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Evening star., 1949-10-21
u. 5. Asks Intervention
In Phone Rate Case

The Federal Government was
yesterday asked to intervene in
proceedings before the Public
Utilities Commission on the Ches-
apeake & Potomac Telephone Co.. S
application to increase telephone
rates here about 13 per cent.
Hearing on the application will
be held at 10 am. November 2 in
the District Building.
The Government, through Jess
Larson. administrator of General
Services was asked TO intervene
as the largest single customer of
the telephone company.
The petition pointed out that
the Governments bill for tele-
phone services in the District is
about $3.500,000 a year. and the
proposed increase would ado
$750.000 to the annual expense.
The telephone company wants
to obtain additional annual net
earnings, after taxes, of approx
mately $1,800.000. 1t has sub
mitted data indicating its rate of
return from District customers
has declined from about S per cent
in January. 1949. to less than 4 per
cent last July. The drop was at
tributed to higher costs of opera
ton, particularly labor.
Evening star., 1949-10-21

and Green, have been in Jail for
weeks under contempt sentences
imposed during the trial. Two
others, Winter and Gates, served
80 days during the trial on SINH
lar charges.
The defendants were indicted in
July, 1948, in the first Federal
test of the Governments control
over admitted Communists.
During the war the Communist
Party was dissolved for a time.
But it came to life again in l945.
The Government charged it was
recreated on a prewar pattern of
violence.
The II leaders were charged
with conspiring to reform the
party as an instrument of violence
from 1945 to the date of the 1948
indictment.
To back this accusation, the
Government called Is witnesses to
testify about secret party schools
and party plans for revolution
during another American depres-
sion or a war with Russia.
Some of the witnesses were FBI-
sponsored Communists, planted
inside the party for years to feed
Red secrets to the Justice Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Heat OHinCourt,
On in Building as
Jonitor Is Freed

Robert Spencer's constituents
were assured plenty of hot water
today. mostly because he just got
out of it.
A janitor in charge of boiler fir
ing for apartments in the 1900
block of Harvard street NV,
Spencer, 38, colored, got a 6-to- 18
month suspended sentence today
for operating a lottery.
Found guilty by a jury yester-
day, Spencer was sentenced a week
early by District Court Judge
Matthew F. Mcclure so tenants
would not be inconvenienced.
Spencer's predicament hit close
to home for Judge MCGUIRE. He
learned in questioning the defend
ant that he formerly fired boilers
at 270l Connecticut avenue NV.
where the jurist lives.
Spencer was placed on three
years probation, as was Beatrice
Hughston. 38. colored, who also
was convicted of gambling. Her
suspended sentence ran from four
months to q year.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Pickets Bor Non-Union Men
Seeking Pre-Strike Pay

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 81 LP.-
Striking CIO United Steelworkers
today refused to let nonunion
workers cross picket lines to COL
lect pay at the Jones 81 Laughlin
Steel Corp. Some joined the union
SO! they could get through. No
disorder developed.
About 40 pickets patrolled the
main j. & L. plant gate as hun
dreds Of workers showed up to
get wages for the last five days
they worked before the steel strike
started October l.
Pickets turned back those with
out union cards and a loudspeaker
instructed nonunion men to 60 to
union headquarters and get
passes" A union official de-
scribed the passes as membership
cards,
Evening star., 1949-10-21
UNIV welfare and pension fund.

