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Evening star., 1948-01-07
Discrimination Cited
In State Hospital Pay.
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. THE
Board of Public Works was told
yesterday that morale among the
1900 employees of the five State
mental hospitals "is being seriously
DANA aged because workers feel they
are being Disseminated against" :;
DR.. George H. Preston, commits
sioner of mental hygiene, added In
a letter read at a board melting
that while State Office employees
work about 351a hours in a five-day
week. institutional employees work
six days and 48 hours" before they
are entitled to overtime payment
Approved tentatively a contract
for erection of two girls dormitories
at the University of Maryland, Col
lege Park, at a cost of about $780,
900.
Approved expenditure of $4,500 for
preparation of a new edition of the
Maryland Manual and heard a sug-
gestion by Gov. Lane that a State
Bureau of Information be set up to
replace the defunct State Publicity
Commission
At the request Of DR.. H. G.. Byrd,
University of Maryland president,
postponed consideration OF the Uni
versity's proposed $4,000 seafood
laboratory at Chrisfeld. DR.. Byrd
said he would supply the board with
full information on the project at
later date
Evening star., 1948-01-07
immigration Hearing SET
Today for Scot in Army Case
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-An immi-
grafton hearing was scheduled at
Ellis Island today for Alistair Mich
olson, young British merchant sea-
man, who told the New York Daily
News he was "shanghaied" into the
United States Army in Southamp-
ton, England, then shipped home
to this country after suffering
court martial and Imprisonment"
The 23-year-old native of Glas-
gov, Scotland, surrendered to immi-
grafton authorities at Philadelphia
yesterday after relating his bizarre
story to the newspaper. He was
charged with entering the United
States illegally and was placed under
technical arrest by Commissioner Of
immigration Watson B. Miller.
Army authorities in Washington
withheld comment on the case but a
spokesman disclosed that st. Louis
had been asked to check the dis
charge papers of a Fred Bast," the
name Nicholson said he used when
he was hustled" into Army service.
The Veterans Administration said
its records showed that a Fred
Bast" was in service from November
8, 1943, to December 9, 1916, and
had filed claim for unemployment
compensation at the VAS st. Louis
ofiice last January.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Norway, Soviet Sign Pact
ito Increase 194S Trade
By the A,sociotsd Press

OSLO, Norway, Jan. 7.-Soviet
Russia has agreed to supply Norway
loo, 900 tons of wheat, $4,000 tons Of
rye and quantities Of phosphate,
manganese and chrome ore under
194S trade pact signed yesterday
in Moscow, Supply Minister Oscar
Torp said tonight in announcing
details of the agreement in q
nation wide broadcast.
Norway will furnish 10000 tons Of
whale oils, 10000 tons of herring,
aluminium and cellulin ores and
other minerals, which Mr.. Torp did
not specify.
The agreement aims at "con-
siderable increase" in the exchange
of goods between the two countries
which last year totaled about $1,000
600 kroner (about $12 .000, ,000 Mr.
Torp said.
Norway has reason TO be salts
fed with the new treaty, which
provides for about twice the guam
tity Of Russian goods We received In
1947," he said.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Head Of Baking Firm Fined
For Violating Injunction

Thomas Stethopulos, trading as
the Athens Baking Co. in the 400
block of N street SW., today was
fined 5000 by Justice Richmond B.
Keech of District Court for GRIM
inal contempt in violating the
terms of an injunction which for
bids the company to manufacture
food under unsanitary conditions.
The injunction was issued In Oc-
tober, 1916. Stethopulos pleaded
guilty to the contempt charge last
month. At that time Justice Keech
agreed to continue the case, pend
ing sentence, when it was an
nounced that Stethopulos was clos
ing the bakery until it could meet
approval OF authorities under the
Pure Food and Drug Act.
Justice Keech today said he was
not imposing a Jail sentence because
of Stethopulos action in closing
the bakery. The bakery has now
passed satisfactory inspection, the
court was informed by Bernard
Margolius, Stethopulos' attorney,
and is ready to reopen.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
SfaIin Now Uses Clutches, !,
BraziI's Ex-Envoy Says
BY the Assoeioted Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. Mario
Pimentel Brandao. Ambassador to
Moscow for 18 months before Brazil
broke relations with Russia recently,
said yesterday that Prime Minister
Stain is suffering from paralysis Of
his right side, and walks with
crutches.
He said the Prime Minister was
gravely i'll and that Foreign Minister
Molotov undoubtedly would be his
successor. Mr.. Brandao, who has
Just returned from Moscow. said Mr..
Stain used crutches in a recent
visit to Lenin's tomb and had to be
helped up the steps by two persons.
e. The noted Swedish cancer spe-
cialist, DR.. Ellis Berven, said in Mos
COW yesterday that he had been
summoned by the Russians for con-
sultation on a cancer case, but did
not know who the patient was to be.
His assistant in Stockholm said the
summons was urgent" Swedish
have speculated that
Mr.. Stain is the patient.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
.DeweyBIames Truman
For High Living Costs
lnLegislativeMessag
By fhs Assoeiotsd Press


d. ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 7.-Gov.
Dewey today blamed President Tru-
man for the "exorbitant" cost of
living and submitted to the New
York Legislature program to check
imitation in the State, high lighted
by a pledge of no new taxes.
Dollar devaluation, the increase
in debt and other policies Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt fn.the 1905 also con-
tributed Ito the perilous situation in
which our country finds ITSELF" Gov.
Dewey asserted in his annual mes
sage to the Hist session OF the
Legislature.
such situation as we have to-
day In the Nation" the Governor
insisted, could have come about
only as the cumulative result of a
history of errors over many years. u
=. =. Would Continue Rent Control.
,.g."Clearly," Gov. Dewey said, 1.-The
Eituation cries out for the most care
ful outstanding of our resources" In
the face Of soaring costs and the
need to maintain essential State
services.
He also proposed continuation OF
the States standby rent control law
/ and the commercial rent law for one
year.
Gov. Dewey, an undeclared candi-
date for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, ,.said "the danger OF
runaway price imitation resulting
from wartime pressures, was clear at
the end of hostilities."
However, instead of controls be-
ing maintained until peacetime pro-
duction could get started" he said
''the entire structure of wartime in
fiation control was undermined by
executive order on October 80, 1945
relaxing wage controls"
Says Control Was Wrecked.
This fatal action" he continued
together with bad enforcement gen.
orally, destroyed the effectiveness OF
price controls by the summer OF
1916. Thus was launched the
age-price profit spiral which soon
wrecked the last vestiges of imitation
control and broght about the present
exorbitant scale of living costs"
I'm greater production lies the
direct answer to the shortages Of
the things that are at the seat Of
national and world imitation" the
Governor told the Republican-con-
trolled Legislature.
To help combat imitation, Gov
Dewey said, here are some of the
things the State government has
done and proposes to do in the
coming year: f.
Il. We have kept expense down to
the limit possible without impairine
essential services to our people. "
90. We have restrained expendi-
lures wherever possible on every
kind of public works, particularly
highways and parkways, because of
the high costs and the directly infla-
uonary effect of such governmental
expenditures.
"3. We have continued our policies
in every direction to increase the
productivity of our State and en-
terprise within 1t.
Evening star., 1948-01-07

