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Evening star., 1946-10-29
Teamsters' Magazine Sees
Strikes as National Menace
By the Associofed Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2e-The
international Teamsters, of1cial
magazine of the International
Brothood Of Teamsters, AFL, says
that strikes have become a national
menace"
They (strikes) are an invitation
to imitation and depression" an un-
signed article in the November issue
of the magazine said. They must
be curtailed or the Nation will sink
into chaos and organized labor will
perish.
I'VE earnestly ask the cooperation
Of every member in rigidly observing
the legal strike procedure. ."
The article warned union members
against thinking that strike benefits
are automatic and listed q dozen
steps which it said must be followed
before a grievance can become q
legal strike.
Some impatient young members
may think this is all q lot Of red tape
which delays strikes" the Teamster
said. TT does delay strikes, and the
international has learned from ex-
pensive experience that 1t is a good
thing to delay them. 80"
r'But once the international ap-
proves . strike, the sky Is the limit.
No expense win be spared to win it,
as many employers have also learned
from expensive experience. q"
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Wallace Asks Liberals
For Party ReaIignInent
BY the Assoeio!ed Press

TACOMA. Wash, Oct. 29.-Henry
A. Wallace urged last night that the
liberals" of the Democratic and
Republican parties join in a battle
against reaction.
The battle, he said, should result
in a. readjustment of political lines
which would create a liberal and
conservative party in the United
States.
1T is time" the former Secretary
of Commerce said, that the parties
right themselves on these problems
and quit deceiving the people"
He attacked the pseudo liberals
In both parties"
There is no danger of the Repub-
lican Party nominating Harold Stas-
sen for President" Mr.. Wallace told
q Democratic rally, because Stassen
has at times expressed liberal senti-
ments. But when he came to the
Pacific Northwest and campaigned
for reaction, he exposed the fake
stripe in his iberalism-he put party
above principle.
True liberals, he said, are read out
of the Republican Party. He termed
the late Wendell Willkie as one of
the few liberals ever to lead the
COP.
And Mr.. Willkie, he said. was
hated by Republican Senators in
Washington.
Earlier in his round OF speaking in
Seattle and Bremerton, Wallace had
asserted that an outbreak of So
viet-baiting" in this country had
provoked "American-baiting" by the
Russians. And they are just as
good baiters as we are" Mr.. Wallace
added.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Ickes, Three Others
Quit as Sponsors Of
Soviet Friends Unit
By the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-The Ma
tional Council of Americana Soviet
Friendship announced today the
withdrawal Of four prominent spon-
sors, three Of whom attributed their
designations to disagreement with
activities of the council
Richard Morford, executive di-
rector of the council, said those who
resigned were Harold L. Ickes, for
mer Secretary of the Interior: Sena-
tor Saltonstall, Republican. oi
Massachusetts,; Judge Learned Hand
of the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals and William L. Bait, for
mer vice chairman of the War Pro-
duction Board.
In a letter dated October Is Mr.
Ickes told the council that "consid
erable variance exists between our
points of view with respect to GER
tain matters affecting Russia"
Mr.. Ickes added: For instance, !
understand that the National Coun-
Gil of American-Soyiet Friendship
has fully indorsed the Wallace posi-
tion with respect to the control of
atomic energy as opposed to the
Baruch plan.
Since have publicly expressed
my approval in principle of the
Baruch plan on several occasions, 1t
certainly seems inconsistent for me
to seem to support a proposal that
was critical of that plan as one Of
the sponsors Of your, organization. !"
The Ickes letter referred to crit
icisms of the Baruch plan voiced by
Henry A. Wallace, former Secretary
of Commerce.
Mr.. Morford denied the council
had fully Endorsed" the Wallace
position and said: I'VE have not
rejected the Baruch plan and neither
have we accepted the Wallace plan.
He said the council had acceped
"in broad terms" Mr.. Wallace's
pleading for give and take on both
sides on the assumption that find
ing a way of living together in one
world is much more important than
sticking to our guns"
Mr.. Morford said Senator Salton-
stall wrote in resigning that he OBJ
jected to the councils taking posi-
tions on matters of policy" and that
Mr.. Bait declared he was "out Of
sympathy with certain Of your public
statements"
Judge Hand gave no reason for
resigning, Mr.. Morford said.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayers,
Business Stotisticion, Dies
Studies Of Loeistics
Led to Revision Of
Mony Army Policies
By the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Oct. 2o.-Brig Gen
Leonard p. Ayres, 81, internationally
known business statistician, died of
heart attack at his home today
He was a vice president of the
Cleveland Trust Co.
Gen. Ayres suffered the heart at
tack while reading his morning
newspaper. He was found by his
housekeeper.
Gen. Ayres had a rich career as
an Army and business statistical
expert. His statistical studies for
the Army In both World Wars COW
cred manpoWer, casualties and
logistics and led to revision Of many
military policies.
He was famed in Cleveland and
throughout the Nation for his an
nual business forecasts. He was to
have delivered his 26th annual fore
cast in December before the Cleve-
land Chamber of Commerce.
Gen. Ayres held official positions
in several economic, statistical and
bankers associations. He wrote
many books on schools, educational
problems, and, in later years. eco
nomicS.
Gen. Ayres was born September
Is. 1879, in Mantle, Conn, the son oil
Milan Church and deorgina (GalD
Ayers, but early was taken to Bos-
ton. AS a bicycle dealer there he
advertised wheels to match the col
ors of dresses.
After he was graduated from Bos-
ton University in 1902 he went to
Puerto Rico as a teacher. In his
five-year stay, he rose to general
superintendent Of island schools. He
returned to attend Columbia Uni
Evening star., 1946-10-29

