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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26
Greedy Landlords
In Los Angeles
Dispersed By Cops

Los Angeles (LPA)-Four car.
loads of police had to be rushed to
the government rent control offices
when landlords staged a noisy
demonstration. They were mad be-
cause court proceedings have tied
|up rent decontrol, voted by City
Council.
In Philadelphia the City Council
prodded by AFL and CIO groups
extended rent controls to June 3
1851. The real estate groups cried
trent freeze"
In Portland, Ore, rent control
was assured until at least Dec. 81
after survey showed demand for
housing far exceeded supply, and
that rents on decontrolled units
were 78 percent above controlled
units.
So far 184 communities have
voted to retain federal rent con-
trolls after Dec. 81. All commun-
tiles must so vote by that date, or
|decontrols are automatic. On Oct
20 Housing Expediter Tighe Woods
decontrolled Battle Creek, Mich,
and Santa Rosa, Hanford and
Fresno, all in California.
In Milwaukee Mayor Frank
Zeidler reported receiving hund-
reds of complaints of rent increases
ranging from 35 to 100 percent
since Wisconsin ended rent con-
trolls June /.
In Indiana, reported the AFL's
radio commentator Frank Edwards,
with most of the small cities
around Camp Atterburyl decontrol-
led, the landlords are having a
field day. He said the camp COM
mander reported rent gouging of
soldiers up to 500 percent, and list
ed al specific instances. One CT
was paying $103 for a shack that
rented for 500; another, 500 for a
$40 place.
The City Council of Richmond
Heights, st. Louis suburb, voted
to extend rent controls until next
June.
Woods has warned that an Eek
plosive situation" may result when
federal rent controls expire Dec.
81. He spoke after Sen. Burnet
Maybank Cd, SCI chairman of the
Senate Banking Committee, pre-
dicted there would be no new rent
control bill until the next session
of Congress. Woods pointed out
that the situation was especially
serious around military establish
ments where rents had been decon-
trolled locally. These areas cannot
be recontrolled without an act of
Congress.
In Washington, Sen. John Brick
er Or, o. who dearly loves the
landlords, now says rent controls
are necessary. By no coincidence
his conversion came the
day after his own rent was raised
at the Mayflower Hotel.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26
PRICE GOUCERS
|ARE HAVING
IA field DAY

! No one needs to be told that
prices, already sky-high, have been
boosted anew with the Korean sit
uation being used as an excuse. Al
though profit statements show that
Industry is making more money and
lmaking it faster than at any time
| in history, manufacturers have
lseized upon the present emergency
| to milk the consumer for every
penny that can be squeezed out.
Food prices have led the parade
with a squirt SO marked that even
the conservative Bureau of Labor
Statistics cost of living index shud-
dered under the impact of the sud-
den jump. When food costs today
are compared to what they were in
1941, the contrast is almost unbe-
lievable. Since 1941, for example,
coffee has jumped from 25.1 cents
pound to 81.7 cents; pork chops
now cost 80.1 cents as compared to
I27.1 cents; round steak has tripled
from 81 cents to 91.7 cents; pota-
toes have nearly doubled from 12.6
cents a pound to 22.7. The story is
the same all the way down the line.
Other commodities have follow
ed the lead of food prices. Here are
but a few examples. Gasoline is
now 80 cents a gallon, Westing-
house has announced new hikes of
from 10 dollars to 80 dollars on
many of its appliances, the cost of
utilities (gas, electricity, telephone,
etc. is rising steadily, and rents
are shooting up to astronomical
figures.
A year ago tires were drug on
the market. Now, in Milwaukee,
tire companies have announced the
seventh increase in price since the
first of the year. Why? Because
there are fewer tires or less rub
ber? Of course not. The reason for
these increases which continue to
fatten the profit gouger is to take
everything the traffic will bear.
Korea offers an alibi and so up go
the prices.
Figures furnished by the Depart
ment of Labor show that the cost
of living has been tremendously ac-
celebrated since the Korean fight
ing began June 25. AS of July Is,
1850, the index stod at 1925 or Ia
percent more than on June Is. Att
this rate of increase, prices will
soon be at their highest level in
history.
Smaller advances in the preced-l
ing months brought the quarter
increase to full 3 percent abovel
the April Is index level.
And still there are many COM
panies who throw up their hands
in horror when a labor union seeks /
a wage increase. A wage increased
under today's economic picture isl
not merely question of a worker
wanting more money-it usually
spells the difference of whether or
not the average worker can pro-
vide the minimum necessities ofI
life for himself and his family.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26
Comment On
World Events

