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FLOOD VICTIM VISITS HOME FOR FRESH CLOTHES
F Larry Balmar (left) visits his flooded
home in St. Boniface, near Winnipeg,
! Manitoba, for a ehange of clothing. Gar
| ments fiacked in cartons are brought out
through an attle window. Noah Skidman
tn the boat lends a helping hand. About
STALIN AND LIE HOLD
90-MINUTE CONFERENCE
Alanti¢ Pact
Ministers Face
D ion Fear
Possible Risk Cited
If Western Defense
Expenses Are Too High
LONDON, Msay 16—(AP)—The
risk of a possible depression if too
much lis spent on defense lies
squarely before the foreign minis
ters of the 12-nation Atlantic Alli
ance at their meeting here.
The fateful questions whose
answers may mean the difference
between war and peace boil down
to these:
How many guns must the west
muster to be confident of knock
ing back any Russian aggression
which they fear may come?
If they build and pay for a safe
number of guns, will the gun
making bring on economic misery
whieh Communism can use to
capture the allies one at a time
from within?
Committees of experts meet to
day to write resolutions attempt
ing to answer both these questions
safely and translate their answers
into a plan of action.
Later today the foreign minis
fers, with U, S. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson presiding, will take
up the resolutions. Two or three
sessions stretching through Wed
nesday probably will be needed to
iron out conflicting views and to
decide on a course of action.
The Atlantic allies already have
two suggested plans summarizing
their dilemma.
Their generals and defense min
isters, meeting last month, laid
plang for large-scale rearmament
which diplomatic forces say in
cludes a total ground force of 30
divisions backed by British and
American air power.
Athens Woman
Wins Election
AUGUSTA, Ga., May 16.—(AP)
—Mrs. Merita Long, of Athens,
today was elected Grand Chief of
the Pythian Sisters of the Grand
Temple of Georgia at the closing
session of the 44th annual conven
tion held here. - .
She succeeds Miss Annabelle
White of Augusta. o
Other officers elected were Mrs.
Daisy Taylor, Savannah, Grand
Senior; Mrs. Ray Gorcion, of
Brunswick, Grand Junior; Mrs.
Lucille Brewton, 'of Savannah,
Grand Manager; Mrs. Grace Sapp,
of Waycross, Grand Protector;
Mrs. Sallie E, Owens, of Savan
nah, Grand Outer Guard; and Mrs.
Mary Hearne, of Columbus, Grand
Press Correspondent,
Talmadge Accused Of Insurance ‘Refund’
By The Associated Press
Former Gov. M. E. Thompson
today charged the Talmadge ad
ministration with giving out-of
state corporations a $70,000 insur
ance premium refund which five
state revenue commissioners re
fused.
Thompson, challenging Gov.
Herman Talmadge to give “an ex
planation” of the refund, said it
was handled by the governor’s pre
sent chief of staff less than a
month after Talmadge took office.
The current chief of staff is B.
D. Murphy, long-time top Tal
madge attorney.
Thompson reached the brass
knucks stage in his drive to unseat
Talgmdm in ql;orgla's June 28
§ e y
4 Ringgold with. top. Souh. dhacch
he has made in‘a little over two
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
one-fifth of the population of greater
Winnipeg has fled from the city to higher
ground. This picture was made by Ted
Kell of the New York Herald-Telegram.
— (AP Wirephoto.)
Diplomats Opine Chinese Envoys
In U. N. Key Topic of Discussion
MOSCOW, May 16. — (AP) — Prime Minister Joseph
Stalin and United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie
talked for 90 minutes at the Kremlin last night.
The conference climaxed the “Save the U. N.” mission
which brought Lie half-way round the world to see the Rus
sian leader.
Diplomats speculated that Chi
na's representation in the U, N.
was a major topic at the discus
sions. No details of the talks were
disclosed but it is not thought here
that th e Russians showed any
signs of modifying their refulsal
to participate in any U. N. organ=
ization in which ‘Chiang Kai~-shek’s
government is represented.
Russian has demanded that the
Peiping government of Mao Tze-
Tung be recognized as China’s
representative in the United
Nations.
Present with Lie and Stalin at
the meeting wer Vice-Premier
V. M. Molotov and Foreign Min=
ister Andrei Y. Vishinsky. The in
terview came after Lie — seeking
to ease East-West tension—had
conferred with President Truman
in Washington and with top offi~
cials in London, Paris and here in
Moscow.
