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Evening star., 1949-10-24
D. {. Bridge Players
Win 5 Major Events
In 4-Day Tourney

Five major events Of the four
day District Contract Bridge
Tournament at the Shoreham Ho-
tel have been won by Washington
players.
David Murray. William Pois-
SAINT, Maj. r. H. Skinner and
James G. Stone. tournament man
ager, triumphed over a field of %
teams in the final session of play
last night to take possession of the
Eynon Bowl. They won 38 boards
out Of go in the team-of-four play.
Runnerup awards went to j. D.
Boyd. John r. Moore and Larry
Reynolds, all of Washington, and
Mrs. Sandra Fox of Coral Gables,
Fla.
The only trophy lost to out-of-
town players was The Evening
Star Cup, which remained in
possession of Baltimoreans Frank
B. Levi and Saul L. Greenberg
after their victory over the Sc
pairs entered in yesterdays ANA
teur Metropolitan Contest. Mr..
Levi won the cup a year ago
paired with w. J. McDevitt of
Baltimore.
Mrs. Jean Ellis and Mrs. Simon
Becker tied with Charles Wolpert
and Albert White for second. All
of them are Washingtonians.
In the open pair contest held
Saturday, Mrs. R. H. Skinner and
Lewis G. Tubbs regained posses
sion of the Woodward Cup for
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Hoffman Plans Talks
In Europe on ECA as
Total Passes7 I Billion

Economic Cooperation Admin
istrator Paul G. Hoffman will
leave Wednesday for Europe for
two weeks of observation and dis
cussion Of Marshall Plan aid. The
talks will be based on the $7,008,
100000 already spent, and the
outlook for greater self help by
the II countries that receive the
outlays, ECA spokesmen said to-
day.
The agency released the new
figure on European Recovery
Plan expenditures since April 3,
1948, following a new procure
ment authorization of $10,081 900,
announced Saturday.
ECA has been authorized by
Congress to spend an overall total
of $780,. 1892. 900 during the fiscal
year that ends next June 80.
Detailed expenditures to date
were contained in a report sub
mitted to Mr.. Hoffman by a spe-
cial mission headed by his as
sistant. Wayne C. Taylor. Great
Britain has received $1,194, ,705,-
600. France got the second larg-
est amout. $1,510,091 900. since
the ERP began in April. 1948.
The coming European visit of
Mr.. Hoffman, ECA officials said,
might have an important bearing
on the attitude of Congress next
year. His conferences with Euro
pean officials are expected to go
into great detail on possible eco
nomic and trade measures that
might help the countries to a
larger degree of self -sufficiency.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
u. 5. Embassy Clerk
To Be Tried as Spy by
|Czech Government
By the l..oeiatsd Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct.
l24.-Samuel Meryn, an American
Embassy employe who was ar
rested last week. soon will be tried
as spy in a Czech court. James
K. Penfield, United States Charge
d'Affaires, disclosed today.
Mr.. Penfleld said he had been
informed of the forthcoming trial
by the Czech Foreign Ministry.
Mr.. Meryn was arrested Friday
as one Of the leaders of an alleged
espionage ring headed by Amcri-
can Embassy employees.
Isaac Patch. political attache at
the Embassy who was similarly
accused. was expelled by the Com
munist-led Czech government.
Unable to Contact Him.
American officials have labeled
the charges entirely rrfounded. :"
Mr.. Penf1eld told newsmen
American officials have not been
able to get in touch with Mr..
Meryn despite requests to the For
eign Ministry that they be allowed
to speak to him.
Mr.. Penf1eld said Mr.. Meryn.
who was a clerk in the military
attaches Office. apparently is be-
ing held in Prague prison. He
said he had not been able to find
out exactly where he is, however.
Naturalized Citizen.
Mr.. Meryn, naturalized Amer
ican citizen of Czech birth, Joined
the Embassy here. about three
years ago after serving with the
United States Army in Europe.
He was naturalized while in the
Army.
American officials said they did
not know when he originally left
Czechoslovakia nor where he had
lived in the United States. The
Embassy said Mr.. Meryn's wife
was living in Prague but that she
refused to see news correspond
entS.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
United Nations
Booklets on Sole
in Stor Lobby

