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Reds Free Trains
For Berlin After
All-Night Half
Russians Consent to
Discuss Whole Issue
At Meeting Monday
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, June 12.—The Rus
sians blocked freight shipments
from the western occupation
zones of Germany throughout
the night, but agreed to restore
the traffic to Berlin, American
and British officials announced.
An American official said the Rus
sians consented to discuss the whole
question of Berlin freight at a spe
cial meeting of Russian, American,
British and French transport offi
cials Monday.
Trains from the western zones
must pass through the Soviet Zone
of occupation west of Berlin in order
to reach this city. The Soviet check
point is at the border of the Russian
and British zones. American and
French traffic as well as British
traffic bound for Berlin passes that
check point.
Six British Trains to Move.
Six British trains which were held
up In the Soviet zone after the new
order became effective last night
will be released and sent to Berlin
as soon as locomotives can be pro
vided for them, the British said.
The Russians also agreed to permit
normal traffic over the route
through the Russian zone by 18 daily
trains. There is a heavy backlog of
trains held up by the Soviet order
however.
There are 2,000,000 Germans and
25.000 Americans, French and Brit
ish in the Western sectors of the
city who would be seriously affected
by a stoppage of freight shipments.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
military governor, told a news con
feren-e a freight train from the
Amei n zone was stalled this
aftemc at the Anhalter railway
station in Berlin.
U. S. Train Cleared.
Later Col. H. W. Holmer, Ameri
can transportation chief, said the
Anhalter train had been cleared. It
was understood that American
switch engines, guarded by GIs,
broke up the stalled freight and
switched it to the proper points
when the Soviet-controlled rail of
ficials refused to act.
The only other American train
stopped up to this afternoon was a
supply train destined for the Ger
man population of the American
sector.
“I don't know the full Russian in
tentions,” Gen. Clay said. "I in
tend to find out ^the facts before
deciding what action to take.”
Full terms of the British-Russian
agreements were not made known
Immediately. The British said earlier
the Russians were “not unreason
able” in requesting that shipments
for Berlin be labeled with their exact
destinations. They had been ad
dressed simply to the Berlin Kom
mandatura.
Trains were stopped at the Helm
stedt-Marienborn control point on
the border of the British and Soviet
occupation zones. This was the
point where the Russians in April
ordered trains stopped for inspec
tions by Soviet officials before pass
ing through the Soviet zone of Ger
many to Berlin. The four-power
Berlin enclave is an island well
within the Soviet zone of occupa
tion.
Other Developments Listed.
There were other developments:
An American Military Government
official said Soviet-sponsored Ger
man Communists are attempting to
foment strike waves in the American
and British sectors of Berlin, osten
sibly to protest western recognition
of anti-Communist leadership of
Berlin's trade union federation.
The Russians, who rejected Brit
ish demands to surrender the Berlin
radio station situated in the British
zone of Berlin, announced a new
propaganda broadcast from the sta
tion. beamed to Western Germany
and designed to give what the Rus
sians call a “true picture of de
velopments in the Russian zone as
well as information about their
own zones which they might not
know.”
Earlier, United States Army offi
cials said they have posted guards
on American-operated railroad
switch engines in Berlin to keep
the Russians from taking them.
Travel Dispute Rages.
This week had witnessed an in
creasing controversy over travel be
tween the Russian and British
American occupation zones.
The Russians today continued to
turn back hundreds of Germans
seeking to travel into their zone
from Western Germany on the
grounds that new interzonal travel
documents were required.
At one point on the American
Soviet zone border the Russians
closed a station where exchange is;
made of refugees and illegal border
crossers.
Firestone Grants union
It-Cent Wage Increase
By the Associated Press
AKRON, Ohio, June 12 —Fire-'
stone Tire & Rubber Co. and the
CIO United Rubber Workers signed
a company-wide contract today pro
viding for 11-cent-an-hour wage
increases for 23,000 employes.
The contract was Firestone’s first
company-wide pact with the union,
which has such agreements with
Goodyear, United States Rubber and
Goodrich, the other members of the
rubber industry's Big Four.
