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Evening star., 1951-09-21
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Pay Raise Assured as House
Vote Sends Bill to Conference
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meanwhile. has approved a fiat
$500 boost for these workers and
the House is scheduled to act on
the bill Monday. Therefore, these
lemployes stand to get a pay boost
from either one of two ways-by
the conterees including them in
the Federal employees pay raise
bill, or by separate action by the
House and Senate.
incidentally, District Govern
ment classified employees are in
Icluded in both the regular Fed
Ieral pay raise bills approved by the
House and Senate.
The House and Senate are near
!ly together on postal employees pay
raises, each chamber having ap-
proved a $400 to $500 pay boost
for postal workers, postmasters
and supervisors. The Senate's 8.S
per cent postal pay bill assures
postal employees a $400 minimum
raise, with an $500 maximum boost
for workers in the top brackets.
Postmasters and postal supervis-
ors salaries are also reclassified to
provide pay boosts ranging from
$400 to $500 a year.
AAn4rL u>Il
Several meetings of the House
Senate conferees probably will be
necessary before agreement is
reached. but final accord is re-
garded as certainty. Whatever
compromise is reached it promises
to be. a pretty liberal pay bill for
Federal employees.
House action last night in ap-
proving Federal pay raise legisla-
ton provided moments of drama
seldom seen in Congress on Gov
ernment employe legislation.
By the single vote of the presid-
ing officer, the House killed the
provision in the bill voted by the
House Civil Service Committee
that would have forced non-de-
tense agencies to absorb the cost
of the pay raise by reducing per-
sonnel. Defense bureaus and the
Post Office Department were not
included in this provision.
Representative Rhodes. Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania, moved to
eliminate the provision. A number
of legislators supported this move,
among them Representatives Nc
Cormack, Democrat, of Massa-
chusetts; Bailey. Democrat, of
West Virginia: Burdick, Republi-
can, of North Dakota; Rabaut,
Democrat, of Michigan, and Rivers,
Democrat, of South Carolina.
They declared that the provi-
sion would force non-defense
agencies to fire many employees.
Mr.. Burdick called it the shell
game" declaring that with one
hand you give employees a raise,
and with the other hand you fire
them"
117-to-117 Tie.
The vote to kill his provision
was lit to 1T. Then, as the
House tensely waited, Representa-
tive Gathings, Democrat, of Ar
kansas, the House presiding officer
at the time, broke the tie by vot-
ing to eliminate this provision
that would have meant the reduc-
ton Of thousands of Federal jobs.
= With few exceptions, the vote
was along party lines, with Demo-
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II Wounded in War Comes

HAMBURG, Germany. Sept q
troops, accidentally
using live ammunition during war
games in the British sector.
wounded II Allied soldiers and a
German child yesterday, the
British Army reported. Some of
the victims were said to be in seri-
Gus condition. The nationalities
and names of the wounded men
were not disclosed,
Evening star., 1951-09-21

