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Evening star., 1951-08-16
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young

The Senate today is expected to
approve and send to the White
House legislation reducing the 26
days annual leave benefits of the
Governments employees to 90
days.
Final congressional approval Of
the measure became assured yes
terday when the House agreed to
accept the Senate-approved leave
reduction rider as part of the 1852
Independent Offices money bill.
The final. Senate vote today on
the use-Senate conference res
port of the Independent Offices
bill is more or less a formality,
with quick approval forecast.
The money bill approved yester-
day by the House also contains
the compromise agreement where
by most Federal non-defense
agencies will have their personnel
funds cut 10 per cent for the
1900 llSCdl year.
Effective Last July /.
Although the leave reduction
rider is tackled on the bill, it ap-
plies to all Government classified
and Wage Board employees. The
new 20-days-a-year annual leave
system would be effective as of
last July /.
The legislation does not change
the present 15-day sick leave ben
ef1ts.
The leave rider also requires
employees to use all of their calen-
dar year annual leave by June 30,
1852. Otherwise they will lose
all unused portions of their 1851
leave. Annual leave accumulated
from former years. however, may
be carried over.
The 20-day leave rider, which
is sponsored by Senator Douglas.
Democrat. of Illinois, does not
affect postal workers. whose an
nual leave is now Is days.
No Discussion Of Rider.
| House approval of the confer
ence report yesterday on inde-
pendent Offices came quickly, with
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35-Foot Waves Reported
In Caribbean Hurricane
BY the Associated Press

| MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 16.-A Nevy
ship in the hurricane south of
Puerto Rico today reported heavy
winds are whipping up 35-foot
waves.
/ The vessel, the U. S. S. Rock
wall, reported encountering the
storm about $50 miles south of
Pureto Rico in the Caribbean Sea
| Gray Norton, chief storm fore
caster in the Miami Weather
Bureau, said the storm is very
small and in the formative stage
with maximum winds near 80
miles an hour.
/ A Navy hurricane hunter air.
plane probed the tropical dis
turbance today and reported to
Mr.. Norton that the calm central
eye of the storm avs poorly de-
fined and 20 miles in diameter.
So small is the storm that hur-
ricane winds extend only 20 miles
around the eye. said Mr.. Norton
"On the basis of the reports
from the Navy ship and airplane
it appears that the storm is NOV
ing westward, he added. "It lost
little force Overnight but seems
Ito be regaining some strength.
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Truman Signs Fund Bill
10 Import Mexican Worker!

President Truman today signed
"a bill appropriating funds to the
Labor Department to begin bring
ing Mexican farm workers into
this country in conformity with
Ia recently concluded agreement
with Mexico.
In doing so, he issued a state
.ment calling on Congress to ex-
Ipedite also the appropriations
and substantive legislative pro-
posals needed to complete action
on "a well-rounded program deal
ing with the immigration of Mex
Iican farm workers" He submitted
proposals on July 13.
Our present agreement with
Mexico" the President said. will
terminate in less than six months
and it is vital that the Congress
complete action on these recon-
Imendations before that time runs
out, if we are to negotiate with
the Mexican government for q
new agreement to meet our needs
for workers in the next cror
year"
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Pickets Are Poised
For Strike Action
Al Arlington School

Completion of 500-pupil ele-
mentary school in Arlington was
Ijeopardized today as a laborers
strike entered its second day.
Union laborers yesterday walked
off five jobs in Arlington and Falls
Church in protest of the hiring OF
Is union employees by an Ar
Ilington contractor. A spokesman
for Building Laborers Local Union
No. "A, AFL. said pickets were
scheduled to walk at the five jobs
Will Complete Job.
The Mckinley Elementary
School at North Eleventh street
and Mckinley road in Arlington
scheduled to open September 3
lis one of the projects involved. II
the 14-room building is not ready
for school opening September 4
ISupt. William A. Early said the
school system will be in critical
shape.
The contractor, E. L. Daniels
has told school officials that he
will complete the project by Sep
Itember 4 with or without union
help. He said he was unable to
get sufficient laborers to work on
his jobs from union sources and
was forced to hire the non-union
men to complete the work.
Henry Thompson, president of
the union, is expected to negotiate
with the contractor at 9 am
Monday. according to a spokes-
man at union headquarters.
Addition Involved.
Besides the Mckinley School
project an addition to Washing
ton-Lee also is involved. However,
this building will house a gym
|nasium and a clinic and Office
space and was not expected to
be ready until next year.
Other construction projects
which have been tied up by the
strike are the First Presbyterian
Church in Arlington, the Colum-
bia Baptist Church in Falls
Church. and a group of four
stores on Wilson boulevard and
North Taylor street in Arlington.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Maryland
and
Virginia
Phone Rate Increase
Seen for Virqinia
in Brief

