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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
Living Cost Rise in January
Puts Prices Near ALL Time Hiqh
But Million Workers Will Get Pay Cut
Under Quarterly Adjustment System

workers will be cut SIS for the
next quarter as a result of the
new price adjustment.
The / million workers affected
by today's price survey received
a 2-cent-an-hour wage increase
two months ago. The forth
coming cut will be the first cut
they have received since last
April. when their hourly pay
also was dropped 1 cent.
Evan Clague. commissioner of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
said that mainly responsible for
the general price rise in January
were higher costs for food tup
seven-tenths Of / per cent during
the month"; and transportation
Cup IL per cent?.
The category of medical and
personal care each advanced a
tenth Of ! per cent. Prices of
clothing, reading and recreation,
and house furnishings declined
fractionally in January. Rents
were UP again slightly.
The bureau price index for
January was 1852 per cent Of
the l947-49 average. the base
period used in computing cost
fluctuations. This was IL per
cent higher than a year ago and
(See LIVING COSTS, Page ABB
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
Senate 6. 0. P.
Acts 10 Modify
.Probers' Rules
Policy Group Orders
Study by Ferguson
After cCorthy Row
By The Associated Press

The Senate Republican Policy
Committee today ordered a study
looking to possible changes in
the rules under which investiga-
tons, such as those made by
Senator Mccarthy, Republican,
OF Wisconsin are conducted.
Chairman Ferguson announced
that he had been instructed by
unanimous vote Of the policy
group. to make a study of the
rules and of policies with respect
to Investigations for general
guidance on committee or SUBJ
committee procedure"
Linked to Army Row.
Although Senator Ferguson
declined to say so publicly, it was
obvious the move was precipi-
tated by the uproar caused by
charges of Secretary Of the Army
Stevens that an Army officer had
been abused" as a witness be-
fore Senator McCarthy's COM
mittee investigating Communists
in Government.
Asked if the issue of alleged
abuse of witnesses was involved,
Senator Ferguson replied:
IF there has been any such
abuse I assume that we will look
into 1t and all other matters"
Senator Ferguson said he has
asked the Policy Committee staff
to compile a list of rules as they
now exist. Investigation COM
mittees generally have made their
own rules and they are not al
ways parallel.
Will Summon Chairmen.
Sens tor Ferguson said he will
call all Senate committee chair
men together later to discuss
proposed changes in the rules
governing the calling of witness
ses their testimony rights and
the makeup of the investigating
committees themselves.
1t will have to be determined
later Senator Ferguson said,
whether the full Senate will be
asked to adopt a code for inves-
legations or whether committees
will act on such a code sepa-
rately
Senator Ferguson said the
move originated in the Senate
and was not suggested by the
White House or by Vice Pres
ident Nixon. who has been acting
as a mediator in the row between
Senator Mccarthy and Secre-
tary Stevens.
Announcing that the policy
committee was unanimous in its
decision to undertake the sur
vey, Senator Ferguson said those
present at the closed meeting
were himself and Senators
Knowland. the G. o. P. floor
leader. Millikin, chairman of the
conference of all Republican
Senators; Hendrickson, of New
Jersey. Saltonstall of Massachu-
sets Schoeppel of Kansas. Mar
CARER Chase Smith of Maine, and
Young of North Dakota.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
Time Has Briton
On Its Hands for
5 Hectic Minutes
~ the Associotsd Press

MANCHESTER, England, Feb.
26.-Time had Harold Wood on
its hands yesterday - for five
hectic minutes.
Then nearby worknnen ran
over with a ladder and plucked
him from the face OF the st.
Mary's Hospital clock so feet
above the street.
Mr.. Wood. 20. was repairing
the clock when a gust of wind
blew down his wooden scaffold.
He grabbed the three-foot min
ute hand. hung on and yelled for
help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
U.S.. Emp|oye Union!
Hit 'Inadequacy' Of.
Pay Raise Proposal
Administrations Plan
FuIIs Short of Needs,
ALL Council Declares
Bv JoseDh Youno
By Joseph Young

