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Evening star., 1953-09-27

But the provocation was too much
to ignore.
Behind the union, investigators
have learned, were gangsters in
the guiSe of labor leaders. There
was corruption, too. The union
president, Joe Ryan, is under in
dictment on charges of stealing
union funds.
The AFL executive council or
dered the lila last February to
clean house by April 80 or face
expulsion. There we're many prom
ises of cleanup, but no action.
Last week the AFL executive
council voted unanimously to go
through with the custer.
The AFL Immediately announced
1t would set up a new union to
take over the $4,000 longshoremen.
The lila, however, planned to re-
SiSt.
A bitter battle for the loyalty
of the dock workers began to
shape up. The fight probably
would be the hottest in the Port
of New York. Longshoremen in
the Great Lakes and Gulf were
expected to join the new AFL
union. But at least half the ILA's
membership was expected to stick.
No-Roidine Pledge
Though strife was indicated on
the docks, there was a harbinger
of labor harmony in other action
by the convention.
The group took first moves to-
ward an end to the CIO-AFL feud
and possibly toward later merger
of the giant labor considerations.
The first action was approval of
a plan to stop fighting among rival
AFL unions over which workers
should do certain disputed jobs.
The convention agreed to set up
a council to settle jurisdictional
disputes.
That would establish intra-AFL
harmony and clear the air for
AFL-CIO agreements.
The convention also approved a
no-raiding pact with the CIO. The
pact, after ratification by member
unions, would provide for neutral
settlement of disputes between the
AF'L and CIO over rival attempts
to organize worker groups.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Government

THE ADMINISTRATION moved
l. last week to abate panic
among Government employees. The
worst of the firings are over, Civil
Service Commissioner Philip Young
said. Eighty-eight thousand en-
ployes have been dropped from
Government rolls. Another 100000
are due to be Topped off before
next June, but Mr.. Young expects
attrition to account for most of
these. The merit system stands as
strong as ever, he said.
Displaced career employees got
special encouragement, at the ex-
pense of indefinite employees" Mr..
Young said career employees would
all be placed, adding that most
"indefinites" would be kept on too.
Less than per cent of the 2.5
million Government positions will
have been affected by the Repub-
lican economy wave. This might
not have caused the anxiety it did
but for the political sound and
fury that accompanied the cut
backs. Most employees imagined the
ak to be much bigger, and, more
over, aimed directly at them. The
administration may have wanted
to give out reassuring words
earlier, but apparently decided
against 1t for political reasons.
Now the tattered morale among
Government workers is expected
to rise slowly, since Mr.. Young
is firmly on record to And Jobs for
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Beriiu

TT WAS EITHER the biggest
L escape of the century-or the
biggest hoax.
Was Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria,
deposed No. 2 Russian, still in
Moscow's Lubianka prison? Or
had he fed to the safety Of the
West?
The possibilities had tongues
Wagging from West Berlin to San
Diego-and for good reason: The
escape of Beria-if it had hap
pened-might conceivably be the
big break that could end the cold
war on the Vests terms.
But if Beria had managed to
elude Premier Georgi Malenkov's
men, and had not yet been located
by agents of the West, he certainly
must" be the quarry of the widest
manhunt ever conducted.
In fact, Beria knows at first
hand so many Soviet secrets that
it seemed to some a wonder last
week that the Russians would stop
at anything to get him back.
To understand the value of
Beria to the West, and conversely
his danger to the Communists, it
is necessary to look at his stature
before his fall from grace last
summer. He was head of the Rus
sian secret police; boss of commu-
nism's international spy organiza-
ton; chief of the Soviet's atomic
and hydrogen bomb projects.
With this background, Beria GER
tainly would know more about
Russia than any one American
knows about the United States.
It would be as If Allen Dulles,
head of Central Intelligence; J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI;
Lewis Strauss, chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, and
Gordon Dean, Strauss predeces-
sor, all had hoped into a plane
and sought asylum in the Soviet
Union.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Britain and France

