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enough to express the Nations
obligations to its scientists. en-
gineers, and military personnel
for their contributions to our
constantly increasing productive
ity and the strengthening of our
national defense.
And there can be no relaxa-
tion in this effort
The report was based on a
study by a task force subcom-
mittee headed by DR.. Mervin j.
Kelly, president of Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories, Inc.
1t disclosed that 5000 projects
are underway in the Federal
research program which will cost
$205 billion in the next fiscal
year, Military outlays are esti-
mated at about 81 billion.
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Defense Department. other than
those imposed by budGetary limi-
tattons.
4
JOBLESS RENEFITS-Tle AFL
Government Employees Council
has asked the Senate Appropria-
tons Committee to eliminate a
House-approved amendment that
would deprive any Federal work.
e. who voluntarily sewers" his
work the right to unemployment.
compensation benefits. The pro-
vision vas tackled onto the Labor
Departments 1856 money bill on
the House floor.
The council told the Senate
group that there are extenuating
circumstances whereby an en-
ploye's resignation was justif1-
able. such as illAhealth, care of
seriously i'll relative, transfer
OF an employees job to another
locality and "other good causes. :"
In these cases, the council con-
tended. the employe should be
eligible for jobless benefits.
The council said that the vari-
GUS State laws, under which Fed
eral workers receive their unem-
ployment benefits. allow such ex-
tenuating circumstances for en-
ployes in private industry.
y X y
SAFETY PROGRAM - Govern
ment employe groups are also
asking the Senate to restore $780,
900 to the Bureau of Labor
Standards for development of an
effective safety program for Fed
eral workers.
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Ford Promises Reply
Today to Union Offer

pany to negotiate the proposal
A vote for the Ford plan would
| force the union to forego its
year-around pay demand and
accept the company's offer OF
Ford stock at half price. inter-
est-free loans for laid-off work.
ers and a separation pay plan,
Mr.. Reuther said that if the
UAW were favored in the voting
it would scale down it's demands
for an annual wage to fit the
12-c e n ts-per-hour er-employe
, cost he said the company has
put on its prosperity plan" ben
efits.
IF the company is willing to
accept the (vote) proposal
the union will agree to ac-
cept modification of its guar
anteed annual wage plan that
can be financed with the IL
cents per hour that the COM
pany has offered to finance its
stock participation, income sta
bilization and separation allow
ance plans" Mr.. Reuther wrote
Mr.. Ford.
Company spokesmen declined
to confirm or deny the cost esti-
mate.
Pay Demand Reduced
The UAW already has reduced
its annual wage demand from
100 per cent of take-home pay
to 80 per cent of gross pay for a
40-hour week.
The union proposal apparently
took company negotiators by
surprise.
Only Saturday, however, in a
letter to Mr.. Reuther, Mr.. Ford
had said it would be an "un-
forgivable error" of the Ford
workers were not given an op-
portunity to judge the company
offer which union leaders had
rejected.
''We agree" Mr.. Reuther said
yesterday.
1--WE propose, since the Ford
workers are most directly con-
cerned in this matter. that they
be permitted to decide which
method. in their judgment. best
meets their needs" he wrote.
Thus far the company has in
dicated no willingness to accept
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the Government. Work costing
$125 million a year might ad-
vantageously be shifted, the re-
port said.
But the commission empha-
sized that it's comments on
weaknesses" in the research
program were not intended to
disparage the enormous accom-
plishment" Of the Federal re-
search organization. Its conduct
generally "has the appreciation
of this commission" the report
said, adding:
"We owe to basic research the
fabulous improvement in the
health of the Nation; the great
est industrial productivity known
to man, the weapons of defense
which have protected our inde-
pendence; and our knowledge of
the laws which govern the uni
verse.
Contributions Hailed
There is no tribute great
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night with low 50-57 but 43-48
in the mountains. Fair and con-
tinued moderately cool tomor-
row.
Wind - NorthWeSterly 8-12
miles per hour tonight and to-
morrow.
River Report
From u S. Eneineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shena1doan clear at
HarperS Ferry.
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DETROIT, May 81 (R.--The
Ford Motor Co. has promised to
answer today a challenge from
the CIO United Auto Workers
union to let 100000 Ford workers
decide whether they want the
unions guaranteed annual wage
or the company's plan for en-
ployes to share in Ford owner
ship and profits.
Walter P. Reuther, president
OF the UAW, proposed a binding
secret vote of Ford workers on
the question as means of
averting a strike after midnight
Wednesday, The union reported
last week 96.54l Ford workers
voted to strike to win a guar
anteed annual wage and only
1928 voted against a strike.
He made the proposal yester-
day. A copy of the proposal was
included in a letter from Mr.
Reuther to Henry Ford II, COM
panv president.
The company asked for, and
the union agreed to. a recess
in negotiations until today.
Answer Promised
There was no comment from
the company other than a state
ment from MIR. Ford promising
an answer "at the bargaining
table as soon as we have given it
(the union proposaD our full
consideration"
Mr.. Reuther proposed the ball
lot question be confined to the
year-around pay against three
proposals in the Ford package"
which incorporate what the
company calls its partnership
in prosperity" plan. They are
the Ford stock participation, in
come stabilization and separa-
ton allowance plans.
The vote would be taken by
an independent agency within
two weeks.
The current contract would be
extended on a day-to-day basis.
Negotiations would continue
on other parts of the contract.
The result of the vote would
bind both parties to negotiate
whichever plan the employees
pick.
Would Negotiate Plan
Thus a vote for the guaran-
teed wage would force the COM
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Hot Fight Due
IQn|mn1ieration
IUnder New Bill
BY the Associated Press

