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Evening star., 1952-05-09
Carrier Wasp's Bow
|WiII Be Replaced by
lone From Hornet
BY the Associated Press

BAYONNE, N. j., May 9.-The
Navy decided today to replace the
collision-shattered bow of the air.
craft carrier Wasp with one from
it's sister-ship, the carrier Hornet.
AS the gigantic repair job got
underway on the drydocked Wasp,
Navy board of inquiry met to
begin an investigation of the mid
Atlantic collision of the carrier
and the Observation-Disclosures
Hobson. The lives of 176 Hobson
crewmen were lost in the disaster.
A Navy spokesman said the time
element was the chief factor be-
hind the decision to- graft the
Hornets bow onto the Wasp.
"It is easier to fit one already
shaped than to start from
scratch" the spokesman said.
"Since the Hornet was in moth
balls and is not yet ready for
acClVe duty we can take our time
replacing its bow"
Section Lightered Across.
An 80-ton section of the Hornet
now being reconditioned at the
New York naval shipyard in
Brooklyn-waS lightered across
Upper New York bay to Bayonne
where the Wasp is in drydock.
The Navy Board had a good
chance to survey damage caused
by the disaster as the crippled
carrier rested on huge wood and
concrete cradles in the 1,O5O-foot
drydock.
Repair experts said a 4O-foot
square bite had been gouged out
|of the Wasp's bow and that most
|of the damage was below the
waterline. The Wasp draws 80
feet at that point.
Needs Anchor Assembly.
Lesser damage, apparently
caused by the superstructure of
the Hobson as it heeled over on
its plunge to the bottom, was evil
dent as far back as amidships. The
Wasp also will need a new anchor
assembly, including chain lockers
and chain pipes.
1t. Comdr. F. H. Greene, ship
superintendent, who will boss the
repair jobs. said, "I1l be surprised
if it is repaired in less than three
weeks"
Most estimates place the time
the Wasp again will be seaworthy
between four and five weeks.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Maj. Murray 10 Lead
$4,000 Youths in
School Patrol Parade

About $4,000 boys and girls will
parade on Constitution avenue
tomorrow morning in Washing
tons biggest annual street march
They're all members of the
School Patrols. the youngsters who
guard intersections before and
after classes About 1000 of them
are from the District, as many
more are from other communities
in this area, and 1900 are here
from 20 States.
The marchers will swing into
Constitution from Ninth street
NV. at 9 am. Congressional and
other national leaders will view
them from reviewing stand at
Sixteenth street NV. The line
will break up at Seventeenth
street NV. and move off Consti-
tuition avenue.
Murray to Lead.
The police chief, Mai. Robert
Murray, will lead the parade. The
United States Army Band5Will be
right behind the police chief.
Sponsors have called in two of
the patrols interplanetary pals.
Capt. Video and the Video Ranger,
the television boys, will be in the
line of march,
San Francisco Parade.
Out in San Francisco, the west
ern states school patrols will be
going through SIMILAR show.
More than half a million pupils
in the land wear the badge and
belt of the Patrol.
The American Automobile AS
sociation, one of their sponsors
cites figures to prove the chill
dren'S good work.
From 1922 through 1850, Safety
Patrols helped cut traffic deaths
80 per cent in the 5-to-14-years
age bracket. In the same period
traffic fatalities for all other age
groups increased 50 per cent.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Taft Move in Nevada
.lrks Eisenhower Men
By the Associated Press

RENO, May 9.-The surprise
selection of one of Senator Taft's
national campaign chiefs to key
note the Nevada G. o. P. conven-
ton today irked hackers of Gen.
Eisenhower. At stake are the
States II national convention
delegates. r....
1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer,
chairman of a National Citizens
for Taft Committee, was to key
note the two-day meeting in the
semi-ghost town of Tonopah, in
Southwest Nevada.
Announcement of Gen. Wede-
meyers appearance, issued from
Taft headquarters in Washing
ton, caught Eisenhower hackers
by surprise.
A neutral keynoter had been
expected.
1T looks like they pulled a fast
one," said Roger Teglia of Reno,
chief assistant State chairman for
Gen. Eisenhower. We'll, we still
have the young people with us
and We'll carry the convention. {"
He predicted Gen. Eisenhower
would win eight of the IL dele
gates. Taft supporters scoffed at
chat.
Harmony was expected to pre-
vail at the Democratic State con-
vention, starting at the same time
at Wells. in the opposite corner
of the State.
Senator's Russell of Georgia and
Kefauver of Tennessee both have
representatives. But the 1O-man
national delegation was expected
to go uninstructed.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Business Group Meets
With Sawyer 10 Talk
Over Current Issues
BY the Associated Press

