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U. S. Asks Conviction
Of 5 in Fraud Case as
Lesson to Union Chiefs
The Government today asked a
District Court jury to convict the
five men mi trial for conspiracy to
defraud the International Hod Car
riers’ Union (AFL) of $100,000 as a
lesson to union leaders that they
must be “honest and honorable."
The case was expected to go to
the jury this afternoon.
As the month-long trial drew to
a close. Leo A. Rover, special as
sistant to the Attorney General,
asked for the convictions as he
sumed up the Government’s case.
The charge of Justice Alexander
Holtzoff to the jury was scheduled
for this afternoon.
Ford Addresses Jury.
Mr Rover declared he wanted the
jury to convict so “as least it will
be a lesson to other men who are
put in charge of union affairs that
they cannot as hypocrites make out
they are taking care of laborers’
money when as a matter of fact
they are stealing it when the labor
ers are not looking.”
Before Mr. Rover began his con
cluding argument Charles E. Ford,
attorney for Isaac Weiner, Leonard
town (Md.) bualnessman, told the
jury Weiner would not have known
of the conspiracy to defraud the
union, as charged, because he was
neither a member nor an official of
the union.
Accordingly, Mr. Ford argued,
Weiner was in no position to be in
on any conspiracy. He said Local
832 in Southern Maryland author
ized the building of laborers’ bar
racks near the Naval Air Station at
Patuxent, Md. The Government
charges Weiner’s part in this con
struction was a section of the con
spiracy, because union funds were
illegally used.
Burned Records Cited.
Local 833 got $40,000 in initiation
fees and dues from the 1,500 laborers
who were aided by erection of the
barracks, Mr. Ford declared. He
said Weiner got $11,450 for the
barracks out of $18,500 charged on
the union books against the bar
racks, which he constructed.
Defense Counsel Austin F. Can
field yesterday afternoon told the
jury that, if the case had been tried
prior to the time Matthias M. Kies
gen former clerk of the District
Council, died in 1945, “a lot of things
could be explained.” The lawyer
pointed out Kiesgen’s widow testi
fied her husband burned union rec
ords in his Takoma Park (Md.)
home.
Mr. Canfield branded the missing
defendant, Larry Kelly, as "the
arch-thief and the krch-demon in
this case.”
Denies Falsing of Minutes.
He declared the defendant, Faust
Moreschi, had no more to do with
the purchase of $15,000 worth o*
liquor with union funds than had
the jurors themselves.
Mr. Canfield said certified public
accountants went through the books
of the defendant, George Morgan,
and the Government could not find
any shortage. He denied the de
fendant, Evans H. Hamilton, faked
union minutes, as charged by the
Government.
Ball Game
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played the entire game at <£• -
game position without relief. The
final figures show it was a heroic
test of endurance.
The judge got his early base
ball experience in a summer semi
pro league while attending law
school and teaching part time at
the University of Illinois. Big
league scouts who looked him
over were puzzled whether to
mark him down as a “good field,
no hit” prospect or a butter
fingered fielder who. could slug ^
the apple.
“One year I led the league In
hitting—can’t recaU my average
off-hand,” he said. The following
season I got only one hit my first
36#times at bat, but made only
one error in 135 chances in the
field.”
Judge Howell has beet one of
the most faithful of the Republi
cans in training. Says he likes
baseball, needs the exercise and
wants to be ready to hang it on
the Democrats, but good.
But that isn’t the whole story.
Court of Claims officials pur
chased two boxes on the first base
side of the field at Griffith Sta
dium, and if the judge isn’t on
his toes he's going to hear the
Washington version of the well
known Bronx berry.
Sponsored by The Evening Star
for the benefit of a summer camp
for underprivileged children, the
game is attracting unusual inter
est in Government circles, and
the advance ticket sale indicates
a banner turnout.
, A colorful, fast-moving pro
gram. complete with bands, mili
tary marching units and comic j
relief is being planned to give the
fans a full evening of fun. while
helping a worthy cause.
Steelworkers
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convention delegates who represent
928,000 steelworkers. Mr. Murray;
described the board s task as an
“enormous determination ''
Mr. Murray named United States
Steel Bethlehem, Republic, Inland,,
Wheeling and Allegheny as the
companies who have Informed him
they do not intend to negotiate new
contracts until the union flies the
affidavits.
