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THE EVENING STAR
Washington. D. C.
iCESDAV. SEPTEMBER 18, 1»SI
Constitution Praised
By Barkley in Talk at
Rockville Exercises
Vice President Barkley empha
sized the importance of the
Constitution at Rockville, Md.,
yesterday in an old-fashioned
Constitution Day exercise that fit
ted him like a glove.
Mr. Barkley looked right at
home as he thundered out his
praise of America’s great historical
figures and traditions from a flag
decked rostrum on the Mont
gomery County Courthouse lawn
before an estimated 5,000 spec
tators.
Frequent Applause.
The Vice President impressed
his audience with his knowledge
of constitutional history, which he
imparted with verve and vigor.
He spoke without notes and was
interrupted several times by ap
plause.
A “Veep" speech would not be
complete, of course, without his
Kentucky humor, and yesterday’s
was no exception.
In reply to a remark by Circuit
Court Judge Stedman Prescott,
who introduced him, that despite
the press of his official duties the
Vice President still had time for
“that spark of romance," Mr.
Barkley said:
“I w'ish to thank the judge for
his reference to my romantic in
stinct. but he is a poor judge of
size if he thinks it is just a spark.
According to my judgment it's
more like a full moon or a bright
sun.”
Mrs. Barkley, dressed in a trim
gray suit, laughed with the audi
ence.
The Montgomery County Bar
Association sponsored the com
memoration of the 164th anni
versary of the signing of the com-!
pleted draft of the Constitution by
delegates to the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia on
September 17, 1787.
The audience was treated to
another piece of fire-and-brim
stone oratory from veteran Circuit
Court Judge Charles W. Wood
ward
He said our Constitution is being
strangled by “mangy, unpatriotic,!'
disloyal people who have become
obsessed with foreign ideas.”
Not All Communists.
"And not all of them are Com
munists,” he added. “If they keep
on the way they have the last 25
years, we won't be able to recognize
the Constitution."
The Constitution has been
stretched like elastic. Judge Wood-!
ward declared.
“Why. when I was a boy on my,
father’s farm in Georgia, no gov- ;
ernment agent came around to tell
my father how many acres of cot-!
ton he could plant, how much rent
he could charge or whom he could
hire,” he said.
Juliana Tells People
They Face Sacrifices
By the Associated Press
THE HAGUE. The Netherlands,!
6ept. 18.—Queen Juliana warned
her people today to be prepared
for new personal, financial sacri
fices because of the contributions
Holland is expected to make to the
defense of the Western world.
She opened Parliament in a
joint session of both chambers,
which took up a budget allotting
28.1 per cent for defense.
In her speech from the throne
she said it is certain that realiza
tion of a four-year military plan
can hardly be achieved without!
financial aid from abroad.
The. first government action
after Parliament opened was to
submit an anti-inflationary bud
get of 5,200,000,000 guilders
<$1,315,800,000) for 1952.
It calls for increased defense
efforts combined with “the unflag
ging use of all energies” to close a
1 billion guilders <5263,160,000)
gap in the international balance
of payments.
The Queen said “heavy demands
call for the restriction of expenses
normally considered desirable.”
Civil Defense Post Filled
BALTIMORE. Sept. 18 OP).—
Gov. McKeldin has announced the j
appointment of Brig. Gen. Robert
P. Williams <U. S. A„ ret.>. to the
post of director of the Health
Service Division, Maryland Civil!
Defense. Gen. Williams is noiv on'
a special mission to Europe for the
surgeon general.
The Weather Here and Over the Nation
District of Columbia—Cloudy,
high near 76 degrees this after- 1
noon. Partly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow. Little change in tem
perature. Low tonight near 58
degrees.
Maryland—Cloudy in interior
and on coast tonight. Low 48-52
degrees in west and 54-58 degrees
in east. Tomorrow, cloudy with
moderate temperature.
