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Evening star., 1944-12-02
Rites Held fol
Col. George Woody

Col. George A. Woody, 81, Army
Ordnance Department, former COM
manding officer of the Springfield
(Mass) Armory, died Thursday at
Walter Reed Hospital after an ILL
ness of several months.
Funeral services were to be held
at 10 am. today at the Fort Myer
Chapel with burial In Arlington
Cemetery.
Col. Woody recently received the
Legion of Merit for Improvements in
production technique at Springfield
Armory, where the Garand rifle is
manufactured, which resulted in an
unprecedented increase in produc-
ton.
Besides his widow, Mrs. May Per-
son Woody, he is survived by two
sons. Pvt. Robert H. Woody, Camp
Swift, Tex, and George De Witt
Woody, now in Officers Candidate
Evening star., 1944-12-02
WAC Involved in BeIvoir
Dispute Transferred

Corpl. Gladys Davis, acting top
sergeant of the Fort Belvoir WAC
contingent which was investigated
after complaints of WAC were
aired to the public, has been trans
ferred to Camp Wheeler, Ga, it
was revealed today.
The public relations Office at
Belvoir had mo comment" to make
on the transfer. Soon after post
officials declared the charges against
Capt. Dorothy Tomhave, command
ing officer, were proved completely
untrue" four WACS were reduced
from noncommissioned rank and
reprimanded for reporting their
grievances October % over alleged
mistreatment from their superior
officers, to Washington newspaper
Evening star., 1944-12-02
Former Dairy Operator
will Be Buried Today

Charles M. johnson, II, of Is
Grant circle NV, former dairy
operator, died Wednesday in Gar
field Hospital after short illness.
Mr.. johnson came to the District
from Comus, Md, as young man.
He operated Dulin's Dairy on Twen-
tieth street for over 25 years. He
later was employed by Simpsons S
Dairy and the Credit Bureau, from
which he was retired five years ago.
Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.
Jennie E. Baker and Miss Matte B.
Johnson, both of Frederick, Md,
and four brothers, Frank M. john
son, Arlington; Arthur T. Johnson,
Jenkintown, Pa, and William B. and
George H Johnson, both of WASH
ington.
Funeral services were to be held
at II a m. today in Monocacy Chapel,
Beallsville, Md, with burial in
Monocacy Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-12-02
Fire Razes 18 Charles Town
Stalls; II Horses Escape

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Dec. q
Fire, which broke out in a tack
'oom in barn No at Charles Town
ace track here early today, de-
;troyed 18 stalls and four tack rooms
All 72 horses quartered in the barn
escaped.
Among the stables quartered in
No. 3, one of the nine stalls on the
grounds, were the horses of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. P. Palmer Sewers. Mr.. and
Mrs. c. B. Inscore and Earl K. Auld
Ill residents of Washington.
Eleven of the horses in the barn
we're entered in todays races. Some
we're withdrawn, but the rest are
slated to go to the post
Evening star., 1944-12-02
FIomm Counsel CHARGES
Improper Questioning

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (P-Philip
Handleman, counsel for Donald
Flamm, former owner of radio sta
ton WMCA, yesterday accused the
House committee investigating the
Federal Communications Commits
sion of 'impropriety' in the ques-
tlonlng of Mr.. Flamm.
Mr.. Handleman, in a telegram to
Committee Chairman Lea, charged
that the group of Thursday asked
Mr.. Flamm about business deals ar
ranged in 1892
You were thus inquiring as to
matters not only predating the No
BILE conspiracy for WMCA by eight
years, but even the present Com
munications Act which was passed
In 1884" the attorney declared.
Calling the inquiry improper and
irrelevant" Mr.. Handleman said
your action is clearly outside the
realm of the resolution under which
your committee was created to in
VeStigate the FEC"
Evening star., 1944-12-02
CAB 10 Hold Hearings
lin California AirIiner
Crash Fatal 10 Seven
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2.-The Civil
Aeronautics Board will conduct
hearings In an effort to determine
the cause OF the Transcontinental
and Western Airliner crash which
cost the lives of seven persons yes
terday.
The plane, en- route from Sar
Francisco to Burbank, crashed into
the soft ground of a walnut grove
near Van Nuys during a dense fog
Fifteen were injured, includine
Mayor Harley Knox of San Diego
and one man came out unscatche6
except for shock.
Walter w. Cooper, SO, city man.
ager Of San Diego, was one of the
victims.
Ralph Reed, senior investigator
for the regional CAB, said hearings
would be conducted in few days ir
an attempt to determine the cause.
In addition to Mr.. Cooper those
killed were: Capt. John P. Snowden
35, pilot. North Hollywood, Calf;
First Ofncer Thomas L. Bamberger
20, co-pilot, Alameda, Calf; 1t
John v. Frankenthal, U. S. NJ, 40
Chicago; Conrad Lee Brinkman, 81
Evening star., 1944-12-02
Anti-Nazi Skirmishes
In Vienna Reported
By Archduke Robert
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-Skirmishes in
Vienna and street fighting in Buda-
pest between civilians and German
police have occurred during the last
two weeks, Archduke Robert OF
Austria reported today, as the Rus
slams threatened the rear gateway
Of the Reich.
He said his information, obtained
from reliable sources in Austria and
Hungary, disclosed "a particularly
grave situation" in Budapest: There
Hungarian civilians erected street
barricades and fought Gestapo bat
talions after the Germans began to
round up persons suspected of un-
derground activities, he said.
my informants," the archduke
said, reported that the Germans
used Tiger tanks to smash the
barricades."
He said many persons were
killed" in Vienna in fights between
Austrian workers and German
police.
Nazis Call Police.
These skirmishes occurred in the
factory district" Archduke Robert
said. THE situation became Sc
Evening star., 1944-12-02

