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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
KremIin Begins Kozokh Purge.
Charging Premier BIundered
Second Largest
Soviet State Scene
Of House Cleaning

LONDON, Feb. 13.-The Krem-
lin turned its wrath today on the
vast mineral rich Soviet republic
of Kazakh, accusing its premier
Of laundering and vowing speedy
liquidation" of Communist err
rors in that central Asian state.
Moscow limited broadly it was
cleaning house in the Soviet IN
ions second largest republic. re-
portedly a source Of raw ma
terials for Russia's atomic pro-
gram.
A broadcast over the official
government radio at Alma Alta.
quoting the party newspaper
Notwithstanding Pravda. de-
nounced Premier Y. B. Taybekov
for shortcomings and mistakes:
It blasted also two recently
purged Kazakh deputies.
Drastic Measures Taken.
The paper said drastic meas
ureS were being taken to repair
a breakdown in the link be-
tween the tasks facing the re-
public and the leadership" The
broadcast blamed the republics
tagging agricultural and indus
trial production on "unsatiSfac-
tory leadership on the part of
the bureau of the central COM
mittee of the Kazakh Communist
Party. :"
Then it pointed an accusing
finger at Taybekov and the
ousted first and second secre-
taries of the Kazakh Commu-
mist Party, z. Shayakhemetov
and Afonov:
They also stem from a low
standard of organizational work
on the part of the bureau and
of Comrades Shayakhmetov and
Afonov, as well as of the chair
man of the KaZakh council of
ministers. Comrade Taybekov."
Farm Program Criticized.
Taybekov took office as premier
in January, 1852. Three months
later his agricultural program
got a going over from Moscow's
two top papers-Pravda and L.
vestia. They accused Kazakh
Party leaders of occupying their
time with routine chores while
neglecting long-range planning.
The republics tagging cotton
production was criticized.
First hint Kazakh stood In the
path Of an actual purge came
last Sunday when Premier Georgi
Malenkov sent two hard-bitten
Kremlin henchmen to Kazakh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Strikes and Labor Rows Drop
As Business Dip Continues
Only 70 WoIkouts Are Listed in Nation,
About One-Fifth as Many as in 1852

it started. About 10000 work.
ers at two big plants in South
ern California of the Douglas
Aircraft Co. refused to give strike
authorization to the Machinists.
In fact. workers at one plant
voted to accept contract terms
which were about the same as
North American had offered its
employees before the strike.
Major Strike Averted.
Some strike authorizations
were given. But there was no
other major strike in the in
dustry. The Defense Depart
ment refused to intervene at
North American and the work.
ers gradually drifted back to
their jobs. On December is,
after nearly eight weeks of
strike, the JAW settled with
North American on virtually the
same terms the company had
offered in the beginning.
An exception to the general
situation was the strike of about
10000 workers in December and
January at the American and
Continental Can Companies.
There the unions were credited
with victories.
A management group, the Ma
tlonal Foremen's Institute, re-
ported that the size of wage in
creases granted in union-man-
agement negotiations dropped in
the past year. The average for
this past January was IA cents
an hour, compared to 81 cents
in January last year. w.
There is another recent devel-
opment reported by mediation
officials. While the number of
strikes have dropped markedly,
the negotiations preceding a set
Element now are more prolonged
than in former years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Senators TO Hunt Reds
In NAT0' Plane Plants
BY the Associated Press

Senators Bridges, Republican,
OF New Hampshire. and Symin2-
ton, Democrat, of Missouri. are
flying to Europe soon on an in
spection trip aimed primarily at
checking reports of Communist
lnflltration of plants producing
the latest type of American
planes for NATO.
Senator Bridges said in an in
tervieW Yesterday that the Sem
ate Armed Services Committee
has received information that
Communist unions are operating
in the plants.
I'VE want to look into that
situation as we'll as into several
others on which we have re-
ceived reports" he said.
Most of the alleged Communist
activities have been reported in
plane building plants in Italy.
The Senators are expected to
concentrate their major atten-
ton there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Frederick Lewis Allen, 60,
Author and Editor, Dies
only Yesterday Made Writer Famous;
Headed Horper's and Atlantic Monthly

