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cents cash each. for transporta-
ton in the District.
Revenue Losses Cited.
The company in requesting
higher rates, had cited downward
trends in revenue and rising costs
At a public hearing in April
the PUG chief accountant. v. A
McElfresh. recommended a Is.
cent cash fare, four tokens for sc
cents and a $2.25 pass. The COM
pany later called these fares in
adequate and confiScatory."
Mr.. McElfreSh estimated the
fares he had recommended woulo
yield $1,849 ,692, or a 6.72 per cent
return. The company had helo
that 10 per cent return was nec-
essary.
The new fare schedule retains
the Scent school ticket fare
which was established by Congress
in 1888.
But the commission pointed out
that cost of service and other
fares have increased substantially
and said it is apparent this fare
does not compensate the company
for the cost of service rendered
and imposes an undue burden
on other users of the service"
Weekly Pass Upheld.
In discarding the company's re-
quest to sell tokens six at a time,
the PUG declared that selling
them in lots of three provides "a
distinct convenience and economy
to the class of patrons who must
rely on mass transportation and
who. in the aggregate. constitute
the company's most dependable
sources of revenue"
The commission held also that
the weekly pass provides a con-
venience in accepted form" of
fare and its use tends to speed up
service.
PUG Chairman James H. Flan-
agan had indicated during the
hearings that he wanted to retain
the pass. The company had testi-
fed it felt it was subsidizing Gov
ernment agencies and large con-
Germs which buy passes for use In
business.
In today's opinion, the commits
sion said the proposal to abolish
the pass had been the subject OF
its utmost concern" .r
Hard to Get Information. r.
It pointed out that precise in
formation on use of the pass was
impractical If not impossible to OBJ
tain.
But it noted the number OF
passes sold each week in recent
months had averaged about 90, 900.
This, it said, provides the COM
pany with substantial amount of
fixed revenue. -. u
Generally speaking. the opin-
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Young and AandahI
Lead in North Dakota
Republican Primary
BY the Associoted Press

FARGO. N. OAK, June 28.-
Senator Young was winning his
race for denomination today on
the basis of early tallies in yes
terday's North Dakota Republi-
can primary.
With 325 of the States 2.299
precincts reporting. Senator Young
had 1884 votes to 4,581 for T.
H. H. Thoresen. one-time lieu
tenant governor.
The Senator is backed by the
Republican Organizing Commit
tee: Mr.. Thoresen by the Nom
partisan League.
The ROC and league are fac
tions of the Republican Party.
The COP nominees usually have
no trouble winning over the Dem
ocrats in the States fall general
election.
Gov. Fred G. Aandahl. now
serving his third term, appeared
on his way to winning one of two
congressional Endorsements. The
325 precincts gave Gov. Aandahl
1908. incumbent Usher L. Bur-
dick, 1910, and Martin Stenhjem,
5,505.
Most of the early returns were
from city precincts where the
ROC usually polls it's heaviest
votes. The league gets most of
its votes from the rural areas.
Most of the campaign talk CEN
ters on State issues. Mr.. Thore-
sen, however, accused Young of
voting for what he called waste
full money measures, including the
Marshall plan. Senator Young
said he voted for the plan to help
save Europe from communism.
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tCOnClnueQ from FlrSC Page.)
signed that affidavit or its equiva-
lent?"
The witness refused to answer
again on the ground that it might
tend to incriminate me-"
o. Bowie Duckett, special assist
ant attorney general for Mary
land, told The Star today that h
had a transcript of the Hous'
committee testimony and wa
studying it for possible violation
of the Ober law.
No teacher has as yet been in
dicted for perjury under the Obel
statute. which faces a referendum
in November.
School Officials Silent.
School officials would not say
directly whether the testimony be.
fore the House committee was the
reason for Mr.. Hinckley's oustel
about two weeks ago.
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, Mont.
gomery County superintendent Of
schools, said simply: II am moi
free to comment"
Daryl w. Shaw, principal o.
Montgomery Blair High School ir
Silver Spring, said: THE super
intendent CDR. Broome) called me
and said he was firing Mr.. Hinck-
ley for reasons he did not care
to discuss"
Mr.. Shaw explained Mr.. Hinck-
ley had been employed for three
years on "year-to-year" basis
and did not have permanent sta
tus when he was discharged.
A committee official reported
meanwhile, that Montgomery
school officials had been advised oi
all testimony in the case.
Mr.. Hinckley couldn't shed
much light on the situation
Reached at his farm by telephone
he said:
"Why was fired? I don't know
I wasn't given any reason"
He indicated, however, that he
wasn't going to argue the matter
There are some things you can't
fight and win,' he remarked.
Earlier this week, when it be-
came known that Mr.. Hinckley
had been fired. a group of pupils
organized to demand that the
teacher be retained. School Off
cials. it was understood, spoke
very frankly to the students ano
convinced them they should drop
the matter.
Was Popular Teacher.
Mr.. Hinckley was considered one
OF the most popular teachers at
Montgomery Blair. He often in
vited pupils to spend the day, and
sometimes the week end, at his
farm.
Miss Bentley'S testimony in.
volving MIR. Hinckley came abou
during questioning in the case O.
William w. Remington, former
Commerce Department official re.
Gently indicted on a charge h,
perjured himself when he deniet
he had been a member of tn,
Communist Party. Mr.. Hinckle,
was a friend of Remington.
Miss Bentley said that aftel
signing the teachers party care
Tin 1935) she lost track of him
Then, years later, she asked Rem.
ington about him, adding:
LAS Is customary in the Com.
munist Party when you haven
heard of a party member for {
long time, I asked how Hinckle!
stood then, and Remington said
I saw him very recently and h
is still very good Communist ant
so is his wife. That is why the,
have suffered so.'"
Asked if the Hinckleys were
Evening star., 1950-06-28

