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Evening star., 1948-05-14
Tapping Revives Hope
For ; Trapped Miners
BY the Assoeioisdp Press


SHAMOKIN, Pa, May 14.-Weary
rescue crews chung today to the be-
lief that three men entombed in a
flooded mine ITS feet underground
are still alive.
Heartened by this hope, the res
cuers-some of whom have gone
without sleep for nearly SO hours
manned pumps and reported they
thought they were winning their
battle against the water.
Frank Arrison, who kept an all
night vigil at the waters edge deep
down in the hole, came up at day.
break to report 1t had receded about
eight inches.
He also reported that the tap
pings, first heard yesterday, con-
tinued to resound sharply and
clearly through 100 feet of solid coal
and rock, indicating that one or
more was alive.
Meanwhile, about 5000 free lance
coal diggers and truckers laid down
their tools in work holiday until
the entombed trio is brought to the
surface.
The three men were trapped
below the surface of the earth by
seeping rainwater two days ago.
The three-Charles Bashore, ~;
Edward Heck, AZ, and Peter Gordon,
35, all of Shamokin-apparently
were unable to escape to the surface
when an unusually heavy rainstorm
flooded the shaft they bought for
independent operation just two
weeks ago. Mr.. Gordon is father Of
two children and Mr.. Bashore Of
four.
Mr.. Bashore's wife, who had main
tanned 24-hour vigil at the shaft.
went home last night to get some
sleep but was back among the crowd
early today.
The wives of the other two men
were i'll at their homes.
Evening star., 1948-05-14
u. ). .Mediators Find
No Basis for Talks
In Chrys|er Strike
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

DETROIT, May IA strike Of
$4,000 Chrysler auto workers entered
its third day today with no immedi-
ate prospects of any meeting be-
tween the disputing parties.
Federal conciliators stood by to
offer their services, but conciliator
: Leo Kotin said, there's not much
use in any meetings right now.
Mr.. Kotin disclosed that he has
been in touch with the company
and the CIO United Auto Workers
since Wednesdays strike.
: I've talked with various officials
by telephone, but there has been
no meeting since negotiations broke
off Tuesday night" he added.
The Chrysler workers struck when
the company turned down their de-
mands for wage increase. Orig
inally the UAW had asked a 30
cent increase over the present
Chrysler hourly average pay Of
$3.50.
Figure Cut to II Cents.
This figure was reduced to II cents
by the UAW shortly before the COL
lapse of negotiations, but the COM
pany termed it unacceptable. Chrys-
ler's only offer during the multi
week negotiations was Scent in
crease and this was withdrawn after
, UAW negotiators rejected 1t.
. Amidst increasing evidence that
the strike might be long drawn
out affair, Michigan and city Of
ficials mulled over what relief could
be offered to the $1,000 strikers in
Michigan.
The other 10000 are in Indiana
and California.
The UAW already has launched
a program aimed at raising an
100000 strike kitty by August
through assessments on the 1,000,-
900 UAW members. And in some
plant areas, soup kitchens already
have been put in operation to aid
, pickets and their families.
y, Ineligible for Benefits.
= James F. Moore, executive direc-
tor of the Michigan Unemployment
Compensation Commission, pointed
out that Michigan strikers are not
eligible for unemployment benefits.
But John F. Ballenger, Detroit
welfare commissioner. said rank
.and-file strikers will be allowed to
join the citys welfare rolls when
they become destitute.
1T makes little difference to us
whether the need Is because of a
flood, strike or a drunken father.
When families are hungry and
destitute, we intend to feed them"
Mr.. Ballenger asserted.
Meanwhile, Gov. Kim Sigler of
Michigan said he was going to let
.the strike situation cool off for a
couple of days" before deciding
whether to offer his services as a
mediator.
!: Struck Without Required Vote.
The Chrysler workers struck with
out taking strike vote, as required
by a Michigan law. But UAW Off
;cials contended that since Chrysler
was an Interstate corporation the
Michigan law did not apply.
4. The UAW said it had fulfilled all
provisions of the Taft Hartley Act
before the strike.
The Chrysler strike was having
Ats effects on the Briggs Manufacture
:ing Co. and other concerns which
supply parts to Chrysler.
:, Briggs, which makes auto bodies,
was in the process Of laying of 49,
700 workers by Monday, and two
smaller supplier concerns also were
affected.
:. Electric Auto-Lite Co. IN Toledo
announced $500 workers would be
sent home today. The firm, which.
Evening star., 1948-05-14
Woman Struck by Bus
Suffers Head Injuries

