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Evening star., 1951-01-15
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
|NFFE Council Adopts Program
On Employees Role in Defense
By Joseph Young

The Executive Council the National Federation of Federal
Employees wound its weekong meeting here after adopting
program designed hgten the role played Government
workers in the national emergency program
NFFE officials said their 1851 adopted by Congress
and the executive branch would result in eamlning Government
operations and increasing eff
and economy ellPrntng have been promoted
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and at Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy at
Harpers Ferry.
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The Sun and Moon
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BE sure to listen at 6:15 pm.
eUery Saturday oDer WMAL,
The Star station. to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast featuring additional
neWs and UieUs OF the Govern
mental Scene.J
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bling. There's no doubt but what
I'll give plenty to the Red Cross
this year." she said.
Sergt. Wilson could write that
letter because millions of people
last year helped the Red Cross
make its quota.
But this year the District areas
campaign has reached only 60
lper cent of its $1.3 million goal,
Ior $776,410. That is II per cent
behind the figure for this time
last year.
The Red Cross staff in Korea
Low totals 81 men and women
serving with combat troops in
the field and in hospitals.
Most of them are sharing the
hardships and dangers of the
fighting men to bring to them the
traditional Red Cross services.
They give advice on personal
problems, distribute stationery
the kind Sergt. Wilson uses-and
issue emergency loans and grants.
Help Men Contact Families.
One Of the most important
front-line services is helping the
fighting man keep in touch with
his family.
The servicemen themselves know
more than any one else what the
Red Cross has done for them. The
contributions from such centers
as the Bethesda Naval Hospital,
Fort Belvoir and the Navy Pur-
chasing Office of the Potomac
River Command have all gone over
their assigned quotas this year.
I'VE can't forget the respon-
sibilities each of us has to the
armed forces in Korea" Everett
y. Boothby, general campaign
chairman for the District area,
said. Those boys are aided every
day by the Red Cross"
Hundreds of volunteer workers
are canvassing the District area
for funds. More than so booths
have been opened in theater,
store and hotel Hobbies to col
lect money from transients. But
they can do little unless every
one is willing to contribute dol
lars to support the many Red
Cross activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
80 Are Seized Here
In Vice Squad Raid

Thirty-nine men. all colored,
were arrested last night in a Vice
Squad raid on the James Reese
Europe Post No. S, American L.
gion, in the 1900 block of Vermont
avenue NV.
Capt. Roy E. Blick and 10 squad
members raided the post about 10
O'Clock. Police said an obscene
movie was being shown in the
basement rooms Of the club.
Thirty-five of the men were
charged with disorderly conduct
and posted $40 collateral each.
Robert P. Rhea. SIS. of the 500
block of P street NE, and Clyde
Ford. ii, of the 300 block of
Eleventh street NE, were charged
with illegal sale and possession of
whisky and putting on an indecent
and obscene show. Elmer D. John
son, So, of the 800 block of Taylor
street NV, and Louis Douglas,
$50. Of the TOO block of S stree.
INV, also were charged with IL
legal sale and possession OF whisky.
Capt. Blick said police confisti-
Gated several cases of beer and a
quantity of liquor plus two dane
ing skirts" whose owners could not
be found. He added that the
ladies auxiliary was meeting up
stairs at the time of the raid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
French Rail Strikers
Returning 10 Work as
Pay Raise Is Pledged
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Mar. 24.-French rail
strikers were focking back to work
tonight, spurred by government
pledge of wage raises. Nearly
normal traffic seemed likely for
Easter.
Miners in the great northern
coal basin were bucking the trend
for strike settlements, however, )
and there were 5000 out, against
1000 yesterday. The movement
began in the coal fields as a ges-
ture of sympathy for strikers in
the Paris region-about 100000
public utility workers.
OF these, the gas and electricity
workers had ended their strike,
but the men of the subways and
buses said no offer had been made
to them. Strikes of government
clerks and airline employees are
still threatening.
The strike movement began
with the Paris subway and bus
workers, who walked out a week
ago Friday.
The movement seemed a rank
and-f1le protest against rising
prices, backed by Communist and
non-Communist unions alike. IT
was directed almost entirely att
government owned industry ;,
which employs more than a third
of French wage-earners.
Premier Henri Queuille acknowl-
edged to parliament that wages
were too low. He asked a special
committee on collective bargain
ing to estimate the price rise
since August, and pledged action
on its report. The committee
promptly reported a 1875 per cent
cost of living increase.
The cabinet last night an
nounced its decisions: an lis per
cent increase in the minimum
wage for Paris, and 1876 per cent
for the provinces. No full time
workers in France would now earn
less than IA francs (about 81
cents an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
III. S. Must Hit Back at Initiation
Or Face Ruin, Johnston Says