WATCH-Lady's wrist; vicinity of bus
Call AT. 5770.
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even more by way of preparedness
out of every dollar appropriated
More than 600 delegates, their
families and friends are attending
this oath national convention OF
the association, which will last
through Saturday morning.
The convention opened with
music by the Marine Corps Drum
and Bugle Unit and was featured
by the advance of the colors and
service flags. The association
chaplain, 1t. Col Harry P. Abbott
delivered the invocation.
Evening star., 1950-01-22

anywhere from three-quarters
of l per cent to 1l2 per cent of
its payroll, depending on spe-
cif1c conditions within the con-
Germ.
New York permits the en-
ployer to handle his benefits
program through private in
surance companies, through
self-insurance, through any ad-
equate plan the company previ-
ously had in effect, or through
the State compensation fund.
This, says Gov. Thomas E..
Dewey, gives free enterprise
plenty of leeway.
The worker pays the cost of
the whole disability benefits
plan in Rhode Island by means
of l per cent tax on his wages.
In California workers pay the
entire cost of / per cent wage
tax: if the company has a
private insurance plan, the en-
ployer pays all expenses over
the workers l per cent. In New
Jersey. the worker pays three
quarters of I per cent Of his
wages to support the program
and the employer pays the ad-
ditional one-quarter.
Rhode Island First
Rhode Island had the first
disability benefits program,
which went into effect in 1943.
1t is the only one of the four
States that does not allow COM
panies to choose a private in
surance plan. Insurance men
criticize the Rhode Island plan
as a State monopoly" because
all incoming and outgoing funds
are handled directly by the
State.
: ~ ths Associated pfsss)
Evening star., 1950-01-22
By H. c. Johnson

rent trend toward protecting
the worker may end in a tug
of war between the Federal
Government and the States for
supremacy in the field of ad-
ministering social insurance
laws.
One of the prime aims of
President Truman's administra-
ton is enactment of a Federal
compulsory health insurance
law. Such law would provide
benefits to sick workers. More
over, it would furnish full medi-
cal and allied services without
charge to any American desir-
ing it.
The State disability benefits
laws are less sweeping in their
provisions than the Federal pro-
posal. None provides medical
care. When New York's law
becomes fully operative. for in
stance, an absent worker will be
entitled to a minimum of $40
q week and a maximum of $26
a week for as long as 13 weeks
in any one year. The law does
not bar an employer from ar
ranging a plan that will pay a
worker any amount over the $26
maximum.
Payments Not Taxed
Payments are to be construed
as benefits s"-they are not
partial wage payments, are not
taxable and are not compensa-
tion for medical services.
After July /, when New
York's plan goes into full effect.
nearly 12,000,000 of the Ma
tion's 5S.000,000 hired workers
win be protected W the COM
Evening star., 1950-01-22
States Take Lead in Social Insurance

