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Evening star., 1949-08-15
Congress for Peace
Set for Mexico Seen
o-Soviet by U. 5.
By the Assoeiated Press

A Congress for Peace" called
for next month in Mexico City,
got thumbs down treatment today
from the State Department.
Plans for the meeting were an
nounced yesterday in New York
by the American Continental
Congress for Peace" which said
it is backed by about 800 educa-
tors, artists, writer's and unionists
in this country and the other
Americas.
A State Department spokesman
said the conference apparently
viii be ''Moscow-directed."
To this. DIR. W. Z. B. Dubois,
4 member Of the American COM
mittee for the Congress. replied :
"These days you can't stand up
for anything that's against the
policy of the State Department
without them trying to smear
you"
Robson, Rogge Listed.
Among those listed as members
Of the committee. along with DR..
Du Bots. an anthropologist, were
Paul Robson, the Negro singer;
DR.. Linus Pauling, scientist; Actor
Charlie Chaplin. and O. John
Rogge. former Assistant Attorney
General.
The announcement said the
Congress Is meeting September
5-l0 to discuss ways to prevent
World War III. Poet Enrique
Gonzales Martinez will preside.
A formal call dated June, l94o.
Mexico City. went out with the
announcement. It invited "all
men and women Of good will Of
the Americas" to attend the Con-
gress. and said:
THE activities Of those who
would profit from another world
war are being felt more intensely
each day by the peoples of the
Americas. The warmakers have
started an armament race which
already Affects many nations of
this continent"
Soviet Influence Seen.
1T appears that it will be an
other Moscow.directed conference.
We fully expect that the ac-
tivities will be devoted to pro-
viding an apolosia for the Moscow
point of view"
Mr.. Tubby said also that "in our
view 1t will merely be a confer
ence similar to that held in New
York City under the sponsorship
Of Harlow Shapley."
He referred to the Cultural and
Scientific Conference for World
Peace" held last March. Henry A.
Wallace. former Vice President was
one OF the principal speakers there
DR.. Harlow Shapley, Harvard
astronomer, is chairman Of the
National Council Of the Arts, Sci.
ences and Professions, which spon-
sored the meeting. He also is listed
Is 4 sponsor OF the Mexico gather
ing.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Man Beaten With Rock
IN Park Quarrel Dies

Strolien Dallas. %. colored.
$3.50 Georgia avenue NV. died
at Freedmen's Hospital last night
OF injuries suffered In an argu-
ment In Rock Creek Park earlier
yesterday. ..-
Police said he had been beaten
on the head with q rock.
John Henry West. ~, also col
ored, Of the first block Of Ritchie
avenue, Silver Spring, Nd. was
arrested and Is being held for
action Of the coroner.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
German Little Poris'
Becomes Less Porision
BY the Assoeiofsd Press


BADEN-B ADEN, Germany
Germany's little Paris" is begin
ming to lose a bit OF its Partisan
atmosphere and revert to the
German resort center it used to be
Baden-Baden has been called
little Paris" ever since the war
because it is the headquarters city
of the French occupation forces
and military government. Its
French population (about 100000
is larger than the number Of Ger
man Inhabitants go, ,000).
Recently the number Of French
has begun to decline.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Atlantic City Scratches
Clear and Fasi

Clear and Fast.
Flash Anna, Great Hope,
Mary Barr, Pine Vision.
2-Eerrys Prize. Fighting Fancy
Perpetual.
6I1ady Alice, Tannett.
8-Apple River, Uncle Byron
Plane Sh&dow.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Chinese Reds Bypass
|Kanhsien, Hit Nankang
On Road 10 Canton
by the Assoeiotsd Press

