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Evening star., 1947-05-25
BY Gornett D. Homer

A new clash between American and
Russian concepts of freedom Of the
press at a meeting Of the Interna-
tional Organization of Journalists
in Prague next month Is anticipated
by informed officials here.
Milton Murray, president of the
American Newspaper Guild, said last
night he will fight at the meeting for
recognition of the view that "the
basic freedom of the press is the
right of the people to be fully in
formed"
Russian representatives are ex-
pected to renew attacks on freedom
of individual enterprise in publish
ing newspapers and to press for reso-
lutions calling for punishment of
writer's of false information"
Seeks to Avoid Clash.
Il don't want to be unnecessarily
quarrelsome with the Russians" Mr.
Murray said. Il would not try to
force our concept on them. But /
| certainly am not going to have
our point of view submerged to any
totalitarian concept that newspapers
can print only what the government
says they can"
The American Newspaper Guild
trade union organization of white
collar" newspaper workers in this
country, is the only United States
group affiliated with the Interna
tional Organization of Journalists
The IOJ membership includes ma
tional groups of 26 countries.
Mr.. Murray's plans concerning
press freedom issues at the Prague
meeting have the full backing of the
State Department, which is arrang.
ling for its representatives in Europe
to aid him in any way possible. He
plans to leave by air Wednesday
going to Prague by way of London
and Paris. The meeting in Prague is
scheduled from June 3 to June 8.
Propaganda Disturbing.
| Both the ANG president and State
Department officials are disturbed
by the anti-American propagands
use to which Russia has pl4t a res.
olution adopted by the organization
meeting of the IoJ at Copenhagen
last year.
Mr.. Murray said Soviet propagan-
dists have distorted" his views in
broadcasting that representatives OF
working American newspapermer
Evening star., 1947-05-25
u. Sired Clash on Free Press
Expected at Prague Meetinq

admit the press cannot be free as
long as it is privately owned.
Russian representatives put
through the IOJ meeting last year
a resolution reading In part:
This Congress recognizes that
press freedom can never be fully
assured while newspapers, news
agencies and broadcasting systems
are solely in the hands of individuals
or private monopolies with no re-
sponsiblility to the people, and it re-
calls that freedom of the printed
word has been used in the past not
for the benefit of humanity but
against it."
Original Draft Cited.
On Mr.. Murray's insistence, the
word solely" was inserted In the
original draft. He said this was in
an attempt to reconcile various
views of representatives from other
countries in addition to Russia, and
still not have blanket condemna-
ton of private ownership.
In references to the IOJ resolu-
ton, Moscow broadcast, have omit
ted the word solely.
One such broadcast, monitored
last July 7. asserted: The Congress
declared that full freedom of the
press could not be realized while
newspapers, news agencies, and
other publishing enterprises and
the radio remain the property of
private persons and monopolies
which bear no responsibility before
the people"
Mr.. Murray said he is certainly
going to seek a correction" of the
Soviet distortions in the Prague
meeting. It will go in there to af-
firm the right of private ownership
| of the press and defend that" he
declared.
He said he also would press for
resolutions calling for entire re-
moval, so far as possible, of all
restrictions on the travel of news
papermen and on their right to
report things as they see them
These proposals are expected to en-
counter stiff Russian opposition
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Transport Is Crippled
|By Starvation Rail
Rates, Young Says
BY the A.seeie.sd Prsss

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, May a.
r. Young, chairman of
the board Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway, today charged that
railroads Of the Nation have been
brought to such a plight that troop
transport would collapse In the
event of another war.
Mr.. Young made his statement
while on an inspection tour. here,
during which he tremendously
saluted a statue of Coils P. Hunt
ington, the founder Of the line, on
the esplanade fronting the G. and
o. station.
Mr.. Young, who also is chairman
Of the board Of Allegheny Corp,
blames the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the Federal Gov
ernment jointly for what he called
the treatment Of the railways.
Charges Starvation by u. S.
These starvation policies In
dealing with passenger and freight
rate increase applications, as con-
tracted with the promptness of the
Government in promoting wage in
creases to labor" he said, "have re-
suited in condition whereby rail-
roads lack means to transport vital
commodities adequately.
The railroads now have insuffi-
cient cars to transport coal, wheat
and other essentials of the Nations
economy due to the fact that the
ICC and Government have starved
them while subsidizing other means
Of transportation including airlines.
mo better example of the ICC,s
failure to do its job is available"
he continued, than the fact it took
the commission three years to de-
bate the last freight rate increase"
Mr.. Young also criticized "presi-
dents of Eastern railroads" for what
he called asking the public to help
them fight wage increases"
Referring to newspaper adver-
tisements, the c. and o. board chair
man said "the Eastern railroads are
opposing the next wage increase
demand by employees, saying it will
cost $568, ,000, 900. They are wasting
their time. They could spend the
money more profitably by seeking
rate increases which would permit
them to meet these demands"
He also charged that the policies
of the ICC have been dictated, mot
by the interests of the railroads, but
by Eastern banking interests.
Unable TO expand equipment. due
to the niggardliness of the ICC. the
railways have been unable to ex-
pand business and provide more en-
ployment to labor.
''In justice to the railroads" he
added, "the next rate increases al
lowed by the ICC must anticipate
not follow-wage increases"
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Isl. Louis PressInen
Return After 5-Hour
Protest Walkouf
BY III. Assoeiassd Press

