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Evening star., 1949-02-12
Lincoln Statue Erected
In 'Confederucy' at Last
BY the Associated Press

HARROGATE. Tenn, Feb. IL
The first statue Of Abraham
Lincoln to be erected on the soil Of
a former Confederate State was
unveiled here yesterday. almost 81
years after the end of the Civil
War.
The statue, Lincoln the Lawyer,
in bronze, was given by Sculptor
c. S. Paolo to the Lincoln Memoir
ial University. 1t was unveiled h9
Miss Margaret Patterson os
Greeneville, Tenn, great-grand-
daughter of President Andrew
johnson, who succeeded Lincoln
on his assassination.
Only other statues of Lincoln IN
the entire South are in Kentucky
where he was born 140 years ago
today.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
ii. ). Tries 10 Mediate
Philadelphia Transit
Strike; Outlook Poor
BY the Associated Press

! PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-The
Federal Government turned peace
maker today as a strike of 1900
transit workers went into the Sec
ond day, costing business and in
dustry an estimated $l0,000,000
daily.
The picture remained dark.
There is no settlement in
sight" said Michael Quill. inter-
national president of the CIO-
Transport Workers Union. He
limited the tieup might be long-a
month. maybe.
Andrew j. Kaelin, local union
president. was a bit more op-
timistic.
I'VE hope the new mediation
will help us end the strike quick
ly," Mr.. Kaelin said.
Council Demands Arbitration.
William j. MacReynolds. vice
president of the Philadelphia
Transportation Co.. said the Fed
eral mediator merely explored
the situation. He reported both
sides stood pat at last nights con-
ference; there was no discussion
|, of terms.
e. S. Tries to Mediate.
AS negotiations resumed today
City Council called on the PTC
and the union to arbitrate their
differences. If they do not. said a
resolution, Mayor Bernard Samuel
will be asked to declare "a state OF
emergency. with all that that
means" 1t was not Immediately
explained what a state of emer-
gency might involve.
The dispute is over wages and
working conditions. The union
demands fourth round wage in
crease of 20 cents an hour. The
transportation company offered 3
cents. Workers pay ranges from
$109 to S163 an hour.
Thousands Walking.
Meantime, thousands of men
and women in the Nations third
largest city are discovering how to
Walk-long and far.
Automobiles and trucks, bumper
to bumper, clog Philadelphia's icy
streets during rush peaks to and
from work Suburban railway
trains are jammed. Many persons
hitch-hike.
Z. S. Takes Part.
The company normally trans
ports 100000 passengers daily
over it's 1,50O miles of subway. bus
and streetcar lines.
! John Murray of the United
States Cancellation Service stepped
in as mediator last night. The
Government interviewed on grounds
that interstate commerce and for
eign aid would suffer If the strike
cut deeply into the Quaker City,
industrial output.
And the Walkout was hurting.
The Chamber of Commerce SET
the $10.000,000 strike cost figure
Executive Director Clement V
Conole said Philadelphia workers
lost ST 100000 in wages alone.
Absenteeism in industrial plants
and business establishments aver
aged Is to 20 per cent, he re-
ported. An additional 20 per cent
of the employees who did get to
their Jobs were late for work.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
House Labor Group Backs
Ban on Extra-Rate Overtime
BY the Associotsd Press

The House Labor Committee
approved yesterday a bill to Off
set the Supreme Courts overtime
on overtime decision.
This ruling last year required
that an employer must include
premium pay for night and other
odd-hour work in figuring a work.
er's average pay to determine
overtime rates under the wage
hour law. This law requires time
and a half pay for work over 40
hours a week..
The new bill would validate
labor management contracts
which provide that overtime shall
be figured on regular, nonpremium
pay, rather than upon the higher
rates paid for night and odd hours
| work.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Negro Social Worker
Named as EWING Aide
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Mrs. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, a
leading Negro social worker, has
been named assistant to Federal
Security Administrator Oscar E.
Ewing.
A native of Marshalltown. Iowa
Mrs. Hedgeman has had a 24-year
career in welfare work.
She is married to Merritt A.
Hedgeman. a concert and radio
artist.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Bulgarian Constitution
Violated by Arrests,
Methodist Bishops Says
BY the Associated Press

