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Evening star., 1947-03-29
DC. Brokerage House
AbsoIved by SEC

The Securities and Exchange
Commission has set aside disciple
nary action taken by the National
Association of Securities Dealers
Inc, against the Washington Office
of Herrick Waddell &, Co., Inc, in
vestment brokers.
The SEC remanded the case tc
the association yesterday. declaring
the findings were not supported by
the evidence.
The lorg-pending case arose from
finding by the associations Dis
trict Business Conduct Committee
here that the firms local branch
had violated association rules OF
fair practice. Specifically. it had
been alleged the investment house
| charged excessive markups in GER
tain transactions during 1945.
Earlier, the firms New York Of
flee had been cleared by an associ-
alton committee there which had
investigated similar allegations.
| The Washington case reached the
SEC through an appeal by the firm
In its decision, the commission
disagreed with the association
view that disclosures to customers
of the amount of markup was "im-
material The company had claimed
to have pioneered the practice OF
providing such information on each
transaction.
THE fact that the member has
disclosed the amount of his markup
to the customer is not only material
but is of considerable Importance, ;
the SEC commented in its decision
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lived at 5000 Northampton street
NV. ~
Entering the Marine Corps as an
enlisted man in 1895, he served
aboard the U. S. S. Oregon during
the battle of Santiago and at Guam
tanamo Bay in the Spanish-Ameri-
can War. He was commissioned a
second lieutenant in 1900 and served
IN the Philippine Insurrection at
Ramon and Santa Tomas on Luzon,
Landed in Panama.
In 1903 he landed with a Marine
battalion on the Isthmus of Panama
and later served on the Isthmia n
Canal Commission. He also par
tlclpated in the capture of Leon,
Nicaragua, in 1919; Vera Cruz in
1914 and the landing and occupa-
ton of the Dominican Republic in
1916. -
Col. Ramsey later served in the
Guardla Nacional of the Dominican
Republic. then under jurisdiction
OF the Marine Corps, and in 1927
ne became assistant commandant of
the Guarde de Hate with the rank
OF brigadier general in the Haitian
Army while q lieutenant colonel in
the Marines.
He was awarded medals for the
Philippine Insurrection, First Mica
raguan Campaign, Mexican Service,
Dominican Campaign and the Ma
rine Corps Expeditionary. He also
received the Spanish American
! Navy and Marine Corps Medals, and
the Haitian Distinguished Service
and World War I medals.
Son Stationed Here.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Chaplin Ramsey; a son, 1t.
Col. Frederick A. Ramsey, jr.. u. S.
M. c., stationed here at the Navy
Department.; two daughters, Mrs.
Nancy Willard Schaffert of Wash
lngton, and Mrs. Billie r. Ramsey
of Portland, Greg, and two sisters.
Mrs. Mary Grove and Miss Mar
garet Ramsey, both of Dos Palos.
Calf.
Funeral services will be at Fort
Myer Chapel at l pm. Monday.
The Rev. Charles w. Lowry, pastor
OF All Saints Episcopal Church, will
offlciate. Burial, with full military
honors, will be in Arlington Gene
tery.
Evening star., 1947-03-29
Durant Court-MartiaI
Recessed 10 Monday

The court-martial of Col. Jack w
Durant In connection with the Hesse
jewel theft was in recess until Mon
day, after the defense yesterday put
on a series of character witnesses
headed by Maj. Gen. William E. Hall
of the Army Air Forces.
Most of the testimony yesterday
as the defense opened its case was
devoted to the reputation which the
38-year-old former Interior Depart
ment attorney enjoyed among his
associates for truth, honesty and
integrity"
Col. Charles Maylon, with whom
Col Durant served in Washington
before he was transferred to Ger
many, declared Col. Durant's repu-
tation for integrity was such he was
entrusted by his superiors with high
ly classified papers, including the
new field assignments of ranking
AAF officers.
It was Col. Maylon's name, anoth-
er witness had testified, which Col
Durant signed to his request for sep
aration when he returned from Ger
many last spring. Col. Durant, how
ever, had put his own initials after
the signature and the paper was
signed further by another colonel
at AAF headquarters.
Other character witnesses includ-
ed Col. Charles I. Carpenter, chap
lain attached to AAF headquarters;
Lewis J. Grayson. of 1000 Cathedral
avenue NV, who was associated
with Col. Durant in writing insur-
ance for aviation cadets, and WAC
Capt. Doris Sharon, who had
known the defendant in Washing
ton and later in Germany.
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Sullivan Sees Issue
In '48 Over Tax Cut
BY the Associated Press

