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WASHINGTON, May S—(AP)
_ Sen. William Benton refused to
testify today at a pre-trial hearing
in Sen. Joseph McCartuy’s two
-willion dollar libel-slander suit
sinst him because of a tape-re
rding device McCarthy insisted
Ipon.
The hearing was to be held in a
<enate committee room with Me-
Carthy acting as his own attor-
Loy, “Benton went to the room
but decided against answering any
questions when he found the re
rding device had been set up.
Benton, Connecticut Democrat,
scted upon advice of one of his
torneys.
McCarthy, Wisconsin Repub
lican, said he would ask the U. S.
District Court here to order Ben
ton to give testimony.
McCarthy expressed —surprise
that “a great pillar of virtue such
4¢ Mr. Benton” would not have
his testimony taken down on tape,
McCarthy’s two million dollar
cuit developed from a move by
penton looking toward ousting
McCarthy from the Senate. Pre
trial hearings are designed to lay
the groundwork for actual court
oroceedings.
Bradshaw Rit
Mrs. Cora Chadwick Brad
chaw, popular resident of the
(;aines School Road, died in a lo
cal hespital Sunday night at 7
o'clock. Mrs. Bradshaw was 72
vears old and had been ill for
three weeks.
Services will be conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
from Whitehall Holiness Church
with the pastor, Rev. V. A. Smith,
and Rev. Harold Hanley, pastor
of Whitehall Baptist Church, of
ficiating. 'The body will lie in
<tate in the church from 2 o’clock
until the hour for the services.
Burial will be in Antioch Ce
metery in Oconee County, Bern
stein Puneral Home in charge of
arrangements. Pall-bearers will
be S. Lamb, Clarence Powell,
Clarence Cunningham, James
Cunningham, A. W. Cunningham
and Pete Cunningham. -
Mrs. Bradshaw is survived by
her husband, David B. Bradshaw;
two sisters, Mrs. Eva Bradshaw,
Athens, and Mrs. J,. L. Bradshaw,
Columbus, and several nieces
and nephews.
She was a native of Walton
County and a resident of the
Gaines School Road for 13 years.
She also resided in Whitehall for
twenty eight years and was a
me mbgr of Antioch Christian
churen.
Athens Baseball
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Eegins June 4
Athens’ first official Little Lea
sue baseball loop will open June
{, according to an anunouncement
today by William Jordan, presi
dent of the local Little League As
sociation. Promoted by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, with the
cooperation of American Legion
Post 20, the nation-wide baseball
idea will furnish supervised play
for youngsters 8 to 12.
Last summer, the Jaycees spon
sored their own league based on
Little League specifications, and
after the terrific response, they
are again-pushing the idea, this
vear making the league a part of
the national set-up, therefore
making local teams and boys eligi
ble for any tournament competi
tion
Part of Legion Field, on the cor
ner of Lumpkin and Baxter, has
been secured as the Little League
Park. Coaches named so far are
Jim Whatley, Georgia’s head base
ball coach; B. W. Bump Gabriel
son, Georgia’'s swimming coach;
Wendell Wilson, former Georgia
mtramural head; and Dr. Wayne
Satterfield, local dentist, and for
the past several years manager of
@ local semi-pro baseball team.
Mr. Jordan stated today that
more details are forthcoming, with
4 big barbecue slated for opening
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Rugular weekly meeting of the
Kiwanis Club will not be held
luesday,~ but a divisional meet
Ing has been scheduled for Thurs
day night at 7:30 o'clock in the
Georgian Hotel,
The ‘Thursday night event will
be under supervision of Robert G.
Stephens, jr., Lieutenant Gover
nor of the Seventh Division and
the guest of honor will be District
v-rjr;wrnor Kirk Sutlive, of Savan-
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A RED HOT TROLLEY — A spectacular
fire guts this trolley on the main thorough
fare between St. Paul and Minneapolis,
Minn. Two motormen and an inspector,
Commercial And Private Flying Hit
Hard As Qil Workers Continue Strike
Youthful Father
Confesses Crime
At Church Meet
TOPEKA, Kan., May 5—(AP)—
A youthful father, speaking from
a church pulpit, described his part
in a bank robbery and said God
told him to give himself up.
“I thought about the bank rob
bery many times,” 23-year-old Al
bert H. Johnson said yesterday.
“About five weeks ago it really
started bothering me.