Wellington. Mo-; Billy Jack Howard
U. s. NJ, II, Scammon, Kans.. and
Harold Muller, American Paper
Stock Co. representative, Indianap-
oils, Ind.
Evening star., 1944-12-02
WiggIesworth Asks
Corcoran Caused
Hush on FEC Inquiry
BY the Associated Press.


Representative Wigglesworth, Re.
publican, of Massachusetts, de.
manded yesterday to know whether
influence of Thomas G. Corcorar
led to exclusion of the public from
hearings of a congressional com.
mittee investigating the Fedora
Communications Commission.
Protesting the closed-door policy
Mr.. Wigglesworth asked in the
House whether the purpose wa.
administration protection of sacred
cows" and to prevent public dis.
closure of the part played by
Thomas G. Corcoran" and others il
the sale of Radio Station WMCA
New York.
The name of Mr.. Corcoran, former
New Deal adviser now in private law
practice, had been mentioned il
testimony before it was decided last
Tuesday to discontinue public hear
ings.
Vote 3 to 2.
The vote was to 2, with Mr.
Wigglesworth and Chairman Lea
opposing. Voting to close the hear
ings to the public were Representa-
tives Hart, Democrat, of New Jersey
Priest, Democrat, of Tennessee, and
Miller, Republican, of New Jersey.
WMCA was sold to Edward J
Noble, former Undersecretary of
Commerce, by Ronald Flamm in
1910 for $850,00O Mr.. Flamm has
said he sold because he believed the
FEC would not renew his license if
he retained the station. Mr.. Noble
subsequently resold it to Nathan
Straus for $1,255,000.
In statement yesterday after
Mr.. Wigglesworth's speech, Mr.. No.
BILE said the Massachusetts, legis-
lator was carrying the torch" for
persons 'peddling reckless charges. y
Mr. Wigglesworth told the House
that barring the public from the
FEC investigation raises again the
question as to the forces operating
from the very outset to suppress the
facts as to this WMCA investiga-
ton"
Corcoran Called Associate"
rs the administration he asked,
trying to prevent the public dis
closure of the part played by
Thomas G.. Corcoran, William j.
Dempsey and William C. Koplo-
witz and other New Deal officials,
past and present, in connection with
this case?"
Mr. Dempsey is a former chief
counsel to the FEC and Mr.. Koplo-
witz is his law partner. They rep
resented Mr.. Noble in negotiations
leading to his purchase of WMCA.
Mr.. WigglesWorth referred to Mr.
Corcoran as an associate" of Mr.
Dempsey and Mr.. Koplowitz.
Was the Federal Communications
Commission or its personnel party
to the alleged conspiracy" Mr.. Wig
ellsworth asked.
Conspiracy" Charged.
The House committee has received
testimony from Leslie Evan Roberts.
former public relations director of
WMCA, that there was "conspir-
acy" to "terrorize" Mr.. Flamm into
selling the station. Mr. Roberts de-
scribed himself as a party to the
conspiracy" Other witnesses have
denied there was a conspiracy.
In reply to Mr.. Wigglesworth S
speech, Mr.. Noble, in a statement
declared:
In trying so desperately to con-
iure up public issue out of my pur-
chase (of the station he (Wiggles-
WORTH carries a torch for a number
of persons who seek to extract from
the situation personal profit at my
expense
They have had a field day ped
ding reckless charges, but their pub
lie campaign of defamation has now
been curbed-at least insofar as the
House Select Committee is con-
cerned" "
Evening star., 1944-12-02
Victim of Plane Crash
Once Worked for PUG

