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Foreign Aid
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authority and be completely inde-
pendent of the State Department.
That would give the Secretary Of
State an "out." He explained that In
case of protests from European
countries about the administrators
businesslike procedure, the secre-
tary could reply:
well, of course, this administra-
tor, now, you know, Is a business
man, and you have to excuse him
for being little brusque, but Of
Evening star., 1948-04-07

that $3.50 compromise pay bill will
be worked out in the Senate.
The Senate Civil Service Com
mittee'S official bill calls for $3.50 pay
raises for Government employees and
$500 for postal workers. But this is
considered too costly by Senator
Flanders, Republican. of Vermont,
original sponsor of the measure.
Senator Flanders said he favors a
$500 non-postal and $3.50 postal en-
ployes pay raise bill.
Now, however, there are indica-
tons that a compromise will be
reached to give Government en-
.ployes about a $3.50 pay raise, with
postal workers getting around $3.50
or $500.
There's definite possibility that
Senator Taft, Senate policy leader,
will take charge of the compromise
measure when it reaches the Senate
floor. Senator Taft already has gone
on record as favoring some sort of
a cost-of- living wage adjustment for
Federal employees.
POLITICAL PRIMER-The Civil
Service Commission soon will issue
its election-year warning to Gov
erntment employees not to engage
actively in politics In violation OF
the Hatch Act.
Here are some Of the dos and
don'ts to follow:
You may vote for whichever can
didate you prefer, freely express
your opinion among friends or &C.
quaintances regarding your politica,
views and attend campaign meet
ings and rallies as a spectator.
But you cannot engage in any ac-
tivity on behalf of any politica.
candidate or party, even If 1t Il
only that of precinct watcher
You cannot make any speeches In
public on behalf of any candidate
nor can you contribute money o,
collect contributions for any candi-
date or party.
If you follow these rules, you're
pretty safe. Penalty for violating
the Hatch Act in any way is dismis.
sal from the service.
II X r
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-The Fed
eral Club will meet at 6 pm. Mon
day in the Willard Hotel. Guest
speaker will be Representative
Nixon, Republican, of California
Heating equipment operators
engineers and firemen are wanted
by the military district of Wash
ington. Apply at room 2E-1030, the
Pentagon.
additional nelDs OF GoDern-
Evening star., 1948-04-07
oarat Party nexspapsr, Il ,Papolo, To-
day happily labeled the whole affair

soGrat Party newspaper, i ,Pppolo, to-
day happily labeled the whole affair
a shameful" election maneuver Of
the Communist dominated Popular
Front. - f~" .
Poor Unita is denied also by the
Ftoi1t.lov1ng Waifate, 'ait' 'cfowed.
= "Tri the full fury, Of the election
battle, the Front has no more CARDS
left to play but those Of forgery,
fraud and trickery."
Editors of LUnita issued q still
little communique, quoting q state
ment they said they had received
from the American news agency
which distributed the article.
"The article In question is strict
ly authentic" L'Unita quoted the
news agency statement, which added
that the Italian translation of the
article corresponds exactly" to the
original English text and that the
agency had been regularly author
lied" by the New Republic, which
Mr.. Wallace formerly edited, to dis
tribute the article in Italy.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

ope ming last
night Of Henry
A. w alla C e's
three-day cam
paign tour OF
Indiana. Among
those injured in
the fighting was
C. B. Baldwin,
Wallace cam :
paign manager
and one time
Farm Security
administrator.
Fighting broke
out In front OF
the Coliseum
Evening star., 1948-04-07

