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Evening star., 1950-02-06
Citizens Urge Truman
To Bolster u. N. 10
End Armament Race
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. ga group
of $50 prominent citizens have
asked President Truman to help
make the United Nations strong
enough to end the world arma-
ment race.
James P. Warburg, author and
economist, yesterday revealed a
letter to the President asking that
the administration give such an
aim official support"
The letter also asked him to
increase the administrations
present program of economic and
technical aid to nations needing
Industrial development.
Sherwood Aids in Letter.
Aiding Mr.. Warburg in draft
ing the letter were Robert E.,
Sherwood, author and playwright:
New York City Councilman STAN
ley M. Isaacs; Norman Cousins.
editor of The Saturday Review of
Literature; Harry w. Schaster
Louisville department store execu-
tive; Henry B. Cabot of Boston,
and Hugh Satterlee, New York
lawyer.
The letter noted that % Sena-
tors and l04 Representatives had
approved a resolution giving the
U. N. sufficient authority to halt
an international arms race.
The letter said in part:
We feel, Mr.. President, that
you are moving from a policy, the
primary aim OF which was to stop
Russia. toward a policy, the prim-
airy aim of which is affirmative
leadership toward peace.
Speed Urged by Group.
I'VE not only applaud this shift
in emphasis, we urge you to &C
celerate the change. We urge you
to narrow the discrepancy be-
tween our aims and the as vet
inadequate means suggested for
their realization.
Signers of the letter included
more than $50 educators, clergy
men, editors, writer's, lawyers.
bankers and business men. It was
mailed to the White House
January 81.
Evening star., 1950-02-06
Negroes Ask School Board
To Act on Central High

The Board of Education should
not allow itself to be "jockeyed
into inaction" by opponents of the
transfer of Central High School
to colored students, the Consoli-
dated Parent Group declared yes
terday.
Mrs. Wesley S. Williams, mem
ber of the colored group which
has been fighting for the transfer,
Joined other members yesterday in
discussing the need for relief for
Cardozo High School. They spoke
on the Americans All" program
over Radio Station WOOK, spon-
'sored by the Institute on Race
Relations.
The school board is planning
to hear speakers from citizens
groups at 10 am. Friday on the
proposal to shift the Cardozo stu
dents into the Central building.
The Buildings and Ground Com
mittee of the board already has
given approval of the shift. Last
Wednesday decision was delayed
until February Is.
Evening star., 1950-02-06
Soviets Have H-Bomb ,
Declares Editor Who
Predicted '49A-Bomb
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The British
editor who correctly predicted the
Soviet Union would set off an
atomic blast in 1949 today said
the Soviets already have made
and exploded a hydrogen super
bomb.
He is Kenneth De Courcy, 40,
editor of the monthly Intelli-
gence Digest, who claims to have
information on both sides of the
Iron Curtain.
(The report lacks any author
itative connection or confrma-
ton, so far as Associated Press
inquiries show. British govern
ment officials regard it with
cautious skepticism," notwith-
standing confirmation of pre-
vious De Courcy prediction,
Qn Washington, a spokesman
for the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion said he had no comment.
(And scientists also expressed
their belief that the United
States could have detected any
significant H-bomb explosion in
RuSSia.)
There is now evidence of Rus
sia having already made an
H-bomb." Mr.. De Courcy asserted
in a statement to the press
Three Produced.
"She has, in fact, made three
and exploded one of them" the
statement declared.
Mr.. De Courcy did not say when
or where the hydrogen bomb was
tested.
Mr.. De Courcy in January, 1949,
predicted Russia would attempt
an atomic explosion in 1949. Pres
ident Truman in September re-
vealed there had been an atomic
blast in Russia.
Last January S Mr.. De Courcy
predicted the Russians would at
tempt a second explosion, either
on January 7 or January 10, in
Evening star., 1950-02-06

