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Half-Million CIO Steelworkers
Strike Over Pension Program;
Truman Refuses to Intervene
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Nation's Economy
Dealt Another
Crippling Blow
By the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1.—A strike
by a half million CIO-United steel
workers today shut down iron and
steel mills from coast to coast.
The walkout to enforce de
mands for a pension and welfare
program paid entirely by the
operators dealt a crippling blow
to American industry. Coupled
with the two-week-old coal mine
strike, it threatens to disrupt
American economy.
There appeared little chance of
further Government intervention,
at least any time soon.
In Washington, White House
officials repeated today what they
said last night—that President
Truman has no plans to step into
the dispute again.
Picket lines at mill gates in 27
States generally were small and
quiet in the first Nation-wide steel
strike since 1946.^ Plant gates in
Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cleveland
were circled by picket lines which
dwindled to mere handfuls several
hours after the strike began at
12:01 a.m.
Philip Murray, president of the
steel workers and the CIO, gave
the signal which started the mid
night walkout.
Supervisory workers and fore
men passed through picket lines
without incident. They are al
lowed free entrance to keep mill
equipment in good shape to re
sume work whenever the strike
ends. No violence was reported
anywhere.
The strike does not apply to
four steel-producing companies.
They are Portsmouth Steel Co.,
Portsmouth, Ohio;,Allegheny-Lud
lum Steel Corp., Pittsburgh;
Kaiser Co., Inc., with ptents in
Utah, California and Pennsyl
vania, and Harrisburg (Pa.) Steel
Co.
Portsmouth Steel, with 4,000
workers, gave in to union de
mands for a 10-cent hourly pack
age covering company-paid pen
sions and insurance for employes.
The rest of industry held out for
social security programs in which
workers would pay part of the
costs. Harrisburg Steel's 1.500;
workers are on the job because
negotiations are continuing under
a later strike deadline.
Allegheny Ludlum, which has
12.000 employes, and Kaiser, with
about 4,000, are still operating be
cause their contracts run until
October 15. Those firms have not
yet received the union's demands.
American Can Signs.
A fabricating firm, American
Can Co., reached agreement with
the union just before the deadline
and also escaped effects of the
walkout. The company, which
employs 15,000 CIO steel workers,
settled with the union when de
mands for a wage increase were
(See STEEL, Page A-37)
Czech Reds Hint Plan
For New Spy Trials
By the Associated Press
PRAGUE, Oct. 1.—A Foreign
Ministry official hinted today that
a new “Laszlo Rajk trial” may be
in the offing in Czechoslovakia.
Dr. Antonin J. Leihm, deputy
press chief of the Foreign Min
istry, declared in an article in the
Prague press that “the same type
of traitors” as those convicted in
the Rajk trial in Budapest might
be caught here.
(.Rajk, Hungary’s former
foreign minister, and No. 2
Communist, was sentenced to
death with two others a week
ago on charges that he plotted
to overthrow the Hungarian
government with American
help and substitute for it a
regime subservient to Premier
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.)
Leihm’s article did not predict
how high in government and
Communist Party circles such
“traitors” might be found.
His article appeared just as re7
lir'ole sources reported the arrest
on fraud charges of seven Com
munist officials of a government
ag?ncy in Prague.
The same sources reported the
dismissal and arrest of four offi
cials of a government ministry
who had previously been attached
to the regime of the late President
Eduard Benes.
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Ideal Weather Greets Red Sox
And Yankees in Crucial Game
Parnell to Oppose Reynolds Before 70,000;
Dodgers Play Phils; Cards Meeting Cubs
By Burton Hawkins
Star Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 1—In ideal
.baseball weather, the Boston Red
Sox, and the New York Yankees
moved into Yankee Stadium to
day for the first game of a two
game series that will decide the
American League pennant.
At Philadelphia the Brooklyn
Dodgers prepared to meet the
Phillies and at Chicago the St.
Louis Cardinals were ready to
clash with the Cubs in important
Nationa 1 League games. The
weather also was reported ideal
for these two contests.
The penant races in both
leagues could be decided by night
fall. If the Red Sox, now leading
the American by one game, defeat
the Yanks they will be the new
champions. If the Dodgers, lead
ing the National by one game,
win and the Cardinals lose the
: Dodgers will be champions of their
league.
A World Series atmosphere pre
vailed in New York for the Red
Sox-Yankee game.
