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Evening star., 1948-05-02
Darrell F|ave||e, "a,
Wins Spelling Bee

Darrell Flavelle, IA. 1887 Baker
street NE, is tWo-time winner
OF the annual Washington Spelling
Bee. Darrell took first prize for
the second year over IS other Dis
trict area schoolboys and girls who
met in the Commerce Department
Auditorium Friday night.
AS result of his victory. Darrell
will compete with State represent
atives in the National Spelling Bee
here May %. A student at Eliot
Junior High School. he took the
flrst-prize 500 bond after three
hours of elimination in the contest
sponsored by the Washington Daily
News.
Runner-up was 13-year -old Chris
Ann Montgomery, a seventh grade
student from st. Charles School
Arlington. who went down on the
spelling of 'logarithm."
Third, fourth and fifth-place WIN
ners were: Marian Louise Westover
l3, Of Langley Junior High School:
Evening star., 1948-05-02

These four winners will compete
in the national contest with winners
from all over the United States
and Canada. The grand prize win
nel will receive 81 500 in cash. Three
other class winners will get $500
each, and there will be 162 other
awards ranging from $25 to $3.50.
ANY amateur photographer living
in the Washington retail trading
area is eligible to enter the contest.
Any black-and-white photo made
after January of this year is eligi-
BILE, and there is no limit on the
number Of pictures a contestant may
enter. Color photos will not be &C
cepted.
Name and address of the entrant
should be lettered on the back of
each print. Prints will not be re-
turned.
The complete rules of the con-
test are available at The Star busi-
ness counter
Evening star., 1948-05-02

bv the committee with being Sub
versive." State officials say employees
found to be disloyal or a bad Sc
curity risk will be fired, but they
add that they have no intention OF
being "pressured" into firing inno-
cent people.
UPWA-Its becoming increasingly
likely that the Federal employees
branch of the CIO United Public
Workers of America will break away
and form their own independent
union when UPWA holds its con-
vention May II in Atlantic City.
UPWA officials have been reluc-
tant to make this move, but the
anti Communist rider adopted by
the House makes this inevitable.
The amendment provides for the
firing of all Federal employees who
belong to unions whose officers do
not sign non-Communist affidavits.
There is no indication that UPWA
President Abram Flaxer. who re-
Gently refused to tell a House COM
mittee whether he was Communist,
will sign the affidavit. If he doesn't,
the unions Federal Government
members will be out of jobs.
Incidentally, House Republican
leaders say that any official OF a
Government employees union who
perjures himself in signing the nom
Communist affidavit would be liable
to more than 10 years imprisonment
and upwards of a $4,000 fine.
MIXUP-An error that would
have brought the classified employees
in the Navy Yard here under wage
board jurisdiction has been caught
in the nick of time by the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
When it reported out the bill
the other day to change the existing
setup for wage board employees, the
committee inadvertently provided
for classified employees in the Navy
Yard and other field installations
to have their pay adjusted by wage
| boards.
This would have probably resulted
in wage decreases in many cases
for classified employees, and could
have given the Navy Department
many headaches in switching these
classified workers to wage board
basis.
However, the committee now in
tends to revise the bill to make
sure that these classified employees
will not be affected by the new
measure 1t wasn't anybody's fault
just a technical flaw. S>s{
\ 4 n
JOBSAState Department officials
expect to fill about 500 jobs In their
overseas broadcasting program. Ap-
plications are now being accepted
for jobs as writer's. editors, producers
and broadcasters.
The salaries range from STOP to
$9,975 a year. About 300 jobs are
expected to be in Washington and
200 overseas.
Furthermore. State Department
Evening star., 1948-05-02

hood were old enough TO have
thrown the rocks, and that they
would have had no motive to try
to injure him.
He said his son, who teaches
French at Deal Junior High School,
had reported group of boys there
for smoking recently and that they
might have been seeking revenge"
against the teacher.
Mr.. Lyles. an employe of the
Post Office Department, said he
telephoned for police from the
Eigth Prcinct, but that no scout
car responded. An investigation
into the report is being conducted
by Capt John Fondahl of No 8,
who said the report showed the
car had been TO the address and
had found nothing The communi-
cations section of Police Head
quarters said the men in the scout
car had reported incorrectly that
the address was in Maryland.
Evening star., 1948-05-02

