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March l. 1897, as a shipping clerk,
he became president Of the company
in 1927 and board chairman in 1895.
He still is active and present plans
do not contemplate retirement,
friends said.
Mr.. Blake is member of the
District Board Of Zoning Adjusters
and the Zoning Committee Of the
Board of Trade.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blake, who live on
farm in Fairfax County, have five
children. They are: Mrs. Charles
s. Corse, Fairfax; Mrs. Ellis Middle
ton, Stamford, Conn.,; Mrs. Edward
T. Chappell, 1443 Spring road NV;
John r. Blake, 1872 Taylor street
NV, and Harry A. Blake, who lives
with his parents.
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supply manu-
facturers, Fifth
and v streets
NE. The flowers
c o m memorated
C ON p letion Of
Mr.. Blake's 50th
year of service
with the organi-
zation.
A native of
8 c o t land, Mr..
Blake came to
the u mite d
States in 1874
with his parents,
mfr. and Mrs.
Ieh~ u nlolx
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T,64O.O0O

TWO zones 4l,0S0,UUO
The base ration is 1850 calories
per day per person to the normal
consumer group, with priorities and
supplements, as the situation re-
quires,. or permits, for other groups.
For example, milk and fats are
given in priority to nursing mothers
and children up to 6 years of age,
and more food, including meat, is
given In supplement to hard work.
ers."
Basic Ration 1850 Calories.
The basic ration for the normal
consumer" 1850 calories, is "A per
cent below the recommended 1000,
and as the report says, "is wholly
incapable of supporting health of
the groups which do not have sup
plements.
Discussing the nutritional condi-
ton of the various groups, Mr.
Hoover reported the self-suppliers
are in good condition, and the nurs-
ing mothers and children under 6
years of age, because of supple
ments and priorities, appear to have
enough to keep them in good con-
dition. The report continues;
"Over half of the 6,595 900 chill
dren and adolescents. especially in
the lower income groups, are In a
deplorable condition. In some
areas, famine edema (actual starva-
tom is appearing in the children
A study Of groups of boys between
ages of 9 and 16 years showed 5.5
pounds under minimum standard
weights, with girls ST. pounds below
such standards. Other groups
studied showed even worse condi-
tions.
"a considerable portion of the
normal consumer group Of 1870 00t
is likewise in deplorable condition
This group comprises the light phys
ical workers, most of them women
and the aged. A large part OF thu
group shows a steady loss Of weight
vitality and ability to work. Famine
edema is showing in thousands Of
cases. said to be 10000 In Hamburg
alone.
Workers Share Rations.
while the rations of the hari
workers are perhaps high enough
for themselves, the tendency is fol
the worker to share his supplement
with his wife and children and TX
lose the benefit to himself"
/ Mr.. Hoover proposed q new pro.
gram" saying:
j "As the present base Of 1,55l
calories for normal consumers q
Evening star., 1947-02-28
PartiaI War-5eryice
Personnel Basis 10
Continue 10 July, 'R
BY Joseph YOUNG