Gael Sullivan, executive director
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, said last night the income
tax cut voted by the Republicans
will provide us with a good cam
paign issue" in 1948.
Expressing the hope that Presi-
dent Truman will be the Democratic
presidential candidate, Mr.. Sullivan
participating in Mutual Broad
casting System program, said the
National Committee did not intend
to ask the help in the next cam
paign of former Vice President
Henry A. Wallace or Senator Pep
per, of Florida, because their views
are divergent to the Presidents.
Mr.. Wallace and Senator Pepper
have differed with Mr.. Truman
especially over the question of aid
to Greece and Turkey.
Regarding the Republican-spon-
sored tax bill passed by the House
he said:
THE small fellow gets practically
nothing while the millionaire gets
about $4,000. We think the income
tax cut voted by the Republicans
was and is mistake and we intend
to tell the American people about it,
Evening star., 1947-03-29
.Conferees Approve
Extended Sugar Curbs
BY The Associated Press

A bill extending sugar price and
rationing controls to next october
81 and guaranteeing each home user
three pounds a month will 60 be-
fore the House and Senate Monday
The bill, worked out by conferees
who adjusted differences between
House and Senate versions, trans
fers the sugar controls from the
OPA to the Secretary of Agriculture
1t permits an increase in the home
use ration up to a rate of so pounds
a year, or little more than four
pounds month, If supplies warrant
Sugar controls will expire at mid
night Monday under present law
but congressional leaders expect to
rush the extension bill through for
President Truman's signature be-
fore the deadlihe. Neither chamber
met today.
Another conference committee
agreed late yesterday to continue for
80 days wartime controls, also ex-
piring Monday, over cinchona bark
and alkaloids. streptomycin, anti
mony, tin, cordage fibers and build
ing materials, export of food and
ALLEGATION of freight cars.
This bill likewise will require ap-
proval of both chambers.
Evening star., 1947-03-29
GU. Mind Reader
| Proves Prowess
In Demonstration

Robert L. Friend, 81, senior at
Georgetown University, says he is a
mind reader-and last night he went
into his act before an audience of
students and professors to prove it.
He started off by having members
of the audience write questions and
their names on slips of paper. Mr..
Friend then told them what they
had written.
He climaxed the performance by
having four students, picked at
random, write our-digit numbers on
blackboard. The numbers totaled
23,706.
| He then threw to the audience a
copy of a newspaper and in the
classified ads was found the fol-
lowing:
Il predict that on March %, 1s47,
at Georgetown University, four
people will choose q four digit
number, the sum of which will be
,706. Rbt. L. Friend"
Mr.. Friend said he has been doing
stunts like that since he was 10
years old. During the war he toured
with the USO.
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the public relations ceiling. 1t
charges. however, there are abuses
insthe agency's system of paying fees
to private doctors for treating vet
Grams and orders closer supervision
of the program.
Fears Loss of Doctors.
DR.. Robert Cook. acting medical
director OF the agency, said he knows
OF no abuses in the program and
pointed out that a closer check by
VA would cali for increased person.
mel.
Dr.. Cook declared the medical di-
vision is faced already with drastic
personnel shortages. He warned
that, if pressure for. too much econ
omy is brought on the medical di-
vision. it is in danger of losing some
Of its best personnel.
I'VE attracted good doctors to the
division by promising them liberal
actions and high professional stand
arcs in order to improve treatment" !"
he declared. IF we aren't able to
keep those standards up, we can't
hope to hold our best men,
Evening star., 1947-03-29
Deficiency Bill Gets
Presidents S Approval

House and District government
employees were assured their regular
paydays when President Truman to-
day signed a $243,255, ,e07 deficiency
bill.
The Senate needed less than a
minute to approve the measure yes
terday and send 1t to the White
House for the Presidents signature.
House employees will get their
checks on time on Monday, it
was announced today by John An
drews, chief clerk of the House.
Earlier. Mr. Andrews had expressed
the view that even If the President
did sign the bill by today, House
employees would have to wait until
the middle of next week to get paid.
The measure also carries $4,226, 300
to pay District employees the addi-
tional amounts in their salaries re-
sulting from last years Federal Pay
Act.
The largest item in the measure,
$176, GAP 400, went to the Post Office
Department for salary purposes.
Yesterday the House Appropriations
Committee reported a $2,471 ,4e8, ,548
deficiency appropriation for salary
purposes to most of the other Fed
eral agencies.
Evening star., 1947-03-29
Young Asks Why High Bid
Got Wafer Purifier Work

