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Evening star., 1949-09-02
Playing in Puddle,
Boy, 5, Is Hit by Car

A 5-year- old boy who was play
ing in puddle in the street suf-
fered head injuries yesterday
when struck by an automobile
near his home at 2243 North Co.
lumbus street. Arlington.
He is Felix L. Carrera. jr., son
Of a Washington Hotel barber
He was admitted to Arlington
Hospital. His condition was de-
scribed today as fair.
Arlington police said the driver
of the car was Bernard F. Miller
43. of 1853 North Buchanan street
Arlington.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
"A Contractors Show
Interest in Bidding on
White House Repairs

Forty -four contractors, includ-
ing woman interior decorator,
have answered questionnaires in
dicating their interest in bidding
on the $4,16O,000 of renovating the
White House, the Public Buildings
Administration said today.
From these concerns a select
list of general contractors will be
chosen to bid on the work.
Whether the selection Of bid
ders will be made by the Commis-
sion on Renovating the Executive
Mansion. of which Senator Nc
Kellar of Tennessee is chairman,
or by the PBA. is matter now
being determined.
Because of the Importance OF
the job, the PBA inquired for de-
tailed information concerning
financial standing Of each prospec-
tive bidder as we'll as the ability
of the concern to do the work
properly. Yesterday was the
deadline for submitting the infor-
nation.
The woman interior decorator,
who is from New York. appeared
to be interested only in the White
House furnishings.
The renovation Of the White
House included the foundation
work. strengthening of sidewalks
and complete refurnishing Of the
interior. Such matters as inter-
ior decorations will be left Tor
another contract.
There was no indication today
when the White House Commits
sion would be ready to receive con-
struction bids.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
School for TubercuIor Patients
Graduates 8 at GoIIinger

hospital are eligible for the pro-
gram.
The students who received IRE
port cards" at yesterdays cere-
monies are Allen Struthers. James
Dudley, Joe Richbow. Therman
Williams, Mrs. Sylvia Munson,
Miss Maxine Britt. Alphonso Ste
phens and Reavis Drummond. Mr..
Struthers and Mr.. Dudley were
unable to attend.
Glasses ranged from those for
patients who could not read or
write to those for high school
students. The program was car
ried on for five hours each day
rotating among the students. Mr..
Drummond received a statement
making him eligible to receive a
Junior high school certificate, If
and when the Board of Education
approves his transcript. The stu
dents also studied American lit
erature. history and mathematics.
Before the presentation cere-
mony, in which Mrs. de Shazo
praised her students individually
for their thirst for knowledge
and scholastic abilities, the stu
dents presented a one-act play en-
titled "The Trysting Place." for
the benefit of guests and about
70 other tubercular patients who
attended.
Later, DR.. George c. Rutland
health officer with the District
Health Department, complimented
the students on completion of theil
courses and urged other patients
present to take advantage Of the
opportunity for further education
being offered by the school.
DR.. Phillip A. E. Stebbing, su-
perintendent Of Gallinger Hos
-
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Jobs Daughters Meet
Tonight at CherrydoIe

Bethel No. l Of the Arlington
jobs Daughters will hold its first
meeting of the fall term at 1880
o'clock tonight in the Cherrydale
Masonic Temple, Lee highway and
North Oakland street.
The new Guardian Council will
be installed. The meeting is being
held at the Cherrydale temple be-
cause the regular meeting place.
the Clarendon Masonic Temple, Is
undergoing repairs. The next
meeting, September is, will be at
Clarendon.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
Greater Efforts
To Rehabi|itate
Prisoners Urged
Additional Personnel
Is Asked in Report
To Commissioners

