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Nation Should Outlaw
Communists, Stassen
fells Oregon Audience
ly the Associated Press
_ PORTLAND, Oreg., April 27.—
Barold E. Stassen said last night
the Nation should outlaw the Com
munist Party and take steps to
create a strong world police force
to halt war.
His address was filled with ref
erences to what he called the
menace “of the Communist totali
tarianism of Russia."
"The real danger of the world is
that the leaders of the Kremlin
may make a mad move toward
war," he declared.
Opens Fight in Oregon.
Mr. Stassen was here to open
formally hi* bid for Oregon's Re
publican presidential preference
vote due May 21. He is opposed by
Gov. Dewey of New York in the
balloting. Gpv. Dewey starts on a
10-day tour of the State May 1.
The former Minnesota Governor
drew one of the largest crowds seen
bv veteran State political observers.
The doors of the auditorium were
closed half an hour before Mr.
Stassen appeared.
In calling for a “collective security
association" of freedom loving na
tions, he said it would serve to halt
further aggression until the United
Nations can be strengthened.
He referred to the Colombia riots
and the experience of Czechoslo
vakia in urging' outlawing of the
Communist Party.
Dig Them Out.
“An American policy must be
formulated to counter these dan
gers," he said. “Outlaw the Com
munist Party overground and vigor
ously dig them out from under
ground."
His audience cheered this state
ment. But during a forum session
after his speech a woman waved a
copy of the Bill of Rights. She
asked Mr. Stassen how he Justified
his belief as a citizen who cham
pioned American democracy. Hs
cited an Ohio Supreme Court rulin;
in which the court held that tli *
Constitution guarantees a republj
can form of government.
Nickel Gels 2i Years
In Mergenfhaler Swindle
By th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 27—William
Arthur Nickel, -former $64-a-week
cashier for the Mergenthaler Lino
type Co., was sentenced today to two
and one-half to five years in prison
for his part in a $784,000 swindle of
the firm.
Kings County Judge Samuel Leib
owdtz Imposed the same term on
each of 202 counts of forgery and
grand larceny, to which Nickel had
pleaded guilty more than a year ago.
The court, however, specified the
sentences were ,to run concurrently,
which would entitle him to apply
for a parole hearing in about two
years. Nickel had testified for the
State.
Associated with him in 'the'
swindle were Isadore Rappaport, 55,
who also pleaded guilty and was
given a two and one-half to five
year sentence, and Julius Lobel,
44 and Irving dzzy the Eel> Cohen,
45
Lobel and Cohen were convicted.
Lobel was sentenced to 20 to 40
years, and Cohen seven and one
half to 20 years.
Man Chases Bus, Stabs
Driver Who Didn't Stop
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 27.—A bus
failed to stop when Rafael Torres
signaled, police say, so he chased it
for 33 blocks in a taxicab and
stabbed the bus driver in an argu
ment after overtaking him.
Torres, a 40-year-old ship's cook,
was held on a felonious assault
charge last night.
The driver, cut on the neck, was
treated at a hospital.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Considerable
cloudiness and rather mild with
afternoon temperatures in the 70s
and lowest tonight In the 50s with
possible showers.
Maryland and Virginia—Mild and
rather cloudy tonight and tomor
row with scattered showers likely.
Wind velocity, 14 miles per hour;
direction northeast.
Five-Day Weather Forecast—April
27 Through May 1.
Northern Virginia and Maryland—
Temperature will average five to
seven degrees above normal. Nor
mal maximum, 69; normal mini
mum, 48. Rather warm Wednes
day. becoming cooler late Thursday
or Friday; warmer Saturday and
Sunday. A few scattered showers
late Wednesday or Thursday and
showers about Sunday. Total rain
fall. one-fourth to one-half inch.
River Report.
(Prom United Slates Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and cloudy at Great Falls Shenandoah
clear at Harwers Ferry
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet Today— Pet
\ Noon ... -57 Midnight . 81
‘ * p m. —-53 S a m. 89
S P m 6-11 30 p m. 65
Huh and l,ow far Yeiterday.
