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Evening star., 1946-07-25
Jewish Agency Challenges
Britain to Prove Choroe

JERUSALEM, July Is P.-A
spokesman for the Jewish agency
said today the organization "chal-
lenges the British government to
prove" that the agency was response
BILE for the composition, authorize
ton or dispatch of any of the tele-
grams mentioned in the white paper
BY adducing a tumble of alleged
kilograms stated to have been sent
nine months ago, of extracts from
proadcasts by the Voice of Israel
station and of passages culled from
publications OF terrorist groups, the
British government claims to have
obtained proof of cooperation be-
tween some members of the Jewish
Agency and Hagana Underground
organization) and of coordination in
some cases between Hagana and ter
rorist bands" the spokesman said.
Not single one of the alleged
telegramS emanated from the Jewish
Agency in Palestine" he added.
The death toll of Mondays bomb
ing of the King David Hotel rose to
SO and the list of missing dropped to
SIS today as medical officers and en-
gineers at the scene abandoned
hope that any victims were still
alive in the rubble.
Fatigued but grimly determined
soldiers continued, nevertheless, to
plow through a slowly diminishing
pile of debris Six persons had been
rescued previously from the ruins
Forty-seven persons still are con-
fined to hospitals.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
u. 5. Payroll Of 2,848,000
Still Growing, Rich Charges

Representative Rich, Republican
of Pennsylvania complained to the
House again yesterday about the
number of Federal employees.
Discussing Federal jobs, Mr.. Rich
told the House it was certainly
timely now that we consider the
fact that we have 2,S4s, 900 or more
people on the Federal payroll"
1--WE have been adding to the
Federal payroll ever since the end
of the war" he declared, when we
should be reducing employees.
I'VE have been taking them off
the Army and Navy, but adding
them to the various departments
This is something the Federal tax
payers have got to stand They must
pay the bill and this will increase
their taxes.
I'VE have more people on the
payroll that are not necessary than
any other organization with which
I have had any association. If the
Congress is going to continue to
permit these bureaucrats to build
up these organizations for expedi-
ency and political purposes rather
than to fill honest needs for Gov
ernment operation, it Is about time
the people Of this country recog-
nized that fact, and sent others here
to look after their interests"
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Controller Of VISA
Defends Bookkeepinq
By tho Assoeiotsd Press

| j. M. Quinn, controller OF the
War Shipping Administration. tool
issue yesterday with General Ac.
counting ONCE asserting that the
WSA's wartime accounting method
was Inefficient."
Testifying before the House Mer.
chant Marine Committee, Mr.
Quinn said his agency had employed
la universally accepted accounting
method and that operations fell be-
hind only because of wartime vol.
ume and insufficient accounting per.
sonnet"
He said there had been mo inefi-
cheney or carelessness" in accounting
procedures and that "the mistakes
which were made were but human
errors"
Earlier, w. L. Slattery, construc-
ton finance director for the Mari
time Commission, whose accounting
procedures also are under investiga-
ton by the committee, testified the
commissions bookkeeping records on
ship construction had fallen behind
activities but the Government had
maintained an accurate check on
costs.
Mr.. Slattery's reference to book
keeping procedures, however, aroused
the anger Of Representative Weichel
Republican, of Ohio, who shouted at
the witness that every one RESPONSE
BILE for the commissions wartime ac-
counting methods should be dis
charged "and fresh people put in
their places"
Mr.. Slattery was general auditor
for construction during the period
Mr.. Weichel complained Of
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Business Solicitation
Charge Is Dropped

A charge Of unlicensed soliciting
against Leon r. Canter, 1712 Six
teenth street NV, who was arrested
last month for allegedly taking
orders without a permit to send
kilograms in connection with the
fight for OPA, was dropped in
Municipal Court yesterday.
Mr.. Canter, who told police he
was an attorney for the CIO was
freed of the charge by Judge Ellen
x. Raedy on recommendation of the
Corporation Counsel's Office.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
House Group Supports
Loan for Philippines
by the Associotsd Press

The House Banking Committee
today approved a $75,000,000 loar
for the Philippines to meet the
budgetary requirement of the new
republic.
The committee wrote into the bill
a stipulation that the Treasury, in
drawing up the loan agreement
must require interest of at least
q per cent yearly on the loan.
AS introduced by Representative
Bell, Democrat, of Missouri, the leg
islation called for a 500 900 ,00(
credit to cover an anticipated bud
get deficit in the current fiscal year
However, Secretary Of the Treasury
Snyder and Assistant Secretary OF
State Clayton advised the commit.
tee yesterday that $75,000 900 woulc
be sufficient.
The legislation now goes to the
House for consideration. Admins.
tration leaders hope to complete
action on the bill before Congress.
adjourns next week.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
District Health Employees
Ask Promptness on PAY

