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Evening star., 1949-09-21
-Four Railroad Unions
Threaten Strike on
Burlington System
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 2l.-Possibil-
ity Of a strike against a second
major railroad - the mile
Burlington system-developed to.
day.
A strike against the Burlington
has been authorized by four op-
Grating brotherhoods in a drive te
speed up handling Of grievance
claims.
c. H. Atkins. general chairman
Of Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers lodges on the railroad, dis
closing the strike vote result. said
ut looks like another Missouri
Pacific case" ~ a.
Mr.. Atkins said 96 per cent o1
the 1000 Burlington employees a.
fected had approved strike action
There has been no strike date set
but the brotherhood chairman
said o date may be set within the
next two or three weeks.
Protest Arbitration Delay.
The other three unions involved
are the Brotherhood Of Locomo.
tive Firemen & Enginemen,. the
Order Of Railway Conductors and
the Brotherhood Of Railroad
Trainmen.
The same unions have shut down
the 7.000-mile Missouri Pacific
since September 8 in a similar dis
pute.
The unions are protesting delay
in arbitration of 412 pay claims
and grievances, some Of them
dating back to 1943.
Harry c. Murphy. president OF
the Burlington. commenting on
the strike vote. said "the Federal
Railway Labor Act, enacted by
Congress at the request Of the
labor organizations. provides the
method Of disposing Of all these
disputes.
Urges Compliance With Law.
If the law is complied with,
there will be no strike. The Bur-
lington will comply with the law
The public has the right to expect
that the labor leaders will do
likewise"
Under the Railway Labor Act,
the National (Railway) Mediation
Board will intervene If a strike
date is set. This will automatic
ally postpone strike action for at
least another 90 days, giving the
board time to study the issues and
make recommendations for settle
ment. After the boards report
q strike can be legally called. If
no settlement then can be reached.
A spokesman for the railroad
said the number Of pay claims of
operating union members Of the
Burlington still in process Of me-
diation is $50, and that $50 Of an
Evening star., 1949-09-21
Steel
Continued From. First Page.)

in conferences with union and
management officials, beginning
Monday to persuade the disputants
to resume negotiations. Mr.. Muir
ray has insisted that the COM
panies must accept the suggestions
of the fact finding board before
he will renew contract talks. The
equally adamant employers have
said that any pension plan which
they will accept must be supported
jointly by the employers and the
workers.
In offering to consider the fact
finders recommendations. Eugene
G. Grace, chairman of Bethlehem
Steel Co., also urged prompt re-
newal of bargaining talks.
Mr.. Grace made it clear
that I'VE are not willing to agree
to the recommendations as a
condition of going into bargain
ing"
Firm Ready to Bargain.
He added that his company Is
prepared to bargain at once on
social insurance, with the under
standing that those benefits will
be enlarged" and that it is pre-
pared to make a study Of our
pension plan with the union. as
a preliminary to bargaining on
this subject"
Earlier. the Federal mediators
were said to be interested in the
reported offer Of an employer-paid
pension plan at the Ford Motor
Co. as a possible aid in set
Ting the steel dispute. At De-
troit, Ford announced that
it had told the CIO United Auto
Workers it was willing to discuss
a pension plan and was looking at
things ''in the light Of the (steeD
boards recommendations. and
their inescapable national effect
whether we agree with them or
not"
A union source said Ford had
offered an employer-paid pension,
within the framework of the presi-
Dental boards findings, and that
the two sides were only a few
cents away from agreement. There
was real hope. of heading of the
big Ford strike set for next week
If Ford grants the pension,
Government concfliators believe
1t will supply lever for settlement
in steel.
The steel companies, meanwhile
ordered operations cut back in
preparation for q strike.
Evening star., 1949-09-21
London School for Boys
Adds Five to Faculty

Five new members have been
added to the faculty Of the Ian
don School for Boys in Bethesda
it was announced today by Paul
L. Banfield. headmaster Of the
school.
They are: Ralph Britton, Ad-
rian H. Onderdonk. jr., and Ern-
est Peseux. Comdr. Thomas
Blount, U.S.N. (retired), has been
appointed athletic director and
Emory Harmon, assistant athletic
director.
Registration was to be held to-
day. Glasses will start tomorrow
Evening star., 1949-09-21
USW Organizes PieketS
Calls for Peace and Order

