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Evening star., 1948-01-07
|WeddeIIs BequeaIh
Total Of S1,756, ,Rl;;
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RICHMOND, Va. Jan. T.-Thl
Wills Of fcrner Ambassador ant
Mrs. Alexander w. Weddeu leavinf
estates totalint S1.756,452.1S Ant
identical with the exception Of I
single clause, were admitted to pro.
bate today In Richmond Chancery
Court.
A $4,000 trust fund was desis.
mated for Miss Violet Andrews, Mrs
Weddell's English maid, who diet
with the Weddells In . New Year,
Day train wreck In Missouri, ant
1.-The fund will revert to the Virgins
Historical Society, OF which Mr.
Weddell was president.
The wills, dated last June 2S
listed Mrs. Weddell1 personal prop.
erty at 3o18. .0o0.34 and the formel
Ambassadors at $So2, ,12l.S2. Rea
estate -including several lots oppo.
site their palatial Virginia hous,
here and Z house at Hot Springs
listed at tl8, las In each will.
Virginia House Already Decided.
Virginia House, brought over from
England and rebuilt in 1926, is no
included In the estate since 1t wa.
decided to the Virginia Historical
Society number Of years ago.
The one clause In the will ol
Mr.. Weddell which differs from thai
Of his wife is the bequest of the sea.
ring of the Sultan of Makallat
(Which was given to me by his
great gradson) which I hereby give
and bequeath to my godson, Freder-
lex Goodwin Ribble."
A $25, 900 trust is provided in each
will for sister-in-law. Mrs. w. g.
Weddell Of Richmond. Three nieces
Penelope Mcbride, Mary Anderson
Ribble and Margaret Ward Ander-
son were awarded sal, 900 each in
each will with the Bath Country
real estate also going to Mrs. Ribble
G. w. u. to Share.
Ten thousand dollars each will &c
to George Washington University
and the College Of william and
Mary, Hampden-sydney, the Uni
versity Of Richmond and the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Trustees Of Weddell Memorial
Episcopal Church and the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts were left
10000 each In each will. Smaller
bequests went to servants At Vir.
ginia House and q number Of other
individuals. All tapestries and other
art objects and furnishings Of vir-
ginia House went to the Virginia
Historical Society.
/ Executors are the First and Mer-
chants National Bank of Rich
mond, r. T. Marsh Of Richmond
and the new president Of the his
torical society when he is elected.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Congress in Brief
By the Assoeiotad Press

