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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
KeppIier Safety
Team Wins Top
honors In Meet

Mahonoy City, Pa, QLNS).-
For the second successive year the
crack Repplier Coal Co. team won
the Annual Safety Day and First
Aid Meet at Lakewood Park, near
Mahonoy City, Aug. 6 and took
$50 in first prize money in a field
Of II teams with a score Of 99.58
points.
Sponsored by the 80 anthracite
companies of the Middle and South
ern Individual Anthracite Opera
tors First Aid Meet Association,
the fifth annual event attracted
several hundred spectators to see
expert demonstration of mine safe
ty measures. Cash prizes of $525
were given to the winning teams,
with second to fifth awards going
to st. Clair Coal Co., Phoenix Coal
Co., Locust Coal Co., and Buck
Run Coal Co.
Richard Maize, Secretary Of the
Department of Mines, Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, addressed
the teams and spectators briefly.
The program directed by State
Mine Inspector Timothy A. Ryan,
was presented in cooperation with
the United Mine Workers of Am
erica, the Pennsylvania Depart
ment Of Mines and the U. S. Bur-
eau of Mines. Joseph Ruane was
chief judge for all events.
A letter of greeting was read
for Thomas Kennedy, vice-pres-
ident of the United Mine Workers,
who was unable to be present.
Joseph Kershetsky, president Of
District 9, UMWA, spoke, empha-
sizing the importance Of whole
hearted participation in the annual
safety event.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18

ganizations, 1854; the Fascist
slanted Tool Owners Union, head
ed by ex-Rep. Fred Hartley, $27,-
304; the National Economic Coun-
Gil, run by reactionary Merwin K.
Hart, $23,522.
Among individual companies, one
of the most lavish spenders was
General Electric, which put out the
notorious loaded QUESTIONABLE in
favor Of the Taft Hartley law. 1t
reported $113,770
The railroad lobby was no piker
either. The Association of Ameri-
can Railroads said it coughed up
$S3,472 on legislative activities.
The Transportation Assn of Am
erica, allied with the railroads, re-
corded total receipts of $198,432,
but didn't say what it spent. Small
er organizations in this field boost
ed the total by tens of thousands
of dollars.
A big pile was collected by the
Natl Tax Equality Assn, the out
fit which has been working for leg
islation to cripple co-ops. 1t gave
its receipts as $240, $40, but claim
ed only $31,782 was spent on lob
bying. A lot of state units of the
NTEA added to the expenditures.
Other organizations in the top
lobby brackets included the United
World Federalists, with expendi-
lures of $169, 9,401; Citizens Com
mittee on Displaced Persons, $141,-
612; National Assn of Margarine
Manufacturers, $73,S73; National
Coal Assn, $60,S16; American
Hotel Assn, $50,219; Natl Cooper
ative Milk Producers, $89,703; Col
orado River Assn, $66,621; Pro-
ducers' Council, $62,804; Central
Arizona Project Assn, SCI, ,399;
Southern Pine Industry Committee,
$5S,OS7; Southern States Industrial
Council, $50, 0,449.
In the labor field, the AFL re-
ported $37,350; the CIO, $26, ,839,
and varying sums were recorded
by individual internationals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Many Tenants In
Wisconsin Face
3Ooo Rent Boost

Madison, Wis. (LPA)-Desper-
ate last-minute efforts to stall off
lifting of federal rent controls on
275,000 dwelling units in Wiscon-
sin proved unsuccessful last week.
AS a result, the state will have to
live under a rent law passed by the
COP legislature, which will allow
immediate rent boosts of 800 on
many homes, and will let loose a
flood of evictions.
Gov. Oscar Rennebohm, who had
stalled decision on the bill for
weeks after the legislature sent it
to his desk, stands himself to make
$4,000 more a year on rental pro-
perties he owns in Madison, off
cials charge.
All rents will be decontrolled or
June 1, 1850, under the state law.
For tenants whose rents have al
ready been raised 15R under the
federal rent control law, another
15% boost is allowed Immediately,
provided the landlord offers a lease
running thru 1850.
Whether or not the landlord
offers a lease, tenants who didn't
get boost of 1870 under the fed
eral law will be faced with an i'm
mediate 15% increase in rent. In
exchange for lease running thru
1850, the landlord can exact an
other 159o increase, bringing the
total rent boost to 300.
Evictions can be carried out
without notice in many cases under
the Wisconsin law, and there are
numerous grounds on which evic-
tions can be made on 60-day notice.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
SPENDING BY LOBBIES
BREAK ALL RECORDS
,MEDICOES LEAD LIST

