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Senate Votes Today
On Veto of Checkup
On Atom Board Heads
By J. A. O'Leory
A close decision is expected
when the Senate votes at 3:30
p.m. today on President Tru
man’s veto of a bill to let the
Senate call on the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation to investi
gate top atomic energy officials.
A majority of the Senate is be
lieved to be for the bill, but it
will take two-thirds to override a
veto, and the Republicans will need
some Democratic support to win.
If the Senate overrides, Mr. Tru
man will have one more chance to
be sustained in the House. If he is
! austained in the Senate, that will
i end the matter, since both houses
must concur to override.
Both Sides Claim Victory.
Both sides claimed victory as the
Senate resumed an acrimonious
, debate that began late yesterday.
; Senators Hickenlooper of Iowa and
IKnowland of California, Repub
licans, are leading the fight for
the FBI investigating-power. Sen
ator McMahon, Democrat, of Con
necticut, is directing adminis
tration forces in defense of the
President's veto.
The bill does not seek to interfere
with the President’s method of
selecting Atomic Energy Commis
sioners, but provides that after he
has sent nominations to the Senate
for confirmation, a majority of the
Senate members of the Joint
Atomic Energy Committee could
ask the FBI to check up on the ap
pointees for the Senate.
The President, in vetoing the bill,
called it an encroachment by Con
gress on the executive branch of
Government. He argued the bill
would put the FBI in the position
of being given orders simultane
ously by two branches of Govern
ment.
Chairman Taft of the Senate Re
publican Policy Committee told the
Senate yesterday the doctrine of
three co-ordinate branches of Gov
ernment under the Constitution does
not mean three separate govern
ments, each boxed off from the
other two.
Pepper Defends Veto.
Joining in defense of the veto.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida wanted to know if members
of Congress who serve on the Atomic
Energy Committee have been
checked by the FBI.
Senators Pepper and Lucas, Dem
ocrat, of Illinois, contended the
Senate is fully capable of making
(its own investigations of appointees
and should not turn to an agency
of the executive branch.
Senator Taft agreed that the
Senate could set up its own separate
FBI, but Inquired what purpose
would be served by a complete dupli
cation of the facilities which Con
gress already nas established.
Senator Knowland reminded his
colleagues that "we came within
four months of having Henry A.
Wallace as President of the United
States, and 1 say frankly I would
not want to take his recommenda
tions for membership on the Atomic
Energy Commission without having
full access to the means for a
thorough and complete invesitga
tion.”
Knowland Demands Inquiry.
The Californian said the Senate!
ahould insist on this Investigative
procedure for its own protection.
He assered that Mr. Truman did
not call on the FBI to investigate
the present members of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
"The President did not have a
full and complete investigation
made by the FBI.” the Californian
said. “What he did was to have a
check made of the files, which is an
entirely different thing."
Senator Knowland S8ld he was
“shocked beyond belief’ when he
learned no detailed investigation
was made. Senator Hickenlooper
aaid it was ‘'unthinkable.”
Senator Knowland said the rou
tine FBI files might consist only
of newspaper clippings, unless a
special inquiry had been ordered.
This provoking an argument among
several senators as to what right
the FBI would have to maintain
files on citizens before some particu
lar reason for investigating them
arises.
Although Chairman David E.
Lilienthal and the other four mem
bers of the Commission are up for
reappointment now, Senate Repub
licans plan to avoid a fight over
their confirmation by trying to pass
another bill, extending their terms
until June 30, 1950.
If that bill passes, they say, *he
pr J-'sed FBI investigation would
not apply to these pending appoint
ments, since they would continue
to serve for two years without ac
tion on their reappointments.
Red Lands in U.S. Zone
Of Korea, Burns Plane
ly the Aneciated Prt»
SEOUL. Korea. May 21.—A Soviet
Yak-9 airplane landed near Taejon
In American occupied South Korea
Wednesday and the pilot destroyed
the craft by firing it.
The United States Army said to
day the plane, bearing the number
84. was forced down by lack of fuel.
The Army announcement related:
When American soldiers arrived
at the scene, they found the pilot
had been seized by unidentified
South Koreans. The Americans took
charge of him and quartered him in
an American officer's billet.
The pilot has refused to eat, wash
or shave.
