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Evening star., 1953-09-09
Veterans and
Druftees
By Moi. Thomas M. Mol

Congress has trimmed the spe-
clal preference that war veter-
ans may claim over non-veterans
in getting Federal civil service
jobs.
Under a new law. if you're a
veteran seeking a Federal job
you must now earn a passing
grade on your civil service exam
ination before adding the special
5 or 10 points allowed you as a
veteran. Previously you could
and the points to your score
whether or not you got passing
score.
If you're an honorably dis
charged veteran you are allowed
to add 5 points to your score
10 points if you're a disabled
veteran.
Another change made by the
new law provides that disabled
veterans must have at least 10
per cent Service-connected dis
ability before they may move to
the top bracket of a job list for
which they qualify. Previously,
a service-connected disability of
less than 10 per cent was enough
to give you this right.
Preference Points Added.
Most civil service jobs are un-
der a merit system and are filled
on the basis of ability to do the
work-ability demonstrated on
competitive examinations. The
higher you score on these exams
the better chance you have OF
being chosen to fill a job you've
applied for. That's where the
extra preference points aid a
veteran.
Not all jobs require that a
written examination be taken,
but the greater share do. If nc
written exam is required, you're
given a score on your experience
and training. The more expe-
rience and training you have, OF
course, the higher your score will
be. You'll still be given the pref
erence points for a veteran, how
ever, on top of this score.
If you have a passing score
70 or better, not including the
preference pointS-your name is
put on a list of eligibles for the
job along with non-veterans who
have passing scores.
Rank by Alphabet.
Veterans who can show a 10
per cent disability automatically
are put on the top of the job list
in cases where they are applying
for jobs in other than scientific
and professional fields. They
are ranked among themselves &C
cording to score. Nom disabled
veterans are put on the list SIM
ply according to score. If you
have the same score as a non
vet, your name automatically
goes ahead of his. If you tie
with another vet, you're ranked
alphabetically. The same goes
for ties among disabled veterans.
Then, when 1t comes time to
Evening star., 1953-09-09

give the agency the names of
men who are eligible for the job
you've applied for the Civil Serv-
ice Commission will submit the
three top names on the list of
eligibles. From these three the
agency makes the choice of the
man it wants. If the man ac-
cepts the job, the names of the
other eligibles not chosen are
put back at the top of the list.
They will be considered the next
time a similar job shows up.
you may lDrite to Maj. Mai,
in care OF The Star, about
your otDn SerUice- connected
problem. Please incloSe
Evening star., 1953-09-09
N curries $50 Miles

TROMSOE, Norway.-Dr. Liev
Harang Of the Northern Lights
Observatory in Tromsoe reports
successful experiments with the
transmission of television pro-
grams from KELLER to Tromsce, a
distance of about $50 miles.
Evening star., 1953-09-09
Prizes for Bond BUYERS

Subscribers to a new issue of
Austrian power plant bonds will
participate in yearly drawings
for prizes ranging from $40 to
$4,000.
Evening star., 1953-09-09
Man Gives to Churity

Charles Howard, now 80, of
London, has given thousands of
dollars to charity in living up to
his intent of dying as "a working
man"
Evening star., 1953-09-09

stamped, SeIf-GddreSsed en-
Uelope and 20 cents In stamps
(From Associated Press Newsfeatures)
Evening star., 1953-05-19
BroYhi|I Hears Objection
To Wafer system Bill

The Falls Church City Council
has protested to Representative
Broyhill, Republican. of Virginia
that a bill he has proposed would
jeopardize the city's water sys-
tenn investment.
Mayor Charles E. Kellogg and
five council members listed their
objections in Mr.. Broyhill'S Of
flee yesterday. Mr.. Broyhill
said he would consider the coun-
cil'S position.
The measure would allow addi-
tional connections to the Dis
trict'S supply to bring water to
nearby Virginia communities.
Falls Church. through its pres
ent connection with District
lines. is able to serve areas sur
rounding the city and has plans
for extending it's service.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Senator Humphrey
Praises Policy Talk

