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Evening star., 1948-06-12
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor StoH Correspondent

ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU-
MANS SPECIAL TRAIN, June
12.-President Truman today
was nearing the end of the line
on the first half of his trans
continental swing, with a prom
ise to the Nation, to have some
thing to say on American rela-
tions with the Soviet and "Old
Joe," meaning Prime Minister
Stain.
Preparing for the fourth major
speech of his trip on foreign rela-
tions at the University of California
commencement this afternoon, the
President tossed in the homely
diminutive in referring to the Rus
sian leader as "a prisoner of the
Politburo" in a rear-platform talk
early last night at Eugene, Oreg.,
where several thousand residents
were on hand for welcome. The
remark brought laughter.
In the frankest public comment
in which he has INDUCED on the
Russian situation the President told
his audience of his hopes for world
peace, and added:
Il went to Potsdam in 1945 with
that in view. I went there with the
kindliest feelings in the world to-
ward Russia, and we made certain
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Creighton Defeats Jenner
In Indiana Governor Race
By the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS, June 12.-Ho-
bart Creighton, speaker of the Indi-
ana House of Representatives, de-
feated Senator Jenner of Bedford
for the Indiana Republican guber-
material nomination last night.
Mr.. Craighton's nomination came
on the second ballot at the close OF
the State convention after two other
candidates who had trailed in the
first vote transferred their support
to the victor.
The convention, which also nom
mated candidates for 10 other State
offices, afforded the first test of a
new State law providing secret
ballot for the delegates, who used
voting machines.
Indiana Republicans completed
their delegation to the national con-
vention with election of seven dele
gates-at-large. Twenty-Five other
delegates-two from each congress
sional district-were chosen Thurs
day night.
The convention indorsed Majority
Leader Halleck as Indiana's favor
ite-son presidential candidate but
gave delegates no binding instruc-
tions.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Your Gift-Their Camping

Walter cheerfully scrubbed
the baby's neck, keeping an
eye on the other twin to be
sure he didn't toddle out OF
reach of the waShpan.
AS he sloshed soap and water,
the 12-year-old kept up a run
ming sing-song:
You're a dirty child, but soon
you're going to be clean. Walter
is going to fix you up. Now, don't
that water feel good?"
He grabbed for the other twin,
departing rapidly. The little fel-
low broke into a howl.
Cant you keep those children
quiet?" his father shouted. MY
heart-all this noise!'
Walter stripped the baby with
the skill of long practice and
popped him into the tub.
They don't like SOAP" he
apologized.
Walters mother came into the
room and sat down heavily.
That washing wore me out,
she sighed, walter, could? . :"
Soon as I finish with the kids,
Evening star., 1948-06-12
By the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, June -12-Aviation
Week says that motion picture film
smuggled out from behind the iron
curtain shows the Soviet has jet
planes designed for faster than
Sound flight.
These include Russian versions OF
the Nazi DIS 346 which repeatedly
reached a speed of TAB miles per
hour, the current issue of the maga-
zine, a McGraw-Hill publication,
says.
"Tne whole aeronautical world has
been wondering whether Russia has
been able to exceed the speed OF
sound" the magazine says. These
reports indicate this ship has"
Drawings of Soviet planes shown
in the magazine, it adds, are based
on aim made from the ground with
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Russians Reported Using Jets
Designed for Supersonic Speed

a camera equipped with a telescope
lens as the planes were tested"
Aviation Week says the photo
graphs did not originate with Nc
Graw-Hillis S Moscow bureau but "ar-
rived in this country by a circuitous
route" No other details are given.
The magazine says the Russians
took over the Germans unfinished
DIS 346 along with its engineers at
the end of the war. Both Soviet
versions are decribed as research
fighters.
Last Thursday, Air Force Secre-
tary Symington said the United
States Air Forces experimental
Bell XS-1 has flown much faster
than the speed Of sound many
times" ...
Sound travels at about 760 miles
(see RUSSIAN PLANES, Page A-2o
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Smoke of Fires
In Ontario Woods
Shrouds Sun Here

Smoke from a forest fire In Cam
ada affected the weather here to-
day, and with occasional clouds was
expected to keep the sun from stay
ing out.
The Weather Bureau said the
cloud has travelled more than 1000
miles from its origin in Ontario,
spreading as far south as Alabama
and Georgia. Sunsets have been
redder than usual and, occasionally,
the sun has appeared to be ringed
by ruddy halo, an observer said.
Forecasters refused to predict
how long the smoke would affect
weather here. They said it depends
on the wind direction.
The week end, they said, will be
generally fair and warm with a
of thunderstorms to-
morrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Your Gift-Their Camping
Vacation Would Solve Troubles
Of Boy, II, Big Brother of Ten

