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12 DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday. July 9. 1949 BUT 'BLACKLIST' IS FEARED Taken by Death G. H. Pratt, Official of Standing Vote Upholds Ban on Red Teachers Inland Steel Gets 'No' on Pension Bid PITTSBURGH (JP) Inland Arbiters File Report in Ford Row Continued from Page One the particular jobs must be OBITUARIES Veteran Union Official, Robert G.

Ewald, Dies Robert G. Ewald, longtime Detroit political figure and union leader, died Friday in his home at Lake Orion. He was 73. Steel of Chicago, offered its, 16.000 workers a pension and insurance plan. But the United Steel Workers (CIO) said it would turn the offer down.

The Inland offer was the only' departure from the United States Steel flat "no" on both wage raises and pensions. Other companies joining to reject the Steel Workers' demands were Wheeling Steel 1 1 Youngstown Sheet and Tube Crucible Steel Co. of America, and Bethlehem Steel Co, mm um; m. ji 1 1 mnu.umw Mmjtgmwmm i i. -inn nTO" vfp I l-VU 'J I if BOSTON (JP) American Communists in a standing vote They acted despite Qne voice up a "blacklist which would Delegates rose to their feet on the final day of the National Ed ucation Association convention after one of their number, Robert W.

Clark, of Philadelphia, said he wanted to see who would "stand up for the things we believe in." DR. ANDREW D. HOLT, of Nashville, was elected national president. Thomas A. Bab-cock, of Mt.

Clemens, was named a vice president. A flurry of debate broke out on the question on the use of public funds for aid to parochial and other private schools as well as to public schools in a discussion of the Federal aid program. The debate ended after several delegates said the convention should not be "split on an issue of this type." Delegates then adopted a resolution which called for an early vote In Congress on Federal aid. It added that Federal aid "should be given without Federal control to public elementary ana public secondary education in every state, territory and posses sion." THE RESOLUTION to bar Communists as teachers in the nation's schools and as NEA mem bers reserved for loyal teachers the right to "think for them selves." The "blacklist" warning came from Mrs. Rose V.

Russell, legislative agent of the CIO teachers union of New York City. She declared she was not op posed to banning proved Communists but feared the teachers were setting up "an un-American doctrine of guilt by association." Woman Dies Mrs. Pearl L. Blackwell, 55, of 3807 Biddle, collapsed and died at the Detroit Fairgrounds race track late Friday afternoon. Police said she died from a heart condition.

Found in Icebox MEADVTLLE, Pa. (iP) The body of Frank Funciello, 6, was found crouched in a neighbor's unused icebox in an abandoned shed. teachers reaffirmed their ban on about 2,995 to 5. of warning that they would set "undermme their dignity. 2 Trials Set in 'Red' Alien Cases Continued from Page One 1947, as an alien.

He allegedly claimed to be an American citizen. Adcock said the Immigration Department had proof that Singler on separate occasions listed his birthplace as Hungary and Germany. In 1940 Singler obtained a delayed birth certificate in Probate Court setting Bad Axe, as his birthplace, Adcock asserted. "We do not charge Singler with Communist activities," Adcock said. "But that does not mean that we will not inquire into his affiliations." HEARINGS at the Immigration District Headquarters, 3770 E.

Jefferson, will open against Knerly at 9 a. m. Tuesday. Adcock said Knerly, a native of Tasnad, Hungary, came to this country in 1913. He is a cabinet maker.

Wagner's hearing is scheduled to start Thursday. A shoemaker, he came to tjie United States from Labes, Germany, in December, 1911. Harry Kobel, chief of the De troit Immigration Dfstrict's legal division, will preside at the hearings. Frank Gillespie will serve as examining officer or "prosecutor." Kobel will forward his findings to the Commissioner of Immigration in Washington. Those being tried could appeal deportation or ders to the United States Attorney General.

Fever Hits Bette HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Ac tress Bette Davis has been forced to discontinue work on her new est film because of tick fever con tracted while on location, studio officials said. Hudson, Dies George H. Pratt, 58, vice pres ident of the Hudson Motor Car collapsed and died in Los Angeles Friday. Mr. Pratt was addressing a group of automobile dealers when stricken.

