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Weather Forecast Rather cloudy with thundershowers this afternoon: high near 80. Partly cloudy with lowest near 56 tonight. Tomorrow cooler. (Pull report on Page A-2.) Midnight. 62 6 a.m. —62 11 a.m_75 2 a m. —63 8 am. —64 Noon_77 4 am. —63 10 a.m. —70 1 p.m. —81 Late New York Markets, Page A-27. . _ Guide for Readers' r»*. j I Amusements 0-5 ! Classified . 0-5-11 j Comics ...0-14-15 | Crossword -0-14 | Editorial -4-1* I Edit ! Articles A-11 i I Cm* | Finance A-tT Lost and Found. A-J Obituary A-J4 Radio ... C-1S Sports C-I-4 Women s Sec R-S-4 An Assorted Pr«ss Newspop*r_ 98th Year. No. 130. Phone ST. 5000 ★★ WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950—SIXTY-FOUR PAGES. Cny Wrna* E*h»ary, Das'y and Sunday. *\.S0 a MoatK; »n»» » C f',p'VfT'R Sunday*. *1.30. St*ht PiaaltdiUon. *1.30 and *1*0 oar Moat*. •* Strike Begins on Four Railroads; Mediator Abandons Peace Effort; Lines From Washington Crippled 'Package' Deal Offer for Ending Tieup Rejected » •y the Associated Press CHICAGO, May 10.—A strike of railroad firemen crippled the Nation’s rail network today and within a few hours mediators abandoned hope of quick settle ment. Francis A. O'Neill, chairman of the National (Railway) Mediation • Board said. "We’ve given up.” He added that a report on the deadlock will be submitted to Washington. The board had tried in contin uous sessions since 9 o'clock Mail Walkout Is Cited as Pointing Up Need for Anti-Strike Law. Page A-3 (CDT) last night to reach some agreement. Asked what the next step would be. Mr. O’Neill replied, "I can’t Bay until we make our report-to Washington.” He added: Unable to Get Anywhere. ‘‘We have been unable to get anywhere. For the last three or four days we have been working on a ‘package’ deal with the brotherhood.” He refused to say what the “package” contained. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, one of the five big operating unions, struck against four major rail roads at 6 a.m. local standard time today. Their walkout was to enforce demands for hiring a second fire man on multiple diesel unit loco motives. The railroads, whose contention had been upheld by presidential fact-finding boards, maintained this constituted "made work” since the second fireman would be unneeded on a diesel which has no fire to tend. insist on Extra Man. The brotherhood insisted the man should be added as a safety measure. Union leaders said their men were being disciplined con tinually for leaving the locomo Firemen Instructed To Keep Truman's Train Moving Ky th« Associated Press CHICAGO, May 10.—Presi dent Truman's cross-country train trip apparently will not be interrupted by the railroad firemen’s strike. David B. Robertson, presi dent of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen said recently that “special instruc tions” had been issued to union members to see to it that the Presidential train is moved “safely and expedi iously.” five cab to tend engines in an other unit of the locomotive. They claimed this meant the carriers expected one firemen to be in two places at once. Before Mr. O'Neill mentioned the “package” deal, Roob Allie, secretary of the Michigan Associ ation of Railroads, said he was in formed all demands of the broth erhood had been settled except one for assignment of a fireman to switchers of less than 90,000 pounds. O’Neill said no further sessions were scheduled and added: “If either side wants to resume talks they can notify me.” Rob Allie, secretary of the Michigan Association of Rail roads, said he was informed all demands of the brotherhood had been settled except one for assign ment of a fireman to switch en gines of less than 90,000 pounds. The New York Central, one of the struck lines, uses a fireman <See RAILS. Page A-3.^ Steak and Chicken For Seven Months "Torture' to Red iy the Associated Press LISBON, Portugal, May 10.— Most Portuguese would welcome meals of chicken, steak and eggs. But to Alvaro Cunhal, Commun ist leader, the same menu every day for seven months in jail got bo monotonous he called it a new police'torture method. Cunhal made the “torture” charge yesterday at a trial in which he was sentenced to prison for plotting to overthrow the gov ernment and spreading illegal Communist propaganda. ' The Communist leader told a three-man court he was served meals always consisting of the lame courses: “Oatmeal for break fast, chicken broth and chicken for lunch and steak, fried eggs and potatoes for dinner.” “This became a daily torture,” Cunhal added. “I was weak and needing good food but nobody can •tand the same food every day for •eve* months.” A I ■ " — ■ - -- Train Service Virtually Halted From D. C. to West and South Hundreds of Workers Face Layoffs At Railroad Yards in District Area Passenger