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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-17
Profits

You will be interested in
knowing how United States Steel
has profited from the initiation
which has undermined your
purchasing power. Open profits
of 127 million dollars and hidden
profits of millions in special re-
serves add up to a fabulous
profit take for United States
Steel. But the workers employed
by United States Steel did not
share in this prosperity. Their
average hourly earnings rose
from SLAB an hour in 1916 to
Sl.55 an hour in 1947 an in
crease of only "a per cent. Mean
while, since the lapse of price
control the cost of living has
scared more than Is per cent.
From April, 1945 to Deem
Der 1947, the real weekly wages
of steel workers, what they can
buy with the dollars they get
in their pay envelopes, has fallen
about Is per cent. The increases
they won in 1916 and 1947 have
been more than wiped out by
the rise in the cost of living.
Steel workers, like all other
workers, are justified in demand
ing substantial increase in
wages.
Steel workers handle some of
the toughest jobs in the country,
jobs which expose them to in
tense heat and dirt, jobs which
require strength and in many
cases a high degree of skill.
These jobs expose steel workers
to ever present danger. Yet their
real hourly earnings, after they
are adjusted for living cost in
creases and higher taxes, are
about what tn ey received in
1899, while company profits are
more than 3 to 5 times greater
than the prewar average.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-17

Adolph Hitler had no monopoly
on the technique of divide to
conquer, and we know that the
techniques of breeding fear are
still in use.
But the divide and conquer
boys and the strong-arm boys
don't win. Force, lies, and deceit
cost the lives of good men in
fights for justice, but the people
have way of coming out on
top.
Today the fear-makers and
the strong-arm boys have the
upper hand but they cannot sus-
tain themselves for long.
They have the upper hand
here at home where they have
removed all the economic con-
trolls which protected workers
and farmers and where they
control so much of the press and
means of distributing Informal
ton.
But they win only temporary
victories.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-17

We in the New Party are
fighting for minimum wage of
S1.00 an hour and for extension
of the Fair Labor Standards Act
to all workers. And we seek ade-
quate funds for proper enforce
ment against chiseling employ
ers.
We know that in making this
fight to defend American work
ers from Truman Vandenberg,
we must oppose the foreign pol
icy and Forrestal. Our foreign
policy has provided the reasons
for labor injunctions. Every act
against labor is taken as mea-
sure of national security and is
based on carefully manufactured
war threats.
If these threats are real, we
could expect our big business
boys to voluntarily forgo all their
profits and huge salaries in the
interests of national defense.
These threats aren't real. They
are synthetic. They are manu-
featured to whip labor into line.
The heart of our labor policy
is the rehabilitation program
and il is in that program that
the drive of the monopolies
against labor reaches a climax.
A major objective of this re-
mobilization program is labor
draft. wage freeze. forced labor
and shackled unions.
Proposals and plans for these
steps have been submitted to the
Senate Armed Service Commit
tee and they are the logical prod
ucts of criminally stupid for
eign policy.
The preservation of a free
trade union movement in Amer
lea requires opposition to the
present big business foreign pol
icy, which is supported by both
cid parties. The foreign and do
meStic policies are bound up to-
gether. They can't be separated.
And they are the logical prod
ucts of a philosophy which puts
private profits ahead of the gem
eral welfare.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-17

the atomic energy plants at Oak
Ridge. They passed Taft-Hart-
ley and restored government
by-injunction. But they aren't
satisfied. They have some new
union-busting legislation COM
ing up.
They are pressing hard for the
emasculation of the Fair Labor
Standards Act. They want the
return of the longer working
week at straight-time and they
want to remove millions of work
ers from the protection of the
Fair Labor Standards Act.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-12-23
Importance Of Water

A plentiful supply Of water supple
ments an efficient feeding program
on the farm. Water constitutes
so per cent of meat, 81 per cent Of
milk, SIS per cent of poultry flesh
and IS per cent of eggs.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-12-23
Eyes Not Movable