The 90-minute interview was
considered a rather long one for
the Soviet Premier. It was consid
ered here that Lie and Stalin dis
cussed not only the China ques
tion but other basic points of
East-West tension as well.
There was speculation that Lie
might discuss his talk with Stalin
at a news conference he has sched
uled tentatively for tomerrow.
The Lie-Stalin interview had
been preceded by careful prepara
tion by both the Russians and the
U. N. official. Lie arrived last
week. He conferred first, for 90
minutes, with Vishinsky. This was
followed by a long interview with
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko, a former Russian dele
gate to the United Nations.
All Moscow newspapers report
ed the meeting today on their
front pages, publishing the brief
communique announcing the meet=
ing which the United Nations in
formation center here issued last
night.
Baltimore Fire
Hits Lumberyard
. BALTIMORE, May 16—(AP)—
An eight-alarm fire last night
burned through a block-long lum
beryard and mill plant and sent
150 persons fleeing from their
homes. But no one was injured,
and the flames were curbed before
they ¢ould spread to residences.
The towering blaze, visible for
five miles, attracted 8,000 speca
tors, police estimated. Its cause
was unknown.
Julius Zulver, son of the owner,
said he couldn’t give an estimate
of the loss. But all was covered by
insurance, he said.
THOMPSON USING 'BRASS-KNUCKS'’
He said Talmadge never has ex
plained the insurance refund or
$8,000,000 in income taxes refund
ed to “certain big corporations.”
«1 wonder how much of these
income tax refunds have found
their way back into the campaign
fund of the incumbent governor?”
asked Thompson.
Talmadge so far has limited his
campaign speaking to two big ral
lies. But he picks up steam a bit
this week and next.
Thompson swept through Tate,
Nelson, Jasper, Fairmount and
Chatsworth yesterday and moved
on to Tunnel Hill, Ringgold and
Dalton teday.
Bluff Cited
He told his North Georgia audi
ences g:t Tahmis trying to
“bluff, his way thr gh'
Kiwanis Plans
For Bob Bale
Course Readied
Athens Kiwanians formulated
final plangtoday for the Bob Bale
course in personal development,
scheduled for the week of May 29
through June 2. The Bob gale
course offers a complete progranr
of information and entertainment
for all who wish to improve their
relations with people.
Mapping a program for contact
ing representatives of every busi
ness and industry, as well as pro
fessional groups and organizations,
the club swung into action, pre
senting the course to the Athens
public. A five night series of in
spirational and humorous pro
grams which feature audience
participation, the Bob Bale course
will be offered at the Y. W, C. A.
auditorium.
“We are happy to. offer Athens
a program which has been avail
able before only at distant points,”
President Tom Jones said today.
“We are bringing to town the kind
of course that employers and em
ployees have had to seek else
where, previously.”
He emphasized that students are
enrolled on a money-back guaran
tee by the club, If attendants are
displeased after the opening ses
sion, Monday night, May 29, at
7:30, and wish to discontinue the
course, they mray do so, and their
tuition will be returned. If, at the
conclusion of the course, any stu
dent feels dissatisfied with what
he has received, he may still re
quest and receive a refund of his
tuition. ;
Bob Bale has conducted classes
throughout the southeast, with
membership ranging from three
hundred to eight and nine hun
dred enrollees,
Ernest Crymes, A. D. Soar,
Tommy Wood, John J. Thomas,
John Bondurant, Dr. A. W. Den
man, Tom Jones, Bob Stephens,
Earl Payne, Jack Bradley and
Louis Griffith are serving as team
captains In recruiting member
ship. Full details of the Bob Bale
course may be had by contacting
any one of these, or any other Ki
wanian.
“The incumbent administration,” |
he asserted, “keep saying ‘we don’t '
have any opposition,” but before
the campaign is half over, everyl
henchman that they can find willl
be running all over Georgia in a|
desperate attempt to get votes.”
The former governor also ac
cused Talmadge of putting an old
Talmadge political slogan in re
verse. The slogan is “Talmadge
keeps his promises.”
Meanwhile, Roy Harris of Au
gusta, one of Talmadge’s top cam-~
paign managers, ripped into Dan
Duke of Atlanta, candidate for
Lieutenant-Governor.
He noted criticism leveled at
him by Duke in camapign speeches
and said fl:l::t hlis wJeekly Augusta
Ri e e
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA,, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1950.