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 81 P.-
Orders for. a peaceful and order
ly" strike were issued today by
the CIO United Steelworkers for
the Nationwide steel strike set
for Saturday midnight.
Strike instructions, sent to all
locals by the unions information
al officers, call for adequate
picket lines" at plants gates
three shifts, "a hours q day and
seven days q week."
Pickets are instructed to allow
entrance to plants to manage
ment officials, superintendents.
foremen and Office workers not
on strike.
Pickets were warned to CO.
operate with police. The instruc-
tions added: "Picketing shall be
peaceful and all lawful regula-
tions shall be observed"
Evening star., 1949-09-21
Cyclists to Have Heut

Centrally heated bicycles will
appear In Danish streets next
winter, Copenhagen reports. A
newly patented device, which will
cost only $1.30. produces warmth
when q lead is taken from the
bicycle dynamo to the electric
elements inside the frame.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
u. 5. ENJOYS Reported
Urging Tito Support
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. 28.-More Amer
ican economic aid to help Yugo-
slavia defy Soviet Russia has been
urged by American ENJOYS to Iron
Curtain countries, diplomatic
sources said today.
American Ambassadors to Rus
sia and the Communist satellite
countries met here earlier this
week with Assistant Secretary OF
State George Perkins to exchange
views on countries in which they
are serving as ENJOYS.
Diplomatic informants. who re-
fused to be quoted by name. said
ICavendish Cannon, American Am
bassador to Yugoslavia. has sug-
gested that Yugoslavia be ex-
empted from many of the restric-
tions imposed on East-West trade.
The restrictions are intended to
prevent goods of potential mill
tary value going to Communist
countries.
Mr.. Cannon was reported 10
have said there is basically little
difference in Communist prac-
tices of Yugoslavia and other
Eastern European countries de-
spite Marshal Tito's bitter feud
with the Kremlin. But there was
said to be general agreement
among the Ambassadors that
American policy should aim at
widening the breach between Tito
and the Russian-led Cominform
Evening star., 1949-10-28

political meeting Of his own
choice, nor to deprive him OF
making a political contribution to
the political party of his own
choice"
He added that the problem Is
to get that point over to Federal
employees, who sometimes are
afraid to take part for fear OF
removal from Office.
He then made the remark that
there are some employees who
hide behind" the Hatch Act. Mr..
Donaldson did not amplify that
statement. but some OF his audi
ence interpreted this as a slap at
some Government officials in high
paying jobs who have cited the
Hatch Act as their reasons for
refusing to make party contribu-
tions in political campaigns.
MAD SCRAMBLE-The mad
scramble among Government Off
Icials for the top 400 Federal jobs
that will pay salaries Of $11, 200 to
$4,000 a year is really on in
earnest.
This was illustrated vividly the
other day at a Federal Personnel
Council meeting, attended by rep
resentatives of all Government de-
partments and agencies.
When representative from
the Civil Service Commission an
nounced the commission will be-
gin accepting recommendations
from the various departments and
agencies for these jobs, the meet
ing promptly broke up. The re-
mainder of the session was can
celed, as the officials scurried back
to their Offices to start compiling
their lists of candidates.
In fact, the Federal Personnel
Council Cancelled its meetings for
the rest of the week.
whats the use Of scheduling
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Survey Finds A|eutiun Natives
Are Drinking Selves to Death

partment survey group said the
Pribilof inhabitants are better of
than any other Alaskan natives
with the possible exception OF
those at Metlakatla. However, it
added:
along the Aleutian chain the
natives are on the decline through
disease and impoverishment, much
of it brought on by the unbridled
and excessive use of liquor
For the entire territory, the re-
port said, "the most deplorable
conditions among the natives ex-
lists in those communities and viii
lagos where liquor is available.
This places upon those COM
munities and their governing Off
cials a great responsibility in con-
trolling the sale of liquor and the
enforcement of laws that will pre-
vent the unfortunate conditions
that result from the excessive use
Of liquor.
This also involves the obliga-
ton on the part of the territory
to enforce all existing liquor laws,
which is not now being done"
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Sforza Calls Peace Treaty
Practically Dead in Italy
BY the Assoeioied Press

ROME, Oct. 28.-Foreign Min
lister Carlo Sforza thinks Italy's
peace treaty is practically dead"
In a Senate foreign policy de-
bate yesterday, Count Sforza said
only one power remembers it
(the treaty. from time to time,
and none of the others ever men
tions it," 1t was apparent he re-
ferred to Russia. Britain, the
United States and France are the
other chief signatories.
Tullio Benedetti, rightist Sena-
tor, had demanded that Italy
renounced the treaty. Count
Sforza opposed any formal action
to renounce it. Such a step, he
said, might create a pretext fol-
international trouble and we, fol
love of country. do not want te
give rise to such a preteXt."
Evening star., 1949-10-28
By the Assoeiotsd Press

