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The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22
Polish wages up,
rutions dropped

WARSAW (ALN) - Poland
marked the new year by in
stituting wage adjustments
which will raise workers pur-
chasing power by 10 percent and
by abolishing all rationing of
foods and commodities.
Price cuts were announced for
bread, flour, sugar, cooking oil,
soap, beer and wooden goods.
Gas, electricity and liquor
prices, on the other hand, were
raised.
The Wage-raiSeS, effective
throughout industry, apply to
over three million workers.
They more than make up for
price rises on some items.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22
All clear in
Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, Pa. = The
Progressive Party won party
status in the November cleo
ton, the Pennsylvania state
election bureau announced
this week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Zimmerman,
director of the bureau, said
enough votes were cast for
Henry A. Wallace for presi-
dent last Nov. 2 to earn the
political body the right to
name its candidates at pri-
mary elections in the same
way as Republicans and
Democrats now do.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22


ART is virtually sole owner
of Illinois Bell Telephone, hold
ing 993 percent of the local
company's stock. Their net prof
its after taxes of $207, 500, 900
are 80 percent higher than their
1947 take.
The Illinois commerce COM
mission is now hearing argu-
ments on a phone company petit
ton. for rate hikes Of 16 per-
cent, which would amount to
about S34,000,000 a year. Illinois
Bells main argument is that
their profits are approaching
zero"
What makes this especially
hewsworthy, even in these days
of fantastic profits, is that on
Jan. IA, ART was accused by
the government in federal court
of extensively violating the an
THRUST laws, particularly in the
manufacture and sale of tele-
phone equipment and supplies.
The government suit was
brought to compel AT&T to sur
render control of its wholly
owned equipment making sub
sidiary, Western Electric Co.
The court was asked to break up
Western Electric and convert it
into three separate and COM
pletely Independent competing
companies. At the same time
AT&T was called on to surren-
der most of its control over FL
Bell Telephone operating COM
panies.
If the Western Electric AT&T
link is shattered, the govern
j. ment charged, the cost of tele-
phone equipment will be low
cred and it will create a stu
alton under which state and
federal regulatory commissions
will be afforded an opportunity
to reduce telephone rates to
subscribers"
While profits mount, AT&T
is planning to accumulate still
more by chronological improve
ments which are now being put
In effect.
A spokesman for the TeIe-
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22
SPORTS

White Stockings.
yelled like a stuck pig. T h e
league authorities put stop to
the trade.
And from that time forth,
thanks to Arson, it became the
ulwritten rule that Negro players
were never to play in the major
leagues. Men like Cyclone Joe
Williams, who beat Grover Alex
ander and the Champion Phila-
delphia National Leaguers in an
exhibition game; John Henry
Lloyd, who many claim was as
good as his contemporary Honus
Wagner, famous Pittsburgh short
stop; and Leroy "Satchel" Paige,
who constantly beat the best the
major leagues had to offer, were
thereby denied their chance to
make the baseball hall of fame.
Finally in 1945 the Montreal
Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers
top farm club, broke the I'M
written law and signed Jackie
Robinson, whose sensational play
became the talk of the baseball
world. A new era had been born.
1t is now history that Robin
sons play was big factor in the
Dodgers winning the 1947 pen
nant race. Branch Hickey count
ed the green that Robinson had
brought into the Dodger Golfers
and went on a wholesale spree
of signing Negro players.
Bill Veeck and the Cleveland
Indians followed suit and came
up with their outfield star Lar
ry Dolby. The st. Louis Browns
purchased two players and re-
leased them almost as soon as
they put their bags down in the
Missouri city.
The Boston Braves have sign
ed a Negro player, Walden Will
liams, for one of their farm
teams. All of the other major
league teams claim to be scout
ing for Negro players but as yet
haven't been able to find any of
major league ability. Which
brings us to the $64 question.
What must Negro player have
to be considered a major league
prospect?
Must he be able to hit 800 or
better? Must he be as fast as Mel
Patton or Jesse Owens? Must he
field with the grace of Gazelle?
Perhaps he should learn how to
please the Ku Klux Khan and the
Governor of Georgia?
The editors of the Sporting
News, baseball's famous week
ly, inform us that Jackie Robin
son and Larry Dolby have made
the big leagues, but Roy Campo
nella, Brooklyn catcher, may or
may not stick. Campanella hit
$50 last year and brought the
Brooks back in the race with his
capable catching and handling of
pitching.
The Sporting News" on the
other hand tells us that Jim He
gan of Cleveland was great
catcher last year. He didn't hit as
much as Roy and wasn't far
above him in the catching de-
pa-tment. Any club in the major
leagues could use Roy and yet,
according to the Sporting
News, he hasn't made the grade.
OrganiZed iufn TOcaI 7E Iyu;fod
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22

