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Stassen's Sweep in Wisconsin
Hands Dewey Major Setback,
Virtually Eliminates MacArthur
New Yorker Fails
To Win Delegate,
General Gets 7
By GoukJ Lincoln
The victory of former Gov.
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
in yesterday’s Wisconsin primary
virtually eliminates Gen. Doug
las MacArthur from the race for
the Republican presidential nom
ination and puts a check on the
drive of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York toward such a nom
ination.
Late returns promised Mr. Stas
sen at least 20 of Wisconsin’s 27
delegates to the Republican Na
tional Convention.
Gen. MacArthur continued to lead
in contests for 7 delegates. Gov.
Dewey was running behind all along
the line and faced a almost certain
shut out similar to that of the late
Wendell Willkie in 1944.
Representative Miller, of Nebraska,
a MacArthur leader in that State,
gave added color to the idea that
Stassen Tells Voters
He's Sorry He Had to
Oppose MacArthur
By Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, April 7.—
Harold E. Stassen today
thanked the Wisconsin voters
and expressed regret that he
had to compete with Gen. Mac
Arthur in his "home” State.
"I am humbly thankful to
the people of Wisconsin for
their exceptional vote,” Mr.
Stassen said. "It will be my
constant effort to see to it that
they never have cause to regret
this early and valuable sup
port.
"I sincerely regret that the
action of a group of citizens in
entering the name of a great
general, Douglas MacArthur. in
the primary made it necessary
for me to be in a position of
rivalry on the ballot, as I have
a very high personal regard for,
this distinguished leader of our
armed forces.”
Gen. MacArthur's failure to sweep j
Wisconsin would bring about his j
withdrawal. Mr. Miller told re
porters :
‘'MacArthur may see fit, in view
of this slap in the face, to withdraw.
Hoyt Blames Light Vote.
Lansing Hoyt, who heads the na-!
tional MacArthur Clubs, issued a
statement in Milwaukee blaming the
general’s showing on a light vote.
Mr. Hoyt, who seemed likely to be
elected as a MacArthur delegate,
also said that the general would
have won if he had made a personal
appearance in the State. *!
Stassen candidates for delegate j
at large staved off, with a rally, a
challenge of two MacArthur candi- j
dates with 2,619 of the State's 3,138
precincts reported, the lowest man
on the Stassen slate of seven
widened his vote margin over the
top man on Gen. MacArthur’s slate
to 1,962.
The tabulation, which included
390 of 579 precincts in Milwaukee
County, where Gen. MacArthur’s
delegates ran well, gave the top
Stassen at-large delegate, Walter J.
Kohler, jr„ 192,007 votes.
The low Stassen candidate, George
Greeley, had 168,962 votes. This
compared with 167,000 chalked up
by Fred R. Zimmerman, leading
MacArthur candidate.
In the contest for the 20 district
delegates—two in each congres
sional district—Mr. Stassen is lead
ing in 13 and Gen. MacArthur in 7.
With no, Dewey delegate victory
In sight, the Wiconsin primary’ is a
severe blow to the prestige of the
New York Governor, w'ho has been
rated the leading candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination.
If the Stassen lead persists and
Gen. MacArthur fails to win a ma
jority of Wisconsin's 27 delegates to
the Republican National Conven
tion. the MacArthur presidential
r§ic—WISCONSIN, Page~A-5d
Fire Reported Fatal
To 20 Buddhist Monks
By the Associated Press
SHANGHAI, April 7.—The Chi
nese press reported today 20 Bud
dhist monks were burned alive
after refusing to flee their flaming
monastery.
The fanatical monks chanted
scriptures while the ancient build
ing burned yesterday at Chinkiang,
140 miles west of Shanghai.
The abbot, Tai Chong, was pre
vented by firemen from rushing
Into the building to perish with his
disciples, the dispatches added.
Traffic Dispute
Provides Tulsa
With New Mayor
By th« Associated Press
TULSA, Okla., April 7.—Tulsa will
have a new Democratic Mayor on
May 4—largely because of a reckless
driving dispute at police headquar
ters two months ago.
Roy Lundy, 70, retired lumberman,
lost the argument when one of his
drivers was arrested and police re
fused Mr. Lundy’s personal check
for $100 bond. A few days later the
pioneer lumberman filed for Mayor.
