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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
Civil Service Eases
Job Freeze, |nsures
Tenure After War

Restoration Of the classified
status formerly held by groups of
Government employees is in the
offing, the Civil Service Commits
sion has just announced in a circu-
lar sent to all Federal agencies.
The effect of the new ruling will
give classified or preferred status to
many workers on temporary rolls,
and is designed to ease the job ter
mination situation six months after
the war.
The commission said it will now
consider restoring the civil service
status of persons in the service prior
to and on March Is. 1912, who were
appointed under Civil Service rule
8, executive order No. 1854, or to
positions excepted from competitive
requirements and who have re-
manned in the service continuously
Worry About Security.
Looking ahead to peace recon-
version, thousands of Federal en-
ployes now on temporary status
are wondering about their ability to
retain jobs when returning veter-
ans resume their old positions or
have first preference for jobs for
which they are fitted.
Relaxation by the commission of
the 1912 ruling, which froze civil
service lists, is expected to add thou
sands of eligibleS to the permanent
register.
Official request for classified status
restoration may be made by the
agency in which a person is en-
ployed. 1t must be accompanied
by medical certificate. fingerprint
chart and declaration of appointee
as of the date civil service status
becomes effective.
Generally speaking, no action has
been taken on requests received
after March Is, 1912, to reinstate
a civil service status previously &C
quired, except to those about to
enter the military service. These
cases now may be reopened.
IWOfOld Ruling.
The War Service Regulations, ef-
fective March Is, 1912, made it
unnecessary for a person to have
a classified status, based on COM
petitive examination, for the dura-
ton. Therefore passing on status
was discontinued except in a rela-
lively small number of special
cases.
The new ruling is twofold, in
that it permits a rating to be ac-
corded or restored. 3
Thousands of workers holding
temporary appointments regard the
relaxation rule as the. best "breaE
they have received in Government
service. Next to salary and ill.,
grade promotions, tenure OF jobs IS
foremost among topics discussed
among Uncle Sans workers. a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
Junior Trade Board Plans
Tribute 10 Servicemen

The Washington Junior Board OF
Commerce will pay tribute to its
members serving in the armed forces
at pm. Tuesday at the Annapolis
Hotel.
The speaker will be Comdr. C. c..
Myers, Navy Medical Corps, who was
attached to the hospital ship Solace
anchored at Pearl Harbor when the
war started. Comdr. Myers will re-
late experiences during those crucial
moments In which the lives Of many
of our officers and men were saved.
Families of members in service
will be honor guests. The weekly
V-man award is to be presented to
person in the Washington area who
has distinguished himself in the war
effort.
Representatives of the special
War Activities Committee will be
introduced by Ferdinand Nauheim,
chairman. General chairman of the
meeting Is Winfield Weitzel, Junior
Board president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. Drastic re-
vision of Allied press policy and a
Tightening of liaison between the
British and American censorships is
expected in London as result of
the tumble that gave Nazi Propa-
ganda Minister Goebbels Is days In
which to talk down the Big -Four
conferences without any official
Allied announcements.
British Minister of Information
Brendan Bracken, who told the
House of Commons Thursday that
something must be DONE" has been
comforting with British and Amer
lean officials, examining leaks
through which the story Of the CON-
felences began to pour out a week
before they began, and two weeks
before they ended.
American Ambassador John G.
Winant is receiving a full report OF
these negotiations. .-..
May Name Censorship Envoy,
The first measure to coordinate
British American censorships more
closely probably will be appointment
by Mr.. Bracken of censorship
ambassador" to Westinghouse liai-
son officer to work directly with the
United States Office of Censorship.
The appointment was proposed to
Byron Price, director of United
States censorship, as a result of a
conference between Mr.. Bracken and
John S. Knight, Mr.. Prices chief
liaison officer in London.
LiaiSon now is maintained through
the British Embassy in Washington
instead of directly through Mr..
Bracken's own appointee.
Francis Williams, controller of
British press censorship, said. I'VE
are 100 per cent in favor of full CO.
operation with American censorship
and would be glad of any arrange
ments to promote it."
Releases of news on the four
power talks were broken twice last
week. Reuters, British news
agency, broke the news OF the
North African conference "a hours
in advance from Lisbon, and the
Moscow radio last night gave the
first official confirmation of the
Teheran meeting, much to the sur
prise of Washington and London
official propaganda outlets which
were caught flatfooted.
Now we're all square" one Official
remarked.
Goebbels Gets Busy.
But GoebbelS, meanwhile, picked
up the pieces and made flashy
though flimsy product out Of them.
His corps of propaganda peddlers
took scraps Of speculation from
london and Washington, fitted them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
Elaine Worthington
Released Under Bond
By thsaAssociated Press.