Perhaps he should take up ac-
counting so he could help out in
the front office to assure his job.
Let's stop kidding ourselves.
The Negro ballplayer is no diff
ferent from any other balIplayer.
Some will hit well over 800 and
star in the field. Others will be
just average ballplayers. They,
like any other ballplayer, must
be given chance to develop.
The st. Louis Browns signed
Henry Thompson and let him go
because he hit only .256 for half
season. Eddie Stanky hit under
$50 for three years but then
developed into one of the finest
second basemen of our times.
The Chicago White Sox and
Cubs have held onto and played
inferior players year after year
and yet now they can't find a
Negro player of suitable ability.
Who's trying to fool who?
They must know there are Ne
gro players who given a proper
chance could do better than some
of the characters they now have
posing as major leaguers.
Of course all Negro players
will not become stars but num-
Der of them can do a capable
job. Until they get a fair chance
to find their proper niche in the
baseball world it will always
seem to us that Cap Arson is
still trying to dictate policy
from the depths of you know
where.
THE Chicago Black Hawks af-
] ter giving promise of winning
the National Hockey race have
begun to slip. One of our chums
was asking us how come
The answer is simple, friend
Sonia Henie. Because Of her
show the Hawks have had no
ice to practice on and that's bad.
The Hawks have a poor de-
fensive team and unless they
get plenty of practice the for
wards can't keep up the steam
necessary to get enough goals
to win and still back check.
Sonia has now gone, so maybe
Coach Charlie Conacher can
whip the boys back into shape
and they can start climbing
again. Let's hope SO.
%OME Feb. 4th Freddie Daw-
~ son and Bernard Docusen
meet head on in the TO round
feature of the all star boxing
card at the Stadium. Don't miss
it boys, it should be a Lulu.
DOcusen is one of the fastest
fancy Dams we have ever seen.
The only thing he lacks is
punch with authority and that
is just what Dawson has. Bern
ard will be the favorite but if he
doesn't stay inside and keep out
Of the way Of DawsOn's lethaI
fists he is going to be q very
unhappy boy before the night
Is over.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22

organized into Local IS, United
Office and Professional Workers
(CIO), will be represented by
the American Civil Liberties
Union and by former state Atty.
Gen. Robert w. Kenny, who
volunteered his services to fight
what he called "the most flag
rant piece Of police state legis-
lation this city has seen in
years."
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22

club a n d t h e
VenOmOuS a n d
prejudiced Cap
Arson, manager
of the Chicago
White Stockings.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22
The Fans Corner
Negroes must be supermen
to make Big League teams
BY Al Vaughn

IN THE early eighties there twenty Negroes
the organized major professional baseball leagues
the New York Giants purchased George Storey, Negro
pitching star from the Newark,
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-22
The ILLINOIS, STANDARD JANUARY
AT&T REPORTS RECORD
PROFIT, WANTS MORE
The ILLINOIS STANDARD. JANUARY ~, l949

While Illinois telephone subscribers wait learn if
their phone rates will be boosted again. American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. this week reported ame of
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Wedemeyer Urged AidProgrom
In Report Suppressed Since At
Proposals for Help
Made Conditional
On Drastic Reforms
Partial Tert on Page A-3.
By the kssecioted Press

1t. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyel
urged President Truman in 194T
to adopt a new f1ve-year-aid pro-
gram for Nationalist China-ii
Generalissimo Chang Kai-sheE
would agree to drastic reforms ir
his government and army.
Gen. Wedemeyer told the Pres
ident this action was necessary
to defeat the Chinese Commu-
nists and block Russia's danger
Gus" plans for expansion in the
Far East.
He made the recommendat tions
to the White House on Septem-
ber 10, 1947. after conducting an
-the-spot survey as head OF
Truman appointed investigating
mission to China.
The Army general denounced
Russia's role in the Chinese revo-
luton and told Mr.. Truman:
ANY further spread of Soviet
influence would be inimical to
United States strategic interests. -
Gen. Wedemeyer suggested that
the President urge China to appeal
to the United Nations to set up a
five-nation guardianship or trus-
teeship over the rich industrial
area of Manchuria.
The trustees would be the United
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Clear Afternoon Forecast
With Drop 10 10 at Night