Icrats voting to kill the provision
and Republicans voting to sustain
it.
Compared to the classified EN-
ployes. the postal pay measure
which was acted on first, hat
easy sailing. Both bills, however
were finally adopted by a voic,
vote, with few dissenters.
Member after member took tn
House floor to eulogize posta
workers and heartily indorse th
pay bill. Democrats and Repub
licanS, liberals and conservatives
economy advocates and those no
SO economy minded, took the foo
to praise postal employees.
Retroactive Feature Threatened.
Chairman Murray of the Hous,
Civil Service Committee did tr,
to get the July / retroactive fea,
ture for postal workers knocked
out OF the bill, but his House col
leagues, to the noisy approval O
the gallery spectators, shouted hi
amendment down. Subsequently
when the classified pay raise bill
came up. Mr.. Murray said tha
he would not move to strike ou
the retroactive clause, "becaus,
all Federal employees should b,
treated alike" AS a result. tn,
retroactive feature for classifie,
employees went through withou
any trouble.
Surprisingly strong support wa.
given to an amendment by Repre-.
sentative Katherine st. George, Re.
publican. of New York, who wantee
to tie Federal salaries to an esca.
lator clause based on the cost O
living. The amendment, which
every one thought would be over,
whelmingly rejected, lost by tn.
narrow margin of 103 to 80.
May Pursue Idea.
Even though the amendmen
was finally beaten, Mrs. st
George said she was encourages
by the close vote and might tr,
to do something about it mex
year.
The House voted a $400 or II
per cent pay increase for legisla
tive employees. whichever is tn,
greater. Representative Sutton
Democrat. of Missouri, who spon
sored the amendment, explained
that the Senate on Monday has
inadvertently not included thes,
employees in its 10 per cent bill
and had voted them an 8.4 in.
crease instead. Consequently. tn,
10 per cent or $400 provision
whichever is larger, needed ap
proval by the House in order tt
assure this group of employees +:
chanc. at the fiat 10 per cent pro
vision should House-Senate con.
ferees decide on that figure fo1
Federal classified employees, Mr.
Sutton explained The House an.
proved the amendment unani.
hously.
The classified pay bill involve.
1,O43.614 Government employees
including about 250,00O Fedora
and District Government worker.
In the Washington area. It alst
applies to legislative and judicia
employees. The postal pay legis.
latlon covers more than 500. .OO(
postal workers. The classified
employees pay bill would cost SAT-
million annually. The posta
workers measure would cost S251
million,
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Senate Unit Winds Up
Hearings on Repeal Of
Slaughter Quota Ban
By Froncis P. DouoIos

A Senate Banking subcommittee
today wound up it's hearings on
slaughter quotas with three wit
nesSeS representing suppliers of
meat urging the reimposition of
quotas and four witnesses repre-
senting livestock producers and
marketers on the other side.
They stated sharply different
ideas as to what is best for the
meat industry and for the con-
sumer looking for a beef steak.
Slaughterers were assigned quo
tas ranging from 80 to 100 per
cent OF their last years kills in
the four months of April through
July. The Office of Price Stabili-
cation then denied authority to
set quotas when Congress amend
ed the Economic Controls Act, but
President Truman has asked for
repeal of that ban.
Favored Quotas.
TeStifying today in favor of
slaughter quotas were Jack Har-
old Lee, general manager of the
Prime Packing Co. of Milwaukee;
Harold Widett, representing a
number of New England meat
dealers associations and independ-
ent packers, and Peter H. Peter
sen, representing the National AS
Sociation of Hotel and Restaurant
Meat Purveyors.
Those opposing reinstatement of
quotas were A. G. Pickett, secre-
tary of the Kansas Livestock As
soclation; Arthur L. Owen, of the
National Livestock Producers AS
sociation, composed of 20 Coop
erative marketing agencies; Rob-
ert ]. Riddell of Peoria, president
OF the National Livestock Ex-
change, an organization of ex-
changes at % markets. and c. l..
harrington of indianapolis, chair
man of the War Controls Com
mittee of the National Livestock
Exchange.
Fight on Capehart Looms.
Meanwhile. it appeared that a
hot fight on the Senate floor was
assured over revision of another
section Of the Controls Act. This
section has been referred to by
President Truman as the terrible
capehart amendment" to the price
control law.
Senator Bricker, Republican, of
Ohio, a member of the Senate
Banking Committee which voted
out the revision, said There is
no question about it. The pro-
posed so-called revision would
amount to no less than repeal. ~
The Capehart amendment pro-
vides that price ceilings for manu-
facturers and professors must re-
fleet cost increases between the
start of the Korean war and last
July 26. The compromise ap-
proved by the committee yester-
day by 9-to-4 vote does not
make it mandatory for the OfiieeI
of Price Sterilization to allow for
the cost increases.
Senator Capehart, Republican.
of Indiana said that the commit
tees action on his amendment
changes its "basic intent" For
example. he said, the committee
measure would let OPS decide
whether increased advertising
costs should be reflected in price
ceilings.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
u. S. to Resume Sending
Military Kin to Jupun

The Army announced last night
that the sending of dependents to
join servicemen in Japan, suspend
ed at the start of the Korean war,
would be resumed on a limited
scale early in November.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Miss Bosone EnIists

