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Evening star., 1947-04-10
By NewboId Noyes. Jr.
stor Stuff cerrssnondens

MOSCOW, April i0.-American
insistence that the question of
the German-Polish boundary is
still open to discussion has
doomed the western-supported
Polish Peasant Party to political
extinction, a Polish spokesman
said here today.
The spokesman, Victor Grosz,
chief of the Polish Foreign Office
press division, made plain to news
conference that his government had
been much heartened by the firm
ness of Russia's support in the
Council of Foreign Ministers for
Poland's claim to the German ter
ritory turned over to her adminis-
tration at Potsdam. Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov yesterday told the
Evening star., 1947-04-10
GoIdsborough Delays
Action on s1,800,O0O
UNIV Fine Refund
Continues Case z Weeks;
Says Miners Have Fuiled
To Show Good Foith'

Justice T. Alan GoldSborough
in District Court today withheld
action for two weeks on the pc
tition of John L. Lewis and his
United Mine Workers for the
return of $4,000, 900 of the $3,-
100000 contempt fine he imposed
on the UNIV.
He declared the defendants "have
not shown good faith up to this
moment" in compliance with the
Supreme Court contempt mandate.
Justice Goldsborough reluctantly
granted the Governments motion
to postpone action for two weeks,
pending further study to see if
there is real strike In the coal
fields. He commented that he be-
neved the $4,000, 900 should be held
and decision as to whether Mr..
Lewis repudiated a strike notice of
last fall should be postponed until
July /.
Cites "Contemptuous Attitude"
The jurist who originally found
Mr.. Lewis and the UNIV guilty OF
contempt for ignoring his Mjunct-
ion aginst the strike, declared that
Mr.. Lewis since had shown an
utterly contemptuous attitude to-
ward the court" by referring to the
court order as a yellow dog in
Junction
The court reviewed recent actions
of Mr.. Lewis in calling six-day
memorial" work stoppage to honor
the Ill miners killed in the Cen
tralia CID explosion and Mr.. Lewis
subsequent action IN telling the
Government that only two mines
In the country should be operated
until safety re-examinations were
made.
RI regret exceedingly to say there
has not been good faith shown tby
Mr.. Lewis and the union1 up to
this moment Justice Goldsborough
said as he continued the case until
April "a.
Assistant Attorney Gen. John r.
Evening star., 1947-04-10
By J. A. oLeory

Senator Connally, Democrat,
of Texas told the Senate today
Russia's mad march toward
world dominion must be ar
rested"
Taking the floor in support of the
s40O 900, 900 aid program to Greece
and Turkey. the former chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee brushed aside diplomatic
parlance to assert:
Soviet Russia, by her system OF
spreading creeping paralysis among
smaller and weaker nations, hopes
to bring about world dominion and
to control the destiny of Europe.
She hungers for all the land that
joins me-"
Recalling that in World War II
this country sent s11,297, 1885,, 900 of
lend lease help to Russia, Senator
Connally said the United States
Evening star., 1947-04-10
MikoIojczyk Party Is Doomed
By u. S. Stand, Poland Says
American Position on German Border Held
Assuring Extinction for Peasant Fuction

council that Russia considers the
question Of Germany's eastern bor-
der has been settled.
Secretary of State Marshall, who
urged the Ministers to appoint a
commission to investigate this bor-
der problem, virtually signed the
political death warrant of the Pol
ish Peasant leader Stanislas Miko-
lajzyk, Gen. Grosz said,
Though we never doubted we
would have the full support OF the
Soviet government, he said, yet
the Polish nation win never forget
the clear, friendly and / win say
noble words Of Mr.. Molotov yester-
day
Referring to Gen. Marshall's state
ment on the boundary Issue, he
gloated:
1T win have one political ehect
lsee NOYEs. Page A-70
Evening star., 1947-04-10
Long-Lines Phone Terms Sent
To Union Policy Committee
Cancellation Offciol Coils Meeting Here
Between Company and Labor Spokesman

20 1000 workers Of the American Tele-
phone g. Telegraph Co. long Lines
division. But union leaders have
declared that none of the strikers
would return to work until agree.
ments were signed for the 80 idle
afiliates of the National Federation
of Telephone Workers.
Although it was emphasized that
the proposal was not meant to serve
as q national settlement pattern,
Labor Department officials hoped IT
would have ~ chain reaction affect
In solving local disputes.
An official Of the A. T. & T. long
lines division confirmed a report
that wage issues In disputes were to
be arbitrated on q national level
/ (See TELEPHONE, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1947-04-10
3 Killed, 3 Injured
In Mine Explosion
BY the A.soeio.sd Press

