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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
: AUTO TRUCKS FOR SALE

CHEVROLET la-ton pickup de luxe
cab: heater; private owner s9e6'
1919 il 4 atToN FORD rRuck-Almost
S 1;2s4 iss sash needed ssl'' IS, Gail
FLEET OF TRUCKS. s dumps. 1
fat body; extra parts; $1,000, IA,
1915 l..roN DODGE pANEL-Is47
motor: $3.50 Call 81. 1929. 10
D se1 Tn1s a41 panel sasda s0n s sqsk
F e6HeSne, s OF, sp Pickup; used / Tk;
5000 off list. FA 1860. III
sIUpEBAKER '46 pickup ,sesoSd
DODGE 1871 s4-ton; excellent care,
painted red selling, bought 9 car:
FORD 1883 Model BE- panel body;
good condition 9 shea ehesp Apply A 'l, car
a Hiya! sfNuna Ma. 200 Hamilton St.
sTUDEBAKER 4s ha-ton pickup;
sanvas. top; $3.50 or best offer.
White 1871 package delivery; air
cooled engine, body has 35O-cu. in.
load space; good for laundries, dry
SlCoiiClo' pOl teuiC ellOpt uuSheICI o.
etc; AL cond:; priced for quick
sale. $395. CHEVY CHASE MOTOR
CO. 1928 Wise. ave, OIL. 6l06. liz
DODGE 1889 ha-ton panel: in good
mechanical condition; makes nice
appearance: Just the truck for
t ifet delivery GyrJpY Te Ga.s for M sHss
CHEVROLET 194s h-ton canopy de-
livery; heater; pvt. owner; $500
mi mi; a zeal . value; $1,000 or best
duty 1913 G.M.c. dump truck for
Hljfht ot tTqck or car in good eond.
cHEvRoLEr 1e4s 1-top panel; like
new; sell best offer. 1000 Central
CHEvRoLEr 1888 11..ton stake e. $ >
away: $50. oW. a2ia. "
Fl 1N best ssos offer. RUSSELL sP1TTIE,
FEDERAL tractor truck and low-bed
CHEVROLET sedan delivery truck:
almost new. See at 1882 Wis. ave.
NV. Mon. TO s. Ia
FORD TRUCK, 1947. pickup; Seton;
take over unpai& notes. IA. 0632.
FORD 1s4s Fl. 1a-ton panel; / own
er: fine cond. and guar. reduced to
1905; terms. TRIANGLE MOTORS.
1893 r. I. ave. ne. CO. 0Ss2.
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LOUDON COUNTY
Stock farm, lO5 acres; Groom house;
bath and electricity; good barn: VS.
tered by streams. 81 miles D. Z.
$4,000; $4,000 cash.
J. L. G.. WEST, Fla. 2135
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MOTORCYCLES

SINGLE. for storage, near Parkfair-
fax in Alexandria or Arlington,
Phone TIE. 51O1.
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UNDER So O00

IS acres and house, near Williams.
port. Pa; 3 springs on property,
partly cleared, In deer huntlne
. country; power available. Ju; e
1901 ewes III
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SMALL FARMS
well and pump.
S25 DOWN-S10 MONTH

s5 minutes drive out. Lee blvd. or
Lse hwy t se csntrs o, 5vrn lsi. at
Manassss},. four miles 70 our Bis
sign on left. SMALL FARMS. Open
every day, 1 to 8 pm. Every Trail
way bus to Manassas passes. us.
Rr{pr G10 dAnasit TO
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GARAGES WANTED

JOHN F. DONOHOE g. SONS
314 Pa. Ave. Sc. Il. 3-O0s4.
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CHEVROLET 1896 coach; in good
running condition. tires good. re-
Gently passed inspection. Sl15. "057
S. 18th ST., Arlington. OW. 1929.
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FORD 1919 Custom club cpe.;- colony
blue, r and h., seat covers, Fendix;
10000 miles; full guarantee; $685..
ave, OR. S093. Ia
FORD 1947 Tudor Super de luxe: low
mileage. private owner. r. and h.:
SLIGO. Call XII. $1,000. Iii
FORD 1888 Tudor sedan; new motor,
heater, 4 good tires; passed 40 in
spec; 1925 or best oder. IR. 3sOo.
FORD 1a46 station WAGON, T. and h.,
spotlight: a GOOD, economical family
car; S1,095. EDGEMOOR MOTOR
CO.. $685. Wisconsin ave. OR. S093.
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weekdays, LU. 3-2S25. II
SCIENTISTS CLIFFS, Port Republic,
reduced rates; lots and cottages
for sale to college graduates: bay
beach with fresh-water lake; large
community bldg; new qualified par
ties invited. Bring lunch, spend
day. but not public beach. Drive
80 miles beyond Prince Frederick.
GAYS --12 J.
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A.; peri. cond.: heater;
Ing for financial rea.
CONANT. SH. 1912.
Windsor 4-dr.: finish
excel; 1st.class me-
LIST owner: $3.50 or
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Stroyer Opposes
Barring Athletes
Who Fail Exams

