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METRO FINAL TIGEB TIME AGAIN Follow the Detroit Tigers Daily in Free Press Sport Pages. 7 fl 1" 3 I 32 Pages Vol. 119 No. 303 Five Cents FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950 On Guard for Over a Century a Ji FULTOX OVRSLER to Unset Decision Figh The Greatest Story Ever Told Chapter Herod Is Dead! by Mine Union in Nearly two years passed before Joseph had another supernatural experience, but at last it came. Once more the angel interrupted their quiet lives with a sign from the other world; one last dream for Joseph, a vision with great news, the angel declaring: Taking No Lewis Cites Profits "Arise and take the child and to Justify He Contends Coal on Hand Should Last Till Settlement BY ARTHUR KROCK New York Times Service WASHINGTON John L.

Lewis, in an interview, answered questions that ranged from the source of his power to the most awrrr I J' they are dead that sought the life of the child." THEY ARE DEAD! They mean Herod! He was king and spoke plurally of himself as "we" this and we that, and of him the angel spoke plurally, too, in proclaiming the end of him. With no question in their minds Joseph and Mary, the most perfect believers in history, obeyed the directive. From his sleep Joseph sprang up and began to pack at once. Taking the child and mother on a donkey, he turned again to the gray and yellow desert that lay between them and home. As the long desert days passed and the little family drew nearer to their own part of the world, other travelers in wayside camping confirmed the news.

Yes, Herod the Great was dead! TO HIS SOX Archelaus he bequeathed Judea with the precious title of king. The troops had given Archelaus homage as soon as the will was read, now all the world knew he was the new ruler of the capital. Hut not of Galilee! To Herod Antipas, another son, Herod bequeathed Galilee, with Perea, and with the title not of king but of tetrarch. What would life be like in Jerusalem or any part of Judea Turn to Page 10, Column 1 1949 a Record Year, Chrysler Corp. Reports Output, Earnings and Sales Establish All-Time Marks An all-time record of production, sales and earnings was reported for the Chrysler Corp.

by K. T. Keller, president. The 1949 annual report of the corporation to stockholders I Court Strike and settling disputes between Mine Workers made these state Attlee Aide Assailed as a Red Strachey's Role in Spy Hunt Questioned LONDON (IP) Britain's La bor angrily denied that its newly named war minister, John Strachey, ever has been a Communist. Lord Beaverbrook's pro-Conservative Evening Standard carried a front page story saying that Strachey "remains an avowed Communist; he has never publicly retracted his belief in Com munism." The Standard's story was prompted by trial and imprisonment of German-born Dr.

Klaus Fuchs, a top British- atomic scientist who betrayed atomic-research secrets to Russia. j. he, BiAAuanu predicted a shakeup of the whole military intelligence organization to prevent future leaks. It pointed out that Strachey would have a leading role in the purge. A statement issued on behalf of Prime Minister Clement R.

Attlee said that Strachey was "in fundamental disagreement" with the Communist Party. Strachey, who had been food minister since 1946 till his promotion to the War post, got into trouble twice with United States Immigration authorities. IN 1935 AND 1938, while on lecture tours, he was accused of being a Communist. On both occasions, he denied the charges. In 1932, he wrote a book saying that he believed Socialism was only a transition toward Communism.

"The coming of Communism can alone render our problems soluble," he wrote. Week's Coal Supplied by Industries Cobo Eyes Seizure of Plant Stockpiles Detroit schools will not close. A last -minute reprieve was granted the public-school system late Thursday when private industry made available to th Board of Education enough coal to keep schools heated for on week longer. The Board earlier this week naa ordered coal-heated schools closed after Friday night. MAYOR COBO said he would seek authority to seize industrial coal piles, if necessary, to prevent suffering by householders.

If the situation worsened, the Mayor also planned to proclaim a midnight curfew on nonessential establishments such as bars, bowling alleys, theaters and night clubs. A spokesman for Wayne County General Hospital said that the institution had only three days' supply of coal. The hospital houses 7,100 patients, most of them elderly, and 2,100 employes. Donald S. Leonard, State-fuel administrator, said the coal pinch had caused 35 Michigan cities to grant authority to ration the fuel.