Engineer Commissioner Gordon r
Young has asked his water division
superintendent, David w. Auld, for
a report on why contract to buy
the city some new chlorination
equipment has gone to the high
rather than the low bidder.
The contract was awarded March
20 to the Wallace & Tiernan Co. OF
Belleville, N. j., who offered to
furnish and install the equipment
at Anacostia Pumping Station for
s1o,247.
The other bidder, G. A. Cunney
jr., 2233 Observatory place NV.
offered to do the same job for $7,70O
but was turned down.
Mr.. Auld said his report to Gen
Young would be ready next week
Until it is ready, he said, the reasons
why the high bidder was chosen will
not be made public.
Evening star., 1947-03-29
{. U. Professor Denounces
Planned Parenthood Unit
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 2e.-The Very
Rev. Francis j. Connell, professor
of moral theology at Catholic Uni
versity of America, has called on
loyal Americans to check the dis
astrous movement of the Planned
Parenthood Federation"
The federation,s birth control
program was denounced by three
Catholic speakers at a forum at
tended by 1000 here.
DR.. Thomas K. Calvin, gynecology
professor at the University of Mary
land, spoke "as a physician and a
Catholic
I'm avoiding pregnancy or in lin
iting offspring DR.. Calvin said,
moral law should be observed q"
"It is quite possible 30 or 40 years
hence all doctors will oppose con-
traception," Father Connell said.
Evening star., 1947-03-29
British War Wife Aids
In Capture Of Suspect

An English war wife was to ap-
pear in Municipal Court today as a
witness against an alleged thief she
aided in capturing late yesterday,
according to police.
The woman was Mrs. Nannette S.
Evry. 20, of 1916 Sixth street S.W.,
who was riding in a cab, said she
saw the suspect take a money sack
from the seat of an unattended
newspaper delivery truck at Elev-
enth street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV. about pm. The man then
walked up Eleventh street, she said.
Telling the taxi driver of the
incident, Mrs. Evry had the cab fol-
low the suspect. At Tenth and F
streets NV. the suspect got into
another cab, but was questioned by
Mrs. Evry and the driver of the
cab in which she was riding when
the other cab stopped for a red
light, she said. Dropping the
money, the suspect started to run,
according to her story.
At this point, two police in a scout
car happened by ana caught the
man who was taken to No. pre-
cinct. He was booked as William
Hale, jr., %, colored, of the 1000
block OF Montello avenue NE. He
later was charged with grand
larceny.
Driver of the delivery truck, Cor
nelius McBrearty of West Falls
Church, told police about s57 was
in the money bag when he left it
parked. Only $40 was recovered
after the scramble that preceded
Hale's arrest.
A native of London, Mrs. Evry
has been in Washington year.
Her husband, Allen Evry, is study
ing here under the CT Bill of Rights.
They have daughter, Lynda, Is
months.
Evening star., 1947-03-29
|UAW Leaders Dispute
Sigler' Charges That
Reds Control Unions
by the Asseeioied Press

DETROIT, Mar. 2s.-Top leaders
OF the CIO United Auto Workers
took sharp issue today with Michi-
gan Gov. Kim Sigler's testimony
that the Communist Party has
gained absolute control of certain
unions"
Gov. Sigler's remarks yesterday
before the House Committee on Un-
American Activities were described
by UAW President Walter P. Reuth-
er as part of the current all-out
drive which organized reaction has
launched against labor and liberal
forces in this country"
Vice President R. j. Thomas ano
Secretary Treasurer George F.. Ad-
des, two of the three UAW high Of.
hcials who Gov. Sigler testified
were "captives of the Communist
Party in the United States" hao
quick denials to the charges.
Falsehood Charged.
Mr.. Adde's, who said he spoke for
both, called the Republican Cover.
nor's statement "fa1sehood" which
apparently was obtained from "poi.
soned sources" There was no per.
sonal comment from Richard c
Leonard, UAW vice president anc
the third member of the trio at.
tackled by Gov. Sigler.
Mr.. Reuther. known in the UAW
as opposed to Communist influence
within his union, criticized the Gov.
ernor's remarks and said he woult
fight Republican Party interfer.
ence in our internal affairs"
THE CIO opposes Communist in.
reference in our union, and I stanc
four square for that policy" tht
UAW chief declared
But handling of that problem /.
an internal union concern and W.
are just as vigorously opposed tt
Republican Party influence in oul
internal affairs"
Then Mr.. Reuther added that Gov
Sigler performed a valuable serv-
Ice for communism by allowing
members of the party to hide be.
hind genuinely liberal and progress
sive forces"
Governor Replies.
His statement drew an apparently
resentful retort from the Governor
who returned here last night.
Mr.. Reuther is missing his great
opportunity to be a leader in this
matter asserted Gov. Sigler. "This
is not purely union matter, be-
cause 1t affects too many people
Another statement of opposition
to the chief executives testimony
came from the UAW Ford council
which Mr.. Leonard heads.
The council charged in a resolu.
ton that Gov. Sigler's testimony
threatened mot only labor but the
democratic way of life of all Mich.
igan citizens, and added:
I'VE resent and reject the attempt
by Gov. Sigler to substitute a State
controlled labor front for the free
and democratic labor unions now
established by the workers of thi.
State"
Mr.. Adde's made his statement ir
a radio address.
There was no comment from State
Senator Stanley Novak, whom Gov
Sigler described as a Communist
worker and sympathizer."
Evening star., 1947-03-29