OM w WclldIc dllu ptIlSlOIl luIlQ.
The Southerners have bitterly
criticized union administration OF
the fund. supported by operator
payment of a 20-cents-a-ton roy
atty on production. They want
fund operations reorganized with
careful checks placed on the pow
ers of fund trustees.
Sees Little Hope.
Mr.. Moody said as long as the
union maintains its present posi-
ton and will not negotiate the
terms of a welfare fund but only
the additional amount of money
to be paid into the present fund,
1--WE see very little hope of an
agreement.
/ But he added more hopefully
that ''it might be surprising how
close together we are" on ques-
tions of fund coverage..
The union wants the fund roy
atty increased, probably to IS or
40 cents, but it has never stated
the amount publicly.
There was no immediate indica-
ton of the unions reaction to the
SouthernerS' change in position.
The SCPA speaks for about a sixth
of the soft coal industry.
Fruitless Pattern.
Talks here between the union
and Northern and Western opera
tors. representing the bulk of bi-
luminous production. followed the
same fruitless pattern yesterday
that they have followed for weeks.
Mr.. Love said again that man
agement will not agree to, any
terms that increase the cost of
coal but have about given up get
ting this idea across to the union.
Mr.. Kennedy reiterated that the
operators can afford to absorb
some additional costs without
raising prices. "t.
Mr.. Loves statement that coal
companies are fighting for their
economic life" in a diminishing
market drew a sarcastic reply
from Mr.. Kennedy.
Mr.. Kennedy said Pittsburgh
Consolidation Coal Co., headed by
Mr.. Love, made $24. 100000 net
profit last year on 100000 tons
production.
THAT doesn't sound as if they're
going bankrupt" he said.
Mr.. Lewis has estimated his de-
mands will. add 80 to 35 cents to
the cost of producing ton of coal.
But he has not said how much of
this would 60 to the welfare and
pension fund and how much to
other items.
The fund is temporarily out of
business. Lack of income forced
the trustees to suspend all but
emergency benefit payments.
That led to the miners walkout on
September 10.
Evening star., 1949-10-21

then leaving that one on to keep
the red sandstone from spalding
(chipping). We didn't know how
many coats the place had on it
we just knew it was thin in some
places and thick in others.
Fumes from the burning paint
and from the acetylene torches
made the men sick and we didn't
dare keep one man on the job
more than 10 days at a time"
Opposes Modern Color Scheme.
They used 20 men on the paint
burning crew on eight-hour shifts,
alternating them at the torches.
The job required four months.
Then a crew of 18 required one
more month to put on four new
coats.
1T won't need the torches
again for Is or 20 years. he said,
although new white paint Job
will be included in upcoming i'm
provements. In the first place.
burning is too costly-maybe the
difference between $4,000 and
SIG, ,000," Mr.. Bender estimated.
The mere suggestion of painting
the exterior with anything except
white sickens Mr.. Bender more
than burning paint.
mo modern painting schemes
for that place." he says-with
reverence
One of the highlights of the
two-day convention will be the
drawing of prizes from coupons
handed out at the Home Show.
They range from a $25 savings
bond to a $500 house-painting job
and coupon holders must be on
the scene to cash in, officials said.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Maryland Teachers
To Hear Pupil Concert
At Session Tonight
By the Assocored Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 21.-Mary-
lands public school teachers will
hear 500 of their pupils in a mass
vocal and instrumental concert
here tonight.
The concert is one of the high
lights of the State Teachers
Associations convention which has
drawn 10000 members here.
The meeting opened yesterday
and will come to a close tomorrow.
1t has given an extra holiday to
all the States public school pupils.
In yesterdays opening general
session.. Dr. John K. Norton of
Columbia University called for
banning Of Communist Party
members from the teaching pro-
fession.
However, he was sharply critical
of Maryland's anti-subversive law
which has been declared unconsti-
tutional in a Baltimore court.
Sees "Hysterical Action"
Among other things, the act
calls for loyalty checks Of all
public employees, including school
teachers. The State has taken an
appeal from the decision declaring
it invalid.
DR.. Norton attacked the legisla-
ton as "likely to result in hyster-
ical action rather than in sound
protection for the schools"
He said the so-called Ober Act
could also influence action in
other States. and hence deserves
the attention of all citizens re-
gardless of residence"
IF this iniquitous measure
should become a pattern for other
States, we would have taken
long step toward introducing prac-
tices in the administration of our
schools which are totalitarian both
in spirit and procedure"
A ban on Communist Party
members in school systems, how
ever. is another matter entirely,
he said.
Lane Asks Aid to Handicapped.
He said the teaching profession
has a right and obligation to set
standards for inclusion within it's
ranks.
Earlier Gov. Lane told the
teachers the State should enable
every physically handicapped per-
son to become self-supporting.
Education, the executive said,
must affect every one-the lame,
the blind, the hard of hearing,
the adult and the isolated"
He added: IF public education
Is a State function-and I believe
it is-its blessing cannot be con-
fined to limited few"
Resolutions were adopted which
demanded that teachers salaries
be maintained at present levels
and that additional State aid be
granted for certain school serv-
ices now seriously handicapped"
because of inadequate funds.
Willis K. White, principal of
Kenwood High School, Baltimore.
was nominated as the new presi-
dent of the association.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Three Children Among Five
Found Dead in House
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

