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Italian Red Labor Chief Reverses
Stand on Marshall Plan, Demands
Acceptance of Aid Despite Soviet
Communist-Ruled
Front Is Facing
Threat of Split
By Associated Pros*
ROME, April 2.—Italy’s Com
munists, overwhelmed in the
election, received a hint from
their top labor leader today of
an about-face on the Marshall
Plan.
The Communists opposed Mar
shall Plan aid throughout the cam
paign.
Smarting from their worst defeat
In free voting, the Communists also
faced the possibility of a serious rift
with some of their left wing Social
ist allies.
With nearly complete returns ap
parently assuring the American
backed Christian Democrats of con
trol of both houses of Parliament.
Giuseppe di Vittorio of the Commu
nist-dominated General Confedera
tion of Labor indicated it wants to
take a stand on American aid inde
pendent of Moscow.
Giuseppe Romita, left wing So
cialist and former interior minister,
joined with five other members of
his party in an invitation to mem
bers to take steps to "regain the
independence” of the Socialist Par
ty. The left wingers under Pietro
Nenni had split with the independ
ent Socialists over the Communist
fusion issue and allied themselves
with the Communists in the Popu
lar Front.
Freedom From Russia Aim.
Di Vittorio, Communist leader of
the Confederation of Labor, an
nounced he intends to ask the ex
ecutive of the World Federation
of Trades Unions to let each country
decide its position on the Marshall
Plan independently of Russia. This,
he said, would let labor in each
nation decide on the basis of the
country’s needs.
The move was believed calculated
to avert a split in the 6.000,000 mem
ber confederation over American
aid. It also indicated the powerful
role American aid must have played
in the elections. The Cominform,
the Communist International Infor
mation Bureau, has ordered Com
munists in Europe to battle the
Marshall Plan without quarter.
‘‘When some one wants to help
you,” Di Vittorio said, "it is ridic
ulous to slap him in the face.”
A Russian delegation is scheduled
to arrive here Sunday for meetings;
of the WFTU executive bureau and
council, which begin April 30.
Some Still Oppose Plan.
DI Vittorio’s announcement came
after a Popular Front spokesman;
declared that "our opposition to the
(Marshall) plan is unchanged.”
Jacinto Cardona, information di
rector of the front, dejected over
the election result, said his party ]
considers the Marshall Plan a mis
take, and will "do everything pos
sible to help prevent Italy from
making political, economic and stra
tegic obligations in return for Mar
shall Plan aid.”
Cardona placed a large part of
the blame for the Communist defeat
on the women of Italy, who voted
in large numbers. He also blamed
the intervention of the Catholic
church and conceded that American
aid was an important factor.
Romita s proposal to left-wing So
cialists was contained in a letter to
party members, handed to news
papers.
Wrote Letter Monday.
Romita said he wrote the letter
Monday, before returns began to
come in. He said five other Social
ist leaders signed the letter with
him.
Di Vittorio hinted that if the
Russians refused his request it
might lead to a break-up of the
Soviet-dominated WFTU.
Giolio Pa store. Christian Demo
crat who is secretary of the con
federation, said it is evident that
"if the majority of the CGIL con
tinues in its stand (against the
Marshall Plan* the minority will
have to revise its position, since we
do not want to share the grave re
sponsibilities that the Communist-]
Socialist majority has assumed ini
opposing the plan.”
Mr. Pastore has defied the Com-1
munist-Soeialist leadership of the i
(See ITALY, Page A-6.)
Truman to See Press
President Truman will hold his
weekly news conference at 4 p.m. to- j
morrow, the White House an
nounced today.
_ .
Late News
Bulletins
Marshall Guilty of Contempt
A District Court jury this
afternoon found George Mar
shall, former chairman of the
National Federation for Con
stitutional Liberties, guilty of
contempt of Congress for fail- j
ing to turn over records of the j
New York organization to the j
House Committee on Cn- !