High. 74 at 2:45 p m
Low. 50. at 5:20 am.
Record Temperatures This Tear.
Highest. 85. on March 21.
Lowest. 6. on January 26.
Tide Tables.
(Fumiahed by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow
Huh - _ 10 40 am. 11 22 a.m.
Low -- 5:06 a.m. 5 53 a m.
High - . 11:11 p m. 11 58 p.m
Low - 5.49 pm. 6:39 p.m.
The Sun and Moon
Rises Sets
©un. ♦oday 5:15 6:56
Sun tomorrow 5:13 6 57
Moon, today 11:43 p.m. 7:50 am
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset
i Precipitation.
\ Monthly precipitation In Inches in tha
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1948. Aver. Record
January _ 4.57 3.55 7.S3 37
February __ 1 68 3.87 6 84 ’84
March _ 3 00 3.75 8.*4 *91
April _ 2 63 3 27 9.13 89
May _ 3.70 10.69 ’89
June _ 4.13 10.94 *00
July _ 4.71 10.63 ‘80
August _ 4.01 14.41 *28
September _ 3.24 17.45 '34
October _ 2.84 8.81 ’3?
November_ 2.37 8.69 '8ft
December .._ 3.32 7.66 *01
Temperatures in Various Cities.
H L H. L.
Albuquerque 79 51 Miami 76 06
Atlanta 85 64 Milwaukee 72 46
Atlantic City 52 46 New Orleans 80 00
Bismarck... 59 30 New York.. 58 40
Boston _ 55 35 Norfolk 64 55
Buffalo ... 8o 46 Okla City. 77 57
Chicago .. 75 59 Omaha_ 64 46
Cincinnati.- 84 63 Phoenix ... 91 61
Detroit_ 80 57 Pittsburgh _ 85 03
II Paso ... 84 56 P rtland. Me 49 30
Galveston . 81 70 St. Louis 80 02
Harrisburg 69 49 Salt L. City 54 37
Indianapolis 83 58 San Antonio 92 55
Kansas City 79 53 San Ft cisco 57 84
Los Angeles 72 55 Seattle.-&<• 35
Louisville 84 63 Tampa 85 69
Degree Dart.
“Degree days" yesterday 3
Accumulated degree days’. 4 315
Couple to Wed for Third Time
In Eight Years Here Saturday
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Mrs. Thelma Simmons (left) and Donald Simmons clasp
hands under the supervision of Mrs. Robey Spencer, who Is
serving as an attendant at their wedding for the third “and
absolutely the last time.”. —Star Stall Photo.
A District man will marry the
same woman for the third time ini
eight years Saturday, and she will
ihave the same bridesmaid as in the
earlier ceremonies.
Mrs. Thelma Simmons, 25, part
owner of the Supreme tourist house
at 208 A street N.E., and Donald
Simmons, 28, of 824 A street N.E.,
a bartender, visited District Court
yesterday to get their third license.
They have a 6-year-old son, Edwdn.
Mrs. Simmons said she and her
husband eloped to Seat Pleasant,
Md., to be married for the first time
on April 16, 1940. A minister per
formed the ceremony in his home.
On December 19, 1940. Mrs. Sim
mons explained that they wanted
a church wedding, and so they were
married for the second time in a
place of worship.
The couple separated in 1942, Mrs.
i — --'
Simmons declared, and she re
turned to her home in Mountain
View, N. J. She obtained a di
vorce last year.
Mrs. Simmons came back here
three weeks ago to operate the
tourist home in partnership with:
her mother. Mrs. Edna Mariano.;
Then Mr. Simmons came over to
see his son.
“We made up,’’ Mrs. Simmons
said, "and so we decided to get mar
ried for the third time, i feel won
derful about the whole thing, and
we think we'll be very happy. A
bad start makes a happy ending.”