, REHOBoTH BEACH, Del, Dec. 4.
-Elatne1.Worthington returned alone
today to$the Silver Lake drive home
in which her husband, Warrant Of
hcer John H. Worthington of WASH
ington, was shot to death a month
ago.
Free in 5000 bail for the first
time since she was held as material
witness, Mrs. Worthington wore
under brown fur coat, the same
black dress and white jabot in which
she testified that Warrant Officer
Carl Moulinie fired the fatal shot.
Bail was continued pending a de-
cision by Moulinies counsel whether
to appeal the 28-year-old officers
conviction on manslaughter charge
Mrs. Moulinie removed some be-
1ongings from the house, paid some
bills in nearby stores and left with
out telling anyone where she was
going.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
0PA Loans $4,000 Ration
Points 10 the Stables

Robert K. Thompson, District
OPA director, announced yesterday
that loan of $4,000 ration points
had been granted Mrs. Lillian Jean
Richards. operator of the Stables
restaurant. who was recently sus-
pended from dealing in meats, fats,
fish and cheese. The suspension
followed ration banking account
overdraft.
The loan is to be repaid by apply
ing one-third of the restaurants
regular allotment of ration points
for each succeeding allotment pc
Rod until it is wiped out. This
will permit the restaurant to con-
tinue in business on reduced basis
The loan was granted after a Sc
ries of conferences at Mr.. Thomp-
sons Office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
Prentiss Brown Plans
To Open Law Office
In D. T.. and Detroit

PrentiSs NJ. Brown, former Mich
igan Senator who recently resigned
as price administrator, will open
law Offices in Washington and De-
troit in partnership with Wendell
Lund. War Production Board ON
cial. and Edward H. Fenlon. prose-
cutting attorney of Mackinac County,
Mich, it was announced last night.
Mr.. Lund will resign this week as
special assistant to WPB Chairman
Donald M. Nelson. He formerly
served as director of WPB's Labor
Production Division, and at one
time was member OF the War
Manpower Commission representing
WPB.
Announcement OF formation of
the law partnership ends specula-
ton as to the future plans of Mr..
Brown, who resigned as OPA chief
October 81. He has been mentioned
for position on the Federal Re-
serve Board and for the presidency
OF the University Of Michigan.
Mr.. Lund will be in charge OF
the Washington Office with Mr..
Brown, and Mr.. Fenlon will handle
the firms affairs in Detroit. A.
Manning Shaw, who was Mr.
Browns executive secretary in Con-
gress and executive assistant in
OPA, will be associated with the
Washington branch. Offices here
will be in the Washington Loan
and Trust Co. building.
Mr.. Lund came to WPB in May,
1912, as successor to Sidney Hill
man, who played a major part in
the Nations early war efforts as
associate director of the Office of
Production management. Shortly
afteIward Mr.. Lund was made
director Of the Labor Production
Division and named to VINO. He
now serves as an assistant to Mr..
Nelson.
He is a member OF the District
Bar and graduate of Georgetown
University Law School. From 1884
to 1910, Mr.. Lund held high posts
in the Agriculture and Interior De-
partments. In 1910, he became sec
rotary of the Michigan State Ad-
ministrative Board, and served as
director of the Michigan Unemploy-
ment Compensation Commission be-
fore returning to the Capital.
Mr.. Brown succeeded Leon Hen
derson as price administrator in
January, shortly after he was de-
feated for another term in the Sem
ate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
|'Censorship Envoy to u. S.
MAY Be Appointed by Brocken

