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Radio Prize Programs
Face FCC Ban Where
Lottery Is Involved
The Federal Communications
Commission is gettting ready to
tnne-out the rags-to-riches”
radio programs which are dis
tributing more than $100,000 a
week in cash, travel expenses
and merchandise awards to lucky
listeners.
In a case growing out of a pro
gram called "Dollars for Answers.”
which formerly was broadcast by
Station WARL in Arlington, the
commission announced late yester
day that it proposed to crack down
on the air-borne cash prizes which
appear to involve a lottery or to
depend on "lot or chance." The
action, the commission explained,
was prompted by "the growing
number of 'money’ programs on the
radio."
i Making public a set of new regu
lations which are to be used as a
guide in deciding whether a pro
gram involves a lottery, the com
mission called attention to that
section of the Communications Act
which says that no radio station
"shall knowingly permit the broad
casting of any advertisement of. or
information concerning, any lottery,
gift enterprise or similar scheme,
offering prizes dependent in whole
or In part on lot or chance, or any
list of the prizes drawn or awarded
by means of any such lottery, gift
enterprise or scheme."
Effective Date I'nderided.
The effective date of the new
rules has not been fixed, but the
commission gave interested parties
until September 10 to present their
views.
Network officials in New’ York re
fused comment pending study of
the ruling. Justin Miller, president
of the National Association of
Broadcasters, said lawyers in his or
ganization also would study the
matter and make any representa
tions deemed necessary. •
The WARL program, which was
broadcast in 1947 consisted of the
periodical reading of a question and
the correct answer, followed im
mediately by a telephone call to
a person selected at random lrom
the telephone book.
Examiner C hargecl » lolatino.
The question was repeated. If the
person called rame up promptly with
the answer, he got a cash prize
ranging from $2 to $348. The range
depended on how many previously
called persons had been unable to
supply an answer.
A hearing examiner, J. D. Bond,
after an inquiry, said this program
violated that section of the Com
munications Act forbidding any
broadcast advertisement or informa
tion "concerning any lottery, gift
enterprise or similar scheme."
The commission, by saying it was
In agreement with the examiner's
findings, provided' a hint of some of
the standards it will apply in curb
ing prize programs which in general
..follow the WARL pattern.
The examiner said a lottery con
sists of three essential things: A
-pnzq,.chance and consideration. •' i
Refuses to Abandon Inquiry.
He said the prize is admitted in
the announced offer: the chance
figures in the random selection of
names froth a telephone book, and
the consideration—on the part of
•the "Participant—is the answering)
bt a telephone .and listening to the!
program.
Bond said the WARL contest was
not one "of skill for prizes within
any accepted meaning of those
terms.”
WARL contended that its pro
gram was not a lottery and asked
that the investigation be dropped
because the station no longer
carries the program. The com
mission refused to abandon the
inquiry, explaining that it would
hear oral argument on the examin
er's findings before taking final ac
tion in the case.
Another Czech General,
15th to Date, Flees to Reich
By the Associated Press
FRANKFURT. Germany. Aug. 6 —
Fifteen Czechoslovak Army and Air
Force generals have fled into Ger
many since the Commpnist coup last
February in their homeland, it was
revealed last night.
Czech refugee officials said the
latest general to arrive was Mira
slav Naumann, wartime command-,
ing general of Czech troops in
Britain.
The Czech officials said he was in
“disfavor" with Czech Communists
because of his wartime activities.
He quit his post and escaped across
the frontier into Germany last week,
the officials said.
Public Relations Group
Names 3 to Committee
Three new appointments to the
executive committee of the National
Capital Forge of the American
Public Relations Association were
announced yesterday by Robert
Harper, forge president.
They are Mrs. Hall Rider. Wash
ington publicity woman, secretary
of the local unit: Max R. Shohet
of Radio Reports, Inc., chairman of
the publicity committee, and Jean
* H. Du Buque, president of Jean H
Du Buque and Associates, adver
tising and publicity consultants,
chairman of the program com
mittee.