Additional personnel Tor train
ing and rehabilitation of inmates
of the Districts corrective 1nstitu-
tions was recommended in the
Department of Corrections annual
report to the Commissioners today.
But the report, submitted by
Director Donald Clemmer. sounded
a discouraging note on the prob
abilities of salvaging any high per-
centage of the men and women
who frequent the institutions.
The sad fact is," the city heads
were informed, that the sciences
which deal with the human per-
sonality have not developed to the
point where specific or successful
methods exist to cope with the
problem of criminality."
Institutions Here Praised.
Nevertheless. the report said,
"the Districts institutions are
applying every conceivable ap-
proach to salvage their human
material and are having as much
success as any of the better insti-
tutions of a similar kind in the
country.
mo prison system anywhere,
which handles people who have
failed to adjust to the conven-
tional society time after time can
claim much demonstrable success
in the full salvage of large pro-
portions of offenders.
Society has designed it's prisons
to protect itself and to punish,
to deter and to reform. The last
of these is in conflict with the
others. for it is most difficult to
develop social atmosphere con-
ducive to reform in an environ
ment which has the purposes of
both punishment for those held
and deterrence for potential Of
tenders"
Other recommendations in the
report asked consideration of a
long-range building plan for the
department, adequate new trans
portation equipment in the 1851
budget and support for the new
alcoholic clinic.
Building Plan Urged.
It was recommended that a
small part of the clinic staff be
made available occasionally to
institutions of the corrections de-
partment, and that all other as
sistance possible be given ito the
sad and sickly alcoholics in an
effort to decrease this tragic
problem"
The average daily population
for the four institutions of the
department was 2,738 during the
1949 fiscal year, as compared with
2,461 for the 1948 fiscal year. The
1949 figures were broken down as
follows: Jail, 765. reformatory,
1,165; workhouse, 679: and wo-
mems division, 129. The jail had
it's largest number of commit
ments in seven years.
For the third year, the "once
escape-ridden District JAIL did
not lose an inmate. nor were
there any suicides, inmate dis
turbances or serious fights or as
saults. There were only six
"WalkaWay escapes" from the
three unwalled institutions. One
of the three who, left the work.
house is still at large. Two who
left the reformatory and one who
escaped" from the women's di-
vision were quickly returned.
Evening star., 1949-09-02
PrinceGeorges
CitizensDemand
Apartment Ban
Civic Federation Asks
Zoning Freeze to Holt
Further Construction

An immediate end to apart
ment house construction in Prince
Georges County was demanded
last night by the Prince Georges
Civic Federation.
The organization petitioned the
Board of County Commissioners
to freeze" the classification of
all property now in the Residen-
tial A category and to rezone
from Residential C to Residential
A all property on which building
has not been started. Residential
c is the classification for apart
ment buildings.
The demand was stated in a
resolution sponsored by Walter
F. Mulligan of Berwyn. fedora
ton president, and adopted by
vote at a meeting in
Mr.. Mulligan report
ed that a majority of the commits
sioners had committed themselves
to support the federation's pro-
gram.
"Rape of County" Charged.
The organization acted with OBJ
vious enthusiasm after Mr.. Null
ligan denounced "the rape Of
Prince Georges County" by build
ers of apartment projects.
Apartment builders are doing
little more than putting up
enough money to buy plots Of
ground" he said. They are buy
ing property within convenient
distances of Washington. and then
construction loans
through the Federal Housing Ad-
BY clever manipu-
lation, some are even getting back
the small funds they invest in
the land.
people who have studied these
projects and know all about them
call them rackets. We here IN
Prince Georges are getting the
full benefits of the rackets."
Mr.. Mulligan declared that
taxes paid on most apartment
projects fall far short of covering
the cost of public services to the
tenants. He stressed the costs OF
He cited the case OF
one development in which the
costs of educating its children
amounts to $16.7l2, whereas the
revenues from taxes total $11 900.
Other taxpayers have to bear the
tax burden for such services, he
said.
Schools Are Overcrowded.
MI. Mulligan received strong
backing from several speakers
Daniel Greene of Avondale esti1s
mated that apartment families
send at least 10000 children to
the county public schools.
sThat's why the schools are
/" he charged. And
these people are responsible for
the water shortage. This is why
you can't use your garden hose TO
spray your lawn.
"Of course. we know that for
many years Washington has been
the home Of cliff dwellefs. but
there's no reason why we in
Prince Georges should continue
to allow this invasion.
"A great many of the apart
ment builders don't even live in
the country, they come out here
only because they can get good
land attractively located. I can't
understand why attorneys who are
interested in the welfare of the
county will take all these (zoning)
cases before the commissioners"
Evening star., 1949-09-02

