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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
Son Of Ex-Presideni Of Syria
Found Dead in n. Y. Hotel
BY tho Assosiaisd Press

NEW YORK. June 15.-Saaded-
dine Hassani. 2l-year old son OF q
former president Of Syria. was
found dead yesterday in his New
York hotel quarters.
Police said his body was found
slumped between a washbasia and
q shower stall in the bathroom OF
his Hotel Statler room.
Found In the waShbasin. police
said. were two yellow capsules An
examination was ordered OF the
body and Of the capsules.
Rafik Asha, Syrian consul gen.
eral in New York identified the
body.
Mr.. Hassani, son Of the late
Syrian President Tajjedine Ell
Hassani, was In the United States
attempting to set up an import
and export business. Mr.. Asha said.
The consul general said he had
spoken to the young man last
night about @ visa extension and
that he had found him in good
spirits. He said Mr.. Hassani's wife
is in Damascus, Syria.
Tajjedine, II Hassani formerly
was prime minister Of Syria. be-
came president Of the republic In
1910 and died in office three years
later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
House Vote Expected
Today on Revamped
Military Pay Raises
ey CHRIS kcthisen

The revised military pay bill
headed for o vote in the House
today, and Chairman vlnson Of
the Armed Services Committee
predicted II would pass without
change.
Representatives Sutton Of Ten
nessee and Furc4lo Of MassAchu-
sets. Democrats. prepared 70
offer amendments. however. which
would reduce the raises for high
ranking officers and increase those
for the lower ranks and for en-
listed personnel.
The two freshman legislators
teamed with another World War
II veteran. Representative Boil
ing. Democrat. OF Missouri. last
month 70 send the first pay bill!
back to Mr.. Wilson's committee
Boiling Backs Revision.
Mr.. Boiling is supporting the
revision. calling 1t the best we
can get"
1t would provide raises ranging.
in general. from 7 to 81 per cent
for enlisted men and from 10 TO
81 per cent for officers.
Corporals and equivalent Navy
ratings with ct least seven years
service would get the biggest In
Icrease-6s per cent.
Brigadier generals and their
Navy equivalents would get the
largest increases among the Of
ficers.
The estimated increased cost of
the military payroll during the
first year under the new bill is
about $346. 900 900. 1t would level
of to about 5000 900 900 q year
after 1852. when family allow
ances for enlisted men expired.
Eisenhower Letter Read.
During debate on the measure
yesterday. Representative Kilday.
Democrat. of Texas read to the
House letter from Gen. Essen
hover in which he called the pres
ent military pay scales stupidity
inadequate"
Corrective action must be taken
without delay. or we shall reap the
bitter consequences Of secondary
leadership." he wrote Defense Sec.
rotary johnson.
Unless we Immediately provide
a decent scale Of pay and allow"
ances that will attract good lead
ership of our military forces we
are foolish and stupid to spend on
those forces the many billions of
dollars we are now devoting TO
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

Atomic Scientist Frank Open
heimer, who has just admitted he
is a former Communist, apparently
is not going to be pinned down to
telling House investigators whether
some Of the people he knew were
Reds, too.
Chairman Wood of the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities said DR.. Oppenheimer and
his wife "unquestionably" can be
cited for contempt for refusing to
tell. But the committee obviously
was planning no action along that
line-action that could lead to
fines and jail terms.
The Oppenheimers testified yes
terday that they were card-car-
rying. dues-paying Communists
from 1887 to about the beginning
of 1941.
That was before DR.. Open
heimer went to work on the atomic
bomb project. where he said he
stayed from late 1941 until 1947.
DR.. Oppenheimer brother Of DR..
J. Robert Oppenheimer. one Of
the top men on the atomic bomb
project. said in a statement that
during and after his Communist
afiliation he was a loyay Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
Senate Democrats Name
Anderson Campaign Head
BY the Associated Press

The Senate Democratic Policy
Committee yesterday named Sen
ator Anderson of New Mexico as
chairman Of the party's Senatorial
Campaign Committee for the 1850
elections.
Senator O'Mahoney of Wyo-
ming was chosen vice chairman.
Majority Leader Lucas also an
nounced the appointment of Sem
ators Kerr of Oklahoma. Kilgore
of West Virginia and Kefauver of
Tennessee to the committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
Carpenters Council
To Pay Strikers Here
S3-a-Day Benefits

