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Evening star., 1948-09-15

BY a voice vote, the NFFE defeated
the resolution.
SHOO-IN-The grand old team
Of Mr. Steward and Gertrude NJ
McNally. the unions secretary.
treasurer, who have headed the
NFFE almost since its inception
back in 1917, appears certain OF re-
election.
No opposition Is In sight, and by
their enthusiastic applause of MI
Steward and Miss McNally during
the first two days of the conven-
ton, the delegates clearly demon
stated they are going to return their
two leaders in ONCE for another two
years.
DEFENSE-The delegates heard
Rear Admiral Paul B. Nibecker
chief Of the Navy Departments Of
flee Of Industrial Relations, defend
department policy to which the
union is bitterly opposed.
The policy involves the barring
Of supervisory employees from active
participation in union affairs.
1T Is regretted that employc
groups and the Navy Department
must compete with each other for
the services of these people; but
since we have first call on their
services and pay their wages, we
consider it fair to prescribe certain
rules Of conduct for them," Admiral
Nlbecker declared
The Nays position in this mat
ter can be stated very simply, and
that is that person cannot serve
two masters. He may end up. as
the Scriptures suggest, by loving the
one and hating the other"
Admiral Nibecker said the Navy
believes a supervisory employe must
so utterly detach himself from union
activity that all decisions devolving
upon him as supervisor in his day.
to-day dealings with employees will
be wholly without bias"
Following Admiral Nibecker's 3
speech, Mr.. Steward sood-naturedly
but firmly. declared:
Regardless of the time 1t takes
I'll get him admiral Nibecker to
change that order yet
FLEMMING-Former Civil Service
Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming
was another convention speaker.
Mr.. Flemming, who resigned re-
Gently to become president of Ohio
Wesleyan University and who still
remains in the Government on a
personnel consultant basis and as a
member Of the Hoover Commission,
called for an end to politics in filling
many Government jobs.
Specifically, Mr.. Flemming urged
that postmaster appointments be re-
moved completely from political
considerations and that collectors OF
internal revenue and customs like
wise be placed under the civil service
career system.
Mr.. Flemming also asked for close
cooperation in Government be-
tween Federal officials and Govern
ment workers unions. Both the
employees and the Government would
benefit under such = program, he
declared.
Il vs. u.F .rr-s.
OTHER SPEAKERS-A. Heath
Onthank, the Army DEPARTMENTS
civilian chief, urged adoption Of
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Two Air Lift Flyers
Back in us. Zone After
'Chuting in Red Area
BY the Assoeioied Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept.
1.-two American airmen who
parachuted into the Soviet zone
of Germany are back safely to-
day in the American zone, the
Air Force announced.
The two are Capt. Kenneth w.
Shaker, Lincoln, Nebr., and 1t.
Clarence r. Steber, Mobile, Ala. The
announcement said the two bailed
out over the Russian zone early
yesterday when their CAT plane de-
veloped engine trouble.
1t. Steber was<brought to Frank
furt by American haison officers.
Capt. Shaker was the pilot of the
plane.
The Soviet licensed German news
agency in Berlin said the transport
was flying 10 to IS miles outside the
air corridor to Berlin "and thereby
violated air regulations.
Walked Through Iron Curtain.
At Wiesbaden Capt. Shaker said
ne walked through the Iron Cur
tain" to escape from the Soviet
zone of Germany.
Il passed at least $50 Russian
soldiers, but none stopped me or
even paid any attention to me-" he
saio. apparently the Russians did
not even recognize me as an Ameri-
can soldier"
Shaker and 1t. Steber, Mobile,
Ala, bailed out over Soviet occupied
Germany early yesterday when their
CAT plane carrying flour to block
AIDED Berlin developed engine
trouble.
Met United States Troops.
On orders from high Air Force
officers, Capt Shaker refused to say
exactly where or how he crossed the
border. After making the crossing
he met American constabulary
troops who few him to American
Air Force headquarters in Wies.-
baden.
Wrenched Back.
He wrenched his back and was
knocked momentarily unconscious
by his jolting landing after para
chuting from low altitude.
II knew I was not far from the
American zone border" Capt. Shaker
said, 80 l took my bearings by
American planes flying overhead
toward Berlin and started walking
West. I just kept walking until I
got into the American zone"
His wife and 3-month-old son
Joined him in Germany only last
week at his home base in Fuersten-
feldbruck:
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Clay and Marshall
Differ on Purpose
OF Berlin Riotino
IY the A.seeiaied Prssk