The pilot gave his name as Ivan
Feodrovich Osmakov. He said he is
a Soviet air force captain. He wore
no insignia and said he carried
no identification papers. He will
be returned to Soviet authorities.
The pilot said he had become lost.
When he found himself over an
airfield with American vehicles
nearby, he thought he was over
Ongjin Peninsula airstrip He said
he flew north until he exhausted
his fuel.
Correction
In a picture published yesterday
ef the French Ambassador award
ing medals to local winners of a
contest sponsored by the American
Association of Teachers of French.
The Star erroneously identified Miss
Nathalie Lutov as being a student
at Georgetown Visitation Convent.
She attend St. Paul's Academy.
Fifth-Graders Fly Stolen Plane
After Studying Comic Books
ly tho Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 21.—
Two fifth-graders who studied fly
ing in comic books confessed to the
State patrol last night that they
piloted a stolen plane from here
almost to Texas.
“There Is no doubt about it,” the
patrol said.
The plane was a two-place Er
coupe with simplified controls ad
vertised as nearly foolproof.
“They said it was easy,” Trooper
Arch Hamilton said.
"Thev'd looked at some comic
books that told all about it. They
thought we were silly not to know
how.
“They made a perfect landing.
Astonishment at the 120-mile
flight almost drowned out talk of a
Juvenile Court hearing tomorrow
morning.
“It’s incredible • * • I am astound
ed. This is more than mere mis
chief," said one of tne tatners.
Attorney Burney P. Bodard.
The grade school aviators are
Jimmy Bodard, 11, and Robert
Ronald Peterson, 12. Both families
are prominent here. Robert, the
largest, weighs 85 pounds. They
said they took turns flying.
Jimmy and Robert played hooky
from school Monday, and were re
ported missing the next day. Tues
day night they were picked up in
the little Western Oklahoma town
of Cheyenne, due west of here and
18 miles from the Texas Panhandle.
They told a likely story of hitch
hiking by road, and Wednesday
their folks brought them home.
But yesterday the sheriff of Roger
Mills County found the, Ercoupe
abandoned 8 miles northwest of
Cheyenne.
CAA inspectors traced the num
bers to Ted Goller, former Ercoupe
dealer at the Downtown Airpark
here. It had been missed, but no
one thought it was stolen._
Austrian Peace Treaty
Parley Breaks Down
By th# Associated Press
LONDON, May 21.—Four-pow«r
efforts to write a peace treaty for
occupied Austria hit dead end to
day, after nearly two years of futile
negotiations.
Official American sources said the
negotiations broke down completely
Wednesday, after a two-week tem
porary suspension during which
efforts were made to compromise the
differences between Russia and the
western powers—the United States,
Britain and Prance.
As a result, these Informants said,
it was decided last night to call off
the conference indefinitely.
The breakdown came, they said,
when Samuel Reber, chief of the
American delegation, privately con
ferred with M. P. Kotimov, head of
the Soviet delegation, to discuss
the prospects of compromise.
Mr. Kotimov, the American
sources said, advised Mr. Reber he
had been instructed by Moscow to
stand fast in support of Yugoslavia's
claims against Austria. The West
ern powers oppose these claims.
Yugoslavia has demanded ap
proximately 800 square miles of
Austrian territory in mineral-rich
Carinthia and scenic Styria, both
of which have numbers of Slavic
residents. The Yugoslavs also have
made reparations claims against
Austria.
Reformed Church Synod
Elects Ex-Missionary
B»th« Associottd Press
BUCK HILL FALLS, Pa., May 21.
The General Synod of the Re
formed Church of North America
will be headed for the next year by
the Rev. Henry W. Beltman of the
Park Hill Reformed Church of Los
Angeles.
Mr. Beltman, former missionary
to China, was named president yes
terday at the opening session of the
synod, attended by 400 delegates.
The Rev. Abraham Rynbrandt of
Zeeland, Mich., was elected vice
president.
Named as delegates to the world
council of churches at Amsterdam
were Dr. Thomas P. Haig, Somer
ville, 'N. J.; the Rev. Bert Atwood,
Schenectady. N. Y.; the Rev. Harold
Schenck, Upper Montclair, N. J.,
and Luke De Vires, Los Angeles.
