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Evening star., 1951-08-16
M Longshoremen
Threaten New Strike
In New York Port
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-AFL
longShoremen have threatened to
tie up shipping in the Port of New
York Monday in a dispute over
the idleness OF several city-owned
piers.
A union spokesman said a STOP
page can be averted only if city
officials give assurance not later
than tomorrow afternoon that
city pier rents will be lowered so
that private shipping companies
will lease them.
The spokesman, Jay O'Connor.
business agent of Local 791 of
the International Longshoremen's
Association QLA), made the
threat of a stoppage last night
after union membership
meeting.
O'Connor said the tieup would
start among members of eight
LILA locals along the Hudson
River in the Chelsea section and
would spread Immediately to the
3,500-member Local 333, the tug
boat crewmen'S local.
A stoppage by the. tugboat
local, O'Connor said, would "tie
up the port, including New Jersey,
because incoming ships could not
be docked."
He estimated that 10000 long
shoremen n the port would be
idled if the stoppage occurred.
Several employer spokesmen
said they did not believe there
would be a port-wide tieup, be-
cause the dock workers and tug
boat men have contracts with nu-
merous steamship companies.
I There was no immediate COM
ment by city officials on the work
stoppage threat.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Gray Market in Nickel
Up for Senate Study
BY the Associated Press

Senator Moody. Democrat. OF
Michigan, yesterday announced
public hearings will be held in
New York City Monday and Tues
day ION gray market in nickel. -
Senator Moody said the hear
ings will be conducted by a Senate
Small Business subcommittee he
heads as result of three weeks
Of investigation by committee staff
members.
The Senator said it was found
that small busipessmen could get
the metal "at prices upward Of
$3.50 per pound while the going
market price of nickel is approx
mately 10 cents pound"
"It is inexcusable that many
small businessmen are being
forced into bankruptcy while
nickel is available on the gray
and black markets." Senator
Moody said in a statement. "It
it Is necessary that the Office OF
Price Sterilization and the Ma
tional Production Authority be
given additional authority to cope
with this situation. let's give 1t
Ito them"
Senator Moody said committee
investigations have been "unusu-
ally successful" in tracking down
the source Of gray market nickel.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Wife Of Man Accused
lin Uncle Billie Case
Ends Life With Gun

The wife of a man charged with
taking $51 from Uncle Billie's tav-
ern at North Beach, Md, died in
Gallinger Hospital yesterday from
a self-infiicted bullet wound,
police said.
Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer IS, of
the 100 block of Twelfth street
Sc, was found unconscious on
a bed at her home with a %
caliber pistol clutched in her right
hand. She died a few hours later.
Police said the shooting came
after Mrs. Spencer's employer had
told her he was going to have
to get some one else" to act as
Iresident-manager of the apart
ment building on Twelfth street.
Denies Cases Are Related.
Mrs. Spencer was identified as
the wife of William Spencer
charged in the theft-from Charles
Nelson's North Beach tavern. Her
employer, Patrick Monah,.n, of
l914 South Sixteenth street, Arl-
Iington, said her husbands diff
Guilty had nothing to do with her
release.
George T. Motley, 4S, a resident
OF another apartment in the
building, told police Mrs. Spencer
had asked him to call her son
about some papers. He was in the
hallway looking up the telephone
number when he heard the shot,
he said.
A suicide verdict was to be
issued today by Deputy Coroner
Richard M. Rosenberg.
This latest incident surrounding
the vague activities of Charles
Nelson, Maryland horse breeder,
came as Police Chief Robert ].
Barrett denied that his men were
involved in any payoffs connected
with Nelson's alleged gambling
activities.
Pay-off System Charged.
The charge was leveled in a suit
filed here by Milford Burkley, who
quoted Nelson in the suit as saying
an elaborate pay-off system in
volved police here and in Prince
Georges County and Alexandria.
"If anybody has any informa-
tion about anything, including any
police pay-offs," Maj. Barrett de-
clared, "let him come in and tell
us. If we hear of any pay-off,
Wen move fast"
Maj. Barrett said both Burkley
and Nelson are known to police
through their records, principally
made during prohibition.
The police chief added, 1--WE have
no organized mobs in the District.
We have some numbers operators,
but there is no one known person
running the numbers racket here. !"
Evening star., 1951-08-16
By Martin S. Hoyden

