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Evening star., 1948-10-12
Veronica Lake Sued
For Mothers S Support
by the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.-Veronica
Lakes mother claims she put her life
savings into the film stars career,
only to be left destitute.
Mrs. Constance Veronica Keane,
asking $500 monthly support in a
suit against the actress yesterday,
alleged that she had spent nearly
$4,000 to further her daughters
theatrical climb. She charged the
actress had broken of q 1943 sup
port agreement.
In that agreement, the complaint
said, Miss Lake promised to pay 5000
q week 'in consideration Of filial
love and affection" to her mother
and the latter's husband, the late
Hugh A. Keane, former New York
|newspaperman. It said Miss Lake
paid Sis a week for a time, later
SIS. then $3.50, but nothing since
last May.
Describing herself as INDECENT
Mrs. Keane alleged that Miss Lake
earns $4,500 q week. The complaint
also named the actress husband
Director Andre de 10th. as q de-
fendant. 1t asked $17,4l6 in back
payments.
Miss Lake, who said she is expect
ing her third child shortly, COM
mented:
This money trouble has been
going on for years. I feel awful that
a mother and daughter should have
that sort Of relationship. I paid
mother Sis q week until my STEP
father died, and then paid his
funeral expenses. I've cut the allow
ance because I'm supporting my
grandmother, my mother-in-law, two
children, nurse. and now another
baby is coming momentarily."
Mr.. De 10th added:
II don't see how a mother could
treat q daughter SO at a time like
this. Mrs Keane has not seen
Veronica since 1943, and has never
seen her grandchildren"
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Mrs. Fairfield Dies;
Haskin Officials Wife

Funeral services will be held al
II am. tomorrow for Mrs. Grace st
Cyr Fairfield, wife of w. r. Fair.
field, manager Of the Haskin Infor.
nation Bureau here. She died ir
her Chastleton Hotel apartment
Sunday after q long illness.
The services will be in the Hines
funeral home and burial will be In
San Francisco.
A native Of Oroville, Calf, Mrs
Fairfield had lived in the East fol
the last 40 years and had been here
for the last Is. She was in her
early 60s
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfield came To
Washington in 1915, when he helped
found the service Of which he now
is manager. The Fairfields also
lived in Boston, Philadelphia and
New York. They were married in
1905.
Surviving. beside her husband, Is
brother, Victor st. Cyr Of Orc.
vile.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Franco Says Crisis
Is Fault Of Statesmen
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

sEVILLA. Spain, Oct. 12.-Gen-
eralissimo Franco said last night
that statesmen are to blame for the
present world crisis.
The Spanish chief of state, ad-
dressing high military officers of the
Sevilla garrison, said that because
of the weakness Of statesmen and
the peculiar characteristics Of in.
efficiency in their regimes" new
dangers face the world.
Gen. Franco pledged that the
Spanish people would fight any en-.
envy which attacked neighborins
countries, even If the countries at.
tackled differed ideologically with
Spain.
He said the power of resistance
of people can overcome al
weapons, even the atomic ones.
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. ii H).-
Spanish Foreign Minister Alberto
Martin Artajo said yesterday tina
he hoped relations between Spair
and the United States soon will b'
restored to normal.
Martin Artajo told a news confer
ence there is no fundamental o.
serious reason for impaired relation
ships between the two countries"
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Lutheran Convention
Asks Merger Of Units
In National Council
By cospor Names
S&~r S$aS4 f~xrssnardsnk

