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Evening star., 1949-04-23
COP. Finance Group
Receives Demand for
Big Campaign Funds
BY Gould Lincoln

The Republican National Finance
Committee today struggled over
demands for money by the Repub-
lican Senatorial Committee and
the Republican Congressional Com
mittee.
The Senate Committee, rep
resented by Senator Brewster of
Maine, was asking $4,000 and the
Congressional Committee. rep
resented by its chairman, Rep
resentative Hall of New York,
100000.
These are unusually large sums
to be asked by these committees
for an off year with no Congress
sional elections scheduled. How
ever, both committees are planning
extensive organization campaigns
in preparation for the 1850 elec-
tions.
Trouble Expected.
The budget of the Republican
National Committee, for which the
Finance Committe raises money,
has been fixed at from $750,000 to
100000 for this year. The ques-
ton, arising is whether the Finance
Committee can raise sufficient
money to cover the budget of the
National Committee and those pro-
posed for the Senatorial and Con-
gressional committees. Some
members of the Finance Committee
admitted today that raising funds
is by no means an easy job this
year.
The meeting of the Finance
Committee at the Mayf1ower Ho-
tel was a prelude to two other
Republican gatherings-the Re-
publican Policy Committee tomor-
row and the Executive Committee
of the Republican National Com
mittee on Monday.
Committeeman at Meeting.
Those attending the Finance
Committee meeting today included
Chairman Harold E. Talbot OF
New York :. and Regional Vice
Chairman Orus j. Matthews OF
Philadelphia, Joseph S. Wishart.
Lincoln. Nebr.; Arthur E. Sum-
merfeld, Flint. Mich; Harry c.
Carbaugh, Chattanooga, Tenn,
and members Ernest T. Weir,
Pittsburgh: Charles M. White,
Cleveland; James S. Kemper, Chi
cago, and Republican National
Chairman Hugh Scott.
At the meeting Of the Policy
Committee tomorrow, decision IS
expected on the proposal for a
Republican gathering later in the
year to write a statement OF party
policy. rs originally proposed by
Mr. Scott. This plan apparently
will be abandoned in favor of four
or, five regional gatherings at
which the problems and policies
applicable to those regions will be
discussed.
The Policy Committee, created
at a meeting of, the Republican
National Committee lin Omaha
last winter, is composed of mem
bers of the National. Committee,
Senators, Representatives State
chairmen, the, Finance Committee
and Repub1ican governors
Evening star., 1949-04-23

the Yangtze 10 hinder the crossing
OF the Peoples Liberation Army
Earlier today . British sailors
killed in the Red attacks on the
four warshlps were buried with
full military honors
Representatives Of foreign gov
ernmentS and their military and
naval organizations were among
the hundreds lammlng Shang
hal's Hungjao Cemetery for the
services,
Ten of the dead were from the
destroyer Consort which vas Aired
on Wednesday. Thirteen were
from the cruiser London which
was peppered by Red shells
Thursday. Both ships had been
sent up the river TO aid the
Amethyst,
Total casualties aboard the
three ships and the sloop Black
Swan. which also attempted 10
aid the Amethyst. were ~ dead
and 80 or more wounded.
Evening star., 1949-04-23
u. n. Rejects Inquiry
In Mndszenty Case
BY the Associatsd Press

LAKE SUCCESS, April 23.-The
United Nations has turned down
demands for U. N. inquiry now
into the trials of Hungarian Car
dinal Mindszenty and Bulgarian
Protestant churchmen.
Instead. g. big majority In, the
u. N. Assembly's 58-nation Special
Political Committee gave its bless
ing to efforts Of the United States,
Britain and other peace treaty
signers to settle the dispute di-
rectly with the two Soviet satel-
lites. The Soviet Union and her
i've Communist neighbors in the
U. N. voted no"
America and Britain already
have accused the Eastern Europ-
can countries of violating peace
treaty guarantees of human rights
by prosecuting churchmen. That
Is the first step under peace treaty
machinery in efforts to solve the
stormy issue outside the U. N.
SOFIA. Bulgaria. April % (P.-
Bulgaria has denied British and
American charges that she violated
her peace treaty.
In identical replies handed the
two Western powers yesterday
Bulgaria said she Is most consci-
entiously fulfilling the peace treaty
provisions. not only because she
signed the treaty but because the
policy of this government, the ex-
preston of the will Of the great
majority of the Bulgarian people,
is in substance profounding dem
ocratic and completely overlapping
with the spirit of the peace treaty"
Evening star., 1949-04-23
Suit Seeks:to Regain
AIien-Seized Estate

