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CEMETERY LOTS.

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MADISON, VIM. J. on Friday. OctobeI
II. l947,. VIM. J; MADISON husbanSd NJ q q
SON. He also leaves father and a mother
Edward and Olive B. Madison: brother
Andrew Edward Madison; devoted grand
drew. Joseph and Rev. John W. Bowman
IS: v. p: aunts. Mrs. Mary NARY JASPER: .nsn,s MIS-
Lewis; many other relatives and friends
Friends may call at the funeral homs Of
day october 20, ie47. after pm. Fun:
erai, Tuesday. october Il. l947, at :
a m. from st. .Cyprian's Church. l3tn ano
G SITS. Sc, Interment Mount Olivet Gene
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us. Tanker Operation
Extension Is Sought

With gas and oil consumption ii
this country running above tht
wartime peak reached in 1945, Con.
gress has been asked to extend tht
authority Of the Maritime Commits.
sion to remain in the tanker busi-
ness for another yaer. -
During the first quarter OF 1947
consumption averaged 5,919 900 bar.
rels day, as compared to $4,000
barrels in June of l945-the peak
war demand-according to the oil
and gas division OF the Interior
Department.
In the face OF this demand, the
Maritime Commission will have nc
authority to continue the operation
of Government tankers after June
80 unless Congress acts.
Senator White, Republican, OF
Maine, has introduced a bill to let
the Maritime Commission operate
its tankers another year before dis.
posing of the vessels. Between one
fourth and one-fifth Of the oil NOV
ing from the Gulf Coast to the
East Coast is carried in the tankers
An Interior Department official
said there is q possibility OF spot
shortages" in some localities this
fall because of the heavy demand
If shortages occur, he said, they will
be due not only to transportation
difficulties but also to a need for
more refining facilities which are
being planned but not yet in use.
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Mrs. Flora Ballard Dies;
Resided Here 78 Years

Mrs. Flora Elizabeth Ballard, 81
a Washington resident for 78 years
died Sunday at her home, 40 A
street Sc. after brief illness.
Born in Laporte, Pa, Mrs. Ballard
moved to Washington as a child In
1869. She was the widow of the
late Augustus w. Ballard, a Gov
ernment employe here.
Mrs. Ballard was a former men,
Der OF Col. James Mccall Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion,' and was interested in charita-
BILE and religious organizations, in
cluding the Salvation Army, the
Red Cross and the District Associa-
ton of Workers for the Blind, OF
which she was a member for many
years. She was also a member oi
the Full Gospel Tabernacle, Ninth
street and Massachusetts, avenue
NV.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs
Margaret Frisbie and Mrs. Flora
Miller: a. granddaughter, Mrs. Mar
garet Krochmal, and one great
grandson, all of the Washington
area.
Funeral services will be ~held at
1890 am. tomorrow at the Cham.
bers funeral home, 1400 Chaplin
street NV, with burial in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
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|4-H Camp Delegates
Hear Joy {. Morgan
Al Arlington Farms

DR.. Joy z. Morgan, editor of the
National Education Association Jour-
nal, today spoke on Individual Re-
sponsibility for Citizenship" to the
200 delegates of the All Club Camp.
meeting in the recreation building
at Arlington Farms.
DR.. Morgan addressed the entire,
convention before the delegates,
formed into small discussion groups,
of boys and girls from widely scat.
tered parts OF, the country to ex--
change views on citizenship and
their responsibilities. He visited each
group as they talked and said he
was much impressed by their ear
nestness. -
The convention also heard Fred G.
Jams Of the Department OF Agri-
culture.
The delegates were given this af-
ternoon of to visit points of interest
in the city in their own small
groups. Tomorrow the convention in
a body will visit the Library Of
Congress and the Lincoln Memorial.
Yesterday a 60-man honor guard
Of the delegates laid a wreath on
the Tomb OF the Unknown Soldier.
They also attended special service
at Christ Church. Alexandria, =
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Ceiling Of 2,057,794-
Set on u. ). Workers
For July 10 October

