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Evening star., 1948-02-05
Final Draft Under Way
On Armory Control
Bill After Conference

A final draft of a bill setting up
q three-man board to control the
National Guard Armory was being
prepared by the Corporation Coun-
sells Office today following minor
changes made last night at con-
ference between District authorities
and members of Congress.
The armory, built and maintained
by the District for the National
Guard, has been the center of a
squabble over the control Of the
building and the revenue obtained
from its rental for nonmilitary
uses.
The final agreement came yes
terday, based on the original pro-
posal OF Joseph c. McGarraghy,
former president of the Board of
Trade, that a special board be set
up to control the armory. At last
nights meeting, minor changes
were incorporated, Mr.. McGarraghy
said, but nothing of major nature.
AS 1t stands, the compromise plan
being put into q bill called for a
three-man board which would be
empowered to hire a manager who
would be responsible for the day-to-
day running of the Armory. The
manager could deal with nonmili-
tary organizations desiring to use
the Armory and could sign contracts
on behalf of the board. Proceeds
from rental of the drill hall for nom
military uses would go to the Dis
trict, while the Guard unit would
collect from soft drink or other con-
cessions. The board could fix rental
fees, but would be required to give
preferential rates to schools as we'll
as to the Federal and District gov
ernments.
Among those present at the con-
ference were Representatives O'Hara,
Republican, of Minnesota; Aber-
nethy, Democrat, of Mississippi;
Harris, Democrat, of Arkansas; Nc
Mahon, Republican, of New York;
Commissioner Guy Mason, Mr.. Nc
Garraghy and Brig. Gen. Albert l..
Cox, commander of the District Ma
tional Guard.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
WkAL Broadcasts Forum
On DC. Home Rule Toniqht

A home-rule forum, discussing the
merits of self-government for the
District, will be broadcast over Sta
ton WMAL from $50 to 9 o'clock
tonight.
Mai. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chair
man, National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, and Rufus
Lusk of the Washington Taxpayers
Association will speak against home
rule.
For. it will be Col William Rob-
erts, former Peoples Counsel. and
Mrs. Kathryn Stone, vice president
of the National League of Women
Voters.
Gerhard Gessell, Washington at
torney, will be moderator
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Congress in Brief
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

Senate:
Continues debate on st. Lawrence
seaway project.
Foreign Relations Committee calls
Walter Reuther, CIO auto workers
head, for views on European Re-
covery Program.
Banking Committee calls food
professors to testify on proposed
anti imitation controls.
Labor Committee considers bill to
set up Fair Employment Practice
Commission.
Banking Subcommittee meets In
closed session to consider rent con-
troll extension bill.
Senate House Economic Subcom-
mittee opens hearings on Presidents
request for authority to ration grain
for whisky and liquor making.
House:
Routine business.
Un-American Activities Subcon1-
mittee hears Attorney General Clark
on legislation to outlaw Communist
PARTY.
Evening star., 1948-02-05

planned to his friend that Having
two Ramspecks" meant the girl hac
had two within-grade promotions
| in her job. The Ramspeck tag re.
fers to the fact that the legislation
permitting these automatic promo
tions was sponsored by Robert
Ramspeck, then chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee.
"Oh," said the attorney, vastly re-
lieved. why didn't she tell me that
in the first place"
PINK SUBSTANTIALLY dismis-
sal notices have been handed out to
42 employees of the Commerce De-
partment's Office of Materials Dis
tribution.
The OMD was acting "just In case
Congress doesn't pass legislation
extending the agency's control over
tin, metals and alkaloids. Incident
ally, the IS employees in the agency's
rubber division are not affected,
since this activity operates. under
different congressional authority
and needs no legislative extension
at this time.
Agency officials say they hope
most of the ~ employees can be alb
sorbed in some, of Commences other
activities.
BUREAUCRACY - Navy Yard
employees here who work at night
have been waiting for more than
two years to get their retroactive
night differential pay.
Although Congress has authorized
the necessary funds to pay them, it
wasn't until last month that the
Navy Yard here started to pay off.
Meanwhile, most Navy yards in
other parts of the country have
completed the job Of reimbursing
their workers.
But after distributing the retro
active pay to workers with sur
names ranging from A to L, the
Navy yard here has stopped It's
payments. Several weeks have gone
by, and the workers in the L to z
group still are waiting for their back
wages.
Navy officials say they hope to pay
off the employees soon. but no one
we talked to had any logical reason
for the delay.
X X X
PAY EARNINGS - The Senate
Civil Service Committee tentatively
has set Monday as the date when its
Federal pay raise hearings will be
resumed.
Chairman LANCER and other pay
bill sponsors are determined to hold
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Term Connie Ruled
Libel in Pearson Case
BY the Associated Press

