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Evening star., 1947-05-25
2U. 5. Ships Collide
With Fishing Vessels
By the kssocioted Press

DEAL, England, May 24-Two
American ships collided with two
fishing vessels in separate accidents
today in the fog-shrouded ap-
proaches to the Thames estuary,
and crews of both small fishing
craft were feared lost.
Fire broke out on the 10,000-ton
United States War Shipping Ad-
ministration tanker Newhall Mills
shortly after collision touched of
series of explosions which blew
of her bow and killed one man.
Crewmen, after q six-hour battle
with the flames, were forced tenn
porarily to abandon ship.
Fog hid the position of the War
Shipping Administration 7,176-tor
Liberty ship John Lafarge, which
sent out an SOS early this after
noon saying she had hit a fishing
boat. Several men in water after
collision, vessel severed in half" the
message said.
Neither fishing boat was identi-
fed, and the size of their crews was
not known.
Lifeboats and tugs found the New
hall Hills drifting slowly toward the
Goodwin Sands, treacherous banks
just off the southeastern coast. She
had been rigged with small stock
anchor to replace the regular
anchor lost when the bow was blown
of.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
U. 5. Business Executives
Sail for Swiss Conference
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, May 24.-The Brit
ish liner Queen Elizabeth sailed to-
day for Southampton. carrying
among its 2,261 passengers a group
of American business executives 60
ing to the first postwar conference
of the International Chamber of
Commerce in Montreux, Switzerland
The businessmen's group included
Robert NJ Gaylord, former president
of the National Association Of Man
ufacturers and president of the In
gersoll Milling Machine Co., Rock
ford, ILL.,; Winthrop w. Aldrich,
chairman Of the board of the Chase
National Bank, and John Abbink,
President of the McGraw-Hill In
ternational Corp.
Other passengers included Lord
Halifax, former British Ambassador
to the United States. and Lady Hall
fax: Charles Ulrick Bay. United
States Ambassador to Norway. and
Mrs. Mildred Zaharias ("Babe" Did
rickson, en- route to play in the
British Womens Amateur Golf
Tournament at Gullane, Scotland.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Presidents Wear Out
Sooner These DAYS,
Pension Sponsor Says
BY the Associafed Press

Representative Bell, Democrat, OF
Missouri, dug some figures out OF
the Library of Congress yesterday to
show that "the presidency is more OF
man-killing job than it used to be. u
Mr.. Bell is turning them over to a
House Judiciary Subcommittee in
support of his bill to provide pen
sions for Presidents after they leave
the White House.
They have enough worries" he
told reporter. without having to
worry about where their groceries
are coming from when their terms
end. They can't save anything out
OF their salaries"
Figures are Cited.
AS for the figures:
The first IS Presidents took Office
at an average age of 81, Mr.. Bell
said, and lived an average of II years
after they left the White House
The next IA men who held the office
ending with Calvin Coolidge, were
inaugurated at an average age of 49
and lived an average of SO years
after retiring from the presidency.
Back in the. old days, when this
was small, young country with less
burdens on the President" Mr.. Bell
said, they went in older and lived
longer after they got out.
In more recent years, they have
irz
more than half as long when they
retired"
The Judiciary subcommittee
headed by Representative Robson
of Kentucky, already has
held one hearing on Mr.. Bells pro-
posal to give former President a
pension of two-thirds of his average
annual salary while in Office.
Never Discussed With Truman.
On the basis of the present salary
Of $75, 900, that would mean a $4,000
a year pension. Mr.. Bell said Federal
income taxes would cut that down
to little under $25 900.
The Missourian represents Presi-
dent Truman'S congressional district
But he says he never has discussed
his bill with Mr.. Truman or any one
at the White House.
He informed the subcommittee
Mr.. Truman has about $4,l00 a year
left for State income taxes, family
and other expenses after paying Fed
eral taxes and the costs of running
the White House.
Former President Herbert Hoover
is the only person who would benefit
at present from presidential pen
sion.
Mr.. Robson said he expects the
subcommittee to approve some sort
of pension bill. Nobody has asked
to be heard in opposition.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Navy Sends Weather Maps
By Radio Photo Service

