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Vol. CXVI, No. 79.
lewis Ordered To Stand Tral For Contempt Of Court
N h aska‘
All Candidates In :
Race Cautious In
Victory Comments
By JACK BELL
OMAHA, April 12—(AP) —
A ding-dong Dbattle that may
pring victory to any one of three
candidates was forecast today in
Nebraska’s Republican voting
tomorrow on seven GOP Presi
dential possibilities. /
From the worried camps of
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio and Harold E. Stassen of
Minnesota came cautious claims
of success in the 1948 campaign’s
first free-for-all contest for the
voters’ favor.
Gtassen, returning here for a
windup speech tonight, was even
more careful than his leading op
ponents in predicting the out
come.
The former Minnesota Gov
ernor told his backers in a state
ment:
! Might Win.
“1f you follow through to the
closing of the polls, I believe we
will win first place .in a close
race in this primary.”
Senator Hugh Butler speaking
in behalf of Taft, told a reporter
he is “very ‘confident” the Ohio
an is going to win. |
“1t will be' a close, hard “fight,
but Taft has the Stl&f to win,”
he declared.
Part of this stuff was the open
support of Butler’s Republican
organization in Nebraska.
Dewey, fighting to keep his
campaign for the nomination
from being switched off the
main track, said che is confident
the program he*outlined” in 3
Nebraska spééches will win the
support of the state’s GOP vo-J
ters.
He described his proposals as
those “which will win the peace
and restore integrity and admin
istrative competence to our na
tional government.” €
Dewey, back at his desk in
Albany, today, was credited
with having lifted himself into
the top bracket of contenders
with his three-day trek up and
down Nebraska byways.
Others in tomorrow’serace are
Senator Arthur Vandenberg,
Gen. Douglas Mae Arthur, House
Speaker Joseph Martin and Gov,
Earl Warren of California.
Pool Strength
Neither Taft nor Dewey re
plied to an assertion by J.
Howard McGuath,. Democratic
National Chairman, that the
New Yorker and the Ohioan had
agreed to pool their strength at
the Republican convention and
give it to the one who showed
greatest backing for the nomi
nation. e
But Butler called the idea,
“absurd.” 3
Along with a victory in the
Presidential popuiarity race: to
morrow apparently’ will go sup
port of Nebraska’s 15 convention
votes on the first ballot—maybe
longer,
A poll of delegates conducted
by Raymond MeConnell, jr.,
Mmanaging editor of the Lincoln,
Neb, Journal, and the Asgociat
ed Press showed a large majori
ty of the 32 candidates running
for 15 delegate posts will vote
for the popularity contest winner
;g. the first ballot at Philadel
ia.
The suspicion remains among
Nebraska politicians that the
state delegation which will be
offlclally uninstructed, will split
UP quickly after the first ballot.
The Democrats will pick a
slate of 12 delegates to their
July National convention. The
Party organization here has en
dorsed President Truman and
Picked Senator Joseph O’Maho
ey of Wyoming for second place
o the ticket, Both names will
dbbear on the ballot unopposed.
lervices Held For
infant Son Mr., Mrs.
i ;
William Miller Sun.
_Funeral service were held Sun
%By afternoon from graveside in
Oconee Hiy cemetery for the ip
fant son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Millgy .
The infant ig survived by his
Parents, g sister, Carel Anne Mil
ltjr: énd his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs, Grady McLeroy, Athens, af}d
‘.\\”Z and Mrs. Abram Russeli,
Wreng
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DISCUSS “RIGHTS”
STLANTA, April 12 —(AP)—
iXle Democratic Chieftains met
N 2 closed wap council today to
chart their fight against Presi
dent Tryman’s civil rights pro
-Bram,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Goalition Group
Claims Revolt ‘
End In Colomhia
G i voiomola
Pan American Parley
To Continue In
Bogota Say Delegates
’ By The Associated Press
i A rew coalition government
claimed today (Monday) to have
put down a “Communist insur
rection” in Colombia—the mob
uprising that wrecked the heart
of Bogota, scene ‘of the Pan
American Conference,
Delegates agreed to go on with
the Ninth International Confer
ence of American States, started
March 20 and interrupted Fri
day by the revolt. But where or
when they did not say.