BY me Assoe,ofsd Press
Senate and House hold routine
separate meetings at noon prior to
joint session in House chamber at
1870 pm. to hear President Tru-
mans annual State Of the Union
message.
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee considers House-passed bill
giving legal status to State Depart
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If the witnesses were found the
employe would have the right to
confront and cross-examine them
If no witnesses and no sources Of
evidence could be found. and the
department decided the FBI's case
didn't give the employe an ade-
quate chance to defend himself, the
employe would be cleared auto
matically.
Mr.. Davidson said the program
would work two ways. First, he said,
it would protect innocent employees
who might not be able to defend
themselves successfully as long as
the sources of information against
them were shielded by the FBI.
Then, too, Mr. Davidson said in
his proposal to the administration,
the plan would result in disloyal en-
ployes always being proved guilty
and removed from the Government.
Under the present procedure, he
argued, many agency review boards
will hesitate to find some employees
disloyal because the workers will not
have had the chance to confront
their accusers. But If the employees
were confronted with the evidence
against them and couldn't disprove
it. they could not contend they were
innocent victims of any witch
hunt" Mr.. Davidson declared.
The plan was presented to the ad-
ministration with the full knowledge
Of Interior Secretary Krug. AS yet,
the White House and the Justice
Department have not indicated their
attitude toward the proposal.
\ +
OUCH!-At Agriculture Secretary
Andersons press conference the
other day when he released the
names of those Government en-
ployes who speculated in commodi-
ties, one of the reporters cracked:
Into each life some grain must
fall"
PAY BILL-There isn't much
doubt that the Senate Civil Service
Subcommittee which begins hear
ings on Federal pay raise legislation
a week from tomorrow will recon-
mend a $1,000 salary raise for all
Government employees.
That's because the subcommittee
is composed of Chairman Langer,
Senator Chavez, Democrat. Of New
Mexico, and Senator Flanders, Re-
publican, Of Vermont.
Senators LANCER and Chavez are
co-sponsors of the $1,000 measure
and are certain to vote for their own
bill, thereby carrying a majority in
the subcommittee no matter what
Senator Flanders does. And it
seems likely that Senator Flanders
will go along for liberal pay boost.
It's in the full committee, how
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ever. that the $1,000 bill will run
into trouble. There Is definite COM
mittee opposition to that much Of
a pay raise, and the bills sponsors
may well have to compromise for a
$500 or $500 measure II the bill is to
have q chance In the Senate.
X "
CAPITAL ROUNDUP -. Reports
have it that President Truman Is
about to offer the craftsmanship of
the Civil Aeronautics Board to for
mer Democratic Senator James
Mead Of New York. The post was
held by James M. Lands, who was
not reappointed by the White House.
The CIO United Public Workers
of America is angling for CIO finan-
cial support for its affiliated United
Cafeteria Workers who are out on
strike In Government cafeterias
here. UPWA, incidentally, holds its
semiannual executive council meet
ing next week in New York City
!. The LANCER Chavez-Stevenson
civil service retirement bill now
seems assured of Senate passage.
The Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee has chosen the measure as
one of the three major bills that
will be acted on during this month.
The House has already approved the
measure and Senate passage will
probably come during the latter
part Of the month.
COLORFUL STORY-When Maj.
Gen. Carl r. Gray, the new Veter-
ans Administrator, held his press
conference the other day, reporter
asked him If any veterans would
be Disseminated against In benefit
payments because of race, religion
or color.
mot while I'm in charge" Gen.
Gray declared heatedly.
We'll treat all veterans alike
I don't care If they're white or
dark, short or tall, fat or skinny,
green, yellow or pink" he said en-
phatioaly.
did you say 'pink'7" asked a
reporter, who evidently had the
Governments loyalty program in
mind.
Il guess I went too far at that,
grinned Gen. Gray, very success
full businessman. Then he laughed,
ITS a good thing I didn't use my
favorite color to illustrate my point.
It's red"
CRACKDOWN-The Civil Service
Commission is getting tough with
those displaced career employees who,
it says, are declining jobs offered
them.
From now on, says the commits
sion, the employees either will take
the jobs offered them or be dropped
from the program that Is aimed at
finding them positions. OF course
the employees still have the right
to decline jobs for which they are
not qualified or jobs which pay sal
aries less than the wages that @the'
workers previously have indicated
would be acceptable to them.
The commission says Federal
agencies report that some employees
have rejected jobs paying as much
or more money than the workers
previously received in Government.
In some cases the reason for the
employees rejection has been the
location Of the job. a..
But the commission says that en-
ployes must take jobs anywhere in
the Washington Metropolitan area
the District, Prince Georges,
Montgomery or Arlington Counties
or Alexandria.
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would be used
by other agen-
cies.
Mr.. Davidson
proposes t h a t
the Interior De-
partnent's own
investiga t / v e
staff be given
p e r m | S sion to
60 out and find
t h e evidence
a n d witnesses
against the en-
ployes that the
FBI refuses to
disclose for Sc
oxSr,%x, ~n4eo~~
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Severe Bronchitis Attack
Strikes Josephus Daniels
By ths Assoeio,sd Press

RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. 7.-Jo-
sephus Daniels, s5-year-old pub
fisher, former Secretary Of the
Navy and one-time Ambassador to
Mexico, was reported seriously i'll
with bronchitis at his home here
today.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
Weather Report

District of Columbia and vicinity
Sunny with highest about 40 this
afternoon, clear with lowest about
rs tonight, except around 20 in the
suburbs, Mostly cloudy and con-
tinued cold tomorrow. Northwest
winds, 20 to 80 miles per hour, this
afternoon, diminishing tonight.
Maryland and Virginia - Mostly
clear and somewhat colder tonight.
Considerable cloudiness with not
much change in temperature to-
morrow
Wind velocity, 20 miles per hour;
direction, west-northwest.
Road Report.
(From the American Automobile Associate }
Roads in Maryland and Virginia
clear. roads icy and slippery in the
mountains. Of West Virginia.
River Report.
afrom q. S. Engtneers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1948-01-07
The Federal Spotlight
Accused Could Quiz Accuser
In Proposed Loyalty Procedure
'is'I~r.4,.asss
By Joseph YOUNG

plan whereby accused employees in the loyalty investigation
would have the right to the full nature OF the
charges against them and the right confront and
their has presented the administration
Government official.
He Assistant Secretary of Interior Gard Davidson who
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asked that the procedure be used
in the Interior Department. If the
plan should win White House ap-
proval, however, 1t undoubtedly