Leaders of the Carpenters Dis
trict Council announced today
they will pay carpenters now on
strike So a day until the strike is
settled. spokesman said.
The decision was worked out
this morning at a meeting of the
group at council headquarters.
The pay will be retroactive to
last Monday, it was said.
A committee was appointed to
work out details on how the men
will be paid and will make its re-
port tomorrow.
Decision to make payments TO
the men was made at a secret
meeting of the group Monday, a
spokesman said. Announcement
of the meeting came with a decla-
ration by one of the leaders that
assets of the council amounted to
$1,500,OO0.
And we're prepared to spend
it In our fight for the 10-cents-an-
hour increase" he said.
Employer Group Meets.
Meanwhile. at a meeting yes
terday of the employers group,
ITS members voted unanimously
to resist the wage increase. The
group met at the United States
Chamber of Commerce, where it
repeated its former Offer of p$2.40
per hour for !, q period of two
years, with the further concession
Of reopening negotiations on wages
at that time If the cost OF living
index has advanced 8 points, it
was said.
The strike. in its 18th day, has
halted many construction pro-
jects including school buildings.
It was first estimated that 5000
carpenters had walked out on their
jobs here June !. The council now
says. however, that all but about
1000 have found work with the
1l9 builders which the union
claims have signed the new wage
agreement, with builders In hous-
ing construction not affected by
the walkout and in other work.
Figures Disputed.
At the employers meeting yes
terday, however. the carpenters
return to work claims were dis
puted, spokesman said. It was
asserted that only 10 to Is per
cent Of the men are now employed.
The employers report said the
council claimed so per cent of their
men employed.
Meanwhile, the dispute involv-
ing Bakery Salesmens' Local 80,
which went on strike June 3, is
still unsettled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

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VETERANS FKhfERKNCT--
Tfas sxaase C.yl Service Saacusr q.
rr.ssse he&1es by Senator Han
phrsy, Democrat. @. Alnnesosa
vas 70 meet again this afgsgnaos4
when II - expected to arrguvy tlax
bill 70 modify veterans pge.estace
70 sise greater sce pzpisctlcs
Fashis to long time Densessran
career employees
The group L. expected 10 PRO
vide THAT noasessran eareerts.s
with IS years or mere o. SERVER
can compete On equal terms With
veterans In future Government ~ -
daefton- n.iorcs proggarns
NIGHT DETRIMENTAL -- A
HOUSE Civil Service Subcommittee
yesterday approved the aili 20 re
store tie hours pay lost daily ay
the GoseYnInens's nisht time en- $
ployes during summer daylight
saving time.
PAfDAfS~~Houss Senate con-
fefees met Yesterday. bu, failed "a
reach agreement ON the White
House construction funds and srv :
eral other items in the second
bill The measure pro-
vides money 10 pay salaries OF
most Government employees here
for the next two weeks
Unless quick agreement IL
reached. most departments and
agencies here will have 10 delay
their paydayS Several already
have been forced to skip paydays
ECONOMY Representative
Mack. Republican. Of Washington,
yesterday urged Congress TO call
a special economy" session In
10 be devoted TO re-
dueing The number Of Govern
ment employees, The Democratic
leadership seems rather cool TO
such q proposal.
CAPITAL R0UNDUP--Agricul-
ture Department. ChorSsters have
elected Marguerite r. Boulting-
house as president. Robert r.
Powers. vice president. william
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
New Rotary President
Seeks 70 Destroy Idea.
"a
Members Are Rabbits
by The Assoeietsd Press

