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Evening star., 1948-09-05
Truck Drivers Strike
| Threatens 10 Spread
TO Jersey Locals
~ the As,eeio,sd Press ,

NEW YORK, Sept. IA crippling
walkout Of the city's biggest Truck
Drivers Union slowly sapped COM
merce and imperiled food supplies
today.
Ten thousand members of AFL
teamsters Local 807 and their en-
ployers were deadlocked on union
demands and there were no more
meetings set until after the long
Labor Day week end.
Meanwhile, the four day stoppage
threatened to spread to other team
sters locals in the area.
May Walk Out Tuesday.
At Newark, N. j., 4.700 members
Of Teamsters Local 47s-New Jer-
sey's largest-seemed likely to walk
out Tuesday after an angry session
with employers today ended in a
stalemate.
An employers representative told
union men As he left the session:
you've asked for . strike, and
now you've got It'll"
Six smaller locals in New Jersey
had made tentative settlements but
were awaiting action Of Local 478.
As shelves in many New York
grocerys gradually emptied and milk
deliveries were endangered by in
ability to move paper cartons, the
walkout here also threatened to
hamper building, shipping and other
commerce If it continues.
New Demands Submitted.
The teamsters submitted their
'rock-bottom demands" yesterday
a 25-cent an hour wage increase and
a S per cent employer contributed
welfare fund.
The proposals were studied by an
employers committee which an
nounced no immediate decision.
But one major feet operator, emerg-
ing from the session, said:
This strike will be on next Tues
day and the Tuesday after that and
maybe for many Tuesdays after that.
We are not going to bulge beyond
Is cents"
The Mclean Trucking Co. of VIM
ston-Salem, N. c.. filed a $500 900
suit against the striking local, charg-
ing that II trucks of its fleet had
been prevented from bringing car
goes Of food and cigarettes into the
city.
Charges Coercion.
The suit said the company's driv-
ers were coerced and intimidated by
strikers who halted the trucks.
The company accused the union
through its officers, OF violating the
Taft Hartley Act by setting up a
secondary boycott.
A $l0,000,000 suit still is pending
against the same local as an after
math of the 1916 trucking strike.
The striking New York team
sters originally had sought 50-cent
hourly wage increases.
Under the old contract, wages
for a 40-hour week range from
$3.50 for helpers to a top Of s71 40
for drivers.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
yugosIavs Jail Bu|gar
On Espionage Charge
BY the Assoeiutsd Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 4
The Ministry of Interior in Yugo.
slav Macedonia said today that high
Bulgarian officials had sent a spy
into the country with orders to col.
1ect false data and create material
for more ISLANDERS against Yugo-
slavia."
A communique said man named
Krum Nikolov- Mirchef was arrested
after he had reported to the state
militia with legend" invented by
Bulgarian authorities.
He told athorities he had come
into Yugoslav Macedonia illegally
from Pirin (BulgarianD Macedonia,
on orders from an illegal organiza-
ton there which was working To-
ward joining Pirin Macedonia to
Yugosiavla. According 20 the COM
munioue, he said he was supposed
to get In touch with Macedonian
authorities for instructions and
other assistance.
Yugoslav police termed his story
q ruse and put Nikolov- Mirchef in
jail.
In another phase of Yugoslavia's
relation with the Soviet satellites
Milovan Diilas, Premier Marshal
T1to's top agitator, accused
Romania, Hungary, Albania and
others" of conducting ar organized
boycott against Yugoslavia.
Djilas said this in speech We'd
nesday to the Communist members
of the arrny's I'd Proletarian Divi-
sion. The speech was not published
until today. when 1t was carried by
Borba, the official government
naucppper
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Soviet Reports Chinese General
And Daughter Ship Fire Victims

ordered to return to China by the
government of Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek. Gen. Feng. who had
been critical Of the Chinese govern
ment while In the United States.
said in New York at the time that
he would refuse to comply with the
order calling him home.
Anti-Nationalist Chinese sources
in Hong Kong said August II that
Gen. Feng was In Europe en- route
to North China for conferences with
Chinese Communists.
The Russian motorship. Pobeda.
was the vessel which the two So
Wet school teachers-Mrs. Oksana
Stepanovna Kasenkina and Michael
Ivanovitch Samarin-were sched-
uled to sail from New York in
last July 81.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
U. S. Mine Family Conditions
Described by Red Magazine

