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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
Labor Board Ruling
On New Dock Union
Election Is Imminent

The National Labor Relations
Board is expected to rule any
day now on a request for new
election to determine the union
bargaining agent for workers on
New York's strife-torn water
front.
That request was made in ar
guments before the board late
yesterday by attorneys for both
the AFL and the State of New
York. 1t was in line with the rec
concentration of an NLRB hear
ing officer who held that because
of accompanying violence and
coercion an election held last De-
cember should be set aside by
the board.
The hearing was part of a six
months struggle for control of
dock workers in New York har-
Dor between the old Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Associa-
ton and a new AFL union of the
same name. The old union was
expelled from the AFL on
charges that it was run by gang
sters and racketeers.
But even should the NLRB or
der a new election between the
two unions. it was questionable
whether peace would return to
the Nations largest harbor fol
q long time.
The harbor has been tied ur
since March by a strike OF
members of the old LILA, which
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polled the most votes in the De-
cember balloting
William j. Hannah, attorney
for the old union. admitted there
had been some violence in the
December election. He said there
were ''undesirables" in both
unions. But. he argued. long
shoremen are tough guys" and
the December election was the
best the Government could
expect.
Mr.. Hannah warned the NLRB
that there might by trouble for
two years on the New York
water front unless the union
Jurisdiction question was
promptly resolved.
While calling for new cleo
ton, both Whitney Seymour,
representing New York State.
and Isadore Katz for the AFL.
urged the board not to hold one
until tranquility returns to the
water front" They suggested the
board wait at least 80 days aft
er the present strike has ended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
Teeln1l-Ager Admits
Gang-StyIe Staying
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 81
Police said today four teen-age
boys have admitted being in a
speeding automobile from which
15-year-old Robert Blocker was
shot to death as he stood on a
street corner.
Detectives Robert Nugent and
John j. Creedon said one of the
four, who were not identified,
had admitted firing the fatal
shot at young Blocker as he
stood talking to two girls. They
said the car had been stolen four
days ago.
Meanwhile, police continued
rounding up youths in a wide
area of North Philadelphia for
questioning in what was first be-
lieved to be an outbreak of war;
fare between two juvenile gangs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
More Dock Workers Return,
End of Strike May Be Near

Technically the LILA meeting
was called to weigh a wage in
crease offer from the shipping
industry.
But also up for consideration
was the possibility that the lila
leaders, by calling off the strike
now, might Stave off further
Federal or State action against
them.
Secretary Of Labor Mitchell.
representing President Eisen-
hover, conferred here Saturday
with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to
map strategy for Federal-State
action against the strike leaders.
Court Order Issued.
A Federal Court already has
issued a restraining order
against the strike and the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board
has sought to have the strike
leaders cited for contempt on
the ground they ignored the
order.
The tugs returned to work
yesterday after the NLRB got a
Federal Court order directing
the lila to stop picketing tug
boats and to see that their LILA
crews went back to work.
The court ruled the tug stop
page violated a Taft-Hartley
law ban against secondary boy
colts.
The pier strike spread to dock
side warehouses yesterday when
the lila posted pickets outside
the buildings. However. only
about half the ports warehouses
were picketed, and operators of
those struck were expected to
apply for a court order that
would quickly end the walkout
'TIoox, would ha CO their rocuoSf IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 31.--A
back to-work movement APP
peared under way today in this
huge ports 27-day waterfront
walkout and there was pos
sibility the strike was nearing
an end.
In Washington President Eli
senhoWer said the Federal Gov
eminent will act in the strike
if necessary.
Even before the Presidents
news conference statement. tug
boat men returned to the job.
So did warehousemen in Brook
lyn. The Waterfront Commits
sion reported 4.429 longshoremen
working compared with 4,142
yesterday.
The President told his news
conference the Government has
a grave responsibility to help
settle such disputes. but he
added that everything possible
\ to bring about a settlement
should be done on a local level
as well.
Ready to Act, If Necessary.
Gen. Eisenhower said any
strike of this kind is of utmost
Importance to the Nation and
therefore to the Federal Gov
eminent. He said the Govern
ment keeps abreast of develop
ments in such a situation and is
ready to act. if necessary.
Leaders of the striking Inter-
national Longshoremen's Asso-
citation expected to meet this
afternoon to consider calling off
the multi-million dollar work
stoppage which started in a
/ jurisdictional dispute with a
J rival AFI, union
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
Senate Office Theft Charge
Against Employee Dropped