ST. LOUIS, May 24.-Pressmen
returned to work late today on or
ders from their union officers after
q hve-hour walkout that prevented
publication OF all OF today,s edi-
tions of the st-Dispatch and all
but about 10000 copies of the STAR
Times.
A union ofilcial said the press
men objected to publication Of q
telegram to them from their in
ternational president, George L.
Berry. The newspapers refused to
delete the text Of the telegram from
their stories.
The pressmen agreed to return
to work after they were ordered
to do so by Charles D. Bond, in
ternational representative of the
union, Abram D. Wolf, president
Of Local SO of the st. Louis AFL
Web Printing Pressmen's Union,
and members Of the locals Execu-
tive Board and Negotiating Com
mittee.
Obligated by Contract.
The telegram from Mr.. Berry, ad-
vising members of the local they
were obligated under their contract
to continue on their jobs, was pub
lished by both the Morning Globe
Democrat and the Post-Dispatch
in their Sunday editions and in
the copies of the Star Times print
ed today. The Star Times does not
publish on Sundays.
The pressmen returned to work
in time to run of about $4,000
copies of the Star Times last
edition. The same number of the
newspapers first edition was run
off before the walkout started.
Union officials issued no state
ment on the walkout and Mr.. Wolf
said he had mo comment
The union, as step toward en-
forcing its wage demands now being
negotiated, had advised the pubs
fishers that effective Monday it
would apply manpower restrictive
measures which would have made
impossible the normal publication
Of regular editions. Through this
action, Mr.. Berry's telegram said
the local union is undertaking to
impose an indirect strike action.
Suppression Demand Rejected.
After about $4,000 copies of the
Star Times had been run off today
local union headquarters ordered the
pressmen to stop the presses until
the news story carrying the text OF
the telegram was withdrawn from
the papers.
The publishers of both papers re-
fsed to comply. The Post-Dispatch
characterized the action "as an at
tempt to censor the news" and the
Star Times publisher, Elzey Roberts
said, "No group Of employees or any
one else Is going to tell this news
paper what it should or should not
publish"
Involved in the wage negotiations
is the union demand for $11.50
weekly wage increase. The pub
fishers have offered $3.50. The
publishers offer would establish
scales of $80.50 a week for day work
of 371a hours and $81 20 a week for
night work of IS hours.
Evening star., 1947-05-25

of the bills of commissioners for
transportation and entertainment.
The Rev. DR.. J. Hillman Hollister,
pastor of Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church, flew here today from Wash
ington to congratulate Mr.. La Roe.
DR.. Hollister will say the prayer
opening the assembly tomorrow.
Resolutions recommending wig
orous participation of the United
States in the United Nations" op-
posing peacetime military conscrip-
ton and urging efforts to explore
every possible point of agreement
in Soviet-A;nerican relations" are
among those to be taken up by the
general assembly next week.
The question of keeping Myron c.
Taylor at the Vatican as personal
representative of the President is
another question expected to be
voted on before the assembly ad-
iOurnS Wednesday. =
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Eastern Shore Society,
D. c. Alumni to Meet

Members of the Eastern Shore So
ciety of Washington and the Wash
ington Alumni Chapter Of Wash
ington College, Chestertown, Nd.
will hold a joint meeting Tuesday
at 7 pm. at the Boardmoor Hotel
36O1 Connecticut avenue NV.
Perry o. wilkinson, member OF the
Maryland House of Delegates from
Prince Georges County, will discuss
progress on the proposed Chesa-
peake Bay Bridge project.
Evening star., 1947-05-25

"TeStudo," the University OF
Marylands now you see it, now
you don't" bronze terrapin yesterday
was returned to his pedestal in front
of Ritchie Coliseum, College Park,
by Johns Hopkins University STU
dents.
The return of the 400-pound ter
rapin from Baltimore ended a three
day war" between undergraduates
of the two institutions, climaxed by
an unsuccessful invasion early yes
terday of the Hopkins campus by
about $50 Maryland University
shock troops.
The terrapin was accepted by
Daniel B. Wiseman, chief of the
University of Maryland police,
before lacrosse game be-
gan between the two schools.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Children Of Revolution
To Install Officers al
Mount Vernon Today
Star staff Photo.

