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Evening star., 1948-09-14
Junior Board Favors
D. {. Sales Levy With
Income Tax Repeal

Members of the Washington Junior
Board of Commerce have indicated
in poll that ma ajority would favor
"a District sales tax provided the
present income tax law is repealed
for those making under $4,000 a year
However, the members voted
against a sales tax If the income
tax law is not changed.
On the question of sales tax plus
the income tax. the vote was 752 per
cent against. 1875 for, SIS undecided
and 8 not answering the question.
On the question of the sales tax
if the income tax is altered. the
vote was 55.5 per cent for, 4l.2
against and 3.3 undecided. The af-
flrmatives in this case include the
1875 who favor the tax regardless
of the income levy.
The poll showed that the favor
able vote on the first question was
as follows from the members who
live in the District or outside: Dis
trict residents. 1873 for; Maryland
residents. 279 for, and Virginia resi-
dents, 1913 for.
On the second question the favor
able vote was District residents.
579: Maryland residents, 58.8, and
Virginia residents, 405. About half
those polled live in the District.
The poll also showed that the
great bulk of the Maryland and
Virginia residents do their shopping
in the District and thus would be
affected by the sales tax. For the
entire group, the poll showed 92.5
per cent of the members purchases
are made in the District.
The returns were made public at
board meeting last night at the
Burlington Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
FIemming Advocates
Closer Cooperation
With Federal Unions
N q s,etf cerr..pend.nt Of n. s,a,

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 14-Former
Civil Service Commissioner Arthur
s. F1emming today called for closer
co-operation between Federal ad-
ministrators and Government en-
ploye' unions in working out person.
mel problems.
Addressing the biennial conVen-
ton of the National Federation of
Federal Employees, Mr.. Fleming
charged that
Far too few administrators go
out of their way to ask the repre-
sentatives OF employees to consult
with them prior to the institution
of policy of direct interest to en-
ployes."
Leads to Trouble, He Says.
This failure to cooperate leads
to all kinds of trouble that might ne
avoided" the speaker declared.
Mr.. Flemming, Who recently left
the commission to become president
of Ohio Wesleyan University and
who is still serving the Government
as consultant, declared Govern
ment employe groups could get even
more benefits from Congress If
agency officials co-operated with
them by giving them the necessary
Facts to justify their requests.
Not only Government employees
but the country as a whole would
benefit by closer labor management
policy in the Federal service, the
convention was told.
Urges Action At Once.
In my judgment, the time has
come to establish machinery which
will assure consultation between ad-
ministrators and representatives OF
the employees" Mr.. Flemming de-
clared. IF it is done, 1t means that
the Government will move forward
much more rapidly toward the goal
of becoming one of the most pro-
gressive employers in the country.
That, in turn, means that the
Government will be able to attract
and to hold first-rate men and
women. And that, in tuln. means
that this Nation and the nations OF
the world will be receiving the max
imum service from the Government.
That goal must be reached, not in
the next generation, but in our
generation"
Evening star., 1948-09-14
President Tells
OF Stains Query
.AboutPopoIArmy
nv the A,.oeintsd Press

President Truman last night told
one of the secrets" Of his Big Three
meeting at Potsdam with General
issimo Stain and former Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
The President told the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science:
Il remember at Potsdam We got
to discussing a matter in Eastern
Poland, and it was remarked by the
Prime Minister of Great Britain
that the Pope would not be happy
over that arrangement of that
Catholic end of Poland
And the generalissimo, the Prime
Minister of Russia, leaned on the
table and he pulled his mustache
like that tgesturing and looked
over at Mr.. Churchill and said:
Mr.. Churchill, Mr.. Prime Min
ister, how many divisions did you
saw the Pope had?'"
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Girl, g. Killed
| As Boy, 6, Fires
Gun From Auto
By the Associoted Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. IA
s-year-old girl was killed last night
by a shotgun blast innocently fired
by a 6-year-old boy, Homicide Of
ficer Carl Bunch reported.
Mr.. Bunch said Alice King,
daughter of Mrs. Stella King, was
shot when Polkie Mitchell, sitting
in a parked motor car with several
other children, showed the gun
through window and pulled the
trigger.
The officer said Alice was standing
near the car watching friend ride
her scooter
The boys mother, Mrs. Pat
Mitchell, and her brother law.
City Fireman A. e. Rollins, were
returning from a hunting trip and
had stopped at grocery store when
the shooting occurred, Mr.. Bunch
said. The adults had gone into the
store and left Polkie and his COM
panions in the car, he added.
The death was ruled accidental,
the officer said, and no charges
would be made.
Evening star., 1948-09-14

