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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07

Truman gets it on his desk, and
already local public housing auth
critics have complete blueprints
for projects in many important
areas that are all set to go as soon
as the federal help is authorized.
The measure will authorize 810,-
900 units of low-rent housing, to
be built by local authorities with
federal financial assistance. A half
billion dollars in outright grants
and a billion dollars in loans to
cities to carry out slum clearance
programs is also provided. A far
reaching program of housing re-
search-into ways to cut costs and
to build more liveable homes-is
outlined. Loans and grants to rural
families to recondition farm dwell
ings total 1862, 100000.
While the House rejected pro-
posals by a group of liberal Re-
publicans to incorporate in the low
rent bill provisions to encourage
middle income families to build
more dwellings, it was mainly be-
cause of the tactics used by the
COP bloc, which insisted On trying
to substitute their very similar bill
in place Of the measure okayed by
the House Banking Committee.
Actually, most of this bloc voted
for the final bill, and all swung
behind the fight on the Rees
amendment.
With the controversial public
housing measure out of the way,
and the real estate and homebuild-
ers' lobby scheduled to spend July
recouping its losses, attention of
housing-minded members of Con-
gress is turning to the ''middle-in-
come" housing bill. More than 40
members of the House have pro-
posed bills to aid housing co-ops
and mutual housing associations to
build for the average American
wage Garner. The Senate Banking
Committee has for months had sew
eral drafts of such bills before it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
It's Jail If You
YodeI 'Scab' In
Byrd's BaiIiwick

Roanoke, Va. (LPA)-Attorney;
for the international Ladies Gar.
ment Workers. Union here arr
fighting shocking decision hand
ed down by local court.
Judge Dirk A. Kuyk slapped 8
$3.50 fine and three-months jai
term on Mrs. Grace McWhorter
organizer for the ILGWU, because
she sang a union song on picket
line.
The song, it happened, contained
the word "scab" and that was suf.
fcient for Roanoke's police to seize
her on the charge of using "abusive
language" in violation of law.
1t all arose out of a campaign
by the ILGWU to organize the
Roanoke Garment Company, a
runaway plant from New York
Management attempts to wreck
the organizing drive forced the
union to take to picketing.
Police, tied up with the BYRD
political machine, harassed the
pickets at every turn and finally
grabbed Mrs. McWhorter.
Attorney James p. Hart Jr., act
ing for the ILGWU in the case,
presented the court with evidence
that the word scab has had Il place
in the dictionaries for years, that
it would be a violation of constitu-
tional rights to penalize anyone for
singing or yelling it.
"For the court not to allow use
of the word scab strikes at the
very substance of our right of free
speech" Hart said.
The court was not impressed,
and sentenced Mrs. McWhorter.
Hart, who in the last campaign
ran for United States Senator
against the Byrd candidate, Sena-
tor A. Willis Robertson, declared
the issue will be carried through
to the highest courts if necessary.
Union spokesman predicted that
the decision, being so raw, would
have political repercussions in the
next Virginia elections. 1t showed,
they said, what close tieup there
is between the police, the courts
and the anti-labor employers Of
the state.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
Thursday, July Z, 1949

makers to $62 week for helpers.
The Los Angeles local Of the
Amalgamated Assn of Street Rail-
way Employes-AFL won DC hour
ly increase for its over 5000 men,
bers.
Local 176 of the United Chemical
Workers signed a new contract
with Parke, Davis & Co., in Detroit,
involving a sc raise for $500 work
ers.
A feature Of the Textile Work
ers Union of Americas new con-
tract with the Western Felt Co.,
in Chicago, is the clause giving the
workers two hours off on election
day. A general pay raise of sc an
hour, with many workers netting
12c increase was also conceded
by the company.
The United Office & Professional
Workers got a $5 weekly wage in
crease for agents of the John Han
cock Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
and Sc hike for Home Life Insur-
ance Co. industrial insurance
agents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
Communities Alerted To
Danger Redl Estate Men
Will Block Public Housing