Mrs. Ellen Biddle Won Stackel-
berg, of Lakeville. Conn., yester-
day brought suit in District Court
to recover property of :, an esti-
mated value of more than $780,
900 which was seized from her by
this Government several years ago
while she was living in Germany.
The property, consisting OF
various stocks and cash had been
left here from the estate of her
father, the late Nicholas Biddle,
New York banking and insurance
executive, according to the suit.
MIR. Biddle died in 1923.
The property was seized by the
former Alien Property Custodian
under authority of the Trading
With the Enemy Act.
Mrs. Won Stackelberg says in
her suit, however, that she was
born in New York in 1912 and
never has renounced her Aneri-
can, citizenship. She was mar
ried in 1881 to Curt Won Stackel-
berg, a German citizen and lived
with him in Munich according to
the suit. She was divorced from
him in 1943 the suit said.
The suit added that neither she.
her husband nor her children were
ever affiliated with the Nazi party.
She returned to this country in
July, 1916, and has lived in the
United States since, the complaint
said.
The suit names as defendants
Attorney General Clark, as the
successor of the Alien Property
Custodian, and Secretary of the
Treasury Julian, as custodian of
the funds, Attorney Donald Hiss,
who filed the suit here. estimated
the property seized to be worth
between 100000 and $150,000.
Evening star., 1949-04-23
Editors
Continued From First Page.)


foreign editors who are guests OF
the American Government in this
country check with him, after theii
travels, to get an independent
judgment outside the Government
He, said he apd his associates are
trying to bring a group of japanese
editors here and are having all
kinds of difficulty in getting the
program through. He asserted that
they also want to bring editors
from India here.
AS a result of today's elections
Mr.. McKelway. who has served
as first vice president for the past
year, succeeded Erwin D. Canham
of the Christian Science Monitor,
who became an ex officio member
of the Board of Directors.
Dwight Young of the Dayton
(Ohio) Journal Herald moved up
from second vice president to first
vice president and Alexander F.
Jones of the Washington Post,
who has served as treasurer for
the past year, succeeded Mr..
Young.
Other Officers Named.
Wright Bryan, editor of the At
lanta, Ga, journal. was reelected
secretary and Dwight Perrin OF
the Syracuse, N. Y. Herald
Journal was named treasurer al
a meeting of the board of drec-
tors.
Two new directors were named
They are Jenkin Lloyd Jones. edi-
tor of the Tulsa, Okla. Tribune
and Kenneth Macdonald, exec
utive editor of the Des Moines
Iowa Register and Tribune.
The new directors succeeded
Ralph Coghlan of the st. Loui.
Post-Dispatch and John s. knight
of Knight Newspapers. Mr.. knight
completed a three-year term a.
ex-officio director and did no,
seek reelection.
At luncheon the editors were to
hear a discussion of the future OF
the Republican Party by Senator
Taft, Republican. of Ohio.
Security Problems Discussed.
The editors heard an off-the-
record discussion of security prob
lens last night led by Defense
Secretary johnson. Participating
were Maj. Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-
ther. director of the Joint Staff
and Maj. Gen. Lyman L. Lem.
nitzer of the Foreign Assistance
Correlations Committee.
Secretary johnson told the
meeting of the improved health
of former Defense Secretary For
restal.
''I had a letter from him this
morning written in a firm hand.
he said. He added that Undersec-
retary of Defense Stephen T,
Early had seen Mr.. Forrestal later
and added: II can assure you OF
his complete recovery"
He said afterwards that Mr..
Forrestals letter wished me good
luck"
Conference With Truman.
Members of the society yester-
day had a conference with Presi-
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for losses suffered by the Peoples
Liberation Army.
The Reds claimed 252 casualties
and damage to their positions,
The Communists said the she'll
ing started Wednesday when the
Red Army attacked Nationalist
bridgeheads on the north bank OF
the Yangtze and islands IN the
river about so miles downstream
from Nanking. It continued:
Just at that moment, two
enemy war vessels from the east
suddenly opened fire on the Peo-
pies Liberation Army's positions
northwest of Taihsing and north
of Yangchung counties to halt the
crossing Of the Peoples Liberation
Army.
Fire Returned"
THE Peoples Liberation Army
returned the fire and hit one of
the vessels which subsequently
sank. while the other steamed
westward and was half sunk near
Chinkiang. Then another enemy
war vessel steaming eastward
from Chinkiang reached the spot
and opened fire"
(There had been no indi-
], cation previously that the
British sloop Amethyst was
with any other ship when she
was fired on Wednesday. The
Peiping broadcast made no
specie reference to Chinese
naval units and the sunken
vessel was not identified. The
Amethyst presumably was the
one the Communists referred
to as half sunk" She was
forced aground on Rose Island
but later pulled herself free.
However, she has not been
able to move out OF the i'm
mediate area. The third ship
mentioned presumably was the
destroyer Consort which was
shot at when she went TO
the aid of the Amethyst
On Thursday. the Red radio
said. two more enemy vessels
came from the East and this
time the Peoples Liberation Army
fired on them first to keep them
of. Both were hit and sailed
toward Kiangyin. This victory
over the enemy naval vessels en-
abled the Peoples Liberation
Army to cross the river on a
large scale in the afternoon OF
the same day"
(The sloop Black Swan and
the heavy cruiser London were
hit by Red guns Thursday and
forced to 60 back to Shanghai.
Both were trying to reach the
Amethyst. also)
Taken for Chinese Ships.
The Communist broadcast con-
tinued:
When the Peoples Liberation
Army exchanged fire with the Ave
enemy war vessels. several other
vessels also took part in the bat
tie. -
On the night Of April II
Thursday the Peoples Liberation
Army still took these vessels TO be
part OF the Kuomintang navy. but
the next day 1t was learned that
they were really four British war
vessels"
The Red broadcast also charged
that the Kuomintang reaction
aries who started the civil war in
collaboration with American i'm
perialism have now committed an
other traitorous act by working in
collusion with British imperialist
navy vessels which sailed far UP
Evening star., 1949-04-23