American Activities in April,
1946. Mr. Marshall now is
chairman of the board of the
Civil Rights Congress.
I
Adams Named to CAB
President Truman today '
nominated Russell B. Adams,
now director of the economic
bureau of the Civil Aeronau
tics Board, to be a member
of the CAB for a term expiring
December 31, 1950. He would
succeed Harllee Branch, whose
resignation will take effect j
Max L I
UA W Offers $100,000, Detroit
$70,000 for Reuther's Attacker
Walter P. Reuther, United Auto Workers president, in New
Grace Hospital today after a mysterious assailant wounded him
with a shotgun blast through a window of his home last night.
—AP Wirephoto.
By the Associated Press
DETROIT. April 21—The CIO
United Auto Workers today placed
a $100,000 price on the head of the
stealthy gunman who tried in vain
to kill Walter p. Reuther. president
of the CIO-United Auto Workers.
Their reward offer followed one
for $10,000 by the city of Detroit.
The city launched a great manhunt
for the a.ssailant who fired a shot
gun into Mr. Reuther’s kitchen last
night, gravely wounding him.
The union leader’s doctors said
he would live. They added that
they have saved his right arm. torn
almost off his body by the blast.
One shotgun slug entered Mr.
Reuther’s chest cavity.
Police Commissioner Harry S
Toy mobilized the full strength of
Leaders Say Outcome
In Italy Won'1 Affect
U.S. Security Program
Martin Urges Forces of
Democracy to Continue
Drive on Communism
By J. A. O'Leary
The anti-Communist victory
in Italy was viewed as an en
couraging sign for American
foreign policy on Capitol Hill to
day, but there were no imme
miate indications it would weak
en the drive for adequate na
tional defense.
"It does not mean we can afford
to fail to give the country proper
security,” said House Speaker Mar
tin. "We cannot afford to take the
chance.”
Earlier, the Speaker had urged
the forces of democracy not to cease
their drive against communism
merely because "the westward
march of the iron curtain has been
stalled" in Italy.
On the Senate side, Acting Ma
jority Leader Wherry of Nebraska
said he did not believe the Itahan
elections would affect action on the
draft or other defense measures "one
way or the other."
Russell Has Same Views.
This viewpoint was echoed by
Senator Russell, Democrat, of Geor
gia. a member of the Armed Services
Committee, who said:
“The outcome in Italy is en
couraging, but I don't,think it les
sens our need for strong defense.”
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland said that to the extent
the Italian election victory serves
to relieve the immediate pressure,
it may cause Congress to take a
little more time in debating the de
fense program. He does not believe
it will affect materially the final
decisions, however.
There is a strong possibility that
the atmosphere of relief created
by the Communist defeat in Italy
may prompt Congress to seek more
inducements for voluntary enlist
(See CONGRESS Page A-67)
his department behind the man
hunt. But he had little to go on.
Witnesses said the gunman fled in
darkness in a "red sedan.”
Mr. Reuther’s private secretary
said he recently received two un
signed letters threatening him with
harm.
Mrs. Gwen Martinson, his secre
tary for about six years, said one
writer attacked him’ for his fight
against Communists in the ranks
of his big CIO United Auto Workers.
The other criticized his campaign to
admit Negroes to public bowling
tournaments.
"He gets a lot of crank letters and
I threw these away,” Mrs. Martin
son said.
Prosecutor James N. McNally said
(SeTREUTHER, Page A~4.)
U. S. to Call on U. N.
For Action to Force
Truce in Palestine
Military Force to Aid
Proposed Commission
May Be Requested
BULLETIN
HAIFA, Palestine UP).—A
Jewish-Arab battle for the
port city of Haifa opened to
day. Gunfire cracked along
the slopes of Mount Carmel,
near all-Jewish Hadar Carmel
and in mixed Jewish-Arab
areas.
By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, April 21 —
The United States decided to
day to call on the United Nations
Security Council for action to
back up its unheeded Palestine,
truce demand.
