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Evening star., 1950-10-01


as a gift from admirers. For g
time during World War I, il
housed the ministry Of the Czecho-
slovakian Legation, but later be-
came the home of Mr.. and Mrs
John j. White before they sold il
to the federation in 1922.
The home-like quality of the
house was retained by the fedora
ton for a number of years, with
only a portion of the rooms being
used for Offices. In addition to
the quarters which have always
been maintained for use of the
federation president, all the rooms
on the fourth and fifth floors were
furnished as bedrooms and rented
to permanent occupants or visit
ing clubwomen.
Gradually, however. as the or
ganization's program expanded
more and more space went into
Office use and by 1941, to meet the
demands of another war, only the
presidents room and guestroom
were kept for living quarters.
When Mrs. Hiram Cole Hough-
ton was elected federation presi-
dent last spring, members of the
Executive Committee, under her
leadership, decided that one of
the federation's objectiveS should
be to have a hospitality center.
not only for American clubwomen
but for foreign visitors, including
students in this country,
T.. The business Offices were rear
ranged and now the second floor.
containing drawing room. dining
room, sun parlor and reception
hall, is being redecorated for a
return to it's original purpose. The
kitchen also is being modernized,
so that 1t will be easier to serve re-
freshments to large gatherings.
Much of the furnishings in the
headquarters has been given to
the federation by various club
groups and this will be used to
advantage under the new program.
Color schemes are being picked up
from the colors in the drawing
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Dinner to Aid
Fund for Prizes

A benefit dinner will be spon-
sored by the creative groups OF
the District branch, National
League of American Pen Women
at $50 pm. Friday at the Hotel
Fairfax.
Proceeds will go to the prize
fund for the annual contests in
creative work.
The dinner also will feature q
discussion of plans for the coming
years workshops by the chair
men of the creative groups, who
will be presented by the genera
chairman. Miss Matte Richards
! Tyler.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Walsh to Speak :
Before Sororitv

Gillespie Walsh. chairman ot
the Mental Health Commission Of
the District. will address the Eta
Alumnae Chapter of Kappa Beta
Pi Legal Sorority at it's first fall
meeting at 7:30 pm. Tuesday al
the home of the chapter dean
Mrs. Katharine P. Crowley, 37l7
Legation street NV.
Mr.. Walsh will discuss the neeo
for legal aid and assistance fol
patients at Gallinger and ST
Elizabeths Hospitals and how it
may be given.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Beatty to Speak

Morgan M. Beatty, radio news
commentator. will be guest speak
er at the PEG reciprocity lunch
con to be held at 1890 pm. Wed
nesday at the YWCA. All unaff1li-
ated PEG members have been in
vited to attend.
Miss Julia Macmillan, q mem
ber of Chapter o which will be
hostess for the luncheon, is ir
charge of reservations which
should be made before noon to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Presbyterian Minister
To Address UWC

The Rev. DR.. George M.
Docherty of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church will address
a dinner meeting of the Educa-
ton Committee of the University
Women's Club on Wednesday at
club headquarters, 1915 New
Hampshire avenue NV. His topic
Will be Religion and Education.
The first fall business meeting
OF the club will be held at 5 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-10-01

an exhibit of country lamps and
decorated tin.
One exhibitor will show early
paperweights, firearms and clocks
while another will bring brass,
copper and pewter and still
another, 18th Century dolls, min
iatures, European porcelain and
buttons.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
To Install Officers

The Excelsior Literary Club
will install newly elected officers
at it's first luncheon meeting Of
the season at 1890 pm. Tuesday
at the home of the new president,
Miss Eva G. Elliott. 1922 Wyom.
ing avenue NV. The program
topic for the coming year will be
Washington, Past and Present. !"
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Membership Purty

A membership cocktail party
will be held by the Women's Club
of Local 161. District Federation
of Musicians. from 3 to 5 pm.
today at the home of Mrs.
John Roub, 2405 Cameron Mills
road. Alexandria.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Auxiliary Bake Sale

The Women's Auxiliary of the
National Lutheran Home will
have a bake sale at 10 am. Fri
day at the Sears, Roebuck and
Co, store on Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Wonoen's Clubs
>GFWC Headquarters Being Altered
To Provide S pace for Entertaining
By Frances Lide

home converted to an Office building will
original character of hospitality
completed headquarters of the General
Clubs.
Located 1874 street NV the 25-room house
the residence Miles of Indian and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
WHY'S Hits
100000 Mark