Dr. Edgar F. Romig. New York:
Dr. Harry J. Hager, Chicago, and
Dr. John Powell, Bronxville, N. Y.,
will represent the church at the
world session of the Alliance of Re
formed Churches at Geneva, Switz
erland, in August.
WhattheRussians
Are Saying of Us
The Moscotc radio, broadcasting
to Russia, said:
“Capitalism gave birth to the
cultural degradation of peoples.
Socialism not only rejuvenates
culture, but opens before it such
a vista of development as has not
been known in history.
“It is precisely because our
country is a country of triumph
ant socialism that it has become
the standard bearer and beacon
of world civilization and culture.”
Weather Report
District of Columbia — Mostly
sunny and warmer with highest
temperature in the middle 80s this
afternoon. Fair tonight with lowest
in the middle 50s. Tomorrow mostly
sunny with highest in the 70s."
Maryland and Virginia—Fair and
mild tonight. Fair and not quite
so warm.
Wind velocity, 12 miles per hour;
direction, west.
Five-Day Weather Forecast—May 21
Through May 25.
Northern Virginia and Maryland—
Temperature will average about 3
degrees above normal. Normal max
imum, 76: normal minimum, 55.
Near normal temperatures are ex
pected over the week end, rising
slowly thereafter. Showers likely
about Monday with rainfall about
>4 inch.
River Report.
(Prom 0tilted Btatei Engineer*.!
Potomac River cloudy »t Harpers Ferry
end »t Great Falls: Shenandoah cloudy at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday. Pci Today— Pet
Voon _. 33 Midnight _ . 64
I om. _28 8am - «2
5 p m. _38 10 a m. _aS
Temperatures.
Yesterday's high. 68 at 5:05 p m.: low
(8 ai 5:45 a m Year's highest. 80 on
May 11 lowest. 5 on January 26. Normal
maximum this date. 77 degrees; minimum.
56 degrees
Tidt Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coaet and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High _ 7:48 a.m. 6:32 a.m.
Low _ 1:59 a.m. 2:48 a.m.
High _ S;15 p m. 9:01 p.m
Low _ 2:40 p.m. 3:26 p.m.
The Sun and Mo«n.
Rises. Sen.
Sun. today _ 5:50 8:19
Sun tomorow_ 6:48 8:20
Moon, today_ 7:09 p m 4:53 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned en
one-hell hour after lunset.
Precipitation.
Since May 1. 6.34 inches: May normal.
3.70 inches May record. 10 69 Inches in
1889 Since January 1. 19.32 inches. 3.03
inches more than normal.
Temperature! in Yarlets Cities.
High Low. High Low.
Albuquerque 86 56 Miami . 79 72
Atlanta 64 60 Milwaukee 82 54
Atlantic City 68 52 New Orleans 89 66
Bismarck 74 38 New York __ 70 50
Boston.. 47 42 Norfolk .. 69 53
Buffalo 60 49 Okla City 82 60
Chicago 83 So Omaha PO 66
Cincinnati 77 58 Phoenix . 93 53
Detroit__ 78 57 Pittsburgh 70 60
El Paso_ 92 69 Portland. Me. 48 42
Galveston .. 85 69 St Louis 83 60
Harrisburg 66 51 Salt Lake C. _ 78 47
Indianapolis. 77 58 San Antonio 88 64
Kansas City. 87 67 San Francisco 56 50
Los Angelea. 67 49 Seattle_ 76 So
Louisville_ 82 60 Tampa_ 88 87
Socialists Get 3 Places
In New Italian Cabinet
•y th« Associated Press
ROME, May 20.—A spokesman for
the independent Socialists said last
night that the Socialists had reached
an agreement with Premier Alcide
de Gasperi giving them three places
in the new Italian cabinet.
The spokesman. Deputy Mario
Longhena. announced the agree
ment after talking with Mr. De
Gasperi. a Christian Democrat.
The agreement apparently cleared
away the last obstacle to Mr. De
Gasperi’s reshuffle of his cabinet.
Re-alighment of the four-party gov
ernment, which had been in opera
tion five months, was undertaken
after the April 18-19 elections.
The Socialists had been holding
out for virtual control of Marshall
Plan aid to Italy* The Socialists
said the interests of the working
classes would not be protected other
wise.
Mr. Longhena said the three cab
inet portfolios would put the Inde
pendent Socialists "in a position of
effecting a concrete control in the
carrying out of the European Re
covery Plan.”
