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Evening star., 1949-11-08
Metal From Well
Gives California
Town Gold Fever
BY the Associated Press

CASTAIC. Calf, Nov. 8.-Gold
fever. '49er style. is gripping this
tiny village today. while it's 300
citizens await an assayer's report
on California's latest bonanza.
Nobody is sure yet whether the
yellow metal at the bottom Of
Charley Aliens well is gold. But
grizzled prospectors swear it's the
real thing, and they're busy stalk
ing claims-just in case.
Mr.. Allen once mined gold in
Northern CALIFORNIA; mother lode
country, scene of the historic
gold rush 100 years ago. He says
he spotted the shiny f1ecks while
deepening a 150-foot we'll behind
his cafe and began panning the
stuff with a skillet.
1T tested okay with sulphuric
acid, and it hammers out like
gold" Mr.. Allen said. If it is
gold there's enough here for
everybody"
When the word got around 9TH
erS began panning for gold with
frying pans, pie dishes, garbage
can lids and any digging tools
they could find.
Four claims. including Mr.. Al
lens. are on file at Los Angeles,
35 miles from here. Mr.. Allen
said he sent samples to an assayer
in Bakersfield yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Two Road Contractors
Indicted in Evasion Of
Taxes on $217,806

Two Washington area road con.
tractors were indicted last nigh
by a Federal grand jury at Nor
folk, Va, for concealing $217.'
806.27 in income to evade the pay.
ment of taxes.
They are ,Franklyn Mckenzie
Dawson, 4404 Volta place NV.
and William j. Hardy of Raven.
wood. Falls Church. partners ir
both the Arlington Asphalt Co
and the Arlington Stone Co.
Reached at their homes today
they had identical statements:
II don't know very much about
it at ALL" Mr.. Dawson added that
he was "as much in the dark a.
anybody"
Judge Albert v. Bryan of Alex.
andria, who was sitting in the
Federal Court at Norfolk. author.
lied the Government to issue
bench warrants for the men. the
Associated Press reported. Or
recommendation of Assistant
United States District Attorney
Robert N. Pollard, jr., he set bal
at $4,000 each.
The contractors, who built the
network of macadam roads arounc
the Pentagon, were charged by the
grand jury with "wilfully anc
knowingly" aided in the prepara-
ton and presentation of false
and fraudulent" returns on part
nership income.
The indictment accused them
of concealing $189,186.27 in in
come from the asphalt concern
and $28,620 in income from the
stone company.
It is charged that the violations
took place over a period of several
The trial is expected to be
docketed in, Richmond,
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Newspaper Guild Quits
International Journalists
BY the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Nov. 8.-The CIC
American Newspaper Guild yes
terday withdrew from member
ship in the International Organi-
zation of Journalists.
Withdrawal was announced by
President Harry Martin after ac-
ton by the International Execu-
tive Board.
The ANG charged the IOJ had
become IAN instrument of Com
munist propaganda"
The resolution said further that
"the IOJ has destroyed its useful
ness by its subservience to the
militaristic imperialism of the
Soviet Union"
The IOJ was set up shortly after
World War II to further the free
press in the world.
The guilds board concluded a
four-day session here last night
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Polish Court Dooms
Two Nuzi OfficiuIs
By the Associated Press

WARSAW. Poland, Nov. 8 - A
Polish appeal court sentenced two
wartime Nazi officials to death
yesterday after finding them guilty
of numbering thousands of Poles
and Jews during the German oc-
cupation of Poland.
The two sentenced were former
SIS Commander Richard Hide
brant and the former German po-
lice chief at Bydgoszcz.
The verdict said the accused
had aimed at the total extermina.
ton of the Poles.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
British Reported Planning
To Recoonize Reds Soon

LONDON, Nov. 8 (R.-Diplo-
matte officials reported last night
! that Britain is planning to give
full recognition to the Chinese
Communist regime within weeks. .
They said Foreign Secretary
Bevin is expected to tell Secre-
tary of State Acheson and French
Foreign Minister Schuman so for
mally when he meets with them
in Paris Wednesday and Thurs
day.
The Foreign Office was said to
have decided in principle to recog-
nize the Reds soon after the
Peiping regime invited foreign
powers to cut their ties with the
Kuomintang and set up full diplo-
matte relations with it a few weeks
ago.
Execution Of the British deci-
sion has been held up by a gen.
eral agreement of the Western
powers and commonwealth coun-
tries to consult one another be-
fore taking action. The inform
ants said the Foreign Office pro-
posal to recognize was supported
unanimously by a conference of
British diplomats and military ex-
perts just ended in Singapore.
That conference was attended
by most of Britain's Ambassadors
to the Far East and military lead
ers in that area. a..
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Forest Hills Citizens
To Mark Anniversary

