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Evening star., 1951-08-05
Son Of Ex-Promoter
Denies Mccarthy
Owes Gaming Debt
By the Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. A.
Bob Byers, jr.. denied today that
Senator Joseph r. Mccarthy, Re-
publican, of Wisconsin, ever owed
him any money as the result Of
a crap game.
Bob Byers, ST., in testimony
before a Federal bankruptcy ref
cree earlier this week, said Sena-
tor Mccarthy lost $500 to his
son, Bob, jr., at the Hotel Seneca
in Columbus two years ago. Byers,
ST., implied the money was not
paid.
Mr.. Byers, jr., today told news
men:
Mccarthy owes me no money
and never did. Certainly no money
changed hands as far as we were
concerned in the game. AS far
as I was concerned there was no
money involved. We were just
having fun. There were a bunch
of people there and we were
passing the time"
Never Plays For Money.
Young Byers said he had only
the fainteSt idea of how to shoot
dice and probably would be a
set-up for some one who did. "I
would not get into money game, ;"
he said.
Bob Byers, ST.. former real
estate promoter, is undergoing
bankruptcy proceedings.
Informed by telephone in Wash
ington of the elder Byers' testi-
mony, Senator Mccarthy said last
Wednesday: II don't recall when II
have ever played craps. I would
not have that much money any
way. No. Bob, jr. and have
never played craps"
The Mccarthy incident came
up in a hearing before Bank
ruptcy Referee Gail H. Butt when
the elder Byers was questioned
about business expenses in con-
nection with real estate promo
tions.
Paid standard" Fee.
Mr.. Byers testified he paid SEN
ator Mccarthy $500 dollars as a
standard fee" on two occasions.
He added:
But my son took $500 away
from him in a crap game and that
put us ahead. I think my son
is still waiting for his money. :. /
The nature of the service Sena-
tor Mccarthy allegedly performed
for Byers. ST., was not made clear
at the hearing. Mr.. Byers. ST.,
said written promotional matter
put out here under Senator Nc
Carthy's name was actually the
work of Clark Wideman, now a
Columbus promotional man.
Bob, jr., did not comment on
how his father came to make the
statement about the crap game.
The elder Byers was not avail
able for comment on the sons
statement.
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Mccarthy Insists
Truman Apologize for
Wisconsin Islander
By the Assoeiaied Press

Senator Mccarthy. Republican,
of Wisconsin, wrote President Tru-
man yesterday that he ought to
apologize to the people of Wis
consin "for having criticized and
slandered them"
Alluding to a speech Mr.. Tru-
man made in Detroit a week ago
Senator Mccarthy said in letter
to the President;
You criticized me and ques-
toned the Americanism of the
people of my State because out OF
112 people who were questioned
at Fourth of July picnic. Ill re-
fused TO- sign petition being
circulated by the Madison (Wis.)
Capital-Ti
Mr.. Truman said the petition
contained nothing but quotations
from the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Bill of Rights
He said people were afraid that
if they signed they might be called
Communists. This showed, he
added, the effects of Lies and
SANDER" being spread across the
country.
Charges Called a Lie.
Senator Mccarthy told the Sen.
ate the groundwork for Mr.. Tru-
mans speech was laid by Com.
.munist editor of a Communists
paper" He said he was refer.
ring to Cedric Parker, city editor
|of the Capital-Times.
Mr.. Parker later denied Sena.
tor McCarthy's charges. termins
them "a deliberate lie" He alst
said he had not staged" tht
Capital l-Times' July petitiGA
story, as Senator Mccarthy con-
tended. Mr.. Parker said tht
story was conceived and exc.
cuted" by John Hunter, a re-
porter for the newspaper, anc
that it showed "the demoraliZine
effect of McCarthyism on the
American people"
Editor Visited President.
In his letter to Mr.. Truman
Senator Mccarthy said:
Il assume that you knew the
nature of the Capital-Times ir
view of the fact that its editor
rtWilliam j. Evjue) came to Wash.
ington last year for an appoint.
Iment with you, after which hi
announced from the White House
steps that he had given you &
report on Mccarthy and that HI
was going to Wisconsin to f1ght
'McCarthyism.'
His paper fulfilled that prom.
Use with editorials aping or paral.
leling those in the Communist
Daily Worker, including the Com.
munist Party line attack on the
courts for having recently con-
victed the II Communists.
Senator Mccarthy told the Pres
dent "this is all a matter o1
public information and I assume
lit was known to you or at least
to your speech writers at the tims
the Detroit speech was prepared.
Evening star., 1951-08-05