Government employe leaders
today voiced sharp criticism of
the administrations pay raise
proposal in testimony before the
Senate Civil Service Committee.
The employe leaders declared
The Administrators pay-reclassi-
fication plan, which would pro-
vide an average 312 per cent
pay raise tails far short of meet
ing the needs Of Federal workers.
Thomas G. Walters. operations,
director of the AFL Government
Employees Council, which repre-
sents more than 100000 CLASH
fled and postal workers. told the
committee most Federal CLASH
fed employees would get less than
5000 a year. or 81 week. from
the administrations proposal.
1.-THE only stable amounts
would go to the officials in the
very top grades" Mr.. Walters
said.
"Seveuty-five per cent of the
Governments classified employees
would get pay increase of $3.50
week or less Mr.. Walters de-
clared. Fourteen per cent
those in Grades l and 2-would
get absolutely nothing"
"As a matter of fact, IS per
cent of the Governments CLASH
fed employees would get less than
a $5-a-week raise" Mr.. Walters
declared.
About 10 per cent of classified
employes-those in Grades 10
through 13-would get about an
$8-a-week increase. The other
S per cent in Grades IA through
II. would get increases ranging
from $500 to $500 a year, which
would mean a weekly pay raise
Of from Sill to SIG. However,
employees in a few of the inter-
mediate steps of these grades
would get a raise of between
5000 and $400 a year.
Mr.. Walters said Congress
should vote Government workers
a fat pay raise. citing the $500
pay raise stand taken by the
council and the affiliated en-
ploye organizations Another
alternative would be substantial
increases in the amounts pro-
posed by the administration
within the framework of its re-
classification plan, the committee
was told.
Mr.. Walters declared the aver
age Federal salary is now 22.8
per cent behind the rise in the
cost of living since 1899.
I'm order for Federal em4
ployes to maintain a decent
standard of living, they need at
(C0ntinued IN po0o 40 C0l SN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
Sac PouIo, Brazil,
-Four Centuries Old

40oth ANNIVERSARIES PouIo
is 400 years old this yeor. The Stor's
correspondent, Froneis Douglas. writes
on poee A-20. The Brozilion city is
booming. modern metropolis which
hordly shows her age.
lND0- CHlNA-The worlds No. I
wor now, ond certoinIy one Of his
torys stroneest, is described in the
second Of q series Of three articles BY
Associated Press experts. Pose Ala.
TEEN SCENE-For the Iotest thina
in whot to wear and whot to soy to
keep up with the teen osed crowd,
read expert Shoron Doren's regular
weekly column, Teen Scene. Poee b..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
House for Rent
House Rented!

When you want to rent your
house you notuFolly wont to find Q
desiroble tenant at q low cost os
quickly as possible. That means an
I'D in Stor Classified.
You will be pleased ot the speed
with which Stor Classified dds bring
results. Prospective home buyers shop
The Stor because they aIwoys find
more houses offered for sole there
thon in any other Washington news
paper.
Phone Sterling 5000 and ask for
. SteE ad-toksE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
St. Mays Grand Jury
lndicts Fulton Lewis
On Two Libel Counts
Rodio Commentator,
Ten Others Named in
Probe Of Violations
BY J. [. Michoei
By J. |. Miehoel
ssor Sioff Correspondent

LEONARDTowN. Nd, Feb.
26.--The st. Marys County grand
Jury today returned indictments
naming Radio Commentator Full
ton Lewis, jr.: Abe Weiner, a
county businessman, and his
cousin. Joseph c. Weiner, a
Leonardtown attorney.
The jury. after probing allega-
tons made by Mr.. Lewis, also
returned true bills charging seven
st. Marys County tavern keepers
with selling liquor to minors.
Mr.. Lewis was named in two
indictments. One charged that
he libelled the county's RepubIi-
can State Senator, Paul j. Bailey,
in a letter published in a weekly
newspaper last July %.
The other true bill against Mr..
Lewis alleges that he libelled st.
Marys County Trial Magistrate
j. Donelan Hurry, ST.. and Sub
stitute Trial Magistrate Wilson
knight.
Letter to McKeldin.
Judge Hurry and Judge Knight
were alleged to have been libeled
in a letter the radio commenta-
tor sent to Gov. McKeldin.
The two WeinerS and John
Orvllle Staples, described as a
Washington real estate man, are
accused in four indictments of
conspiring to violate State gam
bling laws. laws pertaining to
bawdy houses and with obstruct-
ing justice in st. Mary's County.
Joseph D. Weiner is counsel
and secretary to the County
Liquor Board. Abe Weiner is q
Lexington Park businessman and
slot machine distributor and
member Of the County School
Board.
Tavern Owners Cited.
Tavern keepers charged with
selling whisky to minors are
Joseph F. Rapczynski, operator
OF Triangle Tavern: Edward A.
Thomas and Charles p. Grabille,
operators of Greenland Gardens;
Frank Sinner. operator of the
Country Club: Charles w. Hold
en-, Tall Timbers Tavern; VIII
liam r. Byrum. proprietor of the
Red Barn, and Ruth v. Holden,
trading as White Fleet.
All of the tavern keepers
named operate in the Lexing-
ton Park-Ridge- Great Mills-Tall
Timbers areas.
The court also accepted a re-
port handed in by Foreman
Henry F. Burroughs which gave
these recommendations:
l. That the General Assembly
enact a law setting up an age
limit for slot machine players,
fixing penalties for violations.
2. More stringent enforcement
by Liquor Board inspectors and
more severe penalties by the
Liquor Board for enfringements
Of its regulations.
Year-Long Controversy.
Mr.. Lewis. in a controversy
which ragged In the county for
more than q year. charged in
broadcasts that county tavern
keepers had sold liquor to minors
in numerous instances. and that
children under is have been per-
mitted to play slot machines.
A total of ~ witnesses have
appeared before the jury to
testify about Mr.. Lewis allega-
lions.
The jury's report said that is
cases had been ignored for lack
of evidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
West German House
Approves Aiming
Ha|f-Mi||ion Soldiers
Constitutional Vote
+. Victory for Adenuuer
On Provost Policy

