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Waynick Is Reported Selected to Direct 'Point 4’ Program ly th* A$$ociot*d Pr#u Capus M. Waynick, Ambassador to Nicaragua and former North Carolina publisher, is reported to have been picked to head the “Point Four" program of helping backward areas of the world. A State Department official said today Mr. Waynick will keep his diplomatic post while setting up the project. Senate and House conferees have approved a foreign aid bill authorizing $35 million for tech nical aid to underdeveloped countries under the program President Truman first outlined as Point Four of his inuagural ad dress. Mr. Waynick, former North Carolina Democratic State chair man, had considered running this year for the Senate seat now held by Senator Hoey, Democrat. Dur ing a trip here earlier this year, however, he announced he had abandoned the idea but might make the race for Governor in 1952. Mr. Waynick. who is 60, has been a friend of Mr. Truman for 15 years and is one of the few political leaders who publicly pre dicted the President would be re turned to the White House in the 1948 elections. In North Carolina Mr. Waynick was reporter, editor and publisher I of the Greensboro Record and the High Point Enterprise. He directed the North Carolina Social Hygiene Society and gained experience in a health program which is expected to aid him in setting up the Point Four plan. He also organized and directed the national re-employment serv ice in his State and is former chairman of both the State High way Commission and the State Planning Board. He went to Nicaragua as am bassador about a year ago. OVER A HUNDRED MILES STRAIGHT UP—Condensed moisture in the form of frost and ice particles is shaken loose from the body of a Navy Viking rocket as it is launched amidst a cloud of smoke and steam from the U. S. S. Norton Sound in the mid Paciflc last week to travel to a height of 106.4 miles. The Navy claimed it was a record for an American-designed single-stage rocket. Frost and ice resulted from the liquid oxygen fuel and high equatorial humidity. —AP Wirephoto from Navy. Army Finance (Continued From First Page.) criticised the center’s operations from the standpoint of civilian affairs. Mr. Bendetsen informed the committee that $85 million of the reported $157 million in overpay ments has been recovered in cash. Another*$25 million in claims have been referred to the GAO for col lection, and $15 million in claims have been written off as uncol lectable either "for equity or in good conscience,” Mr. Bendetsen said. Total Is ‘Not Alarming.’ The remaining $34 million in elaims are still being investigated he added. That total of overpay ments, the witness declared, is not alarming in view of the fact that the center has paid out $19 billion In allotments and family allowances during the last seven years. Referring to complaints oi Communist infiltration and other subversive operations at the cen ter, Mr. Bendetsen reported that a check of all personnel resulted in special loyalty investigations of 63 employes at the center. Nine of those were discharged, and four resigned while the in I vestigations were under way, he said. Another 25 “separated, transferred or resigned,’’ he said, and the remaining 25 are still employed at the center because there seemed no justification for action against them, j All of the 63 who were investi gated by the FBI or by Army In telligence were in non-policy mak ing jobs, the witness Church Guild Plai The Women’s Guild of St. Mark's Church, Fairland, Md., will [ hold a fried chicken supper from 5 to 8 p.m. tomorrow in the parish t hall of the church. 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Canham. editor of the Christian Science Monitor, declared today that a proposed United Nations treaty may damage rather than defend press freedom. He told the International Fed eration of Newspaper Editors 'FIEJ > that the Western press had suffered “serious setbacks" in drafting of a U. N. convention on freedom of information. Mr. Canham urged the dele gates, representing 15 Western nations, to demand that their gqjernments reflect press view points in U. N. deliberations. “If we don't do this,” he added, “we may get an international agreement limiting and restrict ing freedom of the press instead of lowering the barriers to such freedom. • “There are grave dangers ahead in the field of U. N. treaty-making in regard to news gathering and press freedom.” Mr. Canham. a representative of the American Society of News paper Editors <ASNE>, has par ticipated in