and freight service from Washington to Western and Southern points was crippled to day and hundreds of workers faced layoffs as a result of the railroad firemen's strike. The Pennsylvania and Southern lines attempted to operate only a token service in the strike bound areas. Chesapeake & Ohio, not struck directly, had to discon tinue passenger service to Wash ington and other points where C. & O. trains operate over Southern tracks. C. St O. had hoped to use R. F. St P. Railroad tracks for those trains usually routed over the Southern, but was unable to complete arrangements. Most of the 1,200 Southern Railway System employes at the Washington headquarters and Alexandria yards were threatened with furloughs if the strike con tinues until the week end. A "substantial number” of Penn sylvania Railroad employes in this area also will temporarily lose their jobs, it was said. The Pennsylvania "scratched” all its passenger trains to such points as Chicago and St. Louis, and the Southern, which serves a far-flung region as far south as Atlanta and New Orleans, called off 22 trains. Electrically operated trains to Baltimore. Philadelphia and New York were not affected, which meant that both the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio were oper ating as usual on those well trav eled routes. Southern left a loophole for any firemen who would report despite the union’s action. It said it would operate freight and pas (See TRAINS, Page A-3.) Senators Begin Study 01 Loyalty Files With Visit to White House Each Will Be Probed, Tydings Says, to Prove Or Disprove Charges By Cecil Holland Senate Investigators today be gan a study of State Department loyalty files on 81 persons accused by Senator McCarthy. Republican, of Wisconsin of being Communists, fellow travelers or security risks. “Each of these 81 files will be thoroughly investigated to de termine the truth or falsity of the Senator’s assertions,” said Sen ator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary land. Senator Tydings is chairman of a five-man Senate Foreign Rela tions subcommittee investigating the McCarthy charges. Senator McCarthy, in a Febru ary 20 Senate speech, listed the 81 cases without giving names. His charges resulted in the Sen ate authorizing the investigation that has been underway for more than two months. Tydings Goes to White House. Shortly after announcing that procedures had been worked out for examining the files, Senator Tydings left for the White House. He was accompanied by three other members of the investigat ing committee—Senators Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island; Mc Mahon, Democrat, of Connecti cut, and Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts. Senator Hicken looper, Republican, of Iowa, the fifth member, is in Iowa. With the committee members as they started examining the flies were John E. Peurifoy, Assistant ; Secretary of State; Peyton Ford, assistant to the Attorney General; ! and Conrad E. Snow, chairman of the State Department Loyalty Review Board. In a statement Senator Tydings said: ‘Tt was the demand of Senator McCarthy for investigation of these 81 cases which brought about the investigation now in progress. Since the investigation was launched, it has been discovered that the flies in the same 81 cases had previously been made avail able to and investigated by four separate committees of the Re publican 80th Congress, and that no adverse reports on any of the 81 were made to the Congress, the ! (See COMMUNISTS, Page A-7.) j Grass Fire Threatens Florida Everglades Park Iy the Asiociated Preii MIAMI, May 10.—A grass fire on Long Pine Key in the Ever glades National Park, raging over a 12-square-mile area and fanned by a 20-mile-an-hour southwest *wind threatened the entire park today. Covering a wider area but con sidered a lesser hazard to the park was a Are which has burned thousands of acres along the Tamiami Trail. Guy Bender, chief of the Ever glades Fire Control District, said the Tamiami Are appeared to be stopped. It has burned a strip five to seven miles wide and 20 miles long, some 30 miles west of Miami. However, a wind shift could send sparks and embers into the na tional preserve and start fires, Mr. Bender added. Park Rangers, aided by Ever glades fire control crews, worked throughout the night in both danger areas. Reinforcements sent in today. i i Barkley Appoints 5 For Senate Probe Of Interstate Crime t Committee Consists Of Kefauver, O'Conor, Tobey, Wiley, Hunt Vice President Barkley today named a five-man committee to make a Senate investigation of interstate crime, gambling and racketeering. Those named were: Senators Kefauver of Tennes see; O’Conor of Maryland and Hunt of Wyoming, Democrats; and Tobey of New Hampshire and Wiley of Wisconsin, Republicans. Mr. Barkley