guns, planes and tanks. Then
everybody, including those now
grobbing for the big share. but
especially those who are not in
favored positions, will be the vic
tins.
Must Be All Along Line.
"If We are going to have stab
ilization at all, we must have it
all along the line"
Mr.. Johnston was not talking
about Mr.. Truman personally.
who has delegated virtual presi-
DENTAL powers over the home
front to Mobilization Director
Charles E. Wilson. Nor was he
talking behind anyone's back.
He has laid his views on the
line for the National Association
of Manufacturers, the United
States Chamber of Comerce, the
CLIO, the AFL. bankers, business
men and the farm bloc, in and
out of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
d. c. Liquor Store
Glad to Lend Nickel
To Victim of HoIdup

A misunderstanding that arose
over what a hold-up victim did
with a borrowed nickel is some
what embarrassing to Irving
Binder.
Mr.. Binder was managing q
liquor store in the 100 block oil
Florida avenue NE. yesterday
when Mrs. Dorothy Harris, clerk
in a dry-cleaning shop in the next
block, rushed in and asked to bor-
row nickel to report that she
had been robbed.
Mr.. Binder volunteered to cal
the police for her and at the same
time handed over nickel. Mrs
Harris used it to call her boss from
a pay station.
In the excitement. someone tolc
The Star Mrs. Harris was forced
to borrow a nickel from nearby
liquor store to call police"
Mr.. Binder wants it understood
nobody in such circumstance!
would be forced" to borrow s
nickel from him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Policeman Injured
In County Collision

A Montgomery county police
man was injured and one of the
county's new Accident Prevention
Unit cars badly damaged early to-
day in collision on Georgia ave-
nue. near Evans parkway.
Pvt. Preston Hall was admitted
to Washington Sanitarium in an
undetermined condition. officials
said he may have several frac-
tured ribs, but their diagnosis was
not completed at an early hour
today.
Two men, occupants of the
other car, were taken to the hos
pital for examination. Their
names and co.. s were not
Immediately available. ID
Police said ~. | was riding
in a police car driven by Pvt. j.
Herman johnson.
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Makes Pusan Feel Like Home.
Here at Pusan where forces
from all over the world are. the
Red Cross makes one feel at
home.
They have free coffee and
doughnuts, also a place to take a
shower as well as stationery like
I am writing on. They have free
ditty bags for the boys in the
hospital along with the free Gig
arettes and candy they put out.
LAS I wasn't in the last war l
heard stories about the Red Cross, "
the sergeant continued. 1--WE
found these stories to be untrue.
The Red Cross has sure treated
all the UN forces wonderfully.
Il will in the future help the
Red Cross and I hope all the
good people of my home town and
everywhere will help. 1t has proved
to me and all the UN forces 1t Is
worth helping"
Sergeant's Wife Sobs.
When the sergeant's wife heard
about the letter she started Sob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
New Weapons Hinfed
In Marshall Reference
To Research Gains
By the Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Marshall
said yesterday the big United
States effort in scientific research
sis beginning to pay substantial
dividends, not only in the atomic
field but in many other areas"
He added that all three armed
forces are revamping their stra-
tegy and tactics to empty "the
latest scientific developments"
This seemed to be a guarded
reference to new and improved
weapons. But Gen. Marshall gave
no details.
Blames Communist Regimes.
His remarks were made in the
Introductory paragraphs Of an
otherwise routine semiannual sta
tistical report to President Tru.
man by the Defense Department.
Gen. Marshall declared the
blame for a rapidly rearming
world rests squarely on Commu-
mist governments.
In consonance with recent state
ments by the President and the
State Department, he singled out
Communist governments and care
fully made no mention of the
peoples of the Communicated
nations.
Need for Continued Sacrifices.
Continued sacrifices must be
made SO long as the Soviet govern
ment threatens the peace of the
world" Gen. Marshall wrote. THE
American people seem united in
recognizing the needs for such
sacrifices, for the history of the
last few years has demonstrated
that strength is the only factor
that will deter aggression.
The Nations total output Of
military items. Gen. Marshall said
in discussing production, sis al
ready approaching the highest
level reached during World War
H." He used no figures in con-
nection with this. His report
covered the six-month's period
ending last December 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
u. 5. Takes Hands-0fi
Stand on Statement
By Gen. Macarthur
By the Associated Press

