UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1949
PAGE SEVEN
Producers Resist UMW Plans
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 2—(U.P.) Coal producers determined today to maintain a solid front against John L. Lewis' divide-and-conquer contract plans.
They blasted the union leader's new three-day week maneuver as destructive to the industry, and indicated they would continue to resist his attempts to negotiate individual or sectional contracts. However, government officials believed the coal dispute would be settled without another strike.
Less than 12 hours after the year's fourth coal walkout began Wednesday midnight, Mr. Lewis ordered the 400,000 soft coal miners back to work Monday and placed the entire industry on a three-day week until further notice. The move was calculated to reduce gradually the bituminous and antiracite coal stockpiles of more than 30 million tons in order to enhance the United Mine Workers' bargaining position.
A resolution approved by the U.M.W. policy committee in New York authorized negotiation of contracts with individual coal companies, whereupon the work week would be extended to the regular five days. U.M.W. contracts with the coal operators expired the past June 30.
George H. Love, president of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. and chief spokesman for the Northern and Western operators during the past negotiations, served notice that the three-day work order does not alter the operators' position in the bitter contract battle.
"This dictatorial power exercised by one man." Mr. Love added, "Is destructive to the coal industry and everyone who earns his living in it." Love reiterated the industry stand that it cannot afford to grant concessions that would increase the cost of coal.
Presidential Adviser Steelman cautioned newsmen in Key West that he does not regard Mr. Lewis' action as anything more than a truce but he said it was an indication that a settlement in the coal dispute will be reached gradually, without another walkout. Steelman said Mr. Truman had a pretty good idea for "two or three days" that the strike would end on the terms announced yesterday by Mr. Lewis.
KU Church Group To Adopt Student
The Kansas university Westminster fellowship is bringing a displaced person student to the campus, Marilynn Lee, chairman of the organization's student scholarship committee, has announced. The students are brought to this country with the understanding that they will become citizens.
The Presbyterian students will be the first local group to adopt a D.P. student, although 200 have been placed in colleges and universities in the United States by the World Student Service fund. Chancellor Deane W. Malott is one of the 38 sponsors of this organization.
The K.U. Presbyterian students will guide and financially aid the student through the first year on the campus. The committee will ask all Presbyterian students attending K.U. to aid in the project.
The D.P. student will live with Dr. and Mrs. John H. Patton while attending the university. Dr. Fatton is the director of the Westminster foundation and the Presbyterian University pastor.
Members of the student scholarship committee making arrangements for the student, are: Leon Stromire, education sophomore; Robert Petitt, College senior; Patricia Speer, fine arts senior; Mrs. Rollin Wade; Donald F. Kerle, education sophomore; Robert Dale Judy, graduate student, and Miss Lee.
Thief Gives Return Address
Augusta, Ga.—(U.P.)-Augusta police have run into an auto thief with manners. They found an abandoned car in downtown Augusta with this note: "This car belongs to Mrs. J. J. Scarborough, care of Southern Bell Telephone Co., Eastman, Ga. Please let her know."
Viennese Zither Player Prefers Wine Cellar To British Show Life
London—(U.P)—Britons have gone music crazy over one man with a zither.
The zither is a musical instrument which dates back to biblical times. The Queen of Sheba played it to amuse Solomon. Ruth and her maidens entertained their men friends with it.
93-Year-Old Driver Is Safety Model
Newburyport, Mass.—(U.P.)—Chas L. Davis, 93, who has been driving an automobile so long he can't remember when he first sat behind a wheel, offers a two-word safety message: "Be Alert."
Mr. Davis still drives daily to his drug store from his home. The man who probably is the state's oldest regular driver has a good word for most women motorists.
"As a rule," he says, "I think they are a little more careful than the men. But some of them don't know how to drive and never will.
He thinks most of today's speeding is done by a few "know-it-all" young drivers.
"Sometimes when I am walking across the street I will notice cars approaching. If they slow down, then they usually are driven by women."
"You've got to be alert all the time," he says to those who seek driving tips from him.
Mr. Davis, who drives his car through the nearby countryside almost every day, operates on the road year-round unmindful of winter snow, ice or slush.
Today, a 50-year-old Viennese cellar musician has Britons throughout the country humming his wistful tunes and talking about his zither.
Anton Karas was earning a few schillings a day plucking away at his instrument in a wine cellar in Vienna when Carol Reed, producer, persuaded the shy zither player to come to Britain to play the background music for his latest film "The Third Man."
For six weeks the tall, bespectacled musician lived in a world of dreams. He earned £125 sterling a week instead of 125 schillings.
His weird, soulful tunes gripped director Reed and his stars, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Valli, the Italian star, and became the life of the film.
Three weeks ago the film was shown for the first time in Britain. Since that date, thousands of people have crowded music shops to buy records of the zither tunes and copies of Karas' music.
About every fourth song on the radio is "The Harry Lyme Theme Song," the song of the film.
But the Viennese musician has taken his zither and his haunting tunes back to Vienna. Worth a fortune to any enterprising night club owner, Mr. Karas prefers a few schillings a day and his wine cellar, described by friends as "an upholstered sewer," to a life of plenty.
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