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Evening star., 1947-04-22
Battalion Chief Boss
Retired by District
Fire Department

Retirement from the Fire De-
partment of Battalion Chief Richard
e. S. Boss, IS, superintendent OF
training, for disability incurred in
line of duty, was announced today
by the Commissioners.
Chief Boss, veteran OF 81 years
and 10 months service, was found to
be physically incapacitated fol-
further duty by the Board OF Police
and Fire Surgeons, the announce
ment said. He is to leave the de-
partnent April 80 and will receive
a pension Of $3.50 month.
Adviser to Navy.
Chief Boss was made superintend-
ent of instruction early last year
following military leave of absence
in which he advised the Navy in the
installation of fire alarm equipment
AS training overseer, he had charge
of the Fire Departments school for
rockies and officers as well as the
pump school.
Fire Chief Clement Murphy named
him to head special communica-
tions board to study the city fire
alarm system in April of 1946. II
was as result of this study that
control of the fire alarm headquar-
ters was shifted from the Electrical
Department to the Fire Department
early this year.
Native of District.
A native of the District, Chief
Boss began his long fire-f1ghting
career at Engine Company No. IS
later being assigned to at least IL
different engine and truck compan-
les throughout the city. Later, as q
captain, he commanded Engine
Companies 10, IL and Is and Truck
Company 8.
He holds commentators for his
work at the Knickerbocker Theatel
disaster in 1922 and the Kann'.
warehouse fire in 1925.
He makes his home at 3019 Twen-
ty-fifth street NE. with his wife
Mrs. Emma L. Boss. He has a son
Richard, jr., and daughter
Anna L.
Evening star., 1947-04-22

written by Florence switlick, starts
out this way:
Long wave your Red, your White
and your Blue.
Oh, Soul of America, I salute you."
A devout poem, Prayer" written
by Eleanor M. Clinton, starts this
way:
Dear God, devoutly now I make
this prayer:
Grant me no blessing that I would
not share
With every living soul beneath the
sky
Who needs thy loving grace as much
as L"
The opening lines of "Nocturne, -
by Mark Park Heaton, goes like this:
What is this quiet love that folds
my heart
In warm embrace and holds my body
still"
/ Gillette Tolbert, who halls from
South Carolina, penned "The Lonely
Road" The opening stanza follows:
Past sand-fields, bright with rumex
And Lanaria's linen blue
Past crab-apple and jessamine vines
The lonely road runs through
A strip of country where, perhaps,
A traveller on his way
May pause in spell-bound ecstasy
Upon an April day."
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Auto License Tag Deadline
In Maryland Is April 80
by ,he A,.ocioted Press


BALTIMORE, April 21.-Deadline
for using 1946 automobile license
plates is midnight, April 80, w.
Lee Elgin, commissioner of motor
vehicles, said yesterday.
Only 80 per cent Of the new
licenses have been sold, and appli-
cations should be mailed as soon as
possible to avoid the last-minute
rush, Mr.. Elgin said.
Persons planning to take motor
ing trips that will keep them out
of Maryland after April 80 must
have the new plates to assure un-
interrupted trips. All other States
have been notified of the expiration
date for Maryland tags, he said.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Montgomery Citizens
Indorse Charter Rule
On Non-P PARTISAN Basis