Angered at repeated delays in the
receipt of their pay checks during
the past year. several hundred en-
ployes of the District Health De-
partment today petitioned the Com
missioners for prompt payment in
the future.
D. P. Jones, a spokesman for the
group, said Health Department en-
ployes had been told this week that
instead of being paid on Tuesday,
as scheduled, they would not receive
the checks until the end of the
week, or possible next Tuesday.
He charged the Health Depart
ment pay checks, due on alternate
Tuesdays, had been consistently
from three days to two weeks late
during the past year. A previous
pledge to get them out on time has
never been kept. he said.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Bill Asks Interim Poy
For IS at Child Centers

A bill providing for payment of
salaries to IS employees in the child
day-care centers in the period be-
tween June 80 and July 16 when
they were operated on a voluntary
basis pending adoption of the new
legislation was introduced yester-
day by Acting Chairman Healy of
the House District Committee.
Private funds used for operation
of the IA centers were exhausted at
the end of June and the new law
providing for their operation under
the Board of Public Welfare for
! year was not enacted until July 16
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Anders Using U. 5. Funds
For Terror, Pole CHARGES
By III. Asseeioted Pros.

WARSAW, July "A Delayed A
Foreign Ministry spokesman as
serted in a statement today that
"NSz" terroristic activities In Po-
land were being financed and di-
rected by Gen. Wladyslaw Anders
and his aides operating from the,
Polish center at Regensburg, In the
American zone OF Germany.
He said Gen. Anders was using
large sums of American money and
equipment.
Gen. Anders commanded the ex-
lied Polish Army against Germany
during the war. The Poles fought
mainly in Italy under Allied head
quarters direction.
The spokesman said Polish Sc
curity police had charged that Gen.
Anders was sending agents into Po-
land to organize antigovernment ac-'
tivity and that many had para
chuted into the republic.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Retired Group Presses
For Higher Annuities

A group of former civil service
employees, many Of them in their 70s,
was to meet at the Senate Office
Building today to urge passage of
legislation providing for higher re-
tirement annuities, and tax exemp-
ton up to 81 ,440 on such annuities
Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell,
president of the League of the
American Civil Service, acted as
spokesman for the delegation.
She said many civil service pen
sioners here are actually starving"
on annuities averaging ST 200 a year,
as result of the rise in living costs
during recent years.
Veterans of 80 years or more of
faithful service to the Federal Gov
ernment, Mrs. Worrell asserted, have
been the only group that has been
entirely forgotten" in current wage
price controversies
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Continued From First Page.

oils jumped Al per cent by mid-July
over their June level
If prices continue high, Ameri
can exports Of these products will
be decreased. imports increased and
domestic production raised moder-
stely during the rest of this year
the department predicted.
Drop in Consumption Seen.
The report estimated that the
average civilian will eat only 80
pounds of fats and oils in 1946
compared to the annual prewar
consuption of AT pounds, Con-
sumers will eat 40 per cent less
butter than before the war, but
the margarine supply will be slight
ly larger than before the war.
AS for next year, the department
said butter output may be in
creased, lard and vegetable produc-
tion will be smaller and total fat
and oil supplies from domestic pro-
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Jewish Leaders Deny
Receiving kilograms
Cited by British
By the A,socioied Press

