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Evening star., 1948-10-28
Representative West,
Texas Democrat, Dies
After Long Illness

Representative Milton H. West,
60, Democrat, of Texas, died to-
day at Walter Reed Hospital,
where he had been a patient for
several weeks.
The veteran House member who
had served in Congress for Is years,
was suffering from lymphoma.
Hospital authorities said the disease
was a tllnor made up of lymphold
tissue.
Mr.. West, who was retiring from
Congress, had been in critical con-
dition for several days. Much OF
the time, hospital authorities said,
he was in an oxygen tent.
Hospital officials said the legisla-
tor died at 825 am.
Succeeded Garner in Congress.
Representative West succeeded
former, Vice President John Nance
Garner in Congress. He was named
in a special election held April %,
1888. after Mr.. Garner, who had
been Speaker of the House, resigned
his seat to become Vice President.
Primarily interested in tax legis-
lation, Representative West assisted
in writing many bills in that field
He also did much work on tariff
measures.
He served on the House Ways and
Means Committee during much of
his congressional career. and was
member of that group at the time of
his death.
In i'll health for several years, he
announced last January that he
would not be a candidate In the
next congressional election.
A native of Ell Rancho, Tex, he
attended the West Texas Military
Academy, San Antonio At the age
Of %, he enlisted in Company C of
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Two D. {. Women Chosen
As Marine Corps Officers

Two Washington women are
among the first 81 women officers
chosen for regular commissions in
the Marine Corps.
According to the list announced
yesterday by the Marine Corps, Mai.
Julia E. Hamblet of Washington.
who was director of the Marine
Corps Women Reserve, was given a
regular commission.
Also selected from Washington
was 1st 1t. Mary J. Hale, 5000 Uni
versity avenue NV.
1t. Col. Katherine A. Towle. of
Berkeley, Calf. received the top
commission in the group. A selec-
tion board is meeting to choose q
director of Marine women.
Within the next two years. the
Marine Corps plans to expand its
women officer strength to 65, but nc
others will be selected Immediately
The officers will head 900 enlisted
women still to be enrolled for regu-
lar duty in clerical Jobs.
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Peru Rushes Troops
To QueII lis Second
Revolt in Is DAYS
BY the Assoeioted Press

LIMA, Peru, Oct. 28.-The
government rushed loyal troops
to its defense today after an
Army garrison revolted at Are
quipa. 1t was Peru's second
major rebellion within Is days.
President Jose Luis Bustamente
Rivero's government announced late
last night that Brig. Manuel Odria,
commandant of the Arequipa gar
rison and q former minister of
government (interior), and troops
under his command had launched
an instructions.
A communique, which gave no
details of the progress of the re-
volt, said the government was TAX
ing necessary measures to subdue
the subversive movement"
The government said troops at
Lima, the capital. and other garri-
sons in the north and south had
remained loyal. Arequipa is in
Southern Peru, about 1875 miles from
the Bolivian border. The President
broadcast a message to the nation
denouncing the Arequipa revolt as
the work Of small group of am
bilious and resentful" men.
Peru has been in state of unrest
for months and the government
declared national emergency and
assumed emergency powers Tuesday
following students political strike
Disorders previously occurred at
AreQuipa early this month during
an uprising which began October ;
at Callao, Lima's port city.
The October revolt was blamed
by the government on the leftist
Apra Party.
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McGrath Out 10 Punish
Democratic 'Deserters'
BY the Associoted Press

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Oct. 2S.-
Senator McGrath, Democratic ma.
tional chairman, says he will ash
for disciplinary action against Ma.
tional e. Committee members whe
nave deserted" President Truman
Senator McGrath said last night
he will make his recommendation
to the National Committee when it
meets after the election.
TT will be my duty to report to
the National Committee the failure
of certain members to support tn,
party nominee" he said. Il shall
recommend that those who have
deserted the party not be recognized
as members of the committee"
He made the statement when
asked to comment on the sreorgani-
ration Of the South Carolina Demo-
cratic State Committee by pro-Tru-
man Presidential elector candidate.
opposed to Gov. ]. Strom Thurmond
OF South Carolina, the States
Rights Presidential candidate,
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Church Rites Are Held
For Skip Obenshuin

