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Evening star., 1947-03-11
Hartley Will Ask FBI
10 Probe Ambushinq
l0f Railroad President
sy shs Assoeiassd Press

Chairman Hartley Of the Hous
Labor Committee told the Hous,
today he win ask Attorney Genera
Clark to order an FBI Investigation
Of the ambush staying Of George P
McNear, jr., president Of the Toledo
Peoria q Western Railroad.
Saying that the committee hac
received evidence Of violence in,labol
disputes In Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phil.
adelphia and Hollywood since Il
began sitting five weeks ago, Mr.
Hartley shouted on the floor:
What are we going to do about
1t? - Where is law and order
going?"
Statement Filed.
Mr.. McNear was ambushed and
slain last night near his home In
Peoria, ILL.,, by an unidentified gun
man. Within II hours after his
death, q statement attributing vio-
lence to unions that have been con-
Quoting a strike against his railroad,
was filed with the Labor Committee
Mr.. McNear recently testified before
the committee concerning pending
labor legislation. Since 1941 he had
defied 13 Railroad Brotherhoods
whose strike against his freight by
pass line is one of the country s
longest labor disputes.
His statement, supplementing his
testimony, hit at what he termed
inaccuracy and misstatements in
testimony to the committee by:
w. c., Keiser, vice president of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, and G. F. Brown, general
Evening star., 1947-03-11

uled to appear this afternoon.
Mr.. Steward qualified his indorse-
ment Of the legislation, declaring
the survivor benefits provision
should be administered separately
from the Federal retirement sys-
tenn.
Republican and Democratic men,
berS of the House. and Senate Civil
Service Committees have pledged
their support Of the bill.
Representative Stevenson, Repub-
lican Of Wisconsin, ranking majority
member Of the House Civil Service
Committee, said he was whole
heartedly in favor Of the legisla-
ton"
Sees Good Chance.
II think 1t has 4 good chance OF
passage with all the bipartisan sup
port it is getting" declared Mr.
Stevenson. as he introduced a COM
panion bill in the House to the Ian
ger-Chavez measure.
Two other members Of the House
Civil Service Committee, Repre-
sentative Jones, Republican, OF
Washington, and Miller, Democrat
Of California, also introduced identi-
cal bills in the House. Chairman
Rees is out Of town, but friends say
he is sympathetic to nberalizing the
present Federal retirement system.
Co-authors of the Senate bill are
Chairman LANCER of the Senate
Civil Service Committee and Sena-
tor Chavez, Democrat of New Mexi-
CO, the ranking minority member
of the committee.
Although Federal employees will
have to pay per cent instead OF the
present per cent deducted from
their salaries, this will pay only
partly for the cost of the measure.
Actuaries, while not definitely de-
termining the actual cost, say it is
likely to reach per cent of the
present Federal payroll cost. -
Evening star., 1947-03-11

claiming to have won, in 1929, the
first strike ever lost by the railroad
brotherhoods, Mr.. McNear was out
spoken and active In defying their
demands.
He rode on trains through picket
lines and vigorously denounced the
strikers. Federal seizure by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in 1912, after the
194l strike continued into wartime,
followed three months Of violent
incidents. After the road was re-
turned TO Mr.. McNear, October /,
1945, the strike was resumed and
there was more violence.
The current dispute began De-
cember %, 1941, when 104 engineers
and trainmen among 900 employees
quit work in protest against a new
wage scale and new working rules.
The brotherhoods have sought
working rules similar to those in
effect on other railroads. Mr.. Nc
Near proposed to eliminate what
he termed '.feather-bed" rules and
to cut unit costs but increase work
ers' annual income through more
work. He contended the unions
would not give "a fair days work
for a fair days pay" and said they
encroached In management affairs.
The brotherhoods denied his charges
and said he refused to grant what
other lines had given.
Mr.. McNear also refused to grant
union demands that he re-employ
workers he accused of violence
against the line.
The dispute appeared no nearer
settlement today despite a series Of
recent court fights, but the r. p. g.
w. under Federal Court order re-
Gently had been operating a few
freight trains. Federal Judge j.
Leroy Adair last December en-
joined any interference. The union
ceased picketing and sought q re-
in court. A = @sss 3zs,a II IS
VIC. Keiser, ETopeka ars.,
spokesman for the 13 Railroad
Brotherhoods, said at Peoria last
night he was shocked" by the slay-
ing of Mr.. McNear. He made no
further comment. +
Evening star., 1947-03-11
|Mechaniized South
lis Threat 10 Family,
Catholic Group Hear,
ssse,aI plsps.eh 70 no ssar

