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Evening star., 1952-04-22

vast majority of Government en-
ployeS are reliable, conscientious
and hard-working people, who
want to do a good job. If we can
rid the Federal structure of RED
tape and antiquated practices
Government workers will be able
to make their finest contribution
to the public service.
"Our aim has been to make
this a thorough and objective in.
quiry. We recognize that oul
findings and recommendations will
affect the welfare of 2.5 mil.
lion Government employees and
through their impact on the op-
erationS of the Government, will
be of considerable significance tc
the entire Nation. We are all vel
aware that isolated facts give q
highly distorted picture of the gen.
eral practice in Government, anc
may easily be misconstrued wher
surrounding circumstances are moi
fully considered.
consequently, we have insisted
and will continue to insist, thai
findings and recommendations bt
announced only when a firm fac.
tual foudation has been estab.
lished and after they have beer
subjected to careful scrutiny
When such an authoritative basi.
has been laid, the subcommittee
will make a full report and Wig.
orously press for changes which
it is convinced will promote bet.
ter utilization of the Fedora
working force end achieve needed
economies"
The Purvis subcommittee's credc
should reassure Federal employees
as to the fairness and honest ap-
proach of the study. Tomorrow s
column will discuss some of the
preliminary findings already made
by the PurviS unit.
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.4Hurt in 3-CarC Crash
On Shirley Highway

-Four persons were injured
seriously in a three-car collision
on Shirley highway, near Edsall
road, early today.
Admitted to Alexandria Hos
pital were Landon Haynes, %. of
Lorton. Va. fractured ribs, cuts
and shock; E. L. Greenstreet, So,
OF Lorton. conclusion and head
cuts. and Mrs. Virginia Liu, "a.
colored, of the 1900 block of
Eighteenth street NV. fractured
pelvis.
The fourth victim. Warren
johnson, 81. colored, of the 1900
block of Florida avenue NV, was
treated at Alexandria Hospital
for a fractured leg and trans
ferred to Mount Alto Hospital.
Fairfax County Police Sergt.
William Durrer said a taxicab
driven by Mr.. johnson crashed
into the rear Of an automobile
driven by Mr.. Haynes. The TAXI
cab then crossed a grass plot sep
arating the divided highway and
collided headon with another car
driven by Donald Henry Brown,
81. of District Heights.
The injured woman was riding
in the taxicab. and Mr.. Green4
street was a passenger in the
Haynes car, police said. No one
in the Brown car was reported
injured.
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mot have such authority and
pointed out that the marching or
displaying of signs by pickets on
The Capitol grounds was prohibited
by law.
The union then appealed to
Bryce P. Holcombe, general Or
ganizer of the National Brother
hood of Painters and Decorators
for advice in the dispute.
Flying Rules Noted.
Mr.. Holcombe said he will rec
ommend to the council that they
picket by air, using a, plane with
a paper banner streaming behind
He doubts that the Federal law
will apply to the air 4bove the
Capitol grounds. He saida that
freedom of the air has been up
held in several court decisions.
"It is the only way We gan at
tract the attention Of our friends
in Congress to this dispute" Mr.
Holcombe said.
i The Civil AeronauticS Admin
istration said all planes. are pro-
hibited from flying within 2.00C
horizontal feet of the Capitol
without a special permit. Mini
mum altitude over 9the \ unre-
lstricted area outside the Capitol
grounds is 1000 feet, It; was
pointed out that a "picket" ssigr
in the air could be seen from the
Caltol grounds at that distance
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Deputy Fire Chief Engineer
Retired After 39 Years

The Commissioners today re-
tired Deputy Chief Engineer Percy
A. Davis of the Fire Department
for disabilities incurred in line
of duty.
Deputy Chief Davis appeared be-
fore the Retiring and Relief Board
on the recommendation of the
Board of Police and Fire Surgeons
and was found to be physically in
capacitated for further duty in
the Fire Department.
Mr.. Davis, who is 81 years old
has served continuously in the de-
partment for 80 years and
months. He will be granted q
pension of $334.76 a month.
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2 Fairfax Women, Baby Bitten
by Squirrel Thought to Be Rubid