EXETER, Pa, April 1o.-Nine men
were killed and nine others injured
today in an anthracite mine ex-
plosion $50 feet underground.
Only two victims were found soon
after the early morning blast ripped
through the Knox Coal Co. opera
ton. Rescue workers, digging
through the debris several hours
later, found additional bodies.
Assistant Police Chief Ed Petri1-
10 said the explosion, which rocked
the workings soon after the men
went on the job, was caused by gas
There was no comment from the
company.
The Eastern Pennsylvania mine,
located near wilkes Barre, employs
IFS naen but only . score were re-
rorted u the shaft where the biast
Evening star., 1947-04-10
Joint Congress Group
Winds Up Hearings on
District Tax Program
Trade Board and Women's S
Federation Defend Plan
To Levy Sales Tax
By John w. Thovoson, Jr.

The Joint congressional hear
|ings on the Commissioners bait
tered tax program for the Dis
trict ended today.
Chairman Cain announced the
end Of the sessions at noon, but
said the Senate House committee
would not draft its recommends
tions until hearings have been held
on the proposed new teacher pay
bill.
Although this measure Is not a
revenue bill, the Commissioners
have estimated it may add as much
as $4,000, 900 to city expenses. 1t
probably will be the subject ef joint
hearings. possibly next week.
Cain and Bates to Confer.
Senator Cain said he would confer
informally with Co-chairman Bates
early next week to begin considera-
ton of how much can be salvaged
from the original eight-bill, $40, ,000,-
600 program submitted by the city
heads and hotly disputed during
the joint hearings which have been
going on since early March.
AS the situation now stands, the
Commissioners dropped plans for
taxing amusements and utilities
bills from their schedule and have
been advised by Senator Cain that
possibly two others could not get
through Congress. One of these
is> the income tax in its original
form under which 1t sought to reach
income earned here by nonresidents.
The public hearings ended with
a defense of a proposed sales tax
one of the most controversial of the
issues raised-by the Board of Trade
and the District Federation Of Won1-
ems Clubs. Representatives of the
amusement industry appeared to
oppose any amusement tax, and
tobacco and vending machine
spokesman registered objections to
the proposed 1-cent levy per pack
age Of cigarettes.
Estimates Sales Tax Yield.
William H. Press, executive Sec
retary of the board, said per
cent sales tax here will yield from
sl2 900 900 to $4,000, 900 a year,
rather than the $4,000, 900 estimated
by the Commissioners.
He said this estimate was based
on experience with such a tax In
New York and New Orleans.
- Mr.. Press said that while 2 per
cent sales levy Is the boards third
choice as a means of raising the
necessary money for the District, If
enacted, 1t should contain fewer ex-
emptions than are now contained in
the Commissioners bill.
He suggested:
That the proposed exemption for
meals consumed in restaurants be
lowered from $1.50 to 81.
That the tax begin on articles of
Is cents or over, although the bill
authorizes the Commissioners to ex-
empt sales up to so cents.
That 2 or 8 per cent discount
Evening star., 1947-04-10
krug Accuses UNIV
Of Neglect in Work
For Mine Safety
Only 81 Complaints
Made in 10 Months,
: Interior Head Says
By jones Y. Newton