Miss zilpha Teresa Bosone, 81
year-old daughter of Representa-
tive Bosone, Democrat, of Utah
was to be sworn into the Air Force
as a private today in the recruit
+ ing station at 8l4 North st
Asaph street, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1951-09-21

completing l.
900 hours of
volunteer work
for the Ameri-
can Cancer So
ciety.
Mrs. Lei a h
.Rodenberger, a
t r a n S p o =
tation special
i S t with the e
GAO, was pre-
S e n t e d t h e
award by Ed
ward F. Bartlett,
Assistant Sec
retary of the
Evening star., 1951-09-21
State Will Reveal
Details Of Gross
Story 10 Grand Jury
By The Assoeio,ed Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-The
State decided today to disclose de-
tails, gathered in secret grand jury
sessions, of its case against 18
policemen accused of accepting
bribes from Bookie Harry Gross.
The case was blown sky-high
Wednesday when Gross, the star
witness. abruptly changed his
mind and refused to testify.
Kings County Judge Samuel s..
Lelbowitz announced today at a
news conference in his chambers
that O summary of testimony
Gross gave the grand jury about
the indicted policemen would be
read in open court Thursday.
This will be in Special Sessions
Court, where Gross is scheduled
to be sentenced for gambling
charges on that date. The gam
bier purportedly paid off police
men at the rate of a million dol
lars 3 year to protect his huge
bookmaking business.
Guide for Sentencing.
Judge Leibowitz said that Dis
Itrict Attorney Miles F. Mcdonald
would read the summary to the
court. to guide it in assessing a
penalty for Gross who could get
up to 68 years in prison. He al
ready is under sentence for five
years for contempt in refusing to
tell his story, thus forming Judge
Leibowitz to free the Is policemen.
Mr.. Mcdonald said yesterday he
would prepare summary as well
Jas offer the full grand jury
minutes to the Special Sessions
Court. But he had not said he
would read the summary publicly.
Only on rare occasions are
minutes of a grand jury made
public.
Spruille Braden, chairman of
the New York City Anti Crime
Committee, appeared before the
grand jury today at its invitation.
Says Hoodlums Take Over.
Later, he told newSmen that
I"events of the last few days DEM
Ionstrate clearly that hoodlum
bosses of the underworld are now
taking over as our overlords in the
operation of this city"
He said the police departments
lorganizational setup lends itself to
corruption by bribers.
He added that Police Commits
Isioner George Monaghan should
be called before the grand jury
land "it should be laid on the line
to him that the public will not
stand for these organizational
processes that permit these things
to happen"
Mr.. Monaghan became commits
Isioner only recently.
Mr.. Braden declared that if a
police commissioner knows of
corruption and takes no action"
he should be removed. and "if he
doesn't know about it, he should
be removed anyway for ineffi-
Iciency."
Police Brass on Line.
There were hints that high
police brass may feel the impact
of the renewed grand jury inquiry.
Mr.. Mcdonald said yesterday that
lit was going ahead with some
very special business" which
might produce court action soon
Mr.. Mcdonald would not dis
close what he had in mind, but
reports persisted that authorities
were pressing for showdown
with police brass who allegedly
Icondoned protection tieups be-
tween police and gamblers.
The prosecutor quoted one
member of the holdover grand
Jury as saying:
1T the brains of evil people
can devise this plot, the brains
of decent people can find a way
to combat them"
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Cancer Society Honors
Mrs. LeIah Rodenberuer

A General Accounting Office
employe who was operated on for
cancer in 1914 yesterday received
an award certificate and pin ter
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Pay Raise Bills Compared

Here tables comparing classified employe
would fare under the 10 Senate bill $40O Hou
measure
Evening star., 1951-09-21

will be fair tonight in the major portion country
except for band of showers extending
Lakes region through the Ohio Valley into Georgia 1t will
be cooler in the Great Lakes region the Upper
Mississippi Valley the Plains States and the Central Rockies
Frost expected in the Upper and Central Mississippi Valley
and the Central Plains 1t will be Southern New
England with little change in temperature elsewhere
- ZAP Wirephoto
Evening star., 1951-09-21

are rs degrees high and 56 de-
gfees low. Warm tomorrow, cool
er Sunday, warmer Tuesday and
wednesday. Showers expected to-
morrow night and again Wednes-
day totaling " to1a inch.
River Report
From U s. Engineers
Fotomac River clear at Harpers Ferr,
ana at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear a.
darpers Ferry. ="
Humidity.
:, tReadings at the Washirieton Airnort ,
Noon oaS- FcI Today Pct
MOON --------' 81 Midnight ~ I:
| p'm. pni IS IS am. ------- 6
| Nii ~~----- " l9 am. ---~--- q
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Record Temueratur., Th,

