Evening star. [volume], May 04, 1948, Page A-13, Image 13

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Taylor Will Answer
Disorderly Charge in
Birmingham Tonight
ly tht Auocioted Pr«ss
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. May 4 —
Senator Taylor, Democrat, ol Idaho
faces disorderly conduct charges in
Police Court here tonight.
The third party running mate of
Presidential Candidate Henry Wal
lace goes before Judge Oliver Hall
on charges growing out of the city’s
segregation laws.
The maximum fine for disorderly
conduct is $100 and costs and 180
days in jail. The minimum fine is
$1 and costs.
The Idaho Senator was arrested
Saturday night as he attempted to
enter a Negro church where he was
scheduled to address a meeting of
the Southern Negro Youth Congress.
He was released in $100 bond.
In Washington yesterday. Senator
Taylor told the Senate he doubts if
he would be alive if he had let him
self be provoked into "talking back”
to police after his arrest.
He said two police officers taking
him to jail drove through open
country and along a lonely road.
"It was obvious they had taken
a detour, just hoping it would pro
voke something,” he said.
Police Commissioner Eugene Con
nor said Senator Taylor was taken
directly from the spot where he was
arrested to jail.
Relating his experience at the
Birmingham jail, the Senator said:
"I was locked up in the bullpen—
I didn't even get a private cell be
fitting a United States Senator."
Capital Transit Wins
Safety Award 5th Time
For the fifth successive year, the
Capital Transit Co. last night re
ceived the Nation's top transit
•safety award at a dinner held in
New York.
The honor came .tom the Ameri
can Transit Association, for transit
companies in American and Canad
ian cities with populations of more
than 600,000. It was the first time
in the history of the award that a
transit company in this c’ass has
been honored for five successive
years.
The silver plaque was received by
Moses Helm, 1413 G street S.E.,
streetcar motorman of the Navy
Yard Division, in behalf of the com
pany and its 4,500 employes. He
w as selected on the Oasis of his j
personal safety record of six con- j
secutive years without an accident !
Mr. Helm has been with Capital
Transit for 39 years.
In addition Capital Transit also j
received bronze certificates lor ex
cellence in Employe Safety Achieve- i
ment. The winners for 1947 were |
t he mechanical department and its
shops. The bronze awards were
presented for more than 250,000 con
secutive hour* of work without an
accident.
Besides Mr. Helm, others from
Capital Transit at the dinner were: I
,1. B. Blaiklock, superintendent of i
equipment; J. B. Eckef\ assistant t,o!
the general manager: Ralph Powell,
claims attorney; E. E. Boyd, super
intendent of transportation; I. B.
Goad, superintendent of schedules
and traffic; G. W. Cramer, superin
tendent, transportation personnel,
and K. C. McCloskey and D. B.
Guynn, safety inspectors.
Adjusted Traffic Tickets
Total 113 in Week
Traffic tickets adjusted Iasi week
totaled 113, Metropolitan Police
have announced.
The number i* 12 less than that
during the previous week, when 126
motorists either had their tickets
canceled or were let off with warn
ings.
The totals of warnings and ticket
cancellations by precincts last week
are as follows:
Precinct No. I. S warnings and
no cancellations; No. 2, 5 and 0; No. j
3, 10 and 4; No. 4, 9 and 1; No. 5,'
none; No. 6, 8 and 0; No. 7, 2 and
0: No. 8, 10 and 2; No. 9, 1 and 0;
No. 10, 12 and 0: No. 11, 5 and 0;
No. 12, 1 and 0, and Nd. 13. 10 and
0. and the Traffic Division, 26 and 2.
'Veterans Night' Planned
By Argo Lodge Tomorrow
Hospitalized veterans and repre
sentatives of Washington service
organizations will be guests of Argo
Lodge, No. 413. B'nai B’rith, on
“Veterans Night," at 8:30 p.m. to
morrow in the Jewish Community
Center, 1529 Sixteenth street N.W
Speakers will be Representative
Potter, Republican, of Michigan;
Joseph C McGarraghy, chairman
of the Greater National Capital
Committee of the Washington
Board of Trade, and Lt. Col. Elliott
A Niles, chairman of the National
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of
ihe B’nai B'rith. Harry S. Wender.
president of the organization, will
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Talks on Lords' Revision
Break Down in Britain
ly the Associated Press
LONDON, May 4.—All-party talks
on overhauling the House ot Lords
have broken down on the issue of
how long the upper house may delay
enactment of legislation, the gov
ernment announced today.
Agreement already had been
reached on a number of reforms.
The Labor government, with an
eye to clearing the way for nation
alization of iron and steel before the
1650 general elections, has insisted
that the Lords’ power to delay leg
islation should hie reduced from two
years to one. Coiuervatives main
tain the period muR not be reduced
to less than 15 months.
The House of Commons already
has passed a bill limiting the pe
riod to one year. If the House of
Lords rejects the bill, the Labor
government Intends to call a special
session of Commons to provide an
opportunity to override the veto.
Charles Dewey to Help
Watch Foreign Spending
ly th« Associated Prase
Charles S. Dewey, vice president
l of the Chase National Bank, New
York, yesterday was appointed di
rector of the Joint Congressional
“Watchdog” Committee on Foreign
Spending.
The appointment was announced
by Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire, chairman of the
Senate Appropriation Committee,
who also heads the special com
mittee.
Mr. Dewey is a former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
Dewey Scores Slassen
'Demagogic Appeal'
fty the Associated Press
PORTLAND, Oreg., May. 4.—Gov.
Dewey rolled his Oregon primary
campaign into nigh gear today after
characterizing Harold E. Stassen’s
proposal to outlaw communism as a
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In his first major campaign talk
last night, the New York Governor
took fighting issue with his Re
publican rival for Oregon’s Repub
lican presidential preference in the
May 21 primary.
Only one incident occurred. He
was dumped into the mud on the
Grant High School lawn as a friend
ly^ crowd—unable to gain admittance
to the auditorium—surged forward
to shake his hand as he emerged.
Gov. Dewey was not injured, and
only momentarily off his feet.
To the audience which started
gathering two hours before his
scheduled appearance, Gov. Dewey
declared:
“I am unalterably, whole-heart
edly and unswervingly against any
scheme to write laws outlawing
people because of their religious, po
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