Police said he apparently died of a heart attack. MR. PRATT entered the automotive industry in 1912. He joined Hudson in 1927 as field sales representative. In 1937, he became sales manager and two years later general sales manager.

He was elected vice president in charge of sales in May, 1947. Born and reared in Ripon, Mr. Pratt played semipro baseball and then became a bank messenger in. Milwaukee. He worked his way through various bank departments, meanwhile studying: commercial law i and accounting.

He preferred the latter and it was that choice which 'took him into the automobile business. GEORGE KISSEL, president of the Kissel Motor Car of Hartford, walked into the bank one day and announced that he was in the market for an accountant. Mr. Pratt took the job. He spent six years with the Kissel organization during which he was promoted to head of the accounting department and later to assistant to Kissel.

A Denver distributor, at this point, convinced Mr. Pratt that the real opportunity in the automobile business was in the sales end. Mr. Pratt became associated with the distributor. In 1921, he joined the Chevrolet Motor and in 1923 became associated with the newly organized Durant Motors.

He joined Hudson in 1927 as district supervisor at Davenport, Iowa, and later was made manager of the zone in the Dallas territory. Soon he was brought to Detroit as assistantsales manager. The Pratt family home is at 1366 Balfour, Grosse Pointe. Surviving are Mr. Pratt's wife, Mrs.

Lucille Pratt; a daughter Jean and one sister, Mrs. R. T. Jenkmson, of Quincy, 111; LIGHT 1 1 worked out. The foundry core case is one example; there are doubtless others.

"The task is not one of achiev- ms unit-Dy-unic or minute-u- minute perfection, but rather one of adopting a proper general plan and practice based upon accepted principles." 9 DR. SHULMAN. contacted in New Haven, by phone, told the Free Press that the decision was an interpretation of the existing contract and did not provide a dispute settlement pattern. "The decision," Shulman saia, states that time study standards must be followed. "The company sets the time study, but the employe is not responsible for unforseen stoppages of line production and cannot be expected to overcome this by working more than the study calls for.

"If such were not true, then a different work formula would have to-be found. That would be a matter for company and union agreement or contract stipulation." DR SHULMAN said he did not feel that the decision would occasion any particular difficulty between management and union. The decision was given on the following question submitted by the company and the union in the settlement agreement of May 29: "Does the company under the contract, on the basis of health and safety or otherwise, have the right to require an employe to perform his work assignment on any unit in less time than the company's time study shows for his assignment, provided the employe is not assigned more than 480 minutes as measured by the time study in an eight -hour shift?" THE FINDING said that the panel was concerned with the hourly-rated workers. "And it cannot be believed either that the company expected or that the union agreed that pro duction standards for hourly work ers would be set to the limit of their working capacity or health and safety so as to go even beyond the performance of incentive workers," the panel said. There was no immediate comment from UAW officials.

Most of them were attending an international convention in Milwaukee and had not received copies of the finding. DUKES mMwwMww i i 111 B- la-. 5 GEORGE H. PRATT Collapses as he speaks World Digest Free Tress Wire Service SYDNEY, Australia Two truck-loads of the Australian Communist Party's documents and files were seized in a police raid aimed at tracing union funds which might be used to aid striking coal miners. A Government source said police sought $173,880 recently withdrawn from banking accounts of unions.

Slavs Deny Red Charge BELGRADE Yugoslavia indignantly denied that she had permitted use of her territory by Greek government troops to overcome Greek guerilla forces. The charge was made on the guerilla radio Wednesday. American Heads 1RO GENEVA John Donald Kings- ley, assistant director of the United States Federal Security Administration, was appointed director-general of the International Refugee Organization, a United Nations agency. right, it's THE UNION said it would re ject Inland's offer because it did not include a pay raise and be cause the pension proposal was inadequate. A strike of 500,000 employes of 189 steel producing companies still appeared likely unless Government action averts it.

