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FHOS. J. OWEN 4 SON, Auctioneers,
435 Southern Building.
-BUILD1NG occuP1Ep FOR APART. #
MENT PURPOSES, KNOWN AS
PREMISES l344 IRVING STREET.

T5pftsfs BUf6Nd g's st HabuaSls o BRK RBREeK
RRE4SES.I R6EMEgEs Is44 IRVING STREET:
By Virtue Of a Deed Of Trust re-
corded in Liber No. 9244, at folio
District OF Columbia. we shall sell
In front Of the premises on FRI
DAY THE TWENTY,sECONp DAY
2Ghh9Ghi (sse in cGs Charles sunpsFea j. aFS
numbered Thirty-five t355 "colum-
hia Heighss" hts. as per PEI. plat recorded led
the S pistTiet Of columbia G S f'Fs IN Book 81, 81
page 81: Known for purposes Of
numbered Eighty-nine (S9) in Square
numbered Twssnty-eisht, Hnndred
TERMS OF SALE: Ali cash. Deposit
Of $4,000 required at time. Of sale.
Terms Of sale to be complied with
the right to resell the pIorerty at
the risk and cost CT the defaulting
purchaser. after five days ADVERTISE
ment OF such resale in some news
paper published in the District. of
feited. or without forfeiting deposit.
trustees may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable rights against
defaulting purchaser. Further par
Of Real Estate taxes to date of sale;
All conveyancing. recording and
revenue stamps, etc. at cost Of
purchaser.
SAMUEL scRIvENER. Jr.
JUNIOR F. CROWELL.
au12 IA, ,16.I9.21. Trustees.
FHOS. ]. OWEN 4 son, Auctioneers,
A2H Snnthern RmilhinR
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WILLIAM n. CLARKE. Attorney.
636 Woodward BuildiIx.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District of Columbia, Holding
Probate =. Court Mo. sO0sS. Ad-
ministration.-This is to Give
Notice; That the subscriber. Of
nned 9strGa om he ieomRs PrUDa3e doS ass OBJ
;sh.. District Of Columbia. letters
Testamentary on the estate Of Carl
T. ,Jeansen. late of the District OF
Columbia; deceased. All persons
are Hereby warned p't to 'es exhiSit hfsHeatSe tSe
same. with the vouchers thereof,
legally authenticated, to the sub
scriber, on or before the 18TH day
Of January. AID. 1858; otherwise
they may by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate. Given
HnssEt anaeE is s5 band AMRk1chN tIs is sus dsz &
JAMES e. CONNoR. Assistant Trust
DoRE coGsWELL. Register Of wis
for the District Of Columbia. Clerk
EARL G. JONSCHER, Attorney,
$50 18th Street NV.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District Of Columbia. Hold
ministration.-This is to Give No
tice: That the subscriber. of the Dis
trict of Columbia has obtained from
the Probate Court of the District
OF Columbia, Letters Testamentary
on the estate of Reynolds Hayden,
late Of the District of Columbia,
deceased. All persons having claims
against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with
thenticated. to the subscriber, on
or before the 10th day of January,
AID. 1853; otherwise they may
by law be excluded from all bene-
At Of said estate. Given under its
hand this 1st day of August. 1852.
AMERICAN SECURITY & TRUST
Assistant trust % oficer. iGMaN, 1seai'S
Attest: THEoDoRE coGsWELI,
Register of Wills for the District Of
Columbia. Clerk OF the Probate
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AUTO PAINTER
in spotting and blending,
for opening in production shop. Must
be sober and reliable. Excellent op-
OF painting operation. State ex-
perience. Replies confidential. Box
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HElP-MEN

DECORATOR, for retail furnitur,
store. Must be experienced, Apply
in person. 1925 Wis. ave-. Bethesda
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CRAFTSMEN

Heating, plumbing, air-conditoining
systems. Salaries open. MA. S37S.
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INSTRUMENT MAKERS
If you can do precision mechanical
assembly work that would make .he
ordinary instrument maker tear mis-
and real opportunity. Modern air
conditioned plant. vacation, sick
leave. overtime.
Ahrendt Instrument Co.
49l0 Calvert Rd., College PIX. Nd.
UN. 74OO. is
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ENGINEER
ASSISTANT ruTrr
ENGINEER

