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"'W'*
Czech Ouster
Of Vice Premier
Laid to Plotting
Moscow-Trained Red
Held for 'Activities
Against State'
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Moscow
trained Rudolf Slansky, one-time
hatchet man of Czechoslovak
communism, has been fired as Vice
Premier and arrested for "activi
ties against the state,” the Prague
radio announced today.
The arrest was ordered by Com
munist President Klement Gott
waid at the suggestion of Premier
Antonin Zapotock.v, the an
nouncement said, because “inves
tigations into activities of subver
sive groups” brought out facts
that convict Slansky.
Slanksy was removed from his
job as secretary general of the
Czechoslovak Communist Party
last September in a move tied by,
Western observers to Moscow or
ders to the Czech Communists to
tighten their ranks against in
roads of "Titoism.”
Resistance Stirred lTp.
The announcement at that time
said Slansky would get “another
important state post,” but did not
say what the post was to be.
The Czech government shakeup
was believed to have been linked
with growing unrest in Czecho
slovakia at the rising demands
of the ruling Communists for
greater production to feed the
Soviet war machine. The demands
on Czech economy created critical
shortages and passive resistance
among some of the workers.
An underground source reported |
from Czechoslovakia last month'
that the Slansky ouster came De- j
cause the Oatis case backfired.
The Czech Communists impris
oned and convicted Associated
Press Correspondent William N.
Oatis as a “spy,” sentencing himi
to 10 years. The trial was de
nounced throughout the non- ]
Communist world.
Fled to Moscow in 1939.,
Slansky, editor of the Prague i
Communist newspaper Rude Pra
vo for 15 years, fled to Moscow j
when World War II started in
1939. President Gottwrald went j
with him. The two were considered ;
“Moscow Communists.”
Gottwald himself took over the
job of secretary general—party •
boss—when Slansky gave It up in
September. Slansky became just 1
one of a number of vice premiers. ;
As vice premier, Slansky was to
have the job of co-ordinating the
nation’s economic plans, report- ]
Ing back to the Czechoslovak '
Politburo.
Slansky had been considered '
an international Communist, like '
Gottwald, more interested in the
spread of world communism than
in the welfare of his own coun
try. But Slansky and Gottwald:
were reported to be at odds as far
back as 1948. Soon after Yugo
slavia’s Communist Party was*'
expelled from the Cominform,
Slar.sky called a meeting of the
secretariat, in Gottwald’s absence,
to look into the dangers of Tito-'
ism in Czechoslovakia. There was!
a hint that Gottwald himself was!
suspected of Titoist tendencies.
However, Gottwrald w;on out, ap
parently with Moscow support. j
Minister Jailed for Months.
Slansky rose to prominence!
among Czech Communists in 1945
when he took over the secretary
generalship, which had been held
by Gottwald. It was he who went
to the founding meeting of the
Cominform—the Communist In
ternational Information Bureau—
in Poland. After the Communist
coup of February, 1948, seizing
power in Czechoslovakia, Slansky
appeared to be the boss.
Haunted by economic troubles,
the Czech Communists aljjo feared
the rise of “nationalist deviation” j
in their ranks—independence of
Moscow. Vladimir Clementis,
former foreign minister, was im-!
prisoned, along with other high
(See CZECHS, Page A-3.) j
5 Sailors Feared Lost
As Trawler Breaks Up
By the Associated Press
CUTTYHUNK, Mass., Nov. 27—
Five of six crewmen were believed
lost today after the Gloucester
trawler Mary M. went aground
and broke up off West End*Light.
William H. Shepperd of New
Bedford made his way about IOC
yards ashore through heavy seas,
and notified coast guardsmen. Mr.
Shepperd did not identify other
members of the vessel’s crew.
Coast guardsmen quickly mobil
ized three planes, the bpoy tender
Hornbeam, an 83-foot patrol boat
and two motor lifeboats to search
for the missing men.
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Nov.
27 (IP).—Ten men were waging a
desperate battle today far out on
the Atlantic to keep a leaking
Gloucester fishing trawler from
sinking.
They are the crew of the 92-foot
trawler, Ronald and Mary Jane,
skippered by Capt. James Tucker.
By radio telephone, Capt.
Tucker informed the vessel’s
Gloucester agent, Jim Lane, the
men were bailing by hand and
had gained an inch in two hours
on water pouring into her hull.
