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Russia's Offer to Send
Palestine Observers
Finds U. N. Off Guard
By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, June 8 —
Russia's offer to send Red Army
observers into Palestine caught
United Nations delegates flat-:
footed.
The offer—made yesterday—
was just what the United States
has feared all along.
Ever since the Palestine problem
came before the U. N., there has
been uneasy speculation in Western
power circles that the Kremlin
might figure out a way to get troops
into the Holy Land.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko used a loophole
which these diplomats thought they
had plugged.
Provision for Supervision.
When the Security Council adopt
ed its detailed proposal for a cease
fire order and a four-week armistice
in the Holy Land, a provision was
written in that the U. N. mediator
and the American-Belgian-French
Consular Truce Commission should
supervise observance of the pro
visions. An additional clause said
“they (the mediator and the three
nation commission) shall be pro
vided with a sufficient number of
military observers."
No countries were mentioned. The
general assumption here was that
the United States. France and Bel
gium—being members of the com
mission—would supply the soldiers.
The U. N. promptly asked the three
nations to furnish the observers.
The United States and Belgium
agreed, France took the request un
der advisement. Stories about the
observers got in the newspapers.
Left Until Next Meeting.
Yesterday, Mr. Gromyko appeared
early for the Council meeting and
handed newsmen a special state
ment. In it Mr. Gromyko said he
understood that military observers
were being selected and added:
"The Soviet delegation considers
It necessary to state that the U. S.
S. R. is ready to send her observers
as well together with the observers
of some other directly interested
countries.”
Mr. Gromyko then went into the
Council meeting, made virtually the
game statement, and called on dele
gates to discuss the matter. Mild
efforts were made to sidetrack the
issue. All right, Mr. Gromyko said,
let's discuss it at the next meeting.
The Council today considers In
dia's threat to boycott the United
Nations Kashmir Commission.
Governors Indorse Plan
To Explain Civil Rights
By tht Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va., June 8.— Gov.
Caldwell of Florida and Gov. Tuck
of Virginia yesterday indorsed the
idea of an education program to tell
the South’s side of the civil rights
story to the North.
"I am convinced that it we can
get the facts over to the North the
thinking people of that region will
be almost as much opposed to the
civil rights program as we in the
South,” Gov. Caldwell said.
The Florida governor, here to de
liver a commencement address to
night at the Medical College of Vir
ginia, sat in with Gov. Tuck at a
press conference.
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First Post. 2 P.M <EST>
FIRST RACE—Purse. $800; claiming;
4- year-olds and upward; about 4Vi fur
longs.
611 ver Cloth . _ 110 Silver _ 115
Abrazo .lift xPlayful Polly. 10ft
Worries ... lift Nosined _ 110
Polo Dandy . lift Bare Wings lift
xGlobe Trotter 110 Isle of Man __ lift
Thornpatch 110 xJackie M. .110
Ingerflre _ lift Beulah Mae __ 110
SECOND RACE—Purse, $800: claiming;
5- year-olds and upward; fl1, furlongs.
xKohinoor 113 Big Sneeze 118
xMy Last Dollar 113 xCornelia Belle 108
Wise Banny 113 xRoyal Whirl 108
Roadmaker _118 Double Eddy 113
Canters Best __ 118 xSpuyten Duyvll 113
Yellow Silk _ 113 Rakish Boy . 118
X Z. Run_118 Meadow Grey. 113
THIRD RACE—Purse, $1,000: claiming;
4-year-olds and upward; 1 Vip miles.
xMldnight _113 xMiss Neptune. 108
Fhintng Sea_113 P^rlina _ 113
xOld Fellow __ 113 xFlylng John.. 113
Intelligentsia 113 War Veteran.. 118
xGay Venture 113 xNew Book . 113
xRendova ..108 Calabozo .. 118
Mamados _113 xBorder Pat_113
FOURTH RACE—Purse. *1.000: allow
ances; 3-year-olds and upward; about 7
furlongs.
