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Evening star., 1948-04-29
Col. Heron 10 Retire
July | as Advertising
Director Of The Star
Col. Leroy w. Heron, advertising

Col. Leroy w. Heron, advertising
director of The Star, announced
today that his request for retirement
has been approved as Of next July
/, at the end of his SD year of
service to this paper.
He called his associates to his
Office in The Star Building to tell
them. This doesn't mean I'm going
to stay away"
Col. Heron announced that God
frey w. Kaufman, 81, has been
appointed advertising manager,
effective today, and that Frank v.
Aiello, 80, has been appointed retail
advertising manager, to fill the
vacancy caused by the appointment
of Walter S. Furlow to a new assign
ment of directing statistical re-
search for The Stars advertising
department and local advertisers.
Col. Heron, who suffered a seri-
Gus illness during the early winter
came to The Star as a $3-a-week
messenger boy in 1896. He has
worked nowhere else except while on
leave for military duty. He organ
lied the 313th Field Artillery here
and was its commander for 20 years
In October, 1910, that unit resolved
unanimously that Col. Heron be
made an honorary colonel
forever" He is veteran of the
Spanish American War and World
War I.
In 1887 and 1888, he served two
terms as president of the Newspaper
Advertising Executives Association
national organization which has a
tradition against re-electing its Of
ficers.
Col. Herrons father. the late J.
Whit Heron, was business and ad-
vertising manager of The Star when
he died in 1910.
Mr.. Kaufman has been with the
paper since 1899. His father is R
NJ. Kaufman. secretary of The
Star Co..
Mr., Furlow came to The Star in
1880, while Mr.. Aiello has been en-
ployed in the advertising depart
ment for Is years.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Committee Approves
Sawyer and Others,
But Buchanan Waits
BY the Asxocioted Press

The Senate Commerce Committee
approved today the nomination OF
Charles Sawyer. Cincinnati Demo-
crat, to be Secretary of Commerce
The nomination now goes to the
Senate for action.
Mr.. Sawyer, former Ambassador
to Belgium, was named by Presi-
dent Truman to succeed w. Averell
Hartman. who has resigned to be-
come rowing Ambassador to the
countries being aided by the Euro
pean Recovery Program.
Chairman White told reporters
the committee also recommended
confirmation Of:
l. Harrington Wimberly of Altus
Okla, to be a member of the Fed
eral Power Commission. He has
been on the commission since 1945
2. Russell B. Adams, a native OF
Wheeling. w. Va, to be a member
Of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
3. Delos Wilson Rented of Alex
andria, to head the Civil Aero
nautics Administration.
Buchanan Nomination Waits.
The committee took no action on
the nomination of Thomas c. Bu-
chanan of Pennsylvania to be a
member of the Power Commission.
Senator White called a hearing
on Mr.. Buchanans selection for
next Thursday. He said he had
heard from three Senators voicing
opposition or at least suggesting
full hearing"
Senator White did not name the
Senators
Meanwhile, it was reported that
two top men are leaving the Com
merce Department, but their de-
parture, 1t was said, is not con-
nected with the change in secre.
taries.
The officials are Undersecretary
William C. Foster and Assistant
Secretary David K. E. Bruce.
Both Invited to Stay.
Both, it was said, were invited by
Mr.. Sawyer to remain and have
promised to stay on while Mr.. Saw
yer familiarizes himself with his
job.
Mr.. Foster, a Republican who is
serving as Acting Secretary now, is
reported undecided whether to re-
turn to his private business or tc
accept offers Of other Government
posts.
Mr.. Bruce, whom Mr.. Hartman
brought into the department as his
special assistant last year, will be-
come a deputy to Mr.. Hartman in
the latter's new post.
Evening star., 1948-04-29

