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The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

Despite the fact that the Pro-
gressive party had ample sigma
lures, correctly distributed to
comply with the law, the appeal
was taken on the basis of I'M
constitutionality of the Illinois
election law.
Melvin F. Wingersky, Cook
County assistant states attor-
ney, did not challenge this con-
tention, which was joined in by
William c. Wines, representa-
tive of Illinois Attorney General
George F. Barrett.
Progressive attorneys la j d
down a flat challenge to claims
by Wingersky that there was no
time to print the ballots with
the Progressive statewide candi-
dates.
They produced a series of af-
fidavits by Chicago printers de-
claring that the job could be
done.
Attorneys for the Board of
Election Commissioners success
fully kept the Progressive pri-
mary ticket in Cook County off
the ballot with similar conten-
ton after the Illinois Supreme
Court ruled the party legal in
the county.
John Abt, national Progress
sive counsel, and Richard F.
Watt, Illinois attorney, told the
justices that the state law re-
curing 200 signatures from
each of so counties, made it pos
sible for sc per cent of the
voters in the 40 most populous
counties to be deprived of the
right to vote for candidate of
their choice.
This in effect means that a
candidate who could be easily
elected would not appear on the
ballot, Watt and Abt pointed
out.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
Israe|is hit
Bunche bias

PARIS = Although Egyptian
forces opened the battle of the
Negev desert by firing on Jew
ish conveys last Friday, Israel
was accused of responsibility for
the new outbreak of hostilities
by DR.. Ralph Bunche, acting
mediator of the Palestine dis
pute.
The United Nations Security
Council ordered both Arabs and
Jews to cease fire Tuesday.
Bunche's charges agai n st
Israel, contradicted by all re
ports from the Holy Land, were
cited as an example of bias
against the new democracy.
1t was Bunche who submitted
Count Bernadotte' posthumous
report on Palestine to the UN.
Bernadotte's proposals, Israeli
sources say, would virtually de
stroy the new state.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
Germans hit U.S..
SUPPORT of Nuzis

BERLIN-( ALN)-West Ger
man unionists are protesting
against orders from us. and
British occupation authorities to
reinstate former Hitler Labor
Front officials in factory coun-
ellis. Many of these officials, like
more important Nazis, have
been arbitrarily cle AIRED by
Allied courts despite strong evil
dence against them. But even
this does not make their reap
pointment legal, the w o k s
say, cause Allied Control
Council Law % specifically bars
former fascists from works coun-
Gil jobs.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

66th General Assembly Estate
legiSlature) which will convene
in January, according to Roland
V. Libonati, Democratic state
senator from Chicago's 18th dis
trict.
LibOnati, member of the
Broyles Commission, as it is
called, said that the investigator
has been studying "anti-subver-
sive" laws in other states and
results of studies by other gov
ernmental bodies.
1t is understood that the in
vestigatOr has been cOncentrat-
ing his efforts on schools
throughout the state. 1t is known
that he questioned a number of
University of Chicago students
last Spring, as exclusively re-
veaIed by this newspaper at the
time.
No public hearings, such as
the House I'm Com
m ittee conducts, have been held
by the Broyles Commission, and
none are planned, according to
Libonati, who is the brother of
Elliodor Libonati, chairman of
the state Americanism commit
tee of the American Legion,
which brought about the ap-
pointment of the 15-man Broyles
Commission.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
Friend of labor?

ST. LOUIS - OPP - The
COPS new labor campaign
chairman is a flop with organ
lied labor in his home state of
Missouri.
Named to the post was ST.
Louis lawyer Barak T. Mating
ly, who Republican Chairman
Herbert Brownell said enjoyed
mutual respect and confidence"
with the AFL and CLIO. This
brought a prompt denial from
Sec. Oscar Ehrhardt of the ST.
Louis CLIO Council, who said this
was "the first intimation we
have that he has any knowledge
or sympathy for our problems.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

sion's operating director, reports
soberly.
The members of (this gang)
have flOurished under a system
of political protection so absolute
that no important member of the
gang has ever been successfully
prosecuted in the criminal
court and sent to prison."
Combined with recent charges
that the Chicago Police depart
ment is ruled by politics, and
not the civil service system, Pc
terson's report goes long way
in explaining why you can get
away with murder in Chicago
at least half the time.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
Boby-sitters
orWunuce