terday," 1949, which did for the
'30s what the earlier book did
for the '20s: THE Great Pier
pont Morgan" 1949. a biography;
and The Big Change" 1852. a
study of American life since 1900.
The last was a Book of the
Month Club selection.
With his wife. Agnes, Mr.. Al
len collaborated on three books
of pictures and texts: The
American Procession" 1888;
Metropolis 1884. and Il Re-
member Distinctly" 1947.
Native of Boston.
A native of Boston, Mr.. Allen
was the son of the late Rev.
Frederick Baylies Allen. who for
a long time was superintendent
of the Episcopal city mission in
that city.
He was graduated from the
Groton School and then, in 1912,
from Harvard.
He taught English at Harvard
Tor two years. for two years
more was assistant editor of the
Atlantic Monthly" and in 1916
became managing editor of 1.-THE
Century Magazine" for a year.
Mr.. Allen worked with the
Council of National Defense in
Washington until the spring of
1919, when he became secretary
TO the Harvard Corporation.
Joined Harpers in 1923.
He joined Harper's in 1928
became its associate editor in
1881 and editor n-chief in 194l.
Last October he became part
time consulting editor to devote
more time to writing. Mr.. Allen
also was a director of Harper &
Bros. the book publishing house
which produces the magazine.
He became an overseer of Har-
ward in 1912. Before that he had
served as a trustee of Bennington
College in Vermont. He was for
merly on the council of the
Authors Guild of the Authors
League of America and a director
OF the Foreign Policy Association
At his death he was a trustee of
the Ford Foundation.
Mrs. Allen and a son, Oliver.
survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

told him of the pigeons return
minus their wing and tail
feathers.
Yesterday the detective saw
two boys playing with six birds.
Nearby he spotted a pile of
feathers. Questioning of the
boys led to the other youths.
In all, Ct pigeons had been
stolen. Fourteen flew home,
flight feathers intact, four
walked home and police recov-
cred 40.
The others had been stolen
from George E. Allen, 1909 v
street Sc; James J. Burroughs,
1850 High street Sc. and
Michael Clark, 2705 Good Hope
road Sc.
The boys were held for juve-
nile court action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

thumbed through their files and
could find only 70 strikes involv-
ing about $4,000 workers, going
on over the country. These are
strikes to which Federal media
tors were assigned In an effort
to bring about settlements.
Last time at this year there
were three times as many strikes.
and in 1852 five times as many.
And the difference with regard to
numbers of striking members was
even more extreme.
Fear Is Factor.
Fear of loss of q job at a time
of rising unemployment and gen.
eral economic downturn was
given as the principal reason for
the relative peace on the indus
trial front.
Mediation Service field Off
GERS report that there has been
a marked decline in the use by
unions of the strike threat in
the effort to win their demands
in negotiations with employers.
A big reason given for this is
that in a number of important
instances union members have
refused to authorize strikes. And
where strikes have taken place.
the mediation officers say, it
has been much more difficult
than in past years for the unions
to win.
Aircraft Industry Affected.
The experience Of the aircraft
industry is an example of the
changed climate Of labor-man-
agement relations.
Most of the big labor contracts
in aircraft expired last fall and
in early winter. The two big
unions representing aircraft
workers-the CLIO United Auto
Workers and the AFL Machin-
ists-formed pact. They said
the industry had set up a solid
front to resist their new con-
tract demands, and they decided
to concentrate on one company,
North American, where the
JAW had bargaining rights.
North American refused to
give in. A strike of its $1,000
workers started in late October.
But the rug was pulled from
under that strike not long after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Mcleod Again Seek,
To Take Job Rights
From Security Aides
Wants Another FBI';
Two Earlier Requests
Rejected by CSC
By Joseph Young

