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Evening star., 1951-11-07
Freddy heEvoy Dies
Trying 10 Save Wife
From Sea Off Africa
BY the Assoeloted k3ess

CASABLANCA, Nov. THE
millionaire society sportsman
Freddy McEvoy, former husband
of two oil heiresses and boyhood
chum of movie actor Enrol Flynn
died hero's death yesterday in
"a vain attempt to. save his third
wife from drowning.
Mr.. McEvoy, his French wife
Claude and four others were killed
when his yacht Kangaroo was
driven on the rocks about 100
yards offshore in a violent storm
100 miles south of Casablanca.
Three members of the yacht
crew swan to safety.
The 43-year-old sportsman was
swimming through 30-foot-high
seas only six feet from shore, the
survivors said, when he turned
back to aid his wife some distance
behind. AS he neared her side
their strength failed and both
sank.
Terror in Darkness.
They died afetr 18 hours of ter
ror-12 of them in darkness
aboard the wrecked yacht, which
had turned on its side and was
breaking up. Two French sailors
were swept overheard. A Spanish
sailor threw himself into the sea
and sank. Mrs. McEvoy's French
maid, lashed to the mast, was torn
loose by the wind and carried
away.
The yacht was trying to enter
the port of Safi but was kept out
by binding sand clouds. 1t ran
aground Monday a few miles north
Of Cap Cantin shortly after noon
and turned on its side.
In mid-afternoon the storm
lullel and the battered survivors
aboard the wreck, clinging des-
perately to ropes. could see the
Moroccan coast 100 yards away.
Reaches Shore Exhausted.
AS night approached and the
ship - breaking up - foundered
deeper into the water, Mr.. McEvoy
ordered an Austrian crewman to
try the swim to shore. He reached
it, exhausted.
The next morning the two other
IcreWmen still alive-an Austrian
and a German-went into the
water and made it to shore. Then
Mr.. McEvoy and his wife. both
excellent swimmers. started their
futile try. A crowd of Arabs on
the shore shrieked encouragement,
in vain.
Born in Australia, Mr.. McEvoy
had spent many years in Europe
and America. He was married
previously to Mrs. Beatrice Ben
jamin Pratt Gibson Cartwright, a
granddaughter of Standard Oil
Organizer H. H. Rogers and to
Irene Wrightsman, daughter OF
the Houston Oil man, Charles B
Wrightsman. Both divorced him
Mr.. McEvoy and his 26-year-
old third wife were best man and
'matron of honor last year at the
marriage of Enrol Flynn and Ac-
Itress Patrice Wymore in Monte
Carlo.
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portion. Tomorrow, partly cloudy
and colder.
Virginia-Partly cloudy, windy
and considerably colder. Low to-
night of $3.50 west, mid-30s east
portion. Tomorrow, fair and sligh-
ly colder west and much colder
east.
Wind: West at Is miles an hour
at 1870 am.
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The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia and Vicin-
ity-Some cloudiness, windy ano
colder. Partly cloudy and windy
with low of IS tonight. Tomorrow
fair and rather cold.
MISUNDERSTANDING cloudi-
ness, windy and colder. Snow flur.
ries in the mountains tonight. Low
tonight, of 1884 in west with q
in the mountains: mid-30s east
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torneys listed as sharing in the
fee were Walter P. Moyle, Ashley
Sellers, John w. Cragun and
Robert W. Barker.
The largest attorneys fee in
history is said to be IS million of
"a $40 million Judgment won by
Lehigh Valley Railroad attorneys
in the so-called Black Tom litiga-
Ition.
Evening star., 1951-11-07
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young