TRUCE IS REACHED
IN RAIL WALKOUT
FOREIGN AID |
BILLREADIED
FORBALLOTING
WASHINGTON, May 16—(AP)
—A $3,121,450,000 program of
American economic aid to Europe
and other non-Communist areas
is ready for final votes in both
chambers of €ongress.
Chairman Kee (D.W.Va.) of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
predicted House passage without
difficulty. He said he would bring
ahe measure up for a vote Wednes~
ay.
The big global aid program was
sprung from a week-long deadlock
yesterday by agreement between
Senate and House conferees. It
was a partial victory both for the
administration and for an economy
‘bloc which had fought to trim it.
~ As finally agreed on by the con
ferees—named by the two cham
bers to iron out defferences be
tween the Senate and House ver
sions—the bill provides up to $2,-
805,000,000 for the third year of
the four-year Marshall Plan for
Europe’s economic recovery.
It also calls for: $100,000,000 for
Korea; $94,000,000 for non-com
munist forces in the China area;
$27,450,000 for Palestine refugees;
$15,000,000 for the International
Children’s Emergency Fund, and
$35,000,000 for President Truman'’s
Point Four program.
Point Four
The point four plan for extend
ing economic aid to underdevels
oped areas of the world was one
of the hottest issues of debate
within the conference. The House
had voted $25,000,000; the Senate
54:5%000, the amount asked by
the sident. Conferees split the
difference.
The Marshall Plan figure the
conferees approved was a quarter
of a billion less than the adminis
tration had requested and almost
a billion below the $3,778,000,000
voted for this program last year.
Both houses must approve the
Conference committee’s decisions
before the bill goes to the White
House for President Truman’s sig=-
nature, The bill is an authoriza
tion for spending during the fiscal
year beginning July 1. The cash
would have to be provided in a
separate act.
Local Jaycees
To Attend Meet
Six Atheniang are planning to
attend the State covention of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
be held in Macon Thursday
through Saturday.
Attending from here will be
Howell Erwin, jr., local president;
W. C. Hartman, past local presi
dent and present chairman of the
state awards committee; J. W,
Henry, past state president; Up
shaw - Bentley, Guy Smith and
James Bailey.
The Macon Junior Chamber of
Commerce has announced that
Brig. Gen. Robert H. Harper, U.
S. Air Force Reserve, Chief Clerk
of the Armed Services Committee,
United States House of Represent
atives, in Washington, will address
the Georgia Junior Chamber of
Commerce at a luncheon on Sat
urday, at the Hotel Dempsey.
General Harper’s address will
climax the three way convention,
at which the Macon Junior Cham
ber of Commerce will act as host.
Also slated to address the group
is Mayor Lewis B. Wilson, who
will deliver a welcome address at
a luncheon on Friday in the Hotel
Dempsey’s Walter Little room.
L Lee Price, jr. of Swainsboro,
state president, will cite the year’s
‘accomplishments at the Friday
luncheon, while Andy Griffith,
| (Continued On Page Two)
| “Now, according to Daniel, I
'have become a despicable charac
ter and he seems to be running
lagainst me, even though I am not
I running for anything,” Harris add
| ed.
In increasing the tempo of his
campaign, Talmadge has scheduled
a political speech at Greensboro
Friday, plus another big rally at
Thomaston Saturday. He also has
scheduled “non-political” appear
ances in Columbus tonight before
a labor meeting and at Albany’s
Armed Forces Day celebration
Saturday morning.
Next week, the governor is
down for three camapign speeches,
including the first of a weekly
Monday night radio broadcast se-
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SERVICEMEN
MEET TONIGHT
AT 8 O'CLOCK
All former members of the
Army, Navy and Marine Air
Forces are requested to attend
an Air Force meeting tonight at
8 o’clock in the Holman Hoetel.
Announcement of the meet
ing was thade by W. F, Shipman,
Augusta, state commander of
the National Air Forces Asso
ciation.
Mr, Shipman said thai at the
same time the local chapter of
the association will meet and
elect officers.
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On Air Tonight
By The Associated Press
President Truman’s Chicago ap~
peal for the ouster of “obstruc
tionists” and his advance to the
Republicans that they ‘“come out
for something” stirred the 1950
campaigning to new warmth today.
Republieans sent Senator Taft of
Ohio into the battle, to reply at
10:30 p. m. EST tonight with what
the GOP thinks of Mr. Truman's
spring tour of the West in gen
eral, and his climactic speech at
Chicago last night in particular.