Congress in Brief
Senate.
Agrees to vote on controversial
housing bill beginning at 1 p.m.
Banking Committee considers
GOP anti-inflation bill.
Investigating Committee continues
hearing on Government loyalty pro
gram.
House.
Routine session.
Special Committee continues in
vestigation of FCC.
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Letter Brings $100 for Candy
To Children of Spared Slayer !
The five children of Floyd P.
Wilson, convicted murderer, whose
death sentence was commuted yes
terday by President Truman, are
going to have a lot of candy to eat,
if the instruction of an anonymous
letter writer are followed. *
Wilson's attorney, Charles E.
Ford, today displayed two notes
turned over to him by Maj. Robert
J. Barrett, superintendent of police.
One was addressed to Major Bar
rett. It read:
"Your Excellency (Is that the
correct way?) Please forward or
deliver this to Mrs. Wilson."
The second note was addressed
in this way to Wilson's wife, who
lives at 5804 Cleveland avenue,
Riverdale, Md.
"Mrs. Wilson. 5800 block of Cleve
land avenue, Riverdale <?), D. C.
<?», Va. <?>, Md. (?).”
It read, “ Buy the kids some candy
bars for me.-’
Folded between the notes was a
$100 bill.
Maj. Barrett said both notes were
in an envelope delivered to him by
messenger this morning.
Wilson was sentenced to death
after his conviction for the Feb
ruary 8, 1947, fatal shooting of a
Giant Food store employe.
Flame-Charred Debris
Picked Up in Hunt for
Missing French Plane
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Flame
charred, splintered wreckage,
found off the African coast in
the South Atlantic, was be
lieved today to have come from
a giant French flying boat miss
ing since Sunday with 52 per
sons aboard.
The wreckage, including airplane
seats, was found by the United
States Coast Guard cutter Campbell,
whose commander told headquarters
here there was “little doubt" that it
was the remains of the 73-ton, six
engine Air France Lateorere 631.
The mammoth craft was en route
from Martinique to West Africa
and was 1.200 miles from Dakar
when its last radio signal was heard
shortly after midnight Saturday.
None of those aboard was an Amer
ican.
B-2S Spotted Wreckage.
Early yesterday a United States
Air Force B-29 bomber, part of a
large fleet of ships and planes
searching many hundred square
miles of ocean for the lost seaplane,
spotted wreckage and radioed the
cutter Campbell, searching nearby.
The Campbell reported later that
it was steaming slowly “through a
sea literally covered with debris.”
The vessel said it found itself in
“the midst of numerous tits of
wreckage a short time after con
nected seats had been plucked from
the ocean with grappling hooks a
scant 70 miles off the normal course
of the Air France plane.”
Capt. Beckwith Jordan, the
Campbell's commanding officer,
radioed headquarters here that
“there is little doubt that, the
wreckage and debris * * * came
from the plane being sought * *
Leather Seats Picked Up.
Aboard the cutter was John Folk.
Coast Guard correspondent, who
radioed the disnafch to New York
headquarters of the Coast Guard.
H? said an intensive search of tne
area followed the discovery of
“leather-trimmed, rose upholstered
seats."
"The plane seats thus far are the
i largest of several items taken aboard
the Campbell to aid in determining
the cause of the tragedy and are
comparatively unmarred in sharp
comparison to charred bits of ply
wood. a table top and a locker door,”
he reported.
L "Coast Guard, officers on board
Uhe Campbell believe there is no
doubt that the plane was stricken
by fire either before or after an
explosion.
Area to Leeward Searched.
"Following a thorough combing of
the debris-laden area * * • the
Campbell has changed its course to
!the leeward, pursuing the theory
that any survivors who managed to
escape the ill-starred airliner by
raft would have been driven in that
direction by the steady wind that
has prevailed for several days.