Bogota, 400-year-old moun
tain capital, was a_ ‘picture of
devastation. The latest count
showed 300 persons dead. Public
buildings, R o m a n Catholic
churches and stores were burned
and looted ruins. Soldiers guard
ed downtown street corners,
Martial Law
Colombia, South American re
public 150 miles below the Pan
ama Canal Zone, was under mar
tial law inveked at nocn yester
day. l
The revolt against President
Mariano Ospina Perez’ mainly\‘
conservative government grew]
out of the fatal shooting Friday'
of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, liberall
leader. g
A new conservative - libergl
cabinet headed by Liberal Dar
rio Echandia as Minister of Gov
ernment was formed Saturda
and took office yesterday. Thi
government claimed last night to
have control.
Barranquilla, Cartagena, Med
ellin and Cali were among cities
outside Bogota reported to have
suffered from rioting. * .
. (’)l‘dhe capital itself was short of
0 te:,é&i 5,000 or so inhab
itants an f&? c‘(?xiter%!;‘l_ce"\'ris%?ors
from 21 American republics. Tt
waited to see whether workers,
after a relatively quiet Sunday,
would stay out today in a gen
eral strike begun with the rebel
lion. {
The visitors, among them U.»
Secretary of State George C.
Marshall and Secretary of Com
merce W. Averell Harriman, all
were reported safe, many of
them in Bogota’s little” disturbed
residential sections.
But some, mostly women, al
ready had been flown out of the
stricken capital. Two Unitedl
States C-54 transports returned |
to Albrook Field in the Panama
Canal Zone last night with €6
passengers from Bogota, Thirty
were U. S. women.
Reliable sources at the Field |
said Marshall’'s C-54 and six
other troop carriers would leave
for Bogota early today, weather
permitting, to bring back Mar-|
shall and others.
The latest pooled dispatch from!
correspondents in Bogota said.
however, Marshall was reported
“determined to stick it . out to
the end.”
> Continue Work
Chief conference delegates is
sued a statement last night in the
name of peace and American
solidarity. It said they “declare
their absolute determination to
continue the important work
with which the governments
have charged them until they
have fully completed the task of
the assembly for which they
were convened in Bogota.”
The sjatement did not set out
where or when the conference
would continue. A pool dispatch
from Balboa, C. Z., written by
Milton Bracker of the New York
Times after his arrival on an
evacuation plane, said the con
ferees decided definitely yester
day to move soon to another city.
Mexico City, Havana, Panama
(Continued on Page Two.)
U. 5. Atomic Scientists Unsuccessful In
Aitempt To Pierce Russian iron Curfain
Soviet Scientists Refuse To Reply To Many
Letters Written By Scientists In The U. S.
PRINCETON, N. J., April 12—
(AP)—The. nation’s ' top atomic
scientists say they have been un
successful in an attempt to pierce
the Russian iron curtain on a
scientific level.
Dr. Thorfin R. Hogness of the
University of Chicago told a press
conference yesterday the Emer
gency Committee of Atomic Scien
tists had sent several letters to So
viet scientists but had received
only one reply.
That one referred them to state
ments of the Soviet's chiei UN
delegate, Andrei Gromyko. “Com-~
rade Gromyko has expressed our
views,” Dr. Hogness quoted the
Russian letter as saying.
The U. S. Scientists group, head
ed by Dr. Albert Einstein, urged
immediate diplomatic negotiations
“at the highest governmental
Full Associaiea Press Service
Atlantans Aid Hurt
Cop In Building
Home He Started
ATLANTA, April 12.—(AP)—
Until last March 4, ex-GI R. C.
West was just a cop with a post
war housing problem. 3
- But unlike most folk, West had
set about building his own home,
werking in his off hours. It ‘was
going to be a mighty nice place
for a man and his wife to settle
down.
Then came the night of March
4. West and his partner, Marion
Key, got a call. A night watchman
had gone berserk.
Before the evening wis out
Key and the watchman w,e%e
dead, West critically wounded.
For days it was touch and go for
the doctors. West lived, but lost
his leg. :
And how is a one-legged man,
fresh from a hospital, going to
build a house?
West won’t have to try. A con
tractor, Lee R. Dorrell, asked
friends to help him pitch in and
(Continued on Page Two.)
State 4-H Members
Get Baby Chickens
1300 Members In State
Get 130,000 Chickens
“The job of delivering 130,000
baby chicks to 1,300 Four-H club
boys and girls who will work on
poultry projects this year in more
than 100 Georgia counties is al
most completed,” aecording to H.
W, Bennett, poultryman for the
Agricultural Extension Service,
“Only about 4,000 chicks are yet
to be delivered,” Bennett said to
day, “and so far only two small
boxes of chicks have been over
heated in shipping and had to be
replaced.”