Miss Mary T. Connor, 81, of 101
North Carolina avenue Sc, was In
an undetermined condition in
Emergency Hospital today after be-
ing struck by a bus yesterday after
noon at Pennsylvania avenue and
Tenth street NV.
Police said the Alexandria, Bar
croft and Washington bus was being
operated by Joseph E. Moore. 81
of 225 South Lee street. Alexandria
Miss Connor was suffering from
head injuries.
Evening star., 1948-05-14
rs Volunteers Sought
To Aid in Chest Project

The Volunteer Center, division
Of the Council of Social Agencies,
is recruiting volunteers for a Com
munity Chest Federation project,
involving folding of letters and
stuffing of envelopes.
Services of Is volunteers are de-
sired from 6 to 9 pm. Monday at
11O1 M street NV. Additional in
formation may be obtained by call
ing Republic 5105.
Evening star., 1948-05-14
A. |. McGinness, Painter, ,
Dies UnexpectedIy at 81

Allen Thompson McGinniss, 50,
Washington painter for rs years,
died unexpectedly yesterday in his
home, 1760 Lang place NE.
Mr.. McGinniss was born and edu-
Gated in Oak Grove, Va. He worked
for the Highway Department in that
state before he came to Washington
IN 1923.
He was a member of William r.
Singleton Masonic Lodge No. 30
and the National Baptist Memorial
Church.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Maude v. Settle McGinniss; two
sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Callahan,
Fredericksburg, Va, and Mrs. Beulah
Cummings, Baltimore, and a brother,
Neal McGinniss, also of Fredericks-
burg.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. tomorrow in the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1948-05-14
Rockville Loymen to Meet

The Laymen's Association of
Rockville will sponsor ~ rehgious'
service at 8 pm. Sunday at the
Rockville Christian Church with
the Rev. r" nix K. Brasington of the
Columbia Federation of Baptist
Churches, Washington, as guest
speaker.
Evening star., 1948-05-14

makes starting, lighting and igni-
ticn systems for Chrysler products,
planned to spread the layods over
three shifts of 5000. At Lansing,
Mich, the Motor Wheel Corp. laid
of 300 yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-05-14

workers is $1.21 an hour. the union
says.
The contract with the company
expired May 8. The company has
offered to extend the old agreement
two years with one reopening period
for wages.
Evening star., 1948-05-14

The Gold Coast has . campaign
to encourage natives to start saw
ings accounts,
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
North CarOlinans Have Made
Their States Vote Unimportant

Now that election day is almost at hand again
and the issue of electing President is at stake, it
becomes more and more obvious that North Caro-
lima is not going to amount to much in the overall
political picture in the nation
1t seems a shame, too, somehow, because those
of us who love North Carolina and call it home would
like to see the state amount to something.
The unfortunate part about the whole thing is
that the blame for North Cardinals lack of political
Importance is drectlythe fault of North Cardinals
days and argue politics far into the night the people
who proud of their right to the free ballot that
they won't go to the polls to exercise that right
the people who stricken with apathy every time
they get chance to participate in issue of their
government.
scream to high heaven if they were told they had
chance to vote next Tuesday will deliberately dis
franchise themselves next Tuesday by going nowhere
near the polls They will scream and curse with an
guish when they read the next day that of their
mem one of their" issues has been defeated by
margin in spite of the fact that they didn't
enough about their choice to give active sup
port at the ballot box.
To hear people talk, would get the impression
that the only issue next Tuesday is whether Dewey
is going to defeat Truman for President or whether
it will be the other way around. A lot of people
all of them good North Carolinians mind you-are
going around saying, II just can't vote for Truman
l figure my vote would be wasted Thurmond and
how anyone vote for Wallace surprises me- so
guess l just won't VOTE
They are the people who making North Caro-
hnas political Importance not worth the national
notice.
The biggest issue for voters next Tuesday is not
how they vote, just long as they vote.
One of the inherent rights of American citizen
ship is the right to free ballot. The only way that
ballot can be useful is for it to be used
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31

