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Evening star., 1948-03-19
Kidnapped Farm Girl
SAYS She Was Without
Food for -Four Days
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

CONCORD, VT, Mar. 19-The al.
legged kidnaper of farmers daugh.
ter is, was captured with her :
miles from her village home today
Police said notes demanding fooe
led them to the pair.
The girl was reported 20. X
by State Police Commissioner Mer.
ritt Edison. Sheriff John H. Will.
son said Kenneth A. ingalls,. "a
and pretty Charlotte O'Brien told
him:
I'VE didn't eat in four DAYS and
we had only melted snow for drink
ing"
Police charge ingalls,, an ex-con.
vict and lumberjack, was '.infatu-
ated" with the high school girl
and seized her at gunpoint from
her parents Sunday night. He fired
two blasts from a shotgun after
threatening her parents, police said
ingalls, was taken to county jail
at Guildhall and faced charges of
kidnapping, and assault with a
dangerous weapon.
The girls father. Charles O'Brien.
found the notes In a fuse box in
his barn last night, State trooper
reported.
The trooper said Mr.. o'Brien
checked the fuse box when the
lights went out In their home and
found two notes demanding food
and giving directions where to leave
it.
One note was signed by ingalls,
and the other by the girl, the
trooper said.
Sheriff Wilson and Trooper Mer-
ril Landon followed the notes in
structions and found the pair Just
after they left an abandoned build
ing in this wintry countryside.
"They were very cold and very
hungry" the sheriff reported.
ingalls, was unarmed and gave
no resistance, Sheriff Wilson said.
Her father appeared emotionally
upset when reached by telephone at
the farmhouse where the girl was
taken after being found about 2:3o
a m.
MIR. O'Brien said he cannot give
out any information.
Evening star., 1948-03-19
Shot Fired on Second Floor
Kills Woman Downstairs
BY the Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Mar. ls.-
Police said a bullet accidentally
fired last night from a pistol in an
upstairs room went through the
floor and killed woman sitting in
a chair downstairs in the living
room.
Mrs. Mary I. Andrews, IS, wife Of
James E. Andrews. an orchestra
leader, was the victim of the freak
accident, Detective Thomas j. See
said.
Her father -in-law. 73-year-old
James W. Andrews. told police he
was showing .38-caliber pistol to
his son when 1t discharged. The
elder Andrews was released after
questioning.
Evening star., 1948-03-19

every SO persons on the Federal pay
roll. This compared to a ratio Of
to 139 in 1910.
And continuing its unfavorable
comparison, the committee noted
that the to SO ratio compares to
a ratio of ! to 226 found to be the
average in private industry.
The increase in personnel en-
ployes Of from 6,721 in 1910 to the
present total of 24,288, plus a series
Of promotions and pay raises which
found some Of these employees hav-
ing their salaries increased by as
much as $1,000, has raised the sal
ary cost Of full-time personnel em-
ployes to $78,627 900.
This is a 492 per cent increase
over the $1,000, 900 spent for per-
sonnel work in 1910.
The committee listed the agencies
which have the highest ratio of
personnel employees: Air Force De-
partment, 1 to so; Federal Power
Commission, l to 81; National Ad-
visory Committee for Aeronautics, /
to SO; Navy Department. l to 81:
Civil Service Commission, / to Sc;
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion, l to Sc; Budget Bureau, to
81, and Army Department, to 81.
Specific recommendations on how
to cope with the problem will be
made by the committee in sub
sequent report. Committee Counsel
George M. Moore and Staff Investi-
gator Edward Mccormack aided
Chairman Rees and the committee
in preparing the comprehensive and
detailed initial report.
II X
PAY BATTLE-The postal en-
ployes are continuing their all-out
fight to have their pay raise legisla-
ton considered apart from other
Federal workers.
In fact, the various postal unions
are scheduling several Nationwide
broadcasts to put across their view.
And they are daily button-holing
members of the House and Senate
Civil Service Committees to approve
a postal pay bill.
Postal leaders say that, If they
win a pay raise, 1t will assure wage
boosts for other Government en-
ployes. But pay raise sponsors are
not so sure. In fact, some of them
say fatty that separating postal
from nonpostal employees might
hurt the chances of all concerned.
Among those who feel this way Is
Senator Flanders. Republican, OF
Vermont who, together with Senator
Baldwin, Republican, of Connecti-
cut, is sponsoring the omnibus pay
raise legislation now before the Sen
ate Civil Service Committee.
: Senator Flanders believes the
Evening star., 1948-03-19
|WhottheRussions
| Are Saying of Us