Sweepson lift xBidasweep I 10
xBorder Doctor 1 10 xSilk Man 106
xJust Great .. 110 Ja-Hunter _lift
Four Leaves_ 106 Toyou 108
Vitesse _lio Doctor Jeep lift
Pansy June 113 Runnta Moorse 103
Virginia Jean.. 110 xBlue 8teel __ 113
FIFTH RACE—Purse. $1,000: claiming;
44-year-olds and upward about 8 fur
longs.
xFor Point_111 xTwo Bucks _ 111
Hopeful Play . 118 Mountain Mist. Ill
W’ise Ascent .. Ill W’apan lift
xGrand Mac 100 xKnight s Hurry 109
xRush Order _ . Ill xRaiment 111
xBig Moose 108 Fiddlers Three 118
Merry Elgin_118 Venct _ 116
SIXTH RACE—Purse, $1,000: allow
ances. 3-year-olds and upward; flV* fur
longs.
Run Bud Run. 118 xWestings Rival 100
Post Boy __ 118 Louis L. _118
Teddy Smart.. 122 Grey Prince-116
xCountrydude . 114 Sand Rose — 111
xGertie O 106 Idle Gossip . . 117
Boston Broom. 111 xGallant .. 117
Steven Peter - 119 Firm Peace 116
SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1,200: al
lowances; 3-year-olds and up. about 4Vi
furlonges.
Stanley . 116 Aylesburv 118
xPawnee Boy . 103 Local Band-128
Tandis . Ill Belstan 120
xBlack Grip... 109 xHow Happv . _ 113
Hal Jorday . 116 Prognostic — 113
x Talcum Spray 114 Bulrushes .116
xRom _ 111 Equifuta — - 103
EIGHTH RACE—Purse. 81.200: claim
ing 4-year-olds and up: Pa miles
xH’mWrd Bond 113 Bright Remark lift
W’orthowning 121 Hypnotlzer 11 .->
Abrek lift Casogin 118
xArmv Life 116 Tragic Ending 115
xApprentlce allowance claimed
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Ray Schalk Imprisoned 2 Hours,
Robbed by Six Masked Gunmen
ty th* Auociottd Prats
CHICAGO, June 8.—A suburban
police chief unwittingly delivered a
bowling alley manager into th«
hands of six masked gunmen wait
ing to crack the alley safe yesterday.
The scene of the holdup where
the robbers imprisoned 36 persons
in storage rooms for two hours was
Ray Schalk's Evergreen Towers, a
bowling center. It is run by Ray
Schalk, former Chicago White Sox
catcher and manager. An adjoin1
ing bar also was held up.
The robbers first forced their way
into the office of Mr. Schalk. who
told them Lou Barbour, manager
of the bowling alleys, in Suburban
Evergreen Park, was the only per
son who had the key and com
bination to the safe.
“We’ll wait,” two of the gunmen
said. They herded Mr. Schalk and
his wife Lavinia, a hat-check girl,
24 colored pinboys and several cus
tomers into basement storage rooms.
Meanwhile, Mr. Barbour was
walking to work at the alleys. About
three blocks from the place he was
given a ride by Lou Riddering
Evergreen Park police chief. The
chief dropped Mr. Barbour at the
door and drove away.
Mr. Barbour stepped into the
firing range of pistols held by two
robbers standing guard at the door.
They forced him to open the safe.
They took *1,500 from it and *250
from Grover Lutgert, a partner of
Mr. Schalk.
Two other robbers raided the ad
joining Schaffer’s cocktail lounge,
forced a safe with a crowbar and
fled with'*800.
The six gunmen made their get
away in a 1947 car belonging to Mr.
Schalk.
One of the robbers carried a ma
chine gun. the others pistols. All
wore handkerchief masks. _
Forrestal Confirms
Ban on Security Data
For Scientific Group
The office of Secretary of De
fense Forrestal confirmed today
that it had instructed units of
the national defense establish
ment to refuse to answer certain
portions of the questionnaire
submitted by a committee of
nine leading atomic scientists.
A spokesman said the Army, Navy,
Air Force and the Research and De
velopment Board had been told not
to answer questions as to the
classifications of their projects "on
the grounds that it would be in
imical to the national security.”
The scientists, all members of the
Cornell University faculty, had ex
pressed the view that the defense
establishment was worried more
about criticism of its policies than
about security.
Sought Information.
The defense spokesman said the
scientists, who constitute the Com
mittee on Security and Clearance of
the Federation of American Scien
ists, had sought information as to
how much work of industry, univer
sities and Government departments
was classified, just what the classifi
cations were, if they had been in
vestigated and, if so, by whom. He
said Mr. Forrestal had told the
units they could not answer any
such line of questioning, but that
they were free to answer the bal
ance of the committee's question
naire.