Turning to the United States. the
magazine cited the family of Jim
Perkins in Clover Fair Greek, Ken
lucky"
For Kentucky. the United
States Postal Guide lists Clover
Bottom, Cloverport. Fairfield,
Fairplay and Fairview, but no
Clover Fair Creek)
1t said Perkins and his recently
demobilized stepson, Bill, both have
tuberculosis. Perkins himself is
81 and looks TO-" 1t added.
The magazine then goes on with
this description of the sort of life
lived by average miners in the U. S.
A. under the boasted American way
Of life:"
There are only four beds for 10
members of the family. There is
no proper water supply, and they all
wash in a little basin in the street
and wipe themselves with one towel.
There is only one toothbrush. which
Bill brought from the Army, for the
entire family"
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Early Vote Registration
Urged in ARLINGTON

Progressive voters In Arlington
were urged yesterday to register
well in advance of the October
deadline II they wish to qualify for
the November election.
Mrs. Walter E. Thompson, county
registrar, said that beginning Tues
day, her ONCE at the Arlington
courthouse will be open daily, Mon
days through Fridays, from $50
am. until noon and from l to pm.
An increase already has been
noted in the number of registrat ton
applicants, Mrs. Thompson said.
She advised prospective voters to
sign up before the usual last-minute
rush.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Arlington Man Charged
In Neiqhbor's Murder

Elmer Baskerville, a, colored, of
the 5000 block Of North Twenty
second street, Arlington, was shot
fatally while near his home yester-
day and county police said Harry
Arthur Deskins, 20, q neighbor, has
confessed firing the shot.
BASKERVILLE was killed instantly by
a shotgun blast in the stomach, po-
lice said, and was pronounced dead
on arrival at Arlington Hospital.
They said the shooting climaxed
an argument.
Deskins, who also is colored, is
being held in Arlington Jail without
bail on a charge of murder. accord
ing to County Detective Capt. C..
Burns Presley.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
~ the Assoc;utsd Prsss

LONDON, Sept. THE Soviet
news agency Tass said tonight that
Chinese Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang and
his daughter were among the "vic-
Tins Of . fire aboard the Russian
motorship, Pobeda, in the Black Sea.
It did not say how badly they were
burned.
The dispatch. originating in Odes-
sa, said q fire broke out aboard the
vessel AS q result of careless hand
ling Of cinema films" after the ship
left Odessa for Batum Tuesday.
There are victims aboard, among
them Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang and
his daughter" Tass said. 1t added
that the ship has been brought to
Odessa and an investigation is under
way"
Gen. Feng last December was
Evening star., 1948-09-05
CrewIess B-29 From War Game
May Have Flown Over Germany

statement that they were investi-
eating the Hamburg reports.
1T could have happened that way
on the time element and everything
else" said one airman.
The plane probably had been
set on the automatic pilot before
the crew jumped"
Air Force officials refused to spec
ulate on the possibility the plane
might reach Russia on its own.
Moscow is about 1900 miles from
the spot where the crew jumped
The Super Fortresses have a range
of almost 1000 miles when fully
fueled The B-29 in the Dutch
coast incident had been engaged in
maneuvers and consequently had
used some of its fuel before the
crew jumped.
Walter Doyle -Roquet. 21-year-old
Tucson (ArizD mechanic, who was
picked up unconscious by Flushing
fishing boat died in a Dutch hos
pital early today. Artificial res
piration had been applied for many
hours.
The other 10 members Of the res
cued crew were reported in good
shape except for shock, bruises and
exposure.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Wagner Glad 10 See
Move for Repeal
OF Taft-Hart|ey Act
BY the Assoeioted Press