Mrs. Robey Spencer of 324 A
street N.E., who was bridesmaid at j
the first two marriages, again will
take up the role in Saturday's cere
mony in Waugh Methodist Church,:
306 A street N.E.
This is for the third and absolute-!
ly last time,” she vowed.
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$9,000,000 Cyclotron Planned
To Solve Atom's Mysteries - I
By the Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif., April 27—A
$9,000,000 cyclotron which may be
the ultimate tool for solving the
mysteries of atomic energy will be
built at the University of California
with Government funds.
It will be a racetrack-shaped mag
net 110-feet in diameter which will
whip atomic bullets around its
course until they reach speeds ex
ceeding 60,000 miles a second. These
speeds will give them striking force
ranging from 6 billion to 10 billion
volts.
With these bullets scientists will
bombard atoms to produce mesons,
which are mighty little packets of
energy and matter and which ap
parently are the key to the deepest
secrets of nuclear energy.
The project was announced last
night jointly by Dr. Ernest O. Law
rence, cyclotron inventor, and David
E. Lilienthal, chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
13,000-Ton Magnet.
The main part of the big machine
will be a magnet weighing 13.000
tons.
Construction probably will require
about five years. The cyclotron will
remain the property of the Govern
ment. but the university will have
the greatest passible degree of au
tonomy in operating it, Mr. Lilien
thal said.
The Atomic Energy Commission
chairman added that the plans re
flect the determination of the
United States to remain "pre-emi
nent'' in the development of atomic
research as long as the prospects for
International agreement on atomic
Havre de Grace Entries
FOR WEDNESDAY
By the Associated Press
Weather Cloudy. Track Fast.
_Firs; Post, ;; 1 5 P.M.. EST
FIRST RACE—Purse. $2.5oO: claiming:
4-year-olds and ub (Maryland bred!; 6l
furlongs,
Teddy Smart,, 117 xxScheme 103
Rusty Flyer ,, 115 Bee Larkmead . 112
\Kohlnoor _ 112 WooAe u;
xMother Daisy 107 xKapok _ 1051
^Navigation . 112 Smart Start.. 115!
Outathisworld , 115 Pay in Advance 112
Maria Lacress 110 xLittle Pistol _ 11N
xBalloon 112 xMtss Saint .. 107 j
SECOND RACE— Purge. *2.500; claim
ing: 4-ycar-olds and up: 6 furlongs.
xxBlack F’tasy 107 xDawndale 100
xxChat Hopkins 112 Heel Up Urt
Oood Hunting 110 High Shine " 110
xFlary _ 114 Lt Bud 110
Water Color , 1 11 xxMlss W verine 112
Skean __ 110 xHomerlc 1161
xxHis Whigr. 112 Valdlna Clown 110
xxKn hts Hurry 105 xlnnersole 107
THIRD RACE—Purse *2.500: claiming;
’7-year-old maidens: 4’a furlongs
Bones Aparte 120 Off North 117 i
a Oood Timer 120 a Sun Bud _ 120'
xSuper Flight 112 Some Pigeon 117'
xBattle Clamp 115 Superb* 117
Our Chief 120 TriAln Neighb r 120 1
Right Metal . 120 Brother Henry 170
xBroad Cross. 115 Eagle Speed 120
Hatey B 12" Ding 117
a Gott dr Goldsborough entry.
FOURTH RACE—Purse. *3.000; claim- ;
lng: 3-year-olds; 6 furlongs.
Brand" Punch. 115 King Midas 115
Hard Reno .115 xFantom V'ture 110 '
Westward 111 Head an Tell 107,
Teauilla _110
FIFTH RACE—Purse. $3,000; allow
ances; 3-year-olds: 6 furlongs
a Whirl Blast . till Sun Elsie 114
Oriole __ 116 xLast Endeavor 111
xObedient _ 106 Alma's Pei 114
Tiger Fore 116 Blue Holly ., 110
a Whirl Thru 114 First Nighter , 116
a Calumet Farm entry.
