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The Arizona post., 1950-06-16

Louis Schaeffer spent a grand
week at Camp Lawton Scout
Camp, Mt. Lennon. He's the son
of the Michael Schaeffers.
Mrs. Martin COIman was in the
hospital for some days and is now
convalescing at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. RappapOrt go
to Dayton, Ohio, July l where he
will take over supervision of the
furniture warehouse in the family
business. After eight years here
they hate the thought of leaving
and say they'll be back one of
these days.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. N. Finder have
left on their usual trip to Chicago,
Wisconsin and Manchester, NH.
to visit their children. They'll
spend August and September with
the Leonard Finders in New Eng
land. He recently started pub
fishing the Stafford Star at Dover,
NH. They have interesting plans
upon their return this fall.
DIR. and Mrs. ]. Irving Wolf,
Devon Rd., returned home after
spending several weeks in New
York. He also visited the Jew
ish Museum, the former Warburg
mansion, which houses collec-
ton of old arks, scrolls and re-
lated silver, dating back to the
early 18th century; and a travel
ling collection of postal mail
ings, showing the history of Pale
stine down to the last Israel is
sue, which he found fascinating.
Mrs. Bertha WaIkOw, N. Camp
bell, returned from Pittsburgh
last week.
The Arizona post., 1950-06-16

Ben SOlOt left Wednesday to
visit his family in Philadelphia
for 10 days after which he goes
to La Jolla to join Mrs. Solot
who is spending the summer
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Farum
went to Los Angeles Saturday to
spend the summer and visit with
her brother.
Returning end of July from
Chicago is Mrs. Jack Kohn, N.
Norton, who went there to greet
a new grandchild.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Agrees are
back after a long sojourne at
Miami Beach. They plan to spend
the summer at the Coast and re-
turn in the Fall to take up per-
manent residence here.
Mrs. Al Carl Spitzer and daugh-
ter, Marcia, E. 10th, are in Gary,
Ind, to be present for the grad
uation of her son-in-law from
medical school. Marcia will at
tend National Music Camp at In
terlochen, Mich. They'll be back
in August.
The Nat Cohen family depart
Tuesday for Belle Arbor, L. I.
returning after Labor Day.
Mrs. Samuel Amber left We'd
nesday for Chicago and will be
joined in three or four weeks by
Mr.. Amber, who remains to COM
plete building plans for their
beautiful new home in Wiltshire
Heights.
The Arizona post., 1950-06-16
Sociah
and RersonaA

Mrs. John Adler, Haskell Dr.,
makes a trip to Detroit for the
happy occasion of attending the
wedding of her son, DR.. Marvin
Adler, to be solemnized in August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Stern, E. 18th,
anticipate a visit from DR.. and
Mrs. Sidney Siskind, Brooklyn,
next month. For years they have
promised to come and say its sure
this time. The women are sisters.
In new homes are Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Imber who are now living
on E. 1st; the George Greenspans
on E. 9Th; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
EzraiIsOn on N. Warren. The
Joseph VOLTS reside on E. Edison,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Kaye
have a N. Treat address. In few
days the Paul Sgutt family move
to lis Douglas Circle, a house
they just bought.
Mrs. Chas. Berger and Elaine
joined Mr.. Berger in Detroit. In
August Elaine returns ahead of
the family to attend Brandeis
Camp in California.
Mrs. Emma LandWald accom-
panied Mrs. Berger to Detroit to
spend a week there with them.
Then she goes to Baltimore for
visit with daughter, Phyllis Edel-
son and thence on to New York
and Connecticut. She'll be back
in early August.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
IWMAL-N Schedules
Color TeIecast Tests

/ Facilities of WMAL-TV. The
Evening Stars television station,
will be used next month in a color
telecast demonstration by Color
Television, Inc, of Los Angeles.
| WMAL officials said yesterday
the tests will be made to the Fed
eral Communications Commission
next month. Exact dates have not
been set.
The West Coast firms system,
which operates on an electronics
basis, has never been shown in the
East.
Officials said the new color sys-
tenn will compete with color tech
niques already demonstrated by
Radio Corporation of America and
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Standard television sets will be
able to tune in on the CTI tests
but they will receive black-and-
white picture.
The tests will be made in con-
junction with the supervision of
Frank Harvey, chief engineer for
WMAL and WMAL-TV.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Pope Urges Catholic Action
To Help Spur Conversion
BY the Asseeiaied Press

