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Evening star., 1950-05-08
National Hospital Day.
To Be Marked FRIDAY
With Tours and Talks

Washington hospitals will open
their doors to the public next
Friday for tours and ceremonies
in observance of National Hos
pital Day.
The observances also mark the
birth date of Florence Night
ingale.
Visitors will be shown through
various departments Of the city's
hospitals, and some institutions
have scheduled talks, exhibits and
motion pictures.
Meanwhile, the American Med
icsl Associations Council on Med
ical Education and Hospitals
announced a peacetime record IN
numbers of registered hospitals
in the United States last year and
in hospital service reported.
During 1949, the council re-
ported in the ANA Journal, pa
tients were admitted to hospitals
at the rate of one every 1.9 sec
onds. A live baby was born in a
hospital every 11.2 seconds.
Hospitals on Increase.
The number of hospitals reg
istered has increased from 6,29l
in 1910 to 6,572 last year, During
the same period, the annual num-
ber of patients admitted for treat
ment jumped from 10,087 ,548 to
16 $50 973. and bed capacities in
creased from 1,226, ,245 to ,439, ,030.
General hospitals continued to
furnish the greatest amount OF
hospital service, with 15,450.31l
separate admissions last year, the
ANA said.
While there were only 308,055
admissions to mental hospitals.
approximately one of every two
beds in the registered hospitals OF
all types were occupied by mental
hospitals. All together, the council
said, 705,4 ,423 beds were devoted to
care of mental patients.
In line with the steady down
swing in the length of time
patients stay in hospitals, the
council said, patients stayed an
average of 10.1 days in general
hospitals last year. compared
with 1O.5 days the previous year.
Plans Are Announced.
Announcing plans for next Fri
days observance here, the Hos
pital Council of the National Cap
ital Area furnished this. list of ac-
tivities at 16 institutions:
Alexandria Hospital - Open
house, 2 to 4 pm.
Arlington-Hospital tours, mo-
ton pictures, 10 am. to 4 pm.
Casualty-Open house, 2 to
( pm.
Children's-Third annual coffee
and doughnut party for invited
guests, $3.50 to $50 am; open
house for the public, 2 to 4 pm.
Columbia-Tours, refreshments,
IL am. to 1890 pm. and 3 to
4:30 pm.
Gallinger-District Commission
ers to speak at ceremony prior to
tours and exhibits, 2 to pm.
Emergency-Hospital tour, l to
8 pm, followed by trip to Amer
lean University and tea at home
Of University President Paul
Douglass.
Garfield Tours Scheduled.
Garf1eld-TourS, 3 to 5 pm.
Georgetown-TourS, 2 to 4 pm;
open-air program honoring long
service employees, 3 pm.
Episcopal-Open house, 2 to
4 pm.
Providence-Tours, motion pic
lures, refreshments, 3 to 5 pm.
Freedmen's-TourS Of the hos
pital, featured by visit to the new
cardiovascular diseases laboratory,
1880 to 4 pm.
st. Elizabeth's-Tours, $3.50 a m.
and 2 pm. ...
George Washington - Tours,
2:30 and 4 pm.
Sibley - Tours, refreshments,
3 to 4 pm.
Suburban-Tours; to 4 pm.
Mt. Alto Veterans Hospital
Tours, 2 to S pm.
Evening star., 1950-05-08

Milton S. Kronheim. ST., preSi-
dent Of a wholesale liquor firm
here, has been appointed chair
man of the beverage committee
for participation in sale Of United
States Savings Bonds during the
independence" drive opening May
Is and closing July 4.
The Districts quota in the drive
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Alumni to Honor Sterling

The Stanford Club Of WASH
ington win honor DR.. ]. z. Wal
lace Sterling. president Of Stan
ford University, at q reception
and dinner at $50 Thursday at
the National Press Club.
Evening star., 1950-05-08
Polish Club to Meet

The monthly meeting Of the
Polish Club Of Washington. Group
848. Polish National Alliance, will
be held at 8:15 pm. Wednesday
at Salisbury Temple, $3.50 Geor-
gia avenue NV.
Evening star., 1950-05-08

