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12 Thailand Civilians
Killed, 286 Injured in
Navy's 3-Day Revolt
By the Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand, July 3.
The navy's abortive three-day at
tempt to take over rule of Thai
land cost at least 12 civilian deac
and 286 wounded.
Army hospitals were filled t<
capacity, doctors said, but the?
refused to release any statistics.
One German was reported killed
This was not confirmed and there
were no reports of other foreigr
casualties.
Heaviest service casualties wen
believed to be among navy per
sonnel w'hich battled army, an
force and police after kidnaping
Premier P. Pibulsonggram.
The 54-year-old Premier es
caped by diving overboard from i
flaming warship, clad onlv in hi:
shorts. He was back today ruling
with the help of martial law, ovei
a peaceful but battered Bangkok
Embassy in Line of Fire.
The British and American Em
bassies were heavily, but not seri
ously, scarred by shell fragments
They were in the line cf fire be
tween the army’s Japanese-ouill
tanks and the navy's artillery
Trees wore short haircuts as re
minder of the battle;
Most serious damage was tc
Thailand's small but strategic
fighting supplies. Artillery fire anc
naval bombs sank a torpedo boai
and the 2.265-ton gunboat Sr
Ayuthia. flagship of the Thai navj
and Pibulsonggram's prison ship
The premier was kidnaped at i
public ceremony Friday and im
prisoned with apologies aboard the
Sri Ayuthia. He escaped Saturdaj
after an artillery shell sit it afire
Hid Under Wharf.
His guard fled with most of the
erewr. Three crewmen releasee
him from his cabin and the foui
dove over the side. Only Pibul
songgram and one of the sailors
were able to swim safely througt
the gunfire splashing in the river
The premier hid under a wharl
across the river from Bangkok
until a message could be sent tc
his secretary and a small boat sent
to rescue him.
He returned with Admiral Luang
Singu Songgramchai under heav>
fire. Together they issued broad
casts which brought an end to the
abortive coup.
All indications were that it was
strictly a navy rebellion with nc
foreign influence.
It failed apparently because
high army and air force chiefs
W’hom the rebels had counted or
weren't there to join the rebellion
Taxes
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rates could be continued beyonc
1955.
The House bill raises from 62 t<
10 per cent the ceiling rate on cor
porations, covering their combinec
normal and excess profits taxes
It also raises the taxes of all indi
viduals by 12.5 per cent. The
Treasury wants the Senate t(
boost the rate on individuals, anc
increase many of the excise taxe;
to bring the House bill up from $'
to $10 billion.
Mr. Wilson told the Senator!
there are only two courses Con
gress can take if it does not pas!
this tax bill. One would be to cui
the defense program, which h<
said would be “unthinkable.’
The other would be to borrow fd
defense, which would “expose u;
to all the evils of inflation."
Senator Byrd asked Mr. Wilsor
to try to find out why the admin
istration has not appointed tin
board to renegotiate defense con
tracts, although the renegotiatior
law passed four months ago. Th<
Senator said complaints are mad<
about the effect of inflationarj
prices on defense contracts anc
yet nothing has been done to se
up the Renegotiation Board. Sen
ator George, Democrat, of Geor
gia raised the same question.
Casey
(Continued From First Page.)
of Casey’s was only a few fee
from the door of the 38-year-olc
athlete's room, hurrying to pre
vent the tragedy.
“I begged and pleaded witl
him not to do it,” Mrs. Case;
said, tearfully. “I tried to tel
him that it was for God to decidi
■when a man must die but h<
laughed and said ‘I am ready tj
die—ready to go.’ ”
Casey’s last words, the dis
traught widow' related were:
“I am completely innocent o
those ehnrees ”
Couldn't Eat or Sleep.
Mrs. Casey explained that hi
referred to the ruling of a three
judge Special Sessions Court ii
New York last December 29 whicl
named the big pitcher as thi
father of a son born out of wed
lock to Hilda Weissman, a 25
year-old brunette.
At her Brooklyn home Mis
Weissman said she was shocked t
learn of the pitcher's death.
