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Evening star., 1948-07-20
UNIV Pickets Continue
To Sit on Governor S Lawn
By the Associated Press

CHARLESTON, w. Va, July 90
Pickets carrying signs attacking Gov
Meadows for intervening in strike
continued to demonstrate today on
the Capitol steps and at his man
sion.
The Governor advanced new
proposal for settlement of the dis
puted point: Does United Mine
Workers District so still have a
work contract covering 1000 en-
ployes at Du Points big Bell am
monia plant? The strike started
week ago last night.
The Governor would not give the
details of his new suggestions, which
followed union rejection of an
earlier proposal.
The first one was understood to
call for a court test. What ar
rangement it would have made
pending the legal action was never
explained.
There were eight pickets today
on the Capitol steps. -Four more
sat with their signs at q corner OF
The Governors lawn. - 49,
Leon Yablonski, regional director
for the union, said they would 4.be
there "siX months If We have To. :
He reiterated q charge tha q State
police are being used as strike
breakers" One of the signs car
ried by the pickets said Du Pont
was telling the Governor. how tt
nun the StateNit 8 "
I Gov. Meadows said the picketine
is "ill-advised action on tiies part
of a few individuals (which) will
not help their cause"
Evening star., 1948-07-20
PhiIodeIphion Stoned to Death
By Mob in Cairo; Wife Escapes
BY the kssoeiotsd Press

An American citizen was stoned
to death by an Egyptian mob in
Cairo Sunday. the State Department
announced late yesterday.
Stephen Haas, So, a Philadelphia
real estate man, was set upon while
visiting the city as a tourist with
his wife, Press Officer Lincoln White
said. The American Embassy in
Cairo reported several. Egyptian
companions of the couple, as well
as members of a British family
were hurt by the mob.
Mrs. Haas apparently escaped in
jury.
Mr.. Haas. native of Hungary
entered the United States at the age
of 3. and became a naturalized
citizen. His wife, the former
Kathryn Maynes of Philadelphia
was chairman of the Women's Divi-
sion of the Treasury Departments
War Finance Committee during
World War II. She also is former
president OF the National Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs.
Mr.. Haas was Jew, but a busi-
ness associate in Philadelphia said
he took no part in Zionist activity
and was not active in religious af-
fairs. He was a member Of the
Philadelphia lodge of B'nai Birth.
Feeling occasionally has run high
against Americans in Carlo and
other cities in the Arab nations at
war with Israel. The Egyptian cap
ital has been bombed by Israeli
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Rites for ". 6. MacLean
To Be Held in Minneapolis

Funeral services for william Cor
don Mclean, 81, economic advised
on Mexican affairs for the State
Department, were to be held today
in Minneapolis.
Mr.. MacLean, whose home was at
1911 North Ivanhoe street, Airing
ton, died Sunday in st. Joseph's
Hospital, Brainard, Mimi, after be-
coming i'll Saturday at Lake Cross.
Mimi, on a vacation trip with his
family
He had been with the State De-
partment since 1941.
Before that, Mr.. MacLean was an
administrative officer for the Pres
byterian church abroad. He spent
IA years in Colombia and five in
Mexico. teaching and serving as a
superintendent of schools.
A native Of Minneapolis, he was
a graduate of the University Of
Minnesota and had served as SER
geant with the Army overseas in
World War I.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs.
Alice Spencer MacLean of Arling-
ton; a daughter, Mrs. James Flass,
Martinsburg, w. Va, and two sons,
Mai. william MacLean, U. s. M. c.,
Quantico, and Norman MacLean,
Arlington.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
3 Nazi Field MarshaIs
To Be Tried by British
BY the Assoeioted Press

NUREMBERG, Germany, July 20.
-Top-ranking German field mar
shals long sought for trials as war
criminals by the Americans will in
stead be tried by the British, it was
reported yesterday.
War crimes sources said they had
been told the British intend to bring
the case against Field Marshals
Gerd Won Rundstedt, Walther Won
Brauchitsch and Fritz Won Mann
stein.
The trials will be held in Ham,
burg, 1t was said.
All three have been British pris-
oners since the war ended. Brauch-
itsch, former comander-in-chief of
the German army, was returned re-
Gently to Germany, sick.
Rundstedt and Mannstein still are
in the British Isles. They are ex-
pected in Nuremberg later this week
to appear as witnesses for German
generals now being tried for war
crimes.
All three now are aging, especially
Rundstedt.
Brauchitsch was the chief Of the
Wehrmacht when France fell.
Rundstedt commanded the South
western front in Russia and later
became famous for his Battle of
the Bulge" Mannstein was COM
mander in the Northwest Russian
sector.
Charges against the three, lawyers
here believe, will include mistreat-
ment of prisoners of war on the
Russian front. Thousands died
from exposure and hunger.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Personal income Reaches
2OS.BiIIion Rate III May
ly ths A.seeiot.d Press