The United Nations Depart
ment of Information has pre-
pared an attractive illustrated
47-page booklet titled, How
People Work Together" It
brings you up to date on the
functions of the U. N. and its
specialized agencies.
AS a means of furthering
the ideals of the U. N. in con-
nection with the celebration
of United Nations Day the
booklet has been made avail
able at cost by The Star.
Copies are on sale at the busi-
ness counter in The Star
lobby. Price, Is cents.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Baltimore Truck Driver
Held in Shooting Of Woman
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. pa 33-
year-old truck driver with a bull
let wound in his chest is under
armed guard at hospital today
after a shooting affray In which
his sweetheart was wounded f1ve
times as she sat in an automobile
with another man.
Police said the trucker, Ray
mond Schaffer, was found on the
sidewalk beside the car with a
self inflicted wound in the chest.
A rifle was found nearby.
Officials at Franklin Square
Hospital said neither Schaffer nor
his girl friend. Evelyn Mae Bull,
was in critical condition.
Officers said a dozen shots were
fired into the car in which Miss
Bull was sitting with a male COM
panion. She was hit in the alb
domen, side. hip, arm and back.
The man in the car, identified
as Irwin Berkemeier, a 20-year-
old mechanics helper. escaped.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
z Carolina Brothers Killed
As Their Cars Hit Head-on
BY the Associotsd Press.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Oct. a.
Two brothers smashed their auto
mobiles head-on into each other
early yesterday and were killed.
The State Highway Patrol iden-
tilted them Army Corpl. Henry
Walker, jr., Is, and Carl Walker,
"a. Henry was driving south on
Highway 81 near Blythewood, IL
miles north of here. Carl was
driving north.
The collision demolished both
cars and injured two men riding
with Carl. One was James Walker
of Winnsboro, S. c., brother Of the
dead men. He said he assumed
each was blinded by the lights of
the approaching car.
Henry. who was stationed at
nearby Fort Jackson, died in
stantly. Carl died at a hospital
here.
The other injured man was
Richard Dotts Of Columbia. Hos
pital attendants said his condition
is critical.
Evening star., 1949-10-24

uation sometimes was exaggerated
in an effort to dramatic the
agency's need for more money.
Anyway, Congress last week au-
thorized VA to transfer some of
it's appropriations to its admins
trative fund and, as a result. any
dismissals that the agency might
have to make would be very small
and practically all of them in the
field.
DISPLACED CAREERISTS -
The Civil Service Commission
has completed arrangements with
the Army Department to secure
overseas jobs for displaced career
lists.
Most Of the jobs are in Okinawa
and in Japan, and pay an addi-
tional 10 to Is percent overseas
dif1erential in salary. Those dis
placed careerists who are inter-
ested will be referred by the COM
mission to the Army Department.
Meanwhile, the commission says
it is doing everything possible to
find Government unemployment
for these people. However, spokes-
men for these former Federal en-
ployes with many years of service
to their credit, declare that several
thousand of them are still out of
work, many of them for two or
more years.
Joseph Youno's Federal Spot
light radio broadcast is heard
every Saturday at S:15 pm.
oUer WMAL, The Star station.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
By the Associated pr.,s

FRIBOURG, Switzerland. Oct.
24.-Baroness Marie de Morten-
ache, granddaughter of Frank
Gould, American millionaire, has
been a novice at the convent De
La Maigrauge for the past two
and a half years.
Reached at the convent where
she is studying to become a nun,
the baroness, who is about "a
years old, denied New York
newspaper report that she had re-
nounced her inheritance.
Il did not renounce the inheri-
tance because I am not nun,
definitely" she said.
The end of her novitiate is an
other two and a half years off.
and then she must make a decision
whether she will take the final
vows which will commit her to a
life of clustered piety. If she does
become a nun. she will be men,
ber of the Cisterian Order.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Israeli Ambassador
Here Accuses |raq Of
Holy War on Jews

1raq was charged with declar.
ing a "holy war" against its Jew
ish citizens, imprisoning 1000 of
them in concentration camps and
prisons and killing many of them
by torture, in speech by Am
bassador Eliahu Elath of Israel
yesterday.
The Ambassador, who spoke at
the Shoreham Hotel, at the. clos
Ing session of a two-day meeting
OF the United Palestine Appeal,
declared "the Jewish community
OF 1raq will eventually have to be
taken into Israel, as yet another
section of our people threatened
with genocide and suffering from
persecution" He contended Jews
IN 1raq are denied fundamental
human rights and appeal to the
law.
He urged "the closest co-opera-
ton" by American Jewry in de-
veloping Israel.
Clay Praises Israel.
In resolution, the group urged
President Truman to prevent at
tempts by other governments to
alter or reduce Israel's rightful
boundaries and promote a success
full end of the negotiations be-
tween Israel and the Arab states.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, former
military governor of the American
zone In Germany, another speaker,
praised Israel for accepting new
immigration. He declared: In
helping them you are helping
those who are willing to help
themselves"
Henry Morgenthau, jr.. general
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, told the group the Jews
in America have not begun to
match the sacrifices of the Jews
in 1srael-even in terms Of mere
dollars-the only form of sacrifice
we are called upon to make"
Doubling of Population Seen.
Israel is expected to double its
present million population in the
next five years, Berl Locker,
chairman of the Jewish Agency
Executive in Jerusalem, declared.
He said outside aid is needed to
avert calamity in this program.
Jewish welfare groups in this
country were urged In another
resolution to aid the United
Jewish Appeal, which materially
aids the United Palestine Appeal.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Gould Granddaughter Is Novice
In Convent, Nav Give Up Riches