With a heavy load of fish
aboard, Capt. Tucker reported, the
Ronald and Mary Jane was lashed
by a 70-mile gale and smitten by
gp. tremendous sea last night.
Caudle Was Guest in Florida
Of Man Facing Tax Lien
Party Included Bureau Counsel, He Testifies;
Denies He Knew of Action Against Host
By Cecil Holland
Former Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Theron Lamar Caudle testi
fied today that he was the Florida
fishing guest on two occasions of
a Charlotte (N. C.> businessman,
who was under a tax investiga
tion.
He told House investigators of
tax scandals that Charlies Oli
phant, general counsel of the Bu
reau of Internal Revenue, also was
a guest on one of the trips.
Mr. Caudle insisted, however,
he did not know at the time that
l Troy Whitehead, the Charlotte
man, was under investigation in
;tax matters.
! “If I had known that,” Mr.
Caudle said. “I wouldn't have
asked Mr. Oliphant to go along
and I don’t think I would have
gone myself.”
Mr. Caudle testified for the
second day before the House Ways
and Means Subcommittee headed
by Representative King. Demo
crat, of California. The subcom
mittee is currently investigating
the Justice Department’s handling
of tax fraud cases,
j Mr. Caudle was ousted as chief
of the Justice Department’s ta:
division two weeks ago by Presi
dent Truman who said his outsidi
activities ♦ere inconsistent with
the position he held.
Mr. Caudle testified that h(
made the first flying trip to Palm
Beach as Mr. Whitehead’s guest in
March. 1947, and a later trip prob
ably during the summer.
It was later that he learned, Mr.
Caudle said, that his host was un
der a tax investigation. He ex
plained that Mr. Whitehead had
called him or had come to see him
personally after revenue agents
had placed a tax lien against his
property. He added that Mr.
Whitehead wanted to know how
to obtain relief.
Adrian W. DeWind, the sub
committee counsel, inquired if
Mr. Caudle had telephoned to Mr.
Oliphant “to see what he could do
to have the liens removed or keep
them from being imposed.”
“I may have,” Mr. Caudle re
plied.
“Did you ever lean that the day
_(See REVENUE, Page A-3.)_
Rail Union Walks Out 90 Dismissed Cadets
On Emergency Board Are Ruled Ineligible
Probing Strike Threat For Reappointment
Lack of Confidence Cited
In 2 Members Named
To Presidential Panel
By James Y. Newton
The Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen to
day walked out of a presidential
emergency board investigation of
the union’s 2-year-old dispute
with the Nation’s railroads.
Tire action was announced by
Harold Heiss, general counsel for
the union, shortly after the hear
ing started. David B. Robertson,
president of. the firemen’s union,
told reporters that his group would
refuse to take part in the board's
formal investigation of the dis
pute.
Mr. Heiss said the union was
withdrawing from the investiga
tion because it ‘‘lacked confidence”
in the membership of the three-;
man investigating board and also
lacked confidence in emergency;
board procedure to provide a basis
for settlement of the dispute.
Rail Strike Threatens.
The board was appointed under
Railway Labor Act procedure two
weeks ago by President Truman
to head off the threat of a strike
by the firemen’s union. The rail
way law calls for a 60-day cooling
off period while an Emergency
Board hears the case of both
parties and makes its recom
mendations for settlement.
Carol R. Daugherty, a professor
at Northwestern University, is
chairman of the board. The other
members are Andrew Jackson,
New York attorney, and George
Cheney, labor consultant of San
Diego. Calif.
Cheney Also Protested.
The union counsel said Mr.
Cheney was not acceptable as a
board member to the union be
cause he "has functioned as a
referee in decision of a question
! submitted to arbitration by the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, that question being the same
as one of the questions before
this board.”
Mr. Heiss said that while the
union would refuse to take any
further part in the board’s formal
investigation of the long-time dis
pute over wages and work hours,
firemen representatives would be
glad to take part in informal talks
with the board.
Howard Neitzert, counsel for the
railroads, said the carriers would
; proceed to present their case just
as though the union had not
walked out on the hearing.
Pay Increase Demanded.
The firemen, along with
, other so-called railroad operating
; unions, have demanded a 40-hour
week at 48-hour pay for members
employed in railroad terminals,
plus a large flat pay increase for
1 members engaged in over-the-road
operation of trains.