CHICAGO. Mar. 1.-THE great.
est threat to family life In th.
United States lies in the rapit
Imechanisation Of farming IN ths
South. Harry G. Read Of washing.
ton. executive assistant to James b
Carey, C1o secretary-treasu to-
day told the National Catholic Con.
ference On Family Life.
More than 100000 families have
disappeared from the south's agri-
culture In the period Of 1910 to lsz.
because Of the shrinkage In farm
tenancy, Mr.. Read declared.
Farm machines have contributed
to reducing the 1,500, 900 farm tenant
families to 100000 between 1910
and 1915, he said. Only 10000 Of
these bought farms Of their own,
with the remainder moving to other
parts Of the country, the CIo OIL
cial declared.
Mr.. Read also predicted that farm
jobs for 1000, 900 to 5000, 900 white
and colored workers would be elm
mated by this mechanization within
the next 10 years. With the re-
sultant migration from this situa-
ton will come an even greater weak
ening Of family ties as people move
into crowded cities where food,
clothing, shelter, education and
health present urgent problems to
their security.
The church must show itself the
fmpregnable bulwark Of the family
by challenging everything that
would bring harm upon it," the
Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, director OF
the Family Life Bureau, Washing
ton, told the gathering yesterday.
Father Schneider opened the
convention talks by delivering the
keynote address on the conferences
theme, "The Church, the Support OF
the Family"
Family life IS job. not a JOY
ride; it is q discipline, not a round
Of thrills" he declared, In attacking
the rank selfishness" OF per
verted individualism" as the "anti-
thesis Of the Christian law Of love
of God and neighbor"
The Most Rev. Francis j. Haas,
Bishop Of Grand Rapids, Mich, said
"our entire economic order should
be reorganized, planned and admin
istered" by management and labor
representatives with Government
assistance.
The Rev. Daniel M. Cantwell,
sociology professor at st. Mary of
the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, H.,
declared that Congress and the
building industry have shown that
they are not concerned with a
program Of housing for veterans"
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Contractor Says He Gave
Liquor 10 Inspectors

Warren c. Dyson, 1900 block of
Longfellow street NV, a plaster-
ing contractor, testified yesterday In
Ia District Court divorce and main.
tenance hearing that he had given
INSPECTORS" liquor to stay OF their
bad lists"
The testimony was given In an
sWer to a question to account for
funds listed in 1945 for "entertain-
ment."
Testimony was before Justics
James M. Proctor. Mr.. Dyson's
wife. Mrs. Dorothy S. Dyson, 1900
block of Ellicott street NV, brought
suit asking for separate main
tenance. Mr.. Dyson filed an answer
and cross complaint charging her
with cruelty.
Further hearing on the two issues
was continued indefinitely, pending
taking deposition from a maid
who Is Ill.
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Retirement
Continued From First page.)

ployes who lose their jobs through
no fault of their own.
The widespread interest in the
legislation, one of the most i'm
portant bills affecting Government
employees in many years, was re-
f1ected in the throng Of nearly 300
persons who attempted to enter
the committee room. Only small
number could find seats and the
rest were forced to hear the pro-
ceedings while standing in the cor
ridor.
Earlier representatives of various
Government employe unions heart
lily indorsed the bill. Among those
testifying were Luther Steward,
president of the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees; E. G.
Hallbeck, legislative representative
of the National Federation of Post
Office Clerks; Jerome j. Heating,
secretary of the National Associa-
ton Of Letter Carriers, and Walter
Disbrow, national representative Of
the Retired Federal Civil Service
Employees.
Other employe groups were sched-
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Dent
Continued From First Page }