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Feb. 5.
Holding that it is libel on the face
of 1t to call man Connie, P"
Circuit Judge Decatur H. Rodgers
ruled yesterday that further testi-
mony In Drew Pearson's suit against
a West Virginia weekly would be re-
stricted to mitigation Of damages. "
The decision came in suit
brought by the Washington column
ist against the publishers Of the
Jefferson Republican and its editor,
r. j. Funkhouser. 1t was the latest
in a series Of opinions to the effect
that it Is Hbellous to characterize a
person falsely as a Communist or
Communist sympathizer.
Basis of the suit was an article
referring to lecture by Mr.. Pearson
at Charleston, w. Va, In 1916. In
remaining sessions Of the trial the
defense may attempt to show that
the article did Mr. Pearson no actual
harm.
Other cases last year resulted in
comparable rulings by the Seventh
Federal Circuit Court Of Appeals in
Illinois and the New York State
Court OF Appeals.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Clay Says Allies Will Face
Spirit Of Revenge in Reich
BY the Assoeiafed Press

PARIS, Feb. 5.-The Allies will
have to be alert against spirit OF
revenge that will probably break
out in Germany when that nation
gets back on its feet economically
Gen. Lucius D. Clay said yesterday
Despite this warning, the COM
mander of the American occupation
zone told an Anglo-American Press
Association luncheon, he thought
Nazism was forever dead" in Ger
many.
If there are troubles, he said, they
will spring from "nationalism, not
Naziism." Gen. Clay said he believed
Nazism is dead because it had failed
militarily.
He minimized reports of under
ground activity in occupied Ger
many but added: I'D be foolish if
I said democracy had taken root in
Germany"
Asked how long the occupation
would last, Gen Clay said: Maybe
Is years, maybe rs.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
UAWChargesI Industry
And Farmers CurtaiI
Output 10 Boost Profit
Ry the Associated Press

The CIO United Auto Workers
declared today industry and
farmers are holding down their
output to keep their profits high.
The result, declared UAW Presi-
dent Walter P. Reuther, is creep
ing Pearl Harbor" which threatens
both European recovery and United
States living standards.
There is nothing wrong with the
American economy, or with the sit
uation in Europe that cannot be
remedied and saved by American
production" he said.
Decries Cuts in Marshall Plan.
Instead of talking about pos
sible cuts in the $500, 100000 start
ing cost of the Marshall Plan, Mr..
Reuther said, Congress should
think over whether it should be in
creased to make sure the plan will
work.
He said the old saying which goes
"now is the time for all good men to
come to the aid of the party" should
be shortened to read:
"Now is the time for all good men
to come to-"
Mr.. Reuther gave his views to the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee as 1t neared the end of public
hearings on the European Recovery
Program
Ball Predicts Reduction
A few hours earlier, Senator Ball
Republican of Minnesota predicted
the starting cost will be cut and that
the $1,75o,0O0,0oo portion intended
for Britain will be attacked sharply.
He said many people are wonder
ing whether the recovery program
for 16 Western European nations "is
not primarily new British loan
dressed up in fancy trimmings"
Mr.. Reuther said the United
States must step up its production
Of steel, oil, power, electrical equip
ment, coal, building materials, rail-
road equipment and food.
All of these, he contended, have
been affected by "a master pattern
of privately planed scarcity-for-
profit"
Senator Ball heads an informal
group of 20 COP Senators who have
announced they will try to make
changes in the plan as drawn by the
State Department.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Press Held Working in Japan
Under Macarthur Dispensotion

