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G. O. P. Convention Is Opened,
Recesses After Brief Session;
Foreign Policy Plank Under Fire
Reece Invites Aid
From Democrats to
Fight Communism
By Gould Lincoln
Star Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, June 21.—
The 24th Republican National
Convention today began the job
of choosing its presidential can
didate and the platform on
which the delegates all confi
dently believe he will win this!
November the first Republican
victory in 16 years.
The 1.094 delegates and a similar
number of alternates, plus thou
sands of spectators, jammed Phil- j
adelphia's mammoth Convention I
Ha'll.
Walter S. Hallanan of West Vir
ginia. chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements, called the con
vention to order shortly after 11
a m. He said the Republicans had
come to Philadelphia 92 years ago
Delegation Blocks
Alabamans' Attempt
To Name Dewey First
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA. June 21.—
Supporters of Gov. Dewey lost
an attempt today to make sure
his name will be the first placed
before the convention.
Alabama's 14-vote delegation
refused by a 7-7 tie vote to
yield to New York on the first
roll call for the nomination of
presidential candidates.
Dewey forces in Alabama who
previously had claimed nine of
the State's 14 votes, sought to
give their candidate a strategic
advantage by having their dele
gation yield for his nomination.
Alabama comes first on the roll
call.
Next come Arizona and Ar
kansas. both with uncommitted
delegations, followed by Cali
fornia, committed to Gov. War
ren.
Under present plans. Alabama
will "pass” on the first roll call.
for the first convention of the party 1
and "we are back in Philadelphia
to name the next President of the
United States.”
After hearing Carroll Reece, na
tional party chairman, extend to
Democrats an invitation to help
e'ect. a Republican administration
he said was needed to fight com
munism. the convention recessed un
til 9 o'clock tonight when Gov
Dwight Green of Illinois will take
the chair and deliver the keynote
address.
The cricial first ballot will not
be called until Wednesday night or
Thursday morning, it appeared to
day. With the big State delegations
in caucuses last night and today
reaffirming their stands for favor-.
fie sons, the convention's choice for
the Presidency is still very much in
doubt.
Proclaimed "Party of Freedom.”
At the opening, the convention
heard Mr. Reece proclaim the Re
publican Party the champion of
freedom for the individual.
"Consistently.” Mr. Rece said, "the
Republican Party has followed this
belief in freedom wherever it has
led.
"The freeing of the slaves was
one example. The freeing of work
ers and businessmen from labor
bosses' monopolies through the
labor-management act was still
another."
"So far as this country is con
cerned.'' he said, "the struggle for
mastery is between two great polit
ical forces (free constitutional gov
ernment and totalitarianism). The
once powerful Democratic Party in
America, torn by philosophic and
sectional differences, and handi
■ See CONVENTION. Page A-4J i
Greece Dooms 8 to Die
For Ladas Assassination
By th«» Associated Press
ATHENS. June 21.—A Greek mil
itary court today sentenced eight
persons to death for the assassina
tion of Justice Minister Christas
Ladas on May Day.
Those sentenced included Efstra
tos Moutsoyanis. 22. a factory worker
who confessed throwing a grenade
into Mr. Ladas* automobile. He was
a key witness against the other con
spirators.
Today's Program
Events for Opening
Of G. 0. P. Convention
By tHe Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA. June 21.—The
program for today's opening ses
sions of the Republican National
Convention:
Morning—11 am.
Call to order by Walter 8. Hal
lanan. chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements.
Invocation by the Rev. Fred
Pierce Corson of Philadelphia,
Bishop of the Methodist Church.
Address of welcome by Mayor
Bernard Samuel of Philadelphia.
Address of welcome by Gov.
James H. Duff of Pennsylvania.
Address by National Chairman
Carroll Reece.
Selection of Committees on Cre
dentials. Resolutions, Permanent
Organization. Rules and Orders of
Business.
Election of temporary officers.
Evening—9 p.m.
Invocation by Cardinal Dougherty.
Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Keynote address by Gov. Dwight
H Green of Illinois.
dress by Clare Boothe Luce. i
PHILADELPHIA.—CONVENTION OPENER—Walter 6. Hallanan
of West Virginia, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements,
shown as he pounded his gavel calling the Republican National
Convention to order this morning. (Other pictures on Pages
A-3-4-5.) —AP Wirephoto.
D. C. to Plead Today
For 6 Instead of 3
Convention Delegates
Three Factors to Be Cited;
Group Puts Off Action
On Choosing Candidate
By Don S. Warren
Stor Stpff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, June 21.—
District spokesmen today were
to carry their appeal before the
convention Rules Committee for
a doubling of the size of the
Washington delegation to give it
three more votes in the selection
of the party’s nominee.
Three basic reasons are offered—j
that the District's population ex-:
ceeds the population In 14 of the i
States, that the District exeeded 22 j
States in 1944 campaign fund con
tributions. raising $95,000. and that
absentee voting by District Repub-!
licans outnumbered votes cast in
: various States.
In 1944. District- spokesmen say.,
absentee Republican votes of the
District exceeded Republican votes
cast in 8 States in the presidential
contest and those of 11 States as to
congressional candidates.
Col. Hart to Present Appeal.
The appeal was to be made by
Col. George S. Hart. jr.. secretary of
the Republican State Committee in;
and for the District. His outline is
supported by an impressive bro
chure done in colors.
Members of the delegation held a
caucus this morning, but deferred j
decision as to how the three dele
gates will vote on presidential nom
inations.
Earlier It had been reported they;
would divide their votes three ways
on the first call, one for Gov. Dewey,
one for Senator Taft and one for
Speaker Martin.
The group hopes to hear good
news before the end of today on its
pleas for a plank for District rep
resentation in Congress and home
rule, or both.
Spokesmen Encouraged.
Spokesmen for both suffrage
moves have been given encourage
ment by the Resolution Subcom
mittee on Governmental Affairs.
Representative Dirksen of Illinois j
is here pushing hard for a homei1
rule plank, carrying on with the
hopes he held as Chairman of the j
House District Committee for an i
eventual grant for an elected city'
government
Mr Dirksen was to take the case
directly to Senator Lodge, chairman
of the Resolutions Committee, some i
time today. He is proposing this
language: "We shall support legisla
tion providing for the development
of practical home rule for the Dis
trict of Columbia.''
Emphasis on the words "develop
ment of legislation" is a recognition
that home rule may not come right
away, and would give time to iron
out some of the objections that
blocked House action on the Auch
incloss home rule bill recently.
Aussie Rationing Ends
CANBERRA, Australia, June 21
i/Pb—Prime Minister Joseph B.
Chifley announced today that ra
tioning of meat and clothing will
end tomorrow.
Ford Offers Auto Union
11-to-14-Cent Boost
In New Contract Talks!
Cites Increases Granted
By Its Competitors as
Reason for Policy Shift
By the Associated Pres*
DETROIT, June 21.—The Ford
Motor Co. today offered an 11-to-'
14-cents-an-hour wage increase1
to its 110.000 CIO United Auto
Workers.
The proposal called for a 14-cents
an-hour increase to employes mak
ing $1.50 or more an hour. Those
malting less than $1.50 would re-;
ceive 11 cents an hour.
Ford said this system would
“erase many of the inequities in
our present wage structure.”
The union had asked Ford for a
30-cents-an-hour increase. The aver
age wage new is slightly above $1.50
an hour.
General Motors Corp. recently?
gave its 225.000 employes an 11
cent wage boost geared to the cost
of living. Chrysler Corp. handed
out a 13-cent increase to its 90,000
workers.
The 11-14-cent offer was the first
made by Ford since the union be
gan its drive for a third round of
postwar wage increases.
Ford originally asked the UAW
CIO to forego any further wage
increase at this time, even suggest
ing a cut might be in order.
"Since that time, however,” the
company said, ‘‘our principal com-;
petitors have granted wage in
creases. and it is no longer possible
for us to say, as we could before
these increases, that our average
hourly rate is higher, by at least 6
cents, than theirs.”