LONDON, July 25.-London men,
bers of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine today denied receiving any OF
the kilograms cited yesterday in 9
British government white paper as
evidence" linking Jewish Agency
executive members with acts of vic.
lence in the Holy Land.
A statement issued by the agency's
London Offices declared none of the
kilograms published in the white
paper as sent from Jerusalem to
London was ever received or dis
cussed by the Jewish Agency in Lon
don.
Before entering into the matter
further, the Jewish Agency will have
to consult their colleagues in Pales-
tine, some of whom are still unde,
detention" -
Arab-Jew Conference Planned.
The British Foreign Office an
nounced plans for an early confer
ence here OF Arab and Jewish lead
ers on the problems of Palestine
and European Jewry."
Government spokesmen said the
conference was being called as q
result OF the agreement between
Britain and the Arab League that
the league be consulted before an,
decision is reached on implementa-
ton Of the British American Inauir,
Committee recommendation for i'm
mediate admission of 100000 Jews
into Palestine.
No date for the conference has
been fixed, but it may be completed
before the United Nations Assembl,
opens its fall session September %
The United States will send OBJ.
servers.
Partition Pressure Charged.
Meanwhile, Arab sources in Lon.
don said the British government /.
exerting all possible influence or
America In an effort to sell a plar
to split Palestine into communal
units Of Jews and Arabs.
These sources said they were
privately informed that recent VIC.
lence in the Holy Land had con.
vinced Britain there was no hope
OF establishing a peaceful state
in which neither Jews or Arabs
would dominate.
At the same time, the Arabs say
Britain is embarrassed by findings
of the British-American Committee
OF Inquiry which specifically recon-
.mended against partition of Pales-
tine.
AS an alternative Arabs say the,
are informed the British are strivins
to win American acceptance of {
halfway house" in which Pales.
tine would be divided into Jewish
and Arab areas similar to American
counties.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Camp Bennett Receives
August Applications

Application for campers at Camp
Bennett for the two-week period
August 5 to 10 are still being re-
ceived, Mrs. Herbert E. Eberhardt
director, announced today. The
camp, named in memory of John
and Jean Bennett. is operated by
the Central Union Mission. 613 c
street NV, and is located near
Brookeville, Md.
Camp Bennett accommodst tes ap-
proximately 80 children at each two
week period. 1t opened this year
on July 8 and will close September 2
Boys and girls desiring to enroll
for the camp should apply to Mrs
Eberhardt at the Central Union
Mission.
Evening star., 1946-07-25

ducers will be substantially less
than in 1946.
The eight fats and oils which the
department said had risen sharply
in price in recent weeks are butter,
cotton seed oil, lard, edible tallow
inedible oil, linseed oil, grease and
oleo oil.
In another report, the depart
ment said egg prices would not be
greatly affected by the end of price
control, and thus far prices have
not been pressing against ceiling
levels.
This was attributed to larger meat
supplies per person than a year
ago and near-record supplies of eggs.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
|Degnan Ransom Note
WAS Heirens' Writinu
Prosecutor Charges
BY the Assoeiaied Press

CHICAGO, July 25.-State's At
torney william j. Tuohy said today
the handwriting on the Suzanne
Degan ransom note and the lip stick
message on the apartment wall OF
the slain former WAVE, Frances
Brown, was that of William Heirens
17-year-old University of Chicago
student.
Mr.. Tuohy made his announce
ment as he went before the grand
jury to seek indictments charging
the husky youth with the kidnap-
Staying of 6-year-old Suzanne
whose dismembered body was re-
covered January 7, and the killing
OF the former WAVE some three
weeks earlier.
Previously the States attorney
had announced that fingerprints
on the ransom note and one found
in the Brown apartment were those
OF Heirens. The FBI in Washing
ton confirmed this, he said.
Mr.. Tuohy said identification Of
the handwriting in the two killings
was established by Herbert j. Wal
ter. handwriting expert, after a
lengthy study of the ransom note
the lipstick writing and Hirens
notebooks.
Presents Findings Today.
Mr.. Tuohy said Mr.. Walter woule
present his findings to the granc
jury during the day.
The first witness taken before the
grand jury was James E. Degnan
former OPA official, father of tn.
slain Suzanne. A host OF police of
f1cers were to follow Mr.. Degnan.
Suzanne was taken from her bed
slain and her body butchered in 6
North Side apartment house laundry
room less than block from thu
Degnan home. Distributed in vari.
GUS sewer openings, most of the body
was recovered the same day.
| A ransom note demanding $40 O0(
provided police with their sole clu,
to the kidnaper.
/ Shot and Stabbed.
! The Staying of the 33-year-olc
Miss Brown occurred last Decem.
Der 10 in her hotel apartment. She
had been shot and stabbed repeat.
edly. On the wall of the apartment
the slayer had written this vivic
message in lipstick:
/ For heavens sake catch me be.
fore I kill more. I cannot contro
myself"
The same message was mailed ir
an anonymous letter to the Degnar
family after Suzanne was kidnapped
Mr.. Tuohy yesterday released q
ll8-page, question and answe,
statement taken from Heirens JUNE
80, in which the college youth de.
MED the kidnapping and killing ol
| the Degnan child and suggested
George Murman" probably was tn,
slayer.
| "Geores Murman" has been de.
scribed by Mr.. Tuohy as a fictitiou,
character, and he said that Heiren.
in his statement telling of crime.
| committed by George Murman'
was speaking of himself. Mr.. Tuohy
said Heirens accused "Murman" OF
crimes he later admitted he hac
committed.
The statement was made by
Heirens four days after he had beer
arrested.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Resignation Talk Recurs
As ForrestuI Returns
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

