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Evening star., 1949-07-17
Lane Expresses Concern
AT CeIanese Corp. LayoHs
BY the Associotsd Press

ANNAPOLIS. July ls.-Gov.
Lane said today he is deeply con.
cerned over the drastic curtail.
ment" of employment at Celanese
Corp. of Americas Amcelle plant
in Cumberland.
In letter to Harold Blancke,
corporation president, he said:
1T is my understanding that
since the first of this year be-
tween 5000 and 1000 employees
have been furloughed."
He added this creates q very
difficult situation" and asked
Blancke for the company's plans
on rehiring.
Without some knowledge Of
your companys plans for the fu-
ture," the Governor said, 1T is
impossible for the local authori-
ties or the State to take any in
telligent steps to alleviate the
present condition"
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Truman 10 Talk Twice
At Shrine Convention
In Chicago tuesday
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 16.-President
Truman will 60 to Chicago Tues
day for two speeches before the
Shrine's National convention.
The six-day diamond Jubilee OF
the fraternal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
formally as the Ancient Arabic
Order Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
of North America-will begin to-
morrow. Officials say it will be
the biggest in the orders 75-year
history.
The first of $4,000 to $4,000
delegates have arrived. The visi-
tors will represent temples from
the United States, Canada, Mexico,
Panama and Hawaii.
About 100000 admission paying
customers will hear the President
make a 20-minute formal speech
in Soldier Field between 4 and S
pm. Tuesday. That evening he
will speak informally at a dinner
in the Stevens Hotel.
The topics the President will
discuss have not been announced.
The speech at Soldier Field will
be broadcast by two networks,
Mutual and ABC.
Mr.. Truman Is a member OF
Ararat Temple of the Shrine at
Kansas City. but his appearance
at the convention will be as Presi-
dent of the United States. 1t will
be the first time in Shrine history
that a Chief Executive has at
tended a convention in that ca
pacity.
Mr.. Truman will return to
Washington the next day.
Shortly before the Presidents
appearance at Soldier Field, Har-
old Lloyd, old-time movie come
dian. will be installed as new i'm
perial potentate.
For the first time in history, the
secret ritual of the order will be
performed for the public. Mr..
Lloyd will succeed Galloway CAL
houn of Tyler. Tex.
Mr.. Lloyd will leave a hospital
bed to appear. He recently under
went an operation for a gall
bladder ailment.
Evening star., 1949-07-17
By jones Y. Newton

Scores of boards have been
called into action in the stormy
period of labor management re-
lations since the war. but it is
doubtful if any of the panels
was given so important an assign
ment as the one President Tru-
man has just appointed to sift
the issues in the dispute between
the steel industry and the C1O
United Steelworkers.
Mr.. Truman put the three men
on spot.
They are Samuel I. Rosenman,
of New York: DR.. Carroll R.
|Daugherty, Northwestern Univer-
sity, and David L. Cole, Paterson
(N j. lawyer.
They are charged with bringing
out the facts in the dispute over
wages, worker insurance and pen
sions and make recommendations
for settling the controversy which
almost led to a strike yesterday.
It still may cause the shutdown
of one of the Nations most i'm
portant industries.
Neither Obliged to Accept.
While neither the union nor the
steel producers are bound to ac-
cept the recommendations of the
board. there will be heavy pressure
on each to accept the findings.
since rejection almost certainly
would lead to strike at critical
time when the national economy
can i'll afford a major work stop
page.
The steel board, in a way, will
be pioneering in the next As days
when it investigates the economics
of the steel industry.
1t is called upon to decide
whether the million steel workers
should get a fourth round Of wage
increases. Whatever the decision
is most likely will become the pat
tern for settling wage problems
of millions of other workers and
undoubtedly will have important
bearing on the oountry's economic
future.
Rosenman Best Known.
OF the three men the President
selected, only Judge Rosenman. the
former judge and adviser and
Evening star., 1949-07-17

Corporations now are among his
clients.
He was born in San Antonio,
Texas, and went to college and law
school at Columbia University. He
was member of the New York
State Legislature from 1922 to
1926 and was counsel to Mr.. Roose-
welt in 1929-1932 when he was
governor of New York.
Appointed as Justice.
In 1882 Judge Rosenman was
appointed a justice of the New
York Supreme Court. He was re-
appointed in 1888 and then elected
for a 14-year term, but resigned
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Hope of Averting Steel WoIkout
Rests With Truman Fdctfinders

in 1943 to become special counsel
to President Roosevelt in Wash
ington. He remained as special
counsel to President Truman for
nine months after Mr.. Roosevelt
died.
DR.. Daugherty, who was made
chairman of the steel board. is an
economist and author and now Is
professor of business economics at
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Many Die in Colombo Flood