Between the speech = for -a -
speech exchange, Republicans were
voting today in an important and
apparently close primary in Penn
sylvania. The outcome may have
a strong bearing on WM
tical situation, when’ dent
to be elected. r N
Taft will haye the same radio
outlets (ABC, NBC, MBS, CBS)
that Mr. Truman had when he told
cheering Democrats in Chicago,
and the nation at large, that Dem
ocrats “will carry on the fight”
for:
(1) Internatiohal cooperation;
(2) Taft-Hartley law repeal; (3)
Improve social security laws; (4)
Federal aid to education; (5) Mid
dle income housing help from the
government; (6) Health insurance;
(7) Natural resources develop
ment; (8) Improved farm price
supports; (9) Aid to small busi
ness, and (10) Civil Rights laws,
That was Mr, Truman’s formal
summary. Departing from his
text, he gibed at the Republicans:
“l wish the opposition would
come out for something and be a
real opposition. A great political
party cannot survive by being
against everything.
Democrats as well as Republi
cans kept an eye on today’s GOP
(Continued On Page Two)
Winnipeg Still
In Flood Crisis
By The Associated Press
The Red River’s flood crest
surged through the greater Win
nipeg area today and the flood con
trol chief warned “a catastrophe
could still happen.”
The army had completed plans
for a mass evacuation if torren
tial rains raise the river much
higher than its 30.1 foot lever, 12
feet above flood stage. Already,
isome 80,000 persons had left the
stricken city, -
Six square miles of the prairie
city of 350,000 are under water.
Officials said the Red and its two
tributaries would have to fall at
least five feet hefore -dikes in
greater Winnipeg could Be called
out of danger.
The Red river also continued to
menace communities in Northern
Minnesota and North Dakota, with
flood waters covering thousands
of acres of lands in the two states.
The stream borders the two states.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair to partly cloudy and
continued mild fonmight and
Wednesday. Pessible late after
noon or evening thundershow
ers. Low tonight 58 and high
Wednesday 82. Sun sets 7:28
and rises 5:30.
GEORGIA — Mostly fair and
continued mild this afternoon,
tonight and Wednesday.
TEMPERATURE
BIRENROE | oo it 18
SO ... e DD
PROME ioui iis vne wren w 0
IR . e
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since May 1 .. .. .. 2.55
Excess since May 1 g 18
Average May xaipfall .. .. 3.54
'To&lg'slflxa January 1 ....13.30
Deficit since January 1 .. 748
| Roads Plan
Fast Refurn To
Normal Service
CHICAGO, May 16.— (AP) —
The nation’s worst railroad strike
in four years was settled today
and striking firemen on five ma
jor rail systems were ordered
back to their jobs immediately.
The struck carriers—their pas
senger and freight service dis
rupted by the six-day-old walk
out — planned to resume mormal
service ‘ as rapidly as possible.” |
The striking Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men recalled picket lines and or
dered the striker to return to
work,
~ Both sides expressed satisfac
tion over the settlement terms.
The carriers said they won the
fight on the principal issue-—not
to hire a second fireman on mul
tiple unit Diesel locomotives. They
said the union withdrew its de
mand on the issue, which has been
in dispute between the Brother
hood and carriers for more than
10 years,
Union President David B. Rob
ertson, in a statement, termed as
“satisfactory” the settlement “of
all issues involved.”
The union said it did not with
draw “entirely” its request for
assignment of a third man on big
Diesel locomotives, A spokesman
said the Brotherhood “modified”
its denvand.
The strike, originally set for
April 26, started May 10 against
parts of the Pennsylvania, New
York Central, the Southern Rail
way and Santa Fe systems. It was
extended to the southwestern dis
trict of the Union Pacific Rail
road last Saturday.
Althcugh’ only some 18,006 locc
motive firemen struck, the walk
‘ upted much of the nation’s
rail transportation and had made
idle some 200,000 workers—mostly
railroad employes.
The break in the strike was an
nounced shortly after 3 a. m,
(EST) and immediately the union
sent telegrams to striking locals
cancelling the strike order.
