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Evening star., 1948-06-18

the opinion of a couple Of weeks
ago, when many thought the con-
vention might be long drawn-out, ~
he said. Gov. Dewey himself will
come to Philadelphia Sunday, the
eve of the opening of the convention.
Claims rs More Delegates.
Mr.. Brownell claimed today the
New Yorker had picked up Is addi-
tional delegates since yesterday.
This makes us more confident
that we will have more votes on the
first ballot than any other candi-
date" he told a news conference.
The Dewey manager said the
overnight gains came from three
States which he would not name.
He refused to say how many votes
Dewey is expected to poll on the
initial roll call.
If you pick up Is delegates a day
you'll be in pretty good shape" a
reporter remarked.
I'VE are in pretty good shape
Mr.. Brownell replied.
Of to Fast Start.
The convention appears to have
started earlier and faster than any
other in many years. Philadelphia
already is crowded, but not as much
so as it will be two days hence.
The Republicans generally appear
as confident their party will win as
do the neutenants of the leading
candidates that their man will be
chosen.
Mr.. Stassen already has arrived.
He came up Broad street at $50
am. yesterday at the head of a
hooting cavalcade of automobiles.
AS he entered his hotel, the first
thing he must have seen was a
large and thoughtful photograph OF
himself. Flags and bunting are
going up and lobby pillars being
plastered with statements proclaim
ing his popularity with the voters.
Mr.. Dewey will be in the same
hotel. on the ninth floor, while Mr.
Taft will make his headquarters
in another hotel several blocks
across town. Preparations for Mr.
Taft's arrival are more subdued
A few sober decorations with a
patriotic motif are being installed
in the lobby of his hotel, but the
business Office upstairs remains un.
adorned.
The working staff behind theil
desks and telephones are an orderl,
contrast to confusion prevailing
elsewhere.
There is no doubt. however, that
(See CONVENTION, Page AID
Evening star., 1948-06-18
By Newbold koyes, Jr.
Stur Stoff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, June 18.-The
Republican Party was urged today
to include promises Of national rep
resentation and home rule for the
District in its platform this year.
The request for q national repre-
sentation plank came from the
Districts oficial delegates to the
convention. The request for home
rule came from a spokesman for
the washington Home Rule Com
mittee, headed by Charles G.
Glover III.
Citizens of Washington are gov
erned. pay taxes, are drafted into
the Army and fulfill all the duties
of citizenship, but have no voice In
this Government" Mrs. William s:
Culbertson, q District delegate, told
a subcommittee on general Gov
ernment affairs In seeking national
representation. "All they ask Is to
have q voice In the management OF
their affairs
Edward r. Colladay, chairman OF
the District delegation, supported
Mrs. Culbertson's arguments before
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Postal Pay Raise Bill
Set for House Action;
Decision Likely Today
Measure Third in Line;
. All U. S. Workers Given
New Hope by Martin
By Joseph Young

Majority Leader Halleck told
the House today that postal pay
raise legislation would be
brought up for action later in
the day.
Mr.. Halleck said the postal pay
measure would be acted on after
the House disposes of the commod-
ity credit extension and housing
bills. These two measures are ex-
pected to be disposed of in several
hours, which would bring the postal
measure up for consideration in
midafternoon.
AS soon as the House passes the
measure, pay bill sponsors plan to
rush 1t to the Senate, where Senate
leaders have promised to amend it
to include all Federal employees.
Mr.. Martin told reporters yester-
day that there was good posi-
bility" that the House would ap-
prove pay boosts for all Federal
workers. This was taken as an indi-
cation that the House might take
up the $3.50 classified employees pay
raise bill as soon as it disposes OF
the postal workers $3.50 measure.
Action Hoped Tomorrow.
In any event, pay bill supporters
say there is very good chance that
wage increases for all Federal work.
ers will be approved by Congress
by tomorrow night. Mr.. Martin S
statement, together with the remark
of Mr.. Halleck, who listed the
general Federal pay bill among the
considerably important" legisla-
ton that the House has on its
agenda. has encouraged pay spon-
sors very much.
One influential House Republican
predicted that the House leadership
would finally go along with pay
raises for all Federal employees.
Wage board employees, however, are
not included in the bill.
Senate May Have to Shift.
There is strong possibility that
the Senate may have to agree to
eliminate the Classification Act re-
visions in its pay measure, and also
strike out the provision which would
remove the $4,000 Federal pay CELL
ing and substantially increase the
salaries of top Government officials.
The House is very cool to these
features, with many members of the
House Civil Service Committee de-
claring they need more study before
action is taken
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Coal Contract Dispute
Goes 10 White House
As Conference Fails
Ching Reports Deadlock
After Two-Hour Meeting
With keeotiotors
By Jones Y. Newton