exchange for inspection conces-
sions on theirs"
Objective Must Be Control.
The council proposed that the
commission include scientists, po-
litical scientists, foreign trade
experts, persons versed in United
Nations problems, and some one
with military knowledge.
1t emphasized, however, that
the military representative should
not be spokesman for the
armed forces"
Our objective must continue
to be effective atomic control, in
Guiding thorough-going inspec-
tion." the statement said.
But we must consider alterna-
tive proposals; perhaps proposals
without the far-reaching interna-
tional ownership concept, perhaps
proposals making greater conces-
sions to national interests
Would Close Atomic Plants.
The scientists said the first
thing after any international
agreement should be counting of
all stock-piles by United Nations
inspectors and putting a U. N.
guard on them.
Then, they said, atomic plants
should be shut down.
With the guard system, they
added. If a country suddenly
broke the agreement and made
war. other countries would still
have their own atomic weapons
within their borders.
Atomic plants could be shut
down without inspection, the
statement suggested, so that tech
nological secrets of operation
would not be made available to
other nations,
Evening star., 1950-02-06

Trans Irrigation Administration
will spend $1,230,769 on two new
dams in Seistan.
Evening star., 1950-02-06
SuWbIude
Continued From First Page)

70 the midnight shift of guards.
He came upon Sheppard and
Havens at the window, saving
bars. When he called for police
help they had cut through two
bars and were ready to pry others
away with pieces of iron removed
from cell cots.
To reach the window, the men
had to cut their way out of a
ground cell, one of about II COM
partments in two-story cage
The cell exit was cut close to
the floor so the men could crawl
out into a corridor which sur
rounds the cage.
Sheriff Taylor said the men
occupied a cell with Max Cecil,
80, of the 800 block of Seven
teenth street Sc, one of four
men who sawed out of the same
Jail in December. All of these
were recaptured the day of their
break.
The sheriff said Cecil is chunk
Ter" than Sheppard and Havens
and could not have squeezed
through the small cell opening.
Sheppard was arrested January
7 on charges of breaking and en-.
tering, and larceny. Sheriff Tay-
lor said he tried to break away
at that time, running for court
yard fence while being led to
prison. He is awaiting action of
the Fairfax grand jury.
Havens an Arlington Prisoner.
Havens is under siX-year SEN
tence in the Virginia penitentiary
for housebreaking and larceny in
Arlington. He is among prisoners
Fairfax has been keeping for Ar
. lington.
Havens formerly was a mill
tary policeman at Arlington Hall
He was first arrested last May
and pleaded guilty to five charges
of breaking and entering, but
Circuit Judge Walter T. Nc
Carthy suspended f1ve-year
sentence on recommendation of
a probation officer. He was ar
rested again November and drew
the six-year term.
Cecil is under a 3-year sentence
for houSebreaking and an addi-
tional 1-year term, for the De-
cember jailbreak. His three COM
panions in that escape were
Charles Riddle, jr., 20, of the 1900
block of Newton street NV;
James Howard Sebastian, Is, of
the 1900 block of Fairmont street
NV, and Robert Mosley, 10, alb
sent without leave from the Army
Mrs. Sheppard was to be given
a hearing today before Fairfax
Trial Magistrate Harry L. Carrico.
Evening star., 1950-02-06

exchange for inspection conces-
Sions m theirs -
Evening star., 1950-02-06
Spy TriioI
Continued From First Page.)

secret report on the Communist
Party"
Efforts to force the Government
to produce the report at Miss
Coplon's trial in Washington were
unavailing.
A "decoy memorandum" classi-
fed strictly confidential" and ini-
tailed by FBI Director j. Edgar
Hoover, was placed in Miss Cop
Ions hands less than IL hours
before she kept her rendezvous
with Gubitchev last March, Mr..
Foley testified.
Handwritten extracts from the
decoy document also were found
in her purse when she was seized
as she walked in Greenwich Viii
lage with Gubitchev. the Govern
ment charges. Gubitchev is being
tried jointly with her on con-
Spiracy charges.
Mr.. Kelley introduced the decoy
report after Mr.. Foley took the
witness stand.
He was excused temporarily
while Special Agent Robert Lam
phere of the FBI headquarters
staff took the stand to describe
how he wrote the document under
instructions to see that it came to
the attention of Miss Coplon.
Under Mr.. Palmer's cross exam
ination, Mr.. Lamphere said he had
read reports submitted by agents
who tapped Miss Coplon's tele-
phones at her office and her Wash
ington apartment before he pre-
pared the decoy document.
Evening star., 1950-02-06
Boruch Says Atom Control
Should Apply to H-Bomb
BY the Associated Press