BOGOTA, Columbia, July 16
P.-Many persons were reported
drowned in a flood which swept
the town of Arauquita in north
east Colombia yesterday. Most OF
the buildings in the town Of 1000
were swept away, government re-
ports and press dispatches said
Three hundred families are home
lace
Evening star., 1949-07-17

speechwriter for
both President
Roosevelt and
Truman. is at
all well known
to the public.
Judge Rosen-
man, SO. now
has a lucrative
private la W
practice in New
YORK City. he
has always been
regarded as a
liberal, but it is
understood that
large industrial
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Tralways | { z Day
Tours Leave Washington
Daily
at 7:45 AM, EST.
Via Skyline Drive

Your reserved seat coach stops
at many overlooks along Skyline
Drive for you to enjoy the seem
cry, and at Big Meadows Lodge
for luncheon.
You can return to Washington
the same day or spend a few
days in the Park, but if you stay,
first contact Virginia Skyline
Corp, Luray Va, for reserva-
tiOnS.
Your railways agent has attrac-
tive folder outlining 7 tours to
the Park, and in combination
with visits to Virginia's caverns
and historic shrines.
Call the Trailways Travel Bureau
for rsssrvations and further in
forvnufsn0
Evening star., 1949-07-17

Northwest e n,
E v a n ston, III.
He was born 48
years ago in
Annvil1e, Pa.
and received a
Phi. D. degree
from the Uni
versity of Penn
y lv a MIA in
1927.
DR.. Daugher-
ty has held sew
eral G ov ern-
ment positions
and served on
the faculties of
Evening star., 1949-07-17

and, during the
war, was chair
man of war
labor panels in
the steel and
iron ore mining
industries.
Last fall the
President ap-
pointed M +.
Cole to h e
eueI ScIlCy ldCI-
finding board
W hich settled
the dispute be-
tween the rail-
roads and the
Evening star., 1949-07-17

so-called incorporating railway
unions. He was chairman of the
board the President named in
June, 1948, to investigate the con-
tract dispute between John L.
Lewis and the soft coal operators.
For many years Mr.. Cole has
been counsel for the silk and rayon
manufacturers association and the
Paterson Retail Merchants Asso-
citation.
Labor relations experts said the
difference between arbitration of
a dispute and Mr.. Truman's fact
finding scheme is that in arbitra-
ton the disputants pledge them
selves in advance to abide by the
findings and recommendations of
q hearing board. There Is no such
arrangement in the steel case.
Evening star., 1949-07-17
Ching to Seek Settlement
In Hershey Corp. Dispute

HERSHEY, Pa, July 16 w.
Deadlocked negotiations in a
strike threat affecting 4,400 work.
ers of the Hershey Chocolate
Corp. and other Hershey interests
shift to Washington Monday.
Management and union spokes-
men will meet them with Cyrus
K. Ching. Federal mediator. in
an effort to settle a union shop
dispute hanging fire for more
than six months.
The AFL Bakery and Confec-
TONERS Union is asking for the
right to require all workers. old
and new. to join the union after
80 days on the Job. Management
has opposed the union shop after
the union barely won National
Labor Relations Board election on
the question in March.
Monday also ends a week
vacation for most of the Hershey
workers. The union voted to strike
July 2. but postponed the date
when confronted with the regu-
larly scheduled vacation period.
| No new date was set.
Evening star., 1949-07-17

steelworker now receives $1.69 an
hour.
DR.. Daugherty is the author of
book on the economies of the
iron and steel industries. a VOL
ume which is expected to receive
the close attention Of both the
producers and union officials in
days ahead.
Evening star., 1949-07-17

OF the three men the President
selected, only Judge Rosenman. the
former judge and adviser and
Evening star., 1949-02-13
Nancy Hanks