In its latest Labor's Monthly
Survey, the American Federation
Of Labor has done an excellent job
Of tracing and exposing "The Great
Conspiracy" Communist Russia s
worldwide campaign for conquest.
The AFL warns that Americans
dare not relax and feel secure, de-
spite the United Nations smashing
victory in Korea. Even there, it
says, Stain is maneuvering to
turn military defeat into political
victory; meanwhile he is ready for
new advances in Europe, the Mid
East, Indo-China and the Amer
icas.
Strikes in Austria, increase of
sabotage in the United States,
evidence Of Red activity in many
other nations are cited. "These,"
the AFL declares, "are not isolated
events but links in a great conspir-
acy, master plan which reaches
toward conquest of all govern
ments. The main objective is the
United States, the only power
which can prevent this conquest.
Soviet officials have always named
the United States as their No.
enemy. The Great Conspiracy
moves steadily toward America, to
join the fifth column already work
ing here"
Communist plans for world con-
quest began more than 80 years
ago, the AFL explains Behind the
plans, it continues, "is the doctrine
of Karl Marx: The revolution can
not triumph in a single country but
only as the result of general as
sault on all or a majority of civiliz-
ed countries.
Stain referred to this doctrine
Aug. l, 1850 to justify his i'm
mense military preparations and to
answer those Soviet citizens who
thought that, with Hitler's army
destroyed and no danger of attack
on the Soviet Union, the Russian
army might be reduced, more free
dom permitted, and living stand
ards raised. Stain repudiated these
ideas and said Russia must do its
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26

utmost to strengthen its state-its
intelligence organs (spy system),
and the army He relentlessly pur-
sues the policy Of general assault
on all civilized nations"
But vital change in method oc-
CURED with the growth Of Soviet
military strength in World War ii
and the concentration Of all power
in the Politburo, the top govern
ing body of the Red dictatorship,
the AFL says. The change was
marked by Stalin's assignment to
the Red army of the task Of Great
ing the communist revolution" in
communist countries.
The change in methods is "most
significant" the AFL holds, going
on to say: "Tn earlier times, when
the Soviet Union was weak, they
attempted revolution through nat
i've Communist parties built up by
fifth column work. Today, when
Russia is the strongest military
power on earth, the fifth column
is more active than ever, but the
final seizure Of power is carried
out by armed force.
"Thus, Russian military imperial
ism-the hated policy of the Cars
which the early Communists con-
demned - has replaced Lenin's
methods. Each subjugated civilized
country is made directly subser-
Went to the Soviet Union through
the secret police and military force,
opposition is liquidated, and direc-
tion Of the nations army is taken
over by the Russians. The 1iberat-
ed nation becomes mere province
in the Soviet empire.
The AFL outlines the Soviet pat
tern for seizing power, as shown in
Poland, Rumanian, Czechslovakia
and other nations, points out the
overwhelming Soviet military sup
eriority in Europe and strongly en-
phasizes the urgency Of American
defense preparations. The discuss
ion hould be carefully and
thoughtfully considered by every
trade unionist. Such consideration
will give a plain idea of the peril
faced by the United States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26
Frantic COP In New York Tries
Cover-Up In Dewey-HonIey Deal

