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Lewis Counsel to File
Appeal in Contempt
Fines Early Next Week
By James Y. Newton
John L. Lewis’ attorneys will
file an appeal early next week
from the contempt of court con
victions and fines of Justice T.
Alan Goldsborough, as the long
soft coal strike over pensions for
the miners came to a halt today.
It was expected • that the Lewis’
appeal this time would be routed in
the normal way through the District
Court of Appeals, instead of by
passing that tribunal in a direct ap
peal to the Supreme Court. Gov
ernment attorneys said the urgency
for such a direct appeal was lacking
this time.
Meanwhile, there were a number
of pieces of unfinished business as
the mine controversy momentarily
moved from the court phase.
Writ Reply to Be Routine.
The UMW was expected to file on
Monday in District Court its answer
to the original complaint made by
the Government in getting its strike
restraining order. The filing will be
a routine matter, and will have
nothing to do with appeal of the
contempt case. It was for violating
the restraining order that Justice
Goldsborough fined Mr. Lewis and
the union *1,420,000.
Mr. Lewis has until May 10 to
answer the injunction suit filed by
the operators to void the Bridges
plan for paying $100 monthly pen
sions to miners 62 or older. That
suit, filed by Ezra Van Horn, the
operators’ trustee of the UMW wel
fare and retirement fund, is aimed
at upsetting the pension idea of
Senator Bridges, Republican, of,
New Hampshire, the neutral trustee
for the fund.
The three trustees are to meet at
4:30 p.m. Monday. Mr. Lew’is called
the meeting to make final arrange-'
ments to start payment of the pen
sion. However, Mr. Van Horn will
resist any move to put the Bridges
plan in effect. He has asked the
court to hold Mr. Lewis and Sen
ator Bridges "personally liable” for
any expenditures made from the
fund before his suit is decided.
New Pension Dispute Possible.
Either the mine operators or Mr.
Lewis probably will file notice before
May 1 of the reopening of the pres
ent industry contract which expires
June 30.
The whole issue of the welfare
fund and pensions will get another
airing w'hen negotiations for a new
contract start. The present fund
is raised by the payment of 10 cents i
per ton on all coal produced. Some 1
of Mr. Lewis' local unions have in
dicated the UMW may ask for pay
ments as high as 40 cents per ton
this time.
Some of the operators for a long
time have been discussing the pos
sibility of tossing the whole problem
of welfare benefits and pensions into \
the lap of Mr. Lewis.
Instead of paying the 10 cents j
per ton into a jointly administered;
fund, they would turn the money
over to the UMW and then let the ',
union use it as it sees fit. However,;
the Taft-Hartley Act prohibits pay-j
ment of welfare benefits into a fund
administered solely by a union.
Tornado Kills Four,
Injures 11 in Iowa
By th* Alloc ated Brass
IONIA, Iowa, April 24.—A tor
nado "that sounded like a train” s
struck this little Northeast Iowa*
community yesterday, killing four;
persons and injuring 11 others.
The twister, which flattened
about one-fourth of Ionia (300
population), caused damage esti
mated by Mayor C. De Wild at be
tween $150,000 and $200,000. Two;
churches, a store and several homes j
were leveled.
From here the tornado leaped 20
miles to Elma. then another 15 miles;
to Cresco, destroying buildings on
several farms. There were no re-j
ports of casualties.
The dead were Mrs. Simon Huff - j
man, about 70; her grandson, Billy
Huffman, jr„ 10; Mrs. Leo Brooks,
about 25, and her daughter Carol,
9 months old.
Mrs. Huffman’s 62-year-old hus
band was reported killed, but later
he was located injured in a hos
pital in nearby New Hampton.
Five persons, including two boys
9 and 11, remained in hospitals in
New Hampton and Charles City.
Weather Report
District Columbia—Mostly sunny,1
but some cloudiness this afternoon.1
Highest temperature in the lower
70s. Fair tonight with lowest 50's.1
Tomorrow partly cloudy and
warmer.
Maryland and Virginia—Partly |
cloudy and warmer tonight. To
morrow considerable cloudiness and
warmer: a few scattered showers or
thunder storms west portion in
afternoon.
Wind velocity, 5 miles per hour;
direction, south.
River Report.
(From United Slates Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferrv
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet Today— Pet.
Noon _ 30 Midnight _52
4 p m-28 8 a.m_ 69
8 pm. _38 10 a m. _51
High and Low For Yesterday.
High. 07, at 3:20 p m.
Low 39. at 5:40 a m
Record Temperatures Thi» Tear.
Highest. 86. on March 21.
Lowest, 5. on January 26.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished bv United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High ___ 8 39 a.m. 9:19 a.m.
Low _ 2:55 a.m. .3:39 a.m.
High _ 9:09 p.m. 9:49 p.m.
Low _ 3:30 p.m. 4:18 p.m.
Tbe Sun aod Moon
Rises Sets.
