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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-17
CI6k Coils Showing
Of Documents Fitting
For Inauguration
By Herman Schoden

IT wasn't conductor, but q
strapping Marine who helped the
little man aboard the train, and as
far as the Marine was concerned,
his latest passenger was No. $780,
1856.
That was the number he clicked
of on his little gadget for counting
people, an 1nterminable string OF
people.
For the Marine 1t was another
days work-he's been doing it most
of the days for 16 months. But for
No. $3.50, 1856 it was q day apart.
Not long before, out in the sur
prisingly bright January sunshine,
he had heard distinguished speakers
tell about the Freedom Train, how
it had rumbled 37,106 miles with
stops at 1926 cities, how 1t was
brought back to Washington yester-
day for Inaugural Week, and how
new plans are afoot to extend the
tour another two years.
Now No. 3,48O,7S6 stood before
Jefferson's rough draft of the
Declaration of Independence, one o1
the 127 precious documents on the
Freedom Train, and recalled the
words of j. Edward Shugrue. ma
tional director of the American
Heritage Foundation.
Sharing the bunting draped
speakers platform with others re-
sponsible for the Freedom Trains
successful tour, Mr.. Shugrue had
reminded his audience that this
same Thomas Jefferson once had
warned that liberty cannot be in
herited, but must be rewon by each
succeeding generation.
q" Only by working at de-
mocracy can we make democracy
work for U.s."
Pausing before Washington's IA
nous farewell address, No. 3,480, 78t
might have recalled what Attorney
General Clark had said about the
fitness of the Freedom Trains re-
turn for the Inauguration Of the
32nd President.
LAS we in America exhibit these
documents to 100000 people Inau-
gural week, it will be an example
to the world about the true facts
of democracy, the real end results
of democracy" Mr.. Clark said.
1t was Mr.. Clark who was the
moving force in the Freedom Train
idea. Yesterday, as he stood be-
side it at Fourteenth and D streets
'S.W. Mr.. Clark said there was 9
movement in Congress to have the
train continue another two years
and he hoped that movement Woulc
succeed.
100000 Is Sought.
Bills were introduced in both the
House and Senate last week for a
100000 appropriation to operate
the train under Government COM
mission.
Already 3,5O0,0oO people have
seen the train, but there are 140,-
100000 others who would like the
chance. I am sure American ingen-
uity will make that possible" he
added.
The $3.50, 7s6th person to &C
through the train had the company
of thousands of others, including
Mr.. Clark. who took the Commute
tour for the sixth time.
Il always see something new" the
Attorney General said. 1T always
gives me lift
During the brief ceremonies the
Marine Corps Band played the Lib
erty Bell March-it was a Liberty
Bell train he had seen as a youth
that gave Mr.. Clark the idea for
the Freedom Train. The First Bap-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-17
Stop Signs Replaced
At 21st, R and Q Streets

The stop signs which were re-
moved from Twenty-f1rst and r and
Twenty-first and @ streets NV. last
Thursday when former northbound
traffic along Twenty-first street was
reversed because of the Du Pont
Circle underpass construction, were
placed in position again today. The
signs will halt traffic on @ and r
streets at Twenty-first.
The signs were replaced after
numerous residents of the area
complained that removal of the
signs had created dangerous traffic
situation,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-17

With no snow in sight through
Wednesday and only II snowy
January 2Oths in the last 81 years,
the District nevertheless is readying
its snow plows for the Inauguration
Just in case.
Special snow removal plans were
disclosed today as the first Weather
Bureau prediction Of Thursdays
weather still was awaited. A special
advance forecast is to be announced
at 10 am. tomorrow.
Both city officials and the
Weather Bureau are taking no
chances on a repetition of William
Howard Taft's inaugural difficulties
of 1909 when a totally unexpected
1O-inch snow blew in to the dis
comflture of the chief weather
forecaster and thousands of in
augural visitors. Mr.. Taft was sworn
in in the Senate chamber and a
ch-dwindled parade marched
through slush to the White House.
Congress thought of moving future
! uk vi dis II Ulll Wal III WCll 4llIO
April
The Weather Bureau began keep
ing records here in 1871 and first
recorded snow and rainfall sepa-
rately in 1888.
If statistics are reassuring. how
ever, no inaugurations since Mr..
Tsft's have seen major snowStorms,
and, IN the last 70 yea1s, the ma or-
ity of January 20ths have been
snowless and rainless. Since 1871. it
has showed or rained on January
&c just IS times. There have been
Only II snowfalls on that date since
the Weather Bureau began keeping
snow records.
Inauguration prognosticators won't
find much solace in tie record of
the last five years. however. More
than an inch and a half of snow
fell last January 20 and there was
some snow on that date in 46 and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-17

