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Evening star., 1947-10-18
Gen. Grain Named Head
OfU.S.- British Comrades

Maj. Gen. James K. Grain, u. 8.
A., retired, 1858 Twenty-ninth street
NV, has been elected president OF
the Washington Chapter of the F'el-
lowship OF United States British
Comrades. an unofficial organization
OF Americans and British who
served in the war.
Other officers are Col. Alexander
P. Gates, vice president; Comdr.
Darrell st. Claire. treasurer, and
Corpl. Frank B. Williams, secretary.
Evening star., 1947-10-18
Grace Lutheran Church

Completing the change to the fall
schedule, evening worship services
at 8 pm. will be resumed Sunday
at Grace Lutheran Church. Mathis
ut $3.50 am. will be omitted.
At the evening service the an
nual thank-offering service for the
Women's Guild will be held. Miss
Hemalatha John Of Madras. India
will be the guest speaker,
Evening star., 1947-10-18
Mems Day at Albright

Mems day will be observed at AL
bright Memorial Church on Sun
day with a special service Sunday
evening with Attorney Edwin De
Groot as the guest speaker.
On Tuesday and Wednesday
launching dinners will be held for
the denominational-wide program
OF advance and evangelism.
Evening star., 1947-10-18
Dr.. Zeno Wall to Speak

DR.. zeno Wall, pastor First Bap-
tist Church, Shelby. N. c., will be
the guest preacher at Rally Day
services tomorrow at Metropolitan
Baptist Church and also daily. Mon
day through Friday, at 7:45 pm.
Evening star., 1947-10-18

OF Germany and
in Eastern ST.
beria.
The army Of
liberation" in
Germany Is the
offspring of the
Free Germany
c o m m / t t e e
which was or
ganized in Mos
cow in the sum-
mer Of 1943 from
the remnants of
t he G er m a n
army at Stalin-
grad.
Evening star., 1947-10-18
By Constantine Brown

Two well-organized and highly
disciplined armies OF liberation"
stand at opposite ends of the vast
Russian empire-in the Soviet zone
Evening star., 1947-10-18
Bv LoweIl MeUeff

There was something wistful in
the way Harold Stassen in his Wash
ington press conference referred
to Gen. Eisenhower. Having said
Evening star., 1947-10-18

CnaI tne Hepup-
ii C a n P ar t y
should not NOM
mate any man
for President un-
less that man
has presented q
program" h e
was asked II his
remark applied
to the general.
"1t would apply
10 every Ouc, uc
replied.
Mr.. Stassen
and all the other
q admitted and re.
The union times., 1947-10-04
European Transport Labor Leaders Here

Washington (LPA)-Fifteen Euro pean transport labor Understanding up one of the largest delegations oi its kind ever to come to this country were guests in the nations capital this week of the Railroad Brother hoods and the AFL.
 They came under the auspices oi the Int'l Transportworkers Fedora tion, which represent about 100000 workers in transport unions of demo- cratic nations around the world.
 About half the members of the delegation are also members of the Executive Committee of the ITF and while in Washington they held the fall meeting of that body.
 The Railway Labor Executives As sociation, composed of the chiefs of 20 unions on American railroads, served as host to the delegation during its stay in the capital The RLEA is afil- lated with the ITF.
 The visiting unionists hail from Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands Norway and Belgium, plus the Spanish Railwaymen's Union in exile.
The union times., 1947-10-04
Eat Less Day Is Starvation
 Week. For Taft

Portland, Ore. (LPA)-Organized labor's reaction to Taft's "eat less" formula was swift and caustic. The AFL Teamsters Joint Council here proposed a city-wide "Eat Less Day" as preliminary build-up to "Starva- ton Week." The Council declared that "If the COP is intent upon mak- ing itself the party of the empty din- ner pail Taft is its most effective champion.
 Michigan labor wired Taft that 'our 8OO,OOO members in this great industrial state strongly resent the fact that you are ignoring our prob lems of rising costs and frozen wages" Taft's refusal to schedule any hearings of his price investi- gating committee in Michigan drew fire from Council President August SchOlle. "The Taft Committee,'' he said, ''is following the Republican do-nOthing pattern of opening Congress with prayer and closing with probe in an attempt to cover up their failure to provide solution to the nations economic ills.''
 Taft's assertion in Tahoe, Nev., that President Truman was responsible for high prices because he removed price controls too quickly was denounced by Senators Scott Lucas (D., Ill.) and John O'Mahoney O., Wyo.) who branded it "one of the most shocking political assertions ever made by Senator with a reputation for in tellectual integrity particularly in view of the repeated assertions during the 1o46 campaign of the Republican leaders, that all price controls should be abandoned"
The union times., 1947-10-04

