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On Employes Entitled
To $330 Pay Raise
The Commissioners have asked
the controller general for a formal
ruling on exactly which District.
Government employes are entitled
to the $330 annual salary increase
rushed through for Federal em
ployes by Congress last month.
Prompted by mounting confusion1
over which employes are to receive1
the Federal pay raise and from
what funds the raises are to be
drawn, the city heads reminded the;
General Accounting Office of the^
large numbers of independent
boards, agencies and commissions
doing business here.
500 in Two Agencies.
They pointed out that .there are
more than 500 District. Government
employes being paid solely by So
cial Security Administration and
United States Public Health Serv
ice grants. These workers are em
ployed mostly in the District Unem
ployment Compensation Board and
the Health Department.
Also in doubt is the status of 600
workers employed by the Federal
Government but paid from District
funds. Included in these aegncies
are the National Park Service and
the Washington Aqueduct.
The independent commissions in-,
elude the Armory Board, the Boxing |
Commission and the Real Estate
Board. Their workers are paid from
the fees and earnings of the respec- j
tive bodies, rather than from regu
lar District appropriations.
In separate rulings recently, the;
GAO held District-paid employes of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and the Na
tional Zoological Park were due the
raise.
No Funds for Raises.
The Federal pay raise, as hurried
ly enacted in the last hours of the
Eightieth Congress, provided no in
creases for District employes, unless
the city had adequate revenue to
meet its requirements.
Thus, for most District employes,
all hope of a pay raise vanished
temporarily when Congress did
nothing about the proposed 2 per
cent sales tax. It was this levy that
city fiscal experts had hoped to use
to balance the record $99,000,000
J budget.
Palestine Is Quiet
Under U. N. Truce
By th« Associated Press
CAIRO, July 21. —The United
Nations truce appeared today to
have brought quiet to the Holy
Land except in the northern sector,
where Israeli and Syrian forces I
clashed.
Even there the tempo of the fight
ing appeared to be slackening.
A Syrian communique said an
enemy plane raided the area of
Baniyas, just across the border in
Syria. Both Jews and Arabs ac
cused, <ea£h other .of violating the
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ixfkfi yesterday 68 American and
ORgian military officers and men
arrived in Rhodes en route to Pales
tine to act as truce observers for
Count Folke Bemadotte, the U. N.
mediguy. .The ^lericans qggte by
planfe from Germany and .the Bel
gians in a militaJf Sraft 'ttbfh'Hheir
country. Prance also will send ob
servers.
John Glubb Pasha, the Britisher
who commands the Trans-Jordan
Arab Legion, inspected his troops
yesterday at Latrun, the strategic
roadblock on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv
highway. Glubb’s troops had beaten
back a Jewish armored attack at
Latrun on the eve of the truce.
Army's Explosive Tests
Begin Tuesday in Utah
By the Associated Press
The Army will begin next Tuesday
its long-scheduled series of high
explosive tests. The tests are de
signed to determine the type of
underground structures needed
against enemy bombing.
The tests, beginning at the Dug
way Proving Ground, 80 miles south
west of Salt Lake City, Utah, will
start with only 320 pounds of TNT.
Progressively bigger charges will
step up to a final explosion of;
j 320.000 pounds. |
Plans for the experiments were
; announced last winter by Lt. Gen.
I Raymond A. Wheeler, chief of en
: gineers. First tests will be on simu
lated bombproof structures in dry
sand and clay soil. Other tests
under other conditions also will be
conducted at Buckhorn, Wash., and
Unaweep Canyon, 30 miles south of
Grand Junction, Colo.
Greenbelt Woman Hurt
In Automobile Collision
Mrs. Kathryn Shipp, 21, of Laurel
Hill road, Greenbelt, Md„ injured
in an automobile accident yester
day, remained in critical condition
! today at Leland Memorial Hospital
| in Riverdale.
The hospital said she was still
: unconscious 24 hours after the car
j her husband was driving collided
' with an automobile on the Sranch-1
1 ville road near the Baltimore &1
: Ohio Railroad tracks.
Mrs. Shipp is the daughter of!
Lewis Kutsch, Prince Georges!
! County assessor. Her husband, who!
was hurt slightly, is employed at
the Prince Georges Bank & Trust
S Co., Hyattsville.
Beetle Drive Planned
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New York Recluse Leaves Life
As Mysteriously as She Lived
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NEW YORK, July 21. — Mary
Powers, an elderly spinster who was
reputed to be fabulously wealthy, has
left the strange little world In
which she lived alone for 25 years.