VATICAN CITY. Jan. 28.-Pope
Plus XII called today on Italian
Catholic Action-militant anti
Communist group of 1000, 0,000-to
strengthen and grid itself along
side the clergy in an intensified
fight to lead "the modern world
back again to Christ"
The Pope's appeal was published
today by L'Osservatore Romano,
the Vatican newspaper. 1t was
contained in a letter to the Italian
clergy dated January 25-feast
day of the conversion of st. Paul
to Christianity.
The Pope urged that Catholic
Action be extended to every noun
tain and country hamlet where nc
unit now exists. This is necessary
said the Pope, to aid the clergy
whose numbers and strength, to-
day more than in the past, are not
proportionate to the needs of it.
mission"
Evening star., 1950-01-29

ney was on hand when the press
conference ended, however, stand
ing in the doorway, a black velour
hat on the back of his head and
box of ball point pens in his
hands. With a big grin and un-
ending flow of words he insisted
that each reporter take three pens
to be used in covering the trial.
The pens, he explained, were sent
to him by a manufacturing client
in Texas.
The trial will resume Monday
with FBI Agents Robert Bremen
and Daniel Garde on the witness
stand. They trailed Miss Coplon
to her first New York rendezvous
with Gubitchev last January after
confidential informant told the
Justice Department she might be
engaged in espionage She had
met the Russian six times previous
after he picked her up on Labor
Day, 1948. in the Museum of Mod
ern Art here.
Mr.. Bremen and Agent Richard
Hradski have contradicted a para
graph in Mr.. Garde's report which
said Miss Coplon struck at Gubit-
chev with folded newspaper after
emerging from an uptown restau-
rant where they dined. They said
she merely "gesticulated" with the
newspaper.
Certainly hit him." Miss Cop
Ion said today. 1T don't know why
they say I gesticulated. He had
just told me for the first time that
he was a married man and I lost
all control of myself. I had been
trying to get him to come home
and meet my folks"
Evening star., 1950-01-29

Quoting the investigation. has
made this promise, as have his
colleagues on the committee. They
include Representatives Herlong
of Florida and Davis OF Georgia,
Democrats; and Rees of Kansas
and Hagen of Minnesota, Repub-
licans.
The same attitude is displayed
by Russell A. Heddleston, former
Government official and Hoover
Commission aide. who has been
appointed chief of the subcom-
mittee's investigative staff.
OTHERS MISTAKES What
Mr.. Williams. his colleagues and
Mr.. Heddleston want to avoid is
the mistakes of former Congress
sional committees.
In fact. subcommittee members
believe 1t is a little unfortunate
that their Investigation is being
referred to as "overstaffing" of
personnel. A much better name,
they say, would be an inyestiga-
tion into the agencies utilization
Of personnel.
One gets the impression there
will be no swooping down by COM
mittee investigators on Federal
employees who may be enjoying a
morning cup of coffee in their
agency cafeterias. While such an
approach had provided good Page
One stories and pictures in past
investigations by other commit
tees, the result of such approach
has been practically nil, Mr.. VII
liams' group believes.
Such kinds of blanket charges
against Federal employees are not
only unfair, but they backfire
against any committee that tries
such tactics" one Of the subcom-
mittee's members said. You just
don't prove anything by making
spectacular charges that look
good in print, but which are ir-
relevant to what you're trying to
do"
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Bineoy Recovering

DETROIT, Jan. % (P).-Mal-
colin w. Bingay, editorial director
of the Detroit Free Press, will be
discharged from Grace Hospital
next week, his doctors said today
Mr.. Bingay was seriously injured
January II, when flaming coffee
and brandy exploded at a gour-
NETS dinner.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

