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planning q music appreciation
series.
PMA-Six employees in the Ag-
riculture Departments Production
and Marketing Administration
have received cash awards for
meritorious suggestions and su-
perior accomplishments.
Those receiving the superior sc-
complishment awards were Rob-
ert Bier and Williams Evans. En-
ployes receiving the meritorious
suggestions awards were Louis
Baker, William Means. James
Armstrong and virgie Moseley.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Better
Executives for the Federal Sery-
ice" will be discussed by the So
ciety for Personnel Administration
at 7:30 pm. Thursday in the Ar
chives Auditorium. Chairman oi
the meeting will be Civil Service
Commissioner James NJ. Mitchell
and participating will be Fred S
Beers, Federal Security Agency
Edward Dawson. Navy Depart.
Iment: Cecil Goode. Veterans Ad-
ministration: William F. Rogers
jr.. Navy Department, and Joseph
E. Winslow. Budget Bureau.
BE sure to listen at 6:45 pm.
every Saturday oper WMAL.
The Star station. to Joseph
Youno's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast featuring additional
neiDs and DietUs OF the Govern
nent Scenel
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The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Cloudy
with occasional rain today, to-
night and tomorrow. Highest
temperature today in the COS.
Lowest tonight about Sc degrees.
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Jewish Lecture PIunned

Leo w. Schwarz, author and
traveller. will speak on "Adven-
lures in Jewish Literature" at
$50 pm. Wednesday at the Mont
gomery County Jewish Center
building, 1901 East-We highway.
Chevy Chase. His talk will be
the final event of q forum series.
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tory employees.
He outlined his
plan in the cur
rent issue Of the
Personnel Ad-
m miniStra tion
M a g a z i n e.
which is the
official outlet
of the Govern
ment's person.
mel officers.
The VA per-
Sonnel official
would provide
for an immedi-
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Maryland and Virginia-Cloudy
with scattered showers tonight
and tomorrow. Milder tomorrow.
Wind velocity at 1880 o'clock
this morning. 13 miles per hour;
direction, east.
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PTA PIuns Country Fair

The Woodside School PARENT
Teacher Association will sponsor
its annual country fair from l to
6 pm. Friday at the school. Geor-
gia avenue and Ballard street,
Silver Spring.
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Morogon
Continued From First Page. }