I'll hang it out" he promised.
But, Ma, after that can I go
out and play ball? One of the
fellows got a bat"
His mother stiffened.
YOU know I don't want you to
play In the street." she said.
1--WE told you a hundred times
it isn't safe"
The boy didn't protest. But his
chatter to the babies ceased. He
was thinking.
Il sure would like to go some
place where could play ball. he
said finally.
You could go to camp If we
had the money" his mother
sighed. IF your father wasn't
sick ="
Sure, I know, walter said,
and went on with his scrubbing.
Walter doesn't complain about
taking care of the babies or hang
ing out the wash or scrubbing
the floor. He knows his father
would work If he could, and bear
ing 10 children has worn his
lSee CAMPING, Page A-20
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Lewis and Operators
0pen First Discussion
On New Coal Contract
UNIV Chief Reluxes Stund
Against PorIey Until
Pension Is Settled
By james Y. Newton

John L. Lewis and soft-coal
operators today discussed a new
coal industry contract for the
first time in the week of negotia-
tions here.
Until today, Mr.. Lewis had in
sisted he would not discuss details
of a contract to take the place of
the present one, which expires June
80, until he and the operators had
settled the long controversy over
the payment of pensions and dis
tress benefits to miners from the
$40 100000 United Mine Workers
welfare and retirement fund. The
money. has accumulated since last
July /, when the present contract
went into effect.
Mr.. Lewis and his negotiators met
with the operators for more than
two hours today. On leaving the
session, Charles O'Neill, spokesman
for the operators, indicated the
deadlock over the welfare fund had
been broken.
1nl. ~ 1NClil Sdlt Vic 1lCSOUld UOl !
discussed details of a new contract
including wages. as we'll as devoting
time to the pension and welfare
issues.
To Resume Talks Monday.
The coal contract negotiations
we're adjourned until pm. Monday
Mr.. Lewis apparently was willing
to discuss new contract details be-
cause he held that the argument
over payment of death and distress
benefits to the miners and their
dependents was settled by the wei.
fare fund trustees last night.
The UNIV chief and Senator
Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp.
shire pushed through over the op.
position of the operators trustee
Ezra Van Horn, a resolution which
stated that the present welfare 'func
~NAT no~o
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Mattress Fire Put Out
In Downtown Bui|dino

Firemen were called to a down.
town fire at 7:30 am. today to ex-
tinguish a blaze in a mattress in a
room on the third floor of a building
at sol Twelfth street NV.
Frank B. Wilcox, 80, a tenant in
the building, awoke to find his room
filled with smoke. He climbed out
to a fire escape and aroused ten
ant in an adjoining room. Firemen
tossed the mattress from o window.
No one was injured.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Laws Bans Primary
By Democrats Monday
Unless ADA Is Listed
Hearing Set for Friday;
Order Applies Only to
Central Committee

A temporary restraining order
was issued today by Chief JUS
tice Bolitha j. Laws of District
Court to prevent an election OF
members of the District Demo-
cratic Central Committee on
Monday unless six candidates
backed by the Americans for
Democratic Action are on the
ballot.
The motion for the restraining
order was filed at noon by attor-
neys for the ADA-backed group.
Justice Laws set a hearing for Fri
day.
This was the latest development
in a series of moves and counter
moves that raised uncertainty
whether there will be primary
election Monday to elect District
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention and to the District
Democratic Central Committee.
The restraining order today ap-
piled only to membership on the
committee The six candidates sup
ported by the ADA group are Joseph
L. Raugh, jr.. Tilford Dudley, Mrs.
Ernest K. Lindley, Benjamin S.
Sigal, head of the ADA chapter here,
James c. Turner, jr., business agent
for an AFL Operating Engineers
Union local here, and Gerhard Van
Arkel, former general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board.
Court Prevents Vote.
District Court Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough yesterday granted a
temporary restraining order de-
signed to prevent the scheduled
Monday vote. But, later in the day
at the request of attorneys for the
Democratic organization here. he
scheduled a hearing for Monday at
11:15 am. on a motion to dissolve
the temporary restraining order.
The Democratic Central Com
mittee, which is fighting a move
by four candidates backed by the
liberal Communist Americans
for Democratic Action to gain a
place on the local ballot, has sched-
uled the election for Monday from
4 to 8 pm. Newspaper advertise
ments yesterday carried this notice
with locations of the six polling
places.
Statements Conflict.
In the furry of conflicting state
ments, these are the latest:
The Democratic Central Commit.
tee announced it has retained Leslie
C. Garnett and Samuel F. Beach
to represent it in the court action
The committee said it feels thai
Representatives of the CIO-PAC
and Americans for Democratic Ac.
ton would be representing not the
District of Columbia but the policies
of an outside organization" The
statement added:
THE Democrats of Washington
further believe that people whose
first political loyalty is to organiza'
tions outside of the Democratic Party
obviously are not entitled to partici-
pate in our convention deliberations
See DEMOCRATS, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Firestone Grants Union
11-Cent Wage Increase
by the Assoeioted Press