HOT SPRINGS, Va, May g.
Business leaders assembled today
to give Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer their views on the eco
nomic outlook, Government con-
trolls and-hottest issue of all
seizure of industry.
Mr.. Sawyer. champion of free
enterprise. faced his 100-member
Business Advisory Council in a
novel role-aS Federal boss of the
steel industry under President
Truman's seizure order.
Clarence B. Randall, president
of Inland Steel Co. and firiest
critic of the seizure, was expected
at the closed meeting of the coun-
Gil. Benjamin F. Fairless, board
chairman of United States Steel
Corp, is also a member but did
not plan to attend.
Mr.. Randall denounced Mr..
Truman's steel take-over as un-
lawful in a Nationwide television
broadcast "a hours after the Presi-
dent acted.
Mr.. Sawyer's aides said he be-
lleves there still is a good chance
of settling the steel dispute by
company-union bargaining - and
prefers that course to a settle
ment imposed by Government.
He nevertheless was ready, un-
til a week ago. to grant the CIOI
SteelworkerS such pay and work.
ing conditions as Economic Sta
bilizer Roger L. Putnam held to
be proper. His hand was stayed
by the Supreme Court pending its
ruling on legality of the seizure.
Negotiations have been stalled.
Wage control was on the coun-
ellis Saturday agenda.
A report on atomic development
by Gordon Dean, chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission,
headed today's schedule of meet
ingS.
Scheduled later are discussion
of business conditions and de-
control. and a speech by Gen.
Marshall, former Secretary of
State and former Secretary of
Defense.
For quarter-century the coun-
Gil has been meeting four to six
times annually to bring the view
point of business to the Secre-
taries of Commerce. It was or
ganized by Herbert Hoover when
he held that Office.
Evening star., 1952-05-09

Commission, and others, that all
accumulated leave would be wiped
out.
But the Controller Generals
decision says definitely that leave
accumulated before 1852 is not in
volved.
The situation arose when the
House recently adopted a rider as
part of the 1853 Independent
Offices Bill, requiring all Federal
workers to use all of their 1852
annual leave by June 80, 1858, or
use the unused portion. However,
the rider was so vaguely worded
that some officials though it might
be interpreted to mean the wiping
out of all annual leave accumu-
lated from former years.
In his letter sent to Chairman
Johnston of the Senate Civil
Service Committee, who asked for
a formal Interpretation, Mr.. War
rem said leave would not be wiped
out if the rider became law. The
amendment is now being con-
sidered by the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee, which is holding
hearings on the 1853 independent
offices measure.
In ruling that the rider would
not touch leave accumulated in
former years. Mr.. Warren cited
the explicit statement made by
the riders sponsor, Representative
Thomas, Democrat, of Texas. Mr..
Thomas. chairman of the House
Appropriations subcommittee that
originally approved the rider, told
the House, when the amendment
was enacted, that it was meant
to apply only to 1852 annual leave
and not to that of former years.
So Government employees, who
Evening star., 1952-05-09
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia and Vicin-
ity-Mostly sunny this afternoon,
high in low 70s; some cloudiness
tonight with low about So. To-
morrow. considerable cloudiness
with showers or thundershowers
likely in the afternoon and little
change in temperature.
Maryland - Mostly sunny this
afternoon: some cloudiness to-
night with low of 1852 degrees.
Tomorrow, considerable cloudiness
with scattered showers and thun-
dershowers mostly in afternoon
and little change in temperature.
Virginia - Mostly sunny this
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Pace Reveals New Atom Guns,
Says They Alter War Tactics