Bank and Monetary Fund and 9TH
ers have come along to complicate
the problem.
Federal officials had been hopeful
that new Government buildings
would be the answer to the prob
lem. but high building costs have
made it necessary to postpone most
Government construction for some
time to come.
Consequently, PBA officials are
studying plans for consolidating
various Offices and shifting 9TH
ers around to use every square foot
of Government floor space avail
able in Washington.
PAY PICTURE-Federal pay raise
prospects have frightened consid-
erably. AS we predicted on Tuesday,
House Speaker Martin has joined
Chairman Allen of the House Rules
Committee in support of the s468
and $685. pay raise measures for
Government employees and postal
workers. respectively.
But Mr.. Allen and his Rules Com
mittee will give the measures the
all-important rule for House action
only If pay raise sponsors agree to
accept CLOSED" rule. A closed
rule means that no amendments to
the bill may be offered from the
House floor.
In other words, 1t would mean the
House could vote only on the original
s468 and $685. amounts. No amend
ments could be offered to increase
the amount.
House Republican leaders realize
that under an open rule, the pow
erful postal groups probably could
win rank-and-flle House support
for an $500 pay raise amendment.
And Republican leaders will not
stand for an $500 postal Increase
they feel it is much too costly.
So, with the choice of the $468
and $685. amounts or nothing, it's
virtually certain pay raise sponsors
will settle for the CLOSED" rule. They
have no choice.
\ X
JOBLESS BENEFITS-Full SEN
ate Civil Service Committee ap-
proval is expected next week on the
very important bill to grant unem-
ployment compensation and sever
ance pay benefits to Government
employees The measure was ap-
Evening star., 1948-04-29
FormerWa Woman
Is Released in Hungary
By the Associofed Press

BUDAPEST. Hungary, April 90
Miss Elizabeth Proiszl-Pallos. 80,
Pittsburgh-born American citizen,
was released from prison today.
She was convicted of neglecting to
report to police on the activities OF
her employer, former Associated
Press correspondent here.
Miss Proizl-Pallos plans to return
to the United States. She is now
the guest of William P. Cochran,
counsellor of the American Embassy.
Mr.. Cochran said Miss Proiszl- -Pallos
is in good health and complained
only that her cell had been over
crowded, with only two cots for six
prisoners.
Miss Proiszl -Pallos attended ST.
Martins parochial school here while
her father was a. member of the
Hungarian Embassy staff until 1923.
She then went with her family to
! California.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Pres,
SENATE.
recess until tomorrow.

In recess until tomorrow.
Appropriations subcommittee hears
Secretary of the Army Royal and
others on money requirements of
the armed forces.
Commerce Committee meets to
consider nomination of Charles
Sawyer to be Secretary of Commerce
and amendments to the Natural
Gas Act.
Judiciary Committee meets be-
hind closed doors to consider bill to
make lynching Federal crime.
HOUSE.
Debates Federal Security appro-
priation bill.
Armed Services Committee seeks
agreement on draft bill.
Evening star., 1948-04-29

the United Nations to enable it
to operate effectively toward the
maintenance of peace.
Mr.. Mundt said that the demo-
cratic world today controls from
70 to 81 per cent of all the vital
elements required to wage vic
torious war"
The democratic world comprises
As nations, he said, as against Il
controlled by communism. The As
democratic nations produce 92.6 per
cent Of the worlds crude oil, 9l.5
percent of the worlds smelter out
put of copper, 84.8 per cent of the
worlds coal production and 10 per
cent Of the worlds wheat. And
they embrace 87.5 per cent of the
worlds population.
With American foreign policy
clearly understood in the Kremlin.
he said, Russia and her II satellites
would be too weak to risk war with
the rest of the world"
Meanwhile, at another meeting
last night, the delegates unanimously
lndorsed President Truman's ma
tlonal defense program, including
the temporary draft, universal mill
tary training and an enlarged Army,
Navy and Air Force.
Policies Approved.
Also decided were 30 other poIicy
declarations, most approved with
little debate.
One resolution which occasioned
dispute, however, opposed expansion
OF Federal power developments such
as the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Specifically, it objected to any Fed
eral construction of steam generat-
Ing plants for electric power, such
as proposed S52,OOO,00O IVA plant
at New Johnsonville, Tenn.
Southern delegates attempted to
have this policy declaration side
tracked by referring it to the en-
tire chamber, but this proposal was
defeated by a voice vote and the
resolution was adopted.
Also opposed by the chamber
were direct Federal aid to educa-
ton, national health insurance
pending further study of the need
for it, Federal outlays for public
housing, new credit control powers
for the Federal Reserve and Gov
ernment favoritism" with reference
to the tax-free status of farm and
other co-operatives.
DnsnI,,f:o,~u
Favored in other resolutions were:
Faster stock piling of critical
ornaments
Immediate statehood for Hawaii
Further congressional inquiry in
to "Subversive activities" and more
stringent laws for deportation of
criminal and subversive aliens"
Admission of reasonable
number of displaced persons from
Europe.
Application of antitrust laws to
labor unions to curb 'monopolistic
practices"
Extension of social security cover
age to farm workers, the self-em-
ployed and other groups not now
covered.
The chamber also reafflrmed its
support of extension of the Re-
ciprocal Trade Agreements Act,
which expires in June. but it op-
posed ratification of the proposed
charter of the International Trade
Organization, drawn up at Havana,
until it is rewritten to include guar
antees for private enternrise.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
| |WhuttheRussions
Are Soyinq of Us

