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Ball and Humphrey
Win in Minnesota;
Seven States Vote
By the Associated Press
Voters in seven States chose
their candidates yesterday for
political offices ranging from
Governor and Senator down to
minor town positions.
These were the major results in
the primaries:
Senator Ball won Republican re
nomination in Minnesota, while
Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Min
neapolis took the Democratic sena
torial nomination.
Another incumbent. Senator
Johnson of Colorado, rolled up a
heavy victory margin in his State's
Democratic primary. His Novem
ber opponent probably will be Re
publican Will F. Nicholson, political
newcomer who held a growing lead
over former Gov. John C. Vivian.
Republican Senators Saltonstall
f>t Massachusetts and Bridges of
New Hampshire were unopposed.
Senator Saltonstall will get his
November opposition from John I.
Fitzgerald, while Alfred E. Fortin
wall run against Senator Bridges.
Both Michigan senatorial candi
dates—Republican Senator Ferguson
«nd former Democratic Representa
tive Frank Hook—also lacked op
position within their own parties.
A number of candidates for Gov
ernor also were chosen in yesterday's
primaries.
Massachusetts Republicans renom
inated Gov. Robert F. Bradford.
Democratic Candidate Paul A. Dever
was unopposed — practically. Al
though Maurice J. Tobin quit the
race to accept appointment as Presi
dent Truman's Secretary of Labor,
his name was on the ballot. Secre
tary Tobin polled more votes than
Gov. Bradford's Republican oppo
nent.
Former Representative Sherman
Adams won the Republican guber
natorial nomination in New Hamp
shire—where the Republican nomi
nee has won election for the lkst 26
years. His Democratic opponent is
Herbert W. Hill, Dartmouth pro
fessor.
In Vermont, where Republicans
are even more certain of November
victory, Gov. Ernest W. Gibson
pulled away from Lt. Gov. Lee E.
Emerson in one of the closest guber
natorial nomination contests in
years.
Gov. Luther Youngdahl of Minne
sota also built up a lead for Repub
lican nomination, over State Auditor
Stafford King. The Democratic
ballot spot seemed certain for
Charles L. Halsted, who held a 2
t.o-1 margin over his nearest op
ponent.
Michigan Democrats handed a
slim lead to G. Mennen Williams, a
socialite running with CIO backing,
over two opponents: Victor E.
Bucknell, supported by the AFL
Teamsters Union, and Industrialist
Burnett J. Abbott. Republican Gov.
Kim Sigler, although unopposed for
renomination, garnered a heavy
"token” vote.
Washington’s Democratic Gov.
Mon C. Wallgren. good friend of
President Truman, seemed sure of
renomination, whlie former Gov.
Arthur B.. Langlie was the choice
of the GOP voters in the same State.
Both candidates for Governor of
Colorado—Democrat Lee Knous,
who is the incumbent, and Republi
can David A. Hamil—were unop
posed.
This la the way various contests
for House seats looked as returns
from yesterday's primaries rolled in:
Minnesota—Four of the Eight
GOP House members and the State’s
one Democrat were unopposed for
renomination. The four Republi
cans fighting to hold their seats all
held leads, although Representative
O'Hara nad a stiff battle on his
hands In the district where Demo
cratic Representative Blatnik is the
incumbent, former Representative
William Pittenger was ahead for
the Reublican nomination.
Michigan—In one important con
gressional contest, Republican Rep
resentative Jonkman was upset in
his bid for another term by political
newcomer Gerald R. Ford, jr., who
had accused Representative Jonk
man of pre-Pearl Harbor isolation
ism.
Vermont — Representative Plum
iey, 13. was named by the Republi
cans to serve an eighth term. No
Democrat has held the State's lone
congressional seat in modern times.:
New Hampshire — Republicans j
Chester Merrow and Norris Cotton !
won renomination.
Colorado—The four incumbents—
Democrat John A. Carroll and Re
publicans William S. Hill, J. Edgar
Chenoweth and Robert F. Rock
well—all were unopposed. Also un
opposed were their November op
ponents—Republican Christopher F.
Cusack and Democrats George F.
