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Evening star., 1949-05-24
Buckmasier 0usied
From Presidency By
cN Rubber Workers
Executive Board Orders
Conservatives Removed
After Lengthy Trial
sy The Asss<;e,sd Press

PHILADELPHIA. May 24.--Ths
CLOS United Rubber Workers
Union announced today that L. 8
Buckmaster has been fred as In
ternational president OF the union
Robert Cruden. public relation,
director for the union. said Mr.
Buckmaster's removal was ordered
by the l3 other members OF the
unions general Executive Board
who acted as q trial board and
heard testimony here on charges
against Mr.. Buckmaster from
April IS TO May 20.
The rubber workers president
who was reelected by q margin
Of only two votes. $40 to sos. las,
September. was tried on these
charges:
l. That he conspired with Ger
tain individuals" to deprive local
union ofYicers OF their rights.
Pottstown Meeting Cited.
2. That he issued public state
ments falsely attacking the char
acter Of local officers.
3. That he was respol.siD.~ for
. riot that broke up . meeting OF
Local 336 at Pottstown last March.
1. That his conduct was part Of
a general plan to deprive the
Pottstown local Of its rights and
democratic privileges"
5. That these actions consti-
tuted "malfeasance In Once
Mr.. Buckmaster. considered q
member OF the unions conserva-
tive element. was brought TO trial
because Of the charges filed by
Robert CARRIER. president Of the
Pottstown local.
CHARGES and Ceuntereharges-
The deposed international presi-
dent had brought charges against
Mr.. CARRIER In connection with bis
handling Of union funds.
Pending Executive Board action
on MIR. Buckmaster's charges
against Mr.. Carter. the Pottstown
local oficiai was removed from
his ONCE. Mr.. CARRIER nos has
appealed TO the Executive Board
for reinstatement.
Then he filed eountercharxea
against Mr.. Buckmaster leading
to the Executive Board trial and
custer.
The Poststovn police riot squad
and State troopers were called out
to break UP the free-for-ail that
came at the Pottstown meettnk
last March IA.
The meeting. attended By about
400 Of the Pottstown locals I.1oo
members. WAS called b. Mr.. Buck
master for the announced pssrpck
Of discussing reforms In the ID
ministration Of the local.
But the man who headed t1ne
union until today never hsd D
chance TO state his case.
As soon - he began 70 sp<ak.
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Evening star., 1949-05-24
lilienthaIAdmits
Acc Error on
Uranium Loss
Scnote Committee
Also Told OF Split
On lsotope Exports
o. ] A oleor