the ERP bill.
He said the last time he had been
to Europe was in the fall OF 1946.
Mr.. Hoffman subscribed fully to
the basic principle of the recovery
legislation-that European recovery
must be based on self-help and
mutual help of the European nations
with the United States lending a
big hand.
IAN increase Of a third in Eu-
ropean production" he told the re-
porters, would result in a reason
able European prosperity. One Of
the best antidotes to communism is
a reasonable prosperity"
Mr.. Hoffman said he didn't think
"any one" would want to shut of
the trade between Western Europe
and the Russian orbit nations. The
Hartman Committee report was one
of the first to point out that Euro
pean recovery depends in q large
measure on east-west trade.
No Time Limit on Post.
Mr.. Hoffman said he had put no
time limit on how long he will hold
the new post. He wouldn't say that
he was taking on the job for the full
four-and-a-quarter years contem-
plated under the ERP bill.
II told him." he said, recounting
his talk with President Truman,
that I'd take the job and do the
very best I can. Maybe in short
time he'll suggest I 60 home"
This will be Mr.. Hohman's first
formal job in the Government. He
has served as a member of the
Commerce Departments Business
Advisory Council as well as on the
mission to Japan.
Born in Chicago in 1891, Mr.. Hoff-
man quit college to begin work
as a salesman with Studebaker in
1911. When the corporation went
into receiyership In 1888, he was
named receiver and In two years had
the firm out of bankruptcy. He was
then named president, a post he has
held since that time.
During the war Mr.. Hoffman
headed q group Of businessmen who
created what they called the Com
mittee for Economic Development
which planned for full employment
after the war. The CED Is stu
active and Mr.. Hoffman is chair
man of its trusteesss VT Il
n I 4 II
c51se he is not responsible to Aaegp
Besides running ERP, the adhdf1f-
strator will have much to say about
other United States foreign aid pro-
grams including the $463.O00. 900
yatsdrhk Congress ee~xar
The safe Depaifnss il ssawhile,
was df&ffing letters saf agreement"
with fne 16 countries, along with
Western Germany, which are taking
part il the self-help recovery pro-
gram.
Preliminary Control In Doubt.
These will be replaced later by
formal agreements In which coun-
tries getting American help must
state just what they will do by
themselves and In cooperation with
the other ERP countries to bring
about recovery.
There still was no word whether
ERp preliminaries - until a per-
manent organization can be set up
would be run by the State Depart
ment, the Export-Import Bank or
the Reconstruction Finance Corp,
which is making 81 ,105, 900 900 avail
able at once to start the program.
Government officials said ship
ments to Europe would 60 ahead
without interruption under a $55,-
000, 900 stopgap fund until ERP itself
takes over, probably late this month.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Wallace B ecomes Issue
In Italian compoiqn

ROME, April 7 (CDN. - Henry
Wallace found himself cause cele-
bre in the italian election campaign
as result Of the article published
several days ago in L'Unita.
The governments Christian Dem
Evening star., 1948-04-07
C.B. Baldwin Among !;
Hurt in Picket Clash
Al Wallace Meetinq
by the AssoeIoted Press

EVANSVILLE, Ind, April IA
protest parade, a picket line and a
skirnish In which three persons
suffered minor injuries marked the
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Weather Report

District of Columbia Cloudy and
cool with highest temperature near
60 this afternoon. Occasional show
ers late this afternoon and tonight.
Lowest temperature tonight about
Sc. Tomorrow considerable cloudi-
ness and warmer. Showers likely in
afternoon.
Virginia-Considerable cloudiness
and mild tonight. Showers and a
few scattered thunder storms To-
morrow partly cloudy and warmer.
Showers and thunder storms likely
in afternoon.
Maryland-Showers and few
thunder storms and continued mild
tonight. Tomorrow considerable
cloudiness and warmer. Showers
and scattered thunder storms in
afternoon.
Wind velocity. IA miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
River Report.
(From United States Engineers)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
cloudy EarOera Terrv
Evening star., 1948-04-07
The Federal Spotlight - 4.
House Committee Begins Probe
OF Personnel Policies at VA
By Joseph Young

The oft-cczed personnel policies Veterans Admins
tration finally due for airing in Congress.
Disturbed conditions VAthe Governments third largest
agencyhe House Civil Service Committee begun inves-
CATION of VAS personnel policies
There's doubt that study BY committee
Evening star., 1948-04-07

The news agency mentioned in
this dispatch was identified in Asso-
ciated Press dispatches as the Over
seas News Agency.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

additional ne,Ds OF GoUern-
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast version OF the Federal Spot
light at BIS pm. eUery Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.)
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Congress was long overdue. The
Civil Service Committees investiga-
tion doubtless will be welcomed by
q lot of VA employees who have been
Evening star., 1948-04-07

High and Low for Yesterday.
High, rs, at 2:55 pm.
Low, 80, at 6.l2 SIN. y sc "a
60 Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, So, on March 2I. 20
Lowest, B, on January 26.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

COMPROMISE POSSIBLE -
There seems to be a good chance
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Bowie Entries