Each chub hoy and girl feceived
100 baby chicks to grow into a
laying flock.
Sears Sponsors
The chick project is sponsored
in Georgia by Sears, Roebuck
Foundation and is supervised in
counties by local home demon
stration agents and county agents.
Bennett supervises the project on
a statewide basis in ecooperation
with state 4-H club leaders.
At least five boys and five girls
in each of 111 counties received
chicks. In some counties, local
business and, civic leaders spon -
sored additional flocks for 4-H
members. The top county in this
respect is Floyd with 60 flocks of
100 chicks each.
Thirty-six training .schools have
been held in the state during the
past few weeks to teach club boys
| and girls, their advisers and par
ents best methods of handling
small poultry flocks. Four other
schools are scheduled within the
| next two weeks in Dahlonega, Jas
per, Rome and Trenton. From one
to five counties are represented
at each school, Bennett said.
“The Georgia 4-H chick project
is now four years old,” Bennett
explained. “The first year only
eight Georgia counties partici
pated. The second year there were
‘ 60 counties. Last year this number
| jumped to 110, and it is almost the
| same for 1948.”
Bennett is well pleased with the
success of the project in former
years. In 1947 only three of the
110 counties failed to make enough
money from their chicks to buy
additional flocks for 1948.
. Finance
To finance the “chain” each boy
and girl shows 12 of the best pul
lets raised at a fall county poul
try show and these winning birds
I are sold. Money received goes into
a statewide fund for buying addi
tional chicks the next year.
At these county shows, prizes
are given to boys and girls who
make the best records with their
{locks. Sears, Roebuck Foundation
gives SBO in prizes at each show,
(Continued on Page Two.)
levels” in order to avert the “total
collapse of our traditional civili~
zation.” -
The committee repeated its pléa
for world government, Dr. Einstein
suggesting that “partial world gov
ernment—without Russia—might
convince the Soviet Union that she
cannot oppose it.”
The committee said it was plead
ing for immediate action on atomic
controls because scientists have “a
special position in the tragic situa
tiorn in which mankind exists to
day.”
“1t is through the work of the
scientific community that this
great menace (the atomic bomb)
has come upon humanity and now
threatens to destroy civilization,”
the committee said in a prepared
(Continued on Page Two.)
Ahead Wi
head With Plans
May Decide To Set
Up Separate
Political Regime
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWE*
WASHINGTON, April 28—
(AP)—Over angry Russians pro
tests, the United States, Britain
and France have decided to go
ahead at once with their own
plans for unifying Western Ger
many economically.
They may decide to set up a
separate political rggim_e as vgell.
The decision to hold another
three-power meeting in London
to blue-print Gérman’s future
was reported authoritefively to
day as the conflict between the
Soviet Union and the West en~
tered a critical week. 5
It is a week which ~may _be
climaxed by last minute moves
on both sides to try to influence
the outcome of the extremr)y
important Italian election next
Sunday.
Some European diplomats who
have conferred recently with top
American officials believe the
issue of peace in Europe may be
determined by the Italian vot
ing. ¢
New Alarms
That the week will bring new
alarms and tensions seems cer
tain. Whether it may also shed
light on some of the dimmer areas
of Soviet-Western rivalry re=
mains to be seen. 4 ¢
Washington officials are es
cially hopeful, however, that the
whole question of Communist
participation in the Bogota revo
lution may be cleared up within.
a few days. .
That violent outbreak struck a
blow at American prestige by
disrupting the- Inter-American
Conference in session there.
Some. Colombian government
leaders as well as some a&b
Latin American Officials al
ready have charged that Com=
munists engineered the whole
bloody and destructive affair.
United States officials, however,
while reporting that the Com
munists tried to make capital
violence once it started, have
refrained from assessing full
blame.
That the Western nations are
preparing now to follow a new
and stronger course in Germany
was indicated by information on
the next London meeting.
Western Powers Agree
The United States, Britain and
France agreed tnere several
weeks ago on basic principles for
(Continued On Page Two)
Colombia Breaks Diplomatic Relations
With Soviets After Revolf Incidents
Official Bogota Says Fifteen Foreign Agents
Have Been Found, Some Of Them Were Alive
By The Associated Press
Colombia has broken diploma
tic relations with Soviet Russia,
the government radio said to
day, following the arrest of two
Russian agents in connection
with the revolution which devag
tated downtown Bogota, killed
more than 300 Colombians and
forced a revision in the govern
ment. !