than the starting salary of $500
for scientists and engineers.
Does this make sense?" the
official asked. How can we hope
to attract and keep the best
people in Government when we
pay beginning postal workers al
most as much as we pay our
scientists and engineers?"
**
FLAT PAY-On the other hand,
many employe leaders point out
that the only reason Congress is
being asked to vote a Federal pay
raise is because of the high cost of
living. They also cite the fact
that starting salaries for engi-
lneers and scientists would only
be $1,000 under the 81 per cent
bill.
And its the lower income groups
that are the hardest hit by rising
costs, they add. Therefore, it
would be grossly unfair to give
top bracket employees an $500
raise and only 5000 to employees
in the lower-salary scales as
would be the case in the 8.4 per
cent bill. the union officials argue.
There's no doubt that most
Government employees would ben
eft most under the $400 bill. Only
those employees earning $4,000 or
more a year would get a greater
increase under the 8.4 per cent
measure and fewer than 20 per
cent of Federal workers are in
this category.
In the final analysis, the issue
will have to be settled in House
Senate conference after the two
bodies of Congress approve the
bills of their respective commit
tees.
At the moment, both commit
tees say they will stick by their
guns, but one or the other will
have to yield, or else some COM
promise be worked out. At any
rate, the final version promises
to be a pretty liberal pay increase
for Government workers this year,
all things considered.
William Armbrust is resigning
as president of the United Ma
tional Association of Post Off1ce
Clerks to take an administrative
| job in the Post Office Depart
ment's budget division. Mr.. Arm
brust has been one of the most
effective employe representatives
on Capitol Hill on Federal worker
Legislation. =. The Office of Naval
Research needs patent attorneys
and advisers at salaries of $5,400
to $500 a year. Rufus l..
Michel. acting administrative Of
ficer for the District Office of
Price Administration, has re-
turned to his position with the
General Services Administration S
Federal Supply Office. He was
succeeded by Henry r. Rose.
William L. Martin, head of the
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics' air.
plane design branch. has retired
afters34 years Government service.
fBe sure to read the Federal
| Spotlight column In The Star
| sir days a 1ueek and listen to the
| Spotlight radio broadcast at
| 6:15 Pm. euery Saturday over
| WMAL.I
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Real Estate Group
SAYS u. n. Unit Pushes
Socialism in HOUSING
BY the Associated Press

The National Association of Real
Estate Boards charged yesterday
that the United Nations is trying
to apply the doctrine of socialism
to housing.
Alexander Summer of Newark,
N. j., association president, sent
"a letter to Warren Austin, Ameri-
can delegate to II. N, protesting
against what he termed the pro
motion of socialized housing on
an international scale" by the
u. MS social affairs department.
This appears to us as an i'm
proper function of the U. NJ" he
stated.
Mr.. Summer said there was
grave concern" owe ra recent bull
letin of the U. N. department. He
quoted the bulletin as saying 'it
is felt that it may be necessary to
devise methods whereby the COM
munity may acquire new rights
over the use of land"
This said Mr.. Summer
sounds alarmingly like an inten-
ton to spread the principles Of
Britain'S notorious town and coun-
try planning act which strikes at
the essence of private property
ownership as we know it and as
1t is guaranteed in the United
States Constitution"
Mr., Summer cited a bulletin
editorial which said a recent con-
gress of the International Fedora
ton OF Housing and Town Plan
ming at Zurich, Switzerland, "free-
ly admitted that housing for the
great mass of people is impossible
today without some kind of state
subsidy or public financial sup
port :"
Mr.. Summer asked Mr.. Austin
to consider this socialist pleading
under the guise of reporting"
He declared, when private
home production in the United
States gets about twice as much
production in all phases of con-
struct1on per man hour as does
socialist production in Europe, it
deserves better than ill-informed
and patronizing criticism by an
agency that holds itself out to be
interested in more efficient home
production in other parts of the
world"
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Maryland
and .
Virginia
News in Brief
MoryIond All Week
To Open Tomorrow

