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TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Scattered
thundershowers this evening.
Low tonight about "a. Continued
warm and humid tomorrow with
scattered thundershowers.
Maryland-Scattered thunder
showers tonight mostly in west
with low 70-74. Partly cloudy,
continued warm and humid to-
morrow with showers, scattered
thundershowers and high in
the COS.
Virginia-Scattered thunder
showers tonight with low in the
70s. Partly cloudy, warm and
humid tomorrow with scattered
thundershowers.
Wind-Southerly 1918 miles
per hour tonight and tomorrow
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High and Low Of Last "a Hours

High. SO, at 1888 pm.
Low. ~, at 6:40 am.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast an,
Gandnfir C,ryavl
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gress voted for airplanes to
build up the Air Force.
Mr.. Wilson's announcement
marked the second time in two
days the administration has
challenged congressional action
on military matters.
Mr.. Eisenhower on Wednesday
signed the $31 billion defense ap-
preparation bill, but coupled to
lit message calling unconstitu-
Itional one section which Con-
gress wrote into the bill. That
specifies that the Pentagon must
have approval of House and Sem
ate committees before it can
terminate certain services, such
as bakeries, laundries and other
businesses operated usually by
military employed civilian per-
lsonnel. The President told Con-
lgress he did not propose to be
bound by the restriction unless
lit was upheld by a competent
court.
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Further U. S. Troop Cuts
In Asia Hinted by ToyIor

