davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-24
Shades Of the
Past

More than so years ago, when
Henry o. Havemeyer was being ex-
amined on affairs of the sugar trust,
he was asked, "Do you believe that
trusts should be more specifically
under government control?"
Havemeyer answered, 'Not at all.
l think the government should have
to do with them in any way,
shape or manner"
"Let the buyer beware: that covers
the whole business, said Havemeyer.
"You cannot wet-nurse people. They
have got to wade in and get stuck. :"
Facts For Farmers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-24
By DAVID LAWRENCE

Washington Did the supporters
of Henry Wallace win the election
for President Truman? No such
questionwould even have been asked
two weeks ago, but judging by the
way some Democratic leaders are be-
ginning to interpret the election as
a decided turn to the Cleft, a per-
suasive case now can be built for the
thesis that the Wallace campaign
drove Mr.. Truman over to the left
wing" and that the Wallace sup
porters were so pleased with the posi-
ton taken by Truman on public
issues that they went back to the
Democratic party and failed to vote
for a third-party ticket.
DR.. Gallup and others who studied
political trends in past elections were
virtually agreed last summer that if
the Wallace ticket were not in the
field the contest would be a "horse
race" The supposition that the
Wallace vote would be large started
in June but gradually the estimates
were diminished and had the polls
been continued until the day before
election instead of being stopped two
weeks previously, the almost COM
plete evaporation of the third-party
vote would have been discerned.
Since the margin was narrow in
many states, the Wallace vote was
still enough to give New York state
to Dewey but just enough on the
other hand to turn Illinois to Truman
because no place was afforded on
the Illinois ballot for Wallace vote.
In California the Wallace vote fell
far below expectations and was pre-
pro-Truman in the end.
Given a choice as between Truman
or Dewey, the Wallace voters chose
Truman.
To interpret the mandate fairly,
a Henry Wallace faction
must be credited with major part
n the victory-unless, of course, it |
,urns out that Mr.. Truman did not |
mean what he said on the stump. |
Examining the Wallace campaign |
rom pre-convention days and also
he third-party platform proposals
which were publicized widely among
he radicals it will be found that re-
toration of the excess-profits tax,
he drive for more subsidies to spe-
ial groups and for public owner
hip of important industries were de-
hands which the Wallace campaign
When Mr.. Truman
tarted in the autumn his campaign
gainst Wall Street and the "mon-
yed interests" he soon was making
letter cleft wing" speeches of the
type than Wallace was
making.
On the labor issue, the Wallace
wanted the Taft-Hartley '
ct destroyed and a one-sided law
epriving management of all it's es-
entail rights put on the statute
ooks. There is every indication s
nat the Wallace supporters will now
ain their point, including the elimi !
alton of the anti-Communist affi- t
avit requirement which had been t
lined at Communist influence in S
dor unions.
Or international relations, Wallace
on his major victory. He cried out \
uring the campaign that military I
en were debating American for
gn policy and that conciliatory Il
olicy toward Russian had been aban- o
1ned. Then, at dramatic moment L
the campaign, Mr.. Truman de- e
ded to curry favor with the critics I
his foreign policy. He was ready e
bypass the United Nations and, S
t.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-24
Ye Shall Know the Truth

Tom Sawyer national Ameranism chairman of the Legion
NATIONAL REPUBLIC reading
Legionnaires.
The NATIONAL REPUBLIC listed a FASCIST pubIca
ton during the the u S. Army Intelligence
your the "Americanism" top
echelon's of the Legion, personed by Mr.. Sawyer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-24

Sunlamps have been used success
fully in experiments by shirt manu-
facturers to bleach out scorch caused
by too hot an iron.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-24

PATRONIZE THE CO-OPS-THEY
BELONG TO THE USERS.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Retail Prices of Meat Reduced
3 to 10 Cents in Stores Here

The top price on good and choice
hogs at the Chicago livestock mar
ket, however, jumper 81 a hundred
pounds today. This followed climb
of IS to rs cents yesterday. Today's
top was $3.50. Traders said the
main reason for the increase this
week was drop in shipments to the
yards.
Sirloin and porterhouse steaks
were quoted at SO cents by one chain
which in recent days had asked 95
cents to 81. A large independent
meat store reduced its round steak
from $105 to SO cents. Chuck roast
was going at 63 cents at one chain.
compared with SO cents yesterday
Changes, however, were not uni
form in Washington retail markets.
One Of the largest chains continued
to quote chuck roast at So cents and
rib roast at SO cents.
Butter. eggs. margarine and
(see MEAT. Page A-Hl
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Apartment Explosion
Burns Virginia Woman

