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Bill Restoring Bulk Of Foreign Aid Cuts Is Ready ior Senate A $8,125,700,000 foreign aid bill, restoring all but about $408. 000,000 of the drastic cuts made by the House In the administra tion program, was ready for presentation to the Senate to day. The Senate Appropriations Com mittee approved the measure late yesterday, in effect restoring an estimated $1,175,000,000 of the re duction voted by the House. Chairman Bridges said the bill. Would be taken to the Senate floor Ksoon as possible. It is expected be reported formally today. When passed by the Senate, the measure will go to conference with the House to reconcile differences. The Senate bill includes $4,000. 000.000 for the Economic Co-opera tion Administration which is ad ministering the European Recovery Program. This is in addition to $1, 055.000.000 already made available. The money could be spent over the next 12 months under the Senate measure, in contrast to a House provision that it must be spread over 15 months. This House pro vision alone in effect had cut the ECA fund nearly 25 per cent for the first 12 months. For other programs, the Senate bill provides: 1. $1,325,000,000 for government and relief in occupied areas. This includes $125,000,000 for aid to Japan and Korea to be handled by ECA. 2. $460,000,00(1 for aid to China. This includes $125,000,000 to be used for grants and aid solely for mili tary purposes. 3. $250,000,000 for aid to Greece and Turkey. 4. $20,000,000 for the Interna tional Children's Emergency Fund. 5. $70,700,000 for the Interna tional Refugee Organization. The Senate committee indirectly cut $20,000,000 from the $5,055,000, 000 European Recovery Program by earmarking $20,000,000 of ECA funds for Trieste aid. Heaviest percentage cut approved by the Senate committee was in the funds for the International Children’s Emergency Fund—a pro gram for relief to European chil dren. The administration request for $60,000,000 was slashed to $20, 000.000. Senator Bridges said this was done because some money had been carried over from last year and because much of the aid has been going to countries “behind the iron curtain.” Many House restrictions on use of ECA funds were removed or re laxed by the Senate Committee. Senator Bridges .said the committee report wall recommend that ECA Administrator Paul H. Hoffman be given “more latitude'’ in carrying out the program. But the committee adopted an amendment by Senator Ball, Repub lican. of Minnesota, putting a $75, 000.000 limit dn the amount of farm machinery ECA can purchase in the United States. The House had fixed, this limit at $50,000,000. Also, on the insistence of farm State Sen- j ators, the Senate bill provides that not less than 50 per cent of the nitrogenous fertilizer purchased by ECA for non-occupied countries must come from plants operated by. the Army. Palestine (Continued From First Psge.i_1 which Abdullah thanked the Saudi Arabian monarch for supporting the Arab cause in Palestine. Ibn Saud praised Trans-Jordan s con tribution. * British Recruiting Charged. The Moscow radio, heard in Lon don. said last night the British are allowing ex-Nazis in Austria to be recruited for Arab armies. It quoted and commented on an Austrian newspaper report that former German officers were being recruited for the Arab Legion in two cafes in the British sector of Vi enna and that other ex-Nazi sol diers. including airmen, were being directed by letter tc a recruiting station In the Italian Tyrol. "It's fantastic that Britain would serve as a recruiting agent for the, Arab Legion," said a British For eign Office spokesman. He denied the report as imaginary. U. N May Check Ports For Palestine Immigrants | LAKE SUCCESS. June 15 i,4V— The United Nations may put con trol officers in several world ports to check on immigrants embarking for j Palestine. Count Folke Bernadotte. the U. N. mediator, advised Secretary General Trygve Lie last night that he is considering use of such a system during the four-week truce in the Holy Land. Danube (Continued From First Page t ment now finds it would be difficult to provide the necessary facilities for a conference in Belgrade on that date. The Soviet government therefore proposed that the confer ence be held in the capital of one of the other Danubian participating states. Michael J. McDermott. State De partment press officer, said this Government is giving "expeditious attention' to the Soviet communi cation. Besides the Big Four, countries to participate in the conference are Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia. Hungary. Romania, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine. Need for Co-operation. The peace treaties already con eluded with Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania provide that naviga tion on the Danube shall be "free and open" forwhe vessels and com-: pierce of all states on an equal1 footing. But it was left