Greatness, they say, and oentus' Could
It be?
Great Is big ,oord for my little Abe
And genius strange to come on tn oaoe
That sprung OF folk as plain as Tom
and me.
I should haze guessed 1t from the 'oay
he gre1D
So fast my hands ached stitching bigger
clothes,
That he ,rould gro,O beyond his birth and
those
That birthed him, but had 50 much
to do
He was a good lad, quick, more sharp
than most
(Mayhap judged mine so as mothers ptlll
But Hte t1as bitter and so nara at oest
That any claimed BY Death toent peaceaots
As / did. Great? ! o,Dn that 1t might %:
/ wasn't meant for time to tDatt and sec.
ETHEL BARNETT de VITO.
Evening star., 1949-02-13

appeared with the naloeS
open n-mindedness has been 80 exalted and
extolled that the mind often is kept open at
both ends, with no convictions finding lodg-
ment between. A sort Of agnosticism is
offered as the badge Of q superior mind that
refuses to be shackled by traditional creeds.
Vital beliefs about God and man and life
are fighting for their lives in confused
minds And all this in day when the d.
luted and attenuated Christian faith which
asks little is being challenged by the vio-
lent, positive faith of fanatical systems
which demand everything.
Let us not be deceived because so many
accept Christianity as form rather than
"a o force. Stanley Baldwin, once Prime
Minister Of England, himself churchman,
speaking Of the first decades Of the goth
century, declares in one Of his essays that
1t Is the most irreligious time since Christ
was born. One Of the bishops Of the Church
of England recently uttered this startling
statement: To-day we confront new
phenomenon, a generation that has lost God
and a whole dimension Of life-the spiritual
dimension. Half our countrymen are worse
than heather in that they believe IN notn-
ing. not even In themselves"
Alas, the same label can be applied hon
estly to hosts of Americans; they believe IN
nothing. Secularism, which Is lack OF
faith in spiritual verities, Is draining the
moral strength of the Nation.
A leading American educator speaking o!
our fading faith the loss OF belie1s ana
values, asks this pertinent question: DOCS
New York believe anything? Has 1t any
convictions out of which scheme OF teach
Evening star., 1949-02-13
Television Reconnaissance

The inter-city aerial sightseeing tour
to which television viewers were treated
recently was something more than an in
teresting demonstration of TV aerial cam
eras and broadcasting equipment. The
Air Force was partner with the National
Broadcasting Company in the enterprise
because of the military possibilities. For
TV-equipped observation planes could give
an immediate on -the-spot view of battle
sector or bombed target to commanders at
distant headquarters.
Aerial views of Washington, New York
and Cleveland were televised over the Mid
Western-E Eastern TV network during the
four hour telecast. The cameras were in
over the targets" Relatively closeup
views of such landmarks as the Capitol
here and the Empire State Building in New
York were mingled with panoramic shots
of large portions of the surrounding
country.
General Hoyt s. Vandenberg, Air Force
Chief of Staff, points out that television
reconnaissance would facilitate initial
evaluation" of situation in some emer-
gency-in peace as well as war. great
flood, fire or earthquake disaster could be
quickly sized up for the benefit Of those
charged with organizing relief work. And
If the time should ever come when an
American city were hit by an atomic bomb,
the availability Of facilities for another
Operation Airlift Tv," as the Air Force
calls 1t, would be boon to civil and mill
tary authorities outside the devastated
area. It is not pleasant to think about
these grim possibilities, but military au-
thorities have to think about them, just
the same. Television may help them to
deal more promptly and effectively with
such potential problems Of the future.
Evening star., 1949-02-13
Suppression in BuIqoriu