New York (LPA)-Stunned by
the revelations in the now famous
Hanley letter, the Republicans in
New York are now trying to do a
fast cover-up. All sorts Of explana-
Dtions are appearing. But there is
the letter, and it speaks for itself
The scandal broke with publica-
tion of letter written by Lieut.
Gov. Joe Hanley to w. Kingsland
Macy, who had lent Hanley money
for his pre-convention campaign
The letter said "Today had con-
ference with the Governor in which
certain unalterable and unquestion-
able definite propositions were
made to me. If / will consent to
take the nomination to the United
States Senate, | am definitely as
sured of being able to clean up my
financial obligations within ninety
days, so that would be clear for
the first time in my life"
Hanley had announced he want
ed the nomination for Governor
since Gov. Thomas E. Dewey had
declared some time before that he
was quitting politics. Suddenly a
draft" for Dewey developed, and
Hanley was pushed aside. The
Democrats Immediately charged
Dewey had made a deal, and had
in effect bought his nomination.
The Republicans have been try
ing ever since to explain away the
letter, but observers point out that
the words of Hanley are clear
enough.
The daily press, with the except
ion of the NY Post, rushed to the
Dewey-Hanley defense, with lex
plantations, and with shots of
"yah, yah, you're just as bad" But
there was the letter. At first the
NY Times, which is supporting
Dewey and Lehman, called the let
ter "an explosive political incident"
and counselled Charitable judg-
ment". Then in a long editorial it
referred to the Hanley "episode"
and then began calling the Hanley
opponents hypocrites and synics.
The Democrats have demanded
that Dewey resign, that both he
and Hanley get out of the cam
paign, and that both be impeached.
There have been calls for criminal
action, and calls for an investiga-
tion by the Senate.
Dewey and Hanley have called
the charges growing out of the
Hanley letter a Smear, have de-
MED any deal, and have called the
Democratic candidates all sorts of
names.
They cannot explain away the
words of the Hanley letter-nor
can the NY Times, nor the Herald
Tribune, nor the World Telegram
and Sun, nor the Daily News, nor
the Hearst papers.
Dewey has gone all the way back
to 1923 to charge that the late
Franklin d. Roosevelt accepted
nomination for governor only after
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arrangements were made to clear
up 100000 in debts. Dewey's
friends have dragged out letter
Senator Herbert H. Lehman wrote
to Alger Hiss. The papers have
dug up ancient political history to
argue that deals are nothing new
in politics. But nobody has been
able to explain away the Hanley
letter.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Guy
Gabrielson, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, pre-
dicted a virtual COP sweep in all
key areas outside the south. He
had just returned from western
tour.
Gabrielson said he had detected
Republican "groundswell" in the
west, especially among voters un-
der 80. "We're going to be very
much surprised by the Republican
vote," he said. He added that he
meant surprised the right way"
when a reported reminded him of
the Surprise" the COP suffered in
1948. Gabrielson insisted there was
Likelihood" of Republican major
tiles in both House and Senate.
Asked to comment on the "Han-
ley letter" in New York, the pudgy
Gabrielson said, $50 much noise
about one letter shows how poor a
position the Democrats are in"
(Ed. Note: Were voters to infer
that Hanley should have written
more letters? Or were they to be-
lieve that more than one man has
to be wheedled out of a guberna-
torial race by financial promises
before the practice becomes repre-
hensible?)
Gabrielson also insisted that the
Hanley-Dewey incident had receiv-
ed little publicity in the west.
Moreover, he said. 81 wouldn't
think it would have much effect in
New York." Presumably this
statement was intended as shot
in the arm for worried, disgruntled
COP leaders in New York's upstate
areas.
Gabrielson, who looks almost as
much like Taft as Taft does, pre-
dicted victory for the following
Republicans in Senate races: Sen.
Millikin in Colorado; Nixon in
California; Bennett in Utah; Sen.
Dworshak and Welker in Idaho;
Sen, Morse in Oregon; Bush and
Talbot in Connecticut; Hanley in
New York; Duff in Pennsylvania;
Dirkesen in Illinois; Alexander in
Oklahoma; Butler in Maryland;
Sen. Donnell in Missouri; Sen.
Capehart in Indiana and Sen. Taft
in Ohio.
The COP chairman eXuded con-
fidence, but was momentarily flust-
cred when a reporter asked wheth-
er victory for Wayne Morse in
Oregon should really be construed
as Republican triumph. After a
moment, Gabrielson observed that
Morse was nominated in the Re-
publican primary. However, Cab
rielson was obviously aware that
the Democratic national organiza-
ton is doing nothing to defeat the
liberal Morse, who is backed by all
labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26
PEN UNION ORDERED TO
REIMBURSE WORKER

GAINESVILLE, Wis. UPA)-A wo
man worker fired at the request OF
the AFL Pen and Pencil Workers
Union has been ordered reinstateo
by the NLRB and her lost wages
paid by the union.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Becker, who
had been fined $25 on three occas-
ions by Local 10, 593 for exceed
ing the bonus ceiling under the in
centive plan at the Parker Pen Co.
was dismissed when she refused tc
pay $50 Of the fine.
The NLRB ruled the fine was
not part of the unions regular
dues and initiation fees and that
Mrs. Becker could not be discharg-
ed under that part of the Taft
Hartley act which provides an en-
ploye in a union shop can be fired
for non-payment of union dues OF
fees.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26
HIGH COURT UPHOLDS
BAN ON NEGRO FILM

