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Lobby
Continued From First Page.

commissioner of Texas: Ralph w.
Moore of the National Farm Com
mittee and the Farm Commissioners
Council. Mr.. Kaufman brands the
two farm organizations as front
organizations continually used by
this group"
Group Under Indictment.
All of the above were indicted for
violations of the Lobby Registration
Act
The constitutionality of this law
is being challenged by former Sen
ator Wheeler of Montana, who is
defending Mr., Moore.
Mr.. Kaufman asserts there can
be no question of the constitutional
ity OF the act. He points out that
as far back as 1877 Georgia's Consti-
tuition. still in force. made lobbying
a crime
The regulation of lobbying by
Congressional legislation. Mr.
Kaufman's report contends. lis
within the orbit of Congressional
power to protect the purity of Its
legislative process 1t Is obvious
that the part lobbying plays in oul
Federal legislative process is Of tire.
mendous proportions. It is today q
multi-million dollar enterprise. Any.
thing so colossal and so intimatel,
related to the legislative process Il
properly the concern of the Con
gress."
At the outset, Mr. Kaufma9 re
ported, he found that only a smal
number of organizations, asocia
tions or individuals engaged in lob
bying had registered.
Counsel for many of the larg
national organizations" he declare.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
beuIah 0yereI| 10 Wed
Policeman Next Year
By the Associotsd Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23.-Beulah
Louise Overell, 19-year -old heiress,
will marry Los Angeles policeman
next May or June.
Miss Overell, acquitted with a
former fiance of murder charges in
the yacht blast deaths of her par
ents, yesterday disclosed her en-
gagement to Robert Cannon, %, for
mer Air Force gunnery instructor
and radio patrolman for the last
two years. He formerly lived in
Omaha.
This is the real thing" Miss
Overell remarked. Il love Bob very
much. He has a terrific sense Of
humor."
She added that Mr.. Cannon pro-
posed to her last Friday and she
accepted. She said his mother,
Mrs. Ruth Cannon, Stockton, Calf
has given her blessing, and SO do
Miss Overell's relatives. The couple
met last March through friends.
Mr.. Cannon has been married
twice and a divorce from his second
wife, Laverne Del Santo, former
tilm player. won't be final until next
May, he said.
Miss Overell and a former boy
friend, George (Bud) Gollum, were
acquitted last fall of charges of
Staying her wealthy parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter e. OvereN,, killed
aboard their dynamited yacht in
Newport Harbor, March IS, 1947.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Five Masked Gunmen Bind
Radio Executive, Loot Home
BY The Associated Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Five masked
gunmen invaded the home of Gene
T. Dyer. radio executive last night,
holding him and two others captive
for As minutes before escaping with
$4,000 loot.
Mr.. Dyer. owner OF radio station
WAIT, in Chicago, his wife, Evelyn,
and E. j. Bullwinkel, friend, were
orussed with neckties and stockings
by the gang.
The five robbers came into the
luxurious nine-room Dyer home
near suburban Mundelein as MIR
Dyer and Mr.. Bullwinkle were talk
ing in the den. After binding the
Dyers and Mr.. Bullwinkel, the rob-
bers Systematically ransacked the
home. taking jewelry and money
valued at more than $4,000. The
loot included a $4,000 diamond ring
worn by Mrs. Dyer.
Mrs. Dyer was first to free herself
after the robbers fed. She united
the others and Mr.. Dyer then noti-
fed Lake County authorities.
Sheriff Walter L. Atkinson sent
six squads in search of the gunmen
but no trace of them was found
Evening star., 1948-08-23
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Six medical
experts have decided that mall
formed Pamela Frances Lamphere
has a 9-to-l chance of surviving the
prescribed corrective surgery over
which her young parents became
estranged.
The physicians examined the 20
month-old child yesterday at the
request of Superior Judge Walter r.
O'Malley and said that the first of
a series of operations should be
performed within the next two
months.
The girl was born with her blad-
der outside her body.
Judge OMalley' appointed the six
specialists to make the examination
and recommendations to the court
after the child's father, Fred
Lamphere, %, asked the court to
order the operation.
The mother Irene, 2l, had first
refused to permit the operation.
Since the court hearing, however,
she has changed her mind. She
said she has heard recently of sew
eral other similar cases in which
surgery was successful.
In her divorce suit, still pending.
the woman charged Mr.. Lamphere,
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Total of Postwar Aid to Britain
|Neor7 Billion: France Gets4

