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Evening star., 1947-03-20
French Assembly Recesses
.0n Motion Of Confidence
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Mar 20-Faced with q
showdown motion of confidence In
the Ramadier government, the
French National Assembly today
recessed its discussion Of military
credits in Indo-China until Satur-
day, when the vote will be taken.
An atmosphere of impending
crisis hung over the Assembly as
Communist Floor Leader Jacques
Duclos, defying Premier Paul Rama
dier's call for unity, declared the
Communists would abstain from
voting on expenditures for the
French campaign against Wet
Namese insurgents.
The Assembly recess was neces-
STATED by a constitutional clause
providing for a 24-hour cooling
off" period between formal mo-
tion of confidence and the ballot
on the motion. Mr.. Ramadier
sought to pin the Communists down
on the issue by tying the conf
dence motion to the military budget
question.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
|CPA to Discharge 500 More
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ction
creedon Will Hire Only About ! ,23o to Help
His Program; 400 to Be Out in Month

Congress has fixed March 81 as
the expiration date for CPA, which
handled ALLEGATIONS and regulated
use of critical materials during the
period of reconversion from war to
peacetime production. However,
plans call for retention of about
400 CPA employees to wind up the
agency's affairs by June %.
CPA officials said they plan to
wipe the books clean of most of the
few remaining controls next week
and the rest by the end Of the
month.
These do not include controls
over rubber, tin, antimony and some
other scarce materials which the
President has asked Congress to
continue.
Housing activities carried on by
CPA include authorization of non
housing construction, currently fixed
at a $50,00o,o00 weekly average; en-
forcement of regulations prohibiting
new construction or repairs to resi-
Dental and commercial buildings
costing more than specified amounts;
issuance of priorities to enable
makers Of building materials to OBJ
tain equipment for maintaining or
expanding production. and alloca-
tion of raw materials to these manu-
facturers.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Springs Arrival
Tomorrow Will
Be ChNyO One

Washington will give a chilly well
come to the first day of spring to-
morrow, the Weather Bureau said
today.
A none-too-comfortable so degrees
is expected to be the highest tenn
perature tomorrow, with cloudy skies
overhead. Spring officially will ar
rive at 6:13 am.
Today's temperature will hit the
low sos this afternoon and skies will
be sunny.
William M. Mooney, former city
postmaster, is one resident who is
sure spring Is here. He reported
seeting q flock OF about 500 geese
flying over his home on upper Eigh-
|teenth street, facing Rock Creek
Park, this, morning. The big birds
were heading due north.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Cain Asks Bill 10 Shift
.GS| Play Facilities
To District Control
House-Senute Group
Sympathetic to Plan
For Raising Revenue
By Robert K. Walsh

A district Recreation Board
demand for jurisdiction over
park facilities operated here by
Government Services, Inc, under
contract with the Interior De-
partment brought sympathetic
comment today from the House
Senate subcommittee on District
Revenues.
Chairman Cain, at the third day
of Joint hearings on the Districts
proposed s19,00O,000 new tax pro-
gram, requested Recreation Supt
Milo F. christensen to draft a
tentative bill for transfer of such
activities.
The subcommittee. he said, would
study it, first to determine what
might be done to end obvious over
tapping of responsibility" and sec
ond, to see whether District super
vision OF various local park con-
cessions would bring in sufficient
revenue to help cut down a threat
ened s16,O0O,00O District budget
deficit for 1913.
Not 'tPrejudging Problem"
Both Senator Cain and Repre-
sentative Bates, Republican, OF Mas
sachusetts, head of the House Dis
trict Fiscal Subcommittee, said they
were not "prejudging the problem,
and had no particular criticism OF
Government Services.
But the joint subcommittee, they
declared, needs to know more about
the way in which District residents
are charged to use tennis court,
swimming pool, bicycle, boating and
similar local park concessions run
by Government Services for the
Federal Government They an
nounced that an Interior Depart
ment representative probably will be
invited to testify on this matter
later.
A related subject to be studied by
the joint subcommittee, Chairman
Cain said, is an arrangement where
by the District apparently paid
originally for some land now owned
1C.. D,~o Adl
Evening star., 1947-03-20
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Mar. 20.-Thousands
of soldiers, civilians, police and
German war prisoners fought a
losing battle today to hold back
overfowing rivers that already
had spread destruction and mis-
cry through scores of towns and
villages. Aid was on the way to
stricken communities.
Two army amphibians sped toward
the mining village of Bentley, near
Doncaster, in Northern England,
where telegraphed SOS said last
night 900 persons had been trapped
without food for more than "a hours.
Position desperate" E. Whitley,
chairman CT the Bentley Urban
District Council, wired Evelyn Walk
den, member of Parliament for the
area. Mr.. Whitley said small boats
could not get through the churning
waters of the, Don River surrounding
the town and added: Power -driven
boats essential for food distribution
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Yenan Capture First Step
In Drive, Chinese Report
By the Associated Press

