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Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-04-01
ABELLO SECURES
BOOKS FOR UP.

Minister Emilio Abello, of the
Philippine Embassy at Washington,
was responsible for sending 1870
pounds of books donated by the
University of Washington for the
University of the Philippines, plus
$225 cash which he also sent to
President Bienvenido Gonzales, of
the U. P.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-04-01
Consul Ibunez Calls
On Gov. Lunqlie

Consul Melquiades Ibanez, of the
Republic of the Philippines, paid
his respects to Washington State
Governor Arthur B. Langlie at
Olympia last month. He was &C
companied by Vice Consul I. D.
Cornista. o.
Previously he called on Seattle
Mayor William F. Devin.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1951-04-01
Philippine cinderella Meets Her
Prince Charming; Wedding in June

1t all started with idea from the faryales "Cin-
derea of the Philippines elected and her coronation
night she met for the first time her prince Charming
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Peru Embassy Staff
Gives 10 Blood Bank

Members of the Peruvian En-
baSSy and their families, includ-
ing the embassy's minister coun-
selor, Don German Aramburu,
and the commercial minister, Don
German Fernandez Concha, do
mated % pints of blood to the
Red Cross yesterday in celebra-
tion Of the anniversary of Peru S
independence.
The Washington Regional Blood
Center at 1880 E street NV. an
nounced it had distributed 1,06l
pintS of blood last week in the
District and neighboring COM
munities in Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia.
Bloodmobile visits scheduled foI
this week are:
Monday-St. Georges Episcopa,
Church, 9O8 N. Nelson street, ArI-
ington, Va, from 10 am. to
pm; Presbyterian Church, Win
chester, Va. 10 am. to pm.
Tuesday - Gadsbys Tavern
Cameron and Royal streets. Alex
andria, Va, 10 am. to pm.
Wednesday-Silver Spring Arm
ory, 10 am. to pm.
Thursday-Chapter House, Ali.
Hamilton street, Hyattsville, Md
noon to 6 pm
Friday-Pentagon, 10 am tt
4p.m.; State Department, 10 am
to 4 pm.
Evening star., 1951-07-29

The Governments personnel
turnover during the year has
reached the staggering figure OF
SO per cent.
There are many reasons why
Federal employment is losing its
allure.
For one thing, the Government
has been slow to keep pace with
private industry in adjusting
wages to meet increased living
costs since 1899.
The result is that Federal pay
particularly in the middle anc
upper brackets, frequently lags
behind comparable jobs in private
industry.
Then. too, most Federal en-
ployes do not get the time -and.
one-half overtime payments fol
extra work current in private in.
dustry. Only Government work.
ers earning up to $4,000 a year gel
true overtime payments. The rest
get much less, with some employe:
getting even less than straight pay
Tor working overtime.
!
/ JOB SECURITY-Reduced iot
security is another reason why
employees are quitting the Govern
ment.
/ Until 5 to 10 years ago Govern
ment career employees were fairly
certain that if they did their jobs
satisfactorily, they would not have
to worry about job security.
/ But the large increase in Gov
,ernment employment that start
ed with the last war has brought
about widespread economy moves
in Congress to trim personnel. This
lis understandable, but, unfortu.
nately. some career employees with
as much as 20 to Is years of serv-
ice lost their jobs. This has caused
apprehension among other ca
Ireerists. They feel they might be
hit in future economy drives.
/ X
LEAVE-Congress is in the pro-
cess of reducing Government en-
!ployeS annual and sick leave bene-
fits. which in the past, have beer
Ione of the Federal services great
lest employment attractions.
! Undoubtedly the present 2t
days annual leave for classified
employees is more generous thar
you'll find almost anywhere else
But annual leave is different
from vacations given in private
industry. in that time taken of
work by an employe for various
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
darlington Considers
Commercial Expansion.