and has frequently taken oHenSe al
some of the reports of nearly every
correspondent. However, even some
of those who SAY they are ION the
blacklist" report they have met NO
particular difficulties in news gath
ering as a result.
Several correspondents say Gen.
MacArthur's recent order canceling
accreditation for those travelling
outside this theater-and forcing
them to give up houses here when
they leave-was intended to prevent
re-entry of some in disfavor. A
headquarters check sheet contain
ing the rejection of Mr.. Costellos
application for 90-day round trip
orders to Java had, attached to it,
one of his critical articles in the
New Republic.
(Other rejections: Alpheus w.
Jessup of McGraw-Hill Publica-
tions, to East Asia; Horace Bris-
tol, Fortune magazine, to Singa-
pore.)
Gen. MacArthur's aides said this
travel order ruling merely extended
to Oriental trips the rules about
housing and reconciliation which
generally applied to every one on
trips to the United States. Pre-
viously, they said, correspondents
had been receiving special consid-
Grafton" for Oriental trips.
Three Points Involved.
These sources said three points
were involved in the ruling:
!. Macarthur has mo authority
to issue orders for travel outside his
theater, which includes Japan,
Korea, the Marianas, the Ryukyus
and the Philippines. ct also in
cludes China in event of emergen-
cies there.)
2. Gen. Macarthur did not feel
free to leave correspondents houses
empty in their absence, with hun
dreds Of occupation dependents
waiting in America for homes in
Japan.
8. He did not want to throw Japan
open to correspondents attracted
by better conditions" whose jobs
oblige them to spend considerable
time In other Oriental countries.
Whatever his reasons, the Army
Department in Washington has
overruled him, in part. 1t has de-
cided that correspondents who
leave American occupation zones tc
cover special assignments may re-
tain houses and get back in without
having to be reaccredited. This ap.
plies, however, only to newsmen who
are not away more than 80 days ir
any six-month period.
The Army Department ruling
followed action by Senator Know.
land, Republican, of California. He
had placed in the Congressional
Record a Newsweek protest against
Gen. MacArthur's refusal to readmit
Mr.. Pakenham. Newsweek callec
that "a very grave infringement or
the rights of the press"
Evening star., 1948-02-05

nndS the Gov.
ernment giving
pre- f e r e n t / al
treatment in va
cation benefits to
W or ers who
never even had
to take an eX-
animation to get
their jobs.
Apparently an
gered at this sit
uation. the Sem
ate Civil Service
c ON m ! t tee is
drafting a bill to
cut down the
looya of Z n q c q
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Appropriations Bill
Includes: S5OO,oOO
For Hospital Center

A $5o0,o00 appropriation for the
District Hospital Center is included
in q $e91, ,51s,551 independent Offices
bill awaiting action by the Senate.
The bill approved by the House
late yesterday, provides cost limit
of l9,500,000 for the big medical
facility. an increase Of 81 SOC. 900 over
the budget request.
Cut from the bill was request of
$3,400,000 for the Districts slum
clearance program.
The only item restored to the bill
on the House floor was 5000 to aid
the Potomac River Basin, Commits
sion.
The Potomac commission orig
inally asked for a $4,000 Federal
appropriation to aid in its work, but
the Budget Bureau cut the figure to
$4,000. The $4,000 figure was in
serted at the request of Representa-
tive Gary, Democrat, OF Virginia,
and carried on voice vote.
FTC Funds Cut.
The only other change made in
the bill on the House floor was a
cut of $4,000 in Federal Trade
Commission funds, made as COM
mittee amendment. Representative
Wigglesworth, Republican, of Mas
sachusetts, explained the cut was
intended to reduce FTC payrolls.
After considerable argument, the
House defeated move to reduce
the Presidents emergency fund
from the 100000 allowed by the
committee to $500,000, the amount
voted last year. The President had
asked for 100000.
The $991, 1,51S,551 total of the bill
Is s56,2S0,313 under the total re-
uuested by the administration, rep
resenting a cut of about 6 per cent.
The bill as passed includes these
funds:
Executive Office of the President,
s5,5s9,312, including 100000 for the
Council of Economic Advisers.
American Battle Monuments
Commission, $1,078 800.
Civil Service Commission, s243,-
294,098.
Federal Communications Com
mission, $500, 600.
Federal Power Commission, a.
49,550.
Federal Trade Commission. ss,-
4oS,o35.
Federal Works Agency, S525,863,-
944. OF this total, $64 1895 500 is for
the Public Buildings Administration
and includes the hospital center
funds. The Public Roads Admins
tration would receive $459, ,588, 1854,
including $4,000 for maintenance
of roads and bridges in Arlington
County.
S33, 3,161 900 for GAO.
General Accounting Office, $685.
1s1, 900.
Indian Claims Commission, $780,
900.
Interstate Commerce Commission,
$10,819,317.
Interstate Commission on the Po-
tomac River Basin, $4,000.
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics-$47 ,905 900.
National Archives-$1 ,358,055.
National Capital Housing Author
ity-$24,700.
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Conmission-$34ls00e: Tnts
amount would be forslar1d acduiA-
ton. Last years land appropriation
was $279,000.
ONCE of selective Service Records
-$2.476,700. .. -..-. .-,@-
Philippine War Damage Comrais-
sion-$95 100000.
Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion-$5,826, ,14O. IS
Smithsonian Institution-$3, ,056, 900.
Tariff Commissioners, 100000.
Tax Court-$772, 200.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Navy Sells Old Butter