SANDISFIELD. Mass, Oct. 21.
Five persons, including three
small children, were found dead
today in a house on the New Marl-
boro road, State police reported.
All were believed victims of carbon
monoxide poisoning.
State police at the Lee barracks
identified the dead as:
Mrs. Agnes Kornish. 27: her
children. Barbara, s; Harold, S,
and Kenneth, 2. and Charles de
Lanzio, As, of Westfleld.
Mrs. Kornish's mother, who
operates a restaurant next door,
found the bodies, police said.
The carbon monoxide came
from a gas water heater, police
reported.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Senators
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sistant and an additional $6,720-
a-year aide.
Their salaries all come out of
the $35.400 for Office help. If
Senator x goes over this amount,
then he must pay the difference
out of his own pocket. And some
Senators say they lose money
on this.
sos in Free Stamps.
In addition to salary, expense
money. free Office rent and Office
help. Senator x gets $105 worth
of free stamps each year. This
is outside his free mail privilege.
He also gets $4OO year for
stationery. He can have ESQ
minutes Of long distance tele-
phone calls for free-or so calls.
And he receives a payment of 20
cents a mile for travel pay at
each session Of Congress-the
amount based on the distance
from Washington to his home
town.
If Senator KS State ever grows
above the 100000 population
mark, he'll get more Office help.
The size of his staff payroll de-
pends on the size of his State.
A Senator from a 5000. .00o-
100000 size State gets $4,000 a
year for his Office expenses; the
5000, ,000-10, 100000 size gets $42,-
420, and the 100000 New York
size State draws $43,92O.
Pay Pool Increased.
The new law increased Senator
KS Office pay pool by $11,520.
This raised it from $23,800 up to
$35 400. But the increase isn't as
big as it looks.
Now the Senator must pay his
administrative assistant out of
the Office salary pool. Heretofore
this assistant was paid separately
by Congress and the cost was not
included in the Office expenses.
Assuming Senator x pays his
administrative assistant the basic
$8,400 a year, then he will have
1920 left over. He can use the
money either to hire new Office
worker. to increase office, wages
or both.
It so happens Senator K pays
his top aide $4,000 a year. So
he'll have only $3.50 out of the
$11.520 increase to give pay raises
to his Office help.
"None of us is starving" the
Senator said. But this job isn't
a gravy train even with the ex-
tras."
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Steel
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lished reports about Mr.. Truman's
speech last night in which he
was said to have declared also
there is something wrong with
business leaders if they won't sit
down with the people who work
for them and settle their prob
lens.
A source close to the President
said his remark about the sense
lessness of the strikes simply was
no more than an amplification of
what he had said at the news con-
ference yesterday.
Other speakers at the dinner
were Treasury Secretary Snyder,
Chairman McCabe Of the Federal
Reserve Board and G. A. Price,
president of the Westinghouse
Electric Corporation.
Invited by Canady.
Mr.. Truman was invited to the
dinner by Ward Canaday, an old
friend, who is chairman of the
board of WHY'S Overland. 1t was
the White House understanding.
it was said, that only Is or 20
guests would be on hand and that
whatever the President might have
to say would be off the record. :
When news of the speech leaked
out, the White House was bonn
barded with requests for copies.
Although a transcript had been
made by a White House reporter,
Press Secretary Charles G.. Ross
said the -,eech would not be made
public from the White House.
Mr.. Ross said he thought the
President was surprised when he
discovered about 200 at the din
ner.
The twin strikes-the soft coal
tie-up is in its fifth week-cut
deeper into the Nations economy.
In New York, the New York Cen
tral Railroad announced that at
midnight tomorrow it was elimi-
mating SO steam operated passen-
ger trains because of dwindling
coal supplies. Local, branch line
and suburban service in II States
will be affected.
Auto Shutdown Feared.
The auto industry already has
warned that steel and coal short
ages are affecting production and,
if the strikes continue, will lead to
a complete shutdown in less than
a month.
Jones 81 Laughlin Steel Corp,
the Nations fourth largest steel
producer, notified salaried en-
ployes still on the job they will
suffer temporary reduction in
pay beginning November /, 1949,
if the current strikes are still in
effect at that time
Letters to employees said the
action was necessary to reduce
financial losses.
Salary reductions will range
from 20 per cent for employees
working full time during the
strike to so per cent for employees
Evening star., 1949-10-21