Introduction today of a bill to
carry out President Eisenhower s
proposals for changing the 1888
Refugee Relief Act heralds a new
congressional battle over immi-
grafton policies.
The Presidents program. out
lined in a special message last
Friday. will have to run the
gantlet both of those who con-
tend it goes too far in lowering
immigration barriers and those
who maintain. it doesn't go far
| enough.
Fourteen Republican Senators
all Eisenhower supporters, an
nounced over the week end that
the legislation would be intro
duced today and that I'VE well
come the opportunity to sup
port it.
In the Senate the measure
probably will be referred to a
subcommittee on refugee prob
lens headed by Senator LANCER
Republican, of North Dakota. He
said that, if it is, he will start
hearings without delay.
House Situation Different
There was no such promise
of prompt hearings in the House
"I don't think it will ever bt
considered, and I doubt if it will
even come up in the House, u
said Representative Walter
Democrat, chairman of the
House Judiciary Subcommittee
on immigration.
Mr.. Walter. co-author of the
McCarran- Walter Act, the Ma
tion's basic immigration law
passed over the veto of former
President Truman. said he
thought the refugee program
could work effectively without
any change in present law.
The 1853 Refugee Act fell short
of what Mr.. Eisenhower orig
inally asked and was enacted
by the previous G.. o. P.-con-
trolled Congress only after many
of the restrictions he now has
asked to have removed were
written into it.
In the Senate. Senator Lam
gers subcommittee already is
considering a bill introduced
about a month ago by Senator
Lehman. Democrat, of New York
to revise the Refugee Act. In
several respects Senator Leh-
mans bill and Mr.. Eisenhower's
recommendations are similar.
Corsi Incident Recalled
Senator Lehman introduced
his bill, with Senators Douglas,
Democrat, of Illinois; Kefauver,
Democrat, of Tennessee, and
Humphrey, Democrat, of Min
nesota as co-sponsors, during
the controversy over the custer
of Edward Corsi as special ad-
wiser on refugee problems to
Secretary of State Dulles.
Mr.. Corsi, Italian-born New
York Republican. was fired April
10, after 80 days on the job, and
in subsequent testimony before
the LANCER subcommittee he
called the refugee program IA
complete failure and a national
scandal"
The act authorized the ad-
mission of up to 214,O00 refu-
gees and other non-quota i'm
migrants by the end of next
year. but so far only slightly
more than 10000 visas have
been issued and some $4,000
persons actually have entered
the country.
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quired, this can be achieved
through attrition-net filling
some of the vacancies resulting
from normal personnel turnover.
The departments and agencies
also received enough money to
pay the increased overtime bene-
fits authorized by Congress last
year as part OF the fringe bene-
fits law It wasn't until this
year, however, that the funds to
pay the Increased overtime bene-
fits were approved by the House.
Although the Senate has still
to act on most of the money bills.
it is a foregone conclusion that
its handling of the measures will
be at least as liberal as that of
the House.
DEFENSE DEPT. CEILING
The House has retained the
475,000 ceiling on the number of
white-collar employees in the De-
feIlse Department.
However, this ceiling is not
expected to work any hardship
on the Army, Navy and Air
Force Departments, since their
1856 estimates for the number
of upgraded (white-collar) EN-
ployes do not exceed 475,000.
The only exception to the ATS, :
900 comes when the Secretary Of
Defense determines that the re-
placement of military personnel
by civilians would result in econ
omies without adverse effect on
national defense.
There is no fixed ceiling on
the number of blue-collar work
ers who can be employed in the
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the principle of the guaranteed
annual wage.


