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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

jointly by national CLIO and the
Illionis regional office.
MICHAEL Mann, CLIO regional
director, said that the situation
facing the American people was
very grave"
THE Taft and Hartley anti
labor proposals are aimed fatty
at destroying our trade union"
Mann said. They propose TO
turn our government into a
perm ne emf strikebreaking
agency"
The mobilization of all Illinois
unions is part of an unprecedent
ed national labor drive to beat
back the congressional attacks, it
was pointed out. Unions all over
the nation are taking similar &C,
ton, following an emergency
conference in Washington last
Sunday of several hundred Go
leaders.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

Their side.
Two days before agreement was
reached UE turned down a 10c
hourly increase which GIN had
also offered to the United Work,
er and United Rubber Workers
(both CIOD.
The GM,UE agreement, now
being voted on by UE members
for ratification, is considered by
many labor spokesman of special
significance to wage negotiations
now going on with the major com,
panies in the automobile, cleo
trical, and steel industries. 1t is
felt that the 1115 cents plus six
paid holidays may set the pattern
of 1947 wage boosts with these
firms.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

single,file and began to march.
The 40 pickets, members of
t h e Congress of American
Women, were led by their
president, Mrs. Rheua Pearce,
who told reporters:
1--WE feel we owe If to the
democratic women of Nor
waY-as well as TO our own
Americans who died fight
ing Nazis TO protest the
appearance of Kristen Flag
stad."
By pm. the determined
pickets were surrounded by
police, passerbys who stopped
to watch, and the surging
stream of $500 concert,goers
who held tickets to Flagstad's
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

ident of the Steelworkers as the
main speaker, the rally prepared
for the next main step in the de,
fend Labor" drive. This was a
delegation of rs CLIO members to
Washington on April "a and 25.
The delegation will meet next
Thursday at $50 am. at the
Building Laborers' Hall in Wash,
ington, where they will be briefed
on the latest developments by ma,
tional Go leaders. A schedule of
appointments with Illinois con,
gressmen has been worked out
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
performance.

performance.
Especially ardent Flagstad
fans GRATED at length to the
crowd, arguing that cart must
be, has to be, disassociated
from politics"
One elderly woman stopped
to read the pickets' signs aloud:
I'm memory of our boys
who died fighting Nazis. we
protest Flagstad's appear
ance. =.
Chicago wome n don't
welcome friends of Quis-
Iings."
Screwing her face into an
ugly expression, she jabbered:
"Yah. .Americansl Vicious,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
20 900 in Yards say:
We won't take sIuvery!'

Twenty thousand packnghouse workers raised their
the largest meeting held nation
Labor drive Wednesday when Ralph
UPWACIO president sound the alarm
reaction who people
The noonhour demonstration protest
against the anti-abor bills
Franklin D. Roosevelt
great presidents voice reading the famous Economic Bill
Rights After Taps" sounded for FDR painting
Roosevelt unveiled
District director Herbert March presiding the meeting said
called ITO let Chicago the world
that won't take this attack
lions voted condemnng the House and Senate bills
supporting the telephone workers strike.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

The wage settlement, effective
Immediately, includes straight
1112c increase for all hourly ra,
ted UE members employed by
GIN. The remaining sec will be
used to cover the cost of six paid
holidays and OF h er economic
items.
This is the first time UE has
won paid holidays from the cor,
poration. Discussions will con-
tinue on the unions other princi>
pal demand for a health, welfare
and retirement fund.
THE contract will run until
April &c, 1913, after which it may
be reopened for termination or
modification at any time by Ell,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

Highlight of a week marked
by huge protest demonstrations
was meeting of 1000 CIO off,
GERS, executive board members,
and stewards in the Ashland Au>
ditorium Thursday.
Response to the campaign has
been so overwhelming, CLIO lead,
ers report, that the place of the
rally was changed from the
Amalgamated Center, Ashland
and VanBuren to the giant audi,
forum across the street.
Leaders of the striking inde-
pendent telephone unions joined
in the rally 70 unite the fight
against the proposed Stacking
of the labor movement. Rich
ard Long. president of The Fed
eration of Telephone Clerks of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