Bickel. John H. Marsalis and Wayne
N. Aspinall.
Washington—All incumbents, five
of them Republican and one Demo
crat, were renominated,
r ...
Weather Report
j District of Columbia—Sunny and
Jpleasant with high about 78 this
{■fternoon. Clear tonight with low
Around 58. Tomorrow most sunny
>ith high about 80.
i. Wind velocity. 8 miles per hour;
direction, northeast
District Medical Society ragweed
^pollen count for 24 hours ending
^ a m.. September 15—58 grains per
•pubic yard of air.
" River Report.
> Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and it Great Falls. Shenandoah dear at
•Harpers Ferry
j, iFrom United States Engineers.)
Humidity.
^Yesterday. Pet Today-- Pet.
Jioon __ _ . 44 Mionight 55
•4 P m. 31 8 a m. . 66
A p.m. _ 45 1:30 p.m _ 4J
High and Low for Yesterday.
* High. S3, at '.:oS p.m.
t Low. 67. at 11:59 P m.
* Record Tempeiatures Thia Year.
* Highest, 99. on August 27.
* Lowest. 5. on January 26.
* Tide Tables.
6fFuriished by United States Coast and
* Geodetic Survey.)
* Today. Tomorrow.
flgh . _ - 6:53 a m. 7 :41 a m.
ou _ 1:15 a.m. 2:05 a.m.
igh _ 7:25 pm. 8:10 p.m.
ow _ 1:50 p.m. 2:34 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
1 Rises. Sets.
Jun. today _ _ 6.49 7:17
»un tomorrow_ 6:5<» 7.15
,^1000. today .. 6:28 P.m. 3:53 a.m.
a Automobile lights must be turned on
'Sine-half hour after sunset.
■0 Precipitation.
« Monthly precipitation in inches in the
/^Capital (current month to date):
* Month. 1948. Ave. Record.
'January _ 4.57 3.55 7.83 '37
^February- 1 67 3.37 6.84 ]84
£arch - __ 3.66 3. #5 8.84 91
jnl 3.05 3.27 9.13 89
• y __ 8.87 3.70 10.69 '89
•June HI_ 5.28 4 13 10.94 *00
.Mu It 'HI_ 4 31 4.7 1 10.63 80
^August _ 9.00 4.01 14.41 28
•^September - - 1 23 3.24 17.45 34
{October __ 2.84 8 81 '37
2*°'. ember - - 2.3 < 8 69 88
"December - 332 ^ 01
Temperatures in Various Cities.
'Albuquerque 87 54 Miami 88 7.i
^Atlanta 80 H.s Milwaukee 69 5."
.Atlantic City 78 57 New Orleans 79 69
^Bismarck 95 52 New York 81 5jj
Boston • 6 63 Norfolk 8n rtf
Buffalo_ 71 49 Phoenix l«*5 :f
Chicago - 72 51 Pitsburgh 7« 5*
Cincinnati ~ 83 49 P'rtl'nd. Me 4*
Fetroit 73 57 St Louis 96 .V
l Paso 84 65 La It Lak* C 96 64
Ealyeston 80 70 San Antonio 81 7f
ansas City 90 6P s Francisco 73 6(
>e Angeles 102 60 Seattle- 68 6
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Charles B. Porter, 52, Cut Out
Of Patterson Will, Is Suicide
Former Times-Herald
Treasurer Leaps to
Death in Clarksburg
A certificate of suicide has been
issued in the death of Charles Bell
Porter, 52, former treasurer of the
i Times-Herald and financial ad
viser to the late Mrs. Eleanor Pat
terson. its publisher.
Mr. Porter, who at one time was
named in Mrs. Patterson's will as
one of a group of employes who
would inherit the paper but was
later deleted from the list, was killed
yesterday in a plunge from a sixth
floor hotel room at Clarksburg,
W. Va.
The body was to be returned to
Washington today for funeral serv
ices and burial. Arrangements in
charge of the Hines funeral home
at 2901 Fourteenth street N.W. have
not been completed.
Identification was made through
papers found in Mr. Porter's room
in the Waldo Hotel, police said. Mr.