NEW YORK. Four States
already have beaten the Federal
Government to the punch In
one field of social insurance.
New York is the latest of the
four. to adopt disability bene-
fits law. The law provides cash
indemnities for workers for pay
lost due to injury or illness in
CURED "off the job"
Rhode Island, California and
New Jersey have disability bene-
fits laws in operation now, while
, New York's becomes fully effec-
tive July l. The Washington
State Legislature passed a SINH
lar law last year, which the
States voters will approve or
reject in 1850 referendum.
No Work, No Money
This relatively new form Of
compulsory insurance compile
ments workmen's compensation,
now effective in all 48 States.
Under workmen's compensation,
an employe benefits for time lost
due to illness or injury having
a direct connection with his job.
Benefits for disability incurred
off the job are no novelty to
white-collar workers. Most
Office employees continue to draw
pay, up to certain number of
weeks, while absent. This is
because their employers have
contracts with private insurance
companies on have self-insur-
ance plans to make UP pay en-
velope deficiencies.
Most industrial workers, how
ever. receive no money when
kept away from the plant by
injury or illness not connected
with their job.
There il . possibility the cur
Evening star., 1950-01-22

pulsory disability benefit laws
of the four States-6.000, 900 in
New York, 100000 in Cali
fornia, 100000 in New Jersey
and 250,000 in Rhode Island.
Bills for similar laws were in
troduced in the Legislatures of
ID other States in 1949, but
died along the way. 1t is ex-
pected. however, new bills will
be submitted in a number of
Legislatures this year and next.
States Rights Issue
1t is considered unlikely Con-
gress will act this session on
the administrations health in
surance program. But when
and If it does come up, its op-
ponents probably will argue
that a Federal law would usurp
the functions of the States.
The States disability benefits
laws, among others, would be
cited in an effort to show a
Federal program is not needed.
It is probable the enactment
of a Federal health insurance
bill would nullify most State
social insurance laws. The New
York disability benefits law, for
example, stipulates its provi-
sions do not apply to any per-
son receiving other publicly
administered benefits for the
same disability.
In New York a worker con-
tributes one-half of / per cent
Of each weeks wages (not to
exceed 80 cents a week. to sup
port the plan; the, boss pays the
remainder OF the cost. An in
surance actuary has figured .
company's contribution viii bs
Evening star., 1950-01-22

triotic. person could have made
the secretaryship a position of
great personal power and pres
tige. For q while he was under
constant pressure to use hts fire.
quent meetings with the President
to settle questions quickly by using
his judgment before the council
could take formal action. Instead,
he insisted he was an administra-
tive official and that only the
council, as an advisory body, and
Mr.. Truman, as the Chief Execu-
tive and Commander in Chief,
were authorized to make top
policy.
Careers Compared
Mr.. Lay will be in the Souers
tradition and pattern. partly be-
cause he is a comparatively young
man and partly because his con-
cept of the job is similar to that of
Souers and of Career" civil
officials.
There is striking resemblance
between Mr.. Lays career to date
and that of Mr.. Souers and Lord
Hankey.
Lord Hankey was named assist
an secretary of the Committee of
Imperial Defense when he was 81
years old. after education at
Rugby and service in the intel
ligence division of the British Ma
rines. Mr.. Lay became NSC
assistant secretary at SO. after ed
ucation at Mckinley High, Vir-
ginia Military Institute, Har-
ward Business School, work for
Stone 81 Webster and intelli-
gence work during the war
with the Joint and Combined
Chiefs of Staff. Lord Hankey be-
came GIL secretary at 35, after
four years apprenticeship. Nh.
Lay succeeded Mr.. Souers after
two years. at the age of 3S.
Like Mr.. Souers, Mr.. Lay was a
businessman before he was called
in to do intelligence work for the
Army as MI. Souers was called up
by the Navy. He was graduated
second in his class from Virginia
Military Institute-Gen. George
C. Marshall's alma mater-and
took a masters degree at the
Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration.
War Stopped Career
Immediately after Harvard, he
went to work for Virginia Electric
& Power Co. at Richmond, then a
subsidiary of the Stone & Webster
system. Making good in Virginia,
he was called into the New York
cffice to be assistant to the vice
president of the Stone & Webster
Service Co. Selected as a prom
Using young man. the company
sent him to nearby Hagerstown
(Md) Gas Co. as sales manager.
Army service stopped his upward
career in business.
Mr.. Lay says that his business
experience and his education at
the Harvard Business School have
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other charges. Mr.. Sawyer sug-
gested that a careful study be
made to find out the facts. I.
Tt Is estimated that there are
$500 900 trucks in this country and
that / 100000 of these are the So
called "for hire" trucks, including
the interstate carriers.
according to the results of sur
vey. Just disclosed by the Agricul-
sure Department, farmers own
1905 900 trucks, and the largest
number is in the South. Most of
these trucks are small and most
pf the hauling is to the farmers
nearby. market. But at least some
H this hauling must have formerly
been done by the railroads-cer-
Rinly In the case Of live stock.
Evening star., 1950-01-22