SIXTH RACE—Purse. *3.50(1: allow- i
ances; 4-year-olds and up: 6 furlongs
Snow Goose. . 11.3 a Denagee 100
Golden Bull . 112 Butler _ HR
xShtvaree _ 104 Transair 100
Plav High ... 112 b Westminster, 11R
xa The Doeg 110 b Air Patrol 124
Lovemenow 112
a Pentagon dr Cohen entry,
b Shamrock Stable entry.
SEVENTH RACE—Purst *2.500: claim-'
lng (Allies and mares'. 4-year-«lds and
up X'i miles.
Valiant Dot 116 Nostalgia 110
Awashonks 116 Some Where _ 116
xSpanlsh Point 111 txPhoebe J 100
Pine Tree 1IR xFluster 111
Gullah 116 xRoueh Honey 111
xxSweel Hesh 104 xxBolo Bette Jo 104
xMlss Lovable. 11R Country Miss 121
xLittle Hussy 106 xlce Dancer 111
EIGHTH RACE—Purse. *3,1100: claim
ing 4-year-olds and up; 1,'. miles
.xxMv Margie 105 Miss Cupe 100
xSpanlsh Uhl 111 Pine Lake 113
xOremlln 112 Juke Box 1”1
xxAerojaek 103 Crowflight 113
True Dream 112 Bob's Birthday 113
x 5 pounds, xx 7 pounds apprentice al
lowance claimed.
Horses listed in order of post posi
tion.
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energy control remain poor. He de
scribed tHe present prospects as "re
mote.”
The new research colossus will be
about 20 times as powerful as the
university’s 4,900-ton cyclotron, Dr.
Lawrence said.
The 4,900-tonner, at present the
world’s largest, already has pro
duced very weak mesons, the first
to be made by man. Previously
mesons were known only in cosmic
ray activity. But some of the natu
ral mesons have energies of billions
of volts, as against only 4,000,000
for the first ones mape in the cyclo
tron.
First Cyclotron in 1929.
This means. Dr. Lawrence said,
that much more potent mesons will
have to be made in the laboratories
before nuclear energy cap be clearly!
understood.
Mesons are supposed to have'
something to do with the great'
force which holds protons and
neutrons together to form the
nuclei of atoms. However, they ap
pear only in certain types of high
energy atomic disintegrations. What
they do in an intact nucleus, or
whether they even exist as such in
a nucleus, is unknown.
High-energy mesons from the
new cyclotron may yield the an
swer.
This will be Dr. Lawrence’s fifth
cyclotron. The first, built in 1929,
established a new technique in atom
smashing. Subsequent cyclotrons
produced the first appreciable
amounts of radioactive substances
for medicine and other uses. One
of them turned out the first bit of
plutonium, the stuff used in atom
bombs, about 10 years ago. The
4.900-ton machine played a key
part in producing the first atom
bomb.
Howard U. to Hold
Fine Arts Festival
Howard University will present Its
third festival of fine arts next week.
The festival, which will include
the dance, art, drama and music,
will begin at 11 a.m. Monday with
a lecture by Sophia Delza, dancer
and writer, on the “Historical Back
ground of the Dance." She will
speak again at 2:30 p.m* The How
ard University Modern Dance Group
will open the week’s evening pro
grams with a concert at 8 p.m. Mon
day in the Andrew Rankin Chapel.
Other participants during the
course of the week will include Mme
Rajan Nehru, wife of the Indian
Minister: Sidney Kaplan of the
Fogg Art Museum. Harvard Uni-:
versity: Rabbi Hugo SchifI, faculty i
member of the university’s school of
religion: Jay Carmody, dramatic
critic of The Star: Richard Coe.
dramatic critic of the Washington
Post, and Miss Rosamunde Gilder,
former editor of Theater Arts Mag
azine, New York.
The Howard Players and the uni
versity choir also will participate.
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District Officials Work
On Report of Gallinger
Child Fire Hazards
Officials of the Fire Department
and the District building inspector's
office today were drawing up a re
port for the Senate Appropriations
Committee on possible fire hazards
in the Crippled Children's Building
at, Gallinger Hospital.