Birds cannot move their eyes
like human beings to look at object,
but must turn the head. This is why
birds have such flexible necks fol
twisting the head around in every
direction.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-12-23
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THE little gift shop was csDwded
when Nancy entered it, but al
most Immediately she noticed
Larry Bryant. She sensed the usual
disturbance at sight OF him, and
recalling the trend of her thoughts
for the past several minutes brought
a flush of warmth to her cheeks.
She'd been thinking, somewhat re-
sentfully, as she went along the
busy streets of the little town, how
unfair it was that Christmas had
come before she could get acquaint.
ed with someone in DavensEire--
Larry Bryant, for instance. de.
partmental head at the electric
plant where she worked. Christmas
wasn't Christmas unless it could
be shared with someone.
And now Larry was standing at
the dish counter deciding about q
pair of little green rabbit salt and
pepper shakers. 1t didn't matter
particularly that he'd buy the
shakers--aside from the signifi.
canoe of such an act-but she'd
had her own heart set on them
more or less. for week. Larry had
been in the shop every afternoon
that she'd been there. but this was
his first time at the dish counter.
The little shakers were as good as
gone.
The other day when she'd looked
at them, the sales girl had said,
Better buy them. These are the
last ones, and they are a bargain
at eight dollars. They came all the
way from Sweden"
"I know" Nancy had said, but
she had thought they'd be an ex-
travagance and look out of place
on the little table in her corner
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-12-23
The other day when she'd
looked at them, the sales girl
had said, "Better buy Them"


looked at them, the sales girl
had said, "Better buy Them"
kitchenette at Lii Ransom's old
rooming house. Then there'd be no
one to admire them-only herself.
! 'They might be gone the next
time you come" the girl had said
when Nancy left the counter.
But they'd been there the next
time Nancy went back to the little
gift shop. Every afternoon for
week they'd been there, as if
awaiting for her to make up her
mind to buy them.
Nancy held her breath as she
watched Larry from a distance. For
now she knew that if he didn't take
the shakers, she'd buy them her.
self.
But even as Nancy watched, she
saw him hand the shakers to
clerk.
She tried to push her disappoint-
ment aside and select an inexpen-
sive little gift for one of her CO.
workers at the plant. Tomorrow
was Christmas Eve, and the en-
ployees and officials of the plant
had drawn names as part of a
gift giving program they'd planned
to have about the huge, gayly dec
Grated tree in the arched entrance.
Nancy Dire d.ed the occasion,
more so now than before. She re-
gretted the day she'd left her home
town to take a better job in Daven-
shire. Why hadn't she waited until
after Christma a to make the
changei
When the time came the next day
for the program, Nancy took the
gift that was handed to her and
slipped from the crowd. She
wouldn't be missed, she thought
bitterly, as she hurried from the
building. Snow fell softly about her
in a gentle burst from the dark
sky, and the ring of voices from the
plant followed her in a kind of
haunting. sad beauty.
Inside her apartment she looked
down at the gayly wrapped package
in her hands through a blur of tears.
It was the only Christmas gift she'd
received, and it had been given only
because someone had drawn her
name.
She unwrapped the package, and
suddenly the blur cleared to reveal
the little green rabbit salt and
pepper shakers with the long, saucy
ears-one up and one limping down
provocatively.
Her heart thrummed in her
throat. Larry had drawnsher name.
But the cost of the gifts they were
to exchange was not to go over
twenty-five cents!
Lii Ransom called up the stairs.
You're wanted on the phone, and
tits a man."
Nancy placed the little shakers
carefully on the table and turned
to the door The hum of 'fSilent
Night came from Lii Ransom's
radio up the sweep of stairs, and
Nancy found herself singing the
words softly as she dashed down
them, for she knew even before she
heard his voice who was waiting
for her on the telephone.
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Crown of St. Stephen Kept
At Munich by Americans