The Moscot0 radio, broddcdsting In
to Hungary, said:
BY its broadcasts, the Voice Of
America has within a compare
lively recent spell gained the
reputation Of an arch dissemi-
nator of international falsehoods.
It practices this fine art In the
languages Of the Eastern Euro
pean countries in particular.
Day after day the New York
RADIO heaps spate Of slander
on the countries Of popular de-
moeraey,s
Evening star., 1948-03-19
Congress in Brief

UCuHCC.
Republican leaders open drive to
pass $4,000, 100000 tax cut bill by
nightfall.
Republican Policy Committee dis
cusses legislative schedule.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders bill to provide s275, 600, 900
additional reek-Turkish military
aid.
House:
In recess until Monday.
Special committee resumes In
vestigation Of commodity specula-
ton.
Evening star., 1948-03-19
School Plans Outlined.
First Singapore Election Set

SINGAPORE, Mar. 10 R.-The
first election in the history of this
British crown colony will be held
tomorrow. Voters will select six
representatives to the colony's a.
member legislative council. Only
23 900 persons of Singapere's s0o,-
900 population registered to vote.
Evening star., 1948-03-19
New Features Promised
TeIevision Audiences Here

Announcement Of the settlement
between the radio networks and the
American Federation of Musicians
was received enthusiastically in
Washington television circles. Pro-
gram executives said set owners here
could look forward to seeing many
features not previously available to
television audiences, including per-
formances OF the Metropolitan
Opera Co., Broadway musical COM
edies and concerts by the Nations s
major symphony orchestras.
Station WNBW, the National
Broadcasting Co. outlet here, will
show Arturo Toscanini on the po-
dium at $50 pm. tomorrow when it
presents the first telecast of an NBC
Symphony Orchestra program.
Meanwhile, American Broadcast
ing Co. executives announced in
New York negotiations had been
opened looking toward television
pickups from the stage of the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Station WMAL-TV, television out
let of The Evening Star Broadcast
ing Co., will bring these perform
ances to Capital audiences when
the arrangements are completed.
Such network sound programs as
may be found adaptable to television
will be seen as well as heard in the
next few months, 1t was said.
Station WMAL-TV which has
access to the television shows of
the Columbia Broadcasting System,
will be able to present the series
Of stage presentations being pre-
pared by that network.
NBC will bring to Washington the
Fred Waring program, the Supper
Club and the Telephone Hour on
televisfon.
sstation wTTG, the DuMont out
let here, had not heard of any new
program plans from It's New York
Office today.
Evening star., 1948-03-19
Deodline Set March 81,
On Maryland Auto Toqs
BY the Assoeiossd Pssss

BALTIMORE, Mar. 1s.-Maryland
motorists have until March al Is
put on their 1859 license plates,
w. Lee Elgin, commissioner Of mo-
tor vehicles. said yesterday.
He said the main license tag Of
flee in Baltimore will be open next
Thursday and Friday and until noon
Saturday. r.se- sts go
Evening star., 1948-03-19

AltnOugh FED
eral employment
has increased lis
per cent since
1910, the number
of employees en-
gagged in full
time personnel
activities has in
creased by 261
per cent, the
committee re-
ported.
The commit
tees breakdown
showed one en-
ploye engaged in
Evening star., 1948-03-19
Education Unit to Meet

DR.. Karl H. Berns, assistant secre-
tary Of the National Education As
sociation, will speak at q special
meeting Of the Montgomery County
Education Association at 8 pm.
Tuesday In the Leland Junior High
School.
Evening star., 1948-03-19
st. Putrick's Dance Tonioht

The Mems Club Of st. Michael's
Church. Silver Spring. will hold q
st. Patrick's dance at 10 O'Clock to-
night at the Indian Spring Country
Club. John Pierre De Bald, general
announced each man who
ATTENDS must wear a green necktie. |
Evening star., 1948-03-19
Montgomery N, Heads II d
Pressed for Decision
On School Bond Issue
by John v. Horner