Walter w. Cooper, who was a
computer statistical clerk with the
District Public Utilities Commission
from 1914 to 1917, was one OF those
killed In an airliner crash near
Burbank, Calf, yesterday, accord
ing to the Associated Press.
Mr.. Cooper came here after grad
uation from the University Of Min
nesota. He left to join the Navy,
later worked as general manager
Of garbage disposal company in
Baltimore and for year was hear
ing deputy of the New York Public
Service Connission. In 1910 he
became city manager of San Diego,
Calf.
Besides his widow and q married
daughter, he is survived by a
brother, Thomas Cooper, Lexington,
XIV.
Evening star., 1944-12-02
Brakeman Seriously Hurt
In Accident at Terminal

Harvey w. Larrick, %, a brake
man on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road residing at 1136 Branch avenue
Sc, was critically injured early to-
day when he was caught between a
freight car and freight elevator
at the Washington Terminal.
Police said the train was coming
into the terminal with Mr.. Larrick
tagging from the car in front when
he was crushed in a 61a Inch clear
ance between the train and eleva-
tor.
At Emergency Hospital it was said
that he suffered a crushed chest and
abdomen and was in critical condi-
ton.
Evening star., 1944-12-02
Benefit Dance Tonioht

A benefit dance for the Prince
Georges General Hospital at Chev-
erly will be held at 10 o'clock to-
night at the Hotel Statler. The
dance is sponsored by the Women's
Auxiliary of the County Medical So
ciety.
Evening star., 1944-12-02
French Writer'S Wife
Killed in Accident
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. "A French
broadcast announced today the &C.
cidental death of Nine. Malraux
novelist and wife of the celebrated
French writer Andre Malraux, but
did not say when or where it &C.
CURED,
Evening star., 1944-12-02

"Yes, son, 1 bought while you
fought" Hasten "V-E" day with
one extra War Bond.
Evening star., 1944-12-02

School, Aberdeen Proving Ground,
Md, and two sisters, Mrs. Miles
Abernathy, Brentwood, Tex, and
Mrs. August Pursch, Tilden.
Honorary pallbearers were to be
Maj. Gen. T. j. Hayes, Brig. Gen.
j. s. Hatcher, Brig. Gen. j. A. Kirk,
Brig. Gen. Guy Drewry, Brig. Gen.
r. c. Coupland, Brig. Gen. e. L.
Ford, Col. Townsend Whelan, U. S.
A., retired; Col. S. P. Ritchie, Col.
C. S. Reed, Col. S. G. Green, Col.
C. F. Buck, 1t. Comdr. John D.
Beale, 1t. Col. N. C. F. Nielsen,
Franklin H. Fowler, Charles Bur-
meister and r. Falge,
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

Of this limited income can buy. and
Of course, you must buy them in
the exact proportion that the Blu
reau of Labor Statistics has de-
termlned Is customary for q FAM
lily with $50 a week income"
Robey pointed out that dis
appearance of low-price items
and increase In consumption Of
such o basic necessity as food
are not measured by the BIS
index, (which does not reflect
higher costs resulting from your
changing, either through choice
or from necessity, TO better quail
ity products"
But" Robey wrote, when we
have to make allowance for all Of
these points, what do we have left?
Obviously we have nothing left
which 10 Of any appreciable value
In determination of national wage
policy.
THAT is the reason 1t was fool
ish for the administration to use
this index for this purpose in the
first instance. And 1t Is equally
the reason why the labor leaders
today are in such strong position
In attacking the index"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

Bankhead. however, was careful
TO point out that he wasn't against
all satisfactorily those on food.
Subsidies going to big copper COM
panies and other fat corporations
are OK with him, but it really
hurts when he thinks about the
consumer and the housewife get
ting even the small break that
present subsidies provide.
AS The CLIO NEWS went to
press, strong indications showed
that President Roosevelt will veto
the Bankhead bill after 1t passes
the Senate. The House passed .
similar ban on subsidies last year,
and Senate action now sends the
bill to the White House.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

this basis"
Hillman's proposals for unity
have been backed by leading CLIO
people here, including Emil REEVE
of the Textile Workers, r. ].
Thomas of the UAW-CIO, and
state CLIO and AFL leaders with q
few exceptions.
In addition, a number of CLIO
leaders to whom Counts and Rose
took violent exception voluntarily
withdrew. This action, Hillman
said, removes the sole objection
which you had voiced to my pro-
posal. 1t completely eliminates
the last vestige of what has always
been a false issue in this primary
campaign-the issue of Commu-
nism."
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