“I'm very sorry, very sorry,” sh
said. “It’s all so terrible."
“I can’t eat or sleep since go
ing through all the embarrass
ment of that paternity case,” Mrs
Casey quoted her husband. “Am
I had to drag you through it, toe
but I swear with a dying oat]
that I am innocent.”
Mrs. Casey said she assure
Casey of her belief in his inno
cence, and again pleaded wit:
him not to kill himself.
She said Casey laughed an
said, “No, this is my time to gi
I feel just like I was walking oi
to the pitcher's box to pitch
ball game. I was never any moi
calm than I am right now. I’\
been feeling empty and dead ir
side, but I'm all right now ar
I’m ready to go.”
Married 13 Years.
The Caseys, who married 1
years ago, have no children. Mr
Casey said their estrangemei
had nothing to do with the Ne
York paternity suit.
"I stood by him then becau:
I thought Hugh was innocent
she said, “and I still believe th
he is innocent.”
She said friends had told h
Casey's healt^was poor lately, b
' Bolling Sees Truck Smother Gasoline Fire
A furious gasoline fire engulfs an abandoned Flying Fortress a few seconds before a new Air
I Force fire truck cut a rescue path into the flames in a demonstration at Bolling Air Force Base
today. —Star Staff Photo.
A new $75,000 fire truck de
signed to smother the hottest
! gasoline blaze under a blanket
of foam in a few seconds was
demonstrated today at Bolling
Air Force Base.
i The 13-ton vehicle is equipped
to roll up beside a flaming wreck
in which airmen may b. trapped
and cool it enough for rescuers to
cut their way inside while pro
tected by a torrent of foam,
chemical fog or water.
The extinguishing fluids are
distributed under high pressure
from remotely-controlled nozzles
on top of the truck and three
others set to spray the ground in,
front of the wheels.
The fire-fighter shown here was
the first production model of a
new line of vehicles developed by
the Ari Force. The truck rolls on
six huge tires capable of deliver
ing traction over very rough ter
rain.
The vehicle, manned by a crew
of four, can accelerate to 60
miles an hour in as many seconds.
It carries up to 600 gallons of
water and foam solution.
, While the truck moves into a
Are area it is flanked on either
side by members of the crew
spraying the edges of the fire
with hand hoses.
Experts expressed satisfaction
writh the way the truck extin
guished flames in a wrecked Fly
ing Fortress drenched with sev
eral hundred gallons of high-test
gasoline.
that he himself had never com
plained to her.
“What he seemed to feel most
was that this was his first year put
of baseball,” she added. The only
• anxiety he had expressed to her,
she said, was that business was not
what he had expected at the
restaurant he operated at 600
Flatbush avenue in Brooklyn.
Threatened Suicide Before.
“For several days Hugh had said
he planned to kill himself, but no
one thought he really meant it”
said Mrs. Casey. “Thi§ is a ter
rific shock to me. I never dreamed
it would happen. Then his call
early today, and the crash of the
gun over the phone when he
did it.”
Lt. Fleming quoted a bellboy
at the hotel, where the former
mound star registered last week,
as saying Casey told him Satur
day that his physician had given
him only about 10 days to live
because of a heart ailment.
Gordon McNabb, a friend, told
police Casey telephoned him
shortly after midnight and said
he planned to kill himself. Mc
Nabb, officers related, sought to
dissuade Casey, then hurried to
the hotel.
When McNabb was about 30
feet from the door to Casey's room
he heard the blast. McNabb said
wasey nau maae similar inreais
for the last three days.
When he heard the blast, Mc
Nabb told Lt. Fleming, he ran
downstairs for aid. He found a
patrolman and W. M. Mobley, a
bellboy, and together the three
removed the screws from hinges
an the door ard entered the locked
room.
Casey was lying on his side in
'the center of the room. The open
; telephone receiver was nearby.
The shotgun had one empty shell
in the barrel.
Casey, a native of Atlanta, began
his baseball career with Atlanta
of the Southern Association in
1932. He left the big leagues after
pitching for the Pirates and Yan
kees in 1949.
Signed With Pirates.