are overstaffed, there are others
that are actually understaffed.
What the group is aiming for
is to pare down personnel wherever
it is possible, with the long-range
view of gradually reducing the
size of the Governments payroll
over period of years.
Committee members say they
realize this can't be accomplished
overnight. In fact, some of them
acknowledge the total reductions
achieved won't be nearly as large
as some critics of Government say
should be affected.
x x X x
COOPERATION - The sub
committee has a number of plans
for conducting it's investigation
that will be announced shortly.
The group has held several meet
ings and its work is just getting
underway,
A number of day-to- day ac-
tivities, common to all agencies,
will be looked into by the sub
committee, with a view to simpli-
flying the operations of these
activities.
Various aspects of personnel
activities also will be studied, with
a view to eliminating wasteful
practices.
Even more important, the sub
committee will try to encourage
management and budget officials
in the various departments and
agencies to take more active
interest in Tightening up and
undermining personnel and man
agement activities. The group
feels that. all too often. top off,
cials in Government don't take the
interest they should in personnel
management problems.
X
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Navy
Lodge No. l of the AFL American
Federation of Government EN-
ployes has adopted resolution
strongly condemning any move
by Congress to force Federal en-
ployes to use up all their acccum-
ulated annual leave incidentally
the lodge reports that its men,
bership has doubled as result
of it's recent organization drive
in the Navy Department here
Three Army Medical Center civil
ian employees have received cash
awards for meritorious sugges-
tions. They are Joseph Dagen-
hart, Mrs. Rosalind Lane, and
Todd Schaulis DR.. Merle M
Andrew has Joined the staff of
the National Bureau of Standards
: The Citizens Committee for
the Hoover Report charges that
over 10000 of the top jobs in the
Post Off1fe Department are polit-
ical ones. The group calls for
immediate action by Congress to
take the Post Office out of poll
tics" Dr.. Paul B. Pearson has
been appointed chief of the
Atomic Energy Commissions BIZ
ology Branch Jobs as nurses,
psychologists and bacteriologists
are open in the United States
Public Health Service. Apply to
Surgeon General, Division of
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Headwinds Foil Navy's
Distance Flight Attempt
BY the Associoied Press

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. 28.-
A Navy Neptune bomber today
failed to establish q new long dis
tance record when it landed at
Litchf1eld Park, near Phoenix
Ariz., the 11th Naval District an
nounced.
Strong headwinds caused the
fuel to drop below safe margin
to permit completion of 5000
mile fight to Los Angeles.
The Neptune took off from the
carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt of
Norfolk, Va, at 1:41 pm. yester-
day. 1t was a sister ship to one
that landed at North Island, near
Evening star., 1950-01-29
District Phone Union
Opens Pay Talks With
|C.&P. Wednesday

The telephone company and its
Washington employees start wage
negotiations Wednesday. with pos
sibilities of a strike if agreement
is not reached.
A strike here and throughout the
nation. however, may hinge on
actions of Western Electric Co.
employees.
No Strike Vote Yet.
Local divisions of the Com
munications Workers of America,
CIO, which have contracts with
the Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co., have not yet taken a
strike vote. Western Electric en-
ployes not only have voted for a
strike but have filed a strike
notice with the National Labor
Relations Board.
If Western Electric employees
here strike they probably will
throw picket lines around the
telephone company Offices and
plants. 1t is expected that tele-
phone employees would refuse to
go through the lines.
Western Electric workers here
are members of two divisions of
CWA. Local 96 of Division 6 in
rcludes about 800 switchboard in
stallation men. They called a
"quickie" strike yesterday after
noon. They will return to work
tomorrow, Harry Lentz, Washing
ton representative Of the Division
said. The other unit is part of
Division 18 and includes about
100 statesmen and warehousemen.
5000 Employees Here.
There are about 5000 c. g. P.
employees. They are members of
Division so. which includes tele-
phone operators, and Division So,
maintenance and plant workers.
Thomas Archer. vice president
Of Division SO, said there prob
ably would be no strike until the
end of February and that negotia-
ton results in the rest of the
country would have a bearing on
the situation here.
His division is setting I'D the
machinery for a strike ballot, he
said. He added that there would
be a membership meeting Feb
ruary 7 for both Division 36 and
Division SO.
CWA'S Division 6 and Western
Electric broke off negotiations
about a month ago. The Division
is the most militant of the union
and its actions may bring dis
agreements to a head.
Joseph A. Beirne, CWA presi-
dent, said Monday that a Nation
wide strike appeared inevitable.
The Federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service has been work.
ing to bring about settlement.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

Commissioned officers. Federal
Security Agency The Senate
Civil Service Committee has ap-
proved longevity pay raises for
postal custodial workers, rural
carriers, and special delivery mes
sengers.
(The Federal Spotlight radio
program featuring additional
ne,Ds and Uie,DS of the Govern
ntent is heard each Saturday at
6:45 pm. oDer WMAL, The Star
StdtiOn.J
Evening star., 1950-01-29

promised 1t will
not degenerate
into a head
line hunting ex-
pedition, n or
will the COM
mittee t a k e a
meat ak" ap-
proach.
r e p resenta-
tive Williams.
Democrat, of
M i S S / S S i p pi,
chairman of the
H Sc Civil
Service S u b =
11~,,n;%tAa 4N~
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Government Urged
To Eliminate Surplus
Jobs in Many Agencies

