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Evening star., 1948-03-09
High Court UphoIds
Price-Fixing Charges
Against Gypsum Firms

The Governments position in
anti-trust proceedings involving
price fixing was stronger today as
the result of two Supreme Court
decisions on the subject.
Among the II cases decided by
opinions which the high court
handed down yesterday, were these
two:
/. A finding that the United
States Gypsum Co. and 6 other
firms violated the Sherman Anti
trust Act by use of patent license
agreements which include price
fixing provisions. The decision
was 8 to 0, with Justice Jackson
not taking part.
In the majority opinion, written by
Justice Reed. a District Court find
ing was overruled. The Justice De-
partment had contended that gyp-
sum companies, together with gyp-
sum board manufacturers. had COM
bined to organize the industry and
stabilize prices through agreements
with the United States Gypsum Co..
the dominant manufacturer in the
industry.
1926 Decision Stands.
2. A 5-to-3 ruling that there is
evidence that IL manufacturers of
certain electrical devices (dropout
fuse cutouts) violated the Sherman
Act by conspiring to fix selling
prices. The court did not, however,
overrule a 1926 decision that a
patent owner may determine the
prices at which his licensees may
sell.
In a long opinion day during
which we'll over 125,0OO words OF
opinions were handed down, the
court also:
l. Ruled that members of the
wartime volunteer Port Security
Force, a branch of the temporary
Coast Guard Reserve, are not en-
titled to preference in Federal Gov
ernmen employment.
2. Ruled that Arkansas courts
had upheld conviction of two strik-
ers under paragraph of picket
ing law which they had not been
charged with violating. The case
was sent back to State courts to
straighten out the snarl.
Sentence Is Thrown Out.
8. Threw out a 2-year sentence
given a New Orleans shop foreman
who failed to tell a wartime draft
board that one of his workers was
not necessary employe The un-
signed opinion was unanimous. The
Justice Department had asked that
the conviction be set aside on the
grounds that the foreman was not
legally bound to give the informa-
tion.
4. Reversed a contempt Of court
conviction by a, Michigan judge
acting as a one-man grand jury.
Justice Black delivered the majority
decision in a 7-to-2 vote The judge
had held that the witness was
evasive during questioning in a
closed session. The court held,
however, that there could be no
possibility of a Generalization of
the courts authority before the pub
lie" since the proceedings were
secret.
5. Denied review of a case in
volving Negro charged with
Evening star., 1948-03-09

| injured man. The truck driver was
named as James Green, 81, colored,
| 1922 c. street Sc.
Evening star., 1948-03-09
Tomm Hearing Delayed
By Mrs. DonneII's Death

A hearing scheduled for pm. to.
morrow in the nomination of Ed
ward A. Tamm to be a District
Court justice has been postponed
until 7:15 pm, March 18, the Senate
Judiciary Committee announced to-
day.
Postponement was caused by the
death of Mrs. John c. Donnell
mother of Senator Donnell, Repub-
lican, of Missouri, who has been
conducting the hearings as chair
man of a Senate Judiciary Subcom-
mittee.
The death of Mrs. Donnell today
in Kansas City was announced on
the Senate floor by Senator KEN
Republican, of Missouri.
Evening star., 1948-03-09
; Hurt as Refuse Truck
And Automobile Collide

One man is in serious condition
in Casualty Hospital after a col
lision between District refuse
truck and an automobile yesterday
at Third and c streets S.W.
The injured man is James Comic
about 40, colored, of 1926 T street
NV. He was said to be suffering
from severe head injuries. Slightly
injured in the accident were Hugh
Conner, SO, of 1882 South Capitol
street, and Augustus Minor, So, OF
807 Howard street Sc. The men
both colored, are employees OF the
Refuse Department. They were
i treated at Providenc Hospital.
Police said the car was driven by
Lemuel Comic, 38, colored, 424 Fifty
seventh street NE, a cousin of the
Evening star., 1948-03-09
FOUND