Two women and an infant were
attacked and severely bitten by a
squirrel on the porch of their
Herndon (Va.) home yesterday.
The squirrel was shot by police,
and was to be examined today for
rabies. DR.. Harold Kennedy
Fairfax County health officer, said
the animal apparently was mad
and the victims already are re-
ceiving rabies shots.
Herndon town police said the
squirrel first attacked the 1-year-
old son Of Mrs. Marguerite Tester
man. The boy was in a playpen
ION the front porch. Mrs. Tester
imam and her aunt, Miss Lillian
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Hat Party Set Tonight
At Mt. Alto Hospitol

Prizes for hat-making will be
awarded to Mount Alto patients at
the sixth annual hat party spon-
sored by the Ladies' Auxiliary of
the District Jewish War Veterans
at z o'clock tonight in the hospital.
Jimmie Lake. mayor of Ninth
street" will be master of cere-
monies. Judges will be Jim Glib
bons, WMAL radio announcer
Pauline Addie, Gene Klavan of
IStation WTOP, and Eleanor Lee.
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Ire|an Predicts Action
On Ii. Carper Before
Grand Jury Recesses

The special District racket:
grand jury will take some definite
action regarding bribery charges
against Police 1t. H. H. Carpel
sometime before the panel goes in
to summer recess, United States
Attorney Charles NJ. Irelan said
yesterday.
The prosecutor said he could not
guess just when the jury would be
recessed. But he remarked it was
obvious that the members would
need rest during the hot wealth.
er. He refused to speculate wheth-
er the predicted action would be
an indictment or whether the
charges would be ignored.
Sees Traffic Curtailed.
The prosecutor admitted that
the best that could be hoped for as
a result of the special grand jury's
narcotics Investigations would be
a curtailment of the dope traffic
here without it being obliterated
entirely.
Il am convinced there must be
q continuing investigation by sub
sequent grand juries for many
years if the drug racket is to be
ended" Mr.. Irelan said. He told
how his estimates of how long the
narcotics probe would last had to
be revised upward as a result of
ramiflcationS uncovered by the in
vestigation. "One lead leads to
another and that links to a third
and so on" he explained.
Roberts Questioned.
Yesterday the jury questioned
three witnesses. all colored, in
Guiding James Jim Yellow" Rob-
erts. former narcotics kingpin
here, now serving a prison term.
1t was Roberts who. in testimony
before the Senate Crime Investi-
eating Committee. implicated 1t.
Carper as accepting protection
payoffs. Roberts was with the
jury only 20 minutes. The other
two witnesses were unidentified
and they were believed to be po-
lice undercover men.
Today the jury will begin dig
ging into the activities of Charles
E. Shaver. former Senate Small
Business counsel.
Mr.. Shaver resigned under fire
last october following reports that
he tried to influence Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. approval of two
loan applications in 1850.
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CamaIier Nomination
Action Slated Today
BySenate Committee

Several witnesses were sched-
uled to testify in favor of Renah F.
Camalier today as his nomination
to be District Commissioner comes
before the Senate District Com
mittee for action.
Confirmation of the nomination
already has been predicted by
committee leaders. The nominee
would succeed j. Russell Young
who has resigned effective May 81,
Among those expected to sup
port the nomination when the
committee meets at 3 pm. are:
Commissioner F. Joseph Donohue
Engineer Commissioner Bernard
l.. Robinson, Leonard P. Walsh,
president of the District Bar AsSo-
Citation; Chief Judge Bolitha J.
Laws. or Richmond B. Keech. OF
District Court; Chief Judge George
p. Barse and Judge Almond W.
Scott. of Municipal Court; Judge
Nathan Cayton of the Municipal
Court of Appeals: Judge E. Bar
Irett Prettyman of the United
States Court Of Appeals; DR.
Edward G. Latch, Metropolitan
Methodist Church; and Robert v
Murray, superintendent of police
The District Committee also
plans to act on the nomination of
Mark Lansburgh, for another term
on the District Redevelopment
Land Agency.
Several local bills will be con-
sidered by the committee. They
include one to increase the city
gasoline tax from four to five
cents a gallon; and revise welfare
| laws here.
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9 Escaped Air Force Men
Recapiured in Stolen Car
BY the Associated Press

