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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21
BY MORT WICKER

It's going to be hard winter
Especially for the thousands, of
Chicagoans who face housing
crises, the threatened rent boosts
and the bitter eviction struggles
that are ''in the cards"
And even with the scity going
into a pitched election battle,
there hasn't been word of COM
fort from either of the major
political camps.
Neither the Republicans In
the Ashland Block or the Demo
Gratis i'm the Morrison hotel
have taken q stand against rent
boosts or evictions.
=
THIS adds up to the fact that
Chicagoans will seek their own
Independent political means for
coping with this key issue in the
coming elections.
A move to combat inflated rem
tails in Chicago is growing rap
idly. Led by the Chicago Com
mittee on Price and Rent Control,
it is undertaking block-by-
block, house-to-house drive to
organize the city's tenants. The
campaign has already had start
ling results. a
Blasting the comfort some peo-
pie dose themselves with. namely,
that they can't evict us whole
SALE" is the record of the control
free holiday of last July. Rentals
vaulted to dizzy highs. Thou
sands of eviction notices were
filed.
TO GO even farther back, there
. We're the mass evictions after
World War l.. Because Of the in
ability to pay rents which
had leaped more than 300 per-
cent in many cases, thousands
were put out in the streets.
Even today, with recent curbs
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21
Tenants in danger

i'm force, landlords are asking
for 800 court orders monthly to
GUST tenants from apartments
which are desired for NEEDY"
members of the owners own
families.
This is but a portion of the
total requests. What would it be
if there were no protection from
gouging and eviction.
I'VE NEED rent increases to
meet the rising costs of operat-
ing which are cutting our in
comes to nothing" landlords
whine.
Yet surveys reveal that prof
its from rentals have jumped
nearly 200 percent while con-
trolls were i'm effect. The total
take from rents in 1913 was
more than So billion, as COM
pared to under $500 million i'm
1940.
Vacancies, previously one of
the landlords greatest expenses,
are today virtually non-existent.
The amount of repairing and
decorating done is negligible. In
terest payments are rapidly de-
creasing as bonds are steadily
being paid off.
IF the Office of Price Admins
tration were to grant the Is per-
cent rent boost for which the
landlords are clamoring, profits
of apartment houses would climb
to 81 percent over those of 1889.
In small houses they would reach
a level 80 percent higher than
in 1899.
And this, the National Associa.
ton of Real Estate Boards ad-
mits, would only be used as a
level to pry all ceilings off rents.
An indication of what unlimited
rents would mean is the following
from a Chicago newspaper OF
February l, 1921
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21
Don't know how we did it., says
Swift head Of record profits

Swift & Co., the nations Big -Four meat packers
acked up s4 profits in the fiscal year ending
Oct 26 than preceding despite the fact that
total 19o below the previous year. 'he
company revealed in report to stockholders
Company John Holmes expressed milo ahlazemehC
at the surprises meat purchascr-and
said the wear 1.-The most unusual in its history
I'VE realize" said Holiness that some of these earnings
primarily the rising scale of prices but ne
justified with the statement that earnings that come
upswng needed to cushion the shock when the
price cycle starts downward"
The report revealed profit of Sl6394,739 this
compared the before Wages and salaries
including hghpad officials totaIed s64o3o9s
compared 10 $l6l, 359,60l
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21

spend the dreadful winter
months in the cold North.
Mrs. Cudahy will not have 10
djsappoint the Garden Club OF
Palm Beach, Florida, of which
she is president.
THAT will be pleasant news
to the packinghouse workers
who were undoubtedly consci-
ence-stricken over the fact the
big sausage king had to come
across with an additional ID
cents an hour.
This winter, whensthe Cudahy
workers are sweating in the
beef kill, they can think of Mrs.
Cudahy plucking zinnias in her
arbor.
Or they might think of her
having tea i'm what is called
t'breezeroom" at the Cudahy
castle.
HERE one is surrounded by a
remarkable and priceless collec-
ton of sea shell. Against one
wall is huge blond mahogany
breakfront cabinet, of Georgian
design, lighted by concealed
bulbs.
Magnificent shells are are
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21
By the Society Editor