1OllCC IEdiScus
The Police Departments part
in capture of the two escapes
was praised today by Director
Clemmer and mimeographed
copies of his letter will be for
warded to all members of the de-
partment, Supt. of Police Robert
j. Barrett said.
please extend to your many
associates the appreciation Of
Supt. WEIGH and I for the splen-
did job you did in apprehending
the inmates" Mr.. Clemmer's let
ter to Maj. Barrett said.
Maj. Barrett's own part in the
chase and capture also was
praised. Il wanted to say your
popularity and stature increased
with all of u.s." he said.
Mr.. Clemmer said the District
provides rewards for the capture
Of escapes land I will see to it
that the two officers who made
the catch will be properly re-
membered."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Auto Workers Appealing Bell Strike
To Government Suggests Arbitration

Washington (LPA) - United
Auto Workers is reporting to gov
ernment officials on the II week
old strike at Bell Aircraft Corp. in
Buffalo, N. Y, UAW Vice-presi-
dent John w. Livingston announc-
ed this week. Government contracts
represent 81 percent of Bells bus
mess.
The corporation, Living G t o II
charges, "has broken off all nego-
tiations with the union and appears
to desire a continuation of the
strike rather than a fair and de-
cent settlement.
He termed the company condi-
tions for settlement "a denial of
all principles of collective bargain
ing" Ignoring a record of recogni-
tion of the union for IL years, and
an established collective bargain
ing relationship, the company de-
manded during a mediation pro-
ceedings that UAW prove its rep
resentation of the 100 production
workers involved.
When the union offered to enter
into an election to prove it's repre-
sentation, Livingston said, Gimme
diately the company imposed new
demands which call for the COM
plete surrender and destruction Of
the union organization. 1t announ-
ced its demands as an ultimatum
which must be accepted before any
further discussions can be held"
Bell has refused to negotiate
since the strike started June 13.
Early in July the company obtain
ed an injunction limiting pickets
to Is at a gate. Then it tried to
import scabs. On Aug. IL it sent a
back to-work appeal directly to the
workers. The back to work drive
was a flop. More than week ago
Gov. Dewey assigned Msgr. John
P. Boland as a mediator in the dis
pute.
The company then violated an
agreement that mediation offers
would remain confidential during
discussions. AS a result the union
is now making public its offer:
1.-The strike be ended Sept. 6
and all strikers return to work ac-
cordinp to seniority provisions in
the previous contract.
2-All contract provisions agreed
on in conferences be reduced to
writing and signed by representa-
tiyes of the corporation and the
union.
3-All issues remaining in dis
pute be submitted to an arbitrator
for decision within 60 days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Calls For Lobby
Probe OF Armv
Engineer Corps

Washington (LPA)-When Con-
gress starts the long g-awaited in
vestigation of lobbies, already
authorized NY the House, one of
the first targets should be the
Army's Corps Of Engineers. That
demand was voiced here last week
by Rep. Adolph SABBATH Cd, ILL,
chairman Of the House Rules Com
mittee.
"The Army Engineers are actual
ly the indirect representatives of
the power interests" SABBATH de-
clared "They constitute the most
powerful lobby in Washington.
He charged that the Corps of
Engineers has used its construc-
tion funds TO favor private utilities
and many other private interests.
Millions Of dollars of government
funds have been used by the En-
gineers, SABBATH said, to drain lands
for private companies and to build
plants and other projects for them.
SABBATH also declared that many
Of the Engineers have made deals
with private corporations by which
they get fancy jobs, paying up to
$4,000, right after their retire
ment from government service.
And they draw handsome retire
ment pay from Uncle Sam at the
same time.
Lobbying in general is at an all
time peak, SABBATH asserted. "Over
l 300 lobbyists are registered and
there are many more who have
failed to register" he said. "They
are spending more money than
ever in history"
SABBATH listed the oil, power, real
estate and medical lobbies as
among the strongest in Washing
ton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Justice Dept May
Take Action In
Georgia Beatings

