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Brannan Opposes
Bill to Reorganize
His Department
Secretary of Agriculture Bran
Ban has told Congress that th
pending bill to reorganize his de
partment would, in its presen
form, "cause serious difficulties.”
He added that enactment of th<
measure would be unwise.
Statements on the bill by Sec
retary Brannan and other official
were made public today by th<
Senate Expenditures Committee
The measure would carry out rec
ommendations by the Hoover Com'
mission. •
Secretary of the Interior Chap
man also urged that the bill "b<
not enacted in its present form.”
One section of the bill woulc
transfer the Bureau of Lane
Management, except for its min
ing and mineral resources func
tions, from Interior to Agricul
ture.
Forest Work Cited.
Secretary Brannan generallj
approved this proposal and pointed
out. that particularly in Oregon
and California the stands of tim
ber and other forest resources ad
ministered by the two departments
are intermingled or adjacent.
“Essentially the same'functions
are carried on here by the two de
partments under different laws
and regulations.” he said.
"There would be very real ad
vantage if all Federal forests and
range land, as specified in the re
port of the Hoover Commission,
could be brought together.”
Secretary Chapman, however,
•aid this transfer “would further
accentuate the splintering of
functions with respect to natural
resources development and con
servation.”
Transfer From FSA.
Another provision of the b01
would transfer certain functions
of the Federal Security Agencj
with respect to agricultural and
home economics education to the
Agriculture Department.
Secretary Brannon said this
“should have careful study.” FSA
Administrator Oscar R. Ewing
•aid there is not sufficient dupli
cation between the PSA and Agri
/ culture programs to justify the
' transfer.
The bill also would:
1. Abolish the local, county and
State Agricultural Committees
and provide for one State agri
cultural council in each State and
one in each county to administer
the conservation, marketing and
adjustment programs.
2. Require the Secretary of
Agriculture to reorganize the
Agriculture Department into eight
administrative units to be known
as “services.”
Two Assistant Secretaries.
3. Provide two assistant secre
lanes ana an administrative as
eistant secretary.
4. Concentrate in the Secretary
the responsibilities for all func
tions, with a few exceptions, and
permit him to delegate his author
ity.
5. Eliminate the permanent ap
propriation of 30 per cent of cus
toms recepits for the removal of
agricultural commodities from the
market and provide for annual
appropriations for this purpose.
Frederick L. Lawton, director of
the Budget Bureau, recommended
only the last three proposals.
Grain
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provide for a loan without any
gift provisions, was tentatively
scheduled for House debate late
today, but probably will not be
acted on there until Thursday or
Friday.
Senator Saltonstall opened the
second day of Senate debate by
supporting the bill. His support,
he explained, was not only for
humanitarian purposes, but also
“for the ultimate security of the
United States.”
President Truman asked Con
gress to send relief grains esti
mated at $190 million to India as
a gift.
The food, largely wheat, is need
ed to meet famine and starvation
reported in some parts of India.
Paying Soviet in Barter.
Action on the bill comes in the
midst of skillful Soviet nroDa
randa credited with exaggerating
the importance of a May 10 Rus
sia-India wheat deal whereby In
dia gets 50,000 tons of Russian
wheat.
Offers Pay in Barter.
India has announced she will
pay in barter—not cash—for that
grain.
Actually, this country has been
selling India about 100,000 tons
of wheat a month for some time.
On the House side, leaders also
put the relief proposal on their
agenda today, but final action was
not expected before late in the
week.
Senator Smith, Republican, of
New Jersey, who with a bipartisan
group began pressing for the In
dian famine relief last December,
told a reporter:
“Everything has been worked
out and I expect the bill to pass
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This is the architect’s drawing, showing how the new addition to St. Alban’s School lor
Boys will look when completed next year. It is scheduled to be dedicated on June 7, 1952.
U. S. Help Is Reported
Sought by Burma to
Oust Chiang Troops
■y the AuocioUd Prcn
The Burmese government re
portedly has appealed to the
United States for diplomatic help
in getting rid of armed Chinese
Nationalist troops within its bor
ders.
The Burmese regime, which
recognizes Red China, is reported
alarmed at what it regards as a
steady flow of arms being smug
gled to Nationalists in Burma
from neighboring Thailand.
