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Evening star., 1950-05-27
Families Plan Appeal as Court Backs Evictions

Attorneys for II families living
in the Navy's Bellevue housing
development today were prepar-
ing appeals from a Municipal
Court decision, which paves the
way for the Navy to repossess all
houses there now occupied by
civilians.
In a directed verdict in favor of
the Government. Judge Almond
w. Scott yesterday rejected De-
fence Attorney Herman Miller's
contention that the Navy was
without the legal right to take
over administration of the Belle
vue project and to order civilian
families to move.
The action came in a case
brought by the Government
against John E. Kearney, Ham
mock green S.W.. but Mr.. Miller
had stipulated the decision would
apply to 13 other families now
facing eviction from the low-cost
housing project.
First Clear-Cut Ruling.
Attorneys said the decision was
the first clear-cut ruling on the
merits of the repossession at
tempt, although the dispute over
the Navy's right to order civilians
from the housing development
near Boiling Air Force Base has
been in the courts for some time.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Stafford Grady. who repre-
sented the Government, said he
would ask the court to require
those appealing to post bonds
which would guarantee the Gov
eminent rent due on the houses.
In moving the case against Mr..
Evening star., 1950-05-27
Work 10 Start Soon
On Two Camp Simms
Buildings for Guard

| Construction of two large build
ings is scheduled to start soon
after July l at the District Ma
tional Guard Reservation at Camp
Simms, Alabama avenue and Fiji
teenth place Sc. Brig. Gen. Will
liam H. Abendroth, local Guard
commander, said yesterday.
The structures. to be built with
Federal funds, will be a training
and operations center for the 18th
Aircraft Control Squadron and a
storage building for automotive
equipment assigned the Guard for
training purposes.
The training center will be a
two-story structure. 88 by 110
feet and will include special COM
munication facilities for searching
out enemy planes. The other
building will be So by 80 feet.
The Guard has been allocated
$227,000 for the training center
and $4,000 for the storage struc-
ture. Bids will be opened at the
Armory June 20 for the larger
structure, and it is expected to be
ready for occupancy next Feb
ruary.
The aircraft building will be
equipped to house the entire 18th
Squadron. This unit, commanded
by Maj. Arthur E. Kimberly, has
% officers and 1873 enlisted men.
Plans also are being drawn for
construction of a. 9-foot-high Sc
curity fence around the area, in
which millions of dollars worth
of heavy field equipment for the
local troops are stored.
Evening star., 1950-05-27

get the 800 civilian families then
living there to move came in July.
l949. when the Navy announced a
plan to require 10 per cent of the
civilians to move each month. be-
ginning with those in the highest
income bracket. Many did move.
Mr.. Kearney and most of the
other Is families in yesterdays
action. were notified in October,
le49. they would have to vacate
by December. l949. A month later
the Government filed actions
against them. and the cases have
been in the courts since then.
Evening star., 1950-05-27
Powder BIost in Store
Kills 10 in Colombia
BY the A.seciated Pres,

BOGOTA. Colombia, May 81
A discarded cigarette was reported
to have set off an explosion of
stored powder which killed at
least 10 persons yesterday in
Neiva. $50 miles southwest of
Bogota.
Fourteen other persons were in
jured and six buildings in the
city's commercial area were de-
stroyed. The powder had been
stored in a drygoods store.
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(see WEAK PHILIPPINES. CAD
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(ses oIEARY, Page c-5J
Evening star., 1950-06-04
By Dovid A. Stein