chagmaa p&ssa y t4aasntssa! es
The AsosnN Energy Commission
admitted hefesw a senate Apase~
afiattons SaoeaznasiEsee tsSaAs that
failure Of his a9encs 10 Twpaft sass
loss Of a stal a9 rE@c Aaus uranium
promptly Ia IRE FHi was a SUE
saanual erra
As The subcommittee oansaaer.
sag The coFnmsAa4aT funds tor
next year ssoAdsaed atx inquiry
into hoW the commission mas safe 1.
gasft1ed atomic sccgwsA these
other Developments occurred
l. Testimony rvNeAlre ths com.
mission sotad, to /, to n~Fmn
lsntopcs 10 he shipped 10 ether
countries Former Rear Admiral
Lesis /. Strauss Sald he ~As the
dissenting member
J. Carroll l. Wnsea. genegal
manager Of the commission. ean-
firfned reports that ore Of tho
commission 8 osn sreaFtGs offoefs
succeeded In removing lao bars
Of uranium from their accustomed
place al the Hanlond plant IN
Washington State. IN = test of
securlty measures there,
tsetspe Security Discussed
Under auestioning by senator
Ferguson. Republican, ot Michigan.
Mr.. L4iicnthAl said the isolopea
which have gone 10 foreign eoan-
tries we're Of types not involving Q
security risk Mr.. Strauss testified.
however, he saa "appreheasiee"
and dissensed because he felt 10
was impossible 10 be sure they
would be ussd for benign pur.
poses once they left the country.
isotopes result when an elemenA
such ~ phosphorus. iodine. or
copper, for instances subjected
10 atomic eosnhsrdment. They are
used in various ,seids OF research.
Mr.. Llienthal said that ~Rn-
lists were unanimous In the apln-
ion that the isotopes could not e~
used in research which would lead
to discovery Of atomic bomb
secrets
But Mr.. Strauss told the COM
mittee that Ne felt this country
should not take ~caiculated RISK
even u u was slight af aiding
bomb research abroad.
Experts 10 Finland Authesis<a.
Mr.. Llienthai testified thai iso.
tope shipments had been sent 10
Norway and Sweden. and 70 Aus.
tralin and Canada.
! Mr.. Strauss said the ataas Ds.
psrtment had cleared the ssporv
OF the material 10 Finland sus
neither he nor Mr.. Lliisnthai knew
definitely whether any had been
shipped there.
Near the close Of The morning
session Senator Ferguson soaThs
To show that the Atomic Energy
Commission has attempted 70
duplicate security safeguards in
stead OF working closely wlsh the
FBI.
Chairman o'Mahoosy, Dsmo-
erat. OF Wyoming asked Mr.. Ill.
ienthai II II ~ss q proper lmpiiea-
t,on 10 draw from thr testimony
that the commission has nos
utilized the FBi.
That is not the fact Mr.. Li-
ienthai replied,
ASKED Absat Disappearance.
When Senator frrguson Arse
turned TO the disappearance of
some uranium from the Arsonns
National Laboratory In Chicago.
which also Ia b~inE investigated ny
the Joint Atomic Energy Commit
tee. the Michigan Senator wanted
10 know why ths Phi was not
called In Immediately.
Mr.. Lllienthal replied that n ths
directions and rules Of THE Ren~
srai manager had h~en followed.
IA would have eeen reporsrd
promptly. He called the fact that
90 was not enc Of ifso~ human
tContinned ON Page A*s, Col. ~
Evening star., 1949-05-24
Late News
Bulletins
Stronohon Wins, 4 and z

Stf0ndn0n wins, q 0n0 4
PORTMARNOCK, Ireland
Defending Champion Frank
Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio,
reached the third round of the
British Amateur golf cham
pionship today with . 4-and-2
victory over 59-year-old Brig.
Alfred C. Critchley. Chick
Evans Of Chicago bowed out Of
the tournament, 2 and I, to
Dan O'Sullivan Of Ireland.
Earlier Story on Page A-13.)
Judge AssoiIs Poimer
Judith Coplon's lawyer, Ar
chibald Palmer, received an
unrestrained tongue lashing
from Judge Albert L. Reeves
after the jury was excused for
lunch at her espionage trial in
District court this afternoon.
In the course Of his stinging
criticism Of the lawyers tac-
tics, the Judge said bluntiy:
"You are doing = bad job for
your client"
Earlier Story On Page A-s.)
Evening star., 1949-05-24
Reds
Smash Almost
Into Shanghai
Nationalist Troops
Appear to Be on
Verge Of Leaving
By Fred thompson
Assoeiotsd Press foreign ceusspondsot