the principle of the guaranteed
annual wage.
Ford Outlines Proposal
In full-page advertisements
prepared for today's newspapers
in cities where Ford has plants,
the company outlined it's entire
proposal and asked workers to
Judge for yourself the benefits
offered for your security"
1t repeated that if the UAW
gets more favorable contract
with General Motors Corp, Ford
is willing to make its offer
equally favorable"
The Ford package" offer is
said to be similar to one offered
a week ago by GIN, which also
is bargaining with the union on
a new contract.
GIN talks were scheduled to
resume today after a three-day
recess. The GIN pact expires
June Z.
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Medical Alumni Elect

RICHMOND, May 81 (P).-
DR.. William N. Hodgkin of War
renton. a 1912 dental graduate,
is new president of the Medical
College of Virginia Alumni As
sociation.
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THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Government Agencies
ForeWeIIinMoney Bills
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

Government ents and agencies have fared well
bills approved by the House this
All departmental and agency 1856 bills have
acted Ly TIE House Most departments and
will have to make result OF the
where Personnel reductions
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WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Showers and thunder
storms tonight will be scattered much of the Great
plains the Western Mountain States the North Pacific
states and the Southern portion Florida Maine
will be cooler the Atlantic States and in the Rockies;
warmer in the Middle Mississippi Valey-AP Wrephoto
NapA
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The sun and Mo

1he Sun and Moon
Rises Sets
| Sun today 0:4t 1927
! Moon, TODAY 4:0Sn nm 2:27 am.
+ Automobile liPhts must be turned on
| one-half four after sunset
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There is no tribute great
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THOMAS L. STOKES
Tax Issue Comes to Life

died interests is so formidable
that all attempts to abolish, re-
duce or differentiate the de-
pletion allowances in favor Of
small producers have failed"
How right they are we may
see in two facts: One, that
neither party has any plans to
reduce or remove this gross in
equity at the coming session Of
Congress; two. that the Senate
Democratic leadership has
plans to jam through early the
bill. already passed by the
House last session. to exempt
natural gas producers from
regulation by the Federal
Power Commission. which Is o
project of the big oil COM
panies.
We taxpayers and consumers
are certainly being taken for
suckers-and we are. of course.
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including this correspondent.
who believe that the press con-
ference is the biggest single
strain Mr.. Eisenhower has
borne during his present term
of office The idea that the
press may catechize a Presi-
dent and croSs-examine and
needle him on any subject.
political or otherwise, and
that this is necessary or else
freedom of the press" per-
ishes, is not likely to be APP
proved by the people generally
if an issue is made of it some
day. The television showing
Of the press conferences has
revealed again and again the
movement of the tense mus
Giles of the Presidents neck
as he waits for the next ques-
ton to be asked.
The press conference Of to-
day is an ordeal to which no
President should be subjected.
The same objective can be OBJ
tanned through written ques-
tionS. the answers to which
can be prepared with care, as
is fitting in a Government
whose spokesman might with
a single phrase carelessly
spoken under the stress Of i'm
promptu utterance undo the
progress made by months Of
painstaking diplomacy.
The facts can and should be
given to the people, and there
are many ways to do it. A
presidential press conference
is unlike the successful and
orderly system of questions in
the free parliaments abroad
where the queries are prepared
many days in advance. so that
due notice is given and only
those questions are answered
which it is deemed good pub
lie policy to answer
The strain imposed on a
President to do things really
not required of him is what
makes the Office today a super
human job.
Reproduction Rights Reserved
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DORIS FLEESON
Political and Medical Advice Seen
In Snyder's Report on Eisenhower