Sun. today _ 5:19 8:5*
Sun. tomorrow_ 6:17 6:55
Moon, today 8:28 p.m. 5:53 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hall hour alter sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches in the!
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1948. Aver. Record.
January _ 4.57 3.55 7.83 .37;
February_ 1.68 3.S7 6.84 '84
March _ 3.66 3.75 8.84 '91!
"» April ... 2.62 3.27 9,13 '89!
May _ 3.70 10.69 '891
June _ 4.13 10.94 '00
July _ 4.71 10.63 '86!
August _ 4.01 14.4) '28!
September _ 3.24 17.45 '34
October _ 7.84 8.81 '37!
November_ 2.37 8.69 '89
December .. — 3.32 7.56 '01
Temperatures In Various Cities.
High. Low . High. Low.
Albuquerque 71 37 Miami 76 77
Atlanta 77 58 Milwaukee 63 51
Atlantic City 52 46 New Orleans 84 69
Bismarck __ 60 50 New York 66 48
Boston_ 59 44 Norfolk . 57 461
Buffalo_ 64 51 Okla City. 81 67
Chicago . 8.1 61 Omaha 72 6.3
Cincinnati.. 81 62 Phoenix 76 45
Detroit _59 Pittsburgh 68 .->6
El Paso . 87 52 Portland,Me. 52 41
Galveston - 80 73 St.Louis _ 84 6.3
Harrisburg 64 45 S Lake City S3 39
Indianapolis 81 60 San Antonio 87 70
Kansas City 80 65 S. Francisco 59 47
LOS Angeles. 71 57 Seattle ... 59 45
Louisville 85 67 Tamps- 85 63
Degree Days.
"Degree dsys" yesterdsy - 12
Accumulated "degree days'— 4.3U9
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Garden Tour, Now in St Marys,
To Move to Other Counties
Maryland’s 11th annual House and
Garden Pilgrimage, which started
today in St. Marys County, will pro
ceed tomorrow to Montgomery and
Charles Counties.
Ten estates and the Friends
Meeting House at Sandy Spring will
be open in Montgomery from 10
a.m. to 6 pjn. tomorrow.
Mrs. V. L. Ellicott of Bethesda.
county chairman, and Mrs. Wilfred
Gaodwyn. Chevy Chase, vice chair
man, announced that tickets for the
tour may be purchased at any of the
estates. Part of the money raised
jin Montgomery will be used for
planting at Suburban Hospital.
Bethesda, and other proceeds will
go into the general fund for upkeep
of the old Hammond-Harwood
House in Annapolis, now used as a
museum under sponsorship of the
Federated Garden Clubs.
Estate Dates From 1734.
One of the oldest Montgomery
estates included in the tour is
Fertile Meadows, which dates from
1734. Now owned by Mrs. Lee
Counselman, it is widely known for
its early American furnishings.
On the other extreme is Green
bank, a Cailfornia-style ranch-^
house, which has a log cabin guest
house near a formal garden. It is
the property of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Hobart MacCubbin.
Other estates included are Ishpin
ing, first house built in Chevy [
Chase, owned by Mrs. William S.,
Corby, and Mr. and Mrs. Don Caf
ferie Glassie’s estate at 101 East,
Kirke street, Chevy Chase. The lat
ter’s large landscaped garden fea
tures azaleas and roses.
Others Are Listed.
Also Hayes Manor, built about
1762, the property of Mr. and Mrs.j
G. Thomas Dunlop; Wood End,;
Capt. and Mrs. Chester Wells' Geor
gian home on the old Clean Drink- ■
ing Manor estate; Mr. and Mrs. P.1
L. Banfield’s Tumblestone Farm
house, which has gardens at three
levels, and Llewellyn Fields, tho
late Georgian home owned by Mrs.
E. Brooke Lee.
Other estates included are Roll-;
ing Ridge Farm, property of Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Small III. whose
house was built in 1789 and has the
original mantels, floors, locks and
keys, and Mrs. Clara May Downey’s
Little Olney, furnished with many
antiques.
Divorce Opens Way for Topping
To Wed Lana Turner Monday
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, April 24—The
way was cleared today for the wed
ding movieland has been predicting
all year—Actress Lana Turner and
tin-plate heir Henry J. (Bob) Top
ping, jr.
The ink was barely dry on the
divorce decree Arline Judge obtained
from Mr. Topping in Bridgeport,
Conn., when the Turner-Topping
ceremony was set for Monday here.
The nuptials will be held in the
home of William R. Wilkerson,
Hollywood trade paper publisher,
who will double as best man.
It will be the fourth marriage for
beth 28-year-old Lana and Bob, 34.
The affair will have more than
just a touch of what Hollywood
terms "class.” Miss Turner has or
dered a $25,000 trousseau, including
$5,000 worth of lingerie._
i Film town insiders speculated that
Mr. Topping might decide to toss
the big party which was canceled I
last January before Miss Judge
! bowed out of the picture.
