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Evening star., 1949-05-07
By the kssoeinted Press

SEOUL, Korea, May Korea Is
Communist menace was made In
Washington as well as in Moscow,
President Syngman Rhee asserted
today. And he asked If America
stands ready to battle the Red
threat to his nation.
THE Republic of Korea is strug-
Cling for its life against a Com
munist menace that is not Of its
own making" he said in state
ment.
when Japan was defeated.
there were no Communists in
Korea. They were invited in by
the division of our country across
the middle. by Russian-American
agreement"
The republic which DR.. Rhee
heads governs only South Korea.
which was American-occupied
after the war. A Korean Com
n1tInist regime rules North Korea,
which formerly was Russian-oc-
cupied. There have been frequent
border clashes.
1--WE do not propose to fight the
North Korean Communists or
their foreign overlords." DR.. Rhee
declared.
I'VE will continue our efforts to
unity north and south by peaceful
means. At the same time. We are
responsible for the protection of
the lives and property of our peo-
Evening star., 1949-05-07

Of about IS degrees. the bureau
reported.
The temperature rose TO 80 de-
grees at $40 pm. yesterday for
the warmest weather Of the year.
It was just short Of the 91-degree
record for May 6. registered in
1918 and 1894. The low today
was 81 at $50 am.
The record high for May Z, the
Bureau said. Is s5 degrees. set In
1880.
The mass of cool air broke
through last night from the Great
Lakes region. dropping tempera-
lures early today in Pennsylvania
and New York.
The unseasonably hot weather
of the last few days, forecasters
explained. was due TO q blocking
higt-pressure" area over the
Southeast. which halted the nor
NAL movement Of air and allowed
southwest winds 10 bring I'm the
summer-like weather.
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Rhee Charges Korean Red Peril
Is Made Partly in Washington
President of Southern Zone Coils on U. S.
To State Readiness to Fight Communists

pile; and when Korean Com
muniSts constantly come over the
border nd destroy us, We cannot
sit still and allow them to harm
us without resistance.
His statement asked whether
the republic could count on all
out American aid" in case Of at
tack.
American Ambassador John J
Muccio told newsmen as far as he
knew the United States has never
made a mutual defense pact with
any one nation since Thomas JET
ferson's time. He also referred to
Secretary of State Acheson' s
recent statement that no defense
pacts except the Atlantic Pact are
contemplated.
Only a token regiment of Amer
ican, troops remains In South
Korea now. Plans for its with
drawal in a few months have been
announced.
But Kim Dong Sung, Korean
director of information, declared
in another statement:
I'VE do not believe the United
States can or will withdraw its
remaining troops until it has an
swered our question as to what
will be done to aid us in case of
Communist attack from across the
border"
Kim said the American military
(See KOREA. Page A-31
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Husband Slain,
Knife in Back;
ifeSurrenders
Women Coils Police,
Admits Killing. but
Clolms Self Defense

mar was found dead oss ire
kileten ffaey q! hts apartment TO-
dsH cATvsag knife III his hack.
and Police Capt AEvhsc y NIn-
free Said h!s wife tad admitted
kilsins him in sell aetenSr Fnoae
Than /. hours hefags
The victim Was Norman } Lane,
~, ot s$oT Frsg street n " father
o! three children
Cap w!nigex Said Lane wa
stabbed between and 8 pm.
Yesterday and that lae eady
apparently had lain slaefr II fell
until police entered tire apartment
about 10 am to-day
Held on All open charge while
police took = written statement
from her sas MIA Mary Lane aa.
She remained In Tive apartment
throasheut the ntshi. Alons with
her mother Mrs Clara L Biakenes
md a-year old dagshtkr. Margaret.
Woman signals sceuI Car,
/ Capt WinfTee Sas rid.ag 10 q
scout car with Aetink Srrgt Nor
ris FlShman and Pvt William
Meyers when some enc IN another
car hailed him At sAi am 81
Third street and Missouri avenue
NV
II Was Mira Lane and . cousin.
Leo II, Brecn. aTot L.awndAle drive,
Silver Spring. Nd
Capt Wtniree said Mrs Lane
called Mr. BFcen this morning aud.
telling OF the Alaylng, asked him
TO come 10 the apartment, They
were on their way Ia the stxth
precinct station when they kaw the
police car
Learning Of the ktabhlng Capt
Winfree went 10 the home and
found the body. Mira Rlakeney.
and Margaret He took Mrs,
Blakeney and Margaret To the
precinct station for questioning
Threat with Knife CHARGED.
There Mrs, Lane told Precinct
Detective Thomas Colby that k,ls
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Radio War 10 Start
Today With Barrage
Aimed al Russians
u. S. and Brituin Join
In 6l-Tronsmitter Biust
To Pierce Noise Blockade
BY the Associated Pres.

