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HOUSTON, TEX.—Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, who rejoined the
Houston Post as president yesterday as her resignation
from President Eisenhower’s cabinet became effective, con
fers with W. Howard Baldwin, general manager of the Post.
The former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
succeeded her Texas Gov. W. P. Hobby, as
the newspaper’s president. He became chairman of the
board.—AP Wirephoto.
CTC Contract Bill Gets
Majority, Not Two-Thirds
By the Associated Press
Following is the vote by which
the House yesterday defeated a
bill for congressional interven
tion in the Capital Transit
strike. (The bill received a ma
jority but fell 29 votes short of
the two-thirds needed):
DEMOCRATS FOR—I3B
ABBITT LESINBKI
ADDONIZIO LONG
albert McCarthy
ALEXANDER McCORMACK
ashley mcmillan
ASHMORE MacDONALD
ASPINALL MACHROWICZ
BASS MACK
BENNETT MADDEN
BLATNIK MAGNUSON
BOLAND MAHON
BOLLING MARSHALL
BOWLER METCALF
BOYKIN MILLER
BROOKS. Tea. MILLS
BROOKS. La. MOLLOHAN
BROWN MORRISON
BYRD MOBB
CANNON MOULDER
CARLYLE MULTER
CARNAHAN MURRAY. 111.
CELLER MURRAY. Term. ;
CHELF NORRELL
COOLEY O'BRIEN
COOPER O'HARA
DAVIDSON O'NEILL
DAVIS PATMAN
DEANE PFOST
DEMPSEY POAGE
DENTON POLK
DOLLINGER PREBTON
DOYLE PRICE
EDMONDSON PRIEST
ELLIOTT RABAUT
ENGLE RAINS
EVINS REUSS
FALLON RHODES
FERNANDEZ RICHARDS
FINE RILEY
FOUNTAIN RIVERS
GARY ROBERTS
GATHINGS RODINO
GRANT ROGERS
GRAY RUTHERFORD
HARDY SHEPPARD
HARRIS SIKES
HARRISON SISK
HAYS SMITH. Mias.
HAYWORTH SMITH. Va
HOLIPIELD SPENCE
HOLTZMAN BTEED
HUDDLESTON SULLIVAN
IKARD THOMAS
JENNINGS THOMPSON. Tex
JOHNSON THOMPSON. N. J.
JONES. Mo. THORNBERRY
JONES. Ala TRIMBLE
JONES. N. C. TUMULTY
KARBTEN UDALL
KEE VANIK
KEOGH VINSON
KILDAY WHITTEN
KILGORE WICKERBHAM
KINO WIER
KIRWAN WILLIAMS
KLEIN WILLIS
KNUTSON WRIGHT
LANHAM YATES
LANKFORD ZABLOCKI
REPUBLICAN'S FOR—77
ALLEN LOVRE
ANDERSEN McDONOUGH
ANDRESEN McINTIRE
ARENDS McVEY
AVERY MACK
AYRES MAILLIARD
BAKER MARTIN
BALDWIN MEADER
BENNETT MERROW
BENTLEY MILLER. Nrbr.
BERRY MILLER. Md
BETTB MILLER. N. Y.
OLIVER BOLTON MORANO
BROWN O'HARA
BROYHILL OSMERS
CARRIOO OSTERTAO
CHENOWETH PROUTY
CURTIS REED
DEVEREUX REES
DONDERO RHODES
FINO ROGERS
FRELINGHUYSEN ST GEORGE
GAMBLE BCHWENGEL
GEORGE BCOTT
GUBSER SIMPSON? Pa.
HALE SIMPSON. 111.
HARVEY. SPRINGER
HIESTAND TABER
HILL TALLE
HINSHAW TEAGUE
HOLMES THOMBON
HOPE TOLLEFSON
HORAN Vm^ZANDT
HYDE VELDE
JACKSON VURBELL
JENKINS WIGOLEBWORTH
KEARNB WOLCOTT
KEATING YOUNO
LeCOMPTE
DEMOCRATS AGAINST—6O
BAILEY OREEN
BARRETT HAGEN
BLITCH HALEY
BOGGS HAYS
BONNER HEBERT
BOYLE HERLONO
BURLESON HULL
BURNSIDE KELLEY. Pa
BYRNE KELLY. N. Y.
