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Evening star., 1947-05-29
Capt. Edie Discussed
Bequests 10 Church,
His Attorney Testifies

Sometime before the late Capt.
John Rufus Edie made his will, the
retired Navy officer discussed with
George E. Hamilton, jr., his attorney,
a desire to leave property to st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Mr.. HAM
ilton testified on cross-examination
today in District Court.
Capt. Edie's will is being contested
by his two nephews, John c. O'Don-
nell of New York and Charles C.
ODonnell, North Bend, Oreg., and a
niece, Mrs. Aileen O,Donnell Bal
tazzi, 1905 @ street NV.
st. Johns Church at Sixteenth
and H streets NV. was left the bulk
of Capt. Edie's estate, which included
$258, 900 in personnel property in ad-
dition to Capt. Edie's house at 1928
Sixteenth street NV.
Hamilton Is Called.
Mr.. Hamilton was the first witness
called to the stand by Attorney
Spencer Gordon, representing the
church, which is seeking to have
the will upheld.
Mr.. Hamilton was cross-examined
by Attorney j. Edward Burroughs,
jr., representing Capt. Edies
nephews and niece.
After Mr.. Hamilton left the stand
Clinton Allen, q radio repairman,
was called, and also testified that
Capt. Edie told him he wanted to
leave property to the church.
Believes Edie Was Sane.
During his testimony yesterday
Mr.. Hamilton expressed the belief
that Capt. Edie was sane. He tes-
titled Capt. Edie, in remembering
two employees, did so because they
had been faithful to him. They are
Mrs. Bertha Schwarz, his house
keeper, to whom he left $4,000 and
a number of pet cats, and Miss
Julia Schwagz, nurse for the cap
tain's late wife. Mr.. Schwarz is a
niece Of Mrs. Schwarz.
MIR. Hamilton told the jury Capt.
Edie himself had written on type
writer complete instructions for the
will.
The case is being heard before a
Jury. with Justice Jennings Bailey
presiding.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Steel

two executives testified Is inpuirins
particularly into the difficulties
smaller firms are having In getting
steel.
The so-called gray market" Is
dealing in steel at prices above
the mill rate and usual brokerage
or resale prices.
Mr.. Hillstrom said his company
paid $206,000 more than the mill
price for the steel it bought last
year and this year up to date.
He said he had been cheated out
of $4,000" in advances paid to
brokers who delivered no steel or
unusable steel and ''have taken
refuge in bankruptcy"
In testimony late yesterday, James
Boyle, exporter, denied he drew
a gun on Mr.. Kerschbaumer in an
effort to get him to give up 248,ooo
tons of Gray Market" steel.
He vehemently told the subcom-
mittee that Mr.. Kerschbaumer, who
made the charge, lis as guilty of the
gray market in steel as the men he
accuses Of being guilty"
A stocky, mustached man and self
styled former Hollywood script
writer, Mr.. Boyle said he did not
even see Mr.. Kerschbaumer, last
February at the time the Pittsburgh
man testified guns were produced
during conference in a New York
hotel.
Gives Version Of Incident.
Mr.. Boyle. giving his version of
the alleged gun incident, said that
he and two companions, Robert
Wyder and Paul Sponberg, went
to Mr.. Kerschbaumer's suite at the
Hampshire House in New York. He
said one companion, whom he did
not identify, had a gun but did not
produce 1t.
He continued that Mr.. Wyder
went in to see Mr.. Kerschbaumer
and that the latter had promised
delivery of an order of about 25O,-
900 tons of steel.
L. c. Durham, who was In the
hotel rooms at the time, told the
committee he searched Mr.. Wyder
but did not find a gun. However, he
said, that when Mr.. Wyder came
out of an inner room after seeing
Mr.. Kerschbaumer, he showed a
gun "and made remark that can't
be put in the record"
Mr., Durham described it as a
.32-caliber automatic with, pearl
handle. He said he was given the
impression that Mr.. Boyle and Mr..
Sponberg also had guns.
Mr.. Boyle told the subcommit-
tee he saw Mr.. Kerschbaumer a
few days later for "the first, last
and only time" He said Mr..
Kerschbaumer then asked him for
100000 in advance for the steel,
saying "the deals off If I don't
get It," Mr.. Boyle said he con-
tacted his clients and they de-
c1ined to put up the money in ad-
vance, on his advice.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Hungary
Continued From First Page.)

