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Teller in Alexandria
Indicted After Baring
$999 Embezzlement
A bank teller who, with his pastor,
Informed the Alexandria First Na
tional Bank he had embezzled
8999.01 of its funds, was indicted by j
a Federal grand jury at Alexandria
yesterday.
Earl Carl Mueller, 2600 block
South Nash street, was indicted on
a charge of embezzling the funds,
which the United States Attorney’s
office said had not been missed until
the teller confessed the crime on
advice of his clergyman.
Gardner L. Boothe, bank official,
said the bank did not want to
prosecute Mr. Mueller because full
restitution had been made. He
said the matter, however, had to be
reported to the examiners. Mr.
Boothe explained the shortage had
not been discovered because it oc
curred between scheduled bank
examinations.
Mr. Mueller had worked for the
bank about six years, and the in
dictment charged embezzlement oc
curred between January, 1942, and
March, 1948. Mr. Mueller has left
the bank and is working elsewhere
In Alexandria. He was freed under
$500 bond.
He was not arraigned after his
Indictment because Federal Judge
Albert V. Bryan disqualified him
self. The jurist served on the
bank's board of directors before
being appointed to the bench.„
Last June $27,000 was stolen from
the bank’s night depository. David
Briggs, colored, a former janitor at
the bank, is serving eight years for
that crime. Mrs. Eulalia Matthews,
a Washington fortune teller known
as Madame Yvonne, and Briggs’ wife
are awaiting grand jury action for
receiving stolen property in the
theft.
Contract Snagged,
500 Quit at Briggs
By th« Associated Press
DETTROIT, June 8.—An estimated
500 employes of the Briggs Manu
facturing Co. walked out today after
the CIO United Auto Workers broke
off wage negotiations with the firm.
A union official said the walkout
might spread. The UAW represents
23,000 at Briggs.
The men who walked out were
employed at the Vernor Plant. Pro
duction was not affected immedi
ately, the company said.
A company spokesman said the
men were ‘‘told to leave the plant
by officers of local 212, UAW-CIO.’’,
Jack Pearson, recording secretary,
of local 212, denied that such orders
had been issued. He said the walk
out occurred because the workers'
were “fed up with the tactics the
company is trying to ram down their
throats at bargaining sessions.-’
The new sore spot in the auto
labor picture arose as the UAW-CIO
Executive Board was called into ses
sion.
Union negotiators walked out on
contract talks yesterday after Briggs
had offered a 13-cent hourly boost
and the two sides seemed near an
agreement.
A few hours later Emil Mazey,
head of the UAW negotiating team
and acting UAW president charged
before the executive board that the
company had failed to bargain in
good faith.
The board, which has scheduled
sessions through Friday, also will
discuss wage talks with the Ford
Motor Co., to get underway next
Monday.
Computation of vacation pay and
hiring rates for engineering em
ployes apparently were two stum
bling blocks to a Briggs settlement.
German
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peered stronger today than at any
time since the agreement was signed.
The press and political leaders
. sounded much friendlier.
The violent Communist and De
Gaullist attacks seemed to have
frightened wavering elements. These
realized that if the attacks sue-;
ceeded the government might fall.
Mr. Palewski had said Gen. De
Gaulle was the "only man” to take
over.
Some observers said Gen. De
Gaulle’s apparent overconfidence j
may have defeated its own aim.
Most of the section of th§ press
usually sympathetic to his position
failed to follow his lead in attacking
the agreement.
New Friction in Berlin.
The Soviet-controlled press of
Eastern Berlin used page-wide head
lines this morning to protest the
recommendations. The newspapers
all published a resolution of the
Russian-supported German people's
congress against them.
"They usher in the last step in
the partition of Germany,” the
resolution read.
A new instance of friction between
the Western powers and Russia in
Berlin came to light today. The
Soviet news bureau said the British
had asked the Russians to move the
Soviet-controlled Berlin radio sta
tion out of the British sector. It
said countermeasures were probable
against Western-power communica
tions through the Russian occupa
tion zone to the west.
The bureau reported that in their
request to the Soviet deputy military
governor for Germany, Lt. Gen. M.
I. Dratvin, the British said they were i
afraid the station might be damaged
in demolition of a nearby air-raid
shelter. It said their real purpose
was to interfere with radio facilities.