Porter had gone to Clarksburg to
visit friends. He registered at the
hotel last Thursday.
A will was found in Mr. Porter's
room which named as executrix Mrs.
Sibilla, E. Campbell of 15 Dupont
Circle, housekeeper for Mrs. Pat
terson.
Dr. Kenna Jackson, coroner of
Harrison County, said Mr. Porter
apparently leaped through his open
window without first removing the
screen. His body broke through the
screen and landed on the sidewalk
on a side street. Hotel officials said
Mr. Porter recently had changed his
room from a lower floor.
Mr. Portei was on the original list
named in Mrs. Patterson's will to be
a co-owner of the newspaper she
left to her top executives, but he was!
cut out of the will after he resigned
from the organization last May.1
Mrs. Patterson died July 24.
Mr Porter, a bachelor with no
close relatives in this country, was
a native of Edinburgh, Scotland,
where he was born May 16, 1896.
He was educated at the University
of Edinburgh, from which he took
a doctor of philosophy degree.
Mr. Porter studied criminology
and law. and at one time was con
CHARLES B. PORTER.
!nected with a law firm in Scotland.
He served during World War I
with a Scottish regiment, mostly in
Greece.
Mr. Porter came to the United
States in October, 1929, and Joined
a New York accounting firm. Sev
eral years later he was assigned to
work on the books of Mrs. Patterson.
In 1937 he accepted Mrs. Patterson’s
offer of the position of treasurer for
the Times-Herald.
Mr. Porter made his home in
Washington at the Kennedy-War
ren He was a member of the Uni
versity Club. He filed his first citi
zenship papers some time ago, but
never became a citizen of this coun
: try.
Mr. Porter was active for many
years in animal protection work. At
one time he was Stale director of
the American Red Star Animal Re
lief and treasurer of the Tail Wag
gers Club and the Times-Herald an
imal rescue service.
Mr. Porter frequently visited his
family in Scotland while living in
this country. His closest survivor is
a brother, Alexander Porter, of
Edinburgh.
Mr. Porter's effects were neatly
packed in suitcases in his room.
Among papers found by police were
passports and immigration papers.
Police said he left no notes.
Heart Failure Given
By Coroner as Cause
Of Miss Hynes' Death
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
has issued a temporary certificate of
heart failure in the death yesterday
of Miss Elizabeth Kenney < Betty i
Hynes, society editor of the Times
Herald. pending results of an au
topsy performed yesterday.
Miss Hynes, 50, was found by a
maid at her home, 1217 Thirty-fifth
street N.W. Her body was lying
in . the doorway of a bathroom
leading off her second-floor bedroom,
police said.
Dr, MacDonald said results of the
autopsy will not be known pending
completion of chemical tests, in
about a week. Police said a bottle
of sleeping pills was found in the
bathroom with five pills still in the
bottle.
According to police, a prescrip
tion for 50 sleeping tablets was
written for Miss ffynes on Septem
ber 3 by Dr. Joseph 0. McHale. The
instructions on the bottle specified'
that only one pill should be taken
daily.
Funeral to Be Tomorrow.
Meanwhile, celebration of requiem
mass at Holy Trinity Catholic
Church, Thirty-sixth and O streets
N.W., was set tentatively for 10
a m. tomorrow. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Miss Hynes’ brother. Walter Ken
ney, with whom she made her home
here, said his sister had been wor
ried because her late employer. Mrs.
Eleanor M. Patterson, who owned
the Times-Herald. had not fulfilled
a promise to clear the mortgage on
Miss Hynes' home.
Miss Hynes was said to have been
under doctor's care for several
months.
The maid. Mrs Maggie Jones, said
Miss Hynes had been in a "nervous
state” for some time, and had
planned to go to White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., in a few days for
a rest.
Native of. New York.
A native of Ossining. N. Y., the
society editor was orphaned when
a child, and was adopted by Mr.
and Mrs. James J. Hynes of Ossin
ing. She attended New York and
Columbia Universities before be
coming secretary to Mrs. Patterson
in New York in 1929.