A spokesman for the American
delegation said the United States
would propose creation of a U. N.
truce commission and might also
propose formation of military forces
to assist such a commission.
Warren R. Austin, chief American
delegate, was understood to be ready
to ask the Council this afternoon
to arrange an early meeting to
take up the truce enforcement issue.
Mr. Austin was concerned over the
refusal of Jews and Arabs to take
steps toward carrying out the cease
fire order voted last Saturday by
the Council.
British Delay Urged.
Undersecretary of State Lovett
disclosed in Washington, meanwhile,
that the United States has been
urging Britain to delay withdrawal
of her troops from Palestine. In
London, Foreign Secretary Bevin
delayed an expected declaration on
this question.
The United States truce enforce
ment came amid these other devel
opments :
1. Faris el Khoury of Syria opened,
: (See PALESTINE. Page A-6J j
British Envoy, Promised Trout,
Settles for Virginia Ham
By Newbold Noyes, Jr.
Senator Robertson, Democrat of:
Virginia, looked at the clock on his
office desk and nervously puffed his
pipe. He was unhappy, and not
even the picture of Robert E. Lee
on the wall beside him seemed to
help his morale. It was noon, and
he knew that in just one hour he
was going to be the most embarrass
ed host in Washington.
It had seemed like such a good
idea at the time.
Lord Inverchapel. the British Am
bassador, is proud of his native
Scotland and had boasted foolish
ly to the Senator of the superiority
of Scottish trout. What more nat
ural than to have invited the peer
and his lady to come to lunch today
to taste that really superior trout
*
—the Virginia variety—on the day
after the opening of the Virginia
fishing season?
And now here it was. an hour
before the luncheon, five hungry
guests on their way and nothing
in the Senator's fish larder but five
of the scrawniest trout he ever saw,
in Virginia or anywhere else.
"They are bound to be disap
pointed." said Senator Robertson,
"and that's nothing to what I'm
going to be."
It wasn't for lack of trying. And
it wasn't that the legislator had
lacked high-caliber help. When he
set off for the Fairfax County home
of Dr. Hill Carter yesterday, rod In
hand and hopes high, he was ac
(Se« ROBERTSON, Page A-6.)
Draft May Impair
Research Plans,
Dr. Bush Warns
Calls for Safeguards;
House Group Hears
Personnel Estimates
By Robert K. Walsh
Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman
of the Research Development
Board, warned the House Armed
Services Committee today that
a proposed draft bill to increase
the regular forces to 2,006,000
men might seriously impair the
scientific research program for
national security.
In a letter to the committee hr
indorsed selective service as a "min-1
imum necessity” now and urged im
mediate enactment of universal mil
itary training legislation. But he
asked the committee to amend the
bill so that adequate safeguards
would be assured to keep sufficient
trained men in scientific develop
ment work.
The committee, which today offi
cially received a selective service bill
introduced in the House late yester
day, by its chairman. Representative
Andrews, Republican of New York,
heard Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist
report that the proposed draft of
men from 18 through 25 would pro
vide about 1,352.000 unmarried, non
father and non-veteran men each
year.
Would Induct 270,000.
Gen. Dalilquist, deputy director of
personnel in the administration di
vision of the national military es
tablishment, gave figures indicating
that only about 270.000 men would!
have to be inducted within the next
year if the draft bill is passed.
He explained that about 190,000
present Regular Army, Navy and'
Marine personnel would reinlist and
that another 703,000 would have to
be enlisted or drafted to bring the
manpower total up to the proposed
increases total specified in the An
drews bill.
The Navy, Marine Corps and Air
Force probably could obtain all the
men they need through voluntary
enlistments, he said. The Army
would need about 436,000 new men
and he estimated that about 270.000
of these would have to be obtained
through a draft.
Figure Could Be Cut.
