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Weather Forecast Mostly sunny, high In middle 90s today. Possible thundershowers late this after noon or evening. Tomorrow fair and warm. (Full report on Page A-2.) Midnight, 75 6 a.m-74 11 a.m-86 2 a.m._75 8 a.m. —76 Noon-90 4 a.m_74 10 a.m. 84 1 p.m. —92 Late New York Marked, Page A-21. Guide for Readers r»*e | Amusements __A-14 Comics_B-14-15 Crossword_B-14 Editorial_A-10 Editor’l Articles A-ll Finance _A-21 Pace Lost and Found-A-S Obituary-A-12 Radio _B-15 Sports-A-17-19 Women’s Section_B-S-# An Associated Press Newspaper 97th Year. No. 198. Phone ST. 5000 ** WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1949-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. City Home Delivery, Daily and Sunday, $1.20 a Month, when 6 e» /''TT'M’T’Sl Sundays, $1.30. Night Final Edition. $1.30 and $1.40 per Month A. O Hunt's Diary Including Names Of Influential U. S. Officials Aids Probe of 'Five Per Centers' ——- 4 1,000-Page Account of Day-to-Day Activities In Senators' Hands By Miriam Ottenberg A diary giving a day-by-day report of James V. Hunt’s activ ities as a “management counsellor” is being used to track down leads in the Senate investigating com mittee’s inquiry into “5 per cent ers,” it was learned today. • The diary, it was learned, is nearly 1,000 pages long and is spotted with the names of influen tial Government officials and their underlings. A published statement by a Massachusetts, manufacturer that he paid Mr. Hunt $1,000 for help in seeking a Government contract prompted the Senate Expendi tures Subcommittee's investiga tion of charges that "5 per cent ers” have tried to influence the awarding of Government con tracts. Mr .'Hunt has denied using influence. In Hands of Probers. The origipal of the diary is in the hands of the Senate investiga-1 tors. Photostatic copies have been given to various Government j agencies, including the military i establishment and the War Assets Administration, to track down in cidents mentioned in the volum inous diary. Senator Hoey, Democrat, of North Carolina, who heads the investigating group, confirmed that the committee has the Hunt diary after seeing the story in The Star. “Mr. Hunt did keep a diary, which the subcommittee has in spected,” Senator Hoey told re porters. “But I do not wish to disclose or discuss its contents at this time." While contents of the diary are a closely guarded secret, it was learned that Mr. Hunt was ac customed to dictate to his secre-l tary even the most minute details of his daily activities. The account covers social as well as business encounters. After a cocktail party, for instance, Mr.; Hunt would record that names of the other guests, whom he talked to and what they talked about. In his dealings for his clients, Mr. Hunt would give a chronologi cal account of his activities. Hej would state the problem brought him by a client, the time of day he started working on it, what; agencies he visited, whom he saw,} what they advised him to do and what he accomplished. Fees re ceived were duly noted. Vaughan Expected to Testify. The diary is expected to figure importantly in the evidence when the Senate group opens its public hearings on the activities of “five per centers.” Meanwhile, a committee mem ber predicted that Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, "President Truman's military aide, will testify at thle hearing. Pointing out that Mr. Truman told a press conference yesterday Gen. Vaughan was at liberty to testify, Senator Mundt, Republi can, of South Dakota said he con sidered it a "foregone conclusion that he will be asked to appear and will accept ” Gen. Vaughan has said he knows "about 300 persons in Washing ton” active in contract operations. Senator Mundt wants him to name the 300. Representative Keating, Repub lican, of New York, one of the latest to speak up about Gen. Vaughan, said the general ought to be "pounding at the door, de manding to be heard” by Con 7See ETVE PER CENTERS, A-37) _ 613 Million Approved To Improve Bases By the Associated Press The House Armed Services Committee today approved a $613,815,682 bill for military con struction to improve domestic and foreign bases. The action was taken by a unanimous vote. The authoriza tion bill does not provide the; actual money. The total includes: $247,356,481 for the Air Force, $200,862,801 for the Navy and $165,596,400 for the Army. The committee knocked out a provision authorizing $25,000,000 for construction work of an emergency nature. It added $11,000,000 for a Naval postgraduate school at Monterrey, Calif., as the first step in a $33, 000,000 expansion program. The Navy acquired a 1,500-room hotel at Monterrey two years ago for the establishment of the school. It is now proposed to add other buildings, utilities and accesso ries. Eventually the school will accommodate 2,600 students. Chairman Vinson suggested that the school be used as a post graduate school for /all three armed services and be named in honor of the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Only Western High's Cadets Rated'Satisfactory' by Army Inspectors Dissatisfied With D. C. Schools; No Direct Criticism of