Virginians may have to pay
higher telephone bills as a result
Iof the settlement of the long
standing Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co. contract dispute.
The State Corporation Commits
sion has tentatively set aside two
days in October to hear a C. & P
petition for higher rates.
During negotiations with the
CIO Communications Workers
Union. the company repeatedly
said wage boosts would mean rate
increases. Under the agreement
reached yesterday, some 5000
company employees in Virginia viii
receive from So to $3.50 more pei
Week,-AP.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Western Berlin Police
Brace as Red Youths
Mass in East Sector
By the Associated Press

BERLIN. Aug. 16.-ThouSands
of young Communists massed ir
Russian-occupied East Berlin to-
day and Western police braced fol
an expected new violent invasion
In the wake of yesterdays three
hour, riotous invasion by $4,000
young Communist hoodlums, new
concentrations we're spotted by
Western authorities. West Ber-
lin police said the young Com
munists might number 100000,
but other sources said the figure
probably was exaggerated and was
likely nearer to 10000.
Assaults Reported Planned.
The West Berlin police said they
had reports that young Red storm
troopers-picked toughs from the
fanatical squadron leader ranks
of the Communist Free German
Youth (FDO-were preparing for
multiple assaults all along sector
border lines from the American
sector to point 5 miles northwest
at the French sector.
Eleven police and scores of Reds
were injured yesterday when the
young Communists stormed across,
about $4,000 strong. More than
100 of the Reds were arrested
after they attacked police with
stones and clubs.
This was the first violence of
the Red youth festival which
opened August 5 and is due 10
close Sunday. West Berlin police
and press denounced the invasion
as a Communist plot to keep the
youngsters at the festival from
slipping peacefully across the Sec
tor oorder for a look at the West.
There have been more than 600,-
900 such visitors in two weeks.
They have been given hot food, a
good look at Western freedom and
messages to take back East. Com
munists threw up street barricades
to stop these visits, but were un-
able to stem the tide.
Hard Core" Fanatics.
The roWdies who created yes
terday's disorders appeared to be
organized bands of Soviet trained
'hard-core' fanatics. Police had
to use noses and clubs to beat back
the blue -shirted invasion.
Moscow'S Pravda. commenting
on the melee, told its readers to-
day the West Berlin police brut-
ally attacked the Communist
youth after the latter we're "en-
ticed into the western sectors by
talk about freedom" 1t said "Sev-
eral hundred boys and girls were
arrested
Pravda said West Berlin police,
acting as "agents for Wall Street" ;"
attacked after the young Com
munists tried to establish friend
ly contact with the West Berlin
population and talk to them about
the festival and the peoples poll
against German rearma rlent."
Evening star., 1951-08-16
4 Washington Students
Get Degrees at Purdue

-Four Washington students were
among candidates receiving de-
grees at Purdue University, Lafay-
cite, Ind, today.
They are: Sakari T. Jutila, 30O1
woodland drive NV, master of
science; Rosabelle Moll. 5819
Fourteenth street NV, master of
science in education: Gerald L.
Mindel. AIT Butterworth place
NV, master of science in educa-
ton, and William Nighman, 1929
Forty-sixth street NV, bachelor
Iof science in metallurgical engi-
neerinp
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Tax Cut in Prospect

Hope for a tax rate cut in Fair
fax County was expressed yester-
day by Chairman G. Wallace Car
per of the Board of Supervisors
as the aftermath of real estate re-
assessments.
Assessor Graham James has re-
ported that real estate assess
ments have reached $3.50 million
resulting in an expected $700 ,00C
in extra revenue.
ut looks like we will have q
good chance of cutting the $2.65
tax rate next year, if the School
Board viii stay within its budget,
Mr.. CAREER said.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Still No Decision