The Forest Hills. Citizens Asso.
citation decided last night to cele-
brate its goth anniversary at its
December S meeting with a buffet
supper. -,
A site for the event has no,
been selected. but the association
president. Joseph A. Kaufman, q
lawyer, has offered the use of his
Offices at 500 D street NV.
The meeting was held in the
Murch School, Thirty-sixth and
Davenport streets NV.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON. D. c. ~ A.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

Philippine President Elpidio Quir-
ino on the proposed Pacific
alliance to contain Communism in
Asia and the Pacific Islands. Mr.
Quirino has taken a leading role
in promoting the proposed pact
but so far the United States has
been non-committal about join
ing.
One source said DR.. Jessup also
may visit Japan for discussions
with officials there about a jap
anese peace treaty.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Understanding Care
Essential for Victims
OF Polio, Doctor Says

The need for care of polio VIC
TINS throughout their illness by
an understanding person was
stressed today by DR.. Philip M
Stimson, associate professor OF
clinical pediatrics at Cornell Un-
iversity Medical College.
DR.. Stimson spoke this morning
during the second day of a
four day conference of State ad-
visers on women's activities OF
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. The conference
is being held in the Wardman
Park Hotel.
For medical progress, we have
physical therapy. occupational
therapy and rehabilitation pro-
grams of training" he stated.
But the tying together of the
specialties requires one person
perhaps the family doctor. to
supervise the entire course of the
patient.
Another speaker was Miss
Catherine Worthingham, national
foundation director of profess
sional education. She reported
on the fact that professional
training for 2,127 men and women
has been financed by foundation
scholarships and fellowships and
explained how the emphasis OF
such training has shifted since
1945 from public health nurses
to care for patients in their homes
to institutional training, because
more and more polio patients are
entering hospitals.
DR.. Robert j. Neville, national
foundation director Of orthopedic
services reported on how the
foundation modified quickly to
fight last summers epidemics and
emphasized the need for still
greater numbers to carry on the
work.
During the afternoon, the dele
gates were to see the Respirator
Center at Children's Hospital in
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Two Russian Officers
Reported Drowned in
German Ship Sinking
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Nov. 8.-The Ameri-
can-licensed newspaper Der Abend
quoted a survivor yesterday as
saying two Soviet officers were
drowned when a German freight
er was torpedoed and sunk dur
ing Russian naval maneuvers in
the Baltic October 81.
-Four of the is crewmen of the
freighter were lost. the paper said.
The Soviet officers were sent
aboard the merchantmen to pilot
it through the maneuver area, the
paper said. Despite their guidance
of the 2.800-ton freighter Hansa,
en- route from the East German
port of Rostock to Reval in the
Estonian Soviet republic. the ship
was hit by Soviet torpedo fire.
Soviet harbor officials at Ros-
took. Der Abend said, had given
the German ship instructions to
adhere strictly to a prescribed
route.
-Four of the crewmen were res
cued by Soviet torpedo boat.
One survivor said strong Soviet
naval units, among them two
battleships and several destroy
ers. were encountered on the voy-
age. The crewman heard heavy
naval artillery and saw many
Soviet planes.
The paper said the survivors
were taken to the Soviet zone
Baltic port of Wismar and held
under arrest by the Russians.
But one of the survivors escaped
to West Berlin.
No Russian comment on the
papers account could be obtained
here. The Hansa is not listed in
Lloyd's World Register of Ship
ping. 1t is possible, however, that
it was built in a Soviet zone ship
yard since the war and not regis
tored
Evening star., 1949-11-08
FOUND.