SPARTANBURG, S. E., Feb. 6
Bernard M. Baruch said yester-
day his atomic control plan should
apply to the hydrogen bomb as
we'll as the atom bomb.
Baruch made the statement in
an interview during a weekend
visit with former Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes here.
Evening star., 1950-02-06
Insurance Men TO Study
Effects OF Radioisotope Use
By The Associated Press

Insurance engineers from all
parts of the country start today
a five-day course in the health
problems raised by use and dis
tribution of radioisotopes, the
Atomic Energy Commission an
nounced.
About 100 engineers will take
part in the study at Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Upton, N. Y.
Experts from the Acc, its
plants and cooperating universe
ties will be the instructors on 'In-
surance Aspects Of Health Phys
ks."
Evening star., 1950-02-06
DR.. Bird to Talk at COLLEGE,

STAUNTON. Va, Feb. s R.-
The Rev. DR.. Andrew Reid Bird,
jr., pastor of the First. Pres
byterian Church, Huntington,
w. Va, will be the speaker for
religious emphasis week at Mary
Baldwin College. The observance
will be held today through Thurs
dou
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
OBITUARIES
ALBERT X. HAYES

Albert Robert Hayes, &c, dice
August Is at his home on Ander,
son Blvd. He had been i'll week
A former kiln drawer at the
Sterling China Co. in Wellsville
he was born in Washington County
o. and lived in this vicinity for AZ
years. He was member of Local
Union II, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters and attended the
Avondale st. Free Methodist
Church. ~
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Minnie Schenkel Hayes, at
home; a son, Paul V. Hayes of
East Liverpool; two daughters,
Mrs. Nellie Stansberry of East
Liverpool, and Mrs. Margaret Nc
Collough of New Kensington; two
brothers, Harry Hayes, of Brew
ster, and Ezra Hayes of Cincin-
natl; a sister, Miss Jane Hayes of
two half brothers, James
Hayes Of Ava, and John Hayes of
Hesslip, o., and six grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

The preceding comparison of hafyear Below
are figures for other corporations for which hayear figures
available this written The following
their earnings the three
-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Congressman Tries To Take
Sock At Committee Witness

Washington (LPA)-Rep. Hend-
erson Lanham Cd, Ga,) was in the
chair at a session of the House
Lobbying Committee August d.
William l.. Patterson of the Civil
Rights Congress, a Negro, declar-
ed "The state of Georgia lynches
Negroes" That, Lanham replied,
sis a lie. If there's any state in
the union where a niger gets a
fair trial, it's Georgia.
That's a lie too" Patterson
countered. Lanham turned purple
and ran around from back of the
long committee stand that separ-
ates the Congressman from the
witnesses, with his fists raised. He
hurled unprintable phrases at Pat
terson, and it took several Capitol
policemen to hold him back from
attacking Patterson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Seno+e Group Opens Hearings
On Probe of Telephone Industry

