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Evening star., 1953-05-15
'Steyedore Council
Agrees on Method
To End 'Shapeup'
By The A,seeiatsd Pres.

BALTIMORE, May 15.-Steps
to do away with the controver-
sial shape up" hiring system
were agreed on last night, the
2O-member Executive Council of
the international Longshore-
mems Association announced.
The council acted under stern
demands from it parent Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to clean
up the gangster elements on the
waterfronts.
The AFL had also told the
LILA to purge itself Of known
criminals or face expulsion.
Tight-lipped members of the
council refused to say whether
the purge was a separate order
of business during the two-day
secret meeting resumed in a Bal
timore hotel today.
May 20 Deadline Set.
Last February the~AFL told
the LILA to clean house and set
a deadline of May 20 for getting
the plan in motion.
The longshoremen officials
declined to say Immediately how
they intend to eliminate the
shape up" system.
Joseph P. Ryan, 67-year-old
head of the longshoremen, indi-
Gated progress report to the
AFL would be ready late today.
Ryan. president of the lila for
q years, is under indictment in
New York on a charge of larceny
Of $11.390 in union funds.
While Ryan presided over the
ExecutiveC Council meeting yester-
day. Senator Tobey. Republican,
of New Hampshire announced
the United States attorney in
Washington would be asked to
determine if perjury was in
volved in conflicting testimony
given Senate investigators by
Ryan and another witness before
Senator Tobey's Senate Com
merce subcommittee.
Until the lila councils an
nouncement that the "shape-up"
hiring system would be abolished,
there was talk that the long
shoremen might defy the AFL
cleanup order.
"Shape-Up" Blamed.
Hearings by the New York
State Crime Committee had pro-
duced disclosures of graft and
racketeering along the New
York waterfront. Much of it
was blamed on the "shape-up," :"
under which union pier bosses
daily designate who will work
and who won't.
Outside the New York area the
prevalent hiring method is by
permanently organized gangs of
about 16 men assigned to their
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Member of House
Threatens to Nov
Lawn at Capitol

Critics sometimes accuse Con-
gressmen of being unable to see
the forest for the trees, and now
there's one member of the House
who says it's getting so bad he
can't see the lawn for the grass.
Representative Bender, Re-
publican, of Ohio thinks the
lawns of the Capitol and the
neighboring Botanic Garden look
like a COW pasture.
I'm ashamed to show people
from back home around the
Capitol grounds" he complained
He put in a telephone call to
Botanic Garden officials and de-
manded they put somebody TO
work moving the lawn.
IF you don't do something
about those lawns I might get
out there myself with a lawn
mower" Mr.. Bender told them.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
days work beforehand at union

days work beforehand at union
halls.
In the New York "shape-up. -
union bosses blow a whistle just
before the work day starts on
the piers and pick their work
gangs from among the long
shoremen who gather around.
One week ago New York dock
workers voted 1920 to 1920 in
favor Of their present hiring
Setup.
George Meany, head of the
AFL, refused to accept the vote
as compliance with his organiza-
tion's order to rid the lila of
the "shape-up." He said the
question put to the longshore-
men was loaded.
Evening star., 1953-05-15

dream-away. They want to
dream away the Russian menace
so they can safely cut the Navy
and the Air Force. They want
to drea maway the entire free
world around us in their haste
to get back to a high tariff era.
They want to dream away hard
economic realities so that they
can promise all at once greater
service. lower costs, and a bal
anced budget"
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Public BuiIdino Fund

Iran is applying revenue from
an increased real estate tax to
a fund for the construction of
new public buildings. Tehran
reports.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Youth Held for Jury
On CHARGE by Woman

A 17-year -old youth was held
for action of the grand jury yes
terday in Municipal Court on
a charge of assault with intent
to commit rape, after the Ju-
venile Court relinquished juris-
diction.
He is Henry Samuel Bush,
colored, of the 600 block of Ninth
street NE, who was arrested
Wednesday night at Eighth and
H streets NE, after he was iden-
titled as the aSsailant of 23-
year -old colored woman.
Bush, who has an extensive
juvenile record, according to po-
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Survey Of Schools
Educational 'QualitY'
Planned by Educators
By jones 6. Deone