He pitched for Brooklyn between
1939 and 1948 and after being
released at the end of the 1949
season he signed with Pittsburgh.
Appearing in 33 games writh the
Pirates that year, he had a 4-1
record before going to the Yan
kees for four games and a 1-0
record to wind up his big league
career.
In 1947 with the Dodgers he
established a record for most
games pitched in a World Series,
1 six, and turned in a 2-0 record as
the Dodgers bowed to the Yankees
in seven games. Casey’s best
■ year's with the Dodgers were from
1939 through 1941 when he turned
in 15-10, 11-8 and 14-11 seasons
and 1946 and 1947 when he had
11-5 and 10-4 years. From 1943
through 1945 he was in the Navy.
Last summer he returned to
Atlanta and pitched in relief for
the Crackers. At one time this
" spring he was reported working
1 out with Brooklyn in an effort to
jretum to the majors.
Miss Weissman had accused
1 Casey of being intimate with her
in a Brooklyn hotel February 11
; and 12, 1949.
' Casey’s wife testified that the
former pitcher w'as with her in
1 Atlanta at the time. Casey him
self denied the accusation and
said he only knew Miss Weissman
. as a customer at his Brooklyn res
taurant.
Gas
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[ burners. The orders, if entered,
; would not affect use of gas for
'.cooking and refrigeration.
Company Issues Statement.
The District Public Utilities
5 Commission and the Washington
3 Gas Light Co. said they expected a
a similar petition to be filed here
- Public hearings are asked to show
cause for the proposed orders.
Washingtoh Gas Light Co. is
’ sued this statement:
j "If the findings show' that it is
in the public interest, if the de
’ j fense program would benefit and il
such steps are essential to protect
j service to our present customers
. we would accept such restrictions
1 but we think these restrictions
should be based on facts developec
3 and should be equitable in theii
, application throughout the ares
X served by Columbia.”
a The gas company said Columbis
e serves an area which include;
e parts of Kentucky. West Virginia
_ Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania
d New York, Ohio and the District
Washington Gas Light Co. main
tained that the reasons cited b
3 Columbia exist throughout th
s. multiple-State area—not just ii
it the Washington area alone.
w “We welcome an opportunity t
have the facts developed and w
;e believe these can best be developed
”!in a public hearing,” the gas com
it,pany said.
—
sr Home oil burners were first use
it1 in the United States in about 189
Corporal to Get Medal of Honor
For Heroic Action in Korea War
The Army will present its 27th
Medal of Honor of the Korean
war to Corpl. Einar H. Ingman
w ho stormed two enemy machine
gun emplacements alone last
February and killed the crews
with grenades and rifle fire.
In making this announcement
today, the Army said the cor
poral’s heroic action caused more
than 100 Communists holding a
ridge to abandon their weapons
and flee.
The corporal, now a patient at
Percy Jones Army Hospital, Battle
Creek, Mich., is a native of Toma
hawk, Wis.
Czech
(Continued From First Page.)
asked if he had ever been an
espionage agent.
Apparently anticipating the
protest, the Czech embassy has in-:
vited newsmen and photographers
to sit in on the Vinar-Martin
meeting.
Czechoslovakia does not have
an ambassador here and Mr.
Vinar is its top diplomat in this
country.
Lying Charged to Newsmen.
In rejecting the protest, the en
voy accused American newspaper
men of "lying” about the Com
munist regime's efforts to better
living conditions in the country.
"I can assure you,” he said, "if
anybody tries to throw monkey
wrenches into our machinery we
shall know how to deal with him
ev'en if he is an American news
paperman.”
Mr. Martin retorted the Czech
i “will have to answer to humanity”
for the fixed trial of Mr. Oatis,
and added:
“TViio -*
you do inflict on human beings in
this modern age.”
He accused Czechoslovakia's
government of “reverting to the
'dark ages” in its treatment of Mr.
Oatis. Mr. Vinar walked out.
Mr. Martin asked that the guild
resolution and his letter be trans
mitted to the Prague government.