BLACK CAT, young male. 4 white feet,
Ridge rd. Call AL. 1904. g..
Evening star., 1948-03-09
Andre KosteIunetz
Undereoes Operation
By the Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Mar
9.-Andre Kostelanetz, well-known
orchestra leader, underwent an
emergency appendectomy here Sun
day night and hospital attaches to-
DAY said his condition was ''very
good"
He and his wife, Lily Pons. Metro
politan Opera star, have been visit
ing in Palm Beach.
Evening star., 1948-03-09
LoST
n o. the Sea" Food

COCKER SPANIEL, black male, IL mos
old; strayed from 6400 blk Beechwood Or.
Chevy Chase, Md. Reward. WI. 4603
n m 10
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15
WILL SOAP DAMAGE
SEPTIC N

c. G. writes: els there any danger
of soap or cleaners destroying the
bacterial action in a septic tank?"
There are many cleaning agents
which might kill the bacterial action
in a septic tank if enough were used
at a time to make a strong solution
in the tank. Free use of the ordinary
mild soaps is not likely to cause
trouble, nor will there likely be any
danger from the new detergent
cleaners as used in the bathroom,
laundry or sink.
Care should be taken, however,
with the use OF strong caustics and
disinfectants. 1t must be remem-
bered that the useful anerobic bac-
terra which work in the septic tank
to break up and liquefy the waste
material are even more easily killed
than some of the harmful germs
like those of typhoid fever, tube%-
culosis, e+s.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15

iron pipe on the ground and spread
the ropes out full length and par
allel. After laying on as much wood
as I want to carry, I bring the
handles up together and generally
hold them in n hand. Easy to
make, handy to use."
Note by I. w. D.-As handy a car
rier as I have seen. Could also be
used for carrying straw or fodder.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15
Farm Mechanics
Handy Farm Ideas
By /. w. DICKERSON
PAINT A HOLDER

G. F., writes: Here is a sketch of
an ideal paint can holder for extern
sion ladders. To make a gallon-size
holder, I took a 7/16-inch rod A
inches long and bent it as shown,
with the loop of such a size that the
bucket will slip through easily. To
keep the can from falling through
the loop, I put a band about one
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15
PAINT CAN HOMER

inch wide across and below the
middle of the loop with the ends
turned around the rod as shown. The
hook is caught around the rungs and
is supported by the uprights of the
ladder so it is easy to dip the
brush in and wipe off the excess
paint"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

Union which actively oombats
racial discrimination. We call
particular attention to the serious
consequences of compliance upon
the struggle of the Negro people
dor full citizenship rights. Texas
born Attorney General Tom
Clark labels all organizations
which fight for Negro rights as
'Subversive," and compliance
with the Act will seriously weak
en- the Unions struggle for Negro
nights.
WELDING to the political
ideas of Senator Taft can in no
way strengthen the labor move
me1a or any part of it. On the
contrary, as our Union is added
to those which have already COM
piled with the Act, we, but fur
Their weaken the fight for repeal
of the Act and for the survival
of the trade union movement.
The best proof of this state
Inent is found in the actions of
unions which led the parade to
win Taft-Hartley approval of
their organizations and leaders.
Many complying unions have
reconeiled themselves to the Act.
The enthusiastic and vigorous
drive to repeal the Act once
spar ed the whole union
movement. Now, as many top
labor leaders move in reaction
cry direction, fighting the third
party headed by Henry Wallace
here at home, and supporting rc-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

WYE undersigned members OF
w the international Executive
Board submit our designations
from our elected posts effective
as of June 7, 1948.
We take this action with the
greatest reluctance. But we find
it impossible to accommodate
ourselves TO am unconstitutional
invasion of civil liberties without
dictation from am eanployer-con-
trolled Congress.
Once Congress is conceded the
right TO bar any person or class
of persons from trade union
leadership. they will obviously
exercise such power 10 bar others
at their pleasure.
Two of the three signers of+his
statement are Negro. We have
been proud to be officers of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12
If elected officers eean be burr ee-hovN fear
Is lE,af from empIoyer-dominasedu unions?