A decision on where Virginia S
new 10th congressional district
will be located is still up in the
all.
| Members of the States redis-
tricting commission met in Rich
mond last night and emerged
without comment OF publicly set
ting date for a new meeting.
| The best bet still appeared to
be that the new district would be
carved from Northern Virginia s
9Th district, where the population
has greatly increased in the last
10 years. Representative Smith
Democrat, represents the 9th Dis
trict.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
EntireHomicide Squad
Thrown Into Search
For ChiIdren's Killer

The killer of two small children
remained at large today while the
entire Homicide Squad buckled
down in a methodical search for
clues.
Capt. jeremiah Flaherty, chief
of the Homicide Squad, said Is
detectives will work on the case
until the man who bludgeoned to
death two brothers, 3 and 4 years
old, in their home at 402 Franklin
street NV. early yesterday, is
captured.
The only motive for the brutal
crime uncovered thus far is the
theft of a Inch, table-mcdel
television set from the home OF
the victims.
Children May Have Awakened.
/ Detectives theorized that one of
the children may have been awak-
ened by the prowler and cried out
The killer then beat them to death
with a hammer to silence them,
slipped a bolt into place on the
Outside of the door of the par
ents' room and continued with
the robbery.
i, The victims were James Edward
Poole. who would have celebrated
his fifth birthday next week, and
his brother, Fred. They are the
children of Clarence Poole, COL
ored. 27, a construction worker,
and his wife. Victoria, "a, a Fill
ipino war bride. The couple have
two other children, Angeline, 1s
months and Anthony. three weeks.
The Poole home was thorough
ly busted for fingerprints yester-
day and detectives today are elm
mating the prints of members of
the family and close friends in an
J effort to isolate those of the killer.
Hammers Under Chemical Test.
Two hammers found at the scene
are undergoing chemical tests to
!, determine whether either was the
| weapon used to kill the children.
! Each of the children had been
struck three times on the fore
; head and the jaw of the youngest
: had been fractured.
Mr.. Poole discovered the crime
: latter his wife had been awakened
by crying in the children's room.
> When he tried to go to his sons,
Mr.. Poole found his bedroom door
was locked on the outside. He
went out the bedroom window.
dropped 10 feet to the ground and
re-entered the house on the ground
, floor.
Mr.. Poole told police he had
> returned home after studying
5 craftsmanship at school Tuesday
night. He locked the downstairs
doors, looked in on his sleeping
sons and left them with a light
burning. The two smaller children
slept in the bedroom with their
parents.
Light Turned OFF.
The light in the boys bedroom
had been turned off when Mr..
> Poole returned to find the children
dying.
t Police said the killer evidently
: gained entrance to the house by
: removing a loose panel in a back
sIdoor.
Capt. Flaherty said detectives
are investigating the movements
of several persons, but as yet. no
: new suspects have been arrested.
: One man picked up early yester-
day was released after questioning
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Police Win Over DOGS

Anne Arundel County officials
don't want the police to "go to
the dogs"
They gave that reason yester-
day in Annapolis in rejecting an
application by the SPCA for per-
mission to use the same radio
wave length as the police.
SPCA Head Albert MacCar-
thy complained: "It's unfair in
that they have the police to
back them and we have only the
dogS."-A. p.
Evening star., 1951-08-16

District of Columbia - Some
cloudiness, hot, humid with high
SO degrees. Scattered thunder
showers late this afternoon and
evening. Fair tonight, low 10 de-
grees. Tomorrow, fair, cooler.
Maryland - Scattered thunder
showers this afternoon and to-
night, followed by fair later to.
night. Low 60-65 degrees in west
and 65-70 degrees in east portions
Tomorrow. cloudy and cooler.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
President Refuses
To Include Himself
Among Ambitious