Secretary Of State Marshall
and Gen. Lucius D. Clay ap-
peared today to disagree on the
purpose of the Communist dis
orders In Berlin.
Gen. Clay told a news confer
ence in Berlin yesterday that he
doubted the Communist at
tempts to seize power had been
planned by the Russians to
interfere with the current four
power negotiations on the
Soviet Russian blockade.
Gen. Marshall told a news
conference last week he believed
the disturbances are largely in
tended to upset the conferences.
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Big -Four Reported
Preparing 10 Move
Par|eys TO Paris
BY the kssoeioted Press

LONDON, Sept. 15.-Responsi-
BILE diplomatic sources said to-
day the talks on the Berlin
crisis will be switched from Mos
cow to Paris after the Western
ENJOYS next meeting with Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov at the
kremlin.
The American, British and French
representatives expect to see the
Soviet foreign minister-and not
Prime Minister Stalin-by the week
end, the informants said. -
(Secretary of State Marshall
today told press conference 1ues-
TONERS that he has received re-
port from Ambassador Walter
Bedell Smith in Moscow follow
ing the conference yesterday by
the American, British and French
ENJOYS with Mr.. Molotov. SO :.
Gen Marshall said he ex-
pected to see Mr.. Molotov at the g.,
meeting of the United Nations "
General Assembly convening in
Paris next week. Gen. Marshall
expects to leave by plane Sunday
for Paris.)
Possible Forms for Talks.
The Paris phase of the talks is
expected to take one of these two
forms:
If any hope of a direct east-west
settlement remains after the next
Kremlin conference, the matter
may be taken up by the Big -Four
foreign ministers and their advis-
ers, informally rather than at a
formal meeting of the Council OF
Foreign Ministers.
If no hope remains of a settle
ment, the whole issue will be tossed
by the Western powers to the United
Nations.
The informants said they had the
impression that Mr. Molotov has
been playing for time in the hope
that the western powers would
choose the first of the two courses.
All three of the western Foreign
Ministers will be in Paris early next
week for the opening of the United
Nations Assembly. Mr.. Molotov,
himself, almost certainly will be
there, too. the sources said.
Statements Reported Left.
The western ENJOYS were said to
have left with Mr.. Molotov yester-
day written statements supplement-
ing their talk. These statements
were said to have left the Russians
in no doubt about how dissatisfied
the west is about the meetings of
the military governors in Berlin.
The governors had the task of
translating into action a broad east
west agreement in principle of Ber-
lin differences. They got nowhere,
apparently.
The western statements to Mr..
Molotov concentrated on the need
to settle the currency situation in
Berlin and to lift the Russian block
ade of the city. In addition, the
question of Communist led attacks
on the Berlin City Hall was raised.
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Mineral Claims Stuked