The Red Sox, who moved out of
a tie with the Yanks into the lead
yesterday by defeating Washing
ton, 11-9, while the Yankees lost,
4-1, to Philadelphia, prepared to
send their ace pitcher, Mel Parnell,
to the mound in the hope he would
clinch the pennant by nightfall.
The Yankees, who must win both
today and tomorrow to take the
flag, counted on Allie Reynolds,
who has a 3-2 record against Bos
ton this year but has yet to go the
full nine innings against them.
Manager Casey Stengel and his
Yankees were given a lift when it
was disclosed that Joe Di Maggio,
their famed centerfielder, prob
ably would return to the lineup.
Since Di Maggio was sidelined on
September 18 by a virus infection,
(See BASEBALL. Page A-2J
Armed Coal Convoy
Gathers to Attempt
To Run 'Blockade'
Pennsylvania Police
Guard Trucks Defying
Stoppage by UMW
By the Associated Presi
SNOW SHOE. Pa.. Oct. 1.—An
other convoy of non-union coal
truckers prepared today to run
Snow’ Shoe Mountain's rifle
blockade.
About a dozen vehicles were ex
pected to be in the caravan when
it lumbers up the steep mountain
side in the heart of Central
Pennsylvania’s Alleghenies.
Motorized State police patrols
—defied by the unseen riflemen
in a second ambush of a similar
convoy Thursday—assembled with
the trucks early this morning at
an unspecified rendezvous east of
the mountain.
“Censorship" on Plans.
The action in defiance of the
United Mine Worker’s strike was
planned as John L. Lewis’ men
began the second week of their
“No Day Week” stoppage. The
union miners quit work over stop
page of payments from their
pension fund.
The wary, but determined,
truckers in the blockade runners
clamped a military-like censor
(See COAL, Page A-3.)
Man Hurt in Saber Fight
In Hollywood Warehouse
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1.—One
man is in a hospital and another
in jail today after a fight in a
movie company warehouse with a
heavy cavalry saber.
Police said Richard Jones, 30, a
janitor, seized the weapon and
stabbed Melbert J. Caplan, 32,
secretary-treasurer of Local 705.
Costumers Union, after they be
came involved in an argument
over income tax deductions from
Jones’ salary check.
Witnesses said Jones chased
Caplan down a long hall and
stabbed him in the stomach.
Caplan seized the blade and
pulled it from his body, cutting
both hands deeply.
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Dutch Ship Hits Baltic Mins
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct.
1 UP).—The Dutch motor vessel
“Octa” of Rotterdam struck a
mine in the Baltic early today,
Danish shipping sources stated.
The report did not mention cas
ualties. '
American Ship Held
By Chinese Warship
Asks Again for Aid
Captain Says Nationalists
Refused Plea to Move to
Safe Waters Before Storm
ly the Auociattd Preu
SHANGHAI, Oct. 1.—One of
three American ships held at the
mouth of the Yangtze River by a
Chinese Nationalist destroyer to
day made a new appeal for United
States assistance.
Capt. Henry Scurr of the Is
brandtsen Line's Flying Inde
pendent said the Chinese war
ship had refused his request to
move to safer water in the face
of worsening weather.
He radioed the line’s Shanghai
agents that he feared for the
Flying Independent’s safety in her
present position. The ship was
forced to anchor in the Yangtze
entrance buoy area, which ship
ping men consider unsafe in
rough weather at low tide.
The British frigate St. Bride s
Bay steamed into the vicinity
where the Nationalists are holding
the Flying Independent and two
other Isbrandtsen ships, the Flying
Clipper and the Flying Trader.
British Warship Arrives.
Capt. Scurr messaged National
ist threats to his ship ceased after
the British warship arrived. Yes
terday he radioed the Chinese
destroyer was “threatening to fire
on my crew and passengers.’*
Previously, the Shanghai agents
had protested the interception of
the three American ships by the
(See SHIPS, Page A-2.)
Sicilian Merchant's Son
Ransomed From Bandits
By th« >Ciseciattd Prut
ROME, Oct. 1.—Sicilian bandits
defied a 2,000-man task force,
charged with ridding the island
of outlaws, and kidnaped the 22
year-old son of a wealthy mer
chant, it was reported today.
The report, in a dispatch by
Italian news agency Ansa, said
the youth, Michele Oliveri, had
been ransomed by his family for
an undetermined amount of
money.
Ansa said the youth was taken
September 26 and returned home
today.
