current month to date).
Month 1947 Average. Record
January 8.84 '84
l.oi 3.7» 8.M H J
Ynril ~ 2.48 3.27 8.18 ;g«
AÇ*u 4.44 3.70- 10.68 '89
'June ΓΓ- - 4 7] lO.ftf 'J6
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Τ wo-Τ birds of Patients Relieved
By Surgery to Arrest Insanity
By th· Associated Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 2—The prefrontal
lobotomy—an operation in which the
"worry" portion of the brain is
short-circuited by severing its com
munication lines—has proved suc
cessful in two-thirds of the cases
undertaken, the man who pioneered
In such surgery in America reported
today.
Dr. James W. Watts, professor_of
neurological. surgery at George
Washington University, Washington,
said brain operations he has per
formed since 1936 on 531 patients
, produced "good" results in one-third
of the cases, moderate relief in an
other third and failed to bring any
improvement in the remainder.
Three groups of patients have
been subjected to the operation—
those suffering from schizophrenia,
involutional melancholia and ob
sessive tension.
The schizophrenic suffers from
the illusion of hearing taunting
voices and of being persecuted. The
involutional melancholia sufferer is
depressed with a strong feeling of
guilt, while the person afflicted
with obscessive tension is satisfied
with nothing less than perfection in
life and is fearful of minor risks.
For the operation to succeed. Dr.
Watts said, the patient's condition
must be aggravated by emôtional
tension.
In an interview, Dr. Watts, who
performed the operation with Dr.
'Walter Freeman, gave this report
; on the results of his cases :
Twenty-five of their former pp
jtients are regularly employed, 8 to
! 10 per cent are employed part, time,
; 20 per cent (women patients\ are
j'able to keep house, 20 per cpnt are
able to remain home but cannot
perform any duties and 25 per cent
j still are in mental hospitals.
More than four-fifths of the sj4>
;jects were patients in mental insti
i tutions before the operations.
43 of 518 Cattle Sold
At St. Elizabeths in
Elimination of Herd
The first step in a move to elim
inate the St. Elizabeths Hospital
herd of 518 cattle was taken today
with the sale of 43 Holstein cows
; through the War Assets Admin
j istration.
Hospital officials said other groupsr
; of cattle, beginning almost imme
diately. will be declared surplus for
sale throughout the winter. The
herd is expected to be sold com
pletely by late spring.
Last to go, the officials said, will
be milk-producing cows in order to
save dairy costs at the hospital as
long as possible.
Loss of Land Forces Sale.
Rea-son for the sale, it was said,
is that the hospital has lost nearlv
all the extensive pasture land It
once held. Mushrooming develop
ments in the Southeast area were
cited. Many of the cattle through
old age also have been declared
unserviceable for dairy purposes and
impractical to keep in view of high |
feed costs, the officials explained ί
Only two livestocks dealers
showed up today at the WAA serv
ice center. Fourth and Jefferson
drive S.W., to bid on the cows.
They were Guv R. McGlincy of
Herndon, Va., and John T. Clark
of 234 Kentucky avenue S.E.
The cows were declared unservice
able for dairy purposes and must be
1 slaughtered, under terms of the sale.
Both First Bids Rejected.
First bids by both the men, after
the cows were divided into six groups
for sale, were rejected. They then
submitted bids for all 43 at one
time. Mr. McGlincy won with a bid
of $10.45 per hundred pounds. Mr.
Clark bid $10.25.
Dr. O. L. Lockwood of the Bureau
of Animal Industry. Agriculture De
partment. said the present market
price for such animals is between $8
and $16 per hundred pounds. Aver
age weight of the animals, he said,
is about 1,200 pounds.
The cows will be slaughtered at
Baltimore under Government super
vision. Other sales will be sched
uled as the hospital declares animals
surplus through the Richmond,
branch office of WAA.
ι υ uegrees Kreaictea
Today, Ending Cold
Weather Bureau officials today
i predicted an end of the cold snap
oi the past two days, which dam
! aged crops in nearby Maryland and
Virginia and sent the mercury to its
ι lowest point since 1916.
Today's high for the District Is
expected to be near 70 degrees,!
as compared with a high of ·0 atj
4:46 p.m. yesterday. Yesterday's;
i lowest was 38 at 6:14 a.m., while a'
I reading of one degree niglier was1
made at 6:10 a.m. today. At 9:20|
a.m. the temperature had climbed
, to 54 degrees.