NANKING, Mar. 2o-Chief oi
Staff Chen Cheng said today the
seizure of Yenan, capital of Rec
China, achieved the first big OBJ.
jective on a government timetable
for defeating the main Communist
forces within three months.
Fighting in the past has been
half f-hearted, because peace nego-
tiations were continuing" Chen
Cheng said. Under the program
of total war we expect to achieve
defeat of the main Communist
strength within three months. This
does not mean the end of all armed
Communists-naturally there will
be pockets left-but it does mean
the enemy will cease to exist as
formal armed opposition"
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Lewis AssaiIs Choice
OF Mine Bureau Chief
BY the Associated Press
(Picture on PAGE A-3. J

(P1cLuTe on rage Al
John l.. Lewis declared today the
administration made purely po-
litical" appointment in naming a
42-year-old Australian-born profess
sor, as director of the Bureau of
Mines.
He added that the coal miners
resent it from the bottoms of their
hearts"
The United Mine Workers chief
told Senators that the appointee,
James Boyd, is unqualified and does
not understand the coal miners
problems.
Mr.. Lewis told a Public Lands
Subcommittee studying Mr.. Boyd's
qualifications for confirmation:
1--WE feel his appointment is pure
ly political, and we resent the fact
that the Department of the Interior
plucked him out of obscurity with
out asking the men who are going
to die in the mines if they are sat-
isfied."
Mr.. Boyd's principal experience
has been in metal mining. He now
Is dean of the faculty Of the Colo
RADIO School of Mines.
He was named to succeed DR.. r.
B. Sayers, who is returning to the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice. The Public Lands Committee,
then the Senate. must pass on Mr..
Boyd's appointment.
Stressing the problem OF safety
in the mines, Mr.. Lewis declared
"Statistically, In six years, every
man in the coal mining industry is
either killed or injured"
Evening star., 1947-03-20
City Needs New Law

Hundreds of unlicensed pistols
are being carried on the streets
of Washington today by men
who are virtually free of arrest
so long as the weapons stay in
their pockets, United States At
torney George Morris Fay said
today.
AS the law stands now, Mr.. Fay
explained, policemen cannot arrest
a man carrying a pistol and make
the concealed weapons charge stand
up in court unless they actually see
the man committing a crime.
Two recent street shootings-the
killing Of Frank c. Kelly and the
critical wounding of Policeman Ray
mond D. Padgett-have underlined
the need for tighter firearms regu-
lations here, Mr.. Fay said.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Britain Fails to Curb Waters
OF Rivers Swollen by Floods

and evacuation of people" Miss
Walkden arranged for army help.
The amphibians were not expected
to reach the town until late today
Meanwhile, Doncaster police planned
another attempt to take food in by
rowboat.
In the Thames valley two vii
lagos were to be evacuated. ano
police delivered coal in rowboats te
marooned invalids at Caversham.
Hundreds of fresh troops and
more conveys of equipment ano
material were rushed to Ely In the
marshy Eastern Fenland region te
fight widening breaches in the banks
of the Great Ouse River.
Rivers throughout the industrial
Midlands were over their banks
and still rising in the worst floods
in living memory. and the Air Min
istry reluctantly forecast rain with
a further outlook" of still more
rain.
In parts of "a Of Englands 40
1See BRITAIN, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Knutson Sees Accord
On 269b Tax Cut for
$1,000 Net Incomes
Also Expects Approval
Today of 209o Slash
For Higher Brackets
BY the Assoeioted Press