OCI1dIOI ~ SOIlOT, O6uOCIdL OF
Maryland, last night called for
elimination of "unneeded" Fed
eral personnel.
He said it was disappointing
that President Truman is recon-
mending thousands of new jobs
in the face of an estimated deficit
in the new Federal budget.
Efficiency Unaffected.
81 believe that vast economies
could be made through elinina-
ton of unneeded personnel with
out affecting in any appreciable
degree the efficient functioning OF
Government" the Senator de-
clared.
Certainly" he emphasized
"this is not the time to make
general increases in jobs"
He said the proposal for more
jobs was in the Presidents budget
for s42 2,4oo,OO0,OO0 in fiscal year
1851.
LAStS AHCTCdScS hSh0u.
Senator O'Conor listed many
agencies and proposed increases:
Tennessee Valley Authority
2.612; Production and Marketing
Administration. 1900; Public
Housing Administration, 1,025;
Wage and Hour Division, 1884;
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
679; Farm Home Administration,
673; Forest Service, $50; Geologi-
cal Survey. 679; Housing and
Home Finance Agency, 321; Ma
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, SIG; Library of Con-
gress, 200; Agriculture Solicitors
Office, 1875; Bureau of Land Man
agement. 80; Bureau of Old Age
Insurance, 500; Customs Bureau,
109; Coast Guard, IS: Labor De-
partment Solicitor, 100. and Staff
Of Price Index Survey, 277.
Senator O'Conor also listed the
Internal Revenue Bureau with the
notation 1857 average staff"
Some Reductions Made.
Some reductions have been af-
fected. he said. The average en-
ployment in military agencies for
next year reflects an estimated
decrease of $4,000.
The budget provides reductions
for the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, Bureau of Public Debt,
the Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton and Displaced Persons Com
mission, the Senator said.
Savings in these agencies, will
be more than offset by increases
in other agencies, Senator O'Con-
or said. The net results will be
that "the numerous departments
and agencies will have more job
holders who, in turn, can be ex-
pected to find ways to spend large
amounts of the taxpayers money
he added.
Make Heads Responsible.
cit must be thoroughly i'm
pressed upon the heads of every
agency of Government that there
is imperative need for a reduction
3 in expenses and that such reduo-
-tion is vital to continued security
"Out of the estimated budget
expenditures of $42 400, ,o00, 900 in
the fiscal year 1851 the overall
outlays for civilian employees
would be $6,7o0, 900, 900. OF this
amount $4,000. 10000 would be
salaries of those civilians in the
executive branch. The additional
amount would represent payments
to employees of those agencies who
are paid from receipts of Govern
ment-owned corporations and
from the Post Office Department,
and other agencies"
Evening star., 1950-01-29

his chin cupped In his hands and
his eyes closed.
Converses in Russian.
From time to time Gubitchev
converses in Russian with Yuri
Novikov. third secretary of the
Russian Embassy, who has been
assigned to assist him in inter-
preting legal jargon."
Gubitchev, third secretary of
the Soviet Foreign Ministry, was
assigned by his government to the
United Nations staff as an en-
gineer to assist in planning the
new U. N. headquarters.
Miss Coplon called press con-
ference today in the law Offices
of Mr.. Palmer, on behalf of her
mother.
Mrs. Rachel Coplon, nervous
and i'll, tried to make clear to
newspapermen that she has never
lost faith in her daughters inno-
cence. She said she is not at
tending daily sessions of the trial
here as she did in Washington
because she is too ill.
Her neighbors and all of her
old friends have been exceedingly
kind to her and they, too, have
never lost faith in Judys inno-
cence. she said. Some of her
neighbors have been busy collect
ing a defense fund to assist Judy
in her appeal from the Washing
ton conviction, Mrs. Coplon said.
{ Palmer Shouted Down..
The press conference turned
into near rout as Mr.. Palmer,
whose extrovert tactics and un-
ceasing chatter resulted in two
contempt of court citations in
Washington, sought to hold the
stage center with his views on the
case. e-.--.-s~-.- -.. -~-e*.
Cynical New York newspaper
men shouted him down with cries
of: Jaw shut up" and get out Of
the room will yuh, and let Judy
talk"
From time to time he would
return to the room to find his
client discussing, matters with
which he would not agree.
Shut up, you damned little
fool, I've told you you haven't any
sense" Mr.. Palmer would shout
at Miss Coplon and again seek to
hold the center of the floor, only
to be driven away by the angry
newspaper reporters.
The ailing mother became in
creasingly nervous and was on the
verge of tears several times. Fin
ally Miss Coplon escorted her
mother to another Office and re-
turned to face newspapermen
alone-except for several light
ming like appearances and retreats
of Mr.. Palmer.
The irrepressable defense attor-
San Diego last October 6, setting
a carrier launched record of 1896
miles.
The Neptune few across the
Bahamas and Cuba to Panama
and then back across Yucatan to
Texas before heading up the West
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Junior Bur Speaker Named