The settlement was the first in
the Big Four of union demands for
the 1948 wage increases.
The union originally asked 30
eents an hour more.
Goodyear and United States Rub
ber are currently engaged in nego
tiations and Goodyear employes
have agreed to take a strike vote
next Wednesday as a result of a
breakdown of bargaining sessions
in Philadelphia last week.
President Promises to Tell
More About'Old Joe' Tonight
Stalin Wants to Keep Word, but Is Held
Prisoner by Politburo, Truman Declares
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Correspondent
ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU
MAN’S SPECIAL TRAIN, June
12.—President Truman today
was nearing the end of the line
on the first half of his trans
continental swing, with a prom
ise to the Nation to have some
thing to say on American rela
tions with the Soviet and “Old
Joe,” meaning Prime Minister
Stalin.
Preparing for the fourth major
speech of his trip on foreign rela
tions at the University of California
commencement this afternoon, the
President tossed in the homely
diminutive in referring to the Rus
sian leader as "a prisoner of the
Politburo" in a rear-platform talk
early last night at Eugene, Oreg.,
i where several thousand residents
were on hand for a welcome. The
remark brought laughter.
In the frankest public comment
in which he has indulged on the
Russian situation the President told
his audience of his hopes for world
peace, and added:
! “I went to Potsdam in 1945 with
that in view. I went there with the
I kindliest feelings in the world to
ward Russia, and we made certain
agreements, specific agreements. I
got very well acquainted with Joe
Stalin, and I like Old Joe. He is a
decent fellow.
“But Joe is a prisoner of the Po
litburo. He can’t do what he wants
to. He makes agreements and if
he could he would keep them. But
the people who run the government
are very specific in saying that he
can't keep them.
“Now sometime or other, that
great country, and this great coun
try, are going to understand that
their mutual interests mean the
welfare and peace of the world as
a whole. I am going to tell you
about that tomorrow at the Uni
versity of California.”
The brief—but blunt—discussion
of the Russian situation served to,
point up the speech the President
is making at the Berkeley institu
tion at 7 p.m., Washington time,
when he receives another honorary
degree. It will be carried by four
major networks.
Careful preparation was made on
the address, which was not whipped
into final shape until last night i
when the presidential train swept (
southward through Oregon and into !
California, where the next three
days will be spent.
There was some thought that the
(SeeTRUMAN, Page A-3.i
Charges of Violations
Threaten to Blow Up
Truce in Palestine
Arabs Reserve Right of
Quick Reprisal Action,
Note to Bernadotte Says
By tH« Associated Press
CAIRO. June 12.—Charges of
violations by both sides threat
ened to blow up Palestine’s
powder-keg truce today.
"The Arab government reserve the
right of quick action in reply to
criminal Zionist attacks,” an Arab
League note to the United Nations
mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte,
warned. An Arab League repre
sentative routed the mediator out of
his bed before dawn to give him the
message.
The Wtews also warned that viola
tions would provoke Jewish counter
attack, and they charged the truce,
now in its second day, had been
broken in several Palestine sectors.
Bernadotte Leaves Cairo.
Count Bernadotte and his aides
left Cairo by plane early today for
the Greek Island of Rhodes, by way
of Trans-Jordan and Jerusalem, to
begin preparations for peace ^alks.
He said the truce violation charges
were being investigated. A high
Jewish officer held out a veiled
threat of reprisal bombings against
1 Arab capitals as he accused the
Arabs of breaking the truce.
Count Bernadotte said he planned
to fly to Amman. Trans-Jordan,
and then to Jerusalem and later
today to Rhodes. He added this
schedule was subject to change.
He told reporters Swedish and
American military observers had
arrived in the Holy Land and gone
to the scenes of neported truce
! infractions. He had no reports from
I them yet. He explained that com
munications were poor between Cairo
and Palestine.
U. N. Group With Bernadotte.
The truce, to last four weeks,
began yesterday morning. It was
arranged to give Count Bernadotte
a chance to negotiate for permanent
peace in the Holy Land.
