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Evening star., 1948-09-02
Bulletins
Oak Hill Brings $40 900

LEESBURG. Va. (SpeciaD.-
Thomas N. De Lashmutt, Ar
lington contractor, submitted
the high bid of $780, for Oak
Hill, once the estate of Presi-
dent James Monroe, which was
declared sold to him at an auc-
tion sale here today. Mr.. De
Lashmutt said he would move
to Oak Hill and operate a
stock farm. Richard Hutchin-
son, president of the Laurel
Raceway, offered second high
est of $4,000.
Reds Face Deportation
NEW YORK (R.-The JUS
tice Department announced
today that it would initiate
deportation proceedings soon
against Jack Stachel, former
national secretary of the Com
munist Party, and "a other
party leaders. The an
nouncement was made as the
Government concluded its de-
portation hearing for ~.
Peters," alleged Communist
underground chief. Decision
in the case was reserved.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Low of 81 Near Record for Date;
Warmer Weather Is Forecast

The temperature hovered in the
mid sos during the first hours OF
daylight today and did not cross
the 10 mark until after 10 am. Yes
terdays minimum was SIS degrees
at 7 am. and the high for the day
was IS at 3:55 pm.
Mild, fair weather, due to linger
here for several days more, was
general throughout the area from
the Great Lakes eastward to New
England and southwark to the Ohio
Valley and Middle Atlantic States,
the Weather Bureau stated. The
Midwestern States had thunder
showers last night. In the Rocky
Mountain region and parts of the
Pacific Coast, however, the mer-
curry was in the 9os and some sec
tions Of the great Plains States
baked In temperatures Of 100.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Warren to Talk at 8 Cities
In PENNSYLVANIA Oct. II

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 P.-
Gov. Earl Warren of California, Re-
publican vice presidential candidate,
will speak in eight Pennsylvania
cities during two-day tour of the
State beginning October l.
This was announced yesterday by
COP National Chairman Hugh D.
Scott, ir., as he disclosed Gov. War
rens Eastern itinerary. starting Sep
tember 80 with an address in New
York City.
While en- route to Philadelphia for
speech October !, Gov. Warren
will make three appearances in New
Jersey, addressing rallies in Newark,
Elizabeth and Trenton.
On october 2, Gov. Warren will
swing through the eastern end of
Pennsylvania, making stops at
Wilkes Barre, Allentown and Read
ing. He will then swing into Will
mington, Del; Aberdeen, Md. and
Baltimore, resting in Baltimore on
Sunday. october 3.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Truck WaIkout
'Thrott|es Trade
In New York
Roilroud Embargo
Ordered to Prevent
PiIeup at Terminals
BY the Assoeiaisd Pres.

NEW YORK. Sept. New
York's intricate economic life
lines were snarled today by a
walkout of 9,400 AFL truck driv-
ers that threatened to spread to
10000 other truckers in the
metropolitan area.
The walkout, which began at mid
night Tuesday. crippled much of
the city's widespread trucking oper-
ations. To prevent piling up Of mer-
chardise in rail yards, an embargo
was clamped on all railroad freight
headed for the Metropolitan Area.
Most retail outlets still had ade-
q,late stock on hand. But the ef-
fects OF thinning supply lines al
ready were felt by many stores. A
few firms, cut off from deliveries,
closed their doors
No Quick Settlement Seen.
The embargo, effective today,
covers freight moved directly into
the city as we'll as cargoes moving
to Jersey City, Hoboken and Wee
hawken, N. j., for transfer by boat
to New York
Mayor ODwyer expects no quick
settlement of the dispute. He said.
however, that the striking teamsters
had agreed to transport food, per-
ishable items, drugs and medical
supplies without interruption.
Truck traffic using interstate
bridges and tunnels leading to the
city was far below normal Truck
ing operations along the busy wa
terfront were cut in half.
The city's food supply was not
endangered Immediately by the
stoppage, although possible short
age of cardboard containers was a
threat to milk distribution. About
so per cent of the fluid milk sold
here is packaged in such containers.
Deliveries of fresh fruit and pro-
duce continued at near-normal rate
from piers and stores
Trucks operated by major haulers
of newsprint were at standstill.
but Mayor O'Dwyer reported that
there we're sufficient newsprint
stocks on hand to last from nine
days to three weeks.
Meanwhile, city, State and Fed
eral mediators met with union rep.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
By Joseph Young ~
stor StoH Corre.pondent