dominated by the Communists, al
though the Smallholders Party still
has majority of the National AS
sembly.
Held in Custody by Russia.
AL local newspapers published a
communique from Russian 1t
Gen. v. P. Sviridov saying Soviet
authorities had questioned Mr.. Ko-
vacs and had decided not to release
him to the Hungarians, as promised
but to keep him in custody and sup
ply the government with his deposi-
ton.
A recent American note charged
Mr.. Kovacs was arrested by the
Russians only after the Communist
Party had failed by other means to
remove him from public life.
Mr.. Nagy's private secretary, DR..
Ferenc Capocs, was arrested last
night by the Communist controlled
political police, and his apartment
was searched, political sources said.
An emergency cabinet meeting was
held last night and Mr.. Macy was
reached by telephone in SwitZer-
land. 1t was reported that he was
unsure whether he was considered
retired from office Immediately. He
was said to have told Acting Premier
Rakosi that he might or might not
return to Hungary tomorrow.
Seen Stalling for Time.
Mr.. Nagy's visit to Switzerland,
although announced as a vacation,
was looked on by some sources as a
means of stalling for time. One in
formant has said Mr.. Nagy's aim in
this was to hold off the Communists
until the Hungarian peace treaty
was ratified and the bulk of the
Soviet occupation army, most pow
erful support of the Communists,
had left the country.
Mr.. Gyongyosi's foreign policy
under Mr. Macy, moderate and pro-
western, has been under heavy at
tack from the Communists and So
cial Democrats.
The United States has charged
that the Russians were attempting
to. overthrow a duly elected Hungar-
ian government and set up a die
tatorship. The American note pro-
tested the arrest of Mr.. Kovacs as
unwarranted, but the protest was re-
jected by Gen. Sviridov, who said
last week that Mr.. Kovacs fully
acknowledged his guilt in crimes
committed against the Soviet Army"
A man who described himself as
the best friend Of Mr.. Macy said he
would advise the Premier Ito stay
out of Hungary until he receives
another message"
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Retirement Demands
Stressed by JAW in
Rejecting Ford Offer
BY the Associaisd Press

DETROIT, May 29.-The CIO
United Auto Workers demand
for an old age retirement plan
from the Ford Motor Co. today
was the major barrier to a
peaceful settlement of a contract
dispute between company and
union.
The UAW rejected yesterday a
company wage offer calling for an
liz cent hourly boost and six paid
holidays-the pay increase pattern
set in recent acceptances by union
employees Of General Motors Corp.
and Chrysler Corp.
In turning down the offer, Rich
ard T. Leonard, UAW vice president
and Ford department director, in
dicated 1t might have been accepted
had it contained the retirement
plan, held out by the union as a
major demand in contract negotia-
.tions.
Statement Is Issued.
THE issues between the COM
pany and the union involve more
than just a wage increase" Mr..
Leonard and Thomas Thompson,
head of the Union Negotiating
Committee, declared in a joint
statement.
Equally important factors are
the human needs of the workers in
volving old-age retirement and So
cial security benefits"
The union, which threatened a
strike vote earlier this week when
it said negotiations were not pro-
crossing satisfactorily, will resume
discussions with Ford representa-
tives Monday.
Originally the UAW-CIO de-
manded boost of 1914 cents hourly
along with the retirement program.
10000 Affected.
The Ford offer, which Vice Presi-
dent John S. Bugas said would af-
feet 10000 production workers, ex-
cluded temporarily at least $500
members of the Foreman's Associa-
ton of America, currently on strike.
In making the proposal to union
Lied workers, the company also an
nounced it was putting into effect
June 10 per cent wage increase
for salaried employees.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Council Files Petitions
|AskingRe Referendum on
Maryland Sales Tax
BY the A,,oe;o,.d p,..,

