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particularly has been attacked on
that score.
Senator Murdt, while a committee
member. argued against cross
examination on the ground that a
congressional committee does net
have the authority of a court of
law in which the judge can main
tain ORDER by threatening to cite
offenders fer contempt.
Matter of Publicity
The Mundt-Nixon proposals, how
ever, contained provision that &C
cused persons should be permitted
to ask a reasonable number of ques-
tons of their accusers by submit
ting the questions in writing to the
committee chairman and letting
him ask theH.
That procedure was followed to a
limited extent on the day of the
face-to-face meeting of Alger Hiss
and his accuser, Mr.. Chambers, be-
fore the Un-American Activities
Committee. 1t was in the course
of this set of questions that Mr..
Hiss challenged Mr. Chambers to
make the same accusations away
from the committee where he would
not be immune to SANDER action
When Mr.. Chambers accepted the
challenge and Mr.. Hiss sued him for
libel, Mr.. Chambers produced some
of the papers that launched the
committee on a new spy hunt.
Proposed reform legislation in
its final form is sure to carry a
proviso that any person who be-
lieves his reputation has been
damaged by testimony before a
congressional committee must be
given a chance to testify person.
ally in his own behalf. That
would prevent q recurrence of the
Condor case.
In addition to providing that a
witness must be given a chance to
answer his accuser in the same
forum, the Mccormack and Case
proposals both would permit an &C.
cused person to file a sworn state
ment in his own behalf and call and
examine witnesses who can speak
for him.
Some of the most hectic scenes
the old House caucus room has wit
messed involved accused individ-
uals trying to read their statements
(See GUTENBERG, Page C-50
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~DdCd not dpdlldUle.
+Kilogram.
The 1888 levels were the highest
the Soviets have ever achieved
The average American ate more
than three times as much sugar in
1898 as did the average Russian and
more than two and one-half times
as much meat, and bought more
than twice as many pairs Of leather
shoes ana. more than twice as much
cotton.
The average Russian ate IL times
as much grain and vegetables az
did the average American in 1888
in accordance with an old law OF
economics that the lower the stand
ard of living is, the higher tend to
be the volume and proportion OF
grains and vegetables in the diet.
The tremendous destruction OF
dwellings during the war in Russia,
plus a lag in construction, has in
tensified the housing shortage which
has always existed in the Soviet
Union, official Russian figures show.
Families Crowded Together
The 1947 average per capita urban
living space was no mote than 3.5
square meters (37.8 square feet
that is, little more than 6 feet by
feet, according to an official Soviet
estimate.
This was a decline of 7 per cent
from the 1899 average of AZ square
meters-and this prewar figure was,
in turn, only little more than one
half the 825 square meters (89
square feeD established as a norm
by Soviet law.
1t is not at all unusual for four
and even more families to share a
small fiat, or for two or more fami-
lies to live in single room, Soviet
publications reveal.
The Russian must work 10 times
as long as the Englishman to buy
kilogram of lump sugar, and 10
times as long as the Norwegian.
The Russian must also work 10
times as long as does the English
man to buy a kilogram of butter
and six times as long to buy dozen
eggs.
| The worker. in the Soviet Para
disc of the Proletariat" must work
five times as long as does the Nor
wegian laborer to buy a liter of milk,
65 times as long to buy a mans
suit, six times as long for a pair of
mems shoes and seven times as long
for a pair of women's shoes.
! (chicsso Daily News Foreign service)
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By Miriom Ottenbero

