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Evening star., 1947-11-26

gress starts in January. Then he
will move for swift Senate action,
thereby saving a lot Of, time.
Over on the House side, Chairman
Rees of the House, Civil Service
Committee says hearings on pay
Dill legislation will get underway
in January.
NAME TROUBLE-A Justice De-
partment stenographer recently
gfmpsed newspaper picture OF
former President Hoover In con-
nection with the new 12-man COM
mission Mr.. Hoover heads.
Evidently she didn't read the cap
ton very carefully. because she
turned to her boss and sighed:
~. Edgar certainly has turned
gray since they gave him all that
responsibility in the loyalty inves-
tigatlon program
WHAT'S IN A TESLA number
of Government officials are getting
ready to protest to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission over what they say
are injustices in the recently graded
Federal permanent clerical examl-
nations.
These officials have found that
Federal employees with 10 and II
years experience have failed the
tests and soon Will have to be
dropped from the Government pay
roll
What irritates the officials is that
employees involved always have been
GOOD workers and have performed
their jobs in very satisfactory
manner. Some of the employees have
very good" and excellent" eff
cheney ratings.
The officials say that this is what
happened in the tests: The employees
involved are middle-aged, many OF
them starting their Government
careers in so-called New Deal agen-
cies. Many of them neglected to get
permanent status; and then, in
1910. the Government went on a
ar-service basis and no further
exams for permanent jobs were
given.
Some of the employees who failed
the examinations said they were so
nervous when they took the tests
they couldn't think.
After all, I haven't been to school
for 80 years and I'm not used to
taking tests" one applicant said.
Their superiors feel that, in light
of this, and also in view of the fact
that some members Of the House
and Senate Civil Service Commit
tees view the present clerical exam
ination as impractical. these old
time employees should be given some
consideration
SOCIAL SECURITY CREDIT-A
bill of considerable merit has been
y
Evening star., 1947-11-26
Prisoners to Eat Pork
As Turkeys Are Stolen
BY the Assoeioisd Press

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26-They1l
have Thanksgiving feast tomorrow
at County Jail Road Camp No. 4
but It'll feature roast pork instead
Of turkey.
It's because some scoundrel swiped
the turkeys, six Of 'em, along with
all the other provisions. even catsup,
that had been put away for the
Thanksgiving Day menu. A new
load of provender was sent to camp
but no turkey.
Evening star., 1947-11-26
Monococy Lions PIon Dance

The Monocacy tMd.) Lions Club
will hold its annual charter night
| celebration at o'clock tonight at
the the Peter Pan Inn, Urbana. The
program will include dinner, fol-
/ lowed hY dancing.
Evening star., 1947-11-26
Weather Report

District OF Columbia-Consider
able cloudiness with some sunshine
and rather cold this afternoon. Fail
and cold tonight with lowest about
81 degrees. Tomorrow mostly sunny
and continued cold Moderate north.
west winds.
Maryland and Virginia-Partly
cloudy and slightly colder tonight
Tomorrow fair and continued cold.
Wind velocity, l8 miles per hour
direction, west northwest.
River Report.
From United States Engineers
Potomac River clear at Harptrs Ferr,
and slightly muddy at Great Falls; Shen
andoah clear at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1947-11-26
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
LANCER Hopes to Hold n earrings
On Pay Rise Before YuIe Recess
By Joseph Young

Chairman LANCER the Senate Civil Service Committee
reveals will hold committee hearings on Government
raise legislation during the special session
We're going to try and speed the pay bill all we can
LANCER Federal employees need relief from g
Evening star., 1947-11-26

SOCIAL SECURITY CREDIT-A
bill of considerable merit has been
introduced by Representative Brad
ley. Republican, of California. 1t
would give social security credit to
Evening star., 1947-11-26

sooner the better"
The North Dakotan said he will
introduce within the next week or SO
Evening star., 1947-11-26
High and Low for Hesterday.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In Il
Cn nit icNrrent month datAl.
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Hollywood:
Amber Takes
Dim View of
Her Acting
By SheiIoh Grohum