Police last night were investi-
eating the possibility that junior
high school students threw rocks
through a teachers window in re
venge" for his having reported them
for smoking.
Leslie A. Lyles, father of Stanley
A. Lyles, the teacher said he was
entertaining friends in the base
ment recreation room of his home
at 6643 Western avenue NV. Fri
day night when the attack occurred
He said his son was in this third
floor room correcting papers.
At about ll:30 pm, Mr.. Lyles
said, he heard a crash of broken
glass and rushed upstairs to find
two panes of his living room VIM
dow broken, with a stone "as big
as an apple lying on the floor.
He ran from the house in time
to see a car drive off down Western
avenue, he said. Mr.. Lyles added
that no children in the neighbor-
Evening star., 1948-05-02
IMundt Bill Offered
AS World Pattern
For Drive on Reds
By the Associated Press

The House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee offered its anti-Red
bill to the House yesterday as a
pattern for world resistance to "the
Communist onslaught"
The committee said in a formal
report that it is trying mainly to
strike body blow at the American
cadre framework of the foreign
directed Communist conspiracy"
Its. bill would outlaw activity
aimed at creating any foreign-con-
trolled totalitarian government here
The Communist threat is not
limited to this country, the COM
mittee said, adding:
THE Congress of the United
States, by adopting the legislation
here proposed, can set the pattern
for controlling in each country the
foreign-directed Communist con-
spiratorial activities which threaten
the existence of free institutions,
not only here. but throughout the
world"
May Vote This Week.
The House may vote on the bill
late this week or early next. Repre-
sentative Nixon. Republican, of Cali
fornia, who wrote the report and
drafted much of the bill, predicted
passage by at least a four-to- one
margin.
He said Representative Mundt,
Republican, of South Dakota-thc
bill carries Mr.. Mundt's name-has
assurances there will be pressure for
prompt Senate action. The measure
is directed toward four major goals:
l. Making illegal all activity aimed
at establishing a foreign controlled
totalitarian government in the
United States. The committee fig
ures it can nail Communist Party
leaders with criminal charges and
heavy fines and Jail terms.
2. Requiring the Communist
movement to operate in the open
instead of underground. The party
and Communist fronts would have
to register with the Justice Depart
ment.
s. shipping the threads which tie
the international Communist move
ment together. American Reds
would be denied passports.
4. Protecting the security of the
Government itself. Communists
would be barred from all non-elec-
tive Government jobs.
Certainly the temper of the
House will be to have a tougher
BILL" Mr.. Nixon told reporters.
But he said the committee will
resist efforts to outlaw the Com
munist Party.
Sane and Fair Approach"
He said the committee has worked
out what it believes is sane and
fair approach" without adopting
"totalitarian methods to fight a to-
talitarian evil"
To go farther, he said, would put
Evening star., 1948-05-02

Congress on questionable consti-
tutional grounds.
The committee says 1t believes,
however, the Constitution does not
deny to the Congress the power to
enact laws which will defend the
Nation from those who would use
liberties guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition to. destroy it,
Mr.. Nixon said the Communist
Party leadership had pulled
colossal blunder' in opposing the
bill. He said the party newspaper,
the New York Daily Worker, admits
the bill forbids carrying out the
long-range objectives of the party.
Mr.. Nixon interpreted that as an
admission that the Communists
want to set up a totalitarian dicta-
torship controlled from abroad, be-
cause that is the only thing we
forbid to the party"
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Professor Assai|s
Attitude Of Press,
Radio Toward War
By the Assoeiosed Press

