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Evening star., 1948-07-25
Average Factory Pay
Reaches New Peak
OF S52.S1 Weekly
Nv the Asxoejossd Press

The average weekly earnings
of some 100000 factory work
ers reached a new high of $52.81
on June Is, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported yesterday.
Third round wage increases in
several major industries helped push
production wages to a new peak.
Prices were moving along too. The
Government statistical agency re-
ported the shattering of all records
in its cost of living index and in
wholesale prices.
The advances in wholesale prices
already recorded by the bureau
made further increases in retail
price levels almost inevitable unless
consumer resistance proves an Off
setting factor.
Index Reaches 171.7Ts.
The cost of living index-now more
accurately called the consumers
price index-hit l71.7 per cent of the
1858 average on June Is. The
July figure won't be known until late
August. 81.
The new average weekly earnings
for all factory workers reflected a
wage increase for General Motors
workers-but not of the soft and
hard coal miners, steel workers or
Ford Motor Co. employees. They
came after June Is.
The new peak. only slightly above
the re-Christmas high OF $3.50,
rejects the effect of wage rate ad-
vances within The durable goods
division and a lengthening of the
work week following improved coal
supplies and the termination of re-
cent work stoppages," the bureau
said.
Average Increase S1.O5 a Week.
The $52.81 earnings figure on June
Is for all manufacturing compares
with $51.76 on May Is. The average
weekly hours rose from 389 to 40.
Average hourly earnings rose from
$l30l in May to $l.319 in June.
In the durable goods lines both
the earnings and the work week
were higher than the all-factories
average. The weekly earnings aver
aged $56.l4, compared with $54.65
in May The work week was
stretched from 401 hours to 40.4
Average hourly earnings went from
$l365 to $l39.
Nom durable goods employees were
considerably below that level. Aver
age weekly earnings were $49.29 for
work week of 397 hours. Hourly
earnings averaged 1922.
The non-durable goods earnings
was not an all-time record because
the work week was slightly under
the 1947 year-end high of AIT hours
Evening star., 1948-07-25
GIN Raises Prices 8%:
Last Auto Company 10
Make 1948 Increase
BY the Associetei Press

DETROIT, July "a. General
Motors Corp, last of the big
a'!to firms to hold out against a
h g.ler l948 price level, gave in
today and tagged passenger cars
with an 8 per cent increase.
The increase becomes effective
Monday on Cadillacs, Bucks, Olds-
mobiles, Pontiacs and Chevrolets.
While the rest of the industry
raised first wages and then prices
or vice versa-GM insisted it would
try to hold the price line.
Even after it granted 225, 900 CIO
production workers a sliding II
cent-an-hour wage increase this
spring, GIN spoke of trying to keep
car prices the same.
Truck Prices Unchanged.
But President c. E. Wilson ad-
mltted Saturday that the company
had failed. He blamed rising wages
and material costs" He did not
mention the recent rise in steel
prices. but presumably this was a
factor.
There will be no changes in truck
pres at present, Mr.. Wilson added
1t was GINS third general price
increase since the war, but the
first in nearly a year.
The new list of prices brought
Chevrolet virtually even with its
chief competitor in the low-price
field-the Ford Motor Co.
The lowest priced Chevrolet now
bears a list tag Of SLIGO, only three
dollars below the lowest priced model
in the new. 1949 Ford line.
Plymouth Price Also Up.
List prices do not include taxes
ard delivery charges.
Ford raised list prices by S85 to $l25
a model in introducing the new Ford
in June. Chevrolet, which has not
made as drastic a model change
since before the war, raised prices
today by $50 to S115.
Chrysler Corp. also raised prices
recently, putting its low-prited Ply
mouth above either of the other two.
When OPA was lifted, General
Motors pegged all passenger car
prices up by s100 a model on Novem-
Der IL, 1916. In January l947, Chev-
rolet and Pontiac prices alone were
increased. Last August /, all models
went up again by to per cent,
We have made every effort to
maintain prices" Mr.. Wilson said in
announcing the latest increase.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
proper supervision in youth are only