Nine-Hour Confab
The union and carriers had met
continuously for nine hours dur
ing the night and early mrorning
hours, Sitting in at the peace talks
were members of the National
(Railway) Mediation Board,
The main snag in the negotia
tions was the dispute over the
hiring of a second fireman on the
big Diesel locomotives.,
While the carriers said the un
ion withdrew its demand, a union
spokesman said it modified its
demand to the extent that the
question will be approached
through arbitration of the exist
ing contract agreement,
One fireman and one engineer
are employed on the big Diesel
locomotives. The union has char
ged the railroads have been vio
lating the rule, which provides for
a fireman in the-forward cab of
Diesel locomrotives on main line
or through passenger service at
all times when the train is moving.
It said that if services of an addi~
tional man is required to perform
work in the motor room, the rules
provide he shall be taken from
the seniority ranks of the fire
men,
The union said the rule has been
violated through the use of spe
cial duty men who have been per
forming the work in the motor
room. . ;
POST MEETING
Allen R. Fleming, Jr., Post No.
20, American Legion, will meet
Thursday night at 8 o’clock for
the election of officers. The meet
ing will be held at the cabin off
Lumpkin street.
SEN. GEORGE SAYS:
CONFUSION IS MAIN
AIM OF FEPC ISSUE
WASHINGTON, May 16—(AP)
—Senator George (D.~Ga.) said
today the “one certain effect” of
the Fair Employment Practices
Commission bill “is to create con=
fusion and destroy the effective
ness of our economy.”
In a speech pre;!)’ared for Senate
delivery, he said the proposal may
be enforceable by the states but
at the national level “it can bring
only harm to our people as &
whole, our people of all races and
of all religions.”
“Government with us,” he said,
“is grounded on individual {ree
dom, personal responsibility and
equality before the law for all citi
zens, employers as well as em
ployes.”
He declared that opposition to
consideration of the bill by the
Senate does no: grow out of hos
tility to any race or to any reli
gion. - gt LYy
“It is inspired,” he said, “by op-
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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AV A GARDNER
NOT IN LOVE
WITH ANYONE
TOSSA DEL MAR, Spain,
May 16. — (AP) — Screen star
Ava Gardner says she's net in
Jove with anybody and not
planning tfo marry anyone—
Frank Sinatra included.
“My supposed romantic rela
tfions with Frank Sinatra are
purely imaginary,” said the
twice-divorced Hollywood beau
ty who for the past month has
been making & film here,
American columnists have
frequently linked her name with
that of the radio and screen sin
ger. He arrived last Thursday to
visit Ava at her villa here. Sin
atra is separated from his wife,
Miss Gardner added that she
also was not in love with her
new leading man, Spanish bull
fighter Mario Cabre, who said
Sunday that he planned to
marry Miss Gardner and was
“really sad” over Sinatra’s visii
u n c "n 1
Set For Dixie
|
Hosiery Workers
osiery Workers
NEW YORK, May 16—(AP)—A
new labor campaign to organize
the Southern hosiery industry will
open this week—backed by $1,000,~
000 in union money.
The drive will be made by the
American Federation of Hosiery
workers, an independent union
now holding its 38th annual con
vention here.
The aim will be so sign up
‘nearly 30,000 full-fashion hosiery
workers in North Carolina, Tenn
essee and Georgia.
Alexander McKeown, of Phila
delphia, general president of the
union, said yesterday 55 paid or
ganizers will start moving into the
South shortly after the convention
ends Friday.
The union called the Southern
campaign a simple matter of self
defense. McKeown said wages of
Northern hosiery workers were
cut recently because the Northern
mills could not compete with non
union Southern mills.
He said the wage difference be
tween union and non-union hosie
ry workers runs as high as 40
per cent in many cases. :
“It was just impossible for the
northern shops to compete with
the Southern mills,” he said.
Northern workers also were be~
ing hurt, he added, when com=-
panies expanded and moved to the
South to take advantage of lower
labor costs.
The campaign was decided on
after a recent arhitration award
cut the wages of many union mem
bers and, instead, started a pension
plan based on four per cen? of the
companies’ profits.
The union’s 21-member execu
tive board will meet Saturday to
pick a special organizing director
for the Southern invasion.
.
Bandits Routed
.
By Flaming Gas
KANSAS CITY, May 16—(AP)
-—The © 60-year-old owner of a
fishing tackle shop - broke up a
holdup last night by throwing
flaming gasoline at one of two in
truders.
Joseph J. Leving told police he
was in his living quarters behind
the shop cleaning a fishing reel
with gasoline when two men with
revolvers walked in.
position to ereeds such as com
munism which seek to divide our
people and to destroy our business
‘and industry so that in the result
ing eonfusion we will become im
potent at home and abroad.”