FOR THURSDAY.
BY the Assoeiofsd Press
Cloudy and Fast.
First Post. 2 PM, EST.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Fire has given Czechoslovakia
1000 carcasses of cattle for food.
Evening star., 1948-12-10

investigation pursued by this com.
mittee.
: Most important Of eli, had oui
committee vacated It's authority and
not continued its, interest In the
Hiss Chambers matter, after making
the foregoing discoveries and dis.
closures, our conformity six months
ago with the suggestions you raised
on December 8, 1948, would have
meant that the highly significant
top-secret State Department docu-
ments now in the possession of this
committee would not have been dis
covered, and would not now be
available to you for presentation to
the grand jury in New York, since
the evidence there being used by
your attorneys was secured from the
files Of our committee.
AS a result, in the public interest,
in the interest of our national Sc
curity, as well as in the interest of
maintaining the dignity and in
tegrity of the legislative branch of
the Government. our committee, by
unanimous action, has decided to-
day to continue our investigation of
the Hiss Chambers case with the
hope that the major culprits in this
matter, those who stole documents
from the Government departments
for purposes of delivering them to
Communist hands. will be disclosed,
spprenhended and punished.
To that end, we shall continue to
give you and your department every
reasonable cooperation, and we
Evening star., 1948-12-10

you request that we refrain from
questioning witnesses "who might tr
the future be called to testify be-
fore a Federal grand Jury" this
means that you propose to stop en-
tirely the activities and functions
of the House Committee on Tn
American Activities In connection
with such q matter as the Hiss
Chambers case, and thereby inter-
fere with the prerogative of the
Congress Of the United States.
Should the committee acquiesce In
this instance, 1t would be tanamount
to q congressional capitulation,
which, If persisted in. might para
lyze all future congressional in
vestigations.
A brief glance at the record clearly
demonstrates how completely an
tagonistic to the best interests of
the country would be such q sur
render Of congressional authority as
you blatantly propose.
Taking the, Hiss Chambers case
as an example, had the Committee
on Un-American Activities acceded
to similar suggestions and requests
made by the Department of Justice,
as much as six or eight months ago,
the fact that Alger Hiss was per-
sonally acquainted with Whitaker
Chambers would never have been
established. In addition, 1t would
never have become known that Hiss
and Chambres occupied the same
living quarters together at one time
In their career, had 1t not been for
Evening star., 1948-12-10
German Children JoiIec
For Laughing at Stain
BY the Asseeio,sd Press

BERLIN.-A group Of German
children who thought they coule
safely snicker at Stain when his
picture appeared on q newsreel
screen in the Russian sector Of the
city know better now.
The anti Communist press OF
Western Berlin reported that q halt
dozen youngsters were apprehended
for this offense recently. A Com
munist noted their behavior, report
ed them and had them arrested, the
press dispatches said.
They got of relatively easy,
though, only being held in jail over
night and getting Of with warn
ing.
Evening star., 1948-12-10

shall continue to supply in the fu-
ture, as we have In the past, eN-
dence becoming Gvailable to us
which can best be used by your de-
partrnent In prosecuting offenders.
We again take this opportunity of
renewing q request which has been
earlier denied, to the end that you
authorize the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to make available to
us pertinent information as it be-
comes essential in the public in
terest to do 50, and to aid US in the
locating of witnesses attempting to
evade subpoenaes of this committee.
Sincerely yours,
KARL E. MUNDT,
Chairman, Subcommittee on Ma
tiona1 HnciIrity
Evening star., 1948-12-10
Bach Society Protests
Film Production Plan
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

! SCHAFFfHAUsEN, Switzerland
The Executive Committee of the In
ternational Bach Society here has
protested the contemplated produc.
ton of q Aim based on the Mat.
thew Passion Of Johann Sebastian
Bach.
The committee said Bach's work
written for choirs, orchestra ant
organ, was "one Of the most solemn
works in all music and should re.
main untouched" Ernst Marischka
Vienna producer. was reported to be
planning production Of the fllm.
Evening star., 1948-12-10
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
pEcEMBER TO-

America since the company started
its transatlantic service In 1s47.
Transportation Of ship crews By
air to relieve crews on board Nor.
wegian ships in American harbors 10
cheaper than transportation On
ships over long distances, the ships
owners say.
Evening star., 1948-12-10
Norwegian Shipowners
Fly Relief Crews to u. S.
~ The Assoeio,sd Press

OSLO.-The Scandinavian Air
lines System has announced that its
planes transported more than 1000
Norwegian seamen from Norway to
Evening star., 1948-12-10