secret service men who are as
signed to watch all their move
ments and activities.
To imagine that under such cir
cumstances our demonstration of
sympathy or love for the Russian
people can make any headway is
at best childish. These efforts are
we'll utilized, however, by the
Kremlin for it's propaganda. They
are described as definite proof of
capitalist fear of Russian power.
They are ridiculed as attempts to
buy off the Russian people with
little tokens of friendship.
Such friendly gestures are ex-
plotted as further indication that
America is so weak and incapable
Of meeting the KremIin challenge
that 1t tries to make friends with
gifts Of no consequence. Russia
is about so per cent Asiatic. The
idea that the rest of the world
is afraid Of her and particularly
Of her physical power tends to
strengthen the Politburo further.
Our Humiliations Help
Asiatics are more impressed by
physical power than by anything
else. And when the Moscow gov
ernment can demonstrate to It's
people and to the other people in
Asia that America is frightened
into attempts to "bribe" people
with gifts, Russia's prestige in
creases both internally and exter-
nally.
The humiliations suffered by
Western nations in Asia also
strengthen the Soviet position in
that continent. The British offer
to recognize the Chinese Commu-
mist government before any ap-
|proach was made from Peiping,
and the cool treatment this offer
Evening star., 1950-01-22

/
The task of the Organization of
American States is little less diff
cult than ours. This body can only
examine international phases of
the Caribbean problem, the threat
of aggression or the possibility of
one country actually attacking or
invading another. The OAS rep
resentatives would be skating on
thin ice if they attempted to in
quire into the internal conditions
of any country, or the local be-
havior of any government.
Fear on the part of some of the
officials of the OAS that they may
be accused of interference in the
purely domestic problems Of the
Dominican Republic, Cuba and
the others is already apparent.
Yet the alleged plotting of which
Haiti accuses Trujillo was carried
on not by Dominicans in Haiti, but
with disgruntled Haitians in Tru-
jillo City.
AS one Of our most seasoned
diplomats summed up the pic
ture. mo matter what we or the
GAS try to do about the chaotic
political situation In the Carib-
bean. we will be criticized and
condemned as interventionists.
Little can be accomplished directly
by outsiders to get rid of the real
trouble. About the only effective
means of improving the situation
is to keep the spotlight of pub
licity turned on any and all Off
cials and individuals responsible
for the state of affairs that exists.
Keep on exposing their maneuvers
land Vaccinations. Keep the facts
before the outside world as well
as their own people. Eventually
they will lose face and prestige.
Their own supporters will turn
against Them"
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Russians Are Too Cut Off
F or Friendship Gestures
Realistic Observers Express Doubt Thot
KremIin's Aggressiveness Can Be Halted
By Appealing to Soviet Masses
By Constantine Brown

There still and in public life
believe that the Kremns United
be stopped either by gaining the friendship of the Rusn
masses that the fespan the Minister
Stain will end before the fatal
against
inside outside the are highly
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Caribbean PoIitico! Chaos
Worries State Department
Gets Together With Organization of American
States to Investigate Various Cases of
Revolutions and Strong Arm Methods
BY Edward TomIinson

PORT-AU-PRINCE, gov
counterpos prevalent and
threatening to the and stability
the Caribbean that both the State
of American States have taken time
and Investigations of the situation
meeting with all
Evening star., 1950-01-22

