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Evening star., 1948-08-03

An additional pay raise of $3.50 q
year and a 35-hour work week woulo
be established for the 100000 EN-.
ployes in the postal field service
including $500 in the Washington
City Post once, under bill intro
duced in the Senate.
The pay increase would be on
top OF the $3.50 granted recently.
Sponsored by Chairman LANCER
of the Senate Post Office and Civil
Service Committee and Senator
Johnston, Democrat, of South Caro-
lima the bill would replace COM
pletely all postal field service law
enacted since July, 1945.
No action is expected at this short
session of Congress. The compre-
hensive bill, with its SO sections
went to the LANCER Committee
This group is expected to expedite
action in the Eighty-f1rst Congress
next year on what will be known as
the Postal Redistribution Act OF
1949."
Another Measure Being Prepared.
In a statement issued jointly by
Senators LANCER and Johnston, they
declared the bill constitutes the
first step in a general program de-
signed to correct many of the exist
ing inequities in Federal employ
ment."
An additional reclassif1cation
measure affecting white collar work.
ers, other than postal employees
they said, is in the process OF
preparation and will be ready for
introduction very shortly"
They did not specify whether this
would be during the extra session
which is expected to last only a
week or 10 days longer.
The Senators said they are con-
vinced IAN exhaustive study, fol-
lowed by complete revision (of
present law is not only necessary
but imperative"
They indicated the bill dropped
in the hopper yesterday already
has met with general appreciation
among postal people everywhere
Five Days OF Seven Hours.
One Of the most significant TEA
lures, it was pointed out, is the 35-
hour work week, which would be
put into effect without reduction o.
curtailment in delivery or other
postal facilities. This would be ac-
&C nplished by providing that the
hours of duty would be seven hours
per day within eight consecutive
hours.
Field employees in the postal serv-
ice would be placed on an equal
footing with other Government
workers by getting Is days annual
anG IS days sick leave.
instead Of present law. under
which postal workers receive a 10
per cent night differential for all
work between 6 pm. and s am.
the proposed bill would increase
night differential pay to 20 per
cent.
Provides Uniform Allowance.
Characterizing the present law as
providing cumbersome and un-
equal salary steps" the Senators
statement explained that these
grades are combined in the bill into
seven grades. This would eliminate
the four Lowest" grades
| A new annual uniform allowance
for letter carriers and others would
be established. Now the postmar
buvs his own uniform.
Postal employees were not giver
adequate wage adjustments in re.
cent salary legislation" the Sen
atorS asserted.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Washington Man Dies
After Virginia Crash

A Washington man died yesterday
in Mary Washington Hospital, Fred
ericksburg. Va, of injuries suffered
Sunday when his car crashed into a
bridge abutment.
The man was identified as Walter
Lawson, colored, 38 T street NV
The car he was driving struck an
abutment of the Po River bridge
near Smell. in Spottsylvania County
Mr.. Lawson leaves his wife, Mrs.
Lillian Lawson, and two sons, Will
liam Lawson, jr., 20 and Tommy, Is.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Recreation Employees
To Be Screened for
PossibIePoIice Record

The District Recreation Boart
will ask that all present and future
employees of the Recreation Depart
ment be screened by the Police De-
partment to make sure none O.
them has a police record.
The action was taken at specia
board meeting yesterday, called al
the Commissioners request to revise
the departments 1850 budget.
The boards determination tt
check all of its employees with police
resulted from the fact that an EN-.
ploye, now dicharged, was convicted
few weeks ago of a sex offense
Board Chairman Harry S. Wendel
pointed out that, while the sex Of
tense did not involve any children
under the departments supervision
1t might easily have done so.
Close Check Held Necessary.
1--WE must keep a close check that
no undesirable persons are in our
employ, particularly those who work
with children" Mr.. Wender de-
clared. Our obligations are SO
great that there should be no en-
ploye who is liability to our organ
ization."
Mr.. Wender said the boards de-
cision in no way reflects upon the
departments hiring and interview.
ing staff, who exercise great care
in choosing personnel.
But it is stupid Of us to think
that we can detect criminal recorc
by interview alone" he said.
The board chairman pointed Out
the Civil Service Commission can.
not screen properly all applicants
and that, before the new District
sex law was put into operation re.
Gently, cases of delinquency were
classed as misdemeanors and die
not reach FBI files.
Ask Survey for Playground.
At its meeting yesterday, the
board also voted to ask the Rec
reation Division of United Com.
munity Services to make survey
of the area near the old Dennisor
School. 1927 S street NV, to SEE
if playground is needed there. The
board has twice asked that the
school property be used for thai
purpose but without success.
The board approved propose
to locate a new elementary schoo
on the Oxon Run Recreation Cen
ter, with frontage on Fourth stree
Sc. and proposed extension o.
Mississippi avenue. The group au'
thorized the National Capital Park
Ofice to advertise for bids to con-
struct shelter houses at the follow
ing playground; Fort Greble, Watt
Branch and Kalorama.
Recreation Superintendent MILD
Christensen told the meeting th'
National Capital Park and PLANNING
Commission has approved tn,
boards redesignation of the Parl
View center and Blow School a.
colored recreation units. He alst
said bid invitations have been sen
out for construction of the frs
unit of a field house at the Turke!
Thicket playground.
Budget changes for 1850 were dis
cussed in closed session following
the regular meeting.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Capital Transit
Takes Steps on
ewFare0rder
Virginia Commuters
Poy Increase Under
Temporary Order

