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Evening star., 1947-12-14

arine st. George of New York and
Butler of New York, already have
introduced $500 pay-raise measures.
1t now appears that the strong
Republican support within the COM
mittee virtually assures that it will
approve some kind of a pay-raise
bill.
IMITATION NOTE-The Official
Register of the United States, which
formerly sold at the Government
Printing Office for 81 is now $1.25.
CONGRESSIONAL ECONOMY
The Joint Congressional Committee
on Printing has asked all House
and Senate committees to practice
some economy in the printing of
official reports and documents.
Senator Jenner, Republican, of
Indiana said the practice of some
committees in ordering printing
work done by the Government Print
ing Once on days when the GPO
is normally closed-Saturdays and
holidays-has resulted in "extraor-
dinary expense"
The "extraordinary expense" re-
suits from the extra pay that GPO
employees receive for working on
what are normally their days off.
Chairmen of the various House and
Senate committees have been asked
to avoid, whenever possible, having
printing work done on Saturdays
and holidays.
WHAT GOES-The other day we
pointed out many instances where
employees in nonpolicy-making jobs
were drawing the same $4,000 SAL
aries as their bosses who head the
various Federal agencies.
Now we discover there are actu-
ally cases in the Government where
the heads Of bureaus are making
less than others In their office.
For instance, one of the members
Of the Civil Service Commissions
board Of appeals and review makes
$8,478 to the chairman's $S,179.
And two members on the Federal
Security Agency's employees COM
pensation appeals board earn SCOTT
a year, while the chairman Of the
board draws only $8,179.
Government officials acknowledge
that this isn't sound administrative
practice. They say this is additional
evidence that the Federal Salary
Classification Act of 1928 Is out
moded and is in need Of overhauling
so that salaries can be reappraised
on the basis of job duties and
responsibilities.
JOB PREFERENCE Senate
Civil Service Committee reports
nv
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Pedestrian Injured
Seriously by Auto

Struck by q car while walking
across the street at New York ave
nue. and Fenwick street NE, F1ts
Widdekind, "a, Of Havre de Grace.
Md. was in critical condition In
Casualty Hospital last night.
Police said Mr.. Widdekind, q
Pennsylvania Railroad fireman, was
walking south over the cross walk
when the car driven by Kenneth e.
Wilson, IS, of 5000 Fifty fourth ave-
nue., Riverdale, Md. struck him at
$40 pm.
Mr.. Widdekind suffered fractures
Of both legs and internal injuries.
Mr.. Wilson was charged with fail
ing to yield a right OF way to Q
pedestrian.
Yesterday marked the 26th day
the District has passed without a
fatal accident. giving rise to a hope
that last years record of 70 deaths
would be lowered. Traffic deaths so
far this year total Ct.
Traffic authorities recalled there
were also 81 deaths on this date last
year, followed by two deaths on
December IS. another on December
is and two more on the last day Of
the wear
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Fight Made Against Funds
Asked for Elizabeth, PhiIip
By the As,oeiotad Presx

LONDON, Dec. 13.-Some rebel
lious members of the Labor Party
want to cut the annual allowances.
equivalent sto 5000 900, which are
proposed for Princess Elizabeth and
Prince Philip.
The House of Commons will vote
Wednesday on giving the Princess
$4,000 and her husband 10000, as
recommended by a Commons COM
mittee. Five Socialists on the COM
mittee sought to make the allow
ances f35 900 and $4,000.
"These five have a good many
sympathizers among Labor MP.s,
some of whom know that people
in the poorer parts Of their con-
stituencies would like to see the
allowances reduced" British Press
Association said today.
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Dec. IS
(P.-Princess Elizabeth and Prince
Philip, their 23-day honeymoon at
an end, boarded an overnight ex-
press train for London tonight.
Prince Philip goes back to work
Monday-at desk job In the Ad-
miralty.
In some types of paper mills, about
four gallons Of turpentine are some
times produced per ton of pulp.
Evening star., 1947-12-14