Mozambique is in the throes OF
prospecting fever, Lourenco Mar
|ques reports, since discovery OF
samarskite, a mineral thought to
contain small quantities of urani-
um, in the Tete district. Recently
the Mines Department registered
the 95th application for rights tc
mine samarskite. Gold claims are
being pegged around Macanga, In
the same district.
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Green. criticizesc Clio
For Staying in Group
Fighting Marshall Plan
ly the Assoeiossd Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. IS.
William Green, president of the
AL, declared today that the CIO Is
in effect supporting a cause which
Is hostile to our own country"
Before the International Brother.
hood of Electrical Workers Conven-
ton, he identified the cause" a.
the World Federation Of Trade I'm
ions, which he called n powerful
fifth column of Moscow"
With all the earnestneSs at my
command" he said. II call upon the
CIO to withdraw. - ."
Mr.. Green said the AFL has
never compromised and will never
compromise In its stalwart opposi.
tion to communism. We want moth.
ing to do with the foreign brand
and we will have nothing to do
with the domestic brand"
Sees Contradiction.
Mr.. Green added:
we regard them as disloyal to
the United States and dangerous to
the welfare Of the working men and
women Of America" o.
In a variation from his text, Mr..
Green said, How contradictory it
is for an organization (CIO) to join
with us in support of the Marshall
plan, claiming to be In full accord
with us and send thousands
OF dollars to the WFTU, to be used
to oppose the Marshall Plan"
If the CIO claims to be an Amer
lean organization" the AFL leader
said, lit should tell the WFTU,
We're done with you and you can't
have any more money from US"
Green "Off Base" CLIO Says.
CIO officials here. said that Mr..
Green was completely of base" in
his statements.
1t was explained that James B,
Carey, secretary-treasurer OF the
CIO, succeeded in obtaining agree
ments at the WFTU meeting in
Rome last spring which barred the
use OF WFTU publications and ma
terials to discredit the Marshall
plan.
A careful check, a CIo spokesman
added, showed that the agreement
had been kept as far as the WITH
is concerned.
The spokesman also said that the
CIO has remained in the WFrU
and supported 1t financially rs .
means of immobilizing Communist
influences In the organization. If
the C1O should drop out. it was ex-
planned, the organization likely
would be taken over entirely by the
Communists.
We are as much opposed to the
Communists as Mr. Green is," the
spokesman said. But our approach
is different. We believe In getting
in and fighting the Communists"
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Jock Sutherland Leaves
Estate Of S317,923
BY the Assoeiassd Press

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15.-Dr. John
B. Jock Sutherland, noted foot
ball coach, left an estate valued at
S317.923.
The Pittsburgh Steelers' coach
and former Pitt mentor died last
April following a brain tumor oper-
alton. His estate was revealed by
an inventory filed with the register
of wills by Attorney Edward A.
Schultz. executor and trustee.
Chief beneficiaries are DR.. Suth-
erland's 90-year-old mother In
Scotland and two sisters. one IN
Scotland and one In Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Naval Curutor Honored

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. IS (P).-Capt
Harry A. Baldridge, curator of the
Naval Academy museum, yesterday
received a congratulatory letter
from Rear Admiral James L. Hollo.
way, academy superintendent. fol
completing so years of naval service.
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Soviet Troops Provoked
Battle, British Chorqe


charged today that Russian troops
provoked German anti-Communists
into the rioting last Thursday which
resulted in street fighting at the
Brandenburg Gate.
The statement by an official Brit
ish military government spokesman
rejected an accusation by the Rus
sian commandant, Maj Gen Alexan-
der Kotikov. that inactivity of Brit
ish military police encouraged "Fas-
cist provacateurs" to attack Russian
soldiers and the Soviet war me-
mortal
Self Imitation Charged. ,.-
Britain told Gen. Kotikov he had
his facts wrong and is guilty OF a
piece of calculated self-inf1ation."
This was the third sharp rejoinder
to Gen. Kotikov from the Western
Allies in three days. 1t came within
half day of the tenth meeting
in the Kremlin between Western
diplomats and high Russians on the
Russian blockade of Berlin.
Brig. Gen. Jean Ganeval Of France
raped Gen. Kotikov last week. He
implied publicly the Russian COM
mandant was liar as we'll as =
breaker of pledges for permitting
Soviet troops to kidnap 19 Western
Berlin police who had been guar
,anteed safe conduct by the Russians
from the City Hall the German
Communists were besieging. Col.
Frank Howley, American COM
mandant, recently said Gen. Kotikov
was responsible for international
shame" in failing to protect Berlin's
elected city council against Com
muniSt rioters.
KotikOv Starts Dispute.
Gen. Kotikov started the latest
controversy by sending a letter to
the British commandant, Maj. Gen.
E. o. Herbert, complaining about
the conduct of British police during
the disorders last Thursday at the
boundary of the British and Rus
sian areas of Berlin.
Gen. Kotikov declared in a letter
printed by the official Soviet news
paper, Taegliche Rundschau, that
British police inactivity" encour-
aged Fascist provacateurs" during
Thursdays riots.
One youth was killed and several
persons wounded when Germans
returning from huge anti-Com-
munist demonstration stoned Rus
sian soldiers near the Soviet war
memorial.
A Soviet military tribunal SEN
fenced five youths to Is years at
hard labor for taking part in the
fighting.
Monument Held Dishonored.
Gen. Kotikov's letter, directed to
the British commandant, charged
that criminal elements dishonored
the monument in honor of Soviet
soldiers who died in the struggle
for Berlin"
This took place after an anti
democratic demonstration which you
permitted, in the presence of units
of British military police and Ger
man police of the British sector of
Berlin" the letter declared. THE
Fascist bandits opened fire on Soviet
guards before the Soviet monu-
ment, disturbed the public order,
causing the death of one person, in
jury to several others, and attacked
German policemen of the Soviet Sec
/ -,
trying to restore order.
The inactivity of the British mil
itary police as we'll as the German
police of the British sector had been
taken for encouragement by the
Fascist provocateurs."
The Russian commandant asked
Gen. Herbert for assurances that
such incidents will not occur
again"
Evening star., 1948-09-15