At the same time. Dr. Alvin R.
Sweeney, Gallinger superintendent,
Indicated he would ask for an ap
propriation of about *10.000 to
“partially fireproof" the old struc
ture.
Deputy Fire Marshal Charles
Laschalt and Lelland Walker, of the
building inspector's office, toured the
building late yesterday at the re
quest of a Senate Appropriations
Committee staff member. Their re
port probably will be made to
morrow.
The committee staff member.
Kimball Sanborn, said the lack of
fireproofing came to his attention
during an inspection of the hospital
last week. He charged that the
children's building also is “inade
quately staffed” and "generally run
down.” He said he suggested to
Dr. Sweeney that the children be
moved to a partially used surgical
ward on the fifth floor of the main
building.
“We’ve had a feeling for a long
time that these children deserve a
little more than they are getting,”
he declared. "It seems that chil
dren's wards would be easier to staff
than most other sections of the
hospital.”
Dr. Sweeney said he was “well
aware" of the danger of fire in the
three-story children's building and
that, as a result, only two floors
are being used to house the 38
patients in the 72-bed wards. How
ever, installation of fire doors and
fireproofing of stairways should give
adequate protection, he said. The
hospital estimated this would cost
*10,000.
“I think this sum would be wisely
spent as a safeguard,” he said,
■even if this building is old and is
due to come down eventually.”
Dr. Sweeney said he did not think
the main building surgical wards
would furnish enough space for the
children. Particularly lacking, he
said, would be a library, a classroom
and occupational and physical
therapy facilities which exist in the
present building.
There is no doubt that the hos
pital is understaffed generally, the
superintendent _said, but he added
that the children's building has “its
full quota” in comparison with other
units of the hospital.
Report Policeman Smashed
Boys' Wagons Investigated
Superiors today were investigating
a report that a policeman on scout
car duty used an ax to break up
coaster wagons of boys who had
been soliciting delivery business out
side a Safeway store in the 300
block of Eastern avenue N.E. Satur
day.
The complaint, received by The
Star, said the wagons were wrecked
after police had responded to a call
reporting the boys were creating
a nuisance. According to the com
plainant, the boys fled at the ap
proach of the scout car, but returned
later to carry away remnants of
their wagons.
John A. Whitaker Sworn In
AsKentuckyRepresentative
ty th« Associated Press
John A. Whitaker of Russellville
yesterday was sworn in as repre
sentative in Congress from the 2nd
Kentucky district.
He took the seat left vacant In
January when Earl C. Clements be
came Governor.
Mr. Whitaker was escorted to the
well of the House by Representative
Chapman of Kentucky, dean of the
State's Democratic delegation. The
oath was administered by Speaker
Martin.
The ceremony was witnessed by
Mrs. Whitaker and Mr. Whitaker's
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Moore of Bowling
Green.
De Valera in Australia
SYDNEY, Australia, April 27 UP).—
Eamon de Valera, former Prime
Minister of Eire, arrived at the Syd
ney Airport tonight on his way to
attend centenary festivals of the
Roman Catholic Church in Mel
bourne. Several hundred Austral
ians of Irish extraction cheered him.
WhattheRussians
Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting
in Turkish to the Near and Middle
East, said:
"The Turkish working classes
are welcoming May Day this year
unfortunately under a somewhat
tense atmosphere. The reacti
onaries have handed over the
country's independence to the
outsiders: the country’s economy,
finance, politics and armed forces
are being subjected to evergrow
ing control by the Americans.
The attacks against the demo
cratlc forces are increasing.’’
• Men'i Wool
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Koreans to Continue
Fight on Jap Closing
Of Separate Schools
fty th« Associated Prtss
KOBE. Japan, April 27. — A
'Korean spokesman, Sai Yakon, de
clared defiantly today that Korean
resistance against Japanese closing
of separate Korean schools would
continue.
