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Census Bureau Head
Estimates Population
Of U. S. at 142 Million
By Mw Amdattd Frws
CINCINNATI, May 9.—The popu
lation of the United States vu esti
mated at 142,000,000 yesterday by
J. C. Capt, director ol the Census
Bureau.
The figure vas reached, he said,
on census samplings, and shows a
rapid increase over the 131,000,000
population in 1940.
"The population Is growing older,
too, because people generally are
living longer," he told the second
annual meeting of the Association
of State Planning and Development
Agencies.
Mr. Capt spoke at one of the
round-table discussions held by the
association.
He said that currently more than
2,000,000 persons were unemployed,
while during the war less than
1,000,000 were unemployed.
Replying to a Question, Mr. Capt
■aid one of the most important
effects of a proposed congressional
reduction in the appropriation for
the Census Bureau would be the
loss of trained and experienced
statisticians.
In an interview Mr. Capt said
"marketers and manufacturers must
know how many people there are,
where they live and what they have
to spend. Communities must know
the rate of population growth for
orderly expansion. Educational facil
ities have to be adjusted to the birth
rate and proper housing is de
pendent on .knowing how many
people there will be to be housed."
Earlier William C. "Foster, Under
secretary of Commerce, said he be
lieved "Americans are becoming
more aware that as a Nation we are
not doomed to drift unchecked into
depressions."
Economy
(Continued From Pirst Page.)
tributing to the world their extremist
propaganda than they are in pre
senting an honest picture of America
and its foreign policy."
The ccmmittee denied funds for
the operation of that division, in
cluding the "Voice of America"
broadcasts.
One complaint against budget cut
ting came, however, from a G. O. P.
supporter outside of the Govern
ment. Walter S. Hallanan, Repub
lican national committeeman for
West Virginia, asked a Senate sub
committee to restore $245,000 which
the House denied the Interior De
partment's oil and gas division.
Mr. Hallanan said "frivolous and
extravagant" spending should be
stopped, but thought it would not
be good policy to quibble "in dealing
with such a vital national problem."
Post Office Funds Asked.
Meanwhile, President Truman
sent to the Senate a request for
$10,924,000 to run the Post Office
Department until July 1.
"This," Chairman Bridges of the
Senate Appropriations Committee
remarked, "should end the false
propaganda campaign that postal
deliveries and service axe being cur
tailed because Congress denied a
deficiency appropriation request for
this year. It came to Congress only
today and then at my specific re
quest."
Senator Bridges took note Wed
nesday of newspaper statements in
Boston and elsewhere in which post
masters said they were cutting cus
tomary services because Congress
refused appropriation requests. He
told reporters it was a "brazen cam
paign" to discredit congressional
MAY'S SON AT TRIAL—Rob
ert V. May shown leaving Dis
trict Court after testifying at
the trial of his father, former
Representative Andrew J. May,
charged with conspiracy to de
fraud the Government.
—AP Photo.
economy efforts and that the state
ments were "false."
Yesterday's budget recommenda
tion, which will be considered today
by the Appropriations Committee in
connection with the House-passed
$95,478,658 second deficiency bill,
asks $9,100,000 for clerks and other
employes of first and second class
post offices and $1,000,000 for city
letter carriers. It was-in these clas
sifications that local postmasters
said they would have to make lay
offs.
Garsson
(Continued From First Page.)
would not object to having the lét
ter as well as Gen. Eisenhower's
brief reply read to the jury.
Letter Is Barred.
The Government tried to intro
duce the May letter to Gen. Eisen
hower but was prevented by a de
fense objection which Justice
Schweinhaut upheld on the ground
that adequate foundation had not
yet been laid so far.
Government Prosecutor William
A. Paisley declared that the de
fense "just wants to get Gen. Eisen
hower on the stand to identify the
letters." Defense council denied
this and said they want the letter
to be introduced "eventually in
proper order."
Gen. Brehon H. Somervell (re
tired), wartime head of the Army
Service Forces, testified that May
:alled him several times in 1943
:oncerning a cutback on a truck
body contract with the Batavia
Metal Products, Inc., and also about
manpower shortages at that Illinois
«fWH.tj. of the Garsson chain.
Gen. Somervell nid he did not
recall that May ever telephoned
him in behalf of any other war
contractor.
Col. Fred G. Sherrill, retired, for
mer procurement division chief in
the office of the chief of engineers,
gave similar testimony about calls
from May concerning the Batavia
company. May, he said, asked him
whether Batavia had been given an
opportunity |o bid on a water stor
age tank contract in 1943.
