WEDNESDAY. M,
iRCH 5. 1958
Testiff
Halle
WASHINGTON, March 4 (/P) —The Harris subcommittee
backed away fist today from asking any senators to testify
in the Federal j Communications Commission inquiry.
At the .same time the House group granted Richard A.
Mack, who resigned under fire from FCC last night, a week’s
delay in returning to the witness
stand. Mack broke down under
questioning last Friday and bisi
lawyer asked that he be excused
from testifying tomorrow as
scheduled.
Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark)
of the subcommittee on -Legisla
tive Oversight said after a closed
meeting today there was no plan
to in/itc testimony from any of
the senators described by previous
witnesses as having intervened in
a case before FCC.
Harris previously had said
the testimony, of G .T. (Tad)
Baker, president of National
Airlines, might make it neces
sary for several senators to ap
pear. He explained later, how
ever. he meant the senators
might want to appear and de
fend their role in the case.
Baker in a statement issued to
night said that if the House can’t
“call senators to account for in
fluencing and attempting to brow
beat the members of regulatory
commissions” then the Senate
should.
Furman
Hits
Candid
iture
Of Law;
ence
HARRISBURG March 4 (/P)—
Lt. Gov. Roy E. Furman lashed
cut today at the organization en
dorsement of Mayor David L.
Lawrence of Pittsburgh for the
Democratic nomination • for gov
ernor as "a palpable hoax.”
# Furman also renewed his posi
tion that he'would not drop his
own gubernatorial candidacy, set
ting the stage for a possible Dem
ocratic fight in the May 20 pri
mary.
“I do not believe I will have
any trouble cutting him (Law
rence) down to size with the peo
ple who constitute the real voting
strength of the Democratic Par
ty,” Furman said.
Democratic slatemakers called
a session tonight* to round out
their ticket by endorsing Victor
E. Moore, Philadelphia council
man, for lieutenant governor.
Moore was the choice of U.S.
Rep. William J. Green Jr., Phila
delphia Democratic chairman,
who was given the right to name
the lieutenant governor.
Top Democratic leaders en
dorsed both Lawrence for govern
or and. Gov. Leader for U.S. Sen
ator at a. session yesterday. They
also pledged their support for a
second term for Miss Genevieve
Blatt, Secretary of Internal Af
fairs.
Women, Minors
Get Wage Boost
HARRISBURG, March 4 (JP) —
The state Labor and Industry De
partment today tentatively ap
proved minimum wage scales
ranging up to one dollar an hour
for some 250,000 women and min
ors employed in Pennsylvania’s
retail sales industry.
William L Batt Jr., department
secretary, sa* final approval of
the rates recommended by a spe
cial. 9-member study group .was
withheld pending further public
hearings on the proposals March
20.
.. The minimum wage regulations
are scheduled to become effective
May 26 to mark the first time in
Pennsylvania history such work
ers will be brought under, mini
mum wage regulations.
Ball Control Helps Huskies
Beat Kansas State, 55-48
LINCOLN, Neb., March 4 (JP) —
The jubilant coach of Nebraska’s
basketball giant-killers said today
ball control and constant move
ment were part of the strategy
for knocking off two of the na
tion’s top teams in the last 10
days.
Coach Gerard L. Jerry Bush’s
Gernhuskers upset nationally top
ranked Kansas State 55-48 in a
Big Eight Conference battle last
night.
Nine days earl
Sed the wings
in and his K
tier, Nebraska
pf Wilt Cham
nnsas mates,
to a 43-41 thril-
then ranked No. 4
ler.
Cops Fill Park
: TARENTUM, Pa
—lnstead of lining
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dropping tokens in
ters to extend the
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my of Senators
in FCC Inquiry
"The Senate," Baker said,
"can oust or appropriately pun
ish senators who attempt to
exert improper influence . . .
“If the Congress because of its
self-made rules or because of the
club spirit convicts Commissioner
Mack for his wrongdoing, and
drives him out of office, and lets
these senators go scot free, it will
shock the American people and
will undermine confidence in the
Congress of the- United States.”
Garment Workers
To Strike Today
NEW YORK, March 5 UP)—Ef
forts for a resumption of bargain
ing failed today as the Interna
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union prepared for a strike of
105,000 dressmakers today.
There appeared little hope that
mediation efforts could change
the situation much before the 10
a.m. strike deadline.
The only hope, expressed on
both sides, was that the strike
might last only a few days and
thus would not too severely crip
ple the pre-Easter dress business.
Congressmen Take Sides
On Disability Amendment
WASHINGTON, March 4(/P)
—A group of Democratic and
Republican senators were lin
ing up sponsors today for a
constitutional amendment that
would supplant the disability ar
rangement between President
Dwight D. Eisenhfcwer and Vice
President Richard M-Nixon.
Chief sponsors ,of the proposed
ameiidment are Sens. Estes Ke
fauver (D-Tenn) and Everett M.
Dirksen (R-II). Republican lead
ers predicted Congress would be
spurred into action by the White
House agreement under- which
Nixon would take over should
Eisenhower become disabled.
' Congress members voiced
general approval of the arrange
ment, which would apply only
to Eisenhower and Nixon.
Some questioned whether it
would give Nixon enough’consti
tutional authority to act in Eisen-
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Educator Says
Prof Shortage
Is No Wonder
CHICAGO, March 4 (JP}— The
i United States is short of college
[teachers —but the wonder is that
| the shortage is not even greater,
>a Minnesota educator said today,
j Dr. Ruth E. Eckert of the Uni
versity of Minnesota said college
teachers seem to have entered
the field more by accident than
by deliberate design.