She left as mysteriously as she
lived.
A Health Department certificate!
showed she died yesterday and the!
Walters Funeral Home said it was;
arranging her funeral. A spokesman 1
there mentioned mysterious orders
that nothing more could be di
vulged. Her bank and the hotel
where she lived in isolation for
years refused comment.
A child of the 19th century grow
ing old in the 20th, Miss Bowers re
tained the clothing of 50 years ago.
She reportedly never left the suite
in the Hotel Seymour where she
lived alone.
Ironically seeking solitude a few
blocks from one of the world's most
crowded spots—Times Square—Miss
Powers never read a newspaper or
listened to the radio.
Four times a year the hotel man
ager collected the rent for her $30
a-day suite. Once a day a waiter!
served her one meal. Once a year,
a physician called. Occasionally aj
representative of the bank where
she kept her money crossed the
threshold of her shade-drawn rooms.
Hotel employes passed along the
rumor she had $15,000,000. That
was unverified, but it was money
—apparently her only interest—
that suddenly brought the outer
world crashing into her life In
March, 1947.
Her name figured in a court ac
tion at Scranton, Pa., when the
State of Pennsylvania attempted to
claim under a 1937 law approxi
mately $25,000 in Glen Alden Coal
Co. dividends belonging to her.
Company officials told the court
that since before 1939 they had
sent dividend checks to “Mary B.
Powers, executive of the Caroline
Powers estate,” who always refused
to cash the checks. Miss Powers
later claimed the money and re
ceived it.
She is believed to have no sur
viving relatives.
Ford Contract Parley
Continues Today
By th« Associated Tross
DETROIT, July 21.—The threat
of a walkout still hovered over the
Ford Motor Co. today as negotia-j
tors prepared for the second of i
their new stop-strike wage talks.
Ford and the CIO-United Auto
Workers agreed to another bar
gaining session for today after a
five-hour meeting yesterday failed -
to provide any apparent sign of
agreement.
The fact that another session was
being held led to reports that new
offers might have been made yes
terday. Another clue was seen In
the fact that the union went into
caucus immediately after yester
day's talks, but both sides were
silent.
The talks were resumed after a
five-day lull, during which the UAW
accused Ford of ‘‘breaking off” bar
gaining with a so-called "final” of
fer. This offer included a 13-cent
hourly wage raise and other conces
sions. The current scale is about
$1.52 an hour.
The union demands include a 14
cent raise and benefits amounting
approximately to another 7 cents.
The union recently scaled down its
stand from a 14-cent raise plus 14
cents in other benefits.
Quick Trip in Scout Car
Bags Youth Rifling Store
Cruising Prince Georges County
police were in the right place early
today.
When Pvts. Charles Perrigo and
Carl Leech received a radio report
of a storebreaking they needed only
a few minutes to reach the scene of
the crime, a market in the 6300
block of Central avenue, Capitol
Heights. . rift!
After a search they discovered a
young man crouched behind a stack
of merchandise. The police listed
him as George Thomas Brent, 18,
of the 6200 block Shadyside avenue,
Capitol Heights, and charged him
with breaking apd entering.
The policemen said the youth ap
parently got into the store through
a window, but nothing had been
taken when they arrived. Brent
was jailed at Upper Marlboro.
Cherokee Woman Dies;
Claimed to Be 116
By the Associated Press
MUSKOGEE, Okla., July 21.—
Mrs. Millie Steveson, Cherokee In
dian who claimed to be 116 years
old, died in a hospital here yester
day.
She and her husband, Martin,
who says he is 112 years, came here
from Alabama in 1908.
Other survivors are three daugh
ters, two sons, 56 grandchildren, 36
great-grandchildren and a number
of great-great-great-grandchildren.
Victim of Batted Bail
At Stadium Gains
Cecil L. Rushing, 43, head of the
petition office in the visa division
of the State Department, was re
ported in good condition at Garfield
Hospital today after suffering a
fractured skull when he was hit by
a batted ball Monday night at Grif
fith Stadium.
Mr. Rushing was watching the
game between Washington and
Cleveland when the accident occur
red. He lives at 1117 South Seven
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Gottwald Tells Czechs
There Will Be No War
By tht Associated Press
PRAGUE, July 21.—The president
of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gott
wald, told a delegation of women
yesterday that there will be no war.
No government, he said, would dare
send its people into an offensive war.
“I can assure you,” he said, "that
there will be no war. The Soviet
Union will not attack anybody and
it will not let Itself be provoked into
war as its nerves are too strong and
that is what we need too—Just good
nerves against war propaganda.”