BONN. Feb. 26.-The West
German Bundestag Clover house,
today approved constitutional
changes authorizing the arming
of half a million German soldiers
to serve in the proposed Euro
pean army.
The smashing vote was 1884,
IA.
The decision represented an
important victory for pro-
Western Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer. who has based his
foreign policy on linking West
Germany militarily and politi-
cally to the West.
Both houses of the Bonn Par
lament have approved the army
treaty but Mr.. Adenauer's coali-
ton maintained the changes ap-
proved today were needed to
end Socialist contention in the
West German Supreme Court
that the treaty is unconsti-
tutional.
Upper House Backing Seen.
The two constitutional changes
charge the federal government
with responsibility for defense.
authorize compulsory military
service and declare specifically
that the European army treaty
and the allied West German
peace contract do not violate the
constitution.
They now go to the Bundesrat
upper house, where Mr.. AIDE
nauer's coalition has the neces-
Sary two-thirds majority to ap-
prove them. Then they must be
ratified by the three Western oc-
cupation powers-the United
States. Britain and France-who
already have given tacit approval
to the amendments.
BY changing the constitution
Mr.. Adenauer intends to force
the Supreme Court to throw out
the Socialist suit challenging the
constitutionality of rearmament.
The Bundestag'S vote came
after a stern warning by Mr..
Adenauer that the Berlin con-
ference showed free Europe must
pool its military resources to
stave of the threat of massive
Soviet military power entrenched
in the heart Of the continent.
Besides Germany, only Hol-
land has completed ratification
Of EDO. It still is pending in
Belgium. Italy. France and Lux
embourg.
Defense Called Duty.
Today members Of the Chan
cellor's four coalition parties
stressed in debate on the con-
Stitutional changes that sit is
the duty Of the Germans to help
defend the free world"
The opposition Socialists
argued that German Indignation
with free Europe will only deep
en- the split between East and
West and wreck any possibility
OF uniting this divided country.
The West German parliament
approved the European Army
treaty and the Western peace
contract last May. But the So
cialists blocked final ratification
by filing suit in the supreme
court challenging the legality OF
rearmament. With this suit
pending. President Theodol
Heuss declined to sign the twin
treaties--the final act Of rati-
f1cation.
MIR. Adenauer, anxious to push
on with the army project. then
decided to rush the two constitu-
tional changes through Parlia-
ment before the court ruled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
By Cecil HolIond

The Mccarthy Stevens con-
troversy was right back where
it started today. with admins
tration peacemaking efforts
Spurned by Senator Mccarthy.
There was one major differ
ence however: President Eisen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
Lute News
Bulletin
County Daylight Time Set

