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Evening star., 1946-04-12
Mrs. Margaret N. 0'Dea
Dies After Short Illness

Mrs. Margaret M O'Dea. So. a
lifelongt resident of Washington
died yesterday in Georgetown Hos
pital after a short illness. She re-
sided at 1888 Twenty-fourth street
NV.
Mrs. ODea attended old Business
High School here and was a mem
ber of ST. Stephens Church and
the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
She was the widow of Patrick L.
ODea of Washington.
She is survived by two sons. Pat
rick L. ODea, ir., and Thomas E
O'Dea. and a brother, Thomas J.
Mcclure, all of Washington. Fun
eral services will be held at the
Timothy Hanlon funeral home. Sal
H street NE, at $50 am. Monday
and requiem mass will be said al
ST. Stephens at 9 am. Burial will
be at Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Torture Of Newsman
Before Staying Told
BY The Assoeiosed Press

DACHAU. April l2.-Associatee
Press Correspondent Joseph Morton
and l3 American and British officers
underwent four days and nights oi
brutal questioning by special tor
ture" agents before they were eX-
ecuted at the Mauthausen concen-
tratlon camp. war crimes trial Wit
nesSeS testified Yesterday.
An interpreter who was present
during Mr. Morton'S interrogation
and camp clerk who saw his body
after the execution identified photo
graphs of the 34-year-old St. Joseph
tMo0 war correspondent. who was
captured with the others in Decem-
ber, 1914, while on a mission into
Slovakia.
Testlfying at the trial of 81 oper-
atorS of the notorious camp near
Linz. Austria, DR.. Marcel Thost, in
terrogator for the Gestapo, said two
special agents were sent from Ber-
lin for the purpose of ''torturing'
information from the men.
Thost. brought into court under
escort because he was a prisoner
gave no details Of the miStreat-
ment OF Mr.. Morton. He said The
prisoners were questioned continu-
ally for four days and nights by the
NaZi officials.
Mr.. Morton and his companions
were finally taken to the Mauthau-
sen crematCrium and shot in the
neck, Wilhelm Ornstein. a camp in
mate who was crematorium clerk
said. Their deaths occurred in Jan
uarV of last wear
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Federal Officials See
Little Hope Of Early
Coal Strike Settlement
By jones Y. Newton

Federal officials reported today
that prospects are dark for an early
end of the 12-day-old coal strike as
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
sought to arrange a basis for re-
sumption of contract negotiations
between John L. Lewis and soft coal
operators.
Mr.. Schwellenbach's early efforts
to repair the break in the mine
negotiations were unsuccessful. He
conferred separately for four hours
yesterday with the United Mine
Workers and operators and had
little encouragement to offer the
Nation at the end.
He said he would devote the week
end to further exploratory talks with
the dlsputants, searching for some
substantial basis on which Joint
talks could be held The Secretary
said he was sure that both sides
would agree to meet Jointly if he
asked them to, but he did not think
the time ripe for such a move.
They would just sit there for five
weeks or more and not actually get
together, Mr.. Schwellenbach said in
explaining that he and his assistants
would attempt to clear up some
points of controversy before REQUEST
ing resumption of wage talks
THE operators stated they were
willing to meet in joint conference. -
the Secretary continued. Mr.. Lewis
did not state that he was unwilling
to meet in joint conference, but
stated that he felt that a Joint
conference such as they have haC
during the last five weeks WoulC
accomplish nothing as long as the
operators refused any of the pro
posals that he made"
Mr.. Schwellenbach said he found
few points of agreement between the
diSputants.
Meanwhile. President Truman
told his news conference that he
was leaving any Government at
tempts to settle the strike in the
hands Of the Labor Secretary. Mr..
Truman laughed and referred re-
porters to a newspaper editorial
titled Using What for Lave" when
asked for comment on a suggestion
by Harold L. Ickes that the Gov
ernment should smash Mr.. Lewis.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
7 run1dn Reuffirn1s Stand
On Poll Taxes and FEPC

l would do so again if I were a
Senator"
'Cloture is Senate procedure by
which debate is limited on a bill
and an eventual vote is forced if
tWo-thirdS of the Senators pres
ent agree to invoke the rule
Mr.. Truman went on to say that
he favors State action. holding that
there is no contradiction between
it and Federal action. He men,
toned that several States had aban-
doned such levies in what he called
"a step forward"
Federal Study May Spur States.
Saying Federal consideration may
have stimulated State action, he
added
For example, while we were
pressing for Federal action on fair
employment practice legislation.
several States and a number of mu-
inequalities have adopted fair en-
ployment practice acts.
Federal legislation and State
legislation should supplement one
another wherever possible. I am in
favor Of both Federal and State
action on anti-poll tax legislation.
FEPC and all similar legislation
And, the President concluded.
that ought to clear the matter up.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
4500 B. & O. Employees
Idle Because of Coal Strike

