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Evening star., 1952-07-23
Rebukes Chairman Murruy

The usually reliable Star and the
usually reliable reporting in the Federal
Spotlight" column seem to have lost the
range" on July IA when Chairman Muir
ray of the House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee came in for some
faint" praise, which. however faint"
was undeserved.
This is the Chairman Murray, who, on
May 20 at the opening of hearings on
the retirement bills, announced his op-
position to any legislation which would
increase the retirement benefits or an
nuities at this time, in any manner, shape
or form. His Six-page, prepared state
ment was judgment of the case before
he heard the evidence. He was a pre-
determined opponent and ally Of the
viewpoint of Civil Service Chairman
RamSpeck.
S2963 was reported from the House
Committee by a IA to vote. The single
vote of opposition was the chairman's.
He tried to defeat the bill by use of the
power Of his Office as chairman in de-
fiance of the overwhelming sentiment
for it in his committee. He nearly sue
ceeded in strangling the bill in commit
tee by dilatory tactics. His hand was
called when Representative Morrison of
Louisiana, the ranking majority member,
made motion to close the hearings and
go into executive session on the bill.
Chairman Murray only escaped public
defeat and humiliation in his own COM
mittee by agreeing to vote on the bill
the next morning in executive session.
At that meeting the bill was reported
IA to l.
From that point on Chairman Murray
was a captive chairman. He was
obliged as chairman to carry out the
wishes and vote of his committee.
The bill that eventuated was not part
of his voluntary action.
One has to admire a resourceful and
unyielding scrapper no matter If one
disagrees with his views. However, he
should not be made hero for, ac-
complishing something which he un-
willingly brought about
Fairplay Annuitant.
Evening star., 1952-07-23
Federal Union Plank

Will the Democrats now seize the
opportunity the Republican Convention
has given them? Chairman Joe Martin
unwittingly underscored it when he de-.
voted much of his speech to the new
world which scientists are opening for
us.
Here we stand at the threshold Of
the Atomic Age" he said. 1.-The atomic
era can be the greatest age of mankind,
if we have the foresight and the wisdom
to put it to peaceful use. Inter planetary
travel is on the verge Of reality"
One would never suspect this from
reading the Republican foreign policy
plank. Although it does favor ending
the political and economic divisions"
between Western European nations. it
carefully avoids urging that our own
relations with them be modernized, too
as was urged on its drafters by great
atomic scientist, DR.. Harold Urey. On
behalf of the Atlantic Union Committee.
he vainly pleaded at the platform hear
ings for plank calling on the United
States and other Atlantic democracies
to meet and explore, at least, the pos
Sibilities of their forming federal union.
The Republican choice of nominees
happily offset its platform. Gen. Eisen-
hover is identified with closer unity in
the Atlantic. Senator Nixon was one
of eight Republican and 18 Democratic
Senators who co-sponsored with Senator
Kefauver the Atlantic Union resolution
now before Congress which spells out
the plank DR.. Urey urged.
Will the Democratic platform makers
show more foresight now than the Re-
publicanS did? 1t must be said they did
no better when they met in Chicago
before. Time now can prove how blind
they, too, were in 1914. Both Conven-
tions then based their peace plans on
trust in national sovereignty above all,
and on trust in Communist dictatorship
as much as in European democracy.
appeared at the 1914 platform hear
ings and vainly urged both parties to
base peace more on citizen than national
sovereignty, and to put their trust in
democracy more than in dictatorship.
Many voters have already paid with
their lives in Korea, and all are paying
heavily in taxes, for the failure to
listen in 1914 to what time has proved
was sound, prudent. How much more
will be paid in the next eight years for
failure to listen to the warning now
Evening star., 1952-07-23
To a Child at My Bookcase

These are my friends. so treat them
cordially.
Many the hour they saUed me loneli-
ness,
And sometimes. euen despair. These
hold the key
To treasures past and priceless none
theleSS
Though bound In pastebodrd. cheaply
printed too.
Between these corers haue stepped
beyond
Frontiers and borders ,Dith no pdsspos+
due
Save milling eyes and ready heart for
bond.
Touch these. my comrades. kindly, turn
the pages
Respectfully: De die. but these span ages.
Alma Roberts Giordoa
Evening star., 1952-07-23
No Real Cure