Washington (LPA) - Despite
victory for the low-rent public
housing and slum clearance bill in
Congress last week, the real estate
lobby is still trying to block hous-
ing for low-income families.
at is still within the power OF
Local citizens in every community
to prevent socialized public hous-
ing projects being erected at the
taxpayers expense" President Rod
ney Lockwood of the Natl Asso-
citation of Home Builders asserted
after the vote was tailed.
A dramatic session of the House
in which the vote see-sawed back
and forth and the public housing
feature was at one point temper
arily eliminated, ended with 22e
to 1876 vote passing the whole bill
For passage were 1913 Democrats,
"a Republicans and one American
Laborite, and opposing the whole
bill were 54 Democrats all from
the south, and 131 Republicans in
cluding COP chieftains Joe Mar
tin (Mass.), Jesse Wolcott mich. }
and Hugh Scott (Pa.).
Decisive vote, taken earlier, was
on motion by Rep. Edward Rees
Or, Kans.) to strike out all of the
public housing proposal-to assist
local authorities to plan and con-
struct from 1,050,000 to $4,000
units of low-rent housing over the
next six years. Here, the 209 to
204 vote showed "a Republicans
joining the 184 northern Democrats
to support public housing; while
Ga Dixiegops on the Democratic
side and l40 of their brothers on
the Republican side tried to kill the
low-cost homes section.
In conference now, the bill will
be signed as soon as President
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
Union Demands A
Probe Into Reign
Of Terror In South

Washington (LPA)-Anti-union
vipilantes are riding again in
Dixie, the Upholsterers Init
Union-.AFI. charged last week. The
union cited "reign of terror" at
Marion, N, c. and wired Governor
w. Scott Kerr urging him to in
vestigate.
Arthur G. Mcdowell, the unions
Washington representative, declar-
ed that organizers attempting to
unionize local furniture plant
have been beaten up right in the
presence of police, who looked on
without interfering.
Twenty years ago Marion ac-
quired national ill-fame by the
shooting of a dozen textile union
pickets. Nearly every effort since
then. to organize in the town has
been met with violence. Today,
Mcdowell said, practically all the
factories of the community are
still open shop.
The wire to Governor Scott, sent
by President Sal B. Hoffman of
the Upholsterers, carried an
urgent request" for an inquiry
into "two successive brutal beat
ings" of union organizers who are
trying to bring the Drexel Furni-
ture Company under the union ban
ner.
Failure of police to intervene,
Hoffman, said, Indicates cynical
completely of city and county law
enforcement officers in aid of anti
union company's attempt to frus-
trate rights of labor for free choice
of collective bargaining agency"
Twenty year old pattern of
murderous intimidation of labor in
this country requires some state
executive correction to end the de-
nial of constitutional guarantees
and liberties" Hoffman, declared.
Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07

Washington LPA)-Completing
months of inquiries and then weeks
of daily executive sessions, the
House Way & Means Committee is
expected to come up with a revis-
ed version of the social security
law about the middle of July.
Insurance companies have had a
half-dozen men working for weeks
on nothing except whiting down
the draft of the bill presented by
the Administration and sponsored
by Rep. Robert l.. Doughton Cd,
NC). They have been comforting
with Republican members of the
Ways and Means Committee, work
ing out strategy to keep the social
security coverage and benefits just
as low as possible.
Crucial question, as far as union
experts are concerned, is whether
or not the revised bill is any better
in important respects than the
present law, which was passed
about ten years ago. Both AFL
and CIO spokesmen say that the
rumors reaching them from the
secret sessions indicate that it
won't meet their standards.
They are watching carefully to
see what the committee votes on
increasing the yearly pay level at
which the payroll tax stops. At
present, wages up to $4,000 are
taxed. The unions wanted this rails
ed to $4,000.
Probably the benefits for the
aged, widows and dependent child
rem will be increased, but only for
wage-earners in the lowest income
brackets, with no increase in bene-
fits for elderly people who earned
higher incomes before retiring, or
for the survivors of wage-earners
in the middle-income group.
In effect, this is simply a trans
fer of financial help, for low-in-
come wage earners' survivors and
old folks, from the public assist
ance rolls to the contributory in
surance system, union experts
point out. And many of the contri-
butors, who contribute payroll
taxes on their higher wages, will
receive less in proportion. What
the unions want is a hike in bene-
fits paid all along the line. "We
don't want social security on the
European system" one unionist
said. "We want it geared to the
American wage scale"
If the rumors are correct, the
AF'L's director of social insurance
activities, N el SON Cruikshank,
warned that "This could be the
most serious challenge to the con-
tributory system that has ever
been launched"
1t would be better, he said, to
provide that survivors and elderly
people, who get benefits from low
income wage earners' insurance, be
aided out of general government
revenues. The general tax struc-
ture-based on income and corp
Grafton taXes-is more equitable
than the proposed "pay more to
those who contribute least" APP
proach that the committee may
adopt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
OBITUARIES
FRED DETWILER