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.-The
fight for the presidency of the
AFL American Federation of
Government Employees this after
noon narrowed down to a choice
! between the former president,
James B. Burns, and James G..
Yaden, AFGE vice president.
The first two rounds of balloting
today for the AFGE top job failed
to produce the majority of the dele
gates votes that is needed by the
successful candidate.
The balloting, however, eliminated
A. P. Harrison of Los Angeles on
the first ballot and Joseph Dunn, a
Treasury Department official, on
the second round.
Mr.. Burns held lead Of about
1,700 votes vore Mr.. Yaden as the
delegates prepared to vote on their
choice between the two men on the
third ballot. An unofficial tally gave
Mr.. Burns 10,277 and Mr.. Yaden
8,442 votes.
The outcome was still very much
in doubt Mr. Dunn, who polled
5,11O, confided he would try to get
most of his supporters to switch to
Mr.. Yaden. Meanwhile, the Burns
forces worked furiously between the
second and third ballots in an at
tempt to win some of the Dunn
votes.
The vote on the first ballot: Burns,
10,620; Yaden, 1885; Dunn, 4,644,
and Harrison, 1874.
Even though Mr.. Dunn gained
some votes under the second ballot,
he was taken out of the race by the
rule which eliminates the low man
on each succeeding ballot.
Mr.. Burns resigned the AFGE
presidency several months ago after
bitter battle with the unions
Executive Council Mr. Yaden. a
Civil Service Commission official
led the fight against Mr. Burns,
charging that the national AFGE
Office was inefficient and that the
union was rapidly losing ground.
Mr.. Burns supporters countered
with charges that he had been
hampered by the unions Executive
Council in trying to give the union
a sound, progressive trade unioE
administration,
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Meat Down as Much as I8 Cents
With Further Cuts Likely Here

ing to agree that the cuts this
week and possibly next week marked
a turning point in high-priced meats.
For instance, one chain. while
cutting prices of some beef, pork
and lamb cuts, was forced to in
crease the price of its sirloin steaks
from SO to sl05 pound
Again this rise were such reduc-
tions as chuck roast, 73 to 81 cents
pound; rib boast, SO to 70 cents;
rib end pork loins, So to 63 cents:
pork loin ends, 70 to SO cents: legs
of lamb, IS to IS cents, and lamb
roast, n to SO cents.
Sidney Kolker, chairman of the
wholesale meat division of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers Associa-
ton, commented: Temporarily, we
have drop in prices, but I don t
know whether it will hold"
One large food outlet quoted re-
ports from Chicago that fresh meat
(see MEAT, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1948-09-02

the present bumper crop prospects
Other commodities which must be
supported could add millions more.
The reason this costly prospect
faces us today is that at am
on Sunday, June 20, as Congress
was struggling to adjourn so its ma
jority members could leave for the
Republican convention in Philadel-
phia, new farm price-support law
WIS finally agreed on. The effect
of this bill on both the public purse
and the private pocketbooks of city
dwellers is daily becoming a hotter
and hotter topic.
What happened at am. was
simply that Congress put off for
another year coming to grips with
the simple fact that what was fine
in wartime isn't necessarily so in
pcacetime. The huge crops our
farmers so patriotically raised dur
Ing the war did help win the war.
the high support prices set, but
seldom paid, were an inducement
TO grow those crops.
But times have changed; crop
prospects are better at both home
and abroad; we are moving from a
food deficit into a food surplus era
Continued on Page AS, Col. p
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Church Farley Report
Denounces Capitalist,
Communist Theories
World Council Receives
Document, but Fails to
Approve or Reject 1t
By the Associated Press

