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The Gazette and Daily, York, Monday. Morning, June 21, .1948 2 I T-H Ban On Union I Political Activity Meets Test Todav Supreme Court is expected rule today on the Taft-Hartle law's prohibition of political spending by labor unions. Washington, June 30 UP) Th Supreme Court is expected to de cide tomorrow whether label unions, may spend their monev fol political purposes in national ele( tions. The -decision will have an isr! portant bearing on ambitious pldn! of unions for taking part in thi year's presidential campaign. The law Question to be decidet Photo by The Gazette and Daily WRECKAGE OF FATAL PLANE CRASH A 40-year-old U.

S. Treasury department employe was killed when this private plane crashed near Brodbeck Friday night. The man, Joseph Irvin King, -Washington, D. took off from York airport shortly before the crash on the farm of J. W.

Mentzer, Glen Rock RD 2. Cause of the accident is undetermined. is the constitutionality of th. section of the Taft-Hartley ac which bars labor organization from contributing or spending union funds for or against a can didate in a federal election. It was the first test case on an: phase of the act to be argued be fore the Justices.

The case wen. before them on a Government ap! peal from a District of Columbi; Federal court ruling that the bai is unconstitutional. The Distric court sad the ban abridges fre speech, press and assembly. i Wallace Protests Ohio Of ficial's Ballot Ruling Third party candidate tells Ohio Progressives that Secretary of State Hummers decision was "irresponsible and un-American." Wallace jabs Truman. Cleveland, June 20 UP) Henry A.

Wallace told his new Ohio party tonight that "a United protest will stop the philosophy of Hitler, Himmler and Hummel from conquering freedom in Ohio." Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel has barred Wallace from the presidential ballot in Ohio on the claim that three who signed his nominating petitions were Communists. They vehemently denied it. In an address closing the Progressive party of Ohio's first convention, Wallace said that Hum-mel's ruling was "utterly irresponsible and un-American." "He held no hearings. He conducted no personal investigation.

He presented no evidence," said Wallace. "This is an attempt at mass political murder at the murder of democracy. "But just as the organized work of people from all parts of the country and all sections of the population stopped the Mundt-Nixon bill, so will a united protest stop the philosophy of Hitler, Himmler and Hummel from conquering freedom in the sovereign state of Ohio." Wallace's speech teemed with jibes at President Truman. Taking ud President Truman's remarks made on his recent western trip, Wallace called his "attempt to pin responsibility for the state of the union on the Congress particularly interesting" when the record is examined. "When President Truman selects the Tha.d Stevens Congress as the worst in our history," said Wallace, "he is either demonstrating a sad delinquency in his knowledge of our civil rights history, or more likely, he is telling the southern reactionaries that he didn't mean a word of his civil rights pronouncement.

"It is always a safe bet that Harry Truman will be right 50 per cent of the time. He is on both sides of everything." Yorker Is Shot While Fishing Spurgeon Kunkle has bullet removed from abdomen. Police question Lancaster county couple who were shooting at mark in Susquehanna across river from where Kunkel was fishing. Shot in the abdomen as he sat fishing near Vinegar Ferry on the York bank of the Susquehanna yesterday, Spurgeon Kunkel, a 31-year-old Yorker, was reported in satisfactory condition at York hospital after a .22 calibre bullet had been removed by Dr. Frank Weaver.

The bullet which wounded the fisherman narrowly missed two children who were with him. Police To Check Bullets Stale police from Columbia were in possesion last night of a .22 calibre rifle which they said a Lancaster county couple had been firing at gallon cans in the river about the same time the accident occurred. The gun will be sent to' Harrisburg, where ballistics experts will compare bullets fired from it with the slug removed from the wounded Yorker, who resides at 473 Salem avenue. The test was deliberately sough, by the CIO and its President Phil Murray. They ordered the distrv bution of CIO publications in i political race and the proceeding: followed.

The Supreme Court also is ex pected to announce Monday whether it will rule later on valki ity of another section of the Taf Hartley act the section requiring union officials to make affidavit; that they are not Communists. 1 A special three-judge federal court here decided the section if valid. The CIO National Maritime union then asked the Suprem Court to review the special court's decision and rule that the require-i ment is unconstitutional. I If the high court grants th( union's request, argument will be. heard in the tribunal's term bej ginning next October.