“The search will continue tonight
with powerful searchlights as Coast
| Guardsmen on board the Campbell
j cling tenaciously to the hope that
survivors might yet be alive and
waiting rescue.”
Stalin, Pravda Subscribe
To Vatican's Newspaper
NEW YORK. Aug. 6 (NANA).—
Josef Stalin is a subscriber to the
Vatican newspaper, LOsservatore
Romano.
The Soviet Embassy . in Rome
promptly renews its government's
subscriptions to the leading Catholic
newspaper, according to the Brus
sels daily Le Phare, so that the
Kremlin can get the benefit of
L'Osservatore's foreign correspon
dence.
The Vatican daily has 300 full or
part time correspondents through
out the world, ranging from lay
Catholic journalists to bishops.
Another LOsservatore subscriber
is the Moscow newspaper Pravda,
whose editor often engages in front
page polemics on political, ethical
and historical issues with L'Qsser
vatore's editor. Count della Torre
de Sanguinetto.
Including the “enemy” subscrip
tions. L'Osservatore now7 has a cir
culation of 60,000.
Ida Lupino Is Married
LA JOLLA. Calif.. Aug. 6 OP).—
Ida Lupino. blond motion picture
actress, and Collier Young, film
studio executive, were married here
yesterday. The British-born Miss
Lupino. naturalized a month ago.
and actor Louis Hayward were di
vorced in 1945. Mr. Young s divorce
from model Valerie Edmons was
final last April.
The w atch and clock industry
was introduced into Switzerland by
Voltaire.
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To Testify on Political
Speech Policy Today !
Representatives of major radio
networks were scheduled to present
to a congressional committee today
their views on whether radio sta
tions can be held responsible for
libelous or slanderous statements in
broadcast political speeches.
The inquiry is being conducted by
a special House committee headed
by Representative Harness. Repub
lican. of Indiana.
While th2 inquiry at present is
limited to the effects of a Federal
Communications Commission ruling
that radio stations cannot censor
political speeches, Mr. Harness said
it is the beginning of a •'searching
investigation" of all FCC activities
Cannot Be Held Responsible.
Wayne Coy. FCC chairman, told:
the committee yesterday he thinks
that if radio stations can’t censor a
speech, it follows that they cannot
be held responsible for what is said
—State libel laws to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Two other witnesses, W. Theodore
Pierson. Washington lawyer, and
C. K. Richards, assistant attorney
general of Texas disagreed. They
said radio stations can't count on
any such immunity unless Congress
specifically says so.
Sees Supreme Court Action.
Mr. Coy also recommended that
Congress spell out radio stations’
immunity from libel suits arising
out of political broadcasts. But even
then, he said, the issue probably
would have to be settled by the
Supreme Court because of the con
flict of Federal-State jurisdiction.
In answer to Mr. Harness, who
said the public would have no pro
tection against "scurrilous’’ broad
casts, Mr. Coy said a speaker is
liable to suit even though the sta
tion is not.
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Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny with
highest temperature about 77 this
afternoon. Clear and cool again to
night with lowest about 57. Tomor
row sunny and a little warmer in
afternoon.
Maryland, Virginia and West Vir
ginia—Clear and quite cold tonight. !
Tomorrow fair and a little warmer
in afternoon.
Wind velocity, 15 miles per hour; 1
direction, northwest.
Five-Day Weather Forecast— j
August 7 Through August 11.
For Northern Virginia and Mary- i
land: Temperature will average one i
to two degrees below normal. Normal
maximum, 86: normal minimum, 67. 1
A little warmer Saturday and Sun- i
day. Cooler Tuesday and Wednes- -
day. Showers about Monday. Total i
rainfall about one-fourth inch.
River Report. I
From United Slates Engineers.) <
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry j
and cloudy at Great Falls. Shenandoah
muddy at Harpers Perry.
* Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— pet i
Noon Midnight 78
4 o in. 61 s a m 71
8 P.m. 75 1:30 p.m. 4 7
High and Low for Yesterday.
High. 79. at 4:18 p.m.
Low. HI. at 11:58 p m
Record Temperature* Thi* Year.
Highest. 95. on June 24.
Lowest 5. on January 26.
Tide Tables. *
(Furnished b* United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey )
Today. Tomorrow
High 9:46 a.m. J 0:36 a.m.
Low - 4:08 a.m. 5:01 a.m.
High .. 10:16 p.m. 1 1 :09 p.m.
Low - _ 4:12 p.m. 5:29 p m.
The Sun and Moon.
Riset. Sets.
Sun. today 6:13 8:14
Sun. tomorrow 6:14 8:13
Moon, today 7:44 a m. 9:39 p.m.
Automobile lights must ba turned on
one-half hour after sunset (
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches in the .
Capital icurrent month to date):
Month 1948 Ave Record
January 4.57 3.55 7.83 '37
February_ 1.67 3.37 6.84 84
March __ 3.6*5 3.76 8.84 91 ,
April _ 3.05 3.27 9.13 >9
May _ 8.87 3.7 0 10.69 '89
June _ 5.28 4.13 10.94 'OH
July _ 2.83 4.71 10.63 ‘86
August .. 4 40 4.0] 14.41 28
September _ 3.24 17.45 34
October _-_ 2.84 8.81 *37
November . 2.37 8.69 *89
December J.32 7.50 *01
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High. Low. High. Low
Aibuqueroue Ml Miami 85 74
Atlanta 7* 58 Milwaukee 71 5*1
Atlantic Citv 7 7 58 New Orleans 88 74 .
Bismarck 80 do New York 7.‘i rt:t
Boston . . 77 6*7 Norfolk 85 it I
Buffalo _ 60 54 Okla. City s:i d7 |
Chicago 7.'1 50 Omaha 77 60!
Cincinnati 74 50 Fhocnix 105 78 1
Detroit . . 7»» 51 Pittsburgh t>:: 57
El Paso 71 Portland.Me. 77 60
Galveston 07 7M St Louis 76 55 1
Harrisburg 67 57 S Lake City 84 58
Indianapolis 75 50 San Antonio 08 75
Kansas City 77 do San Fr isco 71 50 ;
Los Angeles 8:i 60 Seattle 60 54 i
Louisville 76 54 Tampa 81 74 1
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Parolee, 19, Is Held
In Slaying ol Youth
And Firing on Bishop
Iy th# Associated Pross
BOLTON, Mass., Aug. 6.—A young
gunman who. police said, admitted
firing two wild shots at 71-year-old
Suffragan Episcopal Bishop Ray
mond A. Heron and the fatal shoot
ing and axing of a 17-year-old youth
in the clergyman's home, was held
on a murder charge today.
Frederick S. Pike, 19, of Boston,
was brought from Providence, R. I.,
where he was captured yesterday
in the Bishop's car three hours
after the shooting.
Piki waived extradition and was
turned over to Massachusetts au
thorities, after. Police Chief Charles
K, Higgins of Providence said, he
admitted in a signed statement he
shot at the Bishop and killed Paul
Zayka, a youth who lived with the
prelate.
Arraigned in Clinton district
court this morning he pleaded not
guilty to the murder charge, was
held without bail for the grand
jury.
Pike, a Concord Reformatory
parolee, was taken into custody fol
lowing a bullet-spattered 75-mile
an-hour chase through heavy traf
fic.
Youth Resisted Robbery Attempt.
Chief Higgins and Capt. John- J.
Lang said the young gunman ad
mitted shooting Zayka three times
with a .24-caliber automatic pistol
and then striking the youth with
an ax before dragging the body to
the cellar of the Bishop's home.
He was quoted as saying he shot
Zayka when the latter put up a
struggle after being robbed of $2.
