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TRUMAN ORDERS TAX BUREAU OVERHAUL
Corning Renamed School Head
For 3-Year Term by 6-to-3 Vote
r
Ballot Kept Secret
As Board Acts on
Superintendent
By Coit Hendley, Jr.
School Supt. Hobart M. Coming
today was reappointed to his $14,
000-a-year post by the Board of
Education in a split ballot, six to
three.
The ballot was secret and most
board members did not reveal the
way they voted.
The vote was an indication of
the sharp split which had de
veloped between Dr. Coming and
some members of the School
Board.
Adelbert W. Lee, board vice
president, long ago stated publicly
his intention of trying to block
Dr. Coming's reappointment. He
would not say how he voted today.
Dr. Phillip T. Johnson and C.
Melvin Sharpe, board president,
also have been critical of Dr.
Coming's administration. They
would not say how they voted.
Backed by Dr. Gannon.
Dr. James A. Gannon, Dr.
Coming’s main supporter, made
no secret of his ballot. He de
clared the victory of those who
supported Dr. Coming was decla
ration of the "confidence in the
ability and experience of the
superintendent.”
Wesley S. Williams also said
he voted for Dr. Corning.
Dr. Coming was not in the room
as the board members began the
special session. After the ballot
was announced, he was called in
and Mr. Sharpe told him:
‘ Dr. Corning, I am glad to an
nounce that you have been reap
pointed for a term of three years.”
Dr. Corning said:
"This does end quite a suspense
and a period of anxiety. I appre
ciate the action of the board.”
Two Statements Ready.
Dr. Corning, whose side was
taped up because of a broKen rib
he suffered in a fall over the holi
days, then said he had prepared
two statements for the occasion—
one in the event he was not re
appointed and the other if he was
rehired. He pulled a paper from
his left-hand coat pocket and pro
ceeded with his short statement.
After expressing his apprecia
tion to the board for his reap
pointment, Dr. Corning said:
"This gives me the opportunity
to continue my services for the
wonderful children of Washing
ton : to work again on the develop
ment of this great school system
of ours; to work with my loyal
and efficient staff: to continue my
connection with this Board of Ed
ucation. and to administer the
school system within the frame
(Continued on Page A-4, Col". 2.)
Christiansen Rejects
Job in Philadelphia
Milo F. Christiansen, District
Superintendent of Recreation, to
day announced that he will de
cline a recent offer by Philadel
phia to become recreation chief
there at a substantially higher
salary.
Mr. Christiansen, who has been
recreation head here since Con
gress established a Board of
Recreation in 1942, made his an
nouncement after conferring
with District Commissioner F.
Joseph Donohue and Harry S.
Wender, chairman of the Recrea
tion Board.
The *7-year-old superintendent
said he would go along with his
present $11,800 salary, rather
than accept the Philadelphia job
with its 40 per cent pay increase,
chiefly because recreation prob
lems here represent a big chal
lenge and that he regards it a
privilege to serve people of the
Nation’s Capital.
He also pointed out that he
owns his own home here, at 3239
Beech street N.W., and he said
he has accumulated 16 years of
Civil Service status, whereas the
Philadelphia post would be only
a four-year appointment.
Mr. Wender and Commissioner
Donohue expressed gratitude at
Mr. Christiansen's decision and
promised they will concentrate ef
forts to get the recreation chief a
higher pay status of a $12,800
maximum. <
Late News
Bulletin
New Year Bullet Death
Of Woman Ruled Accident
f*
i
The New Year’s eve stray bul
let death of Mrs. Ollie Estep,
41. of 1014 D street S.E. was
ruled accidental by a six-man
coroners jury today. The
mother of three children was
felled by a .22-caliber bullet
which police say was flred by
15-year-»ld Lloyd Wallace
Adams.
(Earlier Story on Page B-l.) L.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning wares high the statement
he prepared for today’s Board of Education meeting in the event
of his reappointment. In the other hant^ he is holding the
statement he had planned to deliver if he had not been named
for a new term. —Star Staff Photo by John Mueller.