Inc government Will continue
on a partial war-service person.
mel basis at least until July /,
1948, 1t was disclosed today by
Civil Service Commission ON
cials.
The oficia!s said it would take
that long perhaps even longer
for the commission to hold all the
examinations for permanent ap-
pointments to the various Federal
job classifications.
The majority Of these war service
jobs are in professional and scien-
itific fields. Lack Of sufncient funds
to hold examinations for these jobs,
plus the terrific task" of converting
from q wartime to peacetime basis
on all war-service positions, were the
reasons cited as to why it will take
SO long to get the Government back
on a permanent hiring system.
Period Depends on Funds.
1t also was learned that commits
sion ofncials recently told House
Appropriations Subcommittee that,
unless adequate funds were appro-
priated for this purpose, 1t may take
the Government considerably longer
than July /, 1948, to get on a COM
plete peacetime footing.
The large majority of war-seryice
jobs will be abolished In the coming
months as the commission holds
examinations for permanent posi-
tions. Permanent stenographic po-
sitions are now being filed, and
tests for permanent clerical jobs
will be held within the next few
months.
Tests for permanent scientific,
technical and professional positions
which now are filled by great
number of war-service appointees-
aren't expected to be held until
sometime next year. Meanwhile,
these employees will continue as war
service appointees.
Permanent Hiring Suspended
All permanent hiring was sus-
pended during the war and all en-
ployes hired during that period and
since the end of the war received
war-service and temporary appoint
ments. Consequently, there are
many thousands of war-service ap-
pointees working in what ordinarily
would be permanent positions.
Federal officials are anxious to
get the Government back as soon
as possible on q permanent basis,
believing that the new civil service
regulations, effective May l, will
not attain their maximum effective
ness until this is done.
Meanwhile, Chairman Rees of the
House Civil Service Committee,
lplanned to continue hearings Mon
day on the new civil service rules.
Mr.. Rees yesterday sharply criti-
Icized President Truman's executive
order which decentralized some Of
the commissions activities and
transferred some of the functions to
the individual Government agencies.
View Not Unanimous.
Despite Mr.. Rees' stand, most
members of the committee present
at the session said they were in
clined to favor the move. Both
Democratic and Republican mem
bers Of the group commented they
agreed with Civil Service Commits
sioner Arthur s. Flemming that the
new rules will speed up and vastly
improve the operation Of Govern
lment." a39
Mr.. Rees asserted the decentran-
cation of the commissions authority
threatened ito wreck. the merit
system. Mr.. Flemming replied the
commission has lost none Of its au-
thority and will continue to set
personnel policies for the individual
agencies to follow.
Evening star., 1947-02-28
Bill Asking Hearings
On Daylight Saving
In District Offered
By Don S. Worren

Senator McGrath, Democrat,
of Rhode Island today opened a
last-ditch fight to permit Wash
ington to have daylight saving
during summer months If that is
what the city wants.
He introduced a measure as a
substitute for the plan which was
beaten. 2 to l, in q roll call vote in
the House Monday. Instead OF hav-
ing Congress by its own act order
daylight saving, Senator McGrath's s
new resolution would direct the Dis
trict Commissioners Immediately to
cali an open public hearing to ac-
certain the sentiment OF District
people.
If the Commissioners find Wash
ington wants daylight saving-and
the Rhode Island Senator said he
believed that was the "overwhelm-
ing" sentiment-the Commissioners
would be authorized to, order 1t in
effect.
House Rejected Klein Bill.
A bill by Representative Klein,
Democrat, of New York, was beaten
in the House by roll call vote of
210 to 124. A companion bill, by
Senator McGrath, is before the
Senate District Committee. Action
there has been temporarily delayed
because Of the House vote and to
give time for citizens reactions.
Objections by farmers spokesmen,
from States from New York to
California, caused defeat of the
Klein bill from the House.
The Junior Board of Commerce
has undertaken poll Of Washing
ton business houses on q proposal
to put daylight saving in effect here
on voluntary basis NEARLY by calling
on employees to start and quit work
IN hour earlier. Senator McGrath
said he feared this would lead to
confusion II put into effect. He said
i MY new bill permits the Com
missioners to establish. daylight
saving for the District, II after in
vestigation they find this is in accord
with the desires Of District residents.
Would Avoid Confusion.
"The bill grants simple measure
of home rule to the District, believe
it should be adopted by Congress in
difference to the overwhelming
wishes Of District residents and
business interests.
IF the District does not officially
adopt daylight saving and it is put
into effect on voluntary basis, as
is predicted by the business organi-
cations, much confusion will result
This bill gives the Commissioners
the power to prevent such confu-
sion."
Evening star., 1947-02-28
Communists al AIIis
Had dAccessioA-Bom
Project, Probe Told
By III. As,eeio,.d Pres.