Thé government declared a
“Communist insurrection” had
brought about the mob fury
which ruled Bogota and other
large Colombian cities for two
days and disrupted the Inter-
American Conference.
In calling home their diploma
tic representatives to Russia,
the Colombians took the same
action that had - been ordered
last October by Brazil and Ch%ie.
The official Bogota radio said
15 foreign agenis in all had been
found, some of them alive.
The broadccast announced that
the Inter-American Conference
will ‘resume in Bogota “so that
Georgia Power To
Offer Cities More
Plan Would Give City
More In Revenue
ATLANTA, April 12 —(AP)—
The Georgia Power Company has
a one tax program which it says
will increase the tax revenue
in cities where it operates and
simplyfy its own tax problems.
The proposal, made first to su
turban Decatur, would return to
the city three per eent of gross re
ceipts from elecirieity in lieu of
all other taxes. i .
W. H Wright. company se
cretary. said the plan would add
from $6,000 to SB,OOO to Decatu#’s
eunual revenue. The City Com
mission has until May 4to con
sider the proposal. |
" Wright said the company is
willing to pay a % more 1:1]
(Continueg On Page Two)
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HIGH WATER STILL PLAGUES FLORIDA :
The above air view of the Suwanee River was made near Branrord, Florida,
just ahead of the crest of the flood which iundated the entire railroad and many of
the houses shown in the picture. — NEA Telephoto.
State Plagued By
Teacher Pay Woes
Educators Say Is Big
Problem In Education
ATLANTA, April 12—(AP)—
Georgia public schools are plagued
by a problem of higher teacher
pay—higher pay, that is, in other
professions and in the teaching
profession mn other states.
A dark picture of the situation
was painted oy Dr. O. C. Aderhold
of the College of Education at Ath
ens and Dr. J. I. Allman, assistant
state school superintendent.
Need- Teachers
They said in a joint statement
that the state needs 5,000 new
'&ers for -the next term and{
that, frankly, they were not opti
mistic about getting them—at the
pay Georgia offers.
Any college-trained teacher,
they explained, can go to Florida
and hire out for aminimum of $2,-
550 a year. Or if they like Ala
bama better, they can get between
$2,100 and $2,200 there. |
If they are deeply attached to
their native state, they can remain‘
in Georgia where the minimum is
sl,692—nearly S9OO less than
Alabama. . l
The sad truth is, the educators
added, that about 1,000 Georgia |
teachers chose the Florida pay this |
year. A number of others migrated
to Alabama.
(Continueq On Page Two)
Communism could not triumph
over Colombia and the rest of
the nations of the hemisphere”
Possible joint action against
Communism by the American
nations is one of the problems
slated for discussion in the ses
sions.
The government declared the
revolutionary effort was ended
and. that it controlled the situa
tion today. As in confirmation, a
dispatch filed through the U. S.
State Department said that Bo
gotans at dawn today began
coming out of their homes In
numbers unequaled since Friday
night.
They saw a city wrecked as
if in'an air raid. Public build
ings, Roman Catholic churches
and stores had been burned and
looted. Army troops, firing at
snipers had blasted the spire off
Santa Barbara church.
The whole country was under
martial law and a state of siege
imposed by the new coaliilon
cabinet.
j
’A. J. Hartley To Be
Candidate For GPSC
Has Already Filed
Entrance $250 Fee
ATLANTA, April 12.—(AP)—
A. J. Hartley is a candidate for
the Georgia Public Service
Commission with a platform of
better supervision of utilities in
all fields.
He announced Saturday he al
ready had filed and paid the
$250 fee to seek the post .now
held by Perry Knight of Atlanta
in the September 8 Democratic
priinary. =
Hartley is serving his second
term as Assistant Attorney Gen
eral. Formerly, he was Director
of the State Industrial Board and
State Welfare Director.
He is a native of Richmond
BESTABLISHED 1833
Vocational School
Grads Here Are
Placed In Work
Recently several veterans who
have completed 12 to 15 months
training at the Athens Vocational
school have been placed in work;,
announced Charles R. Cox, di
rector, Vocational Education.