r. w. Scott Mcleod, the State
Departments security chief. has
asked the Civil Service Commits
sion to remove civil service job
! protection rights from several
hundred employees in his security
division so as to help him create
another FBI," it was learned
last night.
! MIR. Mcleod. whose current po-
litlcal stumping tour has added
new controversy to his position,
asked that investigative agents
and security evaluators be placed
in excepted schedule A.
According to csc officials, Mr..
Mcleod argued that the FBI is
not under civil service and that
his security division should oper-
ate on the same basis. 1t should.
he said. be another FBI."
Already Rejected Twice.
Twice previously, the Civil
Service Commission has turned
down requests from Mr.. Mcleod
along this line.
Mr.. Mcleod recently held a
meeting of his employees in the
security division and told them
OF his efforts to get the Jobs
placed in Schedule A.
According to some of the en-
ployeS, the security chief de-
clared that he wanted the po-
sltions placed in Schedule A
so that l can hire or fire Who
ever l want without regard to
civil service"
I'm not discouraged by the
fact that the commission turned
me down twice. I'm going to
keep trying until they see it
my way" Mr.. Mcleod was
quoted as saying during the
meeting.
Investigators Quit.
Since that meeting. it is I'M
derStood that at least Is or 20
veteran investigators have quit
to take new jobs. Employees in
the division say morale is at
low ebb due to uncertainty as to
what the future holds.
The majority of the employees
in these jobs have extensive in
vestigative experience. They got
their jobs after passing high
civil service standards set for
Government investigative posi-
tons.
In rejecting Mr.. McLeod's pre-
viouS requests, CSC officials said
they felt that investigative work
belongs under civil service I'M
less specifically exempted by
Congress. They pointed to such
investigative units as Treasury's
secret service, narcotics. internal
revenue and alcohol tax units,
all of which are under civil
service.
But Mr.. Mcleod, in making
his third request to remove the
jobs from civil service, contended
that the security nature of the
work makes it necessary that
personnel be hand-picked by
those in charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Homing Pigeons Walk Home,
Expose Boys in Theft of 81

Four homing pigeons, their
wing and tail feathers clipped,
walked home to give the silent
alarm that led to the rescue of
40 fellow pigeons, all similarly
shorn, police said last night.
The clipping of their fight
feathers proved the downfall of
the seven youngsters accused of
stealing them. The boys said,
they wanted to raise pigeons. :"
The pigeons that struggled
home were stolen from George
Gateau, 66, of 1855 w street Sc.
Other pigeon thefts had been
reported in Southeast Washing
ton. Precinct Detective Frank
Reinhardt, a pigeon fancier him.
self. was assigned to solve the
mystery.
He talked to Mr.. Gateau, who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Laborife Says Soviet Gold
saved Britain From Crisis

WALTHAMSTOW, England
February 13.-Arthur Bottomley
Labor member of Parliament
and former secretary for over
seas trade, said today that Brit
ain had been saved from a dollar
crisis because of Soviet gold
shipments to this country.
He told a meeting that the
payment of gold worth So mil
lion pounds ($1O0.8 million) in
stead of goods by the Soviet
Union in recent trade had en-
abled Britain to meet it's imme.
date dollar obligations.
The speaker did not say
whether Britain had actually
shipped any of the Soviet gold
bars to the United States. The
treasury said Bank of England
gold transactions are secret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
President 10 Send
Atomic Message TO
Congress This Week
Will Ask Exchange
Of Dotu With Allies,
Program for Industry

TOWNSVILLE. Ga. Feb. ID.
President Eisenhower will ask
Congress next week to give
American private industry per-
mission to develop atomic energy
for peaceful purposes. and au-
thorize limited exchange of
atomic information with United
States allies.
Plans for the Presidents spe-
cial message to the lawmakers
were announced here today as he
enjoyed a week end vacation of
quail hunting at the plantation
estate of Treasury Secretary
Humphrey.
James c. Hagerty. White
House press secretary. told news
men about Gen. Eisenhower S
plans for a special message to
Congress on atomic energy. The
day has not been fixed.
Message in Two Parts.
Mr.. Hagerty said the message
will be in two main sections.
One, he added, will outline
suggested legislation designed to
encourage peacetime use of
atomic energy in this country by
private enterprise" Under the
law at present the Government
has a monopoly on atomic power
production, so the change the
President has in mind would
herald a new era.
The present monopoly means
only the Government-or agents
it deSignates-can possess or
work with the fashionable ma
terials which produce atomic
power and weapons. There was
no information Immediately
available on just how much a
free hand Gen. Eisenhower be-
lieves private enterprise should
be given in peaceful use of such
materials.
The other section of the mes
sage will call for legislative
action on proposals he has made
in the, past that the Govern
ment be authorized to exchange
tactical information abou
atomic weapons with Americas
allies.
That information would deal
with the effects of such weapons
as observed in tests conducted
by the United States. The law
now prohibits the sharing of
such data.
Would Bolster Allies.
For one thing, the change in
the law the President wants
would give the North Atlantic
Treaty countries of Europe a
tactical knowledge of the United
States atomic weapons available
for defense of the area against
any Soviet attack.
Gen. Eisenhower has stated
publicly that he has no intention
of asking Congress to share
with the allies any information
on how to build atomic weapons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Second Appeal
Backs Works
Finance Plan
Citizens Committee
Urges City to Stand
By U. S. Loan Item
BY George Beveridqe