Secretary of the Interior Krug
today charged John L. Lewis and
his United Mine Workers off,
cials with "an almost unbroken
record of neglect" concerning
cooperation with the Govern
ment in promoting soft coal
mine safety.
Replying to accusations by Mr..
Lewis that he, as the Federal mine
boss, is responsible for the recent
Centralia CHI mine disaster, Mr..
Krug said his Coal Mines Admin
istration had received from union
mine safety committees at $500 Gov
err1ment-held mines. "tl1e trifling
total Of 81 complaints" about safety
conditions in the 10 months the
Federal Mine Safety Code has been
In effect.
Mr.. Krug, testifying before q
Senate Public Lands Subcommittee
on the Centralia disaster, charged
Mr.. Lewis and his union with near
ly a complete lack OF cooperation
with the Government in its striv-
ing for greater mine safety. He ac-
cused union officials specifically Of
doing little to activate the work Of
individual mine safety committees
which have the power to close dan
gerous pits, longtime Lewis OBJ
jective.
Vigorous Action Was Expected.
Secretary Krug gave the union
committees power to close dangerous
mines in the agreement he signed
with Mr.. Lewis last May for the
period of Government operation Of
the seized mines.
'"One would have expected vigorous
and effective action on the part
of union officials to achieve real mine
safety through this new opportunity
for union participation" MIR. Krug
told the committee. Instead, we
find an almost unbroken record OF
neglect, without any concerted
action on the part of these union
officials to put their new opportun-
tiles to use In promoting mine
safety"
Mr.. Krug said so far as he knew,
the unions headquarters here had
sent out no instructions or sugges-
tions to the mine safety committees
as to their opportunities and re-.
sponsibilities in the matter of avert
ing disaster.
Offers Means of Promoting Safety.
In striking back sharply at the
Lewis charges that he was Grim
inally negligent" IL enforcing mine
safety measures, Mr.. Krug suggested
as one means of promoting improved
conditions that the Federal Bureau
OF Mines be given the power to en-
force the findings of its inspectors.
A bill already has been introduced
In the House giving the bureau such
responsibility.
The witness said that if police
power is given his bureau, about
1900 inspectors, rather than the 172
at present, will be needed to carry
out the program. He said such an
Evening star., 1947-04-10
McNutt Arrives in Rome

ROME, April 10 R).-Paul Nc
Mutt, retiring American Ambassa-
dor to the Philippines. arrived In
Rome last night. He said he would
leave Saturday for Copenhagen en-
route to Washington TO present hts
resignation. McNutt Is travelling
With Josiai, Marvel. American Ans
ba&eador TO Denmark
Evening star., 1947-04-10
II Hurt as Cal Crashes
After Leaving Kelly Field
bv ,he As,oeioted Pres,

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April To-
Twenty-one soldiers were injured
seriously last night when an Army
CAT transport crashed and burned
shortly after taking off from Kelly
Field.
Names of the passengers were not
made available by officials at Kelly
Field.
Evening star., 1947-04-10
Late News
Bulletin

u. S. Backs France on Soar
MOSCOW 1.-THE United
States and Britain agreed to-
night to French demands for
detachment Of the Saar from
Germany and economic inte-
grafton Of the Saar area with
France.
(EariieE Story On Page AL,
Evening star., 1947-04-10
Clay Says Jones
Agreed foB.&0.
Fraud
Ex-RoiIrood Counsel
Tells Of 80 Million
RFC Frozen Loon
BY me Assoeia,ed Press

CaSsiuS Clay, former general
solicitor of the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad, testified before the
Senate Banking Committee to-
day that Jesse Jones, former
Secretary Of Commerce and head
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, agreed to what Mr.. Clay
termed a fraudulent bank
ruptcy" by the B. & o. in 1914.
Mr.. Clay said under oath that
Mr.. Jones gave verbal approval at
meeting in his Office here May
10, 1914, for bankruptcy move
by the carrier which Mr.. Clay said
left the RFC holding the bag on
a frozen loan" of $4,000, 900 that
does not mature until 1865.
Mr.. Clay, a former RFC railroad
counsel, read a memorandum he
had prepared on the meeting In
which he said that one of the rea-
sons Mr.. Jones gave for going
ahead" with the bankruptcy plan
was that he would not be here in
1948."
Resigned in Opposition to. Move.
Under questioning by Chairman
Tobey, Mr.. Clay said he resigned
from the B. e. O., because he op-
posed the bankruptcy move, the
second he said the carrier had taken
in six years.
II resigned because the bank
ruptcy is a fraudulent one," the
witness said in measured words.
TITS o dishonest one from any angle
you' look at it. The only basis for
it is the alleged inability of the
B. a. o. to meet an 10000 900 loan
of the RFC, the only debt of any
consequence the road had maturing
before July /, 1s48.''
Counsel for the Banking Com
mittee contended earlier that Mr..
Jones sought to throw the B. & O..
into bankruptcy five years ago in
order to gain effective control of
the carrier.
Cites Steps to Gain Control.
I Robert d. L'Heureux, the COM
mittee counsel, testified as the COM
mittee started investigating a bond
transaction between the RFC and
the B. & O. Chairman Tobey has
called the transaction clearly IL
legal"
Mr.. L'Heureux read from a mem-
orandurl, saying the Jones groups
gained effective control of the B. 81
o. through % the employment Of
four of Mr.. Jones' key positions on
the railroad, and 90 the influence
resulting from RIGS holding of an
$50. .000, 900 B. & o. note then short
ly due.
The counsel listed the men who
took the key railroad jobs as Stew
art Mcdonald, former deputy Fed
eral loan administrator, who became
chairman and a director of B. & o.;
Russell l.. Snodgrass, former assist
ant general counsel Of RFC, who
became vice president in charge of
finance; Mr.. Clay and F. L. Bauk-
hages, former RFC counsel, who
became executive assistant to the
vice president in charge of finance
and subsequently general solicitor.
Buck Defends RFC Action.
Before the hearing opened, Sem
ator Buck, Republican, of Delaware
said he sees nothing wrong with the
$50, 10000 bond transaction.
Senator Buck said he is Inter
ested in knowing Senator Tobey's
objection to it."
IT have tried to follow the cor
and other phases of the
matter and the transaction seems
to be perfectly in order and legal" ;"
Senator Buck said.
The whole thing has been
through the courts and approved by
the courts. I can't see there can be
any flaw found in it,
Evening star., 1947-04-10
BULLETIN