Washington (LPA)-In Atlanta
Ga, the city movie censors refused
to permit the showing of Lost
Boundaries" on the ground that il
would create strife. The movie is
about Negro family whose neigh
bors in a New Hampshire town be-
lieved them to be white. The US
District Court and US Circuit
Court upheld the Atlanta censors.
Now the US Supreme Court, by
refusing to rule, has in effect given
the green light to movie censor
ship. 1t turned deaf ear to the
plea that such legislation is "a
deterrent to the production of pic
lures OH any controversial, or in
deed on any thoughtful subject"
Movie censorship exists in Mass
achusetts, New York, Pennsy-
lvania, Maryland, Virginia and
Kansas, and in many cities.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26

Mr.. Union Label says, eve have
the quality and craftsmanship in
our products!"
The wise consumer buys Union
Label merchandise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26

Why waste your time looking
for flying saucers when you can
make it worthwhile looking for
Union Labels?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-26

Mr.. Union Service says, "We de-
liver the goods"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Two Americans
Killed By Head
Hunter Tribesman

MANILA, Jan. 17.-(P).-An
American said today that two
professors from the United States
had been killed in the Philippines
by tribeSmen they trusted to
guide them through the noun
tains $50 miles north of Manila.
The bodies of Professor Mar
vim Pittman of Chicago and DR..
Robert F. Conklin of Springfield,
Mass, are expected to be brought
to Baguio tomorrow or the next
day. The two Americans were ex-
change professors at the Univer-
sity of the Philippines, and they
vanished during a hike during the
Christina; holidays.
According to JOHN F. Boland of
Washington. D. c., the professors
stopped al village about Christ
mas eve. They asked the villagers,
former head-hunters, to supply
them with guides. The guides,
said Boland, turned out to be kill
ers. Boland is an employee of the
United States Philippine War
Damage Commission. He based
his statements on confession
Philippines Constabulary officials
say they obtained from three of
the tribesmen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Rescue Workers
Trying To Get
Eddie Burda

MAHANOY CITY, Pa, Jan. II.
-(P.-Rescue workers are risk
ing their lives in a last desperate
attempt to reach a trapped coal
miner at Mahoney City, PennSyl-
vania.
Fellow miners said they hope 20
reach the miner, Edward Burda.
late this afternoon but they fear
he won't be found alive. Burda
was trapped last Friday in a rock
fall 100 feet below the surface.
Today the rescue team is cut
ting cautiously through a vein of
hard coal, fearful of another. slide
which might trap them.
Work IS going slowly because
they must protect themselves
with snoring as they go, and the
tunnel is big enough only for one
man.
At last report, Officials said
they thought they were only a
dozen feet or so away from the
Trapp man.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Several Changes
In Command OF
XIV. Naval Base

Commander Lawrence Julian.
USN, who is relieving Command
err F. j. Harfinger, Ill, USN, as
officer in charge of the Advanced
Underseas Weapons School, has
arrived at the Key West Navel
Station. 4
Commander Julian came here
from Washington.
Commander Harfinger becomes
operations officer of the SubRon-
Four in the Key West Naval area.
Commander Harfinger will re-
lieve Commander Charles Hen
derSon, USN, who becomes COM
mander of Submarine Division Al
of SubRon Four
The present commander of Sub
marine Division Al is Commander
j. c. Martin, USN, who will 20
to Los Angeles where he will be-
come the inspector of Naval Ma
terial.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
New Backfield
Coaches Named
AT Gainesville

GAINESVILLE. Jan. i7.-(R.
Two new backfield coaches
have been appointed at the Uni
versity Of Florida.
Coach Bob Woodruff announc-
cd yesterday that two OF his as
sxtants will be J. Frank Broyles.
who has been backfield coach I'M
der Woodruff az Baylor, and John
r. Sauer. who has been backfield
coach AZ West Point.
Naming Of two backfield men
may mean that Florida will have
q larger staff than the four-man
staff under former coach Raw
Bear" Wolf.
Woodruff is now in Texas
winding up his affairs there and
Il expected 10 return 20 Gaines
VILE this weekend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Noes ENTERS BOXERS
TN NEXT MONTHS
BOXING TOURNAMENT