Car Prices Increased.
The company has increased prices
on all lines of passenger cars in!
recent weeks. It introduced its new.
higher-priced FoTd to the public
last Friday,
Ford proposed that its wage in
crease become effective whenever!
an agreement is signed with the
UAW-CIO. The present contract
expires July 15.
It asked that the wage increase:
ce used to cover many non-wage
iemands made by the UAW-CIO—
'or example, hospital insurance,
tension plan, vacation adjustment,
guaranteed weekly wage, etc.
Ford asked that the new contract
extend to 1950. with provision for
a reopening on wages next year.
The company also asked for a
joint management-union committee
to study an extension of “incentive
practices in the company.”
There was no comment from the
union.
Butter Falls 11/2-3 Cents
On New York Market
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 21.—Wholesale
butter prices dropped 1 Vi to 3 cents
a pound on the Mercantile Exchange
today while at Chicago spot butter
ranged unchanged to a cent lower.
Trade reports of slow movement in
consuming channels and prospects
for increased production were given
bv trade circles as reasons for the
fall.
Wandering Delegates Hold Up
Convention for 27 Minutes
By Newbold Noyes, Jr.
• Stor Stoff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. June 21.—At
11:27 a.m. today, the Republican
National Convention was called to
order by Walter S. Halls nan of
West Virginia, whacking away with
a gavel of West Virginia wood cut
from a tree supposedly planted by
George Washington at a place now
known as Berkeley Springs.
If anything can be told from the
tension which has led to this mo
ment. the meeting thus called to
order will, as a piece of history, be
entirely worthy of the wood which
called it into being.
The opening was delayed from
the scheduled time of 11 by the
tnwillingness or inability of dele-'
i !
gates to find their seats. Repeated
calls from the speaker's platform—
"please sit down—will ihe marshalls
please clear the aisles”—brought
little result.
There was still a lot of milling
after Mr. Hallanan and his gavel
took charge. Lost-looking dele
gates roamed the aisles even during
his brief opening remarks. The first
real attention was gained by a
pretty girl in blue singing the Na
tional Anthem. And the delegates
finally stood silent and grave as
Bishop Fred Pierce Carson of the
Methodist Church pronounced a 5
minute invocation.
Then they relaxed again and the
hall buzzed with conversation as
, (See” NOYESTPagTA^J i
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Backers Confident
Of Beating Efforts
To Tone It Down
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, June 21—A
battle on foreign policy threat
ened today in the Republican
Platform Committee. Several
members were reported balking
at what has been called the
“most international” plank ever
proposed for the Republican
Party.
They are mostly members of Con
I gress. held in Washington for the
1 late adjournment, who only got
around today to close study of the
preliminary draft of planks pre
pared by members of the Resolutions
Committee in pre-convention sesr
sions.
Representative Harness of Tndi
r ana, a resolutions member just ar
riving, told reporters he expects an
effort to be made in the 104-member
'committee later in the day. to pull
"some of the international teeth”
of the foreign plank.
Vandenberg Approval Reported.
“I have a very definite feeling," he
said, “that we should go a little bit
slow in making commitments this
far in advance on foreign legislation.
We should be able to look the situa
tion over next year and make de
i cisions based on conditions at that
time.”
The preliminary draft of the pro
j posed foreign policy plank has been
jkept secret, but is reported to have
been approved by Senator Vanden
' berg. Presumably it is in line with
nis foreign policy views.
Backers of the plank said they are
: confident they can beat any efforts
to tone it down.
By and large, the proposed plat
form is reported to follow this idea:
Accept President Truman's chal
lenge and write the 1948 platform
largely on the record of the Repub
lican-controlled Eightieth Congress.
Anti-Red Plank Demanded.
I A group of Congressmembers de
i scended at mid-day upon the plat
form committee headquarters to de
mand a strong plank condemning
j communism, as proposed in the
Mundt-Nixon bill that passed the
House but died in the Senate.