For lge apt bldg. Good salary, excel.
working conds. 7th class license or
better. Must be exper. in air cond
Apply Chief Engineer. 1886 10th
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21-35; free to travel for
life insurance CO. Draft deferred.
Must have some education in ac-
counting. Experience preferred but
not necessary. Give full informat ton
as to qualifications. and approx.
salary expected. Box 377-G, Star.
AUTO BODY METAL MEN (2)-Pirst-
class men wanted. on percentage
pay plan; plenty Of work, vacation
with pay, disqualification and tnSur-
ance benefits. See Mr.. Bannister or
Mr. Hurd. HILL Il SANDERS, INC,
lila Vermont ave. NV, MA. $3.50.
AUTO BODY ASSEMBLY MENLwe
need experienced men assembling
parts on cars: some mechanical
knowledge necessary. STANDARD
AUTO BODY WORKS. 1I4O goth
AUTO BODY MAN to replace ours
who left to enter business for him
self. His salary and bonus amounted
to over 5000 weekly. Finest working
conditions anywhere Vacation and
holidays with cay. group hospitali-
cation. See Mr.. Mullen, OLMSTEAD
MOTOR CO., Oldsmobile dealer, 1000
wilson blvd. Arl.. Va. OW. S4OO.
--24
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FUEL OIL DISPATCHER

Experienced. knowledge Of oil burner
service, permanent, insurance and
Vacation. Box 217-D, Star. -19
FURNITURE SALESMAN, experienced.
excellent salary and commission
Furniture Department. Il. ABRAM.
BON 90. 7th and l. sts. NV. -22
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-17
Clio Unions Switch
To AFL in Voting
In DdnviIIe Area
BY the Associated Press

DANVILLE, Va, May 1.-THE
AFL United Textile Workers has
made a clean sweep of Turing away
the CLOS local unions at Dan
River Mills and has scored gains
in other locals in the area.
Final shift meetings voted
unanimously last night at Dan
River, one of the South's largest
textile plants. to switch to the
AFL union from the CLIO Textile
Workers Union of America.
In addition to the three locals
at Dan River Mills, other unions
jumping the CIO for the AF'L are
a local of workers for the Slater
System, catering service at Dan
River and Danville Memorial Hos
pital; locals formed by workers
at Danville Knitting Mills and
drivers for the Danville Power
and Traction Co., which operates
city buses here.
The change in afflliation was
the result of dissension in the
TWUA ranks over the recent cleo
ton at it's Cleveland convention
of Emil Rieve as national presi-I
dent over George Baldanzi, who
has a large following here and in
Carolina textile plants.
Because of the shift of affec-
ton by Danville's unions, Eman-
uel Boggs-local union director
yesterday was fired by Boyd Pay
ton, upper south regional director
for the CLIO.
1t was disclosed also yesterday
that title to union headquarters,
a new three-story structure built
here three years ago, had been
transferred by the TWUA Realty
Corp. to Norris Tibbets, educa-
tional director of the local union
and leader in the seceSsionist
movement.
Mr.. Payton, who said he was
"forcibly evicted" Thursday night
when the first shift at Dan River
voted to secede to the AFL, prom
ised court battle over the head
quarters and other union prop
erty that might be taken over by
the unionists in their change of
afhliation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-17
vandenberg Recovering
From Abdominal Operation
BY the Associated Press

Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air
Force Chief of Staff, is making a
fine recovery from his serious OPP
Grafton of May Z, the Air Force
reported yesterday.
Air Force spokesman refused
comment, however, on reports
that the generals illness is due
to cancer. A brief announcement
said only:
Gen. Vandenberg underwent a
serious abdominal operation on
May z. He is making a fine re-
covery and Is now able to walk
about"
Earlier the Air Force said Gen.
Vandenberg had left the civilian
hospital where the operation was
performed and had gone to the
Army's Walter Reed Medical Cen
ter where he was sitting up and on
normal diet.
Gen. Nathan Twining. vice chief
of staff, is serving as chief pend
ing Gen. Vandenberg's return to
duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-17

his conviction on charges of criti-
,cizing naval discipline.
The 30-year-old reservist, vice
president of his fathers Ripley
Hopping Lumber Co. of Port
Newark, Immediately told report
Iers, 1--WE need an investigation of
the whole court-martial Setup."
A special Navy court martial
convicted Hopping on two counts:
Conspiring to criticize Navy Dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-17
Seaman Hopping Receives
Bad Conduct DISCHARGE
By the Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, May IT,
Seaman Bruce S. Hopping,
wealthy son of a New Jersey lum-
Der family, was sentenced to a
bad-conduct discharge from the
United States Navy yesterday after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-17

