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Evening star., 1951-03-16
The Weather Here ond Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Consider-
able cloudiness; some sunshine
this afternoon. Highest in low
sos. Fair tonight. Lowest "a in
the city and % in suburbs. To-
morrow some cloudiness and a lit
tie warmer.
Maryland - Partly cloudy to-
night; lowest Is to 80 west and %
to "a in east portion. Tomorrow
some cloudiness and little
warmer.
Virginia-Some cloudiness to-
night and tomorrow. Low tonight
28 to "a. A little warmer tomor-
row
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Fathers 6 Years Work
On Home Lost in Flames
By the Assoeioted Press


CHESTER. Pa, Mar. 16.-The
time, effort and money a S60-a-
week laborer put into a home fol
his wife and IA children went ur
in smoke yesterday.
For six years during his spare
time, Nicholas Orlando. 81, built
his 10-room. two-story house
miles west of here. There was
plenty of room for his large fam
lily, ranging in age from 3 to II
years.
Then yesterday an oil stove ex-
ploded in a first-f1oor bedroom
Within Is minutes the flames en-
quilted the house.
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Bishop Strouehn to Preach

Methodist Bishop James H.
Straughn will preach on "The
Eternal Promise" at II am. Sun
day in the Walker Chapel Meth
odist Church. 4102 North Glebe
road, Arlington.
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PlOyt DlllS pro-
v i d ii n g fol-
pay increases,
retirement lib
eral | z a t | o n
benefits, repeal
of the ban on
further &C u-
mutation of an
nual leave, and
modification of
tIlc Udu Uu per
manent promo
t | on S a n d
transfers.
Meanwh j ! e,
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Service Committee has gotten a
head start on its House counter
part. Pay hearings have been
held, and retirement liberaliza-
ton hearings are now in process.
However. House committee
members say there still is plenty
of time for them to take action.
In all likelihood, the House civil
service group will wait for Senate
action on pay. retirement and
other employe legislation. before
scheduling hearings of its own.
LEAVE-Another bill to reduce
the annual leave Of Government
employees to Is days for the dura-
ton of the national emergency
has been introduced in Congress
The newest sponsor is Represen-
tative Curtis, Republican, of Ne
braska.
RETIREMENT-Richard Shoe
maker, the legislative director of
the CLOS Government Employees
Organization Committee. has pro-
posed to Congress that social
security credit be given Federal
employees for the time they spent
in the Government, if they later
leave the Government to enter
private industry before becoming
eligible for civil service retirement
benefit.
Mr.. Shoemaker pointed out
that thousands Of Federal en-
ployes who leave the Government
before becoming eligible for civil
service retirement benefits are left
without any retirement credits for
the time they spent in the Federal
service. He declared that more
than 100000 Federal employees
who left the Government last
year were in this predicament.
*k
PERSONNEL - Legislation to
decentralize personnel activities to
the individual departments and
agencies were among the 18 bills
designed to carry out Hoover
Commission reforms that were
introduced in the Senate yester-
day. Similar legislation is ex-
pected to be introduced in the
House next week. :.
COUNCIL - Henry Hubbard,
vice chairman of the Federal
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u. 5. Tax Agents Here
Investigate Returns
OF 29 Racketeers