Three workers told the House
Committee on Un-American Activ-
titles yesterday that communism has
taken hold like a cancer" on Local
248 Of the CO. United Auto Work.
ers, which has been on strike 10
months against the Allis-C Chalmers
Co. of Milwaukee.
The workers, all members or for
mer members of Local 248 and now
active In an independent union,
were Floyd D. Lucia, Leon Venne
and Walter Peterson. They testified
that leaders of Local 248 are Com.
munists and that the local is domi .
mated by Communists through In
timidation and outright violence.
Mr.. Lucia said two men who
signed Communist Party nominate
ing petition in Wisconsin last year
had access during the war, as union
bargaining agents, to q walled -off
portion Of the Allis- Chalmers plant
engaged on the atomic bomb project.
r. Z ] i i
Nominating Petition Offered.
] He identified them as Joseph
Dombeck, union vice president, and
Arne Hansen. The committees
chief investigator placed in the rec
ord a photostatic copy of nomi-
mating petition showing their sig
natures.
Mr.. Lucia couldn't say" that the
strike was prolonged to retard
atomic production, inasmuch as the
strike started after the war ended
and the atomic work there was
halted shortly after the fighting
stopped.
But he said the local adopted a
resolution asking that President
Truman hand over atom bomb
secrets to Russia.
Mr.. Lucia said he considered the
strike against Allis- Chalmers Com
munist inspired" and that 1t was
their intention to retard reconyer-
sion."
Called by Un-American Probe.
Company ofhciaS have expressed
similar views to the House Labor
Committee, which has scheduled q
hearing tomorrow for leaders of
Local 248. The Un-American Activ-
tiles Committee decided to call COM
pany officials for testimony later.
Mr.. Venne told of joining the
union decade ago and serving on
Its Executive Board. AS early as
1896, when the union started, he said,
there was evidence Of Communist
influence in it.
He listed the union leaders at the
time the strike began last April 20
and replied, Eyes, sir, I do," when
asked whether he considers them
Communists.
Among those on the list were
Harold Christoffel, honorary presi-
dent; Robert Buse, president, and
Mr.. Dombeck.
Evening star., 1947-02-28

not enough to maintain health in
many children or health and work
ing energy In many adults, pro-
pose different program. This new
approach is to repair the weakest
spots in the nutritional situation
= There are two groups to which
repair Of weakness should be given
quickly:
First are the children over
years of age. A system of sour
kitchens to provide a hot meal o1
appropriate body building foods ol
at least $50 calories daily is i'm.
perative for the children in tn.
worst areas of the combined zones
II future Germany of wholesome
character is to be created"
To start at once, Mr.. Hoover pro-
posed that use be made of the Army
surplus 10-in-1 rations, now en-
route, and certain excess stocks not
adapted to Army feeding and now
in control Of the American Occupa-
| ton Forces.
Emergency Rations Urged.
The second group demanding i'm
mediate relief, Mr.. Hoover said, is
the normal consumer group" He
proposed that a portion Of them
be advanced to the group Of moder-
ate heavy workers and receive q
supplemental ration; that an emer.
gency supply of cereals be allotted
to the German welfare organization
to add to the rations of families In
distress, and that tickets for meals
Of $50 calories per day be issued
to those who receive doctors cirtifi.
Gates in this group. to be consumed
either at the soup kitchens or taker
home
Mr.. Hoover suggested a number
of ways that money recommended
for expenditure In Germany car
be saved for the American tax.
payer. He proposed that rs Liberty
ships. now laid up, be manned By
German crews ard used to trans.
port supplies to the British ant
American zones, saving perhap,
! SAC, ,000, 900 year. He also sug.
gested that Germans be provided
with fishing vessels. since a larg.
part Of their fishing fleet was lost
during the war, in order to augmen
the food supplies. He further urged
that steps be taken to make pos.
1 sible maximum exports Of German
manufactures, permitting a restora.
/ ton Of trade so the Germans coule
assume some of the financial re.
sponsibiities of relief.
Evening star., 1947-02-28