East Palestine, Ohio - Fred
"Frenchy" Detwiler died July 4
at $50 p. m. at his home on West
Martin st. Ext. following a long
illness. He was IA.
Born in New Castle, March a,
1875, a son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Detwiler, he was married July s,
1926, to Miss Mary Vaughn. Mr..
Detwiler was an Honorary Men,
ber of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters and for many
years was employed at the w. S.
George Pottery.
Besides his widow he is survived
by four step-daughters, Mrs. Will
lam Weitz of East Palestine, Mrs.
Sam Cochran and Mrs. George
Washeim of New Kensington and
Mrs. Wilbert Taylor of East Liv-
erpool.
Services were held Thursday at
/ 80 p. m. from the family home.
Burial was in Glenview Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
LocoI Unions
Win Pay Hikes

Washington (LPA)--Altho many
wage negotiators were begged
down last week, and other disputes
were in the hands of arbitrators, a
number of local unions won pay
gains and other benefits for their
members.
In Portland, Ore, rs auto mech
anics who have just joined the
Int'l Association of Machinists got
base pay raises ranging from 5 to
/ 25c an hour.
Several of the biggest building
contractors in Washington, d. c.
broke the ranks of the Master
Builders Assn and gave 10c wage
increases to their carpenters. The
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
AFL has been on strike in the cap
ital for four weeks.
The Amalgamated Assn of
Street Railwaymen-AFL won 10c
pay boosts for its members in Pro-
vidence, r. l., and 12Hc hourly in
creases in Windsor, Canada.
About 900 AFL employees of 27
Minneapolis and St. Paul oil COM
panies will get &c more per hour
under their new contract. The new
scales set a SLAB wage for drivers,
$1.37 for warehousemen and $1.50
for mechanics.
The United Auto Workers-AFL
won inclusion in the unions health
and accident insurance plan for
three more of it's locals-in Long
ansport, Ind, and Decatur, Ill.
The California Federation of
Labor reports that pay boosts aver
aging 51ac an hour were chalked
up by locals representing 26,50O
AFL members In the state during
the month of May.
A total of &c in additional pay,
as well as seven days of paid vaca-
ton, was secured by the Refinery
Workers Federal Labor Union
1919, in East st. Louis, ILL.,, in its
new contract with Socony-Vacuum.
Intl Association of Machinist
members at the Hanford Atom
Workers, in Richmand, Wash, now
have guaranteed weekly wage
scales. They range from $88 for
a 40-hour day shift for tool and die
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
MULCT VETERANS

Washington (LPA) - Attorney
General Clark has charged viola
tion Of the antitrust laws in the
production of plastic artificial eyes.
License agreements with others to
fix prices and restricting sales are
among the charges. People, espec-
tally veterans" according to Clark
SHOULD not be deprived of the lat
est developments" in the making
of artificial eyes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07
No Strike Rights Under Dictator

Buenos Aires LPA)-Argentina
unionists aren't looking forward to
any of the rights American work
ers had the Wagner Act as long as
President Juan Peron is around.
Their delegation to the lLO confer
ence in Geneva echoed his views
last week by comming out in OPP
position to legislation giving work
ers the right to strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-07

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Evening star., 1949-06-17
Augustus 0mwake Dies;
Retired Revenue EmpIoye

Augustus b. Omwake. -. re.
tired employe of the Bureau oi
Internal Revenue. died yesterday
Of q heart ailment at Homeopathic
Hospital.
Mr.. Omwake. who lived at 1884
Ontario place NV, was born In
Greencastle. Pa. and taueh,
school there for several years be.
fore coming to Washington in
1901.
After coming here. Mr.. Omwaks
Joined the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. He retired in 1885 as
q cashier. He was a deacon and
later an elder in the Guton Temple
Memorial Presbyterian Church
Sixteenth and Newton streets
NV, and was treasurer of the
church's benevolent fund,
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Lulu TAFT Omwake and the
following three daughters: DR.
Katherine T. Omwake. associate
professor Of psychology at Agne,
Scott College. Decatur. Ga: Miss
Mildred z. Omwake. economics
professor at Indiana State Teach
ers College, and DR.. Louise Om-
wake. vocational counselor al
Stevens Institute Of Technology
Hoboken, N. j.
Funeral services well be held
tomorrow at the 8. H. Hines fun
eral home, 290l Fourteenth street
NV, but the time has not been
set. Burial will be In Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
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Restaurant Owner, Diss

