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Evening star., 1949-06-22
Hope for Agreement
I0n Capital Transit
Contract Is Voiced

Sources close 10 contract talks
between the Capital Transit Co
and the AFL operators and main
tenance workers were hopeful to
day Of an agreement. although
the parties are still far apart
At the conclusion Of . two-houy
meeting yesterday. Division sss
Arnalgamated Association Of Street
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees Of America. Was re-
ported holding out for q straight
lo-eents-an-hour wage raise.
Federal coneiliator James A.
Holden has scheduled anothsy
meeting for 2 pm. tomorrow. One
neeotiator said the outlook was
not hopeless for . settlement be-
fore July !. when the present
contract expires. Failure OF
agreement might precip!tate q
strike Of $500 employees.
Union Demands Reduced.
Before yesterdays meeting the
union was demanding Is cents an
hour and fringe benefits the COM
pany said would constitute an
other o cents. At the meeting the
union renounced the fringe de-
mands and cut the base rate de-
mand TO 10 cents.
In return. the company dropped
Its counterproposal to effect econ
omy measures which would save
$500, 600 annually. Instead 1t Of
fered to continue terms Of the
present contract.
Meanwhile. q strike OF carpen-
ters and laborers wore on into its
22d day. However. there appeared
to be an optimistic feeling by both
builders and workers that the
deadlock will be broken soon. per
haps by the end Of the week.
Another meeting probably will
be called In q day or two between
the Master Builders Association
and LAborers Local ~.
Carpenters Claim New Gains.
ofiicials Of the Carpenters Dis.
trict Council claimed new gains
B. B. Blackburn, secretary treas
urer. said 1874 contractors and
other employers have been signed
since the strike began June I
They all have agreed to the 10
cent hourly wage increase. he said
Mr.. Blackburn estimated that
of the 400 carpenters who orig.
inally registered as being on strike
only 500 or 800 were still unem-
ployed today. An unknown mum.
ber of other carpenters failed tc
register as strikers.
The Standard Construction Co.
building nearly 1000 housing units
in Maryland. signed an agreement
with the carpenters yesterday
The firm is expected to hire al
many as 400 carpenters before the
end Of the week
Evening star., 1949-06-22

Justice Frankfurter for o Job In
the Solicitor Generals office.
Justice Reed said no that he
was quite sure the recommends
ton had come from Judge Frank.
Mr.. Murphy quickly dropped the
subject.
Third Jurist on Stand.
The third jurist on the stand.
Judge Magruder. said he met Mr..
Hiss while the defendant was q
student and he was q professor at
Harvard. adding:
II got to know him very well
and we have been friends ever
since"
He said Mr.. Hiss reputation
was excellent"
Judge Margruder said he had
considerable social contact with
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiss in Washington.
and Mr.. Murphy wanted to know
the names Of persons he remem-
bered seeing in the various Hiss
homes in the Capitol.
WELL" said Judge Margruder,
"of course there's always Justice
Frankfurter. and well. all the old
law school crowd"
Mr.. Murphy asked II he had
seen MIR. Pressman. John Abt or
Nathan Witt at the Hiss house,
and Judge Magruder said he had
not. Mr.. Abt and Mr.. Witt also
were on the list Of alleged Com
munists given the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
by Mr.. Chambers.
Murphy Expands List.
The same question was put to
another character witness for the
defense. Gerald Swope. jr.. o New
York attorney. In this case. Mr..
Murphy expanded the list to in
clude the names Of Henry Collins,
Harold Ware and Harold Glassen.
Mr.. Swope said he had. seen
none of these while visiting the
Hiss family, asking. Are these
people all people in Washington"
Mr.. Murphy asked Judge Kauf-
man to admonish the audience
for laughing at the witness ques-
ton.
The jury of 10 men and two
women also heard q deposition
from Gov. Adlai Stevenson OF
Illinois testifying to Mr.. Hiss
good" reputation.
As the 18th day Of the trial
opened, Judge Kaufman overruled
a prosecution objection to the
reading Of the Stevenson deposi-
ton.
The trial was in recess yesterday
while Judge Kaufman attended q
judicial conference.
Before proceedings began today
Mr.. Stryker. chief defense coun-
sci, declared Mr.. Hiss would
make q better witness on the stand
than he made last year before the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities.
He said today that he agrees
with critics who found fault with
Mr.. Hiss performance last Au-
gust when he was first de-
nounced by Mr.. Chambers as q
member of Q Communist under
ground apparatus" In the Gov
ernment In Washington.
But" said Mr.. Stryker. "he's
Evening star., 1949-06-22
Hiss
Continued From First Page)