relatives of Zachariah Mclaughlin
he would not release the picture
until the old man died. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin since has died-nine days
after he signed the pledge, to be
exact.
So, No. 3,4SO,786 came to Wash
ington with a picture, some news
paper clippings and a proud CLEAN
in his eye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-17
Judiciary Committee Backs
Hatch by Unanimous Vote

The Senate Judiciary Committee
today approved unanimously the
nomination of former Senator
Hatch. Democrat, of New Mexico,
to be a Federal district judge in
his home State. Chairman McCar-
ran will ask unanimous consent for
immediate confirmation by the Sem
ate this afternoon.
Mr.. Hatch was a Senator for IS
years, and before that was Judge
in the State courts of New Mexico.
He retired voluntarily from the
Senate at the opening of the new
Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-17
Miss Friend to Speak

Miss Berta Friend of the Agricul-
ture Department will speak on food
budgets at a meeting of the Uni
versity Park Md Parent-Teacher
Association at pm. tomorrow in
the school.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-02
Priest Tells NY. Group
Hospital Built By Faith

NEW YORK (ANP) The
graphic story OF how prayer and ire
mendous effort transformed a 10
bed maternity hospital in Mobile,
Ala, into a $560,O0O Catholic insti-
tuition providing general medical
care for Negro patients and making
hospital facilities available for the
first time to local Negro doctors,
was described by the Rev. Vincent
Warren, in an address before the
weekly Catholic Interracial forum,
last week.
Father Warren declared that the
Blessed Martin DePorres hospital of
which he is chaplain - grew out of
the grave lack of medical and hos
pital facilities for Negro patients and
doctors in the Mobile area" He des-
cribed the resistance Of many prom
lent persons in the city when it was
learned that the small maternity
hospital for Negroes was to be re-
placed by the present half-million
dollar institution.
But prayer, the tremendous eff
fort of our. parishioners, and the re-
Spouse to wide appeals for finan-
cial assistance have brought to full
realization what once Eeemed an
overwhelming task" he said. while
the hospital was being built. the re-
sistance disappeared" Since then, he
explained, four other Catholic hos
pitfalls admitting Negro patients,
have been built in the diocese of Mo-
bile. These are located in Selma.
Montgomery, ami Aenesly, Ala, and
Pensacola, Fla.
Father Warren pointed out that
prior to the erection of the Blessed
Martin DePorres hospital, there was
not a single hospital in the Mobile
area giving adequate care to Negro
patients or admitting Negro doctors
''Since our hospital has been operat-
ing" he continued that policy has
changed so that now all the hospit-
ais in Mobile make some effort to
care for Negro patients.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-02
Jackie Robinson
Maintains Lead
In All Star Poll

CHICAGO - amp Now in
the midst of his best season in
baseball, second baseman Jackie
Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers
maintained his lead among Nation
al leaguers in the voting for the
voting for the 1949 all star baseball
game.
The 10th annual game will be
played on the Dodgers home
grounds. Ebbets field in Brooklyn
July IL. Voting for all stars ended
Wednesday June 20.
Robinson has more than the next
two men combined in the vote for
second base honors with 592.294.
With this vote he maintains a slight
lead over the Stan Musial. top vote
getter last year in the poll. Musial,
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-02

The Nineteenth Grand Lodge Ses-
sion of the Improved Pail Bearers
Of America convenes July 6 thru
10, 1949, at Antioch Baptist Church
NV 46th st. and goth ave, Brown
Subdivision. Chartered buses will
leave Ord ave. and 18th st. Wednes-
day night, July at 1880 sharp.
All members and delegates are
begged to be on time. Bus schedule
being daily from 3rd ave and nth
St, am. through Saturday. Sun
day afternoon at pm.
George NJ. Brown is grand presi-
den. Committee on arrangements
Is Ella Harris. Amelia T. Shavers.
L. NJ. Ethridge. chairman.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-02
Will Oliver Laid To
Rest In Arlington, Ga.