Israel, the Jewish state proclaimed
when Britain gave up her rule over
Palestine, May 15, since then has
been fighting with invasion armies
of six Arab countries, helped by
Palestine Arabs.
With Count Bernadotte on his
flight was a group of U. N. men.
Among them were Dr. Ralph
Bunche, personal representative of
Secretary General Trygve Lie, and
William Stoneman, on Mr. Lie's
staff.
Col. Thord Bonde of Sweden,
chief of military truce observers, was
left in charge of the mediator’s staff
remaining in Cairo.
Will Return to Cairo.
The mediator plans to return to
Cairo Tuesday to begin talks with
| representatives of Arab governments
i now gathering here for a meeting
Monday of the Arab League Political
Committee.
In these talks he is expected to
explore the possibility of getting
Arabs to attend a peace conference
with Jewish authorities and him
self on Rhodes. No time for the pro
posed conference has been men
tioned, but it is not considered likely
in less than a week.
The note handed to Count Berna
dotte by the Arabs before he left
said their countries cannot “tol
erate Jewish violations of the truce”
and warned that if such continue,
"the Arabs will lose their patience.”
The note was drafted shortly after
midnight at a' meeting called by
Secretary General Abdel Rahman
Azzam Pasha of the Arab League.
Israeli’s Issue Warning.
The chief of operations of the
Jewish high command said in Tel
Aviv last night that Arabs had vio
lated the truce on the northern,
central and southern fronts. He
warned that the Israeli army might;
(See PALESTINE, Page A-2.1
Mattress Fire Put Out
In Downtown Building
Firemen were called to a down- :
town fire at 7:30 am. today to ex- ■
tinguish a blaze in a mattress in a '•
room on the third floor of a building i
at 501 Twelfth street N.W.
Frank B. Wilcox, 30, a tenant in I
the building, awoke to find his room I
filled with smoke. He climbed out i
to a fire escape and aroused a ten- :
ant in an adjoining room. Firemen
tossed the mattress from a window.]
No one was injured.
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ERP Fund Cut Studied
By Senate Committee
At Closed Session
Appropriation of 4 Billion
For 12 Months Expected
To Be Recommended
By the Associated Press
The Senate Appropriations
Committee went into closed ses
sion today to decide how much
American cash should be spent
to speed Europe's recovery.
The committee had before it a
House cut of between $1,000,000,000
and $2,000,000,000 in the foreign aid
program designed to help friendly
countries halt the spread of com
munism. The slash was expected
to be considerably smaller by the
time the Senate gets through with
the measure.
i The appropriations group called
Tn several witnesses for secret testi
mony before making a final deci
sion. Among them were Economic
Co-operation Administrator Paul G.
Hoffman and Lt. Gen. Albert C.
Wedemeyer, chief of the Army's1
Plans and Operations.
Cut Riaky, Sava Marshall.
The administration asked a total
of $6,533,710,228 for a 12-month aid
program, including assistance to
Greece, Turkey and China. But the
House voted $5,980,710,228, to be
spread over 15 months.
Secretary of State Marshall told
the Appropriations Committee yes
terday if the cut stands it will
change the entire aid program from
"a calculated risk for success” to one
of “a calculated risk for failure.”
The committee is expected to
restore most of the House cuts and
put the vast spending measure up
for a Senate vote early next week.
The greatest issue at stake is the
$5,300,000,000 ECA recovery program
intended to help 16 Western Eu- j
ropean nations.
Congress already has given ECA
authority to issue $1,000,000,000 in
notes, and has added anothet
$55,000,000 in appropriations. This
leaves $4,245,000,000 to be appro
priated.
245 Million Cut Seen.
Influential Republicans say pri
vately they believe the Senate Ap
propriations Committee will give
ECA $4,000,000,000 for 12 months.
This would be a cut of $245000,000
as against a House cut estimated at
$1045,000,000.
These other major items wTere in
volved in the House cut:
Aid to Greece and Turkey—$200.