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. II
Methodist Bishop Paul N. Gar.
ber said today the arrest of IL
Protestant churchmen in Bulgaria
on treason and espionage charges
was a deliberate violation of re-
| ligious freedom guaranteed by the
Bulgarian constitution.
In addition to the Is who
were arrested, Communist-gov-
erned Bulgaria also listed Il
American and British churchmen
educators and officials who, it
said. acted as contacts" in the
spying activities.
DR.. CARRIER. former dean of the
Duke University Divinity School
and the resident bishop of his
church for Central and Southern
Europe, and two prominent work
ers in the World Council of
Churches were included in the list
of alleged contacts"
Formal Denial Issued.
The World Council issued a for
NAL statement last night denying
that it's officers had engaged in
spying activities in Bulgaria. The
statement said Council represen-
tatives had visited that country
with mo other motivation than
Christian love-"
DR.. CARRIER said today he visited
Bulgaria last in November, 1947,
when he attended the annual
Methodist Conference in Sofia. He
added:
my visit was connected entirely
with religious affairs pertaining to
the Methodist Church. No action
on my part can be construed as
relating in any way to the polit-
ical situation now existing in
Bulgaria.
Explaining that he knew per-
sonally all Methodist pastors in
the country, DR.. CARRIER said: Il
know that no Methodist leader in
Bulgaria is guilty Of plotting
against the state"
The two workers Of the World
Council of Churches who were
named by Bulgarian authorities
are DR.. J. Hutchison Cockburn,
former moderator of the Church
of Scotland, and the Rev. Robert
Tobias of Lyons, KanS.
Invited by Communists.
Mr.. Tobias said he visited Bull
garia on invitation of the Com
munist Youth Organization in 1946
Ito assist the churches in their
spiritual task"
The council said DR.. Cockburn
went to Bulgaria in 1947 to see
what help could be extended to
the Bulgarian churches in their
reconstruction work"
Meanwhile. Vienna dispatches
reported that the trial and con-
viction of Josef Cardinal Minds
zenty, Roman Catholic primate OF
Hungary, on treason charges has
brought new influx of Hungarian
refugees into Austria. Viennese
newspapers reported that even
one group of 80 Hungarian border
guards deserted and Joined the
refugee crowds.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Soviet Bars FEEDING
OF Berlin Children
By Swedish Red Cros!
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Feb. 12.-The Rus.
slams frightened their blockade to.
day to stop the Swedish Red Gross
from supplying food for Western
Berlin's children.
This was disclosed by Western
Allied military commandants, who
announced they were providing
airlift space to fly in % tons OF
Swedish soups and cereals.
The Swedes have been conduct
ing a program of supplemental
feeding here which gave all Ger
man children throughout the city
between the ages of 3 and 6 years
one extra meal per day. The Rus
slams let the shipments come
through from the west by rail and
truck.
Now Maj. Gen. Alexander Koti-
kov, Soviet commandant, has in
formed the Swedes that such
shipments henceforth are prohibi-
ted to prevent any food entering
the blockaded Western Sectors
Only gifts for the Russian sector
will be admitted.
German Communists in Berlin
announced today they will hold a
mass meeting Monday in down.
town Potsdamer Platz to denounce
war mongers.
The spot they have selected i:
where the Russian sector border:
on the United States and British
sectors of the city. The announce.
ment of the meeting pointedly ad.
vertised that it was to be ION the
sector borders"
It was not clear whether the
Communists hoped to attract at.
tendance from anti-Communist
Western Berlin or whether they
might seek to provoke disorders.
British and American author
tiles have forbidden Western Ber-
liners to stake mass meetings OF
demonstrations near the sector
borders since the bloody clash last
September at the Brandenburg
Gate after an anti-Communist
rally.
Western Berlin police said they
would watch the Potsdamer Plat2
situation and determine on Mon
day whether extra precautions
would be necessary.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
GE Plant in Ohio Cuts
Output, Laying Off 90
By the Assoeiafed Press


TIFFIN. Ohio, Feb. 12.-General
Electric Co. laid off 80 workers at
1t Tiffin plant yesterday and an
nounced that production will be
cut 10 per cent for an indefinite
period.
The plant makes fractional
horsepower motors for GE ap-
pliances, particularly refrigerators.
A full working force numbers
about 500.
George w. .Auer, plant manager,
said shipping schedules had been
reduced because Of q fall in de-
mand for GE appliances.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Wife, 79, Sues Husband
For Back Rent on House
Ry the Associated Press

BOULDER, Colo. Feb. 12.-
Mrs. Nettie P. Hanna. 70, today
asked a court to make her hus-
band Joseph, 81, pay her $500 in
rent for the house in which they
have lived seven years.
Mrs. Hanna claimed ownership
Of the house in a suit for separate
maintenance. She said Mr.. Han
ma agreed in 1912, when they were
married, to provide their living
expenses. She charged he did not
do so and among other things
failed to pay her any rent for the
house.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
GiIImor, Vice Chairman
Quits Resources Board
By The Assoeioied Pres.