CANTON. Aug. Is. Chinese
Communist forces have bypassed
besieged Kanhsien and attacked
Nankang, 1875 miles northeast Of
Canton, the Nationalist refugee
capital.
The Nationalist military ad-
mitted this serious development
today in the Kiangsi Province
fighting, but said Kanhsien itself
still was in government hands.
Ofiicial dispatches said the Reds
swung to the west OF Kanhsien,
2l5 miles northeast of Canton.
and began an assault on Nankang.
20 miles southwest of the Kiangsi
capital which the provincial gov
ernment abandoned last week.
Nankang, on the traditional in
vasion route to Kwangtung Prov
ince, is only 20 miles from the
border of that province. Canton is
in Kwangtung. Unofficial reports
said the Nationalists are reinforc-
ing Southern Kiangsi in an effort
to keep the Reds from Kwang-
tung.
Heavy Casualties Reported.
Kanhsien is reported under at
tack by the Reds from several
directions. Nationalist planes are
supporting the defenders. dis
patches said. and casualties on
both sides we're described as heavy.
On the northern approaches to
Canton, the Nationalists said their
Human Province forces have
stalled a southwark Communist
offensive along the Hankow-Can-
ton railway. Heavy Red losses
are claimed.
Press reports said the Com
munists would try to bypass Heng-
shan. 900 miles north of Canton,
for a direct attack on the rail
junction bastion of Hengyang, 265
miles north. Private reports Sat-
urday indicated Hengshan already
has been bypassed or captured
since fighting was then going on
south of the town.
In coastal Fukien Province,
northeast of Kwangtung and east
of Kiangsi, other Red forces are
hammering closer to Foochow, the
provincial capital.
Islands Attacked,
Dispatches said Keeling. 18 miles
southwest of Foochow is under Red
attack. The Reds were reported
80 miles southwest and 80 miles
northwest of Foochow Saturday.
Gen. Pal Chung -hsi. Nationalist
commander in Central China. re-
turned to the Human front yester-
day after conferences here with
acting President Ii Tsung-jen,
Premier Yen Hsi-shan and other
government leaders.
An army spokesman disclosed
meanwhile that $4,000 to $4,000
Nationalist troops had been re-
moved from the Hengyang front
for fear they would desert to the
Reds.
Independent Chinese reports in
Hong Kong yesterday said the
Communists were carrying out an
amphibious assault on the Mao
Islands off the Shantung peninsula
in northeastern China. Three Of
the strategic islands were said to
be in Red hands already.
The Mao group extends from
Shantung across the mouth of the
Gulf of Chill toward Port Arthur,
Russian-held naval base in Man
churia.
The Nationalist Central News
Agency confirmed the operation
was under way and said Russian
submarines and aircraft had sur
veyed the islands before the Red
assault began.
Ships of the Nationalist navy
have been using the islands in
maintaining their blockade of the
Communist held North China
coast. The port for the commercial
center of Tientsin is on the Gulf
of Chilli.
Evening star., 1949-08-15

present 10 per cent. is near finAl
enactment by Congress.
The legislation now goes to
House-Senate conference, and
from there will 60 to the White
House. Another feature Of the
measure is that it provides for
the first time survivorship an
nuity benefits to widowers OF Fed
eral employees.
The House conferees on the
legislation are Chairman Murray
of the House Civil Service Com
mittee and Representatives Nor
rison, Democrat. OF Louisiana. and
Rees, Republican. Of Kansas. The
Senate conferees are Chairman
Johnston of the Senate Civil
Service Committee and Senator'S
Frear. Democrat. of Delaware, and
Flanders, Republican. of Vermont.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-The race
for the Craftsmanship Of the Civil
Service Commission gets hotter BY
the minute. Former Representa-
tive Robert Ramspeck. of Georgia
has found it necessary to deny 4
report published elsewhere. that
he would not say mo-" If Presi-
dent Truman offered him the job
The statement sis without founda
tion," declares Mr.. Ramspeck. who
is now executive vice president Of
Air Transport Association.
Meanwhile, AGO Lodge No. 2 of
the AFL American Federation of
Government Employees has In.
dorser Henry ner. Federal Se-
curity Agency ofhcial, for the COM
missions chairmanship. And con-
siderable support Is developing
among Federal personnel officials
for Gordon Clapp. chairman Of
the Tennessee Valley Authority. to
become commission chief. :. Dis
placed Government employees may
find 1t helpful to look into en-
ployment opportunities with the
Montgomery County (Md) govern
ment. The county says 1t has 4
new merit system and numerous
job vancancies. Apply at the
county buildings in Bethesda. Sill
yer Spring or Rockville. Only
IA persons were dismissed from
their Government jobs by the
Civil Service Commission last year
for Hatch Act violations. In
nearly 100 other cases. the COM
mission decided that no violation
had occurred. Fifty-seven pei
cent of the men IN Government
jobs are veterans. Miss Mar
garet M. Mooney Of the Veterans
Administration will retire this
week after 80 years Of Govern.
ment service. Hot weather
note: The National Federation
of Federal Employees has just or.
ganized a Nary Department loca.
at the farthest reaches Of the
bleak, gale-swept Aleutian chain
1,20 miles from the Alaskan
mainland. -. Oscar z. Carlton
has been appointed director Of the
Veterans Administrators con.
tact and administrative services
recorCN service. Mr.. Carlton is 4
Government career employe Of 81
years standing.
Evening star., 1949-08-15

that 1t does not
provide for sea-
men employed
by the Maritime
Commission to
appeal compen-
sation ruling to
A d m | r a i t y
Courts.
This amend
ment givin n g
them Jne TlgQL
of appeal Is
b e in g written
into the bill
and S e n a t o r
~ 80 Av
Evening star., 1949-08-15

(Be sure to listen IN Sunduys~ @
at 1915 an. oper WMAL. The
Star station, for Joseph YounS's
broadcast persion of the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
neus and piews OF the Gorern-
ment serDice.)
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Congress in Brief
BY the Asse<iofsd Press
Senate.