Mass was offered at Holy Com
forter Church this morning for s.
year old Curry c. Skip Oben-
shain. jr., who lost his long fight
against lymphatic leukemia Tues
day. Burial was in Arlington Gene
terry.
Skip, son of Marine S/Sergt. and
Mrs. c. C. Obenshain, 1040 Barnaby
terrace Sc, died in Bethesda Naval
Hospital where he had been pa
tient three previous times. His
health began to decline last March,
and doctors had told his parents he
wouldn't live more than year.
Early this month his critical con-
dition prevented pilgrimage to the
Shrine Of st. Anne de Beaupre,
Quebec.
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the Frontier Battalion of the Texas
Rangers. He served with this law
enforcement group for two years,
then resigned to study law with an
attorney in Floresville, Tex.
Admitted to the bar in 1915, he
practiced in Floresville until 1917
when he opened an Office at Browns
vile Here he made his home until
his death.
He entered politics in 1922 whcr
he was elected district attorney fol
the 28th judicial district of Texas
He held this post until 1925. Ir
1927, he was named assistant dis
trict attorney for the same district
In 1880 he resigned to run for thu
Texas Legislature.
He was a member of that bod,
until his election to Congress. Wher
In Washington, Mr.. West lived al
the Hamilton Hotel. He was q
member Of the, Elks, ne -r~7
Surviving in addition to his widow
Is son, Milton H. West, jr., an at.
torney in Houston. Funeral service!
and burial will be at Brownsville.
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II Nazi Commanders
Get ; Years 10 Life
For War Atrocities
BY the Associofed Press

NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct. %.
An American Court today imposed
sentences ranging from three years
to life Imprisonment on II German
military commanders for atrocities
in World War II.
The II were convicted on war
crimes charges after a nine-month
trial. Two other defendants, Field
Marshal Hugo Sperrle and Admiral
Otto SchnieWind, were acquitted.
1t. Gen. Walther Warlimont, 81,
found to be one of Hitlers top ad.
visers in drafting summary execu-
ton orders against Allied com.
mandos and Soviet Army political
commisars, was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Gen. Reinecke Sentenced.
The same penalty was meted out
to 1t. Gen. Hermann Reinecke, so,
who was charged with issuing SINH
lar orders. Gen. Reinecke served as
military member of a peoples
court which tried the group which
sought to assassinate Hitler in July,
1914.
Convicted on both counts Of
crimes against prisoners and civil
ians were:
Gen. Hans Reinhardt, 81, who
fought in Poland, The Netherlands,
Yugoslavia and Russia.
Gen. Hans Won Salmuth, SO, who
participated in the Polish and Rus
sian campaigns.
Gen. Karl Hollidt, So, who fought
in France, Greece and Russia.
1t. Gen. Karl Won Roques, So, q
rear area commander in Russia.
Others Convicted.
1t. Gen. Otto Woehler, 81, who
fought in Russia.
1t. Gen. Rudolf Lehman, 81, Judge
advocate general of the Wehrmacht.
He was charged with collaborating
in the drafting of execution orders
for commandos and commissars.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Won Leeb
was found guilty yesterday of crimes
against civilians. Field Marshal
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Won Kuech-
Ter and Gen. Hermann Hoth were
convicted of carrying out Hitler's
order for the summary execution Of
Communist commissars who fell
into German hands.
Evening star., 1948-10-28
Chicago Voting Machines
Are Ordered Withdrawn
BY The Assoeiofed Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-Voting ma
chimes have been ordered withdrawn
from use in Tuesdays election in
Cook County (Chicago).
Superior Court Judge Joseph A
Graber yesterday ordered the elec-
ton commission to issue paper bal
lots in the 423 precincts where the
Election Board had planned to use
the machines. Voting machines were
to be used for the first time in a
general election in the county
November 2. Cook County has 5,o2a
precincts.
Use of the machines was chal-
lenged Friday in suit filed by seven
taxpayers and voters. They claimed
State law requires ballot labels larger
than those intended for the voting
machines. The smaller sized labels,
they said, would have resulted in
illegibility and confusion.
Evening star., 1948-10-28
BY Gould Lincoln
Sior Stoff Correspondent

HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. %
Gov. Dewey, Republican candidate
for President, will carry Connecticut
by from $4,000 to $4,000 votes, &C
cording to Democratic estimates. and
by $4,000 to 10000, according to
Republican forecasters.
From all of this, it appears that
the State is reasonably safe for Gov
Dewey. Notwithstanding President
Trumans trip through here yester-
day, when he drew large and
friendly crowd in Hartford.
Hartford has been Democratic
stronghold, usually, but this year
the Republicans are counting on
holding the Democratic margin here
down to few thousands. Some say
they will wipe out that lead en-
tirely. If they are correct-and
some of their polls indicate they
may be-Gov. Dewey should win
very large margin in Connecticut.
No presidential candidate has bet
tered the 125,000 margin gained by
the late President Coolidge in 1924
when there also was a third-party
candidate. the late Senator La Fol-
lette of Wisconsin.
Wallace Vote to Aid G. o. p.
The Wallace candidacy in Con-
necticut, while 1t may not decide
the Dewey Truman race, will have
its effect on the Dewey plurality. 1t
/ is expected that Mr.. Wallace will
poll about 10000 votes and his total
could go to $4,000. Since most Of
! the Wallace support would ordi-
narily be Democratic. this is grist
to the Republican mill.
Gov. Dewey will enter the coastal
cities of Connecticut on his way
back to New York from Boston later
this week, but he will not visit Hart
ford. Whether he comes into the
State at all seems immaterial, from
the accounts of the campaign. One
reason that the vote in Hartford
has turned away from the Demo
Gratis lies in the fact that the Jewish
vote, which is considerable, is largely
against Mr. Truman on his handling
of the Palestine question. 1t will
go for the Republican candidate.
Two years ago, Connecticut went
hell bent" for the Republican Party.
The COP elected its candidate for
Governor, Senator, and all six Of
the Connecticut members of the
House In that year, popular Gov,
now Senator. Baldwin rode high,
wide and handsome. But the Re-
publican candidate for Governor,
/ the late James L. McCanaughy, was
only a few thousand votes back OF
Senator Baldwin when the votes
were counted. Indeed, the picture
in that campaign was not unlike
today, when the Democratic candi-
date for Governor was given a
chance to win-but did not do as
we'll as he was expected. Today
the Democrats are pinning all their
hopes on Chester Bowles, former
OPA administrator, their candidate
for Governor.
One House Seat in Danger.
Connecticut has no Senatorial
race this year. OF the six House
seats, only one appears to be in
any serious danger of capture by
the Democrats. This is the 1st dis
trict, Hartford. where Abraham A
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6. O. P. to Keep Senate
Control, Brewster Soys

Senator Brewster, Republican, OF
Maine said today he is very con-
fldent" that the Republicans will re-
tain control of the Senate in next
Tuesdays election.
Back from a trip to Virginia and
North Carolina Senator Brewster
said he believed indications were
that the Republicans probably would
carry five Southern States.
The Senator said he found no or
ganized activity in Virginia for
President Truman.
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Connecticut Expected to Back
Dewey Despite Truman's Visit