Alex Rose, leaders of the "old
Guard" descriptive faction in the
ALP, who have fatty refused pro-
posals for ALP unity based on par
ticipation of all union elements
In the party.
1.-THE proposal which I made to
broaden and strengthen the
membership and leadership of
the party guarantees that the
ALP will not be controlled or
dominated by Communists, So
cialists or any other group,
clique or caucus" Hillman said.
cit was designed to and will
place control of the party where
IL belongs-in the hands of the
enrolled members themselves.
Apparently you do not desire to
have the party reconstructed on
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
H!Z:t

Here's proof that the world does
move, and even ALL craft unions
move with 1t. Last week, the AFL
Brotherhood of Boilermakers and
Iron Shipbuilders voted for the
first time to admit women to men,
bership and retired their 75-year-
old president, who had been in
Office since 1903. He'll get a pen
sion of $500 a year for life.
Congress finally passed a tax
bill this week. Aside from the fact
that 1t raises only quarter of the
sum needed for the war, that 1t
fails to hit big profits and incomes,
that 1t socks the wage Garner, and
that the President probably will
refuse to sign 1t, 1t ought to sat-
isfy everyone. The polltaxers and
the Republicans can now 60 back
to the simpler sorts Of sabotage,
like labor-baiting and price hi
lacking.
Colonel John p. Frey of the AFL
Metal Trades wants single GEN.
trail U. S. agency to handle all
labor matters. The Colonel says
It's more efficient. He must be
getting saddle-sore from chasing
around all the present agencies
with anti-union riders in his hands!
A well-known daily newspaper
has lately been spelling polltax
Senator Rankin's name with a
small ar" Why not leave out the
last two letters Of his name too?
No one has been more excited
and busy than Sen. Taft (R., Ohio)
In his opposition to the federal SOL
diers' vote bill. He's been chasing
and fussing around about 1t, as If
1t were a personal concern closest
to his heart, and nearly gets a
stroke when CLIO folks argue with
him to let the soldiers vote. Yet
we thought he said he wasn't a
candidate for President!
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
Correction

The following errors were
made in listing the House vote
on the Worley Federal service
ballot bill in The CLIO NEWS
Of February 7, 1914.
Rep. Manasco (polltaxer, Alao
was listed as not voting. He
voted mo-" which was a wrong
vote. Rep. Newsome (poll-
taxer, Ala.) was listed as voting
Eyes" He also voted mo"
Rep. Starnes Or. N. H) was
listed as not voting. He voted
Eyes" Rep. Edwin Hall Rr
N. " was listed as voting
mo-" He voted yes" Rep.
Randolph d., w. Va.) was list
ed a. q Eyes" He didn't vote.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
Win Sc an Hour Raise

Gaffney, o. c., Feb. IA five
cents an hour increase, paid vaca-
tions, and maintenance Of member
ship and checkoff dues collection
clauses were won this week by the
United Stone & Allied Products
Workers of America in one-year
contracts signed with the Campbell
Limestone Co., with plants here
and at Liberty.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

This was on the clause allowing
the government TO renegotiate war
contracts IL finds have been flag
rantly blown up in cost.
The original plan in the House
was to junk this clause entirely,
thus allowing war profits to move
from the sky to the stratosphere.
Nationwide indignation forced the
Senate to back-track on this,
though the back-tracking was only
partial.
The joker In the re-afiirmation
Of the clause Is that all govern
ment claims against profiteers
must be subject to court review.
This Is the same trick that has
been tried for years as a means
Of hampering the activity of gov
eminent agencies. It means that
any attempt to recapture some of
the more noisOme profits must
now face the endless delays Of
court action, with judges friend
~ to the corporations doing
everything possible to help them
at the taxpayers expense.
II the President vetoes the bill,
the whole thing will go back to
both House and Senate. A two
thirds majority is required to upset
a veto. II the veto Is sustained,
the whole process of writing. tax
bill begins again.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