North American Newspaper Alliance
In this cold-war era the Amer.
lean soldier needs five times al
much pepper as non-combatants
on the home front.
So insists the Army in the lat.
est chapter Of a teapot tempest
which has the Pentagon and the
Council of State Chambers oi
Commerce swapping and snarline
over whether tax dollars have
meaning to military buyers on 9
spending spree.
1t all began with Alvin A. Bur-
ger, the councils research direc-
tor, and his "fact Sheet" lambast-
ing such free-wheeling Army buy
ing as:
/. Sixty-eight million can open
ers bought for is million soldiers
in a single year;
2. An Army ordnance call for
60 millions gallons of paint to be
delivered within go days in civil
ian size" quart and gallon cans;
3. Three belts per mana total
of 4.6 million of them-to sustain
the pants of the LIS million troops
4. A whopping S million pounds
of oleomargarine, bought by the
Army at 25la cents a pound. while
the Agriculture Department was
peddling surplus butter to Italy
for Is cents a pound, and, fin
ally
5. The 1.9 million pounds of
pepper, an imported item, which
is costly and hard to get.
The council bulletin inspired q
host of angry citizen letter.
writer's and Undersecretary of the
Army Archibald S. Alexander
chose one Of them-Calvin Verify,
banker of Middletown, Ohio-to
get a three-page Official" answer
counter attacking Mr.. Burgers
facts"
"The presentation in the fact
sheet" Mr.. Alexander wrote the
Ohioan, 'is not much different,
in my mind. from sports writer
reporting that the Cincinnati
Reds got 10 runs without bother
ing to point out that the Dodgers
got IL to win the game"
For Mr.. Burger, Mr.. Alexander
had these Army facts:
The 68 million can openers are
small, hinged devices designed to
open cans Of juicy foods, for which
Ia key-type opener would be un-
suitable. They cost less than
q cents each. and are issued
'on basis of one for each
two of the 125 million c rations
for troops in the field. Since
each c ration consists of six
separate cans, the Army, Mr..
Alexander opines, has improved
on the civilian custom of one key
for each sardine tin.
The 6 million gallons of paint
had to come in small cans, be-
cause most of it went to small
units. where only small amount
of painting is required at any one
time" The timing" of the 60
day delivery demand, the under
secretary admitted, was bad but
the Army caught the error and
changed the schedule.
The 4.6 million web belts, wrote
Mr.. Alexander. represented gross
Army needs, and shrank to %
million actually bought, after
stocks on hand were counted. This
provided one initial issue belt for
each man each year, and a second
every eight months in combat
areas, and every 20 months else
where . The total gave pants sup
Evening star., 1951-08-16

light pepper users, the average
consumption would still be only
3.5 ounces per person, which is
less than one-fourth the military
allowance"
Note: Undersecretary Alexander
lis unofficially reported as closeted
with military statisticians in a
new pepper count preliminary to
Round 4 of the battle.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Boy, z, Struck by Cor,
Suffers Head Injuries

Two-year-old Frank Forame
colored, of 226 Thirty-Fif street
NE, was in good condition today
at Casualty Hospital after being
struck yesterday by a car near his
home. Police said the youngster
suffered a possible brain concus-
sion and head injuries when he
ran from between parked cars into
an automobile driven by Lewis G
Clifford, 25, colored, of 2601 South
Second street, Arlington. No
charges were preferred.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Women Marines Get
Pearl Hurbor Orders
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

Women Marines are going to
the Pacific early in October for
the first time since World War II,
the Defense Department an
nounced yesterday.
They will be assigned to head
quarters, Fleet Marine Force Pa
cific. at Pearl Harbor, for admin
istrative duties. The first detach-
ment will consist of officer and
IL enlisted women.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Army's 7.9 Million Pounds
IOf Pepper Stirs Economy Fiqht