The Montgomery County Civic
Federation Is on record today in
favoring a charter form of govern
ment administered by a governing
council with wide powers and elected
on nonpartisan basis.
The federation last night studied
the preliminary charter drafted by
the Charter Board and suggested
changes. The group summarized its
beliefs as to what charter form OF
government should accomplish ~
follows:
Bring the power to pass local laws
home to the county so that our
local laws would be adopted locally
by representatives of our own choice
without interference by legislators
from other counties, or by the Gov
ernor Of the State.
Permit us to have council man
ager form of government and the
efficiency and economy which flows
from that form.
Establish q true merit system.
One Major Charge Urged.
The greatest charge urged by the
federation in the proposed charter
would eliminate Article in the
preliminary draft, which has to dc
with creation Of departments OF
finance. public works and the office
of county attorney.
The federation said that the
council should have power ito es-
tablish such departments as 1t may
deem necessary for the efficient and
economical administration of the
government.
The group also passed a resolu-
ton asking that the charter be
so drafted that, should the So
called Lindsay Act be declared un-
constitutional or amended, "the
county council should have full and
unquestionable power to provide fol
nonpartisan elections by local laws
adopted by the council in legisla.
tive session The Lindsay Law
prohibits nonpartisan election oi
members OF the county council.
The charter prohibits political
activity by county employees during
working hours. The federation took
the stand that "all political partisan
activity be prohibited generally.
Other Resolutions Passed.
In other resolutions the fedora
ton suggested:
That the wording of the char
ter be more specific in regard tc
a member Of the County Council
holding any other office under the
State or county. Members of the
federation claimed that the word.
ing Is not clear as to the status
In this connection, OF employees Of
such groups as the Park and Plan.
ming Commission and the Suburban
Sanitary Commission.
Ten calendar days, rather thar
five, should be provided between the
introduction and passage of an act
That the county commissioners
IN the interim period after a charter
form of government may have beer
voted. should have only interim
powers subject to cancellation by
the council as soon as 1t takes of.
flee.
DR.. Lewis Merriam was chairman
Of special committee which stud.
led the charter and recommended
changes.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Poets Federal Service Have Own Club and Publish B,ony Magazine
BY Joseph Young

IL seems tnat poets uOurlSa every
where. Even In the prosaic and
bureaucratic environment Of 4 Gov
ernment building.
Their creative urges a-stirring, .
group Of Federal employees with ar
tistic leanings have formed an or
ganization called The Federal
Poets" Government officials as well
as clerks and bookkeepers In the
Federal service meet every two
weeks to read their own literary ef-
forts, hear talks by well-known
poets, and exchange literary chit
chat.
The clubs literary output is pub
lished every two months in Its own
magazine, "The Federal Poet" an
attractive well-edited publication.
Here one finds poetry which the
members consider their best. Al
though no one yet has composed an
ode to John Taber, almost every
other subject has been covered in
poetry ranging from four-line linn
ericks to blank verse.
Club Started ) Years Ago.
Some Of the poems throb with the
passion of unrequited love; others
are of q more philosophical nature.
There are also poems Of the hui
morous, Ogden Nash (they hope)
variety.
The club was started three years
ago by Oliver c. Short, personnel
director of the Commerce Depart
ment, as a morale booster for Com
merce employees. Gradually en-
ployes of other agencies joined the
club and the membership now con-
sists OF so bona-fide spare-time
poets representing most Of the Fed
eral departments.
But the Federal poets believe
their group can be vastly expanded.
They feel there are many poetic
souls working in the Government
who are unaware of the clubs ex-
istence and who would leap at the
chance to see their literary effort
In print, as well as enjoy the
camaraderie Of fellow poets.
WAA Official Is Adviser.
Eanes MacVeagh, q War Assets
Administration official, is the ad-
wiser OF the poets, and meetings fre-
quently are held in his home. He
hopes that the club soon will have
too many members to meet in a
private home and instead will hold
its gatherings in one Of the large
Government auditoriums.
Mr.. MacVeagh invites those who
would like to join to call him at
Hobart 1923. Incidentally, Mr.. Mac
Veagh is the brother of Lincoln
MacVeagh, United States Ambassa-
dor to Greece.
In case some members Of Con-
gress are wondering, the poets say
their verse Is composed on their own
"and not on Government time. "
However, it is not unlikely that a
poet occasionally is seized with in
spiration while at his desk. After
all, art cannot be denied.
Few Samples Are Given.
Here are excerpts from some of
the poems in the magazines recent
issue:
Some day you will go.
You will tire of kisses and soft white
arms
That caresS
And love that is pure"
This was written by Richard E.
Schneider. who during the day puts
out prosaic press releases for the
Civil Service Commission.
"An Ode to Washington, D. c."
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Retreat Is Ahernatiy,
Ito Decent Peace,
|Dr. Walsh Declares

DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., re-
gent Of the Georgetown University
Foreign Service School and long
time foe of communism, closed a
series Of lectures on postwar prob
lens last night with another warn
ing against the threat to world
peace Of continued Russian aggres-
sion.
Either the American people must
deal effectively with Russia now
and force a decent peace" he said,
COR else retreat to our Atlantic
stronghold, admit the existence Of
two worlds and wait grimly for the
Ice age Of international relations to
set In
More than 1000 persons attended
the eighth and final lecture at the
Mayf1ower Hotel in which the
Georgetown educator and former
lconsultant at the Nuremberg trial
of Nazi war criminals scored Rus
sian tactics at the Moscow Confer
lence.
Sees Revolution Objective.
Doubling that the United States
can escape the accusation of hypo-
crisy" II we continue to permit
another totalitarianism to run
roughshod over every reasonable
proposal to establish a decent peace
in demoralized world" DR.. Walsh
charged:
/ The records of the general meet
lings of the United Nations and the
specific negotiations in the two con.
lferences Of Foreign Ministers beal
melancholy testimony to the un.
Ichanged policy of Soviet Russia tt
utilize the machinery of the or.
lganization to advance the specia.
and unchanged objectives of hel
still vital program of world revolu-
ton"
Scoring Russia's present attitude
toward Austria, Father Walsh sale
that nothing will satisfy the Polit.
buro in Moscow except the ultimate
control of the continent of Europe
and the imposition of communism
on its populations.
ANY statesman or negotiator who
fails to recognize that objective Is a
victim either of moral or intellectual
myopia," he declared.
The Georgetown official again
criticised Henry w. Wallace. charg-
ing the former Vice President with
dropping elements of discord intt
the witches cauldron" that i,
present-day Europe.
Fears Collapse in Delay.
Continuance Of delay is fraughi
with a growing menace as the SOU
of Europe grows more and more de.
spondent," he added. THAT patti
has only one logical termination
the dead-end of collapse, economi,
stagnation, famine and communism
by default.
Where has the Atlantic Chartel
gomez, he asked. "It thrilled tn.
world In one of its darkest hour,
with its exalted conceptions of free
dom, social betterment, equal justic'
and charity to all peoples of goos
will. Must we now in the hour o
victory be forced to confess that
was a shoddy campaign device"
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Byrd's Account Of Trip
To Be Heard Tomorrow

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd will
tell Washington school children
about his recent trip to Antarctica
at 1880 pm. tomorrow during the
News for Schools radio program on
Station WMAL.
Arrangements for a special trans
scribed interview with the Navy's
polar authority were made today by
Bill Coyle, radio director Of The
Star.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
1911 Pounds Of Paper
Collected in District |

District paper troopers yesterday
brought in 29.271 pounds. The total
exceeded last Mondays collection
by more than 3 tons and raised the
grand total in The Evening STAR
PTA salvage campaign to 28,106, ,582
pounds.
Schools included in the collec-
ton are jefferson. 1870; Congress
Heights. 785; Van Ness, 347; Wal
ZACH, 1850; Buchanan, 4,974; Bryan,
1,216; Kiinball,. 1881; Orr, 2,039;
Ketcham, 1897; Stanton, 2,727;
Beers, 1856; Randle Highlands,
1929; Silver Spring, 1880.
Collection schedules tomorrow in
District III, together with the lead
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Senate Group
Split Again on
U. !. Pensions
Division Is on Rights
Of Those Who Leove
Before Retiring Age

The Senate Civil Service Commits
tee again failed to reach agreement
today on the LANCER Chavez bill to
iiberalize the Federal retirement
System.
I Although the committee had re-
ported the bill favorably more than
a month ago, several committee
members later decided they didn't
Ike some Of the provisions. The
measure was returned to- the conn
mittee, and since then about six
meetings have been held without
agreement.
Differ ON Annuities.
The main thing holding up the
bill Is said to be the controversy be-
tween the Civil Service Commission
and the committees staff over the
right OF employees who leave the
Government before the retirement
age to get an annuity later.
There Is no controversy over the
other provisions of the bill-in-
creased annuity BENEFITS upon re-
tirement to Federal employees, as
well as larger payments to those
workers already retired, and sur.
)vivorship insurance benefits to de-
pendents Of deceased Government
employees.
The Civil Service Commission adj
vocates making it mandatory for
Government workers with less than
10 years service to withdraw their
contributions to the retirement fund
when they leave the Federal service.
This would make them ineligible for
annuity benefits when they reached
the age Of 81.
This is vigorously opposed by the
committees staff. The committees
actuaries want to make It optional
on the part Of the employe whether
to withdraw his money or leave it
In the retirement fund and become
eligible for q full annuity at the
age Of 81.
Information Requested.
This issue has stymied the bill as
the committee members requested
more information from both sides
before deciding which provision to
adopt.
The present system provides that
an employe with less than five years.
service may, on leaving the Govern
ment, withdraw his contributions
with interest. After five years, how
ever, the money is not returned and
the employe receives a reduced an.
unity at the retirement age.
Chairman LANCER announced that.
his group would meet again on the
bill Thursday.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
CIurkson Succeeds Lewis