Virginia—Cloudy in interior and
on coast tonight. Low. 48-52 de
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lantic Coast, Florida, Northern New England, the south portion
of Texas and the Columbia Plateau. The remainder of the
Nation will enjoy fair weather except for fog along the entire
Pacific Coast. It will be cooler over Northern New England with
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JET CRASH SCENE—A twin-engine Banshee jet fighter plane lands on the carrier Essex, where
a similar plane crashed while landing Sunday. Eight other planes were destroyed or damaged
by the crash fire. —Navy Photo via AP Wirephoto.
t Two Killed, 5 Missing
; After Jet Crash-Lands
Aboard Carrier Essex
By the Associated Press
f TOKYO. Sept. 18—A twin jet
. Banshee crash-landed on the air
; craft carrier Essex off Korea Sun
;!day, killing two men and injuring
at least 10 others. Five more men
t were unaccounted for.
.1 An earlier Navy announcment
in Washington said the accident j
. occurred Monday and listed two
men killed, 15 Injured and five
missing.
None of the casualties was listed j
) as from the Washington area.
The jet. returning to the carrier
' after participating in day-long
1 attacks over North Korea, hopped
over the arresting barrier and
crashed into parked planes. Two
Banshees and two Panther jets!
were destroyed. Four other jets
were damaged extensively.
The 27.000-ton carrier w'as only
slightly damaged.
Fire broke out but was quickly
controlled.
Vice Admiral Harold M. Mar-;
tin, commander of the United
States 7th Fleet, offered to de
;tach the Essex from the task;
force in order to transfer casual
ties and make repairs.
But Task Force 77 officers said
the ship's personnel had requested
permission to carry out remaining!
flight schedules. The Essex's offi
jcers said the damage caused would
not reduce the flat top’s ability to
launch flights at Communist tar
gets.
After hopping the barriers the
Banshee piled into Panthers and
Banshees parked forward on the
flight deck, crackup centered
on the starboard sde of the flight
deck.
Prompt damage control meas- 1
ures prevented the fire from
'spreading to other aircraft on the
flight deck and from igniting am
munition at nearby anti-aircraft!
guns.
Admiral Martin radioed the Es
sex Monday. "I extend my most
sincere sympathy for the loss you!
[have sustained and approve with]
! admiration your determination to
;carry out your schedule without;
change.”
Two More Fleeing Convicts
Recaptured in Florida
By the Associated Press
MONTGOMERY. Ala., Sept. 18.
i —Two more of the escaped Draper
i Prison convicts were captured to
. day, leaving only four of the orig
ijinal 19 still at liberty.
Taken in a vacant house at
- ;Selma early today were Leo Self.
■ i one -of the ringleaders of the mass
1 'prison break last Friday night and
described as “one of the most dan
gerous men in the Alabama prison
system,” and Price F. Jones.
’! They offered no resistance, Po
! lice Chief E. W. Muffin said.
I Bloodhounds trailed the men to
the vacant dwelling just outside
the city limits. Self left a .38 pis
tol in the house and emerged with
! his hands up.
;j Self, 43. was serving a 20-year
. sentence for robbery in Jefferson
, County. He had escaped fourj
times previously.
i Jones, 22, was serving a six- year j
sentence for burglary and grand;
;larceny in Lauderdale County. I
, grees in west and 56-62 degrees
tin east. Tomorrow, cloudy with;
[ moderate temperature. j,
Wind—North, 7 miles per hour, i
: at 11:30 a.m.
District Medical Society rag-!
• weed pollen count for 24 hours;
[ ended 9:30 a.m, September 18, 26
; grains per cubic yard of air
i Five-Day Forecast for Washington
And Vicinity—September 19-23.
I Temperatures will average near
to slightly below normal Wash-j
Outlook Described as Muddy
For Satisfying Cup of Coffee
By Hal Boyle
Associated Press Staff Writer
NEW YORK. Sept. B.—The
great American tragedy today is
the average cup of coffee.
The average cup of coffee is
what the average man gets when
he asks for a good cup of coffee.
The real issue before the people
'every day is: How to get a good
cup of coffee. Not a good cup of
nickel coffee. That issue has been
fought out and lost. The problem
is wffiere to get an honest-to-flavor
| cup of coffee that will reach down
into the gnawing morning anxiety
of a man and say, “There, there,
everything’s going to be all right
today.”
