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Evening star., 1950-03-18
Atomic Defense Plan
Is Opposed as Waste
And Needless Alarm
Johnson of Colorado
Declares He Sees No
Immediate War Threut
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Senator johnson, Democrat, o.
Colorado said today a vast civi
defense organization against
atomic attack is not only unneces.
sary at this time but might ever
prove harmful.
The Colorado Senator, a mem.
ber of the Senate House Atomic
Energy Committee, spoke ou
against needless alarm ant
waste" at time when there is n,
immediate threat of war.
He told a reporter the Govern
ment should work out detailed
civil defense plans and a pro.
gram should be ready for opera.
ton whenever there is rea.
danger"
False Sense Of Security Seen.
But he insisted such a program
at this time would only confuse
the public and give cities a false
sense of security.
Senator Knowland, Republican
Of California, said, however, thai
the Atomic Energy Commission
must find a way to take State anc
municipal officials into their con.
fldence by giving them informa-
ton for effective defense organi-
cations.
This could be done without dis
closing vital security information
Senator Knowland argued, and al
the same time give cities a chance
to prepare themselves against at
tack.
Don't Know What to Expect.
Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Lo.
Angeles told the Atomic Commit.
tee yesterday that cities are not
being given information they neec
and officials don't know what
we're expected to do"
Senator Knowland agreed with
Mr.. Bowron. He said he is Ger.
tain a central Government agency
will develop a civil defense pro.
gram as a result of the Atomic
Committee hearings.
Senator Johnson's position i.
that the country should not pu,
defense plans into operation unit
there is real threat of attack.
Some people say we'll have ne
notice of an atomic. attack,
Senator johnson said, "but
don't agree. I think we'll have
plenty Of notice in advance thai
the danger of war is developing
And then we'll have time fol
specific training"
Mr.. Bowron proposed that civi
defense efforts be concentrated
first in the areas most likely tx
be attacked by an enemy.
Senator Knowland said cite.
must be given defense instruction.
so they will be in position tt
act without waiting for word from
Washington or any other centra
office.
He declared the value of 8
civil defense program would lie
in the ability of cities to defenc
themselves without waiting fol
Federal direction.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
II Die as Trawler
Sinks Near Halifax
After Being Rammed
Six Are Picked Up After
EorIy Morning Collision
And Taken to Hospitals
BY the Associated Press

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Mar.
ia jinxed Nova Scotia trawler
was rammed and sunk in the early
morning darkness off Halifax
harbor today. carrying II of her
II crew members TO a watery
death.
Only six escaped from the u.s.
foot Gertrude de Costa. out of
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, after a
sudden collision with the Inter-
island Steamship Co., Ltd, vessel
Island Connector.
Sitting in the steaming engine
room of the Connector, the still
shivering survivors told of a fran
tic scramble for safety during the
few short minutes before their
craft took her last plunge.
Some Suffer Injuries.
All were taken to hospital
shortly after the 1,386-ton Con-
hector brought them into port.
Some suffered injuries and shock.
In the companionway outside,
lay the bodies of two of their ship
mates, the only two recovered.
All the surviving-one actually
was carried under with the ship
but lived to tell the story-are
from Nova Scotia. All the dead,
except one from Grand Bank,
/ Newfoundland, also were Nova
Scotians.
Among the dead were Capt.
Haslen Knickle of Lunenburg and
his father Otto. Another father
and son, Geoge Schrader and his
son Dave. also were lost in the
crash, which climaxed a jinxed
voyage for the De Costa.
Had Partial Load of Fish.
On the Banks a few days ago a
dory upset and one crew member
was lost. His dory-mate, Morton
Tanner Of Blue Rocks, was saved.
Today. Tanner was one of those
lost.
/ The vessel carried only a partial
load of fish-f1shing has been bad
on the Banks this season-as she
came in the harbor.
The Connector, outbound for
st. Johns. Newfoundland, was not
visibly damaged and her officers
refused to comment on the crash.
! Edward Tanner, elderly cook
aboard the De Costa. told of his
own escape.
II was below asleep but ]
heard someone yell Tower the
sails and that woke me. Then
the crash came and someone cries
My God, what happened?' BY
that time I was out on deck
Someone near the stacked dories
was yelling for a knife to cut
them loose but no one had one
I ran below and got one and took
a couple of swipes at the ropes
before she went under.
| Went Down With Ship.
my arms were twisted in the
rigging as she sank. I still don't
4 know how I'm here. I went down
with her and then came up in the
wreckage near bunch of dories-
somehow they had got loose"
Robert Parker of Canso said he
was at the wheel just before the
crash.
1--WE saw her coming" he said
land the skipper gave me the
hard over order. Then he took
the wheel himself just before the
crash. She hit us almost straight
on at the after end"
Evening star., 1950-03-18
King George Confined
With Slight Cold
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. 18.-King George
vi was confined to his room at
Buckingham Palace today with q
slight cold.
The King attended a st. Pat
rick's Day parade of the Irish
Guards yesterday, and had planned
to leave with Queen Elizabeth and
Princess Margaret to spend the
week end at the royal lodge near
Windsor Castle.
His physician. Sir John Weir.
visited the King this morning.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
All 4OCrewmen
OF Blasted Ship
Saved in Pacific
26 Are Picked Up in
Boot, Rofts;; ID Still
On Navy Net Tender
BY the Assoeioted Press


PEARL HARBOR. Mar. 18.-The
entire crew-40 men-of the net
tender Elder were safe today in a
Navy rescue near the United
States atomic testing area in mid
Pacific.
Twenty-six of the little 163-foot
ships crew were picked up yester-
day afternoon from a life boat and
two RATS lashed together. They
had been adrift in shark infested
waters for a week.
The other IA crewmen were
reached last night, still manning
the fire blackened, explosion
racked Elder. They refused to
leave their helpless ship which had
5 feet of water in her engine room.
The rescue cleared UP the mys-
terry of what happened to the
Elder since she last reported
March 7 on a 2,6o0-mile voyage
from Hawaii to Eniwetok, scene
of forthcoming atomic expert
ments.
Unnoticed BY Transport.
But still unanswered today was
how the military transport Gen.
A. w. Brewster passed up the net
tender after sighting her Monday
The Elders skipper said his ship
signalled the Brewster with
everything we had aboard except
our three-inch gun"
The Brewster failed to spot. also
on Monday, the 26 Elder crewmen
who were ordered to abandon ship
March 10, the day the fire broke
out. They finally were picked up
by the dock landing ship Com
stock at BIS pm. (8:15 pm. E.
s. T) yesterday. All climbed
aboard unaided.
The Elders skipper, 1t. William
r. Adams, of Wilmar, Calf, said
he believed the fire was started
by faulty diesel injection system
recently repaired at Pearl Harbor.
Flames swept up from the en-
gine room, he said, and the
matches and the stack caught
aflre. The fire was controlled in
three hours, but it was three days
later before the blaze finally
burned itself out.
The Elder was reached at IL
pm. yesterday a am. EST. today
by the destroyer tender Piedmont.
The Piedmont reported the IA
men aboard were in very good
to excellent condition" 1t. Adams
said they needed no help from the
Piedmont's crew.
II can manage my own ship
with my own men," he said.
Crewmen Tell Story.
The fate of the Elder began to
unfold after the Navy's intensive
air and sea search located the &c
crewmen aboard the life boat and
RATS.
After they climbed aboard the
Comstock, the sailors called fol
water then told their story.
Fire broke out in the engine
room Of the net tender March 10
A series of explosions followed.
The crew fought the spreading
flames and jettisoned the ammuni-
ton aboard. All morning and all
afternoon they struggled against
the fire.
Then the Elders commander
ordered 26 of the crew to aban.
(See RESCUE pape A2N
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Zorubin Leaves London

LONDON, Mar. 18 (P.-Georgi
N. Zarubin, Soviet Ambassador to
Britain. left London today by air
for Moscow. He said the trip was
for personal reasons. His wife
saw him off at the airport.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Egypt Borters Cotton
For Russion Wheat
sy the A..oeioted Pres.

CAIRO, Egypt, Mar. ia
Russian-Egyptian barter agree
ment was announced today, in
volving the exchange of 1000
tons Of Russian wheat for Egyp-
tian short-staple cotton.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
East German Money
Continues Plunge in
Near-Panic SeI|inq
Wove of Dumping Set Of
By Reports Thot Sudden
Currency Reform Is Due
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Mar. 18.-The Soviet
zones currency plunged today to
an all-time low value, gripping
holders of the East mark in a near
panic of selling to unload.
The crisis started yesterday,
spurred by reports of a possible
Evening star., 1950-03-18

Reds Reported Building "Stotic stotion"
in Eostern Germany. Poge A-3
Evening star., 1950-03-18

(See SKIPPER, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-03-18

(see MCCARTHY, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1950-03-18

(see GERMAN, Page A-33
Evening star., 1950-03-18

Sunny, high near 40 today. Clear tonight;
low 27 In city and % in suburbs. Tomor-
row increasing cloudiness; rain or snow
by night Full report on Page A-2O
Midnight, IS am. -37 IL am. 81
am. ---46 8 am. 34 Noon 38
am. 40 10 am. SO / pm. 40
Evening star., 1950-03-18

(See BELGIUM, Page A-3.)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Phil Murroy Tolks

President Philip Murray OF
the CIO will make a political
speech on nationwide hook up
at 10 pm. November 2, it has
been announced by CIO-PAC.
The subject has not been an
nounced; but because of the
known position of President
Murray and the CIO on the SUBJ
ject of replacing Robert Alphon-
so Taft in the Senate with some
one who does not work against
the interests of the people, it is
expected that the Ohio race will
be included in the talk.
CIO-PAC has endorsed Joseph
[. Ferguson for the us. Senate.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Kids To FroIic
At PurIor A

Goblins and black cats and
things that go boomp in the
night will take over Parlor A at
Local IL headquarters October
80.
The local is having a Hailow-
cen Party for any youngster
who wants to come. Their par
ents are welcome, too.
There will be prizes for the
winners of games and contests,
and prizes for the boy and girl
adjudged to be wearing the best
costumes. Refreshments will be
served.
The party will begin at $50
and end at 8, with Stanley Hell
miniak, his wife and his daugh-
ter on hand to see that things
run smoothly.
Everybody is welcome, includ-
ing Things.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Vote Early
Vote Right

1t used to take you half a
minute to vote in Ohio.
Not this year.
The Taft stooges in Ohio
have put over the Massachusetts
ballot on you, hoping to win
for Taft in spite of the tre-
mendous sentiment against him.
The difference is this:
Under the old type ballot,
d m rats and Republicans
could mark a single x on the
ballot, and that would mean a
vote for EVERY candidate on
the party slate.
Under the NEW type ballot,
the one to be used in Ohio THIS
YEAR, every candidate is voted
for as an INDIVIDUAL. If you
want to vote for Thomas H.
Burke, you have to put an x
before the name of Thomas H.
Burke. If you want to vote for
Joseph T. Ferguson (and against
Taft you have to put an X in
front of Joseph T. Ferguson.
Like this:
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27

Hotel Ballroom, and will be
open to everyone.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Central Labor Union, AFL,
with the enthusiastic help and
support of the TIUC-CIO, and
all other Toledo labor groups.
Among those who have said
they would attend are doctors,
nurses, teachers, TU a cult ty
members, druggists, and federal
employees.
The labor unions themselves
will be out in large numbers to
hear the discussion of a bill
which might mean the differ
ence between financial disaster
and economic security to every
one of them.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Fred Dewey

One more liberal on the bench
won't do working people any
harm.
You can get one more liberal
on the bench by voting for Fred
Dewey for judge of the Ohio
State Supreme Court.
To vote for Dewey, you have
to RITE IN THE NAME:
FRED DEWEY; and then you
have to PUT AN tx" IN THE
BOX before the name you wrote
in.
It's a little extra Scribbling,
but it's worth it.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Will Speak On
NationaIH Health

One man, standing alone on
speakers platform, will bring
tottering down the whole twenty
million dollar fabric of lies and
Misrepresentation t h e Ameri-
can Medical Association tried to
put over on the country.
Oscar r. Ewing, head of the
F e d e raj Security Administra-
ton, will be in Toledo Monday,
October 80 at 8 pm. to tell the
people the truth.
The big lie is that the Ma
tional Health Program is $50
cialized medicine"
The big, important truth is
that the National Health Pro-
gram is the answer to the short
age of doctors, the shortage of
nurses, the shortage of medical
s h o s, the shortage of re-
search laboratories, the shortage
of hospital beds, the shortage of
health protection for the entire
nation.
The Ewing speech will be the
first major rebuttal to the $20,-
100000 propaganda m paign
launched jointly by the ANA
and group of manufacturers to
try TO frighten the people away
from program to solve a criti-
cal problem.
1t will be held in the Secor
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
It's All Over

Joseph T. Ferguson will be
elected to the United States
Senate on November z because
ne has promised to vote for the
things the people want.
Robert Alphonso will be de-
feated because he has promised
to go right on fighting against
everything that smacks of pro-
! gress.
Everybody understands this.
All the hooting and whooping
from now until election won't
change any votes. Ferguson has
the numbers and Taft has the
m ey. Money can't vote.
Voters can.
The election of Joseph T. Fer
guson, and the retirement of
Taft to corporation law (where
it's all right to work for the
corporations) will depend quite
simply on how many people
vote.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27

the charges.
In the letter of transmittal,
Lowell Goerlich, attorney for
the union, asked t n a t the
board conduct an immediate
investigation" of what was call
ed ''flagrant" violation of the
L b arrangement Relations
Act, and to issue a complaint
against the company.
Finally, in order to prevent
the plant from becoming a
runaway" outfit, Goerlich's
letter requests that the COM
plant, if issued, be followed by
an injunction to prevent the
from leaving.
The unfair labor practice
charge was filed with the 9th
Region of the NLRB in Cleve-
land on the basis of the dis
charge of all the hourly rated
at Swartzbaugh stimuli
with the appearance
of an advertisement by the
in the Blade and
Times announcing the company
was discontinuing operations
here.
The discharges came during
negotiations, and state
ments in the Block papers, at
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Unfair Charges Filed
AGAINST Swartzbauqh
Injunction Asked
To Stop Runaway

Unfair labor practice charges filed Wednesday
against the Swarzbaugh Manufacturing Company by UAW
CIO and Local H.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27

This is not going to be done
in half minute. 1t will take a
minute or two longer. So VOTE
EARLY THIS YEAR - VOTE
NOON.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
Doctors Druggists Coming
To Hear Oscar r. Ewing
Thought For Today

81 think T a ft would
lead the country to de-
structiOn." Paul Block
Junior, June, 1850.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
BY Alvaine Hamilton & Cushman Reynolds
For Labor Press Association

nNE-HALF of this column has just returned
" from a week at a unique institution on the
shores of Wisconsin's Lake Mendota The ex-
perience would be sparkling material for a
Life piece, or for a Sunday magazine section.
But it's not likely to hit those spots soon, so
we'll take this opportunity to tell you about it.
To begin with, where else is there a school
for workers that could absorb happily, all at
the same time:
9O-odd telephone workers from all over
the US;
About 40 union officers and business
agents, mostly from Wisconsin AFL and Clio
locals;
IA German men and women here to take
a refresher course in trade union methods and
democratic ways;
II Frenchmen, recently enemies of the Ger
mans, here under Marshall Plan auspices;
Plus a handful of prospective union educa-
ton workers, learning how it's done in Wis
consin.
Where else is there a state university which
gives only one piece of advice to the instruc-
tors in its school for workers: give your stu
dents the whole story, not just labor's side.
University of Wisconsin School for Work
ers is run by a committee which includes equal
numbers of AFL and CLIO leaders, and mem
bers of the university faculty. This last ses-
sion was in the office of the university presi-
dent, who served as chairman. The university
runs not only this unique resident school in
the summertime, but also courses in the win
ter in communities throughout the state. In
addition, it conducts a weekly radio program
over VIVA, the university'S unique radio sta
ton, which by a relay system can be heard in
every home in the Wisconsin area.
Where else is there a workers school that
has operated for 26 years and where else
can a school show the same results? Go to al
most any local union meeting in the state, and
chances are that you'll find most of the active,
creative officers are school for worker grad
yates.
How the school started is a good story in
itself. Union leadership in Wisconsin 26 years
ago was strongly rooted in European social
ism. The LaFollette progressive movement
dominated state politics. Professor John R.
Commons at the university had created a
whole staff of teachers who knew the labor
movement intimately, and who had pioneered
in providing the know-how for social legisla-
ton which had for years put Wisconsin in the
vanguard of the 48 states. Unemployment
compensation, prohibition of child labor, wage
and hour regulations, protection of W m n
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
More Inside Stuff