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Owner of High Dairy
Is Fined Total of $950
As Labor Law Violator
C. Y. Stephens, owner of the
High Dairy Products Co., 1326 One
half street S.E., today was fined a
total of $950 on 16 counts of female
; wage-and-hour law violations to
l which he pleaded guilty before
! Judge George D. Neilson in Munic
ipal Court.
5 Mr. Stephens, owner of the string
! of about 50 High's dairy stores here,
! told the judge he did not know
personally that the violations were
being committed during March and
April. He said that he “just hired
. the personnel, and left it up to his
! branch managers to keep the em
ployment records."
The charges, some of which were
third-offense violations, involved
about 20 woman employes. The
Minimum Wage Board complained
that the women were either em
ployed more than eight hours a day
or more than 48 hours a week and
more than six days a week. The
board also charged the company
failed to keep daily records of hours
worked.
Judge Neilson imposed the fines
on the separate counts as follows:
$200 each on two second-offenst
violations, $50 on one first-offense
charge and $250 on each of two
third-offense charges. He also im
posed $250 fines on each of 11
other charges, payments being
stayed on payment of the other
fines. Mr. Stephens paid immedi
ately after his court appearance.
The dairy firm was convicted and
fined $500 on similar charges in
1944 and fined another $50 on the
same charges in 1945, court records
showed.
It was the stiffest penalty im
. posed for such violations in more
than a year.
Ginny Simms Sues Husband
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9
(/Pi.—Singer Ginny Simms has filed
suit for divorce against Architect
Hyatt R. Dehn, her husband of
three years. Her complaint said
she and her husband have agreed
| to divide their community property
and she waives alimony. Her at
torney said they will divide custody
of their son David. 21 months.
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third helpings. Swimming, too,
and baseball . . .”
Spells Out Words.
Maggie spelled out the words
on the cover—“Summer Camps.”
She looked questioning at her
brother.
“No spaghetti?”
Joe scrambled up from the
curb, a tall boy for his 12 years
and too thin.
“Better forget it,” he advised
his sister. “C’mon. I’ll take this
book back to the settlement
house. We’ll go down to that
lumber place. Sometimes the
man gives me a quarter for
sweeping out. I’ll buy you an
orange."
The little girl in the faded,
dress trotted off at his side.
There was just one more question.
“Joe,” she asked, “couldn’t we
go to that place where they
don’t have spaghetti?"
The boy gave an old answer.
“Maybe sometime,” he said.
You could make that “some
time” come true this summer
lor Joe and Maggie and the
hundreds of other Washington
children who will find no escape
from the city streets without
your help.
Funds Needed for Z77.
There are places for 277 more
boys and girls at Camp Good
Will and Camp Pleasant, but
no money to send them.
Here’s how you can help Joe
and Maggie and the other young
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If you want to send a child to
camp for two weeks, one week, a
day or anything in between, mail
cash or a check to The Evening
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Two Offer 'Yoking' Excuse
In False Fire Alarm Cases
Two men arrested for pulling
false fire alarms offered the same
excuse that they had been yoked
and robbed and were seeking help,
police reported.
On their appearance yesterday
in Municipal Court, Kenneth Har
mon, 31, of the 700 block of Third
street S.E., was convicted and given
six months probation and Alfred
Carson, 36, colored, of the first block
of Quincy street N.W., was given a
continuance to hire a lawyer.
After a string of witnesses had
testified they saw Harmon pull an
alarm at Second street and Massa
chusetts avenue N.W. and then walk
away, the defendant declared he did
it because two unidentified men had
robbed him of his wallet and foun
tain pen.
Judge Armond W. Scott, however,
found the man had been loitering for
some time around the box. He also
warned Harmon that as part of his
sentence, he wil^ have to repay the
District the $125 it cost to dispatch
nine pieces of fire appartus to the
alarm.
Policeman J. R. Tiffany reported
that, when he arested Carson at
Sixth and S streets Saturday morn
ing, the defendant told him a simi
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Legislators' Remarks
In Cloakrooms Held
Immune to Suits
Members of Congress are free to
say what they please in Capitol
cloakrooms without fear of suit.
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough of
District Court ruled yesterday in dis
missing part of a defamation suit
brought against Representative
Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi.
Justice Goldsborough, a former
member of the House from Mary
land, made clear his belief that the
immunity enjoyed by members of
Congress on the floor extends to the
cloakrooms.