John r. Blake, Harry Blake.
who settled in Fairfax County, Va
He came to Washington in 1890, OBJ
tanning his first employment as an
apprentice carpenter, helping to
erect such buildings as the old Post
Once, at Eleventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, and Calvary
Baptist Church.
Starting with Barber d Ross on
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zones. In addition &c, ,000 NaZiS are
held in concentration camps, and
l 300 900 others are under sanctions
by which they can engage is manual
labor only.
"one consequence Of these dis
tortions," said Mr.. Hoover, "is that
in the age groups between 20 and
40 there are six men to 10 women,
and in the age group between 40
and 60, about seven men to 10
women. There are in these groups
between 5000, 900 and 7,0O0, 600 more
women than men. The results upon
productive power are bad enough,
but the consequences to morals are
appalling.
THE coal famine all over Western
Europe" said the report, and the
unprecedented severity of the winter
have produced everywhere the most
acute suffering. AS an example, in
Germany, no household coal has
been issued in Hamburg since Oc-
tober l. Other German cities have
been but little better off,
Producing Areas Lost.
About Is per cent of the German
prewar food production came, the
report said, from the areas taken
over by Russia and Poland. In ad-
dition, the Russian military zone in
Germany was a large part Of Ger
many's bread basket Millions Of
tons flowed into the Anglo-Ameri-
can zones from these areas in the
past. They now contribute nothing.
The British and American
armies and civilians are entirely fed
from home" Mr.. Hoover wrote.
"The large Russian army is fed
upon their zone.
Due to lack of fertilizers, good
seed, farm implements and skilled
labor, the 1916 agricultural produc-
tion in the American and British
zones was about IS per cent of pre-
war. A general appraisal indicates
that in the American zone the har-
vest of 1916 yielded supply beyond
the needs of the farmers (self- sup
pliers equal. to about 1,100 calories
per day for the non-self-suppliers.
The similar supply in the, British
zone was about 900 calories per day
average to the non-self-suppliers.
These amounts contrast with 5000
calories of the prewar normal Ger
mon cAy, cum inv, y
1t is expected there may be a
small increase from the harvest of
1947, owing to efforts which are be-
ing made to improve agricultural
production, Mr., Hoover said. The
steps he recommends, he said,
should show greater production
from the 1948 harvest.
Food Groups" Estimated.
For the purpose of food distribu-
ton, the population of the two
zones has been divided into groups,
as follows:
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Barber & Ross Stuff Honors
Chief for 5OYeurs of Service

A bouquet of, so roses with q 81
bhHtied to each rose today adorned
the desk of Harry Blake. n, board
chairman of Barber & Ross, building
Evening star., 1947-02-28

4 SELF = Sup
pliers, lie. far
mers and their
| families
Mon self sup
pliers, lie. urban
population:
Prospective and
nursing mothers :
Children O-6 years
of age =
Children els years
of age
Adolescents, 1920
years of age - =
Normal Consum-
ers, 20 years UP
Moderate h ar d
workers -
Heavy workers
Extra Heavy Work
ers -
Displaced persons :
Total population,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-08-01
DIsCoRD AMONG VETS:
Vets Volunteer Group
Faces Rift; Important
Program May Be Upset
By STAFF Correspondent

serious riff looms in the Volunteer Committee COM
posed Of representatives of five Twin City Posts of the Amer
lean Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Members of the committee include the group who re-
quested an to discrimination the National Guard and
engaged controversy with the War DEPARTMENT
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M&MMaw Gy
.MxuawIGs::;Ss