~ A9A sNS
Tax returns of 20 racketeers are
under investigation by Govern
ment tax agents of the Washing
ton field Office, it was learned to-
day.
Emmitt Warning, ~reputed big
time Washington gambler, is the
only one of the 20 whom officials
would name. A $159,917 tax lien
was filed against Warning on
Tuesday, and the Government
also plans to seek criminal in
dictment against him.
Internal Revenue officials would
not reveal, either, how many OF
the other racketeers are in the
immediate Washington area. The
field Office here also has jurisdic-
ton throughout Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and North
Carolina.
They said. however, that Sam
Beard and Jimmy La Fontaine
are not on the list. Beard already
has been indicted in connection
with a tax debt totaling $4,167 1928,
and arrangements are under way
for payment of nearly 81 million
iE back taxes and penalties from
the estate of La Fontaine, who
died in 1949.
All Living Persons.
Tax returns of a dead associate
Of La Fontaine's, Charles Price
are under investigation, it was
learned yesterday, but his is not
one of the 20 cases, since all those
involve living persons, an official
pointed out.
How many of the 20 will face
prosecution has not yet been de-
termined. Some of the cases may
be settled by payment of the TN
paid taxes. plus penalties. Those
considered worthy of crimina.
prosecution must be acted on b,
the Justice Department.
1t was disclosed yesterday that
Internal Revenue currently is
processing 4S5 "racketeer" cases
throughout the country, of which
some 88" are being considered
for prosecution. The 485 represent
an estimated total of $57 million
in back taxes and penalties.
Millions in Local Cases.
officials made no close estimate
OF the amount involved in the 2s
Washington-division cases, but
they said 1t runs into millions.
Revenue officials disclosed in
congressional testimony made pub
lie yesterday that they have a
master list" of racketeers, which
is being used in checking returns
filed for last year.
Assistant Commissioner Daniel
A. Bolich told House Appropria-
tions subcommittee that all COL
lectors and agents have been in
structed to set aside the returns
filed by known members of the
racketeering and criminal ele-
ment," as well as ANY returns
containing general references to
income or expenditures, such as
various or miscellaneous" Such
returns will be specially studied >
Mr.. Bolich emphasized.
400 Check Racketeer Gases.
In connection with the master
list. the assistant commissioner
said, Internal Revenue is plan
ming to increase the size of spe-
cial "racketeer" groups of agents
who are busy checking such cases
-Four hundred men already are as
signed exclusively to racketeer
investigation, Mr.. Bolich said.
The congressional group also
was told of special investigations
now under way into attempts of
racketeers to get" money which
they made dishonesty" into le-
gitimate business. Special squads
have been checking certain hotel
chains" and certain realty cor
porations" in the New York and
Florida areas for the last year,
officials reported.
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New Cars Bought

CLEVELAND - Glass I rail-
roads spent about $787 million for
new freight cars, locomotives, and
other equipment in 1850.
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Temperatures In Various Cities
Judge WoddeII Sworn

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Mar.
Is P).-Lyttelton Waddell yes
terday took the oath of Office as
Judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit.
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Cars Outnumber Africo's

NEW YORK.-New York City
has a quarter Of a million more
cars than there are in Africa.
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hief Souers Resiqns

The sudden resignation of John
H. Souers as Anne Arundel Coun-
ty police chief apparently has
ended the controversy over the
police department.
Mr.. Souers, who was succeeded
yesterday by Col. Daniel Bratton,
62-year-old retired Army dental
officer, said his doctor had advised
him to quit because of a recently
developed heart condition.
Last January, the Board of
Police Commissioners fired Mr..
Souers. but he was reinstated
almost Immediately by the county
commissioners. The police COM
missioners fired the chief. it said.
because he apparently was igno-
rant of widespread gambling
activities in the county-AP.
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High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, 4s, at 4:15 pm.
Low. 80, at $40 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, ~, on February 10.
Lowest, IL. on February 8.
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The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Postal Rate Hearings Postpone
Action on EmpIoye Bills
By Joseph YOUNG

House Civil Service Committee action important
Federal empioye bills has been perhaps
longer
The for this is the hearings legislation
increase postal rates Chairman Murray it will be
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new cold air is advancing down from Western
the Upper Mississippi Valley westward to the Pacific
There will be rain in the Upper Mississippi Valley and
North Pacific Coast and in the Northern Plains
Northern Rockies Fair weather will prevail elsewhere in
the Nation warming will continue the Southern
States will eastward to the Atlantic Seaboard
-AP Wrephoto Map.
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mittee completes it's hearings.
Pending before the commit
tee are important Federal en-
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Personnel Council, has resigned
to join the staff of Rogers and
Slade, management consultants.
An outstanding official and a
dynamic personality, Mr.. Hubbard
will be greatly missed in the
Government. His place is being
taken by Fordyce w. Luikart, who
has been head of the Civil Service
Commissions executive Develop
ment program. Mr.. Luikart, like
his predecessor, is also highly re-
garded in Federal personnel
circles.
ESA-JoSeph Miller, informa-
tion chief of the Economic Stabi-
lization Agency. is due to resign
next month and return to public
relations work in private industry.
Neil Dalton is being mentioned as
his successor.
VETERANS PREFERENCE-A
new group, the District Chapter
OF the National Association of Fed
eral Career Employees. has been
organized for the primary purpose
lof obtaining modification of vet
erans' preference in Government
employment.
The group is urging Senate Civil
Service Committee action on a
bill by Senator LANCER, Republi-
can. of North Dakota to give
greater protection to non-veteran
career employees in Government
observation-disclosures programs. The
organizations Washington repre-
sentative is r. j. Fullem.
(Be sure to listen at 6:15 nm.
eDery Saturday oUer WMAL.
The Star station, to joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast featuring additional
netDS and UieUs OF the Govern
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River Renart.