Complete weather maps covering
the area between the East China
coast to Bermuda. from the Aleu-
tianS in the Pacific and Iceland in
the Atlantic to about 10 degrees
north of the equator, are being dis
patched daily through the Naval
Communications Service. Through
the facilities of the Nays radio
photo system, developed during the
war, sectional maps are now de-
livered complete about IL hours
quicker than under the old system.
Weather stations formerly sent
the data they collected by radio
code, and maps were laid out at
each reception point. Under the
new system only one map is made
at each weather station, and this
is transmitted by radio, requiring
only about 30 minutes, for example
between Guam and Washington.
The data is gathered at four sta
tions, Guam, Pearl Harbor. San
Francisco and Washington.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
D. {. Unemployment Beard
Acts 10 GET New BUILDING

The District Unemployment Com
pensation Board is making a bid for
a new building.
It now has before the Budget Bu-
reau for study a bill authorizing
acquisition of a site and construc-
tion OF new offices.
G. A. Wharton, director Of the
local unemployment compensation
program, said the board hopes to
build on a tract between Second
and Third, C and D streets S.W.
He said the land already is publicly
owned or in process of condemna-
ton.
Board Offices now are In the old
Ford Building. at Pennsylvania
avenue and John Marshall Place
NV, which must eventually be
replaced by a unit of the new CEN
trail library.
Mr.. Wharton said the site had
the approval of Maj. Gen. U. S.
Grant Sd. chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, and of Commissioner w. E.
Reynolds of the Public Buildings
Administration. 1t also has the
sanction of the District Commits
sioners who are members of the
Unemployment Compensation Board
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Trial Of Young Heiress,
Fiance in Yacht Deaths
To Open Tomorrow
BY The As.eeiated Press

SANTA ANA, Calf, May 24.-The
biggest trial In the history OF this
citrus city-the defense OF two So
cialite sweethearts to the States
charges that they killed the girls
parents aboard their yacht-opens
Monday.
On trial are Louise Oyerell, 18-
year -old heiress to an estate esti-
mated In excess Of $500. 900. and
George Gollum, 81, her medical-stu-
dent boy friend. They are accused
of the murders Of financier Walter
E. Overell. IS, and his wife, Beulah.
ST, of fashionable Flintridge:: near
Pasadena.
Mr.. oyerell, finance company pres
ident and former Los Angeles furni-
ture deaier. and his clubwon1an-wife
were found aboard their dynamite
shattered 47-foot cabin cruiser in
Newport harbor the night Of March
IS.
Denied knowledge Of Blast.
Gollum and Miss Oyerell, friends
since childhood, returned to the
landing a few minutes after the
blast. They said they had gone
ashore about IL pm. for sandwiches
and milk and told police they had no
knowledge Of what might have oc-
Cured
Investigators, examining the craft,
found more than 80 sticks of dyna-
mite, part Of string in which some
had been exploded. Four days later
Gollum and the girl were arrested,
soon after they had visited mortu-
airy to select caskets for her parents.
They have steadfastly denied any
connection with the blast.
City Packed by Curious Crowds.
The eve of the trial found Santa
Ana packed with curious crowds who
overfiowed into auto courts In nearby
communities. Hotels here have been
sold out for days, and much of the
conversation on street corners and
in crowded restaurants Is of the
trial.
The public appetite was consider
ably whetted a few weeks ago by
publication of a series of love letters,
exchanged by the pair in Jail with
knowledge Of authorities, who made
photostatic copies before they were
delivered. \
Impassioned passages marked
some notes. In others they dis
cussed their chances of acquital and
future happiness. Meanwhile the
girls 18th birthday, and what was
to have been their wedding day,
passed on April 80.
CaLJ Jes Of Deaths to be Decided 1st.
How Mr.. Overell formerly of
Evansville, Ind, and his wife met
their deaths will be one of the ques-
Evening star., 1947-05-25
De SeverskY 10 Receive
Aviation Award Aqain
BY the Associated Press

Maj. Alexander p de Seversky
flyer and aviation engineer. has been
chosen for the second time in eight
years as the recipient of the In
ternational Trophy awarded an
nually by the International League
of Aviators.
Col. Charles w. Kerwood, presi-
dent Of the leagues American sec
ton, said last night Mai. Seversky
was chosen to receive the trophy
this year for his unique contribu-
tions to the united victory through
his far-sighted advocacy OF strategic
air power and his achievements as
an aviation engineer and aviator"
Evening star., 1947-05-25

tions before Superior Judge Kenneth
Morrison and the jury.
Two autopsy surgeons agreed that
they apparently were wounded by
blows, possibly from hammer, be-
fore the dynamite was set of. But
the surgeons disagreed as to the time
of death and State and defense
joined several weeks later in exhum-
ing their bodies for further exam
ination by staf1 of Southern Cali
fornia's leading physicians.
Judge Morrison has barred the
public from the opening days Of the
trial, pointing out that the 90 seats
in the courtroom will be insufficient
even for the ilIry Venire
Evening star., 1947-05-25