The Noes Servicemen's Club.
1921 Duval street, has entered
some outstanding boxers in the
Golden Gloves Tournament to be
held at the Key West Sports
Arena, in the first week in Febru-
airy.
The Noes team includes:
Donald Roth, SA, 1853 pounds,
U.S.S. Albatross, Hometown. AL
lentown, Pa.) Roth was semi
finalist lightweight in the All
Navy title matches at Great
Lakes in 1949. He is in excellent
condition and can be counted on
TO put on a good fight.
Frank Jones, 1870 pounds, was
the featherweight runner-up in
the AAU State Tournament held
in Miami, in May, 1949. Jones is
fast in the ring, an aggressive
boxer, well-known in Miami and
by patrons of the Overseas Ga
rage. He has lost only one of his
many amateur fights and intends
to maintain his record.
Mel Thompson, PFC, 100 lbs.
hometown, Danville, Ilinois) is
ready to meet any beginner in
the heavyweight division.
James Weeden, so 3, U.S.S.
Wilkie, hometown, Philadelphia,
Pa will weigh in at 159: Weeden
is training hard and looks in the
pink.
Another middleweight contend
er, who will please the fight fans
is P. D. Wahlstrom, ADAM,
weight 159, Fawtulant, (home-
town, St. Cloud, Minnesota).
Additional Noes boxing en-
trants will be announced in We'd
nesday's issue of The Citizen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Games Scheduled
For Wednesday To
Be Fast, Furious

Games scheduled for Wednes-
day night will be hard and furi-
Gus, for it may mean the first
place for three of the clubs.
700 p. m, Spider Webb VS..
Sonar School. Both lost their first
game and are out to get into the
race.
8 p. m, Bamboo Room VS..
Vogue Cleaners Bamboo Room
won their first game and Clean
ers lost, so the winner will go to
first place and the loser a notch
below.
8 p. m, Overseas Garage and
Pollock's Jewels. Both won their
first game in this half and the
winner will stay in first place and
the loser, will go down a notch.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Circuit Court OF Appeals
Does Not Allow Merger OF
FEC And ACL Railroads

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17.-(R).
The U. S. Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals has affirmed the
Southern Florida District Courts
ruling denying the merger of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and
the Florida East Coast Line.
In 2-to-1 split opinion, the
court remanded the case to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
"for the purpose of working out
really fair and equitable plan
without prejudice in doing so to
due consideration of any fair and
equitable plan for bringing this
matter to an end :"
The majority opinion in re-
handing the case left the way
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Truman To Speak
At 35M Division
Reunion In June
Up Wirephoto

WASHINGTON. Jan. IT,
R.-President Truman will
fly TO Missouri in June to
speak at the University of
Missouri in Columbia and at
the 3Sth Division reunion in
ST. Louis.
Mayor Joseph M. Darst of
ST. Louis announced Mr..
Truman's acceptance of the
two invitations after a White
Houes call.
He said MIR. Truman will
fly to Columbia June 9 TO re-
ceive an honorary degree.
then go TO ST. Louis IN the
afternoon for reception and
a speech the next dav dedi-
eating the Jefferson National
Memorial.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
New Nonstop
Record, California
To Sunny Florida

JACKSONVILLE. Jan. IL
t44.-A California flier, Johnny
Mann, has claimed new non
stop distance record for light
planes from west to east on a
flight from Van Mugs, California,
to Jacksonville.
Mann said the flight, made Fri
day and Saturday covered 2,ll0
miles. He said that was recogniz-
ed by the civil aernonautics au-
thority.
Mann brought greetings from
the Mayor of Los Angeles to Mi
ami's Mayor William Wolfarth.
He said he would like to take
back some bottled sunshine from
Florida, as it was showing when
he left Los Angeles.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Europe Cannot Be
SaUed On Rhine
German Mayor


BERLIN. Jan. l7.-tR).-
The mayor of West Berlin has
urged the Western World to
restore liberty to Poland and
Czechoslovaixia.
Mayor Ernst Reuther told
a group of American editors:
Europe cannot be saved on
the Rhine River"
He added thar Western Eu-
ropean recovery is exerting
great political pressure on
the Communist zone of Ger
many.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
TODAY'S
BIRTHDAY

FRANK HAGUE, born Jan. II,
1876, in Jersey City, N. ]. 81 am
the law" is the quotation which
critics most often remember him
by. For 30 years he was mayor
and political boss. He was a con-
troversial figure even in national
politics. Many critics praised his
welfare programs and said he
was a good administrator.