Unless something is done to dis
arm the Nationalists, the Burmese
have indicated they may take the
problem up with the United Na
tions.
From 5JDOO' to If),000 Chinese
Nationalists are reported involved,
nearly all of whom retreated or
withdrew into Burma from South
ern China.
In Wild Territory.
The ex^ct number and location
is not clear, diplomatic officials
who asked not to be named told a
reporter today. The troops are
said to be mostly in wild border
territory.
The Burmese government was
caiH haufl tnmpH fn tho TTnitoH
States after approaches to Thai
land.
The precise source of the re
ported arms traffic is not known.
But the Burmese are reported to
suspect the Chinese Nationalist
Embassy in Thailand is involved.
The Thai government does not
recognize the Chinese Communist
regime. A small contingent of
Thailand troops is fighting with
United Nations forces against the
Communists in Korea.
Complaint Passed On.
American diplomats are under
stood to have taken up the prob
lem with Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek’s government on For
mosa.
It appears the 8tate Depart
ment ie merely passing on the
Burmese government’s complaint,
rather than urging Chiang’s gov
ernment to take action.
The State Department also ap
pears to be guided by a desire to
avoid having the issue brought
before the United Nations.
The Burmese government, offi
cials said, apparently is concerned
lest the presence of Nationalist
forces incite the Chinese commu
nists to invade the country.
today with little if any opposi
tion.”
India Hides Progress
Of China Grain Talks
NEW DELHI, India, May 15 (JF).
—Food Minister K. M. Munshi re
fused today to disclose to Parlia
ment the progress of negotiations
underway in Peiping for supply of
a million tons of Chinese grain to
femine-threatened India.
Publication of the information,
he told questioners, is "not in the
public interest.” He said India
irnillH nov Phino 4« noeVi
goods, for 50,000 tons of milo
(grain sorghum) and 30,000 tons
of rice which the government pre
viously announced it was getting
from the Communists. •
Asked if proposals for the
United Nations to blockade China
were likely to interfere with the
delivery of food from there, Mr.
Munshi said it was "too early to
say anything with certainty.” He
added that ships to transport the
food from China had been ob
tained from the Baltic Shipping
Exchange
Left-wing Indian newspapers
have charged that the proposed
blockade of the China coast was
planned mainly to prevent Chi
nese food from reaching India.
Observers at Lake Success re
ported recently that plans to ask
for a U. N. blockade had been
shelved because United States
officials feel that a U. N. ban on
shipment of strategic materials to
the Chinese Communists—recom
mended yesterday by a U. N.
committee—would serve the same
purpose as a blockade.
St. Alton's School
For Boys to Add
$311,000 Building
Completion of the Lucas Build
ing. now in blueprint stage, will
add live floors of classrooms and
science laboratories to the facili
ties of St. Alban's School for Boys,
it was announced yesterday.
A campaign to raise $210,000 is
in progress under chairmanship
of Curtis S. Steuart, and engi
neering drawings by the archi
tectural firm of Faulkner, Kings
bury & Stenhouse are nearing
completion. Plans call for ground
to be broken next September and
the building is to be dedicated on
June 7, 1952, whicih is during
graduation week.
The new bpilding will be at
tached to the present Lower School
building. It will contain a sky
lighted art studio, two Lower
School classrooms, two Upper
School classrooms, two science
laboratories, a music appreciation
room and piano practice rooms.
The. purpose of the project, It
was said, is to afford better facili
ties for the present student body
and not to make possible an in
crease in enrollment.
The over-all cost of the project
will be $311,000. of which $101,000
already has been subscribed. The
amount now in hand was raised
by the Rev. Albert H. Lucas dur
mg the last two years of his 20
year headmastership of St. Al
ban’s.
Bill to Teach Flying
Revived by Kefauver
Senator Kefauver, Democrat, of
Tennessee, yesterday revived a
plan .to authorize an aviation pro
gram which would include some
flight experience for volunteer
students of District high schools.
The District already is making
plans to overhaul its present
school aviation program which
has been a source of dissatisfac
tion to teachers and school offi
cials for some time. The program
has not been changed essentially
since its inception about 10 years
ago.
Senator Kefauver reintroduced
» wiuLu loacu ux approval in
the last Congress. The bill has
been amended to answer some
objections.