uniform personnel policies for the
entire Government-not on q piece
meal agency basis.
Gordon e. Clark, director Of the
Air Force Departments civilian per-
sonnel, said his department Is
working closely with the Armys
civilian personnel people In draft
ing personnel policy.
Most of the personnel policies for
the Air Force Department will be
similar to those for the Army De.
partment, he said.
(Be sure to listen at HIS am.
euery Sunday ,oper WMAL, The
Star station, jor Joseph YouNg's
Federal Spotlight broadcast, teo-
turing additional netDs and pieUs
OF Government AFFAIRS and per.
sOndftties.j
Evening star., 1948-09-15

pTcScnt 20 uAyc
annual leave and
IS days sick
leave.
The resolution
setting forth the
NFFE's stand on
the matter Is
sponsored by Lo-
cal No. 2 OF
Washington, the
largest local in
the union, and
the convention Is
expected to ap-
prove it quickly.
The resolution
A AAA
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Report

j District of Columbia-Sunny and
pleasant with high about 78 this
afternoon. Clear tonight with low
.around So. Tomorrow most sunny
with high about 80
: Wind velocity. miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
= District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for "a hours ending
= am. September 15-58 grains pei
cubic yard of air
River Report.
? Potomac River clear at Hsrpers Ferr,
and at Great Falls. Shenandoah clear a
Tarpers Ferry
Evening star., 1948-09-15
Al Cupp's Mother Dies

NEW YORK. Sept. IS tP,.-Mrs.
Tillie M. Caplin, So, mother of the
comic strip artist, Al Capp, died
yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-09-15
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
|NFFE. to Oppose Any Cuts
I'm Annual or Sick Leave
kv Joseph Youno

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 15.-The biennial convention of the
National of Federal Employees to
record unalterab to reduction annual
sick leave benefits enjoyed by Government
With members Of Congress and
Evening star., 1948-09-15

ment officials seeking . reduction
in these privileges, the NFFE in
tends to wage an all-out fight
against any attempt to reduce the
Evening star., 1948-09-15

y Monthly precIpftation IN inches IN N
capital (current month to datel:
Evening star., 1948-09-15

= Automobile lights must be turned on
Zane half hour after sunset.
pre-
Evening star., 1948-06-01
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VOL, e:30-Dayid {. llsnihaI, chairman Of
The Atomic Energy Commission. addresses the
graduating class Of The Gettysburg Pa) High
School.
WToP, t0;00-Franehoi Tone In natlsll
Spents's "0ns Foot In Heaven"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-24
Wife Says Young Veteran Sentenced 10
Die Friday For Death Of White Taxi
Driver Suffering From Mental Disease
Because OF War Service
Case OF Marvin hurry To U. S.
Supreme Court

question of separation and segra-
CATION of the races in state court
rooms, as a denial of public
trial under the constitution of
Mississippi and OF the United ST.
ates.
Attorney Dixon Pyles, engaged
by the National office of the Ma
ACP is handling the hurry Case
in the petition and appeal to the
United States Supreme court.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-24