A tentative personnel ceiling Of
2,o57,794 for the Government for
the first quarter Of the fiscal year
beginning July l was announced
today by James E. Webb, director
Of the Budget Bureau.
This figure, based on require
ments of departments and agencies
to carry out their functions, repre-
sents a net decrease of 549l4 from
the overall ceiling for the current
quarter, revised as of June 5.
Mr.. Webb said the new ceiling
figure will not require any new
major cutbacks in personnel "be-
yond those already in process OF
contemplated as a result of curtail-
ment or elimination OF appropria-
tions."
He also stressed that ceiling
| figures for the first quarter Of
the 1948 fiscal year are necessarily
tentative. He pointed out that Con-
gress still has before 1t appropria-
ton measures and also the Presi-
dents recommendation for the ell
mination Of the ceiling procedure.
Ceilings Are Maximums.
Actual employment, he also point
ed out, actually runs well under
established ceilings since they rep
resent the maximum number any
agency may employ during the
quarter.
The new ceiling figure represents
a decrease of 461, ,621 from the figure
for the first quarter of the current
fiscal year, which started July !,
1916.
The first quarter maximum was
2,519,415.~ The ceiling figure for the
second, quarter was 2,392,379, later
reduced to 2,359,7o9 when the
United States Employment Service
was turned back to the States. The
third quarter figure was 2,l46,742.
Peak employment during the war
was 3,762,366 in June, 1914, or l.
7o4.794 more than the figure an
nounced today.
Actual Employment Is Less,
Mr.. Webb pointed out personnel
ceiling figures are not comparable
to actual employment figures, how
ever. He said the ceilings represent
not only estimates of total full-time
employment, but also include part
time or intermittent employment of
agencies. These latter are figured
on a basis of the full-ti equiva-
lent for the three-month period.
b Today's ceiling figures include
certain groups Of employees already
limited specifically by Congress in
the Federal. Employees Pay Act of
1946. That act limited the War De-
partment to 10000 employees next
July l. The budget Bureaus CELL
ing is the same.
The Navy Departments ceiling is
99,s74, whereas the statutory limi-
tation Is 100000. For other agencies
for which the statutory limitation
was AL, 1863, the ceiling Is set at 434,
1928.
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Maritime
Continued From First Page.)

Jack Lawrenson, who heads the
union subcommittee negotiating
with 20 tanker companies here.
Mr.. Lawrenson said the contract
between the union and tanker COM
panies expired last midnight, but
was extended through today. when
the operators would be given "one
last chance" He said 900 tankers
would be affected by a stoppage.
Seek to Break Deadlock.
Federal conciliators continued
meanwhile, efforts to break the
stalemate between the NMU and
radiomen and the operators.
Shortly before am. William
Margolis and Frederick Livings-
ton. Federal conciliators, announced
that the ship operators would meet
at 10 am. with NMU officials and
at pm. with officials of the Amer
lean Communications Association.
Frank J. Taylor, president of the
American Merchant Marine Insti-
tute and chairman of the Negotiat-
ing Committee for Gulf and East
Coast ship operators, declared that
the stoppage was a pure, simple,
unadulrated strike"
He said early reports from owners
showed men were aboard ships but
idle
Says Stoppage Is Unnecessary.
Mr.. Taylor declared that the
unions use of the term lockout
was entirely erroneous" and added
that "the negotiations having been
carried on and an agreement not
having been reached, the union said
no contract, no work
There was no necessity for that
sort of procedure on the part of the
union because the agreement could
have been extended temporarily ac-
cording to the terms of the agree
ment and pursuant to a request of
the Secretary Of Labor to hold things
in status quo.
Although plans to provide soup
kitchens and sleeping accommo-
dations for idle seamen have been
made at major ports, Mr.. Lawren-
son said he doubted that pickets
would appear in the New York port
area before Wednesday or Thursday
Establishment of picket lines pos
sibly would involve AFL unions.
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Papers Newsprint Supply
Hits Record Low ,ANPA Says
BY the Associated Pres.

NEW YORK, June l6.-The Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton said today reporting daily
newspapers had on hand and In
transit at the end of May the lowest
supply OF newsprint on record.
The overall average of % days
supply at the end OF May compared
with 80 days on that 1946 date, 43
at the end of May, ls45, and So days
in 1941.
Dailies reporting to ANPA used
3o2 ,994 tons of newsprint in May, an
increase of 15.s per cent over 261 ,484
in May, 1946. and 1862 per cent over
260, 1927 in May, 1941.
Total consumption of newSprint
for all types of uses was estimated
at $1,000 tons for May and 1856, 1927
tons for the first five months of
1947. Reporting newspapers used
1,427,97 tons in the first five
months OF 1947. Reporting news
papers used ,427,973 tons In the first
five 1947 months, representing an
increase OF 15.9 per cent over the
1916 period and 1876 per cent over
those 1941 months.
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Anti-Fuscists
Continued From First Page)