CHUDOFP KLUCZYNSKI
CLARK LANDRUM
COLMER LANE
davis McDowell
DELANEY MATTHEWS > j
DODD MORGAN
DONOHUE NATCHER
DONOVAN PERKINS
DORN PHILBIN
DOWDY PILCHER
FABCELL QUIGLEY
FEIGHAN ROBESON
FISHER ROOERS Fla
FLOOD ROOERS. Tex
FLYNT ROONEY
FORAND ROOSEVELT
FORRESTER BELDEN
FRIEDEL SHELLEY
GARMATZ BTAOOERS
GENTRY THOMPSON
GRANAHAN WALTER
REPUBLICANS AGAINST—9I
ADAIR BUSH
ALGER BYRNEB
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BATES COLE
BAUMHART COON
BEIMJT. CORBETT
BECKER COUUERT
FRANCES BOLTONCRAMER
BOW H £ru\Sacker
BRO WVSON gUNNINGHA^
BUDGE DAVIS
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! HARDEN SEELY-BROWN
I HARRISON SHORT
HENDERSON SMITH Wi«
IHESELTON THOMPSON
HESS UTT
;HOEVEN VANPELT
i HOFFMAN VORY3
| HOSMER WEAVER
JAMES WESTLAND
JENSEN WHARTON
(JOHANSEN WIDNALL
I JOHNSON. Calif WILLIAMS N Y.
JONAS WILSON. Ind
JUDD WITHROW
KEAN WOLVERTON
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(Democrats lor 138
! Republicans for 77
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Cormack gave him a frantic sig-j
nal. Judge Smith went over to!
I see Mr. McCormack. He came!"
back to the piess conference mo-| (
ments later to say there would, (
be an immediate meeting of thei,
House Rules Committee at the',
I request of the leaders. jj
Then. Mr. McCormack came by ;
to say both he and Speaker Ray-,
burn had asked Mr. Smith to(j
have the Rules Committee con- ]
(sider a rule.
Reporters rushed to me Rules j
Committee. But o'her business',
was involved, and it was 15 min
utes before Rules members got I.
there. They had a brief meeting. |
Chairman McMillan of *he House,
District Committee was ready to',
I testify. So was Representative i
Harris, Democrat of Arkansas/
who had carried the load of the
work of defending the committee
bill.
Most Rules Committee mem
bers knew what it was all about,
so they didn't ask the proponents
to say all they had said on the
floor.
The question of seizure—a la
the Senate bill—was brought up.
and some Rules Committee mem
bers said they didn’t want any
part of it. For instance. Repre
sentative Brown, Republican of
Ohio, said he thought the House
bill made nore sense than the
Senate measure, because the Sen
ate bill involved seizure.
No Compensation
"Under the House bill, there
would be no seizure, aad no com
pensation to the Capital Tiansit
Co,,’’ he said, "except for any
losses in operation during Dis
trict Government operation of
transit company.”
Representative Brown brought
out also there would be no profits
to the company if there was a
negotiated District Government
operation in the next year, but
/some others said there would
have to be paid salaries to com
pany officers.
| Other Rules Committee mem
|bers raised the question as to
whether the Senate would agree
to the House bill. The answer
was that if it didn't, there would
|be no legislation.
Earlier in the House, when it
| was operating under the two
(thirds Tule on vacating House
rules, the District Committee bill
was hotly defended and de
i nounced.
; Representative Harris, sharply
defending the committee bill, de
j dared that, as the measure came
to the House, there would be no
| “windfall” to the company. Re
visions, he said, had taken care I
of this.