New officers of the National So
ciety of the Children of the Amer
lean Revolution will be installed to-
day in ceremonies at the CAR tree
at Mount Vernon.
The society was to close its two
day annual convention with the Gus
tomary pilgrimage to Mount Vernon
and q memorial service at Christ
Church in Alexandria.
Patricia Edwards, 10, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, was elected junior
national president yesterday, and
Mrs. Donald Bennett Adams, New
Rochelle, N. Y, was chosen senior
president to direct policy of the Or
ganizatfon.
Other officers include these vice
preSidents:
Mrs. Esther William Berner.
East Orange, N. j.; Miss Elizabeth
McNeill, Ell Paso: Mrs. Fred T.
George. Denver; Mrs. c. w. Phager,
Evanston, ILL.,; Mrs. Wilbur P. Reid,
Portland, Greg; Mrs. Sophia Rus
sell. Marietta. Ohio; Mrs. Roy VAL
entine Shrewder, Ashland, Kans.;
Mrs. Howard P. Arrest, Valley View
Ranch, Simpson, Lyon County, New,
and Mrs. w. B. Reid, Portland, Oreg.
Other junior officers include
Frances Scobee, Winchester, KY,
organizing secretary; John C. Searle,
Rock Island, Ill, historian, and Joan
Raubenhold, York, Pa, librarian
curator.
Buses will leave Memorial Con-
tinental Hall at 10 am. for Mount
Vernon. The new president will lay
wreaths at the tombs of George
and Martha Washing tom
"A box luncheon, will be served on
the picnic grounds following install
lation of the officers
In Alexandria, a wreath will be
placed at the tomb of the Unknown
Revolutionary Soldier in the Old
Presbyterian Meeting House church
yard. The Christ Church service
will start at 1:30 pm.
A dinner-dance was held last night
at the Mayhower Hotel. A reception
to the junior national officers pre-
ceded the dinner
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Daughters Of 1872
To Open Sessions
Here Tomorrow

The flfty-fourth associate council
of the National Society United
States Daughters OF 1912 will be
opened at 10:3o am. tomorrow by
Mrs. Lucius Willingham Mcconnell.
national president, at the Hotel
Statler.
Registration for the meetings,
which will continue through Tues
day, began yesterday.
Opening activities yesterday in
cluded the annual supper and meet
ing of the Association of State Pres
idents and Charter Members, of
which Mrs. P. S. Tilson Is president
The Officers National Club was
to hold its annual meeting and
breakfast today at national head
quarters, 146l Rhode Island avenue
NV. Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy is
president of the group.
Memorial Service Planned.
This afternoon a memorial serv-
ice in tribute to members who have
died IN the last year will be held at
2:30 o'clock at st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Sixteenth and H streets
NV, with the Rev. c. Leslie Glenn
officiating. Mrs Charles H. Stephen
son, national chaplain, will direct
the ceremonies.
Mrs. Charles Henry Plotner, state
president for the District. will honor
the late Mrs. Herbert Blandy, last
Real Daughter of the District, who
died on Christmas Day, 1916.
A reception from to pm. will
take place at national headquarters
under the supervision of Mrs. Sol
Lansburgh, national chairman of
headquarters and her committee. She
will be assisted by Mrs. Charles Rice,
chairman Of the reception COM
mittee, and her group.
The board of directors will meet
tonight in preparation for the asso-
ciate council, and another after adj
journment Tuesday.
Marine Band to Play.
The Marine Band will furnish
music for the sessions tomorrow. The
unfurling of the Real Daughters
flag will be escorted by Mrs. Richard
R. Fuller, real daughters page. State
Real Daughters pages for the Dis
trict participating in the program
are Miss Mae Joy Heinrichs and
Miss Marjorie T. Rhodes.
Reports of national officers will
be given during the morning session.
In the afternoon, Mrs. Frederick
Brewster Ingram, fourth national
vice president and national chair
man of national defense, will intro
duce Representative Gossett, Demo-
crat, of Texas, who viii speak on
National Defense"
The afternoon program will in
clude reports of standing commit
tees and state presidents Follow
ing the report of Mrs Lane Scho-
field of Washington, national chair
man Of memorial markers, there will
be an award to the State marking
the largest number of graves.
Banquet Planned Tomorrow.
A reception and banquet will be
held at 7:3O pm. tomorrow at the
Statler. Greetings will be brought
by Capt. Milo F. McAlpin, presi-
dent of the General Society War
of 1912. There will be an address,
Andrew Jackson" by Col. Robert
S. Henry, and musical selections in
honor of the 150th anniversary of
the launching of the frigate Consti-
tuition on October 81, 1877.
Soloist will be Dorothea Lawrence,
soprano, accompanied by Lewis Pot
ter. The Navy Band will play.
Music for Tuesday mornings ses-
sion will be furnished by the Ma
rine Band trio. Further reports of
state presidents will be heard, as
we'll as special committee reports.
A business session will be held at
a pm.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Prince Georges Police
Identify Truck Victim

