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Evening star., 1949-10-20

SotC1 311A4S11o
courages news about ia Grande
Amerique" for two reasons: Self
defense against the Communist
Party, and the need to justify be-
fore it's people its full cooperation
with America.
1t was in the spring OF 1947
that the French politicians de-
cided' to unload the Communists
from the government. They be-
lieved that this calculated risk
could be run successfully only II
they had the full support of the
United States.
Maurice Thorez and his Com
munist associates, obeying orders
from Moscow, began violent
campaign to prove to the country
that the Socialist government had
sold out to Washington, and that
the sale would be useless because
selfish, capitalistic America would
only throw the French people
some crumbs and would never
agree to support them on a large
scale.
u. S. Help Advertised.
The Ramadier, Schuman and
Queuille governments which ruled
during the last 80 months had to
show that they were not mistaken
in placing their hopes in the
United States. They appealed to
the country to "hold the line" and
to work harder than in the past
because this was the only way to
receive much needed American
help.
To Offset the Communist slo-
gans, to the effect that the French
people were receiving only crumbs
from the rich mans table, they
felt compelled to advertise the
fact Of American help by all pos
sible means. Except for the Com
munist paper, L'Humanite, and
the many Socialist and moderate
newspapers in the provinces, the
Partisan journals have been
carrying as much news as pos
sible about what help was coming
from the United States, how
France was benefiting from the
American bonanza and what the
French people must do to take ad-
vantage of this welcomed help,
Evening star., 1949-10-20

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In case that's
not clear, here's
what I mean.
For thre e
m o n t his I've
been a b 20 a d,
and during all
t hose thre e
months W h a t
little manners I
have. plus a
sympathy or
countries lie S S
fortunate than
m | n e , h a S
ao11coI nan To
Evening star., 1949-10-20

greatest cit y
re S erve s for
Pc rso ms who
have de e pl y
S tirr ed tn e
emotions Of the
p opul a t / o n
Crowds cheered
and applauded,
the ess re-
ports, with an
enthusiasm sell
dom S e e n on
such occasions.
Yet this Is a
m an a b o u t
Evening star., 1949-10-20

D y Americans
here with al
most as much
interest as his
political for
tunes.
Th ey know
the Prime Min
lister not only
as a p tri o t
a n d a states
man but as a
h / G h = strung
ariStocrat who
does not suffer
f OILS or even
fra fir n o I q " q
Evening star., 1949-10-20

the military aid
program W a S
flashed on the
heavy asbestos
cur t in. The
n xt morning
the Ere n c h
new S p a p e r S
played up this
piece of news,
just as they do
almost every
t ng tn a t
comes from the
United States.
The French
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Bv Constantine Broyn

PARIS (By AirmailD.-During
an intermission of the Opera
Comique on October 6 the news
that President Truman had signed
Evening star., 1949-10-20
By LoweH MeUeff

A wise man came out Of the
East the other day and rode up
Broadway. New York turned out
to meet him in the manner our
Evening star., 1949-10-20
By Doris Fleeson

NEW DELHI, India. Oct. II (By
airmaiD Prime Minister Nehru's
personal impact upon America
and vice versa, will be watched
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Frederick Man Arrested
In Pharmacist S SIayinq
BY the Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Mar. %.
Two South Florida sheriffs were
expected here today to take GUS
tody of prisoner wanted in con-
nection with the Staying of a
Baltimore pharmacist.
Detective Inspector H. v.
Branch said the man, listed as
Merlin James Leiby. %, of Fred
erick. Md. had admitted killing
Leonard Applebaum. 81. an un-
married Navy veteran, near
Tampa after the two gambled and
Mr.. Applebaum lost.
Sheriff L. J. Thorp of Collier
County. where Mr.. Applebaum'
body was found under a Tamiami
Trail bridge, and Lee County
Sheriff Flanders Thompson
planned to take Leiby back to
South Florida.
On the way. they intend to take
the prisoner over the route he says
he followed from near Tampa and
to question him closely on details
of his story.
Inspector Branch said Leiby
told officers he shot Mr.. Apple
baum in self-defenSe after the
pharmacist pulled a gun on him
in an attept to regain the money
lost in the gambling game.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Funeral Services Held
For Milo D. Heron, IA

