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Evening star., 1949-04-22
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FOR SALE
Tito's Store

located at No. 80 Company St.
across from the Beer Garden.
For information call at
TITO'S STORE, in front of
LA Granada.
, 1949-05-31

Plan; st Thomas Rejects 1t
The St. Croix Council approved the new Pay Plan for Mum
clpal employees to go into effect July l 1949, under the Merit
System Law. The St. Thomas Council disapproved the same
Pay Plan. AS the matter now stands, hundreds of ST. Croix
employees are assured very substantial pay increases on July
J. St Thomas Municipal employees have no such assurance.
The Merit System Law, as passed by the Legislative AS
sembly, fixes July l of any year as the time when the first
ray Plan IS to become effective. If ST. Thomas does not have!
a pay plan before July l of this year, Pay Plan increases can
not become effective until July l, 1850.
The Administration has worked for two years to persuade
Congress to give us funds to provide for salary increases un-I
der an objective Pay Plan. Congress is making about SIS 0OI
available beginning July for St. Thomas Pay Plan increases.
An even larger sum is provided for ST. Croix where salaries
have been lower. The money thus appropriated by Congress
for Pay Plan increases will not be used to give employees in
d1v1dual increases according to the influence of particular
employees either with the Administration or with the NUM-
cipal Council. No increases will be made except according to
an orderly Pay Plan in which all classified positions are
placed on a scale effectively. A basic purpose of the Merit
System Law is to remove all classified positions from poll
tics and to prevent either the Executive or the Legislature
from favoring particular employees.
All positions have already been classified. However, en-
ployees dissatisfied with the classification of their particular
jobs still have until June % to appeal from present classified
tons. The pay established for various classes under the pro
posed Pay Plan is lower than any of us would wish but it is
as much as can be provided withour limited funds. It is to be
emphasized that any Pay Plan is always subject to revisions
approved by the Governor and the Municipal Council.
The greatest immediate benefit of the Pay Plan rejected
by the Municipal Council would be to classes of employees
now receiving the lowest pay. The following examples show
present pay Of various positions and the proposed pay under
the Plan rejected by the St. Thomas Council:
POSITION Present Min. Proposed Min.
Per Month
Teacher High School Grad. SO. $sa.
, 1949-05-31

Teacher college Grad
Kindergarten Teachers
Nurse /
Nurses Aide
Labor Foreman
Sanitation Inspector I
Sanitation Inspector II
Cook I
Cook II
Clerk /
Clerk II
Police Sergeant
Switchboard Operator
Lanuch Engineer
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Nv the Assoeioted Press

A Federal jobholder's jocular
suggestion that President Tru-
man might run again opened the
1852 political fishing season yes
terday on about its usual schedule
MIR. Truman wasn't biting-as
most presidents don't three and
a half years in advance-when
Interstate Commerce Commission
er j. Monroe johnson started
talking at Little Rock. Ark. about
"the next time Capt. Harry Is
President"
With a grin, the President eau
toned the exuberant Mr.. john
son: "All these newsmen viii
think it's a plant"
Mr.. johnson, an honorary mem
Der, told Mr.. Truman's World
War I Battery D buddies that they
hadn't seen anything yet In the
way OF inaugural breakfasts, such
as was held for them here last
January.
Just wait three and q halt
years from now" Mr.. johnson said
IF you think we did something
for you In Washington last time
Just wait until the next time Capt
Harry is President and see what
we can do"
Evening star., 1949-06-12
New Defiant Letter
Addressed 10 CIerqy
By Czech Archbishop
Message Is Disclosed
After Catholic Action
Secretary Is Arrested
BY the Assoeiaied Press