A principal amendment would ,
exempt the District from respon- |
sibility for any accident to a high
school student. Under this, stu- ]
dents would not be trained as
pilots, but would be offered some i
Bight experience as observers.
The District’s plan, according i
to Norman J. Nelson, first as-1
distant superintendent of schools, ]
oalls for a meeting of all aviation
teachers, principals of schools ]
where the program is in effect, 1
and Board of* Education officials (
to review the present program and i
its defects. ,
Dr. Herbert B. Bruner of New
Fork University, chairman of the i
National Aviation Education Coun- 1
cil, will be brought to Washington
to look the program over and i
make recommendations for its im- :
provement. ;
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Controls
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any kind of rents, and commercial
rents are not included in the sep
arate Federal rent control pro
gram.
Here are the six threats to the
sound dollar Mr. Johnston out
lined:
1. The expected injection of $1
billion dollars weekly into the
country's economic bloodstream
when defense spending goes into
high gear later this year.
2. “Milk-it dry” profits, price
and wage demands.
3. Rising food prices.
4. Speculative scare buying and
hoarding when consumer shortages
appear.
5. Any break in the “present
peace” between labor and man
agement.
6. General unwillingness to
recognize existence of a national
emergency.
Remedies Proposed.
He proposed that Congress pro
vide these remedies:
1. ’Pay-as-we-go” taxation to
pump spending money out of cir
culation.
2. “Pay-as-we-go credit pol
icies” to avoid credit which "mere
ly allows more people and more
businesses to bid for a tightening
supply of goods. . .
S. Increased savings—"income
not spent does not put pressure
on prices. . . .”
4. General economy—“non-es
sential consumption and waste by
Government, business and indi
vidual must be eliminated.”
5. Materials control—allocation
of materials for both defense and
civilian needs, with production of
luxuries limited to what is left
over.
6. Strengthening and continua
tion of direct controls.
Brennan Offers Plan.
The administration credo on
controls, he said, is:
“To stop the inflationary spiral
. . . roll back commodity prices
where feasible . ... avoid inter
ruption or dislocation of defense
production . . . relieve hardships
and inequities . . . crack down
bard on chiselers.”
In the future, Mr. Johnston
said, “basic price policy . . . will
•equire greater absorption of cost
increases . . . unless the profit
>f an industry falls below 85 per
:ent of the average of the indus
■ry s inree oesi years during 1846
1949, we do not intend to permit
:ost increase to be reflected” in
ligher prices.
Yesterday afternoon Secretary
)f Agriculture Brannan gave Con
gress his indorsement of the ad
ninistration move to put farm
iroducts under price control.
He told the House Banking
Committee he favors:
1. The use of the parity level
>f farm products at the start of
i marketing season for celling
>rice purposes.
2. A clarification of the special
iricing standard for milk so the
>eneflts and protection in fed
srally regulated areas can be ex
ended to non-federally regulated
ireas.
3. Control of margins in trad
ng on commodity futures mar
cets. .
4. The limited use of subsidies
o assure fair margins for proces
sors of agricultural commodities
ather than raise ceilings. |
Gitlow's Testimony
Is'Very Unpleasant,'
Loyalty Prober Says
Testimony of a Government wit
ness was described as “very, vers
unpleasant" today by Chairman
Charles ^La Follette of the panel
which will rule on whether %he
Communist Party must register as
an alien agency.
The witness was Benjamin Git
tow of New York, an early secre
tary general of the party in the
United States, who has been on
the stand for almost a month tell
ing of party activities between
1910 and 1929.
Mr. Gltlow told the hearing
panel of the Subversive Activities
Control Board that he had “dis
cussed” conduct of the panel’s
members with a Senate committee
investigator.
Questioned by A^rcantonio.
Mr. Gltlow so far has been the
Government’s first and only wit
ness.
The matter of conduct came up
while Mr. Gltlow was being cross
examined by former Representa
tive Vito Marcantonlo, one of the
attorneys representing the Com
munist Party in the proceeding.
Mr. Marcantonlo asked Mr. Git
tow whether he had had anv dis
cussions with Benjamin Mandel,
chief investigator for the anti
subversive sQbcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee. The
witness said he had.
Mr. La Folltte asked Mr. Gitlow
whether he discussed members ol
the panel with Mr. Mandel. He
answered affirmatively.