_ Few of them, she told the Na
tional Conference on Higher Edu
ction, looked forward to teach
ing as a career during their un
dergraduate days. And not many
were steered into the field by
their own teachers or conselors.
Dr. Eckert reported to the con
vention on a survey made in Min
nesota of 773 college teachers.
Most college teachers about
80 per cent—would choose the
same vocation again, if they were
given their choice, she said.
College teachers feel there are
many rewards in their work—
particularly the opportunities to
work with college-age youth—to
continue their own intellectual
development and to be associated
with a vitally important task, was
another point.
But they have their frustrations,
too low salaries, heavy work
loads, and lack of recognition and
support for their work. Dr. Eckert
said.
H.S.T. Gives Lesson
To Young Dems
NORMAN, Okla., March 4 UP)
—Former President Harry S. Tru
man gave Oklahoma University
Young Democrats a little history
lesson about the office and duties
of the president of the United
States tonight
Truman ticked off the duties of
the president and gave his opin
ions about some of the men who
have held the office. He did not
catalogue the present occupant
President Eisenhower, nor did he
pass judgment on his own admin
istration.
He called Franklin D. Roose
velt “great,” John Adams a re
actionary, and Lincoln great.
31 Billion Reds See Movies
MOSCOW, March 4 UP) At
tendance at Soviet movie houses
last year totaled 314 hillion ac
cording to figures from the All-
Union Conference of Film Work
ers. That averages 17 shows for
each man, woman and child in
the Soviet Union.
hower’s stead. They also express
ed doubts whether Eisenhower:
could legally reclaim his office on |
recovery from a disabling illness-l
GOP congressional leaders dis-i
cussed it at their weekly Whited
House conference with Eisenhow
er.
Senate Republican Leader
William F. Knowland of Cali
fornia told newsmen he thought
the While House action would
stimulate legislation rather than
cause . congressional complac- :
ency. Joseph W. Martin of
Massachusetts agreed.
Knowland, without saying so,
directly, indicated the administra-;
tion regards the proposed Kefauv-j
er-Dirksen amendment as sub
stantially in line with its own;
views. i
This amednment would permit!
the vice president to take over asj
acting president when a president!
notified him he was incapacitated,!
or when a majority of the Cabinet;
decided a president was unable to'
continue. t
Kohler Investigation
Reveals Violence
WASHINGTON, March 4 (JP) —Stories of dynamiting*,
shotgun blasts and acid throwing studded today’s testimony
in the Senate Rackets Committee’s investigation of the 45-
month-old Kohler Co. strike.
Most of the witnesses who depicted themselves as targets
of violence were non-striking
workers at the Wisconsin bath
room fixtures firm. One striker
complained of being called a
“goon” and of having his car
showered with acid.
Gilbert Moede. a Kohler work
er since 1926, testified he didn’t
support the UAW on its strike
and, after his country place was
damaged by acid, he quit Kohler
last summer in fear of further
reprisal.
Moede said he lives in a cot
tage about 80 miles north of the
Kohler plant. He said plant pick
ets threatened that his cottage
would be damaged.
He said finally this happened,
that acid was thrown all over
family antiques at the country
place, as well as on the family
Bible. “Oh, not the Bible,” ex
claimed Sen. Barry M. Goldtvater
(R-Ariz).
“It’s hard to believe,” Moede
answered. “They had to go out of
their way to do it. But they did it
“I had to give up my job on
account of the strike activities,”
Moede said. “I just couldn’t stand
it any more. That’s not a way to
live.”
He said he quit despite strong
feelings about a man’s right to
work.
Pantless Fugitive
Found in Seattle
BUFFALO. N.Y.. March 4 UP)—
A suspected bank robber who es
caped from police here in 1956,
and disappeared with stomach ul
cers and no pants, has been found.
Sheriff Robert A. Glasser said
today that the man, Fred A. Ber
man, 39, is serving a 12-year sen
tence in the State of Washington
for attempted bank robbery.
Berman was arrested in Buffalo
May 29, 1956. and charged with
first-degree robbery when police
found him near the scene of a lo
cal bank holdup. He was hiding
under a porch with $721 stuffed
inside his shirt
The next month he - jumped;
through a screened window at ai
hospital where he was under
treatment for his ulcers.
The last view his police guards
had of Berman was as he ran
across the hospital grounds in a
jtom T-shirt, shorts and shoes.
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PAGE THREE
Senators Reveal
Mass Beatings
WASHINGTON, March 4 (JP)—
Dr. Eugene Byrd, Miami, Fla.,
psychologist, today told senators
a gruesome story of mass beat
ings with a heavy leather strap
at an institution for delinquent
boys.
Byrd did not name the school
where he said boys, charged with
infractions of rules or with falling
behind in their studies, were
herded into a small building for
the beatings.
He 3aid they were required to
sprawl across a cot, gripping the
headboards, and beaten severely
with a ‘314-inch-wide strap. If
they loosened their grip on the
headrails. or moved on the cot,
he said, they received additional
lashes.
Policeman Keeps
Taxicab Collection
WASHINGTON, March 4 UP)—
jCollecting miniature taxicabs is
hot just an idle hobby for Lt.
Francis H. Dunn of the Washing
ton Police Department.
As head of. the public vehicles
bureau, he keeps a fleet of minia
tures painted in the identical
colors of taxis operating here.
When passengers complain
about a specific type of cab, or
try to find personal property left
iin a cab. the miniatures help
identify the vehicle.