even they concede they don't appear
to have the votes to win their point.
y +
LOYALTY-Mr. Steward declared
today the Government present
loyalty program has some serious
that should be corrected
at once.
The NFFE chief, who has always
the need for Government
loyalty Investigations. agreed with
the views OF Chairman Rees of the
House Civil Service Committee and
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
that changes should be
made in the program.
Mr.. Steward said the main weak
less is the leeway given the various
Federal departments ard agencies
to whitewash employees, If they wish
Under the present loyalty program
agencies and departments may cleal
employees without referring the
matter to the Federal Loyalty Re.
view Board The review boarc
hears cases only If employees have
been found to be dislogal by then
agencies and are appealing from
that decision.
The NFFE president said hi
favors passage OF the HoLse-passec
Rees Bill, which died with the ao.
journment Of the past Congress
when the Senate failed to take
action on 1t. Outside of a few
amendments that Mr.. Steward SAID
he has in mind, he declared the
present Rees bill would take care OF
the situation. The Rees measure
would set up an independent five-
man Federal loyalty board, which
would make final decisions in all
loyalty cases, rather thar leaving
them up to the individual depart
lnents and agencies.
Mr.. Steward pointed out that
NFFE members have nothing to feal
from the loyalty program-that not
a single NFFE membe: has been
affected thus far.
CLOSER CO-OPERATION-The
program today reflected the
unions policy of closer cooperation
with Federal personnel and admin
lstrative officials.
Scheduled to address the conven-
ton later today are Gordon E.
Clark, Air Force Departments di-
rector of personnel; Rear Admiral
Paul B. Nibecker, chief of the
Navy Department once of In
dustrial Relations; George H.
Schoeneman, commissioner of in
ternal revenue; Marvin Ottlie, head
of the Navy Department. employees
relations branch: A. Heath Onthank
Army Departments director of ci-
william personnel, and A. Eliot Kap-
Ian, executive director Of the Ma
tional Civil Service League.
II -
Membership-The NFFE reports
a continued upward swing in It's
Evening star., 1948-09-14
New Radio Time
Starting this Sunday. Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast over WMAL, The Star
station, will be heard at a new
time-l1.15 am.

They also declare that the lifting
of the present $lo,330 annual Fed
eral pay ceiling to permit a new
high of $4,000 would allow pay in
creases "all along the line to Gov
ernment workers in the next few
years"
The increases would be gradual,
but in the long run they would add
up to more than any fiat cost-of-
living increases that are being ad-
vocated now, it is contended.
1t seems certain that Mr.. Stew
ards views on the pay question will
be. upheld by the convention and
that the NFFE officially will in
dorse revision of the Federal CLASH
dcation Act.
Cost-of living pay raise advocates
plan to make a lively issue of the
pay question and discuss 1t at
length on the convention floor. But
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Albert I. De Forest Dies;
Former Steel Firm Head
By the Assoeiotsd Press

LAKEPORT, Calf, Sept. IA. Il
Albert Tracy De Forest, IS. OF MEMO
Park died at the Lakeside Hospital
here yesterday after four day
illness.
He was president of Columbia
Steel Co. for many years, retiring a
few years ago.
He had attended the recent Bo-
hemian Grove encampment OF the
Bohemian Club in Sonoms County,
and then had come here.
Mr.. De Forest was born June 4,
1868, in Cleveland and was the son
of Louis Germaine De Forest, q
Civil War officer.
His business career began with the
American Steel and Wire Co. in
Cleveland and, in 1904 he was trans
ferred to San Francisco. In 1905, he
moved to Palo Alto.
He then went with the United
States Steel Products companies and
later was instrumental in negotiat-
tns the purchase of Columbia Steel
becomingAits president.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Death Of $4,000 Germans
In Red Camps Reported
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

BERLIN, Sept. l4.-A German
physician claimed today that 10000
Germans have died Of mistreatment
In Soviet operated concentration
camps in the Russian occupation
zone since the war.
The physician, DR. Karl Vermeu-
len, described himself as former
camp inmate. His report was pub
lished in the American-licenSed
newspaper Tagesspiegel.
DR.. Vermeulen claimed that a cap
tain OF the Soviet secret police had
told him: You Germans are STU
Did. You stand your enemies up
against a wall and shoot them or
you gas them.
we do it another way. We let
them die slowly. That is better.
Reports of high death tolls in Rus
sian zone camps have frequently
been published here. None has yet
drawn a public denial from the Rus
SLAMS
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Argentine Bank Chief
Leaves for u. S. Visit
By the Associated Press


~BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 14.-Or-
lando Maroglio, president of the
Argentine Central Bank, left by
plane for the United States yester-
day to attempt to arrange settle
ment of Argentinas growing ex-
change problems.
Mr.. Maroglio will arrive in Miami
today and proceed to New Or
leans before visiting Washington
and New York. In New York he is
expected to consult with leading
banks which hold an estimated
SITE, 100000 worth of unpaid Argen-
tine letters of credit. He probably
will consult Washington officials
about the prospect of obtaining dol
lars through Marshall Plan sales.
He also is expected to see James
Bruce, United States Ambassador to
Argentina. who now Is back home
trying to promote Argentina prod
ucts for the European Recovery
Program
Evening star., 1948-09-14

classification act is badly in need
of overhauling and that Congress
realizes it, Therefore, they are sup
porting a resolution that will call
for a complete revision of the act
next year by Congress.
Revision of the act would mean
about an average 500 year pay
boost for Federal workers. which is
far short Of the amount advocates
of a fiat cost-of-living pay boost
are aiming for.
NFFE officers confide, however,
that there is little hope Of getting
Congress to grant Federal employees
another round of fiat pay boosts
next year. Therefore, they contend,
it will be far wiser for Government
employees to work for the badly
needed classification act revision
Evening star., 1948-09-14

4t4 ! z oAAlSCi Si
headed by NFFE
President Luthe
c. Steward.
Mr.. Stewart
and Gertrude Nd.
McNally, t h e
unions ecr E.
tary-treas u r e +,
feel the only way
to go about it is
to obtain a COM
plete revision OF
t h e F e d e r a j
c la S S | hcatSn
Pay Act.
Th ev believe
the 25-year-old
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Composer Fronz Lehor
Is Slightly Improved
By the A.seeiotsd Pres.

VIENNA, Sept. l4.-Composer
Franz Lehar was given another
blood TRANSMISSION today. Doctors
reported his condition was slight
ly improved"
Lehar has been Ill at his home in
Bad Ischl for several months. Doc
tors recently said his condition was
"yery critical"
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Death Toll Reaches l27
In Floods in Jopon
By the Associoted Press

TOKYO. Sept. l4.-The death toll
from Sundays fash food on Kyushu
Island has mounted to 127, Tokyo
dispatches from Sasebo reported
today. Another 100 were reported
missing and Sc injured.
The flood followed more than IS
inches of rain in Nagasaki and Sago
prefectures.
Damage was most extensive to
coal mines, rice fields, roads and
railway bridges A total of 297
homes were washed away and more
than 10000 were flooded.
Evening star., 1948-09-14

membership. which is now said %
be around the 100000 mark.
Union officials have mapped am.
bilious organizing plans to add
thousands Of new members to- its
rolls during the next few, years.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
D'AIessundro Sees Pope

CASTEL GANDOLFO;, Italy, Sept.
Il (P.-Pope Plus XII received to-
day In private audiences the Mayor
Of. Baltimore. Thomas D'Alessandro,
and Bishop John Mark Cannon OF
Erie, Pa.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
The Fede.o! sp0tliah. ii o.
Action on Wage Question Stirs
Clash at NFFE Convention
By Joseph Young
Star Stoff CORRESPONDENT

MILWAUKEE, Sept 14-A sharp difference of opinion has
developed at the biennial convention of the National Federation
Federal Employees the kind action the union should
take the question of Government salaries
resolution have by locals calling
Evening star., 1948-09-14

for Congress next year to pass leg
islation giving Federal workers an
other fiat cost-of Living pay boost
to keep pace with spiraling prices.
But such action is opposed by
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Mostly sun
ny this afternoon with highest tenn
perature in low Dos. Fair and cooler
tonight with lowest near So,
Wind velocity, l3 miles per hour;
direction, north northwest.
District Medical Society ragweeo
pollen count for "a hours ending
8 am. September l4-38 grains pei
cubic yard of air. y
Five-Day Weather FOrecast-Sep-
tember Is Through September l9.
Maryland and Northern Virginia
Temperatures will average near or
slightly above normal Normal max
lmum about 78; normal minimum
about So for the Washington area
Somewhat cooler Wednesday and
Thursday, followed by slightly
warmer. Showers about Saturday,
with total amount about Il inch.
River Report.
CFrom United States Engineers.i
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
ana cloudy at Great Falls: Shenandoah
clear al Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1948-09-14

H1Eh ana Low TOT HesttruNy.
High, 90. at 3.5S pm.
Low. 81. at 646 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90, on August -.
Lowest, 5, on January 26.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1948-10-09
AdmiroI BoIqer Shifted