A 77-year-old man who was fatally
injured yesterday when struck by a
lumber truck on the Baltimore
boulevard near Muirkirk, Md, has
been identified by Prince Georges
County police as Primitive Rodri-
giuez Cuevas, of Gurabo, Puerto
Rico.
Police said Identification was made
through papers found on the victims
body. They said he was passenger
on a New York-bound bus which
had broken down. He was en- route
to the home of daughter in New
York, police added. His body was
taken to Gasch's Funeral Home in
Evening star., 1947-05-25
AIphu Chi Rho Dinner

Washington's Alpha Chi Rho Club
will hold its spring dinner at $50
pm. Tuesday in the Burlington
Hotel. Herbert M. Gould of New
York City, national vice president,
will speak, Col. Thomas j. Frailey
secretary announced
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Golf to Honor Vinson

Chief Justice Vinson will be guest
of honor at the banquet of the
George Washington University chap
ter of the Order of the Golf, hon
orary society for law students, at
7 pm. tomorrow at the Washington
Hotel
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Precipitxtion.

Temperatures in Various Cities.
WASHINGTON. May "a DP.-Weather
Bureau report of temperatures and rain
fail for the "a hours ending s pm. in
the principal cotton srowing areas and
elsewhere:
Evening star., 1947-05-25

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. SO, on May 13.
Lowest, :, on February s.
r.
Evening star., 1947-12-06
Electrical Contractor!
Indicted in Missouri
|0n Antitrust Charge

from Yesterdays Last Editton.)
The Justice Department today
announced the indictment OF
6 electrical contracting firms and
Il individuals in the Kansas
City and Springfield (Mo.) areas
on charges of conspiracy to re-
strain trade in the installation
of electrical systems in housing" ."
Attorney General Clark said
that two such indictments were re-
turned by q Federal grand jury Sit
ting in Kansas City.
Both, he said, named as defend
ants the Greater Kansas City Chap
ter of the National Electrical Con-
tractors Association and the man
ager of the chapter, ]. w. Collins,
In addition, Mr.. Clark said the
defendants named at Kansas City
are the Evans Electrical Construc-
ton Co., the Squire Electric Co.,
North Kansas City Electric Co., A. E.
Smiley & Co. and the following in
dividuals: G. F. Miles, John st. Clair,
Charles Ossley, Arthur E. Smiley,
John G. Murray, Fred E. Geiss and
Harry Young.
Mr.. Clark named the Springfield
defendants as Atom g. Luce, Enc,
Mound City Electrical Engineering
Co., o. F. Luce, w. B. Atom, F. s.
Leidy, Victor L. Doris, G. w. Lannon's
and o. M. Roper.
These cases." Mr.. Clark said In
a statement, "are part Of the pro-
gram Of the Department of Justice
to attack conspiracies In the housing
field which contribute unlawfully te
construction COSTS"
The Justice Department said thai
Is other electrical contractors hold.
ing membership in the Kansas Cit,
chapter of the Electrical Con.
tractors Association who ATTENDED
some of the meetings Of the associ.
alton were named as co-conspirator.
but not as defendants in the Kan.
sas City area indictment"
Evening star., 1947-12-06
No Civil Rights Issue
Seen in Loyalty Probe
from YESTERDAYS Last Edition.