DdE, large, brown, male, long tall. vic
Navy Annex. ARLINGTON ANIMAL WEL-
PARE LEAGUE, CHI. 1855.
Evening star., 1949-04-23
Nationalist Armies
Plan Abandonment OF
Big Base al Hankow
0, Jemes Fleea
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SHANGHAI Agu - ~~kassseAs
government ATr1ses aA~re 81 nars
kow have oec agira 10 Asaaca@ iAat
Escai CxHtIal CANA sAs<
A high Asusy e.-crY tesc ne
;t2ss "a een VISITED The e4ty ra;!ss
this weck
The ofyAceF sasa Gen Pa Chung
iss4. dsseraes a. HAnkca had Sc
casea on tssss drastic 6ier 10 aNead
q Cosnynanls; Trap
isaipwent seat Seath,
Ger. PAS zoe 600. man army
holds a s0o- Eails ssE~teh alcsag Ire
YAngiGr IN Central China Ne al
FrAay has Ahstted marh Q. na
heavy equipment 2fs mica seaiia-
~ea 10 Tire railway city ei Aeak-
yanS
Also Transferred Ia Hensyang
SAs ihe headquarters az the eth
Regional All FNagce
Small n4rnests O! troops sFrn
Pals Tlh and %sth ATTnses silll are
III hankoW and on the plains te
the north. but they are expected
10 aghi only q coyrglag action tcg
the Withdrawal across The Yang
tEe HAnkoS Ia on The north hank.
Pals headquarters stlll are Of
Hankos. but an early Shi!t south
TO Changsha. capital o! human
Province l5a miles 10 the south
west. Is predicted
Paramount In Pals plan Is the
necessity Of holdlng an escape
corridor open via HengyRns or
the railway from HAnkoa 10 Can
ton This Is his Sole means O!
transport into kwAnEai. the
southern province where he wAs
born II Is in kwangM that he
may make a last stand
Troops Lack Ammunition.
II IS reported that IN the past
two weeks while Pal VAS In Nan
King he aAs making plans for the
withdrawal With the approval Of
Acting President Il Tsunk len.
l., an old friend OF Pal. also IA
from kwAngM
Pals troops are reported 10 he
fairly well armed but short Of ar
tillery shells Pals officer blames
this shortage on 0eneTailsaifno
Chang Kai-shek They say Chang
always feared Pal and kept aim
poorly supplied Even rife aTn.
munition Is scarce.
PA is expected 10 hght 10 the
end II necessa ry On his own be-
half. He also might Try 10 save II.
But Pals associates say he would
settle with the Communists II they
would let him keep limited powers
In KwankSi
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
HOUSE DEBATE ON TIL
MAY CONE NEXT WEEK