BERLIN. Dec. 80 lP).-The Crown
of st. Stephen, venerated by the
Hungarian nation for more than 900
years. is in the safekeeping of the
American Military Government at
Munich, an American official said
today.
The official said Washington has
reached no decision regarding re-
turn of the crown
Negotiations involving both the
Hungarian government and the
Vatican have been going on for
some time in this case he added
The crown is kept at collection
center of military governments fine
arts and monuments section. 1t was
among the booty taken from Hungary
by Germans during the war and was
recovered in l945 by American
troops.
Americans delayed action on the
first postwar Hungarian request for
the crown because of the possibility
it might be seized as Preparations"
by the Soviet occupation army in
Budapest
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Glenn Dale
Continued From First Psge)

and half ribs to make the lung
accessible for later operations.
The removing operation should
have been made at the patients left
side to lay bare her diseased left
lung, DR.. Ashburn said.
DR.. Rutland reported to Com
missioner Mason that the operation
was decided on by the concurring
judgment of the Glenn Dale medical
staff because of the extensive in
volvement of the left lung" DR..
Conant declared the woman was in
serious condition before the opera
ton, having been a patient there
for many months.
DIR. Ruhlands Report.
DR.. Ruhland's preliminary report
to Commissioner Mason described
the succeeding events in this man.
ner:
1T appears that the operative
schedule for this patient erroneous
ly listed the operation for the right
side instead of on the left side
This record unfortunately was in
the operating room at the time the
patient was brought in for opera
ton on Tuesday morning.
There was also in the operat-
ing room at the time of the opera
ton chest X-ray film taken OF
the patient.
"The operation actually was per.
formed by DR.. Frank Ashburn. This
Evening star., 1948-12-30

which would defend him." said q
12-page communique issued last
night
1t declared he has been sponsor
of Hungarian fasclsm."
The communique reiterated pre-
viouS accusations and made some
new ones.
Cardinal Mindszenty was not
available to answer. Western
'spokesmen condemned the ar
rest. American UnderSecretary
of State Lovett called it a sick
ening sham. Francis Cardinal
Spellman. Archbishop of New
York, declared Tuesday the ar
rest was the first grim step
in another totalitarian mock
trial He specifically denied a
Budapest declaration that he had
been advised of purported
Mindszenty plan to enthrone
Archduke Otto HapsburgD
The government statement dealt
at length with the alleged royalist
plot, said Cardinal Mindszenty
hoped for American occupation of
and added
The rule of Otto HapSDuTg would
nave meant, according to Mind
szenty, the unrestricted rule of big
and capitalists and the
oppression of the people
Evening star., 1948-12-30
ourt0rders GaIIinqer
Test for Sex Offender

A man convicted four times of sex
offenses was taken off probation
yesterday and ordered to Gallinger
Hospital as the first step in the
Governments move to have him
adjudged sexual psychopath.
In a petition presented before
Municipal Court in accordance with
the Districts sex law, Assistant
United States Attorney Robert Scott
explained the case of Robert T.
Howard, 38. a counterman who lives
in the 1900 block of Eighth street
NV.
Mr.. Scott reported the man has
been arrested five times since 1885
being convicted on charges of sod
omy, twice for soliciting prostitution,
and assault of an indecent nature.
He forfeited S25 on a second charge
of indecent assault.
The prosecutor pointed out that
Howard was placed on a years pro-
baton for soliciting prostitution
from a policeman last September
One condition of the probation was
that he undergo psychiatric treat
ment from a private physician, but
Chief Probation Officer Joseph N
Sanford informed the Government
Howard had stopped taking these
treatments.
Judge George D. Nelson signed
the order sending the man to Gal
linger for examination by two psy-
chiatrists. If the physicians believe
he is a sexual psychopath, Howard
would be given hearing before a
jury. If the jury agreed with the
doctors, the man would be COM
mitted to st. Elizabeths Hospital for
treatment until cured.
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Spies Are Still on Job,
kundt Says After
New Chambers Quiz