BOULDER, Colo, May 1.-Prof.
Curtis MacDougall OF Northwestern
University today accused the ma
jority Of American newspapers and
radio commentators of convincing
most Americans that war is the
only solution to today's national
problems.
Prof. MacDougall, of the Medill
School of Journalism at Northwest
ern, told an audience at the Uni
versity Or Colorado's 18th annual
newspaper week that the press as
a whole is not helping the Nation
find a peaceful way out of the
present tense international situation.
Eddy Gilmore, of the Associated
Press, wrote from Moscow q fort
night ago that there is no compar-
able war fever there at all, but his
dispatch was printed on inside pages
If it was used at ALL" Prof. Mac
Dougall said.
If Gilmore's objective report had
been the opposite, it would have
been streamer headline news in
every paper subscribing to the As
sociated Press report"
Prof. MacDougall said the most
frightening aspect Of the situation
is that some people want to combat
communism by initiating some of it's
worst features at home.
Il mean. of course. the really
frightening attacks that have been
made. on our civil liberties.
Il hold that the American press
is falling down on its job lament
ably by not combating these anti
democratic trends at home; that,
as matter of fact, large section
of the press is aiding and abetting
the hySteria."
He said he felt it was the duty
Of journalism professors to point
out to students the press danger
GUS deficiencies in this resnect
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Eisenhower Leaves
Fort Myer Today,
Farewell Arranged

Gen. Eisenhower was scheduled to
depart from Fort Myer early today
for New York preparatory to assum-
ing the presidency of Columbia Uni
versity.
The Army planned a brief leave
taking ceremony for, the general and
his wife, with his successor as Chief
of Staff, Gen. Bradley, and other
leaders present. The Army Band was
10 furnish the music.
platoon Of mechanized calvary
was to escort Gen. and Mrs. Eisen-
hover from Fort Myer to Memorial
Bridge and some 1,500 troops were
to line the route. They planned to
motor to New York.
The occasion was to be the Armv's
official function, before he goes out
into civil life in honor of the man
who led more soldiers in World War
II than any other general. Gen.
Eisenhower went on leave February y
when he was succeeded as Chief of
Staff by Gen. Bradley.
Army Pay Continues.
In addition to his pay as preident
OF Columbia. Gen. Eisenhower. under
the special law which created FIVE
star generals and admirals. will con-
tinue to receive his Army pay of
some $4,000 annually.
He will hold his rank for life and
technically is merely in an inactive
status subject to call to duty at any
time. The general. at his final press
conference before leaving the chief
of staff post. said that he would
come back to Washington to any
Job that the Government wanted
him TO do This offer apparently
does not apply to the Presidency,
however. since he has consistently
resisted all efforts to induce him to
seek that job.
Retains Small Staff.
Under the special law a five-Star
general is granted an allowance for
a small group of assistants for life
and the following will be in New
York with Gen. Eisenhower: Maj.
Robert Robert L. Shultz, aide-de-
camp, Warrant Officer Margaret
Hayes, private secretary; and Sergt
Leonard Dry, chauffeur.
The Fort Myer quarters the Eisen-
howerS have been occupying are
being renovated for Gen. Bradley.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Clark to Head Drive
For ChiIdren's Fund

Attorney General Clark will head
the Government Employees Unit in
the Crusade for Children" a COM
bined Embarrassing drive of 26 for
eign relief agencies which starts
here May II.
Key appeal in the drive will be
for one days pay from every WASH
ington worker for Europe's 46,OOO,-
900 needy children. according to
Mrs. Raymond Clapper, public rela-
tions chairman, who announced Mr..
Clark's acceptance of the chairman
ship.
Evening star., 1948-05-02

Erich Gruen, l3, of Kramer Junior
High School, and Barbara Master
son, u, of Villa Maria Academy
in Fails Church.
Judges were: DR.. H. Edward Cain
Of Catholic University; John D
Reesing, jr., of George Washington
University; Charles L. Campbell OF
Howard University and Walter A
Branford of American University
Pronouncer was Steve Mccormick
of Radio Station. VOL.
Evening star., 1948-05-02

clded TO mold up
the plan for a
while, at least.
Insiders say ac-
ton won't be
taken until after
t he November
election.
Meanwhile, it
reported that the
department has
also stifened its
resistance to the
House commit
t e e S demands
that 1t fire q
number OF en-
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Public Relations Luncheon