Prayer For Help
“I prayed about it and asked
the Lord to give me an answer. It
seemed that He would give me
oply one answer and that was to
give myself up,”
The #835 bank robbery occurred
May 17, 1948, in Hoyt, Kan.
Saturday Johnson made a for
mal statement to County Attorney
Donald Sands admitting the rob
bery. He originally had planned to
confess in church, then surrender
to authorities. But he was pre
vailed on to appear before county
officials first.
His public confession in the Se
ward Avenue Baptist Church was
punctuated by frequent cries of
“Amen!” and “Bless you, broth
er!” from the audience of about
100. .
His wife and five-months-old
son were in the audience. John
son, a sheet metal worker at the
Santa Fe Railway shops here, is
a member of the church.
He was arraigned Saturday on
charges of bank robbery and
armed kidnapping and released on
$5,000 bail.
Truman Requests
Flood Insurance
WASHINGTON, May S—(AP).
President Truman today asked
Congress to set up a national sys
tem of flood disaster insurance
backed by 1% billion dollars of
government funds,
He told the lawmakers the lack
of an insurance system is “a major
gap in the means by which a man
can make his home, his farm, or
his business secure against finan
cial loss.”
The President sent with his mes
sage to the Senate and House a
draft of suggested legislation un
der which the Reconstruction Fi=«
nance Corporation could provide
direct insurance or reinsurance of
policies written by private com
panies.
RFC commitments would be
limited to 500 million dollars to
begin with but could be increased,
with presidential approval, by fur
ther amounts of 500 million each
on July 1. 1953, and July 1, 1954,
Saying the RFC should not com
pete with private business, Tru
man noted that the bill would pro
hibit the issuance of federal poli
cies in case where private insur
ance is “available at reasonable
rates.” -
WEBER RIVER FLOODS
SALT LAKE CITY, May 5.-—
(AP)—The bulging Weber River
in Northern Utah kicked out of its
banks Sunday and forced 40 fam
ilies to evacuate.
Temporarily, at least, the Weber
took Utah's flood spotlight as the
situation moderated slightly in
Salt Lake City and Provo.
The Weber sent fresh flood tor
rents over land in Weber and
Morgan counties and surged across
U. S. Highways 30 and 89 in sev
eral places.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and continued warm te
day, tonight and Tuesday. Wed
nesday outlook, fair and warm,
Low tonight 58, high tomorrow
90. Sun sets today at 7:19 and
rises tomorrow at 5:20.
GEORGIA—Fair and contin
used warm today, tonight and
Tuesday.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORCIA OVER A CENTURY.
only occupants of the car, escaped unin
jured. An overheated resistor set the
wooden trolley body afire. — (AP Wire
photo.) .
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Chapman Limits
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Airline Ration
DENVER, May 5 —(AP)— The
grip of an oilworkers’ strike
squeezed commercial, private and
military aviation today but
mounted only slowly in effect for
the rest of the gasoline-powered
nation.
The strike, called last Wednes
day, closed some of the world’s
greatest oil refineries, including
key units for production of avia
tion gasoline, and was felt in dis
tribution facilities.
Limits Use
The result was an order yester
day by Secretary of Interior Os
car Chapman limiting the use of
gasoline by airlines and private
fliers.
His order-effective at 3:01 a. m.,
Eastern Staidard Time, tomorrow
—cuts fuel for airlines 30 per cent.
Pleasure and sports flights by
private fliers are cut entirely.
" Both ecarriers and non-carrier
dircraft will pe prohibited for 28
days beginning tomorrow from
taking delivery of more than 65
per cent of the gasoline they used
in March of this year. The order
also applies to foreign airlines
flying from the United States. And
it forbids export of aviation gaso
line without permission of the Pe
troleum Administration for De
fense (PAD).
Trim Schedules
Some airlines immediately
planned to trim or consolidate
schedules. Others waited to de
termine if there might be devel
opments.
The Air Force began cutting
down training flights last week in
an effort to conserve gasoline re
serves.
The rest of the nation began
looking to reserve supplies, al
though for the most part there
was no great slackening of trans
portation, private or commercial,
and no widespread rationing as
such.
Motoring ws not curtailed, vol
untarily or otherwise, on the
weekend. At some points, service
station attendants gave regular
customers preference. Chicago
planned to pull 300-gasoline-pow
ered transit buses out of service
today. o
Supply Cuts
The strike, called by 22 AFL,
CIO and independent unions, shut
down roughly a third of the na
tion’s refineries and cut gasoline
supplies by about the same
amount.