conditions imposed on our forces
there"
(The "disadvantageous' con-
ditions may have referred to a
buildup of North Korean
strength, which American mill
tary officials have protested.)
2. How to get Japan into its
proper military, political and
economic role in stabilizing the
Far East"
Elsewhere, the summary said
Gen. Taylor indicated the
Japansese are moving quite
slowly in the development of
their ground forces but are doing
somewhat better in providing for
their air defense"
3. How to organize and dis
pose available United States re-
Sources to attain our agreed OBJ
Iiectives in the Far East"
250,0O0 in Orient
American strength in the Fal
East-Korea, Japan, Okinawa
and the Philippines-now total.
about 250.000 men.
Mr.. Wilson told news confer.
ence here yesterday that he hat
directed Pentagon Controllel
Nv. J. Mcneil. an Assistant De
fenSe Secretary, to set aside extr;
money voted for the Marine
until officials can decide wha
will be done.
Marine strength now stands a
about 205,000 officers and en-.
listed personnel. President Eisen.
hover ordered it reduced to 193,.
900. Congress voted that il
should be 215,000. Pentagor
officials had predicted the ad'
ministration would not allow thu
Corps to spend the extra money
and charged it would add littl'
combat strength to the armed
services.
The administration success
fully defended on Capitol Hill
the Eisenhower plan to cut bacl
Army and Navy strength bu
lost out to friends of the MARINE
Corps.
Mr.. Wilson pointed to prece
dents in holding back none.
for the Marine Corps. 1t wa
recalled that former Presiden
Truman refused some years ag
!; to spend extra funds which Con
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gress or Of the constitutional
processes of law" Mr.. Skies said.
"It is unbelievable that the Chief
Executive of this great Nation
would in this way seek to place
himself above the law and to set
aside a section of law that he or
someone who speaks for him
does not like. This is veto by
paragraph, and veto by para
graph is not legal. This is usur-
patton of the powers of the Con-
gress."
House Majority Leader Nc
Cormack commented: II had the
idea that the Civil War settled
the question of notification In
this country, but this is a nulli-
fcation of an act OF Congress.
Mr.. Skies concurred: "Of
course it is. :. I would remind
Mr.. Eisenhower that this is not
a military government. This is
not a government under martial
Ilaw. We live under a civil gov
Iernment, and all Americans un-
der our Constitution are bound
by the same laws"
Il X y
\ BONDS-The Senate has ap.
proved the bill to provide free
1 fidelity bonds to Government
Iemployes who have to purchase
such bonds in connection with
their jobs. The Senate amend.
led a Huuse-passed bill which
;lprovided free bonds only to post.
/ al workers. House conferees
'|however, are expected to agret
Ito the amendment covering al
| Federal employees who must pur'
/ llchase bonds.
HOOVER PROPOSALS-Sen'
! ator Mccarthy, Republican. O.
: Wisconsin is the latest membel
of Congress to sponsor bills II
carry out the proposals on civi
} service made by the Hoover Com
mission.
The proposals include creation
of a senior civil service corps,
simplified performance ratinl
. system, modified veterans pref
erence and a number of othe
items. Senator Mccarthy, VIII
lis top ranking member of tn
Senate Government Operation
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5-Day Forecast for Washington
And Vicinity. July 1920
Temperatures will be near the
normal high of 81 and low
of SO. Little change in tenn
perature but cooler Sunday
night. Chance of Thunderstorm
ers about Wednesday totalling
one-half or one inch.
River Report
fFrom United States Engineers)
Potomac River cloudy at Harper
Ferry and cloudy at Great Falls
Shenandoah cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
tReadines Washington National Airport
Midnight --s--- n Noon ---- -
am. $780, 81 4 pm. ------ 8.
8 am. ------ 6S 8 pm. ------ s;
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest, 81. on July 4.
Lowest, 10, on February 3.
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private industry has cost the
jobs of thousands Of Federal en-
ployes. That's why Federal en-
ploye groups fought so hard and
successfully for the rider adopted
10y Congress to slow down this
trend.
Now, however. President Ell
lsenhower. in signing the 1856
Defense Department appropria-
tions bill, said the rider is un-
constitutional and that he will
ignore it unless the courts order
him to do otherwise. The rider
would have blocked any trans
fer of defense agency activities
Ito private industry of work per-
formed by civilian employees for
three years or longer, unless 1t
was approved by the House and
Senate Appropriations Com
tmittee.
Democrats Assail Idea
Democrats on Capitol Hill
have attacked the Presidents
action. There is some talk oi
enacting permanent legislation
on slowing down work transfers
to private industry. But the
President undoubtedly woulC
veto such a measure. and there
isn't much chance that enough
Republican votes could be mus
tered to obtain the two-third'
majority needed to override {
Presidential veto.
James A. Campbell, presiden
of the AFL American Federation
of Government Employees. one o
the groups that fought hard fol
the rider, said court action will
be initiated by his organization
to force the administration tt
obey the rider approved by Con
gress. Presumably a court tes
will occur when the administra
ton transfers another defens'
activity to private industry. Al
Injunction in Federal court II
restrain such a transfer will b.
sought then.
For practical purposes, how.
ever, this may not help much
Any court action may taxi
months and still would be il
litigation when the riders au'
! thority expired next June 80
Meanwhile, the administration
could do as it pleased.
! Mr.. Campbell, as well as Will
liam Ryan, president of Distric
, A of the International Associa'
ton Of Machinists, and Thomas
G. Walters, operations director
! of the AFL Government EN-
lployes Council-the three group'
that led the fight for the rider
plan to meet to discuss wha
other alternatives might be triet
Ito enforce the riders provisions
Skies shocked"
Meanwhile, Representativ
: : Skies, Democrat, of Florida, VIII
. led the fight for the rider
adoption, said he is "completel
: shocked" at the Presidents &C
q ltion.
i Seldom have I heard sue
complete and utter disregard fo
q the rights and privileges of Con
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1895