Gen. Dahlquist's estimates indi
cated that a total of 8.410.560 men
19 through 25 would be subject to
possible induction. This number,
however, would be cut down to 1,
352,000 after eliminating veterans,1
married men and men with children.
This figure, Gen. Dahlauist ex
plained, probably will be reduced
still more, possibly below 900,000
after physical disqualifications.
Dr. Bush suggested that a sepa-1
rate manpower board be provided
to study the manpower picture on a
Nation-wide basis, w’eigh the civilian,1
scientific and military claims for j
manpower, and report to the Presi- j
dent on the most effective way of j
allocating men.
He decried “the notion of a push-!
button war and a belief that we
would be only button pushers." He!
declared that if war broke out to-;
morrow it would be “a long hard
slugging match.’’
Wherry Predirts Action.
Meanwhile, Acting Senate Majori
ty Leader Wherry made the follow- I
ing predictions as to what Congress
finally will do on national defense:
1. Provide adequate funds “for a
satisfactory Air Force and the nec
essary complement to go with it.”;
2. A satisfactory allotment for
military and naval research.
3. A variety of incentives to en
courage voluntary enlistments, but
with draft machinery authorized to
be put in motion by the President if
manpower quotas are not met
voluntarily.
Morse Tells of Support.
Senator Wherry pointed to a pro
vision being considered by the House
to exempt 18-year-olds from the
draft if they joined the National
Guard, as an example of what he
means by incentives.
Senator Morse. Republican, of
Oregon, told reporters that 20 Sena
tors came to him late yesterday to
say they agreed in principle with his
demand for a new armed service
merger law.
Senator Morse said he would take
the floor in the Senate again this
afternoon in support of his conten
tion that the recent delay among
military leaders in agreeing _on
i See” DEFENSE. Page A-4.) .
Harriman Plans to Report
To Truman on Bogota
iy the Associated Press
Back from the Inter-American
Conference at Bogota. Secretary of
Commerce Harriman promptly ar
ranged to report to President Tru
man at 3 p.m. today.
Associates said he would tell Mr.'
Truman about the conference, which \
was interrupted by riots in Colombia.
Mr. Harriman has been reported
a possible choice of Mr. Truman for
roving Ambassador to watch over
the European Recovery Program. ;
Brazil Red Plot Thwarted
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil. April
21 (JP).—Police announced today they
have broken up a Communist sabo
tage plot with the arrest of 20 per
sons and seizure of a quantity of
arms and secret instructions for a
plan of action in the state of Rio
Grande do Sul.
<
DAR Convention Votes
$900,CJ Expansion of
Headquarters Here
New Building Planned
Linking Constitution
And Continental Halls
Delegates to the 57th Conti
nental Congress of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
voted 950 to 210 today to go
ahead with a $900,000 building
project to expand national head
quarters here.
After half an hour’s discussion,
the delegates voted to authorize the
DAR Board of Management to- go
ahead with necessary arrangements
for the new building, which will
connect Memorial Continental Hall
and Constitution Hall.
Mrs. Roscoe C. O’Byrne, president
general, who with the rest of the
Board of Managers already had in
dorsed the project, hailed the favor
able action, telling the delegates:
"You have done a very valuable
piece of work this morning. You are
willing to progress.”
Firm Engaged.
In her report preceding the vote,
Mrs. Rex Hays Rhoades, treasurer
general, said the society has engaged
the architectural firm of Eggers &
Higgins, which designed the Na
tional Gallery of Art, the Jefferson
Memorial, National Archives Build
ing and others.
According to the plans, she said,
every square foot of space will be
utilized, and the planning commit
tee's idea is to "enhance the beauty
of our buildings, add to their value
rather than mar their beauty.”
Mrs. Rhoades said it is proposed
to • move the library to Memorial
Continental Hall auditorium, where
seats on the first floor will be re
moved and the floor leveled to elim
inate the platform.
The new building will provide
larger museum quarters, archives
space and conference rooms.