PRAGUE. CZechoslovakia, June
11.-A new clerical letter signed
by Archbishop Josef Beran and
breathing defiance Of government
DEGREES was disclosed today just
after the arrest of the secretary
of the lay organization Catholic
Action.
A high Roman Catholic church
authority said DR.. Antonin Mandl,
3O-year-old secular priest and sec
retary of the church-sponsored
organization, was seized at his
home by secret police last night
and I'VE do not know the charges
against HIM"
1t was the first important arrest
in the growing church-state con-
fict, though the church authority
estimated that more than 100'
other priests are in prison and
more "are being arrested every
day"
New Catholic Action Set Up.
The arrest came at time when
government-approved Catholic
Action was being set up.
The Czechoslovak press listed
118 priests who 1t said signed a
statement entering the new Cath
olic Action in the campaign
against the church headed by
Archbishop Beran.
1--WE cannot know for certain
that the priests named actually
signed the proclamation" the
church authority said.
Archbishop Beran had predicted
the formation of such group as
step toward state-controlled
catholic church and has reminded
| of the penalties of excommunica-
ton for all participating in such
a movement.
The clerical letter, sent pri-
vately to priests throughout
Czechoslovakia, was approved at
a conference of bishops at Olo-
mouc last Tuesday.
| It vowed never to submit to en-
slavement of the church "by any
body or under any pretext."
It banned the use Of the word
Catholic" in government spon-
sored organizations.
Bulletin Ordered Sent Back.
Priests were ordered to send
back to the Ministry of Education
the official bulletin for the clergy
which the government has begun
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Nv the As.ocia,sd Press

Undaunted by President Tru-
mans protests against proposed
reductions in foreign aid spending
Chairman McKellar of the Senate
Appropriations Committee called
for a billion dollar cut in the Eu-
ropean Recovery Program.
At the same time, Mr.. Truman's
assertion that a military arms
program was of vital Importance
to European peace drew from Sen
ator Taft, Republican. of Ohio
the comment that such plan
may have just the opposite
effect"
Senator Mcclellan said in COM
menting on the Presidents speech:
Il believe we can probably do a
better job by cutting the budget
estimate about a billion dollars
In this activity and provide that
it is for the fiscal year 1880"
Evening star., 1949-06-12
lDr. MiddIecoff
Wins Golf Open;
INots Beat Detroit

DR.. Cary Middlecon. memphis,
Tenn, dentist, won the National
Open golf championship with q
2-oyer-par 286 over the tough
Medinah Club course at Chicago
Yesterday. Clayton Heafner
missed a 6-foot putt for q tie on
the final hole and slipped into .
second place tie with Sam Snead
at 2e7.
Capot staked q strong claim to
the 3-year-old horse-racing cham
pionship by winning the SIS. ZOO
added Belmont Stakes ut New
York's Belmont Park. Winner OF
the Preakness. the Greentree ace
again defeated Ponder. which de-
feated him In the Kentucky
Derby.
The Washington Mats spotted
Detroit q 7-run lead. then came
from behind to win % slug
fest at Detroit. Three home runs
In the sixth inning helped turn
the tide.
fComplete dsfstls sm sports
sseSfoN.j
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Truman Refuses to Bite at Hint
He'll Seek Presidency Again

1t Is with such tentative casts
that the presidential fishing sea-
son often gets under way. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt used to be asked
to rise for the bait about six
months after he had begun serv-
ing q new term.
Like President Roosevelt. Mr..
Truman shrugged 1t OF. The Presi-
dent probably can count on a new
cast about q month from now.
however, If things 90 on the usual
schedule.
In Mr.. Truman's case there Is
some reason to believe that he
nasn't any present plans to run
again. After his surprising VIC
tory last November. the word was
passed out quietly from the White
House that this term would be all
for him.
But Presidents have been known
to change their minds about such
mateers. II conditions arise in
which the country faces an eco
nomic or some other kind Of crisis,
Mr.. Truman might be convinced
that his presence in the White
House would be- needed for an
other four years.
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Little Mother 9, Does Work
OfWomon, Needs to Be Child

Nine-year-old Virginia fiew from
one task to another. There was
the baby's formula TO fx. the
dishes TO wash and the beds 70
make.
II she hurried. she could 30 to
the grocery and stiii have time
TO take her brothers and sisters
TO the playground before the sun
went down. The doctor said Billy
needed lots Of sun TO get over his
pneumonia.
Her mother came In from the
yard. struggling under q load Of
wash.
II you'd just set up the ironing
board. dear
Billy ran into the kitchen clutch
ing q pickle Jar with . goldfish
IN il.
Shippers dead again" he
sobbed.
In the NEXT room. the baby WOKE
up and began 10 cry.
Gloria and June tumhied into
Evening star., 1949-06-12