Hanek Crow- Examined.
Defense counsel this morning be
gan cross-examination of Col. Clar
ence J. Hauck, jr., former Army
liaison officer at the House Military
Affairs Committee, of which May
was chairman. Ool. Hauck testified
late yesterday that May tried to get
Army action on some 45 personnel
cases allegedly involving the Gars
sons or Freeman. One of these at
tempts, Col. Hauck said, was a plea
for a draft deferment for a mem
ber of an acrobatic troupe.
Justice Schweinhaut sustained a
Government objection this morning
when Mr. · Magee asked Col. Hauck
to go into details about a record
he had kept of calls and visits by
other members of Congress to the
Military Affairs Committee office.
These approximately 350 In
stances, the witness indicated, re
ferred largely to requests for
transfers, pr«notions, deferments
or other changes in the status of
soldiers.
Charles J. Margiotti, chief coun
sel for the Garssons, questioned the
witness about the alleged request
for deferment of the acrobat, who
had been identified merely as a
man named Lee.
Singers, Defense Implies.
"Weren't these three men singers,
and not acrobats?" Mr. Margiotti
asked. "Weren't they used to enter
tain our boys in the service, and
weren't they stationed at a camp in
the United States and were going
to be sent overseas, and wanted to
be together?"
"That was not my understanding
of it," Col. Hauck answered. He
added that he had a distinct recol
lection that May asked about an
acrobat, and that the request seemed
"vèry unusual" because of the man's
work.
Brig. Gen. Miles Reber, deputy
chief of the Legislative and Liaison
Division of the War Department's
Special Staff, testified, as did Col.
Hauck yesterday, that Freeman con
ferred with him in 1944 about the
possibility of having his son. Sergt.
Albert H. Freeman, transferred
permanently from the Pacifie to the
United States.
Gen. Reber said he told Freeman
this request could not be granted.
He arranged, however, to have the
younger Freeman undergo a thor
ough medical examination at Walter
Reed Hospital.
"Complications" Cited.
The testimony brought out that
Freeman wanted his son brought
back to this country not only be
cause of the death of his mother
and because the young soldier was
suffering from a tropical disease,
but also because of "several com
plications." "These complications,"
Gen. Reber said, "involved, I be
lieve, marriage to a Japanese
woman."
Col. Hauck testified yesterday that
during the four years he was
assigned to the Military Affairs
Committee as liaison officer, prin
cipally concerned with Army per
sonnel questions, he took part In
15 or 20 conferences on 40 or 50
cases "involving Murray Garsson or
Freeman." Col. Hauck added that
May attended most of the confer
ences.
The Government seeks to prove
May took at least $50,000 from the
Garssons for wartime favors he ob
tained for them or companies in
their $78,000,000 munittoos-maldag
I*«ln
Says He Prepared Letter.
Cross-examined by Magee on the
letter to Gen. Elsenhower concern
ing the Garsson court-martial, Col.
Haoek saidhe prepared for May a
tentative draft "of a letter I thought
appropriate." He added be did not
know If May's letter followed the
draft.
Assistant Government Prosecutor
John T. M. Redden showed Col.
Haoek the Eisenhower letter and
asked him if two sentences in the
first paragraph were suggested in the
draft Col. Hauck said they were
not. Although the letter was not
read in court, it was published at
the time of Senate War Investigat
ing Committee bearings last sum
mer. .
The sentence» to which Mr. Red
den referred were as follows: "I
have been Informed that some kind
of .court-martial proceedings have
been ordered against the soldier,'and
his father is one of my warm per
sonal friends. That, of course, Is
my interest in the matter."
CoL Hauck testified he told Mur
ray Garsson the court-martial mat
ter was solely in the jurisdiction of
the European theater commander,
Gen. Elsenhower.
Describes Meeting.
The testimony moved at a fast
clip as Col. Hauck described the
meeting In May's office, when May
discussed the possibility of a defer
ment for the acrobat.
May, he said, explained the man
was in a three-member troupe and
that the troupe would be broken up,
with resultant financial hardship,
if he were drafted into the Army.
Col. Hauck declared he refused to
"intervene in that case because I
did not consider it hardship" justi
fying deferment.
"May was not pleased with my
attitude," he said. "He bawled me
out for my apparent lack of sym
pathy."
