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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-08
NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL
 ACCOUNT AND REPORT AND PETITION FOR FINAL AWARD AND DISTRIBUTION

In the United States Commission
 CTS (Ex-Officio Probate) Court
 for Juneau Commissioners Pre-
 cinct, Territory of Alaska.
 In the Matter of the Estate of
 MIKE VAGGE, Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HERE EBY GIVEN that on the 7th day of July, 1948, JOHN B. MEDICA, administrator of the estate of MIKE VAGGE, De- ceased, made and filed in the above entitled Court at Juneau, Alaska, his Final Account and Report and Petition for Final Award and Dis tribution, and that on said day this Court entered it's Order directing that a hearing be had upon said Final Account and Report and Pe- tition and for final adjudication and decree as to who are the heirs and distributes of the deceased, be- fore it on the 7th day of Septem- Der, 1948, at 1000 o'clock AM. of said day at the office of the said United States Commissioner and Probate Judge, in the Federal-Ter- ritorial Building, in Juneau, Terri tory of Alaska, and requiring all persons to then and there appear and make their objections, if any, thereto, and to the settlement thereof; and, to the final award and distribution of the residue of this estate to Luigi Vagge, Marie Luigia Vagge, Caterina Vagge, Luigia Vagge, Giuseppe Vagge, Carlo Garaventa, Lugui Garaventa, Giuseppe Garaventa and Giovanni Garaventa.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 7th day of July, 1948.
 (SEAL) FELIX GRAY,
 United States Commissioner and
 Ex-Officio Probate Judge for Ju-
 neau Precinct, Alaska.
 First publication, July 8, 1948. Last publication, July 29, 1948.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-08
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HO5pITAl NOTES

Ernest J. I,ockne was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for medical attention and Mrs. A. Bar low entered for surgical attention.
 The following patients were dis charged; Mrs. William Schoeppe and baby boy, Mrs. Pat Davis and Mrs. V. Yadao.
 A son was born to Mrs. Sadie White at the Government Hospital yesterday noon. The baby weighed seven pounds one ounce at birth. John Marlin and Jessie Mckinley of Hoonah were admitted to the Hospital.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Korean Red Riofinq
Takes 6 More Lives
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 26.-The
United States Army reported today
five or six Korean civilians and q
policeman were killed in a renewal
of Communist-inspired agitation
against the United Nations. Thir-
teen Koreans were injured seri-
ously. \
Saboteurs also destroyed bridge,
cut telephone wires and placed ties
across railroad tracks.
The meager Army report said
groups of from so to 1000 attacked
police boxes last night at widely
scattered points in Southern Korea.
The incidents were similar to
those of February 7 in which ~
persons were killed. Rioters at
that time carried placards demand
ing withdrawal of the U. N. Com
mission for Korea. The commits
sion was thwarted by the Russians
in its attempt to plan nationwide
elections leading to Korean self
government.
Feeling is running high with the
approach of Sam II Day. March !,
commemorating the Inflated Ko-
rean declaration Of independence
from the japanese in 1919. BY
Korean account, 10000 persons were
killed then while attempting TO
demonstrate peacefully against the
japanese.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
4 Of Big Crew Killed
In Crash, 8 Bail Out
by III. A..oeio..a Pres.

MERIDIAN, Tex, Feb. 26.--
Four members of q 12-man crew
were killed in the crash of a
B-29 bomber near here last
night.
The eight other crew members,
including Col. Alan D. Clark OF Fort
Worth. Tex, 7th Bombardment wing
commander, parachuted through
the rain and fog to safety.
One of a flight of 20 B-29s bound
for the West Coast, the bomber
crashed in flames shortly after TAX
ing off from Carswell Air Base at
Forth Worth, Tex. Col. Clark was
commander of the flight.
Names Of the four victims, who
were found in or near the scene of
the burned wreckage, have not been
released.
Besides Col. Clark, the men who
bailed out were 1st 1t. Frank H.
Riggs. Orange, Tex; 1st 1t. Frank
M. Worley, Fort Worth; Capt. Will
liam S. Kern, Pasadena, Calf; Staff
Sergt. D. w. Aslin, Fort Worth;
Staff Sergt. William w. Weaver,
Falmouth, KY; Capt. Julian F. Mof-
fat. Barksdale, Miss, and 1t. Col.
Harry E. Goldsworth, Spokane,
Wash.
The crash occurred near the farm
home of Orus Solberg. The plane
burned for several hours.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
by the Assoeioted Press