The right of about $4,000 Gov.
ernment employees to receive the
new Federal pay raise was in doubt
today, following the Controller
Generals decision last night that
ungraded workers were not in
cluded by Congress in the salary
legislation.
The decision affects about 1900
Census Bureau employees who are
not covered by the Classification
Act. 1t also raised a question re-
garding nearly $4,000 other non
classified employees who work ir
the Atomic Energy Commission
Central Intelligence Agency, Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corp, In
land Waterways Corp, the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, and scat.
tered units in the Army and Navy
and the Government Printing OF.
flee.
General Accounting Office of.
ficials cautioned that last night.
decision does not necessarily NEAR
that a similar ruling will be ap.
piled to the other agencies. They
said Acc, CIA and others claimed
authority to grant the raises wa.
given them in previous legislation
GAO officials said the Censu
Bureau had not raised this argu
ment and that consequently tn,
ruling on other agencies woult
have to be made on a set of diff
ferent conditions.
They also said, however, tina
last nights decision could mean al
adverse decision would be made II
the case of the other agencies.
Summing it up, a top GAO of
fetal said the ruling could gt
either way. There's no telline
now what the decision will be, he
said.
| About 5000 employees in the
Washington area would be affect.
ed.
Deficit Spending Barred.
Controller General Lindsay War.
ren ruled that the 1900 ungradec
Census Bureau workers are moi
entitled to the four months retro.
active pay. Furthermore, the eff.
feet of his ruling is to deny these
employees the $500 to $500 salary
incerase as Of now. The ruling
says the agency may pay the 1906
employees the increase if it ha.
enongh money on hand. but may
not go into deficit spending.
For all intents and purposes
this denies a raise to the workers
since there isn't enough money or
hand.
The Census Bureau may gel
around this by placing the 1906
ungraded workers under tn,
Classification Act, but they still
wouldn't get the retroactive par
Of the raise.
Should the Controller Genera
rule against the other agencies
it would be practically impossible
to put all their employees under tn.
Classification Act. since the bu
reaus are specifically exempted b,
law from the classification system
Nearly every one concerned
acknowledges that the whole
situation stems from an Oversight,
by Congress in approving the pay
raise legislation. Even GAO Off.
cials say privately that Congress
probably intended all Government
workers other than per diem en-
ployes. whose salaries are fixed
Iby Wage Boards, to benefit from
the raises.
However, Congress approved the
pay raises by amending the Fed.
Evening star., 1951-11-07
Hume PTA to Meet

The Parent-Teacher Association
of the Hume School, Arlington,
will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow in
the school. Miss Marian Raddar,
reading specialist for Arlington
Schools, will speak and show color
slides of her recent trip through
the Orient.
Evening star., 1951-11-07
Gonzoqu Porents to Meet

The Rev. John F. Lenny will,
address the Gonzaga High Schoo
Parents Association at its monthly
meeting at 8 pm. Friday in the
school auditorium. Father Lenny
who is director general of high
schools of the Maryland Province
of the Jesuit Order, will speak or
The Teen-Age Bow"
Evening star., 1951-11-07
Bozour at Falls Church

The Falls Episcopal Church will
hold its annual bazaar from IL
am. to pm. tomorrow at the
parish house, 160 East Broad
street, Falls Church.
Evening star., 1951-11-07
Green to Broadcast Talk

H. Bruce Green, who was re-
elected clerk of the Arlington
Circuit Court in yesterdays elec-
ton, will speak at 7:05 o'clock
tonight on station WEAM.
Evening star., 1951-11-07
The Federal Spotlight --:
GAO Ruling Jeopordizes Raise
For About $4,000 Employees

eral Classification Pay Act Of 1949.
But Congress said nothing specif1-
cally about ungraded workers and
such agencies as the Atomic
Energy Commission. the Central
Intelligence Agency and others.
Some agencies such as the Acc
already have given employees their
retroactive raises. Should the rul-
ings go against them, it would
create a real problem.
These agencies say that since
they have always followed the
salary rates fixed by the Classifi-
Ication Act for their own employees,
they assumed that the pay raise
included them. Also, they say,
past laws by Congress have given
them the authority to adjust
wages by administrative action
whenever it is deemed proper.
Thus the entire situation is in
the lap of the General Accounting
Office. ~--.. --. ..
| OVERTIME KICKBACK - The
Controller General also issued a
ruling which will mean that some
employees will lose all or part of
their four months retroactive pay.
The situation stems from the
fact that for most employees who
!, work extra hours. their overtime
pay decreases as their salary in
Icreases. Consequently, employees
were paid overtime on the new
basis of the old salary schedule
/ from July through November
! However. the new retroactive pay
raise increased salaries during that
period, with the result that the
Iovertime payments they are en-
titled to are less than they have
already received.
The controller general ruled that
these employees will have to pay
back the difference to their agency
In some cases. it will wipe entirely
the four months retroactive pay
raise they received. In other cases,
1T will only amount to a few dol
lars. 1t all depends on the over
time that an employe put in dur
ing that four-month period.
i
| BREAK IN SERVICE-The con-
troller general also ruled that a
break in service during the July
to November period would not de-
prive an employe of retroactive
pay, providing that he was on the
Federal payroll when President
Truman signed the pay bill into
law last week.
! For example, an employe worked
) during July and August for the
Veterans Administration. During
:; September, he did not work for
any agency but secured a Job in
the Defense Department in Octo-
tber and was there when the pay
, raise became law. The controller
. generals ruling is that the en-
ploye would be entitled to three
|, months retroactive pay, and the
VA would pay him for two months
and the Defense Department
would pay for one month.
4 CORRECTION In the table
published yesterday showing Fed
Ieral employees what the tax would
be on their biweekly paychecks,
at one point it was incorrectly
stated that the amounts shown
would represent the take-home
pay. What the figures represent
ed, Of course. was the amount of
How that mould ho IaI,,ofaI
Evening star., 1951-11-07