The special task force of mili
tarized police was sent to the
island a month ago to end the
reign of Salvatore Giuliano, no
torious bandit leader, and clean
out the bandits.
466 Fleeing Reds in Boat Built
For 50 Arrive at Cobh, I reland
By the Associated Press
COBH, Ireland, Oct. 1.—The
kindly folk of this seaport city
opened their gates today to 466
refugees making a desperate flight
from cfommunism in an old British
landing craft.
The boat is the 580-ton Victory,,
built to carry 50 persons under I
wartime conditions.
It reached here yesterday after
a hazardous four-day crossing of
the North Sea from Goteborg,
Sweden. Authorities there had
refused to give it a license of sea
worthiness.
The vessel’s goal is Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Among those aboard;
are 50 children.
One of the passengers told
nev.-rr.en the refugees are of 11
nati' "'-ties, but that the bulk
are L; "s, Estonians, Poles and
Hunga. »aiis.
He said one thing they have In
common is a burning desire “to
get as far as possible from Russia.”
The boat slipped out of Gote
borg, then ran aground off the
Swedish coast. After working
loose, it was tossed by a storm
for two days.
Irish authorities at first refused
to let anybody come ashore. Simi
lar expeditions previously have
become stranded and dependent
on Irish charity.
Kind hearted Irish civilians
tossed loaves of bread to the
throng on deck while the official
negotiations went on.
Finally it was agreed to let
the passengers come ashore so
that the hull could be examined
to see whether it was badly
damaged in the grounding.
Customs authorities said they
would clear the ship to cross the
Atlantic if the hull is found to
be sound. 1
Soviet Put Spies
In Army to Oust
Him, Tito Says
Intimidation Charged
In Note Replying to
Treaty Renunciation
By the Associated Press
LONDON. Oct. 1. —Premier
Marshal Tito accused Russia to
day of trying to infiltrate spic^
into the Yugoslav Army and gov
ernment in an effort to overthrow
him.
The Yugoslav leader, replying
to Thursday’s Soviet note scrap
ping the Russian-Yugoslav friend
ship treaty, charged that the So
viet government, “with diplo
matic notes full of insults and
threats,” followed by troop move
ments in countries bordering
Yugoslavia, sought to intimidate
the Yugoslav people.
Hungary and Poland yesterday
followed Russia’s lead in de
nouncing their mutual aid treaties
with Yugoslavia. Other Soviet
satellites in the Cominform are
expected to take the same step
soon.
Note Shows Pain, Anger.
Tito's new note—its wording
mixed with pain and anger toward
Moscow—was reported here by
Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news
agency.
"It is well known that Soviet
representatives tried to organize
their agents within the Yugoslav
government and Yugoslav Army
with a view of overthrowing the
legal Yugoslav government,” the
note said.
Russia’s aim. it went on. was
to exert pressure on the Yugo
slav people "in order to realize
its undemocratic and anti-social
ambitions.”
War Psychosis Seen Aided.
In addition, the note charged:
1. That Russia's renunciation of
the treaty was "a contribution to
war psychosis” and betrays the
Soviet Union's "now-peace-loving
intentions.”
2. That Russia's policy and ac
tions violated the principles of the
United Nations Charter.
3. That Russia organized the
trial in Budapest of Laszlo Rajk,
former Hungarian foreign minis
ter with the sole aim of getting a
pretext for denouncing the treaty.
Rajk was condemned to death a
week ago after confessing that he
plotted, with American help, to
overthrow Hungary’s government
and substitute for it a regime
subservient to Tito.
Russia and the Tito regime have
been quarreling since the Soviet
backed Cominform tossed Yugo
slavia out of its membership in
June, 1948.
Blackmail Charged.
Their bickering reached a cli
max with Russian denunciatidh
of the 20-year assistance pact
which was signed during the war,
in 1945. Russia backed its action
with an accusation that Tito’s
government was hostile toward
(See-YUGOSLAVIA, Page A-3.)
East Zone Germans
'Invade' British Area
By th* Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct.
1.—An expected mass “invasion
of Western Germany by Germans
from the Russian zone began in
the British zone this morning,
border police reported.
More than 2,000 persons with
out proper papers or authority
crashed through police lines at
Herrenburg near Luebeck, police
said.
Thousands of others are ex
pected to force their way into
the American and British zones
today and tomorrow, as a result
of Russian relaxation of border
restrictions.
The Russians were reported;
planning to open several border j
points in a “World Peace Day”;
celebration.