can outrange the gun-type
weapon.
This development, he explained,
involves guided missiles and
rockets to receive atomic war
heads"
Secretary Pace likewise dis
closed that courses in atomic
warfare are being introduced in
Army schools.
Currently, he said. Army officers
and some Army civilian specialists
are attending a school at Sandia
Base. N. Mex, in a study of the
use and characteristics of atomic
ornaments.
He then added:
I'VE intend beginning indi-
vidual and unit training in atomic
warfare in the near future"
Conventional Arms Needed.
Despite the building of new
weapons of destruction, the Army
secretary 1OreSaW a continuing
need for many of our current
conventional weapons"
"So-called fantastic weapons
there may be-" he said, but to
rely on them alone for our pro-
lection is not only fantastic, but
foolhardy to an extreme"
Meanwhile, Secretary Pace said
the Army is seeking to "stock our
arsenal with weapons rather than
blueprintS."
Then he said:
"As atomic weapons pass from
blueprint to hardware, we are
adding them to this arsenal. AT
the same time we are aggressively
seeking to eliminate those weapons
which may be safely regarded as
replaced by this new hardware
Decisions on what weapons to re-
place are difficult at best, but we
realize that such eliminations must
be effected if we are to preserve
the economic as well as military
security of this Nation"
Evening star., 1952-05-09
$4,000 Pennsy Workers
Win Union Shop Pact
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, May 9.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad and the
CIO United Railroad Workers
have signed an agreement calling
for a union shop for about $4,000
maintenance workers on the rail-
road.
Union officials called it the first
union shop agreement covering
maintenance of equipment work.
erS on major railroad.
Under a union shop contract,
all employees must become and
remain members in good standing
of the particular union. Wages
and other working conditions did
not figure in today's agreement.
John Green, the unions ma
tional chairman. said yesterday a
number of union shop contracts
had been signed previously in
volving other type workers on
smaller railroads. Pennsylvania
is the largest railroad in the
Nation.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Welfare Board 10 Ask
Federal Charge Of
Older Girl Offenders

Commitment of seriously delin-
quent girls to Federal instead of
District institutions will be asked
soon by the Board of Public Well
fare.
Welfare Director Gerard M.
Shea told the Juvenile Court Ad-
visory Committee yesterday the
board will ask the Commissioners
to sponsor an amendment of the
present Juvenile Court Act per-
mitting such commitments.
At present delinquent boys can
be sent to the Federally operated
National Training School for Boys,
but there is no similar provision
for girls. Mr.. Shea said the city's
facilities for older girl delinquentS
are inadequate.
The welfare chief said not more
than 10 girls now in city institu-
tions would be transferred under
such system. But those girls,
he explained, are troublemakers.
At Federal institutions they
would be able to get psychiatric
care the city is unable to pro-
vide. he added.
The psychiatric problem is
growing. the welfare director
pointed out. OF 2,489 children in
the welfare boards custody, 1,l49
came from broken homes, 289
from homes where at least one
parent is an alcoholic, 126 from
homes where one parent is men,
tally disturbed, and 1913 from
homes where one parent is behind
bars.
| These are the kind of situa-
tions our children find them
selves in," Mr.. Shea said, and
we, of course, do not have any
pSychiatric services
Evening star., 1952-05-09
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, May 9.-An atomic
gun developed by the Army was
described last night as an accurate
and devastating weapon, providing
field commanders with tremendous
|" "finger-tip" fire power-and her
aiding a new era in the waging OF
war.
The description of this country's
first atomic artillery weapon-a
gun that can hit it's target under
any weather conditions and give
ground troops TIE kind of devas-
Itating close support never before
available in warfare"-came from
Army Secretary Pace.
Secretary Pace said the new
weapon lis essentially an artillery
piece - but with immeasurably
greater power than any artillery
hitherto known"
Such atomic weapons" he
added, eventually will bring "sig-
nif1cant changes" in the Army's
traditional mission of closing with
and destroying an enemy.
addresses Local Manufacturers.
III Secretary PAGES claims for the
weapon came in a speech before
the National Wool Manufacturers
Association.
The weapon has been tested by
the Army with non-atomic am
munition but official specifications
!of the gun remained a secret until
last night.
Secretary Pace, in disclosing fol
the first time some of the 'weap-
.on's specifications, gave this
picture:
The gun weighs about IS tons
but is highly mobile and is carried
on a platform suspended between
two engine cabs at front and rear
1t can travel at about 35 miles
per hour on highways-and it car
cross bridges which Army en-
gineers are already trained tc
build for present heavy divisiona,
equipment"
1t can travel cross-country.
It can fit into a landing ship
designed for amphibious opera
tionS.
And it can fire with accuracy
comparable to conventional ar.
tillery, and tests indicate it i:
much more accurate at Ions
ranges" .-.. .......
Develop Rockets and Missiles.
Secretary Pace also said that ir
addition to tactical atomic
bombs being developed for use BY
aircraft, this country also is de.
Iveloping atomic artillery which
Evening star., 1952-05-09
California 6. O. P. Gains
240, 600 Registrars
BY the Assoeiated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9:-Re-
publicans gained nearly one-fourth
million qualified voters while the
Democrats lost $4,000, registra-
ton figures for CALIFORNIA; June
3 primary election showed today.
Still leading in total registra-
ton by 803,652, the Democrats
registered 1895, $50, compared to
their record total of 3,062.205 for
the 1850 general election.
Republican registration rose
from 1,944,812 to 2,192,2O8.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Warning Of Tornodoes
Issued for Six States
BY ihe Associoted Press

