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Strike Begins on Four Railroads;
Mediator Abandons Peace Effort;
Lines From Washington Crippled
'Package' Deal
Offer for Ending
Tieup Rejected
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•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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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*.
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