'MERCY' TRIAL Dr. Hermann
Sander faces fury charged whh
killing an incurable patient, i
Congress
At Work
CONGRESS is settling almost
"grimly down to legislative
duties after a fortnight of mark
ing time while members ranged
the country for political speeches
and box lunches in the names of
Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson.
But now the political heat is on.
The Administration is trying to enact
its program in time for a. proposed
early August adjournment And all
lawmakers, regardless of party, want -adjournment
early.
The first night session occurred last
week as Sen. Scott Lucas, the major
ity leader, had the Senate tackle cot
ton acreage quotas and the hot sub
ject of potato price supports.
Foreign Aid Debate
The first major foreign policy
measure next year's outlay for the
Marshall plan in Europe started its
uncertain way through a lineup of
would-be budget cutters at joint Senate-House
foreign committee hearings.
In the face of ax-wielders from both
parties, the Administration slashed its
request for new Economic Recovery
.Administration funds to $2,950,000,000
for the third year of foreign aid. Pres.
ident Truman's, budget had ear
marked ECA for $3,100,000,000 for the
12 months beginning July 1.
. The 'rcurrent year's allowance for
ECA is $3,778,000,000. Thus the new
request represents a slash of $828,
000,000. . 1 . - ,
; A Red 'Big Three
Despite the press of high priority
legislation, there were f orensics.' Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis), who
recently charged there were 54 card
carrying Communists in the State De
partment, was challenged by that
agency to submit names to the FBL
Sen. McCarthy carried on his feud,
without however mentioning names,
by declaring he had case histories of
81 subversives working in Or with the
State Department. -
Radio
Give-Awcrys Go Away.
Chairman Wayne Coy of the Fed
eral Communications Commission be
lieves the radio jackpot programs
which used to give away about 3,
600)00 a year may soon disappear
completely from .the air.
Coy, the nation's radio boss, sought
last August to baa prize-giving shows
involving an element of chance and
promptly got into a legal battle with
radio broadcasting companies.
These give-away programs may
even disappear before we're able to
litigate the legality of our regulation
in court," Coy recently told a House
Appropriations Subcommittee. !
The FCC chief -; said give-aways
used to rate among the most popular
programs on the air, but he added: -
Today I do not believe there Is
one in the first 15 of top radio pro
grams, and I would say nearly half
cf the give-away programs have dis
appeared from the air.' 1
Emergency
Cooperation Plus
The townspeople of Scottsboro,
Ala., cooperated last week to rescue
two young fliers lost in the rain and
fog over their city. While the plane
droned in circles in the dark overhead,
police and the Sheriffs Office mobi
lized 50 cars and drivers.
An ambulance driver - played his
spotlight on the clouds. The' plane
responded by blinking its lights. ,
The ambulance led the long file of
cars to the unlighted airport, six miles
from town.r Drivers, took - positions
along the runway and trained their
headlights on the landing strip. The
ambulance driver fixed his spotlight
on the windsock.
With plenty of light to guide him,
the pilot settled to a perfect three
point landing. The pilot, Robert Kieran,
21, and his passenger were greeted
. by a delegation of citizens headed by
Mayor W. W. Gross.
Five years, ago on"a similarly bleak,
rainy night, -an Army, pilot crashed
to his death on the town's outskirts.
It was then the townspeople drafted
their plan. ;
'RIOT' TRIAl-ltallans in cage art charged with rioting after 'SPY' TRIAL Robert Vogeler, NO CONTRACT-MIners near Johnstown, Pa., defied orders TORY-Winston Churchill, war- LABOR-Prlme Minister Clement'
the July, 1948, attempt en life of Communist leader Palmiro American .telephone executive, of John L Lewis, union leader, to return to the pits. Miners time prime minister, led the Attlee headed spirited defense i
Togtiatti. The mass trial was held In Abbadia San Saivatore. got 15 years In Hungary, heatedly Insisted they would not dig coal without a contract, attack on socialist programs, of his government's policies.!
CHINA: Mao's Pact with Russia
MAO TZE-TUNG, Chinese
Communist chief, and his
premier - foreign minister Chou
En-lai were back home last week
after nine weeks in Moscow.