The careful phrasing of that
statement indicated that Mr. De
Gasperi had found a way to satisfy
Socialists that Marshall Plan aid
would not go entirely to help big in
dustry.
Father Sues as 2 Sons
Are Denied Circus Trip
Clement S. prady's former wife
and mother-in-law have been or
dered to "show cause’’ in District
Court by next Wednesday why he
was not allowed to take his two sons
to the circus Wednesday.
Mr. Grady, who is from Omaha.
Nebr., brought suit in District Court
yesterday, seeking an order to per
mit him to see his sons. The "show
cause" order was issued by Justice
T. Alan Goldsborough against Mr.
Grady's former wife. Mrs. Ruth C.
Grady, and her mother. Mrs. W. D.
Richardson, both of 4121 Edmonds
j street N.W.
The suit said Mr. Grady is per
! mitted to see his two sons two days
! a year from 8 a m. to 6 p.m. as a
result of an amended decree of a
Nebraska court. The tx>ys*are Clem,
13. and Jim, 12.
But, a supporting affidavit claim
ed. Mr. Grady w-ent to his former
wife’s home Wednesday to arrange
to take the children to the circus
and was told he had no rights to
the children.
The suit said Mr. and Mrs. Grady
were divorced in Nebraska in 1937
and afterward he did not know
where she lived until about two
years ago. The amendment to the
decree was ordered last September,
the suit contended.
Mr. Grady's attorney, Camden R.
McAtee, said Mr. Grady drove from
Nebraska on his vacation to see the
boys and must return by June 1.
Priest Calls U.S. Capitalism
Contrary to Encyclicals
By tht Associated Press
CLEVELAND, May 21.—A Jesuit |
priest declared yesterday tfoat
American capitalism is "illogical,
economically unsound * * * and'
contrary to the letter and the spirit
of the encyclicals of the church.”
Speaking before the Catholic
Press Association convention, the
Rev. William J. Smith, S. J., di
rector of the Crown Heights Labor
School, said:
"The capitalism I indict, and
which I claim cannot be defended,
is a system which:
"Begins in an attempt to conduct
economic and Industrial life on a
policy of unrestricted free enter
prise.
“Matures into monopolistic ac
cumulations of power by conflicting
forces in the economy,
"Is forced (by the very nature of
its disorganized condition) to em
ploy economic supremacy as the
gullding norm of its relations, and
"Evolves into and perpetuates the
class struggle as the natural result
of its maladjusted elements.-’
Father Smith, in his talk, quoted
liberally from papal encyclicals in
an effort to show that portions were
in agreement with his objections
to American capitalism.
Senate Group Kills Bill
To Regulate Liquor Ads
By the Associated Press
The Senate Commerce Committee
yesterday killed a bill to regulate
liquor advertising.
By a vote of 6 to 5. it rejected a
proposal to amend the Federal
Trade Commission Act to make
“misleading- any advertisement
which represented alcoholic bever
ages as:
1. Beneficial to health or contri
buting to physical upbuilding.
2. Increasing social or business
standing or prestige.
3. Traditional in American family
life or is or should be part of the
atmosphere of the American home.
The bill was introduced by Sena
tors Reed. Republican, of Kansas
and Johnson. Democrat, of Colo
rado. They also have an alter
nate measure pending before the
; committee, but no action is con
sidered likely in view of yesterday s
decision.
The Reed-Johnson bills were
offered as a substitute to a measure
introduce by ■ Senator Capper.
Republican, of Kansas, which would
have, in effect, banned all liquor
I advertising. The Capper bill was
tabled last year.
I
Dr. Lee Named Head
Of Southern Baptists;
Issues Under Study
By Caspar Nannes
Star Staff Corrtspondmnt
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 21.—The
Southern Baptist Convention today
set itself to the task of acting on
such controversial issues as race re
lations, Universal Military Train
ing, industrial relations and Com
munism.
The Rev. Dr. Robert F. Lee, pas
tor of Bellevue Baptist Church here,
yesterday was elected president of
the body to succeed Dr. Louie D.
Newton of Atlanta. Dr. Lee, 61,
runnerup to Dr. Newton two years
ago. defeated Dr. John H. Buchanan
of Birmingham. Ala. The vote re
sult was not announced, in keeping
with tradition. About 5,700 delegates
of the more than 9,000 voted.