He took a different view, however,
of conversations with newspaper
men.
The suit was brought by Brig. Gen.
Herbert C. Holdridge, retired, a can
didate for the Democratic presi
dential nomination.
Gen. Holdridge accused Mr.
Rankin of calling him a “crackppt”
in a Capitol cloakroom in February,
1946. He also accused Mr. Rankin
of referring to him as “crazy” in a
telephone conversation with a news
paperman in June, 1946. Gen.
Holdridge asked $100,000 damages.
Justice Goldsborough dismissed
the portions of the suit involving
the cloakroom conversation but did
not dismiss the part of the suit
dealing with the telephone conver
sation. He did rule, however, that
any damage would have to be from
the conversation itself, if true, and
not from subsequent publication.
During arguments on motions in
the case last month, Justice Golds
borough said counsel for Gen. Hold
ridge would have to convince him
that the cloakroom is not a part of
the “hall of Congress.”
"I am firmly of the conviction,”
the jurist said, “that it would be an
outrageous thing if members of
Congress could not discuss matters
freely in the cloakroom.”
Public Invited to Tour
Emergency Hospital
The public has been invited to an
open house tea and tour of Emer
gency Hospital from 2 to 4 p.m.
today.
J. G. Capossela, administrator,
said visitors would be taken to the
solarium, where a reception commit
tee of members of the Women’s
Board will receive guests and serve
refreshments.
In observance of “Know Your
Hospital Month,” the Board of Lady
Managers of Episcopal Hospital held
a tea from 4 to 5 p.m. yesterday. Ar
rangements were directed by Mrs.
Albert W. Atwood, president of the
board. A tour of the hospital fol
lowed the tea.
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Christian Scientists Urged
To Defend Free Government
•y the Associated Press
BOSTON, June 8.—The Christian
Science Board of Directors has
urged members of the church to
work for defense of free govern
ment.
The directors drew up a statement
at their annual meeting yesterday
saying that “free government rightly
merits active defense of its sacred
purpose, in addition to pious decla
rations of allegiance to its outer
form.”
Harry C. Browne of Boston, former
actor and radio executive, was
elected president of the First Church
of Christ, Scientist—the Mother
Church. He succeeds Mrs. Helen
Chaffee Elwell of East Hebron, N. H.
He told delegates from many parts
ef the world that "the success of
any organization or government de
pends upon the spiritual efficiency
of the governing or controlling in
strument.”
“With the problem of world peace
confronting us,” he added, “this
same divine quality applied in in
dividual thought and action will be
as potent and as powerful as it was
in Jesus’ time.”
Fund Drive Plans Made
For Trinidad Boys' Club
Plans for the Trinidad Boys’ Club
1948-9 "Adult Membership Drive”
and sustaining fund, which seeks
$10,000, were made last night at a
special meeting of the group in the
clubhouse, 1119 Wylie street N.E.
Lt. William T. Murphy, president
of the board of directors and pre
siding officer at the meeting, said
the fund drive would start about
July 1 and last approximately one
month.
Also'announced last night was a
forthcoming block party to be given
by mothers of the members, with
the proceeds to be spent on the
boys. The scene will be the Sears
Roebuck lot at Bladensburg road
and K streets N.E.
Petrillo Says Unions
Must Merge or Get
'Our Brains Beat In'
•y th« Associated Press
ASBURY PARK, N. J., June 8.—
James C. Petrillo, president of the
American Federation of Musicians,
says the AFL, CIO and principal
independent labor unions must
merge now to avoid “getting our
brains beat in."
Addressing the opening session of
the musicians’ Slst annual conven
tion yesterday, Mr. Petrillo said the
Taft-Hartley Act had shackled labor
and could be counteracted only by
a combination of union strength.
Plans to Confer With Green.
He said he would confer with
William Green, AFL president,
after the convention adjourns and
request him to summon representa
tives of other leading labor organ
izations for a merger conference.
Mr. Petrillo said he had no in
tention of backing down from his
ruling against recordings. He said
the ban was necessary to safeguard
musicians, and he insisted there
would be no change of policy nor
any negotiations with the record
companies.
The head of a 232,000-man union
said he was pessimistic about labor’s
fate during the next few years, but
he told the 1,071 delegates that in
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