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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-24
FTc chorges
Cats Paw Lives
Up To Its Name

WASHINGTON { l. p Al -
Price favors up to so percent are
given to favored customers by
the Cats Paw Rubber Co. and
its parent organization, Holtite
Manufacturing Co., says the
Federal Trade Commission. Cats
Paw is the largest maker. of rub
ber heels and soles in the US.
Such discrimination, says the
FTC, "tends to create a mono
poly" or ito injure, destroy, or
prevent competition" The dis
elimination, says FTC, is in the
form of discounts. rebates. and
allowances to favored customers
such as wholesalers of shoe find
ings and large operators of chain
shoe repair shops. The ETC has
given Cats Paw p0 days to an
swer the charge.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-24
Security Law
Favors Housewives

Many wives will no longer
have to wait until their 65th
birthday to become eligible for
monthly insurance payments un-
der social security.
Wayne w. Putnam, manager
of the Toledo social security
office, calls attention to the pro-
vision in the new law for bene-
fits to wives of retired workers
who are now receiving Old-age
insurance payments. The wife of
a present beneficiary who has
under her care a child under 18
qualified for benefits may now
have monthly payments herself.
In these cases, the wife's pay
ments continue until the child
under her care reaches 18 or is
otherwise disqualified as a bene-
ficiary, according to Mr.. Put
nam.
He suggests that wives who
believe tn e y are entitled to
benefits under this provision of
the new social security law get
in touch with the local social
security office.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-24
NoTaftInquiry;
WASHINGTON (LPA)

WASHINGTON GPA) =
The Senate Elections subcom-
mittee will not investigate the
Taft Ferguson election in Ohio,
but may go into Pennsylvania.
Senator Guy Gillette ID,
Iowa., chairman of the subcom-
mittee, said the charges of ex-
cessive spending in the re-elec-
ton of Senator Taft were too
general" The same is true OF
complaints FIR m Nevada and
Utah. Complaints f n ON Iowa,
Kentucky, and New York are
still being investigated, and a
new camplaint has come from
from Connecticut.
Gillette recommended h e a r.
ings on reported irregularities
in Pennsylvania, and such hear
ings will be held if the other
committee members agree. Pre-
liminary reoprts on the Duff
Myers senatorial race indicated
h a in Philadelphia boarding
houses had more registered vot-
ers than occupants, Gillette de-
clared.
CAT Columbus, o h o, cam
paign costs of 1892, ,088.80 were
reported to the Secretary of
State by Senator Taft and five
of his campaign committees.
Previously one county commit
reported spending $11, ,652. The
Taft for Senator committee re-
ported it spent 37,326.27, got
contributions of $163, 1872. 48,
and its outstanding debts were
$7,500)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-24
Steel Must 60 Up> But That's
Not InfIation> FairIess Declares

ton, nothing must be allowed to
block the industry's expansion
program. (JuSt who would block
it, Fairless didn't say.)
Actually, Fairless added some
further ''ifS" without calling
them that. It's a matter of what
is meant by enough" steel.
There is not enough steel at
present, to satisfy the maximum
wants of everybody he de-
cIared. But there is a great
deal more steel than is neceS-
sary to meet Americas mini
mum needs"
He boasted of Big SteePs cur
rent expansion program which
will be completed by 1852. By
then, he said, new expansion
programs would be under way.
Fairless was openly defending
himself against charges hurled
at the steel industry that its re-
Iuctance to expand delayed
World War ii production and
that the present shortages are
due to its reluctance to start
postwar expansion soon enough.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-24
CIO-PAC Work
To Continue,


CHICAGO (LPA) - T h e
Political Action Committee of
the CIO will "unquestionably"
tinue to function as usual, CIO
President Philip Murray de-
clared Nov. 16. He spoke at a
press conference in advance of
the CIO convention, w h C h
opens here Nov. 20. The CIO
will continue to fight for re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley act,
Murray added.
AS to the Taft victory in Ohio,
Murray noted as ga historical
fact" that in an off-year cleo
tin Republican candidates usual
Iy roll up a majority of 5O0,-
900 to 100000, and that Taft
won by 43O, 900 when he himself
had forecast only 10000. ZAP
parently he didn't know much
more about it than we did"
Murray said. In Pennsylvania,
Murray noted, COP candidates
in off years usually pile up 6OO,-
900 argins, whereas Gov.
James Duff won by only 1885,
600.
Murray put the current mem
bership of the CIO at more than
5000, 900, largest in CIO his
tory, although the CIO last year
expelled IL unions for follow
ing the Communist party line.
GAS far as l am aware" said
Murray, "there is no Commu-
mist problem now in the CIO."
The CIO executive boar d
pledged full supper to the
strike of the Communications
Workers. The resolution of sup
port SAID:
"Basic issues of the strike are
the company's adamant insist
ence upon a wage freeze for an
unreasonable period, not with
standing the present uncertain
ties of the economic situation,
and the company's unwilling
ness to grant a reasonable wage
increase to its underpaid en-
ployes.
''The policies of the Western
Electric Company which have
brought about t h i s strike are
directly attributable to the
domination of its affairs and de-
cisions by the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-24
LOS ANGELES (LPA)

