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Evening star., 1950-05-12


Mekeiior and Sridses Hopeful OF ksepias
House BVdset Cuts, Pose AS
something about 1t in the Senate.
We're not going to take this lying
down."
House Democratic leaders also
voiced hope that the Senate
would restore many OF the jobs.
Among them were Chairman
Cannon of the House Appropri-
ations Committee. House Majority
Leader Mccormack and Repre-
Sentatives Rooney of New York
and Rabaut of Michigan.
New Hiring Restricted.
Meanwhile. the following devel-
opments were shaping up in the
wake Of the Houses action:
/. Most Federal agencies plan
a job freeze" on hiring until they
find out what Congress finally
works out.
It's usually an annual practice
at this time Of the year for Fed
eral bureaus to clamp down on
hiring until they know what their
forthcoming July l appropriations
will be. But the large House cuts
this year has made the job freeze
more rigid than ever.
2. Some agencies are consider.
ing 30-day provisional layofY
notices to employees to protect
themselves II the House employ.
ment reduction amendments stand.
1t would enable the agencies to
avoid having to pay large cash
sums for unused annual leave.
Payless Paydays Likely.
Meanwhile, Government EN-.
ployes had additional woes In the
prospect Of payless paydays,
A survey OF most agencies
showed that the majority of them
only have enough funds on hand
to meet one or two more paydays.
Chairman Cannon has an.
nounced that the general de-
t1ciency bill will be DELAYED
until the House completes action
on the 1861 District money bill.
However, District Government
employees also have salary funds
tied up with the deficiency meas
ure. Some 5000 District workers
face a payless payday on May %
unless the deficiency measure Ia
acted on by then. Also, District
teachers have a payday coming up
on June ! that can't be met unless
Congress votes the money In time.
MI. Cannon says he won't spon.
sor a continuing resolution that
would enable employees to be paid
even though the deficiency bill ID
tied up.
Several Agencies Short.
Among the agencies that only
nave enough funds for another
PAYDAY or so are the Veterans
Administration. Agriculture, state
and Labor Department, Internal
Revenue, the various Federal reg
ulatory agencies, as well as most
OF the independent bureaus.
Meanwhile. House Democratic
leaders. still stunned by the lower
chambers action, asserted that
the Government won't be able to
fire undesirables or inefficient en-
ployes If the Republican led
economy move stands UP.
Representative Rabaut said the
Republicans have been shouting
from the housetops that the Gov
ernment is full of inefiicient and
undesirable employees who ought
to be removed. So, what do
the Republicans do? They turn
around and through the Jensen
amendment make 1t Just about
impossible to do any houseclean-
ing by making 1t impossible to
MI vacancies. You can't run the
departments without personnel"
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Belgium Gets u. S. Arms

ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium. May
IL tR.-The American ship U. S..
o. docked here today with the FIRST
cargo Of United States arms under
the military aid pact. Squads Of
rifie-armed gendarmes were ON
hand to prevent any Communist
demonstration.
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100000 Slash
In Jobs AssaiIed
By White House
Top OfficioI Vows
To DO Something
About Federal Cut

The White House today joined
in the criticism of the Houses
100000 Federal employment cut,
terming the slashes terrible and
a blow. to the efficient operation
OF Government"
A top White House official said
that I'VE intend to try to do
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First Violence Reported in Railroad Strike
Neo' Knoxville, Tenn. o Pose A-3
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Senots Moy Restore 100000 Jobs Cut
Out by the House, esss Al
Mekeiior end Sridses Hopeful Of Keeping
House Budget Cuts. Pose As
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Truman Pledges
Unending Fight
Against Taft Act
Must Replace Low
For Good Of Nation,
He Tells Montonons
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor StoH Coffespondent

BUTTE, Mont, May l2.-Presl-
. dent Truman promised anew today
to seek repeal of the Taft Hartley
law which," he said. "insidiously
undermines the strength Of labor
unions"
In a speech keyed to the working
people In this important copper
Partial Text Of Truman Speech at Butte,
Mont. Page 40
Republicans Answer Eoeh Truman Speech,
Charging Socialism. Page 40
Democrats Converge on Chicago for Big
Jefferson Jubilee" Poge Az
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(see REORGANIZATION, A-33
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Continued on Page AS, Col. 3.
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(See TRAINS, Page A-2)
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(See MINISTERS, Page A-20
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Guide for Readers