The MoSco1O radio, broddcaStin
in Polish to Poland, said:
THE Latin American peoples
see that the Communist
hullabaloo initiated by reaction
ary press organs in the United
States and in Latin America is
only a screen to disguise the &C
tivities Of the monopolies aiming
at subordination of the Latin
American countries"
Evening star., 1948-04-29
BY the Associoted Pres,

NEW YORK, April "a pretty
blond Brooklyn high school teacher
conducted Mathematics exami-
nations under police guard today
after her home was the target of
fusillade of rifle shots last night.
Only few minutes before the
rife fire, the mother of Miss Mar
garet Jokiel, the high school teach
er, received two mysterious phone
calls from an anonymous feminine
caller who said:
If she doesn't pass every one in
mathematics tomorrow, something
will happen. She'll be pushing up
daisies"
Blue-eyed, 24-year-old Miss Jokiel
said today, I'm not afraid" as she
supervised examinations IN the Fort
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Teacher Conducts Muth Exams
Under Guard After Rifle Fire

Hamilton High School. Beside her
at all times in classrooms and halls
was Police Sergt. George J. NOEL, an
uncle assigned to guaro her.
Police hurried a thorough inves-
tigation of Miss Jokiel's 1865 pupils
and the source of the phone calls
to the teachers mother, Mrs. Esther
Jokiel, also a teacher.
AS Mrs. Jokiel hung up last night
a volley of gunflre broke the silence
of the Brooklyn side street where
they live. Police said about 80
shots, some of which struck the
mouse, were fired, probably by
.25-caliber and .32-caliber auto
matte rifles.
The shots broke windowpanes on
the Jokiel front porch and hit
homes on either side.
Evening star., 1948-04-29

distinguished years of service in the
Budget Bureau have nothing but
high praise for the appointment.
Mr.. Lawton, Al. typifies the civil
service career man at his best. En-
tering the Government service in
1920, he compiled a brilliant record
in the Budget Bureau. During the
past few years, has served as ex-
ecutive assistant to Budget Direc-
tor James E. Webb.
Although he undoubtedly could
have taken far more lucrative Jobs
in private industry, Mr.. Lawton
preferred to stay in the public serv-
ice which he has served so we'll.
His appointment as trouble shoot
ing administrative assistant to the
President is fitting tribute to his
ability and shot in the arm to all
career Government employees.
UP TO CONGRESS-The Airing
ton Farms situation has taken a
new turn. If new Government girls
are to be accepted in the residence
halls. Congress will have to act
soon.
Public Housing Administration
officials recently announced no new
girls would be allowed to live at
Arlington Farms. Then the agency
extended the deadline until the
end of this month. Because of the
Governments expected recruitment
program of stenographers and cler-
ical personnel. Federal officials have
been urging the agency to change
its mind.
But now 1t develops the agency
has no other course, unless Congress
gives its approval for the Farms to
remain open. The law requires thai
Arlington Farms be closed by July
1949. That's why PHA officials must
start early in gradually closing dowr
by barring new residents.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Here's Q
convenient place for Government
employees to cash their pay check:
if they're in the vicinity. You may
cash them in the Treasury Depart.
ment's cash division in its mair
building. Pennsylvania avenue ano
Fifteenth street NV. Room 2125
any time between $3.50 am. and
pm. :. Representative Buffet. Re-
publican, of Nebraska, has intro
duced legislation designed to "keer
pinks and left-wingers" off of the
new Economic Cooperating Admin.
istration's pay roll. Mr.. Buffet s
legislation would make ECA publish
quarterly list of all of its employees
for perusal by Congress.
additional ne,Us OF GoUern-
ment AFFAIRS and personalities
make up Joseph YoungS broad
cast DerSion OF the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 pm. every Sunday
Evening star., 1948-04-29

lcui, lHc 1ON-
ernment h a S
turned back to
private concerns
all but 2,500,0 900
of the 7,000,0 900
square feet of
space it rented
here during the
war. Meanwhile,
n e W agencies
such as the Eco
nomic Cooper
ating Admins
ira t | on, the
Atomic Energy
Commission, the
T~% a y, o%;o~ol
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Macon Fry to Give Talk