As he spoke, the picture was brightened by the prospect of mod erating weather. THESE WERE the highlights of the coal crisis as Detroit's Emergency Coal Committee announced that industry had contributed coal from private stockpiles to keep the City's 300 schools in operation. School Supt. Arthur Dondineau, informed of the Committee's action, said: "Of course, we will keep the schools open." He voiced optimism that a shutdown now could be avoided entirely. In this, Dondineau was joined by four of the school-board members who were available.

Official action will be taken Friday morning at a meeting of school officials. COBO INDICATED that he would approve the Emergency Committee's recommendation to keep the schools going. He called a meeting of the Committee for 11 a. m. Friday in his office to discuss the school situation.

As the city's fuel plight grew more desperate, the Mayor an nounced that he was considering seizure of industrial stocks for use by individual householders. He conceded that such an action would cause plant shutdowns and unemployment. He said a survey indicated that industrial stocks would not support operations and permit aid to citizens at the same time. HE SAID, however, that he "would rather see temporary un employment in the city than to see people freezing." Meanwhile, a crackdown on hoarders and profiteers was under consideration. An emergency ordinance placing a ceiling price on coal was contemplated after Councilman John A.

Kronk reported complaints of gouging. A final decision on the ordinanc will be made Friday. New sources of the fuel wert sought with alternately encouraging and disappointing results. HUGE STOCKS were reported in the South, especially the re serves held by the Tennessee Val ley Authority. But these stocks were a week away by transportation.

In Canada, an offer by Windsor Mayor Arthur J. Reaume to ship coal across the border was rescinded on orders from Ottawa. Cobo said he hoped to keep fire-station emergency stocks filled from a Public Lighting Commission, stockpile. MEANWHILE, the coal shortage was felt by the Highland Pari and Hamtramck school systemi and parochial schools of the Catholic Diocese. Highland Park planned to closi schools Friday.

In Hamtramck, half -day session! at the senior and junior higl schools were being considered. Twc schools had only a four-day supply They may be closed and their re mainmg coal shared with householders, spokesmen said. Msgr. Carroll F. Deady, head the Catholic schools, said that 2 of 125 schools in the Detroit arej would be closed by Friday.

Tb-rt? per cent of the schon's f.rc i-- by gas or oil, he srvd. No Coal! Have Binduuii Gas Meat Now. Lakrvipw effective methods of preventing labor and management. The president of the United ments No strike in the coal fields, in cluding this one, has ever imperiled public health or safety. Enough coal is on hand, "if fair ly distributed, to last out the time we shall require to adjust the current dispute fairly." HIS CURRENT wage and other demands on the operators are justified by statistics of the De partment of Commerce, Labr and Interior.

They demonstrate to him that the profits of the coal industry (before taxes) rose from $34 a miner a year in 1939 to $733 a miner a year in 1948. The "power" attributed to him has its source only in the degree to which the coal miners will follow bis leadership, and this they do only when he is "right." His control of the selection of some officials in the union mine districts is exercised only where and because the miners, left to themselves, would make choices against their true interests. THE ONLY proper way to settle disputes where public health and safety are concerned is through collective bargaining in good faith, and in the current dispute the industry has never wanted that, being convinced that delay would bring into operation the Taft- Hartley Act. The procedures of the Railway Labor Act merely defer-a strike, not settle it or its causes. If he could bargain always with the "real owners" of the mines instead of their employes, it would produce prompt and fair settlements.

As substitutes for the Taft-Hartley and the Wagner Acts, he favors a simple law which would guarantee collective bargaining in good faith and establish a "few" unspecified unfair practices for both management and labor. He is not entnusiastic over Government mediation, but at times it can be useful. The coal industry deserves the epithets of "cruel" and "con scienceless" which he at times has launched against it, as its cessa tion of welfare payments recently demonstrated. U.S. Von Prepares Order to Seize Pits Lewis Returns to Bargaining in Capital WASHINGTON VP) The United Mine Workers were found innocent of contempt of court in the soft-coal strike that now grips the nation.