Birthday greetings in Minneapolis:
August flames r. Davis, 1866 Eaton
Ave, Mary Kate Breedlove, SO4 Aid
rich Ave. No, Joseph Maxwell, 1921
Fourth Ave. So; Frances Lee, 256
18th Ave. So. August Leon Lewis,
2634 Fourth Ave. So; Mrs. Rosa Pitt
man, 2Sl2 Fourth Ave. So. Junior
Ashford, Sl9 Fremont Ave. No: Mrs.
Lulu jackson, 2746h Clinton; Mrs.
william Seabron, 1901 25th Ave. So.
August S--JOseph Stewart, $40 18th
Ave. So: Charles Miller, Jr., 1901
Bryant Ave. No. August 9-JOsepn
T. HarpOle, 1907 nth Ave. So. August
lO-DOrOthy Sims, 1888 Fourth Ave.
So. Mrs. Il. z. Taylor. 595 Olson
Highway. August ll-Millard South
ern. $3.50 Lake Park Ave; Lorenzo
Vaudeville 1913 25th Ave. So.
August l2-Lillian Parkinson, 1915
Fourth Ave. So
out Of town greetings: August
Cpl Earl W. Bowman, West Point,
Los Angeles. Calf. August 9-Mrs.
Samuel Watson, Birmingham, Ala.
VISITORS
Visitors to the st. Paul office:
Mrs. Willie G. Robinson, 25l RondO
Ave. Miss Jane Miller, 25l Rondo;
and Charles II. Williams, d. DIS, 655
st. Anthony Ave.
Birthday greetings to Napoleon
Jackson, 306 ROndo Ave, August 4.
August 6--Mrs. villa Barber, S97
Iglehart: Mrs. G. l.. Reed, s26 Fuller
Ave. August Mrs. James Will
liams, S26 Rondo Ave; Gloria GIL
breath, 97S st. Anthony Ave-; Mrs.
Katie Leavell, 9O5 Marion st. August
s-Ben J. Moore, 80 W. Lawrence.
August Mrs. James Kirk, Sr., 937
st. Anthony Ave.
Belated birthday greetings to Vir-
ginia Thomas, 405 Harrington, Sylvia
Moore and Donald Haskins, St Paul,
July %.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-08-01
Senatorial Sub Committee FavOrS
General Purpose" of FEPC Law
But Urges Further Study of Bill

Allen J. Ellender, Democrat, OF
Louisiana, who said the bill Twill
help the Communist movement" ir
the United States if it becomes
law.
He asserted that it would pre-
vent employers from asking job
applicants whether they were ma.
tive-born Americans or aliens.
Provisions Of Bill
The Ives bill would forbid EN-.
ployers of so or more persons from
discriminating against any worker
on account of race, color, creed OF
national origin. The commission the
bill would create would be charted
with the duty of seeking to elimi-
nate unlawful practices before pro-
ceeding formally against any en-
ployer charged with violation of
its provisions. Federal courts would
be given the power to order com
pliance with cease-and-desist or
ders Of the commission and punish
for contempt any employer dis
obeying its orders.
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WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)
A Senate Labor and Public We'll
fare subcommittee last Tuesday re-
ported to the full committee the
Ives bill to ban race or religious
discrimination in employment.
The Ives bill was reported to the
Full Labor and Public Welfare
Committee with the statement that
the subcommittee favors its gen
eral purposes" The subcommittee
recommended that the full COM
mittee give further study to the
provisions of the bill.
Senators Irving NJ. Ives, Of New
York, the author Of the bill, and
Senator James E. Murray, Demo
crat, of Montana, one of its pro-
ponents, were the only subcommit-
tee members to favor the bill in
its present form.
Senator Forrest C. Donnell, Re-
publican, Of Missouri, the subcom-
mittee chairman, and Senator H.
Alexander Smith, Republican, of
New Jersey, another prepayment, be-
lieved that the full committee
should undertake further study Of
the measure.
Ellender Votes No
The lone subcommittee member
to vote against reporting the bill
to the full committee was Senator
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-08-01
DULUTH NEWS
SHOTS
By ZILLAH WATERS