Linda Darnell, after scene with
Charles II in Forever Amber >
screams, st hate myself" Linda is
wearing a gold cloth dress and she
is dining with Charles George
Sanders) in his private suite in the
palace at Whitehall. The reason
she hates herself has nothing to
do with her affair. with the merry
monarch. She is merely taking a
jaundiced view Of her acting.
Edmund Gwenn Is on the cuckoo
side in Miracle of Thirty-fourth
Street." He thinks he is the real
Santa Claus. And when the Santa
for the supposed Macy's Thanks
giving Day parade in New York gets
inebriated, Edmund puts on his
whiskers and takes his place at
the head of the parade. AS you
know, the actual parade with Mr..
Gwenn as Santa was shot last Mo-
vember in New York. 'Now we are
doing the scenes lin Hollywood
that lead up to my taking over
for the groggy Santa Claus" says
Edmund. This is a topsy-turvy
business, isn't it?
Burt Lancaster is having his
Windpipe crushed in 81 Walk Alone. d
The crusher is big Mike Mazurki
Mike Is S feet, 5 in height-a
regular man mountain-and he
makes Burt's 6-feet-2 look like
nothing at all. To get into the
proper mood for the take, Burt
struggles in Mixes grip a few sec
onds before the camera turns. Then
Mike has to lift him by the neck
and throw him out of the room
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Marshall, Eisenhower Talks
To Aid Red Cross Drive

Secretary Of State Marshall and
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will be
principal speakers at a special pro-
gram of the 1947 Metropolitan Area
Red Cross Fund campaign to be
held on March, 2 at Constitution
Hall, according to Joseph C. Grew,
fund chairman.
The program, which will be at
tended by ranking Government off,
cials and Red Cross campaign vol
unteers, will be climaxed by a pres
entation of United States Steel,s
"Theater Guild on the Air." pro-
duction starring Helen Hayes in the
James M. Barrie play, What Every
Woman Knows" 1t will be broad
cast over the ABC network.
In addition to Secretary Marshall
and Gen. Eisenhower, speakers will
include National Red Cross Chair
man Basil O'Connor and John Cliff
ford Folger, District Chapter chair
man. Mr.. Grew will preside.
Evening star., 1947-02-20

My last glimpse OF Burt is red
face and bulging eyes He tells me
afterward that for a few seconds
he actually was choking. Say fellas,
isn't that going too far?
X u y II
No week in this column is COM
plete without a look-in at THE
Road to Rio" to see what's cooking
with Hope and Crosby. This time
they are playing in an orchestra.
Bing is twiddling with a piccolo and
Bob is blowing trumpet. They're
imposters, of course. The guy who
owned the trumpet had dropped it
into a bubble bath earlier. and with
the music Bob blows out huge soap
bubbles. From where I was stand
ing 1t looked very funny.
Claude Rains is humping off wom-
en- here in 1.-THE unsupported" and
dreaming of spring on his farm in
Pennsylvania. am rabid fan of
Mr.. Rains-in spite Of the fact that
he tried to teach me how to act in
the London Royal Academy Of Dra-
matte Art. Perhaps it's because
when we meet, we usually talk about
me! But to get back to Claude
Joan Caulfield is his ward, and she
has just returned from supposed
shipwreck. I gather that Claude is
after her money. They are in her
bedroom and Claude is pretending
to be glad that she came back. It's
horribly sinister, until Claude talks
to me about the flowers that bloom
in the spring in Pennsylvania. Why
is it that screen villains always love
flowers? Dan Duryea, for example,
has the greenest thumb in Holly
wood. And Karloff is a nut for pc
tunias!
Alexis Smith is finally finishing
off the last scenes in woman in
White" She was off six weeks with
a broken bone in her ankle. "But
there was one good thing about my
accident" she tells me. For the
first time in our marriage was able
to see something of my husband
(Craig Stevens). Alexis was also
able to supervise the furnishing of
her new house in the valley. So
that bone really was a lucky break !
Ann Sheridan is smashing vase
over the head of an intruder in
1.-THE Unfaithful"-or to be more
accurate, Annie has smashed the
vase over the mans head. Because
when I arrive on the set, everything
is in the past tense-the man is a
corpse, and Annie is giving a good
alibi to the detective, John Hoyt.
John plays a convict for Mark He'll
niger in his next picture, Brute
Force"
Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Building Service Workers
To Vote on Hecht Contract