Gail Camp, president of the Ex-
ecutive Service Corp. of New York,
will address luncheon meeting of
the National Capital Forge, AM
erican Public Relations Association
at 1915 pm. tomorrow at the Hotel
Lafayette His topic will be Public
Relations Personnel Opportunities. I"
Evening star., 1948-05-02

officials say that those applicants
not selected for the overseas broad
casting program will be considered
for the various information pro-
grams. Apply at the Civil Service
Commission.
Il 4 +
MOST HELPFUL-The Joint Con-
ference of Affiliated Postal Employees
OF Greater New York, which had
planned to invade Washington to
pressure for higher pay raises, has
decided to call the whole thing of
This is good news for all Federal
employees, because various members
Of Congress had expressed consider
able irritation when they heard of
these plans. : The regular postal
groups, as we'll as the various Gov
ernment employees unions, were
fearful that the pressure tactics
would do more harm than good.
That's why they were relieved
when the New York outfit called off
its plans. Federal pay raise pros
poets have never been brighter than
they are right now, and it would
have been very foolish to jeopardize
them by mass pressure tactics.
y X X
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Veterans
Administration reports that its pro-
gram of recruiting stenographers on
a trial employment basis, with re-
duced dictation standards, is meet
ing with success. Other agencies
may eventually copy VAS idea of
hiring stenographers who can take
as little as IS words of dictation a
minute, and gradually train them
to meet the regular 8O-words-
minute minimum requirements.
The Society for Personnel Admin
istration. composed of top Govern
ment oficials, will hold its annual
elections next month. Incidentally
the society will discuss What Lies
Ahead for Personnel Administra-
ton" at 7:30 pm. Tuesday in the
Archives Auditorium, Eighth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
. Participating in the program will
be Fletcher Waller of the Atomic
Energy Commission. Joseph Wins
low of the Budget Bureau, A. Heath
Onthank of the Army Department
and T. Roy Reid of Agriculture De-
partment. Charles R. Morgan, a
Veterans Administration employe
has resigned as District Republi-
can precinct delegate in connection
with the election of District dele
gates to the Republican National
Convention. Mr.. Morgan withdrew
when he discovered it would have
been violation of the Hatch Act
incidentally, the Civil Service
Commission has filed Hatch Act
violation charges against = Internal
Revenue Bureau employees in Con-
necticut.
l.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
MusseyTent to Meet

Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent No.
l of the Daughters of Union Vet
Grams of the Civil War will hold their
annual inspection Of officers at 8
pm. tomorrow in their headquarters.
20l5 Massachusetts avenue NV.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
State Department Drops Plans
For Major Reorganization Now
BY Joseph Young

State Department officials reported to have decided to
sheve for the time being major reorganization plan for the
partment.
The plan which would have resulted drastic change
the Departments administrative
been given serious consideration for months
Evening star., 1948-05-02

Classified Advertising. Pages Ellis
This edition contains This
Week Magazine OF "a pages,
14-page comic section and IS
pages OF rotograuure.
Sixty-tolr per cent of Argentina S
new settlers last year were Italian.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Optometric Group to Meet

A meeting of the District Op-
tometric Association will be held
at 8 pm. tomorrow at 1922 I
street, NV. A business session
will follow installation of officers
Evening star., 1948-05-02

(Be sure to listen in at 3:15
pm. today ouer WMAL, The Star
station, for Joseph Youngs
broadcast Dersion OF the Federal
Spotlight. featuring additional
neaOs OF Government affairs and
personalities.
Evening star., 1948-05-02

In addition, the department has
been under attack from the House
Appropriations Committee, which
has urged a major reshuffiing.
But the department finally has de-
Evening star., 1948-05-02

HiRh and Low for Yesterday,
High, IS, at 1910 pm.
Low 50, at 6.lU am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, Sc. on March 81.
Lowest 3. on January 20.
Tide ahleS
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-14
Remedy for Inefficiency in Federal
Government Is To Be Found In People

