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Show Railroader Slaps Railroads; If It Helps Them, It Helps Him, Says By MARC J. PARSONS NEA Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (NEA) Like stern father disciplining a wayward ' child, diminutive Robert R. Young has been successfully suc-cessfully slapping the railroad industry in-dustry around on the theory that "this hurts me as much as it does you. but something had to be done." Using appeals to public opin ion for his whip, he's been getting get-ting things done. Young is no old-time railroader; railroad-er; he entered the business at the top. as boss of Alleghany Corporation, Corp-oration, a rambling holding company com-pany set up by the Van Swerln-gen Swerln-gen brothers of Cleveland. Alleghany's prize holding was the rich, coal-carrying Chesapeake Chesa-peake and Ohio railroad: it also controlled the Nickle Plate and tha Pere Marquette and some 200 other corporate affiliates includ ing coal companiM. terminals anij real estate subsidiaries more. than $2,000,000,000 in assets when Young picked it up for a $4,000.-000 $4,000.-000 song. Buying it was the easiest part. He had to battle four years with proxy fights, law suits and public appeals to get control of his empire em-pire after buying it. Even before he won his fight for control. Young had started a new wsr against what he considered moribund mori-bund railroad operating practices Here are a few of his major peeves: Railroad bonding practices. Coast-to-coast "broken" travel Black markets in ticket buying. "Tenement house" Pullman cars. Pulls no Punches The bankers were Young's first target in his one - man reform campaign. He didn't pull any punches. "For three generations. Morgan Mor-gan and Kuhn Loeb have dictated the policies of the American railroads rail-roads without a dollar of permanent perma-nent ownership therein," Young once charged. "By controlling the issuers of securities on the one hand the railroads, the industrials and the utilities and the large buyers of securities on the other the insurance in-surance companies and other public pub-lic institutions it was simple to sit in between and advise one to K--V jV f i Robert R. Young: Cross-coun try hogs, "tenement bouse sleeping cars. sell at 93 and the other to buy at 100. "The bond issue might be $100.-000,000 $100.-000,000 and the bankers' spread $5,000,000. The only equipment needed was a telephone. "It there any wonder that Morgan Mor-gan and Kuhn Loeb had more partners than bond salesmen, and that each partner owned a yacht?" Young asked. Young's harping helped open Uncle Sam to Give Away, Free Confiscated Enemy Patents By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U.R Our government s attitude, as you know from sad experience with the tax collector, is gimme, gimme. gim-me. It seldom gives anything away, except room and board in Leavenworth to national bank robbers. So when you run Into a mulfl-million mulfl-million dollar gift from the government, gov-ernment, free to anybody for the askmg, it is news. It also is amazing. Anyhow: When we went to war we confiscated con-fiscated all the patents of our enemies. There were 33.000 of them, mostly German, and many the basis of enormous businesses. The Jap patents, running to about 1,200, were about what you'd expect. ex-pect. How to make serpent wine. How to rejuvenate yourself with injections of the dried venom from Chinese toads. Stuff like that. We can skip the Japs. All the enemy patents, good and bad. are under control of the alien property custodian, James E. Markham. I guess you could call him the government's only official Santa Claus, because he'll give you absolutely free (except for a. $15 bookkeeping fee)' the right to use in your own business any one of the foreign inventions. His file cases are a treasure trove of industrial development in machinery, chemicals, medicines, medi-cines, textiles, and trick gadgets. It takes three pages just to list improved coffee pots. Eye-bulging are the volumes concerning vitamins, synthetic drugs, coal tar dyes, steel alloys, electronics, man-made rubber, automobiles, optics, plastics, yep, and cigarette lighters. There are nearly 50 of the latter, lat-ter, including one that's easy on your thumb. A miniature dry battery produces its blaze. I dipped haphazardly into the patents and I had a talk with Dexter North, chief of the patent use and development section. He has produced lists of inventions by subjects for would-be manufacturers. manu-facturers. 8,000 of whom so far have taken licenses. He cannot hazard a guess as to the potential worth of his files. The figure might be $100,000,000; it might be 10 times that. Two American firms soon will be making a German electronic oven. It will bake apples without altering their shape or fading their blush; it will kill microbes in milk without heating it, and brew coffee without boiling. In the worksvis,-" pocket calculator cal-culator that adds. subtracts, multiplies, and divides. There is a pencil whose lead changes instantaneously in-stantaneously into any of six colors. There are sprays which kill the weeds, but not the grass: gears for bicycles; an electric fan you can carry in your pocket, and whole volumes of new ways to prepare foods. , These include processes for taking the caffeine