SHANGHAI. May 24.-The Com
munists smashed almost into
Shanghai today. At nightfau evi-
dence mounted that Nationalist
forces were on the verge Of aban-
doning the city.
The hardest Red blows were di-
rected at the southwestern section.
where the drive pulled up at the
famed 35-mile wooden fence-a
smash that carried the Reds
through Shanghai's defenses there
in some spots.
Vessels were sunk deliberately
in the Whangpoo. Shanghai's
shipping lifeline. The channel to
the Yangtze was blocked, a move
likely to be made as a last resort
before the Nationalists pulled out.
Troops in large numbers seemed
to be heading for Woosung. logical
point to board outward bound
ships.
GA Canton dispatch quoted a
Chinese flyer from Lunghwa as
saying he saw a large concen-
tration of Chinese ships this
morning near Woosung.)
City Rife With Rumors.
Shanghai was rife with rumors.
One said the Reds were in the old
French Concession. But at pm.
I visited the defenses on Hungjao
road. other city entrances along
the railroad and Lungwha Air
field. The whole arc was a scene
OF crowded confusion. But Ma
tionalist defenses. while battered.
had not broken. The Reds def
nitely were not inside Shanghai.
Roads into the city were
thronged with broad-faced coun-
try people. They carried their
farm tools. household belongings
and in some cases half-formed
vegetables they had grabbed as
they fed. This may be the only
food for some.
Some Nationalist troops were
moving back. Most of them were
supply units which move to and
fro constantly.
From these forward areas few
combat units were leaving. In
some spots xifiemen moved up
along with armored vehicles.
Lunghwa No-Man's Land.
Lunghwa was q no-man's land.
Buildings were empty. the airstrip
vacant. But nobody shelled the
place. II the Reds we're near they
were not advancing.
The fact the Communists
reached the wooden fence means
that they got through most OF
Shanghai's southwestern defenses.
But at that point their attack
seems to have begged down and
the Reds fell back. AS a result
they are still only part of the way
through the hard crust of the
southwestern defenses.
They might be able to break
through with another punch unless
the Nationalists can counterattack.
Fighting still sputtered on Poo
tung, but compared with last
nights show it was spotty. The
major attention Of both sides
seems to have shifted westward.
But indications of evacuation
became 50 numerous at nightfall
the city forgot this mornings close
call.
Three Tankers Sunk.
Three small tankers in the
Whangpoo. just of the Bund, were
sunk by Nationalists to block of
part Of the channel and q section
(Coo ruTNA po0a A-H1
Evening star., 1949-05-24
Husoer Strike for Food

COPENHAGEN. Denmark NAY
~. R.--A hundred enlisted men
at VcrdintborK harrarks. south
ern Siaeiland. have gone On .
hunger strike. Thier complaint:
They d0nt set sncugh food-
Evening star., 1949-05-24
j. ). Gives Reds
UItimdtun on
Berlin Strike
Soviet's Roll Police
Told to Quit Stations
In American Zone
by the Assoeiotsd Press

10. BERLIN, May 24.-Brig. Gen
Frank L. Howley gave an ulti-
matum to Soviet-employed rail-
way police to withdraw from all
American sector railway stations
in Berlin today.
The police were given until
pm. q pm. EDIT to comply.
Gen. Howley said West Berlin po-
lice will take over to restore order
following bloody rioting last night
which resulted in two deaths.
British and French officials re-
fused yesterday to indorse Gen.
Howley's proposal that the Soviet
controlled railway guards be ex-
PEELED from all Allied sectors. The
Russians. by four-power agree
ment, have had control of all rail-
ways in Berlin.
The custer of the railway police
was demanded by both the anti
Communist rail union. which
struck Saturday. and the West
Berlin city government. They
claimed the Soviet-controled rail-
way police could break the strike
unless the stations were firmly in
Western hands. The strikers are
demanding payment in West
marks.
Gen. Howley, the American
commandant in Berlin. gave the
expulsion order to American Sec
tor German police to carry out.
Such a step had been described
previously by the British and
French as conflicting with the
agreement recognizing Soviet au-
thority over the rail system.
British May Follow Suit.
Later a British spokesman said
the British military government
may follow suit on Gen. Howley's
order" but no official action has
been taken. A French spokesman
likewise said an order, similar to
Gen. Howley's Is expected soon in
the French sector.
Violence erupted suddenly last
night after a comparatively quiet
day. A mob of about 5000 striking
railway workers and their sympa-
thizers tried to storm the Zoo
elevated station. Soviet-controlled
German railway police fred and
two persons were reported killed.
Gen. Howley asked the Russians
to help him carry out his order by
removing any troops from Reichs-
balm property in the American
sector and by issuing corlcurring
orders to Reichsbahn police.
Gen. Howley advised Soviet Gen.
Patrov. the officer responsible for
the Reichsbahn, in a letter:
THE United States military gov
ernment has possibly shown too
great patience in this matter.
However, it is now obvious that
the armed police under Reichs-
balm direction, and your response
bility, are engaged In a type OF
strikebYeaking which has resulted
In unnecessary bloodshed and is
conducive to even greater violence
unless curbed at once.
1T is also requested. my dear
general, that you issue necessary
orders to withdraw Immediately
any Soviet troop units which have
been sent into the United States
sector to occupy Reichsbahn prop
erty such as the detachment Of
armed Russian soldiers who have
occupied the WannSee station and
the two Soviet military units in
the railway yards near the Prizes
terweg elevated station in Scho-
eneberg."
Wrote to Rail Director.
Gen. Howley also wrote to
Reichsbahn Director Willy Kreike-
meyer that his railroad police have
participated sin a number of vio-
lent and cruel incidents" in the
American sector.
I'm their efforts to oppose the
Evening star., 1949-05-24

