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Evening star., 1953-05-16

conferees will be chosen from
the members of the House and
Senate Civil Service Committees.
In attaching the repeal pro-
vision as a rider, the Senate COM
mittee avoided the time-con-
Stunning features of hearings on
the legislation and the possibil-
ity that such measure might
get lost in the welter of bills now
awaiting action in Congress.
Conference reports on bills ap-
proved by the House and Senate
have preference in Congress and
thus are sure of action.
The Senate committees bill
would repeal the Thomas rider
in its entirety. The Thomas
rider prevents further accumula-
ton of annual leave by employees.
1t requires employees to use their
1852 annual leave by June 30 and
their 1858 leave by June 30. 1854.
Repeal of the rider would
mean that employees could save
as much of their leave as they
wanted to, subject only to the
60-day maximum leave accumu-
lation limit go days in a few
cases)
The Senate group yesterday
did discuss at length the posi-
bility of reducing the leave ac-
emulation maximum to 80 days,
but this was rejected. Chairman
Carlson pointed out that the ad-
ministration has asked for full
repeal of the leave rider.
The House Civil Service Com
mittee has just completed hear
ings on legislation to repeal the
Thomas leave rider and will
meet on Thursday in executive
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is the crux of the college Of our
time, because 1t is not enough
that we can produce doctors who
may prolong our lives, unless at
the same time we produce social
leaders who will tell us how we
will handle the great population
we now have"
The President spoke at a con-
vocation for the installation of
Alvin Duke Chandler as 22d
president of William and Mary,
and he received an honorary
degree of doctor of laws from
the college.
In presenting the degree to
Gen. Eisenhower, who was hon
ored along with Virginia's Gov
ernor Battle. President Chandler
read the citation which hailed
the President as soldier, states
man, college president, author,
artist and sportsman"
At the mention Of Sportsman
there we're chuckles of apprecia-
ton in the crowd of 1000 at the
plain reference to Gen. Eisen-
hoWer's love for golf.
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A Beautiful Sight, Ace Says
After Seeing 9TH MIG Burn

going down and I watched as it
crashed. Evidently I must have
gotten the pilot with the second
burst"
Maj. Bolt, who is on loan to
the Air Force from the Marines,
scored his first kill today after
getting some tips from Capt.
Mcconnell.
II had to fire out my guns to
get my MIG" he said. "On my
first burst I hit him in the fuel
tank and the MIG split at the
seams. I fired about another
thousand rounds and still
couldn't knock him down. Then
I fired my last burst and the
pilot elected. BY that time I
was within 100 feet of him and
pieces of his plane were hitting
my Sabre"
Fifteen a Good Number.
Maj. Jabara said: Maybe
this will break the ice and I'll
start knocking 'em down. Fifteen
would be a good number to go
home with"
The short, stocky pilot said he
was running short of fuel this
afternoon when he sighted four
MICS on his second flight of
the day. He maneuvered into
position and began shooting at
the second MIG when they made
a turn.
"His two friends began shoot
ing. but they were at a very bad
angle and I was not worried" "
he said. Fire and smoke was
pouring out of his tail section
and then his whole tail came off.
The MIG spiraled downward and
it was burning like hell-a beau
tiful sight"
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Virtually Empty Senate
Hears Morse Report
BY the Associated pyeSs

Senator Morse of Oregon gave
MS usual weekly committee re-
port of the Independent Party
yesterday and, as usual, the Sem
ate chamber was virtually de-
serted.
Not oblivious to the void
around him but undaunted.
Senator Morse said he was max
ing some progress in his fight
to regain the places he used to
have on the Senate Armed
Services and Labor Committees.
Il am battling before a lot
OF empty desks but before a lot
of the American people, he
said.
The Senate's lone independent
since he broke with the Repub-
l1can Party in last falls presi-
Dental campaign. Senator Morse
was dropped from the two major
committees on which he served
at the start of the present Con-
gress.
Since then he has taken to
doing his committee work, as
he calls it. on the Senate floor.
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Spencer is LEAVING
Utilities Commission
For Dallas Firm Post