Calmer and perhaps more cautious minds in
the democratic convention have achieved some
apparent success in temporarily bridging over
the split In the party ranks brought on by
adoption of the so-called loyalty pledge rule.
When this rule was railroaded through the
convention early Tuesday morning it's drafters
overlooked the fact that delegates from several
Southern States would not be able to subscribe
to it. These delegates felt they were barred from
doing so by the laws of their States or by
instructions from their governing political
bodies. So the rule, when permanently adopted
will be amended to say that for this convention
only, no delegates signing the pledge will be
expected to do anything that would conflict
with State law or his instructions.
This is expected to avert an open rupture
in this convention. But it will not cure the things
that all the incompatible political marriage
between the conservative Democrats of the
South and their liberal and left-Wing brethren
from the North.
The practical effect of the rule, as amended,
Is to require delegates at the 1856 convention
to do all that they honorably can to see that the
names of the party candidates get on the State
ballots. If the candidates should be distasteful
to the Southern delegates because of their stand,
for instance, on FEPC, the delegates would be
honor bound to refrain from doing anything to
keep their names off the ballot.
The hard fact of the matter is that the
theological gulf between the Northern and South
ern wings of the party is so broad that many
delegates from the South will be unable, in good
conscience to subscribe to the pledge four years
hence. Yet the rule says that If they do not
subscribe there is no place for them in the
Democratic convention.
Evening star., 1952-07-23
Tehochupi Eorthquoke

The most violent earthquake to trouble Cali
fornia since 1906 caused relatively little loss of
Me and damage to property. It was centered in
the Tehachapi Mountains about so miles north
of Los Angeles and roughly 100 miles east of San
Luis Obispo. Had the same tremors shaken San
Francisco, the damage and the loss would have
been infinitely greater.
Biologists explain all the Southern Califor-
MAN earthquakes by reference to the San An
dreas and Garlock faults, both Of which "oblique
Evening star., 1952-07-23
Dever's Party Line

AS the keynote speaker of the Democrats
convention, Governor Dever of Massachusetts,
served up a reasonably accurate prospectus Of
what may be expected as the party line" Of
Dame Democracy during the 1852 campaign.
1t starts with blanket indictment of Re-
publicanism which Governor Dever seems to feel
is Machiavellian philosophy of enmity toward
all people except the very rich, code of be-
havior which fosters everything evil-including
"the principal well-springs of communism" 1t
goes on then to idealize the lives and records of
woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, former
Democratic Presidents, and the Fair Deal of
President Truman. It reduces all the issues of
the day to the single one of communism both
at home and abroad"-and asserts unequivocally
that the Democratic Party alone can meet that
challenge" 1t touches the peaks of today's pros
perity-without reaching into the valleys for a
forensic recognition of such unpleasantries as
the public debt and deprecated currency. It
acknowledges corruption as an evil but takes
pride in "the 1894 per cent OF Federal employees
whose character is above suspicion" And it
warns that the Republicans, having sold the
blessings of both the steam age and electric age
into private captivity, are hoping only to do the
same by the atomic age.
It would be naive, of course, to dismiss too
casually the Dever plan of battle as politically
ineffective one The picture of the Republican
Party in unholy alliance with "the money chang
ers of Wall Street" has served Democratic can
didates well in every election since 1892. At
tacking Herbert Hoover, as MIR. Dever did, also
has become stock play in the Democratic
repertoire. In fact the most significant thing
about the Dever speech was it's conventionality
as Democratic keynote of the 1932-52 era
The question left is whether it really does
set a tone of suficiently deep and persuasive
pitch to catch the ear of an electorate that seems
this year to be listening for something little
new and little different.
Evening star., 1952-07-23
Under Lobor's Thumb