Representative Hyde, Republi-
Gunfight Flares
hi Lillie Rock
Transil Strike
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Aug. 2
(/P). —A gun battle blazed last
night between armed guards em
ployed by the struck Capital
City Transit Co. and unknown
assailants attacking from am
bush.
The battle came on the eve of
a projected conference between
Gov. Orval Faubus and Little
Rock Mayor Pratt Remmei who
earlier yesterday said he might
ask the Governor to assign Na
tional Guardsmen to CTC buses,
now operated by non-union em
ployes.
Lesser violent acts have oc
curred spasmodically since the
AFL Motor Coach Employes
Union struck 41 days ago. Union
officials have denied any re
sponsibility for the violence,
which until last night consisted
mostly of scattered shots against
city buses
Dozen Shots Heard
Sam Shinnall, CTC guard at
the firm's car barn near down
town Little Rock, said the gun
battle was touched off when
someone fired from direction of
the nearby Arkansas River.
About a dozen shots followed
from shotguns and rifles held
by the guards and the attack
ers, but apparently no one was
injured. The only damage was
a hole punctured in a 15.000-
gallon capacity storage tank for
diesel fuel and a smashed win
dow in a company building.
No arrests were made.
Mr Shinnall told the officers
the first shot apparently was
directed at another guard, Louie
Godair, who was Inside a build
ing. That was the shot that
Cracked the window, he said.
Police Honrs Increased
The next blasts, Mr. Shinnall
said, were directed at himself.
He said the fire seemed to come
from at least three or four gun
men A few minutes later, Mr.
Shinnall said a man ran from
along nearby railroad tracks fir
ing at the diesel fuel storage
tanks.
Mr. Shinnall said he fired
three shotgun blasts at the man.
who then fled.
Mayor Remmei said all city
police officers would be pressed
into duty and that they would
work on a 48-hour week. He
said the latest Incident would
i add weight to his suggestion
> that the National Guard be
used. 1
can. of Maryland, explained a lot'
of questions about what was in j
what bill, but finally wound up ,
by saying "personally, I don’t
think this bill is adequate.”
Representative Hoffman. Re
publican of Michigan, blasted
the House bill. He recalled there
had been an earlier strike, after
which he had proposed drastic i
legislation. He said that had
come to nothing. He denounced :
the present House bill as being
not worth the paper it’s written
on "because it injects Congress
into the labor dispute without
coming up with any solution.”
He made the arguments that
the Capital Transit Co. can’t do
anything until it gets authority
from its stockholders, that there
is no limitation placed upon what
the District or the company can
give to the union to get it to end
the strike and that tax money
will have to make up any defi
ciency.
"This,” said the vocal Mr.
Hoffman, "Is no way to legislate.”
Noise Hampers Debate
Chairman McMillan was ques
tioned by Representative Hoff
man during his fight on the bill.
So much noise was interfering
with the debate that House
Speaker Rayburn banged his
gavel for order, declaring. “This
matter is important, more or
less.” *
Chairman McMillan said the
bill was designed to assist the
District Commissioners in set
tling the problem.
Mr. McMillan emphasized that
the bill Is different from the
Senate-passed measure provid
ing for seizure. Representative
Roosevelt, Democrat of Califor
nia, asked whether the House
bill gace control over the "un
conscionable conduct of those in
H
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Transit Pension Payment
Is Ordered by U. S. Court
A transit union plea for pay
ment of the August 1 pension
benefits to retired Capital Tran
sit employes was granted yes
terday by U S. District Judge
Edward A Tamm.
The proposal, which involves
posting of a bond by the union
to cover the total cost of the
one-month payment, was not
opposed by the company or the
Riggs National Bank, trustee of
the pension fund.
Judge Tamm ordered the pay
ment to be made forthwith after
a half-hour hearing In his cham
bers.
The bank withheld payment
of the August 1 benefits to 295
pensioners and filed a suit Fri
day in U. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia asking
that the status of the $4 million
pension fund be clarified.
