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Evening star., 1948-04-01

for top-fiight administrative and
scientific personnel. And cabinet
officers would get $4,000 a year.
STANDSTILL-It's a pretty safe
bet that no sweeping reorganiza-
tions or consultations of Govern
ment agencies and activities will be
approved by Congress for another
year at least.
Republican leaders have decided
to wait for the comprehensive re-
port and recommendations of the
Hoover commission to reorganize
the Government before taking any
action on needed changes in the
Government setup. The Hoover
commission won't make its report
until next March, so that leaves
the situation up in the air.
Decision to wait on the commits
sion's report was the principal rea-
son for the defeat of President Tru-
mans proposal to transfer the
United States Employment Service
to the Labor Department. At least
that was the chief argument made
on the Senate floor against the
measure.
Former President Hoover himself
specifically told a press conference
recently that his group has no OBJ
lection to any needed Government
agency reorganizations and consoli-
dations being made while his group
was still at work.
But Congress feels it will be bet
ter to wait and tackle the problem
as a whole, based on the Hoover
groups report. This stand prob
ably will block pending legislation
by Chairman Hope of the House
Agriculture Committee to effect a
sweeping reorganization of the
Agriculture and interior Depart
ments.
NEW BOOKLET-The new civil
service retirement benefits go, into
effect today, and the Senate Civil
Service Committee has prepared its
own booklet that explains the new
law.
The booklet tells in two succinct
pages all you need to know about
the new benefits to which you are
now entitled. If you didn't get a
copy of the civil service retirement
booklet, or If you would like this
new booklet to carry around in
your pocket. get your copy at the
Senate Civil Service Committee,
room 134, Senate ONCE Building.
Please don't write to me for this
streamlined booklet. The booklet
can be obtained only by applying
in person at the committees Office.
incidentally, the booklet was writ
ten by John Phenix, one Of the
outstanding actuaries in the Gov
ernment service. now on the COM
mittee's staff. Mr.. Phenix has done
a fine Job.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-In answer
to numerous inquiries Federal per
diem employees are included In
House and Senate Civil Service
Committee pay bills, if their wages
sre not fixed by wage boards. If
their salaries are determined by
Federal wage boards, they are not
included in the measure but would
be taken care of in a measure spon-
sored by Senator Bridges, Repub-
slican, of New Hanipshire, which is
now before the Senate Civil Service
Committee. Berchmans T. Fitz-
patrick has been appointed assist
ant administrator OF the Housing
and Home Finance Agency. Mr..
Fitzpatrick will continue to hold
his post as general counsel OF the
agency. 7~.T"
additional ne,Us of Gopern-
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., 1948-04-01
Tenants Will Employ
Attorneys in Fight on
Mel Gardens Rents

Members Of the Mclean Gardens
Residents Association, formed at q
mass meeting last night to fight q
rent increase sought by the Fair
mac Corp, new owners Of the big
District rental development on Wis
consin avenue at Porter street NV
will employ attorneys to handle
their protest.
That was decided by group
estimated by tenants at more than
1000 who met last night at St
Adams Episcopal Church Guild
Hall, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin
avenues NV.
Members of the tenants associa-
tion said approximately half the
developments residents attended
the meeting.
Asks 10ee Increase.
Petition of the new owner to
the District Rent Control Admin
istration seeks a fiat 10 per cent
increase on all 720 apartments which
have a rent range Of from $50
monthly for efficiency apartments
to $3.50 for two-bedroom apart
ments. For 1900 dormitory rooms,
fiat S. boost is sought.
Rents for all accommodations in
clude utility costs. Maid service is
included in the rates for dormitory
rooms, whose rents range from
s34.50 to $3.50 monthly.
Presiding was J. H. Mason, who
was temporary chairman Of vol
untary group which called the meet
ing. An early session was promised
at which permanent officers will be
chosen.
Speakers included Benjamin c.
Sigal and Daniel F. Cleary, both at
torneys.
Must Fight Together.
Mr.. Cleary told the meeting ten
ants alone can't afford to fight, but
we can aHofo not 10 ngnt To-
gether."
Mr.. Sigal said it would be i'm
possible for the Fairmac Corp. tc
prove its contention that rents fol
Mclean Gardens apartments are
lower than for comparable housing
He challenged the corporations con-
tention expenses have risen by near
ly $l00, ,0oo Referring to the owner:
claim that $4,000 was spent fol
capital Improvements, Mr.. Siga
said this was major repair" ane
should be amortized over a perioe
of years.
Association members said the,
plan to canvass the entire projecl
to obtain further support among
tenants for1h rent hsht.
Evening star., 1948-04-01
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Commission Adopts New Policy
To Curb Sick Leave Abuses
By Joseph Young

drastic sick leave policy which may sharply cura
abuses in the has been adopted by the Civil
Service Commission for its employees
Briefly all commission employees who sick without
offering adequate proof that they Ill
Evening star., 1948-04-01
Weather Report