Creation of a large new CONNER
cial area in Arlington linking the
Clarendon business districts with
the new stores near the Hecht
Co. and Kann's buildings at Ball.
ston. will be considered by the
County Board.
1t was agreed by Board members
yesterday to hold a public hearing
in November on commercial coming
of more than eight blocks of resi-
dental property bounded by Viii
son boulevard, North Monroe
street, North Tenth street and
North Pollard street. The action
was taken on recommendation OF
the Planning Commission.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Famed Burma Road
is Main Route for
Smuggling 10 Reds
BY the Assoeioted Press

RANGOON, Burma, July %
The Bdrma Road-which fed
Chang Kai-shek's armies with
American supplies for war against
Japan-has become the principal
overland route for smuggling to
Red China.
Chinese truck conveys pick up
petroleum products, rubber tires
and other contraband at the
northeast Burma frontier and
transport them over the tortuous
Burma Road to Kinming. 275
airline miles eastward. The illegal
traffic in these priority goods is
steady and significant.
An authoritative survey made
early this month said the current
traffic over the Burma Road aver
ages about three conveys a week
with so TO 60 trucks in each con-
voy. MIST of this trade is in
legitimate items such as cotton
but plenty of strategic material
also is carried.
Tire Smuggling Estimated.
One Cfficial survey conserva-
lively earimated that about 200
to 300 truck tires a monitor
about 10 per cent of Burma's
monthly imports of tires from
Western countries-are smuggled
into Red China by this route.
1t is almsot impossible to esti-
mate correctly the quantity of
smuggled petroleum products but
it is believed to be relatively small.
Before last September when
the Burmese government clamped
down with a licensing system for
shipment of petroleum products
to dealers north of Mandalay,
there was a booming traffic. 1t
has been smaller since then but
it picked up again last March
when Peiping began to feel the
bite of the Korean war md the
subsequent embargo.
Western oil companies, includ-
ing the only resident American
flrm-the Standard Vacuum Oil
Co.-are cooperating in official
efforts to reduce the illicit traf-
fic in petroleum.
A variety of other priority goods
in small amounts are being snug
gled into Red China. Chinese
dealers have been buying up used
jeeps in the Mandalay area for
shipment to the Running market.
| Burmese and Chinese traders in
the Mandalay area report that the
contraband goods are passed by
Burmese army, police and customs
stations after payment of bribes.
One reliable survey said a mer-
chant will pay aboIt $500 rupees
lover $700) in illegal toll charges
to pass single truck from Man
dalay to the frontier town Of
Kyuchkok.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Thurmont Celebration

Representative Devereux. Re-
publican, of Maryland. is to be
guest speaker today as Thurmon,
Md, marks the midway point of
it's bicentennial celebration. He
will deliver the principal address
at the dedication of the new
American Legion Post home at 2
pm. Thlrmont began its bicen-
tennial festivities last Sunday
and will continue them the rest
Of this Week.=(Rl
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Hidden Humor

The verbatim reports OF Airing
ton County Board meetings are
lacking in one detail. They fail
to show when a speaker is trying
to be funny,
The shortcoming was discovered
yesterday when a citizen COM
planned of reading in the board
minutes that Arlington County
Manager A. T. Lundberg was told
to pay his own expenses on an
official "Trip The unhappy citizen
was assured that the suggestion
had been made as a jest, and Mr.
Lundbergh's expenses were going
to be paid
Evening star., 1951-07-29
House Foreign Affairs
Chairman Plans for
Action Soon on 0atis
By Cecil Holland.

Chairman Richards of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee said
yesterday he hopes to take up.
Immediately after the pending
foreign aid bills, several resolu-
tions calling for action against
Czechoslovakia for jailing Associ-
ated Press Correspondent William
N. Oats.
Something has got to be done
about that situation" MI. Rich
ards declared.
Mr. Oats. 37-year r-old chief of
the Associated Press bureau in
Prague, is serving a 10-year SEN
tence in a Czech prison on
trumped-up spying charges.
Mr.. Richards said his committee
already had asked for and re-
ceived State Department report
on the case that has aroused
widespread indignation in this
country. He said the State De-
partment reported it was doing
everything possible to effect the
release of the correspondent.
Drastic Action Urged.
Several resolutions have been
introduced in the House calling
for action, some drastic. against
the Communist-d dominated Prague
government.
Mr.. Richards said hearings
probably would be necessary in
the event the committee members
indicate they wish to consider
steps proposed in some of the
resolutions such as a trade and
diplomatic break with the Czechs.
He added that the committee
: hopes to conclude hearings this
week on the military and eco
nomic aid authorization measure.
The matter also is pending be-
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee headed by Senator
Connally. Democrat. of Texas. 1t
was passed over last week as the
Senate group opened hearings on
the same foreign aid measure
being considered by the House
committee.
Efforts Termed Inadequate.
Representative Beamer, Repub-
lican, of Indiana, in whose dis
trict Mr.. Oats formerly lived, said
he was doing everything possible
to expedite congressional action
in the case. Mr.. Beamer has reSo-
lutlonS pending before the, Foreign
Affairs Committee describing State
Department efforts to bring about
the release of Mr.. Oats as in
adequate and urging the use of
economic sanctions by suSpending
all imports from Czechoslovakia.
Meanwhile, it was announced
that conference of -Commu-
mist representatives of Central and
Eastern European countries. which
met here this week, had de-
nounced the arrest of Mr.. Oats
and described it as an effort Ito
undermine the authority and pres
tige of Western powers" The
conference was attended by repre-
Sentatives of Czechoslovakia. Hun
gary and other countries now un-
der Communist domination.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