NEW YORK. June 15-The new
president of Rotary International
went cunning for Babbitt today
at the 4oth convention here.
"Once and for all. let's kill any
remaining ideas about Rotarians
being Rabbits" Percy Hodgson,
a yarn Manufacturer Of Pawtucket,
r. l., said.
He referred TO Sinclair Lewis
novel. years ago. which pictured
small town "toiners" as shallow,
narrow, conforming back slappers.
THE average Rotarian by no
means resembles a Rabbit" the
new head of the service organi-
cation said. quite the contrary.
He is earnestly endeavoring to
make his community, nation and
world a better place to live in"
Speech Set Tomorrow.
Mr.. Hodgson will air his plans
for Rotary In speech tomorrow
night at Madison Square Garden.
Last night the convention sat in
on a Town Meeting of the Air"
discussion Of How Can the Free
Peoples Of the World Best Share
Peace and Well Being2"
Both Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan and Senator Fulbright,
Democrat, Of Arkansas urged sup
port for President Truman's point
4" program for the exchange of
ideas and skills to aid under
developed areas Of the world.
Carlos P. Romulo, chief Of the
Philippine mission to the United
Nations, warned, however. that
Asiatic countries will resist any
attempt at political or economic
exploitation by any power in or
out Of Asia"
Eric johnson. president of the
Motion Picture Association of
America, called for O Government
guarantee against seizure Of pri-
vate American investments abroad.
Truman Urges Closer Ties.
President Truman in a message
TO the convention urged business
leaders the world over to maintain
closer ties as their contribution to
the worlds orderly progress.
The message said this is equally
as important as American and
United Nations efforts to promote
international understanding and
raise living standards Gin less fully
developed areas Of the world"
Trygve Lie, u. N. secretary
general, brought the applauding
Rotarians to their feet with a
prediction that mo war Of i'm
portance ever will be started while
the ~. NJ General Assembly is
in session."
Gan aggressor just could not
get away with It," he said while
emphasizing the Assembly's great
influence as a sounding board for
the fears and grievances Of smaller
nations. ~~& 4<sN "a =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

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OF ecu rM.
the measures
chances would
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authority pro-
sal which
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unless both the
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ate vetoed IL.
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- SsoMsr4 tNsaR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
Correction

A silver tea for the benefit of
the Fairfax County Chapter Of
the American Cancer Society win
be held from 4 to z pm, June
as, at the Madeira School. A story
In Tuesdays edition Of The Star
Incorrectly reported the date as
his Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
Weather Report

District OF Columbia--Mostly
sunny: highest about SO this aft
ernoon; partly cloudy tonight,
lowest about SO. Tomorrow con-
siderable cloudiness. warm and
humid with scattered showers.
Maryland-Partly cloudy. scat
tered showers west portion to-
night. Tomorrow rather cloudy.
warm and humid with scattered
showers.
Virginia-Partly cloudy with
scattered showers tonight. To-
morrow considerable cloudiness,
warm and humid with scattered
showers.
Wind velocity 10 miles per hour;
direction south.
River Report.
CFrom q O. Ensineers.)
Potomac River clear OF Harpers Ferry
and ct Great Falls; Shenandoah clear ct
Harpers Ferry.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15
Fortunate father!
=. MKT SUNDAY. jvnr 10

Happy the man whose wife and children remember the
one day the year dedicated father-and welcome the
opportunity to present him with gft-somethng he never
would buy for himself. Perhaps is a eolorfu
than he would choose for himself tno matter ho~ much
he would like it, good pipe some fine quality hose -
panama hat, fine cashmere sweater, silk pocket
handkerchief pair Of imported susPendets leather
belt. Or may be California sport Shirt luxurious even
hight priced, though Of exceptional value
And say those who give presents fathers
day are not happier than father himself
Pare Sak Neekwear, $3.50 10 $3.50
Pure SH Tie and Handkerehsf Set, 81 10 tR
Fine Qualify Mens Shirts. GSs 10 $40
Imporfrd DanhM andSa Pipes, SIS
Fine Leather Wallets. $3.50 10 1880
California ssors Shirts. IS to SO
Rolls WHsiason English Rasors SIS
Sehek or Rsmssos Electric sAavsv. tE TO $3.50
Kent E.stsh Brushes $3.50 10 $3.50
Da"Am and Ronsen Lisater, HhoD
Panama Hns. $3.50 TO $50
Imported Lisafveieh Wooi Hose, $50 TO 1870
Fine L.ir Hose. $3.50 10 1875
Basque Shirts. HsoteS Batht.s Trs-t, IS 10 tg
Walking Shorts, $3.50 . 1880
Cotton. Rsyon and Sill Psama, sss TO $40
Psse Sill Fe&ard Robss. SIS
Variable Cotton and Terry Robes, 1865 TO 1880
Ps,s Linen Sports JseLets SIS
Hsndsome Domesde siriand Sports Jseksts W
Sse1s SIS 10 SIS Novelty R'ssor ssern Bsh. n@
Imported sass<.des $3.50 TO $50
Coli Sse<s 1855 House Shoes. 1850 TO SIS
Imported seotea C4sam~e s~eAos 1850
Pepii. sal Esysis~ Cote" Rsi"eeSs. sHN !" B
Gift Certificates Tor Father, in amount
Ieu1s g 7bos Mltz
400 G Street, " w
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