The administration disassociat-
ed itself yesterday from Gen.
MacArthur's declaration that if
the United Nations want to eX-
pand their military operations
into attacks on the Chinese main
land they can destroy Red China.
The hands-off attitude-indi-
eating some disapproval but fall
ing short of real disavowal or re-
buke-was expressed in two ways:
l. State Department officials
said in response to reporters in
quiries that so far as they could
determine Gen. MacArthur's
statement was not cleared in
Washington before he released it
In Tokyo.
No Support Offered.
2. A department press officer,
Reginald P. Mitchell. issued a
carefully worded statement, which
had been under preparation for
several hours. 1t offered no sup
port to anything Gen. Macarthur
had said and emphasized that po-
1itical issues beyond his response
bility as military commander are
being dealt with through the UN
and through talks between gov
ernments.
Secretary of State Acheson is
reported to have conferred with
President Truman yesterday about
the Macarthur statement. The
comment finally issued is under
stood to have been cleared with
the President.
No U. N. Officials Informed.
At United Nations headquarters
In New York the American delega-
ton said the United States had
no plans to ask U. N. permission
to extend the Korean war to
China's mainland.
No U. N. officials had been in
formed in advance of Gen. Mac
Arthur's statement and were taken
completely by surprise. There was
considerable resentment among
Western diplomats that the U. N.
commander should express himself
so freely on subjects in which they
are concerned, without prior con-
situations.
Assembly President Nasrollah
Entezam of Iran, chairman of the
U. N. Good Offices Committee
seeking peace with Red China,
said:
I'VE shall welcome every effort
In the direction of peace through
our group or from the outside"
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Korea
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
signs of a Chinese Red with
drawal. The Chinese defenders
yesterday in the area were esti-
mated at a battalion, or about
1000. Two days ago, the Reds
there were estimated at more than
5000.
Can Race Across Parallel.
The South Korean troops on the
east coast apparently could race
across the 38th Parallel any time
they got the order. They led the
Allied crossing of that parallel
last September-a drive which
carried to the borders of North
Korea before intervening Chinese
Red hordes rolled it back.
Gen. Macarthur returned to
Tokyo late Saturday after a one
day visit to liberated Seoul and
the front lines north of the capt.
tai. He told correspondents he
had ordered the United States 9th
Army to cross the parallel into
Red North Korea IF and when
its security makes it tactically
advisable"
No Chinese Reaction.
There still was no official Chi
nese broadcast reaction to Gen
MacArthur's offer-issued before
he flew to Korea-to meet the
Communist commander in the
field and discuss a means of end
ing the war without shedding more
blood.
The United Nations military
commander asserted that Red
China lacked the industrial muscle
to continue to buck modern Allied
firepower and weapons, notwith-
standing the waves of Red man
power.
And he warned that should the
U. N. decide to extend the war to
China's coast and inland bases,
it would mean the collapse
Of Chinese Communist military
power.
His statement was reminiscent
Of his surrender ultimatum tt
North Korean Premier Kim I
Sung last October 8. 1t was issued