EXPOSURE METER, on Beach DIR. NV.
DOG, hound and terrier mixed, light tan,
female. IA. 4434 after z pm.
PET BIRD. Please call and identity
Evening star., 1949-11-08
Three Members Named
To Hospital Council
BY the Associated Press


Oscar Ewing. Federal Security
Administrator. yesterday an
nounced the appointment o1
three new members to the Federal
Hospital Council.
& They are Jonathan Daniels
Raleigh. Mac, editor of The New.
and Observer; the Rev. Donald A
MCGOWAN. Washington. of the
National Catholic Welfare Con.
ference, and DR.. Anthony j. J
Rourke. San Francisco, superin.
tendent of Stanford University
Hospital.
The hospital council decides or
the eligibility of hospitals fol
Federal grants of aid. A meetins
of the council is to be held here
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
ABc Board Finds Ella Guilty

Sam Fig, proprietor of Fig liquor
store. 5416 Georgia avenue NV,
today was declared guilty by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
of charges that his newspaper ad-
vertising violated board regula-
tions. The board did not impose
a penalty. but placed the finding
against his record.
Evening star., 1949-11-08
100000 Ready 10 Quit
UEW With Most P|anninq|
To Join New Union
BY IN, Assoeiotsd Press

PITTSBURGH. Nov. s.-The
United Electrical Workers, ex-
PEELED from the CIO last week
for its left-wing policies, was
threatened today with the imme-
diate loss of more than 107, 900
members.
Most of these. a survey showed,
intend to string along with the
right-wing CIO.
At the same time the CIO an
nounced that the new union of
electrical workers-organized to
supplant the UE-had won its
first employer recognition in a
contract signed with two firms
employing LOTS workers at
Yonkers, N. Y.
The survey covered scores of
locals in IL States-California.
Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Massachu-
sets. Minnesota, Missouri, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio. Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia.
1t showed that 107,482 UE
members have voted to secede
from the parent union or have
otherwise indicated strongly they
intend to do so in the less than
a week since the CIO expelled
the UE.
68,608 to Stay in UEW.
A total of 68,60S UE members
IN other locals have voted to stick
by the parent organization or
have announced that is their in
tention.
This total of 176,000 who have
said what they intend to do COM
pares with total UE member
ship estimated at 1000, 900 to 450,-
900. Previous tests of strength
in the locals and on the national
convention floor indicate that
about half the membership is left
wing. half right wing.
The survey does not include 25
Chicago locals, "a of which voted
to stay with the UE, as mem
bership figures of this group are
not yet available.
A series of fights, both legal and
physical, resulted from the UE's
expulsion at the CIO convention.
There was a brief near-riot at
Sharon. Pa. and flsticuffs at Fair
mont. w. Va. and Pittsburgh.
Only last night right wingers
phoned police in Pittsburgh to
complain that left-wingers had
broken into and taken over the
headquarters of the 13,7O0-mem-
ber local at the East Pittsburgh
plant of Westinghouse Electric
Corp.
Judge Censures Tactics.
Court cases were brought in c
half dozen States.
Yesterday they ruled on four
funds cases. in which left-wingers
had tried to tie up theI union
treasury. Rightist officers at the
Westinghouse East Pittsburgh
local were given full use of their
100000 treasury. Judge James
L. OToole told the complaining
left-wingers:
sYou're trying to use this court
to settle fight within the union.
think the last thing in
your mind is to protect this
money. You want to freeze this
local in the present situation"
The courts action enabled the
local to set up a membership
meeting for Wednesday to vote on
the question of secession.
At Lynn, Mass. Syracuse, N. Y,
and Sharon. Pa. court rulings
gave rightist officers limited use
Of union funds-for current ex-
penses only-but put the bulk of
the treasures in escrow. Further
court hearings will decide who
gets the money-the UE OR the
new CIO group.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
1ise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14

from crossing picket lines, the
LLPE Reporter says: "lt is the
Taft Hartley act word for word
except for a few changes which
further cripple labor"
But after having been rebuffed
by the "bipartisans" when they
tried to get quick action on TIL,
pro-labor Congressman have been
chuckling over the way the fill
buster is back-fring, by carrying
over the Taft-H Hartley debate until
after Easter.
Rep. Ray Madden Cd, Ind) most
outspoken Rules Committee mem
Der on the pro-labor side said: "T
think this is going to be a very
healthy recess. It's a good idea for
the members to mingle with the
folks back home and find out how
they feel about repeal of the Taft
Hartley act"
Sen. Wayne Morse OR, Ore.) il
warning his Republican colleagues
that if they keep on defending the
Taft-Hartley law labor will take
an ever increasing interest in poll
tics and "will pick US off one-by-
one"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14
Metulworkers Federation
Schedules First us Meet