Paul Zayka.
Bishop Heron.
A lie yuuill Luiucu uva iu riuvi
dence police a spent bullet which
he said he had fired through
young Zayka's head.
After dragging the youth's body
downstairs, police said. Pike waited
an hour and a half for Bishop
Heron to return from Boston.
Recounts Attack on Bishop.
Chief Higgins said the gunman
recounted how he confronted the
Bishop with a pistol in the drive
way of his home, fired two wild
shots at him as he fled, and then
lorced him to return to the house
where he robbed him of $25 and
ceys to his automobile.
"I wish I hit him," Chief Higgins
juoted Pike as saying.
Capt. Lang said Pike also told
jolice he took a .22-caliber target
jistol and a double-barreled shot
iun and cut the telephone wires to
he Bishop's home before he escaped
n the car.
The three weapons and ammuni
ion were found in the car when
sike was arrested.
Bishop Heron told police the gun
nan told him how he had killed
Sayka and placed the youth's body
n the basement.
Telephone Wires Were Cut.
The clergyman reported he was j
ired at after Pike declared "one or;
wo more dead ones do not matter.”:
The Bishop said he followed
ilood stains down the cellar stairs
ind found Zayka's body with se
’ere wounds in the abdomen, chest
ind head.
Then, he related, he returned up
tairs, found the telephone wires
ut and ran a quarter of a mile to
i neighbor's house and called police, i
Police said there were signs of a
•iolent struggle in the living room
md kitchen.
Had Worked at Bishop's Home.
Police Chief Prino Bonazzelli oi
3olton said Pike had worked at the
irelate's home several years ago.
Pike was paroled from Concord
ast fall after serving a little more
han a year of a five-year sentence
or breaking and entering and
arceny.
Young Zayka, whose parents live)
n Boston, had resided with the
3ishop for seven years. He grad
lated as an honor student from
Hudson High School in June.
Bishop Heron, a native of Antrim.
sa„ has been Suffragan Bishop of
Massachusetts since February. 1938.
Ordained in 1916, he served in
Chicago, Menasha, Wis., and Law
ence, Mass., parishes before he be
:ame archdeacon of the Massachu
letts Protestant Episcopal Diocese
n 1937.
-oal Dust Blast Kills 44
In Russian Zone of Reich
(y tht AnociaUd Pr«»«
FRANKFURT. Germany, Aug. 6.—
Forty-four men in a Russian zone
rower plant were killed in a coal ’
rust explosion, the newspaper
Frankfurter Neue Presse saia last
right. In a dispatch from Leipzig,
he paper said a lack of repair
(quipment that normally is shipped
n from the Western zones led to
he explosion in Troeglitz.
Because of a Russian order no
reight traffic is running between
he Western and Eastern zones.
Young on Vacation
Joseph Young and the Fed
eral Spotlight are on vacation.
The column will be resumed
August 24. The Federal Spot
light radio program will re
sume on Sunday. August 29,
over WMAL at 3:15 p.m.
3 New Cases of Polio
Lift Area Total to 48;
2 Stricken in District
Three new cases of infantile pa
ralysis reported to the Health De
partment yesterday raised the total
number of cases in the Washington
area to 48
Two of the new cases are from
the District, and one is from Arling
ton. The District cases were two
one-year-old boys. One lives in the
5300 block of E street S.E., and is
at Gallinger Hospital, and the other
lives in the 600 block of E street
S.E. and is being treated at his
home.
The Arlington case was a four
year-old boy, who lives in the 4700
block of North Twentieth street,
Arlington. Va. He is in Gallinger.
Two Alexandria Victims.
The seven new cases reported by
the State Health Department of
Virginia yesterday also included two
in Alexandria, one a 25-year-old
woman and the other a 28-year-old
mar.
The new cases sent Virginia's
1948 polio total to 125. One of the
victims is an 11-year-old Chester
field County girl, the fourth case
in that area this year.