Walter B. Clarkson, 2101 Con-
necticut avenue NV, former
president Of the Washington Travel
Iers' Aid Society, was elected treas
urer of the society's Board Of Di-
rectors at a meeting yesterday In
the Burlington Hotel. Mr.. Clarkson
fills the vacancy left by the recent
resignation of Ernest /. Lewis, 3099
q street NV.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Vote on Changing Name
OF Boulder Dam Blocked

Senator McCarran, Democrat, OF
Nevada blocked a Senate vote yes
terday on a House-approved pro-
posal to change Boulder Dams
name to Hoover Dam in honor Of the
former President.
Arguing that the change would
Inconvenience businessmen in Boul-
der City and adjacent areas Of
Nevada, Senator McCarran used up
all the time allowed for considera-
ton Of the resolution and no vote
could be taken.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Bethesda Office Moved
By Community Chest

The Montgomery County Com
munity Chest and Council an
nounced it has moved It's Bethesda
Office TO new location at 1884 Wis
consin avenue. The telephone
number Is Oliver 1922.
The Chest requested that all
material on budgets OF individual
agencies and other fiscal matters be
mailed TO P.O. Box 5736, Bethesda,
Md.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Charges Of Dodging
ID. T.. Income Tax for
; Years Face Man

Three charges of willful failure
to file District income tax returns
for 1943, 1914 and 1945 were placed
against Washington man arraign-
ed today in Municipal Court.
Facing the charges is William
Bartholomew Fletcher, 36, colored
of the 1900 block of Thirteenth
street NV, He was released under
ST 900 bond to appear for trial April
20.
His attorney, James X. Hughes,
said the amount involved is about
$4,000" A tax division spokesman
said he could not divulge the exact
amount, but that it was a con-
siderable sum-"
Police records show that a Will
liam Bartholomew Fletcher has
been arrested nearly score OF
times in the past few years for
liquor law violations.
Another income tax evasion case
is scheduled for jury trial in Mu-
nicipal Court tomorrow. The de-
fendant Is George H. Pell, employe
Of a paper company here. who now
is living in Hyattsville, Md. Peu is
charged with failing to file returns
over the same period. He pleaded
not guilty and was placed under
$500 bond in an arraignment last
November.
A third evasion case pending in
the same court is that of Mrs.
Elsie Baker, of the Westchester
Apartments, 1000 Cathedral avenue
NV. According to the United States
Attorneys Office. motion to quash
the information on grounds that
the prosecution should be handled
by the corporation counsels office
will be argued Friday. Mrs. Baker
also is free under $500 bond, charged
with income tax evasions over the
same period as the other two de-
fendantS
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Cor Use Bill Reported

The House District Committee
yesterday favorably reported the bill
to grant three inspectors OF the
Metropolitan Police Department an
allowance of $3.50 q year to cover
costs of the use of their private cars
on ohlcial business.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
EIection on Rockville Pike

Oficers will be elected at meet
ing of the Rockville Pike Business
Association at 8 pm. Monday at
the Montrose School on the Rock
vile pike.
Evening star., 1947-04-22
Place Sunday
Classified Ads
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Classified od customers
desiring to place ads in
The Sunday Stor are
urged to call them in
early in the week. DeIoy
and inconvenience will
then be avoided, and we
will be able to give
prompt ond efficient
service. Your co-opero-
tion will be appreciated.
Evening star., 1947-04-06
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especially fitted for difficult top as
signments.
The new Foreign Service Act,
which went into effect last Novem-
ber 13, makes it possible for the
first time for a foreign service
officer to retain his standing in
the career service after being ap-
pointed an ambassador or minister
Previously, such appointees had
to resign from the career service to
accept chief of mission appoint
ments.
Last weeks series of ambassado-
rial nominations set another prec-
edent, in addition to the Cannon
case, by including two former Com
merce Department employees.
Walter ]. Donnelly was named
Ambassador to Costa Rica and Al
bert F. Nufer to Ell Salvador. Both
now foreign service officers OF
class !, they were among the group
Of Commerce Department CONNER
cial attaches who were merged into
the foreign service in 1889. Many
old-line career diplomats resented
at the time, seeing the Commerce
men come into foreign service at
relatively high rank. None of the
group ever before had been named
chief of a diplomatic mission.
Mr.. Cannon will replace in Yugo-
slavia Richard c. Patterson, jr., a
political appointee who resigned. Mr.
Donnelly succeeds in Costa Rica
Hallet johnson, a career man ex-
pected to retire. Mr.. Nufer replaces
Mr.. Simmons in El Salvador.
With the new appointments, the
list of American ambassadors and
ministers now includes 81 men from
the career service and "a political
appointees.>
Evening star., 1947-04-06