Funeral services were held this
morning for Milo D. Heron, "a.
retired sales manager for the Trew
Motor Co., who died Saturday in
Doctors Hospital. The services
were in Hysong's funeral home.
Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Heron, who lived at 2646
Thirty-n ninth street NV, was born
in Cobleskill. N. Y. and attended
Syracuse University. He later
taught school at the Monroe In
stitute and the Staten Island
Academy in New York and was
for a time high school principal
in Maplewood, N. j.
Long in the automobile busi-
ness, Mr.. Heron first came to
Washington in 1925. He was man
ager of the truck sales department
of the Trew firm from 1885 until
his retirement in 1948.
Mr.. Heron was a 32d Degree
Mason and a member Of Delta
Epsilon fraternity. He is survived
by three daughters, Miss Betty K.
Heron of the home address: Mrs.
Jean H. Anspach. Bluemont. Va,
and Mrs. Barbara H. Plegge Of
Brookmont. Md.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Man Gets 24O.DaY Term
In Rent Deposit Swind|e

Mckinley M. Young, 25, was
sentenced today to serve 240 days
in Jail for bilking four women out
of $40 each in deposits on the same
apartment which he falsely claimed
he had a right to rent.
Judge George D. Nelson termed
Young s., offense as particularly
reprehenSible" in imposing the
sentence in Municipal Court.
Every one nowadays is hard up
for living quarters, and here you
are film hamming innocent people
and taking advantage of their dire
need" the judge said.
Young. colored. of the 1900 block
Of Stevens road NV, pleaded
guilty to accepting the deposits
under false pretenses by Offering
to rent an apartment in the 500
block Of Lamont street NV. last
January. Judge Nelson commented
that the mans record showed he
had engaged in similar frauds
before.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Hardness Edwards, Jr.,
Weds Gladys Barker
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LEXINGTON. KY. Mar. o.
Gladys Joyce Barker and Hark
ness Edwards. jr.. were married
here yesterday.
The bride is the daughter OF
Mrs. Hugh Lucas Fontaine, Crystal
Springs Farm. Lexington. and S
Weldon Barker, East Orange, N. j,
Mr.. Edwards is the son of Mrs
Sherman Jenney. New York and
Lexington. and the late Hardness
Edwards, Lexington and Pitts
burgh sportsman.
Mrs. Edwards was given in mar
riage by her brother, James Hunt
Barker. Her matron of honor was
Mrs. P. A. B. Widener III.
After the wedding and a break
fast at Crystal Springs Farm, the
couple left by plane for Nassau.
They will make their home at Mr..
Edwards Walnut Hall Farm.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Beer for Nickel .
|MukesComebuck
In New York ..
by the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. GA
7-ounce glass of beer for 8
nickel is packing in the custom
ers at a downtown neighborhood
cafe.
And it's causing wonderment
among the neighbors-many of
whom never had seen a beer sell
for less than a dime.
The glad tidings were posted
yesterday at Sans Bar and Grill,
79 st. Marks place.
Happy days are here again"
and spring is here and SO is
scent beer" the signs read.
Explaining the price cut. Pro-
prietor Sam Atkins said: Il fig
ured it was time somebody
started a scent beer"
He said he could get along"
if he sold 10 half barrels a week,
with no free beers. The bigger
profit on hard liquor, of course.
will keep the place out of the red.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
New Trial 10 Be Asked
After Death Verdict
In Staying Of Druggist
Attorneys for Lawrence Goodall