Ofher victims included a 14-year
old Norfolk County girl, a 4-year
old Norfolk City boy, an 8-year-old
Elizabeth City girl and the Arling
ton County boy included in the
District Health Department's report.
Df. L. J. Roper. State Health
Commissioner, expressed the hope
that cases in the Commonwealth
would stay under the 300 mark for
the year.
Cold Spell May Act as Brake.
The figure, while well above the
normal incidence of the disease in
Virginia, would be considered a for
tunate minimum in view of the epi
demic now affecting North Carolina,
he explained.
Normally polio reaches the height
of the season in Virginia in the last
week of August or the first of Sep
tember. A protracted cool spell be
tween now and September may well
serve as a brake on the crippling
disease.
Drive for Prosecutions
In 61 Home Frauds Set
A stepped-up program to detect
law violators engaged in building,
selling and financing homes for vet
erans is being undertaken, Tighe E.
Woods, the Housing Expediter, to
day told a meeting of 21 United
States attorneys at the Justice De
partment.
Attorney General Clark sum
moned the prosecutors from the
areas where complaints on veter
ans' housing are most acute for a
special two-day closed session to
discuss ways and means to speed up
prosecuting violators of Federal
laws relating to veterans’ housing.
The conference opened yesterday.
Mr. Woods explained to the prose
cutors that because Congress has
voted his office funds to hire some.
300 additional compliance officers,
he will be able to undertake an ex
panded program. Last fiscal year he
had funds for. only 15 compliance j
officers, he said. Under the acceler
ated program of compliance, Mr.
Woods said, the backlog of cases will
be tackled and new complaints can
be handled more speedily.
------
American Nurse Hurt
In Korean Rail Wreck
By the Associated Press
SEOUL, Korea. Aug. 6 — Miss Ve
ronica Welsko, 49, a civilian nurse
from White Haven. Pa., was injured
and seven Koreans were killed, today
when four cars of a passenger train
were derailed and tumbled Into a
300-foot ditch near Seoul.
Miss Welsko. attached to the mili
tary government health depart
ment, suffered a fractured pelvis.
Her condition was described as sat
isfactory at an Army hospital.
American and Korean disaster
teams aided almost 100 Koreans in
jured in the wreck. The possibility
of sabotoge was being investigated.
Domestic heating in the United
States uses about one in every five
tons of coal mined in the country.
White House Gets Bill
Approving Loan for
(J. N. Headquarters
A $65,000,000 loan to the United
Nations for building its head
quarters in New York City had
congressional approval today.
The bill authorizing the loan
went -to the White House for Presi
dent Truman’s certain signature as
the first measure complying with
his requests to the special session
of Congress.
Final House passage came on a
164 to 27 standing vote late yester
day. The Senate approved the bill
during the regular session but it
was stalled in the House during the
adjournment rush.
United Nations officials were
jubilant over the House action
Byion Price, assistant secretary
general, predicted in Lake Success
that the new skyscraper headquart
ers on the, east side of Manhattan
would be completed in two or two
and one-half years.
RFC Advance Authorized.
The bill authorizes the Recon
struction Finance Corp. to make
$25,000,000 available immediately so
work can begin. The RFC advance
is to be repaid when Congress passes
a separate bill actually appropriat
ing the money for the authorized
loan.
Interest-free, the loan is to be
repaid by the U. N. in annual in
stallments starting July 1, .1951,
and ending not later than July' 1,
1982. ,
If the U. N. should cease using
the buildings, they would revert to
the United States.
Will Remain in U. S.
Approval of the loan apparently
eliminated any possibility that U. N.
headquarters would be moved to
Europe. There had been some senti
ment among U. N. delegations for
moving when Congress adjourned
without action on the loan.
Mr. Price said that the U. N.
would attempt to continue tempo
rarily the arrangement under which
New York City authorities have per
mitted the General Assembly to use
the big assembly hall at Flushing
Meadow Park for its meetings.