that represent the most efncient
utilization Of grain. (No action0
6. Enable the Agriculture Depart
ment to expand its program Of
encouraging conservation practices
in this country, and to authorize
measures designed to increase the
production of foods in foreign
countries. tGranted.)
Z. Authorize ALLEGATION and inven-
tory control of scarce commodities
which basically affect the cost of
living or industrial production.
Power to allocate grain to distillers
only restored until January 31.)
8. Extend and strengthen rent
control. mo action.)
8. Authorize consumer rationing
on products in short supply which
basically affect the cost of living.
mo action)
10. Authorize price ceilings on
products in short supply which
basically affect the cost OF living or
industrial production and to author
ize such wage ceilings as are es-
sential to maintain the necessary
price ceilings. mo action.)
Full Tax Revision Suggested.
Outlining then his tax plan to
aid the hard-pressed low-income
group, the President said that when
the present danger of imitation has
passed we should consider tax re-
duction on a revision of our entire
tax structure"
Mr.. Truman reviewed briefly in
this connection the Governments
financial situation, but gave no
inkling of what the forthcoming
budget will call for, although rumor
generally has put the 1949 figure
at from $4,000, 900 900 to so, ,000,-
O0o, 900.
He said that Federal expendi-
lures have been and must con-
tinue to be held at the lowest safe
llevels," with the 1916 figure in ex-
cess Of $e3 900 ,00O, 900 cut to less
than $4,000, ,O00. 900 currently. Fed
eral civilian employment has been
nearly halved, from 3,375 900 to
2, ,000, 900.
In other phases of the message,
the President called for continued
price support for agriculture, but
said that the present program
must be re-examined and mod
ernized"
On the question Of industrial re-
lations, he took dig at the Taft
Hartley Act, which was passed over
his veto law in June, and said moth
ing has occurred since to change
my opinion Of this law"
Mr.. Truman made no recon-
mendations for easing the provision
of this legislation which has been
fought consistently by labor, but
promised honest enforcement.
With seeming reference to the
new round of wage increase demands
on which labor is embarking, the
President bespoke restraint and
wisdom" in reaching new agree
| ments.
"1t is my sincere hope that the
representatives Of labor and indus
try will bear in mind that the Ma
ton as q whole has Z vital stake In
the success of their bargaining
efforts" he said.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Eisenhower to Fly to Norfolk

NORFOLK, Va, Jan 7 P1.-Gen.
Eisenhower will fly to Norfolk Fri
day to address the students and
faculty of the Armed Forces Stan
College. After the lecture, he VIII
attend a luncheon and fly back TO
Washington.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Tax Proposals Compared

taxes under they
mittee:
st column income after allowable
for other taxes charitable contributions ebut
Evening star., 1948-01-07

of reductions the Knutson bill
that community
divide the family equally
inc
Evening star., 1948-01-07

FOLLOWING Is the tert OF Presi-
dent Truman's message to Con-
gress on the state OF the Union:
Evening star., 1948-01-07


efforts to develop new supplies and
to acquire stockpiles of scarce ma
terials
Land Protection Needed.
We need to protect and restore
our land-public and private
through combating erosion and
rebuilding the fertility of the soil.
We must expand our reclamation
program to bring millions of acres
of arid land into production, and to
improve water supplies for addi-
tional millions Of acres. This will
provide new opportunities for vet
Grams and others, particularly in
the West, and aid in providing a ris-
ing living standard for. growing
population
We must protect and restore our
forests by sustained-yield forestry
and by planting new trees in areas
now slashed and barren.
We must continue to erect multi
ple-purpose dams on our great riv-
ers-not only to reclaim land, but
also to prevent floods, to extend our
inland waterways and to provide
hydroelectric power. This public
power must not be monopolized for
private gain. Only through we'll
established policies of transmitting
power directly to its market and
thus encouraging widespread use at
low rates can the Federal Govern
ment assure the people Of their full
share of its benefits. Additional
power-public and private-is need
ed to raise the ceilings now imposed
by power shortages on industrial
and agricultural development.
We should achieve the wise use Of
resources through the integrated
development Of our great river
basins. We can learn much from
our Tennessee Valley experience.
We should no longer delay in ap-
plying the lessons of that vast un-
dertaking to our other great rvsr
basins.
Our fourth goal Is to lift the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25

whether / had ever seen him. Is hi
here today. I hoped he woult
be. ."
Let me add one further example
Of now the procedures followed have
caused confusion and delay. In youl
secret sessions you asked me house
keeping and minor details of years
ago that few If any busy men could
possibly retain in their memories
with accuracy. I told you, and one
of your own members acknowledged
that you or I should consult the rec
ordS. I warned you that I had not
checked them and that I doubted
If I could be helpful under those
circumstances.
am having a check made of the
records, and will furnish the results
to you.
One personal word. Ny action in
being kind to Crosley years ago was
one of humaneness, with results
which surely some members of the
committee have experienced. You
do favor for a man, he comes fol-
another. he gets a third favor from
you. When you finally realize he is
an inveterate repeater, you get rio
of him. If your loss is only a loss
of time and money, you are lucky
You may find yourself illuminated
in a degree depending ON whether
the man is unbalanced or worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25