called, they walked out like a lot
OF schoolboys who had lost their
marbles"
MIR. Kennedy said the operators
had refused to negotiate on any
thing that would increase the cost
of mining coal.
If their theory were carried
out in general practice" he de-
clared. there would never be any
, collective bargaining in the United
States"
Mr.. Kennedy suggested the gen.
eral counsel of the NLRB in
Washington might want to file
charges against the operators re-
fusal to bargain in good faith.
Talks between the union and
the Southern Coal Producers AS
sociation at Bluefield where the
first hopeful signs appeared yes
terday in nearly five months of
negotiations, were scheduled to
resume this afternoon.
There. Joseph E. Moody, asso-
ciation president, said, the South
ern operators would agree to con-
tlnuing miner pensions under GER
tain conditions and would no
longer demand an end to the
half-hour paid lunch period.
Efforts toward an agreement
to end the five-week strike of soft
coal miners went on without Mr..
Lewis. He was at the bedside of
his 91-year-old mother seriously
i'll in Springfield, Ill.
Mediation Was Expected.
Federal mediators had been ex-
pected to step into the strike if
negotiations showed no marked
progress this week. Some observers
guessed before the White Sulphur
breakdown, that the ray of hope
from Bluefield might have warded
OF Federal action for a few days.
President Truman said yester-
day he had no immediate plans
for seizure of coal mines or of
strlke-bound steel plants. But he
did not rule out the possibility of
Federal Mediation.
The conditions attached by the
Southern association to continu-
ing $100-a-month pensions involve
terms spelling out coverage by the
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Forces Remain Prepared
To Fight, Greek Rebels Say
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, Oct. 21.-The rebel
Greek Communist government"
last night said its guerrilla forces
remained ready to take up arms
again despite their recent cease
fire announcement in the Greek
civil war.
Not for a minute will we ease
our struggle for the interests of
the people and for their political
and economic rights" said a rebel
statement in Sofia, distributed
here by Tass, the Soviet news
agency.
The statement said the Com
munist guerrilla army has net
laid down its arms, but is holding
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Funk Undergoes, Operation

BERLIN, Oct. 81 (P.-Walther
Funk, former Reichsbank presi-
dent now serving life imprison-
ment as Nazi war criminal, has
undergone a successful bladder
operation at Spandau Prison. Al
lied authorities announced today
The 59-year-old prisoner has been
troubled by the condition. since
his trial at Nuremberg.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
whose services are not required
while the mills are closed.

whose services are not required
while the mills are closed.
Steel Firm Signs Contract.
Meanwhile Philip Murray, CIO
and steelworkers' president, an
nounced the first contract ending
the strike against one steel COM
pany. 1t was with Copperweld
Steel Co. of Glassport, Pa, which
employees LOO workers. The union
said a six-cent non-contributory
pension fund, which was recon-
mended by the Presidential Fact
Finding Board, was included in
the settlemen.
The steel dispute is over the
issue of whether workers should
share in the support of pensions
and insurance or whether the
companies should carry the whole
load.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Mrs. Franco in PORTUGAL

LISBON, Portugal, Oct. 81 (P).
Mrs. Carmen Polo Franco, wife
of Spain's Generalissimo Franco.
arrived in Portugal today. Her
husband, making his first state
visit to Portugal, is scheduled to
leave Spain for Lisbon some time
today.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Man Who Burned White House
Wants Task of Repointinq 1t

One Of two men who have put
the torch, to the White House was
giving that venerable and totter-
ing residence some thought today.
He is Jack I. Bender, 42-year-
old Washington painter and dec
orator-last man to put fire on
the Executive Mansion. The first
was British Gen. Robert Ross.
Mr.. Bender was superintendent
of the White House paint-remov-
ing project in 1887, when they
only scraped away the tatters, but
in 1945, when he was superintend-
ent again, they did it with fire.
Today, at the second annual
convention of the Capitol District
Council, Painting and Decorating
Contractors of America. he joined
with about $50 other contractors
in aspirations to paint the old
place when it Is reassembled.
Painted Pentagon's Windows.
Convention sessions at the Hotel
Statler opened this morning and
will continue tomorrow with the
annual banquet closing the pro-
gram at 7:30 pm.
Mr.. Bender's firm just COM
pleted painting the Pentagon's S
window frames-"but that was no
pob compared to taking the paint
off the White House. and then
putting more back on" he said.
Figured on a square foot basis
and from " to "a of an inch of
long-dead paint. his torch WELD
ing crew took off 40 tons of paint
in the 1945 project, he estimated
today.
THE tough part of it was get
ting down to the last coat and
Evening star., 1949-10-21

them at the ready" Meanwhile,
it declared, the guerrillas have
"retreated before the huge ma
terial superiority of foreign occu-
pationists, fortified by the treach-
cry of the betrayer, Tito"
Evening star., 1949-10-21
Dance in Indiun Head