MONROE, N. Y, April 22-Nine
escaped prisoners from the Samp-
son Air Force Base stockade had
scarcely a day of freedom-be-
cause of their desire to stick to-
gether.
The nine piled into one stolen
car. State police here spotted the
overcroWded car yesterday. stopped
it for routine check, and nabbed
the nine prisoners.
State Troopers Edward Shea
and Edwin Trayford, who tagged
down the southbound car on Route
II near here, said the nine sur
rendered meekly.
The nine and two other Air
Force prisoners broke out Of the
Sampson stockade late Sunday
night by saving through iron bars
and climbing a 10-foot barbed
wire wall. The two others were
seized in Geneva, N. Y, just a few
hours after their flight.
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Ask GreenbeIt Sale Delay

The Greenbelt (Md) Town
Council last night voted to ask
the Federal Public Housing Au-
thority for a 6O-day extension of
the April 80 deadline for first
step in sale of the town to the
Veterans Housing Corp.
The delay was asked to discuss
with PHA officials other possible
methods of selling the commu-
nity's 1890 homes. So far the
Federal agency has planned to sell
the entire community to the non-
profit veterans corporation, which
in turn is contracting to sell the
homes to individuals.
A petition opposing sale of the
community to the cooperative
group is being circulated by one
of the Council members.
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Duncan, ran to the porch when
they heard the baby crying.
Mrs. Testerman grabbed the
squirrel from the playpen and
the animal leaped to the back of
her neck. severely biting and
scratching her. Miss Duncan
caught the squirrel by the tail and
pulled it from Mrs. Testerman's
neck.
The women rushed into the
house with the baby and called
police. The squirrel rushed after
them and was trying to tear its
way through the screen door
when Herndon police arrived and
shot it.
DR.. E. c. Shull treated the three
victims.
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District Republican Club
To Hear Taft Tomorrow

Senator Taft, Of Ohio, candi-
date for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, will address a
meeting of the Republican Club
of the District at 8 pm. tomor-
row in Constitution Hall.
Talmage Wilcher, of the Taft
Clubs of Virginia. and Arthur Hill
land. president of the Taft fol-
President Club of Maryland, are
planning to lead large delegations
to the meeting.
Evening star., 1952-04-22

District of Columbia and vicinity
Mostly sunny and warm, highest
around 86 this afternoon; fair with
low about So tonight. Tomorrow,
partly cloudy and continued warm.
Maryland-Fair with lowest,
$500 degrees tonight. Tomorrow,
partly cloudy and warm with some
chance of thundershowers in the
three western counties.
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Chevy Chase Adopts
$4,000 Budget, Cuts
Taxes for Second YeaI