Great Britain's opening state
ment came Thursday. Selwyn
Lloyd, Minister of State for For
eign Affairs, pumped for flexibil-
ity in making arrangements for
the Korean political conference.
He said Britain was cautiously
optimistic" that the Soviet soft
line, in evidence after Stalin's
death, might yet lead to some
good results in spite of Mr.. vi
shinsky's disappointing perform
ance.
II do not think it can be suffi-
ciently emphasized that negotia-
ton is not the same thing as ap-
peasement," Mr.. Lloyd said.
It remained for French Deputy
Foreign Minister Maurice Schu-
mann, however, to specify what
Evening star., 1953-09-27
United States

There was no official American
reaction to the French and British
proposals. The State Department
did not say 1t had changed it's get
tough policy, nor did it publicly
view with alarm the new positions
of the American allies.
The lack Of alarm was one of
the hints that the United States
may also be considering modifica-
tions of it's program for ending the
cold war.
Another hint had come Tuesday
when the chief American delegate
to the U. N, Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr., revised Americas official atti-
tude toward participation of "neu-
trails" in the proposed Far East
conference. It was actually re-
statement of what Mr.. Dulles had
said in a press conference last
month, but had never said Off
cially before the U. N. Americas
position was this, Mr.. Lodge said
last week: If, after the narrow,
two-sided conference met, it made
good progress on the Korean con-
ference, then the gathering might
we'll be expanded to take in other
participants and to take up other
Far Eastern problems. This state
ment was, of course, an attempt
to show that the American ap-
proach to a Far East conference
was not at all inf1eXible.
A Further Hint
A further hint came when tenta-
tive American terms for a Korean
settlement we're leaked to the
press. Hitherto it had been said
only that we sought peaceful uni
fication of Korea and eventual
withdrawal of foreign troops. Now,
however, we apparently were ready
to promise the Reds naturalization
of that country provided it could
be unified under U. N. supervision.
The alternative to that would be
continued partition of Korea and
continued American occupation OF
South Korea.
This offer, if it were made, would
go contrary to our assurances (not
yet approved by the Senate) to
Syngman Rhee that we would &C
cept South Korea as a military
partner in our anti-Communist
Far Eastern bulwark. U. N.-super-
vised free elections also would be
repugnant to Mr.. Rhee. who claims
he already is the legal, If not de
facto, President of both Koreas.
The Chinese Communists, how
ever, should be satisfied II they
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Labor
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION

THE AMERICAN FEDERATION
l. OF LABOR, representing about
million workers and voters, met
last week in st. Louis and made
news in three important ways.
The AFL:
. Made it clear that the union
leadership takes a dim view of the
Eisenhower administration.
Q Solved an internal problem by
kicking out the longshoremen's
union.
. Voted tentative steps toward
reconciliation with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations.
Politics was the first order of
the convention. The AFL was
disgruntled over lack of action by
the administration on revision of
the Taft-Hartley labor law and
welcomed the opportunity to
show it.
Martin P. Durkin set the stage.
He told the TOO convention dele
gates why he quit the Eisenhower
cabinet September 10 and returned
to the presidency of his United
Association of Journeymen and
Apprentices of the Plumbing and
Pipefltting Industry.
Durkin's Story
1t was this way, he said:
His first big job as Secretary of
Labor was to be a reWrite of the
Taft-Hartley law, a reform prom
ised by President Eisenhower dur
ing the campaign last year. Mr..
Durkin said he first turned the
task over to a labor management
advisory group. They could not ap-
proach an agreement. So his staff
then tried to work out new law in
talks with Commerce Department
representatives. There was no
progress. Mr.. Durkin tried a series
of conferences with White House
aides, Senator Taft, Senate and
House Labor Committee members
and Commerce Department repre-
sentatives. A little headway was
made. Then staff personnel" of
the White House and Labor De-
partment hammered out agree
ment on 10 amendments to the
law.
He was told, Mr.. Durkin con-
tinued, by President Eisenhower,
himself, that the 10 amendments
would be sent to Congress with a
request for action. Then Senator
Taft died, and transmission to
Congress was delayed.
The 10 amendments, however,
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Russia

