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Evening star., 1951-06-21
Congressman Urged
To Provide Affidayits
On Outside Incomes

A witness urged today that all
members OF Congress file sworn
statements about their outside
incomes, and at the same time
suggested a way to boost their
pay.
James Loeb. jr., national execu-
tive. secretary OF Americans for
Democratic Action, offered these
and other suggestions to the
Senate Expenditures Committee.
1t is considering proposals for
reorganizing Congress.
1--WE believe that the voters
have right to know the special
financial interests of those who
are elected to represent the gem
eral welfare" Mr.. Loeb said.
while we do not charge that
specific Senators or Representa-
tives promote legislation for their
own personal financial ends, we
believe that a full income dis
closure would provide a safeguard
to which no one should object"
Calls Pay Too Low.
Mr.. Loeb testified that present
pay for Congressmen-$12,500 a
year salary plus $4,000 Of tax-free
income for expenses-is too low.
"Butwe also recognize the nat
ural embarrassment of the mem
bers Of Congress to recommend
increases in their own salaries,
especially at time when eco
nomic stabilization is the order of
the day." he said.
He suggested that the commit
tee ask President Truman to name
"a non-congressional commission
OF respected citizens" to study
lawmakers pay and make recon-
mendations.
Mr.. Loeb said Congress then
could approve proposals made
from the outside"
ADA is political organization
OF self-styled anti-Communist lib
erals. It includes many former
New Dealers.
Would Scrap Seniority.
Mr.. Loeb also recommended that
Congress scrap the seniority
method of selecting chairmen of
committees He said those mem
bers of Congress who are in basic
disagreement with the programs
Of their party should not be per-
mitted to be chairmen OF COM
mitteeS.
He also advocated that Con-
gress make detailed rules to pro-
tect witnesses before investigating
committees; make it easier to end
f1libusters in the Senate; curb the
power of the House Rules Com
mittee, and deny the full freedom
allowed former Senators and Rep
resentativeS if the ex-member be-
comes lobbyist.
Evening star., 1951-06-21

lODonnell, former bomber COM
mander in Korea.
Hopes of speedily concluding the
hearings were increased with Gen.
MacArthur's rejection yesterday
of the committees invitation toI
return for rebuttal testimony.
At his news conference today.
President Truman declined all
comment on Gen. Macarthur.
He refused to discuss the gen.
erals statement of yesterday COM
planning that "due to the orders Of
the President silencing the perth
nent witnesses to his part in the
action" some pertinent facts had
not been brought out at the
hearing.
The President also refused COM
ment on the generals speech
making in Texas.
/ Mr.. Hurley was Secretary of
War in the Hoover cabinet at the
time Gen. Macarthur was Army
Chief of Staff. In his initial tes-
timony he offered no comments on
the Macarthur Truman conflict.
Mr.. Hurley said the Yalta
agreement-signed by President
Roosevelt. Winston Churchill and
Josef Stain was. an immoral
and cowardly" pact which secretly
gave Russia territorial concessions
in Manchuria at China'S expense.
Byrnes Issues Statement.
James r. Byrnes, who became
Secretary Of State five months
after the pact was signed. said IN
a statement at Columbia, S. c.,
last night that he did not learn Of
the agreements made there until
months after he took Office.
Secretary of State Acheson, tes-
tifying in the current inquiry, said
the concessions were granted Rus
Isia to insure her entry into the
war against Japan At the time,
he said, there was no certainty the
atomic bomb would work and it
was feared an attack on Japan
might result in l million casual
ties. He also said the Soviets
might have grabbed even more
territory if there had not been the
Yalta agreement.
/ Hr. Hurley sharply criticized the
AcheSon testimony and insisted
Japan was close to defeat at the
time the Yalta agreement was
signed. Senator Hickenlooper sided
with Mr.. Hurley and added that
he could produce an individual
who told Mr.. Roosevelt before the
Yalta conference that the bomb
would work
Evening star., 1951-06-21
Cut in Annual Leave Is Sent to Conferees

The bill also carried the Fergu-
son amendment, first attached tc
the Labor Federal Security bill
last week. slashing 10 per cent
from payroll funds of all the
boards and commissions grouped
under Independent Offices. This is
estimated to save $14 million in
these agencies.
On the assumption that fewer
employees would be needed in an
agency with a shorter vacation
period, there may be some over
tapping in the savings estimated
from the Ferguson and Douglas
amendments.
Overriding the protests Of ad-
Evening star., 1951-06-21