000.000 instead of $275000.000 asked.
Aid to China—$400000000 instead
of $463,000,000 asked
Aid to Trieste—The $20,000,000
asked for this was earmarked by the
House to come from the gener.il;
ECA fund.
Government and relief in occupied
areas—$1,250,000,000 instead of $1,
400,000,000.
Plane May Have Bombed
Koreans, Air Force Says
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, June 12.—United States
Far East Air Force headquarters
said today that American planes
may have been involved in the re
ported bombing of Korean fishermen
in the Japan Sea last Tuesday.
A press statement said there is a
bomb training range in the general
area where Korean fishing craft
were reported hit. A bomber mis
sion was flown Tuesday.
Korean police said 14 fishermen
were killed in attacks by nine un
identified planes.__
Taft Act Blocks
Maritime Peace,
Fact-Finders Say
Strike Is Inevitable
Tuesday Unless Court
Acts, Board Asserts
By the Associated Press
A presidential inquiry board
today blamed the Taft-Hartley:
law for the deadlock which
threatens the entire American
merchant marine with a strike
next Tuesday.
In a report to the White House
the five-man board said maritime
'employers and unions want to con
tinue their traditional hiring hall
j system, but the employers consider
that the new labor law makes it
illegal.
The board, headed by Harry Shul
man of Yale University Law School,
spoke of an all-coast shipping walk
out as inevitable unless barred by
court order.
I President Truman is expected to;
order the Justice Department to
apply for a Taft-Hartley injunction
against the strike, which would stall
the Nation's foreign relief program.
Injunction Next Step.
An injunction is the next step
under the Taft-Hartley Act's pro
cedure for handling national emer
gency labor disputes once an inquiry
board has done its fact-finding job.
A strike would tie up all Ameri-!
can flagships on the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts and all American and
foreign shipping on the West Coast.
Approximately 150,000 workers,
represented by seven unions—five of
them CIO. one AFL and one inde
pendent—are involved in the dis
pute. The two largest are the CIO
National Maritime Union on the
East and Gulf coasts and the CIO
Longshoremen on Pacific Coast
docks.
The board, appointed by the
President under terms of the Taft
Hartley Act, said it was “entirely
clear” the basic dispute rises from
j the act itself.
Hiring Halls Major Issue.
While there are scores of unset
tled issues, including demands for
more wages, the board found that
all these had been sidetracked in
the hiring-hall argument.
The hiring hall is the system, long
in use in the maritime industry,
which gives unions the right to fur
nish seamen and dock workers re
tired by employers.
The stalemate is this: The un
ions want the hiring hall continued;
the employers say it is now pro
hibited by the Taft-Hartley Act’s
ban against giving hiring preference
to union men over non-union me.
“The positions of both sides with
respect to the employment issue
have been quite adamant,” the re
port said. “With minor exceptions,
neither side has attempted to use
imagination or ingenuity to resolve
the controversy.”
Snagged by. New Law.
The board said that if it hadn't
been for the “perplexities presented
by the impact of the new law on
the established practices" of the in
dustry, it seemed likely “the parties
would have succeeded in reconciling
their differences without the prob
ability of a strike.”
And, the board continued, it is
apparent that except for the new
law the employers would willingly
keep the hiring hall. The report
said East Coast employers testified
they would continue using the hir
ing hall system even thought they
feel barred legally from agreeing to
do so in a written contract.
Members of the board besides Mr.
Shulman are Andrew Jackson and
Jesse Freidin, New York attorneys;
Arthur P. Allen of the University
of California and George Chaney,
San Diego labor consultant.
Creighton Defeats Jenner
tn Indiana Governor Race
By the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, June 12—Ho#
bart Creighton, speaker of the Indi
ana House of Representatives, de-;
feated Senator Jenner of Bedford
for the Indiana Republican guber
natorial nomination last night.
Mr. Craighton’s nomination came
on the second ballot at the close of
the State convention after two other
candidates who had trailed in the
first vote transferred their support
to the victor.