Veterans Needs Cited.
Mrs. Rhoades said money may be
borrowed by the society at not more
than 3's per cent interest and that
loans could be obtained as the
mdney is needed, thus keeping down
the interest.
Opposition to the building project
developed the contention that this
is not the proper time to build be
cause of high costs and that the
project should not be undertaken
while veterans are without homes.
“Our first duty is to the boys who
fought the war and are without
homes.” Mrs. Joseph Erdlets of
Butte, Mont., declared. “Will it hurt
us as an organization to wait a year
or two even though we’re a little
bit crowded?”
In discussing the new building,
Mrs. Ober De Witt Warthen, a vice
president general, brought out that
the building would be of limestone.
“Very few veterans would use
limestone to build a home,” she
declared. “We would not take ma
(See DAR, Page A-6.)
U. S. Fleet Off Nice
NICE, France, April 21 (A*).—An
American naval squadron, led by
the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea.
was anchored off the French coast
near Nice today for a 10-day visit.
With the carrier were the light
cruisers Manchester and Dayton and
the destroyers McCord, Kennedy,
Roberts and Fiske
Radioactive CobaltCan Be Used
To Treat Cancer, Truman Told
The Atomic Energy Commission
has determined that cobalt, common
industrial metal, when made radio
active can be employed in the treat
ment of cancer in the same manner
that radium, which is very scarce,
n£w is used. Chairman David E.
Lilienthal said after a White House
call today.
Mr. Lilienthal stressed that the co
balt “has not been clinically used"
and that it is only “an alternative
therapeutic agent doing what ra
dium does.” But he said the value
lies in its availability and the fact
that it is more usable than radium.
Mr. Lilienthal explained he meant
that cobalt can be fashioned into an
instrument needed for the treatment
of cancer—such as a needle—while
radium has to be put in a tube. 1
Mr. Lilienthal amplified that while i
cobalt is abundant there are only
about 26 ounces of radium in this
country. He said, too, that the life
of radioactive cobalt is about five
years: that of radium much shorter.
Government scientists determined
the value of the metal when cobalt;
was transformed into a radioactive
material at the Oak Ridge Labora
tories, Mr. Lilienthal said.
Mr. Lilienthal said that this use
of cobalt was one of the very en
couraging developments for peace
time application of atomic energy
that was reported to the President
today. He was accompanied to the
White House by Carroll Wilson, gen
eral manager of the commission, and
explained the visit was simply to
discuss with the President the re
sults of peacetime research
Miners Due Back Tomorrow
In Biggest Coal-Producing Area
Telegram From Lewis Finally Arrives
At Pits in Southern West Virginia
By Chalmers M. Roberts
Star Staff Correspondent
WELCH, W. Va„ April 21.—The
word reached Welch just as the
courthouse clock struck 10
o’clock this morning. This time
there was no question about a
“nod or a wink or a code.” It
was John L. Lewis’ telegram to
his United Mine Workers district
presidents, relayed down to the
i men in the pits.
The UMW's man here in this
largest coal producing county in the
Nation is William M. Lester. He was
in the union’s thred-room office
across from the courthouse this
j morning when the district office in
Beckley phoned in.
i District President George J. Titler,
2 'Chairmen' Conduct
Curfiss-Wright Corp.
Meeting in Uproar
Minority Stockholder
Moves In When Train
Wreck Delays President
By the Associated Pres*
WILMINGTON, Del., April 21.
—A battle for control of the
$135,000,000 Curtis-Wright Corp.
today turned the annual stock
holders’ meeting into an angry
uproar,
A Common Stockholders’ Commit
tee seeking to oust the present man
agement refused to recognize Presi
dent Guy W. Vaughan when he
attempted to open the meeting.