Personal income rose in May to
an annual rate Of $208 ,100, 900, 900,
the Commerce Department reported
today.
That was the highest since last
January. Total income received, by
individuals then reached a record
annual rate of $211 ,400, 600 900.
The May increase over the April
rate of $207, ,400, 900 900 was credited
to full work schedules in the soft
coal mines.
Miners worked a full month in
May against only two weeks in April,
the department said. Railroads also
rehired workers who had been laid
off when the strike partly disrupted
rail operations.
Wages and salaries, largest single
item of personal income, rose to an
annual rate of SIZE, ,700, 900 in May
from SIPS .000, 900 in April.
This more than Offset q sharp de-
cline during May in veterans bonus
payments as New York, one Of sew
eral States currently paying bonuses.
neared completion of its program.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Sea-LeyeI Panama Canal
is Urged by Engineer
Nv i,e As,oe;otsd Press

SEATTLE, July 20.-Conversior
OF the Panama Canal into a sea-
level waterway at an estimated cost
of 81, ,4s3, ,0O0, 600 was urged today by
the executive secretary of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers.
The alternative, said Col. William
N. Carey of New York, is the posi-
bility of having the canal put out OF
operation by determined enemy
for periods up to four years.
New weapons of war such as
atomic bombs, rockets and guided
missiles present dangers that "dic-
tate" conversion of the lock-and-
dam canal, he asserted.
Mr.. Carey, here for the society's
four-day national convention open.
ing tomorrow. said the sea-leve.
Isthmian waterway had been recon-
mended to Congress by the Governor
of the Canal Zone.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
| Daughter Found
| By Mother After
16-Yeor Trip
by the A,soeioted Press

LYNCHBURG, Va, July 2O.-After
Is years Mrs. Nellie Arthur Of
Lynchburg was able to say: "A fairy
tale corne true"
Sixteen years ago a childless couple
took Mrs. Arthur's 2la- -year-old
daughter Joyce with them on trip
to New York. t. -
The last word Mrs. Arthur heard
from the couple was two weeks later
They wrote that the trip would be
extended. =.
The efforts of Mrs. Arthur, a fac
tory worker and mother of two chill
dren, to locate her daughter were
unsuccessful.
But last spring Joyce-now Mrs
William Elldridge of Pocatello, Idaho
who thought she had been adopt
ed, asked the Juvenile Court here
for legal papers.
Mrs. Arthur was notified and the
mother was of to visit her daughter
And the couple who took Joyce to
New York Is years ago? They died
leaving two children. Joyce is going
to adopt them.
Evening star., 1948-07-20

measure, "just to make sure that
we are not unprepared If anything
happens"
Recruitment Of civilian personnel
offers a far greater problem than it
did in the defense days OF 1899 to
1941. At that time, there was con-
siderable unemployment in the
country, and people were glad to get
Federal jobs. But there is relatively
little unemployment today, and sal
aries in private industry are greater
than ever before.
That's why Federal officials an
ticipate a lot of difficulty in getting
adequate personnel in the Govern
ment if the situation arises. The
plans being drawn up call for q
direct recruitment program, with
hundreds Of Government agents
securing the country for all per-
sonnet that might be needed.
HOW ABOUT THAT?-Senate
Civil Service Committee staff men,
bers say a survey Of Federal agencies
shows that per cent Of all Gov
ernment workers are chronic
"gripers." In other words, they're
always complaining about some-
thing that doesn't suit them in the
Offices where they are employed.
Twenty per cent of Federal en-
ployes grippe occasionally, but not
very often. And IS per cent OF all
Government workers never COM
plain at all. They just go about
their work doing the best they can
and never grippe.
X
QUIET PLEASE-veteran Ad-
ministration employees in VAS main
Office here are complaining about
all the noise there lately.
Some partitioning work is going
on in the building, and those close
to the hammering and saving say
the din is terrific. They suggest
that. for their own peace of mind.
VA arrange to have the construc-
ton work done at night. .
Y y X
MEETING - The AFL Govern
ment Employees Council, which rep
resents more than 100000 Federal
workers, Is holding a special meet
ing this afternoon to map its legis-
lative program during the special
session of Congress. ,~1'
The No. item on its list will
probably be the bill to increase COM
pensation benefits to Government
employees who are injured on the
job. Present rates were fixed back
in 1927 and are greatly in need OF
upward adjustment. '"Fa"His
The measure already has been ap-
proved by the House Labor Com
mittee and would increase the
present $116 a month rate to a
maximum of $225. It would cost
81 ,000, 900, which Is not very ex-
pensive. ."
Chairman Hartley Of the House
Labor Committee pledged he would
lead the fight to push the bill
through Congress-. but he was de-
tanned at home on other matters
during the closing weeks of the ses-
sion and was unable to take an ac-
tive part.
That's why the Government En-
ployes' Council will remind Mr.
Hartley of his promise and urge
that he assume the lead in fighting
for the bills enactment.
Another bill the Council is ex-
pected to put high up on its legis-
latiye program is that which would
grant salary increases for District
government employees. Council mem
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Inquest Slated Tomorrow
InWoman' S sGaIIinger Death