bipartisan commission is studying the
Executive Branch of the Government in order to sug-
gest some stream-ned reforms in the interest of eco
nomy and will make its report to Congress.
While there is every reason to believe that much
exists for economy in connection with our gov
ernmental machinery we are almost convinced that
economies affected in will be offset by eX-
travagances promoted in another.
When one considers the governmental structure
of the United States cannot overlook the strong
influence that critical forces play in regard to the
appointment of civil servants. Undoubtedly there are
employees holding unnecessary jobs IN Washington,
and elsewhere whose contribution to the process OF
government are minor to say the least Nevertheless,
it is somewhat difficult to put ones finger on the
specific jobs and the specific individuals.
The remedy for inefficiency in connection with
democratic self lf-government is to be found in the
attitude of the people themselves rather than in
sporadic efforts to reform the governmental struc-
ture So long people expect politicians to grant
favors on the basis of political preferment there
will be inefficency and waste in government
We do not mean to beittle the serious efforts
of the commission headed by former President
Hoover or to suggest that its recommendations be
ignored Certainly whatever savings can be effected
by streamined machinery should be put into effect
but lust the same, should not overlook the basic
cause for extravaganza and waste in connection with
our form of government.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-14
NARROW Says To Decide For Yourself
On All Known Evidence In Spy Probe

Chambers says now he warned
Berle of the underground in 1899
and told him Hiss was a part
Of it.
(Berle. testifying in 1s48 about
that conversation, says Chambers
didn't talk of an underground
group at all.
(Berle says Chambers merely
told him Hiss and others were
Communists.
(And, Berle says, Chambers
told him In 1889 no spying was
involved.)
In 1942-chambers says now
he told his story Of the UNDER
ground to the FBI, naming Hiss
as part of it. The FBI talked
to him a number of times in
the years that followed.
In that same year of 1912 the
FBI checked on Hiss. But what
it found is not known. Hiss has
denied Chambers accusations ov-
er and over.
The story jumps to 1916. In
that year-Hiss says now-he
heard stories were being spread
that he was q Communist. He
went to see the FBI about it and
was asked several questions a.
bout knowing certain people. But
he says he was not asked about
Whitaker Chambers.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-14
THE READERS COURTROOM
By Will Bernard, LII. B.

said: Nov look me in the eye
and tell me if you are mad.'
She was. Upon her heated COM
plant he was fired arrested, and
fined Still unmollified, the wo-
man also sued the railroad for
damages. The railroad protested
that it had not authoized its
conductors to kiss the passenges,
but the court held the COM
pany responsible anyhow. The
Judge said that woman pas
senger has the right to meet
notthin,, see nothing and hear
nothing, see nothing and hear
delicacy or insult her woman
hood
(State laws vary, For personal
guidance, see your local attor-
ney)
COPYRIGHT 1948. GENERAL
FEATURES CORP
90 MAY A MOTORIST
BLAME AN ACCIDENT ON
THE OTHER FELLOWS
BRIGHT LIGHTS?"
(A) Late one night a man
started driving to summer re-
sort where he was to join his
family. While driving at a mod
crate speed along rural road,
he was temporarily blinded by
the bright lights of an on-com-
ing car, Suddenly his car bump
ed into an unnoticed pedestrian
on the side of the road. When
the victim later sued him for
damages, the motorist blamed
the accident on "the other fell
lows bright lights But tn e
court held him responsible nev-
ertheless. Th judge said he
should have slowed down or even
stopped until he could see a.
head.
(State laws vary. For personal
guidance, see your local attor-
ney0
COPYRIGHT 1948, GENERAL
FEATURES CORP)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-14
By James NARROW

Washington, Dec. 14-F-
Read this and decide for your
self what you think Of the spy
case.
But remember that not all the
facts may yet be publicly known.
A number of people have been
named in the case. Most often
mentioned are Whitaker Cham
bers, At years old, and Alger
Hiss, A.
Chambers is a writer. Hiss
used to be an official Of the State
Department.
You'll notice as you 60 along
that Chambers has been telling
his story for years but he hasn't
always told quite the same story.
Start at the beginning. Cham
bers says that in 1898, after "A
years as a member, he quit the
Communist Party. Part of that
time he says he had been a
courier for Communist UNDER
ground here.
The next year, 1899, he says
he tried to warn President Ro-
osevelt of that underground.
But he says Marvin Mcintyre,
the Presidents secretary, told
him to take his story to Adolf
A. Berle, Jr., who was an as
sistant Secretary Of State.