Tired soil and tired people
have combined to create the
threat of one of the worst fam
ines in Chinese history.
Reports from representatives
of the World Church Service on
the scene estimate that II mil
lion people are in desperate need
Of food. The total affected by
crop failures has been estimated
at so million people.
China, always hungry, has had
frequent famines. Millions are
reported to have died in 1943
as a result of war and the fail
ure of transport. The same
causes are creating famine con-
ditionS today.
In 1877, 9.5 million Chinese
died of starvation. Unless relief
is delivered quickly, this years
toll may reach equally staggering
figures.
The State Department has
been studying means of helping
starving China through contri-
button of American food sur
pluses, chiefly of rice and wheat.
Chiefly affected by famine are
the Provinces of Shantung,
Anhwei and Kiangsu. Shantung
was once one of the richest
agricultural areas in China. In
Anhwei alone, World Church
Service officials estimate. at
least 8 million face starvation.
AS rice supplies are exhausted,
farmers have been moving south
and west. An estimated 10 mil
lion refugees have poured into
Honan, Human, Kiangsi, Kwang-
81 and Kwangtung. All of these
provinces are in Communist
territory. OF these 10 million.
Gen. Lin Piao. chairman of
the Central-South China Mill
tary and Political Committee,
has reported that as million are
in serious danger.
While Communist oficials
blame the weather. huge req
uisitions for the Red armies
and for government granaries
are believed to have aggravated
the situation.
Death stalks again In the wake
Of war.
DISTRIBUTED bv he Associated ersss1
Evening star., 1950-06-04

that the unbelievably large mill
tary preparations which the Rus
slams have undertaken across from
Alaska are intended for offensive
purposes, if and when the time
comes to change the cold war into
shooting war.
The Kremlin's aims have been
obvious to any one who doesn't
act like an ostrich. America is the
only real obstacle to the Polit-
buro's plans for world domination.
The tactics used to achieve this
aim vary. But the aim has not
changed ever since Lenin grabbed
power from the well-meaning, but
totally ineffective government of
Alexander Kerensky.
Thanks to the enormous sacri-
fees of the American people,
Western Europe has been drawn
out of the grasp of the Kremlin
conspirators. This may be only
temporary. Western Europe can
continue its present economic and
political resurgence only so long
as America remains strong.
Hence, for the time being
Europe may be only heckled by
the Moscow government, either
through the cold war or possibly
through a peace offensive, "
which may give some wishful
thinkers the delusion that Russia
| is turning over a new leaf.
Rubber and Oil Periled
In the Far East. however, Boil
| Shevik activities continue relent-
lessly. North from Manchuria to
the Arctic Circle, the Soviet mill
tary force will continue to increase
its striking power and leave moth
ing to chance. The present efforts
to improve transportation, to con-
struct factories for Soviet war
industry and to increase the
ground. naval and air forces will
continue without abatement.
In the south the domination of
China and the islands which
reach out into the South China
Sea will provide the Moscow die
tators with bases which will be
an important barrier to lines of
communication Finally the estab-
lishment of Kremlin puppets in
Indo- China, the Philippines and
| Malaga will deprive us of vital
strategic raw materials such as
rubber and oil.
AS it is at the present time the
administration will find it difficult
to expand our air forces into more
than 10 groups. This is not due
to any difficulty in our factories
(See BROWN. Page C-5)
Evening star., 1950-06-04

ports, no less than l million pris-
oners in labor camps perished in
that Arctic area in the last two
years.
The goal is being attained, how
ever. The ports of Magadan and
Petropavlovsk, facing the Ameri-
can coast, now are fully completed
and linked with the interior base
of the 9Th Army at Khabarovsk,
Nikolaievsk and Tohita. Thus
lines of communication-Which in
the past presented such great diff
flculties-have been assured by
a network of roads and railroads
between the two ports and their
bases for supplies and manpower.
Both these ports, according to
reports which are considered reli-
able and have been partially veri-
fed. have submarine bases and
launching sites for V-3 and VS.
weapons. These are a great i'm
provement over the guided mis-
siles Hitler employed in the last
months of the war against Britain.
Evaluation of the strength of
the Red 9Th Army is not easy.
Some information. which is con-
sidered reliable. places the size
of the army at no less than so
divisions. A more conservative
and probably correct appraisal is
that the Russian force in East
tern Siberia does not exceed 20
divisions.
1t Is probable that the 9Th
Army contains at least two and
probably three parachute di-
visions, especially trained for
Arctic warfare. Available infor-
nation painstakingly gathered
shows a strong concentration of
air force on the northwestern
wing Of this army group.
Parachute Divisions Ready
This concentration is located
in the lower reaches of the Lenis-
sey River and the headquarters
are located in the town of Igarka.
Advanced airfields, containing
principally fighter groups, stud
the once dreary and uninhabitable
Siberian coast, as far as Wrangel
Island north of Bering Strait.
The military preparations in
these areas cannot be described as
defensive. We have far less than
an adequate defense in Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands. Even
if the blasts from Moscow's prop
aganda were true-that America
is preparing to attack Russia
that portion of Siberia is certainly
not target for an offensive.
1t is not difficult to conclude
Evening star., 1950-06-04