Chairman KnutSon OF the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee reported today that Republi-
can members of the committee
are near agreement" on a revi-
sion of his 20 per cent across
the-board tax-cutting bill to give
1885, 100000 extra relief to small
taxpayers.
"It is my guess" he said after q
closed-door meeting, that we will
approve a 26 per cent cut for per-
sons with net taxable income (gross
income minus personal exemptions)
up to $1,000"
Mr.. Knutson predicted complete
accord by committee Republicans
later in the day.
$1,000 Limit for 26 Per Cent Cut.
He said the bill also probably
will provide:
l. That all taxpayers will get at
least a 20 per cent cut on income
up to 1902, 900 annually. Above that
figure the proposed reduction is
los per cent.
2. That the cut for lower incomes
will be applicable only to persons
with taxable income up to $1,000
and will not be applicable to the first
$1,000 of persons with net incomes
above that figure. There may be 9
provision to ease the severity Of the
sharp change for persons with just
a little more than $1,000 taxable in
come.
Seeks Retroactivity to January I.
8. That the reductions will be re.
troactive to last January l. Some
members want it to become effective
July l.
4. Possibly a change in the pro-
vision that gives persons of IS years
of age and older an extra exemption
Of $500, although special tax treat.
ment for elderly persons will not be
stricken from the bill completely.
After the committee Republicans
have agreed on revisions, the meas.
ure will be submitted to the full
committee, including Democrats, fol
a showdown tomorrow.
The House probably will vote or
the tax bill late next week.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
By the Associated Press

SALONIKA, Greece. Mar. 20
John Zevgos, who was Communist
Minister of Agriculture in the lib
Grafton cabinet of George Papen-
dreou in 1914, was shot to death
by gunner shortly after pm. on
a street corner here today.
Police said Christos Vlachos, 80
was arrested Immediately and ques-
toned. Police quoted him as saying
he was member of OPLA ex-
ecution squad of the Communist
Party and former member OF the
Bulkjes camp in Yugoslavia. The
Greeks have charged that Bulkjes
was a training center for Greek
guerrillas.
Police said Vlachos declared. II
killed him for what I suffered IN
the mountains"
Evening star., 1947-03-20
BY the Asseeiafed Press

The Civilian Production Ad
ministration hung out mo job
signs for nearly 300 employees to-
day after falling to convince
Housing Expediter Frank R.
Creedon he should hire them to
help carry on his housing pro-
gram.
An official familiar with the ne
gotiations told a reporter that Mr.
Creedon has tentatively agreed to
give jobs to only about 1890" CPA
employees now engaged in housing
activities.
This is nearly 300 fewer than the
number CPA officials toldMr. Cree
don they believed necessary to carry
on the work. However, since Mr..
Creedon remained unconvinced,
CPA had no other choice but to
order the additional examinations.
The new dismissal notices bring
to about 1,400 the number of CPA
employees scheduled to lose their
jobs, a few this week end, some on
March 81 and the rest on April 19,
a CPA official said. He added that
of this total about 900 are employed
in Washington, the rest in the field.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
New Retirement Bill
Eliminates Most Of
Proposed Benefits
Civil Service Revision
Would Add Little to
Present U. S. Costs
By Joseph Young

A bill drastically modifying
provisions of the Langer-Chavez
measure to liberalize the Federal
retirement system was presented
to Congress today by the Civil
Service Commission.
Although the commissions pro-
posed legislation provides for some
additional benefits to Government
employees, it falls far short of the
features provided by the LANCER
Chavez measure
The commission last week was
instructed by the Senate Civil Serv-
Ice Committee to work with its
staff in drawing up a new retire
ment bill, after the committee de-
cided the original measure was toe
costly. Commission officials today
told the committee that their pro.
possl would not cost the Govern.
ment much more than it is now
paying into the Federal retirement
system.
The survivorship insurance bene-
fits of the original bill are hardest
hit by the commissions revised leg
islation. The LANCER Chavez meas
ure provided for regular monthly
annuity payments to widows OF
Federal workers. Childless widows
would get about $500 annually, and
those with children about $1,000 a
year, under terms of the original
bill. These benefits would accrue to
the widows until they die or until
they remarry, with the children's
pension awarded until they reach
the age of 18.
The commissions bill would limit
annuity payments only to those
widows with children, and the pay
ments to both the widow and the
children would stop when the
youngest child reached the age OF
18. At the age of go, however, the
widow would then receive an annuity
of one-fourth the amount her hus-
band would have received had he
lived.
Childless widows would not get
any annuity-only the lump sum
paid by their deceased husbands
into the Federal retirement fund
plus 3 per cent interest. This Is
what the present system provides.
Other Provisions Curtailed.
The commission's bill also dras-
tically curtails provisions for Fed
eral employees already retired tnat
were contained in the LANCER
Chavez measure. The original bill
provided an increase in annuities fol-
retired workers of Is per cent, OF
$500, whichever was the smaller
plus one-half of this annuity to the
retired employees widow when he
does. The commissions bill limits
these features, giving the retired
employe the alternative of accept
ing the annuity increase or signing
away the increase so that his wife
may get one-half Of his annuity
payment when he dies.
The commission agreed that re-
tirement age requirements should be
modified, but did not go along fully
with the bill of Chairman LANCER
The LANCER Chavez measure pro-
posed that the retirement age be
lowered to so, with five years OF
service. The commissions proposal
today was that the retirement age
should be 62, with 10 years of serv-
See RETIREMENT. PAGE A-5.l
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Greek Communist Leader Slain
In SoIoniku in Split of Reds