He said demolition of existing
structures already had been com
pleted on the new headquarters site.
He expects to let the contract for
excavation by October 1. Plans will
be ready for the 39-story secretariat
building by September 1, Mr. Price
added.
Break in Meat Prices
Due Soon, Retail Chief Says
By th# Auociotid Prist
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—The head of
the National Association of Retail
Meat Dealers is looking for a “sharp
break’’ in retail meat prices—rang-,
ing between 1 and 5 cents.
James Elliott of Minneapolis, here j
for the association’s annual conven
tion, said the break will come in
the next 10 days or two weeks. He
said he based his forecast on talks
with packers, producers and dealers.
"The drop really depends on how
heavy receipts flow," he said. "The
fall run of cattle that has been on
pasture and fattened in the spring
and summer is due to hit the market
now-. There'll be a sharp break in
retail prices then, mostly in beef,
but eventually spreading to other
meats."
He said increased receipts coupled
with consumer price resistance
wrould spur the* drop.
Artificial Insemination Ban
Outside Marriages Urged
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Aug. 5.—A commission
appointed by the Archbishop of
Canterbury has approved the prac
tice of artificial insemination when
it involves husband and wife.
But it condemned the artificial
insemination of a woman from a I
man other than her husband. It'
urged that the practice be outlawed
outside the marriage relation.
The commission <of doctors, theo
logians and lawyers published its
findings in a 70-page report.
It held that between husband
and wife "assisted insemination"
may be justified and, if that falls
to produce offspring, other methods
"may be justifiable.”
But the practice of artificial in
semination of a woman from a man
other than her husband, the com
mission said, "involves a breach of
the marriage. It violates the ex
clusive union set up between hus
band and wife. It defrauds the
child begotten and deceives both
his putative kinsmen and society at
large.”
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D. C. Man Is Elected
Hibernian Director
By th« Associated Press
| MONTREAL, Aug. 6—The Ancient
Order of Hibernians last night se
lected Boston for its next conven
tion in 1950.
Earlier the 500 delegates from
Canada and the United States
elected Michael A. McGrath of
Cleveland president. J. J. Smith of
Sydney, Nova Scotia, was named
Canadian vice president and John
W. Lawless of Dover, N. H„ became
United States vice president.
Michael J. Dowd of Washington
was named a national director.
Smoke Bomb Hurled
Among Troops on Duty
At Ohio Lens Plant
By th« Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 6.—A
smoke bomb was hurled today
among National Guard troops
patrolling the strike-troubled
Univis Lens Co. plant.
Ten guardsmen hit the ground as
the missile went off some 100 feet
from the company grounds and
failed to see the occupants of a car
from which the bomb was tossed.
Col. George Schiele of the Ohio
Guard said the bomb was Govern
ment-made and commonly used to
throw up smoke and cause con
fusion. It was wrapped in paper
bags and was contained in a cor
rugated box. the Guard commander
i added.
City police joined Guard leaders
In hunting occupants of the car
which sped away after the explosion.
The National Guard totaling some
I. 400 men w’as ordered to the Univis
plant four days ago by Gov. Thomas
J. Herbert after a series of picket
line skirmishes. These involved
CIO United Electrical Workers on
strike and employes who sought to
return to work at the plant, which
was closed 94 days ago because of a
wage dispute.
Two Union Officials Refuse
Yes-or-No on Communism
By the Associated Press
Two officers of the United Elec
trical Workers <CICM, asked if they
are Communists, told a House sub
committee yesterday the inquiries
are "smear questions.”
Both said they were standing on
their constitutional rights in de
clining to give a yes-or-no answer
to the question.
Witnesses were Lou Kaplan, Day
ton, Ohio, union field organizer, and
Herbert Hirschberg, Cleveland, in
ternational representative for the
union.