Washington (LPA) = Two vic
tins of beatings and all around
anti-union rough stuff by armed
thugs of the American Thread Co.
in Tallapoosa, Ga, came to the
capital last week to tell their
story to the Justice Dept.
BerneH Rochester, who together
with his wife was cruelty beaten
on Aug. 19, and j. P. Abercrombie,
who has been in several groups of
organizers dispersed by company
thugs, conferred with Alex Camp
bell, Asst Attorney General, and
urged that criminal charges be
brought against the police and
other public officials of Tallapoosa
for assisting or conniving in at
tacks on the rights of union MEM
bers and union organizers. Aber-
crombie and Rochester are mem
bers of the Textile Workers Union
of America.
There is a strong chance that
the Justice Dept may act, spokes-
men for the union said. If so, basis
for the action will be a series of
post Civil War federal statutes de-
signed to protect the rights of
Negroes. These statutes make it a
federal crime to interfere with a
persons civil rights, and accord
ing to one Interpretation they can
be cited to protect the rights of
union organizers as guaranteed by
labor legislation.
Bernell Rochester was assaulted
outside the unorganized American
Thread plant in Tallapoosa while
handing out union literature to
workers c6ming off shift. When
his wife, who was among those
leaving the plant, tried to come to
his rescue, she too was attacked.
Both were badly beaten.
The assailants were identified as
Durwood Teal and his father Elzie
Teal. The union charged that Dur
wood Teal did the actual beating,
using a club, while his father stood
guard with a sawed off shotgun.
The two Teals were charged
with assault with intent to kill but
have not been indicted. Abercrom-
bic and Rochester said that the
Teals' bail was pledged by MEM
bers of the Tallapoosa city council.
The Rochesters have sued the
Teals for 100000 damages.
On previous occasions, union or
ganizers were driven off by COM
pany thugs armed with pistols,
knives and guns while local police
the union reported. At the
time of the attack on the Rochest-
ers the Superior Court of Georgia
had just handed down an injunc-
ton forbidding officials and agents
Of the American Thread Co. from
with members of the
union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Acc HEARINGS BACKFIRED?

Washington (EPA) - After a
quorum failed to show up for the
last six meetings, the Joint Con-
gressional Committee on Atomic
Energy last week closed it's long
investigation of the Atomic Energy
Commission. Sen. Bourke Hicken-
looper Or, Ia.), the man who start
ed the whole thing in the first
place, was one of those failing to
show up for hearings or to answer
letters from Committee Chairman
Brien Mcmahon Cd, Conn., for the
last six weeks. Hickenlooper indi-
Gated he'd rather investigate Acc
on his own.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Codst CdnnerY Workers
Get $2O5,OOO Back Pay

Washington (LPA) = Last week
the Natl Labor Relations Boarc
ruled that 1926 employees of &c
California canneries are entitled
to collect $205,0CO in back pay be-
cause they were illegally fired back
in 1916.
The case, commonly known as
the Bercut-Richards case, grew out
of the discharge of 1910 workers
from 5S canning plants following
the conclusion of a closed-shoI
agreement with the Teamsters
Union-AFL.
The agreement followed an elec-
tion conducted in 1945 in which the
Teamsters competed with the Food
Tobacco & Agricultural Workers
CIO. The NLRB set aside the cleo
tion, ruling that the companies
should recognize neither union un-
til one of them was certified. How
ever, the companies signed with
the Teamsters anyway.
The Eta protested and the COM
panies were charged with signing
contracts while certifcation was
pending; discharging employees not
members of the Teamsters; giving
the Teamsters organizing priv
ileges and other assistance while
denying such help to the Eta. The
discharged workers were Eta
members in 1916.
The boards ruling reinstated all
but IA of the discharged workers
in accord with formula included
in stipulation to which the COM
panies agreed and which is en-
forceable by the US Court of APP
peals in San Francisco. If the
$205,000 award proves insufficient
to pay all back wages found due,
the total is to be pro-rated among
the reinstated employees, the board
said.
Meanwhile, union-shop elections
among employees of companies be-
longing to the California Process
sors & Gamers Inc. which include
all but five of the companies, was
scheduled to commence on Sept. 6.
Employees were to express their
preference whether or not they
wished the Teamsters to represent
them in bargaining for a union
shop agreement. Reinstated en-
ployes were entitled to vote.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Hogan, Head OF
Marine Engineers
Union Passes AWAY

