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Evening star., 1947-09-12
Judges Ruling Averts
New York Bus Strike
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. ia threat
ened strike that would have de-
prived an estimated 100000 Man
haitian passengers of bus transpor-
tation beginning at 3 am. today
was postponed last night by the
CIO Transport Workers Union.
The move followed a conference
called by Mayor William O'Dwyer
and came after Supreme Court
Justice Ferdinand Pecora had up
held the union in it's dispute over
pension awards with the New York
City Omnibus Co.
Austin Hogan, president of Loca.
100 of the TWU, announced after
meeting with the Mayor that union
officials had agreed to postpone
strike action pending outcome Of a
legal appeal to be brought by the
company in the pension case. Later
1,500 day drivers of the company
approved the move.
The dispute was over interpreta-
ton of an arbitrator's award for
pensions affecting 137 elderly omni-
bus employees. The union contended
the award established the pensions
for life. The company sought a
declaratory Judgment in Supreme
Court upholding its contention that
it's pension liability expired with
the current contract next January.
Justice Pecora, while criticizing
the union for making strike threat
during judicial consideration of the
dispute, upheld its argument yester-
day. He previously had said he
would urge appellate courts to speed
consideration of appeals.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Jake The Barber
Must Stay in Prison
By the Assoeiated Press

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 12.-Fed.
eral Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye yes.
terday dismissed the petition OF
John (Jake the Barber) Factor fol
writ of habeas corpus by which he
sought release from Federal prison
Factor, serving a 10-year sentence
for participation in 100000 SWIM
die involving use of the mails In
whisky warehouse receipt deals, had
told the court he pleaded guilty be-
cause he feared Chicago gangsters
we're cunning for him.
At the hearing on his petition
Factor testified members of the
Roger Touhy gang kidnapped him in
1884 and tortured him until $4,000
ransom was paid. He told of testify
ing against the gangsters after theil
capture.
He said they threatened revenge
and that he feared for his life when
Touhy and Basil Banghart escaped
from the Illinois Penitentiary ir
1912. This fear prompted him tc
change his plea from innocent tc
guilty in the swindle case brought
against him in April, 1912. In Feb
ruary, 1943, he was sentenced al
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to 10 years
imprisonment and fined $4,000.
Judge Nordbye said he was con.
vinced Factors claim of making ar
involuntary plea of guilty was not
sustained.
Factor, former barber in Chi
cago, earned millions by his wits
before the law caught up with him
Among his boasts was that he once
had won $500 at cards from the
Duke OF Windsor. then Prince of
Wales. Factor said he didn't think
the Prince had much card sense.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
KroII Says Business
'Squeezes Workers
For Every Penny
BY the Assecioted Press

CLEVELAND, Sept. 12.-Jack
Kroll told the Ohio CIO council to-
day that American business is
squeezing American workers and
consumers out of every penny they
can lay their hands on"
Mr.. Kroll national director of
the CIO-Political Action Commit
tee, said in addressing the group on
the first day of a four-day annual
convention:
THE drive for greater and greater
profits, the lust for power, is in the
process of sending the Nation on
another spinning joy-ride which will
end in the same crash-depression.' y
Mr.. Kron said housewives were
finding impossible prices are soar
ing more and more out of reach OF
the family budget" and declared the
only way of arresting the climb was
to restore price controls.
Hits Labor Law Backers.
With respect to the Taft-Hartley
Labor Act, the PAC director COM
pared the arguments of its sup
porters with those used by the Nazis
in Germany where "the labor move
ment was crushed" and called for
their defeat at the polls.
The Nazis," he said, Launched
witch hunts against labor leaders.
They stripped workers of political
rights. Do we realize what is hap
pening? Do we understand that the
same vicious Fascist pattern of
union busting is being practiced here
in American"
Singing out Senator Taft, a fell
low Cincinnatian, time and again,
Mr.. Kroll said the Ohio Republican
hoped to crawl over the backs of
American workers into the White
House"
Says Taft Will Fail.
"Well, I hate to bust Bob Taft's
pipe dream" he said. But I think
it is a dream that will fail. It will
fail because the American people in
times of crises have always managed
to act wisely and sanely, and as the
Gallup poll demonstrates, they
know the Taft-Hartley law will in
jure harmonious industrial relations. "
Earlier, he said. the defeat of Phil
lip Storch, Democratic congressional
candidate in Pennsylvania 9th dis
trict, was mot test case" for the
PAC or its stand on the labor law.
Since 1882 there never has been
a Democrat elected from that dis
trict," Mr. Kroll said at news con-
ference. THE PAC knew the record
and if we were going to make test
case of our stand on the labor bait
ing Taft-Hartley law. we -ertainly
wouldn't have taken on suv.l odds" :"
Evening star., 1947-09-12
W. H. Clarke Named
Rent Control Examiner