The tert of Assistant Attorney
General Alexander M. Campbelps
letter to Acting Chairman Mundt
OF the House Committee on Un-
American Activities and Mr..
Mundts repty folloUs:
Evening star., 1948-03-08
Second Bulgarian Envoy
Announces Resignation
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. Bulgarias
Minister to Britain has quit his job,
in order, he says, ito work for the
restoration of liberty and democracy
in my country"
The Minister. Nikola Dolaptchiev,
thus joined Vassil Youroukoff, Bull
garian Minister to Belgium, who an
nounced last Friday that he had
resigned. The Bulgarian govern
ment said the next day that Mr..
Youroukoff had been dismissed.
IN Sofia, Bulgarian newspapers
announced today that Mr.. Dolapt-
chiev had been dismissed because
of "his treacherous attitude toward
Bulgaria"
Mr. Dolaptchiev said in announc-
ing his resignation last night:
The liquidation of all independ-
ent political activities and the actual
establishment of one-party system
of Government Gn Bulgaria) will
lead inevitably to the suppression of
all liberties
Evening star., 1948-03-08
Pennsylvania Group
Starts Out 10 Place
Wallace on Ballot
BY the A,soeiotsd Press

YORK, Pa, Mar. 8.-Pennsyl-
vania's political fledgling, the Pro-
gressive Party, set out today to place
Henry Wallace's name on the States
presidential ballot.
The new party was organized with
Mr.. Wallace present yesterday.
Georgia, Maryland and Vermont
previously organized independent
parties to back the former Vice
President.
To assure permanency for the
movement, Mr. Wallace described as
fantastic" report that he would
return to the Democratic fold,should
President Truman step aside.
Mr.. Truman is not the issue, he
told $500 delegates.
THE doctrine which carries his
name is an issue and 1t was in the
plans of men who are running the
Government long before they told
Harry Truman about it," Mr.. Wal
lace added.
The Truman doctrine calls for
military advice and economic as
sistance to nations fighting COM
munism. Greece and Turkey al
ready are receiving United States
aid.
Those men and their plans won't
be changed by the simple substitu-
tion of another servant of the same
interest" Mr.. Wallace declared.
Gerald Schaf1ander, executive di-
rector of the new group, announced
more than $4,000 in contributions
were pledged at The meeting. The
party hopes 70 raise 100000 for
the Pennsylvania general election
campaign.
Meanwhile, Ohio supporters of
Mr. Wallace split into two groups
yesterday at a meeting called to
plot strategy for obtaining 100000
signatures to place his name on the
Ohio ballot next November.
John Greer, United Labor Party
chairman from Akron, announced
group from Summit County would
carry on a campaign Independent
of that planned by the State Cen
trail Wallace for President Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1948-03-08
Coast Guard Ships Search
For Jockey Albert ynider
By the Associofsd Press

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 8.-Planes and
surface craft went out again today
to search for three men missing
since Friday in a 16-foot boat.
While hopes for their safety
dwindled hourly, the Coast Guard
intensified its search for Jockey Al
bert Snider of Miami, Donald Fra
zier, businessman from Toronto,
Canada. and c. H. (Tobe) Trotter,
Miami horse trainer
A two-day search of the vast area
at the southeastern corner Of the
Florida mainland brought no re-
suits.
Three men were last seen at 5
pm. Friday while fishing from a
tender off the yacht Evelyn K near
Craig, Fla. At that time sudden
storm came up, with winds reaching
48 miles per hour.
Mr. Snider, about 80, was born in
Canada but recently bought home
in Miami Springs. He has wife
and one child. The popular jockey
won the Flamingo Stakes aboard
Faultless in 1947 and on Citation
last month.
Evening star., 1948-03-08
Jewish Snipers Kill
Two Arabs in Haifa;
Tel Aviv She||ed
By the Assoeioted Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. 8.-One Arab
was slain and an Arab woman was
found dead in Haifa this morning,
police said, apparent victims of
night-long sniper fire from Jewish
quarters.
A Jew was killed in Tel Aviv,
they reported, when Arab motar
shells whammed into part of the
all-Jewish city's borderland with
Arab Jaffa.
Police said no casualties resulted
from seven hours of shooting be-
tween Jewish and Arab suburbs of
Jerusalem.
The unofficial count of violent
deaths in Palestine is 1923 since
the United Nations assembly rec
commended last November 20 that
the Holy Land be partitioned be-
tween Jews and Arabs. This in
cludes 702 Jews, 1893 Arabs, 103
Britons, 8 Americans and % others.
Eight Arabs and one Jew were
killed yesterday.
Jewish Leaders to Meet.
The Jewish Agency Executive, an
official said, will meet in Tel Aviv
tomorrow to consider ratifying an
agreement between the agency's
militia, Haganah. and Irgun Zvai
Leumi, extremist Jewish under
ground band. He said ratification
would mean consolidation of our
fighting capacity"
A Jerusalem military court SEN
fenced three British constables today
to four years in prison each for "at-
tempting to sell a rifle of his mai
estys forces to an Arab"
The veteran Arab warrior Fawzi
Bey al Kaukji, inspected his armed
forces in Northern Palestine yester-
day and declared:
"Everything is ready. The battle
starts when I give the word"
A headquarters company of so
men accompanied Fawzi Bey on his
tour.
Plans to Stay and Fight.
In the village of Kabatiya, where
Fawzi Bey made his headquarters
when he fought British and Jews
in the Arab revolt of the late thir-
ties, he said:
Il have come to Palestine to stay
and fight until Palestine is free
united Arab country, or until am
killed and buried here"
He declined to discuss the actual
fighting strength of his army of
liberation"
Our strength is adequate and in
finite" he said. THE armies have
started flowing over the borders of
Palestine and the flow will con-
tinue."
To Challenge British Policy.
In London speech last night, Ian
Mikardo, Leftist Labor member of
Parliament, said he and at least 10
others would challenge the British
governments Palestine policy this
week.
He said they would introduce an
to defeat a bill on
British withdrawal from the Holy
Land, now before Parliament. The
amendment, to prevent the bills
being given second reading, would
charge failure to further "the inde-
pendence of Jewish and Arab states
in Palestine as provided by the
United Nations decision" he said.
Mr.. Mikardo, charging British ap-
peasement of Arabs, said the Pales-
tine commander, 1t. Gen. G. Fl. A.
Macmillan, had been tipped off when
foreign Arabs were about to enter
Palestine, but had forgotten" to
Evening star., 1948-03-08
WhottheRussiuns
Are Soyinq of Us
The Mosco,p radio. brondf