Heavy frosts Tuesday night and
last night took their toll of garden
truck crops throughout Maryland
and Virginia. Temperatures as low
as 17 degrees'were reported in the
mountain sections of Western Mary
land. In Cumberland the temper
lature was 26 today.
In Anne Arundel County, Md.,
County Farm Agent Stanley E. Day
reported the loss of more than 100
acres of the tobacco crop. Sweet
potato vines were killed as well
as tomato and truck crops.
A high of 74 degrees is predicted
by the Weather Bureau for Wash
ington tomorrow, with a low of 45
degrees.
30th Anniversary Parade
At Boiling Field Set Today
The public- has been invited to a
special retreat parade at Boiling
Field this afternoon in celebration
of the field's 30th anniversary.
The exercises beginning at 5
o'clock include a review of troops
by Brig. Gen. Β. M. Hovey, com
mander of the field, and a program
of music by the Andrews Field Band.
Personnel at the field will continue
the celebration tonight at parties
in the Service Club and officers'
mess.
The celebration dates back to Oc
tober 2, 1917, when the area then
known as "Anacostia Flats" was
turned over by Army Engineers to
the Army Signal Corps for develop
ment of an "airplane field.
The field was named in honor of
Cel. Raynal C. Boiling, v. ho was
killed in action March 26, 1918,
while observing operation of the
British Air Force in France, prepar- ;
a tory to assuming tactical command i
of American air units on the Euro
pean front.
Danes Ban U. S. Films
In Dispute on Profits
By Iht Associated Press
COPENHAGEN. Denmark, Oct. 2.
—American films will be banned
from Danish movie houses begin
ning tomorrow because the Amer
ican industry refused to accept a
government ruling limiting the
withdrawal of profits, a joint state
ment of American film companies
in Denmark disclosed today.
The government decree provided
also for a maximum earning power
for each film and fixed prices at :
which distribution rights might be :
sold.
Eighteen American films were be- :
ing shown in Copenhagen alone.
. V
NLRB Restates Refusal
To Handle Unions That
Reject Anti-Red Oath
By th· Associated Pre»»
NEW YORK, Oct. 2—Chairman
Paul M. Herzog of the National
Labor Relations Board said today
that the NLRB holds fast to its de
cision not to "process the case" of
any union failing to comply with
the Taft-Hartley law provisions for
anti-Communist affidavits.
Without referring by name to
John L. Lewis, United Mine Work
ers' leader who has said he will
refuse to comply by the October 31
deadline, Mr. Herzog added:
"The question of what constitutes
compliance, and precisely which
officers must comply, is a separate
matter that it is tempting to dis
cuss. But, being a quasi-judicial
officer, I must refrain from doing
so, at least until the board has
rendered a formal opinion on the
subject."
Addresses Management Group.
Mr. Herzog addressed the opening
session of the conference on per
sonnel of the American Manage
ment Association. He told the top
management executives that "our
interpretation of the statute -will
soon appear in individual decisions."
So far "only a handful of unions
have complied," he said, but "I trust
the era of non-compliance will soon
come to an end."
He promised that the board's re
vised rules, issued August 22 when
the Taft-Hartley law went into
effect, "will have to be tested by
experience, and the board stands
ready to revise them whenever the
need is shown."
"It is my personal hope that this
can bç accomplished without im
posing federal policy too rigidly."
Pressman Warns of Discord.
Lee Pressman, CIO general coun
sel, warned in a speech prepared for
the afternoon session:
"Where employers believe that
they can take advantage of the new
labor relations law at the expense
of labor unions they will be con
fronted by the vigorous opposition
and militait determination of or
ganized labor to combat any such
attempt. This may well lead to in
dustrial discord, which we deplore."
He said, "We prefer to be opti
mistic" and hope that employers
will "recognize as we do the basic
fallacies of this law and continue
to engage in bona-fide collective
bargaining," which he contended
the law was designed to discourage.
"We feel the Taft-Hartley Act,
unfortunately, purports to substi
tute for the collective bargaining
process law suits designed to harass
and threaten the very existence of
labor unions," Mr. Presman said.