Representatives Mundt, Republi
i can, of South Dakota and Nixon,
Republican, of California, authors
of the legislation, informed the com
mittee that an amendment to the
platform will be offered at the res
, elution committee session late today
; proposing a plank "to regulate, ex
i pose and identify communism” at
home.
House Speaker Martin arriving In
Philadelphia to take over the role
of permanent convention chairman
! tomorrow night, told reporters: "The
record of the Eightieth Congress
makes a platform the Republican
Party can stand on and win on ”
The President has called it the
“second worst” Congress in history.
Platform Up for Approval.
The convention platform drafters
—their ears attuned to the late do
ings in Congress, completed the
party's policy document yesterday.
1 It went today before the full Plat
! form Committee for approval. To
morrow or Wednesday it will be laid
before the convention for ratifica
tion.
Its exact wording Is a deep secret
; until the full Platform Committee
: acts. But some persons close to the
drafters said it will:
1. Pledge the party to shun iso
lationism and to continue the bi
partisan policy of international co
operation and American aid for
nations resisting communism.
2. Reaffirm the Republican stand
for creation of a permanent Fair
Employment Practice Commission,
for enactment of anti-lynch and
anti-poll tax legislation, and call for
an end to race segregation in the
armed forces. Such a plank was
written into the 1944 GOP platform,
but none of the legislation has
passed Congress.
3. Refuse to yield to organized
labor's demands for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley labor law but: Restate
the 1944 platform declaration that
! the Republican Party is the his
torical champion of free labor and
(See PLATFORM. Page-A^5P
15 Democrats See
Truman on Strategy
By th« Associated Pres*
A campaign strategy meeting of
1! about 15 top Democrats with Pres
' ident Truman was disclosed today
: by Presidential Secretary Charles
G. Ross. The session was held at
; the White House yesterday.
Mr. Truman gave the group a
I review of his 9.000-mile. 15-day
Western speech-making tour. Mr.
Ross said.
The presidential secretary told
i reporters he did not believe Mr.
. Truman discussed plans for a fu
ture political tour over the country,
; although the President said at a
! number of stops on his recent trip
II that he would return and make
| "political speeches" this fall.
; The only presidential trip now
definitely scheduled is a July 5 ap
pearance at Bolivar. Mo., for an ad
dress in connection with that city's
l dedication of a statute to the South
American liberator. Simon Bolivar,
Mr. Truman will leave here by train
' on July 4.
Among those at the Sunday caucus
were Senator Lucas of Illinois. Rep
1 resentative Rayburn of Texas, the
1 House Minority leader: Senator Mc
Grath of Rhode island. Democratic
National Committee chairman;
Oscar Ewing, Federal Security ad
ministrator: John M. Redding, Dem
ocratic Committee publicity chief,
j and several members of the qjjpnet.
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FACE ALL THOSE >
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1J00D.C. Jobs May Go Begging
Due to Failure of Pay Raise
Fowler Fears Many Will Take U. S. Posts;
Dr. Corning Sees 'Terrible Blow' to Teachers
Congressional failure to in
clude District government em
ployes in the pay raise bill may
leave 1,100 District jobs open and
begging, Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler said today.
The job figure advanced by Mr.
Fowler is based on an --.timated
allowance of 410 new positions in
the new 1949 District budget signed
Saturday by President Truman and
more than 700 vacancies still ap
pearing on the city’s employment
rolls fiom the 1948 budget.
New barriers to employment and
sagging morale among current em
ployes were seen as reaction to the
Capitol Hill “oversight” spread.
Left out in the pay increases given
Federal workers were 18,000 District
workers. The figure includes an
estimated 7.500 classified workers.
3,000 police and firemen. 3.500 school
, teachers and about 3,000 per diem
■ laborers.
“Every possibility exists that we
will have difficulty in filling the
open jobs,’’ Mr. Fowler asserted.
Competition with the Federal Gov
ernment on employment always has
been keen. Now’ the situation is
even worse.