In a similar move September;
2-3, an estimated 42,000 East!
Zone Germans swarmed through;
police lints into Western Ger-1
many to buy out stores in border
towns.
Inhabitants of Selmsdorf, a
small East zone village near the
border, reported that about 6,000 j
to 7,000 Germans, had arrived
there yesterday.
A steady stream of East zone
Germans is pouring across the
border at Herrenburg, the official
check point. The road to Luebeck
is crowded with East zone Ger
mans. hiking the four miles to
the city.
The Russians officially an
nounced they would open the bor
der at 6 p.m. (11 ajn. EST) today,
and leave It open until Monday.
Revaluation
Ten Killed in Crash
Of Air Rescue Plane
On Top of Mesa
' Rancher Finds Wreckage
Of Missing B-17 Near
Colorado State Line
By the Associated Press
RATON, N. Mex„ Oct. 1.—An
Air Force B-17 plane flew into
the top of a mesa in a storm near
the Colorado-New Mexico border
last night and killed all 10 men
aboard.
James B. Barber, editor of the
Raton Range, said the plane had
been identified as an air rescue
craft from Biggs Airoase, El Paso,
Tex.
The plane had been missing
since yesterday en route from
Biggs to Lowry Field at Denvtr.
The wreckage was located by an
air rescue plane about the same
time as two ranchers fqund it
and reported to Mary Bartolino
Black, owner of the mountain
pasture where the ship crashed.
Mr. Barber, who visted the
scene, reported the wreckage was
atop of 9,500-foot Lynwood Mesa,
7 miles north of Raton. The plane
lacked only 150 feet of clearing
the gently sloping tableland and
hit a quarter miie north of the
rim.
Wreckage was scattered over 400
yards. Only the tail section re
mained intact.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Oct. 1
(fP).—A flaming Air Force B-25
plane dived to earth before hun
dreds of onlookers here yesterday
after seven soldiers had para
chuted to safety.
Two crew members were killed.
Eyewitness accounts and a pre
liminary investigation indicated
that the pilot, Capt. William E.
Blair, of Houston, Tex., remained
with the plane to keep it from
landing an a thickly populated
area. His body was found on the
wooded hillside near the scattered
wreckage.
Body Found in Schoolyard.
One soldier is believed to have
plummeted about 6,000 feet with
out a parachute. After examin
ing the ’chute officials said he
evidently didn’t hook it properly
and was jerked free shortly after
leaving the plane. The body was
found in a nearby schoolyard.
He was identified as Corpl.
Norman E. Hinson of Waycross,
Ga.
The plane was en route from
Augusta, Ga., to Spokane, Wash.
The co-pilot gave this account
of the crash:
A fire broke out in the left
engine just before the plane ap
proached Lovell Field here. The
plane asked for clearance for an
(See PLANE. Page A-3.)
Late News
Bulletins
Truman Visits Gun Factory
President Truman arrived at
the Naval Gun Factory today
at 12:40 p.m. for an official
visit in connection with the
Navy installation’s 150th anni- -
versary. He was greeted by
high-ranking Navy officials
and accorded a 21-gun salute.
(Earlier Story on Page A-24.)
Hospital Frees La Roy
Cornelius La Roy, 39, of Lan
sing, Mich., sent to Gallinger
Hospital Wednesday after giv
ing away several thousand dol
lars, was released today in
custody of his brother, Robert
La Roy. The latter said he
planned to take him to Kala
mazoo and place him under
medical treatment. Later,
Robert La Roy said, court as
sistance will be sought in re
covering the money his brother
gave away.
(Earlier Story on Pafe A-24.)
Train Brings Fire
To Apparatus at
Alexandria Depot
The Alexandria Fire Depart
ment last night had a fire brought
to it by railroad.
A burning flatcar carrying
wooden packing boxes was noticed
on a freight train about three
miles south of Alexandria by a
telegraph operator. The operator,
W. W. Mankin of Fairhaven sub
division, telephoned Union Sta
tion in Alexandria to stop the
train. No one on the train was
aware of the burning freight.
The train and fire engines ar
rived at Union Station at the
same time, and firemen had the
flames out in 20 minutes. The
train was on a freight track and
did not delay passenger trains
pacing through the station.
William Barber, assistant
Alexandria fire chief, said tile fire
resulted from a hot box. He said
there was little damage.