Byrd amendment would mean an
other Is per cent off publicity
bureaus.
Senator Anderson, Democrat.
of New Mexico. a former Secre-
tary of Agriculture, led hope
less fight against the Byrd amend
ment. He argued that the Atomic
Energy Commission. which has "a
particular need for supervising in
formation which goes out about
its activities, would be cut by the
amendment.
Senator Saltonstall, Republican.
of Massachusetts, replied that the
Acc has "a persons in it's public
information section and would
lose only six.
Evening star., 1951-06-21
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. ''
THURSDAY,

Iministration leaders, a coalition in
the Senate also cut $500, 900 from
the fund for President Truman's s
office force and for official White
House travel and entertainment
Byrd Starts Move.
The move to begin reducing the
size of publicity bureaus in Gov
ernment agencies was started yes
|terday by Senator Byrd, Democrat,
of Virginia. BY a vote of 63 to 10,
he put through an amendment
cutting by Is per cent the budget
estimates for this purpose in each
of the 27 agencies covered by the
Independent Offices bill.
If the Ferguson general 10 per
cent cut sticks in conference, the
Evening star., 1951-06-21

The complete air conditioner for
larger bedrooms, oversize living
rooms and offices! Ideal for sleep-
ing comfort. Keeps out dirt, SCOT
poiien! Perfectly quiet operationi
"a h.p. SGnn
Evening star., 1951-06-21
Plaza Louds u. S. Foreign Aid
AS Way to Fight Communism
Star Staff Photo.

| the case with Romania or Bull
garia or Hungary or Czecho.
lslovakia or Poland. The free
countries of Western Europe dc
not feel toward their powerful
Ineighbor (Russia) as our neigh
bors feel toward us-and that is
one of the happiest things in the
world"
Mr.. Truman added that his
guest comes from a most re-
markable country" which ne hopes
to "see before I have to pass out
of this world of tears"
MIR. Plaza praised the United
States as the first great nation
in history with no intention oi
conquering other lands or sub.
jugating other peoples.
"And this" he said, "is my mis-
sion in Latin America, under
standing you as I do, loving tn,
United States as I do-convinc
ing my people of what the Unitet
States is and why we should b.
with you"
/ At his news conference today
MIR. Truman said relations between
the United States and the Latii
American nations are better thai
they have ever been and that h,
wanted to keep them that way.
He spoke of his pleasure of vel
coming President Plaza and de
scribed the visitor as a good mar
who wants to do the right thing
This afternoon the Nation
guest will go to Mount Vernon an,
Arlington National Cemetery to la
wreathS on the tombs of Georg
Washington and the Unknown
Soldier.
| Tonight he and Mrs. Plaza vii
be guests of Secretary of Stat
| and Mrs. Acheson at Anderson
house
Evening star., 1951-06-21
BY ]. A. o'Leory

A final decision on the 6-day
cut in the annual vacations OF
Government employees and on q
score OF other economy amend
ments In the $6.2 billion inde-
pendent offices bill was up to a
joint House, Senate Conference
Committee today. It may be a
week or more before the con-
fereeS bring in their verdict.
The Senate passed the bill late
yesterday after cutting the num-
Der Of publicity men in q score
of agencies. This was one of the
last in q series of amendments by
which the Senate reduced the
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tContinued From First Page.)
you in this fight against servitude,
poverty and injustice.
This is why the free nations
OF the world must close ranks
and fight for the principles that
inspire your way of life"
President Plaza said he has a
"deep-rooted faith that commu-
nism has no chance to impose its
doctrines upon the world, par
ticularly in the Americas which
do not believe in peace Impo> d
by tyranny"
However, he warned, comr1u-
nism is a threat which must be
met by giving the masses "the op-
portunity to work and to seek theil
betterment and we must do Il
now"
Latins Understand U. S. Aims.
He said Latin America under.
stands the aims and policies Of
the United States, but the Un.Jeo
States in turn must understand
the realities and problems Of
Latin America.
I'm the case of Latin America
it is wise to recall how near We
are to you. We practically live ir
a wing OF the same building" hi
said.
Regarding the Point Four pro.
gram. which he strongly urgec
Congress to push through, he said
I'VE all should gain from sucl
a process which does not call fol
embarrassing and unnecessary
handouts. A program of thi!
nature would constitute a vita
factor in eliminating all possibil.
ity of communistic inflltration il
the world in which we live.
TT would mean answering falls,
promises with tangible accom-
Iplishments, lies with the truth. +,
philosophy of imposition with on,
of freedom.
Because a bold policy o
credit and technical assistance fo
economic development would de
feat poverty. which is a breeding
ground for communism, such
policy is urgently needed.
THE vision of the statesmen
and parliamentarians of today vii
profoundly alter the course of his
tory"
, Mr.. Plaza and Mr.. Truman
: found much in common at tn
: dinner given by MIR. Truman las
might.
Mr.. Plaza said he and his hos
didn't get in each others way be
:. cause they ate with their lef
hands.
Mr.. Truman told the other guest
that the official visitor "doesn'
EIgive a damn" about protocol an
1--WE completely agree" on that.
:. "Allergic to Grammar"
/ The Ecuadorian President, VIII
was born and educated in tn
United States, said he has bee
! I"allergic to grammar all my life
and so the English language iva
I. right down my alley" because "yo
can say things in so many way,
take a short cut and still max
j sense"
/ Il agree with him on that,
!; said MIR. Truman.
t. On the serious side, the tw
!; Presidents had nice things to sa
about democracy in this part {
!. the world.
Mr.. Truman said:
I'VE have neighbors to tn
:. north, and we have neighbors o
the south. Those neighbors al
!. not afraid of us. They are friendl
to us. They know that we hay
]. no designs on their sovereignty q
lion their resources.
II fear very much that that Is nc
Evening star., 1951-06-21