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
will hold an inquest at II am. to-
morrow at the morgue in the death
June 20 of Mrs. Elizabeth Burch,
27. of the 5000 block of Clifton
street NE.
Mrs. Burch died in Gallinger Hos
pital. after being taken there from
the Women's Bureau, where she was
being detained on a charge of dis
orderly conduct. She was arrested
at Sixth street and Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. -
According to the, police report,
Mrs Burch was taken to the hos
pital when she was found lying near
her cot in the Women's Bureau. Her
nose was bleeding and she had a
cut on her head. the report stated.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
F104 Traffic Tickets
Fixed During Week

A total Of lo4 traffic tickets Is
sued to motorists here for various
violations were fixed" last week by
police.
According to the weekly report
issued yesterday at Police Head
quarters. there were 96 warnings
and eight cancellations, making a
total of 104.
One cancellation each was is
sued by precincts l and and the
traffic division. while five were is
sued by precinct 3.
The warnings we're as follows:
No. l Precinct-10; No. 2-5; No. 3
-l2; No. a; No. SIS; No. 6L6;
No. "A; No. 8L3; No. 81: No. 10
g; No. lilo; No. 12-4; No. 13-
S, and the traffic division-19.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Flyer Fined $400;;
Followed Horses
In AHpIone
By the Associoted Press

INGLEWOOD, Calf. July 90
This is tale of a. man who followed
the horses-in an airplane.
Jack w. Keeley, Is, Of Long
Beach, was arrested for low flying 6
plane over Hollywood Park race
track July 10. He was SO low
grandstand witnesses said, the plane
was below eye-level as it swoopeo
around the track behind the horses
in the seventh race
He was even accused of clipping
a tree or two.
Keeley pleaded guilty yesterday
in Justice Court.
The court, holding there Is limit
to horse playing, fined him $500.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Arlington Revenue Chief
To Be Honored at Dinner

Arlington Commission Of Revenue
Harry X. Green, who is completing
his 2eth year in office, will be hon
ored tonight at a testimonial dinner
at the National Airport dining room.
More than 400 persons. including
State and county officials, have been
invited. Senator Byrd, Democrat, Of
Virginia. and Gov. Tuck are sched-
uied to speak. State Senator Charles
R. Fenwick of Arlington will act as
toastmaster. A reception will follow
the dinner.
Evening star., 1948-07-20

bers say they are determined to
win enactment Of a $330-a-year pay
raise for District government work.
ers. the same as the rest of the
Governments classified employees re-
ceived.
POLITICS-Complaints are being
made that more and more personal
patronage is seeping into the filling
of jobs in the Commerce Depart
ment's ONCE of International Trade
and its Once of Domestic Com
merce.
The Civil Service Commission is
being urged to investigate the sit
uation.
INEQUITY CLEARED UP-The
Federal Loyalty Review Board has
taken steps to correct an injustice
that threatened to work great hard
ships on some Federal employees.
The situation involves Govern
ment employees who are accused OF
being disloyal, but who are sepa-
rated from their agency during a
normal reduction-in-force program
before they have a chance to answer
the charges.
After this column disclosed tht
inequitable situation last week, tn,
Loyalty Board decided these EN-.
ployes are entitled to a hearing anc
a chance to clear themselves.
This Is welcome news, since other.
wise these employees always woulc
have the charges hanging over theil
heads, and their chances of obtain.
ing other employment, either in thu
Government or in private industry
would be practically nil. Now, a,
least, they'll have a chance to refuts
the charges, If they can, and get q
clean bill Of health.
\ y \ \
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Various
secretaries on Capitol Hill are get.
ting frantic long distance telephone
calls from their bosses, asking them
to find them apartments to occupy
during the special session. It seems
many members Of Congress sublet
their apartments during the recess
and now are in a housing jam Of
their own. The Federal Clut
will hold its annual summer picnic
on July "a at Stephenson, Va.
Applications now are being accepted
by the Civil Service Commission fol
jobs as policemen and firemen in
the Metropolitan departments here
The starting salary is $2,720 year
Additional neUs of Govern
nlent affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast Uersion OF the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 pm. eUery Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
|NhU Tells Labor Board
Loss Of lis Hiring Hall
Would Destroy Union
BY The Assesioisd Prsss