\SoA1o211CO0 4O4l IL oU dkC.J
Sens OF the Revolution, former
officer OF the Sons of the American
Revolution and a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars. He was
a past potentate of Almas Temple
and a member Of both the Mary
land and Virginia Historical So
cieties.
He was member of the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Republican
State Committee of the District.
Surviving besides his son Edward
are two daughters, Mrs. William A.
Draper and Mrs. William Tomlin-
son, and another son, Louis A.
Dent, jr., all .of Washington. Also
surviving are eight grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Thursday at st. Margaret's
Episcopal Church, where Mr.. Dent
formerly served as a vestryman. The
Rev. Armand T. Eyler Of st. Mar
garet's will oniciate. Burial will be
in Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-03-11

chairman, and A. F. Whitney, presi-
dent Of the Brotherhood Of Rail.
road Trainmen.
Interference CHARGED.
Mr.. McNear's statement said that
when their testimony is linked up
with the facts, 1t clearly establishes
that these two brotherhoods:
Seriously interfered" with T. p.
d W.'s essential transportation in
wartime.
Promoted violence" to force war;
time seizure of the company's prop
critics.
Put "wasteful and hindering prac-
tices" ahead of all-out and efficient
war production.
Continued to promote discord and
violence" in employer -employe rela-
tionships beginning In September,
1945.
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Boy, Is, Is Sentenced
For Killing Girl, 10
By the Assoeio,ed Press

MANCHESTER, England, Mar. II.
-Sixteen-year-old Joseph Gibson
was sentenced today at Manchester
Assizes to be detained during the
Kings pleasure" for the Red Rid
ing Hood murder" of a 10-year-old
girl.
The court said the sentence was
the only one permitted under the
law for murder defendant under
the age of Is. Gibson had pleaded
guilty to the strangulation Of Sheila
Gowrie in an alley behind her home
January "a, while the child was on
an errand to her grandmother's
house.
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Austria Says Nozi Ring
Was Only Black Market
By The Associated Press

VIENNA, Mar. 1.-THE Austrian
Ministry Of the Interior yesterday
denied reports circulated here owe,
the week end that "a large NazI
underground movement" had beer
smashed in Austria with the arrest
of 81 Nazi leaders.
The ministry said its communique
Saturday, on which the stories ap.
parently were based, made it clear
that it was only a black market
ring-including some Nazis but no,
exclusively so-that had been broken
I'D,
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Shooting
Continued From First Page.)

ois from Effner, Ind, to Keokuk,
Iowa, has been crippled continuously
for the last II months by the bitter
strike. The dispute between the
railroad and the, union has beer
marked by litigation, shootings, fires
and obstruction of trains. Two
pickets were killed and three were
wounded at Gridley, ILL.,, February g.
1916. -Four railroad guards later
were acquitted Of manslaughter in
that shooting.
Mr.. McNear, father of four chill
dren, was struck by six slugs. Po-
lice said pea-sized pellets were found
in the chest, neck and right arm OF
the 6 foot inch railroad president.
Doctor Heard Gunfire.
His crumpled body was found be-
tween the sidewalk and the curb on
Moss avenue, a block from his home
on a bluff overlooking the Illinois
River, by DR.. Sutton.
DR.. Sutton said he heard rapid
gunfire in front of his home and saw
a car speeding away from the scene
about 10:45 pm.
Mr.. McNear died at 11:15 pm.
at st. Francis Hospital. His widow,
Elizabeth, said he had attended the
Bradley University Colorado State
College basket ball game earlier
and was taking a walk, which he
did frequently before retiring.
The T. P. & w. was purchased in
1926 at a receivers auction by Mr..
McNear, mechanical engineer
ing graduate of Cornell, who moved
from railroad construction work
into Wall Street investment circles.
He improved the line steadily and
turned red ink into black. After
Evening star., 1947-03-11
Stolen Sufe Recovered

BALTIMORE, Mar. II (R.-Police
today recovered an 18 by 24-inch
safe taken from a filing station
and recovered approximately $125 600
worth Of non-negotiable stocks and
bonds found strewn around it in
q vacant lot. More than $500 in
cash was gone.
Evening star., 1947-03-11
House Collapse Kills Seven

MADRID, Mar. II R.-Advices
from Cordoba reported today that
10 persons were killed and IL
injured in nearby village in the
collapse of a house undermined by
recent rains.
Evening star., 1947-03-11
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Evening star., 1947-03-11