the MoScoD radio, bro1dcdsting il
to Europe, said.
Many American economists are
placing their hopes on good luck
and are trying to console them
selves with the idea that the
imminent economic crisis in the
United States will be just as brief
as the one in 1920-21, which was
followed by those seven years of
prosperity.
"And yet the arguments brought
forth in support of such forecasts
cannot stand up to any criticism.
On the contrary, very many are
Of the opinion that the imminent
crisis will be exceedingly acute,
intense, and will have vaster re-
percussions.
Evening star., 1948-03-08
Robert {. Tracy Heads
Masonic Masters Council

Robert C. Tracy secretary of the
Tax Court OF the United States, is
the new grand master of the Grand
Council of Royal and Select Masters
of the District, Grand Recorder Otto
B. Roepke announced today.
He was selected at the twenty
ninth annual assembly of the order
Saturday in the Masonic Temple.
Other officers elected were Lloyd
o. Miller, deputy grand master;
John S. Meade, principal conductor
of work; Ralph L. Hebbard, treas
urer; Mr.. Roepke, recorder; the Rev.
John C. Palmer, chaplain; Richard
w. Waldt, visitor and lecturer; Hen
ry H. Rehmann, captain of the
guard; Theodore G. Lewis, conduc-
tor of the council; Richard E. Tit
low, marshal; John S. Nichols, stew
ard, and Arthur A. Ridout, sentinel.
Evening star., 1948-03-08
Two GIs Feared Dead
In Jap Barracks Fire
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Mar. 8.-The United
States 1st Calvary Division checked
personnel records today to determine
the number of casualties in fire
which destroyed three barracks at
Camp McGill.
Two soldiers are believed to have
died in the fire yesterday. Division
headquarters said eight men were
burned-none seriously attempt
ing to save government property.
They included Corpls. Jeffrey
Simoneaux, Gretna, La, and Robert
Burton, Williamson, Ca; Pfc. Elden
Roth, Allentown, Pa; Pvts Ray
Mcdaniel, Augusta, Ga, and T/5
Edward Vengar, Somerville, N. j.
Evening star., 1948-03-08
You'll, Is, Admits Clubbing
Man to Death, Police Say

MONROE, La, Mar. 8 (R.-A
grammar school boy yesterday told
police he shot and then clubbed
an aged farmer to death because the
man teased him about his inability
to chop wood.
Sheriff Milton Coverdale said the
I16-year-old youth confessed orally
to firing two shots at the farmer
B. F. Shepperd, 10. while strolling
down the road target-shooting. Nc
charges were filed Immediately.
Mr.. Shepherds body was found
early yesterday, half submerged in
small creek.
Sheriff Coverdale identified the
farm boy as a seventh grade pupil
at West Monroe Parish Grammar
School. Louisiana law prohibits
publication of the name of juve-
nile charged with a felony.
The boys 3o-year-old brother
turned him over to officers, the
sheriff said.
Sheriff Coverdale said the youth
told him that after he fired the two
shots he walked alongside the man,
who crawled up the road screaming
for aid, hitting him on the head
with the stock of his rifle.
Coroner j. T. French said death
resulted from crushed skull.