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Evening star., 1950-06-13
Mitchell Doubts
Federal Payroll
Will |BeCutSoo
Tells Postmusters
Defense Agency
Must Keep Stoff

Large cuts in the number of
Federal employees are not apt to
occur soon, Chairman Harry B.
Mitchell of the Civil Service Com
mission declared today.
Mr.. Mitchell made the predic-
ton in an address to the Tri-
State Convention of the National
League of District Postmasters at
the Washington Hotel. Postmast-
ers from Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia are attending the
meetings.
THE fact Of the matter is that,
as long as the present interna-
tional situation continues, there
is very little chance of a reduc-
ton in the defense organization;
and this is where the great in
crease has taken place." the COM
missioner declared.
Defends u. S. Workers.
Mr.. Mitchell said charges that
Federal workers are lazy and in
efficient are only political propa-
ganda.
1--WE hear a great deal. particu-
larly when Congress is in session,
about the increased number of
Government employees and the
general laziness and ineff1ciency of
these employees" Mr.. Mitchell said.
This is not a speciality of the
present Congress. 1t has been OBJ
served no matter what party is in
power" w.
At present, Mr.. Mitchell said, it
Is the Republicans who are making
these general charges. Twenty
years ago the Democrats were do
ing it, he said.
Therefore, we should not take
too seriously the charges of over
employment or inefficiency that
are now being made" he said.
He said that in April 1910, the
number of Federal employees
totaled 959,972 while in April, 1850,
the total stood at 1,917. SGT, not
counting census workers.
The increase has come mainly
because of the war and it's after
math, he stated. The Defense
Department has gone up from
227 1853 to 744,361 and the Veterans
Administration from 39,681 to
1922.
The convention delegates also
heard speeches this morning by
Norman r. Grant, director of the
division of postmasters; Clifton C.
Garner, chief postal inspector, and
Fred U. Mills, director ofsthe divi-
sion of post Office clerical service.
A banquet will be held at the
hotel at 7:3O o'clock tonight with
Postmaster General Donaldson as
principal speaker.
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when processed, are chocolate
brown with white spots and lend
themselves to many decorative
purposes.
The tiny shrews eat their own
weight daily in yolk of hard boiled
eggs. cottage cheese, ripe bananas,
vitamin extract and a wheat germ
oil.
In the wild the shrews devour
insects which they paralyze with a
poisonous salivalike substance.
Zoo Director William M. Mann
said that the poison affects hui
mans no more than a spider bite.
1--WE liberated 81 of them on
the grounds a few days ago." he
added. They're living in the
grass and woods and devouring
plenty of insects-we hope"
Evening star., 1950-06-13
Witnesses al RetriaI
OF Edwards Describe
Finding Of Cartridge
BY the Asseeiated Press

BALTIMORE. June 13.-Three
witnesses in the second murder
trial of Thomas A. Edwards, 26,
related today how the cartridge
case which the State contends
came from the defendants gun
was found.
Aside from a confession which
resulted in the Appeals Court re-
versal of Edwards conviction after
his first trial. the cartridge case
has been the most controversial
item in the case.
Edwards, who is colored, yester-
day pleaded not guilty before a
two-judge court to the charge of
Staying John H. Mahlan, Is and
Mahlan's pretty, red-headed date,
Mary Kline, 18, on September
night two years ago.
Farmer Tells of Find.
Earl K. Phelps, Prince Georges
County farmer, told the court to-
day how he found the cartridge
case on September 26, 1948, at the
spot where the bodies of the young
couple were found nearly a week
before in clearing off Chester
field road near Annapolis.
Phelps, one of many sightseers
to visit the death scene that Sun
day, said he discovered the shell
beneath bit Of raw cotton. He
turned it over to another specta-
tor, Mrs. Mildred Wade of nearby
Millersville.
Mrs. Wade and her husband,
Russell Calvin Wade, testified they
brought the shell to Police Chief
John H. Souers. jr., that afternoon
at Ferndale headquarters of the
Anne Arundel County police.
Took Car License Number.
Mrs. Wade said she didn't get
Phelps name that day, but took
mental note of his car license
number, wrote it on the back of
an old calendar when she got
home from Ferndale, and thus
helped investigators later to trace
the finder of the shell.
I've got a pretty good mem
ory." Mrs. Wade explained.
Her husband found himself the
target of pointed cross-examina-
ton by Defense Attorney William
j. McWilliams of Annapolis, who
wanted to know how he could
identify the shell offered in evi-
dence as that he turned over to
Souers.
Clergyman Takes Stand.
Edwards several times broke into
a smile as the witness got tangled
up in the web of defense questions
the only emotion the defendant
has displayed during his retrial
so far.
Earlier, the Rev. E. T. Kirkley of
Glen Burnie was called to the
stand to relate circumstances Sur
rounding the discovery of the torn
drivers license which belonged to
Mahlan.
Edwards conviction II months
ago was reversed by the Court of
Appeals on grounds that he had
been improperly induced to give
the confessions that formed the
center of the case against him.
Evening star., 1950-06-13