DR.. Blalock explained the opera
ton to the committee by display
ing a model of a human heart.
In medical terminology he told
how he had operated on each Of
three children so as to give them
a larger supply Of blood from the
heart to the lungs. This cleared
their "blueness" and increased
their health and strength.
Mothers of the three children
explained that their children now
were able to run and play and
participate In normal activity
with other children. Previously
they had been seriously handi-
capped. they said.
The healthy former patients
presented as witnesses were Rob-
ert Wildrick. 5. OF 25oi Four
teenth street NV. accompanied
by his mother. Mrs. Edith
Wildrick: Margaret Beikov. s. Of
6ls Sixteenth street NE. with
her mother Sylvia. and Eugene
Golsen. Is, OF 1905 Wire avenue.
Silver Spring. with his mother.
Mr~. E.~-ne Golsan.
p. q . - = Il t&44
Evening star., 1949-05-24

MANILA. May "a (P.-Fire to-
/ day killed one person and injured
| 20 others in the southern Luzon
town of Legaspi. capital Of Albay
province.
Evening star., 1949-05-24
New Labor Bill Draft
Due 10 Reach House
Before End Of June
Committee Hopes to Hove
Toft-HortIey Repeoler
Reody in Few Weeks
~ ths Associates p.sss


A Speed-up in the House time
table on labor and civil rights
legislation was In the making to-
day.
Labor Committee Chairman
Lesinski said his committee will
have another Taft Hartley re-
pealer bill ready for floor action
In two or three weeks-ccrtainiy
before the end OF June.
The speed-up was signalled by
two Developments;
/. Mr.. Lesinski said some pro-
ereSS" was naade a. 4 meeting Of
committee Democrats last night
on working out Taft Hartley re-
peal compromises. The biggest
problem. he added. Ia finding M,
acceptable provision for dealing
with national emergency strikes
:. Representative Powell, Demo.
crat. OF New York disclosed tha,
Representative Kelley. Democrat
Of Pennsylvania. 4 key member oi
the Labor Committee. will not "a
TO Geneva. Switzerland. mex,
months for an international labor
conference. Announcement last
week that President Truman
planned TO ask him to 90 10 the
meeting as a United States dele
gate had aroused fears In admin
istartion circles that his absence
would stymie action on labor and
civil rights.
Meanwhile. other sources Close
TO the Democratic leadership made
1t plain the HOUSE will not wait
for the Senate TO act nrst on two
OF the most controversial planks In
the party's platform--labor and
civil rights.
No Decisions Made.
Last nights Democratic meet
ing covered all items nov before
the committee. No decisions we're
made on Taft Hartley repeal or
minimum wage legislation. Mr.
Lesinski said. but discussions
showed the members were closer
TO agreement than before.
Groups Of committee Democrats
will continue TO work on the two
problems this week. he added. and
win have some sort Of an answer
for the committee early mex, week.