Cyrus S. Ching, director of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia-
ton Service, announced this
afternoon he was placing in
President Truman's hands i'm
mediately the dispute over a new
contract between John L. Lewis
United Mine workers and the
soft-coal operators.
Mr.. Truman, following procedures
of the Hartley Act, may be
expected to declare the dispute a
national emergency and to appoint
a fact-finding board to investigate
the coal industry controversy over
new contract and the payment OF
pensions and distress BENEFITS to
mine workers.
After the fact finders report ito
the President, Attorney General
Clark may apply for another Fed
eral Court injunction to head of
a possible strike when the present
mine contract expires June 80.
Meeting Is Futile.
Mr.. Ching met with Mr.. Lewis,
other UNIV negotiators and opera
tor representatives for more than
two hours today in futile effort to
settle their differences. AS he left
the conference, Mr.. Ching told re-
porters:
They are still deadlocked and !
am making a report to the White
House this afternoon"
The operators and Mr.. Lewis re-
fused comment.
Mr.. Ching went to UNIV head
quarters for a conference with Mr.
Evening star., 1948-06-18
By Don S. Warren

Chances for passage : Of the
Districts sales tax-high bracket
personal income bill appeared
exceedingly slim today after it
was twice blocked in the Senate
by Senator Johnston, Democrat,
of South Carolina.
II it fails Senator Cain, Repub-
lican, of Washington, in charge
of the revenue bill, will seek to
block any and all pay raises fol-
any District government employe
because no added revenue would be
provided to meet costs.
After the tax bill had been
blocked on a call of the Senate
calendar, Senator Johnston told re-
porters he intended to fight ito the
bitter end" against passage OF the
sales tax bill.
AZ 4 result Senator Cain an.
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Leaders Disagree on Return
Between or After Conventions
Some Members Also Pressing to End Session
Regardless Of UncompIeted Legislation

! when to have Congress return
should that be necessary. Senator
Taft has favored returning between
the two national political conven-
tions, probably in the period from
June % to July 10. But Speaker
Martin says he would prefer to come
back after the conventions around
August l.
However, there is heavy pressure
from the membership of both
houses for quitting tomorrow. Even
Senator Wherry, the acting major
ity leader in the upper house, indi-
Gated he expects Congress to quit
Saturday night, even if it leaves be-
hind pile of uncompleted legisla-
ton.
The draft measure is not the only
bill likely to cause further lengthy
debate in the Senate where debate
is unlimited.
The foreign aid appropriation bill
still is up in the air. Senate-H House
conferees failed to agree on how
much money to give the European
Recovery Plan and 'other phases of
the global aid program. A second
conference is scheduled for this
afternoon.
If the conferees go much below
the Senate's flgures-around ST.
900 100000 more than the House
granted-the action may provoke
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, OF
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Negro Leaders Attach
|G. 0. P. Handling Of
Civil Rights Plank
Demand Thut Platform
| Provision Be Stronger,
Hit Evosion Of 1944
By the A,soeioied Press

PHILADELPHIA, June 18.-
Negro leaders severely criticized
the Republican Party today and
demanded that the 194S plat
form contain a strong civil rights
! plank.
Meantime, the Republicans, hard
at work on platform to be pre-
sented to the National convention
next week. appeared to be moving
toward what the Negroes were ask
| ing for-pledges Of support for anti
Ilynchlng. anti-poll tax and fair en-
ployment laws.
Walter White, executive secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement for Colored Peo-
pie, told q subcommittee of the Re-
publican Resolutions Committee
that the Republicans dominating
Congress have "miserably evaded"
similar platform pledges made IN
1874.
DR.. Charming B. Tobias, Negro
religious leader from New York, told
the Civil Rights Subcommittee:
THE Negroes of this country, mark
my word, are a solid line such as
you've never known before. I'm
not just speaking through my hat
A committee member, Mrs. Vites
Gates OF Kentucky, demanded: rs
that a considered statement or a
threat?" -.
DR.. Tobias said 1t was very con-
sidered. He said that never before
in the history OF this country has
there been such unity and deter
mination on the part of the colored
people to make American citizen
80 M 11aOIaAE ma no A
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Sales Chances Held Slim
As Two Moves Fail in Senate
Cain Threatens Fight to Bor Pay Raise
For D. c. Employees if Bill Is SheIved