Attorneys for Lawrence Goodall
"a, condemned to die for the
robbery-murder of druggist
said today they will file motion
for q new trial.
The verdict against Goodall
was brought in at $40 o'clock last
night by District Court jury that
had deliberated six hours and 10
minutes. The eight men and four
women found the colored defend
ant guilty of flrst-degree murder
in the October IL shooting of DR..
Nathaniel johnson. SO. colored.
Goodall was identified by a
woman customer and a 16-year-
old boy as the gunman who shot
DR.: Johnson in his drugstore at
600 Third street S.W.. after an
nouncing this is holdup"
The defendant, who lives in the
400 block Of Oakdale place NV,
denied on the stand having been
in the Southwest section the time
Of the shooting.
Star Government witness was
Edward Jackson, jr.. 25. colored,
Of the 300 block of Dixon court
S.W. Indicted as the lookout
MAN in the robbery. Jackson was
allowed to plead guilty to second
degree murder, then testified
against Goodall. Jackson has yet
to be sentenced.
alfred Goldstein, a defense at
torney, said the motion for new
TRIAL will be based on certain
points admitted in evidence which
it, is contended are questionable,
on a claim that Judge Richmond
q, Keech's instructions to the jury
covering a possible second-degree
murder verdict were not correctly
given and that the court denied
q defense request for certain in
structions.
A finding of first-degree murder
carries the mandatory death pen
atty In the District.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Congress in Brief
By me Assoeiotsd Press

Senate:
Resumes debate on rent control
extension.
Post Office Committee continues
studies OF proposed postage rate
increases.
Foreign Relations Committee
considers Chinese matters.
Armed Services Committee con-
tinues consideration of nomination
of Louis A. johnson to be Secre-
tary of Defense.
House:
Debates veterans pension bill.
Foreign Affairs Committee
drives for final decision on Euro
pean Recovery Program.
WayS and Means Committee
continues social security hearings
Rules Committee considers oleo-
margarine tax repeal.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Truman Sends MESSAGE
To Start Persia Broadcast,
by the Asseeiotsd Press

President Truman said yester-
day the American people want 4
peaceful world free Of the fears
of war, free of oppression. and
free of want"
Both the American people and
the Government, he said in a
special message to Iran, desire
"a prosperous world in which
peoples of every creed. color and
nationality can live together as
good neighbors in friendship and
fellowship"
Mr.. Truman's message was read
in the Persian language at the
opening Of the new series of
broadcasts to Iran by the State
Departments Voice of America"
radio.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
By Miriom Ottenbero

Judith Coplon's lawyer says she
was collecting material for a book
at the time the Government
charges she was stealing national
secrets.
That indication of how the de-
fense will shape up in the Coplon
espionage trial was given yesterday
when the 27-year-old Justice De-
partment employe came here for
arraignment on charges that she
copied intelligence reports and re-
moved FBI data slips to help a
foreign power.
Miss Coplon pleaded not guilty
and was placed under additional
bond of $4,000. She was already
under $4,000 bond in New York
on charges Of conspiring with
Russian Engineer Valentin A.
Gubitchev to commit espionage
and defraud the Government.
AS Miss Coplon listened with
considerable interest and an oc-
casional smile, her lawyer, Archi-
bald Palmer of New York. pictured
her as an embryonic author in
search of material for a novel.
part of Research"
Asked if meeting Mr.. Gubitchev
was part of her research, Mr..
Palmer replied:
If you were a lady working in
Washington, you'd meet all kinds
of people from all countries at
teas and cocktail parties. Meet
ing a foreigner doesn't mean
much. It's like a foreigner kiss
ing your hand-just a kiss"
Mr.. Palmer waxed enthusiastic
about Miss Coplons prospective
novel. Theodore Dreiser's The
American Tragedy" Shakespeares
Much Ado About Nothing" Il
Remember Mama" and The Busy,
Busy People" were all mentioned
lightly in passing.
The novel is partially political,
partially Government and par
tally love" announced Mr.. Pal
mer. Shes not selling her soul
for a mess of pottage. She's try
ing to write something that's
going to stand out"
A reporter whispered to Miss
Coplon, Have you told Mr..
Palmer about this book"
We've had discussions" she
replied with a smile.
Historical Background"
The New York lawyer explained
to the Washington reporters that
in Washington it's customary for
people in public Office to write
books, and authors have to get
information so they have the
basic historical background"
DO you mean that at the time
Miss Coplon is accused Of having
committed espionage she was COL
lecting material for her book" the
lawyer was asked.
Certainly" he replied.
was tne material found IN
her pocketbook material for her
book?" he was asked.
Il can't answer that question"
The Justice Department had
announced that a fiat package
containing security information
was found in Miss Coplon's pock-
etbook when she was arrested
with Gubitchev in New York on
March 4. after a Commute chase
through Manhattan streets.
Poses for Pictures.
Miss Coplon herself had little
to say to reporters. although she
posed willingly for photographers
and allowed herself to be led to
the preSsroom where her attor-
Evening star., 1949-03-22
House Unit 10 Take Up
Labor Bill Tomorrow;
Swift Approval Seen
By Jones Y. Newton