In Cleveland, a Republic Steel
spokesman said the „ Taft-Hartley
act “has nothing to do with the
wage increase refusal which is ap
parently the meaning in Murray's
renegotiating agreements state
ments"
Test Case Groundwork.
Shortly after Mr. Murray said the
executive board would consider the
compliance question Sunday. Gen
real Counsel Arthur Goldberg said
the meeting was "to lay the ground
work for a test case.”
Mr. Murray has expressed hope
the union will test the constitution
ality of the non-Communist affidavit
requirement by taking the Inland
Steel case to the courts.
In that case, the National Labor
Relations Board ordered the com
pany to bargain with the steel
workers on pensions if the union
signed the affidavits. Mr. Goldberg
said he believes the union has until
next Monday to file.
Italy has a shortage of passenger
ships, and acme linen will be re
built. *
CRASH VICTIM WITH FATHER—Lady Kathleen Hartington,
who was killed In a plane crash in the Rhone Valley north of
Marseille, France, is shown here with her father, Joseph P.
Kennedy, former Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s in
1945, as he greeted her in New York. Lady Hartington, whose
husband was killed in the war, served with the Red Cross in
England. >_'_—AP Photo.
Kennedy
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widow of a Marquess killed in the
war four months after their Lon
don marriage. The Earl, 37, had
chartered the plane.
Former Ambassador Kennedy,
Boston business man, was in Paris
at the time of the crash, about
8:15 p.m.
The death of Lady Hartington
and Lord Fitzwilliam was confirmed
in London by Sir Drummond Inglis,
a director of Skyways, Ltd.
The plane company said the ship
was chartered by Lord Fitzwilliam,
a Grenadier Guards captain. He
was a prominent race horse owner
and breeder and the eighth early in
his line, the Skyways said crew
members killed in the crash were
Capt. P. A. Townshend and Radio
Officer A. F. Freeman.
Lady Hartington was a sister
of Representative Kennedy, Demo
crat, of Massachusetts. At one
time she worked as a secretary and
writer on^he staff of the Washing
ton Times-Herald. A sister, Miss
Eunice Kennedy, works at the Jus
tice Department.
Her father said he had “no plans,”
when asked if he would go to the
scene of the accident.
The text of the skyways an
nouncement said:
"The directors regret to announce
that their Dove aircraft Gahou.
which left Le Bourget at 3:20 p.m.
GMT yesterday. May 13, crashed
near Privas, 40 kilometers southwest
of Valence, at about 6:15 p.m. GMT
while bound for Cannes. All the
passengers and crew were killed.
The passengers were Lady Harting
ton and Lord Fitzwilliam. The crew
were Capt. P. A. Townshend and
Radio Officer A. F. Freeman.”
mer Ambassador completed a trilogy
of tragedy for the wealthy and so
cially prominent Boston family. Mr.
Kennedy was the father of nine
children, four girls and five boys.
Met Marquess in 1938.
Lady Hartington met the Mar
quess in 1838 while her father was
Ambassador to London. He was
heir to the Duke of Devonshire.
Their wedding took place May 6,
1944, at the Chelsea Register Office.
She was serving as a resident helper
at a Red Cross club at the time.
1 Little more than four months
later, on September 10, her husband
was killed in action in France while
serving as a captain in the Cold
stream Guards.
Son Also Killed.
A few weeks before that, on Au
gust 14. the Kennedy family had
been notified by the Navy Depart
ment that Joseph, jr„ 37, had been
killed in an operational flight over
Europe.
Lady Hartington was in Washing
ton a few weeks ago to see her
brother and sister. With their
mother, the three Kennedy children
spent a week end at White Sulphur
Springs. W. Va. Lady Hartington
sailed for Europe on the Queen
Mary a few days later.
Representative Kennedy was in
touch with other members of his
family today to work out funeral
arrangements.
Couain Takes Title.
Lord Fitzwilliam's family traces
back to before Norman conquest
times. Besides his widow, the for-:
mer Miss Olive Plunkett of Ire
land, the early is survived by a1
daughter. Lady Anne, born in 1935.
Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwil-;
liam. 64, a cousin, inherits the title.
The Fitzwilliam family aeat at
Rotherham, one of the largest
houses’in Britain, has 250 rooms,
but only 30 are in use. When the
earl married in 1933, he took 600
tenants of his father's vast York
shire estate to Dublin for the cere
mony in two steamers.