By me NS4otIdf6d FTesS
The National Security Resources
Board has announced the resig-
national of Reginald E. Gillmor as
vice chairman.
Mr.. Gillmor will return to pri-
vate business as a vice president
of the Sperry corporation. He is
former president of the Sperry
Gyroscope Co.
Mr.. Gillmor, a former naval
officer, was appointed vice chair
man of the board in September
1948,
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Facts, Not Promises,
Given Lange, Leaving
For British Talks
Nv the Associotsd Press

The United States placed its
trust today in "cold facts" to coar
Norway into formal partnership
in the cold war against Russia.
| Officials said Norwegian FOREIGN
Minister Harvard Lange got plenty
of information but minimum OF
persuasion during the five days he
spent here seeking replies to his
questions about the North Atlantic
defense alliance being negotiated
by the Western powers.
Late yesterday MIR. Lange START
ed home to report to an anxiously
waiting government in Oslo after
receiving from Secretary of State
Acheson the official American
view on the best way to defend
Scandinavia from possible attack.
The Norwegian official was
scheduled to leave New York via
Scandinavian airlines today for
London, where he plans additional
talks with British Foreign Min
lister Bevin on northern Europes
defense prospects.
Norway to Reply to Reds.
Once Mr.. Lange returns, Nor.
way must draft note to Russia
in answer to MoscoW's unexpected
bid for nonaggression treaty.
The big question for Norway Is
whether the guarantees of Ameri-
can help are strong enough to risk
antagonizing the Soviet Govern
ment by joining with the Western
Alliance.
Russia, which has a common
border with Norway, has bitterly
denounced the Atlantic pact as
an "aggressive" move not in keep
ing with the United Nations. That
has been taken as a clear warning
to Norway not to link up with the
Western powers.
But officials here indicated con.
fldence that the information MIR.
Lange is relaying will be enough
to convince Norwegian authorities
to take this chance.
United Nations Secretary-Gen.
Ieral Trygve Lie cautioned yester-
day against building up regional
alliances as a substitute for the
worldwide collective security Of
fered by the U. NJ, but officials
here said-as they have before
that the Atlantic treaty has no
such aim.
Aid for U. N. Stressed.
They recalled that Mr.. Acheson
has stressed repeatedly that the
purpose of the alliance is to help
the United Nations keep world
peace.
AS he left Washington, Mr..
Lange made it perfectly clear that
the State Department had not
tried to influence his govern.
ments decision during his stay.
He denied reports to the contrary.
saying There is no inkling OF
truth" in them.
Mr.. Lange and State DEPART
ment officials kept secret the re-
suit of his mission. A joint state
ment said only that there had
been full and frank discussions
of the objectives and nature" Of
the alliance.
Diplomatic officials reported Mr..
Lange had received assurances
that, by signing the agreement.
Norway would get its full share Of
American arms without being
asked to base foreign troops on its
soil during peacetime.
MY recommendations" Mr..
Lange told a reporter, will de-
pend on my reflections on the way
back"
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Izvestio SCOTS at Idea
OF Soviet Threat to Norway
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Feb. 12.-Izvestia,
Soviet government newspaper.
said in an editorial today that any
suggestion of a threat to Norway
by the Russian government had
no basis whatsoever.
Evening star., 1949-02-12

Erastus Bigelow was the in
ventor of the carpet-weaving ma.
chine.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Weather Report

Record TemDeratures This Year.
Highest, 70, on January %.
Lowest, 21, on January 30.
High and Low for Yesterday.
High, 81, at 2:45 pm.
Low o. at 11.5S % m
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20
Arkansas Governor To
Curb Diversion of Funds
For Negro Schools

LITTLE ROCK, April 2O.-(A
NP)-Arkansas' Gov. McMath said
here last week that the state board
of education "should take def
mite action" to stop diversion Of
education funds from Negro to
white schools. He went a bit fur
Their and said he wanted" the
state board "to take legal steps"
to prevent this diversion.
His statement followed a charge
made recently by Education Com
missioner A. 3. Bonds that state
school funds, distributed equally,
are being deflectcd at the, local
level from Negro to white facili-
ties"
On the condition of Negro
schools in West Memphis, Gov.
McMath commented:
"What needs to be done must
be done to provide better educa-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20
Marriage Racket
Uncovered