20-Hour Speed Record
Set From Buenos Aires
NEW YORK. Aug. 2 UP).—
Panagra (Pan American-Grace
Airways) said yesterday its new
Douglas DC7B had set a new
speed record on its maiden flight
Sunday between Buenos Aires
and New York, flying the 6,000
miles in 20 hours and 2 minutes.
It was the first time a DC7B
had flown between Buenos Aires
and New York and it sliced about
7 hours from the regular serv
ice northward run by DC6Bs,
which is scheduled at 27 hours
and 15 minutes. The only stops
on the pre-inaugural flight were
Lima and Miami.
Panagra began regular service
with the DC7Bs on a twice
weekly schedule between Miami
and Buenos Aires yesterday.
charge of operating the com
pany.”
“Will the House bill let them
get away entirely with what they
have been doing?” Mr. Roosevelt
asked. He understood the Senate
bill was stronger than the House
bill, he said.
Harris Explains Bill
Representative Harris ex
plained the purpose of the bill
in detail, pointing out that he
opposed what he called a “wind
fall” provision requested by the
company.
The company, he said, bad
hoped to begin liquidation before
the full year of operations sur
rendering the franchise.
The bill was amended. Mr.
Harris said, to prevent sale of
streetcars or buses earlier and to
assure that the District Com
missioners under the agreement
could get the wheels rolling.
Representative Haley. Demo
crat of Florida, expressed the
hope that if Congress “would
back out of this.” the company
and the union could get together
and settle the strike.
Mr. Harris didn’t think that
could be accomplished.
Marylanders Speak
Representatives from nearby
counties, including Representa
tive Lankford, Democrat of
Maryland, and Republican Rep
resentative Hyde of Maryland
and Broyhlll of Virginia, spoke
on the bill. They believed the
Commissioners could succeed in
drafting an agreement with the
company under which operations
could be resumed.
But Mr. Hyde emphasized that
both management and the Com
missioners would have to make
peace with Transit Union for
the men to go back to work. But
he said there were no terms to
specify. He concluded he did
not think the bill was adequate.
Mr. Hoffman, most ardent
opponent of the bill, said “this
is no way to legislate.”
“This bill Is not worth the
cost of paper It Is written on.”
he said.
Up to Stockholders
He explained that It only au
thorizes negotiations between
the company and Commission
ers, that the company can do
nothing until It has the stock
holder’s authority.
No limits are placed on what
would have to be paid union
members to get them back to
work, he added.
“Probably tax money will
have to make up any deficiency
In the operations," Mr. Hoff- '
man said, adding: “This bill in-j|
Jects Congress Into a labor dis
pute without coming up with any
solution.”
The bank’s petition to the
court cited a difference of opin
ion between the transit company
and the union on whether the
pension fund agreement expired
when the strike begaitf. The
company said the pension agree
-1 ment expired with the rest of
the company-union' contract on
June 30. The union has main
tained that the fund continues
Yesterday’s hearing did riot
deal with the issues raised in the
bank’s suit concerning whether
the fund was terminated by the
expiration of the contract and
what disposition of the fund
must be made if the agreement
has been terminated.
George Hamilton, jr.. counsel
for the bank, said work on send
ing out the payments would be
gin today.
Party Election
Approval Due
The House today was ex
pected to pass a compromise bill
to provide for an official and
regulated election in the District
for the first time In longer than
81 years.
This would be for the election
of party officials In connection
with the national conventions
where Presidents are nominated,
( even though bona fide District
! residents may not vote on who
is finally elected.
The Senate late yesterday,
adopted the conference report
on election of District delegates
to national political party con
ventions. Only relatively minor
: matters remained In dispute
with the House.
Only one minor concern re
mained. So far. Congress has
appropriated no money to pro
vide for the cost of the board
of elections that would super
vise the party elections. This
was recommended in recent
fund bills but was left out be
cause the basic legislation had
not yet been enacted. Some offi
cials said, however, this could
be rushed through early in Jan- ’
uary.