Corning in Reports By Chris Mathisen Representative Teague, Demo crat, of Texas made public today Army inspectors' reports on cadet units in District public high schools which reflect the Army’s general dissatisfaction with the scope and conduct of the cadet program. The reports, representing the findings of inspection teams which visited the high schools this spring, revealed that only the Western High School cadet con tingent received an overall rating "satisfactory.” All other cadet units were rated inspectors stated they found over emphasis on close-order drill, with Congress to Receive Truman Message on Arms Funds Monday Barkley Expresses Hope For Passage of Program Before Adjournment By J. A. O'Leary The administration is ready to move promptly to get arms for Western Europe, following Senate approval of the North At lantic defense pact by the over whelming vote of 82 to 13. The White House anounced that President Truman will send a mes sage to Congress Monday asking for an arms appropriation of $1. 450,000,000 to implement the pact. Vice President Barkley, leaving a cabinet meeting, said he was hopeful the legislation would be; passed at this session of Congress. He said he doesn't expect as much debate in the Senate on the j arms program as occurred during consideration of the pact. Easier Path Predicted. Amplifying, he said that when the 12-nation defense alliance was broached it involved a “fundamen tal departure from our foreign policy—or at least some people thought it did.” Now that the “fundamentality” as he described it, has been dis posed of, Mr. Barkley said he be lieved the path would be easier. Asked if the implementation program would get “top priority” in handling, Mr. Barkley said that he didn't want to discriminate on priority. He said it was hoped to get all appropriations bills cleared up this month so it would not be necessary, to enact another con tinuing resolution to finance various agencies whose regular fund bills have been tied up. First Year Cut Backed. There were signs on Capitol Hill today that some friends of the treaty would be willing to scale down the size of the arms pro gram for the first year to ease its path through Congress. One in fluential source, suggesting this possibility, pointed out that the taking of some step to implement the treaty would be more impor tant to the morale of the other pact nations than the specific amount authorized at this time. The President’s arms aid mes sage was originally intended to go to the Capitol today but Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr. Truman postponed action until Monday to suit the con venience of Congress leaders. Mr. Ross denied the communi cation had been held up to write in atomic references in response to questions raised on the Senate floor as to whether the act obli gates this country to furnish atomic weapons to its new allies. ( See PACT~ Page A-5.) Bank Bandit Walks Out With $10,000 in Cash By the Associated Press NEW BRITAIN, Conn'., July 22. A bandit casually walked out of the Fidelity Industrial Bank with between $10,000 to $12,000 in cash today after a daring armed hold up. The bandit, about 30 years of age, followed Thomas J. Higgins, 36, the bank’s credit manager, ipto the building when the latter opened the front door just before 9 a.m. Forcing Mr. Higgins into the vault at the point of a gun, the bandit ordered the credit man ager to dump the money into a white canvas bag provided by the intruder. As the bandit left the building, he met Miss Geraldine Curtin, 16, a bank employe, at the front door. She assumed he was a bank customer and greeted him with a “good morning." The bandit replied with a “good 1 morning” of his own and casually j walked out. . j little or no attention being paid "unsatisfactory.” In general, the to classroom instruction in mili tary tactics and weapon handling. The inspectors reported, how ever, that school principals in dorse# the cadet training, l[or the most part, with several of them suggesting that summer camp pe riods under regular Army instruc tion be added to the program. Most principals expressed the view that drilling and other cadet activities should be conducted dur ing regular school hours. The reports, furnished at Mr. Teague's request, did not include any over-all appraisal of the ca det training program, since each "(See CADETS, Page A-3.> Mrs. Roosevelt Spins Prejudice Web, Says Cardinal Spellman Columns on Barden Bill Are Anti-Catholic, He Charges in Letter By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 22.—Francis Cardinal Spellman today criticized Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt for her opposition to Federal funds for parochial and private schools. In a letter to the President’s widow, the Catholic prelate said: "Your work of anti-Catholicism stands for all to see—a record which you yourself wrote on the pages of history which cannot be recalled—documents of dis crimination unworthy of an American mother.’’ The cardinal's attack was based on articles written by Mrs. Roose velt in her column, “My Day." Mrs- Roosevelt's secretary said at Hyde Park that the letter had not yet been received and that there would be no comment until after its arrival, if then. Cardi nal Spellman made the letter public. He wrote that, after Mrs. Roosevelt’s first column on the Barden bill June 23, he had in tended Ignoring it. Charges “Web of Prejudice.” “But, as the days passed and in two subsequent columns you con tinued your anti-Catholic cam paign, I became convinced that it was in the interest of all Ameri cans and the cause of justice itself that your misstatements should be challenged in every quarter of our country, where they have already spun and spread their web of prej udice,” his letter said. “I have received hundreds of messages from persons of all faiths demanding that I answer you. I am, therefore, not free to ignore you.” Federal aid to education is one of the hottest issues now before Congress. The Senate already has passed a bill providing fof such support. It would permit those States that so desire to use funds for aid to parochial schools. In the House, the issue still is in committee. However, the bill introduced by Representative Bar den, Democrat, of North Carolina would bar turning over any of the Federal money to parochial schools. Column Is Quoted. In her June 23 column, Mrs. Roosevelt said: ‘‘The controversy brought about by the request made by Francis Cardinal Spellman that Catholic schools should share in Federal aid funds forces upon the citizens of the country the kind of decision that is going to be very difficult to make.” She went on: “Many years ago it was decided that the public schools of our country should be entirely separated from any kind of denominational control, and these are the only schools that are free, tax-supported schools. The greatest number of our chil dren attend these schools.” Cardinal Spellman wrote: “I cannot presume upon the press to (See CARDINALTPage A-67) Plane Victims' Ashes To Be Flown to Hague •y the Associated Press THE HAGUE, the Netherlands, July 22.—Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) said today the ashes of 22 victims of the July 12 crash near Bombay will be flown to The Hague early next week. Earlier, it had been announced in Bombay that the ashes would leave for Holland today. After arrival here, urns con taining the ashes, including those of 13 American journalists, will be placed on i" bier in a candle-lit chapel. The Dutch Federation of Jour nalists will mount a guard of ljionor over them, and a short ccae tnony will be held. W' / London Dockers Vote to Return To Jobs Monday End Put to Walkout That Crippled Port For Past 25 Days By tht Associated Press LONDON, July 22. — Striking dockers who have crippled the Port of London for 25 days voted today to return to their jobs Monday. The vote came at a huge mass meeting in Victoria Park, where the committee leading the walk out recommended that the men call it off. A member of the Strike Com mittee told the men of the de cision. 15,000 Dockers Idle Now. An average of 13,000 dock work ers have been on strike since the stoppage began June 27 in sym pathy with the striking Canadian Seamen’s Union. By the time the strikers get back to work Monday they will have lost about £400,000 ($l,600.000i in wages. As the de cision to return to work was made, some 15.000 dockers were idle. The stoppage tied up vital British export cargoes, hamper ing Britain’s drive to overcome her severe dollar crisis. Troops, concentrating on unloading food ships, have prevented any severe shortages in British food supplies. In the House of Commons La bor Minister George Isaacs was asked if the government now would call off the state of emer gency the government had pro claimed because of the strike. He replied the cabinet “really must wait until Monday, until we see what has been the effect of to day’s decision” by the workers. Unions in Jurisdiction Fight. The strike began when the Ca nadian Seamens Union black listed two Canadian ships, the Argomont and the Beaverbrae, in London. The CSU dispute with the Canadian shipowners has grown into a jurisdictional battle between the CSU and its rival, the International Seafarers Union, which has manned some ships on which the CSU had called strikes. The dockers’ decision to end their stoppage was reached after consultation with an official of the CSU, which a walkout «om mittee member said had agreed to clear the two blacklisted Canadi an ships. At one point the strikers in sisted they were victims of a lock out by the Labor government be cause of the government’s In sistence that they work the two blacklisted ships. The govern ment denied it was a lockout. There had been signs earlier that the strike-j-denounced by the Labor government as Com munist-inspired—was breaking up. One group of workers had voted to remove a cargo of wheat from one of the Canadian ships. An other group of 1.000 strikers yes terday adopted a resolution ex pressing willingness to return to work if the main body of strikers voted to do so. The government, which is oper ating the seized docks under a state of national emergency, meanwhile sent an additional 600 | troops to handle cargoes today. That raised the total to 11,397 servicemen at work. 3 to Be Deported. Home secretary James cnuier Ede announced in Commons this morning