tered thunder showers today. High
in mid and upper 80s.
Virginia - Partly cloudy, with
scattered thunder showers today.
High $500 degrees.
Wind: North, northeast, 10 miles
per hour, at 10 pm.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Canada Timetable Bulky

TORONTO.-The Canadian Ma
tional Railways carries more thai.
18 million passengers a year. It's
timetable covers 86 closely packed
pages listing more than 1,400
schedules.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
BY w. n. Shippen
Stor Staff CorYesnondsnt

KANSAS CITY. Kan, July 28.-
The people of the f1ood-stricken
lowlandS have tackled the long
road back, but the grade is too
steep for many to make without
prompt and effective assistance.
The overwhelming nature of the
tragedy becomes more apparent
daily as farmers and river bank
dWellerS straggle back to their
former homes through debris and
the all-prevading muck now turn
ing to dust.
A breath of this dust is diff
cult to forget. 1t carries a sug-
geStion of peStilence. But thou
sands here today were breathing
the tainted air and drinking wa
ter from questionable sources
while they toll under a blazing
sun to salvage what they can.
Federal officials at the recent
emergency conference in Kansas
City, Mo, gave assurances that
no epidemic will develop. Those
working in the flooded sections,
however, are far less optimistic.
Efforts to get clean drinking wa
ter to thousands of people scat
tered through the mud-blighted
regions are only partly effective.
Hog Slain in Street.
The destitute are not inclined
to be fuSsy about sanitation IA
cilities. Only one man looked up
from his work today as a huge,
hog staggered across the
street in front of our police car
and fell into the gutter. The
thirst-crazed animal began to
choke down the slime.
A young Negro ran over and
poured some water from his can
teen on the pigs nose. Then he
found an ak and put the animal
out of its misery. The pig was
one of thousands of animals which
had escaped from the stock yards
or drowned there.
The colossal destruction of food
is everywhere apparent along the
Kansas River in the factory towns
Of Armourdale and Argentine.
Grain and meat ruined in stor-
age is matched by fields now deep
in mud or sand Stands of corn,
sorghum and wheat are turning
yellow in areas better drained
than those which took the brunt
OF the wild currents.
Another problem with grave i'm
pllcationS to the national econ
omy is that faced by the rail-
roads. The Kansas Cities are
served by a dozen rail lines, sew
eral with transcontinental con-
nections.
Rail Lines Slowed.
Washed-out bridges. inundated
roadbeds and damage to more
than $1,000 pieces of rolling stock
have stalled some lines and slowed
others to a fraction Of normal
capacities.
The billion-dollar food is just
too big for the average man
You can see it in his face. The
flooded areas of the cities housed
laborers and others in the low
income brackets.
The residents have big families
and debts bigger still.
Red Cross workers estimate the
average head of a household car
raise about $3.50 in pinch. There
is virtually no insurance for fiooc
damage in the valleys.
During early stages of the flood
even those who were losing every.
thing shared the excitement anc
a sense of mutual helpfulness with
their neighbors. Those whoSt
homes were spared opened theil
doors to the less fortunate.
1t was not unusual to see 25 o.
30 children under one small roof
,mothered by volunteers who
Evening star., 1951-07-29

is HOL LLG case
now.
For proof,
C o n sid er the
figures S ued
recently by the
Civi il Service
c Of m m i S sion.
They show that
m ore t h a n
twice as many
Gov ern ment
employees are
leaving ir
jobs to enter
private indus
try t h an a
MnnA
Evening star., 1951-07-29