did not designate a chairman. This was left to the committee itself. Senator Kefau ver, who sponsored the resolution authorizing the investigation, is expected to receive the post. Point Is Made Clear. Before making the announce ment. Mr. Barkley said he wanted to make it clear that “at no time did the President or the Vice President ever discuss the resolu tion” or the personnel of the com mittee. He added that he made the statement in view of discussions about the proposed investigation. Membership on the committee was picked from the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Commit tees as the result of a jurisdic tional dispute over which commit tee should make the investigation. A resolution originally intro duced by Senator Kefauver called for an investigation by the Judici ary Committee. This was ap proved by the Rules Committee. Bills Sent to Capitol. The situation was complicated when the Justice Department sent two bills to the Capitol designed to curb slot machines and the trans mission of racing information in interstate commerce. These meas ures were referred to the Com merce Committee, headed by Senator Johnson, Democrat of Colorado. Senate Majority Leader Lucas and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee worked out an ar rangement by which the investi gations would be combined. Re publican Senators protested the plan, since it meant that Senators Ferguson, Republican, of Michi gan, and Donnell, Republican, of Missouri, were left off because of seniority rulings. The substitute resolution call ing for the investigation by a committee composed of members from the Judiciary and Commerce groups was called up last week and passed without opposition after some debate. Early Meeting Planned. I Senators Kefauver and Wiley represent the Judiciary Commit tee, while Senators O’Conor, Hunt and Tobey are members of the Commerce Committee. Senator Kefauver said the com mittee would meet without delay and organize for its Nation-wide study of crime and gambling. First task faced by the committee will be selection of a counsel. Senator Kefauver has said he wants to obtain an outstanding lawyer of national reputation as counsel. The Senate has ap proved a resolution to pay a chief counsel up to $17,500 with up to $12,500 for an assistant counsel. — China Bombed With Rice TAIPEI, Formosa, May 10 UP). —Nationalist warplanes dropped rice instead of bombs on Red China, air headquarters said to day. It said nine C-46s left For mosa Monday night with 27 tons of rice for nine areas. The planes also dropped 270,000 propaganda leaflets. a Truman Warns Cold War May Last Long Time President in Idaho After Foreign Policy Talk in Wyoming By Joseph A. Fox Star Staff Correspondent ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU MAN S SPECIAL TRAIN. May 10. —President Truman acted today to bolster the Nation's atomic strength after holding out a grim warning that the cold war with Russia will continue “for a long, long time.” Beginning a swing through the Northwest on his “Report to the Partial Texts of Two Truman Talks in the West. Page 4-6 \ GOP to Answer Truman on Senate Floor, Wherry Declares. * Page 4-6 i Measure Establishing Science Foundation Signed by President. Page A-IS People” trip, Mr. Truman dis closed in an early-morning speech at Pocatello, Idaho, that he had signed the National Science Foun dation Act. _. viiai force tor f*eace. ’ j He said it would bolster the ■country's atomic developments and by keeping the Nation ahead in scientific research would help the United States “exert a more j vital force for peace.” The lack of wrorld peace and security, he ; added, underscores the need for j the science foundation. Despite the hottr the President got out a crowd of about 1.000 at Pocatello, a Union Pacific division point. Mr. Truman told the audience that he was not on a political trip, but was simply reporting on the “State of the Union” as the Constitution provides. The crowd laughed and ap plauded when he added with a chuckle that he “might be back a little later and do some poli ticking.” Foreign Policy Talk. The President’s Pocatello speech followed a foreign policy address last night at Laramie, Wyo., in which he declared the struggle against the “new and terrible tyranny” of Soviet Russia is “a long-time project.” Promising ultimate victory for free countries in that struggle, Mr Truman declared: “There is no quick way, no easy way, to end it.” Pointing out that non-Commu nist nations together have two thirds of the world's peoples and three-fourths of the world's pro ductive power and, in addition “the greatest attraction of all human freedom,” Mr. Truman added: “I say again that we have a long task. It may be many years be fore we can be sure that com munism is no longer a