These veterans were enrolled
in the Office Equipment Repair
Course and during their training
period they were instructed in
disassembling, ovgrhauling, ad
justing, and general repair work
on leading makes of typewriters
and other office machines, The
'men have gone to work as type
writer repairmén and servicemen
‘with well kmown established -com
‘panies such as the Underwood
Corporation and the Royal Type
writer Company. They have been
placeq’ in work in the following
cities:
Athens, Atlanta, Albany and
LaGrange, in Georgia; Birming
ham, Montgomery, in Alabama:
Knoxville, Tennessee; and Spar
tanburg, S. C. |
Letters have come to the school
from employees stating the,, they
were well pleased with the train
ing these men received while
they were 1 school here, and
some of the veterans have writ-'
ten ‘back stating that they hadl
foung their jobs favorable and
working conditions pleasant. {
Many' new reauests for inter
views with men taking the course
in QOffice Equipment Repair are
still coming into the school. |
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and windy
and continued unseasonably
warm tonight and Tuesday.
Slight chance of thunder
showers Tuesday afternoon.
GEORGIA—PartIy cloudy
and warm Monday, widely
scattered thunderstorms
Monday afternoon or ew;:-
ing, mostly over north. Tuges
day considerable cloudife:s
and continued warm /ith
scattered showers and thun
derstorms.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .ofisa v . ..
Lowest o ceann ..o, 0%
Mebt ..o & .08
NOEORL o T
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .0
Total since April 1 .. .. 2.6
Excess since April 1 .... 1.2
Average April rainfall .. 3.7
Total sinee January 1 ...21.8
Excess since January 1 .. 5.1
L. H. Harris Discusses Cotfon Growing
At Clarke County Farm Bureau Meefing
Mrs. L. M. Sheffer And C. A. Ward Winners
In Grazing Contests Recognized At Meet
Outstanding features of the
meeting of the Clarke County
Farm Bureau, heid in the dining
room of the Winterville Voca
tional School Building Friday
evening, April 9, were interest
ing talks on cotton growing by
Mr. L. H. Harris of Winterville
and on corn growing by Mr. J.
(G. Brown of Athens, Rt. 1. first
prize winners in the County for
these crops in 1947.
Others recognized were Mrs.
L. M. Sheffer and C. A. Ward,
winners of prizes in grazing
contests. Mr. A P. Winston also
gave in a few words striking
evidence of the value of grazing
in growing beef cattle—about fif
ty dollors per head clear profit
over a short period of time.
Directors named to work with
President C. A, Ward; Vice-Pres
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5.
Still Unvaceinated
Hodgson Warns They
Will Be Impounded
By HERB CARLSON
Approximately 1,400 dogs in
Athens have been vaccinated
against rabies in the recent
drive. Dogs not now wearing
city vaccination tags will be im
pounded and owners will be
fined. There are still about 600
unvaccinated dogs in the city,
~according to Dr. Harold B. Hodg
son, veterinarian for the Athens
‘and Clarge County Health De-
Lpartment. :
The Health Department is
planning to assign a special of
ficer to check on unvaccinated
dogs, and cases will be made on
keepers of dogs improperly vac
cinated and licensed. A city ord
nance requires all dogs of eight
weeks of age to be vaccinatedl
annually during March, and 81
state law requires all dogs be
vaccinated annually before July
1. When a special officer is as
signéd, he will impound any dog
running loose without a tag.
Dogs impounded will be held
48 hours and if they are not
disposed of, they will be sold or
gestreyed, Dr. Hodgson statc—s.l
Owners of wunvaccinated dogs
will be prosecuted in the city
police court, and can be fined
up to $25 or be sentenced to 10
days in the stockade. Either or
both penalties may be awarded.
The city vaccination fee is sl,
and the city license costs $2.
County Dogs
Following this city drive, the
Health Department will concen
trate on county dogs. County
owners of unvaccinated pets will
be prosecuted in the County
Court House, after a county of
ficer serves them a warrant. The
innoculation fee in the county is
si, and 50 cenis must be paid
for each day a dog is impounded.
Dogs are kept in the county
pound for seven days.
Violators of the county law
shall be found guilty of a ntis
demeanor, warns Dr. Hodgson,
and will be fined up to $lO for
each unvaccinated dog.
Revenue from the city tags
goes into the city treasury of
Athens. . |
HELD BLAMELESS
JASPER, FLA., April 12—(AP)
—The slaying of a Jasper crate
mill worker by a Georgia Sheriff
here Saturday apparently was
“justifiable homicide,”: county
Judge Ernest Rutledge said to
day. bt
ident A. P. Winston, and Secre
ltary, B. F. Gay were: H. E. Wood,
Milton Southwell, L. H. Harris,
sr.,, E. A. Caruth, J. W. Firor,
and Mrs. L. M. Sheffer, Presi
dent of the Associated Women
of Farm Bureau. Mrs. L. H. Har
ris, Vice-President and Mrs. Ef
fie Gay, Secretary were elected
to serve with Mrs. Sheffer as of
ficers of the womans organiza
tion.