Some 90,000 unionists were out
in support of wage demands for a
general hike of 25 cnts on hour
and night and early-morning shift
differentials of 6 and 12 cents
hourly. The general rate of pay
has been from $2 to $2:10 an hour.
Differentials amounted to 4 and
6 cents an hour.
Expert Diver |
Searching Ri
Several hundreds people lined
the banks of the Oconee River
and jam-packed the abandoned
bridge at Princeton Sunday aft
ernoon to watch Tex Keene, a
professional diver from Marietta,
continue attempts to find the body
of Hampton Couch, drowned a
week ago yesterday.
Diver Keene, who has done un
derwater jobs all over the coun
try, searched both above and be
low the dam where a week ago
Mr. Couch in an out-board pow
ered boat plunged over and
smashed on the rocks below.
The diver also searched at var
ious spots down-river pointed out
to him as likely places where he
might find the body. He found one
cave under the bank running
eleven feet in length and explored
it, but to no avail.
Aiding the diver by manning
the telephone was Sheriff Tommy
Huff, who hag s&ent many hours
participating in the search. Fvery
few minutes when Mr. Keene was
underwater, Sheriff Huff would
talk with him to be sure he was
safe.
The diver searched in the various
suck-holes and the larger one,
termed ‘“hell-holes” and today
planned to work still further down
the river. -
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, MAY, 5, 1952.
Flower Show s
Held On Campus
For Extension
The Extension Building Garden
Club Flower Show got underway
on the College of Agriculture cam
pus today.
Judgings were scheduled to take
place during the morning. Serving
as judges for the show were M. G.
Nicholson, Mrs. W. W. ReDenne,
and Mrs. Grandison Caskey.
Committees working to make
the show a success today were:
Schedule Committee: George H.
Firor, chairman; Mrs. Arthur Gan
non; E. D. Alexander; Charles E.
Bell; W. E. Neville. 2
: Ir‘xlvitagion Committee: Miss Vi’;ié
ie Vie Dowdy, chairman; -
ger-Carmichaé&l; Miss J eat'i"fini*
gen; Mrs. Mary Phelps.
Staging Committee: R. E. Simth,
chairman; Paul Crawford; Harry
White; Miss Nelle C. Boyd; Mrs.
Miriam N. White; H. W. Bennett.
Classification Committee: A, F.
Darden, chairman; Mfrs. Irene
Brooks; Elmo Ragsdale; Hugh A.
Inglis; Mrs. Carlisle Cobb; T. G.
Williams.
Hostess Committee: Miss Alice
Drake, chairman; Mrs. Elmo Rags
dale; Mrs. Hugh A. Inglis; Miss
Lucille Higginbotham, Mrs. T. G.
Williames; Miss Leonora Ander
son; Miss Ida Bell.
Judging and Ribbons Commit
tee: Miss Lurline Collier, chair
man; Junior Exhibits Committee:
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Van Winkle,
chairman; Miss Martha McAlpine;
Group Emphasis Committee: Miss
Audrey Morgan, chairman; Mrs.
Olive Wolfe; Mrs. R. E. Smith;
Miss Susan Mathews; Mrs. G. L
Johnson; Mrs. J. Pledger Car
michael; Mrs. Harry -A. White;
Mrs. O. D. Hall; Mrs. George H.
Firor; Mrs. Charles E. Bell.
Spring Flower Show Committee:
G. I. Johnson, chairman; Mr. and
Mrs. T. G. Williams, co-chairman;
Paul Crawford; S. G. Chandler;
Mrs. George H. Firor; A. F. Dar
den; Miss Leonora Anderson.
The annual flower show is open
to the public, and invitations have
been sent to members of all gar
den clubs in the city.
Mrs. Henry V. Prive, well
known Crawford resident, died en
route to a local hospital Saturday
night at 10:45 o’clock. Mrs. Price
was 62 years old.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed awaiting word
from her two sons in service, one
of whom is in Korea, The ar
rangements will be announced
later by Bridges Funeral Home.
She is survived by her husband,
Henry V. Price, Crawford; six
sons, Douglas and William Price,
Crawford, J. C. Price, Deßidder,
La., Freeman Price, - Lexington,
Master Sgt. Jeff Price, U. S. Ar
my, S. K. 3 Class, Floyd Price, U.
S. Navy: two wrothers, Luther
Christopher and Toy Christopher,
both of Atlanta, and four grand
children.
