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Veteran, 22, Is Held
After Snatching $717
From Cashier of Cafe
A 22-year-old veteran charged
with snatching *717 from a restaur
ant cashier last night in the lobby
of the Park Lane Apartment Build
ing. 2025 I street N.W., was held on
*1,000 bond in Municipal Court to
day after his case was continued
until May 26.
Judge Walter J. Casey ordered
the continuance after Attorney
James J. Laughlin said he needed
the time to produce Veterans' Ad
ministration records to show the ac
cused mail. Charles D. Springston,
was receiving treatment for a ner
vous disorder.
Springston, a former engineering
student at George Washington Uni
versity, was apprehended a few
minutes after police said he
grabbed two canvas bags con
taining the money from Mrs. Louise
Land, cashier at the Park Lane
Inn, 2023 I street N.W.
Springston, who told police he
“needed the money to pay room
rent and doctor bills,” was caught
in an alley in the 2200 block of I
(Street N.W. by John Pulliam, 38, of
815 Twenty-first street N.W.
Grabbed the Bags.
Mrs. Land, 56, sister of Mrs. Har
rant, told this story to the court:
“I was approaching the desk of
the apartment building from the
restaurant next door. I had just
started to hand the restaurant keys
to Mrs. Elsie Norris, the night
switchboard operator, when this
man came up to mg in a sort of
crouched position.
"He grabbed tne bags, which I
had in my right arm. In doing so.
he scratched me. I screamed, and
as he started to run I tripped
him. He fell hard.
; "One of the bags opened and $117
spilled out. He grabbed the bag.
Jumped up and ran. I chased him
to the door, still screaming. Then
I went back and picked up the
6pilled money.
Made Flying Tackle.
Mr. Pulliam, a tree surgeon, told
police he was passing the building
when he heard shouts of "Get him,
get him.” ,
He gave chase, and brought the
man down in the alley with a flying
tackle. He held the fugitive by
the shirt until the arrival of police,
who had been called by Mrs. Norris.
Mrs. Land, whose son George
was killed in North Africa ear>y in
the war, said Springston. when
confronted by her at the 3rd
Precinct, declared, "I needed the
money to pay a lot of bills. My
wife was sick and payments on my
furniture were overdue. I knew
it wasn't your money, anyway.”
Mrs. Land denied it was quick
thinking which made her trip him.
"I just acted by instinct, I guess,”
she said. "And I can hardly talk
today after the screaming I did.”
University officials reported
Springston, who lives in the 600
block of Park road N.W., withdrew'
some months ago. He attended high
school in Spencer, W. Va., they said.
Man Found Hanged
Certified as Suicide
An unemployed man. who left a
note to his wife asking for a cheap
funeral and hanged himself with
a clothesline in a rented garage be
hind 1730 Massachusetts avenue
S.E.. has been ruled a suicide.
The body of John S. Ha'Vmahsl
37. of 1705 Bay street S.E. was
found yesterday afternoon by Wil
liam Butler, 1650 B street S.E.,
who came to the Massachusetts ave
nue address to deliver groceries.
Police said Mr Butler looked
through the partially opened • ga
rage doors after getting no an
swer at the house and found the
body.
Mr. Haymans’ glasses and the note
were lying in a coaster wagon in the
garage.
Police said that in the note. Mr.
Haymans instructed that he be
buried in Arlington Cemetery and
requested his wife, Mrs. Ethel Hay
mans. to "make it cheap and save
the insurance." Mr. Haymans,. a
World War II overseas veteran, was
the father of two sons, 14 and 8.
Mrs. Haymans, an employe of the;
Census Bureau, told police her hus
band had been unemployed for five
months. Formerly he had worked
fof the Griffith-Consumers Co., ac
cording to police. He rented the
garage for storage space.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
issued" the certificate of suicide last
night.