All buildings service workers OF
the Hecht Co. will vote next Thurs
day in consent election to deter
mine whether they desire Local So
Building Service Employees Union
(AFL) to represent them in nego-
tiations for new contract with the
department store.
The election will be conducted
from 8 to II am. at Hecht's by the
National Labor Relations Board
No other union will be on the
ballot.
Union representatives say they
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. A-25


expect an overwhelming vote for
the union, pointing to the fact that
a large majority Of the employees
involved already have filed applica-
ton cards with Local 80.
The election covers all porters,
maids, elevator operators, porter
supervisors, elevator starters and
other workers engaged in servicing
the store,
Evening star., 1947-02-20

Health Facilities Improved
Many states in Central India are:
improving their medical and health
facilities to bring medical treatment
within easy reach of the people.
Spain is developing an imitation
jeWelry industry.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-01-04
City Suit Hearing Moved

Fairbanks-The case of the city of Kodiak versus the Interi- or Department and Secretary J. A. Krug and George Parks, townsite trustee, to determine native rights to hold property, will be heard ia the district court of the 4th Judicial Division, Judge Anthony J. Dimond hav- ing disqualified himself.
 The suit was brought Tn the name of Tom P. Nachand, who owns property in fee simple pur- chased from a native that dates back to 1867. The suit will test whether a native must have per , mission to sell it, and whether a municipality shall have the power to tax such prop erty.
 Judge DimoAd, in disqualify- ing himself, said he had express ed himself on the subject of nat i've rights while 8 delegate to Congress.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-01-04

Ken Wade, director of the Community Center, was the guest speaker at the Rotary club Tuesday at the Victory cafe, pre- senting a talk on his vocation
 He told Of experiences during g years of YMCA work, and of the service the USO performed on tue West Coast during the war years.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
London Conference
Nears End With Slight
Progress on Pacts
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 22.-The "httle
peace conference" of the four-power
deputy foreign ministers neared an
end today with only few short
steps taken down the road to formal
peace with Germany and Austria.
The siX-Week conference adjourns
Tuesday to submit reports to the
Council of Foreign Ministers, which
will attempt to draw up pacts with
Germany and Austria in Moscow
next month.
Today the deputies recommended
. to their chieftains that the Aus
trian Army be restricted to approx
mately $4,000, an air force of 80
planes but no bombers, and an ar
mored corps of 80 tanks. Former
generals of German or Austrian
armies would be banned from the
new army.
Treaty Partly Prepared.
Millions of words have been ex-
changed here. The net result is
that much of the Austrian treaty
has been written, and problems con-
nected with the German pact have
been explored. That largely fulfllls
the deputies assignment.
Some disputed points in the Aus
trian treaty will be referred to Mos
cow BY strictest Interpretation of
instructions to the deputies that
does not constitute failure. They
we're ordered only to proceed with
the preparation of a treaty"
Three main points of disargree-
ment have arisen over Austria:
l. Yugoslavia's claim to a large
part of the Austrian province of
Carinthia was supported by Russia
and opposed by the United States,
Britain and France Western diplo-
mats believed Russia was giving
only token support to Yugoslavia
and would back down later.
2. Russia sought more of Austria's
German assets" than Britain,
France and the United States were
willing she should have. All agreed
that German assets in Austria must
be surrendered to the Allies. The
problem was how to identify them,
and it was a vital one for financially
weak Austria.
3. Russia wanted Austria to sur
render to any ally, on demand, any
displaced person accused by any one
of the Allies of war crimes. The
United States asked Substantial
evidence" of guilt to be submitted
with the demand for eXtradition.
Differences on Phrasing.
Other points of disagreement gen.
orally were on questions of phrasing.
Deputies for Germany, handling
far the more complex problem, had
teen told to hear the small nations
views on the German peace and to
consider questions of procedure
with regard to the preparation of a
peace treaty for Germany
Poland, Yugoslavia and Czecho-
slavia favor a centralized German
State. White Russia, suggesting the
Soviet view, pumped for govern
mental system on federal lines, but
with strong central government
Most of the western nations called
for a federal Germany. Until the
nations define terms, however, there
will be no clear picture of any over
all agreement or disagreement.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Pastor Of Lutheran Home
To Discuss Building Plans