Washington UPA) - None ey
poured out for lobbying in the ma
tion's capital during the first half
of this year has smashed all re-
cords.
A roundup, just prepared by
Congressional Quarterly, a special
Washington service, disclosed that
261 lobby organizations spent at
least $4,09S,653 during the six
months in efforts to influence leg
islation.
That's according to the lobby's
own reports filed with Congress
under the lobby regulation. The
total is $635,0C0 higher than dur
ing the same period of 1948. Some
big lobby groups haven't yet re-
ported, so the final figure will be
still greater.
Business outfits did the great
bulk of the spending-a total of
$1,S54,819. Many other groups
closely allied with business, such
as conservative farm organizations,
professional mems outfits, tax or
ganizations and others, spent most
of the remainder. Labor organiza-
tions were down at the bottom of
the list with aggregate outlays of
a mere $132,276.
Among the biggest spenders on
lobbying during the half year
were:
American Medical Ass'n-$508,-
397.
Committee for Constitutional
Govt $306,297.
National Assn of Electric Co.'S
-$224,222.
The ANA spent the huge sum
to fight health insurance. The
CCG in which Frank Gannett, chain
newspaper publisher, is a major
figure, laid out its money to oppose
repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act
and to battle against every social
welfare measure pending "in Con-
gress. The NAEC-which is the
power trusts lobby-concentrated
on opposition to public power leg
islation.
One Of the biggest of all, the
Natl Association of Manufactur-
ers, wasn't on the list. 1t hadn't
filed when the returns were tabu-
lated, but its budget runs to $5,-
100000 a year, though it claims
only a small proportion goes for
Legislative lobbying.
The real estate lobby was up in
the top rung, too. Foremost in this
group was the Natl Association of
Home Builders, which spent $751;
COG, but claimed only 4,448 was
on direct lobbying. Next was the
Natl Association of Real Estate
Boards, with $S6,493. Others in
this, lobby front, such as the Natl
Apartment House Owners Assn
and US Savings and Loan League,
added about another 100000 to
the pot. All fought against public
housing and rent control legisla-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Northwest Bus
Strike Is Won

Minneapolis (LPA)-The North
land Greyhound bus strike, which
completely tied up bus transporta-
tion over 10000 miles Of routes in
eight midwestern states and Can
ada for 105 days, ended here last
week with substantial wage gains
for the strikers.
Some 1900 strikers walked off
the job April 27 after the company,
a subsidiary of the national Grey
hound system, refused to bulge
from a wage award made by a
Minnesota fact-fnding commission.
The final settlement, approved
by 1051-to-112 vote by the strik-
ers, provides considerably higher
wage rates than the commission
award
Drivers monthly minimums were
raised from s177.50 to S19O and
they were given an increase of As
cent a mile. The commission had
awarded a .35-cent raise.
Incorporating employees will get
12H cents an hour more, with an
other 11a-cent raise Jan. l. The
commission award was II cents.
The drivers won one of their
principal demands, an extra 25
cents a day for making out reports.
This had been rejected by the
commission.
The new contract will run to
Dec. 81, 1850. The strike was con-
Quoted by the AFL Motor Coach
local 115O.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Anti-Union Forces
Go Cunning For
WaIsh-HeaIey Act

Washington (LPA)-Anti-union
forces have launched a campaign
to wipe out long established Fed
eral labor law-the Walsh Healey
act, which requires payment of
prevailing minimum wages by COM
panies producing goods for sale to
Uncle Sam. The act has been on
the books since 1886.
Rep. John s. Wood ID, Ga.) in
troduced a bill to repeal the act.
He's the same congressman who
sponsored the Dixiecrat- Republican
coalition bill to salvage the Taft
Hartley law.
Wood did so after employer or
ganizations launched violent at
tack on Labor Secretary Maurice j.
Tobin because, in compliance with
provisions of the Walsh Healey
law, he has established new pre-
vailing minimum schedules in var
ious industries on government con-
tracts. These ranged from IS cents
an hour in some branches of the
industry to $1.23 in steel.
The National Association of
Manufacturers has raised the roof
over Tobin's wage determinations
and has started clamoring for
Walsh Healey repeal in the alleged
name of Economy" 1t declared
that "large sums could be saved
the government if the law were
taken off the statute books" A
similar cry came from the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce.
Also, the Committee for Consti-
tutional Government, rabid anti
labor outfit showered the country
with circulars charging that Sec
retary Tobin was kowtowing to
the collectivist designs of labor
nonopolists." 1t called for a letter
campaign to members of Il
Congress to "repeal or amend" the
Walsh Healey law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Chicago Tribune And Other Doiiies
Continue To Drop In Circulation