Rear Admiral Joseph F. Bolger
is being detached from the office of
the Chief of Naval Operations and
will be assigned to the staff of Ad-
miral Richard L. Conolly, COM
mander-in-chief of Eastern Atlantic
and Mediterranean Naval Forces,
the Navy announced today. Ad-
miral Bolger will be chief Of the
joint planning staff under Admiral
Conolly.
Evening star., 1948-10-09

lean Bosch Co. shares. He said Mar
Gus Wallenberg came to New York
in 1910, made arrangements to
place the stock in a voting trustee,
arranged for the appointment of a
trustee and also arranged with the
senior member of Sullivan & Crom-
well for the appointment of a Sue
cessor trustee if necessary.
Then, Mr.. Burling said. Mr.. Wal
lenberg went to Stuttgart, Germany
to confer with Robert Bosch and
finally returned to Sweden.
Hugh H. Obear of the Washington
law firm of Douglas, Obear & Camp
bell. counsel for the Swedish inter-
ests, contended in the filing of the
written answers might obviate the
necessity Of taking depositions.
Howard T. Milman Of Sullivan &
Cromwell said the taking of depo-
sitions at some suitable time, il
necessary, would not be opposed.
Evening star., 1948-10-09
Deposition Arguments
In Bosch Stock Sale
To Be Resumed Nov. 9

Arguments over the right of the
Government to take depositions of
two bankers in Sweden in connec-
ton with suit over the ownership
of controlling stock in the American
Bosch Co., are to be resumed in Dis
trict Court on November 8.
The stock, with accumulated divi-
dends, was sold recently for about
So, ,000,00 1t was seized by the
Alien Property Custodian in 1912 as
being enemy-owned. The Stock
holms Enskilda Bank and two Swed-
ish corporations filed suit claiming
the stock and seeking to recover the
money realized in the sale to Amer
ican interests by Attorney General
Clark.
Arguments over the dispositions Of
Evening star., 1948-10-09

the two bankers were begun yester-
day before Judge David A. Pine. As
John L. Burling, Justice Department
attorney, began to uphold his right
to take the dispositions Judge Pine
expressed irritation at the size of
the files in the case.
II have no sympathy with tre-
mendous files and briefs on prac-
tical questions Of simple procedure" +"
he said.
1t was brought out that the Gov
ernment submitted questions calling
for written answers from the two
bankers, Marcus Wallenberg, man
aging director of the Swedish bank,
and Jacob Wallenberg, vice chair
man of the board of directors.
These questions, it developed,
were taken to Sweden by Inzer Wy
att of the New York law firm of
Sullivan & Crowell. 1t was said he
would be back with the answers on
October 81.
Mr.. Burling contended in court
that the two Wallenbergs dealt with
Robert Bosch of Germany to hide
the German ownership of the Amer
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08
RETURN FROM TALL
TINIBERS

Audie Phipps and John Bill
Chase, managers of Clintwood
Farm Supply, returned Wednes-
day. afternoon from a vacation
trip through the North Woods of
Michigan, Eastern Canada, New
York and Buchanan County. They
spent a week fishing along Thun
der Bay River in Michigan and
then toured through Canada and
New York, after visiting Aubrey
Phipps in Detroit, The boys re-
port that the streams of the North
Woods are filled with pike and
bass and that the big fish often
gave them quite a fight.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08
LONZA LOCALS

Several people of this commun-
ity attended church at Mt. Pleas
ant Sunday, with dinner on the
ground. A good meeting was re-
ported by all present.
Visitors at the home of Eivens
Musick during the Fourth were,
Dewey Akers and family of Ken
lucky, Marvin Mullins and FAM
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will MCGOWAN
and Ferd MCGOWAN and family
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Goode of Hopewell.
Ann Mullins spent Sunday mite
with Mabel Cochran.
Weekend visitors at the home
of S. p. Cochran were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Sluss and children, Mrs.
Emma Sluss and daughter of
Beauty, KY, Juanita Adkins, Mr..
and Mrs. Estus Musick and chill
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