A House Labor Subcommittee
will meet in closed session tomor-
row to consider the administration
labor bill and its chairman pre-
dicted the measure, calling for
repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act,
will meet with swift approval.
Chairman Kelley postponed an
executive session set for today
because the House was meeting
early to consider other legislation.
He predicted his group would ap-
prove the labor bill quickly and
send it along for action by the
full Labor Committee. headed by
Representative Lesinski, which will
meet Thursday.
There are indications that the
subcommittee, which ended two
weeks of hearings on the Taft-
Hartley substitute yesterday. will
approve the bill by a straight party
line vote of 8 to S.
Includes Notifications.
The administration bill would
substitute for Taft-Hartley the
old Wagner Act with some modi-
ficat tions of improvements" re-
Quested by President Truman. 1t
has the full backing of organized
labor.
The measure picked up some
Republican support. Representa-
tive Brehm, Labor Committee
member from Ohio, said he will
vote to send the bill to the House
floor for debate. although he will
attempt to amend it in several
places beforehand.
A committee Democrat said he
expects at least one more Republi-
can to join Mr. Brehm. 1t was
the first break in the heretofore
solid front of COP committee
members against Taft-Hartley
repeal.
Top CIO officials Heard.
The House hearings ended with
q group Of left-wing CIO unions
clamoring in vain to be heard.
The subcommittee spent the
day listening to top CIO officials.
Five scheduled witnesses had not
been reached. Mr.. Kelley an
nounced their statements would
be accepted for the record.
This brought shouts Of protest
from spokesmen for the Fur
Workers. Food and Tobacco Work.
ers. United Electrical Workers,
Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers,
American Communications Asso-
citation. and the once and Pro-
fessional Workers.
Mr.. Kelley refused them time to
speak.
Evening star., 1949-03-22

