Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-29
Probe Told Of Fight
For Loyalty Hearing
Women Lost
Her Army Job
In March, "a
BY L. EDGAR PRINA

A suspended civilian employe
of the Army today told Of her
unsuccessful 18-month battle to
get q hearing or specification Of
security charges against her.
Testifying before a Senate Civil
Service subcommittee, Mrs. Flea
nor v. Waxer said she was sus-
pended March S, 1854, from her
position as a GS-1 clerk at Fort
Knox. KY. and after repeated
requests for q hearing still has
not been granted one.
Mrs. Waxer. whose Army vet
eran husband, Sanford Waxer,
also is having security difhculty.
wrote and received a total of 81
letters to Government author
tiles as her case was shuttled
back and forth between the
Army and the Civil Service Com
mission.
Two weeks ago she received
an apologize note from the
Pentagon assuring her that her
case is '"in the final stages Of
adjudication" and that 1t would
receive "the highest possible
priority"
New Job Was Offered
The quiet-spoken Detroit wom-
an told the subcommittee that
to the best of her knowledge she
did not have a "close and con-
tinuing association" with a per-
son who belonged to the Progress
sive Party Of Michigan which the
Civil Service Commission said
had been described as Commu-
nist-controlled. But this accusa-
ton had not been made to her
by the Army.
Under questioning by Senator
Carlson, Republican Of Kansas,
she testified that the Army Of
fered to give her a new job in
non sensitive work less than two
weeks after she was suspended.
But she said she applied for leave
without pay because she wanted
a final determination on her Sc
Ecurity clearance.
| Mrs. Waxer said that on April
II she wrote to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission Office in Gin
Icinnati fatty denying the
charges against her and stating
there must be some mistake in
identity or other error.
She received no reply and
finally wrote again to Cincinnati
August 10, 1854, asking what
had happened.
| From then on, here was the
sequence:
! November 10. 1954-The Gin
cinnati Office wrote her it had
forwarded the papers to the
Board of Appeals in Washington.
| November Is, 1954-The board
advised her it had received the
papers and that she would be
told of the results after your
representations are considered"
January "a, 1955-She re-
ceived letter from Fort Knox
stating she was eligible for
career or permanent appoint
ment in civil service. She said
she supposed this was an error
since she was in suspended
status.
:, January %, 1955-Civil serv-
lice in Cincinnati notified her
that her papers. had been sent
to the Board Of Appeals in
Washington in error. That it
was upto the Army to decide on
her security status.
/ No Correspondence with Army
I April IA, 1055-She wrote to
Cincinnati asking If the Army
knew it was supposed to decide
the case and whether Civel Serv-
ice had advised Army of this.
April 10. 1955-Civil Service in
Cincinnati replied that it had
had no correspondence with the
Army about it, but that Army
knew its responsibilities.
May II, 1955-She whote the
civilian personnel officer at Fort
Knox asking for quick determine
ton OF her case and also to the
Civil Service Board of Appeals
in Washington asking whether it
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