item was the s3,75o, ,ooo, 900 loan te
Britain.
Aid to France was headed by q
total contribution Of $2,74s, ,00o, ,00C
from the United States, in the form
OF an Export-Import Bank loan
lend lease credits, surplus property
credits, interim aid and the Euro
pean recovery program.
A 1851, 2,000, 600 British government.
credit to the Anglo-American ZONE
Of Germany was the top item In the
list OF contributions to Germany
The bizone also received $903, ,000. .00C
worth of United States Army relief
and an American Export Import
Bank loan of $21 ,000, 900.
The largest single contribution re-
ceived by Italy was a $4,000, 600
grant from UNRRA. Various grants,
loans and credits to Italy from the
United States totaled $3.50 ,0O0, 600.
Poland's fist was headed by an
IUNRRA grant of s479 ,0oo. 900 and
the loan from the Soviet Union of
$47S, ,o00, 900. Poland also received
grants and loans from Denmark,
Sweden, Britain and the United
States.
Sweden Lends to Russia.
The largest item in the Neither
lands list of receipts was i loan
from the international Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
totaiing $l95, 900, 900.
The Soviet Union received q total
of $785 ,000, 900, headed by a govern
ment loan of $275 900 600 from Swe-
den and lend-lease credits from the
United States of $242, 10000
Austria received $557 ,000, 900, most
Of it from the United States and
Britain. Belgium received 1884,
900, 900, Czechoslovakia $3.50, 600, 900.
Greece 1851 900, 900 and Yugoslavia
$4l9, ,O0O, 900.
Receipts of $487 900 900 by Canada
were made up of an Export Import
Bank loan of $500, 600 900 and pri-
vate credits from the United States
totaling $187, 100000.
The Latin American republics re-
.ceived financial assistance from the
United States totaling $3O2 ,000, 900,
mostly in the form of Export Import
Bank loans.
The largest share went to Mexico,
which received an Export Import
loan of $87 100000 and United States
Government Sterilization Fund loan
of $4,000, 900.
Brazil received $71 900. 900 from
the Export Import Bank and a So
600, 900 credit from the United States
Maritime Commission for the pur-
chase of surplus ships.
Chile had an Export Import loan
Of s47,000,0O0.
Ten other Latin-American repub-
lies received United States aid in
smaller amounts.
The Philippines received $706, ,000,- :
600, of which $500, 600 900 was pro-
vided by the United States Philip
pine Rehabilitation Act Of 1946.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Experts Give Child 81 Chance
To Survive Corrective Surqery

a shipping clerk, with cruelty for
insisting on the operation. She said
physicians previously had told her
the child had only 10OO-to-l
chance of surviving the operation.
Although she had believed the
baby could not live beyond her fifth
birthday In her present condition
she said she preferred having
Pamela that long rather than to
risk an earlier death.
DR.. Karl Meyer, chief of staff of
County Hospital and spokesman for
the physicians, said they would rec
ommend the series of operations for
gradual correction of the condition
as safer and more satisfactory than
a single operation.
The other examiners were DR.
Isaac ADt, pediatrician and 1948
winner OF the American Medical As
sociation's distinguished service
award; DR.. Hyman Gordon, super
intendent of the children's division
OF the County Hospital; DR.. Joseph
II. Kiefer, professor of uroiogy at
the University of Illinois; DR..
Knowlton Barber, urologist and staff
member at Children's Memorial
Hospital. and DR.. Herbert Landes,
professor of urology at LoyoIa Uni
versity, Chicago.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Pickets
Continued From First Page. y

blow. Another plant official. Rob-
ert Cox, was mauled, according to
police. .
Donald Cunningham, a photog-
rapher for the Jackson Citizen Pa
triot, was roughed up, his camera
smashed and most OF his films
ruined when pickets pulled them
from their holders. He reported
to his office.
One Girl Knocked. Down..
One unidentified girl ONCE worker
was knocked to the pavement. Two
others were struck. they told police
Another girl said pickets threatened
to strip her OF her clothes but die
not do SO.
This is mob rule" Mr.. -Hurs,
charged after the fracas. 1T is ul
to the local authorities to establish
and maintain order"
When police eventually quieted the
group, most of the pickets dispersed
to other Jackson plants where they
are employed. None of the office
workers entered the corporation
which produces aircraft, auto anc
farm machinery parts.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Babe Ruth
Continued From First Page }