ney Charles B. Murray announced
the Government was dropping the
charge that Maragon lied when
he told the Senators he had bor-
rowed $4,000 last spring from his
mother-in-law. Mrs. Hattie E.
johnson of Salisbury, Md. 1t had
been explained that Mrs. John
sons serious illness prevented her
from attending court.
Exchange Teller Testifies.
| j. Dutton Wainwright, exchange
teller for the Union Trust Co.
here, had told the jury he sold
Maragon $11,820 worth of drafts
for deposit in the National Bank
Of Commerce at San Antonio be-
tween July and october of 1945.
The 58-year-old Greek k-Ameri-
can told Senators trying to learn
If he made his living by peddling
political influence that he had
only one bank account during
1945 and subsequent years and
that this was in Washington.
Mr.. Wainwright said he sold
Maragon a $3.50 draft on July
10, a second on August for
5000 and a third on October 3
1945. for $4,000.
The prosecution witness said
that to the best of his recollec-
ton Maragon personally bought
the drafts and paid for them in
currency.
Four Other Drafts.
The $l1,s20 total was in addi-
ton to -four = other drafts and
cashiers checks sold to Maragon
by two other employees of the Un-
ion Trust Co. between January
and August of 1945. These also
were marked for deposit in the
San Antonio bank.
One of the final prosecution
witnesses at the District Court
trial was Carmine S. Bellino, an
accountant for the Senators who
heard Maragon testify behind
closed doors last July %. This
testimony resulted in Maragon' s
indictment on four perjury counts
Mr.. Bellino said that on July 2s
Maragon told him that he was not
in the pay of the Albert Verley
Perfume Co. Of Chicago at the
time he went overseas for the
State Department in 1916. Mara
gon is accused of having told the
Senators that he was on nc
private pay roll during the period
he served as an interpreter fer q
mission observing the Greek elec-
tionS.
Paid by Perfume Firm.
Mr.. Bellino, who had been re-
called to the stand. said Maragon
told him he could not go along
with making some extra money
for a private firm because he
would be on the Government pay
roll.
An official of the Verley COM
pany, the firm which sent seven
deep freezers to Maj. Gen. Harry
H. Vaughan and his associates, tes-
titled Maragon was paid $1,000 a
month during the time he was
working for the State Department.
Mr.. Bellino said he learned of
a Texas bank account in the name
tof ~. H. Maragon" through brok-
ers who carried an account with
Maragon here.
when did you learn positively
that Maragon had a bank account
in San Antonio. Texas?" Mr.. Muir
ray asked.
/ The witness replied that on July
20, the day after Maragon had
testified before the subcommittee
the defendant admitted to him
that he had an account in San
Antonio.
Maragon also is accused Of lying
when he told the Senators he
negotiated no business with Fed
eral departments and accepted no
fees for this service between 1945
and the tire Of the Senate in
quiry.
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for an employe who is adjudged
unsatisfactory by his supervisor
The hearing board would consist
Of three persons-one selected by
the employe. one by management,
and the third to be named by the
other two board members.
If the board ruled against the
employe. he would be dismissed
Immediately. The employe would
have the right to appeal to an i'm
partial appeals unit. which would
be either a separate Government
unit or part of the Civil Service
Commission.
If the employe won the appeal.
he would be restored to his job
with back pay. If he lost. he would
have no further appeal. Further
more, the appeals board could
refuse to hear his case if it were
apparent that the agency's action
was a correct one.
Mr.. Beers said this method
would succeed in Kidding the Gov
ernment of unsatisfactory en-
ployes in short period of time
Federal officials at present are
too "timid" to get rid of these
workers, because of the endless
red tape and delay that is in
VOlVed he declared
At present. If an agency wants
to fire an employe, it usually goes
about it by giving him warnings
and then giving him a poor eff
cheney rating grade, Mr.. Beers
added. This method, he said, was
IAN endless and self defeating
method" of getting rid of en-
ployes.
Mr.. Beers feels that his pro-
posal would also give employees a
break-particularly non-veterans
At present non-veterans do moi
have the right to appeal their f1r-
ings in most cases.
X + +
CIO OPENS DRIVE-The CLOS
new right-wing Government EN-
Iployes' Organizing Committee has
opened in earnest its campaign to
win the bulk Of the membership
Of the recently ousted left-wing
United Public Workers of America
CIO President Philip Murray
and Organizing Director Allan s.
Haywood have Jointly announced
that vigorous campaign will be
started soon to organize Federal
employees in the Panama Canal
Zone. At present, the UPWA has
more than 5000 Of these employees
among its membership and the
CIO is hoping to win these workers
away from the union.
If the CIO succeeds, it would be
a tremendous boost for it's new
Iright-wing Government employees
group and would hasten the call
for a national convention when
the new CIO Government en-
ployeS group will receive official
status as union.
Thus far. UPWA officials con-
tend that they have lost very few
members to the new CIO right
wing employe organizing commit
tee. That's why the CLOS Panama
Canal organizing drive will be
watched with such close interest
Success for the right-wing group
would be followed by other large
scale CIO raids on other UPWA
Federal and public employe strong
holds.
FILM CLASSICS-The White
Oak Naval Ordnance Laboratory's
employe association has arranged
for series of IL Hollywood films,
mostly old-time classics, that will
be shown to the employees on Fri
day evenings. The group is alsf
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Egyptian phosphate mines near
the Red Sea are demanding gov
ernment subsidies in the form of
refunds of SueZ Canal freight fees.
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The Federal Spotlight
Top Personnel Aide Offers Plan
ToSpeed Firing of fIncompetents
The Federal Spotlight
BY Joseph Young