The cour is expected to adjourn late Monday afternoon to begin its summer) vacation. Before closing down, the Jus-j tices likely will announce decision?) in nine other lesser cases on whichj they have heard arguments. Also they will announce hearA ings have been granted or denied; in a long list of pending applica-l Frozen Carburetor May Have Caused Fatal Plane Crash State police yesterday were still uncertain of the cause of the plane Crash near Brodbeck in which a 40-year-old Los Angeles man was killed late Friday night but said there were indications the motor of the aircraft had failed because of a frozen carburetor. 1 State Policeman Leon D. Leiter said that the carburetor might have failed to heat up after the take-off from York airport at about 10:30 p.m.

Friday. The body of the pilot, Joseph Irving King, of Los Angeles, who had been working with the United States Treasury department in Washington, D. was removed to Los Angeles yesterday morning. The plane crashed on a wooded hillside near Brodbeck and cut a swath through the woods about 500 feet above the home of J. W.

Mentzer, Glen Rock RD 2. Leiter, who with State Trooper Alfred J. Corkan had stood guard at the wreckage of the plane until 7:30 a.m. Saturday, said he had learned King had been visiting at the home of friends, Mr. and Mrs.

Carson Linebaugh, 544 West King street. His body was removed from the scene of the crash at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Leiter said police had been unable to locate King's pilot's license but it was known one had been issued to him. Two Men Suspected Of Trying To Open Doors Get 10 Days Two men, picked up after midnight Saturday by city police officers who said they had been trying to open doors on East Mason avpnu? were held for investigation for 10 days in police court yesterday.

The men were arrested on East Mason avenue by Detective William J. Farrcll and Sgt. Richard H. Johnson. Farreil told Magistrate Raymond M.

Sohl that two other men had been with the pair, that one had left them earlier and that the other has escaped when the two were apprehended near the Appell building. He said he and Johnson had followed the men from Beaver and Clarke avenues to East Mason avenue. Some bullets were found on the one man who professed ownership to a revolver found in the vicinity by the officers, Farreil testified. Both were committed to the county prison. A 45-year-old Charlotte, N.

man charged with disorderly conduct and panhandling went to jail for 10 days in lieu of paying a $10 fine. After he told Sohl he had been released from jail only recently and that he wanted a chance to get out of town, the magistrate stipulated that he leave York immediately after serving his sentence. A 30-year-old man paid a $10 fine on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. In Saturday's police court, one man paid a $50 fine in lieu of spending 60 days in jail and another accepted the 60-day jail Wtw after th wtre charged with drunkenness and fighting in front of the. Railway Express of- Army Might Take Up To 225,000 Men During First Year High official says this number, inducted in the first 12 months after passage of the draft, would approximate the loss in manpower due to expiration of enlistments.

Washington, June 20 (IP) The army probably will call between 200,000 and 225,000 inductees dur- ing the first 12 months of the new draft program, a highly placed official said today. This, will approximate roughly the estimated net loss due to expiration of enlistments during that time. The draft bill passed by Congress last night fixes the total strength for the military establishment at 2,005,882. The army would be expanded to 837,000 from its present 548,000 strength: the navy and marines to 666 882 from 469,000 (of which the navy part is the Air Force to 502,000 from 382,000 (to operate 70 groups of planes). Gen.

Omar Bradley, Army Chief of Staff, said he believed the bill as passed was adequate. It provides for drafting of men 19 through 25 for 21 months service. No one could be drafted until 90 days after the bill becomes effective, which is as soon as President Truman signs it. "As for the 90-day delay," Bradley said during a flying stop at Oklahoma City last nfght, "It will take us that long to get the men registered and put the induction machinery in order." Vela Exempted Because virtually all veterans will be exempted, the army must plan on training the new groups of inductees from scratch, starting with basic training, then progressing into work with small units and finally with the big organizations. While it would be possible to send men overseas as replacements immediately upon completion of basic training, many officers would prefer to bring them into work with units in this country first.

