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Evening star., 1947-05-19
Minneapolis York
Record Claimed by 0dom
Rx the Assasiutsd Press

NEW YORK, May 19.-Capt. Will
liam P. Cdom, plotting the Reynolds
round the world Bombshell, flashed
over La Guardia Field at 9:48:40
a m. today and claimed an unofficial
record Of 2 hours. SIS minutes and
40 seconds flying time from Mime
apolis to New York.
Capt. Odom said his time bettered
an unofficial record set last winter
by q Northwest Airlines DC-4 OF 4
hours and Is minutes.
Capt. Odom gave his flying dis
tance as 1850 miles. He said he
averaged about 362 miles an hour
and hit top speed of 40 miles an
hour between Green Bay, Wis, and
Detroit in the twin-engine con-
yerted AIS bomber.
With him was Tommy Bartlett
of Chicago, who served as co-pilot.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Truman ReneWs
Plea for Health
Insura rance Law
Disability Protection
Also Urged as Port
Of Brood Program
fTert OF the Presidents Health
Message on Page A-3.)
BY Gornett D. Horner

President Truman today urged
Congress to give immediate at
ltention" to development OF ma
tional health and disability in-
surance programs.
| In special message, the Presi-
dent declared that national health
| insurance is "the heart" Of q COM
prehensive health program which
should be enacted as crucial to our
national welfare"
Mr.. Truman's message reviewed
| the long range national health pro-
gram which he recommended to
Congress on November 10, 1945, say
ing he is pleased that important
advances" have been made by Con.
gress toward realization of some
of the goals"
But we must not rest until We
have achieved all of our objectives."
he asserted.
Five Point Program.
The President added that until
health insurance is provided by
Congress I'VE snail be wasting our
most precious national resource and
shall be perpetuating unnecessary
misery and human suffering
He said the total program, de-
signed to make the opportunity for
good health available to all, regard-
less OF residence, race or economic
status, must include:
| l. Adequate public health services.
including an expanded maternal ana
child health program.
2. Additional medical research and
medical education.
| 3. More hospitals and more doc.
tors-in all areas Of the country
where they are needed.
4. Insurance against the costs OF
medical care.
S. Protection against loss Of earn.
ings during illness.
Controversies Stirred.
The health and disability insur-
ance provisions of the Presidents
program have stirred considerable
controversy, particularly among the
medical profession.
4 Mr.. Truman pointed out in his
message today that under the pro-
fgram he has proposed patients will
! be as free to select their own doc
tors as they are today and that
doctors and hospitals will be free
to participate or not.
He added that the plan should
provide for administration through
State and local agencies, subject
only to reasonable national stand
ards.
/ The social insurance system, the
President declared, should include
comprehensive disability insurance
to protect the people against loss OF
earnings due to illness or disability
not connected with their work.
Doctors Concentrated.
In connection with his health
insurance proposal, Mr.. Truman
pointed out that doctors are inclined
to concentrate in communities where
their incomes are most secure"
and that few doctors can be exc
pected to practice in sparsely set
tied areas where patients are un-
able to pay for their services.
i THE unequal distribution of doc
a
will plague this Nation until means
are found to finance modern medical
care for all of our people.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
High Court Reverses
Contempt Conviction
I0f ; Texas Newsmen
Justice Douglas Writes
6-3 Majority Decision,
Critieizine Judge