accelerate of
Federal Just been offered the
personnel officials.
r. Beers Administration
relations division
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nan. It means complete control
of 10 miles of water between the
island and the Luichow Peninsula.
IF we leave Hainan now we'll
never be able to come back. We
would have no natural defense
line. We'd have Reds in front,
guerrillas in back"
The reported order to abandon
Hainan follows the customary Ma
tionalist pattern set by Chang in
the civil war. His strategy on the
mainland was pull out rather than
fight. 1t was trade space for time
until his space ran out. Then the
Nationalists withdrew from the
mainland onto Formosa. Hainan
and some small islands. From
these outposts they have carried
on. Their most damaging weapon
is an air and sea blockade Of Red
ports, notably Shanghai.
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siderable study both by Congress
and his colleagues =; Government.
Mr.. Beers advocates a single
procedure for firing all unsatisfac-
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There will be thunderorms tonight
Middle Atlantic States westward through the Ohio Tennes
Valleys and into the Mississippi Valley and the Central
Plains forecast the Dakoas
Montana will in the Mississippi Ohio Valleys
and colder the Northeastern States ZAP Wirephoo Map
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River Report.

River Report.
(From United States Engineers)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Halls; Shenandoah clouds
at Harpers Ferry:
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FILM CLASSICS The White
Oak Naval Ordnance Laboratory's
employe association has arranged
for series Of II Hollywood films,
mostly old-time classics, that will
be shown to the employees on Fri
day evenings. The group is alse
Evening star., 1950-02-17
MIR. F. Used Plan No, .

Mr. F. furnished his brondnew apartment from
arranged pay one-thd each month for his purchases
90-doy period You do the Pick out the
furniture appliances you want in HolfYeoy Soe Your
Salesman Soeswomon will introduce you Credit Inter-
viewer who'll oonge for you defer your payments With
out a credit service charge!
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MIR. R. Used Plan No. 3

Mr. r. made small down payment his furniture purchases,
then had payments his budget and his
venience smart ideo This way buy all you need
fell swoop and cash in Half Yeory Soles savings
without stroinng your bank account Remember too! No
matter which Credit Plan you choose it. will be arranged
for you quickly, quietly, prvotey
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Mrs used her 3odoy Account hence soved
time we'll money when she bought her bedroom
HofYeoy SoIe Why don't you do the soe Just show your
ChorgoPote it identifies you quickly speeds up shopping.
you don't have ChoeoPote Account stop the Credit Office
and open without FUSS bother red tope.
Req T.. s. Pat
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friday STORE HOURS $50 A TO pM
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effectiveness against the political trends of the
time?
At Washington and Lee University last year
he made a speech in which he said he believed
there is real danger that the free American of
today will soon be an economic slave pulling an
oar in the galley of the state" And in that
speech he also discoursed upon the evils of
political system in which each party, in order to
win elections tries to outpromise the other, with
no regard for the consequences of fulfilling those
promises. In his campaign for the governorship
Mr. Byrnes made no such promises. His was the
lofty approach and, toward the end, some of his
followers feared that this detachment from the
hur1y-burly of politics might cost him a ma
jority of the votes. But that did not happen
Mr.. Byrnes got better than two-thirds of all the
votes cast, and, to this extent, he will be in
strong position when he takes over as Governor.
1t does not necessarily follow of course, that he
will be able to accomplish much along the lines
charted in the Washington and Lee address
But it will be more than mildly interesting to
watch what he tries to do, and it is safe bet
that Mr.. Truman will be among the most inter-
ested spectators.
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A Matter of Common Sense

!, There is nothing particularly surprising
about the report that congressional leaders have
decided to Sheve the tax bill offering consumers
relief from excise levies. The course of events
has made such a move practically mandatory.
The struggle in Korea-apart from its grim
meaning in terms of American lives-is going
to cost this Nation a lot of money. Further
than that with the threat of another world
war seeming much too real to be belttled, all
signs point to the need for heavy increase
in our defense expenditures and for swift and
large-scale expansion of our preparedness pro-
gram in general. That being the case, few things
could be more untimely than legislation to
reduce Federal revenues. They must be kept up.
BY the same token, every effort must be made
to do away with non-essential domestic spend
ing In these days. with the future full of dark
uncertainties, any other policy-any easy-come-
easy-go fiscal attitude-would do violence to
common sense.
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This and That