versity Teachers College for two
years. later re-entering Boston Uni
versity and taking the degrees of
master of arts and doctor of phi
losophy in 1909 and 1910, respec-
lively.
In 1908 he became director of edu-
cation of the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, where he stayed until he be-
came Cleveland Trust Co. vice
president in 1920. During World
War I he was chief statistician OF
the American Expeditionary Forces
in France. After the war ended he
was chief statistician officer on the
American commission to negotiate
peace, and received the Distin-
guished Service Medal. He also was
one of three economic advisers sent
to Europe with the Dawes Plan
Commission in 1924.
In 1928 when his association start.
ed with o. p. and M. j. Van Swer.
ingen, Cleveland brothers who were
molding a rail network which ex.
tended $4,000 miles.
He became in May, 1880, a director
Of the Missouri Pacific and severa
subsidiaries, and in May, 1888, o1
Allegheny Corp. top holding com.
pany of the railroad empire. Afte1
the brothers died he was aligned OF
the Allegheny directorate with Rob.
ert r. Young, New York. who, ir
1887, purchased the network.
Gen. Ayers was never married.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Bradley Due 10 Rule Today
On Striking Veterans Pay

Veterans Administrator Bradley
is expected to hand down a decision
today on whether an estimated
SO, 900 veterans are eligible for back
payments Of about SIT 7,000, 900 under
the CT Bill of Rights because they
were involved in the General Mo-
tors strike last winter.
If Gen. Bradley affirms the vet
erans' claim the door will be open
for other veterans, kept out of work
by strikes, to obtain CT bill read
justment allowances. Each would
be paid $40 a week for the idle
period If Gen. Bradley decides in
their favor. There will be no appeal
If the administrator rejects the
petition.
Twenty-one veterans, headed by
United Automobile Workers Chief
Walter P. Reuther, visited Gen.
Bradley yesterday to make q per-
sonal appeal for a favorable ruling.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
ABC Board 10 Probe
Boards Cafe Interest

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board will investigate. as a result of
a suit filed in District Court yester-
day, a report that Sam Beard, local
gambler, is former part owner of
a restaurant selling liquor, a spokes-
man said today.
ABC regulations exclude any one
convicted of felony from holding
q liquor license or serving, dis
pensing or selling alcoholic bev-
erages within 10 years. Beard was
convicted in District Court in May,
1885, of gambling violations and
previously convicted on income tax
charges.
Beard, who lives in the 7400 block
Of Alaska avenue NV, and Bernard
Goldstein of the 5000 block of Third
street NV, we're among four per-
sons sued for $3,708, which the
suit said is owed for supplies pur-
chased for the Cross Town Restau-
rant, In the 310O block of Mount
Pleasant street NV. in 1914.
The plaintiff, the Stern Co. Of
Washington, D. c., Inc, 800 block
of Indiana avenue NV, said the
restaurant and retail liquor bust
ness conducted there were sold early
this year to another proprietor.
Named co-defendants in the suit
were Achilles Catsonis and Philip
Goldstein, both of the Woodward
Building, who, the suit claims, were
trustees for certain proceeds derived
from the sale of the business
The suit says the business for
rnerly was run under the name of
Bernard Goldstein, and that Mr..
Beard was part owner.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
RFC Hires Controller
As Critics Suggested
By The Associated Press