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 2.-The
World Council of Churches for
mally received" from one of its
advisory sections today report
condemning both capitalism and
communism.
The report said both should be
rejected as ideologies incapable OF
assuring justice and freedom in the
world.
The presiding officer said the
council action could not be construed
as adoption or approval of the re-
port. The council, however, received
the report and commended it to the
churches for their serious considera-
tion and appropriate action
The council represents about $50
churches in more than 40 nations.
The Roman Catholic and Russian
churches are not represented.
A motion to refer the report back
to the committee for redrafting was
defeated, "a to rs. The motion to
receive the report was passed over
Olily CWo AioAiAo DSAiS
shown against IL.
The charges against both forms OF
society were made In report drawn
up by the section on THE Church
and Disorder of Society"
The section is composed of 125
leading churchmen among the 450
delegates representing about $50
churches in more than 40 nations.
The group was headed by DR.. Con-
stantijn Leopold Patijn of the Dutch
Reformed Church. 1t Is one of four
such working groups.
Inequalities Laid to Capitalism.
The report castigated communism
as "a force that engenders new
forms of injustice and oppression" "
1t said capitalism had failed to meet
human needs and had concentrated
on materialism and produced ''seri-
GUS inequalities.
THE Christian church rejects the
ideologies of both Communism and
Capitalism and should seek to draw
men away from the false assump-
ton that these are the only alter
natives" the report said. Each
has made promises which it could
not redeem"
Communist theology puts en-
phasis upon economic Justice and
promises freedom will come auto
matically after completion of the
revolution. Capitalism puts en-
phasis upon freedom and promises
Justice will follow as a by-product
of free enterprise That, too, is an
ideology which has been proved
false.
TT is the responsibility of Chris
tians to seek new creative solutions
which never allow either justice or
freedom to destroy the other"
Political Link Opposed.
AS the report went to the plenary
session, a paragraph was inserted
warning against Identification Of the
Christian church with any political
party.
"One problem is raised by the
existence In several countries OF
Christian political parties" the
paragraph said. The church as
such should not be identified with
any political party and must not
act as though it were itself a
CONTINUED on Page "A, Col. a.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Employers Keep Red!
As Easier 10 Deal With,
Carey Tells Probers
CIO Secretary Cites
Firing Of Opponent Of
Leftist JEW Official
By james Y. Newton

James B. Carey, secretary
treasurer of the CIO, charged to-
day that many employers har-
bor Communists on their payroll
because they find them easier to
deal with in union affairs than
legitimate labor leaders.
Mr.. Carey made the charge as a
House labor subcommittee began an
investigation of alleged Communist
domination of the CIo United Elec-
trical Workers, of which Mr.. Carey
orce was president.
The committee called Mr.. Carey
and Albert j. Fitzgerald, leftist pres
ent president of the union, as its
first witnesses.
Nom Communists Fired.
"1n many instances employers find
it easier to get along with Com
munists,' Mr.. Carey told the COM
mittee, because a Communist can
not be aggressive in investigation of
the grievance of worker"
He said there we're many examples
where Communist members of
the UEW had been discharged for
no other legitimate reason than
that they were battling Red control
Of the organization.
Mr.. Carey cited the case of one
Bart Enright, an employe of the
Westinghouse plant in Jersey City
N. j., who was fired shortly after he
made an unsuccessful effort to un-
seat James Matles, leftist director
of organization for the union, at
last years UEW convention.
He said Mr.. Enright was dis
charged for absenteeism because he
took time off to attend the conven-
ton. Mr.. Carey said that he be-
lieved the real reason was union
activity, but that Mr.. Enright could
not take his case to the National
Labor Relations Board because the
officers of the union had not filed
non-Communist affidavits.
Committee to Investigate.
Mr.. Carey further charged that
Sam Basmajian, a worker in the
Camden IN. j. plant of the Radio
Corp. of America, was fired because
he was a vigorous anti-Commu-
mist" and a member of the Com
mittee of UE Members for Demo-
cratic Action, a group within the
union which is battling the leftist
leadership.
Chairman Kersten OF the Labor
Subcommittee indicated the COM
mite would investigate Mr.. Carey's
charges further.
Mr.. Carey, who has long been
engaged in the battle against Com
munism both in his own union and
the CIO, began his testimony by
reversing the procedure usually fol-
lowed by Communists who appear
before congressional committees. He
said he wished to stand on his con-
stitutional rights land answer fully
any question that may be put to
me-" He added Il prefer that any
thing I say here not be considered
priviledged."
The CIO official who helped Or
ganize the electrical workers union
and was its president until 1941,
Evening star., 1948-09-02

