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Test Slated in Senate
Basic Part of Public Power Policy
Now Seen Threatened in CONGRESS

fected If the utilities are success
full. Such is their recognized aim.
At issue, first. is a wheeling
contract. so-called. between the
Interior Department and Okla
homa utilities for transmission of
private utility generated power to
SPA municipal customers, such as
Is authorized under the law. Sec
ond. are appropriations which the
Interior Department is seeking
and which the House already has
approved for building of Govern
ment transmission lines if private
utilities cannot or do not serve
the area, also provided by the Gov
ernment's established policy.
Continuous and prolonged nego-
tiations with the Oklahoma pri-
vate utilities still have not pro-
duced a contract which Secretary
OF Interior Oscar Chapman feels
will meet the requirements of the
law and protect the public inter-
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pidio Quirino is Constantine Brown.
an astute but not particularly
strong politician who Is trapped
between conflicting trends in his
country. He is attempting to carry
water on both shoulders. This
explains his rather puzzling state
ment Wednesday that the Philip
pines must fight its two enemies
communism and imperialism. The
word imperialism" was construed
to mean American Intervention.
Recently a number Of FilipinoS
who have lost faith in the ability
of their government to handle the
HukS, advocated that at least one
American division be garrisoned
in their country under the guise
of protecting the security Of our
naval and air bases.
Conditions Bad in Luz0n.
According to reliable reports,
conditions in Luzon, particularly,
are so bad that it is dangerous to
VI 0NC4 4A4O4C t14dA1 "a 4CW 4ll11CO OOUo
side Manila without a military es-
cort. The Huks are well organized
and disciplined. Some of them
are seasoned guerrillas who were
on our side in the war with Japan.
The guerrillas are strongly sup
ported by the Russians, who for
the past two years have been
sending arms. ammunition and
trained agents to the islands, al
most under the noses Of Philippine
authorities. These are sent by
submarines. which surface at
night close to the thousands of
coves along the coast. There they
unload their cargoes of men and
equipment into smaller craft.
The HukS, whom the govern
ment at first considered to be a
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Public Backs Donaldson
Congress Told to Put Up or Shut Up
In Attack on Postal Service Cuts

cost Of operating his service-mail
rates. pay and hours of duty Of
postal employees, ocean and air
mail subsidies. etc.
|. The House, where the principal
outcry was made against one-a-
day deliveries. handed him the
Taber- Thomas amendment which
requires him to cut costs another
10 per cent, and the Jensen
amendment which permits him to
fill only one vacancy out of every
10. He is now fighting these cuts
in the Senate with real hope of
success. In the meantime in a
public speech here Wednesday he
flung Congress the challenge:
Let Congress take action to tell
the Postmaster General where he
can get additional money or put
it's sanction upon a large deficit
instead of kicking the department
around because of its deficit"
Bets Are on Donaldson.
Neither Mr.. Donaldson nor the
quietly efficient Post Office which
people take completely for granted
in this country are glamorouS.
The struggle is stubborn but un-
spectacular. His Cabinet COL
leagues who are familiar with it
are putting their money on MIR.
Donaldson.
They have noticed that in
Cabinet meetings he gives direct
answers to questions and faces up
to all the hard facts. They have
been impressed by the detailed
knowledge he has Of his depart
ment, an expertness some Of po-
litically-named members have
still to acquire. They claim they
have never seen him duck. They
wish he had the personal color to
dramatic his fight; on the other
hand, they think he is in a better
position to make it than the Post
masters General who were also
National Chairmen would have
been.
Critics of the Post Office De-
partment assert it is operating in
the shade Of Benjamin Franklin.
Mr.. Donaldson's retort is that he
only wishes it were. that Franklin
got higher rates for carrying the
mail than he does. Seriously he is
satisfied that the department can
pass any impartial test of its effi-
cheney.
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The room is Henry MeLemers.
on the second floor and its French
windows open on Merjer Square.
the hub of Damascus and its sub
urbs. In the center Of the square
is q bronze column. erected by or
der Of Sultan Abdul Hamid. Leg
end has 1t that the column orig
inally was topped by q statue
Of q Syrian hero but was removed
when the statue said he couldn't t
stand the noise, and threatened
to sue the city for the nervous
breakdown he said was sure to
come to him.
Hub-bub Of the World.
The square is not only the hub
of Damascus-it Is the hub of the
hub-bub of the world. AL the
city's taxis park there, hundreds
of jackasses are tethered there,
and all the street cars and buses
start from there. It is also the
favorite lounging spot of the city's
wandering musicians and street
vendors.
From morn till night and from
night till morn the taxi drivers
toot their horns to attract Gus
toners, the jackasses bray because
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munlclpal1 t ! e s
a n d co-opera-
tives by the
1914 food con-
troll act.
TIL e private
utilities av e
selected this as
a focal point of
attack. The test
will come in the
Senate. It in
wolves directly
the Southwest.
ern Power Ad-
ministration, q
0rao& nY,h1io
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py Ine COunCry'S
first care e r
P o S t m a S t e r
General, Jesse
M. Donaldson.
Mr.. Donald
SON s b a sic
trouble is very,
simple. He is
carry ing the
United States
mail, but Con-
gress won't let
him collect the
cost of doing it.
This means
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me W en- I
asked him for a
nice quiet room.
The room he
gave me. and
the room in
which / am
writin this,
would make a
man who had
lived half a
lifetime in the
Tower Of Babel
pack his suit
case and get
n,lt
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WHICH f6SuIUcQ
from the war
or the corrup-
ton OF some
officials as
the steadily
growing indl-
tration Of "im-
ported Conmu-
nists," +" who ex-
plot the dis
content Of the
people and sup
port the rebel
Hukbalahaps
President El.
So
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By Constantine Bro.On