threat that our goals of stability and peace have been attained. Bui those goals are clearly within oui reach.” In the same policy speech he charged that Chinese Communists have sent to Soviet Russia food that is “desperately needed by the Chinese people.” He promised that the United States would seek to find some way of sending food to the Chinese through private agencies. This was interpreted as a sign that the administration has no plans for early recognition of the Chinese Communist regime. Mr. Truman's blunt statements (See TRUMAN, Page A-3.) GabrielsonDemands Truman End Tour, Settle Rail Tieup By the Associated Press Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson today demanded that President Truman cut short his speaking tour and return to Washington immediately to seek a settlement of the four-system rail strike. He issued this statement: “The railroads are the economic bloodstream of our Nation. Four of our great transportation systems are paralyzed by a strike. A fifth is harassed and slowed down by President Truman's special train. “It is the duty of the President to return immediately to the White House. He should use the power and prestige of his office to bring about a peaceful settle ment of this costly tie-up of transportation. “I hope he will find some other method than his 1946 suggestion that he be given dictatorial powers to draft strikers into the Army.” ift t Trapped Well-Digger Losing Consciousness and Strength Rescuers Sinking Second Shaft in Effort To Free New York Father of 6 Before Death By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 10.—Dom I inick Atteo was almost uncon scious from pain and exhaustion | today as rescue workers toiled to rescue him from the bottom of a 120-foot well shaft. « A physician, Dr. Harold Berson, 25, was lowered into the shaft at 10:30 a.m. and administered more stimulants to Mr. Atteo, who had been buried up to his waist since noon yesterday. One leg was pin ioned by a boulder. The physician said the 49-year old well digger was in a "semi stuperious” state. Mr. Atteo’s pulse was weak and his breathing shallow, the doctor said. A few minutes before Mr. Atteo had cried, “I can’t feel any more! Where’s my belt? Where's my belt?” Dr. Berson said Mr. Atteo’s eye sight apparently had been dam aged by a flash fire caused when a lighted cigarette was lowered to him last night shortly after he had been given oxygen. Mr. Atteo’s face and hands were burned in the resultant fire. The physician added, however, that he did not believe the well-digger was blindecl. At 8 o'clock this morning a Catholic priest sprinkled holy water into the well which Mr. Atteo had been digging in a Brooklyn garage. Rescue workers had dug a sec ondary shaft down to his level and knocked out the dirt wall between the two shafts to about 8 feet above his head. The trapped man's comely wife. Maria, 32, collapsed about 6 o'clock this morning after an all night vigil at the mouth of the .See WELL. Page A-4.> 17 Dead and Missing After Floods Sweep 3 Midwest States Waters Cover Thousands Of Acres in North Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota Ry tH« Associated Press Seventeen persons were dead or missing and more thousands were homeless today as the most dam aging floods in years swept over three Midwest States. Human misery rose in the flood areas of North Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska. Scores of com munities were isolated as the surging waters from rain-swollen rivers and streams spilled out over thousands of acres of land. Homeless Total 15,000. Across the border in Southern Manitoba, the flood crisis mount ed. The homeless totaled some 15,000, and another 10,000 faced evacuation. Women and children were asked today to move out of stricken Winnipeg, threatened by the ever rising waters of the rampaging Red River. Brig. R. E. A. Morton, flood re lief controller, said the appeal was issued in an attempt to relieve j overtaxed city facilities. His action came as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pre pared to remove remaining resi dents along the Red River from Greater Winnipeg to the United States border, 60 miles south. All the fatalities were in Ne braska. One of the worst floods in nearly 50 years struck the southeastern section of the State yesterday. Seven bodies had been recovered. Hope was abandoned for the other 10 missing persons. Seventh Body Found. Before darkness ended the search last night, a fanner found the body of the seventh victim, Bemeda Meyer, about 25, of Lin coln, Nebr. She was identified as the passenger in an ill-fated Bur ’ lington bus located earlier eight miles away. Most of the dead were highway j travelers caught by rampaging ; waters which followed rains of up — (See FLOODS. Page A-3.1 New Program Listings