We in turn, make it sole purpose to bring you the
most dependable air transportation possble-gladly and
with smile ALI 5000 of us have been selected for our
jobs with this one thought in mind.
We have been expertly trained. Over the years we
have built backlog of sound experience that extends
over billions of passenger miles.
We're all human. Not one of us is perfect-nor do we
Evening star., 1950-05-08

profess to be perfect. But trying to improve
ourselves day by day to bring greater satisfaction you
Our customers.
We pledge ourselves to give you the best in reasonably
priced, safe dependable air transportation to assure
you, There's substitute for Easterns Experience"
We hope that we may continue to serve you, your
family, and your friends for many years to come
Evening star., 1950-05-08

You Mr. and Mrs Customer, your family, and we of
the Eastern Air Lines family strongly related in
common bond
You look for the finest in air transportation We
look to you for our bread and butter.
You pay our salaries You buy arplanes-and they
the best Without you, there would be no Eastern
Air Lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-14

widened; he whirled. At point
blank range, Billings shot him
through the head.
Maddox relaxed in the pilots
seat. His hands were shaking;
his face was shiny with sweat.
Holy smoke, Junior" he said,
Il thought you'd never GOMEZ"
Josh Billings said nothing. He
stepped over the body of the
man he had killed and took his
girl in his arms.
Thank You, God, he kept say
ing inside himself. Thank You
thank You!
BACK in the fuselage, Fritz
Pfeiffer held his wife close to him
and watched the two CTS truss
the unconscious Russian with
the static line from a parachute.
Across the aisle, Rex Jeffreys
was trying to soothe the white
haired colonel, who seemed on
the verge of a heart-attack. 1T
was just a souvenir" he kept
saying. Il was taking it home to
my nephews, that's all. Look"
he pulled the open musette bag
from under the blanket. Look
at all this stuff. Souvenirs, that's
all"
"You mean" the colonel said
feebly, there was no explosive
in that thing?"
"Of course not. | had Ord
nance take the charge out"
Jeffreys' knees felt weak. He sat
down abruptly on the hard
metal seats. A crazy thought
struck him, and he began to
laugh. AT least, they SAID they
took it QUIT" He laughed and
laughed, unable to stop.
In THE pilots compartment,
Maddox eased the CAT back
onto course. He looked once at
the dead man behind him, once
at his co-pilot, sitting with a
red-headed WAC in his lap.
Maddox wiped his forehead
with his sleeve.
boy, III be glad when this
run is over" he said. The End
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-14
FLIGHT FROM BERLIN
Continued from preceding page

will drop the lighter - One ="
Elena" her husband said in
strangled voice. Wait. These
others -"
Two"
Across the aisle, the Russian
seemed to coil himself like
spring. The pistol was rock
steady in his hand. Rex Jeffreys
flung back the blanket that had
covered his knees. Just a mo-
ment," he said. "I1l settle this"
He held out his hands. palms up.
For half a second, every eye in
the plane was riveted on the
hand grenade he displayed. They
saw Jeffreys' lean finger pull the
pin that held the arming lever;
they saw the lever spring into
firing position. Now" said JEFF
freys calmly, I'VE have about
five seconds to wait" He waited
for one. Nobody moved. Here"
he said to the Russian. You
hold it,"
He Tipped the hand grenade
across the aisle.
1T LANDED on the seat beside
the Russian and rolled onto the
floor between his feet. The man
gave an inarticulate cry and
dived for it, dropping his gun.
He came up with the grenade,
his face a mask of terror. He
took one step to the rear and
flung it through the open door.
As he did so, the unwounded CT
and Josh Billings hit him stimuli
taneously. Rex Jeffreys bounced
on the gun and covered the
writhing bodies. But the gun
was not necessary. The CT closed
his fingers around the Russians
throat and slammed his head
against the edge of the metal
seats, The man went limp.
Billings jumped to his feet and
took the automatic from JEFF
freys. He walked forward quick
ly and pushed open the door.
He made two long strides and
halted.
The Russian standing behind
Maddox looked around. His eyes
Evening star., 1950-10-04
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Evening star., 1950-10-04