Dr. Lee. a native of Fort Mill.
S. C„ is a graduate of Furman Uni
versity and served South Carolina
churches at Edgefield. Chester and
Charleston before coming to his
present church in 1927.
Other Officers Named.
Other officers elected were the Rev.
Porter M. Bailes, Tyler, Tex., first
vice president; Maxey Jarman,
Nashville, Tenn., second vice presi
dent; Dr. Duke McCall, Nashville,
treasurer and Porter Routh and Dr.
Joe W. Burton, both of Nashville,
secretaries.
The meeting chose Oklahoma City,
Okla., for its 1949 convention and
selected the Rev. Norman W. Cox,
Meridian, Miss., as the convention
speaker.
The basic approach enunciated
by the denomination at its 1947
convention is expected to be the
foundation of the body’s action late
this afternoon on race relations and
THE REV. ROBERT G. LEE.
—AP Wirephoto.
the civil rights issue. Last year
the convention set forth a series of
"Christian principles," guiding the
denomination's attitude toward the
Negro.
It included a call to treat the
Negro on his merits as an individual,
to fight prejudice against him and
to see that he enjoys the right to
vote, serve on juries, be free from
mob violence and receive proper
educational and other benefits. But
last year's resolution did not men
tion the elimination of segregation,
and the consensus here is this issue
will not be brought to the floor.
Movie Industry Censured.
The moving picture industry was
censured today in a resolution pro
testing "the alarming increase in the
number and treatment of drinking
scenes” and the large number of
pictures glorifying “immoral con
duct.” Legislation designed to con
trol or eliminate liquor also was
commended in the report on this
subject, with an additional state
ment calling on State and city gov
ernments to "make statutory pro
visions for the scientific tests for
persons suspected of driving under
the influence of alcohol.”
Business sessions of the conven
tion end tomorrow. Sunday will be
devoted to a giant evangelistic serv
ice at Crump Stadium, with the
newly elected president of the body.
Dr. Lee. as the speaker.
Convention Slaps Norris.
The convention dealt a slap yes
terday at Dr. J. Frank Norris, fun
damentalist pastor of First Baptist
Church, Fort Worth, Tex:, who has
criticized Dr. Newton of Atlanta
for what he calls his “pro-Com
munlst” stand.
It adopted an amendment to its
constitution to ban representatives
of churches not sympathetic with
its purposes and work from taking
part in its deliberations.
Dr. Norris termed the move “a
huge joke” and said: “If I want
to go back in. I’ll do it.”
The amendment was proposed by
the Rev. L. E. Barton of Mont- j
gomery, Ala., convention parlia
mentarian. who said he did not
like to see the convention “criticized
from within by its enemies.”
Baptists to Give $10,000
For Memorial Here
The Southern Baptists at their
annual convention in Memphis have
voted to contribute $10,000 to the
Chaplains' Memorial being estab
lished at 122 Maryland avenue N.E.,1
Thomas A. Rymer, director of the
General Commission of Chaplains
here, announced today.
Contributions, Mr. Rymer said,
now total approximately $118,000.
By fall, when the memorial will be
dedicated, Mr. Rymer said it is
hoped the project will be debt free.
The memorial is the former home
of the late Senator Hiram Johnson
of California.
27 Illinois Delegates
Back Green; 5 for Taft
By th« Associated Press
CHICAGO, May 21—Nearly half
of the 56 Illinois delegates to the
Republican national convention sav
Gov. Dwight H. Green is their first
choice for President—at least in
early balloting.
Six favor Senator Taft of Ohio,
who generally is regarded now as
likely to inherit other Illinois votes.
Two are for Gen. MacArthur. One
is for Gov. Dewey of New York.
One is for Speaker Martin.
Twenty-seven favor Gov. Green.
Nineteen gave no preference.
Gov. Green has publicly declared
himself neutral. He has asked that
all 56 delegates remain officially
uncommitted until they reach Phila
delphia June 20.
The unofficial choices were re-;
ported in an Associated Press poll
of the delegates. Compared with aj
previous AP poll in February. Gov.t
Green has increased in popularity
from 18 to 27, and Gen. MacArthur
from 1 to 2. Senator Taft was un
changed at 6. Gov. Dewey and
Speaker Martin were unchanged
witfc^l each.