An Associoted Press Newsp
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Continued on Page AS. Col. H.
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Ayiatrix to Visit Kinks

tSee DENNIS. Page Az
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(see oPPENHEIMER, Page A-2J
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(See TRUMAN. Page A-2O
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An average American railway
locomotive and tender have a
weight of about 400 tons.
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Science Calendar
Technical Society
Meetings Listed

Scientific and technical society
meetings have been announced for
this week by the Joint Committee
on Press Relations of the District
Council Of Engineering and Archi-
tectural Societies and the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences. All
meetings listed are open to the
public unless otherwise listed.
Tomorrow.
National Academy of Sciences
Annual meeting in the academy
building. Presentation of scien-
tific papers: Monday $50 am.
to 1890 pm. 2 pm. to AIS pm.
and at 8 pm: Wednesday $50
am. to 1890 pm. Business
session Tuesday for members
only; Monday and Wednesday
sessions open to public.
American Welding Society, Wash
ington Sections pm. at 400
Restaurant. Thirteenth ami
versary dinner featuring an ad-
dress by O. B. J. Fraser, direc-
tor of Technical Service. Inter-
national Nickel Co. and presi-
dent Of the society.
Tuesday.
Society of American Bacteriol-
ogistS, Washington Branch-8
pm. at officers Club, near Six
teenth street entrance of Army
Medical Center. Three talks:
THE Selective Modification of
Selenite Enrichment Broth for
Detecting Salmonella in Egg
Products" by w. r. North, Food
and Drug Administration; "Ele-
vated Body Temperature and
Cryptococcosis in Mice" by Col.
L. r. Kuhn. Army Medical Gen.
ter; and THE Quantitative Es-
timation of vi Antigen." by E.
r. Kennedy, Catholic University.
Wednesday.
American Institute OF Electrical
Engineers. Washington Section
-(Power Groups pm. in
Pepco Auditorium. THE Elec-
trification of the Pennsylvania
Railroad" by H. C. Griffith,
chief electrical engineer, PRR.
Also High Speed Circuit Break
ers," by D. r. Macleod. General
Electric Co. and Supervisory
Control and supplementary
Equipment" by w. A. Derr,
i-Westinghouse Electric Co.
Eiectrochemical Society, Washing
Baltimore Sections pm.
at the Bureau of Standards. DR..
o. C. Ralston. chief metallurgist
of United States Bureau of
Mines to speak on "Electrostatic
Separation of Mixtures of Solid
ParticalS."
Geological Society of Washington
Meeting and related field trip
on Fairfax and Seneca Quad
rangles, Virginia" Meeting
Wednesday 8 pm. at Cosmo
Club including following dis
cussions: Geology" by A. P.
Bennison and Charles Milton;
"Geophysical Correlation" by
j. r. Balsley; "Geochemical
Tests" by r. E. Stevens; and
Engineering Soils Map" by L. |
P. Buck. Field trip Saturday |
starting at Fairfax Court House,
Fairfax, at 9 am.
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Births Reported

From the D. c. Bureau of Vital Statistics
Eugene and Elizabeth Aleninikoff, boy.
George and Helen Anderson, boy.
Francis and Rita Appel. boy.
Curtis and Barbara Appleyard, boy.
Marvin and Mary Arrowsmith, boy.
Irving and Catherine Beall. boy.
James and Martha Beck. boy:
Joseph and Elizabeth Borniger, boy.
Paul and Rosalyn Borsky, boy.
Howard and Thelma Bray. boy.
Leonard and Lille Cappelletty, boy.
Arthur and Hilda Carper, boy.
Conway and Ann Coe. boy.
John and Shirlee Denning, boy.
William and Margaret Downes. boy.
Joseph and Louise Dwyer, boy.
William and Ruth Embrey, boy.
Louis and Vivian Finamore, boy.
Warren and Nigal Frick, boy.
John and Frances Hart, boy.
Thomas and Nancy Greer, boy.
Joseph and Mary Huttlinger. boy.
James James and and Marjorie Kelly, boy.
Charles and Anita KurtZ boy.
Elmer and Amelia Leukhardt. boy.
George and Natalie Lewis, boy.
Carmen and Rose Longo, boy.
Robert and Laura Allen, boy.
Earl and Elsie Alvey, boy.
Richard and Evelyn Bailey, girl.
Frank and Marie Ball, girl.
Charles and ,IaNog Imogene Barkhimer; girl
William and Jean Broe, girl.
Herbert and Marsaret Byrd girl.
John and Alice Carver, girl.
john os' and nao Marsaret rs Conrad. & si girl.
Ward and Dorothy Crabill, girl
Leonard and Martha Cross, girl.
Dean and Mary Denny, girl.
James and Clara Downs, girl.
William and Caroline Edelen, girl.
Fernando and Anna Etcheniaue. girl.
Martin and Doris Gerra. girl.
Andrew and Leah Gibbs, girl.
Marion and Barbara Gibson. sirl.
Jay and Catherine dierum girl.
Francis and Jaceueline Greer, girl.
Ray and Janet Guy. girl.
Norris and Emma Hanson. girl.
Robert and Ruth Atkinson. girl.
Herbert and Theodosia Bandy, boy
Biz Blizzard sad and Mildred nsHs sackTe boy
Robert and Essie Dennis. boy
George and Agnes Faison. boy.
peT1 Ponald d. and dns1mn Emma Satthsr boy.
Carroll apd Doris Green. boy
John and Thelma Green boy.
Gregory and Lille Harrison. boy.
william and Hastinss Boy boy
Lloyd and Mildred Carter, girl and boy.
Robert and Gretrude Banks. girl.
Melvin and Annie Brown, girl
Oliver and Mabra Brown, girl
Thomas and Marion Gale, girl,
George and Evelyn Gibbs, girl.
An average American railway
locomotive and tender have a
weight of about 400 tons.
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Veterans Hospital Bill
Passed by House
BY the Assoeioted Press