(From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
Assistant Attorney General A.
Dewitt Vanesch told a group OF
Lutheran laymen today that charges
of violation of civil rights are not
applicable to the current Federal
loyalty probe.
A former chairman of the old
Presidents Loyalty Commission, he
said at a luncheon Of the Lutheran
Layman's Fellowship at the Willard
Hotel that Government service "is
privilege and carries no impli-
cation Of rights to Federal employ
ment."
IF Communists want to oppose us
politically" he said, they can be
voted down by the ballot. But they
have no right or place in the Fed
eral service"
He also defended exposure by the
Justice Department Of schools
backed with funds Of subversive
groups.
mo one is benig told they can't
60 to such schools, but the public
has a right to know about them,
he added.
Mr.. Banesch traced activities OF
the commission, which reported to
the President last February and led
to the current investigation and
establishment of the Civil Service
Commission Loyalty Review Board
Evening star., 1947-12-06
Probe Of Ciyics Textbook
Resumed by House Group

Investigation Of the controversial
civics textbook Building Citizen
ship" was to be resumed today by
the House District Subcommittee on
Health, Education, and Recreation
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superin-
tendent of schools, who has de-
Tended the volume from attack by
the Veterans .of Foreign Wars. was
expected to be one Of the principal
witnesses.
Representative Miller, Republican,
Of Nebraska, subcommittee chair
man, hoped to complete hearings in
executive session today.
The book still is in use in the
junior high schools Of this city, by
orders of the Board Of Education,
despite efforts Of the VFW to have
it banned.
Evening star., 1947-12-06
5tork Club Emp|oye
Says Bi||ings|ey Paid
$500 for Testimony
By the Asseeiatsd Prsss

NEW YORK, Dec. GA stork
Club dishwasher told the State
Labor Relations Board yesterday
that the clubs proprietor, Sherman
Billingsley, had paid him $500 to
testify before the board in his be-
half.
The witness, Jose Mercado, said
Billingsley gave him the money
Thursday night after instructing
him to testify that he (Mercado) had
made propaganda" against union
Of his own accord. Billingsley denied
the statement.
The board Is hearing an unfair
labor practices complaint against
the operator Of the swank night
spot, brought on behalf of the AFL
Chefs, Cooks, Pastry Cooks and As
sistants Union, Local 80, which re-
Gently lost union election at the
club.
Mercado testified that Billingsley
previously had given him $500 and
a raise to make propaganda"
against the union.
The union protested the results
of the election, contending Billings
ley had persuaded his kitchen help
to vote in his favor by bribing or
intimidating them.
Shortly after Mercado left the
stand, District Attorney Frank S.
Hogan announced he was calling for
q copy Of the dishwasher's testi-
mony.
Billingsley said he had suspended
the man with pay pending DISPOSE
ton Of the case.
The club proprietor listened in
tently as Mercado told the board
that he was paid to declare for
Billingsley.
Asked by . board attorney what
he meant by declare" Mercado
said:
"Mr. Billingsley said for me to say
that his propaganda was done OF
my own accord, not what he told
me to do, and If I brought people
up to his ONCE for q Coca Cola or so,
1t was done on my own accord"
In earlier testimony witnesses said
Billingsley had wined and dined his
employees and threatened to use
$40, 900 900 to buy the union"
Evening star., 1947-12-06
|Siamese King Postpones
Return 10 Take Throne
by the Assoeio,sd Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Dec. 8.
-Prasert Mattri, secretary to King
Phumiphon Aduldet Of Siam, said
today the monarch has no inten-
ton of returning to Bangkok until
next March, even though he came
Of age yesterday, his Goth birthday.
He succeeded to the throne in
June, 1916, when his brother. King
Amanda Mahidol, was shot and
killed in the royal palace in Bang
kok. When a new government took
power in q coup last month he was
asked to return.
The new King, now studying law
and political and social sciences at
Lausanne University, let it be
known, however, that he would not
return until his brothers cremation
ceremony next March. Until then
q five-man regency will continue to
exercise the royal functions.
Evening star., 1947-12-06
IS. Kann Sons Co. 10 Pay
Yu|e Bonus 10 Employees

The S. Kann Sons Co. announced
today that it will pay Christmas
bonus to all regular employees on
December II with the size of the
bonus depending on length OF
service.
Employees who have been with
the company six months will re-
ceive $6.25. The bonus will range
upward to $3.50 for those who
have been employed five years and
$50 to those who have been with
the company 10 years or longer
The company said more than 300
employees will be In the $50 group
Evening star., 1947-12-06
ON the AIR TO-DAY.

WMAL, 7:oo-Ezio Pima sings The title role
In Molsrfs Don Giovanni"
WRt, VOL, WNDc, 7:30-Prssidsni Truman
speaks at the opening ceremonies Of the Ever
blades National Park.
Evening star., 1947-12-06

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