Washington LPA)-After get
ting off to a slow start, the House
Labor Committee last week speed
ed up its Taft Hartley repeal work
BY a Is to 10 vote the committee
accepted the so-called administra-
ton bill, which organized labor
supports. The bill repeals the in
famous Taft-Hartley law, rein
states the Wagner act, with amend
ments which actually strengthen
"labor's Magma Carta" in light OF
the last dozen years of federal
labor law experience.
Sensing the growing disgust at
congressional stalling among union
members and other Americans who
voted down the Taft HartleyiteS
last November, the majority OF
the House Labor. Committee reject
ed a motion to take up the bill Sec
tion by section in executive session
This maneuver, which the Republi-
can members and several Dixie
Gratis on the Committee favored
would have delayed indefinitely
the reporting out of the bill.
This week the Labor Committee
will ask the House Rules Commit
tee to put Taft Hartley repeal
ahead of minimum wage law
amendments on the House calen-
dar. Their hope is that the final
House debate on basic labor rela-
tions law can be scheduled for the
week starting April 5. Senate
action is not expected before the
following week.
Smarting under their defeat in
the committee, the southern Demo
Gratis are threatening to team up
with Republicans in the House to
push for amendments to at least a
few key sections of the pro-labor
bill. Strengthening" of the sec
tion dealing with national emer-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Bootleg Union Poc+s Reported
RISING In Violation Of tn Act

Washington, d. C. ULNS). -
Nature seems to be taking its
course. An increasing number Of
closed shop and union shop con-
tracts are being "bootlegged" in
violation of the Taft Hartley Act
and anti-union state laws, govern
ment officials revealed here.
The officials predicted the prac-
tice might become even more wide
spread during the vital spring con-
tract negotiating season because
many unions were looking to Con-
gress to legalize "union security
arrangements.
A bootleg" contract is defined
as a hushed-up private agreement
between labor and management
that a firm will employ only union
members. Most of them were
simply verbal understandings, it
was said, although some were
written pacts which never reached
official attention because neither
party challenged their legality.
The Taft-Hartley law flatly out
laws the closed shop, under which
only union members can be hired.
1t permits the union shop, under
which all new employees must join
the union within 80 days, only if
that arrangement is approved in a
government-sponsored election by
81 percent of the workers.
In 13 states there are more strih-
gent local laws regulating the
union shop.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
MRS. RUTH GREEN

Mrs. Ruth Green of Alliance died
in her home March % after an ill
ness of eight months.
A widow of Charles Green, she
was born in Chester, June 10, 1906,
and had lived in Alliance for Is
years.
She was a member of the Church
of God in Alliance, and the Nation
al Brotherhood of Operative Pot
ters,
Surviving are daughter, Mrs.
Hanore Myers in Missouri; two
sons. David Green at home, and
Vernon Green of Ocean View, Va;
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. J.
Green of Alliance; two sisters, Mrs.
Beulah Williams of Ocean View,
and Mrs. Mary Warner of Bolton,
O., and six brothers, Clarence
Green of North Benton, Donald
Green Of Youngstown, Everett
Green of Trenton, N. j., Chester
Green of East Liverpool, and
Arthur Green and Trellis Green of
Alliance. At
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
WILLIAM X. MILLER

Sebring, O.-William Roy Miller
81, of 255 East Vermont Avenue, q
former caster at the Gem Clay
Forming Company; and for 2(
years employed by the Sebrine
Motor Company, died March 25 al
the Grille General Hospital Cleve-
land
Mr.. Miller, husband of Edna
Stocker Miller at the home, was a
member Of American Legion Post
76, and Local Union "A, National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters
In addition to, his wife, Mr.
Miller leaves two children, Robert
and Mary Kay Miller at the home
his mother, Mrs. Stanton Munsell
of Damascus; two sisters, Mrs.
Eva Weizenecker and Mrs. Mary
Maiden and two brothers Homer
and Glen Miller, all of Sebring.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31

gency strikes" and a proviso re-
tanning the Taft Hartley non-Com-
munist affidavits requirements will
be among the principal goals of
the critics of the administration
bill.
Over on the Senate side of the
Capitol Sen.> Robert A. Taft OR,
Ohio) himself has indicated that
he is willing to accept at least ~
amendments to the bill which he
fathered, along with the hirelings
of anti-union employers.
Until recently Taft was unwill-
ing to admit that there is anything
wrong with his bill. Experienced
union legislative representatives
know that Taft isn't giving away
anything. His game, they hunch, is
to lure Republican moderates and
some Democrats into accepting a
compromise measure, which, tho
taking some of the sting out of the
1947 law, leaves key anti-labor fea-
lures on the statute books.
Scheduled meetings of the AFL
legislative council and of CIO vice
presidents will bring many of the
nations outstanding union repre-
sentatives into Washington this
week. In addition to mapping the
campaign for labor's whole legis-
lative program they are expected
to continue the contracting of Con-
gressmen that has been going on
ever since the fight on Taft-Hart-
ley entered it's showdown stages.
No one doubts that the final vote
on the labor backed bill will be a
close one in. both houses of Con-
gress. The need for keeping the
views of workers in every constitu-
ency before their Congressman is
keenly felt here. Responsible offic-
ials of AFL, CIO and unaffiliated
unions agree, however, that 'mass
caravans" pushing around Capitol
Hill urging Taft Hartley repeal
would prove boomerang for
labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Cut Work Accident
Total In Half
President Urges

