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Daughters of 1812
Urge Armed Might,
Warn of Subversion
The 56th Associate Council of the
National Society, United States
Daughters of 1812, unanimously
voted two national security resolu
tions today.
Meeting at the Shoreham Hotel,
In the last session of their two-day'
convention, the group urged Con
gress to enact legislation “for the
maintenance of an adequate Army.]
Navy and Air Force, complete with
equipment to meet any emergency.”
The resolution declared the pres-1
ent world situation calls for a mili
tary establishment commensurate j
with the responsibilities this coun-j
try has assumed In world leader-,
ship.
Alert on Subversion Issued.
In a second resolution, the society
alerted Daughters as “loyal citl-j
zens” to subversive elements in the
statements of “those who speak or
write or in any way appeal to the
intellect or emotions of our citizens,
whether it be by textbook, radio,
press or from the platform."
Delegates this morning heard
Comdr. Eleanor Grant Rigby, U. S.
N., outline plans for restoration of
the 150-year-old frigate Constella
tion. The society yesterday urged
its chapters and members to sup
port the movement with voluntary
contributions.
Capt. Turnbull Speaks.
At a dinner meeting last night,
the Daughters heard Capt. A. D.
Turnbull, U. S. N. R., director of the
Office of Naval History, call for uni
versal military training legislation,
voluntary enlistments in the Regu
lar Navy, and, “above all, the
staunch, unfailing support of so
cieties such as yours.’’
Two charter members, one of |
them a “real” daughter, are among;
the more than 400 delegates at- j
tending the sessions.
Mrs. Mary Jane B. Metz, 89, of
Berryville, Va., a charter member
of the Capt. James Gibson Chapter,
Charles Town, W. Va., was the only
actual daughter of a War of 1812
fighting man present. The society
has 32 such members.
Another charter member was Mrs.
Joseph W. March, 88, who organized
the Dolly Madison Chapter in Pitts
burgh in 1897. Mrs. Marsh, an hon
orary national vice president, has
attended every annual council meet
ing, she said.
Gwinn Opposes Federal Aid.
At an afternoon session. Repre
sentative Gwinn, Republican, of New I
York argued against Federal aid for
education, medical and housing
needs, as an interference in what he
calls “solely State problems.”
In resolutions voted unanimously
yesterday, the Daughters:
Expressed opposition to proposed |
establishment of socialized medicine]
in this country.
Changed its constitution to make
eligible descendants of fighters in
the East Florida revolution of 1812
1814, which was carried out by
United States troops and a group of
citizens who banded together as
“the Patriots" against the Seminole
Indians and British troops along
•the St. Marys River.
Urged chapters and members to
support by voluntary contributions
the movement for restoration of the
150-year-old frigate Constellation,]
which antedates the Constitution)
by more than a month.
Knudsen
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midnight, when he lost conscious
ness.
His wife, Mrs. Clara Elizabeth
Knudsen, and their four children
were called to his bedside. Drs.
Charles E. Lemmon and A. C. Ern
st ene were in attendance.
It was believed that an extended
tour of the battle fronts during
the closing months of hostilities
was a serious drain on the energies
of the industrialist.
Close associates said he never
fully regained the vigor of the early
war years, when he directed the
rearmament program.
Arriving here from Copenhagen
in 1899, the young immigrant went
to work in a shipyard and as a
shophand on the Erie Railroad and
soon found his way into the new au
tomotive industry.
Mr. Knudsen entered the Ford
organization when the bicycle con
cern for which he was working was
taken over by the auto manufac
turer. After rising to prominence
in the industry with Ford he went
to Chevrolet and later rose to the
presidency of General Motors.
After the war he returned to Gen
eral Motors briefly in an advisory
capacity. Later he became chairman ;
of the Hupp Corp., a former auto
mobile concern that converted to the
production of automobile parts and
equipment.
Mr. Knudsen's body will lie in
state at the W. R. Hamilton funeral
home through tomorrow. Funeral
services will be held at 10 a.m.
Thursday at the Epiphany Lutheran
Church.
. William S. Knudsen was a master
producer in peace and war.
Some 30 years after he came to
the United States in the steerage,
the former Copenhagen bicycle as
sembler was knighted by the King
of his native Denmark.