Payments on your nome are
made easy by renting a room.
Renting a room is made easy
by advertising in The Star.
Call National 5000. Open 8
am. to IL pm.
Montana labor news., 1947-12-18
LABOR PRESS Quotes.

enough to come out for their real pro-
legal banning of labor org
ar1zations. It's in the cards unless
American workers stop this gang at
the ballot boA-Milwaukee Labor
Press. AFL.
searching Dinner Pals: Recently
FISHER Body of Lansing started search
ing dinner pals of workers going into
the plant and in some cases plant pro-
lection men with too much enthusiasm
for their work paved over food in the
dinner pals. Even during the wal
Fisher did not probe into dinner pals
OF men going INTO the plant. Work
ers have a few personal rights left
even under the Taft-Hartley law. Or
have they ?-Lansing Labor News CIO.
On Banning Books: An English liter
allure book has been removed from the
textbook list in Rochester, NY. pub
lie schools because it contains a brief
biography OF ex-Vice President Wal
lace. We can see no moral difference
between book burning and book ban
ning.-Jersey Teacher. AFL.
Is a Bad Congressman Worth $799?:
Add up your actual cost Of bad cong
ressmen:
Uncontrolled prices ....--~-S505
Voluntary rent increase -. 76
la4eS .......---.-i .--.-.--.-...--- 2lS
Total cost of bad cong. ......$799
And that's just the cost in money.
What bad congressman have done to
help the NAM bust your union is worse
The Taft-Hartley union busting law
was their real gift to big business
Los Angeles Union Carpenter, AFL.
Don't Sleep While It's Ticking: The
slave labor law is a delayed-action
bomb, and the majority of union mem
bers won't feel the full impact of it for
cause many OF these workers may for
get that the law has given employers
all the weapons it possibly can to break
unions, and that the smart ones among
this group won't really try to put it
into operation until they have won the
194S election and have complete con-
trol.-Madison (Wisc.) Union Labor
Journal, ALL.
Montana labor news., 1947-12-18
Bv PRESS

Outlaw Discrimination: President
Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
has issued IA l1S-page report in which
il called for abolition of segregation
in the Us. The committees are a
But until they are enforced,
they will be but words. and intoler-
ance. legalized discrimination and in
capabilities will exist as forces to under
mine and d~isintecrate our moral, eco
monte and international codes.-Minn-
esota Labor. Go.
Un-American Tactics. The fact that
the House un-American Activities
Committee has adjourned its sicken-
ingly spectacular kangaroo court to
the disgrace of the constitution of the
US. leaves believers in democracy not
only ashamed but confused. BY its
undemocratic conduct, the committee
has drawn attention of most Ameri-
cans away from the Communists 1t
sought to expose by clouding the Is
sue with repressions Of constitutional
|freedoms.-Colorado Labor Advocate
AFL.
Uncle Sam, "Merchant Of Death"?:
II the 'Inter-American Military Coop
Grafton Bill passes Uncle San
will become the great exponent and
e%ncourager of militarism. The us
will stimulate an arms race in South
America by building up the war powers
Of one country and then another. The
dictators of those countries Will DC
strengthened because their people vii
be helpless against modern weapons
Labor, newspaper OF the railroad
unions.
Unity or Else: There a be no eft
fective defense against economic anC
political reaction without labor unity
That unity must take place o % OF
have been in vain.-Local 500 JAW
CIO Headlight.
NAM Bill Just a Start: A propose
has been put forth by the us. Chamb
err of Commerce to revise the 40-hOul
law and knock that measure off the
books. Hartley now advances a pro
posal to make workers subject to the
anti trust laws. A still further propo
sal is now made. aimed at picketing
One begins to wonder when the Taft
Hartley-NAM gang will get up nerve
Evening star., 1947-12-07