The Supreme Court today ruled
three Texas newspapermen were
improperly convicted of con-
tempt of court for publication of
several news stories and an ed
itorial.
Justice Douglas wrote the courtt
6-3 majority decision. Justice Jack
son wrote a dissent and Justice
Frankfurter wrote another. Chiei
Justice Vinson concurred in Justice
Frankfurter's dissent.
The decision was given on an ap-
peal by Conway C. Craig, publisher
of the Corpus Christi Caller Times
Bob McCracken, managing editor
and Tom Mulvany. reporter.
Judge Joe D. Browning Of the
Nueces County Court in Texas adj
Judged them guilty of contempt
after the publication of items deal
ing with an eviction case which he
tried. The newspapermen were SEN
fenced to three days Imprisonment
each. but the sentences were stayed
pending the Supreme Court deci-
sion.
In the eviction case. an Army pri-
vate unsuccessfully sought to hold
possession of building where he
operated cafe.
Move to Influence Court Charged.
Judge Browning said that the
news stories and editorial were "cal-
culated to pref ejudice and in
fuence the court in it's ruling" on a
request for a new trial of the evic-
ton proceedings, He finally denied
new trial.
The Supreme Courts ruling over
turned ruling of the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals which had up
held Judge Browning's contempt
findings.
Justice Douglas for the majority
wrote that the law of contempt Is
not made for the protection OF
judges who may be sensitive to the
winds of public opinion. Judges are
supposed to be men of fortitude
able to thrive in a hardy climate.
The Texas Court of Criminal APP
peals held there is no escape from
the conclusion that it was the pur-
pose and intent of the publishers te
force, compel and coerce Judge
(See CONTEMPT. Page A-5.}
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Mass Lynehing Trial
Defense Rests After
; Directed Aequitta|s
No Testimony Presented
In Behalf of Remaining
78 Defendants in Case
By the Associoted press

GREENVILLE, S. c., May 10
The defense rested today in the
trial of % white men accused of
lynching Willie Earle, "a, colored,
without offering any witnesses
in it's behalf.
The dramatic climax to the week.
long trial came few minutes after
Circuit Judge ]. Robert Martin, jr.,
had directed full acquittal of three
of the original 81 defendants, and
given acquittal on two of four counts
to seven others. 49,.
Defense Attorney Benjamin A.
Bolt closed the case with the simple
statement: THE defense rests"
The words we're almost lost in the
scume of chairs and humble of con-
yersation which followed Judge Mar
tins summary to the jury of his
rulings on the acquittals.
Judge Martin Immediately recess
sed court for the second time in 20
minutes. Earlier he had halted pro-
ceedings after announcing his di-
rected verdicts for 10 of the original
81 defendants.
Arguments Tomorrow.
The court announced the trial
would be recessed until $50 am.
tomorrow when defensive arguments
will begin. He said each side would
be allowed four hours for summa-
ton and final argument. Meanwhile,
he said. defense counsel and the
state will submit opposing argument
on legal technicalities, adding he
would receive these at S pm. to-
day.
The judge gave no indication of
the length of his own charge, but
it seemed likely the case would reach
the jury sometime Wednesday.
The court announced directed
full acquittal of three defendents
and partial acquittal of seven others
when the case was reconvened at
10 am
Statements Limited.
The court, at the same time, an
nounecd that statements allegedly
made by &c defendants at the time
of their arrests would be admitted in
evidence only against the persons
making them Judge Martin said he
would instruct the jury to disre-
gard the allegations as applying to
any co-defendants.
The court granted outright ac-
quittal to three men who refused
throughout the investigation to
make any statement to police.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Snyder Backs Change
In Tax Laws in '48;
Avoids Stand on Cuts
Secretary Opens House
Group Hearing on PIon
For Thorough Revision
By J. A. OLeory

Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder today Endorsed the de-
cispn of the House Ways and
Means Committee to plan a
thorough revision of the Fed
eral tax structure next year, but
steered clear of the immediate
wrangle between Democrats and
Republicans on whether taxes
should be cut this year.
He was the first witness before
the House committee, as 1t began
study that will continue until jan
uary to pave the way for the first
general overhauling of the tax laws
in 20 years. During that time rates
have been changed without any
complete rewriting of the compli-
Gated statutes.
AS this long-range inquiry got
underway, Republican leaders were
preparing for a Senate showdown
in their fight to bring about i'm
mediate July cuts in personal in
come levies, ranging from 30 per
cent in the lowest wage brackets to
10.5 per cent in the highest income
levels. ...
Democrats Back PostpOnement.
Senate Democrats will stand al
most solidly for postponement of
the pending tax bill until mid June,
on the ground that Congress then
will know how much the COP econ
omy advocates will cut from Fed
eral spending bills for the next IL
months.
Chairman Knutson announced the
hearings would continue until Con-
gress adjourns in July, and that
the committee would wait until late
in the fall to begin drafting this
Ilong-range tax revision.
Secretary Snyder told the COM
mittee he is confident that all sub
jects involved in the complete re-
vision cannot be completed In six
months or one year, but that some
of the more important phases of tax
revision can be.
Those who had looked forward
to Mr., Snyder's House appearance
for some ast-minute administration
word on the current tax fight, failed
to find it in his prepared statement.
House Republicans may try to get
further comment from him when
the questioning stage is reached,
however.
1T is not my intention today to
make recommendations on any
specific tax question. Secretary
Snyder's statement declared.
Discusses General Revision.
Instead, he discussed in general
terms the many phases of taxation
that should be studied in a general
revision, including the rates on in
Idiyiduals, corporations, excise leyies
ION goods and services, and the spe-
cial problems of small business.
AS to the committees decision to
begin this long-range review. Mr..
Snyder said:
This approach to the tax problem
is in accord with the recommends
ttion for a comprehensive study
which I made in my recent appear
ance before this committee and
: (sec TAXES. Page A-3.,
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Elected Governor Urged
BY Krug for Puerto Rico
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of the Interior Krug
urged Congress today to give Puerto
Rico the right to elect its own gov
ernor.
In a statement prepared for the
House Public Lands Committee, Mr.
Krug said the right to elect a chief
executive is a minimum privilege
which should be granted now as a
token of our earnest intention to
settle as soon as possible the more
perplexing problem of permanent
status"
Evening star., 1947-05-19
u. S. to Supply Lunch
For Buyorion Children
BY the Associoted Press

MUNICH, May ia 2la-cent
midday meal containing $50 calories
will be served to sos, 900 Bavarian
children this summer, American mil
itary government officials said today.
Experts are working out scientific
menus at training school in Ruh-
polding in Southern Bavaria. The
program was recommended by for
mer President Herbert Hoover and
will be in full swing by June.
The food is to be obtained from
United States Army rations and
from Bavarian farms. Parents who
can pay are expected to.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Cruiser Toledo at Bomboy

BOMBAY. May 10 lP.-The
United States heavy cruiser Toledo
entered Bombay harbor today on
good will cruise which will even-
tually take her to Japan and ex-
changed salutes with naval shore
batteries. The vessel, commanded
| by Capt. A. j. Deter of Fort Wayne,
Ind, will remain here three days.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Lote News
Bulletin
Ballots Ordered Impounded

The Senate subcommittee on
elections today ordered paper
ballots from the contested
Maryland senatorial election
impounded in Baltimore,
where they will be counted,
while the committee itself will
begin a series Of meetings to-
morrow morning on the 6,6z4
paper ballots still in dispute
from five Maryland counties.
d. John Markey, Republican
candidate, is contesting the
election Of Senator O'Conor.
Democrat, already seated.
Earlier Story on Page A-3)
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Britain Reported
Ready 10 Yield
Defense Of Sue1
Would Give u. S.
Responsibility Over
Mediterranean Area
BY me Asseeiotsd Press