Some of the Nations public
schools soon will have a better
idea of how good a job they are
doing.
Plans for a national "Sampling
of school quality" were outlined
to a group of educators meeting
here today. The project will
start with a detailed survey of
teaching stats and the relation
ship Of schools to the commu-
nifty. 1t is expected to embrace
about 180 school systems.
Arlington County probably will
participate, Supt. Edward Rutter
said. Prince Georges County's
schools also may take part.
Sponsoring the project are the
Associated Public School Sys-
TENS, which is holding a confer
ence here.
Most Extensive Study.
Norton L. Beach of Columbia
University, the associations ex-
ecutive director, said the study
is the most extensive of its kind
ever undertaken.
John Policy, another speaker,
said it will give the country "a
kind of picture of public educa-
ton we've never had before" "
He termed the survey "a brand
new look at the school systems. I"
Educators hope to find out,
in the first stage of the project,
how we'll trained teachers are
and how much they are supple
menting their training with out
of-school activities.
Teachers, as part of the survey,
will be asked to fill in question:
naireS listing their college educa-
ton, the number of professional
books and magazines they read,
the community organizations
they belong to and how much
they have travelled.
They won't have to sign the
questionnaires if they don't wish
to, Mr.. Policy emphasized.
To Query School Heads.
Questionnaires also will be
sent to principals and superin-
tendents. They will be asked for
information on enrolment,
teaching staff and how much
contact their schools have with
outside organizations, such as
PTAs, business and civic groups.
Some parents also will be asked
for information occupation,
birthplace, how far they went in
school and whether they own
their own homes. No opinions
will be sought in any of the
queStionnaires. however, the. con-
ference was told.
One of the main objects of the
study, Mr.. Policy said, is to dis
cover ways in which schools can
not only improve their teaching
but can increase constructive
contact with the community. The
association also hopes to en-
courage more school systems to
do some scientific self f-evaluation,
he said.
The study also will give school
systems a chance to see how they
stack up against one another.
Data to Go to Officials.
Mr.. Beach said only the super
intendents will get the results.
It will be up to them to decide
Evening star., 1953-11-06
whether to make them public, he

whether to make them public, he
added.
George Glasheen, educational
services chief of the Atomic En-
crgy Commission, told a luncheon
session yesterday that the Acc
IS encouraging school systems
to use speakers, films and in
structional kits about peacetime
atomic power and isotopeS.
The Acc has no objections to
teaching about atomic weapons
h. said, but he added that the
commission feels "peacetime ap-
plications of atomic energy are
things we should know as a peo-
Pile" Most youngsters writing
the Acc for information ask
about such things instead of
weapons. he said.
The conference, meeting at the
Hotel 2400, was to end today.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
$4,000 Mortgage on Home
Paid at Cost Of S9.46
Rx the Associated Press


DENVER, Nov. GA Denver
widow paid off a $4,000 mortgage
on her home yesterday at a cost
of $9.46.
Her husband applied for life
insurance which paid the mort
gage last Saturday. He died next
day.
Actuarial experts estimated
the odds against such a circum-
stance at more than a million
to one.
George Smart, 81, a head file
clerk for the Denver & Rio
Grande Western Railroad. took
physical examination for his
policy the day before he died.
Evening star., 1953-11-06

lice, was arrested last July %
on a carnal knowledge charge in
volving a 15-year-old colored
girl. Juvenile authorities also
had waived jurisdiction at that
time, and he was indicted and
released under 1000 bond pend
ms trial.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
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They contain neo-synephrine and
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Evening star., 1953-11-06

CHECK YOUR CHILD'S COUGH
and bronchial irritation of colds.
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Soothes. eases. So pleasant tasting.
ST. JOSEPH COUGH SYRUP FOR CHILDREN
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Raising of Federal
Debt Clears First
Hurdle in Congress