CONVICTION, KY, April 90
Six persons have been arrested in
Covington on charges Of soliciting
couples to get married. They
were picked up by plain clothes
men after a complaint by a couple
from Columbus, Ohio.
The names of the Ohioans who
had been married Is years, have
not been learned.
Detective Chief Albert Settler
of the Covington Police Depart
ment gives this account Of the
incident:
The Ohioans had just crossed
into Kentucky from Cincinnati,
when their car was forced to the
curb by a cab driver who said:
Get in and I'll get you mar
ried."
The Ohioans-already married
were enroutc to Florida.
According to Setter, marriage
touting in Covington is relatively
common. Since there's no wait
ing period in Kentucky, it doesn't
take long to get married. Only
blood tests are necessary and the
touts have a system.
The detective chief says they
take advantage Of strangers.
They steer them to a doctor and
laboratory who will put the blood
tests through immediately-all &C
cording to law. And then the
touts take the couple to a justice
of the peace.
AS Setter puts it, "The groom
generally Is in a generous mood
and tips the tout literally"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20
Wednesday, April 20, 1949

regation.
According to the Birmingham
News, DR.. Francis Taylor, direct
or of the Metropolitan Museum
of Arts, New York, and DR..
Thomas Munro, director of the
Cleveland Art Museum, have can
celled speeches at the university.
The internationally prominent
authorities on art will not address
the festival, scheduled for April
20 and %, because the university
has accepted the works of Negro
artists, but denies them the OPP
portunity of participating in the
exposition.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20
Scientist Meet al
Florida A & M April Fl


from Al colleges and universities
in Is states and the District of
Columbia, plus science teachers
from various high schools through
out the nation, are expected to at
tend the Sixth Annual meeting of
the National Institute of Science
to be held at Florida A & M col
lege at Tallahassee, April 21-23,
according to Fl. E. Finley of
Howard university, editor OF
TRANSACTIONS.
The National Institute of Sci
ence is an organization devoted
to the promotion of scholarly pro-
duction in basic science, research
and science education. The an
nual meetings afford %opportuni-
ties for the scientists TO report
results of their researches ana dis
coveries.
Three outstanding features
scheduled fer the Florida meeting
are Cd an address by the distin-
guished atomic energy scientist,
DIR. Paul Aebersold, chief Of Iso-
TOPICS division, Oak Ridge, Tenn. /;
(2) a symposium on science edu-
cation in which special attention
will be given to the teaching of
science in secondary schools; and
go a daily display Of the latest
scientific equipment designed for
science laboratories and teaching
aids.
DR.. Finley described this Or
ganization as being a unique one
Gin that it was organized by Ne
groes but stcadfastly maintains
that, just as there is no Negro
science, neither should there be
an expressed or implied restric-
ton of membership to scientists
who are Negroes" He pointed
out that industrial scientists and
practitioners are welcomed to
membership in the MS as well as
are professors and teachers of
science.
This organization had a modest
beginning in the dreams of DR.. H.
B. Crouch, director of the Natural
Science division of Tennessee A
& l State college at Nashville.
Responding to DR.. Crouch's re-
quest, the presidents of land grant
colleges rallied to his support and
have help sponsor the movements
from it's very beginning.
Through the infatigable efforts
of DR.. Crouch and the cooperation
of his colleagues from all parts
of the nation, the annual meeting
have grown from SO science
teachers in attendance at the first
meeting held at Camp John Hope
and Fort Valley State college in
Georgia in 1943, to $50 members
end 200 interested persons at
Tuskegee meeting last year.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20
Artists Refuse 10 Speak
Reason Bias

BIRMINGHAM, April 20.-(A
NP)-Don't think for a minute
that all artists live in abstract
worlds, far removed from real is
sues. Marian Anderson, a Ne
gro, did sing before a jim crow
Dixie audience. However, two
white artists have declined invi-
tations to the University of Ala
bama art festival because of seq
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20
Oily Ord naneo Blocks
efc's'e RusEd'ne Project

D1R1IINGHAM, April 20.-(A
NP)-- The zoning board here has
turned thumbs down on a proposed
3O-unit Negro apartment project
in compliance with a city ordnin-
ance passed in 1916.
Last week the City Commission
upheld the zoning boards refusal
to permit the Kentucky Gardens
Apartments, Inc, to build in the
area. A permit was issued by the
building inspectors office March
20, while chief Inspector H. E. Ha-
good was out of the office. How
ever, Hagood reversed the decision
within two hours after his return.
The restrictive city ordinance
provides that no Negro residence
shall be built in an industrially
zoned area unless the industrial
zone is more than 800 feet from
q white zone. A. w. Jones, pres
;ilent of the corporation, last
week accused City Commissioner
Morgan Of playing politics with
the urgent matter of housing.
However, Jones repeatedly has not
decided whether he will take the
case to higher courts.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-20

tional facilities and it must be
done in the near future. This is
a responsibility we must meet"
The Miami times., 1949-04-02

x -GsE0MEAkn&
ondNN Chest OF Oro"efs ~oA TERMS
ss<orno Ennsrspring Motress. Pillows. ~ -.
ISor. with this handsome outfit for satisfying connino
The Miami times., 1949-04-02