The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
whose auditing setup had been
criticized by the General Accounting
Office, yesterday announced it had
appointed a controller to supervise
its operations.
Harold w. H. Burrows, A, native
OF Toronto, Canada, has been ap-
pointed to the $12,500-a-year job,
RFC said Mr.. Burrows formerly
was Michigan State controller and
was a wartime Army accounting
officer
Appointment of the controller for
the RFC had been suggested by the
General Accounting Office in a
criticism last June 81, in which the
House Expenditures Committee sub
sequently concurred.
p. Mr.. Burrows was a consultant to
UNRRA and controller of its China
Office at Shanghai prior to the new
appointment.
The RFC said in statement he
would be an assistant to It's board
Of directors in charge of accounting,
budgeting and auditing and respon-
sible for developing such divisions
in operating methods as will con-
tribute to economy and efficiency of
operations"
The chief of the GAO.'s corpora
tion al1ditS division r Coleman
Andrews, asserted last summer that
the RFC lacked accounting control"
Of over $1,000, ,000, 900 invested in its
properties.
Jesse Jones, former RFC chair
man, countered that the criticism
was mot supported by the facts nor
justified by the circumstance" and
was an attempt to damage" the
RFC.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Grand Jury 10 Probe
Lynehing in Georgia,
Attorney General Says
BY the Asseeioied Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-Attorney
General Clark disclosed last night
that the lynching of four Negroes
near Monroe, Ga, lastaJuly rs will
be laid before a Federal grand Jury.
In addressing the New York Herald
Tribune Forum, Mr.. Clark said that
more than $500 witnesses have been
questioned in the case by the FBI
and added: =
- "Today-and I reveal it for the
hrst time-I have directed that the
entire matter be presented to q
Federal grand jury.
Thin Thread of Law.
Mr.. Clark said the Federal Gov
ernment's jurisdiction in lynching
cases depends on a thin thread of
law" He added:
II am sorry to say there is no field
Of law in which the Federal Gov
eminent is expected to do so much
with so little. The Federal statutes
give me the power to prosecute only
when a person has been deprived of
Federally-secured rights. The rights
Of life, liberty and property, the
Supreme Court of the United States
has repeatedly held, is not a Fed
erally-secured right.
Despite these legal handicaps
there have been 300 separate in
vestigations involving civil liberties
since T became your Attorney Cen
eral Is months ago. Twenty-three
cases have been prosecuted-an
average of one each three weeks.
Six cases, involving 10 defendants,
have resulted in convictions-eight
cin acquittals and nine stand ready
for trial"
Won't Be Bulldozed.
:. Mr.. Clark emphasized what he
called "the horror. that results
when mob violence takes over,
when lynch law replaces due process
and when irresponsible persons set
themselves up as the judge, the
jury, the prosecutor and the execu-
toner" -
There are those who say I should
oNfSSS A&3S&S S34AAC W 0StA14G d110 400
to legalities-unlesS there is an un-
willingness to act. Those who say
that know there is q genuine desire
to act, but shall not be bulldozed
into acting extra-legal That is the
Fascist way-the Communistic way"
Mr.. Clark said.
In Milwaukee, Gov. Ellis Arnall of
Georgia, there to address forum,
commented that tine people of
Georgia are most anxious that the
lynchers be apprehended and given
the full penalty of the law.
II am delighted that positive
action is about to- develop in the
courts. Each member of the mob
deserves the electric chair.
las Governor of the State I ex-
press appreciation to Attorney Gen.
eral Clark and the Federal author
tiles for their cooperation in the
case" he concluded.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
BY the Assoeiotsd P-sss

FRANKFURT, Oct. 2s.-An Amer
lean soldier, who was missing for
two years and then turned up as an
apparent amnesia victim now faces
q court martial on desertion
charge, Sd Army headquarters an
nounced today.
The soldier is Pvt. Gene F. Jack
son, 26, of Muncie, Ind. who OH
cially had been declared dead" q
year after his absence.
The headquarters announcement
said that on October "a board of
medical officers concluded a neuro-
psychiatric examination and de-
clared that Jackson was not now
and never was a victim of amnesia
Their findings indicated that while
at the time of desertion he might
have been suffering from an anxiety
neurosis, he completely regained all
his mental facilities after leaving
the battle area.
The announcement further as
serted that French police charged
that he was engaged in black mar
ket activities in the French zone
Evening star., 1946-10-29
GI, CIoimine 2-Yeor Amnesio,
Faces Army Desertion Trial