About 1900 Maryland farm
youngsters are expected at the
University of Maryland tomorrow
for the 29th annual State All
Club meeting.
The agenda is packed with
classes. assemblies, campfires. ath-
letic events, games. contests, ves-
per services and square dances.
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Shooting
Continued From First Page

clasping his money bag and shout
ing for help.
He ran past a gasoline station.
but attracted no attention until
the motorman saw him and slowed
his car. Mr. Manning said the
other man was not far behind Mr..
Cooperman when he opened fire.
1t was shortly after midnight
a week ago that Mr.. Cooperman
called police and told them a man
wearing goggles and a leather
helmet and carrying a SO caliber
revolver forced him into back
room and stole $4,000 from the
liquor store safe.
Mr.. Kashta supported Mr..
Cooperman's story at that time.
He told police he returned to the
liquor store after making a de-
livery and found Mr.. Cooperman
locked in a closet.
Detectives suspected the story
and Precinct Detective Thomas
Herlihy watched the store after
it had closed. He saw Mr.. Cooper
man return about / am. after
making the robbery report, and
enter the darkened establishment.
He questioned the proprietor and
Mr.. Cooperman said he came back
only to get some beer and left.
$2,S27 Found in Store.
Later the detective searched the
store. He found 1927 hidden on a
shelf under the cash register and
$4,000 in a trash can behind the
store.
Mr.. Cooperman then was ar
rested and charged with making
a false report. Police said he con-
fesSed the charge and deposited
$l00 as collateral, which he for
feited without any further expla-
nation.
Mr.. Cooperman's partner, Asher
Pomerantz, was absent from the
city when the false report was
made a week ago.
Mr.. Pomerantz was in the LIQUOR
store with his partner and nephew
when the gunman entered. Homi-
eide squad detectives said he told
them he noticed something sus-
piciouS in the demeanor of the
man who entered and started
edging toward the front door.
AS he bolted to get out of the
store, Mr.. Pomerantz told police.
the gunman opened fire, but
missed him and hit his nephew
Mr. Pomerantz said he ran I'D
the street but did not encounter
any one to whom he could ap-
peal for aid.
l. Mr.. Cooperman, who lived at
1409 Varnum street NV, appar-
emily bolted for the front door
behind his partner. At the Dis
Itrict Morgue it was found he was
shot five times in the abdomen
and twice in the back.
The multiplicity of bullet wourds
in the dead mans body added to
the mystif1cation of investigators.
They said they did not under
stand how a man could run as far
as Mr.. Cooperman did with five
.38-caliber bullets in his abdomen
Yet Mr.. rIanninp tod fhe''" H.
fore he collapsed. that no one
was IN front of Mr.. Coope4 ...un
when he came out of his store.
The gunman made no attempt
to pick up the canvas money bag
which Mr.. Cooperman dropped as
he fell dead beside the open door
of the street car.
The Black and White Taxjcab
Co. driver who repeatedly ricked
up the gunman had not been To-
Gated three hours after the shoot
iY1o
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Baltimore County Ready
To Buy Belt Highway Land
By the Associated Press

TOWSON. Md, Aug. 4.-John
B. Funk, chief engineer for Bal
timore County. said today the
county and the State Roads Com
mission are ready to start buying
right-of-way for the first section
of belt highway that may some
day almost circle Baltimore.
The proposed beltway would
connect Route / on the Southwest
with Route 40 on the West, Route
140 on the Northwest, Route Ill
on the North and Route 1 and
Route 40 on the Northeast.
The long-range project is esti-
mated to cost about $40 million
and Baltimore has agreed to con-
tribute 81 million to 50 million.
Evening star., 1951-08-05

the approaching
c m m u nifty
Chest drive.
The campaign
will open Octo-
ber Is with six
m m u nifty
| c ests from
| Wa S h | n g I on
and the sur
rounding , areas
combining for
on over = all
drive.
Mrs. Clark,
the first woman
| Tn xarv q &C
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Virqinio Fire Chiefs Meet

Civil defense problems were
foremost in the minds of Vir-
ginia fire chiefs as they prepared
for their 21st annual convention
which opens today at Luray.
Planning for civil defense emer-
gencies will be thoroughly dis
cussed at both the three-day ses-
sion of the fire chiefs and the 65th
annual Virginia State Firemen' s
Convention which will be held at
Luray Wednesday through Friday
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Bottle Petitions CAA

Alexandria Councilman Mar
shall J. Beverly announced that
Gov. Battle has written the Civil
Aeronautics Administration in
protest of low-fying aircraft over
Northern Virginia.
The councilman, who is conduct
ing campaign against low flying
planes, said the Governor acted
on his request. He said Senator
Byrd and Representative Smith,
Democrats, of Virginia also had
written the CAA about the prob
lem previously.
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Hotels Ready for Tourists