Give a man the wrong cup of
coffee, however, and nothing can
make his day right. He will criti
cize his own mother-in-law and
I detect hidden flaws in her daugh
ter. He’ll sing a song of woe until
; twilight.
Why is it so difficult to get a
good cup of coffee? Brewing it is
no magic art, handed down secret
ly from generation to generation.
Basically, it is the alchemy of
i coffee, water at the right tempera
ture, and time. You mix them to
igether in the proper proportions—
and you get good coffee.
Government Union
Bargaining Rights
Bill Opposed by GAO
The Controller General today
opposed enactment of the so
called Little Wagner Act legisla
tion which would give Govern
iment employe unions virtual
collective bargaining rights.
Frank L. Yates, acting Con
troller General, said the General
Accounting Office disapproved of
ithe~hill because it would not be
workable. Mr. Yates’ statement
was presented to a Senate Civil
Service Subcommittee which is
holding hearings on the bill.
The measure would compel de
partments and agencies to deal
with employe groups on all per
sonnel policy matters and griev
ances.
The GAO official declared such
procedures for union-management
(discussions already exist in most
! agencies and that nothing would
be gained by formalizing this.
He also said it might be unfair
;to those Federal employes who
!do not belong to Government
| unions.
The subcommittee also heard
[testimony from various Govern
ment employe union leaders who
[declared that such legislation is
needed.
However, one unionist, Luther
Steward, president of the National
Federation of Federal Employes,
said the bill wouldn’t do much
good and could do a lot of harm.
Mr. Steward said the friendly re
lationship his group holds with
various Federal bureaus might be
jeopardized through any law re
quiring such co-operation.
Band Concert at Meade
An outdoor concert will be pre
sented by the Navy Band at 6 p.m.
tomorrow at the main parade
ground bandstand at Fort Meade,
Md.
ington area normals are 76 degrees)
high and 58 degrees low'. Will be
isomewhat warmer Thursday,*
cooler Friday through Sunday.
Rain expected Friday and Satur
day totaling x k to 3/ 4 inch.
Biter Report
(From Li S. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Perry
and at Great Falls: Shenandoah clear at
Hamers Ferry
Humidity
Yesterday— Pet Today— Pet
Noon . 64 Midnight _ ATi
; 4 pm 44 S a.m. 'O
Spm - 65 10 a.m. _ fi.V
1 pm 4U
Record Temperatures This Tear.
Highest. 96, on June 2
Lowest. 11 on February 8.
High and Low of Last 24 Hours.
High. 76. at 3 p.m.
Low. 62 at 6:4(1 a.m
Tide Tablet.
(Furnished by U S. Coast and Geodetic
3urvey.)
Today Tomorrow I
High 10:52 am 11:30 a.m.
Low 5:20 a.m. 6:05 a.m.
; High 11:15 p.m. 11:53 p.m.
'Low 6:30 pm. 6:11p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
iSun. today .6:53 7:12
Sun. tomorrow 6:53 7:10
Moon, today 8:35 p.m. 10:13 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour alter sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1951. Aver Record
[January 2.18 3.55 7.83 37
I February 2.65 3.37 6.84 841
March 2.92 3.75 8.84 91
'April 3.49 3.27 9.13 *B9!
May 2.74 3.70 10.69 *B9!
Juns 6.34 4.13 10.94 *oo[
{July 6.25 4.71 10.63 *B6l
'August 1.75 4.01 14.41 *2B
[September 2.63 3.24 17.45 *34
[October ... 2.84 8.81 *37 [
November 2.37 869 'B9
(December .. 3.32 756 *Ol i
Temperatures in Various Cities.
H. L. H. L.
I Albuquerque 85 55 New York . 77 65
Anchorage 56 49 Norfolk . 75 65
Atlanta 74 63 Oklahoma C. 80 55
Bismarck 77 41 Omaha 18 49!
Boston 78 60 Philadelphia ; 59
[Chicago ... 74 51 Phoenix 102 tilt:
Cincinnati 74 48 Pitc-burgh 7(i 52
SEI Paso 85 59 Portland. Me. 74 55
[lndianapolis 73 46 Poitland. Or. 87' 54!