Florida Storm Killed 16,
Hurl 186, Survey Shows
Κ γ ί* - Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.. Oct.
2.—The hurricane which struck
Florida September 17-18 killed 16
persons and injured 186, Red Cross
disaster headquarters reported to
day in a recapitulation of 'casual
ties and storm damage.
The report, from the office of
Earl Logan, showed there were 205
houses destroyed, 10,542 damaged
and requests for aid from 17,075
families.
Twenty-two persons were serious
ly injured, 12 of them in the Apala
chicola area from a tornado follow
ing the hurricane.
In all, 27 counties were affected.
Palm Beach, reporting 3.900 houses
damaged and 1,400 families apply
ing for aid, led the list in those
categories.
Vice Admiral Tennant
Of Britain Sees Truman
fty th· Associated Prtss
Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, !
British commander in chief of the
American and West Indies station,
was presented to President Truman
today by Lord Inverchapel, the Brit
ish Ambassador.
Admiral Tennant is paying an J
official visit to this country in his ι
flagship, H. M. S. Sheffield, which1
is at Annapolis.
Series
(Continued From First Page.
right-field scoreboard, scoring Stan-:
ky and Robinson. Stirneiss threw!
out Walker. Six runs.
THIRD INNING.
YANKEES—Furillo went to center
field for Brooklyn. Lollar singled
to center. Hal Clark batted for
Rase hi and walked. Stirnweiss took
a third strike. Henrich filed to
Hermanski, the runners holding
their bases. Llndell singled to
:enter .scoring Lollar, Clark stop
ping at second. Di Maggio singled
to center, scoring Clark, Lindell
stopping at second. Hatten knocked
town McQuinn with an inside pitch
but the ball tipped McQuinn's bat
u he fell to the ground, and Ed
wards caught the ball for put out.
! runs.
DODGERS—Carl Drews now
Ditching for Yankees. Hermanski
vas hit on the leg by a pitched ball.
Hermanski took second on a wild
litch. Hermanski took third as
Drews tossed out Edwards. Drews
ilso tossed out Reese, Hermanski
molding third. Jorgensen singled
Λ left field, scoring Hermanski.
ïatten forced Jorgensen, Rizzuto to
Stirnweiss. 1 run.
Maryland Man Faces
Charge of Kidnaping,
Assaulting Woman
A 36-year-old man was free today
in $8,000 bond waiting disposition
of charges that he kidnaped Mrs.
Lorraine McCormick, 29, of 24 Eighth
street N.E., assaulted her with a
pistol and ma-de threats on her life
in an attempt to make her promise
to marry him.
The alleged kidnaper, George Paul
Harding, 5200 block of Fisher road,
Temple Hills, MtL, was arrested by
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents yesterday on the kidnaping
charges.
He already was free on $3,000
bond after an appearance In Mu
nicipal Court Monday on charges
of assault with a dangerous weapon,
assault and threats against Mrs,
McCormick.
State Line Involved.
The FBI accused Harding of
forcing Mrs. McCormick into an
automobile at pistol point, trans
porting her across a State line and
holding her there against her will.
Arraigned before United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage
yesterday, he was placed under
$5,000 bond on the kidnaping charge
and the case was continued until
October 15.
Harding's troubles with the police
date back to last Friday. At that
time Mrs. McCormick was returning
home with a college student, not
named by police, Harding drove up
and forced her into the car after
chasing the student away, according
to police.
He is accused of driving Mrs.
McCormick to a location near Silver
Hill, Md„ beating her with a re
volver and his fists and threatening
to kill her if she did not promise to
marry him. Police said the girl
promised to marry him and he drove
her home, thus ending the three
hour alleged abduction.
Admitted to Hospital.
Mrs. McCormick was admitted at
Providence Hospital for cuts and
bruises. Police said Harding first
brought her flowers and candy, but
on Saturday attempted to assault
her again while she was still at the
hospital.
The pair, both of whom are mar
ried, have known each other about
two years, according to police.
Harding listed his occupation as
clerk. Mrs. McCormick is employed
as a stenographer at a theater cir
cuit in the 600 block of Κ street N.W.
The hearing on the assault and
threat charges was continued by
Municipal Court Judge George D.
Neilson Monday until October 9.