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Evening star., 1947-03-11

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-07-31

Wont to hove the best OF every
thinq you can afford? Find it first in the
AID COLUMNS of the Key West Citizeh,
then enjoy it in your own home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04
Boyle Claims College Changes
Have Made Students Serious

rumble seats than We were in
lecture halls. They had a point,
tee
We used to feel self-complacent.
~, rascally and raffish because
ministers across the land still
were denouncing colleges as
state-paid love nests and poll
tlclans were labelling them cess :
pools of sedition.
Personally l never learned
much about love nests-all the CO.
eds ever gave me was a hard
earned slap in the face - and
couldn't even spell sedition. l just
figured the ministers and politi
Gals were talking about the boys
in the fraternity house up the
street, whose dads sent them
more money.
But it was nice and soul-filling
to know that all our elders were
worried over how we we're gam.
boiling down the primrose path
even though, with only S55 {
month to live on l thought l was
walking on thorns.
About the only thing the mora
beagles were right On was thei.
contention the college boys wer,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04

drinking too much. I do believe
that at the average Saturday
nigh dance the blood content of
most fraternity men contained
more than the 80 percent alcohol
then allowed by statute.
Today the college students both
men and Women-seem to drink
much less than in my time. AL
cohol no longer is an adventure
OF a forbidden lure. Much of the
fun of college drinking went out
when you no longer had to buy
it illegally behind a taxi STAND at
81 a pint - stomach : ~shuffering
stuff that aged a freshmen into a
senior overnight, or so he felt the
next morning.
I used to have a poor boys
secret admiration for gilded stu :
dents who were living up to the
old definition of college as "a
four-year loaf On fathers dough"
There are fewer of these camp
us aristocrats about these days.
There isn't room for them. The
veterans who make better grades
are croWding them out.
The CHIEF signs of dissipation
have noted on the Indiana cam
pus are mass tendencies on the
p;rt of the men students to tear
down their digestive tracts " t h
overstuffed hamburgers and tc
wear out their eyes reading pin.
ball scores. l suppose the pirball
/! machines teach them coordina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04
Surrey Shows 10000 900
Displaced From Homes

CHAPEL HILL, May 3-A sur
vey conducted BY Church World
service shows that 80, 600, 900 peo-
pie have been displaced from
their homes in Europe during the
last five years, either by the tide
of war or by the expulsion of null
titudes following the change of
boundaries in Central Europe, the
Rev. Henry Ruark of Chapel Hill,
State Chairman of the nationwide
church appeal for clothing, an
nounced here today.
Most of these people have been
driven out with only as much of
their belongings as coulc be car
ried on their backs" Mr.. Ruark
said the survey showed. One eye
witness report written by a Polish
doctor says: "Homeless. uprooted
from their native soil, the people
wander along the highways. Sick,
exhausted, covered with vermin,
they somehow press forward to-
ward one goal-a new home. But
wherever they go they are turned
away, ordered On, misdirected
brought back for new instructions,
and then ordered on again."
This describes part of the hui
man misery which the churches of
America seek to relieve through
their cooperative agency, Church
World Service, Mr.. Ruark said.
The present state = wide collection
of clothing, shoes and bedding,
sponsored by the North Carolina
Council OF Churches, is designed
to furnish at least three and a
half million pounds Of goods for
distribution to such persons"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04
ODD FELLOWS
MEET MAY l8
Future OF Orphanage Will
Be Discussed AT Con-
cord Meeting

GOLDSBORO. N. c., LIP L.
lure Of the 62-year old Odd Eel
lows orphanage here may be de-
termined at the annual meeting OF
enc fraternity at Concord May 49,
20, when the report of a special
committee is heard.
Several months ago the Grand
Lodge empowered the committee
IN sell any or all of the property,
or to make recommendations.
Seven acres have already been
sold to the First Presbyterian
church here for $25, 900. Odd Eel
lows in the Piedmont section are
asking that the orphanage be
moved to that section.
Or. Guy Funk, Winston Salem,
is scheduled to become grand
master to succeed Julian T. Gas
Kill. Goldsboro. c. H. Warren, Ra-
leigh, will move up to deputy
Grand master. j. H. Caudill =,
Goldsboro, is secretary. He sue :
ceeded John W. Class. Burlington,
who resigned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04
600 Carolinians Make
Cruises On Many Ships