in collaboration with two other alb
sentee soldiers"
It added that jackson would be
held responsible for not returning
to his organization. the 80th In
fantry Division, and for all acts he
committed during his absence.
jackson, who disappeared from
his division in September, 1874,
turned up in Saarbrucken in July,
1946. He was taken to a military
hospital in Wiesbaden and has since
been placed in the Sd Army Military
Stockade in Mannheim.
When he first reached the hos
pital Jackson told an interviewer
that coming back from the dead
after two years is like a nightmare.
ut is horrible" he said, trying to
remember where have been since
life hlacked out on me way back in
September, 1914"
/ jackson said the first thing he
remembered was walking along a
railroad track in Saarbruecken on
July 8 and noticing that the name
on the dog tag" around his neck
seemed familiar. He told his story
to French police, who called the
Americans.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Senutof Thomus to Wed
Secretary in Utoh Nov. 6
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 29.-Sen-
ator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah and
Miss Ethel Evans obtained a mar
riage license yesterday. They plan
to be married in the Latter-Day
Saints CMormon) Church Temple
November 6.
Senator Thomas gave his age as
SO. His bride-to-be listed hers as A.
Miss Evans is a member Of Sena-
tor Thomas Washington Office staff
and Is serving now as his personal
secretary.
George Albert Smith, 76-year-old
president of the Mormon Church,
will perform the ceremony. Follow
ing the service friends and relatives
will be entertained at q reception at
the Hotel Utah. The couple expect
to leave November IA for Washing
ton,
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Housing Report Held
|0ffice Memorandum
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Senator Kilgore, Democrat, of
West Virginia said today that a
document which Senator Brewster,
Republican, of Maine described as
"a long suppressed" housing report
of the Senate War Investigating
Committee was in reality IAN inter-
office memorandum prepared by =
committee investigator"
Senator Kilgore, chairman of the
committee. said the document, dated
April 6. 1945, and other memoranda
on war housing prepared by an in
vestigator in 1913 and 1914 were
never considered by the members Of
the committee as material to be is
sued in committee report"
The April 8, 1s45, memorandum
was released yesterday by the Re-
publican National Committee. In an
accompanying statement, Senator
Brewster said the administration s
housing program had failed miser-
ably" Housing Administrator Will
son Wyatt retorted that much of
Senator Brewster's criticism docs
hot even make sense"
In a statement issued through the
War Investigating Committee office
here, Senator Kigore said:
These memoranda, at the time of
their preparation, were not approved
by the chief counsel of the commit
tee because the sweeping conclusions
contained therein were not suffi-
ciently documented by the evidence
obtained. Therefore, this material
was not submitted to the members
of the committee for their considera-
ton.
THE committees has never issued
a report based on material gathered
by one Of its Investigators, unless
the material was approved by the
committee counsel and submitted to
and approved by the committee
members. The memoranda in ques-
ton were not cleared through reg
ular committee channels nor has any
committee member ever requested
the full committee of the present
chairman, or his predecessors to
issued this material as a, committee
report"
Evening star., 1946-10-29
War Bride Screams
Idiot al Prosecutor
BY the Assoeieisd Press

LAS VEGAS, New. Oct. 29.-Pros-
ecGtfon of Bridget Waters. brunette
war bride charged with shooting her
husband to death, neared conclusion
today after a session marked by
hysteria on the part of the sdefend4
ant. a scream of you IDIOT" at the
district attorney and AhxtnctSxli
hetMeen State and defense Kttofueys.
The 26-year-old British subject,
accused of murder in the pistol slay-
ing last Labor Day of Frank Waters,
a bank clerk, broke into tears during
testimony of a private detective who
said she hired him to spy on her
husband and Mrs. Robinson, not
further Identified.
H. G. Mcclure, the detective,
testified:
She said she wanted a report
any time we saw him with another
woman and that if we found them
at Boulder Dam we could push him
off the dam
Il told her we were not Murder,
Inc, although our firm once was
offered 81 500 to do away with Gene
Ward Gas Vegas famed marrying
justice)."
He said she retorted: We'll, I'd do
1t for a thousand"
At one point in his testimony, Dis
trict Attorney v. Gray Gubler asked:
Nov what else did she say?"
What else would you like him
to say, you IDIOT" the defendant
screamed, jumping to her feet.
Then she broke into sobs, and Judge
A. S. Henderson declared a recess
while she composed herself.
Another witness was Edward C.
Cupit, a district attorneys inves-
tigator, who described the tiny %
caliber revolver with which the
State says Mr.. Waters was killed as
he played on the floor with their
1S-month- son, Frank, jr.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Clark 10 Rule Whether
Auto or Housing Firm
| Gets Old War Plant
BY iheeAssoeioied Press