The convention, which also nom
inated candidates for 10 other State !
offices, afforded the first test of a j
new State law providing a secret!
ballot for the delegates, who used
voting machines. t
Indiana Republicans completed
their delegation to the natiohal con
vention with election of seven dele-i
gates-at-large. Twenty-two other
delegates—two from each congres
sional district—were chosen Thurs
day night.
The convention indorsed Majority,
Leader Halleck as Indiana's favor
ite-son presidential candidate but
gave delegates no binding instruc
tions. __ j
Russians Reported Using Jets
Designed for Supersonic Speed
By tH« Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 12.—Aviation
Week says that motion picture film
smuggled out from behind the iron
'urtain shows the Soviet has jet
planes designed for faster than
sound flight.
These include Russian versions of
:he Nazi DFS 346 which reportedly
reached a speed of 748 miles per
Pour, the current issue of the maga
iine, a McGraw-Hill publication,
says.
“The whole aeronautical world has
>een wondering whether Russia has
seen able to exceed the speed of
sound,” the magazine says. "These
reports indicate this ship has."
Drawings of Soviet planes shown
in the magazine, it adds, are based
on film made “from the ground with
i %
a camera equipped with a telescopic
lens as the planes were tested.”
Aviation Week says the photo
graphs did not originate with Mc
Graw-Hill s Moscow bureau but ‘‘ar
rived in this country by a circuitous
route.” No other details are given.
The magazine says the Russians
took over the German's unfinished
DPS 346 along with its engineers at
the end of the war. Both Soviet
versions are decribed as research
fighters.
Last Thursday, Air Force Secre
tary Symington said the United j
States Air Force's experimental
Bell XS-1 ‘‘has flown much faster
than the speed of sound many
times.” |
Sound travels at about 760 miles j
(See RUSSIAN PLANES, Page A-2.)1
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Act to Outlaw Strikes
On Railroads Proposed
To Joint Committee
Industry Spokesman Says
Public Must Be Protected
From 'Indefensible' Tieups
By the Associated Pres*
A spokesman for railroad
management proposed today that
Congress outlaw big railroad
strikes such as was threatened
this spring.
J. Carter Fort, vice president and
general counsel of the Association
of American Railroads, said. “There
can be no doubt that indefensible
railroad strikes must be prevented
by law if the national welfare is to
be protected.’’
Mr. Fort was a witness before the'
Senate-House Committee on Labor
Management Relations. That group
is making a general study of what
changes may be advisable in labor
laws.
A strike this spring was averted
because the Government seized the
railroads and got a court order
against a strike. A strike had been
called by three railroad brother
hood.\—the locomotive engineers,!
the firemen and enginemen and the
switchmen.
Move Made as War Power.
Mr. Fort told the congressional,
committee that the Government
could do this only because the wari
never has been declared officially!
to be over. He said some machinery
is needed to prevent a railroad
strike when there is no technical1
state of war.
In offering remedies, Mr. Fort
told the committee:
“One way would be to amend the
Railway Labor Act so as to provide
that in time of war, or in time of
national emergency declared by
Congress or proclaimed by the Pres- j
ident as a result of stoppage or.
threatened stoppage of essential'
transportation, railroad strikes or
lockouts are prohibited, with injunc
tive relief available, when such
strikes or lockouts are for the. pur
pose of enforcing demands which
have been submitted to a presiden
tial emergency board and which
have not been' approved or recom
mended by such board, or are for
the purpose of resisting demands
which have been approved or recom
mended by the board.
“Another approach would be to
amend the Railway Labor Act soi
as to make decisions of presidential
emergency boards binding on both
the railroads and their employes
and to prohibit any strike or lock
outs with respect to such decisions.”
Called “Limited Measures.”
Mr. Fort said the legislation he
proposed would be designed “merely
to protect the public from the ruin
ous consequences of the failure to
agree on the part of management
and men, and the remedies provided
would be limited measures appropri
ated to that end.”