Those household tyrants-
babies-won't be permitted
to keep Progressives away
from the polls Nov. 2, ac-
cording to Mrs. Mildred
Treffman, vice-chairman of
Women f Or Wallace. She
said that Women for Wall
ace are forming into baby
sitting groups, in order to
care for the younger genera
ton while the parents vote.
The idea worked out well
when it was first tried dur
ing the recent registration
drive, she said.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
III. little Dies Committee
holds first Springfield meet

Illinois Little Dies" commit
tee held its first meeting at
Springfield last week, to hear a
report on "subversive activities"
in the state from its investigator
The report will be used as the
basis for legislative proposals
which the committee later will
draw up for submission to the
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23


At least, there had been no
convictions.
The Chicago Crime Com
mission reported this week that
the county coroner's office lists
Sc murders for last year. There
were convictions in only At of
these cases: no one was SEN
fenced to the electric chair or
to the penitentiary for the re
naming 80.
But even those figures sound
better than the basic facts. OF
the AZ cases that resulted in
convictions. only 26 actually
went to the state penitentiary
under long murder sentences.
Seventeen others were con-
victed of the much less serious
crime of manslaugnter = and
four others, convicted of man
slaughter too, were freed on pro-
baton.
But even those figures sound
better than the full truth. For
there were, not So, but 1T
"felonious homicides' -murders
in the county in l947, accord
ing to the coroner's figures.
And the murder rate becomes
even worse if you judge by
police department t S t C s
rather than the coroner's claims.
The police department re-
ported 209 murders for 1947,
according to the Chicago Crime
Commission.
If the police departments
figures are accurate, you've
actually got better than 2-to-1
C. lnce of getting off scot free
if you murder your favorite
enemy.
Why can't the police-who
are experts at breaking strikes
break murder cases?
Why haven't they been able
TO halt the increase in rapes
(473 here last year,, robberies,
and other crimes of violence?
The Chicago Crime Commits
sion gives part of the answer, in
a report on "incursions of crimi-
nal adventures into politics"
The political impact of this
gang (the Capone-Guzik-Lev
mob) has been tremendous"
Virgil w. Peterson, the commits
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
AID CUT OFF

BERLIN -(ALN)- Special
food rations for former concen-
tration camp inmates have been
cancelled in the Anglo Ameri-
can zone. The Nazi victims had
been receiving the extra rations
to supplement their regular
issue. Military government Off
Gals issuing the order said the
victims do not need them"
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

AWAIT SUPREME COURT BALLOT RULING
U.S.. high court hears
plea in record time

Illinois Progressve swinging into the last stretch of
an intensive Cook County campaign this week awaited
hourly us. Supreme Court decision deciding whether
Henry Wallace Glen Taylor and the Progressive slate
are to be on the ballot
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
It's an even money gamble
when you murder in Chicago

You've got nearly $3.50 chance of getting away with
murder in Chicago!
Forty-five per of the murders that took place in
Chicago the rest of Cook County in 1947 still
solved the end of the
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

In unique procedure before
the high court, jurisdiction was
taken and the arguments of both
sides heard in a four day period
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Wallace Gets on Ballot
In Ohio But Minus Name
BY the Assoeiofsd PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 23.-
Ohioans can accept or reject Henry
A. Wallace's bid for the presidency
in the November election, but not
in his own name.
The State Supreme Court ruled
yesterday that Wallace's New Party
candidates for presidential electors
could have a place on the States
ballot If their nominating petitions
had enough signatures. The elec-
tors are the persons who, if elected,
traditionally vote for the candidates
themselves in the electoral college.
Ohio has Is electors.
The petition qualification was re-
garded as a technicality. Wallace
supporters have filed petitions con-
tanning twice the number of sigma
lures needed. However, neither the
name Of Mr.. Wallace nor that of
Senator Taylor, his vice presidential
candidate, may appear on the bal
lot under the court decision. Nor
will there be anything to show that
the electors represent him. They
are to appear simply as independent
candidates.
Secretary Of State Edward J.
Hummel, who had refused to grant
the Wallace forces place on the
ballot, made no comment on the
decision. 1t came on their demand
for a mandarnus order to force Mr..
Hummel to place them on the bal
lot.
Evening star., 1948-07-23