The Federoi Spotlight
Truman May Ask Separate Law
To Reorgonize Civil Service

The White Hcae appears eeensned lie cs2
vide Reorganization powers thai rcaa Congress
reorganization authority eg&ato1
with little chance thai President Truman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

High and Low fer Yesterday.
High. SO, At $40 pm.
Low, 20, at $40 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. ei. on May 2.
Lowest, 81, on January 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

but even 20. Lsf AGrnIlIIAiThtSEsa
is expected 20 send 70 Congress
It's proposals for rrorgaasEtng The
commission As q separate rascs q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

The Sun and Neon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

Monthly PRECIPITATION IN inches IN thi
CepitaI (current month TO datea;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

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Evening star., 1949-05-23
Norman Nelson 10 Address
District Psychologists

The Guidance and Personnel
Association and the District OF
Columbia Psychological Associa-
ton. will hear Norman Nelson,
first assistant superintendent Of
schools, discuss the status and
future needs of the guidance pro-
gram In District schools at meet
ing this week.
The session will be held at 8
pm. Thursday on the fifth floor
auditorium of the Archives build
ing, Eighth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV.
Other speakers will be Mrs. Mil
dred Clarkson, chief Of personnel
relations, of the United States
Public Health Service; DR.. Marie
A. Corrigan, dean of women,
Catholic University; DR.. c. Thom-
as Clifton. director Of Camp. Cliff
ton and Associates: DR.. Dorothy
Van Alstyne, senior clinical psy-
chologist, Bureau of Mental Hy-
giene, District Health Depart
nent,
Evening star., 1949-05-23
District Woman Killed
In Truck Crash on
Indian Head Highway

A Washington woman was in
jured fatally in a traffic accident
on the new Indian Head highway
at Oxon Hill. Md. early yesterday.
She was Miss Augusta Spear
man, "a, colored, 400 block of
First street Sc. Miss Spearman
died about 7 am. yesterday in
Casualty Hospital. five hours after
the truck in which she was pas
senger overturned.
Pvt. Lawrence Riddlebarger OF
the Prince Georges County po-
lice listed the truck driver as Mel
win H. Hatton, 20. colored, 400
block of Canal street Sc. Hatton
was held on a technical charge
of manslaughter and was to ap-
pear for a hearing in Upper Marl-
boro Police Court today.
The policeman quoted Hatton
as saying the truck went of the
road after swerving to miss hitting
an automobile.
Two men and a woman were
in Casualty Hospital today with
injuries received yesterday In two
automobile accidents in the Dis
trict.
Samuel c. Parker. IS. OF 4
Yardarm Green S.W., a technician
at the Navel Research Laboratory,
was pinned In the car he was
driving after 1t knocked down a
small tree and ran into a tele-
phone pole on South Capitol near
First street S.W. Fire Rescue
Squad No. / was called to re-
move him from the automobile.
Mr.. Parker suffered chest in
juries. He was reported in good
condition today.
Mrs. Florence Hawley. 54. Of
$3.50 Gallatin street. Hyattsville.
suffered head injuries and a pos
sible hip injury after a car. driven
by her husband, John Wesley
Hawley, So. o General Accounting
Office employe. collided at Fourth
and r streets NE. with a taxicab.
Warren Cook. ~. colored. Of 724
g street NE, driver of the cab,
received minor knee injuries. A
passenger in the taxi. William
Campbell. 28. colored. 1928 Twelfth
street NV, suffered q possible
fractured neck and arm and leg
injuries. Both Mrs. Hawley and
Mr.. Campbell were reported In an
undetermined condition today.
Evening star., 1949-05-23

Before long your long distance
telephone call may be sped on its
way by a series Of musical notes.
The latest In long distance
telephone equipment. featuring a
set of keys that actually play
musical notes to connect your
phone with a distant city. went
on display here today in special
Washington Hotel exhibit intend
ed largely for phone company
employees themselves, It was
sponsored by the Bell System
Laboratories.
The musical notes, which the
engineers unromantically call
key impulses" are created by a
set of 10 keys punched by the
switchboard operator after you
give her the long-distance mum
Der.
This keyboard replaces the
dial-like the one on everybody s
phone--which UP to now has been
standard switchboard equipment.
But the notes II plays are ones
you'll probably never hear. They
will 20 out over the wires and
operate an automatic switchboard
at the other end OF the cross
Evening star., 1949-05-23
American Leper Mission
To Hear ) Missionaries