The runnor is that although
Cudahy & Co. was forced last
week to grant wage increase
TO its workers, the Cudahys
were not compelled to cut the
family budget.
In fact, wage increases not
withstanding, the Joseph M.
Cudahys will not be forced 10
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21

of a large shells bound in silver
gilt.
We could tell you much
more about Mrs. Cudahy's
shell collection
But to Cudahy workers 1t
must already be obvious that
in the shell game of wages and
profits, the Cudahy family Is
not the loser!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21
Tenants in danger
Hating rent hikes and evictions
is q Job for our city government

Rent of flats formerly rent
ed for from $50 to $3.50 and
which were boosted to $50 last
May will go up to $50. Flats
once $50 and $35 which were
boosted to $65 and $40 last May
will now cost SIG.
THERE is also precedent for
organization of tenants to resist
the grab tactics of landlords. A
city-wide tenants group was
formed in 1920. 1t led 10000 rent
ers who were ordered to vacate
their flats on May l of that year
on rent strike. This soon re-
suited in a state law to curb
rent profiteering.
Officials of Chicago Commit
tee on Rent Price Control warn,
with housing as wOefully
short as it is the removal of
rent curbs would place the
great majority of Chicagoans
completely at the mercy of
landlords who have already
shown there are no bounds to
their profit-hungry greed"
Conditions of this kind create
an emergency in which the full
power of the city government
must be made to protect the peo-
pie of Chicago. from a disastrous
orgy of rent-gouging and evic-
tons.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-21

ALONG with building the ten
ants organization in every ward
Chicagoans must insure that the
candidates who take city office in
the Spring are committed 10 mu-
nicipal and state action to pre-
serve rent control.
The alternative is mass home
lessness, sharply-reduced living
standards and suffering for great
numbers of the city's people.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Fred E. Murray, veteran of the
China-Burma- India campaign, yes
terday saved his sister, his flancee
and another Washington girl from
coal gas asphyxiation.
The girls, Miss Juanita Murray,
IT; Miss Peggy McCord, 10, and
Miss Leota McKibbin, 18, were in
an upstairs room at the home of
Mrs. Mary E. Murray, 1866 Emerson
street NE, talking with former Pfc.
Murray, fiance of Miss McCord.
Shortly after noon, the girls COM
planned Of feeling Ill and in a few
minutes, Miss Murray and Miss
McKibbin collapsed. Mr.. Murray
opened the windows and applied
cold towels. The girls appeared to
revive but again collapsed as they
walked to the open window. Shortly
afterward, Miss McCord also lost
consciousness and MIR. Murray sum-
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Mussey Tent Exercises

Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent,
Daughters Of Union Veterans of the
Civil War, will hold patriotic exer-
cises tomorrow night at their head
quarters, 2o15 Massachusetts, avenue
NV. Mrs. Sylvia Mclaughlin Is
In charge. Sutton Jet will speak
on Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Mary
M. Crawford on william Mckinley
and Mrs. Kathryn C. Rain on
George Washington.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

moned the Fire Department rescue
squad.
The victims were treated at Ca
sualty Hospital and released.
A gas company inspector at
tributed the near-tragedy to coal
gas escaping from a leaky chimney.
Miss McCord lives at 6545 Forty
sixth place, Riverdale, Md, and Miss
McKibbin is a roomer at the Muir
ray home.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

ACool11dl1, ds salll
will serve as
managing direc-
tor and ringmas-
ter. Negotia-
ttonS are now
under way to OBJ
tain top acts
from Ringing
Bros. and Bar
mum & Bailey
Cir US, G oil e
Bros. and other
shows, Mr.. Foley
said.
Profits will be
used for the
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Annual Shrine Circus
Set Here for April 8-14

Washington's annual Shrine Cir
Gus will be held the week of April
8-14 at Uline Arena, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Howard P. Foley, District busi-
Evening star., 1946-02-17
FUEL OIL
AUTOMATIC
DELIVERY
SERVICE
Phone RE. $500
A. P. Woodson Co.
1913 H ST. NV.
Famous Picture Has
Thrilled Thousands
"Our Flag-"In Full Color-Ideal Gift
For Home or Office
1913 H St. NV.