Deportation Hearing Set
For 'Shanghaied' Scot
ly th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 13.—Alistair
Nicholson, who thinks he should not
be deported because the Army alleg
edly shanghaied him and brought
him to this country in the first place,
can plead his case in court.
Federal Judge Murray Hulbert
yesterday gave the 23-year-old
Scotsman a writ of habeas corpus
that will bring him into court May
18 to air his arguments.
Nicholson's petition for the writ
said he is being held at Ellis Island
for deportation because of an entry
from Canada that immigration au
thorities say was illegal.
He said he only w*ent to Canada
to visit with an aunt, and to prove
his story to a New York news
paperman
His real entry into the United
States, he added, was enforced by
the Army after it arrested him In
England as a suspected American
deserter. Later, he was honorably
discharged at Fort Sheridan, 111.
Nicholson said the attempted de
portation would be his second. When
he was arrested by the Army in
Southampton in 1946. he said, he
had just arrived from the United
States, deported after leaving a
British ship here.
During an eclipse of the sun in
Siam, the “people traditionally beat
drums, gongs, pans and do other
things to make a racket, the tradi
tion being that a demon is swallow
ing the sun and must be frightened
away.
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These 13 of the original 83 members of the Morton Cadets
answer the adjutant’s roll call with the rank they held in 1898
at a reunion here yesterday. Left to right: Pvts. B. T. Reamy,
Lee Ross, Clarence Brower, John f. Bethune, William J. Driver,
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George H. Gillman, H. A. Shinn, C. S. Pittman, Ernest E. Lan
don, Spencer Bliss, Norman E. Norman, Corpl. Harry F. Patter
son and Lt. Leroy Herron.
—Star Staff Photo.
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Spokesman forOwners
Says Coal Miners Are
'Labor Aristocrats’ ,
By the Associated Press
A coal industry spokesmen today
called coal miners “the aristocrats
of labor” and said the limit has
been leached in what the public
will stand from unions.
John D. Battle, executive secre
taiy of the National Coal Associa
tion, said on the eve of contract
negotiations with John L. Lewis:
The coal industry “will again be
faced with the possibility of rising
costs at a tme w-hen the cost of
producing coal is already too high.’'
Mr. Battle continued in a weekly
buletin:
' There is a limit to wnac tne,
American people will stand in the;
way of impositions by these unioms. i
and that limit has been reached*
"Stocks of coal are low. Full op
erations of the mines will not per
mit a satisfactory replenishment of
those stocks before cold weather,
even if there is no further suspen-;
sion of operations.” j
Talks Begin Next Week.
The soft coal negotiations will |
begin Tuesday in Washington. The
contract expires June 30. The an-,
thracite contract, covering 80,0001
Pennsylvania hard coal diggers has
no termination date, but Mr. Lewis
has given the operators 60 days’
notice he wants a new pact by
July 10. Negotiations for that will
begin in New York or Philadelphia
next Thursday.
Mr. Lewis has said nothing about!
his new demands. He has called his
200-man United Mine Workers Pol
icy Committee to Washington Mon
day morning. Preliminary sessions
of district scale committees, how
ever have- made the proposed new;
demands plenty high.
Some union district groups have!
suggested that Mr. Lewis ask for!
40 cents a ton royalty instead of
the present 10 cents, for the health
and welfare fund. They also have
proposed a return to the 35-hour;
week without loss in take-home pay.;
The present contract is for a basic \
40-hour week, although that in
cludes travel and luncirtimw.
Lewis Strategy Uncertain.
An increase in the $100 vacation
payment also was advocated by
some of the district scale meetings.
One proposed raising it to $250.
Whether Mr. Lewis will present
his demands to the operators at
the start of negotiations was a bit;
of strategy he kept'to himself.'In!
the last couple contratc sessions he!
has made only generalized demands,
and left the details for bargaining.1
The recent soft coal strike was;
over pensions. A compromise was
reached ending that walkout, with;
the help of court injunctions and'
fines of $1,420,000 for contempt of;
court, but the issue is certain to!
arise in the new contract discus-j
sions.