radio patrol car and an emergency
badge.
He and his fellow workers are
known by their first names to
thousands of flood sufferers in the
area. Traffic officers make a
special effort to speed the emer-
gency vehicles through streets
still clogged with debris or partly
blocked by oil storage tanks un-
seated by the flood.
In the untouched uplands of
Kansas City, Kas.. many public
schools have been turned over to
the Red Cross.
The morale problem is building
up. Thousands of displaced per-
sons have returned to their for
mer homes only in recent days.
The full extent of the disaster
has been impressed upon them.
Other Folks Hard Hit.
Many elderly persons obviously
are overwhelmed. They lack the
money, energy and inclination to
make a fresh start under the
threat of the rivers. Many farm
ers in the outlying districts are
talking about pulling out for good.
The long-range plans of a score
of Federal agencies are slow in
getting under way. In the dis
tresSed sections people have an
swered so many questions and
filled out so many reports they
are beginning to say that they
can't eat a Federal survey, or find
shelter beneath one.
One of the first aims of the
Government is to get the trans
portation system back in opera
ton, through the extension of
credit and the release of scarce
materials. Measures also are
being taken, through innocula-
tions and the distribution of fresh
water. to head off the possibility
VI ali FPluelUIC.
There are relatively few mosqui-
toS in the area. Too, the water
supply on the high ground remains
uncontaminated, and the resi-
dents of these sections are in a
good position to help less fortu-
nate neighbors.
so Days Needed for Yards.
Federal experts said the stock
yards probably can be put back
in operation in the next so days.
1t probably will take much longer,
however, to restore normal rail
service through the key cities here.
The overall task of controlling
the rebellious Missouri throughout
its $50 million square miles of
watershed is now one-fourth COM
plete. The major responsibility
rests with the Army Corps of En-
glneers, who are building reser-
VolrS, levees and food walls while
the Reclamation Bureau of the
Interior Department constructs
smaller dams primarily for irri-
cation purposes.
sentiment in the 10 States w.
ing partly or wholly in the Mis-
souri, Valley favors the plan worked
olt by the Engineers and the In
terror Department.
Storage Reservoirs Effective.
The storage reservoirs already
oullt performed according to plan
All Of them held back flood waters
but the difficulty was that the
heaviest rains fell below the dams
In some quarters, including CIO
unions and small farm groups,
there is the belief that the Joint
plan is wasteful because authority
is divided. They continue to in
sist on some independent Federal
agency like the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
1t seemed likely, however, that
the Nations costliest flood will
override conflicting opinions and
speed measures for the conser-
.Vauon OF river valley embracing
.one-sixth of the land area of the
United States.
People hardest hit were unani-
nous in this opinion:
We've got to do something
even if it's wrong.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Traffic Conference

More tnan 100 trial and police
justices and prosecuting attorneys
are expected at Charlottesville to-
morrow to attend the Governors
traffic court conference.
Gov. Battle called the confer
ence in an effort to lessen Vir-
ginias heavy toll of traffic deaths
and accidents. It will be held al
the University of Virginia Law
School tomorrow through Wednes-
day-(H1
Evening star., 1951-07-29

District Of Columbia - Partly
cloudy, not so warm. rather humid
with scattered thunder showers
today. High in middle 80s. To-
morrow, fair with little change
in temperature.
Maryland-Partly cloudy, scat
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Road to Recovery Is Rugged
For Kansas City Flood Victims