Lewis' Silence Hints
Refusal of New Bid for
Soft Coal Negotiations
By James Y. Newton
John L. Lewis indicated today
he would not accept the latest
invitation of soft coal operators
to resume negotiations on a new
industry work contract.
The invitation was sent by the
operators in the form of a letter,
saying the mine owners thought
that negotiations should be resumed
at once.
Mr. Lewis was silent on the sub
ject. He had no comment to make
upon leaving a meeting of the
United Mine Workers’ Executive
Board.
However, tne umw leader nas
steadfastly refused to take part in
wage talks if the operators Include
in their negotiators the Southern
Coal Producers’ Association and
Joseph E. Moody, its president.
Moody Signed New Invitation.
Union sources pointed out the
new invitation to negotiate was
signed by Mr. Moody as president
of the SCPA along with operators
of other sections of the country.
They held that the operators’
position therefore was unchanged
from what it was on Wednesday
when the wage talks broke down.
At the time the operators insisted
that Mr. Moody should negotiate
as president of SCPA.
In urging a reassembling of the
wage conference, the operators de
clared that neither the Southern
association nor any other operators'
group would have the power to veto
or block contract agreement, that
any group could make a pact with
the UMW on its own.
Mr. Lewis has said he will meet
with the 14 local groups that
comprise the SCPA and who signed
the present wage agreement. Mr.
Lewis stated that he was perfectly
willing to negotiate w’ith Mr. Moody
if he comes into a conference as
representative of the individual
groups rather than as head of the
big association, which he describes
as a “holding company."
Contract Expires June 30.
The present mine contract expires
June 30, and Mr. Lewis said yester
day there is plenty of time to draft
a new one if the operators are will
ing. He deplored talk of a new coal
strike after June 30, but he did not
rule out the possibility of one.
Some of the influential operators
want to negotiate with the UMW
with or without Mr. Moody, but so
far no split has developed.
They told Mr. Lewis it was a
“mistake” to permit the conference
to break up on the issue of the
Southern Association’s taking part.
The mine owners said that under
revised voting rules the Southern
group could not veto a settlement,
as Mr. Lewis had suggested.
No Unit Rule Seen.
“There is no unit rule among and
between the various groups of coal
operators on matters of policy and,
therefore, no single group on the
operators’ side has veto power in the
conference on matters that relate
to the making of a wage agreement,”
the letter said.
Noting that Mr. Lewis had lndi-.
cated that the union wants to get
down to business, the operators
wrote:
"We too want to get down to busi
ness in the hope that a new wage
agreement can be negotiated."
Mr. Lewis told a news conference
his contract demands had not yet
been presented to the operators and
he thus did not care “to go into de
tail at this time.”
Law Institute Dinner
To Hear Frankfurter
Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter will be the principal
speaker at the annual dinner of the
American Law Institute at 8 o'clock
this evening in the Mayflower Hotel.
Harrison Tweed of New York City,
new president of the institute, will
preside.
This morning, Mr. Tweed an
nounced the election of approxi
mately 100 new members of the in
stitute, eight of whom are from the
Washington area. They are: Sam
uel Eugene Gates, Carl McFarland,
Robert C. Watson and John Worth
Kern, all of Washington; Raoul
Berger of Bethesda. Md., and Dis
trict Judge Albert V. Bryan, Armi
stead L. Boothe and Edwin Earle
Ferguson, all of Alexandria, Va.
John R. Ellingston, special adviser
to the institute on criminal justice
for youth, reported this morning
that Massachusetts adopted last
week the institute's model "Youth
Correction Authority Act.” Other
Stated which have previously adopt
ed it are California, Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
The institute later continued its
discussion of a proposed code of
commercial law.
The institute is to close its meet
ings tomorrow, but work on the code
will continue through the next year,
at least. When it is completed it
will be used as a guide in the vari
ous State Legislatures.
The Federal Spotlight
UPW A Ends Second Convention
With Many Problems Unsolved
By Joseph Young
Star Staff Correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. May 21.—The CIO United Public Work
ers of America today ended its second biennial convention here,
with many of its most difficult problems still unsolved.
UPWA’s left-wing leadership adopted several measures which
it hopes will cope with the Keefe Red iider, if it becomes necessary.