William H. Clarke, attorney for
merly associated with the publish.
ing firm of Prentice-Hall, Inc, has
been named examiner for the Rent
Control Administration and will
start hearing cases Monday.
Mr.. Clare's appointment to sue.
ceed Robert T. Smith was an
nounced yesterday by Robert F
CogsWell. rent control administrator
Mr.. Smith has returned to private
law practice.
Mr. Cogswell also announced the
appointment of William F. Mans
field, former facilities specialist ir
the Maritime Commissions reserve
fleet division, as secretary docket
clerk of the rent control admins
tration. Mr.. Mansfield succeeds
Edward Carr, who resigned to be-
come Municipal Court assignment
commissioner.
Mr.. Clarke formerly was edi.
tcrial representative for the Prem
tice-Hall, Inc, a position dealing
with taxes and labor. He was borr
In Washington 80 years ago ano
attended Central High School. He
is graduate of the University OF
Florida and obtained his law schoo
degree from Georgetown University
Law School.
He is married and the father OF
two small children. He lives at 4917
First street NV.
Evening star., 1947-09-12

son Of their profession" but said
they should not be placed in q
public position where they can
consciously or unconsciously further
their particular profession"
At one point he said: American
boys did not fight and die to pre-
serve the interests of American
banking houses"
Referring to his speech a year
ago, Mr.. Wallace said that the
President approved it "as we read 1t
over togheter page by page in the
White House year ago yesterday.
And it is sad to say that that
speech, which transformed an Iowa
citizen into a citizen of New York
and Secretary of Commerce into
an editor of the New Republic
(magazine), reads even better today
that it did year ago. Un-
fortunately we have made no pro-
gress in coming to an understand
ing with Russia. We now have a
clearly defined policy for the Near
East, but it is policy for war, not
peace. We have accepted the bank
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Howard D. Chapman
Former u. ). Official
And Inventor, Dies

Howard D. Chapman, u, fol
many years an engineer and drafts.
man with the Navy Department
and the Veterans Administration
before he retired July 16, 1916, dice
yesterday at Huntington Park, Calf
Funeral services will be held there
Monday.
Several important inventions
both military and industrial, were
perfected by Mr.. Chapman. Early
in World War I the British govern.
ment purchased the rights to his
fuse attachment for land mines. A
number of American ordnance i'm.
proyements were perfected by him
including a naval gun sighting de.
vice. His most outstanding indus.
trial invention was a self-lockine
nut for railroad installations ano
equipment, which bears his name
MIR. Chapman worked for the
Government almost exclusively aft
er his services in the Spanish
American War. For several years
he was employed by the Crown
Cork & Seal Co. as an engineer and
resided in Baltimore.
During services in Navy yards he
worked extensively in Philadelphia
as well as in Washington. For Il
years he was with the mechanical
and electrical section of the VA hos
pital construction division.
Before moving to Huntington Park
after his retirement, Mr.. and Mrs
Chapman made their home at 1904
Bunker Hill road, Mount Rainier
Md. They lived recently with their
eldest son. Howard Defmar Chap
man, jr, at the California address
Another son, Robert Chapman, is a
radio engineer and technician, for
merly of Washington and Havana,
whose present address is Fort Worth,
Tex. Seven grandchildren also sur
viye
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Five Killed as Car Hits
z Truck Loads Of Hogs
Bv the Associated Press