Lithosraph Of Noted
Painting BY Fred Tripr
New Lacquer Finish
Looks Like an Oil
Painting-Ready 10
RI HanS Up
More than 300,00C
copies distributed dur
ing " ar years-by
more than, 500 Art and
Gift Shops.
For the first time
this strangely beauti.
full OUR FLAG" pic.
ture is offered in q
new, mex . e n sivs
a -
Evening star., 1946-02-17

trust fund benefltting Shriners' hos
pitfalls for crippled children, Mr..
Foley said.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Cardboard Mat-complete with wall
hanger, size, 11x22 in. Packed in heavy
folder. Order No. 7-A. Now only $1.OO,
postpaid or COD.
No, lie. Same as IA except encased
in genuine Oak Frame. Choice Of Gold
Bronze, Old Ivory or Lacquer finish.
Packed in heavy mailing carton. Now
only $3.50. postpaid or c. o. d.
You risk nothing. Pictures are guar
anteed to please or cost refunded. Sent
to separate addresses on cash orders II
desired for gifts. Write today.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Our Flag Sales Corporation
Dept. OOOO Excelsior Springs, Mo
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Custom Crofted Soto with eorted
ond picked frame, down cushion,
chenille trimmed, stripe brocode,
$50
Antique Silver Leaf Top CocktoiI
Tble, hand decooted. Custom
carved base in picked finish, $I8s
Exquisitey Carved Lomp Tobas In
picked finish with mirror too,
$l3s
Custom Mode Breokfroot Of solid
mohooony with hand laid crotch;
mahogany fronts and nI0,
slIss
Snort FEeside Choir Of distinctive
design; quilted ehlntz upholstery,
sle5
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Strike Vote Is 1907
On Some Railroads,
Whitney Declares
BY The Associated Press

CLEVELAND. Feb. 2o.-A. r
Whitney, president of the Brother
hood Of Railroad Trainmen, said
yesterday that incomplete returns
on a strike vote in some cases are
running 100 per cent in favor of
strike action.
E. r. Bryan, brotherhood chair
man OF the Missouri-Kansas- Texas
railroad, reported in Denison, Tex,
that 1,270 members on that road
had voted $3.50 per cent for a strike.
Mr.. Whitney commented, that's
what we are expecting. We have
compiled returns from about 60
railroads thus far and some of them
are 100 per cent for strike"
Final results on the strike poll
among the brotherhood's 2l5,O00
members will be ready in a few
days, he said. No action can be-
taken until all votes have been
counted, he added.
The trainmen and one other operat-
ing group, the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, have been taking
strike votes. They seek increased
wages which Mr.. Whitney said aver
aged about Is per cent, and changes
In As working rules, to improve
conditions for the railroad employees.
Railway labor legislation provides
for the appointment of a nresiden-
tial fact-finding board on any strike
call in the rail transportation
system.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Girl skIIerC Convicted; !;
Body,NiII Missing
BY the Associated Press

SANTA CRUZ, Calf, Feb. 90
After bizarre murder trial-a case
without trace of body-Thomas
H. McMonigle, 81, a bus driver, was
convicted yesterday of the kidnap-
murder of IS year = old Thora
Chamberlain.
The verdict, reached in 43
minutes. was flrst-degree murder
with the death sentence mandatory
since no leniency was recommended.
However, under California law, he
is to be tried again by the same
jury on his plea of innocent by
reason of insanity and his ultimate
sentence hinges on the outcome
The trial date was set as February
26.
The State. depending entirely on
circumstantial evidence, contended
the bus driver abducted the girl
near Campbell High School last
November 2, assaulted her, shot her
and hurled her body over 55-foot-
high Devils Slide into the Pacific
Ocean.
At the time of the abduction
staying, McMonigle's wife was in a
hospital with a newborn baby.
McMonigle, during his arrest and
trial, gave at least five different
versions of the crime.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
District Operators to Go Out
II Phone Union Calls Strike

Washington telephone operators
will strike if and when the National
Federation of Telephone Workers
calls them off the job, Mrs. Emma
Sauer, vice president of the Wash
ington Telephone TRAFFIC Union,
said today.
Mrs. Sauer indicated that disrup-
tion in telephone service would come
without notice of the date should
the unions National Bargaining
Committee decide that the operators
have to do more than threaten to
get pay increases.
Theren be no more union meet
tngs. We've had our meetings" she
said.
Washington operators already have
voted for strike if necessary to
win demands. Since national Of
flcers, voting at Memphis, set no
date for strike, observers predicted
the NFTW would make new over
lures to the Bell System for a peace
full settlement of union wage de-
,mands now that they are armed
with the power to call strike.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Truman Signs but Criticizes
Ban on Filipino GI Rights