Declaring one year of the Taft
Hartley Act has shown how dan
gerous that law is," Senator Wag-
ner, Democrat, of New York. said
yesterday he was glad to see q
growing movement for Its repeal.
In a Labor Day statement, the
author of the Wagner Labor Rela-
tions Act of the early Roosevelt era
said:
"Labor's opponents will hide their
true purposes during the coming
campaign. The Taft-Hartley Act
will be moderately applied between
now and November. After the elec-
tions are over the real teeth in the
law will be barred.
Injunction law Is returning In
the field of labor relations"
Hits Foes Of Truman Plan.
Asserting President Truman's anti
imitation program Is opposed by
"bigots and big business-tycoons
and totaiitarians," Senator Wagner
said:
His program has brought the
enmity OF all who subordinate hu-
man rights to property or power
Secretary Of Labor Tobin, said in
a statement that passage of State
and Federal legislation restricting
labor's hard-won rights, and strik-
ing at the very foundations OF free
collective bargaining, leaves the
future welfare of the workers on
dangerous quicksands.'
The anti-labor forces, having
gained the upper hand, are pressing
their advantage" Secretary Tobin
said, adding IF the industrial spirit
is the vital force of our Nation, the
workers cannot help but question
and doubt the present course which
these anti-labor forces have charted
for the Nation because it cannot
strengthen that vital force, but only
weaken it."
Meany Sees Glass Struggle.
George Meany, secretary treas
urer of the American Federation of
Labor. declared in a Labor Day mes
sage that the National Association
of Manufacturers and certain Fed
eral and State legislators are bring
ing the Nation ever closer to the
precipice of the class struggle"
American labor has always re-
fused to believe that this deadly dis
ease will ever catch hold here We
have never wanted it. We do not
want 1t now"
But the National Association OF
Manufacturers and other reaction
aries" he said, should ponder we'll
that If there is going to be a class
struggle in America, it can have
only one result, only one outcome
not the crushing of labor, as they
desire, but the utter defeat OF the
initiators Of the struggle, the pow
erful reactionary wing of big busi-
ness"
Evening star., 1948-09-05
BIoodhounds B Aid Search
For Occoauun Fugitive

An 1s-year-old prisoner from
Occoquan workhouse still was at
large late last night after an early
morning escape. Guards, using
bloodhounds, were unable to track
down the fugitive.
The escaped prisoner Simm L.
Jones, colored, was a waiter in the
workhouse dining room He was
serving 90-day sentence on a
larceny conviction, q workhouse Of
fetal said.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Coast Refinery Strike
Threatens Gas Supply
For Holiday Motorists
By the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4-Cau-
1or11ias rich oil flow thinned to a
tr1ckle today. Sixteen thousand
CIO oil workers were on strike in
dispute over wages.
Nine big refineries, which supply
most of the petroleum needs on the
Western Seaboard, were closed
down.
The strike came as an estimated
2,500,000 of CALIFORNIA; 100000
automobiles began trips over the
Labor Day week end.
Oil company spokesmen predicted
gasoline shortage on the West
Coast within a few days" They
said storage supplies OF gasoline
were low. Demand has been burn
Ing available supplies.
The union struck at 1901 am.
after industry representatives re-
fused to better their offer of a 1917
cent an hour wage increase. The
union demanded 81 cents, saying
this would give California oil work.
ers sl,o9 an hour against sl95 paid
in Eastern oil plants.
Pickets paced the plants of
Standard of California at Rich
mond and Ell Segundo; Shell plants
at Martinez and Dominguez; Union
at Oleum and Wilmington; Tide
Water Associated at Avon; Rich
field at Long Beach; Texas at Long
Beach, Ventura and Los Angeles;
Ohio Oil at Bakersfield; Lloyd Corp
Ltd, at Ventura, and Rothschild Oil
at Long Beach.
General Petroleum. another large
refiner, was not struck. Its union
contract runs to February. Thirty
to 40 small independent refineries
remained In operation but their
total output wouldn't fill many auto
mobile tanks.
There appeared to be little pros
pect of negotiations until after the
Labor Day holiday.
Buying Panic Seen.
Some service station operators In
San Francisco reported signs of
buying panic amid possibilities of
q fuel shortage. Stations generally
reported business from so to 100 per
cent above the Saturday average.
Oil company spokesmen were
wary of discussing their plans, or
how gasoline supplies to neighboring
States would be affected. They
agreed that then only available
products will be those that have
already passed through rehneries
and channels of distribution. The
refinery storage Of finished products
was frozen by the strike.
In Los Angeles, American Air
lines announced 1t Is canceling Sum-
day sightseeing trips and Is max
ing a study of possible curtailment
Of regular transcontinental flights.
A. r. Bone, regional vice presi-
dent, said the company usually has
enough gasoline on hand for 48
hours operation.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Is Charred Bodies Found
In Australian Plane Ruins
ly Me A,soeiotsd Prssa