The United States and Britain
fire their opening guns today in
an unprecedented peacetime radio
war with Russia.
In an attempt to smash through
a Soviet noise blockade. they
planned to use a battery of 81
transmitters, all blasting at once,
to hurl a barrage of Russian
language broadcasts in the direc-
tion of Moscow.
Assistant Secretary of State
George v. Allen announced the
campaign yesterday.
He said the State Departments
Voice of America programs would
carry an announcement charging
Russia with deliberate interfer-
ence similar to the systematic
jamming of short-wave broadcasts
conducted by the Nazis during the
war"
Mr.. Allen estimated that the
Soviet radio has been using so
transmitters to block reception of
American and British short-wave
broadcaSts in Russia. Up to now
the voice" has used no more than
10 transmitters to get through
to the Russian people.
Deliberate Timing Charged.
The Soviet jamming started in
earnest April 24--just before the
first news of negotiations to end
the Berlin blockade. The State
Department charged that the
timing was deliberately designed
to keep the Russian people from
hearing the Vests version of the
agreement.
Trying to slip some of its pro-
grams through the Russian wall
of noise. the voice" went on a
24-hour schedule a few days ago.
officials said that helped. Yester-
days announcement said the
United States will continue BEAM
ing Russian broadcasts overseas
on a round-the-clock schedule.
In addition. both the voice and
the British Broadcasting Co. will
throw two new programs into the
campaign at 9:15 am. and 10:15
pm. EST. using their whole ar
ray of transmitters on a variety
of frequencies.
Luther j. Reid, an aide to Mr..
Allen, who helped explain the
strategy to newsmen, said: Now
we are going to give them the
business.
Statement to Be Broadcast.
The announcement to be car
ried on all the American pro-
grams says:
Voice of America transmits
sions in the Russian language
have been interfered with wilfully
since early ls48 by TANNERS To-
Gated within the Soviet Union. In
more recent months there has
&C.. pANT0 yxyAp poua Al
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Sims Predicts House
will Adopt Modified
Labor Bill in Month
Inclusion of PIont Seizur.
And Injunetions in New
Measure Forecast
BY The Assesiossd Press

Representative Sims. Democrat
of South Carolina said today
there an excellent chance" that
within month the House will
pass a new version OF the com
promise Democratic labor bin 1t
defeated this week.
Mr.. Sims, who introduced the
original compromise. said the new
bill may provide for both plant
seizure and injunctions in ma
tional emergency" disputes. The
defeated Sims bill provided for
injunctions only.
A Senate labor bill offered
Wednesday by Senators Taft. Re-
publican. Of Ohio: Donnen. Re-
publican. of Missouri. and Smith.
Republican, OF New Jersey. con-
tains q "seizure-or-in -iniunction-or-
both" provision. This procedure
is less Objectionable 70 labor
unions than straight Injunction
power
Backers of the Senate Repuh-
lican measure are trying 70 get
active Democratic support for tt
"a Democratic co-sponsor. II pos
sible.
@Union Democracy Provision.
In his talk with q reporter. Mr.
Sims said the House Labor Com
mittee may decide 10 put In its
new bin some union democracy
provisions TO protect the members
Iof unions from arbitrary acts by
union leaders" !"
Such provisions have LONG been
advocated by another member Of
the committee. Representative Ja-
|cobs, Democrat. Of Indiana. Mel
ther the Taff-Hartiey Act nor any
of the major labor bills before
Congress contains them.
Mr.. Sims. at ~ the youngest
member OF Congress. was chosen
to bring q compromise measure
before the House last Tuesday
after Democratic leaders had be-
come convinced that the admin
istrationss Taft Hartley repeal bill
could not pass as written
The compromise proyided for
tSee LABOR, Page A-3.l
Evening star., 1949-05-07

whose left arm is of at the shoul-
der. was charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon at the
10th precinct. He was held on
SIS 900 bond In Municipal Court
today, pending a hearing on
May 20.
Pvt. Shutta won a bronze star
for dashing across q battlefield 70
rescue a wounded comrade during
World War II. Before the war he
was the supervisor of an addresso-
graph unit at the Agriculture De-
partment. Job to which he re-
fused TO return because 1t made
me nervous"
The policeman. his wife and
young daughter live at 4725
Eighth street NE.
Evening star., 1949-05-07