Opens debate on Interior DE-
partment appropriation with fight
over public power distribution
facilities.
Investigations su be o m m -
tee calls additional witness in
inquiry into influence on Govern
ment contracts.
Banking Committee calls Recon-
struction Finance Corp. officials on
proposed loan for European arms
program.
House.
To consider minor legislation.
Executive Expenditures Com
mittee continues investigation of
ship subsidy program.
United States highway 66
passes through an ancient lava
now in western New Mexico. be-
tween Albuquerque and Gallup.
Evening star., 1949-08-15

pected to withdraw his objection.
Consequently, the Senate Is ex-
pected to give speedy approval
to the measure when it comes up
again later this week on the con-
sent calendar.
The legislation will more than
double. in most cases. injury bene-
fits for Government workers. It's
one of the most important bills
affecting Federal employees in
many years.
After the Senate passes the
measure, there will have to be a
House Senate conference to
straighten out minor differences
between the House and Senate
versions. After that, 1t will go to
the White House.
SPIRITED FIGHT - Despite
the Senate Committee on Ex-
penditures' to vote against
Reorganization Plan No. to
expand the Federal Security
Agency into a cabinet-status De-
partment of Welfare, the plans
supporters feel that there is a
fairly good chance that the Senate
will approve the plan.
The four members on the COM
mittee who voted in favor OF the
proposal are busily engaged in
lining up votes in support OF the
proposed Department OF Welfare.
Senator Humphrey, Democrat.
of Minnesota. says he feels that
the opposition doesn't have the 40
votes needed to beat the plan. To
defeat a Presidential reorganiza-
ton plan, 40 adverse votes are
needed in the Senate. regardless
of how many Senators vote on
the proposal. In other words, q
reorganization plan could be vot-
ed down 4s to 35, for example,
but still become law, since 40
Senators failed to vote against it.
The Senate is expected to take up
Plan No. l either today or to-
morrow. The result should be
close.
TOP PAY-The present plan of
the postal groups is to seek to
amend the Governments top
bracket pay bill when it comes up
for Senate action this week.
Because of the time element,
we are desperate now." a postal
union leader confided. I'VE have
nothing to lose and everything to
gain"
The postal groups are dis
gruntled over the 500 pay raise
recommended for postal employees
by the Senate Civil Service Com
mittee. Consequently, they've per-
suaded several Senators to offer
an amendment to the top execu-
tive pay bill when it comes up in
the Senate. The amendment
would provide $3.50 postal pay
raises. plus longevity increases,
greater annual leave and uniform
allowances-the same benefits
that have been voted by the House
Civil Service Committee.
In another strategic move the
postal groups plan to circulate a
discharge petition to get the
House bill out of the Rules Com
mittee if the rules group doesn't
give the measure its approval to-
day.
Meanwhile, regular Federal en-
ploye groups are sitting back to
see what happens-apparently on
the theory that If the postal
groups are successful it will i'm
prove the chances for pay re-
classification legislation for the
remainder of the Governments
workers.
NEAR ENACTMENT-The leg
islation to provide the wives of
Government employees with sur-
vivorship annuity protection, with
the employees only having to take
a per cent reduction in annui-
ties on retirement instead of the
Evening star., 1949-08-15
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Speedy Senate Approval Seen
For Injury Compensation Bill
By Joseph .Youno

expected pass the White
the bill which greatly increases injury compensation bene
fits Government employees.
already has the bill Senate approval
other
Evening star., 1949-08-15

Cliff dwellings in New Mexico
were inhabited by Indians until
about $50 years ago.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Weather Report

District Of Columbia-Cloudy
with occasional light rain this
afternoon and tonight. Highest
today about 80 and lowest tonight
near 10. Tomorrow considerable
cloudiness with few showers and
little change in temperature.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cloudi-
ness with scattered showers and
little change in temperature to-
night and tomorrow. Highest to-
morrow In the low sos.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy with
occasional rain today and tonight.
Tomorrow considerable cloudiness
with scattered showers. Little
change in temperature.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
River Report.
(From U. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Fern
and at Great Fails; Shenandoah clear 1T
Harpers Ferry
SReadings at washington National Airport)
soan Yesterday Psi' ! S0asy- slI. Psti &
{ pm. -------- 69 l pm 81
d III.
Evening star., 1949-08-15