ment "unscrupulous and demagogic
denunciation, worthy only of the
cheapest politicians-lnsincere, hy-
pocritical and immaterial."
THE ADA" Mr.. Tugwell con-
tinued, "only a week ago, was sitting
on Gen. Eisenhower's doorstep, hat
in hand, asking for the the favor
Of his candidacy. 1t turns now, as
it's next official act, to the denun-
citation in most immoderate and
unhappy terms of Mr.. Wallace and
the rest of us in this movement.
What will it do next? This
would seem to be a move prepara-
tory to indorsing Mr.. Dewey. Mr..
Truman has already been de-
nounced. Only Mr.. Dewey remains.
You, of course, have a right to
indorse Mr.. Dewey. But you have
chosen the wrong place to do it.
You ought to have made a trip to
Albany, rather than to Philadel-
phia."
DR.. Joseph johnson, dean Of How
ard University Medical School,
Washington, D. c., member of the
Resolutions Committee, Immediately
followed with a further denunciation
of Mr.. Loeb, saying:
"As a Negro, I resent very much
Mr.. Loeb's claim that the ADA has
won victory for civil rights"
He said that putting a civil rights
plank in a party platform means
little.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Finland Attempting
To Form New Regime
BY the Associofed Press

HELSINKI, Finland, July 23.-
Finland's political leaders prepared
for formation of a new government
today, following the resignation of
Premier Mauno Pekkala.
Mr.. Pekkala, a member of the So
cial Union Party, resigned yester-
day after 28-month term as Prime
Minister. The reason for his resig-
nation was not Immediately given.
President Juho Paasikivi asked
the government to remain in Office
until a new one is formed. He was
expected to ask Social Democrat,
possibly former Speaker of Parlia-
ment K. A. Fagerholm, to form a
new cabinet.
Mr.. Pekkala's resignation came on
the eve of the first meeting of the
new Finnish Parliament, which, as
a result of the recent elections, had
far fewer Communists in it. In the
July 1-2 balloting the Communist
dominated Popular Democratic Un-
ion lost II of it's 40 seats. .
Mr.. Pekkala, a former Defense
Minister, was made Premier March
"a, 1946, after Mr.. Paasikivi resigned
to become President. In forming
his new government Mr.. Pekkala
chose six ministers from the leftist
Peoples Democratic Party. His
cabinet had a more leftist slant
than the one headed by Mr.. Paasi-
XVI.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Wallace Group Backs
Public Ownership Plan
By shs A.seeio,,d Press

NEW YORK, July 2s.-The ma
tional organization Of Businessmen
for Wallace has asked that the
Government take over q wide variety
Of American industries.
About 500 businessmen from
throughout the country took the
action yesterday at q conference
for the Preservation and Advance
ment Of Independent Business.
Resolutions adopted called for
public ownership Of railroads, marine
and air transportation, utilities,
munitions industries (including
military aircraft), insurance, and
other industries such as mining
oil and lumber.
The conference also called for
Government ownership of the Fed
eral Reserve System-but not of the
country's private commercial and
banking institutions.
After the resolutions were passed,
Henry A. Wallace told the group:
I've been q little more timid than
some Of you. I am q much more
conservative man."
The new party presidential candi-
date said, however, that I'm glad
you went as far as you did In your
resolutions. Coming from you in
business, they mean a lot"
Evening star., 1948-07-23
.0'DonneII 10 Sue Astor
In Rejection Of Bid for Villa
BY the Associated Press

MIDDLETOWN, r. l., July ga
retired Washington chain drugstore
operator, who said his $4,000 auc-
ton bid for the Newport estate of
John Jacob Astor, III, has been
rejected, planned today to sue for
possession of the 14-room villa.
James ODonnell said he will sue
Mr.. Astor "for specific performance
of contgact." He made the state
ment last night after he eereceived a
telegram from H. Howard Babcock
of Mr.. Astor's New York law firm
saying Mr.. Astor had decided to
cancel the sale.
Under the terms of the auction
announced at the sale last Saturday
Mr.. Astor reserved the right to can
eel any accepted bid within five
days.
Mr.. ODonneu said Mr.. Astor's at
torneys told him by telephone that
Sunday was not counted in the five
day clause period, but that his own
counsel had advised him Sunday did
count and that Wednesday was the
deadline for cancellation of the bid.
Evening star., 1948-07-23