The Capital Transit Co. was
taking steps today to put into effect
the order Of three-judge tribunal,
granting the company prelim-
mary injunction to relieve 1t Of
joint fares with two Virginia bus
lines.
The company contends the joint
fares, ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, have been
costing it $4,000 a month. This
combined fare went up yesterday
to 16 cents, OF which Capital Tran
sit is to receive z cents and the
Virginia companies 9 cents. That
fare superseded 13la-cent fare.
of which Capital Transit received
5.83 cents.
The court ruled that under the
temporary injunction Capital Tran
sit should continue to accept the
joint fare tickets sold by the Vir-
ginia lines. But in accepting the
portion of the ticket good on its
lines, Capital Transit should COL
lect 3 cents, giving the passenger
receipt.
Refund Hinges on Decision.
These Scent sums would be re-
| funded If the court, in the end, does
not grant permanent injunction.
That decision would come after a
full hearing Of the case, probably
in October.
Before the temporary Injunction
will be effective the company must:
Submit an order carrying out
the courts decision, which must
be accepted by the court.
Furnish bond of $25,000 to in
sure the redemption of the Scent
collections.
Provide receipts to be furnished
the passengers.
The court which granted the tenn
porary injunction yesterday is COM
posed Of Justice Wilbur K. Miller
of the Court of Appeals and JUS
tices Alexander Holtzoff and Ed
ward A. Tamm of District Court.
ICC Order Attached.
The ICC order for the joint fares
was attacked chiefly on the ground
the fares are confiscatory. It also
was attacked on the ground the ICC
does not have jurisdiction, but, that
the local company is subject only
to the District Public Utilities Com
mission.
The Virginia companies were con-
cerned lest the court upset an ICC
order granting them the right to
collect straight 10-cent fare. when
the joint fare is not used, rather
than to give three rides for Is cents.
This also went into effect yesterday.
1t was not touched by the courts
ruling.
The suggestion that the company
collect 8 cents with each ticket
presented and refund it If final
injunction is not granted was made
by F. Gloyd Await, of counsel for
Capital Transit. With the company
already receiving cents from the
joint fare, this would bring the sum
up to 10 cents. The PUG has ordered
it not to accept less.
Joint fares apply for rides be-
tween any part of the District and
the Pentagon, the Navy Annex, the
Air Forces Annex, National Airport
and intermediate points in Vir-
ginia, including such Government
establishments as Arlington Farms,
women's residence halls.
The Virginia bus lines are the
Washington, Virginia g. Maryland
Coach Co., and the Alexandria.
Bancroft Washington Transit Co.
One attorney, at an earlier hearing.
put the number of persons taking
advantage of the joint fares at
$1,000, but a Capital Transit Co.
official said the number Is not more
than about $500.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Tractor Unrepaired, I,
D. T.. Guardsmen Push
Heavy Guns al Camp
BY WiIIiom J. WheotIey
Stor StoH Correspondent