An Interior Department survey
group said today that natives ir
/ the Aleutian Islands and some
other parts of Alaska are drink.
ing themselves to death.
1t said that by contrast the
Pribilof Islands, north of the Aleu-
tians, have no destitute families
no neglected welfare cases and nc
crime or liquor problem with the
exception of home brew"
There is absolutely no basis, it
said, for charges that Pribilof
natives-custodians of the Gov
ernment-owned fur-seal herds
that summer on the islands-are
held in slavery, bondage or peon-
age"
Statements that the Pribilot
islanders are held in 'peonage''
have been made in recent months
by various individuals and groups.
Miss Fredericka Martin, former
Alaskan resident now living in
New York City, gave testimony to
that effect before the Senate In
terror Committee.
The report by the Interior De-
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Can't Embarrass Me,
Truman Says in Reply
To Query on Irving

President Truman is embarrass!
ment-proof.
He applied that description to
himself at a news conference
yesterday in a joking colloquy
about his intentions with regards
to support for his home district
Congressman and fellow Demo-
crat. Representative Irving.
Mr.. Irving, a union official. has
been having some trouble with his
organization in Kansas City and
his Office help here.
A reporter offhandedly asked
Mr.. Truman if he expected to
campaign for Mr.. Irving next
year.
Irving Remark Cited.
That bridge would be crossed
when he came to it, the President
said, asking with a laugh what the
questioner sought.
Then reporter said that Mr..
Irving had blamed his troubles in
part to enemies who sought to en-
barrass the President.
Mr.. Truman replied that he is
embarrass-proof. Every one in
the world has tried to embarrass
him. and they can't do it. he am
plified.
Mr.. Irving. who heads AFL Hod
Carriers Union 264, was sued last
year for an accounting of union
funds. The suit was dismissed.
Fight Ended Meeting.
Then a union meeting he ad-
dressed broke up in a fight.
Recently. members of his Office
staff here said they had been
locked out. His secretary, Vernon
E. Moore. quit.
Advised of the Presidents re-
marks, Mr.. Irving said he liked his
toWnsman fine. but as far as he
knows Mr.. Truman didn't cam
paign for him year ago when he
was elected for the first time and
he expects no help next year.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
|ArnoId Line Seizure
|0rdered 10 Continue
Service During Strike
BY ths Assoeiotsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 3d.
State seizure of the Washington
Virginia & Maryland Coach Co
lat 1901 am. Wednesday was or
|dered today by Gov. Tuck to pre-
vent, interruption OF service in
event Of a strike by bus operators
The. Governors proclamation
announcing his intent to take
over the company followed receipt
Of kilograms from the District OF
Columbia Commissioners and the
governing bodies of Arlington and
Fairfax Counties saying the serv-
ice is needed by the people in the
area and should not be inter-
rupted.
The bus company, known as the
Arnold Line, operates intrastate
between points in Arlington and
Fairfax Counties and interstate
into the District of Columbia.
Raise Demanded.
Strike notice was served on the
company by employees represent.
ed by the AFL Amalgamted Asso-
citation of Street. Electric Rail
way and Motor Coach Employees
of America. The union is demand
ing wage increases granted in ar
arbitration board award last
September.
The bus company has said it is
unable to grant the wage boost:
until 1t can secure an upward
revision in fares. An application
for such adjustment is now before
the State Corporation Commis-
sion.
Gov. Tuck's proclamation that
the State would seize the COM
pany's facilities if necessary to in
sure continuation Of service was
accompanied by the customary
executive order directing the
State Corporation Commission tc
serve as operating agent.
The Governor already has been
advised by the union that the en-
ployes would continue on the job
under State seizure.
sec Runs A., B. & w. Line.
The sec already is running an
other busline which serves the
Northern Virginia areas - the
Alexandria, Bancroft & Washing
ton Transit Co.-which was taken
over several weeks ago after a
strike deadline arrived without
settlement Of a labor dispute.
Virginia's Public Utilities Labor
Relations Act gives the Governor
the right to order State operation
where the health, safety or well
fare of the public is involved.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Amtorg Officials Sign Up
As Agents Of Russia
BY the Associofed Press