PITTSBURGH, April u tP,.-The
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad an
nounced today about 4.500 employees
are IDLE as a result of the strike
of 100000 United Mine Workers.
In all, more than 10000 persons
have been laid off in industries
allied to coal Some $500 were in
steel plants, mainly in Pittsburgh
and Chicago areas subsidiaries of
United States Steel Corp Railroads.
trucking firms and small steel fab
ricators in the Pittsburgh area ac-
counted for another 1000
The B. & o. said only 172 cars OF
coal were loaded on its lines April
10. as compared with 3.062 cars on
the corresponding day of 1945.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
EDUCATIONAL.

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Evening star., 1946-04-12
BY the Associoted Press

President Truman charted Demo-
cratic political policy steadfastly
left of center today as he began his
second year in the White House.
With statement that he stands
solidly behind Federal legislation tc
abolish State poll taxes and tC
establish permanent Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission, the
President emphasized he is not veer-
ing from the broad obiectives laid
down by his predecessor.
At the same time, Mr.. Truman
scotched any thought of some
Southern elements of the party that
he might be asking political peace
with them.
May Amplify Stand at Ceremony.
There were indications. too. that
the Chief Executive would fortifv
this position by reiterating his de-
sire for passage of what he has
classed as progressive legislation
when he speaks later in the day at
the Hyde Park grave of Franklin D
Roosevelt.
Mr. TrumanS reafflrmed support
of anti-poll tax and FEPC measures
and all similar legislation" came
at a crowded White House news
conference yesterday.
AS expected. 1t provoked mixed re-
action among Capitol Hill Demo-
Gratis. Some privately read into it
White House support for an an
nounced CIO campaign to purge
Southern members of Congress who
fight such measures.
Senator Pepper. Democrat. of
Florida, an advocate of both poll tax
repeal and permanent FEPC. said
he was immensely gratified' at
the Presidents statement. Senator
Pepper previously had said he dis
agreed with Mr. Humans view
expressed in an of hand way at
Chicago last Week-that the poll tax
question Was matter for the States
TO settle.
There had been speculation then
that MI. Truman was Offering a
little political sugar to the Southern
members Of the party.
Either way, Senator Hoey, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina said his
views remain unchanged that poll
tax and FEPC are questions over
which the States have sole iurisdic.
ton" He told reporter that Con-
gress has no right to interfere in
either matter short of approving
constitutional amendment-a view
held widely by Southerners.
New Anti-Poll Tax Effort Seen.
Senator Pepper promised new
effort to bring the anti-poll tax
measure before the Senate at this
sesSlon-a move certain to bring a
2roeram-lnterrupting filibuster from
Dixie Democrats.
Unlike his Chicago statement.
there was nothing offhand about
Nh. Humans newest policy an
nouncement yesterday. When a re-
porter asked about the Chicago re-
mark. the President said he knew
that was coming and was ready
for it.
He picked up typed statement
and proceeded to read it.
L nave not changed my posi-
ton on Federal antipoll tax legis-
latlon, the President read in a firm
voice. I am still in favor of Fed
eral legislation. l voted for cloture
on this issue in the Senate and
Evening star., 1946-04-12
RooseveIt's Reaction
To Jap Message on
dec. I Told at Probe
BY RE AssocIoied Press