Baltimore Strikers
Appeal to Truman
■ y the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.—A spokes
man for Bethlehem Steel Co.'s three
Baltimore plants said yesterday 800
striking employes had returned to
work, but union officials denied the
claim and released the text of a
telegram to President Truman asking
him "to compel" the company to
arbitrate a 14-week work stoppage.
The telegram was sent over the
name of John Green, president of the
CIO Industrial Union of Marine end
Shipbuilding Workers of America.
It read in part:
"In the names of thousands of
TUMSWA-CIO members 'locked out'
by this company, I request that you
exercise your authority * * * under
the War Powers Act ta compel the
Bethlehem Steel Co. to arbitrate this
dispute with the union.
"The shipbuilding zone standards
agreements to which the United
States Government, through its
procurement agencies is a party, re
quires that all disputes are to be
settled by arbitration."
Company officials were not avail
able for comment.
In Washington, meanwhile, nego
tiations to end the 98-day walkout
continued with no overall agreement
anticipated.
A spokesman for the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service
declared "both sides are adamant on
certain mipst.inns."
Life Verdict Set Aside
lii Case of Kentucky Boy, 13
Sy th· Aitociattd Press
PIKEVILLE, Ky., Oct. 2.—Circuit
Judge R. Monroe Fields, who sen
tenced 13-year-old Crawford Case
bolt to life Imprisonment for armed
robbery, set aside the verdict and
penalty today and dismissed the in
dictment.
Acting on a motion by former
Representative John. Young Brown
of Lexington, the judge said ne was
satisfied that a satisfactory pre
hearing investigation had not been
held, and that the case should not
have been deferred to the Circuit
Court.
He ordered the case returned to
the county court, where a hearing
will be held within the next three
days, to determine the future of the
black-haired Ford Branch youth.
Casebolt and his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ulan Casebolt, listened intently
to the proceedihg, in which Com
monwealth's Attorney J. A. Runyon
said—in opposing the dismissal—
that the seventh-grade school bey ι
had been tried and convicted by a
jury, and that he, Mr. Runyon, was!
convinced of the seriousness of the1
crime.
Mr. Runyon said afterward, how
ever, that he would join Mr. Brown
in a motion to County Judge J. W.
Pruitt recommending that Casebolt
be paroled to Boys Town, Nebr.. as
requested by Msgr. E. J. Flanagan,
head of the institution.
Young 'Casebolt and two older
companions were charged with rob
bing Harold E. Roberts last July of
less than $5 and his automobile.
They previously were sentenced to
life terms.
Boy, 72, Will Get
$124 He Found in
'Haunted House'
ty the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.—Raymond
Willard, 12, can get out of bed now
and stop worrying about the $124 he
found In a "haunted" house.
The police decided yesterday there
has been a "reasonable" time since
September 3 for the rightful owner ι
to put in a claim for the $124. They're
going to give Raymond the nmney in
a little ceremony at headquarters
Saturday.
When Raymond's mother got the
news he was in bed. She said his
slight cold was brought on mostly
by fretting over the possibility gome
one might establish a claim to the
money and prevent him from get
ting a new motor bike. '
Deiicif λ\ $3,000,000
In D. C. Income Raises
Sales Tax Question
Possible introduction of the sales
tax as another revenue-producing
medium was given extra significance
today when the Board of Trade's
Municipal Finance Committee esti
mated a deficit of nearly $3,000,000
in revenues necessary to operate
the «District Government in 1948-49.
Writing of the prospective deficit
in its journal distributed today, the
Board of Trade said:
"Many members of the Municipal
Finance Committee feel that the
only reasonable remaining source
of additional revenue is the sales
tax. A special subcommittee has
been appointed to study the details
of the proposed sales tax by Chair
man W. B. Willard of the Genera)
Fund Subcommittee * * *.
"Mr. Willard also has named a
special group to review all District
of Columbia income taxes. This
study will include the question of
repeal of the personal income tax,
the operation of the income tax
on corporations."
The board said a fairly accurate
prediction of the size of the probable
deficit will be available at the Board
of Directors' meeting next Monday,
when MaJ. Gen. David McCoach, jr.,
chairman of the Finance Committee,
hopes to submit an analysis of gen
eral fund capital projects.