HCy VIC gu LOoAdNht D~A 80
less of the U. S. Steel Corpora
ton on the defensive, if his Nov.
Is remarks to the American
Petroleum Institute are any in
dication.
Fairless was on the defensive
against organized labor, govern
ment, the general public, the
past, the future and the oil in
dustry at the same time.
No question about it, Big
Steel's chief said, the Steel
workers are going to get a wage
raise. But he was pretty grudg-
ing, nonetheless. Latest govern
ment index showed the costs OF
living was almost exactly what
it was on the day when our
workers got their last pay IN
crease" he insisted. However,
he was willing to give his en-
ployes a boost, he said, because
whether we like it or not, the
fifth round of wage increases is
already well under way in this
country"
The union has not revealed
the increase it is asking of Big
Steel, but Fairless used ID cents
to "prove" that a wage increase
would make an increase i'm the
price of steel imperative. He put
il this way:
A IS cent boost would cost U.
S. Steel $132 million, or about
$6 a ton. The cost of "outside"
materials the company has to
buy to make steel has gone up
$88 million year. Add the two
and you get 1920 million.
That is more than the COM
pany can afford from its profits
(S178,821, $40 for the first nine
months of 195O), Fairless in
sisted. Out of profits, the COM
pany has to pay dividends and
pay for expansion of steel ca
pacity, he said. Why, he OBJ
served piously. $500 million sis
nearly twice as much money as
the owners of U. S. Steel (stock-
holders) have ever received
from us in any year of our en-
tire history. II is more money,
i'm fact than all the dividends
we have paid to all our stock
holders i'm the last two and a
half years put together" (ClOI
economists and statisticians say
the figures give different pic
ture).
But even if Big Steel did raise
the price of its product, the in
crease would be a tiny one that
would have virtually no effect
on anything, said Fairless, strik-
ing at the theory that steel
prices are basic to the entire
economy.
Steel costs about a nickel a
pound Qess than candy BARI
he said. A 10 per cent rise
would be half a cent a pound.
Less than one per cent in the
price of an automobile, battle
ship or a bridge; an extra four
cents for a $22 automatic toast
er; so cents more for a washing
machine, or $1.50 more for
refrigerator. Pouf, you'd never
notice it. Gentlemen" said
Fairless piously, II yield to no
man in my desire to prevent in
flation."
Meanwhile, there would be
enough steel Tor everyone in
Guiding the oil industry which is
hard-pressed for pipe, the in
dustrialist said, but he added a
couple of great big "ifs." There
mustn't be steel strike C'Gen-
tlemen, America cannot afford
another steel strike" Any short
ages now existing are "due to
the fact that strikes have cost
,our nation 20 million tons of
steel since VI Day.") In addi-
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Reds Reported Using
Speedy jet Fighter
By the Associated Press

| American Aviation Daily, trade
letter, reported today that Russia
has in service jet fighter ranking
with this country's F-86 Sabre,
holder of the world speed record
at 671 miles an hour.
The daily said its information
came from British sources.
1t reported the plane identified
as the Yak-21, has been assigned
to squadrons based near Moscow.
The Yak-21 is believed to be
powered with an improved version
of the Rolls-Royce Meme engine,
considerable number of which
were sold to Russia by the British.
1t was reported to have a top
speed of $50 miles an hour and
operate above $4,000 feet. Arma-
ment was reported to be four 20
MN. cannon.
The daily commented that ap-
pearance of this fighter tends to
correct the impression of Russian
equipment inferiority held BY
many American observers"
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Wall Street Lawyer
To Represent Hiss
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Alger
Hiss said today he had retained
new counsel to argue his appeal
from a conviction on perjury
charges.
The former high State Depart
ment official said he had retained
the New York law firm of Rich
ards. Lane & Haller as his coun-
sell The firm has selected Robert
NJ. Benjamin. Wall Street attor-
ney. to argue the appeal, he said.
Hiss was sentenced to five years
In prison on charges that he lied
when he denied slipping Govern
ment secrets to a prewar Soviet
spy ring. His chief accuser was
Whitaker Chambers, former
Time magazine editor.
Hiss presently is free in $4,000
bail pending outcome of his ap-
peal. In his first trial, the one
time adviser of President Roose-
velt was represented by Attorney
Lloyd Paul Stryker. Mississippi
born Claude B. Cross of Boston
was his counsel in the second trial.
The first trial ended in a jury dis
agreement.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
by the Associoted Press