The Pearl Harbor record was ex-
panded today to include a new ac-
count of how President Roosevelt
reacted in the last hours of peace
to japanese diplomatic maneuver-
Iings.
Admiral J. r. Beardall, White
House naval aide at the time, sup
piled the details to the Congress
sional Investigation Committee be-
fore it suspended hearings and took
an indefinite recess late yesterday.
On the fateful morning of Decem-
ber 7, 1941, about 10 am, Admiral
Beardall related, he took to Mr..
Roosevelt in his bedroom the final
section of 14-part intercepted
Japanese message.
1T looks as though the japanese
are going to break off relations. -
Admiral Beardall quoted the Presi-
dent as saying.
Representative Murphy. Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania asked whether
there was anything in the Presi-
dents manner which indicated that
he expected any attack within a
period of hours"
There was not" the admiral re-
piled. There was no alarm. moth
ing about this means war nothing
showing he expected an attack"
This part of Admiral Beardalls
testimony came in connection with
previous testimony by Comdr. L. r.
Schulz. An assistant to Admiral
Beardall. Comdr. Schulz had testi-
fed that the night before. when
Mr.. Roosevelt had seen only the
first 13 parts of the message. he
had said, in substance, This means
war"
The 14-part message was from
Tokyo to its ENJOYS here, for delivery
to the State Department at the
time the japanese began war-about
l pm. Washington time. It's burden
was that Japan could not accept
American proposals bearing on then
current peace negotiations
Any resumption of hearings was
left uncertain when the committee
finished with Admiral Beardall and
recessed. The group is supposed to
have report ready for Congress by
June l on its findings as to respon-
sibility for the Pearl Harbor attack
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Porter Says 0PA Bill
Would Boost Costs
7 Billion a Year
BY the Associated Press

Congress, told by OPA that Amer.
leans face a S2,000,00o,o 900 cost-of
living jump, heard a demand from
one OF its own committees today
that meat prices be boosted $780,
100000 year
Price Administrator Porter voiced
the llving-cost prediction in protest
ing amendments tackled onto the
pending bill to grant OPA another
year OF life beyond June 30.
Meanwhile. the House Agriculture
Committee, by unanimous vote, in
Structed Chairman Flanagan to Of
fer an amendment to the OPA bill
eliminating all meat subsidies and
requiring an equivalent increase in
Meat subsidies now amount to
about S75O,000,000 a year,
Debate Starts Monday.
Packers have been critical of the
subsidies and have blamed OPA
regulations for meat shortages and
black market operations.
Thus the legislation to continue
OPA another year will come before
the House for debate Monday, eX-
ploding with issues on meat and
many other foods, flbers and indus
trial products.
Mr.. Porter, in letter to Chair
man Spence of the House Banking
Committee, said amendments put
into the bill by the committee would
cost consumers S2,000,000.000 more
In one year and deliver a body
blow" to efforts to hold down infla-
ton.
II approved by House and SEN
ate. Mr.. Porter said the amend
mentS would boost the Nations
annual clothing bill by 10 per cent or
around Sl.2OG,O00.0oO
Equivalent to Victory Tax"
He estimated they would transfer
at least s425 100000 from the pockets
of American car buyers to the
pock& It's of American car dealers"
and Increase prices of many other
item
For low-income people, he argued.
the amendments would be equiva-
leY to restoring the war-imposed
er cent Victory tax"
Nr. Porters letter was aimed
specifically at provisions which
would; l. Prevent OPA from cutting
retail profit margins on such items
as automobiles, refrigerators and
radios through the absorption
program; 2, repeal the maximum
average price order by which OPA
requires manufacturers to make
loW-cost clothing, and 3. set up
special formula for pricing cotton
and wool cloth.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
DR.. Gerhard Bading Dies;
Former Milwaukee Mayor
By the As.oeiated Pra,.

MILWAUKEE, April 12-Dr. Ger
hard Bading, IS, Mayor of Milwaukee
from 1912 to 1916, and former Min
ister to Ecuador, died yesterday
after a long illness.
President Harding appointed him
Minister to Ecuador in 1922 and he
was reappointed by Presidents
Hoover and Coolidge.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Haley Named President
Of Ringing Circus
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 12.-Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
Combined Shows, Inc, announced
last night that James A. Haley of
Admission, Ala, vice president OF
the circus organization for the past
five years. had been elected presi-
dent to succeed Robert Ringing.
Haley was freed in December
l945, after serving eight months ano
20 days in jail in connection with
the Hartford Conn circus fire OF
July 6, 1914. Four other circus off,
clals also served sentences following
the tragedy
Mr.. Ringing had been president
since l943, when he succeeded John
Ringing North.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
; ,268 Typhus Cases in Tokyo

TOKYO. April II (Pp.-There are
3,268 typhus cases in Tokyo, Kyodo
news agency reported today. The
metropolitan police reported 796 new
cases yesterday and said recent
warm weather was a contributing
factor.
Evening star., 1946-04-12