together with espionage reports and
hawked them all around the world
under the Nazi label.
tits deplorable," lamented one AL
lied publicist. The Germans got
the jump on us. They control nearly
all the important newspapers and
radio stations of the continent. They
used them all to put out their ver-
sion of the conferences first. And
the first story usually sticks. It's
hard to replace it."
He asserted that the fiasco would
have been avoided if the higher
personalities responsible for the de-
cision not to release conference news
until the talks were concluded, re-
CARELESS of leakages, had consulted
their own multi-million dollar corps
OF publicity experts.
He suggested that in the future
authorities take responsible news
and radio executives into their con-
Fhdence when such momentouS events
are planned, enlisting their aid and
pAAoAA8 Iiioh w PutAAoCAS ocSiCCy
Full Publicity Seen.
It was believed that as a result
'of the leakages of the last two weeks
full publicity would be given to
major conferences In the future or,
as Mr.. Bracken limited in Commons,
all news from any but official Allied
sources would be banned
The main argument against the
latter course Is that neutral and
enemy reports could not be sup
pressed even though. banned from
Allied newspapers and the only
effect of the ruling would be to deny
news to those most entitled to know
1.-THE readers of Allied countries
Robert Bunnelle, chief of the Lon
don Bureau of the Associated Press
and president Of the Association OF
American Correspondents in Lon
don, said there should be equality
Of censorship between the United
States and Britain, pointing out
that censorship for British news
papers is voluntary, while censor
ship of American correspondents
dispatches to the United States is
compulsory.
"Embargoes on the publication of
news should be imposed only for the
most urgent and genuine security
reasons and for the shortest posi-
bic time" he said
Even such limited embargoes
should be lifted when leakage Of
news through neutral countries
makes it no longer possible for alb
solute secrecy to be maintained.
Our mutual British and American
principle of freedom of the press
does not justify any restrictions be-
yond that"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
Syrian Church Roises
$14,281 in Bond Drive

Members of the st. Georges Syrian
Orthodox Church have raised $14,-
28l.25 in their War Bond drive to
date, according to an announcement
by the Rev. John A. Koury, the
pastor.
The committee in charge of the
drive Is headed by Mrs. Constantine
kiatta, assisted by Mrs. John Neri,
Mrs. Joseph Tehaan and Mrs. Alex
Hier. The drive will continue until
they have reached = fund sufficient
for a fighting plane to bear the
name Of the church.
Evening star., 1943-02-12
The Great Game of Politics
48-Hour Week Seen Increasing Initiation,
Hurting Small Firms and Tux PROGRAM

crease in wages. Yet, at the same
time, he applauded the 48-hour
order, which carries with 1t a very
great increase.
The argument that this will not be
inflationary is very feeble one. 1t
is based on the belief that the in
crease in production of goods will
absorb part of this increased pur-
chasing power and that additional
taxes will absorb the rest
The best economists do not agree
with the first contention and the
Treasury record does not support the
second. Opposition to a stiff gen.
eral sales tax, which is the one ef-
1ective way to drain off the surplus
money Of the masses. still persists
in the White House and makes
statements about the added burdens
that must be borne by the lower and
middle income classes seem very
| hollow.
AS to those businesses not directly
| engaged in war work, thev are now
confronted with desperate prob
lens of adjustment.
When, some years ago, industries
were compelled to reduce from 48
TO 40 hours week, they were not
allowed proportionately to reduce
wages, but were compelled to pay
the same as for 48 hours. Thus.
the employers lost going down.
Now, when they are compelled
to go back to the 48-hour week
they are also compelled to paw
time and half for the extra EIGHT
| hours.
Thus they lose going up.
Perils Augmented.
1t does seem that, desirable as is
the 48-hour week, to couple it with
large pay increase is to augment
the imitation peril, to endanger the
lives of many small businesses and
vastly add to the difficulties of OBJ
tanning an adequate tax program.
Nor will 1t avert the coming
showdown on labor union demands
for still more money. Clearly there
loom ahead critical situations which
call for the highest courage and
capacity on the part of the admin
istration.
1t Is not surprising that thought
ful men here are appalled,. 1t is not
surprising that they should hope
for action of our Congress to lessen
the peril of this latest administra
ton program by amending the Fair
Labor Standards Act.
This is the big defect in the pres
ent plan. That is the reality which
the President would not face a year
ago, when he insisted there was no
| need for 48-hour week to win the
war and which he will not face
now when he says a 4s-hour week
is needed.
That is why the plan threatens
the real interests Of labor as well as
industry. ..
Evening star., 1943-02-12
BY MAJ. GEORGE F. ELIOT.