Mrs. Frank E. Coffee, SO, Of 302
Belle View boulevard, Alexandria
was burned critically early today in
what apparently was a gas stove
explosion. Every window in the first
floor apartment was blown out ex-
cept one in a bathroom.
At Alexandria Hospital, where
she was taken by the Penn Daw
rescue squad, doctors said 10 per
cent of her body was covered with
severe burns.
Her husband said she arose about
$50 am. to make coffee, and the
explosion occurred as she struck a
match. He was uninjured. A neigh
Dor, v. l.. Thurman, said he heard
the explosion and ran from his
apartment He saw Mrs. Coffee, her
clothing and hair aflame, trying to
extinguish the fire. Other neigh
bors put out her flaming clothes.
The Coffee apartment is in a new
development. Belle View Apart
ments, just of Mount Vernon boule-
ward, south of Alexandria, in Fair
fax County.
A gas explosion in an Arlington
apartment last July Is fatally In
jured Miss Esther Williams, 43, an
Army Department employe. The
blast wrecked the kitchen of her
apartment and damaged the kitch-
en- Of an adjoining unit at 80 North
Glebe road. =
Evening star., 1948-10-07
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BERLIN, Oct. 7.-BritiSh flyers
engaged in the Berlin airlift said
today they had seen Russian
planes drop live bombs in the
Soviet occupation zone about II
miles northwest of Berlin.
The reported incident may have
been part of big Russian air ma
neuvers announced for today over
the Soviet zone, Berlin and Allied
air corridors.
There was no confirmation from
either German or Russian sources
of the bomb report. The German
press several months ago reported
that Russian planes on maneuvers
dropped live bombs on a small town
causing some casualties.
The British flyers said they saw
the bomb dropping at II am. IS
m. EST. They related the Incl
dent to the four-power Berlin Ali
Safety Center Just how many
bombs they saw dropped was not
specified.
The British quoted an Raj pilot
as saying he saw actual bursts on
the ground from bombs dropped by
Russian pilots. The flyer said he
saw the explosions from a height OF
1000 feet
The Russians announced exten-
sive war maneuvers near and over
Berlin. Some of their activity drew
western protests.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Three Boys Start
Coal Cars on
Runaway Trip

Three 11-year-old boys, accused
by. police of having started two
railroad coal cars on a runaway trip
yesterday, were being held for ac-
ton Of the juvenile authorities to-
day.
Police said the two coal cars were
parked on a Capital Transit siding
on Deane avenue near Minnesota
avenue NE, when the children re-
leased the brakes. The cars rolled
so feet before striking a derailer,
forcing the wheels OF the tracks.
They came to a stop after rolling
another so feet and tearing up q
section Of track.
If 1t hadn't been for the derailer.
the cars might have rolled through
the siding switch onto the Capital
Transit streetcar line, police said.
The cars had been parked on the
siding for the Potomac Electric
Power Co. by the East Washington
Railway Co. of Seat Pleasant, Md.
The accident was reported to police
by John M. Rector, president Of
the railroad, which is one of the
shortest in the world, having only
about 2 miles of track,
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Truman Names J. N. Mitchell
To Civil Service Commission
Personnel Management Expert to Fill
6. O. P Vacancy on Recess Appointment

1910. when he assumed the post OF
executive director of the organiza-
ton.
The assembly. which is supported
in part by Rockefeller money, is de-
voted to improving public person.
mel and administrative procedures
and lists among its membership
practically all the top Federal, State
and local officials of both the United
States and Canada.
George Washington Graduate.
The new commissioner has de-
voted his entire career to person.
mel management work ever since
his graduation from George WASH
ington University, where he received
B. A. and M. A. degrees. During his
college days he specialized in psy-
| tsee CIVIL SERVICE, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1948-10-07

President Truman today ap-
pointed James M. Mitchell, di-
rector of the Civil Service
Assembly of the United States
and Canada. to fill the Repub-
lican vacancy on the Civil
Service Commission.
Mr. Mitchell, a 38-year- -old former
Government official and>a native of
Washington, succeeds Arthur S.
Flemming. who recently resigned to
become president of Ohio Wesleyan
University.
Mr. Mitchell will serve on a recess
appointment, which will have to be
acted on by the Senate during the
next session of Congress.
The Civil Service Assembly has
headquarters in Chicago and Mr.
Mitchell has been living there since
Evening star., 1948-10-07