Republican. of Oregon. the only
Senator who opposed it.
Senator Morse strongly favors
the bill, but he objected to the fact
Evening star., 1949-08-15

High and Low for Yeaterday.
High, 81 at $50 pm.
Low, "A, at 4:25 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on August IL.
Lowest, 81, on January 80.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast ~
Evening star., 1949-08-15

fIeClplt&tl0n
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Hungry Horse news., 1949-07-08

Road builders are men and ma
chimes relocating 3o.7 miles of
Spotted Bear forest service artery
out of reservoir area. Contracts are
held by F. r. Hewett Co., Spok-
ane, for $632,448 and MCLAUGHLIN
Inc, Great Falls, for $368,886.5o.
These are Hewett dozers with
HJalmer Hanson and Charles Rod
gers, operators. Largest contract in
reservoir area is 7,210 acre clear
ing by Wilson, Grove and Iris
dale at s1,733,88o.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-07-08

To help nation control and de-
velop its rivers, men clear debris
from reservoir area. Good trees
are used for lumber and ties.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-07-08

Day and night activity continues
at damsite. Difficult winter slow
ca progress, but men kept drill
lns' blasting and moving rock.
This is early winter night photo.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
ToBeWed
lin Rome

Mrs. Cynthia Dunn Cochrane
daughter Of the United States
Ambassador to Italy and Mrs
James Clement Dunn, will be mar
ried at the American Embassy In
Rome to Mr.. Charles Wheeler
Thayer, director of the "Voice o1
America" A reception at the en-
bassy will follow and after a trip
the couple will come to Washing
ton to live.
Mrs. Cochrane. who has resided
in Rome for the past two years
was educated at Foxcroft Schoo
and Bennington College.
Mr.. Thayer, who also is chief Of
the State Department Interna-
tional Broadcasting Division, l.
the son of Mrs. George c. Thaye1
of Knyeton, Villanova, Pa, and
the late Mr.. Thayer. He was
graduated from the Military
Academy at West Point in 1898
and entered the foreign service
the next year.
The bridegroom -elect was q
lieutenant colonel in the war and
served as Deputy Chief of Military
Forces in Austria and as chief OF
the American Military Mission tc
YugoSlavia.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
G1odysCo||ins
Guest

Prenuptial parties continue for
Miss Gladys Collins, daughter of
Gen. and Mrs. j. Lawton Collins,
who will be married November 19
to Mr.. Jerome Joseph Stenger, jr
Yesterdays hostesSes were Mrs.
John E. Theimer and her sister,
Mrs. Mark A. Devine. who gave q
shower an after-dinner-c coffee
cup. shower-at the latter's resi-
dence.
The other guests, members OF
the wedding party and wives of
officers who had been stationed In
Coblenz. Germany. with Gen. Col
lins years ago. included Mrs. Col
Inns, her other daughter, Nancy;
her sisters-in-law, Mrs. Allen
Worries and Miss Ulanee Collins;
Mrs. Sam Talbot. Mrs. William
Chickering. Mrs. j. K. Herr and
her daughter. Fanny; Mrs. Will
lard Holbrook, Mrs. Stuart Bevans
and her daughters, Jean and Mar
jorie; Mrs. j. K. Grain and her
daughter. Mary; Mrs. George Glo-
Der. Mrs. Harry Knight. Mrs. Rob-
ert Dunlop. Mrs. Thomas Fields
Mrs. Richard Greed, Mrs. T. O.
Donaldson. jr.: Miss Barbara Hin
richs, Miss Mary Corbett and Miss
Constance Theimer, daughter OF
Col. and Mrs. Theimer.
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Exclusively Yours,