brated Point Four of his inaugural
address and start building up the
economy of undeveloped areas OF
the world.
In a challenge to those who, he
said, protest that I'VE cannot az
ford to pay the price of peace"
Mr.. Truman called for:
/. Full support Of the foreign
aid program without a reduction
in the appropriation for next year
2. Ratification of the Atlantic
Pact and approval of the military
aid to back it UP.
3. Extension of the reciprocal
trade agreement policy.
Referring to demands for slash
ing foreign aid appropriations
Mr.. Truman said:
"There are voices which claim
that because our policy has beer
successful so far. we can now af'
ford to relax. There are some
who want to slash the aid we are
giving to the economic recovery
of other nations: there are some
who want to reject the measures
that are necessary for defense
against aggression; there are some
1Nortinred on pace AA Col ~
Evening star., 1949-06-12
By Robert K. Welsh
StoT StofF Cosrespendect

NEW YORK. June ll.-A di-
lemma encased in confusion, along
with a touch OF the well-known
riddle wrapped in an enigma. con-
fronts both sides as the Alger Hiss
trial enters It's third week.
The prosecution. with 27 wit
nesses and SO exhibits to date
nears the close Of its case. II
seeks to prove that the 44year- -old
former State Department official
and United Nations charter con-
ference secretary connsitted per-
jury before a Federal grand jary
here six months ago.
Mrs. Whitaker Chambers. due
back for several more hours oi
fierce cross-examination Monday
Is a slight woman but q strong
prop on which the Government
relies to corroborate her husbands
testimony against the defendant
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Arkansas Speech
Promises Plan to
Help Build Trade
fTert OF Presidents Speech
on Page Air.
By Joseph A. Fox
S,er StoH Correspondsnf

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. June IL
President Truman today slapped
at advocates of reduced spending
in Europe. declaring that a cut ir
recovery funds now would be the
worst kind of false economy" al
well as a great gain for COM
munism."
Giving a full-scale review Of the
administrations foreign policy
which. he explained, aims at the
checking Of communism and the
building of a stable peace in the
world, Mr.. Truman declared that
I'VE are only midway" in this
effort.
The President spoke at the ded-
ication of a city park as a memo
rial to the dead of World Wars ]
and II. which highlighted the an
nual reunion of the 35th Division
with which he served in 1917 as
the captain of Battery D OF the
l29th Field Artillery.
Will Submit Legislation.
Importantly he used the speech
as a vehicle to announce that he
soon will submit legislation to
Congress to carry out the cele-
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Bills for D. {. Raises
Pensions Go 10 Floor
OF House Tomorrow
l8 Measures Coming Up
On District Doy:; Senote
Due to Act on Young
By Harold B. Rooers

Legislation TO increase pay and
pensions for about II 900 employe,
and pensioners OF the District gov
eminent is slated for action
tomorrow by the House.
Bills for this purpose are among
l8 measures TO be called up on
District Day by Chairman Nc
MILAN of the House District Com
mittee.
Meantime the Senate late to-
morrow Is expected to act on the
nomination of J. Russell Young
for a fourth term as District Com
missioner. He Is expected to be
confirmed. The nomination Won
District Com mittee approval
Thursday by a s-to-l vote.
House action on District Day Ia
expected to make substantial prog
ress on such important city
legislation as Congress races to-
wards the end OF the fiscal year
June 30.
More speed Is expected on Dis
trict affairs in Congress during the
next several days because Of en-
actment of the new city revenue
bill designed 70 raise about sis.-
000. 900 to meet long delayed pay
raises and other city needs.
Sometime this week. for In
stance. the House passed 500 600. :
900 annual appropriation bill for
tSee %. C. LEGISLATION, AS
Evening star., 1949-06-12

The Hoover Reorganization Com
mission expired officially last mid
night and, before its DEATH" set
something of a record for so-called
temporary Government agencies.
Officials of the commission,
which probed into the operations
of the vast Federal executive
branch and produced volumes of
suggestions for more efficient re-
alignment. proudly announced
they left no unfinished business.
The commission, they said, is
washed UP, lock. stock. and barrel.
All commission employees are of
the payroll. office space and fur
niture returned to the Public
Buildings Administration, records
have been handed to the Archives
and accounts to the Treasury De-
partment. The commission was
able even to refund . few thou
sands of dollars of its original ap-
preparation.
Thus, the commission, headed
by former President Herbert Hoo
yer, put into practice what it has
preached. One thing the commits
sion was most critical Of. was the
habit of agencies hanging on fol
months, and even years. after they
were supposed 10 pass on.
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Confusion Confronts Both Sides
As Hiss Trial Enters Third Week
Mrs. Chambers Cross Examination Due
To Continue; Hiss Muy Testify Wednesday

