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Evening star., 1948-09-02
industrial Home School
Annex Being Renovated

Fifteen staff members and 30 boys
of the Industrial Home School to-
day began complete renovation Of
Dunbar Cottage, an annex of the
school located at 5000 Little Falls
road NV.
Gerard Shea. director of the
school, took personal charge of the
operations as the working parties
began cleaning the cottage, making
repairs and painting it inside and
out.
The cottage being renovated con-
tains "a bedrooms, classrooms, recre-
alton rooms and laundry. 1t is,
used for boys and girls under 13
years of age and normally houses
more than so of them.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Dewey Campaign Club
To Open in ArIinqton f.

The newly opened voting Informs
ton center Of the Arlington Dewey
Warren Club at 1888 Wilson boule-
ward will be formally dedicated
within the next few days, George
M. Rowzee, jr., club chairman, an
nounced today.
The club, which last week de-
clared itself non-partisan for other
Offices except for promoting the
Dewey Warren ticket, will operate
the information center from II am.
to 9 pm. weekdays throughout the
campaign. Lawrence D. Batson will
manage the center, which also will
serve as a club Office.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Brooke Johns to Speak
Tomorrow in Norbeck

Brooke Johns, chairman of the
Montgomery County Board of Com
missioners, will be the guest speaker
at meeting of the Citizens Council
for Mutual improvement at $50
pm. tomorrow at the Mount Pleas
ant Methodist Church, Norbeck, Md.
The meeting will be the first of a
series scheduled by the council on
the subject Of county government.
Mr.. Johns subject will be Govern
ment Under the Commission System"
Evening star., 1948-09-02

ennial convention, on the election
of officers. The election will cli-
max the most bitter fight in AFGE
history.
The leading candidates are James
B. Burns, who is seeking to regain
the job from which he resigned
several months ago, and James Y.
Yaden an AFGE vice president and
Civil Service Commission official
A number of dark horse candi-
dates, among them James A. Camp
bell and Martin Hogan of Cincin-
natl, Joseph Dunn of Kentucky,
John Murray Of Boston and Ed
ward Honest Ed McGuinnis of
Washington, are among the entries
seeking the top AFGE spot.
UNUSUAL-The delegates aired
the charges and counter charges of
the dispute centering around Mr..
Burns in executive session. This
was done to bar the press from at
tendance.
Charges were made that Mr..
Burns had been careless and in
efficient in a number of matters
while president. Mr.. Burns, who
has very great popular appeal
with many of the delegates, took
the rostrum to make a spirited de-
fense of the charges.
VETERANS - The convention
adopted a resolution instructing its
executive council to study the prob
lem OF veterans preference in Gov
ernment and to take q report by
next January /.
Back of the resolution Is the feel
ing on the part Of many delegates
and AFGE officials that veterans
preference in the Federal service
should be modified somewhat tc
protect the rights Of nonveteran ca
reer employees.
These officials feel that, while
veterans should be given certain
privileges in the matter of Govern.
ment employment, the present sys.
tenn works great hardships on career
Federal workers with many years
of service.
It's considered likely that the
AFGE will ask the next session OF
Congress to modify veterans. pref
erence somewhat, so the rights OF
career employees won't be leopard.
lied.
For one thing, many delegates
are opposed to a veteran being re-
tained over nonveterans in any re-
duction-in-force program. regard
less of seniority factors. They con-
slider 1t unfair that veteran with
permanent status, who has been on
the job for year or so, conceivably
could bump" a nonveteran career
employe with Is years of service.
| II + u Il
PAY-The convention passed the
following pay resolution:
The convention requests legisla-
ton to effect a Federal pay raise
that truly will reflect the increased
cost of living, that will eliminate
ceilings from the pay scales and that
will revise salary schedules of the
Classification Act Of 1923.
| X y Il
RETIREMENT - On retirement
the convention went on record al
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c@p~ etuAfs retlred 1r m
both the Army Reserve and the
1CC last February because Of MILL
tary service-incurred physical dis
ability.
Before his retirement he was en-
ployed in the ICES Bureau of VAL
uation for more than 90 years. hav-
ing entered Government service in
1925. ~
Native Of Illinois.
A native of Aurora, ILL.,, Capt.
Stuart attended Rose Polytechnic
Institute and was graduate in
civil engineering from Highland
Park College in Des Moines, Iowa.
He was a construction engineer
with the Union Pacific Railroad for
eight years before World War I.
A captain in the 22d Engineers, he
served a year and a half overseas
with the Army and participated in
three major engagements.
Capt. Stuart remained reserve
Army officer during his Government
employment
A former vestryman and member
OF the Rock Creek parish OF st.
Paul's Episcopal Church, Capt.
Stuart also belonged to the Scottish
Rite MasonS. the Knights Templar,
Lebanon Chapter of the Eastern
Star, American Society of Military
Engineers and the Five Points Club,
group of ICC Masons.
Widow Heads Petworth Club.
His widow, Mrs. Fern Adrienne
Stuart, is president of the Petworth
Women's Club and recording secre-
tary Of the District Congress OF
Parents and Teachers.
Capt. Stuart is also survived by
a daughter, Mts. Maurine S. Dulin
of Bethesda, Md; a sister, Mrs. Irene
Jacobs of Los Angeles, and two
granddaughters.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Progressive Party Choice
For Senate Is Stoned
BY the Asseeioisd Press


CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 2,-Progres-
slve Party headquarters reported to-
day a gang of toughs stoned and
drove its candidate for United
States Senator and his caravan from
West Frankfort, ILL.,, last night.
justin Gray, party spokesman,
said the candidate,> Curtis Mac
Dougall, Northwestern University
professor. was struck by 10 stones
as the youthful gang broke up an
open-air rally.
Efforts to confirm this version of
the incident were impeded bv a
strike OF communications workers
which has tied up telephone lines in
parts OF Southern Illinois.
Evening star., 1948-09-02


AFGE omciaR
are very opti-
mistic that the
AFL will loan it
t h e necessary
money to con-
tinue its men,
bership drive
and to effect a
tighter organi-
rational struc-
ture.
Meanwhile, the
convention pre-
pares to vote to-
day, at its final
"a ~ -:
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Man Killed on Highway
Near Laurel Identified

An elderly man killed early yes
terday when struck by trailer
truck as he was walking along the
Washington Baltimore boulevard
near Laurel has been identified as
George Engel, 6S, Baltimore, accord
ing to Maryland State police.
The driver of the truck, Benjamin
T. Linton, As. Chester, Pa, has been
charged with manslaughter. He has
been released under $1,000 bond
pending a hearing tomorrow in
Laurel Police Court.
Evening star., 1948-09-02

sion, will be held
at 2 pm. tomor.
row at the S. II.
II ines funeral
h o m e, 1901
F o u r t e e n t h
street NV. Bu-
rial with mill
tary and Ma.
sonic honors will
be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Capt. Stuart
died Tuesday at
his home, 36
Hamilton street
NV. He was
.ntSv@A
Evening star., 1948-09-02
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
AFGE to Seek AFL Aid Funds
To Put Union on Feet Aqoin
By Joseph Young
Ssor StoH corvsspordeot

PHILADELPHIA Sept. 2-ofncals American Fedora
ton OF Employees disclosed today that the union
turn to the AF for financial aid in order
feet again.
Although AFGE membership again the upward trend
Evening star., 1948-09-02

NEW YORK-SHUBERT AND SECRET WIFE-Lee Shubert
year-od theatrical producer long known Broadways
perennial bachelor" Showgirl Marcea Swanson
secretly married in Berlin Germany about IL This
today where has established
her attorney William Klein of New York
says she will divorce suit against Mr. Shubert tomorrow
the couple made at the opening of
the New York Daily News televson station WPIX.
Al Wrenho
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Capt. Frank N. Stuart,
Evaluation Engineer
With ice Here, Dies