CAMP PENDLETON, Virginia
Beach, Va, Aug. Slack of re-
quired automotive equipment and
the weather combined to set the
District National Guard artillery
troops back a day in their instruc-
ton here.
When 1t. Gen. Leonard Gerow,
commander of the I'd Corps Area,
arrives here today for an inspection
of training activities, he will find
the District citizen soldiers still try
ing to shove the heavy gun equip
ment in place among the sand
dunes at the Navy's firing range
at Dam Neck, Va, by sheer muscle
power. The tractor assigned to
the unit for the movement OF
heavy equipment was still in the
Armory at Washington. It's engine,
officers say, was burned out some
weeks before the encampment, and
lit had not been repaired when the
movement here started.
IruCkS Slnk In Sanu.
Large, heavy trucks, substituted
for the task, mired hub deep in the
soft sand. Scores Of men struggled
for hours under drenching rains to
push into position the trucks, train
ing guns and electric generators.
When evening came, they were still
many yards from their goal. On
the other hand, the half tracks with
the smaller guns mounted on them
we're in position in short order.
But the heavy weather would have
prevented any practice, since the
Navy planes, scheduled to tow the
aerial targets, were weather hound
at the Naval Air Station at Chinco-
league, some miles up the coast OIL
Cape Charles.
When the troops came back into
the camp, clothing was soaked.
But they had dry clothes as result
of the efforts of their officers last
week in getting additional clothes
here by air and motor convoy. The
doctors are keeping close watch
on the men to avoid a possible cpl
demic of colds as result OF the
soaking which they received yester-
day.
Inspection Due Today.
The District organizations are
scheduled to 60 through some rigid
inspections by corps OF officers
who are due here today. One group
will be headed by Col. T. L. Martin
of the Organization and Training
Group of the National Guard Bu-
reau. The other will be headed
by Col. j. E. Wood, from the Army
Field Forces at Fort Monroe, Va
Each officer in the group will have a
particular phase OF the training
an dequipment to study adm report
While these are normal inspections
for each encampment, the officers
are expected to make a rigid study
of the plight of the District troops
because of the conditions under
which they were sent here, without
being properly clothed and equipped
While Brig. Gen. Kenneth Cramer,
chief of the National Guard Bureau,
came down Immediately upon publi-
cation of reports of the conditions,
he did not 60 into such details as
the inspectors will do today. They
are expected to make much closer
check of the District troops for the
preparation of a complete official
report for Gen. Cramer, Is well
as for Gen GeroN.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Place Sunday Classified
Ads Early!

Classified ad customers de-
string to place ads in The
Sunday Star are urged to call
them in early in the week.
This will eliminate the last
minute rush to place ads and
will assure every one prompt
and efficient service. Your
cooperation will be appre-
ciated.
Remember The Stars new
telephone number Is Sterling
500.
Evening star., 1948-08-03
Federal loan proposal for city pay

Federal loan proposal for city pay
raises.
Meanwhile, another bill to grant
city workers a $3.50 pay raise for
one year was introduced in the
House yesterday by Representative
Forand, Democrat, OF Rhode Island
It went to the House Civil Service
Committee. Alre.dy pending before
that unit Is the bill by Chairman
Rees of the committee which would
accomplish virtually the same pur-
pose.
Evening star., 1948-08-03

Chairman Taft of the Senate Pol
icy Committee has been kept in.
formed on the city's predicament
Senator Cain conferred with him on
the Senate floor yesterday immedi-
ately after a conference between
Senator Cain and Mr.. Dirksen.
Asked about the information
transmitted to the Ohio Senator
Senator Cain said he had strongly
urged Senator Taft to oppose the
Evening star., 1948-02-18
New Masses Official
Seized for Deportation
BY the Associoted Press