bathed and fed them and told
them bedtime stories. But as the
days slipped by these tasks became
too heavy for persons with other
responsibilities.
The result has been that the
Red Cross today is receiving as
many new requests for help as it
did in the first days of the flood.
The Red Cross moved in imme-
.diately with grocery orders, emer-
.gency shelter and medical aid.
Assistance is coming much
slower from the various Federal
departments concerned with the
area. They have to make detailed
surveys. reports and follow pro-
cedures which seem incredibly
slow to those who are hungry and
destitute.
People here are usually stub
bornly reluctant to ask for help
from any source. Rescue workers
find them digging away at the
mud and climbing through their
wrecked homes and places of busi-
ness despite the red Condemned
placards.
Many structures are still COL
lapSing because of undermined
foundations. broken walls and
the heavy deposits of silt reaching
up to third stories in the lowest
sections. The fact that the water
system is still out of commission
along the rivers hampers rehabili-
tation.
Sickening Odor of Decay.
One focal point of the damage
lies in Armourdale, where the
rampaging Kansas sent 26 to 80
feet OF water down the length of
Kansas avenue. Crushed buildings
and tangled debris in the wake
of the torrent appear to have
been swept by a hurricane.
A nauseating ordor of decay
clings to the river valley. World
War II veterans find it harder to
take than the sWeetiSh scent which
permeated bombed-out cities like
Berlin, Tokyo or Manila.
Yet the work goes on around
the clock. Bulldozers nudge
through the muck, manned by op-
orators who breathe through moist
handkerchiefs.
Rescue workers here deplore the
fact that no road blocks were
established in the early stages.
Trucks and automobiles, many
driven by sightseers, jammed the
streets to such an extent that
ambulances and emergency vehi-
cles were held up for hours.
Aid came first from the Red
Cross, which modified a small
army of volunteers under direc-
ton of trained disaster relief per-
sonnel drawn form many cities.
Typical of the leadership was
that supplied by Chairman John
ziegelmeyer of the Wyandotte
County Chapter Of the Red Cross
The 33-year-old attorney worked
for the first four days with only
a few hours of sleep snatched ii
automobiles and motor boats.
. When the main channel of the
Kansas topped the levees and racec
through Armourdale, Mr.. Ziegel.
meyer and fellow volunteer, Ec
Haren, a florist, embarked in 6
motor boat and cut trolley wire.
which were damming the debri.
a three-story building and hoistec
a cripple to safety with the aic
of ropes.
The volunteers remained on tn,
alert beside radios to get news O
i. impending levee breaks and spreac
an alarm ahead of the advancins
waters. The police department
, along the street.
: Neither man had any way Of
knowing, until they cut the frs
wire, if the current was stlll on
They chopped through the roof o-
supplied Mr.. Ziepelnever with .
Evening star., 1951-07-29

reasons is deducted from his an
nual leave. Hardness, special
errands, family emergencies, and
other human factors that prompt
private industry workers to take
time off without being docked
from their vacations. are deducted
from Government employees an
nual leave.
Then, too, Government workers
are allowed to accumulate only 90
days of sick leave, which often
isn't enough for long illnesses.
Government workers have no
unemployment compensation ben
efitS.
Also, Federal employees seem to
be the whipping boy" for some
members of Congress for political
reasons. 1t does the esprit de
corps in Government great harm
when Federal employees constantly
are attacked as lazy, inefficient
and disloyal.
REMEDIES-By and large, most
Government employees do a con-
scientious and able job. It's for
the Nations own good and pro-
lection that the Federal service
should be able to recruit and re-
tain the best possible type of
worker. That's why the Govern
ment should be made more attrac-
tive as an employer. rather than
less.
Sponsors of the Federal pay
raise legislation cite as one of
their strongest arguments the fact
that a Government salary increase
would help to end the wage dis
parity and cut down designations
1t is expensive for the Government
to spend time and money train
ing an employe, only to see him
leave after brief service.
Another thing that would help
Government morale would be for
Congress and the Executive
Branch to develop a budget sys-
tenn whereby personnel reductions
would be accomplished gradually
This would eliminate the meat-ax
approach that Congress has some
times taken.
Enactment of unemployment COM
pensation benefits and strength
ening of job protection rights of
longtime employees also would
bolster morale in Government.
The Governments executive
branch could help also by fur
ther undermining and streamlin-
ing its personnel and administra-
tive programs. with view toward
cutting out waste and improving
efficiency. If this were done,
rank-and-file Federal employees
would not have to be sujected
to attacks in Congress and else
where for policies over which
they have no control. Elimination
of personal patronage in some
Federal Offices would also help a
great deal.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
Navy Bond Concert

A concert by the United States
Navy Band will be given at 8 pm.
tomorrow on the east steps of the
Capitol. On the program will be
Anthony Mitchell. clarinet soloist,
and Ben M. Morris, tenor.
Evening star., 1951-07-29

Norwegian audiences have en-
Enthusiastically received perform
ances of Macbeth given by school
boys of Haileybury College, Eng
land.
Evening star., 1951-07-29
The Federal Spotlight:
The Federal Spotlight:
Government Losing Reputation
AS Country's Ideal Employer
By joseph Youno

The Government rapidly losing reputation counys
ideal employer.
For people regarded Federal employment
a very desirable thing
The good the
Evening star., 1951-07-29

BE sure to read the Federal
Spotlight column in The Star
sir days a 1Deek and listen to the
Spotlight radio broadcast at
6:15 PM. euery Saturday oUer
WMAL.J
Evening star., 1951-07-29

Wild alligators are found only in
he United States and parts Of
China.
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got a lifetime job"
This may have been more or
less true in past years. But it
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River Report,

River Report.
tFrom U S. Engineers
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah muddy at
HarperS Ferry.