Funeral services for Capt. Frank
NJ. Stuart. 81. retired Army Reserve
officer and evaluation engineer with
the Interstate Commerce Commits
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Weather Report

District of Columbia-MoStly SUM-
ny with highest around 80 this aft
ernoon. Fair with lowest about Sc
tonight. Some cloudiness and
warmer tomorrow with high about
e..
Virginia and rather cool
again tonight. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and somewhat warmer
Maryland-Partly cloudy tonight
and tomorrow. Slightly warmer.
Wind velocity, miles per hour;
direction, south-southeast.
District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for "a hours ending
am. September 2-l23 grains per
cubic yard of air.
River Report.
{From United States Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear al
Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1948-09-02

with considerable membership
gain during the past six months,
increased operating expenses vir-
tually have depleted the unions
Evening star., 1948-09-02

Hikh and Low for Yesterday.
High, rs, at 3:55 pm.
Low, SO, at 700 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90, on August 81.
Lowest. 5, on January 20.
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A Thorough Inquiry Needed

The amazing story of alleged Russian
espionage in Washington, with its grave
accusations against persons once high in
the Government service, is so alarming
as to call for the most thorough sort of
investigation. If the sworn testimony of
Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, the self-con-
fessed former Communist underground
agent, is true, 1t is hard to understand why
the special grand jury in New York has
failed so far to return any indictments
under the Espionage Act For Miss Bentley
says she told the whole sordid story to
that jury.
The testimony of Miss Bentley sounds
too much like some of the testimony given
to the Canadian Royal Commission to be
treated lightly. That commission in 1916
disclosed existence of Communist espion-
age conspiracy involving high Canadian
government officials. Indictment and
conviction of number of persons in and
out of the civil service resulted. The COM
MISSIONS report asserted that evidence
was found that a similar ring was oper-
ating in the United States
On the basis of the statements made by
William W. Remington, one of the Gov
eminent employees named by Miss Bentley,
careful investigation of the administra-
ton of the Presidents loyalty program is
justified Mr.. Remington-Who is still on
the payroll-denied giving away any Gov
eminent secrets and denied that he is
Communist But he admitted that he was
. in touch with Miss Bentley several years
ago and that he had done things then he
would not do now" These things includ-
ed he said, giving her money for "refu-
gees" and information not of conhden-
tial nature She asserts, however, the
money was for Communist Party dues and
that the information was turned over to
Russian agents. With such serious charges
as these pending against him, it remains
to be explained why Mr.. Remington was
able to transfer from one Federal agency
to another and continue work on conf
dental matters. 1t was only when Secre-
tary of Commerce Sawyer took office that
he was suspended.
Running through Miss Bentleys testi-
mony are such names of former officials
as Harry Dexter White, former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, and Lauchlin
Curre, onetime administrative assistant
to the late President Roosevelt. The i'm
plications against these men are so i'm
portant that the accused no doubt will
welcome an opportunity to reply The
Thomas Committee suggests the calling OF
a special grand jury, but the ACCESSIBILITY
of this is questionable, in view OF the fact
that the New York grand jury has gone
over the same ground and has not yet
completed its inquiry. At the least, how
ever, there should be complete airing OF
this matter by Congress-in judicial
atmosphere and with full opportunity for
the accused to tell their side of the story
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of subsidy program could be justified
But the Presidents Committee declared
that even if the ships were not CONNER
cially important they would be invaluable
for troop-carrying purposes in another
emergency. Their construction not only
would provide transports essential to
security but would keep shipbuilding
facilities in state of readiness for defense
work And two World Wars have shown
the desirability of maintaining at all
times a healthy shipbuilding industry,
manned by men with the know-how
required to produce good ships quickly
and in great numbers. The proposed
program would be long step toward this
safety goal.
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calamity as frail humans who cling to the
crust of this cooling planet are called upon
to endure. Here before ones eyes were mangled
dead, agonized living fleeing from the inferno,
collapsed buildings, fearful fcrevices opened IN
the Keeling streets-a Japanese city reduced to
shambes.
What an incongruous combination-moon-
light and earthquake! And if beauty is Gods
handwriting, what about earthquakes? Out OF
the confusion comes the wall, Where Is the
God whose pity is as a fathers. and whose
mercy is as the Wilderness of the sea?" What
becomes of heart and conscience In this
wreckage? Seismographs thousands OF miles
from the disturbance record the shock to the
earth. But sensitive spirits who would not
puncture the gay balloon of a happy child
register a moral shock as they witness nature
treating with brutal savagery this swinging
ball where dwell those who are called the sons
of the God of whom it is declared THE earth
showeth his handiwork."
What has religion to say for itself not IN the
moonlight, but in the earthquake? This latest
earthquake of 1948 raises such questions-not
new. rather as old as questing man. First, let
it be said that it is an easy faith that sees
God in sublimities and properties but not
in catastrophes. The Bible is the book OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-01
Rots and the Russians