Miss Hynes came to Washington
with Mrs. Patterson in 1932 as a
society writer. Later she was drama
editor, a general assignment re
porter and finally, society editor.
She had served as social secre
tary for Mrs. Joseph Davies. Mrs.
James Farley and Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss.
Mrs. Mary Rowe Rites
To Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Crampton Rowe, 60. vice president
of the Stanton Park Parent-Teach
er Association, will be held at 11
a.m. tomorrow at the Lee funeral
home. Fourth street and Massachu
setts avenue N.E. Burial will be in
Congressional Cemetery.
Mrs. Rowe died Monday night In
Garfield Hospital after an illness of
two weeks. She lived with a son,
William Henry Rowe, an employe In
the Washington Post advertising
department, at 646 Lexington place
N.E.
She was the widow of William
Henry Rowe, sr., a Government
Printing Office employe who died in
1934. Since 1933 she had been sec
retary-treasurer of the Progressive
Printing Co., 1220 North Capitol
street.
Active in parent-teacher, social
service and civic work here for
many years, Mrs. Rowe was a past
president of the Peabody-Hilton
Carberry Parent-Teacher Associa
tion and a life member of the Dis
j trict Congress of Parents and
Teachers. She did volunteer social
service work with the Children's
Bureau during the 1930s.
Mrs. Rowe w’as a native of the
District. In addition to her son
she leaves a brother, Willard C.
Crampton of Chicago.
Al Capp's Mother Dies
NEW YORK. Sept. 15 (0*.—Mrs.
Tillie M. Caplin, 63. mother of the
I comic strip artist, Al Capp, died
yesterday.
Big Four Reported
Preparing to Move
Parleys to Paris
By Astociotad Pratt
LONDON, Sept. 15 —Responsi
ble diplomatic sources said to
day the talks on the Berlin
crisis will be switched from Mos
cow to Paris after the Western
envoys’ next meeting with Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov at the
Kremlin.
The American, British and French
representatives expect -to see the
Soviet foreign minister—and not
Prime Minister Stalin—by the week
end, the informants said.
• Secretary of State Marshall
today told press conference ques
tioners that he has recftlvted a re
port from Ambassador Walter
Bedell Smith in Moscow follow
ing the conference yesterday by
the American, British and French
envoys with Mr. Molotov.
• Gen Marshall said he ex
pected to see Mr. Molotov at the
meeting of the United Nations
General Assembly convening in
Paris next week. Gen. Marshall
expects to leave by plane Sunday
for Paris.)
2 Possible Forms for Talks.
The Paris phase of the talks Is
expected to take one of these two
forms:
If any hope of a direct east-west
settlement remains after the next
Kremlin conference, the matter
may be taken up by the Big Four
foreign ministers and their advis
ers. informally rather than at a
formal meeting of the Council of
Foreign Ministers.
If no hope remains of a settle
ment, the whole issue will be tossed
by the Western powers to the United
Nations.
The informants said they had the
impression that Mr. Molotov has
been playing for time in the hope
that the western powers would
choose the first of the two courses.
All three of the western Foreign
Ministers will be in Paris early next
week for the opening of the United
Nations Assembly. Mr. Molotov,
himself, almost certainly will be
there, too. the sources said.
Statements Reported Left.
The western envoys were said to
have left with Mr. Molotov yester
day written statements supplement
ing their talk. These statements
were said to have left the Russians
in no doubt about how dissatisfied
the west is about the meetings of
the military governors in Berlin.
The governors had the task of
translating into action a broad east
west agreement in principle of Ber
lin differences. They got nowhere,
apparently.
The western statements to Mr.
Molotov concentrated on the need
to settle the currency situation in
Berlin and to lift the Russian block
ade of the city. Jn addition, the
question of Communist-led attacks
on the Berlin City Hall was raised.
Moscow Expects Talk
To Continue This V/eek
MOSCOW, Sept. 15 UP).—The
four-power talks on Berlin are ex
pected to continue here this week.
There had been reports that yes
terday's 90-minute meeting, the
shortest of the 10 four-power ses
sions at the Kremlin since July 31.
was to have been the last.