SYDNEY, Australia, Sunday, Sept
5.-The charred bodies OF 10 pas
sengers and three crew members
were found last night in the wreck
age OF an Australian National Air
ways DC-3.
The plane disappeared Thursday
night on fight from Brisbane to
Sydney. The wreckage was located
yesterday on a mountainside 900
miles northwest of Sydney.
The ground party which reached
the scene said the airliner cut a
path through tall trees as it crashed
into the mountainside.
Bodies of the victims we're car.
ried down the mountain in impro-
vised stretchers. The victims in
cluded Arthur van Andel IS, Aus
tralian manager of the Dutch firm
Hagemeyer Trading Co.. and Mrs
Margaret Mcintyre, 50, member OF
The TaSmanian legislative council.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

old personnel Mr.. Schwartz.
specialist, who lives at 81 Kennedy
street NV, was in Government
service here for several years.
He Joined WAA following service
as a lieutenant colonel In the Army
during World War II and had been
personnel director there for a year
before joining The Hecht Co.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Nine Communists Lose,,:l
|Chileun Official Jobs
BY the Asseeio,,d Press

SANTIAGO. Chile, Sept. 4.-Eight'
Communist deputies in the House
and Communist senator TODAY lost
their jobs as parliamentary coui!
sellors to various Chilean govern.
ment departments and agencies.
They were removed from their
counsellor posts by government
decree under an anti Communist
law passed by Congress this week,
They had received q salary from
the jobs in addition to their reeu.
lar pay as members Of Congress. ,t
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Soviet Reports 80 Pet.
.Of Grain Crop Harvested
By the Assoeioted Press

by me ASoeIofeo PresS
LONDON, Sept. 4.-The Soviet
news agency Tass said today that
30 per cent of Russia's grain crop
had been harvested by September l.
Harvesting work has now moved
to the Eastern districts" the agency
said.
by the first Of this month COL
lective farms of Kazakhstan had
taken in twice as much grain as by
the same date last year and ST.
berian farms had taken in SO per
cent more"
Evening star., 1948-09-05

Co., CnarleS b.
Dulcan, ST., vice
president an d
general man
ager, announced
yesterday.
Mr.. Schwartz
already has TAX
en- over his new
duties directing
e m ploy ment,
training an d
welfare provi-
sions for the
company's EN-
ployes.
The 38-year-
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Navy Worker to Lecture
At MuryIund u. Course

L. c. Davies, Of the Navy Bureau
of Aernautics. will deliver the ini-
tial lecture In the University Of
Maryland's new short course in fire.
fighting, to open Thursday.
Mr.. Davies will outline methods to
fight aircraft crash fires and oil
blazes
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Cancer Talk Slated

"A Forward Look at Cancer" will
be the topic of talk by DR.. Murray
M. Copeland. professor of oncology
at the Georgetown University Med
ical Center. before members of the
Washington Civitan Club at a
luncheon at 1890 pm. Tuesday at
the Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Pastor Elevated

BALTIMORE, Sept. 4 lP.-The
Rev. DR.. w. Clyde Atkins has re-
signed the pastorate Of Eutaw Place
Baptist Church and will become
general secretary of the Maryland
Baptist Union Association Octo-
hor !
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Harry Schwartz Named
Hechf Personnel Director

Harry Schwartz, former person.
mel director with the War Assets
Administration, has been appointed
personnel director for The Hecht
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

The regular monthly meeting of
the Harrington Fire Company was
held last week with president,
Billy James. presiding. Over fifty
members were present. Several
reports were made, one by fire re-
c0rder, George Johnson, who re-
ported less alarms in January TINS
year than the same period last
year. The ways and means COM
miftee. through Paul Neeman, re-
ported good progress in its capl-
paign for funds to apply toward
the cost Of the new fire truck, to
be delivered in April. Plans were
discussed and a housing committee
viii take charge of the program
that will be staged when the hous-
ing is being done. Probably some
nearby company will be given the
honor Plans and cost is being
considered on the changes of the
front doors of the fire house to
allow more leeway for the new
truck A benefit show to aid the
fund for the new truck viii be
given in the High School audi
torium next Monday night. Next
Sunday the directors of the Del
Mar-Va Association and its auxil-
iaries will hold the quarterly meet
ing here. Arrangements are being
made for a Friendship dinner.
First Assistant Chief Mills made
a public Opology to the company
over an incident that happened at
a recent fire. Then a veteran fire.
man commented that it was the
first time in his career as a fire
man that such a thing had been
done The apology was received
by the company with an ovation
A Ere school, under the direction
of instructor +. c. O'Neal, will
open February. 20 at 1880 p M.
The school is not expected to be
concluded until the new truck ar
riVes. when. the fremen viii be
given part Of their instructions on
Che handling Of the new piece Of
equipment. Delegates to the next
county meeting at Houston are
Chapman Minner, Ralph Hanson
anu Thomas Brown.
Galloway Kemp Raughley-Tee
Post No. z, American Legion
sponsors of the March Of Dimes
drive fir this town and vicinity,
reported that collections are 80
per cent below the 1947 figures,
and the sponsors are making ev-
cry effort to at least equal last
years contributions before Feb
ruary Is, the official extended clos
ing date for Kent county. Mrs
Arthur Tharp is supervising the
collections for the Negro citizens.
Mrs Lucinda K. Dearth, aged 81
years, died at the home of her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. william Schiff. near Preston,
last Wednesday night, following a
long illness. Several years ago
she suffered a broken hip from
which she never fully recovered.
She was born in Ohio, the daugh-
ter Of the late Austin and Margar-
ct Bridgman Shelton, but had spent
a number Of years in this vicinity
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