gateway to the Puerto Rican capt.
tai city of San Juan was construct
ed in the Sixteenth century. From
the single tower and bastion which
the Spaniards started in 1889,
grew this fine example Of early
for~tification in the New World.
The Caribbean climate was
wholesome and invigorating and
completely appealing to many of
the reservists who had been ex-
p~eriencing rigorous winter months
back home. The range in temporal
ture in this tropical area seldom
varies-an almost even tempera-
ture all year round.
Naval Reserve cruises to south
ern waters have a potent attrac-
tion for men of the Reserve. The
~reservist stands his watch and
performs his duties under ideal
climatic conditions and in waters
that are generally calm most Of
the time.
Such training cruises are the
voluntary privilege accorded re
servists by the Navy. He may re-
guest a two-weeks cruise every
year. Most Naval Reservists dc
request a cruise at some period Of
the year convenient to leave his
civilian activities. The Nays
problem in these post war years
will be to find enough ships ane
cruising time to take all men tt
sea who want to train at sea
III the Naval Reserve.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04

ton. They will need this later in
dealing with the atom bomb and
ether problems of their adult
years.
Questions asked me by fledgling
Journalism students indicate they
are wiser and more mature-yes,
and better informed-than l was.
| thought the most important
thing in the world at their age
was to learn how to yell,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Now I'm afraid that when these
hopes of tomorrow leap over
the campus walls to take our jobs
the only thing left for US furnished
hope. of yesterday to do will be
&C back to school and start train
ing for the day after tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04
BY HAL BOYLE

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May-R
- Whatever happened TO flaming
Youths Winding up a week as
Ernie Pyle memorial lecturer at
Indiana university l find myself
even more of a stranger TO cam
pus life than l expected IS years
after they stuck a sheepshin into
my hands and foisted me off on a
Gefenseless world.
l have a depressing feeling that
present day students r a lot
drier behind the ears than friends
l slept through classes with half
2 generation ago.
They take their work and play
and life in general more serious
ly than we ever did. Either that
or-as l suspect-they regard me
as too old and doddering at So to
be let in on what really is going
on in undergraduate life.
When l was studying to get
what euphemistically was called
an education, everybody was con-
WINGED the younger generation
was going to the devil in a hand
wagon. At the very least they susr
pected we were learning more in
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-04

CHARLESTON, S. c., May 81
More than 800 North and South
Carolinians and Georgians-all cit
izen-sai'7 rs of the new U. S. Naval
Reserve-have had the opportun-
ity to go aboard U. S. Navy ships
Of war as Naval Reserve frances
during the past three months.
1t. Cmdr. e. c. Snead, assis-
tant collector of customs, Will
nington, sailed aboard the USS
Houston.
Aboard the Nays light cruis-
ers, USS Little Rock and USS
Houston, sailing from Charleston
il February and April, these Ma
val r~eservists from cities in many
sections of the southeastern sea
board states have felt the warm
Caribbean sunshine for perhaps
the first time and visited a for
eigr port-San Juan, Puerto Rico
in an area considered to have
the most ideal climate in tn
world. The Little Rock and Hous-
ton were the first of the peace
time cruise ships to leave the
U. S. Naval Base at Charleston
since the end of the war.
The Individual reservlst making
one of the cruises did SO at 40
expense to himself, for he was on
active duty with full pay aad al
loWsnces. 1t was an opportunity
lc. him to see what the peace
time Navy was like, the expert
ence, perhaps, for the first time,
living comfortably aboard U. S..
Navy ships at sea without the
alerts and perils of his previous
wartime service.
There yer many among these
600 who Wer on sea duty for the
first time-some of them ex-Army
men or ex-Marine Corpsmen-
even youngsters who had just
reached II making them eligible
for enlistment in the Naval Re-
serve. These men were seeing
how the Navy differed from the
Other branches of the service or
were taking their Naval Reserve
tt aiming by practical methods
rather than the usual theoretical
means. To these men, it was a
novel experience.
Training cruises, such as those
aboard the Little Rock and Fous-
ton, are a most important phase
Of the Reserve program. Hundreds
OF men have requested sea train
nig as reservists, and future cruis-
es are planned by the Navy.
The two training rruises origin
mating at Charleston Wer operated
IT, the Caribbean. A liberty port
call at San Juan, Puerto Rico,
was a change in sea routine for
the reservist at the halfway point
Of the tWo-weeks' cruise. San Juan
provided the Reserve trainee with
the pleasure of seeing new sights
ard visiting a foreign land.
Historical data concerning the
Caribbean islands and Puerto
Rico, in particular, have filled
many books. Christopher Column
bus landed in Puerto Rico on his
second overseas voyage in 1893.
Many buildings and f%ortresses still
stand there all of which date back
to ancient years long before the
settlement of the American CONT
nent.
Ell Moro fortress at tn e harbor