aries and installed puppet Annamite
regimes.
Before March 0 Ho Chi-minh, the
sage, benign-appearing, Moscow
trained leader Of Wet Nam reyolu-
ton, had organised small guerrilla
operations against the Japanese In
Northern Tonkin's rugged noun
tains, near the Chinese frontier.
Helped Chennault.
After March 8 Ho Chi-minh went
to work for the pilot rescue and tar
get intelligence organization Of Gen.
Claire Chennault's American 14th
Air Force. He became chief OF this
operation inside Indo- China because
the Japanese coup had wrecked the
French resistance underground
which previously had supplied in
formation and new organization
was needed quickly.
The Americans gave Ho Chi-minh
small supplies of arms for his guer-
rillas and radio communications
equipment. More Importantly, Ho
gained tremendous propaganda
asset which he and his followers in
the Wet Mimi party, quietly organ
lied in China in 1941, employed to
the fullest advantage.
Filtering through the country,
Wet Mimi organizers spread the
word that with the wars end Wet
Nam would be free, that Ho Chi
mimi would be its leader, and that
the Americans were backing Ho Chi
mimi. Ho had only about four
months for this clandestine propa-
ganda, but it achieved more success
than even he expected.
When Emperor Hirohito surren-
dered on August is Ho still was in the
Tonkin hills. On August II he en-
tered Hanoi. Two days later, on
August 10, he took over governing
powers from Emperor Bao Dai, Jap
anese-sponsored puppet, and pro-
claimed the independent republic OF
Wet Nam. Jean Sainteny, first
French oficial to enter Indo- China,
did not reach Hanoi from Marking
until August 23. BY that time Viet
Mans freedom flame was sweeping
south through AMMAN and Cochin
China. Vo Nyguyen Clap. Wet
Minis military chief, started seiz-
ing Japanese arms, with the jap
anese giving more cooperation than
argument.
Conquest Of Tonkin.
The allied chiefs of staff gave
Wet Nam an important break In
assigning Chinese forces to occupy
the area of Indo- China north of the
10th parallel. During five months OF
Chinese occupation, the Wet Nam
ese administered the local govern
ment before the first French troops
were allowed to enter Tonkin in
March, 1916. The Chinese did not
discourage Wet Nam's aspirations.
France originally moved into
Indo- China in 1861 because the old
AMMAN Emperors had been persecut-
ing Jesuit missionaries. The first
penetration was at Saigon and in
the southern province OF Cochin
Evening star., 1947-04-06
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Hannegan's "hat-in-the-ring" speech
in New York a few weeks ago, the
President anticipated questions
about 1948, and headed them of
by reading to reporters extracts
from his mo politics" postelection
statement. He still sticks to that
he said.
BY accident or design, the Presi-
dent sees less of his old congress
sional cronies than formerly was the
case, and he has his first lame
duck" appointment to make.
Usually his daily calling list Is a
long one.
Enjoys Good Health.
With the exception Of few days
last November, when a cold sent him
to Florida for brief rest, Mr.. Tru-
man, who will be IS May 8. has been
in good physical shape throughout
his two years In the White House.
His diet Is plain. and swimming and
walking furnish needed exercise
Every so often, Brig. Gen. Wallace
Graham. his physician, feels it ad-
visable to get the President away
from his desk for a few days, and
while always there is some work to
be done. these breaks" serve as q
good tonic.
The President also gets an oppor-
tunity to see some new faces on
these trips, and reporters travelling
with him have noticed an increasing
warmth in the welcome he receives
On the recent trip to Key West
the town turned out In a body for
an after-da-k reception, and when
the President left at midday, schools
got a half holiday, and even the
"hot spots" along Duval street srs-
pended activities while operators
and customers flocked out to join
the sidewalk cheering section. !,