He said such legislation “certainly
would not deprive the employes of
any just rights.” He said workers
would be guaranteed against imposi
tion upon them “of any wages or
working conditions, even for a temp
orary emergency period, which had
not been found to be just and fair
by a presidential appointed board.”
The present Railway Labor Act
provides for creation of emergency
boards by the President when man
agement and the union are unable
to agree.
Such boards recommend terms for
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Bulletin
Sailors Hurt in Bus Crash
Five persons were injured, I
none believed seriously, in the i
collision of a chartered A. B. j
& W. bus containing 42 sailors
and a truck on Central avenue
about a mile east of its inter- |
section with the Largo road, ,
in Prince Georges County, Md. 1
Four of the injured were sail
ors, passengers on the bus,
one of 13 chartered by Navy
personnel from Quarters K at
the Arlington Navy Annex and
WAVE Barracks B in Potomac
Park for an outing at Triton j
Beach, Md. The fifth injured
person war driver of the truck,
John T. Adams, 44, colored, of
Upper Marlboro, who suffered j
a cut face.
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Smoke of Fires
In Ontario Woods
Shrouds Sun Here
Smoke from a forest fire in Can
ada affected the weather here to
day, and with occasional clouds was
expected to keep the sun from stay-j
ing out.
The Weather Bureau said the
cloud has traveled more than 1,000
miles from its origin in Ontario,
spreading as far south as Alabama
and Georgia. Sunsets have been j
redder than usual and, occasionally,
the sun has appeared to be ringed
by a ruddy halo, an observer said.
Forecasters refused to predict'
how long the smoke would affect ;
weather here. They said it depends J
on the wind direction.
The week end, they said, will be
generally fair and warm with a;
possibiliU' of thunderstorms to
morrow afternoon.
—
Lewis and Operators
Open First Discussion
On New Coal Contract
UMW Chief Relaxes Stand
Against Parley Until
Pension Is Settled
By James Y. Newton
John L. Lewis and soft-coal
operators today discussed a new
coal industry contract for the
first time in the week of negotia
tions here.
Until today, Mr. Lewis had in
sisted he would not discuss details
of a contract to take the place of
the present one, which expires June
30, until he and the operators had
settled the long controversy over'
the payment of pensions and dis
tress benefits to miners from the
*40,000,000 United Mine Workers’
welfare and retirement fund. Thei
money, has accumulated since last!
July 1, when the present contract
went into effect.
Mr, Lewis and his negotiators met
with the operators for more than
two hours today. On leaving the
session, Charles O’Neill, spokesman
for the operators, indicated the
deadlock over the welfare fund had
been broken.
Mr. O'Neill said the negotiators
discussed details of a new contract,
including wages, as well as devoting
time to the pension and welfare
issues.
To Resume Talks Monday.
The coal contract negotiations
were adjourned until 3 p.m. Monday.
Mr. Lewis apparently was willing
to discuss new contract details be
cause he held that the argument
;over payment of death and distress
benefits to the miners and their
dependents was settled by the wel
fare fund trustees last night.
The UMW chiei and Senator
Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp
shire pushed through over the op
j position of th* operators’ trustee,
Ezra Van Horn, a resolution which
'stated that the present welfare'fund
(SeeCOAL, Page A-2J
Laws Bans Primary ;
By Democrats Monday:
Unless ADA Is Listed '
Hearing Set for Friday;
Order Applies Only to
Central Committee i
]
A temporary restraining order i
was issued today by Chief Jus- <
tice Bolitha J. Laws of District
Court to prevent an election of <
members of the District Demo- J
cratic Central Committee on
Monday unless six candidates ,
backed by the Americans for J
Democratic Action are on the ,
ballot. (
The motion for the restraining 1
order was filed at noon by attor- '
neys for the ADA-backed group. '
Justice Laws set a hearing for Fri- i
day.'
This was the latest development
in a series of moves and counter
moves that raised uncertainty
whether there will be a primary
election Monday to elect District
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention and to the District
Democratic Central Committee.