The recurring report that Secre-
tary OF the Navy Forrestal will
soon resign was revived today on his
return from an around-the- world
tour, but no confirmation could be
obtained.
Mr.. Forrestal has wanted to re-
sign since last year, but persons
close to him emphasize he has given
no intimation he will quit soon.
They added the first word would
come properly from the White
House.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Singapore Dock Strike On

SINGAPORE, July Is IP,.-Eight
thousand longshoremen walked out
today in a one-day protest strike
against failure of authorities to i'm
prove their living conditions. Mean
while, $4,000 striking Singapore
naval base workmen called a mass
meeting to discuss whether to end
the walkout paralyzing work at
Britain's largest Pacific naval re-
pair center.
Evening star., 1946-07-25

30 doy supply Of AYDs only $2.25. " moi
delighted with results, MONEY BACK on
first box. Now you con get AYDS al
All leodins Drug Counters in the District.
Teor Out This Ad os a Reminder.
Evening star., 1946-07-25

Negro slavery was abolished In
Haiti in 1894.
Evening star., 1946-07-25

Mr.. Logan was director of the
Distribution Bureau of the War Pro-
duction Board when he resigned in
June, 1945, after three years with
the agency, Civilian Production Ad-
ministration officials said today. He
lived at the Shoreham Hotel while
working in Washington.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Jews Here Will Open Passover
Tomorrow in Prayer for Peace

will be held at 7:3O pm. tomorrow
at Beth Sholom Synagogue, Eighth
and Shepherd streets NV. Rabbi
M. H. Levinson is spiritual leader of
the congregation.
Rabbi Henry Segal, spiritual head
OF B'nai Israel Congregation, will
hold services at pm. tomorrow at
the synagogue, Fourteenth and En-
erson streets NV. Rabbi Segal will
also conduct services at 8:45 am.
and 7 pm. Tuesday and at 8:45
am. Wednesday, Cantor Simon
Weiss will chant the services.
The Club Department of the Jew
ish Community Center will hold a
Sedar for children at $3.50 pm. to-
day at the Center, Sixteenth and @
streets NV.
Appeals for contributions to aid
refugees, overseas needs and Pale
stine will be made during Passover,
the United Jewish Appeal an
nounced yesterday. The District
area has million dollar goal as its
share of the Nationwide drive.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Truman Clarifies Veterans
Civil Service Job Status

President Truman yesterday is
sued an executive order under
which veterans who left noncivil
service jobs to enter the armed
forces may acquire a civil service
status on their re-entry into the
Government if their old jobs were
classified in their absence.
The order provides that the vet
eran may be reinstated in his own
position or transferred to another
provided he has been honorably dis
charged from military or naval serv-
ice, applies for reinstatement within
80 days, and then qualities for re-
appointment by noncompetitive
examina ton.
Hospitalized veterans are given a
year in: which to seek reinstate-
ment. The Civil Service Commis-
sion, it was said, does not think
many persons will be affected by
the order in as much as most Of
the government positions were COW
cred in the civil service by the
Ramspeck bill several years ago.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
200-Car Moforcade
ToCarry0PA Backers
To Hill Tomorrow

Lobbying of the mobile type will
have its day on Capitol Hill tomor-
row when a motorcade of 200 auto
mobiles transports petition bearing
Office of Price Administration sup
porters to the Capitol.
According to advance notices, the
visitors scheduled to arrive at the
Capitol at 2:3O pm. are members
Of 80 civic organizations, represent
ing every State.
BY petition, banner and word o1
mouth, they hope to impress or
members of Congress the need fol
a continuation of the Price Contro
Act, minus crippling amendments
beyond its June 80 expiration date.
The visit was timed to synchron.
ize with House debate on the OPA
extension bill tomorrow.
Publicity notices call the visit a
spontaneous outgrowth of confer
ences spearheaded by the ALL
States Committee of the National
emergency Committee for Price
Control.
Described as a grassroots lobby
to represent the 70 to 90 per cent
of the country's voters, estimated
by Nationwide polls as favoring
|OPA extension, the motorcade has
already enrolled capacity loads of
veterans, housewives, farmers, busi-
nessmen and workers. At the Cap
itol they will meet in Statuary Hall
with other contingents, bringing
testimonials and petitions, on
signed by $4,000 Illinois voters"
Organizing at five points through
out the District, the cars will pro-
ceed to the Capitol in groups of 25
carrying State signs and placards,
The project is directed by Mrs.
Ernest K. Lindley, All-States Com
mittee chairman of the emergency
committee. The motorcade is under
the direction of Mrs. Leon Hender-
son.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