The CIO Political Action Committee SAYS
that the "pangs of disappointment" were respon-
sible for Vice President Barkleys denunciation
of what he regarded as labor's attempt to control
and dictate the policies OF the Democratic Party.
There may be some basis for this CIO con-
tention. At any rate, Mr.. Barkley had made no
such charge prior to learning that the labor
Democratic nomination. And it is unlikely that
he would ever have made such an accusation if
he had been assured of their support.
All of this, however, has nothing to do with
the question of whether his charge was true or
false. There has been mounting evidence over
the years that the charge Is true. And the latest
bit of evidence comes in the form of the an
nouncement that the White House has no plans
for further action in the steel dispute at this
time
That announcement came after the steel
workers policy committee, although the parties
once were close to a compromise agreement,
voted against accepting anything less than the
full union shop. And it came after representa-
tives of the steel companies, in an unprecedented
move had gone before the committee to appeal
for compromise.
This newspaper is of the opinion that nom
union workers should not be forced to join
union, and certainly not by direct or indirect
Government action. But even those who believe
in compulsory unionization must be diSmayed at
the course the steel dispute has taken.
Here is a union which already counts some
80 per cent of the steel workers as members. Yet
it was able to persuade the Government, through
the Wage Sterilization Board, to recommend
union shop which, in the long run, would compel
all steel workers to join. The companies resisted
that recommendation, which is now the sole
issue in dispute, and the strike followed.
The strike is now in its eighth week. Enor-
NOUS damage has been done to our domestic
economy. The national defense program has
suffered great, and perhaps disastrous, injury.
Censorship deprives the public of exact knowl-
edge on this score although the Army announced
yesterday the closing of it's largest shell making
factory. Certainly the injury to the security of
all of us has been most severe, and if the strike
drags on it may we'll deprive us of the means
of successful defense.
There is no point now in recalling the dire
warnings from Mr. Truman last spring as to the
disaster that would attend steel strike. He
The essential fact is that this strike, aimed at
more worthy purpose than union shop in the
steel industry goes on. And the President, who
might have, and who should have, invoked the
Taft-Hartley Act weeks ago. is reported as having
. no plans for further action at this time.
It may be that the Vice Presidents protest
against labor'S attempt to dictate to the Demo-
cratic Party came from the lips of disappointed
man. But if further proof of the truth of what
he said is needed, it can be found in the way in
which the economy and perhaps the security OF
this country is being jeopardized under Demo-
cratic administration, for the sake of no better
objective than the compulsory unionization OF
the steel workers.
Evening star., 1952-07-23
-AP Wirephoto.

not be seated at the convention. To the
Credentials Committee was assigned the
novel task of securing loyalty pledges
from the leaders of every State delega-
ton. Delegates refusing to sign the
pledge would not be seated.
The trouble is not so much with the
delegates themselves-who understand
some of the folderol behind this issue,
and realize it is of relatively small i'm
portance-but with the people back
home, who are said to resent the thought
of being instructed by the Democratic
National convention on principles of
honorable political conduct.
The amended rule probably will be
adopted today. But the damage already
done to any hopes for strong and
reunited Democratic Party, marching
forth to war, is substantial even in ad-
vance of the threatened fight on the
platform and Civil Rights.
B. M. MeKeIwoy
Evening star., 1952-07-23
| etters to The Star

that national sovereignty will bring
NATO to disaster, too? Will the Demo-
Gratis now have the vision the Republic
can platform lacks?
Clarence STREET.
(AuthOr of Union NOW")
Evening star., 1952-03-28
Beef Purioiner Takes His Time.
Wants Term to Get Dope Cure

was about time. He was afraid,
he said. he was going to pass the
line between petty larceny and
grand larceny.
He said he was choosing his
cuts carefully. trying to find the
cheapest. in the event it took
police a while to get there. He
was anxious to be arrested, he
said. because he had been q drug
addict for three years and wanted
to be sent to Lexington, KY, to
undergo q cure.
He appeared on a charge of
petty larceny-the wholesale value
of the meat was listed at $l8-
and the judge recommended that
he be sent to Lexington.
Judge Nelson also recon-
lmended treatment for Paul E.
Evening star., 1952-03-28
By Meredith S. Buel

