Ijcwis' Contempt
Conviction Upheld
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$20,000. It was the second con
tempt finding against Lewis and
the union. The previous one was
in 1946.
In Bluefield, W. Va., the much
delayed contract talks between
southern coal producers and the
UMW resumed. A mine owner has
accused Lewis of stalling. The
present contract will expire June
30, he said, and “if there is no new
contract, the country knows what
to expect.”
Lewis has not said whether he
will return from Washington to
Bluefield to head his union's team
of negotiators.
At Detroit, the Ford-UAW con
tract will expire July 15. The
union hopes to get a new one pro
ciding for pension plans, health
and welfare funds, and an hourly
wage boost. The CIO is expected
Oldsters Became (
Proud Fathers
MILAN, Tenn. (/P>—Two elder
ly Tennessee men, an 80-year-old
W'ell-digger and a 70-year-old
fisherman, became fathers last
week.
Mrs. John Pillow, 40, became
the mother of a nine pound girl
Friday at Milan hospital. Her
husband works every day at his
occupation of well-digging.
The Pillows, wrho have several
other children, live in Milan.
The wife of fisherman William
D. Wheeler gave birth Wednesday
to an llVfe pound boy.
i Wheeler, who lives in nearby
Greenfield, is the father of 17
other children.
to start talks with Chrysler soon,
and take up the General Motors
question after settling w'ith Ford
and Chrysler.
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‘Doubtful’ Persons
Employed In
Atomic Work
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ity clearance on August 8, 1947.
It was not until March, 1948,
that an FBI check turned up “se
r i o u s derogatory information”
about the individual, Hickenloop
er added.
Hickenlooper said the person
involved was furnished with a
statement of the charges against
him and suspended in April. He
was given a hearing in May, the
Iowa Senator continued, before a
board of three AEC employees, in
eluding two scientists and a law
yer.
Although 24 persons were men
! tioned in the 50-page FBI report
; as giving derogatory information
| about the suspended person. Hick
| enlooper said, only two of these
■ were called for testihnony and a
third was interviewed over the
phone.
i He said the board called 15 wit
I nesses suggested by the suspended
employee and recommended unan
1 imously that he be given security
clearance.
This was done in what Hicken
1 looper described as a speedup pro
cess on June 18, 1943.
Before Hickenlooper brought
this up. Lilienthal had testified
j that the AEC is keeping some per
sons with doubhtful records on the
•payroll because that seems safer
than firing them. He said some
got their jobs when the army was
j running the atomic projects.
Under questioning from a Sen
jate-House committee, the AEC
! chairman said he knows that
atomic developments are a "pri
mary target" for communist spy
activity.
But Lilienthal insisted, there
are some circumstances where
persons with doubtful records
should be kept at work.
As examples, he said some per
sons were cleared for work under
wartime army control and have
learned top atomic secrets.
The Senate-House atomic ener
gy committee is investigating the
commission’s policies and work as
a result of charges by Senator
Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa) that there
has been "incredible mismanage
ment" under Lilienthal. Hicken
looper demands that Lilienthal be
fired.
Much of the inquiry has cen
tered around the question of how
well the commission has been
guarding this country’s atomic se
crets.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska,
the Republican floor leader, ha.
suggested that Congress create a
little FBI—with somebody like J.
Edgar Hoover in charge—to head
i up atomic security.
BALTIMORE. (£>) —Charges ol
inefficiency in the atomic energy
commission are not justified at
this time. Senator Tydings <D.
Md.) said yesterday.
In a radio address, the Senator
said the current Congressional in
quiry into the conduct of the U. S.
atomic energy program “has no.
gone far enough to have proved
the allegations that AEC chair
man David E. Lilienthal and the
commission have been inefficient.
“These are only charges,” he
added.
Nor has it been proved that
atomic energy material has actu
ally been lost or stolen as has
been charged, Tydings stated. “I
believe that more of the discrepan
cies alleged will be found to be
matters of bookkeeping rathe
than loss of the material itself,”
he said.
Three Tots Die
In Icebox
WALNUT RIDGE, uV) — A
wooden ice box became a death
trap for three young children Fri
day.
Mrs. Ed Chastain, mother of
two of the victims, found the
youngsters when she returned
home to prepare supper. They had
been left to play while she chop
ped cotton in a nearby field.
Sheriff Joe Spades said the chil
dren were wedged tightly togeth
er in a small compartment of the
refrigerator. The door was tight
ly fastened from the outside. No
ice was in the box but food was in ■
the compartments.
A preliminary autopsy showed
the children died of suffocation,
the sheriff reported.
James Delbert Chastain, two,;
and Shirley Ramsey, six, daugh-:
ter of Mrs. Ethel Ramsey, one of
the Chastain’s neighbors, were
dead when the box was opened.
Joyce Ann Chastain, nine, died
early Saturday morning in a clin
l ic here.
Sgt. Wyatt L. Patrick of the
• state police criminal investigation
I division said officers are trying to
determine whether the children
locked themselves inside the four
foot wooden box.
“We don’t know how this hap
Survey Food
Prices In Alaska
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; In a recent report, the Terri to
rial department of labor made its
final analysis on the monthly tood
price survey series conducted by
it since July. 1947.
The report made comparisons
between seven Alaska cities and
fifty-six cities of the United
States.
The method of obtaining results
of the survey are identical with
those of the bureau of labor statis
tics in the United States. 56 items
in 8 general classes or commodity
groups are priced and the items
selected are those which comprise
the average monthly purchases by
the average Alaska family.
Using the U. S. average prices
obtained from the publication
“Consumers’ Price Index and Re
ta: 1 Food Prices, March 15, 1949”
compiled by the U. S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, as the base 100%
prices for the seven Alaska cit
ies are as follows: Ketchikan 133
per cent. Juneau 135 per cent, Sit
ka 147 per cent. Seward 148 per
cent, Anchorage 153 per cent,
Fairbanks 156 per cent. Kodiak
156 per cent. Nome was not in
| eluded in the survey.
pened,” Patrick said, “but there
are a lot of angles.” He did not
j elaborate.
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