During the intervening years he
had worked as a shipyard laborer,
railroad shop hand, $1.75-a-day bi
cycle mechanic, assistant manager
of a concern in Buffalo, N. Y., that
made automobile parts, production
manager of the Ford Motor Co.,
president and general manager of
Chevrolet and president of General
Motors Corp.
It was Mr. Knudsen who gave the
motorcar industry its first 1.000,000
car year and who later welded it
Into a tremendous fighting machine
during the global struggle.
Army "Trouble Shooter."
This was his explanation for
giving up the presidency of the
biggest industrial corporation in the
world to serve his country:
"This country * * * it has been
pretty good to me. • • • I felt that
If I could do something. I’d like
to do it.”
As the Army's production trouble
shooter, Mr. Knudsen was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal
for "brilliant accomplishments" and
an Oak Leaf Cluster for it. The
Governor of Michigan proclaimed
"Knudsen day” in his honor. The
American Legion awarded him its
Distinguished Service Medal.
Secretary of War Patterson de
acribed him as “one of the foremost
leaders of the Nation in this war,"
and added:
“By his foresight and ability he
has not only saved this country
millions of dollars, but by expedit
ing production of critical weapons
Dr. Beadle Tells of Findings
Of Giant Molecules' Behavior
By Thomas R. Henry
Sci«nc« Writer for Th« Star.
Evolution is a see-saw process. It
has moved forward from the sim- \
plest forms of life to man, back
ward to the simplest of the viruses
which are responsible for some of
the most virulent of diseases.
This thesis was presented before
the National Academy of Science
here last night by Dr. George W.
Beadle, noted authority on genetics
of the California Institute of Tech
nology.
Dr. Beadle gave some of the
latest findings, both from his own
and other laboratories, on the be
havior of the strange giant mole
cules known as “genes," which not
only determine heredity but gov
ern the chemical behavior of the
body and the direction of the prog
ress of a race.
Studies on Bread Mold.
His studies have been on the genes
of a relatively simple organism, the
bread mold. In its basic biological
processes, it is much the same as
such a higher organism as a man.
Upward evolution of a race. Dr.
Beadle said, apparently depends on
the addition of genes, each capable
of doing a certain thing. Men have
acquired about 10,000. The higher
animals have about the same num
ber. The actions and interactions
of these make the process of living
infinitely complex.
Downward evolution depends on
losing genes. It usually comes about
through parasitism, such as that of
certain worms in the intestines of
human beings. They started out
as normal worms. The fact that
they were able to get all their nour
ishment from their hosts made
some of their genes unnecessary.
Eventually these became lost. The
creatures took a long slide back
toward the beginning of life.
Carried to its extreme, he said,
this process has caused the de
generation of one-celled organisms
like bacteria and protozoa to filter
able viruses. The smallest of these
have lost all but a single gene.
Fagitlve Tree Described.
In another talk, a fugitive tree
from the great Northern forests of
60,000,000 years ago, which now sur
vives in one isolated area in Central
China, was described to the academy
by Dr. Ralph W. Chaney of the
University of California.
Dr. Chaney has just returned to
the Orient, where he was on a
special mission to observe this
strange tree, probably an ancestor
of the giant redwoods of California.
It was discovered last year by two
Chinese foresters.
Once it was among the earth’s
most abundant trees. It grew across
Canada, Siberia and Southern
Greenland. Presumably the climate
changed. Its present habitat, Dr.
Chaney said, shows that it requires
considerable warmth and plenty of
rainfall. Slowly it disappeared over
the course of a few million years.
But in this one group of valleys
in the Chinese mountains, great
earth convulsions provided it an
ideal home. On one side, mountain
barriers were thrown up against
cold, dry winds from the Gobi Des
ert, and on the other, from hot
winds from the south. There was
little or no frost.
Altogether, Dr. Chaney believes,
the tree found a Shangri La until
the arrival of man. For many years
it has been cut for timber. When
Dr. Chaney arrived at one of the
locations where the metasequoia
was reported, he found natives had
just chopped down the last known
specimen in that vicinity.
Altogether Dr. Chaney located
about 1,000 of these living fossils.
Lumbering has progressed to the
point where all would have disap
peared in the next few years.
he has saved countless American
lives.”
Secretary Patterson and Con.