PRAGUE, Feb. 26.-Witnesses said
today that veteran Prague police
men cried last night as they tried
to press back students protesting
the Communist coup.
Young Slovak police, brought
here specially for guard duty, set
off the volley in which at least
two youths fell wounded. They
then picked so arbitrarily from the
crowd and arrested them.
The disorder occurred during a
sympathy march to President
E6uard Benes' palace last night!
The students have been pronounced
in their anti-C Communist senti-
ments.
When police first moved out with
rifles ready in an attempt to dis
perse the students, the youths
started singing the national an
them. The police halted. They
moved forward again when the song
was finished.
Some students fed into q Cath
olic church after the shooting. Wit
nesses said the police entered the
Evening star., 1948-02-26
BY the Associated Press

PRAGUE, Feb. 26.-Czechoslo-
vakia is completely under Com
munist control today and the
way is clear for Transforming
the republic, modelled at birth
after the United States, into a
copy of Soviet Russia.
The pattern for the minority par
ties will be to purge their ranks
Of all persons who have fallen into
Communist disfavor. Communist
sympathizers now are in control of
those parties.
The weapon is ready-the charge
of conspiracy against the govern
ment by agents of reaction" This
was provided by Communist Pre-
mier Klement Gottwald himself
New in complete control of the
press and propaganda outlets, the
Communists have all means at their
disposal to drive home this cam
.peign.
The nation fell under complete
Communist domination last night
TIE Communist Party, largest at
the last election but still minority
in Parliament, has achieved a cabi-
net made up of its members and
trusted sympathizers. Only SEM
Evening star., 1948-02-26
lass Accuses Chinese
OF Raids on Mongolia
BY the Asseeioted Press

MOSCOW, Feb. 26.-The Soviet
press today carried Tass dispatch
which said Chinese troops made
two raids into the Mongolian Peo-
Piles Republic in late January.
According to the Soviet news
agency dispatch, which was promi-
nently displayed in Moscow papers,
the Chinese raiders captured a
Mongolian border guard on one oc-
casion and killed two guards on the
other.
Tass quoted the Mongolian news
paper Unen as saying the raids
occurred January % and January 28.
"The Mongolian government de-
manded punishment of the guilty
persons and also that the captured
guard be returned" Tass said. 1.-THE
Mongolian government reserves the
right to demand compensation for
damage done. 1t has demanded
that property stolen from Mon
golian territory be returned"
The Tass account said Chinese
cavalrymen penetrated the Mon
golian frontier for rs miles on the
first occasion and that 100 Mon
golian residents were attacked. It
said the Chinese force stayed in
Mongolia for two days 'robbing
and numbering peaceful shepherds.
A local official was among those
killed"
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Wisconsin Dairy Group
Would End Margarine Curb
By the Asseeiutsd Prssx

MILWAUKEE,, Feb. 26.-Wiscon-
sins restrictive legislation on oleo-
margarine was under fire today
from one of the States own dairy
co-operatives.
The Golden Guernsey Dairy Co
operative consisting of milk pro-
ducers and distributors adopted a
resolution calling for repeal of the
15-cent per pound State tax on un-
colored .oleomargarine.
The cooperative also asked for
repeal of State law requiring con-
sumers to take out license before
they bring in margarine from other
States, and for repeal of the scent
per pound tax on such imports.
Continuance of laws prohibiting the
sale of colored oleomargarine was
urged, however.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Hotel tenants Describe Suspect
In Staying of Navy Film Expert
Detective Truiled
Man to Room of
Harvey HueberIe