bill more than $25 million below
the recommendations of the APP
preparations Committee.
Other Elements Not Included.
The foregoing estimate of saw
|ings does not include the effect in
dollars of reducing annual leave
from 26 to 20 days. nor does 1t
include the amendments which
eliminated SIS automobiles and
ordered the dropping Of chauffers
for most official cars.
Senator Douglas. Democrat, OF
Illinois, father of the shorter va
cation amendment. figures it will
save 5000 million, but the COM
|mittee clerks have not made an
official computation.
Evening star., 1951-06-21
Ethiopia PIons Exhibit

Adds ABABA (P.-The ETH.
opian government plans an in.
dustrial. agricultural and com.
mercial exhibition in Adds Ababs
late next fall. Most of the space
devoted to domestic exhibits viii,
display agricultural products, in.
cluding specimens of the millions
OF donkeyS, horses and mules and
COWS and bulls of Ethiopia. It is
reported that there will be dis
played for the first time the many
mineral potentialities of Ethiopia.
Evening star., 1951-06-21

In South Australia, a woman
caught an 881-pound shark on a
line.
, 1951-11-16

The Alexander Hamilton
Post No. IS, will conduct a pro-
gram of Sports on the Chris
tiansted Wharf on Thursday,
November %, Thanksgiving
Day beginning at 1890 PM.
Events, for the day will in
clude:
Swimming Race
Foot Race
Pousser Race
Bicycle Race
Grease Pole
Bag Race
Egg & Spoon Race
Potato Race
Eating Race
Tug 20" War
Three Legged Race
Wheel Barrow Race
All interested persons
should contact any Of the fol.
lowing members:
VIII Thurland. E. R. Boiling.
J. T. Williams, H. L. Canegata
V. George and L. H. Emanuel.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
, 1951-11-16
ALCOA
INC.
Robt L. MerWln Il Co., Inc.

-.
it; this morning he went to the
hiding place, removed and re-
checked to see that the entire
amount was still there.
He was charged with grand
larceny and bail set at $500.
by Judge D. G. Canegata.
Mr.. Rios expressed his
praise for the way in which
Sergeant Plaskett and Patrol
man Krigger handled the case
and said he is grateful that all
the money was recovered.
, 1951-11-16

