Newspaper Page Text
A-4 **** THE SUNDAY STAB Washington D C. SUNDAY. JANIAAT I a ISSA Capt. J. J. Vaughan Assumes Command At Anacostia Station Capt. James J. Vaughan, who was with a patrol bomber squad ron at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, yesterday as sumed command of the Ana eostia Naval Air Station. His first official act was, on behalf of Korea, to present one of that nation’s highest military decorations, the Korean Order of Military Merit, to an Air Sta tion sailor, Paul N. Policy, for “incredible courage” during the Korean war. r* Capt. Vaughan, former chief of staff to the commander. Fleet Air, at Quonset Point, Rv-I„ suc- IHw ? If f I |||L Cut. VKlfcti. rail MHr. eeeds Comdr. Robert W. Slye, state executive officer, who has been serving as temporary com manding officer. The Station's former skipper, Capt. Hannon T. Utter, has taken command of the Carrier Monterey at Pensacola. Capt. Vaughan was aid officer aboard the small carrier Wright early in World War H, later was air controlled for the Hawaiian Sea Frontier and was in com mand of the Suisun at the close of the war. His presentation of the Korean award to Hospitalman Polley in cluded a citation given by Son Won in, Korean minister of Na tional Defense. Mr. Polley was wounded in action while serving 1 with a Marine Infantry company, but “courageously began moving about the devastated area to treat the numerous casualties.” While being evacuated because of his wounds, he refused to be taken further and remained with another group of wounded to help treat them. Air Force Deserter Indicted in Murder •y th* AtMclotod lr», ELIZABETHTOWN* N. V.. Jan. 15.—James A. Call, an Air Force deserter stripped of his major's commission, was * in dicted today on a charge of first-degree murder in the gun battle slaying of a Lake Placid policeman. An Essex County grand jury named him also in six other in dictments charging attempted first-degree robbery, burglary and petty larceny. Call, 29, was arraigned before Justice Andrew W. Ryan of the State Supreme Court and pleaded not guilty. Justice Ryan ordered Call’s trial on the mur der charge to begin April 10. State police have said Call has signed a statement admit ting' he fatally shot Patrolman Richard Pelkey and 'Wounded two other policemen who had cornered him in a Lake Placid summer home last August 5. The shootings touched off a 104-day manhunt in the Adiron dacks. The search was called off after Call was arfested in Reno, Nev., and waived extradition to New York. Call, a native of Chicago, served with the Air Force in Great Britain, and flew 10 mis sions in the Korean war as a navigator-bombardier. He de serted last May from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and was stripped of his commission. Roosevelt Election Slated The Roosevelt High School Alumni Association, Thirteenth and Upshur streets N.W., will elect new officers at S pm. Wednesday. The Distinguished ALLEN ORGAN the Finest Electronic Organ Built ■ ■ ... 1 HPk The famed Allen Organ at Kltt’s differs from other electronic organs in its entire concept, in cluding tone generation, attact systems and gyrophonic tone projector system used. It truly is the greatest tonal value among organs, and will bring fine traditional organ tone into churches and homes where this type pf music might otherwise never be heard. If you are to choose an organ, be sure to hear the Allen Organ and compare. A range of sixes and prices DIO 6 Stmt N.W. W m Thortdoy N.KI Budget Chief Hughesls Real'Workhorse' By Don Whitehead , Atwrtatad tmm Staff Writ., In the last weeks of 1964, a. huge man wearing a black patch over his right eye frequently strode into President Eisenhow er’s office for conferences affect ing the future welfare of every man. woman and child in America. This same man turned up at Cabinet meetings, and at other gatherings of the admin-* istration inner circle. But despite his 250-pound bulk, the unusual eye patch, and the importance of his place in the management of government, the big fellow succeeded in hiding, himself in anonymity. Little was written about him and be re mained (and still is) one of the least known men on the Eisen hower “team." Buffer in Money Matters. He is Rowland Hughes, 58- year-old director of the budget It has been his task to put to gether the budget Mr. Eisen hower will send to Congress to morrow. Mr. Hughes is a buffer be tween the President and Con gress in money matters. He po lices the spending and manage ment practices of all the Govern ment departments, bureaus and agencies. Mr. Hughes probably knows more about the budget than any other man. because he spends algsost every waking houi with it. He’s often in his office by 8 am. and almost always takes work home when he leaves around 7 p.m. Before the budget was pfit into final form. Mr. Hughes had spent days conferring with the Presi dent and with each