mated for President and the peo-
pie had not yet had a chance to
learn about him He was a grea
man TT the time and the fact
that he had expressed such SYM
pathy for the Fun Factory on
Riverside Drive was good medi-
cine for Horcil. l do not know
how he got Roosevelt to write
the letter. However. the Roose-
welt circle were very very
money-conscious, Elliott, the
Cab, Anna, Harry Hopkins. The
crash on a feather bed.
feather bed
Anyway have shown you that
Roosevelt was interested in this
nut-factory where Sol Bloom,
the old hoochy-koochy promoter
from the streets of Cairo, had
little bower for himself, and
with the spooks. This was where
the goofy Guru letters were
snagged en- route to Roerich in
Manchuria and stashed away,
never to be published until l948-
years too late to prevent Bubble
heads election 10 the Vice Presi-
dency, but in time to cut down
his potential vote of 5000, 900.
for President as of last winter,
when the letters were first
printed, to less than two mil
lion t lay.
The point I am establishing
is Roosevelt's gui in picking
Wallace for Vice-President.
That was a t, -.ble thing to do
and the evidence becomes more
and more convincing that Roose-
welt, Eleanor, Hopkins and Ed
Flynn, the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
knew the terrible truth and let
the people elect Wallace to a
job which he might have stepped
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
Local Businessman Asks Questions
About Post Office Service Here.

registered package. The pack
age contained valuable records
of the business which l conduct
in Roanoke Rapids. When the
bookkeeper had finished it, l
found that it was after one o.
clock. l realized that the post
office here was closed, but the
package had to be mailed. So l
called the Weldon postoffice and
found that it was open on We'd
neSday afternoons.
Now, tell me should a Roa-
noke Rapids business man have
to drive a total of ten miles
to mail package on Wednes-
day afternoon?
Who sets the hours of opera
ton for post offices?
I'm not the only person in
Roanoke Rapids, who uses the
postoffice, and dare say that
many other people have been
in the same predicament.
I'm wondering if you won't
try to get the answers to these
questions for me. Perhaps Post
master Shell can furnish the an
swers, but I'm sure it would be
a public service on the part of
your newspaper to help us get
better postoffice service in Roa-
noke Rapids.
Sincerely,
A Roanoke Rapids Business
man
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31

to the Presidency any minute.
You can't blame Wallace. He
can't help it.
Another point Of news for
you is that this mealy faker,
with his sham on honesty and
utter disinterest in graft, threw
$4,000 of the peoples money to
Horch's museum during the New
York World Fair. There was
paintings and Wallace, represe
an exhibit of Latin-American
paintings and Wallace, repre-
senting te Federal Government,
snatched the show away from
the World Fair, where it belong
ed, and dropped it into Horch's
pitch way up on the Drive,
and hard to get to, and paid
Louie's museum SIT 900 Of the
taxpayers money. All this time
Wallace was also putting some
fat on Horch through series #
highly influential jobs in the De-
partments of Agriculture and
Commerce.
I phoned Horch recently. He
said these matters conct ID
Henry Wallace, not him, and de-
cided not to discuss anything
with me.
"The hell these matters don't
concern you," asked to Mr..
concern you," I aid to Mr..
what you were doing in the De-
partment of Commerce as New
York regional representative
and tell me about your specula-
ton in silver while you were
pals with Henry Wallace-broth-
er, am going to tell you"
And will, too. will tell
him and you can listen because
what I am going to tell him
isn't going to be confidential.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE When Mussolini
and then Hitler began their ex-
pansion, l'e tried to strengthen
European nations by reducing
their World War l debt, by de-
claring moratoriums on other
loans and by granting trade ad-
vantages. But we never set UP
a Marshall Plan for rebuilding
their industries, commerce, ag-
riculture and finances.
As was inevitable when we
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
OPEN FORUM


There may be som1 aaswers
to the questions which l am
about to ask, but l don't know
them and don't think that
very many people in Roanoke
Rapids know the answers or the
why nots of the goings-on at
our first-class post office.
Roanoke Rapids is a city of
more than 10000 people. We
boast about it being the Fast
est growing City in the Caro-
linas." l like to think that is
true and believe that the fu-
ture of our city is bright.
Well, why in tunket is it
that the city of Roanoke Ra-
pids cannot have its post office
open on Wednesday after
moons?
Not too long ago your paper
carried a story and later an edi-
torial congratulating our post Of
flee on its 100 percent rating.
Well now, l ask you on what
was this 100 percent rating bas-
ed, Was it service? If so, please
explain to me how the people
of the city are receiving the
best possible service from their
postoffice when it is closed on
Wednesday and Saturday after
moons?
Last Wednesday l had to mail
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
Local Bus Operations Bettered And
Plans Indicate Greater Service