A charge of taking $3.50 in
cash from an unlocked safe in
the Senate Office Building
against Joseph ". Gugliuzza, an
assistant superintendent of serv-
ice, was dropped at Municipal
Court yesterday.
Mr.. Gugliuzza, 26, Of the 100
block of Joliet street S.W., was
accused of taking the money
which belonged to Group Hos
pitalization funds March Is. He
was arrested March %.
John T. Chambers, superin-
tendent of service at the Senate
Office Building, and Capitol Po-
lite 1t. E. A. Adams told AS
sistant U. S. Attorney Kenneth
D. Wood that Senate officials
did not want to prosecute in
that Mr.. Gugliuzza has promised
to make restitution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31

the same grounds used in the
case of the tugboats.
Brooklyn warehousemen, who
started the walkout yesterday.
returned to their jobs today,
however, thereby easing that
situation.
Meanwhile, the NLRB pressed
it's Federal Court charges of
contempt against the union,
which walked out in defiance of
a no-strike injunction issued by
the court on March 4.
BY the end of it's second day,
trial of the contempt charges
progressed yesterday as far as
selection of a jury Of seven wom-
en- and five men. Two alternate
jurors remained to be chosen.
The NLRB is asking fines of at
least 100000 against the union
and prison terms for three off,
GERS of union locals.
Shippers continued to divert
business from the struck port to
other East Coast cities.
The LILA has asked its mem
bers in other ports to boycott
this diverted shipping, but this
request has met with little sue
cess. In Baltimore, the Nations
second largest port, the Phila-
delphia Federal Court orders
have banned such boycotts.
United States District Judge
Thomas j. Clary issued a tenn
porary injunction yesterday in
Philadelphia, after saying harm
would result in Philadelphia if
the boycott were allowed to con-
tinue." James L. Mock, inter-
national vice president of the
lila, said the union would obey
the order.
With tugboats back on the
job, most big passenger liners
were expected to continue using
New York harbor. However. the
tugs did not return in time for
the Queen Mary to change plans
for sailing from Halifax Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31

Two other boys have been
wounded.
However, Capt. Charles E.
Brown of the homicide squad
said the fighting in which
young Blocker was killed did not
seem to be the result of con-
certed gang action. He said it
was more likely a dispute over
girl.
A Senate subcommittee prob
ing juvenile delinquency opened
an Office here Monday to look
into the youth problem. The
Office is stated by Assistant
Committee Counsel James H.
Bobo.
The boys were jailed tenn
porarily without charges: officers
said they would be scheduled for
arraignment later today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
Engine Catches Fire,
Train Gets Another

A Pennsylvania railroad loco
motive had to be disconnected
from the Congressional Limited
Is minutes before train time this
morning when a fire broke out
in the motor.
The smoldering engine was re-
moved to the Uline Arena siding
where District firemen put out
the fire in the insulation OF the
motor. Another engine was put
on the 8 o'clock New York bound
train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31

Only one East German in 325
owns car. compared with one
in Sc in West Germany. There
are $4,000 cars in the German
Soviet Zone, of an average age
of II years, Berlin reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31

Shupens knives seossors tools deuI for light grinding
With wire brush or bufns wheel it cleons and poIshes
oil metos Plastic eye shields, wheel euords ond
end provide moximum protection Adjustable
tool rests moke grinding convenient OF any angle.
Equipped with one coorse ond fine grit grinding
wheel.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-01-21
Graduate Nurse Dies