Before we become too deeply
involved in controversy about
whether We are to have free
dom of the air" after this war,
we might pause to formulate a
few definitions. Just what do we
mean by freedom of the air?
There used to be. and for that
matter still is, great deal of
discussion about freedom of the
seas. The average man, If asked
what he understood by that term,
would probably say that freedom
of the seas involved the right Of
any ship belonging to any coun-
try to go anywhere on the high
seas it liked.
But as practical matter this
has never been SO, for the very
excellent reason that ships cam
not remain indefinitely on the
high seas. Man is not marine
animal. He moves on the surface
OF the high seas in ships which
he builds for that purpose, but he
must eventually reach a port, not
only for fuel and supplies, but in
order that the object of his voy-
age, generally commercial, may
be fulfilled.
Every nation had regulations
about the entry and departure of
ships of foreign registry at it's
seaports. Generally speaking,
these regulations were reason
able and not too stringent; but
in many instances colonial trade
was more or less denied to for
eign bottoms by the mother cousv
try. and very few nations per-
mitted ships Of foreign registry
to engage in coastwise trade
the United States, for example,
did not allow foreign ships to
carry cargoes from our Atlantic
Coast ports to those of the Pa
cific, or vice versa, by way of the
Panama Canal.
Won't BE Permitted.
II W freedom OF the air, we
mean the unrestricted right OF
any airplane to go anywhere in
the world that it can reach. to
carry cargo and passengers with
out regulation or question, then
we are not going to have that.
No nation will permit it. If We
mean the right of foreign planes
to engage in domestic air traffic
in this country, we are not going
to have that either.
OF course foreign planes will
not, save in dire emergency, be
allowed to use our military and
naval airports, any more than
foreign ships could in time Of
peace enter Pearl Harbor-or
for that matter, the naval har-
Dor at Bizerte, or Singapore, or
Wihlemshaven.
II, however, we mean that for
eign planes will be allowed to
trade back and forth from for
eign airports to our own COM
mercial airports, under adequate
regulation, why, Of course they
will-just as foreign ships are
allowed to trade to and from our
seaports. No one will question
that.
As for passage through Amer
Evening star., 1943-02-12
Rv FRANK r. KENT.

1t is assumed that, according tC
his custom. before President Roose-
welt issued his 48-hour- week orde,
he consulted with the heads of the
CIO and the AFL. But, whether
he did or not, approval from them
was assured from the beginning. IT
would be rare labor leader, indeed
who opposed it.
For, the first clear effect of the
extension is to accede to the insist.
ent demand for general wage rise
for a great army of workers who are
already getting higher pay than
ever before. And this increase is
given without modifying any labor
law, withdrawing any union pre-
rogative or imposing any sacrifice
save that of working q few more
hours to be paid for at the time
and-a- half rate.
Some were doing this anyhow
and gladly. The chief change is
that many more will now work the
extra eight hours and be highly paid
for it.
Proposal Reviewed.
AS result, it is argued, there
will follow a big increase in pro-
duction. One reason is that all the
war industries will be forced to a
full 48-hour schedule; another is
that many non-war concerns, also
going to the the longer week, will be
compelled to get along with fewer
men. Those dropped will become
available for defense work and farm
labor. That is the argument.
From the manpower view, there
fore, the new order, which the Presi-
dent was urged to issue more than
a year ago, without the extra pay
provision, should be helpful-pro-
vided competency is exercised by the
Manpower Commission in regulating
the multitudinous dismissals. trans
fers and absorptions sure to take
place.
But the existine confusion in the
commission, plus the wide discre-
ton vested therein, is certainly
ominous. 1t may function better
than its record promises, though in
other directions the new order is
likely to have consequences suffi-
GENTLY deleterious to more than off
set the benefit of the increase in
manpower and to justify regret that
more realistic method was not
adopted.
Consider, for example. the infla-
tionary effect of adding to the pur-
chasing power of the people so huge
an amount as will come from a 30
per cent increase.
Sterilization Director James F.
Byrnes Monday night pointed out,
what everybody conceded, that the
vast increase in consumer income is
our most serious threat of imitation
and insisted that this rise has got
to be stopped.
Therefore. he opposed any In
Evening star., 1943-02-12
Arlington VpF Company
Still Open 10 "a Men