committees are scattered far and
wide, in Washington and throughout
the country, and have no semblance
Of systematic or responsible organi-
cation. All governmental labor ac-
tivities must be placed under the di-
rect authority and responsibility of
the Secretary of Labor"
So, What Happens?
So, what happens when the Re-
publicans arrive in Washington to
undertake this task? First the
United States Employment Service
is given back to the States" removed
entirely. from "the direct authority
and responsibility Of the Secretary of
Labor" The Federal Government
continues to foot the bill, but the
officials and employees of the service
become State officials and employees,
which is to say, State patronage. For
this purpose the House this week
cheerfully appropriated the full sum
Of S71,728,000 named by the Presi-
dent as necessary to carry on the
service.
For all the purposes of the Labor
Department itself, the President
asked a total of 80 million dollars.
The House Republicans reduced this
by IA millions. "The Department of
Labor has been emasculated by the
New Deal" said the Republican plat
form.
AS part of the process of showing
what real emasculators can do the
House has voted virtually to wreck
the departments Cancellation Serv-
ice. The excuses given were two.
First, the chairman of the Appro-
priation Committees Subcommittee
on the Labor Department doesn't
like Edgar Warren, the present di-
rector OF the Cancellation Service;
calls him Communist or a Com
munist at heart. Second, a number
OF the field men having been scat
tered far and wide" to use the Ian
guage Of the Republican platform,
Mr.. Warren had brought them into
Washington. Apparently he was
trying TO provide 'semblance of
systematic and responsible organ
ization," as demanded by that same
platform. The House objected to
this. 1t doesn't seem to make sense,
but the $500,000 that would have
gone to pay Mr.. Warren and his
most important subordinates was
disallowed.
You may think that what this
country needs today, so far as labor
and management are concerned, is
conciliation and more conciliat ton.
The Labor Department has taken
great pride in the thousands of dis
putes settled by Cancellation before
they became serious labor troubles.
But there was another promise in
the Republican platform. 1t read:
Such labor bureaus as are not per-
forming a substantial and definite
service in the interest of labor must
be abolished" And there goes the
Cancellation Service!
The same kind of thinking was
given to other parts of the Labor
Department. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics. which provides the only
authoritative line on the cost of liv-
Ing. had it's funds cut by so per
Evening star., 1947-03-29

cent. The Wage and Hour Division,
which seeks to enforce the Accent
an-hour minimum wage, was cut 25
per cent. The Division of Labor
Standards, which, among other
things, has handled the Govern
ment's industrial safety educational
work, is abolished.
In short, the Labor Department
has been shot full of holes. The
Senate committee, headed by Sena-
tor Taft, has been given a complete
reconstruction job to do.
Evening star., 1947-03-29

EecCeQ1y q ] e @
yesterday in the
Bethesda Naval
Center.
Col. Ramsey,
a native of Ore
gon, was COM
manding officer
of the Marine
Barracks at the
Navy Yard here
for two years
before retiring
after 36 years of
a C tt We dut y
Since retirement
n e m a d e hi S
Lo l
Evening star., 1947-03-29
Col. IA. Ramsey, ST.,
Veteran Of Marine
Campaign, Dies al II

Col. Frederick Augustus Ramsey
sr., u, U. S. M. c., retired, veteran
of many Central American expedi-
tions of the Marine Corps, unex-
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Department and
put it in charge
of a. true" rep
reSentative of
organized labor
In this stern ad-
vocacy Of labor's
rights, he was
backed by the
Republican plat
form.
"The Depart
ment Of Labor |"
said the plat
form, "has beer
emasculated. La.
bor bureaus
agencies anc
Evening star., 1947-03-29
LoweHMellett
On the Other Hand
Big Reconstruction Job Handed
To Taft bv House Republicans
Lowell MelIett

One of the Governments biggest problems labor problem
Judged by the public camor the biggest problem Yet
est of all Government departments is the Labor Department
And beginning the next fiscal year it will be e STILL A
cent ter unless the Republican restores
and functions just eliminated by the House
The Republican candidate for President in had
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harsh words TO say concerning the
failure of the Government to do
right by labor. He proposed, when
elected, to strenethen the Labor
Evening star., 1947-01-03
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