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Evening star., 1946-04-12

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. SO. on April .
Lowest. IL. on January IS.
Tide Tables
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Norfolk Fire Loss S5O,OOO

NORFOLK, Va. April IL Up
Damage estimated by Fire Chief
j. Cannon at approximately $4,000
was caused by a brief but spectacu-
lar blaze that swept the top floor of
the six-story Salvation Army USO
Building, in downtown Norfolk, yes.
terday.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
John BoIes
Leads Revue
At tDoWntoWn
BY WALTER STEVENSON

IF HOLLYWOOD ever needs a
chamber of commerce representa-
tive TO sell that fair city, it should
hire John BoleS, the movie singer
who opened yesterday in the new
stage revue at the Downtown.
Mr.. Boles is a genial gentleman
up TO and over the hilt He sings
few songs pleasingly, greets the
audience with smiling confidence
and lets you know that he's enjoy
ing the performance as much as
you. His reception Thursday was
one that should warm his heart.
The feeling of having met some
one worth meeting fingers long
after he retires from the stage.
There is another worthwhile
reason for visiting the Downtown
this week, too. If you haven't
seen The Body, then you haven't
lived, brother. Blonde, slender and
physically captivating Marie Nc
Donald, who has been dubbed
The Body" for obvious reasons
is undoubtedly the reason why
men leave home. Although she
sings a few songs, her best offer
ing is when she mimics Danny
Kaye.
Among the stage acts are the
Diamond Brothers, slapstick com.
les who double in dancing and
double up the audience with loud
laughs. The boys are really funny
Two novelty acts, magician
lDuval and Saul Grauman's musi
cal stair-a-tone, complete the
revue.
The Daltons Ride Again" ac.
/ tion-filled western film, is the
( screen fare.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
Celeste Cole
Recital Feb. 5

CELESTE COLE. soprano, will
give a recital in the lecture hall
of the Institute of Arts on Tues
day evening. Feb. 5. She will be
assisted al the piano by Evelyn
Gurvitch. The program viii in
clude works by Bach, Schubert,
Schumann. Chopin, DebusSy and
Vaughn Williams.
This is the last concert in the
series presented by the Town Con-
cert Bureau.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
Trio Continues
At Brass Rail

MELODIOUS MOMENTS are
furnished by Dave Sloan and his
Cuban Trio at the Adams Brass
Rail every night. These music
makers continue 10 make new
friends with their special arrange
ments Of popular and semi
classical favoritcS, as well as
rhumba rhythmS. During the af-
ternoon hours. Carla keeps the
music ball rolling with keyboard
numbers.
Harold Cole remains at the
Michigan Brass Rail 10 supply
piano background music every
evening.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
Apollo Players
Pick Bronte Novel

: THE APOLLO PLAYERS. an
)sll-Negro amateur theatrical
' group, from Franklin Street Set
tlemsnt, will present a modern
version of Emily Bronte's
"Wuthering Height Saturd a Y
evening. January 26. in the audi
torium Of the Institute Of Arts.
Alvin u. Loving. founder Of the
group and dramatic instructor at
Miller High School, is the direc-
tor
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
DRAMATIC OPENING

Kruger chose the dramatic
Overture 10 "Coriolanus" 10 open
the concert with and devoted the
second half 10 a wonderful read
ing Of the Sixth Symphony.
The nearest 10 Program" music
OF any Of the nine symphonies.
this Pastoral calls for almost
pictorial Interpretation and the
orchestra outdid itself last night
In reproducing the bird calls, the
brooks burbhng and the climatic
storm so effectively that We could
almost sec the whole thing in
Tcchnicolor - and not the way
Disney did it, either.
Seriously, II was a fine pro-
gram magnificently presented.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
3-DimensiOn Film
To Be Shown

DETROITERS for the first
time viii vieW three dimenSional
moving picture on Sunday, Feb
3. at : p. m, in the auditorium
OF our Lady Queen Of Angels
Church. located on Martin street
al Parkwood, when the educa-
tional division Of the Ford Motor
Co. presents Symphony in r
as a SpeciaP courtesy feature of
the Good VIII Voters Club OF
Detroit's benefit drive for a rec
Teatlonal center.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
Byron Prices Aide

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 HNS)
Byron Price, vice president OF
the Motion Picture Association Of
America, today announced the
appointment Of former assistant
secretary of state Frank Nc
Carthy as his assistant.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
A Swap