rally. A re,broadcast of Henry
Wallace's Madison Square Garden
speech was heard.
r. S. Gordon, World News Serv.
ice correspondent just returned
from Turkey, charged that coun,
try with being the "most CLASH.
cal example of President Tru.
mans definition of totalitarian,
ISM"
Turkey is police state, he
declared. Political parties can
exist only by permission of
the government. Civil liber-
ties are non-exisient..
DIR. L. S. Stavrianos, historian,
author, and former research ana,
lyst on Greek affairs with the
Office of Strategic Services,
labelled the Truman proposal as
the same old Churchill plan with
a new name, and American label
on it."
A resolution was passed at the
rally calling upon the United
States to withhold all aid until it
is assured by discussions in the
United Nations that a representa-,
tive Greek government has been
established.
Leo KrzYcki. national presi-
dent of the American Slav
Congress and vice-president
of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers - CLIO. and William
Miller. Progressive Citizens of
America. especially urged the
thousands assembled at the
Coliseum TO follow through
with action in their wards,
neighborhoods. and unions.
Krzycki declared that we would
have enough outlet for our re.
sources if we used them to war
against crime lin America, the
lack of housing and of educational
facilities, low wages for teachers,
poor job opportunities.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

DR.. w. E. B. Du Bots. spec
ial research director for the
NAACP. declared that aid for
these two countries is pro-
posed not with a desire TO
feed the hungry and bolster
democracy. but TO make pri-
vate profit out of oil and the
cheap labor of millions in
Asia and Africa"
DR.. Du Bots was one of several
outstanding speakers at the rally
last Sunday sponsored by the
Chicago Citizens Committee and
attended by crowd of some 1000
people. The sponsoring commit,
tee, set up for that purpose, was
headed by DIR. Maud Slye, Uni,
versity of Chicago cancer research
specialist, and DR.. John j. De,
Boer, chairman of the education
department at Roosevelt College.
DR.. A. EUSTACE HAYDON.
head of the Chicago Ethical So,
ciety, presided as chairman of the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

Illinois. a member of the ma
tional policy committee of the
striking telephone wor kers.
was a scheduled speaker.
$ +
Sponsored jointly by the CLIO
regional office, the Illinois State
CIO, and the Chicago CLIO Coun,
Gil, the rally united all sections
of the CIO to fight what Go pres,
ident Philip Murray described as
'the first step toward real fas,
cism in this country"
With Van A. Bittner, vice,pres
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
Rally Ioshes drive for
profits in Truman plan


oiseum
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
UE-GM wage pa ct seen
as possible ~ pattern

DETROITFP-An overall 15c hourly
than 10000 workers divisions jointly
this
trical Radio & Machine Workers CIO)
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
City in last ditch battle
to halt Slave Labor Bill

added this cry to
bipartisan congressional leaders will
Evening star., 1947-07-11
BY GEORGE Beveridae

Thousands Of veterans in Dis
trict schools and colleges under the
CT Bill of Rights have not re-
ceived the Government subsistence
checks they expected June 80, it was
learned today.
The checks were delayed because
of the change from spring to sum-
mer school semesters and subsequent
administrative tieups In the Vet
erans' Administration and Treasury
Department.
At George Washington University
where 1000 summer school veterans
Ore enrolled. the Veterans Advisory
Office has been flooded" with in
quiries and requests for financial
aid this week, an official said.
Some students, who depend solely
on the Federal grants for their in
comes, complained that they were
being pressed by landlords for rent
Others said they needed money for
food. Similar complaints were re-
ported at other schools.
As q result, DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, president of the university
yesterday agreed that veterans who
have not yet received checks can
draw loans up to $40 to tide them
over until the checks come.
Ten dollars doesn't seem like very
much, but it means a lot to a man
who's hungry" commented spokes-
man.
The student veterans get $50 a
month from the Government if they
Evening star., 1947-07-11
United Artists Denies Charges
|tInfoted'C d'CoIoneI BIimp' Ads

prejudice pending hearings. The
complaint had alleged Mr.. Selznick
to be third controlling stockholder.
The United Artists answer said:
The film, as produced in England,
had a running time OF nearly two
and one-half hours.
Because the full-length version
was "unfavorably received" by ex-
hibitors, 1t was first cut by the
British producer to one hour and
IS minutes. In the face Of con-
tinued resistance" by exhibitors
it was cut further in October, 1945,
to 81 minutes.
Contrary to allegations of the
complaint the editing did not
materially change the film or story
and made the picture a more mer-
chantable and more entertaining
film"
|. In none Of its versions was the
film financially successful" in the
United States. United Artists has
received nothing for its services
in distributing" the Aim for which
total gross rental collected to
June 7. 1e47. amounted to s276,4s5.54,
against which there were charges
for prints and advertising amount
ing to s2s7,55e.oe.
The answer further admitted only
that Mr.. Chaplin Is stcckholder.
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Dewey Off 10 Denver
After Kansas PLEDGES
Support in 1948
BY the As.oeioted Press