Washington UPA) = Setting a
milestone in labor history, the
Metalworkers Federation,
world organization of free unions
in the metal trades field, will for
the first time in its 40 years of ex-
istence convene its central COM
mittee in the United States.
Secretary Treasurer Eric Peter
son of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists announced that
the council will start its sessions
on April 20 in the Machinists
Building here. Twelve members of
the committee are arriving on the
Queen Mary April Is for the meet
ing.
The Federation is made up of
the principal metal trades unions
of the North Atlantic nations, plus
the Machinists for the United
States and Canada.
"This is the first time in the his
tory of the world labor movement
that a meeting of this Importance
is being held on American soil"
Peterson said. at marks a break
with the traditional isolationism of
trade unions on both continents.
"We believe this meeting will be
not only to the trade
union movement, but in the broad
er struggle to strengthen western
democracy. Machinists and metal
workers in every European country
the largest section of
the organized union movement.
They hold the keys to economic
and industrial recovery in western
Europe"
The conference will consider
plans to enlarge the organization,
and bring in other metal trades
also problems of control of
the Ruhr, and relationship of the
federation to the forthcoming new
world labor movement.
At a banquet for the delegates
on April 21, President William
Green of the AFL and Secretary
Of Labor Maurice j. Tobin are to
speak. Leaders of other metal
trades unions have also been in
vited. On April 26, the delegates
will begin an inspection tour of
major metal working plants.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14
Textile Workers
To Celebrate Its
Tenth Anniversar\

New York (LPA)-The Textile
Workers of America will celebrate
its tenth anniversary next month.
President Emil Rieve announced
last week that local textile unions
thruout the country will stage ex-
hibits, parties, parades and picnics
in honor of their national unions
birthday between May 8 and Ia.
While most of the celebrations
will be sponsored by the local
unions, there will be a coast-to-
coast TWUA broadcast over the
ABC network on May IA, Rieve
said.
TWUA, with nearly 450,000
members in "a states and Canada,
was founded in Philadelphia on
May Is, 1889. 1t merged the new
locals of the Textile Workers Or
ganizing Committee, with older
local unions and federations of
textile workers.
"There is no doubt" Rieve said,
"that valiant efforts were made be-
fore TWUA to form a union of
textile workers, but these were all
unsuccessful efforts.
"Now, in 10 short years, we haye
raised wages so that we are no
longer the poorest paid of all
workers. The textile industry, old
est in this country, now pays some
thing like a living wage thanks to
TWUA. Wages have risen from an
average of Acc an hour in 1889 to
$1.20 today for the entire industry.
"Our gains have not been con-
fined to wages alone. Things which
were mere dreams to old textile
workers are realities today. There
is job security, shift bonuses, over
time pay, paid holidays, workload
control, gievance machinery, hos
pitalization, surgical and health in
surance, and paid vacations.
"These things have not been won
easily. We have been commended
for our lack of strikes, but we have
struck when necessary to advance
the program of industrial union
ization for the benefits of textile
workers"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14
Uniform Hygiene
Code Urged To
Aid All Workers

Detroit ILNS)-The American
Conference of Government Hygien-
lists, in convention here, proposed
a uniform industrial hygiene code
to standardize specifications and
requirements throughout the ma
tion. The code, if enacted by each
of the 48 states, would safeguard
the health and safety of employees
in all kinds of plants and factories
by establishing fixed standards
which would be required by law.
The conference said the set of
would answer an
urgent need in industry for a un-
form law establishing responsible
ity of management and employees
in preventing unhealthy working
Labor unions and manufacturers,
the conference said, had protested
for years that it was virtually i'm
possible for them even to keep in
formed of the varying sets of
health regulations, particularly in
cases where one company had
plants in more than one state.
"Every effort has been made"
the drafting committee said, "to
produce a code flexible enough to
meet the constantly changing pro-
blems encountered in the field of
industrial hygiene. 1t is basic
code applicable to all places of en-
ployment."
The code would require employ
ers to establish standard conditions
of work and employees to "use the
control measures and protective
provided by the en-
ployer."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14
NofionoI Garden
Week April 27-28