VICTIM Of the current housing
shortage, John Lund. appearing
opposite Olivia de Hayilland in
ITO Each His own" exchanged
his New York apartment for two
rooms in a Hollywood hotel.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
To HE Bottom

IN ONE SCENE Of Easy
Come, Easy Co for Paramount
Barry Fitzgerald dons a diving
suit and strollS along the bottom
Of the East River. Despite the
fact that he is completely unrec-
ognizable in his deep sea getup
Barry insisted upon playing the
scene himself.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-25
Giingold,
Symphony
SoIois+
BY CHARLES GENTRY

n AN ALL BEETHOVEN pro-
ram filled the bill for the thir-
teenth subscription concert last
night in Masonic Auditorium, with
Karl Kruger directing and con-
certmaster, Joseph Gingold, APP
pearing as assisting artist.
II was quite triumph for Mr..
Gingold who took the solo role in
the Beethoven Violin Concerto for
he was applauded vociferously at
its conclusion and everyb o d y
shook hands and had a wonderful
time.
There is no doubt but that Gin
gold is an exceptionally fine artist
and he played certain passages of
this mighty work with tremendous
effect, although he seemed TO be
seeking 10 stress the more emo
tional values of the concerto de-
parting from the usual classic
line, somewhat.
SENTIMENTAL RENDITION
II was decidedly a sentimental
rendition which h we immensely
enjoyed, although we did take ex-
ception 10 his rather carefree
and happy manner of approach.
The Beethoven Violin Concerto is
hardly a laughing matter. and
when Mr.. Gingold was engrossed
IN such serious passages as the
cadenZa in the first movement
his own incidentally-he was su-
perb. II was perhaps his slightly
self-conScious and nervous atti-
tude that made him smile and
smirk at the boys in the orchestra
when he wasn't too busy, but we
do think he could have shown a
little more dignity and poiSe, espe-
cially in the last movement.
The second movement was
played with lyric beauty, and
awhile Mr.. Gingold's second ca
enza is not quite the natural
DnuSical transition between the
second and final movements, II is
an ingenious piece Of extempor-
iZation.
The Omaha guide., 1946-02-16

wartime FEPC are at their lowest. Add to the starvation
diet decrced by Congress the reduction Of its aut. ority by
the president, and you have an agency with little oppor
tunity to carry out its job.
Does this mean that all hope Of further association is
ended? 1 think not. IL just means that until rye can get
a Congress that ,UU adopt a permanent FEPC Iaav ,e must
continue to place our reliance n other agencies.
The chief of these is the union tha. bans discrimination
For the immediate future that is the best bet for coninn
ing the pressure ON reluctant white workers. and for put.
ting them into the situation where they will be able to learn
to get along with their Negro associates.
All this care TO the front of my mind recently when I
met two good friends, one Negro and one white. One, the
Negro, is chairman of the shop committee of Tie JAW
CIO local at the Crysler Highland Park plant. The other
is the president of the local, who was born and brought up
in Tennessee.
The history of their local, and its race relations. is the
best reason l have for pinning SO much faith in the next
few years on the prejudice busting possibilities of some
unions.
4 CASE HISTORY
When 1 first met the Negro, L. Mcpherson, in the early
days of the war, he was the leader of the Negro employees
in the plant who had gone out on strike to force the COM
pany to upgrade qualified Negro workers.
A more foreIorn and isolated bunch Of strikers YOU hare
seldom seen. They mere on a roiidcat strike, and gt no
support from the union. They had been isolated in the
janitorial ,Oork OF the plant and had te1o friends among
the pUhite members of their union.
Finally, it was agreed that Negroes would be upgraded in
the plant. and the strikers went back to work.
When / next met Mac he had been elected the chairman
Of the plant shop committee, representing all the workers
in the plant, regardless of race, and regardless of skill.
This was all the more remarkable because | know one
young fellow a red-hot radicla, who three years ago had
been run out of that plant for arguing that Negroes had a
right to work on machines.
The couple of years of association between Negro and
white workers, doing the same work, side by side, had com
pletely changed the atmosphere of the plant, and had put
Mac in a position that he earned by his ability as a nego-
tiatOr.
The President of the local, Bill Jenkins, came from
Tennessee. He is one of many UAW-CIO leaders who
came from the South. and who share with him a complete
union.
You bet I'm for the union a S a prejudice-buster!