proper supervision In youth are only
a few
Both Daniels and West were
affected with syphilis. And a syphi-
lized mind often leads to an altera-
tion of personality, affecting the
brain tissues as that disease does.
Men with such minds are prone
to eXaggerate some things. Un-
doubtedly they were hostile to soci-
ETY.. and in the killing of the Neibel
family they probably heaped all their
concentrated hate on them. as one
grand gesture of contempt for soci-
ety."
West Mentally Deficient.
Mr.. Glattke said the two killers
were not closely connected at the re-
formatory, but probably met fire.
quently while undergoing treatment
for syphilis in the institutions hos
pital.
Mr. Glattke described West as
mentally deficient, with the intelli-
gence of a moron, and Daniels as of
normal intelligence. but with a psy-
chopathic personality and with no
realization of the consequence OF his
actions.
Col. Mingle, whose entire high
way patrol made part of the huge
moose looped over Northern Ohio
yesterday which led to the capture
of the killers, saw little similarity
between the crime careers of the
pair and Dillinser.
"Dillinger and his gang were more
mature Col. Mingle said, and crime
to Dillinger was a business" Not
too good business, for he had only
s7.80 in his pocket when he was
shot to death by the FBI, July o.
1884, in front of Chicago theater
where he had been lured by
woman in red.J
Pair Didn't Plan.
West and Daniels were Just
couple of punks with a grudee who
went gun crazy" Col Mingle con-
tinued. Where Dillinger and his
gang planned every move they
made. West and Daniels never
planned thing. Even the Niebel
killings weren't planned the way
they turned out.
The two Tim (Seneca County
murders were examples of their
ruthlessness. Both were so unneces-
sary. Dillinger and his gang did
their killings as part of planned
robberies. or in shooting it out with
police. They didn't kill people for
no reason at ALL"
fThe Dillinger gang was credited
with IS killings IN its years of
marauding through the Middle West
but four of them, including Dill
finger, surrendered Without firing
a shot January 25, 1894. when cor
nered by officers at Tucson, Ariz.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
DR.. W. H. 0rsinger Named
To Medical Staff al Lorton

Dr. William H. Orsinger has been
appointed a member of the medical
staff of the District Reformatory
and Workhouse. Donald Clemmer
announced yesterday.
DR.. Orsinger received his medical
degree from George Washington
University Medical School and
served his internship at Providence
Hospital here, leaving July l to take
up the post at the penal institutions
of, the District at Lorton. Va. ''
e He is the son of Fred @. Orsinger,
director OF the aquarium at the
Commerce Deartment until his re-
tirement about a year ago. DR..
Orsinger is married and has two
children. Michael, two-and-a- half,
and Barbara. one. He will make his
home on the reservation at Lorton.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

consider some OF Joseph Young.
the bills that are not too costly. In
this category belongs the measure
to increase per diem travel allow
ance of Federal employees from $6
to So a day.
Definitely out as far as this spec
ial session is concerned is the bill
to increase compensation benefits
to injured Federal workers and legis-
lation to revise the Federal pay
structure.
CLOSED SHOP-The seventh an
nual love feast conducted by the
Civil Service Commission on the
Governments efficiency rating sys-
tenn will be held IN the Interior De-
partment auditorium Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Conducted by John Overholt, the
commissions efficiency rating chief,
the conference studiously avoids
getting any expressions of opinion
from rank file employees on how
to improve the efficiency rating
system.
Instead, participation is restricted
almost solely to various personnel
officers in the Government who
year after year utter the same plati-
tudes about the need of improving
the rating system. But not too much
ever happens and the conference
always ends on a note of back
slapping and mutual admiration.
This year the conference has
invited George M. Moore, the very
able counsel Of the House Civil
Service Committee, to speak. That's
a step in the right direction, but
rank -and-file employees as we'll as
Headers Of the various Government
workers unions are still being
Snubbed.
All this raises the suspicion that
the Governments efficiency rating
officials are afraid to hear the
criticisms and suggestions that
rank -and-file workers have to make
AS long as the conference persists
in this attitude. 1t can never hope
to make its annual meetings any
thing more than a gesture, rather
than constructive way to improve
the Governments system OF rating
it's employees. -. '"~,.'4f
MEETING-Th special advisory
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Chain Reduces Steak
Below 81 Here, but
Only Temporarily