Lord Fitzwilliam was chairman of j
the Race Horse Owners’ Association
in 1946. Before the war he was a
prominent owner and won the 1935
Gimcrack Stakes. For two seasons
he was master of the Derwent fox
hounds in the North Riding.
Lord Fitzwilliam was one of the
richest British peers. A few years
before the war. his father’s income
was estimated unofficially at about
$4,000 a day. When he died in 1943,
his father left £1,330,000 ($5.280,0001.
The Earl's widow is a younger
daughter of the late Hon. and Moat
Rev. Benjamin J. Plunket, wealthy
bishop of Meath, Ireland, in the
Church of England. She inherited
£800,000 ($3,200,0001 from the Irish
branch of her family.
Frankfurt
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made an unscheduled landing, at
Malta.
Today a spokesman gave this ex
planatlon:
The doomed B-29 left Dhahran
Tuesday with another.
A few minutes after the takeoff
the crew radioed the companion
plane they would have to land at
Malta because of “some trouble with
our gasoline.”
Evidently the plane crashed soon
«
afterward, but the crash was not
seen by the second crew, which came
on to Fuertsenfeldbruck and report
ed the other had stopped at Malta.
Later a check disclosed that no
plane had landed at Malta. Only
then was a search begun.
The spokesman observed that
communications from Germany to
Dhahran and Malta are "not very
good.’’
A B-29 squadron reached Fuer
stenfeldbruck from the United States
yesterday after its third trans
Atlantic flight in a month. Eight
of its planes came via Westover
Field, Mass., and Newfoundland and
two via Iceland.
Belgian Airliner Carrying
31 Crashes in Congo
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 14
(>P).—A 8abena airliner carrying 31
persons has been found wrecked in
the Belgian Congo, the airline an
nounced today.
The wreckage .was found near the
village of Magazlni, about 20 miles
from the Libenge airfield. The air
line, a Belgian company, said it had
no information yet on casualties
among the 25 passengers and crew
of six.
The four-engined DC-4 disap
peared yesterday en route from Leo
poldville in the Congo to Brussels
on a regular flight.
Belgian, British and French planes
had been searching for it. Special
rescue teams are en route to the
wreck.
The last radio message from the
plane was received shortly before
noon yesterday at the Libenge air
field.
Economic
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checked. It does this by s&gipf at
one point: “If inflationary tfehdi
are resumed * *
Would Extend Work Week.
With a view to greater output of
scarce goods, the committee recom
mends extension of the 40-hour work
week “wherever feasible, by collec
tive bargaining agreement between
management and labor as to terms
and conditions for overtime work,”
but, the committee added:
"In the absence of such voluntary
agreement, no suggestion is made in
this recommendation to modify the
tlme-and-one-half overtime provi
sion of the basic 40-hour week.”
The report is mainly a blending
of recommendations by the three
subcommittees which held hearings
in 26 cities. Notably absent from
the full committee's program are
recommendations:
A. By its Western subcommittee
that the wartime excess profits tax
be revived.
B. By its Eastern subcommittee
that "it may be worthwhile to con
sider the rationing of a limited
group <of food items), say, meat,
butter and potiltry.”
Committee’s Proposals.
Here are the full committee’s
recommendations:
1. Study should be given a plan—
for possible use "if inflationary
trends are resumed”—to make any
income tax reductions “in the form
of required savings in United States
Government bonds, to be held until
such time as Congress shall de
termine that inflationary dangers
have passed.”
2. Removal of those excise taxes
which directly increase the price of
essential cost-of-living items, “par
ticularly for low income groups."
3. Rapid completion of reclama
tion and drainage projects in order
to increase the food supply.
4. Strict application of export
controls where foreign demand for
commodities pushes up prices at
home.
5. Delay of public works which are
not productive of food and other
scarce commodities.
Credit Restrictions.
6. Further study of credit restric
tion proposals so that “appropriate
action may be taken in order to
avoid further serious expansion of
credit.
7. Further study of the need for
compulsory controls.
8. Emphasis on increasing produc
tion of fertilizer, with much of the
added output to be shipped abroad
to lessen demand on our own food
supplies.
9. Encouragement of the produc-:
tion of food in non-European coun-.
tries.
10. Revival of the emphasis on
Victory Gardens in the United
States.
11. The Agriculture Department
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efforts to promote grain conserva
tion.
Consumer Co-operation.
12. Consumer co-operation "to
ease the effect of high prices by
shopping” and by the use of sub
stitutes.