U. N. commission de bates on press freedom and news gathering rights. He said the main danger lies in writing too many national press restrictions into international treaties. Added all together, he said, “you get an absolute mon strosity.” The editor described as “fan tastic” one such proposed ban on publication of news considered of fensive to national pride and dig nity. The FIEJ, holding its third an nual congress here, earlier unani mously approved the membership of Western German and Austrian newspaper editors associations. It also approved a report alleging that private monopoly as well as the state menaces freedom of in formation. Patricia Tafle, 18, of 1808 Wyo ming avenue N.W., of Immaculate Conception, a $25 bond, and Mis; Loretta Beale, 16. of 4417 Seven teenth street N.W., Sacred Hearl Academy, a $25 bond. The winners received theii awards from Frederick P. H. Sid dons, chairman of the citizens committee, in the office of Com missioner John Russell Young at the District Building. They were welcomed by Charle; Stofberg, special assistant to Mr Young, Who was absent because 9 of illness. David Amato, chairman of the awards committee, assisted in the presentations. The contest was on the subject “Hire the handicapped, it's good business.” It was open to 11th and 12th grade students of public and parochial high schools here. Employ the Physically Handi capped Week will be observed the first week in October. Trip Seen as Proof That Truman Really Heads Democratic Party. By Martin 5. Hayden North Am*rtcon N«wipop«r AIItorn* A souvenir nickel and a couple of political portraits tell the story of the Harry S. Truman of today. Both were parts of the gadgetrv incidental to the Chicago climax of the presidential tour. The nickels were given to the politically faithful assembled for the big Jefferson Jubilee celebra tion. They were shiny brass slugs Iin which were imbedded new Jef 'ferson 5-cent pieces. On one side, the coins were in scribed: “Good Luck Piece—Cook County Central Democratic Com mittee—Col. J. M. Arvey, Chair man.” On the other was printed: I “ ‘Our Goal Must Be Peace For All Times' — President Harry S. Truman.” The “J. M. Arvey” is the same “Jake” who started as a news boy on the wrong side of Chica go's tracks, carried a spear in the rear ranks of the Cook County Democratic organization and rose to become a horse owner of some standing and boss of the machine that made him. One of the Boys Now. He is the same "Jake" who in the spring of 1948 tried to ditch a little man named Truman in fa vor of an Eisenhower, or any one else, who had a “chance" of win ning the election. But now Jake is just one of the boys who bows low and takes his orders from the man they all sang to as: i "The broad - shouldered Presi dent.” The portraits symbolized the other change. There were 15 of them—two big and 13 little ones— colored sketches of Democratic Presidents past and present. The big portraits over the center stage were of Jefferson, who founded the Democratic Party, and Mr. Truman, who unques tionably runs it today. Another was of Franklin D. Roosevelt, j The portrait arrangement marked the end of an era in which a living President assured one and .all that his only desire was to 'complete the unfinished job of a man who had died. Real Head of Nation. The Harry Truman who smiled on the cheering thousands Mon day night, and sounded once again | his call for a march to "growth, expansion and progress,” is not the man who four years ago was asking citizens, big and little, to "give me the help I need in this terribly big job.” The trip demonstrated that, for better or worse, Harry Truman is today the real as well as the titu lar head of his Nation and his party. The present Harry Truman is not pushed around easily. A na tional newspaper chain and ac tress Frances Langford found that out when the pretty star was flown from Los Angeles to make a publicized plea against closing of a California hospital for para plegics. The White House representative of the newspaper- chain got Miss Langford aboard the train but i she, according to her own state ment later, got a quick brush-off "This is a pressure stunt and I won't co-operate.” she quoted the President as saying as he handed her quickly down the line and turned for a more cordial greet ing to some less-publicised visitor on the Grand Coulee Dam recep tion list. Shows Confidence Now. And the Harry Truman of to day is a confident man. Democratic National Chairman William M. Boyle was only con firming something Mr. Truman already believed when he gTavely reported