The expectation now is that the
talks will be resumed the end of
this week. There was no indica
tion how long American Ambassa
dor Walter Bedell Smith, French
Ambassador Yves Chataigneau and
special British Envoy Frank Roberts
would continue these discussions
with Soviet leaders.
Mr. Roberts conferred for nearly
an hour with Gen. Smith at the
United States Embassy today, prob
ably on yesterday’s conversation
with Soviet Foreign Minister Molo
tov. All three envoys worked late
into the night getting off new mes
sages to their home capitals. These
| messages were said to be so im
i portant that the envoys were par
ticularly anxious to get them off
before their home government of
| flees closed down for the day yes
j terday. There is eight hours differ
ence between Moscow time and
j Eastern Daylight Time and two
' hours difference between Moscow
I time and London-Paris time.
\ .
|Two Air Lift Flyers
Back in U.S. Zone After
'Chuting in Red Area
th* Associoted Presi
FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept.
15.—Two American airmen who
parachuted into the Soviet zone
of Germany are back safely to
day in the American zone, the
Air Force announced.
The two are Capt. Kenneth W.
Slaker. Lincoln, Nebr., and Lt.
Clarence R. Steber, Mobile, Ala. The
announcement said the two bailed
out over the Russian zone early
yesterday when their C-47 plane de
veloped engine trouble.
Lt. Steber wassbrought to Frank
furt by American liaison officers.
Capt. Slaker was the pilot of the
plane.
The Soviet-licensed German news
agency in Berlin said the transport
was flying 10 to 15 miles outsfde the
air corridor to Berlin "and thereby
'violated air regulations.”
Walked Through Iron Curtain.
At Wiesbaden Capt. Slaker said
he "walked through the Iron Cur
tain” to escape from the Soviet
zone of Germany.
"I passed at least 250 Russian
soldiers, but none stopped me or
even paid any attention to me," he
sain. "Apparently the Russians did
not even recognize me as an Ameri
can soldier.”
Slaker and Lt. Steber, Mobile.
Ala., bailed out over Soviet-occupied
Germany early yesterday when their
C-47 plane carrying flour to block
aded Berlin developed engine
trouble.
Met United States Troops.
On orders from high Air Force
officers, Capt. Slaker refused to say
exactly where or how he crossed the
border. After making the crossing
he met American constabulary
troops who flew him to American
Air Force headquarters in Wies.
baden.
Wrenched Back.
He wrenched his back and was
knocked momentarily unconscious
by his jolting landing after para
chuting from low altitude.
"I knew I was not far from the
American zone border,” Capt. Slaker
said, “so I took my bearings by
American planes flying overhead
toward Berlin and started walking
West. I just kept walking until I
got into the American zone.”
His wife and 3-month-old son
joined him in Germany only last
week at his home base in Fuersten-,
feldbruck. j
Soviet Troops Provoked
Battle, British Charge
BERLIN, Sept. 15 </P).—Britain
charged today that Russian troops,
provoked German anti-Communists
into the rioting last Thursday which
resulted in street fighting at the
Brandenburg Gate.
The statement by an official Brit
ish military government spokesman
rejected an accusation by the Rus
sian commandant, Maj. Gen Alexan
der Kotikov, that inactivity of Brit
ish military police encouraged "Fas
cist provacateurs" to attack Russian
soldieus and the Soviet war me
morial.
Self-Inflation Charged.
Britain told Gen. Kotikov he had
his Tacts wrong and is guilty of a
‘■piece of calculated self-inflation.”
This was the third sharp rejoinder
to Gen. Kotikov from the Western j
Allies in three days. It came within j
a half day of the tenth meeting
in the Kremlin between Western |
diplomats and high Russians on the,
Russian blockade of Berlin.
Brig. Gen. Jean Ganeval of France t
rapped Gen. Kotikov last week. He J
implied publicly the Russian com
mandant was a liar as well as a
breaker of pledges for permitting'
Soviet troops to kidnap 19 Western
Berlin police who had been guar
anteed safe conduct by the Russians
from the City Hall the German
Communists were besieging. Col.