Washington (LPA) - Hearings
opened August 10 on labor-man'
agement relations in the telephone
industry. 1t was the first congress.
ional probe of the industry in al
most 20 years.
The hearings were scheduled BY
the Senate subcommittee on labor
management relations, of which
Sen. Hubert Humphrey Cd, Mimi
is a member, after he called fol
an investigation of the Bell Sys
tenn. A nationwide strike was mar
rowly averted several months ago
The Communications Workers
was given five days to present its
case, after which American Tele,
phone & Telegraph, which con.
trolls Bell, was to have five days.
collective bargaining is on g
local basis," CWA President JOSEPH
Beirne testified on the opening
day, "but AT&T completely con
trolls the operation of the Bell Sys-
tenn as a single integrated SYSTEM
The anti-labor policy Of AT&T, he
said, transmits itself to the local
companies.
"The Bell System" he declared
lis the largest private employer OF
labor in this country. At the end OF
1949 there were $4,000 employees
working for Bell; one out of every
60 non agricultural workers" For
this reason, as well as the fact
that it has accounts in one quarter
of the banks in the US, "the Bell
system affects widely the economy
of the country" Beirne pointed out,
There are 21 associated compan-
les in the Bell System, and the
long-lines department is operated
directly by AT&T. The parent
AT&T owns 1000 of the common
stock of the associated companies,
although representatives of the
Bell System operating companies
and even of the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co., have fire.
quently asserted before state regu-
latory bodies that the respective
operating companies of the system
are to large degree 'indepen-
dent'," Beirne said, "the fact re-
mains that in respect to practical
ly every detail of management OPP
Grafton and corporate policy the
control exercised by the parent or
ganization and its subsidiaries is
stringent and singularly effective.
"From all points of view, except
that of bare legal corporate organ
ization, the Bell telephone system
a single, unified under
taking with effective nationwide
control centered in officials of the
This control, the union is prepar-
ed to show, extends to collective
bargaining. Beirne told of instances
where company representatives
bargaining in st. Louis, ostensibly
on local matters, had to leave the
bargaining table to phone the New
York office of AT&T for instruc-
tions.
"There should be industry-wide
bargaining in the Bell System"
he said, cor AT&T should give up
control over local bargaining"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
New Union Move
Reveals Hypocrisy
At Weirton Steel

Weirton, w. Va. (LPA) - The
Weirton Steel Company defied the
law and the courts for 13 years in
blocking union organization. Final
ly it was cited for contempt OF
court. Only then did it disown its
company union.
That was July 81. Thomas f
Millsop, Weirton president, pious-
ly said, 1--WE have been trying fol
more than Is years to have labor
board election settle the question
once and for ALL"
Less than a week later, the In.
dependent Steelworkers' union had
been formed, backed by the towns
Community Defense Committee
comprising the towns "best peo-
pie" The committee has furnished
three separate offices for the Sin
dependent" union, and provided
legal counsel. William Huff, tenn
porary president, said "well keep
the three offices open day and
night if necessary"
More than 10000 production EN-
ployes at the plant here and at
Steubenville, Ohio are affected.
The Steelworkers, against whom
Weirton had conducted what the
union termed "a campaign of viol-
ence", is busy organizing too. The
court order disestablishing the
former company union provides
that Weirton cannot recognize any
union for three months.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Wallace Leaves
Progressive Party
In Split On Korea

New York (LPA) - Henry A.
Wallace has quit the Progressive
Party, formed in 1948 to back his
candidacy for President. He re-
signed because the party's nation
al committee and all its state COM
mittees stick to the Communist line
on Korea. Wallace on July Is broke
with the. party on the Korean issue.
He got no backing from the party
leaders, so he walked out.
II am convinced that | can more
effectively serve the cause of peace
by resigning", he wrote to c. B.
baldwin, party secretary, and long
Wallace aide.
In his July. 10 statement he said
~ hold no brief for the past actions
of either the United States or
Russia, but when my country is at
war, and the UN sanctions that
war, / am on the side of my coun-
try and the UN". He added that
the Soviet Union could have pre-
vented the attack by North Korea,
and could halt the attack any time
it wished. The Communists imme-
diately turned on him.
The American Labor Party in
New York, headed by Rep. Vito
Marcantonio, is the New York
branch of the Progressive Party.
Withdrawal Of the Wallace forces
will increase the prospects of the
Democrats, as it is from the Demo-
Gratis that the ALP draws most of
its non-Communist votes.
Among those in the party who
agree with Wallace are Corliss
Lamont, son of the late Morgan
partner Thomas w. Lamont, and
Prof. Thomas /. Emerson of the
Yale law school, and president of
the National Lawyers Guild. En-
erson quit the party August 8.
Lamont wrote to Baldwin from
Europe backing Wallace, but did
not quit the party.
Wallace was originally an Iowa
Republican, son of Henry G. Wall
ace, who was Secretary of Agri-
culture under Harding. Henry
Wallace became a Democrat when
the New Deal came to power. He
was named Secretary of Agricul-
ture, and in 1910 became Vice
President. In 1914 he was named
Secretary of Commerce. In 1916
he made a foreign policy speech
which was first approved by Pres
ident Truman and then disowned on
demand Of James A. Byrnes, then
Secretary of State. Wallace quit,
and in 1948 ran against Truman
on the Progressive ticket. The 500,-
900 votes he drew in New York
cost Truman that state. Although
many former leaders got out be-
cause the party's policies echoed
the Soviet line, Wallace remained
in. Last year the American Labor
Party tried to get him to run for
US Senator. He refused.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto yQul
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Labor Exhibit At California Fair