Marshall, then Army chief of staff,
said that Mr. Knudsen was the
"master armorer who brought order
out of chaos—a great producer and
a great war leader.”
Thanked by President.
In thanking him for his services
to the Nation, President Truman
said:
“Your organizational genius in
transferring our peacetime indus
try to a vast war machine is one
of the greatest stories of the war
and has earned the thanks not only
of every American, but also the
thanks of our allies who have de
pended on American supplies and
equipment.”
But the 6 foot 2 inch, 235-pound
Mr. Knudsen disclaimed all this.1
He said: "The great praise belongs,!
first, to those men who have given
their lives to keep this country free;
second, to our Army which took the
tools we gave it and went out and
brought home the bacon and third,
to American industry tpr the manner
in which it accepted and co-operated
to meet the national emergency and
the tremendous job it did.”
In his war job, Mr. Knudsen trav
eled up and down the land for
more than four years in his work
of stimulating production. He trav
eled more than 220,000 miles by
air to visit 1,200 factories, solving
the problems of new plants, man
power, materials, machine tools and
various others. He also made a tour
of South Pacific war fronts.
One of 10 Children. •
Born in Copenhagen Denmark, on
March 25. 1879, Mr. Knudsen was
one of 10 children of a customs in
spector. He was christened Signius
Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, becoming;
"Bill” Knudsen when the timekeep
er in a Buffalo mill insisted on
shortening the name. Thereafter
he signed himself formally “William
S,” but mostly it was just "Knud
sen.”
He was with the Ford Motor Co.
from 1913 to 1921, during a period
of its greatest expansion. After he
had led Ford to a million cars a
year achievement he moved to Chev
rolet and did the same thing there.
Mr. Knudsen’s break with Ford
came over questions of policy and
procedures. He once said he found
many of his orders were being coun- j
termanded and on investigation;
learned that Henry Ford himself
was responsible.
Although Mr. ifhudsen remained
on cordial terms with the elder Mr.
Ford after he had put Chevrolet on
a high volume production basis, he
was reported to have rejected an
invitation to see Ford in the midst
of the Ford-Chevrolet production
battle. It was rumored, but never
confirmed, that Mr. Ford wanted the
big Danish production genius back
in his organization.
Settled G. M. Strike.
His success in settling the pro
longed sitdown strike in General
Motors in 1936-37 took him into the
presidency of that corporation. Mr.
Knudsen was executive vice presi
dent of General Motors when the
strike began. Some of those who
participated in the conferences that
led to its termination declared after
ward that he was "the most human
in his attitude.”
He himself declared he made con
cessions to end the strike because
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“too many men were walking the
streets out of work.”
Mr. Knudsen’s formal education
was obtained in Copenhagen schools
and the Government Technical
School, where he became proficient
in mathematics. When he ar
rived in the United States at the age
of 20 and was standing hesitantly
at the top of the gangplank of a
ship at Hoboken, N. J., taking in a
view that awed him, a man direct
ing passengers ashore yelled:
“Hurry up, you -!”
“I've been hurrying up ever since,”
said Mr. Knudsen in later years.
He became a naturalized citizen
in 1914.
Married in 1911.
Mr. Knudsen was married In Buf
falo in 1911 to Miss Clara Elizabeth
Euler. They had one son and three
daughters.
Shortly after Mr. Knudsen be
came head of the national defense
program, he was invited to a meet
ing of the board of the Automobile
Manufacturers’ Association, osten
sibly to receive a gift. But Mr.
Knudsen used the occasion to
stimulate co-operation on his
new job.
"We need big bombers—the British
cannot win the war with fighters,”
he said. He described Britain’s
precarious plight and said: "You’re
got to help.”
Ten days later more than 100
automobile and automotive parts
makers met with him in a bare
room that had just been vacated by
a Detroit grocery store and there
was Initiated the automobile in
dustry’s gigantic bomber aircraft
program.
Start of Tank Program.
Similar direct action started the
mass production of army tanks.
Home for a week-end, Knudsen tel
ephoned his friend K. T. Keller,
president of Chrysler Corporation.
"K. T„” he said, “will you build
tanks?”
“Yes,” was the reply, “where can
I see one.” And the industry’s tank
program was launched.