dictionary governments abroad,
organized opposition to the Taft
Hartley Act is being pushed into
the background.
There is no escaping the fact
that compliance with Taft-Hart-
ley on, the part of oum' Union
strengthens this drift of American
unions toward support of en-
ployer-donninated projects and
candidates. 1t is part, however
unwilling, of the same tendency
as that expressed in open red
batting by Philip Murray and
strike -breaking raids by Walter
Reather.
RED-BAITING, naiding, gup-
port of Wall Street candidates,
compliance with the Taft Hartley
Act-all of these measures will
weaken the ability of the unions
to win higher wages and better
conditions for their members;
all Of these measures will Grip
pie the unions to the point where
American faSciStS and reaction
aries cam swoop down for the
final kill.
It is our profound conviction
that the needs and aspirations of
working men and women dictate
AN opposite course - not sur
render, but militant and princi-
pied opposition TO Wall Street
and all it's works. To say that
the ills of America are due 10 the
Communists is nonsense. The
Communists do not control Amer
lea. The Republican and Demo-
cratic parties-and their masters
-control every aspect of Ameri-
can life. The great monOpolies
dominate our economy; they
dominate the Presidents cabinet
end, both old parties; and they
now want to dominate even the
minds and thoughts of the Amer
lean people.
We have always judged our
actions as trade union leaders by
what contribution we have been
able to make to the welfare of
the $4,000 workers we represent.
We continue to use that yard
stick, and win not substitute
Senator Taft's opinion as a new
measurement of the worth of
trade union leadership.
=.
AFTER many years in the
labor movement, dealing with
giant corporations, we are con-
WINGED that labor will suffer de-
pressions, limitations and wars so
long as industry-the lifeblood OF
the nations allowed to remain
in the private and unrestricted
hands of a small group of wealthy
families.
Only when labor learns TO de-
mand that the means OF their
livelihood be owned and oper-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

This is a partial text of a
statement made by three Off
GERS Of the CLIO United Farm
Equipment Workers on theis
resignation after a majority of
the Executive Board voted TO
comply with the Taft-Hartley
Ac7. Il was signed by Mill
Burns. director of organization
Ajay Martin. vice-presidenf.
and Pope Huff. board member
ai-larges Z.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

aied in The best interest of the
majority of the people; and not
for wealthy stockholders. will
workers be able TO look forward
10 a life of security. abundance
and peace for themselves and
their children.
1t is this direction which we
have urged upon our Union. We
intend to remain free TO persuade
farm equipment and all other
workers of the truth of these
statements. We refuse to yield
that right.
THE employer controlled press
and the unprimcipled actions of
raiding unions have convinced
great numbers of workers, IN
Guiding members OF our own
Union, that workers will derive
some benefit if their union COM
plies with the Taft-HaTrtley Act.
We are convinced that no such
benefits exist. On the contrary,
we insist that each and every
part of the Taft Hartley Act is
designed to weaken, not strength
EN-, the Union; and we are equal
1y convinced that the membership
will Through experience come 10
agree with us and adopt the path
of militant struggle which is now
labor's only hope.
The majority of the Executive
Board has decided to comply,
while pledging to continue the
progressive policies for which otir
Union has been noted since its
formation. The Board feels that
compliance, however diStasteful
to a free-born American, is neces-
saay to preserve QUIZ Union
against the anprincipled attacks
of reading vultures who infest the
trade union movement.
The understanding and mill
AeA1AS S0RRC4A Va AA4G 4oA1A ofA6 4ASG
membership is the Unions osaay
real guarantee Of survival.
How ever, the referendum
shows that the membership is not
yet convinced that the Taft
Hartley affidavits are as ewM as
all other sections of the Act.
While we ualaltenably oppose
compliance, we will not make
ourselves am obstacle to the de-
sires of, the membership. Since
our refusal TO comply would, un-
less we Resigned, block eosnph-
ance by the Union, we are Lest
mo other course than to leave our
elected posts while pledging QUIZ
selves TO continue 10 work for
the welfare of the Union and its
members.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12
ne GA NeHe
BY CARL f7HnSCH

F7HE fact about Labor con-
IL tracts of the GIN variety
with its elevator" elause-is
that wages generally wind mp in
the basement.
II may look streamlined and
shiny as a new Buick, but older
and wiser heads in the labor
movement are seriously disturb
ed over the new GIN contract
which covers 225,000 workers,
If bhis becomes part of a general
trend in wage bargaining, it may
prove DISASTROUS.
The auto workers may well
take word of warning from a
big brother union, the mine
workers. The current issue of
the UMWA journal points oat
that the miners eliminated such
sliding scale wage clauses be-
cause iii was a formula that
kept wages tagging fax behind
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22
MISS MARY MARGARET FIELDS