The District Public Utilities
Commission today had another
casualty. with the resignation
of Chairman Kenneth w.
Spencer.
Mr.. Spencer's resignation was
submitted to President Eisen-
hover yesterday. on the heels of
the Senate confirmation of
Robert E. Mclaughlin, as sue
cessor to former Commission
member James H. Flanagan. Mr..
Flanagan resigned last February
to become a vice president of
the Capital Transit Co.
Mr.. Spencer is heading for
private industry, too-Zinder As
sociates, which has Offices here
and in Dallas, Tex. The firm
serves as utility consultants and
deals largely with advising ma
tural gas companies and other
utilities.
Two years ago, another i'm
portant official of the local COM
mission resigned for job with
the same company. He was V.
A. McElfresh, former executive
accountant and auditor. Mr..
McElfresh is now manager of
the Dallas Office of Finder.
In asking to be relieved of his
duties effective May 81, Mr..
Spencer pointed out he has
served 10 years in the District
Government. This service in
cludeS terms not only as a Com
missioner and valuation analyst
of the Public Utilities Commits
sion, but membership on the
Board of Real Estate Assessors.
1T is with sincere regret" he
said, that I take this action. e"
But. Mr.. Spencer added, he has
received an offer in the private
practice of his profession-en-
gineering-that Il do not feel
I can afford to decline"
His new job will bring him
$4,000 annually. as opposed to
the $11,800 salary he draws as
chairman of the commission.
Ultimately, Mr.. Spencer said, he
stands to get an interest in
Finder Associates. Mr.. Spencer's
predecessor as chairman got a
salary increase from $11,S00 to
$4,000 when he left the COM
mission for Capital Transit.
Mr.. Spencer's three. year term
was due to expire on June 80.
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Senators in Both Parties
Pay Tribute 10 Wagner
BY The Associoted Press

Republicans and Democrats
joined in the Senate yesterday
in tributes to the late former
Senator Robert F. Wagner of
New York.
"An inspiration to every Amer
lean true humanitarian
tolerant, loyal, friendly
a religious man."
In those terms Senators who
knew him we'll praised the men,
ory of the immigrant boy who
rose from poverty to become a
leader among Senate Democrats
"The life of Robert F. Wagner
should be an inspiration to every
American" said Senator Ives,
Republican of New York, who
entered the Senate as a fresh
man when Senator Wagner was
the senior Senator from New
York.
Senator Ives said Mr.. Wagner
left "a record of legislative
achievement without parallel in
the history of this country. He
was a true humanitarian"
Evening star., 1953-05-16
BY the Associated Press

SEOUL, May 16. - Each of
Americas three leading jet aces
now flying in Korea bagged
MIG in today's great allied air
victory which saw at least IL
Communist planes destroyed and
six damaged in aerial duels high
over North Korea.
Capt. Manuel Fernandez of
Miami. Fla, shot down his 14th
. MIG to regain his position as
the worlds No. l jet ace. Only
a few hours earlier Capt. Joseph
Mcconnell of Apple Valley. Calf,
bagged his 18th MIG to pull even
with Capt. Fernandez.
Maj. James Jabara, of Wichita,
Kans., the first American ace Of
the Korean war, got his seventh
MIG, his first since returning to
Korea for a second tour of duty.
He said that as the MIG
spiraled to earth ut was burn
ing like hell-a beautiful sight"
Equals Davis Record.
Capt. Fernandez victory gives
him total plane record equal
ing the Korean mark of Mai.
George A. Davis, jr., of Lubbock,
Tex. Major Davis, who was shot
down February 10, 1852. and is
listed as missing in action, de-
stroyed II MICS and three pro-
peller- driven Communist planes.
These pilots also. were credited
with kills today:
Maj. James E. Hagerstrom,
Tyler, Tex: 1t. Bruno Giordano
of the Bronx, N. Y; Marine Maj.
John F. Bolt. Sanford. Fla; 1t.
Walter w. Spellman of Camas.
Wash; 1t. Forrest Dupree Of De-
catur. Ga: CapL. Peter J. Fred
ericks of Babylon. NY; 1t. Mer-
ton E. Kicker of Burlington. VT,
and 1t. Philip A. Redpath of
Minneapolis, MINI.
Capt. Mcconnell described his
18th kill as "the quickest I've
ever made"
IT spotted two MICS at 7
o'clock position and racked my
plane around to bounce them"
he said. Il approached the
trailing MIG and started to move
in when 1 saw two more MICS
coming in on my tail. hur-
riedly threw a burst at the first
MIG. fired again and this time
/ saw the MIG go into what I
thought was evasive action as
he began spiraling down.
Crashes as He Watches.
Rather than waste fuel chas-
ing him down l started to go
down after another MIG. Then
l noticed the first MIG was still
Evening star., 1953-05-16
A. B. & W. Increase
Would Mean More
Car Pools, ice Told

