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A-2 THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951 New Price Ceilings Order to Be Studied By Industrial Croup By James Y. Newton The Office of Price Stabilization today was completing the draft of an order placing price ceilings on goods at the manufacturing level. It will tie manufacturers’ prices tightly to actual cost increases arising since the Korean war. Tomorrow about 30 leading in dustrialists from over the country Mull discuss the order here with Pfice Director Michael V. DiSalle. There already were indications the manufacturers would protest some parts of the regulation. Mr. DiSalle said a late draft of the order had been sent to select ed manufacturers for study in ad vance of the meeting. He said they were instructed to keep the provisions secret until the order finally is worked out. Specific Ceiling Planned. This regulation is in addition to orders Mr. DiSalle expects to issue this week replacing the general freeze with more specific ceilings oil food prices at both the whole sale and retail levels. Mr. DiSalle said the manufac turers’ regulation is intended to do two things: 1. To give relief to those man ufacturers who have avoided price increases and have sought volun tarily to co-operate with the Gov ernment in holding down prices. 2: To roll back prices in indus tries which have advanced' un necessarily and farther than indi cated by higher labor and mate rials costs. Meanwhile, Economic Stabilizer Eric A. Johnston was still trying to work out with labor and indus try representatives a basis for re establishing the Wage Stabiliza tion Board which was made inoperative by resignation of three | labor members. He is reported to have made little definite prog ress. Seek “Balanced” Structure. In inviting the industrialists' here for a review of the projected j price order, Mr. DiSalle told them the objective is “to move as rap idly as possible on as broad a front as is practicable toward the restoration of a reasonably bal anced and workable price struc ture.” No Office of Price Stabilization official would hazard a guess as to the extent of rollbacks or how widespread increases in prices might be. Manufacturers, with the OPS keeping a close eye on the situation, would compute their own price levels under the for mula. An ut*& omciai said manufac- j turers would take into consider a- j tion their prices during the second quarter of 1950. before the Ko-I rean war, plus their actual labor and materials cost boosts since. I Then, by comparing this figure with their price levels under the existing general freeze ceilings, the manufacturer would be per mitted to make certain percentage adjustments. The manufacturer in any case. In making the adjustment, would take the lowest price figure, the official said. He said details of the formula may be revised before the order actually is issued. Girls Assault Store Clerk Who Balked Food Ihetts A Safeway Store clerk was as saulted by a group of teen-aged girls and struck on the head shortly after she chased them from the store last night. Mrs. Jean Yates, 30, of 712 East Capitol street, told police four or five colored girls surprised her as she left the store in the first block of Seventh street N.E. about 7:30 p.m. She was beaten with a tack hammer, she said. Police quoted Mrs. Yates as saying the girls had attempted to steal food and that she had chasen them away. Mrs. Yates suffered a possible skull fracture and head cuts. At Casualty Hospital authorities de scribed her condition as good. BABY BLACK SWANS ARRIVE GRAY—Two Australian black swans, hatched Sunday, pose at the Zoo with their parents and a Siberian red- breasted goose. At this stage, the young swans, known as cygnets, are gray. Now on a diet of chicken growing mash, they will start to change color in four or five weeks, according to Malcolm Davis, assistant headkeeper at the Zoo. i Eventually they’ll be black and have white feathers on the outer half of the wings. They also 1 will get white-tipped, bright red beaks. —Star Staff Photo. Grand Jury Receives 'Inside' Story From U. S. on Sam Beard By James J. Cullinane The “inside” story of the multi million dollar operations of Sam Beard, big time Washington gam bler, is to be unfolded before a Federal grand jury in Baltimore today. United States Attorney Bernard J. Flynn said he will ask the grand jury to indict Beard, described by the Justice Department as one of the biggest gamblers on the East ern seaboard, as a tax evader. The Bureau of Internal Revenue last week slapped a $4,167,328 tax lien on the 60-year-old gambling boss charging he owed that amount in taxes, interest and pen alties for 1944 and the three fol lowing years. Beard was arraigned before United States Commissioner Er nest Volkart in Baltimore yester day on tax-dodging charges and was ordered held under $10,000 bond for court action. A profes sional bondsman posted the bond and the short, stout gambler was released from the court house lockup after 90 minutes. Erickson Checks Disclosed. A portion of the story the grand jury will hear today was made public at the hearing before Com missioner Volkhart when an In ternal Revenue Bureau agent tes tified Beard received nine checks worth $180,000 from Frank Erick son. New York bookmaking czar, in 1944. The agent, Samuel Ford, is scheduled to toe the principal wit ness before the grand jury today. Mr. Flynn said today’? revela tions before the grand jury will be confined to Beard's operations in 1944. The only witnesses he said, will be Internal Revenue Bureau agents who began checking back on Beard’s sources of income in 1946. Later, Mr. Flynn said, the grand jury, will be told of Beard’s opera tions in 1945-46-47 and asked to indict him for evading taxes in those years. Attorneys Lose Request. Beard’s attorney, Michael Gould, of Washington, and Thomas Ken ney, of Baltimore, foughi hard before Commissioner Volkhart yesterday to force the Govern ment to disclose all the evidence the tax agents have uncovered. But Mr. Flynn successfully con tended that the Government had to show only that Beard had re ceived income which was not re ported on his tax return and was entitled to withhold other evidence until the case came to trial. Mr. Gould challenged the Gov ernment to produce Erickson, ad mitted boss of a $12.5 million-a year bookmaking syndicate, and let him tell of his dealings with Beard. Agent Ford disclosed that Erick son, now serving a 2-year prison term for violating gambling laws, has “squealed” on his former gambling associates. Sweeping Victory Won by Women in Village Election By the Associated Press MENDON, Mich., Mar. 13.—'The women are in control here. In the village election a fem inine ticket swept the boards yes iterday. It wasn’t even close for I any office. There will be one lonesome male officeholder. He is incumbent City Clerk Vern McClish. He wasn't opposed. Mrs. Helen Hickmott, former Kalamazoo College teacher, was elected village president. She won over Marvin Dalman, incumbent, by a vote of 77 to 43. The women campaigned on a general platform that they could do a better job of running the vil lage government than men. A result was a rousing good vote turnout—a total of 120. This Southwestern Michigan commu nity has a population of 750. “We'll do our best,” said Mrs. Hickmott proudly after her victory. She and her husband run Men don's biggest department store. Of the total vote cast, 68 were by men and 52 by women. Among the winners was Mrs. Mary Male, who beat out her hus band, Gordon Male, fo: a one-year term as trustee, 73 to 43. Death oi Man Probed For Possible Hit-Run Police today are investigating the possible hit-run death of a man who was thought at first to have died from an epileptic fall. The investigation began after an autopsy revealed injuries, in cluding a broken back, crushed chest and ruptured liver had been suffered by Fred Sanford. 48, colored, of 1114 Fifty-first place N.E. Mr. Sanford was found uncon scious at 5:26 a.m. yesterday in front of 5106 Sheriff road N.E. He was treated for head injuries at Casualty Hospital, according to the police report, and died about four hours later. Homicide Squad detectives said Mr Sanford’s injuries indicated; that he probably was the victim of a traffic accident. His wife. Mrs. Charlotte San-, ford, said he had an epileptic history. Accident investigation unit po lice said a man who rides the same bus as Mr. Sanford re- j ported seeing him on his way to a bus stop in the 5100 block of Sheriff road N.E. Later, he said,; he saw Mr. Sanford lying in the road. Austerity Hits Opium Dens BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar. 13 (JP).