A graduate of the Huron Road
Hospital School Of Nursing and
employed at the hospital, Loretta
Marie Sperling, %, died suddenly
Wednesday, January 18th. She had
been i'll but few days.
Services were held from Our
Lady of Peace Church, January
10Th. Burial was in Calvary Gene
terry.
She leaves her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Steve Sperling who reside at
1929 East 127th st.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-01-21

portation to the proper auxiliary
or existing hospital.
Latest Federal Civil Defense
figures estimate that, even with
warning, a daytime attack on
Cleveland with modern atomic
weapons would kill 204,300 people
and injure another $4,000. By ex-
panding bed capacities to the limit,
existing Cleveland area hospitals
could accommodate only $4,000 of
the injured.
To handle the others, the Dis
aster-Relief Committee has spotted
32 auxiliary hospitals over Cuya-
hoga County, which would be
activated as well after an attack.
Staffs will be headed by profes-
sional medical personnel, many of
whom have already received their
emergency assignments, Volunteer
personnel for each installation will
be drawn from the area in which
it is located. Biggest jobs of the
auxiliary hospitals will be treat
ment of shock, care of bleeding and
burns, and emergency surgery.
To equip these auxiliary hospi-
tails, another $250,000 in supplies
are on order and are yet to be
delivered.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-01-21
Named Aid To
Safety Director

A former FBI agent, Robert H.
Johnston, 1926 East 176th ST., has
been named as Cleveland's new
assistant safety director.
Johnston, a Marine Veteran and
son of Howard A. Johnston, re-
tired East Cleveland police lieu
tenant, was appointed to the
$94S8-a-year post on Monday by
Mayor Celebrezze. He assumes
his new duties today.
Although the new assistants
duties have not yet been revealed
it is reported that he will be used
in some instances to double-check
Police Department Investigations.
A graduate of Euclid Shore High
School, Johnston, 35, has a bach
elor of arts degree from Adelbert
College, was a second lieutenant
in the Marine Corps and partici-
pated in the invasions Of Guadal-
canal and Okinawa.
He entered the FBI service in
1947 and since 1850 has been as
signed to the Cleveland office. He
was liason man between the Cleve-
land police and suburban police de-
partments.
Johnston is married and his two
children Jeffrey, and Lynne 2.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-01-21
Cd Supplies
Medical Needs
For First Aid

Communities throughout t h e
county will shortly receive more
than 100000 in Civil Defense
medical supplies, officials of Cuya-
hoga County Civil Defense and the
Disaster-Relief Committee of the
Academy of Medicine announced
this week.
Supplies for Report Centers in
East Cleveland will be stocked at
Rozelle School, 12917 Phillips ave.;
Prospect Schol, 1882 Shaw ave.;
Chambers School, 14121 Shaw ave.
Caledonia School, 914 Caledonia
will be stock center for that area.
The supplies, just received by
the county office, are slated for
distribution to 96 report centers
for first aid teams throughout he
county. They will be stockpiled
here, ready for quick pickup by
mobile first aid teams in the event
of an air attack on the Cleveland
area. The report centers are prin-
cipally located in schools and pub
lie buildings throughout the coun-
ty, designated by the Civil Defense
medical plan worked out by the
Academy of Medicines Disaster
Relief Committees.
Supplies now being readied for
distribution are designed to help
mobile first-aid teams in their
prime job of emergency life-saving
measures and transportation of
casualties to auxiliary hospitals.
They include dressings and band
ages in large quantity, among
which are $4,000 new type burn
dressings with gauze ties attached,
first developed for the battlefield
use in Korea.
More than 5000 stretchers for
transporting casualties will also
be distributed, as well as surgical
instruments for performing minor
surgery.
Since first aid teams in most
cases will not work at their report
centers, but will move forward to
the area devastated by an attack,
their equipment must be basic and
portable. These teams will not at
tempt to be "field hospitals" but
will concentrate on sorting casual
ties and preparing them for trans
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26
ALASKA AIRLINES