The red-faced congressional COM
mittee chairman pictured banging
his gavel while an accused man tries
to defend himself may be a vanish
ing breed.
The prospects Of giving witnesses
fairer treatment before congress
sional investigators are better now
than ever before.
That is the prediction of both
Senate and House majority leaders,
who have introduced legislation to
establish code of fair practices for
witnesses before all investigating
committees.
At least, the introduction of such
proposals so early in the session in
dicates where the administration
stands.
Country Demands Reform
Senator Lucas, majority leader
who introduced similar legislation
last session and never got any place
with it, said he has every reason to
believe that this congressional re-
form has very good chance OF
being passed at this session."
THE country is demanding reform
Of many congressional investigating
practices in view of the undignifleo
and reckless manner in which a few
committees of the Congress have
functioned during the last few
years." he declared.
Both Senator Lucas and House
Floor Leader Mccormack insist that
the House Committee on Un-Amer.
lean Activities is not their only tar.
get.
Actually, the spy hunters are not
the only ones whose path has beer
strewn with contempt citations, an.
CRY scenes and name-calling. Other
committees produced more than Q
score of contempt citations last
summer and fall.
But the Un-American Activities
Committee-or some of its members
became a target for the critics
particularly through two cases. The
committee did not give hearing to
DR.. Edward U. Condor and it made
public accusations against Laurence
Duggan after his death.
DR.. Condor, director of the Ma
tional Bureau Of Standards, was de-
scribed by. the committee as one Of
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sthe weakest links in the chain OF
this Nations atomic security. He
asked to defend himself before the
committee and was not called.
Nine.Point Program Proposed
A few hours after Mr.. Duggan, a
former State Department official
plunged to his death, two committee
members gave out previously secret
testimony from a magazine editor
who said he heard ex-Communist
Whitaker Chambers tell former
Assistant Secretary of State A. A.
Berle, jr., that Mr.. Duggan passed
along State Department informa-
ton. The Justice Department sub
sequently cleared Mr.. Duggan and
committee critics were supplied with
a new load of ammunition.
The various proposals for reform
are aimed directly at preventing a
recurrence of such practices. Even
the two committee members who
gave out the Duggan story-Senator
Chen Representative Mundt, Re-
publican, of South Dakota and Rep
Iresentative Nixon, Republican, OF
acknowledgements the need for
reforms and proposed a nine-point
program of committee practices in
the last days of the last session.
On the other hand, the Un-
American Activities Committee has
done its part to show the importance
of congressional investigating COM
mittees. For all it's abuses, it has
produced documentary evidence OF
espionage. And the efforts of other
congressional investigators have re-
suited in war. fraud, bribery and
perjury convictions.
Representative Mccormack sale
the committees with the power Of
subpoena are the ones where the
damage Is done" Since these are
the committees from which perjury
or contempt cases are most likely tt
arise, he believes witnesses who may
have to face court action for Their
conduct before these committees
should have their basic rights pro-
tected.
The core of the problem, however
is that congressional committee /.
not a court. The man on the street
may think of witnesses being
tried" on Capitol Hill. They are
not. They are heard-sometimes
without counsel, without leave Il
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UNESCOQuestforP Peace
Based on Will of People
State Department Official Impressed With
Possibilities of u. N. Agency as
Peace.Seeking Functionary
By GEORGE v. Allen

Asent Secretary and
One United probing front
OF government is seeking today
Will OF the worlds people United Nations
c Cultural and perhaps
described best the organized conscience Of
have just returned from the third
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Truman Plan to Resume
Big Government March
Expansion Called for in State.of. Union
Message Indicates Bigger Federal
Payroll and More Power
By Gould Lincoln

The problem of big Government continues to ITSELF
Congress President
Of the Unicn makes that the onward march
governmental functions agencies begun when the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt threw overheard
governmental progressing.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
|Goldstein Directs
Symphonic Group
In Union Concert
By Alice Eversmon

