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Evening star., 1949-06-01
Home Truths Expected
Senate Democrats to Caucus ON Friday
In Own Private Battle Over Labor Bill

he could do more with his fellow
Southerners personally than a
caucus could.
II Is possible that some homely
truths viii be uttered in the Friday
caucus. New Deal Democrats
elected from industrial States have
been aching to suggest to their
Southern colleagues that civil
rights and labor are important to
their fortunes, too. II pressed. the
New Dealers will add that they
have to fight Republicans to get
elected and that when they lose.
the Democratic Party loses control
Of Congress. Their story Is that
II the South came half way on
some issues 1t would be only fair
play.
Importance TO Lucas.
Senator Lucas. who has been
taking the rap consistently for the
failings Of his divided majority,
has apparently decided to let them
fight it out. The labor bill Is q
tough one as the Southerners with
few exceptions supported both the
Taft Hartley Act and overriding
the Presidents veto.
AS he comes from q labor -infiu-
ential State, labor's problems are
especially important to Senator
Lucas who will be up for re-elec-
ton next year. He was notably
conciliatory. for example. In his
reply to CIO President Murray's
demand that Congress be kept In
session until 1t enacts most Of the
Truman Fair Deal.
The Lucas roll call on measures
he expects to see approved sup
ports the private predictions Of
Speaker Rayburn. who has said
that housing. aid-to-education and
wage-hour legislation, added to
the North Atlantic pact and Q
strengthened trade agreements act.
will constitute notable achieve
ments for one year. The Speaker
does not 60 beyond hope irf his
discussions Of q labor bill. Hence
it Is the more important for the
Senate 70 shape an acceptable
compromise II there Is to be any
legislation ~ '..s
Capitol opinion Ii that President
Truman viii sign . compromise
such as Senator Humphrey sug-
gests. though. like labor. he won't
say q good word for 1t publicly.
Evening star., 1949-06-01
Hearing Here Needed
Military Acted Arbitrarily in Firing
Critics of PROGRAM on German Cartels

grievance nearing, as II Is calleo,
in Frankfort. Acting Secretary
Gray has informed Mr.. Berge that
If Mr.. Sacks is not satisfied with
his hearing there he can ask for
q hearing, de novo. before the
Secretary Of the Army here. 1t is
assumed Mr.. Collision will be
given the same opportunity.
\ A Letter BY Collision.
More light is shed on Mr.. Col
lison's, case in a letter he wrote,
dated May 21. to John c. Sted-
man, chief Of the legislative and
clearance section Of the Justice
Department antitrust division,
who Was on the staff Of the Fer
guson Commission. He said:
I'm January. 1949. shortly after
your committee had departed
from Germany. Mr.. Richardson
Bronson. chief of the United
States Decentralization Element,
demanded that I resign from my
position as Deputy Chief of the
Decentralization Element because
after reading my testimony before
your committee, Mr.. Bronson
stated that I had been disloyal
to him personally. I refused to
resign.
ION II May. 1949, Mr.. Bronson
again demanded that I resign be-
cause Of my testimony before your
committee. I refused again and
Mr.. Bronson told me I was fired
then and there because Of my
testimony. I requested this state
ment in writing and Mr.. Bronson
promised to give it to me. Later
the same day Mr.. Bronson wrote
me q letter but 1t merely stated
that I had been declared surplus. !"
Mr.. Collision said he was de-
clared surplus, despite the fact
that on May Mr.. Bronson had
announced that the official policy
of the military government was
that the Decentralization personnel
would not be cut but probably
increased. The Ferguson commit
tee recommended STRENGTHENING
of the staff.
The ousted deputy urged that
something be done to protect Gov
ernment employees who are called
to testify before investigating
committees.
Evening star., 1949-06-01