S~SA ASAAE -
Advertisement for Bids
PROJECT WILL, CHARLOTTE AMALIE. ST. THOMAS
The Virgin Islands Housing & Redevelopment Authority
will receive sealed bids until 2 pm. Asst on the 10Th day Of
November, 1851, at its office in Charlotte Amalie, at which
time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud,
for the construction of a Housing Development at ST. Thomas,
V. J. described thus:
Thirty (3o) reinforced concrete buildings with load
bearing clay block walls. of the two-storY type, COM
prising two hundred forty (240) dwelling units; together
with utilities and site improvements, underground els
terms. infiltration gallery and treatment plant. all in
accordance with fhe contract documents as prepared by
Schimmelpfennig, Ruiz & Gonzalez. Architects. Rio
Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Copies of the documents may be obtained by prospective
bidders upon depositing a certified check for One Hundred
$1oOOO with the Virgin Islands Housing & Redevelop-
ment Authority for each set of documents SO obtained. Such
deposit will be refunded upon return of the plans and docu-
ments in good condition within a period Of tenQ0 days after
the opening of bids.
Proposed forms of contract documents, including plans
and specifications, are on file at the office of the Vrgi Islands
Housing and R development Authority, Box 60, Charlotte
Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands These may also be OBJ
tanned from the offices Of Schimmelpfennig, Ruiz & Gonzalez,
Architects, Monserrate Building, Rio Piedras, PR
A certified check or bank draft, payable to the Virgin
Islands Housing & Redevelopment Authority, US. Govern
ment Bonds or satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder
and acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five per cent
G%) of the bid shall be submitted with each bid.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish salts
factory performance and payment bond.
Bidders attention is called to the fact that under the CON
tract, the Contractors shall be required to pay not less than the
minimum wage rate set forth in the specification an dto com
ply with the minimum wage laws now in effect in St. Thomas,
VI and with shy minimum wage laws that may come into
effect during the life of the Contract, without increase in
contract price.
The Virgin Islands Housing & Redevelopment Authority
reserves the right tereject any or all bids and to waive any
informaltes in bidding.
No bids shall be withdrawn for period of sixty (6O) days
subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent of the
Virgin Islands Housing & Redevelopment Authority.
VIRGIN STANDS HOUSING and
REDEVELOPMENT
Henry w. de Lagarde, Executive Director
, 1951-11-16
NEWS

The SIS Ocean Ranger"
from New Orleans and Mobile
is due at Frederiksted on or
about the 21st of November,
accepting freight for Barba-
dos, Caripito, Georgetown and
Paramaribo. -.
, 1951-11-16
CLEAN UP, PAINT UP, FIX UP

IN THE DISTRICT COURT F TIL VIRGIN ISLANDS. us
DIVISION OF ST. CRoIx AT CHRIsTIANsTED
In the matter Of the Estate of
CREAGH, Deceased PROBATE Nc. 13-1950
NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT
|, Kathleen Dunlop, Executrix of the above entitled es-
tate, pursuant to an Order Of the District Court. d at ed
November 2, 1851, do hereby give notice to all interested
parties to appear at the Court House of the said Court in
Christiansted on the 30th day Of Nov, 1851, at 1000 O'Clock
AM. to file any objections if any they have at the hearing on
the Final Account Of said estate.
First publication made this 10th day of November
1851, Al.
Almeric L. & Christian Kathlear Drn1oa
ACtofney Executrix
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Wife Of 0usted Sheriff
is Given Husbands S Job
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

BENTON, Tenn. Nov. 10.-The
Good Government League faction
retained control Of the sheriff s
Office in Polk County today by
naming the wife of John Edwards
ousted law-enforcement chief, te
the job.
The county court, which is con.
trolled by the bipartisan Goot
Government League. elected 35'
year-old Mrs. Edwards as sheriff
and plans to install her next Mon
day.
| F. D. Higgins. Polk County cor
oner, has been acting sheriff since
Mr.. Edwards was dismissed by or
der of Circuit Judge Wayne Olive
in September.
Judge Oliver held that Mr.. Ed.
wards had failed to restrain mob!
of partisans who prevented foul
separate attempts Of the county
court-then controlled by a ma
jority of Democrats-to meet las
spring.
The custer case has been ap.
pealed to the State Supreme Court
Mr.. Higgins. however. has retained
the same set of deputies Mr.. Ed
wards had.
Polk has been the scene o.
three political killings in three
years.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
.Coast-to-Coast
Dial Phones Start
By the Associotsd Press

ENGLEWOOD, N. j.. Nov. TO-
Coast telephone dialine
was inaugurated officially today
with a conversation about the
weather and Jersey mosquitoes.
The initial call, a mayor-to-
mayor hookup, was completed in
l8 seconds from the time Mayor
M. Leslie Denning of EngleWooo
made 10 twists at telephone dial
until Mayor Frank P. Osborn OF
Alameda. Calf, answered.
Long distance dialing was made
available to some 10000 customers
of the Englewood office of the New
Jersey Bell Telephone Co.
The mayors conversation, broad
cast by loudspeakers to State,
Bergen County and local officials
and telephne company representa-
tives, started with a discussion OF
the weather.
Englewood telephone users now
are able to dial three areas on the
West Coast-San Francisco. Sacra-
mento and Oakland. They also
may dial directly to such areas as
Boston, Providence, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh. Cleveland and Detroit.
Evening star., 1951-11-11