The last of the concerts given un-
der the 1948 Recording and Tran
scription Royalty Fund of the D. C.
Federation of Musicians, Local 16l
drew a good sized audience to
Roosevelt Auditorium last night. A
symphonic group made up mostly
OF musicians from the National
Symphony was directed by DIR. Hen
ry Goldstein, who has led the FEEDER
atoms weekly symphonic study club
and been associated as director with
the symphony group of the Jewish
Community Center. A dentist by
profession, he has taken up con-
Quoting as an avocatfon.
Soloist of the program was Edwin
Davis, pianist, who was heard in the
Schumann Concerto in A Minor.
His Town Hall recital last year was
preceded by recitals in Boston and
Philadelphia and, while serving as
captain of the field artillery and in
tenigence during the war, he played
with the Honolulu Symphony. The
character of the Concerto" suited
him particularly well and his read
ing was highly expressive of its ro-
mantle atmosphere while brilliantly
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Ipianistic in the bravura section. He
has unlimited technical resources
which are never permitted to be
used solely as display. for his mu-
sical responsiveness directs it to an
expressive end.
While feeling the elan of the mu-
sic to a marked degree, there were
periods when he could have set it
forth with more forcefulness, thus
gaining greater sweep Of line. But
his ideas were more focused on the
poetic content and he brought it
out with Thoughtful casting of
phrases, full sonorous tone and vari-
alton in its coloring. His success
was pronounced and the applauding
audience tried vainly to hear an en-
core at each of his several recalls.
DR.. Goldstein gave him excellent
support with his authoritative di-
recting of the orchestra. His clear
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perception of the musical effects hi
desired was impaired to the orches.
ira players without any effort or re-
dundant gestures, for his beat is
firm and his signals concise. He led
the group in a spirited performance
of Rimsky- -Korsakoff's "Capriccic
Espagnol" as Introductory number
before the Concerto"
The selections chosen for this
concert, offered free to the public,
were equally divided between the
entertaining and the serious. Ex-
cerpts from the Rodgers Hammer
stein "Carousel" and Strauss "Wins
Women and Song" waltz were in the
former category while the program
ended with the first two movements
of Tschaikowsky's Symphony No.
S." The pace of DR.. Goldstein's S
reading of the Symphony" was so
well designed that the emotional
Importance of the work had time to
sink in and the different choirs of
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Sergt. Smith Honored
For Recruiting Work
Special Dispatch to The Stor

oP0S'o' 1'sF1e1te'' 70 'TTs STof
FIT. MEADE, Md, Jan. 29-Master
sergt. William Weldon Smith, In
dian Head, Md, yesterday was pre-
sented with an award as the out
standing recruiter in the Maryland
Recruiting District for the period
from last October to December.
Sergt. Smith, who is stationed at
Silver Spring. enlisted AZ men in the
Army and Air Force.
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the orchestra to be heard with spe-
cial clarity. The audience was
most appreciative and understand
ing of his efforts and the applause
ended only when Brahms Hun
garian Dance No. 5" was played as
an extra number.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
COP Want To Cut Govt. Spending; Balance Budget
By Jack BelD

WASHINGTON, (P) - Republi- cans intend to bear down on Pres ident Truman's approval of oper- ating the government in the red, Senator Brewster R.-MeD said yesterday.
 Brewster, who heads the Repub- lican Senatorial campaign com mittee, viewed it as possibly a ma jOr issue in 1850 elections.
 The voters aren't going to be al lowed to forget, he told a reporter, that MT. Truman spoke out against cutting spending and in support of a program that temporarily would leave the government pay out more than it takes in.
 MT. Truman said in his econo- mic report last week that we cannot expect a budget surplus in a declining national economy" He also said a big cut in government programs would hold back recOV- cry.
 "The administration has noth- ing but the old pump priming an sWer to any recession in business, ' was BreWster's sum-up. "The country tried that in the 30's and after $40, O,OOO,OOO,OOO had been spent there still were 8,OOO,OOO un- employed.
 "The Republicans are going to fight to cut expenses and keep the budget balanced. We think a ma iOrity of the voters believe that is the sensible thing to dO."
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
U. $. Denies Soviet Protest About Italy

WASHINGTON, (PJ-Secretary Acheson today described as "ut- terly without foundation" a Rus sian protest that Italy's member ship in the Atlantic Alliance would violate the Italian peace treaty.
 The secretary of state told a news conference he had received the Soviet protest only today.
 Moscow sent protest also to the Italian, British and French governments.
 Britain already has denied the Soviet contention.
 Italy has signed the North At lantic Alliance, but has not yet
 Continued on Page EighD
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Four Shot In Los Angeles Cangland Battle