Mr. Topping at that time sent out
some 400 invitations to a $25,000
champagne party at Sunset Strip;
club he engaged, in toto.
The millionaire sportsman filed
suit first against Miss Judge and
Arline filed countersuit It was her
charge of intolerable cruelty that
Arline walked out of court yesterday
with $100,000 alimony in one lump.
The former actress, in shedding
her fifth husband, testified that Mr.
Topping once threw her and her
maid bodily out of their Long Island
summer home. She said that he
was insanely jealous, struck her,
' called her vile names and twice
I threatened to shoot her.
Hearing Called on Ban
On Federal Workers
In Partisan Elections
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia announced today that
the Civil Service Commission has
called a public hearing next week
on the question of Federal workers'
participation in partisan elections
at the local level.
The hearing, scheduled at 10 a m.
Wednesday, was requested by Mr.
Smith and Representative Sasscer,
Democrat, of Maryland after pro
tests were filed on the exclusion of
Federal workers from the Arlington
Democratic convention July 1.
The Civil Service Commission
ruled recently that Federal workers
could not attend the Arlington
Democratic convention because all
who participate in that meeting are
required to pay $5 filing fees. It
held that participants thereby be
come partisan candidates, which is
forbidden for Government employes
under the Hatch Act.
Representative Smith said, how
ever, the Hatch Act permits Fed
eral workers to take part in political
activities on the local level if the
Civil Service Commission determines
that unusual circumstances exist in
areas contiguous to Washington.
Observers said, however, regard
less of the CSC decision after Wed
nesday's public hearing. Federal
workers cannot attend the Arling
ton convention this year. This is;
because the deadline has already
passed for filing notices. The Ar
lington Democratic Committee is
now screening the applications of
92 residents who filed as delegates.
Fifty Arrested in Portugal
As Communist Leaders
By the Associated Press
LISBON. Portugal, April 24.—The
Ministry’ of the Interior announced
today the arrest of 50 alleged Com
munist leaders in Portugal and
said one confessed to organizing
Communism in the ranks of the
army and navy.
The army and navy were purged
| of 13 officers last June in connec
tion with an alleged plot against
the government.
Most of the 50 arrested were pro
fessors and lawyers. Among them
were several women. The an
nouncement said all had confessed
ties with international Communism
and would be tried by a legal court.
Dr. Francisco Ramos da Costa was
named as the confessed leader of
Communist organizing in the mili
tary.
Leslie Fuller Dies
MARGATE. England. April 24 <JP>.
; —Albert Fuller, 57, former stage and
film comedian and motion picture
producer, died at his home here to
i day. His stage name was Leslie Ful
ler. He retired two years ago.
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D'Alesandro Counsels
Building Inspectors
Not to Quit Jobs
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, April 24.—A report
of a planned mass resignation of
Baltimore building inspectors sent
Mayor D’Alesandro to the inspec
tors’ office yesterday with an appeal
to the men to be "loyal" and “stay
on your jobs.”
Tire resignation threat apparently
was based on the current grand Jury
investigation of veterans’ housing.
Four building inspectors have been
charged with conspiracy to defraud
GI home buyers and violate the
building code.
Public works officials said they j
have been told of instances where
inspectors’ wives have wanted them
to leave the city service. There have j
been some cases, they said, of in
spectors being called "crooks ’ by
Baltimoreans who come into the
office.
City Solicitor Thomas N. Biddison
went with the Mayor to the Bureau
of Building Inspection office. Mr.
Biddison warned the more than 50
inspectors gathered there that "fun
damentally. one essence of criminal
law is that flight is an indication of
guilt.”
The Mayor told the group:
"It was brought to my attention,”
he said, “that a wholesale resigna
tion is being planned among you.
“I came here to appeal to every
one of you to stay on your jobs. If
you have done no wrong, you have
nothing to fear. Thse who run away
subject themselves to the inference
that they have improperly performed
their duties.”
Publisher Case Against ITU
To Be Resumed Wednesday
ly tht Associated Pross
Hearings in the Taft-Hartley Act
case brought against the Interna
tional Typographical Union by the
American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation will be resumed here next
Wednesday.
Arthur Leif, a trial examiner for
the National Labor Relations Board,
is presiding.
ITU President Woodruff Ran
dolph will be the first witness.
Beginning in December, 22 hear
ings have been held in Indianapolis,
Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Buf
falo and Albany.
The office of NLRB General
Counsel Robert N. Denham is prose
cuting the union on several charges.
One of them: Trying to cause news
pa per publishers to discriminate
against non-union printers.
I Another trial examiner, William
Ringer, found the ITU guilty of
| this charge in a Baltimore case
Thursday, and recommended cer
tain NLRB orders against both the
ITU and its Baltimore local 12.
Reuther Case Suspect
Is Withholding Facts,
Police Chief Believes
fty the Associated Press
DETROIT, April 24.—Police In
spector Joseph Krug said today he
believed Nelson Davis, a self-styled
Communist, “isn’t telling all he
knows” about the Walter Reuther
shooting.