The restraining order today ap
plied only to membership on the ,
committee. The six candidates sup
ported by the ADA group are Joseph
L. Raugh, jr., Tilford Dudley, Mrs.
Ernest K. Lindley, Benjamin S.
Sigal, head of the ADA chapter here,
James C. Turner, jr., business agent
for an AFL Operating Engineers ,
Union local here, and Gerhard Van
Arkel, former general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board.
Court Prevents vote.
District Court Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough yesterday granted a
temporary restraining order de
signed to prevent the scheduled
Monday vote. But, later in the day
at the request of attorneys for the
Democratic organization here, he;
scheduled a hearing for Monday at
11:15 am. on a motion to dissolve
the temporary restraining order.
The Democratic Central Com
mittee, which is fighting a move
by four candidates backed by the
liberal anti-Communist Americans
for Democratic Action to gain a
place on the local ballot, has sched
uled the election for Monday from
4 to 8 p.m. Newspaper advertise
ments yesterday carried this notice
with locations of the six polling
places.
Statements Conflict.
In the flurry of conflicting state-!
ments, these are the latest:
• The Democratic Central Commit
tee announced it has retained Leslie !
C. Garnett and Samuel F. Beach
to represent it in the court action.
The committee said it feels that
"representatives of the CIO-PAC
and Americans for Democratic Ac
tion would be representing not the
I District of Columbia but the policies
of an outside organization.’’ The
statement added:
| “The Democrats of Washington
i further believe that people whose
: first political loyalty is to organiza-i
tions outside of the Democratic Party j
obviously are not entitled to partici
pate in our convention deliberations
* See DEMOCRATS, Page~A-2.> I
Your Gift—Their Camping
Vacation Would Solve Troubles
Of Boy, 12, Big Brother of Ten
Walter cheerfully scrubbed
the baby’s neck, keeping an
eye on the other twin to be
sure he didn’t toddle out of
reach of the washpan.
As he sloshed soap and water,
the 12-year-old kept up a run
ning sing-song:
“You’re a dirty child, but soon
you’re going to be clean. Walter
is going to fix you up. Now, don't
that water feel good?"
He grabbed for the other twin,
departing rapidly. The little fel
low broke into a howl.
“Can’t you keep those children
quiet?” his father shouted. "My
heart—all this noise!”
Walter stripped the baby with j
the skill of long practice and
popped him into the tub.
"They don’t like soap,” he
apologized. I
Walter’s mother came into the j
room and sat down heavily.
“That washing wore me out,”
she sighed, “Walter, could?.
Soon as I finish with the kids.
I’ll hang it out,” he promised.
’’But, Ma, alter that can I go
out and play ball? One of the
fellows got a bat.”
His mother stiffened.
"You know I don’t want you to
play in the street,” she said.
‘ I’ve told you a hundred times
it isn’t safe.”
The boy didn't protest. But his
chatter to the babies ceased. He
was thinking.
“I sure would like to go some
place where I could play ball,” he
said finally. •
"You could go to camp if we
had the money,” his mother
sighed. ‘‘If your father wasn’t ;
sick . .
"Sure, I know, "Walter said,
and went on with his scrubbing.
Walter doesn’t complain about
taking care of the babies or hang
ing out the wash or scrubbing
the ’ floor. He knows his father
would work if he could, and bear
ing 10 children has worn his |,
(See CAMPING, Page A-2.1 '(
D. C. Supply Bill
Heads for Final
Congress Action
Conferees Agree on
$99,729,483; Revenue
Measure Snarled
By Don S. Warren
BULLETIN
Chairman Cain of the Dis
trict Fiscal Subcommittee to
day took the Senate floor to
begin a determined fight for
enactment of the 2 per cent
sales tax which would be com
bined with a revised income
levy exempting incomes up to
$8,000 here. He charged that
failure of the revenue bill
would force a 75-cent rise in
the District property tax rate,
if Congress passes pay raise
bills.
One part of the District's
financial problem, the 1949
spending program, today was on
its way to final Congressional
action, but the revenue side of
the picture was still in a snarl.