Internal conditions in the Phil
ippines are deteriorating rapidly.
The reason Is not so much mis-
management or circumstances
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BY Doris EIeeSon

A Congress which is cutting
Post Office Department funds but
attacking cuts in postal services is
being told to put up or shut. up
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McLsmore-
Finds Damascus Hotel
A Tower of Bobel
By Henry McLsmors

DAMASCUS. Syria.-The desk
clerk at the Moayad Hotel here
speaks perfect Arabic so he had no
trouble at all in misunderstanding
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an honest contract that the COM
panies can live by. I want only
what Is in the public interest. That
is all 7 am asking in this case"
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BY Thomas L. Stokes

A basic part Of the Governments
public policy is threatened in Con-
gress. This is the preference in
power distribution guaranteed to
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power project. but such projects
elsewhere could be adversely af- |.
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the MODE Important Mems Corner
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He AlDdys Remembers You

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great public tn
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(See BROWN, Page C-5.)
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routed and in their fight they
either surrendered or sold their
arms to the Communists.
An illustration of what hap
pens is contained in the follow
ing official figures: The State De-
partment announced in 1948 that
64,736 tons of war material had
been made available to China
Out of this, only 1916 tons of
vitally needed ammunition ever
were delivered. The rest-62 900
tonS-either was totally unusable
or of doubtful serviceability. Some
of the Bren guns that arrived
earlier had arrived without their
magazines.
The State Department was de-
termined. after the death of
President Roosevelt, to cause
democratic change" in China.
And on the opinion of many ad-
viserS-officials of the depart
ment or consultants from out
side who had no direct respon-
sibility it decided that the
"agrarians" under Mao TIE -tung
were the answer to the crying
(See BROWN, Page C-5)
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Air Force
Meets Test
BY james J. Strebiq