The firemen’s union is one of
four of the operating brother
hoods which was involved in a
bitter dispute with the carriers.
One of them settled last spring.
iThis was the Brotherhood of Rail
iroad Trainmen .
i The Order of Railway Conduc
tors, headed by R. O. Hughes,
started out with the trainmen in
a joint drive for the 40-hour week
in the yards and big pay boosts
on the roads. They still are work
ing at almost the old rates, but
won’t settle on the trainmen’s
terms.
Names Resubmitted by
Three Congress Members
Turned Down by Army
By John A. Giles
The Army now has ruled that
none of the 90 West Point Cadets
dismissed for cheating on exami
nations last August will be con
sidered for reappointment.
This was disclosed today after
three members of Congress who
renominated Cadets who had been
fired for violating the Military
Academy’s honor code were noti
fied that in view of the circum
stances the appointees would not
be considered for reappointment.
It follows a ruliing in September j
by Army Secretary Pace that the
90 cadets could be reappointed
and readmitted if the institution's
academic board approved.
Not Really a Change.
But the three members of Con
gress—Majority Leader McCor
mack and Representatives Davis
of Wisconsin and Clevenger of
Ohio, both Republicans—received
word, not from the board, but
from the adjutant general's office
at the Pentagon.
An Army spokesman, explaining
the new ruling, maintained that
the new system "just changes the
routine a little.”
"As a matter of fact, the Aca
demic Board has never accepted
a cadet for reappointment who
was dismissed for violating the
honor code and so, in effect, the
new policy is not a change,” he
explained.
The spokesman later said the
new policy was arrived at on rec
ommendation of the academic
board. The plan was approved by
the Secretary, he added.
Entrance Up to Board.
"The discharges given in these
cases are administrative in nature
and will not be a disbarment for
future military service provided
the individual is otherwise quali
fied,” said Mr. Pace on September
28.
A spokesman then explained
this meant that members of Con
gress might reappoint some of
the dismissed cadets, but their ac
tual entrance would rest with the
academic board.
But, the spokesman said today,
! the board will have no opportunity
of passing on the 90 cadets.
Italians Fight Epidemics
Threatening After Flood
By th« Associated Press
ROVIGO, Italy, Nov. 27.—Car
casses of drowned cattle and
horses burned on smoking pyres
today as authorities worked to
avert a threatened outbreak of
disease in the flooded Po River
aelta.
Gangs of workmen towed the
dead beasts to fires on high ground
in the Polesine and Rovigo areas.
Yesterday foui cases of scarlet
fever were reported there.
Officials feared epidemics might
break out as the result of dam
aged sewer systems and the thou
sands of animals drowned in the
vast flood area.
City Heads Tentatively Okay
Identification Tags as CD Aid
The Commissioners today gave
tentative approval to a plan for
providing identification tags for
District residents as a civil de
fense measure.
A set of two tags could be sold
for 50 cents under an offer re
ceived from a private firm.
The city heads, on approval of
Commissioner P. Joseph Donohue,
who was absent from today’s
meeting, will sanction use of the
tags under direction of the Civil
Defense Office and urge residents
to obtain them.
Of stainless' steel, they would
|fUi-y the individuals name and a
serial number, blood type, relig
ious affiliation and the name and
address of a person outside the
city to be notified in case of dis
aster.
The system was proposed by
Civil Defense Director John E.
Fondahl. The tags would be sim
ilar to Army “dog” tags and
equipped with a small chain.
“We know we’re not going to get
everybody, especially women, to
wear them around their necks,”
Inspector Fondahl commented.
“But they can be carried in purses
and we can issue instructions in
[ case of an alert that they be
i placed around the neck.” ^ ,
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Negotiators Run
Into Differences
Over Armistice
Korean Teams Split
On How to Supervise
Ending of Hostilities
By the Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 27.—
Truce negotiators signed a cease
! Are line agreement today and im
mediately developed two vital dif
ferences on how to supervise an
armistice in Korea.
United Nations delegates in
sisted on:
1. Joint Allied-Communist in
spection teams with “free access
to all parts of Korea.’’
2. Provision against military
buildups by either side.