Supreme Court Rules
For Per Diem Workers
In Premium Pay Fight
Double-Ti me-and-a-Half
For Holidays Is Approved
At GPO in World War II
The Supreme Court ruled today
that Government Printing Office
per diem workers were entitled to
double-time-and-a-half for work
ing on certain holidays during
World War II.
The high court, in a 6-to-3 de
cision, upheld a Court of Claims
judgment that such employes were
entitled to premium pay and gra
tuity pay under a special enact
ment of June, 1938, although Fed
eral employes on a per annum
basis had to work on those holi
days without any additional pay.
3 Justices Disagree.
Justice Minton wrote the ma
jority opinion from which Chief
Justice Vinson and Justices Reed
and Black dissented.
Government officials said the
ruling in a test case brought by
John S. Kelly of 4713 Forty-fifth
street N.W., a GPO employe, would
benefit “hundreds” of other GPO
employes. They also said it would
apply to “thousands of other per
diem Government workers who
may have similar valid claims.”
Mr. Kelly last April won a Court
of Claims decision awarding him
$172.32. He brought the test case
in behalf of Local 101 of the In
ternational Typographical Union.
1938 Law Noted.
The Supreme Court majority
opinion noted that the 1938 law
specifically named the holidays on
which premium pay and gratuity
pay was to be paid. Under a
wage agreement between the pub
lic printed and journeymen print
ers at the GPO, per diem and per
hour employes were to be paid at
the double-time-and-a-half rate
if they worked on the specified
holidays.
"Nothing in the resolution of
1938 prohibits such a wage agree
ment and indeed the Government
concedes this fact,” Justice Min
ton wrote. "Merely because the
resolution itself may not award
gratuity pay for holidays worked
is no ground for vitiating a wage
agreement which does.”
Hiss Suspended
From Law Practice
By Supreme Court
Alger Hiss, former State De
partment official now serving a
five-year prison term for perjury,
was suspended from practice be
fore the. Supreme Court today.
This order, in which Justices
Reed, Frankfurter and Clark did
not participate, was a move toward
eventual disbarment. The court
gave Hiss 40 days in which to
show cause why he should not be
disbarred.
Hiss was convicted in his second
trial in New York last January.
At his first trial, which resulted
in a hung jury in 1949, Justices
Frankfurter and Reed took the
stand as character witnesses at
the request of the defense. Jus
tice Clark was attorney general
at the tifne of the indictment and
prosecution of Hiss. .X''
Rescue Team Attempts
To Reach Bodies of
28 Air Crash Victims
All on Air Force Plane,
Including 19 Cadets,
Found Dead on Peak
By tha Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz„ Jan. 2.—Air
men and cowboys struggled up
the icy face of a rugged Central
Arizona mountain today in an
effort to reach the bodies of 28
military personnel killed in the
crash of an Air Force C-47 trans
port plane.
Mounted on horses, the ad
vance party of an evacuation
Cadet Plane Victims Were Sophomore or
Senior Classmen. Page A-11
team followed a faint cattle trail
leading to the place where the
big plane slammed into Armer
Mountain, 65 miles northeast of
Phoenix, and burned.
Guiding the group was Arnold
Johnson, 50-year-old cattle ranch
foreman, who yesterday went to
the crash scene and found all of
the plane passengers, including
19 West Point cadets, dead.
Five Degrees Below Zero.
Eight Air Force officers and
men set up a base camp about
4 miles from the wreckage last
night. A 35-man evacuation team
left Williams Air Force Base for
Armer Mountain this morning.
When the vanguard set out
shortly after daybreak, they
figured the temperature at the top
of 7,000-foot Armer Mountain was
5 degrees below zero. The plane
hit abdut 150 feet below the crest
and at the foot of a rocky bluff.
Mr. Johnson reported 3 to 4
inches of snow covered the ground
around the scattered wreckage
and bodies. Trees belows the
crash scene are loaded with snow.
“It’s mighty rough country,”
said Mr. Johnson, who has spent
most of his life in that area.