DR.. George D. Strayer today
called for school officials to abolish
the scholarship requirements for
playing on a high school athletic
team.
I'VE don't refuse to let a boy
take Latin because he Is unable
to pass a physical exam" he de-
clared. why should we close
athletics to a boy who fiunks
math, for instance"
The well-known educator from
Columbia University said if boy
can engage in athletics and wants
to do so, he should be allowed to
do it. It is all part Of recognizing
athletics as an educational field.
he added.
He also called for an inter-
high athletic council to control
mter-high contests which was not
under the domination" Of the
Senior High School Principals AS
sociation.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Americans String Borbed Wire
Around B|ockuded Red Mission

cut off from water, light, gas, tele-
phone service and food from the
outside. On the chance that water
might leak through to the mission
by faulty closed valves, the en-
gineers even ordered the pipes
sawed in half.
A Russian visitor to the mission
had relayed an appeal for water,
which was denied.
During sunny spells this morn
ing the Russians basked on the
balcony of the rear of the house.
The front door opened at 8 am
and a Russian officer poked his
head out to ask: Can we have a
newspaper" They got a paper.
First 1t. Edward L. Covak
Duluth, Mimi, in charge of the
military police Gordon around the
mission house, said only Stars and
Stripes, an English-language pa.
per, was available.
That's okay," said the Rus
sian, so 1t. Covak handed him
the paper. A reporter told the
Russian, There's an interesting
story on Page 1"-about the
American bomber flying nonstop
around the world. This is
through courtesy of American
Military Police" 1t. Covak added
politely. .
The Russian graciously thanked
him.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Hawaiian Statehood Voted
By House Subcommittee
BY The Associofed Press

A House Public Lands subcom-
mittee today approved Statehood
for Hawaii.
The subcommittee acted favor
ably on a bill by Delegate Joseph
r. Harrington. Republican, OF
Hawaii, after a brief hearing and
review of previous congressional
Investigations.
Chairman Redden told reporters
the subcommittee action in
closed session was unanimous.
The subcommittee voted to urge
the full Public Lands Committee
to approve the bill for House ac-
ton.
A bill to admit Alaska to the
Union as State will be consid-
cred tomorrow by the same sub
committee.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Cal Wreck Found
In Mexico, All Dead
BY the Assoeioted Press

DEL RIO, Tex, Mar. 3.-Sheriff
A. E. Steinmetz said today that a
missing CAT crashed in the Col
orado Mountains south of here in
Mexico and that all aboard were
killed.
The plane had been missing for
several days on a flight from
Hamilton Field, Calf, to Kelly
Field in San Antonio, Tex, and
had been the object of an ex-
tensive search.
Kelly Air Force Base at San
Antonio announced those on the
transport were:
Mai. Lucian N. Youngblood. 30,
Houston, Tex, one of 1t. Gen.
James A. Doolittle's pilots in the
first bombing raid on Japan;
Sergt. H. B. Jones, 35, wellington,
Colo: Capt. George N. Penning-
ton, 26, Chicago; Corpl. Donald V.
Mutt, Baker, Oreg.; Capt. William
R. Barnes, jr., 20, Marshall, Tex;
1st 1t. William w. Mcclure, "a,
Venetia, Pa; I'd 1t. Glen j. Wer-
den, %, Warroad, Mimi; T/Sergt.
Marcus Slayton. 26, Tyron, Ga,
and D. H. Stewart, a Navy man,
address not listed.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
BY the Assoeioted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar.
3.-United States Army engineers
strung barbed-wire entanglements
around the blockaded Russian re-
patriation mission today. and set
up foodlights.
The explanation was obscure. A
military policeman said the new
move was to prevent the possibility
of food being smuggled in to the
eight blockaded Russians, and to
prevent them from leaving ION
their own" without reporting to
American authorities first.
The Americans want the Rus
slams to leave-in fact, ordered
them to go-and have offered
transportation facilities to the
border if the Russians leave volun-
tarily. But when asked for further
explanation of the barbed wire
and f1oodlights, the military po-
liceman replied graphically:
There are a lot of trees on this
estate and you never can tell what
they might try"
The eight Russians who ignored
the United States Army's orders
to leave by March l, watched the
wire stringing operations curiously
from windows of the story
building. They showed no inten-
ton Of leaving, although they are
Evening star., 1949-03-03
D. {. Gets Snow FIurries;
Mercury 10 Reach IS