A month before the arrival in
Washington Of Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi. smallish Iran
has acquired two new lots
on Massachusetts avenue. The
lots are Immediately above and
adjoining the property now occu-
pied by the embassy which Is in
the fork formed by the juncture
Of Thirtieth and Massachusetts,
This means that the Iranians
now own one Of the longest, II
not the longest, pieces Of property
facing the Embassy" avenue OF
all foreign missions in Washing
ton. It extends all the way up to
a point opposite the British EN-
bassy. They acquired same from
Col. Reeve Hoover in order to
erect q chancery right next to the
ambassadors residence.
Why so grand for little Iran?
The answer Is that Iran isn't 30
little and it's . veritable poll" of
oil. All Of which adds glamour
to the goodlooking, eligible young
king. who is coming here on the
10th. Maybe he will break the
ground for the new chancery
when he spots the new lots.
The famous. young assistant
editor Of the London Economist,
Barbara Ward. arrives in WASH
ington today but will be here only
long enough to raise the towns
intellectual quotient for about
three days. The pretty 35-year-
old unmarried brain trust was
guest Of honor at . dinner the
Gardner Cowleses gave in Gotham
last night. having vowed her
audience at the Herald Tribune
Forum the night before with her
speech, Partnership for Survival" "
Tonight the John Miilers, with
whom she's stopping in the Capt.
tai, will give q dinner for her.
j. M. is head Of the London
Times bureau here. And tomor-
row she'll whip of for that ab-
solute basic requirement for every
living Britisher-a weekend In the
country. Hers viii be spent in
Charlottesville with Helen Miller,
Washington representative for the
Economist. On Monday she'll be
back in the Capital when the
Millers will give q cocktail party
for her: on Tuesday thereu be
another to-do and on Wednesday
she'll head homeward.
Capitalites who haven't met her
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Iron Acquires New Property Here Before Arrival Of Shoh;
Porties for Brony Miss Borboro Word Who Arrives Today
BY Betty Beoie

omist's name is romantically
linked with that of Comdr. Rob.
ert G.. A. Jackson, an Australian
whom Washington remembers al
Senior Deputy Director Genera
of UNRRA.
In the current party pattern are
Mrs. John Gross dinner Monday
night at. of course. the 1925 F
Street Club-she is coming to.
morrow from Bethlehem for foul
or f1ve-day stay; Prince ano
Princess Guido Pignatelli's dinner
at the F Street Club on November
3rd and Rose Saul's dinner al
the Chevy Chase Club tomorrow
night when the ballroom will be
converted into its annual barn.
yard look for Halloween.
Most glamorous doings of all
this weekend will be going or
down at White Sulphur Spring.
where the presidential suite a
the Greenbrier will be filled with
rank. Secretary Of Defense anc
Mrs. Louis johnson will give 8
dinner there tomorrow night fol
Indian Prime Minister Nehru ane
Nine. Pandit and scores of Cap.
ital bigwigs. Mr.. johnson chose
White Sulphur for his entertain.
ing because 1t has been one ot
his favorite spots in all the world
ever since his college days.
Evening star., 1949-10-28

A man writes: Owing to an ac-
cident, I have had to have my
right hand amputated at the
wrist. When am introduced to
strangers they invariably extend
their hand to shake hands. If I
extend mine. they are usually en-
barrassed, and If I don't, they
probably think I am very rude.
What shall I do in this case?"
You have to extend your left
hand. But if you turn your thumb
down instead of up as is natural,
the other person will hardly know
the difference.
Sons FomiIy Sends Invitotions
Dear Mrs. Post: My sons fan
Gee hasn't lived with her parents
for years and although we believe
they will attend the wedding. all
Evening star., 1949-10-28
Society News
National Holidays Of Other Countries
To Be Celebrated in This Capitol
By Katharine M. Brooks

day, November o.. However the
sessions Of the UN may have been
completed, before then and the
Minister and Mrs. Malik back in
the Capital.
The last of the anniversaries
next month falls on November
20 when the Yugoslav Ambas-
sador, Mr.. Sava N. Kosanovic, is
planning a reception. This fete
will mark the fourth anniversary
of the Proclamation of the Fed
eral Peoples Republic of Yugo-
slavia.
The Military Attache of the
Dominican embassy and Sonora
de Felix will give an after 6
o'clock party today in their home
at 1912 Seventeenth street. Their
guests are asked to meet Col.
Anastasio Somozo, head Of the
Military Academy Of Nicaragua.
Col. Somozo is the guest Of his
brother-in-law and sister, the
Nicaraguan Ambassador and Sen
ora de Sevilla Sacasa. and will
be with them for another fort
night.
The First Secretary of the
Polish embassy and Mrs. Tadeusz
Jaworska gave small and in
formal party Wednesday evening
entertaining In their home in
Silver Spring. The company in
cluded a group of Washington
news writer's and press attaches
of other embassies and legations
in the Capital.
Nine. Umar. wife of the Second
Secretary of the Iraq embassy,
is spending much of her time
each day at Ginns Art Gallery
in Silver Spring where an exhibit
of her paintings is on view. Nine.
Umar had a similar exhibit some
time ago in downtown Wash
ington.