ROM. (P.-Italy's hotels now
boast 100000 beds compared with
10000 available to tourists and
travellers il 1945. The National
Hotel Association reported the
present total represented an in
crease Of $4,000 beds since 1910.
Evening star., 1951-08-05
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia - Sunny
and continued cool with a high of
80. Tomorrow, fair and somewhat
warmer.
Maryland and Virginia-Sunny
Evening star., 1951-08-05

and continued cool. Tomorrow.
fair and somewhat warmer. Highs
today in Maryland of rs to 80, and
in Virginia of rs to 80.
Wind: Northwest at five miles
an hour at IL pm,
Evening star., 1951-08-05
The Federal Spotlight:
Administration, Unions to Push
For Action on Pay Raise Bills
By Joseph Young

The administration plans to
do some backstage maneuvering
on Capitol Hill in an effort to
get Congress to approve the 8.4
Evening star., 1951-08-05

NA NCA1 ! uioC
bill voted by the
Senate civil
Service COM
lnittee instead
OF the fiat $400
m e a ure ap-
proved by the
Fl ouse Civil
Service Co m
rnittee.
At the same
time, most of
the Gov ern-
lnent elnploye
unions also will
Evening star., 1951-08-05
U. S. Leeds Platinum Users

NEW YORK. - The United
States is the principal consumer of
the platinum metals, and uses
more each year than all other
countries combined.
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Mrs. Clark 10 Head
Government Unit in
Chest Campaign

President Truman yesterday
named Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark,
Treasurer of the United States,
to head the Government unit in
Evening star., 1951-08-05
Charlottesville Concert

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Aug.
"a lSpeciaD The Municipal Band
will present a concert at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the McIntire Amphi-
theater at the University OF Vir-
iginia.
Evening star., 1951-08-05

Belfast, Northern Ireland, is
talking of imposing its first traf-
fic speed limit.
Evening star., 1951-08-05
SECTION D.
SECTION {.

Classified Advertising.
Classified Advertising Pages E Ills
This edition contains This
Weeks Magazine OF "a pages. q
12-page comic section and Is
pages OF rotogrdUure.
Evening star., 1951-08-05

thunder showers today
Florida Central Gulf States northwestern sector of the
region Dakotas Columbia plateau western slopes of
Central Rockse the Panhandle Except for
tnued cool weather the Middle Atlantic States most of
Eastern half of United States will
with little change of temperature expected elsewhere
WirephotO Map
Evening star., 1951-08-05

Nlne-tenths of Peru's people live
off the soil.
Evening star., 1951-08-05

BE sure to read the Federal
Spotlight column In The Star
sir days a 1Ueek and listen to the
Spotlight radio broadcast at
6:15 Pm. euery Saturday over
WMAL.) ~a
Evening star., 1951-08-05

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one-half hour after sunset
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Evening star., 1951-08-05

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Evening star., 1951-08-05

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
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Evening star., 1951-06-24
BY The Asseeloisd Press
NEW YORK.

Georgia Gibbs Is q honey Of q
singer but she hasn't found q fel-
low she wants to marry. asked
her about this question directly
because she is o good looking girl
who should be interested in al
husband.
This small girl with the red hair
says she is one singer who didn't
get over the top with a prelim-
mary appearance-she got there
by hard work. That's what she
said when she sang at the WAL
|dorf Astoria: II got to Park ave-
nue. by q simple process hard
work. "
Miss Gibbs, q realist, says she
came up the hard way. She start
led singing when she was q baby
lin an orphanage. She was born in
Worcester. Mass. and spent her
first six years with orphans :. !.
THE worst years In my life. -"
When Georgia was IL she
started singing with a band and
learned $1.50 on Saturday nights.
lsThat $1.50 paid the electric bill" :"
she said. "and it helped so I
could sing In night clubs In
Boston. z
Today Miss Gibbs doesn't have
| to- worry about money. She has
Ijust signed q contract with Mer-
lcury Records which win bring
iher $200, 900 III the next three
years. this is in addition to what
she will earn on stage and screen
not to mention her income from
television.
Miss Gibbs has an honest way
of thinking. She includes her
self In the AL Jelson. Jimmie Du-
rante, Eddie Cantor and Sophie
Tucker school.
Theirs Is an honest personal
lity." she says. they come out with
i q delivery that says Here I am
take me as I am Me. I'm
down to earth. I don't care how
many times I've sung a number.
ITO me it's always a first time.
Even when I got UP to where
I could afford a luxurious hotel
suite. it was still a hotel room
with a number to me-"
Miss Gibbs, who has been q
singer for Paul whiteman. Sammy
Kaye, Jack Benny and Bob Hope,
lsays she Is going to struggle fur
ther before she finds a right man
for marriage.
II know what 1t Is to be lonely
land without a man." she said
lcautiously, "and I'm going to be
realistic. That's why won't set
tile on a man until the real thing
comes along. He's got to be the
lreal thing. sure enough"
Evening star., 1951-06-24
NEW YORK.