Mr. La Follette asked Mr. Git
low whether he knew members of
the board had not been confirmed
by the Senate. He knew that,
he replied.
Richardson and Coddaire Absent.
This prompted Mr. La Follette’s
remark about the testimony being
“very, very unpleasant.”
Other board members hearing
the case are Peter Cambell Brown
and Dr. Kathryn McHale. Chair
man Seth W. Richardson and
David J. Coddaire are not taking
part.
In earlier testimony, Mr. Git
low had identified Mr. Mandel as
a one-time associate ih the Com
munist Party. Mr. Gitlow was ex
pelled from the party in 1929.
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee has never acted one way or
the other on President Truman’s
five appointments to the board.
Hits committee and the anti-sub
versive subcommittee which em
ploys Mr. Mandel are headed by
Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada.
Nurses Who Walked Out
In Race Protest Replaced
ty th* Auociatod Prm
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ May 15.
—St. Francis Hospital here op
erated today with out-of-town
replacements for nurses who
walked out because the hospital
hired Negroes.
Between 10 and 23 graduate
uuioca wauieu uut oaiuruay in
support of a protest by hospital
alumnae against the hiring of
three Negro nurses and one Negro
laboratory technician.
Sister Helen Clare, the hospital
supervisor, said replacements were
down in from Clarksburg, Wheel
ing and Parkersburg to fill the
places of those who left. Hospitals
here and in the other three cities
are operated by the Sisters of St.
Joseph of the Wheeling Catholic
diocese.
Sister Helen Clare added, how
ever, that hospital administrators
would be willing to talk to repre
sentatives of the group that staged
the walkout.
Movie Fire Kills 100
LAGOS, Nigeria, May 15 (#).—
Reports received today said over
100 persons perished in a moving
picture theater fire at Kano in
Northern Nigeria Sunday night.
Many others were injured. The
cause of the fire was not learned.
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Welfare Workers Herd Lacking
In Sense of Dollars and Cents
By tn« Associated Frost
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 15.
The President of the National
Conference of Social Work says
welfare workers show little sense
when it comes to dollars and cents.
As a, matter of fact, Ewan
Clague warns, present public aid
tampers with normal economic
“rewards and punishments” and
might even interfere with them.
He told the national conference
last night its members have not
been self-critical enough.
He said they should "examine
cold-bloodedly, factually and ob
jectively the consequences of what
we are doing.
“We in the social science field
Lincoln
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salt. If Mr. Truman has that in
mind, he wjll have to file for the
Senate Democratic nomination by
April 29. 1952—the last filing date
for the primaries which take place
in August.
Mr. Truman’s popularity in Mis
souri has, as in other parts of the
country, taken a slump, according
to Republicans. Republican State
Chairman William E. Byers does
not take stock in the suggestion
that Mr. Truman will seek a Sen
ate seat. He said, that in his
opinion the record of the Truman
administration, which he con
siders most unsavory, will be the
issue in the coming campaign, and
that Mr. Truman would have to
meet mat issue whether he ran
for President again or for Senator.
“If he runs for the Senate.”
said Mr. Byers, “we can beat him
with Senator Kem.”
Other more impartial observers
say Mr. Truman will be an ex
ceedingly difficult candidate to de
feat in Missouri. They point to
the fact that he carried Missouri
in 1848 by about 280.000 votes over
Gov. Dewey. Some of them insist
that the President will carry the
State next year, no matter how
he gets along elsewhere, should
he be a candidate.
Encouraged by House Victory.
The Republicans have been en
couraged by the election of thetf
candidate in the 11th Congression
al District, to fill a vacancy in the
House. The Democrats carried the
district last November by 26,000
votes, and lost it in the special
election this year by 6,000. Ad
mittedly, however, the State is
fundamentally Democratic, and
the Republicans only carry it when
the Democrats are split.
The recent wave on sentiment
in support of Gen. MacArthur and
against Mr. Truman, who dis
missed him from his Par East
commands, hit this State hard as
it did others. But it does not ap
naav* In j at *« >
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dent here. Nor does it appear to
have taken Gen. Eisenhower off
the eligible list for a Republican
presidential nomination.
A failure of President Truman’s
policy in the Korean war, if it
developed in future months, it is
true, might sink Mr. Truman
politically.