KEGS insisted on the word kids
the term used on baseball sandlots
all over America.
That's the way Babe wanted It,"
Mr. Lowenstein said. Il can't think
of any one else for whom l would
have worded 1t that way"
Ruth stipulated that on Mrs.
Ruths death all but 10 per cent
of her share of the estate should
be divided equally among the two
daughters. The 10 per cent will
go to the foundation.
Ruth already had provided for
all three women in a separate trust
fund, also of an undisclosed amount.
he set up for them in 1927.
Ruth made outright bequests of
his baseball souvenirs to the ex-
ecutors OF his will, j. Paul Carey II
and Mr.. Lowenstein; of $1,000 each
to his wife and daughters; of s1O,-
600 to his sister, Mrs. Mary H
Moberly, Baltimore, Md; and of
$500 each to his nurse, Frank De-
laney, and his maid, Mary Reith
of New York.
The Babe Ruth Foundation was
established to occupy itself with
child welfare, juvenile delinquency
and high school competitions for
craftsmanship prizes.
Evening star., 1948-08-23

Mr.. Sherwood. from the Labor
Department June 80 after more than
48 years of Government service.
When he retired he was chief OF
the Procurement Division of the
Labor Department. He had been
connected with the department for
30 years. Previously he had served
for Is years with the Agriculture
Department and three years with
the Navy Department.
Was Director of Banks.
Vienna, Va, lived in Washington a
few years before moving to Mount
Rainier in 1910. He was clerk
treasurer of Mount Rainier a num-
Der of years.
Mr.. Sherwood was a director of
the Prince Georges Bank & Trust
Co.. of which his son, J. Robert
Sherwood, also of Mount Rainier, is
treasurer. He also was a repre-
sentative of several insurance COM
panies. In April. 1941, he served as
foreman of the Prince Georges
County grand jury.
He was member of the Mount
Rainier Christian Church and
charter member of West Gate Ma
sonic Lodge No. 220 and of Loyalty
Lodge OF the Odd Fellows, both of
Mount Rainier.
Services Tomorrow.
Besides his son, Mr.. Sherwood is
survived by his widow, the former
Miss Nettie Withers of Falls
Church, Va, and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at Gasch's funeral
home. Hyattsville. Masonic rites will
be held at the grave in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Politics
Continued From First Page,

ing control of the Senate In No.
vember.
The Democrats now have As seats: !:
the Republicans, 81.
Federal Sales Tax Predicted.
Chairman McGrath of the Demo-
cratic National Committee said
that, Republicans who engineered
the tnwise income tax cut through
the 80th Congress are making elabo-
rate plans to enact Federal sales
tax II they should win Congress in
November.
THE Republican plan" Senator
McGrath declared, rs to use the
| term broad base excise tax instead
of sales tax but the unfair tax
system remains as bad by that name
as it is under the more clearly
understood term of sales tax"
Meanwhile, Gov. Thurmond, in q
Transcribed radio broadcast here
Evening star., 1948-08-23

fell to the ground when the cal
struck pump. The two policemen
chased the f1eeting car north on the
boulevard but were unsuccessful in
their attempt to catch it. They said
1t contained three men.
The men got into the restaurant
by breaking in the front door of an
adjoining liquor store and stole an
undetermined amount of liquor and
The proprietor refused
to disclose how much money was in
the undamaged safe but said it con-
tanned some receipts from week.
end sales.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Halted for Dirty Window,
Driver Knocks Out Glass
Nv N. A,,oe;oT,d Pres,

By me tSsoctufed Pfes3
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 23.-Patrol-
man Robert McGarvey stopped q
motorist in an old automobile and
started to give him q ticket because
the cars rear window was cracked
and dirty
A car window that obscures vision
carries q So fine in Kansas City.
"If I clean that window within
two minutes will you leave that
ticket on your pad?" the driver
asked. Patrolman McGarvey agreed
The motorist grabbed a crank
and with two quick blows knocked
the glass out Of the window, then
drove away.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Another Crash Near Elkridge.