Senator Humphrey, Democrat,
of Minnesota. last night praised
President Eisenhower's recent,
foreign policy address as making
clear to the world that "our pur-
pose is humane. not conquest"
Senator Humphrey told a dim
ner meeting of the Greater
Washington United Jewish APP
peal that the strength OF our
might "is the very humaneness
behind it," He cautioned, how.
ever. that we can only give mean
ing to this purpose "by our acts"
One of the areas in which we
can improve our example to the
world, he said, is to open the
doors of trade and immigration.
Senator Humphrey lauded the
United Jewish Appeal as the
"very essence" of the humane
ness of which he spoke.
Other speakers at the fund
raising dinner at the Statler Ho.
tel were Leon KeySerling, econo-
mist, and Leopold v. Freudberg,
chairman of the Greater Wash.
ington United Jewish Appeal.
The meeting last night raised
$100, 900 for the fund.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Ve|de Group Considers
Filing Contempt Charges
BY the Associotsd Press

Chairman Velde said today his
House Un-American Activities
Committee is considering the
possibility of citing several wit
nesses for contempt Of Congress
because of their refusal to an.
swer questions.
He made the comment in urg-
ing William T. Parry. University
of Buffalo professor, to recon-
slider his decision to decline to
answer questions regarding his
activities in 1887 and 1888.
Parry was named several
months ago by Robert g. Davis,
Smith College professor, as q
fellow member of a Red cell at
Harvard in the late '30s.
Parry told the committee he
was educated at Columbia and
Harvard Universities, and re.
naming at Harvard as an assist.
ant in the philosophy depart
ment until 1887.
He refused, however, to tell
the committee how he was en-
ployed in 1887 and 1898 or where
he lived. other than in Boston.
To do so. Parry said, might
tend to incriminate him.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Man Breaks Down Door
To Save Father in Fire

A Merrifield (Va.) man broke
a kitchen window to escape from
his blazing home today and then
broke down a door to free his
77-year-old father.
Guy v. Collins, 80, q piano
tuner and repairman, said his
wife and four children fed the
blaze by using an outside stair
way from the second floor.
Mr.. Collins, who went to the
kitchen for water to fight the
blaze, suffered q severe cut on
the right wrist in breaking the
window and was treated at
Arlington Hospital.
Annandale firemen kept the
blaze from spreading from the
basement to the upper floors.
Damage was estimated by Mr..
Collins at about $1,000.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
& Virginia Pupils
Shaken by Collision

Forty-eight Prince William
County school children were
shaken up today when their
school bus was hit by an auto
mobile near Woodbridge, Va.
Three of the children, Nelsie
Sullivan. IA, Freddie Stancil, H.
and Nancy Dillon, IL. had to be
taken home after the accident.
The other IS students went on to
their classes at Occoquan.
Virginia State Police said the
school bus, driven by John Rus
sell, 26, of Woodbridge, had just
taken on some passengers and
was starting when it was struck
from behind by an automobile,
driven by Lorin Ballard, 80, of
Kensington. Mr.. Ballard and his
wife, Eula, q. were taken to
Alexandria Hospital with severe
cuts.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Up to Knees in Mud, Midget
With Circus Berdtes Weather

Soaking wet, a midget skidded
toward the circus grounds today
with a few frank comments on
the Washington weather.
The little man, arriving late
with 1.400 other people of the
big top, and as many animals.
pulled his slicker over a rabbit
he carried in a bird cage and
asked in a loud voice:
Don't this town ever change?
They've got more rain than poll
tics around here! Twenty years
I've been playing Washington,
and it always rains when we
open!"
May Feel Better Later.
But the sodden midget was still
in the Benning freight yards,
where the performers and ami
mails were unloading for the half =
mile trek to the grounds at Okla
homa avenue and Benning road
NE.
He probably calmed down
when he entered the tented city
with it's sawduSt-padded ap-
proaches. The tents were erect
ed Saturday, a fortunate break
in view Of the current forecast
for continued rain and thunder
showers. The circus had played
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Gas Light Company
Seeks 10 Pct. Raise
In Maryland Rates

The Washington Gas Light
Co, is seeking to increase gas
rates to its suburban Maryland
customers by about 10 per cent.
The company filed a rate raise
petition with the Maryland Pub
lie Service Commission in Balti-
more yesterday. stating that the
proposed increase would make
Maryland gas rates uniform
with those the company charges
in the District.
The petition stated that the
average increase for customers
who heat their homes with gas
would be $1.87 per month. For
those who use gas only for
stoves, hot water heaters and
smaller appliances, the average
increase would be about S cents
a month.
The new rates would boost an
nual revenues of the company
by $685., 200, the petition said.
The company, in a press
statement. said the new rate
schedule is made necessary by
the increased higher costs of
labor and supplies plus re-
cent substantial increases in the
wholesale cost of natural gas
supplied by Atlantic Seaboard
Corp.
Although gas rates to its
Prince Georges and Montgomery
County customers have been de-
creased at various times since
1880. the company said, no in
creases have been made since
1920.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
'One Down Banned
On Police Radio
As Too General