The week in the U. N. opened
on a depressing note. The post
Stain Soviet peace offensive ap-
peared to have been brought to
formal close Monday when Andrei
Vishinsky, chief Soviet delegate,
had nothing to offer In response
to Secretary of State Dulles con-
ciliatory speech of two weeks ago
but the same old abuse and the
same Cd Russian disarmament
plan.
Most Of Mr.. Vishinsky's speech
was devoted to attacks against
"the aggressive North Atlantic
bloc" His solution was a ban on
atomic weapons "a ban to be
enforced by the U. N. Security
Council where Russia has a veto),
elimination of military bases In
foreign nations (WeStern bases,
that Isl and an end to war
melting propaganda (Which all
comes from the Western camp,
according to Soviet views). The
huge Red Army would remain
intact.
Mr.. Vishinsky also moved to re-
open the question of who should
attend the poSt-Korea Far East
political conference. His resolu-
ton to that effect was rejected,
40 to s.
Evening star., 1953-09-27

ERANCE and Great Britain
Il gathered strength last week
for what looked like q frontal as
sault on United States intran-
sigence toward Soviet Russia,
The principle our friends sought
to modify was the very fundamen-
tai of American foreign policy:
The Kremlin must show by deeds
that it is sincerely interested in
peace before the West will take
seriously any more tUordS.
The United States, for its part.
showed an ever-So-slight tendency
to relent.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
CIcumstontioI Case

For the present, the whole Beria
case is circumstantial. One solid
fact added to what is known would
either clinch the case or torpedo
it. But so far the facts have been
without substance.
The hubbub about Beria began
early last week when the San
Diego (CalifJ Union, newspaper,
reported that Beria had fled to a
neutral country" and was seek
Ing political asylum in America.
Shortly afterward, a spokes.
Continued on Page A-32.)
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Spanish Bases

If talk of non-aggreSSion pactS
with Russia was likely to inflame
militant members of the American
right, another development yes
terday was likely to mollify them.
At II o'clock in the morning,
United States Ambassador James
c. Dunn and Spanish Foreign
Minister Alberto Martin Artajo
signed long-awaited defense
agreement which gives America
Spanish bases and Spain American
aid.
No one has yet reckoned the
cost to this country. The first
installment, however, is 1925 mil
lion, payable this fiscal year. That
more-plenty more-will come due
later in the 10-year life of the pact
is beyond question.
But in exchange, Dictator
Franco will give the United States
at least two naval bases and at
least four airbases. The former
will be valuable in preventing the
Russians from making a Red lake
of the Mediterranean Sea- The
latter will be priceless springboards
for counterattack in event of
Soviet aggression in Europe.
Some Europeans-who fear both
Franco and the implications of
an American stronghold behind
the Pyrenees-can be expected to
complain. But it is unlikely that
complaints over the nature of the
agreement Git is not subject to
Senate ratification will be heard
from the many politicians who
lately have objected strongly to
executive pacts made without
Senate consent.
Evening star., 1953-09-27

were leaked-by persons officially
unknown-to the press. They were
printed in full by the Wall Street
Journal. The business world was
indignant over the amendments,
saying they gave the balance of
labor-management power to labor.
The amendments were never
sent to Congress-, and Mr.. Durkin
resigned in protest.
White House officials, on reading
Durkin's speech, promptly denied
that the President had given either
approval or disapproval of the 19
amendments or any other sugges-
tions for modification of the, Taft
Hartley Act.
The next day, Vice President
Nixon appeared at the convention
to present the administration side.
His performance was awaited with
much interest by persons who re-
called how exactly one year pre-
viously he had snatched political
triumph from disaster in a famous
TV defense of his California
expense fund.
Last week, however, his audience
had no tears for Mr.. Nixon, only
a long chill punctuated by hoots
and applause at the wrong"
places.
Vice President Nixon said that
the administration was aiming for
the happiness of the American
people: Jobs, take-home pay, Sc
curity, and "the right to join or
ganizations which can work for
all of these other factors for
Americans"
He conceded that the AFL and
the administration might differ on
specific programs, but he said the
administration thought it would
be proved to be right in the end
and would successfully go to the
people for reelection.
IF at the conclusion of this ad-
ministration's first four years in
Office" Mr.. Nixon said, "the Amer
lean people conclude it has served
the greedy few-as the term has
been uSed-to the detriment of
the many, this administration will
lose the next election, and it will
deserve to lose.'
For the first time, the conven-
ton cheered.
Mr.. Nixon turned to the Durkin-
White House spat. There had
been misunderstanding" Geers
and hoots) but both the President
and Mr.. Durkin were honorable
men, he said.
Then he read a 1900 word mes
sage from President Eisenhower
outlining in general terms his in
tention to improve the Taft-Hart-
ley Act.
The demonstration indicated
that the leaders, at least, in the
AFL we're we'll away from the
Republican camp at this time.
Whether they would be lured closer
by next years work on the Taft
Hartley Act and whether the union
rank and file would follow the off,
cial lead was, of course, another
question.
Loneshoremen Out
Along with politics, came con-
vention business. The most dra-
matte moment occurred Tuesday
when seven pale, tight-lipped men
left their seats and walked grimly
out of the hall. They were dele
gates of the international Long
shoremen's Association, and the
AFL had just voted overwhelm-
ingly to expel their union from the
Federation. The reason: Corruption
and gangsterism in the dock union.
It was the first time in the AFL's
72-year history a member union
had been ousted for that reason.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
The Hardening