EN- ROUTE WITH DEWEY, July
11.-Gov. Thomas E. Dewey rode
across the plains of Kansas today
bearing with him assurances Of
many Republican leaders OF the
State that their delegation would
be in his corner at the national
convention next June.
The tanned New York chief
executive is headed for Salt Lake
City to attend the annual Cover
nors' Conference July 1916.
A two-hour stopover is sched-
uled at Denver. Gov. Dewey is ex-
pected to confer there with Rex c.
Eaton. Republican committeeman
from Colorado.
With his wife and two sons, Gov.
Dewey left Kansas City last night
after ~ hours in the mid continent
metropolis.
During a hectic day, the Governor
received uncounted wishes of Sue
cess In his undeclared bid for the
Republican presidential nomination.
plus predictions that a majority of
Kansas delegates would vote for
him.
Reception Held for Dewey.
Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas
flew back from a Washington visit
to join Gov. Dewey in shaking
hands with approximately 1000 per-
sons at public reception in honor
of the New Yorker and his wife.
Gov. Carlson said that in his
State Gov. Dewey was leading all
other prospective candidates.
Harry Darby, national commit
teeman from Kansas. indicated he
also favored Gov. Dewey.
No one knows exactly where for
mer Gov. ALI Landon stands. The
1886 presidential nominee did not
attend luncheon of Kansas and
Missouri Republicans given in Gov
Dewey's honor yesterday under
sponsorship OF Mr.. Darby and B. T.
Mattingly, Missouri member of the
National Committee.
At Topeka, Mr.. Landon said he
stayed home because he had talked
with Gov. Dewey at the Governors S
Pawling IN. W farm recently and
wished to give other Republican
Evening star., 1947-07-11
BY N. A,seeia.ed Press

United Artists Corp. answering a
complaint Of the Federal Trade
Commission, today denied charges
of Misrepresentation in the sdvertis-
ing Of the British motion picture,
1.-THE Life and Death of Colonel
Blinp."
The FFTC complaint had charged
that advertisements represented the
picture to be "the original. complete,
full-length picture of that name. -
1t said that actually. since about
October. 1945, the film distributed
by United Artists has been "a ma
terially revised, shortened and
abridged production"
The answer denying the FTC
allegations was filed by United
Artists, Edward C. Raftery Of New
York, the corporation president;
Mary Pickford Rogers and Charles
Chaplin, both of Beverly Hills
Calf, who are alleged to be two
Of its controlling stockholders.
In a separate petition David o.
Selsnick Of Beverly Hills asked that
his name be stricken from the COM
plant on grounds that he never
has been a stockholder of United
Artists. Counsel supporting the
FTC complaint asked that the
selzrlick petition be denied withcSs
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Delay in Subsistence Checks
Pinches D. G. Student Veterans
ave dependents and SIS If they

have dependents and SIS II they
don't.
Oficials at the Veterans Admin
istration's Washington regional
Office explained that veterans were
removed from subsistence rolls when
they finished their spring school
term and had to be reinstated for
the summer sessions.
Late registration dates, however.
forced schools to report names of
veterans to the agency too late for
them to be processed in time for
payment by the end of June, they
explained.
In the meantime, according to
Paul Banning, chief of the Treas
ury's disbursing division, his divi-
sion had to hold up assurance Of
checks after the end of June because
Of lack of funds.
Congress authorized expenditures
of the benefit funds on Tuesday and
all the checks on hand were put in
the mail Tuesday and yesterday.
Mr.. Banning stressed. however. that
the withheld claims were completely
processed and the checks held
ready for mailing as soon as the
expenditure Of funds was authorized.
The Veterans Administration
estimated that 5000 claims already
have been sent to the Treasury for
the June payment and that 1000
others are still being processed at
the regional office. These 1000 will
be sent to the Treasury by July 20.
1t was estimated that claims for
another 5000 veterans now in
schools are still to be received.
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Slain Divorcee Found,
.1russed With Ropes,
In Ohio Churchyard
by the Asseeiossd Press