"We of the American Newspa
per Guild know Mr. Oatis as an
able and experienced newspaper
man and we know that he would
not—indeed could not—be guilty
of the crimes charged against
him,” Mr. Martin's letter said.
It continued:
‘The so-called confessions whicji
the authorities in Czechoslovakia
have extorted from him under
duress is merely one more in the
growing series of phony confes
sions forced from helpless victims
by methods that outdo barbarism
even in the historic terrors of
the Spanish inquisition.
“The whole world has been
shocked by the inhuman treat
ment of the individuals at the
mercy of the police state regimes
in the so-called people’s democ
racies.
“Even Blacker Crime.”
“The savage assault upon such
fundamental liberties as freedom
of press and freedom of speech
involved in the railroading of Mr.
Oatis to prison, without proper
counsel and without opportunity
to advise with American authori
ties or with his American em
ployer, is an even blacker crime
than the others that have gone
before.
“The working newspapermen
and women of the United States
protest most earnestly against the
imprisonment and persecution of
uuio nuitiu-aii juuumuot uy tuc
government of Czechoslovakia.
“We demand that he be re
leased immediately, be permitted
i to resume his normal duties as a
working newspaperman, and be
given adequate redress for the in
dignities and the tortures that
have been heaped upon him.’’
Controls
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House time to consider a Senate
approved bill continuing controls
for eight months but curbing the
Government's power to roll back
prices. The interim measure bans
all rollbacks.
Questioned whether OPS coulc
“live with the Senate bill” if il
finally becomes law containinf
.the rollback ban, Mr. DiSalle re
spited:
•! “We can live with anything. II
all depends on how you live.”
Despite the current freeze oi
■ rollbacks, Mr. DiSalle said somi
’’ changes in ceilings on manufac
tured goods and machinery un
1 der the suspended regulations an
in force.
5 Asked about the fate of prici
B control if peace comes in Korea
i Mr. DiSalle said:
"If the war ends this montl
we'll need every bit of price con
trol we’ve had.”
ij Last night Senator Taft chargei
Corpl. Ingman took command
of his squad and the squad next
to his own when both squad lead
ers became casualties.
Machine-gun fire pinned both
squads to the ground. But Corpl
Ingman ran ahead alone, charging
the first machine nest and threw
a grenade into it. Halfway to the
next enemy position he was
wounded by a grenade and ma
chine gun Are.
He was knocked down, but
sprang once again to his feet
charged the position and killed
the crew with his rifle, then fell
unconscious on the emplacement,
i ic.iiucni/ ju uuiau 10 ovciviUb aic
dangerous and wholly unneces
sary for the simple purpose of
holding down the cost of living.”
The Ohio Senator, in an NBC
radio address defended the Sen
ate-passed eight-month extension
of the controls law as “a good,
strong price and wage control bill.”
He said the President had failed
to use the anti-inflation measures
which Congress gave him last
September 8. Now, he declared,
Mr. Truman would like to place
on Congress "the blame for the
inflation which has occurred and
probably will occur because of the
President's own policies and fail
ures to act.”
Number of Requests Refused.
The Senate bill failed to give
Mr. Truman a number of meas
ures for which he asked, including
the authority to license busines;
to help control prices, control ol
commercial rents and the powei
to build planes for defense pro
duction.
This measure has not been ap
proved by the House. Instead the
House and Senate agreed on the
present stopgap bill providing foi
a 31-day extension of the controls
with a prohibition of price rolb
backs.
Senator Taft asserted he be
lieves "these unlimited powers’
should not be granted the Presi
dent "because I do not trust him
to use them only with relation tc
price control in an emergency.”
He said also that Mr. Truman's
fight is with his own party be
cause Democrats control commit
tees of both House and Senate.
“He has had a Democratic Con
gress for three years, Senator Tafl
said of the President. “But this
is a Congress that refuses to take
left wing orders even if they come
through the President of the
United States.”
Venizelos Tells King
Of Cabinet Failure
By the Associated Pres*
ATHENS, July 3. —Liberal
Premier Sophocles Venizelos
called on King Paul today to tell
him he was unable to meet the
monarch's demands for informa
tion of a broad coalition govern
ment. He said he would call on
the king again tonight for final
counsel on what course should be
taken.