—Austerity hit hard at a sec tion of Bangkok’s night life today. A new law says all opium dens must close at midnight. The Weather Here r>nd Over the Nation District of Columbia—Rain this afternoon and tonight possibly mixed with wet snow. High today about 45 degrees. Low tonight about 38 degrees. Tomorrow cloudy, windy and rather cold with occasional rain or snow. Maryland—Rain tonight mixed with some wet snow' in the inte rior portion. Cloudy and colder tomorrow with occasional rain or snow in the east and central por tions and snow in the extreme west portion. Low tonight 35 to 40 degrees. Virginia—Three to five inches of snow in mountain and western valley portions tonight and to morrow. Rain mixed with wet snow in the west and rain in the east portion tonight. Tomorrow rather cold with some snow in the west and rain in the east portion. Wind—East northeast at 11:30 o'clock at 15 miles an hour. Five-Day Forecast for Washington and Vicinity, March 14-18 Temperatures will average a lit tle below normal during the period. Normals for Washington are high, 52, and low, 34. Colder Wednesday and Thursday followed Except for the Northeastern States, where the weather will be generally fair tonight, most sections east of the Mississippi Valley will be cloudy with occasional snow from the Great T to the Tennessee Valley and from the Mississippi Valley to the Appalachians. Scattered showers also are forecast for the East Coast of Florida. The other major area of precipita tion in the Nation once again will be found in the Northwest Pacific region, where showers and snow flurries are anticipated. —AP Wirephoto Map. by warmer again Saturday and Sunday. Rain, mostly at the be ginning of the period, totaling about V2 inch. River Report. (From United States Engineers). Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at Harpers Ferry. (Readings at Washington Airport.) Humidity. Yesterday— Pet. Today— Fct. Noon - 54 8 a.m. __87 4 p.m._46 in a.m._!)0 8 p.m. _68 1 p.m._75 Midnight _80 High and Low of Last 24 Hours. High, 56, at 3:50 p.m. Low. 35. at 6:40 a.m. Record Temperatnrrs This Tear, Highest, 72, on February 13. Lowest, 11. on February 8. Tide Tables. (Furnished bv United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow High _ 11:45 a.m. 12:00 a.m. Low _ 6:09 a.m. 6:54 a.m. High _ ] 2:30 p.m. Low _ 6:52 p.m. 7:43 pm. The Bun and Moon. Rises. Sets. Sun, today 6:22 6:13 Sun. tomorrow. . 6:21 6:14 Moon today. 9:00 a.m. _ Automobile lights must be turned on one-hall hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in Inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1951. Avg. Record. January _ 2.18 3.55 7.83 '37 February _ 2.65 3.37 6.84 '84 March_ 0.55 3.75 8.84 '91 April _ 3.27 9.13 '89 May _ 3.70 10.69 '89 June _ 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 8.69 '69 December _ 3.32 7.56 01 Temperatures in Virions Cities. High. Low-. High. Low j Albuquerque 47 28 New Orleans 68 33 , Atlantic City 56 31 New York _ 08 36 Atlanta .44 32 Norfolk 45 35 Bismarck 12 -25 Omaha 40 34 Boston - - 45 36 Philadelphia 56 31 Chicago 34 32 Phoenix 78 44 ! Cincinnati 38 32 Pittsburgh. 64 41 i Detroit_ 48 37 Portld., Me. 49 34 , El Paso-_ 50 32 Portld., Oreg. 46 42 i Indianapolis 35 29 Richmond 50 33 i Kansas City 27 18 St. Louis 33 25 1 Los Angeles 78 55 S. Lake City 46 38 Louisville-- 39 31 San Antonio 55 27 I Memphis.-- 44 28 S. Francisco 68 41 ! Miami _ 78 01 Seattle_ 45 42 Milwaukee- 33 32 Tampa- 76 59 Maryland and Virginia - News in Brief Prince Georges Bonds Asked for Improvements A $500,000 bond issue for gen eral improvements in the metro politan area of Prince Georges County is authorized in a bill to be introduced in the General As sembly today by Republican Sen ator John R. Fletcher of that county. His bill would permit issuance of the bonds by the county com missioners, and specifies that part of the money be used for a two-lane highway between Branchville and Beltsville along the right of way of the aban doned Capital Transit trolley line. Judges Named Two new' Virginia judges have been named w'tihin 24 hours by Gov. Battle. The Governor yesterday an nounced the appointment of Judge Kennon C. Whittle of Martinsville to the Supreme Court of Appeals, filling the va cancy created by the death Fri day of Justice Herbert B. Greg ory. Today the Governor ap pointed Lyttleton Waddell, pres ident of the Charlottesville-Albe marle Bar Association, as a judge of the eighth judicial circuit. He succeeds Lemuel F. Smith, former eighth district circuit judge who w'as appointed to the Supreme Court of Appeals last month. The possibility of another judicial appointment meanwhile developed in Alexandria, where members of the bar association announced they would petition the Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals tomorrow for a second Cor poration Court judge. • * * afc * New Maryland District A Democratic bill to carve a new seventh Maryland congres sional district out of Baltimore is before the House of Delegates to day. The measure last