Many anecdotes have been told of
his wartime efforts. One dealt with
an occasion when Mr. Knudsen, in
Washington, wanted to borrow for
an indefinite period an engineer on
the staff of a Detroit firm.
He telephoned the company presi
dent, addressed him by his first
name, and said:
“I’d like to have your Mr. _
down here to help me; send him
down tonight.”
For 10 minutes the company head
protested; it would wreck his
business.
“I know,” said Mr. Knudsen, “but
this is important.”
Came further protestations and
finally, “Well, I’ll have to consult
our Board of Directors.”
"All right,” replied Mr. Knudsen
‘111 hold the phone.”
house Vote on Repeal
Of Oleomargarine Tax
Expected Tomorrow
The House battle over the pro
posed repeal of the oleomar
garine tax may reach a final vote
tomorrow.
There is a lull today in the oleo
fight, because of the Pennsylvania
primaries, but the battle will begin
again tomorrow.
When three hours of general de
bate were completed yesterday
Speaker Martin agreed that Rep
resentative Rivers, Democrat, of
South Carolina, could wait until to
morrow to call up the tax repeal
measure again.
Many Pennsylvania members do
not want to miss the final vote, so
Mr. Rivers, author of the successful
discharge petition, agreed to sus
pend debate for a day.
The House voted, 235 to 121, yes
terday to take the bill out of the
Agriculture Committee's hands and
bring It to the floor for immediate
consideration. Such a lopsided vote
makes final victory for tax repeal
advocates appear certain in the
House.
Still to be disposed of are nu
merous amendments expected to be
ofTered on Wednesday, among them
one to require that margarine sold
in eating places be cut in triangu
lar form so it can be differentiated
easily from butter in square pats.
Another amendment, with more
chance of success, would retain the
present 10-cent-a-pound tax on col
ored margarine in case it is made
in part of foreign oils—coconut oil,
specifically, from the Philippines.
The soybean lobby, which is back
ing the repeal move, has made it
clear it wants this form of tariff
against its old prewar competitor.
Loyalty
(Continued From First Page.)
Women Voters for conducting the
proposed loyalty program.
The league, through Mrs. Grace
H. Thomas, its president, proposed
that if the program is adopted that
the investigation of city employes be
limited to those in “sensitive agen
cies”; that the initial investigatory
work be done by some agency other
than the police, preferably by the
Federal Government, and that defi
nite procedures providing for review
and appeal be adopted in order to
guard against the stigmatization of
innocent persons.
“We are especially concerned
about the suggestion that members
of the Police Department be given
the work of making the Initial in
vestigations,” Mrs. Thomas wrote.
“It is doubtful that there are more
than a few District agencies in
which infiltration of disloyal per
sons is of major concern. Cer
tainly the Police Department itself
should be considered one of these
'sensitive’ agencies.”
The league said it recognized the
right of the District government
to expect loyalty of its members,
but questioned the necessity of a
municipal government program
which attempts to measure the loy
alty of all its workers.
Textile Union
(Continued From First Page.)
should all hope he is nominated,
because he certainly would be the
easiest to beat.”
Gov. Dewey of New York—“There
is only one plank in Dewey’s plat
form. It reads. ’I want very much
to be President.’ ”
Harold E. Stassen, former Minne
sota Governor—"Stassen is in favor
of denying all American aid to
Socialist as well as Communist
countries, * * • if ever this be
comes the official American position,
heaven help us—and only heaven
will be able to.”
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
—“He did a good job of steering
the Marshall Plan through Con
gress. But his domestic record Is
worse than Taft's.”
Gen. MacArthur—“Hearst on a
white horse.”
Gov. Earl Warren of California—
; “The great what-is-it from the
West.”
Says Wallace Hurts Labor.
Mr. Rieve said he supports Henry
Wallace in “only one respect.”
“He is a tool of the Communists:
he is wrong on the issues, and he
is hurting the cause of labor,” Mr.
Rieve said. “But he, like any other
citizen, has a right to run for
President."
Mr. Rieve asked the delegates for
approval to urge the CIO to with
draw from the World Federation of
Trade Unions.