Yesterday he defeated Republican
Mayor Lee Price, 17,755 votes to
15.972, in one of the city’s bitterest
elections. All but two Republicans
were swept from other offices.
Main issue of the campaign was
a $30,000,000 cross-town expressway.
Mr. Lundy promised to kill plans
for it 30 minutes after taking office.
v ’
Senate Unanimously Confirms
Hoffman as Aid Administrator
He Voxes Hope Skeleton Organization
At I .ast Will Be Set Up Within Week
ly th« Aisocioted Pr**s
The Senate confirmed Paul G.
Hoffman to direct the European
Recovery Program today. The
action came only a few hours
after the nomination was re
ceived and just four days after
enactment of the $5,300,000,000
plan to help Western Europe
back on its feet.
The action was unanimous and by
voice vote. That required suspension
of the Senate rules. Nominations;
ordinarily must await action for a1
day. President Truman signed Mr.
Hoffman s nomination while watch
ing the Army Day parade yesterday.
The Senate acted within 35
minutes after its Foreign Relations
Committee approved Mr. Hoffman,
13 to 0.
Mr. Hoffman, president of the
Studebaker Corp., met with commit
tee members for about an hour and
a half behind closed doors before
the vote was taken.
Emerging from the meeting, the
56-year-old automobile manafac
turer, who is a Republican, told re
porters:
“They asked me a lot of questions
and I tried to answer them.”
Mr. Hoffman said he hopes to
have at least the skeleton of the
new organization set up within a
Dewey Shrugs Off Loss
In Wisconsin as He
Heads for Nebraska
New York Governor Says
There'll Be No Favorite
Sons in Contest There
TAFT SAYS WISCONSIN Results
Show Need for Organization.
Page A-5.
By the Associated Press
EN ROUTE WITH DEWEY TO
NEBRASKA, April 7.—Gov.
Dewey, shrugging off his defeat |
in the Wisconsin primary, was
flying to Nebraska today confi-j
dent his presidential stock will
shoot up again in the primary
there next Tuesday.
Before boarding a chartered
plane taking him to Grand Island,
in Central Nebraska, for a two-day
campaign for backing in the State’s
preferential primary, Gov. Dewey
told reporters:
“Now we have won one primary
and lost one primary. We are on
to Nebraska, where there are no
favorite sons.
“On total, yesterday was a pretty
good day. We gained 90 delegates
in New York, which is more than
four times the number any other
candidate acquired.’’
Predicted Last Place.
Gov. Dewey revealed that he had
privately predicted he would finish
last in his three-way Wisconsin
fight with Harold E. Stassen and
Gen. MacArthur.
On his return from Wisconsin last
Saturday, he wrote down his esti
mate of the outcome, sealed it in an
envelope and gave it to a reporter
to be opened today.
The newsman, on opening It,
found that Gov. Dewey had pre
dicted Gen. MacArthur would lead
with 19 delegates. Mr. Stassen would
be second with 6 and himself last
with 2.
Dewey forces publicly were shoot
ing for second place, behind Gen.
MacArthur.
Gov. Dewey felt he had two
strikes on him in Wisconsin before
he went to bat because Gen. Mac
Arthur was the "favorite son" and
Mr. Stassen was from adjoining
Minnesota and thus able to cam
paign extensively in the Badger
State.
Gov. Dewey will make 10 appear
ances in Nebraska, including major
addresses at Lincoln tomorrow
night and Omaha Friday night.
He will be in the State at the
(See DEWEY, page A-5l
Wallace Can't Find Place
To Speak in Own State
ly th« Associated Press
DES MOINES, April 7.—The
scheduled campaign appearances of
Henry Wallace in his former home
State of Iowa may be canceled or
postponed.
Fred Stover, chairman of the
Iowa Wallace-for-President Com
mittee, says that the third party
candidate’s speeches April 28 and 29
in the State may be called off or
postponed because of difficulty in
audience arrangements.
At Iowa City, Virgil Hancher,
president of the University of Iowa,
has announced that the university’s
policy of not allowing partisan po
litical speeches on the campus will
prevent Mr. Wallace from speaking
! there.
At Mason City, Mr. Stover said,
Wallace backers have no assurance
that the Armory can be rented.