An attorney for the CIo- National
Maritime Union told the National
Labor Relations Board today that
the union will be destroyed If its
hiring hall system is wiped out by
the Taft-Hartley Act.
The union of Great Lakes and sea.
going sailors on the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts has about 10000 mem
bers.
The board heard arguments on q
report Of Trial Examiner Howard
Myers. The union Is accused Of
violating the act by insisting on re-
tanning the hiring hall. 1t also is
accused of refusing to bargain with
the Texas Co. and three other oil
tanker companies operating on the
Great Lakes.
Herman Rosenfeld. attorney for
the MNU, argued that the hiring
hall-where "the first to register are
the first to be hired"-had stabilized
the industry. Before that, he said,
potential seamen were forced to
hang around certain grocery store
or similar favorite spot to get a
job on board lake ship.
Stand "Not Arbitrary"
The unions insistence on the hir-
ing hall "is not an arbitrary, Ca
precious stand" Mr.. Rosenfeld said.
1t was the outgrowth of years of
experience under free hiring" he
added.
Even employers say the hiring
hall is sound" Mr.. Rosenfeld argued.
A strike of NMU members on the
Great Lakes was matted by injunc-
ton. Similarly, walkouts on the
Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts by
seven unions-five CIO, one AFL
and one independent-were re-
strained by court order.
Mr.. Rosenfeld is making argu-
ments this week in hearings before
another NLRB examiner in New
York. He said the history and argu-
ments all would be the same and
asked the NLRB to consolidate the
records. The board reserved deci.
sion on that.
To Take Fight to High Court.
The union attorney said the NMU
will fight the loss of the hiring hall
to the Supreme Court, If necessary,
on the grounds that it would be TAX
ing away rights of the workers Ito
set the terms under which they
would work. without due process of
law. That would violate the Consti-
tuition, he said.
NLRB Chairman Paul NJ. Herzog
reminded Mr.. Rosenfeld that the
board can rule only on whether the
hiring hall violates the Taft-Hartley
Act. Examiner Myers ruled it is
form Of closed shop, prohibited by
the act.
Whether 1t is good or not is not for
us to determine" Mr.. Herzog said.
He indicated 1t is up to Congress to
amend the legislation If 1t is not a
good thing.
Reeves B. Milton, representing
NLRB General Counsel Robert N.
Denham, said that the ship owners
and the union ON the Great Lakes
had done all their hiring through the
hiring hall since 1887.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
insurance Book Approved

BALTIMORE, July 20 (P).-The
State Insurance Department yester-
day announced its approval of a
new rate and rule book governing
the writing Of fire insurance by
members Of the Maryland Fire Un-
derwriters Rating Bureau.
Evening star., 1948-07-20

OIncF FeQeTdl
agencies, ar e
drafting plans
for possible de-
centralization Of
Federal activ-
tiles here in the
event of war.
ern ent
omcials empha-
sized that the
plans aren't be-
ing formulated
on the aSsump-
ton that war Is
inevitable. They
say it is only a
Hranaaakinnaru
Evening star., 1948-07-20

planes, and some Americans have
been accused Of violating blackout
restrictions to guide enemy bombers
into the city.
In announcing Mr.. Haas death
Mr.. White told newsmen that JET
ferson Patterson, American charge
d'affaires in Cairo, is pursuing the
matter vigorously with the Egyp-
ton government. Mr.. White said
he did not know whether news OF
the stoning was being held up by
Egyptian censorship.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
S817.549 for Airport

BALTIMORE, July 20 (P,.-Fed-
eral funds of $817,549 have been
allotted to the city OF Baltimore for
initial construction at the Friend
ship International Airport.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
FOR WEDNESDAY.
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO-MODEL LOCOMOTIVE RAISES CURTAIN ON FAIR
"A model of the Pioneer foreground first steam locomotive to
out OF Chicago rolled through the Loop State street
yesterday followed by seamner parade marking the
for the Railroad Fair which opened the Lake
front today The exposition by SO of the Nations
carriers the Tooth anniversary of the first steam
train from Chicago 1t also marks the centepa Of the joining
by rail of TIE East and West. -AP Wirephoto
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Stomp to Honor Justice Stone