night passed the Senate by a vote of 15 to 11, with 10 Republican Senators and one Democrat opposing it. The proposed seventh district would be Baltimore's third congressional district. The city now has two. The redistricting proposal also would alter slightly boundaries of the fifth district in Southern Maryland. * * * * Bladensburg Is Bladensburg The Prince Georges County Board of Education has bowed to the demands of citizens and agreed to Bladensburg High School as the name for the new school under construction at Sunny brook which will replace the old Bladensburg High. The School Board had planned to name the new institution after Dr. Albert S. Cook, a former State super intendent of instruction, but stu dents and residents of the Bla densburg area protested. * * * * Wrestling Critic Delegate Leroy Pumphrey, Democrat, of Prince Georges County, has introduced a resolu tion in the Maryland General Assembly asking that the State Athletic Commission ‘‘rigidly en force the rules of clean athletics.” His resolution, cheered by Mrs. Leona Rush, Republican Delegate from Montgomery County, is directed at professional wrestling which Mr. Pumphrey described as a “sham and pretense” and an exhibition of “just one goon sling ing another goon around.' New Hiss Appeal Fails; Virtually No Chance 01 Avoiding Jail Now By the Associated Press Alger Hiss appeared today to have virtually no chance of avoid ing a prison term on his perjury conviction. The one-time State Department official was sentenced to serve five years on a charge that he lied to a Federal grand jury when he denied he gave secret documents to Whittaker Chambers. Cham bers is a confessed courier for a prewar Red spy ring. The Supreme Court by a 6-0 vote yesterday refused to review Hiss’ conviction. This left the former Government official with only two slim avenues of possible escape: 1. A request that the Supreme Court reconsider its refusal. Such requests must be filed within 15 days and are rarely granted by the high tribunal. Hiss’ attorney said in New York that such a move was unlikely. May Appeal to lruman. 2. Hiss’ friends might intercede with President Truman to grant executive clemency—a pardon or parole. There appeared little likelyhood Mr. Truman would do so. • The lanky, 46-year-old Hiss— once an adviser to President Roosevelt—maintained his inno cence but seemed reconciled to Supreme Court Action Disposes of Hiss Case, Acheson Comments By th« Associated Press NEW YORK, Mar. 13.— After Alger Hiss w-as con victed of perjury. Secretary of State Acheson aroused criticism by saying: ‘‘I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss.” Yesterday, Mr. Acheson, who was on his way home from a Bermuda vacation, told reporters at La Guardia Field in answer to queries: "The Supreme Court is the highest court, and if it acts, that disposes of the matter.” the inevitability of hearing steel prison doors close behind him. Hiss, through his attorneys. Beer, Richards, Lane & Haller, issued this statement in New York: “The efforts of the Committee on Un-American Activities, vo ciferously supported by like minded elements in the press, succeeded in making a fair jury trial impossible in the present atmosphere of public tension. “Due to these efforts prejudice, fear and perjury prevailed to pro duce a verdict. But the wrong1 will surely be righted. “My attorneys and friends will continue to search for the facts which will show how (Whittaker i Chambers fabricated the evidence against me. 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W^^AEtropolit.n 0150 K B ■ WISCONSIN PAINT CENTIR I ■ ' T039 Wisconsin Ave. Olivet 9814 B The Federal Spotlight ‘ 11 HI II M-I Ramspeck to Gear Civil Service T o Emergency, Return to AT A By Joseph Young Robert Ramspeck, the newly appointed chairman of the Civil Service Commission, will receive a leave of absence from his job as vice president of the Air Transport Association and will return to that post when he finishes his commission assignment, it was learned today. Mr Ramspeck, who took a $9,000 cut in salary when he resigned ms a m a jod to accept tne $ib, 000-a-year commission chairman ship, has asked the ATA’s board of directors for a leave of absence. The board meets today, and A T A officials say it’s certain Mr. Ramspeck will be given the leave of ab sence he re quested. Mr. R a m s peck intends to remain com mission chair man only so long as the na tional emergen cy program re quires him to. He doesn't view his new job as a long-time propo sition. It’s believed that Mr. Ramspeck hopes to complete his commission