Operators have said that to meet!
all of Mr. Lew’is’ pension demands
costs would be increased 40 cents!
a ton. That led to the union com
mittee selection of the figure for
the new welfare demand.
Strike Called Illegal.
Mr Battle called the pension1
strike "illegal, unwarranted and un
justified.” He said it cost the Na-!
tion 50,000,000 tons of badly needed
coal.
"Bear in mind that the strike was 1
not brought about because of any ;
complaint concerning wages or
working conditions,” Mr. Battle said.
"Coal miners are already the aris
tocrats of labor and the highest paid
industrial workers in America today,
and coal miners themselves, just
like the vast majority of railway
employes, do not want these
strikes.”
Tlie Bureau of* Labor Statistics
ranks the coal miners at the top
among industrial workers, with
weekly earnings averaging more
than $75.
Presbyterians Urged
To Readjust Salaries
By Asiociotvd Press
PHILADELPHIA, May 13.—The
General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church in the U. S. A. has
received an overture seeking adjust
ment of Presbyterian ministers’ sal
aries to meet the increase in the
cost of living.
The request was sent from the
presbytery of Donegal and will be
placed in the hands of the Bills and
Overtures Committee of the forth
coming 160th General Assembly at
Seattle, May 27-June 2. ,
The Donegal's presbytery’s over
ture urges that each presbytery
throughout the church appoint a
committee of laymen to study re
ports on salaries gathered by mod
erators and stated clerks of pres
byteries.
In cases where further salary ad
justments should be made, the lay
men’s committee would be empow
ered to consult with the constituent
churches to bring about an ad
} justment.
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13 Morton Cadet Veterans
Of 1898 Muster for Dinner
By George Kennedy
In the early 1890s, when Benja
min Harrison was President of the
United States and Levi P. Morton
was his Vice President, Eastern High
School used' to win most of the
competitive drill contests.
When the boys of the winning
company left high school, they
joined the District National Guard
and became famous as ‘‘the Morton
Cadets, Interstate Drill Team.”
They took the name of the Vice
President, a wealthy New Yorker.
Fascinating Maneuvers.
On pleasant summer evenings,
many residents of the little City of
Washington used to wander down to
the Arlington Hotel on Vermont
avenue, to see the Morton Cadets
drill. They would execute fasci
nating double obliques, with ranks
passing through ranks and reform
ing in company squares, without
missing a beat. They won drill
competitions at conventions in
Memphis, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.,
and San Antonio, Tex. They
marched in the inaugural parades.
Fifty years ago yesterday, a sim
ilar warm spring day, the Morton
Cadets—90 per cent of whom had
responded to President McKinley’s
call for volunteers for the war with
Spain—were mustered into the
Company G of the 1st District Vol
unteer Regiment.
On July 10 they landed at
Siboney, 5 miles east of the en
trance to Santiago Harbor, Cuba.
The fighting at Kettle Hill and San
Juan Hill already had occurred.
Their commander was so anxious to
get to the front while there was still
some shooting that he marched for
ward from Siboney without orders.
That took his men away from their
! food, but that was a minor inci
dent in that war.
Fortunately the Rough Riders,
under Col. Leonard Wood (Theo
dore Roosevelt was lieutenant colo
nel!, led them. Their brigadier
. general was Joseph Wheeler ol Civil
SWar lame. They were sniped at
a bit in the trenches and were un
; der orders not tp fire back. After
the surrender ol Santiago, quite a
few came down witlj yellow lever.
None died.
Thirteen Muster 1 or Dinner.
Last night 13 members of the 82
mustered into Company G 50 years
ago dined at the Chicken Hut Res
taurant, 427 Eleventh street N.W.
qjsing the old company book,
Corpl. Harry F. Patterson, read the
roll of the 82, then turned to Col.