A table-thumping dispute between
two Government agencies over
whether a $l70s47,ooo war plant
should be put to work turning out
homes or cars landed in Attorney
General Clark's lap today.
At stake is whether the huge
Dodge -Chrysler Corp. plant at Chi
cago, one of the largest built during
the war. will go to the Tucker Corp
for production Of new-type auto
mobile, or to the Lustron Corp. for
the manufacture of prefabricated
housing.
The National Housing Admins
tration yesterday invoked its own
war powers as well as the Veterans
Emergency Housing Act to direct
that the plant be leased or sold to
Lustron. The War Assets Admins
tration, which previously had re-
jected less formal demands from
MIA on the ground that a lease
had already been made with the
Tucker Corp, checked the matter
up to the Justice Department.
"The directive" WAA said, will
be submitted to the Attorney Gen.
eral for an opinion on the legality
Of the order" At the same time
WAA reiterated that it considers
itself legally obligated to stand by
its September 18 lease with Tucker
Preston Tucker, president of thu
Tucker Corp, expressed a similal
view. He added that he would de.
eide on a course of legal action
after consulting his lawyers.
THE plant leased to us which The
MIA now is trying to award Il
somebody else is in no way suitee
for prefabrication of houses" Mr.
fuckers statement continued. lou
engineers estimate that new firm
coming into the plant at this tim,
could not start producing prefabri
Gated houses before the end of II
months or two years"
MIA, on the other hand, declared
in its formal order that the plan
was not only particularly suited TO
housing production but was needet
among other reasons because of de-
fense requirements. The agenc,
elaborated on this by saying tha
defense includes meeting the exist.
ing housing emergency which is vita
for an orderly transition from wal
to peace"
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Two Held for Grand Jury
In Deaths of Two Men

Mrs. Helen johnson, 2s, colored
l271 First street Sc, was ordered
held for the grand jury at a coroner's
inquest yesterday in connection with
the fatal stabbing Saturday night
Of her husband, Edward A. johnson,
at their home.
Also held for the grand jury was
Hewlin White, "a. colored, of 1904
Belmont street NV. The action
was taken in connection with the
death of James E. Carter, 80, or 1888
Sixth street NV, who was shot
through the abdomen Saturday
night and died the following day at
Freedmen's Hospital.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Great Britain 10 Give
Views at Farley Today
On World Food Board
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.


The United Kingdom was to
make known its position on the
proposed World Food Board this
afternoon as delegates from II
countries entered their second
day of a conference at the Agri-
culture Department.
This country went on record yes
terday as doubling that the board
which would set up an ever normal
granary" to stabilize farm prices
and equalize supplies, could do the
job.
The United States stand came as
a disappointment to many delegates
as well as to the author of the pro-
posal, Sir John Boyd Orr, director
general of the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization.
Critized by Farmer Union.
The position of this country was
sharply critized by the National
Farmers Union. Russell Smith, leg
islative secretary Of the farm group,
declared:
"The statement of the American
position on world food plan "a
cannot but disappoint those who
took part in the second regular FAC
conference at Copenhagen last
month.
ITO my mind, this statement, If 1t
prevails, not only means abandon
ment, for all practical purposes, Of
the objectives, as well as the ma
chinery of the Orr proposals. but it
also means that we have learned
absolutely nothing from the expert
ence Of the 1920s and 1906"
Dodd Suggests Agreements.
Undersecretary of Agriculture N.
E. Dodd outlined the United States
position and suggested that a sys-
TEN of international commodity
agreements, involving importing as
well as exporting countries, would
offer a better method Of achieving
the goals of the Orr plan.
Mr.. Dodd believes the Interna-
tional Trade Organization now
meeting In England Is the place to
work out agreements.
Informed sources maintain that
the Agriculture Department had
supported the Orr plan, but that the
State Department, because Of insist
ence of placing the emphasis on
ITO, had won out.
Thus with the United States cool
to the plan and two other major
agricultural nations, Russia and
Argentina, spurning invitations to
attend the conference, chances were
believed slim for an international
agreement.