Snow furries this morning were
not expected to continue through
out the day, Weather Bureau off,
cials said, and fair weather was to
follow tonight. BY $50 am. some
flakes had fallen on downtown
Washington and in the Chevy
Chase area.
The sun shone from time to
time today, also, with the tenn
perature rising to about As de-
grees in the midafternoon. A low
of 80 degrees is predicted for to-
night.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny,
with a high temperature IN the
mid 40s. Yesterdays high was
AZ at 4:50 pm. The low was 81
at 6:34 am. Today's low was
e6 at 4:06 am.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Rent Control Extension
OF IS Months Voted
By House Unit, 23-2
Administrations Request
For ~ Months, Penalty
For Violations Rejected
BULLETIN

The House Banking Com
mittee voted, % to 2, today to
extend rent controls for IS
months. rejecting an admin
istration request for a two
year continuation. The COM
mittee turned down an admin
istration proposal to impose
fines and imprisonment up to
one year for landlords wilfully
violating rent ceilings.
BY the Assoeioted Press
Housing Expediter Tighe E.
Woods testified today that a
shocking black market in over
ceiling rents" exists in many
parts of the Nation.
He told of overcharges in Phila-
delphia, Atlanta and st. Louis,
adding that since July l, 1947,
rent violations have doubled and
tripled in these cities"
He urged a Senate Banking sub
committee to restore former Fed
eral authority to fine and imprison
landlords who violate rent cell
ings, sue landlords for triple dam
ages for overcharges, and super
wise all evictions.
Although tenants can bring suits
for overcharges under the present
law, Mr.. Woods said they are
afraid to do so in most areas.
Given the alternative of paying
black market rents or being evict-
ed. tenants chose to pay the over
charges without complaint" he
said.
Mr.. Woods, who administers the
rent ceilings, fatty disputed wide
spread contentious that thousands
of small property owners and land
lords face losses or inadequate
earnings under Federal controls.
He said all they need to do is to
(See RENT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1949-03-03
German Troop Skeletons Found
In Hospital Shut by rs She'll
Bones on Cots, Rifles and Helmets Stacked
Necr Door of Dugout Discovered in France

through foliage that had grown
over the quarry when his foot
broke through the ground. Peer
ing inside he saw skeletons and
returned to Arras to report his
discovery.
Digging into the hospital. he and
other citizens of Arras found the
grim spectacle.
A skeleton or two were thought
those of doctors. One patient was
apparently being operated on
when the shell struck.
A communication trench, be-
tween the hospital and another
dugout nearby, had been hit and
buried by an Allied artillery shell.
The patients and doctors died of
suffocation.
Arras, near Lille, was in the
British sector when the great
offensive began in 1918.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
picture on Page Az
BY the Assoeictsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-Francis
Cardinal Spellman led 100 semi
narians and priests peacefully
through picket lines today to bury
dead at strike-bound Calvary
Cemetery.
The unsmiling cardinal. dressed
in street clothes, sat in the front
seat of one of three buses that
took the group past the silent
pickets into the cemetery-largest
Roman Catholic burial ground
here.
The priests and students from
St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers,
N. Y, Immediately were divided
into 10 groups of 10 men each and
set to work to dig graves for about
600 bodies that have been left
unburied in the seven-week strike.
The digging proceeded slowly in
the snow-crusted, frozen ground.
It was q raw, windy day.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Spe|Imun L leads Volunteers
Digging Graves During Strike