port, he added, for U. S. Air Force
troops in Korea. and Republic of
Korea troops, as well as Army GIS.
The oleo. said Mr.. Alexander,
came canned in packaging the
butter industry still cannot dupli-
cate for combat and unrefrigerat-
ed reserve uses. Also, he added,
"the agriculture Department.
butter is not graded or packaged-
two important requirements for
quartermaster butter purchases.
Finally there was the pepper
complaint - grossly misleading, -
Mr.. Alexander said.
Each man in the Army and Air
Force" he recited, lis authorized
slightly over a pound of pepper a
year, including losses due to COM
bat, pilferage. shipping and stor-
age. Man-years for fiscal 1851
come to about is million, making
a consumption requirement of is
million pounds. Next must be
added poundage needed to allow
for distribution and import levels,
while deductions are made for
stocks already on hand, and for
persons not eating Army or Air
Force rations."
Now Mr.. Burger is back with a
counter-counterattack in letter
to his boss. Council President
Herschel C. Atkinson of Columbus,
Ohio. copies of which were mailed
today to all members of Congress
"Since the can opener he said,
"can be used on several cans, why
should its use be limited to one in
one day? Why not use it two or
three days, or a week, or until it
is lost? The fact that it costs only
2 cents is no reason for not making
fullest use of it."
True" continued Mr.. Burger,
"the error Tin paint) was caught,
but only after bids were opened,
some awards made, and an undis-
closed amount readvertised for
proper delivery spacing. Further
more, the error was caught only
because OF bitter criticism by the
(paint) trade"
And, on belts, Mr.. Burger said: ::
Although Mr.. Alexander helps
with more information, it still
holds that the requirement of
4.6 million belts is well over twice
the expected consumption, even
after allowing for all Army per-
sonnel. plus South Korean (25o-
0OO) and Air Force personnel in
Korea"
On butter. Mr.. Burger said that
II Mr.. Alexander is right, the
Army quartermaster, Maj. Gen.
Herman Feldman, was wrong
when he explained differently to
the House Appropriations Com
mittee.
Gen. Feldman said," countered
Mr.. Burger, that certain legal
technicalities precluded the Agri-
culture Department from selling
butter to the Army at less than
they paid for it." Further. he
said. the oleo was not purchased
Tor the Army at all, but that it
may have been for the Navy.
And, finally, on pepper:
"Mr. Alexander, said Mr.. Burger
admits that one pound of pepper
is purchased for each man, each
year. The actual allowance is 14.6|
to which is added a loss
factor of is ounces. According to
the spices department of Nc
Cormick & Co. (top pepper i'm
porters). the annual United States
consumption Of black pepper is 26
pounds. This would be
about 2.8 ounces per person for
the entire population. Even after
all children under 10 as
Evening star., 1951-08-16
New Jersey Bans Rise
In Telephone Rates
By the Associated Press

NEWARK, N. j.. Aug. 16.-The
Public Utility Commission today
rejected a New Jersey Bell Tele-
phone Co. request for a $10,178, 900
rate increase.
The State action knocked out a
proposed increase in business and
home rates as well as jump in
public pay telephone costs from a
nickel to a dime.
The 66-page decision, an
nounced after more than a year of
hearings, said the present rates
are adequate. The PUG called
the proposed tolls unjust and
unreasonable"
Evening star., 1951-08-16

RELINQUISHES CROWN
Denver.-Blond Marie Aber,
20, was happy when she won
the title of Miss Colorado of
1851" Sunday, but she has
since changed her mind and
abdicated the throne. Her
resignation was submitted
after her return here from a
trip to New Mexico, during
which sponsors of the contest
hunted her for more than "a
hours. She said she was afraid
people might think she hadn't
won the title "fair and
square" although sponsors of
the event said she did.
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
If You Don't
Get Caught.

Bob Nolan is a nice young man
who needs money, needs it so
badly, he'll do almost anything
to get it. How he gets it, and
the girl, too, makes a rip
roaring slugfest that's packed
with action from start to finish.
Don't miss IF YOU DON'T GET
CAUGHT, another unforgettable
thriller by William R. Scott.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Air Freight Thefts High

Thefts of South Africa-London
air freight have amounted to
more than $500,000 during the
last year, airline companies Te-
port.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
The LO,c-dOsurs on
LOngie Ztcillrsan

Lester Nelie gives you the low.
down on one of the mightiest
Of all bosses, an ex-hoodlum
who rules politicians, mobsters,
businessmen. Read "THE MAN
TO SEE" IN NEW JERSEY
another startling scoop by the
prize.winning reporter who
exposed the Binaggio machine
in Missouri, and the Capone
dynasty in Chicago.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
Electrical Union
Behind e" Ball