LONDON, May 9.-lnformed
British sources declared today
that Britain is setting the stage
to hand military responsibility
In the Mediterranean and Middle
East over to the United States
and withdraw empire defenses
to East Africa.
Qualified British military inform
ants said the proposed setup i'm
piled that defense OF the Mediter-
ranean and the Suez Canal In
particular would become United
States responsibility.
The move will not mean abandon
nent of Britain's economic and
political interests in the Middle
East, however, these sources said,
recalling Foreign Secretary Bevin's
statement to the House OF Com
mons last Friday.
"We must maintain continual
interest in that area" Mr.. Bevin
said, ''if only because our economic
and financial interests are OF vast
Importance to us and to other coun-
tries as we'll"
VIII Take 2 to 3 Years.
1T those interests were lost to us"
the Foreign Secretary added, the
effect on life in this country would
be q considerable reduction In the
standard of living
The info1mants, who are close
to the War Once, fixed the time
table for withdrawal of the British
military and supply bases at Two
to three years.
The momentous shift, revamping
q 50-year -old policy of imperial de-
fense, has been made possible. the
informants said, by emergence OF
the United States as an active Med
iterranean power with definable in
terests to defend.
The decision to fortify East Africa
main Kenya and the two Rho
desiaS-was understood to have
been dictated, too, by Britain's de-
cisiop. to quit India by June, 1S48,
by the instability of Palestine and
by the uncertain constitutional fu-
ture of the Sudan, whose status is
now the subject of an Egyptian ap-
peal pending before the United
Nations.
Effect Truly Historic"
The effect on the economic, So
cial and political future of Africa,
the military sources said, would be
truly historic ...
British officials, they declared, al
ready have recognized that any
blueprint for an Africa defense
strategy would require the active
corporation of native peoples.
Another primary requirement
would be coordination of policy
with France and Belgium, Britain's
most important and politically re-
liable neighbors in Africa.
British, French and Belgian CO.
lonial administrators will meet in
Paris tomorrow to discuss wide
range of African problems, includ-
ing public health, communications.
hygiene. food supplies, drainage and
reforestation.
British, French and Belgian
sources in London agreed that an
intensive development program in
Southern, Central and Equatorial
Africa would begin "very soon" Tri-
partite commissions. they said, may
be set up to implement decisions of
the poriS conference
The informants said Field Mar
shall Lord Montgomery, chief of the
Imperial General Staff. already had
discussed the British withdrawal to
Africa with his advisers
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Jews From Europe Landed
BY Parachute in Palestine
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, May 19.-Rabbi
Baruch Korff, United Nations OBJ
server for the Political Action Com
mittee for Palestine, says his organi-
zation has been dropping European
refugee Jews into Palestine but I'VE
are waiting for the British to say
how many were dropped"
I'VE have been warned by the
British to halt these operations.
Rabbi Korff said in an interview last
night "Of course, this will only
intensity our preparations."
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Operation Torch

Gen. Mark w. Clark begins
one of the great adventure
stories of the war today on
the editorial page of The Star.
In the first of six daily in
stallments he tells OF the re-
ceipt of word from Washing
ton that sent him to secret
rendezvous, by submarine, to
the coast of Africa, there to
plan for the landings of
American troops later on.
This story Is worth reading.
Turn to Page A-8.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
As Greek Rebels Slain

ATHENS, May 10 tP1-The Min
istry of Public Order said today that
IS rebels had been killed and 81
wounded In three engagements
southwest of Lamia. Government
losses were placed at four dead and
three wounded.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
ItoIy Files Application
For u. N. Membership
BY the Assoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, May 49,
Italy's application for membership
in the United Nations was handed
to Secretary-Genera Trygve Lie
today by Alberto Tarchiani, Italian
Ambassador to Washington.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Twelve Die in Reich BIust

BRUNSWICK, Germany, May 10
.P.-Twelve persons British SOL
dier and II German employes-were
killed today when an explosion rip
ped q munitions dump here.
Evening star., 1947-05-19

tSee LYNCH TRIAL, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1947-05-19

(See OAR, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1947-05-19

(See CONTEMPT, Page A!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

IF the preparation for and
the conduct of war constitutes
the only compensatory force 70
the labor-displacing effects of
technology, the proposition
would then be established that
only through war can the pres
ent economic system be operat
ed in such way as to approx
innate full employment"
. 4
WHEN you translate that,
you get a proposition of jobs
and war, but not of jobs and
peace. You remember how Lin
coin used to say, 'the whole
people will ever do well, if we'll
done by" Which means it's
right smack up to the people to
see that the proposition is jobs
and peace.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

The new organization is headed
by Pres. Joseph A. Reirnc of the
NFTW and expects to call con
stitutional convention within a
few weeks.
With representation in each of
the As states and the District OF
Columbia NFTW reported that
only two locals rejected the pro-
posal to join CWA; Maryland
Federation of Telephone Work
ers and the Maryland Telephone
Traffic Union. Referendums are
not yet completed by NFTW at
filiates in New York tupstate),
Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky and
Ohio.
The CWA is being formed to
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

months ago, according to union
members, when the crane opera
tors demanded pay boost of Is
cents per hour because of their
added responsibilities and higher
production.
After Superintendent A. J.
Castle considered" the proposal
for two months; his agreement
to raise the crane operators
rates was overruled by Works
Manager Fred Gillies.
The resulting "slowdowns"
caused by the workers decision
to observe company safety reg
ulations to the letter led the COM
pany month ago to offer 7Is
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Big business ads stand facts on their heads