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 90. on June 2.
Lowest. il, on February 8.
High and Low of Last "a Hours.
High, ~, at 4:45 pm.
Low. 80, at Gas am.
Evening star., 1951-11-07

New England and the Middle Atlantic Coast will
tonight with urries the interior Snow
in the Great Lakes scattered
Nebraska with urrie in Northern Wyoming The rest
OF the country will have fair weather. The Eastern Seaboard
states Will be cooler while might throughout the
Flahs STATES -AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1951-11-07
River Report.

fFrom U. s. EngineersD
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferr,
ana at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear a
Evening star., 1951-11-07
CORRECTIONAL the table

published yesterday showing Fed
eral employees what the tax would
be on their biweekly paychecks,
at one point it was incorrectly
stated that the amounts shown
would represent the take-home
pay. What the figures represent
ed, Of course, was the amount of
tax that would be deducted.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
3 Riders Beat and Rob
Cab Driver in Arlington

A cab driver was beaten by
three passengers and robbed OF
his cab and money this morning
Arlington police reported.
Leo Ford, colored, of the 210C
block of Newport place NV. tolo
police he picked up the coloreo
passengers in Washington. They
directed him to -Four Mile Rur
drive and South Monroe street
where one of the passengers hit
him on the head with a bottle, Mr.
Ford told police. The three pas
sengers dragged him from the
cab, yanked his pocket out in
getting his wallet and left in the
cab.
Police said they got SIS in cash
and a cigarette case and lighter
valued at $40.
Mr.. Ford walked to the Shir-
lington filling station and phoned
police. He was treated and re-
leased at Arlington Hospital.
Evening star., 1951-03-14

base on the winding east-West
Hongchon River % miles south Of
Parallel 38.
United Nations commanders ex-
pect the Reds to brace at the
river line. They may plan to start
an offensive of their own from
there.
Two Communist corps have beer
in the area for more than a week
They have been seen digging en-
trenchments in the Hongchor
Valley and along ridgelines that
command strategic mountain
passes.
Allied air observers say the Reds
may have 10000 or more mer
north and west of Hongchon
Hongchon is about is air mile;
southeast of Chuchon, Chinese
headquarters in South Korea,
The U. N. air force was out ir
strength today. BY noon more
than $50 Sorties had been mount
ed. Primary targets were REQ
transport north of Seoul on the
road to Pyongyang, North Ko-
rean capital.
The American battleship Mis-
souri, returned to action with
a heavy bombardment of the
Chongjin area on the North Ko-
rean east coast.
Evening star., 1951-03-14

and reached the Marine lines
said they had seen no signs of a
helter-s -skelter Communist retreat
They told Marines they had
walked from Pyongyang, the
North Korean capital, armed with
safe conduct passes.
They said 10000 to $4,000 Chi
nese were moving north tc an
area where they have been build
ing up strength for about two
months. Name of the town where
they are gathering was deleted by
censors.) They said the Chinese
appeared to be in good shape.
Twenty Superforts from Oki-
nawa hit the Hungnam barracks
area and important railroad
bridges near Kunu, Kanggye. Koir
and Pyongyang.
All along the 70-mile front Al
lied patrols were seeking the re-
treating Reds. The Chinese and
North Koreans had fled so fast
from most sectors that U. N
troops lost almost all contact
with them.
Operations of the 9th Army
forces were cloaked by a security
blackout.
But U. N. patrols in Central
Korea ranged today throughout
the hills around strategic Hong
chon. They even may have en-
tered the road hub.
Almost No Contact With Reds.
Field reports yesterday placed
Allied units within 4 miles OF
Hongchon. There has been almost
no contact with the enemy re-
ported since.
The Reds have quit the front
lines so fast that even swift tanks
could not catch them. There were
unconirmed reports also that the
Communists were pulling out Of
Seoul on the Western front.
Forty thousand Reds were re-
ported in Hongchon just last week
The city is a former Red supply
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Committee Approves
Clause 10 Let Truman
Decide College Draft
By GEORGE Beyeridqe