TOLEDO, OHIO, June 19 -
WHY'S Overland Motors work
ers and official today celebrat-
ed another milestone in the COM
pany's production history when
the 00,000th Willys station
wagon rolled from the assembly
lines.
The station wagon production
represents more than $3.50, ,000,-
900 in factory sales since the
vehicle was introduced in mid
1916.
"The pioneering of the sta
ton wagon all-steel body has
helped place Willys-Overland in
the number one position as man.
ufacturer of station wagons" +"
according to Delmar G. Roos,
first vice-president. This year,
the company has allocated more
than go per cent of its produc-
ton to station wagon manufac-
ture.
The WHY'S station wagons are
built with either four or six
cylinder engines. A 4-wheel
drive model is also produced.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23

Justice, published by the Inter
national Ladies Garment Work
ers; Gordon Cole, editor of The
Machinist; Nathan Goldfinger,
research director of I'm e d
Paperworkers; Benjamin H s.
kel, editor of the Textile Chal-
lenger; Alfred B. Harrington,
publicity director of Communi-
cations Workers of A m r | a;
Kenneth Fiester, editor of Tex
tile Labor; Harry Poole vice.
president of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters; Frank Powers,
editor of the Commercial Tele-
graphers Journal; Paul Sifton,
legislative representative of the
United Auto Workers; Vincent
Sweeney, editor of Steel Labor,
and Arthur G.. MacDowell, as
sistant to the president of the
u p h o. lster ers' international
Union.
Fiester Is the only new men,
Der. He replaced Ward Melody
of the A m er an Newspaper
Guild, who did not run for re-
election.
The delegates passed a resolu-
tion endorsing and supporting
the strike of the New York
Newspaper Guild against I h e
w World Telegram & Sun, and
commencing the labor unity
shown In the refusal of the men,
bers of the mechanical unions,
AFL and unaffiliated, to cross
the picket line. The story of the
strike was told by Milton Miller,
editor Of The Front Page, pub
lication of the New York Guild,
who sa a d the dispute was as
much over job and union secu-
rity as over wages.
Edwards, d escribing the
growth of his radio audience,
pointed out that in response to
one question he had received
10000 postcards. Novik, who is
an consultant to the radio sta
tions of the United Auto Work
ers-CIO and tn e International
Ladies' Garment Workers-AFL,
others, stressed the need
for use of radio, urged the labor
d tors to police unfriendly
broadcasts, and to keep on pro-
testing unfair representations of
news or opinion.
The sessions were held in tne
board room of the Grand Lodge
of the International Association
If Machinists, host to the meet
ng. AT the opening session the
new album OF labor songs spon-
sored by the lam was played
and lam vice-president Elmer
w q lker welcomed the LPA
members.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
How Clean Is The
Commercial Press
Guy Num-, UAW- CIO Commentator says at isn't"

On June A. Guy Num-, UAW-CIO Commentator made the
following broadcast WDET-FM and CKLW:
is the commercial press editors
judgment judges statesmen the John Does of
the world? The day daily Yonkers
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23

chopped off by order of tn
Public Safety Commission - be-
cause, said the Commission -
the paper was using its wires for
illegal circulation of gambling
information. Yesterday morning
the sizeable New York World
Telegram went down because 1t
refused a decent working con-
tract to its 400 editorial and
commercial employees Of t h e
A m C a. n Newspaper Guild.
And today the United States De-
partment of Justice filed a civil
antitrust suit against a large
New Orleans newspaper mon
opoly, the Times-Picayune Pub
fishing Company, charging viola
ton of the Sherman Act. The
publishers are C h ar g d with
"conspiring and combining to re-
strain and monopolize commerce
in newspapers and in the dis
senination of news and advertiz-
ing and in supplies, and with
entering into unlawful contracts
with advertisers.
This particular suit - because
it Is unique, it's the first time
such a charge has actually ever
been brought to court against
a newspaper corporation, will
very likely be dealt with by
the rest of the commercial press
as a flagrant case of "persecu-
tom and an infringement by
government on something call
ed freedom of the press. You see,
largely through the propaganda
efforts of the press, violation of
the antitrust laws has become
almost a sanity act. It's prac-
tically fashionable" among COR
porations to be accused of break
ing a law of the land. And II
the corporation Is convicted -
as so many have been - then
the law is "tyrannical" an
discriminatory" and persecu-
tory"
Press Hypocracy
Let a starving working man
steal a bottle of milk - or rifle
a parking meter for a handful
of nickels - and judge and edi-
tor alike rush to expedite his
way to Jail. But let a huge cor
poration like A and p, for ex-
ample, pick millions of dollars
from consumer pockets by us
ing the two-headed blackjack of
purchase AND sales monopoly,
and a whole series of convictions
for criminal violation of tn e
antitrust laws will serve only
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
Sen. Mccarthy
Did Alright