OAKLAND, Calf. LP).-The Navy
sold $4,000 pounds of butter at 1872
cents a pound. But it was more than
two years old. Returned recently
from Saipan, it was labeled by the
Agriculture Department as unfit for
human consumption. The Peterson
Tallow co. of Oakland bought it.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Bolton Seeks House Seat

TOWSON, Md, Feb. S (P.-State
Senator William P. Bolton, Balti-
more County Democrat, announced
last night he will be a candidate
for nomination for the End con-
gressional district seat now held by
Representative Meade, q fellow
Democrat who lives in Baltimore
CITY. = SO ss~.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Juycee President Gives
Tie Clasp to Truman
BY the Associated Press

President Truman yesterday re-
ceived a spur-clip gold and silver
tie clasp from Taylor Cole. presi-
dent of the international Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Cole, a Texan, said he told
the President it was for his use
when riding gets tough"
Mr.. Cole told newsmen the Presi-
dent was very sorry" he would be
unable to attend the world con-
gress of the junior chamber at Rio
de Janeiro March 21-27.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Woman and Youth, 13,
Die in Baltimore Fire
BY The Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 5.-A 13-year-
old boy and his 43-year-old mother
died when flames ragged through a
dwelling in North Baltimore today.
George Patty and Mrs. Mary
Patty were pronounced dead at the
Union Memorial Hospital.
Police said Calvin Muller. 26, and
his 22-year-old wife, Betty. were
overcome by smoke but released
after hospital treatment. 1t was
believed that the building had no
other occupants.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Weather Report
District Of Columbia-Mostly

District OF Columbla-Mostly
sunny with temperature slightly
above freezing this afternoon, In
creasing cloudiness with lowest
around % tonight. Rather cold to-
morrow with snow beginning In
afternoon or night.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy with
colder in south and central portion
tonight. Tomorrow cloudy and
rather cold followed by snow In
central and north portion and rain
or snow in extreme south portion.
Maryland-Mostly cloudy tonight.
More snow likely beginning tomor-
row afternoon or night. Continued
cold.
Wind velocity, 9 miles per hour;
direction, northwest.
Road Report.
(From American Automobile Association
roads in Washington area covered with
light snow on ice base extending to Anna
polls and a little south Of washington
Roads slippery in Northern Virginia on
Route / to Frederickshurg, route 80 to
Warrenton, and route II to Newmarket.
Chains required on all roads.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
The Federal Spotlight
100000 u. S. Workers Face
4-Doy Loss in Annual Leave i.
The Federal Spotlight
BY Joseph YOUNG

Congress will act to lop off days of annual leave
of more than 250000 Government employees
The employees involved those who hired
temporary basis during the aerward temporary
annual
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Degree Days.
Degree days" of yesterday SO |
Accumulated degree days 2,S73 |
Degree Day
River Report.

River Report.
(From o. s. Engineers.l
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
Evening star., 1948-02-05

High and Low Tor Yesterday,
High, 34 at 1908 pm.
Low, 90, at 1852 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. So on January O.
Lowest, 5, on January 26.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Ceodetic Survey
Evening star., 1948-02-05

Friday y..Bargains

Tomorrow at 9 a.m-special groups from The
Modes regular stocks 20 ON sale at reduced
prices for quick disposal. Also listed are several
groups of apparel now being offered in the semi.
annual sale.
NO ExcHANGES-REFUNDS- GODS
Alterations and Charges Will Be Made.
Evening star., 1948-02-05

Is WORSTED TWIST SUITS
Sizes SO to 46 reg. We're $45-----------S -S33.75
8 SHETLAND SUITS
Fine herringbone; reg, 2/36, 3/37, 2/3S; long,
1/42 We're SOS
IL TWEED & SHETLAND SUITS
Sizes; reg, 2/36, 2/37, 1/40; long, 1885, 1877,
1888, 2/39, 1/4O. Were S40------------S20.75
Evening star., 1948-02-05
The Sun and