ritory, either on the West Coast
or in Alaska.
Russia. it is reluctantly ad-
mitted in Washington, has that
potential. Moreover, if all the
reports we now are receiving are
even partially correct, she in
tends to do exactly what the Jap
anese failed to do.
The naval-minded Tokyo war
lords contented themselves with
the destruction of our battle
ships at Pearl Harbor. Their
strategy was the conquest of
Asia and the establishment of
the Japanese new order in that
vast and rich area. They hoped
that America, stunned by the
Pearl Harbor blitz, would accept
japanese domination of Asia and
would be happy to have escaped
something worse.
Russia Views Alaska
Russia. however, is intensely
interested in the total defeat of
the United States. If we should
fall to her attack. the rest of the
world would also go to her with
out any trouble. We so frequently
forget that while there are still
5000 miles between the East
Coast and Europe. only a few
miles separate Alaska from the
u. s. s. r. The Russia general
staff has been busy creating an
imposing striking force in Siberia.
For the last 10 years the labor
camps in the Czukta and Kam-
chatka Peninsulas have been filled
up with hundreds of thousands
of suspects" During the war
when the Russians claimed to be
our Allies their presence in that
Arctic region was welcomed by
our Government. The prisoners
were used to help move war mate
rials from the Pacific to Siberia
and thence, we believed. to the
European battle fronts.
Since 1948, according to return
ed japanese prisoners. Russian
officer deserters and our own un-
derground. these camps have been
further expanded. They have been
taken from the supervision of the
Civilian" branch of the MVD and
placed under the direct supervi-
sion of the military branch.
The two peninsulas have been
turned into zones of complete
isolation from which even the few
nomad tribes have been expelled.
Strategic roads and large airfields
have been constructed at an un-
believable price in human life.
According to some available re-
Evening star., 1950-06-04
Corrupt Regime and Unstable
Economy immediate Dangers
Communicated Huks Pose Real Threat
While Quirino Rule Foils to Cope
With Grove Situation
By Creston B. Mullins

The United States has Achilles heel Its Pacific defense
the Philippine Islands
The republic which will be four old month
weak-perhaps the
Western Pacific and Southeast
nkng Of the disastrous Deterioration Of Phippna
Evening star., 1950-06-04
Liberal Social Security
Hinges on Senate Action
Growing Number Of Needy Old Persons
Demands Revision Of 1885 Act, but
Extent of Changes Is DebotobIe
By J. a. 0'Leor

Uncle Sam the largest od-age
the world still public
there drawing social security pensions.
In effort this picture the the
Senate about start debate bill baz the Social
Security Act
Evening star., 1950-06-04
Other Plans Cover Some

A comparatively small propor-
tion of aged persons no longer en-
ployed are provided for by these
other plans: Railroad retirement,
253.000; Federal civil service,
$1,000; other Federal retired work.
ers. $4,000; State and city govern
ment retirement plans. 174, 900.
veterans program. 259. 900; wives
OF male beneficiaries of programs
other than the Social Security
System, 10000.
All Of these groups. including
those still at work, account for
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Pres. Truman Recommends Security
Changes, Hits Current Waveof Hysteria

be extended for peacetime espion-
age; that persons who have receiv-
ed instructions from a foreign
government or political power in
espionage or subversive activities
be required to register under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act,
and that the president be given
broader authority than now exists
to establish security regulations
concerning the protection of mill
tary bases and other national de-
fense installations.
He also recommended that the
Attorney General be empowered to
require aliens subject to deporta-
tion to report their whereabouts
and activities at regular intervals.
He criticized a bill now pending
giving the Attorney General power
to Jail such aliens, not on convic-
ton of a crime, but on his own
determination. "Such action would
be repugnant to our traditions, and
it should not be authorized" he de-
clared.
The best defense against Com
munist attempts to gain political
power, he said, lis a vigorous,
functioning democracy which sue
ceeds in meeting the needs of it's
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
House Group Cites
|56 For Contempt;
Legality In Doubt