Last Friday she supported his
story that, while a courier for a
prewar Communist organization.
he saw Mr.. Hiss in 1887 and 1888
Mr.. Hiss denied TO the grand
jury that he saw Mr.. Chambers
after January /. 1887. or ever
gave him Government secrets in
a plot to help Russia.
When Mr.. Hiss takes the stand
perhaps as the first defense wit
ness. next Wednesday or Thurs
day. he must do more than deny.
From all indications at the trial
thus far. he realizes the impor-
tance of telling a positive. detailed
story that not only will win a jury
acquittal but also remove all un-
certainty from the public mind
His problem, as many observers
see it. is TO show that some dark
motive or uncommonly sinister
revenge desire impelled Whitaker
Continued on Page IA. Col. g.
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Cut in European Recovery Funds
Would Be False Economy Aiding
Communism Truman Declares
IMcKeIIor Demands Billion Cut
In Aid Despite Truman Plea
Toft Declares Arms Program Moy Have
Opposite Effect to intended Peace Aim

He pointed out that the Ap-
propriations Committee has no,
yet completed hearings on the
foreign aid appropriation. which
was cut from $4,000. 900 900 to $3.-
568. 8.470. 900 by the House.
Mr.. Truman's views. he said
will receive the greatest respect
and consideration" adding that
Il am merely giving my general
impression.
The Presidents appeal against
further cuts in funds for the
Economic Cooperation Admins
tration encountered cool recep-
ton from Senators.
Congressional reaction was
mixed on other presidential state
ments, including his notice that
he soon will send to Congress the
first legislation dealing with
(See REACTION. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Showers Today May Bring
Relief From Dry Spell

District residents engaged in
growing grass. flowers. vegetable,
and other plants. who have been
worried about the lack Of rainfall
here this month, can stop worry
ing today II the weather forecas-
ter proves correct.
He predicts q slight chance OF
scattered thundersnowers this az
ternoon or evening VIII break
washington's two-week dry spell,
The normal amount Of rainfall ai
this time should measure Ia In
ehes. but no major amount Of rain
has fallen since May 20.
Accordingt 10 the early forecast
today si1culd be cloudy. warm and
humid with highest temperature
about s6.
Evening star., 1949-06-12

the Kitchen. their blond elris
flying.
Their sister automatically be-
gan Once upon . time 80 a.
she struggled with the ironing
board. She looked at the goidnsh
assured her brother IT vas Just
asleep and poured the eaey's
formula into the bottles sns'd q
sterflEzed.
Her mother came into the
kitchen with the baby.
You're my little woman her
mother said and her TIRED face
broke into . grateful snile ss sss
took ttse baby's bottle
virginia Ia her mothers little
womAn nh day every day from
tiss time ss1e wakes No Tn ths
morning and nxss iise hrsakfass
until sse helps her ns0tk<r turk
the little ones In at nawni
Sometimes. the 7-Tear-oa6 sets
confused and calls virginia
tEee CAMPs, Page A-sJ
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Britain, France Hint
Big Four PorIey May
End in Next 5 Doys
ey the Asso<ioted Press

PARIS June 1l.-Britain
and France broadly limited to-
day the Big Four conference
on Germany may end in the
next five days.
Official spokesmen of both
countries said the foreign
ministers of the five-nation
Brussels Pact have agreed
Professionally to meet next
Friday and Saturday in Lux
embourg for their regular
quarterly session.
Paul-Henri Spaak. Prime
Minister and foreign minister
of Belgium, had expressly
asked for the parley to take
place next week end in view
of imminent Belgian elections.
the French spokesman re-
ported.
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Truman Back Home
After 3-Hour Flight
From Little Rock
By the Associotsd Press

President Truman returned
to Washington from Little
Rock, Ark, at $40 o'clock
last night.
He told reporters on leav-
ing his personal plane. The
independence. that they had
a 21-mile-an-hour tail wind
which gave the plane q speed
of about 321 miles an hour.
The trip was made in a little
more than three hours.
Miss Margaret Truman
greeted her father at the air.
port. After kissing her. Mr..
Truman presented her with a
souvenir of the 35th Division
reunion he attended at Little
Rock. 1t was a blue stuffed
donkey.
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Acheson and Aides
Guests Of vishinsky
Al Dinner in Paris
; Western Ministers
Map Strategy for
Session Today
By the Associoied Press