united States and Canada for
a small additional charge.
4 If you are going on vacation
soon, phone Sterling 5000 now
sand arrange for vacation de-
livery of Washington's No. /
snewspaper-The Evening and
sunday Star.
Evening star., 1950-06-13

sorts The Star
is delivered by
carrier or is
on S a le at
n e W S S tands.
You can order
The Star mail
Jed to you any
Where in the
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Read The Star
sWhie on Vacation

Only The Star can keep you
IN close touch with the Wash
ington scene while you are on
Vacation.
AT most nearby summer re-
Evening star., 1950-06-13
Evans Parkway MEETING

The Evans Parkway Citizens
Association Of Silver Spring will
meet at 1880 pm. tomorrow in
the parish hall of st. Johns Cath
olic Church, Georgia and Dexter
avenues.
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Theological Guild to Meet

The Horological Guild will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow in Room 43
of the Natural History Building
of the Smithsonian Institute.
Evening star., 1950-06-13

Service Association. The Star
will be glad to acknowledge gifts
of any size.
The following gifts are acknow-
ledged today:
Previously acknowl-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

financial plan for the expenditures of the Govern planning to give us something better. The budget which the President will send to Congress Jan. 9 will not balance but the layman if he examines the summary of it's major items, which he will be able to buy from the Government Printing Office for about IS cents, will at least understand why it doesn't balance.
 The document will distinguish between operat
 ing costs and capital expenditures. It will show what sums the Government may expect to get back such as loans and recoverable claims what assets will have lasting value such as dams public buildings and river and harbor improvements; how much is being spent on State and local projects receiving Federal aid and how much is going out in aid and services to private enterprise as in the case of operations of the Post Office Department carried loss. There will be for the first time special analyses of various fields of activity such public works The citizen by his fresde can find out in evening more Cor so we suspect) than many the-mill members of Con- gress used to know.
 This reform, long overdue, will not add penny eral expenditures Its value will be- Ii the promises are kept in it's characterization of major issue The Federal budget calling for about one-flfth of the national income comes home to everybody Every body ought to understand it and everybody ought to have an opinion about it. The time is long past when t was safe to be ignorant as to the sources ana destinations of Federal funds
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
THESE DA Y 5
 - E Y GEORGE '. SOKOLSKY
THE SCORE CARD