The public relations group said
something like a million, or A
1per cent, of Government workers
quit their jobs annually. This
high turnover rate is extremely
costly to Government, 1t was
pointed out.
| Civil Service Commission off,
tcials said the turnover rate is
lonly about 36 per cent and added
that this includes transfers from
employees from non-defense agen-
lcies as ordered by Congress. Com
mission officials acknowledge that
I the turnover rate Is toe. high, but
they said it isn't as bad as some
try to make out. @---.-se-.
\ \
FHA-The Public Housing Ad-
lrninistration has singled out an
entire section of the agency fo1
a meritorius group award. PHA
Commissioner John Taylor Egan
cited the Al employees of the man
uals and forms section for "ex-
Iceptionally meritoriouS services
during the last year. The citation
presented to the section chief
James B. Cardwell, praised the
units efforts in the duplication
and distribution of essential ma
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Clinic for Children
Urged in Montgomery

Establishment of $500.000
diagnostic center of children in
trouble will be recommended to
the Montgomery County Council
by the County Youth Commission
which held a conference at the
Leland Junior High School in
Bethesda yesterday.
The plan was Endorsed by 130
leaders of youth organizations.
The Board of Education would
operate the center. u
The conference also urged in
creased school guidance facilities,
greater financial aid for commu-
nifty service agencies and increased
information on home, church and
school problems.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Virginia Radio Series
To Discuss Education
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 10.-A
new series of half hour radio pro-
grams will be started at 1890 pm
Tuesday under the joint auspices
of the Virginia Congress of Par
ents and Teachers and the Vir-
ginia Education Association. The
program will originate over Sta
ton WRVA and will be carried
simultaneously by several other
stations throughout the State.
Educators and school patrons
will face each other for a give
and-take on basic school policies
and issues.
The programs will deal with
such controversial issues as the
cost of school financing, the sepa-
ration from job training and the
teaching of moral and spiritual
values.
Evening star., 1951-11-11

terials at any time Of the day or
might and on week ends, and also
on the economical way In which
the work has been done.
Cash awards. were made to the
following employees of the unit:
Mr.. Cardwell, Walter E. Bell, Paul
D. Griffin. Malcolm Harwood,
Layedia Soils, Helen Thaler. Mil
dred Mitchell. Charles Ailstock,
Hilda Black. Edith Berman, Irene
Bishop, Esther M. Cooper, Fred
die Dickerson, Marilyn Joseph,
Dorothy Kennedy. Joshua Lee,
Naomi Sibert, Louise Simms, Irene
c. Taylor, Mamie Vestal, Eliska
Williams. Glenn Gustafson, George
w. Wagner and George E. Mat
thews.
Also, William B. Addison,
Charles Bradford, Clyde w. Bru-
Iner, George A. Harris. Annie M.
Henry, Eloise Isaac, Eugertha
Jones, Joseph Jones, James A.
IMobley. Youtha Moore, Clifton
Iooindexter, John w. Powell, James
10. Robinson, Julius Schneider, An
nette. Tancil, James T. Walker,
Robert Volt, John B. Wentworth,
Lawrence j. Carter. James I.
johnson. Laymon o. Lyons, Har-
old Stoner and Theodore Ward.
Evening star., 1951-11-11

after about 166 others had been
killed. This was in 1917 when he
was attached to a mine rescue
car. The mine fire was at North
Red Lodge, Mont. q.
Saves Their Lives.
After a night of speeding by
railroad in the car to North Butte.
Mr.. Forbes made his way to the
level 1900 feet below ground
where the eight men had barri-
caded themselves. He succeeded
in getting them-and himself
out alive.
Mr.. Forbes worked in the an
thracite mines as a boy and dur
ing vacations from Pennsylvania
State College from which he was
graduated in 1911 as mining en-
gineer.
He is member of number of
professional societies but of nc
organizations outside his field.
He is married and lives at 1922
Chevy Chase drive, Chevy Chase
Md. A daughter. Mrs. Donald F.
West, lives in Pittsburgh. A son
John w. Forbes, is in business and
lives in Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Commissioners Back
Fight Against Diabetes

The District Commissioners
have added their Endorsement to
Diabetes Detection Week, which
starts today.
In q proclamation, the Com
missioners called on all District
residents to cooperate In the
drive by getting a free laboratory
test for diabetes.
Un Ter the program. area resi-
dents may get diabetes tests by
leaving specimens of urine at drug
store and hospital collection CEN
ters. There Is no charge, and re-
ports will be mailed to them with
in a week or 10 days.
The Commissioner pointed out
that diabetes is one Of the 10
major causes of death in the Dis
trict. but that diabetes can bs
controlled.
They pointed out. however. that
"only by the discovery Of their
disease and proper medical care
may these people be returned to
normal. healthy and vigorous
lives"
Among other community groups
backing the drive are the Dis.
trict Medical Society and the
Washington Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation.