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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Urge Truman Veto
Price Fixing Bill
|0Kd By Congress
By ALvAINE HAMILTON

Washington (LPA)-Represent-
atives of Ia national organizations
talked to President Truman's spec
ial counsel at the White House
June 8 and urged a Presidential
veto of the basing-point price bill
The measure was passed by the
Senate June 2, and by the House
March IA.
Among the organizations at the
White House session were spokes-
men for the CIO and the Intl AS
sociation of Machinists, the Ma
tional Farmers Union, and fedora
tions of retail tire dealers, drug
|gists, food retailers, wholesale
grocers, food brokers, and the Co.
Operative League of the USA. They
received no indication of how the
President will act, but the Demo
cratic National Committee is known
to have urged a veto.
All of the groups argue that the
bill would cause higher prices be-
cause it would seriously damage
the provisions in the antitrust law
preventing pricefixing by "com-
petitors." 4s II ff3
'1f the basing point bill becomes
law" AFL radio commentator
Frank Edwards warned his nation
wide audience, "you will pay and
pay and pay. For that basing point
scheme is nothing more than a bill
to legalize the price-fixing schemes
that will eventually raise the price
of the bread, the milk, the flour
and almost everything you buy"
He urged listeners to write or wire
PRESIDENT Truman urging a veto.
The CIO has also requested a
veto. Democrats in the House lined
up two to one against the bill, while
Republicans were seven to one for
the bill, the CIO points out. In the
Senate Democrats were also two
to one against the bill, while only
two Republicans opposed it and
thirty supported it.
The lam statement shows two
ways the basing point bill would
destroy small business. eff your
competitor is about to foul small
business" the editorial points out,
"it's all right if you foul him first"
and such an argument is a defense
Of discrimination against the small
buyer in the offering of discounts
by seller. Second, "the new mea-
sure would end the power of the
Federal Trade Commission to break
up what is called price leader
monopoly. That is monopoly that
is built, not by businessmen agree
itig to fix prices or sales territor-
les, but by every business in an in
dustry adopting the prices set by
the biggest corporation in the in
dhstry.'
Already three crucial cases inVol-
wing the pricing of steel and steel
products, of corn products like
syrup and starch, and of oil and
gasoline, are. awaiting President
Truman's decision. In each case
two before the Federal Trade Com
and one before the Supreme
court-prices of the commodities
will be boosted if Truman makes
the bill law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15

Banking committee reported to the
Senate.
A majority of the committee has
approved extension of federal con-
trolls for six months, with cities
given the right to obtain another
month extension Of federal con-
trolls by vote of the city council or
by referendum. This is the same as
the bill which will come before the
House June IL.
A strengthening a m n d m t,
which would allow communities to
vote to recontrol rents if they have
skyrocketed since the federal curbs
were lifted, is being proposed by
Sen. Francis Myers Cd, Pa.).
Cain, leading off for the oppon-
ents of any rent control bill, made
a bitter attack on President Tru-
man and Senate Majority Leader
Scott Lucas Cd, Ill.,. They are, he
said, Outstanding among the pro-
phets of disaster and defeatism in
their present effort to force fur
ther extension of federal rent con-
trolls down the collective throats of
the US Senate" He predicted the
housing shortage would become
worse if rent curbs are kept, and
called on sympathetic Senators to
take the floor with lengthy
speeches to block Senate action.
"The junior Senator from Wash
ington," he asserted "expects to
speak as long as he can stand up,
or, as long as may be necessary"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
BY NORA PIORE
For Labor Press Association