ALBA, Iowa, Sept. 12.-Five per-
sons were killed in a collision in
volving an automobile and two
trucks loaded with hogs east OF here
late last night.
The dead we're identified by Cor
oner Bart Downs as:
Bob May. Is, and Letha Carter
both of Abba; Henry Hoate, jr., %,
and Thomas J. Lee, 80, both of Fair
field, Iowa, and Ralph L. Heck, 26
of Webster City, Iowa.
Sheriff John w. Goodwin said the
car, driven by Mr.. May, was travel
ing west when it met a string OF
three trucks, loaded with hogs.
The May car, in which all of the
victims were riding, sideswiped the
second of the three trucks, the
sheriff said, and crashed into the
last truck, driven by John Fogle-
song, Charlton, Iowa.
The Foglesong truck was badly
damaged, but Mr.. Foglesong escaped
with only minor injuries, the sheriff
reported. Five hogs were killed, he
said, and other animals scattered
along the road.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Arms Ship Is on Way
To Greece, but Details
Are Military Secret
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-The New
York Port of Embarkation said yes
terday cargo ship sailed recently
from an Eastern port with ship
load OF ammunition for the Greek
government.
The announcement said the ship
carried three types of ammunition
mortar shells, antipersonnel mines
and hand grenades-but the amount
of each was not disclosed.
Army officials refused to disclose
the exact date and place of sailing
name of the vessel, its time of arrival
in Greece or the port at which it
will dock there.
officers likewise refused to divulge
whether it was the only such ship
dispatched to Greece or one of
number from various ports.
Under the $780, 100000 aid program
for Greece, the United States prom
ised to send arms and munitions
and other supplies needed to mod
ernize and re-equip government
forces fighting the guerrillas.
State and War Department Off
cials told Congress at the time the
Greek Turkish program was being
considered that some of this mate
rial would include rifles, machine
guns and arms of various descrip-
tions. The majority of the Greek
program, however, is to- be in the
form of civilian-type reconstruction
goods, such as transportation equip
ment, food and other items.
On August %, the State Depart
ment announced that $4,000 tons of
urgent military supplies" were en-
route to Greece, including trucks,
ammunition carriers, food and other
articles. It said II Army transports
had sailed before mid-August and a
number of others later.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Wall Street Is Set
To Run the World,
Wallace Charges
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Henry
A. Wallace last night told a
crowd estimated by police at
$4,000 that under the Repub-
licans Wall Street ran America; !;
under the present administra-
ton Wall Street is all set to run
| the world"
Mr.. Wallace spoke at Madison
Square Garden, scene of his speech
year ago tonight that precipitated
his dismissal as Secretary of Com
merce. The meeting was sponsored
by the Progressive Citizens of
America.
The crowd cheered for several
minutes as the former Vice Presi-
dent stepped to the rostrum. Kisses
and boos followed his mention of
former President Herbert Hoover.
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal and
others he attacked.
AS he did year ago, Mr.. Wallace
condemned the bipartisan foreign
policy, asserting it defends reac-
ton in the name of freedom" He
declared it is dominated by invest
ment bankers and military men.
Says Hoover's Thinking Guides.
"Forty-six days after the death of
Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover
was welcomed at the White House
Two years later it is Hoover's think
ing which guides our foreign policy,
Mr.. Wallace said.
He said that Mr.. Hoover's report
to President Truman urging the
rebuilding of German industry is
the very core of our entire program
for European construction"
OF third party possibilities Mr.
Wallace said:
There will be charges that we
are out to dominate the Democratic
Party but it will be more accurate
to say that we are out to prevent
the Democratic Party from com.
hitting suicide.
"If the Democratic Party Is wal
party, If my party continues tc
attack civil liberties, if both parties
stand for high prices and depres.
sion-then the people must have
a new party of liberty and peace.
Cites Bankers in Office.
In charging that President Tru-
man has placed bankers and mill
tary men in key policy positions
Mr.. Wallace said:
working with a military trained
Secretary of State in formulating
foreign policy, we find:
THE Undersecretary, Robert
Lovett, q former partner in the
Brown brothers Hartman banking
firm.
"The Assistant Secretary, Charles
| Saltzman, a former vice president
of the New York Stock Exchange.
THE Ambassador to England
Lewis Douglas, chairman of the
board of the powerful Mutual Life
Insurance Co.
Then there is the defense Secre-
tary, Mr.. James Forrestal, on leave
as head of the Wall Street banking
firm of Dillon, Read Co.; the Sec
retary of Commerce, w. Averell
Hartman, chairman of the Brown
Brothers Hartman firm, and the
Secretary of the Treasury, John
Snyder, a banker from st. Louis
Another product of Dillon, Read
Mai. Gen. William Draper, has
lust returned from Germany to be-
come the Assistant Secretary OF
War. Even the World Bank CHIEF
is a Wall Street lawyer, John Nc
Cloy."
Shouldn't Occupy Public Posts.
Mr.. Wallace said he did not be-
lieve 'that investment bankers ano
military men are evil men by rea.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
New Legion Commando
To FIy Here Tomorrow

