Evening star. [volume], May 13, 1948, Page A-5, Image 5

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Nail Unions Setto Call
New Strike When U.S.
fnds Control of Roads
•y *h« A»tociat#d Pr«i
The three railroad brotherhoods
which called off their threat
ened Ration-wide strike Monday
night will run the trains as long
as the Government has control
<A the railroads.
■'But the minute the lines are
turned back to the carriers, whether
in two weeks or two years, they’ll
call another strike unless an agree
ment is reached, meanwhile, in their
wage-rules dispute.
; That was the word today from one
oT the top brotherhood men. He
talked to a reporter on condition
his name would not be disclosed.
This officer said the unions expect
the temporary restraining order
against the engineers, firemen and
switchmen to be made permanent by
justice T. Alan Goldsborough after
a hearing at District Court next
week. This would prevent the
unions from striking as long as the
Government has control.
Demands Still Considered Fair.
But, the union leader said, the
three brotherhoods still consider as
fair and proper their demands for
a 30 per cent wage increase and 23
changes in working rules.
•While Secretary of the Army
Royall said yesterday he has no
intention of trying to get a wage
settlement himself, the brotherhoods
say the Army is in a position to
settle the dispute if it wants to.
They contend that if the Army,
now operating the railroads as the
agent for the Government, nego
tiates a satisfactory agreement with
the unions, it could say to the in
dividual railroad presidents:.
“If you want your railroad back,
accept this agreement on wages and
working rules and we’ll turn it
over.”
Peoria Case Cited.
As precedent for their determina
tion to fight the issue through,
brotherhood officers cited the case
of the Toledo, Peoria & Western
Railroad.
The operating brotherhoods called
a strike in December, 1941, against
what they called “substandard”
wage and working conditions on the
T. P. & W. The Government took
ever the railroad and appointed
a Tederal manager from the Office
of Defense Transportation. The
workers returned.
: The Aederal manager, after three
months of operation, reached an
agreement on wages and working
conditions with the unions. But
management did not accept the
terms.
After the war the Government re
leased control and the unions, still
having failed to reach an agree
ment with management, called an
other strike in October, 1945.
A period of violence followed. At
1 feast two strikers were killed by
armed guards attempting to operate
trains. But no agreement was
reached with the unions until
April, 1947, after President George
I*. McNear of the T. P. & W. was
mysteriously shot to death near
His home in Peoria, 111.
Ball Game
(Continued From First Page.)_
shoulders chopping wood for the
•choolhouse.
At Branford High School,
Foote took to pitching like a bird
to wing, and his windfall delivery
became a familiar sight on the
'pleasant Connecticut scenery. In
■three years he chalked up 32
.victories, "and that was against
good high school competition,
not the kind we’ll meet when we
"play the Democrats,” put in
' Bishop.
Foote proved he had lost none
of his competitive fire or all
-round ability last summer,
yhen he starred at shortstop for
the Second Company (Governor’s
8uard) baseball team of New
aven. The only unhappy inci
Hent to mar his appearance with
that team was damage to the
Mat of his pants sliding into
Some plate.
Z “Nothing like pasture training
develops an athlete,” said Foote,
recalling his boyhood career.
“Much of my footwork I attrib
ute to running among cows
.grazing on the slopes of old
Totoket Mountain back of my
.home. There were plenty of
loose stones in the trap quarry
ip throw and I simply took ad
vantage of the training grounds
that nature gave me.”
Manager Dick Richards of
the Democrats was unimpressed
when informed of the Repub
licans’ latent find.
"Next thing you know they’ll
want to make a hog-calling con
test out of this affair,” he de
clared. “Foote Just seems to fit
fight into the Republican pat
tern of a country boy lost in the
Big city. They don’t want any
asbestos mitt or a leather mitt
•©ther. What they’ll need is a
peach basket to snare his wild
throws.
"Let the Republicans keep
talking—they’re enjoying them
selves. But wait until it comes
to a votie—I mean wait until we
play the game. Then we’ll see
whether big words or base hits
count the most.”
The game is sponsored by The
Evening Star and all proceeds
will be used to help swell funds
for a summer camp for under
privileged children. A brisk ad
vance sale indicates a good
turnout for the game, which will
mark the rivals’ first meeting
under lights.
Information
(Continued From First Page ’*
individuals other than members of
Congress and committee employes.
Amendment Backed.
The amendment has overwhelm
ing support as a result of the ad
mission by Chairman Hoffman of
the Expenditures Committee, which
is sponsoring the bill, that newsmen
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fans; Lulu, English woman clown whose husband died recently
during a radio interview, and Paul Jerome, a joey, are sched
uled to appear with, the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey
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would be affected by the original
language.
While no exemption is proposed
for Congress members, the bill
makes the offense of leaking confi
dential information only a mis
deamor, punishable by a year in
prison and a fine of $1,000.