The House Armed Services
Committee today approval a draft
bill provision which would leave
the authority to defer college stu
dents entirely up to regulations
set forth by the President.
This was the only important
step taken by the committee in
its section-by- section study of the
long range measure to expand the
draft and set up a permanent
universal military training pro-
gram. An early session of the
House put off until tomorrow
prospects of a final committee
vote on the bill.
The committee tomorrow is ex-
pected to vote on the only major
controversies remaining-the ques-
tions of whether to impose a
strength ceiling on the size of the
armed forces and whether to pro-
vide a cutoff date on the authority
to draft men.
Chairman VinSon. Democrat, of
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Consider Prosecution
In H-Bomb Land Case
Mcmahon Asks Justice

Chairman Mcmahon of the
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
has asked the Justice Department
to consider prosecuting" key
figures in alleged real estate spec
ulation around the new Atomic
Energy Commission project in
South Carolina.
The Justice Department de-
clined comment on Senator Nc
Mahons request other than to
say the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation is looking into all
angles of the situation.
Senator Mcmahon, in his let
ter, specifically mentioned w.
Conrad McKelvey. former Acc
employe, and Walter v. Pace, a
Salt Lake City food merchant.
$4,000 Reported Made.
Mr.. Pace is reported to have
made $4,000 on two land trans
actions in the vicinity of the
proposed Acc project. Mr. Nc
Kelvey, according to Acc Chair
man Gordon Dean, gave Mr.. Pace
advance information that a profit
could be made by land buying
near the site.
Senator Mcmahon wrote Attor-
ney General McGrath to suggest
and recommend" that the Justice
Department consider action
against Mr.. McKelvey and Mi.
Pace for their prof1teering activ-
tiles in connection with lands
adjacent to the new atomic energy
site"
Il know I speak for all mem
bers of the Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy in saying that we
are distressed to learn Of this
breach of trust, the first of its
kind since the Atomic Energy
Commission assumed responsible
ity on January /, 1947," Senator
Mcmahon wrote.
McKeIvey's First Job at HanfOrd.
The Acc, meanwhile. supplied
this information about Mr.. Nc
Kelvey:
He was employed at the Aces
Hanford (WashD project from
January 3, 1948, to December 6,
1949. as chief of commercial ia
cilities-supervising the commu-
nity's groceries. movies and shops.
He was next employed by the Acc
on October %, 1850, when he was
hired as a community specialist
to work on housing and other
community problems in connec-
ton with the South Carolina
project.
The Civil Service Commission
reported that Mr.. McKelvey was
born in Alabama in 1910. entered
the Government service in 1912
and worked in various Federal
housing agencies.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. 80 Ais
WEDNESDAY.

Georgia said he would move to
strike out provision of the House
bill which would limit military
strength to 4 million. A draft
bill passed by the Senate provided
the 4-million ceiling.
Mr.. Vinson also said he would
propose that the draft be ended
five years after enactment of the
bill-rather than the three-year
limit the measure now proposes.
In approving a part of the bill
which leaves college student de-
ferments up to presidential regu-
lations, the committee refused to
express itself on what deferment
standards should be. The COM
mittee also has voted to lower the
induction age from 19 to 1872 and
to increase draft service from 81
to 26 months.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Korea
CONTINUED From First Page)