Jackson, Miss. Jan. 10 - Jes-
sic Lee Dickerson, young World
War II Veteran, sentenced to die
for murder of a white taxi dri-
yer in Columbus, eraly last spring
is suffering from mental ILL
ness his wife, Mr.. Cora Dickerson
told the Jackson Advocate here
last week.
The intelligent and attractive
young wife of the condemned
young veteran, revealing the un-
mistakable signs of the nervous
strain under which she has lived
since her husband was convicted
came here in a last desperate eff
fort to save her husband whose
execution is set for January %.
He was brought TO the Kinds
county Jail here for safe keeping
following his trial and sentence
at Columbus.
According to reports the young
veteran shot the taxi driver to
death while riding in his cab af-
ter he had engaged him to take
him on a visit a few miles from
town. There was no evidence OF
any motive for the crime.
During the trial the young vet
eran was represented by an at
torney, appointed by the court
whom his wife said did not raise
the question of his possible men,
tai illness resulting from his war
services. She said further that
her husband was tried and CON-
victed before she knew what had
happened to him. She was in st.
Louis, where he left her shortly
after his discharge to visit re-
latives in Mississippi.
In the case of Marvin Murray
also sentenced to execution on the
% of this month, a petition for
a stay of execution has been fill
ed in preparation to appeal to
the United States Supreme Court
after the State Supreme Court
here last Monday overrulled a
suggestion of error, made by At
ty. English Lindsey, appointed by
the court to defend Murray, in
which for the first time in the
states history the high court was
called upon to decide on the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-12
Federal Probe
Sought In Cops
Binding Man

New York-The United States
Department of Justice has been
asked by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People to investigate charges that
Rock Island, Illinois, police Of
ficer struck a Negro truck driver
with blackjack, permanently
binding him in one eye. T h
truck driver, James Simpson, had
been arrested and charged with
negligent driving on November
% last following a collision.
Simpson alleges he was attack
ed in his cell by police officer
James Swift. who beat him across
the head with blackjack and
struck him in the left eye, as a
result of which he lost his sight
in that eye. He was left for hours
without medical attention. When
he was finally removed to hos
pital physicians discovered that
there was no possibility of re-
storing his vision.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-12
Jim Grow Attacked
In baItimore's SSA
Administration

Baltimore. Md tG)-The United
Public Workers of America, open
ed singing attack against seq
regation and Jim crow as 1t ex-
lists in the accounting Operations
Division Of the Social Security
Administration in Baltimore. The
Union is circulating a petition a.
mong the 5000 workers calling
upon Oscar r. Ewing. FSA Ad-
ministrator. and Senator William
LANCER. head Of the Civil Service
Committee TO end discrimination.
The Union reveals that segrega-
ton OF Negroes into two units of
the accounting Operations, denies
supervisory jobs to them, except
Of a minor nature. and even then,
1, Is in two segregated units. In
addition. there is not a single Me-
gro among the hundred workers
in the personnel office, and no Ne
groes are hired as guards, the
Union stated. and added, that II
is time to Put an end to these
shameful practices.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-03-12
British Students
Protest Exclusion
Of Ada SipueI

New York-Mrs. Ada Sipuel
Fishers fight to gain admittance
to the University of Oklahoma
Law School has enlisted the sup
port of the British National I'M
ion of Students which has official
ly protested to the American en-
bassy in London according to in
formation received here.
The Union, representing $4,000
students of the universities and
colleges of England, Wales and
Northern Ireland, has forwarded
to Mrs. Fisher a copy of their
letter of protest to the American
embassy. The letter. signed by
w. Bonnet Rust, president of the
student union, expressed the Or
ganiza 10 ms strong feeling"
against the exclusion of Mrs. FISH
er. I'VE have always considered
that an essential part Of sduca-
ton is study alongside other peo-
pie. To deny this educative factor
to a person because of his race
appears to us both indefensible
in itself and unworthy of the ira
ditions of the crate American
people," the letter asserts.