these two cases will show how
high military government officials
frustrated our war aim to break
up the military potential Of Ger
many.
The two men are Alexander
Sacks, a member Of the decarteli-
zation staff whose case first was
disclosed several weeks ago, anc
Charles H. Collision. deputy CHIEF
of the Decartelizatiop Element
whose dismissal came TO light re-
Gently. Mr.. Collision practicec
law in New York for 13 years
before he went to Germany. anc
Mr.. Sacks formerly was with the
Justice Department antitrust di-
vision.
Testimony Backed Up.
Both were summoned as wit
|nesses before the special commits
sion headed by Garland s. Fer
guson, member Of the Federal
Trade Commission, which was
sent to Germany last December
by then Secretary of Army. Ken
meth c. Royal, to investigate the
cartel program. In its report a
few weeks ago. the Ferguson COM
mission backed up the testimony
of the two men.
First suspended last February
MIR. Sacks was reinstated when his
treatment was protested. Recent
ly he again was summarily dis
missed by order Of General Lucius
D. Clay just before the former
U. S. Military Governor In Ger
many gave up his post to return
home, though simultaneously here
in Washington Acting Secretary
of War Gordon Gray had written
his counsel, Wendell Berge. for
mer head Of the Justice Depart
ment's antitrust division. that
Mr.. Sacks case was closed.
His case now is the subject OF 9
Evening star., 1949-06-01

tee has reported out the Thomas
Lesinski bill for repeal OF the
Taft Hartley Act. The Repub-
lican minority. led by Senator
Taft, has offered q series OF
amendments which make q few
major and many minor conces-
sions to labor's viewpoint.
Democrats believe that Senator
Taft's maneuvers are politically
shrewd in that they will take his
name OH the bill which labor
hates and yet will keep two-thirds
Of 1t intact. Their problem is to
decide what Is best Of them
last ditch tight for repeal which
is bound to fail or concessions
which will bear their name.
Five Humphrey Demands.
Senator Humphrey Of Minne-
sofa. one Of the prolabor liberals
elected last fall. is prepared to de-
Emand that the Democrats take
responsibility for the best new Ia
Dor law they can get. He viii
tell the caucus that labor will ac-
cept. though perhaps not openly,
these five amendments to the
Thomas-Lesinski bill:
/. Non Communist afidavits
from labor leaders. .. Unions as
well as employers shall be required
to bargain collectively. 8. Free
speech for all parties. 4. Financial
reports from unions. 5. Presi-
Dental power to act in emergency
strikes affecting the national
interest. This is conceived as q
substitute for the Injunction
powers in the Taft-Hartley Act.
Caucuses Of the sort now
planned are something new for
Democrats. During Vice Presi-
dent Barkley's years as Majority
Leader, the Democratic caucus
was held under his hat as he felt
Evening star., 1949-06-01

II there's anything that makes
me weary and tired II Is TO read
and hear necessarily that New
York doesn't represent America
You must 30 to Idaho to under
stand this country. they say.
You must view the wheat fields
IL you want 10 feel the spirit Of
America. II you see only New
York and I'll bet you I've read this
one thousand times-if you've seen
only New York. why. you don't
know America.
Complete America
shall now defend New York.
I was not born here and have
only aived here occasionally. but
/ would like TO ask anybody who
knocks New York 20 name . town
that comes closer 10 being COM
plete America.
We stand up against Russia be-
Evening star., 1949-06-01

ture Canton, may bring about
major changes and q new contro-
versial situation in the United
Nations.
Russia demands that appointees
Of Moscow's puppet. Mao Tze-tung
replace those of Chang Kai-shek
in the Chinese delegation to the
~. N. The Western Powers. on
the other hand, would like to see
China replaced in the Council by
some Western nation.
Complicated Business.
China, represented by the old
Marking government. is q member
of the u. N. and as one Of the Big
Five has q permanent seat with
veto power in the Council. The
ranking members Of the U. N
consider that a fallen regime, with
no country to rule, cannot remain
Lii that organization.
Consequently, means must be
found to remove the Nationalist
representatives, which are the
only ones recognized officially by
all the members Of the U. N.
from the Council at least. This
will prove to be q complicated
business and likely to occasion
lively arguments between the
Western Powers and the U. 8. 8. r
It is true that Britain nearly
has decided to extend de facto
recognition to the Communist ad-
ministration in China. In ex-
change for the promise of the
Communists not to advance
farther south than Canton and
not to interfere with the British
crown colony at Hong Kong.
The State Department is will
ing, some say anxious, to follow
Britain's step. As q matter OF
Evening star., 1949-06-01
This Changing World
Big Four Deal Seen to Permit Italy
To Take China's Seat i'm u. II. Council