Davis, 52-year-old Negro, has
denied a report that he knows who
fired a shotgun blast that seriously
wounded the CIO United Auto
Workers’ president Tuesday night.
He was arrested Thursday after
officers said they received the re
port from a mystery witness.
No charge has been placed against
Davis, and Prosecutor James N. Mc
Nally has been ordered to give "spe
cific” reason why he should be de
tained longer at a habeas corpus
hearing today.
Writ Refused Yesterday.
Circuit Judge Arthur Webster re
fused yesterday to grant the writ
freeing Davis, whose attorney
claimed he was “manifestly inno
cent.”
While police tracked down slim
clues in their manhunt for Mr
Reuther's assailant, the red-haired
labor leader was heartened by news
that he may yet have the use of
his rignt arih—nearly torn off in
the attack.
Dr. Barnes Woodhall, Duke Uni
versity neurosurgery professor and
an expert on gunshot wounds,
checked Mr. Reuther's progress yes
terday and expressed belief that a
nerve injury could be corrected.
The UAW chief’s physicians had
been sure they could save the arm/
but had feared the nerve damage
might be permanent, leaving Mr.
Reuther crippled.
Calls Handling “Superb.”
Dr. Woodall, who flew here to
examine the wounded labor leader,
called the handling of his case
"superb in the face of an Injury
which threatened the loss of the
arm.”
Mr. Reuther’s general condition
remains good, reported the spe
cialist.
■ New reward offers have raised to
$121,800 the amount that may be
paid for capture of the gunman who
tried to kill Mr. Reuther.
The tipster who mentioned Davis
to police is identified only as a
“Mr. X.” He has given "valuable
information.” reported Mr. McNally,
who said the witness told him he
overheard Davis say he knew who
fired on the auto workers’ leader.
Alibi Stands Up.
Mr. McNally said Davis had
proved he was at work Tuesday
night when a shotgun was fired
through a kitchen window of the
Reuther house while the UAW pres
ident was getting a late snack.
Davis, a minor official of the
UAW’s Ford Local 600, was one of
five unionists questioned during the
last two days. There were no accu
sations against any of them, and
the others were released.
Yesterday three Detroit Com
munist Party members protested to
Mayor Eugene I. Van Antwerp that
further detention of Davis was part
of a police-conducted “political
witch hunt.”
Capehart Asks New Drive
To 'Sell America to U. S.'
By ft* AtitcfatiinW £ III
NEW YORK, April 24—Senator
Capehart, Republican, of Indiana,
last night called on both Govern
ment and big business to “start
selling our form of Government and
not sell America short at every
point.”
Senator Capehart made his state
ment at the annual Hoosier award
dinner of the Sons of Indiana of
New York.
Leroy A. Wilson, 47, president of
the American Telephone & Tele
graph Co., received an illuminated
scroll from the organization, which
designated Mr. Wilson as the “out
standing Hoosier of the year.”
"You hear a lot about war hys
teria,” Senator Capehart continued,
"but you never get anything out
of Washington selling the American
people on the strength of America.”
He added that “no nation was
ever as well prepared for war as
our nation is tonight. We have 14
million trained men from World
War II who can be called back into
the Army tomorrow. We have the
atomic bomb, the largest Navy in
the world, a fine Air Force, and the
same tools, dies and ilgs that we
had in World War II.
Italy
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000,000 of 26,000,000 voted for the
Communist-led popular front), you
cannot ever be safe against all at
tempts at violence. I think, then,
that it is necessary to remain con
stantly alert. * * *
“I am still convinced that if a
favorable occasion turned up, the
Communists would not fail to take
advantage of it and that they would
do everything they could to domi
nate the country.”
Sixth Recent Attack.
The Venice attack was the sixth
in the last week against Italian
armed forces installations. Govern
ment authorities in Rome have been
non-committal about the attacks,
calling some of them false alarms
and minimizing others. •
In Torremaggiore near Foggia,
another report said, carabinieri
broke up groups of Communists and
arrested Pasquale Dalessandro on a
charge of trying to start a rebellion
against local authorities.
Other dispatches told of these ar
rests :
Modena — Luigi Benedetti. local
vice secretary of the Communist -
dominated national association of
Italian partisans, organizing illegal
bands; Livio Storchi, spreading
alarming reports.
San Severo near Foggia—Fran
cesco Maggi, trying to organize an
illegal demonstration against the
election results. San Paolo Civitate I
near Foggia—Aldo Pennachina.
spreading false rumors of disorders
in San Severo.
Vice Premier Urged to Stay.
Pacciardi was disclosed last night
to have wrtiten Premier Alcide df
Gasperi offering to resign the vice
premiership.
The‘premier urged him to recon
sider. Pacciardi replied he would
remain in office at least until the
new parliament has elected the
president of the republic next
month.
Pacciardi is a leftist Republican,
de Gasperi a Christian Democrat.