Washington retail meat stores
today cut pork and steak prices
from 3 to 10 cents or more a
pound in some instances.
This reflected hog and beef price
drops during the last two weeks in
the livestock markets and continu-
ing declines in wholesale prices,
dealers said.
The downward trend in retail
costs in this area has been more
gradual than in several other COM
munities, but the week end price
adjustments announced today by
some big chain stores and independ-
ents were greater and more wide
spread than a week ago.
Pork chops. listed at IS to 80
cents pound in two chain stores
last week, sold for 10 cents today.
Fresh hams dropped from II to SO
cents at one Of those stores. Pork
loin was down to 50 cents, sk cents
lower. *
Evening star., 1948-10-07
6 NeutroIs in Council Reported
Booking West Allies Demand
That Berlin Blockade Be Raised
Live Russian Bombs Reported
Dropped on Berlin Outskirts
Reds Holding Big Air Games in AirIift
Corridor; Flyers Soy They Saw Bursts

American and British authorities
accused the Russians of not giving
prior notice of l6 Soviet fights in
the control zone during the morn
ing. The United States said also
gunnery practice the Russians
scheduled in the airlift corridors
was dangerous, and told the Rus
slams that If they planned to fly
bombers in formation over Berlin
this would break four-power rules.
The four-power control zone is
an area within a 20-mile radius
OF the downtown Allied Control
authority building. The four powers
agreed it extends 10000 feet up.
Capt. Vincent H. Gookin of
Quincy, Mass, American member
at the Air Safety Center, said some
OF the protested Russian flights
were made as early as 4 am. Capt.
Gookin said that after he protested,
the Russians appeared at II am. to
post notice of flights which already
had taken place.
Capt. Gookin said there was un-
announced Russian parachute jump
ing at an airport southeast of the
United States Army's Tempelhof air
base. Yak fighters were said to
have practiced firing at both aerial
and ground targets in the Berlin
zone. Russian attack planes and an
unspecifled number of Russian bomb
ers also few in the Berlin area.
An American flyer reported at 6
Evening star., 1948-10-07
a. Whales Beach Selves
In Mass Suicide ATTEMPT
BY the Assoeiosed PRESS

CRESCENT BEACH, Fla, Oct. Z.
i-Forty-four whales swan out Of a
rough ocean and deliberately beached
themselves today in an apparent
mass suicide.
/ Most of the mammals, which
ranged in size from 7 to IA feet,
died quickly as they were rolled over
the sands by the rough surf.
I A few remained alive and efforts
were made to drag them back into
the water.
Curators said that several times
in the past, whales have beached
themselves along the Florida Coast
in unexplained suicide fashion.
When they were towed back into the
water, they swan headlong into
shore again.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Russian Papers RidicuIe
Jessup Speech in Council

MOSCOW, Oct. 7 7P).-Dispatches
from Paris on yesterdays Security
Council meeting on the Berlin ques-
tion occupied three full columns to-
day in Pravda and IZvestia, the Of
fetal Communist Party and govern
ment newspapers.
The reports, from the Official
Soviet news agency Tass, ridiculeo
the address by DR.. Philip c. Jessup
American delegate Speeches by
Sir Alexander Cadogan, British dele.
gate, and Frances Alexandra Parod
were dismissed with the statement
that they simply were word for.
word repetitions of DR.. Jessup's re.
marks.
Tass said DR.. Jessup devoted hi.
entire speech ito repetition OF awk.
ward, baseless declarations borrowed
from the State Departments Whit,
Paper" " seeking to picture the action
of Soviet occupation authorities il
Germany as actions allegedly Great.
ing threat to peace.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Miners Indorse Six
Democrats for Senate,
But Only | Republican
Cooper Is Recommended.
Defect Of Lobor Law
Supporters Is Urged
By jones Y. Newton
Sfnr Sfnff Corrax

CINCINNATI, Oct. THE
United Mine Workers conven-
ton today Endorsed one Repub-
lican and six Democrats for the
Senate, all of whom are involved
in contests which may determine
control of the Senate in Janu-
ary.
Senator Cooper of Kentucky was
the only Republican to receive in
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Two Spanish Parties
Agree on Coalition
To Replace Franco
Exile Regime Planned in
Move for Allied Aid in
Oustine GeneroIissimo
by the A,soeiofed Press