Washington LPA)-The House
has cited Sc persons for contempt
of Congress, but the legality of the
action is in question, as there was
no quorum either Aug. 10 or IL,
when the action was taken.
Citations were recommended by
the House Committee on Un-Amer-
ican Activities on the basis that
all refused to answer certain ques-
tions at hearings, "and thus de-
prived the Committee from obtain
ing valuable and necessary infor-
nation" The $64 question in many
of the eases was "Are you now or
have you ever been member of
the Communist Party"
Cited were Steve Nelson, Com
munist Party organizer in western
Pennsylvania, and julius Emspak,
secretary-treasurer of the United
Electrical Workers. After action on
Nelson and Emspak, further pro-
ceedings were delayed when ques-
tion of no quroum was raised. The
next day, however, the House went
on to cite 81 others with no one
raising the quorum issue.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Bread Softeners BIT.
Banned AS Unsafe
By Food Agency

Washington (LPA) - Despite a
long and bitter fight by the bread
lobby, the Food and Drug Admin
istration has proposed new stand
ards for the contents of the bread
you eat.
Commercial bread softeners
which have been in use since the
beginning of World War III are un-
safe for consumption, the FTC
found. Nutrition experts have been
saying the same thing ever since
commercial bakeries started using
the softeners.
The new regulations are still
Subject to change. Although long
hearings were held on the subject,
the present standards are only
tentative, and objections to them
may be filed within the next thirty
days.
Standards proposed cover the
composition of white bread, en-
riched bread, milk bread, raisin
bread, whole wheat bread, and
breads made from mixtures of
whole wheat, cracked wheat and
crushed wheat with white flour.
Proposals were made during the
hearings that bread be labeled to
show all the ingredients used. The
suggested FDA standard requires
only that the label show the names
of the optional ingredients used
which retard the spoilage of bread.
Arguing earlier this year for
complete labelling of bread, DR..
Give McCay, professor of nutri-
tion at Cornell University, said that
he thought mothers have the same
right to know what they feed their.
children as farmers who "in large
areas of this country can read on
every bag of feed the exact COM
position of the product they are
feeding their chickens, cows, and
pigs" DR.. McCay blamed our pre-
sent low standards on the food
lobby in Washington.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Bodrd Rules Out Picketing
For An Unlawful Objective

the rulings of the Supreme Court
in a number of recent cases in
which, the Board said, "the Sup
RENE Court pointed out that pic
keting even peaceful picketing-
has aspects which are more than
speech, and it may therefore be re-
stricted at least where it is under
taken for an unlawful objective"
On the basis of these Supreme
Court opinions, the Board ruled
unanimously that Section 8 (c),
the "free speech" provision of the
Taft-Hartley act does not protect
picketing or threats of picketing to
compel an employer to hire only
union members in violation of the
law.
In the Denver case the board or
dered the unions "to cease and de-
sist from this and related conduct" !,
but pointed out 'we do not go be-
yond the circumstances of this
case", and that "our order is re-
stricted in scope. 1t enjoins only
engaged in to compel the
to discriminate against
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

Washington (LPA) - President
Truman spoke out August 8 about
national security, and about the
current hysteria in a message to
Congress recommending legisla-
ton.
ave cannot get rid of Commun-
ism just by passing law" he said.
'I am determined that the United
States shall be secure. am equally
determined that we shall keep our
historic liberties"
He assailed pending security Leg
islation as $50 broad and vague in
its terms as to endanger the free
doms of speech, press and assem-
bly, protected by the First Amend
ment. Some of the proposed meas
ures would, in effect, impose severe
penalties for normal political acti-
vities on the part of certain groups,
including Communists and Com
munist party line followers. This
kind of legislation is unnecessary,
ineffective, and dangerous"
The President recommended Leg
islation to remedy defects in the
present laws and give the Attorney
General supervision over aliens
subject to deportation.
He recommended that the sta
tute of limitations (now 3 years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