New testimony given secretly
by ex-Communist Whitaker
Chambers indicates the Commu-
nists set up "perpetuating
underground hierarchy on such
a detailed scale that it is still
going on, Acting Chairman
Mundt of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities de-
clared today.
Parts OF the new Chambers testi-
mony that can be made public will
be included in the committees es-
pionage report scheduled for re-
lease tomorrow, Mr. Mundt said.
Mr.. Chambers, whose revelations
that he had received stolen State
Department documents gave the
committees spy hunt a new lease on
life, was questioned for five hours
late Tuesday.
Testimony Taken at Farm.
Mr.. Mundt, Representative Nixon,
Republican, of California, and COM
mlttee investigators took the testi-
mony under oath at Mr.. Chambers
1arm IN Westminster, Md.
Mr.. Chambers, according to Mr.
Mundt, gave the spy hunters no new
names Of important Government
officials but he did provide the
names Of nom Government individ-
uals who played very important
parts in helping to operate the
apparatus"
The former Communist courier,
Mr.. Mundt said, gave the committee
members picture of the extent of
the underground apparatus, how it
operated, its geographical outlines,
the number of persons involved and
the length Of time Mr.. Chambers
was familiar with the operation.
1t was on the question of time
that Mr. Mundt partially based his
belief that the conpiracy is still
active at the present time.
Perpetuating Hierarchy.
Mr. Chambers gave the investi-
gators information about the ap-
para UclOlc lc SUC llIO IL anu
after he renounced communism in
1888, Mr.. Mundt said.
1T was apparently a perpetuating
underground hierarchy Mr.. Mundt
said The general description
Chambers gave us of the time it
had gone on, the leads he gave us
as to it's continuation after he quit
and the fact that Elizabeth Bent
ley (another avowed ex-Communist
courier came in later all indicate
it is still going on
Some of the persons named by Mr..
Chambers for the first time, Mr..
Mundt said, are still in this country.
Others are operating in other coun-
tries or have died, he went on.
Some were known to MIR. Chambers
only by Communist code names.
The fresh leads supplied by Mr..
Chambers, Mr.. Mundt reported,
would keep the committee and the
staff constantly at work for six
or year"
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Cardinal
fContinued From First Page.h

statement today. in connection with
the arrest of the Hungarian Primate.
saying the Vatican had done all
possible to discover and have taken
care Of the Crown of St. Stephen
The crown is one of the most sacret
Catholic relics of Hungary St.
Stephen, Hungary's first king. lived
from 975 to 1893 and labored to
make Hungary a Catholic nation.
The Hungarian government yes
terday accused Msgr Giovanni Ba-
tista Montini, the substitute for the
Vatican secretary of state, of having
connived with Cardinal MindsZenty
to keep the crown out of Hungarian
hands. The government said the
crown was stolen by the Nazis in
Hungary and now is in the hands of
American occupation forces in Ger
many.
The crown ranks with the hand of
st. Stephen. preserved for centuries,
as relic of Hungary. The crown
was presented to Stephen by Pope
sylvester II and Stephen was
crowned with it in the year 1901.
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Foreign Aid
Continued From First PageD

ond year of the four which it is sup
posed to run.
2. Join the North Atlantic mill
tary alliance which the State De-
partment has been negotiating for
months with Canada and the men,
bers Of the Western European
Union. Britain, France and the Low
Countries.
3. AS a further means of strength
ening Western Europe against Rus
sia, authorize a program of military
assistance which the American high
command has been working out
with representatives of the five
western union nations.
4. Continue military aid to Greece
and Turkey as strategic countries
blocking Russian expansion into the
Near East.
S. Provide non-Communist China
with any reasonable assistance
which the military situation in
China.appears to justify within the
next few months.
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Truman Back at Desk,
Ready TO Map Plans
For New Congress
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman was back al
the White House today, ready to
map plans for the new Congress
after a bad-Weather flight from
Missouri in the presidential
plane independence.
Mr.. Truman had planned a con-
ference today with Vice President
elect Barkley and Representative
Rayburn of Texas, who will again be
Speaker of the House in the new
Congress, but the meeting was post
poned until tomorrow.
After talk-down landing through
rain and fog at the National Airport
yeStefday-a landing which gave
some jittery moments to a group OF
top officials waiting to greet Mr..
Truman-the President went imme-
diately to his White House Offices
for a conference with leaders of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions.
Callers Include Murray.
The CIO officials said afterward
that Mr.. Truman expressed deter
mination to carry out his campaign
promises which include repeal of the
Taft-Hartley Labor Act.
The Presidents callers were CIO
President Philip Murray, Secretary
James B. Carey, General Counsel
Arthur Goldberg, Emil Rieve. head
of the Textile Workers. and Jacob
Potofsky, president of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers.
. The landing through rain and fog
on the ground approach control
system left Mr.. Truman completely
unperturbed.
For 40 minutes, the Independence
cruised over Mount Vernon at 10000
feet waiting for a chance to land.
Then Thomas L. Breznay, airport
traffic controller, guided the big
ship down step by step, until the
field came in sight through the haze.
President Was Asleep.
AS the President left the plane
a reporter said, We've been worried
down here
"Oh, is that SOP" grinned the
President. I've been asleep up
there"
1t. Col. Francis CFrenchy) Will
liams, pilot of the Independence,
also was undisturbed.
Il wouldn't have come in II 1t
were dangerous" he said. 1T was
routine let-down procedure which
commercial airlines are doing some
place every day in the year"
Col. Williams said he used the in
strument landing system as we'll as
radar checking one against the
other.
There were two other planes
stacked up with the Independence
and the Presidents ship waited for
them to land before coming in. The
Independence always has landing
priority, but Col. Williams said that
it might have been dangerous to
start down rs both of the other
ships were below his plane. and a
collision would have been possible
Evening star., 1948-12-30