of the de partment and bureau heads. In every case but one, agreement was reached without taking the differences to Mr. Eisenhower for a final decision. Mr. Hughes’ influence in the administration doesn’t stem pri marily from the fact that he’s the budget director. The reason for his stature is that Mr. Eisen hower has put heavy emphasis on budget controls. Old timers in the bureau say the effort at control is greater than it was in the Roosevelt and Truman ad ministrations. Keeps in Background. Mr. Hughes’ philosophy of government and his influence with the President are bound to have a strong imprint on the new budget, and yet he has kept himself so far in the background and so removed from contacts with the press that few people In Washington know him except’ by name. There is little doubt about one thing—that is Mr. Hughes’ belief the Government should undertake for the citizens only those things which the people can’t do for themselves, a philosophy which he identifies with the Eisenhower adminis tration. Mr. Hughes believes private industry should be encouraged to take over a good many of the activities now in the hands of the Government. His thinking along this line was well illus trated in the controversial Dix on-Yates power contract, which he encouraged and advocated. Mr. Hughes’ appearance on the Washington scene isn’t so recent as most people have thought—nor is he a newcomer at trying to cut Government spending and to shift the direc tion of Government toward less competition with private indus try. Shortly after the end of World War 11. a group of New York bankers and executives began meeting informally ta discuss ways and means of curbing in flation and bringing about a change in the relationship be tween government and business. Firms Paid Expense*. One member of the group said in an interview: “We arranged for a task force of 40 men—ex perts in taxes, accounting, econ omics and business—to come to Washington to work on the prob lem. There was no expense to the Government. The expenses of these men were paid by their firms. And Mr. Hughes was one 1 of the group.” Previously. Mr. Hughes had : earned a reputation in the bank -1 lng world as a tax expert at . *;'?* ? Pl* • v- .^ ;v —AP Photo. BOSS OF THE BUDGET—Rowland Hughes, director of the Bureau of the Budget, appears happy that the tough task of compiling the huge chronicle of governmental financial needs has been completed. The document, which he has be fore him, now is ready for presentation to Congress by the President. the National City Bank, in New York, which he had joined when he was graduated from Brown University ip 1917. He worked his way up the ladder to become the bank’s comptroller, a job in which he rode herd on some $5 billion worth of properties and investments around the world. Mr. Eisenhower’s election set the stage for Mr. Hughes to en ter the Government officially. When Joseph. Dodge, Detroit banker and former president of the American Bankers Associa tion, was named budget director. Mr. Hughes was suggested as one of his assistants. Mr. Hughes took over as director after Mr. Dodge resigned in April, 1954. Mr. Hughes has discovered that since the management of 86 billion worth of properties is “just peanuts” compared with keeping tab on the Government’s spending program. Too Many Drones. As for career Government workers, he says there are too many drones—but that the ma jority are “a very fine corps who are thoroughly experienced and devoted” and “we couldn’t hope to do the job without them.” Mr. Hughes has built up a reputation as a man who “can’t be seen” by the press except twice a year—once when he holds his January seminar on the budget and again when he sits with Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey for a mid-year budget review. Once he is reached, Mr. DURING NATIONAL THRIFT / WEEK § (AND EVERY WEEK OF THE // YEAR) SAVINGS DOLLARS GROW AT AMERICAN WITH EVERY SWING OF THE PENDULUM Beginning tomorrow, Jonuory 17th to 23rd is Notionof Thrift Week. Time to remember your money mokes MORE MONEY at American! Any amount from $5.00 up opens your Insured Safe Account with us, These dollars grow substantially with our liberal dividends . . . compounded twice yearly. Safety of vour savings insured up to SIO,OOO. It oltrf to good Irving — Save On Scktdolo. See Richard Harkness and The News Every Thursday WRC-TV—ll P.M. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT THIRD STREET S. E. ' 11. 