|
young lawyer would be suitable
for q particular Job in Govern
ment or private practice.
Mr.. Murphy shot his next ques-
ton quickly.
Did you recommend Lee Press
man for his Government Job" Mr..
Murphy asked.
Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul
Stryker leaped UP with an OBJ
lection, and Federal Judge Sam
ual H. Kaufman quickly sustained
it. But not so quickly as to pre-
vent Justice Frankfurter, now
bristling with anger, from getting
in his answer.
IT think 1t is highly unlikely
he said loudly.
Mentioned by Pressman.
MIR. Pressman, now an official
Of Henry Wallace's Progressive
Party, was one Of those named
last August by Whitaker Cham
bers as q member of the Com
munist underground movement in
the Government in Washington
In the 1930s. He, too. was law
yer with the Labor Board.
On direct examination, Justice
Frankfurter had testified at some
length about Mr.. Hiss member
ship on the editorial board Of
the Harvard Law Review. Prose-
cutor Murphy pushed on with a
question as to whether Mr.. Press
man also was an editor Of that
publication when he was at Har-
ward.
Again the defense objected. and
again was sustained by Judge
Kaufman. But again, Justice
Frankfurter ignored the courts
ruling and answered angrily: II
think he was"
Does your honor mean that ]
can't ask about any other men,
bers Of the Review Board" Mr.
Murphy asked.
That's right" Judge Kaufman
said.
Frankfurter Is RiIed.
Justice Frankfurter, clearly
riled. turned to the Judge with q
muttered aside to the effect that
he was perfectly willing to an
swer these questions.
Mr.. Murphy also pressed the
point, but Judge kaufman cut of
the prosecutor with the observa-
ton: "I've made my ruling; we
will discuss 1t no further"
Justice Frankfurter had been
relaxed and cheerful under direct
examination by Mr.. Stryker. OBJ
viously enjoying his role as q wit
ness. Several times, when he
seemed to ramble somewhat afield
In answering questions. he paused
to say, "His honor will no doubt
keep me within bounds If I stray
outside Of them"
Judge kaufman, Q new ap-
pointee to the bench, who is try
ing his first major case. beamed
and nodded at the high court
jurist as he testified.
Reeds Manner in Contrast.
Justice Reeds quiet manner on
the witness stand was In SHARP
contrast to that of Justice Frank.
furtef. He said he knew Mr.. His,
while the defendant was working
for him In the Solicitor Generals
Office before going to the STATE
Department In 1896.
He, too, said he had never heard
Mr.. Hiss reputation questioned
and that 1t was good so far as ]
know"
Judge Franks opinion o,
Mr.. Hiss came up Unexpectedly ir
the prosecutors cross-examinatior
| Of Justice Reed as Mr.. Murphy
sought to find out whether Mr.
Hiss had been recommended BY
Evening star., 1949-06-22
Wife of Barnard Joy
Unhurt in Collision

Mrs. Ruth Joy, wife Of Barnard
Joy, chairman Of the Arlington
School Board, last night escaped
injury when a hit-run motorist
sideswiped her car at North Jack
son and North Irving streets,
Arlington.
Witnesses said the car in which
Mrs. Joy and four children were
riding was almost overturned by
the force of the collision. None OF
the children was hurt.
Evening star., 1949-06-22

elared by Supreme Court ofncials
today TO be 30 exceptional as TO
constitute q precedent. No I'M
propriety was seen In their ap-
pearance although 1t was asserted
that If the case should ever come
before the Supreme Court. Justice
Frankfurter and Justice Reed
probably would disqualify them
selves to sit in the case.
Evening star., 1949-06-22
Italy Acts Urgently
To Settle Spreading
WaIkouf Of Seamen
by shs Asseelcisd prsss