BUYS A 1855 4-DooR SEDAN
This is an 1910" four-door. equip
ped with everything: Hydra-Matics
power brakes, white-wall tires.
radio. heater. back-up lights, turn
signals, oil filter. rubber foam
cushions, undercoating. Two-tone
green. on bath air cleaner.
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BUYS A 1855 STATION WAGON
This is an $3.50" 2-door station
wagon :. a 2-seat type Of ranch
wagon where the back seat folds
down. Light green with Hydra
Matte, radio. heater, back-up
lights, turn signals. oil filter, rub
Der foam cushions, grill guard
and undercoating. Adjustable seat,
oil bath air cleaner.
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QUANTICO, Va, July Is up.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army
chief of staff, limited today Of
still further reduction In Ameri-
can military strength in the Far
East.
Gen. Taylor, who recently left
the supreme command in the
Far East to become chief of
staff, briefed the ITO members
of the annual Secretaries con-
ference on the military situation
in the Far East.
Details of what he told the
conferees were kept secret. How
ever, an official summary-la-
comic and carefully worded-
said Gen. Taylor discussed IA
cilities available in Japan and
Korea land the impact on these
facilities of future planned re-
duction in forces"
Adjustments Needed
The summary said he talked
of the implications of the re-
duction in United States forces
and pointed out the major tao
tical and logistical adjustments
this reduction made necessary. "
The briefing came almost
simultaneously with a report by
a United States Far East Air
Force Command officer in Tokyo
that the Communists have built
up their air power in the Orient
to the point where they now
have three or four war planes
to every one operated by the
United States.
Secretary of Defense Wilsor
told a news conference here
yesterday that he has ordered
impounded money voted by Con-
gress to boost the strength OF
the Marine Corps. He said the
action was taken to give the
Pentagon people a chance tc
take another look"
Cryptic References
In today's official summary o1
the Taylor brieflng, there ap-
peared a number of cryptic, un-
explained references. It re-
ported Gen. Taylor listed these
principal items of unfinished
business" in the Far East:
/. How to resolve the armi-
stice situation in Korea and
terminate the disadvantageou.
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BUYS A 1855 STARcHlEF 4-DooR
This magnificent 4-door sedan is
in handsome Beaumont Blue.
Equipped with Hydra-Matic drive,
white-wall tires, radio. heater,
back-up lights, turn signals, rub.
ber foam cushions, grill guard and
undercoating. OIL bath air cleaner,
lighted hood ornament-fender
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Committee. said he doesn't
|necessariiy agree with all the
proposals but that he Is sponsor
ling the bills so they can be dis
|cussed in Congress on their
merits.
ADDED PROTECTION The
Civil Service Commission today
said it is giving more protection
to Federal career employees who
are serving in jobs normally out
side Of civil service. This ap-
plies mainly to Federal attorneys,
although other jobs are involved.
Under the commissions previ-
Gus regulations. employees with
career status who take an ex-
Icepted tnon-civil service) job
must sign a waiver voluntarily
relinquishing their civil service
job protection rights. The csc
said today. however. this policy
will not apply to career employees
who continue in substantially the
same jobs ever though there is a
change in grade or series of their
jobs. brought about by reorgani-
zation or reclassification.
Employees will be retained in
the competitive service when
their jobs are abolished and they
are assigned to successor posi-
tions under these circumstances.
At the same time, the csc
emphasized its view that most
attorney jobs in Government
should be under civil service. 1t
said these jobs have been placed
in excepted categories because
the commission has been pro-
hibited by congressional appro-
Ipriation riders from using funds
for holding exams for them.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Fran-
els Bourne Upham III, a New
York attorney. has been ap-
pointed assistant to the execu-
tive director of the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
On leaving the Department OF
Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby
paid tribute to the department s
employees as public servants OF
a high order" The follow
ing employees in Treasury's Bu-
reau Of Accounts have received
meritorious suggestion awards
Mrs. Lois L. Moore, Robert E
Philo, ST.. Loretta Young and
Frank j. Kraus. The Bureau
of Ships Recreation Association
is holding a party in honor OF
! Rear Admiral A. G. Mumma al
10 pm. July 20, in the Willard
Hotel.
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THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Defense Rider Veto
Stirs EmpIoye Leaders
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

empoye leaders bitterly disappointed over
President Esenhowes that he Will disregard
amendment to curb transfer Of defense agency
functions to private industry. , :.
The policy of transferring these activities to
Evening star., 1955-07-15

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Showers and thunder
storms forecast tonight in large including the
Gulf States the Lower Mississippi Valley Ohio and Tennes
Valleys and all of the Northeast from Virginia to Maine
Another area of hundershowers will be the Great Basin
area while scattered thunderstoms expected in parts
OF Iowa and Nebraska 1t will be in most of the
try except for cooler weather in the Upper Great Lakes
region.-AP Wirephoto Map
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RESORT FORECAST