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Evening star., 1949-06-17
Mrs. Anne Noble Dies;
Was Attorney Here

Mrs. Anne d. Noble. An attor'
ney and Washington resident fol
more than 30 years. died wednes-
day At Georgetown universit,
Hospital.
Mrs. Noble worked Ia tn.
United States Chemistry Division
of the Agriculture Department
from 1908 until 1870. In ls0t
she was admitted TO the DistrieI
Bar and assigned TO the lesa
work Of the departments Burea,
of Chemistry.
She left the Government serv.
ice and moved TO Auburn. N. Y.
when she married the late Henr,
d. Noble.
Mrs. Noble was q graduate ol
George Washington Universit,
and the Washington College o.
Law.
She was q member Of All Saint
Episcopal Church. Chevy Chast
Circle: the American Association
OF University Women and the
Chevy Chase Womens Club.
Private funeral services will b<
held Mt her home. $500 Legation
street NV. The date has moi
been set yet. Burial will be ir
Waterloo. N. Y.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
William Jeh Lauck
Rites Held in Virginia
D. sss Asss<ss~d essss

LEXINGTON. Va. June IT
Funeral services for William Jet
Lauck. former economist for lahos
leader John L 1kws. we're heic
as Presbyterian Church cemeter,
here yesterday. He died a. hi.
home near Port Royal. Va. Tues
day night.
Mr.. Lauek. 50. Was regarded o,
an authority on labor and man
agement relations He was thu
author Of numerous books on eco-
nomics. labor. finance and i'm
migration.
A graduate Of Warrington and
Lee University here. he was . pro-
fessor Of economies and politieal
science at the university from
1905 20 1908.
Mr.. LAuck vas associated with
Mr.. Lewis as an economist for the
United Mine Workers In ths
ls30s. He also was economist for
the cIO United Automobile Work
ers and various railway and other
labor organizations from 1919 te
1889 Mr.. Lewis was q frequent
visitor to the Lauek home in re-
cent years.
Surviving Mr.. LAuck are his
widow, n daughter. Miss Eleanor
Lauck. and two sons, Peter Lauck
of Port Royal and William Jett
Lauck. jr.. OF Charlottesville, Va
Mr.. LAuck was born at Keyser
w, Va.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Funeral Scheduled Today
For Waller R. Fuller, Jr.

Funeral services for Walter
Rogers Fuller. jr.. Is. for many
years an automobile salesman
here. were to be held today In ths
Pumphrey funeral home. S431
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring
Burial viii be In Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Mr.. Fuller died Wednesday ai
the home Of his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Rogers Fuller. S0t
Sheridan street NV. after q lons
illness.
A native Of Atlanta, he came tc
Washington in 1919 and was grad
uated from Mckinley Technical
High School. He then was q sales
man for the williams and Baker
Inc, automobile firm here for IL
years. During World War II he
lived in Tuscon, AriZ.. where he
was In radio manufacturing for
the Government. Returning here
he was associated with the German
Bros. Automobile Co. at the time
OF his death.
He had been an active Mason for
"a years.
In addition to his parents. he is
survived by his widow. Mrs. Laura
May Fuller. 540S Colorado avenue
NV: four children. Donald Rog-
ers. Charlotte Rae. Caroline Lee
and Mary Jane Fuller. all Of the
Colorado avenue address: two
brothers. Harrison Morgan Fuller
Of the Sheridan street address,
and 1t. Allen M. Fuller. u. 8. A. r.,
Orlando. Fla, and q sister. Mrs.
Gladys Irons. Pearl Harbor.
Honolulu. a"
Evening star., 1949-06-17
William 4. Comsiock
Former Governor Of
Michigan, Dies
ay ne Aasoesatsd Press