President Truman. declaring 1t is
"a moral obligation OF the United
States to look after the welfare OF
Philippine Army veterans" today
signed but criticized legislation de-
nying Philippine Army veterans
benefits under the GI Bill OF Rights.
The provision was attached as a
rider to bill canceling $50 900, ,000,- :
900 in war appropriations. The cut
back bill was vetoed by the Presi-
dent last December because OF
another rider to transfer the United
States Employment Service back to
the States.
In his statement the President
said he realized that certain prac-
tical difficulties exist" in applying
the GI bill to Philippine troops,
who now receive only disability and
death benefits, made payable on the
basis of one peso for every dollar
of eligible benefits.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Czechs Hold 3 Yunks
In Document Search
BY the Assoeioted Press

PRAGUE, Feb. 20.-Three Amer
ican soldiers were held by Czecho-
slovak authorities today after max
ing what police termed an unauthor-
lied search and seizure ca German
documents. The Czechoslovaks pro-
tested violation of the countrys
sovereignty"
Police said IA heaviiy-armed
Americans broke open a lodge in the
forest near Stechovice and removed
documents believed wanted in a
war crimes inquiry.
Three Of the Americans, Czecho-
slovak reports said, were captured
later at a hotel, but their COM
panions left the country with the
documents. Names of the men held
were not made public.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
GIN and Union Reject
Government Plea for
Longer Strike Talks
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Feb. 20.-Anothel
regular negotiating session between
General Motors and the CIO United
Auto Workers was on schedule at
pm. today despite Government ON.
cials' pleas that the two sides give
more conference time to efforts tt
settle the 92-day strike.
James F. Dewey. special Federal
mediator, who relayed an appeal
from Secretary of Labor Schwellen.
bach that sessions be carried on "as
long as necessary" said both man.
agement and labor representatives
rejected the suggestion.
GIN and union officials told him
Mr.. Dewey declared, they consider
ed 1t more expeditions" to meet in
separate groups between confer
ences.
Schwellenbach Airs Views.
Mr.. Schwellenbach, who has kept
in close touch with negotiation de-
velopments through regular reports
from Mr.. Dewey, expressed belief
that longer discussions could effect
q settlement of the three months
strike lin a few days"
Mr.. Dewey pointed out that most
recent sessions. with the exception
Of seven-hour meeting last Sat-
urday, have been limited to three
hours or less. Yesterday. for the
first time, he asked negotiators from
both sides to present written views
on disputed issues.
However, substantial progress In
recent conferences was indicated in
Mr.. Dewey's announcement that
agreement had been reached on Is
noneconomic issues since last Fri
day.
Old Contract Issues Settled.
The mediator said clauses now
agreed on cover such matters as
smoking privileges, hiring rate pro-
cedure, equal pay for equal work,
and other issues.
Most of these points, he said,
were among the issues inserted by
the War Labor Board in the old
contract which General Motors can
celed December 10. The company
their elimination in an
interim returning -to-work proposal
1t made February IL, when it made
its highest wage offer, an 1871 cent
hourly increase Q6.5 per cent?.
Policy Matters Remain.
The union has demanded REIN
statement of the old contract as
well as a 191a-cent increase OTIS
per cent? recommended by a fact
finding board.
Maintenance of membership and
policy on promotions and transfers,
which. with the wage question, are
the largest isues in the dispute,
have yet to be settled.
A National Labor Relations
Boar3 hearing on union charges
hat General Motors failed to bar
gain in good faith was adjourned
Yesterday for one week. NLRB Of
ncials gave no reason for the action.
Evening star., 1946-02-20

Mr.. Truman declared, however,
that "the passage and approval of
this legislation do not release the
United States from its moral obli-
cation to provide for the heroic
Philippine veterans who sacrificed
so much for the common cause
during the war"
Amplifying. the President said
Philippine Army veterans will re-
tain their status as nationals of
this country until July 1.-The date
of Philippine independence. He
added that They fought with gal
lantry and courage" during the re-
cent war; that their officers were
commissioned by the United States
and that their official organization,
the Army Of the Philippine Com
monwealth. was brought into the
Army of the United States by ex-
ecutive order in 1941.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Troops Held Ready
10 Operate Utilities
In Jamaica Strike
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