A native of Jackson County,
Mrs. Price had resided in Craw
ford for the past thirty-five years,
She was a member of Edwards
Baptist Church. Mrs. Prsce suffer
ed a heart attack and was rushed
to the hospital but died enroute
there,
|Bob Pastor Is
| Hurt In Wreck
ALBANY, N. Y., May S—(AP)
]—Ex-heavyweight boxer Bob
| Pastor was injured seriously today
in a head-on automobile collision
north of Albany.
Pastor, 40, of Saratoga Springs,
was reported in fair condition at
fAlbany hospital. He suffered chest
injuries.
| Pastor challenged Joe Louis for
'the heavyweight crown September
520' 1939, at Detroit but was knock=
! ed out in the 11th round.
White House Steel Sessions Collapse;
Both Sides See Wage Freeze AsFactor
Pepper Lends Support In Florida
To Kefauver In Last-Round Move
Airman Convert
YALLEJO, Calif.,, May B.—
(AP)—The mystery of the church
doors that wouldn’'t stay locked
was solved today. Police arrested
an Air Force lieutenant who said
he had lived for there weeks in
the belfry of Vallejo's Seventh
Day Adventist Church.
The officer who turned the bell
tower into a penthouse—complete
with radio, electric heater, food
and blankets-—was booked as Lt.
Clarence B. Wigley, 23, Wichita
Falls, Texas.
Faces Court Martial
He was taken .to Travis Air
Force Base where Col. Clifford J.
Heflin said Wigley faced court
martial for desertion. Herflin said
Wigley vanished in January while
under charges for a previous dis
appearance.
The Rev. J. J. Dollinger said he
had been hearing strange noises,
“like somebody walking,” from
the belfry.
The church was searched re
peatedly, but not the belfry be
cause it was “quite impossible
that anyone could be living there,”
the pastor added.
Doors Unlocked
Dollinger ordered the searchers
because he found the church doors
unlocked every morning although
he had carefully locked them each
night. He changed locks. Almost
immediately the organist, Mrs.
Mabel Olson, lost her purse con
taining the new key.
The Dorcas Society, a women’s
‘welfare group, reported its food
stores were steadily vanishing
)from the church basement. China
’waf'E, an electric heater and other
' things disappeared.
The belfry apartment was un
covered by chance. A police prowl
car picked up Wigley as he enter
ed an alley in the early morning.
Heflin said Wigley, a B-29 co
pilot, wrote his resignation while
awaiting court martial for being
absent without leave ... then
disappeared. %
School Systems
To Start Building
ATLANTA, May s—(AP)—The
State School Building Authority
today cleared the way for one city
and ten county school systems to
begin construction of nearly 23
million dollars worth of new
buildings.
The Authority formally approv
ed the first 11 projects under the
huge new state school building
program and issued letters of com
mitment to the 11 systems.
The total estimated cost of the
approved projects is $22,930,225.
The School Building Authority
will issue revenue bonds to pay
$18,643,247 and $4,286,978 will
come from local sources.
The bonds to be issued by the
Authority will be repaid from five
million dollars annually of state
funds allocated on the basis of
S2OO per teacher and a five million
annual equalization fund allocated
on the basis of need.
Projects Approved
The projects approved and the
amount which the Authority will
furnish each were:
Atlanta City System, $6,621,997;
Banks County, $792,099; Burke,
$1,513,343; Clinch, $541,878;
Dodge, $1,252,027; Early, $1,336,-
615; Fannin, $818,451; Fulton, $3,-
004,777; Lincoln, $523,050; Marion,
$630,643, and Meriwether, $1,636,-
261,
Arthur Howell, attorney for the
Authority, said that on the basis
of the letters of commitment the
systems can have their architects
proceed with final plans and speci
fications for the new buildings.
The plans then must be approved
by the State Board of Education
and the Authority, after which
the Authority will advertise for
bids on the construction.
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Author’s Husband
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Dies Early Today
ATLANTA May s—(AP)—John
Robert Marsh, 56, who helped his
wife, Margaret Mitchell, write
“Gone With the Wind"”, died ear
ly today of a heart attack.
Bessie Jordan, a family servant,
reported that she went to his bed
room to give him medicine when
he summoned her complaining of
shortness of breath. He died a few
minutes later. .
Miss Mitchell died in 1949, se
veral days after she was struck
by an automobile as she and her
husband started to cross Peach
tree Street,
Marsh always gave total credit
to his wife for her great novel of
the Civil War South. But as a
newspaper and advertising man,
he was of invaluable help in put
ting the lgpgthy manuscript into
shape. .