"And not only that, but he really
understands the problems of wom-
en- in the United States today"
Mrs. Gimbel is connected by mar
riage with the New York department
store family of that name. Her hus-
band, a lieutenant colonel in the
Air Forces ferry service, was killed
In the recent war. She As a young
ish rugged-looking woman with
black hair, deep sunburn, grand
child and flair for dramatics.
At the press conference, for in
stance, she perched picturesquely on
the back of a chair, while her -four
Women for Wallace colleagues sat
stiff and uncomfortable in theirs
She did almost all the talking.
OF course, somebody brought ur
the question Of Communist support
of Mr.. Wallace's candidacy and the
presence of party liners in the
councils of the New Party. Mr.
Wallace's running mate, Senator
Taylor, had been quite explicit on
this point earlier in the day. He
said he would never reject Com
munist support, indicating he would
welcome it.
More Skittish.
The ladies were more SkittiSh.
Theirs was What Communists?
attitude"
Mrs. Gimbel said the Communist
issue is not major one for the con-
vention. The delegates were sent
to Philadelphia by the separate
States, she said, and that is all
there was to it.
A reporter asked if a lot of Com
munists have been sent as delegates.
Il wouldn't know" Mrs. Gimbel
replied "We don't consider this a
very serious problem. 1t only seems
serious to the newspapers"
The simple, fact, Mrs. Gimbel
added, is that the New Party will
accept the help of any one, who
offers it, with no questions asked as
to his political background or his
motives in Joining the movement.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
$50 Latin American Lions
Here on Way 10 Convention

More than $50 American
delegates to the Forthcoming Lions
International Convention in New
York were sightseeing here today
after a welcoming banquet given
last night by members of Wash
ington area Lions clubs.
The Ambassador from Ecuador,
Augusta Dillon, discussed good
neighbor relations at the banquet,
speaking in Spanish. Jules c..
Kicker, Washington Lions official,
was POSTMASTER.
The visitors, who come from
Cuba, Peru. Ecuador, Colombia and
Venezuela, will leave for New York
Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Rival Parties Alike,
6,NO-Word Wallace
Platform Declares
BY the Associoted pyexs

PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-Henry
Wallace's brain trust today began
the f1nal editing job on a 6,500-word
party platform that seeks to prove
that the Republican and Democratic
parties are Just alike.
The Platform Committee members
headed by DR.. Rexford Guy Tug
well are expected to issue their
finished document tonight or tomor-
row, for adoption Sunday by the
Third party's convention.
Behind them were two DAYS and
nights OF public hearings, during
which long assembly line of wit
nesses advocated things that we're
Tor the most part-already in the
platform as tentatively written be-
fore the hearings started.
Draft Repeal Urged.
Here is what the document stand
for:
l. "Peace"-Repeal of the draft
law. Ditching the Truman doctrine
OF aid to Greece and Turkey. Ditch
ing the Marshall Plan under which
the United States Is helping West
ern European countries. Good
faith negotiations with Russia to
find areas of agreement. Creation
of a United Nations fund to help
needy nations.
2. Freedom" Full enjoyment of
all constitutional freedoms regard
less OF race, religion, or national
origin. Immediate ending of racial
segregation in the armed service and
Federal employment. Laws against
lynching, poll taxes, and unfair
employment practices. Adjustment
of the House Un-American Activ-
tiles Committee.
3. Abundance" - Government
ownership of the largest banks, the
railroads, the electric power and
gas industry, and industries pri-
marily dependent on Government
funds or purchases. Price controls
and other measures to curb infla-
ton. Creation of Council Of Eco
nomic Planning to develop plans for
assuring full employment and a
rising standard Of living Repeal Of
the Taft-Hartley Labor Law. Enact
ment of many social laws.
Two Parties Attacked as One.
The platform of $500 words is the
longest produced for the '48 cam
paign. The Republican platform is
about 2,400 words and the Demo-
cratic platform about 5000
Third party officials explained
that their initial platform has to
be long because they want to state
their aims in detail and also explain
why new party is needed.
The tentative draft of the plat
form Jumps the two parties to-
gether and attacks them both as
one. For example, the foreign pol
icy plank accuses the two major
parties, without distinguishing be-
tween them. of obeying 1.-The die
tates of big business" rejecting the
United Nations, rebuilding Germany
as a war base. financing corrupt"
governments, beginning an atomic
armament race, and so on.
And the. civil rights plank says
the two major parties have dis
honored" the firm resolve of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt to see that all
Americans enjoyed constitutional
freedoms.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Cripps and Hoffman
Moy Confer Sunday
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