Bus service in Roanoke Rapids is getting bet
ter almost daily. We congratulate the operators of
the Roanoke Transit Company its improved sched-
ule and service Roanoke Avenue
The local company has recently added at least
bus and reports indicate that before too
long the company will add some new buses to
it's fleet
The schedule of operations Roanoke avenue,
have noticed is definitely improved The buses
operate nearly on their schedule and apparent
Iy there are some additional buses in operation
the
With the paving of other city streets nearing
completion it is hope that the company will ex
tend it's service to outlying sections of the city We
told that the company has plans along those
lines
A good bus service is great help for the city
any other and the indications that the local
company is going forward with its Improvement plans
and will bring them to fine conclusion within the
next few months.
The operators of the company will realize their
duty public servants to the city and have shown
by the improvement in their schedule Roanoke
that they making a determined effort
to provide good transportation facilities for the city
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
BY Dorothy Thompson

If from military viewpoint
the Soviets should see no reason
now to retreat in Berlin, how
must it look from their political
viewpoint?
Western Europe has one very
weak link in it--namely France.
In the generation between the
two wars, nearly ever important
external crisis involving France
was attended by domestic
governmental crisis.
Thus, the most daring pre-
war move of Hitler's directly
aimed at France-his moving in
to the Rhinelands and scrapping
the Treaty Of Locarno-occurred
when France was without
government. The instability of
French governments. the shift
ing coalitions which continually
composed them resulting in con-
flicting pressures and weak
compromises, continual falls of
government and indecisive re-
constitutions of them contribut-
ed between the wars to loss of
French influence in Europe, and
in some measure to French de-
feat.
Whatever may be ones atti-
tude toward the personality of
General de Gaulle, he at least
saw that Fourth Republic
which embodied all the structur-
al weaknesses of its defunct pre-
decessors probably would repeat
their experiences. He stood, and
stands, for constitutional
structure with ID strong execu-
tive and division of powers-the
kind of government which
makes possible real leadership
in crisis.
The Communists, naturally,
wanted weak government-the
better to overthrow it. But other
and moderate parties support
ed the constitution that won, out
of a fallacy regarding the dam
ger of dictatorship. Usurpers
overthrow weak constitutional
orders, not strong ones. TIL e
moment for the dictator arrives
when the legitima te govern
ment demonstrates its incapa-
city to keep order, as in Italy,
during the strikes that paralyzed
the nation a year before Musso-
lini's march; as in Germany,
when the democratic fore
es yielded to violent pressures
from Nazis and Communists;
and as in Spain.
Today the weakness of the
French Government is glaring,
and alarming. The Third
Force"-a coalition OF parties
at loggerheads with each other
over many questions-fears new
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
PEGLER
Pegler: Authenticity of CURU Letters Surrounds
Wallace And Cohorts With Proof OF Red Leaninss
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER


COPYRIGHT, l943 KING FEA-
TURES SYNDICATE, INC.)
New York, Oct % The auth
enticity of the goofy Guru letters
has been established. Sufficient
evidence has beer presented to
surround Henry Wallace with
his associates in the esoteric cir
Gle of the Roerich cult The rea-
son he flinched when l challeng-
ed him in public at his own con-
vention was that he did not dare
deny either the letters with their
plan implication of mental un-
steadiness or his guilt in other
matters, arising from secret
i've society of art faddists and
serious devoteeS of the wild, Ori-
entail ism which looks to uni
versal holocaust to purify man.
kind. Althouth Wallace now pre-
tends to have abandoned this ho-
cus-pocus, the atom bomb in the
United States, might one day
realize his vision.
want to show today that F.
D. Roosevelt was not ignor-
ant of this mess in the lamasery
on Riverside Drive where Bub-
blehead Wallace sometimes
sneaked in with his hat-brim
down and his collar up.
To introduce Roosevelt s con-
nection, however, let me first
recall that LOUIS l.. Horch was
the man next to Roerich in the
circle. Horch was smart dunn
my who pretended to be
stumbling parvcnu with a, load
of dough who mad suddenly de-
cided to grab mess of culture.
He was a speculator in inter-
national exchange and he must
have been pretty good because
he made several millions. And
now he made :. connection"
with a babbling chump with a
seat in the Cabinet and red
hot inside information. More
over, Louis's snartness showed
through again when he grabbed
ownership of the big joss-house
on the Drive, with the help of
that al t-usistic friend of man,
Morris L. Ernst. the New Deal
attoney, from Harvard Law of
course. To establish his own
ownership of the joss-house Wal
laces friend, Horch squeezed
out the poor threadbare suckers
who had invested their savings
in the funr. papers, which were
known as mortgage bonds.
Horch got letter from Roose-
velt when Roosevelt was gov
ernor of New York showing that
Moosejaw was interested in the
Roerich Museum, as the lama
sery of the cul: was called, even
before he became President.
During some receivership pro-
ceedings concerning the museum
Roosevelt wrote Horch as fol-
lows: II am distressed learn
of the difficulties into which
the Roerich Museum has fallen
and sincerely hope that some
way of adjustment may be found
which will permit the work of
the museum and its affiliated
enterprises to continue.
Yeah? Why so? Why did
Moosejaw sincerely hope that
this work could continue?
At any rate the release of
this letter which Horch putout
wa S job of neme-dropping and
worthy of that master name-drop
per, Felix Frankfurter himself.
Roosevelt had Just been nomi-
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
mpson The Instability Of French Governments The One Weak Link in Europe
Soviets See Clearly That France
Is Open For Great Communist Gains