Under indictment for failure to
register as an agent of the Rus
sian government, Amtorg signed
up yesterday with the Justice
Department.
Department officials were check
ing the papers, brought here from
New York, to see if they comply
fully with the law the Soviet
trade agency and six of it's Of
flcers are accused of violating.
Whether the belated filing
first called for in 1946-will re-
suit in quashing of the indict-
ment, brought by Federal grand
jury here last week. remains to
be decided. department officials
said.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
33 Foreign Officers
Watch Middies March
Ry fine A.,oeioted Pres.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 28.-
Blue-shirted midshipmen passed
in review yesterday for naval at
taches from "a European and
South American nations.
The group of 33 foreign officers
toured the Naval Academy and
reviewed the weekly parade at
Worden Field on a good will visit
to Annapolis.
Evening star., 1949-10-28

any more meetings." said a coun.
Gil official. Nobody will attend
they're all too busy jockeying fol
those choice jobs"
BOOKLET-The Civil Service
Commissions retirement division
expects to have ready some time
in December its new questions.
and-answers booklet regarding
the Governments retirement
system.
The booklet will feature ths
most frequently asked question:
on retirement benefits. Watch
this column for the announce,
ment as to when the booklets viii
be available.
RECORD-The crowd of 1,50(
persons who attended last Tues.
day nights meeting of the Society
for Personnel Administration tx
hear Ismar Baruch of the Civil
Service Commission explain the
new pay legislation was the largest
gathering in the society's history
The society's next meeting is
on Tuesday. when the topic that
will be discussed is What Do We
Mean by a Career Service?" The
meeting starts at 7:30 pm. in the
National Archives Auditorium
The speakers will be Frank Hop
kins of the State Department, DR.
L. w. Knott of the Public Health
Service. DR.. Will T. Doran of the
Veterans Administration anG
Kenneth B. Atkinson of the State
Department.
NAVY-Award Medals Tor 80
years of Navy Department service
were presented yesterday to
Muriel Keller. Agnes Gallagher,
Thomas r. Marshall, Nina Mag
ness. Henry G. Desjardins and
Margaret Heller.
The presentation was made by
Rear Admiral Wesley M. Hague,
chief of Navy's Office of Industrial
Relations. Last week 40-year
service medals were presented to
Frank Dyer and Verne Simpkins
who are officials in the Industrial
Relations Office.
OVER THE TOP-The Bureau
of Land Management yesterday
became the first Interior Depart
ment unit to reach its quota in
the Community Chest campaign
Joseph Young's Federal Spot
light radio broadcast is heard
every Saturday at 8:15 pm.
ODer WMAL. The Star sfntio1,
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Bowmon Gets Rood Post
For Auqustu, HiqhIund
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND. Va, Oct. 28.-The
State Highway Department has
announced that Richard A. Bow
man, construction engineer in the
Staunton District, will become
assistant resident engineer for
Augusta and Highland Counties.
He will succeed Paul B. Coldiron
who will hold a similar post for
King George. Stafford and Spot
sylvania Counties. The changes
become effective November !.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Church Group Scores
|Wor|d Council Farley,
Sees TofaIifariianism

A great tragedy" was what the
American Council of Christian
Churches today called a mission
ary conference to be held in De-
cember in Bangkok, Thailand.
The conference of the World
Council of Churches and the In
ternational Missionary Council
represents "a program Of totali-
tartan control over the entire
Protestant missionary work of the
world -" the resolution, adopt
ed at the last convention business
session, stated.
1T actually is an effort to sweep
into the orbit of the World Coun-
Gil all the churches of the Far
East" it continued.
The group, meeting at the Grace
Baptist Church, Ninth street and
South Carolina avenue Sc, then
agreed to send a delegation of
sound, true believers in Christ
to the conference.
President Reelected.
This step, the resolution con-
tinued. is an effort to bring to
naught this grandios effort" to
build World Council of Churches
-"the great modern Tower OF
Babel"
Reelected we're:
The Rev. w. o. H. Garman
Williamsburg. Pa, president; DR.
R. T. Ketcham. Chicago, vice
president. and the Rev. Carl NC
1ntire, Collingswood. N. j., secre-
tary. The Rev. Jesse Anderson
Stanford, Conn.,, was elected
treasurer, and chosen to be coun-
Gil at large were the Rev. Carl
Standridge. Detroit, DR.. w. W.
Breckvill, Altoona. Pa, and the
Rev. H. c. Slade, Toronto, Canada
President Garman was to speak
at the afternoon service and Mr.
McIntire's subject at the closing
evening session is South Amer
ica's Place in the Twentieth Cen
tury Reformation"
Attacks Federal Council.
The council. represents Is Prot
eStant denominations having l.
100000 members. DR.. William
Harllee Bordeaux is general Sec
retary.
A resolution urging leaders in
American political life to support
a great spiritual revival" as a
means of saving the Nation from
"the Communist-inspired class
race and industrial war which
threatens our very existence" was
passed by the council yesterday
The gathering also indorsed a
motion warning the country that
clergymen "in positions of high
church responsibility are offering
the socialistic theology as the
Christian religion" and urging
that this situation be remedied
It charged that the leadership OF
the Federal Council of Churches
and the World Council OF
Churches" is using christian
terminology to destroy. our free
society and to lead us by means
of revolution by consent into a
socialist society"
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Truman Announces
Aliens Appointment
As Belgrade Envoy