Arrangements have been made
for addresses to be made in Des
Moines and at Penn College, Os
kaloose, Mr. Stover reported, but
he said it was possible Mr. Wallace
; would not want to come for just
two addresses.
Mr. Stover said the matter would
be decided at a week-end meeting
of Wallace backers at Chicago.
■
| week. By that time, and possibly
!by tomorrow, a deputy administra
tor and a roving ambassador will be
named, Mr. Hoffman said.
Lewis W. Douglas, Ambassador to
Great Britain, has been mentioned
as a likely choice for the ambassa
dorship. The post involves making
arrangements with the 16 Western
European nations to benefit by the
huge self-help program.
* Mr. Hoffman said he has no idea
who will be chosen He has dis
cussel two or three men as possible
deputy administrators, but he did
not name them.
He has no plans to visit Europe
any time soon, Mr. Hoffman said,
because there will be a great deal
of work to do here.
Vandenberg Praises Choice.
Pefore the Senate committee met
today, Chairman Vandenberg, a
friend of Mr. Hoffman, left no doubt
where he stands.
•'I think it is a sound and able
choice,” he said. “In discussing this
vital appointment with many citi
zens during the last three months,
Hoffman's name has been suggested
more often than any other, and al
ways favorably.”
Mr. Hoffman said the administra
tor for economic co-operation—the
title he will bear—should have wide
( See FOREIGN-AID, Page A-2T~
Inflation Control Need
Increasing, Truman
Told by Advisers
Tax Cut, Defense Spending
Cited by, Dr. Nourse iif
New Economic Report
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman’s top eco
nomic advisers warned today
that the need for anti-inflation
controls is greater now than it
was three months ago.
After the Council of Economic
Advisers had called at the White
House to present its quarterly
resume of economic conditions
throughout the country, Dr. Edwin
G. Nourse, the chairman, answered
with an emphatic “yes” when asked
if the need for standby wage and
price controls advocated by Presi
dent Truman last fall had grown
since the council submitted its last
report early in January.
Dr. Nourse said that this point
was made in the report, which will
be submitted to the cabinet for
| study Friday.
He said that new factors enter
ing into the picture were the $4,
800,000,000 tax cut and the pros
pective heavy expenditures for de
fense purposes.
Crop Conditions Better.
The economic advisers also gave
the President the first copy of
“Economic Indicators,” a docun\ent
it is intended to issue monthly on
economic trends.
Dr. Nourse said that "we’re too
poor” to make general distribution
of the data unless Congress author
izes it, but that the mater would
have limited circulation in the Gov
ernment.
The economic chief said crop
conditions are better, but that he
looked for a 10 per cent drop in
meat supply by fall. A favorable
factor in this latter situation, he
said, was the consumer resistance
to high meat prices.
Chairman Wolcott of the House
Banking Committee served advance
notice earlier today that it would be
futile for the White House to ask
now for revived curbs on the domes
tic economy.
No Curbs Needed, Wolcott Says.
Some members of Congress have
been predicting that the council
will recommend once more the en
actment of stand-by powers to re
impose wage-price controls and ra
tioning—both to consumers and to
industry.
But Mr. Wolcott said flatly he can
see no immediate need for planning
any such course.
“In fact," he told reporters, “we
are living in a false economy where
prices in some fields are high de
spite a plentiful supply. Man}'
prices are unnaturally high.
“Some prices apparently are stay
ing up merely on the expectation of
the effect military spending and
foreign aid may have on the econ
omy."
Bigger Air Force
Voted, 23^0, by
Full Committee
Program Could Start
With Appropriation,
Sponsors Declare
By J. A. O'Leary
The move to expand the Air
Force from 55 to 70 group
strength received another boost
today when the House Armed
Services Committee voted, 23 to
0, for the proposal.
Action came on approval of a
resolution adopted unanimously yes
terday by a seven-member sub
committee.
Chairman Andrews of the full
committee said copies of the reso
lution will be sent to President
Truman, Secretary of defense For
restal and House Speaker Martin.
Sponsors say the 70-group pro
gram could be started without new
basic legislation if the Budget Bu
reau would submit to the House
Appropriations Committee an addi
tional request for $2,388,000,000 for
the next 12 months. That would
raise the total air force budget for
next year to $5,442,000,000.