7-1320 OWH TMyfttOAVt THJL • P M. MCMlfl HOIKAI Htfwf tOAMVANK LYSfIM 1h I I J Hughes is neither as austere nor as uncommunicative as he might seem, and he gives the impres sion he is epjoylng one of the toughest jobs in the Govern ment. Mr. Hughes was b'wn at Oak hurst. N. J., March -rs. 1896. He was studying to become a lawyer when the National City Bank began recruiting college youttts. for its foreign service. He was one of 40 students accepted from more than 600 who applied for training. The bank sent him to London and then to the Orient, where he lived for 10 years in China, Japan and India. While in Shanghai be met and fell in love with Dorothy Cowen, daughter of the publisher of the famous old Shanghai paper, Millard’s Weekly Mr. Hughes left Tokyo in 1927 for Europe and then came back to New York to work his way up in the banking fraternity. He began wearing the patch in re cent years to cover an eye injury. The Hughes attend official af fairs but duck Washington social life. Mr. Hughes is a Christian Scientist and neither smokes nor drinks. Even at home, the Hughes have a budget. Mrs. Hughes recently confided to a reporter that when she was first married she had a tough time of it keeping her budget balanced. "But now I wouldn’t keep house without one,” she said. Budget Simplification Proposed in Move to Clarify Services By Francis P. Douglas The Committee for Economic Development came out yesterday for simplification of the budget to make clear the services the Government performs, and their cost, unobscured by great amounts of detail. The committee urged adoption of a "program budget.” group ing expenditures by functions and activities directed toward the same goal rather than by organization units. The Committee further rec ommended that Congress, make provisions to co-ordinate its de cisions on spending and money raising and get away from its present "splintered” considera tiop of budget requests. It said decisions on spending now tend to be made one by one “without considering the burden of the total.” Specific Vetoes. In carrying out these and other aims the committee recommen dations would: 1. Give the President an item veto over specific sections of ap propriation bills without forc ing him to veto a whole bill. 2. Set up a Joint Budget Pol icy Conference. This would be made up of "several members of the congressional leadership” and both majority and minority representatives of the Appropria tions and Tax Writing Commit tees and the Joint Committe on the Economic Report. This conference would con sider the relations between spending and revenues and the effects of the budget on the country’s economy. It may issue advisory reports. 3. Set up a system of rv.uil performance reports and man agement audits of the executive departments and larger inde pendent agencies. 4. Strengthen the management staffs of the department secre taries. The CED is a non-partisan or ganization of businessmen de voted to economic research and education. The Committees program was disclosed on the eve of the sub mission of the budget for fiscal 1956. President Eisenhower is to send his annual budget mes sage to Congress at noon tomor row. . Committee spokesmen made it clear the committee is not critical of any present or former budget director but is critical of budget procedures. Two for mer budget directors advised the slder the relations between spending and revenues and the effects of the budget on the group in the preparation of its report. The committee said that the S vemment is absorbing approx ately one-sixth of all goods and services produced In the Nation. It pointed out that the more the .Government spends the fewer consumer golds 'can be acquired by the taxpayers. A start already has been made toward a program budget, the committee said. It explained the President has authority to group expenditures into programs, such as for veterans’ benefits and services, which may involve more Mother Holding Baby in Arms Robs Store to Aid Husband •y Ife# Auociotad N** HOUSTON. Jan. 15.—A 22- year-old mother, her 16-month old baby in her arms, stuck up a liquor store late last night, but was arrested soon afterward as she tried to get hei husband out of jail with the money. Mrs. Ada Elizabeth Benear huddled in a corner of her cell today and sobbed: "I didn't care what nappened to me. I didn’t 'think of myself. Only my hus band and baby." The robbery netted 854. Mrs. Benear’s husband, James L. Benear, 27, an unemployed auto painter and partially dis abled World War n veteran, is serving out a 850 fine on the city work farm for speeding and driv- U.S. Boy Stricken on Ship Recovering From Polio SWINDON, England, Jan. 15. —David Lee Oliver, 4-year-old American boy stricken with polio last fall while aboard ship bound for Europe, left the hospital to day, well on the road to recov ery. His parents, SSergt. David Oliver and Mrs. Oliver, of Spring field, HI., took him by boat and train to Mannheim, Germany, where Sergt. Oliver is stationed David was brought to a United States Air Force hospital here last September 9 after a heli copter dropped an iron lung to the United States transport Gen. Maurice Rose, on which he was traveling to Germany with' his mother and 13-year-old sister Caroline Jean. than one Government organiza tion. Also in line with this develop