The death last week of Miss Mary Margaret Fields
in her 9th year. marked the passing of the last member
of the immediate family of Matthew Fields who estab-
lished paper in 1855 Miss Mag" died Wednesday
after her beloved SENTINEL had been put to bed'
for the week-too late for anything but routine
obituary Being newspaper woman herself she would
have understood
For II years the SENTINEL was family paper
and member of the Fields family worked harder or
longer on it than did Miss Fields--or loved it more.
After the death of Matthew Fields in 1871, his
widow Rebecca Beckwith Fields, who lived to be
100 took over management A son, Henry Clay Fields,
and from time to time another son. William Fields,
assisted her. Henry Clay only Is when he first
started working on the paper. Miss Margaret, too
started at early age.
Mild and modest to the point of shyness, Miss Fields
had nice of humor. Father and my brother
thought newspaper office place for woman
she once told the present editor of the SENTI
MEL, with amused glance $50 they brought the work
to the house."
When only child she started reading copy and
proof-I could still do it," she remarked on her Goth
birthday She addressed all copies destined for mailing
to SENTINEL subscribers the last week of its publca
ton under the Fields ownership when in 1882 it was
sold to the present owner She was then over 80.
Like her brother Henry Clay Fields, Miss Margaret
was an uncompromising Democrat Their father had
been Wing most of his life and great admrer of
Henry Clay
Miss Margaret remembered well that day during
the War Between the States when passing Of
the blue broke into the office and destroyed papers ard
type Rockville and most of this county were pre-
dominanty Southern in sympathy. For his outspoken
sentiment Matthew Fields spent several months in
war prison until the Hon. Montgomery Blair secured his
release. Rockville has missed Matthew Fields and his
son, Henry Clay Fields who took such active interest
in the affairs of the town during their lifetime
Her friends will miss the gentle woman who COLI
trbuted much to the town in such quiet unassumng
way that few know the influence she exerted "May
She Rest In Peace
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22
Attention FormersH The Record Of A. A. A. Activities

Having in mind the fact that New Deal parity
and price controls on basic farm crops passed out
following the death of the President and that farmers
for the first time in thirteen years farmers received
prices on the farm sufficient to maintain economic lib
erty on the farm. And now that another long range
farm program is being concocted to replace the Com
munstic Agricultural Adjustment Act, it is most i'm
portant that farmers familarize themselves with the
origin and objectives and the meaning of adjustment
as applied to agriculture in order to avoid being taken
for another ride by New Deal fellow travellers" and
subsidized affiliated organizations of the Farm Bureau
Inc That l947 prosperous year for farmers due
to the removal of Federal price controls for which no
thanks is due the Farm Bureau the A.A.A., that
am aware Of The part played by the Farm Bureau in
the subsection of farmers too long story to be told
in this paid publication of the origin and detectives of
the defunct Triple A, copies of which have delivered
to State and County farm leaders, 1t is not my wish
or desire to win this debate New Deal farm legs
aton by default the part of subsidized farm leaders
or otherwise to publicly defend farm adjustment
program with its sordid associates and violation of
civil and property rights of free markets and free
enterprise that finally destroyed itself because the diff
cutes created for farmers far outnumbered the prob
lens solved for agriculture.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