“The horses will have to be led
over some part of the trail.”
Wreckage Sighted From Air.
Wreckage of the plane that
vanished in a storm Sunday was
sighted yesterday afternoon by
aerial searchers.
Mr. Johnson’s wife, Edna, saw
the shattered remains of the C-47
through field glasses and informed
her husband. Mr. Johnson rode
immediately up the mountain to
give aid to any survivors, but
found only bodies of the 27 men
and one woman.
The C-47 crashed while flying
from Hamilton Air Force Base,
Calif., to Goodfellow Air Force
Base, Tex. The cadets, returning
to the Military Academy after
spending Christmas vacation with
their families in Northern Cali
fornia, had hitchhiked a ride on
the ill-fated plane.
The one woman aboard was
WAF Sergt. Jeane Oarafalo,
20, of Plainfield, N. J„ bound for
home on a surprise visit.
Among others aboard the plane
was 2d Lt. George Ahlgren, a
member of the University of Cali
fornia crew that won the 1948
Olympics in London.
Another cadet was Francis C.
Camilli. His uncle. Dolph Camilli,
is a former Chicago Cubs^and
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball nr.
Truman to Tell
Plans by Feb. 6,
Hays Predicts
Legislator Reminds
Him About Deadline
On Ohio Delegates
President Truman hopes to an->
nounce by February 6 if he will
seek re-election. Representative
Hays, Democrat, of Ohio, told re
porters after a White House call
today.
That date is the last on which
Ohioans can pledge national con
vention delegates to a candidate
unless the vote is cast for a
“favorite son.”
Mr. Hays said he advised the
President that a great many Ohio
Democrats wanted to support a
candidate in the national con
vention who definitely sought the
Presidency, instead of going along
with some favorite son and then
switching their vote later.
He said Mr. Truman expressed
the hope that he could “work out
something” by the February
deadline and, the Representative
added, the President indicated
that he would do something.
Kefauver His Second Choice.
He said he thought the Presi
dent saw the Ohioan’s viewpoint.
Representative Hays would like to
support Kefauver, Democrat, of
Tennessee if President Truman is
not going to be a candidate.
He said he had suggested that
Senator Kefauver come to the
White House and talk' over the
political picture with the President
and that the Tennessean had in
dicated he would do so.
When Representative Hays told
the President of this step he said
that Mr. Truman responded that
would be fine, j
Senator Kefauver already has
announced his willingness to be a
candiadte and has said he will
enter the California presidential
primary June 3,
Ohio Law Explained.
Under Ohio law all candidates
for office at the next general elec
tion, as well as those seeking to be
convention delegates, must file by
February 6 for the primary of
Mgy 6.
In listing presidential candi
dates to be presented to the con
vention, a party must name a
first and second choice unless the
vote goes to a favorite son and
these choices must announce their
candidacy in writing.
The announcement that Presi
dent Truman hopes to have some
thing to 6ay by the February date
is the first with any definiteness
to come from the White House
since the possibility of President
Truman seeking a third term be
gan to be debated.
The President himself has al
ways been noncommittal, but di0
tell reporters some time ago he
would have nothing to say until
he had gotten rid of his three ma
jor messages to the new session
of Congress. He quipped at the
same time that he might not say
anything then.
Seeks Contracts for Area.
Mr. Hays, who comes from a
district hard hit by unemploy
ment, said he called at the White
House primarily to seek the Presi
dent’s assistance in getting some
war contracts in the area with
out competitive bidding.
Meanwhile, Senator Ives, Re
publican, of New York, said Gen.
Eisenhower could win the Repub
lican presidential ' nomination
without saying a word.
“I think he could be nominated
under those circumstances, but I
don’t believe it will happen that
way,” Senator Ives told a re
porter.
Senator Ives expressed his views
in the wake of a claim by Senator
Taft’s campaign manager that it
"now seems a certainty" the
Ohioan will be the GOP presi
dential nominee.