Leroy W. Herron (a second lieu
tenant in 1898) and said:
"Sir, all present or accounted for.”
There are 22 members still alive.
Owing to the old-lashioned pa
ternal spirit of John Chisolm, first
sergeant ol Company G. who kept
track of all of them through the
years, they had dined annually
every year since and will continue
to do so each May 12, so long as
there is even one of them left. Mr.
Chisolm, a Government Printing
Office employe, died 18 months ago.
His brother, Daniel V. Chisolm, was
captain of the company. He later
became Public Printer.
Col. Herron, who retired recently
as advertising director ol The Star,
commanded a regiment ol the 29th
Division in the Argonne in World
War I. Pvt. Spencer Bliss, now
deputy commissioner ol internal
revenue, was a captain in World
War I. Pvt. Norman E. Norman,
a businessman ol Orange, N. J., has
attended every reunion for years.
Sales Tax
(Continued From First Page/)
commercial real estate and a higher,
Federal payment. Objecting to the;
present system under which the cost j
of school, highway and other con- j
struction is paid out of current!
funds, Dr. Eldridge said:
“If Congress would lift the
language from "the home rule bill,
which authorizes the District to
fioat bond isues for capital im
provements, we could eliminate a
substantial part of the $18,000,000
for such improvements included in
the current budget by financing
thepi over a period of years.
*4t> is unfair to force the 1948 Dis
trict citizenry to pay the entire cost
of improvements which will bene
fit the citizens of 25 or 50 or even
100 vears hence.”
Sums up Objections.
Dr. Eldridge summed up oppo
sition to a sales tax, contending that
it places the heaviest burden on
those least able to pay; it would
raise the cost of living here where
the index already tops the Nation,
will penalize the large family, re
versing the formula used in other
tax measures, and would be time
consuming for businessmen and
consumers.
Kenneth P. Armstrong, speaking
for the Federation of Citizens’ As
sociations, suggested long-term bor
rowing as one means of avoiding a
sales tax. He suggested also a
higher Federal payment and an
increase in liquor taxes.
If there is to be a sales tax, Mr.
Armstrong said, the present personal
income levy should be repealed be
cause it does not apply equally to all
District residents.
Supports Sales Tax.
The sales tax plan was supported 1
by Soterios Nicholson, speaking for
the Mid-City Citizens’ Association, j
who said his group could see no other
way of meeting the city's financial
problem. He, too, attacked the
present personal income tax as
discriminatory because it was not j
applied to all District residents.
Toward the end of the morning i
session the sales tax was advocated
by Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley for the
District Federation of Women’s
Clubs, and was opposed by the fol
lowing:
Mrs. R. A. E. Ginsburg of the
Women's Auxiliary of the United,
Public Workers of America. Mrs. i
Mary Thomas, for the District'
Trade Union League; Mrs. Arline
Neal, for the Building Service Em-;
ployes’ Union, Local 82, AFL; Jo
seph Forer, District Chapter, Na
tional Lawyers’ Guild: Mrs. Nettle
C. Karpin, Chapter 14, American
Veterans’ Committee, and Mrs.
Frances Lichtenberg. Washington
League of Women Shoppers.
Mr. Bates has called on District
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Assessor Edward A. Dent t^submit
a survey report on the question of
why real estate and personal prop
erty taxes should not be increased.
Feels Real Estate 'Tax Is Low.
Mr. Bates, a long-time opponent
of a sales tax, contends District real
estate taxes are “relatively low” for
a city in Washington's class. He
emphasized, however, that he still
is seeking facts and had reached no'
jonclusion. Actually, he said, he:
would be “reluctant” to raise real
estate taxes again, since both rates
and assessments were boosted this
year.
Mr. Smith laid an additional re
quest on Assessor Dent—to estimate
by how much District real estate
taxes would have to be increased to
meet deficit problems, if the sales
tax were to be discarded. Earlier
estimates had indicated the real
estate rate boost would have to be
heavy to match the $13,500,000 rev
enue expected to flow from a full
year of operation of a 2 per cent
sales levy.