The Justice Department today an
nounced the arrest for deportation
of Beatrice johnson, described as
promotion manager for the New
Masses, a New York publication.
The department said Mrs. john
son had long been active in the
Communist Party in this country,
and that she lacked citizenship.
She was taken into custody under
the immigration laws providing for
exclusion of aliens who belong to
groups advocating the violent over
throw of the United States Govern
ment.
She was removed to Ellis Island
and the department said it had ap-
proved her release on $1,000 bond
pending deportation.
Mrs. johnson is one of score OF
alleged alien Communists who have
been seized recently for deportation
The department said Mrs. johnson
is As years old, native OF Poland
and is also known as Mrs. Elmer
johnson, Beatrice Siskind Shields
Bale Ziskind, Beatrice Simons, Be-
atrice Lee and C. E. johnson.
Department records showed she
came to the United States in April
1912, and applied for Naturalization
in 1943. She was listed as having
been a secretary of various branches
of the Communist Party, teacher
at the Chicago Workers School anc
an educational director for the Com
munist Party in Illinois at various
times between 1890 and 1899
Evening star., 1948-02-18
Philadelphia Banker
Robbed Of $4,000
BY the Associafed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1S-Caleb
F. Fox. jr,, socially prominent Phil
adelphia banker and sportsman, was
robbed of $4,000 in valuableS by
four masked bandits who invaded
his home in suburban Rydal last
night, police reported.
The thugs herded the seven per-
sons in the house into bedroom.
tied them up with strips torn from
bedsheets and left them there while
thev ransacked the house.
They found mink and beaver fur
coats, diamond and sapphire brace
lets, rings. necklaces and watches
valued by Mr.. Fox at around SIS
900. They also took silverWare and
other valua bles which Mr.. Fox e5tl-
mated would run the total to nearly
$4,000.
The banker. with his son, Bernard
Fox. and the 1atter's wife, Hope
Meade Fox, were in the drawing
room watching a television perform
ance when the four men entered
quietly. apparently through door
that had been left open Others in
the house were servants.
Mrs. Fox was in Philadelphia at
the time attending an opera per-
formance.
The thugs. all flashing guns, ran
sacked the bedrooms, located a safe
in one and forced it open to get the
jewelry.
The robbers then cut telephone
lines snd fed. 1t was after mid
night before one OF the group got
loose and freed the others.
Evening star., 1948-02-18
Chile President Moves
To Set Up Army Base
In Disputed Islands
Western Hemisphere Pact
Invoked; British Hint
U. N. May Get Appeal
BY the Associoted Press

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 18.-
Chile's president moved to es-
tablish a military base in dis
puted Antarctic territory today
after invoking the Western
Hemisphere defense pact to boil
ster his nations claims.
While Britain hinted an appeal to
the United Nations and Australia
weighed sending a warship to the
Falklands, Chilean President Gabriel
Gonzalez Videla pushed farther
south on his spectacular expedition
to set up the base on what Chile
calls Berpardo O'Higginsland.
The site is on part Of the territory
known as Grahamland, which is
claimed by Britain. 1t lies astride
the Antarctic Circle.
Dispatches to the Santiago news
paper Mercurio from the Presidents
ship, the transport Presidente Pinto,
quoted Gen Ramon Canas Montalva,
Chilean Army chief of staff, as say
ing the Presidents action is a step
toward building up Chile as a
South Pacific Power
Chile is beginning one of the most
decisive visionary policies in its con-
tinental mission, facing the Pacific, p"
Gen. Canas said.
He recalled that O'Higgins, the
hero of Chilean independence, once
declared that glance at the map
Of South America is enough to show
Chile holds the keys to the vast
portion
The British have protested both
Chilean ana Argentine activities in
the Antarctic and have announced
they will support British Governor
Miles Clifford of the Falklands in
these issues. The British insist the
Falkland administration covers
Grahamland. Greenwich and other
islands. The British have sent the
3,000-ton cruiser Nigeria into the
Antarctic to show the flag
A similar mission for Argentina
was announced in a broadcast to-
day from an Argentine task force en-
route to Antarctica. 1t said two
Argentine cruisers and six destroy
ers ARE going to show the flag in
the icy waters of the polar seas"
The ships. it said, will visit points
where Argentina has set up weather
stations, which by their perma-
nency confirm at all times Argen-
tine sovereignty in the area
A Buenos Aires dispatch said the
Argentine government account of
the broadcast from Ushuaia Bay
promised another transmission
within a few days from Deception
Island. which is in the South Shet-
land Group.
The Chilean President landed at
Greenwich Island yesterday Ad-
dressing Chilean troops there, he
(See FAIKLANDS. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1948-02-18
President Asks
$40 Million Aid
Fund for China
Program Emphasizing
SeIf-HeIp Is Sent
To Congress
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman today asked
Congress for $57O,0OO.OOO to
finance a Chinese aid program
until June 80, 1949.
In a message which emphasized
also that the Chinese government
must help itself, the President said
the program he outlined "can ac-
complish the important purpose of
giving the Chinese government a
respite from rapid economic deteri-
grafton during which it can move to
establish more stable economic con-
ditions."
Mr. Truman recommended that
S510,000,000 of the proposed total
should be advanced in the form of
loans or grants and allocated to pay
for cereals, cotton, petroleum, fertil-
izer. tobacco, drugs, coal and repair
parts for existing capital equipment
The remainder - $6000O,000 - would
go for what the President termed a
few selective reconstruction prof.
ects" to be initiated prior to the
expiration date of the program.
Subject to Agreement.
The program was submitted after
frequent demands in Congress
principally from Republicans-that
the United States give the needs
of war-torn China the same con-
sideration that is being extended to
European nations under the Marshall
Plan.
"As in the case of aid to European
recovery" Mr.. Truman said, the
conduct of this program of aid
should be made subject to an agree
ment between China and the United
States setting forth the conditions
and procedures for administering the
aid. The agreement should include
assurances that the Chinese govern
ment would take such economic
financial measures as are practical,
looking toward the ultimate goal OF
economic stability and recovery.
The United States would. of
course, reserve the right to termi-
nate aid if it is determined that
the assistance provided is not being
handled in accordance with the
agreement or that the policies Of
the Chinese government are incon-
sistent with the objective of using
the aid for helping achieve a self
supporting economy
This message said the maellinery
now administering the foreign re-
lief programs could take over the
Chinese aid which he added should
be transferred to whatever new set
up is devised later to handle the
European Recovery Program.
Conflicting Factors Considered.
Mr.. Truman described the China
program as the best course this
Government can follow in the light
of all the circumstances
In determining its scope he con-
tinued, I'VE have had to take into
account a number of diverse and
conflicting factors, including the
other demands on our national re-
sources at this time, the availability
of specific commodities, the dimen-
sions and complexities facing the
Chinese government. and the extent
to which these problems could be
(See CHINA, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1948-02-18
National Museum 10 GET
Wrights' Kitty Hawk Plane
BY the Associoted Press

DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 18-The
Wright brothers plane, the Kitty
Hawk, will be placed in the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington,
executors of Orville Wright's estate
announced today.
The craft, first to fly with man,
is now in the Science Museum at
South Kensington. London. Orville
Wright sent it there in 1923 after
a controversy with Smithsonian
officials.
The announcement that the plane
which took to the air at Kitty
Hawk, N. c.. on December II, 1903
would be placed in the National
Museum was made by Executors
Harold S. Miller of Dayton and
Harold w. Sleeper of Lawrence,
Kans. 1t complied with directions
issued by Orville Wright, who died
January 80.
When acquainted with the dis
patch on disposition of the Kitty
Hawk plane, Acting Secretary John
E, Graf of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition said:
I'VE will be very, very happy to
get it. 1t is the plane We need to
base our collections on because 1t
is No. l."
Evening star., 1948-02-18
SprinoIike Weather Continues
With Hioh of 20 Expected

halt on all new exports OF gasoline
and fuel oil.
Representative Heselton, Republi-
can, of Massachusetts, announced
that several million barrels of addi-
tional oil will be available for use
at home because foreign countries
have sent word they can get along
with less from the United States.
On the Washington Oil front, Fuel
Co-ordinator j. Thomas Kennedy
said supplies here will be in good
shape" unless there is return OF
cold weather. Only few calls came
in yesterday for hardship deliv-
cries of oil, and Mr.. Kennedy said
his stockpile is adequate to meet
individual calls.
Robert G. Dunlop. president of
Sun Oil Co., predicted recent price
increases for crude oil will spur pro-
duction and that more production is
the only satisfactory solution" to
Evening star., 1948-02-18

The weather's springllke touch
fingered in Washington today
and the temperature, with the
sun shining. brightly, exceeded
yesterdays balmy IS.
Rising 20 degrees in three hours,
the temperature stood at SO at pm.
and the Weather Bureau said it
might 60 to 10 this afternoon. The
official forecast was for near 10"
Continued mild weather also is in
store for tomorrow.
Weather officials also reported
that ice still was packed near parts
of Chain Bridge, but that the Po-
tomac had freed itself of the jam
which threatened waterfront areas
with flood conditions early yester-
day. Blocks of ice still remaining
were being broken off and carried
by the current down the river.
There was good news. too, for
home users Of fuel oil. as the Com
merce Department called r"-hour