stabbed her husband when he
came ut her with the knife
The Lanes had been ausrrelias
throughout the afternoon ard
Lane had just come into the kitch-
en- from the back yard where he
had been working with tomato
plants.
When Lane threatened her
with the knife. Ahe wfested II
from him and stabbed him once
in the back. Just left Of the spine.
Detective Colby said Mrs. Lane
admitted.
Coroner A. MMgrudrr MacDon-
aid said the weapon. silver ham
died carving knife with . S-inch
blade. had been plunged into ts1s
back up 70 the hIlt, The knife
had the letter Il" engraved on II.
DR.. Macdonald agreed Lane
had been dead more than IL hours
when the coroner arrived at u
am
No Evidence Of Fight.
Lane waa dressed In pants. shoe.
and socka. but wore no anirt or
underahtrt, He waa lytns on laaa
back. with the knife prosruainE.
The wound had bled considerably.
There Wa no evidence Of .
fsght. The beds we're MADE
throughout the houss. There were
no bottles or other evidence Of
drinking.
Detective Colby said the Lanes
had "eeen fighting ever since he
returned from the service four
years aao"
A neislabor living IN an adiosn-
ing upstairs apartment said he
often heard arguments In the
apartment. and sometimes heard
furniture being slammed about.
He heard no sounds Last night. fs
gaad.
Received Disability Cesnpen&Ailea.
About . month ago. tlss assp-
mentS seemed TO b. louder and
more violent. the rslKhhcg kaad,
Lane waa not regularly efn~
piCyed. bur received disability
compensation gTUwIug cut of hin
var service.
The Lanes have two ether efasi~
dren. hfrx. Mary A. fFuwn o. 8
Brandywsne STREET NE-. ard MOI
man J. Lane. tF~ ID. wfso makes
MA tezne with . cousin. Mss. Caycs
Taylor Of - woo<iEaysn bcais-
vagd. Bethesda
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Late News
Bulletin
81 q ILL., = ELL
Girl, 3, Hurt in Fall

Three year old C0nchita
CONNER of the 500 block of
Twenty first street NE. fell
today from q second floor
window of her home to the
yard. At Children's Hospital
she was described rs In fair
condition with possible head
injuries.
Evening star., 1949-05-07
YuaosIovs Convict 4 Nuns

BELGRADE. Yaso&iassa- Nay
il yF,---A dlssssrs court in Moro
Messo. Ei0genAa. has eossaesed
four naman Casas0aae usra ea
charges of wartime spyans TnsT
wrFe asntenced 10 impFahpsnaxnt
at hard labor fpr TERMS Fangsng
from swc to four yeara.
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Senator Tobey to Seek
New Term in 1850
Dr. Ne a sss<sss.e Press

CONCORD. ~ H.. May 7.--sefs-
ator Tobey. Republican. Of Nes
Hampshire announced his cMnds-
dacy for re-eieefson In 1869 In .
radio address last night In which
he said Ii was . ioy and hasaafae-
ton to be IN public service.
He served three terms In tias
House before his election 10 tf1e
Senate In 1883.
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Peace Move Started
In Ford Strike by
Mayor Of Dearborn
Neither Side Answers;
Shutdowns Hit Suppliers
Spread to Other Cities
BY the Assoeiosed Press

DETROIT. May IA peace
move in the strike Of $1,000 Ford
workers was instituted by Dear
born's Mayor Orville L. Hubbard
today.
The Mayor proposed a meeting
of Ford and cIO United Auto
Workers officials at his Office mex;
Thursday for supreme civic
effort" to end the walkout
There was no early reply either
from the company or the union,
which are locked in a fight over
the JAWS charge of ''speedup'
In Ford plants.
Since noon Thursday Ford s
great Rouge plant in suburban
Dearborn and its Lincoln-M
curry factory in Detroit have been
idle.
From another quarter in the in
dustry-the UAw in General
Motors plant-came also charge
of speed-up.
A Chevrolet assembly line unit
at Flint voted Sic to II TO so on
strike. subject TO the interna-
tionars approval.
A union spokesman in Detroit,
however. said 1t was felt the dis
pute could be settled at the plant
level.
SuppIiers Feel Pinch
A pinch on small Ford supplier
plants was beginning to be felt a.
the strike entered its third day.
A number Of shutdowns. aIae
impending closings. were an
Inounced. Several thousand naer
would be affected.
Meanwhile, resentment OF strik-
Iers toward MANAGEMENT was OBJ
served on the picket lines ai
Rouge.
This followed Ford's announce
ment yesterday Of the firing oi
IA men in connection with wildcat
strikes which preceded the unions
waIkout Thursday.
One of the penalized men Was
Mike Donnelly. chairman Of the
UAW unit i'm the Rouge plant B
(See FORD. Page A-3J
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Private Trade Schools
Here 10 Be Probed by
Apprenticeship Group
Exploitation OF ve.erons
Receiving Tuition Money
From VA Is Choreed