to a conference1 such as r.ow proposed to work out1 a detailed convention for regulating Danube navigation and carrying out the principles set out in the peace treaties. The State Depart ment pointed out that absence of such a convention, facilitating ef fective intercourse in this sphere, leaves it “an unsettled area in in ternational relations where con structive co-operation is sorely needed." Welfare of all the peoples of both Eastern and Western Europe, the department emphasized, would be enhanced and their living standards Improved by freer international commerce resulting from an agree ment on constructive means to fa cilitate open navigation on the vital Danubian walkway. > All their hopes are wrapped up in a picture on the wall—a picture of camp. -Star Staff Photo. Senators Table Action On Judge Fennell to Give Foe Hearing The Senate District Committee today tabled the nomination of Judge Aubrey B. Fennell of Munici pal Court for a new 10-year term. Action was taken because one protest against his confirmation had been filed and a promise made that ! the objector would be given a hear ing if the committee decided to.act on confirmation. The lack of action on the part of the committee did not constitute a rejection of his nomination, though it means the reappointment is dead for this Congress. Tech nically, the decision was to let it go over until the next session. Judge Fennell's term expires July 12. The committee w’as advised he would continue to serve until he was reappointed and confirmed, or his successor named and qualified. Tile committee did not announce the name of the objector, but he was said to be a member of the bar who is active in citizens' associa tion affairs. He submitted a protest that Judge Fennell was "disagree able and insultingto members of the bar. Committee Chairman Buck re ported that some members of the bench and members of the Selections Committee of the District Bar had support eii’ Judge Fennell's con .fianation. Senator Kem, Republican, oi mis * souri, commented it was “pretty ! late” in this Congress for a hearing | and objected to action without a 1 hearing. Senator McGrath. Democrat, of Rhode Island, who is chairman of the Democratic National Committee., urging confirmation, declared that in view of Judge Fennell's service in' the past 10 years on the bench, the committee “might be a little gener ous." i Senator Kem balked when it was brought out that the new term was for 10 years. Committee members said Judge Fennelt had been in poor health, but that, his condition had improved. Later one member of the commit tee. a Democrat, remarked that if a Republican President takes over next year. Judge Fennell might not get a reappointment. Farm Bill (Continued From First Page.)_ jeopardize the establishment of a sound and sane program for years to come.” he said. The Vermonter beat President Truman to the punch in drafting the long-range plan which calls for a sliding scale of price supports. | Mr. Truman sent a special message to Congress a few weeks ago. short-j ly after Senator Aiken's Agriculture; Committee completed work on its; bill, asking very much the same' objectives as those outlined in the Aiken measure. Mr. Truman listed a long-range; farm bill as one of the eight things he said in Los Angeles yesterday Congress should pass, even if it1 means working through the sum-j mer. Senator Aiken’s bill sets up a permanent system of price sup ports by which the Government puts a floor under agricultural commodi ties—either through crop purchases, loans to farmers or other means. New Price-Fixing Method. In addition, the measure pro poses a change in the method of fixing parity prices—which are de signed to assure farmers and those’ who buy farm products a fair price balance. The bill would retain the old formula based on the 1909-14 aver age. but add a modernizing factor to figure in crop price averages in the most recent 10 years. Senator Russell, Democrat, of Georgia told a reporter he thinks the Aiken bill “is entirely too com-i plicated and far- reaching to be, passed in the closing days of the' session with little debate. Without action by Congress, price supports on the major crops now, at 90 per cent of parity will drop oack to 52 to 75 per cent next Jan uary 1. D.C. Units Set toCompete In Aerobatic ShowSunday By »K» Associated Prass READING. Pa.. June 15.