INDIAN HEAD, Md, Oct: 81
(SpeciaD The Indian Head Busi-
ness Association will hold dance
tomorrow night in the Community
Center Building.
Evening star., 1949-10-21
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Evening star., 1949-10-21
Coal

Continued From First Page. :,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Mrs. Ed. Oswald, Jr.
Wins Shoe Contest

Mrs. Edward Oswald, Jr., 826 The
Terrace, has been announced as the
Hagerstown winner of the Fortunes
Shoe Company's contest, recently
conducted by their local dealers,
Bikes Shoe Shop, Inc, and was
awarded wardrobe of four pairs of
Fortunet shoes. Mrs. Oswald's win
ming entry will now be entered IN
the nationwide contest, the winner
of which will receive a 1949 Ford
4-Door Sedan, with the next ten
runners-up each receiving beau
tiful Lady Elgin watch.
To win the Hagerstown contest
Mrs. Oswald completed a sentence
IN Is words or less, in which she
stated why she chose Fortunets as
the fashion shoe of the year.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Parent Teacher
Congress To Meet
Annual Maryland Summer Con-
ference To Be Held In Balti-
more July IL, ID and IA.

The annual summer conference of
the Maryland Congress of Parents
and Teachers will be held at the
University of Maryland July 1913
and IA. The theme of the conference
will be eve Plan Together"
At the opening session on Tuesday,
July II, Mrs. Emil Smith, the state
president, will preside, and the var.
ious conference chairmen will make
their annual reports. At this meet
ing Mrs. C. Austin Gardner, the state
publicity chairman, and a member
of the Hagerstown High School P
T. A, will make her report
Mrs. Gardner will also preside
over group discussion on Local
Publicity and News Letters" which
will be held Wednesday, July 10, at
the morning session. At the morn
ing session on Thursday, July IA,
Mrs. Sylvester ]. Cover, vice-pres-
ident of District /, and member of
the Lincoln PIT. A., will preside.
During the three-day session every
angle of Parent Teacher Association
work throughout the state will be dis
cussed, and out of it should come a
much stronger organization.
In addition to Mrs. Gardner and
Mrs. Cover, other committee chair
men from Hagerstown are: Mrs.
John c. Long (Lincoln and Hagers-
town High School PIT. A.'s) proceed
ure and bylaws; and Mrs. Daniel E.
Downin (Antietam Street PIT. A.
state historian.
Among those attending the con-
ference from Hagerstown and Wash
ington County are:
Mrs. Daniel Downin, historian Of
the State Congress; the following
officers of the Washington County
Council, Mrs. c. Austin Gardner,
/ president; Mrs. Albert NJ. Baltzley,
/ first Vice-president; Mrs. David Lit
ton, vice-president Boonsbofo area;
Mrs. Marshall Daniels vice presi-
dent Hancock area; Mrs. Lester
!, Marshall, vice president Hagerstown
area; Paul Shank, treasurer; and
Mrs. M c. Morton, publicity chair
man.
Also attending will be: Mrs.
Ralph Cook, Woodland Way P-T.A.;
Mrs. Charles Giles and Miss Mildred
Houck, Winter Street P-T.A.: Mrs.
Joe Cumiskey (president) and Mrs.
L. J. McCardelI, Surrey P-TA.; Mrs.
Raymond Miller (president) and
Mrs. Elmo Bonn. Funkstown P-T.A.:
Miss Mary Hoffmaster, principal OF
/ Beaver Creek School; Mrs. Marshall
1 Twigg, president of South Potomac
Street P-TA.; Mrs. Donald ,Bigony
(president) and Mrs William A.
Mills, Chewsville P-T.A.; Mrs. Har-
ry Brining, vice-president of Mt
Lena P-T.A.; Mrs. Leo Crosby, pres
ident of st. Mary's Catholic School
/ P-T.A.; Maxwell Yingling and Mrs.
! D. D. Walrath.