Clearing skies this afternoon
and cool night for sleeping were
predicted by the Weather Bureau
in a revised forecast today.
The showers predicted for this
afternoon will not arrive after all,
the bureau said. while tonight the
temperature will drop to about 10
degrees.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny
with high around 86 degrees.
The maximum this afternoon
should be about SO degrees.
Showers this morning. were
fairly heavy in the District, al
though only 1/100 Of an inch was
recorded at the Weather Bureau
station at National Airport shortly
after daylight.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Grips Coming Here
Next Month for Talk
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON. Aug. 5.-Sir Stafford
Cripps plans to leave London for
Washington September 8 In quest
of. cure for Britain's dollar crisis
The Chancellor of the Exchequel
now under treatment in Switzer-
land for digestive ailment, will
travel by air. Foreign Secretary
Bevin is expected to sail on the
Queen Elizabeth August u. He
will arrive In Washington Sep
tember 2, two days before Cripps
for dollar talks with American
and Canadian leaders.
The travel dates were disclosed
by Government sources today.
Groundwork for the Washing
ton conference was laid here last
month during a visit of American
Treasury Secretary John Snyder
It's purpose will be not only to
halt the drain which cut the ster-
ling blocs gold and dollar reserve
to 81 ,624. .000. 900 at the end of june
but to hnd-if possible long
term answer to Britain's economic
ailments. n
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Body Lies keor Bodies;
Claw Hommer on Bed.
Automobile Missing

A young mother was found
beaten to death early today. few
feet from her two sleeping chill
dren in their oneSroom home near
Laurel, Md.
Police began a 17-State search
for her husband, John w. Barker
%, believed to have left the scene
in an automobile stolen from his
neighbor.
The victim, Mrs. Nellie F. Bar
ker, 81, was killed by three blows
on the head. two of which caused
skull fractures, DR.. Henry c. Frei-
muth. Baltimore City Medical
Examiner, reported.
DR.. Earl Royer. his assistant
who performed the autopsy, sale
the wounds could have been in
! flicted by claw hammer found OF
a bed of the home.
The woman was found shortly
after midnight by group O
neighbors aroused by the theft O.
the automobile.
Body Found by Neighbors.
Missing Mr.. and Mrs. Barker
they went to the darkened cottag,
and with a f1ashlight found thu
body face up on the floor between
two double beds.
| On one of the beds were thu
Barker children, Brenda. l.
months. and Jerry. 3 months. Or
! the other bed was the claw ham
mer.
Mrs. Barker was clad only in /,
light dress. which was open. A dia
per was stuffed into her mouth
There was deep wound in he
right temple, and other wounds
over the right temple and on ths
left temple. The skull was frac'
tured in two places by the lattel
! two blows.
DR.. Royer virtually dismissed tht
]
Evening star., 1949-08-05
House Group Favors Raise
0fS15O for Postal Workers

The House Civil Service Com
mittee today approved legisla-
ton to give the Governments
500, 900 postal employees q $l50-a-
year raise in salary.
The committee is scheduled te
meet next week to act on pay
reclassification legislation for the
Governments classified employees
The House groups. postal bill
would increase postal employees
present Is days annual leave te
20 days and grant them an allow
ance to buy uniforms. The bill
also wipes out the first two salary
grades in the postal service.
The Senate Civil Service Com
mittee last week voted a bill CIV
ing postal workers a. $lO0 pas
raise. II
Evening star., 1949-08-05
g. 0. P. Looks 10 t95OWife, Il, Found Slain
AFTER GabieIson Wins In Home Near Laurel;
Craftsmanship, a-47 Husband, 3, Hunted
He Pledges keutroIity
Among Porty Foetions
As Dinner Ends Meeting