The Federation Committee is
headed by Dr. S. H. Bauer, professor
of chemistry at Cornell, and in
cludes two Nobel prize winrars—
Dr. Hans A. Beths, to whom is due
the basic theory of atomic energy
release, and Dr. P. J. W. Debye.
Sought Eligibility Rule*.
Last November, they say, they
mailed a questionnaire to 140 lab
oratories, including establishments
in Government departments, uni
versities and private industry which
are working on contracts with the
services. The object was to de
termine wnat rules were followed in
determining the eligibility of a sci
entist for employment or for con
tinuing on the Job.
A copy of the questionnaire is
included in the report published in
this month's issue of the Buletin of
the Atomic Scientists, official organ
of the federation. The only ques
tion that might have been con
sidered obectionable was on the
percentage of work in progress that
could be considered secret.
The questionnaire, according to
the report, was filled out satisfac
torily and returned by all the uni
versity and private laboratories and
from most of the Government de
partments including, it is indicated,
the Atomic Energy Commission.
But from the services, the commit
tee charges, it received objections,
even to revealing the basic clear
ance procedures, on the grounds
that security would be violated.
The most secrei of all work on
atomic development is carried on
at the Atomic Energy Commission's
establishment at Los Alamos, N.
Mex., where the atomtc bomb itself
was developed. The reply received
from Los Alamos was complete and
satisfactory to the committee.
But from Rear Admiral Inglis,
chief of naval intelligence, accord
! ing to the report, came a letter
which said in part: ‘‘The answers to
i many of the questions posed in your
questionnaire would be of a classi
fied character.”
The committee asked why. After
four weeks, according to the report,
came the answer: "I regret to
inform you I am unable to supply
you with the information requested.”
Espionage Act-Violations Seen.
From an Army Ordnance district
chief came the reply that answers
to some of the questions would con
stitute violations of the Espionage
Act. The questions asked how much
work was done for the Federal Gov
ernment, with which Government
agencies the laboratory had con
tracts, how many projects were
secret and what agencies had
charge of security investigations.
The Office of Naval Research, it
is charged, sent out a form letter,
one of which was received at a uni
versity laboratory dealing with a
completely unclassified project,
which said: “If this questionnaire
concerning your Office of Naval Re
search project is answered, and
should this information fall into
unauthorized hands, valuable in
telligence information would be ob
tained which would be detrimental
to national security.”
Yet, it is said, the project is com
pletely in the open and anybody
with an intelligent interest could
visit the laboratory and obtain any
information he desired about its
most intricate details.
A letter was sent from the New
York office of the Air Materiel Com
mand to all contractors stating that
answers to several of the questions
would be violations of the Espionage
Act.
Board Raises Strong Complaint.
The strongest complaint is against
the Research and Development
Board of the Joint services, headed
by Dr. Vannevar Bush. It is the
successor to the wartime Office of
Research and development and con
trols the expenditure of nearly
$500,000,000 a year in scientific work.
Over the signature of F. H. Rich
ardson, deputy executive secretary,
a letter went out to all subcon
tractors:
"There are in existence today a
large number of organizations whose
objective is to gather such informa
tion and later use it as material
for propaganda and ‘smear’ pro
grams in an attempt to discredit
the United States form of govern
ment. It is, therefore, requested
that, if any questionnaires of this
type, or any other questioning the
methods of the United States Gov
vernment, are received in the future,
they be referred to this office for
appraisal before any answer is
given.”
Taxi Driver Beaten
And Robbed of $25
A cab driver was beaten on the
head and robbed of $25 in Glen
Echo Heights last night by two
men who entered his cab in Wash
ington.
The driver, Leo J. Lyman. 40. of
1410 Whittier street N.W., was taken
to Suburban Hospital, Bethesda,
suffering from a concussion. His
condition today was described as
fair.
Police said Mr. Lyman told them
hi picked up the two men in North
west Washington and was directed
to take them to Glen Echo, ‘‘where
the streets have Indian names.”
When he got to Walhonding road,
near Tuscawaras road, Glen Echo
Heights, shortly after midnight, Mr.
Lyman told police one of his passen
gers grabbed him around the neck
and pulled out the ignition keys.