Illustrative of the difficulties which. be-
set the path of Westerners who would IKE
to get along with the Russians was the
rat incident in New York Harbor recently.
It seems that routine inspection by quar-
antine officials of the Russian motorshlp'
Pobeda, disclosed evidences OF rooent
infestation. AS they had done with many
other ships from foreign ports, the. inspec-
tors refused to clear the ship until certain
measures were taken to make certain that
no plague infected rats could come ashore.
That was when the trouble started.
The captain of the Soviet vessel vetoed
the whole idea. No fumigation of his ship
would be permitted. No rat-guards on
the hawsers no. gangplank safeguards
against rodentary inflltratlon OF tne
United States. Because, said the skipper,
the rats were purely imaginary '-gnaw-
ing marks and other signs to the contrary
notwithstanding. From early morning
until late afternoon the dispute ran, with
more and higher harbor, customs, COAST
Guard and Russian diplomatic officials
Joining in as the hours passed. At one
tight moment the captain threatened to
move his ship in defiance of the American
officials and a Coast Guard crew received
instructions to "shoot to sink" If he did,
Finally, the Russian vice consul in New
York-perhaps after consultation with the
Russian Embassy or the Kremlin-went to
the ship and ordered the obdurate captain
to give up. 1t was all a misunderstanding,
the vice consul explained. The rat hunt
began, the rodent safeguards were in
stalled and the ship was allowed to dis
charge it's passengers and cargo
It will be interesting now to see how
Pravda plays this news item. Will it be
another international incident" DELHI
crate insult to the Soviet flag by American
war-mongers? 1t is safe bet that, II
referred to at all, the incident will not be
treated as the routine thing it would have
been, but for Russian incalcitrance. And
it may be doubted that Pravda would
relish letting its public know that Rus
sian ship with a name like that tPobeda
means victory in Russian had come out
second in a contest with the Americans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-01
Mr.. EccIes Hits Back

The testimony which Mariner S. EccleS,
member and former chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board, has given to the
Senate Banking Committee very probably
sounds the death knell of the anti-infla
ton program which President. Truman put
before the special session of Congress.
There was, at best, only the remotest
chance that Congress would approve the
program. But now that a prominent
member of the Truman administration,
even though not in very high favor at the
moment has said that the program as
whole does not make economic sense, it is
as good as dead.
Mr. Eccles believes that Dust is
inevitable and he thinks that the sooner
it comes the better, on the theory, pre-
sumably, that the longer 1t is delayed the
more severe the crash will be.
This is a point of view which no poll
tician can afford to adopt and which is
not accepted by many economists. But
whether Mr.. Eccles is right or wrong in
this particular respect, he is certainly
correct in his contention that the Truman
program, taken as whole, is unsound.
Mr. Eccles takes vigorous stand against
the long range housing program advocated
by the President, contending that it would
be infiationary to adopt it at this time.
On this point he is certainly right The
midyear report of the Presidents economic
advisers comedies that, counting CONVEX
sions, more than million new residential
housing units will be built in 1948 This
volume of housing is already straining the
capacities of the construction industry,
with respect both to materials and man
power. In this situation, enactment OF the
proposed housing legislation would not
produce any more homes. But it would
produce more imitation.
The Presidents program is also deficient
although Mr.. Eccles did not 60 into
these aspects-in that it proposes to curb
imitation without invoking any real re-
straints on either farm prices or wages.
These are potent sources of the imitation
airy movement and as long as 1T is deemed
inadvisable to deal with them, whether
for political or other reasons, the measures
which Mr.. Truman does advocate would
not prove very effective, even if adopted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-01
Are Pixies Possible?