MOST PHOTOGRAPHED
 Compiled from more than two million feet of film covering the life of the most-photographed per- son in world history. The Roosevelt Story reviews in semi-documentary style 40 years in the development of Franklin ID. Roosevelt.
 Flashing back to his marriage to Eleanor, which was recorded on si- lent film, it traces his career as as- sistant secretary of navy under Wood row Wilson, his siege of infantile pa ralysis, his governorship of New York state and his election to the Presi- denQv of the U. s. for four epoch making terms.
 POtently put together are the scenes pOrtraying the prOstratiOn of the us. in 1882 when FDR first took the reigns of government, and the new life he breathed into
The union times., 1947-10-04

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-The Taft Hartley act is based on the moral error that an employers right to a profit is as great as his workers right to living wage, Rev. Vincent ]. O'Connell told a 3-day conven. ton of the Catholic Committee of the south.
 PEORIA, Ill.-A stirring appeal for labor unity "to stop the rising tide of fascism in America" from Pres. Reuben Soderstrom of the Illinois Federation of Labor brought cheers and shouts of approval from dele gates to the federation's 18th conven- ton.
 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind.-The American people must be on guard to prevent atomic energy from being taken over by militarists and private profiteers under a hush hush smOkescreen, David Lilienthal warned.
 WASHINGTON-Bowing to the mounting pressure of the organized labor movement, the NLRB postponed the deadline for union compliance with the Hartley acts non-communist affidavit proviso until Oct. 31.
 MINNEAPOLIS-An upsurge of rank-and-file sentiment caused the Minnesota Federation of Labor in its convention to discard its long, standing policy of withholding po- litical inducements.
 NEW YORK-All Railway Ex- press Agency trucks in New York and northern New Jersey were tied up when more than 4,O00 drivers, helpers and garage workers walked out for a reduction in the workweels from A to 40 hours. The strike was called by Locals sos and 45o. Intl. Bro., of Teamsters.
 CLEVELAND-A 3O9o wage in. crease demand for some 400, ,OOO members of five operating railroad brotherhoods was agreed to unani- mously by the five unions, in addi- tion to the brotherhoods' previous request that the nations major rail- roads grant changes in A working rules.
The union times., 1947-10-04
$1,OOO AFL Gift
 Foz. Jewish Labor

Chicago. - The American Fede- ration of Labor donated $1, 900 to the Chicago branch of the Jewish Labor Committee to assist in the welfare work carried on by that organization.
 Announcement of the gift was made at a testimonial dinner rendered David Dubinsty, president of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union and an AFL vice-president.
 Proceeds of the dinner attended by nearly 1000 top AFL leaders >totaled $20,000, which was turned over to MT. Dubinsky to carry on the work of the Jewish Labor Committee.
 The committee finances the removal of displaced persons from camps in Europe, helps to re-establish them in normal life, provides food. shelter and education for war-orphaned children, and sets up medical centers.
 Speakers said Dubinsky symbolizes the AFL's fight against racial and re- ligious intolerance, bigotry, injustice and dictatorship.
The union times., 1947-10-04
Ironic Democracy"

Atlanta (LPA) - The Democratic Party in Georgia last week adopted rule providing for complete segre- gation of Negro voters in the AS pri- mary. The decision was made by the faction backing Gov. M. E. Thomp- son, who succeeded Herman Ta1- madge, deposed as governor by the Supreme Court in March. Though Gov. Thompson vetoed legislation for a "white" primary barring Negroes from any vote, this was apparently his answer to persistent demand for such a primary.
The union times., 1947-10-04
LOCAL AVAILABLE