Washington (LPA)-The photo
graph is faded and dusty. The
women pickets are in long skirts,
plumed hats, and leg o'mutton
sleeves. They are escorting float,
and carrying a banner with this
verse:
They say that mans superior, All
ha,
We must stay in our place, an in
ferior race, All ha,
But here we come on Labor Day
In spite of all that men can say,
Sitting on floats in a brazen way,
All ha.
1t was a song, to the tune of
t'When Johnny Comes Marching
Home, and it was the first time
women had marched in Labor
Day parade.
That photograph is one of many
that were busted off last week, to
be sent with other records, books
and papers to the Library of Con-
gress. The records were sorted out
by two gallant women, and were
the story of a half century of his
tory that these two women helped
make. The two are Rose Schneider
man and Elizabeth Christman, pre-
sident and secretary treasurer, res
pectively, of the National Women's
Trade Union League, which after
al years has voted to end its
career.
This story of pickets in petit
coats should inspire today's girls
in slacks and overalls. For in 1903
the going was tough-there was
not only the exploitation of immi-
grant women from Europe, and
American women from the farms
and small towns, but there was OPP
position from the trade unions. The
union men did not want women in
unions. "You cannot organize these
women, they said. "They do not
understand. They won't stick" AT
an AFL convention in 1903 a reso-
luton was brought in urging Con-
gress to prohibit public employment
of women, thereby encouraging
her removal from everyday en-
ployment." The resolution was
beaten. Two years later the Wo-
mems Trade Union League became
fraternal member of the AFL.
Also going TO the Library OF
Congress are 10 large and dusty
volumes, the report of the first
Congressional investigation of wo-
men in factories and shops. The in
quiry was authorized in 1911, after
the League took the story of low
wages, long hours and miserable
conditions to President Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Federation of Women's
Clubs joined in the request for the
investigation, after hearing Agnes
Nestor, Chicago gloveworker, and
Josephine Casey, a ticket seller on
the Chicago elevated. Thus the
League became the voice of labor
in the women's clubs as well as the
voice of women in the labor move
ment.
The miserable conditions in the
needle trades brought thousands of
women on the picketlines in the
great strikes from 1909 to 1913 in
Baltimore, Philadelphia, ST. Louis
and Chicago The League was on
the job, organizing pickets, protect
ing them, raising bail, paying fines,
setting up commisaries for strikers
and their families. overcoming the
women's fear of strangers, getting
organizers who could speak the
language of the women in the
shops. The League put out litera-
ture in nine languages. 1t persuad-
ed women of wealth and social posi-
tion not only to give money, but to
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
GROUP ON ISRAELI LABOR
TO MEET JUNE Is

New York (LPA)-The Ameri
can Trade Union Council for His
tadrut, Israers Labor Federation
will hold its second national con
ference at the Shoreham Hotel
Washington, ID. c. on June 1913
Scheduled speakers include AFl
President William Green and ClC
President Philip Murray.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Trade Union League Ends
After LONG Historic Career

VAIN IiiC oiiOUiN(A "
shoulder with the strikers.
The League issued a pamphlet
called Chow To Organize-A Hand
book For Those Responsible For
Organizing Wo men In Their
Trades" 1t was revised in 1926
to add chapter on show to inter
est the flapper in unionism".
Change the word "flapper" to it's
current equivalent, and the hand
book is still good.
The League established, in 1913,
the first workers training univer-
sity-"The Training School for Ac-
tive Workers in the Labor Move
ment." The Al young women who
went to Northwestern university
included beer bottlers, candy work
ers, boot and shoe workers, cork
and seal operatives, printers, tele-
phone operators, culinary workers,
flower and feather workers, leather
workers and post office clerks. All
but six of the graduates served ac-
lively in the labor movement.
Some of the Leagues historic
papers will go to the 13 local
branches in industrial cities, which
will continue independently when
the National League closes it's Of
fices here.
The New York League will get
the pen with which Governor
Dewey signed the amendments to
the workmen's compensation law
extending coverage to domestic
workers. The New York League also
will get a photograph of Miss
Schneiderman and Miss Mary And
erson, longtime head of the Wo-
mems Bureau, embarking for Eu-
rope in 1917 to present to President
Wilson a statement of standards
for social and industrial reconstruc-
tion which the League hoped to
have included in the peace treaty
after World War |, and to secure
promise that one of the US dele
gates to the first International
Congress of Labor would be a
woman.
This photograph will hang in the
parlor of the brownstone clubhouse
where governor Of New York,
with his wife and children, came to
read Dickens christmas Carol" to
garment workers, paper box maxi
ers, candy workers and mattresses,
and carried the knowledge of their
problems and an understanding Of
their lives with him to the White
House in 1898.
Said Mrs. Roosevelt, a long time
League member, at dinner for
Miss Schneiderman last year: Il
am grateful for the privilege Of
knowing the League and working
in the League and for what it has
taught me. And not the least ! am
grateful for the opportunity it
brought my children to know about
these problems and the ideals that
inspired those who carried forward
its work"
Miss Schnederman and Miss
Christman are confident the organ
lied millions in the unions they
helped build will carry on where the
League leaves off.
The working woman today is no
longer "the poor little working
girl', says Miss Schneiderman.
"She now occupies a position of
dignity and Importance in the or
ganized labor movement"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Delegates To 1850 Convention