Forrestal Questioned.
While the House committee was
acting, Secretary Forrestal and the
top-ranking Air Force officers were
in closed session with the Senate
Armed Services Committee, which is
seeking more information on the
manpower needs of the whole mili
tary establishment before acting on
revival of the draft and establish
ment of universal military training.
Mr. Forrestal told the Senate
committee last week he was not
ready at this time to recommend the
70 group air strength program, but
was not foreclosing the possibility
he might later request that or some
alternative air expansion program.
In his letter to the committee,
Mr. Forrestal contended that ex
pansion of the Air Force should be
accompanied by a balanced enlarg
ment of other parts of the national
defense organization and that the
ultimate co6t of going up to 70 air
groups would be $18,000,000,000
more than last year's military
budget.
Whether this session of Congress
will follow through on the 70 an
group program may be decided with
in the next two weeks, when the
House Appropriations Committee
brings out the national defense
money bill.
Supplementary Units Needed.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee, in its resolution today,
agreed with Mr. Forrestal that the
term "70 group” air strength refers
only to combat groups and would
have to be supplemented by 27 Na
tional Guard groups and 34 Air
Reserve groups.
Mr. Andrews told newsmen the
House committee will begin hear
ing; Monday on proposed revival
of the draft. He pointed out his
committee already has approved a
separate universal military training
bill.
House leaders, however, have left
it sidetracked in the Rules Com
mittee, which must give the green
light before it can come up on the
floor. The Senate Armed Services
Committee is working on a com
bined draft and UMT bill.
Meanwhile, the Joint Congres
sional Air Policy Board made public
(See DEFENSE, Page A-4.)
Former GAO Aide Killed
By Train in Gaithersburg
George Ninas, 70, Gaithersburg,
Md., a former assistant to the gen
eral counsel of the General Ac
counting Office, was killed instantly
today when he stepped into the
path of a speeding train in front
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Station at Gaithersburg.
J. H. Orme, station agent, said
Mr. Ninas apparently stepped in
front of the train from behind a
boxcar. The train was the Wash
ingtonian, en route to Pittsburgh
from Washington. Mr. Orme said
Mr. Ninas’ body was dragged about
75 yards by the locomotive.
Montgomery County police said
Mr. Ninas had been in ill health
and lived with his wife at the
home of Jack Watson.
According to GAO officials, Mr.
Ninas retired from Government
service in January, 1943, after
working at the agency since 1930.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by a son, George Ninas, jr„ 109
Allan road, Yorktown Village,
Bethesda.
Retired District School Teacher
To Be Bride of Senator Tobey
Senator Charles W. Tobey of New
Hampshire today announced his en
gagement to Mrs. Loretta C. Raben
horst, 53, « retired District school
teacher.
The 67-year-old Senator, whose
first wife died last year after a long
illness, said that no date has been:
set for their marriage, but that it i
will take place late this year.
Mrs Rabenhorst lives at the
Dodge Hotel. She taught in the
elementary schools here for 18 years <
before her retirement in 1842. At]
that time she was at the Burroughs
fc m.
Elementary School. She Is a life-i
long resident of the city.
“I am very happy about It all,”
the Republican Senator told re
porters as he made the announce
ment.
He said he had known Mrs. Ra
benhorst for a number of years as
she had been a friend of his late
wife. She has three sons by her!
first marriage, he said.
Senator Tobey is the father of
four children. He has been a mem
ber of the Senate since 1938 and
previously served three term* in
the House.
*
Reds Charge British Transport
Caused Collision Over Berlin
English Deny Regulations Were Violated;
Soviet Extends Control to Parcel Post
BULLETIN |
VIENNA <#>.—Official sources
said tonight that Soviet au
thorities have demanded re
moval of the United States
airbase station for Vienna
from its present location in
the Soviet zone. The inform
ants interpreted this as a new
move by the Russians to ham
per American communications
lines into Vienna, the seat of
the four-power command.
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, April 7.—The Rus
sians charged today that British
violation of Allied regulations
caused the collision of a British
Finland's Parliament
Expected to Ratify
Soviet Pact Quickly
Independence Guarantee
And Russian Concessions
Are Hailed by Finns
By tht Associated Press
HELSINKI, Finland, April 7.—
Helsinki political sources today
predicted swift ratification of
the new Soviet-Finnish mutual
aid treaty.