Steaks dropped below 81 q pound
in the stores Of one leading chain
here yesterday but the dip Is not
expected to last.
A spokesman said new prices will
be set tomorrow, but declared he did
not know what they would be.
This chain cut porterhouse and T.
bone prices from sl10 to SO cents
a pound and sirloin and round steak
from $l,05 to % cents for the day.
Another chain operating in WASH
ington and elsewhere in the Nation
cut prices in New York about 10
cents q pound on o wide variety of
beef, pork and lamb cuts. It's prices
were not cut in Washington stores,
however.
One store spokesman said the price
cuts were due to the competitive
situation" in New York and were
not justified by the small decline in
wholesale prices. He predicted prices
Will again rise.
A second drop in prices was an
nounced in New York by the Grand
Union Co. chain for Monday. The
cuts will be as much as IA cents a
pound. the concern said, on top of
earlier cuts Saturday of from three
to six cents.
Last weeks Chicago hog prices
were up rs to so cents a hundred
weight. due largely to the smallest
weekend receipts in the stockyards
since March. Pork prices were down
and the cattle market, with the ex-
ception of some prime beef-cattle,
also slumped bit. The general av-
erage price for steers was $35.77 a
hundredweight compared with the
al.time high average of s36.s7 the
previous week.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Southwestern VIRGINIA
Catches Oil Fever
From Lee County
aY the Associated Press

WYTHEVILLE, Va, July "a LP).-
The success. and prosperity of the
Lee County oil fields has touched
of an epidemic of oil fever in this
section of Southwest Virginia.
Oil rights to thousands of acres of
land in Wythe, Pulaski, Giles,
Smyth. Montgomery and Tazewell
Counties have been leased by
people who hope this area may
have an oil future as bright as that
in Lee.
Encouraging reports from geolo-
gists and other qualified observers
indicate that the gamble may pay
of. Oil already has been struck
on some Of these lands.
Drilling Activities Listed.
Recent months have brought
these development in oil activity in
this general area.
A drilling firm working for the
California Oil Co. began drilling
last month on a Giles County lease
about four miles from Pearisburg
along state route 100.
California OH also is drilling at a
site in Burke's Garden, Tazewell
County, and repeatedly has taken
extensive leases in Montgomery
County.
The Ohio Oil Co. has leased rights
to some potential oil lands in Giles
County and still another firm is ex-
pected to record leases in Giles in
the near future.
I. Groskins of Tulsa, Okla, a vet
eran independent oil operator. re-
ports he has taken approximately
10000 acres of leases in Pulaski
County, $4,000 acres in Wythe, and
1000 acres in Smyth.
Good Flow Struck Already.
A good flow of oil already has been
struck on one Of Groskins' leases in
Wythe County. It. is on the Andrew
Newberry farm near Max Meadows.
The Cypress Drilling Co. began drill
ing there last September and is
now down about $500 feet.
The field which made Southwest
Virginia oil conscious was first tap
ped in Lee County several years
ago, but extensive development of
it did not begin until early last
year.
Some $1,000 barrels of high grade
crude were shipped from Lee County
in l947 and more is expected this
year.
Sources connected with the oil
industry say there are now 28 pro-
ducing wells in the field, with from
Is to 20 new ones being drilled.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