MARION, Ohio, July l1.-Sheritf
Leroy Retterer said today two
brothers found the nearly nude and
rope-trussed body of q 25-year -old
divorce in a rural churchyard near
here early today.
Sheriff Retterer identified the vic
tim as Mrs. Fora Gerbes of Marion.
mother of three children. She was
divorced four years ago from Ken
meth Gerbes. q Diesel locomotive
shop worker in Marion.
The discovery was made by Charles
and Harry Yeager, in the yard of
st. PauI's Lutheran Church five
miles east Of here on Route 9s as
they returned to their home nearby
about am. from Marion.
Sheriff Retterer said the body was
attired only in a blouse and one
shoe. A clothesline was wrapped
three times around her neck and
passed under her legs, pulling the
knees almost up to the chin.
Bruises Only Marks on Body.
Two bruises on the left leg were
the only marks on the body, the
sheriff added.
He said the brothers gave this
account Of their discovery:
Noticing man acting strangely
in the churchyard. they turned into
the driveway. They saw the woman
but did not realize what was happen
ing.
A dark-haried man about 80 or
80 years old came to their car and
said, well. there Is my license num-
ber. What are you going to do about
it?"
The brothers said they were going
to call the sheriff and the man re-
piled he would wait until they re-
turned. 81,
Man Gone on Return.
The brothers went to farm
home about half mile from the
church and called the sheriff. Re-
turning they found the man gone:
Sheriff Retterer said the woman
was dead on his arrival. He ex-
pressed belief she had been killed
elsewhere and the body brought to
the churchyard because there were
no signs of a struggle there.
Coroner e. H. Morgan said
,strangulation caused her death. He
said there was slip moose in the
rope about the victims neck.
She was last seen leaving the Mar
ion business district In taxi about
$3.50 o'clock last night, the sheriff
ran0rfad
Evening star., 1947-07-11
PUG Hearing Planned
On Pepco Refinancinq

The Public Utilities Commission
will hold q public hearing July 81 to
air the Potomac Electric Power Co. S
refinancing plan prefacing dissolu-
ton of the Washington Railway &
Electric Co, parent firm of Pepco,
Chairman James H. Flanagan said
today.
A feature of the plan would allow
Pepco to increase its authorized cap
ital stock from $50, 1000 900 to $4,000,
900.
Ninety thousand shares of out
standing common stock at 500 par
value owned by Washington Rail-
way. would be reclassified into
shares of new preferred and common
stock for present stockholders of
the firm.
Mr.. Flanagan said the elaborate
re-capitalization plan was approved
on May Is by the Securities and Ex-
change Commission, and by District
Court on June 16.
Evening star., 1947-07-11

leaders chance to see the visitors
All other top Kansas COP lead
ers were at the luncheon and Mr..
Landon's absence provoked specu-
lation. even after his explanation
that he might be cool to Gov. Dewey.
One source said Mr.. Landon might
be playing hard to get" Another
more widely accepted slant was that
Mr.. Landon was waiting to see
whether Henry Wallace organized
a third party.
Eisenhower Sentiment Strong.
Although there is no visible or
ganized effort to promote Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Re-
publican presidential nomination,
party leaders reported sentiment in
the Middle West for the World War
II supreme Allied military COM
mander, particularly in Kansas,
which considers him a native son
despite his Texas origin.
The sources doubt that the senti-
ment will crystalize in the Mid
west and form the nucleus of sue
cessful drive to win him the nornin-
alton, unless the vagaries of conven-
ton politics work decidedly in his
favor.
Gen. Eisenhower is not enrolled
in any party.
The present Missouri and Kansas
strength of Senators Taft of Ohio
and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich
igan, prospective contenders for the
nomination, has not been gauged,
at least in the open.
At the luncheon yesterday, Gov.
Dewey said that although he was
on a months "non-political vaca-
ton" tour of the West with his
family. he had seen more Rebubli-
cans than he had in some time.
He saluted Kansas and Missouri
Republicans for the quality of the
men they had elected to Congress,
and he praised the Kansas City
COP organization and the Kan
sas City Ssar for what he termed the
restoration of good government"
to the Pendergast mocraticI
stronghold.
About 80 Missouri and Kansas
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Chair My 'De|iverance,'
Slayer Says as He Dies
By The Associotsd Press

EDDYVILLE, KY, July lit
look upon the electric chair as a
deliverance from these people here. 81
Thus, Earl Tunget, %. OF Louis
vile went to his death in the elec-
trio chair at Eddyville Penitentiary
at 1921 am. today for the fatal
shooting of Deputy Warden L. r.
Gumm.
Tunget's criminal career stretched
from juvenile delinquency to murder.
It was while he was serving life
sentence for a Staying in Louisville
that he shot the prison ofacial, who
was searching for a weapon con-
cealed in Tunget's cell.
Tunget's counsel made desperate
effort to save him from the chair,
but Gov. Simeon Willis last night
refused to stay the execution.
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Officials Are Hopefuf
Weather Will Boost
Corn Crop Prospects
By Malcolm Eomborne, Jr.