“If a man can get $330 more
across the street, there's no reason
for coming on this side,” he re
marked. "Lack of a pay raise un
doubtedly will be detrimental to
our interests.
Similar reaction was voiced by
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
“Any person who might have
(See D~C. PAY, Page~A-T)
G. 0. P. Leaders Split
On Congress Recall;
Truman Signs Bills
Session's Final Acts
Are on Housing and
Farm Price Support
House and Senate Republicans,
often at odds during the ses
sion that came to a weary end
at 7:15 a.m. yesterday, disagreed
today on whether Congress
should meet again this summer
or early in the fall.
Speaker Martin said the Eightieth
Congress probably will be called
back again.
Senator Taft of Ohio. Republican
Policy Committee chairman, said
in Philadelphia: "I do not think
it will be necessary.'*
Gov. Dewey of New York said
if he became the Republican presi
dential nominee he would not urge
that Congress return. He described
the session's record as "remarkable.”
Truman Could Recall.
President Truman, under the
Constitution, could recall Congress,
but has not indicated he will do so.
The White House estimated that
about 265 bills passed by Congress
in its adjournment rush await action
by the President.
Sixty-five of these were being pro
cessed today for the President’s
action, going the rounds of depart
ments involved for their recom
mendations.
Thirteen more bills were received
at the White House about noon and
‘ nut. in the mill,” Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said. He estimated
that about. 185 more are yet to come
from the Capitol.
Compromises on farm price sup
port bill and a limited housing meas
i (See CONGRESS. Page A-7.)
jlito Agrees to Belgrade
As Site of Danube Parley
By th# Asiocioted
Marsh? 1 Tito of Yugoslavia has
notified the United States his coun
try is ready to sponsor a 10-nation
Danube River conference in Bel
grade.
This represents a reversal of pre
vious information, received from
Russia, that Yugoslav Foreign Min
ister Stanoje Simic had said Bel
grade could not serve as the confer
ence site because of technical diffi
culties. As a result, the Russians
suggested that some other Balkan
capital might be selected.
Mr. Simic. however, has now no
tified the American charge d'affaires
in Belgrade that he has been in
structed to say that his earlier re
jection was only "his personal opin
ion, but not shared by the govern
ment.
Government officials said Marshal
Tito appparently had overruled his
Foreign Minister.
The United States has approved
Belgrade as a satisfactory choice for
the July 30 meeting which will deal
with free international navigation
on the Danube. rf
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1948 Business Profits
May Top Last Year,
Reserve Board Says
Commerce Backs Report,
Citing Upswing in Sales
After Earlier Hesitation
By the Associated Press
The Federal Reserve Board
says 1948 business profits are
“likely to be larger” than In
booming 1947.
As a result, the board said in
its monthly bulletin today, cash
dividends probably -will be higher.
The board also looks for undis
tributed profits to continue high
and business borrowings through
new securities and bank loans to
increase.
The Reserve Board also reported
that Americans boosted their
ready cash assets by $6.800,OOO.OOf
last year, but one out of every four
families overspent its income.
"The financial position of busi
ness corporations as a group today
:1s still strong," the bulletin said in
its general business report.
Volume of Profits High.
"The very high dollar volume oi
sale# of the past two years has beer
i accompanied by an unusually large
1 volume of profits since profit mar
I (See PROFITS. Page A-5.)
Taft Refuses to voice
Stand on D. C. Suffrage
By o Staff Correspondent of The Star
PHILADELPHIA. June 21—Sena
'tor Taft is taking no stand on th<
! question of suffrage for the Districl
;in the Republican platform.
While discussing a possible planl
on statehood for Hawaii this morn
ing, the Ohio Senator was asked il
he would add some words of hop<
for Washingtonians.
"I have never taken any positior
on that and I think I will not ai
the moment," he replied.
Mountbatten Retires From Post;
India Now Fully Self-Ruled
By Associated Press
NEW DELHI., June 21. —Lore
Mountbatten retired as governoi
general today and Free India's self
rule by her own people becanu
complete.