Kansas City. 76 56 Richmond 7F 60
[Los Angeles 77 64 Salt Lake C. 86 53
[Louisville ... 75 48 San Antonio 81 56
Memphis 76 50 San Diego 79 63
[Miami 87 82 San Francisco 73 55
I Milwaukee 74 48 Seattle . 73 48
New Orleans 82 69 Tampa 87 74
I The classic formula for coffee:
"Black as the devil, hot as hell,
pure as an angel, sw'eet as love."
If you get a cupful of that, it
doesn’t make much difference
whether somebody dropped egg
shells in the pot to settle it. You
can thicken it with sugar, or thin
it with fat cream. But you can’t
wreck it.
The average cup of drugstore
or cafeteria coffee, however, is;
more likely to be nothing but
lukewarm, grey liquid fog caught
in crockery. It has the personality!
of swamp mist, strained through
sulphur, and bitter as an old
regret.
Though it be served in a vessel
of beaten gold—and it isn’t—the
stomach detects it as a fraud and
grumbles in rebellion. It misses;
the mellow bite of authority, the
true fragrance
East and west and north and
south the daily search goes on.!
the great American quest—for an
authentic cup of coffee.
The restaurant proprietor who
can distill it properly need never
stay up nights trying to invent a
better mousetrap. The world will
beat a path to his door—and then
beat in the door, if necessary, to
get a cup.
Virginia U. Relieves
Teacher Who Called
Colleagues Leftists
By the Avkociaifed Pres*
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept.
. 18—Dr. Homer G. Richey has been
relieved of his teaching post at
[ the University of Virginia “because
it is impossible for him to work
harmoniously with the staff of the
I school.”
■| The assistant professor at
the university’s Woodrow Wilson
School of Foreign Affairs was ad
vised yesterday that he will be
! given other duties until his con
tract expires with the current
school year.
In announcing Dr. Richey s dis
•missal from the teaching staff.
President Colgate W. Darden said
’the move had the unanimous rec
ommendation of the university's
Council of Deans.
Accused Colleagues.
1 Dr. Richey is the professor who
accused three colleagues at the
• Wilson school of leftish leanings.
, A faculty committee looked into
the charges last spring and said
it could find no evidence to sub
stantiate them Similar accusa
tions were put before the Board
'of Vistors by Dr. Richey. The
1 board found the three teachers
5 professionally capable and fit for
their posts.
The three professors are Dr.
['John Gange, director of the WiJ
,ison school, and Associate Profes
ilsors Alfred P. Fernbach and
.jCharles Micaud.
In a letter to Dr. Richey, Presi
dent Darden noted yesterday:
"It is my own belief that you
.) have accused your colleagues
wrongly and that you have done
them grave injustice.”
"Manner” of Action Criticized.
' President Darden also told Dr.
; Richey that “the manner in which
'you have attempted to arouse the
passions of people . . . against
your colleagues, the school of
which you are part, and the uni
’ versity under whose control it
functions, is unworthy of one
holding your position.”
Before he was advised of his
dismissal from the teaching staff,
Dr. Richey issued a statement
+which said in part:
"I felt that the board had the
opportunity to take pioneer steps
in turning the tide in Red infiltra
tion and subversion in American
. institutions of higher learning. It.
■is regrettable that it did not
|choose to do so.
"I have no regrets about this;
1 matter as far as my own course ofj
i action was concerned. . .
!
Franco's Invitation
Accepted by Quirino
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—Presi
dent Elpidio Quirino of the Phil
ippines has accepted an invitation;
from Generalissimo Franco for an
official visit to Spain early in Oc
-1 tober. Quirino will leave by ship
for Gibraltar September 25.
At a news conference shortly
after he had conferred with Gen.
[ MacArthur at the Waldorf-Astoria
1 Hotel the Philippine President
[ announced that he would leave)
' aboard the liner Constitution, ac
! companied by his daughter.
; ;
Two Pilots Downed
SAN MATEO. Calif., Sept. 18;
l (JP). —One Navy pilot made an)
1 emergency belly landing and an
[ other parachuted into San Fran-j
cisco Bay before dawn today as;
i! their fighter planes ran out of
J fuel on a night training flight,
j The ’chutist was rescued by a
. crash boat after he had been in,
' the water two hours.