PARIS, Feb. 17.-Nation- wide
railroad and coal strikes ordered
by Communist unions in protest
against unloading of American
arms in France were said by a
government official today to have
been nearly a total failure"
Officials at headquarters of the
nationalized rail system, which
employees about 100000 workers,
said the two-hour Communicated
demonstration strike had fizzled.
A 24-hour strike call in the
northern coal fields also appeared
to be ignored by miners usually
responsive to Communist demon
stration orders.
Interior Ministry sources re-
ported that the attempted rail
strike against unloading of arms
under the Atlantic pact was less
than per cent effective.
At scattered spots strikers tried
to halt trains by massing on the
tracks, or forming picket lines,
but police dispersed them with no
trouble.
Government sources said that
in the northern coal fields-the
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Odo Co-Pot Subdues Battling Woman Plane Over CAPITAL

A desperate fight to control a
blond woman passenger who be-
came obstreperous in midair was
described today by the co-pilot
Of chartered New York -to-Palm
Beach plane.
T. c. Sallee, 80, who accom-
panied Capt. Bill Odom on one of
his round -the-world trips, said the
lone passenger awoke from nap
about 10 minutes south of Wash
ington and, without warning, be-
gan kicking the back to his chair.
'The pilot, K. H. Dubanowich,
was at the controls, but I was
afraid she would attack him, -
Mr.. Sallee said. "The plane
started acting up, and I admit it
was an anxious moment.
"She reached around my neck
and pulled me back. That's quite
Evening star., 1950-02-17

strain on mans back. Then
she started kissing me.
Il saw a chance to grab her
hands when she started kicking al
the windows. but I couldn't hold
on. Finally I managed to get into
the rear seat and hold her down
but she kept kicking and strug-
Cling.
"She asked me if loved her,
and hoping to quiet her, I would
say, 'Madly.'".
That seemed to quiet her for
while, but then she would start
in again"
The co-pilot said he feared her
motions would throw the plane
out of control as they neared the
ground. Pointing the ship back
toward Washington, the pilot sig
nailed the National Airport tower
Evening star., 1950-02-17

flight (to Palm Beach,, but the
well-dressed passenger said it was
urgent for her to get in touch
with a man there at once to learn
the whereabouts of a friend who
was dying, Mr.. Sallee said.
The airmen agreed to make the
fight for $400. She paid $50 and
said the rest would be paid when
she saw her family in Florida.
Before the take-off, she showed
the pilots an Eastern Airlines
ticket she had bought for flight
at 8 am. today.
The passenger fell asleep soon
after the take-off, and all was
serene until the surprising climax.
Mr.. Sallee said he served as CO.
pilot on Capt. Odoms around
the-world flight in April, 1947,
and went with him in 1948 in
quest of the highest mountain in
China.
Evening star., 1950-02-17

to have an ambulance waiting for
the passenger.
Airport police arranged for the
ambulance and took the woman
to Alexandria Hospital. Her name
was taken from a drivers license
there and listed as Miss Willie
Jane Frost. 38, of Coral Gables,
Fla, and Los Angeles. Calf.
The hospital placed Miss Frost
under the care of a private physi-
clan. They said her mother
would arrive here by plane this
afternoon from Selma, Ala. Miss
Frost's drivers license listed her
as a sculptress.
Mr.. Sallee, who is employed by
the Odom Aircraft Corp. at Has
brook Heights, N. j., said he and
the pilot were called to La
Guardia Field at 2 am. today for
the charter flight.
He was skeptical Of such a long
Evening star., 1950-02-17
By Miriam Gutenberg ond
J. Theodore Crown