Sacramento, Calf. (LPA) - An
exhibit on organized labor will be
featured at the State Fair for the
first time in history. The labor dis
play, called the Samuel Gompers
Centennial Exhibit, is sponsored
by the State Federation of Labor
Literature and films explaining the
purposes and functions of the labor
movement will be included in the
exhibit material, announced c. j.
Haggerty, executive officer of the
state AFL. The annual fair normal
ly attracts more than a million and
a half people. 1t will run from Aug
ust 81 through September 10.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
BASEBALL TELECAST HALTED

Minneapolis (LPA)-Radio sta
tion KSTP abandoned it's telecasts
of Minneapolis baseball games
after a city Inspector found wiring
on its equipment at the ball park
below standard. The station was
unable to repair the wiring since
union electrical workers refused to
cross the picket lines of AFL Radio
Technicians. The radio technicians
have been on strike since April s.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Truman Stresses
Need Of Employing
The Handicapped

Washington LPA)-It has never
been more important than it is to-
day to employ the physically hand
'icapped, President Truman declar-
ed August 8. ~. tt
Addressing the Committee on
National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week, Truman said
"some people may feel that your
work is now overshadowed by the
important events which are occur
ing in the struggle for a just and
lasting peace. But this is not the
case. At time like this, it is es-
sential that our country use all its
productive resources. Our national
strength is the chief reliance of
the free world in its effort to over
come the forces of tyranny and
aggression.
"For that reason, we need the
contribution that. every citizen is
capable of making. This Committee
knows that those who have physi-
cal handicaps can work as effec-
t;v,aa,Dv as Hos. who have No bandi-
cans nroyidea thew have Jobs fit
ed TO their capabilities. They are
NODDED TODAY IN the great produc-
tive efforts of our nation"
ConpratulatinoS the governors of
the states on the outstanding work
ba;ng done bv state committees
Truman nointed ont tbe Commit
fees need the nart;cination of "busi-
ness men industriaiists and labor
nnion renresentatives as well as
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Gates for OUTSTANDING work ON be-
half of the nbvsicallv handicapped
The President presented prizes
to fo,,r b;gb school students for
outstand;ng ASSAYS "On Wbv We
Should Emnlov' the PHYSICALLY
Handicannedo D First prize of $1,000
Was donated bv the Disabled Am
erican Veterans Tbree more prizess
totaJIinp $1,000 were donted bv the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

Beirne asserted the Bell System is
| the nations Outstanding example
of the iron fist in the velvet glove" "
He added at is a past master in
rigid supervision, the speed-up,
and other methods for the exploit
alton of the workers." he said, and
accused management of union
busting" tactics. Beirne said nego-
tiations are always 'long-drawn-
out, costly procedures" and that
"stalling tactics" are used to
pauperize and discredit the union,
as we'll as to extend the time for
putting legitimate contract i'm
provements into effect"
In the late 1905 the Federal
Communications Commission was
authorized by Congress to make an
exhaustive inquiry into all aspects
of operation of the company.
CWA drew heavily on the earlier
FEC report for proof of the way
the telephone companies are set
|up. Beirne supplied information
from 1949 to 1850 to bring the re-
port up to date.
The labor-management subcom-
mittee was set up under the Taft
Hartley act as a watchdog of labor
relations. AS part of its duties it
reports to Congress on various as
poets of industry-wide bargaining.
Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!