Upper and Lower Bay
Partly cloudy. warm and
humid tomorrow with scat
tered thundershowers and
high $500.
Ocean Beaches and South
Jersey-Partly cloudy, warm
and humid tomorrow with
scattered thundershowers
and high $500.
Skyline Drive--Scattered
thundershowers and partly
cloudy tomorrow with high
80-85. Fair visibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03
Military
Congress Moves to Get
A ReoI Reserve for
Use in Future Wars

This country has never had an
adequately organized, equipped and
trained military reserve despite the
fact that reserves have been as
essential as messkits in the past
two wars and will probably be as
essential again in any but the tiniest
future war.
Congress and the executive have
been preoccupied with active forces.
Meanwhile the reserves have been
starved for funds; young men have
not been attracted by the existing
half-baked reserve; and Congress
has been reluctant to force men,
especially veterans, to take part in
any kind of part-time training.
Last week, however. a general So
luton to the reserve problem was
given an enthusiastic start through
Congress. The bill would insure that
almost every youth serve a total Of
eight years either as trainee, an
active-duty serviceman or a reserv-
list. Some would. serve two-year
bitches as draftees or perhaps
longer periods as volunteers. Others
would get a six months training
course. But everybody would be in
the reserves long enough to make
their total service equal eight years.
House Unit Approves
The bill was approved by sub
committee Of the House Armed
Services Committee. . to /. Sup
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WorScore

A week ago yesterday, news
papers across the Nation reported
In big. black type that the admin
istration expected Communist China
to attack Nationalist-he Matsu Is
land by mid-April.
1t was the United States Gov
ernments judgment, these stories
went on, that Nationalist China
herself could not cope with the ex-
pected Red Chinese attack. Our
own 7th Fleet, plus Air Force con-
tingents now based on Formosa,
would almost certainly become in
volved.
And once they got in it, the story
went, they ought to go in to win
with tactical atom bombs not only
against the Red Chinese airfields
and beaches which would support
the attack, but against Manchurian
industrial centers and the con-
stricted arteries of rail communica-
ton along which Peiping's war sup
plies must flow.
Conspicuously absent from these
reports, however, was an identifica-
ton Of the source of this high
level" estimate. The strategic placL
ing Of the articles among the coun-
try's leading newspapers, however,
and the similarity in the reports.
indicated quite clearly the informa-
ton had been inspired"
Thu RArIiI,Iiran pnrfv'a yiO1t
wing, led by Senators William F.
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Service Pay

In the 1855 race for pay increases,
three groups now have crossed the
finish line. Congressman themselves
made 1t last month. So did Fed
eral judges, in the same bill. Career
military men made brilliant dash
across the line. last week.
Civil service and postal workers
are both boxed in the backstretch,
however.
The military bill was the only pay
measure which did not set off a
controversy. Its swift final action
last week showed congressional and
White House attitudes.
The House had approved it 399 to
/. Last Tuesday the Senate Armed
Services Committee approved it
unanimously with minor amend
ments. The full Senate, with hardly
q murmur. passed it on voice vote
wednesday. Later In the same day
the House shouted its approval Of
the Senate amendments. 1t was
whisked to the White House where
1t was checked by the Presidents
staff and then signed by Mr.. Eisen-
hover on Thursday.
The new pay scale went into
effect on Friday. The first fat pay
checks will go out the 18th.
Meanwhile. Civil Service and
postal pay bills were stuck in a
House committee. An Easter vaca-
ton will interrupt Congress for the
coming 10 days, so no action can be
taken until the middle of the month.
It still is undecided whether the
Democratic majority will try to raise
pay by 10 per cent in the face of
the Presidents adamant stand
against more than rs per cent.
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Labor
Auto Workers Prepare
For Strike If Industry
Bucks Guaranteed Wage