The Montgomery County commits
sioners today were being pressed for
an early decision on whether they
will authorize additional bonds Of
100000 to cover costs Of vast
school construction program.
At their second meeting this week,
the commissioners yesterday we're
requested to assure the Montgomery
Board OF Education that the bond
issue will be approved, so the school
authorities can proceed with plans
to relieve, crowded classrooms
throughout the county.
The commissioners made no COM
ment.
Persons close to the governing
body said the bond issue decision
was being withheld pending clari-
fcation of Montgomery County's
financial status. County authorities
have been seeking to strengthen the
governments credit rating since a
recent comment by Moody's In
vestors' Service.
Confer on t1SCal fonclcS.
In its widely circulated bond sur
vey, Moody's suggested that Mont
gomery should proceed cautiously
in future financing, in order not to
impair its current rating. With this
in view, the commissioners, other
county officials and some Mont
gomery bankers have been confer
ring on fiscal policies. They are
also conferring with representatives
of Prince Georges County anc
of the Washington Suburban San
itary Commission, whose bonds
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties must guarantee, ip addition
! to their individual county issues.
BY authority of the last session OF
the General Assembly. the Mont
gomery commissioners already have
approved the floating of $4,000 ,00C
! in school bonds. Under the samt
legislation they may add $3,00O,0O(
more.
The Board Of Education told thu
commissioners yesterday that Il
hoped for early reinsurance on this
latter financing.
| School Plans Outlined.
The School Board forwarded 9
copy of its revised construction
plans and in an accompanying letter
said:
I'm view of the present uncer'
tainty regarding the issuance of the
remaining s3,OOo,O0o of bonds, ths
Board of Education does not SCI
how it can proceed with the pro.
gram outlined in this report unit
the remaining 100000 of bonds
have been issued"
The report emphasized that Mont
gomery's school population is ex'
pected to increase by almost 5,00t
pupils next fall, and existing school!
are already Inadequate.
Evening star., 1948-03-19
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Committee Criticizes 1922
Rise in Personnel Work Cost
By Joseph Young

AN increase OF 4s2 cent since 190 in Government expnd
Tor employees engaged in personnel work disclosed today
by the House Civil Service Committee
Inc committee headed by Chairman Rees issued report
In ofhce acty e-- -1o~oNN
Evening star., 1948-03-19
Owen RESIGNS Postorute

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Mar. 10
(SpeciaD Julian T. Owen has re-
signed as pastor of the Falling
Waters and Spring Mills Presbyter-
Ian Churches in this county and
will assume duties as pastor of the
Springfield Presbyterian Church at
Sykesville, Md, March 80, he an
nounced today,
Evening star., 1948-03-19

additional ne,Ds OF Gopern.
ntent affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast persion of the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 pm. every Sunday
ION (WMAL, Ths Star stuttoHi
Evening star., 1948-03-19

omnibus pay raise legislation will
fare much better If 1t is not split up.
And that Is said to be the attitude
OF Chairman Rees of the House
Civil Service Committee in regard
to his own pay raise measure.
Chairman LANCER of the Senate
Civil Service Committee feels the
same way.
But these men cannot hold the
bills together If the members of
their committees are won over by
the postal employe groups. It
would be well for Government en-
ploye groups to get busy and use
whatever influence they have to pre-
vent the postal crowd from obtain
ing their objectives.
Incidentally, both the House and
Senate Civil Service Committees
Will meet next week to begin the
drafting of the various pay meas
ures before them. Both committees
Will report out pay legislation with
in the next few weeks.
RADIO, IT'S WONDERFUI-Last
Sunday night, Fred Allen devoted
part OF his program to doing a skit
which advocated a pay raise for
postal employees and called attention
to the present hearings on the legis-
lation before Congress.
But Mr.. Allen apparently didn't
dream that his program would be
cited officially by the House Civil
Service Committee to settle a point
in dispute In the hearing.
Mr.. Allen and his program be-
came involved when one of the
committee members remarked that
nearly 200 members Of Congress had
appeared before the group to advo-
cate Federal pay raises. Other COM
mittee members chimed In to say
they thought the number was closer
to 100.
Well" said Chairman Rees, Fred
Allen said that 80 members of Con-
gress testified for the BILL"
That seemed to satisfy the COM
mittee. The members went on to
their next order of business.
Il
CONFEREES APPOINTED-The
Senate has appointed It's conferees
on one Of the most important meas
ures affecting Government employees
the bill which would give all Fed
eral agencies the power to fire en-
ployes summarily.
The conferees are Chairman Lam
ger Of the Senate Civil Service
Committee, Senator O'Conor, Demo-
crat, of Maryland, and Senator
Thye, Republican, Of Minnesota.
House conferees have not yet been
chosen.
It's reported that the Senate con-
ferees are determined to strike the
firing provision from the bill, which
started out innocently enough as
measure to grant back pay to Gov
ernment employees unjustly fired
from their jobs. It was in this
form that 1t passed the Senate, but
the House then tackled the firing
proviso onto the measure.
Evening star., 1948-03-19