1t is exactly one hundred years since
the English sparrow was brought to the
United States.
Since then he has done pretty well for
himself, his mate, his children, his cous-
ins and his aunts.
Once called gamin, hoodlun1, tramp
today he is nuisance to some, friend
to others.
It was in the autumn of 1850 that
eight pairs of sparrows were brought to
Brooklyn, where they were kept in cages
until spring, and then liberated.
The birds were brought over to see
what they could do against various in
sect pests.
Many importations were made, and it
is from all of these, not. just from the
original eight, that our house sparrows
today came.
At one time exactly the same charges
were leveled against them as now
against the starting: That they were
filthy in habits, especially as groups;
that they clogged up cutters and down.
spouts with nesting material, and that
they drove away our native birds
Recent attacks on the starlings have
drawn off the onslaughts on the SPAR
rows. Besides. the English sparrows have
flown to the suburban areas and no
longer constitute nuisance to the
downtown areas of our great cities.
In the suburbs they are more or less
lost in the greater number of birds.
There they meet and mingle with the
native sparrows, including the song
sparrow, -throated sparrow and
white-crowned sparrow, as well as the
veSper. tree and chipping sparrows. 4
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greatly weakened by a struggle between
two factions, the Nam-in Men of the
South and Puk-in (Men of the North j..
Traces of this struggle "are still evi-
dent today with the north-south divi-
sion of the country" Prof. McCune
writes.
"It is a commonplace in Korea" ac-
cording to the author, "for SOUTH
erner' to characterize the Northern Ko-
rean as uncouth, uneducated, and a
troublemaker. The 'northerner,' on the
other hand, is often contemptuous of his
southern neighbor, whom he believes to
be lazy. effete. lacking in ambition and
a scheming rascal
The Russians had start on the
Americans, and Prof. McCune points out
how they made the most of it. When
Japan surrendered on August IA, 1945,
the Russian forces had already landed
on the peninsula. On August 25, the
Soviet command ordered what it called
'The Executive Committee of the Ko-
rean People" to take over. The COM
mittee Immediately appropriated and
nationalized japanese property.
The Russians had Korean Communists
with them, in whom they had confidence
One of them, Kim usung, revolution
ist who had operated in Manchuria for
a number of years, emerged as the head
of provisional government in Febru-
ary. 1946. Two years later. he became
head of North Korean government set
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Indian Complaint

would like to express my mind about
an incident which occurred recently
Two of my girl friends purchased
tickets at the Metropolitan Theater. AS
they were giving their tickets to the
ticket collector, another man came up
and took one of the girls tickets and
said she couldn't go in Without any
reason or explanation, he forbade her
admittance.
Now this girl was little darker than
the other. but they were both American
Indians. They told this man their race
thinking they were mistaken as another
He said the lighter Of the two girls could
go in the theater, but refunded the 9TH
ers money and still refused her admit
tance.
What is this world coming to when
they won't let tax-paying American
Indian enjoy little entertainment in
movie house? incidentally, this same
incident occurred at the Pix Theater,
but to different set of Indian girls.
thought this was America, but if these
two managers can be allowed to do such
things for no rhyme or reason, it leaves
doubt in my mind.
Freda Cromwell.
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By George Kennedy