Three persons active in mis-
sionary work among lepers will
speak at the semiannual meeting
at 1890 am. tomorrow Of the
Washington City Auxiliary, Amer
lean Mission to the Lepers.
The meeting will be held at the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, Ninth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. Mrs. VIII
liam Danner, president of the
group. will preside.
The speakers include Edwin D.
Miner. secretary of the mid
Atlantic area of the American
Mission to Lepers; H. Slower
Kulp. a Church of the Brethren
missionary to Nigeria, and Mar
garet Rottschaefer. a missionary
10 the lepers in India.
Evening star., 1949-05-23
New Phone Equipment Speeds
Calls by Using Musical Notes

country line TO rims the phone
you re calling,
And the receiving party won I
hear the notes either,
It's all part OF a new system de-
signed to cut 10 is seconds the
time 1t takes TO complete Ions dis
tance calls. Already installed IN
New York, Philadelphia and Chi.
cago. the system Is In partial opef-
alton here now and will so into
full use after completion OF the
new phone company building on
thirteenth street late next year,
Also displayed in the exhibit at
the Hotel Washington is the
latest in telephones. an expert
mental model that has wheel
on the bottom by which the user
can make the bell ring louder or
softer. The phone also aatomat-
ically increases or lowers the VOL
ume OF the voice.
Another new piece OF equip
ment displayed is complex tape
perforator that records phone
calls and the length OF time they
take. The device will enable more
calls TO be dialed 10 suburban
communities, since they eliminate
the need OF an operator 10 record
the charges.
Evening star., 1949-05-23

Anne Arundel County police.
Mr.. Martins body was located
at $50 am. today by Pvt. Waters
and George Martin, the victim Is
brother.
A certificate of accidental death
due to drowning was issued last
night for Mr.. Soper by DR.. John
I'M. Claffy, Anne Arundel County
medical examiner. DR.. Claffy was
to view MIR. Martins body later
today.
Were Boating Near Beach.
According to Police Sergt. Ed
ward King, Mr.. Martin and his
wife, Thelma, 20, and Mr.. Soper
were boating at Cloverlea Beach.
Mayo, Md. The accident occurred
at 6 pm. as they were returning to
shore during a storm, Sergt. King
said.
When an outboard motor slip
ped from the stern of the rowboat,
Mr.. Soper jumped in the water to
get it. Mr.. Martin, after seeing
his friend begin to struggle,
Jumped from the boat to help him,
the sergeant said.
A second boat. occupied by
Richard Frick. 81, of 3249 Twenty
third street Sc. and William E.
Murray. %, of 1925 Twenty third
street Sc. and their wives ap-
preached the struggling men. who
were their friends.
Mr.. Prick explained that the
motor on his boat also slipped into
the water and slowed his progress
toward the drowning men. Mr.
Frick said Mrs. Martin remained
in the drifting boat until ii
reached spot on the river where
she could wade. She began to
walk to shore. he said.
One Victim Could Swim.
Mr.. Frick said the accident oc-
CURED as the water began to gel
choppy from the wind. He said
the two boats. which had left
shore about 4 pm. were separated
by several hundred yards. Mr.
Frick said Mr.. Soper could swim
although he did not think Mr.
Martin could.
/ Mr.. Soper's mother, Mrs. Robert
Evening star., 1949-05-23
|Motorist Who Fled
Scene Of Accident
Found Hanged

A motoriSt who had been sought
for questioning about an accident
In which two persons we're injured
was found hanged yesterday in
woods about 400 yards from the
accident scene near Gainesville
Va.
The body Of Ray Henry Cowden.
40, Merrifield. Va. was discovered
by a member Of searching
party. according 10 Virginia State
Trooper J. O. Dula. The man. q
building guard for the Potomac
Electric Power Co. here had
hanged himself with his belt from
q tree limb. Mr.. Dula reported.
DR.. E. II. Marsteiier. Prince WI
liam County coroner, issued cer-
tificate OF suicide. Death was
caused by stranguiation and DR.
Marsteller estimated the man had
been dead from ~ 70 30 hours
when found about ! pm
According TO Trooper Duia. Mr.
cowden was reported 10 have
leaped from his car Immediately
after the accident about Q pm
Friday and 10 have run into the
woods before he could be oues-
toned. Two persons were slightly
injured In the accident but nc
charges had been fled against
MI. Cowden. the policeman stated
The mishap occurred on the Lee
highway,
Pepco officials saad Mr.. coSden
was married and has one child
He had been q guard as the pepcn
service building. Tenth street and
Florida avenue NV. for about .
year.