Republicans looked hopefully to-
day to their new national party
chairman, Guy George Gabrielson,
of New Jersey, to unite their ranks
for the congressional campaign of
1850.
Although he was elected by a
bare majority at the Republican
National Committee meeting in
the Shoreham Hotel late yester-
day, the party leaders made every
effort to sound a keynote of har-
mony once the balloting was over.
The vote was So for Mr.. Gabriel
son, Al for Axel j. Beck of South
Dakota and ! for A. T. (Bert)
Howard of Nebraska. At the end
of the roll call, Mr.. Gabrielson had
81 votes and Mr.. Howard 2, but
Abel v. Shotwell, Nebraska ma
tional committeeman. switched his
vote from Mr.. Howard to Mr..
GabrielSon.
Gabriels0n Pledges Neutrality
Actually 102 answered their
names on the roll call, but the
two leading candidates - Mr..
Gabrielson and Mr.. Beck -
passed" BY changing his vote at
at the end of the roll call, Mr..
Shotwell gave the new chairman
an unquestioned majority of the
102 who could have voted.
The result was a setback for
Dewey supporters and victory for
friends of Senator Taft. Mr.. Gabri-
elson, however. promptly gave the
committee q pledge of neutrality
toward all individuals who may
seek public once as Republicans
while he is chairman.
The election came after Repre-
sentative Hugh d. Scott, jr.. OF
(See REPUBLICANS. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Senate to Pay
g. 9" Policeman,
D. G., Biggest

The biggest man on the Metro
politan Police Department. Pvt.
Edward Brown, who is 6 feet 9
inches tall and weighs nearly 800
pounds, will remain at his post at
the Senate door, but will be paid
by the Senate instead Of the Po-
lice Department.
The transfer of his pay was ap-
proved today by the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee as it re-
ported out the third deficiency ap-
preparation bill. 1t carries the
salary for Mr.. Brown Of $3,754.51.
The officer, who was brought to
the Capitol by former Vice Presi-
dent Garner in 1882. was warmly
praised by Joseph c. Duke, Senate
sergeant at arms, and several SEN
ators.
II know Mr.. Brown very well
He lis an affable fellow and every
body locks up to him." Senator
Ellender. Democrat. Of Louisiana
said.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
File Reveals Story
Of Hunts Dealings
With Manufacturer
By Miriom Ottenberq

A thin file now in the possession
of a Senate investigating sub
committee tells the story of Paul
Grindle's business negotiations
with James v. Hunt as they were
recorded at the time by Mr.. Hunt
and his Office staff.
Mr.. Grindle is the Massachu-
setts furniture manufacturer who
touched off the Senate probe of
"five-percenters" when he said he
paid a $1,000 fee to Mr.. Hunt be-
cause of Mr.. Hunts claims of I'm
fluence" in high places. Mr.. Grim
die is expected to be a key wit
ness when the Senate hearings
start next Monday.
There is nothing about infiu-
ence in the file. copy OF which
lCea IrTrhJrT, Dona ASN
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Tito AIerts Troops
Amid 'Provocations'
From Red Satellites
Bloody CIoshes Already
Have Token PIoce in
Moeedonio, He soys
W the Associotsd Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 5.
-Yugoslav troops were in a state
of alert today to guard against
what Premier Marshall Tito called
proyoca tions and intimidations by
his Soviet-dominated neighbors.
Tanjug, the official news agen-
cy. last night quoted Marshal
Tito as saying bloody clashes al
ready had taken place in Mace
donia. The stormy Balkan region
lies between Communist Bulgaris
and Albania, with Greece on the
southern border.
Tito said his troops were in q
state of alert in order to safe
guard the peaceful construction
of our Socialist country"
Intimidation Charged.
The Premier. who defied Soviet
dictation a year ago in row
with the Cominform. accused hi
Eastern neighbors OF trying tt
intimidate Yugoslavia by spread
ing rumors of a threatened Rec
Army invasion.
Tito called them nothing bu
ordinary rumors," but added:
Nevertheless, we are not un
vigilant here either we arr
prepared to prevent all provoca
tions, to defend our countr!
against every one"
/ In a slap at Moscow, Tito addet
t that Yugoslavia would defend tn,
principles of Marxism-Leninisn
even against the creators of these
principles, should they go against
them"
Toughest Talk to Date.
Tanjug reported the statements
were made Wednesday in speech
to army and political leaders ir
Skoplje, Macedonia. Tito repeated
previous statements that Yugo.
slavia would not sacrifice its
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Voorhees,, Alexander
Get Defense Posts