Local Union No. 90 (Chinawarel
Grafton, w. Va.-Floyd Lisk anc
Earl Simmons.
Local Union No. 1O3 General
ware) Erwin, Tenn.-M. B. Laws
John McFadden and Sam Upton.
Local Union No. 104 (China
ware) Falls Creek, Pa.-Sam Alb
son and John Voyten.
Local Union No. 113 (Chinaware)
Huntington Park, Calf. - Basi
Endres, Richard Jenkins, Johr
O'Dowd and Floyd Wheaton.
Local Union No. 116 General
ware) Lincoln, Ill.-Glen Hale
Sylvia Hale and Bessie Willis.
Local Union No. 121 General
ware) Sebring, Ohio-Hazel Brown
Leta Jackson and Mary Weaver.
Local Union No. 130 General
ware) East Liverpool, Ohio-Art.
hur Parrish.
Local Union No. 122 (General-
ware) Cambridge, Ohio - Harry
Hunt, Earl Johnson, Harry Laird
Jr., George Savage and Albert
VanCamp, Jr.
Local Union No. 124 Decorators
and Decorating Kilnmen) East
Liverpool, Ohio-Harold Williams
liz. C. Armstrong, Nancy Dielh
Norman Whippler, Barbara Walker
Ed Curry, Walter Daniel, FREQ
Mountford, Wilbur Harmon, Ethe'
Jones, Jean Wilson, Walter Finley
and Allen Rose.
Local Union No. 131 (Battersout
and Mouldrunners) East Liverpool
Ohio-James Bennett, Alice Seevl
ers, John Gilmore and Beryl Pillo
Local Union No. 1872 (Handle
Casters and Finishers) East Liver'
pool, Ohio-Opal Landfried, Bertha
Magnone.
Local Union No. 133 (Sanitary]
New Castle, Pa.-Joseph w. Cav
aricci and James Million.
Local Union No. 140 (Porcelain)
East Liverpool, Ohio. Lloyt
| Densmore.
Local Union No. 141 (Oddmer
and Laborers) East Liverpool, Ohio
Harry Robinson and Dellwyr
Fryan.
Local Union No. 146 General
ware) Paden City, w. Va.-Willian
Krebs and George b. Henthorn.
Local Union No. lbs (Underglazc
Decorators) East Liverpool, Ohit
Grace Mccall and Girls on
Powell.
Local Union No. 1856 (Porelainl
East Palestine, Ohio-Mildred Sat
terwhite.
Local Union No. 172 (Mainten
ance Mem East Liverpool, Ohio
Emmett Blake.
Local Union No. TIA (Sanitary
Metuchen, N. J.-George Bondic'
and Andrew Lesko.
Local Union No. 1T (Sanitary
Robinson, Ill.-Kenneth Brown ant
Gerald Napier.
Local Union No. IT'S (Sanitary,
Trenton, N. J.--Louis Cappola
Walter E. Clawges and Nicholas
| Petro. WNt t
Local Union No. 178 (Artware,
Sebring, Ohio - Harold Agnew
William Brown and Leslie Hawk.
Local Union No. 1873 General
ware) Los Angeles, Calif.-Ro!
Smith.
Local Union No. 1872 General
ware) Sebrlng, Ohio = William
Berry and Lee Minesinger.
Local Union No, 1S4 (Chinaware
Trenton, N. J.-Steve Perry.
Local Union No. 1876 (Glos
lWarehousewomen and Kilndraw
ers) East Liverpool, Ohio-Mildre'
Mckenzie and Mildred Ward.
Local Union No. 1919 (Chinaware
Pomona, Calif.-William B. Hack
er, Jr. and Devert Combs.
Local Union No. 201 (Chinaware
Huntington Park, Calf. = Orvi
Reese and o. l.. Sullivan.
Local Union No. 2l4 (Sanitary
Redlands, Calif.-C. B. Davis ant
Bernard Rowbottom.
Local Union No. 2l8 (Sanitary
Terrence, Calif.-Ray Coberly, I
III. Cunningham, Bill Dixon am
Dave Jurk.
Local Union No. 22l (Sanitary
Gadsden, Alabama-Elmer f. Nc
Evening star., 1950-04-25
Virginia Woman Dies of Injuries
Suffered in Auto 7 oxi Collision
; Other Persons Hurt
In Accident; Cobmon
To Foce Charges