ALPENA. Mich. June IT.
William A. Comstock. II. Cover
nor of Michigan In 1884. died
last night in Alpena General Hos
pital. Mr.. Comstock, o Democrat.
suffered a stroke May "a while on
vacation. He had been under
hospital care since then.
Mr.. Comstock was the unsue-
cessful Democratic candidate for
Governor in 1925. 1928 and 1880.
when Michigan was solidly Re-
publican. But In 1882 he was
elected in the Democratic land
slide.
In 1893 when Michigan was b,
the depths Of the depression. he
declared an eight-day banking
holiday that closed $50 banks in
the State. This was the start of
the national bank holiday.
He became embroiled in an
intra- party feud over patronage
matters in 1884, refused to cam
paign and was defeated IN tile
Gubernatorisl primary.
He remained out of politics until
1910 when he was elected to the
Detroit City Council. He was re-
elected four times.
Born to wealth. Mr.. Comstock
made and lost three fortunes.
The first. inherited from his
father. was largely disSipated by
investments. During World War
I and the early postwar period.
however. he built up his financial
reserves through Detroit real es-
tate dealings and the sugar beet
industry.
That money he poured into the
rebuilding Of the Democratic Par
ty In Michigan. Then. after leav-
ing politics. Mr.. Comstock again
amassed q sizeable fortune-this
time through oil investments.
Funeral services and burial will
be at Alpena. Mr.. Comstock's ma
tive town. No time has been set.
Survivors include his widow.
Josephine; q son. William Com
stock III, and q sister.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Votieon Soys Beron Case
Is Similar to Mindzenty's

VATICAN CITY, June II tP1.--
An informed Vatican source today
expressed the belief that Czecho-
slovakia is ripe for events like
those In Hungary"
He referred to reports Of new
pressure by the Communist gov
ernment against the Roman Cath
ollie Church and the reported
house arrest Of Archbishop Beran.
The Vatican informant said
these events paralleled similar
anti-church campaigns in Hun
gary shortly before the arrest. trial
and life sentencing Of Josef Car
dinal Mindszenty. primate Of Hun
gary.
Vatican circles expressed no sur
prise over Prague reports that
Archbishop Beran was O virtual
police prisoner In his palace. They
said measures against the out
spoken foe Of communism we're
probable" and likely" In view OF
worsening church-state relations.
Evening star., 1949-06-17

machine on which Archbishop
Beran reportedly has been pro-
ducing clerical letters in which
he defied government attempts to
gain control Of church affairs.
Early Wednesday. 10 policemen
showed up at the consistory while
Archbishop Beran was meeting
with his bishops.
Diplomatic sources said they
raided the consistory records and
arrested another priest. the Rev.
Or. Kucera.
As far as could be learned. no
attempt was made by police to
enter the archbishop's private
ONCE.
Meanwhile. Q new weekly news
paper, the Catholic News. was
rushed OF the presses by the gov
eminent to press its campaign
against the church.
Government representatives re-
portedly were going around ask
ing priests, Are you In favor OF
o church-state peace?"
Informants said priests who
gave the affirmative answer were
then listed as adherents OF the
governments side Of the contro-
versy and their names published
In the controlled press.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Mrs. Jeannette |. Brown
To Be Buried tomorrow

Funeral ~isaees Tor Ars .,esn.
nette IAsksy Brown. ~ . native
of washington. xlii be held 81 ii
q m. tosnoFrow In the Fssmphrsy
funeral hosns. ssss 0eossia ave-
nae silver aaginE gsIriai ~iti es
in olenwccd Cemetery.
Mira Rrosn died "wednesday a.
her home. isos Hiltnors street
NV. after Q erief liinesa, Fda-
Gated In sehoois here she was the
widow OF Edward J Brown After
her marriage sfse lived Ia Cahfes
mia and Florida. returnina here
in iess
She IL survived by her son. aarn~
uel X Brown. Orlando. Fss ano
several nleces and nspfess
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Fouquier Board Names
Ten New Teachers
Seseisi pispssck 10 rhs Ssss

wARRENTON. Va. June IL
The Fauquier County School
Board has approved 10 new teach
er appointments for Fauquter
schools. The appointments were
recommended by School Supt. G.
NJ. Bradley. who reported that
seven more vacancies must be
filled before the new school year
starts.
New teachers named are Miss
Corneiia Avery. Miss Trula Cath
crime Hutton, james z. Hall. Miss
Ruth Lucille Cliff. Mrs. Henry
II. l. Smith. Mrs L. j. Foley. jr,
Miss Jean L. Murphy. Miss vir-
ginia Lee Grabell. Miss Hessie
Sharp and Miss Jane e. Castle.