resentatives in an effort to settle
the dispute, thus far confined to
Local 807 of the AFL international
Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Martin T. Lacey, union spokes-
man, insisted that the stoppage was
walkout and not a strike. He said
it resulted from independent action
by union members.
Wage Settlement Rejected.
The tie-up came after the local
rejected a wage settlement worked
out last week between employees
and three teamster locals. The
agreement provided 15-cent
hourly wage increase.
Wages varied widely under the
old contracts. Drivers Of trailer
trucks received $1.781z hourly.
Drivers of five-ton trucks were paid
1.57A.
Violence fared briefly yesterday
when one driver was beaten by
truckmen who surrounded his
loaded vehicle. Three men were ar
rested on assault charges.
Early today, Harold Williams, 36.
recording secretary of Local 807, was
arrested when police found him
carrying an u1loaded .45-caliber
pistol. Mr.. williams said he was
carrying the weapon to try to dis
suade truckmen from bringing two
loads of fish in from Canada.
If the stoppage continues, union
| L. larc eo{J ,,,ou ho ioir1od hty
about 10000 members of two other
major New York City locals, and
nine teamsters' locals in New Jersey
and Westchester County, N. Y.
City officials, as well as business
men, feared the walkout might
spread throughout the area, dupli-
eating the paralyzing truck strike OF
1916.
| Then, under similar circum-
stances, Local BOT spearheaded a
10-week strike that numbed the
city's industry, shut down several
| thousand places of business and cost
| industry more than $500, 900 900.
Effects were felt for months after
ward
ISSChbAolo VIM oC AAohACAs
| Whatever scope the stoppage de-
velops, Mr.. ODwyer said last night,
the teamsters' union had promised
that workers will continue to haul
essential" commodities.
Il have received assurance that
there win be no interruption in the
movement of perishable foods or
medicines" Mr.. ODwyer said.
Produce will roll from piers TO
Istores."
However, the effects of the STOP
page already had hit many freight
terminals, warehouses. docks and
stores handling general merchandise
and foodstufs.
The Port of New York Authority,
which operates interstate bridges
and tunnels in the metropolitan
area, reported truck traffic has
fallen off so per cent.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
By NewboId Moves, Jr.
Stor Stoff Correspondent

JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 2.-The
war between Henry Wallace and
the South on the civil rights is
sue has been, so far, strictly a
white mans war.
This is one of the key facts emer-
ging from the first four days of the
Progre ssive Party candidates ex-
plosive Southern tour. 1t is also the
chief 'eason why, mercifully, his
invasio n of Dixie has produced plenty
of hooiganism and rotten eggs, but
no race riots.
Mr.. Wallace carries his campaign
today into Mississippi and Louisiana,
his reception unpredictable as al
ways. A look at the map might lead
one to expect the worst. But his
aides. forewarned by the rough
Evening star., 1948-09-02
D. c. WELFARE CASES to get al
based on 1916 prices. Page B.

Meat price reductions as much
as 18 cents a pound were posted
today in one Washington food
chain amid predictions of even
further slashes in some meat
cuts next week.
The lower prices were attributed
to backing up Of supplies resulting
from a drop in sales during the
recent hot spell throughout most
of the country.
Another factor in the drop of re-
tail meat prices is the generally
lower price trend for all but prime
grades of livestock sold in major
markets of the country in the last
two weeks. Some livestock prices
have been off as much as cents this
week.
However, no one In the retail or
wholesale meat trade here was will
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Senator's viii Press
U. n. Inquiry Despite
Committees S Report
Revercomb Announces
Plan After Group Denies
Subversive Agent Charge
By Gornett D. Horner

A report by a three-man COM
mittee named by Secretary of
State Marshall that there is no
basis" for charges that hundreds
of subversive aliens have come
into this country under cover OF
the United Nations apparently
has not ended the matter in
Congress.
Chairman Revercomb of a Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee said in
Charleston, w. Va, last night that
his group will press to the limit
it's investigation that started the
furor.
1t was before staff employees Of
the Revercomb Subcommittee that
Robert C. Alexander, assistant chief
of the State Departments Visa
Division, testified last July that at
least several hundred aliens whose
presence is undesirable have been
brought into the United States by
the United Nations and other in
ternational organizations.
Mr.. Alexander said then that
many employees of the organizations
would not have been permitted to
come here on their own because
they were subversive agents of
foreign powers"
Two Others Back Charge.
His testimony was supported by
two other subordinate officials of
the Visa Division, William M. Har-
low and R. Clyde Larkin, but Gen.
Marshall said at the time that he
knew of no case which had actually
endangered American security.
A committee of private citizens
named by Gen. Marshall on July
27 to make an objective analysis
of the situation reported yesterday
that the charges. constituting IAN
indiscriminate reflection on United
Nations personnel" were "irrespon-
sible" and lacked "factual support. -
The committee was composed OF
B. M. McKelway, editor of The
Star; James H. Rowe, jr., attorney
and former Assistant Attorney
General, and Marcellus c. Shield,
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Southern Opposition to Wallace
at Himself, Not Negroes
Race Trouble Fails to MoterioIize on Trip,
Although His Aides Expected Alabama Riots