They took with them a new 30
year treaty, binding their country to
Russia as an ally in peace and war.
Not since the time of Genghis 'Khan
in the 13th century have Asiatics been
linked so closely. It embraces more
than 700,000,000 people from the Pa
cific almost to the geographic heart
of Europe.
The Sino-Russian pact obligates
China and Russia to render all aid to
the other in the event of aggression
by Japan or by any of Japan's allies.
The Kremlin interprets that last
phrase to encompass the United
States.
Manchuria Comes Back
Russia promised to turn Manchuria
back to Chinese control by withdraw
ing from Dairen and Port Arthur and
surrendering control of the Chang
chun railway. This negates the IMS
treaty of friendship, signed with Na
tionalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek, but thew ithdrawal is not im-
POLIO: Link with Allergy
Sister Kenny Study
Humans with food allergies may be
more susceptible to crippling attacks
of infantile paralysis.
A study, supported by the Sister
Elizabeth Kenny Foundationhas com
pared 249 crippled victims of polio
with 246 Minneapolis high school stu
dents who had never shown recogniz
able signs of having had polio.
All 4JS polio victims reported hav
ing had signs of two or more allergies.
Of the polio-free students 33 per cent
never had had any of the signs, or
else signs of only one allergy. The rest
of the polio-free students did report
signs of two or more allergies.
Another check of polio-free stu
dents in Pearl River, N.Y, showed
about the same results.
Seven allergic signs appeared two
to three times more often in the polio
group than in the polio-free students,
according to the report These in
cluded bed-wetting, constipation, ab
normal tiredness, pulse beat over 84,
Inflammation of the nose membranes,
neuralgia and headaches.
Most of these are ' not commonly
considered allergie signs by doctors
generally. The faster pulse heat af ten .
eating is a method used by one of
the doctors in the case to learn what
foods a person is allergic to. .
These and other symptoms often
occurred in polio victims just be
DAVID AND
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RED LETTER DAY Mao Tze-tung, chairman of Chinese Central
People's Republic, bids farewell to Moscow after signing 30-year
pact. In fur caps (I to R) are Chou En-lal, Chinese premier-foreign
minister, and Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the Soviet deputy premier.
mediate; it is promised by 1952. " took more than two months to nego-
Economically, the treaty promises tiate such a treaty. U.S. Secretary of
war-ravaged China- a loan of $300,- State Dean Acheson suggested there
000,000 during the next five years to
buy Russian machinery and industrial
equipment That sum is a pittance in
relation to Red China's needs.
Western observers wondered why it
fore the attack of polio, the report
says. It suggests that when allergies
are active, they may predispose a
person to a crippling attack of polio
by lowering his resistance. -
About 80 per cent of people over
15 have polio antibodies in their
blood. This presumably means that
most of us have sometime been in
fected but resisted the attack. Rela
tively few people do come down with
recognizable polio.
Sport
Channel Challengers
The English Channel faces its big
gest invasion of swimmers in history
this summer. ; .
More than 60 swimmers will churn
the 19-mile -stretch between France
and England in a 'Contest for. $2,800
sponsored by The London Doily Mail
Last year 11 swimmers made 17 at
tempts on the channel and five made
it It was the busiest season since old
Matt Webb first swam it in 1875.
Among those who have said they
will try it in '50 are seven members
t the John Mercer family of Fall
'River, Mass.; Shirley May France of
Somerset, Mass, and Philip Mickman,
the English schoolboy who swam it
last year.
WMr, ladMMpaJis Stmt
GOLIATH, 1950
must be secret protocols involving
establishment of troop and plane
.bases and training of Chinese armies
in new Soviet military and political
techniques.
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Dates
,r Wednesday, March 1
Red Cross Fund drive starts.
Anniversary (170th), first U. S.
bank, Philadelphia.
Thursday, March Z
Texas Independence Day.
Friday, March J
Anniversary (103rd), U. S.
postage stamps.
Saturday, March A
National 4-H Club Week starts.
Pennsylvania Charter Day.
Sunday, March 5
Greek elections.
Counterfeit
Forgers & Phonies
' The Secret Service says public losses
from counterfeiting more than tripled
in 1949, jumping to $651,445 from
$190,133 the previous year. This is the.
record for phony money swindles since
1935 when the public lost $1,037,785.