Ribicoff, a personable young Dem.
ocrat, is running against Repub.
lican Representative Miller. a vet,
eran Of World War I, who lost both
legs. The edge. however, appear.
to be with Mr.. Miller, and the Re.
publicans are saying he will wir
by $4,000.
Another fight lies in the I'd Con-
greSsional District, where Mrs
Chase Going Woodhouse is trying
to make a comeback. Mrs. Wood.
house, former director of the Wom-
ans Division of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, represented this
district in the House two years age
and lost out to Representative
Seely-
The probabilities are, however
that Connecticut will send all SIX
of its Republican House members
back to WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1948-10-28
Doctor Gets 5 10 18 Years
For Shooting Wife 10 Death
BY the Associoted Press

WEIGH, w. Va, Oct. 28.-Dr. w
Richard Stevens. 35-year -old Bart
ley physician, was sentenced yes
terday to serve 5 to lS years in the
Moundsville State Penitentiary fol
the fatal shooting of his wife.
The physician was convicted by
a Mcdowell County Criminal Court
jury last Tuesday after a five-day
trial. Mrs. Ruth S. Stevens, 38
was shot to death at their home
at Barley April 10. DR.. Stevens was
arrested two days later near Pike
vile, KY, where he had taken 9
job at a coal mine.
Evening star., 1948-10-28

The Budget
Bureau Is ex-
pected to in
struct the COM
mission to tight
en- up its present
hiring r e 6 ul a.
tiOnS so quail
fed applicants
with permanent
status will be
assigned to Gov
ernment jobs.
A ! S o, t h e
Budget Bureau
will instruct the
ON mission to
draw I'm a com.
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plete civilian employment recruit
ment program that can be put to
immediate use in case Of a sudden
emergency.
| X X X y
VOTING REMINDER-All Gov
ernment employees who plan to vote
next Tuesday will be given sufficient
time off by their agencies to cast
their ballots.
A White House Executive order
assures these employees the right
to take time off from their jobs
to vote, without any loss Of annual
leave. The amount of time they
may take depends on where they
cast their votes. The maximum
time allowed is one day.
! PAY-The Veterans Of Foreign
Wars has adopted resolution call
ing for an $500 pay raise for all
Government employes-veterans as
well as nonveterans.
incidentally, the VFW fails to see
eye to eye with its major rival in
the veterans field, the American
Legion, on whether veterans should
be required to make a passing grade
in civil service examinations to be-
come eligible for Government jobs.
The Legion straddled the issue at
its recent convention, refusing to
take stand and referring the mat
ter to one of its committees for
further study.
But the VFW has gone on record,
favoring the requirement that all
veterans make passing grade of
70-like all other Federal job appli-
cants-to become eligible for Fed
eral employment.
Omar B. Ketchum, VFW's legisla-
tive representative, declares that
veterans only hurt their own cause
by insisting on using their 5 and 10
points preference to make passing
grade"
Mr.. Ketchum declares that most
veterans don't need their preference
points to make passing grade, any
way. And the present practice hurts
all veterans by casting doubt as to
their ability, Mr.. Ketchum asserts.
LABOR DEPT.-Three Labor De-
partment employees have been given
cash awards for their suggestions to
improve the efficient operation Of
the deDa rtnent
They are: Wanda Lee burst and
Carlesto F. Rego of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics and Theodore E.
Brunell of the Wage and House
Division.
SENATOR LANGER-There's q
move afoot among several top Re-
publican leaders to take the chair
mainship of the Senate Civil Serv-
ice Committee away from Senator
LANCER.
These leaders feel that Senator
LANCER, always an independent in
his views, might interfere with fu-
ture Republican patronage plans.
Therefore, some Of them would like
to give the craftsmanship to Senator
Buck of Delaware, 4 more regular
party man.
Senator LANCER, who always has
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taken great interest in the welfare
of Government employees, has served
notice that he will fight any attempt
to remove him as chairman. And
with strong possibility of a Sen
ate tie next year, he is In a good
position to block any attempt to
take his Craftsmanship away. In a
close division of the Senate, the Re-
publicans would need every vote
they could muster to organize the
Senate.
NLRB-Present plans call for the
National Labor Relations Board to
move from its present inadequate
quarters on Connecticut avenue to
the Social Security Building by No
vember Is.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT-The
Interior Department has made the
following cash awards to employees
for money saving suggestions
Maurice Shelton, Sol M. Greisman
Floyd w. Campbell and Oliver c
Ralston. The award was Mr.. Shell
tons third within the last three
years.
X X X
STATE DEPARTMENT - The
State Department has been giver
the authority to fix the oversee.
wage differentials of all Govern.
ment agencies
Previously, this authority was ir
the hands of the Budget Bureau
But, since the State Department,
always has played the dominant
part in the determination of over.
seas wage rates, it was decided tt
give it the final authority in the
matter. And the result may b.
speedier adjustments of oversee!
wage adjustment problems of Gov.
ernment employees.
(Be sure to listen at 1915 am.
every Sunday oUer WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast program OF the Federal =,
Spotlight, featuring additional
ne1Ds on Government affairs and
flerSnnnlitieS
Evening star., 1948-10-28
EpiscopoIions Re-eIect
3 Officers in Northwest
By the Associofed Press