District Of Columbia - Mostly
cloudy but with some sunshine anc
highest about 10 this afternoon
Scattered showers likely tonight
with lowest in middle sos. Tomor.
row fair and mild.
Virginia - Partly cloudy with
scattered showers and slightly cool.
er in west portion tonight. Tomor.
row fair and mild.
Maryland - Partly cloudy with
scattered showers in east anc
slightly cooler in the interior to.
night. Tomorrow fair and mild.
Wind velocity, II miles per hour
direction, south-southwest.
River Report
rrom United States EnsineersJ
Potomac River CLOUDY at Harpers Ferr,
and muddy at Great Fails; Shenandoaf
cleay at Harpers Ferry
Evening star., 1948-04-01

jobs after the third offense.
Although the commissions new
order affects only its own employees
it's expected that some other agen-
Evening star., 1948-04-01

additional ne1Us of Gopern-
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast persion OF the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 pm. every Sunday
on WMAL, The Star station.)
Evening star., 1948-04-01

Degree Days.
| Degree days" yesterday 3
| Accumulated "degree days"-- 4.o7s
Evening star., 1948-04-01

eiaimed
Hokes listed IN order u post position.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
GERMANO's CRUDE TACTICS

What's
by these labor Getting
impatient the failure their membership
con" they substituting
Anyone who knows the temper and traditions the
bershp knows that's bad medicine
ALL precisely because they b
paying rank and file.
Let's look at of the facts The State Executive
the Illinois State Industrial Council held
meetings
local had communication
Council Secretary calling attention findings the
The resolution they
cussed the announced candidacy Wallace
behalf the Illinois
the Councl issued the following
Delegates
convention meeting
Third Party ticket the presidential
all National Unions
Councils and their aiates with this policy
Germano, President of State CLIO.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
POLITICAL INDIGESTION

Perhaps the leaders State Council that they
bit off than they chew Perhaps
made the leved the effect that
The denying the largest CLIO
unions the state the State Board becomes
State Board elected in traditional democratic without
uggng and dictatorship might issued misleading
statement
Frank Annun2o of the steel workers. officer
PAC reported currently belated inviting
of the erogresve unions delegates the State PC
on decisions OF
Committee meeting taking Washington this
Learning the rights of the nena
tonal
still result united CIOPAC drive for progressive Congress
Otherwise looks like ahead for those who would hand
CLIO to the Democratic
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
WHAT Go DIDN'T DO

This resolution CLIO afliates
Maio President District
workers. with $4,000 members let fly with letter to
all his local unions that said in part:
t's There is one
venton) resolution twhich implied opposition
third A. Wallace"
his point
Charles Lawson member of the State CLIO Board
leaflet the $4,000 of
District of the Equipment Workers which he
looked the Boston Convention resolution referred by Gemano
and couldn't find statement against 3rd party.
the tough nssence of Mann that they
expect international comply" with their policy
dashed back saying:
We the right for union and its members
candidates of ANY recdnot
a militant drive to enact the of the Go"
similar vein, regional leaders of International
located Chicago spoke against the
muncaon Wallace finding
in the middle of the Germano camp.
The most startling development took place the second largest
Chicago-organized the spite off
international the United
Steel Workers. including Norman Harris the local of $500 members
voted to table the Grmano anhd party resolution its last
meeting.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