A new citizen plea that the
Commissioners stick by their
plan to borrow Federal money
and hold down local tax boosts
to help pay for the city's $305
million public works program
was voiced yesterday by John A.
Reilly, chairman of the Citizens
Public Works Committee.
A similar appeal was sent to
the city heads late Friday by
their Citizens Advisory Council.
Ban on Loan Plan Studied.
The reason for their concern
IS that a Joint House. Senate
subcommittee is considering
elimination of request for a $40
million Federal loan for the gen.
eral fund portion of the pro-
gram. with higher local taxes
taking up the slack
The Commissioners have pro-
posed that the general fund por-
ton paying for such construc-
ton as schools, hospitals and
welfare institutions, be financed
by "a $4.5 million tax boost. 50
million more year in the Fed
eral payment and a 81 million
annual average in interest bear
ing Federal loans over the To-
year period.
Should the general fund loans
be Junked. the strain on Dis
trlct taxpayers would be nearly
doubled over the original S4.5
million proposal.
City officials, under subcom-
mlttee orders. are studying new
taxes now which would have lust
that effect.
No Decision Reached.
Both Capitol Hill and District
Building sources emphasized to
Inc Star yesterday, however.
That no decision in the loan-tax
situation has been made.
The position of subcommittee
members, one of them told a
reporter, is that they first want
to know If such additional taxes
can be raised If they can, he
noted, the total tax increase
exclusive of water, sewer and
highway fund boosts - would
roughly match the requested ST
million Federal payment in
crease. Some members, he said,
feel this would help sell the
Federal payment increase to
Congress. In addition, there are
strong sentiments for earmark-
ing the new taxes and Federal
payment on a matching basis,
Tor specific use on the works
projects, he said.
The position of the Com
it was understood, is
simply that they must be pre-
pared to recommend new taxes
they consider TO be the least
harmful. in the event of the loan
proposal is cut down or elimi-
mated.
Engineer Commissioner Louis
w. PrentisS said last night he
felt most citizens would prefer
the proposed loan over further
tax increases.
He told reporters on the Re
port to the People radio pro-
gram over Station WWDC. how
ever. that the city heads must be
prepared to 60 along with a plan
that can be approved by Con-
greSS. He noted that interest
and principal repayments would
amount to about SIS million
over the next 10 years if the $40
general fund loan were
made.
Mr.. Reilly, however, said the
Continued on Page AS. Col. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
6: 0. p Orators
Hit Peak With
Party Speeches
Some Soften Words
At Presidents Wish:
Democrats Fire Back