“The WFTU has failed.” Mr. Rieve
said. “• • * It has failed because
the delegates from the Soviet Union,
and from nations whose trade
Secret Sessions Held
In Last-Minute Effort
To Avert Rail Strike
ty tht AuociaUd Pr»»»
CHICAGO, April 27. — Railroad
management and labor conferees
met secretly again today to try to
end a six-month wage dispute be
fore a midnight deadline for setting
a strike date.
A walkout by 150,000 members of
three unions would paralyze the
Nation's railroad service. Unions
involved in the dispute are the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and the
Switchmen’s Union of North
America.
Representatives of both sides re
fused to say where the meeting was
taking place, but confirmed that
there was a meeting. In Cleveland,
headquarters of the unions of en
gineers and firemen, officials and
paid spokesmen likewise were un
communicative as to whether any
progress is being made.
David B. Robertson, president of
the Locomotive Firemen and En
ginemen, said in Cleveland a strike
date must be set if the carriers and
unions fail to reach an agreement
before midnight tonight. Today is
the end of a 30-day cooling-off
period after a report by a Presi
dential fact-finding board.
Mr. Robertson said a resolution
adopted in Cleveland at a recent
meeting of brotherhood general
chairmen called for setting a strike
date after the 30 days if the issues
over wages and working rules were
not settled.
The three operating unions re
jected the presidential board’s rec
ommendation for a pay boost of 15Vi
cents an hour. The proposal was
accepted by the carriers.
Two other operating brotherhoods,
the Railway Trainmen and Railway
Conductors, accepted the wage in
crease last November. Members of
non-operating unions settled their
wage case for the 15 Vi cents an
hour raise last September.
Frederick L. Gwynn
Receives Navy Medals
Frederick L. Gwynn, 31, instruc
tor in English at Harvard Univer
sity and son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick D. Gwynn, 3112 Northampton
street N.W., has been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross and the
Air Medal, according to an an
nouncement by the First Naval Dis
trict, Boston.
He also received gold stars in lieu
of second and third Air Medals.
Mr. Gwynn, now a lieutenant
commander in the Naval Reserve
was awarded the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross "for heroism and ex
traordinary achievement” as a tor
pedo squadron pilot with the carrier
Lexington during action against
the Japanese in the Saipan area
from June 12 to 17, 1944.
Freight Tied Up
To Save Life of
Rail Hitch-Hiker
An uninvited patron of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, who tied up
freight traffic for half an hour last
Saturday in the Benning Yards, was
fined $25 in Municipal Court yes
terday for unauthorized riding.
The delay, according to Railroad
Detective Charles Beales, came when
an alarmed switch tower operator
spotted William James Green, 39,
of Waterbury, Conn., sitting atop a
freight car perilously near the high
tension wires which power the
train. The switchman hastily cut
off the 23,000-volt juice.
The detective told Judge Thomas
D. Quinn that, when he informed
Green the high-power current has
been known to jump more than 2
feet from the wires to a grounded
object. Green merely shrugged his
shoulders and observed: “I must
have nine lives.”
He reacted with equal calm to
Judge Quinn's efforts to point out
the risk he had taken.
“Oh, I know about those wires,"
he said. "They don't worry me.”
; unions are in the Communist trap,
cannot talk honestly about the wel
fare of labor. They can see no
faults in the Soviet system and no
virtues in any other.”
Mr. Rieve said:
“No one can accuse the great body
of American labor of being pro
Communist. We know the Com
munists too well for that.”
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Baby Born Indifferent to Pain
Just Laughs if Stuck With Pin
ly th« Associated Press
AKRON, Ohio, April 27.—Year
old Beverly Smith never cries about
a tall, a cut or a bum. She never
will cry about them, either, because
they cause her no pain, according to
Children’s Hospital officials.
Doctors are calling Beverly the
“painless baby.”
They say she was bom indifferent
to pain. A pin prick brings a
laugh. Bumps and bruises never
bother her.
Aside from complete indifference
to pain, Beverly is a normal, active
child. She cries when hungry or
angry, for example.
Right now the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Smith is in the
hospital for treatment of anemia.
Her 24-year-old mother says they
probably will take her home to
morrow. Beverly was 1 year oldt
Sunday.
Mrs. Smith first noticed Beverly
was immune to pain when the child
bumped her head on the floor at
the age of 6 months and did not
cry.
“Then one day she laid her little
hand on a hot stove," Mrs. Smith
added. “She didn't cry then, either.