Souers had when he took Mr.. Lay
as an assistant. II there is to be
impartial and impersonal con-
tinuity to American foreign policy
an executive secretary who will
serve all administrations, Demo-
cratic or Republican. can contrib
ute much. In other spheres, j.
Edgar Hoover has done this for
the Justice Department and
Daniel w. Bell did 1t for the
Treasury Department before he
resigned to head a Washington
trust company.
Mr.. Lays job will be bigger,
because he will work for the
White House and the State and
Defense Departments on problems
reaching all parts of the globe.
The National Security Council
not to be confused with the United
Nations Security Councils the
only group other than the cabinet
over which the President &C
tually presides. The permanent
members are Vice President
Barkley. State Secretary Acheson,
Defense Secretary johnson and
DR.. John R. Steelman, acting
chairman of the National Security
Resources Board. Other cabinet
members and agency heads, such
as Treasury Secretary Snyder,
Commerce Secretary Sawyer and
ECA Administrator Hoffman, at
tend meetings whenever their in
ternational policies are being CO.
ordinated with top policies. The
regular meetings are the first and
third Thursdays each month.
Special meetings are not uncom-
mon.
Forrestal's Idea
The council is the brain-child
OF late Defense Secretary For
restal, who had been impressed
by important contributions of the
Committee of Imperial Defense
since it's creation by British Prime
Minister Balfour in 1904. For
years Mr.. Forrestal advocated the
creation of a White House "secre-
tariat" of high-ranking, non-
political public servants, to help
formulate policies and to see that
they were carried. out. He was
successful in having the NSC
organization authorized by the
armed services unif1cation law.
AS the first executive secretary
of the council, Mr.. Souers worked
out the details of the Forrestal
idea. His great organizing ability
in private life before the war, his
experiences as a rear admiral in
Naval Intelligence, his building up
of the Central Intelligence Group
that later became the Central In
telligence Agency and his highly
confidential security work for the
Atomic Energy Commission gave
him, as President Truman noted,
special aptitude" for his NSC
duties.
A more ambitious, or less pa
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-15
MRS. BILLY LEHMAN. 8l. FITTED BY REBEKAHS

The Midnight Sun Rebekah Lodge had a surprise birthday party for one of the oldest mem bers of the order last Wednesday evening, when they went to the home of Mrs. Billy Lehman with big birthday, cake to honor her eighty-first birthday.
 Mrs. Lehman was unable to leave her home as MT. Lehman has been invalided for some time, although he is reported as getting along nicely. The members en- joyed a short but enjoyable visit with the Lehmans before return ing to the Odd Fellow Hall for their regular business meeting.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-15
GOOD ROADS GROUP ORGANIZED HERE

A special meeting of the Cham Der of Commerce for the purpose of organizing Chapter of the Territorial Good Roads Assn. was still in progress at the time of go- ing to press.
 It is reported that local group was organized and officers had been elected. A full report will be made in Mondays publication.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-15

oAAOPS.
 "When Lonesome Boy come back with the Wozzle's tail we light the piles" jeered the saw ages, ''and burn all Santa Land and Santa folk, too."
 The little workers were too frightened to work. There were only three days left until Christ mas but great stacks of unstuffed animals stood on work tables: Dolls with no eyes. Wagons with no wheels. Footballs with no air. Toy telephones with no bells.
 Worst of all, Santa found that he could not run his reindeer team without Dasher, his lead deer.
 He asked Chief Hurricane to re- turn the deer but the Jindian chief said he did not even know where the deer was. Santa knew the Jin- dian was not telling the truth but there was nothing he could do.
 He took the seven deer that were left and hitched them to his sleigh. But though he commanded them in all the ways he could think of, the deer would not fly without Dasher to lead them.
 At last, Santa went to his cot tage and sat down before the fire. Mrs. Claus pulled her rocking chair up close beside him.
 "It is hard to remember worse times," said Santa sorrowfully. "For to tell you the truth, I do not see how I can take Christmas to the world this year."
 It made Mrs. Claus want to cry to see Santa so sad. She said, "It's the little cowboy you're really worried about, isn't it?"
 Santa nodded. "Yes," he said. "It's Bucky. Kid Buckaroo. I never should have let him fight for us."
 But Santa need never have wor- ried. At this moment Bucky came pounding across the Santa Land plains, yelling yippi ai ki-ay as he came and carrying across his sad dle the great long tail of Herman the Wozzle.
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