Jimmie Potter, Washington
Soap Box Derby speedster. who
piloted his sleek racer to the Class
B championship last year, leads
the field again by signing up first
for the 1852 classic.
Jimmie didn't waste a minute,
after reading in The Star that
Derby registration had begun. He
hoped into his dads car and the
two of them hurried over to Man.
dell Chevrolet Co., 1900 Nichols
avenue Sc. There he signed on
the dotted line, his fathers sigma
ture followed, and he again was
enrolled in the Greatest Amateur
Racing Event in the World"
Because of his age, he has par
ticipated in only two previous
DerbieS. Yet the name Jimmie
Potter is very well known to
thousands of Washington coaster
fans. In 1850 he was runnerup
for the Class B championship.
Last year, racing veteran Don
Sheets of Arlington snatched the
city coaster crown away from him
by a scant length.
Still Has Three Derbies Ahead.
Now, at Is, Jimmie still has
three Derbies ahead of him. He
had a new car from 1.-The wheels
up" last year. And this year will
be no exception. His racer, Duke
with four glistening coats of white
enamel paint, sparkled as he
flashed down the track in the 81
race.
What his new racer will look
like. however, is a mystery-even
to Jimmie.
1--WE made a few sketches, but
as yet I haven't decided on the
body design" he says. His car last
year had a torpedo-shaped body
Since last summer, Jimmie has
shot up another three inches. He
is now 5 feet, 10 inches tall. Still,
with that extra height. Jimmie
feels he'll gather more speed with
q smaller racer.
I'm going to build this one
shorter and lower to the ground. -
he says.
The young Derby ace wasted no
time getting new wheels and axles.
Right afetr last summers race, he
bought a new set. The wheels now
are hanging from his basement
rafters on a cable. Every time he
passes through his cellar, he gives
them a quick spin in an effort to
break them in.
"The more I spin them, the
easier. and faster they'll role on
Derby Day." Jimmie points out.
Jimmie. a friendly boy and
conscientious worker, has good ad-
vice for those entering the race
for the first time.
Take your time and work your
problems out before starting to
Evening star., 1952-03-28
Jimmie Potter, Class B Champ,
First to Sign Up for 50 Derby

build" he advises. "Sit down,
think it over and then pick the
coaster design you like best. If
you do a hurry-up job of building,
there isn't much chance your
racer will be good enough to win. +"
The youth, a Sousa Junior High
School student, is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. James S. Potter. sr. He
Lives at ,2049 Thirty-fourth street
IS.E.
AS all boys feel who enter the
highly competitive race, Jimmie
would like nothing better than to
walk off with the 1852 Washing
ton Soap Box Derby champion
ship.
He says, however: There's no
thrill like just being in the race
win or lose. It's a wonderful feel
ling to climb into the cockpit and
|go down that hill"
Evening star., 1952-03-28

A man who opened a suitcase
Ito put in some beef caused a
butcher to put in a beef to police
The man, identified as William
Chew, q, colored. of the 200 block
LOT Warren street NE, made nc
bones about his activity. He
wanted to be caught red handed
he told the judge yesterday.
Chew was arrested Wednesday
lin Safeway store at 1880 q
street NE.
Police said he went to the store
and began lifting meat includ-
ing 18 pounds of steak--from the
meat counter and stuffing it into
a suitcase.
The butcher spotted him and
called police.
Chew told Municipal Court
Judge George D. Nelson that il
Evening star., 1952-03-28
. FONTAINE HALL. Attorney.
WILBUR l.. GRAY,
Attorney, Colorado Bldg.
Filed Mar. IA, 1852, Harry M. Hull.

UNITED STATES DfsTRIcT COURT
cHp1Ta Ias MoRrAf I5SsTlesA d TiTns Co.
TIL, VS.. EDNA NORRIS REID ET AL.
Defendants-Ciyi Action No.
635-52. The object of. this suit is
rsmoyal q slSud on title e ds Part tsg &
Square 1904 In the District Of Co
lumbia. on motion Of the plaintiff, it
Is this .l4th day Of March. 1852, Or
dered that the the defendants: EDNA
kENA M9ERIs MoRRas RIB npInLTon Efos wion n1f@s
Lena Ashton, and ANNIE WASHING
TON. II living. cause their appear
ance to be entered herein or or De.
fore the fortieth day. exclusive OF
Tins sfser tn tne day dsy Of the frst publ
cation Of this order: otherwise the
cause win be proceeded with rs In
case of default; PROVIDED o copy
Of this order be published once
The Evening star Newspaper before
said day; and it Is further ordered
that the defendants UNKNOWN
bEvIsEEs hE1nsEEs 81 nF THY AAnsTgnp BE pEcEasEp c s
or EDNA MoRRis REID. LENA
MORRIS MIDDLETON OR ANNIE
WASHINGTON and UNKNOWN
MIN MORRIS cause their appear
ance to be entered herein on or
before the first rule day occurring
after the expiration OF three months
from the date Of First Publication,
otherwise the cause win be proceeded
with rs IN case Of default. Pro-
yided, 3 copy OF this order be pub
lished twice O. month for three
months in the WaShington Law
Reporter, and The Evening star
before said day. (signed.l BuRNITA
SHELTON MATTHEWS. judee.
(SeaI1 A true copy. Test: HARRY
~ HULL, Clerk. By DOROTHY N.
BARRICK. Deputy Clerk.
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Evening star., 1952-03-28
Derby Guide