1--WE years ago the line of the 3Sth
l. parallel across Korea was chosen as
a military zone boundary for the purpose
of accepting the surrender of the Jap
anese military forces on the peninsula.
The Russians were to accept the sur
render north of the line; the Americans,
to the south.
The Koreans are homogeneous peo-
pie Of one language, and they have had
one political aspiration through most of
this century: A nationalistic urge for
freedom from japanese domination.
Why are people north of the line so
eager to shoot and kill people south of
the line, only five years after the line
was drawn? This is puzzling question
for the American whose first interest in
Korea has been forced by recent head
lines and radio bulletins. The Com
munist indoctrination of the North Ko.
reans-and their undoubted subservience
to the Kremlin-obviously is part of the
answer. But it obviously can't be the
whole answer, either.
A famous arbitrary line was once
drawn up in the eastern part OF. this
country, about halfway between the 39th
and the 40th parallels. It was called the
Mason and Dixon line, after the English
surveyors who drew it, and it became a
border of deep political differences. But
it was century after the survey for the
line was started before opposing armies
were marching and counter-marching
across it.
Yesterday, the Harvard University
Press published book that goes long
way to answer the Korean puzzle. 1t is
study entitled 'Korea Today" made
under the auspices of the Institute of
Pacific Relations by George M. McCune.
A professor of the University of Cali
fornia, his interest in Korea was not
lessened by the fact that he was born
III Pyongyang of missionary parents.
He began the work in 1947 and had
it almost completed when he died in
1948. His wife. Evelyn McCune, and
his assistant Arthur L. Grey, jr., grad
uate economics student at the university
who entered Korea at the beginning of
the occupation, finished the work. 1t
was scheduled for publication on this
date long before the shooting started
The reader Of Korea Today" learns
that there have been long standing po-
litical differences between the north and
the south of the peninsula. The 38th
parallel just happens to run between
peoples of marked difference. Three
centuries ago the Korean monarchy was
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Green But Not Growing

Vacation bound neighbors are very conscien-
tiouS about leaving something for us to remember
them by Sometimes it is cat whose little way
of sharpening his claws on the furniture is not
mentioned at the time of transfer Or it may be
a man-eating pekingese, $50 small you'd never
know he was there"-except for his teeth in your
ankle. More often than not however, these
mementoes take the form of much-loved plants
with mile-long memoranda as to their care
More African violets needing all butintravenous
feelings and psychiatry, more depressed ivy,
morbund hydrangeas and listless petunias are
being pressed into unwilling hands these days
than it is good to think about.
Plants, like all other living things, pine in
the absence of familiar faces. Caretakers, with
their front-room more like a greenhouse every
day if they have been cordial to their neighbors,
have several courses open. Some conscientious
souls nail the instruction list to the kitchen door,
refuse all weekend invitations and go about
endlessly among their charges with the teapot
serving as watering-can and fork for hoe. Other
reluctant horticulturists of the type who never
miss an opportunity to kick blade of grass set
about cold-bloodedly to kill the plants with
kindness, watering them so fercely that the
roots rot forthwith. When the owners return
the damp soil is exhibited as evidence of over
solicitude. A third means is to set all the
unwanted greenery on the window sill and trust
to wind and weather. Followers of this school
of thought find the plants alternately drowned
and parched and generally have to replace the
whole gallery with 11th-hour purchases from
nearby florist.
Most people who have been through it start
in early spring to weed out from their acquaint-
anceship all lovers of green and growing things
bent on making their apartments into unreason-
able facSimileS of parks.
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What's What in Korea?

One week ago today General MacArthurs
headquarters announced in a formal commu-
nique that the situation of the American ground
forces in Korea "is not serious in any way"
An official Army spokesman said at the
same time that "our forces now hold a strong
defensive position" And at his press conference
last Thursday the President declared he was
confident the situation will work out all right.
Since those CHEEKY statements our forces in
Korea have met with one reverse after another.
From that strong defensive position of
week ago they have been driven back of the
Kun River. Where the line will be week from
now is something that is not pleasant to think
about After listening to full report from
General Bradley, Chairman Tydings of the
Senate Armed Services Committee told reporters
on Tuesday: Il don't think things are desperate
but they are very serious and it would be
disservice to our people not to say So"
In the light of this, what possible justifica-
ton could there have been for the announcement
last week that the situation was not serious in
any way? In The Stars judgment, as it has
said before, the President should tell the people
the truth about this business. 1t has been
officially announced that.General Bradley gave
the Senate committee an account of what has
taken place in Korea from the beginning, what
is contemplated for the immediate future and
What the plans are to meet certain possible
contingencies.
Obviously much of this touches upon
military security and cannot be made public
But it is equally obvious that the substance
OF the picture can be given to the people with
out trespassing upon security and there Ger
tainly is no excuse for official announcements
that are misleading If not actually false The
people will have to bear the brunt of whatever
lies ahead and they should not be kept unneces-
sarily in ignorance of the facts It is the
Presidents responsibility to inform them.