Opposition Outlined.
Labor and consumer opposition to
the sales tax was outlined to the
Joint group’ yesterday afternoon.
Witnesses included Mrs. Gertrude
Evans for the Washington Indus
trial Union Council (CIO), whc
recommended other means of meet
ing deficits, and Charles E. Sands. |
speaking for the Hotel and Res
taurant Employes’ Union, who noted \
that the AFL and its Washington
Central Labor Union are on record
opposing sales taxes.
Mr. Sands proposed an official lot
tery for the District, as did Miss
Etta Taggart for the Washing
tonians. Senator Cain, however, de
clared his "unalterable opposition”
to any such "get-rich-quick” meth
ods.
Spokesmen for the Merchants and
Manufacturers’ Association and its
oil heating division protested that,
if there is to be a sales tax here,
it should apply to all or none of the
competitive fuels. If gas and elec
tricity are to be exempted, they de
clared, then so should fuel oil.
Y-Teen Clubs Plan Ball
The Y-Teen Clubs of Washington
High Schools will give a “Ballerina
Ball’’ in the YWCA, Seventeenth
and K streets N.W. at 8:30 p.m.
tomorrow. Jerry Carter, radio
singer, will be guest of honor.
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Public Is Asked to Aid
Board Drive to Save
Water Gate Concerts
The District Commissioners today
urged "public-spirited citizens” to
join in the Board of Trade's under
writing plan to save the National
Symphony Water Gate concerts.
Their support for the plan fol
lowed a last-minute appeal to 96
business leaders to provide the
needed financial backing. The ap
peal, telegraphed last night, set to
morrow as the deadline for saving
the series.
The Commissioners, terming the
summer concerts "one of Washing
ton's most important cultural needs,”
declared their loss "would be a dis
appointment to many thousands of
citizens, young and old, who have
enjoyed them during the last 10
years.”
“We commend the interest of the
Washington Board of Trade in these
concerts, and urge that public
spirited citizens come forward to
make them possible by joining in
the underwriting plan sponsored by
the Board of Trade’s Cultural De
velopment Committee,” the Commis
sioners said.
$25,000 Is Pledge Goal.
The telegram sent last night was
signed by Leon Chatelain, jr., presi
dent of the Board of Trade; Frank
R. JellefT, vice president of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra Asso
ciation, and Maurice B. Mitchell,
general manager of Radio Station
WTOP, which has ofTered to broad
cast six of the concerts.
Pledges totaling $25,000 are sought
to cover any deficit in the series.
Several thousand dollars already has
been pledged, the telegram stated.
It also pointed out that as little as
20 per cent of the pledged amount
might be needed on the basis of
low defiicits in past years. No
money will be collected until con
clusion of the concerts in August,
the telegram added.
"This is final last-ditch appeal to
save National Symphony summer
Water Gate Concert series," the
message said. "Unless we answer
Symphony Association within next
46-hours impossible keep musicians
in Washington and book outstand
ing solo artists. Entire existence of
symphony in future years may be
ieoDardized.”
Public Asked To Help.
Predicting this summer’s series
with enthusiastic backing might
break all previous attendance rec
ords, the message cited Board of
Trade support of the project and
urged: “Let’s not abandon this
symphony summer series after 11
years.”
In addition to the telegraphed ap
peal, George R. Titus, Cultural De
velopment Committe head, urged
public participation in the under
writing fund.
“Obviously, it would be impossible
for this volunteer group to send
wires to all comunity leaders who
may be interested in saving the
Water Gate series,” Mr. Titus said.
"THerefore, we hope that anyone
who is interested to help raise this
fund will consider himself included
in the invitation.”
Family of Five to Sail
Schooner to Australia
By the Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Calif., May 13 —
If there’s a young couple looking for
an adventurous way oi getting to
Australia, Dwight Atwater is your
man1.