that some former congressional en-
ployes have been denied their en-
ployment rights in Federal agencies
because of a misunderstanding in
the program to find jobs for dis
placed career employees.
Under the Ramspeck Act, Con-
gressional employees with four or
more years of service who are in
voluntarily separated from their
jobs. are eligible for Government
employment provided they pass a
nom competitive civil service test.
But some agencies had the i'm
preston that displaced career en-
ployes had job priority over these
former legislative workers. The
Senate group called the situation to
the attention of the Civil Service
Commission, and the commission
had promised to advise the agencies
of the law in this regard.
The Senate group, incidentally
emphasized that it was very anxious
that all displaced career employees
find jobs. But it said that it also
wanted to make sure that former
legislative employees got the same
kind of job preference.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Senators
Morse and Aiken have introduced a
companion bill in the Senate to
compensate Government employees
who incur permanent partial in
juries while on the job. Last week
an identical bill was introduced in
the House by Chairman Hartley OF
the House Labor Committee.
Chairman LANCER of the Senate
Civil Service Committee has taken
strong exception to the statement
of Representative Koran, Repub-
lican, of Washington that the Fed
eral workweek should possibly be
revised because some Government
workers take advantage" OF their
40-hour week to take outside jobs
Such bilious attacks on Govern
ment employees always make good
copy and Invariably hit the head
lines" Senator LANCER declared
The House member should realize
that most of these employees seek
extra employment through sheer
necessity, with butter at 81 per
pound and bread at Is cents, and
many of them only eating meat
once week"
Evening star., 1947-12-14

but the presents are chiefly for
children and the poor and weak"
DR.. eileen said the bearing of this
thought on the Community Chest
Is obvious. Failure of the campaign
this year means hundreds of poor
and sick and weak people will be
turned away all through 1948 from
things they sorely need" he declared.
There Is no better way to carry
out the original intention of Christ
mas than for the citizens of Wash
ington to give their money through
the Community Chests to the un-
fortunate" he asserted. God gave
His son to us at Christmas time
and all Of us who presume to be
called by His Name dare not do
less than give"
Budgets Must Be Cut.
The campaign executive commit
tee said there is still a long way
to 60 to meet financial needs of
the agencies, and to minimize the
degree to which agency budgets
must be cut 'is the very least we
can ask the public to do at this
point"
That means that everyone who
can afford to give and who has
not been solicited by our volunteers
should mail in his gift as soon as
possible"
Federation officials said the bud
get committee soon must settle on
basis on which the 1913 Chest
budgets are to be met. The decision
must be reached before January
in order that next years alloca-
tions may start promptly with the
opening of the new year, they de-
clared,
Evening star., 1947-12-14

The measures are expected to be-
Identical, and are in line with the
$500 increase urged recently by the
AFL Government Employees Coun-
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Weather Report

District of Columbia - Mostly
sunny and warmer with highest
temperature in the middle 40's.
Mostly clear and not so cold tonight.
Tomorrow mostly sunny and slightly
warmer.
Virginia - Partly cloudy and
somewhat warmer today. Tomorrow
fair and slightly warmer.
Maryland F Partly cloudy and
somewhat warmer today. Tomorrow
increasing cloudiness and slightly
warmer.
River Report.
(From United States Ensineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear
at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday: Pct. Yesterday: Pct.
Noon 55 pm. 81
4 pm. - 4S 10 pm. ------- 81
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Christmas Shoppers
Urged 10 Put Chest
Al Top Of Gift List

4llC AOlIllll ulllty OIleSC fcQcT -
alton campaign executive COM
mittee is urging Washington
area residents who have not yet
contributed in the drive to write
"A gift to the Community Chest"
at the top of their Christmas
lists.
Only $3,173,741 of the $4,000, 900
goal has been produced by the cam
paign to provide funds for the 1948
operation Of 125 welfare agencies
supported by the Community Chests
Of Washington, Alexandria and
Fairfax, Arlington. Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties.
Noting reports of a great VOL
ume" of Christmas shopping, the
executive committee suggested the
shoppers consider matching their
gifts for family and relatives" with
gift to Community Chest agencies
What Gifts VIII Do.
"a Christmas doll is something
every little girl deserves" the COM
mittee declared. Matching this gift
in cost would mean donation OF
perhaps So or $4-enough to help
meet the cost of a days care for
another child In a convalescent
home.
"A pair of warm new slippers for
son or daughter can be bought for
about IS. Matching this gift in
cost would mean a contribution of
IS toward the cost OF years men,
bership in Scout troop, or a set
tlement house. or a boys club for
five other boys and girls who can
not afford this small sum-"
A gift matching the SIS cost OF
a coaster wagon for a boy would help
less fortunate child who needs
foster home care for a week, the
comittee went on, and $25 which
might be spent for a luxury gift
would see a family through a weeks
emergency.
Pledge Can Be Sent.
| Edward H. Foley, jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, who is
campaign chairman, said the gift
to the Community Chests may be
made in the form of a pledge to be
paid in installments during 1948
A gift blank appears in today's Star
"Of all the gifts we are privileged
to choose from this year." he de-
clared, Il believe there is no more
generous or thoughtful one than a
gift to the agencies which were
created to build for us all a better
place to live in.
"a Christmas pledge of your con-
tinuing support of the work of these
Red Feather agencies will help more
people, will keep more children we'll
safe, and happy than any other ]
know about"
In a pre-ChriStmas message, the
Rev. DR.. c. Leslie Glenn, chairman
Of the Committee on Religious Life
in the Nations Capital, declared
I'VE have way of saying at Christ
mas time that we exchange presents
which is terrible.
Gifts Are Not Exchanged"
Eve don't exchange them at all
We give them. If we receive some
back, that's all right, too, but the
spirit Of Christmas is to give. This
is implicit in the fundamental
meaning of the feast.
From the Christian standpoint
the great definition is not God is
love- but God so loved the world
that He gave Hence. the giving
of presents is very natural and
homely carrying out of this idea
Evening star., 1947-12-14