NEW YUM.
It Is Is years since Joe E.
Brown. the fellow with the big
grin and the big mouth, appeared
on Broadway in a musical. More
recently he has been exercising
his talent for comedy In the
straight role Of Elwood Dowd,
the happy fellow IN Harvey
who had a non-existant rabbit
for a friend.
Brown now is happily making
fun in "Courtin' Time" a new
musical version Of a drama. "The
Farmers Wife," which played on
Broadway in 1924.
Like the late w. G.. Fields,
Brown is a personal theatrical
production in himself so the fact
that "Courtin' Time" isn't toe
good a show doesn't make much
difference. When Brown comes on
stage the audience overlooks
the weak libretto and a just-fail
musical score.
Composers Jack Lawrence and
Don Walker have a fetching cho-
raj in "The Wishing Song" and
a good comical song in "Fixin
flor a Long. Cold, Hard Winter
lbut some of their other tunes
sound like numbers they whipped
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Audie's New Wife Practical
And He's q Happy Actor

Ia month. He gets more mail
from soldiers now in the service
than any actor ever has received.
He tells me the letters he has
had time to read so far have had
Ia strong effect on his thinking.
"The mail is not just from bobby
Isoxers," he says. "Grownups do.
la lot Of writing. and they're very
critical. They tell me what kind
lof pictures they don't want me
to make. and the kind Of parts
they'd hate to see me play. If
they don't like the way ! handle
a role, they tell me. And they
don't pull their punches. I'm
glad Of that. It's better than a
lot OF gushy praise
Audie and his bride are still be-
ling deluged with wedding gifts
from his fans. The presents in
Iclude everything from mo1lo-
lgrammed sfoe-laces to a nfe-sized
statue of Audie, done in soap.
i But" said Audie, we've re-
ceived practical things, too. like
complete dining room service oi
napkins made from Brussels lace
a maple love seat from Vermont
and half a dozen smoked hams
|, from good old Texas"
!. AS a wedding present the studio
heads offered Pamela a small part
. lin the picture She turned it dowr
politely.
"Her feet are right square or
i the ground" remarked Audie
"She'd rather keep house"
Release by NANA.)
Evening star., 1951-06-24
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

Audie Murphy. the once-con-
fused war hero and movie star.
has found design for happy
living at last.
Currently starring in his sixth
picture, 'The cimarron Kid
Audie and his bride, the former
airline stewardess, Pamela Archer,
have decided to combine a small
portion Of Hollywood's chimera
with q large quantity Of the
earthiness OF Texas, their home
State.
when I finish The Cimarron
Kid Pam and I are going to Dallas
where we'll have our permanent
home" Audie told me in the U-I
studio cafe. We'll come back to
Hollywood only when I have a
picture to make and we'll stay here
only until ! finish the job.
That's the only way I can be
happy, spending most of my time
down where they tuck the pants
leg Of their evening clothes into
their cowboy boots-when they
wear evening clothes, that is.
Pam Likes Quiet, Too.
This dizzy Hollywood whirl Is
not for me and Pam feels the same
way about it. She's not impressed
at all by what she has seen since
! brought her here for our honey
moon. She's taking it in stride
] think she's even q little borec
by it.
"I'm q very lucky guy to have
found Pam. There's no other CIR
in the world like .ler. I've known
that for more than a year. sincs
I met her. She's got her littl,
feet on the ground. and likes tht
Texas ground best"
Watching Audie talk, I was inn
pressed with his new calmness
and the studio has never seer
him so gay and carefree. n,
Jokes with the players and tech
niciarS, smiles easily and seem
to enjoy civilian life as he neve
did In his confused years afte
the war and during his saor
marriage with Wanda Hendrix.
He's q Popular Lad.
"And he's acting BETTER" sal
his director. Budd Boettichel
'sYou have to tell him what to d
only once. although he never too
an acting lesson in his life. He
eager to improve his work as neve
before"
Audie receives 5000 fan letter