Another $703,423 in bogus bills was
seized by Secret Service agents last
year before it could be passed, the
annual report to Treasury Secretary
Snyder revealed.
Operations against counterfeiters
brought 478 arrests and 273 convic
tions in 1949 with some defendants
still awaiting triaL There were 2,096
arrests and 1,915 convictions for for
geries of Treasury checks and govern
ment savings bonds.
U. E. Baughman, Secret Service
chief, warns that the rising tide 'in
forgeries of government checks should
put on guard persons who cash the
numerous GI life insurance refund
payments. He says:
"A government check is worthless
if it bears a forged endorsement, and
the last endorser of a forged govern
ment check is the loser."
ATOM: An
FDR some time defense officials have been studying the advisability
of setting 'up a second U.S. capital, perhaps underground, to be
used in the event of an enemy attack. . '
Paul J. Larsen, new head of the Office of Civilian defense who
takes over next Wednesday, already is pondering the, scattering of
executive functions. Before he left the Atomic Energy Commission
laboratories at Albuoueraue. N. M
which he headed, Larsen said
"Our first job will be re-location
and re-design of the present govern
mental -office setup in the capital.
- "Dispersion, even out of the Wash
ington area, and underground instal
lations either in or out of the capital,
will be our chief means of defense.
Urges Commission
Rep, Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) has
ready for submission in the House a
Crash
Human Failure
State and federal boards launched
inquiries into the headon crash of
two Long Island Rail Road trains
which killed 29 and injured 106 pas
sengers at Rockville Centre, worst
train wreck in the history of New
York State.
Authorities said the veteran engi
neer of the .east-bound train ran past
a stop signal on a narrow gantlet of
one-way temporary track about a
grade crossing elimination project
The engineer was held on charges of
second degree manslaughter.
The impact split open the front
cars of the trains like "frankfurters."
Many of the dead were torn to bits
in the crumpled mass of steel wreck
age. 1
The Public Service and Interstate
Commerce Commissions said the acci
dent was caused by human failure.
No Automatic fjaf ety Devices
Although the temporary track past
the improvement is equipped with
signal lights, it is not protected by
automatic trippers which cut the
power and set the brakes if an engi
neer passes a stop , signal.
Such equipment is installed in the
East River tunnels used by the Long
Island. The automatic tripper also is
used in New York City subways which
make it the safest railroad system in
the world. .
State and federal agencies said
nearly three-quarters of a million
commuters ride in andout of New
York each day on trains which have
no such automatic safety devices.
Most commuting lines use a multi
plicity of safety signals and controls
of a type that may be blotted out by
an oversight, negligence, illness or
injury to the engineer. -
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THIS SHRINKING WORLD
Underground
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joint resolution proposing creation of
a seven-man commission to study
feasibility of a substitute capital and
to reoort to the , President and Con-
cress bv Januarr 31. 1951.
Holifield says development of atom-
1 t 1 , t m.
ic weapons now nas reacnea me pout
where large cities and their inhabit
ants can be destroyed by a single ex
plosion. i ' "
He noted that in Washington the
White House, defense establishments,
Nation Is Hit Hard
By Soft Coat Crisis
THE nation's soft coal fields were grimly silent last week except
for the clash of roving pickets with scattered non-union miners
who dared try to work. Major industrial users of coal railroads,
steel, utilitiescut operations drastically with a resultant creeping
Earalysis -on the industries , they- served. Across the land spread a
rownout, reminiscent of wartime, as large cities and small com-
a
Primaries V
Senate Candidacies
Three governors, seven representa
tives, two ex-senators and four for
mer House members are either avowed
or probable candidates for the 36
Senate seats to be filled next Novem
ber. Most primary and convention-nomi-
nating dates have been set They
start Anril 11 In Illinois and run un-
til Rhode Island's Republican primary
September 27, although that one may
be moved ahead..
Only in Georgia," New York and
Connecticut are the dates still to be
picked.
Races In 33 States !
The Senate contests ""involved 33
states. Three states, Idaho, Connecticut
and North Carolina, will name two
each.
The 36 seats now are held by 23
Democrats (eight of them from the
South) and 13 Republicans.