Just what could our Air Force
fighter units do if war came to-
morrow morning?
The big aerial gunnery meet at
Las Vegas, New, this month was
run to answer such a question.
The nine-day contest was a con-
centrated series of missions calling
! for every job the fighter usually
does.
Planned with the precision of
Olympic Games, the 19-team tour
ney showed that pilots who train
most shoot best.
1t measured the jet plane along
side propeller fighters and proved
the jet can do everything better.
with the important advantage of
speed.
| 1T emphasized the need for men
to be familiar with their equip
ment.
It sspotEghted the glamorless
ground crews-the men respon-
Sible for the airplane and every
thing in it-and gave them a good
mark. ..s
It brought out the competitive
spirit of Air Force fighter groups
down to the last buck private.
The 81 pilots flew the equivalent
of two combat missions daily.
Every fight was timed to the min
ute, from takeof to landing.
Targets were smaller than in
the first meet a year ago. Rules
were frightened up in every way
judged likely to make the tourna-
ment a fair test and increase
safety.
There wasn't single flying
accident in 1850 flights. totaling
1900 hours of air-to-air gunnery,
strafing, dive bombing and rocket
firing. That compared with eight
accidents and two deaths last
year. when less than half as much
flying was done.
A jet pilot made 281 out of a
possible 800 points on dive bomb
ing mission. That meant aver
aging 6 feet from the tiny target
while bombing from about half a
mile away.
A jet pilot put nine out Of 10
bullets into a 10-foot square panel
on straflng mission at about 500
miles an hour.
Another put two out of three
bullets into an aerial tow target.
Each of the three flew a differ
ent type jet fighter.
An encouraging sign was the
high placing of teams from groups
based in Germany, Japan and
Alaska. The two-propeller fighter
teams placed second and third in
their class. The three jet teams
placed third. seventh and eighth.
The meet may become an inter-
service contest next year, with
Navy and Marine fighter teams
included. The prospect also is
that it will be all-jet as far as
the Air Force Is concerned.
mist rihnted hv the Associated presrO
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counteract the propaganda effect
of the youth march, as well as to
prevent it from taking any serious
form in the Western sectors, and
2. They are giving clear and
unmistakable warning to the Rus
slams and their German Com
munist servants that the Western
Allies will not tolerate interference
in Berlin. Above all, the Russians
have been told, we will not let
ourselves be pushed 'arounds in
Berlin or anywhere else.
Western Allied measures to deaI
with the violent phases of the
march take two FORMS.
First and foremost, the Western
Berlin police are being strength
ened to enable them to cope with
any emergency. These are the
same kind Of preparations that
would be taken for the District of
Columbia II hostile elements were
massing across the Potomac to
conquer the District for the State
of Virginia.
Police in Front Line
The job of dealing with the
situation will be, first of all. up
to the Western Berlin police.
There, as throughout Western
occupied Germany, the burden of
preserving order and frustrating
violent attempts to carry out a
coup rests on the German police.
Behind the police stand the
armed forces of the occupation
powers. The Western troops in
Berlin will be alerted throughout
the time the youth rallies are in
progress, ready to step in wherever
needed to support the German
police. In reserve for use In Ber-
lin are occupation forces through
out Western Germany.
The Western powers have
created what amounts to a gen.
eral staff for the three Western
sectors of Berlin, co-ordinating
all phases Of their headquarters
activities and preparing the mill
tary command structure which
may be necessary IL matters get
out of hand.
Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, the
American commander in Berlin.
has taken the preliminary steps
in conjunction with his British
and French colleagues-for the
creation of an overall Western
Berlin command, except that the
top command itself has not yet
been filled. Gen. Taylor is the
likely appointee for that post.
The German police themselves
are being reinforced, both in num-
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FinIetter Reserves OpinionNow;
May Back 7O-Group Air Force
By John A. Giles