They expressed the opinion Par
liament might give its approval by
the end of next week. The new
treaty was signed last night in Mos
cow.
President Juho K. Paasikivi is ex
pected to put all his personal pres
tige behind a drive for smooth con
clusion of the pact, which most
Finns regard as a good deal; They
got concessions from the Russians
and they kept their political inde
pendence.
In Moscow, the Finnish delegates
who negotiated the treaty during
the last two weeks, prepared for
their final official duties and for a
round of toasts and speeches at a
gala dinner given by Prime Minis
ter Stalin tonight.
Mr. Stalin personally proposed
the treaty in a letter to Mr. Paasi
kivi on February 22.
Independence Guaranteed.
A majority of Parliament is need
ed for ratification. There are 200
members, divided as follows; 51
Popular Democrats (Communists
and pro-Moscow Social Democrats),
48 Social Democrats, 48 Agrarians.
29 Conservatives, 15 Swedish Party
and 9 Liberals. The first three
parties comprise the government
bloc.
Russian ratification of the treaty
Is a foregone conclusion.
The opening clause of the new
treaty spells out Finland’s terri
torial independence if either coun
try becomes the object of aggression.
It says that if either is attack
ed by Germany or another state
allied with her, Finland will fight.
But it specifies that Finnish forces
will stay within Finland’s territorial
(See FINLAND, Page A-5.)
Divorce Defendant Kills
Wife, Lawyer, Wounds Self
•y th* Auoeioted Fr»*i
FAIRMONT, W. Va., April 7.—A
Fairmont man, defendant in a
divorce suit, shot and killed his wife
and her attorney here today, and
then turned his pistol on himself.
He is not expected to live.
Coroner D. E. Kidd said Ernie Lee
Yost. 45, fatally shot his wife, Nellie
Marie Yost, during a conference in
the office of Attorney Tucker Mo
roose, and then killed Mr. Moroose
when he attempted to interfere.
Yost then sat down in an office
chair, lighted a cigarette, then shot
himself in the head, the coroner
said. He was taken to Fairmont
State Hospital.
There were no Witnesses to the
shooting. Mr. Moroose's secretary,
Mrs. Joe Corley, was in the outer
office when it occurred and immedi
ately ran to a nearby office to give
the alarm.
airliner and a Soviet fighter;
plane over Berlin Monday.
The British rejected the charge
as "palpably untrue.”
At the same time, the Russians
indicated they would not budge
from their basic position in the Ber-;
lin crisis. This was underscored by
these developments:
1. The Russians boycotted two
more committees of the Kom
mandatura, four-power governing
body in Berlin. They snubbed the
Fuel Committee and the Committee
on Building and Housing.
2. An American-licensed German
newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel, said
the Russians had extended their
traffic restrictions to parcel post bc
(See BERLIN, Page A-4.)
Italian Reds Reported
Losing Ground; New
Campaign Move Seen
Spectacular Propaganda
Action Is Expected in
Effort to Switch Votes
By tb# Associated Press
ROME, April 7.—Informed
American observers said today
the Communists are losing
ground in the campaign for
Italy’s fateful April 18 parlia
mentary elections.
They expect some spectacular last
minute propaganda move by the
Communists.
“Our big anti-Communist drive in
Italy began three weeks ago. It was
well timed and the proposal to re
turn Trieste to Italy came at just
the right moment to shift votes.
Things are going against the Com
munists now. They must have
something to help. It is hard to
change the votes in the last three
weeks of the campaign. It will have
to be something big.”
There was some speculation that
Russia might agree to Trieste's re
turn if the Western Allies would re
turn African colonies to Italy.
Another guess is that Russia may
try to convince Italy that the
United States is planning war
I against Russia which would involve
Italy.
Labor Split Threatened/
The Marshall Plan threatened to
split the Communist-dominated
Italian General Labor Confederation
wide open.
Already many of its 6.000,000
members feel the choice in the April
18 parliamentary elections has be
come the Marshall Plan—synonym
for America—against Russia.
Last night a minority group of
the confederation, many of whose
members are not Communists or
pro-Communist Socialists, asked the
Executive Committee to reconsider
its opposition to the Marshall Plan.