High and Low for YESTERDAY.
High, SO, at 3:12 pm.
Low. 35, at $50 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on February 2S.
Lowest, 8, on January 20.
Tide Tables.
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Evening star., 1948-03-19

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
csnital lcurrent month to datel:
Evening star., 1948-03-19

The Navy Department denied
that United States destroyers at
tempted to dock at Costa Rican
port last Monday. 1t was reported
earlier in San Jose that two United
States destroyers attempted to dock
at Punta Arenas, but withdrew
when a sfore-mounted anti-aircraft
gun was pointed at one of the ships.
Evening star., 1948-03-19

The Sun and Mosr
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Trade Board 10 Study
egregation Report

(Front Yesterdays Last Edition.)
The Executive Committee Of the
Washington Board of Trades
directors today authorized appoint
ment Of Q special committee Of d.
rectors to study the report of the
National Committee on segregation
in the Nations Capital.
The committee report, asserting
segregation in Washington Is q ''blot
on our Nation" was made public
December 10.
The special committee Of the
Board Of Trade will be named by
President Leon Chatelain, jr. It will
submit its findings to the directors.
The segregation report asserted
that Washington is run actually but
unof1cially by "the dominant real
estate, commercial and financial in
terests formally organized as the
Board Of Trade"
Directors Of the Washington Real
Estate Board likewise have au-
thorized appointment OF similar
committee by President Raymond M.
Taylor.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Police Go Into Action, but Theft
OfMuil Truck Is All q Mistake
From Yesterddr,s Last Edition.

(Front Yesterdays Last Edition.
The reported theft OF q truck with
10 sacks Of Christmas mail sent
police and postal oficials into action
this afternoon until it was learned
that 1t all was q mistake.
The driver Of the truck, q young
war veteran hired for the Christmas
rush, reported the truck had been
stolen. Police said he told them he
emerged from an apartment house
at 3701 Sixteenth street NV. after
delivering a package. only to see
the truck being driven away.
The driver. q 27-year-old grad
uate Of the Georgetown University
Foreign Service School last June,
lives at the Sixteenth street ad-
dress with his wife.
Lee Beall. . "spotter" employed by
the post ONCE to watch mailmen ct
their work. reported that he saw
the truck-apparently abandoned
in front Of the apartment. He said
he kept his eye on IL for half an
hour and, when no driver appeared,
drove the truck to the Amory.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Atomic Unit Clears Dr.. Graham
'AfterProbinq Red Associations

said, Is % nonprofit organization Of
Southern universities established to
assure broad regional participation
In the atomic energy educational
and training activities centered at
Oak Ridge" The report continued: !:
"The institute carries on its work
under q cost-reimbursenient con.
tract with the Atomic Energy Com
mission and much Of this work u
conducted on . wholly urclassihed
(nonsecret) basis.
However, the president and the
Board Of Directors Of the institute
require occasional access to certain
general information Of a classified
nature If they are to provide eifec.
tive leadership and guidance in the
development Of the institutes pro-
grams" y A
Evening star., 1948-12-21

The driver, however, told police he
had not been away from the truck
. hAlf-hour ana that he had not
been In his own apartment while
in the building.
He said he had started out from
the Armory this morning with the
truck which had been borrowed
from the Army for the Christmas
rush, and two helpers. He dropped
the helpers of at Fourteenth street
and Spring road NV. to eat and,
while they were at lunch, he drove
on to make the delivery In the build
ing in which he lives.
Notified Of the "theft," the police
radio cracked with the report and
cruisers were stationed at vantage
points to intercept the "robber."
Shortly afterward Mr.. Beall reached
the Armory and reported all was
well. The mail would 60 out again
this afternoon, 1t was said.
Meanwhile, post oflce officials
were looking into the matter and
police released the driver.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
(From Yesterdays Last Edttion.)
by the Asseeiatsd Press