WASHINGTON, R r. President
Eisenhower's late hour proposal to
boost the federal debt ceiling to
200 billion dollars cleared its first
congressional hurdle Friday. The
House Ways and Means Commit
tee approved it 17-6.
It was the first step in a tense,
rapid-fire drive by administration
forces to push across the strom-
provoking request in the closing
hours or days Of this congressional
session.
But there is fierce opposition in
the Senate, and the issue threw a
cloud of doubt over plans to ad-
journ Congress this week. How
ever, there were signs at least
some of the Senate opposition to
the Presidents plea was waver-
ing.
Chairman Daniel A. Reed R-
NY announced the House Com
mittee voted approval for bill,
drafted by him, to increase the
debt ceiling from 275 to 200 bill
lion dollars. The action came after
Secretary of the Treasury Hum
phrey and Budget Director Joseph
Dodge presented the administra-
TONS case in a closed meeting.
1T is imperative that this cell
ing be lifted before the govern
ment runs out Of money" Hum
phrey said. "Otherwise we would
not be able to pay government
salaries or pay our bills as they
come due. It is unthinkable that
the government of the United
States should not pay its bills
promptly"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Communist Police
COnfiscate Food
Gifts to Berliners

BERLIN, lR-Communist police
Friday began mass confiscation of
us. gift food parcels which hun
cry East Germans are bringing
back from free West Berlin.
The confiscation campaign be-
gan at the big rail terminal in
Potsdam, southwest Of Berlin,
where the Red police intercepted
hundreds Of persons returning
with the food. The Potsdam sta
ton was surrounded by police,
and the food bearers were herded
into an empty room and stripped
of their gifts.
West Berlin police Immediately
began broadcasting warnings to
East Germans to avoid the Pots
dam station and try to get home
by other routes.
The confiscation began just as
West Berlin officials announced
they had upped their target to
three million free food parcels
for the East Germans. Food sta
tons in the western sector braced
for a weekend invasion from the
East that was expected to boost
tho fret 11yQoI'c Hictri hutton nocf
two million.
The Communists began Selling
the food packages after a cam
paign of threats and propaganda
failed to- keep the hungry Russian
zone population from streaming to
West Berlin to receive the Ameri-
can sponsored gifts.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
House Bill Would Increase
Eklutna Power Funds

WASHINGTON, R--The House
Thursday passed in amended form
a Senate bill to increase the au-
thorization for the Eklutna hydro
electric project near Anchorage,
Alaska, to 80 million dollars.
The present authorization for
Eklutna is only $2O,365,4 400 most
of which has been appropriated,
although the project is still far
from completion.
Anticipating passage of the new
authorization bill, both House and
Senate approved the appropria-
ton of 71a million for the prof.
ect for the current year
The measure must now go back
to the Senate for agreement, or
to a conference committee.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Three Killed, Two Hurt
In Valdez Highway Crash

VALDEZ, Up - Three persons
were killed and two others ser
iously injured Thursday in an
automobile crash on the Richard
son Highway.
Mrs. George A. Mcdonald and
Mrs. Andy Hall, both of Fair
banks, died in the crash. Mrs. Earl
T. Aronson, also of Fairbanks,
succumbed later in a Valdez hos
pital, where two others, George
A. Mcdonald, Jr., and Mrs. John
w. Deckerson, were reported in
serious condition.
Territorial Patrolman John
Bradshaw said the driver of the
car apparently lost control on a
mile grade south of Thomp-
son Pass as it neared Valdez. The
car hurtled end over end and was
demolished.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Russians Shoot
Down US. B-5O
In Sea of Japan

WASHINGTON, Up hmm T h e
United States Friday protested to
Moscow against the shooting
down Of a us. B-5O plane in the
Sea Of Japan and called on the
Russians to release survivors it
presumed" were picked up by
Soviet vessels.
One of the planes crew of II
Capt. John E. Roche Of Wash
ington, D.C.,-WaS rescued by an
American destroyer and was
quoted by the us. Far East Air
Force as saying Russian fighters
attacked the B-50.
The plane was shot down We'd
nesday. On Thursday, Moscow
charged the B-5O violated Soviet
territory, fired on Soviet fighters
arising to intercept it, and disap-
peared in the direction of the sea.
Gen. 0. P. WeylanA, command
er of the us. Far East Air Forces,
said:
mo American plane has vio-
lated Soviet territory"
Roche was picked up by the
U.SS. Picking 40 miles off the
Siberian coast. He had spent II
hours in the water and another
II in a boat dropped by search
plane.
The incident is one of a long
series of clashes with the Soviets
over shooting down of U. S.
planes. Moscow has insisted in
each instance that the plane vio-
lated Soviet territory. The United
States has commended there was
no violation.
This is the first time, however,
that there has been any sugges-
ton that survivors were taken
into Russian custody.
A State Department official
said he did not know the number
of survivors reported to be in
Soviet hands.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Soviet Army Reported
To Have Taken Real
Power Behind Malenkov