Frank Howley, American com
mandant, recently said Gen. Kotikov
was responsible for ‘‘international
shame" in failing to protect Berlin's
elected city council against Com
munist rioters.
Kotikov Starts Dispute.
Gen. Kotikov started the latest
controversy by sending a letter to
the British commandant, Maj. Gen.
E. O. Herbert, complaining about
the conduct of British police during
the disorders last Thursday at the
boundary of the British and Rus
sian areas of Berlin.
Gen. Kotikov declared in a letter
printed by the official Soviet news
paper, Taegliche Rundschau, that
British police "inactivity” encour
aged "Fascist provacateurs” during
Thursday's riots.
One youth was killed and several
persons wounded when Germans
returning from a huge anti-Com
munist demonstration stoned Rus
sian soldiers near the Soviet war
memorial.
A Soviet military tribunal sen
tenced five youths to 25 years at
hard labor for taking part in the
fighting.
Monument Held Dishonored.
Gen. Kotikov's letter, directed to’
the British commandant, charged
that “criminal elements dishonored
the monument in honor of Soviet'
soldiers who died in the struggle
for Berlin."
"This took place after an anti- j
democratic demonstration which you
permitted, in the presence of units;
of British military police and Ger- j
man police of the British sector of,
Berlin,” the letter declared. “The
Fascist bandits opened fire on Soviet
guards before the Soviet monu
ment. disturbed the public order,
causing the death of one person, in
jury to several others, and attacked
German policemen of the Soviet sec
tor as well as Soviet troops who were
trying to restore order.
“The inactivity of the British mil
itary police as well as the German
police of the British sector had been
taken for encouragement by the
Fascist provocateurs.”
The Russian commandant asked
Gen. Herbert for assurances that
“such incidents will not occur
again."
'Jock' Sutherland Leaves
Estate of $317,923
By tht Associated Pra*s
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15.—Dr. John
B i Jock i Sutherland, noted foot
ball coach, left an estate valued at
S317.923.
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ coach
and former Pitt mentor died last
i April following a brain tumor oper
ation. His estate was revealed by
an inventory filed with the register
of wills by Attorney Edward A.
; Schultz, executor and trustee.
Chief beneficiaries are Dr. Suth
erland's 90-year-old mother in
Scotland and two sisters, one In
Scotland and one In Pittsburgh.
9.
Clay and Marshall
Differ on Purpose
Of Berlin Rioting
Mm Associated Prw* v
Secretary of State Marshall
and Gen. Lucius O. Clay ap
peared today to disagree on the
purpose of the Communist dis
orders in Berlin.
Gen. Clay told a news confer
ence in Berlin yesterday that he
doubted the Communist at
tempts to seize power had been
planned by the Russians to
interfere with the current four
power negotiations on the
Soviet Russian blockade.
Gen. Marshall told a news
conference last week he believed
the disturbances are largely in
tended to upset the conferences.
Post Office Ceremony
Opens Campaign to
Prevent Forest Fires
Forest fires annually burn over an
area larger than Virginia and more
than 200.000 of them occur a year,
R. E. McArdle, assistant chief of the
Forest Service, said today at a cere
mony at the City Post Office to in
troduce a new slogan on mail can
cellation markers. The slogan is
"Remember only you can prevent
forest fires."
While postal workers stood in a
large mailing room, a number of
speakers introduced by Gordon Bell,
acting postmaster, emphasized the
importance of this publicity in the
prevention of forest fires. The Rev.
Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of
Foundry Methodist Church, gave the
invocation knd final benediction. A
string quartet from the Navy band
played “Trees."
Other speakers were Vincent
Burke, First Assistant Postmaster
General, who formerly was Wash
ington postmaster; Roy North, Dep
uty Third Assistant Postmaster
General, who has been appointed
postmaster of Washington; Maj.
James T. De Voss of the Washing
ton Philatelic Society, Frederick
Charles Lincoln, senior biologist of
the Fish and Wildlife Service; Dr.
John L. Keddy, assistant secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution;
Chapin Collins, director of the
American Forest Products Indus
tries, and S. L. Fro6t, secretary of
the American Forestry Association.