Mr.. Lesinski would not predict
what the answer may be on Taft
Hartley repeal. but said he docs
not think the House viii pass any
bill that does not include inJuine-
tions N q means OF dealing with
national emergency disputes shen
other methods fail.
Last week NJ. Powell said he
expected Mr.. Kelley 10 be out Of
the country from June 10 July q.
In addition TO being subcommittee
chairman on the Taft Hartley re-
peaier. Mr.. Kelley has provided
one Of the votes for . bare i3-i2
majority on the Labor Committee
In favor Of what Mr.. Powell called
liberal action.
Hearinss Near End.
Mr.. Powell. Chairman OF 4 sub
COMMITTEES considering LEGISLATION
for . FEDERAL Fair Employment
Practices Commission, aaid Mr..
Kelley % staying because Of that
close division Now things win
70 "rapadly." he vent On.
Hearings probably win BE- con-
f0ee LABOR. pnxe Ali
Evening star., 1949-05-24

s...la ,licxn. OF Maine. was warned
by one witness that without ami
mails for research the progress Of
medical science toward the cure
lses VIVIsECTIoN. Page A-l.l
Evening star., 1949-05-24
70 Hurt in Luzon Fire

(See JAMES, Page A-49
Evening star., 1949-05-24

CONTINUED on Page A-3. Col. g..
Evening star., 1949-05-24

tSee CZECHS. Page A-6D
Evening star., 1949-05-24

(See CHINA, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1949-05-24
Soviet to Try n ItoIions

(See BERLIN. Page AS.
Evening star., 1949-05-24

tSes LABOR. Pase ALL
Evening star., 1949-05-24
HEARINGS Near EnA.

Mr.. Powell. Chairman OF 4 sub
COMMITTEES considering legislation
for FEDERAL Fair Employment
Practices Commission. aaid Mr..
Kelley % staying because Of that
ciose division Nov things win
70 "raptdly." he vent On.
Hearings probably win BE- com
Evening star., 1949-05-24
Guide tor Readers

I, Assesses ssesa ass~wsse~~
Evening star., 1949-10-17
Sick Sanitation Workers
Picket in New York
BY the Assoeictsd Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 17-Nearly
1000 city sanitation workers re-
ported sick today. then picketed
health department Offices, chant
ing five days, 40 hours"
A State law forbids strikes by
public employees.
James Griesi, president of Local
333. CIO-United Public Workers
said the men were protesting a
48-hour work week with no over
time.
But James Dugan, secretary of
the AFL Joint Board of Santa
tion Locals, said the demonstra-
ton was a political venture, pos
sibly touched OF as feeble
dramatic protest stemming from
the conviction the other day OF
II Red leaders,"
Health Department officials
made no immediate comment.
The pickets marched in double
lines all around downtown
building OF the Health Depart
ment. Many carried placards
with such messages as sanitation
men are sick Of long hours and
low wages"
Mr.. Griesi said $500 of the
sanitation departments $500
workers are members of Local 1888.
1t was not Immediately deter
mined how many were at work
today.
Evening star., 1949-10-17
BY the Assoeieted Press