a day after the U. N. General AS.
sembly gave its moral approval tt
an Allied crossing of the parable
and the occupation Of all Korea
Ultimatum Rejected.
Sung, broadcasting from the
Korean Red capital of Pyongyang
rejected the ultimatum October
10 and ordered a fight to the
death" That was shortly before
large-scale Intervention in the
war by Red China. Chinese troops
even then were in position tt
cross the Manchurian border over
night.
Subsequently the 9th Army YVES
forced to withdraw from far North
Korea under the onslaught q
massed Chinese infantry. TIE
Allies abandoned Seoul and IT,
grouped on a line so miles south 81
Parallel SO and extending eastward
across the mountainous peninsula
from Suwon near the west coast
But today-less than two months
later-the 9th Army was back at
the parallel and in much greater
strength. With an estimate
$3.50 casualties inflicted on the
Reds in Fridays drive toward the
parallel, the Chinese and Korean
Red losses since January Is
neared the 100000 mark.
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place through indignation over
some measure passed by the Cal
ifornia legislature. He talked and
argued so much against the
measure that business groups ran
him for the legislature and he
won.
A man of quiet and dignified
appearance who might have come
out of Hollywood. Mr.. King is a
veteran of World War I, COL
lector of fine old guns and some
thing of an authority on Ameri-
can history. particularly that part
dealing with early explorations by
Lewis and Clark and others.
Judged to Get Into War.
He admits now that he Judged
"a bit to get into World War I.
He told recruiting officers he was
ID but then got turned down be-
cause he was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
6 feet tall and weighing only 100.
He slipped off to Canada and soon
was accepted in the killed 72d
Seaforth Regiment with which
he served 10 months overseas in
some of the hardest fighting of
the first World War.
Fond of hunting. Mr.. King has
found little time for that diversion
since coming to Congress. There
will be even less time in the
months ahead and a little ruefully
he wonders when. If ever. he will
be able to accept some invitations
for hunting in North Dakota and
Alabama.
He represents southwestern Los
Angeles, one of the most populous
districts in the country. one that is
heavily industrialized. With mis-
executive secretary. Keith Linden,
and two secretaries, Miss Julia
Pummer and Miss Louise Hardy.
he manages to keep abreast of a
heavy volume of correspondence
and other matters pertaining to
his district, as well as carry on
his work on the Ways and Means
Committee and organize the Ill
vestigation now being shaped.
Plans to Confer With FBI.
Mr.. King said the subcommit-
tee will choose carefully a chief
counsel. an associate counsel and
investigator. and a field investi-
gator. He plans to consult with
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on
his investigative staff.
Then the preliminary work will
begin and after that-perhaps no
sooner than this fall-the public
hearings.
Other members of his subcom-
mittee are Representatives O'Brien
of Illinois, Combs of Texas and
Keogh OF New York, Democrats,
and Kean of New Jersey. Curtis
of Nebraska and Byrnes of Wis
conSin. Republicans.
This committee" said Mr..
King, can probably perform a
service not to be compared to that
performed by any other congress
Sional committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
By Bloir Moody
North American Newspoper tilionce