President Eisenhower's staff
has cut Republican ate
Leader Knowland of at the
pockets in the latest maneuver
of its campaign to convince the
Eisenhowers and the country
that the President is the in
dispensable man.
Last Thursday Senator
Knowland said that the Presi-
dent should disclose his 1856
intentions not later than jan
uary. If the President Is not
going to run. Knowland pointed
out. other aspirants would be
interested in the presidential
preference primaries which
open up about that time.
Within 48 hours reporters at
the Gettysburg White House
were summoned to a press con-
ference with the Presidents
personal physician, Maj. Gen.
Snyder. Gen. Snyder told
them that if he were in the
Presidents shoes he would wait
until mid-February before de-
Gliding whether or not he was
physically able to run again.
This obviously is not a medi-
cal opinion in the accepted
sense. 1t is a political opinion
volunteered to the press by a
medical man. But who can
argue with the doctor?
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Silent Treatment Brings Groons

can be made even more diff
cult by the fact that the coun-
try is being led to believe that
Mr.. Eisenhower will be the
10. P. candidate despite his
recent illness.
Presidential Assistant Sher-
man Adams stated two weeks
ago in New York that the
Presidents recovery was COM
plete so far. Mr.. Stassen told
the National Association Of
Manufacturers a week later
that the President was back
at the helm" Former Speaker
of the House Joe Martin has
been saying ever since he Wis
tied Mr.. Eisenhower recently
that the President is going to
run.
Other Republicans such as
Senator George Bender have
stated repeatedly that the
President is not going to let
the party down and that he
is a soldier who would prefer
to die with his boots on than
vegetate in retirement.
None of these political per-
sonages claim that they know
this from Mr.. Eisenhower's
own mouth or that they have
discussed the matter with
him. They base their utter
ances on his known loyalty to
the country and the party. It
would appear to the average
citizen, listening to these
statements and then hearing
medical opinions. that the
Presidents health is being
placed on a second place to
party politics.
The Presidents medical ad-
visers can tell him only
whether he will be able to
stand the strain of the office
for another five years. But 1t
is Mr.. Eisenhower himself who
must decide whether he Is
willing to take a chance on
carrying the burden Of the
presidency for another term.
If he is. say some Republican
leaders, he should make his
intentions clear next month
and add the proviso, doctors
permitting"
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Who Can Argue With the Doctor?

of course difiicult since only
his staff and close associates
now see the President and talk
with him. Reporters - and
photographers-see him on
prepared occasions, but there
are no press conferences and
indeed their future is in doubt.
Comments by the Presidents
visitors are uniformly optimis-
tic, discreet and generalized.
In the absence Of press con-
ferences no independent check
on the amount of information
the President is getting is pos
sible.
It all adds up to propaganda
of a high order. Indeed the
whole operation reelection 10
shrewdly conceived and Is be-
ing executed with admirable
attention to detail.
What Maj. Gen. Snyder has
done to Knowland is clear to
all, including Knowland. The
Senator from California is both
logged and courageous. even
when he is wrong. His smile
when he emerged from White
House conferences yesterday
was not precisely radiant but
he was still behaving correctly.
1t is not a guarantee for the
future. Knowland has shown
often that he is stubborn about
any course he thinks right,
regardless of the opinions Of
others.
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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike confers with Republican congressional leaders Ihey
produce a progressive, dynamic Hooking program
In other words, little bad news for everybody.
Foundation gives $500 million to colleges and
hospitals discouraged. private outfits give
away money what be left for the Democrats to do in
Washington?
White predicts balanced budget by June Ring
the bells tell the peope On second thought just tell the
people Treasury Boss Humphrey may have to melt down the
bells for money.
Senator Estes Kefauvers friends believe he'll soon para
phrase the famous Sherman II nominated, he
will not object If elected he will not serve notice.
great life If you don't weaken And If do weaken.
chance the Democrats will last only four years
President Hoover second Vice President to
burdens II he couldn't get two chickens in
Hoover figures he might well get us two Vice Presidents
every ticket.
Agriculture Secretary Benson Ada Stevenson Of
telling bs about him Ada has right to mean things
about Benson He doesn't belong the Republican Party
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Also this particular one is
the Presidents own doctor, his
long time Army associate and
friend. 1t follows that this is
the advice the President is
getting and 1t is probable that
the Eisenhowers will be infiu-
enced by it.
Throughout the whole Sny-
der press conference. political
and medical opinion we're in
terwoven, DR.. Snyder said that
his patients condition was
good" but that he showed
evidence OF fatigue. Political
Spokesman Snyder described
the presidential schedule as
heavy" and said it was ex-
pected to tighten after his
congressional conferences this
week.
Snyder's contribution to the
thesis that what the Presi-
dent has been doing is, or
approaches. a normal presi-
Dental work load is clear. 1t
has no doubt been a heavy
schedule for a patient con-
valescing from a heart attack
but there is no firm evidence
that it typifies the loads a
President at his White House
desk must shoulder daily.
Argument on this score is
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japanese Throng
To Atom Exhibit