REMEMBER "WE"-Lindbereh and The Spirit Of St. Louis"
in history mokine solo flight wnsins their way across the
Atlantic while the notion onxousy woited by the radio
Tonight you the toke-off from New York the
landing in Paris See the muttude poy their last respects
Rudolph Valentino greatest lover Of all time See
Jack Dempsey in his prime . Lody Astor, Helen Wills
Gertrude Edee and other celebrities and celebrated events
tonight and every Wednesday night the new FFv Cookies
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WMAL-TV, 6:45
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
Michigan Teachers
Refute Blast At
Labor Education

Detroit (LPA)-The snide attack
in a recent Saturday Evening Post
editorial on supporters of the Labor
Extension bill was promptly answ-
cred by the Michigan Federation
of Teachers. Michael Magee, chair
man of the workers group, declar-
ed the editorial misrepresented the
facts.
Magee called absurd the editor
ials contention that education for
workers stresses the class struggle
and emphasizes the need for bigger
and better strikes. The editorial
quoted the program under Univer-
sity of Michigan auspices as proof
of its charges. Magee said "state-
ments from both labor and man.
agement attest to the excellence of
the classes, forums and institutes
carried out in all parts of the state.
No one in the state, including en-
ployers' representatives, had any
thing but praise for the program
in a period of close to five years"
Magee pointed out that it was
the attack on the program by Gen
eral Motors that resulted in pres
sure to abolish the work. The
Michigan experience, Magee con-
should have led the Post to
conclude, not that workers educa-
tion is not needed, but rather that
bona fide workers education should
be carried on by state universities
that are free from coercion by the
General Motors Corporation"
Magee added that more than 40
of the instructors formerly employ
ed on the Michigan U. workers
education program are now provid-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
NAM Is Opposed To Most
DOf Socidl Security Bill

who now supports improvements In
the federal old age insurance pro-
gram, Mosher insisted that federal
benefits should be enough to pro-
vide only the "bare necessities" OF
food, clothing and shelter. Private
pension programs should make up
the balance, Mosher insisted.
He deplored the recent Ford,
steel and coal industry pension
agreements, and the prior Sup
RENE Court decision which ruled
employers must bargain in good
faith on pensions. To-day" Mos
her said sadly, "a company pension
program, instead of being an evid-
ence of the company's unusual in
terest in it's employees welfare, has
become the chief cause of violent
dispute between organized labor
and management"
The "good" group of pension
plans, Mosher claimed, "provide for
limited vesting of benefits in em-
ployes who have been covered by
the pension plan for relatively few
years." However, in answer to
questions from committee staff
members, he conceded that now the
vast bulk of the workers covered
are in non-vested plans, in which
the worker loses all accumulated
credit when he moves from one
company to another.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
SIPS Pension Won
For $4,000 By
Utility Workers

New York (LPA)-The Utility
Workers Union has won company
4 paid minimum pensions Of Sl25
at 65 after 80 years service for
3C,C00 employees Of the Consolidat-
ed Edison Co. The union estimates
that under the arrangement 95 per
cent of the employees will retire on
pensions Of at least $3.50 a month.
Pensions include social security
benefits.
Pensions will be equal to GO per
cent of a workers pay, based on an
accumulation Of two per cent of
average salary for each year of
service. The present average ser
vice record is 18 years, and the
wage average is S66. Retirement
on full pension is possible at, 55
after 35 years service. Retirement
is compulsory at 65, and those at
65 with rs years service will get
500, with smaller minimums for
those retiring with less service.
The 1000 employees who have al
ready retired under the company's
58-year-old plan will be eligible for
the increased benefits.
Patrick McGrath, the unions
regional director, pointed out that
the agreement came shortly after
the Public Service Commission rul-
ed that pensions were wages to be
financed out of current operating
expenses. He said the ruling "end-
ed the fiction that a pension is a
gift, or an income deduction or a
charge to surplus"
The agreement, effective April l.,
includes a new wage progression
program, and improved holiday
benefits. The contract provides for
a wage reopening March l, 1851,
with arbitration if the issues are
not resolved in 60 days. The no.
strike and union shop provisions
in the old contract are carried over.
A company statement hailed the
agreement as "sound and construc-
tive"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
Labor Press Exposes Inside
Lobby For German Curtels

