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Reuther Bans Wallace
As 45 Union Officials
Ask Him to Run in '48
ly *h» Aiiociated Pr*»i
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Forty-five
trade union officials, claiming to
represent 263,000 workers in New
York City, last night called on
Henry A. Wallace to run for Presi
dent next year.
But Walter P. Reuther, president
of the CIO -United Auto Workers,
expressed the opinion that organ
ized labor would not support the
former Vice President as a third
party candidate for the presidency,
as urged recently by the Progressive
Citizens of America.
The union officials did not specify
whether Mr. Wallace should run on
an independent slate.
State Senator Kenneth Sherbell,
American Labor Party, Brooklyn,
public affairs director of Local 65,
Wholesale and Warehouse Workers
Union, CIO, released the group’s
statement and said the leaders con
ferred earlier with Mr. Wallace.
Massachusetts PCA Acts.
Meanwhile, the PCA announced
that a delegation from Massachu
setts also met with Mr. Wallace
and urged him to run as an inde
pendent candidate, an action taken
earlier by PCA leaders in Illinois.
Mr. Wallace was not available for
comment on the situation.
Mr. Reuther made his comment
at a National Press Club luncheon
In Washington.
"I don’t think anybody could be
certain what labor will do,” he said,
adding, with reference to Mr. Wal
lace:
"I can tell you definitely about
the most recent candidate. We will
not go along with the new fellow.”
CIO and AFL Represented.
Thirty-one of the signers of the
labor leaders’ statement represented
CIO unions; 13 were from AFL
unions and 1 represented the Inde
pendent New York Machinists’
Council.
PCA’s suggestion that Mr. Wallace
run as an independent candidate
has resulted in a rift in the top
levels of the organization and
brought statements opposing a third
party movement from leaders of the
Americans for Democratic Action
and from the New York units of the
CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
War Casualty's Father
Dies Waiting for Body
ly the Aiuxiated Prw
SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 19.—Every
time the bodies of war dead arrived
here, Roy Shoemaker, chief dis
patcher for the Laurel Line Railroad,
was on hand to pay silent tribute.
Wednesday, after joining In re
ceiving five bodies, the 55-year-old
railroad man collapsed of a heart
attack. He died yesterday.
Within a few weeks the body of
his son, Lt. James M. Shoemaker,
who was killed in Italy, is due to
be returned.
Society to See Peru Films
National Geographic Society mem
bers will see films of Indian Ufe and
ancient Inca ruins in Peru along
with a lecture by Clifford J. Karnes
at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Consti
tution Hall, Eighteenth and D
streets N.W.
HER HOME’S IN WRECKED BUILDING—Refusing hospital
treatment for injuries suffered in Tuesday’s collapse of the
Empire Apartments, Ninth street and New York avenue N.W.,
Mrs. Sophie Varellos, 67, waits patiently across the street for
some one to bring her belongings from her seventh-floor apart
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German Reds Act f o Pi n
Reich Partition Blame
On Political Rivals
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 19.
—Communists in the German Eco
nomic Council for the British
American zones fired yesterday what
American observers said was the
"first shot” in a campaign to pin
any final partition of Germany on
their rival political parties.
The council held its most heated
session in its six-months existence
when political questions were in
jected openly for the first time by
the council president who proposed
a resolution denying any organ
of the bi-zonal council had done
preliminary work on a constitution
for a “west German state.”
The resolution expressed regret
at failure of the Foreign Ministers
conference in London and hoped
that “all decisions made and meas
ures taken will leave the way open
for the re-growth of an economically
and politically United Germany."
Reds Propose Amendment.
Max Reimann and Ludwig Becker,
Communist council members, at once
proposed an amendment declaring
neither the council nor any of its
members would “participate in any
talks or conferences” on any plan for
creation of a Western German state.
When the council rejected the
amendment and adopted the reso
lution, Reimann shouted, “This
means that the house will partici
pate in the building of a Western
German state."
The other members of the body,
which consists chiefly of Conserva
tive Christian Social Unionists and
left-wing Social Democrats, shouted
back, ‘ no, no.”