Il U conditions Ot employment would remain the unions steadfast position.
 LOCAL AVAILABLE
 Commenting on the Baltimore cita- ton, Randolph said, "The Baltimore Typographical Union did not refuse to bargain on anything and was ex- pecting more meetings when the con- spirators against the ITU took over. The Baltimore union did not break off negotiations and even today be- fore expiration of the current agree nent, is available for further negotia- tions with a view to coming to con- clusion with satisfactory arrange mentS.
 Having made it impossible for unions to use the NERB, Denham, by the precipitate issuance of this complaint, makes it abundantly clear how one-sided both the Taft Hartley law and his enforcement of it are. Contrary to the invariable practice of the Board no efforts whatever have been made to settle this case on an amicable basis. The complaint was served on us with out warming, without adequate in- vestigation and without exploring a possibility of reaching an agree ment.
The union times., 1947-10-04

the nation with his stirring speeches and fortnight actions.
 Produced by Tola Productions un- der Martin Levine and Oliver Ungel in consultation with Elliott Roosevelt the Lawrence Klee script is closely drawn together by an Earl Robinson musical score and narration by Can ada Lee and Kenneth Lynch.
 But the most dramatic element re- mains the voice and person of FDR as he delivers his deeply moving fire side chats, his one-third-of-a-natior
The union times., 1947-10-04
New York Plumbers Win Broad Benefits

NEW YORK-(FP)-Families of union members, as well as the union ists themselves, will get medical and surgical benefits under a program an- nounced here by Bus. Manager Will liam Mclaughlin of Local 1-UA, United Assn. of Plumbers & Steam filters (AFL).
 The benefits are an extension of an earlier plan under which the plumbers received disqualification and death benefits. Mclaughlin said he believed the welfare program, which covers plumbers and their families in Brook lyn and Queens, is the first of its kind undertaken by any major union in the building trades.
The union times., 1947-10-04
Radio Guild To Award Mikes"

NEW YORK - (FP) Colder Mike" awards for outstanding per, formance in radio, counterparts of the movie industry's Oscars, will be initi- ated by the Radio Writers Guild.
 Awards will. go to the best pro- grams in various categories such as comedy, variety, documentary and children's programs, while actors, di- rectors and sound effects men will be among the behind the mike personnel to receive special recognition. The Golden Mikes will be awarded at 8 Guild Ball in February 1948.
The union times., 1947-10-04

and quarantine -the-aggressor speeches. his pronouncement on the rights of la bor:
 "There are those who fail tO read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effec- tive power to bargain collectively. to earn a decent livelihood and io acquire security. It is those short sighted ones, not labor, who threat. en this country with that class dis sension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the es- tablishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions in human Iife.''
The union times., 1947-10-04
5. Carolina Labor Leaders. Appointed To Rent Boards

CHARLESTON, s. C. = Efforts of the South Carolina Federation of Labor met with success in the an- r1ouncement by Governor Thurmond that labor representatives had been named as members on 5 of the 7 Rent Control Advisory Boards established in that state.
The union times., 1947-10-04
Rent Up, Pay Down

New York (LPA) = Since last spring rents on furnished rooms have risen steadily but there is no upward trend in salary as against a year ago, according to the records of the YWCA here. The room registry and employment agency at the " finds that what used to be $o rooms are renting for as high as $15. and the starting pay for stenographers. which was $35 week last year, is now $50 a week.
The union times., 1947-10-04

Monthly per capita tax from various AFL national and interna- tional unions is on the basis of 2c per member for unions with 2OO,. 900 members or less and lNc per member for the larger unions.
The union times., 1947-10-04
Roosevelt Story"
 A Splendid Movie

NEW YORK (FP)-The Roosevelt Story, first of series of coming films on the life of FDR made its world debut here last week before enthusiastic audience including officials of the U S. and the United Nations and Mrs. Roosevelt who given the script her official approval.
The union times., 1947-10-04

This "disabled' veteran has a use fu1 job and contributes as much as any nondisabled worker. But there are half million physically handicap ped persons who need and want jobs. National Employ the Physically Han dicapped Week, October 5-11, is de- voted to helping them.
 In Connecticut, as we'll as nation ally, state and local committees are CO., operating in the drive.
The union times., 1947-10-04
Alexander Gompers Dies;
 Son Of Noted AFL Leader

New York City.-Alexander I. Gompers, youngest and last surviving son of Samuel Gompers, the labor leader, died in his home, HAS 7oth Street, Brooklyn. His age was 6o. He retired on June 2 as aTeferee of the Workmen's Compensation Bureau of the New York State, Department of Labor.
The union times., 1947-10-04

In 1921 New York bakers held a mass meeting for abolition of Sun. day work.
The union times., 1947-10-04
3-Way Squeeze
 Against Typos May Be Tried