"One down"-the police dis
patcher's method of describing
citizens in various stages of dis
tress on the city streetS-is be-
ing banished from the dispatch
er's repertoire.
Deputy Chief Howard V. Co.
veil has told the dispatcher he
objects to the phrase because
it's too general. too commonly
used for too many different types
of cases.
Hereafter, under the Covell di-
rections, if a citizen complains
a drunk is weaving down the
boulevard, the dispatcher will
repeat the complaint over the
radio. If a complainant reports
a sick man lying on the street.
the dispatcher will convey the
report more specifically than
"one down"
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Arlington Man Dies
Of SeIf-InfIicied Wound

George Joseph Powell. -. Of
the 500 block North Sixth street,
Arlington. Va, fatally wounded
himself with a pistol last night
at his home, police reported.
Police listed the shooting rs
a suicide.
Mr.. Powell shot himself with
a .38-caliber revolver aimed In
side his mouth at 10:35 pm. Po-
lice Pvt. Donald Kidwell, who
lives across the street, went to
the house and said Mr.. Powell
told him he did not want to
cause my wife any more trouble. +"
Police were told Mr.. Powell had
been drinking heavily for about
three weeks. He died about /
am. in Arlington Hospital.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
McKeIdin Joins
BrookeviNe Fight
For Post Office

Gov. McKeldin was one of the
signers Of a petition last night
opposing closing Of the Brooke
vile, Md, post offlce.
The petition and a resolution
urging retention of the post Office
at Brookeville, described as one
Of the oldest communities in
Montgomery County, were Or
dered forwarded to the Post
Once Department.
The action was taken at a
meeting of the Montgomery His
torical Association last night in
the home Of A. Lothrop Luttrell.
Rockville.
Gov. McKeldin described for
the audience of more than 200
people the creation Of q new TOO
volume library at the Governors
mansion in Annapolisa
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Washington State 10 Place
lis First Statue in Capitol

The State of Washington for
the first time will place a statue
in the Capitol's Statuary Hall
on Friday, with ceremonies hon.
oring Marcus Whitman, a medi-
cal missionary who met his
death at the hands of the CayuSe
Indians more than a Century
ago.
Each State is permitted to
honor two of its illustrious men
or women in this manner.
Whitman and his wife. Mar
cisSa went to the Pacific North
west in 1886 for the American
Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. a joint enter
prise of the Congregational,
Presbyterian. Dutch Reformed
and German Reformed Churches.
They and other settlers were
massacred by the Indians at
Waiilatpu Mission, which they
established near what is now
Walla Walla, Wash.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
By Jones {. Roper

DR.. Allen v. Astin appeared on
the same speakers platform to-
day with one of the men respon-
sible for his projected removal
as Director of the Bureau of
Standards - and there was
hardly a Snarl.
Co-Starred with the Govern
ment scientist at the 38th Ma
tional Conference on Weights
and Measures was Craig r.
Sheaffer, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce. Commerce Secretary
Weeks, through Mr.. Sheaffer.
had arranged to fire DR.. Astin
April II because of a dispute
over the merits of battery ad-
ditive, AD-72. But public opin-
ion forced postponement Of the
custer until autumn.
DR.. Astin, as president of
the conference, introduced Mr..
Sheaffer as the principal guest
speaker at the session at the
Wardman Park Hotel. The in
PRODUCTION was brief but polite.
After Mr.. Sheaffer spoke, DR..
Astin applauded.
Only AlluSiOn to Incident.
Mr.. Sheaffer, in his only al
fusion to the Astin incident, COM
mented that cit is particularly
fitting for the Bureau of Stand
ards to operate within the Com
merce Department."
This was in reply to some Sen
ators who suggested that the
Bureau of Standards be taken
out of the Commerce Depart
ment because Of the Astin in
cident.
A Senate subcommittee, it was
learned, today summoned Secre-
tary Weeks to explain his role
in the case.
An appropriations subcommit-
tee studying funds for the Com
merce Department asked Secre-
tary Weeks to testify at a closed
session tomorrow.
Seeks to Ease Tension.
Senator Ellender, Democrat,
of Louisiana, a member Of the
subcommittee, said Secretary
Weeks story may determine how
far the subcommittee's inquiry
goes. Subcommittee Chairman
Bridges Of New Hampshire au-
thorized the hearing after Sem
ator Ellender compiled q mass Of
information about the Astin in
cident.
In his speech today. DR.. Astin
reviewed accomplishments of the
bureau during the last year. en-
phasizing that IS per cent Of the
work was for other Government
agencies. rather than private
concerns.
Mr.. sheafIer sought p ease
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Women Shriners 10 Initiate
IS in Ceremony Tonight