The Cardinal, who has de-
nounced the union leading the
walkout as Communist dom
mated" said on his arrival. Il
hoped we'd never have to do it but
We'll remain here until our task
is DONE
Cardinal Spellman did not assist
with the digging himself. He
helped in allotting the work, how
ever, and said he would remain at
the cemetery all day.
The pickets made no effort to
interfere with the volunteer grave
diggers but several made bitter
comments about the Cardinal and
his helpers. One tipped his hat
as the buses drove past him.
Ed Ruggieri, chairman OF the
unions negotiating committee,
termed the priests and seminarians
"strikebreakers."
The strikers want a five day
week at the same $59.40 pay they
now get for six days.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Broad Czech Spy Net
Launched in Europe,
Munich Trial Told
Officer Who Escaped From
CzechosIovokiu Lost Fall
Testifies on Operations
BY the Assoeioted Press

MUNICH, Germany, Mar. g.
A former Czechoslovak Army in.
telligence officer testified today
that a broad spy network has beer
started in Europe by the Com
munists, who rule his country.
The witness, Capt. Otakar Fei-
far, appeared under armed pro-
tective guard at the spy trial OF
five Germans and three Czechs
before a United States military
commission. He fed Czechoslo-
vakia last November.
Capt. Feifar said as a captain
in the Czech intelligence, his main
job was to obtain American mil
itary data in the United States
occupation zone of Germany. He
also gathered political and indus
trial notes.
The surprise witness said his
orders came from lust below the
general staff level" and that he
recruited agents from information
his superiors supplied. He said
the Czech Interior Ministry was
the top directing agency. He iden-
titled one of the Germans as his
agent.
I. A spy courier service, using
faxed refugee commission ad-
dresses for protection, was de-
scribed in the trial.
A counter intelligence agent
testified that Maria Hablick, a
defendant. told him she had en-
ployed such a subterfuge.
He said she admitted address
ing an envelope to a German
refugee commission address. $50
I could tell police if I was stopped
that I was only delivering the
papers to the addressee."
The eight defendants, three o1
them women, are charged with
transmitting American military
information to CZechoSlovakia.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Cherry Blossom Festival Posts
Asked for Loyal Democrats
Trade Boord, Declaring Nonportison
Approach Is Essential, Rebuffs Demands

Politics has reared its Demo-
cratic head among the yet un-
opened cherry blossoms.
The Democratic Central Com
mittee, it was learned today
wants to get some good loyal
Democrats on the 1949 Cherry
Blossom Festival Committee.
It seems that some people who
might even be Republicans have
got themselves entrenched on the
festival committee.
The Washington Board OF
Trade, whose Greater National
Capital Committee sponsors the
festival, has rejected the plea OF
the Democrats, however.
The boards position: 1t always
has been nonpartisan and expects
Evening star., 1949-03-03
South Chino Reported
Invaded by Armed Bond
by the Associated Press

HONG KONG, Mar. 3.-The
Canton correspondent Of the
Hong Kong Star said today uni
Identified armed groups seized
BRIEFLY control of five South
China townships.
Government troops, said the
correspondent. arrived too late to
trap the armed band at Hokshan,
the first township seized.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
By the Assoeioted Press

ARRAS. France. Mar. s.
Searchers today dug into a sub
terranean German Army field hos
pital, buried since the patients and
doctors were suffocated when a
shell sealed off their communica-
tions trench in 1918.
Skeletons of the patients were
found on their cots lined up in
rows along the walls. German
rifles and helmets were stacked
by the door.
The underground field hospital
was found yesterday by a rabbit
hunter who broke through the
dugouts crumbling roof. It's To-
cation was an old rock quarry
that hasn't been used for more
than 40 years.
The hunter, M. Fleury Leblond.
said he was pushing his way
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Stronger Labor Setup
To Be Proposed by
Hoover Commission
Plan includes Transfer
Of SeIective Service
To Department Control
By jones Y. Newton