Icipline and discrediting his SUI
|periors.
Hopping's attorney. Hyman M.
|Greenstein, said he would appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-05-17

japanese Visit Peron
BUENOS AIRES. May II o.
Twelve Japanese industrialists,
headed by Hail Xii, who are visit
ing Argentina on a business study
tour. made a courtesy call on
President Peron yesterday.
Evening star., 1952-03-16

measure In determining production.
They point out that an output Of
1000 planes month might include
large and disproportionate share of
light training planes which would
be useless in combat.
AS to plane types, America has
much more diversified force. For
example, the Soviet has no present
craft comparable to the United
States long range atom bomb car
rier: the giant B-36. But recent re-
ports reaching here indicate the ex-
iStence of q new Russian long grange
bomber which might well be capable
Of reaching American cities with
atom bombs. This is the TYPE 81"
glimpsed briefly during Soviet air
demonstration recently. It appar-
emily Is propelled by piSton-type
engines and has range of more
than $500 miles. It obviously is in
tended as a successor to the TU-4,
which the Russians patterned from
early models Of the American B-20,
seized after forced landings in ST.
IBERIA.
In the light bomber field. the Pen
tagon estimates that the Soviet and
the United States are about on q par.
Russia's Type a. q light bomber pow
cred with twin Jets, has q speed Of
more than 500 miles an hour and q
range of about 1900 miles, making
1t comparable to the American B-45
Evening star., 1952-03-16
By ChurIes Cooke

lobby. your reporter found that the
decor still was green. the lighting
still fluorescent. But here there was
the scurry and hustle Of massive,
earnest and slightly befuddled &C
tivity moving ponderously from low
gear into second.
Mr.. Coghlan, q round-faced gen.
tleman entitled Public Information
Oficer." was the soul Of courtesy.
He seemed. however, preoccupied.
His desk was covered with newspaper
clippings on the Morris-Senate fight.
Don't quote me on anything!" he
said, suddenly. "Only Mr.. Morris
makes statements around here"
One Book Thumbed. One Not
On Mr.. Coghlan's desk lay q copy
of How to Get Rich In Washing
ton." which looked weIl-thumbed,
and copy Of "The Home Book Of
Verse;" which did not appear to
have been thumbed ct all. .7ow
many are on board2" the reporter
asked.
Couldn't possibly say at this
point" said Mr.. Coghlan. "As you
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desks. The conference room, seat
ing "a. looked bigger than Harry
numan's.
A Fire Department official. in one
Of the halls. was nervously insisting
to milling cluster Of Morris men:
There's got to be q second means Of
egress, q second means Of egress, q
second means Of egress."
One Mon, Three Secretaries
The piece de resistance of the Nor
ris Offices was, Of course. Mr.. Morris
own ofiice-which Mrs. ISanderson.
with a fine sense Of dramatic cres-
cendo. saved for last. In its ante
room, Mr.. Morris three secretaries--
the Misses Mosley, Bryant and Brown
were busy as bees. In the Sanctum
sanctorum itself, the carpet was
mouse-gray, the desk vast and de
luxe.
On the desk was q copy Of This
Week magazine, open at the article,
81 Was q Crooked Tax Collector:
another copy OF "How to Get Rich In
Washington; can Of Alfred Dun
hill tobacco, and pipe waiting to
soothe its owner ON his return from
Capitol Hill.
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agencies that political clearance is
often required before the applicant is
assigned to desk. Cynical students
OF the Washington scene feel con-
f1dent. in fact, that a political check
OF top bureaucrats would turn up q
higher percentage Of Democrats than
Republicans.
The number Of jobs brought under
civil service last week by the pas
sage Of Reorganization Plan Number
One Is small, but it is significant be-
cause it serves to make the Internal
Revenue Department a "blue-ribbon"
career service. AS a matter of fact,
only $4,000 out of 2,500.00O Federal
jobs are given out by the President
today. OF this / per cent, about
four-flfths are postmasterShips.. Ger
tain agencies, such as the FBI, the
ACC and the iva have entrance
and promotion requirements of their
own. This still adds up to only 8
per cent of government jobs un-
regulated by civil service.
Subject to Whim
This is the highest rate Of COW
erage ever enjoyed by the civil serv-
ice, but Federal job-holding has al
ways been subject to presidential and
congressional Whim.
In Britain, by contrast, only cabi-
net ministers and their parliament
tary private secretaries are replaced
Dy new regime. The British are
extremely proud of their permanent
civil service and like to boast that
when Winston Churchill returned to
power last fall, only four jobs
changed hands in one enormous de-
partment. Come what may in the
way Of political fortunes the admin
istrative head. or principal assistant
secretary. stays on, to insure not
only continuity OF service but, as
things have worked out, also high
standard Of performance.
In six Of our agencies, we now
have permanent assistant secre-
tary for administration as advised
by the Hoover Commission. Critics
of the British plan say that the in
coming official has the right to ex-
pect his policies to be inplemented
by sympathetic personnel down to
certain level at least.
Abolition Of the spoils system, say
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words of q shocked investigator, came
to regard the public service as "a
huge soup house. in. which needy
citizens are to take turns at the
table and must not grumble when
they are told to move on" The first
Civil Service Commission formed by
President Grant, in response to popu-
lar protest, withstood party pressure
for only limited time, and it was not
until 1883 that the Pendleton Act, in
Producing the merit principle and
establishing a Civil Service Commis-
sion, was passed into law.
! The first Roosevelt President. like
Cleveland, and William Howard Taft,
was a Staunch civil service merit
advocate, and under his administra-
tion the number of classified civil
service jobs rose. to 66 per cent.
Progress under Wilson was all lost
during the Harding regime. when
the spoilsmen regrouped to make
heavy inroads. y
Under Hoover and Coolidge, the
civil service won back its losses, and
the percentage Of classified Govern
ment jobs scared to 80.8 per cent.
With President Franklin Roosevelt,
however, the percentage declined to
IS per cent.
Depression Jobs
The big depression agencies did
not come under civil service, although
some Congressmen felt that with jobs
so scarce the merit system should
be more vigorously applied. Instead,
in many agencies some form of "po-
htical clearance" was necessary.
Some 100000 jobs were filled with
out benefit of civil service. Any bene-
fits that might have occurred to
legislators through this type of
process now are minimized, since the
passage Of the Hatch Act in 1910,
which forbids participation in poll
tics by Federal employees.
Meanwhile, q new and richer field
Of spoils has opened up in tax favors.
subsidies and Government contracts.
Curiously-in contrast to the old
spoils system-this is on bipartisan
basis, as current investigations show.
The old-fashioned kind was the ex-
elusive prerogative Of the majority
party. Now both parties get in on
the act.
Evening star., 1952-03-16