The Communist-dominate Bulgarian
governments arrest Of q group of clergy
men appears to be another move in that
campaign against religion which is being
waged in the various Soviet satellite states
behind the Iron Curtain.
The pattern is identical with that in the
recent trial of Cardinal Mindszenty Pri-
mate of Hungary. The arrested clerics are
charged with espionage, seditious relations
with foreigners, black marketing opera
tions, and general opposition to the Bull
garian peoples Republic" Furthermore,
a government spokesman announces that
the accused have already confessed" their
guilt in writing, in advance of their sched-
uled trial before Peoples Court
Despite identity of procedure, there are
certain interesting distinctions between the
two cases. Cardinal Mindszenty was a
towering figure, alike as Prince of the
Roman Church and the titular head Of that
church in Hungary, strongly Catholic
land. The accused clergymen in Bulgaria,
on the contrary, do not belong to the pre-
vailing faith in that country, which is the
Greek Orthodox Church. They represent
the numerically Insignificant Protestant
minority, which, according to latest avail
able statistics, numbers only trifle over
5000 out of some 100000 inhabitants
The question naturally arises why the
Communist authorities should go after
lies in the fact that Bulgarian Protestant
ism Is the work of American missionary
effort Such efforts began shortly after
the Bulgarians were liberated from the
Turkish yoke, some seventy years ago. One
of the outstanding features was the setting
up of educational institutions that at
tracted many promising youths and played
a notable part in Bulgaria's intellectual
and cultural revival, even though actual
converts were relatively few.
1t is undoubtedly against the intellec-
tual and spiritual links with the liberal
West in general and America in particular
that this blow against Bulgarian Prot
estantism is due. That Is conclusively
shown by the list Of foreigners with whom
the arrested ministers are accused OF
having been in contact. The list includes
number of, prominent Protestant world
leaders, chiefly Americans, who have been
in Bulgaria since the late war, some of
them in an official capacity. These dis
tinguished visitors are described in the
official indictment as Representatives of
international reaction with whom the
accused held reasonable discussions con-
corning counter revolutionary plots aided
by foreign Intervention. These charges,
which are routine in all Red treason trials,
have been characterized as fantastic" by
one of the Americans on the list. Professor
Cyril Black of the faculty of Princeton
University, who was in Bulgaria two years
ago as an adviser to the United Nations
Evening star., 1949-02-13

sible help was given the local Nationalists,
the hope being that impressive electoral
gains could be made showing popular
swing towards merger with the Republic.
Those hopes are now seen to be vain. The
Protestant and loyalist majority in North
ern Ireland has registered It's determine
ton to retain the connection with Britain
and the Commonwealth. 1t remains to be
seen what the larger consequences upon
the respective relations of the Republic
and Northern Ireland with Britain, the
Commonwealth, and the projected Atlantic
Defense Pact will be.
Evening star., 1949-02-13
A Fair Deal for Teachers

There is no Just basis for discriminating
against public school teachers in the pend
ing plan to include District government
employees In the $3.50 pay raise program
voted last year for Federal workers The
Federal raise was cost-of-living adjust
ment applied generally, except for the Dis
trict. 1t costs teachers just as much to
live as it does any one else. 1t Is grossly
unfair, therefore, to hold that they should
receive less than the $3.50 awarded Federal
employees. Yet a House District subcom-
mittee has voted in favor of giving teachers
only 5000, instead Of the $3.50 favored for
policemen and f1remen.
Such an inequitable plan would be piling
injustice on injustice and thus would add
to the difficulties of School Superintendent
Corning in obtaining qualified teachers.
Representative Bates of Massachusetts, ar
gued that teachers should be given the full
increase only if they could show that this
sum is needed to meet increased living
costs since they last received raise, in
1947. That raise, he said, had boosted
teachers salaries 80 per cent over those Of
1912. But DR.. Corning points out that the
80 per cent figure applied only to minimum
and maximum salaries, that no teachers at
present are being paid the maximum al
lowed and that the average 1947 increase
actually amounted to 49 per cent. Yet the
cost of living has risen approximately 10
per cent since the beginning of World War
Il. It would take cost-of-living increase
more than three times the 5000 proposed to
bring the average salary Of teachers to a
level justified by the rise in prices since
1912
And it will take lot more than 5000 or
$500 to raise teachers salaries in Washing
ton to the levels prevailing in most of the
large cities. Latest salary figures Of the
National Education Association show that
Washington stands eighteenth in the list
of twenty of the larger cities. The average
pay here for classroom teachers is $3,486,
as compared with s4,630 in New York;
$4,423 in Newark, New Jersey; $4,381 in
Detroit, $4,294 in Los Angeles, $4104 in
Chicago, $4,075 in San Francisco and $4,035
in Milwaukee. Other cities with higher
pay scales are Cincinnati, Minneapolis,
Kansas City, Missouri; Boston, Indian
apolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and st. Louis.
MFR. Bates has indicated disapproval Of
basing pay raises here on scales prevailing
in other cities. But school authorities
here cannot afford to shut their minds to
conditions elsewhere. One of the reasons
for the. teacher shortage Is the lure Of
high salaries in other cities. The Wash
ington school system cannot hope to at
tract and hold the type Of teachers which
it should have If the pay scale continues to
be so far out of line with the average paid
in other large cities. AS a matter Of simple
equity to local teachers and as means Of
maintaining good educational standards in
the Nations Capital, Congress should see
to it that teachers are treated as fairly
as other groups in the matter of wage in
creases
Evening star., 1949-02-13
Remington Cleared