treatment he received in liberal
North CAROLINA, expected the worst
from Mr., Wallace's Alabama visit
yesterday. 1t did not materialize.
At Birmingham, Gadsden and
Bessemer, yesterday. the places
where real trouble had been ex-
pected, Mr.. Wallace did not speak
because the police had insisted his
audience must be divided, colored
from white. Elsewhere, he ad-
dressed unsegregated. skeptical but
relatively attentive audiences with
out incident.
Whatever develops today, If the
pattern of the first half of this week.
long trip holds good, there will be
no trouble between the local white
and colored folks as a result of Mr..
Wallace's presence. Again and again,
as the candidate encountered hostile
~ n
Evening star., 1948-09-02
West Coast Ports Idle
AsLongshoremenQu Quiz
After Talks Collapse
Allied Unions Expected
To Join Strike; RoiI
Embargo on Freight Set
By the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. q
Pacific Coast ports were idle to-
day as CIO longshoremen quit
work and prepared with allied
unions for a strike.
Pickets will patrol the Waterfronts,
Harry Bridges, president of the In
ternational Longshoremen's and
Warehousemens Union. said. He
predicted the strike would last three
months.
Contract negotiations chiefly con-
cerned with wages and hiring hall
collapsed last night. The strike will
affect about $4,000 longshoremen and
seafsrers. About 500 ships are in
volved.
The tieup from Seattle to San
Diego will be felt acros the Nation.
Railroads had ordered an embargo
on most freight destined for the
coast ports. Military freight will be
shipped.
Injunction to Be Dissolved.
Union spokesmen said the strike
would become official at 10:30 am,
because at that time an 80-day Fed
eral Court injunction forbidding a
strike was expected to be dissolved.
1t halted a threatened strike 80 days
ago.
CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards,
CIO Marine Engineers. Independent
Marine Firemen and Marine Radio
Operators are expected to follow the
Ilongshoremen out. The unions had
agreed not to sign contract unless
all did. The radio operators are also
involved in a jurisdictional dispute
between the AFL Marine Radio Of
ficers' Union and the CIO American
Radio Association.
Loaded ships sailed abruptly yes
terday to beat the strike deadline.
Twenty-Five left San Francisco
leaving that many more partly load
ed vessels alongside the docks.
IL Ships Get Under Way.
Twelve of the 26 ships in the
Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor got
under way before midnight, and few
erish loading continued on others
until the longshoremen quit.
The Marine Firemen announced
their negotiations with the Pacific
American Shipowners Association
had broken down and called out
pickets beginning at 1901 am. Fri
day.
Marine Cooks and Stewards called
membership meetings this morning
After the negotiations collapsed
Mr.. Bridges said:
THE employers handed us con-
tract and said Take it or leave it.
We wanted to go on and negotiate
buty they walked out on us.
THE length of a strike? With
these characteristics it will take
three months to get wound up"
Proposals "FIatIy Rejected"
An employer spokesman said
The ILWU walked out of the meet.
ing. They announced they were
on strike as of 10:30 am. Thursday
The union negotiators fatty rejected
proposals, practically all of them
Employers had offered to leav,
the disputed question Of whether
a union employe or an impartial dis
patcher shall run the hiring hal
up to the Supreme Court. The
present union dispatcher meanwhile
would continue.
I But last night Mr.. Bridges said
1--WE cannot accept hiring-hal
clause with strings on it."
He said another major unsettled
issue was wages. Employers offered
! lSee MARITIME. Page A-6O
Evening star., 1948-09-02
White House Studies
Truck Strike and
West Coast Tieup
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY me NSSoCIdIed FTeSS
The White House said today
that President Truman has the
New York truck strike and the
West Coast maritime walkout
under study"
Press Secretary Charles G.
Ross told reporters Mr.. Truman
lis aware" of both situations,
but that no action has been
taken.
As to whether any Govern
ment action is contemplated,
Mr.. Ross replied:
That, I cannot say
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Truvis Pacific Air Chief

HONOLULU. Sept. 2 R.-Brig.
Gen. Robert F. Travis yesterday
took over the Pacific Air Command.
He relieved Maj. Gen. Ralph II.
Wooten, who is being transferred
to Air Force Headquarters in WASH
ington.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Yaden Defeats Burns,
Former Union Head,
For AFGE Presidency
Harrison and Dunn
Eliminated in First
And Second Ballots
BULLETIN

PHILADELPHIA (Specian -
James G. Yaden, a Civil Serv-
ice Commission official, this
afternoon was elected presi-
dent of the AFL American
Federation of Government
Employees. Mr.. Yaden de-
feated former President James
B. Burns on the third ballot
by a vote of 1914 to 10.117.
On a motion by Mr.. Burns, the
vote was then made unani-
nous.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
North CuroIinu JUDGE Named
By the Assoeiofed Press

President Truman yesterday ap-
pointed David E. Henderson as Fed
eral judge for the Western District
of North Carolina.