In the Clerks Office of the Cir
cult Court of the County of
Dickinson, on the oath day of
June, 1913.
Stanford Newberry, Complainant
Vadney Newberry, Defendant
The object of this suit is to OBJ
tain for the complainant from
the defendant divorce on the
grounds of desertion and adult
terry.
And affidavit having been
made and filed that the defend
ant, Vadna Newberry, is not resi-
dent of the state of Virginia, it is
ordered that she do appear here
within 10 days after due publ
cation hereof, and do what may
be necessary to protect her inter-
est in this suit. And it is further
ordered that copy hereof, be
published once a week for four
successive weeks in the Dicken-
son Herald and that copy be
posted at the front door of h
court house of this county on or
before the 1st July rules, 1948.
A opy-Teste:
Lee Stanley, Deputy Clerk
j. c. Smith, p. q. (Pd. 7-3-48)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08
Freezing Items

Regular Trade Day was OBJ
served by jockeys far and near
up in the mountain last Saturday.
Attendance was reported to be
normal and behavior fairly good.
Traffic was heavy along Pound
River on the Fourth of July.
There were a good many picniclz
ing parties, and many other peo-
pie sought the shade and breezes
of the river.
At long last, electric power is
on the way to this section. A
party of surveyors mapped out
the line last week. Two freehold.
ers who had been bucking for d
year or SO signed up, and every
body is happy that we shall soon
have this best of modern conven-
fences.
Camel Mullins and family,
along with some friends and rel
atives, camped out at the Rum
Hole last weekend.
Lester Mullins and Lester Ken
drick took their families on a
camping trip over the weekend
to the Breaks On Saturday night
their sleep was much disturbed
by wild animals that prowled
around their resting place. They
report that hundreds of people
were visiting in the Flatwoods on
Sunday, with cars from Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Car
DINA and one from Texas.
Sgt. Adams Haynes, now sta
toned at Fl. Meade, Md, is Wis
iting friends and relatives in this
section.
Adam Kendrick has gone to
Oak Ridge, Tenn, where he hopes
to find job.
Charley Hill and Dewey Stan
ley are remodeling the home of
Woodrow Hill on Pine Creek.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08

Ever since January, Will Dudley
planned to give his living room
that ''new lOok"-planned to care
fully refinish the woodwork and
replaster the walls.
Every time Will got out the
putty to start filing in the cracks,
a neighbor stopped by to pass the
time of day - and first thing you
knew, there was a group of US help
ing Will do the job up right. After
Will called a halt to the evenings
work, we'd sit around the fire en-
joying a friendly argument and a
sparkling glass of mellow beer.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08
Army Recruiter Has
Extra Good Day
Tuesday

Sgt. Jesse Dye reports that II
boys have signed with him for
the UNITED States Army during
the past two weeks. The biggest
day was Tuesday of this week
when nine enlisted. The latest
recruits have been sent to Bristol
for examination. The list follows:
+ Jay NJ. Yates, Willard, engin-
GERS, 3 years.
Herbert Hall, Mcclure, engin-
GERS, 3 years.
Gerald Fleming, Clintwood, 8
years, engineers.
Willard Martin, Wakenva, ar
mored force, 3 years.
Jimmy Stanley, Rt. 2, regular
army, 2 years.
Edward Hughes, Fremont, Eu-
rope, 3 years.
Ernest Pickett, McRoberts, KY.
Europe, 3 years.
James G.. Waddell, Clintwood,
armored force, years.
Robert B. Baker, ClintWood, 3
years.
George Krivensy, Steinman, 3
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08

dren, J. w. Davis and Hurley
Cochran and family.
Tom Yates, who has been sta
toned in New York, and been
given a discharge and is back
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burl Musick have
returned home after spending last
week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Estus Musick.
Fern Cochran spent Sunday
night with her brother, Hurley,
and family.
Fern, Mabel and Melville Coch
ran and Geraldine and Glenn
Sluss attended the show at Haysi
Friday night. Also the carnival
at Clintwood Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Sluss and
children of Warfield, KY, Mrs.
Emma Sluss and daughter, Oma,
of Beauty, KY, Mr.. and Mrs S.
P. Cochran and daughters, Fern
and Mabel, visited at the homes
of j. D. Vanover of Skeetrock and
A. B. Vanover of Isom, and were
seeing other relatives and friends
Saturday.
Pfc. Bud Price has returned to
camp after a weekend at home.
Layton Musick visited Merville
Cochran Saturday.
Helen Pickett of Haysi visited
Fern Rose Sunday.
Beatrice, Carolina and Clifford
Cochran of Grundy visited Anna
Lee Viers Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Newberry
visited their daughter, Mrs. Cliff
ford Delaney, Monday.
Hobart Amburgey of Nora was
in town on business Wednesday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-07-08

years.
James G. Pickett, Rt. l, para
troopers, 3 years.
Bobby Dingus, Jenkins, 2 years.
Billy Griffin, Jenkins, years.
Darrell Brown, Jenkins, yrs.