:. In January, l945, Moscow ruled l90.0000G0 human beings.
 In June, l948, Moscow ruled 450,- 000,000 human beings
 By November, 1949, Moscow rules over 800,000000 human beings.
 The total human population of the earth is about 2,500, GOO 900. Moscow rules one-third of the hu- man race.
 When the nations at war with Germany and Japan attended Dunn barton Oaks and later the San Francesca conferences, they sought a formula to establish a eomity of nations, Parliament of man, some kind of one world. But no one assumed at those conferences that World War II would lead to the conquest of the human race by Soviet Russia. In fact, the war was fought to prevent Hitler from rul- ing a limited area in Europe.
 At no time was it assumed, even at San Francisco, that five years later. one country. Soviet Runia would have been permitted by the
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United States and Great Britain to become the dominant nation cn earth. Certainly the United States
 never anticipated that this country
 would become a minority on the Security Council of the United Ma tions. The shock of Soviet inten- ticns, made amply clear at the l Potsdam conference. forced an end
 to the policy of cooperation with
 Russia and to the cold war"
 It must now be admitted by the l facts that Soviet Russia has been i victorious in the cold war" All , her immediate objectives have been i attained. This Stalin accomplished i by recognition Of three factors , in the situation:
 l. The United States has become
 so befuddled by domestic struggle
 for the continutuance in office by
 the New Deal group, that Stalin could. with patience and skill, util- ize situations to his advantage. The
 most useful situation for him was
 the absolute political necessity for the State Department to cover up the mistakes made by Roosevelt al | Teheran and Yalts. Satlin's sdyan-
 taee was improved when Dean i Acheson became Secretary Of State.
 2. Great Britain has been de pendent country for many years. making up her deficits through grantsin-aid provided by the Unit
 ed States. The most recent such
 grant was the Marshall Plan upon
 which we piled European Military Aid.
 But it has become obvious from cur own. figures that the United , States is beginning to weary of aiding the British, whose most re- ! cent emphasis is upon what is called
 Point four-a scheme by which the
 United States is to underWrite the
 British Colonies in particular and
 most colonies held by Europeans in general But Point Four is not
 doing so well in Congress. for in spite of giving the plan such a
 meaningless name as Point Four.
 which covers multitude of schem- es, Congress does not like any of it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

strating its good faith" on this question in oil-leasing contracts that have been made recently with Ed Pauley and other American pro- meters who have been developing oil in southern Mexico.
 He added that conditions were different now than when the ex- propriation act was passed mean ing apparently that American in- yestors in Mexico now are less ex- ploitive minded.
 We want American development and we expect and want Ameri- con investors here to make a fail profit, However, that's a great deaI different from exploitation. said the President of Mexico. At the same time, I wish to make clear that Mexico must control it's own economy and it's own natural re- sources, which belong to the Mexi- can people as government"
 itGooAtilll5 lilC lOdIls N1OI SS GH plained that whether one was made to France, England, India, Mexico CT any other country, it could not be blanket" transaction. but must be earmarked for specific projects and facilities. One project Morse said he would favor if the loan is ekayed is an oil refinery on the west coast of Mexico.
 That's just sound business and would not in any way alter tile spirit of good neighborliness behind any financial assistance the United States may extend you" he declar- ed. "As good neighbors we want to help you in any way we can to develop the great natural resources of your country and, in that way, raise the living standards of your people"
 T guess we could get by without a loan" replied Aleman, who spoke through an interpreter. Then .ie added with grin, but it would be very helpful right now"
 Note: The State Department pret- ty much agrees with the general views expressed by Senator Morse and President Aleman and has re- commended a $50, 100000 loan. This recommendation has now gone to the eXport-import bank where some objection has been expressed by Herbert Gaston, President of the bank. The differences between Cas- ton and the State Department are now up to President Truman fol final decision.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
The Washington
 NegTv-Go-Round
Continued from Page One)

the Truman doctrine in Greece.
 Virtually all the things Pearson brought out about the amazing MT. Maragon and his close friend, Mai. Gen. Harry Vaughn, were substan- tiatsd two and a half years later by Senate Investigating commit tee.
 But at that time, the spring of 19A7, Maraeon demanded that tft Justice Department prosecute Pear sen for criminal libel on the grounds that Pearson had called him an -bootlegger.
 Not only did Maragon lodge this demand. but General Vaughn call cd on U. s. Attorney Morris Fay and demanded Pearson's prosecD- ten. Demands were also made 50 irsistent that the FBI was ordered to investigate-despite the fact that tie criminal libel statutes of the District of Columbia have not been used for IS years.
 FBI investigators finally dug up ccpics of the bond posted by Mar aacn at the time of his arrest for transporting liquor, compared the handwriting. and ascertained tliat Pearsons charges were correct.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
BUDGET FOR THE AMMAN"