Mr. Lyman was then beaten.
He told police the man took his
wallet and drove off in the, cab.
Mr. Lyman staggered to a house
and called police. The cab was
found a short time afterwards by
District police at Thirty-ninth street
and Cathedral avenue N.W.
One of the men was described
by Mr. Lyman as about 5 feet 7
Inches tall and weighing 140 pounds.
He described the other as about Q
feet tall, weighing about 170
pounds. Neither wore a tie or hat,
he said.
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Wrangle Over Housing
May Split Republicans
On Eve of Convention
By th* Auociotad Prws
A Republican family spat on
the eve of the party’s national
convention threatened today.
Chairman Wolcott of the House
Banking Committee made ready
to introduce a substitute for the
Senate - approved housing bill
sponsored by Senator Taft, GOP
presidential aspirant.
Mr. Wolcott announced that his
committee would end its public hear
ings on housing today, and act on
his bill later in the week. The hous
ing issue then will be thrashed out
on the House floor beginning Mon
day or Tuesday.
Mr. Wolcott guarded most of the
details of his bill, pending formal
introduction late today or tomorrow,
but he 'hinted strongly it will not
look much like the measure spon
sored by Senator Taft. <
May End Session in Wrangle.
This held out the prospect that
Congress may wind up its session
June 19, two days before the Re
publican convention, in a wrangle
between Senate and House Republi
cans over the housing issue. The
battle may touch off a hot platform
writing fight at Philadelphia.
The Wolcott measure is not ex
pected to include the controversial
section of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner
bill that provides for Federal financ
ing of 500,000 low-rent housing
units. Opponents have cried "so
cialism” at this type of housing for
low-income families.
The T-E-W bill (Senators Ellen
der, Louisiana Democrat, and Wag
ner, New York Democrat, are co
sponsors with Senator Tafti con
templates construction of 15,000,000
homes in 10 years, primarily by pri
vate enterprise with Government
encouragement.
Gives No Estimates.
Mr. Wolcott gave no estimates of
what his measure will do, but he did
say it will embody one section to
encourage construction of homes for
veterans. This—like the T-E-W bill
—may provide special loan arrange
ments and grants for home con
struction by paralyzed veterans.
There were not many predictions
of how the housing battle will come
out.
Proponents of the 500.000-unit pub
lic housing program are unwilling
to concede defeat. A sizable seg
ment of big-city Republicans may
join House Democrats in support of
this section of Senator Taft's bill.
They will try to force it into Mr.
Wolcott’s measure as an amend
ment.
Fireworks are bound to develop,
too, if Mr. Wolcott leaves out of his
bill the Senate measure's provision
for financing rural housing.
Child Killed, 4 Hurt
In Indiana Tornado
By th« Associated Press
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., June 8.
—A tornado which killed one child
and injured at least four other per
sons early last night in Henryville
(Clark County) climaxed a day of
violent storms in Indiana.
State police identified the dead
girl as Gayle Mullins, 10. The in
jured included her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Mullins; Mrs. Emma
Applegate, 56, and Mrs. George
Smallwood.
The Mullins girl was killed and
her parents were injured seriously
when their home collapsed. Mrs.
Smallwood was injured in the col
lapse of her home and Mrs. Apple
gate's skull was fractured when she
was struck by a flying brick.
Henryville’s streets were a litter
of rubble and fallen trees after the
storm, which struck about 6 p.m.
More than 20 houses and barns were
destroyed in the town of 1.500, and
all utilities were knocked out.
The Red Cross sent in cots and
blankets and set up a shelter for
about 20 homeless families in the
partially unroofed high school build
ing. State troopers and sheriff’s
deputies patrolled streets to prevent
looting.
Residents told of a corn crib be
ing carried half a mile by the wind
and tree branches blown through
the sidings of houses. Two churches
were damaged.
Hailstorms and heavy electrical
storms struck widely scattered parts
of the State earlier.
D. C. Dairies Ponder
Raises in Milk Price
After Pay Increases
Officials of nine major dairies
which supply about 80 per cent of
the milk in the District were study
ing a new wage contract today to
determine whether it will result in
higher prices to the consumer.
“It looks pretty much like there
may be a price increase,” an official
of one of the largest Washington
dairies said. "But before our com
pany can decide if this will be nec
essary, our auditors must go over
the contract to study its effect on
unit prices. This may take several
days.”