Indianapolis UPA)-The United
Electrical Workers is now behind
the ball with its contract at Ser
vice Products Corp. here. The rea-
son: 1t has not complied with the
Taft Hartley act requirement that
its officers must sign a non-Com-
munist affidavit.
UE (labeled as Connie -domin-
ated), has a contract with Service
Products, and thought it was safe
for at least another year. The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board will
not permit another union to chal-
lenge representation by seeking an
NLRB election for at least year
after contract is made. But that's
for unions that are "in compli-
ance;" that is, whose officers have
signed the non-Commie affidavits,
So, when the International Union
of Electrical Workers petitioned
for a representation election, the
NLRB granted the petition, despite
UE shrieks.
The UE was not in compliance
when it got its contract. 1t won
IA decertfication election in l949,
and argued that meant its certifi-
cation as the bargaining agent.
The NLRB has ruled it meant no.
thing of the kind. SO, the employees
will have a chance soon to choose
between UE and IUE.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
Company Ordered
To Rehire So Men
Fired For Strike

Wyomissing, Pa. (LPA)-A Ma
tional Labor Relations Board trial
examiner has ordered Textile Ma
chine Works, Inc. here to rehire
SO men fired following a strike in
1947 and make good any pay they
have lost.
The company, started nearly SO
years ago, is still owned chiefly by
direct descendants of the founders.
An organizing drive by the CIO
Steelworkers was bitterly fought in
1947 and a strike was called among
the 5000 workers.
During the strike pictures were
taken of pickets and supervisory
employees noted names of active
union members. When the strike
was ended without a union victory,
the company fired SO ClO men who
stuck until the end.
Trial examiner Hamilton Gard
ner says the company CD refused
to reemploy the men because of
their union activity, (2) told job
applicants union men weren't want
ed, and CD interfered with union
members getting jobs elsewhere.
He directed the company to reopen
negotiations with the SteeIworkers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
Issue Rules TO
Prevent Gypping
OF Auto Buyers

Washington (LPA)-The Feder-
al Trade Commission has issued
trade practice rules to protect buy
ers of autos from gyp dealers.
Hereafter the following practices
are prohibited:
/. Misrepresentation by the sell
er of insurance coverage of rates
or financing costs or rates.
2. Failure to furnish to the buy
er, before the sale is completed, a
written termination which shows
the delivered price of the car, in
cluding accessories or extras; the
amounts to be credited as a down
payment and trade-in; the time
balance owed and the amount and
due date of each installment pay
ment; the cost of the insurance and
the coverage provided; the financ-
ing charge.
3. Having the buyer sign an in
stallment sale contract or receipt
in blank, which is to be filled in
later by the seller or financing in
stitution, with the purpose or eff
feet of deceiving the buyer.
4. Use by the seller, or the fin
ancing institution, acting individu-
ally or in collusion, of rate charts
in such way as to mislead or de-
ceive the buyer as to the amount
required to finance the unpaid bal
ance.
5. The requirement that the sale
or financing be conditioned on the
purchase of an insurance policy
from a particular company, when
the same or better coverage by an
other company is available and
when the buyer wants the policy
of the other company.
The ETC started the proceedings
leading to establishment of the
rules as a result of many COM
plants that buyers, especially buy
ers of used cars, were being gyp-
ped. Hearings were held in Feb
ruary, April, and May, 1850. Many
dealers howled, but there was too
much evidence against them. The
rules become effective in 80 days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
Threats And Price
Deals Charged In
Antitrust Suit

Cleveland (LPA) - A federal
grand jury here has indicted the
Pittsburgh Crushed Steel Co. on
charges of antitrust violations in
the manufacture and sale of metal
abrasives. Also accused are three
officers of the company, five affil-
lated firms, five other firms, and
the Metal Abrasive Council.
The US charges the group start
ed price wars to cut out competi-
tion, engaged in price fixing con-
spiracy, bought out competitors,
got control of Independents, induc-
ed others to stay out of the busi-
ness, threatened competitors with
unwarranted patent suits, and di-
vided fields with machinery manu-
facturers to keep them out of
metal abrasive production.
Involved are firms in Ohio, Mass
achusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Indiana, and Maryland.
Metal abrasives are iron or
steel shot and grit, used for blast
cleaning, peening and polishing, by
manufacturers of airplane engines,
tanks, armor plate, shells, and
other munitions and automobiles,
forge shops and steel mills, by
manufacturers of plumbing fix
lures, enamelware and household
goods and by the quarrying and
stonemaking industry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
Top Policy Posts
Promised To
Maritime Unions