With his wife. Carol and three
children he's readying a 50-toot
auxiliary staysail schooner for a
voyage he expects will require four
months. There's room for another
couple to share the expenses (and
work).
The starting date is set tenta
tively for May 20. The schooner,
purchased with money realized from
sale of the family home, is being
provisioned at the Fellows & Stew
art Shipyards here. It is equipped
with a 110-horsepower auxiliary en
gine. __
Culbertson Protests
U. S. Leaders' Defense
Of'Impotent'U. N.
ly th« Aitociatcd fr«i
Ely Culbertson said today Amer
ican leaders are increasing Russia’s
chances of world conquest by de
fending an “impotent" United Na
tions and letting {he Soviets build
atom bombs “with impunity."
This, he said, is* “fantastic un
reality” in foreign policy.
The bridge expert, who has turned
to the field of international politics,
told the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee that Russia will have enough
atomic bombs by 1950 to threaten
the destruction of scores of Amer
ican cities.
“Then the people of America will
turn to their leaders.” he said, "and
ask this fateful question: ’What did
you do to avert this terrible atomic
thfeat durin gthe all-precious years
from 1945 on, when the United
States held the destiny of the world
in the palm of her hand?’”
Sees Debt to Marshall.
Mr. Culbertson said the world
owes “a profound debt of gratitude”
to Secretary of State Marshall for
his leadership in World War II,
but he said:
‘Yet these leaders are not only
permitting the Moscow dictators to
build their atomic bombs with im
punity, but are also defending an
impotent United Nations so that
these men in the Kremlin may at
tack a divided world with chances
of success.”
Mr. Culbertson conunuea mat
Russian military strategists realize
thoroughly that the primary ob
stacle • that stands between their
hundreds of divisions and the con
quest of Europe and Asia is the
American atomic bomb.
"And while they relentlessly seek
;to remedy this deficiency, our State
Department, with equal fervor,
'seeks peace in our time,’' lie as
serted.
Cite* Three Objectives.
Mr. Culbertson declared that the
only hope of averting World War
III is through a revision of the
U. N. charter to correct what he
called "three basic defects,” which
he would remedy by:
1. Elimination of the veto in mat
ters of aggression.
2. Halting of “the atomic and
armament race.”
3. Establishment of a powerful
international police force.
The House group.is trying to find
a peace formula that will work with
or without Russia.
On the Senate side, the oFrtign
Realtions Committee split over how
far this country should go in pledg
ing military backing for non-Com
munist Europe.
With action put off, possibly un
til next week, there were reports
some Senators want a clearer un
derstanding of whether Chairman
Vandenberg's resolution would lead
to later commitments of military aid
for European nations that co-oper
ate with this country in regional
agreements.
It is entirely possible, however,
that before the committee com
pletes its deliberations unanimity
will be achieved. Since early in
1947 the Senate group has been
voting 13 to 0 on important meas
ures of bipartisan foreign policy.
The pending Vandenberg reso
lution seeks to meet the widespread
demand fn Congress for a stronger
U. N„ by outlining six American
objectives. The resolution would
merely express the Senate’s senti
ments to the President, without
binding effect.
Harvard Clubs to Meet
A delegation of Washington
alumni of Harvard University,
headed by Joseph C. Grew, former
Undersecretary of State, wh9\ is
president of the local chapter, will
attend the annual meeting of the
associated Har’ard Clubs to be
held tomorrow through Sunday in
Philadelphia.
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President Will Send
Agriculture Message
To Capitol Tomorrow
President Truman said today
he expects to send an agricul
tural message to Congress to
morrow. At the same time, he
told a news conference he is
still looking aroung for a Secre
tary of Agriculture to succeed
Clinton P. Anderson, who re
signed this week to run for the
Senate from New Mexico.