River Report.
tFrom United States Ensineers).
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferr
and Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy a
Evening star., 1951-03-16

Rises. Sets
Sun. today 6:1S 6:I6
sun tomorrow 6:16 6:17
Moon, today - 11:15 am. 1928 am
| Automobile lights must be turned or
one-half hour after sunset. 0
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Beer Argument Continues

Maryland Controller J. Millard
TaWes has accused members of
the Montgomery County legtsla-
tive delegation of "fabricating the
facts" on his controversial bill to
end the county's beer monopoly.
Senator De Witt S. Hyde and
Delegate Anders R. Fofstrand, jr.,
Republicans. charged Wednesday
that Mr.. Tawes. a Democrat, had
gone back on his word in refusing
to go along with Senator Hyde's
bill to eliminate the monopoly.
The Senator's measure. which
later was killed at Mr.. Hyde's
request. would have authorized a
local tax on alcoholic beverages.
Mr. Tawes then introduced a
bill to wipe out the monopoly
without any provision for d local
alcoholic beverage tax. A hearing
on this measure will be held
Wednesday before the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
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COUNCIL - Henry Hubbard
vice chairman of the Federal
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Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Smrueyl
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Maryland
and
Virginia
news IN bflef
Arlington Board Gets
S11.5 Million BUDGET

A proposed record budget of
$11.5 million, requiring $2.65 tax
rate, was presented to the Arling-
ton County Board last night by
County Manager A. T. Lundberg.
A public hearing will be held
April % in Washington-Lee High
School.
Although the suggested tax rate
is 98 cents below the present $3.50
levy, property owners tax bills are
not expected to be lower. A re-
assessment program last year in
creased real estate valuations by
more than rs per cent.
Evening star., 1951-03-16

The Sun and Moon.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22

County Commissioners find a few bucks TO repair
the roads at Madison Lake. Fellows bait noN
bounced out of his the other day.!
WE WISH TO THANK the high school kids
and the Seniors especially for all their fine help
and copy during the recent year, We know lot
of the guys and gals at the many different schools
in Madison County and we wish these departing
seniors all the luck in the world from here on in,
You're bunch of fine kids and I'VE think you're
SWELL" the saying goes.
SPEAKING or FISHING reminds me OF
Cartoon saw the other day. Showed man totng
tackle, tackle box and bottle of booze out to the
car Wifey asked him how come the bottle. Re-
piled old husband, "Who heard of fellow
going fishing without a cork z"
CONGRATULATIONS TO SOME OF THE
MORE HARD WORKING members of our police
and fire departments for the job of marking the
streets into parking spaces. Come to think of it,
London is getting better looking all the time
Now if we had curbstones ;?
IT'S NEW AND 1T WILL APPEAL TO YOU!
We mean the new concentrated milk now being
marketed in the larger cities. The product Is
not frozen deal but pure milk reduced to d
creamy liquid and it is available in quarts and
smaller bottles All you have to do is to add two
parts water to part of the concentrate and
you have delicious milk just like the real thing
SEE BY THE PAPERS THAT lettuce growers
are pIowing under third of their crop to keep
the price up Maybe this is a must in the lettuce
industry but it always seems sin TO pIow under
old Mother Natures bounty.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
Classify Prison
Farm Dairy Herd