Explaining its estimate of a deficit
as arrived at through preliminary
studies, the board said:
"District department heads have
submitted estimates totaling $145,
000,000 for the 1949 budget. It is
generally agreed by those familiar
with the subject that these amounts
will be pared down to approximately
the amount of the 1948 budget.
"Estimated expenditures during
the fiscal year 1948 amount to $80,
792,837. Estimated general fund rev
enues during the fiscal year 1949
amount to approximately $78,000,000.
"If these preliminary figures prove
to be accurate, a deficit of almost
$3,000,000 is indicated, without any
increase in the general fund budget."
Delay Assured in Strike
At New York Film Theaters
By the Associated Pr·»
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Herman
Gelber, leader of 2,350 motion pic
ture projection machine operators
currently engaged in a wage dispute
with operators of 120 movie houses
here, assured film l'ans tpday that
if there is a strike, it will not begin
"for at least a week."
Mr. Gelber, president of Local 306
of the Motion Picture Machine
Operators' Union, said several days
would be required to get members
together for a mass meeting if the
negotiations, broken off Tuesday,
are not resumed. The union is a
unit of the AFL International Al
liance of Theatrical Stage Employes
The threatened strike would af
fect such theaters as the Radio
City Music Hall, Roxy, Paramount,
Capitol and Astor, as well as smaller
houses of several large chain ex
hibitors.
Starting with an original reques:
for a 34 per cent wage increase, the
union now is seeking a smaller but
unannounced increase and a wel
fare fund. Present rates for the 30
hour week are $76 in neighborhood
houses and $88 in Broadway thea
ters.
Six VA Hospitals to Use
Atom Energy in Research
By th· Associated Press
The Veterans' Administration dis
closed today that six of its hospitals
will begin research in the diagnosis
and treatment of disease with
radioisotopes obtained from the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Radioisotopes are radioactive
forms of common stable elements.
They can be used as "tracers" to
follow an element through the hu
man system, or directed against
diseased tissue.
Dr. George M. Lyon, chief of
VA's new "radioisotopes branch,"
said $250,000 will be spent on the
program this year at Minneapolis;
Framingham, Mass.; the Bronx,
Ν. Y.; Crile Hospital, Cleveland;
Hines Hospital, Chicago, and Bir
mlnchftin Hosnitnl TjOs Aneeles.
Laurel Entries
TOR FRIDAY.
By th· Associated Press
Weather Clear. Track Fast.
First Post. 1 ::10 P.M. EST
FIRST RACE—Purse. $2.500: claiming:
3-year-olds and upward: 6 furlongs.
Atomac Energy. 114 Wilton .. 121
Toonerville 121 White Rocket.. 121
Bhrewla 115 Rareback 118
Homew'd Bound 118 Colored Bey . 121
Pappy Boy 118 xCountry Dude, llfi
xjlm Jr. 109 Foolish Bid
River Light 118 Happy Moose
114
115
119 xTap Lightly.- 113
xGrey Del
SECOND RACE—Purse. $2.500; claim
inn; 4-year-olds and up: 6 furlongs.
Javert
Little J β y bo
Sea Pilot
Bang Boy
xThe Huntress.
Lark Around
Salmart
Teddy Smart _
11H Balloon 122
llfi Agency 122
llfi xHawk'od Aress 114
llfi Distant
111 Northern Trust
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Abashed Police at FBI Dinner
Find Soviet 'General' Is Fake
The longer "Gen." Feodor Tanieff
of "Russian Security Police" talked,
the redder became the faces of 1,000
American policemen attending an
FBI banquet at the Mayflower Hotel
last night.
But the shade of cerise reached
the blinding point when Comedian
Ole Olsen, tiring of the "Russian's"
tirade against capitalism and Amer
ican law enforcement, abruptly
halted the address with a custard
pie straight to the kisser.
Throughout the entire evening,
starting with cocktails and ending
ί with the dash of slapstick, the
ι policemen attending an FBI re
fresher course here, were given an
unscheduled lesson in detection.
"General" Is Impersonator.
They sheepishly exchanged failing
report cards when Mr. Olsen of the
comedy team of Olsen and Johnson
unmasked the resplendently uni
formed speaker as Norman Chan
dler, a professional impersonator,
who was only having his kind of
fun.
Introduced as chief of the NKVD,
the secret Russian police, "Gen.