He added, after Tokyo metropoli
tan police declared thef were ready
to take “drastic measures" against
any demonstrations, that the Kore
ans were “determined to achieve
our objective by peaceful mean?.”
Meanwhile, United States 25th
Division officers announced that an
unidentified Korean was killed in
yesterday’s Korean rioting in near
by Osaka. They reported a .25 cali
ber bullet was taken from the
Korean’s head. American military
police, who shot over the heads of
the rioters to disperse them, used
.38-callber weapons.
Fifteen Teachers Interested.
Japanese police, aided by Ameri
can military police, today arrested
15 Korean school teachers here.
Some 1,100 Koreans and a dozen
Japanese Communists already had
been jailed because of the three
days of rioting in the Kobe-Osaka
area. The Koreans flared in protest
against compulsory instruction in
the Japanese language in Japanese
schools for Koreans.
Some of the Koreans were re
leased, but the Army announced
i that all who had joined the Com
munist-inspired riots would be
| punished.
Kobe and Osaka were reported
i quiet after Lt. Gen. Robert L.
Elchelberger banned indefinitely
all public demonstations.
Statement Issued.
i Gen. Eichelberger announced that
i he would return to his 8th Army
l headquarters in Yokohama since
the “situation is well in hand.”
Following the arrests of the school
teachers, the Japanese government
issued the following statement:
"The Japanese government again
I makes clear that Koreans residing
1 in Japan have an obligation of
obeying Japanese law. It is the gov
i ernment's policy to take stern
measures against those who deny
respect for law and order, whether
they are Japanese or Koreans. The
government believes firmly that all
the people support this.
“Further, this policy of the gov
ernment is in complete agreement
with the policy of the Allied su
preme commander."
357 Die in Red Violence
Against Korea Election
SEOUL, Korea. April 27 i/Pi.—Com
munist violence in opposition to the
United Nations sponsored South
Korean elections has cost 351 lives
in three and a half months.
The United States Army today
announced the death toll for South
j east Korea and Cheju Island, where
the campaign of bloodshed has cen
tered, included 68 Korean police, 196
Communists and 87 rightists.
No Americans have been involved
and no mass rioting has taken place.
American occupation headquarters
at Seoul has been left strictly out
side the sphere of terrorist activi
ties.
The campaign against the May
10 election—to form a provisional
Korean government—has taken the
form of flying attacks by. groups
of from two to 25 youths against
police boxes, registration centers
and homes of rightist leaders.
A United Nations "committee
spokesman said today that final
I discussions on whether to observe
I the election would start tomorrow,
j The only possibility of not seeing
j the task through, he explained, is
[that members might feel that the
election could not be held in a “free
! atmosphere.”
House Group Supports
Flannagan for Cabinet
House Democrats who serve with
: Representative Flannagan, Demo
crat, of Virginia on the Agriculture
Committee are urging him as suc
cessor to Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson.
Headed by Representative Cooley
of North Carolina, a delegation of
seven called on President Truman
yesterday and praised the Virginian
as a man well qualified for the cab
'inet post.
The President did not commit
himself, according to Mr. Cooley,
but showed familiarity with Mr.
Flannagan’s 18 years’ service on the
Agriculture Committee, during
which he has sponsored the
Flannagan-Hope Research Act and
the Flannagan Tobacco Inspec
tion Act.
Secretary Anderson is resigning
May 10 to seek tile New Mexico
Senate seat held by Senator Hatch,
Democrat, who is retiring.
Senator Chavez, Democrat, of
New Mexico, another White House
caller yesterday, said he thought
Senator Hatch would make a good
Agriculture Secretary. He said he
does not know who President Tru
man may have in mind for the post.
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The Federal Spotlight
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House Rules Committee Head
Backs $468 U. S. Pay Raise
By Joseph Young
Chairman Allen qf the House Rules Committee has announced
his support of $468 wage increases for Government employes and
$585 for postal workers.
This support from Mr. Allen, who is one of the three top
Republican leaders in the House, brightens pay propects con
siaeraoiy.