The funeral of Will oliver was
held at st. Paul AME Church in Ar
lington June II.
The deceased passed away in
Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami
on June Sth from injuries received
when struck by a passing automo-
bile three days before.
j. A. oliver, a brother of the de-
ceased accompanied the body from
Miami to Arlington. In the company
We're Mother Lula VI alker and SISTER
Rosa Bell Conner of Miami and Miss
Marsella Palmer of Ioukers, n. Y.
Interment was in Hoperville ceme-
terry by the side of his wife who pre-
ceeued him in death several years
ago.
He is survived by one brother,
one son, two daughters, five grand
children and one great grand child.
a host of other relatives and friends.
Special thanks go to Newbold
Funeral Home, the Church of oGd
In Christ emple. Elder A. NJ.
Cohen, pastor, st. James AME
Church, Liberty City, The Church
of God in Christ, Elder Walker,
pastor, to the neighbors of 62nd
ST.. and 62nd terrace and to the
numerous friends and saints for tele.
grams, condolences and flowers.
Daughters:
Nancy Cohen
Mary l. Jones
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-07-02

star outfielder of the st. Louis Car
dinals, has 5S6,204 votes.
Both men are behind Ted VIII.
liams of the Boston Red SoX in the
American league. The teantown
outfielder leads all players with
643,52 votes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
MurroyAsser+s Labor Supports
Idec OF Human Welfare Sfcfe'

New York (LPA)-Replying to
General Electric Co. President
Charles Il. Wilson, President Philip
Murray last week denied the
charge that the CLOS legislative
program is markedly socialistic."
Murray's reply was in an ad-
dress read for him at dinner
sponsored by Labor & Nation mag
azine.
Instead, he asserted, Labor in
America seeks the quickest possi-
BILE perfection Of what Justice Will
liam o. Douglas of the Supreme
Court at the recent convention so
brilliantly defined as the human
welfare state
"The human-welfare state pre-
serves the best of our American
traditions" Murray pointed out.
ut promotes and expands the basic
concepts of human liberty. 1t en-
courages the enterprise system
which has helped make this nation
great.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20

"The human-welfare state seeks
earnestly to protect its citizens
from fear, from want, from human
degradation. 1t is not a pattern
alistic government; it does not rob
its citizens of initiative, or bind
them in slavery to an all-powerful
dictatorship.
"The human-welfare state does
and must-work for its citizens
1t is not-and it must not become
AN overpowering machine which
sacrifices the liberty of the peo-
pie in return for security or re-
forms.
"We in American labor value be-
yond all else the rights and the
dignity of the individual. We in
American labor will fight totalitar
ianism, from the right or from the
left. We regard the human-welfare
state as Americas middle way. Il
should be neither right nor left,
but liberal, progressive, open
minded and daring"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
u. S.-Mexico o PIon For Importing
Farm Workers In Neqofiofion

Washington, d. C. ILNS). -
The U. S. State Department will
begin negotiations with Mexico this
month for a new agreement where
by agricultural labor may be i'm
ported into the United States. The
negotiators will have before them
proposals made by the National
Farm Labor Union which will call
for a joint committee composed of
labor, employer and government
representative to determine the
need in any area and to set pre-
vailing wage rates. Other proposals
worked out jointly with Mexican
agricultural unions for the protec-
tion of foreign workers have also
been submitted.
Meanwhile, the representatives
of the 100000 large farm operators
who produce over half the nations
crops have submitted proposals to
abolish the contract and substitute
in its place a permit system where
by any Mexican worker appearing
on the border will be given an entry
card which would permit him to
stay in the United States to en-
gage in farm work.
Another alternative the growers
submitted is for a joint commission
to regulate the traffic of farm la
Dor across the border. They also
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Told
Housing Bills
Not Adequate