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 12-The
United Lutheran Church In Amer
lea, In . report issued by its special
Commission on Relations to Ameri-
can Lutheran. Church bodies, to-
day declared Ito all the bodies
now constituting the National Lu-
theran Council its desire to merge
With all or any Of them In organic
union"
The statement, made public at the
18th biennia1- convention of the
church body here, further directed
its special commission to meet with
similar commissions of Lutheran
Church bodies ito confer upon and
negotiate orssr1ic union or steps
leading thereto"
The National Lutheran Council
consists, in addition to the United
Lutheran Church, Of the American
Lutheran Church. AuguStana Lu-
theran Church. Evangelical Luther
an Church, Lutheran Free Church,
United Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Danish Lutheran Church
and Finnish Suomi Synod. The
combined membership in the eight
bodies comes to 1851 ,98l, with the
United Lutheran Church having l.
$50, ,397 Of this number.
Part Of Movement.
The action of the church body is
part of q movement looking toward
union, now apparent in many Amer
H~A$AekAvak AhtSNNh hN<{fAe
Steps or discussions. looking toward
mergers are under way in Presby-
terian. Episcopal, Baptist and Disci-
pies of Christ Churches.
+ Among the Lutherans. the Au-
gustana Lutheran Church at its
centennial meeting in June, in
dorsed "orgaric union OF the Ma
tional Lutheran Council bodies.
provided All will unite" The Danish
Lutheran Church, also In June, d.
rected Its commission ito intensity
its study of the United Lutheran
Church" and to present specific rec
concentrations on the question Of
union.
The Rev. Robert Van Deusen,
pastor of the Lutheran Center in
Washington, was commended for
the conduct Of his post as director
Of the division Of public relations in
the District, in the report OF the
commission to the National Luth-
eran Council. The statement de-
clared MIR. Van Deusen's service
has been so acceptable that the
council approved the permanent es-
tablishment Of an Office in Wash
ington."
Maintains Contacts.
His duties consist of maintaining
contacts with executive agencies Of
the Government. research in Gov
ernment organization and proceed
ures and sending reports of Wash
ington to the church bodies affli-
ated with the national council.
There Is need for a budget Of
$i,250,000 for next year to carry
out the missionary program Of the
church. DR.. Abdel r. Wentz. presi-
dent of the Board Of Foreign Mis-
.sions, declared today.
Pointing out the many oppor-
tunities Tor missionary work over
seas, DR.. Went1 observed, the mi
x1culous modern equipment in
sudio-visual aids and Ia rapid trans
portation and quick communications
Is q challenge to our Christian ef-
fort in evangelism" He noted there
were 100 missionaries for the church
In foreign lands.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Weber Named 10 Vacancy
In U.S.-Canada Commission
Nv shs Assoeio,sd prsss

President Truman has named Eu-
gene w. Weber, Army civil works
official, to I'LL seven-year-old va
cancy on the United States-Canada
International Joint Commission.
This was announced yesterday by
the State Department, which said
the commission is resuming activity
after q wartime and postwar period
OF relative idleness. The commission
H concerned with border and other
problems common to the two coun-
tries.
Mr.. Weber fills q vacancy existing
since the death in 194l, of r. Wal
ton Moore. State Department coun-
selor. The commission Is scheduled
to hold It's serniannual meeting in
Ottawa beginning tomorrow.
Mr.. Weber, who lives in Bethesda,
Nd, is q special assistant to the
Armys assistant chief OF engineers
for civil works. He is q native Of
Stacyville, Iowa, and graduate Of
the University of Minnesota.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
forever Amber Upheld
By Massachusetts Court
ey the AssoeicteeI Press

BOSTON, Oct. IL. - Kathleen
Winsor's novel, Forever Amber" is
not obscene, indecent or impure
according to a majority, but divided
opinion Of the Massachusetts, Su-
preme Court.
In upholding a ruling Of Superior
Court Judge Frank J. Donahue, the
Supreme Court found the book did
not violate State laws.
Judge Donahue, 81, reported he
fell asleep while reading about Am
ber's love affairs. He called the
book "soporific' and reported sex
ual episodes abound to a point Of
tedium."
Evening star., 1948-10-12
British to Visit Boses

Fourteen officials Of the Royal
Air Force, Royal Navy and Royal
Canadian Air Force will tour Amer
ican proving grounds and air sta
tions during the next three weeks
the Air Force announced. The tour
will include Aberdeen Proving
Ground, Md; Dahlgren Naval Prov
ing Ground, Va, and Patuxent
Naval Air Station, Md.
Evening star., 1948-10-12

SCESAAAV0 AVA GA"
ployment.
One of the
ofenders~ about
which some ap-
plic ANTS are
complaining is
the Commerce
Department. It
has been charged
that war-service
employees in the
department. have
been promoted
to better paying
and more i'm
por ant posi-
tinns HaSYeifo
Evening star., 1948-10-12