It makes it almost certain that
the legislation will get the right*
of-way from the Rule* Committee
for House ac
non. annougn
formal commit
tee approval
won't occur for
at least two or
three weeks.
Not yet
known Is the
attitude of the
two other top
Republican
House leaders,
Speaker Martin
and Majority
Leader Halleck.«
But the very
fact that Mr.
Jawvh Tn>(.
Alien has announced that he is
supporting the $468 and $585 pay
bills is a pretty good indication that
the Republican leadership finally
♦ill approve pay raise legislation.
It’s fairly certain that Mr. Allen
i wouldn’t have made this commit
ment if he knew his coleagues dis
approved of it. The pay amounts
approved by Mr. Allen are the ones
reported out several weeks ago by
the House Civil Service Committee.
* * * *
IMPORTANT BILL—A Senate
Civil Service Subcommittee tenta
tively has set tomorrow for the be
ginning of hearings on the bill to
give unemployment' compensation
and severance pay benefits to Gov
ernment employes.
The measure is a very important
one. and Government employes’
groups are swinging their full sup
port behind it.
The bill was sponsored by Chair
man Langer of the Senate Civil
Service Committee, who says he
will fight for its enactment on the
ground that Federal employes de
serve the same benefits enjoyed by
workers in private industry.
Heading the subcommittee is Sen
ator Flanders, Republican, of Ver
mont. The two other subcommittee
members are Senator Baldwin, Re
publican, of Vermont and Johnston,
Democrat, of South Carolina.
* * * *
NAVY’S PLANS—Although the
Navy Department, at the moment,
doesn't have plans for mass hirings
of civilian employes, it does expect
that a considerable number of job
openings will be available in the
next few months.
The department is marking time
until the House Appropriations
Committee and Congress act on its
1949 budget requests. Incidentally,
Congress is expected to give the
department every penny it asks.
While Navy’s expansion won’t be
nearly as great as the Air Force
or even the Army Department in
the national defense program. Navy
officials say some additional help
will be needed here. They expect
there will be some scientific and
professional positions, as well as
clerical jobs opening up.
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ARLINGTON FARMS — Defense
Secretary Forrestal is putting plenty
of pressure on Public Building Ad
ministration officials to make Ar
lington Farms available for the
girls being recruited by the Army
and Air Force Departments for the
defense program.
Arlington Farms had announced
it was accepting no more applica
tions for newcomers to its dormi
tories. but has extended the dead
line temporarily, while PBA officials
ponder the problem.
Civil Service Commissioner Arthur
S. Flemming has joined with Mr.
Forrestal in asking that the ban be
rescinded. The Army has a des
perate shortage of stenographers
and typists and plans a Nation
wide recruitment program, if neces
sary, to get girls to fill the jobs.
A. Heath Onthank, the Army De
partment’s very capable civilian
personnel director, put the depart
ment’s dilemma this way: “Unless
we can promise the parents of these
girls that their daughters will be
housed in proper quarters here, with
supervision by the Government, they
will be reluctant to have the girls
come to Washington.’’
That’s why it’s- a good bet that
PBA officials will finally yield and
continue to make Arlington Farms
available to newxomers in Govern
ment jobs.
* * * *
ECA—A number of Government
employes foolishly are considering
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Economic Co-operating Adminis
tration.
It's different, of course, if you
have the special skills that ECA
needs and the agency requests your
services. But both ECA and Civil
Service Commission officials say it's
very foolish for Government em
ployes to leave the relative security
of their jobs for a routine position
in ECA.
ECA Is hiring very slowly, taking
great pains to select the most ef
ficient personnel. Regarding Federal
employes who want to transfer to
ECA, officials give the following ad
vice:
"We appreciate your interest, but
it would be best to remain at your
present Jobs, unless we specifically
i need you. If we find we need cer
tain type of personnel that must
be filled from the Government it
self. we will let it be known through
the Civil Service Commission.’’