And the Constitution specifically
says members of Congress shall not
face arrest while attending, going to
or coming from their duties, except
for felonies, treason or breach of
the peace.
Heads of agencies refusing to
comply with a committee demand
could be fined $1,000 and imprisoned
for one year.
Some Democrats assailed the bill
as a political move aimed at Mr.
Truman. But Republicans hotly de
nied this.
While foes of the legislation con
cede Jts eventual passage by the
House, they say the Senate will not
approve it.
Economic
(Continued From First Page.l
pressed his opinion as to where the
price level should be.”
He said that until that question
is answered “I would hesitate about
giving the Federal Reserve Board
^nore power.”
Snyder Continues Rate
On One-Year Securities
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
today held the interest rate on-one
year Government securities un
changed through the month of July.
Mr. Snyder announced that the
l'/g per cent rate of recent months
for one-year Treasury certificates of
indebtedness will be continued for
a new offering to be dated June 1.
This had special significance since
bank officials have predicted that
the interest rate on short-term
loans to business would be increased
if the Treasury boosted the rate on
its one-year certificates.
Mr. Snyder said new V/a cer
tificates will be offered in exchange
for the entirety of a $1,777,142,000
issue of one-year certificates ma
turing June 1. '!
One-year V/a per cent certificates
also will be offered in exchange for
all of a $3,061,851,500 issue of l*i
per cent Treasury bonds of 1948
maturing June 15, Mr. Snyder said.
Mr. Snyder’s advance statement
of his intentions with regard to in
terest rates on July offerings was
obviously aimed at spiking wide
spread reports that interest rates
would be increased from V/8 per
cent to V/t per cent in June and
July.
Palestine
(Continued From First Pagei
new reports of preparations for in
vasion. New Iraqi troops arrived at
Mafrak in Trans-Jordan. Travelers
from the south said Egyptian troops
were moving toward Palestine.
Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land
already are fighting an unofficial
war. This dated back to last No
vember 29, when the United Nations
Assembly voted to partition Pale
stine into Arab and Jewish coun
tries and put Jerusalem under in
ternational trusteeship.
Arab City Claimed.
The Jews last night claimed cap
ture of the important Jordan Valley
Arab city of Beisan, but west and
south of Jerusalem they still fought
to clear Arabs from strategic roads.
Some 10 miles to the west, at the
Bab el Wad Gorge, Arabs and Jews
faced each other on the mountain
ous supply road from Tel Aviv,
which the Jews had been trying
since Sunday to wrest from Arab
control. The Arabs drove the Jews
off the western end of the gorge
yesterday.
About the same distance to the
south, the two sides fought into the
darkness in a battle for the Jewish
settlement of Kefar Etzion, which
lies athwart the route any Arab
invaders would take from Egypt to
Jerusalem. Reliable sources reported
heavy losses.
In Jerusalem, both fighting fac
tions reinforced their bastions fac
ing British strong points soon to be
evacuated, including the city post
office and security zones.
2 Towns on Supply Road
Are Claimed by Arabs
DAMASCUS, May 12 (delayed)
(A*).—The Palestine Arab Higher
Committee said tonight that Arab
fighters have occupied two villages
New/ I
Odorless]
flanking the vital Tel Aviv-Jerusa
lem highway in the Bab el Wad
area west of Jerusalem.
The committee telephoned the re
port from Jerusalem to its chair
man, Haj Amin el Husseini, exiled
Mufti now in consultation here with
Arab League leaders.
It said the Arabs took over the
villages of Umm el Hamseh and
Dilb and captured several detach
ments of the Jewish militia Hagana
with their arms.
Truman Noncommital
On Recognizing New State
By the Associated Press
President Truman was asked to
day whether the United States will
recognize the new state Jews intend
to proclaim in Palestine. He said
he will cross that bridge when he
gets to it.
Mr. Truman added to his news
conference that he discussed the
whole Palestine situation yesterday
with Secretary of State Marshall
and Undersecretary Lovett.
Asked whether the United States
has any proposals to make, he re
minded the reporters that this Na
tion has called on the United Na
tions to install a U. N. high com
missioner for the Holy Land.
Ruling in Paternity Suit
Against Folsom Delayed
ty the Associated Pres*
CULLMAN, Ala., May 13.—A de
cision in a divorcee’s paternity suit
against Gov. James E. Folsom was
delayed yesterday for perhaps two
or three weeks.
Attorneys for Gov. Folsom and
Mrs. Christine Putnam Johnston
argued for three hours yesterday be
fore Circuit Judge J. H. Crow, jr„
and then were given 10 days to file
additional briefs.
Mrs. Johnston says Gov. Folsom,
a bridegroom of a week, is the
father of her 22-month-old son,
James Douglas. Gov. Folsom h»s
neither admitted nof denied the
charge of the 39-year-old former
Birmingham hotel employe.
The Alabama Governor married
Jamelle Moore, an attractive 21
year-old State employe, last week.