An apartment switchboard op-
orator died today OF injuries re-
ceived last night when her con-
vertihle collided with a cab at
Second and South Fillmore streets
Arlington.
Mrs. Nettie Frances Martin a.,
Fof $40 Lee boulevard. Arlington,
was pronounced dead at 9:59 am
at Arlington Hospital where sne
had been taken with a skull frac-
ture. She was telephone cp-
orator for Arlington Village. and
the wife Of D. E. Martin. pre-
prietor Of Martin Auto Body, Inc,
Rosslyn.
Mrs. Martins ls47 convertible
and the taxi, driven by Gene
Hamilton White. Is, of RID 2,
Alexandria, collided at the inter-
section.
White was also admitted to Arl-
ington Hospital suffering from
cuts, bruises, shock and possible
head injuries. His condition was
reported as good this morning.
Also injured were two paSsen-
gers in the taxi: Pvt. Wilbur Car
Ballard, %, stationed at Fort
Myer. and Miss Dortha Mae Mills
26, of 5317 North Carlyn Spring,
road. Arlington. Both we're treatec
at the hospital for cuts. bruises
and shock and released.
/ Arlington police said the tax
Evening star., 1950-04-25

fore she appeared in the arena
to do her 75-foot leap of death
from the high platform, aerialist
Francine Volante received wsrd
of her fathers death.
In the great tradition of show
business, Francine masked hel
grief behind a smile with only q
few of her fellow performers aware
Of her loss. Her father, Frank
Otaris, IS, a retired aerial per.
former, died in Sarasota, Fla, ano
win be buried today. 1"-rf
The circus includes 26 acts
many of them imported from Eu.
rope, and will run through Sun.
day. Shows are at 2:15 pm. ano
8:l5 pm. daily. '''' a. g
Proceeds will go to some 80
Washington institutions and te
the Crippled Children's Hospital
in Philadelphia. Julius B. Gay
Industrious potentate of Almas
Temple. is general chairman.
Evening star., 1950-04-25
10000 DC. Residents
Face Property Seizure.
For Delinquent Levies