The wage agreement, accepted by
the* Milk Drivers and Dairy Em
ployes, Local 246, AFL, last Sunday
night, three hours before the old
contract expired at midnight, was
scheduled for formal signing today.
Its provisions will go into effect as
of Sunday midnight. It gives wage
increases of $4 and $5 to more than
1,200 workers.
Spokesmen for several of the
dairies said that until they com
plete a financial study of the con
tract they could not estimate fu
ture prices.
A. B. Fletcher of the Embassy
Dairy explained that each company
must decide for itself whether to
raise the price. He said he had not
yet seen the contract and would need
some time to study it. .
Michael H. Burchell,’ president of
the Alexandria Dairy Products Co.,
said he believed an increase would I
be necessary and that his company
i might petition the Virginia Milk
! Commission.
I
Russian Crops Bad
LONDON, June 8 <£>).—'The Mos
cow Radio broadcast today an Iz
vestia article reporting bad crop
conditions in widespread areas of
the Soviet Union. "It can be said
about the present spring that the
weather was exceptionally capri
cious,” a member of the Lenin All
Union Agricultural Academy wrote
in the official government organ.
Weather Report
District of Columbia and vicinity—;
Generally fair and warm this after
noon; some cloudiness with lowest
around 60 tonight. Tomorrow part
ly cloudy and not so warm.
Maryland and Virginia—Partly
cloudy with a few scattered show
ers this evening and in the moun
tains tomorrow. Slightly cooler.
Wind velocity, 15 miles per hour;
direction, southwest.
Five Day Weather Forecast
June 8 Through June 13.
For Northern Virginia and Mary- ;
land—Temperature will average a
little below normal for the period.
Normal maximum, 81; normal mini- j
mum, 62. Cool Wednesday and!
Thursday. Warmer over week end.
Showers Friday and Saturday. Total
rainfall about one-half inch.
Klver Bep«rt.
'From United States Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah, clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— Pet
j Noon _73 Midnight. _ 86
4 p m. _94 8 a m . _ '6
8 p.m. __ 69 1:30 p.m. -30 j
High and Low Yesterday.
High. 81. at 1:30 p m.
Low. 64. at 6:00 a m.
hecord Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 90. on May 11.
Lowest, 5, on January 26. v.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High _ 9:23 a.m. 10:10 a.m.
Low __ 3:44 a.m. 4:30 a.m.
High _ - 9:53 p.m. 30:42 p.m.
Low _ 4:34 p m. 6:20 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today _ 5:42 7:32
!Sun. tomorow . 5:42 <:32
jMoon. today 6:20 a.m. 10:16p.m.
i Automobile lights must be turned on
1 one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1948. Ave. Record.
January _ 4.57 3.55 7.83 ’37
February _ 1.67 3.37 6.84 84
March _ 3.66 3.75 8.84 91
April _3.05 3.27 9.13 ’89
May _ 8.87 3.70 10.69 ’89
June I!_1.15 4.13 10.94 ’00
July ____ 4.71 10.63 86
August -- 4.01 14.41 ;28
September -- 3.24 17.45 34
October __ 2.84 8.81 37
November - - 2.37 8.09 89
December _ _ 3.32 7,o8 01
Temperature, In Varlou, Cities.
High Low High. Low
Albuqueroue 84 58 Miami .. 84 .4
'Atlanta SO 08 Milwaukee 76 5.i
Atlantic City 68 62 New Orleans 92 7.j
Bismarck . St 46 New; York ,4 65
Boston - - 6.1 54 Norfolk 88 6,
Buffalo . . 62 55 Okla. City 94 A
Chicago 78 55 Omaha 90 5,
Cincinnati\ 76 54 Phoenix 97 62
Detroit 74 54 Pittsburgh 71 5,
! El Paso 91 68 P’tland Me. 71 52
j Galveston 88 78 St. Louis 89 tin.
I Harrisburg 79 61 Salt L. City <6 55
Indianapolis 76 49 San Antonia 99 71
1 Kansas City 69 S. Francisco 6. 5.1
j Los Angeles SO 58 Seattle _ 89 fl
'Louisville - 82 60 Tampa , 91 ,5
The Federal Spotlight
Taft Says Senate Will Act
This Week on Pay Raise Bill
By Joseph Young
Senate sponsors of Federal pay raise legislation today ex
pressed hope that some way might be found to win enactment
of the bill in the closing session of Congress.