(Continued from Page One) ITU conditions of employment would remain the unions steadfast position.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01
Spitzbergen
Washington Post

Norway is CONSCIOUS than ever before of her powerful Russian neghbor because her borders now coterninous at the extreme northern tip of the Scan dinavian Peninsula with Russa's. There is deep determination in Oslo to do nothing that would be construed by the Kremn unfrendly act. To be sure Russia hitherto has been careful not to injure Norway's stsceptibilities. There attempt to prolong her occupation of northern Norway beyond the point military necessity and the occupation itself marked by scrupulous correctness. With reports of a Russian demand for a base at Spitzbergen, how ever a disturbing element has been injected into Russo Norwegian relations. It is interesting to note i that this demand antedated by year the American request to Iceland for the temporary maintenance of our wartime base there
 Scandinavian nervousness about big-power rival ries is not limited to Norway There the anti pathetic attitude displayed by Iceland toward the American request for a base. Denmark disiked the presence of American forces in Greenland. All the Scandinavian countries are chary of anything that would suggest that they not altogether masters of their own houses It is therefore fair assump- tion that Norway will be loath to approve special privileges for the Russians at Spitzbergen-all the more so because the treaty of 1920 which recognized Norwegian sovereignty that Arctic island group provides for the administration of Spitzbergen and nations that signed the 1920 pact Among these sigma tories are the United States Great Britain, Denmark, France the Netherands. Sweden and the Soviet Union Any change in Spit2bergens status would thus also require the consent of those nations
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01

The case of the Veterans Fund is entirely different, however-it does have its special income source the Veterans Tax All receipts the Veterans Tax set aside in special not to be touched for other than the purposes for which the Veterans Fund was created and the Veterans Tax law was enacted.
 The Legislature intended that revenues from the Veterans Tax should be carried in the general fund to be drawn upon for any and all purposes of government Yet, that's where they now being dumped
 When Senator Norman Walker father of the Alaska Veterans Fund law repeatedly asked Treasurer Olson in effect Has there always been enough none, in the treasury leave the Veterans Fund intactf Olson though stressing that warrant drawn agans the Veterans Fund has yet been refused finally ad- entire amount of the Veterans Fund balance could nc have been paid off had it been demanded.
 That situation should not be allowed to occur unde any circumstances. The people of Alaska are payin. the Veterans Tax that money will be there
 That situation stresses the second of ou points At the end of last year Alaska's treasury va in it's most critical condition It Is in better straight with collections in that it then merely expected to get.
 At the end of last year had all possible legal demands been made upon the general treasury, they could not have been met It was not expected that all possible demands would be made They were not made and the treasury got by but it was that close to being broke"
 It's easy D appropriate, but money that's not there can't be spent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01
RED OR BLACK?

Interrogation of Treasurer Oscar c. Olson by the Alaska Senate last Wednesday was long drawn repe- titious and in large part non-productive; but it did develop at least three points to be borne in mind
 That the Alaska World War II Veterans Re- volving Fund is not being kept as it should be.
 2-1nat the Territory's general treasury may not be broke" but it is close enough to the red that not much of a push would be required to send 1t spashing n
 3-That legislation to create a specific, "earmaTk- ed "set-asde fund name it as you will dces net automatically produce the money called for.
 Regarding the first and third of the above points, since the Legislature votes appropriations with an eye to expected treasury receipts during the two years ahead as well as any funds that may be left from the closing bennium. it is apparent that earmarked appropriations be built up from general receipts as they are taken in. It would be impossible at the end of each legislative session to add up all specific appropriations and immediately take that much money out of the general treasury and aside not to be touched for any purpose except those the lawmakers have decreed
 The close of legislature sessions does not coincide with high points of tax collections and it is unlikely that there would found the enough money for ''set-aside' purposes, let alone leaving anything for Territorys regular running expenses
 So much for "set-aside" funds in general They just can't be aside unless special source of revenue provided for themat least unless the Ter litory some day has far larger surplus than has been fortunate enough to possess in the past
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01
COP SHORTAGE TROUBLE