But no one definite policy or meet
ing this threat to the job security
of UPWA’s Federal employe mem
bership was decided on at the con
vention.
President Abram Flaxer and his
associates promised the Federal
employes’ membership that the
“union w'ill see to it that your jobs
will be protected." Evidently this
assurance was good enough for most
of the delegates.
At any rate, Mr. Flaxer and his
slate of officers were elected yester
day by almost unanimous acclaim
of the more than 400 delegates.
* * * *
STEPS—Here are some of the
steps that UPWA took to meet the
threat of the Keefe amendment,
which would force the dismissal of
Joseph Young.
all Government
employes whose
union officials
do not sign non
Communist affi
davits:
S h a r p 1 y re
vised its top
leadership to en
able its officials
to sign, if neces
sary, the non
Communist affi
davits. Mr. Flax
er said, how
ever, the revision
primarily was in
the interests of
more efficient organization. But
other UPWA leaders acknowledged
the change was made at least par
tially with the Keefe rider in mind.
Empowered its Executive Board
to order a splitup of the Govern
ment employes’ branch of the
union if necessary. In other words,
if the Keefe rider becomes law and
UPWA officials decide not to sign
the affidavits, the Executive Board
could order the Government em
ployes’ branch to set up a separate
union.
Intensified its effort to defeat
the rider in the Senate. The House
already has approved It.
* * * *
NEW GROUP — Members of a
small anti-left-wing UPWA faction,
unsuccessful in their attempt to
upset the Plaxer leadership, an
nounced they were leaving the
union to start one of their own.
The group says it will take 10,000
of UPWA’s 85,000 membership with
it, but judging from its poor show-i
ing on the convention floor, the
10,000 figure seems greatly exag
gerated. UPWA officials contend
the right-wing group represents
only about 300 members in the en
tire union.
At any rate, the ‘ Build the Union”
Committee announced it would "find
a home” in another CIO union.
Although the union wasn’t named,
it’s expected to be in either the
Industrial Union of Maritime and
Shipbuilding Workers, .or the Utility
Workers of America, both of which
are militant CIO antl-Communist
groups.
The BUC adopted the new name
of the Government Workers’ Organ
izing Committee, pending further
announcement of its affiliation. In
a statement, its leaders declared
they are “completely fed up with
the left-wing anti-CIO policies of
the Plaxer-dominated UPWA.”
They also charged that the con
vention was used by the UPWA lead
ership for attacks against the na
tional CIO and asserted the Mr.
Plaxer and his colleagues “convert
ed the convention into a Wallace
campaign rally.”
The convention did not formally
indorse Mr. Wallace, although it
adopted a resolution sympathetic to
the third party. May delegates,
however, took the floor to praise
Mr. Wallace.
Asked to comment about the
break, Mr. Flaxer first declared:
“It's too silly for comment.” He
then ccommented: “I’m afraid that
any home that takes in these ter
mites will be undermined.”
Morton Llftin, an attorney in the
Justice Department in Washington,
and William Mirengoff, an econo
mist in the Labor Department, j
were elected co-chairmen of the
rebel group.
"The major organizational task of
the new group,” Mr. Liftin said, "will
be directed toward bringing into
the fold of the labor movement,;
and into the CIO, the hundreds of
thousands of unorganized workers
who have a pressing need for ef
fective tiade union representation,
out who are not in sympathy with
the left-w’ing policies of the UPWA
leadership.”
The new group made it plain It
opposes the Taft-Hartley Act and
the Keefe rider, but it expressed
the view that UPWA’s officers
should be willing or able to sign the
non-Communist affidavits to protect
the Government "employes’ member
ship.
* * * *
SATISFIED—Mr. Flaxer and
other UPWA officials said they are
“well satisfied” with the result of
the convention. The fact that only
seven of the 400 delegates voted
against Mr. Flaxer was interpreted
by UPWA officials as an “over
whelming indorsement by our mem
bers of our unions progressive and
effective trade union policies.”
Elected with Mr. Flaxer were two
top officers, Roy Eldean. a Post Of
fice worker from Chicago, who was
Elected vice-president, and Ewart
Guinier of New York, the new sec
retary-treasurer. Re-elected as di
rector of organization was Robert
Weinstein of New York. UPWA’s
six vice presidents were dropped
from the top offices, although some
of them will remain in the union
in lesser capacities.