LONDON, Oct. THE British
Foreign Office announced today
Spanish Republicans and Mon
archists, both foes of General
issimo Franco, have patched up
their differences in q formal
agreement.
Official sources in Paris said the
two factions agreed on formation
of a coalition exile government
which will ask Western power back
ing to throw out the Franco regime
A copy of the agreement has been
received at the British Embassy in
Paris. and it was also to be pre-
sented to American and French
Representatives. American sources
said the State Department will give
it fullest consideration"
Britain. with the support Of the
other two Western powers, was re-
ported to have demanded such a
coalition as a condition for recog-
milton.
Accord in Making Year.
The Western powers have not
recognized the present exile Re-
publican regime. The United States,
Britain and France pledged them
selves in March, 1916, to aid any
satisfactory caretaker government
which might be installed to replace
Gen. Franco, pending free elections
The agreement apparently has
been in the making for year. Last
October Jose Maria Gil Robles, the
Spanish monarchist leader, and So
cialist Indalecio Prieto, a former
Spanish Premier, were reported to
have agreed on program which
would unity the Franco opposition
Britains call for the unification
of Gen. Frances opposition was said
to have had the full backing of the
United States and France. Formal
agreement would have far-reaching
significance today because of the
strategic position of Spain in Eu-
rope. Moreover, it could lead to
intensiflcation of the British Labor
Party's announced efforts to unseat
Gen. Franco.
Big Obstacles In Way.
II Gen. Franco quits, the way
would be clear for the Western pow
ers to negotiate with a new govern
ment for the establishment of bases
behind the Pyrenees.
Despite the reported Monarchist-
Republican agreement there still
are great obstacles in the way of
those seeking to oust Gen. Franco.
No details of tn agreement were
available in Lon. on. Paris dele.
gates to the United Nations said all
international speculation on the fu-
ture status of Spain may be revised
by the agreement.
In Madrid, meanwhile, Gen.
Franco has ordered municipal elec-
tions-the first in IL years-for No.
vember 81, November % and De-
cember IL. If the pre-civil war sys-
tenn of municipal elections is fol-
lowed, 1t will mark Gen. Frances
longest step toward liberalization
Evening star., 1948-10-07
.Ashida Government
Quits in Japan Over
Growing Bribe Case
Prime Minister Feels DeeI
Moral Responsibility
In Scandal Over Loon
by The Associoted Prsss

TOKYO, Oct. Prime Min
lister Mitoshi Ashida, assuming
moral responsibility" in a grow
ing government scandal. resigned
today and his entire cabinet fell
with him.
Japan's Parliament, the Diet
has been summoned into specia
session next Monday to select a new
Prime Minister. Ashida's coalition
cabinet, in of1ice since last March
will stay on the job until a sue.
cessor is named.
The fall Of the sixth postwar gov.
eminent followed a conference be.
tween AShida and Gen. Macarthur
presumably to obtain occupation ap.
proval to resign.
Statement by Ashida.
Ashida issued q brief statement
1T is a matter Of very great re.
gret that present cabinet member
has been called in for questioning
in connection with the present
ShoWa Denko case.
Il have come to the decision tt
give up my post as Prime Minister
because I as Prime Minister fee
deeply moral responsibility"
The Tokyo procurator's office i.
investigating charges of bribery il
connection with a 1890 000, 900 yer
(sl0,3 100000 government loan tt
Showa Denko, a fertilizer company
Two Officials Arrested.
Former Deputy Prime Minister
Suehiro Nishio and Takeo Kurusu
president of the Econqns stabiliza.
ton Board and member of Asi1ida' ;,
outgoing cabinet. are among those
arrested on suspicion of bribery.
Ashida. regarded as the new
strong man" of Japanese politics
when he became-Prime Minister last
February %, stated his government
with members of the Democratic
Social Democratic and Peoples Co.
operative Parties. He is a Demo
crat.
The Socialists proved his undoing
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Last Pacific Liner
Tied Up by Strike
BY fhs Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7.-Air.
lines offered the only commercial
passage from the West Coast tt
Hawaii. the Philippines and thu
Orient today. as the 36-day mari.
time strike tied up the last of the
Pacific liners.
The American President Lines
President Cleveland, at sea or ir
foreign ports since the strike be.
gan, docked yesterday and wa.
taken of sailing lists until the dis.
pute between the shipping industry
and five maritime unions is settled
There were no indications of q
strike settlement.
The CIO Longshoremen's Union
largest of the five involved, orig
inally asked a 2l-cent increase from
their base scale of $1.67 an hour
The top offer was 10 cents, but
the employers have withdrawn all
offers. and said they would not
negotiate until leaders of all the
striking unions signed non- Com
muniSt aff1daVits
Evening star., 1948-10-07
7-Man Board Named
To End Discrimination
In Federal Service
Two Negroes Included;
Guy Moffett, Once Of
SpeImon Fund, Chairman
By Joseph Youno
By Joseph Young

