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Evening star., 1950-01-12
MICHAEL f. KEOGH, Attorney.
400 woodward Building.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District Of Columbia, Hold
ing . Probate Court. Estate of Flor
ence Baker. deceased.-No. 74OO7.
Administration Docket 166.-Appli-
cation having been made herein for
probate Of the, last will and tests-
:, ment OF said deceased and for let
ters testamentary ON said estate,
by, Cecil B. LAGRANGE, It Is ordered
this 3rd day Of January, AID. 1850,
that the unknown heirs at law and
next Of kin Of Florence Baker, de-
ceased, and all others concerned,
appear in said Court on Tuesday,
the 14th day Of February, AID.
1850, at 1000 O'Clock AN, to show
cause why such application should
not be granted. Let notice hereof
be published in the washing ton
Law Reporter" and THE Evening
Star" once in each Of three sue
cessive weeks before the return day
herein mentioned, the flrst publica-
ticn to be not less than thirty days
before said return day. Witness,
the Honorable BOLITHA J. LAWS,
Chief Judge OF said court, this 3rd
Attest: MELVIN j. MARQUES, Dep
uty Register Of wills for the District
Of Columbia, Clerk Of the Probate
court. Je6,l2,19
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Most to Be Postoffices,

ing-would run around $377 900,
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LEGAL NOTICES
FAIRBANKS, STAFFORD and
FAIRBANKS, Attorneys,

lOOl 10Th street NV.
for the District Of Columbia. Hold
ing Probate Court.--No. 74253. Ad-
ministration-.;This is to Give No
tice: That the subscriber, Of the
District of Columbia has obtained
from the Probate Court If the Dis
trict OF Columbia, Letters Testa-
mentary on the estate OF Linda H.
Steuart, late of the District Of
Columbia, deceased. Ali persons
having claims against the deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with the vouchers thereof,
legally authenticated, to the sub
scriper, on or before the goth day
Of June, AID. 1850; otherwise they
may by law be excluded from ali
benefit Of said estate, Given under
my hand this goth day Of Decem-
ber,- 1919. EMILY N. STEUART,
305S r Street NV. (Seal.) Attest:
MELVIN J; MARQUES, Deputy Reg
lister Of Wills for the District Of
Columbia, Clerk of the Probate
court. ja0,12,19
Evening star., 1950-01-12

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District of Columbia. Hold
ing Probate Court. No. 74,456
Adm. lS.E).-This is to Give
Notice That in accordance with the
Act Of June "a, lS49, 8lst Cong,
(Pub. Law 127), the subscriber has
applied to the Probate Court Of the
District OF Columbia for a settle
ment of the small estate (under
$500 in value) of MARITIME W. Cole
man, late of the District of Colum-
bia. deceased. All persons having
claims against the. deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same,
With the vouchers thereof, legally
or before the goth day Of February,
AID. 1880. otherwise they may BY
Law be excluded from ali benefit Of
said estate. Given under my hand
this llth day of January, 1850.
LAURENCE v. COLEMAN, 1880 10th
Street, NV, Washington, D. c.
sSsai) a Attest; FRANK j: BURK-
the District of Columbia, Clerk Of
the Probate Court. jaI2
Evening star., 1950-01-12

M: M. DOYLE, S. ALBERT MICKLER,
Attorneys, 1910 Vermont Ave. NV.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District of Columbia, Holding
Probate Court. - No. 7217O, Ad-
ministration. - This is to Give
Notice. That the subscriber, of the
District Of Columbia has obtained
from the Probate. Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Letters Testa-
mentary on the estate Of William A,
Wise, late of the District of Colum-
bia, deceased. All persons having
claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same,
with the vouchers thereof, legally
authenticated. to the subscriber, on
or before the 2sth day Of June,
AID, 1880, otherwise they may BY
law be excluded from all benefit of
said estate. Given under my hand
this 2Sth day of December, l949.
JOSEPH G. BOSWELL, 4614 Sargent
I'd; ne: lsealO Attest: THEODORE
COGSWELL. Register of Wills for
the District Of Columbia, Clerk of
the Probate Court ia5,l2,I9.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
Weep Witnesses
Signing Of First
Union Contract