It was as a part of this machine that new Sergeant t-at-Arms William Russell served as Delaware County treasurer from 1886 through 1889, later being brought to Washington by Congressman Wolfenden for a minor job in the Sergeant-at-Ar Arms office.
 Having served as a COP member of the Sergeant-at-Arms office un- der the Democrats, William Rus sell, according to that sacred shib- eoleth, seniority, stood in line to become the new Republican Ser geant-at- Arms And Pennsylvania Congressmen, ever jealous to gar ner patronage for their state, hast ened to put him i'll.
 In fact they were in such hurry and so jealous that they huShed up one interesting fact in MT. Rus sells past career-his row with the Aronomink Swimming Pool Club dl l'A tAtl Illll, NilOSt DOOhS, at ltlt
 ime Russell was treasurer, show cd 9 shortage of $6,000 Feeling against MT Russell among other club members was high They even lesorted 10 a court order to make nim bring back their books.
 Finally, the club got it's money, thanks to Russell's ambition to be Sergeant Arms For, just ten days before Congress opened, Con eressmann Richard Simpson o1 Huntington, Pa, required Russell to get a letter from the club show ing that the money had been paid Incidentally, he admonished Rus sell to keep the whole matter quiet,
 Where Russell suddenly got the s6,000 to pay the club is his se- cret In this connection, 1t is inter- esting to nCte that. few years he- fore, he had lost his house through inability to pay interest on the mortgage. Get the $6,0oo he did, however, and is now comfortably cnsconced as Sergeant at-Arms ot the new House of Representatives with a salary of s12,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01

gressmen to the less prosperous
 Romney had notes drawn on the
 National Bank of Washington, ' an institution which never existed, and charged his borrowers an over all interest rate of IA percent It was a bonanza deal and would have netted him more than his $l2,000 salary had not some of the checks bounced
 One S1O,0Oo check signed by john IT. Smith, ex-Congressman from Florida, was found by probers never to have been presented to bank. Romney apparently knew it was no good, so never tried to cash it.
 Incidentally, the shortages ex- tended hack to the Republican days between 1925 and 1930. so Sergeant at-Arms trouble apparently is an ancient evil enjoyed by both par ties. It will now be interesting to see how new encumbent Russell trained ill the malodorous politics of Delaware County, Pa, handles his important office.
 (coPYRIGHT, 194i, BELL SYNDICATE. 1Nc)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01
CoNGREssMEN's BANK

Meanwhile. because the Sergeant at-AIms office remains closed and n the process of being audited, many Coneressmen are up against il financially With heavy campaign expenses and low eXchequers they had been locking forward to drop ping in on the Sergeant at Arms for an advance on their first pay check But his window is closed.
 This borrowing from the Ser geant-at- Arms ig a -honored custom and accounts in part for he sl25,000 shortage under retir- ed Kenneth Romney. The genial Democrat operated bank for members of the House of Repre- sentatiyes, in effect, loaning the ad- vance salaries o1 prosperous Con
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-01
COP POT NS. DEMOCRATIC
 KETTLE

If there is one spot in black Re- publican Pennsylvania that really needs cleaning up, 1t is Delaware County-lun by ,Ne notorious Me Clure machine. bunch Of gamb- iers, bootleggers and petty chisclcrs.
 And if there is one spot in Wash ington that really needs cleaning up. it is the Sergeantat-Arms of lice in the House of Representa- lives, presided ever for fifteen years by a genial democratic race-track fan and oil speculator, who left be- hind a shortage ot over $l25,000
 Yet of all places, and with the en- tie USA to pick from, the Repub- licans went to graft-ridden Dela- ware County Pennsylvania Qormer home Of this eolumnist>, to pick the man entrusted with cleaning up the Democratic Sergeant-at- Arms mess.
 The new Republican Sergeant at-Arms, William Russell was for mer treasurer of Delaware County. placed in that office by the famous Mcclure machine The Mcclure machine has placed some other jnteresting people in positions or public trust and here are some Of then
 Wm j. McClurg, who served nine months in jail for gambling. now sealer oI weights and measures of the City of Chester; Herbert J. Ryan, sentenced to one year and day in a Federal rum conspiracy. now meat inspector Of Chester; Albert J. Reading, sentenced 10 IS months suspended sentence and three years probation in rum conspiracy. now deputy sheriff Harry C. TIllman sentenced to one year and day and fined S3,000 in a rum conspiracy. now deputy sheriff.
 Then there is John J Mcclure himself, boss of the county, who was sentenced to Is months in jail and fined Slo,Oo0 in a rum con- spiracy while serving as state sen ator, but who got his jail sentence