to the effect that the membership
roll of the Farm Bureau was
somewhat padded, and its policies
influenced by AAA officials and
members.
When a crook starts out to
obtain something for nothing he
usually operates under more than
one alias, and so it was with the
Agricultural Adjustment Act,
otherwise known as the Triple A.
and the AAA. | often wonder if
you, and other subsidized farm
leaders who helped replace the
shackles of control on farmers
that the Supreme Court had re-
moved, ever realized that a farm
er striving to maintain production
with no other source of income,
with the cost of production stead
ny increasing, handicapped by
disparity and OPA ceiling prices
levied without regard to the cost
OF production a parity payment
of ten dollars or three hundred
dollars was of little economic
value to him from the standpoint
OF production, or that farmer on
dole with of little Importance
to himself, to his community. or
to the nation, and that dole.
whether III the past, present, or
future tense dole, doleful, dol
drums it is a hell of condition
for any farmer to labor under.
10 me, personally, parity
meant buying farm supplies and
labor on an uncontrolled or soft
money market and selling the pro-
ceeds therefrom on a controlled
non-competitive tight money mar
Ike as exemplified by parity and
ceiling prices, an economic set-up
that was the direct cause of the
food shortage and the resulting
black market. When the extreme
scarcity of food finally caused the
removal of ceiling prices only
those farmers who were fortunate
enough to have livestock and
grain to sell hit the Jackpot of
supply and demand market, and
!, in 1916, with all controls off,
for the first time in several years
felt that | might safely borrow
money to plant one of the several
fields on this farm that had grown
to weeds, under parity and ceiling
prices, to wheat and permanent
grass to be paid for from the
profits of the crop. You can read
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

lily see that between 1909 and 1914
the economic era on which the
parity formula was based and 1916
before scarcity of food on the
counter and under the counter
forced the removal of price con-
trolls that there was a disparity
and disproportion obviously in
favor of 1909 from the viewpoint
of profit. When | called at the
AAA office to pay my wheat mar
keting penalty of eighty-three dol
lars in order to market my wheat
legally, | asked for and obtained
the information that the most this
farm of three hundred tillable
acres could earn the ensuing crop
year was three hundred dollars.
For this meagerly sum or dole /
was to register my approval of a
Federal agency whose origin was
offensive to me.
Just as Soviet Collectivist Rus
STA destroyed the individual free
dom and initiative of the Russian
farmers with it's collectivist five
year plan, just so the New Deal
attempted the same thing in
America by strangling free enter
prise, by subsidized bribery, and
the'subjection of farmers. We we're
not of course subjected to the
dreaded knocking on the door of
a secret police but the Triple A,
as twice amended, did use the
United States mails and the
Courts to threaten and intimidate
the opposition, and /, being one
of the. opposition, find it both a
pleasure and duty 10 expose the
chicanery and falseness of farm
relief legislation and to expose the
most pernicious and perfidicus of
the New Deal agencies; an agency
created in perfidy, imbued with
Communism. trickery and deceit;
an agency that was a combination
of Communism, Socialism, ard Pa
ternalism on which the New Deal
based its hope of long continuance
in office; an agency having neith-
er truth or honesty to srstain it
received its death blow with the
passing Of the President, its only
claim to continued existence and
responsibility being its hook-up
with soil conservation. ] must re-
mind you that the survival of
human and civil rights depends
entirely on the integrity and hon
esty of thought and action Of a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22
POOLESVILLE
Mrs. C. NJ. Upton
Dickerson
Phone PoolesvilIe 2115

The ladies of st. Peters Church
entertained at an informal buffet
supper on Saturday evening for the
newcomers" in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Beryl Gray graciously opened
Grayhaven Manor to the group and
the 100 who gathered there seemed
to enjoy it very much.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Alden and
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Garner, of Nor
wood, Mass, spent several days last
week with Mr.. Carriers mother and
sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. Nan
Garner, and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
White.
Miss Nancy Gene Baughman cele-
brated her 7th birthday last week by
having the Hildebrand family enjoy
it with her.
Bobby Lillard and Mark Jeffries
had very enjoyable trip to New
York last week. They motored there
with Bobby's uncle and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Rem and son. Mr..
Rem and family sailed on the Vul-
cania Friday afternoon for their
home in Cavalla, Greece.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lillard are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of a son, James Rem Lillard.
The Poolesville- Barnesville-D Dick
erson Homemakers Club this month
held its meeting at the home of Mrs.
Charles Elgin with Mrs. Charles
kohlhoss, Mrs. Isaac Cubitt and
Mrs. Guy Lewis, assisting. Plans
were completed for the supper held
on April 10 when the husbands and
boy-friends were to be guests of
honor.
The following area chairmen were
appointed for the Cancer Drive
Mrs. Pearl Baughman, Mrs. Russell
Umstead, Mrs. Claude Reddick and
Mrs. c. VanEmon.