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). -
A first goal of a so percent reduc-
ton in on-the-job accidents was set
by President Truman, in address
ing 1000 delegates to the Pres
ident's Conference on Industrial
Safety here.
Declaring that "the job of re-
ducing industrial accidents is pri-
marily a job of employers and
workers." the President said:
"All of you here can play an i'm
portant part in achieving better
safety practices. Those of you from
business and labor groups should
consider yourselves as ambassadors
of safety with employers and labor
unions."
The President said that the need
for effective safety programs was
greatest in the smaller plants,
"where 70 percent of the accidents
occur, and where the organized
safety movement is weakest" He
added that the nation cannot afford
"the needless loss of skilled work
ers" if we are to produce for pros
perity in this country and peace
abroad.
"In your work here" he told the
delegates, "and in your even more
important work later on in the
states and in thousands of work
places throughout the nation, |
suggest that you should have de-
finite goal before you. We are now
suffering 100000 job accidents a
year. | propose that our first goal
be to cut that rate in half by the
end of the next 3 years"
Secretary of Labor Maurice j.
Tobin declared that Compensation
laws for the injuries we do not pre-
vent need to cover all workers in
stead of only half of them as at
present" He added that compen-
sation laws should provide adequ-
ate medical care and benefits that
really reflect two-thirds of present
earning power. In this connection,
he asserted that at today's wage
levels, maximum benefit limita-
tions probably provide no more
than half the average workers
weekly earnings"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
OBITUARIES
JAMES T. SCHRUM


James T. Schrum, 1919 Ephriam
St, died March 20, at 1915 a. m.
in the Rocky Glenn Sanatorium at
IMcConnelsville, where he was a
Ipatient for eight years. He had
been i'll about two years before en-
ttering the sanatorium. He was 81.
Born in Beaver Falls, Mr..
Schrum lived in East Liverpool for
40 years. He was dishmaker and
was employed by the Homer
Laughlin China Co.
He was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, East Liver
pool Lodge 379, and East Liver
pool Encampment, Odd Fellows;
the Eagles and Moose Lodges and
Local Union 20, National Brother
hood of Operative Potters.
He leaves his foster-mother,
Mrs. Anna Mason of East Liver
pool; a niece, Mrs. Dorothy Stam-
baugh of Youngstown, and a
nephew, Harold w. Frank of Mon
terey Park, Calf, whom he reared,
and several other nieces and
nephews, and a grandson. His wife,
Mrs. Lillian Bell Schrum, died Jan.
80, 1885.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
uEW Workers Sue
Atom Commission G

Washington (LPA) - U nj e d
Electrical Workers appeared in
District Court here last week seek
ing an injunction against an
Atomic Energy Commission order
to General Electric Corp. not to
bargain with UE.
The union also asked $1,0O0,0OO
damages from Acc and GE for
violating it's constitutional rights
and its contract.
Acc Commissioner David E.
Lilienthal had last year banned
UE from atomic installations, or
dering General Electric not to re-
cognize the union in its atom plant
at Schnectady, NY. Aces lawyer
argued in court last week that UE
officers with Communist sympath-
les influence the UE local in
Schnectady, thus creating a dan
gerous situation for security rea-
sons.
GE lawyers argued that, even II
the corporation violated its con-.
tract with the union it had to
carry out the orders of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Cancellation of the GE contract
was a union busting scheme, UE
attorney o. John Rogge declared.
The 300 UE members working on
atomic energy projects in Schnec-
tady have all been cleared by the
FBI. he maintained
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
SHEET METAL WORKERS
PUSH WELFARE PROGRAMS

Washington (LPA)-Another in
temational union is going out for
health and welfare benefits. The
executive board of the Sheet Metal
Workers-AFL, at a meeting here,
decided to recommend to all its
locals that in their next negotia-
tions with employers health and
welfare funds be requested. This
would cover sickness benefits, pay
ment of medical fees, hospitaliza-
ton, death benefits, disability COM
pensation and other provisions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
WANT LABOR FUNDS liked

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Appropriations subcommittee deal
ing with funds for the Labor Dept
was urged to increase its grant by
$8,500,000 over the amount APP
proved by the House-$25, 900, COO.
Mrs. Katherine Ellickson asked at
least $25, 100000 more in funds for
the Federal Security Agency over
the amount granted by the House.