BILLINGS, Mont, Oct. 2s.-A
two-day synod of the Northwest
Episcopal Province ended yesterday
with reelection of the Right Rev.
Howard r. Brinker Of Omaha as
president.
Also reelected were the Rev.
Stanley Fullwood' of Omaha. secre-
tary, and Allan King, Fargo, N.
Oak. treasurer.
Delegates represented eight States
Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Montana, North and South
Dakota and Wyoming.
Evening star., 1948-10-28
Warrant Issued in Siom
For Deposed Premier
BY the Associated Press

BANGKOK, Oct. 28.-Police in
vestigating Slams attempted coup
d'etat, which was thwarted on Oc-
tober 6, issued a warrant today for
the arrest of Thamrong Nawwsa-
wat. the premier ousted by the gov
ernment of Phibum Songkram last
November.
Bangkok Police Chief Chattra-
karn Kosol said all Siam police sta
tions had been alerted to arrest
Thamrong on sight The police
chief said Thamrong may be trying
to flee Siam.
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cnurcn since 1896
and a N a v y
C h a p ain in
World w ar II.
H e die d in
Mount Alto Hos
pi t al Tuesday
after a brief ill
ness. Burial will
be in Arlington
Cemetery.
A member of
the Naval Re-
serve since 1921,
Mr.. L a m b d ! n
was called to ac-
tive duty in Feb
rlIarv 1Qd1 and
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Weather Report

District of Columbia-Some cloud
iness and mild with highest in upper
Cos this afternoon. Partly cloudy
tonight with lowest about 48 degrees
Friday partly cloudy with high
about 72.
Maryland and Virginia - Some
cloudiness tonight and Friday. Lit.
tie change in temperature.
Wind velocity, 5 miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
River Report.
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferr,
and at Great Fails; Shenandoah clear a.
Harpers Ferry.
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Rev. Charles sLambdin,
81. Luke's Methodist
Church Pastor, Dies

Funeral services will be held at 10
am. tomorrow in st. Luke's Meth
odist Church for the Rev. Charles
Howard Lambdin, So, pastor of the
Evening star., 1948-10-28
The Federal Spotlight
Budget Bureau to Urge CSC
To Reform EmpIoye Placement
By Joseph Young

The Budget Bureau will the Civil Service
mission to the present defects in employment place.
ment program.
For time the commission has had its difficulties
with agencies that ignore the regular
poyment registers and the dis ,- :
Evening star., 1948-10-28

NEW YORK-RODTUNE SMILED ON THEM-Carmine Scudero,
truck driver happily posed with his wife and Gerald 2
in their Brooklyn apartment yesterday after learning that his
with his Sterope the horse that the Cam
bridgeshe Newmarket England The Scudeos
the only Americans among hrsplace winners
Wirephoto.
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High and Low For Yesterday.
High, II, at 2:42 pm,
Low. ~, at Gao am. Z - o. esas .
Record Temperatures This Year i
Highest, 90. OH August 81,
Lowest. 5, on January 26.
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The Sun and Moon.