George v. Allen. veteran OF an
early cold war" tussle with Russia
in Iran, is returning to the diplo-
matte firing line as American Am
bassador to Yugoslavia.
President Truman announced
late yesterday his appointment to
succeed Cavendish Cannon in the
post made critically important
now by the rebellion of Yugo-
slavia's Marshal Tito against Mos
cow domination.
Representative Mansfield, Dem
ocrat of Montana, has been offered
the job of Assistant Secretary OF
State for Public Affairs, with re-
sponsibility for the Voice OF
America" and related propaganda
work, which Mr.. Allen is giving ur
to take the Yugoslav assignment
He has not made known yet
whether he will accept.
Resignation Regretted.
Mr.. Truman announced with
much regret" the resignation OF
Mr.. Cannon, 54-year-old career
diplomat, who is retiring because
of i'll health.
Mr.. Cannon has been Ambassa-
dor to Yugoslavia since April. 1947
His diplomacy there has helped
exploit to the benefit Of the West
ern Powers the break between
Marshal Tito and the ,Kremlin
which occurred in the summer
of 1948.
Mr.. Allen, also a veteran OF
the career Foreign Service, faces
the task of developing the policy
of encouraging Marshal Tito's
defiance of intensified pressure
from Moscow and her satellite
states to break his power.
Problems Familiar.
The problems will not be en-
tirely new for Mr.. Allen. Before
becoming Assistant Secretary OF
State early last year. he served
as Ambassador to Iran during g
time that country was under
heavy political pressure from
Russia. He was credited with an
outstanding job in bolstering the
resistance of the Iranian govern
ment.
Mr.. Allen, As, is a native o1
North Carolina where he worked
as a high school teacher ano
newspaper reporter before enter.
ing the Foreign Service in 1880
Under his direction. the Voice
) of America and other Government,
information activities abroad have
been made an important instru.
ment of American foreign policy
He was the first top official tt
admit frankly that such Govern.
ment information work was prop.
aganda. J.
Allen Sees Challenge.
Mr.. Allen called his new job Z
"terrif1cally challenging post" HI
returned yesterday from Londor
where he attended a strategy con.
ference of American Ambassador!
to the Communist nations of East
ern Europe.
Mr.. Mansfield was due in New
York today, returning from Part:
where he served as a member Of
the American delegation to
meeting of the United Nation.
Educational, Scientific and Gull
tural Organization. .
A former history professor al
Montana State University, Mr.
Mansfield is serving his fourth
term in the House where he hal
championed such foreign infor-
nation activities as the Voice o1
America broadcasts to the world
Evening star., 1949-10-28

clafeQ. lQeTe S
nothing in the
Hatch Act that
deprives F e d..
eral employees
Of their rights.
Mr.. Donald
S o n, W n o
stressed his
own record as
a loyal. life
long Democrat,
S a id tn e e
is nothing to
stop q Federal
worker m
Evening star., 1949-10-28
MiIIion-MiIe Area

Ecuador, Venezuela. Panama
and Colombia cover nearly 1.000.-
900 square miles of territory and
have a combined population OF
$4,000, 900.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
First Lord Named

:. First title of English nobility
issued in America was to the In
dian Manteo, who was named
Lord Of Roanoke on Roanoke
Island, 1887,
Evening star., 1949-10-28
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Donaldson Chides Employees
Who Hide Behind Hatch Act
By Joseph Young

Postmaster General Donaldson the only eploye
head the Post Office Department. recently chided Federal employees
avoid taking
part in political campaigns.
Donaldson remarks before recent Sunday break
Evening star., 1949-10-28

A live torpedo recently was
hooked and actually landed by a
fisherman at Venice, Italy.
Evening star., 1949-10-28

last meeting OF The DlStrlct Demo-
cratic Club.
The Postmaster General, accord
ing to those at the meeting, de-