Neither point was included in
a plan proposed by the Reds, w'ho
Korea Air War Flores, Ground Action
Slows to Standstill. Page A 4
.have never permitted outsiders in
Communist Korea.
The differences developed in a
session described by the top Allied
negotiator as “short and sweet.”
Supervision Next Problem.
The full five-man negotiating
teams—all in full-dress except for
two drably clad Chinese generals j
—approved a cease-fire line agree-'
ment opening the way for an ar
mistice within 30 days. Then they
plunged into the next truce ques
! tion. That is supervision of an
armistice. Each presented its own
ideas.
The two plans were in general
agreement on four points: (1)
Shooting to stop when an armi
stice is signed. (2) a joint commis
sion to supervise the truce, (3) all
forces to withdraw from the buffer
zone and enemy territory after the
armistice is signed, and (4> armed
troops to stay out of the buffer
zone.
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy,
chief U. N. delegate, presented the
seven-point Allied plan after hear-;
ing the Communist suggestions.
"We started the ball rolling by
telling the Communists their pro
posal wasn’t broad enough on the
general principles (for supervi
sion). Then we gave them an idea
of what we wanted.”
Line Drawn on 14-Foot Map.
The Communists asked for an
adjournment until 11 a.m. Wed
nesday (9 p.m. Tuesday, EST) to
study the U. N. plan.
Fighting quieted along the fro
zen, 145-mile front as the full five
man truce teams met for the first
time since October 25. But the
air war flared with two deadly jet
battles.
The day’s truce conference, set
in a Christmas-like landscape in
the snow of Panmunjom, opened
with a series of agreements on a
provisional cease-fire line—first by
the staff officers who drew the
line on a 14-foot map, then by
subcommittees which had argued
over a buffer zone for more than
three months, and finally by the:
full truce delegations.
The truce teams also OK’d a
buffer zone agreement, making the j
line the cease-fire line if a full!
agreement is signed within 30:
days.
Other Points Troublesome.
The agreement does not halt the
fighting. Agreement first must be
reached on three other clauses—
supervision of the armistice, ex
change of prisoners and recom
mendations to governments.
Each can be as troublesome as
the cease-fire line, the first and
only armistice clause approved
since negotiators first met July 10.
Admiral Joy sought to speed
settlement of the remaining points
by proposing each side begin now
compiling necessary data on the
exchange of prisoners.
The Reds made no reply and the
truce teams plunged into the
problem of supervising the armis
tice.
U. N. Proposal Outlined.
Admiral Joy presented the de
railed seven-point plan of the
U. N. command. It provides:
1. A cease-fire effective within
24 hours after an armistice is
signed applying to all forces under
either command.
2. A supervisory organization
with an equal number of Allies
and Reds to carry out armistice
terms.
3. No increase in military force6,
equipment, supplies or facilities.
4. The armistice commission and
its joint observation teams “shall
have free access to all parts of
Korea.”
5. Air, naval and ground forces,
including irregulars, to withdraw
from enemy territory.
6. Armed forces will stay out of
the buffer zone.
7. The military commander of
each side shall administer his half
of the 21/2-mile-wide buffer zone.
Details of Red Plan.
The Red plan proposed:
1. Hostilities to end the day
an armistice is signed.
2. Armed forces to withdraw
from the demilitarized zone with
in three days after the signing.
3. Military forces to vacate
coastal islands and seas off each
others’ coasts within five days.
4. Armed forces stay out of the
buffer zone.
5. Create a joint commission re
sponsible for armistice arrange
ments and supervision.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
who speaks for the U. N. com
mand, said the Red plan seemed
to deal with “almost minor ad
ministrative details.” A
thatS nothing,
JOHN—WHY, I’VE
SPENT THAT.. JND
LOTS MOPE WE
HAVEN'T EVEN
COLLECTEDr> a
VA Aide Held in $4,200 Theft;
2-Year Payroll Fraud Bared
Official Accused of Falsifying Records,
Cashing Checks of Clerk Who Quit in 1950
A Veterans’ Administration su
pervisor today was arrested on;
charges of defrauding the Gov
ernment of more than $4,200 by
pocketing pay checks made out to
an employe who resigned from the
Federal service almost two years,
ago.
The accused man, John A. Ber
totti, 34, of 1016 Seventeenth1
street N.W., was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Cyril
Lawrence on charges of forging
and uttering Government checks.