our daily commercial papers
tends to disappear completely
when their own self-interest is
hit directly, as during a strike
of their own employees.
When in 1916, the cable
telegraphers struck in New
York, the liberal New York
Post went wild. Censorship
Communism" the Post
screamed.
David Stern, liberal pub
Usher OF several Philadelphia
and Camden papers, closed up
shop completely rather than
deal with the American News
paper Guild.
AND of course, in Chicago,
we are now witnessing the
united front of the liberal"
Marshall Field papers with the
others in trying to destroy the
International Typogr aphical
Union.
The fact is that the strike
was preeipitated at the Field
papers when a whole shift of
printers was fired on the eve
of the walkout.
Before and during the strike,
the Field papers have worked
comparatively with the Chicago
Tribune. Ironically, the Chi
cago Sun was supposedly eS-
tablished to destroy the power
VI lIlG l1OdklCs
THE liberal" papers have a
few other Achilles heels.
One is their policy in rela-
ton to the Negro people. The
Field papers in Chicago, for
example, maintain a strict jim
crow policy in editorial hiring.
Another fatal weakness, of
course, is their attitude toward
labor.
Unions such as the United
Auto Workers, the United Elec-
trical Workers and the Farm
Equipment Workers in Chicago
were even denied the right to
insert paid ads in the Field pa
pers stating their position dur
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
BY Pop" DEARBORN
EAGER TRUMAN BEAVERS

There's conidenceman term the penen-
who lost his freedom
people these
labor leaders sell Harry Truman 1948
of FDR who will undoubtedly losing following.
CLOS filers saying to
thing They agree Henry
having phoney al a three-dolar bill.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

S there a liberal pr
If there is, Franklin D.
lace must entertain the mos
The fact is that there is a
section of the American press
which is term e d liberal"
Which means that our daily
papers are not an unrelieved
series of Chicago Tribunes.
You might say there is the
neanderthal press and also that
press which is somewhat more
enlightened.
THE roots of liberalism in
journalism are complex and
twisted. But they stem in the
main from (a) the freak cir
cumstance in which a million
aire turns liberal and eStab-
fishes a paper as a public phil
anthropy; (b) the case in which
a millionaire decides to add to
his fortune by publishing a
popular newspaper.
The fact is that often liberal
journalism pays off. In his
''Wayward Freshman" the New
Workers. A. ]. Leibling puts it
this way:
There is always important
money TO be made by standing
up for the underdog The
underdog is numerous and pro-
lific-another name for him is
circulation. His wife buys Cir
dies and baking powder and
Literary Guild selections and
the advertiser has 10 reach
her."
BUT the history of all such
liberal" papers is that they
eventually turn sour.
This is the essential fact
about these papers and their
basic limitation. This is what
distinguishes these papers from
the genuine peoples press
which does not have million
aires as political liability.
It is in the tradition of this
peoples presumably the abo-
litionist and labor papers of
the past-that the Chicago Star
is trying TO find its place.
- =
THE liberalism in the mil
lionaire press is more accurate
ly a thin lacquer coat that chips
and peels and eventually wears
off entirely.
Both VILLA m Randolph
Hearst and the late Capt. Joe
Patterson, two of the most vio-
lently pro-fascist press lords in
America started out as Glib
eral" publishers.
Patterson, cousin of Col. Rob-
ert r. Mccormick, wrote a play
in his salad days called Fourth
Estate" in which he said:
Newspapers start W h e n
their owners are poor. and
take the part of the people.
and so they build up a large
circulation. and as a result, ad-
vertising. That makes them
rich. and they begin, most natu-
rally. TO associate with other
rich men-theY play golf with
one another. and drink whis-
KEY with one another, and their
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

The next article in this series
on "a Free Press" will deal
with THE Future of the Peo-
pies Press.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

HOWEVER. the most damn
ing indictment of the .'liberal"
press is its complete SubServi-
ence to the bipartisan foreign
policy of the Truman Admins
tration and its unanimous hos
tility to the third party move
ment.
This is the clincher 70 the old
truism that in the final show
down, money will fell"
During the Roosevelt era,
the animosity of the press was
consistent and unprincipled. 1t
reached a climax in FDR's
fight to liberalize the Supreme
Court, in which he was opposed
by 95 per cent of the press.
Today, the third party move
ment is faced with a practically
solid front of press opposition.
Probably the most violent at
tacks on the candidacy of
Henry A. Wallace have come
from the most liberal" of the
daily papers.
THE success of the Roose-
welt election campaigns have
proved that the hostility of the
press is not an unsurmount-
able barrier.
But there can be no doubt
that the people need newspa-
.pers of their own. on which
they can place full reliance
and which they can and must
support without reservations.
If such papers must come to
the people for financial sup
port-as the Chicago Star now
appeals for $4,000 - this is
only inherent in the struggle
for a genuine peoples press.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