BY the Asseeiatsd Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17.-Police
today said that 15-year- old boy
killed his 10-year-old brother who
lay groaning from an accidental
bullet wound suffered only mo-
ments before-''to put him out of
his misery"
Dead with two bullets in his
head is Robert James Elliott, 10,
His brother. Richard Manning
Elliott. Is, is booked on suspicion
Of murder.
Police 1t. Edward Ream gave
this account:
The two brothers. alone in their
home last night, watched a West
ern movie on television. After
ward, the older boy showed his
brother an old-fashioned .32-cali-
Der revolver he had bought from
q school friend for Sc and had
kept secretly in his room.
AS he took the gun from a
drawer, it went on.
Robert fell down groaning," !"
Richard said, adding:
II couldn't stand to see him
suffer like that. I backed up two
or three steps.
II shot him again in the head
to put him out of his misery"
Evening star., 1949-10-17
Search for Two Students
In Rockies Abandoned
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ESTES PARK, Colo, Oct. IT,
The search for two Colorado A,
and M. College students, lost for
eight days in the snowy heights
Of Rocky Mountain National Park,
has been abandoned.
Snow, which fell in the area
since David Dewitt, Arvada, Colo,
and Bruce Gerling, Phoenix,
Ariz., were lost, has been heavy
enough to conceal their bodies
unless someone happens to STUN
BILE on them.
Evening star., 1949-10-17

and it frequently precedes treason
by a short interval.
'The lamentable fact is that
you, Sharkey, occupy a position
in which you and others asso-
ciated with you exercise an evil
and disproportionate influence
over the life of this country"
The crown charged that Shar-
key uttered the seditious words in
a newspaper interview last March
4. The crown quoted him as
saying:
If Soviet forces in pursuit of
aggressors enter Australia, Aus
tralian workers would welcome
the Soviet forces pursuing ag-
gressors as the workers welcomed
them throughout Europe when
the Red troops liberated the peo-
pie from the power of the Nazis."
At the time the statement was
made Communist leaders in many
other countries were saying ex-
actly the same thing.
Evening star., 1949-10-17
Top Australian Red
Jailed for Sedition
BY the Associated Press

SYDNEY. Australia, Oct. IT,
One Of Australia's top Communists
was sentenced today to three years
at hard labor for having said Aus
tralian workers would welcome
Soviet forces here.
Laurence Louis Sharkey, ST,
general secretary of the Austria
Ian Communist Party, was con-
victed by jury in Central Crimi-
nal Court last June Of having
uttered seditious words. The SEN
tence he received today is the
maximum for such an offense.
In passing sentence Judge Fran
cis A. Dwyer said: "Sedition, it
has been said. is a crime against
society allied to that of treason
Evening star., 1949-10-17
S2,760 in Coot Worries
Man Body Hurt in Crash
By fine A.soe;ots5 pr.,.

BY fhs Associated Press
PETALUMA, Calf, Oct. 17.-Al-
though Giuseppi Merga, 10, was
seriously injured, he kept insisting
that some one go find the part of
his coat that was missing.
Police found the fragment on
the door Of the car that struck
MIR. Merga at an intersection. Mr..
Merga pulled from it $2,760 in $40
bills.
The accident cost Mr.. Merga the
sight OF his right eye.
Evening star., 1949-10-17
Retreat for Women
To Start on Fridov

A closed retreat for women will
be held at the Retreat House, 1000
Harewood road NE, next week
end, with the Rev. Edward Hama
hoe Of the Society of the Atone
ment in charge
Father Hanahoe, who holds the
Evening star., 1949-10-17
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. C** AL
MONDAY, =

degree of licentiate of sacred
theology. is studying for his doc
torate in sacred theology at
Catholic University. The exer-
cises will commence at 7 pm. Fri
day and close with benediction
Evening star., 1949-10-17
Auxiliary to Sponsor Dance

A square dance, sponsored by the
Women's Auxiliary, United Public
Workers, CIO, for the benefit of
the Interracial Nursery School,
will be held at $50 pm. Friday at
Pierce Hall. Sixteenth and Har-
ward streets NV.
Evening star., 1949-10-17

on Sunday at 5 pm. The Fran
ciscah Sisters of the Atonement
operate the Retreat House. Their
headquarters are at Graymoor.
Garrison, N. Y.