Cellar Yields Solution
To Lost-Cow Mystery
YORK, Pa.. Aug. 2 (/Pi.— Mrs. 1
William Parlette said yesterday
she had finally found the nine
• cows missing from her farm
since July 24—in the cellar of
an unoccupied house she owns
at nearby Sunnyburn.
Four were dead of starvation
and asphyxiation. The five oth
ers had survived and one had
given birth to a calf. The calf
lived.
Mrs. Parlette said the herd
apparently wandered * into the
ground level cellar to escape the
heat and that one kicked shut
the door, trapping them.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 2
(A*).—Public hearings will be held
August 24 and 25 on a Public
Utility Commission ruling
against the strike-bound Scran
ton Transit Co. to show cause
why its franchise should not be
canceled for failure to provide
! service.
The commission said it set the
hearings yesterday to expedite
the case.
The firm’s drivers have been
on strike since last April 4.
The show cause rule was
mailed to the company last
Thursday and under the public
utility law, Scranton Transit has
10 days from receipt of the order
to file an answer.
Show cause action was taken
last Wednesday after a confer
ence of P. u. C. members with
Scranton Mayor James T. Han
lon’s fact-finding committee set
up to seek means of solving the
transportation tleup.
At the same time, the com
mission greeted its enforcement
bureau to “make arrests of driv
ers performing illegal public
service by means of so-called
"courtesy cars” or other public
conveyances not properly certi
fied.”
At issue In the strike is a wage
Increase demanded by operating
employes.
The employes originally sought
a 44 cents an hour Increase, but
eventually reduced this to 4
cents an hour. The company
asked them to take a cut from
(1.56 to $1.53 an hour.
Three Appointees Get
Senate Confirmation
By the Associated Press
The Senate last night con
firmed the following:
Dudley C. Sharp of Texas to
be Assistant Secretary of the
Air Force. Harold E. Stassen to
be Deputy United States Rep
resentative on the United Na
tions Disarmament Commission;
Eric A. Johnston to be chair
man of the International Develp
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• • • Not enough.
• • *Too much.
I These are differences you rim Into In
eating or drinking most anything, from
Apricots to Zwieback.
♦ And the same is true of drugs, only the
differences may be smaller. And they may
vary more between different persons.
■*— For example, an amount of a drug that Is
proper for a 200-pound man or a 150-pound
matron may be toxic for a 20-pound infant.
• And that applies even to such an ordinarily
harmless drug as aspirin.
• • • Recently several manufacturers have been
putting out a junior-size aspirin tablet, 2Vi
grains, flavored, for children.
It’s an excellent product. It has many
valuable uses, when used properly. But it’s
available everywhere, in many places where
competent advice is not to be had.
• • • And apparently it’s being made all too avail
able to children in homes, too. If you buy
this (or any other kind of medicine) please
keep it out of reach of the children.
4a We have been in communication with Dr.
George M. Wheatley of The Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, New York, who
sent us a copy of a study he made as Chair
man of the Committee on Accident Preven
tion of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
4* The information was collected from & geo
graphic sampling of practicing pediatri
cians, and it listed cases of accidental
poisonings with the causes.
■ Medications, kerosene, ant poison, rodenti
cides, turpentine, disinfectants, gasoline,
cleaning solvents, insecticides, lye, moth
balls and flakes, paint thinner, bleaching
solutions, paint, oil of wintergreen, and many
other substances were involved proving
that children will eat almost anything.
Now this may surprise you—but 17% of
these cases were due to overconsumption
of aspirin. Dr. Wheatley wrote: “Many of
the cases are children who are tempted by
the candy-coated aspirins.”
• • ‘The Doctor says that parents ought to keep
the tablets in a safe place—and be guided
by their physicians’ advice in the amount
of any medicine used, even aspirins.
■» That’s good advice. Well worth repeating.
So . . .
RWT Please keep medicines where little gaffers
can’t get at ’em. If you have any old medi
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lying around, give them the heave-ho.
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