along, unable to solve the prob.
lem of mass unemployment.
Armies of unemployed walked
the streets in the midst of
prosperity" Even the boom"
of 1897 was just newspaper
headlines to millions OF Amer
leans who could share in it only
by reading about it.
1t took the most colossal war
in history, with the government
supplying the capital and the
market, to again supply" these
forgotten men with productive
equipment; and even then, it
was the government, not "free
enterprise" that supplied the
plants and equipment.
= y y
1T was war that put the PEG.
pie to work.
AS the government itself
said: this expansion
During the war; has depend
ed upon Governments readi-
ness to provide most of the
capital needed in war
production; upon the exist
ence of what amounts to
guaranteed market for any
thing that could be produced;
and in general, upon Govern
ment's initiative, support,
guidance, and control"
And here we are now in the
first flush of this war-created
full employment and expansion.
Here we are with most of the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

The suspended workers, mem
bers of Local 1910 of the CLIO
United Steelworkers, received the
united support of the entire To-
cal as grievance chairman Donald
Lutes, cold-strip grievance COM
mitteeman John Sargent (also
president of the locaD, and tin
mill committeeman Walter Leon
ard continued negotiations to set.
tie the dispute.
Although the crane operators
grievance involved only little
over 100 workers, the company's
action forced the shutting down
of nearly the entire plant.
THE DISPUTE began six
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

against their bills, although
they were supposed to be con-
Quoting hearings on them.
=
INSTEAD, the UE officers
found that the honorable sena-
tors were more interested in
running a red-baiting show.
UE Pres. Albert ]. Fitzgerald
had hardly opened his mouth to
express the UE's position on
the bills, when Taft and Ball
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Union Paper in NJ.

CAMDEN, N, J.-(FP)-Filling
the void created by the suspen-
sion and sale of the Camden Cour-
Ter Post, striking members of'the
American Newspaper Guild
(CIO) launched a new daily news
paper, the Camden Free Press. as
a public service.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

rest of the world either plug.
cling its ears or running away
as fast as it can so it won't
hear or feel the effects when
this American boom busts.
AND what do the medicine
men of Big Business tell US?
They tell us that everything
is for the best in this best of
all possible economic systems
because they are now supplying
one worker with as much
equipment as they used to pro-
vide for five.
They don't tells us what
happens to the A men who
aren't supplied at all anymore.
They don't tell US that invest
ment must increase at a faster
and faster pace just to EN-
ploy the same number of
workers.
THEY don't tell US how sys-
tenn is going to be run, for prof
it, if it keeps putting more an0I
more workers on the shelf. No!
Anyone who turns their ad on )
its feet is prophet of gloom
and ought to be put in a
straight-jacket.
The men that FDR asked tos
study the question of unemploY-h
ment soberly tell us, with facts
and figures-"From where else
can the stimulus (for jobs) be-
to come? From war?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

replace the loosely federated
NF'TW with it's autonomous un-
ions and to build closely knit
national union for the Industry.
The parent organization recently
rejected proposals to affiliate
with the AFL or CLIO. 1t viii be-
gin operations in between its con-
stitutional convention and June
10.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Taft and Ball can't be bothered with testimony
on anti-Iubor bills, but have time TO red-buif

began a barrage of red batting
questions"
When Taft asked whether en-
ployers should be allowed to
charge that union leaders are
communists, Fitzgerald told
him:
1--WE have been called COM
munists more than any other
organization - probably be-
cause we are doing a good job
for our members"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Smoking 'em out
By HERMAN sCHENDEL
Have they no shame?

I mean these big companies
who run ads saying they are
now supplying each worker
with more equipment than ever
before. They drool about how
they now supply a worker with
$4,000 equipment, where it used
to be $1,000.
They give the idea such a
build-up that you have to look
twice to see what's happening.
WHEN facts become so glar-
ing that they can't be kept in
the dark, these double-talkers
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
New national phone
union organized

WASHINGTON = (FP) With total of 81 of the 40 MEM
unions the Natl Federation of Telephone Workers unaa
applying charters in the Communications
unaated the launching of the CWA officially
by the parent organization.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Union charges lockout
ait Inland Steel

Workers at the Inland Steel Companys Harbor
week charged the with deliberate
ordered vedy disciplinary suspension operators
the cold strip and tin mill