Russell Backers
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Are Indignant
By DON WHITEHEAD
MIAMI, May 5 — (AP) — The
political influence of former Sen
ator Claude Pepper became the
great unknown factor today in the
outcome of the Democratic presi
dential popularity contest tomor
row between Senator Kefauver of
Tennessee and Senator Russell of
Georgia,
Pepper—a one-time New Deal
and Fair Deal strong man—threw
his support to Kefauver late yes
terday in a last-round move that
brought bitter criticism from the
Russell camp.
* Worked Both Sides
- Senator Russell accused Pepper
of “working both sides of the
street” by supporting Kefauver in
the preferential primary while
backing Russell delegate candi
dates for the Democratic national
convention. : |
The Pepper maneuver came in
the closing hours of the Kefauver-
Russell campaign when both can
didates were moving into Dade
Miami County to make their final
bids for votes.
Russell was the favorite in
Florida's first presidential prefer
ential primary in 20 years. But
Kefauver backers were hopeful
Pepper's support might tip the
scales on the side of the coon
skin cap-wearing Tennessean.
Both candidates scheduled last
minute speaking tours in the Mi
ami area today and they were
slated to meet tonight 9 p. m. EST
on a television panel.
Record Vote :
A record-smashing vote was
predicted Q%mort%y because of
high interest in the presidential
race and local contests.
Pepper was defeated for re
nomination to the Senate two
years ago by Senator Smathers.
But Floridians concede he still
commands considerable political
influence throughout the state.
Although supporting Kefauver
in the popularity contest, Pepper
admittedly is backing a block of
candidates seeking delegate posts
under the Russell banner in Flor
ida’s second primary May 27.
The state’s 24 Democratic con
vention delegates will be elected
in this second primary, and they
will nos be bound by the outcome
of the popularity contest tomor=-
row. -
Pepper Paradox
After Pepper announced his
support of Kefauver, Senator Rus
sell declared: “I now understand
some of the confusion in the dele
gate situation since former Sena
tor Pepper told me he had urged
some delegates to enter as Russell
delegates.”
Pepper said he is urging friends
to support some Russell delegates,
others who are pledged to Ke
fauver and “a couple” who are
running as independents,
He said he wants a Florida dele
gation to the national convention
which will not “bolt” the party
in event of a Southern revolt over
civil rights.
Pepper declared if Kefauver
wins in Florida, then he can go
on to capture the Democratic pres
idential nomination.
Russell backers got comfort
from the fact the Georgian drew
a crowd of about 5,000 people to a
reception for him yesterday in
Miami—which is regarded as a
Kefauver stronghold.
Shooting Affra
Oglethorpe County Sheriff Carl
Broach lost three fingers on his
right hand in an exchange of gun
fire late Saturday night with his
cousin, 50-year-old Eddie Pass,
whom he was attempting to arrest
on a charge of drunkenness.
In a statement to the Banner-
Herald this morning, Sheriff
Broach, a patient at St. Mary’s
hospital, gave the following ac
count of the shooting.
“Pass’ sister, Mrs., Grady Smith,
came to my office and said that
Pass had threatened to kill her
and himself. I went out to the
house and when I drove into the
yeard, saw Pass standing by a
pick-up truck, a shot-gun in his
hands.
“He asked what I was doing
there, raising the gun to his
jumped behind the truck and told
him I had come to arrest him.
“pass fired and the charge tore
off three of my fingers. My right
hand was the only part of my
body exposed. The charge knocked
my pistol about eight feet. My
son-in-law, W. T. Haward, who
is Deputy Sheriff, then fired- four
shots, the bullets striking Pass in
the legs. Pass was not too drunk,
but just drunk enough to be
mean,” the Sheriff said.
Sheriff Broach and Pass are re
ported in good condition by hos
pital attaches.
"Read Daily by 35,000 People Tn Athens Trade Area
Brief Meefing
rief Meefing
Of Truce Team
Shows No Acti ‘
ows No Action
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN |
MUNSAN, Korea, May s—Al
lied and Communist truce dele-l
gates produced no signs of head-‘
way in an 11-minute secret session
today. It appeared both sides had
run out of things to say in the
Korean armistice deadlock.
North Korean Gen., Nam Il
chief Red delegate, spoke from
notes for nine of the 11 minutes
in session at Panmunjom. Then
he proposed a recess until Tues
day at 11 a. m., 9 p. m. Monday,
EST.