The King had threatened tc
take action himself if the coali
tion was not formed. He may dis
solve Parliament and call new
elections immediately.
The cabinet crisis resulted froir
the resignation of Minister ol
Economic Co-ordination Georgt
Papandreou after Mr. Venizelo:
and the American aid mission re
fused to approve a large increasi
In subsidies for wheat grower
from ECA funds.
Mr. Venizelos’ failure to form :
icoalition resulted fropi the refusa
of the Progressive Unionist leader
Gen. Nicolas Plastiras, and Popu
list (royalist) chief Constantii
Tsaldaris to bring their forces inti
the cabinet. Both insisted tha
new elections be held.
King Paul had demanded th
strong coalition to put a stop ti
frequent changes in Greece’s gov
ernment. In a message to politica
leaders yesterday he pointed ou
that 13 cabinets had held offic
since he became King in Apri
1947.
*
Bulgaria is about one-sixth a
large as Alberta, Canada.
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Senators Sharpen Wits i
In Oral Duel on Code 1
Of Ethics Proposal
The old code of dueling and the '
modern codes of city and rural
life have come up in a con- ;
gressional discussion of proposals
to draft a code of ethics for Gov- '
emment employes.
Senate Labor subcommittee 1
members holding hearings on a
proposal of Senator Fulbright,
Democrat, of Arkansas, for crea
tion of a commission to draw Up
an ethical code did some fencing :
at various points yesterday.
Aiken Suggests Dueling.
Senator Fulbright declared he;
never had known a time when
“such bitterness” existed in Gov-;
ernment. Senator Aiken, Republi
can of Vermont, facetiously sug
gested that a revival of “the good
old days of dueling” might help,
gentlemen in Congress and gov
ernmental agencies dispose of some
of their differences.
“I shouldn’t be surprised that 1
the suggestion has a good deal of jl
merit in it,” Senator Fulbright !
chuckled, “I think it might exer-! 1
cise some restraint if members of j1
Congress knew they would have 1
to answer for some of these ir-11
responsible statements.”
Talk Takes Serious Turn.
The discussion took a more'
serious turn when Senators Aiken
and Fulbright cited crime and
corruption of big cities. Senator ,
Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois ob
jected. He said it was "a great
fallacy to assume there is greater,
J virtue in rural life.” He added
jthat his viewpoint was not influ
enced by the fact that he came
from Chicago.
“I think you will have just as
many murderers, just as many ,
embezzlements, just as much un- ]
chastity per capita in the rural ]
communities as in th,e big cities,”! 1
he contended.
But the Arkansas Senator de- l
dared, "There is a certain irre- '
sponsibility that goes with size.”
He noted that the Illinois Senator
was a “notable exception.”
Donohue's Arbitration
Proposal Hit by CIO
Commissioner P. Joseph Dono
hue drew criticism today from the
District CIO Council on his pro
posal for a law' requiring com
pulsory arbitration of disputes in
the utilities field.
The council made public a tele
gram from Glenn E. Watts, coun
cil president, to Mr. Donohue de
claring, “We were further
troubled to read what indicated
your feeling to be that the ques
tion of seniority in this dispute
is not sufficient justification for
the transit strike.”
j The telegram expressed the
I view that “arbitration, and cer
! tainly compulsory arbitration,
can never completely settle the
issues which arise in the field of
collective bargaining.”
On the question of seniority, it
said that “as we remember the
last few’ years, the transit com
pany in Washington has used the
employe body as the one flexible
buffer in its economic planning
I... if any issue could possibly
warrant the action of the transit
employees, it is this question of
j seniority.”
| The council also released a tele
gram from Mr. Watts last Fri
day to Walter Bierwagon. transit
i employes’ union president, ex
pressing support in the event a
1 strike w’as necessary.
Nomination Will Strip
Tax Collector of Job
By th« Associated Press
President Truman has acted to
strip James W. Johnson of his
job as collector of internal rev
enue for the third district of New
York. Mr. Johnson has spurned
demands for his resignation.