Writer Tells Inquiry
Former Vincent Aide
Impressed Her as Red
By the Associated Press
Mrs. Alice Widener. a New York
writer, said today she considered
Julian R. Friedman, former State 1
[Department employe, to be a
Communist.
Mrs. Widener said Mr. Friedman
was introduced to her as “one of
the top brains of the Communist
.Party” and she added she was
! skeptical about a later explanation
that this description of Mr. Fried
man was only "a practical joke.”
The witness testified before the
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee, which is investigating the
Institute of Pacific Relations as
part of a search for subversive in
fluences on United States policies
in the Far East.
Was Assistant to Vincent,
i Mr. Friedman has been de
scribed in previous testimony as a
one-time assistant to John Carter
Vincent, former chief of the State 1
Department’s Far Eastern division.
He also worked for the depart
ment in China.
Mrs. Widener testified that she
was introduced to Mr. Freidman
in the spring of 1947 by Clark
Andrews, whom she identified as
I a radio producer for the American
Broadcasting System at that time.
Mrs. Widener said that Mr.
Freidman himself, in a lengthy
conversation with her said he had
done good work “for the Commu
nist cause” as a State Department
employe in China before some one
“got wise” to him.
However, she said that the
morning after the conversation
Mr. Andrews telephoned her and
said "We really took you for a
ride last night.” She quoted him
as saying "You really fell for a
practical joke.”
Tells of Inquiries.
Mrs. Widener said she told Mr. I
Andrews “maybe it was and may-!
be it wasn’t.”
She testified that she made in
quiries which corroborated some
of the details Mr. Freidman had
told her about his career, and
then reported the conversation to
the FBI in New York.
Both Senator McCarran. Demo
crat, of Nevada, the subcommit
tee chairman, and Senator Fergu-!
son. Republican, of Michigan said!
they didn’t see clearly why Mr.
Friedman would carry on such a
conversation with Mrs. Widener
“Why would Friedman open up
the whole subject to you without
knowing what your turn of mind
was?” Senator McCarran asked.
Wrote Scripts for “Voice.”
Mrs. Widener replied that she
thought Mr. Andrews on several
occasions had made compli
mentary remarks about her, and
also that he seemed to know she
was a professional writer and
speaker.
Mrs. Widener also told the Sen
ators that she wrote radio scripts
for the State Department s Voice
of America programs last year and
this year.
Before today's hearing opened.
Senator McCarran said “pressure
lis being brought to bear” to cut
off funds for the subcommittee.
He told a reporter he suspects such
ipressure stems from administra
tion sources, including the State
Department.
Wreck That Razed
Rail Station Probed
By the Associated Press
MONON, Ind., Sept. 18.—The
Monon Railroad began an investi
gation today seeking to discover
why a passenger train sped into a
sharp curve, demolished the stone
station and killed the head engi
neer.
Os the five persons injured, only
one was reported in critical con
dition—Miss Alice Burlington of
Monon. She was waiting on the
station platform for her mother.
The body of the engineer, H. D.
Dickerson, 66. Lafayette, Ind., was
dug out of the limestone ruins 90
minutes after the wreck yester
day. His fireman, Charles Henri
ott, 36, Lafayette, was trapped
just as long, but he was reported
in satisfactory condition.
All five passenger coaches
stayed on the rails. No passen
gers were hurt.
R. R. Gavin, Lafayette, Monon
i general manager, said witnesses
told him the train, bound from
Chicago to Louisville, was travel
ing between 50 and 60 miles an
hour, though the line has a speed
limit of 15 miles an hour on the
curve. He estimated damage to
the station and train at $250,000.
Price Code Violations
Laid to 7 Restaurants
By the Associated Press
CAMDEN, N. J.. Sept. 18.—
Seven South Jersey restaurants
were ordered today to show cause
|why the United States District
! Court should not issue injunction
; preventing them from continu
; ing business for failure to comply
I with Federal price regulations.