Thirty-f1ve new members of
Su-Zu Court. Ladies Oriental
Shrine Of North America will be
initiated at ceremonies at 8
o'clock tonight in the Hotel
Statler.
About 5000 members Of the
group representing 81 courts in
the United States and Canada,
are here for a flve-day conven-
tion.
Tomorrow's program will be
highlighted by exhibition drills
beginning at Z pm. in Uline
arena. The council sessions open
at $3.50 am. tomorrow in the
Statler. Mrs. j. Eliot Cressen, of
Philadelphia. grand high priest
ess will preside.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Public Housing Site
In Southwest Is Urued

The Washington Urban League
has urged the Commissioners to
approve a public housing site in
Southwest Washington, despite
opposition from the District Re-
development Land Agency.
The Urban League plea was
made in telegram to the city
heads. supporting a request for
approval from the National Ca
pital Housing Agency.
The site sought by NCHA is
south Of the 76-acre area slated
for redevelopment by the RIA.
But it is located within a larger
area RIA wants to redevelop.
Under redevelopment, the slum
land is cleared and sold to pri-
vate investors for rebuilding in
accordance with specific plans.
The urban league said RIA ef-
forts Ito exclude public housing
from the redevelopment area" is
contrary to promises made to
residents there that every effort
would be made to enable them to
remain in the neighborhood."
Evening star., 1953-05-19
District 10 Defer
10 Raise
Teachers Pay
City Heads Will Wait
Until Budget Issue
Becomes Settled

The District Commissioners
have decided to defer any action
on salary increase for public
school teachers until the city's
whole budget picture is cleared up.
In a letter to the Board of
Education, the Commissioners
said they had given careful con-
Sideration to the teachers pay
raise proposal.
But, the city heads added, "in
view of our financial condition
at this time, and with no aSsur-
ance as to the action which may
be taken by the Congress at this
session, the public interest de-
mands that this proposal be held
in allegiance without prejudice
until our financial situation is
clarified"
Police Raises First.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
said the Commissioners felt
the question of a pay raise for
the Police Department should be
worked out first as this was
urgent.
The teacher pay increases were
drawn up by School Supt. Hobart
M. Corning and approved by the
Board of Education. Work on
the new pay scale began a year
ago.
The proposal called for salaries
for teachers with bachelor de-
grees beginning at $500 and
going to $500 after seven years.
Teachers with masters degrees
would start at $4,100 and go to
$6,100. School officers would get
proportionate increases and DR..
Corning's salary would be jumped
from $4,000 to $17,5oo.
Present Pay Cited.
Present pay scales range from
$3.50 to $4,763 for teachers
with bachelors degrees and from
$3,663 to $5,313 for those with
masters degrees.
Mr.. Spencer said that at the
Commissioners meeting when
the proposal was discussed, the
feeling was clear that the city
heads felt the salaries recon-
mended were higher than they
should be.
I'VE were thinking more in
terms of the total cost to the
District rather than in specific
position salaries" he commented.
''The proposal will add more
than 81 million to the District
budget after it gets into oper-
alton"
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Young Republican Club
Elects PendIeton, 177-146

The District Young Republi-
can Club last night elected Ed
mund E. Pendleton, jr., presi-
dent. He was president during
the 1948 campaign.
Mr.. Pendleton defeated Fred
L. Dixon, lit to LAG, in five
hours Of balloting in the Willard
Hotel. He succeeds Carl L.
Shipley. The club has $50 mem
berS.
Other officers elected are:
Howard Kerns, national COM
mitteeman; Jan johnson, ma
tional committeewoman; Rich
ard Marsh, first vice president;
James Bacon, second vice presi-
dent.
Also, Fran Watts, secretary:
Mary Cooper. recording Secre-
tary, and Grahame Smallwood,
treasurer.
The new officers will take
charge of the District delegation
to the Young Republican con-
vention in Rapid City, s. Dak..
June IL to 13.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Indicted Youth Faces
Action in More Thefts