It was made known several days
ago that the President would out
line a farm program on which Con
gress would be asked to act before
adjournment. Without waiting for
Mr. Truman’s message, the Senate
Agriculture Committee approved its
own program yesterday.
The President told a news con
ference questioner that he would
announce the name of his new
Secretary as soon as. he could get
him.
Mr. Truman gave no indication
what he will propose in tomorrow’s
message, regarded as a bid for the
farmers’ vote.
Committee Vote Unanimous.
The Republican-controlled Agri
culture Committee, In laying down
a long-range farm plan, called for
a revised price support program. It
was adopted, 8 to 0.
Democratic leaders had indicated
earlier this week they would seek to
win the farm ballot by plugging the
theme that the Republican Congress
would take no action this year on a
permanent farm program.
But the committee not only beat
Mr. Truman to the punch but spon
sors said the bill closely follows
recommendations laid down by the
Agriculture Department. Senator
Aiken, Republican, of Vermont
principal author of the new meas
ure, predicted congressional ap
proval without major changes.
Slidinr Scale Provided.
The bill provides a sliding scale
'of price supports for agricultural
commodities which now are being
maintained at 90 per cent of parity
When the crops provide a normal
supply, the price supports would be
pegged at 75 per cent of parity
When the supply of any farm com
modity varied from 70 to 130 per
icent of normal, the supports would
range from 90 down to 60 per cent
of parity.
The committee revised the parity
formula—the system of figuring
prices designed to be equally fait
to the fanner and those who buy
his produce—by adding a "modern
ization” clause.
This keeps the 1909-1914 base
period currently used but provide*
for adjustments to the price rela
tionships of the most recent 10 years
That would mean that the parity
price of most field crops would come
down.
The present law setting price sup
ports at 90 per cent of parity for
Adas Israel Congregation
600 Eye St. N.W.
Friday Evening Services
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the six basic crops will expire De
cember 31. Unless Congress taut
some action at this session the slip
port levels will drop to 52 to 75 mgr
!qent of parity. A
Both the House Banking ant
Agriculture Committees have am
proved emergency extensions of tat
j present program, but Senator Allot
said he thinks the Senate will >aat
the permanent proposal.
In another farm development ves
terday, the Senate Appropriations
Committee approved a $1,126,597,4^5
fund for the Agriculture Depart*
ment for the year starting Jiily ‘i.
The amount is $34,736125 more thaih
was voted by the House, but a boas
$56,000,000 less than asked by M>
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Lamb Invites Hebert:
To Testify in Libel Suit
M
ly Associated Press ;,,
TOLEDO. Ohio. May 13.—Attor
ney Edward Lamb today invited
Representative Hebert, Democrat, HI
Louisiana to testify for the Erie
(Pa.) Times in a libel suit Mr. Lamb
has filed against that newspaper.’"
In an open letter to the Louisi
ana n, who in a House speech re
cently claimed Mr. Lamb had asso
ciated with Communists and Com
munist-front organizations, the To
ledo attorney wrote:. c*
“Wouldn’t you be good enough tg
appear as a witness for the Timea
in Erie, so that a jury trying that
libel suit might have the benefit of
your ‘evidence’? THte Erie Times is
going to have a chance to present
any ‘evidence’ which it may obtain
from you or from others. I assure
you that persons seeking to be
smirch by reputation are going to
have a chance to answer before
courts of competent jurisdiction.”
lull UllltlW UU1U 111 * 1*11 tvvnv* uw
was issuing the invitation to Mi*.
Hebert to be a 'Witness , in the Erie
case after being denied a chance
to appear before Mr. Hebert or a
congressional committee to answer
Mr. Hebert's speech personally.
Mr. Hebert's attack on Mr. Lamb
was connected with a Federal Com
munications Commission rejection
of applications by Samuel Horvitz,
owner of the Mansfield (Ohio).
News--Journal. for permission 16
operate a radio station in competi
tion with Mr. Lamb.
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