resumed. eve are going to con-
tend this was not proper sub
poena at all.
Miss Bryan consulted with coun-
SELL" Mr.. Rogge went on. "She was
told, among other things, that the
resolution creating the House Com
mittee was unconstitutional -
U. S. Attorney Objects.
United States Attorney Charles B.
Murray objected. He indicated that
Justice Keech had excluded this ma
terial. Mr.. Rogge did not think so.
"You are misinformed, sir" Justice
Keech said. Il did"
Mr.. Rogge looked perplexed.
Judge" he said, II don't want to
do anything except in accordance
with your honor's rulings. I had
marked a few paragraphs that !
thought remained"
Justice Keech said he would be
glad to pass on the admissibility Of
these paragraphs and second
bench conference started at 1920.
Earlier, Mr.. Rogge had intro
duced each one of the defendants to
the jury. AS each stood up and
bowed, he recited the story Of their
lives, including the names and ages
of all their children and grand
children.
Didn't Have Records.
In the prosecutions opening state
ment, Mr.. Murray said that one by
one the board members testified at
the hearing they could not produce
the records because they did not
have custody OF them.
Their identical statements, Mr.
Murray said, had been prepared by
the organizations attorney, Ben
edict Wolf.
The defendants contended that
Miss Bryan was custodian OF the
records. Mr.. Murray said. He added
she already had refused to produce
them for the House committee on
January "a, 1916.
Not in Mass Trial.
Miss Bryan is under separate
indictment for contempt of Con-
gress for her refusal, but Is not one
Of the defendants Of the mass trial
The Anti-Fascist Committee
describes itself as a relief organiza-
ton aiding Republican Spanish
refugees The FBI has called it a
Communist front"
In addition to DR.. Barsky, a New
York surgeon. other defendants in
the mass trial are:
Howard Fast, author of Citizen
Tom Paine" and other books; Lev
erett Gleason, publisher, the COM
mittee's treasurer; Herman Shum-
lin, theatrical producer: Louise
Kamsly, co-chairman of the wom.
ems division Of the committee; DR.
Louis Miller and DR.. Jacob Aus
lander, physicians; DR.. Lyman R
Evening star., 1947-06-16
Youth Lobby Seeking
Support Of Congress
On Labor Bill Veto

Youthful adherents Of Henry Wal.
lace's Progressive Citizens Of Amer
lea assembled here In National
Youth Lobby, today were buttonhol-
ing members Of Congress to uphold
| a possible presidential veto OF the
Taft Hartley labor bill.
Nearly 500 young men and women
from 16 States were to hear Mr.
Wallace address the closing session
tof the two-day conference this aft
ernoon at the Mount Joy Baptist
Church, 5l4 Fourth street Sc.
The youthful lobbyists go their
final instructions at the church this
morning on how to persuade Con.
Igress to vote for "a minimum legis-
lative program which will meet the
needs Of young America
This program was defined as veto
Of "antilabor legislation: opposi-
ton to compulsory peacetime mill
tary training; passage Of antilynch-
ing legislation; higher benefits for
veterans; increased immigration
quotas and national health in
surance.
I'm the opening session yesterday
at Turner's Arena, the National
Youth Lobby was addressed by Clark
Foreman, director OF the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare,
which Is sponsoring Mr.. Wallace,s
Water Gate appearance tonight.
Mr.. Foreman asserted that "un-
der an anti Communist hysterta, the
basic rights Of the American people
are being undermined, the advances
OF the Roosevelt administration are
being wrecked and the American
people are not being given the
facts"
Also addressing the group was
Don Rothenberg. head of a George
Washington University chapter of
the American Veterans Committee.
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Crescent J. Bride Head:
MONTGOMERY K. of 6.