Direct American aid TO
Greece and Turkey involves
the risk of a war which may
destroy civilization" Senator
Pepper, Democrat, of Florida
declared in the Senate this
afternoon as he renewed his
plea to let the United Nations
handle the problem.
Evening star., 1947-04-10
U. 5. Demands Delay
By U. \. on Russia 5
Greek Aid Proposal
Austin Asks Council Not
To Act Until Congress
Approves Truman Plan
RIIIl ETIN

LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y. R.-
Greece declared today that
Russia's proposal for United
Nations supervision over Amer
lean aid seems clearly de-
signed" to encourage creation
Of a Communist dictatorship
in Athens"
Evening star., 1947-04-10

fSee COAL, Page A-39
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tSee FISCAL. Page A-4.)
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(See FOREIGN, Page A-2o
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(See TORNADO, Page A
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(See PRICES, Page A-39
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(see LEWIS, Page A-4.)
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-04
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Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-22

assistance of MT. Salvatore Ali brio, Miss Joan Katten, MT. Siegmar F. Blamberg, Jr., and Dr. Palmer P. Howard.
 The Friday program was can celled because of a thirteen-inch snowfall. MT. Perry B. Hall, Dr. Paul Collier, and Miss Edith Yeomans of Hartford; Dr. Sa- bina H. Connolly of New Ha- ven; Dr. H. K. Idleman of East Hartford; and Mrs. Elizabeth Cuffee and Mrs. Clara Stern of Bridgeport, had planned to act as a panel at this meeting.
 Sage-Allen and Go. furnished a set of flags of all nations, the Hartford Park Department fur nished tables and chairs, and Whelan s Express loaned chairs. The Atwell Go. loaned some Gray Autograph recording equipment to record interviews with visitors. The Visual Edu- cation Service and the Christian Activities Council loaned mos tion picture projection equip ment and furnished operators.
 Thirty-fve national and state agencies provided displays, to- gether with Hartford Public High School, the New Park Ave. School in Hartford, the Roger Sherman School in New Haven, the Windham County Rural Schools, and Willimantic State Teachers College.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-22

the Powell Anti-Jim Crow Bill, HR-280.
 Congressional action to end segregation as it applies to pass engers in interstate travel was urged because of. developments since the U. S. Supreme Court decided the Irene Morgan Case last June. The decision de- clared unconstitutional state laws winch require racial segre- gation on bus and trans carry ing passengers between the states. However, it did not pro- hibit the bus companies and railroads from themselves adopting regulations requiring Jim Crow seating arrangements. Accordingly, most of these car riers now enforce their own rules aainst Negroes and whites sitting together.
 Leslie Perry, speaking for the NAACP, told the House Inter- state and Foreign Commerce Committee that:
 ''Jim-Crow travel practices have caused endless inconven- fence, humiliation and hardship to hundreds of thousands of Ne gro citizens travelling between the states.
 'Tn spite of the fact that col ored passengers pay the same fares as whites, the accommoda- tions to them are always infer for. They are tired of riding in the back half of baggage cars; they are tired of riding over the wheel on the back of buses; they are tired of not being able to get a meal on a dining car without being hidden behind a curtain.
 "Your Committee has the power to make a fullscale in vestigation of this entire situa- tion, and we respectfully urge that you schedule public hear ings at an early date on the Powell bill.'
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-22
NAACP ASKS PUBLIC HEARINGS ON ANTI-UM CROW TRAVEL BILL