At the conclusion of the ceremony
Mr. Bell began running envelopes
through a canceling machine for
the benefit of first-day cover col
lectors.
Mineral Claims Staked
Mozambique is in the throes of
prospecting fever, Lourenco Mar-1
ques reports, since discovery of
samarsklte, a mineral thought to
contain small quantities of urani
um, in the Tete district. Recently,
the Mines Department registered
the 95th application for rights to
mine samarskite. Gold claims are
being pegged around Macanga, in
the same district.
Naval Curator Honored
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 15 MP).—Capt.
Harry A. Baldridge, curator of the
Naval Academy museum, yesterday
received a congratulatory letter
from Rear Admiral James L. Hollo
way, academy superintendent, for
completing 50 years of naval service.
The Federal Spotlight
NFFE to Oppose Any Cuts
In Annual or Sick Leave
ly Joseph Young
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 15.—The biennial convention of the
National Federation of Federal Employes is expected to go on
record as unalterably opposed to any reduction of annual and
sick leave benefits now enjoyed by Government workers.
With some members of Congress and even some top Govern-j
ment officials see King a reduction
in these privileges, the NFFE in
tends to wage an all-out fight
against any attempt to reduce the
present 26 days
I annual leave aiiu
115 days sick
| leave.
I The resolution
'setting forth the
' NFFE’s stand on
■ the matter is
sponsored by Lo
cal No. 2 of
Washington, the
largest local in
the union, and
j the convention is
expected to ap
prove it quickly.
The resolution
points out that
JlMlk I<u|.
'"the overwhelming majority or per
| manent employes of the Govern
ment are not only not guilty of
leave abuses, but many do not use
all of their annual and use only a
small fraction of their sick leave.”
Furthermore, NFFE officials point
out. Federal employes are denied
unemployment compensation bene
fits granted to most private industry
employes. And jobless Government
workers have to depend on any un
used annual leave they have ac
crued, for which they get cash pay
ments to tide them over until they
find employment.
* * * *
WAR SERVICE—Another resolu
tion that is attracting considerable
attention here is one that would
give permanent status to the Gov
ernment’s 300,000 war-service em
ployes.
It's undecided, however, whether
the convention will put the union
on record In favor of such a move.
Some delegates feel it would hurt
the civil service career system. On
the other hand, those favoring the
resolution declare war-service em
ployes served their Government
faithfully during the war and should
be rewarded by being given a real
chance to obtain permanent status.
The resolution would grant per
manent status to these workers, in
their education and previous experi
ence qualified them to fill the job.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?—The con
vention voted down a resolution that
would have stricken all reference
to the NFFE as a “union’’ and
would have called it an “organiza
tion” instead.
The resolution was introduced by
Local No. 970, Grank Lake, Colo.
Louis Ga.stellum, a delegate from
Santa Fe. N. Mex., declared: "Many
people I come in contact with have
no respect for labor unions. We
could organize a lot more members,
but when they hear that we are a
union they back down."
At this point, NFFE President
Luther C. Steward sharply repri
manded the delegates supporting
this resolution, declaring:
’ We are a union, no matter what
you want to call yourselves. What
some misguided persons may thirtk
about it doesn’t affect us—we are
a union. We’re dealing with facts
—not subterfuge.”
Mr. Steward's speech did the trick.
9 - 1 ' • ■ — - - ■■ -- ...
By a voice vote, the NFFE defeated:
the resolution.
* * * *
SHOO-IN—The "grand old team"
of Mr. Steward and Gertrude M.
McNally, the union's secretary
treasurer. who have headed the
NFFE almost since its inception
back in 1917, appears certain of re
election.
No opposition is in sight, and by
their enthusiastic applause of Mi.
Steward and Miss McNally during'
the first two days of the conven
tion, the delegates clearly demon -
stated they are going to return their
two leaders in office for another two
years.
DEFENSE—The delegates heard1
Rear Admiral Paul B. Nibecker,!
chief of the Navy Department's Of
fice of Industrial Relations, defend
a department policy to which the
union is bitterly opposed.
The policy involves the barring
of supervisory employes from active
participation in union affairs.
"It is regretted that employe
groups and the Navy Department
must compete with each other for
the services of these people; but
since we have first call on their
services and pay their wages, we
consider it fair to prescribe certain
ruies of conduct for them," Admiral
Nibecker declared.
"The Navy’s position in this mat
ter can be stated very simply, and
that is that a person cannot serve
two masters. He may end up, as
the Scriptures suggest, by loving the
one and hating the other.”
Admiral Nibecker said the Navy
believes a supervisory employe "must
so utterly detach himself from union
activity that all decisions devolving
upon him as a supervisor in his day
to-day dealings with employes will
be wholly without bias.”
Following Admiral Nibecker*
speech, Mr. Steward good-naturedly
but firmly, declared:
“Regardless of the time it takes.
I'll get him (Admiral Nibecken to
change that order yet.”
* * * *
FLEMMING—Former Civil Service
Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming
was another convention speaker.
Mr. Flemming, who resigned re-!
cently to become president of Ohio
Wesleyan University and who still
remains in the Government on a
personnel consultant basis and as a
member of the Hoover Commission,
called for an end to politics in Ailing
many Government jobs.
SpeciAcally, Mr. Flemming urged
that postmaster appointments be re
moved completely from political
considerations and that collectors ot
internal revenue and customs like
wise be placed under the civil service
career system.
Mr. Flemming also asked for close
co-operation in Government be
tween Federal officials and Govern
ment workers' unions. Both the
employes and the Government would
beneAt under such a program, he
declared.
* * * *
OTHER SPEAKERS—A Heath
Onthank, the Army Department's
civilian chief, urged adoption of
Green Criticizes CIO
For Staying in Group
Fighting Marshall Plan
•y Hi* Asi*ciot*d (fill
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Sept. 15.
—William Green, president of the
AFL. declared today that the CIO is
"in effect supporting a cause which
is hostile to our own country.”
Before the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers' Conven
tion, he identified the "cause” as
the World Federation of Trade Un
ions, which he called "a powerful
fifth column of Moscow."
"With all the earnestness at my
command," he said. "I call upon tha
CIO to withdraw. • • •”
Mr. Green said the AFL "has
never compromised and will never
compromise in its stalwart opposi
tion to communism. We want noth
ing to do with the foreign brand
and we will have nothing to do
with the domestic brand."
Sees Contradiction.
Mr. Green added:
"We regard them as disloyal to
the United States and dangerous to
the welfare of the working men and
women of America.”
In a variation from his text. Mr.
Green said. "How contradictory it
is for an organization (CIO) to Join
with us in support of the Marshall
plan, claiming to be in full accord
with us * • * and send thousands
of dollars to the WFTU, to be used
to oppose the Marshall Plan."
"If the CIO claims to be an Amer
ican organization,” the AFL leader
said, "it should tell the WFTU.
'We re done with you and you can't
have any more money from us.' *
Green “Off Base.” CIO Says.
CIO officials here said that Mr.
Green was "completely off base" in
his statements.
It was explained that James B.
Carey, secretary-treasurer of tha
CIO, succeeded in obtaining agree
ments at the WFTU meeting in
Rome last spring which barred the
use of WFTU publications and ma
terials to discredit the Marshall
plan.
A careful check, a CIO spokesman
added, showed that the agreement
had been kept as far as the WFTU
is concerned.
The spokesman also said that the
CIO has remained in the WFTU
and supported it financially as a
means of immobilizing Communist
influences in the organization. If
the CIO should drop dut. it was ex- i
plained, the organization likely
would be taken over entirely by the
Communists.
"We are as much opposed to the
Communists as Mr. Green is,” the
spokesman said. "But our approach
is different. We believe in getting
in and fighting the Communists."
uniform personnel policies for the
entire Government—not on a piece
meal agency basis.
Gordon E. Clark, director of the
Air Force Department's civilian per
sonnel, said his department is
working closely with the Army's
civilian personnel people in draft
ing personnel policy.
Most of the personnel policies for
the Air Force Department will be
similar to those for the Army De
partment, he said.
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