The Weather Bureau issued this
tornado bulletin today at $50 am. :
Severe local thunderstorms and
possibly a few scattered tornadoes
are expected to develop this after
noon and early tonight in an area
from the northeast portion of East
Texas across Northwest Louisiana,
most of Arkansas, to the extreme
southeast corner Of Missouri, ex-
treme Western Tennessee and ex-
treme Western Kentucky"
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Education Went Too Far

PALM SPRINGS, Calf, May 9
(P.-James B. McCurrin says he
can write his own name, but
else. Police say he wrote
his name in the wrong places,
viz: At the bottom of personal
checks. They arrested him yes
terday on charges of issuing bogus
three of them. for a total
If S35.
Evening star., 1952-05-09

have been greatly concerned about
the matter, can relax now. Their
leave accumulated prior to 1852
is perfectly safe.
4 x *&
FIGHT GOES ON-Meanwhile
Senator Johnston will continue
his fight to kill the leave rider.
Even though the threat has been
disposed of, the rider in its pres
ent form is bad enough. When
the leave OF most Federal workers
was reduced last year, there was a
tacit understanding among top
congressional leaders and employe
groups that there would be no
further ban on accumulating an
nual leave.
So what happened? The House
when it returned this year as part
of the same 82d Congress that
reduced leave last year, proceeded
to bar further accumulation of
annual leave. Representative
Thomas told the House the rider
would save $125 million a year,
but he has presented no real
proof that this would be the
case. On the other hand, the
Senate Civil Service Committee
has presented specific figures
showing the rider actually would
cost the Government about 5000
million a year through increased
overtime payments and additional
recruitment.
The odds right now. however
are that the Senate will approve
the House rider. But Senator
Johnston still feels he has an
outside chance to convince the
Senate this would be the wrong
thing to do.
AGENDA - The House Civil
Service Committee didn't get
around yesterday to the so-called
Little Wagner Act bill that would
give official recognition to Fed
eral employe unions and compel
agencies to meet with them on
all personnel issues and griev-
ances. The committee plans tc
meet again next week. Before
adjourning yesterday it did ap-
prove several measures, including
one to give civil service status tC
secretaries and law clerks of Fed
eral judges who are involuntarily
separated from their jobs. The
same rights now are given to leg
iSlative workers.
Meanwhile, Chairman Murray
says he hopes to begin hearings
on retirement increase legislation
within the next two weeks.
REPLY-RepreSentative Rees
of Kansas. the top minority mem.
ber of the House Civil Service
Committee, will discuss, on oul
Federal Spotlight broadcast to.
morrow, the Republicans reac-
ton to President Truman's civil
service speech last week. The
President accused the Republi-
cans of telling downright lies
about Federal workers.
Our radio broadcast tomorrow
is at 6:15 pm. over WMAL.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Suxer Named Warden

Clifford J. Saxer, 1913 South Bu-
chanan street. Arlington, a civil
engineer, has been appointed a
civil defense warden in the
county, it was announced yester-
day by w. A. Richardson, warden
services director.
Evening star., 1952-05-09

afternoon: partly cloudy tonight
and tomorrow with scattered
thundershowers tomorrow: low
tonight in low or middle sos
Warmer in southwest portion to-
morrow,
Wind Cat National Airpor0 :
East by northeast, seven miles an
hour, at 1920 am.
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity-May 1914.
Showers and thunderStormS to-
morrow, clear Sunday and pos
Sibly some rain about Tuesday
Precipitation will total around !
Evening star., 1952-05-09

The ruling
confirmed this
reporters ex-
elusive predic-
tioils during the
p st m on t h
t hat lie av
S t or e d, u p in
former ye ars
would not b e
t a k e n a W ay
f rom tn e m.
There had been
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Civil Service
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Wushinqton-Lee Concert

Washington-Lee High Schools
orchestra of so players will present
a concert in the school auditorium
in Arlington at $50 o'clock to-
might.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Club to Heur HiIIinos

Representative Killings, Repub-
lican, of California, will address
the Young Republican Club of
Montgomery County at 8 pm.
Monday in the Rock Creek Shelter
near Beech drive,
Evening star., 1952-05-09
Lutheran Buke Sole

The Women's Guild of st.
James Lutheran Church will hold
a bake sale tomorrow at Penny's
Department Store, Silver Spring,
Md.
Evening star., 1952-05-09
The Federal Spotlight
|Worren's Ruling Gains Fears
IOf Loss of Accumulated Leave
By Joseph Young

Government employees today breathing
Of relief the Controller Generals ruling
cumulated in former years is not in any danger
Controller General Lindsay Warren the
era employees that the leave they have
be wiped a result of the ---
have been greatly
Evening star., 1952-05-09

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, sc. on April %
Lowest. Is. on January 80.
High and Low Of Last "A Hours.
High, 80, at 1:15 pm.
Low, So, at 40 am.
Evening star., 1952-05-09

River Report.
tFrom U. 8. Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy al
HarperS Perry
Evening star., 1952-05-09
r'iaA iVuks aLteE SUNSET.
Precipitatisn.