A lawyer with a factual style OF
presentation is replacing a color
full supersalesman as Secretary oi
the Air Force.
In Thomas Knight Finletter, the
air arm is not likely to find itself
with any less stanch advocate
than 1t had in w. Stuart Syming-
ton, who now moves to the chair
manship of the important Ma
tional Security Resources Board.
An intellectual with what at
first appears to be a cold and un-
prepossessing bearing, Mr.. Fin
letter is a person who listens in
tently to a question, speaks his
mind and then shuts up.
Close associates stoutly main
tain, however, that his, extreme
reserve with strangers melts as
he grows to know them, that he
has a thoroughly delightful sense
of humor and that he is gracious
and thoughtful of others. They
are unanimous in their compli-
ments as to his ability to organize
his work in the calmest sort of
way and work without fuss OF
feathers.
People work with him, not TO,
him." declare his old associates
with the Presidents Air Policy
Commission. Mr.. Finletter was
chairman of that body whose 70.
group Air Force plan Mr.. Syrning-
ton so effectively sold to the Con.
gress and the American people.
7O.Group Position Unknown
That report. made in 1948
brought about unusual interest ir
the new Air Secretary. And Mr.
Finletter's present position on thai
proposition is still unknown.
Mr.. Finletter told the Senate
Armed Services Committee thai
he felt about the same about the
necessity of a 70-group force" but
he added that he would like tt
take another look at the situation
in the light of present-day cir.
cumstances, according to Chair.
man Tydings, Democrat, of Mary.
land. The Senator revealed thi.
after Mr.. Finletter had been ques.
toned in closed session. Virtually
all nominees undergo public ex.
animation. Mr.. Finletter refused
public comment until he has hac
an opportunity to look over the
situation.
High defense officials state that
neither President Truman nor De-
fense Secretary Johnson ques-
toned Mr.. Finletter as to whether
he would support the Presidents
48-group plan and adds that the
new Secretary is not one who
would throw down his own recon.
mendation. Mr.. Finletter's char
acter and background certainly
support the latter statement.
There is no doubt that the Fin.
letter recommendations were lait
down at a time and under circum.
stances which may be different
than they are today. The armed
forces then were in the first two
months of wedlock under the uni.
f1cation law and no overall stra-
tegic plan existed. Each service
was happily going along it's owr
way. The Finletter commission
in its Survival in the Air Age
report, mapped its own strategic
plan and projected it until 1858.
] lr4 laA &laa nAs.4acax.
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Indifference to Chinese
May Wreck 2-Porty Policy
Continued Assistance to Other Foreign
Nations Endangered if Fighting
NotionoIists Are Ignored
By Constantine Brown

Unless the State what Republican legisla
baltimore line"
the Chinese Nationasts who still fighting the chances
vval of the bipartisan policy extremely SLIM regardless of who
the Republican Party appointed adviser Secretary of State
Acheson.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
By the Assoeieted Press

AKRON, Ohio, March 18.-An
Ohio judge ruled today that more
than 100 cousins OF an 81-year-
old recluse. Miss Francis Louise
Butler, should inherit her estate.
Her holdings have been valued
at 81 million, mostly in property,
but administrators figure this
will shrink to perhaps $575, 900
by the time expenses and back
taxes are paid. She died Janu-
Iary 27, 1949.
Probate Judge Vincent Zurz
ruled today that Miss Buffers
legal residence was in Ohio. Thus
Ohio law, in his opinion, will pre-
vail in the distribution of her
property.
However, three first cousins of
Miss Butler have asked a Chau-
tauqua County court in New
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1OOCousins of RecIuse to Share
ST Million Estate, Judge Rules

York State to declare her legal
residence was in Portland, New
York. She moved here from
Portland in the late 1920's.
If the New York court so rules,
her holdings in that State
about one fourth of her proper
ties-would go to those three
first cousins. Under New York
law, only they would qualify as
heirs to New York property.
The New York court would
have no jurisdiction over her
Ohio holdings.
When she died, Miss Buffers
rooms in a hotel here were lit
tered with newspapers and mis-
cellaneeus bric-a- -brac. Her will
specified her estate should go to
her mother, but her mother died
40 years before Miss Buffers
death.
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Housing Discussion Tonight

Senators Sparkman, Democrat,
of Alabama, and Cain, Republi-
can, of Washington, and Repre-
sentatives Woodhouse. Democrat,
of Connecticut, and Cole, Re
publican, of Kansas, will discuss
Should Congress Act on Hous-
ing" on station WINK at $50
o'clock tonight.
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Justice Reed, Senator Taft, Re
publican, of Ohio, Senator Nc
Mahon, Democrat, of Connecticut
and Secretary of the Air Force
Symington. John Sherman Coop
er, former Senator from Kentucky
and recently United States dele
gate to the United Nations Cen
eral Assembly, will be POSTMASTER
Club President Marvin J. Coles
will preside at the banquet.
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q l u m n l , Will
gather at s pm.
Wednesday to
h or Yale'S
retiring presi-
d e n t D r.
Charles S e v
mour, at the
Yale Club of
w a S h j ngton's
annual banquet
in the May
flower Hotel.
Speakers a t
the dinner will
in c de Su-
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GAR Ladies' to Meet