Rises Sets
Sun today 7:11am 5:34 pm.
sun tomorrow 7:10a.m 5:35 pm.
Moon. today 4:16 am. 1:25 pm
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to dste):
Evening star., 1948-02-05
a situation which

more than the regular 26 days of
'acation given to all other Govern
Hungry Horse news., 1948-06-04

which is the place of beginning
of the tract hereby described;
thence South 115 feet to a point !;
thence West and parallel with the
South boundary line 100 feet;
thence North and parallel with
the Government Highway so feet;
thence East so feet to a point;
thence North and parallel with
the Government highway 81 feet;
thence Southeasterly along the
South boundary of said Fish
Creek Road 55 feet to the place
of beginning.
(2) A tract of land in Lot 3,
Section %, Township 80 North,
Range 10 West, NJ. P. NJ, partic-
ularly described as follows: Com
mencing at the Southwest mean
der corner of Lot 8; thence East
along the South boundary of said
Lot 8 $40 feet more or less to the
West boundary of the Government
Highway $50 feet to its intersec-
ton with the South boundary of
the Fish Creek Road; thence
Hungry Horse news., 1948-06-04
CALL FOR BUS BIDS

The Board of Trustees of School
District No. of Flathead County,
Montana, will receive sealed pro-
posals up to 500 o'clock P. NJ
Friday June IL, 194S for school
bus. Bus to be of adequate con-
struction to insure the safe de-
livery of pupils to and from their
destination. Board of Trustees to
be the judge of same. Surety Bond
and Liability Insurance required.
For further information, route
ETC., same may be had at the Of
flee of the Clerk in Columbia Falls,
Montana.
The Board of Trustees reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
Dated this goth day of May,
194s.
F. P. FLEMING
Clerk of School District No.
6. Columbia Falls Montana.
A.
Hungry Horse news., 1948-06-04

, the man next TO him in a Los An
geles hospital is from Bolton ano
gets the Hungry Horse News SO
he gets the news from up here,
too. Remember the quotation how
far that little candle throws its
light ?"
Walter Rogers, formerly of this
community, passed away in a
Portland hospital May % after
an illness of two weeks. The fu-
neral was held May rs under the
direction of the Mt. Scott funeral
home. Rev. FIR. Dooley officiated
at the requiem mass and inter-
ment was in the Mt. Calvary GEM
etary. Mr.. Rogers was we'll liked
in the neighborhood and was a
devoted husband and father. Tie
deepest sympathy of many friends
and acquaintance is extended his
family.
Surviving Mr.. Rogers are his
wife. Amelia, a son. Ardean, II;
two daughters, Darlene, IL, and
Frances, 10, a sister, Mrs. Frank,
Perkins, st. Paul, and a brother
Benjamin Rogers, Tacoma.
Hungry Horse news., 1948-06-04
Now Who's Stepping
On the WORKING Man

the Flathead, he joined the union
in Kalispen.
He then went out and rustled 8
job, working for a concern that
employs only union labor.
But it seems, our young Amer
lean committed a new kind OF
sin. He should have waited to &c
placed by the union. 1t is report
ed that the business agent then
threatened to pull every man off
the job = strike, if the contractor
did not fire this particular indiv-
idual, whom he considered a GOOD
hard working man.
Now, exactly what is happen
ing to the right of man to I'M
prove his lot by displaying more
get up and go" than the next
fellow.
We're willing to hear and print
the other side. and this report did
not come from this particular
or the man, but from
war veteran. MR.
Hungry Horse news., 1948-06-04
Page 2 Editorials

We enter a period in the Fiat
head valley where the combined
skill and effort of men will build
the worlds fourth largest con-
crete dam. It is the first big post
war bureau of reclamation pro-
ject.
It is generally accepted in this
area, and we believe, that wages,
working conditions and right of
working men can best be repre-
sented by organized labor. In such
grouping of common purpose,
there has come an improvement
in the status of the actual build
ers.
We are not able to understand,
and our opinion is that the foil
owing case is not in accord with
what folks hereabouts want.
An overseas war veteran, now
living in this area, joined the
Transfers union elsewhere be-
fore the war. When he came 20