For many years the threat Of q
drive for guaranteed annual wage
has hung over the heads of union-
lied industries. The unions want
So pay checks a year-pay for
full work-week even during seasonal
layoffs and retooling shutdowns. The
companies think the guaranteed
wage will be too expensive, too diff
cult to administer.
Last week representatives of l.3
million organized automobile work.
ers announced solemnly that the
time had come to fight it out for a
guaranteed annual wage. The
United Auto Workers, under Walter
P. Reuther, will launch the attack.
Their ultimate objective is CAV in
every automobile factory. Their
immediate goal is secret, but it
will be either Ford, General Motors
or Chrysler. Negotiations with the
first two will get under way this
week.
JAW officials, meeting in Cleve-
land last week, took two formal
actions to launch the guaranteed
wage drive. They voted unani-
mously for the drive, and then they
voted to raise $25 million to finance
strike.
Union dues Of each member will
be raised by IS a month. Most
pay $3.50 now. New dues, plus
existing war-chests, will get the
union ready for a strike by June,
officials said.
Mr.. Reuther apparently had solid
backing in his new move. He and
his slate of vice presidents were
reelected with ease. He himself
is president Of the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations and therefore
could speak to some extent for that
whole federation. And George
Meany. president Of the American
Federation Of Labor, told the JAW
last week that his great labor group
would help-flnancially II necessary
in the Reuther CAV drive.
1t looked last week as II one Of
the greatest struggles for power
since the long strikes Of the late
4os was shaping up In the auto
industry.
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slant q normal, healthy cell starts
to "go wild" In Cincinnati, the
Chemical Society heard Dr.. Grace
Modes Of Philadelphia say cancer
begins very suddenly. One form that
strikes the liver. she said, appears
to be caused by q chemical dye
named butter yellow.
~ Two leading figures in Amer
lean journalism died last week.
In st. Louis on Wednesday
night, Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of
the Post-Dispatch, died at the age
of 10. And in Chicago early Friday,
Col. Robert r. Mccormick, "A, head
of the Chicago Tribune publishing
empire, died after long illness. Col
Mccormick owned and operated the
old Times-Herald here until its sale
to the Washington Post Co.. March
II, 1854.
O Top oscar" awards, for ex-
q. cellence in the motion picture
business, went to two relative
newcomers. Grace Kelly and Marion
Brando, in Hollywood Wednesday
night. Another winner-nothing
new for him--was Walt Disney, who
took home his Oath Oscar for his
live" ie.. non-cartoon, feature,
1.-THE Vanishing Prairie" Two old
timers, Bling Crosby and Judy Gar
land. were nominated, but did not
win Oscars.
a As soon as the news reaches
y. Antarctica, the penguins will
start making plans to greet
an old friend. Rear Admiral Richard
e. Byrd. retired. will head an expe-
dition to the ice-locked southern
continent in November when 1t is
summer down there). This will be
the 66-yesr-old explorers fifth trip
to the South Polar Regions, his hrst
having taken place In 1919.
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Europe

While things were coming un-
stuck in Wet Nam, there was bright
er news from Europe. France started
the week off happily by completing
legislative action on the Paris agree
ments rearming West Germany and
admitting her to NATO. She was the
tenth of is Atlantic community ma
tons to do so.
AS is the fashion in Paris of late,
the Council Of the Republic waited
until the early hours of the morning
to act. At the time last Sunday the
French upper house voted to:
. Admit West Germany and Italy
into the Western European Union
with Britain. France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and luxembourg. 1874
ITO.
. Admit West Germany into NATO,
200-114.
. Return sovereignty to West Ger
many, 234-75.
. Europeanize the German-speak-
ing, French controlled Saar ter
ritory, 217-92.
When ratification is complete.
Germany can start building an
army of IL divisions $500. 600 mem !,
an air force of some 1900 planes
and small coastal fleet for Baltic
operations. And when these troops
come into being-probably not until
1853 or 1859 according tn NAT1O
chief. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther-
NATO will have the capacity with
atomic weapons) to keep Cemmu-
mist armies out Of Europe at West
Germany's present eastern border.
Now NATO could probably be forced
to fall back to the Rhine.
German strength also viii produce