Col. Hauck added he did not re
call whether Garsson and Freeman
made any request concerning the
acrobat.
"But I got the understanding that
the request originated with Garsson
or Freeman," he said.
Denmark Executes Seven
COPENHAGEN, May 9 OP).—
Seven members of Denmark's most
notorious wartime terror group—all
Danish nationals—were executed to
day. They were convicted last au
tumn of murder, arson and robbery
during the German occupation.
EVELYN RICHARDS,
Captain oj winning company.
—Star Staff Photo.
Cardozo High Company Κ
Wins 4-School Girls' Drill
Company Κ of Cardoso High
School yesterday von the annual
competitive company drill of the
Girls' Cadet Corps of four colored
high schools.
Company A of Dunbar High won
second place and. Company I, Car
dozo, third place.
Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant
superintendent of schools, made the
awards in a regimental review yes
terday afternoon. George E. C.
Hayes, a member of the Board of
Education, was the reviewing officer.
Joseph Walker, sr., presented Amer
ican Legion awards.
Officers of the winning company
were Evelyn Richards, captain; Ro
maine Bell, first lieutenant, and
Annie Backer, second lieutenant.
Captain of Company A of Dunbar
iras Beryl Clayton. Captain of Com
pany I, Cardozo was Mabel Austin.
145 in Army Convicted
In Philippine Pilferage
•7 W vlrW
MANILA. Iby 9.—Maj. Gen.
George F. Moore aid today that
146 United States Army personnel,
Including 14 officers and three civil
service employee, bad been found
guilty of theft or black marketing
offenses in the Philippines over a
15-month period Iran January,
1946 to April, 1947.
Hie commanding general of the
Phtlippine-Ryukyus command told
a press conference, however, that
pilferage of Army property was de·
dining.
He qaid losses at depots, including
vehicles stolen in the Philippine·,
were estimated at $382,000 in Febru
ary at this year and $318,000 in
March. The figures, he said, did
not include the 13th Air Force, the
Navy, the Foreign liquidation Com
mission or the Manila engineering
district.
CiviJ Service
(Continued From First-Page.)
to compete for civil service jobs in
the Canal Zone, asked UPWA offi
cials to appear before the commit
tee after it was informed the union
has a considerable membership
among employes in the zone."
AFL officials have charged that
America's national security is threat
ened by the new régulation. They
asserted that nationals of potentiel
epemy countries might easily ob
tain Panamanian citizenship and
thus become eligible for important
job· In tin militarily strategic acme.
Mr. Wetastein replied that the
loyalty of Panamanian worker» was
beyond question.
Senator OOooor, Democrat, of
Maryland interrupted the witness to
ask;
"Are you a member of the Com
munist Party?"
"No, X am not," replied Mr. Wein
steln. I
"Have you or any of your as
sociates supported it m any way?"
Senator OOonor asked.
"No sir," replied Mr. Weinsteln.
Senator O'Conor then questioned
Mr. Weinsteln about the highly con
troversial foreign policy resolution
adopted at the UPWA's last condi
tion, in which the Soviet Union was
held blameless in international af
fairs, while the United States and
Great Britain were censured.
Fro-Russian Sentiment Denied.
Mr. Weinsteln denied the resolu
tion was pro-Russian.
"Well, if your union had praised
Russia, would you prescribe to
that?" Senator O'Conor pursued.
"I'm an American first, Senator,"
replied Mr. Weinsteln. "I reserve
the right to criticise this country if
I think this country is wrong."
UPWÀ daims a membership of
more than 17,000 Canal Zone work
ers, most of whom are low-paid non
Civil Service employes. At present
only American citizens hold Civil
Service jobs, but the new Govern
ment ruling provides that-all,Pana
manian citizens can comprte for
the higher paying, more important
Civil, Service positions in the sone.
Ruling Held to Be Legal.
Justice Department officials today
told the committee they thought
the new ruling was mi a firm legal
basis, since it stemmed from the
United States-Panama treaty of
1936. At that time, this country
guaranteed Panamanians equal Job
opportunities in the Canal Zone. It
was emphasised, however, that At
torney General Clark has not yet
made an official ruling on the order.
Senator Thye, Republican, of Min
nesota, chairman of the subcora·
mittee, asked Mr. Weinstein whether
UPWA "had agitated" the lower
paid Panamanian employes to seek ■
equal wages with American citizens.
Mr. Weinstein replied that the
Panamanians "were agitated" at the
variance in pay scales "a long time
before we got down there."
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