President Truman today directed
the issuance of a memorial stamp
honoring the late Chief Justice
Harlan Fiske Stone. The date of
issue will be set by Postmaster Gen.
eral Donaldson.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Civil Service Drafts Program
To Get Emergency Personnel
By Joseph Young

Service Commission quietly begun drafting
recruit the civilian for the
would needed in the emergency
its work at National
Security which job advising the
Evening star., 1948-07-20

In Durham, South Africa, a man
recently killed a 7-foot black man.
ba snake in his bathroom.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Weather Report

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-Part-
ly cloudy and humid with high
about 80 this afternoon and some
chance of a brief shower this after
noon or evening. Lowest tonight
about 70. Tomorrow mostly fair and
continued quite warm and humid.
MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA.
Mostly fair and continued warm and
humid tonight and tomorrow except
for a few brief and isolated showers
in afternoon or evening.
Wind velocity, 3 miles per hour
direction, south-southWest.
Five-Day Weather Forecast-July 20
Through July Is.
Northern Virginia and Maryland
Temperature will average about two
degrees above normal Normal max
imum. 81; normal minimum, s.
Continued warm through the period
with little change from day to day.
Scattered thundershowers likely
Wednesday. Friday and Sunday with
total rainfall about u inch.
River Report.
From u 6. Eneineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls: Shenandoah
- q
Evening star., 1948-07-20

HIEh and Low Tor Yesterday.
High, Sc, at 100 pm.
Low, 6S, at 2:01 pm.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 95. on June "a
Lowest. B. on January 20.
Evening star., 1948-07-20
Cumberland Entries
by the Asseeiotsd Press

FOR WEDNESDAY.
Weather Cloudy. Track Good.
First Post, 2:30 Pm. EDIT.
FIRST RACE-Purse, $1,000: claiming
Evening star., 1948-07-20

dent on tne' C0-OrUHdtIUII OF IiId-
itary, industrial and civilian mobili-
zation.
Also, the commission, as well as
Evening star., 1948-07-20
The Sun and Moon

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hah hour after sunset.
Monthly precipitation in inches IN the
rsp{tal fcOrrent month to date):
Evening star., 1948-07-20

Additional neDs of Gopern-
ment AFFAIRS and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast Uersion OF the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 pm. epery Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.
Evening star., 1948-07-18
By the A.seeio,ed pyess

BERLIN, July 17.-Maj. Gen. Will
liam wild Bill Donovan urged
worldwide retaliation against the
Soviet Union today.
He suggested at news confer
ence that the Western Allies might
deny the Russians access to the
Panama and Suez Canals and to the
Kiel Canal in Germany.
He said also that the Western
powers might urge Turkey to take
measures in the Dardanelles to pre-
vent the passage of Soviet ships.
IF the Soviets want to make
the squeeze on Berlin an economic
war, we should not confine it to
here" said Gen. Donovan, who was
the wartime head of the United
States ONCE OF Strategic Services
(OSS). I'VE should go to other
places in the world where they are
weak"
Gen. Donovan said the Western
powers should stand firm in Ber-
lin.
He said he did not like the phrase
cold war-because it is hot as hell"
Gen. Donovan's sharp comments
were made after the official Soviet
newspaper Taegliche Rundschau
said that "even the adventurous
politicians Of American imperialism
would not now risk starting a war;
Gen Donovan, who is retired and
visiting Germany in private capac-
ity, said that If the Soviet Union
wanted war it was better to find
it out here and now"
He said the Russians were at
Evening star., 1948-07-18
Gen. Donovan Urges Worldwide
Counter-Squeeze on Russians

tempting to wreck the European Re-
covery Program and drive the Uni
ted States from Europe. -
The only solution to the present
impasse, he said, was for the West
ern Allies to apply econmic and other
sanctions against the Soviet Union
throughout the world.
1t is known that other high Amer
ican officials here share. the opinion
that show of force to break the
Russian blockade may be necessary.
They reason that either the Rus
SLAMS are blufing or they have de-
cided the only way to prevent the
successful conclusion of the Euro
pean Recovery Program Is through
new war. If the latter is the case,
the Russians will apply pressure
against the Western Allies until
they commit an overt act. If the
Russians really want a new war, and
they have denied it for three years,
Berlin is only an incident.
These American circles say the
only way to learn Soviet intentions
is to make show Of force, perhaps
with an armed effort to bring con-
voy up the autobahn from Berlin
to the western occupation zones.
If the show Of force is not made
here it would have to be made else
where, they reason. They said with
out it the Russians probably would
win in Berlin.
There has been no reports of Rus
sian preparations for war in Ger
many. They have about 30 divisions
| in their zone.