A lecture on the elements Of
Servomechanisms by Macon Fry, en-
gineer, will be given at II am. and
2 pm. tomorrow in the theater of the
Naval Gun Factory, Eleventh and N
streets Sc.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Senator LANCER Halls
Joe Young for Part
In JobIess Pay Bill

Chairman LANCER Of the Sem
ate Civil Service Committee
singled out the part played by
Joseph Young and the Federal
Spotlight in getting committee
action on the unemployment
compensation bill. The column
last month called attention to
the fact that the bill had been
on the committees shelf for
many months and urged that
prompt action be taken on it.
Senator LANCER declared at
yesterdays session: Il might
say the bill was called up be-
cause of Joe Young. Govern
ment employees all owe him a
vote of thanks. 1t was Mr..
Young who called the attention
of this committee to the fact
that it had been slumbering
with reference to the bill for
a long time. I want to ac-
knowledge my personal graft
tude to you, Mr.. Young"
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Boy State Society to Meet

The Massachusetts, Society ol
Washington will hold its annual
business meeting at 8 o'clock to-
night in Pierce Hail. Fifteenth and
Harvard streets NV. The society S
April dance will be held at 10 pm
tomorrow in the Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
proved by a subcommittee yester.

proved by a subcommittee yester-
day.
The bill would give Federal en-
ployes most of the benefits enjoyed
by employees in private industry,
which Government workers now
lack. Budget Bureau officials have
indorsed the measure on behalf OF
the administration and say it would
not be very costly.
Everybody was surprised by the
speed in which the measure won
approval yesterday. 1t was regarded
as a good omen for quick Senate
action.
X X X
FINE APPOINTMENT - No ap-
pointment in years has created such
genuine approval as President Tru-
mans selection of Frederick J.
Lawton as one of his administrative
assistants.
Both Government officials and
members Of Congress who have come
in close contact with him during his
Evening star., 1948-04-29
The Federal Spotlight
'PBA Plans Space Consolidation
To Meet Acute Federal Needs
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph YOUNG

major consolidation program in Federal
and agencies being considered by the Public Buildings Admin
sraion to meet the increasingly acute Government housing prob
lem here.
Instead of decreasing activities and
Washington growing Federal employment climbed
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Weather Report

District Of Columbia-COnside :
able cloudiness with some sunshine;
highest temperature in upper Sos
this afternoon. Partly cloudy, with
lowest temperature about AZ de-
grees tonight. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and cool.
Virginia-Partly cloudy and cool
tonight and tomorrow; some scat
tered frost likely west and north
portion.
Maryland-Partly cloudy and
cool tonight and tomorrow, some
scattered frost likely.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour;
direction, west.
River Report.
tFrom United States Englneers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shepandoah
clear HarDerS
Evening star., 1948-04-29

additional ne,Ds OF Govern
ment AFFAIRS and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast DerSion OF the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 pm. every Sunday
on WMAL, the Star Station.)
Evening star., 1948-04-29

over the 100000 mark again, and
indications are that it will climb
still higher. To add to the prob
Evening star., 1948-04-29

SEVENTH RACE-Purse. $4,000: claim
ing; 4-year-olds and up; l mile and
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Hovre de Grace Entries
FOR FRIDAY.
BY the Associated Press

Weather, clear; track, fast.
First post. 2:l5 PM. EDIT
FIRST RACE-PurSp 81 400. claiming
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tiers came in groups, and numerous
congregations were established at
early dates: one at Conococheague
as early as 1747, a German Reform
ed; one in Hagerstown by 1766; an
other at Salem in 1853; and German
Luthern congregations at Antietam
in 1854, Sharpsburg in 1868, Hagers-
town in 1869, and Funkstown in
It'll. Before the Revolution, there
were also many German Menno-
mites and Baptists.
l have said much about the early
industrial ventures of the County;
much more could be said. In gen
eral, development was rapid. After
the close of the French and Indian
War, there was steady increase in
population, the farmed areas ex-
tended to new fields, and mills sprang
up. Flour became a very import
ant item to everyone. Along with
other numerous types of industries,
there was great activity in the min
eral interests. A few of the early
furnaces were the Jacques Furnace
in the Indian Spring district; Mt.
Aetna at the South Moutain; and the
Antietam Iron Works.
A former column tells of the pa
triotic expression of number of
the citizens of this and Frederick
County, as expressed in the Mary
land Gazette of July 2, 1774, object
ing openly to the unfair tax laws.
Later, the same people gave sup
port to the fighting forces, and it is
recorded that cannon were made at
the iron furnaces of Washington
County.
1t has been told that Washington
County was founded as a County
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-05-27