contended that to allow upper
grade employees to engage actively
in unionism would not be good
management policy Further
more, they have argued that to
allow such participation would
have the effect of coercing non-
union subordinates working under
these supervisors to join unions in
order to please their supervisors. :"
4 X \
RETIREMENT-T he Sena t e
Civil Service Subcommittee on re-
tirement legislation will meet in
executive session tomorrow to con-
slider the various bills before it.
It's expected that the subcom-
mittee will order hearings for next
week on Chairman JohnSton's bill
to permit retirement at SIS with
full annuities. provided the en-
ployes have 80 years Of service.
Also. the group is expected to
schedule hearings on Senator
Johnsons bill to give survivor
ship insurance and dependency
benefits, as we'll as more gen.
erous annuities, to those Fed
eral employees and their families
who retired before enactment of
last years liberalized civil service
retirement bill.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Warren
B. Irons. chief of the Civil Service
Commissions retirement division,
has urged all employees who at
any time received a refund from
retirement deductions and later
returned to Government en-
loyment. to redeposit Immediately
with his division the money, plus
interest, that was withdrawn.
Otherwise, these employees will
receive only a fraction of the
retirement annuities that nor
mally would be theirs. The
hoover commission recOmmen-
dations for making it easier to fire
incompetent employees will be
discussed at 7:30 o'clock tonight
by the Society for Personnel
Administration in the Archives
Auditorium. Participating will be
Kenneth Zahn and E. v. Powell
of the Navy Department and
Lewis Sims of the Hoover Com
missions task force. Henry
G. Nolda has been elected presi-
dent of the Veterans Admins
tratiop Federal Employees Union
No 2. National Federation of
Federal Employees. Others elected
were Lewis S. Sasser, vice presi-
dent; Verda j. Roswell secre-
tary; Elizabeth Fabing. treasurer,
and Leon Chagnon. sergeant-at-
arms. The Army Department
mas jobs open for charWomen, pay
ing salaries of 5000 to S2,152 q
year. The employment Office is in
Evening star., 1949-03-22

pensation bill is the more lmpor-
tant measure to them, because,
unlike pay legislation, it has
good chance of passage.
The bill would wipe out the
present $l16-a-month maximum
injury benefits and the Sc per
cent of salary computation. In
stead, it would provide injury
payments of IS per cent of an
employees annual salary, with no
maximum ceiling imposed. In
addition, the widows of employees
killed on the job would get more
benefits, as would employees who
suffered total disabilities.
4 X -
ACE IN HOLE-For a while it
appeared there would be some
pretty red faces in the House Ex-
ecutive Expenditures Committee
in regard to the bill to increase
the present $6-a-day rate travel
allowance for Government en-
ployes to a new $40. daily maxi
mum.
But now that it appears a"cer-
tainty the committee will approve
the bill, the gentlemen in question
will be spared.
Had things looked a little un-
certain. Chairman Dawson and
Representative Karsten, the bills
sponsor, had a couple of things up
their sleeves with which to pull
the bill out of the fire.
They had the travel vouchers Of
several of the members on the
committee who have grumbled
a bit about increasing Gov
ernment employees travel allow
ances. These vouchers show that
the grumblers. on their official
committee junkets out of town,
spent considerably more than $6
day. In fact, they spent more than
$40 a day!
INTERIOR-The Interior De-
partment is expected to fare
rather we'll at the hands Of the
House Appropriations Commit
Tee when the departments 1850
money bill is reported to the House
friday. Unlike the past two years,
10 personnel cuts are expected to
'esult from the committees meas
ire. And in some instances, espe-
tally in the Reclamation Bureau,
here will be personnel increases,
mostly out of town.
* 4
BATTLE RESUMED-The vari-
JUS AFL employe unions are MAX
ng another attempt to have the
Navy Department rescind its Or
Ter barring upper-bracket SUPER
1isory and other employees from
engaging In union activ-
ties.
Stanley w. Oliver, secretary
treasurer of the AFL Government
Council, has written
Secretary of Navy John L. Sulli-
van. asking that this ban be
.escinded Immediately.
Methods of selecting union
officers and their tenures Of office
are union business, and they are
not Navy business Mr.. Oliver
wrote.
Navy personnel officials have
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Jury Clears Woestoff
Of Muriiuunu Churqe

The District grand jury yester.
day ignored a marijuana charge
against Joseph A. Wagstaff. "a.
often-arrested Chevy Chase tMdD
man, who was reported to be
under $1,000 bond in New York
on charges of grand larceny and
assault IN connection with an au-
tomobile collision.
The grand jury's action here in
ignoring the marijuana charge
clears him of that charge. New
York authorities charged Wagstaff
stole an automobile from a New
York parking lot and crashed into
a taxicab.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Lawyer Asserts Miss CopIon
Collected Secrets for Novel