The House today voted a $279
million expansion of the veterans
hospital program.
It passed and sent to the Senate,
by voice vote, bill directing the
Veterans Administration to pro-
coed with construction of "a new
hospitals and expansion of Ia
others.
In effect, this restores a 10000
bed cut in the hospital program
which President Truman had Or
dered in 1948.
There was only an hour of de-
bate, during which Representative
Davis, Republican, of Wisconsin
called the bill a political ges-
ture" and predicted that Mr.. Tru-
man would veto it.
Chairman Rankin of the Vet
eranS' Committee, author of the
bill, denied that the bill was "a
political measure" and said it was
intended to help needy veterans
The bill does not appropriate
any money. 1t merely directs VA
to go ahead on the projects. Sep
arate legislation providing the
&oney will be required later.
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supply the brain grew and func-
toned at higher level.
After a certain critical stage,
never yet reached by any other
animal, this growth was extremely
rapid. AS the brain improved
ways of life changed and cores
pondingly the load on the organ
of thinking was increased. Still
operating under the inescapable
phenomenon of survival of the
f1ttest, those with the best adap-
tive mechanism for increasing the
blood flow to the head outdis-
tanced and outlived all others
This resulted eventually in the
human race of today.
The great apes and some o1
the monkeys started on much the
same road. Somewhere along the
line they became stymied and set
tied down for all their days or
earth to the semierect position
they maintain today. Even sucf
advanced creatures as the gorilla
and chimpanzee actually stanc
erect only about half as much a!
man. A theoretical possibility Of
fered by DR.. Britton was that O.
improving the minds Of such crea.
lures by training them to hold thei
heads upright more and more o.
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gun by DR.. Britton during the war,
when he was engaged in studying
the effects of "g," the force of
gravity, on air crews subjected to
enormous forces of acceleration
and deceleration which were the
cause of blackouts. redouts and
the like.
His experiments point, DR.. Brit
ton said, to some such picture as
this:
First, some tree-dwelling crea-
ture of the ape or monkey family
started to walk erect on its hind
legs. This offered great advan-
tages in food hunting and defense
against enemies. But the upright
posture maintained persistently
was against nature. The blood
stream, which must feed and sup
ply oxygen to the brain. could not
entirely overcome earth's down.
ward pull with the pumping ap-
paratus which had been developed
Some of the pre-humans hao
better adaptive capacity thar
others. Through q process of sur
vival of the fittest extending over
millions Of years the blood supply
to the brain improved and every
| improvement made the next ster
a little easier. With o better blood
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3 Boys Feared Lost
In West Virginia
Limestone Cave
BY the Associoted Press