Both testified before a House La
bor subcommittee hearing into a
three-month strike of union mem
bers at the Univis Lens Co., Dayton.
Asked by Chairman Hoffman if he
is a Communist. Mr. Hirschberg said
that in his experience that the ques
tion always is used to smear trade
unionism.
"Then you refuse to answer?"
asked Mr. Hoffman.
"That is my answ-er," Mr. Hirsch
berg said.
Mr. Kaplan earlier declined a ,
yes-or-not answer. He said “as an
American I say it is my own busi
ness” and added that regardless of
whether he answered yes or no
"your smears would continue.”
Mr. Hoffman said the hearing
is to determine whether amend
ments are needed to the Taft
Hartley Labor Act and also whether
strikes and denials of the right to
work grow out of labor disputes or
are carried on “by subversive in
fluences or racketeers.”
The committee heard testimony!
from Miss Marilyn Hasselbeck, one
of the strikers w'ho helped on the
Univis picket line, and Mrs. Pearl
Hupman, a local organizer for the
union at Dayton.
Miss Hasselbeck, 20 and comely,
told the subcommittee without hesi
tation that she is not a member of
the Communist Party and never has
been. Mrs. Hupman refused to an
swer. saying: “I am not going to
enter any political discussion. I
don't feel that I have to.”
Greek Rebel Leader
Reported to Have
Fled Into Albania
8y tS« Assoc io ltd Prtss
ATHENS, Aug. 6.—Communist
Leader Markos Vafiades and his
rebel government were reported
in press dispatches today to have
fled into Albania before the surg
ing Greek offensive in the Gram
mos Mountains.
Greek divisions have compressed
his insurgent territory adjoining
Albania to an area containing only
four villages of any size. The rebels
started seven counterattacks, but all
*-ere beaten down.
A communique said Markos Va
fiades' forces mounted their attacks
in the Nestorian area in an effort
to hold the vital Aliakmon River
valley following the loss of Steno
yesterday. Steno was the key to
Vafiades' supply route from Albania,
Nationals Advance Swiftly.
National forces followed up their
most successful week of the two
year war with advances 60 swift/
they were unable to tabulate enemy
dead and captured war booty, the
communique said.
Earlier, remnants of Vafiades’
men were reported fleeing toward
Albania after a 48-hour hammering
by Greek Army forces.
Frontline dispatches today said
the army is pushing forward sup
plies a rtd equipment quickly in an
effort to prevent Vafiades from
regrouping his forces.
Yesterday's attack toppled one
rebel position after another, a gen
eral staff spokesman said. In the
entire Mount Grammos area the
guerrillas now are said to be hold
ing only four villages.
Western Front Collapses.
The spokesman said government
forces seized Kastaniani, Pyroso
yanni. Kantzikon and Langada yes
terday, clearing the whole area
south of the Sarandaporos River of
guerrillas.
Vafiades’ western front also col
lapsed. Vourbiani on the slopes of
Mount Kaemenic on the Albanian
border was reported held by Greek
troops.
Tlie four villages still in rebel
hands are Aetomilitisa, Lykorrachi,
Assimohori and Grammos itself,
barely a mile from the Albanian
border.
Shaw Seeks Annulment
From Kathleen Winsor
By Ihe Assoctottd Press
NEW YORK. August 6—Band
leader Artie Shaw will file suit
today for annulment of his mar
riage to Kathleen Winsor, author
af "Forever Amber." according to
his attorney, Stanley J. Dorman.
Anticipating the action. Miss
Winsor yesterday filed a petition in
State Supreme Court asking *500
weekly temporary alimony and
510.000 counsel fees ' er
self against the annulment suit.
She said she also > * he
money to press her counterclaim for
1 separation.
uar-prs in marital cases are
:ealed by the court under New York
o.ate law.
The couple married in October,
1946, Mr. Shaw for the sixth time,
Miss Winsor for the second.
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