THE bill fiouts your oft-repeated
call for a fair and realistic tax
program" Murray wrote. "Con-
gress has left you no alternative
but to veto this travesty on war
time tax programs"
Quoting from FDR's message TO
Congress as far back as April, 1912,
Murray pointed out that Congress
adopted "tax measures which re-
jected your every proposal" for
high taxes on big incomes, swollen
war profits, closing Of loopholes
and the like.
I'm your message to Congress last
month";" he added, you were COM
PEELED to repeat your call to Con-
gress for the enactment Of a fair
and realistic tax program.
'In the face of that call Con-
gress has made virtually no
significant changes in the out
rageously inadequate bill which
Il was then considering. Indeed,
what changes have been made
have actually resulted in a net
reduction of the total amount Of
revenues that can be expected"
PROFITS TO SHAKESPEARE
On only one point did Congress
make even partial concession to
the Presidents appeal for fair and
adequate taxation, and at that the
concession was sharply limited.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

SA~Ay 1RA~sN ~ - SfOas~'s
big business.
Supporter Of labor's position was
Ralph Robey, who conducts the
column, Business Tides" in
NEWS WEEK Magazine. Writing in
the Feb. issue, Robey said that
30 million housewives have proved
through their own shopping expert
ence that BIS statistics are lot
of hooey.
RObey, I'm o round about way,
indicated that the housewives see
more nearly eye to eye with
labor's posltion-that the cost Of
living has risen 4Sb per cent
rather than with BIS figures
which say It has shot upward
only 1854 per cent.
Discussing labor's fight to show
that BIS figures are unreliable as
q basis for fixing wage increases,
Robey wrote:
ALL ON SIDE OF LABOR
1.-THE argument 10 all on the
side of the labor leaders. This Is
because the (BLS) index Is not.
and Is not intended to be, a meas
ure of the cost of living for the
public at large. It Ii an Index
designed to cover the cost Of liv-
Ing Of only q limited group in our
population, and large segments Of
our working population do not fall
In this group.
Specifically, the Index Is de-
signed to measure the cost OF
living of only those families of
moderate incomes, say around
$50 q week, who live In large
cities.
eff you live In . suburban
district or . small town or o
rural village, this index makes
no effort to trace the change In
the cost Of your living. To fall
within the confines of this index
you must live In q large city.
Further II you have an Income
which enables you to buy things
which normally do not come within
the scale Of living Of anyone getting
only $50 week or less, you also
fall outside the scope Of the area
covered by the index.
In other words. In order for
this Index to be representative Of
your cost Of living, you must buy
only those things which Q family
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

run out.
The bill under debate is S 145S,
which would kill subsidies by June
30 of this year. 1t was sponsored
by Sen. Bankhead (polltaxer. Ala),
who opened up with a long and
hysterical speech charging that
lower food prices were Soothing
syrups" for the American people
and scolding them for wanting
more food at less cost.
Bankhead's TRADE for higher
grocery prices was interrupted by
Sen. Maloney 3D., Conn.,, who was
unkind enough to remind the
venerable polltaxer that only
few months before he tried des-
perately to get $30,000.00O subsidy
to small-town newspapers in the
form of paid War Bond advertising.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
Your Food Supply
Is Still an Issue!

BULLETIN AS the CLIO NEWS went to press the Senate
preparing (Feb 1 to vote the food subsidy issue
All signs showed that the against subsidies
for higher prices and scarcity An early vote took the lid off
milk prices amendment proposed by (po
taxer, Miss) and Mcclellan (poIaxer Ark). This,
tained will bring immediate increase of quart
consumer expected
veto the antisubsdy VOTE Wire two Senators support
the veto which takes a two-thirds majority to upset.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-THE issue of food subsdes-whch
the difference between enough reacabe prices
hunger and nations hot again the Senate this week.
with needed by Feb IT, the day which present subsidies
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
HiIIman Hits Anti-Unify
Forces in n. Y. Labor Party

NEW YORK. Feb. 12-"Od Guard" figures in the American
Labor Party trying pepeuate themselves in Office by
raising the Of Communism Sidney man chair
man of the CLIO Committee charged here this
week.
Himans charge came letter to George Counts and
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
News Week Backs
CIOLiving Cost Study

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-Chalk this up just about the
encouraging sounded this week the living
front.
CIOAF position that the of living has risen nearly
what the Labor Statistics has vgo
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
Keep Your Eye On Conqress

few basic House s
issue. "'A "''
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system the
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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14
Veto Bad Tax
Bill, Murray Asks

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE present BILL passed in
final form by both House and Senate should vetoed
Murray wrote to President week sharp ind
ment Of Congress for its record of failure and bungng
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-02-14

Wire conferees plus your
own Representative and
Senator's. urge approval
Of s 1912.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-25

sdy offensive on oIl fronts is creating tre- Is demond for war n,oterioIs thot e0n only be Waterbury. This nokes our labor shortage
 iticoI then ever.