The former joined the cabinet last
December when the premier added
republican and Independent social
ist ministers to strengthen his gov
ernment against the communists.
In his letter. Pacciardi said the
j emergency that brought him into
the government had passed.
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Machine Depicts
What Happens to
Family Dollar
The economic laws underlying the
American system of free enterprise
are depicted by five highly compli
cated instruments which were set up
yesterday in the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
Built for James D. Mooney, chair
man and president of Willys-Over
land Motors, Inc., the exhibit was
mounted in anticipation of the an
nual meeting of the chamber be
! ginning Monday.
The instruments use colored
i liquids funneled into vats labeled as
costs or expenses to show what hap
pens under a given financial situa
tion. For instance, one of the
machines takes the family income—
j a vat full of green liquid—and
i funnels it into seven subsidiary vats
marked taxes, food, clothing, shelter,
automobile expenses, welfare and
niceties of life.
Civic Federation Hits
Firemen's Union on
Vote for Segregation
The Federation of Civic Associa
tions attacked Local 36 of the In
i ternational Association of Firefight
ers for supporting continued segre
gation of the District Fire Depart
ment. in a resolution passed at its
meeting in the District Building last
night.
The organization indorsed Fire
Chief Clement Murphy’s adminis
tration and attacked the union
action, taken a week ago, in the
same resolution.
The federation vote followed a
discussion in which it was charged
that the union is trying to dom
inate the Fire Department.
Local 36 last week adopted a reso
lution stating it was “believed" Fire
Chief Murphy was planning to
abolish the segregation system of
the Fire Department. It asked the
Commissioners and Congress to see
that it is continued. A second vote,
taken Sunday, on the same resolu
tion, gave it a 330-12 majority.
Austin W. Fickling, the federa
tion’s suffrage chairman, was at
tacked at last night’s meeting for
expressing personal opinions on
District Home Rule proposals at
hearings on the Auchincloss Bill
which were at variance with those
of the civic group.
Dr. Joseph L. Johnson, dean of
Howard University Medical School,
outlined the background of confer
ences with officials of George Wash
ington University and Georgetown
University which led to agreement
on Howard University participation
in the interne program at Gallinger
Hospital.
District Commissioners are ex
pected to give their approval to the
new program soon.
3 U. S. Warships to Visit
Copenhagen Next Month
Three American warships will
visit Copenhagen, at the mouth of
the Baltic Sea, next month.
The Navy said yesterday that Ad
miral Richard L. Conolly, com
mander of naval forces in the East
ern Atlantic and Mediterranean,
has advised that ho is, sending, ft
light cruiser and two destroyers on
a good will visit t6 the Danish cap
ital from May 4 to May 10.
The cruiser Fresno and destroy
ers Johnston and W. R. Rush will
make the trip. Copenhagen is at the
entrance to the Baltic, whose East
ern and Southern shores are Rus
sian-dominated areas.
Another unit of the fleet—the
carrier Valley Forge with the de
stroyers William C. Lawe and Lloyd
Thomas—will visit Bergen, Norway,
between April 29 and May 3. The
ships are traveling westward on a
round-the-world cruise.
Chase
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skidded to a stop. The police pulled
, alongside and escorted the driver
| to No. 6. There, after a hasty con
I sultation, he was charged on these,
counts:
Exceeding 60 miles an hour on
Fourth street.
Passing eight stop signs.
Falling to observe slow signs.
Falling to stop when emerging
from an alley.
Failing to slow down at an uncon
trolled intersection.
Police said the youth elected to
forfeit $150 collateral and went
home.
Reached there by a reporter, he
was asked why he decided to stop,
1 just when he was gaining on the
1 pursuers.
“Well, I don't know," he answered.
I “It just seemed to be the best thing
; to do at the time.”
That's all he’d say, however. He
refused to reveal where he was go
ing in such a hurry.
Rescue
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and then shot up a flare. Then we
saw a Navy PB-l-W, which had
spotted the flare and came toward
i us.
“We sent up another flare and it
brought another plane, one of our
own squadron. It circled us and
dropped six parachute flares in a
circle around our rafts. Then it
Iflew off and buzzed the vessel.”
Capt. John W. Anderson of the
Washington said he thought at first
; that the plane was on maneuvers,
but a moment later spotted the
flares and altered course toward
j them.
■jThe ship's officers did everything \
for us they could,” Lt. Rouzer said,
“a stiff drink, dry clothes and chow, j
However, we were all a little un-,
nerved and a bit shaken up and we j
sat around and talked until 1:30,
| this morning.” _
Mayor Probes Beating
Of Meat Strikers by
Kansas City Police
ly |h« Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kans., April
24.—CIO claims of “police bru
tality” touched off an investiga
tion ordered by Mayor Clark E.
Tucker in the packing-house
strike here today.
All but two of 11 persons sent
to hospitals ■yhen 70 police—the
entire city force—routed pickets
from the union hall near Cudahy
Packing Co. plant had been re
leased last night.