that two Americans and a Dutchman who arrived in Lon don by plane last night in con nection with the strike would be deported for the “public good.” He identified the Americans as Louis Goldblatt and John Malet ta. He added that “after satis fying myself their visit here was concerned with the dispute at the London docks. I decided it was conducive to the public good they should be deported.” Mr. Ede said the men, who came here from France, had been picked up by police shortly, after midnight. The Communist - dominated I World Federation of Trade Unions recently held a dockers and sea men’s conference at Marseille. Ammon Ouster Demanded. I Before accepting the back-to j work resolution the dockers passed jone demanding that 76-year-old ! Lord Ammon be dismissed as ! chairman of the National Dock Labor Board. Prime Minister Attlee fired Am mon as deputy speaker of the House of Lords last night in a clash over board policy in handling the strike. The board had told the strikers they were Jeopardizing the entire dock labor scheme, which guaran tees them a weekly income. The cabinet repudiated that statement. Ammon has more than a year to serve on his appointment as chairman of the Dock Board. Technically there is no way the government can remove him until his term is up. Hard Luck Champion ZION, HI.. July 22 (/P).—Glenn Taylor, 8, believes he is the hard luck champion of Lake County. Six weeks ago he fell while play ing and broke his right arm. Be fore the cast was removed he fell and broke his left arm. This week dirt thrown by a neighbor boy in jured his right eye. A physician to make sure of its recovery band aged both eyes. * JN CASE YOU USE IT, MR. PRESIDENT, your senate friends _ WANT To 1 CONSULTED Coal Miner Reported Planning Suit Against UMW Welfare Fund Senate Banking Group Labor Monopoly Probe To Start on Monday By James Y. Newton A soft coal miner today was re ported planning to file suit against the trustees of the United Mine Workers’ huge welfare and retire ment fund, asking for an account ing of its expenditures. The miner, described as a dis gruntled member of the UMW from the Uniontown <Pa.> area, reportedly will bring suit in the District Court here within a few days.' He is said to have filed claim for a disability benefit which was not allowed by the wel fare fund administrators. Trustees of the fund are John L. Lewis, Ezra Van Horn, mine operator representative of Cleve land, and Senator Bridges, Re publican, of New Hampshire. Fund administratbrs have han dled hundreds of thousands of cases and UMW officials have ex pected a court challenge of their operations. They say that some mistakes are unavoidable in the administration of so large a project, but that all errors are corrected as soon as they are spotted. The fund is supported by a 20 cents per ton levy on all coal produced. It brings in nearly $100,000,000 a year. Robertson to Direct Probe. Meanwhile, Senator Robertson, Democrat, of Virginia, announced that his subcommittee of the Sen ate Banking Committee will begin investigation Monday, aimed pri marily at Mr. Lewis and the UMW, of the possible operation of labor monopolies. A statement said the inquiry is aimed at finding out “the extent of power industry-wide labor or ganizations have acquired and the manner in which that power is be ing exercised.” Senator Robertson, said neces sity for the investigation was sug gested by recent proposals for a coal czar responsible for determin ing wages and production levels, the coal miners’ "stabilization” strike, the three-day work week which Mr. Lewis has put in effect, the threatened steel strike and the Hawaiian ship tieup. “If it is found that the public interest requires protection from labor monopolies.” the committee said, “in the same manner the public is protected from industrial monopolies, such a proposal will be referred to the Judiciary Com mittee.” 23 Asked to Testify. The committee has invited 23 persons to testify. Those asked to appear Monday are Harry M. Moses, president of the coal-pro ducing subsidiaries of the United States Steel Corp.; George H. Love, president of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., and John D. Battle, executive secretary of the National Coal Association. Reports, later denied by all sides, were published last month to the effect that Northern and Midwestern mine operators were going to appoint Mr. Moses to a position where he would control the output of the coal mines. Actually the operators offered Mr. Moses a position as spokes man and chief contract negotia tor for the industiV. a plan which still is expected to go through. No representative of the UMW has been asked to appear in the investigation. However, Miss Josephine Roche, administrator of the welfare fund, is listed among the witnesses. Ah’ Defense to Be Tested TOKYO, July 22 W.—Air de fenses of the Western Pacific command from the Philippines through Okinawa to Japan will be tested beginning the week of July 25. Tokyo will be the prin cipal target of simulated rafts. Blind Man Killed By Subway After Fall to Tracks By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 22.