!
very pleasing to Government en-
ployes and Federal workers unions
Not only were Federal worker
groups pleased over Mr.. Dewey's
assurance Of job protection rights
to career employees, but they were
cheered over his fortnight indorse.
ment of unionism in the Govern.
ment service
1t isn't generally known, but Gov
Dewey turned down the invitation
of one of the major Governments
workers unions recently when II
invited him to send a message tt
its convention. The union wanted
to get Mr.. Dewey's views on Civil
Service, but the New Yorker re.
jected the request on the grounds
that he was too busy.
Consequently, there was some ap.
prehension on the part of the union
leaders, not only on Mr.. Dewey's
attitude toward civil service and
Government employees job rights
but as to his stand on Government
workers unions.
Mr.. Dewey's message yesterday
to the AFL National Association OF
Letter Carriers. however, made
everybody breathe more easily. Re.
publican insiders say Mr.. Dewey
took the occasion to make his stand
known on civil service because Of the
charges by the Democratic National
Committee that last year he threat
ened to abolish the merit system
While not referring to the charge
Mr.. Dewey's statement was inter.
preted as a direct denial of the
charge. Mr.. Dewey had been urged
to make just such a statement by
several prominent Republicans in.
terested in personnel problems.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-James G
Yaden, the new president of the
AFL American Federation OF Gov.
ernment Employees, will be honoree
at a testimonial dinner at 7 pm
October Is, in the Hamilton Hotel
The dinner is being given by AFGF
Civil Service Lodge 80. Mr.. Yaden!
old lodge when he was an official o1
the Civil Service Commission.
The Veterans Administration has
VACANCIES for 81 CAF-2 IBM tabu-
lating machine operators and 81
CALL numerical card punch op.
orators, The jobs pay salaries rang
ing from $2,086 to $2,724 a year, ano
applicants should apply at Room
2057, Munitions Building, Twentieth
street and Constitution avenue NV
The Civil Service Commission
announces examinations for clerks
with starting salaries of $2,284 tt
$2,498 a year. The Hoover Com.
mission on Reorganization Of thu
Government will 60 Into practically
continuous session." starting No
vember 8. 1t has been announced b,
Former President Herbert Hoover
chairman of the group. The com
mission must subr1it its recommen.
dations to Congress and the Presi'
dent In January. ;. Federal Work
Administrator Mai. Gen. Philip B
Fleming Is a busy man. Besides hi!
main duties, he holds seven othel
Government assignments. His lat
est appointment is as United State'
member of the Permanent Inter
national Commission of the Perma'
nent International Association O.
Navigation Congresses.
(Be sure and listen every Sum
day at 11:15 am. oDer WMAL,
The Star, station, for Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight broad
cast featuring additional retos
and pietDs of Government affairs
and personalities.)
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Steam Drenches Girl
Presenting Bouquet
To Mrs. Dewey
BY the Assesiofsd Press

SHARON, Pa, ;, Oct. IA
blast Of steam from the rear
end of the Dewey campaign
special yesterday drenched q
young girl who was presenting
bouquet of flowers to Mrs.
Thomas E. Dewey.
Held aloft by friends, Miss
Ann Janet Jones, daughter of
Mayor Myron Jones, handed
the flowers to Mrs. Dewey and
propmtly tainted. Friends said
the girl was not seriously hurt.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Girl Reports Attack

Miss Joan Lewis, 10. Of 1897
Sheridan street NV, told police
she was seized and knocked down
last night by youth who fed when
she screamed. She was not injured.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Weather Report

District Of Columbia-Mostly sunny
with highest near So this afternoon.
Fair and cooler tonight with lowest
about 4s. Tomorrow sunny with high
about IS.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair to-
night and tomorrow. Cooler tonight
with scattered light frost in the
mountains.
Wind velocity, II miles per hour;
direction, west-northwest.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy at Harpsrs Ferry
and At Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy
Evening star., 1948-10-12
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
CSC to Probe Reports Agencies
Avoid Hiring From Job Registers
By Joseph YOUNG

Civil investigate reports that
number departments and agencies continuing
skip the regular Federal employment registers in hiring
people for good Government jobs.
Complaints being that being
Evening star., 1948-10-12