Tanieff" spent the early part of the
evening sipping cocktails and intro
ducing his companion,^ woman also
wearing a Russian uniform.
The visiting policemen were im
pressed. They asked for autographs
and continued to ask for them after
they filed into the dining room and
saw the general take a seat at the
speakers' table near Attorney Gen
Corn Damage Slight |
As Early Frosts Nip
More lender Crops
ly th· Associated Press
Damage to growing crops by re
cent early frosts was reported from
various sections of the country
today.
Freezing temperatures in West
Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsyl
vania, Michigan and New Jersey last
night and earlier this week have
caused considerable damage to grain
and vegetable crops in those states
while in most of the Middle West
it apears that approximately 75 per
ce.it of the corn has escaped serious
frost damage.
In Ohio, however, agriculture au
thorities said the state's corn crop
had suffered the most severe damage
in 20 years from recent frost and
that the crop has ben damaged in
all but the southernmost counties.
Experts laid the damage to both
the early frost and the late planting
necessitated by a cool spring.
New York Tomatoes Killed.
Officials of two Western New
Yorlc packing plants called the to
mato crop a "failure" because of
frost and an unfavorable spring
planting season. The total yield is
estimated at 40 to 50 per cent under
last year, and the crop termed
the worst in 27 years.
In Atlantic County, New Jersey,
the frost· was reported to have
sharply reduced the sweet potato
crop and cost farmers thousands of
dollars. The county agricultural
agent, John E. Brockett, said the
temperature dropped to around 25
and 27 in some communities and
that it was the earliest "serious
irost" in his m m eon'.
Reports on the greatest portion of
the Midwestern corn crop were
somewhat more favorable, however.
In Indiana the Weather Bureau
said frost had practically killed
tender crops in the north and there
was some damage In the central
area. Immature or wet corn and
immature soy beans were damaged
in the north where considerable
cutting up for ensilage is reported.
The percentage of Indiana corn
safe from frost vary widely from 50
per cent In the North to 80 per cent
in the Central and Southern areas,
the Weather Bureau said.
Damage Light in Illinois.
A. J. Surratt, Federal Crop sta
tistician for Illinois, said in the far
northern counties 25 per cent or
more of the corn would shrink from
frost before coming to maturity, but
in the remainder of the State dam
age has been light.
There have been light but not
killing frosts in Central Illinois, Mr.
Surratt added.
The chief of the Federal Crop Re
porting Service for Iowa, Leslie M.
Carl, termed the early frost bene
ficial except for damage to some
late corn and soybeans. He said
the cold weather enabled speedier
drying of corn which had been
threatened by high moisture con
tent.
In the Dakotas experts reported
little damage and North Dakota au
thorities said the corn crop was
better than expected.
Seventy-flve per cent of Wiscon
sin's corn crop matured before the
killing frost, the Weather Bureau
announced, but about one-fourth of ι
the tomato planting still was in the
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eral Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover.
"General" Asked to Speak.
Then, with the entertainment
presumably over, Assistant FBI
Director Hugh H. Clegg asked the
general if he would care to say a
word.
In flowing but guttural oratory,
the "general" discussed law enforce
ment methods in the Soviet Union
and launched into a comparison of
Russian progress as compared to
"the decadence" of the United
States.
The invited "word" spon grew into
a harangue as the "Red" bore down
on the capitalistic system. For the
flrst five or 10 minutes the audience
let freedom of speech run on un
impeded.
But then murmurs of protest were
heard and even hisses when the
"Russian" referred to the FBI as
pursuing 'old-fashione<J Hawkshaw
methods."
Seltzer Opens Attack.
When the actor referred to "the
evening's entertainment as low
grade, Mr. Olsen had all he could
stand.
He left his seat and said he was
prepared to demonstrate some basic
American comedy.
He turned on a seltzer bottle full
into the eyes of the "general,",
emptied a pitcher of ice water over
his head and applied the coup de
grace with a custard pie in the face.
That did it. The gathering
policemen caught on, and a bit
abashed, strode from the room.
field when the temperatures dropped.
Government crop observers in Ne
braska said damage to crops has
been only slight so far and nearly
all but the latest corn has matured
to a point where it will withstand
killing frost.