Chicago (ILNS).-National Gar
den Week, which is celebrated an
nually to point out the Importance
of gardening in everyday life, will
be promoted by the National Gar
den Institute from April 81
through April %, it was announced
here by Rodney H. Brandon, pres
ident of the institute.
Brandon pointed out that garden
ing is growing into greater civic
project in peacetime than it has
been in prior years.
Industries, civic leaders, social
and youth organizations will join
together during this week." Bran
don said, "to further encourage and
stimulate interest in all phases of
gardening. They will strive to
show that gardening, in any form,
is an essential part of the lives of
every man, woman and child-in
peacetime as we'll as wartime.
Gardening has proven itself a
weapon against juvenile delinqu-
ency by keeping children busy in a
worthy endeavor. 1t enhances the
general beauty of the nation. 1t is
one of Americas greatest sources
of food, as we'll as providing US
with healthy activity. Gardening
also encourages people to work to-
gether. 1t stimulates closer home
times between parents and child
rem, and also enables management
and labor to cooperate in non-pro-
fit projects for their mutual good"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14

OUTSMART THEMSELVES

Washington (LPA) - The pre-
Taft Hartley gang that dominates
the House Rules Commitee-and
which month ago became the
center Of the bipartisan" anti
labor coalitions scheming - has
outsmarted itself, union represent
atives on Capitol Hill concluded
this week.
BY filibustering the Wagner act
reinstatement bill past time for
action prior to the Houses Easter
recess, the Taft Hartleyites have
made boner. For when the fence
straddlers in the House ranks get
home for their vacation they'll be
exposed to the voters who expect
Taft Hartley to be wiped off the
books.
President Philip Murray, who
has been marshalling CLOS anti
Taft Hartley campaigning, wrote
all affiliates last week telling them
that contracting the Congressman
at home is the "frst and most i'm
portant order of business for all
organizations during the next three
weeks"
AFL delegations, organized by
central labor unions, will also be
calling on the vacationing legis-
lators, giving them labor's opinion
on the proposed amendments to the
union supported Thomas-Lesinski
bill-amendments designed to keep
TIL in operation.
In a report on the Congress
activities Int'l Association of Ma
chinists President Harvey Brown
warned that before us is a long
hard fight, not only on Taft-Hart-
ley, but on every single piece of
progressive legislation"
He publicly advanced the sug-
gestion that AFL, CIO and unaffil-
lated union representatives here
have been MISUNDERSTANDING
the rebellious southern Democrats
"We believe that most of these
reactionaries from the South would
accept party discipline" Brown
said, "and abide by the party's
platform if they know that refusal
would cost them their standing in
the Democratic party"
The Rules Committee is expect I
ing to give the Taft Hartley re-
pealer an "open rule"-permitting
an unlimited number of amend /
ments to be offered from the House
foor-for April 26, right after the
planned Easter recess.
First move Of the "bipartisans"
will be to move the substitution of 1
the Wood bill for the Thomas-Les-
inski bill. Of this measure, which I
to THIS anti-labor provisions adds |
a section making unions liable for
wages lost by scabs prevented
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14
Asks For Tighter
Antitrust Laws

Washington (LPA)-The Justice
Dept last week asked Congress to
give it more effective powers to
enforce the Sherman and Clayton
antitrust laws.
Herbert A. Bergson of the Dep'ts
antitrust division urged the House
Appropriations Committee to:
Authorize the Justice Dept
to investigate physical asset as
well as stock acquisitions, in corp
oration mergers whenever $1,000,-
600 worth of assets is involved.
2-Permit the government as
well as private individuals to press
triple damage suits in anti-mono-
poly cases.
3-Increase the now ridiculously
low fines for violating the anti
trust laws.
4-Repeal the Bulwinkle bill
which the 80th Congress passed
exempting railroad rate making
from anti-conspiracy prosecutions.
An increased appropriation for
the antitrust division was also re-
quested, as were funds for enforc-
ing the lobbyists registration law.
The Committee has already tenta-
lively stricken the item for spot
lighting lobbyists activities from
the appropriations bill.
This is the law against which the
NAM had filed a constitutionality
test in the US courts. The case is
begged down for failure of NAM
and the government to file all the
necessary briefs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-14
About Face On Civil Rights

Washington (LPA)-The House
Of Representatives double-crossed
advocates of civil rights legislation
last week. After voting 1913 to 153
to end segregation in the Coast
Guard women's reserve corp, on a
roll call vote, the Congressman On
motion Of the main bill's southern
sponsor turned around and by
107 to 80 standing vote-with no
names recorded-set the whole
thing back to committee.