the first time at La Guardia Field
they we're screaming their heads
Off said Mrs. Smetana. a New
Yorker. They had become at
tached to an Austrian girl aboard
the plane. We put them in the
back of our car and soon they
we're perfectly happy, looking at
cars and buildings"
Mrs. Smetana said her husband
talks to them in German and trans
lates for her. But they are picking
up English very fast, she said, and
Roswitha will enter school next
year
They're very happy here and
haven't asked about their past,
she said. The District Welfare
Board investigated us, though, to
make sure we could take care of
them. We haven't inquired about
their background except to fnd
their first Names Y
Evening star., 1948-12-30
China
Continued From First PageD

was an immediate change of
minds
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Senate COP. Rebels
Are Meeting Today
AT Secret Session
BY the Associoied Press

Old-line leaders of Senate Re
publicans and band of younger
insurgents are meeting today in
rival strategy sessions.
Amid some secrecy, Senators Ives
of New York and Morse of Oregon
invited other self-styled Republican
liberals to a closed-door discussion,
time and place unannounced.
Still smarting under the party's
November defeat, this group is de-
termined to have bigger say on
party policies during the new Con-
eress which meets Monday. with Re-
puhlicans in the minority.
Senator Taft of Ohio meanwhile,
called the regulars" together for a
pm. meeting--its only announced
purpose to map plans for tomor-
"OW's final session of the Eightieth
Congress.
Final Meeting Of Committee.
This was the final meeting of the
Jenate Republican Policy Commit
;ce. which Senator Taft heads. The
OHIO Senator said only two minor
matters were on the committees
slate. But it seemed obvious that
the maneuvers of the insurgents
would command more than passing
attention
In addition to Senators Taft and
Wherry, the Republican policy group
includes Senators Vandenberg of
Michigan. Millikin of Colorado,
White of Maine, Gordon Of Oregon,
Ferguson of Michigan, Saltonstall
of Massachusetts,, Brooks of Illinois
and Hawkes. of New Jersey.
Senator Brooks was defeated for
reelection while Senators White
and Hawkes. did not seek reelection
Senator Millikin, who is chairman
of the Republican conference of all
Republican Senators, yesterday re-
moved himself from consideration
for minority leader in the new
Senate.
Il have not been and will not be
a candidate for floor leader of the
minority party" he announced.
Earlier, Senator Millikin had been
ASbSo AOI tIlIo hCS pOSC III q SldGS
that would have placed Senator
Vandenberg in the job of confer
ence chairman and retained Senator
Taft as policy head and Senator
Wherry as assistant floor leader.
Showdown Due Monday.
Unless the rebel group agrees on
a candidate. the Millikin announce
ment may clear the way for Senator
Wherry as floor leader
The showdown on COP leader
ship will come Monday morning
when the AZ Republicans organize.
Senators Ives and Morse ducked
reporters ir advance of their meet
ing. But it was learned that these
Republican Senators planned to at
tend: Aiken and Flanders of Ver-
mont. Baldwin of Connecticut, |
Knowland of California, and Thye
Of Minnesota.
Meanwhile. Senator McGrath, !
Democrat. of Rhode Island said he
hopes Republican leaders can find
wav to keep Republican Senator
Ives on the Senate Labor COM
mittee in the new Congress
Senator Ives. generally regarded
as labor relations expert, is slated
to be bumped" from the COM
mittee when the Democrats resume
control next week