New York police broadcast a
'13-State alarm today for a sus-
pect in the murder of an Ana
costa naval training film ex-
pert, whose grotesquely tied
body was found yesterday in the
bed of his Manhattan hotel. :
The victim was Harvey Haeberle,
IS, of Leesburg pike near Falls
Church, wartime Navy lieutenant
who later transferred to a civilian
status as project supervisor OF
training films at the Naval Air
Station, AnacoStia.
Discovered by a maid in the Henry
Hudson Hotel, 1853 West Fifty-sev-
enth street, yesterday afternoon, his
body was tied up in the manner
that Chinese torturers have en-
ployed-a complicated device that
will cause a struggling man to
strangle himself.
The suspect was said to have en-
tered Mr.. Haeberle's room shortly
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Eaton and Vandenberq
In Accord on Major
0bjecfives on ERP
House Chuirmon's Views
Seen Increasing Chances
For Passage by April
By J. A. O'Leory

Chairman Eaton of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee to-
day announced his support of
the $500, 100000 figure already
approved by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee for the first
year of the European Recovery
Program.
The New Jersey Republican also
said the House group probably will
agree to an independent organi-
cation to handle the program,
headed by a man of cabinet rank.
These first indications of how the
House chairman feels about the
Senate bill came as his committee
made plans to end public hearings
tomorrow on the foreign aid pro-
gram.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Marshall went into closed session
with the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on the needs of China.
Members said he repeated the
statement he gave the House COM
mittee last week on the administra-
tion's request for $570,000,00 to
bolster the Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment in its civil war against
Chinese Communists.
Chairman Vandenberg said his
committee would meet again Sat-
urday morning to discuss procedure
for dealing with this problem.
Chances Held Brighter.
With Mr.. Eaton and Senator
vandenberg both working for the
same general objectives, the chances
for final passage before the April l
deadline are much brighter. The
temporary aid program, passed in
December ends at that time.
The two houses are destined to
clash, however, on the Senate pro-
posal to set up congressional
watchdog" committee to observe
the distribution of the aid to the
16 cooperating nations of Western
Europe.
Mr.. Eaton said he will oppose
any invasion of the constitutional
duties of the President, whoever
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1948-02-26
House Group Attacks
U. 5. Efficiency Rating
System, Asks Change
Report Coils for More
Realistic Approach to
Employees Ability
By joseph YOUNG

The House Civil Service Com
mittee today issued a report
sharply criticizing the Govern
ment's efficiency rating system
and asked that considerable i'm
provement be made in rating
Federal workers.
Chairman Rees and his fellow
members called for Federal OFF,
cials to take "a more realistic ap-
proach" to the situation. The COM
mittee's report was preliminary and
committee spokesmen said later
one will be issued after Federal Of
flcials have a chance to work fur
ther on the problem.
In the report the committee de-
clared that improvements in the
efficiency rating system could be
made through more effective ad-
ministration, rather than by legis-
lative means.
Employees Have Asked Change.
"Too often efficiency ratings are
made as a result of subjective
analysis of an employees work
whereas objective standards should
be used" the report said.
The committee also disclosed that
many Government employees have
approached it and requested that
steps be, taken to secure more
workable and fair efficiency rat
| ing system"
Efficiency ratings determine Fed.
eral employees promotional chances
and even their job retention rights
in some cases.
The committees report included
several letters from Frederick M
lSee CIVIL SERVICE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1948-02-26
VeteronProgueP PoIicemenC Cried
In Tryinq to Hold Back Students

sacristy and removed some. The
others made for the altar. The
police halted after a pursuit halt
way through the church and then
retired.
One student said the police had
withdrawn 20 feet from the van-
guard OF students just before TIVE
shooting, and were nervously fin
gering their rife bolts. The old
Prague patrolmen, who were here
when German occupation forces ar
rived. cried as they tried to control
the throng.
The witnesses said students tried
to drag their wounded comrades
into their ranks, but that the young
Slovaks surged forward, pulled the
victims away and then swung into
the crowd with gun butts. The
demonstration was broken.
The police allowed a delegation of
five to enter the palace. They re-
ported that DR.. Jan Smutny, chief
Of cabinet for MIR. Benes, told them
the President had taken his action
ito prevent bloodshed." The stu
dends said Smutny wept as he
talked.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
U. S., Britain, France Condemn
Seizure of Power by Czech Reds
Under disguised Dictatorship
Coup Termed Threat
To Very Existence
OF Free Principles
By Gornett D. Horner