DR.. Robert L. Lang, pastor-super-
intendent of the National Lutheran
Home for the Aged at Eighteenth
and Douglas streets NE, will dis
close plans for the remodelling of
the home at luncheon of the
Women's Auxiliary at l pm. Tues
day at the Mayfower Hotel. Miss
Barbara Wiegand is president of the
auxiliary.
DR.. Lang also will discuss plans
for two new structures to increase
the capacity of the home from rs to
200 persons. These buildings, 1t was
stated, also will provide an infirm-
ary.
The Rev. DR.. Franklin Clark Fry
of New York, president of the Unit
ed Lutheran Church in America,
will speak at the luncheon.
Mrs. Merle Cain, chairman of the
Womens Auxiliary Chapel Commit
tee, will outline plans for the reno
Vation of the chapel
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Hiqh School Benefit Set

A bridge and bingo party to raise
funds for an organ and movie pro-
jector for Woodrow Wilson High
School will be held at 8 pm. We'd
nesday in the school armory. The
party is sponsored by the Home and
School Association of the school
Mrs. S. R. Newell is in charge of
ARRANGEMENTS.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
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The Nome nugget., 1947-10-24

fcatOn given every chance to succeed in his theater
 General Twining will make his headquarters at An chorage where Alaskan defense headquarters was set up for wartime operations Naval headquarters at Ko- dak, at the head of the Aleuan chain, will be main- taned but under the supreme command of the air forces three-star general
 For months now, units of the famed B29 Superorts, and other outfits have moved in relays to Alaska. Ground forces, too have trained, in Operation Wll and other But it is the air forces pro- gram which is getting the most attention from Wash ington.
 Washington could have designated ground forces general admiral as supreme Alaskan commander. Instead, an AAF man was named. The significance is that is obvious The air is the first line of defense today just as was the navy in the centuries before
 With too little money and too few men, the air forces, backed up by the ground troops and navy is preparing this nations northern line of defense.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-24
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ON WAITING FOR GEORGE
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My name happens to be George. But today I would like to use these paragraphs in presenting the thoughts of a friends of mine named James, who writes about another George: the George that everybody waits for. Our guest writer is pr. James w. Fifield, Jr., minister on the West Coast. An inspirational religious leader for many years, pr. Fifield is also a leader in his community's civic life.
 The important thing to mention now is that Dr. Fifield is a careful observer of trends. An active con- tributor to religious journals and radio programs, he knows also how to express his ideas.
 Who Is George?"
 Most everyone l know thinks the world is in mess. They think that trends in our country are wrong, that we are threatened with dark days unless trends are chang ed, but they are waiting for George to change them.
 Recently I spoke to a gathering of educational administrators. As visited with different ones, I found them greatly concerned. They feel there is more frustra- ton and anxiety now than at any time during the war. They recog- nize that education has helped cre- ate the problem which presently exists, but they are waiting for George to remedy it.
 At conference of business ex- ecutives recently there was dis cussion concerning relations with Puccio ond oonrorpipo TTritod Ma
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-24
Out-Maneuvered
(By Palmer HOyt)