The Arlington Company Of the
Virginia Protective Force will con-
tinue to accept men in ga draft
classifications, Capt Harrison Mann,
said today.
The recent draft policy announced
oy War Manpower Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt has caused manv
Arlington men in 3-A status to in
qulre II State Guard training still
is available to them Capt. Mann
said. The Arlington unit, he added,
Will continue to accept men In this
classification. as a number of them
probably will be retained in the de-
ferred category.
While enlistments in the unit now
are being taken. the next recruit
class will not begin until March IS.
1t was said. Enlistments will be
taken upon first come, first
served" basis.
Evening star., 1943-02-12

future" He did not suggest that
all cooperating nations which
have vital interests in the Pacific
should share, use and control such
bases. They are to be ours and
our alone.
There are indications that the
new American imperialism will
not leave American customs as
they have been in the past. Capt.
Eddie Rickenpacker with the
glamour of a hero about his head
and the presidency of an aviation
company as his job, advocated
that our boys, returning from the
wars. be allowed" to enter the
factories without joining trade
unions. Several millions of them
would. of course, be sufficient
entirely to destroy the trade
unions of America.
North African Moves.
MCdllWilllc, III 4>Ol III hlI1Sd,
United. States Minister Robert
Murphy, with Mr.. Macmillan. the
British representative asserting,
states 1T must be remembered
that we are not here to impose
our political will upon this coun-
try. Such course, I am sure,
would be distasteful to American
and British publics."
Inasmuch as events in North
Africa have been hidden in CEN
sorship, and American comments
on it have been withheld by
American censorship from the
British public and, I suppose, vice
versal. it is humorous of Mr..
Murphy to refer to public opin-
ion." But he continues: I'VE
are here to beat the enemy and
all the rest Of the problems must
fade into insignificance."
1t has been remarked that
truth is the first casualty Of
every war. Truth demands that
we acknowledge that the Gil
raud-Peyrouton regime in North
Africa was created by the Amer
lean invasion and rests upon
American bayonets. 1t is not
something that came into being
by democratic process. Also, to
say that our only aim in this
war Is to beat the enemy, re-
gardless of what we beat him
for. is to insult the men who are
laying down their lives.
A distortion of the truth is
also in dispatch from Allied
headquarters in North Africa,
reporting that M. Peyrouton has
created a permanent council OF
war economy. The reporter
states, 'the creation of the coun-
Gil makes the first step toward
the rebirth Of representative
government, for its members will
be elected by various economic
groups !" = elected by the heads
Of various Algerian financial,
industrial and agricultural groups
and presidents Of chambers Of
commerce and trade organiza-
tions."
If that is representative gov
ernment so is MussoNni. That
is a description OF a corporate
state. If we are fighting the
war to set up the same sorts of
governments that a triumphant
Mussolini or Hitler would set up,
what is 1t all about7 Is it mere
ly that we want Fascist states
under our influence instead of
under theirs? I ask a simple
question.
ITO Be Continued.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1943-02-12
Press Club Canteen Plans
Coast Guard Day

Coast Guard Day will be observed
at the National Press Clubs weekly
canteen for servicemen at the club
auditorium from 2 to pm. to-
morrow.
Vice Admiral Russell r. Waesche
commandant of the Coast Guard,
will greet the uniformed visitors
The band from the Coast Guard
training school at Curtis Bay will be
on hand with its group of speciality
entertainers. Senators and House
members from Florida have been
invited and a number are expected
Guests OF honor will include Mai
Juan Munez of the Chilean All
Evening star., 1943-02-12
Curtiss-Wrieht Delivers
New PIone to British
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK.. Feb. 12.-The Cur
tiss-Wright Corp. announced today
that a new type OF plane, the Curtiss
Seagull, is being delivered to the
British fleet.
The Royal Navy calls the ship the
Seamew, the European name for
seagulls. The plane is designed to
operate from battleships and cruis-
ers. 1t is capable Of flying long dis
tances. On its return it can land on
the sea to be picked up by it's war
ship or 1t can land on a carrier. Tho
Seamew carries two men.