council to the Senate Civil Service
Committee, which is composed Of
Federal officials, Government union
leaders and veterans representa-
tives. will meet next month to map
its program for the coming year.
There's q strong sentiment on
the part Of some members to begin
a study Of absenteeism In the Gov
eminent. Others want to take up
study Of needed Classification Act
changes or a perusal of the Govern
ment's annual leave system.
Another possibility is q study Of
the validity of the present examina-
tions that the Civil Service Commits
sion is giving for various Federal
jobs. Members advocating this
study contend there is plenty OF
room for improvement in the tests
given for Government positions.
y.
CENSUS-Ten Census Bureau
employees have been given cash
awards for submitting economy
saving ideas to the agency.
Those receiving the awards were ::
Katherine M. Carroll, Jack M. Sey-
mour. Betty Barrett, William H.
Bennett. Mrs. Bertha l.. Circey,
William c. Feery, Mrs. Edda Dale
Kinney, Bella Sanders. Gartha Fay
Thornhill and Joseph w. Wheeler.
SHAKEUP-Although organiza-
tional changes and top-level person.
mel shakeups are due in nearly all
Federal agencies If the Republicans
win in November. Republican
leaders list the following agencies
as ones where there will be more
than the ordinary changes:
Federal Security Agency, Federal
Communications ComisSion, the
Security and Exchange Commission,
the National Labor Relations Board
and the Federal Trade Commission.
X
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-There's
considerable speculation that former
Senator Robert LaFollete of Wis
consin might become Secretary of
Labor If Gov. Dewey is elected. Sem
ator LaFollette commands consider
able respect and support among
and labor leaders in general
Government employees who are
inducted under the new draft law
will receive the same veterans pref
erence and job-retention rights that
veterans of the first and second
World wars now have The
special police lodge of the AFL
Federation Of Government
which left the AFGE in
a huff several years ago when 1t
failed to elect one of its members to
one of the unions vice presidencies,
is returning to the AFGE fold. In
cidentally, the AFGE nominates its
three vice presidents from this area
at 8 o'clock Tuesday night in the
Archives Auditorium.
(Be sure to listen today at 3:15
pm. over WMAL, The Star sta-
tion, for Joseph Youngs broad
cast persion OF the Federal Spot
light, featuring additional ne,Us
OF Government affairs and per-
sonalittes.)
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Woman Robbed
OfFore for Flight
To Sick Mother
BY the Assoeiofed Press

CHICAGO. July 24.-Three young
purse snatchers today robbed
woman Of $625 and perhaps her last
chance to see her 86-year-old
mother, Ill in Germany.
She had just obtained the money
by mortgaging her home.
Mrs. Anna Rapp, 81, said her
purse was taken while she was
changing streetcars. She had just
left bank after getting the money.
As she stood on the curb. she
said, two youths jumped from a car
and wrenched her purse from her
hand. She said one of the youths
was armed with q pistol and threat
ened her.
Mrs. Rapp, wife of a janitor at
Northwestern University, said she
had planned to buy a plane ticket
for Paris with the money. Now
she will have to cancel the trip.
She would have left next Wednes.
day. s5
The motheHMrs. Caroline Grassle,
lives in Herenalb, Baden province,
in the French occupation zo,e.
Mrs. Rapp last saw her In 1926,
when she left Germany to come to
the United States. {
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Second Section Of Roofing
On Underpass Is Poured

The second Of eight sections Of
reinforced concrete roofing over the
vehicular tunnel in the Dupont
Circle underpass was poured yester-
day.
j. J. Hartke, District Highway
Department resident engineer on
the project, said yesterday the S4,-
100000 job may be completed by
January. 1850, two months ahead
of schedule.
About 200 men now are working
on the project, and it is hoped that
with overtime scheduled for the
week end and next week, the third
section of the roofing can be poured
next Friday.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Truck Drivers Start
Collection for Family
OF Killers Victim
ey the Associated Press

AKRON. Ohio, July "a
Truck drivers using this layover
point Of the Midwest Trans
fer Co. today started a collec-
ton for the widow and four
children of Orville Taylor, 27,
Of Niles, Mich.
He drove an automobile haul
away and was one of the six
victims Of the 14-day killing
spree of Robert "Murli' DAN
lels and John c. West.
Frank Coleman, business
agent of Local "a of the AFL
Freight Drivers Union and
treasurer of the fund. urged
truck drivers all over the coun-
try to contribute.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Wounded Gu Student
Slightly Improved

A slight improvement was re-
ported by Gallinger Hospital phySi-
clans last night in the condition of
George H. Bostock. 81, Catholic
University student who was critical
ly wounded Friday night in a fight
in the 1900 block of Monroe street
NE.
The Carlisle (Pa.) youth was shot
in the chest with a bullet from a
80 caliber gun. according to police
Charged with assault with a dam
gerous weapon is Joseph w. Cotter
II, So. of 1915 Monroe street NE,
printer for The Star. He was held
on $4,000 bond in a Municipal Court
hearing yesterday.
Also held in the Municipal Court
hearing was his son. Joseph w. Cot
ter III, "a. He is charged with as
sault and was held on $500 bond.
Police said the two Cotters, to-
sether with the wounded youth and
his brother, William F. Bostock. 10.
were involved in the fight. The Bos-
tocks live at 1921 Monroe street.
Events leading up to the shooting
still were not clear last night but
Twelfth precinct police said they
considered the alteration closed
case.
Vaccination Urged in Indio
Vaccination on a city.wide scale
has been recommended in Calcutta,
Evening star., 1948-07-25