Federal Conciliation Director Cyrus S. Ching has invited steel union officials headed by Philip Murray, and heads of the deadlocked companies to meet with the mediators Monday in an effort to revive negotiations. The" steel union, carrying the ball in Labor's fight for more pay, has advanced two big argu- ments. They are high living costs and fat profits. But the steel companies argue that high living costs are the reason they can raise wages without hiking prices too.

They mean the high cost of industrial living the cost of doing business competitively. TWO FORTHCOMING "Nathan reports," prepared by Robert R. Nathan, former Government economist, will claim American industries can boost wages without raising prices, according to the New York Times. The newspaper said industries' profits in the first quarter of this year will be cited as justifying wage increases. One Nathan report covers industry as a whole.

It will be released Monday. The other, dealing with the steel industry, will be disclosed here Tuesday at a session of the union's wage-policy committee. The Times said the steel report will declare a wage jump of 30 cents an hour could be made with out price advances. in Washington, Nathan said part of the published story was "fan tastic," but he would not say which part. "You're Ewald was a leader of the Bricklayers Union (AFL) for more than 30 years.

Ewald was born Feb. 11, 1876. He went to work at 14 after attending the Houghton and Tappan schools. Ewald became a business agent for the Bricklayers' Union in 1904. Thirty years later he boasted that no strikes had marred his union administration in all that time.

Ewald eventually became treasurer and then president of the union. He was president 16 years. HE WAS ELECTED to the Council in 1922, lost out the following year, but was returned in 1925 to serve through 1931. He was elected again in 1935 and reelected in 1937 and 1939. He was a member of the Common Council when he was indicted in 1941 for accepting a 5,000 bribe to vote for concrete as against steel construction of the Herman Gardens housing project.

He was sentenced to three to ,10 years on Sept. 27, 1941, by Recorder's Judge W. McKay Skill-man. He served two years. HE WAS A Mason and an Odd Fellow.

Ewald married Mrs. Sophie Kohler in 1904. Her son, Walter, by a previous marriage, was renamed Walter Ewald. Besides them, a son, Robert two brothers, Jacob and Elmer; a sister, Mrs. Leslie Pur-nell, and five grandchildren sur- 1 vive.

Services will be held in Allen's Funeral Home, Lake Orion, at 11 a. m. Monday. Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery, Lake Orion ROY H. BARKER A manufacturers' agent, Mr.

Barker, 64, died Thursday at Blue Lake, near Grand Rapids. Mr. Barker lived in Detroit most of his life but moved to Grand Rapids in 1941. He was a member of the Detroit Household Wares Club. He leaves his wife, Geraldine, of Blue Lake, and two sons, Edward and Roy, both of Los Angeles.

Services will be at 2 p. m. Monday in Grand Rapids. FRED C. CLARK Owner of the manufacturing company bearing his name, Mr.

Clark, 56. died Thursday at his home, 289 McMillan, Grosse Pointe. Surviving are his wife, Georgian, and six brothers, Adolph, Bernard, William, Allen, LaVerne and Harold." Services will be at the Verhey-den Funeral Home at 1 p. m. Monday, under auspices of the Zion Lodge No.

1, F. and A. of which he was a member. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Deaths Elsewhere Dr.

William Gerry Morgan, 82, nationally known stomach specialist; in Washington. Harold Knerr, 66, cartoonist who created the "Katzenjammer Kids" comic strip; in New York. Detroit Deaths Scheuermann. Joyce. 37.

SOS Charlotte. Braun. Lillian. 3787 E. Jefferson.

FowW. Blanche, 58. oH. Unsdale KiiigslaniJ. Minnie.

S2. Kilo Crawford. enkel. Minnie, 84, otV.M Celeron, lande. John C.

tSrf. 2309 Vinewuod. omi. Mary. 457 BraiiKird.

Henipel, William. tj. WU01 Otsesro X.immrr, John. 31. 7812 Kirkwood.

Mary, til. Hendrie. I'auady, Janie. 37. 3051 Henry, Inksier.

Owens, "ed. 92. 950 Hendrie. Arvzynski. Siwan, 2245 Holbrook.

tramck. Ham- Lemon. Lamora. 5ff. 2918 Columbus.