The attack on striking members
of the United Packing-house Work
ers of America (CIO) turned the
meeting place into a shambles and
brought bitter denouncements from
union officials.
Mediation Session Delayed.
‘Meantime, in Washington, a me
diation meeting the Government
has arranged between representa
tives of Armour & Co. and the
striking meat-packing workers was
postponed from next Monday to
next Thursday.
It is one of a series aranged by
Mediation Service Director Cyrus
S. Ching In an effort to end the
39-day strike of 100,000 meat plant
workers.
Dates for the meetings with three
others of the "big four” companies
remain unchanged: Tuesday, April
27, Cudahy & Co.; Wednesday, Swift
& Co., and Friday, Wilson & Co.
All of the meetings are to be held
here with Government conciliators.
Ralph M. Baker, Kansas City dis
trict director of the union, said 100
persons were injured less severely
than those who entered hospitals.
Mr. Baker made the brutality
charge in a statement issued after
the incident.
Today the union was under a
temporary restraining order against
illegal picketing. The District Court
order was issued shortly after the
violent battle at the union hall.
Mayor Tucker said statements
reaching him on the police assault
were contradictory, and that he
would take action only after a
complete investigation. He directed
the city attorney to make the in
! quiry.
"I shall insist,” the Mayor said,
! "upon continued enforcement of the
law. * * • I know there are
some times when force is neces
sary.”
Police Storm Union Hall.
Police stormed the meeting place
after Police Capt. Eli Dahlin had
attempted to tell the strikers over a
safety car loudspeaker that the po
lice were "not going to take any
more guff” in the strike, then 39
days old.
Capt. Dahlin said the fight de
veloped after he tried to speak to a
strike official near the doorway.
"The next thing I knew,” Capt.
Dahlin continued, “they had me in
side.”
Then officers stormed the place
with billy clubs swinging.
In Chicago, Ralph Helsteir^, union
president, telegraphed Attorney
General Clark asking "immediate
investigation by the civil liberties
section of the Department of Jus
tice into the brutal and wanton
beating of men and women by the
Police Department in Kansas City,
Kans.”
"The police, among other things,"
the telegram read, “drove peaceful
! pickets from the streets, forced an
entry into the union offices, de
stroyed property and equipment and
beat defenseless occupants.
“Immediate action by your de
partment would demonstrate that
civil liberties *in this country have
more substance than simply high
sounding phrases.”_
Prague Demands Italy
Return Tennis Stars
By the Associated Press
PRAGUE, April 24.—Sokol, the
government controlled central ath
letic organization, asked the Ital
ian Lawn Tennis Federation today
to bar Jaroslav Drobny and three
other Czech players from further
tournaments In Italy and send them
home to Prague.
Dr. Josef Bertl, secretary of the
Czech Tennis Federation, wired the
Italian federation the order, he
said, on Instructions from the cen
tral body.
Drobny, Vladimir Cernik and Mi
lan Matous, members of the Czech
Davis Cup team, and the woman
star, Helena Straubeova, were
scheduled to play in Palermo, Sicily,
today and tomorrow.
The drastic action was taken by
Sokol. Bertl said, because Drobny
and Cernik had failed to keep an
engagement to play in Budapest
yesterday. The other two players
were not exempted from the order,
although they were not scheduled
for Budapest.
At Mondello, Sicily, where they
were staying, the Czech stars told
a reporter early today that they in
tended to return here in 10 days
to be in training for Davis Cup
play. The are scheduled to play
Brazil in Prague May 8-10.
Belgrade Defense Funds Rise
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, April 24
(ypj —The new national budget be
fore Parliament sets aside $330,
000,000 for defense—$60,000,000 more
than last year. A statement ac
companying presentation of the
budget yesterday said $80,000,000
was expected to be received in war
reparations. The whole budget is
45 per cent higher._
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press
! Senate:
i In recess until Monday.
Agriculture Committee hears wit
I nesses on long-range farm plan.
House:
Adjourned until Monday.
Novel 5% School Tax on Rents
Gives Officials Tough Problem
By the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, April 24.—The
Federal rent control division in:
Washington had a Pittsburgh prob
lem on its hands today.
Is the 5 per cent rent tax proposed
by suburban Crafton’s School Board
legal?
The regional rent office in New
I York tossed the hot potato to Wash-:
ington officials yesterday alter its
research disclosed no parallel case
in the country.
The first tax of its kind in the
Nation, the rent tax would be an
annual levy against all leases,
“written oral, or implied.” Guy
B. Hoge. School Board attorney,
said it would apply to all rental
t
paid under such leases during a:
12-month period.
C. Howard McPeak, Pittsburgh
area rent director, referred the mat
ter to* New York where it in turn
was referred to Washington.
In Crafton, citizens are awaiting
May 17, the date the school board
is scheduled to vote the tax into
effect. Mr. Hoge said the reaction
was favorable as far as he knew.
He added, that he had spoken to
only a few citizens about it.