The United States, Great Brit
ain and France today jointly
condemned Communist seizure
of power under a disguised die
tatorship" in Czechoslovakia.
A statement by the three govern
ments declared that the Communist
coup in Prague threatens "the very
existence of the principles OF lib
erty."
ats consequences" the tri-partite
statement added, 'can only be dis
astrous for the Czechoslovak people" ;"
Without mentioning the Com
munist Party by name, the state
ment charged that its disguised
dictatorship" in Czechoslovakia had
been achieved through methods al
ready tested in other places" Inls
was an obvious reference to Com
munist domination of Poland, Yugo-
slavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hun
gary which have involved joint pro-
tests by the three western powers
in the past.
Crisis Declared Artificial.
It asserted that crisis "artl-
ficially and deliberately instigated
to bring about the coup in Czecho-
slovakia.
The Joint statement was issued as
a declaration simultaneously at
noon in Washington, London and
Paris.
1t was worked out in telegraphic
consultation initiated by the State
Department yesterday and carried
on through last night and this
morning.
The statement did not take the
form of a formal protest to any
government, but left the way clear
for protest to Moscow or possibly to
Prague if such action should be
considered worthwhile later.
It also avoided any mention OF
the question of recognition OF the
new Czech government. Other
Communist dominated govern
ments in Eastern Europe generally
have been recognized by the West
ern powers in order to keep, diplo-
matte representatives in those
countries to watch developments
there.
Text of Statement.
The text of the declaration fol-
lows:
"The governments of the United
States, France and Great Britain
have attentively followed the course
of the events which have just taken
place In Czechoslovakia and which
place in jeopardy the, very exist
ence of the principles OF liberty to
which all democratic nations are
attached.
.They note that by means of q
crisis artifcially and deliberately in
stigated, the use Of certain methods
already tested in other places has
permitted the suspension OF the
free exercise of parliamentary in
stitutions and the establishment OF
a disguised dictatorship of a single
party under the cloak of gov
ernment of national union.
"They can but condemn a devel-
opment the consequences of which
can only be diastrous for the
Czechoslovak people, who had
proved once more in the midst OF
the suffering of the Second World
War their attachment to the cause
of liberty"
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Lamarre Tells Court
HeGave MeyersFund,
$4,000
Witness and Defendant
Glare at Eoch Other
At Dropotie Meeting
By Robert K. Welsh

Bleriot H. Lamarre took the
stand as the Governments key
witness in the District Court
trial of Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Meyers today and declared that
he turned over more than $780,
900 in Aviation Electric Co. funds
to the former Army Air Forces
officer because she was my boss" "
1t was dramatic meeting in the
courtroom, the first since the two
men faced each other at the Senate
War Investigating Committee hear
ings last fall. The former Air Forces
purchasing oflicer is charged with
having induced Lamarre to lie in
testimony to the committee which
was investigating his activities. La.
MARIE was indicted on perjury
charges but pleaded guilty last Jan.
uary. ....
Lamarre, wartime president OF
the electric company in Dayton
Ohio, from which he had l.000, ,00o
in war contracts, testified he mailed
$4,000 Of the funds by cashier
checks to- Meyers In Washington
and, at. the direction of Meyers,
charged it of as presidents salary
and travelling expenses"
Tells Of $4,000 Check.
He related that also he sent
Meyers check for $4,000 which
he asserted, Meyers spent for re-
decoration of an apartment at Hotel
240O here.
Also, he testified, he complied with
Meyers instructions to send him
$4,000 of company funds for an
automobile and smaller amounts for
radio and air conditioning unit
in 1941, because he considered
Meyers the real owner Of the Day.
ton company. ....'
HE told me to use cashiers
checks" Lamarre said, because
they would not appear on the books
of the company
Ldmarre ana Meyers HlaIeu dt cdCil
other several times in the course OF
the testimony by the self-styleo
dummy" head of the Dayton avia.
ton firm. The first time was wher
Lamarre, in response to Govern.
ment attorneys request that he
identify the defendant, looked across
at Meyers and said: He Is the
man."
Later, after relating how he hac
turned over company funds Il
Meyers he was asked if he was re-
ferring to the former deputy chic
of Army Air Forces purchasing
Turning in the witness chair. La,
MARE looked again directly a
(See MEYERS. Page A-40
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Ship Soils From Soipon
With 5000 War Dead
BY the Assoeiofed Press