to write symphony score, knowing 1t
would stay a flock of notes on paper be-
cause it hadn't chance of being played -
ever? Well, l didn't want to plan your
house felt sure Ellen would see to it that
this house was never built She's stringing
poor Joe along, thought, and she's using
me.
But you went ahead and picked out the
lot You must have wondered why wasn't
more enthusiastic the day the three of us
rode out to knolldale. The lot was perfect
that whole top of the hill with those seventy
year oaks framing the outlook across the
valley. The only thing wrong in the setting
was Ellen.
II LOVE IT." she said. Then while you and
l stood under the trees talking, Ellen wan
dered down the slope. She wore garden
party creation of dress, white and frilly
noticed the way she took small, timid
steps, clutching her skirt as if she expected
rattlesnakes and tarantulas under every
bush. ). The house may be built, thought,
but nobody'll ever get that girl to live in it.
Well, Joe, as you know, l was wrong.
The house couldn't be built The plans
couldn't even be finished There was always
the enclosed patio turning into rock GAL
den. the bathrooms moving upstairs or
down, the fireplace circling the four walls,
the Dutch doors that became sliding panels.
Ellen was always enthusiastic and fig
ured she was thinking up all those changes,
and it took the driveway argument to teach
me different. drove out to look at your
hilltop again, and hardly recognized Ellen
found her there, Joe. found her wearing
slacks and long g-sleeved s1nock and leather
gloves reaching halfway to her elbows. She
was busy spading out those shrubs down the
slope.
Poison oak" she told me. She'd spotted
the stuff that first day, but hadn't mentioned
it to us. Its such a lovely lot," she told
me, "and didn't want to say anything to
discourage Joe. He's terrifcally a perfec-
zionist "a bad feature like poison oak
could spoil it for him.
shed come out on the bus, and after
burning the poison oak. she rode back to
town with me. found out Ellen hailed from
Mount Pleasant, Iowa. learned she dresses
the way she does because that's her pro-
fessional models wardrobe, and her whole
clothing budget goes into it. learned she
loved you, in spite of your terrifcally per-
fectionist nature.
That was quite while ago, joe That
was before you quit the photo-i illustration
studio and started the commercial artists
cooperative sales group. know some of
those boys, and they don't consider you a
perfectionist at ALL bundled up all these
plans you and Ellen and had been working
on. and l went over to see you at the CO.
operative office - it happened to be the
morning you dropped that scheme cold. My
Evening star., 1947-12-07
A Short Short Story

A Short Short Story
Toe, you won't like this. But you've got
I. to be told. Ellen couldn't. She doesn't
know. She doesn't know the half of it, Joe.
tried to tell her, and she thought was
making love to her.
Sit down, you mug. Don't try to start
something here, because you could, easily.
It'd be pleasure for me to beat the curl
out of that red cowlick of yours. Lately
I've had the loveliest dreams of sinking my
fist into your frec}ded face.
Relax, Joe I'll tell you funny thing.
You know - at first l was on your side
in this deal. Not Ellen's. Why, l thought
she was selling the bill of goods. You re-
member the party where we three met?
"Harrys an architect" somebody told her.
and she steered me into corner with you
to talk house plans.
I'VE want a Cape Cod cottage with a
picket fence in 'front.'" you said. "A big
brick chimney, whitewashed Bookcases on
both sides of that, up to the ceiling. Big win
dows, picture windows" You drew floor
plans on the cocktail napkins, but l was
looking at Ellen. You sketched the dream
kitchen on highball coaster, and tried
to visualize Ellen with an eggbeater in her
hand.
This guy Joes chump, l thought.
AFTERwARD, asked people. "Ellen's a
model - high STYLE they said. began
recognizing her regularly - in the plane and
club-car illustrations, the imperious bru-
nette in the imperial limousine, the fabu-
lous siren in the pseudo -surrealist page ads
You were in advertising yourself, Joe, ac-
cording to the card you gave me-
But l had trouble imagining your red
cowlick and freckles behind business exec
utive's desk. You looked too boyish, too
Realistically boyish. saved the card be-
cause you told me to ring you up for lunch
some day soon, and didn't know you'd
quit the agency and switched to the vice
presidency of photo-illustration studio
Remember, it was whole month later
when the two of you walked into my Office,
you with pockets stuffed full of plans, and
Ellen looking like a pin-up from Vogue"
where's the lot?" l asked.
LOTT? said Ellen.
1t would be little easier to insert the
picture windows correctly" l told her,
knowing which side of this house will have
the view" l thought she was taking you
for a ride Joe there wouldn't be any
Cape Cod cottage at the end of the line.
l figured it'd be a quick marriage and
small apartment temporarily; then bigger
apartment; finally you'd have to give her
either penthouse or alimony
thought she was playing us both for
chumps You see, Joe, I'm peculiar My
work isn't just drawing lines on paper. With
me, it's concrete and glass and wood The
blueprints are empty things. Who'd want
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Choosing Career Officials