BRATTLEBORO. Vt.,-London
Prison Farm, London, Ohio, have
recently mad their herd of regis
tered Holstein- -Friesian dairy cat
tie classified for type tbody con-
formation) under the official Type
Classification program, conducted
by The Holstein-Friesian Associa-
ton of America, national organi-
zation of FIolstein- Friesian cattle
breeders.
Official inspector was c. /.
Miller, of Medina, Ohio. This was
the sixth time the hert has been
classified under the official pro-
gram, maintained in an effort TO
improve still further the Holstein
breed.
OF 81 eligible animals in the
herd now classified, none are des-
signated Excellent" 3 Very
Good, IA Good Plus, 10 Good, "
and 10 Fair
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
Bishop Ready
Critical Of
Press Reports

NEW YOkK-tPD- Bishop Mi
chael j. Ready of Columbus, o.,
charged today that the Ameri-
can press has failed to present a
true picture of events in Yugos-
lavia.
He also told a meeting of Cath
olic editors that in American
news accounts there have been
misrepresentation in cent
weeks of Vatican policy ard at
titudes."
The Bishop did not name spec
ific instances. He said reporters
sometimes magnify the views oi
anonymous persons into author.
itative Vatican attitudes because
official comments are not i'm.
mediately available.
Bishop Ready is chairman oil
the press department of the Ma.
tional Catholic Welfare Confer,
ence, which distributes the NCWS
news service to Catholic papers
He spoke to 400 editors and ex
ecutives of Roman Catholic news
papers and magazines at the 41s
convention of the Catholic Pres
Association of America.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
4 LAND WAR IN ASIAo

through his rear lines and chop
them up.
Asia doesn't have those roads,
he said. And our infantry is
reduced to the minimum. That
means our infantry and their in
fantry would have to slug it out
too much on rifle to rifle basis.
He felt that even tactical con-
troll of the air would be insult
ficient to overcome this handicap.
1T is too expensive for us even
if we killed five men to every one
we lost, he said. "The oriental
people simply don't regard human
life the way we do
Recently / received a letter
from another veteran commander
of the Korean campaign.
The Korean war continues to be
an enigma to me-" he said 1T
has become inexplicable to me not
because of its see-saw character
or its political implications I
have neither the responsibility for
nor interest in the diplomatic
significance Of Korea.
What 1 would like to under
stand is why we have suffered
so many casualties against an en-
eny who is not, and never has
been, as formidable as the Jap
or the German of World War II.
am not at all satisfied that the
so-called Chinese human sea
mass attacks can destroy a we'll
supplied, adequately mechanized
defender. Nor do | believe that
Napoleonic mass attack tactics
have replaced again the flexible,
thin-line attack of small, coordina-
ted units.
In other words. one machine
gunner (even il his morale is not
of the besD can raise havoc with
an attacker who is advancing in
mass without adequate artillery
and air support"
Inability to make shoulder
to-shoulder defense or attack in
Korea would be multiplied il
American infantry had to fight
on continental Asia. That's why
many experienced ground com
manders believe if third World
War breaks out the United States
should mass its land troops in ar
arena where they are more likely
to win at least cost.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22

favored the enemy method OF In
fantry battle and hindered ours.
1t gives the other side every ad-
vantage. 1t holds none for us.
This officer he had held a
high staff rank in the European
war felt that to win an Asiatic
victory through land battles would
cost more blood than the Ameri-
can nation would spend.
1T would bleed us dry" he
said. The enemy has too much
potential manpower and too much
landscape. Taking landscape
doesn't win war as Napoleon
and Hitler found out in their
marches on Moscow. You have to
destroy the enemy, his industry
= and his ability to resist
He pointed out that Europe's
fine road network had enabled
the American army in the last
var to utilize its superior mobility
and mechanized firepower. Once
our tanks and mobile guns had
broken through the enemy's for
ward crust they could race at will
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
GeoIOgiist Says
lettered Rock
Genuine Stone