The Prince Georges County
commissioners today followed
the District Commissioners ON
daylight saving time. The
county board voted to move
clocks ahead an hour at 2 am.
April Is. and turn them back
at 2 am. September rs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

bGAt " StSNSWS OtOtGWGUts bOSG ~
~~--~~-~-----
however now seemed to have
been drawn into the fight.
The administration and Army
Secretary Stevens apparently
still hoped to ride out the storm
without a further clash with
Senator Mccarthy. No word
came from any spokesman for
the executive branch after the
Wisconsin Senator last night
brushed aside, as completely
false" Mr.. Stevens reinterpreta-
ton of their Wednesday under
standing"
Classification Sought.
But pressure mounted for some
further Qualification of the adj
ministration view. and 1t seemed
increasingly doubtful that the
issue could be dropped in its
present form.
Secretary Stevens. in a state
ment issued from the White
House, with the Presidents per-
sonal approval, had declared
that he had never receded from
his principles in agreeing to the
memorandum of understand
ing" with the Wisconsin Repub-
lican.
The Secretary commended that
he had received assurances from
members of Senator McCarthy's
Senate Investigations Subcom-
mittee that Army officers would
not be "browbeaten or humil-
lated"
Mccarthy Fires Back.
The Stevens statement was is
sued at the end of tense
day of backstage maneuvering
and secret conferences which
finally brought in Gen. Eisen-
hover personally.
But the statement fell far
short of pouring oil on the trou-
bled waters that swelled up
within the Republican ranks
over the brawling controversy.
Senator Mccarthy told report 1
ers that at the luncheon meeting
Wednesday at the Capitol at
tended by Mr.. Stevens and Re-
publican members of the sub
committee absolutely no con-
cession was made that any wit
ness was abused"
To promise that witnesses
would not be abused in the flu
ture, Senator Mccarthy added,
would be admitting in effect
that they had been abused in the
past
Backed by Eisenhower.
James c. Hagerty, White House
press secretary. said Gen. Eisen-
hover had approved and in
dorsed 400 per cent" the state
ment in which Mr. Stevens spoke
Of the assurances" he had re-
ceived from members of the
subcommittee.
The White House had no more
to say on the controversy today.
Mr.. Hagerty refused any COM
ment on what Senator Mccarthy
said about Mr.. Stevens state
ment.
Mr.. Hagerty told reporters the
White House had received "a lot
Of kilograms" concerning the
controversy. but he refused to
say anything about their con-
tents. Asked why he would not
give them out, he replied. 1--WE
are not running q popularity
contest"
A reporter asked If Gen. Eisen-
hover was aware Of the gen.
orally adverse reaction" to the
Stevens statement of last night.
Won't Reply to Queries.
"I'm not even going to answer
that" Mr.. Hagerty said. Asked
why not. he said. I'm not going
to answer questions that are edi-
torial and are your opinion"
The reporter said he was re-
ferring to stories in newspapers
reporting editorial comment
from all over the country. Then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

Financial Background Of the Tronsit
Surplus Move. Poqe A-3
Conferences Set to Discuss Hondlins Of
Mass transportation. Poqe Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26
Injunction Sought to Prevent
Transit From Recalling Bonds
And Declaring New Dividend
Utilities Board to
Conduct Its Own
Probe Of Company

The District Public Utilities
Commission announced today
after a four-hour meeting that
1t will seek court injunction
to block the latest financial
maneuvers of the Capital Tran
sit Co.
Commission Chairman Robert
E. Mclaughlin said there will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

Text Of Stevens Settlement. Pose AT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

(See TRANSIT. Page A-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

An Assoeioted Press Newspoper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

Continued on Page Az. Col. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

Temperature Today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

tsee LIVING COSTS. Page A-so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-26

tSee MCCARTHY. Page AS.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

ITO get a better idea Of what
IL a fireman'S life is like,
Yvonne FredrickS of Miami
recently enrolled as special
student in the Miami Fire Col
lege. During her short course,
she not only attended classes
on fire fighting technique, but
was put through a strenuous
workout of practical lessons,
including jumping into a net
and rope-walking down the
side of a 65-foot building.
The Fire College gives mu-
nicipal firemen a six-week
course in every phase of
fireman'S life, from sliding
down the traditional pole to
study of chemistry, fire ex-
tinguiShing and rescue prac-
tices. Miss Fredricks doesn't
plan to become a professional
fireman, but she was willing
to accept the offer to practice
the techniques which some
day-who knows?-may come
in handy.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Art

An exhibition of Indonesian
art is at Fantasy Gallery, 1865
Connecticut avenue, through
next Thursday. 1t comprises
loans of paintings and textiles
from the Indonesian Embassy,
and wood sculptures from Bali,
shown here for the first time.
There are small figures and
busts, some naturalistic. others
drastically elongated, but all
distinguished by the quality
of their workmanship. the
beauty of the exotic hard
woods and their fine finish.
They were selected in Bali by
Ruth Bamford, long a resi-
dent. there
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Hester Lilly, and II Short Stories
BY Elizabeth Taylor. (Knopt;: S3.)