PARIS, July 23-Sir Stafford
Cripps, Britain's economic chieftain,
and other top-ranking European
ministers will confer Sunday with
Paul Hoffman, economic co-opera-
ton administrator.
Mr.. Hoffman arrived by plane
from Washington yesterday and i'm
mediately started talks with W.
Averell Hartman, special Marshall
Plan representative in Europe.
Mr.. Hoffman Is expected to insist
on a great degree Of European
mutual aid and cooperation as q
foundation for future American
spending.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Three Networks 10 Carry
Wallace Party Keynofe

The keynote address Of Henry
Wallace's New Party Convention
will be carried by three networks at
$50 o'clock tonight from Phila-
delphia, according to an anounce-
ment of the National Wallace for
President Committee.
The keynoter will be Charles
Howard, colored attorney from Des
Moines, who will be heard over NBC,
ABC and Mutual networks. CBS's
coverage OF opening night has not
yet been determined, Committee
Chairman E. r. Frisbie said.
The committee said all networks
will carry programs Of the afternoon
sessions at Convention Hall tomor-
row. Mutual also will carry the
speech of the permanent chairman
at 10:15 am. tomorrow.
The four networks viii air the
acceptance speeches OF Mr.. Wallace
and his running mate, Senator
Taylor, Democrat, Of Idaho, from
Shibe Park from 10 to II pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-07-23

refrained so far from taking any
kind of military action to close the
air corridors through which the
United States and Bitain have been
flying supplies into the western Sec
tors of Berlin.
American efforts appeared to be
concentrated on finding a way to
induce the Russians to lift their
blockade of Berlin as the prelude to
negotiations aimed at solving ques-
tions in dispute about administra-
ton of the city. A new note to Mos
cow is in preparation by the West
.ern Powers.
A British suggestion that the note
leave the way open for negotiations
on other major German issues, in
addition to the Berlin disputes, was
under close study.
Evening star., 1948-07-23
Berlin,
NCONIlNu6Q FTOm F1rSt Page.T
reported "a formation of Yaks fly
ing in and out of the clouds"
Russian Offer Rejected.

ICpOI Gcu d lOlIHdllUIl VI dkS lly-
ing in and out of the clouds"
Russian Offer Rejected.
The British rejected a Russian
offer to supply 10000 kilowatt hours
of power daily to the A. E. G. tur-
bine factory in the British sector,
which is working mostly for the
Russians. A British spokesman
said the offer was the thin edge
of Soviet wedge driving toward
economic control of all Berlin.
The offer was extended by the
Soviet zones German Economic
Commission. The Western COM
manderS have declared this COM
mission has no legal status in Ber-
lin, which they say is under
four-power control and not a part
of the Soviet zone
An official British statement said
the British had no wish to refuse
the offer, but "the British military
government cannot allow the au-
thoritieS of the Soviet zone or of the
Soviet sector to decide how current
is to be employed in the British
sector"
The American-licensed newspaper
Der Abend said yesterday that Ger
man passengers bound for British
zone points on the Berlin -Helmstedt
rail line are being taken of of
trains three stations east of Marien-
born. They are transferred to
horse-drawn carts for the rest of
the trip to the zonal border.
Only Germans with documentary
proof Of residence in Marienborn are
allowed to proceed, the newspaper
said.
Refugees Flown Out.
The first of more than 5000 refu-
gees the Americans are evacuating
from displaced persons camps in
Berlin were flown out today to West
'ern Germany.
The refugees, mostly Polish Jews,
were transported in C-54s. They
will be taken temporarily to dis
placed persons camps in the Amer
lean zone.
Members of the first group are all
reported to have immigration visas,
with 80 slated to 60 to Canada and
36 to Palestine.
The official Soviet military news
paper Taegliche Rundschau denied
as "nonsensical" yesterday reports
in the German press that Marshal
VASTLY D. Sokolovsky, Soviet COM
mander in chief, would be recalled
from Germany.
Western Allied headquarters said
as far back as last May they had
reports that the Soviet military ad-
ministration in Germany was un-
dergoing purge.
The purge repeatedly was being
conducted by a political general
named Scharnov, who last spring
was appointed political adviser to
Marshal Sokolovsky.
Rumors have persisted that Mar
shal Sokolovsky was in serious
trouble with the Kremlin.