Gil, Wnlch rep
resentS a b ou t
100000 Federal
workers.
The four men,
berS, who asked
that their names
not be used un-
til the measures
are introduced,
include t hr e e
Republicans and
on e Democrat.
Two, other Re-
publican mem
berS of the COM
mittee Repre-
SentatiVeS Kath-
Evening star., 1947-12-14
British Round Recovery Corner
And Optimism Pervudes Islands

couldn't do last sumer-is a measure
Of the nations increased industrial
strength.
Coal Goal in Sight.
Coal is the kingpin of this re-
covery. The goal of 2O0, 0,0O0,0OO tons
for this calendar year-once thought
impossible-is now in sight. Goa
exports, with which Britain once
bought q large portion of her food
have been resumed.
Arthur Horner, Communist gen
eral secretary of the National Mine
workers Union. predicts the country
can export 100000 tons next year
well over the 100000 tons she
promised Europe in the Marshal
plan conferences, and regain prewal
volume of 50,000, 900 tons in two
years.
Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell ha.
announced the official target 70,
lS4S is 214,000,00O tons-10, ,0O0, ,0Ot
for export.
Mine manpower is slowly creep.
ing upward. So is mechanizatior
OF the pits to which about 2O(
mechanical cutters and 200 con.
veyors are delivered each month.
Employment in the steel ano
heavy metal trades is considerably
above prewar levels, totaling about
l l,l60 900 now, compared with $780,
600 in June, 1899. Employment in
these industries is still creeping up
ward.
The same story can be told fol
others-automobiles, gas and cleo.
tricity, electricity generator manu-.
facture, public transport.
Production is climbing too. Iror
and steel output, for example, i.
bowling along at rate of about
IA 600, 600 tons year, edging abov,
its wartime record.
Employment and production ar,
down from prewar levels in som,
enthusiastically textile. Other.
include tailoring, paper making
publishing, furniture manufacture
shoemaking and the commercial
financial and distributive businesses
On long term plans, electricit,
generation and increased farm bro.
duction are major items.
Notable is that in the first sever
months OF this year Britain pro.
duced enough electricity generatins
equipment to turn out 100000 kilo.
watts-more than twice last YEAR.
total production Of such equipment
Mechanization of agriculture
speeded up during the war, is pro.
ceeding. The output of tractors anc
plowing, planting and harvesting
machinery is at record levels. Fer.
tllizer now is produced at twice the
prewar rate.
This Is a major step in a pro.
gram of increased self -suf1iciency.
said government spokesman.
Manpower is a key problem on the
farms. German prisoners of war
used as standby help, will be vir.
tually all gone by Summer. A pro.
gram of recruiting volunteer worker.
to spend their vacations at farm
work is already under way.
Speeded up demobilization, made
possible by Withdrawals from India
and Palestine as we'll as q reshap.
ing Of British defense plans. will
provide another 100000 to 300 0O(
workers for industry during the
next year.
As the governments economic
program-which now embraces q
short-term cut in capital layout and
the limited direction of labor into
essential jobs-begins to bear fruit
the critics are quieting.
Another evidence of the new
spirit in Britain was the comment
OF the Conservative weekly THE
Spectator" that serious Sir Stafford
Cripps was seen to smile las
Thursday"
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Clark Reports Decline
In Delinquency Cases
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Attorney
General Clark said today juvenile
delinquency cases reaching Federal
courts declined in the l946-47 fiscal
year for the first time in many
years.
Mr.. Clark told the fifth annual
New York Daily Mirror Youth
Forum that l947 saw a decline OF
nearly 1,500 in the Federal courts
load of juvenile cases and the sit
uation '1ooks more encouraging. He
did not specify the number Of juve-
nile cases reaching the Federal
courts.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Raid by Lewis on AFL
Implied by Meeting Of
District 50 This Week
By Jones Y. Newton