RED FEATHER PUPPETS-Chdren of the sixth grade the
Enos Ray School in Takoma Park Md rehearsing puppet
show be given throughout Prince County elementary
schools in behalf of the Community Chest Campaign
Qe to right Shirley Poole H. Lynna Lovelace
Nordwan H. Donald Garstang Claudia Burger 12 Emma
Fielding H. Bobby Lively 12 Star Stah Photo
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Autopsy Set for Man
Found Dead in Home

An autopsy was to be performed
today at the District Morgue In
the death Of James McNally, 80, OF
1854 Warder street NV, who waa
found dead in his home yesterday
by his wife, Mrs. Lavinia McNally
> Mr.. McNally, a brakeman for the
Washington Terminal CO., returned
home yesterday after falling from
an automobile In q filling station
and humping his head, police re-
ported.
Evening star., 1948-10-12

Waterspouts on the ocean are
chiefly of fresh water, not salt water
as many people believe. 80
Evening star., 1948-10-12

High, sc, at 3:32 pm.
Low. 80. At $40 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90. on August ~.
Lowest, B, on January 20.
Evening star., 1948-10-12

(Be sure and listen every Sum
day at 11:15 am. oper WMAL,
The Star, station, for Joseph
Youngs Federal Spotlight broad
cast featuring additional r,e,1s
and pietDs of Government affairs
and personalities
Evening star., 1948-10-12

used to avoid hiring persons vino
have passed their exams for perma-
nent jobs and who are now on Fed
eral job registers, waiting to be
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
Strikes Exceed
Pre-T-H Period

Washington (LPA)-One Of the
cherished myths of the Taft Hart
leyites got a hard blow from the
Bureau Of Labor Statistics last
week. BIS revealed that 20 more
strikes took place last month than
there were in July l948, just be-
fore the Taft Hartley law went in
to effect.
The BIS release appeared the
same week as did the first Repub-
lican labor poop-sheet, Dragging
that Taft Hartley was helping the
workers by reducing the number of
strikes. The number of strikes be-
ginning in July, 1886, was more than
June 1948. Over 225,00 workers
were involved. Nearly $4,000 of
these were coal miners forced to
stop working for a brief period by
the stubborness Of the steel com
panies which own the Captive
mines"
All in all there were 525 work
stoppages in progress during July,
in which 100000 workers partici-
pated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
MISS ALMA ROBERTS

Miss Alma Roberts, a liner en-
ployed at the Homer LaugRlin
China Co., for the past "a years,
died suddenly August 20 of heart
attack at her home in Gardendale,
She was found dead in bed by
her. sister Miss Winifred Roberts.
The victim had retired around mid
night after spending the evening
with friends. She was planning to
leave Sept. 1 to make her home in
Lakeworth, Fla, with another sis
ter.
Born in Surndon, England in
1880, she arrived in this country
at the age of T. She was affiliated
with Local Union 124, National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters.
She was a member of ST. Stephens
Episcopal Church.
Another sister, Mrs. Rowena
Dietrich of Lake Worth, and several
neces and nephews also survive.
Services were held by Rev. Fred,
erick T. Gillette, pastor of st.
Stephens Episcopal Church. Burial
was in Riverview Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
Auto Unions Head
Speaks For Labor

Milwaukee (ILNS)-Internation-
al President Lester Washburn of
the United Automobile Workers of
America, affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, will ap-
pear on a nationwide broadcast
on the Northwestern Reviewing
Stand for a special Labor Day pro-
gram, "Let's Look at Labor" it
was announced at Milwaukee head
quarters.
President Washburn, who has ap-
peared on this program in the past,
will be labor's. representative in the
discussion group, which will include
Alfred p. Haake, well-known eco
nomic consultant and lecturer, and
H. E. Buchanan, director of the Re-
viewing Stand. The program will be
broadcast over the Mutual Broad
casting System on a coast-to-coast
network from 1890 to IL a. m.,
Central Daylight Time Sunday,
Sept. 5.
The Northwestern Renewing
Stand has long been recognized as
an outstanding discususion-type
forum and has numbered among its
guests the foremost leaders, educa-
tors, and statesmen in America to-
day. The discussion, Lets Look at
Labor" is expected to center about
labor's position and goals in the
present and future economic pic
ture of the United States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
JOSEPH FISCHER