Sisters at the convent, although
reluctant to talk about her, said
she spent most of her time in
prayer and in working at the
tasks of the convent, mostly en-
broidery and dressmaking.
The sisters said the baroness
wanted to avoid any publicity
about her life in the convent.
They said any decision concern
ing the inheritance would be made
at the end of her novitiate.
The baroness is a granddaugh-
ter of Frank Jay Gould. the self
exile, who inherited $10,000,0O0
from his father, Jay Gould. Frank
Gould spent most of his life in
France, and still lives there.
The baroness mother is the
former Helen Gould. daughter of
Frank Jay Gould by the first OF
his three wives. After divorcing
Marie's father, Swiss Baron Jean
Daniel de Mortenache. the mother
married Edouard Maret. and now
lives near Lausanne, Switzerland
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Southern Publishers 10 Hold
47th Convention in Texas
By the Assoeiossd Press

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Oct.
24.-The 47th anniversary con-
vention of the Southern News
paper Publishers Association will
convene at Mineral Wells, Tex,
October 81.
The three-day meeting will be
attended by about 400 represen-
tatives from IA States, Walter c.
Johnson, SNPA secretary-man-
ager, said yesterday.
Speakers will be B. M. Nickel
way, editor of The Washington
Star, and Tom Wallace, editor
emeritus of the Louisville Times.
Evening star., 1949-10-24

CleT1Cdl cIuplOyeS, WHO lace JQe
loss of their jobs unless they pass.
X
PARTY LINE-Senate Majority
Leader Lucas gave a party the
other night for Capitol Hill news
men to celebrate the adjournment
of Congress.
While group Of them were
waiting for taxicab to take them
to the party, passing motorist
stopped and asked if he could give
them lift. They agreed readily
and got their ride, after telling
him that they were going to Sen
ator Lucas party.
The motorist was Republican
Senator Wherry of Nebraska, who
probably is Senator Lucas f1erc-
est antagonist on the Senate floor.
SEC-The Securities and Ex-
change Commission, which is To-
Gated in the rather lonely section
Of Second and E streets NV, has
asked for police escorts for their
women employees who frequently
work overtime.
SEC officials say that there
have been quite a few crimes in
that neighborhood recently and
that they felt that their women
employees who have to work after
dark should be given some pro-
lection at least to their streetcars
or buses. The second precinct
police turned the request down,
declaring they do not have a suf-
f1cient policemen to offer this pro-
lection. However. the agency
plans to take up the situation with
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett.
4 y -
RIGHT-WING TRIUMPH
cIO officials are predicting that
the annual CIO convention which
begins in Cleveland next week will
oust the left-wing United Public
Workers Of America and set up
an organizing group to form
new Government employees union.
The organizing group is ex-
.pected to be built around the nu-
cleus of the right-wing Govern
ment Workers Union, which was
formed by dissidents who broke
with UPWA because of its left
wing policies.
VA Veterans Administration
employees are hoping that they
won't have to go through any
more cases of lob jitters" for the
next year. at least.
Throughout the past year, there
have been periodic reports ema-
mating from the agency to the ef-
feet that thousands of its en-
ployes were about to be fired for
lack of funds.
Privately, some VA officials
blame colleagues for this war of
nerves." and declare that the sit
Evening star., 1949-10-24
2Woshingtonions to Join
STANDARD Brands Club

Two Washington residents will
be inducted into the Quarter Gen.
tury Club of Standard Brands,
Inc, at a dinner in their honor at
$50 pm. Thursday at the May
flower Hotel.
They are Samuel G. Tribble and
Lena A. Smith. both employees OF
the Langdon Yeast Plant, an af-
filiate of Standard Brands.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
U. S. EmpIoye Killed
In Mexico City Hotel
By the Assoeiatad Press