For the second straight veal
the taxes of Chevy Chase Village
will be reduced.
With an enthusiastic chorus o1
ayes" more than 100 resident.
of the incorporated suburb ap.
proved a 1852 budget in which the
villages special real estate levy
was dropped from 35 to 80 cent.
per $100 of assessed property
value.
Some residents had feared that
a recent charter change raising
the tax ceiling for the area would
be followed by higher levy, but
last nights meeting brought the
tax down to the level held from
1896 to 1945.
Last years 35-cent levy pro-
duced $4,000 surplus.
S62,10O Budget Approved.
The villagers, meeting in old
fashioned town meeting style in
the community hall, approved a
budget of $62.10O.
Chairman Arthur G.. Lambert
told the meeting the 1852 budget
includes funds for completing the
re-laying of the villages brick
continued fight
against elm disease which threat
ems the community's famous
shade trees, civil defense anc
salary increases.
Mr.. Lambert reported that thu
past year had seen "a minimum
of controversy, little, if any name
calling and minimum of violen
acts"
Pamphlets giving the village.
history, charter and ordinance
were distributed.
Three Managers Reelected.
Three members of the Board O.
Managers whose terms expired
last night were unanimously re.
elected. They are Charles Car.
roll Morgan, Mrs. William T
Jarvis and John Bischoff. Mr.
Morgan is treasurer of Chev.
Chase, while Mrs. Jarvis is secre.
tary.
The meeting heard brief talk.
by Col. Curtis Handley. village
civil defense director, and by
Sherley Ewing, deputy director OF
the Maryland civil defense or.
ganization.
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Citizen Group Delegates Gei
Special PARKING Permits

The Federation of Citizens AS
sociations will get special park
ing privileges behind the District
Building on the nights the asso-
citation meets.
The Commissioners today ap-
proved a recommendation that
the delegates to the association
be given special permits to park
there and emergency no-parking
signs will be put up the day they
meet announcing no parking after
6 pm.
Only those delegates ..oldine
official parking permits will bt
allowed to park in the spaces.
Evening star., 1952-04-22
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Virginia-Fair with lowest, $3.50
degrees tonight. Tomorrow, partly
cloudy and continued warm.
Wind (at National Arport) {:
South by southwest, five miles an
hour at 11:24 am.
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity-April 1921.
Temperatures will average 4-8
degrees above normal for the
Evening star., 1952-04-22
Wins School Board Seat

The town of Herndon, Va, has
won a court battle for special
representation on the Fairfax
County School Board.
Fairfax Circuit Judge Paul E
Brown ruled yesterday that q
special 1850 act of the Virginia
General Assembly giving Herndor
the seat takes precedence over
the general provisions of the more
recent county executive act, which
specifies that a town must op-
crate as a separate school district
to have representation on the
board.
Evening star., 1952-04-22
Gen. MichaeIis Appointed
West Point Commandant

Brig. Gen. John H. Michaelis
who gained fame as regimental
commander in Korea, will become
commandant of cadets at West
Point in August.
He now is training deputy al
Gen. Eisenhower'S headquarters ir
Paris. The general, 80. won the
Distinguished Service Medal anC
q field promotion to colonel while
commander of the 9th Infantry
Regiment in Korea. Gen. Eisen.
hover requested his services ir
Europe.
He will succeed Col. John K
Waters at the Military Academy
The colonel has been selected tx
attend the National War College
at Fort Lesley j. McNair here.
Evening star., 1952-04-22
Major Levees Hold
AT Critical Points,
Despite New Rainfall
BY the Assoeiofed Press

KANSAS CITY. April 22.-New
rain, some of it heavy. sharpened
the fears of flood fighters along
the raging Missouri River today.
Major dikes held at critical
spots. And the experts clung to
their prediction that Kansas City,
kans., and Kansas City would be
safe. They saw little danger that
the cities would have to take the
beating they got in last Julys
record flood.
AS waters covered the lowlands,
Missouri Gov. Forrest Smith pro-
claimed a flood emergency and
asked President Truman-for the
second time in a year-to allot
emergency Federal funds to his
home State.
Along the Upper Mississippi
another record flood boiled sea-
ward.
At La Crosse, Wis, Weather
1 = Va SNooCS1 "a ~. Odllldl SdlO, IlO
worst of it is over now"
Downstream along the Eastern
Iowa border, expected flood crests
were revised downward for the
second time, but Gov. William S.
lBeardsley ordered three more Ma
tional Guard units to flood duty
! anyway.
The focus of the rainfall jit-
ters was at Kansas City, where
prolonged downpours turned the
KaW Kansas) River into a mon
ster last July.
This time, Army Engineers say
the levees have been rebuilt to
withstand flood of 40.8 feet.
E. c. Corkill, Weather Bureau
river forecaster. said l-inch
rains were possible In a wide area
around the flood zone. That
might send the river at Kansas
.lCitV llD tn RI feet
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Would Revise Labor Law