Mr. Truman yesterday nomin
ated Monroe Davis Dowling of ;
New York, a Labor Department
analyst, for the tax collector's post.
The White House said Mr. Dowling
would succeed Mr. Johnson auto
matically if the nomination is ab
proved by the Senate.
The Treasury has called for Mr.
Johnson's resignation on the
grounds of inefficiency, but he has
refused to quit. He has said he
hasn’t done anything wrong and
doesn’t want to give anybody the
impression that he has.
Both Mr. Dowling and Mr. John
son are colored.
—
Summer School Absentee
Lists Are Decreasing
Attendance was improved at the
District’s public summer schools
today, although the transit strike
still made a dent in the classes.
Cardozo High School reported
663 absent today, as compared1
with 811 yesterday. At McKinley
> the number of absentees dropped
from 311 to fewer than 100.
First reports indicated Govern
l|inent employes again managed to
.'get to work almost 100 per cent
■'despite the difficulties, although
i! some again were late.
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Hygiene Chief Named
! BALTIMORE, July 3 (/P).—
> Robert M. Brown, former assistant
- professor of health at Yale Uni
1 versity, yesterday was named
t chief of the newly created Bureau
; of Environmental Hygiene in the
, State Health Department by Dr.
R. H. Riley, department director.
■ .
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Ching at Home in Transit Strike;
Used to Run Streetcar Himself
Cyrus S. Ching, the Govern-;
nent’s mediation chief, felt right;
it home when he was called in to'
lelp settle Washington’s transit!
strike. He used
,o run a street
;ar himself,
rack in the
;arly 1900s.
It was in 1900
shat Mr. Ching
vent to Boston
rom his native
3rince Edward
:sland, Canada,
seeking a better
rpportunity to
n a k e a living
\fter surviving
!or three
nonths on
raked beans, bread and coffee
le landed a job as motorman of
t streetcar for the Boston Ele
vated Co.
Mr. Ching is so tall—he’s 6
eet, 7—that he recalls he had to
>oke his head out the front of
he car. Despite that handicap:
le showed aptitude for the job
ind was the first to master new
ilectrical equipment installed by
he Boston Transit Co.
That activity, however, almost
Traffic
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raffic jams did not develop. Traf- :
ic moved slowly, but it moved.
Virginia Commuters Delayed.
In the deep downtown, one (
notorist reported it took from 5
).m. to 5:40 p.m. to get from
fourth to Thirteenth street on i
Independence avenue S.W.
Virginia commuters were sec
indary victims of the strike.
Drivers complained of unusually
leavy traffic south of the Mall on
he approaches to the Highway
3ridge, and in the vicinity of
Memorial Bridge between 4 and
’ p.m.
After yesterday's morning rush
rour was over, police began ticket
ng autos parked illegally despite
warnings about traffic rules which
would be enforced.
There were 1,215 cars parked
legally on the street car tracks,
but there also were 321 cars parked
there illegally—some of them
blocking crosswalks.
Other Illegal parking which
caused trouble included the block
;ng of loading zones, forcing big
bommercial trucks to double park
—adding to the traffic tie-up.
Transit
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lopeful enough for him to stick
it out longer.
Later it was learned that com
pany negotiators went to the
home of J. A. B. Broadwater,
Capital Transit president, at 3
a m. to get his approval on a
delicate point. The group re
turned an hour later.
Mr. Broadwater had attended
earlier conferences, but delicate
health had forced him to retire at
11:30 p.m.
E. Cleveland Giddings, Capital
Transit vice president, issued this
terse statement after Mr. Ching's
announcement:
“In the interest of restoring
service, the company has agreed
:o the proposition of Commissioner
Donohue and the mediators. They
have worked hard to reconcile dif
ferences and wre are appreciative
bf their efforts.’’
Seniority Was Main Issue.
Other conciliators were Martin
J. O'Connell, regional director;
James A. Holden, chairman of the
panel; D. Yates Heafner of Char
lotte, N. C„ and C. Stanley Clev
enger of Hagerstown, Md.