However, divisions overseas can integrate individual trainees and give them the unit training necessary in the field. A roll call vote of 259 4o 136 In the House last night sent the draft bill to the White House, after a voice vote in the Senate approved it. The Senate acted only after breaking up a Friday night-Saturday morning filibuster by Senators Taylor (D-Idaho) and Langer (R-ND). Zoy.IWi Bat (s Reported Improved "Jerry Otto, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Chester Otto, 172 East Cottage place, was listed as satisfactory at York hospital yesterday. He was reported in serious condition for 36 hours after he had received a fractured skull when struck by a flying bat on Jackson chr playgrouiii An operation was performed at the hospital. RepublicansWrite A Wordy Platform On Eighty Topics. Still secret, the document's foreign-policy planks are reported to stress bi-partisan pledge. 1 Vandenberg is said to have approved.

Philadelphia," June 20 UP) The Republicans today completed word platform covering about 80 topics including a foreign policy declaration reportedly okayed by Arthur H. Vandenberg. The party's 1948 vote-getting document was not made public and indeed is subject to change by the 104-member resolutions committee tomorrow and then by the Republican National convention on Tuesday or Wednesday. Convention fights over platform planks are rare, and this convention is expected to adopt the whole document speedily. Information leaking out of the drafting committee on the eve of the convention was to the effect that the foreign plank: 1.

Pledges cooperation with the Democrats to keep politics out of foreign policy if a Republican is elected president. 2. Criticizes the Democrats for alleged failures to cooperate with the Republicans on some policy matters. The reports, which were gaining wide circulation today, said the plank also pledges support of the reciprocal trade agreements while protecting American industry through administrative procedures. Penna.

Delegates Stick To Martin Philadelphia, June 20.GP) The key Pennsylvania delegation decided tonight to stick with its "favorite son," Senator Edward Martin, for an indefinite number of ballots at the Republican National convention. The decision was reached in a brief session only one Estras Howell, of Scranton, objecting. The delegation, with only a few scattered noes, adopted a resolution directing Governor James H. Duff, the delegation chairman, to cast 72 votes for Martin. (The delegation has 73 votes.

The other vote will be cast by Howell for Senator Vandenberg.) Vandenberg was at last placed on the officially "available" list when Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler made an announcement construed to mean just that by the political guessers at Philadelphia on Saturday. Sigler is head of the Michigan delegation. fice at the York railroad station. A 19-year-old man drew a 60-day term in lieu of a $50 fine on a disorderly conduct charge. If your friend or relative is in the Hospital send him The Gazette and Daily.

Adv. tions for reviews. Flames Destroy Caribbean City Castries, on St. Lucia, razed by fire that raged eight hours, making thousands homeless and hungry and causing damage estimated at several mil-licns of dollars. Castries, St.

Windward Is- I lands, June 20 UP) I A fire which fTi I raged for eight I hours last night and early today vir-t a 1 1 destroyed this city. Castries. which has a population of 24,000, is the capital of Caribbean island, a British possession. Damage was estimated at several million dollars. Thousands of persons are homeless and there is an acute shortage of food.

Power, electric light and telephone services are not functioning. There were no casulaties reported. Nearly all government buildings were destroyed by the fire as well as the town board's building, Barclay's bank, the law courts, public library, cable office, post office, the newspaper "Voice of St. Lucia," a theater, five hotels and most of the city's grocery and dru? stores and doctors' offices. The fire began in a commercial building and spread rapidly.

Firemen were hampered by low water pressure, caused by a long draught J. ivi. stow, British Administrator of St. Lucia, appealed to Trinidad and other islands of the Leeward group for aid. Kunkel, who was fishing in front of the family cottage, suddenly arose at 3:25 p.

m. and announced to his companions and heighbors that he had been shot. No report of a gun had been heard. Seated with Kunkel at the time were Barrie Brown, 8, of 1035 West Princess street, and Donald Kunkel, 10, of 1035 East King street. While E.

D. Brown, 513 North George street, and William Brown, 1035 West Princess street, who were nearby, rushed Kunkel to (Continued on Page Fourteen) 3trc iwker Shot.