Vice Adm, C. Turner Joy, head
of the Allied delegation emerged
from the conference tent and said:
“I am sorry but we are still in
executive secret session and I can
tell you nothing. We meet again
tomorrow."”
The secret sessions of the chief
delegates began one week ago.
when the United Nations Com
mand laid before the Reds a pro=-
posed over-all solution to unset
tled problems. |
These are focused on prisoner
exchange and also include Com
munist nomination of Soviet Rus-~
sla as a neutral armistice observer
and an Allied demand for a ban
on rehabilitation of military air
fields during a truce.
Details of the proposal have net
been disclosed. The Communists
~studied it until Friday, wnen they
apparently rejected it.
Farm Subsidi
PARIS May 5 —(AP) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was quoted
today as favoring the continuation
of some of price subsidies for far
mers if he is elected U. S. presi
dent.
George T. Mickelson, former
Governor of South Dakota who
flew here Sunday to. discuss farm
problems with Gen. Eisenhower,
said in a interview today:
Important Factor
“Gen. Eisenhower feels that the
production of food and fiber is the
most important industry in the
United States, and that those en
gaged in that industry must be
protected from disaster.
“He feels that there must be a
correlation between the producer
and the consumer in order that
the economy of the whole country
will be kept in balance.”
Mickelson added that Eisen
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MURRAY HAS NOTHING TO SAY — President Philip
Murray of the CIO United Steel Workers union rubs his
chin but has nothing to say as he leaves the White House
during a recess in steel union-management talks called
by President Truman. With Murray is Joseph Germano
(left), Chicago district director of the union. — (AP
Wirephoto.)
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EDITION.
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Industry, Union
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Too Far Apart’
By ROWLAND EVANS JR
WASHINGTON May 3 — (AP)
—The White House negotiations
started by President Truman ever
the week end in another effort te
end the steel dispute have col
lasped.
And today both union and man=
agement spokesmen privately said
the Supreme Court sfreezes on
wages in the industry, pending -
final court’rulin% on government
seizure of the mills, played a sig
nificant role in the breakdown.
The CIO-United Steelworkers
and the industry quit trying te
settle their conflict over a new
contract late yesterday begause, as
Presidential Assistant John R.
Steelman put it, they were “so ta
apart that no agreement” ooul;
be reached.
Fair Wage Hike
But an industry lawyer who hag
been working closely with the
legal aspects of the controversy
said the steel companies wanted
the Supreme Court to decide the
constitutionality of Truman’s seiz~
ure of the industry April 8 te
avert a strike, He sald, however,
that industry fear of a governs
ment - imposed wage boost just
about balanced off its desire for a
high court confirmation of Judge
David A. Pine'’s sweepin% d
that the seizure was “wholly
and without authority of law.”
On Saturday afternoon, the
threat of a wage raise was re
moved.
“The wage freeze unquestion
ably restored our bargalning posi
tion,” the industry lawyer told
a reporter. He asked not to be
identified.
Benjamin Fairless, president‘sl
U. S. Steel Corp., and CIO Presi
dent Philip Murray had been in
day and night session with other
union and industry officials sinee
Saturday morning at the urgent
request of President Truman.
Futile Sessions
Steelman presided over the fu
tile negotiations after Truman
opened the sessions by saying he
wanted action.
When the breakoff came, Mur~
ray said the industry was en &
“strike against collective bargain
ing.” The industry said the union
“still refuses to’consider” a 17-18
\ cent “package” offere% it.
Any public wage stand, which
| lasts only until the court has de
cided the case, was conspicuously
i absent.
The high court’s ban on any
wage increase stripped the govern~
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YMCA Planning
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Minstrel Show
“Pardon My Laughter” will be
the pass word for the amnual
YMCA sponsored black-face min~
strel which will be presented at
Fine Arts Auditorium on May 20.
Time for the minstrel has been
set for 8 o’clock and the members
of the four Hi-Y Clubs participat
ing in the big show expeet the
Jaughs to start soon after the eur
tain goes up.
The Minstrel is the third annual
show sponsored by the boys’ de
partment of the YMCA and will
feature members of the Hi-¥ Club
with a cast numbering 103.
Written and directed by Bill
Simpson, the minstrel will include
a large chorus of boys singing the
popular old songs and some new
ones, The chorus will be direeted
again by Mrs. Dick Ferguson,
Admission prices will be $1 for
adults and 60 cents for students
with all proceeds being used to
further the boys activities at the
local Young Men’s Christian As
sociation,