The State Legislature last year,
passed a ‘home rule taxation act"
under which any school district,!
borough or city—except Philadel-;
phia—may tax virtually anything
the commonwealth hasn't.
KANSAS CITY, KANS.—OR
DERED ‘TOUGH’ POLICY—
Capt. Eli Dahlin, assistant chief
of police, ordered a “get tough"
policy against striking mem
bers of the CIO Packing House
Workers’ Union here yester
day. A short time later, in a
10-minute battle near the
Cudahy packing plant, pickets
were cleared from a union
hall. — AP Wirephoto.
Or. Hyde's Re-election
By International Law
Group Slated Today
Officers were to be elected today
by the American Society of Interna
tional Law, in convention in the
Carlton Hotel.
The Nominating Committee named
Dr. Charles Cheney Hyde for re
election as president and Secretary
of State Marshall for re-election as
honorary president.
Candidates for re-election as
honorary vice presidents are Philip
Marshall Brown, Frederick R. Cou
dere, William C. Dennis. Charles G.
Fenwick, Manley O. Hudson, Charles
Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Arthur
K. Kuhn, Henry L. Stimson, Sena
tor Thomas, Democrat, of Utah;
Charles Warren and George Grafton
Wilson.
George A. Finch, Pitman B. Potter
and Lester H. Woolsey also were
nominated as vice presidents.
Edward Dunbald was named
again for secretary and Harold S.
LeRoy for treasurer.
Executive Council Nominees.
The ballot for members of the
executive council, which will serve
until 1951, will contain the follow-1
ing names: Mary Agnes Brown, Ben
M. Cherrington, William Menger,!
William S. Culbertson, Francis B.
Sayre, Prof. Albert C. F. Westphal,
Dr. Charles E. Martin and Percy E.
Corbett.
Lord Inverchapel, Ambassador of
Great Britain, and Warren E. Aus
tin, United States Representative
to the United Nations, are to ad
dress the closing meeting tonight.
Meanwhile, at last night’s session,
Ernest A. Gross, legal adviser of the
State Department, declared both
the Marshall Plan and the Inter
national Trade Organization char
ter are consistent with established
international law, recognizing the
sovereignty of European nations.
Representative Herter, Republican,
of Massachusetts also spoke last
night.
Troop Orders Upheld.
Earlier yesterday, the recent dis
cussion on whether the President
could send United States troops to
Palestine without congresisonal con
sent was recalled in a passage in an
address by Dr. Martin, who is pro
fessor of international law and polit
ical science at the University of
Washington.
Dr. Martin read a paper on execu
tive determination of legal questions.
The Palestine problem was not
touched upon, but he did say: “The
display of force as a measure short
of war is clearly within the Presi
dent’s power to order the Army or
Navy from place to place.”
Herbert W. Briggs, professor of
international law at Cornell Univer
sity, described the reluctance of
organs of the United Nations to
refer legal questions to the Inter
national Court of Justice.
Mr. Finch and Prof. Kenneth S.
Carlston of the University of Illinois
led a discussion on the development
of international law.
Bridges Held Solution
For Barney Circle
Gordon Gravelle, traffic engin
eer for Capital Transit Co., last
night told members of the Ana
costia Citizens’ Association that a
permanent solution to the conges
tion at Barney Circle lies in im
proving the bridging facilities over
the Anacostia River rather than re
constructing the circle.
Mr. Gravelle said he believes com
pletion of the South Capitol Street
Bridge, now under construction, and
improvement of the Eleventh Street
Bridge would eliminate the traffic
jam at the circle.
E. A. Giddings, vice president of
Capital Transit, told the group his
company will ask the Public Utilities
Commission for a raise in fares, as
soon as it decides upon "a fair and
reasonable increase.”
The citizens indorsed a resolution
passed by the Randle Highlands
Citizens’ Association, asking that
the Navy be allowed to keep that
section of Anacostia Park now used
for barracks, rather than turn It
back to the use of District residents.
The meeting conducted- by Wil
liam Benhoff. jr„ president, was
| held in the Anacostia High School,
[Sixteenth and R streets S.E.
Air Force Blue Uniforms
Out as Funds Are Cut
ft/ th« Ai»ociot«d fmt
A blue note' for the Air Force men
who have been expecting to get
new blue uniforms: They won't.
The Air Force asked Congress to
approve funds for a new and dis
tinctive “Royal Air Force blue" uni
form. _ , .
The House voted $10,000,000, but
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee slashed the uniform money
from its appropriation bill. Now
the Air Force will have to get
along at least another year with its
old khaki uniforms._
Jennifer Holt Seeks
Divorce From Bakewell
By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES. April 24 —Jenni
fer Holt, 26, actress daughter of
Jack Holt, veteran film player has
asked for a divorce from Actor Wil
liam R. Bakewell. 39.*
She charged cruelty in her suit
yesterday and stated that a property i
settlement $>ad been reached. They ;
were married in 194$.