KINGSTON. Jamaica, Feb. 90
"A Canadian infantry regiment
was held in readiness today to
take over essential services OF
strike ridden Kingston as a
walkout of $500 public utility
workers threatened a food short
age and paralysis Of communi-
cations.
Rival labor factions--the Trade
Unions Council and the industrial
trade union headed by Alexander
Bustamante, West Indies labor
leader-maintained an uncompro-
missing attitude. Immediate settle
ment of the five-day strike, which
began Friday when insane asylum
attendants walked out, loosing
scores of inmates. appeared remote.
Socialist Leader Norman WASH
ington Manley, president of the op-
position Peoples National Party,
which is allied to the Trade Unions
Council, said: I'VE are going to con-
tinue to fight strike busting by the
BTU (Bustamante organization)
We are not going to give an inch"
Bustamante, who is Minister Of
Communications and leader OF the
majority labor party, accused the
Trade Union Councils members of
Striking against the government"
and charged that the walkout was
Communist inspired"
The strikers include 45O asylum
workers, $500 railway workers, $50
prison workers and so employees of
the fire brigade.
1t was estimated that IS of more
than 100 asylum inmates who es-
capped at the beginning of the
asylum strike still were at large.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Connors
Continued From First Page J

questions of fact are in your prov
ince. cannot help you."
Mr.. Raffell said, Some of lis
have forgotten certain dates and
places. Gould we see the trans
cript?"
Justice Pine said, your request
is contrary to the practice and con-
trary to the procedure of this court"
No Precedent Recalled.
He then called Mr.. Laughlin
and Mr.. Murray, the assistant
United States attorney prosecuting,
to the bench. After a short con-
ference Justice Pine said:
I called counsel to the bench
to ask them If they knew any
precedent in this court for granting
your request and they knew of
none. I cannot let you carry back
with you the 26 volumes of the
transcript"
Justice Pine then directed the
jury be put up for the night.
Mr.. Laughlin had subpoenaed F.
w. Reichelderfer, head of the
Weather Bureau. and records of the
weather between here and New
York in February, 1945.
Joe Fulkas, a Weather Bureau
meteorologist. in answer to the sub
poena, read into the record Thurs
day reports of snowfall and temper
atures at Trenton, N. j., Wilmington,
Del, and Washington on February
IL, 13. Is and II.
The data were sought to support
Connors' version of a motor trip to
Washington several days before the
murders. Connors had testified that
the trip was made on the 18th and
l7th. His alleged accomplice, Joseph
Vinci, who testified fof the prosecu-
ton, said they stopped In a hotel
on the way. A hotel registration
card, allegedly signed by Connors
under the alias "R. j. Corosley. !"
which was introduced to support
Vinci's story. fixed the date as
February 10.
Both Connors and Vinci said 1t
was showing during the trip-Vinci
said 1t was showing like hell" Mr..
Laughlin claimed the weather data
favored Connors' story that the trip
was made on the 18th or 18th. Mr..
Murray disputed this in his closing
argument. He told the jury that the
data showed there was a snowfall of
"a inch between New York and
Washington on the 18th.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Ruil Waiter Awarded 81. 500

A District Court jury has awarded
Ernest A. Vance, colored, 100 block
Forty-ninth place NE, dining car
waiter, $500 damages against the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. for
injuries received last February when
a train was derailed near Thomas.
vile, Ga.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Court Head Removed
In Soldiers S Spy Trial
Ry the A.,eeiotsd Pres.

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2o.-A
peremptory defense challenge yes
terday removed Col. Raymond T.
Elsmore as president Of the general
court staff trying Staff sergt. Frank
Hirt. 81. on military charges of
espionage.
Col. Elsmore had been chosen
president of the i2-officer court at
opening Of the court martial pro-
ceedings at Hamilton Field. He was
replaced by Col. Hereford T. Fitch
OF Seattle, leaving IL officers to sit
on the case.
1t. George T. Davis, San Fran
cisco, who for years was attorney
for Tom Mooney, presented in
formation and data for the benefit
of the court-martial board mem
bers as the hearing began.
Sergt. Hirt, a resident of Ger
many for many years prior to his
enlistment in the American Army
shortly before Pearl Harbor, is
charged with conspiring with Ger
man agents in Germany, Switzer-
land, Portugal. Brazil and this
country to commit espionage.
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