; Judge Thomas M. Madden
j signed an application for injunc
tion made by Alexander Feinberg.
assistant United States district,
attorney, to compel the defend
ants to comply with an Office of
■ Price Stabilization regulation cov
ering eating establishments.
Action was taken against six
Camden County. restaurants and
the Wildwood Case, Wildwood,
N. J.
__ i
Romania Sentences 10,
Including Bishop, 82
By the Associated Press
VIENNA. Austria, Sept. 18.—
IThe Russian news agency Tass
said last night a Bucharest mili
tary court has convicted and sen-;
tenced 10 Romanians as “spies
and traitors,” including Msgr
Agostino Pacha, Catholic bishop
•of Timisoara.
Tass reported the 82-year-old;
bishop was sentenced to 18 years.
He was charged with membership
in a “group of spies and traitors”!
working for “Anglo-American im
perialism” and the Vatican.
Five other defendants received
I life imprisonment, Tass said, and
the other four heavy sentences.
iThe Federal Spotlight , l
Pay Raise Action Shifts to House
After Senate Votes 10% Boost j
By Joseph Young I
Action on Federal employes’ pay j
raise legislation shifted to the
[House today, as Chairman Mur
ray of the House Civil Service ;
Committee announced a change
of heart and said he would sup
port his committee's flat S4OO pay J
increase measure.
The Senate yesterday afternoon, j
by a unanimous vote,
a flat 10 per cent pay raise for
Federal and District Government!
classified employes, and police, ,
firemen and teaohers here. The ‘
raise would be retroactive to last :
July 1
The Senate's bill imposes a 1
maximum increase of SBOO, which
means that employes earning [
SB,OOO a year or more would get
a maximum SBOO boost in salary
Mr. Murray’s statement today .
makes it almost certain that the
House will pass the S4OO pay raise
bill for postal and classified* em
ployes. The Senate last Friday!
approved a S4OO to SBOO pay in
crease measure for postal work
ers. .
Rules Group to Act.
'
Mr. Murray has asked the
House Rules Commitee to approve
the S4OO classified and postal pay;
bills. He will appear before the;
group tomorrow. The rules group)
is expected to clear the way for
House action on the legislation'
either late this week or early next'
week.
Previously. Mr. Murray, who had
been in the hospital when his com
mittee approved the S4OO pay bills,
announced that the increases were
too high and that he would make
a move on the House floor to re
duce the raise to S3OO. Also, he
) objected to the permanent feature;
of the proposed increases.
The Tennessee Democrat said
today, however, that he had)
changed his mind and would sup
port his committee’s bill.
Since the Senate’s 10 per cent
bill and the House’s S4OO measure,
are so widely divergent. It means
that probably a new pay raise
measure representing a compro
mise on both bills will have to be|
written in House-Senate confer-)
ence after the House formally ap-’
; proves the S4OO legislation.
Forecasts Liberal Bill.
Out of all this, however, should;
come a pretty liberal bill for Fed-j
eral employes.
, After the Senate had voted an
8.8 per cent increase for postal
I workers last Friday, with a S4OO
guarantee, there had been con
siderable sentiment at that time
, to give classified employes the
I same S4OO minimum figure.
However, over the weekend,
j sentiment changed in this regard.
■> Senator Pastore, Democrat, of
1 Rhode Island, who handled the
) Truman Asks Lawyers
To Help in Guiding
Loyalty Investigations
l By the Associated Press
; NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—Presi
dent Truman today urged the Na
tion's lawyers to help guide loyalty
investigations so as to “best strike
the difficult balance” between na
tional security and individual
.rights.
In a message to the 74th annual
convention of the American Bar
. Association. Mr. Truman noted.
. that loyalty investigations, on
■ many levels, are being conducted
i throughout the country.
. He said lawyers can help the
, people and authorities determine:
Whether the investigations “are
■ reasonable and practical methods
. of maintaining security or whether
; their potentialities in terms of
. stifling freedom of expression out
weigh their utility as security
measures.”
, Message Is Read.
I The President's message, read
. to the convention, said that law
. yers should not let "criticism by
I the uninformed” make them
I afraid to defend persons charged
with such crimes as conspiracy,
5 sabotage and espionage.