KINGWOOD, w. Va. April "a.
Three teen-age boys were be-
lieved lost tonight in a limestone
cave in an isolated mountain sec
tor about six miles from here.
Sheriff j. H. Benson said the
boys. two brothers and a cousin.
left their home at Pleasantdale
yesterday morning on an explor-
ing trip to Cornell Cave.
When they failed to return last
night, a search party left for the
cave and found the boys outer
clothing on rocks at the entrance.
Sheriff Benson said that the en-
trance to the cave was so narrow
that apparently the youngsters
had to remove their coats and
sweaters to squeeze their way
through.
None of the search party has
been able 70 gain an entrance
to the cave.
The sheriff identified the youths
as Robert Shrout. l6. and Eugene
Shrout. and a cousin, Junior
Shrout. Is.
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By Thomas R. Henry
Srianen Ed;toY IS Tha StnK

Science Editor OF The StoF.
Gravity made man out of a
monkey.
With mans help it may make
essential humans out of other
monkeys now in a blind alley of
evolution.
The same forces that nodded the
unique human brain may go far
toward destroying mankind in the
end for they also are partly re-
sponsible for many of the heart
and blood pressure ailments which
now are the chief causes of deatl:
throughout the civilized world.
These are the basic points of a
new thesis of evolution. propound-
ed today by a University of Vir-
ginia physiologiSt before the Ma
tional Academy of Science here.
Supported by vast amount of
evidence based on laboratory ex-
periments with subjects ranging
from snakes to university students,
this report. presented by DR.. S. w
Britton at the first session of the
annual meeting of the highest
body of American science, was
greeted as one of the most notable
contributions yet made to knowl-
edge of mans origins.
1t started largely from work be-
Evening star., 1950-04-24
Truman Names Alexander
Undersecretary Of Army

Assistant Army Secretary Archi-
bald S. Alexander today was nomi-
mated by President to be Under
secretary of the Army succeeding
Tracy S. Voorhees,, who an
nounced his resignation last
month.
Mr.. Alexander was an unsuc-
cessful candidate for Senator from
New Jersey in 1948. Born in New
York in 1906. Mr.. Alexander at
one time practiced law with for
mer Army Secretary Gordon Gray
He was active in New Jersey poll
tics as an anti-Hague Democrat
During the war he served in the
Army in the Pacific and European
theaters and for time was liaison
legal and finance officer to the
Allied Military Government in
Sicily and Italy.
Later he was chief of civilian
supply at European theater head
quarters.
Evening star., 1950-04-24
200 Workers off Jobs Here;
Telephone Service Continues
Most of CWA Members on Strike Were
Putting in DioI System for Use in August

More than 200 Western Electric
equipment installers went off the
job here today in connection with
a nation wide strike of Division 6,
CIO- Communication Workers of
America.
Union members pictured the
Walkout as a prelude to a more
drastic action Wednesday, when
about 5000 telephone workers ex-
pect to strike here in conjunction
with 100000 others throughout
the Nation.
Harry w. Lentz, vice president
of Local 96 of Division 6, said the
Washington walkout today was
based on the national wage dis
pute which may precipitate We'd
nesday's major strike.
He admitted, however, that the
two-day jump on the proposed ma
tional strike was geared to Divis-
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ion 6's job dispute involving 140
members in South Bend, Ind.
THE men were ordered off the
job here after Ernest Weaver,
president Of Division 6, told us at
8 am. today that we could strike
legally" Mr.. Lentz said.
Today's strike will not affect
telephone service here. The union
decided not to post pickets around
telephone exchanges, such as will
be done in event of a bigger strike
Wednesday. So all Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone workers re-
mained on the job.
About 165 of the Western Elec-
trio installers were working at the
Thirteenth street Central Office on
an inter-city dial system which
will enable subscribers to dial IL
(See INSTALLERS. Page A-2.)
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Do You Hove Something
To Buy, Trade or Sell?
Use Star Classified