nounced he had prepared an
amendment to be tackled on to any
Government pay raise bill taken up
by the Senate, to exclude District
government employees from any OF
the proposed benefits.
This move would affect nearly
1000 city workers who. as classified
employees, would get a Government
pay raise provided in the Federal
bill.
It has been estimated q $500
cost-of- Living pay raise for the Dis
trict's classified employees would re-
quire nearly $2,500,0o0 in the new
fiscal year.
Senator Cain blocked earlier Sen.
ate passage of separate bills for pay
raises for police, flremen and school
teachers, correcting inequities In
the school pay act Of last year anc
granting increased pensions t
1See o. G. LEGISLATION, p. A-4.l
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Albany Sources Soy
Dewey Sees Man to
Beat in Vondenbero
BY the Assoeioisd Prsss.

ALBANY, N. Y, June 18.-
Gov. Dewey regards Senator
Vandenberg as the man to beat
at Philadelphia, sources close
to him said today.
Although the Michigan Sen
ator says he is not candidate,
the Dewey forces report they
fear him more than they do
two of the New Workers. de-
clared rivals for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination
Senator Taft and Harold E.
Stassen.
The Dewey strategists have
no tangible evidence OF any
openly organized campaign for
Senator Vandenberg, but the
feeling persists among them
that If anything happens to
thwart the Governors fight for
the nomination, that thing will
be a convention swing to the
Michigan "favorite SON."
Evening star., 1948-06-18
= a second mortgage o

would take a second mortgage OF
81, 600.
The subcommittee said it with
held any recommendation which
might tend to delay this project,
because even inferior housing Is
preferable to no housing.
I'VE do recommend, however, that
Congress call upon the FILA and the
VA to take proper administrative
steps to protect all veterans against
inferior or substandard values in
Government guaranteed dwelling
projects" the subcommittee said.
It declared that on the basis OF
the first 300 units completed the
system of Government inspection
was inadequate.
The report said there was general
agreement among all witnesses that
these units, on a prewar basis, rep
resented a fair value of approxi-
mately $4,000. Applying the FHA
cost increase factor Of 1.96 times
1910 costs, today's cost on a single
unit basis would be approximately
s7,840. the subcommittee said. 1t
added, however, that this calculation
does not take into consideration
economies of mass construction.
There was pretty general agree
lSee VIERs MILL, Page A-50
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Neighbor Finds Woman
Dead in Bed at Hotel

Miss Margaret Forsea, about 80.
was found dead in bed in her apart
ment at Scott Hotel, 2130 o street
NV, early today by Miss Grace
Vitile, a neighbor whose custom it
was to awaken her each morning,
police reported.
There were no marks of violence
and the dead woman's room was
orderly, police said.
Miss Forsea checked into the
hotel June 2 and had never divulged
her home address nor where she
worked. A letter found In her room
was from Baker, Greg, and police
asked authorities to make a check
there.
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Sunday Reading

Eight years ago, when France
was being overrun by German
arms, President Roosevelt
scribbled on a piece of scratch
paper the names of % Amer
leans. He handed the list to
a young French military envoy
and told him those were the
influential persons he should
see in the interests of edu-
eating the United States to
the responsibility it must
eventually assume in the
spreading global war. The list.
an interesting one today, and
an accompanying story about
til appear in This Week Maya
zme in The Star on Sunday.
A proven favorite of Evening
Star readers shows up in The
Sunday Star this week with
appearance of the Readers
Clearing House in the Society
and Women's Club Section.
The Editorial Section con-
tains the usual variety of sig
nificant articles on political
and international affairs and
all other special reading tastes
are recognized in
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Western Allies Order
Sweeping Reform in
Germany y'sCurrency
New Mark Is Announced;
Buying Wave Set OFF
As Change Approaches
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, June 18.-The West
ern Allies tonight announced a
drastic currency reform to re-
duce the money in circulation
in their zones of occupation and
pave the way for German par
ticipation in the European Re-
covery Program.
They set up a new mark, called
the Eeutsche mark, and provided
for the first steps In taking old
marks out of trade channels.
Ali old money and holdings must
be registered next week. There
will be a full weeks moratorium
on all debts in Western Germany
Germans in the western zones
may trade 40 old marks for 40 new
marks Sunday. This will leave the
45. 900 900 residents entitled to hold
only the equivalent of S12 each.
The announcement said the rate
at which the mark can be converted
into or from other money will be
announced later. The Allies also
left until later an announcement Of
how much in savings Germans will
be allowed to keep.
Small Change Remains.
Authoritative sources have indi-
Gated that further laws will reduce
savings and business balances by 80
per cent or more. This supposition
was supported by provision in
tonight's proclamation.
The provision said small change
from the old marks will be kept in
circulation temporarily, but at a
rate of one new mark for 10 old
marks. This small change ranges
from one pfennig lone hundredth
of mark to mark.
In order to carry on business,
firms will be able to borrow new
currency from banks up to 80 marks
for every person employed.
After turning in their 40 marks
Sunday, the Germans will have the
prospect of getting 20 more new
marks within two months, while
details of the program are being
worked out. The total to be cashed
in the two-month period cannot ex-
ceed so marks.
The $l2 equivalent to be allowed
the Germans is figured on the basis
of 80 cents to the mark, the con-
version rate currently in use for
internal trade.
The reform is effective only in the
1See GERMANY. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1948-06-18
JET Fighters 10 Double
j. ). Force in Reich
By the Assoeiotsd Press