Chairman Taft of the Senate Republican Policy Committee
said he expects the Senate to act this week.
Despite the informal agreement of House Steering Committee
members to grant pay raises to postal workers and not to the
rest of the Government s employes,«
pay bill sponsors said they still be-'
lieve there is a chance of getting,
wage legislation enacted for all<
Federal workers._ _ .
Senator Taft
held an in
formal strategy
meeting yester
day afternoon
with Senator
Flanders, Re
publican, of Ver
mont, who is the
co - sponsor o f
the Senate pay
legislation, and
with several
other Senators.
It was decided
to draft a new
bill granting
Joseph Yount
$360 a year raises to federal em
ployes and $400 to postal workers.
Also, the $10,000 Federal pay ceiling
would be lifted. .
The Senate Policy Committee will
meet today, and it is expected the
date will be set this week for Senate
action on the pay measure.
After yesterday’s session. Senator
Flanders declared: ‘‘I still have hope
that we can get some sort of a pay
bill for all Government employes
enacted at this session of Con
gress.”
The strategy would seem to be to
have the Senate pass the measure
and sent it to the House. Prompt
Senate action would place the
Houie squarely on the spot on the
matter, and pay bill supporters feel
that, in such a case, the House
leadership might go along.
The chief obstacle to this strategy
is the time element—with less than
two weeks remaining before Con
gress adjourns. That is why Fed
eral pay legislation still faces an
uphill battle. But pay bill sponsors
believe there is an outside chance,
at least, to win enactment of the
measure if their plans materialize.
* * * *
VERBIAGE—The various person
nel offices in the Government cer
tainly have a lot of high-sounding
ideas of what they are supposed
to do.
In reply to questions asked by
investigators of the House Civil
Service Committee, the various per
sonnel offices used some of these
terms to describe their work:
“Devise,” “evaluate,” “collaborate,”
“co-ordinate,” "plan,” “formulate,”
“guide,” “counsel," “promulgate,”
“consult,” “orientate” and many,
many others.
* * * *
GOOD NEWS—A move started
last year within the House Appro
priations Committee to lengthen the
present 40-hour Federal work week
seems to have been dropped by the
committee. The only places where
a longer week may be imposed are
some of the Veterans’ Adjjninistra
tion hospitals and even this is by
no means certain.
The fact that the committee isn’t
pressing for a 44-hour or 48-hour
work week in some agencies where
overtime work is sometimes needed
is good news to Federal employes.
Last year the committee and Con
gress inserted a provision in the
Treasury appropriations measure re
quiring Customs Bureau inspectors
to work more than 40 hours a week,
if necessary, without the regular
time-and-a-half overtime payment
provisions. Some committee mem
bers, at the time, hinted that this
would be applied to some other
agencies this year.
But now this plan has been
dropped, and the committee has re
stored the time-and-a-half overtime
rights for Custom Bureau employes.
Considerable credit for the restora
tion of overtime pay rights in the
Custom Bureaus belongs to the AFL
American Federation of Government
Employes and its legislative repre
sentative, Col. Charles I. Stengle.
Col. Stengle went before the com
mittee recently to urge that Customs
employes regain their overtime pav
rights, and the committee followed
his suggestion.
* * * *
OUTSIDE CHANCE—The worth
while measure to increase the com
pensation benefits of Federal em
ployes who are injured on the Job
has only an outside chance, at best,!
of passage this year.
Although it has won the approval
of the House Labor Committee, tt|
has run into a snag Into the House
Rules Committee. Judged by cur
rent expenditures, the measure
wouldn’t cost very much—only about
$4,000,000.
But the House leadership is anxi
ous to economize wherever possible
and not to enact any more legisla
tion this year that will involve out
lay of funds unless it is absolutely
necessary.
Representative Keating, Repub
lican, of New York 1s trying to work
out a deal with House Republican
leaders to get the bill placed on the
consent calendar. If he is successful,
the measure probably will clear the
House. But the leadership has not
yet given the bill the green light.
MORE UPWA TROUBLE—The
trouble-beset CIO United Public
Workers of America has some more
headaches to contend with.