Not least among the events of
the evening was the excellent
dinner served by the girls of the
Bth grade of Winterville High
School under direction oi inheir
Home FEconomics Teacher Miss
Betty Miils. All were in accord
in proclaiming this the most en
thusiastic meeting of the year.
Much credit is due our President
C. A. Ward. &9
T LOCAL COTTON'
1-INCH MIDDLING 38 1-2
Mine Leader Ordered
To Appear In Court
On Wednesday At 10
~ WASHINGTON, April 12—(AP)
~—John L. Lewis got a pension plan
; for his miners'today and ggve
them the word to go back to work,
' but this failed to save him from an
order to stand trial for contempt
l of court.
Federal Judge T. Alan Golds
l borough ruled Lewis must come
| into court Wednesday at 10 a. m.
(EST) to face a contempt charge
for allegedly ignoring an April 3
court order to call off the strike.
Welly K. Hopkins, attorney for
Lewis, argued in vain that a tele- |
gram Lewis sent the miners short
ly before Goldsborough’s court
opened was “full faith” compliance
with the stop-strike order.
That telegram said:
“Pensions granted. Agreement
honored.”
The United Mine'Workers lead
er sent the telegram after accepts
ing a plan for SIOO-a-menth pen
sions at age 62 for miners with 20
years service who retired after
May 28, 1946.
Welfare ¥und
That was the date a mine work~
ers welfare fund was set up. It is
financed by 10 cents a ton royalty
on each ton of coal mined.
+ Members of the United Mine
Workers otherwise eligible for the
pension will get it even though
they worked in mines which have
not paid the royalty.
This plan was proposed by
Senator Bridges (R-NH) as a com~
promise of Lewis’ demand for pen
s sions for sl mingis age 86 with
20 years service regarcfigss of the
date they retired. Ezra Van Horn,
representing the mine operators in
negotiations with Bridges and
Lewis, opposed the Bridges plan
but was out-voted.
All this was concluded before
,Goldsborough’s hearing on an or
der for Lewis to show cause why
' he should not be held in contempt.
| Then came the judge’s decision
that Lewis must stand trial Wed
nesday,
~ Before Goldshorough acted,
‘there had been every indication
that the miners would go back to
work. But the news that Lewis
would have to stand trial raised a
question with some labor observers
here whether the miners might de
cide to stay out a while longer.
At Pittsburgh, a district leader
of the United Mine Workers said
a return-to-work movement would
begin upon receipt of the tele
gram.
“It looks to me like the miners
will be going back to work,” said
William J. Hynes, president of
UMW District 4, which includes
the rich uniontown coal and coke
producing area.
~ The events went like this:
| Settiement
Lewis, Bridges and Van Horn
met at 8:30 a. m. (EST) and an
nounced the pension seitlement
after an hour’s conference.
When the meeting broke up, K.
C. Adams, public relations man for
the United Mine Workers, gave
reporters & statement from
Bridges. g
~ Apparently the statement was
prepared before the meeting con
vened, indicating Lewis and
Bridges were certain of the out
come when they met with Van
Horn.
i Then at 10 a. m,, Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough convenad court to
‘hear the contempt case against
Lewis. :
~ Lewis stayed away. His presence
was not actually required because
the proceedings were on a motion
to “show cause”—(why he wasn’t
in contempt)—a proceeding oridi
narilv handled by attorneys. ;
Goldsborough said he was dig
posed to put the proceedings over
until Wednesday, because the
union had already filed a written
answer to the rule to “show cause.”
But Welly K. Hopkins. United
Mine Workers Counsel, said he
would like to make an oral state
ment.
The judge, saving “this is a mat
ter of great public interest,” con
sented to hear both him and the
government. AR
Ascistant Attornev General H.
Graham Morison, then launhced
into the government’s recital of
the events leading up to the strike.
Bridges described the pension
plan he advanced as a “tentative
one.”
He came into the case_because
last Saturday he acceptea a post
as “neutral” trustee of the miners
welfare fund.
Runs Into Millions
This. fund, running into millions
a year, was created by an asgree
ment last year for 10 sonda o ban
ravalty on every ton of coal mined.
The 10 cents 2585 16 the fund.
The plan calls for SIOO a month
pensions for miners age 62 with
20 years service who retired after
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