years in Government .service-the
men best able to testify concerning
the loyalty with which performed
the duties assigned me. All are per-
sons of unimpeacfiable character, in
a position to know my work from
day to day and hour to hour through
many years. Ask them If they ever
found in me anything except the
highest adherence to duty and
honor.
Then the committee can Judge
and the public can Judge, whether
to believe a self -discredited accuser
whose names and aliases are as
numerous and as casual as his &C
cusations.
The other side of this question Is
the reliability of the allegations be-
fore this committee, the undocu-
mented statements of the man who
now calls himself Whitaker Cham.
bers.
Is he a man OF consistent relia-
bility, truthfulness and honor:
Clearly not. He admits it, and the
committee knows it. Indeed, is he
man of sanity?
Getting the facts about Whit
taker Chambers, If that is his name
Will not be easy. My own counsel
have made inquiries in the past few
days and have learned that his
career Is not, like those Of normal
men, an open book. His operations
have been furtive and concealed
Why? What does he have to hide?
I am glad to help get the facts.
Reports Earlier Suggestions.
At this point I should like to re-
peat suggestions made by me at pre-
ceding hearings with respect to the
most effective method of getting
facts SO far as I can supply them
The suggestions I made beginning
with the very first time I appeared
before your committee were not
then accepted, and the result has
only been confusion and delay. Let
me illustrate by recalling to your
minds what I said when you asked
me to identify the accuser, not by
producing him under your subpoena
power, but by producing only q
newspaper photograph taken many
years after the time when, by his
own statements, had last seen him
I said to you on the occasion on my
first appearance:
Il would much rather see the in
dividual. would not want to
take oath that have never seen
that man. I would like to see him
and I would be better able to tell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25

Yugoslavia because Of the latino.
sphere Of savage terror" there.
Being patriots and honest Com.
munists, we are requesting the
Soviet government to give us pro-
lection" said the statement, re-
leased today.
Alihodzic arrived in Teheran In
1S45, saying that he was "Tfto's in
innate friend"
Press reports said that when Pre-
mier Marshal Tito was scored by
the Communist Information Bureau
in June, Alihodzic cabled Prime
Minister Stain thanking him for
the Cominform statement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Mother Held Mentally III;
.baby-SIayinq Case Dropped

An indictment charging Mrs. Olivia
r. Ordona with second-degree muir
der in the meat cleaver Staying of
her year-old daughter on March S
1916, was dismissed yesterday in
District Court on the ground the
mother is of unsound mind.
The United States Attorneys Office
said Mrs. Ordona, %. formerly of
4 Anchor Green S.W, was examined
at the time of her indictment by
seven psychiatrists, all of whom con-
sidered her to have been mentally
incompetent when the child was
slain.
The findings have been confirmed
by observation since her commit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25

ment to st. Elizabeths Hospital, afte,
a jury found her Of unsound mind
in July, 1916, according to a report
Of the staff, Assistant United States
Attorney John P. Burke said.
Justice Richmond B. Keecf1 dis
missed the indictment.
At the time of the Staying, Mrs
Ordona was quoted as saying she
struck the child, Frances, In the
neck three times with meat cleaver
over bathtub. because of the baby's
prolonged crying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
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YugosIav Envoy in Iran
Seeks Refuge in Soviet
By the Associated Press

TEHERAN, Iran. Aug. 25.-Yugo-
slav Minister Aim Alihodzic, who
left Iran three days ago. left a state
ment saying he and other members
of his legation could not return to
Evening star., 1948-05-19
Beginning Of U. 5. Theafe'
Seen With BeIasco Lease

If the American National Theater
and Academy in New York Is sue
cessful in bidding for a lease on the
Belasco Theater, it will mean the
beginning of national theater for
the United States, according to Miss
Mary French, a director Of the aca-
DENY.
Miss French addressed the Ex-
change Club at a luncheon meeting
in the Willard Hotel yesterday. She
told of the work of the academy,
which was chartered by Congress in
1885. The academy would run the
theater on a non-segregation policy.
Miss Frances Starr, another speak
er at the luncheon, recalled that, as
young actress, her plays opened
at the Belasco before going to New
York. She said also that the aca-
denny faces stiff competition for the
Belasco from the moving picture in
dustry.
]. G. Frain, executive secretary OF
the Washington Art Center Assocl-
alton, Inc, which is cooperating
with the academy, said it has been
reported the only bid made so far
calls for a payment of $25, 900 year,
with the lessee rehabilitating the
theater. The building now houses
personnel and files of the Treasury
Department. Mr.. Frain said the
academy could match that bid.
Evening star., 1948-05-19
Salvation Army Open!
Own Drive for Funds,
First in Is Years