ment. the Budget Bureau has re duced the number of separate budget requests from more than 1,200 to about 400. This number could be reduced further, the committee said. Major budget Issues would be clearer, the committee said, if a great amount of detail were deleted. This material, it con tinued, could be presented Con gress as part of the yearly per formance report. But the committee also found too brief explanations for some extremely large budget requests which did not disclose Hhe pro gram adequately. It cited as an example the fewer than 200 words in the cur rent budget to explain $6.7 bil lion for “Aircraft and Related Procurement.” This is at the rate of $33.5 million per word. The CED report was made public here by Frazar B. Wilde, chairman of the organization’s research and policy, committee and president of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., and subcommittee chairmen J. Ca meron Thompson, president of the Northwest Bancorporation, Minneapolis, and 8. Bayard Col gate, honorary board chairman of the Colgate-Palmolive Co., New York. The Beauty Awakes NOW IS THE TIME TO PUCE YOUR ORDER FOR ONE OF THE Sleeping Sterling Patterns Chas. Schwarts Sc Son wakes up some “sleeping” sterling silver patterns to give you a chance to add to your collection. Right now, we are taking orders from those who own "discontinued” patterns of Lunt, Towle, Gorham Wallace, Reed Sc Barton and Alvin Sterling. These houses are getting ready to manufacture these patterns—as part of their obligation to you when they first sold you your particular pattern. Come In or write about any patterns made by these companies, or phone STerling 3-1525 and ask for Mr. Prince. Bring a sample of e tracing of the pattern, and we will order it for you—whether it's a single piece or a complete service for twelve. And if you wish you may use our Sterling Club. Pay Only S 2 a Month (per f 25 purchase). No Service Charge . WRITE QR PHONE FOR INFORMATION i Chas. Schwartx fir Son 70S 7th St. n.w. | Please send me prices ont ftAcrovarm j; rr V (J A: SOU J | name j ADDRESS ... j i-phone number j 7M 7tfc Street N.W. 1385 t Street N.W. EUaworth at Fenton, Silver Spring Y/ STerling lng without an operator’s license. Mrs. Benear said she tucked the gun “under the baby’s dress before entering the liquor store. “The baby all the time was in my arms. She didn’t cry or whimper.” Detectives immediately recog- j nized her from a description called in by the liquor , store j proprietor when Mrs Benear! tried to pay her husband’s fine.! Her purse turned up $lO5, of which ssl belonged to her. Even ! without the $24 she spent for I the gun. she had enough to pay her husband’s fine. “They told me earlier it was $95.” she cried, “Why did they tell me that?” Daughter of Professor Reunited With Family By the Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla., Jan. 15 - Runaway Joyce Grant and her parents had a tearful reunion today at the home of Juvenile Judge Mrs. Eva Warmer Gibson. The pretty 17-year-old’s fa ther is Harold S. Grant, a pro fessor at Rutgers University. Joyce and two high school companions. Alan Knight and Robert Ballou, all of Highland Park, N. J., ran away from home Monday night and drove to Key West. Police picked them up Thursday night. Parents of the boys, who were being kept at the Key West jail, were awaited here. The young sters said they came to Key West to find jobs. jgf 1114 F STRICT V 695 MAN'S STITCHLESS Backed with the finest quality genuine cowhide leather . . , alligator leather cov ered buckle. Sizes 30 to 44. / —* < •Mil (@ mwhi wens u11i0—8n...., 7.4,54 'Big Firms 'Apathetic': To Parking Problem, AAA Official Says* \ Large downtown business firms are “apathetic” to the parking problem. Russell E. Singer, an - , American Automobile Assocla- • ! tlon executive said Jast night. Speaking before the National { Capital Region. Antique Auto i mobile Club of America, the AAA i executive vice president con tended fringe parking provides | only a “slight degree” of the constructive action needed to solve the problem. He asserted that large busi ness are at “best apathetic” to ward parking difficulties since most have large parking lots of their own and have yet to feel the pinch. Mr. Singer also told members of the auto club the AAA opposes the proposed transfer of the Fed eral portion of the Washington - Baltimore Parkway to the State of Maryland. Rent-A-Car System Sold for $8 Million By Aiiociatod Pr#n •DETROIT, Jan. s.—Warren fc. Avis of Detroit said today he had sold his Avis Rent-a-Car System for $8,000,000 to a corpo ration headed by Richard S. Robie of Boston. The Avis system has fran chised operators in 330 United States cities and in 11 foreign countries. It was founded in 1946 by Mr. Avis, a Detroit auto dealer. * Mr. Robie, a pioneer in the* car and truck rental field, has oper ated principally In New England i in the past.