The District tax collection office
Is preparing seizure notices for
approximately 10000 District resi-
dents who have failed to pay per-
sonal property taxes for this fiscal
year.
The notices viii give the de-
/ linouents 80 days to pay the taxes
or face seizure Of the property on
which the taxes are due.
! An enforcement officer esti-
mated the delinquent accounts
represent some $400 900 In reye-
nue. owed the District. Most
Of it was payable in September
and March.
| Under District law, the collec-
tors may seize property impound
bank accounts and levy interest
penalties against tan delinQuents
Agents have already seized ano
posted property of Robert L. Gun
ningham. operator of the Service
Music Co. and the Casbah tourist
home in the 1900 block of U street
NV. The tax office says he owe.
81. .225.38 in personal property
taxes since 1914.
When such property as yachts
automobiles, furniture and busi-
ness equipment Is seized. 1t is i'm.
pounded for 10 days. If it is not
redeemed after that time, the
property may be sold at auction.
The city holds first claim to the
proceeds of the tax sales.
Evening star., 1950-04-25
|TVFons Miss 'Howdy Doody'
AS Engineers Pull Brief Strike

Television devotees of "Howdy
Doody" and Judy Splinters" had
to content themselves with a
movie and a musical program
yesterday because OF a "quickie"
engineers strike in New York.
The unheralded walkout knock
ed out those two programs on
WNBW. the National Broadcast
ing Co.'S television outlet here.
and injected brief interferences
into the programs OF NBC's radio
station, WRC.
Although the walkout involved
both NBC and American Broad
casting Co. engineers and tech
nicians, the programs of WMAL,
the ABc outlet here were not af-
fected. @
Z, WRC's radio listeners were de-
prived briefly OF soap opera re-
ception b couple OF times between
Evening star., 1950-04-25
Husband Kills Wife's Date
On Police Station Steps
by the Asseeioted Press

PRINCETON, w. Va, April 25.
Frazier Hairless, 24-year- old
Bluefield truck driver, took an
other mans wife to a drive-in
movie last night in his truck.
Her husband spied them.
Mr.. Hairless drove quickly to the
Princeton police station for refuge.
He and Mrs. Eva Carper, 30,
scampered up the stairs to the
desk sergeant's office. There were
two shots.
Mr.. Hairless tumbled down the
steps and died of wounds In the
back.
Sure, I killed him-and I'm not
sorry Patrolman A. E. French
quoted Irving Carper. 36-year-old
strip miner.
The husband is charged with
murder.
Evening star., 1950-04-25

4 and 6 pm, the hours when the
engineers were on strike.
Contracts covering the radio
men, the independent National
Association of Broadcast Enei-
neers and Technicians, do not ex-
pire until the end of the month.
Union men explained they
called the interruption to write
out their grievances"
1T may have taken some time
to write them out" a spokesman
said. They had quite a few"
Engineers in other cities joined
in the walkout, but not in wash
ington. ABC said 358 of its
engineers and technicians partici-
pated, but NBC was not sure how
many Of its 400 took part.
Federal mediatcrs ended the
trouble by calling q night meeting
Of management and employees.
Evening star., 1950-04-25
Kidnapped Incubator Baby, Given
Up for Dead, Is Found Alive

wrapped her coat around 1t and
| fed
| In The womans hotel room
police said they found formula
data. medical books. baby scale
and wash basins. Mrs. Jordan
was quoted as saying she spent
about $40 a week on food for the
kidnapped child.
| Mrs. Jordan was taken to a po-
| lice station after she finished hei
statement. She was booked on a
charge of kidnapping. Her hus-
band Walter. 25-year-old porter
was charged with being an ac-
cessory.
The mother of the recovered in,
FAINT expressed sympathy for tht
young chambermaid.
Il feel sorry for her" Mrs. Hol'
den said. She took such gooc
care of the baby. l always fell
it would be a miracle If my baby
was found alive. I still think i
is a miracle"
That is what DR.. Kogel callet
the infants survival.
Evening star., 1950-04-25
S Ex-U. S., British Aides.
Go on Trial in Romunio
BY the Assneinted Prss.