—Aero- j batics. parachute leaps and an exhi bition of military flying will be fea tured Sunday at the annual show of the 148th Fighter Squadron. Penn sylvania National Guard. Flying units from Richmond. Washington. Baltimore and Pennsyl vania will participate in the show to be held at the Reading Munici pal Airport. The group chosen as the best in a competitive, flying event will be given a trophy donated by the Reading Exchange Club. Camping i Continued From First Page.t_ children they couldn't go to camp. She doesn't have to tell them if I other people who like boys and girls will help Tom and Jerry and Janet get the two weeks they’ve i talked about so long. These youngsters and hundreds | like them whose parents can't j afford a vacation for their chil- j dren can go to Camp Good Will or Camp Pleasant this summer j with your help. Here's how you can help them: For $35.44, you can send a child to camp for two weeks. For $17.70, you can send a child to camp for one week. For $2.53, you can send a child to camp for one day. If you want to help, mail cash ' or a check to The Evening Star , Summer Camp Fund or bring it to The Star cashier. The Star will be glad to acknowledge gifts of any size. The following gifts are acknowledged today: Previously acknowledged... $3,071.35 Dale and Addie Ann- 2.00 Anonymous - 5.00 James Jackson _ 5.00 "M” _- 5.00 Anonymous - 2.00 R. Kenneth Reynard. 1.00 Robert B. Corson.... 5.00 lone Osgood - 10.00 Anonymous .. 35.44 Anonymous - 53)0 Anonymous ... 3.00., T. W. Stanton...- -35.44 Ethel P. Dixon ...T \ KW R. Lewis Watkins. 5.00 Anonymous ...._ 100.00 Pauline H. Coneby- 5.00 Mary L. Bruton .... . !T0O' Charles T. Tittmann- - 3.00 Grace J. Eames - 5.00 Mrs. Grace E. Altenderfer.. 10.00 A Friend _ 17.70 Daisy Bedsworth.. 5.00 Jack Dulin .. -- 10.00 Anonymous _ ».ou Mary McGrory - 10.00 Rosemary Gorton .. 35.44 Anonymous - 35.44 Robert L. Wells .. 5.00 C. Suzanne Stouch- 26.00 Eileen C. Stevens__ 2.53 pelia E. Banner__ 17.70 Wellwisher . 5.00 Anonymous _ 5.00 Anonymous - 100 Damaris H. Madsen.. 35.44 P. W. Chapman _ 35.44 Anonymous _ 10.00 Lulu Ballard - . - 6.00 Katharine Loughran _ 35.44 Anonymous _' 10.00 Anonymous _:_ 36.00 Total to date_"... *3.676.36 . Tariff • Continued From First Page.i ment for what he called its ‘•stub born” opposition to the bill. Senator Vandenberg. chief Re publican backer of bipartisan foreign policy, was unusually blunt. He said he w^as '•shocked” to learn the department had withheld for eign trade records from Senators. “We cannot proceed indefinitely • • • at the mercy of an iron cur tain,” Senator Vandenberg said. He insisted the bill does not in jure the reciprocal trade principle in the slightest degree,”*but actu ally strengthens it. 'The State Department's stubborn view to the contrary is unfortunate for the cause,” Senator Vandenberg said. He added: ”1 happen to be one of those who' happens to believe that the recip-j rocal trade program has become in-j dispensable too our economic life, j and I shall never support any effort to tear it down.” Gambling 'Continued From First Page.! stopped writing numbers after a dispute with collectors at a house in the 600 block of L street N.E. She also has claimed the premises served as an after-hour liquor dis pensary and were visited by police from time to time. A man named by Mr*. Green as an occupant of the house also was waiting with a subpoena outside the grand jury room in the District Court Building. Today's lineup represented the largest group of witnesses to have Seen assembled at any one time dur ing the investigation of Washington gambling which began May 17. The luestioning was being conducted by United States Attorney George Mor ris Fay and his two principal assist ants in the inquiry. John W. Fihelly ; and Charles B. Murray. The special grand jury was not known to have met last week. England Has Heat Wave With Mercury at 77 Sy the Associated Pros* LONDON. June 14.—A 77-degree temperature, aggravated by high tiumidty, gave London and most of England a sudden heat wave yes terday. Thirty fans collapsed while watch ing the England-Australia cricket matches at Nottinham. Lightning struck in a dozen places, including a school with ^00 children, but did little damage. Committee Approves 485 Million for Bases, Material Stockpiles By thm Associated Pros* New millions for defense proj ects in Alaska and for stockpil-; ing strategic war materials were; recommended today by thej House Appropriations Commit tee. Last of the big money bills of the 80th Congress, the measure provides i $485,196.951—a cut of *113:135.144 i below the amount President Truman had asked. The bill is scheduled to go to the House floor for debate tomorrow. In the measure reported today, the Appropriations Committee: 1. Approved $300,000,000 in cash and $300,000,000 in contract author ity for the purchase and stockpiling of critical and strategic national de fense materials. This compares with cash of $360,000,000 and contract authorization for $375,000,000 re quested by the President. Funds for the future contracts must be appro priated later. Construction Fund Cut. 2. Granted $32,700,000 of a $40,-, 000.000 request for continuation of Army construction projects in Alaska. 3. Approved $47,983,200 in cash and $50,000,000 in contract author ity for Navy public works construc tion. This, including major defense installations in the Aleutians and Pacific areas, is a cut. of $2,016,800 in cash and $16,500,000 in contract authority. 