Eisenhower Has Support.
For Gen. Eisenhower there is
undoubted support in this State i
—as there is, too, for Senator
Taft of Ohio. Gen. Eisenhower’s
availability for a presidential
nomination by the Republicans
will depend on the measure of his
success as supreme commander of
the North Atlantic Nations’ forces
in Europe. Many people believe
the general is a Republican, as is
his brother, Arthur Eisenhower, a1
businessman of this city.
The suggestion that the Mac-,
Arthur issue has effectively
dimmed the chances of an Eisen
hower nomination by the Repub
licans seems to carry less weight,
now that there has been a gen
eral disinclination by Republican
leaders to espouse the MacArthur
military program in Korea as a
party issue at this time.
Also Gen. Mac Arthur’s evident
sincerity in his declination to en
ter politics or to run for office is
accepted here. So far as the
probability of a Democratic pres
are afflicted with too much heart
and not enough head.” •
“To put it bluntly," Mr. Clague
added, “we have not worked out a
program carefully adapted to eco
nomic life, one which, dovetails
with the economic system so that
the two work smoothly together,"
He cited cases where families
have received thousands of dol
lars in aid even though able to
support themselves.
About 6,000 delegates to the 1951
conference heard Mr. Clague call
few more Federal funds for social
research as a means toward im
proving welfare programs and our
foreign relations.
Mr. Clague is Federal commis
sloner of labor statistics.
idential nomination for <3en.
Eisenhower is concerned, the opin
ion is expressed that Gen. Eisen
hower would accept such a nom
ination only in the event the
Republicans nominated for their
candidate an out-and-out isola
tionist, who opposed the program
of rearmament in Europe, which
Gen. Eisenhower considers an im
portant measure of defense against
possible Communist world aggres
•MUU.
Wiley Says MacArthur
Is Possibility as Candidate
MILWAUKEE, May 15. (JP).—
Oen. MacArthur is a definite pos
sibility as Republican candidate
for President next year in the
eyes of Senator Wiley, Republican
of Wisconsin.
“It’s too early to pick candi
dates now," Senator Wiley told an
interviewer yesterday, “but here
is a great man who is a definite
possibility.”
“We Republicans want to win
in 1052, but we must deserve vic
tory. We must not pick a man
of limited ability or a man who
appeals only to a segment of
American voters.
Senator Wiley, ranking Repub
lican on the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee, said he was not
referring to annyone in particular
in that latter remark.
Baby Tapir Arrives
At Zoo After Flight
From Colombia
A baby tapir flown from Colom
bia arrived at the Washington Zoo
today.
The young animal, which will
weigh about 1,000 pounds when
full grown, is the first tapir the
Zoo has had since World War n.
Dr. William M. Mann, Zoo di
rector. said the new addition will
be bottle-fed and have temporary
quarters in the Lion House.
The tapir, a mammal which fre
quents the forests of South and
Central America, has a heavy,
sparsely haired body and a pro
longed snout. The youngster, cov
ered with spots, will have a dark
brown hide when it reaches ma
turity. ]
'Mrs. Mesfa Acclaims
Eisenhower's Work
Gen. Eisenhower has been a
great morale-builder for the Eu
ropeans, Mrs. Perle Mesta, Min
ister to Luxembourg, said after a
White House call yesterday.
Back In this country for a
speaking tour—non-political, $he
says—Mrs. Mesta told reporters
that before Gen. Eisenhower took
over his job as commander of
Atlantic pact forces, the Euro
peans were so tired of war that
“they wouldn’t have pulled the
trigger if they had ft aruft in t.hrir
hands.
Gen. Eisenhower, however, she
continued, has changed all that,
and spurred high interest in the
Western European defense plan.
Mrs. Mesta said she didn’t know
anything about recurrent reports
that she might get an ambassa
dorship.
"I want to go back to Luxem
bourg,” she added.
The Minister plans to be Deck
at her post in time to receive Miss
Margaret Truman, who is leaving
for Europe May 26.
Blodensburg PTA Plgy
The Bladensburg Primary
School Parent-Teacher Associa
tion will present “Goldilocks the
Door,” a comedy in pantomine, at
8 o’clock tonight in the Bladens
burg (Md.) Junior High Schpol.
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