(By Palmer HOyt)
 BY RULING that individual unions may qualify to the bargaining representation and grievance pro- cedures of the national labor relations board even though top officials of the AFL and the CIO fail to file ant-Communist affidavits the NLRB pulled the rug out from under John L. Lewis.
 Lewis, who sees the Taft-Hartley law threat to the czarstc dominion he has created in the mine work CTS union determined with typical dsrepect for due processes of governmental system, to make the law unavoidable if he possibly can.
 Lewis alone of all the top AFL officials refused re- gently to agree to the filing of affdavs which would have made all individual unions of the organization eli gbe to use NLRB facilities officers of the in dividual unions made their own required filings
 Now the NLRB has ruled that affidavits of AFT. ions which may want to qualify with the NLRB, has been neatly sidestepped.
 The anti-Communst section of the Taft-Hartey act is of doubtful legality best but if is to be fought by Lewis or anyone else-the proper place is in the courts If individual unions prefer to abide by the pro- vision rather than go court they certainly have the right to do and John L. Lewis, who to feed the meat of Caesars should not be allowed to stop them
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-24

This right we accord to Com muniSm no less than to Socialism. If we were trying to overthrow Communism in Russia, we would not have recognized the Soviet government years ago and we would not have helped it since. In our book, any nation has as much right to go Communist as capital ist, provided that is the free will of toe notwithstanding that cid not happen in Russia, where a small minority seized power, and has not happened in any other country.
 While we do not oppose Com muniSm as such, for those who want it, we do oppose Commun- inns penetration and aggression. On that specific condition we rec ognized the Soviet government, which gave it's pledge not to in- terfere in our country. Stalin has broken this pledge here and in every country where his agents operate. In weak countries close to Russia, he violates this pledge by military aggression as well, as through Fifth Columns.
 American policy from the be- ginning has been based on the as- sumption that the American sys- tenn and Russian Communism could both exist in the world peacefully.
 The only American ''interfer- ense" in the internal affairs of others is in protection of those ma jority rights to which Stalin is pledged, but which he destroys. ! We insist that American relief shall not be used for partisan pur- poses, as the dictators use it. We insist that reconstruction funds be used for the agreed purpose, not wasted by corrupt, or inefficient officials.
 That is not achievement, but liberation-a brand of help with which the Commies cannot com pete. No wonder Stalin fears it.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-24
Why Stalin Fears Marshall Plan
(ROcky Mountain NeWS)


 STALIN HAS CLARIFIED the issue of American aid to Europe He fears the Marshall Plan much that he not only boycoted it but brought his revised Comin tern out in the open to sabotage it.
 He is accurate in judging the Marshall Plan the best barrier againts Soviet control of Western Europe He knows hunger and chaos his essential allies. He knows that recovering Europe will never go Red And he knows that Europe so far down that she cannot re- cover without American food, fuel and machinery to help her help herself
 There are two smart propaganda methods to prevent such American aid Stan is to frghten Americans into thinking that help will be futile-that Europe is going Red anyway The other is aimed to convince Europeans that American aid means enslavement to Yankee cap itasm"
 These Communist lies about alleged American trol of Europe through dollars and food making some headway and for that reason government by its acts and words should be careful keep the record straight.
 On the record the United States is not trying to inn pose it's form of government any other nation It is not interfering in the internal affairs of others It is de- lending the right of others to self-government.
 The obvious proof that not trying to impose our system is the aid have given the Socialist gov ernmentS of Britain and France
 This nfuriates Stalin. In his new Comntern propa- ganda he classes the Socialist leaders of Britain and France with American capitalism And he is accurate at least in that because the issue is not capitalism sus Socialism, but the right of each country to free