BY the Asseeiatsd Press
The Atomic Energy Commission
has given security clearance" to DR..
Frank Porter Graham, president Of
the University Of North Carolina.
This gives him access to certain
restricted data" In the commits
sion's program.
The commission today made pub
lie a memorandum of decision" re-
garding Dr.. Graham. It said the
question Of his security clearance
arose because he also Is president OF
the Oak Ridge Institute Of Nuclear
Study.
The memorandum said that in
''his vigorous advocacy Of the prin-
ciples in which he believes" DR..
Graham "has been associated at
times with individuals or organiza-
tions Influenced by motives or views
of Communist derivation" It added:
1T does not appear that DR.. Gra-
ham ever associated with any such
individuals or organizations for i'm
proper purposes; on the contrary
the specific purposes for which he
had these associations were In keep
ing with American traditions and
principles. ."
The Oak Ridge Institute. the Acc
Evening star., 1948-12-21

and the natural sciences has been
named to advise the foundation on
use Of its funds.
They include Peter Odegard, Uni
versity Of California, for political
science; Thomas H. Carroll, Syra-
cuse University, business; Donald G.
Marquis, University Of Michigan,
and Francis T. Spaulding, New York
State Commissioner Of Education,
for social sciences and education; !;
Dr.. T. Duckett Jones, Harvard, med
icine, and Charles G. Lauritzen,
California Institute Of Technology,
natural sciences.
The late Edsel Ford created the
foundation In 1885. AS Of last No.
vember 80, the foundation owned
2,s03, ,9oS nonvoting shares-or s1.2
per cent-of the stock Of the Ford
Motor Co.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Stern Gang Head Denies
Role in Bernadohe kiIIinq
Dy the Assoeiotsd Press

ACRE, Israel, Dec. 2l.-Nathar
Friedman-Yellin, head Of the out
lswed Stern Gang, swore yesterday
that he had nothing to, do with
the assassination Of Count Folke
|Bernadotte.
II am here under oath, ! declare
that I never partook in any meeting
or any decision to murder Berna-
dotte," he told q military court
which Is trying him on charges OF
being q terrorist.
Neither the Stern Gang nor Fried
mah-Yellin were specifically accused
In this trial Of assassinating Berna-
dotte, who was shot down In Jerusa-
lem last September II. Bernadotte
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Ford Foundation Expands
To Serve Human Welfare
BY The Asseeiosed prsss

DEROIT, Dec. 2l.-The S20o, ,OO0,-
900 Ford Foundation Is setting out
to expand Its activities In serving
human welfare"
Henry Ford II, president Of the
Board Of Trustees, said the founda-
ton hopes to make significant con-
tributions" In problems confront
ing people everywhere"
while important efforts to solve
these problems are being made by
Government, industry, foundations
and other institutions. the needs
far transcend the present total e.
fort" Mr.. Ford said.
A committee Of prominent men
In medicine, education, social
science, business, political science
Evening star., 1948-12-21
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. C**'A--2l
Il,

was the United Nations mediator
in the Holy Land.
The Israeli government charged
the murder to the Fatherland Front,
identified as a splinter group Of
the Stern Gang.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
GIorio Swonson Resting
After Appendeetomy
By the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.-Gloria
Swanson, former film star and now
featured on a television program,
underwent an emergency appended
tony yesterday at Doctors Hospital.
Evening star., 1948-12-21

There are 1000 more full-time
nurses and midwives In British hos
pitfalls than q year ago.
Evening star., 1948-12-21

The hospital said she was resting
comfortably.
Miss Swanson appears weekly on
''The Gloria Swanson Hour" over
the New York News Station WpIX..
SNUFF users In Durham, South Af...
rica, have formed q "snifters' club 81
The echo., 1948-03-01
MAGEE

Lodge No. 1872 has lost one of it's
faithful members in the person of
Sister Lavarda Smith, the wife of
president w. r. Smith. She was
born September 2, 1885, and died
February II, 1913.
She joined the c. M. E. Church in
early life. She was Joined in holy
Wedlock to President w. r. Smith
January 10, 1901, and to this union
nine children were born, five boys
and four girls.
She joined the H. B. A. in 1926
Her survivors are 81 grand children,
seven children, a husband and other
relatives and friends.
Marie Smith, Reporter.