For the first time in Is. years, the
Salvation Army here today launched
a campaign for funds separate from
those it receives from the Com
munity Chest.
Inadequacy of the army's funds
for much needed expansion and
renovation of "out -moded" facilities
here moved the agency to an appeal
for $350000 in voluntary contribu-
tions from District residents.
The drive was given sendon at
an informal luncheon yesterday IN
the Hamilton Hotel, at which agency
workers and outstanding District
business and civic leaders heard
Eric Johnston, president of the Mo-
ton Picture Producers Association,
declare the army "is the modern
Good Samaritan"
Often Fed When Youth.
Mr.. Johnston, who is honorary
chairman of the campaign, said his
affection for the Salvation Army
goes back to his youth, when as a
stevedore on West Coast docks he
was "often fed those delicious dough-
nuts and unequaled coffee" it pro-
vides to the needy.
In it's 62 years Of activity, MIR.
Johnston declared, the Salvation
Army never has failed to heed the
call of the aged, homeless, desolate
and disconsolate for help"
Throughout the Nation last year,
"in a relatively lush period of en-
ployment," he pointed out, the
agency prepared 100000 beds and
80, 100000 meals for homeless per-
sons.
The arnys program OF soup,
soap and salvation" is worthy one,
Mr.. Johnston declared, and should
be supported by generous contrlou-
tions to it's expansion.
Others Speak at Luncheon.
Other speakers at the luncheon
were Josh Lee, member OF the
Civil Aeronautics Board, and Frank
A. Birgfeld. general chairman OF
the campaign.
Col. w. w. Bouterse, division
commander of the Salvation Army
here, who was POSTMASTER, told the
gathering Washington contributors
would not be buying Just bricks
and mortar" for new buildings.
They'll be buying more OF the
work we do down there around
Ninth and E streets (N.W) on
Saturday nights" he asserted. Col.
Bourterse referred to the Armys
downtown gospel meetings on week
end nights.
Needed Items Listed.
The agency is seeking $3.50, 900
for the following items, among
others:
Homeless and Friendless" Wom-
en- and Children Emergency Home,
622 Fifth street NV, $4,000;
renovation and refurnishing OF
Evangeline Residence. 1880 L street
NV, $4,000; establishment OF
downtown alcoholic rehabilitation
clinic, $4,000; camp facilities for
underprivileged children at Patux-
ent. Md, and Triangle, Va, $50 900,
and remodeling Of its Northeast
Youth Center, 715 I street NE,
$25,O00.
The first report luncheon OF the
campaign will be held at 12:15 pm.
Tuesday in the Hamilton Hotel.
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The union times., 1948-05-01
Faculty Groups
 Seek Probe On Teacher Firing

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-(FP) Two faculty groups at the University of Louisville are demanding an investiga- ton of the firing of Dr. George Parker as a professor at Evansville College for his activities in behalf of Henry A. Wallace.
 They are the U. of L. Federation of Teachers (AFL) and the local chapter of the American Assn. of University Professors. Both have asked their national offices to take action.
 Parker was dismissed after he pre- sided at rally in Evansville, Ind, at which Wallace spoke April 9. The meeting saw an attack on three Wal lace aides by a mob of demonstrators who tried to break up the rally.
 ULFT Pres. Morris Bein said the issue has nothing to do with Park er's political beliefs. ''We want to know if his rights have been vio- lated,'' he declared.
 Dr. George Muench, local AAUP president, said: Tt is our belief that teachers must not be dismissed for ex- pressing their beliefs as private citi- zens." The Cardinal, U. of L. student publication, asserted editoria1ly: "The question at hand is whether there will continue to be freedom of thought in American education"