assignment in a year or two. The (Georgia Democrat is anxious to get the Government’s personnel system on a sound emergency pro gram basis, with full use of avail able manpower for the Govern ment’s employment needs. When Mr. Ramspeck feels he [has reorganized the Government’s personnel system so it can oper ate at maximum capacity in the national defense program, he will be ready to return to his ATA job. Mr. Ramspeck, a veteran of 17 years in Congress and House Democratic whip when he resigned in 1945, tells friends he took the commission job only because President Truman asked him to help the Government’s emergency program. The $9,000 cut in salary makes him anxious to return to his old position as soon as pos siole. Incidentally, Mr. Ramspeck’s new job will give him civil service retirement rights. He left Con gress shortly before Senators and Representatives were brought under the system. Now, however, he will be eligible for retirement benefits based on his commission service as well as his previous 17 years’ service in Congress. Mr. Ramspeck is due to take over his new duties later this week. * * * * APPROPRIATIONS—The year’s first money bill, containing 1952 funds for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, is expected to be reported Friday by the House Appropriations Committee. Government officials and em ployes will be watching the com mittee’s action closely, since it may tip its hand on what it is going to do—or not going to do— about Federal employe restrictive riders in regard to leave and other working conditions. This year Congress is returning to the system of individual ap propriation bills, instead of last year's omnibus measure, which lumped all departments and agen cies into one bill. Therefore, if any restrictive riders are to be adopted this year they’ll have to be attached to the individual money bills. So the Treasury Post Office appropriations bill should be the tip-off on what Fed eral employes can expect this year in the way of amendments. For one thing the committee must decide whether to retain the Whitten amendment, which bars permanent promotions and transfers in Government. Also, it must vote on whether to continue the ban on further accumulation of annual leave, or whether to discard this ban in view of the national defense program. The present ban requires employes to use last year's 26 days’ leave by June 30. Other riders are being suggest ed by several committee members to cut annual leave and to in crease working hours in Govern ment. * * * * RETIREMENT—When a Sen ate Civil Service Subcommittee opens hearings later this week on the bill to liberalize the civil serv ice retirement system, the various employe groups will urge several important revisions in the bill. As the bill now stands, retired annuitants drawing more than $2,400 a year would not receive any annuity increase. The bill Dr. Lester Clee to Speak At Easter Sunrise Service Dr. Lester H. Clee, one-time Re publican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, will be the speaker at the 21st annual Easter Sunrise Service sponsored by the Grand Encampment, Knights Templw at Arlington Cemetery, it was an nounced today. Dr. Clee, who for 25 years was pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Newark, has served as speaker of the New Jersey Assem bly and as State Senator. In 1950 he was appointed chairman of the State Mediation Board, and last month became president of the New Jersey Civil Service Commis sion He was candidate for Gov ernor in 1937. Music for the service will be furnished by the Marine Band. Walter Reed Hospital an nounced today its traditional Easter morning service will be held in the formal gardens at 8 am. would allow a maximum $360 a year increase to retired annuitants, but it has a cut-off figure of $2,400. Also, the bill would provide for a small annuity increase to pres ents Federal employes when they retire but would not give any boost to employes earning $6,000 a year or more. The bill, however, does extend increased survivorship in surance benefits to all employes. The employe unions will urge that the two restrictive provisions be amended to allow everybody in the civil service retirement system, whether still on the Federal pay roll or retired, to obtain additional annuity benefits. The bill’s spon sors say these restrictions were made to eliminate extra costs, but employe leaders contend that the retirement system is in good enough financial shape to allow more liberal coverage. * * * * BOOK—Ira L. 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