The Taft-H r ii ~ injunction
against the AFL Typographical
Union has not saved the strike
bound Chicago dailies from con-
tinued losses in circulation, accord
ing to the Picket, official paper Of
the striking printers.
The daily Chicago Tribune, which
had 1,025,000 paid readers before
the typos walked out, has dropped
steadily and now claims only 1885,
900. The Sunday Tribune admits
losing more than 250,000 since
February Of this year.
The Chicago Daily News admits
a loss in sales and subscriptions
for the fourth consecutive month.
In July alone John S. Knights
Chicago paper lost 22,176.
The daily Sun Times, which lost
another $1,000 buyers and sub
scribers during July, now has
reached an all-time low Of $4,000.
Before the strike the Sun and
Times, which at that time were
separate dailies, had a combined
sale well above 100000.
The strike has also affected ad-
vertising. Figures published re-
Gently in Editor & Publisher, the
leading trade paper Of the indus
try, show that in the country as a
whole newspaper advertising in
creased more than 100000 lines
during June, with all major cities
sharing in the increased business
except Chicago and Miami, where
the printers are on strike.
John Pilch, president of the
Chicago local, believes the volume
Of ads in the strike-bound news
papers would be much smaller if
those papers did not enjoy the
special favor Of the NAM.
Pointing out that nearly all the
country's big corporations are
"hooked up with the NAM" the
printers president declares those
corporations are willing to pay for
ads in the Taft-Hartley dailies to
help the publishers bust the union.
'It really amounts to a subsidy for
the strike-bound papers," he de-
clares.
with other big corporations
laying their money on the line to
help the big newspaper corpora
tions," says the union spokesman,
"we think it's only common sense
and common decency for union
workmen to help their fellow work
men who are picketing the Chicago
Tribune and other Hartley
papers. But workers don't have to
help US with money. They can help
US best by NOT paying money into
the Taft Hartley war chest of the
struck Chicago newspapers.
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, 1949-08-18
LOBBY PROBE

Washington (LPA)-A new
drive to get an investigation
of Washington's biggest busi-
ness-lobby-got under way in
the House this week.
The House Rules Committee
cleared for action on the floor
a resolution by Congressman
Frank Buchanan Cd, Pa.) for
creation of committee of
seven House members to con-
duct a lobby probe.
Once before, the House over
whelmingly passed a resolution
setting up a joint House-Sen-
ate committee to do the inves-
tigation. However, a similar
resolution, sponsored in the
Senate by Harley M. Kilgore
Cd, w. Va.) has been tied up
in the Senate Rules Commit
tee. Tired of waiting for the
Senate to act, Buchanan push
ed his measure for a separate
House inquiry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Violence Mounts
As Civil Rights
Laws Are Blocked