the same year we gained our Nation
al independence, 1776. Before that,
this part of Maryland, as well as
all of western Maryland, was by
turns a part of several counties, as
each became separated from the
older counties to the east, or rather
a new County was declared of the
newer western settlements. First,
the establishment of Charles County
included all of western Maryland,
beginning in 1858. Then this area
became a part of Prince Georges
County, when a western division
was made in 1895. And it next be-
came part of Frederick County
when that county was established
in 1748. And at last, in 1776, we
emerged from the former alliance,
as Washington County, the first new
County after the birth of the Ma
tion. Washington County then in
cluded all the rest of Western
Maryland until the year 1889.
Back in 1749, while this area was
part of Frederick County, the Coun-
ty court established divisions of the
extensive county, patterned after
the English, called Hundreds"
These were in existence till 1928,
when the election districts became
the recognized divisions, at which
time the Legislature authorized the
levy court to appoint constables for
the election districts.
During the first "a years of our
County, until 1900, there was just
one election district, with the pol
ing place at Hagerstown. The
County was then divided into five
districts: No. l, Sharpsburg, the
southeastern part of the county; No.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-05-27

virgin forests and veritable par
adise for the Indians and thous
ands of wild animals, our great
great grandfathers began to filter in
to this area through two main en-
frances. Across South Mountain,
from the earlier settlements OF
Maryland on the coast, came English
settlers. And as has already been
noted in these columns, around the
northern end of the Blue Ridge,
across the Susquehanna from Lam
caster County, Pennsylvania, came
the German, or as they are better
known in America, the Pennsylvania
Dutch.
It is interesting to note a peculiar
feature of the mountain systems
that make up our valley, and had
large part to do with the settling of
the County. We are situated in the
heart of a great valley that extends
from Vermont in the New England
States, to Alabama in the deep
South. We are walled in by an al
most continuous range of mountains
oneither side of us, paralleling the
curves of the valley. And across
this valley, and through the noun
tains. run our Nations historic riv-
ers: the Hudson, the Delaware, the
Susquehanna, the Potomac, and the
James.
The early arrivals settled on es-
tates, some large, some small, many
of the names persisting to this day.
One of the largest, perhaps the larg-
est, estate in Washington County
area, was Ringgold Manor, consist
ing of twenty thousand acres. Two
other well known estates of this ear
lydate were Chew's Farm, and Long
meadows.
One of the first places of public
worship was an Episcopal chapel,
built by the English settlers near
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2, Williamsport; No. 3, Hagerstown,
including the area from Conochague
to the South Moutain; No. 4, west of
Conocheague to Green Spring Fur
mace; and No. 5, Hanock. Since that
time, the other districts have been
added; Boonsboro and Cavetown in
1922; Rohrersville,, 1888; Letters
burg, 1888; Funkstown, Sandy Hook
and Tilghmanton, 1852; Conochea-
que, 1858; Ringgold and Indian
Spring, 1860; Beaver Creek, 1867;
Antietam, 1869; Chewsville, 1872;
Keedysville, 1878; and townsville,
1884.
In contrast with the columns of
the last several weeks, it is inter
esting to note that although the old
Route 40, was our famous National
Pike, it was not the first road of
Importance in our County. The first
road through the Cumberland Val
ley was laid out in 1855 from
Harris's Ferry (Harrisburg) on the
Susquehanna, to the Potomac at
the mouth of the Conocheague. "Its
course through Washington County
was nearly identical with the pres
ent Williamsport and Greencastle
turnpike" says Washington Coun-
tvs historian, Herbert C. Bell. Only
a short time ago it was possible to see
the letters of the old "Cumberland
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-05-27

Valley Turnpike" as it was called,
painted on the telegraph poles
along this old road. Travellers on
Route II miss Washington County's
part of this old turnpike, unless they
happen to know about the bypass
that leads directly from Greencastle
through Cearfoss to Williamsport.
Undoubtedly this old road has also
history, of tales of wagoners, of
daring and romance. For by this
road came many of our ancestors for
their first view of their homeland in
Washington County.
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Important Distinction .

The cop noticed the man coming
down the street in barrel.
Look here, fellow" the officer
said, whats the idea Of the barrel?
Are you poker player?"
mo, sir" the man replied. 'But
I spent couple of hours with some
guys who are"