LIBERALISM in the best of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
How liberal is the
>|iberaH press?
BY HIRScH
S there a liberal press in
BY CARL HIRScH


D. A.
enter noStse doubts its
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Democrats
Continued From First Page0

the United States. I'm everybody's
President"
Beaming, Mrs. Thomas told re-
porters:
I'VE are going to stand together
and work for a Democratic victory"
Other Executive Committee menu
bers came out of the meeting with
the President saying their slogan
would be Peace and Prices"
Frank McHale, Indiana commit
teeman, said the Republicans had
missed the boat on the high cost Of
living issue. He said the party
committee is certain that "the mass
of the people will make any sacrifice
for peace"
Baskin Repudiates Truman.
But the assembling Southerners
had other ideas.
William P. Baskin, South Carolina
Democratic chairman, said his State
will vote Republican or for IA
vorite Southern son." If President
Truman is nominated.
"The South will not vote for Pres
ident Truman or any one who holds
beliefs similar to his" he enpha-
sized.
Gov. Laney agreed.
Gov. Jester said that maybe the
President might get back on solid
ground again when he finds out that
it's true what they say about Dixie
Gov. Foslom an avowed candidate
for the presidential nomination, said
| the party should fight out its diff
ferences" in the Philadelphia con-
vention. He reiterated his sugges-
tion that each State SHOW up with
at least its own platform and pre-
ferably its own candidatek' for the
| DreSidencV
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Mass Demonstration
Planned inCosta Rica
BY the Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Mar. 13.-
Guns cracked in Costa Rica last
night and a mass demonstration is
due today in the dispute over choice
of a President-designate.
The government said last night
"revolutionaries" had wounded five
soldiers of a mobile army unit. The
unit had been on its way to inveS-
tigate reports that Jose Figueres,
opposition political leader, had sew
eral hundred armed men at his
ranch southeast of here.
Vanguardia Popular formerly
Communist) leaders called for party
members to demonstrate today
against the delay in picking Pres
ident-designate.
The bankers association is medi-
tating the dispute between govern
ment and opposition leaders over
who is to become President May 8
Several successive truces have been
arranged. The latest expires al
midnight tonight.
Vanguardia Popular apparently
has little faith in the continuing ne
gotiations. Yesterday the part!
controlled radio ordered members tx
your battle positions
The country has been upset since
the February 8 election and without
a President-elect since March l
when Congress annulled the election
of Otilio Ulate Blanco, opposition
candidate. Rafael Calderon Guard
ia. government candidate, has
charged fraud. Congress upheld
him.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
u. ). Resumes Buyinq
OF Wheat al Rate Of
Million Bushels Daily

The Government will resume
the purchases OF wheat for ex-
port today for the first time
since the market broke sharply
early in February.
The Agriculture Department, an
nouncing last night that purchases
would be made for the time being
at the rate of 100000 bushels a
day for quick delivery, said it was
believed the market had stabilized
sufficiently to allow resumption of
buying.
However. If the market moves
upward too rapidly, the future buy
ing program may be modified, off,
cials said. Present plans call for
some quantities for May or later
delivery in addition to the 1000, 900
bushels daily.
Flour Buying Cited.
It was noted that a large flour
purchase this week did not un-
usually disturb the grain markets
I'm view of the fact that the rel
atively large, current flour pur-
chases have not unduly disturbed
the market, the department feels
that commodity prices have sta
bilized sufficiently to permit the
resumption of purchases of wheat
for export" the departments an
nouncement stated.
The Government still has more
than 75,000,000 bushels of wheat to
buy in order to assure the 450, ,000,-
600 bushel goal by June 80.
Statement Is Issued.
Announcement of the decision
to resume purchasing Of wheat was
contained in a statement that the
Commodity Credit Corp. had ac-
cepted offers of 454, ,230 900 pounds
of -four G0,22O,0O0 bushels of wheat
equivalent) in accordance with
purchase offers announced March
9 by the Production and Marketing
Administration.
The flour purchases were the
first of any Importance since the
Government pulled out of the
market for both wheat and -four al
the beginning of the last big break
in the commodity prices February 4
All purchases to date this week
total 485 100000 pounds d0,920, ,00C
bushels of wheat equivalent), the
department announced. This flour
will be used to fill the remainder
needed to meet April -four allo-
cations, plus part Of the May
ALLEGATIONS which have not yet been
announced.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Edgar Grant Sisson Dies;
1918 Information Official
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 13.-Edgar
Grant Sisson, 70, former magazine
editor, newspaperman and co-chair-
man of the Committee on Public
Information during World War I,
died yesterday.
A native Of Alto, Wis, Mr.. Sisson
became managing editor of Golfers
Weekly in 1911 and from 1914 to
1917 was editor of Cosmopolitan
Magazine.
After studying at Northwestern
University, Mr.. Sisson served as
drama editor of the Chicago
Tribune, assistant city editor of
the Chicago American and city
editor of the Tribune.
AS co-chairman of the Public In
formation Committee, Mr.. Sisson in
1917 was sent by President Wilson
to Russia to disseminate the prin-
ciples expressed by the President
in his speeches on war aims.
In 1881 Mr.. Sisson wrote "One
Hundred Red Days." a book dealing
with the Russian revolution.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Get Tough With Argentina, +,
Herter Committee Urqes
BY the Assoeioted Press