Bruce, Oron. 55. Slo Saw. Mattson. Martin 85.

2308 Woodmere. Kurney. Sharon. 140(1 Temple. Breanan Helen.

49. 2439 Carson -Miller. Laura 93. 825 Atkinson. Caiehinirs, Howard.

33. 3328 Chope PI. Tory. Dorisse. 27.

17132 Ontario. Zimmerman, Charlotte, Cfi 14134 Troe'ter Misiolik bophie. 62. 2554 Military. Miller, Grace, 8.

Dearborn Inn. Jones. Dr. Howard 67. 2906 E.

JeX-ferson. Harubin. Joseph. 64. 11461 Sobieski.

Ham tramck. Rvcjuniak. John. 18473 Mt Elliott. Reid.

John 57. 523 Manistique. Smaruj. Frank, 83. 4H20 Thirtv-third.

Bennylieh Parris 0 K8. 1941 Allen. Lula. 66. 912 Theodore.

Daher, Anna. 71, 164tj Deter. Curton Josephine, 65. 12036 X. Mar-tindale.

strucel, John. 64. 9927 Yosemite Case. Adele L. 59.

18721 Gainsborousrh. an Dervort Helen, 43. 1485 GrandvUle. Bicknell Arthur. 5097 Allendale.

Fox, Edward 80. 8083 Mendota 47 H845 LaSalle. Jacob 59, 1S690 Monte ista. fmjth Lester 68. 10059 Beechdale.

Welseh. Amalta. 66. 7912 Calhoun. Dearborn.

Thomas, Luclnda. 77. f4R Ferry Kovieh. Anna. 63.

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FOR SIX WEEKS the jurors listened to the contractions in the stories of Whittaker Chambers and Hiss. Chambers, a former Communist courier, said that Hiss had delivered copies of State Department documents to him from 1936 to 1938 and that he photographed them and turned the pictures over to a Russian agent. Hiss denied the story absolutely, as he had before the Federal grand jury. It was on the basis of his denial of Chambers' story that Hiss was indicted for perjury. (At Westminster, Chambers refused to comment on the jury's deadlock.

view of what has happened," he said, "I do not feel that any statement is WHEN THE JUKI' began deliberating Thursday afternoon, the minds of the 10 men and 2 women were aireaay maae up, Hanrahan said. On a written ballot taken be- for any real discussion began, the vote was four tor conviction, four for acquittal and four no opinion. The jurors who cast the last four ballots were really for conviction, but were waiting to see what the mind of the other jurors were, Hanrahan said. NEITHER COULD the jurors agree on how many ballots were taken. Reports from various members ranged from two up to "too many to keep track of." But all resulted in the same 8-4 split.

All the arguing that went on for more than 28 hours (with time out for sleep) changed no one's opinion. Twice Friday afternoon, the jury had reported that it was deadlocked, but Judge, Kaufman sent it back to try again. Soviet Is Claiming Man 140, Wife 118 and Daughter 100 MOSCOW (U.P.) The official Soviet news agency Tass said that it had discovered a 140-year-old farmer with a wife, 118, and a daughter, 100. Tass said the farmer, Mahom-med Eliazov, who lives in Azerbaijan, does daily calisthenics and bathes all year-round in a cold mountain lake. Mahommed has 118 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

wires and I can't sit in my yard any more." WILKINS SAID that when he complained to Rogge, who has lived in the neighborhood six months, he was told: "If you don't like my pigeons, move." Riopelle fined Rogge $50 and ordered him to get rid of the birds. Rogge refused. Riopelle then informed him he could be brought to trial every day for the same charge. "If it is legal for pigeons to fly all over the country, I don't see why they can't fly over my. Rogge muttered, as he walked away.

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And it's going to cost him, according to Traffic Referee Oscar A. Riopelle, who found Rogge guilty of creating a nuisance. Charles A. Wilkins, of 19531 Grandview, and six other neighbors appeared in court to protest Rogge's pigeon paradise. XiiJti iuisni ut uieir cooing and flying disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood," Wilkins charged formally.

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