From Anchorage: Dick Walsh, Tommy Tootkayalook, G.E. John son, Craig Strom, G. B. Withing- ton, G. Boram, Guy Hedreen, Joe Woodward, Sally Ramsey.
 To Anchorage: Mrs. Roy Swan son, Mrs. Sebastian Patti, Mrs. Cody, MT. and Mrs. F. J. Plimp- ton, H. D. Smith, Mrs. E. T.. Smith, F. J. Stevenson, Alex Ford, Robert Apok Jr., Chris Bjornstad, Ken Hillman, John Martinole.
 To Moses Pt.: Harry C. and Harry D. Hardy, Chas. McKasson.
 MT. and Mrs. Purcell and Pat rician and Johnny Purcell from Film.
 From Koyuk: Olga Charles.
 From White Mt; Robert Apok and Mary and Joe Kokoshuruk.
 From Moses Pt.; Jack Jefford and J. H. Alexander.
 From Unalakleet: Elliott Brad ley and Gordon Nashalook.
 From Shishmaref: Eliot Alanna.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26
Beria Henchman Shot l6 Months After Doctors Plot

MOSCOW, R-M. D. Ryumin, henchman of executed Soviet po- lice boss L. P. Beria, has himself met death before firing squad nearly IS months after he was tagged with the blame for the doctors plot"
 His execution was announced Friday by Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper.
 Pravda said the military colle- gium of the Soviet supreme court tried Ryumin July 2-7 and or dered him shot on charges of forcing the doctors to Islander themselves and other people," It also accused him of treason.
 (There was no explanation why the courts took so long to deal with Ryumin, who was arrested in April, 1853, as the scapegoat in the bizaar easel
 The internal security ministry first announced details of the doc tors plot in January, 1853. It ac- cused nine physicians, several of them Jews, of plotting to kill So- viet leaders and charged they already had done away with Pol itburo member Andrei Zhdanov with reverse therapy.
 Three months later the ministry which had since been taken over by Beria-announced that the nine doctors and six others had been freed and that Ryumin had been arrested. Beria was jailed himself in June, 1853, on treason charges and his execution was announced last December.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26
Stevenson Charges COP Appeasement IndOchina Settlement
Continued from Page D

(COntlnued from Page 1) eign policy defaulted and France salvaged what she could out Of the endless, weary war in Indo- china.'
 Not only did the Communists add valuable and strategic areas to their domain, Stevenson said, but they threw the western allies Unto confusion and dissension, Russia's greatest goal and dearest dream"
 "In Indochina,' Stevenson said, The West suffered it's worst dis aster since the loss of China"
 The blame, "the original sin," for the misfortune" in Indochina rests with France, Stevenson said.
 But he said the "blame for the collapse of our policy in Asia re- mains our responsibility"
 "And," he warned, "We shall fail again and again unless we profit from this experience"
 Stevenson's sharp criticism of the Indochina settlement followed a statement in which he accused the Eisenhower administration of going back on its campaign pro- mises of statehood for Alaska.
 q know developments with re- spect to Alaska have disappointed you," he said. And I know that McCarthyism is symptom of Americas nervous mood and as a startling revelation of consti- tutional crisis, have been pro- foundly disturbing to many more of us.
 And SO are the legislative inn potence, the executive confusion and the paralyzing divisions with in the majority party which is charged not only with governing us but with leading the great coalition of the non-Communist world in this perilous period"
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26
Intelligence Chief Detected to East, Report Indicates

BERLIN, R-A West Berlin custom guard said Saturday West Germany's missing security chief, Dr. Otto John, told him Tuesday night at the East Zone border he was going behind the Iron Curtain voluntarily.
 The guard told police he had stopped a car with John and a West Berlin friend, Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, for a routine check at the British sector border and had given them the customary warning: "You are now crossing into the Soviet sector"
 Both men laughed at his warn ing and replied: "That's where we are heading. We are going to the Charlie Hospital" the guard said.
 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has ordered a sweeping loyalty investigation of all West German officials who were friendly with John.
 Disclosing this today, a high intelligence authority in Bonn said hundreds of officials in the ministries there and elsewhere including some in high positions are being checked.
 A voice, introduced over the Soviet Zone radio as his, said he had contacted "Germans of the east" SO he could work for the divided nations unification.
 The Soviet statement said John defected because Germany is in danger of being torn apart forever by the conflicts between East and West-and German policy has come to a dead end"
 As intelligence chief in the West German government, John had first-hand knowledge of British and American intelligence activi- ties and knew the identities of several hundred East Germans who regularly send information to the West.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26
PROGRESS TAKES TIME