The Event-A coaster race
for boys II through Is, in
which contestants drive cars
Of their own building.
Time-July 19.
Sponsors-The Star and
Metropolitan Area Chevrolet
dealers, in cooperation with
the District Department of
the American Legion.
Registration-At the near
est Chevrolet Office.
The ~ Chevrolet agencies are:
Addison, Fourteenth street and Flor
ida avenue NV; Aero Auto Co., I10I
King street. Alexandria; Barry-Pate,
1130 Connecticut avenue NV;
Chevy Chase Motor Co., 7725 Wis
consin avenue NV; Hicks. 1240
UpShur street NV; and Kenyon
Peck, 2S25 Wilson boulevard. Arling-
Also Lustine Nicholson. 5710 Bal
timore avenue, Hyattsyille: ,Mandell,
1900 Nichols avenue Sc; Ourisman,
$40 H street NE; Stohlman. 1907
M street NV; Williams. 1889 East
West highway. Silver Spring. and
Wissingers. Seven Corners. Falls
Church.
Evening star., 1952-03-28

Jones, 80, colored, Of the 200 block
of Brooks court NV. who said
he is . drug addict. Jones, too.
was arrested in Safeway store ),
First street and Rhode Island
avenue NV. trying to smuggle
out three pounds Of butter.
Evening star., 1952-03-28
THOMAS M. RAYSOR, Attorney

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District Of Columbia, Hold
ing Probate Court.--No. 1882, Adj
ministration.-This is to Give Mo-
tice That the Subscriber, who was
by the United States District Court
for the District Of Columbia granted
letters testamentary on the estate
Of Julia N. Streater, deceased. has,
with the approval of the District
District Of Columbia, holding q
Probate Court, appointed Monday.
the 14th day Of April. 1859, at
1000 O'Clock am, as the time,
and said Court room as the place.
for making payment and dtstribu.
ton from said estate. under the
Courts direction and control. when
and where all creditors and persons
entitled to distributive shares or
legacieS. or the residue, or parts
thereof. are notified to attend. in
person or by agent or attorney duly
authorized. with their claims
against the estate properly vouched.
Given under my hand this 10th day
Of March, 1852. PAUL B. COMELIN.
Attest: THEODORE COGsWELL,
REGISTER of Wills fol. the District
Of Columbia. Clerk Of the Probate
Court. uhl4.2l,g ,gS.
Evening star., 1952-03-28
Keiioss Building. iiss 4 Street. Nv

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District of Columbia. Holding
Probate Court.-No. 79039 Admin
istration.- This is to Give Notice:
That the subscribers. OF the District
OF Columbia. the State Of Maryland
and the State of Virginia, respec-
lively have obtained from the Pro-
bate Court OF the District OF Co
lumbia, Letters Testamentary on
the estate OF Emanuel MichaeIsoTi,
late Of the District OF Columbia, de-
ceased. All persons having claims
against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with
the vouchers thereof. legally au-
thentieated to the subscribers. on
or before the. 4th day Of August.
AID. 1852; otherwise they may BY
law be excluded from ali benefit Of
said estate. Given under our hands
AMERIcxN sEcuR1TY 4 TRUsiTi
co. By KARL F. HEINZMAN. Asst.
Trust Officer; ALBERT LEIBEL,
5fiIa 5iG4 RI baarel ~ rs,,, Aye, Baltimors: Md:
Park. Norfolk Va. fSeal.) Attest:
THEODORE COGSWELL, Resister
Of Wills for the District Of Columbia,
Clerk Of the Probate Court.
Evening star., 1952-03-28
LEGAL NOTICES
JOHN w. warTAXA' 7 ". 4 Atsorney' ~

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District of Columbia. Hold
ing Probate Court.-No. 79393, Adj
ministration. This Is to Give NoI
tice: That the subscriber, of the
District Of Columbia has obtained
from the Probate. Court Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Letters. Testa-
mentary on the estate Of Laura
Louise Kimbali, late Of the District
OF Columbia, deceased. All persons
have. claims against the deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit the
same. with the vouchers thereof,
legally authenticated. to the sub
scriber, on or before the l 18th day
of August, AID. 1882. otherwise
they may by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate. Given
under my hand this 10th day Of
March, 1859. SUMNER E. KIM
BALL. Wardman Park Hotel. (Seal.)
Attest: THEODORE COGSWEIL,
Register Of Wills for the District
OF Columbia, Clerk of the. Probate
Court mhl421Z8