Joe Sirnms of London is remarkable
man. After some eighteen years OF expert
mentation, he has figured out how to walk
across rivers and lakes, and perhaps even
oceans. He is no hoaxer. Clad in SWIM
ming shorts and tweed cap, ne mas
publicly demonstrated his peculiar ability
by crossing the Thames on foot, more or
less the way the rest of us 90 from one
side of the street to the other.
It is necessary to use the qualification
"more or less" only because Mr.. Simms
does not walk on the water. He walks In
1t or through it, without treading it. That
is to say, he sinks bit, and so his ankles
or calves get wet. But that does not de-
tract from his uniqueness, for the fact
remains that when he saunters across
liquid bodies like the Thames, ne does SO
in an erect position. Moreover, ne says,
81 can kneel in salt water and can recline
with my head resting on my arms"
As Mr.. simms explains himself, GIVE got
what you might call the secret OF relax
ing on recovery. Maximum power, mini
mum resistance, that's what 1t is" Be
that as it may-and 1t certainly could be
clearer-he obviously is in class by
himself, ranking with the fellow who lets
himself be pierced by swords to prove that
he does not exist and Is therefore IN
vulnerable.
1t is rare people like these who remind
the rest of us not to assume dogmaticaliy
that there are no such things as elves or
werewolves. Life may be stranger than
most of us imagine, and reality may en-
brace a good deal more than the average
eve beholds At any rate, who can be sure
that the metaphysical Is less actual than
his own skin and bones? 1t could be, after
all, that pixies and the like are as possible
as the invisible atom everybody believes
/ in. Let no onelscon too much at myszcs
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Merchant Marine and Defense

1t looks as though our war-scarred
merchant marine is due to take turn
for the better. There is hope, at least,
in the disclosure of tentative plans for
construction of several big passenger
liners for Atlantic service, including fast
trans Atlantic ship of forty eight thou
sand gross tons.
This new program is being worked out
by the Maritime Commission in series
of conferences with leading shipping and
shipbuilding authorities. IT carried out,
with the aid of Federal subsidies provided
for in the 1886 Merchant Marine Act, the
chief objective insofar as the Government
is concerned will be the strengthening of
national security. The Presidents Ad-
visory Committee on the Merchant Marine
stressed the defense aspect OF the shipping
program in strong recomme ndation for
prompt action last November. The COM
mittee reported that defense officials
. were seriously concerned over the made
euacy of our postwar merchant fleet to
serve the armed forces in event of
another war. 1t pointed out that our
prewar fleet of 127 vessels, with capacity
of 38,357 persons, had shrunken to total
of SO serviceable ships-in operation,
being reconditioned or under construction
with a total capacity of only 1888
persons. The others had become casualties
of war, through sinkings, damage or re-
conversion to other uses.
The proposed superliner alone would be
capable of transporting twelve thousand
troops, according to the United States
Lines, which has offered to pay twenty
five million dollars toward the estimated
total cost of nearly seventy millions.
\ Ordinarily the liner would carry two
thousand passengers and crew of one
thousand. 1t would contain certain I'M
disclosed defense features" to make it
readily adaptable for war purposes. Its
speed would be thirty-two knots. In
addition, the Moore Mccormack Lines
has offered to invest twenty millions to-
ward the cost of two twenty -eight-knot
liners for the South Atlantic passenger
trade other lines are expected to join in
the movement to revive the merchant
marine.
Viewed solely from the standpoint of
our economic welfare, the building of q
strong merchant marine under incentive