David S. Ingalls of Cleveland
forecast that Senator Taft, an ac- j
tive candidate, would be nomi-|
nated “on an early ballot.” I
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Soviet Reveals Litvinoff Death
On Day of His State Funeral
Gromyko Is Pallbearer
For Ex-Commissar,
Former Envoy Here
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
MOSCOW, Jan. 2—The For
eign Office disclosed today—on the
days of his funeral—the death of
Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff,
former Soviet Ambassador to the
United States.
Mr. Litvinoff. 75, died Monday.
Funeral arrangements were com
Litvinoffs Prestige Was Tipoff on Soviet
Attitude Toword U. S. Page A-3
plete when the death was an
nounced. The body lay in state in
a Foreign Ministry conference
hall where colleagues paid their
respects. The burial took place
at Novodyevichi Cemetery, resting
place of many noted Russians.
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko led a group of official
mourners for the man who was
once Soviet Foreign Commissar.
It was Mr. Litvinoff, champion of
collective security before World
War II, who used the phrase:
“Peace is indivisible,” to under
score his policy.
Gromyko Is Pallbearer.
Mr. Gromyko and Deputy For
eign Minister Valerian Zorin and
F. T. Gusev were among the pall
bearers. Three young men in
Foreign Ministry uniforms led the
funeral procession from the min
istry, each carrying a red pillow
on which lay Mr. LitvinofT’s many
orders and decorations.
Mr. Litvinoff’s widow, a white
haired British-born woman who
was the former Ivy Theresa Low,
wept as she joined the procession.
She was supported by friends. The
procession moved in private auto*
mobiles and buses to the cemetery.
There were no religious services.
Born a Jew, Mr. Litvinoff prac
ticed no religion.
The dean of the diplomatic
corps in Moscow, Yves Chataigneau
of France, placed a wreath beside
the bier in the Foreign Ministry
building before the funeral pro
cession began.
Pravda Notice Is Brief.
Pravda, organ of the Central
Committee of the Communist
Party, on which Mr. Litvinoff had
been a member, called him an “old
Bolshevik and outstanding Soviet
diplomat.”
Pravda’s obituary notice was
sight paragraphs long. It was
printed on the back page.
The plump, fatherly looking
diplomat negotiated United States
recognition of Bolshevist Russia in
1933 and fought without success
for collective force to prevent
(See LITVINOFF, Page A-3.)
Stomach Pumping Invades
Prisoner's Privacy, Court Savs
The Supreme Court held 8 to 0
today that evidence which police
obtained by using a stomach pump
on a prisoner could not be used
validly at his trial.
The opinion, written by Justice
Frankfurter, reversed the convic
tion of Antonio R. Rochin of Los
Angeles, on charges of possession
of morphine. At the time of the
arrest in July, 1949, Rochin swal
lowed two capsules which police
later regained by using a stomach
pump. The capsules containing
morphine were the principal evi
dence at the trial, which resulted
in conviction and a 60-day sen
tence fen: Rochin.
Police contended that their use
of the stomach pump was “rou
tine first aid,” and was not il
legal search and seizure as con
tended by Rochin.
The Supreme Court ruled that
the constitutional rights of Rochin
were violated. Justice Frankfurter j
declared:
“It would be a stultification of
the responsibility which the
course of constitutional history
has cast upon this court to hold
that in order to convict a man
the police cannot extract by force
what is In his mind, but can ex
tract what is in his stomach?S
-Harri«-Ewin» Photo.
MAXIM LITVINOFF.
Voluntary Exchange
Of Korea Prisoners
Proposed by Allies
Self-Determination Plan
For POWs and Civilians
Bring Cool Red Reaction
By the Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 2.—Al
lied truce negotiators today pro
posed releasing all prisoners of
war and displaced persons in
Korea—with the guarantee no one
would be sent home against his
will. The Reds found the pro
posal politically unpalatable.
The plan starts out on a man
for-man basis and winds up as an
Text of Allied Proposals for Exchange of
Korean Prisoners. Page A-7
Allied Planes Pound North Korean Traf
fic; Ground War Froxen. Page A-8
all-for-all exchange, according to
Lt. Col. Howard S. Levie, spokes
man for the United Nations Com
mand.