fact, according TO those who claim
to be In the know. the whole mat
ter was hlueprinted In Washing
ton when Foreign Secretary Beyin
was In Washington two months
ago for the signing Of the Atlantic
pact.
Now the question arises of
what should be done with China s
membership In the Security Coun-
ell. Russia and the satellite
members Of the q. N are anxious,
Of course. to have the Moscow
sponsored regime replace the
former Marking representatives.
They contend that China has
been In the throes OF q revolu-
ton. In the course of which dem
ocratic" forces Of Mao Tze-tung
have won an irrefutable victory.
The Eastern bloc considers the
change in the Chinese regime as
no different from what happens
so often In South America and
will insist at the next session OF
the u. N. Assembly, it is reported
that the newly established gov
ernment send its own representa-
tives to both the Assembly and
the Council.
Leaving Chinese Out.
The Western Powers, and par
ticularly the United States. main
tain that 50 long as the Commu-
mist government does not receive
de jure recognition there is no
possibility of 1t maintaining rep
resentatives in either bedy OF the
u. N.
Some policymakers now sug-
gest that China be left out Of the
Council altogether and be replaced
by q "near-great power"-Italy
which. however, Is not yet men,
Der Of the U. N. because it has
been vetoed by the U. s. 8. r.
The Western nations are keenly
interested In bringing the Rome
government both into the q. N. and
the Security Council, despite the
difficulties Of procedure which
such a readjustment Of the Coun-
Gil presents. Moscow wants an
additional veto partner In the
Council and insists that China
remain in the Council. but that
the delegation personnel be
changed.
The whole matter is being dis
cussed secretly at Paris now. not
only between the foreign min
listers of the Western Powers. but
also indirectly with the Russians,
who for the present are adamant
against changing anything in the
San Francisco Charter.
Evening star., 1949-06-01

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Evening star., 1949-06-01

E6&f i TANK
lis the greatest
town tn al the
world.
Take London.
Give II back
20 the Eng
liss,men. Take
Paris Let
the Frenchmen
have IT, Take
Rome. Let the
Italians wU-
ship IT,
As an Amerl-
can, I'll take
Naw York
Evening star., 1949-06-01

8 e n q or a
chance to add
his i've cents
worth to the
discussion n o
m q tier how
long it takes.
At the conclu-
sion an effort
will be made to
bind the caucus
10 support Tic
bill agreed on.
As m q t ters
stan d. the
Education and
Evening star., 1949-06-01

to take China's
seat In the Sc
curity Council
Is being dis
cussed In WASH
ington.
The overthrow
Of the Nation
alist cover n
ment Of China,
which may be
completed by
the end of next
m onth when
the Communist
armies are ex-
nnnfnH IN ram
Evening star., 1949-06-01

AMGS decar-
telization staff
W h o. W e r e
ousted because
Eof c rtticism m
that the pro-
gram to break
up er m an
cartels had not
been c arried
out. 7t ~
DeIl-2.. ..-1entS
emphasize t h e
need Of an open
he ar Tn 6 here
in WaShinpt0n.
Evening star., 1949-06-01
By Doris FIesson

Senate Democrats will caucus
Friday for their own private bat
tie over the labor bill. Majority
Leader Lucas plans to give every
Evening star., 1949-06-01
Bro,cn

The possibility that the Big Four
foreign ministers meeting In Paris
win make q deal permitting Italy
to enter the United Nations and
Evening star., 1949-06-01
Critics of Pros
By Thomas L. Stokes

Accumulating evidence reveals
how arbitrarily American military
government officials In Germany
acted in firing two members OF
Evening star., 1949-06-01
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must be IS stories tall When
I look out os my w4ndcw I see
Evening star., 1949-06-01
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Evening star., 1949-06-01