mitted to the Senator or the con-
gresham Of the majority party, re-
presenting the district where the
vacancy occurs. The one acceptable
to the legislator gets the job.
History offers several examples Of
disagreement between President and
Senators over patronage division.
The most recent example was the
celebrated impasse between Sen.
Douglas and MIR. Truman over two
District Court judges in Illinois.
just last Friday. Mr.. Truman
angrily refused to name another man
as District recorder Of deeds, after
the Senate turned down his first
choice. Sd
In the '80s. a similar disagreement
had dire consequences. Senators
Conkling and Platt. furious over
President Garf1eld's refusal to name
their man as collector of customs.
resigned their seats, muttering in
dignantly about "snivel service"
Friends ond Enemies
The spoils system. though. ever
since the days Of jackson, has been
a mixed blessing for a lawmaker-a
means of making friends perhaps,
but equally means of making an
enemy Of every disappointed appli-
cant.
In the early days Of the spoils
system, the plums were almost en-
tirely at the disposal of the President.
During the jackson era, office
seekers swarmed through the White
House, splitting on the carpets with
vigor that amazed Novelist Charles
Dickens.
It was Senator William L. Marcy,
a Van Burenite. who enunciated the
principal, ITO the victors belong the
spoils." Actually, some of the dam
age was caused in the Jefferson adj
ministration by the Four Years Law.
which reduced indeterminate tenure
to four years. Lincoln, who was
discovered pacing the floor during
the Civil War in anxiety over nam-
ing postmaster to Brownsville, pre-
dicted that "the spoils system would
destroy the very foundation Of the
Republic ITSELF"
Despite these occasional boons,
by 1880 too many Americans. in the
Evening star., 1952-03-16
enges the United States is in planes