Washington LPA)-Because the
Merit Clothing Co. made his "first
pair Of Sunday pants" and because
he has "great faith" in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, Vice
President Alben Barkley witnessed
the signing of a union contract be-
tween the two.
The signing took place Nov. rs
in the Vice-President's office. 1t
marked the first time the union
has had contract with the 81
year-old company whose 2300man
factory is located 80 miles from
Barkley's home. 1t also marked an
other step forward in its newly
revitalized drive to organize the
South.
In the past 18 months ACWA's
union label" drive under the dir
ection of Charles Weinstein, vice
president from Philadelphia, has
brought contracts with four big
southern clothing firms employing
more than 1900. Much of the drives
success is due to the unions adver-
tising campaign which has con-
vinced big city customers and re-
tailers that they should buy union
made clothing.
Barkley, in explaining why the
contract was signed in his office,
said he had bought his "first pair
of Sunday pants from Old Doe
Merits boys" and that he had
long been a friend of Jacob S.
Potofsky, union president. He said
when he heard they were talking
contract he offered his services be-
cause it was an opportunity to
bring them together "in the fold
of labor-management cooperation"
The contract, retroactive to Nov.
20, grants a 121sc hourly general
wage increase, two percent of the
weekly payroll for health and life
insurance, an additional three per-
cent for old age retirement, and
other provisions of the standard
ACWA contract.
The union also announced Local
COL had gained an unprecedented
$11 weekly wage raise for clerks
employed by Spiegers Fashion
Shop, Muskegon, Mich, and that
Local 431 gained an SEC wage
raise for $50 employees at the |. M.
Dach Underwear Co., Jackson,
Mich.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07

cess against Russia as an aggressor
against the United States and also
against the peace Of the entire
free world and call upon the Unit
ed Nations to throw Soviet Russia
out as a deliberate violator of the
Charter.
"Put Red Agent Out OF Business
"Inasmuch as, in truth and in
fact, Soviet Russia is now engaged,
through her agent Communist
China, in physical warfare against
the American people, and inasmuch
as all Communist publications and
organizations are likewise agents
of and responsive to Russia's dir
ection, the United States, through
Congressional authorization, should
brand these publications and or
ganizations as instruments of an
enemy nation and put them out of
business"
Tassler also urged the clamping
of an immediate boycott on trade
with Communist Russia and all
Red satellites.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
PAGE FIVE

not be the other"
In introducing the article, the
Readers Digest says Of Gompers:
More than any other man, he was
responsible for the growth Of a
strong, free labor movement in the
United States"
Riesel traces the history of AM
erica's pioneer labor leader from
his birth in London slum, in 1859,
to the final hours of his life in San
Antonio, Texas, in 1924, where his
last words were a prayer: "God
bless our American institutions.
May they grow better day by day."
Through all the years of Comp
ers' rise to fame and power" Riesel
says, "There recurred one theme:
Labor is America. And in 1924
when he died, leaving just $3.50 in
his union insurance policy, his will
said that 500 of it must go for the
purchase of an American flag for
the union headquarters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
Excess Profits
Taxes Impossible,
Saws US. Chamber