The Gen. U. S. Grant Circle
No. l, Ladies of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Department OF
the Potomac, will meet at 8 p. m.
Tuesday in room 418. Washing
ton Loan and Trust Co. Building
Ninth and F streets NV.
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Yale Alumni TO Honor
Seymour at Banquet Here

Top-ranking Government of
ficials who are Yale University
graduates, as well as several hun
dred other Washington area
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Let-A functional Mersman ehnirstds
end table; the simplicity OF its design and
brilliant lustre of its mahogany veneer
top and gallery 1oil delight you!
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Zed L. williams & Zed L. williams, jr.,
Auetioneers
Very Desirable
Used Furniture of All Kinds
WILL BE SOLD BY
PUBLIC
AUCTION

Williams Auction House
TUES. tToMoRRoW5. sS5 EdM SUsf MAY Ayi ., PM.
Large assorted lot, splendid
used good condition furni-
ture and household effects
in the auction sale this
week. On exhibition now
to sale hour. Dealers and
individuals attend.
Magnificent mahogany bedroom suite.
Two-tone French-design bedroom
suite.
Burl walnut bedroom suite.
Several attractive breakfast sets.
Mahogany Gov. winthrop style Sec
retary desk.
Maple beds, chests. etc.
Various coffee tables.
Odd dressers and chifforobes.
Odd, twin. three-uuarter and full-siZe
beds.
Lounge and living room chairs.
2-pc.. carved. French Louis XVI liv
rm. suite.
Platform rockers. in leatherette and
Mahogany 2-glass-door bookcases.
| Mahog. tier or deck table.
Nest Of small mahog. tea tables. =.
Very ane, decorated, satin wood
Twin, three-ouarter and full-SiEe fell
and innerspring mattresses.
Mahog. music or record cabinet.
Electric washing machine.
New moor and table lamps and torch.
| iers.
Various other household effects.
AUCTToNEERs' PHONE: MA. 2670
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Two Rail Presidents Support
Measure to Outlaw Strikes

railroads have accepted the rec
concentrations in every case. he
added.
In every one of these instances
where labor has refused to abide
by the recommendations of a fact
finding board" Mr.. Franklin said
Its refusal has been rewarded by
the ultimate granting Of demands
and concessions in excess Of those
which the act-finding boards
found to be fair and justified.
Complete Breakdown Charged.
In the light of this experience
the conclusion is inescapable that
the operation of the machinery
of the Railway Labor Act
has completely broken down"
Both Mr.. Franklin and Mr.
Metzman referred to the walkout
now threatening major lines be-
cause of their refusal to add an
extra fireman on diesel locomo-
tiveS.
Mr.. Metzman said the threat
ened strike would result in the
furloughing of $4,000 workers on
the New York Central alone.
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Evening star., 1950-05-08
BY the ASseciatsd Press

The presidents of two Eastern
railroads urged Congress today tc
approve a bill which would outlaw
rail strikes. They said the present
Railway Labor Act has proved in
capable Of protecting the national
welfare.
The two officials-Gustav Metz
man Of the New York Central
Railroad and Walter s. Franklin
of the Pennsylvania Railroad
presented their views in testimony
prepared for a Senate Labor SUBJ
committee.
The group is considering a
measure by Senator Donnell. Re-
publican, of Missouri, which calls
for compulsory arbitration as a
last resort In rail disputes. Strikes
and iockouts would be illegal.
Refusal in S Cases Cited.
Mr.. Franklin said that since
1941, rail unions have refused In
five out of seven important dis
putes to accept decisions of pres
idential fact-finding board set up
under the Railway Labor Act. The