The Staying of zevgos was seen
here as an indication of rift in
the Communist ranks. It has been
reported that recent arrests of more
than 500 Communists in Athens
were made on the basis of informa-
ton supplied Napoleon zervas,
Minister of Public Order, by Com
munists.
Zevgos, who was a member of the
Leftist EAM Central COMMITTEES,
has been described as the chief OF
the Communist Party in Salonika
and as one of the most fanatic fol-
lowers of communism.
He was killed by three slugs, one
in the heart.
Police said Vlachos told them he
had returned from Bulkjes As days
ago. He said he had been imprisoned
(See GREECE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Five Missing in Flood
IOf River in Canada
By the Associofed Press

RED DEER, Alberta, Mar. 90
Five persons were missing today as
the normally placid Red Deer River,
which rose IA feet yesterday when
thick winter ice cracked. continued
to increase its flood depth.
Some horses, cattle and sheep
were sucked into the fast-moving
stream. Royal Canadian Mounted
Police found no trace of Mrs. Cor
don Harps, her sister and three
children, whose taxpayer shack was
hit by 4-foot wall of water and
ice.
Red Deer Is 100 miles south of
Edmonton.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Douglas to Present
Credentials Tuesday
BY the Associated Press

LONDON. Mar 20-Lewis Douglas
will present his credentials as new
United States Ambassador to Britain
to the Duke of Gloucester and the
Princess Royal, Countess Of Hare
wood, next Tuesday, the Foreign
Office announced today.
The Duke and Princess will receive
Mr.. Douglas at Buckingham Palace.
They are members of Britain's
Council of State during the absence
of King George in South Africa.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
White Supremacy Bill
Is Invitation 10 Fraud,
Gov. Thompson Says
Georgia Executive Hints
Veto Of fToImodge Plan, but
Backs Limited Primary
By the Associuied Press

ATLANTA, Ga, Mar. 20.-Gov
Melvin E. Thompson declared to-
day that Herman Talmadge and
his political associates no longer
had the right to speak for the
Democratic Party and branded
the Talmadge-sponsored white
supremacy" legislation as an in
vitation to fraud and stolen elec-
tions.
In a speech delivered before joint
session of the Georgia Legislature
just "a hours after the State Su-
preme Court had rejected Mr.. Tai
madge's claim to the governorship
Mr.. Thompson said:
Those who sought to seize the
State of Georgia for their selfish
ends, and who undertook to prosti-
tute the Democratic platform tc
extend their own reign, now have
no right to speak for the Demo-
cratic Party.
Indicates Veto of Bill.
"Their program is not the people
program. It is not the Democratic
program. it is not my program. No
selfish group can exploit Georgia,
and no selfish group will ever con-
troll Georgia SO long as elections
are free"
Mr.. Thompson, who must pass on
ISL bills, apparently signed illegally
by Mr.. Talmadge, indicated he might
veto Mr.. Talmadge's No. l measure,
the so-called white primary" bill
He declared, however, he favored
restoration of the Democratic white
primary, and asked enactment of
legislation which would set rigid
education requirements for voting
and provide separate voting booths
for white persons and Negroes.
In his address Mr.. Thompson re-
buked Mr.. Talmadge for his at
tempt to bar Negroes from the polls
by removing primaries from State
control and making them subject
only to party rules which could ex-
clude any voter, white or Negro, If
not acceptable to the party.
Mr.. Thompson continued: Il am
for a white primary. but am not
for any measure or legislation that
would strike out every primary elec-
ton law from the statutes of our
State and allow fraud and stolen
elections to run rampant in Geor-
gia."
Indorsing bills introduced this
week by Thompson leaders in the
Senate, Gov. Thompson asserted:
IF you earnestly want a white pri-
mary law, and just that, it is my
hope that you will speedily pass
these bills before the end of this
session."
Gov. Thompson urged the Legisla-
ture to carry out Mr.. Talmadge's
program of expanded State services
including continuation of SO per
cent increase in teacher salaries. He
warned, however. that additional
revenue was needed, and by impli-
cation supported the only pending
revenue measure-a per cent retail
sales tax.
The white primary bill which Mr.
Talmadge put through the Legisla-
ture removes all State laws govern
ing primaries and makes them SUBJ
(See GEORGIA, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1947-03-20
HouseG.0 .MayAsI
Senate 10 Act First
On Greek-Turk Loan
Truman Urged to Issue
Statement Reussurinq
u. N. on Motives
By Gould Lincoln