The District Apprenticeship
Council has instructed It's Execu-
tive Committee TO conduct an
Investigation of the private trade
schools here in Washington, fol-
lowing charges by one member
that veterans are being exploited
by some Of the schools.
Meeting yesterday. the council
heard Robert f. Phelps. employer
member. declare
The Government would be
better of 10 give the veterans the
money and send them to Bowie
every day. They would have a
better gamble than II they 80 To
some of these trade schools
Mr.. Phelps said n preliminary
study showed more than 20 trade
schools in the city with a total
enrolment of about 2.000. The
average tuition fee is about $500
per course per man. and It ID
costing the taxpayers more than
81 900. 900 a year In tuition fees
paid by the Veterans Adrninistra-
ton. he said.
One In 20 Gets Job.
More than 1000 graduates have
been turned out In about i6 trades
In the last three years. but only
about one In 20 has been able TO
find a Job In the trade he studied.
Mr.. Phelps stated.
Mr.. Phelps said there Is q place
for good trade schools In q city
and that there are some good ones
here. But most OF the schools
have sprung up since the war. he
declared.
They are In there TO take the
money" he said. They definitely
are exploiting labor
Other members OF the council
contended the Veterans Admins
tration Is not to blame for the sit
uation. The 6I Bill Of Rights
gives the veteran the right TO &C
10 any school he chooses. II II Ia
approved.
The trade schools here where
veterans are studying are APP
proved by the Board OF Education.
But again the school board Is not
TO blame. It was said. The board
merely certifies that the trade
school has the facilities and gives
the course IL Is supposed 10.
Claims Veterans MisIead.
Mr.. Phelps and James b. Liittcs.
council chairman, said the trouble
came from the trade schools mis-
leading of the veterans as 10 the
situation. Mr.. Phelps
was particularly bitter In his con-
Of the advertising Of
some OF the schools. which promise
Jobs at high salaries after finish
Ing the course
For example, he said. there are
more than 500 men. mostly yeter-
ans. In training TO be refrigerator
experts In the city. Normally II
Is impossible TO find openings for
more than so or so refrigerator
men each year. he said.
The situation Ii not peculiar 10
Washington. since all biz cities are
having the same trouble. Mr.
Luttes said. But for some reason.
Washington seems 10 have become
the happy hunting grourd" for
this type OF school. he added.
The council advised veterans 10
stop gambling on the future Of
their families" The GI can en-
ter directly into apprenticeship
leading TO permanent employ
ment In o skilled trade. the eosin-
ell said, II pointed out that more
than 200 apprentices trained un-
der co1ncii-sponsored programs
have received certificates Of com
pietion from the Labor Depart
merIt and now are working % full
fedged journeymsn.
Evening star., 1949-05-07

(See CHINA. Page A-2.l
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Gutde tor Readers

A., Asssxas,ss. srsss ks~sesrs,
Evening star., 1949-05-07
Is Delegates Abstain.

tSee GERMANY. Page A-2J
Evening star., 1949-05-07

(See KOREA, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1949-05-07

tSee FORD Page A-sJ
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27
JOBS CONTINUE TO DROP FOR Third
STRAIGHT MONTH

the total take of wage earners." He
laughed aside a reporters question
on whether this might be an argu-
munt for wage increases.
The figure released by BIS show:
1. That overtime is fast disap-
pearing, and that in many industries,
particularly consumer goods, fact
cries are not offering a full weeks
work. Average durable goods week
is now 1913 hours, and in nondurables
it is 36.8 hours.
2. That factory jobs went down
from 1877 million to 15.5 million,
whereas the same period of 1948
saw a slight increase in employ
ment. OF 20 industry groups list
ed by BIS, IL saw loss in jobs
during the month, and three stayed
even.
3. That employment in mining and
transportation also hit the skids,
where increases had been seen last
year
BIS said some of the effects of
the employment drop were minimized
by what it termed share-the-work
plans. Reporters were told, how
ever, that BIS has no record of how
widespread such plans are, nor would
Clague comment on their desirability.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27
STATE MACHINISTS FOR
HAVRE-SHELBY