He is a supervisor in the special
insurance project service of the
VA. He was held for grand jury
action under $5,000 bond.
According to Secret Service
agents. Bertotti failed to hand in
the resignation submitted to him
in January. 1950. by Charles S.
'Unclean Hands' Issue
Raised in Test Case
Of Gambling Tax Act
Plea in Equity Court
For Protection of Illegal
Enterprises Questioned
j The Government today con
tended that the Washington man
who is testing the new Federal
i gambling tax law is barred from
pleading in a court of equity be
cause his hands are "unclean.”
Assistant United States Attor
; ney Ross O’Donoghue cited the
age-old legal doctrine in argu
ments before a special three-judge
constitutional court assembled
here.
The tribunal, comprised of
Judge Henry W. Edgerton of the
United States Court of Appeals,
Judge Luther W. Youngdahl of
District Court and Judge Robert
N. Wilkin, a visiting Ohio jurist,
took the case under advisement
shortly after noon. They did not
announce when they will rule.
Balked at Some Questions.
The court was designated to
hear the complaint of Hayes L.
Coombs, 41, colored, a newsstand
operator who lives in the 1400
block of T street N W. Mr. Coombs
applied for his $50 gambling li
cense, required by the Internal
Revenue Act of 1951, but he re
fused to answer certain questions
in his application on the claim
the answers might tend to in
criminate him in violation of the
Constitution.
Judge Edgerton raised the ques
tion whether the doctrine that a
person who seeks relief in an
equity court must have “clean
hands” applied in the present
case.
"The Government’s view,” Mr.
O’Donoghue responded, “is that
this court is prevented from
reaching the constitutional ques
tion because of the ‘clean hands’
doctrine.”
“A person may not invoke the
aid of equity for the protection of
illegal enterprises,” the Govern
ment attorney added.
Tax Act Challenged.
The rejoinder of Mr. Coombs’
counsel, Myron Ehrlich, to this
view was that “the plaintiff comes
in here the same as if he were
operating a church.” '
Earlier, Mr. Ehrlich declared the
tax act is a “penalty based on the
conduct of a criminal activity”
and as such should be declared
unconstitutional.
"The only people in the District
of Columbia liable to this tax are
those viplating the gambling laws
of the District,” the lawyer as
serted.
Mr. Ehrlich pointed out that his
client filed his license application
on October 31, paid his $50 fee,
gave his own name and address,
but refused to answer questions
dealing with his place of business
or with any of his associates or
customers.
He based his refusal on the self
incrimination claim.
) "
Unger, a clerk in the special in
surance project. Mr. Unger now!
is employed by the State of New;
York.
After Mr. Unger left the Federal!
service, checks made out in his;
name continued to come to the
special insurance project twice a
month. Secret service agents said
Bertotti pocketed the checks, later
forged Mr. Unger’s signature and
cashed them.
Bertotti kept alive the illusion;
of*the clerk who wasn’t therej
Secret Service agents said, by
keeping meticulous time records
for Mr. Unger. He reported him
in each day on time sheets and
even made sure that the records
showed Mr. Unger availed himself
of his full annual leave—usually
(See FRAUD, Page A-3.1
Montgomery County
Is First Community in
Area to Top Chest Goal
District's Big Business
Group, Prince Georges
Fall Behind in Drive
Montgomery County topped its
Community Chest quota this after
noon.
The county is the first District
area community to go over the
top in the drive. This also is
the first time it has done so since
1944.
The Montgomery, quota was
$111,700. The final’returns were
brought in at an awards luncheon
held by county campaign lead
ers at the Glenbrook Club. Total
figures, however, were not dis
closed.
Campaign Has 3 More Days.
The $4,050,000 area-wide drive
still has three more days to go.
Chairman Thornton W. Owen
said yesterday that he believes
nearly all the other units will
top their quotas too, although
Washington’s big business group
and Prince Georges County are
lagging.
Now pledged in the over-all
campaign is $3,443,173—85 per
cent of the goal. The Washington
Business-I unit, covering larger
firms, has only 79 per cent of its
quota of $1,498,000 and Mr. Owen
urged special efforts to improve
its standing.
Alexandria Hopeful.
Montgomery County up to now
was racing neck and neck with
Alexandria. Alexandria still hopes
to go over this week, but It hasn’t
made it yet.