Problems raised by Korean Communists
aren't going to make u. S.. 1850 elections any
easier for labor and liberals.
Louis Bean, Washington economist and ex-
pert on election statistics, renews previous
analyses on basis of 1948 and 1916 figures.
It figures out to this: If average voters stay
home, reactionaries will win. It's up to some
10 million "lost" voters, who didn't 60 to polls
in 1948. If they had, Fair Deal would have had
easier shedding in 81st Congress, might have
licked Dixiecrat-R Republican coalition.
Heavy vote is particularly important in
mid-term elections - when too many people
usually stay home on Election Day.
BY THE WAY: Have you registered? Given
a dollar - or more - to PACE? Know the is
sues and the candidates in your state and dis
trict?
HERE AND THERE: CIO-AFL unity talks,
scheduled for second meeting August 4, have
been postponed to later date, not yet set
World Baptist Congress has called on all af-
filiated groups to fight segregation and bias
based on race, color or culture" -. Clio News
1850 Congressional Voting Record due off the
presses by August Ia.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

Confusion mounted on confusion as House
of Representatives got down to job of trying
to write home-front economic mobilization
legislation.
Major amendments, Of far-reaching impor-
tance and affecting U. S. conditions for years
TO come, were passed with little or no debate
- and often without understanding of issues.
In sum-, House tied itself up in parliamentary
knots trying TO work out its legislation.
Example One: Liberal Representative Hub
er ID, o. offered amendment calling for ex-
cess profits tax. 1t was passed. Then, Republi-
cans got around TO asking what Huber's
amendment provided. When they found Ohio
liberal had called for same excess profits taxes
as in last war, they quickly called new vote
- and defeat profits tax provision.
Example Two: Administration bill called
for powers for President, which in effect per-
init establishment Of a War Labor Board to
work out problems involved in wage stabiliza-
ton. But Representative Barden ID, N. c.,
consistently anti-union, screamed that such a
necessary step would "circumvent Taft-Hart-
ley Act So, Congress struck out those powers
OF President.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

an all-time record speed. If
we're in for 10 or Is years of
the present preparedness pro-
gram, of life under the constant
threat of enemy bombing with
atomic weapons or worse, the
National Security r resources
Board will have to propose
large-scale resettlement of city
industrial families. Any such
moves from cities to scattered
plants in isolated areas will re-
quire enormous quantities of
steel for factory-built and pre-
fabricated homes, and for all
the steel-using items inside the
homes. The National Associa-
ton of Homebuilders has adj
vised its members that until
the military requirements for
steel, all metals and other items
are known, the government can
not be sure what volume of
housing is been decided -. Steel
will be the limiting factor in
determining how many houses,
automobiles, and other products
requiring this basic commodity
can be built after the needs OF
the military have been met
The Homebuilders are smarter
than the steelmakers. They know
that two minus two makes zero
It's a good thing that the un-
ions will have a say in the mil
itary-production planning thi:
time. Two capable economist
from the labor movement, whc
have no illusions about the ways
of bureaucracy or industrial.
monopoly, including the stee.
business, r. serving as assist
ants to Chairman Stuart Sy'
mington of National Security
Resources Board. Eli Oliver anc
Everett Kasaslow will have
their hands full.
So, watch in the next few
! months ahead as the steel indus
try tries its darndest to avoic
increasing production above it,
} normal rate, as it tries to ge'
voluntary" (by which they
mean industry-run) controls
and as it tries to sell as much
!, of its steel on the gray-anc
/ black-market price of az times
t the open market price.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
James F.Dewey
Mediator Dies

F~RACKVILLE, Pa. (LPA)-
James F. Dewey, credited with
settling some of the nations
most serious strikes, is dead at
SO following a two-year illness.
He was a federal labor mediator
from 1922 to 1912, specializing
in the coal, steel, and automo-
tive industries. The government
recalled him several times after
his resignation to help end the
strikes. During the 133-daS
strike of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) against General
Motors in 1916, he stayed on the
job 40 days and succeeded in
keeping the door open for con-
Citation.
Dewey's reputation as a top
mediator started during the 1921
railroad strike and the anthra-
cite strikes of 1925.
He was considered No. / ''pac-
ifier" in the coal area, and was
well thought of by both United
Mine Workers President John
l.. Lewis and the mine opera
tors.
Dewey went to night school
for his college education and
later worked as a railroad teleg-
rapher and auditor.
He is survived by two sons, a
daughter, a brother and a sister.