Negotiations had been locked
tight on the issue of seniority,
with the pension matter also giv
ing trouble. The strike wras aimed
principally at the company's re
iuocu bu nilbv » ubiiivi iij vinuov
into the contract covering non
operating employes.
It was the union’s contention
that Capital Transit has laid off
large numbers of workers in the
past two years without due con
sideration of seniority in either
the hiring or rehiring.
The company said it has fol
lowed seniority practices in prin
ciple, but insisted that hiring, fir
ing and promotions were strictly
company administrative matters
and not a subject for bargaining.
The union retorted that senior
ity rights already were in the con
tract for operating employes. The
company offered to make some
concessions, but insisted they
should be “bulletin board," not
contractual decisions.
Obviously, the union now has
agreed that seniority need not be
broken down to such a fine point
that the company must rehire a
furloughed car washer, for in
stance, before they rehire a weld
er, if it was a welder that was
needed.
The matter of pensions was re
ported the second toughest prob
lem. At the outset, the union
wanted pensions increased from
$50 to $75 a month and the com
pany offered a $10 increase.
Later they settled on a money
figure, but the union insisted on
a one-year agreement and the
company on three years.
The compromise was said to be
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:ost Mr. Ching his life, but it was
ilso the turning point in his career.
He was nearly electrocuted while
repairing a shoe fuse on his line,
five thousand volts passed through
his huge frame, burning off all nis
clothing and hair.
After Mr. Ching had spent
months in a hospital, he returned
to the job and the company gave
him other work to do. He grad
ually worked his w'ay into the labor
relations end of the business and
was instrumental in settling a
tough transit strike in Boston
in 1912.
The transit company directors
were so impressed by Mr. Ching’s
conciliatory efforts that they
made him assistant to the presi
dent and put him in charge of all
personnel relations.
While in Boston he went to
night school and won & law de
gree. In 1919 he moved on to
the United States Rubber Co. and
subsequently was placed in charge
of all labor and public relations
for that big company. He finally
left United States Rubber in 1947
to become director of the United
States Mediation and Conciliation
Service when it became an in
dependent agency under the Taft
Hartley Act.
570 a month for the next two
'ears.
The 3-cent fringe allowance
jives the union an additional
5240,000. This would be spread
)ut over pensions, sick leave, vaca
tions and holidays, improving each
>f those items.
With end of the strike in sight,;
he company began preparing its
juses and streetcars for service as
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The job entailed getting 963
juses and 615 streetcars ready for
jperation again at peak schedule,
i task usually requiring about 12
lours to accomplish.
But the apparent end of the
strike was timed such that holiday
service should be assured for to
morrow and regular schedules for
the^next work day, Thursday.
With the strike over, transit
riders will have another problem.
The company has announced thtf
extra $1,580,000 it must spend
under the new contract must be
met with a fare (increase. This
would be, at 4 minimum, a
straight 15-cent fare, with no
tokens or weekly passes, it was
said.
Knoxville Transit Strike
Remains Deadlocked »
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 3 (JP)'.
—An early end 'to a municipal
bus strike here appeared unlikely
today as 300 drivers and me
chanics remained idle for the third
consecutive day.
City Safety Director C. V.
Christenberry said the strike had
not seriously crippled the city.
Automotive traffic has increased
about 30 per cent.
Two persons died in accidents
yesterday.
Knoxville Transit Lines' wrork
lers left their jobs at midnight
Saturday to back up their de
mand for a 6 V2-cent- hourly wage
increase, which would boost the
scale to $1.36’/2. The'strikers are
members of the AFL Amalga
mated Association of Street, Elec
tric Railroad and Motor coach
Employes of America.
The transit company said it
could not grant the pay boosts
without increasing fares, and it
petitioned the Knoxville Utilities
Commission for a straight 10-cent
fare to replace the present three
rides for 25 cents.
Meanwhile, a settlement any
time soon of a strike of 500 AFL
bus lines employes in North Ala
bama also seemed dim.
Socialist International
Hits Reds, Capitalism
By the Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, July 3.