The drive’s final report meeting
will be Friday at the Hotel Wash
ington.
Meanwhile, Chest leaders will
help dedicate the new USO club
at the Belasco Theater tomorrow.
Chest funds will operate the club.
Eisenhower Leaves Rome
ROME, Nov. 27 (#).—Gen.
Eisenhower and his wife left by
plane today tc return to his At
lantic pact command headquar
ters in Paris. He had come here
to report to the NATO council.
Queen Has Cold
LONDON, Nov. 27 (£>).—A cold
forced Queen Elizabeth to cancel
two scheduled public appearances
today.
Late News
Bulletin
U. N. to Hear Red Charge
PARIS (A*),—The United Na
tions Steering Committee voted
unanimously today lor a full
general assembly airing of So
viet charges that the United
States Mutual Security Act
i constituted aggression against
' the Soviet Union. |
District Ranked 11th
In 'Urbanized Areas'
Among U. S. Cities
Survey Designed to Help
In Loss of Business
To Outlying Centers
The District and its suburbs
rank 11th in population among
the “urbanized areas” of the
United States, the Census Bureau
said today.
An “urbanized area,” for pur
poses of the bureau’s latest popu
Map of Census Bureau Interpretation of
"Urban Washington." Page A-8
lation survey, was defined as an
area including at least one city
|“with 50,000 or more inhabitants
and the closely built-up suburban
area aroundljlt."
Census Director Roy V. Peel
presented the urbanized statistics
today in a discussion of sprawling
cities at a conference of the Na
tional Municipal League, meeting
in Cincinnati. The figures, the
bureau said, were drawn up to
ihelp growing cities, which are
plaguer by problems of daytime
; downtown congestion and loss of
downtown business to suburban
centers, as well as by problems
arising from the need for more
schools, fire and police protection
and public services in the suburbs.
Washington’s suburbanized area,
the bureau said, contains a popu
lation of 1,287,333 persons. Of
| these, 802,178 reside within the
[District and 485,155 live outside
the city limits, the survey shows.
253,423 in Maryland.
Of those outside the city, the
bureau said, 253,423 live in Mary
land and 231,732 in Virginia.
In deciding which sections to
include in the urbanized area, of
ficials said, the bureau generally
has included:
1. Incorporated places with 2,500
inhabitants or more.
2. Incorporated places of fewer
than 2,500 inhabitants, each of
which includes an area with a
concentration of at least 100
dwelling units with a density of
500 or more such units per square
mile. This density represents
about 2,000 persons per square
mile, and is normally the mini
mum found associated “with a
closely spaced street pattern.”
3. Unincorporated areas with at
least 500 dwelling units per square
mile. Boundaries of these areas
follow roads, railroads, streams
and other “clearly definable fea
tures.
Changes Position.
While the District’s population
ranks ninth among the Nation’s
cities, 10 areas rank higher than
the Washington area.
Far in front is the New York
Northeastern New Jersey area,
with 12,296,117.
The other areas ranking higher
than Washington are: Chicago,
4,920,816; Los Angeles, 3,996,946;
Philadelphia, 2,922,470; Detroit,
2,659,398; Boston, 2,233,448; San
Francisco-O a k 1 a n d, 2,022,078;
Pittsburgh, 1,532,953; St. Louis,
1,400,058, and Cleveland, 1,383,599.
Ranking just below Washington
is Baltimore’s urbanized area with
1,161,852 persons..
Based on the 1950 census, offi
cials said, figures show this step
by-step picture of urban area
population:
Of the United States population
of 150,697,361 persons, 96,467,686,
or 64 per cent, live in “urban
territory.”
In 157 Urbanized Areas.
Of the 96,467,686 persons, 69,
249,148, or 71.8 per cent, are con
centrated in 157 “urbanized areas.”
The remainder live in other urban
places of 2,500 or more population.
Of the 69,249,148 persons in the
157 areas, 48,377,240 live within
the central city limits, and 20,
871,908 live in the “urban-fringe
areas of the central cities.”