AKRON, Ohio, June 12.-Fire-
stone Tire g. Rubber Co. and the
CIO United Rubber Workers signed
a company-wide contract today pro-
viding for 11-cent-an-hour wage
increases for $4,000 employees.
The contract was Firestone's first
company-wide pact with the union,
which has such agreements with
Goodyear, United States Rubber and
Goodrich, the other members of the
rubber industrys Big Four.
The settlement was the first in
the Big Four of union demands for
the 1948 wage increases.
The union originally asked 80
cents an hour more.
Goodyear and United States Rub
ber are currently engaged in nego-
tiations and Goodyear employees
have agreed to take strike vote
next Wednesday as result of a
breakdown of bargaining sessions
In Philadelphia last week.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
President Promises to Tell
More About old Joe Tonight
StoIin Wants to Keep Word, but Is Held
Prisoner by PoIitburo, Truman Declares

agreements, specific agreements.
got very well acquainted with Joe
Stain, and I like Old Joe. He is a
decent fellow.
But Joe is a prisoner of the Po-
litburo. He can't do what he wants
to. He makes agreements and II
he could he would keep them. But
the people who run the government
are very specific in saying that he
can't keep them.
Now sometime or other. that
great country, and this great coun-
try, are going to understand that
their mutual interests mean the
welfare and peace of the world as
a whole. I am going to tell you
about that tomorrow at the Uni
versity of California"
The brief-but blunt-discussion
of the Russian situation served to
point up the speech the President
is making at the Berkeley instltu-
tior at 7 pm, Washington time,
when he receives another honorary
degree. 1t will be carried by four
major networks.
Careful preparation was made on
the address, which was not whipped
into final shape until last night
when the presidential train swept
southwark through oregon and into
California, where the next three
days will be spent.
There was some thought that the
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Act 10 Outlaw Strikes
On 0nRai|roadsProposed
To Joint Committee
Industry Spokesman Says
Public Must Be Protected
From 'IndefensibIe' Tieups
By the Associated Press

A spokesman for railroad
management proposed today that
Congress outlaw big railroad
strikes such as was threatened
this spring.
j. Carter Fort, vice president and
general counsel of the Association
of American Railroads, said. There
can be no doubt that indefensible
railroad strikes must be prevented
by law if the national welfare is to
be protected"
Mr.. Fort was witness before the
Senate House Committee on Labor
Management Relations. That group
Is making a general study of what
changes may be advisable in labor
laws.
A strike this spring was averted
because the Government seized the
railroads and got a court order
against a strike. A strike had been
called by three railroad brother
hoods-the locomotive engineers,
the f1remen and enginemen and the
switchmep.
Move Made as War Power.
Mr.. Fort told the congressional
committee that the Government
could do this only because the war
never has been declared officially
to be over He said some machinery
is needed to prevent a railroad
strike when there is no technical
state OF war.
In offering remedies, Mr.. Fort
told the committee:
"One way would be to amend the
Railway Labor Act SO as to provide
that in time of war, or in time of
national emergency declared by
Congress or proclaimed by the Pres
ident as result of stoppage or
threatened stoppage of essential
transportation. railroad strikes or
lockouts are prohibited, with injunc-
tive relief available, when such
strikes or lockouts are for the. pur-
pose of enforcing demands which
have been submitted to a preSiden-
tial emergency board and which
have not been approved or recon-
mended by such board, or are for
the purpose of resisting demands
which have been approved or recon-
mended by the board.
Another approach would be to
amend the Railway Labor Act so
as to make decisions of presidential
emergency boards binding on both
the railroads and their employees
and to prohibit any strike or lock-
outs with respect to such decisions. "
Called Limited Measures"
Mr.. Fort said the legislation he
proposed would be designed merely
to protect the public from the ruin
Gus consequences of the failure to
agree on the part Of management
and men, and the remedies provided
would be limited measures appropri-
ated to that end"
He said such legislation certainly
would not deprive the employees OF
any just rights" He said workers
would be guaranteed against imposi-
ton upon them "of any wages or
working conditions, even for temp
orary emergency period, which had
not been found to be just and fair
by a presidential appointed board" I"
The present Railway Labor Act
provides for creation of emergency
boards by the President when man
agement and the union are unable
to agree.
c,,,,, boordc recommend terms for
(See RAILROADS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Bulletin
Sailors Hurt in Bus Crash