The Herter Committee charged
yesterday that Argentina is bleed
ing a starving Europe" through
"exorbitant" wheat prices.
The 1s-man House committee
called on the future administrator
of the European Recovery Program
to get tough with Argentina. 1t
urged him to use every weapon at
his command to bring Argentine
prices into line.
The committee suggested ration
ing exports of United States indus
trial equipment to Argentina in
ratio to her cooperation.
Otherwise, the committee said,
Argentine high prices will raise
Marshall Plan costs more than
billion dollars during the four years
OF the program.
The committee, which toured Eu-
rope last summer studying economic
and financial conditions, made the
statements in a report on the Latin
American aspects of the Marshall
program. The group is headed by
Representative Herter, Republican,
OF Massachusetts,.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
A. P. Correspondent
Only u. S. Newsmon
At Mosoryk Rites
By the Assoeioted Press

PRAGUE, Mar. ia. j.
Goldberg, Associated Press
chief of bureau in Prague, was
the only American correspond
ent in the pantheon of the Ma
tional Museum today during
state rites for Jan Masaryk.
The foreign press section of
the Ministry of Information
said it had asked Is tickets for
the foreign press and received
only 10. An attache said ma
turally we had to take care Of
our allies" One agency was
told 'the tickets are for CORE
spondents of the Slav nations"
Some visiting western journal
lists were told "only agencies will
get tickets"
Mr.. Goldberg. who comes
from Steubenville, Ohio, was
admitted because he had been
a personal friend of Mr.. Masa-
ryk and had known many
Czech leaders during the war
years.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Fights on Streetcar
Lead 10 Shooting;
Moforman'l' Is Held

A passenger riding a Benning
streetcar was shot in the leg by the
today as the climax of a
series Of fights, police were told.
The wounded man, Eugene Beas-
ley, 10, colored, 4427 Hunt place
NE, was found shortly before 8
am. in the rear of building in the
600 block of Division avenue NE. by
police investigating the report of a
shooting, they said.
He was taken to Casualty Hos
pital for treatment of wound in
the right leg above the knee.
The motorman, William N.
McCauley. 81, Of Ais Fifty sixth
avenue Sunnybrook, Md, told police
the wounded man was one of several
who attacked him. The motorman
was charged by police with assault
with dangerous weapon.
Fight Is Described.
McCauleys story, told to police
and Capital Transit officials, was
that he was westbound when 10 or
IL passengers boarded at Forty
sixth street and Benning road NE
Tine motorman said some of them
were unruly and that a fight broke
out when the car was between Sixth
and Seventh streets NE.
! At Third and H streets NV, 9
policeman boarded the car and re.
moved five of the men, and al
Eleventh and New York avenue
NV, the others left.
McCauley said he went through
the car at the Friendship termina.
point and found .38 caliber pisto,
hidden in a seat. He placed it in a
bag he carried, he said.
Same Men Get Aboard.
On the return trip, one of the
passengers who had been unruly
entered the car again at Eleventh
street and New York avenue, and
as the car proceeded others of the
same crowd boarded at various
stops, McCauley continued.
Another motorman off duty, Her
tina I. Dulaney, also boarded the
car. and sat behind McCauley. AT
Fiftieth and Deane streets NE. one
OF the passengers stood on the mid
dle-door treadle and refused to
move, the motorman, said. AS he
pleaded with him to leave, others of
the crowd rushed the two motor
men, McCauley added.
Then he draw the pistol and fired
one shot. The five men threatening
the motormen fled, McCauley said.