ANNAPOLIS, May 2s.-Attorney
Samuel j. Fisher, representing the
Maryland Economic Council, todav
filed with the Secretary of State
petitions asking q referendum on
Maryland's new 2 per cent sales tax.
The petitions bore nearly l7,Ooo
notarized signatures OF Maryland
voters, Mr.. Fisher said, with s,6o4 of
them from Baltimore and S,S92 from
the counties.
Secretary Of State John B. Funk
said his staff would require several
days to count the petitions and
verify whether they comply with the
contitutional provision requiring
5000 signatures to initiate popular
vote on acts Of the General As
sembly.
May Seek Mandamus Writ.
He then will ask Attorney General
Hall Hammond for a formal ruling
on whether the secretary Of State
should accept the petitions and cer-
tify them.
Last Tuesday Mr.. Hammond gave
Gov. Lane an opinion that the Rates
Tax Act was not subject to ref
endum. Mr.. Hammond alreadv has
indicated he would rule against the
action.
MIR. Fisher said in that event he
would go into Anne Arundel County
Court here and seek writ Of man.
damus requiring that the question
be put on the ballot In the 1948
elections.
<Mr. Hammond said the State
would begin collecting the tax July
l and Mr.. Fisher agreed that seeking
a writ of mandamus would not stop
the levy from going into effect.
Businessmen Make Up Unit.
The economic council, a recently
organized group Of chambers Of
commerce and business associations,
is headed by Robert I. Black of
Norbeck.
In his opinion earlier In the week
that the sales tax is not subject to
referendum, the Attorney General
contended it provides for maintains
ing the Government" and that such
acts are exempt from referendum
by the constitution.
OF this ruling, Mr.. Black said:
"At first there was a feeling that
the Attorney Generals was the last
word In the matter and the ref
erendum has been killed by Mr..
Hammond's report to the Governor.
But it was quickly evident that
the Hammond ruling was merely
the first round in the fight. The
second round is now coming up"
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Army
Continued From First Page.)

mately s2,645, 900, according to Rep
resentative Engel, Republican, OF
Michigan, chairman of the subcom-
mittee which prepared the bill.
Flying pay: Cut $500, 900 with
the comment that the Army has
been too liberal" In giving this
bonus money" to officers. The COM
mittee did not say how much had
been asked for flying pay and, be-
yond an observation that too many
officers, not entitled to it are draw
ing the 80 per cent premium, issued
no fiat order.
National Guard and Reserve COM
ponents: Full budget estimates of
$110, 600, 900 for National Guard,
$50, ,000, 900 for the Organized Re-
serves and $24,840 900 for the Reserve
Officers Training Corps approved ex-
cept for a cut of sl,024, ,184 in civilian
personnel for the Organized Re-
serves. Testimony given the COM
mittee disclosed plans for a National
Guard strength of 270,000 during
1948, an Organized Reserve of ap-
proximately 4800 officers and $780,
200 enlisted men, and 10000 ROTC
students.
Hospital Merger Urged.
Clothing and equipage: Cut from
$163, ,280, 900 to $153, 1884 1886.
Transportation service: Reduced
from $500 100000. to $347,577,227.
Signal service: Trimmed from
500, ,000, 900 to $79,128,895.
Medical and hospital department:
Cut from $75,oo0,0o to $69, ,153, ,267,
with a recommendation that Army
and Navy hospitals be merged and
consolidated.
Engineer service: Reduced from
1886, ,000, 900 to $299, ,214,506.
Ordnance service and supplies:
Cut from $275, ,O00, 900 to $244, ,381 It'll.
Air Forces: Reduced from $780,
100000 to 1882 ,508. with the full
budget request for $280,000, 900 in
contract authority approved. The
committee said the Army will have
an inventory of 3o,566 usable air.
craft, 6o,350 spare engines. parts,
radar and other equipment.
Since February II the committee
has been studying the War Depart
ment's budget requests and during
that time heard hundreds of wit
nesses whose testimony when print
ed filled more than 1900 pages.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Labor
Continued From First Page J

from scraps between unions as tt
which should do given work.
S. A provision creating a new
Federal mediation agency, indie.
pendent of the Labor Department
6. Health and welfare funds sci
up since January /, 1916, and ad.
ministered solely by unions, are
outlawed. The House bill wsulo
have banned virtually all union gel
fare funds.
The compromise version does moi
affect the fund set up by John L
Lewis United Mine Workers since
| it is jointly administered by the
union and the Government. How
ever, the Government will turn the
soft coal mines back to private
operators July /, and the fund, II
continued, would have to be Ander
n-operator control to qualify.
Z. Parties to a collective bargain
Ing contract must serve notice &C
days in advance of expiration of the
pact If they wish to change its
terms. The House conferees threw
out their provision which would
have prohibited strikes over collec-
tive bargaining issues, except in
cases where workers voted to strike
The House group also scrapped a
section which prohibited strikes over
the union shop.
8. 1t would be an unfair labor
practice for unions to keep nom
striking workers from their jobs by
mass picketing or through violence
in picketing. The NLRB could get
a court order against such prac-
tices. The House gave up its Sec
ton would have permitted private
employers to seek injunctions.
8. Unions are prohibited from
charging dues and initiation fees
which the NLRB judges to be "ex-
cessiye or discriminatory" The
House provision would have fixed a
$25 ceiling.
10. Another House section ac-
cepted by the Senate, with modifi-
cations. bars unions from forcing an
employer to pay wages to men who
do not work on job but who are
kept, at the unions insistence, on a
standby, basis.
Curb on Communists,
II. A union would be denied COL
lective bargaining rights If any Of
its officers could reasonably be re-
garded" as a Communist or q SYM
pathizer. The bill requires officers
to file affidavits giving their status
as to Communist membership. If
they filed false statements, they
could be prosecuted for misrepre-
sentation.
II. Unions are made liable for un-
fair labor practices, as employers are
now. They also could be sued for
breach of contract and for damages
resulting from jurisdictional strikes
and secondary boycotts.
Is. The Senate conferees agreed
TO accept House provisions which ID
outlaw strikes by Government en-
pioyes. and (2l prohibit union ex-
penditures or contributions for ma
tional elections and primaries.
IA. Employers are relieved of any
onisation to bargain collectively
with foremen. They would have to
bargain with plant guards If they
oeiong 70 an independent union, but
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Coal
Continued From First Page =,