For three days, Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech had heard Government attorneys argue that the union was in contempt for fail ing to get 372,000 miners back in the pits after Keech's no-strike order of Feb. 11. Thursday, he announced his de cision: "Not guilty" of either criminal or civil contempt. ATTORNEY GENERAL J.

Howard McGrath announced that the civil-contempt decision would be appealed, under the law, there is no appeal from a criminal-con tempt decision. Although the Judge ruled the union not guilty of contempt, the back-to-work order stands, and continues to bar the union headquarters from offering any encouragement to the work stoppages. But the restraining order will run out Friday unless extended. In a memorandum given out after the verdict was announced, Judge Keech wrote: "After a careful consideration of the entire record, this court concludes that the Government has failed to prove that the union has knowingly, wilfully, wrongfully and deliberately disobeyed and violated the temporary restraining order of Feb. 11." THE DECISION was a surprise to the crowded courtroom.

The union in two previous strike cases has been held guilty and compelled to pay fines aggregating These fines were imposed by Judge T. Alan Goldsborough. President Truman, in his news conference Thursday before the verdict was announced, said mine seizure orders had been drawn up. But he said that was a routine procedure. Mr.

Truman said the situation was serious, but he didn't say what would be the point at which the Government would feel that seizure was the only answer. Senator Morse Ore.) introduced legislation ot authorize the Government to seize struck mines for 60 days. The Government agency operating the seized mines would have no authority to alter wages or working conditions, unless specifically authorized by Congress or by an emergency board. SENATOR TAFT announced that he would press for a Senate investigation of. the way the Government had handled the contempt case, and of the whole coal-strike situation.

Taft told newsmen he had been informed that coal operators had presented 60 affidavits to the Justice Department but that these papers never had been laid before Judge Keech. The affidavits, Taft said, were signed "by people who were Turn to Page 12, Column 4 Cold Wave Expected to Break Today Tbe cold wave is expected to break Friday afternoon. After hitting zero early in the morning, the mercury will climb to 20 degrees late in the day, the Weather Bureau predicted. By Saturday, the thermometer will be reading in the low 30s, It was forecast. There may even be a "bit of spring rain Saturday, the Bureau said.

go into the land of Israel. For pared with a prewar peak of 6,000 cars and trucks a day. "The balance sheet included in this annual report," Keller said, "shows that on Dec. 31, 1949, cash and cash securities were exclusive of United States Treasury Savings Notes purchased for income-tax payments. "Net working capital was Inventories on hand amount to $139,371,754." What They Are Saying GEN.

J. LAWTON COLLINS, Army chief of staff: "I feel that our over-all security is steadily improving. It is in the field of tanks where our need for modern equipment is most critical. The police states have more than 40,000 medium and heavy tanks. We have approximately 6,000." HENRY FORD commenting on the coal strike: "If John L.

Lewis wants to put his own prestige above the welfare of the country, we're licked. You can't make. a man work if he doesn't want to." DR. HAROLD C. UREY, pioneer in the development of the atomic bomb: "I hope the hydrogen bomb doesn't work, but there's no way of controlling nature.

Sometimes it's too co-operative. Frankly I'm scared to death. Sometimes I feel prayer is the only solution and I wish I had a direct line to the Almighty to ask Him for guidance." On Inside Pages Free Press Photo EMERGENCY COAL PILES FADE RAPIDLY Calvin Nosworthy, 8, gets share at fire station i Striking Mine Workers United and Unhurried For an on-the-scene report of sentiment among the idle coal miners, the Free Press sent a staff writer to the coal fields. Here is his first story. BY ROBERT STURGISS Free Press Staff Writer UNIONTOWN, Pa.

The "Nuts" hurled by Gen. Anthony McAuliffe at Bastogne can well sum up the attitude of the soft-coal miners in the towns sprawled about this area. JL Chances 1 tr? A There never has been a threat of division among the 372,000 miners since they walked out on orders of John L. Lewis. Local editors, influenced neither by company nor union bias, are authority for this statement.