Judge George T. Washington,
recently appointed to the United
States Court of Appeals. will
address the Junior Bar Section
of the District Bar Association
at a luncheon at 1890 pm.
Tuesday at Hotel ANNAPOLIS.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Anti-Vivisection Meeting

The Anti-Vivisection Society of
the District will hold its regular
meeting at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
House Probers of Overstoffing
Ask $4,000 More for Inquiry
By Joseph YOUNG

Committee has
investigate alleged oversahpg of personnel
ment departments and agencies.
expected will quickly approve this
its in
Evening star., 1950-01-29
CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH

The subcommittee has no illu-
sions that its investigation win
result in the dismissal of hundreds
of thousands of Federal employees.
In fact. some Of the members be-
lieve that, while some agencies
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Cloudy
and milder with light rain and
drizzle in. forenoon. Highest in
SOS. Tomorrow considerable
cloudiness and mild with show
ers likely.
Maryland and Virginia-Most-
ly cloudy and milder. Some light
rain or drizzle probably ending by
afternoon. Tomorrow considerable
cloudineSs and mild with some
showers likely.
River Report.
(From q. S. Engineersl
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls: Shenandoah clear
at Harpers Ferry
Evening star., 1950-01-29

vestigation. Previously, the House
had given the committee $25 5000.
Meanwhile, the men who will
conduct the investigation have
Evening star., 1950-01-29
River Report.

High and Low Tor Yesterday,
High, 45, at $50 pm.
Low, 81, at 7:02 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 70, on January 20.
Lowest, %, on January 20.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Sunday, Jan. 20, 1850.
SECTION A.

This edition contains This
Weeks Magazine OF 20 pages, a
14-page comic section and rs
pages of rotogrdDure.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

The sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
ay 7:1S 5.25
borrow 7:17 b:26
,day 1854 pm. 800 pm
obiie liehts must be turned Q
Evening star., 1950-01-29

miles.
The Neptune flew across the
Bahamas and Cuba to Panama
and then back across Yucatan to
Texas before heading up the West
Coast.
Evening star., 1950-10-14

dress himself, go to church every
Sunday and walk for an hour
every day around his home.
Mr.. Willis. bed-ridden in recent
weeks with a heart ailment, said
on his birthday last year that
he had been sick once-about 40
years ago,
IT never bothered with sickness, F."
he said. only God knows why
I've lived so long"
His memory was nearly as long
as his life.
1T doesn't really seem so long. u
he once said. "since I was carry
ing the young master to church
on my shoulders"
Born on an Orange (VaD plan
tation, Mr.. Willis remembered his
master. Edward Kennedy. whose
descendants built the Kennedy
Warren Apartments here.
During the Civil War, he took to
the woods with his master. He
kept his owners clothes clean, his
boots polished and served meals
from whatever food he could for
age.
Mr.. Willis. who remembered the
Civil War cannon sounding like
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Alexander Wills, Former Slave,
dies at 777 in GoIIinqer

Judgment Day." recalled how the
big guns took the tops off trees
Il was crying to myself, Won
dering why they were killing all
those people," he said once
when I asked my master why
they killed so many. he answered:
Man was born to die
when the war was over, the
United States Government sent
man to us. He stood way up on
a wooden block, looking out over
the crowd of slaves, and he told
US were were all free men, just
like our masters"
What did he do after that?
why I went back to my
master" Mr.. Willis said. But
only stayed until I could get an
other job"
Until his recent illness, Mr..
Willis was still strong. spry and
eating well. He had said men and
women aren't what they used to
be-"no muscle"
Rolled Out at Dawn.
To-day they run all day and all
night and they're no account" he
declared. I'm my day, when night
came We went to bed. In the
morning you heard the plantation
bell ring and rolled out of your
cabin before dawn-ready to do
some real work"
Mr.. Willis came to Washington
in 1928, after the death of his
second wife. He had Is children
and 49 grandchildren. A son,
Arrnstead Willis, lives at 1926
Twelfth street NV.
For the last several years he
had lived at the home OF Mrs.
Mary Colston, 1916 Eleventh
street NV. who was devoted to
him. In his room there is a row
of scriptural quotations on the
walls. One said:
Il have been young and now am
old, yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken. Nor his seed
begging bread :"
Funeral services will be held at
u pm. Monday in the Vermont
Avenue Baptist Church. Burial
will be in Orange, Va.