It also protested a strike call for
next Monday by the confederation’s
Executive Committee.
The minority action was regarded
by some as pointing up a long
threatened split in the confedera
tion’s ranks. The group protested
an Executive Committee manifesto
which declared the killing of 36
Sicilian labor leaders in the past
two years was the work of the Mafia
(Black Hand), whose network ‘‘ex
tends through large spheres of state
authority.”
Strike to Last One Hour.
The nation-wide general strike
was threatened after a Sicilian labor
leader was killed by machinegun
bullets. The Executive Committee
of the labor group told the govern
ment that unless Placido Rizzuto,
missing Sicilian Communist, is
found, the strike will be called. It
originally had been set for Thurs
day, but was postponed.
Under the new plan the Monday
strike will be for one hour, from 10
to 11 a.m.
Blast Kills Nine Germans
MUNICH, Germany, April 7 UPi.—
Nine German workers were "tilled
today by an explosion in a former
German Army munitions dump near
Regensburg.
r
Conferees Knock Out
$50,000 to Complete
New D. C. Master Plan
Special Census Shows
20% of Families Here
Earn $2,310 or Less
The District’s redevelopment
program was dealt a blow today ,
when House and Senate con
ferees on the Independent Offi
ces bill knocked out an item of
$50,000 for the completion of a
Capital’s “master plan” on which
it must be based.
But, as this action was being
taken, another prerequisite of the
program was completed when the
Census Bureau made a report on
the Income of District families. It
shows that 20 per cent of families
here have an income of $2,310 a year
or less.
The Redevelopment Act of 1945,
laying the groundwork for slum
clearance here, called for the prep
aration of the master plan. In ad
dition, it limited public housing to
families whose income falls within
the lowest 20 per cent of the act.
It created the District Land Re
development Agency which is to
carry out the program under a $20,
000,000 developing fund not yet ap
propriated.
The Census Bureau began the
income study in February at the re
quest of the District Commissioners
who lacked the facilities to do the
: job themselves.
Senate Had Restored Fund.
The $50,000 item for the master
plan was eliminated when the House
| and Senate conferees met today.
I The House, in its actions on -the
supply bill, had denied requested!
funds for the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission for both
the master plan and beginning of
construction work. The Senate re
stored the fund for planning, but
its managers were defeated today in
the conference with the House.
The conferees, however, are rec
ommending congressional approval
of a Senate item of $159,000 for the
commission for park land purchase
in nearby Maryland. They" also
added to the bill $1,000,000 to com
plete the Public Roads Administra
tion research laboratory in nearby
Virginia.
D. C. Average $3,825.
The report on the family incomes
was released today by J. C. Capt,
; director of the Census Bureau.
| Mr. Capt gave the figure to Maj.
jGen. Ulysses S. Grant III, chairman
of the National Capital Park and
1 Planning Commission.
The Census Bureau's figures, based
on the incomes reported for the
calendar year 1947, showed that the
average family income was $3,825.
Only 4 per cent of District families
received $10,000 a year or more, the
study showed.
Mr. Capt said the figures did not
cover the incomes of persons living
alone. He warned that they were
not exact, since the survey was con-1
ducted with a "sampling” technique.
Striking Cairo Nurses
Are Subdued by Police
By the Associated Frost
CAIRO, Egypt, April 7.—Two
thousand Cairo police, using ma
chine guns and tear gas, subdued1
striking male nurses entrenched on
the roof of Egypt's largest hospital
today.
Advancing under a shower of
stones hurled by the strikes, the
police seized 200 of them, including
25 who were wounded by machine
gun bullets.
Ten police machine gunners fired
I at least 1,000 rounds to cover the
! policemen’s advance into the Kasr
el Einl Hospital grounds. The
strikers had locked the big iron
gates of the grounds at noon and
had kept the police at bay for
almost two hours.
Smoke poured from the hospital j
building from fires in the labora
tories which police said were started
by the strikers. There were several
hundred patients in the hospital at
the time of the outburst.
The 200 male nurses have been
demanding higher pay. They seized
control of the hospital this morning.