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Evening star., 1949-06-01

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Trumon's Congressman Denies
Union Fund Diversion Chorqe
Hod Carriers Name
Irving, z Others;
Restruiner Ordered
BY the Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, July 10
Charges that Representative
Leonard Irving, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, and two other men had di-
verted labor union funds to their
own use were contained today in
a petition for an accounting.
Mr.. Irving. elected last Novem-
ber in President Truman's home
district, is president and business
agent of the AFL Hod Carriers.
Building. and Common Laborers'
Union of America. Local No. 264.
Named with him in the petition
filed by IS members of the union
were Roy E. Livingston, treasurer
and financial secretary. and Alvin
Butcher, corresponding and re-
cording secretary.
The 14-page petition. filed in
circuit court here, alleged that the
defendants and other members of
the executive board conspired Ito
divert funds of the local union
to their own use and the use of
the defendants severally. and to
various purposes not authorized
by the local union or its members
."
In Washington, Mr.. Irving is
Evening star., 1949-07-17
British Dollar Crisis
Talks End Tomorrow
By the Associofed Press

LONDON, July 16-Common-
wealth finance ministers seeking
solution of the dollar crisis will
end their London conference
Monday. Their decisions will be
kept secret for the time being.
A conference source said today
that recommendations of the eight
financial leaders would be cir
culated privately to the govern
ments concerned.
The recommendations will be
discussed by Sir Stafford Cripps,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, with
United States Treasury officials in
Washington in September.
A communique Monday will give
"as much detail as can be released
at this time" this source said.
The ministers have finished
their study of short-term remedies
and on Monday hope to end con-
sideration of the long term plan
1t is the long term plan which
officials said would form the basis
for discussions between Sir Stat
ford, American Treasury Secretary
Snyder and Canadian Finance
Minister D. c. Abbott in Wash
ington In September.
Evening star., 1949-07-17

gone into the crime they were
about to perpetrate-they evil
IDENTIFY knew the Ulitzkys always
carried their cash home in a paper
bag.
The elder Ulitzkys fingered over
long with last minute closing up
tasks, so Albert grabbed his lunch
bag and dashed out into the
darkness. He had taken only q
few steps from the door when a
gun was pressed against his ribs
and gunman ordered:
Give me that bag"
Never man to quibble about
"a bologna sandwich and cupcakes,
Albert surrendered the bag, went
back to the store. and reported
what had happened.
The cash bag went back into
the safe.
Police searched for the gun
men, but they had sped away.
Darkness hid their reactions
when they opened the papelA bag,
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Abetz Seeks 10 Excuse
Execution Requests
BY the Associated Press

| PARIS, July 16.-Otto Abetz.
Hitler's ambassador to occupied
Paris, told a French military
court today he didn't mean what
he was saying when he suggested
the execution of two former
French ministers.
Abetz. on trial for his life. said
he was only trying to save greater
numbers of Frenchmen from re-
prisal killings. Also, he said, he
suggested that the former cabi-
net members be delivered to the
Vichy French government for the
executions and what the Vichy
government did would have been
no concern to the Germans.
The former ambassadors ex-
planation was a bit confusing to
the French court, especially since
one of the former ministers
Georges Mandel, who had been
Interior Minister-was killed by
German troops while being trans
ferred from a German prison to
Vichy custody.
His explanation may be further
debated by Paul Reynaud. former
French premier, who was one Of
those suggested for execution by
Abetz. Mr.. Reynaud will be q
witness at the trial.
Abetz is charged with willful
manslaughter, pillage, deporta-
ton of Jews to Germany. send.
ing Frenchmen to Germany for
forced labor and responsibility for
the assassination Of Mr. Mandsa
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Armed Robbers Wait for Buq
Find They're Holding 1t

There was nothing thin about
the bologna Albert Ulitzky, %,
sliced for a midnight snack in his
fathers District Grocery Store at
1912 First street NV. last night
it was a 5000 slice.
Albert sliced the bologna at
$50 pm. and clamped it between
two husky slices of bread anG
then, just because he might grow
hungry on his night job as Post
Office clerk, put two cupcakes on
top Of the sandwich. He popped
the snack into a paper bag.
His mother and father, Mr.. and
Mrs. Meyer Ulitzky, were busy
counting the days receipts. They
totaled approximately 5000. AS is
their custom, the elder Ulitzky
stuffed the cash into another
paper bag.
In the darkness outside lurked
two gunmen, one armed with an
automatic. Advance planning had
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Van Bittner Critically III
In Pittsburgh Hospital
By The Assoeioted Press