The Communists took one look
at the proposal and then said in
effect, “it stinks,” Rear Admiral
R. E. Libby, Allied negotiator, re
ported.
Admiral Libby expressed hope
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang
Cho, Red negotiator, would change
his mind after he studies the com
plex plan and understands it.
Intended as Compromise.
The proposal is intended to pro
vide a compromise between the
[J. N. man-for-man exchange of
prisoners proposal and the Reds’!
ill-for-all demand, and at the
same time provide for repatria
;ion of all civilians who want to
jo home.
The negotiators on the prisoner
juestion meet again at 11 a.m.
Thursday (9 p.m. Wednesday:
BST). So will a second subcom
nittee on supervising a Korean
mice which hung up again on;
whether the Reds may rebuild'
iheir air fields during an armis
;ice.
A U. N. Command communique ;
said the key to its new “proposal J
s the principle of voluntary re- [t
patriation for all POWs and civil- m
ans." j,
Gen. Lee said the plan con-1
ained things “we politically can- I
lot agree to.” He did not amplify. I
Oa Voluntary Basis.
In Tokyo, Col. George Patrick 1
Welch, official spokesman for ]
Sen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s head
21.) \
- X
(See TRUCK, Page
?
New Storm Threatens
Freighter Mist With
Only Captain Aboard
Large High-Speed Tug
Puts Out From Britain
To Tow Her to Harbor
By th« Associated Press
LONDON. Jan. 2.—Still cling
ing to his storm-cracked and wal
lowing ship in the Atlantic, Capt.
Kurt Carlsen radioed today that
he would stay aboard until he is
towed to port or sinks. A new
storm threatened.
If he leaves, the ship and cargo
become a free prize on the high
seas for any takers.
Capt. Carlsen stood his watch
alone through the fifth night
Picture on Page A-21.
since he ordered all others to
abandon the American freighter
Flying Enterprise and again re
ported by radio that he was in
good spirits.
The United States destroyer
John W. Weeks early today
reached the side of the 6,710-ton
freighter to join the Navy supply
ship Golden Eagle, which has been
standing by some 250 miles south
of Ireland.
Big Tug on Way.
The big British deep sea tug
Turtnoil left Falmouth early this
afternoon to put the Flying En
terprise in tow. The Turmoil is
described as the world’s fastest
and one of the largest deep sea
tugs. But, coping with a big
swell, she is not expected to reach;
the freighter, heeled over with a
60-degree list, before noon tomor
row.
Another storm was reported;
brewing with winds reaching gale
force in the area of last week’s;
storm that disabled several ships.
Shipping officials were still'
hopeful that the ship and cargo;
can be saved. There was no im- l
mediate estimate on the cargo
value.
“It looks like the ship has set-j
tied down to a balance.’’ a Lon-!
don spokesman for the owner
said. “She should be all right for
a few days unless a bad storm
blows up.
Destroyer Standing By.
Comdr. W. L. Thompson of
McKinney. Tex., skipper of the!
Weeks, said he ran into “very
heavy weather” in racing from
Fiance to the Flying Enterprise.!
The Weeks is standing one to
two miles away in readiness to
help as needed. Comdr. Thompson
is in constant radio contact with
Capt. Carlsen.
The Navy ships are not equipped
for towing.
Barometer Dropping.
Fears of another storm came
is the barometer reading of 29.62
it 3:30 a.m. was reported drop- 1
aing steadily. The wind had!
shifted to west-southwest and was
•eported at storm force of from J
59 to 46 knots. j<
“Very rough seas with heavy <
swells and partly cloudy sky,” the i
Weeks reported. <
All 10 of the Flying Enterprise <
jassengers and 41 of the crew -
vere believed to have been res
ted after jumping into the sea
ast Friday. One crewman died.