SAIPAN, Feb. 26.-Taps sounded
over Saipan's beaches today as the
army transport Walter w. Schwenk
sailed for San Francisco with the
flag -draped coffins of 5000 American
war dead.
The bodies of Pacific war victims
were disinterred from cemeteries OF
every major island and many small
atolls-only few years ago the
scenes of invasions in which they
participated.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
VA Will Close
New York0ffice,
Hire 1,142 Here
Action Will Offset
All but $50 Jobs
Abolished by Gray
BY George Beveridoe

The Veterans Administration
will close the New York branch
of its central Office within. the
next few months, bringing f.142
new jobs to Washington, it was,
learned today.
The move will offset all but about
$50 of the job reductions announced
two weeks ago by Veterans Adminis-
traitor Gray for the agency's main
Office here.
Officials said the decision to close
the New York Office was reached
with White House approval. The
office was established there during
the war years because of inade-
quate space in the District, 1t was
explained.
1854 Jobs in Insurance Section.
A total of 864 of the new jobs win
be in the VA insurance section, with
312 other insurance jobs eliminated
in New York Officials said the latest
poll in New York showed that only
about rs of the 1854 employees want
to make the trip here to hold their
jobs. Most of the positions are
clerical.
The personnel cuts in insurance
announced by Mr.. Gray will be TAX
en- care of by the eliminations in
New York, officials said
VA said 278 of the 491 jobs in con-
tact and administrative services also
will be moved here. with elimination
of the others.
Sixty-flve jobs in these services
were to be cut by March 81 in Wash
ington. The new move means that
the services will have openings for
213 new workers.
Will Shift $50 Finance Workers.
Another 750 finance workers in
New York will be transferred to a
branch Office there, but will be ad-
ministered from the office here, the
agency said
According to figures released by
VA two weeks ago, the Washington
central Office still will lose:
From the personnel service-l04
workers by May 81.
From the claims serviee-202
workers by March 81.
From the rehabilitation service
IS workers by March 81
Evening star., 1948-02-26
London Sends Cruiser
To British Honduras
In Rift With Guatemala
Old Territorial Dispute
In Tropics Flares in
Wake of FoIkIonds Issue
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 26.-The ad-
miralty announced today the
British cruiser Sheffield has
sailed from Colombia for British
Honduras.
An authoritative source said the
ship was dispatched because of
possible incidents staged by ir-
responsible elements in neighboring
Guatemala. The informant refused
to elaborate.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
there recently had been ''virulent
campaign" against, Britain In the
Guatemalan press.
No doubt" the spokesman said,
1T has its origin in recent events
in the Antarctic"
The Guatemalan press and gov
ernment have supported the claims
of Argentina and Chile to the
British-claimed Falkland Islands off
the southeast coast of Argentina.
"At the same time" the spekes-
man said, "the Guatemalan press
has resurrected a long standing
dispute between this country and
Guatemala on the question of the
British Honduras.
"At one time or another" he ex-
planned, Guatemala laid claims to
part or all of the British Honduras
Since 1945 the British government
has asked them to take the claim
to an international court Of JUS
tice."
British Honduras is in Central
America on the Caribbean, South
of Yucatan, Mexico. Its area is
1857 square miles and its esti-
mated population in 1945 was
63,390.)
Britain also has suggested that
Chile and Argentina submit the
Falkland dispute to the interna-
tional court.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
speaking in the House of Commons
yesterday on the Falklands question
said: Il really must get this title
business settled People cannot &C
ON interfering with British terri
tory and then, as result kick up
a row and expect us to go to the
Security Council" He insisted the
dispute be settled by the court,
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Work to Begin Next Month
On Dupont Circle Underpuss

several days, Mr.. Robertson said
that as the work progresses, the
Highway Department will issue de-
tailed instructions as to necessary
rerouting of traffic.
When the McShain company has
completed work on the portion OF
the underpass within the circle, Mr..
Robertson said, the streetcar tracks
now situated on the southwest side
of the circle will be relaid on a
temporary roof over the excayation.
Connecticut avenue streetscars then
will run straight through the circle.
In the completed project automo-
biles on Connecticut avenue will use
the tunnel through the circle. while
streetcars will use other tunnels
around the sides. The job is ex-
pected to take more than two years.