He said the anti-discrimination
bills “seem most dangerous for the
very purpose which they are de
signed to serve. They bring into
a complicated question of human
and social relationship not religion,
education or freedom but compul=-
sion.
“They endeavor to establish a
rule for such relationships by con
gressional fiat. Predictions are |
dangerous but experience in the
past has indicated again and again
that an attempt to change customs
and attitudes and prejudices by
statute, particularly by a criminal
statute, create greater evils and
produce more violent emotions and ‘
reactions and prejudices than those |
they seek to cure.” |
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CHINATROOPS
CALLED BACK
T 0 FORMOSA
Nationalist Forces
Ordered To Abandon
Key Chushan Islands
TAIPEH, May 16.-—(AP)—Nat
jonalist China tonight announced
abandonment of the Chushan is
lands.
The official announcement,
coming on the heels of vows by the
Nationalists to defend the islands
to the death, said 150,000 troops
were evacuated.
Only yesterday a Nationalist
general from there, who insisted
that he not be named, said the
battle for the Chuchans had not
started.
The Chushans were extremely
immportant to the Nationalists.
From that base 100 miles southeast
News Agency statemrent, to excuse
naval blockade of the big Come
munist port had been effected.
Earlier today, Chiang Kai-shek
pledged to die defending Formosa
—the only island left to the Nat«
jonalists—if he c:irénot beat back
the Communist e that -
ously swallowed all of mam
China,
In view of the Nationalist res
treat from the Chushan islands,
their cause hit a new low.
But General Chow Chih-jo
chief of staff of the lell:‘
army, attempted in a Central
News Agency statemint, to excuse
this defeat—and such it must be
considered—by saying the Nation
alists hoped to smash “the schemre
of the Soviet imperialists and the
Chinese Communists in starting a
joint offensive and meeting the
Reds’ overall strategy.
“In our anti-Communist war the
general staff hag made new dispo~
sitions of the armed forces so as
to deal a heavier blow to the en
emy at a most favorable time and
place and has therefore voluntar
ily transferred our naval and air
forees from the Chushan Arehipel
ago to Taiwan (Formosa).”
The Chushan abandonment
could have only a shocking impli
cation to the rest of Asia——a part
of which will meet shortly in Ba~
guio, the Philippines, to discuss
economic blocks ot the Commun
ist advance,
Left to Chiang Kai-shek and hig
dwindling forces Is only Formgsa
with its 7,454,886 population. I
What hope they might have to
forestall total defeat rests with
the Nationalist forces on the bli':
island—forces that have a rece
only of backtracking and surren
der before the Communists in the
last two years, &
The Nationalists say they have
600,000 fighting men on Formosa.
Lewis Denies
Secret Signals
WASHINGTON, May 16—(AP)
~John L. Lewis today deelined to
testify voluntarily fig a House La
bor subcommittee, but denied he
sent secret signals to miners dur
in% last winter’s coal strike,
hairman Jacobs (D-lud) had
asked Lewis to a before the
subcommittee t‘om ,
He made public a letter from
Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, turning down his
invitation. . . . b, o
Jacobs called the h to in~
vestigate charges by Siden
er, president of a United . Mine
Workers union local 'at Canton,
111., that Lewis sent secret orders
to the miners to continue their
strike although publicly calling on
them to go back to work in com
pliance with a federal court’s
l“stop strike” order.
“Mr. Sidener,” Lewis wrote Ja
i cobs, “is in error in his press quo
ted assertions that he received di
rectly or indirectly any “whistle
stop” instructions from. this office.
“No such instructions were ut
tered or authorized at any time by
this office to Mr. Sidener or any
other of the hundreds of tlLous
ands of officers and members of
the United Mine Workers of
' America.
“The term *whistde stop’ has no
significance in the coal mining in
dustry.”
Lad Loses Fight
, . . !
With Leukemia
MILWAUKEE, May 16—(AP)
—Letters and cards from across
the, country helped nine-year-old
Armand Schultz win a round
against chronic lymphatic leuke
mia last winter, but Monday he
lost the fight.
The lad’s plea last Christmas for
mail to “keep me eompany* drew
a coast-to-coast response, aided by
amateur radio operators. e
Armand rallied, though physi~
cians the previous fall had given
lt;im bfuatih(;:n: day to live. Be he
egan i :
and had wfbeht‘eli*m*
veins in his final weeks. §