President Truman said today he
is sure plenty of people are am
bilious for the Democratic nomi-
nation for President next year
but he refused to say whether he
is among them.
He told news conference he
thinks there are more important
things to talk about than who is
going to run for President next
year.
Discussion of possible candida
cies arose when reporter re-
minded the President that he hac
said last week he did not think
Gen. Eisenhower would seek the
Democratic nomination: that Sen
ator Douglas, Democrat, of Illi.
nois said last week he is not can.
didate-and so who is left but Mr.
Truman himself.
The President replied that he |!
sure there are plenty of people am
bilious for the job. He added with
a smile that they do not know
what they are getting into, how.
ever.
He told another questioner that
he did not think it would be proper
for him to name those he consid-
ers ambitious for the nomination
Corrects Questioner.
Mr.. Truman corrected the initial
questioner who had begun by say
ing that the President had said
that Gen. Eisenhower would not
be a candidate for the Democratic
nomination. Mr.. Truman said he
had not said that-that what he
said was that he did not think
Gen. Eisenhower would be.
Another reporter wanted to
know if Mr.. Truman would well
come the support of Senator
Douglas, who was quoted as say
ing he would support the President
for denomination despite their cur
rent dispute over Illinois judgeshir
appointments. Mr.. Truman's re-
ply was that he would if he was
a candidate.
| Reminded that he had been
characterized as Standing under
the mistletoe waiting to be kissed.
for the nomination to run again,
the President had no comment.
He also replied no comment
when asked if he thought Nc
Carthyism would be an issue in
the 1852 election campaign.
/ No Comment on McCarthyism.
He similarly refused comment
when asked his definition of Nc
Carthyism by a reporter who said
that Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
Ilican, of Wisconsin. had defined
1t as a fight against communism
Senator Mccarthy has been the
chief maker of charges OF COM
munism in Government. With
out naming the Senator. Mr.
Truman vigorously assailed scare
mongering and character assas'
sination in a speech here Tues
day.
While many people have urged
him to make a whistle-stop speak.
ing tour soon. tht President said
he has not yet made up his minc
whether to do so.
Pleased by Article.
/ A reporter brought up a Look
Magazine article by Henry Steele
Commager, author and professor
of history at Columbia University
describing the tt lman admins.
ira ion as "one of almost unin.
terrupted and unparalleled sue
cess"
Mr.. Commager characterized
the President as a man of firm.
ness, vigol, courage and vision.
Mr.. Truman, asked If he hae
read it, described it as a very gooe
article.
! He said it was fair and true
The President added that h
was not acquainted with the au
thor, and remarked that Mr
Commager worked out the articl,
himself from the facts.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Alexandra Has Surplus

Alexandria came through the
1850 fiscal year not only with def
Iicits of past years wiped out but
with big surplus to spare.
The city's good financial stand
ing was attributed in an audit
report principally to underesti-
nation of tax and other revenue
collections. In addition. the re-
port said, the city spent about
S2a7 900 less during the year than
was budgeted, The surplus, incl
dentally, was given rs $461,000.
Evening star., 1951-08-16

quired to make the 10 per cent
cut.
The bulk of the Governments
employees, however, are exempt
from personnel cut provisions.
since the formula does not apply
to the Defense, Post Office and
Treasury Departments. These Of
fees, together with other ex-
empted units, employ more than
1.8 million of the 20 million en-
ployes now on the Federal pay
roll.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Virginia 49, Scattered thunder
showers afternoon and early to-
night, followed by fair later to-
night. Low tonight, 65-70 degrees
west and north and in low 70s in
southeast portion. Tomorrow
cloudy and cooler.
Wind: South, southeast, 6 miles
per hour, at 1880 am.
District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count for "a hours
ended 9 am. August Is, 3 grains
per cubic foot of air.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Long, Gray Line

Copyright r Walker
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While those Of the future for it will live and die:
No better time to honor the good God Of US all
And thot Gray Line" at West Point eountys coll
o. you who seek for Freedom and Iond Of Liberty
Let remember those precious nomesiust three:
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Evening star., 1951-08-16
Fishing Limits Defined

Commercial fishermen may take
salmon on the north side of Lough
Fovle which separates Ulster from
Fire, but not from the south, or
republican, side.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Egypt Devises Tariff Setup

Egypt's newest customs tariff
cuts duties on some items but in
creases them on alcoholic beveT-
ages a96 used cars. Cairo reports.
Evening star., 1951-08-16

High and Low Of last "A Hours.
High SO. at $50 PM
Low "A. at 1880 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90 on June 2.
Lowest, IL on Feb 8.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by U: s. Coast and Geodeti
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River Report.