Loophole Frees Man
Previously Convicted
Of Housebreaking
Because of the wording in the
present law against “unlawful en
try,” a defendant with a burglary
record yesterday was acquitted of
three such charges by Judge John
P. McMahon.
The judge ruled the Government
failed to prove the entry was mad*
“against the will and forceful op
position” of the occupant of th*
premises.
The court ordered a directed ver
dict of acquittal for William Foy, 37,
colored, of the 1400dDlock of T street
N.W., midway through a Municipal
Court jury trial. Foy has served
jail terms on 13 charges, includ
ing six counts of housebreaking,
since 1931.
Not Denied Admittance.
His acquittal was asked by De
fense Counsel Charles Garlock in
an oral motion in which he argued
it nad not been proved that “any
individual” had denied Foy ad
! mittance into any of, the threa
rooming houses in the 1800 block of
Mintwood place N.W., involved in
the charges filed on April 11.
rhe judge agreed with Mr. Gar
lock. He rejected the arguments
of Assistant United States Attor
ney Frank Reifsnyder that, under
this interpretation, a stranger could
- be found trying the doors of a
home in the middle of the night
and yet escape conviction for un
lawful entry.
A string of witnesses testified they
did not know Foy, and managers
; of the buildings said that, while
they had not given him permission
to enter, they had not expressly
forbidden his admittance. All said
they merely had never seen Foy
before the day when a tenant heard
him “trying doors” at 7 a.m. in
one building and saw him enter
and leave the others.
Assistant United States Attorney
J. Warren Wilson, senior prosecu
tor in Municipal Court, later voiced
disapproval of the action.
Sees Legal Gap Created.
“The court's decision creates a
gap where there is no adequate law
under which an offender may be
punished in these circumstances.” /'
he said. “If that interpretation is
adhered to, serious consideration
will have to be given to amending
the existing statute or to enacting
adequate legislation to cover this
| situation.”
The original charges of house
breaking placed against Foy were
reduced to the lesser offense by the
United States attorney’s office on
the ground there was insufficient
evidence to show the criminal in
tent which must be established un
der the housebreaking statute.
Police reported that Foy, who did
not take the stand yesterday, had
told them earlier he was looking
for a girl friend in the three build
ings. _
Toynbee Here, Urges
Better Living Standard
Missionary work that would raise
the living standards of countries on
the borderline of communism wa»
recommended by the English his
torian, Arnold J. Toynbee, as “the
more intelligent way” of bringing
about world unity.
The “disastrous alternative” of
war would lose for us "all the things
we hold most admirable in life,”
according to the author of the best
selling “A Study of History" and
the newly published “Civilization on
Trial.” He spoke at a luncheon
given in his honor yesterday in the
Hotel Statler by his publishers, Ox
ford University Press.
“I think if we can bide our time
and find patience and wisdom that
the two parts of the world will
come together,” he said.
The recent anti-Communist vic
tory in Italy has opened the way
for America to “guide” Italians in
so improving internal conditions
; that neighboring countries would
be impressed with the desirability
of the democratic way of life, he
declared.
Although the blueprint for every
country is not the same, Mr. Toyn
bee envisioned for many nations a
form of government that would
have free enterprise with a touch
of socialism.
Mr. Toynbee has been in Amer
i lea with his wife since last Feb
j ruary, residing at the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.
Mr. Henry Z. Walck, vice presi
dent of Oxford University Press,
presided at the luncheon.
Ten Workmen Get Awards
For Heroism in Rescues
By the Atsociuted Pr«ss
Ten heroes from the ranks of
American labor were awarded
i medals yesterday for risking their
lives to save fellow workers.
The awards were given by the
Joseph A. Holmes Safety Associa
tion, founded in 1916 in honor of
the first director of the Bureau
of Mines/ Eight of the workers
honored are miners.
The medals and citations went to:
Howard F. Terrell, foreman, In
ternational Salt Co., Scranton, Pa.;
Elijah B. Whatley, an oil field
worker, Norman, Okla.; Steve
Dandish, Jr.; Haywood Feathers,
Richard Hornbeck and G. L. Kelly,
employes of the McCartney Coal
Co.. Mona, W. Va.; Ray Williams
and Everett Jordan of the Prince
ton Mining Co., Princeton, Ind.;
Lee J. Ledet, production foreman,
Pan American Petroleum Transport
ICO., Wilmington, D%1„ and James
j O. Rivard, electrician, James Min
ing Co., Caspian. Mich.
A special award for outstanding
leadership in safety work went to
Daniel Harrington, who is retiring
April 30 as chief of the Health and
Safety Division of the Bureau of
Mines.
Whatthe Russians
Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting to
Italy, said:
“According to the reports by
the United States Economic
Committee, a grave crisis is
threatening. The press, the ra
dio and speakers increasingly
recall the 1929 crisis and com
pare it with the present situa
tion. Production is slowing
down in many branches of in
dustry. Millions of workers are
on part time, and so to avert
national catastrophe the United
States capitalists turn to the
Marshall Plan.”