A Springfield (Va.) resident
yesterday testified before the In
sterstate Commerce Commission
that the fare increase requested
by the Alexandria, Bancroft &
Washington Transit Co. would
encourage his neighbors to use
more car pools. 49,.
The ICC. concluded a two
nd-a-half day hearing at " hich
the bus company asked for elm
ination of token fares and a
general increase of five cents a
zone. The proposal would affect
only the bus routes between the
District and Virginia. Fares for
intrastate operations of the line
have already been ordered raised
by the Virginia State Corpora
tion Commission, effective on
June l.
Navy 1t. Comdr. Joseph E.
RauSch, vice president of the
Springfield Civic Association.
who lives at 6029 Amherst ave-
nue., told the commission A. B.
& w. service to washington is
not fast enough.
What you want then is ex-
press service at bargain rates. :"
S. Harrison Kahn, A. B. & w.
attorney, said.
Comdr. RauSch said travel from
Springfield to Washington takes
close to an hour. Few use the
buses. which began operating in
that area in March, he said. but
higher fares would tend even
more to encourage the use of car
pools.
At yesterdays session, ICC Ex-
aminer r. Edwin Brady more
than once asked Mr.. Kahn and
Gerald j. Glassman, executive
assistant of the Arlington Public
Utilities Commission, to stop
quarreling.
MIR. Glassman, who was being
cross-examined by Mr.. Kahn,
had asked the fare request be
refused, declaring that higher
cost rides decrease passenger
volume and increase traffic con-
getsion in Arlington County.
Evening star., 1953-05-16
Initiative Lost in 81
ByU. n. Truce Team,
Admiral Joy Says
By the Assoeiated Press

WINSTON SALEM, N. c.. May
16.-Vice Admiral c. Turner Joy
expressed belief last night that
United Nations truce negotiatorS
in Korea lost the initiative,
never to regain it," when they
made a concession on the demar-'
cation line in November, 1851.
Admiral Joy, who was senior
y. N. delegate at the truce talks
from July 10, 1851, to May %,
1852. said in an armed forces
week speech, however. that re-
cent Red maneuverings may
indicate the Communists are be-
ginning to realize they can not
have things their own way"
consequently" he added, "if
they can find a way to save face
on the difficult prisoner of war
problem (and that is a pretty
big if we may see an end to
the fighting in Korea"
emphasizes ROVER.
Admiral Joy, now superintend-
ent of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. said his dealings with
the Communists had convinced
him that there is no substitute
for power"
THE only arguments they
understand" he said, ARE our
Army, Navy and Air Force"
Reviewing the armistice talks
in which he took part, Admiral
Joy recalled that in October,
1851, the Reds were insisting
that the then existing battle line
be fixed as the final demarcation
line between both sides.
Their strategy was obvious"
he said. If the line were fixed
once and for all, there would be
no reason for the 9th Army to
push them further north because
we would have to give them back
the territory We had gained
when and if an armiStice was
signed.
Battle Line Agreed To.
However, orders came through
to agree to the then existing
battle line as a provisional de-
marcation line with a 30-day
time limit. This was done in a
plenary session on November 81.
Presumably the decision had
been made on the basis that it
would serve as an incentive for
the Communists to show good
faith by speeding up agreement
on honorable terms.
Instead of showing good faith
they dragged their feet at every
opportunity and used the 80 days
of grace to dig in and stabilize
their battle line"
Evening star., 1953-05-16
Eisenhower Works
On Report 10 Nation
After ". & N. Talk
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Correspondent