River Report.
From U. S. Engineersl
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls: Shenandoah clear at
/
Evening star., 1951-08-16

| Automobile lights must be turned on one
| half hour after sunset
I PrecipitatiOn
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The Sun and Moon
Evening star., 1951-08-16

The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets
Sun. today 6:22 500
sun. tomorrow = 6:23 sol
Moon, today sol p.m. 5:27 a. m
Ant 1;o1,t
Evening star., 1951-08-16

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
Plumber and Musician Held
In $3.50 ARLINGTON Theft

A plumber and a musician who
were arrested twice yesterday by
Arlington police face County Court
hearings tomorrow on charges of
reckless driving and grand lar
ceny.
The men are listed by police as
Theodore Roosevelt Shifflett, %,
Of the 100 block of Reed avenue
Alexandria, the musician and
Henry Calvin Carter, 81. of
Springfield, the plumber.
Detective Walter Kadel said the
men were arrested by Policemen
Robert S. Payne and John j. Mes
bitt on Columbia pike about 3 a m.
and charged with reckless driving.
After the summonses were issued,
the two men were told to go home.
About $50 am, Policemen
Charles A. Wood and Benjamin
Z. Marsh stopped the men after
the officers noticed a car without
lights at Washington boulevard
and North Powhatan street. The
men were charged with stealing
about $500 worth of lead and cop
per fittings from a shed owned
by the Clarendon Plumbing and
Heating Co. at North Roosevelt
and Twenty-second streets.
They were released on $1,000
bond each.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
ALI Banquet Honors
Gaithersburg Girl

Barbara Riggs, Of Gaithersburg
Md, last night received top
honors at the annual Montgomery
County All achievement banquet
in. Gaithersburg.
Miss Riggs was a member of
the dairy Judging team which
took international honors at
Cambridge, England, last July
Awards for all-'round All work
went to Mary Dorsey. of Boyds,
and Carol Mills, Gaithersburg.
In the girls home economics
division. Lillian Arnold, Lewis
dale. and Augusta Mae King,
Woodfleld, won pins for general
high achievement. Prizes also
went to Marjorie Burdette, Cal
thersburg. for her clothing record
and to Mary Ann Ward, Gathers
burg. for citizenship.
Agricultural awards went to
Carol Mills, Gaithersburg, in the
dairy judging; Robert Swilling
Rockville, for farm and home
safety; Richard Thompson, Ken
sington. for home grounds beauti-
fication;
Also James Arnold, Lewisdale.
for gardening: Donald Hobbs, jr.,
Sandy Springs. for meat animals:
Harry Kirk. Silver Springs, for
poultry; Jack Killing, Clarksburg,
for soil conservation: Millard
Lethbridge. Ashton. for tractor
maintenance, and to Jack Barns
ley, Gaithersburg, for field crops.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
Flying Boat Rescues Pilot
AS FLAX Fills Air. Nearby
BY the Assoeioied Press

UNITED STATES 5th AIR
FORCE HEADQUARTERS. Ko-
rea, Sunday. Dec. "a thrilling
rescue under fire Saturday saved
a Thunderjet pilot who crash
landed his plane after it was
hit by enemy gunflre.
1t. James T. Crump OF Bay
town, Tex. was picked up by a
flying boat of the Far East Air
Forces Sd Air Rescue Squadron
after he landed on the mudf1ats
off Western Korea.
Bursts of fax missed the fly
ing boat as it took off.
The Texan was on a rail-cut-
ting mission when flax hit his
plane. After the crash landing
he got into his rubber raft.
Soon, the flying boat landed
nearby. 1t. Crump swan a short
distance from his boat to the
plane and was hauled aboard.
Crew members of the rescue
plane included 1t. Hugh D. Clark,
navigator, Lynchburg, Va.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
s. Million Bid Is Lowest
For Laurel Dam Project

The Lewis & Bowman Co.,
Greensboro, N. c., has submitted
Ia low bid of slightly less than
So million for construction Of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commissions new Patuxent River
dam near Laurel.
The dam will provide additional
water storage facilities for the
nearby Maryland area served by
the commission. It will be built
about Is miles southeast of an
other dam built in 1943.
During some of the recent sum-
mer dry spells, the commission
found that a single dam on the
Patuxent was inadequate. Last
summer was the first time in sew
eral years that the commission did
not have to limit water consump-
tion.
Meanwhile, commission officials
announced that equipment for
|f1uoridation of Maryland water
has arrived and is now being in
stalled. All the necessary chemi-
Gals also are on hand. but officials
would not predict whether they
could begin fluoridation by their
original deadline of January !.