Washington UPA)-None of the
housing bills introduced in the first
week of Congress are wide enough
in scope to implement the kind of
housing program proposed by the
Iorganized labor movement. And
none of the bills meets the stand
ards set in President Truman's
messages to Congress.
The version of the old Taft Ell
lender Wagner bill introduced in
the first week of the session by
eight Democratic Senators, as we'll
as another bill of smaller scope
sponsored by Republican Senators
Taft, Ives and Flanders, both are
inadequate, union officials insist.
"They are hastily drawn, and
doubtless will be restudied and
undergo considerable overhauling
before any housing measure comes
out of committee" said CIO
housing official. "They don't in any
way meet the needs, outlined by
President Truman in his speech,
for bringing down the costs of con-
struction so that housing can be
built at reasonable COSTS"
Chairman Harry C. Bates of the
AFL's Housing Committee indicat-
ed that even President Truman's
proposals did not meet the pro-
gram outlined by the AFL at it's
convention last fall. In a memo to
Truman, Bates said that "The ter
rife initiation in the prices of new
homes has convinced US that pri-
mary emphasis must now be plac-
ed upon> the construction of rental
housing. 1t is both grossly unfair
and economically unsound to force
low-income and moderate income
families to purchase homes at to-
days astronomical prices"
Bates pointed out that the AFL
convention had urged Congress to
authorize building a minimum of
100000 units of public low rent
housing in the next five years.
President Truman urged Congress
to authorize that number in seven
years. The old TEW bill called for
100000 in five years.
Bates also urged President Tru-
man to see that the 500 of the
nations families with incomes be-
tween $1,000 and 5000 year be
provided for in any new housing
proposals by the Administration.
"Large-scale construction of mutu-
al and rental housing within the
means of these families can only
be achieved by authorization for
long-term, low-interest loans made
directly by the federal government
to public agencies, cooperatives,
nonproft and limited dividend cor
porations, and any private builders
who will conform to the rent
schedules established under this
program"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Detroit Unions Charge Ferguson
Disqualified To Serve As Senator

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). -
The Detroit and Wayne County
Federation of Labor has petitioned
the Treasury and Justice depart
ments and the Senate Committee
ON Elections to investigate 4
charges which it is asserted dis
qualify Homer Ferguson, Republi-
can of Michigan, to serve as u. S.
Senator.
The labor decision to seek Sena-
tor Ferguson's expulsion was taken
by unanimous vote and revealed by
the Detroit Labor News, official
organ of the Detroit AFL unicns.
The charges parallel in large part
those contained in the petition of
Frank h. Hook, who was defeated
by Senator Ferguson last Novem-
ber, for a Senate investigation and
n recount of the ballots.
The labor federation declared
that Ferguson had violated the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
COP Faithful
Continued From Page One)

well as liberal Republicans.
One important figure on the
Natl Committee, Rep. Clarence
Brown, Taft's principal lieutenant
and Ohio member of the Commit
tee proclaimed last week that the
job of setting Republican policy be-
tween conventions remains with
the party delegation in Congress.
These elected Republicans are
the "only ones who have legal,
or moral obligation
to make policy" the Ohioan declar-
ed.
If, however, the Natl Committee
at its late January meeting in
Omaha, Nebr., decides to call a
rank-and-file conference the Scott
and Taft forces will unite to re-
affirm COP adherence to the
party's S0th Congress policies, the
statements of the two leaders in
dicate.
Meanwhile, Taft and Dewey sup
porters continue to haggle over
whether it was Taft's Congression-
al policies or Dewey's no-policy
speeches in the campaign which
dashed the COPS victory hopes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20

state constitution in 1912 by run
ming for his first term in the Sen
ate without resigning from his post
as circuit judge and asserted he
had violated the canons of judicial
ethics of the American Bar Asso-
citation for the same reason.
The petition accused the senator
of receiving campaign funds which
had been contributed illegally by
certain Michigan automobile deal
ers. 1t was charged the senator had
"full knowledge" of the nature of
the procedure involved.
Ferguson also was accused of
failure to make a proper account
ing to the board of auditors of
Wayne County as to some $l63,C00
entrusted to him while, as circuit
Judge, he was conducting a one
man grand jury investigation in
Michigan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Truman's Speech
.AppIauded By
British Labor
By DAVID c. WILLIAMS