Trenton, N. J.-Joseph Fischer
54, of Edinburg Road, died Aug. II
of "A heart attack, following a short
illness.
Mr.. Fischer was a handler by
trade and had been employed on
the Lamberton side at the Scam
nell China Company for over 70
years. Always active in Brother
hood circles, the deceased was af-
filiated with Local Union 35, Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
PotterS.
He was a member of Camp 33,
Woodmen of the World, and the
Arbeiter Kranken and Sterbe und
Verein.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mary Sikinger Fischer; his mother,
Mrs. Eva Kramer Fischer; a sister,
Mrs. John Brannan of Brooklyn,
and a brother, Stephen Fischer of
Brooklyn.
Requiem high mass was celebrat-
ed in Our Lady of Sorrows Church,
Mercerville, with interment in
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
Urges Unifed Action To Droff
Program For Reducing Prices

Chicago QLNS)-Calling for 9
united drive by labor, business anC
agriculture to work out a program
for bringing down high prices, the
American Federation of Labor ex.
ecutive council denounced business
for a policy of "short-sighteo
greed" that will wreck the system
of free enterprise.
The executive council opened its
quarterly meeting here by asking
the government to request bust
ness and agriculture to join with
organized labor in a series of con-
ferences to work out "a voluntary
program for the economic security
of our country"
"The detectives of such pro-
gram" the council continued,
Should be to bring about an i'm
mediate halt to all price increases
and a gradual reduction of prices.
1t must be done in way that will
not dislocate our economy or cause
undue hardship to any particular
economic group. Above all, the
continuation of high employment
must be safeguarded.
Admittedly, the course of vol
untary program will be beset with
difficulties. But if all the major
groups in the nations economic life
join together in a sincere and con-
certed effort to prevent a runaway
initiation, tangible and constructive
results can be achieved"
In criticizing the price policy of
business, the council declared:
"The pressure of constantly in
creasing prices falls heaviest upon
workers in the low income group
and those with fixed incomes. But
even industrial workers who have
succeeded through their trade
unions in obtaining several wage
increases since the end of the war
are being caught in the squeeze,
since wage rates inevitably fall be-
hind prices during an inflationary
spiral.
GAS we survey the economic sit
uation today, it appears obvious
that a large part of our current
initiation is due, not to shortages
and unsatisfied consumer demand,
but to deliberate policy on the
part of Big Business. The substance
of that policy seems to be to get
what can be gotten while the get
ting is good.
"The executive council solemnly
warns that by following such pol
icy of short-sighted greed Big Busi-
ness will only be digging the grave
of the free enterprise system. Our
national economy cannot sustain
the effects of initiation indefinitely.
The bubble is bound to burst. When
it does, our hopes for the orderly
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
MICH. BELL UNFAIR

Detroit (LPA)-Charges of un-
fair labor practices have been made
against the Michigan Bell Tele-
phone Co. by Division a. of Com
munications Workers of America.
Filed with the NLRB regional of
flee, the unions charges show that
Mich. Bell has refused to bargain,
and has used the state mediation
law as basis for its refusal. There
are more than 5000 traffic and ac-
counting workers involved in the
dispute.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
Union Chieftain
Dies In England

London (LPA)-Harry Steven
son, president of the Int'l Molders
& Foundry Workers Union-AFL,
died in Manchester, England, last
week at the age of 50. He was visit
ing his native Britain after trip
to Stockholm where he attended
the 50th anniversary celebrations
of the Swedish Federation of Labor
and a meeting of the Int'l Confer
ence of Foundry Unions.
Born in Birmingham, England, in
1879, Stevenson came to the US in
1898. In 1902 he joined the Molders
Union, and in 1921 was selected a
district representative. He was
elected sixth vice president in
1928, and second vice president in
1884.
A few years later Stevenson's
long service to his union was reco-
gnized by his election as interna-
tional president. Since then his
home has been in Cincinnati, the
headquarters of the 90,0C0-member
AFL organization. Last January
the Molders Union, under Steven
sons leadership, signed its 58th
annual contract with the Stove
Manufacturers Protective & De-
velopment Assn. This collective
agreement covering $4,000 workers
has long been considered model
union contract.