Miss Mildred Carey, who is in the
Milford Memorial Hospital is doing
nicely after an operation. We hope
for her a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Maud Mitchell and Mrs. Vi
ola Burton have returned to their
homes and are improving.
Mrs. Lucy Daisey has been visit
ing her daughter Alberta in Phila-
delphia
Mrs. Mamie Long is spending
sometime with Mrs. Margaret Mel
son after a visit with Mrs. Asher
Evans recently.
The Thursday Afternoon Bridge
Club gave a surprise luncheon in
honor of Mrs. J. Horace Derrick
sons birthday on Thursday, Feb
ruary 5, at the latters home. All
reported a lovely time spent and
departed wishing Mrs. Derrickson
many more happy birthdays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebe H. Davidson
were i'll with the grippe over the
weekend but are better this week.
The Sunday services will be held
as usual Sunday school at 9:45 a.
m. on Sunday morning at Bethel
Methodist Church. Worship and
sermon at II o'clock by Rev. ThOs.
G. Jones. The M. Y. F. in the eve
ming, followed by preaching by the
pastor at 1880 p m.
But you shah receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, and you shall be my wit
nesses in Jerusalem and in all Ju-
dea and Samaria and to the end of
the earth"
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
OCEAN VIEW

The Atlantic Ocean is a sight to
behold, for those who have had the
privilege to view it. People have
come from far and near to view the
ice that came down from the Del
aware Breakwater and Bay. Some
persons walked out on it and had
their pictures taken.
It is reported from Philadelphia
that this is the coolest winter in
81 years.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. J. Parsons have
returned home from a weeks visit
at the home Of their son and daugh-
ter-in-law, Prof. and Mrs. James
Parsons in Media, Pa. The grand
parents kept the grandchildren
while the professor and his wife
attended a convention in Harris
burg, Pa.
The Loyal Workers Sunday
School Glass will meet with Mrs.
J. Horace Derrickson on Tuesday
night of this week. A pleasant time
is anticipated and more about this
next week.
Mrs. Thomas Jones returned
home on Monday after spending
several days with her sister and
brother-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. J.
n. ROwlenson at Crisfield, Md.
Captain and Mrs. Isaac Short had
as their dinner guests on Sunday,
Mrs. Vera Belts and daughter Jea-
nette and Rev. Thomas I. Smith
and Isaac Short, the latter from
Philadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Hooker are
receiving congratulations upon the
birth of a son, named Gerald Will
bur, in the Beebe Hospital.
Ebe Taylor, who has attained a
good age, suffered a fall while out
doors at his home. He is now stay
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Dali
sey.
Miss Matte H. Belts and brother
and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
John p. Belts mOtOred to Selbyville
on business trip on Friday and
upon their return called on their
uncle, George H. Townsend and
wife at Millville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer DerricksOn
Of Dover called on Mr.. and Mrs.
y. Horace Derrickson on Sunday
afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

Shawnee Eve Club meets Non
Gay, February Is, at 1880 D. m. at
the home of Miss Jane Grove with
Mrs. Leroy Heeger in charge of the
meeting.
Nanticoke Club meets Tuesday.
February IL, at 1900 noon, Com
munity Hall with Mrs. Frank Baker
and Mrs. Roy Layton in charge Of
program.
Columbia Club meets Wednes-
day, February IS, at 1900 noon. at
Columbia Hall, with Mrs. Louise
Hastings and Mrs. Sadie Dickerson
in charge Of program.
Omar Club meets Friday. Febru-
airy 20, at 1870 p. m, home Of Mrs
Elisha Dukes, with Mrs. Warren
Rogers and Mrs. Marvel Campbell
in charge Of program.
Wesley Cannon Club meets on
Monday February %, at 1880 n, M.
home of Mrs. Howard Pierce. with
Mrs. Raymond Clancy in charge Of