Wa shington LPA) = Two
spokesman for seamen's unions will
be recommended for top-drawer
policy posts in the proposed Ma
tional Shipping Authority, Vice
Admiral Edward l.. Cochrane, fed
eral maritime administrator ann
ounced. He said he would make the
recommendations himself to the
Secretary of Commerce.
The NSA will supervise merch-
ant shipping in an all-out emer-
gency much as. the War Shipping
Administration did during World
War ii. AFL, CIO and unaffiliated
maritime unions recently demanded
a policy role and submitted spec
fife policies affecting manpower
they thought the authority should
follow.
Cochrane made his announcement
following an all-day conference
with spokesmen for both labor and
management. Previously he had
met with the two groups separate
| ly.
Main points of the union pro-.
posals are draft deferment for both
licensed and unlicensed merchant
seamen, drastic cut in the opera
tions of the Military Sea Transport
Service, a go-slow policy on estab-
fishing maritime schools until
maritime unemployment is licked
and retention of the union hiring
hall. SO far, only licensed seamen
have been granted deferment.
The maritime unions contend the
Military Sea Transport Service
|competes unfairly with private
shipping and provides substandard
employment. Recently a referee in
California unemployment COM
pensation case described such en-
ployment as inferior. The unions
also feel that students Of federal
maritime schools are deliberately
fed anti-union sentiments. And the
hiring hall is held to be the hard
core of blue water unionism.
Unions represented at the con-
ference here were the Seafarers In
tenational Union-AFL; National
Maritime Union-CIO; M a e s,
Mates & Pilots-AFL; Marine En-
gineers-CIO; Marine Firemen, un-
affiliated; Radio Officers Union
AFL; American Radio Association
CIO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
|Lumbermen Seek
|Woge Increases

Portland, Ore. (LPA)-AFL and
CIO unions are seeking wage raises
for West Coast woodsmen. j. E.
Fading, president of the Wood
workers, will meet with represent
atives of 750 operators to iron out
an agreement for the unions 50,-
900 members in this area.
He will "go after" six holidays
(now three), a uniform opening
day, and Substantial wage in
creases." F ding, incidentally,
doesn't think much of the sugges-
tion of Mariner S. Eccles, Federal
Reserve Board member, that work
ers put in "A hours a week at
straight time to get more take
home pay.
Fading said the idea was "ridi-
culous" and that straight-time was
out as long as "our employers wax
fat on bloated profits" He charged
lumber prices have jumped $40 a
1000 feet while labor costs have
gone up only 1920.
AFL unions in the redwood dis
trict of northern California want
20 cents an hour more and in the
Klamath area in Oregon where a
secret strike vote is authorized,
they are asking 30 cents. AFL ne
gotiations have just started in the
Willamette Valley and workers in
the Tacoma district have author
lied strike by a 1862 to 81 vote
if negotiations breakdown.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-08
Asks Voice On Woge Bodrd
For White-Collur Workers

Chicago (LPA) = White-collar
workers such as teachers, nurses,
and technicians should have a
spokesman on any wage policy
board that is set up. So John NJ.
Eklund, president of the American
Federation of Teachers, has writ
ten to Cyrus Ching, wage stabiliza-
tion board head.
Unless "gross inequality in wage
structures" is remedied, Eklund
said, there will be a repetition of
what happened in the 194O's when
half the nations million teachers
left the profession in six years. If
teachers wages are kept down,
many of them will go into the war
industries, Eklund wrote. "To bring
the wage structure of these groups
in line with Industrial and general
business wage levels, a compre-
hensive adjustment upward must
be made," he said.
Many of tn e S e white-collar
groups, he wrote, need spokesman
in the wage policy machinery. To
preserve the services and the in
dividuals' morale, a sympathetic,
flexible pattern must be establish
ed, Eklund said. He noted that
average wage of school personnel
is now S54 a week.
at is high time that workers in
the classrooms, the laboratories,
and the civil services in commun-
tiles throughout the nation be given
recognition in wage policy deter
mination. At a time when the de-
fenses of democracy are being built
throughout the free world, we must
not permit the basic democratic
defenses at home to go by default.
Gross inequality in wage structure
must be avoided this time, to pre-
vent Decentralization of our civilian
defenses and services"