The Civil Service Commission
today named the seven-member
Fair Employment Prac tt c S
Board that will have charge of
the anti-discrimination program
in the Federal service.
Guy Moffett. retired commission
oficial and White House aide, former
executive of the Spelman Fund
which is financed by the Rockefeller
Fund to sponsor various research
and educational projects. will be
chairman of the board.
Two Negroes will serve on the
board. They are Eugene Kinckle
Jones, general secretary of the Ma.
tional Urban League. and Jesse H
Mitchell. president of the industrial
Bank of Washington.
The other members are: Daniel
W. Tracy, president of the AFT
Brotherhood OF Electricians and
former Assistant Secretary of Labor:
Fred Croxton. one of the country s
outstanding authorities on industrial
relations and a former Federal
onicial; Judge Annabel Matthews,
who was the first woman member
of the Board of Tax Appeals, and
DR.. Ethel C.. Dunham, former direc-
tor OF the Children's Bureaus
Medical Research Division.
AL the appointees, except Mr.
Jones, are former Federal employees
Commission officials said they ex-
pect the board will hold its first
meeting soon. Once the board holds
its initial session, the Government
antidiscrimination program is ex.
pected really to get rolling, it was
said.
The boards creation was author.
lied on July rs by President Tru.
man. when he issued an executive
order aimed at preventing any dis.
elimination that may exist against
Federal employees or Government jot
applicants because of race, color OF
creed.
Under the Presidents order, the
board will advise all Federal de.
|partments and agencies on policies
relating to fair employment and will
set up all the rules and regulation.
CONTINUED on Page AZ, Col. -
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Bulletin
; Held in Reuther Shooting

PONTIAC, Mich. R.-Wayne
County Prosecutor James N.
McNally said today he would
ask a warrant charging Carl
Bolton, 80, and two persons he
did not identify with the the
shooting and wounding of
Walter P. Reuther last April
20. The three are held here.
Bolton Is former vice presi-
dent Of UAW-CIO Local 400.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Grounded Ship Pulled
.CIeur Without Dumuqe
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Oct. THE 5,138-
ton Danish freighter Paula Dan
was freed by tugs today eight hours
after it ran aground near Chesa-
peake City, Md
The Moran Towing Co. here said
two of its tugs had pulled the YES
sci into deep water and that 1t was
continuing toward South American
ports under its own power.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
UNIV Adopts Plan
To Make Holiday of
Lewis Birthday
BY the Associated Press

CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.-THE
United Mine Workers conven-
ton today unanimously adopted
a resolution to make John L.
Lewis birthday, February IL,
a national holiday in the coal
industry.
The resolution climaxed q
movement started several years
ago within the union to make
Mr.. Lewis birthday a memorial
holiday.
The anthracite agreement,
covering about 10000 Pennsyl-
vania hard coal miners. already
has provision for that observ-
ance.
Evening star., 1948-10-07

dorsement of the UMWs Labor Nom
partisan League.
Democratic candidates approved
are Matthew Nicely in West Virginia
Robert S. Kerr, in Oklahoma; Lester
C. Hunt, wyoming; Representative
Kefauver, Tennessee; Senator Muir
ray, Montana, and Senator johnson
in Colorado.
The convention also recommended
defeat of Republican senatorial can.
didates in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas
although it did not formally indorse
any Democratic nominees.
To Fight Taft Act Supporters.
The mine worker delegates gen.
orally were told by John T. Jones
chairman of the UNIV Nonpartisan
League, to help defeat all Repre-.
sentatives and Senators who voted
for the Taft-Hartley Act.
The delegates were told to work
against 331 members of the House
and the 68 Senators who supported
the labor law.
Representative Beall, Republican
of Maryland. and Representative
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Zulu Chief Amazed
To Find America
Quite q JunqIe'
by the Assoeioisd Press

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Oct. T.
Albert John Luthuli, chief of
1000 Zulus. thinks America has
a decided edge on South Africa
when it comes to trees.
A few minutes before Chief
Luthuli met Gov. Thomas J.
Herbert today, the Zulu chief
tain remarked:
1--WE don't have the woods in
South Africa that you have
here. 1t came as quite a sur
prise TO me to discover that
America is quite a jungle"
Chief Luthuli is attending the
Foreign Mission World Assem-
bly, In Columbus.
Evening star., 1948-10-07
Sheriff Asks More Men
In Oil Strike Violence
ky the Assoeieted Press

RICHMOND, Calf. Oct. T.
Sheriff James N. Long of Contra
Costa County was authorized today
to hire extra deputies to maintain
order after a bloody fight between
striking C1O oil workers and police
yesterday.
Permission to hire extra help was
granted by the county supervisors
when Sheriff Long explained that
tension was mounting at nearby
Martinez, where the Shell and as
sociated refineries are strikebound.
and at the Union Oil Co. refinery
at Oleum.