Oriental splendor and westerr
pageantry blended *as Chakravarth
Rajagopalachari elder statesman
took the oath as Lord Mount
batten's successor, becoming th<
first Indian ever to hold this im
Dortant post.
A slender figure in white home
spun national garb, Mr. Rajago
palachari, 69, stood against a back
ground of rich red velvet drape:
embroidered in gold and swore t<
perform the duties of his new office
An advocate of communal har
mony and secular government, h<
then delivered a message to th<
i people declaring that "what dis
turbs the peace of India is inter
necine discord, pure and simple
and it is utter folly."
Less than three hours earliei
Lord Mountbatten, attired in th
President Expected
To Sign Federal Pay
Increase Promptly
Employes of District
And Agency Chiefs Are
Keenly Disappointed
By Joseph Young
White House officials predicted
today that President Truman
will sign promptly the Federal
pay raise bill which grants clas
sified Government employes a
permanent flat increase of $330
a year, but which leaves District
Government employes out in
the cold.
Although Mr. Truman expressed
his opposition to pay raises in his
[budget message last January, ad
ministration officials said changing
j conditions had caused the Presi
dent to change his mind.
They pointed out that Mr. Tru
i man had said in his budget message
that he would probably change his
mind if Congress failed to enact
I his anti-inflation program. Congres:
failed to do this, paving the way
for the President's approval ol
wage increases, it was pointed out.
Employes Disheartened.
District Government employes
were keenly disappointed and dis
heartened by their failure to obtain
the pay raises accorded Pederai
employes. Their spokesmen pointed
out they have suffered just as much
loss in purchasing power due to
rising living costs as have the rest
of the Government’s employes.
The failure of the Senate to ap
prove the District sales tax bill was
the reason Congress finally inserted
ar. amendment in the pay raise bill
barring District government em
ployes from the wage increase bene
fits. Senator Johnston. Democrat
of South Carolina successfully fili
bustered against the sales tax meas
ure, which left the District govern
ment without adequate funds tc
meet the proposed payroll increase
Meanwhile, there was a mixed re
action even among Pederai em
ployes regarding the pay raises vot
ed them. Many thought the $331
increase too small. But most o
them agreed “it was better that
nothing at all," and it wasn't unti
• early Sunday morning that Hous
leaders finally agreed to suppor
any kind of a Federal pay rais
measure.
Subordinates Pass Chiefs.
| Government officials also were dis
appointed at the last-minute rejec
tion of the extensive revisions of th
i Classification Act which would hav
| completely overhauled the Feder?
j pay structure.
As a result of Congress' actio
early yesterday, the Governmen
finds itself in the ludicrous and em
barrassing position of having subor
dinates earning greater salaries tha
agency chiefs.
| Under the legislation, Governmen
agency heads are barred from re
ceiving any salary increase. Bu
their subordinates may receive th
$330 pay raise.
i This will result in many hundred
or $10,000 a year men, many o
whom are not even in top polic,
! (See FEDERAL, PAY, Page A-7 >
gleaming white uniform of a British
rear admiral, bade farewell to the
land whose people called him "one
of us.” Then he took off for England
with his wife and daughter.
About 100,000 persons thronged
the municipal grounds last night to
say good-bye.
One of his last official acts was
1 to command India's draft agreement
,for compromising the question of
Hyderabad's accession to the Indian
Union Dispatches from Madras
last night said the Nizam of the
princely state had turned down the
action "politely, but firmly."
« \ _ I — a 1 a a 1m m ll A fit?
1V11. • I-1-V
known as C. R —came here by plane
irom Calcutta last night, landing
in the rain. According to Hindu
teachings that means he brought
peace and prosperity to his his new
assignment
A lawyer, a skilled political str»
tegist and administrator and an
■ exponent of Mohandas K. Gandhi's
policy of nonviolence, he is regarded
. as one of the most brilliant men in
: India. m
High Court Rules
Taft Act No Bar
To Union Paper
Throws Out CIO Case,
But Refuses General
Ruling on Validity
By tfte Associated Press
The Supreme Court held today
that the Taft-Hartley Law does
not bar political opinions in a
union newspaper.