Ney nelQ 1OTCn.
BY that time, she had been
fingerprinted, had been shuttled
through one crowd Of curious by
ISLANDERS after another and had
heard Justice Department attor-
ney tell the court that, If she de-
cided to become a fugitive from
justice, it would be very difficult
to apprehend her."
Through it all, she kept her
poise. She smiled frequently
never forgot to refer leading ques-
tions to her lawyer and never
raised her voice. When reporter
asked her how she managed to
keep so calm, she replied:
Il just feel that way"
Because of her brothers illness,
she said, she was unable to send
for her clothes from her Mclean
Gardens room here. She took off
her shoe and showed it to a
reporter.
Thirty -thousand-dolla bond"
she murmured. "and I've got q
hole in my shoe"
Amused BY Descriptions.
She was amused by newspaper
descriptions of her as "sultry-
eyed and "vivacious." Some Of
the newspapers. she said. were
"flattering," but she didn t like
being called plain" by the New
York Times.
She told reporters she is S feet
tall and weighs 100 pounds. For
her return to Washington she
wore a black beret tilted over an
eye, black cardigan sweater but
toned up the back and q gray
tweed skirt somewhat shorter than
the new look" Her only jewelry
was a thin gold chain around her
neck. Bright lipstick relieved her
paleness.
She pleaded not guilty in a
clear. carrying voice when ar
raigned before Judge Richmond
B. Keech. Then she stood with
her hands clasped behind her back
while the judge brushed aside her
attorneys efforts to keep the bond
from being increased.
This girl is an American. her
father was born here" Mr..
Palmer said. She doesn't know
any foreign language. Size would
have no place to 60
Calls Family Poor.
He argued that her family is
poor, that her father had Just
suffered q cerebral hemorrhage.
that her mother and brother are i'll.
Judge Keech set the additional
bail and fixed April rs as the
trial date. although Raymond P.
Whearty. special assistant to the
Attorney General, asked for an
April IL trial. Mr.. Whearty said
the Government hopes to try the
New York case against Miss Coplon
and Gubitchev on April !.
The judge gave Mr.. Palmer q
week to find Washington counsel.
after the lawyer argued for more
time on the ground that at
mospheric conditions around the
case" might make. 1t dtfncult. to
get q lawyer.
Miss Coplon was released on
"a ~ ls,a See a
a $1,000 certified check and $4,000
in cash. Harry NJ. Hull. clerk of
District Court. said the money was
provided by Miss Coplon's brother
Bert in lieu Of surety and that it
had been deposited Immediately in
the Treasury.
Miss Coplon said she was flying
back to New York Immediately be-
cause of her fathers illness
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Court Clash Marks Hearing
In Kalamazoo Plant Raid
by the Asseeiotsd Press

KALAMAZOO. Mar. %. The
conspiracy examination Of II CIO
United Steelworkers in connection
with a raid on the Shakespeare
Co. plants December /. headed
into its second day today after a
clash between the court and de-
Tense lawyers
Attorneys Ralph Helper and
Nicholas Rothe got rebuke yes
terday from visiting Circuit Judge
James r. Breakey, jr.. Of Ann
Arbor.
The lawyers questioned Judge
Breakey's jurisdiction, saying he
had not been assigned to the case
by Gov. G. Mennen Williams.
Judge Breakey replied by angri-
ly reading from previous hearings
transcripts in which he had asked
the attorneys If his jurisdiction
was questioned. Both attorneys
had said that it was not
The first witness was Miss Ann
Grant. secretary to Thomas Shane
steelworkers' State director. one
Of the defendants. She identified
the defendants and said she knew
them as union field representa-.
tives.
The defendants are accused or
variety Of charges, ranging from
melting to riot to conspiracy Il
destroy property in the raid on thu
struck Shakespeare plants.