The Hoover Commission will
recommend considerable building
up of the Labor Department, in
cluding transfer of the Office OF
Selective Service to the depart
ment, it was learned today.
Plans call for the Department
to handle all manpoWer functions
of the Government If commits
sion recommendations are fol-
lowed. the Department also would
be returned to the original func-
ton prescribed in it's charter-the
promotion and protection Of the
interests of the working men and
women.
In the event of another war. the
Labor Department presumably
would handle all manpower allot-
ments to the armed forces and to
war industries. In the last war.
independent agencies were created
for those tasks.
FSA Unit Transfers.
The commission would strength
en- Secretary Of Labor Tobins de-
partment, stripped to little more
than bureau status in recent years,
by the transfer to it of the follow
ing agencies:
/. The United States Employ
ment Service and the Division
of Unemployment Compensation,
both of which now are in the Fed
eral Security Agency.
2. Enforcement authority of the
Walsh -Healy and Bacon-Davls
Acts, the laws which prescribe
prevailing wages and working
conditions for Federal projects
and procurement. Enforcement OF
the laws now is in the hands
of the individual procurement
agencies.
3. Several small agencies OF the
Maritime Commission and the
Veterans Administration.
The Hoover group also will rec
ommend that the Secretary OF
Labor be given direct authority
over administration and enforce
ment of the Fair Labor Stand
ards (Wage-Hour) Law.
Report Due Soon.
The report of the commission on
the reorganization of the labor
agencies will be released in a few
days.
A desire to keep Selective Service
free of military control. it is under
stood, led to the decision to sug-
gest its transfer to Labor.
Former President Hoover, chair
man of the commission. was said
to favor return to Labor OF the
Children's Bureau. which was
transferred to the Federal Security
Agency a few years ago. However,
the commission rejected the idea
on the ground the bureau performs
a purely social security job.
The United States Employment
Service was an integral part of the
War Manpower Commission dur
ing the war.
The division administering un-
employment compensation never
has been In the department.
Evening star., 1949-03-03

to stay that way. Besides, 1t
doesn't even know who's a Demo-
crat and who's a Ri.
Spokesman for the injured
Democrats is A. L. Wheeler, chair
man of the party's central COM
mittee here. Mr.. Wheeler is
also holder of a newly created
job with the Senate District Com
mittee helping a subcommittee
draft a Washington home rule
bill,
Also, it was learned today, if
the Democrats get the Festival
Committee places, they may roll
down to that event in autos bear
ing low license numbers.
It seems that some high-ranking
| (Noptiol,ed m pape A-R Col ~
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Truman Seeks Speed
On Classification Bill,
Federal Pay Raise
Sees Senate Group,
Urges EorIy Action on
Personnel Program

President Truman today told
members of the Senate Civil Serv-
ice Committee that legislation to
revise the Classification Act-and
raise the salaries of thousands of
Government employes-would 60
to Congress shortly. He also ex-
pressed hope that action in Con-
gress could be expedited.
Reviewing the field of Govern
ment personnel with the group.
headed by Chairman Johnston,
the President also re-emphasized
his interest in pending legisla-
ton which carries pay raises for
high-level officials, classified en-
ployes of the District government
and the foreign service.
Mr.. Truman recalled, as he has
done previously. the difficulty he
has in retaining competent aides
because Of INADEQUATE pay.
Would Raise 223 Officials.
The pay legislation, which would
establish top scale salaries within
the range of $17,500 to $25 900 an
nually. Is now before a subcom-
mittee of the Senate Civil Service
Committee. The subcommittee is
headed by Senator O'Conor, Dem
ocrat, of Maryland who said it was
hoped the group could get the
measure to the full committee
within few days.
AS now drafted. the bill would
increase the salary of 223 officials,
including cabinet members and
others. and give $3.50 increases to
classified employees of the District
government and to foreign service
employees.
Senator O'Conor said the COM
mittee still has to decide if this
figure of 223 raises will be ad-
hered to.
1t has been approved by the
Budget Bureau. The same bill is
also before a House Civil Service
subcommittee.
No Discussion on Cost of Living.
The current budget carries an
item of $70,000,000 to increase the
Classification Act scales for en-
ployes generally. Classification re-
vision legislation has been under
study by the. .Senate Civil Service
Committee for some time, Chair
man Johnston said.
The committeeman who saw Mr..
Truman said there was no discus
sion of a possible cost of living
increase for Government workers
as a whole. The idea is to let the
Classification Act revision take
care of this feature.
In addition to Senators Johnston
and O'Conor, those who saw the
President were Senators Brough-
ton of North Carolina and Long
of Louisiana, Democrats, and
Flanders of Vermont and Baldwin
of Connecticut, Republicans.