For Radio and TV More attractive and con venient program listings of : Washington’s radio and tele vision schedules now appear in The Star. The new listings will be found today on Page C-13. ♦ Oppenheimer Denies Communist Link, Says He Renounced Leftists Leading Atom Scientist Answers Mrs. Crouch's California Testimony By the Associated Press Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer has flatly denied the accusation of a woman ex-Communist that Dr. Oppenheimer, top atomic scien tist, held a secret, closed meeting of Communists at his Berkeley home in July, 1941. Mrs. Paul Crouch, admittedly a Communist from 1929 to 1942. yes terday told a California State Sen ate investigating committee in Oakland that she attended such a Communist meeting at Dr. Op penheimer’s home when he was in the physics department of the University of California. Last night in Washington, Dr. Oppenheimer, who directed the construction of the first atomic bomb and now director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, N. J., said ‘‘I never assembled any such group of peo ple for any such purpose in my home or anywhere else.” Husband Had Part in Meeting. Mrs. Crouch, who became a Com munist in 1929 while a textile worker on strike at Gastonia. N. C„ was called before the State Senate Committee on Un-Amer ican Activities, which is seeking to determine if Communists had access to the university’s atom smashing laboratory. She said the meeting was called so that her husband, then an active Communist organizer in the San Francisco Bay area,, could explain that the party line was (Continued on Page A-7, Col. 1.) 2 Hurt and Streetcars Tied Up in Freak Mishap Two persons were slightly hurt this morning and eastbound streetcars were tied up for almost half an hour near Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue N.W. as the result of a freak accident. Bessie Lappen, 48. of 3626 Six teenth street N.W., and Ronnie Bocock, 43, of 800 Crittenden street N.W., were treated at Emer gency Hospital for cuts and bruises. They were knocked off a load ing platform, it was reported, when a passing streetcar struck a piece of iron in use by track weld ers and shoved the platform out ward about 3 feet. The accident occurred at 8:55 o'clock. A 5% Administrative Cut Sought by Cannon in Rider to Omnibus Bill Vote Expected Today; Defense Total Is Now Over Truman's Request Chairman Cannon of the House Appropriations Committee today offered an amendment to the 1951 omnibus Government money bill that calls for a 5 per cent cut in the administrative expenses for Federal agencies. The proviso would impound 8 per cent of the amount voted by Congress for administrative ex penses. Ari^ part of this amount could be released for expenditures ! if the Budget Bureau director find? that “maintenance of essen tial Government service so re quires," the amendment provides. Mr. Cannon submitted the amendment as a substitute for the one sponsored by Representa tive Thomas, Democrat, of Texas. The Thomas amendment calls for a flat $500 million cut in the appropriations bill. The House was to vote on the amendments I later today. A last-ditch effort by Republi can economy advocates to trim the I bill was under way. out Lne nepresemauves nave shown little inclination to slash the money bill. Yesterday they approved $385,360,000 more for national defense to bring the military total to $14,296,487,300— actually $182,027,300 more than the original budget requested by President Truman. The "economy drive” was to come on a final test on the bill in which Republicans seek a $1 billion slash. 3 Amendments Scheduled. Three economy amendments were to be offered; 1. A prohibition against filling more than a 10 per cent of the vacancies occurring next year among civil service employes. Cer tain categories, such as those in the legislative and judicial de partments and scientific and tech nical jobs in the armed services and the Atomic Energy Commis sion, would be exempt. 2. A limitation on amounts which may be spent for travel, transportation, communications, utility services, printing supplies, equipment' and real estate. 