Regional officials of the United
Mine Workers District so will as
semble here for important meetings
this week, lending credence to re-
ports that John L. Lewis planned
. major organizing drive In the
wake Of his abrupt withdrawal of
the UNIV from the AFL.
District so Is governed by Mr.
Lewis brother, A. D. Lewis. 1t is
an organization without turisdic-
tional boundaries and the UNIV
vehicle for organizing the unor-
ganised." Various other unions. in
Guiding some in the AFL, have
accused District so frequently Of
"raiding" their membership.
The regional directors and other
field workers will lay plans for next
year with the Lewis brothers, and
may consider q large expansion in
organizational activities. John L.
Lewis recently threatened to put
1000 organizers in the field If the
AFL attempted to push us around.
Ties Broken Abruptly.
Mr.. Lewis broke the UMW's ties
with the AFL in a contemptuous
and blunt I'VE disaffiliate" message
to President William Green late
Friday.
Now that he is clear of AFL ties,
1t Is also possible for Mr.. Lewis to
move to take over some already
established unions. Among those is
the Communications Workers OF
America, formerly the National Fed
Grafton of Telephone Workers. Mr.
Lewis donated 100000 to the
NFTW strike fund last spring, and
there have been numerous reports
Of possible merger.
A sizeable amount of Cash and a
free hand in the 1948 presidential
campaign are other assets coming
to Mr.. Lewis as a result of the break
with the federation.
100000 a Year in Dues Saved.
The UNIV recently has been pay
ing dues to the AFL for its 100000
members at the rate of 100000 q
year. That amount will be saved
now, either by the union or its
members.
As In organizing, Mr.. Lewis also
has q vehicle for political activity
at hand and no longer is under
obligation to take part in the AFL's
big plans for the 1948 campaigns
He has maintained through the
years Labor's Non-Partisan League
which is best remembered for the
part it played in President Roose-
velt's 1896 campaign. At that time
1t was attached to the CIO, but Mr.
Lewis kept it alive after breaking
with both Mr.. Roosevelt and the
CIO.
Attack on Taft Act Expected.
Mr.. Lewis also is expected to make
an all-out assault on the Taft
Hartley Act, probably beginning the
battle when he starts new contract
negotiations with soft coal operators
some time before next June 80.
His break with the AFL resulted
from the refusal of other officials
to go along with his boycott of the
Taft Hartley Act. He wanted them
to begin the fight by refusing to file
the non-C Communist affldavits re-
quired Of union officers. If large
part Of labor boycotted the National
: Labor Relations Board, administra-
tor of the labor law. the board would
soon be sdiscredited,s Mr.. Lewis
argued. =. 80 - y .
The fact that the UNIV and it,
District so are ineligible to do bust.
ness before the NLRB because o1
refusal to comply with filing re.
qutrements Of the law may handicap
Evening star., 1947-12-14

In some types of paper mills. about
four gallons Of turpentine are some
times produced per ton of pulp.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
70: :O.P. Backing Assures Action
|On Poy-Roise Bill in House
By Joseph Youno

Four members of the House Civil
expected to introduce Federal bills this
The bills will call for permanent $500
workers. with the raises be retroactive January
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Grunt Circle TO Meet

Grant Circle No. /, Ladies Of the
GAR, will meet at pm. Tuesday
in Room 418 of the Washington
Loan & Trust Building, Ninth and
F streets NV. A social hour will
follow the regular business meeting.
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Engineer Corps
Make SURVEY
Steamship Jobs
tspcciaIsto The Citizen,

Jacksonville, July 15-A state
wide survey to determine the
duties involved and wage rates
paid by private companies for
manual jobs on steamships,
dredges, derrickboats, tugs and
similar items of floating plant
throughout Florida was recently
commenced by the War Depart
ment, Corps of Engineers, it was
announced by Col. Willie E. Te-
ale, Jacksonville District Engi-
neer, today.
The Jacksonville District op-
crates a fleet of floating plant
having jobs similar to those being
surveyed, and since the wage
Irates for these jobs are predicat-
ed largely upon the average rates
paid by private companies, such
surveys are occasionally neces-
sary to maintain equitable rates
for similar jobs in the Corps of
Engineers, Col. Teale stated.
Wage analyst of the Jackson
vile District will visit the head
quarters offices of a number of
representative employers of both
union and non-union marine
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July - THROUGH july 70
For eosf. D1yIishs odd one hovrJ