Another Crash Near Elkridge.
ELKRIDGE, Md, Aug. 23.-State
Police repoted that six persons were
injured in four-vehicle smashup
late last night on the Washington
boulevard a mile half south
Of Elkridge.
Police said the accident happened
when a northbound car crossed the
white line in the center of the high
way and struck a southbound cal
which then careened into two otne,
vehicles.
The injured, all colored. were
taken to University Hospital ir
Baltimore,
Evening star., 1948-08-23

Georges General
Hospital, Chev-
erly.
Mr.. Sherwood
was stricken n
with a cerebral
hemorrhage at
his home, 4006
TIL ir ty - first
street, M o u n t
Rainier, Satur-
day morning. He
mao r e I u r n e q
from a vacation
in Virginia the
night before.
He retire e d
Evening star., 1948-08-23

pushed his campaign by declaring
that the proposed fair employment
practices act, part of the Presi-
dents program, is "the most dang
erous assault on our fundamental
liberties ever conceived under law
by the mind of man."
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Safe Falls From Bandits Car
AS Police Drive Up in Berwyn

A pound safe stolen from a
Berwyn restaurant fell from a car
just as the bandits were making
their getaway and Prince Georges
County police drove on the scene
early today.
Policemen John Tucker and Adam
Lindsey, who were cruising along
Baltimore boulevard about am.
today when they observed a dark
colored automobile pulling away
from the parking lot at the Town
Hall Tavern, 8135 Baltimore boule-
ward
The safe. which was In the trunk.
had advised their clients that they
were not covered by the act and
were not required to file any of the
statements called for. But after
conferences with the CIO, AFL,
National Association of Manufac-
turers, Association of American
Railroads, Independent Natural Gas
Association American Petroleum
Institute and many others. the
number of registrations scared.
Four Times as Many Register.
I'm the first quarter of this year
100 persons registered. This was
almost four times as many as in
the quarter preceding our inquiry.
Since the start of our inquiry more
than 435 new lobbyists have regis
tered. Unquestionably there are a
great many lobbyists still operating
without compliance with the law"
Mr.. kaufman reported that the
highest salary of lobbyist is that
received by Purcell L. Smith of the
National Association of Electric
Companies He gets s65, 1000 a year.
Illustrative of the large sums
spent for lobbying. Mr.. kaufman
cited: oil interests reported spend
ing approximately $4,000 in further
ing their aims by lobbing: the sum
of approximately $133.000 was re-
ported spent by railroad interests
to assist in the passage of the Reed
Bulwinkle bill; and housing in
terests reported spending over $133,-
900 during the second period of this
year
Mr.. Kaufman vigorously recon-
mended a number of changes in the
Registration Act to give 1t more and
stronger teeth.
"One important change" he said
is that dealing with the present
provision that does not require the
reporting of contributions of less
than $500 for lobbying purposes. Al
a result of this loophole, some organ.
izations are limiting individual
contributions to $780,
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Crash
Continued From First Page.

ham Froyd, Forest Hills, Long
Island.
The truck was loaded with 6-inch
flooring, which scattered across the
highway enid the wrecked auto
mobiles. Traffic was tied up several
hours while police and ambulance
crews extricated the injured and
cleared the debris.
Evening star., 1948-08-23
Benjamin Sherwood
Dies; Was U. 5. Aide,
MI. Rainier Official

BENJAMIN r. Sherwood, SO, re-
tired Federal Government employe
and former Mount Rainier town Of
Acial died Saturday night at Prince
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25

Union workers can maintain de-
cent wages by purchasing union
label goods and patronizing union
services.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
New Official Promises tn RepeoI;
Sees STRONGER Labor Department

New York City (ILNS).-Ralph
Wright, International Topographic
al Union member and newly APP
pointed Assistant Secretary of La
Dor, denounced the Taft Hartley
Act as a "vicious, antilabor law
and declared that its repeal would
be "among the first pieces Of legis-
lation placed before the 81st Con-
gress." He said that new law,
'fair to both workers and employ
ers" is the goal of President Tru-
man.
Wright spoke here before dele
gates representing AFL, CIO and
Independent unions at the second
annual conference of the American
Trade Union Council of the Histad-
rut, the Israeli Federation of Labor.
Wright said that the rebuilding
of the Department of Labor, cut to
ribbons under the reactionary Re-
publican 80th Congress-" would
take place in the near future.
"a stronger Department of La
bor," he added, restored to a posi-
ton of real Cabinet status, is
pledged to do everything in its
power to promote and foster the
welfare of all the wage earners in
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Child Health Care
AS Much Right As
Public Education