I Washington (LPA)-Tax excess
profits? q? utterly impossible" say:
the US Chamber of Commerce.
At least, that's what the chamber
told the House Ways & Means
Committee, Nov. Il. The commit
tee hoped to wind up hearings or
excess profit tax (EPT) proposals
, Nov. %.
In general the chamber was par
rotting what other big business in
lterests were saying. It's own count
proposals were roughly in line
with those of the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers whose rep
resentatives wanted to throw a
heavier burden on personal in
comes, let corporation incomes off
easily in tax program to pay for
defense production.
First thing to do, said Ellsworth
| C. Alvord, the chambers finance
chairman, is cut government spend
| ing Sc billion a year. Do that, and
there's no need for much in the
way of additional revenue for 1850
and possibly not even for 1851.
anyway, there aren't any excess
lprofits now from defense produc-
ton, Alvord insisted.)
Then when there is need for
extra revenue, hardly before 1862,
"every possible source must be ex-
plored and tapped, including a con-
siderable increase in our revenue
from excess" A couple of days
earlier, the NAM had talked about
manufacturers excises". Sue h
taxes are added to prices one way
or another, are paid by consumers.
If you do enact EPT, do it this
way, proposed Alvord. Let corpor-
ate taxpayers have an exemption
equal to 100 percent of their net
income for any of the four years
from 1916 to 1949 inclusive or to
double their net for the first six
months of 1850. In addition,
normal profits from increased
capacity wouldn't be subject to
EPT. The chambers board is on
record favoring a so percent tax
on corporate profits.
The Administration EPT pro-
posals include a rs percent tax on
a corporations profits in excess of
rs percent of the best three-year
average in the 1946-49 period. The
tax would be retroactive to July l.,
1850. The AFL substantially en-
dorsed the Administration plan.
The CIO asked for an So percent
tax on profits above rs percent of
the full four-year 1946-49 average.
Normal profits above $4,000 would
be taxed at the regular 45 percent
rate set last September while
normal profits below $4,000 would
be taxed % percent.
AFL, CIO and Administration
agreed that corporations should be
allowed to apply the EPT rate to
earnings in excess of a stipulated
percentage of their invested capital
if this method made their taxes
lower than the "base PERIOD
method. They also agreed that
there should be some "relief" in|
demonstrably Hardship" c a e S,
young corporations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
Blue Cross Cancels Ad
After UnfriendlY Article

Reading, Pa. UPA)-The doc,
tor-run Blue Cross and Blue Shield
health insurance plans don't like il
when the American Medical Asso-
citation is hit or when President
| Trumap's national health insurance
plan is praised. At least, that's the
way it looks to the editors Of The
New Era, crack Reading labor
paper, which supports the Truman
plan.
On Sept. 30, The New Era receiv-
ed an order to insert Blue Cross
Blue Shield ad during the week Of
Oct. IS fright after the American
Medical Association opened its
million-dollar advertising campaign
against the federal health pro-
gram). Three days later, the adver-
tising agency handling the Blue
Cross Blue Shield account can
celed the space in The New Era
but left the ad in other papers.
Say the Reading editors: "Only
one conclusion could be drawn: The
New Era was penalized for telling
the truth about national health in
surance. If the editorial columns
had been devoted to praises of Blue
Cross, and a simultaneous smear
ing of national health insurance
as 'socialized medicine The New
Era in all probability would have
been authorized to print the ad.
The cancellation order would not
have been forthcoming"
The editors emphasize that they
had run Blue Cross-Blue Shield ads
on other occasions and pointed out
that the private health insurance
plans gave good service to the
limited number Of individuals who
have been able to afford member
ship"
Rep. Andy Biemiller, the Wis
consin Democrat who was defeated
Nov. 7 largely through the efforts
of the doctors, points out that Blue
Shield hardly looks like the para
disc the ANA has been talking
about" He cites a Washington
study showing that private insur-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
NLRB ORDERS COUPLE BACK
TO HOUSE AND JOB

Saxapahaw, N. C. IPA) - A
man and wife fired by the Sellers
Manufacturing Co. and evicted
from a company-owned house for
union activity can have their jobs
and their house back, the National
Labor Relations Board has ruled.
In decision by the NLRB in
Washington on Nov. 80, Ralph
Carrico is ordered reinstated with
back pay and his wife, Pearl is to
get back pay, but she refused to
return to her job. The board also
told the company to provide the
couple with company owned
house similar to the one from which
it had the Carricos evicted.
The company maintained it fired
the two after a rowdy party which
disturbed others in the mill village.
Investigation revealed they had
had been fired for organizational
work for the Textile Workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
THE UNTHINKlNG LIBERAL
By RUTH TAYLOR