Livingston, May 19.-The North
ern Pacific railway system fedora
ton of machinists is on record en-
dorsing federal construction of cleo
trio lines and favoring Columbia and
Missouri valley authorities.
The machinists also approved res
olutions urging repeal of the Taft
Hartley labor law and reinstatement
of the Wagner act. President Tru-
mans national health program was
praised.
The resolutions were adopted at
the end of the groups two-day BIZ
ennlal convention here yesterday.
The 1851 meeting will be at Ia
coma, Washington.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27

It's no simple matter to figure
out the proposed national budget fol-
this year. But one thing stands out
clearly-75 per cent of the money
the US intends to spend in 1949 goes
to wars, past, present and future.
President Truman's budget mes
sage is for about 41.9 billion dollars,
the largest "peacetime" budget ever
presented.
This "peacetime" budget divides
I like this:
For National Defense ARMY,
Navy, Air Corps, Atom bombs, and
the like): S14,3OO,OOO,OO0.
For Past Wars Veterans aid, for
eign aid and interest on the wartime
accumulated debit: S17,700, 100000.
For Running the Government
farm aid, health, public works and
general administration $780,
100000.
These figures make cold shivers
run down the spine. 1t is so high,
in fact, that it scares some of the
people who favor stepping up the
cold war with Russia.
David Lawrence, a conservative
columnist in U. S. News Magazine,
says bluntly: present prosperity is
underwritten by billions being spent
for ornaments. Ending of the cold
war would bring economic upheaval
in the United States"
The top-heavy war and military
budgets are substituting American
business, in other words. Yet Big
Business, thus subsidized, complains
bitterly that public health, public
housing and social security projects
are too expensive.
When the new farm bill was pre-
sented to congress recently, the Big
Business spokesman Immediately
cried at costs too much" 1t always
seems to cost too much to help those
who need it.
The present tax burden, in the
eyes of Big Business, should be used |
only for the payment of war debt
and preparation for another war.
The fact that they profess a desire
for "peace" doesn't mean that Big |
Business would sacrifice their prof |
table "cold war" contracts for gen
line peace.
Earlier in the year, proposals for
an "excess profits" tax were heard.
This tax would be placed on the in !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27
Grounds for Impeachment

Peonage a nasty word-whether it involuntary
servitude for private gain Of farm hand in Minnesota
Negro in Texas-obe it the unlawful working OF county
prisoners private undertaking Montanas state capital
Particularly deporable is in the latter instance since OF
all people admit such practices the cuprit other
the Lewis Clark county. One instance of
such practice the part of law enforcement otfcla-a
whom has little knowledge of the law
should grounds for impeachment and stiff
reprmand However, this not the first
the incumbent sheriff Tuesdays hearing before the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27

Washington-Th hoped-for spring
upturn in employment had not yet
arrived, newsmen were told late IN
April by Evan Clague, who heads the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At the same time BIS made public
figures which show that between
February and March the average
American factory offered a half
hour less work per week, with a cor
responding drop of about 81 in gross
income. Another BIS survey show
ed that non-farm employment drop
ped 100000 during the month, in
contrast to a seasonal pickup of more
than 100000 jobs in the same period
last year.
(March was the third straight
month for which decline in nom
farm jobs was reported.)
"The spring upturn may be post
poned until April, and we need, those
figures to get the picture" Clague
said. He told reporters that the job
decline marks "a drop in purchasing
power, and will mean a decline in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27

this board to seven members if permitted to
come about would certainly not react in the
interests of revitalized public health pro-
gram 1t would negate the entire intent of
the new legislation, and could result in only
continuing hampered and far from sufficient
services to the people of Montana
1t is to be fervently hoped that Governor
Bonner will use the greatest of care in max
ing his selection of three men from the med
lcal fraternity-lest this most vital federal
state cooperative program be impaired
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27
Will Bear Watching

Rumors circulating around Helena are to
the effect that the more conservative of the
medical fraternity are planning to "capture'
a dominant number of positions on the soon
to-be-re-organized state board of health, that
they may maintain the control they have ex-
ercised for many years over this vital depart
ment of state government.
Such thwarting of the intent of the 31st
Legislature in recognizing and charging
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-27

occasions he had been guilty of the same act
The Helena Building Trades Council, in
demanding that the commissioners hold a
public hearing on this practice of working
county prisoners on private undertakings, has
performed a notable service not only to Lewis
& Clark county, but to the state as a whole,
that similar occurrences be discouraged in
other counties Sheriff Munger can only
hope that the membership of the building
trades is best with the greatest of charity,
in considering whether or not they will de-
mand custer proceedings be instituted