lenges the United States is in planes
already built.
The Pentagon itself has two widely
divergent schools of thought about
relative air strengths. The dominant
one, apparently q minority opinion
but expressive of the thinking Of
many Of the top civilians, is that
America has vastly overeStimated
Russia's present and short-term fu-
ture air potential.
The other school Including the
military men. who never feel that
there Is sufficient strength-dis-
agrees, contending that Russia has
a head-start in modern production
and that the United States is
gradually falling behind in the race.
About Volume
Most Of the worry in this country
Is about comparative volume produc-
ton at the present time. Both Penta-
gon schools agree that in three or
four jet models the Russians are
ahead OF America. These models are
the MIGS-which have shown I'D in
quantity in Korea-and light bomb
erS.
But while the Soviet may be ahead
in few models. it is believed-but
only believed-that in total airframe
weight the United States stands well
ahead. Military men consider air.
frame weight the most accurate
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can see, we're in q state Of hux." He
turned the reporter over to Mrs.
SanderSon, one of his assistants.
Shell show you around" he said,
beaming and drumming his fingers.
Mrs. Sanderson proved an efficient
guide. almost all our people are
on loan from various Government
agencies" she said. She covered the
lobby-floor Morris installations in
no time at all: The press room, de-
serted but for q ticking press ticker:
the mail and messenger room. occu-
pied by Mr.. Smell; the fiscal, corre-
spondence. and stenographer pool
room, an ant-hill Of hiring; the of
flee supply room. stacked ceiling
high with supplies. but not a uueS-
tionnaire anywhere in sight: and the
duplicating room, In which stood
two idle mimeograpn machines and
two idle duplicating girls, who
seemed to finch as the reporter en-
tered.
Just You Wait
How many releases have you
ground out so far?" he asked. "One,"
said one of the girls. '.But just you
wait" said the other. They both
looked apprehensive - q little. per-
haps. as the inhabitants Of Johns
town, Pa, must have looked as they
watched the Conemaugh's wall Of
water surging toward them. Over
much Of the establishment, in fact,
there hovered the uneasy quiet Of
the calm before the storm. the aw-
full stiffness that lives IN the eye Of
the hurricane.
Up on the second floor. the Morris
space was even more extensive. the
atmosphere suhtly tauter. The file
room, medium sized. was lined with
empty, expectant cabinets. The in
vestigators' room, enormous and
ominOus. held serried platoons of
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other, below it and pointing left. is
labeled "Mr. Newbold Morris"
This reporter, however, made
straight ahead to a mahogany desk,
at which sat a lovely blond recep-
zionist. Where are the Morris Of
fees in this building" he asked, "and
how Is the stating coming along? Is
Mr.. Morris still having difficulty get
ting the 180 people he wants?"
cts all so exciting!" the blond
said, apparently referring to the
Morris men and women who were
rushing to and fro in the lobby
carrying, and exulting over, strips Of
Still-Warm ticker rolls chronicling the
latest explosion Of their embattled
boss.
After a while, the receptionist re-
turned to the business in hand. "Mr.
Morris $4,000 square feet are lo-
Gated there, there, and there" she
said briSkly, pointing to the left, be-
hind her, and at the ceiling. "As
to how many are now on board,
you'll have to ask Mr.. Coghlan."
Shrimp Boots Is A-comin'
The first ''there" proved to be q
small. mahogany-railed bullpen
against the lobby wall, with eight
mahogany desks In it, typewriter
and telephone on each desk. No
body was In this inclosure, at the
moment. except typewriter repair
man who. as he toiled, was meiita-
lively whistling shrimp Boats Is
A-Comin'." Personnel and procure-
ment are handled in there" ex-
planned the receptionist.
The second. there" was suite OF
Offices at the rear of the lobby floor.
The third was the second fioor, where
the rest Of Mr.. Morris office space
has been allocated.
IN Mr. coghlans once. behind tho
Evening star., 1952-03-16

The Senate's acceptance last week
OF the Presidents reorganization plan
putting tax collectors under civil
service was, among other things, a
victory for the civil service system,
which has had its ups and downs
since the flrst job-hunter knocked on
the White House door.
Many politicians subscribe to the
,old-established theory that their
friends can do Government jobs as
well as people they don't know, and
the idea dies hard. So does the con-
cept Of patronage as a legitimate
means Of entrenchment for the ma
jority party. Things have come a,
long way since the spoilsmen plucked
at Jackson's sleeve, but the history
Of the civil service has not been q
steady, forward march to progress.
1t has been more like q minuet, with
Congress or the President calling
the tune.
The late Huey Long put sthe case
for the spoilS system bluntly when
he said, 'The man who pulls the plow
gets the plunder In politics."
Actually, he gets less plunder than
ever nowadays. Today civil service,
which Is theoretically aloof from the
spoils system. has jurisdiction over
% out Of every 100 jobs. The per-
centage Of Federal jobs not under
civil service Is the closest barometer
Of political patronage. But it is. at
best, only an approximate indication.
No Purity Guarantee
For the mere introduction Of civil
service regulations does not guaran-
tee the total purity of personnel
practices In the Government. Civil
service Is virtually powerless against
the expediting effects Of a senatorial
or congressional telephone call in the
case Of q job-hunting constituent. An
agency head is not likely to say no to
Q congressional committee chairman.
whom he must face at budget hear
ings or other policy conferences. Bdt
ut least, the applicant must qualify
for the job under civil service stand
ards and be on the civil service regis
ter before this push can benefit him.
And while 1t doesn't say so on any
statute books, 1t is Informally recog-
nized In certain politically sensitive"