James r. O'Neil, new national
commander of the American Legion
will arrive at National Airport at
noon tomorrow to set up Offices in
the organizations national head
quarters, 1903 K street NV.
Mr.. O'Neii will be welcomed at
the airport by the Legion's National
Guard of Honor and officials OF the
District department.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Two More Ask New Trial
In Virginia Bank Case
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 12.-Hugt
N. Rakes, Leesburg dairyman, anc
his wife, Lillian Connor Rakes, two
of nine persons convicted of aiding
in misapplication of more than $435-
900 from a Fredericksburg bank
filed motions in Federal Court yes
terday for new trials on the ground
that an attempt was made to in
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Three From D. G. Area
Honored at West Point

Three men from the Washington
area were among the cadets awarded
the flve-pointed star for excellence
in scholarship yesterday at the Mill
tary Academy at West Point, N. Y
They were Joseph H. Gilbreth, jr.
5000 Connecticut avenue NV: Will
liam F. Brandes, Grafton street
Chevy Chase, Md, and Richard T
Drury, 400 Van Buren, street NV.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c =" As


rupt and bankrupting British poll
cies in Greece and Turkey"
Also appearing at the meeting
were Paul Robson and Lena Horne,
Negro singers; Aubrey Williams,
editor of 1.-THE Southern Farmer;
DR.. Frank Kingdom, cochairman of
the national Pea, and Raymond
Walsh, New York Pea chairman.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
500 Ex-G|s Attending
Benjamin Franklin 10
Get Subsistence Cut

More than 500 veterans attending
Benjamin Franklin University this
fall under the CT Bill of Rights will
get only half as much subsistence
allowance as those who took the
same courses earlier this year, it
was learned today.
The Veterans Administration told
university officials this week that
the change will knock out a policy
that has given It's students maxi
Mum living expenses since January
1914.
H. V. Stirling, Veterans Admins
tration training chief, said the
agency's Washington regional Of
flee made list of accredited,
semester-hour" schools.
Colleges Put in Two Classes.
Regulations of the agency, he ex-
planned, divide all colleges into these
two classes:
Semester-hour-These are schools
recognized by major education as
sociations, whose credits Are accept
able at other large four-year uni
versities. Their student veterans
can draw full substance payments
if they enroll for more than Il
semester-hours of study.
Ciock-hour-These are principally
business, professional and trade
schools, whose credits are not uni
Versany transferable. To get full
subsistence, veterans must enroll
for minimum of Is hours a week,
Reason for the difference, Mr.
Stirling said, is that a three
semester-hour" course may mean
many more than three hours OF
classes week, through laboratory
and other sessions.
Strayer Revises Schedules.
He said, however, that he did not
know how the mistake" was made
or why it was not discovered until
last week.
At the same time, officials at the
Strayer College of Accountancy-
another "clock hour" school-said
they have revised schedules so their
student veterans will be able to
stay in school for the required
25 hours.
Elgie G. Purvis, director of the
school, said former servicemen have
been drawing full payments while
going to classes for 16 or 20 hours
a week.
However, B. E. Hunsicker, director
Of Benjamin Franklin, said his
schools day students couldn't pos
slbly carry Is hours of classes a
week" They now have three-hour
classes, five days week, he said
Says Students Put in 40 Hours.
But homework and other out
side research they have to do brings
the total to about 40 hours week,
he declared. That certainly is
more than is required by some large
universities who have students in
12-hour courses"
The CT bill," he continued
states only that students must be
going full time. If we aren't on a
full-time basis, don't know who is. ,
Mr.. Stirling said the entire prob
lem would be put before meet
ing of the agency's Advisory Edit
CATION Committee, scheduled to
meet early next month. The COM
mittee is composed of prominent
educators from the Nations schools
Meanwhile. spokesmen said, the
Benjamin Franklin students TAX
ing IS hours of study will get only
half of the allowance they would
get with 25 hours. ~
Those getting full payments can
draw $50 a month if they have de-
pendents, and $65 if they do not.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Touch Produces Color