LOS ANGELES, (P) - Gang sters' bullets early today cut down gambling czar Mickey Cohen and three other persons-including a state-appointed bodyguard for the dapper hoodlum-as the party left a smart sunset strip cafe.
 None of the party was killed outright but all were in a serious condition, including Harry Cooper, 38, a special bodyguard assigned to Cohen by the California attor- ney general.
 The other victims were Miss Dee David, 26, blonde, and Ed ward (Neddie) Herbert, 35, a Co., hen henchman Herbert escaped II gangland bullets only a month ago as he was entering his apart ment.
 Cohen, 35, is key figure in the sizzling grand jury inquiry into police vice tieups which already has resulted in a wholesale shake up of the Los Angeles police de- pertinent.
 Only yesterday attorney general Fred Howser disclosed that he had assigned Cooper to guard Cohen, presumably because Cohen had expressed fear that eastern gang sters were in town to assassinate him.
 Barney Ruditsky, co-owner of Sherry's restaurant, where the shooting took place, said every body was leaving the place when the shotgun charges rang out. The time was approximately 4 am.
 'It sounded like firecrackers and everybody hit the walk. There were about 9 or 30 people on the
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The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
NEWS IN BRIEF

SEATTLE, (P)-Advance units of the Point Barrow expedition sailed from Elliott Bay yesterday afternoon on the first lap of the navy's annual race against the Arctic ice pack.
 Headed by the powerful ice breaker Burton Island, the group will include four LST's. They will go to Point Lay, l65 miles from Barrow, to rendezvous with the second group which will sail from here next Tuesday.
 Ships sailing then will include cargo transports which will carry the bulk of the 45,O0O tons of sup plies for navy and government outpoStS in the Far North and the fleet oil Neches.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Fairbanks Plumb
 CTS "VacatiOn" On Construction Jobs

FAIRBANKS, (P) -Approxim- ately 260 members of the plumb CTS and steamfitters union, Local 375, were lon vacation" today from four construction jobs.
 Carl Slatburg, union business agent, said the action was to pro- test reduction in working hours.
 'It's definitely not a strike, 5 Slatburg said. "The men just de- cided if the jobs are so far ahead of schedule that contractors can cut hours there'd be no harm if they take their vacations now"
 Slatburg said the plumbing sub-contractors cut WOrkin g hours, effective Monday, from 10 hours a day to nine.
 "If contractors decide to go back to 10 hours a day, the men probably will cut their vacations
 Continued on Page Three)
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Air Transport Crashes Into
 Houses; Kills Six

SEATTLE, (P) - An air trans port crashed into a residential street last night and exploded, killing six persons and injuring 30.
 Four people were missing.
 When one engine failed as the plane took off from Boeing Field with 32 aboard, the big craft sliced down through power lines and piled up in the street.
 A wing sheared away the top two floors of a rooming house where Is persons lived. It piled on down into a brick home. In the two minutes before the wrecked ship exploded most or all the pas sengers got clear.
 The coroner'S office tentatively identified three of the dead as Lawrence FuriO, Chicago, a pas Senger, and Ralph Parker and Ed Brightcamp. The latter two were in the rOoming house. All the bodies were burned, making iden- tificatiOn difficult.
 Seventeen of the tWo-ehgined planes passengers and its four crew members were hospitalized. Two were missing. Nine residents of the damaged homes were taken to hospitals.
 Hours fater the 10:03 pm. crash, one of the planes gasoline tanks
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The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
News of the World At ACIance ---
Tuesday. July le. l949 By The Associated Press


 A coup appeared to be underway in Guatemala today following the assassination of the nations army chief of staff. Armored troops were reported fighting for control of the national palace.
 The assassination of army lead CT, Col. Francisco Javier Arana, touched off the violence in the capital of the Central American Republic.
 National defense minister Jaco- bo Arbenz and his supporters were said to be holding the palace against troops loyal to President Juan Jose Arevalo. The president was reported barracaded in his own residence.
 The political background of the trouble was hazy. Some observers said a rift had been developing in the army for two years with army leader Arana and defense minis ter Arbenz in rival camps.
 A state of emergency has been declared A government spokes- man said government forces had the situation under control early today.
 Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons yes terday that if sociaIized Britain is a welfare state so is the United States. He said the United States is developing a welfare state by D y ng subsidies to farmers. These huge payments added to the cost of food which Britain buys from America and this was one of the reasons for Britain'S dollar crisis, he said.
 BeVln was answering ConSerVa- tive criticism that the labor gov ernment had brought on the crisis by Overspending on its sOcializa- ton program and soaking the rich to pay for it.
 Canada, a dollar country and the best customer of the United States, has agreed along with six other British Dominions to cut
 Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Committee Passes
 Military Pay Hike