Agriculture Department off,
cials assumed a wait-and-see
attitude on the 1947 corn crop
despite a forecast of production
20 per cent below last years rec
ord yield, and the prospect of
less meat for consumers next
winter.
They point out that good growing
weather in the Corn Belt from now
on and a late fall could raise the
July l forecast of 2,612, ,809, 900
bushels to at least 1850, ,000, 900
bushels. If this figure is reached,
curtailment of livestock feeding and
resultant meat shortage could be
sverted, they say.
One official noted that for num-
ber of years the July / forecast
Of the Crop Reporting Service has
been conservative. In addition, yes
terday's report did not take into
account a turn for. the better in
weather during the last 10 days.
Meat Experts Disagree.
IN Chicago, livestock and meat
experts disagreed on the effects
of the Governments forecast.
A market analyst for the National
Livestock Producers Association
termed the forecast as "optimistic"
and insisted the country was in a
fairly critical situation which Is
more likely" to grow worse.
The American Meat Institute, on
the other hand, said it could see mo
drastic effect on meat supplies or
prices" as a result of short corn
crop. A spokesman for one OF the
large meat packers said reduced
production was unlikely to have
much effect because of the much
larger, carryover of corn this year
than last.
Department officials concede that
killing frosts before the crop has
matured could have serious roper
cussions. It would mean a crop OF
soft corn. which cannot be stored
as long as full-grown corn and has
q lower feeding value.
Accordingly, farmers would tend
to market animals sooner and at
lighter weights. This would mean
good supplies of meat in the last
half of this year. followed by a
shortage in the late winter and
early spring. the experts say.
Record Wheat Crop Expected.
As for the Government export
programs, a short corn supply will
mean more emphasis on wheat
shipments.
In this connection, yesterday S
report revised upward by another
25.0O0.000 bushels the production OF
wheat now being harvested. The
estimate for all wheat is now 1885,
$1,000 bushels, the greatest wheat
crop in American history.
In summing up. one official COM
mented: 1T looks as though the
smaller corn crop will make it neces-
sary for us to plan our grain use
carefully. It's too early, though,
to have the final answers"
The department said in yester-
days report that the total volume
of all crops may be slightly above
the 1a42-46 period, which was de-
scribed as the Ave best years" in
American agriculture.
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Ex-SoIdier Whose Auto
Killed Pedestrian Cleared

A coroner's jury today ruled the
death Of william I. Mccarthy. so. of
Dorchester. Mass, was accidental,
releasing Talburt T. Ashby, 81, of
Herndon, Va, driver of the car
which struck Mr.. Mccarthy.
Mr.. Ashby, recently discharged
from the Army, appeared in uniform
and testified that Mr.. Mccarthy
was standing in the crosswalk of
Massachusetts, avenue at North
Capitol street near the City Post
Office at about am. June %. Mr..
Ashby said he was driving north and
turned to the right to avoid the
streetcar loading platform and did
not see Mr.. Mccarthy until his
front fender was but two feet away.
The car was going not more than
Is miles per hour, he testified.
The ex-soldier said he had come
to Washington about l am with
his two brothers, Marshall and
Thomas Ashby, looking for some
buddies."
He said they lost their way wnen
they left Georgetown looking for the
Fourteenth street bridge. Mr.. Nc
Carthy died at Casualty Hospital Of
a fractured skull on July 5.
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Governors Begin Arriving
For 3-Doy Conference

SALT LAKE CITY. July II 1F.--
The chairman of the National Gov
ernors' Conference, Gov. Millard F,
Caldwell of Florida. headed for this
mountain city today to make final
plans for the three-day session
which begins Sunday.
Business sessions begin Monday
Conference nigh light will be ths
dinner Monday evening at which
Secretary of State George c. Mar
shall will speak.
A number of chief executives ar
rived yesterday.
Gov. Horace Hildreth of Maine
made the trip by way of Yellowstone
National Park and Jackson Hole,
Wyo., to meet Gov. c. A. Robins Of
Idaho. on the Teton Pass summit.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey OF New
York is due tomorrow morning and
the arrival of Gov. Earl Warren is
set for tomorrow afternoon.