to the President from the Chicago Stadium stage that, “the Democratic Party today is strong er than at any time in its 150 years.” Some might say that the friendly throngs who greeted the tour train at every whistle stop were attracted, in part, by the rare opportunity of seeing a Presi dent of the United States in per son. But Mr. Truman, in off the-record observations on the train, made it clear that he be lieves they were there as massed proof of the Nation-wide popu larity of the Fair Deal. Few aboard the Truman special as it pulled into Washington yes terday afternoon had any doubt but what Harry Truman, follow ing his own advice to the people, was “dreaming big dreams and making big plans” for 1952. Blue Law Restoration Urged in Zion, III. •y tH« Auociattd Pratt ZION. HI., May 17.—Some of the residents of Zion—founded as a church community—want the city to reinstate the blue laws, repealed last year after 48 years. A petition with 940 signatures asked the city council to forbid Sunday movies, other recreational and business activities, and gain ful labor. f SPINETS 1 1*195 *245 *2851 I *395 *425 --J ’ Many Good Makes j i'*Wvv it'. , I PIANO MART 1015 Seventh St. N.W. the sign of... years ago this sign marked a small frame house on \Jo /Pennsylvania Avenue between 17th and 18th Streets, Northwest. No one seems Po to know just why Joseph Gawler made two words out of^the noun— undertaker. Perhaps it was a personal choice. ✓ The actual business of undertaking began as a natural adjunct to cabinet making. Men such as.Joseph Gawler, being skilled in fine craftsmanship, were called upon to undertake the making of wooden coffins (as they were then called). Gradually more and more responsibility was placed on Joseph Gawler as a JOSEPH funeral director and this“service to Washingtonians has been carried on with the same integrity by four generations of his family. SONS, INC. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 1756 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. N. %. £TAe j\c tdfae David M. Goodrich, Honorary Chairman Of Tire Firm, Dies Ayr t*»# Fro** MT. KISCO. N. Y . May 17.— David Marvin Goodrich. 73. hon orary chairman of the board of B. F. Goodrich Co., which was founded by his father, died at his home early today. Mr. Goodrich, a native of Akron. Ohio, headed the company s board from 1927 until his retirement a month ago when he was elected honorary chairman. He continued to serve as a director and a mem ber of the executive committee. One of the Nation's leading in dustrialists, Mr. Goodrich was chairman of the National Indus trial Conference Board from 1940 through 1941. He also was a di rector of the Freeport Sulphur Cp.. the Commercial Solvents Corp.. and a number of other firms. After graduating from Harvard in 1898, Mr. Goodrich fought in the Spanish-American War as a lieutenant with the late Presi dent Theodore Roosevelt's “Rough Riders." He was a colonel in World War I and one of the founders of the American Legion, i He is survived by his widow, the former Beatrice Morgan Pruyn, and a daughter by a for mer marriage. Mrs. F. C. Sanford Waters of New York. Mr. Good-| rich's first marriage, to the sister of his present wife, ended in di vorce. Funeral services will be held at St. Mark's Church here Friday. Burial at Jamestown, N. Y., will be private. West Virginia to Appeal Ban on Ohio Basin Pact •y Au«c CINCINNATI, May 17 —A West Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals ruling prohibiting the State from participating tn an eight State sanitation group will be ap pealed to the United State* Su preme Court. That was the announcement made yesterday by Chairman John L. Quinn, jr.. at the headquarters here of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission The commission is an interstate compact agency for control of river pollution, with these States represented: Ohio. West Virginia. Kentucky. Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois. Mr. Quinn said word of the planned action was received from Attorney General William C. Mar land of West Virginia. Mr. Mar land said the petition which his office intends to file for review of the West Virginia Court decision would be on behalf of the two West Virginia compact commis sioners. Doukhobors Sentenced GRAND FORKS, British Co lumbia. May 17 t£\—Sixteen Sons of Freedom Doukhobors, 10 of them women, were sentenced yes terday to maximum three-year prison terms on charges of mid* parading. All pleaded not guilty, but did not enter any defense. 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