Wnetner the DIS.
trict sales tax
measure or an
other revenue
raising plan can
be enacted so
that the pay
boosts can be
absorbed.
OF course,
there is q
chance that the
Republican lead
ership might
change its mind
somewhere along
the way and
-
Evening star., 1948-07-25
The Federal Spotlight
Special Session Not Expected
To Act on u. S. EmpIoye Bills
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young

Don't expect Congress anything way Federal
employees legislation during the special session. Latest
Capitol Hill is that Republican leaders don't intend up
any Government workers that would involve add
tional outlay of money.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

The only bill with a fair chance
Of passage is the one to give Dis
trict Government employees the $3.50
pay boost that Federal workers re-
ceived. And this hinges mainly on
Evening star., 1948-07-25

Poles PIon Bus Troins'
Poland has ordered 100000 worth
of bus chassis to operate as road
trains" drawing trailer buses.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Anti-Vivisection Meetino

50 50 The Af1tfs yiYtse soeigty. of
Washington will hold an. open
meeting at pm. tomorrow in the
Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Vaccination Urged in Indio

Vaccination on city-wide scale
has been recommended in Calcutta,
India. to combat smallpox epidemic
Evening star., 1948-07-25

(Be sure to listen today at 3::15
pm. over WMAL, The Star sta
tion, TOR Joseph Youno's broad
cast Dersion OF the Federal Spot
light. featuring additional ne1Ds
OF Government affairs and per-
sondLttes.D
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Drive Nets $725,000
TO Construct New
Adas Israel Temple

The Adas Israel Congregation has
raised about $725, 900 in q $1,250 900
building fund drive for q new con-
gregation temple at Connecticut
avenue and Porter street NV, off,
cials reported last night.
Fred 8. Kogod, finance committee
chairman for the campaign, said 1t
was hoped that construction could
start on the temple by next April.
Plans for the building, drawn by
Frank Grad & Sons, Of Washing
ton and Newark, call for a temple
to seat about 1900, q social audi
torium with q capacity Of TOO, a
chapel with q capacity for 800 wor-
shippers, q religious school with Is
classroomS and q recreation area
that would accommodate $50 chill
dren.
Air Conditioning Planned.
The auditorium, which Mr.. Kogod
said will be used for civic as we'll
as religious gatherings, will be
equipped with stage facilities, q
projection booth, air conditioning
and a kitchen.
Mr.. Kogod said the congregation
has completely grown out" Of the
present temple at Sixth and I streets
INV. The new property on Con-
|necticut avenue was bought about
three years ago.
The Finance Committee will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the Jewish
Community Center to discuss fur
ther plans for the drive.
Report Made At Dinner.
A campaign report was made by
officials at the congregations 80th
anniversary dinner last Tuesday
at the Mayfower Hotel. A model
Of the proposed temple was on
display.
Joseph A. Wilmer, president of the
congregation, reviewed its history
from the founding in 1869, when
meetings were held in members
homes. He recalled dedication OF
the congregations first synagogue,
at Sixth and G streets NV, in 1876.
and described ceremonies attended
by President Grant and other Gov
eminent and civic leaders.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Berlin
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ring our CITY," said Liberal Demo-
crat Carl Schwennicke.
Speakers Rage ut Blockade.
THE Soviets are pressing us with
all means short of war;" cried Ernst
Reuter-, Social Democrat favorite for
Mayor. They want to press us to
our knees but they will never
achieve It,"
The speakers ragged at the Soviet
blockade which has left the popula-
ton dependent on the Western air
lift for every bite Of food.
The election is being held under
the Berlin constitution approved by
the four occupying powers in 1916
Nevertheless the Communists re-
fused to risk another outright de-
feat and banned it as illegal in East
Berlin.
There they have set up rump
Communist government chosen by
show Of hands at O mass meeting
called on "a hours notice in the So
Wet sector. The regularly elected
city government has been driven
into the Western two-thirds of the
city.
The Russians have recognized the
rump government as the only legal