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Civil Liberties Union
Assails Thomas Group
In Dr. Condon's Case
The American Civil Liberties
Union today attacked the House Un
American Activities Committee’s
conduct in connection with its
charges against Dr. Edwerd U. Con
don, director of the National Bureau
of Standards.
It called on the committee to give
Dr. Condon "minimal precedural
rights” and to establish a model
procedure for future hearings when
it examines the scientist April 21.
Dr. Condon was accused by an Un
American Activities subcommittee of
"knowingly or unknowingly” assoc
iating with suspected Russian spies.
The group called him “one of the
weakest links in our atomic security.”
A hearing should have been held
before making public the insinua
tions against Dr. Condon’s loyalty,
three Civil Liberties Union officials
declared in a letter to Chairman
Thomas of the House group. The
; organization released the letter to
I day.
The union u/ged that the com
mittee confine its statement on the
Condon case strictly to facts brought
out in the hearing and release ~ it
only after a majority vote of the
committee.
It recommended that Dr. Condon
be granted the right to call wit
nesses, reply to charges, cross-exam
! ine witnesses and receive notice of
jall charges against him. Such safe
! guards are particularly necessary in
a case such as the scientist’s, the
letter declared, because of the char
acter assassination possibilities In
herent in “so explosive a set of
circumstances.”
The letter was sent by Dr. John
Haynes Holmes, chairman of the
board of the civil liberties group;
Arthur Garfield Hayfc, general coun
sel, and Roger N. Baldwin, director.
Eight attorneys of the organization’s
Board of Directors also subscribed to
its statements.
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Cancer-Control Course Set
For Nunes at Catholic U.
A three-week Institute for nurses
on cancer control—the first of a
series to be conducted throughout
the country—began today at Cath
olic University.
Forty nurses from public health
agencies, schools and hospitals of
the District and nearby States were
scheduled to attend the intensive
course, sponsored jointly by the
university and the National Cancer
Institute.
The students, who are nursing
consultants and Instructors in uni
versities and hospitals, later will
teach other nurses the principles
of cancer control and nursing.
Rosalie I. Peterson, chief public
health nursing consultant of the
national institute, and Agnes A.
Dix, assistant professor in the
Catholic University School of Nurs
ing Education, are conducting the
course. It will include visits to Dis
trict cancer clinics.
“Nurses can be the key to the
success of our national cancer con
trol program,” Dr. Austin V. Delbert,
director of the national institute's
control work, declared. They should
learn to recognize conditions, which
may become malignant and to de
tect cancer in its early, curable
stages, he said.
Edward Morgan to Talk
At Junior Board Lunch
Edward P. Morgan, member of
the law firm of Welch, Mott &
Morgan, will speak on communism
at a luncheon of the Junior Board
of Commerce at 12:%) pm. Thurs
day at the Burlington Hotel.
Mr. Morgan was with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation for seven
years, and was associate counsel for
the Pearl Harbor Investigation
Committee.
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The underground sale of sleeping car space-particularly
inFlorida-is still a scandal! The C&O offers a solution
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that will end it- if other roads will give their support
Back in May, 1946, the C&O published an adver
tisement entitled: “Let’s Get the Black Market’s
Hand Out of the Traveler’s Pocket!"
We cited cases of outrageous racketeering—and
offered a solution that would end it
Our appeal brought action in a matter of weeks—
but the actioif was only a half-way measure. The
“twenty-four hour” rule (which means that unused
tickets havd to be turned in a day ahead of train time)
did decrease the empty space on trains. In fact it is
estimated that in a year's time this rule made 792,000
more units cf space available to travelers.
But it left the black-market bootlegger almost as
secure as ever in his racket
The Gambler Who Can't Lose
Picture the simplicity of operating an illegal ticket
ring. The head of the ring sends a number of repre
sentatives to the ticket windows to buy up the most
desirable space for weeks ahead. The racketeer then
proceeds to re-sell the space he has cornered for
whatever extortion he demands. And, if he has any
units left over unsold, he can always turn them in 24
hours before train time and get his money back —
with no questions asked!
The recent advancement of the deadline on certain
trains to 48 hours — forced by the petition of 24
Florida hotels — merely provides more time for the
railroad to re-sell the cancelled space. It still leaves
the black-market operator as protected as ever. We
have hardly even rumpled his bed of roses!
The result is that, far too often, the traveler can’t
get space ahead of time, though plenty of it is avail
able at the last minute. And who wants to plan a trip
on such a basis?
Personalized Tickets Are the Answer
We suggested in 1946, and today we earnestly
repeat, that the cure for this racket is to make out
a sleeping car ticket in the name qf the individual
who intends to use it.
The ideal way to sell reserved space Is through a
/ credit card system and a Central Reservation Bureau,
such as the C & 0 has introduced on its lines. By this
Personalized, tickets, made out in the name of the traveler, would kill the black market in a hurry!
method the traveler doesn’t need to go near a ticket
window—his ticket can be delivered to him on the
train. But until more roads have this modern service,
we should at least have personalized tickets.
It would not delay the traveler at the ticket win
dow, because his name could be put on the diagram
at the same time the agent records his ticket number.
When the passenger hajids in his ticket, the con
ductor would merely check his name. And there are
few people, we believe, who would be willing to
falsify their identities.
A Bonus of Good Will!
In fact most travelers would be distinctly pleased
to think that conductors knew their names. That
has been the experience on crack trains like the
“Twentieth Century” which for years has made up
a passenger list
Messages could be received en route. And a pleas
ant “Good Evening, Mr. Smith” might let many
of our skeptical patrons know that the railroad is
really interested in them. For too long, rail passeng
ers have been treated as nameless ciphers.
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Why Not Start It Now?
Thechangetopersonalized.non-transferable tickets
would put the black-market bootlegger out of busi
ness. The mechanics are very simple. And the new
method would be worth the small extra effort many
times over in traveler good will.
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