Rural Letter Carriers Urge
Hard-Surfaced Roads
ly th« Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 21.—The Nation’s
32,000 rural letter carriers are de
manding more and better country
roads.
They drive 1.400,000 miles a year
to deliver to about 30,000,000 people
in 8,000,000 rural families. They
want to do their driving on hard
surfaced and all-weather roads.
That’s what B. A. Winquest of
Washington, D. C., president of the
National Rural Letter Carriers’ As
sociation, says.
Mr. Winduest, in an address to
day to the American Road Builders’
Association said:
Some 50 per cent of rural mail
delivery mileage is over unsurfaced
dirt roads, impassable part of the
year.
Since 1940, permanent improve
ments on rural roads have been
sparse. Some roads are in worse
condition than they were 15 years
ago. Most are in need of work.
To get the mail through in all
weather, carriers have to use such
transportation as snowmobiles, stilt
mobiles, “mud cars’’ with special
tractor bodies, skis, bobsleds, trac
tors, jeep6 and the old horse and
wagon.
A rising level of farm travel Is
adding to the traffic load on rural
roads, Mr. Winquist said. 1
New Comet Discovered
By Lick Astronomer
*(1 By th« Associated BroSs ( >* 1
BERKELEY, Calif., July 21.—The
University of California announced
yesterday the “accidental” discovery
of a new comet by astronomers at
Lick Observatoy.
The comet, third found by C. A.
Wirtanen, senior observing assist
ant, is of the 15th magnitude, so
faint it can be seen only by a large
telescope. It was photographed by a
20-inch Carnegie star camera and
found on a plate exposed six days
ago.
It is in the constellation Equule
us (the Little Horse), moving slowly
in the direction of Aquila, the Eagle.
It will be known as comet 1948-H.
Wheat and rice are to be grown
in former opium fields in China.
Sudden Resignation
Of Prosecutor linked
;To Ex-Judge's Case
By Associated frees
NEWARK, N. J., July 21.—Hie
| Federal investigation into the
j circumstances surrounding the
! sudden Resignation of United
States Attorney Edgar H. Ross
■ back crossed paths today with
| the inquiry into the $657,000
| bank embezzlement by Ex-Judge j
IP. James Pellecchia, but nobody
would say just how. -
Edward Molenof, special Assistant
Attorney General who was sent
from Washington to handle the
Kossbach investigation, spent 90
minutes questioning Pellecchia yes
terday in the presence of Prosecutor
Duane E. Minard, jr.
Asked by newsmen whether the
interview had anything to do with
the Rossbach case, Mr. Molenof
said :"You can assume that.” But
he offered no explanation how the
two cases crossed.
"I am not prepared at this time
to state the subject matter of my
interview with James Pellecchia,”
Mr. Molenof said.
Pellecchia was arrested eight days
ago after admitting he had rigged
up a series of fake mortgages to
take $657,000 from the Columbus
Trust Co. where he had served as
vice president. He said he had
spent the money on horse race bets.
Mr. Molenof had been sent'here
by Attorney General Clark after a
probation officer, assigned to pre
pare a presentencing report in an
income tax evasion case, informed
Federal Judge Thomas F. Meaney
that he had been approached by
Mr. Rossbach on behalf of the de
fendant. Judge Meaney said the
probation officer told him that the
then United States attorney had
offered him $500.
i Mr. Rossbach, who had resigned
I suddenly several weeks ago, said
the charge was ‘ridiculous.” He
said he welcomed the Federal in
vestigation by Mr. Molenof.
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Oat of court settlements totaling
$380,000 have been effected in nine
lawsuits—five of them brought here
—resulting from injuries allegedly
suffered by young boys when their
“Gene Autry” cowboy pants caught
fire, it was reported yesterday.
Five suits filed in District Court,
involving one fatality, charged the
chaps were highly inflammable,
caught fire and burned the wearers.
Attorney Robert E. Lynch, through
whom the suits were filed, said the
smallest settlement was that in the
case of Willie B. Wilks, jr., 8, of
1235 Duncan place N.E., who died.
That was $3,600. Mr. Lynch point
ed out the limitation on the dam
ages which can be obtained in suits
charging death by wrongful act.
The attorney did not divulge the
amounts received by the other
Washington litigants but estimated
they were about $100,000 altogether.
The other boys figuring in the
District suits were Edward B. Brad
ley, 8, of 42 Girard street N.E.;
William F. Greatorex, • 9, of 4630
New Hampshire avenue N.W.; Law
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