Some of these leaders said private
ly the resolution was the result of
press reports that some members of
the council have participated in
drafting a projected constitution for
a Western German state. They said
the possibility that the Communists
would make an appeal to national
istic German feeling for unity had
caused a change in approach. They
say now that they favor developing
present bizonal institutions to im
prove administration and aid re
covery.
Border Watch Increase.
Both the British and American
military governments strengthened
their controls along the 700 miles
of Soviet zonal border in expecta
tion of an increased flood of Ger
mans seeking to leave the Soviet
zone as the result of the London
East-West split.
British ofllcials said their frontier
police guards had been increased
and officials along the zonal border
advised to make preparations to
receive increased numbers of border
crossers.
American officials said their bor
der control also has been tightened
until there is a police station every
l'/j miles.
Soviet border guards also were
reported to have increased their
vigilance.
Assessor, 9 Others
Indicted in Kansas City
In 1946 Vote Fraud
By th* Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 19.—George
R. Clark, Jackson County assessor,
and Henry McKissick, Democratic
leader, were among 10 persons in
dicted yesterday by the second
special Federal grand jury called
to investigate alleged frauds in the
1946 election in Kansas City.
The two surrendered late yester
day along with eight other persons
charged in the indictment with
conspiracy to deprive 5th Missouri
District voters of their rights to
vote.
The indictment brought to 41 the
number of persons accused by two
Federal grand juries of ghost vot
ing, miscounting ballots and other
fraudulent practices in connection
with the election and the subse
quent probe investigation.
Vote Results Not Changed.
The 1946 primary ended a bitter
campaign for the Democratic nom
ination for Congress from the 5th
district, comprising most of Kansas
City. In that campaign Enos Ax
tell had the support of President
Truman, as well as the Pendergast
organization, in his effort to unseat
Roger C. Slaughter. Mr. Axtell
won the nomination, but was defeat
ed by Albert L. Reeves, Jr., Re
publican, in the general election.
The grand jury report said evi
dence indicated the fraudulent vote
did not change the results in the
Democratic House and Senate pri
mary.
McKissick, a tavern owner, was
indicted by the first special grand
jury of a charge of attempting to
tamper with that body, but was ac
quitted by a Federal Court jury.
Courthouse Theft Unsolved.
The other eight persons named
today were: Morris Marks, an em
ploye in the county collector’s office;
Red Stewart, cottrthouse electrician;
Grover McMillan, an employe of the
county assessor’s office; Charles Mo
dica, chief deputy in the criminal
division of the Circuit Court clerk’s
ofilce; Dorris Sartin, a bartender;
Frank Truax, an extra mail carrier;
Benjkmin Ryan and Joe Grinberg.
While the jury reported it had ex
hausted all evidence submitted to it
by the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, it emphasized its failure to
solve the theft of valuable evidence
from the vault of the Jackson Coun
ty courthouse.
Safecrackers blasted the door
from the vault and stole ballots, poll
books and tally sheets which the
Jackson grand jury had used in in
dicting 71 persons on State charges
Df vote fraud.
The jury recommended that the
investigation of the ballot theft be
‘continued with unabated vigor.”
Oklahoma U. Drops Student
In Knife-Carrying Case
ly th« Associated Pr*ss
NORMAN, Okla.,* Dec. 19.—David
Feldman, 20, University of Oklahoma
student who was dropped from
school for carrying a 10-inch knife
to class was reported en route by
train today to his home in New
York.
Feldman was arrested Wednesday
by Norman police when two other
students complained they had re
ceived a threatening phone call in
Feldman’s name.
The call later proved to be a hoax,
but in the meantime the offleers
had arrested the youth. They said
they found the knife, together with
1946 and 1947 membership cards in
;he Communist Party and a card
naming Feldman as an Eagle Scout.
He was charged with carrying a
:oncealed weapon, pleaded guilty
yesterday and was fined $25 and
assessed $19 costs.
The two students said Feldman
previously threatened them during a
political argument in a zoology class
ny saying “his friends would taka
:are of them.”
The youth, a former merchant
seaman, was ordered dropped from
nis classes yesterday by the univer
sity’s executive vice president, Dr.
Royden J. Dangerfleld.
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