—Above the roar of an approaching sub way train, passengers waiting on the platform heard the blind man cry: "Help me, please, some one please help me.” Louis Kerman, sightless news paper vendor, stood on the tracks of the subway line in a downtown Manhattan station. Apparently, he had made a misstep yesterday and fallen from the platform. His dark glasses and cane, dropped in his fall, were several feet from him. He reached out his arms, grop ing, as he cried for help. But there was no time to help. "What could I do?” Subway Motorman Prank Marmier said 'later. "I locked the brakes; it was too late.” A police lieutenant telephoned the dead man's wife. "I hope he didn’t know what happened,” Mrs. Kerman said. Offshore Gambling On Piers Creating Problem for Virginia Slot Machines Licensed By Maryland Run a Few Yards Out in Potomac By J. L. Michael Special Correspondent of The Star COLONIAL BEACH, Va.. July 22.—Maryland slot machines op erating only a few yards off the Virginia shore today threatened new complications in Potomac River jurisdictional questions, which have remained unsettled for more than 150 years. In buildings located on or along side three piers jutting out from Virginia, slot machines licensed in Maryland are accessible to any one who cares to walk a few yards across a wharf. At two of these places beer is sold under Maryland licenses. A few years ago a Virginia court ruled that an establishment simi lar to these was under the juris diction of the Old Dominion. As yet, no liquor licenses have been issued to any of the three establishments, but the owners of at least two are known to be con sidering package liquor sales, sales by the drink or both. All Across From Charles County. Slot machines are illegal in Vir ginia and State law limits the sale of beer to places licensed by the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Liquor is sold only in State dispensaries. The three places, all across the Potomac from Charles County, Md., are at Fairview Beach, King George County, Muse’s Beach near Potomac Mills, and at the New Atlanta Hotel in the muni cipality of Colonial Beach. At the latter establishment a wharf extends from the hotel’s back porch into the river 100 feet or more past low water mark on the Virginia shore. The wharf is also accessible by steps leading from the town beach front. Ralph N. Millen, a former mem ber of the town council who owns the hotel, only a few days ago put up a 12-by-18-foot building on the pier head and arranged with a Charles County resident to obtain a license for ten slot machines. Nine of the devices were in operation Wednesday. Walkway Cat. Since the building is beyond low water mark, Mr. Millen claims, it is legally in Maryland under the premise that the Potomac belongs to Maryland to low water mark on the Virginia shore. To avoid the possible question of whether a severance of the wharf is necessary, Mr. Hfillen cut (See SLOT MACHINES, Pg. A-3.) Florida Group Seeking Transit Stock Calls It 'Depression-Proof' Prospective Buyer Tells ICC Deal Would Make 'Fine Investment' By Francis P. Douglas Florida businessmen seeking tq purchase controlling interest in | the Capital Transit Co. look on it as a “depression-proof” business, | the Interstate Commerce Commis ; sion was told today. ICC Examiner Vernon V. Baker held a hearing today on the ap plication by the Florida group for ICC approval of the sale to them of 109,458 shares of Capital Tran sit stock by North American Co., a holding company. The Florida group is headed by L. E. Wolfson of Jacksonville, who has contracted to buy 50,458 of the transit shares. He was not pres ent today, but he and his associ ates were represented by Doran S. Weinstein; also of Jacksonville, who is listed as the prospective purchaser of 5,000 shares. Mr. Weinstein testified that he and his associates felt that Capi tal Transit “would make a fine investment.” He said it is a sound company, has had good management and should yield a good return. Saying that he and his associates felt it would be “depressionproof,” he explained that in bad times people would turn from private automobiles and taxicabs to the transit company's facilities. No Policy Change Considered. He testified also that the group he represented, none of whom had experience in the transportation raid, had given no consideration to any change in Capitol Transit policy. „ Mr. Baker questioned him about the attitude of the Florida'group toward the company's conserva tive dividend policy. Mr. Wein stein replied that had not been discussed and said he believed that management and the direc tors could determine that policy better than he. The company in recent years has been paying $2 a share in dividends, although last year this was cut to 60 cents. So far this year it has paid $1. The contract between the Flor ida group and North American calls for a price of $20 a share or a total of $2,189,160. The sum of $250,000 already has been paid as earnest money. The contract provided originally for additional payments on delivery of the stock of $500,000 in cash and a 30-day note for $500,000 and a 60-day note for $939,160. The notes have been secured by the stock purchase. Can Liquidate Holdings. A new contract, however, a copy of which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commis sion, calls for all-cash payments for the shares on completion of the deal. Mr. Weinstein testified that members of the group have holdings which they can liquidate which will more than take care of the cash payment. Herbert C. Freeman, president of North American, a utilities holding company, was another witness. The examiner questioned him also about Capital Transit’s (See TRANSIT, Page A-3.) Romania Adds to Curbs On Foreign Diplomats By th» Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania, July 22.