House Republicans, it was
learned today, may insist that
legislation authorizing the ex-
penditure of $40O,OOO,00O to aid
Greece and Turkey be passed
first by the Senate. Among the
reasons given for this procedure
are:
/. The Senate is the primary body
to deal with foreign affairs, ano
since this measure is the first ster
in a new foreign policy, the Senate
should be the first to act on it.
2. The Senate, with its rule o1
unlimited debate, offers better
forum for thorough discussion.
Not Actual Fund Bill.
The bill, it is explained, is not
an appropriation bill and so does
not come under the usual procedure
which calls for appropriation bills
to originate in the House. 1t mere
ly "authorizes" an appropriation
and many such measures originate
in the Senate. When 1t comes to
implementing the measure, an ap-
preparation will be necessary and
that will come before the House
first.
House Republicans feel, it is said
that it is the duty of the Senate to
go ahead with this measure and by
it's action give the House lead In
foroinr1 ron1tov matter
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee began hearings today on the
bill introduced by Chairman Eaton
but House Republicans contend that
Senate hearings can be started, too
without delay and the bill be re-
ported to the Senate by its Foreign
Relations Committee.
Statement to U. N. Urged.
In support of the contention that
the Greek Turkey loan bill should
be dealt with first by the Senate
House Republicans pointed out that
the House has tackled first the por-
tai pay bill; that it will originate the
income tax reduction bill and that
in all probability, the bill rewriting
labor laws will be taken up first ir
the House.
A Republican contention, ad-
vanced both by Republican Senators
and Representatives, is that the Tru-
man administration should move
without delay to square its proposed
course in Greece and Turkey with
the United Nations. Some of them
contend that the President should
indeed, have given to the United
Nations Security Council a full
statement of the proposed American
aid to Greece and Turkey, with the
reasons for it, even before he ap-
peared before Congress to make his
request for the necessary authority
It is not too late, even now, it was
pointed out, to submit such state
ment to make it clear that this
country is not seeking to bypass or
ignore the U. N.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
LoophoIe in District Penal Code
Protects Gunner From Arrest
Hebert Bill Would Make Persons Carrying
Hidden Weapons Liable to Punishment

The first step in that direction, he
explained, is a proposed amendment
to the District penal code which
would permit policemen to arrest
persons they suspect of carrying
pistols "on probable cause"
A hearing on the bill, written by
Mr.. Fay and introduced by Repre-
sentative Hebert, Democrat, of LOU
isiana. will be held by judici-
ary subcommittee of the House Dis
trict Committee Monday.
Here>is how situation has arisen
which makes carrying a pistol no
more than lark for a 14-year- -old
boy like Townsend Annes, who
killed Policeman Richard B. Taylor
last December:
On the books Is a statute which
1Eee TTREARMS PAGE A-4
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Bulletin
Portal Pay Review Asked

Attorney General Clark to-
day asked the Supreme Court
for an immediate review of the
decision by United States Dis
trict Court Jurdge Frank A.
Picard which denied employees
of the Mount Clemens Pottery
Co. portal-to- portal pay.
Evening star., 1947-03-20

(See FISCAL, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-03-20

(See RETIREMENT, Page Az
Evening star., 1947-03-20

(See FIREARMS, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-03-20

(See MOSCOW, Page A.