Lewis Asks Court
To Void Its Order
On Ending Strike
Goldsborough Sets
Hearing for Monday
On Union's Plea
BULLETIN
Coal-burning train service
will be cut further next week
unless work is resumed in the
coal mines, the Office of De
fense Transportation said to
day. ODT Director J. Mon
roe Johnson said additional
reductions of 25 per cent in
both coal-burning passenger
and freight service are “im
minent.”
By James Y. Newton
John L. Lewis and his United
Mine Workers today asked Dis
trict Court to “dissolve and va
cate” its restraining ordar which
directed the union to end “forth
with” the Nation-wide soft coal
strike, now in its 24th day.
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, who
fined Mr. Lewis and the UMW for
contempt in December, 1946, re
ceived the petition and set Monday
for a hearing on the plea.
Justice Goldsborough’s office said
his action automatically holds up
the effect of the temporary restrain
ing order Issued Saturday by Justice
Matthew McGuire against the 24
day-old strike.
The Justice Department had been
planning to ask a contempt citation
against Mr. Lewis and the UMW
for ignoring the order. The ques
tion whether the department would
proceed, in view of Justice Golds
borough's action, was not immedi
ately answered.
Mr. Lewis' lawyers had asked for
a hearing Friday, but Justice Golds
borough put it off until 10 a.m.
Monday.
On that day, Justice Goldsborough
also is scheduled to hear the Gov
ernment’s request for a preliminary
injunction to replace the restrain
ing order, which expires Tuesday.
Attorneys for Mr. Lewis and the
union filed the motion at 11 a.m.
The petition stated that the
McGuire order abridged the consti
tutional rights of the 400,000 miner*
to work or not work as they pleased
and hence would impose involuntary
servitude on them.
Meeting Set tor Today.
In the petition the UMW stated,
"Violation of the miners’ right
to stop work and freedom from
involuntary servitude is explicit
in the court’s (Justice Mc
Guire's) direction that the union
shall order the miners to return to
their employment. Since the court
may not legally commit the union
members employed in the bitumi
nous coal fields to involuntary servi
tude it may not legally effectuate
such result through its mandatory
order that defendants accom
plish such status for the union's
members.”
Justice McGuire's order also di
rected the soft coal operators to
bargain with Mr. Lewis on the dis
pute over a miners’ pension which
caused the mine shutdown March
15.
A negotiating session between- the
disputants was still set for 2:30 to
day, although neither Mr. Lewis o*'
the operators had complied with the
conditions that each set up for such
a conference.
After filing today's petition. Mr.
Lewis wrote the operators a letter
saying the UMW would be repre
sented. but describing the session
(See COAL, Page A-T)
Rep. Zimmerman Dies
In Capitol Hill Office
Representative Orville Zimmer
man, Democrat, of Missouri, died
in his office today of a heart attack,
He was 67 years old.
A member of Congress since 1935,
Mr. Zimmerman was stricken as he
was leaving his office in the House
Office Building to walk to the House
floor. Dr. George Calver, House
physician, received an emergency
call to the Representative's office.
The House was debating a bill of
the Agriculture Committee, of which
Mr. Zimmerman was an active
member, when his death was an
nounced by Speaker Martin. Plana
were made for immediate adjourn
ment.
Mr. Zimmerman was the 12th
member of the Eightieth Congress
to die while in office. His death
left four vacancies in the House,
the others having been filled by
elections.
A serviceman in World War T, Mr.
Zimmerman was a member of the
American Legion. He w|as a regent
at Cape Girardeau (Mo.) State Col
lege. An attorney, he was a grad
uate of the Law School at the Uni
versity of Missouri.
He was a Mason and a member
of the Lions Club and the Method
ist Church. He often taught Bible
classes here.
In addition to his widow, Mrs.
Adah Zimmerman, with whom he
lived in the Roosevelt Hotel, Mr.
Zimmerman is survived by a son,
Dr. Joseph A. Zimmerman, a grad
uate of George Washington Univer
sity Medical School.
3,000 Kashmir Rebels
Slain, India Reports
By the Associated Press
NEW DELHI. India, 'April 7.—A
high military official said today
anti-government forces in Kashmir
have lost at least 3.000 men killed
and 9,000 wounded since the start of
fighting.
He said only some 350 Indian
government troops were killed and
75 wounded. He placed the strength
of the anti-government forces at a
total of about 22,000. This included
about 14,000 in Jammu, Southern
Kashmir. The fighting started in
November.
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