Heretofore.1 most of the left-wing
union’s difficulties centered around
its Federal employes’ membership.
But now its very strong New York
membership, composed largely of
New York City welfare department
employes, has run into serious
trouble.
A special investigating committee
for Mayor O'Dwyer has criticized
sharply UPWA’s political activities
within the welfare department. And
jit’s reported the committee will
recommend that UPWA's members
who hold supervisory positions in
the department be barred from
active union membership.
This would put a very serious
crimp in UPWA's New York leader
ship and place serious difficulties in
the union’s path.
ik * * *
CAPITAL ROUNDUP—House Mi
nority Leader Rayburn is reported
facing considerable opposition in his
Texas primary. The former House
Speaker has been a member of Con
gress for 34 years. . . . That addi
tional 1 per cent deduction in
Federal salaries will first be no
ticed by Government employes when
they draw their August pay checks.
The extra 1 per cent is for the
liberalized Federal retirement ben
efits. . . . The Civil Service Com
mission has announced exams for
patent examiners in the Patent
Office and other Federal agencies
here. The starting salary-is $2,644
a yeflr. . . . The commission also
[will give examinations for the posi
[ tion of clinical psychologist in the
i Veterans’ Administration, with the
; starting annual salary of from $4,149
■to $7,102. . . . Tests will also be
given for internes to be stationed
at St. Elizabeths Hospital.
Additional news of Govern
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young’s broad
cast version of the Federal Spot
light at‘3:15 p.m. every Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.
Clear Skies Promised;
Inch of Rain Fell *
In Yesterday's Storm ~
The Weather Bureau revised it*,
early prediction of rain today and*
(said the skies would be clear today.
! A thunderstorm yesterday damaged*
I power lines, blew down several trees
| and thoroughly drenched the Dis«?
1 trlct yesterday.
Tossed by gusts up to 50 miles ait?
hour, .53 of an inch of rain fell in
a one-hour storm starting at 2:3<fcj
p.m. yesterday. Another downpour
shortly thereafter and showers dur*-.
ing the night ran the 24-hour pre-"”
cipitation to .93 of an inch.
Potomac Electric Power Co. serves
icemen were kept on the mov*__
answering more than 200 trouble*
calls. Most of the power cutoffs
were caused by falling limbs and**
were of brief duration.
Power Cut Off In Southeast. ■£
One Southeast section about a
mile long and half a mile wide wa$
without electricity for more than
an hour when a feeder line con- -
necting the Hillcrest and Fort Du
pont substations went out on Ala-,,
j bama avenue S.E. -5
Pepco officials said damage was
| light compared with that usually,
expected from such a storm,
i Two apartments in Parkfairfax*-.
i two doors apart, were struck at al
most the same relative spot by light
ning. In both cases, the tenants
were away.
A strip 4 feet long, 2 inches deep
and 8 inches wide was ripped over
the dining room window of the sec
ond floor apartment accupied by;
Mr. and Mrs. Claude F. Du Teil of
3208 Martha Custis drive.
A few hours before the storm the*
Du Te*ls had 8»ne to a hospital
where Mrs. Du Teil gave birth at;
12:05 a.m. today to a 7-pound 15
ounce girl. Mr. Du Teil, 27. is a
student at Virginia Episcopal Theo
logical Seminary.
Hole Tom Through Wall.
The other apartment struck was
that of Mr. and Mrs. William Peck,
3232 Martha Custis drive. A hole
4 by 8 feet was torn completely
through the dining room wall. There
was no fire at either place.
District fleremen were called to
1308 Sixth street S.W., to remove a
tree from the top of an automobile
owned by Robert Carter of 1312
Sixth street S.W. The roof waa
punctured by the falling tree.
The Weather Bureau said the high
temperature today would be in the
80s, dropping off to 60 tonight.
WhattheRussians
Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting
to North America, said:
"American interference has
led to a further deterioration in
the economic position of Greece. *
"Some American papers once
had a lot to say about the show
er of dollars which would pour
down on fortunate Greeks. But
time has shown that the Ameri
can dollars have gone for the
same purpose as the British
pounds, namely, to crush the
democratic movement of the
Greek people."
A decibel is a unit for measuring
sound, and experts Judge that a
subway express train produces 100
decibels; a lion's roar, 90 decibels;
rustle of leaves, 10 decibels.
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