Eric Johnston warned yesterday
that the job of preventing a run
away imitation is hopeless unless
a whole new attitude is evident
on all top levels without delay
in the White House, Congress. the
Cabinet and all pressure groups.
We've simply got to get tough
or we're heading for a national
disaster. said the man who left
"a $125.000 job, at the Presidents
call, to stabilize the Nations
economy.
1--WE must stand up to groups
with political power and do what
is necessary.
"We must get those groups to
see, If they will, that they can
not get theirs without break
ing the anti-inflation program
all along the line. If they won't
play ball, the Government must
do what is essential to protect
the public. even If it doesn't
seem good politics to 90 So"
Doesn't Conceal Feelings.
Mr.. Johnston did not conceal
his feelings about influential men
in Congress, the Cabinet and
private groups, who give lip
service to the principle of check
ing imitation. then try to get him
to blast open their particular
segment of the sterilization dixie
I'm sick and tired of being
told, you've got to do this for
me. Eric" he said.
Nuts! These are all men who
know, or should know, that if
grant requests like theirs, wages
will be 80 per cent higher a year
from now, prices much higher
than that. and the taxpayers will
be billed for uncounted billions
more for the same number of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
Evusions

Continued From First Page.)

NSOuIAl1ucQ CAoIH TAot 1dSC.'
Costello, Joe Adonis, Tony Ac-
cardo and others who have figured
prominently in the Senate's crime
investigation.
But that will be only the first
phase of the broad inquiry which
will touch on practically every
phase Of internal revenue law ad-
ministration.
It will include a searching in
vestigation of the tax returns of
former Mayor William O'Dwyer of
New York on the basis of a dis
puted payment to the former
mayor by f1remen's union official
in New York. Mr.. O'Dwyer has
denied the $4,000 payment and
the subcommittee will undertake
to develop the full facts in the
case.
Law Firms to Be Investigated.
More than that, the Subcommit-
tee plans an exhaustive study of
reports that certain law firms
throughout the country specialize
Ing in tax matters have been able
through various means to obtain
favored treatment for their clients.
Through the Investigations for
which the subcommittee has re-
ceived an initial appropriation of
$50,000, Mr.. King hopes to rec
ommend legislation to close exist
ing loopholes in the revenue laws
and to strengthen the administra-
ton of the country's tax collec-
ton machinery.
Bureau Of Internal Revenue
officials have estimated that as
much as SO billion annually is
not reported by taxpayers and
that OF this amount about half
may be recovered through existing
methods. Members of the sub
committee are known to believe
that the sum lost to the Govern
ment by tax evaders and others
may run much higher.
Type of Study is New.
Mr.. King, in explaining the pro-
posed work of the subcommittee
remarked that mo one thinks it
is greatly wrong to avoid taxes. :"
More often than not, he added,
such taxpayers who stoop to evad-
ing or avoiding taxes, regard it as
something cute"
When the committee gets
through with it's work months
hence there may be a different
impression.
Such Investigations are some
thing new for the usually con-
servative Ways and Means Com
mittee which in the past has con-
cerned itself more with the policy
than with any such inquiries.
The subcommittee was authorized
more than a year ago and Mr..
King, now rounding out 10 years
in Congress, fell heir to the chair
manship.
Mr. King, a So year = old Los
Angeles businessman, came to
Congress in 1912 after winning
a special election. He has been
returned every election by ma
jorities ranging up to 10000
Served California Legislature.
Before coming to Congress he
served 10 years in the California
legislature, moving up there to the
position of the Democratic floor
leader and holding the post of
the partys State chairman.
He got into politics In the first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
District Attorney Indicted
In $50, 900 Bride Case
By the Assoeiofed Press

SHREVEPORT. La, Mar. "a
A Federal grand jury today in
dicted Harvey L. Carey. suspended
United States district attorney, on
a charge of soliciting a 100000
bride.
The indictment charged that
Mr.. Carey solicited the money
from Lewis Hart of Longview
Tex, who. with seven other men
pleaded guilty November 7, 1850
to a charge of violating the Con-
nally Oil Act.
Mr.. Carey was district attorney
for the Western District of Louisi-
ana at the time. The men paid
fines totaling $4,000.
Mr.. Carey, who waived i'm
munity to appear before the grand
jury, said after the indictment
was returned
Il know that when the trial
comes up I'll be acquitted because
I'm innocent"
He was taken into custody but
was released Immediately on S., O0C
bond. Mr.. Carey was suspended
by Attorney General McGrath or
December %. 1850. after he hao
been in Office four months.
The Justice Department began
an investigation after Fedora,
Judge Ben Dawkins reported tt
Mr.. McGrath a complaint he sale
came from two attorneys.
The indictment charged thai
Mr.. Carey asked Hart for the
money on December S, 1850, witt
the intent of influencing possible
charges Of technical perjury
against him and four of his EN-
Iployes arising from their testi.
mony before the Federal Petro.
Ileum Board.