It unanimously said that the CIO
had not violated the act. It agreed
with District Court here in throwing
out an indictment against the CIO.
The union was charged with vio
lating the Taft-Hartley ban against
spending union funds for political
purposes by taking sides for a candi
date in the CIO News.
The Supreme Court specifically
refused to rule on the constitu
tionality of this section of the law.
The union had deliberately sought
to violate the law to get a ruling
on the legality of the political
spending ban.
The court said the law does not
spell out definitely enough what
is an offense and what is not.
Intention of Congress Questioned.
Justice Reed, in writing the prin
cipal opinion, said that the court is
"unwilling to say that Congress by
its prohibition against corporations
or labor organizations making an
expenditure in connection with any
election’ of candidates for Federal
office intended to outlaw such a pub
lication” (as that by the CIO Newsi.
Justice Reed said the court does
not think that the restriction as
[written by Congress "reaches such
! a use of corporate or labor organi
zation funds."
| The court added that it expressed
i no views as to the scope of the ban
i under circumstances different from
those in the CIO case.
Baltimore Candidte Indorsed,
i The CIO and Mr. Murray began
ithe attempted test of this ban by
publishing in the CIO News an in
dorsement of Edward Garmatz of
Baltimore as Democratic candidate
for Congress. Mr. Garmatz was
elected.
Mr. Murray faced a year in jail
and $1,000 fine, and the CIO faced
a $5,000 fine because of the publica
tion. But Federal Judge Ben Moor*
of Charleston. W. Va., who was pre
siding in court here, threw out th*
Government's charges against thei*
and declared the ban unconstitu
tional. .
7 NBC Stations to Televise
Louis-Walcott Title Bout
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. June 21.—The Joe
Louis-Jersey Joe Walcott heavy
weight title fight Wednesday night
will be televised over a seven-sta
tion hookup of the National Broad
casting Co., the Twentieth Century
Sporting Club announced today.
The amount of money paid for
the television and radio rights, both
of which will be sponsored by th#
same company, was not announced.
The fighters will share in both on
the basis of 40 per cent to th# '
champion and 20 to the challenger.
The fight will be telecast from
stations in Richmond, Va.; Schenec-y 1
tady. N. Y.; Philadelphia. Wash
ington. Boston, Baltimore and New
York.
In Washington the event will be
carried by WNBW.
Summer Arrives
With Forecast of
Warm, Sunny Day
Summer came today with a
promise of sunshine for the day
which will bring the longest period
from sunrise to sunset in the year.
Officially, summer arrived at 8:11
am. The Weather Bureau pre
dicted the sun would shine for most
of the 14 hours and 55 minutes of
daylight.
The longest. daylight period com
pares with the shortest of 9 hour*
and 24 minutes last December 20.
The forecaster predicted a high
near 84 degrees today, with scat
tered showers late tonight or to
morrow. __
Bulletins
Powder Plant Explosion
Rocks New Jersey Area
KENV1L, N. J. <P'.—A power
ful explosion rocked most of
Northern New Jersey today
and Morris County hospitals j
j, said they had been notified by
the big Hercules Powder Co.
plant here to send all available
ambulances and physicians.
A State police radio car no
tified its Netcong barracks that
at least one person was killed
and two injured.
The blast was felt over a 50
mile radius. Yellow-reddish
smoke billowed high over the
Hercules area. Soot and burnt
paper fluttered down near
Dover, about 10 miles away.
The plant was the scene in
September, 1940, of a blast that
killed 52 persons.
Nats' Game Postponed
DETROIT, June 21 <A\—'The
baseball game between Wash
ington and Detroit was poet
poned today because of rain.
Major League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington at Detroit—Rain.
New York at Cleveland, 8:30.
Philadelphia at St. LouU, 9:45.
(Only Games Scheduled)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis at Boston, 8:30.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, 8:30.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 8:45.
(Only Games Scheduled)
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