4. Approved $3,000,000 in cash and $5,000,000 in contract authority for construction of a commercial | airport at Anchorage. Alaska. The i President had asked $4,000,000 in leash and $9,000,000 in contract; authority. Flood Repairs Authorized. 5. Cut from $900,000 to $600,000 funds' for use of the Secretary of Commerce in carrying out voluntary industry agreements under the 1947 anti-inflation law. 6. Recommended $6,000,000 for emergency flood repair work in the Columbia River Valley. Another $500,000 was approved for disaster relief there and elsewhere as it might be needed. The committed also approved $1, 915,000 for United States participa tion in the World Health Organiza tion, and $25,400,000 to help stamp I out foot-and-mouth and other con ! tagious animal diseases. It also added at the last minute a $131,400 allotment for stationery allowances for House members. Hargrave Cites Schedule. The committee voted the sum to stockpile strategic war materials after Thomas J. Hargrave, chair man of the Munitions Board, testi fied the Nation is two years behind schedule in stockpiling. He said it probably will take seven years to attain the goal instead of the five contemplated in 1946. The committee explained its $135, 000.000 cut by saying it has "sbme ■ apprenension that the program is lacking the degree of planning, fore i thought and co-ordination which should be an integral part of any such large-scale expenditure.” ■ The group also cut $230,000 from $680,000 request of the General Accounting Office to finance an au dit of wartime transportation Charges against the Government. GAO officials told the committee *$50,000,000 has been collected on this project already and $104,000,000 has been listed as overpayments, but not yet. collected. They esti mated that $100,000,000 more may be "found as overpaid.” Voice 'Continued From First Page.' of Colorado made these recom mendations: “1. That members of the advisory commissions authorized by law be appointed immediately by the Pres ident. "2. That, except in extraordinary situations, only American citizens who have lived the greater part of their lives within the United States, be employed to prepare our foreign information broadcasts. "3. That no foreign broadcasts be conducted unless the scripts are either first written in the English language or translated into English and accurately checked. "4. That language experts be em ployed by the 'State' Department to monitor and control all broadcasts as they are going out on the air. "5. That in all our foreign broad casts, emphasis should be placed on quality instead of quantity. "6. That in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of the need for, and the effectiveness of, our broadcasts to Latin America, such broadcasts be reduced to a mini mum, or eliminated.” Contract Not Properly Observed. The committee said it is "con vinced that if there did not exist a deliberate design and intention on the part of some employe, or em ployes, of the-National Broadcast ing Co., to sabotage our efforts to promote International understand ing and good will, those employes of the company were ignorant of the intent and purpose of this phase of the foreign Information program as authorized by Congress.” It added: "Your committee is convinced 'u-5t in its failure to employ only tri$ans to write and tell the peo j of the world about the United States, in not providing its own re sponsible preview- of all scripts pre- , pared for broadcasts on these pro grams. and by not even attempting to provide the ordinary safeguards that it insists on in its domestic broadcasts, the National Broadcast ing Co. did not properly discharge the great responsibility which it undertook in its contract with the State Deparment. These unfor-; tunate broadcasts could have been averted had the National Broadcast ing Co. exercised reasonable care and ordinary caution. "Your committee is convinced that the State Department was negligent in permitting programs of this type to be broadcast at the expense of the taxpayers of the United States.” ULCERS-COLITIS ACID STOMACH dut to hyperacidity can be quickly relieved by a revolutionary DRUGLESS preparation ; known as V. M Pure vegetable matter compounded In tablet forip Easy end pleasant to take. No drugs of any kind Provides stomach and connecting intestines with protective lining of vegetable mucin, coating over inflamed surfaces and pro tecting them against excess stomach adds and irritating food roughages, thus giving Inflammations a chance to heal. Leading j doctors and hospitals have announced amazing results from this preparation, which was heretofore sold only on Physi cian's prescription. Now on tale here Come tn today for a bottle of 100 tablets, price $3.00 on iron-clad, money-back guarantee. Trial size for only $1.00 VITA FOOD STORES MS 1?tfc tt. N.W. HM t«B •*. H.W.! BETWEEN MOW CO. SMB | 'Enrollment' 1$ Issue At Court Hearing on Nonresident Tuition The question of what constitutes an "enrollment” in the District schools was under