MEXICO CITY, oct. 24.-Rich-
ard Cowan, an American employe
on the joint Mexican-United
States Commission fighting hoof
and mouth disease in cattle, was
shot and killed early today in the
bar of q residential hotel here.
Mr.. Cowan, about AZ. gave
Dallas, Tex, as his home when
he registered at the hotel where
he was living with his wife.
Police said they were searching
for man and a woman who fled
in an automobile after the shoot
ing. They gave no motive for the
shooting pending further investi-
cation.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Dunborton PIoy Planned

Peg O. My Heart" a romantic
eomedy by J. Hartley Manners,
will be presented by the Fanta-
slams, drama club of Dunbarton
College of Holy Cross, in the COL
lege auditorium, at 8 pm. next
Friday and 2::30 pm. next Sunday.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Clements,
2517 Fourteenth street NV, will
play the title role.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Geoerophers to Meet

DR.. Samuel Van Valkenburg, di-
rector Of the Graduate School of
Geography at Clark University,
Worcester, Mass, will give "A
World Inventory" to the Associa-
ton of American Geographers at
8:15 pm. Wednesday, in the audi
torium of the National Museum of
Natural History, Constitution ave-
nue. and Tenth street NV.
Evening star., 1949-10-24

Will be held on
Saturdays, and
will be given in
t h e morning
and afternoon.
All 10000 ap-
plic ants here
will receive no
tees within the
next few weeks
as to the time
and place of
t he eXamina-
tion.
Many Of those
taking the exam
are War-SerVice
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Wagner Papers Given
10 Georgetown IT,;
Son Hears Exercises

Legislative papers of former
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New
York, lauded as a modern pion-
eer" in the field of social welfare
and establishment of the principle
OF collective bargaining, were
given yesterday into the perma-
nent keeping of Georgetown Uni
versity.
The Very Rev. Hunter Guthrie.
S. j.. president, received the
papers from Robert F. Wagner.
= jr., who made the formal presen-
tation on behalf of his father, un-
able to attend because of his
health. Senator O'Mahoney. Dem
ocrat. of Wyoming, presided at
ceremonies in CASTOR Hall. on the
campus.
In a personal message consign-
Ing his % years legislative record
to the Georgetown archives, read
by his son, the liberal Democratic
leader wrote:
Il deem it appropriate that the
documentary evidence of a sincere
and constant effort to implement,
In our times, the principles of the
Bill of Rights, should repose in
the archives of the university
which was founded in the year
of the ratification of the Constitu-
tion, by the illustrious cousin of a
signer of the Declaration of In
dependence, under the aegis of
what Washington described as
the benign influence of religion,
for the purpose Of assisting in the
perpetuation and ever fuller
realization of the American axiom
of equal justice under the law"
Largest Gift Since Roosevelt's.
President Guthrie, in a brief
speech of acceptance, said the
gift of private and public papers,
will be made freely available to
qualified researchers and students,
irrespective of race, creed, color
Or institutional affiliates." Special
provision has been made at
Georgetown to house the records,
said to be the largest gift of its
kind since the papers of the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
were bequeathed to the Nation.
Young Mr.. Wagner, who is
chairman of the New York City
Planning Commission, said his
father never regarded the Gov
eminent as paternalistic agency.
Rather, he looked upon gov
ernment as the agent of the peo-
pie who maintain the pioneer
doctrine that the community, in
time Of crisis, should come to the
aid Of individuals caught in dis
aster beyond their CONTROL he
said.
Senator O'Mahoney, speaking
for Congress, said that Senator
Wagner is "one of the great men
of American history"
Lehman Among Speakers.
Other speakers included Her.
bert H. Lehman, former Governor
of New York; George Meany, Sec
retary-treasurer of the American
Federation of Labor, and James
B. Carey, secretary treasurer of
the Congress of Industrial Organ
tzations.
MIR. Lehman said that the author
of the 1885 Labor Relations Act
understood long ago what some
have come to realize only recently
that unless the government of
a democracy intimately concerns
itself with the welfare of all the
people, democracy cannot survive"
Called away Unexpectedly to
Boston, Frances Perkins, former
Labor Secretary and now Civil
Service Commissioner, sent tele-
gram. Two other special friends
Of former Senator Wagner were
called upon for remarks. They
were Leon Keyserling. economic
adviser to President Truman, and
Secretary OF the Navy Francis P.
r.
Evening star., 1949-10-24

Washington when they topped the
field of 80 pairs through two ses-
sions of play.
Master Points won in this event
will be sufficient to accord Mrs.
Skinner the honor of life master,
highest award of the American
Contract Bridge League under
whose sanction the tournament
was held. Mrs. r. c. Young and
David Warner, both of Philadel-
phia, were runners up. the same
position they held in this contest
a year ago.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Weather Report