—Foreigp diplomats in Ro mania have been requested to inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs each time they leave Bucharest to travel in the areas of the country still open to them. They must indicate their route whether by train, plane or auto. In the latter case they must give route and number of the car. Last spring regulations were made restricting diplomats to a certain small section of the coun try, but reports on ^individual journeys were not reqiyfed. f Hearing Favors Home Rule Foes, Hildreth Says Harris Denies Charge, Asserts Proponents Receive More Time By Don S. Warren Melvin C. Hildreth, Democratic* national committeeman for the District, today charged that oppo sition witnesses have been granted more time than proponents at home rule hearings. He made his protest at the close of a two-hour hearing by a House District Subcommittee after most of the time had been given to Rep resentative Hobbs, Democrat, of Alabama, who attacked home rule here as constitutionally impossible and termed the home rule legisla tion “a phony.” Representative Harris, Demo crat, of Arkansas, chairman of the subcommittee, promptly denied Mr. Hildreth's protest and de clared: “As a matter of fact, we have given more time to proponenta of the home rule bills than we have to the opponents.” He told Mr. Hildreth that “you have no more of. a favorable position than any one else” when it comes to testifying. Tells of “Patiently” Waiting. Mr. Hildreth was urging that spokesmen for the Democratic Central Committee of the District be given a chance to testify. He reminded the subcommittee that members of the party group had been “patiently” sitting at hear ing after hearing waiting to be./ called. He asked that they be called at the next session which at the conclusion of the flurry caused by Mr. Hildreth’s protest, was scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. In his testimony attacking the constitutionality of the current home rule proposals, Mr. Hobbs contended that Congress does not have authority—without a change in the Constitution—to grant the vote to Washingtonians. He is a former judge and a member of the House Judiciary Committee. Called “Sinking Sand” Bill. The pending legislation for an elected City Council and for lim ited home rule, Mr. Hobbs said, is designed “just to kid somebody. This is a sinking-sand bill.” He Was seconded by the Rev. Marshall L. Shepard, District re corder of deeds. He said he was for real home rule, but that the pending bills would not achieve it. “This is a quickie,” he said, as members of the subcommittee plied him with questions. Dr. Shepard said he agreed with Mr. Hobbs that an amendment to the Constitution would be neces sary to give the District true home rule, and added: If we have waited this long to get home rule, then we can wait for an amendment to the Consti tution if the people of the 48 States will agree to change it.” Batzell’s Authority Questioned. Representative Abernethy, Dem ocrat, of Mississippi said, “Then you haven’t been taken in?” “Ceratinly not,” replied Dr. Shepherd. “You should have been here be fore,” remarked Mr. Abernethy. Another witness was Elmer E. Batzell, a former president of the MacArthur Boulevard Citizens’ Association, who said the associa tion approved the principles of the home rule bills. He was questioned as to whether he had authority to speak for the association. Tha subcommittee had received a let ter from Robert R. Hershman, current president of the group, (See HOME RULE, Page A-3.) J Temperature Climbs Toward Record High The temperature was climbing toward the record high for the year here today. The high is degrees on July 6 and at 1 pjn. f today the temperature stood at 92 and was expected to go a few degrees higher before dusk. The heat record for this date was 103 degrees in 1926, the Weather Bureau said. The bureau saw 4 chance of some showers tonight, but said nothing about substantial relief from the heat. Sunday Reading ... Washington observer Carl Levin says our top Govern ment men are overworked, overentertained and over criticized to the point of ruin ing their health. Under the heading “Are We Killing Our Leaders?” he writes about this situation in THIS WEEK Mag azine, The Star’s Sunday sup plement. A busy little plant in South ern Maryland is flourishing on the production of such items as popsickle sticks, mustard paddles, tongue depressors, ice-cream spoons, etc. How it’s done makes an interesting pic ture story in The Sunday Pic torial Magazine. These and many other special features augment the usual thorough and accurate news content of