Impressed by the New York Times admonition that everybody ought understand the Fedrea budget and everybody ought to have an opinion about it, The Empire has sent to the Government Printing Office for copy of the summary of the budgets major items that the Times tells us is available
 We don't know whether we will be able to under stand it, once receive it, but we are awaiting 1t with interest we will read it with
 Probably like most people throughout the country we will be most interested in any items that have to do with our own region
 This is what the Times says in its editorial, Bud get for the Layman":
 "The Hoover Commission described the Fedora budget as an inadequate document poorly organizec and improperly designed to serve it's major purpose which is to present an understandable and workable
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
Morse In Mexico

Sen. Wayne Morse. Oregon Re- publican, had a friendly and helpful talk with President Miguel Ale man of Mexico the other day which may help to clear the ground for a limited lean" to one of the most irirortant Democratic strongholds in the western hemisphere.
 Senator Morse's trip was arranged uadsr rather unusual circumstances b. an Oregonian named Applegate who sells munitions to Mexico. It was through him that President Alaman Sent his private airplane to Dallas. Tex, to pick up the Sen- ator from Oregon,
 Both Morse and Aleman talked common sense about an American lean and came reasonably near the pcint of view now held by the State Dcrartment-namely, that Mexico should receive a loan for building a refinery and for financing oil distribution facilities, such as pipe lines.
 Originally Mexico had wantec loan of more than S400,000,00t which was also to finance oil drill ing and exploration. However, thi' amount does not now appear neces- sary. due in part to the fact that Mexico, in cooperation with Pre- sident Trumans friend, Ed Pauley the big Democratic finance man has successfully drilled for oil ant is on the verge of making req nancy. oil royalties from this pro. feet will soon net Mexico consider able revenue.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
MODERN ETIQUETTE $oRrprA Sy 1;rr

 girl to walk the street smoking? A upon society," although other public perfectly o to fromsm is a telephone? A proper Helen, please?" a her" don't forget to add a thank Should who signing hotel register the prefix MT?
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So the British set out to make trade deals with Soviet Russia, not directly but through such satellites as Poland, Czechoslovakia and Sow iet China. The most important of these deals involves the recogni- ton Of Soviet China and the re- tention of Hongkong by Great Brit ain.
 In all this maneuVering, the Brit ish needed assurances that the United States would not be too offended; that a way would be found to placate the American gov- ornment and American public op- inion. In this. the British were fortunate in having as Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. who blindly pursues British policy and who as 2 Yalta traditionalist, must cover up the errors of Roosevelt. Harry Hopkins. Alger Hiss. and other authors Of Russia's conquest nj China.
 3. The third factor in Stain favor is the very old historic fact that nobody likes q creditor and nobody likes the good fel.ow who gives his money away so freely that he makes the debtor feel cheap and resentful
 Stalin's propaganda machine has worked with great skill to convince gil the recipients Of American fa- vors that gifts are not a free-will offering from compassionate peo- pie aiding others in distress, but rather that American imperialism is using money to enslaYe peoples In word, their fear propaganda nas been effective, but largely be- cause. in the handling Of American aid, nothing has been done to pro- tect the reputation of the United States. From UNRRA until today American aid has not served Am- erican prestige.
 Stalin's plan is to isolate the United States. To date, he has done remarkably well in a short time.
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american Investors Wary

Senator Morse, in talking to Pre- s.dent Aleman, frankly expressed opposition to any American loan that would finance oil drilling.
 As you know, American investors are understandably timid since the appropriation of foreign holdings in Mexico some years ago" Morse told the President of Mexico Be fore American private capital can flow into Mexico to supplement q loan. if a lean is approved, there must be assurance that 1t will be protected from confiscatory action or confiscatory taxes
 President Aleman replied that his government already was demon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
Daily Lessons in English v. " L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN say clothes have been aundd often heard The preteri LAUNDERED
 NnSPRONOUNCED; Naphtha napha.
 OFTEN NISSPELLED: Intention; TON. Tension; SION.
 cautious vgant guarded
 