Washington UPA) = Hope for
enactment of any civil rights leg
islation during this session of Con-
gress was abandoned last week
when Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
Cd, N. ~ said that no attempt
would be made to call up his bill
for a Fair Employment PRACTICE
Commission. Io
The need for FEPC is being felt
thruout the country now as the
employment situation tightens and
union officials point out the danger
of not only discriminatory hirings
but also discriminatory firings in
creasing. lc
Other civil rights measures under
consideration in the Senate were
an anti-poll tax bill and an anti
lynching bill.
Need for the poll tax law was
pointed up last week in the hot
Virginia election contest where the
Byrd machine defeated a liberal
candidate by discouraging voters
by charging them heavy poll tax.
The law against mob violence is
being deserted for the time being
because Dixiecrats have announc-
ed they will filibuster in the SEN
ate if such a measure is intro
duced. A calendar of events for the
past fortnight speaks for itself on
this subject:
July 17-Gov. Fuller Warren of
Florida ordered National Guards
men into the town of Groveland
where mob was prowling in
search of Negro rape suspect. In
the Ku Klux Klan refus-
ed to turn over its membership list
to grand jury.
July 1873 high school football
coach was arrested in Birmingham,
Ala, for participation in masked
July 19-The National Guard
patrolled Groveland. Most of the
Negroes left town. The others
boarded up their houses.
July 20-Ku Klux Klan members
we're identified in four floggings in
Jefferson County, Ala. Both whites
and Negroes were beaten.
July 21-The Chief of the Ala
Dama Klan, DR.. E. P. Pruitt, re-
signed in protest against elements
within the Klan who ego out and
whip people"
July 22-State of A la b m a
sought to indict the XXX, as such,
n connection with floggings and
lbductions.
July 23-The Klan openly threat
ned political revenge on Alabama
charging it with mob viol-
nee.
July 26-The posse in Groveland,
Ia, finally caught one of the
Negro suspects, shot and killed
i'm. Klansmen tried to kidnap the .
mayor of Iron City, Ga, but were
eaten off with gunfre.
July 28-A local coroner's jury
leared the posse which killed the /,
Jegro in Groveland. A hooded
and in Columbia, S. c. flogged
nd shot four Negroes.
August IA sheriff in Nash
lille, Ga. rescued Negro from a
lob of 1900 who wanted him to q
lad them to a rape suspect. b
August 2-The head of the Ala |
anna Klan went to Jail a second G
me for refusing to produce list e
members. t
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
ABILITY TO PAY

The steel industry's net pro.
fits jumped 525 in the first
half of this year over the same
period in 1948, a survey has
shown.
Profits - after taxes - of %
companies surveyed by the
United Press rose to $305, ,946,-
SOC in the first six months of
1949. A year ago they were
"only" $2O1 ,494,199.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
MACHINIST STRIKE SETTLED

Louisville, Ky. (ILNS). : The
week-old strike of machinists at
the international Harvester plant
here was settled Aug. 9 after Is
hours of negotiation. S. w. Duncan,
commissioner Of the United States
Cancellation Service, announced
that representatives of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists
and the company had reached an
agreement that provides s for
changes in job classificati tions, re-
sulting in higher pay for most of
the machinists.
Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
ILLINOIS DRIVERS BOOSTED

East st. Louis, Ill. OPA)-
Wage raises ranging from four
dollars to $9.40 week were won
by 1875 members Of Teamsters
Local 729-AFL here, it was ann
ounced. The new contracts cover
employees of 10 dairy and beer dis
tributing companies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18

tion.
Anti-labor lobbies galore were
on the roster. The National Small
Business Mems Assn, which cam
paigned for retention of Taft Hart
ley, listed $129,637; the similar
Conference of Small Business Or
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18

that panel, and to start anew from
scratch.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18

Ask for Union Labeled merchan.
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
Evening star., 1949-12-18

uuJOTu-0uCftiuCft THoto.
Capt. William Pitts Wishar,
U. S. c. G., retired, and Mrs.
Wishar announce the engagement
of their daughter. Elise Yeamans
Kidder, to Mr.. Oscar Leak Tyree,
son of Mrs. Lemuel Preston Tyree
and the late Mr.. Tyree Of Win
ston- Salem, N. c. The wedding
will take place in March.
Miss Wishar attended Bradford
Junior College in Bradford, Mass,
and Wellesley College. and re-
ceived her degree from the Uni
versity of North Carolina where
she was a member of Delta Delta
Delta Sorority. For the past two
years she has been associated with
the Food and Agriculture Organi-
zation of the United Nations in
Washington.
Mr.. Tyree. who is an attorney
with the Treasury Department,
was graduated from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina and the
law school of the same univer-
sity. He is a member of Beta
Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi.
Evening star., 1949-12-18