PARIS, June 11.-Russian and
American foreign ministers unex-
pectedly arranged a dinner date
today after Andrei Vishinsky spent
several hours in contact with Mos
COW over the Big Four German
deadlock.
Secretary OF State Acheson de-
cided to take along his top ad-
visers On Germany-just in case
the Russian had some new idea
to put forward which could break
the logjam.
At Mr.. Vishinsky's request, the
Foreign Ministers Council was
taking a days recess until tomor-
row. Most Western officials be-
lieved the Soviet diplomat was
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Half Million 10 Leave
Mines Tomorrow
For Lewis Holiday
UMW-Bie Steel ToIks
To Stort as One-Week
WoIkout Begins
CRUCIAL WAGE Talks Scheduled
Next Week in Three Major
Industries. Page AS.
By jones Y. Newton


Nearly a half million Goa
miners will lay down their tools
tomorrow at the start OF q one
week work holiday" decreed by
John L. Lewis as a means OF
"stabilizing" the economy of the
coal industry.
At the same time. In Philadel-
phia, a delegation from the United
Mine Workers is scheduled to be-
gin new contract negotiations with
representatives of the United
States Steel Co. Big Steel" pro-
duces o sizable chunk Of the Ma
tons soft coal and, it Is expected
Mr.. Lewis will take part In the
conference which was arranged q,
his insistence.
The one-week shutdown will
apply, to the anthracite mines, To-
Gated mostly In Pennsylvania. a,
well as to the larger soft coal in
dustry. which is dispersed over
more than q dozen States. There
was no question that the we'll
disciplined miners would heed Mr.
Lewis advice" for a holiday"
Layoffs to Result.
Layoff OF thousands Of employees
OF coal-carrying railroads will ac-
company the mine shutdown
Otherwise. the country VIII be
little affected By the work stop
page. Coal stocks already above
ground. the largest In recent years,
are estimated as sufficient to last
50 days
Over-production Of coal. which
has depressed the market and
caused many mines to be worked
only two or three days q week,
Evening star., 1949-06-12
By W. n. Shippsn, Jr.

A hint that n meeting in Wash
ington of suspected American
Communists might have some
connection" with disappearance oi
a top Soviet atomic bomb spy ID
included in evidence TO be avail
able tomorrow 10 the jury tryins
Judith coplon on charges Of vio.
latins the espionage laws.
The agent referred 10 In Z
secret" FBI report nov OF recort
at the District Court trial Ii
Arthur Adams. who was said Il
have disappeared on January ~
lsss. Adams was described b.
members OF the House COMMITTEES
on american Activities last fail
as the top Soviet agent assigned
TO atomic espionage here.
Belief was expressed at the time
that he already had been spirited
out Of the United States by friends
here and probably had made his
way back 10 Moscow.
Called Communist Offielai.
The report at the trial said that
according TO surveillance and
confidential informants. Adams
was a close associate OF julius
Heiman OF New York. described
elsewhere In the report as q high
official in the Communist Party
Heiman. 1t was reported. is the
father OF Beatrice Heiman OF
Washington, Q former secretary
Of former Soviet Ambassador
Oumansky. who was later en-
ployed as q correspondent by the
Overseas News Agency here. She
is well known in local neespap per
circles.
Miss Heiman was described by
an informant. II was reported. as
"A member OF the Communist
Party who served as q link be-
tween the Russian Embassy in
Washington and the Communist
Party In America.
The New York once OF the FBI
was advised. II was said. that Mr..
and Mrs, Julius Heiman. accom-
panied by Maurice Blumlein and
Philip Levy. came TO Washing
ton In the winter OF is<6 10 Yikit
the Heimans' daughter, Beatrice
Connection with visit Seen.
Considering the close sssocis- :
ton Of Levy. Blumleln and Hei-
man with Arthur Adams, and
Beatrice Heimans Close associa-
ton with the Soviet Embassy s.
the report said. ~ Ia thought
possible that the visit 10 Wash
ington might have some connec-
tsee coPJON. PAGE A.,