COLUMBUS, Ohio NPA). -
For a 37-page article on "want-
ed: A Dollars Worth of Hous-
ing For Every Dollar Spent"
Sen. Joseph Mccarthy (R, Wis
got $4,000 from the Lustron
Corp, federal court records re-
veal.
The COP numbers juggler
from Wisconsin got the check
Nov. IL, 194s, according to rec
ords filed by Receiver Clyde M.
Foraker. Lustron, maker of pre-
fabricated housing, was thrown
into receivership recently after
being unable to repay SO, 500, 900
In US loans.
The Mccarthy a article was
part of a 94-page Lustron book
let, of which rs pages contained
promotional material for Lus-
tron products. The booklet said
1t was based on information
gathered by" Mccarthy "in the
course of his research and in
vestigation as vice-chairman of
the Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Housing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
The Coop
er
7th Annual Labor and
Coop Institute

Opening August 9Th at Madi.
sons University of Wisconsin
School for Workers, is a REQ
Letter event as far as Labor and
Co-ops are concerned. 1t is the
7th Annual Labor and Coop
Institute, a weeks vacation COM
bined with the opportunity to
meet with outstanding leaders
in the Labor and Coop fields
These classes are to last one
week. Board, room and tuition
will run $35.
AS the circular states, here is
the chance you have been wait
ing for. Here is the chance for
various units to send one or
of their members interest
ed in Co-ops to met with live
wire TOP LABOR AND COOP
LEADERS to get sthe best first
hand experience on what makes
for successful coop develop
ment. Learn the facts about
collective buying agreements
now saving union and coop
thousands of dollars :.
and come back with the tools to
LICK YOUR LOCAL PROB
LEM.
Among topics to be covered
will be. WHY SHOULD LA
BOR BE INTERESTED IN CO.
OPS? HOW TO ORGANIZE
AND GET GOING (Food Stores,
Gas and Fuel Oil, Medical and
Housing Co-ops) WHAT'S
THE COOP MOVEMENT ALL
ABOUT? THE ECONOMIC
BASE FOR ORGANIZED CON-
SUMER ACTION, etc. Leaders
in these classes include c. j.
McLanahan and AL Rightley of
Detroit, plus Andrew Jensen,
Richard sLeekley, Orrin Shipe,
Arnold Zander and others, all
well known names In their re-
spective fields.
Stressed time and again dur
ing meetings with members of
the Educational Committees was
the fact that gains under col
lective bargaining are nearing
a saturation point; that the next
big GAINS to be made by labor
will be scored on the purchasing
front, Being able to buy at a
discount on today's high prices
and the Co-ops are the nat
ural way to do 1t. A weeks ses-
sion at the Institute for your
unit officer or shop committee
man will repay your unit in a
dozen different ways. Others
have saved themselves thou
sands of dollars by buying Co
operatively why shouldn't
you? Remember, buying Coop
is like getting a raise.
Write for application blanks
to Martha Gosline Smith, 1917
Wellesley Drive, Toledo 6, o.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
LPA Editors Visit
Truman As Highight
OF Annual Meeting

WASHINGTON (LPA) - visit with President Truman
hghted the second annual meeting of Labor Press Asocia
IS 16 The President with labor editors
the garden of the White House for photograph
story of LPA carried the of the world in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23