Douglas McKays stay in Nome brief, much too short to try and explain in understandable way the unique problems of the Second Division which very different from other parts of the territory and yet correlated with it's growth and development.
 Those who met him, regardless of party, were impressed with his sincerity interest friendliness and ability to make the most of every minute spent in the area.
 Instead of speeches, the Chamber of Commerce condensed the needs and foremost problems of this coastal in wellbaanced report for the Secretary and were rewarded for their efforts with words of praise from the Secretary and his companions.
 His informal remarks to the group and to individ- uas throughout the morning brought out the fact that the Administration is of many deep rooted wrongs done to Alaskans which have set them back again and again. discouragng progress, but everything cannot be corrected in day nor can their actions please everybody, but they are working for Alaska and want to be given fair chance and time to accomplish those many improvements Alaska needs.
 Coming to Alaska has won the Secretary and the Director of Territories many friends and brought closer unity between Washington and the people of the Boring Sea region.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26

May Bale. former owner of the Polaris Hotel, returned home Fri day after a short trip to the States. She plans to leave on mining trip for the rest of the summer.
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26
COatesville, Pa, Record:

Coatesville, Pa., Record: q" Members of Con- ress have discovered that neither the State Depart ent nor the Treasury has complete compilation of the amounts of money which the United States has given loaned or credited to foreign countries during and since World War II. The total is believed to be about $100 billion :"
The Nome nugget., 1954-07-26

Of the 238 copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's work now known to exist, half are in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-10
Bis Says Spending
Remains High Tor
Home Building

Private expenditures for new
construction totaled $1l,4 bill
lion during the first half Of
1854. q new record for the jan.
uary-June period even after
adjustment for price changes.
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics
reported this week.
These expenditures were about
8 per cent above last years
volume Tor the same months. it
was noted. Private spending so
far this year has been high for
residential building, Offices, COM
mercial building generally.
schools, churches and utilities.
Total expenditures for new
construction OF all kinds reached
q record $16.6 billion during the
first half OF the year. q slight
increase over the 1853 January
June total.
Building increased by Z per
cent in June. mostly reflected in
seasonal gains in private houS-
ing and highway construction.
For the month, private spending
accounted for $2.2 billion and
public spending, SILL billion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-10

Sketches By Star stan Artist Fans Auerbach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-10

tive in the work of his local
organization, the Mason Con-
tractors Association Of Cook
County, III.
Charles w. Humphreys. presi-
dent Of the Washington Building
Congress win preside. Mr.. Ia
heny will be introduced by Will
liam F. Nelson. a past president
Of both the local building con-
gress and the Mason Contractors
Association Of America.
Mondays luncheon is ninth in
Q series dealing with the general
topic Of construction" Serving
on the reception committee this
month are James E. Haines,
Andre Merle, Lynn Mighell. D. N.
Pratt and William p. Strieter.
Real progress is being made by
cities having home rehabilitation
programs, Fritz B. Burns, chair
man Of the Build America Better
Council, reported today.
Reports on programs started
in 1852 or later" Mr.. Burns said,
show that 90 cities have at
tanned the rehabilitation Of a.
486 dwellings and the demolition
Of 1855"
Also. he reported, 191 commu-
mites in ~ States are now en-
gagged in enforcement Of city
ordinances requiring housing to
meet adequate standards OF
health. safety and sanitation.
4 \
The Home Builders ASsocia-
ton Of Metropolitan Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-10
Reolt Revue

will launch It's annual member
ship drive July n. Two "all-
expense" tickets to Havana viii
be presented to the winner Of
the drive who recruits the most
members by completion Of the
campaign December III. CONF
mittee Chairman John q. Aylor
won last years competition by
recruiting IS new members.
\ F5
The National Urban League
has appealed TO President Eisen-
hower to call a White House
conference Of real estate brokers.
builders and financiers 10 con-
slider means of increasing the
housing supply available to Ne
gro families. Mrs. Samuel i
Rosenman is chairman Of the
organizations Housing Commit
tee. Robert Bowling. president
Of the City Investing Co. New
York. is president Of the league
~ 49,
Melville H. Peters Of the Capital
Realty Co, today relinuuiSheS the