Washington, D. c. - The Washington Bureau NAACP called on Congressman Charles A. Wolverton (R., N.J.) chair man of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, to hold early public hearings on
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-22
CONN. NTE-GROUP EXPOSITION REPORTS

Exposition which was held at the Hartford Times Radio Cen ter, Feb. 1922, was a fine ex- ample of democracy in action. Cooperation was not only prea- ched, but also practiced, by the organizations and individuals participating.
 The sponsorship was itself a cooperative project of the Con necticut Inter-racial Commis- sion, the State Board of Educa- tion, and the Connecticut Valley Regional Office of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Throughout the prepara tion and presentation of the ex- position, government agencies, private organizations, and indi- vidual citizens worked together for the success of the project.
 Typical of this splendid CO., operation was the help rendered by students from various pub lie schools in Hartford, from St. Thomas Seminary, from the A. z. A. of B mai B 'rith, from the Talcott St. Young People, and from the Hartford Seminary. These young people, together with representatives of the 35 national agencies which partici- pated, and many individuals who offered their services, deco rated the hall, set up the dis plays, and helped with the pro- grams.
 In this activity Catholics set | up Jewish exhibits, Protestants set up Catholic exhibits, whites set up Negro exhibits, Negroes set up Jewish exhibits, and so on. All worked together in i mixed groups, just as all Ameri- cans should always do. Nearly 200 women, at the request of the Red Feather Volunteer Bureau, gave their time as host esses to receive the 5000 wis itors.
 The press and radio public ized the exposition and the ra- diO stations of the Connecticut | State Network, together with WKNB in New Britain, broad cast a series of programs en- titled, "Music of Americans" The Hartford Times provided free use of it's Radio Center auditorium and printed an- nouncements. Radio Station WHIT broadcast the preview, with remarks by Governor J. l.. MoConaughy, Rt. Rev. w. H. Gray, and Albert I. Prince, and furnished a public address system for that occasion. The Hartford Courant mailed some of the invitations.
 Prominent persons gave free ly of their time to participate in the conferences held at the exposition. MT. c. c. Hemen- way, Dr. Alfred Burgdorf, MT. Henry T. Kneeland, and MT.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-22
FRIENDSHIP IS MORE THAN WORD

41uCCh, IS hCJ huSOohO, CoO1C Doherty, Chicago newsman.)
 You probably realize that, in asking me to review this book, Friendship House, by Catherine de Hueck, you have put me over a barrel as we iterati are wont to say.
 It is a rough barrel, too, and wet. The iron hoops are rusty :; and jagged little nails stick out here and there. One must be careful. One can get hurt here, as the rookie said when he first saw the front line.
 You realize, of course, that the woman who wrote this book, the foundress of Friendship House, is no longer de Hueck, no longer a baroness, and no longer a Russian. You have learned, I am sure, that she be- came my wife and an American citizen. She has acquired cer- tain inalienable rights.
 Supposing she did not like my honest citicism of her book, either as a citizen, or as a help mate. What would be left of the barrel9 And what would be left of my reputation if I gave you a rhapsody of the book?
 I take pride in honest criti- cism. If Catherine writes some thing I do not like, I say so honestly and vigorously. I mince no words. ''This is not too good" I say. If I like it, and usually I do, I do not beat around the bush. I say 500 fiat ly and frankly. This is not too bad, 1 say
 As a matter of fact I criticized the book before it was a book. Every word of it. So maybe I can ease up little on my hold ing of the barrel. I was both severe and impartial, weighing every word, every sentence, ev- cry paragraph, every page. So, if the readers do not like the work, they have me to blame. Not Catherine. If they like it-they have only her to thank. Not me.
 Perhaps I should, therefore, not attempt any criticism, but confne myself to a simple re- view.
 The book is the story of Friendship House, though it cannot be called a history of the institution. It is also, in a measure, the story of the au- thor herself, and how she came to establish Friendship House.
 She frankly doesn't know where Friendship House began. Maybe it was when she was a little girl in Egypt, dreaming of future days. Maybe it was in her house in Finland, where partisans of the Soviets had held her prisoner and were starving her to death. Maybe it was in later years, when she