to prompt editors to discover
that the law is unfair, that it
"tyrannizes" over struggling
Well, the New Orleans prose-
cution makes it fairly clear that
big newspaper corporations have
a great deal in common with
o t h er big corporations. The
Times-Picayune, says the de-
portment of justice, threw its
weight around; it forced adver-
tisers to buy space in both its
papers or neither; 1t coerced
newspaper vendors to stop SELL
ing competing papers by refus-
ing to supply its own if the
vendors refused. That's not rob-
bing parking meters, but 1t is
robbing newsboys. T h ere are
more kinds of guns to be placed
at mans head than those with
lead bullets.
Newspapers such as the De-
troit Free Press, which have put
themselves so slavishly at the
service of the advertising cor
porations that they frequently
read like commercial house
organs, will rise up fearless
wrath and indignation at a hand
full of cases of presumed chisel-
ing by some sick and aged well
fare recipient, yet give copious
lined extortion practised by big
editorial defense to the stream
time advertisers. They are de-
lighted to give incitement and
sanction to police slugging of
delinquent youth, but scream to
the editorial heavens If the hand
of the law falls with even the
delicacy of an antitrust suit on
tn e corpulent shoulders of .
delinquent corporation. Editors
like Malcolm Bingay are expert
in the pious posture, but their
selection of the sin which they're
agin Is controlled exclusively by
their pocketbooks.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23

of his inconsistencies are point
ed out.
So when someone pulls the
senator up sharply, he blows up.
That's exactly what happened
recently when the senator was
interviewed on Meet the Press" F"
a televised press conference.
After extensive questioning,
the reporters developed tn a
Taft stood:
/. AGAINST the Atlantic Pact
and a well-planned defense for
Western democracies against the
advancement of Communism.
2. FOR widespread distribu-
ton to isolated countries like
G ee c. e and Turkey and out
right Intervention, by the United
States alone, in Formosa.
Challenged on these irrecon-
ciliable inconsistencies, Taft was
But he blew up
when Reporter Mae Craig of the
Portland (Maine) Press-Herald
asked, "Are you offering the
world nothing but occupation
and liberation?"
Taft not only refused to
the question, he yelled
that the last time that he had
been on that program the re-
porters wanted to debate with
him and he wasn't going to de-
bate.
Taft was given a break by
Moderator Martha Roundtree,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
St. Louis PAC
Backs Truman
Choice For Senator

ST. LOUIS (LPA) - The st.
Louis Political Action Commit
tee has Endorsed for u. S. SEN
ator in the Democratic primary
August 1. State Sen. Emery w.
Allison OF Rolla, who Is the
choice of President Trum a n.
Since 26 Of the city's 20 Demo-
cratic ward organizations favor
former Rep. Thomas c. Hen
nings, Jr., the PAC decided that
where necessary, ward organiza-
tions will be set up separate
and apart from the regular
Democratic organizations"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23

who offered him a breathing
SPELL" while a commercial was
presented. When Taft came back
before the camera he had calm
ed down.
Miss Craig asked that her
question be answered, but re-
minded the senator she couldn't
do anything about it, If he re-
fused to answer.
So Taft asked the questicC
repeated, saying that he dSy t
understand it the first time.
But during those few minutes,
the public got a picture of the
Taft the newspapers have been
hiding - picture of a poli-
tician, who blows up when he's
asked. an intelligent, searching
question, which points out his
inconsistent a n d unstatesman-
like utteranceS.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
Senator Taft Blows Up If
Questions Not To His Likinu

COLUMBUS Ohio-H there's thing Senator Taft can't
stand, it is to be asked searching question. ~
He's used to- making speeches to fellow Republicans
Big Business who accept his
he is asked searching
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
Dr.. Holmes Refires
As Head Of ACLU

, NEW YORK (LPA) - DR..
John Haynes Holmes, one of the
founders of the American Civil
Liberties Union in 1920, men,
Der OF the board since, and board
chairman since 1910. has retired
because of i'll health. Last year
he retired as head of the world
famous Community Church in
New York, which he organized
in 1919. His successor as ACLU
board chairman Is Ernest Angel.
prominent New York lawyer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23