LONDON, u Reports that a
trio of Russian war-hero mar
shals under the famed Georgi K.
Zhukov has taken over real power
in the Soviet Union were studied
here today.
The Evenings News said Prime
Minister Churchill had been so
informed. The Foreign Office de-
clined comment.
Fearful that he could not main
tain his grip in the wake Of the
purge Of Interior Minister L. P
Beria, the paper says, Premier
Georgi M. Malenkov turned in
desperation to the professional
soldiers Of the Soviet army who
are now the ''power behind the
throne"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
House Bill Creating rs
Federal Judgeships Does
Not Include Alaska

WASHINGTON, R-The House
passed by voice vote and sent to
the Senate Thursday a bill Great
ing rs new federal judgeships,
but not including Alaska.
A similar bill, to create SO new
seats, has been passed by the Sen
ate.
The two measures will go to a
Senate-House conference commit
tee for adjustment of differences.
Attempts to amend the House
bill to make it conform to the
Senate measure were defeated.
The Senate bill would add one
district judge in Alaska. Similar
provisions were sought for the
House measure by Delegate Bart
lett but his amendment was de-
feated by voice vote.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Sen. Wayne Morse Will
Vote With Republicans
On Partisan Issues

WASHINGTON, Up Continued
Republican control of the Senate
despite presumptive appoint
ment of a Democrat to succeed
Sen. Taft - was assured Friday
when Sen. Wayne Morse Qnd-
Ore said he would vote with the
Republicans if the issue arose.
Morse told reporters>he feels an
''ethical obligation to vote with
the Republicans on Senate organi-
rational issues"
He added:
"The people of the nation in the
election Of 1852 voted the Repub-
ican party into power and 1 shall
abide by that mandate on Re-
publican control of the Senate I'M
til the people have the chance in
1854 to review their decision.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
MANDERS WITHDRAWS AS
CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE

ANCHORAGE, Up - Attorney
John Manders has withdrawn as
a candidate for judge Of the Third
Division, Republican Committee
man Herald Stringer said Thurs
day.
He said Manders explained that
he was withdrawing because of
complications in his private and
professional affairs.
Two other Anchorage attorneys,
Ralph Colts and William Sanders
have applied for the judgeship.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
700 Juneau Kids
Get Polio Shots In
Mass InmunizatiOn

JUNEAU, R- Seven hundred
Juneau children had reason Fri
day to be sore at almost everyone
in town.
Otherwise, the first day of the
first mass polio immunization out
side the boundaries of the United
States Thursday was highly sue
cessful. Every organized group or
agency in Juneau cooperated.
Before the project was under
way an hour, physicians and
nurses set up a routine which
moved children through, from
registration to consoling lollipop,
one a minute.
The Kiwanis Club joined taxi
cab companies in furnishing free
transportation to the clinics, city
hall and Harborview school CEN
tiers.
Scores of housewives, business
women and Girl Scouts assisted in
the registration and routing. Ev-
cry physician in Juneau gave four
hours of time in administering the
gamma globulin. Nurses volun-
teered.
Merchants furnished candy to
the children and coffee to the
parents.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
TAFT'S DEATH TRAGIC LOSS
TO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

WASHINGTON, Up President
Eisenhower called the death of
Sen. Taft "a tragic loss to Am
erica"
Within an hour after announce
ment of the Ohio senator's death
in New York, the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower drove from the
White House to the home of Mrs.
Taft in Georgetown to express
their sympathy.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Senator Robert A. Taft Dies OF Cancer