NORFOLK, Va. May, 10
President Eisenhower cruised
today IN the Hampton Roads area
aboard the yacht Williamsburg
as he continued to work on his
radio report to the Nation Tues
day night, when he will talk
taxes, spending and national Sc
curity.
The speech, first of the sort
Gen. Eisenhower has scheduled
since coming into the presi-
dency, will be carried on all net
works between 1920 and II
o'clock. He will follow it up a
few days later with a television
talk summing up the first four
months of his administration.
The President already has put
in quite a bit of work on the
radio speech, according to Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty. 1t
is expected to take final shape
when he is joined at the Norfolk
Naval Base this afternoon by two
of his major speech aides-Ga-
briel Hauge, administrative as
sistant who specializes in eco
nomicS, and G. D. Jackson, Spe-
cial assistant on psychological
warfare.
To Return Monday.
The Norfolk stop is the only
one planned while Gen. Eisen-
hover travels in the Virginia
tideWater, according to Mr.. Hag-
erty. He leaves Norfolk this
evening for Annapolis, where he
spends tomorrow with the Mid
shipmen. He will return to
Washington Monday morning.
Despite the clamor for tax re-
duction that has come principally
from the ranks of his own party.
the President has held out little
hope for relief while the defense
build-up is at such high level.
Some observers thought they
saw hint of the tack he will
take his fiscal discussion Tuesday
night when he spoke briefly yes
terday afternoon at the College
of William and Mary in Will
liamsburg. Va, and seemingly
took an oblique crack at those
who complain of taxes, as he
emphasized the need for educa-
tional institutions to train the
young of the Nation for leader
ship, and instill in their mind the
realization that sacrifice is re-
quired when the national welfare
demands.
Defines college"
Explaining that of the many
definitions of college" the one
he prefers is that "a college or
university is a place where young
minds are exposed to great
minds" Gen. Eisenhower, who
was president of Columbia Uni.
versity continued:
THE reason I like that defni-
ton is this: If we accept its
validity in any small portion,
every man, every woman. who
takes a position in the faculty
+. has not merely job, and
he cannot console himself that
he is merely doing his work and
earning a daily living. He must
achieve, or attempt to achieve
greatness in his dealings with our
young. And this, it seems to me,
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The Weather Here and Oyer the Nation

District and vicinity-Rain to-
night with lowest about Sc. To-
morrow, mostly cloudy, warm and
humid, with showers and scat
tered thunderstormS.
Maryland-MoStly cloudy, high
"a to 80 today, with occasional
rain by night. Occasional rain
tonight, low in Cos. Tomorrow,
considerable cloudiness, warm
and humid, with showers and
scattered thunderstorms.
Evening star., 1953-05-16
Theft of Questions
Calls Off Tests
For Police Posts
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, May 16.-
They had to call off the civil
service examinations yesterday
for the posts of sergeant and
lieutenant of police.
Somebody stole the test ques-
tionS.
City Personnel Director Frank
j. Escobedo said clerk in the
county commissioners Office,
George r. Williams, 40. was ar
rested and charged with selling
answers to the examination
questions.
About 600 patrolmen and SER
geants were to have taken the
tests.
Evening star., 1953-05-16

Virginia-Mostly cloudy, high
76 to 80 today, with occasional
rain by night. Occasional rain
tonight, low in COS. Tomorrow,
considerable cloudiness, warm
and humid, with showers and
scattered thunderstorms.
Wind-Northeast, about 10
miles per hour.
River Report.
(From T. S EngineerS)
Potomac River muddy at HarperS Ferry
and at Great Falls: Shenandoah muddy
at HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1953-05-16
KuykenduII to Head
Power Commission
By the Associated Press

President Eisenhower has des-
ignated jerome K. Kuykendall
of Olympia, Wash. to be chair
man of the Federal Power Com
mission
The White House announced
the Presidents action yesterday
Just as Mr.. Kuykendall was be-
ing sworn in by Justice Harold
Burton as member of the COM
mission. He is a former chair
man of the Washington State
Public Service Commission.
Evening star., 1953-05-16
Jomuicu Bans MAGAZINE

KINGSTON. May 16. R.-The
Jamaican government has ban
ned entrance of the Caribbean
news magazine, published in Lon
don by Billy Strachan. said to
be a Communist sympathizer.
Evening star., 1953-05-16
Congress in Brief
Senate:

In reces until Monday.
Appropriations Committee
holds closed session to consider
appropriations bill for State,
Justice and Commerce Depart
ments.
House:
Adjourned until Monday.
No major committee meetings
scheduled.
Evening star., 1953-05-16

C11CCs
The Senate
must first pass
t h e measure
approved yes
terday by the
Senate Civil
Service Com
mittee, u t
t h is is re-
garded as a
certainty.
After Senate
passage, the
measure then
goes to confer
ence, The
Evening star., 1953-05-16
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight .~e.~~2
Way Cleared for Quick Action
BY Congress on Leave Rider
BY Joseph Young