3. A directive to the President to withhold $750 million of the funds finally appropriated, with de fense exempted. The President j would have to find the places to do the cutting. $100 Million Called “Token.” The lawmakers repeatedly showed a willingness to vote al most any amounts for military spending and several criticized the administration for not spending more for defense. Representative Porter Hardy. Democrat, of Vir ginia, called the $100 million voted for naval airplane purchases a "token” amount. The added defense funds also included $200 million for Air Force plane procurement; $50 million for Navy anti-submarine warfare preparations; $24,235,000 for development and procurement 3f Army anti-tank equipment, etc.; and $11,125,000 for operating Army and Navy hospitals. • Dr. Overholser Confined To Home Affer Hear! Attack Dr. Winfred Overholser. super intendent of* St. Elizabeths Hos pital. is confined to his home re covering from a heart attack, his office said today. The hospital superintendent suffered the attack last week but is doing well now. his office said. Dr. Overholser’s physicians have ordered him to take a few weeks' rest and then slow down some what, the office added. Civic Leaders Back Unified Charity Drive Group to Be Named To Revise Plans for Merging Campaigns More than 100 area civic lead ers voted today to create a com mittee to devise plans for uniting major charity drives Frank J. Luchs of the Com munity Chest Federation was named temporary chairman. Ha said he will appoint committee * members within a tew days and the group will seek to work out a merger plan to be put in oper ation by next fall. The meetYig was held at the District Bulking on invitation of Commissioner John Russell Young and included representatives from numerous fund raising and civic organizations. There were no opposing votes on creation of the Planning Com mittee. However, Dr. George H. Ruhland. executive director of the District Cancer Society and for mer District health officer, point ed out that his organization is committed nationally to Inde pendent fund raising. Better Sparing Suggested. F,dward F. Bartlett, assistant secretary of the Treasury and Government chairman in this year s cancer drive, in a letter said it was "debatable" whether "some kind of super-fund, or per haps a better spacing of the pres ent individual drives, is prefer able." A number of speakers urged an end to the present multiplicity of drix es. Among tnem were wooisey w. Hall, president, of the Federation of Civic Associations; Miss Viol* S. Schantz. president of the Dis trict Federation of Federal Em ployes' Unions; Paul A. Hill, busi ness manager of the Arlington j Chamber of Commerce; Countv 'Manager A. T. Lundberg of Al dington. Einar Christensen, presi dent of the Silver Spring B^ard of Trade: Harold Hammond, member |of the Montgomery County Coun cil; Mrs. Franklin G. Sartwell of j the Inter-Federation Council. Frank Sherry, vice president of the District Department, American Federation of Government Em ployes; F. Elwood Davis, former president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce; Jerome B. McKee, president of the Federation of Businessmen's Associations; Bour bon A. Dawes, executive director of the Washington Hotel Associa tion; Mrs. Hazel Markel of Radio Station WTOP. Parker .Suggests Plan. Chauncey G. Parker, president of the Community Chest Federa tion, proposed a plan for a single concurrent campaign uniting the Chest with certain national fund appeals. A new over-all organization to manage such a united campaign was recommended by Mr. Parker. He suggested that major causes such as the Chest, the Cancer Society and the Red Cross would conduct their campaigns simul taneously within the area's busi ness organizations under the name “United Services Campaign." Contributors would designate their gifts to one or more of the participating organizations, with undesignated donations being divided according to mutual agree ment. Mr. Luchs told reporters his committee would attempt to work out a plan for either one. two or possibly three united appeals dur ing the year in place of the nu merous separate drives now car ried on. Considerable sentiment was expressed at the meeting for two major drives—one for na tional health organizations, the other for local groups of the type now belonging to the Com i munity Chest. Bigger Gifts Needed. Mr? Parker, in presenting his plan, emphasized that a higher standard for individual gifts would be needed in order to provide suf ficient funds for all participating groups. Daniel W. Bell, chairman of the 'See FUND DRIVE, Page A-3.1 St. Louis Gambler to Quit Big-Time Betting Business • y *tw Ai.ociat.d Fr».» ST. LOUIS. May 10.—Morris L. (Morrie) Cooper announced to day he is retiring from his horse race and baseball betting business, said to be one of the largest in the country. Cooper was known nationally as a better commissioner who fixed odds and handled “layoff” or insurance bets for other bookies. He denied he was Influenced by recent hearings by a Senate sub committee investigating gambling. A local competitor. James Carroll, testified before the subcommittee. "The hearing in Washington had nothing to do with my deci sion," Cooper said. Asked about reports he mad* a fortune in the business. Cooper smiled and said: “Just say I mad* ta living.” He added he will devote his tint* j to other interests, including * furniture store he operates her*. * »