BUCHAREST. Romania, April
25.-The government short wave
radio said last night that a new
spy trial involving five Romanian
citizens formerly employed at the
United States and British Lega-
tions here will open in\Bucharest
today.
The five, arrested in July last
year, are Constantin Mugur,
Elenor Bunea. 40, an Albanian
princess: Annie Samuelli and her
sister Norah. and Liviu p. Pasta,
former string correspondent of the
New York Times.
The first three named were
formerly employed by the British
Information Office and the other
two by the American Library,
Evening star., 1950-04-25
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, April 25.-A tiny
incubator baby, kidnapped and
given up tor dead more than three
weeks ago, was found alive and
we'll today in the storeroom of a
mid Manhattan hotel.
Police said an l8-year-old wom-
an. Mrs. Evelyn Jane Jordan, COL
ored. a hotel chambermaid. ad-
mitted snatching the 2-pound-ll-
ounce premature infant girl from
Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx the
night Of March 30.
The baby's mother. Mrs. Cliff
ford Holden. colored. took one
glance at the baby this morning
and exclaimed:
Yes. that's her."
''She looked all right. !. !
think she put on weight" she said
later
Police took footprints of the
infant to confirm the identified
tion, but said there was little
doubt in the face of Mrs. Jor-
dams admission.
The baby, Chaneta Holden, was
only nine days old when she was
spirited away from the hospital s
incubator ward. 'o.H' 81
New York City had a freezing
temperature that night. and DR..
Marcus Kogel, the city's Commis-
sioner of hospitals, gave Chaneta
slight chance to live If exposed
to the outer air.
With the weather as it is to-
night, she cannot survive one
hour" he said at the time.
Even If sheltered, the premature
infant was given little chance.
After three days without a trace
Of the child, she was listed as
presumably dead" although the
search continued as active as be-
fore.
The baby was found in a car
riage In the storeroom of the Hotel
Coburg, near Pennsylvania Sta
,tion, where Mrs. Jordan works,
police said.
The discovery climaxed a search
that led New York detectives and
the FBI as far south AS Philadel-
phia. Washington, Baltimore and
to Winchester, Va, tracing leads
in the case.
After her arrest last night Mrs.
Jordan was confronted by four
witnesses who had reported seeing
a mystery woman" carrying a
naked Negro baby in various parts
of the city the night of the disap-
pearance. y
All identified Mrs. Jordan as
the woman they had seen.
Police said Mrs. Jordan ad-
mitted the kidnapping after being
confronted with garments she
acquired for the child immedi-
ately after the abduction.
She was quoted as saying she
wanted a baby to replace twins
born to her prematurely two
months ago. The twins died and
she was unsuccessful in efforts
to adopt a child.
The woman. police reported
said she entered the hospital on
the night Of March 30, snatched
the child from the incubator,
Evening star., 1950-04-25

There's something about a cir
Gus that gets into your blood. 1t
may disappear with the coming of
adulthood, but for some people it
fingers on forever.
Such a one is w. E. Lock. any
way, that's the name he gave a
reporter who was at Uline Arena
last night for the opening of the
annual Shrine CIRCUS. The other
clowns say his name is Charlie
Wheatley but the man persists
in using the other name.
A tall. chunky man with bub-
bling sense of humor. Mr.. Lock
did not, as did some 5000 other
persons, watch the goings on from
the comparative quiet of an arena
seat. n
Apparently long Injured to the
fascinating animal and high
trapeze acts, Mr.. Lock viewed the
circus from the gaudy, equally
fantastic suit of a clown. AS far
as the customers were concerned,
that's all he was, just another of
the dozen clowns.
But in private life, he's an un-
dertaker. And to top that off, he
used to be veterinarian"
I'm just out for three months
of fun" he explained. Il get a
bang out of doing it,"
Flopping around the back cor
ridors of the arena in outsi=cd
shoes, rainbow colored suit and
shiny red nose, he also gives the
regulars" among the clown fra
ternity as big a bang.
"Sa-So," the chief clown, isn't
at all surprised that an undertaken
should ask to don a clown suit and
perform.
1--WE get circus fans like that
all over the country" explained
"Sa-So" blandy. Multi million
aires. bankers and undertakers.
There was drama, too, in last
nights performance. Shortly be-