TOKYO, Dec. Is (P.-An
American produced "atoms-for-
peace" exhibition drew 358,557
visitors during its 40-day show
ing in Tokyo.
The exhibition. demonstrating
various peaceful uses Of atomic
energy to the only nation which
has ever been atom bombed
was sponsored by the United
States Government and the
newspaper Yomiuri.
Sponsors said the turnout was
a world record for a show of its
kind.
The exhibition will tour other
Japanese cities next spring I'M
der joint sponsorship with other
leading newspapers.
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Quiet Policy Only Muddying Party
Waters, KnowIond Camp Is Saying

Republican factions would
rally behind him to fight to
the best of their ability for his
reelection.
Knowland and Bridges have
stated that they hope Mr.. Ell.
senhower will make his tnten-
lions known before the end Of
January in order to give pros
pective Republican candidates
a chance to enter the early
primaries in States such as
New Hampshire. Strong spec
ulations have been heard re-
Gently in political quarters
that if Mr.. Eisenhower does
not make any declaration
about his future wishes, his
silence may have to be inter-
preted as tantamount to not
being a candidate. In such
an eventuality several names
may be entered in the early
primaries.
The supporters of Senator
Knowland-who has definitely
indicated that he will be a
candidate if Mr.. Eisenhower
does not run-feel that the
Presidents silence is being
prompted by a number of his
White House advisers who
would like to promote the
candidacy of some dark
horse" in the uncertainty
which is likely to prevail at
the August convention If Mr..
Eisenhower bella tedly an
nounces that he does not in
tend to seek Office again. This
suspicion was strengthened
when Harold Stassen said last
Sunday, Il think he could de-
eide anywhere up to June or
July and the country would be
thankful that he would serve"
There is no doubt that the
country would be thankful
that he would serve" But what
II he decides not to serve?
The campaign has been
started by the Democrats much
earlier than in the past. The
position of the Republicans
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DAVID LAWRENCE

They are certainly building
up public confidence in the
sincerity Of the statements
made at the White House
about President Eisenhower's
health. Every bit of important
information is being given to
the press by the Presidents
physicians.
This is in contrast to what
happened when the late Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt was
a candidate for a fourth term
and, as it turned out, lived
less than three months after
being inaugurated. Even to-
day there is controversy as to
what was the true condition
OF Mr., Roosevelt when he went
to Yalta in 1945. The press
photographers. too, cooper
ated under the Roosevelt re-
gime. They never took pictures
that showed Mr.. Roosevelt'S
physical handicap, and the
newspapers refrained from tell
ing the American people that
their President couldn't walk
unaided.
This was proper and COM
mendable courtesy to a Presi-
dent, but not long ago Presi-
dent Eisenhower wasn't per-
mitted even the privacy of a
convalescence at the Denver
hospital. On one occasion
some press photographers
hired a helicopter to fly over
the hospital to take pictures.
Frankness and candor on the
news side have today wisely
supplanted the secrecy and
evasion of the past. If Presi-
dent Eisenhower is or is not
physically able to run for a
second term, the American
people will have no doubt about
what the physicians in attend
ance think about it. AL the