Record Temperatures This Year,
Highest, 96 on June .
Lowest. IL, on February s..
High and Low of Last "A Hours.
High, SO. at 2:55 pm.
Low. 30, at 7:I0 am.
Evening star., 1951-09-21

Tide Tables.
tFurnished BY United States Coast an
Geodetic Survey "tA
Evening star., 1951-11-11

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Evening star., 1951-07-13

Now I come to another bird with
many names. People speak Of it most
often as the woodcock, but there are
some who describe it as the mud
[snipe, the woodhen or the blind
snipe. Still others call 1t the bog
bird, the whistler. the timber doodle
or the hookum peck.
Far from being blind, the wood
cock has pair of very large eyes.
1T has trouble, however, in seeing
objects at close range, and often
bumps into branches when it tries
to get away from tree IN hurry
Some woodcocks live up to their
names by spending their time in
open woodlands. Others dwell in
swamps where there may be willow
trees or alders. ~
For the most part, these birds hunt
their food in twilight. They seel
Evening star., 1951-07-13
Answer to scoRBUTIc.

scrub. scout, scour, scot. sort. sour. stir
stub, stole, suit. succor, .suitor, citrus
cist circus, cost, court, crib, crust. crus
obit, occurs, orbit, otic, oust, riots. routs
robust rust, bout, bruit. bust. burst uric
tours, trio
Evening star., 1951-07-13
What's the Origin?

O. Why do the British use the
word treacle for molasses or sirup?
A. Treacle, pronounced: TREE-kl
lis a corruption of the Latin theriaca,
"antidote against the bite OF a
venomous serpent" The amazing
transformation came about thus:
Until about 1745, the belle
been widespread that sure cure
for serpents' bites was an ointment
made by boiling the snakes body
together with number of othe.
ingredients. Pliny's recipe for treacle
was: after q viper is cleansed, take
out the fat and seethe 1t with
sextar of oil until the one half bt
consumed"
A popular recipe In the New Eng
land of the 17th century was
Twelve vipers soaked in white
wine"
In 1875 Hacket wrote (Centluie
of Sermons: "As cunning leache.
confect treacle out of vipers, SER
pent was the instrument both oi
death and life"
Chaucer made mention Of tht
word In a figurative sense in Mar
Evening star., 1951-07-13
7 axe Ny Word for It
By Fronk Colby

of Lawes Tale: Christ, which that
is to every harm triacle." And in an
early edition of the Bible (about
1889, jeremiah viii.22 reads: us
there no tryacle In Gilead"
It is said that treacle was first
mentioned in Europe by Foucher
|de Chartres tahout 112D, who
learned about the cure in the East
during the first Crusade.
In time the word treacle came t.
be used for any specific or sovereign
remedy. The thick sirup produced
lin the manufacture of sugar became
known as treacle because OF its re-
lsemblance to the ointment.
In 1745 British physician pub
Ilished a treatise against the abb
lsurdity of the snakebite cure, and
treacle, as such, was barred from
the British Pharmacopoeia. The
word treacle gradually lost its as
ISOLATION with quack cures, al1d
finally became the British equiva-
lent for molasses. =
of the adyerbs badly" and "safely'S
II so. Frank Colby's leanet. Clio. win
help you; For copy. send 10 cents
ss.ss s0'P 9 aA Rea eSs S'1s Station G. = New Hs
Evening star., 1951-07-13
Uncle Rays Corner

shady places in which to rest during
the heat of the day.
When they can find soft ground,
woodcocks peck into it with their
long beaks. Often they reach worms
below the surface.
During the mating season, male
woodcocks do a great deal of SHOW
ing Off" After the sun goes down
they may be seen flying about in
circles or spirals within 40 or SO feet
of the ground, cheeping while they
do so. It is clear that their cheeps
are uttered to please the females
After landing, they strut around, and
this seems to be for the same pur-
pose.
Two, three or four young wood
cocks hatch from the eggs which are
laid in simple ground nests. The
mother woodcock tries to take the
best care of the little ones. If dan
ger seems to be at hand, she will pick
up q chick and carry it between hel
feet TO o safer place. Then she vii.
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return to carry another away. When
possible she takes all her Brood to