elections from which all its COM
ponents might suffer, and keeps
itself in power not by govern
ing, which would require unity,
but by not governipe-thus
avoiding the issues ovexY'hich
it might split and falE
Such government" or anti
government, is dubious ally
in a crisis. frances contribu-
ton to the dispute over Berlin
has been a Communicated strike
in the coal areas, which is para
lying the economic life of the
nation and has taken on the
characteristics of rebellion
perilously close to civil war.
While we were asking France
to join with us in admonishing
the Soviet Union in the Security
Council, the Soviets through the
Cominform were demonstrating
their capacity t. stage "a serious
rumpus right irside France.
No government can be Strop-
ger externally than it is Internal
ly.
True, there are riffs within
the satellite states of the So
Wet Union. But totalitarian
states have a simple way of
overcoming such dissensions.
They liquidate the dissenters,
and terrorize potential sus-
poets. Wishful thinkers always
hope such puiges' will lead to
collapse, but 50 far they never
have.
AS long as the government
has the guns, the secret police
and the will to use them, it has
the effective power. Hitler sur
vived the Roehm plot; Stain
survived, and was strengthened
by the 1936-37 purgese; and
Mussolini survived the hostility
of the Italian people to the war.
lNO lOldllldl ldll Sldle ever IldS
been overthroWn except by ex-
ternal force.
So again l ask: Why should
the Soviets retreat. except for
tactical reasons, on either the
military or political fronts?
Theodore Roosevelt used to
say, Speak softly and carry a
big stick" When we had big
stick-the mightiest armed force
ever mobilized-we spoke softly
and gave the Russians every
thing they wanted. OF course,
this was with strings attached,
but such strings as they could
clip with nail scissors in
perfect impunity. After we had
whitfield the Big Stick to the
size of a bamboo cane, we be-
gan talking tough. This
doesn't seem to me to deserve
the name of Policy.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION :

e who hears you you rejects
he rejects rejects TO- ls)
This months Daily Bible Quotations suggested by Father
Peter NJ Catholic
Rapids
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-31
TUCKER
Tucker Says Military Men In Diplomat
Posts In U. S. Are Necessary At Present

Every Sunday this veteran
Washington correspondent de-
votes his column to ansN.-r-
ing readers questions of gen.
eral interest on national and
international policies and per-
sonalities. Questions may be
sent directly to Ray Tucker
at 63O8 Hillcrest Place, Chevy
Chase, Maryland.
BY Ray Tucker
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30-R. C.
of Chicago wants to know
whether it is true that military
men now exert greater influence
in shaping our foreign policy
than they did under previous
administrations. He would also
like to know the reason for the
shift of control from civilians to
what he calls 'the brass"
Answer: There is no doubt
that military thinking domin-
ates our conduct of foreign af-
fairs. However, it is not due to
the fact that so many generals
and admirals hold key posts in
our diplomatic establishment
Marshall, Leahy, C,ly, Walter
Bedell Smith, etc, or that Pre-
sident Truman h always been
partial to a uniform. Nor do
believe that Thomas E. Dewey,
should he become President,
would depart from present po-
licy.