east-central front, but continued
their mysterious withdrawal in
other sectors.
For two hours they held up
United States I'd Division infan-
trymen advancing up the noun
famous spine of the peninsula.
The Doughboys met intense small
arms fire from about $50 Reds
dug in / mile north of Yudong.
Blasted by Artillery.
The Reds were blasted by air
and artillery fire. Shortly after
noon the Americans were able
to move northward again.
Fifth Air Force pilots reported
another group of Communists dug
In farther north, The planes
swooped to the attack, but results
were not Immediately known.
Earlier today, Republic of Ko-
rea forces repulsed a sharp coun-
terattack north of Soksa on the
extreme eastern flank. Other de-
tails were not disclosed.
There was growing evidence
that the Communists have with
drawn from Seoul, old South Ko-
rem capital which the Allies lost
January 4.
Field dispatches said U. N. pa
trolls crossed the Han River south
of the capital but found no Red
troops. Air reports said road traf-
f1c north of Seoul was much
lighter last night.
North and east of Seoul Ameri-
can airmen hit what appeared to
be large Communist ammunition
dumps deep behind Chinese lines.
Bomber pilots reported tre-
mendous explosion.
No Report of Contact.
Elsewhere along the front north
of the Han River three U. N. pa
trolls advanced into Red-held ter
ritory. There was no report Of
contact with the enemy.
North of Hoengsong on the CEN
tral front United States Marines
found a huge cache of enemy
equipment
1t was described as "the largest
single haul of the Korean War
enough to equip a regiment.
Five American prisoners Of war
who were released by the Chinese
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Browder
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
ment upon the conclusion reached
by Judge Let's.
Il can, however, state that I do
not join Judge Let's in his praise
for the arrogant and defiant atti-
tude BroWder displayed toward all
but the chairman and counsel of
the Tydings subcommittee.
In these words of praise, Brow
der's career of nearly 80 years as
leader of the most dangerous SUBJ
verSive group in this country has
reached a new high"
The trial was enlivened Mon
day when Senator Mccarthy was
called in as a defense witness
Senator Mccarthy lent strong
support to the defense cause when
he testified
Whenever the chair wanted the
witness (Browder) to testify, he
testified"
BrOwder in Jail Twice.
BroWder has served three Jail
terms. In 1917 he was sentenced
in Kansas City, Mo, to serve a
year in jail for failure to register
for the draft.
While still serving this term,
he was convicted of conspiracy
to obstruct the draft law and SEN
fenced to two years in Leaven-
worth Penitentiary. He was there
from July, 1919, until paroled No
vember S, 1919.
He ran for President in 1910
while appealing from a four-year
sentence imposed in New York
for passport fraud. He went to
Atlanta Penitentiary on March 26,
1941, and remained there until
his sentence was conmuted by
President Roosevelt in May, 1912.
That was after Germany had in
vaded Russia and the Communists
were calling for an all-out war ef-
fort.
Browder spokes for the Amer
lean Communists for IS years un-
til he was expelled from the party
in 1916. The national board of
the party accused him of deser-
ton of Communist duties and re-
possibilities.
BroWder now calls himself an
'unaffiliated individual"
Evening star., 1951-03-14

was parked in the 2100 block Of
Sixteenth street Sc.
After piling fast-melting snow
on some parts Of Virginia, the
storm moved on to Maryland,
knocking over trees in the Balti-
more area, dropping 8 inches Of
snow on Garrett County and SHOW
ing high tides into several low
homes on the Western Shore.
Cloudy, cold and still windy con-
ditions were the Districts lot to-
day. There will be more Of the
same tonight and tomorrow.
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Office BUILDING
(Continued From First Page.

owned at one time by Washington
Mclean, grandfather of the late
Edward B. Mclean, former owner
of the Washington Post and hus-
band of the late Evelyn Walsh
Mclean.
Once Glover Residence.
The house at 1903 K street
once served as the residence o1
the late Charles c. Glover, ST
Originally the houses were en-.
tered from a high porch. Sub
sequently, however, the porches
were removed and the basement
was used as the first floor. Still
later the houses were developed
commercially.
The two four-story properties
provide frontage of ITO feet or
Connecticut avenue and 80 feet
on K street. They adjoin the
property owned by the Washing
ton Club at 1701 K street NV
All but one tenant of the two
buildings to be razed has vacated
Purchase of the properties was
arranged for, Mr.. Gewirz said, by
Randall H. Hagner & Co., Golden
& Small and Shannon & Luchs
Co.
The wrecking contract has been
awarded to the Arrow Wreckine
Co.
No building permit has been
applied for as yet.
The firm of Edwin Weihe and
Katharine Gibbs has been re-
tained as architects.
Besides Mr.. Hamburger, officers
of the Ajax firm are: Mr.. Coyne
vice president; Sam Rosoff, treas
urer, and Charles Rose, secretary
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Point SoIesmen to Meet

Walter N. Jacobus, secretary OF
the National Paint Salesmen's S
Club, will be the principal speaker
at a dinner meeting of the clubs
Washington chapter at $50 pm.
tomorrow at the Congressional
| Hotel
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Storm

Continued From First Page.)
a tree in the 1900 block of Wal
ZACH place NV.
Police also reported that 6
broken limb fell on a car belong.
ing to Miss Daisy Pinkard, 8l1
Maryland avenue NE. The cal
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Daily Dozen at 81

I PENNINGTON, Me. (P).-At 90,
Mrs. Nettie L. Heath still is doing
her daily dozen. And she can
touch her fingertips to the floor
without bending her knees.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Use of Castor Oil
May Be Cut-For
Machinery Only
BY the Associated Press

An industry advisory COM
mittee has recommended that
the Government restrict the
use of castor oil.
But if restrictions should
be imposed, they would not
apply to medicinal use of the
oil.
Limitations would apply to
industry, where the oil is used
as high quality lubricant for
fine machinery.
Evening star., 1951-03-14

In the Pacific islands birds are
much more numerous than man.
mails.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1951-09-08

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