Mr. Vaughan arrived 45 minutes
late after his train from New York
was held up by a freight wreck. In
the meantime, T. Roland Berner,
New York, chairman of the Com
mon Stockholders’ Committee, had
succeeded in having the meeting
started. •
Mr. Berner was named temporary
chairman. Some stockholders fav
oring management voiced strenuous
objections to the procedure. Then
Mr. Berner agreed to allow Cameron
Kay, company representative, to be
named co-chairman.
Refuses to Give Up.
On Mr. Vaughan’s arrival. Mr.
Kay resigned but Mr. Berner shout
ed ’’I do not recognize Mr. Vaughan
as chairman.”
“He was rot present when the
meeting opened,” the stockholder
declared.
Mr. Vaughan, flanked by his coun
sel and other company representa
tives, moved in at the chairman’s
table. The president quietly apolo
gized for his delay and proceeded
with the order of business.
Mr. Vaughan ignored Mr. Berner’s
frequent charges that the president
was conducting a rump meeting.
(See CURflS8-WRIGHT, Pg. A-«.)
Red Sox Game Postponed
BOSTON, April 21 W.—Cold and
rain forced postponement of today’s;
Boston Red Sox-Philadelphia Ath-,
letics baseball game. The two
teams will play tomorrow, which
was to have been an open date.
like all the other district chiefs, had
Mr. Lewis' telegram. Soon Mr.
Lester's pretty blond secetary ‘was
typing out copies on union stationery’
and local union members—who just
hapened to be hanging around the
office it seems—were taking them
off to the mine fields.
This morning, when the first shift
was due to go into the pits around
7 o'clock, only a handful in the im
mediate area went to work. The
operators' association at nearby
Bluefield, Va.. reported today that
37 mines were idle in the bi-State
area, while 25 were working this
morning. The area covers Southern
West Virginia and the adjoining
southwest section of Virginia,
i Some miners were expected to go
back with the second shift this
' (See ROBERTS, Page A-3.)
D. C. Sex Offender Bill
Voted by Committee;
Time Change Delayed
Five Other Measures
Reported to House;
Hospital Plan Offered
By Harold B. Rogers
By unanimous vote, the House
District Committee today ap
proved the bill to provide greater
protection here against sex of
fenders and sent it to the House
floor for action.
The measure, subject of long con
sideration by a District subcommit
tee. legal and psychiatric experts,
probably will come up for considera
tion in the House Monday, District
day.
The sex bill was one of six District
measures reported out by the House
committee. In the meantime, sched
uled House consideration of the
District daylight saving time bill was
postponed until Monday.
A bill which would authorize
grants to private hospitals which
did not join the Washington Hos
pital Center here was recommitted
to the House District Subcommittee
on Health, Education and Welfare.
Dirksen Asks New Study.
Chairman Dirksen of the District
Committee and .others insisted, how
ever, that the bill should not be
allowed to die. Mr. Dirksen asked
the subcommittee to make a neiy
study of hospital needs in the city
and how they might be met.
Strong opposition to the hospital
bill, which would have amended the
Hospital Center Act of 1946, was
registered by Representatives Har
ris of Arkansas and Abernethy of
Mississippi, both Democrats.
The other measures approved by
the House District Committee would
regulate the practice of optometry,
amend the new District franchise
tax so as to exempt certain out-of
town concerns and business of the
Navy conducted here for purchase
of supplies; establish the new Ro
man Catholic Archbishop as a
corporation to conduct the busi
ness of the new archdiocese here,
including Washington and five
Maryland counties, and to increase
the trustees of the Protestant Epis
copal Cathedral Foundation of the
District from 15 to at least 30; and
continue the city program for day
care of children of working mothers.
The sex bill drew from several
members of the District Committee
questions as to its purpose.
Representative Miller, Republican,
(See D. C. LEGISLATION, Pg. A-4.)
Engineer, Fireman Killed
As Locomotive Explodes
By th« Associated Press
ERWIN, Tenn., April 21.—A
Clinchfield Railroad locomotive ex
ploded 10 miles south of here early
today, killing the engineer and
fireman.