Five persons were injured,
none believed seriously, in the
collision of a chartered A. b.
& w. bus containing AZ sailors
and a truck on Central avenue
about a mile east of its inter-
section with the Largo road,
in Prince Georges County, Md.
Four of the injured were sail
ors, passengers on the bus,
one of 13 chartered by Navy
personnel from Quarters X at
the Arlington Navy Annex and
WAVE Barracks B in Potomac
Park for an outing at Triton
Beach, Md. The fifth injured
person war driver Of the truck,
John T. Adams, A, colored, OF
Upper Marlboro, who suffered
. cut face.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
ERP Fund Cut Studied
By Senate Committee
AT Closed Session
Appropriation Of a Billion
For II Months Expected
To Be Recommended
BY the Associated Press

The Senate Appropriations
Committee went into closed ses-
sion today to decide how much
American cash should be spent
to speed Europe's recovery.
The committee had before it a
House cut of between s1,000,00o, ,000
and $4,000, 900 900 in the foreign aid
program designed to help friendly
countries halt the spread of COM
munism. The slash was expected
to be considerably smaller by the
time the Senate gets through with
the measure.
The appropriations group called
in several witnesses for secret testi-
mony before making final deci-
sion. Among them were Economic
tCo-operation Administrator Paul G.
Hoffman and 1t. Gen. Albert G.
Wedemeyer, chief of the Army's
Plans and Operations.
Cut Risky, Says Marshall.
The administration asked a total
of $6,533, TIC, ,228 for a 12-month aid
program, including assistance to
Greece, Turkey and China. But the
House voted $5,980,710,22S, to be
spread over Is months.
Secretary of State Marshall told
the Appropriations Committee yes
terday If the cut stands 1t will
change the entire aid program from
"a calculated risk for success" to one
of "a calculated risk for failure
The committee is expected to
restore most of the House cuts and
put the vast spending measure up
for Senate vote early next week.
The greatest issue at stake is the
S5, 300, 900 900 ECA recovery program
intended to help 16 Western Eu-
ropean nations.
Congress already has given ECA
authority to issue $1,000. 100000 in
notes, and has added another
SIS, 900 900 in appropriations. This
leaves $4,245, 100000 to be appro-
priated
245 Million Cut Seen.
Influential Republicans say pri-
vately they believe the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee will give
ECA $4,000, 100000 for IL months.
This would be a cut Of s245 900 900
as against a House cut estimated at
$1,045, ,000,0 900.
These other major items we're in
volved in the House cut:
Aid to Greece and Turkey-$200,- =
100000 instead of s275 ,O0O,00 asked.
Aid to China-$400,00 ,000,0 900 instead
of s463 ,000. 900 asked.
Aid to Trieste-The $4,000, 900
asked for this was earmarked by tile
House to come from the general
ECA fund.
Government and relief in occupied d
areas-s1 $50, ,0O0,O instead of ST.
400, 900, 900.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Taft Act Blocks
MaritimePeace,
Fact.Finders Say
Strike Is Inevitable
Tuesday Unless Court
Acts, Bourd Asserts
BY the Assoeioted Press