* * * *
CAPITAL ROUNDUP—The White
■ House has asked all Government
agency and department heads to
co-operate in the “Crusade for'
1 Children,” which begins May 17.1
Federal employes will be asked to
! contribute to the drive to aid the
; children of foreign lands, who are
in desperate need. The drive is
under the auspices of the American
Overseas Aid-United Nations Ap
peal for Children, and is headed
by H. R. Baukhage, well-known
radio commentator. . . . The Civil
Service Commission announces ex
aminations for bacteriologists, biol
ogists, chemists, entomologists, my
cologists, parasitologists and serol
ogisis. Starting salaries range from
$3,397 to $5,905 a year. . . . Also an
nounced by the commission are ex
aminations for marketing specialist
jobs in the Agriculture Department.
The salary runs from $3,397 to $8,179
a year. . . . The Office of the Quar- j
termaster General needs qualified'
IBM operators and clerical per
sonnel for the following jobs: Tab- j
ulating equipment operations su-,
pervisors, tabulating equipment and
machine operators, clerks, stenog
raphers and typists. Apply in Room !
1-1009. Temporary' "A” Building, i
Second and T streets S.W., or call
Republic 6700, extension 71767.
(Additional news' of Govern
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young’s broad
cast version of the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 p.m. every Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.)
Clarke to Head Bond Drive
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.. April j
27 (Special).—Roger Clarke has
been named chairman of the Fred
ericksburg and Spottsylvania Se-1
curity Bond drive which will con- j
tinue to June 30. The city and’
county have been assigned a quota
of $300,000. I
British Archbishop
Assails Communism
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LONDON, April 87 —The Arch
bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey
Fisher, head of the Church of Eng
land. denounced communism last
night as a “militant political sys
tem which, in denying God, da
grades and enslaves man.”
Writing in the "Canterbury Dio
cesan Notes," the archbishop said
communism, as a social theory and
a philosophy, arose as a revolt
against the evils which the growth
of industrialism introduced into the
social and economic order and
against the effects of those evili
on humans.
"There are some parts of the
world in which It appears to be
the only effective instrument
against corruptions which perpetu
ate those evils," the arbishop said,
“and many Christians in those parts
feel for that reason that it is per
haps the lesser of two evils.
“But in Europe we have to face
not a social theory, but a militant
political system which, in denying
God, degrades and enslaves man;
and that system reveals itself in
its working as utterly hostile to the
basic principles of Christianity and
of human life.
“Because of its totalitarian claims,
it must be resisted at every point."
Trade Group Executives
Present Awards Here
For its contribution in improving
trailer life in America, the Trailer
Coach Manufacturers’ Association of
Chicago yesterday was awarded th#
first prize for outstanding service
given by the American Trade Asso
ciation Executives. The award was
made at a luncheon at the spring
meeting of the executives at tha
Hotel Statler by Assistant Secretary
of Commerce David Bruce.
More than 750,000 citizens now live
in trailers, Mr. Bruce said in mak
ing the award. He cited the Trailer
Manufacturers’ Association promo
tion of trailer parks and domestic
architecture in trailer design in
making the award.
Second prizes went to the Amer
ican Meat Institute; the Automotive
Safety Foundation, with headquar
ters in Washington; the Dominion
Growers’ Association of Canada; the
International Association of Ice
Cream Manufacturers; the National
Retail Lumber Dealers' Association,
both with Washington headquarters,
and the National Screw Machine
Products Association.
A first prize for associations with
budgets less than $50,000 went to th#
Bicycle Institute of America for it#
work in reviving what some years
ago was considered a "dying indus
try." __
Mrs. Burke to Address
Women's Legal Group
The Phi Delta Delta International
Legal Fraternity will hear Mrs. Mon
roe Burke of the "Voteless” District
League of Women Voters at 8:15
p.m. tomorrow in the Endion Club,
1601 V street N.W.
Mrs. Burke will discuss the Dis
trict’s housing situation. Miss Elsie
Carlson is president of the women’s
legal fraternity.
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