PITTSBURGH, July 16.-Van
A. Bittner, 81. international vice
president of the CIO United Steel
workers, was reported in critical
condition tonight at Mercy Hos
pital.
Mr.. Bittner, who has been in
poor health, was taken to the
hospital July Z. The hospital re-
ported he was suffering from a
heart condition and had been
placed in an oxygen tent.
The union official is chairman
of the CIO Southern organizing
drive. Before breaking with the
United Mine Workers, Mr.. Bit
tner was president Of UNIV Dis
trict No. II with headquarters
at Washington. Since his affilia-
ton with the C1O he has been
one Of the top advisors Of C1O
President Philip Murray.
Evening star., 1949-07-17
a Arlington Residents Showdown Tomorrow
Killed in Pennsylvania Expected in Dispute on
Crash, 7 Die at Laurel 7 W. N. & A. Firinqs
Three Government Girls,
Morine and Two Maryland
Men Listed us Victims

Four Arlington residents were
killed in Pennsylvania, two men
lost their lives near Laurel, Md,
and several others were injured
here and in nearby communities
in week end traffic accidents.
A crash between a trailer -trac-
tor truck and an automobile on
the Pennsylvania Turnpike caused
the death of three Government
girl employees from Arlington
Farms and a Marine Corps cor
poral from headquarters at the
Naval Annex.
A similar car-truck collision on
the Washington Baltimore boule-
ward near the Laurel Raceway
trotting track took the lives OF
two Savage. Md, men. In both
accidents, the truck drivers es-
capped uninjured.
The Pennsylvania crash late
Friday resulted in the death OF
Mary Elizabeth Smetana, 10, o1
Bradenville, Pa, a clerk -typist in
the Marine Corps finance office
here, Jesse Sarah Mireles, 10, of
Torrance, Pa, and Estelle Riggs
20. of Maysville. N. c., both clerk
typists in the Army transportation
section at the Pentagon, and Ma
rine Corpl. Robert j. Doll, 10.
Two Men Identified.
The two men killed at 5 pm.
yesterday on the Washington Bal
timore boulevard were identified
by Maryland State Police as Oliver
Wendell Holmes, AZ, of Savage,
Md, and Frank Francis Martins.
The age and address of Mr.. Mar
tins were not Immediately avail
able, but police said they believed
he also was a resident of Savage.
The Arlington Farms directors
Office said Miss Smetana had lived
there since July 80. 1948, Miss
Mireles since May 81, 1948, and
Miss Riggs since August 2, 1948.
The office reported it had no de-
tails of the accident except that
the three girls and Corpl. Riggs
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Union Threatens to File
Strike Notice if fCuses
Are Not Arbitruted

Negotiations between union off,
cials and the w. M. & A. Motor
Lines. Inc. headed toward a
showdown tomorrow, afyer union
officials declared a strike notice
would be filed unless the dismissal
of two employees is submitted to
arbitration.
Leslie L. Altman, president OF
the bus company, said last night
he would see his attorney tomor-
row morning and then confer with
union representatives.
But" he said. II don't antici-
pate changing my position" He
contends the union does not have
jurisdiction over the stockroom
job from which one of the men
was dismissed last week.
George r. Hays, vice president
of Local 1865 AFL Street Railway
and Motor Coach Workers. said
unless the company agrees to arbi-
tration the union will give notice
of strike in 60 days under the
provisions of the Taft Hartley
law.
So Buses Operating.
The w. M. g. A. operates Sc
buses for commuters between
Washington and Prince Georges
County and other Maryland
points.
The dispute arose over the dis
missal of an employe in the stock
room. The man formerly was
employed as a mechanic but lost
an arm in a shop accident 18
months ago. Mr.. Altman ex-
planned job was made for him
in the stock room but the man was
sick and, in fact, had been of for
six weeks. He said work was piling
up and it was decided the man
would have to be replaced.
A letter the employe received
Friday notifying him of his dis
missal but saying place might
be found for him when he was
able to return aroused the ire of
union officials.
Mr.. Altman said the stock
room job is not covered by the
union contract and that there
fore the union does not represent
the employe.
Mr.. Hays conceded the union
failed to get the job included in
the contract signed June 81. He
said, however, the man is q union
(See STRIKE, PageA A-6.)