Boston (LPA)-The first meas
ure of new legislation and new
ways of handling our national life
must be; What will it do to our
children ?"
That is the proposal made by DIR.
Martha NJ Eliot, in her president
ial speech to the American Public
Health Assn. DR.. Eliot. one of the
pioneers in setting up federal pro-
grams to aid children, told the dele
gates:
eve like to believe that our
standard of living is high enough
to provide not only food, shelter,
clothing, education, recreation for
families, but also health and medi-
cal care, but when we look at the
statistics, using children as a meas
ure of social progress, we find that
this is not the case.
"Children are concentrated in
low-income families; two thirds
live in families with total family
incomes under $500. They are con-
centrated in low-income states;
about one-foArth of our children
are found in the southeastern states
that have but 1870 of the national
income. Farm families have nearly
one-third of our children, but only
about 11@o of our income.
rThese facts make it obvious that
many families with children can
not afford to pay for medical care
or, when they do afford it, they do
SO at the expenes of other essential
items. Even comparatively well-to-
do families, those with an income
of $4,000, would have difficulty
meeting the costs of prolonged or
serious illness. Yet today nearly
500 of our families have less than
$4,000 income.
Because our children's needs are
urgent, believe that it is a public
responsibility to see that all SER
vices and facilities necessary to
meet these needs are made avail
able as rapidly as possible. The
only way we can be sure of doing
this is thru a public program, one
that does not involve a means test
one that is as freely available to
mothers and children as is our pub
lie education system.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25

the current issue, stating thai
"while the public opinion polls were
in error, the blame is solely that OF
the nations press" The Reporter
reprints in full a letter to his paper
from New York Times reporter
James Reston. Reston asserts that
Just as Dewey was too isolated with
other politicians, 1--WE were too iso-
lated with other reporters" and did
not "spend much time wandering
around talking to the people"
"The great intangible of this
election" says Reston, "was the
political influence of the Roosevelt
era on the thinking of the nation.
Ii was less dramatic than the an
tics of Messrs. Wallace and Thur
mond, but in the long run it was
more important and we didn't give
enough weight to it.
consequently we were wrong,
not only on the election, but what's
worse, on the whole political direc-
tion of our time"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
AFL- Men To Ask
'Speed-Up' Study

New York City QLNS).-Matt-
hew Vol and David Dubinsky,
American Federation Of Labor con-
sultants to the United Nations, an
nounced here that they would ask
the World Health Organization to
study the effect of industrial
"speed-up" systems on workers
health and life expectancy.
Woll, AFL executive council
member and Dubinsky, council
member and president of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, pointed out that incentive
wage systems and "other better
ments to utmost exertion" often
had adverse effect on the health
of workers. They recommended
that the worldwide survey be con-
Quoted by the health organization
in association with the lnternation-
al Labor Organization.
The AFL executive council re-
ported to the federation's Cincin-
natl convention that the World
Health Organization "holds much
promise for the improvement of
the health of all peoples and that it
merits the support of the American
Federation of Labor"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
|IAMDendnd
Of Lobbyists

Washington (LPA) - President
Truman and congressional leaders
last week were urged by the Init
Association of Notwithstanding
lated to start the 81st Congress of
right by Immediately investigating
the activities of Washington's
corps of high-paid lobbyists. =
The request was sent to the
Democratic leaders by lam Sec
retary-treasurer Eric P e t er n
after the unions executive council
heard report that the leg-men OF
the vested interests spent approx
imately $12,000,000 to influence
the 80th Congress.
ALREADY" Peterson said, there
is ample evidence that these same
lobbies, financed by special inter
ests, are preparing to redouble
their efforts in the 81st Congress IN
last desperate attempt to block
President Truman's legislative pro-
gram"
Singled out for special attention
by the LAM are: the Natl Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, the Com
mittee for Constitutional Govern
ment, both of which were active on
behalf of the Taft Hartley law, the
Natl Physicians Committee, the
front for the fight against health
insurance, the Natl Association of
Electric Companies, the Natl As
sociation of Home Builders, the
Natl Association Of Real Estate
Boards, and the Assn of American
railroads.