Every day The Star CLASH
fed Section Is bigger by far
than that published by any
other Washington newspaper.
Such overwhelming support
is justified by two important
reasons:
The Star brings its dduer-
tisers better results.
The Star brings its readers
more classified sales offerings
than the three other Wash
ington newspapers combined
first 10 days of April, 1861.
II there Is something you
want to buy trade or sell, the
best way to make your wants
known Is to place a classified
ad in Washington's No. /
classified medium-The Star.
Phone Sterling 5000 for ex-
pert classified service.
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Britain Calls Troops
To Unload So Vessels
Tied Up by Dock Strike
Wildcat WoIkout, Held
Red-Inspired, Threatens
To Halt London Port
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, April "a. - Britain's
Labor government, for the second
time within year. used troops
today in wildcat strike of dock
workers. The current walkout had
immobilized SO ships carrying
sorely needed supplies for the
austerity-gripped nation.
Soldiers and sailors began un-
loading scarce foods and grains at
the London docks, into which they
had moved a short time before.
The strike. denounced by cabinet
ministers as Communist inspired,
had threatened to halt all opera
tions in the great port.
The first job tackled by the
troops was the unloading of the
Beaverdell, which carried a cargo
of 1000 tons of flour, 5000 tons
of grain and 80 tons Of bacon.
1000 Soldiers, Sailors Used.
The ordering of 1000 soldiers
and sailors into the dockyards
coincided with statements by
Labor Minister George Isaacs to
the House of Commons that "all
necessary steps have been taken
to safeguard vital supplies" and
that a large scale stoppage at
London's docks was 'intolerable. ~
More than 4.500 dockers Joined
the strikers over the week end
bringing the number idle to 12,-
489. The total working force in
the London docks is $1,000 but
only between $4,000 and 10000
are employed on any given day.
There was no indication that
the mushrooming strike would END
soon.
The government used troops ir
a similar situation last year when
a Communist = supported strike
piled up tons of food and exports
on London docks.
The present walkout is a direct
result of the 1949 strike.
/ The dockers stopped work last
Wednesday to protest the expul.
sion of three men from the Trans
(See DOCKS. Page A-2.)
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the time, to the limits of their
physiological endurance.
Man himself, he indicated, has
gone only part of the way on the
road of evolutionary advancement
possible from keeping the head
up. Among the ways not men,
toned by DR.. 'Britton but sug-
geSted by some of his colleagues
was that of training humans to
sleep standing up part of each
night but, as in the case of the
apes. if any mental improvement
resulted it would be apparent only
over many generations.
Still, he said, IF we set about
the matter as seriously as we pur-
sue cattle or dog breeding, hope
for emancipation of at least our
near related simians might still
be entertained"
In his war experiments DIR. Brit
ton tested the ability of various
animals to withstand the pull of
gravity with a specially designed
whirling apparatus. Great diff
ferences were found among spe-
cies. This led him to test the
relative ability to withstand a
completely upright position.
Almost at the bottom of the
Continued on Page AS. Col. IL
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Florida Legislator
Slain in His Office;
Injured Man Held
J Charles Schuh Had Led
Administration Forces
In 1o4o House Session
BY the Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, April
24.-State Representative Charles
j. Schulz. jr.. leader of Gov. Fuller
Warren's forces in the 1949 Flor
ida House of Representatives, was
shot and killed in his downtown
Office here this morning.
Deputy Sheriff Andy Rand said
that Charles Ross, II. a retired
meat cutter of Bay City. Tex. was
held in city jail in the Staying
Police were unable to establish a
motive for the shooting imme-
diately.
Mr.. Rand said Ross was bleed
ing profusely about the head from
an injury when arrested. He
quoted Ross as saying he incurred
the injury in an alteration with
Mr.. Schulz.
L. c. Deal, an associate of Mr.
Schuh's, told reporters he heard
a shot from the legislators inner
Office and grabbed Ross as he
emerged into the anteroom.
John T. Fisher, a former JUS
tice of the peace, said that shortly
before the shooting he saw Ross
meet the legislator on a street
corner, shake hands in a friendly
manner and then leave him.
Ross was held in the Office Of q
private detective agency until city
and State officers arrived. He
submitted quietly to arrest.
Mr.. Rand said Ross at first told
him that he was engaged in an al
tercation with Mr.. Schuh, but a
few minutes later said:
Il don't know just what hap
pened."
Mr.. Schuh was one of Gov
Warren's staunchest supporters in
the State. It was largely through
his fight in the House that the
per cent sales tax was adopted.
Mr.. Schulz was running unop-
posed for denomination in the
Democratic primaries. scheduled
next Tuesday.
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Bandit Gets $8OOFrom c Coshier
of Street Insurance Office
Escapes After HoIdup on Fourth Floor
Of Washington Loon & Trust Building

The cashier of a downtown in
surance Office on the fourth floor
of the Washington Loan g. Trust
Building. was robbed of $500 at
noon today by an armed bandit.
Mrs. Ava K. Swami, about so,
cashier of the Women's Benefit AS
sociation, in Room 416 of the
building at 900 F street NV. said
the colored man walked in shortly
after she had opened the Office.
Mrs. Swami. alone in the Office,
was in the cashiers cage at the
rear of the Office and had the
money out on the counter when
the man showed pistol at heI
through the cage and demanded
the cash. He fled after grabbing
the money. She was unhurt.