"Spry Old Character" an old
horseplayer who finds himself
in the antiseptic confines of a
home for the blind. Suffused
with Miss Taylor's cool SYM
pathy, the story moves briskly
through Harry's unrecon-
structed attempts to seek his
own kind.
A Reel Voice
The least typical story,
"Swan-Moving," is the love-
liest. Here Miss Taylor
achieves a kind of lyric quail
ity in a little story that is as
opposite as a fable and as
tight as a poem. She relates
the transforming effect the
arrival of a swan out of a fog
has on a grubby little English
village. The breath of beau
ty touches them all. Miss
Taylor has told it airily, wit
tily and without a wasted
word.
And it proves that Miss
Taylor can be story-teller as
well as stylist. If she goes
forward in that direction, in
stead of cropping through the
psyches of wispy women, she
will become a real voice in
English fiction, not just a
haunting echo. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Books in Review
Mr.. Dos Pussos Takes Backward
Look at Murxism on Purnussus
Most Likely to Succeed
BY John Dos Passos. (Prentce-Hau; $500
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Most Likely to Succeed

Mr.. Dos Passos' new novel
recounts Communist infiltra-
ton of the movies and the lit
tie theater in the late '20s and
the '3Os.
The story no doubt is an in
fusion of material which the
author gathered first-hand
when he was interested in the
theater and going through a
phase many writer's expert
enced at the time, when Marx
ism seemed the answer to all
the problems of the day. Now
disillusioned, Mr.. Dos Passos
can look back on the period
with satirical realism.
The purpose of the novel
was admirable and there is no
reason to feel it is not based
on fact. 1t is painful, then,
for an admirer of Mr.. Dos
Passos to have to report that
Most Likely to Succeed" for
all it's authentic background. is
a pretty weak number, far be-
low the level of his best work.
An Overworked Theme
One reason for the failure
Of this novel is probably that
the theme has been so thor
oughly explored and has be-
come. in essence, old stuff.
Perhaps there still is room for
a novel about the Red drive
to capture Hollywood, but this
is not it. There certainly was
such a campaign, though it
had little effect on the pic
lures. Apparently the Commu-
mist command failed in its pur-
pose, to influence this enor-
nous channel of public en-
tertainment and enlighten-
ment, because most of the pro-
ducers refused to go along or
were afraid to. On the other
hand, the story of the attempt
is interesting. Left-Wing writ
ers who followed the party line.
if they did not formally enroll,
were, if not numerous, inf1uen-
tial. A number did not care to
remember their affiliations and
sympathies when they were
called before a congressional
committee.
Mr.. Dos Passos has written
before of the '30s, some of
these books at a period when
he still believed the radical
cant. The new book reads
like a warming over of reas-
sessed material he is weary of.
In THE Grand Design" he hit
the bell. This realistic study
Of the New Deal probably was
his best novel since "Manhat-
tan Transfer" 1t was attacked
savagely by all liberal review
ers because it did not paint
the Roosevelt administrations
without a blemish.
Most Likely to Succeed"
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Americas Spiritual Recovery
BY DR.. Edward L. R. Eson (Fleming H. Reueu Co.. s250
Reviewed by Cospor Nonnes

The spiritual foundations Of
our country are evident to any
one who has the slightest &C
quaintance with it's growth.
Those sturdy men and
women who braved the mighty
Atlantic in incredibly small
boats came to a new continent
so they could worship accord
ing to their consciences. They
brought with them a spiritual
ruggedneSS that provided the
basic sinews of our Nations
subsequent development, and
they built so well that no
superficial exterior foolishness
can hide the essential sound
ness present underneath.
Spiritual Heritage
when Americans act any
other way than as a religious
people. they are not truly
themselves" DR.. Elson remarks
in his stimulating study. This
is even true of those Amer
leans who do not profess re-
ligiouS convictions. Where
they are solid and firm, there
can be observed the spiritual
heritage handed down to
them-unwilling as they might
be to acknowledge that fact.
The most dramatic example
centers around President Eli
senhower's Inauguration day,
January 20. 1858. After citing
statistics and facts supporting
his contention that these years
are providing "the greatest re-
ligious awakening in the his
tory of our Nation" DR.. Elson,