There are 54 Democrats and 42
Republicans in the Senate currently,
so the "Republicans will have to post
a net gain of seven to regain control
of the upper house.
Two Unopposed
Two leading incumbents, Sen. Scott
Lucas (D-Ill) and Sen. Robert A.
Taft (R-Ohio) apparently will have
no opposition for renomination. There
probably will be three or four others
in the same enviable position by the
time filing deadlines are past
Washington
the Capitol, Supreme Court and vital
government departments are located
"within the square miles of destruc
tion accredited to one atomic bomb
not a hydrogen bomb. ,
Without Hysteria . - -Congress,
he urged, should make
this study now while there is time to
make security plans with calmness
without semblance of hysteria.
The commission he proposes would"
consider possible sites for a second
capital, buildings to be constructed "on
. 1 J.
or under any ; sue, wnai aupiicaie
copies of documents and, records
should be prepared and procedures
to be followed in naming successors
to high officials should it become nec
essary. I :
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uiumues noaraea awinaung coat sup-
plies by rationing and closing down
acnools and public buildings. v j
Once again the dispute between
John L. Lewis, his United Mine
Workers Union, and the coal mine op
erators had come to climax with the
federal government striving vainly to
intervene.: : "
Cold Ware Grips Country j
A cold wave gripped the east and
midwest as bitter, hungry and defiant
miners ignored court orders and con-
tempt citations to chant: "No contract
no work." 1
Last week, as twice before, the
UMW Was cited for criminal contempt
of court for defying a federal Dis
trict Court order to go back to work.
Unlike the other citations, last week's
was directed only at the union and not
at John I. Lewis, its president
The UMW treasury, which report-
edly now contains more than $13,
000,000, and Lewis were jointly fined
a total of $2,130,000 for contempt of
court as a result of. defying similar
injunctions in 1947 and 1948.
, . Lewis Asked Obedience
. This time Lewis publicly called on
his members twice to obey the court
order issued under the Taft-Hartley
Act The first time was February 11
when the order was issued. The sec
ond time was a week ago "for the pro
tection and welfare of our union.
The miners shrugged off " the con
tempt action as . beside the point "It
doesn't make any dieence,,, said
miners at Library, Pa. "The govern
ment isn't going to put 370,000 miners
in jaiL"
"Let them fine us until our money
is gone," cried a miner at Johnstown,
Pa. fit is better to have a union with
no money than to have money without
a union. .:
Trial
Familiar Red Pattern
American businessman ; Robert A.
Vogeler, 38, assistant vice president
of the International Telephone and
Telegraph Co., went to Hungary last
fall to supervise operations! for his
far-flung company. i - ,
A few weeks later, Vogeler, his
British aide, Edgar Sanders, and five
Hungarians were arrested for spying
and sabotaging Hungarian economy. .
Fori three months, he was held Incom
municado despite U.S. State Depart
ment protests. New York lawyer Mar-
ris Ernst volunteered to defend him,
but was not permitted to enter the ,
country. ? j ; "
Last week in a three-day trttl be-
Vogeler, Sanders and the five Hun
Parian ontiAnala fialmTv riA?k.lAs4 !mt1J
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ty to all the charges and made abject
apologies. Vogeler said T am sorry I
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and ask for a mild sentence."
Vogeler admitted he had used his
position only as a "cover for espio
nage' for U.S. Army Intelligence.
Sanders confessed he was a member
of the British Intelligence Service.
Next day the court, urged by the
prosecutor to mete out "severest pun
ishment," sentenced Vogeler to 15 and
SanderjHto 13 years in prison. Two of
the Hungarians drew death sentences.
An appeal is 'being carried to a
higher court j
On the same day Vogeler was sen
tenced,! the severed diplomatic
relations with, Bulgaria and ordered
home its diplomats from Sofia. .- - j
In ' New York, Padl Ruedemann,'
Standard Oil of New Jersev
after sienine a sa bo take "confession "
commented: "... in Hungary a man
1 cn be forced to coness because he
sees nothing else to d He is confined -
in a dungeon with no hope of getting
out .'. deprived of food and water,
questioned constantly, brought to
such mental and physical exhaustion
that anything . . . seems better than
what he is going through." :
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