The worst Atlantic storm in 50
'ears split the ship's plates and
et her crazily atilt in a buffeting
hat began Christmas night and
worsened until the abandon ship
irder came three days later.
Capt. Carlsen calmly directed'
he jumping overboard but elected
o stay with his ship.
As long as the 36-year-old cap
ain stays aboard, the ship can
lot be classed as a derelict and
•ecome prey to whatever ship may
hrew a line aboard and tow her
o safety. %
All Personnel
Would Go Under
Civil Service
Would Give Duties of
64 Collectors to
25 District Offices
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman today an
nounced a complete reorganiza
tion of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue “to protect the Govern
ment from the insidious influence
peddlers and favor seekers and to
expose and punish any wrong
doers.”
In the wake of the tax scandals
which have rocked Treasury and
Text of President's Statement an Internal
Revenue Reorganization. Page A-4
Justice Departments, the Presi
dent announced a program which
will be presented to Congress in
the form of a reorganization plan,
which will be effective unless
either Senate or House vetoes it.
Key moves in the program will
be the abolishment of the offices
of the 64 collectors of internal
bureau and the vesting of their
function in no more than 25 dis
trict offices each headed by a
district commissioner. In addi
tion, what the President described
as “a strong, vigorous inspection
service” will be set up independent
of the bureau to keep its opera
tions and management under con
tinual scrutiny.
Salaries to Be Boosted.
All personnel of the bureau will
be put under civil service and the
President said in his 800-word
statement that “more adequate
salaries will be paid to officials’*
responsible for tax gathering.
Under the program only the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
hereafter will be named by the
President with the advice and con*
sent of the Senate taking all other
jobs outside of patronage.
The reorganization plan also
will do away with more than 200
field officers leaving taxpayers
hereafter to look to the District
commissioner or his local repre
sentative for action on tax mat
ters in the district.
Another Official Resigns.
Earlier today the Justice De
partment confirmed the resigna
tion of another official whose
name had been linked with fur
coat transactions in recent scandal
investigations.
The department said Howard G.
Campbell, 45, quit as an attorney
with tHe criminal division on De
cember 26. He had been con
nected formerly with the tax di
vision.
At present the revenue collec
tors and the assistant commis
sioner and two assistants are not
under Civil Service but the rest of
the staff of about 57,000 is.
One of Series of Actions.
The President’s announcement
said this shakeup “is one of a
series of actions I am taking to
insure honesty, integrity and fair
ness in the conduct of all Gov
ernment business.”
White House Press Secretary
Joseph Short said he did not
know when any further phase
(See REVENUE, Page A-21.)
Churchill May Arrive
Here Saturday by Air
By th* Associated Brass
Prime Minister Churchill may
leave the liner Queen Mary at tha
New York quarantine Saturday
morning and fly to Washington
to have lunch with President
Truman.
Officials said today this speedup
arrangement was being considered
so the weekend program originally
planned for the British leader can
be carried out. He is arriving a
day behind the original schedule
because storms delayed the sail*
ing of the Queen Mary.
The Blair House luncheon, un
der present plans, would be limited
to 12 arsons. Afterward, Mr.
Truman and the Prime Minister
are due to board the yacht Wil
liamsburg for an afternoon and
evening cruise.
Sunday, Secretary of Defense
Robert A Lovett is to be host at
another luncheon.
The first formal discussions be
tween the President and the Prim*
Minister are scheduled for Mon
day morning. Monday night, Sir
Oliver Franks, British Ambassa- !
dor, is to be host at an embassy
dinner for Mr. Truman and Mr.
Churchill. •
Featured Reading
Inside Today's Star
ANNUAL BUSINESS REVIEW—The
Financial Section outlines local and
national developments during last year
hi business, finance and banking and
offers a few predictions on the out
look for 1952. Poges D-l to 14.
MARYLAND POWERHOUSE - The
Associated Press cameras and wirephato
caught Maryland's great football teem
in actian against Tennessee in the
Sugar Bowl yesterday. Same of tba
pictures highlights the stirriu, 21-13
victory, appear on page C-i. %