elected to the Senate, that it was
now inactive, but had enough funds
left to pay for the office. Malone,
and his Administrative Assistant
Crane-have been using it for a
research office.
Many of Cranes lobbying letters
to Senators, arguing against the
dismantling program, carried this
address in the National Press
Building without disclosing that
Senator Malone had any connection
with it. When lobbying with lib
eral Senators neither of the Cranes
disclosed their connections with
the ultra ra-conservative Malone and
Mrs. st. George.
The big question mark left un-
by Robertson was wheth-
er the Cranes were paid for their
lobbying, and if so, by whoms He
said only the Lobby Investigating
Committee with its power of sub
poena, could answer this question
because both Cranes are now in
Germany. But Robertson said Mrs.
st. George had admitted paying
the travelling expenses of Mrs.
Crane on a trip to Germany last
summer, and paying her a salary
after her return for writing a re-
port of her trip.
If the Cranes were being paid to
lobby, Robertson said, they were
the lobby registration law
paid lobbyists to register.
If they were being paid by foreign
he said, they also were
the foreign agents regis
tration act.
Robertson, commenting on the
of this lobby, said:
"One of the most important
planks in American foreign policy
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
Wholesale Grocers
Hear McGrath Hit
A&P Advertisers

Cincinnati OPA) = Charges of
misrepresentation in its advertis-
ing in 1000 daily newspapers were
hurled at the Great Atlantic &
Pacific Tea Co. by Attorney Cen
eral J. Howard McGrath, in an ad-
dress at the US Wholesale Grocers'
Association convention here.
McGrath bitterly scored APPS
tactics in their fight against the
federal antitrust suit. He said he
filed suit "to end APPS power to
destroy competition" The APP
advertisements, he said "announc-
ed, in effect, that the Department
of Justice had placed an entirely
new and different Interpretation
upon the Sherman Act.
"The advertisements sighted the
fact that in 1912 the department
instituted the criminal proceedings
which | have mentioned, in which
APP was found guilty of violat
ing the Sherman antitrust act, and
which involved the same conduct
and legal theories that are now pre-
sented in the civil suit. The subject
matter and legal theories of the
pending civil suit against A&P
have been studied and approved
by two federal courts. The civil
suit simply asks the court to take
necessary steps to prevent the con-
tinuance of those activities already
found to violate the antitrust
laws"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
MinnesOta's Liberals
Plan Radio Station

Minneapolis (LPA)-Minnesota' S
liberal forces have formed the
United Broadcasting Association,
Inc, and plan construction of a
powerful broadcasting station to
provide freedom of information"
for more than 100000 residents
of the state. The group has the
backing of Senator Hubert Hump
hrey and the Democratic Farmer
Labor Party.
Sen. Humphrey and Paul Porter,
the Associations Washington rep
resentative and former chairman of
the Federal Communications Com
mission, are handling Washington
details; FEC has been informed OF
the Associations desired channels;
radio equipment is now in Chicago
awaiting delivery; Morris Novik,
labor radio expert in New York is
cooperating; and an Incorporating
committee has been chosen in
Minnesota.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
A&P Aide Shifts
Story On How They
Set Coffee Prices

Washington (LPA)-Strong sus-
picion that the APP and its coffee
corporation subsidiary manipulat-
ed it's coffee stocks last fall featur-
ed the discussion before a Senate
Agriculture subcommittee hearing
Francis M. Kurtz, president of
APPS coffee division and of the
American Coffee Corporation.
Two facts tending to substantiate
the antitrust case brought by the
US against APP became clear.
Under the skillful coaching of one
of the highest-priced publicity
firms in the US, Kurtz boasted that
A&P consistently sold its coffee
for about 20 cents below the retail
price of rival coffees. He also re-
vealed that its profit stayed at an
even LOS cents a pound over the
past two years. APPS control over
prices and its enormous power as a
purchaser of green coffee Gt sells
Is per cent of all retail coffee in
the US, and that amount is increas-
ing as the price differential drives
Independent roasters nto the
ground) are underlined by the
chains ability, in the highly COM
petitive food business, to maintain
what Kurtz likes to call "an order
ly market"
Sen. George Aiken Or, Vt.) fol-
lowed Kurtz through a maze of
figures and came up with the con-
clusion that to arrive right on the
nose with a 1.05 profit per pound
at the end of its last fiscal year it
must have sold below cost for sew
eral months in late 1949 and early
1850. Kurtz confirmed this, though
he insisted that it was only for a
short period. This selling below
cost is one of the monopoly prac-
tices that the Justice Dept has
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
TIME OFF TO VOTE
UPHELD IN CALF.