A preSldentlal inquiry BOARD
today blamed the Taft-Hartley
law for the deadlock which
threatens the entire American
merchant marine with a strike
next Tuesday.
In report to the White House
the five-man board said maritime
employers and unions want to con-
tinue their traditional hiring hall
system, but the employers consider
that the new labor law makes it
illegal
The board, headed by Harry Shul-
man of Yale University Law School
spoke of an all-coast shipping walk
out as inevitable unless barred by
court order.
President Truman is expected to
order the Justice Department to
apply for a Hartley injunction
against the strike. which would stall
the Nations foreign relief program
Injunction Next Step.
An injunction is the next step
under the Taft-Hartley Acts pro-
cedure for handling national emer-
gency labor disputes once an inquiry
board has done its fact-finding job.
A strike would tie UP all Ameri-
can flagships on the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts and all American and
foreign shipping on the West Coast.
Approximately 10000 workers,
represented by seven unions-five of
them CIO, one AFL and one inde-
pendent-are involved in the dis
pute. The two largest are the CIO
National Maritime Union on the
East and Gulf coasts and the CIO
Longshoremen on Pacific Coast
docks.
The board, appointed by the
President under terms of the Taft
Hartley Act, said it was entirely
clear" the basic dispute rises from
the act itself.
Hiring Halls Major Issue.
While there are scores of unset
tied issues, including demands for
more wages, the board found that
all these had been sidetracked in
the hiring-hall argument.
The hiring hall is the system, long
in use in the maritime industry,
which gives unions the right to fur
nish seamen and dock workers re-
luired by employers.
The stalemate is this: The un-
ions want the hiring hall continued; /;
the employers say it is now pro-
hibited by the Taft-Hartley Acts
ban against giving hiring preference
to union men over non-union me.
THE positions of both sides with
respect to the employment issue
have been quite adamant," the re-
port said. with minor exceptions,
neither side has attempted to use
Imagination or ingenuity to resolve
the controversy"
Snagged by. New Law.
The board said that if it hadn't
been for the "perplexities presented
by the impact of the new law on
the established practices" of the in
dustry, it seemed likely "the parties
would have succeeded in reconciling
their differences without the prob
ability of a strike
And, the board continued, 1t is
apparent that except for the new
law the employers would willingly
keep the hiring hall. The report
said East Coast employers testified
they would continue using the hir-
ing hall system even thought they
feel barred legally from agreeing to
do so in a written contract.
Members of the board besides Mr..
are Andrew Jackson and
Jesse Freidin, New York attorneys;
Arthur P. Allen of the University
of California and George Chaney,
San Diego labor consultant.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
PIone May Have Bombed
Koreans, Air Force Says
By the Associated Press

TOKYO, June 12.-United States
Far East Air Force headquarters
said today that American planes
may have been involved in the re-
ported bombing of Korean fishermen
in the Japan Sea last Tuesday.
A press statement said there is a
bomb training range in the general
area where Korean fishing craft
were reported hit. A bomber mis-
sion was flown Tuesday.
Korean police said IA fishermen
were killed in attacks by nine un-
identified planes.
Evening star., 1948-06-12

(See TRUMAN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1948-06-12

tSee PALESTINE, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1948-06-12

w g q { u g FOR g { q ST
Cloudy and warm today and tonight; high
about Sc, low about 68. Tomorrow cloudy,
warm; tl1undershowers likely in afternoon or
evening. Gull report on Page A-2)
Evening star., 1948-05-21
Arlington Tour to High Light
Weekend Activities in Parks

An historical tour Of Arlington
Cemetery and an all-day caravan
to shenandoah National Park are
highlights Of weekend events on
the, National Capital Parks pro-
gram.
Chief Historian T. Sutton Jett
will conduct the historical tour
which starts at 2:30 pm. Sunday
from Arlington Memorial Parkway
and Arlington Ridge Road. Airing
ton House, with mementoes of the
family of Gen. Robert E. Lee, will
be visited. The great amphitheater
and Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier
also are on the schedule.
Special buses for the trip to
Shenandoah Park will leave l416 F
Street NV, at am. Sunday.
Park Naturalist S. Drew Chick will
be in charge. There will be lots OF
hiking, SO walking shoes and
lunches are recommended. Private
autos joining the caravan will check
in DIT Thornton Gap, at the junction
Evening star., 1948-05-21

OF U. .. highway Il ana Skyl1ns
Drive, at 10 am.
Other weekend attractions in.
clude a study Of waterfowl at
Reaches Run Sanctuary. bird oh.
servation walks at Soldiers Home
and Glover Parkway and nature
walk in Fort Totten Park.
The walk to Reaches Run Is
from 3 to pm. on Sunday. The
group will meet at the parking area
near the run on the Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway. The walk in
Soldiers Home is from tu s:3t
am. tomorrow, and the meeting
place at Park road and Park place
NV.
The final bird outing of the
spring will be in the Glover Park
way from 7 to $3.50 am. Sunday
The group meets at Cathedral ano
New Mexico avenues NV. The
nature walk In Fort Totten Park II
from 3 to pm. tomorrow. The
group will assemble at Hawaii ave.
nue. and Allison street NE.