It is the “moral responsibility”
of the law profession to defend
t these persons, he said, in order to
5 maintain “our tradition of fair
, trial-.”
The President said that “in
j these trying times." many persons
j “posing as super-patriots, are, I
, believe, taking advantage of con
, fusion and fear for partisan pur
poses.”
Although the Nation now is
united against the peril of “So
viet aggression,” he said that
“blind obedience to authority has
never been characteristic of
Americans.”
Element of Security.
’ “The free interchange of opin
] ion and criticism.” he added, has
t made possible “the most impor
tant element of national security
we possess.
J "The repressive security meas
ures of the police state do not
j promote the over-all national se
. curity.”
i He said the bar is in a “pecu
liarly strategic position” to provide
['leadership in solving the problem;
■■ of reconciling our security meas
ures with the essentials of our)
heritage of freedom.” • j
The message was read by Ar
[) thur J. Freund of St. Louis, chair -
, man of the ABA’s section on
criminal law.
i
Lions to Hear Simpson
Joseph B. Simpson, jr., former
;Montgomery State’s attorney, will
speak on the Constitution at a
. meeting of the Bethesda-Chevy
j Chase Lions Club at 7 o’clock to-)
night at the Kenwood Country
JClub.
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legislation on the Senate floor
along with Chairman Johnston of
the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee, declared yesterday that a
S4OO minimum would violate
Wage Stabilization Board policies.
Senator Pastore told the Senate
that some crafts and custodial
workers, wno now earn $1,500 to;
$1,600 a year, would get a 25 per!
cent increase under such a mini
mum guarantee.
Bad Precedent Set.
Similarly, Senator Monroney,
Democrat, of Oklahoma, who
sponsored the 10 per cent per-;
centage raise formula at the be
hest of administration leaders,
declared a S4OO minimum would
set a bad precedent in private in
dustry and might wreck the
WSB’s wage controls program.
Also, Senator Pastore said the
S4OO guarantee for postal workers!
includes other fringe benefits that!
would have been added to their)
salaries had not the S4OO mini
mum been adopted.
W’hile classified employe lead
ers were disappointed over the
failure to secure a minimum S4OO
figure, the fact remains that the
liberalized treatment given postal
workers did cause the Senate to
increase the original 8.4 per cent;
bill reported by the Senate Civil'
Service Committee to 10 per cent.
The Senate yesterday also voted )
(to include foreign service officers
in the measure. These employes
already are included in the House
Civil Service Committee’s bill. The
| bill applies to legislative and ju
dicial workers as well.
Affects 1 Million.
The Senate’s classified measure
affects more than 1 million em
ployes. including close to 260,000
)in the Washington area. It would
cost $340 million a year. The
retroactive clause would add about
another S3O million during the
first year the new salary schedule
went into effect.
As in the case of the House Civil
[Service Committee’s legislation,
ithe Senate's bill makes the raises
) permanent.
The District's police, firemen
and teachers were included in the
: bill on motion of Chairman Neely
of the Senate District Committee.
The House Civil Service Com
mittee had included these em
ployes in its pay bill, but they were
I dropped when the House District
!Committee raised a question of
Jurisdiction. The House District
group meets at 10 a.m. tomorrow
to discuss the situation.
Also to be considered is a request
by the Commissioners to make any
■ Pay raise retroactivity effective for
3.000 District per diem workers.
,!Such workers would be included in
. a pay raise, but special legislation
would be required for the retro
active benefits.
; Senate Unit Expected
To Okay $5.9 Billion
Tax Measure Today
ly tht Auociotad Pr#»i
Chairman George predicted the
Senate Finance Committee will
come up today with a formal
version of its $5.9 billion tax bill
for Senate action tomorrow.
Senator George called the com
mittee together to approve a re
port detailing the various tax in
creases voted by the group in a
[series of closed meetings.
The House has passed a bill to
hike taxes an estimated $7.2 bil
lion a year. President Truman
asked for $lO billion.
The Georgia Senator told a re
porter he thinks the bill can be
taken up in the Senate tomorrow
He favors starting sessions two
hours early daily in an effort to
get the measure passed this week.