Congressional crime investiga-
tors are to make another effort
today to pry the names of some
big shot gamblers out of the bail
bondsmen who post bonds for
numbers writer's.
The House District Subcommit-
tee investigating Washingto n
crime is operating on this theory:
That the gambling bosses or
their lieutenants call the bonds
men to bail out their arrested
minions and pay the premiums on
the bonds. the legal fees and the
court fines.
The subcommittee figures the
bondsmen know who the bosses
are and for that reason are willing
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Probers Will Try Again to Induce
Bondsmen to Name Gamblers
One Witness Spends Hour Studying
Portraits in 'Roque's Gallery

to give cut-rate prices on bond
premiums and extend credit to
the prisoners they bail out of cell
blocks.
| Pressing to get some names, the
subcommittee late yesterday in
structed one of the bondsmen
Meyer Weinstein, to 60 through
the "rogue's gallery of gamblers
portraits at police headquarters in
hopes he would identify some OF
those who paid bond premiums
for other people. Mr.. Weinsteir
spent nearly an hour at head.
quarters last night but refused *
tell reporters later whether he hae
made any identifications.
Special Counsel Hyman I
Fischbach also limited at another
memory y-prompter for Mr.. Vein
| (See CRIME PRORE pace Al !
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Judith Cop|on Fires
Palmer; Court Names
Three 10 Defend Her
Defendant in Spy Case
Refuses to Give Reason
For Change in Counsel
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Judith
Coplin changed her lawyer today
in the middle of her spy conspiracy
trial.
| Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan
appointed three attorneys to de-
fend her.
| Named to succeed Archibald
Palmer as the former Justice De-
partment employees defense coun-
sci were Sidney E. Berman, Sam
uel Neuberger and Leonard Boudin.
Miss Coplon has been on trial
with Valentin A. Gubitchev, Soviet
engineer, since January "a. They
are charged with conspiring to
make United States defense Sc
crets available to the Russians.
Gubitchev Not Involved.
Gubitchev was not involved in
the split between Miss Coplon and
her attorney. He will continue to
be represented by Abraham j.
Pomerantz.
There was no immediate ex-
planation of why Miss Coplon re-
placed the lawyer who has de-
Tended without fee, he says,
as an old friend of the family
since shortly after her arrest last
March IA, including her trial in
Washington.
In that case Miss Coplon was
convicted of stealing Government
secrets and was sentenced to
from 40 months to 10 years in
jail. The verdict is being ap-
pealed.
I'm saying nothing" Miss
Coplon told reporters.
The petite defendant has ex-
changed sharp words with the
stubby, excitable Mr.. Palmer,
both in and outside the court
room.
Palmer Is Philosophic.
Mr.. Palmer appeared to take
the development philosophically
Before today's conference be-
tween the judge and all the prin-
cipals in the case, Mr.. Palmer
said: "A woman has the right to
change her mind. Judith Coplon,
being a very sweet, lovable, per-
sonable woman should have the
same right as any other member
of her SEX"
At the same time he stoutly
maintained a belief in the young
woman's innocence.
The assignment of the three
new defense lawyers was an
nounced by the Federal Court
clerk after the conference. The
new attorneys were directed to
appear at hearing in open court
late this afternoon.
Mr.. Palmer said earlier that
any lawyer who might succeed
him will be impelled by her in
nocence to defend her to prove
that innocence
Asked about gueSses that 28-
year-old Miss Coplon might con-
slider changing her plea Of inno-
cence, Mr.. Palmer replied:
That's outrageous - absolutely
insane. The girl is innocent. Un-
doubtedly she'll fight the case to
the bitter end"
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Rogers Quits as Aide
To Senate Probers;
Flanagan Moves Up
'5-Percenter' SporkpIug
To Join Low Firm;
Hatcher Promoted Also

Chairman Hoey of the Senate
Investigations Subcommittee to-
day announced the resignation of
his hard-hitting chief counsel
William P. Rogers, who spanked
last summers sensational five
percenters" hearings.
Senator Hoey said Mr.. Rogers
will be succeed by Francis D.
Flanagan. now chief assistant
counsel. Howell J. Hatcher, an
assistant counsel, will be moved
up to chief assistant.
Mr.. Rogers resignation will be
effective March /, when he joins
the New York law firm of Dwight,
Royal, Harris, Koegel & Caskey
Senator Hoey said Mr.. Rogers will
be in charge of the firms Wash
ington office at 1000 Vermont
avenue. The Royal in the firm
name is former Secretary of the
Army Kenneth Royal.
Mr.. Rogers, a 36-year-old Navy
veteran, was chief counsel of the
Senate War Investigating Com
mittee and has headed the staff
of the Senate Investigations Sub
committee since it succeeded the
War Investigating Committee.
Worked on Many Probes.
Together, Mr.. Rogers and Mr..
Flanagan handled the major Sen
ate Investigations of the past few
years. These included the investi-
cation of former Maj. Gen. Ben
nett Meyers, Howard Hughes and
Air Force procurement, the in
.quiry into the reduction of Ilse
Do~a \
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Automobile Section
In The Sunday Star