All three candidates for the
Democratic nomination to the
House from the 9Th Maryland
District expressed agreement al
a meeting in Potomac, Md, last
night that the Taft Hartley Act
needs some revision. 4,
Another speaker, George P
Mahoney, seeking the Democratic
nomination to the Senate from
Maryland, also said the labor law
could stand some revision. The
three congressional aspirants who
spoke are Mrs. Stella B. Werner
w. Prescott Allen and Roy M
Coffman.
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The Sun and Moon
FEecIpIk8tIUl
Monthly precipitation il
U. 5. Zinc Output High

I The Bureau Of Mines reports
that the United States in recent
years has mined more than twice
as much zinc as any of the other
81 producing nations. This coun-
ltry's smelter production is about
i 40 percent Of the worlds total.
Evening star., 1952-04-22
Rockville Perish Supper

The Women's Auxiliary of
Christ Episcopal Church Rock
vile. will hold a country ham and
chicken salad supper from to
g pm. Saturday in the parish
hall.
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a. cav VI y Y q J Is
this column for
the n xt few
days will discuss
| S M e of h e
groups mi tial
findings.
AS part of the
Civil Service
COMMITTEE, the
Purvis unit will
m a k e it's final
ropo sails to
&c on G r e S S for
S t re a m | lining
IG ov e rnment'S
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tenn about January 81. when its
investigation will be completed.
The current study is the most
widespread ever taken by Con-
lgress on Government personnel
matters. With a total of SPAS, 900
voted it by Congress and the
strong backing of Chairman
Johnston and the rest of the mem
bers of the Senate Civil Service
Committee. the Purvis group has
gotten off to an excellent start.
In its first interim report, the
unit stresses that its object is
not a smear campaign against
Government employees but an OBJ
jective study that will benefit
Federal employees as we'll as the
American public.
The Purvis unit declared: "In
conducting our examination into
these various problems, two bed
rock tests have been applied in
every instance:
First. Does the policy or prac-
tice result in the waste of Federal
manpower and money. during the
current emergency?
Second. Does the policy or
practice promote long-range eff
cheney and economy in the use of
Federal personnel"
X Il
MANPOWER WASTE - The
Purvis report continued: apply
ing these two tests, the subcom-
mittee found that a number of
personnel policies and practices
currently in effect are causing
unnecessary waste of both man
power and money in the Federal
Government.
I'VE have discovered that most
of the problems in the various
subject areas we have studied
stem from three underlying
icauses: % Cumbersome and obso-
lete procedures; co lack of suffi-
cient incentive for administrators
and supervisors to economize; go
failure of the executive branch to
develop a comprehensive man
power budget. The subcommittee
is convinced that these basic de-
fects can be corrected. and that,
by overhauling the Governments
personnel machinery, thousands
of man-hours and millions of
dollars can be saved each year
through better utilization of the
Federal working force"
X + 4 X
EMPLOYEES PRAISED - The
Purvis unit had some nice things
to say about Government en-
ployes, even though it found that
their potentialitieS in many cases
were unrealized.
"The subcommittee is convinced
that there is an untapped reser-
voir of energy and efficiency in
our Federal working force. The
Evening star., 1952-04-22
CIV Glee Club Sings Tonight