The United States is doubling its
fighter plane strength in Europe.
Air Force officials said today.
This will be done by shifting a
unit of jet planes from Panama to
Germany.
That unit-the 36th Fighter Wing
now stationed at Albrook Field In
the Canal Zone-will leave about
August Is.
At present there is only one group
(about IS planes of PAT World
War II-type conventional engine
lighters based in Germany.
The 36th Fighter Wing will dou-
Ible that strength. Moreover, it will
mean that the United States for the
first time will have an organized
force of modern jet interceptors in
that troubled area.
(Russia is known to have q
number Of jet fighters in her air
force.)
An Air Force spokesman said
that transfer of the fighter wing
should be viewed as part Of normal
training policy to accustom crews
| Of all United States Air Force planes
with operation in any part OF the
world"
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Dewey Backers
Beat Taft for
Georgia Votes
Committee Decides
To Seat Delegates
Fovorine Governor
BULLETIN

PHILADELPHIA (SpeciaD-
The first round in the battle
over convention seats today
went to supporters of Gov.
Dewey in a struggle with back
ers of Senator Taft of Ohio.
The Republican National Com
mittee voted to seat a Georgia
delegation headed by w. r.
Tucker. The delegation large
ly supports the Governor and
has 16 nominating votes. There
had been rumors of a deal
between the Taft and Stas-
sen forces in the Georgia fight.
Evening star., 1948-06-18
Truman Arrives Here
In Gay Mood, Calling
Trip Educational
Defends His Criticism
Of Congress in Baltimore
Talk, Lost Of Tour
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman ended his
18-State Western swing at 1885
pm. today when his special
train pulled into Union Station.
It was the end of a 15-day tour
that made it clear he intends to
make a major election issue Of his
differences with Congress.
Most of his cabinet and a large
crowd were on hand to greet him.
He told reporters he was very
happy and pleased with the trip
adding:
II think it was educational both
for me and the country"
Mr.. Truman had said earlier thai
he was returning to do some more
vetoing and on his arrival he wa.
asked what the vetoes would be.
That will come along in du,
time" the President replied.
Mr.. Truman said he would stay
at the White House until Congress:
adjourns. He was in gay rr1oot
and appeared refreshed.
When cameramen asked him to
pose, he smiled and held up a
hand-painted sign taken from the
press car. 1t read: "Quiet-Press-
men Asleep"
Mr.. Truman drove almost imme-
diately to the White House.
When the train stopped at Balti-
more, shortly before arriving here
Mr. Truman made the last of 73
transcontinental talks in which he
raked Congress for inaction on do
mestic legislation.
Referring to his drive, he told the
Baltimore turnout:
II think it has been constructive;
I think it has been necessary"
Talks in 16 States.
During his trip, the President
talked in 16 of 18 States covered
He missed talking in only Iowa and
Colorado, passing through those
States in early hours.
Arecapitulation of the Presidents
travel schedule by the White House
staff put his total mileage at $500
including side trips by air and auto
mobile.
Prior to his arrival here. he also
made a few Congress remarks
to a re-breakfast gathering OF
Pennsylvania postmasters at the
Altoona (PaD station.
Referring to the Senate's refusal
to confirm several hundred post.
master appointees: he said:
You know, the postmasters are
selected on a civil service basis
and the vast majority of them are
selected with veterans preference
Yet this Congress has seen fit tt
hold up confirmation, hoping thai
something will happen so they car
overturn the civil service program
as it affects postmasters."
TIE postmaster nominations hav'
been blocked along with a long lis
(Se9 Page A-5)
Evening star., 1948-06-18
News
Bulletin