House and Senate conferees on
the budget for the new fiscal year
compromised differences late yester
day between the two bodies to rec
ommend an outlay of $99,729,483.
This reduces net Senate cuts to
$1,435,500 from the House total, with
restoration of a $161,500 previously
slashed by the Senate.
Quick House and Senate approval
is expected to be given the plan to
send the supply bill to the Whit*
House before adjournment next
Saturday.
Pay Raises Not Figured.
As the bill now shapes up, it pre
sents a prospective deficit of about
$160,000 by the end of next year,
which might be absorbed adminis
tratively. But a supplemental re
quest for $150,000 to finance con
tinuation of the child day-care
centers now is expected and this
would boost the immediate deficit
to more than $300,000.
None of these calculations, however,
allows for the possibility of a last
minute order by Congress of a Gov
ernment pay raise, to be applied to
classified city workers, along with
collateral approval of pay boosts for
District police, firemen or school
teachers, which may shoot the 1949
District deficit up by $7,000,000.
The new city revenue bill, though
easily passed by the House, so far
has been blocked by the Senate by
objections by Senator Johnston,
Democrat, of South Carolina, who
opposes the sales tax provision. The
South Carolinian said yesterday he
was prepared to filibuster, if neces
sary, to kill the House bill.
Might Raise Realty Tax.
Sponsors of the revenue bill warn
that passage of the pay bills and
failure of the tax measure might
force a boost in the realty and per
sonal property tax rate from $2 to
$2.50 next month and to $3 a year
from now.
Anticipating increased budget de
mands in the 1950 fiscal year. Chair
man Bates of the House District
Fiscal Subcommittee, forsees the
possibility that a property owner
who last year paid a realty and per
sonal property tax bill of $1,000
would have to pay about $2,000 in
1950. The property tax burden this
year was raised by about 30 per
cent, including rate and asessment
increases. Mr. Bates calculated the
rest from a preview of a possible
1950 budget of well over $105,000,000.
With pay raise legislation and the
necessity of meeting obligations
postponed by various means this
year, he estimated the deficit for
1950 might run to $18,000,000.
Psychiatric Item Scrapped.
One decision of the conferees
knocked out of the spending bill a
Senate item of $30,000 for prepara
tion of dans for a new psychiatric
ward building at Gallinger Munici
Dal Hospital.
Left intact, however, were tunas
for plans and construction of a
combined pediatrics and crippled
childrens building, under a con
tract limit of $2,050,000, and a new
laboratory building, with a cost
limit of $478,000.
House managers accepted a Sen
ate provision reducing to the $9
per-day cost the charge against the
District for city patients treated
at Freedmen's Hospital. The
House had allowed a much higher
rate for Freedmen's. but the Senate
insisted any deficit in operations
there should not be laid on District
taxpayers.
Under the conference agreement,
$150,000 was restored for sewer con
struction projects lopped off the
fund in the Senate, as was an item
of $20,000 for equipment needed in
the reconditioning Western High
School. Minor items also were re
stored for the operations of the
offices of the Corporation Counsel,
the Auditor, the Tax Collector and
the Assessor.
School Payroll Cut Stands.
No change was made in decisions
to cut school payroll funds by
$100,000. which would mean drop
ping 50 teaching positions. The
conferees, however, are leaving the
application of the cut to school of
ficials, instead of specifying the
saving must be made in the white
schools.
The conferees made no change in
a cutback in the proposed enlarge
ment of the police force but ac
cepted a reduction from 207 to 157
in the number of extra men.
The House managers accepted the
Senate order for a $100,000 survey
of school facilities and personnel.
A formal report is to be submitted
to the Congressional Appropriation
Committees by next March 1.
The conference group is recom
mending the Senate item of $15,000
for purchase of sites for fire houses
in the vicinity of Forty-ninth and
East Capitol streets and Twenty
fourth and Irving streets SJ1.
Chairman Horan of the House
Funds Subcommittee won his argu
ment for language to strengthen the
control of the District Auditor over
city disbursement*.
*