elgnt-mlnut6 TeCOTulnB mace Dy
Ruben Levin. LPA president, fol
the governments Voice o.
America for broadcast abroad
in more than 20 languages. tc
reach the people behind the Iror
Cuptain.
Frank Edwards, AFL ra die
commentator, and Morris Novik
radio consultant to a number oi
unions, spoke at the luncheon
for the visiting labor editors. Al
o cocktail party that evening al
the National Press Club, tn G
visitors met their favorite Sena.
tors and Congressman, especially
invited by them. Hosts were
LLPE and PAC.
The editors attended an all
day conference June 18 at the
Pentagon, arranged by the of
flee of the Secretary of Defense,
10 hear top-level military aides.
All officers of LPA were re-
elected at a directors meeting
held right after the. convention
session June is. They are: presi-
dent, Ruben Levin, of the staff
of Labor, publication of Is rail
road brotherhoods; vice-presi-
dent, Allan L. Swim, editor Of
the CrO News; secretary-treas-
urer, Glen Slaughter, research
director of Labor's League for
Political Education-AFL.
Levin, in his recording for
Voice of America, pointed out
that LPA's primary purpose is
to provide a general press serv-
ice for labor papers which will
be free of all Communist influ-
ence. He said that just as the
AFL and CIO had cooperated In
the international field by join
ing form the International Con-
federation OF Free Trade Unions,
so they were cooperating in the
labor press field, for LPA served
AFL, CIO and unaffiliated un-
ions. and all three groups were
represented on the board of di-
rectors. LPA Is a cooperative,
he said, drawing support from
the democratic labor unions Of
America, and served labor pa
pers with a combined circula-
ton of more than 10000, 900.
LPA, he said. not only supplied
unbiased information to the free
labor press here, but also car
ried news of the work of free
democratic unions abroad.
Except at the luncheon, there
were no speakers. In one busy
day the labor editors received
reports on the progress made
since incorporation last Septem-
Der; discussed with Washington
staff members the various serv-
ices; heard from Sidney Margo-
Illus, who writes the How To
Buy" column, and from Bernard
Seaman, who draws the political
cartoons; conducted clinics on
various problems, and laid out a
program for the coming year
designed to bring a better and
more complete service TO sub
scribing and m IN ber news
papers.
Elected besides the officers
w Q q. May nnninh naiA. IL
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-23
Vote Rent
Curb Extension

WASHINGTON (LPA) - Ex-
tension of federal rent control
has been voted by both houses
of Congress with agreement still
to be reached on whether curbs
will be continued for six or seven
months from the present il le
30 expiration date. In either case
communities can vote to extend
controls beyond that time, until
June 80, 1851.
Evening star., 1950-02-23
Consumer Prices Down 2.3 Pct.
In '49, 40 Below Postwar Peak

up 2.3 per cent: fuel. electricity
and refrigeration IA per cent. and
other costs, classed as "miscel-
laneous." up l per cent.
Food costs to the consumer,
while down per cent from their
postwar high, were off only 3.8
per cent in 1949 although prices
of food at the farm" slumped Is
per cent.
The spread in the drops in
prices at the farm and to the con-
sumer were held by department
analysts, however, to be approx
mately in line
Changes in retail prices nor
mally follow farm prices only after
lag, and the amplitude of vari-
alton is usually smaller because
of the sluggishness of distribution
and processing COSTS" they said.
While consumer prices went
down only about per cent last
year, they got break on improve
ments in quality and in the in
creased availability of less expen-
slve items, the analysts said.
Evening star., 1950-02-23
By the Associated Press

Consumer prices declined 23
per cent during 1949 and at the
start of this year were 4 per cent
under their postwar peak, the
Commerce Department reported
yesterday.
While food prices had fallen
farthest from their crest, they
continued to be high in relation
to those for other commodities
when compared with the preWar
situation in either 1899 or 1926"
the department said.
Clothing prices to the consumer
took the biggest proportional de-
cline, 7.3 per cent, in 1949, but
were off only 7.8 per cent from
their postwar highs, by depart
ment calculation.
Housefurnishings concentrated
practically all of their postwar
price decline-6.7 per cent-into
1949.
The department noted that con-
sumner prices rose to new highs
in other respects-rent moving
Evening star., 1950-02-23
Carnival in Rio Costs
28 Dead, 1869 Hurt
BY the Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 23.-In
the sober calm of Ash Wednesday
this fun-loving city surveyed the
cost of four days of carnival
4,687 casualties, including % dead
Carnival, the period of feasting
and merriment which precedes the
fasting of the lenten season, began
last Saturday. 1t set records in a
city where carnival mayhem is no
oddity.
Automobiles moved down pedes-
trians in the worst traffic jams in
Rio de Janeiro's history, engen-
dered by carnival parades. Heads
were Dashed in. Knives were
welded and guns were fired reck-
leSsly.
A policeman died of a skull
fracture administered by a man
he had just saved from drowning.
A butcher who went for a swim
was killed and three of his COM
panions were wounded by a man
in an army uniform who took pot
shots at them from the shore for
no apparent reason.
Five persons committed suicide.