The Senate Civil Service Committees action voting
OF the Thomas annual leave rider opened
the way for speedy action by Congress.
BY including the repeal provision
approved bill to bar leave benefits political
Evening star., 1953-05-16

U11ICIdIS, IIle oelldCe group yes
terday took a decided shortcut
which will send the legislation
quickly to House Senate confer
Evening star., 1953-05-16

Rain forecast for Middle Atlantic States the Ohio
Valley and the Central Plains Area Scattered showers and
thundersormS expected in the Lower Mississippi Valley
the Central Southern Plains the Rocky Mountains
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1953-05-16

Record Temperatures This Year.
HieheSt. al. on May IL.
Lowest. -, on March 2.
High and Low Of Last - Hours.
High, 81, at LOS pm.
Iour
Evening star., 1953-09-23

A correspondent wants to know If
there is anything that can be done
about the planes that go by over his
house every 80 seconds he says.
There is nothing that can be done
about it, friend.
1t is just another of the things we
moderns are in the grip of; in ancient
days. they had the Inquisition,y and
the like
We are in the grip of the inventive
human mind, above all.
Once thing has been invented, it
must be kept on, and will be kept on.
no matter if the heavens fall, as, in
deed, they may, before we are through.
The airplane, once started on its VIC
toriouS way, now must thunder in the
skies no matter how many poor souls
below cry for peace.
Peace, peace, and there is no peace"
especially if one lives comparatively
close to an air base or field.
Comparatively close. with this sort
of thing, means up to 10 to 20 miles.
It seems that planes are always either
coming in. and so lower, or going out,
and so higher.
They are so high there, away above
the grounding, no imprecations do
good.
During the war. the great Finnish
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Welcome Reinsurance

Chairman Philip Young of the Civil Service
commission has given muchneeded reassur-
ance to Federal workers who have been overly
alarmed by exaggerated reports of the admin
1Strat1on's observation-disclosures plans. What he
told the Society for Personnel Administration
last night had been said before informally by
himself and other csc officials, but the feeling
of insecurity among thousands of regular as
we'll as temporary Government employees had
persisted. Now the csc head has advised
personnel chiefs off1cially-and positively-that
the peak of f1rings is past, and that nearly all
future reductions in personnel strength will be
accomplished by the painless attrition method.
This fortnight statement by the Presidents
chief adviser on personnel problems should
quiet the fears Of jittery employees and restore
the Federal establishment to more normal
operating basis
Chairman Young and other CSC members
already had pointed to decline in flrings since
July as indicating that "the worst is over"
They had at the same time, launched an in
tenSve Unemployment program designed to
give displaced career workers first chance at
vacancies developing in the various depart
ments and agencies. Mr.. Young told the per-
sonnel supervisors that this program is pro-
ceeding well-and that all of them should
cooperate Fundamentally in carrying it for
trenchment-an economy move to which the
Eisenhower regime is pledged-will be effected
ito very large extent" by simply not filling
vacancies occurring through normal turnover"
He estimated that this attrition process would
produce a stabilized Federal establishment
before the end of the next fiscal year.
This sterilization will not bring the total
number of Government employees down to the
level which prevailed before Korea. The pre-
Korean war civil service strength was 100000.
Even with recent reductions the present
strength is about 2,40O000. Approximately 10
per cent of these workers are in the Washington
area Mr.. Young did not undertake to estimate
the final leveling-off figure. That would be
hazardous thing for any one to attempt But
by bringing the existing situation into proper
focus, his speech should serve to quiet un-
justified fears among the competent workers
in the Federal Government.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
This and That

composer. Jan Sibelius. shot at one with
a rifle
It was futile gesture, but it relieved
his mind.
look at an airplane something as
the ancients must have looked at the
gods.
Away up there, beyond the attack of
gnats and mosquitoes but always
threatening those left behind.
If the thing should drop
And the noise.
Why should it make so much racket?
Surely, the inventive minds that
made it. in the first place. might have
done better with it. in respect to noise.
if they had desired.
The point is, why didn't they SO
desire?
Mans inventions always run the
same course.
They are ugly, at first, and usually
noisy, but they work.
Soon the bugs" are ironed out, and
the thing becomes more efficient, and
more beautiful, but almost always stays
as noisy as ever. Why is this?
Templeton Jones bought a new
house, with two new things in it, for
him; an oil burner, and an electric re-
frigerator. (This was in the long ago.
He knew after one days use that
both had kinks in 'em; the refrigerator