Un-American Probers
Turn All Weinberg
Data Over To Fay
U. S. Attorney Forwards
Perjury-Charge Material
To Justice Department
The House Committee on Un
American Activities today sent to
United States’ Attorney George
Morris Fay ‘‘all pertinent testi
mony” it believes will justify per
jury charges against Dr. Joseph
W. Weinberg, said by the commit
tee V3 have given atomic secrets
to a Russian agent.
Dr. Weinberg, a physics profes
sor at the University of Minne
sota, was identified by the com
mittee yesterday as the mysteri
ous ‘‘Scientist X.” According to
information the committee said it
obtained, Dr. Weinberg was at the
University of California radiation
laboratories during the war and
slipped the secrets to a Commu
nist agent who turned it over to a
Soviet official.
Mr. Fay announced that the
data he received from Chairman
Wood of the House committee is
being forwarded immediately to
the criminal division of the Justice
Department for study. •
‘‘The FBI has been investigating
this matter for several months,”
he said, ‘‘and members' of the
criminal division have been con
ferring with me on the progress of
the investigation of the case. Ac
cordingly, the material will be re
viewed by the criminal division in
conjunction with committee inves
tigators. Appropriate action will
be taken as soon as a decision is
reached.”
Dr. Weinberg yesterday denied
(See SCIENTIST xTPage A-3.V
2 Girls and 3 Youths
From D. C. Seized in
West Virginia Holdup
Captured by State Police
At Road Block; Filing
Of Charges Is Delayed
Two girls and three youths from
Southeast Washington, ranging in
ages from 15 to 18, were being held
in Clarksburg today after West
Virginia State police seized them!
at a road block in connection with
the armed robbery of a filling
station.
One of the five wras identified
by State police as ah 18-year-old
boy of the 300 block of Sixth street
S.E. on parole from the National
Training Schqol where he was
once sent for automobile theft.
Quoted as Admitting Crime.
The five were apprehended, ac-j
cording to State Police Sergt. W.!
W. Murphy, at a road block set;
up virtually in front of the Stated
police barracks at Elkins early
yesterday. This was about 60
miles from the scene of the rob
bery. a filling station near Clarks
burg.
Police said the victim, Quinn
Cooper, identified the five as hav
ing taken $35 from him at shot
gun point before speeding away
in their automobile. The youths
and girls were quoted as admitting
the crime. No charges were filed
against them immediately.
Sergt. Murphy said they ad
mitted they were traveling' in a
stolen car, and before the rob
bery had broken into a store at
Burlington in Mineral County,1
where they escaped with $45 in
cash and merchandise.
Girls Remained in Auto.
Police said that two 'of the
youths left the car near the fill
ing station and approached on
foot, hiding in the shadows until
a customer pulled away. Mean
while, the automobile had circled
and pulled up before the pumps.
Mr. Cooper was ordered inside,
it was said, and tho third youth
left the car to help with the rob
bery while the girls remained in
the automobile.
Police were told the five had
stolen a car in Washington and
drove it to North Carolina, where
they visited a grandmother of one
of the girls. They later abandoned1
this car and stole the automobile
in which they were arrested, police
said.
One of the girls' mothers had re
ported her daughter missing since
September 23, police said.
3 Die in Brazil Air Crash
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 1 (IP).
—Two passengers and a member
of the crew were killed and 17
persons injured today in a plane
crash at the mouth of the Iguape j
River. There were 21 aboard. In-1
eluding a crew of three. The plane
—a Catalina—was owned by the
Brazilian Taba Airways Co.
BerserkBrakeman Killed in Fight
In Engine Cab of Speeding Train
By the Associated Press
PORTLAND. Oreg., Oct. 1\—A
brakeman went berserk in the cab
of a speeding locomotive yesterday
and was fatally injured during a
wild fight to subdue him.
The brakeman attacked the en
gineer and fireman after yanking
the locomotive’s throttle wide
open. Lighted railroad flares, a
hammer and fists were used in the
fight that ensued.
Brent W. Campbell, 58, the en
gineer, said the brakeman, Ken
neth Hopkins, 35, boarcffd the
train at Eugene. The 70-car
Southern Pacific freight train was
headed for Portland.
Mr. Hopkins complained of feel
ing ill.
Later he began lighting fusees
warning flares—and waving them:
in the air.
Mr. Campbell said Mr. Hopkins
suddenly reached over his shoul
der, yanked the throttle and
jabbed a lighted flare into the en
gineer’s side.