A 19-year-old youth indicted
yesterday in three purse-snatch-
ing cases today faced grand jury
action in two others-both In
volving violence.
United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover, who has been personally
screening the cases of prisoners
accused of multiple offenses, said
he will present to the grand
jury a case in which the same
offender is accused of dragging
a woman into an alley.
A fifth case, he said, will be
held for further consideration
when the purse-snatching VIC
TINS condition is determined.
In that case. the victim was rs
years old and suffered a frac-
tured pelvis when she fell dur
the purse-snatching.
The defendant is Samuel M.
Evans, jr.. colored, of the 100
block of U street NV.
Police charged him in II cases.
In five of the cases, however.
they lacked either a positive
Identification from the victim
or a specific admission from
the defendant.
Evening star., 1953-05-19

it's last engagement under a roof.
Moving along with the midget,
after the last train section ar
rived at 10:15 am, were vari-
colored wagons of the menagerie,
educated horses. ponder us
pachyderms and the bright para
phernalia of "the Greatest Show
on Earth"
They moved in haste through
the rain. mindful of the tents
open to the public at l pm. and
the first performance was sched-
uled for 2:15. Afternoon and
night shows at 2::15 and 8:15
pm. will continue through Sun
day.
Usually Take Dim View.
The performers and the ami
mails may have moved on the
official railroad schedule, but
they arrived here some four
hours behind the best estimates
of the press agents-always q
bit optimistic.
Midgets, on the other hand
are prone to take a dim view OF
such situations.
Just a hat-full of rain" sale
another performer, "and they
holler that they're up to then
| knees in mud"
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Noyes PTA lnstoIIs
Mrs. Burtrum as Head

Mrs. Carl M. Burtram was in
stalled as president Of the Noyes
School Parent Teacher ASsocia-
ton in ceremonies at the school
last night. Retiring president Is
Mrs. Hulon Long Ballew.
Miss Grace E. Bush, principal
Of the school for 18 years, re-
ceived q set Of luggage from the
association upon her transfer to
the Simond and Draper Schools.
Evening star., 1953-05-19
Bea|I and Butler Split
On Nomination for
u. 5. Attorney Post
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, May 19.-Mary-
lands Republican Senators open
ly split yesterday over the choice
of a United States attorney in
Baltimore, one of the States top
political plums.
And the Democratic incum-
bent, Bernard j. Flynn, who has
been trying to get rid of the job
ever since the Republicans took
over in Washington last January,
termed the impasse downright
silly"
Senator Butler, Maryland's Sc
nior Senator. nominated George
Cochran Doub, Baltimore attor-
ney to succeed Mr.. Flynn.
Senator Beall nominated Will
ford T. McQuaid. Baltimore
Traffic Court magistrate. known
to be the choice also of Gov
McKeldin.
Maryland G. O. p. Control.
The McKeldin- -Beall wing of
the party has been in control in
Maryland since the nomination
and election of President Eisen-
hover.
Senator Butler backed Sena-
tor Taft for the presidency, but
as the States senior Senator
is said to feel he is entitled to
big say on the dispensing OF
Federal patronage.
The Doub-McQuaid impasse
may settle once and for all who
will have the upper hand in
Maryland G. o. P. councils.
Gen Eisenhower. who makes
the actual nomination of a
United States Attorney, may
have to settle the controversy
D. Eldred Rinehart, State Re-
publican chairman, hopes that
won't be necessary.
Harmony Meeting Called.
He said last night he will ask
the two Senators, Gov. Nickel
din and Miss Bertha Adkins, head
of the women's division of the
Republican National Committee
and also the States national
committee woman, to meet with
him as quickly as possible and
try to work this thing out"
One other name had been
handed to Attorney General
Brownell. that of State Senator
Stanford Hoff, Republican, OF
Carroll. But Mr.. Hoff announced
last week that he would not &C
cept the post because he did not
want to give up his private prac-
tice of law.
Senator Butler had nominated
Mr.. Hoff.
Mr.. Doub, Senator Buffers
new choice. was the G. o. P.
candidate for Maryland attor-
ney general in 1916. He was one
of Gen. Eisenhower's original
supporters in Maryland.
Judge McQuaid, appointed to
the traffic court by Gov. Nickel
din in 1851, was an assistant
United States Attorney from 1892
to 1884.