Last April 16 President Eisen-
hover specifically told the Rus
slams that the United States
wanted evidence in Korea, Ger
many and Austria that the Com
muniStS wanted peace before he
would enter into top-level nego-
tiationS for ending the cold war
In mid-July, at a Big Three for
eign ministers meeting in Wash
ington, the United States turned
aside q British French effort to
engage Premier Georgi Malenkov
in top-level conversations about
resolving major East-West differ
enceS.
Then, early in August, Premier
Malenkov announced to the world
and later proved to the satiSfac-
ton Of the West-that Russia had
mastered the production Of the
hydrogen bomb. There was a new
look to the world situation.
The United States, nevertheless,
solidified its reputation for infex-
ibility in the last half of August
when United States Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge insisted that
the United Nations bar India from
the Korean political conference.
With the help of its Latin Ameri-
can allies, the United States was
able to prevent the U. N. from get
ting the two-thirds majority nee
essary to invite India. Our other
allies were openly apprehensive.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
fired careeriStS and to be as kind
as possible to "indefinites."


Taxes
While the labor leaders were
threshing out their problems in
st. Louis, another set of national
leaders, members of the American
Bankers Association, were meeting
here.
The delegates got a scare on
Monday when President EiSen.
hover, In Boston speech, said:
There Is no sacrifice-no labor,
no tax, no service-too hard for us
to bear to support logical and
necessary defense of our freedom"
Many bankers concluded that
those words were an Eisenhower
hint that the Soviet H-bomb and
ever-growing air force would make
1t necessary for this country to
postpone tax cuts and balanced
budget and would in fact necessi-
tate even higher taxes.
The following day, however,
Treasury Secretary Humphrey as
sured the convention that the
administration would move along
as planned. On December 81
there would be a 10 per cent re-
duction on individual income taxes
and an end to the excess profits
tax. Those reductions, he said,
would go through as scheduled.
MANY further adjustments in
taxes are now under consideration
-. for submission to the next
Congress-" Mr.. Humphrey con-
tinued. Whether the adjustments
would leave taxes higher, lower, or
just rearranged, he did not say.
The outlook for a balanced
budget, however, was good, Mr..
Humphrey said. The Government
had turned the corner in its at
tempt to get finances in hand.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
ROSh HaSh0nah Food

several meals of Rosh Hashonah
and for the meal prior to the
Yom Kippur fast. The honey
spread on the bread at the begin
ming of each meal is symbolic of
the hope for a sweet year.
Since RoSh Hashonah is a Day
of Judgment there is also the
custom in many communities to
eat the head of some animal,
usually that of a sheep, for the
head represents leadership. Eat
ing from the head of sheep i'm
plies the hope that one would not
descend the ladder of misfortune
but rather continue to succeed
and be a leader.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11
CONGRESS AND CIVIL
RIGHTS