-
silent on leaving. The operators
would not talk either and they an
.peared under tension.
All sides appeared anxious to
make an industry contract to re-
place Federation operation of the
mines. The Government must re-
lease the pits by July /. If new
contract has not been drafted bv
that time a strike will be likely to
follow.
Denny Lewis Heads District 50.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
Mr.. Lewis has handed over the
functions and authority" of the
presidency Of the UNIV District 5n
to his brother, A. D. Denny Lewis
District SO. catch-al union. was
formed in 1896 to organize workers
In all branches of industry, whether
connected with coal or not.
The UNIV president signed an
order authoriHns the change On
Evening star., 1947-05-29
$89,723,623 Surplus
Reported by Virginia
Rx tha Assacintsd pr...

RICHMOND, Va, May 2s.-The
State of Virginia spent 1921 All so:
for all purposes from July through
April, but wound up the 10-month
period of the fiscal year with a sur
plus of $8s, ,723,6 ,623, State Controller
Henry G. Gilmer reported to the
director Of the budget yesterday.
The surplus showed the largest
amount in investments-$66 ,372, 800
Special revenue funds held $1S,811,-
226 and the general fund contained
a surplus Of slightly more than
S4,500,OO
Evening star., 1947-05-29

May a, as John Kmetz, who had
been serving as head Of District so,
left for Europe as an alternate dele
gate to the International Labor
Organization in Geneva.
Disclosure Of the shakeup in Dis
trict so leadership was made in the
UNIV Journal,
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Muude HuiIudoy Dies

NEW YORK, May 20 tP).-Maude
E. Halliday, director of finance and
business manager of the National
Federation Of Business and Pro-
fessional Wonen's Clubs died yes
terday. She was a native Of Grand
Rapids. Mich.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Personnel
Continued From First Page

District Engineer Corps and the
other field establishments that have
employees in Washington.
The additional 1900 dismissals
which have to be made to meet the
June 80, 1947, personnel ceiling will
be about evenly divided here among
the departmental and field service,
War Department officials said.
The $500 dismissals of depart
mental employees here under the
House bill would approximate 18
per cent of the 1888 departmental
workers now in Washington. The
2,100 dismissals among the other
employees here would be about Is
per cent Of the $4,000 field estab-
lishment personnel in the Wash
ington area.
Table of Changes.
Here is how the 1888 depart
mental employees here would fare
under the bill:
Present Number OF
number disn1is ls
Evening star., 1947-05-29

Rev. Nicholas Shepler. SIS. and his
wife and his daughter Evelyn, IS.
so seriously that they are on the
danger list at Lawrence Memorial
Hospital, Carpenter repeatedly OF.
fered no resistance to Morosky.
It is alleged that Carpenter, q
former Navy boxer, invaded the
Shepler home and attacked the
three with a 15-pound furnace
shaker.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Conference
Continued From First Page.

action he referred to or the date.
Discussing world affairs, Mr.
Bevin declared world peace depend
ed on solution of Asia's problems
and proposed that the II nations
which were at war with Japan
should take part In drawing up the
Japanese treaty.
Opposes Potsdam Methods.
Mr.. Bevin told the conference that
the methods adopted at Potsdam
for the treaties with Germany and
her satellites-conferences Of foul
Evening star., 1947-05-29