Washington (LPA)-LOsing out
to long, grave illness, President
Samuel j. Hogan of the Marine
Engineers Beneficial Association
died here Aug. 81 at 66. He headed
the union for u years and before
was president of MEBA's Local II
in New Orleans for nearly three
decades.
President Philip Murray and
S ecre y-Treasurer james b.
Carey sent a joint message to his
widow, terming his death "a keen
loss to the American labor move
ment." " "He served his fellow work
ers to the utmost Of his ability" I"
the message added.
Hogan was also a member Of the
Railway Labor Executives Asso-
citation, composed of chiefs of the
Railroad Brotherhoods. His union
was affiliated by virtue of its
membership on railroad carferries
and other marine craft owned by
the railroads.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Prison Threat Lifted
From Cotton Lobbyists

Washington (LPA)-The threat
of prison sentence, if convicted
was lifted on Aug. 80 from six cot
ton and commodity operators, who
had been accused of violating the
lobby regulation act.
The six included two Dixie state
agricultural commissioners, a cot
ton broker, commodity trader.
and two cotton trading organiza-
tions.
On petition of the Justice Dept,
Federal Judge Edward NJ. Curran
here dismissed an indictment
charging the six with conspiracy
to evade registration under the
lobby law, while lobbying actively
in Washington.
Such charge rates as a felony,
carrying a prison term on convic-
tion. In its place, the Department
filed an information" accusing the
six Of the lesser charge of failing
to register-which constitutes q
"misdemeanor."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Dock Strike Talks
Move To New York

Honolulu (LPA) - Representa-.
tives of the striking Int'l Long
S hore m m & Warehousemen'S
Union and the seven struck steve
doring firms are scheduled to meet
with Cyrus Ching, head of the fed
eral conciliation service, in New
York on Sept. 7.
Whether the talks with Ching
will lead to settlement of the long
drawn out strike is held to be a
matter of sheer conjecture. While
the union readily agreed to send
representatives to New York, the
employers acted with obvious re-
luctance and were openly pessi-
mistic about what the results would
be. The strike, in which wages are
the main issue, is now in its fifth
month.
The Hawaiian territorial govern
ment continued to run the struck
firms and it's authority to do so was
affirmed by a federal District
Court which denied a petition by
the left-wing ILWU to bar the
government from the stevedoring
business. However, the court did
order a full review of the consti-
tutionality of the dock-seiqure law
but not as part of the labor dis
pute. The unions suit against ter
ritorial officials for $3,O00,000
damages will be heard separately.
The ILWU, whose Hawaiian
members receive $1.40 an hour,
went on strike Nav l when the
companies denied the unions de-
mand for 32-cent raise to bring
island longshoremen in line with
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
SENATE PROBER
WARNS BUSINESS
OF MONOPOLY
Ry DONALD WOODS

Madison, Wis. (LPA)-On his
way to Washington to head tht
big, but unpublicized Congress
ional investigation Of investment
monopoly, Prof. Theodore Kreps
of Stanford University, left here a
warning to businessmen that il
they continue the monopolistic adj
justment Of production to consump-
ton by high prices, they will block
Americas goal Of sustained full
employment.
Kreps, who was economic adj
visor to the famed TNEC (Tempor-
.ary Natl Economic Committee)
spoke here last week before the
Central States Conference of the
American Bankers Assn, on the
eve of taking over under Sen.
Joseph c. O'Mahoney Cd, Wyo.)
the direction Of an investigation for
Congress that may even surpass
the TNEC in Importance.
O'Mahoney, as chairman Of the
Joint Congressional Economic Com
mittee, has called back his old
TNEC aide to direct the broad
economic investigation ordered by
Congress into investment capital
and other factors creating booms
and busts. O'Mahoney is picking
up, in this investigation, where he
left off with the TNEC 10 years
ago.
In his speech here, DR.. Kreps
quoted at length from the recent
book by DR.. Harold G. Moulton, OF
the Brookings Institution, to show
that business men traditionally
''hold production in leash" cutting
it to the volume of current demand,
instead of producing all the goods
they can. He quoted DR.. Moulton
as saying that if the big corpora
tions would reduce prices when
ever chronological progress per-
mitted, it would exert "a stabiliz-
ing influence" on the economy.
"The question is" DIR. Kreps
said, will they? Or, instead, will
they continue shrewdly to set the
volume of new capacity and in
vestment at the level where profits
can be made a maximum If so,