SUM- todagssGsssz:.e. es3f $4,000 a..fyrT~
Sun. tomorEow~-. s:32 -.~' '5.T9s%a'
Moon. today --1@ 200 am. 3:3bp, m
Automobile lights must be, turned On
one-haf hour after sunset -.
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Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
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Precipitatiou

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (curFent month to date):
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plete civilian employment recruit
ment program that can be put to
use in case of a sudden
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mt registers and the dis
career employees list in
Federal jobs.
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One House Seat in Danger.
Connecticut has no Senatorial
race this year. OF the six House
seats, only one appears to be in
any serious danger of capture by
the Democrats. This is the 1st dis
trict, Hartford. where Abraham A
Evening star., 1948-04-04

Congress will review the whole
operation and decide how much
more money may be needed
The measure appropriated no
funds and the administration must
go before Congress soon and ask for
the actual cash.
However, the bill did authorize an
advance Of $1,000, 900 900 from the
RFC to finance initial aid to
Europe and $100,000,000 to get the
goods going to the Middle East and
China so there will be no delay
Evening star., 1948-04-04

Uline Arena.
Featured in this years three-ring
show, proceeds of which go toward
the AInas Temple Charities and
Activities Fund and the Crippled
Children's Hospitals OF North Amer
lea. win be Lalage. former glamour
girl" aerialist with Ringing Bros.
Fourteen other aerial acts are
scheduled, as well as performances
by lions and tigers, educated" seals,
elephants, chimpanzees, horses, dogs.
and iugglers-and. Of course, the
clowns.
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Shrine Circus Tickets
60 on Sale Tomorrow

Advance sale Of tickets begins to-
morrow for the Eighth Annual
Shrine Circus to be held in Uline
Arena April 10 to as.
Tickets for the circus, which this
year has 10 acts and 26 displays
may be obtained through any OF
the 1000 local Shrine members, at
Almas Temple, 1915 x street NV. OF
Evening star., 1948-04-04
'Mser. Sheen officiotes
AT Houston Wedding
BY The Associosed Press

Houston. April 3.-Miss Elizabeth
Susan Strake, daughter of George
Strake, Houston Gilman and promi-
nent Catholic layman, became the
bride Of Robert Daniel Dilworth of
Detroit. at noon today, in cere-
rnony at st. Anne's Church.
Oficiating was Monsignor Fulton
]. Sheen Of Washington.
Mr.. Dilworth. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
John @. Dilworth, Detroit. is an
executive with the Strake Oil Co.
Evening star., 1948-04-04
De Gosperi Says Aid Plan
Offers Rebirth to Italy

ROME, April 8 tP.-Premier Al
{ 4e de Casper sent q message to
aacretary of State Marshall today
saying passage Of the European Re-
covery Plan assured Italy of new
possibilities Of rebirth and interna-
tional cooperation"
His message: I'm the moment In
which the United States approves
the generous American contribution
to European reconstruction, accord
ing to the plan you yourself sug-
gested with propositions Of peace
and human fraternity, my thought
turns toward your excellency, happy
that free Italy is assured of new
possibilities Of rebirth and interna-
tional cooperation"
Evening star., 1948-04-04

on that score in starting opera
tions.
Mr.. Truman's next big task Is
to select an administrator for the
program. The position will pay
$4,000 a year and carry Cabinet
rank Most frequently mentioned
for the post is Paul G. Hoffman,
president Of the Studebaker Corp.
Evening star., 1948-04-04

The Agricultural Department es-
Inmates that only two acres of agri-
cultural land are available per per-
son in the world today.