ROME. June 22-Ths italian
government tried urgently today
to settle q spreading seamen's
strike which has tied UP several
major West Coast seaports and
threatened to spread TO the East
Coast.
BY last night the strike. which
began Friday at Genoa aboard the
2o,0oo-ton liner Saturnia. was re-
ported to have spread to Naples.
the nations biggest and busiest
port, and to be affecting Leghorn
Givorno) and Savona.
The threat to Italy's foreign
commerce came at the height Of
a riotous 35-day-old farmhands'
strike which Is menacing the
country's harvests.
Federation Shuns Meeting.
The Italian Seamen's Fedora
ton (FILM refused TO take part
In q meeting Of shipowners and
seamen's representatives called by
Merchant Marine Minister Giu-
seppe saragat. The federation
said the government was doing
business with rival union. the
Federmare, which does not Sup
port the strike.
The FILM claims 100000 mem
bers. Only about $4,000 are sea-
men. The remainder are steve
dores, fishermen and other port
workers. It is affiliated with the
Communist led General Labor
Confederation. although 1t claims
independence.
II the strike spreads. 1t could
tie up some $40 italian ships Of
more than 500 tons, including the
20,000-ton liner Vulcania. now In
New York. Foreign ships in Italian
ports have not been affected.
The strike started suddenly Fri
day at Genoa aboard the Vul-
cania's sister ship. the Saturnia,
Just before 1t was to have sailed
for Naples and New York. Ship
owners cancelled the trip yester-
day and are aiding some $500
stranded passengers to find other
means Of transport. The strikers
were protesting alleged delay in
payment Of government pensions
and unemployment compensation.
Daily one-hour strikes began
yesterday in italian shipyards to
back building worker demands for
renewal of wage contracts.
Senate Debate Begun.
The italian Senate. meanwhile,
began debate on labor union pro-
posals for parliamentary inter-
vention in the farm workers strike
which began May 10 in the Pc
Valley of North Italy and spread
to the south. --
Backed by both the Communist
led and the anti Communist
labor considerations. the strikers
demand higher wages and in
creased family benefits. The Com
munist leader Of the General Labor
Confederation. Giuseppe di Wit
torio, told newsmen last night the
considerations 100000 members
have been told to INTENSITY their
action of solidarity with the valor-
GUS farm strikers" The strike has
caused six deaths and hundreds
have been arrested.
New outbreaks Of violence were
reported in the Pc Valley yester-
day. News dispatches said six
persons were injured and a.
~k~st.~~~ ~~,a~n q nx~as%al
Evening star., 1949-06-22
Appearance of Justices
Called Possible Precedent

The appearance Of two Supreme
Court justices. Felix Frankfurter
and Stanley Reed. In o Federal
Court in New York as character
witnesses for Alger Hiss. was de-
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Evening star., 1949-01-28

congressional criticism of the mass
eviction plan.
II think it is a most extraordi-
nary and shameful performance
Senator Lucas declared.
Lyall T. Beggs,' commander ir
chief of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, said eviction of veterans as 6
protest measure was a betrayal oi
men who fought for !the principle
of free enterprise which permits
men today to continue to be prop.
erty owners"
He added that landlords art
playing into the hands of the
Communists by such action, giving
them more material for propaganda
against the United States"
Roll of DishOnor' Urged.
Mr.. Beggs urged VFW posts turr
publicity on any such landlords ant
hold them up to public disdain.
He suggested public display of 9
roll of diShonor."
Senator Lucas told reporters the
Senate certainly will look into such
evictions when the rent control eX-
tension bill comes up for considera-
ton.
Senator Saltonstall said he die
not think the eviction type of pro-
test would help in the solution OF
difficult problems"
Senator Myers. sponsor of bill
to extend Federal rent controls fol
q months beyond March 81 ano
restore Federal control of evictions
said that if landlords were using
the eviction method TO create feal
it should be repudiated and re-
proved by the Congress.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Broadmoor Tenants
Assured Occupancy
Pending Court Ruling