Ladies' beautifully gowned and
gentlemen "esquiringly attired" add
ed more color to the luxurious sur
roundings.
Dr. X. l.. Pharr presided at Master
OF Ceremonies as everyone listened
to heavenly musical renditions, both
vocal and instrumental. The entire
atmosphere was the epitome of cul.
ture.
Among persons attending were:
Mrs. o. Hogan, Rev. Z. II. Graham,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Higgs. Miss
Matte Gibson, Mrs. Pauline Dunn,
Mrs. Emma Boggs. Mr.. Linton
Berrien, Mr.. Edward Emanuel, of
Southern University, Mr.. Frank
The Miami times., 1949-04-02

OUuHty ACHueny OF Medlcine has
purchased a Beulcher Surgical Cutt-
ting Unit, and that the machine is
now I'm use at the Christian Hos
pltal.
Mrs. Ruby Finley and son Armand
are in the city for an indefinite stay
due to the illness of her mother Mrs.
Wilhelmina Butterfield, a teacher
at Phyllis Wheatley Elementary
School.
Mrs. William Tarlton of Cincin.
natl, Ohio. is the house guest of her
daughter and son-in-law. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles L. Williams and grand.
daughter, Paula for n brief early
spring visit.
Mrs. Tarlton will go to Havana.
II
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-14

Jeanne Reynolds.
The Navy Wives No. SO will
give their donation to the local
Cancer Drive this week. II win
be presented to the campaign
chairman, Mr.. Louis CarboneIl,
in the form of a check. A contri-
button to the local Red Cross will
be made by the Navy Wives this
week also. Il
Members of the club who have
donated their time to the Cancer
Drive include: Madeleine Taylor,
Judy Faulds,. Susie Michalk,
Louise CLANCY, Jeanne Reynolds,
Helen .Cherwa, Viola Bzullak,
Hilda Berry, Iona Aiken, Teresa
Braxton, Bea Holt and Vera
Wood. Other workers have been
the Misses Nancy Ross and Mary
Saunders from the Naval Station
Ships Service. !;
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-14

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-14
Easter "Open House" arranged At
NaraI Hospitality Nary Wives No. 30

Due to the illness and absence
of several members only a very
short informal business meeting
was held by the La Concha Navy
Wives No. SO in building l78, U.
S. Naval Station yesterday.
Final plans for the Easter
"Opcn House" on Sunday, which
the Club is sponsoring for the,
patients and staff of the u. S.
Naval Hospital, were formulated
and the big Easter Basket which
Is TO be centerpiece on the main
table on polio, given by Mrs
Barbara Hawkins and Mrs. Kay.
Anderson, who will speak joint
ly in an informal manner.
4 The Clubs regular day at the
Navy Thrift Shop will be staffed
this week by Vera Wood, GeneA
We've Dyke, Helen Cherwa and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-14

$50 s<hnni this term. bat sin
leuf'a time fof voice lsssons Win
80 Elsmnm nowxkl 10 heIp pre-
paFs himssif Tor ms SOLO parts in
ne Crucifixson".
ssnnlnus Moss. director and a.
Han'HeF of The Community Sing
go. does al 81 his work In the
eii hours after his duties as Chief
rssty oificer in charge Of ships
ssIvire are over.
~ has had much experience
Mlth choral groups in Hawaii as
weli ~ hare. Key wessers who
have hcard Mr.. Moss and his
lsinily aing and chant some of
si.e delightful old Hawaiian num-
psfa that they frequently do have
certainly enjoyed an unusual and
HeFei experience. Jennings Moss
= Also cisDir leader 81 the Con-
kfraaiianai Church and will do
ss,tise of the tenor solo parts
ai"ng With young John Dillon.
niaon Downing. John Haines and
Ralph Noble win all do Bass So
lna
william Neblett. oreanist and
Mrs Aayiield Sails pianist have
e"ih SVEN generously of their
tme ~ help make this produc-
tom success. The music for the
pfodactlon was furnished by the
hscFeation Department Of Key
West