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

The law does not allow you to carry a loaded gun in your car-for your own safety and the safety of others; but many hunting parties start out with plenty firewater for the trip. We'll take the guy with the loaded gun being less dangerous on the road and in the wooGs.- (Everson News.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
LOOK and LEARN A. sy c. GORDON

difference weight weight and weight? 9. What claimed perfect food? bald headed President?
  Atlantic? What teach its swim? ANSWERS the total weight of goods and conaner weight weight goods only  John Quincy Adams. In 1927. The
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
WHITE HOLLY DUE

The Coast Guard cutter White Holly was due in port here this afternoon from Ketchikan. It is on an aids to navigation servicing trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

Manufactuiers planning to turn out lighter cars but what the American public is looking for is one of the bigger with lighter mortgage 1ynden Trbune)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

An Olympia doctor says cod-liver oil aside from medical values brings contentment. That's doubtless true After taking it the patient probably satisfied with anything Daily Olympian).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
Weather af
 Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau of Jrpaau f01lpW.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16
20 YEARS AGO FHE FIT EMPIRE
JANUARY 16, 1930


 Some violent the bottom of castneau dock and half of estimated loss of $6o0oo to the company the Alaska Electric Light and Power service wires
 George lawyers and citizens candidacy Delegate He Democrat to file office that A. E. Goetz Douglas during the which tore away mooring float. The moorshp Belngham, Syd Hooper arrived hikan load that
 Hospital to Mrs H l. sabler Lillian Thomas juggling ndscriminaey the result of his 
 Headlines read Northwest Wntery Washington Washington Willamette Portland suffering A weeks the Northwestern returning Henry Pigg, Pgg recovering accompanied by Pgg Godkn
 Charles Naghel, had visiting turning Northwestern
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

B. leading lawyers and citizens,
 Delegate . file office that
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TOO LATE THEN

You cannot rush to your insurance agent while your home is in flames to ask him for more insur- ance.
 The only time you can get more insurance is -. BEFORE you have a fire. Ask this Hartford agen- cy to check over your policies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-16

MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. lN SECOND and FOURTH
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The gasboat Douglas (which htorehe mooing the float.
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motorshp Beingham, Hooper, arrived hikan the scheduled iIater that day
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at Juneau. follow:
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son St. Anns Hospital to Mrs. H. l. Staber f Lillian Bayer father bookkeeper at the Thomas Hardwa iueglng accounts ndiscrimnatey the
Evening star., 1950-11-19
Red Peace Congress
Hears American Ask
For Welfare Contest
by the Associoted Press

WARSAW, Poland. Nov. 18.-
An American proposed to the
Communist-inspired World Peace
Congress here today a 10-year
competition between Russia and
the United States to determine
which country could do more for
the welfare of It's people.
The speaker, Willard Uphaus of
New Haven, Conn, assailed the
United States as carrying on a
program of fear and intimida-
ton" He caustically criticized the
United States press, radio land
public utterances of misleaders in
the church. labor, business and
Government"
Suggestion Cherred.
The address by Uphaus, direc-
tor of the American National
Labor and Religious Foundation,
was received with cheers from the
delegates.
Uphaus called for a race, super
vised by umpires, to promote eco
nomic, social and cultural needs,
rather than an ornaments race.
Uphaus said he had made the
suggestion ''in humbleness of
spirit" and that he and his COL
leagues grasp the friendly hand"
extended earlier in the day in
an address by Ilya Ehrenburg. So
Wet writer. Ehrenburg said Rus
sia is eager to live in peace with
"the America of Truman and
Acheson as well as the America
of Paul Robson" Ehrenburg
also said Russia is determined to
preserve the peace. He called
war propaganda a deadly menace
which must be prohibited by law.
U. S. Oriental Policy Hit.
Kuo Mo-jo. vice president of
the (Communist) Peoples Gov
ernment Of China. attacked Amer
lean policy in the Orient. He
declared that "Formosa is now
an American base, and America
has invaded both Formosa and
Korea"
The congress decided to hold a
business session tomorrow. Most
Of the II functions at which
visiting delegates we're to meet
Warsaw citizens social1v have
been cancelled.