President Truman today NOM
mated Tracy s. Voorhees, for pro-
motion from Assistant Secretary te
Undersecretary Of the Army.
He also nominated Archibald S.
Alexander. 1948 Democratic can
didate for Senator from New .Jcl :
sey, to be Assistant Secretary o1
the Army.
Mr.. Voorhees,. born in New
Brunswick, N. j., in 1890, is a
lawyer and has been Assistant
Secretary since June 18. 1913.
During the last war he served
as a colonel first in the judge ad-
vocate geperalS department ard
finally as head Of missions to re-
organize medical supply systems
in the European, China India
Burma and Pacific theaters. Afte.
the war he became special assist
ant to then Secretary of Wal
Robert P. Patterson.
Mr.. Alexander. an attorney
was born In New York in 1906. Hi
has been active in New Jersey
politics but defense officials sale
that he was an anti Hague Demo.
crat.
He once was associated in Law
practice in New York with Secre.
tary of the Army Gray. Durins
the, war he served in the Army ir
the Pacific and European theater.
and for. a time was liaison legal
and finance officer to the Allied
Military Government in Sicily anc
Italy.
His last overseas assignment
was as chief of civilian supply al
European theater headqu> >rters.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Johnson to Be First Witness
At FNe-Percenter Hedrinq
To Be Heard Monday,
Hunt Testimony Plan
Still Is Uncertoin

Defense Secretary johnson will
be the first witness at a Senate
subcommittee public inquiry into
the activities of five -percenters'
at 10 am. Monday.
Chairman Hoey Of the subcom-
mittee announced today that the
first witness would be Mr.. john
son, who has said he intends to
drive the five -precenters out of
the military establishment.
Whether or not James v. Hunt,
key figure in the inquiry who
broke his silence yesterday in an
interview in The Star. will testify
remained a matter of some con-
lecture.
William P. Rogers, Subcommit-
tee counsel, said the self7styled
management counselor and former
Ca. rTyyE r,rnrrAyrrrnc n,
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Report Summary
Nationalist Decay Seen
Cause Of Red Victory
BY the Associated Press

The gist of Secretary of State
Acheson's report today to Presi-
dent Truman and the Nation on
the situation in China:
Why the Communists are win
ming in China: The ruling
Kuomintang Party by 1s48. the
crucial year of the war, had fallen
into decay" Its leaders had
proved incapable of meeting the
crisis confronting them, it's troops
had lost the will to fight, and it's
government had lost popular sup
port
More American aid would not
have prevented defeat: FOur mil
itary observers on the spot have
reported that the Nationalists did
not lose a single battle during the
crucial year 1948 through lack of
arms or ammunition.
Where the Communists got their
arms: First they obtained cap
tured japanese weapons which the
Russians abandoned in Manchu-
ria: second, they captured huge
supplies of American equipment
due to 1.-The military ineptitude of
the Nationalist leaders. their de-
fections and surrenders. and the
absence among the forces of the
will to fight"
What American future policy
should be: Ultimately the pro-
found civilization and the dem
ocratic individualism of China will
reassert themselves and she will
throw off the foreign yoke. I con-
slider that we should encourage all
developments in China which now
and in the future work toward this
end"
Why the Marshall and Hurley
missions failed to unity China:
THE distrust of the leaders of
both the Nationalist and Com
munist Parties for each other
proved too deep-seated to permit
final agreement. Notwithstanding
temporary truces and apparently
promising negotiations"
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Sunday Reading
What course will the 8

What course will the style
makers set for milady this
fall in the way of fabrics,
hemlines, buttons, pockets,
ETC.? The Stars fashion edi-
tor, Eleni Sakes, makes a we'll
illustrated forecast on this
subject in Sundays Pictorial
Magazine. basing her report
on what she saw at New York
previeWs.'
Among the Editorial Sec
ton articles on current for
eign and domestic issues is
one by George v. Allen, As
sistant Secretary of State for
Public Affairs, explaining the
value of the Voice of America
broadcasts. If they aren't
worthwhile, he points out, why
should Russia try to keep
them from being heard.
These are but two of sthe
many special features that
supplement- the usual thor
ough and accurate news con-
tent OF