I often wonder why tact Is a
discredited domestic virtue, and
why we never feel that it is neces-
sary to use the same f1nesse in
dealing with our own families that
we do with strangers? Yet heaven
knows it is far more important
to us to get along amiably and
smoothly with our husbands and
wives and children than it is to
smooth the fur of casual &C
quaintances the right way.
Not long ago at dinner in a
house in which I was visiting, the
small son split soup on the table,
cloth and his mother reprimanded
him publicly and sharply. "You
clumsy creature" she cried, 'look
what you've done, spotted my best
cloth. You have the table man
ners of a pig. Why can't you
learn how to eat decently?"
To which the little chap. hurt
and humiliated, responded: why
don't you say to me that it doesn't
make bit of difference and the
tablecloth has to be washed. any,
way, as you said to Mr.. x yes
terday when he split his coffee?"
And I thought, why not, in
deed? Why should she have been
more tender of Mr.. KS feelings
than she was of her own little
child's? Why should she treat
Mr.. x with more consideration
than she did the little boy she
really loved?
And if the mother had an
swered the question honestly she
would have been forced to reply
that it was because she didn't
think it was worth while to take
the trouble even to be civil to her
own child. And we all fall under
the same condemnation. Why, ii
we said to other people the things
we say to our own we wouldn't
have a friend left in the world.
nor ever be invited to another
party.
When Mr.. A. goes to dinner at
Mrs. BIS he is suavity itself. He
tells her how beautiful and young
she is looking, though he may be
thinking quite the contrary. and
when she says that she is afraid
the cook has a little too much salt
in the soup, he says not at all.
that he likes salty soup. And If
the roast is tough and stringy. he
gulps it down without comment.
But does he use any such tact
in dealing with the wife Of his
bosom? I should say not. Say,
this soup is nothing but brine. It
is a funny thing to me that a
woman of even average intelli-
gence can make soup every day of
her life without ever finding out
how much salt to put in, or how
to pick out a roast that is edible
instead of letting the butcher palm
off on her something that would
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Dorothy Dix
It's More Important to Be Toctfu|
With Family Than With Strangers

pull a bulldogs teeth out If he
tried to chew on it,"
Nor is his wife any more diplo-
matte in dealing with her hus-
pand. For pity sake. Henry. are
you going to tell that old story
over again? Everybody has heard
you tell it forty times and it
wasn't funny in the first place" :"
Haven't you seen a mans face
fall when he brought bis wife
home a bunch of roses and she
looked at them and shifted and
said: "Oh, roses. Violets are the
only flowers I care for" Yet If
any strange man had brought her
flowers she would have gone into
ecstaSies over them. no matter
what they had been.
And who but our families are
tactless enough to tell us that we
are getting fat, or are looking sick.
or that we are spelling our chill
dren, or that we haven't any taste
in clothes, or that We talk too
much about our babies?
Curious that those VINO love us
best should be the ones who are
least considerate of our feelings.
DEAR MISS DIX: I maintain
that unless girl is actually en-
gagged to a man she has no right
whatever to be annoyed at his
taking out other girls and that
he has no right to question her
going with other men, even
though they have been going
steadily together for months.
My opponents say that If man
takes a girl out steadily for six
months or year he has no right
whatever to go out with other
girls, or the girl to 60 out with
other men, even though he has
not asked the girl in question to
be his wife.
Which of us is right? CLARA.
Answer-You are. Until a couple
are definitely engaged they have
no claim, morally or otherwise,
upon each other. and no right to
dictate to each other or to try to
control each others actions.
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Helen Nora Lyons
Engaged to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas w. Ly-
ons announce the engagement of
their daughter, Helen Nora, to
Mr.. John Henry Ebaugh, jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry
Ebaugh.
The bride-elect was graduated
from the Immaculate Conception
Academy, and has been employed
by the National Catholic Welfare
Conference News Service since
then. Her fance attended local
schools here before serving fol
nearly five years in the Navy.
No definite date has been set
for the wedding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
D. {. Championship
Bridge Tournament
To Open Tomorrow

The 18th annual District Con-
tract Bridge Championship tour
nament will open at the Shore
ham Hotel tomorrow with wom-
ems title play beginning at 2 pm.
Mrs. Stanley Newman and Mrs.
Isadore Zeskind, both of Balti-
more, are defending the title.
At BIS pm. tomorrow the
mixed pairs play will begin for
the Capitol Cup which is held
now by Mrs. Lillian Krick and
Charles c. johnson, both OF
Washington. The women's con-
test will continue Friday. along
With a one-session mems pair
title now held by Mr.. johnson
and Miller S. Roberts.
The second and final session OF
the mixed pair play will be held
Friday night.
Open pairs will compete for the
Woodward Cup in two sessions on
Saturday while on Sunday anna
teur pairs will compete for the
metropolitan title and The Eve
ming Star Trophy. Teams Of four
title play also is set for Sunday
and all duplicate and contract
bridge organizations in the city
are urged to enter teams.
The tournament is sponsored
by the Washington Bridge League
under the sanction of the Amer
lean Contract Bridge League.
James G. Stone is tournament
chairman. Russell Baldwin and
Paul Golden will direct the play