) NEW YORK, R- Sen. Robert
A. Taft, symbol Of Republican
ism, died Friday of cancer.
The end came peacefully for
the 63-year-old Ohio Republican,
about Is hours after he had lapsed
into deep coma.
At his side were his four sons.
Taft's condition suddenly be-
came critical just four days ago.
Then, except for brief intervals,
his strength failed rapidly. Not
until the end did New York Hos
pital disclose the cause.
Taft's widow, Martha, was I'M
able to be with him in his last
hours.
Herself seriously i'll as a result
of a stroke three years ago, she
was at their home in Washing
ton, too sick to make another
trip. She had been flown here
for a visit Tuesday.
Taft's death came in a new
and major chapter in his career
the job of majority Senate floor
leader in the first Republican adj
ministration in 20 years.
His illness, however, forced him
to- give up the active leadership
last June.
His death leaves the Senate
for the time being-with a one
man Democratic majority, At
Democrats, As Republicans, and
one Independent.
Taft is the second Republican
senator to die within a week.
Republican Senator Chares w.
Tobey of New Hampshire died
last Friday.
A COP appointee is expected
to succeed Tobey.
But Taft's native Ohio has q
Democrat, Frank J. Lausche, as
its governor, and Lausche is ex-
pected to name a Democrat to
succeed Taft.
Should these expectation ma
terialize, the Senate lineup would
be: 48 Democrats, At Republicans.
l Independent.
Continued ON Page Two)
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Reds Accuse Allies OF
New Truce Violations

MUNSAN, Up - The Reds &C
cused the Allies Friday of two
new truce violations but a U.N.
spokesman said the charges were
not serious.
The accusations came as the
Korean Military Armistice Com
mission and other truce groups
met at Panmunjom.
The Communists made their
18th and 18th complaints of AL
lied truce violation in the 4-day-
old truce at the hour and 4s-min-
ute meeting of the U.N.-Red Arm
istice Commission. The commits
sion is charged with policing the
212-mile-wide demilitarized zone
across Korea.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
20 DROWN AS SPEEDING BUS
PLUNGEs rs Fl. INTO CANAL

MORRISBURG, Ontario, Up -
Twenty persons drowned Friday
in the plunge Of a bus with 81
passengers, most of them asleep,
into the 20 foot deep Williams
burg canal. Most of the II pas
sengers escaped through windows
and the emergency door.
The speeding Toronto-Montreal
bus struck parked truck on the
main highway - No. q between
the two cities. Both vehicles top
pied Is feet into the canal, used
by Great Lakes shipping to bypass
the St. Lawrence River rapids.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
THURSDAY SCORES
National LEAGUE

Chicago 3, Brooklyn 2
Milwaukee 5, New York 0
Philadelphia II, Cincinnati s
st. Louis 10, Pittsburgh 4
American League
Cleveland 4, Mex York 3
Chicago II, Boston l
Washington Z, Detroit 4
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 8
Coast League
San Francisco 8, Oakland 2
Los Angeles 5, Hollywood 4
San Diego 7, Sacramento l
Seattle 2, Portland l
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-07-31
Judge Cooper Appoints
Russell Herman of Juneau
Nome District Attorney

Word has been received by Nor
vim W. Lewis, clerk of district
court, that Judge J. Earl Cooper
has appointed Russell r. Her
mann of Juneau, Alaska, as Uni
ted States attorney for the Sec
ond Division.
MIR. Hermann should arrive in
Nome within the next 10 days.
Smyrna times., 1953-11-05

a committee of All county leaders,
All Order of Link honorary as
sociation officers, and county citi-
zenship ehairmen of home demon
stration clubs. They include: Mrs.
Edwin Williams, Seaford; Joseph
Mitchell, Hockessin; Francis
Downs, Clayton; Frank Nelson,
fredericksburg, Nd; Mrs. Joseph
McIlvain, Lewes; Mrs. Edwin Neil
an, Bear; and Mrs Joseph Ennis,
Smyrna.
The International Farm Youth
Exchange, a two-way program now
in its seventh year, has sent $50
American young people to visit in
33 countries, while PIP farm youths
from other countries have come
here.
Delaware's first IFYE delegate
was Helen Samendinger, Who spent
six months with a German family.
Vaughn Fox, the last delegate, Wis
tied farm families in India. Two
recent visitors to Delaware were
Bethli Wittwer of Switzerland, who
stayed with he Fred Filters of Wy
oming; and Lakashmi Sharan of
Smyrna times., 1953-11-05

India, who visied the Pierce Fox
family, Bear.
Since no government money IS
used for the project, the expense
of sending delegates is met by vol
untary contributions to the Ma
tion All Club foundation and to
state IFYE funds through the Ex-
tension Service. Delaware All ana
home demonstration clubs are cur
rently contributing to this fund,
but support from any farm organ
ization will be welcomed, says
Gwinn.
Application blanks are available
in county extension offices, and
must be returned by December 5
to the State All Club office, Agri-
cultural Hall, University of Della
ware, Newark, Del.