out of coffee, keeping flour from getting mouldy, moul-dy, preserving fruits in briquettes, briqu-ettes, converting soya beans into lard and even breakfast food, making ice cream on a production line, and keeping the insides of tin cans from turning black. This latter process is one of the few from Japan that our own Inventors hadn't thought of first. I can only suggest, finally, that you don't write me. Drop a line direct to the alien property custodian. cus-todian. Putting these inventions to use for the benefit of Ameri cans is. one of his. jobs and he'll be glad to hear from you. FAMOUS PAINTER DIES MADISON. Wis.. Aug. 31 U.R) Funeral services for John Steuart Curry, one of America's top-ranking top-ranking painters, will be held at Winchester. Kans.. his fprmer home, Sunday or Monday. bidding for railroad bonds tor competitive banks, increased tne railroads' share in the sale price and reduced interest charges.. The Pullman company became Young's next big target. He wanted want-ed new and up-to-date cars for his roads, not the "ancient vehicles ve-hicles which might have been designed by Diamond Jim Brady in a flash of inspiration on the back of an old Waldorf bar list" So. together with a group of associates he tried to buy the operating op-erating end of the Pullman company. com-pany. "We were temporarily out-maneuvered," out-maneuvered," Young admits. A combination of 52 railroads, not including Young's got control of the Pullman business he wanted, but action by Young's group has. he claims, at least "forced placing of a handful of orders for new sleeping car equipment and also brought about action which compelled com-pelled the resignation of Morgan representatives from the Pullman board." Hogs Go Riding Young's favorite tactic at the moment is to expose what he considers con-siders the failings of the railroad industry in full page newspaper advertisements. Whether these ads do Young's own roads any direct good is questionable, but he is operating on the principle that anything that helps the industry in-dustry can't help but help Young. When he told the ticket buying public that a hog could ride from coast to coast without changing trains, the big roads jumped into coast-to-coast hook-ups. He yelled about the black market mar-ket in Pullman and railroad tickets' tick-ets' and the roads got after the problem. Now he's screaming about "tenement "ten-ement conditions" in Pullman car?. "The public," Young says, "is stil compelled to ride, if it is to go by rail, in sleeping cars which were actually in existence when the automobile was a one-lung gas buggy and when the Wright brothers were experimenting with a kite-like contraption." His campaign, he feels, will re- suit in new cars for all roalrofds. ' Including the C & O. Nickle Plate and Pere Marquette. That's what he wants. ! "The future of railroads lies in' bringing to their management real and vigorous competition," I Young believes. He's out to pro-; viae tne competition. Petrillo Orders Musician Strike NEW YORK. Aug. 31 U. James C. Petrillo s American Federation Fed-eration of Musicians (AFL) warned 51 swank New York hotels today that unless wage increase in-crease demands are met a strike by 3,000 dance band musicians will be called at midnight tomorrow tomor-row night. Such name bands as Sammy Kaye at the Astor roof, Misha Borr at the Waldorf-Astoria, Elliot El-liot Lawrence at the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Nat Brandywine at the Biltmore, will play no more when the strike is called, according accord-ing to Richard McCann. president presi-dent of AFM local 802. The strike was authorized last night by a meeting of 1.000 members mem-bers of the local, after hotel operators op-erators refused to agree to make any wage agreement retroatclve while negotiations continued. The union warned that once the strike becomes effective no music will be piped into hotels through muzak or any recorded music provided by telephone. The meeting also authorized the calling of a strike by the AFM I against all night clubs and cab-j a rets in New York on Sept. 16. if wage increases ranging up to 50 per cent are not granted. j David Dreschler. counsel for 42 1 of the hotels named in the strike call, said the scales demanded by the union were up to 110 per cent higher in some cases than present wages. Twins Make Identical Choice Logelin Acepts New Appointment NEW YORK. Aug. 31 Ap-p0ptment Ap-p0ptment of Edward C. Logelin, Jr.. as director of public relations. rela-tions. United States Steel corporation cor-poration subsidiaries, Chicago district, was announced today by J. Carlisle MacDonald, assistant to chairman of the board, United States Steel corporation. He succeeds suc-ceeds Arthur C. Wilby. who was elected vice-president. United States Steel corporation of Delaware, Dela-ware, August 14. Mr. Logelin has been principal assistant to Mr. MacDonald since 1943. 3 'I ; v. . Si K ,' I wm iliEA 7 lU photo) Thriftway Stores HOME OWNED And OPERATED THIS CURIOUS WORLD ' ' X. S C WERE FREE OF C ' y A ' DUST I s J 1 -L ,' AND CTHER, DEBWS a- - I If ' . PROM THE EARTH, ) H -"I' " -4 WB WOULD NEVER, ( U ( ENJOY THE SJ&HT ( 1 , , OF A li r A BLACK" NOSED DACE 1 C' VIYl 7h ARE ALWAYS 0O. ItU av MCA ltNKt. INC HO. U. S. PAT. Off. 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