Interesting life stories Of Mozart,
Beethoven. Chopin, Brahms, stralss and
Laiszt are told In. the illustrated leafet
called Masters of Music" This Will be
sent without charge to any reader who
ask for 1t and incloses . stamped. self
addressed envelope. Address your letter
to Uncle Ray, In care Of The Star. and
allow about 10 days for yaDly.
Evening star., 1951-07-13
Contract Bridge
By Ely CuIbertson

By Ely CuIbertson
Copyright. 1851. by Ely culbertson.)
There is more to ''timing" than
meets the eye. For example:
South dealer, neither side vulner-I
able.
NORTH.
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1643
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WEST. EAST.
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SOUTH.
AAQ10
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@AKQJ4
The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
ANT Pass 6hearts Pass
6NT Pass Pass Pass
Despite North's heart bid West
felt that his safest lead was in that
suit-his extreme length giving him
protection-and so he opened the
heart three. East discarded spade,
and South, of course, could have
taken the trick with the nine-but
"a t11nItnhf f1air1nc7 axyart a Saf0 c
sure of two heart tricks in any case
whether he cashed the nine and
ace or won the first trick with the
ace and led toward the queen-but
there might be decided difference
in the timing of the subsequent play
With East void of hearts, there was
a grave danger that he might have
length in clubs, and if that was the
case South would have trouble find
ing the twelfth trick.
So, after due consideration, South
took the first trick with the heart
ace and promptly returned the heart
nine. West saw no reason to hold
up the king; he won with that card
and shifted to spades.
South took the spade trick in his
own hand and cashed his four top
clubs, discarding one diamond and
two hearts from dummy. Now he
cashed his other spade tricks, land
ing in dummy and finally cashed the
heart queen. At this point, East
was squeezed! West had had to give
up a diamond earlier, to protect his
heart jack, and now East had the
sorry choice of relinquishing 1.is
high club, or reducing his own hand
to two diamonds, thus allowing
South to run his own three dia-
monds.
Readers will find interest in lav-
Ing out the cards and seeing for
themselves that South could not
have made the hand if West had
played low at the second trick. The
timing of the squeeze would have
been destroyed.
tReleased by the Register and Tribune
Syndicate, 1951l
Evening star., 1951-07-13
Word Come
Find A or more words In
PORT RAYAL,

meaning, description. delinea-
ton" Average is Al; limit. 80
minutes.
I Rules-Words must be Of four or more
letters Words which acquire four letters
! by the addition of s. such as bats,
cats are not used. Only one form OF 2
word is used. Proper names are not used
A list viii be published tomorrow.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-07-13
LEGAL NOTICES
Land Office Anchorage. Ala ska. April 20. 1851.

Notlce for Publication. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE
 INFERIOR. BUREAU OF LAND MAN.
 AGEMENT
 Notice is hereby given that Fred Bron- niche, has made application for home- site. Anchorage Serial 012347, under the Act of May 26 1884 (48 StatS09) for a tract of land situated approximately one quarter of mile north of the present Slana Road, and one eighth of a mile west of Ahtell Creek (previously named Haktet Creek) at point one quarter of mile from the junction with the Slana River, Plat of U. S. Survey No. 2885. containing 4.35 acres, latitude 62o 42' 47.8" N. longitude 143o 59' 43" w. at corner No. |, and it is now in the files of the land of- flee, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the local land office, Anchorage, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter. or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes.
 GEORGE A. LINGO, Manager. Date First Publication, May 18, 1850. Date Last Publication, July B, 1850.
 Publish: May 18, 25; June 1, 8, IS, 22. 29; July 6, B, 1851.