* * * *
RESOLUTION—During its final
day's session, the convention adopted
the following resolutions:
1. Asking immediate issuance by
President Truman of the anti-1
discrimination order in the Govern
ment service that he promised some
months ago.
2. Asking repeal of the Hatch Act
provision which bars political activ
ities by Federal employes.
3. Denouncing the Taft-Hartley
Act.
FEDERAL DEPARTMENT—The
convention continued the separate
Federal Department arrangement of
the union. The Federal department,
Which remains an integral part of
UPWA has its offices in Washington,
while the rest of the union remains
in New York.
The new executive council meets
today. Among other things it will
decide on who will head the Federal I
Department of the union, which
was formerly headed by Arthur
Stein.
Additional news of Govern
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast version of the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 p.m. every Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.
Virginia Medical College
Alumni Elect Ryland
Dr. C. P. Ryland, 4901 Massachu
setts avenue N.W., last night was
elected president of the Washington
Alumni Chapter of the Medical Col- j
lege of Virginia. He succeeds Dr.
Leroy L. Sawyer.
Other new officers were George;
Schlosser, 701 King street, Alex
andria, vice president, and Dr.
Thomas Pumphrey, 1613 North Fill
more street, Arlington, secretary
treasurer. Tha alumni chapter met;
at the Washington Golf and coun
try Club, Arlington. Speakers in
cluded Dr. W. T. Sanger, president
of the college. Dr. Rosher Miller
and Mrs. Helen M. Sellers, who is
secretary of the alumni association.
| Showdowns on Draft
And Giant Carrier
Put Off Until June
•y *h» Associated frost
Preparedness moves hit a snag
in Congress today as showdown*
on the draft and the Navy’s plan
for a super aircraft carrier wera
put off until next month.
With adjournment tentatively set
for June 19. these were the latest
developments:
1. Chairman Allen of the House
Rules Committee said there will be
no House action on draft legisla
tion until after June 1. His group
scheduled a meeting Tuesday to hear
opponents of the measure sponsored
by Chairman Andrews of the Armed
Services Committee.
Senate action on its draft bill
also is unlikely before June since
lengthy debate is due to start next
week on a displaced persons
measure.
2. The Senate Armed Services
Committee set June 3 for a hear
ing on the controversial plan to
build a giant 65,000-ton carrier.
This proposal has touched off a
so far unofficial Air Force protest
that the Navy is encroaching into
the field of strategic bombing.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee, which has given indirect
approval to the carrier proposal,
asked the Rules Committee to clear
a bill authorizing $209,689,500 for
construction or expansion of Navy
bases in the United States. Green
land, Newfoundland, Alaska and
Guam.
This bill, like the $207,930,100
Army construction measure ap
proved by the House yesterday, was
first sent to the Rules Committee
last summer.
The Army measure now goes to
conference to iron out differences
with the Senate, which passed a
$250,000,000 bill.
Among the projects called for in
the House measure are $8,500,000
for secret Air Force bases in Alaska
and Newfoundland, $10,00.000 for
the Keflavik (Iceland) Airfield, and
$5,000,000 to improve the heavy
bomber base at Rapid City, S. Dak.
William Hodges Heads
Bethesda Civitan Club
William K. Hodges, manager of
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase office of
the Chesapeake <fc Potomac Tel
ephone Co., was elected president of
the Bethesda Civitan Club at the
annual election this week.
Other new officers' are Elmond
Bass, first vice president; Walter
Moorman, second vice president, and
Preston C. King, sr., treasurer.
Directors are the Rev. William F.
Creighton, Holly J. Waterman,
Nathaniel Disbrow. Paul Stallsmith,
John Cerniglia. Rayner Gaillard,
John Smith, William L. Lebling and
Tom De Luzio.
Spellman Group Arrives
In Singapore on Tour
By the Associated Press
SINGAPORE, May 21.—Francis
Cardinal Spellman and 13 other
American Catholic church digni
taries arrived today from Batavia
on a tour of the Orient.
Their plane will leave Sunday for
Bangkok. It will leave Bangkok
Tuesday, Canton Wednesday, Hong
Kong next Friday, Manila on May
31, Shanghai June 3, Peiping Jun»
6, Tokyo June 10 and Honolulu for
Los Angeles June 11.
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