San Francisco (LPA)-The Cal
ifornia law granting wage earners
two hours with pay to vote on cleo
ton day was upheld by Judge Clar-
ence w. Morris of the San Fran
cisco Municipal Court in a case
brought by Machinist Anthony
Ballerini.
Ballerini went to court in behalf
of employees of the Schlage Lock
Co., Pacific Electric Co. and Quart
Manufacturing Co. which had re-
fused to pay workers for the time
they took to vote. Attorneys for
the companies argued that the time
off with pay statute was unconst-
tutional.
California is one of the IA
states with election laws establish
ing a workers right to time off
with pay to vote. Others are Arl-
zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, New Mexico, New York,
Texas, West Virginia and Wyom-
ing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23

Washington (LPA)-The Natl
Association of Manufacturers, the
Senate Finance committee was told
March II, is opposed to eight out
of nine of the parts of the House
approved social security bill now
before the committee which NAM
singled out for comment. 1t also
wants Congress to pass law say
ing pension programs aren't a SUBJ
ject on which management must
bargain with unions, and NAN
spokesman Ira Mosher hedged
carefully on approving any speci-
fic boosts in present disgracefully
low old age benefit levels.
On only one point was Mosher
put on record for an Improvement
in the social security law-the
NAM now supports complete COW
erage of all wage earners. How
ever, NAM joined other industry
spokesman in opposing writing in
to law of definition of "employe"
which would bring statesmen under
the protection of social security.
Industry opposition is based on
their fear that they'll have to pay
unemployment compensation taxes
on these workers if they're consid-
cred covered for old age and sur
vivors' insurance.
Despite the views of more for
ward-looking employers like Char
les E. Wilson of General Motors,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23

ing reviewed at national head
quarters for approval.
The following are the recently
elected officers: Eaton M. (Kilroy)
Dassell, president; Delmar w.
Murphy, financial secretary; Ross
Compton, vice president; d. C.
(Chick) Elderbrock, recording sec
retary; John Allen, Inspector;
Eddie Goebel, guard; Floyd Kolh-
Ter, trustee and steward; Floren-
Vine Myer, trustee.
, The date for our annual picnic
has been set for the second Sat-
urday in July. The special picnic
fund for refreshments has now
passed the $45 mark. Keep up the
good work.
The following new members have
been added to our roll since the
first of>the year: Edwin w. Gard
ner, Robert l.. Robbins, William
Bruce, Omar l.. Wallace, M. O..
Woolems, John S. Warner, James
w Downey, Leo Beckert, Jr., En-
manuel Bauer, Carl Werkmeister,
Jack Bolleber, Owen j. Senemier,
James B. Montgomery. -O.C. 72
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
Radio Operators
Join Struggle To
Keep Hiring Hall

Washington (LPA)-If Congress
doesn't amend the Taft Hartley act
to permit seamen's unions to oper-
ate their own hiring halls, seamen
will be forced back to the old pre-
union kind of hiring halls, Andrew
Mcdonald of the Radio Officers
Union-AFL told the Senate SUBJ
committee on Labor Management
\Relations March Ia.
He pointed out that the pre-
union hiring halls were operated
in saloons, in houses of prostitu-
ton, in the boarding houses of the
old-time shipping masters, in gov
ernment offices, in the offices OF
doctors with a stethoscope in one
hand and blacklist of union men
in the other" Unemployment may
wipe out both the unions and their
hiring halls, he declared, but add
ed that there always would be some
kind of waterfront hiring hall as
long as there were ships and sea-
men.
Also testifying in favor of union
hiring halls were H. l.. Daggett of
the Marine Engineers Beneficial
Association, and Captain w. j.
Van Buren, of the Masters, Mates
& Pilots. Both admitted that since
members of their unions were sup
ervisOrs, they were not affected by
the Taft-Hartley act. However,
Daggett told the Senators he
thought they could benefit from
the MEBA's experience, and Van
Buren, said the MMP wished to
declare Internationally our solid
arity with the other maritime
unions who do come under the jur-
isdiction of the act"