Carrier Coral Sea Joins
Fleet; Last of Midway Class
ly th· Associated Press
PORTSMOUTH, Va.. Oct. 2—The
45,000-ton aircraft carrier Coral Sea,
hailed by Secretary of the Navy
Sullivan as a demonstration of the
American people's determination "to
resist aggression," was placed in
commission yesterday as a major
unit of the Nation's first line of
defense.
Named for the famous battle of
May, 1942, that halted the Japanese
advance in the South Pacific, ihe
Coral Sea is the last of the Midway
class of superflattops. Her two sis
ter ships, the Midway and Franklin
D. Roosevelt, also were present at
the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
A hundred planes of the Roose
velt's air group flew low In forma
tion over the Coral Sea's flick deck
as Mr. Sullivan told the ship's com
pany that the Navy "expects you
and this ship and the air groups
who will man her planes to stay
the hands of those who may be
tempted to become aggressors."
S>teffler Named Head
Of Brethren Conference
ly th· Associated Pr»n
WINCHESTER, Va., Oct. 2.—The
Rev. William A. Steffler of Phila
delphia yesterday succeeded the
Rev. William Gray of Allentown,
Pa., as moderator of the Atlantic
Fellowship Conference of Brethren
Churches.
Other officers include:
Vice moderator, the Rev. Walter
Lepp, Hagerstown, Md.; secretary,
the Rev. William Gray, Allentown;
statistician, Gerald Reese, Hagers
town, and treasurer, Charles Croker,
Philadelphia.
The 100 ministers and laymen
chose a committee on committees
headed by the Rev. Paul E. Dick,
Winchester, and including the Rev.
Harold Mayer, Washington.
Federal Tax Deduction
In Maryland Returns
Is Opposed by Lacy
By th· Associated Press
! BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.—State Con
trailer James J. Lacy oppoeed today
iany change in the Maryland law
that would allow deduction of Fed·
eral income taxes in the computa
tion of income for State returns.
Mr. Lacy presented a statement
to the Legislative Council in which
; he contended the proposal would
cause loss of needed revenues to the
State while at the same time com
pelling the taxpayer to share his
savings thus arrived at with the
Federal Government.
The council took up a study of
; the matter by direction of the last
'General Assembly, Which passed a
resolution calling for an investiga
tion of the practicability of such a
deduction.
The controller appended figures
to his statement showing the results
of the deduction as far as the in
dividual taxpayer, the State and the
Federal Government were con
:cerned.
Legalized Bookmaking Opposed.
Meanwhile, the State Racing
Commission today took a firm stand
against legalized bookmaking as a
source of income in an effort to
help solve Baltimore City's revenue
! problems.
i Chairman Stuart S. Janney, jr.,
advised the council that the commis
! sion was "unanimously and strongly
jof the opinion that it would be an
unmitigated evil to the State of
1 Maryland to have legalized book
making."
"The serious economic and social
results would lead the people to
throw it out, and it is not unlikely
that they would throw racing out
with it," Mr. Janney said.
No New Taxes Involved.
Attorney Hyman A. Pressman of
Baltimore yesterday laid before the
Maryland Legislative Council a
"foolproof plan" to eliminate the
State sales tax.
Mr. Pressman said his proposals,
involving "no new taxes" but an
"increase in existing taxes," would
produce $18,253,827 annually and
make the sales tax "totally unneces
sary,"
The new funds, he said, could be
raised by increasing corporation in
come taxes and other levies and by
recalculating what he called the
administration's "underestimated
surplus'' and "underestimated tax
receipts."
Poland Expresses Concern
Oyer Anti-Church Charge
By th« A»»ociat«d Prm
WARSAW, Oct. 2—A government
spokesman registered concern today
over "misrepresentations" which he
said were contained in a pastoral
letter by Poland's Catholic bishops
accusing the Polish government of
conducting "a carefully directed and
hidden struggle ' against the church.
"There is ample opportunity," the
spokesman said, "for perfect co
operation between the church and
State in Poland upon the condition
the church does not interfere in
political affairs and the government
does not interfere in religion.
"As far as the government is con
cerned, it fulfills its promise."
Referring to a statement in the
letter that Catholic priests were un
able to speak freely for fear of
arrest by the security police, the
spokesman said he knew of no case
where a priest had been arrested as
a result of his sermons.
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