All parties in the. eviction suits
to oust % tenants of the co-opera-
lively owned Broadmoor Apartments
agreed today to delay further pro-
ceedings in Municipal Court for the
time being.
In a stipulation signed by Judge
Thomas D. Quinn, the owners agreed
to let the tenants occupancy re-
main uncontested until the United
States Court of Appeals decides
whether a cooperative owner is a
landlord" within the meaning of
the District Emergency Rent Con-
troll Act.
That appeal was taken by some
of the Broadmoor tenants from a
ruling last year by District Judge
Edward A. Tamm upholding coop
owners rights as landlords.
A stay order in the eviction suits
originally was prepared January
for Judge Quinn, but he withheld
signing it on attorneys requests that
more specific set of stipulations
be drawn instead.
Now included are provisions that
the tenants apply promptly" to the
Evening star., 1949-01-28

reached new peaks today in the
wake of a new storm. bringing IL
inches of snow in Omaha and lesser
amounts outstate.
Human distress and misery are
worse right this morning than at
any time since the storms began"
said Brig. Gen. Guy N. Henninger,
who is directing the States bliz-
zard relief operations.
Gov. Val Peterson estimated $780,
100000 worth of cattle in Nebraska's S
distress area are in jeopardy
In Chicago, 5th Army headquar.
tiers announced that 80 bulldozers
were shipped to Nebraska towns
from Granite City, Ill. to augment
Isl bulldozers and 20 weasels-
tracked vehicles capable of travel
ing on snow crests-already at work
in the storm area carrying emer-
gency supplies and cutting roads.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Sunday Reading

Once prosperous Argentina
is flirting with economic dis
aster, according to Edward
Tomlinson, authority on Latin
American affairs, who has been
gathering first-hand material
for The Star. He tells the in
teresting details of .Argentinas s
financial decline in Sundays
Editorial Section.
At the other end of the ther-
mometer, Foreign Correspond
ent George Weller wires from
Quebec that a road is pushing
slowly toward vast and rich
deposits of Canadian iron ore
that someday may be needed
to replenish our own dwin-
ding supply. His account also
appears in the Editorial Sec
ton.
On the domestic scene, Staff
Writer Mary McGrory provides
a probing interview with the
Lady From Maine - Senator
Margaret Chase Smith - as
another Editorial Section
high light.
These and many other spe-
cial features supplement the
usual thorough and accurate
news content of
CHI Sunhay Star
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Progressives Ask Hearing
On D. {. Home Rule Bill

The Suffrage Committee of the
Progressive Party of the District
today urged the House District
Committee to hold public hearings
on the Auchincloss bill for home
rule.
The pending measure differs in
many important respects from last
years Inflated home rule and re-
organization bill, the party COM
mittee said.
A statement from the Suffrage
Committee took sharp issue" with
Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee for having said
further hearings were unnecessary
Ceylon is seeking American equip
ment for rest homes or inns.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
LOST

BAG, mans brown leather satchel, tag,
..Shephard. Youngstown, Ohio" at Union
Station or put in wrong cab enroute 10
Ambassador. January 25, 7:3O am Call
No. Ol5l, lost and found dept, DIAMOND
CAB, 9:30 am. to pm. Reward. 20
BEAGLE HOUNDS (2l, male, brown, black
and white: female, blue Speckled vic of
Wheaton, Md. Reward Call PL. 0561
Evening star., 1949-01-28
State Senate DELAYS
Action on Maryland
Income Tax Plan
By J. B. Zotmon
Stor Stoff Corrasnondanf

| ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 28.-The ques-
ton of how much State income tax
Marylanders will have to pay this
year remained undecided today.
An administration backed measure
to keep the tax on earned income at
per cent yesterday was returned to
Senate committee where it may be
amended ~
Meanwhile, the House Ways and
Means Committee was putting fts
stamp of approval on two bills intro.
duced by Delegate Bandiere, Demo-
crat, of Baltimore to make even
heavier tax cuts.
AS the tax law now stands, Mary
landerS would be called on to pay
az per cent of theirs~net earned
income and S per cent on their in
vestment income in the returns due
April Is. The present rate on earned
income is per cent.
It is almost a certainty that the
law will be changed, but just how is
the big question.
The Senate was slated to take final
action yesterday on the earned in
come bill, previously given House
approval. Instead, it was sent back
to the Finance Committee, where
an amendment to cut the rate on
the first $1,000 of unearned income
to per cent may be adopted.
Senate Floor Leader L. Harold
Sothoron said he would introduce a
bill to repeal a provision of the tax
law requiring nonresidents to pay
taxes on income earned in Mary
land.
Mr.. Bandiere introduced his two
tax-cut proposals during the first
week of the 1949 session. They
would:
/. Increase taxpayers deduction
for dependent children from $40(
eac hto $500 for the first, $3.50 fol
the second and $500 for all others
| 2. Set the unearned income rate
at 2 per cent for the first $4,000 and
| s per cent for all over that.
Evening star., 1949-01-28