Crescent J. Bride has been elected
grand knight of Montgomery Coun-
Gil No. 1928, Knights Of Columbus
Other officers are Norbert E. Nor
ris, deputy grand knight; the Rev.
j. Gregory Echle, chaplain; Joseph
J. Tarallo. recording secretary; w.
Linwood Hoyle, chancellor; Robert
E. O'Brien, warden; John A. Jarbee,
advocate; E. Clagett Jones, treas
urer; Harold L, Hershey, financial
secretary; William B. Albert, lee
turer; Joseph E. Fisher, trustee
Harry Huffer, inside general, and
Martin ]. Mannix, outside general.
Evening star., 1947-06-16
College President Speaks
For Forgotten teachers
sy the As.oeiossd Press

MEDFORD, Mass, June l6-Ken,
meth G. NJ. Sills, president OF Bow.
doin College, said yesterday thai
teachers are the forgotten figures
of Americas educational crisis.
Mr.. Sills, speaking at Tufts Col
lege's commencement exercises, told
s74 graduates that "the profession OF
teaching may dry up at the source
unless the crisis is met by an aroused
public which will make the profess
sion attractive and compensation
adequate"
Honorary degrees awarded in
.cluded:
House Speaker Martin, doctor OF
laws. and the Rev. Wallace w. Rob-
bins, president OF Meadville Theo-
logical School Of the University of
Chicago, doctor of divinity.
Evening star., 1947-06-16
7 Soviet News Writers
Begin Tour of U. S. Zone
BY the Asseciotsd Pres,


FRANKFURT, June 16-seven
Russian press correspondents today
began q To-day tour OF the Ameri-
can zone OF Germany.
Accompanied by. a. Russian in
terpreter, the correspondents will
make a study Of industrial recovery
In American-held Germany, talk
with German governmental and
trade union leaders, visit displaced
persons camps and the war crimes
trials at Nuremberg.
Four of the correspondents also
will attend a joint Allied and Ger
man press conference with Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, American military
governor, in Frankfurt Wednesday.
They will remain in the Frankfurt
area for four days as guests OF the
American Press Club of this Army
headquarters city.
Evening star., 1947-06-16

Bradley, professor OF romance dan
guages, New York University.
Also James Lustig, officer of an
electrical workers union in Newark
N. j.; DR.. Jesse Tolmach, derma-
tologist, on the Columbia Univer-
sity teaching staff: Charlotte Stern
education director of New York
hotel and restaurant employees
union; Manuel Magma, a Republic
an veteran OF the Spanish Civil
War subsequently naturaliZed as an
American citizen; Ruth Leider and
Harry M. Justiz, lawyers, and Mar
jorie Chodorov and Mrs. Bobbie
Weinstein, housewives.
All are of New York City.
Meanwhile, the trial of Engene
Dennis, secretary of the Communist
Party in the United States, on
charges of contempt OF Congress
was postponed for a week today
when it came before Justice David
A. Pine in District Court. The
trial now is scheduled to begin next
Monday at 10 am. before, Justice
Pine.
Joseph r. Brodsky, counsel fol
Dennis, asked that the trial be post
poned until the fall term OF the
court.
Agrees to Delay.
John w. Finely, assistant United
States attorney, told the court he
could be ready Wednesday. but
thought 1t would be best for all con-
cerned to postpone the trial for, a
week.
Preliminary motions in the pass
port fraud trial of Gerhart Eisler,
reputed behind the-scene leader of
American Communists, are sched-
uled for hearing Wednesday before
Justice James W. Morris. Justice
Morris was assigned to hear these
motions after Justice Holtzoff with
drew last week from presiding at
Eisler's second trial.
Eisler was convicted Tuesday be-
fore Justice Holtzoff of contempt Of
Congress. His attorneys had filed
an affidavit of prejudice against the
jurist.
Evening star., 1947-06-16
Commercial Ownership
Of Newspapers Opposed
2, IN. Assoeio,ed Pres.

LONDON, June 16.-An interna-
tional conference on human rights
urged today the elimination OF
commercial ownership of newspa-
pers" and suggested papers be
turned over to recognized, respon-
sible bodies such as political and
other groups"
The conference, convoked by
Britain's Nation Council for Civil
Liberties, was attended by delegates
from IL countries. The United
States was represented by Ira Lati-
mer, executive director OF the Chi
cago Civil Liberties Committee, ano
Mrs. Louise Morris Of New York
secretary of the Congress of Amer
lean Women.
Evening star., 1947-06-16