13. Management and labor co
operation to boost production by
avoiding strikes, voluntary alloca
tion of scarce materials, extension
of the work week and "removal of
monopolistic restrictions.”
14. Provision of adequate funds
“for thorough enforcement of in
come tax programs ty minimise
fraud or evasion.”
15. Encouragement of thrift by
“the purchase of Government bonds
and insurance and the increase of
savings accounts."
16. Wage and price decisions by
business and labor “in the public
interest.”
Safety Patrols
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Instead of the trip, the 51 boys are
being honored by an all day pro
gram in New York today which in
cludes sightseeing and a ball game.
One of the New York group, Vito
Gioffero, 15, was supposed to re
ceive a medal from President Tru
man today for saving the life of an
elderly woman. He will miss his
chance to get the medal from the
President.
William J. Gottlieb, president' of
the Automobile Club of New York,
an affiliate of the AAA, joined Dr.
Jansen in canceling the trip. He
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said he felt the boys would approve i
the switch in plans “in the spirit of
good citizenship which exemplifies
the school safety patrols.’’
Thousands of other boys and girls,
meanwhile, poured into the city for
the annual two-day fete of the Na
tional School Safety Patrol.
First even scheduled was the
awarding of medals to 13 boys today
by President Truman for outstand
ing bravery in rescuing others from
traffic danger. Among those to get
medals was Ronald Weaver, 11, of
800 Otis place N.W., a student at
the Raymond Elementary School.
A rally and show will be hel«J at
the open-air theater at the base of
the Washington Monument at 8;
o’clock tonight
Tomorrow’s events begin at 8:30;
am., when 10 safety patrol drill
teams compete for prizes on Consti
tution avenue in front of the review
ing stand. The parade will begin at
10 a.m. and will feature the 16,000
paraders, floats and bands. It will
start at Fourth street and Constitu
tion avenue N.W., ending at Six
teenth street near the Washington
Monument.
1110 boys and girls will assemble
at the Washington Monument again
after the parade is over to see
another show, this time featuring
Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen.
Awards will be made at that time
for the best floats, the best drill
team, the best slogans, the best
bands and to the best appearing
unit in the parade as well as the
most unusual feature.
Peru is raising ceiling prices on
most foodstuffs and ending sub
sidies.
Monroe Street Parents
To Form Recreation Unit
Providing recreation for their
children will be the purpose of the
parents in the neighborhood of the
Monroe Street Housing Project, Sev
enth and Monroe streets N.W., when
they meet at 8 o’clock tonight in one
of the project’s outdoor courts.
They plan to organize a commit
tee to help the children put on
Christmas and Halloween shows and
present plays and to form hiking
and baseball clubs for the boys and
sewing clubs for the girls. Much
has already been accomplished along
these lines, according to Mrs. Glenn
Scillian, one of the mothers.
The parents will be advised what
they can do for the children by a
representative of the Recreation
Board and a policeman from No. 12
precinct, she said.
Arlington Police Promote
Palmer to Sergeant
Frank C. Palmer, Jr., 29, safety
educational director of the Arling
ton Police Department, has been
promoted to sergeant, Police Chief
Harry L. Woodyard announced yes
terday.
A Marine veteran of service in
the Pacific, Sergt. Palmer joined
the Arlington force July 1, 1940, in
terrupting his duties to join the
Marines. He lives at 1600 North
Sixteenth street.
VA Hospital Head Shifted
After Inquiry on Abuse
•y the Axoclotad Pr»»»
COLUMBUS. Ohio.. May 14 —The
Veterans Administration announc
ed today that Dr. Roger P. Hentz,
had been replaced as manager of,
its Port Custer (Mich.) mental hos-1
pital as the result of an invests-!
gation of alleged abuse of patients.'
Dr. Hentz is being replaced today.;
by Dr. Edward Stanfield Post, now |
chief of neuropsychiatry in the VA
branch at Chicago. Dr. Hertz was'
transferred to Columbus pending a;
permanent assignment.
The changes were made by Vet-1
erans Administrator Carl R. Gray,
Jr., in Washington.
Ralph H. Stone, Deputy Adminis
trator, said “certain administrative
deficiencies” were found in the in-I
vestigation and that 11 attendants
were suspended a month ago.
Tht attendants, he added, were |
charged by the hospital manage
ment with mishandling of patients
and if the evidence is sufficiently
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