London (LPA) - British labor
gave President Truman's program
as warm welcome as have Am
erican trade unionists.
Whitelaw, cartoonist for the La
Dor party's and Trades Union Con-
gress' official newspaper, the Daily
Herald, shows the President busy
making his "fair deal" The ages
he is putting on the table are "Un-
ion Rights" "Fair Wages" Health
Service" and 'sTax on Rich" The
other players at the table, "Pro-
fiteer," "Big Business and Gus
Reactionaries," are throwing up
their hands in despair.
In its lead editorial the Daily
Herald takes particular delight in
the Presidents proposal to auth
orize construction of steel plants
if action by private industry fails
to meet Americas needs. Reports
of steel shortages in the US have
helped to drive home the Labor
party's case for the public owner
ship of Britain's iron and steel in
dustry. Truman's state of the un-
ion message will be quoted in many
British Labor speeches.
The Presidents program was
welcomed too in the liberal press.
at looks" said the famed Man
chester Guardian. Farther to the
left than any Presidents before
him." The London News-Chronicle
declared that it will be "memor-
able for its bold radicalism." Add
ed the London Star: president
Truman has surpassed Roosevelt 5
New Deal in scope and political
daring"
One correspondent wrote: "Pres-
ident Roosevelt carried thru the
New Deal reforms on a wave of un-
employment and adversely. Pres
ident Truman has the harder task
of working out his Newer Deal at
time when all but a minority of
Americans are enjoying great pros
perity. But this is the direction of
the tide. The world is moving his
way. Sooner or later what he wants
will be accomplished"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Labor Committee
Reported Keeping
Anti-UnioEl Gang

Washington (LPA)-Union rel
representatives. in Washington were
amazed last week by a report that
two notorious Taft -Hartleyites are
being retained on the staff of the
Senate Labor Committee. They are
Philip r. Rodgers, who helped steer
the Taft Hartley law thru the Sen
ate committee in the seth Congress,
and Tom Shroyer, who has been
general counsel of the notorious
Joint congressional TIL "white
wash" committee on labor-manage-
ment relations.
Altho Chairman Ebert Thomas
Cd, Utah) refused to comment on
the committees personnel plans,
there is strong reason to believe
that Rodgers, who was committee
clerk under the Taft regime will
be kept on as assistant clerk. Earl
B. Wixcey, who was assistant to
Rodgers, not himself a Taft-Hart-
leyite, is slated to be clerk.
Shroyer, who was principal
craftsman of the old Ball commit
tees reports "white washing" Taft
Hartley, has been promoting him
self for a spot on the Senate La
Dor Committee staff too. Sen.
Thomas wants to abandon the
Joint Committee on Labor Manage
ment Relations, which would leave
Shroyer without a job. Other Dem
ocratic Senators, however, favor
keeping a revamped Joint Commit
tee in operation at least until Taft
Hartley is repealed to counter the
anti-union propaganda that the
Ball-dominated group put out.
A former NLRB lawyer, Shroyer
is a protege of Gerald Reilly, one
time NLRB member, now attorney
for newspaper publishers attempt
ing to smash the Int'l Topographic
al Union-AFL. AS special consult
ant to Sen. Robert A. Taft OR,
Ohio, in the early days of the
80th Congress, Reilly was one of
the principal architects of Taft
Hartley, and mentor to both Rodg-
ers and Shroyer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
TronSif Workers
Win Wage Boost

Newark LPA)-In $2,000,000
decision the New Jersey state arbi-
tration board last week awarded
6400 AFL transit workers a 1870
hourly pay boost, setting the high
est bus operators wage standard
in the New York New Jersey
Pennsylvania area. The union is
the Amalgamated ASSN Street,
Electric Railway & Motor Coach
Employes-AFL.
More than $l,000,000 was paid
Immediately to the employees of the
Public Service Companies, one of
the largest bus companies in the
world, which operates in New Jer-
sey, with lines running into NY
and Pa. Payment of l3c of the
10 5l2c raise was made retroactive
to July /.
The award eliminates nine
months of bargaining by the un-
ion. Talks for a new contract began
last April, two months before ali
old agreement expired.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20

demand representation for users
of Foreign Labor" on the official
negotiating committee. They were
opposed to representation of the
American worker, the National
Farm Labor Union said at its head
quarters here. The union went on
to say:
"The new negotiations starting
in January follow the abrogation
of an international agreement last
year by Mexico. The Mexican gov
.ernment cancelled its contract
when U. S. officials permitted
thousands of Mexicans to enter the
United States in violation of inn
migration laws and international
commitments. The invasion of the
United States was inspired by cot
ton and beet growers.
Illegal Traffic Charged
"The District Director of I'M
migration, Grover Wilmoth of Ell
Paso, let down the bars while Don
Larin, head of the Farm Place
ment Division of the u. S. Employ
ment Service, directed the illegal
traffic across the border. Once
across the border the illegal aliens
were loaded into trucks like cattle
and whisked away to the Missis-
sippi Delta cotton fields and Colo
rado sugar beet fields"