labor force has changed also. The
proportion of professional and man.
agerial workers has risen in seven
years from 20 per cent to % per
cent. In the same period the num-
Der of service workers has declined
from 10 per cent to 16 per cent
Clerical and sales workers have also
increased, from 80 per cent to IS
per cent, while the number OF
manual workers has been declining.
Washingtonians have displayed a
noticeable lack of inclination to
spend their money on retail goods
in the postwar BOOM" Mr.. Capt
reported.
In the first four months of this
year, compared with the same period
last year, the District gained only 8
per cent in retail trade, in contrast
with an Is per cent gain the Nation
averaged. Even last year, compared
with the same period in l945, Wash
ington's gain in retail trade was only
IL per cent, while for the entire
United States the gain was 81 per
cent.
Luxury goods suffered especially
in Washington. Sales Of jewelry,
liquor and patronage of eating and
drinking places have fallen off more
sharply in the Capital than through
out the country In the first four
months of this year.
Compared with 1946, jewelry stores
sales declined 20 per cent here and
l3 per cent in the nation; liquor
sales dropped IL per cent here and
only 3 per cent in the Nation; the
business of eating and drinking
places dropped per cent here but
only per cent in the Nation.
Building Supplies Rise.
Building supply sales, however,
Jumped here more than twice as
much as in the rest OF the nation.
Expenditures were up AZ per cent
here, as compared with 20 per cent
for the Nation.
The increase in population, Mr..
Capt pointed out, has contained a
considerable turnover also. The
recent survey indicated that more
than a third of the present popula-
ton has moved into this area or
at least changed residence since
1910.
Despite Washington's lack of
manufacture, the city has developed
sudden foreign trade by air. Bal
timore has long been the port of
entry for this area, the speaker
said, but now Washington has been
doing twice as much air export as
Baltimore.
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Census
Continued From First Page

increased by $4,000 or 80 per cent.
This means that there are five regu-
lar dwelling units for every II per-
sons in the area, while in 1910 there
were five for every l8.
Washington has therefore kept up
with its housing situation fairly
well. he said, even though the de-
mand for housing here is greater
than in 1910 because of increased
ability to buy.
In the midst Of this population
rise, the nature Of Washington S
Evening star., 1947-06-16

judicial ground" Assistant District
Attorney Daniel B. Maher, appear.
ing in behalf of Secretary of the
Interior Krug, the defendant in the
suit, had argued that the court hac
no right to limit or direct execu-
tive discretion in matter OF this
kind.
Proctor Upholds View.
Justice Proctor upheld this view
and refused to grant the restraining
order, because the permit, he said
was granted as matter OF dis
cretion by an executive agency OF
the Government.
Although Secretary Krug was the
defendant in the suit, the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare and
Mr.. Wallace were the real objects
OF attack by the American Anti
Communist Association.
The Southern conference is
sponsoring the meeting at o'clock
tonight, for which, it reported, more
than 5000 tickets have been sold
Mr.. Wallace is scheduled to speak
at 10 pm.
Franklin T. Miles, attorney for the
Anti Communist Association, de-
clared at the hearing before Justice
Proctor that there was no question
or issue of free speech involved" "
He cited the recent statement of the
House Un-American Activities Com
mittee that the Southern Conference
was a Communist front organiZa-
ton.
Cites Loyalty Order.
He also cited President Truman S
loyalty order" in connection with
Government employees. He stated,
moreover, that President Truman
dropped Mr. wallace as Secretary of
Commerce because the outspoken
criticism by the former Vice Presi-
dent seriously embarrassed and en-
dangered the administrations for
eign policy. particularly its fight
against Communist expansion.
The issue Mr.. Miles said, is to
help the President of the United
States fight Communists. The peo-
pie of the United States should not
be required to provide tax money to
support Government property where
Communist sympathizers will tell
how they intend to overthrow the
Government
In this connection Mr. Miles
asked Justice Proctor to take
judicial notice of a comment once
made by former Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes that the
Communist Party advocates over
throw of the United States Gov
ernment
Didn't Mention Wallace.
In his defense of the granting
OF the permit for use of the Water
Gate, Mr.. Maher did not mention
Mr. Wallace by name and did not
refer to the Southern Conference
He said he appeared in behalf OF
the Secretary of the Interior anc
objected to granting of any restrain.
ing order because, he contended
neither Secretary Krug nor any
executive agency of the Govern.
ment had acted unconstitutionally
or otherwise Illegally in the exer-
else Of their proper powers in grant.
ing the permit for public meeting
Mr.. Maher went on to say that
the plaintiff had not submitted any
Evening star., 1947-06-16
Rev. AItfuther to Broadcast

The Rev. Alton B. Altfather, min
lister of the Falls Church Presby-
terian Church is the speaker this
week on the Arlington Church of
the Air, broadcast at 8:45 am. today
through Friday over WARL.