First let me say that | am mo-
talking politics. am not referring
+, to any political theory called lib
eralism. | am using the first de-
finition in the dictionary which is
"Any person who advocates liberty
of thought, speech or action"
The trouble is that too many
liberals while advocating freedom
of thought,-don't do any thinking
themselves.
They leap to arms the moment
any one says his or her freedom
has been attacked-without stop
ping to find out first, whether oil
not it was so, and second, whether
or not the outcrier isn't trying tc
step on the freedom of someone
else.
They are very much like Thysser
and his fellow industrialists who
welcomed Hitler to power because
he talked of keeping the industri-
alists on top-neglecting entirely
to mention that he meant to be or
top of the industrialists!
These unthinking liberals lei
other people do their thinking fol
them, accepting phrases as facts
generalization as dogma and ideas
as ideals.
The unthinking liberal advocates
liberty of speech-but he doesn't
avail himself to that liberty and
talk of the things in which he be-
lieves or for which he stands. He
just defends those who are trying
to destroy the very system which
gives them that freedom.
The unthinking liberal advocates
liberty of action-but he does not
act. Maybe you think we had a re-
cord turnout this last election ?
Compare it with the number of
possible voters and you'll see what
| mean.
But it was said far better than
| can by a public servant beloved
of all-General Omar Bradley. This
is how he put it: "Our danger lies
not so much in a fifth column
whose enmity is avowed. 1t lies in
a first column Of well-meaning
American citizens. A first column
of men who are one hundred per-
cent Americans in their daily pro-
testations and ten percent citizens
in their daily routine of neglect" F"
If that isn't straight talk, then |
never heard anyL
The unthinking liberal is a
danger to liberty. The right to
think implies the responsibility to
think for ourselves and to think
clearly. The right to speak implies
the right to speak the truth-and
learn what is true before we speak.
The right to act implies the respon-
sibility to act for the common good.
To be liberal means-and | again
quote the first definition in the
dictionary-"to possess or mani
fest a free and generous heart.
That is excellent-but let us be
generous to the good first. Let us
not be unthinking liberals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
WARNS ON BUYING HOMES

Washington (LPA)-The Veter-
ans Administration has cautioned
war vets to "read the fine print"
before making down payments on
homes. There is little the VA can
do once a contract or sales agree
ment has been signed. One of the
complaints they have been receiv-
ing recently is that documents that
veterans thought were sale con-
tracts proved to be only "reserva-
tions to purchase"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
16 YEARS FOR CONTRACT

New York (LPA)-Palm Beach
Co. has signed a contract with the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
covering 5000 workers in eight
southern cities. 1t is the first unior
contract in the company's history
and was sought for 16 years by
the Amalgamated.
Workers will get increases OF
13 percent above the present pay
range of rs cents to $3.50 an hour.
The agreement will boost payrolls
an estimated $1,000,00O a year.
Benefits include a second week
of vacation and inclusion in the
unions industry-wide social well
fare benefit plans. Under this plan
members get sickness and accident
coverage, disqualification,
and retirement pensions Of $50 a
month in addition to social security.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
Readers Digest
Praises Gompers

An article in the December issue
of the Readers Digest, now being
distributed to its IL million read
ers, credits Samuel G o m p er S,
founder and first president of the
American Federation Of Labor,
with having helped to keep this
country "free from the bitter class
hatreds which have torn to shreds
the industrial and political fabric
Of many nations"
The article, written by Victor
Riesel, nationally syndicated labor
columnist, emphasizes the fact
that Gompers, whose centenary is
being commemorated this year,
spent large part of his life fight
ing off "the hawkers Of the class
struggle between capita and
labor" Riesel points out that
."Gompers regarded labor as a part
.ner Of American management, not
a bitter Marxist foe Of capital"
Gompers is quoted as saying:
"The interests Of employer and
employees are in no sense identical,
but they have the same kind Of CO.
operation which exists between a
manufacturer and his best Gus
toner, for without one there can
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
Railroads Ask For
40 Freight Boost