The George Washington Univef-
sity Glee Club. under the direction
|of DR.. Robert H. Harmon, will
highlight a performance by the
Air Force Symphony Orchestra at
$3.50 o'clock tonight in Lisner
Evening star., 1952-04-22

period. Washington area normal
temperatures are 68 (high) and
Al dow. Warmer tomorrow and
Thursday. cooler Friday and Sat-
urday and warmer again Sunday
Some chance of showers Thursday
or Friday and possibly again Sum
day. Precipitation will total 1a-12
inch.
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Kruse Urges More
Research 10 Reduce
Cost Of Social Ills

Arthur H. Kruse. executive di.
rector of United Community Serv.
ices, yesterday called for more
research to prevent social ills.
He addressed the annual meet.
ing of the UCS Family and Chile
Welfare Section at the YWCA
Seventeenth and K streets NV
Community responsibility fol
people needing financial help anc
physical care, he said. has beer
fairly well established.
But the opportunity of every
individual in the community te
grow up to a place of social use.
fulness and to exercise his ca
pacities for the well being of the
communicated, you and I must
continue to work on" he declared
Today in Washington, Mr.. Kruse
said, one of every 10 adults this
year will fail an elementary aspect
|of living in such a major way
that the community will have to
assume a responsibility.
Sees Eventual Savings.
He added there is reason to be-
lieve that in the next five years,
one of every four adults in large
cities will become an object of
major community concern.
A properly financed program of
Identifying social problems which
would result in a community of
more useful, productive and COM
petent people would mean the
spending of less money on them in
the long run. he said.
Russell w. Schneider, executive
secretary of. the Advisory Council
on Federal Reports, was elected
chairman of the Family and Child
Welfare Section.
He succeeds Mrs. Wayne Gov,
who was given a scroll signed by
Lee D. Butler, UCS president, and
Mr.. Kruse in appreciation of her
service.
Aroused Community Concern.
Because she and the other
of the section have given
SO much of their time and thought
to arousing community concern
over inadequate public welfare
provisions in the next District
budget, there is more reason to
believe that the Congress will act
to meet the basic human
needs of thousands of the Capitals
citizens" the tribute said.
The scroll cited Mrs. Coy's ac-
tive leadership in planning the
successful merger of three Com
Chest agencies-the Chill
dren's Protective Association, the
Foster Day Care and Counseling
Association and the Family Serv-
ice Association.
Vice Chairman Elected.
Newly-elected vice chairman of
the section is Miss Katherine
Scrivener, director of elementary
education in the public schools.
Elected to the executive COM
mittee were Harry Alpert, j. S.
Bartlett, Mrs. Annie Lee Davis,
Mrs. Milton Dunn. Mrs. Frank
Fields. Mrs. Ernest K. Lindley,
Henry j. Palmieri. Mrs. Leo Ray
wild, Miss Marta Redington,
Gerard M. Shea. Mrs. Thomas l..
Stokes and Mrs. Leon Yochelson.
Named to the nominating COM
mittee were DR.. Margaret j.
Butcher, the Rev. L. Maynard
Catchings. Mrs. Martin Codel,
John v. Hinkel, Armiger L. Jagoe,
jr.; r. Brandon Marsh, Crosby S.
NoyeS, Mrs. Alice Smith and Ger
hard Van Arkel.
Donald Gray, superintendent of
the public assistance division of
the Board of Public Welfare. and
Percy Weinberg. executive direc-
tor of the American Legion We'll
fare Department, were elected
professional representatives to the
UCS board of trustees. ~
Evening star., 1952-04-22
Britain Recruits ItuIiuns

LONDON. - The brick-making
industry in Britain is recruiting
1000 Italian workers.
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The Federal Spotlight
,Purvis Units First Report Sees
Study Benefiting Employees
By Joseph Young

The interim findings of the investigating the
Cv Service system dsos it vast
JOB in modernizing the Federal personnel setup.
Because the preliminary findings of the former
FB1 Agent Melvin Purvs indication of what
Evening star., 1952-04-22

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, sc, on April 20.
Lowest, Is. on January 80.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, "a. at pm
Low, 55, at $50 am.