president Of the Erie Basin Meta
Products Co, 3 Carson anlliate
At the meeting he made contract
to provide 10000 wooden shell boxes
for the Erie Basin Co.
How did you happen to get that
contract2" Mr.. Paisley demanded.
They told me they were in need
OF shell boxes" Robert May replied
How did you happen to 60 to the
New York meeting7" the prosecutor
wanted TO know.
Murray Carson called me by
long distance and asked me to come
up there from Prestonsburg, I the
witness answered.
did you take the contract in your
own manner"
NO
Mention to May Denied.
Where were you going to manu-
facture the shell boxes?"
MY first plan was to manufacture
them in Prestonburg. I returned to
Prestonburg and inquired Of local
lumber dealers about what I would
need. Later made a partnership
with B. H. Cole to produce the boxes
at the Dade Lumber Co. in Miami. /"
did you talk to your father about
| it7"
mo sir, I did not"
The following members of Con-
gress, called as character witnesses,
yesterday testified that Mays repu-
tation was good: Representative
Durham, Democrat, Of North Caro-
lima; Gregory, Democrat, of Ken
lucky: Elston, Republican, OF Ohio;
Chapman, Democrat. of Kentucky !;
Martin, Republican, of Iowa, and
Johnson, Republican, OF California.
May said he plans to ask addi-
tional members Of Congress, mostly
former members of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee. to testify
today.
Evening star., 1947-05-29

a charge OF as
saulting a retir-
ed clergy m a n
and his family.
S t at g Police
Capt. eo j.
Mulcahey, who
dir e c t e d the
search, said the
C a p ture was
made by Walter
Morosky in q
woods near here.
Said by 1t.
William E. Mac
Kenzie of the
State police to
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tContinued From First Page)
said that the men could have
raised four-million-dollar bonds II
they needed it. They're the highest
type families we have"
It was reported in Raleigh today
that Walter Anderson, head of the
State Bureau of Investigation, had
gone to Jackson today in connec.
ton with the case.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Man Wanted in Assault
On Minister Is Seized
By The Associoted Prexx

GROTON, Conn, May "a New
London policeman today captured
Cedric Carpenter, q, of Mystic, who
had been sought since Yesterday on
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Present Number OF
number dismissals
--..anf atrin IL a

iotals -----------l6,bS3 3,548
War Department officials say
about As employees in the above bu-
reauS are stationed outside of Wash
ington. Thus the total departmental
dismissals here would be about $500.
This would leave the departmental
service in Washington with a total
Of 1903 employees.
Field Worker Status.
The 2,100 firings In the field estab-
lishments in the Washington area
would leave a total of about 1890
employees In this category in and
around Washington. War Depart
ment officials said each Of the field
establishment Offices here would
have to be reduced by Is per cent of
their present personnel.
AS a result, If the House bill is
upheld, the total number of War
Department employees in the Wash
ington area would be reduced to
about $4,000.
War Department officials said 30
day dismissal notices will be sent
Immediately to some of the 1881
employees slated for firing. Many of
these employees will be required to
take their annual leave so the De-
partment will not have to pay them
cash for unused leave when they
leave the Federal service.
1t was stressed, however, the War
Department will not begin actual
layoffs until it finds out what the
House and Senate will do in regard
to the bill. Officials voiced the hope
the Senate might restore some of
the cuts.
Breakdown of Figures.
Here is a breakdown on how the
74,631 dismissals would occur among
the main branches of the depart
ment:
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New Tax Schedules

FouoEtg comparison OF individual tar under
present IdD and the House and Senate bills and
Senate coneees today accepted except
change tn rate reduction brncketsJ
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In reporting out the bill, Chair
man Engel of the House Appropria-
tionS Subcommittee on the War De-
partment measure asserted the per-
sonnel cuts would not hurt the de-
partments efficiency.
Sees More Efficiency.
On the contrary. Mr.. Engel de-
clared, the committee is convinced
1t will be more efficient and ef-
fective than before"
"Inefhciency causes waste, and
waste causes inefficiency; and when
you cut off waste you make the
Army more efficient" the Michigan
legislator asserted.
Surplus personnel affects all per-
sonnel and makes all personnel less
efficient Mr.. Engel continued. ut
encourages a 'let-Joe- -do-it' policy.
Mr.. Engel pointed out the COM
mittee did not "cut off one of the
18,20l civilian employees in Research
and Development, and it did not
cut of one Of the 10000 employees
engaged in and paid out of indus
trial production funds in our ar
senals. quartsrmaster depots, etc.
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1s47.
In
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dominated by the Communists, al
though the Smallholders Party still
has a majority of the National AS
SemblY.
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Mob

Continued From First Page.)
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Admits Meeting with Garssons,

Under barbed cross-examination
by Mr.. Paisley, Robert May admit
ted that in January, 1914, he went
to New York to meet Henry and
Murray Carson and A. B. Gellman,