Senator McFarland of Arizona,
the Democratic leader, said he will
■ work out such a schedule for
Thursday and thereafter in the
hope that Senate night sessions
l can be avoided. Senator McFar
. land called the Democratic Policy
■ Committee together today to dis
i cuss this and other problems.
[ Senator McFarland is driving
for an early October adjournment
but Senator Taft, Republican, of
■ iOhio said the Republican Policy
( Committee he heads is “a little
about the chances of
. quitting before October 13.
He said it was "impossible to
, tell” how long the tax bill might
. take. He added the Republicans
’ probably won’t take any party
_ stand on it.
“We saw no particular reason
' for doing that or for holding a
conference of all the Republican
5 Senators on the matter.” he said.
Congress in Brief
By th« Associated Press
Senate:
Considers presidential veto of
veterans’ pension bill, then re
i sumes debate on airmail subsidy
measure.
Internal Security subcommittee
takes testimony from former
“Voice of America” employe in
investigation of Far Eastern pol
icies.
House:
Considers legislation to increase
| postal rates.
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Mother of Two Dies
In Gallinger of Polio,
Area's Third Fatality
An attractive 26-year-old mother
of two children died of bulbar
poliomyelitis Sunday night at
Gallinger Hospital. Hers was the
third death
from polio in
the Washing
ton area this
summer.
■ She was Mrs.
Arthur W. Mur
.phy, of 709
South Adams
street, Arling
ton. Va.
j Mrs. Murphy
became ill
about 10 days
before her
death. She suf
fered from a
i
Mrs. Murphy.
■ sore throat and fever for a short
time, then apparently recovered.
Paralysis Spreads Rapidly.
Last Tuesday night, Mrs. Mur
phy showed signs of a slight pa
ralysis and had trouble swallow -
ing. The following morning her
lease was diagnosed as bulbar polio
! and she was taken to Gallinger
Hospital.
From then on, the paralysis
[Spread rapidly. From Thursday
[night until her death she was in
i a respirator, and she had been
1 1 unconscious for the last two days,
; Mrs. Murphy was the former
j Jane Marks, daughter of Mr. and
>|Mrs. Donald Marks of Great Neck,
3 iLong Island. Mr. Marks is an
. attorney in New York.
Born and reared in New York,
sre was graduated from Wellesley
, College in 1945 and three years
. later received her law degree from
j the Columbia University Law
j School. She practiced law for a
; short time in New York after her
[ marriage in 1949.
? Husband Also Is Lawyer.
- The Murphys had lived in Ar
lington for the last two years.
1 Mr. Murphy is an attorney with
. the appellate section of the Claims
s Division of the Justice Depart
ment.
i Besides her husband and par
;; ents, she leaves tw>o children, Don
s' aid, 2, and Lois, 6 months, and
• a sister, Miss Carol Marks of
- Great Neck.
Funeral services and burial will
2 ) be private. The family requests
t;that in place of flowers, contribu
f tions be made to the National
t Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
t Miss Chadwick Home;
' Wants lo Go Swimming
i. 3
-j By tht Associated Press
i NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—Flor
- ence Chadwick, the only woman
to swim the English Channel in
both directions, arrived by plane
from England today and what
do you think she wanted to do
first?
“I’d like to take a dip.” said
San Diego’s swimming stenog
rapher.
"I want to take a swim, to
loosen up.” said the 32-year-old
Californian when she returned
home with her father, Richard,
e from a three-month trip abroad.
[1 Miss Chadwick first swam the
t l channel, from Fiance to England,
U| on August 8. 1950. She accom
plished the more difficult Eng
. j land to France crossing eight days
- ago. She covered the distance in
- 16 hours and 19 minutes, battling
a cross currents most of the way.
- One New Case of Polio
’ Reported-in D. C. Area
e Only one new polio case was re
i ported by Washington Area health
o officers during the 24-hour period
o ending at 9 a.m. today,
c.) The case is the 44th of the year
i, for Montgomery County, which
1 had 43 cases at this time last year,
r Montgomery County is the only
e place in the area where cases this
s year are running ahead of the
- number reported last year. The
y latest victim is a six-year old boy
- living on Falls road, Rockville.
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