Congress under Republican
leadership is in dead center" re-
garding civil rights legislation. 1t
was predicted by Phineas Indritz,
an Interior Department attorney
who specializes in civil rights,
that Congress will not move one
way or another in the near future.
An abortive attempt was made
last January by group of bi-par-
tisan Senators to eliminate the
filibuster as a weapon for Sailing
civil rights bills. The motion was
tabled by Senate Majority Leader
Robert A. Taft. Unless Republican
leadership can use persuasive
powers that have not been re-
vealed in the past, there are not
enough votes to halt and filibuster
and promote civil rights legisla-
ton. For although there are IA
Senate votes which should be
for civil rights, only a total of SO
can be safely counted on, it is
estimated.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

Because Rosh Hashonah is a
Day of Judgment, the sentiment
against an evil decree was car
ried over to the food customs of
the holiday. 1t is the custom to
eat sweets and avoid sour foods.
This custom goes back for more
than a thousand years and is
mentioned in the Response of the
Gennim. A dish of honey is
usually on the table during the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

This stone Menorah was found
in Tiberias and dates back to the
3rd Century A. D.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-09-01
Jumper and Blouse Set

Left. No. 8so5--This attractive jumper and
blouse set is designed particularly in half
sizes for the not-so-tall figure. Sizes 1412,
1914, 1872, 2013 2212, 2412. Size 1914, jumper,
21s yards of 39-inch material; blouse, short
sleeve yards
Below. Nos. 1874 and s875 An exciting
skirt and jacket pair for juniors. Each num-
Der is in sizes IL, IL. 49, ID, Is, Is, 20. Size
skirt yards of 54-inch material. Jacket, 1sh
yards. Two separate patterns.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-03-20

a hospital patient for several
weeks and also went to the viewing
of another friend on Sunday eve
ming in the same city.
James R. Carroll is in Virginia
this week looking after REA bus
mess.
Mrs. James R. Carroll and David
called on friends in Denton on
Sunday.
Everett Marvel, Ralph Harmon
and Allen Everline attended a bas-
ketball game Saturday night in the
Field House in Dover.
Mrs. Joe Dennis and baby spent
Monday afternoon with her par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. Allison Davis.
The w. J. Mills family enter
tanned company from North Caro-
lima over the weekend.
Misses Margaret and Myrtle
Peterman and Misses Shirley and
Ruth Ellen Chalmers won first
prize Friday evening at the Green
wood High Filters All Club at the
program put on by them in the
Houston Fire Hall.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1953-03-20
FRANKFORT
By C. 6. Croker
Phone Rodney 4s1s

Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin c. Hudson
returned from st. Augustine, Flor
ida early last week.
Miss Lavessa Ann Hudson spent
Wednesday and Thursday at home
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Les
ter r. Hudson.
Mrs. Rodney Campbell entertain
ed her Sunday School Class, THE
Hammers" on Monday evening,
March 9.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Coffin and
sons, Barry and Charles r, Of Col
Wyn, Pa, were weekend guests of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Coffin and his brother, Roland M.
Coffin and family.
The Methodist Men met on Tues
day evening in the assembly room
of the fire house.
Miss Phyllis Franklin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs Robert S. Frank
lin, was the weekend guest of Miss
Carolyn Coffin at the Knox street
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roland M. Coffin and family.
AuA anu WI -. NuIJlS simpler ana
daughters of Virginia Beach were
recent visitors at the home of Mrs.
Simpler's brOther-in-law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Dorman.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Walker and
son Anthony Edwin, have return
ed to their home on Long Island,
N. Y, after spending a week or
more with Mrs. Walkers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin w. Mccormick.
The big day of their visit was the
one on which Baby Tony welcOm-
ed home from Florida, his great
grandpOp, Calvin C. Hudson and
Big Nom Hudson. Cal" Ed, and
Tony can really make things
hum!!!<
Mr.. and Mrs Elias H. Tingle and
Buddy were happy to have at home
with them over the weekend our
popular nursette, Miss Bette Lou,
from the Delaware Hospitals rig
OrOus training school.
Several local ladies attended Ben
jamin's Fashion Show at Millville.
sponsored by the Lord Baltimore
WOmen's Club last Thursday eve
ming. These shows are a real treat
to all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Cash land