She just looked at me and laughed.”
After Beverly cut her finger with
out blinking an eye, Mrs. Smith took
her to a doctor: then four doctors.
All were as bewildered as /Mrs.
Smith.
"They said it might be a habit, or
something,” Mrs. Smith recalled.
When Beverly developed anemia
she was taken to the hospital for
a d<*p hypodermic injection of liver.
“This is usually a very painful
process, but Beverly never even
yipped,” said the resident physician.
It was then the doctors decided
her lack of feeling jo pain was “a
state of indifference to injury of
congential origin.” The doctors said
they had heard of only four or
five similar cases. They said she
should never feel any pain.
Beverly's 3-year-old sister Bar
bara is normal.
Italy
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pro-Italians and pro-Slavs in their
respective parts of the city.
Italian officials describing the
clash last night said the Yugoslavs
had moved a border marker near
the village and moved up to Italian
territory.
Shots rattled out from a Yugoslav
machine gun, the Italians said.
They returned the fire. The Yugo
slav officer and the Italian soldier
fell dead.
The Italians said they withdrew
when 70 Yugoslav soldiers came
charging down a hill on the 18-man
Italian patrol.
The western powers have proposed
that the free territory of Trieste be
returned to Italy. Russia turned
down the idea. The United Nations
Security Council has been unable to
agree on a governor for the terri
tory and British-American troops
occupy one sector and Yugoslav
troops the other.
Nenni Group Near Split
In Rome, meanwhile, Pietro Nen
ni's pro-Communist Soicalists ap
peared headed for a new split.
Giuseppe Romita, leader of So
cialist opposition to the Nenni fac
tion meets today with Lelio Basso,
the party’s secretary general, to
present his group’s demands.
Mr. Romita, former Minister of
the Interior, who was a pre-election
fellow traveler, wants a party con
gress called and he wants Its execu
tive committee to resign. Nenni
and Basso are on the committee.
Mr. Romita publicly broke with
the Nenni faction April 21, when
he gave newspapers a letter asking
Socialists to meet to regain their
independence. The party had split,
part of it lining up with the Com
munist-dominated Popular Front,
and the rest with the Christian
Democrats. Nenni has since adopted
a policy of virtual fusion with the
Communists.
Rome’s independent newspaper,
Giornale d’ltalia, calleed Mr. Ro
mlta’s action the “final blow struck
at Nenni’s prestige.’’
Postelection violence continued to
crop up in thecountry.
At Temi, northeast of Rome, pistol
shots, said to have been fired by a
former Fascist wounded four peo
ple. Officials said he fired wildly
during an argument with Com
munists.
Hannibal, who feared capture by
the Romans, usually carried into
battle a hollow ring which contained
a powerful dose of poison.
Atrocities by Nazi Doctors
Told by Nuernberg Judge
An attorney who served as a judge
at the Nuernberg trials last night
! told of the role played in the atroci
jties by Nazi doctors, some of them
internationally known medical au
thorities.
Col. Victor C. Sweringen, special
assistant to the Attorney General,
who sat as a judge in the war crimes
tribunal, discussed the trials during
a meeting of the Selective Service
Association.
In addressing the group in the
District Medical Society auditorium,
Col. Sweringen said he had not
known of one defendant who would
admit personal guilt for his crimes.
He added that the stories of atroci
ties which appeared in the press
were true in most cases.
William E. Leahy, wartime se
lective service director for the Dis
trict. presided at the meeting. He
formed the association to keep in
tact a group of experienced mem
bers, doctors, appeal officers and
clerical workers who manned local
boards during World War H.
Keid KODinson surrenders
To Fight Canadian Ouster
• y the Associated Press
TORONTO. April 27.—Reid Rob
inson. an official of the CIO, sur
rendered to immigration authorltiei
yesterday and was jailed pending a
habeas corpus hearing against his
deportation.
An Immigration board ordered his
deportation to the United States two
weeks ago on suspicion that he is a
Communist or one who advocates
overthrow of a government by force.
Robinson is Eastern vice presi
dent of the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
C. L. Dubin, counsel for the union,
said an application for habeas
corpus would be filed today. Pro
ceedings are scheduled to open in
Supreme Court Friday.
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