The population of 48,377,240 in
the central cities of the 157 areas
represents 32.1 per cent of the
national population, officials said,
while the 20,871,908 living in the
“urban-fringe areas” represent
13.9 per cent of the national total.
t
Ferguson Thinks
Taft and Lausche
Had Voting Deal
They Carried Same
Precincts in Suburbs,
He Tells Hearing
By J. A. O'Leary
Joseph T. Ferguson. Democratic
senatorial candidate in Ohio last
year, virtually charged before the
Senate Elections Committee today
that there was a deal between
Gov. Frank J. Lausche, a Demo
crat, and Senator Taft, Republi
jcan, in the elections which re
j suited in the re-election of both
Gov. Lausche and Senator Taft.
“I’m inclined to think there was
[a deal,” said Mr. Ferguson, when
i Senator Margaret Chase Smith,
(Republican, of Maine questioned
(him about Gov. Lausche’s victory
(while Mr. Ferguson was defeated
(by 431,000 votes in his race with
(Senator Taft.
j Senator Smith asked Mr. Fer
(guson if the Democrats came out
(to vote for Gov Lausche. Mr.
(Ferguson had previously testified
his defeat was due to Democrats
not getting out to vote.
Urges Limit on Funds.
“I think maybe the Republicans
elected Lausche,” was Mr. Fer
guson’s comment. He added that
Gov. Lausche had carried the
same precincts as Senator Taft in
ithe suburbs of Ohio’s big cities.
Mr. Ferguson urged the com
mittee to propose a law limiting
the total amount a candidate can
receive from all sources ‘‘and then
you’ll have clean elections.”
The existing Federal laws re
quire Congressional candidates to
report only their own expenses
and do not require them to ac
count for what is spent by other
(individuals or groups supporting
[them.
11 Mr. Ferguson claimed more than
$5 million was spent in behalf of
'Mr. Taft and testified that the
(net total outlay for his own cam
paign was $107,004.94. In reaching
[the $5 million figure for Senator
(Taft, his opponent included the
estimated value of numerous news
(paper ads by industries, some of
[which admitted made no mention
;! of the Taft campaign.
Workers Didn't Bother.
;i Turning philosophical, Mr.
.[Ferguson told the committee, “The
s | reason I got beat so bad was the
1 [Democrats and working people
[didn’t get out and vote.”
1 “The trouble was,” he continued,
5 [ “that the working people have had
?! their bellies full since Roosevelt
■(was in the White House and they
? [ don’t bother to get out and pro
: tect their rights.
>| "Maybe if they went out and
: | voted I might have been beaten
‘[worse, but we always have the
[[consolation of thinking other
i wise.”
;! Questioned by Senator Smith,
: Mr. Ferguson admitted he had
l ■ said on the platform that he was
.(for the “Truman program.” He
[denied, however, that he had ever
.’[said he was for the Brannan farm
fiplan or that he had supported
.[“socialized medicine.”
: An Independent Official.
When asked if the Brannan
[Plan was not part of the Truman
[program, Mr. Ferguson reiterated:
| “I never said I was for the Bran
•[nan plan,” and he added, "I
(wasn’t for all the Truman pro
1 gram. I’m probably the most in
[ [ dependent public official in the
[United States. Anybody knows
That in Ohio.”
• | Pressed further by Mrs. Smith.
(Mr. Ferguson said: “I’ve never
’[seen all of the Truman plan.
f[ Maybe I didn’t know what was in
i(the Truman plan.”
> “You made statements when
f you didn’t know what you were
■ talking about,” asked Mrs. Smith.
5 “Are you making them now?”
: Considerably ruffled, Mr. Fergu
■ son said:
1 “Senator, are we discussing
campaign expenditures or some
t thing else?”
‘ Would Read Bills.
> “Can you be for a program and
’ don’t know what’s in it?” per
' sisted Mrs. Smith.
“I can tell you this,” replied Mr.
Ferguson, “I would read a bill be
fore I voted for it and I under
stand some of them don’t.”
Mrs. Smith asked Mr. Ferguson
if he had seen literature sent out
iin his behalf by the CIO and the
|AFL committees supporting him.
He said that he had not seen all
of it. 1
“Did you ever disapprove of
any of it?”
“No,” said Ferguson.
Commenting on the obligation
of citizens to vote, Mr. Ferguson
said he would not allow anybody
to work for the United States
Government if they didn’t get
out and vote.
Laying heavy stress on the
newspaper support he said Taft
received in Ohio, Mr. Ferguson
told the committee. “If I was the
(See OHIO, Page A-14.)
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