All the arguments centered on the
Governor’s legal objections, or de
murrers, to the suit, and the merits
of the case were not mentioned.
Neither Gov. Folsom nor Mrs. John
ston was in court.
Prince Georges Press to Dine
The Prince Georges County Press
Association will hold its monthly
dinner meeting at 7 o’clock tonight
at the Quonset Inn, Silver Hill.
Edward Dmytryk,
Film Director,
Marries Actress
By the Associated Press
ELLICOTT CITY, Md., May 13.—
Film Director Edward Dmytryk, 39,
and Actress Jean Porter, 25, were
married here yesterday. The cere
mony was performed by the Rev.
Cornelius Terhune, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church here.
Mr. Dmytryk is one of 10 Holly
wood personalities indicted on
charges of contempt of Congress
for refusal to tell the House Com
mittee on un-American activities
whether they were Communists.
The director’s case was postponed
in Washington yesterday along with
eight others, pending outcome of
an appeal by a fellow defendant,
John Lawson, who was convicted
last week. Mr. Terhune said Mr.
Dmytryk told him he is living in
Washington. Miss Porter, the min
ister said, told him this was her
first marrige. She played featured
roles in the film, “What Next, Cor
poral Hargrove?” and “Andy
Hardy’s Blonde Trouble.”
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Reuther, Still in Hospital, Gets
News of Auto Strike on Radio
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DETROIT, May 13.—The CIO !
United Auto Workers began the .
Chrysler strike yesterday with their j
president, Walter Reuther, sitting <
it out in a hospital.
All the Information available to -
the red-haired UAW chief, veteran
of many a union fight, came to him 1
from his bedside radio’s newscasts.
Since the UAW was organized and ]
became important in the auto in- ]
dustry, the aggressive Mr. Reuther ,
has been an active participant or
strategist in every strike of his ,
union.
Recovering from shotgun wounds -
inflicted by a would-be assassin, Mr. i
Reuther has Deen in tne nospnai
since April 20.
Aides have protected him from
any influence which might impede
his recovery, and they put the
Chrysler strike on the taboo list.
One of his private nurses, Mrs.
Bertha Hanna, said Mr. Reuther
had the radio on for the strike
broadcasts.
Mrs. Hanna said she observed "no
particular reaction” on his part.
She said she was prepared to give
him information if he asks, but that
she would volunteer none.
Mr. Reuther served in the Ford
and the first General Motors strike
—an original in the sit-down series
—and directed the 113-day 1945-6
GM walkout.
Chrysler
(Continued From First Page.)
Chrysler plants, laid off 11,000 work
ers today and said the rest of its
work force of 13,000 would be sent
home Monday.
May Test State Law.
With the strike a day old, it was
still uncertain whether it would be
used as a test of Michigan’s new
labor law.
The Bonine-Tripp legislation re
quires a strike vote. The UAW,
contending it did not apply because
several Chrysler plants are outside
Michigan, took strike action with
out such a vote.
Gov. Kim Sigler ordered the
Michigan Labor Mediation Board to
find out ‘‘if the law is constitu
tional." Philip Weiss, chairman of
the board, asked Prosecutor James
B. McNally of Wayne County (De
troit) to take action.
But Mr. McNally said he needed
a formal complaint from the police
department, and Police Commis
sioner Harry S. Toy insisted he
could act only if asked to do so by
a private citizen.
The view that the strike would
be a long one was shared by many
unionists on the picket lines.
"This probably will be tough,"
commented one.
Million Will Be Assessed.
Should the walkout stretch into
weeks, the UAW should be well
set to lend financial assistance to
Chrysler employes.
Its executive board yesterday ap
proved plans to assess a million auto
workers across the country,50 cents
a week in June and $1 weekly in
July. That, with $10 to 30 weekly
to be contributed from the salaries
of paid union employes was expected
to boost the union’s strike fund to
$8,000,000 by August 1.
Strikers stand to lose $800,000 a
day in wages as long as the dispute
lasts, it has ben estimated. Chrys
ler will be out about 5,000 cars and
trucks daily.
unrysier worxers wages averagea
$1.50 an hour before the strike
started. The union originally asked
a 30-cent hourly boost, but scaled
its demands to 17 cents less than
12 hours before the workers left
their jobs.
Mr. Mazey said the 17-cent figure
was “the exact amount the cor
poration had "earlier claimed was
necessary to restore Chrysler work
ers’ purchasing power to June, 1946,
levels.” The corporation has denied
making such a statement.
Chrysler General Manager Her
man L. Weckler said the firm still
was willing to negotiate the dispute.
Citrus groves along the Palestine
coast produce fruit six months out
of the year.
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yesterday was sentenced to 90 days
in jail in lieu of a $300 fine imposed
in Alexandria Civil and Police Court
for possesson of numbers slips.
Bonds, who is colored, paid a $5
fine for a second gaming violation,
and a $1.0 fine for assault and bat
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