Indiana Guests: Miss Shirley
Stokes and her sister, Nancy, of
Gary, Ind, arrived in Duluth, Tues
day, June %, to visit with their
aunt, Mrs. Halle Hall, Gil Gar
field Ave. They were accompanied
from Chicago by Miss Margaret
Thomas who will visit with her
father, Mr.. James Thomas, Of Gary,
New Duluth.
MIR. William CLANCY of st. Paul
spent a day in Duluth last week.
Mrs. David McHenry. who stayed
off her job few days recently
because Of illness, has improved
sufficiently SO that her daughter,
Mrs. Horace Brown Of St. Paul, has
returned home. Mrs. Browns
daughter, La Rue, came to Duluth
to be with her mother.
Mrs. Harriet SmallwOOd of Min
neapolis arrived Monday, July 81,
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Pilgrim Baptist Church, Rev. Eu-
gene william, pastor. sunday, July
"a, a chartered bus and two cars
motored from the Sioux CITY. Iowa
son, pastor, Is also pastor OF 81.
Johns Baptist church In Omaha.
Breakfast was served in the dining
room followed by morning worship
at the church. Rev; Johnson pTlhs
ing the message. Subject: ShFlsI
the Greatest Teacher
81. Johns Baptist Church with
Rev. L. c. Harris, pastor, celebrated
their first anniversary. the COMMIT
tee was in charge OF Mr.. ana mrs.
ley. Mistress of Ceremonies was
Mrs. Oscar Bridgewater. Rev. ana
Mrs. l.. c. Harris accepted the charBe
of his second return visit as guest
speaker in January but did not move
their household goods until the
from the members flled the tables
at the l .. m. dinner in the dining
room of the church. At p. m, with
the Pilgrim Baptist Church uniting,
Rev. and Mrs. L. c. Harris, honor
guests, celebrated their first ami
VersaTy as residents Of the church.
The program was as follows: Wei
come address was by Mrs. Judson
Phillips; response-Mrs. Dorothy
Mathews, Sioux City. Iowa; solo
Mrs. r. Robinson; scriptnre-Rey'
Eugene williams, Sioux Falls, So.
OAK; prayer - Rev. Mullen, Sioux
City, Iowa Mrs. Hazel Meeks, Huron,
So. OAK, accompanied by Miss Lucy
Ashley-a solo. Introduction 81 the
speaker by Rev. Eugene Williams
pastor Pilgrim Baptist Church. ser
mon by Rev. e. d. Johnson. totai
OF tll4.5O was presented to Rev. ana
! Mrs Harris. Mrs. Harvey Bentley
in charge of the women turned In
S345O and Mr.. James Moxley in
charge OF the men $500 with the
total Of Sii46O. The group departed
for Sioux City, Iowa, at p. m. with
a return invitation.
Minnie Wilson Dies;
Funeral Services Held
Saturday, July 26
Minnie Wilson, the former Min
ME Williams Of $50 W. Central, died
at the age of SO years, at Ancker
hospital, Wednesday, July %.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday, July 26, at the Church of
God in Christ, in Minneapolis at 2
p. m. The service was read by Rev.
J. LaGrone. Burial was at Crystal
Lake cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
Thomas Wilson, and two nieces,
Mrs. James Slemmons and Mrs.
Forrest Mckinney, Of Minneapolis,
other relatives and friends.
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group, to bring the issue Of Ma
tional cemetery racial segregation
to a head. 1t is hoped that there
will be sufficient time TO properly
present the issue at the American
Legion state convention, TO be held
in Faribault, Aug. 9, 10, II.
The question Of Negro admit
lance in the State National Guard
is in the hands Of a special COM
mittee appointed by Father Fran
els Gilligan, chairman Of the Gov
ernor's State Interracial commit
tee.
When questioned this week as to
the progress Of the group, he stated
that they were working out neces.
sary details, and that he was very
hopeful Of a successful outcome.
He cautioned against impatience,
and irresponsible individual action
at this time, explaining that such
programs take some time to work
out properly.