Washington (LPA) = Since the
end of World War ii the Interstate
Commerce Commission has granted
seven rate increases to the rail-
roads. The roads are coming
money, and an educated guess is
that they will net $725, 100000 this
year against $698,0O0,000 in 1949.
Yet IT'S eastern railroads have
just applied to the ICC for a A
percent boost in freight rates ex-
cept on coal. For coal they want
a flat increase of IL percent per
ton. The IT'S roads serve the nation
east of the Mississippi and north
of the Potomac and Ohio rivers.
The Union Pacific earned $780,
207,721 in the first 10 months of
1949 For the same period this year
the figure is $52,519,482. The Chic
ago, Indiana & Louisville earned
$238,744 the first 10 months in
1949, and $1,043,415 the same per-
iod this year. Northern Pacific
profits, 10 months in 1949 were
So, 3,645; this year, $10,443,052.
Il 4
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07
Brand Russio As Wormoker And Foe,
Public ReIofions Assembly Urges
Washington, ID. C. ILNS),

Washington, ID. c. (ILNS). =
Communist Russia, directly and
through agent satellites and agent
individuals, is waging war against
the peace, the security and the hap
piness Of the people of the United
States, and it is high time that
Congress and the u. S. representa-
tives to the United Nations so de-
clared, the National Assembly for
the Advancement of Public Rela-
tions said here.
In addition, the assembly further
said, it is vital that Congress take
steps against all who adhere to the
enemies of the nation by declaring
that, in view of the fact that Stall
ms government, through agents as
well as directly, is warning against
the United States, on and after the
effective date of new legislation
which should be passed by Con-
gress to end the confusion and
clarity the actual situation in the
minds of the American people, all
Communists and all who assist any
Communist or communistic organ
ization or activity and all who en-
gage in trade with Communist
Russia or Communist China shall
be deemed to be in violation of the
federal statutes against treason
and against trading with the en-
emy and, upon conviction, shall be
punished under the terms of those
laws.
Stain Seen Fighting u. S.
Communist Russia's outlaw gov
ernment, throught the agency of
it's tool, Red China, is now engaged
in warfare against American citiz-
ems in Korea" Bernard Tassler
president of the public relations
organization charged in a state
ment appealing to Congress for
realistic" action and "a cessation
of pussyfooting, soft talk and
wishful thinking"
"There can be no question that
this is the fact" Tassler continued.
"In addition, Stain is waging
cladestine subversive warf ar e
against the United States within
our borders.
"The mere fact that Stain has
seen fit not to declare war public
ly and officially does not alter the
situation which actually exists. In
view of the fact that Soviet Russia
is actually making war upon us,
we have the right and the duty to
take the most drastic action against
all those who serve the enemy ma
tion in any way, large or small.
Congress should set forth that the
laws against treason are applicable
and will be invoked against open
or concealed Communists, upon con-
viction, on the ground that Com
munists owe allegiance to Moscow
and are therefore adhering to an
enemy nation.
"InaSmuch as aggression is ag-
gression whether committed direct
ly or through an agent satellite,
the United States should immedi-
ately bring charges at Lake Sue
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07

ance plans can't meet the medical
problems of people making less
than $4,000 year. The study found
that people holding Blue Cross and
Blue Shield still had to get up
extra cash for IA percent of their
hospital bills and 81 percent of
their doctor bills.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-07

movement by a unceasing exposure
of them and their phony program
and by a day-to-day demonstration
by the honest leaders of labor that
a real, American free trade union
program will bring results.
In the same way, the final death
blow to communism everywhere
can only come through our continu-
ing to demonstrate in practice that
our system works There is no bet
ter way to show that we shall ad-
here firmly to the principles upon
which that system was founded
than by forthrightly rejecting this
kind of restrictive and oppressive
legislation.