Monthly precipitation In inches In
Capttal current month 10 fake1.
Evening star., 1952-10-30
Natures Children
By Lillian Cox Athey

foundation dried and held fast.
Other "hods of plaster" were
used to fashion the bottom of the
jug and gradually the rounded part
was completed. Under a magnify
ing glass you can see the individual
ridges made by her tongue. When
the inside of the jug is completed
and before the slender neck is
added, the jug is waterproofed by
another self-manufactured ingredi-
ent.
Now she goes spider hunting. She
uses a hypodermic needle to con-
troll the motor nerves of the prey.
1t will remain alive, but still until
junior needs it. The jug has
layer of spiders before the egg is
lowered on a silk cable in the
midst.
At last the nursery Is stocked.
The flaring mouth is filled with
grass so it is locked against enemies.
In few days the egg matches into
a grub. Hungry and surrounded by
food the grub gorges, sleeps and
grows. Finally he weaves himself
a silk rope goes to sleep to wake
up a winged wasp. He cuts his
way out through the wall, flies into
the sunlight in search of a mate.
The industry Of the potter wasp
is great. She slays countless
numbers Of ankerworms and other
agricultural pests.
Evening star., 1952-10-30
Take Nv Word for 1t By E,ent Colby

Newark: What is the correct
pronunciation of the words scenic
and incognito?-Mrs. w. D.
Answer: Scenic is pronounced
either SEE-nik or: SINK. Incog-
nito is: in-KAHG- -ni-toe. The word
comes from the Latin incognitus
unknown"
Pittsburgh: Please print in your
column the correct pronunciation of
the various "cycles." such as:
motor, BIZ, tri-, etc. Some folks
use long i' in all; others use the
short 81" and others mix them
Mrs. w. T. G.
Answer: Cycle is always: SY-K1,
except in bicycle and tricycle.. In
these two words, repetition of the
long 81" sound, as "BY-sy-K1,
TRY-sy-K1," would be unpleasing.
To avoid it, the "y" of cycle is
given the short "i' sound, thus:
BY-Sik-1
TRY-sik-I
But note that the "y" of motor
cycle should never have the short
"i' sound. Be sure to say: MOE
ter-SY-Kl.
New willard: Recently in a COL
unn dealing with "manias" and
"phobias," you stated that your per-
sonal phobia was ''hypsophobia," a
morbid dread of high places. I have
the same fear, but I've always been
under the impression that my
Evening star., 1952-10-30
Americas First Potter.

On your walks in the open, look
for the small yellowish or grayish
round jugs of Americas worker in
clay, the potter wasp Eumenes
Ifraternus). She is not only master
craftsman, but is self taught and
her handiwork is not for show
purposes. This beautiful product
is the tireless work of a narrow
wasted wasp. Those you find will
have a tiny hole in the side, in
dicating her offspring finally stepped
out. Once this little pot was
jammed full Of live, though un-
conscious spiders.
When the mother wasp knew her
time had arrived to lay eggs, she
also knew it was up to her to pro-
vide safe place for each one and
food to last through the childhood
period.
She hunted for bushes with
strong sturdy stems. She also
sought mud or clay bank for
building materials. She used her
jaws to manufacture a sort of
cement which she blended with the
mud. After working this mud and
cement together until she had a
brick the size of a small garden pea,
she flew to the bush stem. Upon
it she spread the plaster, wrapping
1t securely around the stem. She
remained on the job until this
Evening star., 1952-10-30

malady is called: acrophobia. VINO S
got what?-Mrs. c. r. L.
Answer: Undoubtedly our fear is
the same. and you pay your nickel
and take your choice as to what
to call it. Acrophobia is from the
Greek akros, pertaining to the tip
or end; pertaining to height" plus
phobia. Hypsophobia comes from the
Greek combining form, hypso-,
height" plus -phobia. Acrophobia
is pronounced: AK-ruh-FOE'bee-
uh. Hypsophobia is pronounced
HIP sub FOE 'bee-uh. A person suf-
fering from this fear may properly
be referred to as either an aero
phobe (AK-ruh-fobe), or hypso-
phobe (HIP-suh- -fobe).
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