The argument about the
merits of political partisanship
came to an oratorical crescendo
last night with some Republic
cans. but not all, apparently
needing President Eisenhower S
advice to display less malice
toward the Democrats.
The G.. O. P, still celebrating
Lincoln s. Birthday, held the Gen.
ter of the stage in the Nation wide
program of experimenting. But
Democrats also provided plenty
of back-talk to charges that they
had coddled Communists.
For the Republicans, Vice
President Nixon and Senator
Knowland of California. Senate
Republican leader, led the way
in cautioning against indiscrimi-
nate attacks against the oppo-
sition party as a group.
Hits New Deal Policies.
Mr.. Nixon. in a West Coast
speech reported by the Associated
Press. attacked many New Deal
and Fair Deal policies. He said
they never were able to bring
about peace and prosperity at
the same time"
Declaring that the administra-
ton has earned the right to sup
port for being loyal, honest. COM
petent and solvent, he neverthe-
less advised: I'VE should leave
the door open for all. regardless
of party, to support our President
and his program"
Senator Knowland in a st.
Louis speech. held out an appre-
ciative hand to moderate DEM
ocratS in Congress" for fine sup
port" of Republican policies "es-
sential to the national defense
and functioning OF our Govern
ment."
The Californian took some
sWipes at the Truman admins
tration on China policy and the
handling of FBI reports linking
the late Treasury official, Harry
Dexter White, to Soviet espion-
age. But he said he was not
speaking in any narrow partisan
sense, for Americas fate hinges
on whether members of Congress
treat important legislation las
Americans rather than as narrow
partiSans."
Martin Raps Waste.
House Speaker Martin, on the
other hand. speaking in Newark,
N. j.. called upon the COP to
sweep back for all time the tide
Of waste, bankrupt spending and
commissioning that carried
us to the edge of ruin" And
Wendell B. Barnes, sworn in last
Friday as head of the Federal
Small Business Administration
accused the Democrats of Com
munist coddling. He lit into
fuzzy minded New Deal Dem
ocrats" as gloom and doom peo-
Pile" and now are peddling a
fear deal" and scare talk"
While playing politics with
human misery and the safety of
the free world. he said, Demo-
Gratis ARE crying all over the
(See POLITICS. Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

NEW YORK, Feb. l3.-Fred-
erick Lewis Allen. SO. author and
editor, died here tonight after
suffering a cerebral hemorrhage
several days ago.
Mr.. Allen formerly edited Har-
per's, the Atlantic Monthly and
the Century Magazine. He has
written several books, including
only Yesterday" a record of the
l920s. .
only Yesterday" became a
classic when published in 1881.
It sold more than half a million
copies.
Following "Only Yesterday"
were Lords of Creation" 1885.
a study of American financial
history since 1900; Since Yes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Is Japan Reliable?
A Postwar Picture

FREE JAPAN?-Where would Jopon
throw her weight in the international
bolonce il she had true independence
tomorrow? Associated Press Writer
Relmon NORM, on expert on the
Orient, tells whot the japanese soy
about it on Poee AS.
GOOD MUSIC BOOM-Woshinq-
tons National Symphony Orchestra
continues to win new friends and
at the some time is influencing
peoples opinions about good" music.
Those who wont the focts will find
the story and picture on Page ALI.
Complete Index. Poee AZ
Rodio- Tv. Programs. Pages E-4-5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
By jones Y. Newton

The current business decline
over the country has resulted in
a sharp drop in the number of
serious labor management dis
putes and strikes. Federal Off
Gals said last night.
This, according to the Gov
eminent people directly con-
cerned with such things, is the
most peaceful period in men,
DRY on the labor-management
front.
Officials Of the Federal Med
iation and Cancellation Service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14


to clean up the party organiza-
ton
Entrusted with the mission
were P. K. Ponomarenko. Soviet
minister of culture. and Leonid
I. Brezhnev. rising party leader
from Moldavia. They raped
Kazakh leaders for tagging har-
vest yields in wheat. cotton and
grain and for low productivity
in stock breeding.
On the heels of their arrival
came word that Shayakhemetov
and Afonov had been ousted.
Atomic Testing Ground.
The Asian republic behind the
Urals is rich in minerals and
new industries. There have been
reports it is the testing ground
for atomic experiments.
Kazakh-once a land of no.
mads-now ranks first in the
world for chromium deposits and
possesses STA per cent of the
copper, 56.3 per cent of lead
and 49.8 per cent of Zinc in the
Soviet Union.
The republic spreads over the
northern two-thirds of Central
Asia. extending south about 1000
miles from the Siberian border
and spreading east and west
from the Caspian Sea to the
border Of China. Covering more
than a million square miles, the
republic has a population of over
six million.
The SPRAYING tribal region
came under Russian rule in the
18th century. forming part of
Russian Turkistan. In 1920 the
KazakhS were first constituted
within the Russian S. F. S. r. as
the Kirghiz. In 1886 1t became a
constituent republic within the
U. s. s. r.