Washington (LPA) - Picketing
or threatening to picket to compel
employers to hire only union mem
bers violates the Taft Hartley act,
the National Labor Relations Board
has ruled unanimously. 1t was the
first NLRB ruling on this point.
The ruling involved two cases
the AFL Building and Construc-
tion Trades Council of Denver, and
Henry Shore, highway contractor
of Littleton, Colo; and Local 16,
CIO Longshoremen, and the Jun
eau Spruce Corp, Juneau, Alaska.
The Denver council and two of
its affiliated locals picketed one
of Shores highway projects be-
cause he failed to hire only union
members. The Longshoremen had
continued to picket to compel the
company to employ it's members to
load lumber barges after the NLRB
had ruled that the Longshoremen
had no legal right to make such a
demand. Members of the CIO|
Woodworkers had been loading the
barges.
The Boards decision referred to
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Pldn To Send Security Bill
Back To House Committee

protection was necessary against
the risk of becoming permanently
and totally disabled"
The present system, he pointed
out, does not provide such protec-
tion. State laws do not do the job
adequately. "Costs of private in
surance," he declared, "are pro-
hibitive for low-income families
and for many in the middle-income
groups"
Disability payments, as recon-
mended by the Ways & Means
Committee, Lynch reminded his
colleagues, would cost only sixty
five one-hundredths of / percent
of payroll and could easily fit into
the existing social security sys-
tenn"
Lynch read several typical let
ters from people in his state. One
was from a man who is half para
lyzed. Il can't work no more," it
said. II have tried it two times but
can't hold job as / have to have
help to do things. | really need to
keep going to a doctor but Pm
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

Washington OPA) = When the
social security bill CHR 6000)
comes up on the floor of the House
August 16 or II, Rep. Walter Lynch
ID, Pa will move to have it sent
back to a conference committee.
= The reason: Total and perman-
ent disability insurance has been
left out of the bill and the Know
land amendment has been left in.
Under the Knowland provision un-
employment compensation could be
denied to anyone who refused to
work in a strikebound plant. 1t has
been called the "scab or starve
amendment"
Rep. Lynch said that, though he
was one of the Senate-House con-
ferees on the Social Security bill,
he did not sign the conference re-
port because it had these two big
faults.
During hearings before t h e
House Ways & Means Committee,
Lynch told the House August g.,
"there was unanimous agreement
by all interested groups and per-
sons that some kind of government
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Appeals For All
TO Buy American
Made Pottery

Seeking to promote the sale of
American-Made dinnerware, there
by protecting the means Of liveli-
hood Of the American potter, Sc
bring Trades and Labor Council, a
real active progressive link in the
chain Of the American Federation
Of Labor has sent a copy of the
following letter to all Central
Bodies affiliated with the A. F.
of L.
It is worthy of mention that
compliance with the reques t
throughout the ranks of labor
would bear more fruit if the pro-
ducts of American manufacturers,
carried the UNION LABEL. The
Union Label signifies to the public
that it is American-made and the
men and women whose labor has
entered into the product are en-
ployed at fair wages and under
wholesome conditions. 1.
The text of the letter:
There comes a time, in the life
of every union organization where
for our self-preseryation, we are
compelled to ask the help of our
fellow trade unionists, in a very
worthy cause.
"The imports of foreign made
products have made vast inroads
in our industry.
"In the past we have received
numerous requests from other
unions, for our help and co-opera-
tion in the difficulties they we're
with at the time. At all
times we have given help to theI
best Of our ability.
So at this time, we The Sebring,
Ohio Trades and Labor Council,
located in the heart of the Pottery:
industry, are asking that copy of
this letter be forwarded to all yourl
Locals, requesting their
members, families and friends,
when buying dinnerware, to insist
on American made dinnerware.
Their assurance, that it is Ameri-
can made, is the union label"
Fraternally yours,
Sebring Trades & Labor Council
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Heads Local 1872

Perhaps the weather had some
thing to do with the rather small
turnout at the last meeting of
Local. Union 1872, but remember
when we are lax in attending local
meetings that is when trouble be-
gins. We would like to see every
member turnout for our next meet
ing. a
Installation of a new president
was the main order of business
and Mary Mickey will take over
the reins for the balance of this
term. We know she will do a grand
job and it is up to all of us to lend
our support.
Quite a number Of new cup
handles are now being made and as
yet no price has been set for them.
We hope to have this matter
Strengthened out at our next meet
ing. -O.C. 132