AND NOW THAT Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech has found the union innocent of contempt of court, an even more militant cry for victory can be heard here. Many miners indicate they would go to work if the Govern ment seized the pits. In Pittsburgh, the heart of the financial domain, of King Coal, the very power that lights homes and offices may be shut off soon, the power company announced. As for the miners themselves, they appear to be content to sit by the tracks and watch the Diesels go by, much as Chrysler workers sit and watch the Fords go by.

THE MINERS seem to have taken the attitude that now, since they are clear of contempt, public pressure against them will shift to the operators. Said a union official her-e: "Now that the public can see our hands are clean, perhaps it will examine the operators a bit closer." A split among the miners is virtually out of the question. Rare Surgery Called Success BOSTON (JP) Bedridden for five years, frail Reba Wayne Williams, 37, is up and able to walk. Doctors said she was the first person to them to have a faulty -heart valve restored by surgery. The Lubbock (Tex.) young woman was discharged from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

showed: I Production of 1,267,470 vehicles in the United States. Net sales all products: Net earnings: $132,170,096. The net earning rate of 6.34 per cent, however, has been exceeded in eight of the preceding 24 years, Keller pointed out. "FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY dividends include amounts accumulated from earnings of prior years and were not heretofore available for transfer to this country," he said. "Excluding these foreign subsidiary dividends, earnings were 5.71 cents to each dollar of sales.

"These compare with 1948 earnings rates of 5.69 cents per dollar of sales, including dividends from foreign subsidiaries, and 5.22 cents per dollar of sales excluding these dividends." In addition to the 1,267,470 Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto and Chrysler passenger cars and Dodge trucks sales in the United States, there were 63,468 Canadian-built cars and trucks sold in 1949. "NET EARNINGS, including dividends of $13,080,524 received from foreign subsidiaries, were $132,170,096 after providing for Federal income taxes in the amount of Keller said. "Total taxes of all kinds for the year amounted to which is 61.2 per cent of S319.479.472 wage and salary payments and more than 4i2 times the dividends of paid to stockholders. "Materials, parts, supplies and services obtained from 6,500 small and large business concerns required $1,336,281,897 and expenditures of $46,714,649 were made for additions to property, plant and equipment." KELLER FURTHER reported that daily production of new vehicles reached 7,100 a day com- $350 REWARD That was the sum offered by the unhappy loser of a valuable bracelet advertised in the "Lost Found" column of the Free Press. If you lose anything, 'phone a lost ad to the Free Press.

It is easy to place a Want Ad. Just Dial WO 2-9400 'IT CRIED LIKE A BABY' Goal Crisis at Glance The coal-strike glance crisis at a 1 A Federal Judge ruled that the mine union was not in contempt because it had tried to get miners back to work in obedience to a court order. 2 The Government planned to appeal the ruling but there was no signs that President Truman would seize the mines quickly. John L. Lewis and the operators continued negotiations that have been unsuccessful for eight months.

Legislation to authorize mine seizures was introduced in the Senate. 3 Even coal-rich Pennsylvania declared a fuel emergency. Business activity slumped. Suffering was increased as cbld weather hit a wide axea. Mayor Cobo considered trying to gel authority to seize fuel stockpiles from Detroit industrial plants.

But enough fuel had been made available to postpone closing of City schools. Sawyer Goes Under Knife CINCINNATI (JP) Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was operated on for the removal of gallstones and his appendix. Girl Dies as Fireman Saves Doll hy Mistake OKLAHOMA CITY (JP) A two-year-old girl suffocated in a fire here as a smoke-blinded fireman carried her baby doll to safety by mistake. Carolyn Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles W. Thompson, was alone in her parents' upstairs apartment when the blaze broke 'out. The home is in a veterans' housing unit. The fire was confined to the child's bedroom. Its cause was not determined.

FIREMAN BOB CO LEY dashed upstairs to a bedroom where he had been told the child was sleeping. He failed to find her and came back out for air. Carolyn's hysterical mother screamed to him that the child was in another bedroom. He plunged back into the fire. "I crawled on the floor to the bed," Coley said.

"I couldn't see a thing because of the smoke. But I felt something wrapped in a blanket. When I pulled it off the bed, it cried, just like a baby. "When I got outside, I saw it was just a doll a big baby doll that cries." Coley made a third attempt. He found the little girl, but it was too late.

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