One of the virtues of the Federal loyalty
program lies in the fact that the Loyalty
Review Board is composed of men whose
ability and integrity command public re-
spect. Consequently, when this board, or
one of It's three member panels, exon
crates a person accused of disloyalty, as
has been done in the case Of William w.
Remington, the effect is to erase from the
public mind the stigma which otherwise
would have attached to the original accu-
sation.
This implies no reflection on the five-
member regional board which, on the same
evidence, had come to the conclusion that
there was enough doubt as to Mr.. Rem
ington's loyalty to warrant his dismissal
from the Federal service.
The regional board, like the review
board, is composed of persons who COM
mand respect in the community. This be-
ing 50, the reasonable inference is that
the conflict between the findings grew out
Of different conceptions of the test of
disloyalty. The review board may have
given greater weight to Mr.. Remington's S
conduct in recent years, thereby coming to
the conclusion that, whatever he may
have done in the past, he is not now dis
loyal. The regional board, on the other
hand, may have felt that the governing
consideration ought to be Mr.. Reming-
tons admitted relationship six years ago
with Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley self con-
fessed Communist agent. If this was the
case, 1t could have concluded that his con-
duct was such as to justify a finding that
he was not q loyal employe in the broader
sense, as distinguished from the treason
able sense Of that term.
In any event, there is no doubt that Mr.
Remington was exceedingly indiscreet In
his association with Miss Bentley. But in
discretion, even serious indiscretion Is
q different matter from disloyalty Many
q man has been indiscreet and has
lived 1t down. But charge of disloyalty,
once sustained, stays with a man as long
as he lives. 1t is badge of dishonor which
he will carry with him to his grave, and it
is this fact, of course, which makes
mistaken accusation such serious thing
The loyalty program is a massive I'M
dertaking. It probably Is inevitable that
some mistakes should be made, but these
are price which has to be paid in the
larger interests Of the national security
This is all the more reason, however why
doubt, where reasonable men honestly diff
fer, should be resolved in favor of the
accused.
1t is against this background that Mr..
Remington returns to the Commerce De-
partment. He is not going back to a post
which, in the words of his superior, in
wolves the dramatic issue of national Sc
curity." This has the appearance of being
a wise decision, based presumably on the
doubt that the Bentley episode casts on
his good judgment. The chances are, how
ever, that Mr.. Remington, like many
others, has become wiser, If sadder, man.
Evening star., 1949-02-13

For ouick-startability in Arctic tempera-
lures. the Air Force Is equipping all Jet planes
to burn gasoline as well as the usual kero-
sene. Gasoline is generally less desirable as
let fuel from the standpoint OF heat released
per pound, but 1t is much better for starting
In cold weather. The change also Will mean
that Jets can be refueled at any air nase
which accommodates propeller planes. The
Navy has been using gasoline almost alto.
gether to avoid having to stock two kinds OF
fuel aboard carriers. All new jet engines
built for the Air Force must conform to the
new two-fuel pattern Changes in present
planes call for relocation of some fuel lines
to lessen fire hazard. new types of fuel lines.
modification Of the fuel pump and minor
change in the fuel nozzle in the engine. The
Air Force has around 1000 Jet planes, mostly
fighters. in service.
PORTLAND, England.-The British air
craft carrier Vengeance. based here. and
two destroyers and several submarines will
spend the next month testing equipment in
Arctic waters.
Evening star., 1949-02-13
Sovief Party ParIey?

Experts on Russia are speculating that the
Communist high command may call Soviet
party congress in the next few months. This
is based on the fact that in recent months
Soviet leaders have put through a series OF
regional meetings. presumably as ground
work for a larger session The Russian
Communist Party's bylaws call for meet
ing every three years War disrupted the
schedule. But with the war over more than
three years some authorities had begun to
wonder whether Premier Stain and his
associates feared to call Congress because
it might in some manner bring unrest to
light. A meeting might be extremely i'm
portant to the extent it would provide a
forum in which Stain and other leaders
could lay down the party line for coming
years.