stationed at the Gen. McReynolds.
Chicago Quartermaster Depot, he
developed the Type C Ration" and
also produced the initial quick
frozen boneless beef" now, used in
large quantities by the armed forces.
Gen. McReynolds entered the
Army during the World War after
being graduated from the University
Of Ohio. He served in the infantry
and intelligence sections and after
the war was student and later
commanding officer of the Quarter
master Corps Subsistence School,
Chicago, He is a graduate. of the
Command and General. Staff School.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Truman Calls for Review
OF Child Health Services

President Truman, issuing a
proclamation calling attention to
Child Health Day on May !, yester-
day urged the American people to
seek improved health conditions for
children.
The proclamation said:
Il call upon the people in each
of our communities to pledge them
selves today to review their COM
munity health and medical care
services to see how we'll these serv-
ices meet the needs of our children
in the light of the goals of the ma
tional health program, and to Or
ganize definite plan to achieve
within the coming year>at least one
improvement in community health
services which will contribute to
the better health of children"
Evening star., 1946-04-14

The flrSt Passover since the close
of the war will be observed by Jew
iSh residents here at sundoWn to-
morrow in synagogueS, temples and
homes with thanks for peace and
prayers for goodwill among men
throughout the world.
Feature of the Passover celebra-
ton, which is observed by Orthodox
and Conservative Jews for eight
days and by Reformed Jews for
seven days, is the Sedar service at
sundown tomorrow. 1t is tradition
ally observed as commemorating the
last supper the Jewish people ate
before leaving Egypt in ancient days
in their flight from slavery. The
Haggadah, ritual exalting the ideal
of freedom for all men, customarily
is read at the Sedar.
Worshippers at the Sedar also will
begin the eating of unleavened bread
(matzos) as reminder of their fore
fathers escape from bondage in
Egypt. Unleavened bread is eaten
exclusively during the Passover Pc
riod.
Patterson Halls Work.
Secretary of War Patterson con-
graduated American Jews on their
contribution to the war Just won.
His statement said:
I'm celebrating the Passover Holy
Days this year, Americans of the
Jewish faith may take just pride in
their contribution to the common
victory. For thousands of years the
Jews have been among the victims
of tyranny. whether under the
Pharaohs Of Egypt or the Fuehrers
of modern despotism. Then and now
they have been ever ready to defend
liberty and human rights.
In this country their record of
patriotism and devotion to duty goes
back to our first great struggle for
freedom. The Army for whose sue
cesses they worked and fought so
well congratulates the Jews of
America upon the occasion, which
symbolizes the exodus of free men
from the shadow of slavery"
Jewish military personnel in the
Washington area will attend Sedar
services in the Mayfower Hotel at
tbs pm. tomorrow. Joseph F. Barr
chairman of the Washington Army
and Navy Committee of the Nation
al Jewish Welfare Board, announced
that soldiers now at Walter Reed
Hospital will be brought to the hotel
for the Sedar.
ChapIains to Conduct Service.
Services at the Sedar will be con-
Quoted by Chaplain Ralph H. Blu
menthal of the Office of Chief OF
Chaplains; Chaplain Louis Paris OF
Walter Reed Hospital, and Chaplain
Benjamin Krasnow of Fort Belvoir
Va.
Jewish servicemen here also have
been invited to attend special religi-
Gus services during Passover week in
synagogues and temples throughout
the area.
Packages filled with Passover food
will be distributed to Jewish patients
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital at pm
tomorrow by the Washington He
brew Sisters Aid Circle.
Members of the Washington He
brew congregation will welcome the
Passover with Sedar at 7 pm. to-
morrow at the Willard Hotel. Rabbi
Gerstenfleld. spiritual leader of the
congregation, will conduct the Sedar
and will also lead the services at II
am. Tuesday, at the temple, Eighth
and H streets NV.
Services for the Passover will be
held at 6;45 pm. tomorrow and
Tuesday and at am Tuesday and
Wednesday at Adas Israel Hebrew
Congregation, Sixth and I streets
NV. D.. Rabbi Solomon H. Metz,
spiritual leader OF the congregation,
will conduct the services.
A Sedar for Government workers