—The newly formed Socialist in
ternational today blasted both
communism and capitalism in
adopting a world-wide platform
on the "aims and tasks of demo
cratic socialism.”
The international, in the process
of reorganizing here after it was
destroyed by World War II, says
it represents 10 million people in
the anti-Communist Socialist par
ties of 20 nations.
The new world Socialist plat
form charged that wherever com
munism has achived power, “it has
dstroyed freedom or the chance
of gaining freedom.”
But it said that capitalism “has
been incapable of satisfying the
elementary needs of the world’s
population,” and “has proved un
able to function without devastat
ing crises and unemployment.”
The platform called for “demo
cratic control of the economy,”
and said the immediate economic
aims of Socialist policy are "full
employment, higher production, a
rising standard of life, social se
curity and a fair distribution of
incomes and property.”
“In order to achieve these ends,"
it said, “production must be
planned in the interests of the
people as a whole.”
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Sparkman Says U. S.
Must Insist on Unified
Korea as Peace Basis
With the United States moving
cautiously toward a truce in the
Koreah war, Senator Sparkman,
Democrat, of Alabama said to
day this country should not
agree to any peace settlement
that makes the 38th Parallel an
international boundary between
North and South Korea.
“We must insist upon the right
of a United Nations Commission
to enter North Korea and to set
up the machinery for free elec
tions so the people can vote on
the question of a united and
democratic government of their
own,” said Senator Sparkman, a
member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
His comments »were given
against the background of keen
congressional concern about the
terms of any peace agreement
which included these other state
ments:
1. Assistant Secretary of State
Dean Rusk said that despite the
Communist offer to meet with Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, the U. N.
commander, “as much caution is
still in order as there was a week
ago.” He made the statement yes
terday as he went to the Capitol
to brief the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee on developments.
2. Senator Stennis, Democrat, of
Mississippi urged the Senate to
go on record against the admis
sion of Communist China to the
United Nations.
3. Senator Wiley, Republican, of
Wisconsin, a Foreign Relations
Committee member, noted that
neither Communist China nor
Russia will be represented offi
cially at the cease-fire discussions
and said they may be seeking to
avoid responsibility for truce
terms so they may be free to
resume aggression.
4. Senator Cain, Republican, of
Washington, said in a statement
that the Communist delay in truce
negotiations may be only to win
them time to bring up a new 500.
000-man “international brigade”
for another attack on U. N. forces.
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not believe the United States
could afford to give consideration
in the peace negotiations to ac
cepting again the 38th Parallel as
the international boundary be
tween the two Koreas. It was
established as such after World
War II.
Secretary of State Acheson has
said the U. N. military objective
in Korea could be fulfilled by. a
truce at the Parallel if there
'should be sufficient assurance the
Communists would not renew the
fighting. But he has also empha
sized that a united and demo
cratic Korea would remain this
country’s political aim.
Meanwhile, officials here offered
three possible explanations of why
the Communists proposed holding
the peace talks between July110
and 15—a proposal which brought
from Gen. Ridgway a counter sug
gestion for starting preliminary
negotiations July 5.
These were:
1. The United Nations terms for
an armistice are believed to de
mand a halt on the movement of
any reinforcements into Korea
until the military truce gives way
to an over-all settlement.
2. The Chinese Reds are now
moving fresh and probably better
equipped troops into Korea to re
place at least some of the 581,400
men they are estimated to have
lost there.
3. Chinese Communist forces
will probably refuse to leave North
Korea until their North Korean
allies are strong enough and so
located as to counterbalance the
South Korean fojce, now fighting
with the U. N. team, which would
remain in Korea after other Allied
units left following a general peace
settlement.
The United Nations command is
expected to use its 163,000 Red
|prisoners to the maximum ad
vantage in bargaining for the re
lease of an unknown number of
Allied soldiers behind enemy
stockades.
An exchange of prisoners non a
one-for-one basis is reportedly
among the armistice conference
points which Gen. Ridgway has or
will convey to the Chinese and
North Korean commanders.
The accepted rules of warfare
generally provide that prisoners
may be exchanged during armi
stice periods and before the con
clusion of general peace settle
ments.
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