Rof eou. O0yHSm ooo one novb
Morning
-"s:oo-Honeymoon in New York-nbc
S:15-Oklahoma Roundup-cbs
Shady Valley Folks-mbs
9:oo--Look Your Best-cbs
s:ao-Say It With Music-mbs
1o:oo-Fred Waring Music-nbc
Arthur Godfrey Show-cbs
1os5o-Ben Alexander Show-mbs
1t:o0-Serials t2Z hours)-cbs
Kate Smith Speaks-mbS
1t:sp-Words and Music-nbc
Daily Band Concerts-mos
Afternoan
12:oo-Concert -Hour-nbc
1:o0-Four Hours OF Serials-nbc
Queen for a Day trepeat | hour
Iater)-mbs
1:3o-Martin Block Records-mbs
2:oo-Double or Nothing-cbs
2s30-Winner Take All Quiz-cbs
p -3:oc-tiint Hunt Quiz-cbs
S:3o-Give and Take Quiz-cbs
.4;o0-The House Party-cbs
kiddses Hour trepeatS later 70
tt local times)-mbs
4:3o-Treasury Bandstand-cbs
ACC PROGRAMS - Times fit either
Eastern Daylight or Eastern Standard.
Morning
3. -ssoe-The Breakfast Club
:. 1o:Oo-My Story DramatiZation
) .f1:0o-Breakfast in Hollywood
Afternoon
12:oO--W Welcome Traveller III
2:2o-Bride and Groom
3:oo-Ladies Be Seated
3:30-Paul Whiteman Records
<:45-Kiddies Serials IA Hours--west
repeat hour later
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TO-DAY In HISTORY
%(Know, Anserica)

.1779&Gen. Anthony Wayne's
brilliant exploit-the taking (; of
the almost impregnable~ fortress
of Stony Point on the Hudson
from British.
1813-A British fleet arrives al
the Potomac River to the great
alarm of Washington - second
war with England.
1838-Ralph Waldo Emerson's
historic Divinity School Address
before Harvard's graduating class
Landmark in American cultural
history.
l913-The Board of Mediation
and Cancellation created by Con-
Press,
l929-Hoover's Farm Board
created.
l933-Wiley Post leaves New
York in the winnie Mae" flying
round the world in under eight
days.
1941s - Government officers in
Moscow pack to leave the city.
l942-NaziS order all male rela-
tives of French saboteurS shot,
their women folk to hard labor
and children to Nazi institutions
1943-Roosevelt abolishes the
Board of Economic Warfare head
ed by Vice President Wallace.
l945-President Truman arrives
in Berlin for Big Three Confer
ence.
l946-Truman signs British
loan bill. fAnuu I ~
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workers, compare jobs and gath
er wage data in the Jacksonville,
Tampa, Key West, Miami, West
Palm Beach and Fort Pierce
areas for transmission to the Sec
rotary of War for analysis and
decision as to whether adjust
n1ent of wage rates for compar-
able War Department jobs is nee
essary. It was pointed out by
Col. Teale that the data supplied
by the cooperating companies are
used exclusively for the purpose
of checking and adjusting War
Department wage rates, and that
the information is kept conf
dental and is not available to
other government agencies or to
private competitors.
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BABY FALLS As FEET.
UNHURT.

New York.-Marie Lucas, 2,
toppled thirty feet from an attic
window to a porch roof, then
rolled off and dropped another
fifteen feet into Shrubbery
around her hame and suffered
only a few bruises.
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APARTMENTS FOR RENT

4-room furnished apartment up
stairs; downtown area. Groom
partly furnished apartment,
downstairs. Both apartments
have private entrances; gas,
electricity. bath. refrigeration,
porches. No children under y
years. Phone 222-J, 61S Angela
st. jlyl5-1tX
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Radio Programs
Doytinne Summary

seiseted programs a. ilsted below
are broadcast at the same time Mon.
day through Friday. Time 10 eastern
standard. For central standard sub.
tract one hour; for mountain stand.
ard two hours.
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Your Horoscope
TUESDAY, JULY is, 1947-

TUESDAY, JULY Is, 1947-
This is sympathetic nature,
fond of home and parents, with
secretive, sensitive disposition
and a certain lack of energy, if
born in certain portions of the
day. The characters blend with
the general tendencies of the past
or the following days, if the ma
tive is born in the earlier or the
later hours.