consideration to day at District Court,'in a hearing on a suit to prevent a. group of Maryland children from being oust ed from Woodrow Wilson High | School for nonpayment of tuition. Thirty-seven Maryland parents ; brought the suit against Supt. of Schools Hobart M. Coming con 1 tending that since the children were signed up to attend the school be fore enactment of the new appro priations act last July that they are entitled to attend without paying tuition. The corporation counsel's office, however, has argued that nonresi dent children, under provisions of the Appropriations Act. are en i titled to attend District public schools free, only if they were ac tually in school here before, the new act became law. "Enrollment" Only Issue. _ Justice Henry Schweinhaut said, as the hearing got under way, that he viewed the issue as "a pure question of law as to whether these people were enrolled within the limit of the statute.” Norman J. Nelson, associate su perintendent of schools in charge of senior high schools, testified the official record used in the index for counting children enrolled was a registration card filled out by ■the child on the opening day of school when he appeared. Thomas J. Holmes, principal of the school, said: “We do not count them as enrolled until we count -their noses.” Several Parents Testify. Those who filled out papers pre i viously and do not appear to attend classes when school opens are not included in enrollment figures, he added. Justice F. Dickinson Letts has granted a preliminary injunction permitting the students to remain 1 in school until the question of a ' permanent injunction is decided. Several parents testified this ; morning that they had applied to enter their children in the high schol before the provision that non resident children must pay tuition went in effect. Bulk of L. V. Benef Estate Is Left to Poet's Widow The widow of Stephen Vincent Benet is named the principal bene 1 ficiary in the w'ill of Laurence V. Benet, uncle of the poet, a mechan ■ ical engineer, tvho developed the Hotchkiss machine gun. Filed for probate in District Court yesterday, the will values the estate at more than $477,000 and estab lishes most of the estate in a trust fund which will go to Mrs. Benet's three children on her death. The engineer, who died here May 21. lived at 2101 Connecticut avenue N.W. He was 85. Other bequests in the will Include $10,000 to another nephew, William Rose Benet, also a writer; $6,000 to ! Miss Maria Purcheus, an employe at the late Mr. Benet's home; $5,000 to a niece, Laura Benet, and $1,000 and other gifts to Richard P. Dunn. 3901 Fordham road N.W. Defense (Continued From First Page >__ available in a $3,812,170,250 Navy appropriation bill for the year be ginning July 1. As approved by the [Senate committee, the total amount I is $125,437,000 more than the House allowed, but $124,568,450 less than the Navy asked. The House earlier this month passed a companion measure permitting the Navy to stop work on 13 wartime 'ship construction projects. This cleared the way for transfer of some funds for the start of work on the i super carrier. 1 In another development yester day the House passed a bill speci fically providing for a 70-group Air Force. General authorization for such an expansion from the pres ent 55-group strength was voted last month in an additional $882 - 000.000 appropriation enabling the Air Force to start building up to 70 groups. The bill approved yesterday spells 1 out the composition and scope of the Air Force which was set up as a separate military department last year. Ex-President Morinigo Leaves Paraguay Capital By the Associated Pres* ASUNCION. Paraguay, June 15 Gen. Higinlo Morinigo left yesterday en route to Buenos Aires by river boat. He was deposed as President of Paraguay in the bloodless revolt of June 3. Gen. Morinigo’s boat was delayed several hours by fog which has blan keted Asuncion for several days. The airplane which was to have taken him to Buenos Afres w^as unable to reach the capital. f SCREEN WRE 7 Bronze, Aluminum, Galvanized | RUCKER LUMRER ».; Wilson Blvd CHestnut 0660J r-“1 t 1 — -I TRAVEL LIGHT! . \ Justement Named Head Of Building Congress Louis Justement, proponent Wash ington architect, yesterday was chosen the new president of the Washington Building Congress. The meeting was held in the May flower Hotel. Other officers chosen were: P. Y. K. Howat and William P. Nelson, vice president; P. G. Ad dison, Jr., secretary; W. A. Church, treasurer, and E. L. Davis and Prank H. Haines, director. ^ ..—1 "T I Pain Eases Corns Shed Off Apply Magic-like E-Z KbRN RE- i MOVER to the hardest corns and j after a few applications, these pain- j ful corns shed off. E-Z Korn Re mover helps relieve com pains— softens dead skin, paving the way j for the removal of the com. Try : this easy-to-use. quick-action E-Z KORN REMOVER today. SSc at drugstores. 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