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3" SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1 948-Parf I Ex-Judge Groner Named Tidelands Case Master -i A "i 3 4 i- New York Reds Blanketing of Industry Told WASHINGTON, July 2 (JP) A House committee heard an ex-FBI agent testify today that Communists the key sections' of industry. in New York City. Tor a long time, the Communists concentrated on heavy industries," said Theodore C. Kirkpatrick, now a New York private investigator. "But now they are organizing the light industries, particularly the so-called distributive trades whicJi include department-store workers." Fitzpatrick testified that there are 11,080 Communist Party members in the Borough of Manhattan alone.

He said- he got his figures from a Communist publication of June 13. 1947. The committee is looking into Communist infiltration of unions generally. Witnesses Attacked today's hearings recessed, pending their reopening in New York Wednesday, Chairman Hartley (R) NJ.t of the House Labor Committee, recalled that witnesses already have testified on Communist infiltration of department-store union locals and said: "I have just received word that pamphlefs have been distributed around New York department stores today, particularly at Gimbel's, viciously attacking those who appeared to testify at these hearing'. "I want to make it perfectly rlear that all witnesses appeared under sobpoena and if they had failed to appear I would have cited them to Congress for contempt.

"Some of those who testified have been courageous but some have been too reluctant to tell the full Ftory" I Firing of Writer as Communist SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 (IP) Membership in the Communist Party is rot sufficient cause for discharge of a newspaperman, the American Newspaper Guild held today. Tn the closing session of the 15th annual convention here, the delegates also selected Columbus, for the 1940 convention city. The guild overwhelmingly passed a resolution stating any discharges because of political belief "should be resisted to the fullest and be it further resolved that the Washington (guild) local be urged tn process the (Thomas Buchanan grievance." The convention declares," the resolution said, "it does not consider that political belief in the absence of a showing of overt misfeasance constitutes just and sufficient grounds for discharge." Made Nn Appeal Several speakers said passage of the resolution does not mean the guild supported Communists or Communism. They argued that if such cases went unchallenged it might lead to dis charge of writers for political reasons. Buchanan, 20-year-old mediral reporter, was discharged by the Washington Star after acknowledging he joined the Communist Party.

The Washington local of the guild voted. 251 to against backing, Buchanan in a protest. Guild spokesmen pointer! out the resolution "urged" and didn't "order" the Washington chapter to take action. Previous to its adoption, the convention noted rifwn the minority report, which also was offered as a resolution. This report opposed taking up the case.

It said the Communist Party "is, in fact, an agent of a foreign government, is dedicated to the overthrow of our government! and to the destruction of labor and labor unions, is engaging in i the suppression of news, the con-j trol of the press and the suppres-i sion of all liberty." I Guild Attacks Washington, July 2 Chief Justice Vinson of the Supreme Court today appointed D. Lawrence Groner to serve as special master in the California tidelands case. Groner retired March 8 as Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals here. Vinson made the appointment under a formal order issued by the Supreme Court on June 2.

In making the appointment, Vinson stated: "The special rrfaster shall have authority to summon witnesses, issue subpenas and to take such evidence as he may deem necessary." Groner, 71, is a veteran Federal jurist who has had wide experience with marine arid coastal legal procedure. Before his appointment to the Court of Appeals here he served from 1021 to 1031 as Federal judge for the Eastern District, of Virginia. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the same district. The special master will take evidence on conflicting claims made by California and by the Justice Department to coastal lands having oil deposits.

Appointment of a special master was urged by California. The Supreme Court has decreed that the United States has "paramount rights in, and full dominion and power over" lands lying seaward of the low-water mark oft" the California coast. The court left for later determination the exact boundary lines between State and Federal jurisdiction. Eastern Refinery Signs Pay Boost PHILADELPHIA. July 2 (JT) The Atlantic Employees Union (independent) and the Atlantic Refining Co.

yesterday signed a new contract providing for a general wage increase of S6.40 per 40-hour week for 11.500 employees of the company in 19 States. At the same time, a cost of living adjustment of 13i was changed to 107e of the new increased rates. Previous wage rates were not disclosed. 5 -1 fc. i 4 ft -pid Vou walk down the hill during the night?" She nodded acain.

-Then what did you do?" "I sleeped," said Sandra. Wilshire at New Ilampsh ir Wirfnhoto ORDEAL Begrimed and teorfuf, little Sandra Nypen, 5, bites into a sandwich after being found by posse which searched all night for her in the Foothills north of Spokane. Girl, 5, Rescued After 16 Hours in Foothills night after playmates wandered I fll down Sandra ex-home without her. (plained. She ore only a skimpy pair "Were you her moth-of bathing trunks, but scratches cr asked, and eyes swollen from cry inc Sandra nodded.

SPOKANE. July 2 (JF) A 5-year-eld girl lost all last night in the hills told her mother today that she "fell down lots" and "sleeped- some before she was rescued. Sandra Nypen was found by searchers in the foothills north of Spokane where she spent the New Orleans Priest Dies NEW ORLEANS. July 2 Rev. Francis Xavier McCabe, CM, 76-year-old Catholic priest, who was president of De Paul university Chicago.

from 1910 to 1H20. died today were the only visible signs of; hardship. Hpr mothrr Mr? Vthpr Vv. looked at the cuts arid Scratches. LOS ANGELES CAB Told of 1 Reported Fire Before Crash ASHLAND, July 2 (JPh-The Civil Aeronautics Board was told today of a reported fire aboard a giant DC-6 United Airlines plane shortly before it crashed at near-by Mt.

Carmel last June 17. And two UAL pilots testified they would have chosen another route tnward more onen country had they been piloting a plane under rianaerous conditions. There have heen suesestion3 from CAB examiners that the pilot of the plane may have been asphyxiated before the crash which killed all 43 persons aboard, including Showman Earl ParrnJL A chemical used to ex tinguish fires in aircraft is under investigation as a possible cause of asphyxiation. Pilot Called 'Stable' IT AT. Cant.

George Warner was in command of the DC-6 when it smashed into a power line near a coal mine and splat tered over a rocky hillside. Col. A. D. Tuttle, director or medical services for UAL.

de scribed Warner as "an extremely stable person, ana aooea: 1 oe-lipvp that, he would have acted cooly and intelligently under any circumstances. The two pilots who said they would have chosen another course for a plane in trouble were Capt. John M. Roberts and Capt. Earl E.

Bach. Meager details of the fire report came in testimony of the recorded radio messages to and from the plane, UAL Flight 624. to New York from the West Coast. Lucian M. Zell.

chief of communications for United, said the messages were received just eight minutes before the crash. Ford Executive Dies DETROIT, July 2 UP) Former Brig. Gen. Albert J. Browning, 47, a vice-president of the Ford Motor died today.

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