The sensation of color can be pro-
duced by stimuli other than light;
for instance, pressure on the eye
ball while in complete darkness.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
FOUND.

CONSIDERABLE SUM OF MONEY, on
Connecticut ave- on Monday sth. Cal
MI. 1854, MR.. SILVA 14a
PUPPY. brown and white, male, harness,
collar and DAG tag; in sw. Call VI
7142 or SH. 374e.
Evening star., 1947-09-12

fiuence a juror during the lengthy
bank trial here last spring.
simultaneously, two other moe
tions were fled by their counsel, w.
R. Allcott and j. B. Morgan, in the
Fourth United States Circuit Court
of Appeals asking that the case.
appealed there, be remanded for de-
termination Of the motion for new
trial. 90
Similar motions were filed ear
lier for four other persons con-
victed.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
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Evening star., 1947-09-12

The area drained by the Missis-
sippi River system is the greatest
fertile plain on earth.
Evening star., 1947-09-12

WATCH, ladys, oval-shaped.. floral trim
Longine, between Park rd and Lamont st.
reward. Please call Hobart 1889.
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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05

High School, while eligibility
for the office of presidency
and vice-presidency requires
that the candidate must have
graduated four years prior to
the term of office.
The elected officers will Sc
lect three additional, at least
one of which must be a men,
Der of the graduating class,
to act with them as a
guiding or steering committee.
This committee will act upon
issues pertaining to the asso-
citation and will also act as
nominating committee for the
election of officers.
Election of officers will be
held at each annual banquet,
with limitation of three
terms imposed.
Membership will be limited
to graduates of Zion-Benton
High School with a SO cents
membership fee charged. All
members of the Zion Alumni
Association will automatically
become members of the new
group.
Of great Importance is the
article which provides for the
amendment at any time of the
constitution by a majority vote
of the guiding committee.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-03-05
ZION-BENTON ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION MEET

The various temporary COM
mittee heads of the newly
formed Zion-Benton Alumni
Association met last week to
further plans for the first an
nual banquet which will be
held on Saturday evening, May
3rd, in the high school auditor
ium.
John Faassen, who heads
the committee charged with
writing the constitution for the
group, read the text of it to
those assembled. The finished
constitution will be read to the
entire association on the night
of the banquet subject to their
approval.
Some of the main points of
the constitution as it stands
now are listed below:
The purpose of the Zion
Benton Alumni Association
will be to promote lasting fell
lowship among Zion-Benton
Alumni and to arouse interest
in the organization among
each succeeding graduating
class by carrying out various
functions. Very active partici-
patton of the association in the
annual Homecoming celebra-
ton is also urged.
The offices of the associa-
ton shall consist of the usual
president, vice-president, Sec
rotary and treasurer. All can
didates for office must be
graduates of Zion-Benton