District of Columbia Some
cloudiness with highest temper
ature near IS degrees today.
Mostly cloudy and cool tonight
and tomorrow with some rain
likely by tomorrow night. Lowest
tonight about IS degrees.
Maryland-Mostly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow with some
rain likely by tomorrow night.
Cooler tonight with lowest from
40 to As degrees.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy with
some rain likely tomorrow, begin
ming in the extreme southwest
portion tonight. Lowest tonight
around As degrees. Cooler to-
morrow.
Wind velocity. 10 miles per hour;
direction, north-northwest.
River Report
(From United States Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls. Shenandoah clear at
HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Permanent Status Clerk Exam
For 10000 Slated Next Month
By Joseph Young

The Civil Service Commission will hold the
JOB exam for than applicants
and 49, 1t is expected to be the largest civil
Washington The clerical jobs will starting
to $3.50 year a result of the raises.
The commission holding more than month
Evening star., 1949-10-24

Joseph Youno's Federal Spot
light radio broadcast is heard
every Saturday at S:15 pm.
oUer WMAL, The Star station.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
Foreign Language
Broadcast On WEDT
JAW Sfotion New
Program In Effect

Schedules for the regular for
eign-language broadcasts by
UAW-CIO Radio Station WDET-
FM were announced today.
The airings, to be known as
the Cosmopolitan Program, will
be presented bi-lingually.
The Polish feature viii be
broadcast from 3 pm. to $50
pm, Monday through Friday,
and from 10 am. to IL am. OH
Sundays.
The Italian portion will be
offered from $50 pm. to 4 pm.
weekdays, and from 9 am. to
10 am. on Sundays.
The Jewish broadcast will be
heard from II am. to 11:30 am.
on Sundays.
WDET-FM is the UAW-CIO
Radio station, operating on a
non-profit basis, with a power
of $4,000 watts.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
AFT President
To Address
Meeting Mar
Teachers Schedule
Reilly At Moeomber
High School

John Eklund, newly elected
National President of the Amer
lean Federation of Teachers I'm
ion will be in Toledo on We'd
nesday, March 2,and according
to his agenda will have a busy
day and evening.
Mr.. Eklund opens his days ac-
tivitiee in Toledo at II am. with
a convocation meeting at Toledo
University with approximately
700 freshmen in attendance.
Early evening calls for din
ner meeting with the Toledo
University Teachers Local, Ex-
ecutive Board members of To-
ledo Local $50 and Local from
Sylvania, Ohio.
Following the dinner the Ma
tionaI Teachers President will
address and overall membership
meeting at 7:30 PM. at Macom-
Der High School.
Mr.. Eklund superseded Joseph
F. Lander as national president
and is resident of Denver, Colo,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
Stronger Rent
Law Needed

WASHINGTON (LPA) - Or
ganized labor presented its case
for a vigorous rent control law
last week when CIO and AFL
witnesses appeared before the
Sena e Banking Committee.
Rents have risen about 36% de-
spite the present control law,
CIO witnesses testified. Low
and middle-income families are
especially concerned with the
supply of rental housing and the
level of rents, an AFL spokes-
man declared. The unions are
supporting the Myers-DouglaS
rent control bill which is strong
er than the Administration bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
AckIin Stamping

Named chairman of Acklln
Stamping again is Lewis MattoX
and elected secretary is Chester
Staniszewski. On the shop COM
mittee are Frank Zeimer Woods,
Walter (Smoky) Czerniak, Bob
Ignatowski, Dominick Cuttaia,
John Obarski and William Love.
Stanley Schoviak was elected
to serve as committeeman in the
Die Shop. Augie Nye is Ser
geant-at-Arms and elected to the
Welfare Committee are Tony Ur-
baniak, Clara Jefferds and Anna
SzalkoWski. Lewis Mattox was
retained as shop editor of news.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
Joint Board
Textile Units
Move Offices
New Quarters
Located On
Summit Street

The Toledo Joint Board, Tex
tile Workers Union, CIO have
moved their office from 215
Summit st. to 134 Summit st. it
was announced by Kenneth De-
Long, manager.
The Joint Board is composed
of Locals 224, Textileather; 225,
Hetrick Mfg; 226 Landers Corp;
226-A, Toledo Mattres; 502
Haas-Jordan; 500 Dickey Mig;
377 Chase Bag and Local 981'
National Automotive, Findlay,
Ohio.
The Textileather Joint Board
previously shared. office space
with the Toledo Joint Council
which recently has affiliated
with the Teamsters Union, AFL.