In connection with the first
Auto Show in Washington
since 1910, The Star will pub
lish this Sunday "a 20-page
special Automobile Section.
The section will include
news and pictures about the
show, a diagram of the show
floor plan at the National
Guard Armory and special
features and articles about the
1850 models, auto accessories,
motor travel and other related
subjects.
Don't miss the special Auto
mobile Section in The Sunday
Star. Phone Sterling 5000 for
home delivery.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
SHEPHERD PARK BANK ROBBED OF $40 600
French Reds Protest Strike
'On u. S. Arms Is Neur-FoiIure
Nationwide Rail and Coal WoIkouts Called
But Few Workers Are Reported Responding

Pittsburgh area of Framework
was normal among surface en-
ployes, and 65 per cent Of the pit
workers were on the job.
On Frances railways there was
some stoppage of trains, especial
ly on suburban lines into Paris.
But the strike order from the
Communicated General Confed-
Grafton of Labor (CGT was
obeyed by only a part of the ma
tion's rail employees. There was
no wholesale tieup of the nations
rail network.
Trains ran normally in and out
of four of the major Paris sta
tions. Traffic was halted between
8 am. and 10 am. at three other
stations.
Reports from throughout the
nation indicated the strike was
even less successful outside the
capital.
In Marseille, known as hot
bed of Communism, railway Off
cials said all trains left on sched-
ule and that traffic in the whole
area was normal.
Non Communist unions had
fSae EpENCu popo Aal
Evening star., 1950-02-17


Democrats, "to place the peace OF
the world in jeopardy to satisfy
the advocates of false economy"
This was the Presidents answer
to the Republican criticism of the
Administrations deficit spending
program.
Mr.. Truman raped the Repub-
licans over the knuckles. too. be-
cause of their recent statement
that the major issue in the com
ing campaign is liberty versu;
socialism,
He insisted that the COP i.
like cuttleflsh that squirts out 9
cloud of black ink when its slumbel
is disturbed, reacting to Demo.
cratic proposals with an outburst
of scare words. They tried ir
turn, he said, welfare state,
"statism" and now have come
round to socialism.
Uses Ridicule, Sarcasm.
"It is perfectly safe to be
against socialism," continued the
President. THE difficult thing is
to make the country believe that
the Democratic Party stands for
socialism. How in the world can
the Republicans persuade people
that all you Democrats at all
these dinners are Socialists"
Ridicule and sarcasm were the
Presidents weapons of attack last
night. and he showed himself a
far more impressive speaker than
he was when he entered the
White House almost five years
ago. Many times he was inter-
rupted by applause and laughter
The Truman program is not So
cialism, Mr.. Truman declared.
Nor was it dictated, as the Repub-
licans charge, "by a small but
powerful group of persons who
believe in socialism"
If our program was dictated.
as the Republicans say" the Pres
ident added. "it was dictated at
the polls in November, 1e48. 1t
was dictated by a small but
powerful group of "a million
voters -
Asserting that the program of
the Democrat Party is aimed, not
only to promote the prosperity
and the welfare of the American
people, but also to increase their
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Mcmahon Committee
Begins Secret Study
OF Atomic Defenses
Public Hearings to Open
March ! After Series
Of Closed Meetings
By Cecil Holland

The Joint Congressional Atomic
Energy Committee began an in
quiry today into civilian defense
against atomic attacks.
A closed meeting with repre-.
sentatives of the defense estab.
lishment and the National Security
Resources Board was held annie
renewed demands for more af-
f1rmative American action to enc
the cold war with Russia.
Chairman Mcmahon said the
committee would explore the full
scope of and responsibility fol-
defense plans in event of ar
atomic war. The series of closed
meetings will be followed by public
hearings starting about March /.
Grim Forecasts Made.
A somber background for the
meetings was afforded by num-
Der of grim forecasts of the de-
struction that could be expected
from atomic and hydrogen bombs
These included:
l Senator Tydings, Democrat,
OF Maryland, a member of the
Joint committee, renewed his plea
for world disarmament confer
ence and tolG the Senate yester-
day that single hydrogen bomb
would "allegedly kill as many as
10 million people,"
2. Representative Van zandt,
Republican. of Pennsylvania, an
(See ATOMIC paoe A0l