It is well that President Truman is evil
dencing no undue haste in selecting the
| men to complete the new unified defense
organization under Secretary Forrestal.
| Six key posts were filled last Friday, but
| still to be named are chairman for the
Research and Development Board and
| several under and assistant secretaries.
The latter may not be selected until the
President has returned from Rio de
Janeiro.
The choice of the top officials for the
new setup is matter of great Importance.
1t is essential not only that men of out
standing abilities be obtained, but that
they have the proper capacities for team
work The National Defense Establishment
is starting out on long and difficult road,
marked by many pitfalls that only careful
trail il-blazing will avoid.
One of the potential pitfalls OF the mill
tary and naval services in the past has
been the tendency to rotate officers in Ger
tain jobs to give them experience. Once
they have gained the requisite experience
they are shifted to some other duty. This
has been distressingly true of the intelli
gence branches, although the interests of
national security demand that only men of
long experience and special qualifications
should serve there.
Of the six appointments just announced
by the White House, none is more impor-
tant than that of director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. 1t is reassuring to
those who are hoping for the development
of strong postwar intelligence organiza-
ton to know that Rear Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter will continue as head of this
vital agency. He demonstrated exceptional
talents as an intelligence officer during
World War II and he has given evidence of
a keen and enthusiastic grasp Of intelli-
gence problems in the new era Of atomic
explosives and guided missiles.
But the selection of naval officer to
direct the co-ordinated intelligence branch
of the Government raises question as to
the permanency of the appointment. The
Central Intelligence Agency already has
had three directors in its relatively short
existence. Like intelligence assignments
under the prewar system, the new agency
has shown signs of becoming stepping
stone to something else. That is danger
ously wrong concept of the intelligence
function that should be rectified under
the new defense program. If Admiral
Hillenkoetter anG his associates are not to
be handicapped in their efforts to carry
out their important duties with maximum
efficiency, they should be assured that they
will be reasonably secure in their jobs.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
The immigration Threot
Liverpool Journal of Commerce.

From the Liverpool Journal OF Commerce
More than 10000 preliminary inquiries have
been made at Australia House, London, by pros
pective emigrants, and the people who have an
rounced their intention of settling in Canada,
South Africa and New Zealand exceed this num-
ber by far. 1t would be good thing, in the long
run, if the depleted populations of Empire coun-
tries were made up by settlers from Britain.
That they must be made up and eventually in
creased has been perfectly clear by Common
wealth spokesmen recently. But it would ap-
pear that now Is not the time for large
number of young people to leave these shores,
even If the shipping situation permitted It.
Nor will the time arrive within the next. few
years and after the liners are re-established
on their pre-war routes not unless, that is there
Is marked change in the attitude Of trade
unions towards the importation of foreign labor
II the unions would agree to permit one for
eigner to enter and work in Britain for every
Briton leaving this country to work abroad, in
addition to the 10000 aliens for whom the gov
ernment has allowed to restore our man power
strength, no harm would be done.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Women in the Government

AT first glance the Civil Service Com
mission figures showing that the ratio Of
women to men in the Government service
has declined substantially since World War
II might be taken as an indication OF
unfair sex discrimination. A comparison
of employment statistics of today with
those Of prewar days will show, however,
that the proportion of sexes in the various
departments is only returning to normal.
In the five years before the United States
entered World War II about one out OF
every five Federal employees was a woman.
During the period Of the national emer-
gency preceding Pearl Harbor, the number
of women on the Government payroll
increased at about the same rate as men
employes. Then came the war and its
demands on manpower, with the result
that the proportion of women began to
mount steadily. During the first three
years of the war, for example, women
EMPLOYEES increased from 266,400 to 1,106,-
900, or by 315 per cent Men employees
increased from 1,o91,0O0 to 1,S35,0oo, OF
68. per cent This disproportionate rise
in the number OF women in the Govern
ment continued until more than one-third
of all Federal employees were women.
1t was only natural, therefore. that when
the time came to reduce the size OF the
Federal establishment to peacettme re-