WASHINGTON, CP)-The Sen ate armed services committee ap- proved a pay raise for the uni formed services.
 The vote was 9 to l to accept the bill already passed by the House. The measure, estimated to cost S3OO,OOO,OOO a year, would raise the pay of almost everybody in military uniform.
 Individual boosts would range from three per cent for lower ranking enlisted men to 37 per cent for brigadier generals.
 Although the committee endOrs- ed the bill, chairman TydingS CD.- MdD said he doubts the bill will pass the Senate unless savings to offset its increased costs result from other legislation now pend ing before Congress-"
 He was referring to the armed forces unification bill pending be- fore Congress-"
 Tydings and some other Sena- tors have taken the stand that military pay should not be raised unless savings are made in other costs of the armed forces. Backers of the unification bill contend il would permit savings of up to a billion dollars a year.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Senate Committee Attempts To Help End Hawaii Strike
By Harold w. Wardl

WASHINGTON, (P)-The Sen- ate labor committee swung it's support yesterday behind new government efforts to solve the 8O-day walkout of Harry Bridges CIO-longShoremen in Hawaiian ports.
 As a dramatic climax to a day of debate between Bridges and Senator Taft, R.-Ohio), the labor committee approved a resolution calling on the union leader, the is- land employer-repreSentative, and U. s. conciliator Cyrus s. Ching to settle the dispute in 24 hours.
 To the expressed disappoint- ment of Senator Douglas D.-IllD, who suggested the extraordinary end of the dispute, Ching was on vacation and the management rep resentative was out of town.
 But Bridges and a company spokesman both showed an eager
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The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20

VICTORIA, B. C., (P)-SalVage operations continued yesterday on the l34-ton fishpacker Fender Isle, which was beached in sunken condition Monday after collision with a sister vessel.
 The second craft, the fishpacker Quatsino, was lowed stern first with pumps operating to the Bri- tish Columbia packers outer wharf plant.
 The two vessels collided in the Straits of Juan de Fuca off Jordon river. Eleven crew members of both vessels escaped injury.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Senate Inquiry Causes Dismissal Of Maj. Gen. Waitt

WASHINGTON (P), The Wash ington Post says Maj Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, is reported to have had the improperly furnished personnel data" which resulted in the suspension of Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt.
 In a copyrighted article, The Post reported that "the data is said to have been relayed to Vaughan" by James V. Hunt, for mer army officer whose activities are under scrutiny of a Senate committee Investigating the hand ling of government contracts.
 The Post said investigators working on the case suspect Vau- ghan was used by Hunt" to try to
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The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
TEL AVIV, Israel, (P) - Tn

TEL AVIV, Israel, (P) - The Israeli-Syrian armistice was sign ed today, it was announced here.
 An Israeli government spokes- man expressed satisfaction with the agreement, adding that it means Israel now has armistice arrangements with all neighbor- ing countries.
 Israel previously had signed agreements with Egypt, Trans Jordan and Lebanon. Those agree ments also covered elements of Saudi Arabian and Iraqui troops which has fought against the new Jewish State.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20
Truman Hopes for World "Peace Without War"
By Ernest B. Vaccaro)

CHICAGO, (P)-President Tru- man said yesterday that tensions and conflicts appear to be increas- ing" in areas controlled by com munist tyranny. He said he is op- timistic the world may yet be or ganized for peace without a war.
 Communism may have "tem- porary triumphs," MT Truman said, but in the long run it must either destroy itself or abandon
 Continued on Page Three)
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20

HOQUIAM, Wash, (4) - The seasons first commercial catch of albacore tuna off the Washington coast was landed here Monday night.
 The 500-pound cate h was brought in by troller JayCee of Aberdeen. It was taken 130 miles due west of Grays Harbor.
 The fish averaged IS pounds each, larger than in nose previous seasons.
 Alex Olgren, owner and skipper of the JaYCee, said the tuna were running in large numbers.
 Purchase price was not disclos- ed by the John Hannula Fish Co.,, which has bought the first boat load the last two years.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-20

JUNEAU, (P)- Lee H. Smith, who first introduced milking ma chimes and milk bOttling processes in Alaska, died yesterday. He was 6l-years old. For the last 40 years he operated the Juneau Dairy.
 His widow, five sons and a daughter survive.