appellate court to have the landlord
question advanced" for hearing;
and that they continue to pay rent.
The tenants also we're given the
right to ask jury trials or file
motions within three days after the
higher courts ruling, should it be
adverse to their position.
At least three of the d suits
originally filed last year have been
settled my mutual consent of owners
and tenants. The 197-unit building
is located at Connecticut avenue and
Porter street NV.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Tulsa Landlords Stick
To Evictions Despite
Truman S Criticism

Landlords stood their ground
in Tulsa, Okla, today on their
plan to evict tenants as pro-
test against Federal rent con-
trolls, despite criticism by Presi-
dent Truman and members of
both parties in Congress.
The Rev. Wallace j. Murphy, Bap-
tist minister and leader in the evic-
ton actions started by the Tulsa
Property Owners Association, said
his group was puzzled by the Pres
ident'S statement yesterday that the
protest plan was the wrong approach
to the problem.
I'VE are American businessmen
Mr.. Murphy said. I'VE simply want
to 60 out of business because it is
Improbable"
Suffered Heart Attack.
Shortly after he answered the
President, Mr.. Murphy suffered a
heart attack, his second in eight
weeks.
Mr.. Truman commented at a news
conference that he did not believe
the landlords would get away with
their plan. Tighe E. Woods, nation
al housing expediter. said later his
Office would go into the courts If
necessary to stop evictions.
From his bed at home. Mr.
Murphy disclosed he had asked a
Senate Investigation of what he
called "highshanded and undemo-
cratic tactiess of the Office of the
housing expediter.
He said he had telephoned Sena-
tor Elmer Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, asking an inquiry by
the Senate Banking and Currency
AConnfttee '-~
Mr.. Murphy said Senator Thomas
informed him he would confer with
Senator Maybank, Democrat. of
South Carolina to see if such an
investigation could be started.
Ocean View Meeting Set.
Property owners and landlords at
Ocean View. in the Norfolk area
will meet there tomorrow night to
consider advisability of seeking evic-
ton of tenants as a protest against
proposals to extend rent controls
beyond March 81.
"A spokesman for the group said
all landlords and property owners
in Norfolk have been invited. A
"decontrol committee" which twice
has launched movements to lift
rent ceilings in the Ocean View
section is seeking an opinion on
the legality of the eviction process
as a protest measure.
The United States Emergency
Court of Appeals will hear argu-
ments February 7 in Norfolk on
requested decontrol of the Ocean
View resort area. The Norfolk Rent
Advisory Board recommended de-
control, but Mr.. Woods overruled
the board.
Lucas AssailS Protest Plan.
Senate Majority Leader Lucas and
Senators Saltonstall, Republican, of
Massachusetts,, Tobey, Republican,
of New Hampshire. and Myers,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania led the
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Jury Recommends Mercy
EorsAeed Slayer Of Wife
BY The Assoeiated Press

KEYSER, w. Va, Jan. zS.-A
Mineral County jury has recon-
mended mercy for James Bane
after finding the 78-year -old farmer
guilty of involuntary manslaughter
in the death of his wife, Sarah, rs
Bane, who is physically disabled
was charged with the murder of his
wife. She died in a hospital here
october 20 after being unconscious
for six days from head injuries.
The maximum penalty for invol-
untary manslaughter is a years i'm
prisonnent or $1,000 fine.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Virqiniu Welfare Aid Rises

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. % (P.-
Virginia S financial assistance case.
load in December rose to 30,742
compared with 30,lS0 in November
the State Department of Welfare
and Institutions has announced.
Evening star., 1949-08-25

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