House Accepts DIP Bill
The House today approved .
compromise bill to let 205,000
homeless Europeans into the
United States during the next
two years.
Earlier Story on Page A-5)
Evening star., 1948-06-18
By Gould Lincoln
Stor Stoff Correspendent

PHILADELPHIA, June 49,
Increasing signs of Dewey
strength for the Republican
presidential nomination today
We'd for the spotlight with the
Vandenberg conundrum: Will
the Michigan Senator finally re-
move himself as an available
nominee?
Herbert. Browneil, Gov. Dewey's
campaign manager, went so far as
to say "a first ballot nomination of
Gov. Dewey is not an impossibility."
In any event, Mr.. Brownell looks
for a Dewey nomination early in
the game. He insisted the consensus
Of delegation leaders is there will
be no deadlock and not many bal
lots will be required to bring q
nomination.
"TT1ere has been n change from,
Evening star., 1948-06-18
CONFEREES SEEK WAY Out OF
Foreign Aid Deadlock. Page Ais.
By ChoImers M. Roberts

Republican hopes for adjourn
ment of Congress tomorrow night
were Pickering today, caught in
a cross wind of conflicting ac-
tions by the House and Senate.
The biggest threat was the promise
of a Senate flibuster over draft
legislation. However, after the
House passed its version of the
draft revival this morning, Acting
Senate Majority Leader Wherry
told reporters that Republican lead
ers will hold the Senate in session
all night tonight, if necessary, to
break a filibuster on the draft.
But fights over other major legis-
lation-foreign aid funds, farm
Legislation, the housing bill and
others-added considerable doubt
that Congress will quit for good
before the Republican National
Convention.
Leaders of both houses-Senator
Taft of Ohio and Speaker Martin
conferred yesterday on what to do.
They made no definite decisions
and neither sounded optimistic.
Senator Taft, who heads the Re-
publican Policy Committee, said he
was still hopeful" but Speaker
Martin said he was mot optimistic. ="
There also was disagreement over
Evening star., 1948-06-18

COILADAY-WILKES D. c. Delega-
ton Wins COP Convention Fight.
Page Az.
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(See PLATFORM, Page A-5)
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tSee ADJOURNMENT, Page A
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(See GERMANY, Page A-5D
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(see COAL, Page A-2J
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There has been q change from
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(See DEG, Page A-3..
Evening star., 1948-06-18

(See q. G. LEGISLATION, p. A.
Evening star., 1948-06-18

(See TRUMAN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1948-06-18

Lote New York Morkets. Pace AIS
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ture. 1t is as enlightening today
as it was in Saadia Gaon's day.
Translator Rosenblatt has ac-
complished the rare task of rend-
ering a scholarly work from clas-
steal Arabic into lucid, fluent
English. In Rosenblatt's transla-
ton, which scholars testify is very
ably done and the result of indie
fatigable labor, entailing the COM
parison of the texts of various
Arabic editions and German trans
lation, this great classic is more
readable than many contemporary
works of incomparably lesser cal
iber.
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~7-01~~I E70ri1~ tome Of Florida Souhen College"
Yale PUBLISHES GREAT HEBREW CLASSIC

Beliefs and Opinions" ($5.OO). 1t
was translated from the Arabic
by Samuel Rosenblatt and is vol
ume one in the Yale Judaica
Series, edited by Julian Oberman,
Louis Ginzberg, and Harry Aus
tryn-Wolfson.
Saadia, the outstanding Jewish
philosopher and rabbinical scholar
of his day, was born in Egypt in
1872 and died in 942 in Babylonia
where he occupied the post of
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His Book of Beliefs and Opin-
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lamic culture was sweeping Jew
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Islam, was the first systematic
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1t is an attempt at synthesis
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restored to his homeland and, de-
spite the present hostilities, can
look forward to a renascence of
Hebrew Arab cultural inter-
changes reminiscent of an carrier
period, the Yale University Press
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originally written in Arabic
Saadia Gaon's 1.-THE Book of