The dead were; Ed Davenport. 54.j
engineer, and Rex Phillips, 33, fire
man, both of Erwin.
Floyd Sparks of Erwin, a mem
ber of the train crew, was injured
seriously.
The explosion occurred in a
mountain gorge on the railroad's
route to North Carolina.
Operators Seek
To Bar Payment
Of Coal Pensions
Goldsborough Bans
UMW Strike for
80-Day Period
BULLETIN
Soft coal operators filed suit
in District Court today to pre
vent John L. Lewis and Sena
tor Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire from putting
into effect the plan offered by
Senator Bridges for the pay
ment of $100 monthly pen
sions to miners. The Injunc
tion, filed by Ezra Van Horn,
charged the Bridges plan vio
lates Federal law in a number
of respects.
By James Y. Newton
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough,
saying a mine stoppage imperil
ing the Nation’s safety still ex
ists, today issued ancL injunc
tion against a soft coar strike to
run for an indefinite period.
The court acted favorably on the
Government's request after reports
from the coal fields showed a large
number—perhaps half—of the 400.
000 United Mine Workers are idle
today despite the appeal from John
L. Lewis to return to work.
Justice Goldsborough’s new order
—a preliminary injunction—replace*
the temporary strike-restraining
order issued in District Court April 3.
Mr. Lewis and the UMW were fined
$1,420,000 by Justice Goldsborough
yesterday for criminal contempt in
ignoring that order.
Civil Contempt Action Friday.
Mr. Lewis and the UMW are to
appear in court Friday for senteno
ing on the second count of Justice
Goldsborough’s verdict. It involve*
District Due to Get
$852,000 of Fines
On Lewis and Union
The $1,400,000 and $20,000
fines levied against the United
Mine Workers and John L.
Lewis by District Court Justice
T. Alan Goldsborough may be a
big help to Washington’s 1949
budget.
j Under the law. 60 per cent of
the fine, or $852,000. will revert
to the District. When and if
the fine is paid, the $852,000
will be deposited to the Dis
trict's credit in the Treasury
along with other revenues col
lected through fines and taxes.
Meanwhile, as things stand,
the estimates of $101,475,783
for District expenses in the
next fiscal year will have to be
cut by Congress because the
figure exceeds the city's an
ticipated revenue by about
$6,000,000.
Commenting on the $852,000
windfall, one District official
put it this way:
"It is just as if the District
found about $1,000,000."
civil contempt of court and the Jus
tice Department has indicated it
might ask a jail .sentence for Mr.
Lewis if the miners have not ended
their strike by that time.
The injunction was issued today
over the objections of Welly K.
Hopkins, chief Lewis counsel, who
contended that the dispute over
miners’ pensions that touched off
the strike March 15 had been set
tled by the granting of $100
monthly pensions.
However, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral H. Graham Morison contended,
and the court agreed, that the dis
pute has not been settled and a
strike still is in progress. Mr. Mor
ison used the following words in
describing the pension “settlement'*
pushed through over the mine oper
ators’ objections by Mr. Lewis and
Senator Bridges. Republican, of New
Hampshire, neutral trustee of the
UMW retirement fund:
"The doctor performed a mag
nificent operation, but the patient
died.”
Duration Uncertain.
Actually how long the new in
junction against a coal strike will
last was uncertain. The action was
taken under the Taft-Hartley Act,
which provides that "national emer
gency” strikes may be stayed for
80 days. Attorneys said that pre
sumably the 80 days in this case
would not begin until all of the
miners have returned to work. At
torney General Clark, however, will
(See COAL, Page A-3.)
Dimitrov Arrives in Prague
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April
21 MP).—Premier Georgi Dimitrov of
Bulgaria arrived in Prague last
night to negotiate a friendship
treaty with Czechoslovakia. Con
ferences are to begin today on the
pact, designed to strengthen the
network of alliances linking Eastern
European nations in the Soviet
sphere.
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