COLUMBUS, O.,-Rl- TIL e
state geologist determined Friday
that a small rock, which may
show that a white man visited the
Chillicothe area in 1899, is gen.
uine stone.
This erased the possibility that
the object, Inscribed in old-style
French, might be a souvenir of
baked clay, commemorating some
modern-day celebration. Biloxi,
Miss, had such d celebration in
1949.
IT'S stone, all right" said
geologist John II. Melvin. We
call it q dolomite Limestone type)
1t doesn't appear to be a rock
which appears naturally in Ohio"
The small slab, 2% by 1913
inches, was brought to the di-
vision of geology by Fred Keeler,
a geologist and loss County farm
agent.
1t was found April % by Pearl
M. Sanford, 16, near the Scioto
River. Inscribed on it is:
"Coloniee Franchises 1899 P.
lie Moyne Sr. D-Ibvle"
Pierre lie Moyne, Sieur D'Ibcr-
vile, was = Canadian explorer
who established the first Louisi-
ana near Biloxi in 1899. There
has been no definite proof that he
or his agents came into Ohio.
History has indicated that the
first white man did not appear
in Ohio until 1747.
While the Sanford boys find
is established as a real stone, the
state geologist's action still doesn't
prove that the stone actually was
Inscribed by D'Iberville or ar
agent. Establishment of the in.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
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@ TOWN

THE DEATH OF JACOB S. COxEY brings
dents It was old General Coxey who marched
army of followers. The Army" camped on what
now the site Of the London Creamery and the
on the way to Washington to appeal to Congress
to Mrs. Lillian D. Conway. Tiny Mom1
Coxey is described as dynamic personality who
never in the ffty-seven years ever gave up the
fight for that which he believed to be right. Al the
time of his visit here he spent the evening with
Judge S. w Durflinger at the latter's home on
North Main Street Mr.. Durflinger helped Coxey
to obtain food for his hungry men and according
to members of Mr.. Durflingers family (my Nom
and otherS) Coxey was a very fortnight talker
and man who firmly believed in his own ideals.
At any rate, Coxey's Army caused quite stir in
the old days and although Coxey had expected a
huge crusade to arrive in Washington, only about
$50 ever completed the trip. 1t may be noted here
that Coxey's cause was lost since Congress gave
him nothing. Matter of fact he was given II day
Jail sentence and fined five dollars!
LOTS OF COMMENT about our recent issue in
which printed pictures of Madison Lake. In
way il is shame TO let fine a property
down because OF lack of proper zoning. zoning Is
not scheme TO exclude certain people. 1t is
designed TO regulate the type of dwelling and does
not make reference to the cost of same. Without
zonng property has any real value since there
is limit to the type of property which may
be built next door. BY the way we hope that the
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
Girls State TO
Be At Capital

Plans being completed for the
fifth annual Buckeye Girls State
at Capital University June II to
"a include the addition of two
new cities within the mythical
state, swelling the total number to
IL This will allow greater OPP
portunity for more girls to share
in this actual participation in the
processes of city, county, and
state governments.
Girls State, sponsored by the
American Legion Auxiliary of
Ohio, was organized in 1947. Girls
from every county in Ohio, in
their junior year of high school,
come TO learn more about the
duties, privileges, rights and re-
sponsibilities of American citizen
ship. Registration has has steadily
increased over the five years OF
its existence from the 300 girls
VINO attended the first Girls
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22
DEATHS
BY The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - John T.
Mcintyre, 70, novelist and play
wright, whose novels included
Steps Going Down." and Blow
ing Weather" and whose plays
included "A Young Mans Fancy" +"
He was born in Philadelphia.
NEW YORK 80 Charles Triller,
88, chairman Of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Philharmonic SYM
phony Society of New York and
a lifelong patron of music
CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
C. II Archambault. IA, veteran
foreign correspondent and repre-
sentative of the New York Times
in South Africa for the last five
years.
NEW YORK - Prof. Joseph P
Chamberlain, m, Professor Emeri-
tus Of public law at Columbia
University. He was born in Cleve-
land.
BUFFALO. N. Burrell T
Dye. 55. d Republic Steel Corp
executive. HIc was born insftnsil.
Vile Tenn.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-05-22

State to the 470 expected this
year.
Every member OF Girls State
has definite function in the gov
ernment of the organization Up
on arrival on the campus each
girl is assigned to one of two
political parties and becomes a
citizen of city and a county in
the imaginary state. The entire
program, elections, and office
functions are conducted in line
with actual procedures.
BY campaigning for office, vot-
ing in real voting booths, learning
how to mark ballots correctly,
holding elected offices, helping to
make laws and holding trials by
jury, the girl citizens of Buckeye
Girls State become familiar with
the duties of American citizenship
through actual practice.
The director of the 1851 Girls
State will be Mrs o. Linn Perry
of Akron.