Mr. Campbell set the emergency
brake and whirled around. He
said he was attacked again and
Fireman Ben J. Mackowiac, 24,
wrested the fusee from Mr. Hop
kins.
The engineer reported Mr. Hop
kins then seized a hammer and
continued his attack until he
Anally was knocked to the floor of
the cab.
Police took Mr. Hopkins to a
Salem hospital, where he died sev
eral hours later.
Conferees to Act
On Pay Raises
For 1,385,000
Final Measure May
Treat 885,000 Better
Than Anticipated
House-Senate conferees will
meet next week on bills that would
boost pay of 1,385,000 Government
employes, with indications that
the final measure affecting 885,000
of these will be more generous
than had been anticipated.
The Senate late yesterday unex
pectedly increased some amounts
in the pay reclassification leg
islation and paved the way for
a more liberal adjustment for
about 175,000 Federal and District
Government employes in this area.
The bills passed by the Senate
authorize pay raises totaling $171,
000,000 a year for the 885,000 civil
service employes and for 500,000
postal workers. They differ from
earlier House-approved measures
in that the Senate version allows
an average raise of about $125 a
year for the classified employes,
while the House average would be
about $113.
Langer Offers Amendment.
A last-minute amendment of
fered by Senator Langer, Repub
: lican, of North Dakota added an
other $100 on top of the increase*
that the Senate Civil Service
Committee had recommended for
Federal employes in the first four
CAF grades. This would mean
that classified employes earning
between $2,020 and $3,175 would
get between $200 and $300 instead
of the $125 general increase.
In voting the additional $110,
000,000 for pay increases for civil
service employes, the Senate also
adopted a provision for a $12,500
: ceiling on salaries for bureau head*
and top-ranking classified officials.
They now get up to $10,330. Tho
House bill would fix a new ceiling
of $15,000.
The Senate’s pay boost bill for
500,000 postal employes would cost
an additional $61,000,000 annually
and give an average annual in
crease of about $100 for almost all
regular postal employes. The bill
passed some time ago by th*
House would give a $1(0 average
increase at an additional cost at
approximately $180,000,000.
Provisions of Postal BilL
The Senate postal bill also pro
vides for a 21/2-cent-an-hour in
I crease for hourly wage workers, a
similar Increase in basic pay of
i fourth-class postmasters and tho
wiping out of present salary clas
sifications of the two lowest grade*
of employes. It would set most
starting salaries at $2,800. Th*
House bill’s figure is $2,900.
Only a handful of Senators wer*
on the floor, and the Langer
amendment was adopted by a
voice vote.
Later, after the Senate had dis
posed of the pay measure, Senator
Long, Democrat, of Louisiana,
i who handled the salary bill, ex
! plained to his colleagues that he
and evidently some other Sena
tors had not understood the full
nature of the Langer amendment.
Bargaining Wedge.
I Senator Long said he under
. stood that the Langer amendment
; would provide that a few of the
lower-grade employes, who under
the committee bill would receive
I less than a $100 increase, would
be assured of receiving at least
$100. Instead, he declared, the
Langer amendment would give aU
| employes in the first four grade*
$100 in addition to the commit
I tee’s proposed increases,
i Senator Long said he would ex
plain this to House-Senate cop
ferees when they meet on tjie
(See PAY, Page A-2.)
Couple Separated
By Laws Reunited
On Niagara Boat
By th» Associated Press
NIAGARA FALLS. Ontario. Oct.
1.—Separated by stern Canadian
and United States immigration
laws, a young Czechoslovakian
couple got together yesterday un
der the mists of Niagara Falls
in a sort of international zona
ruled by Dan Cupid.
International immigration law*
forbade them to cross the border
but they boarded, on opposite side*
of the Niagara River, the little
honeymood craft, Maid of the
Mist, and were gloriously together.
It was their first private meet
ing in three years although they
had talked briefly Thursday in the
United States Immigration Office
on Rainbow Bridge, under the
watchful eyes of immigration offi
cers. The boy arrived in Canada
five months ago. The girl ha*
been in the United States three
years and is a student of eco
nomics at the University of North
Carolina.
Yesterday, wrapped in oilskin*
and sou’westers against the soar
ing spray of the cataracts, they
sat on the top deck of the Maid of
the Mist and talked to their heart’*
content.
Sympathetic officers of the
honeymoon craft, oldtimers in
retaining secrets of the heart,
would not reveal their names.
One officer said, with a twinkl*
in his eye: “We let them itay
aboard for as many trips as they
liked.”