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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

ships, or for the is tankers to
be Chartered. Contracts have
been awarded for four of the
five Navy tankers
Rear Admiral N. K. Dietrich,
deputy commander of the Mill
tary Sea Transportation Service.
said in prepared testimony re-
leased in advance Of the hearing
that financing troubles have
held up the awarding Of con-
tracts for the is tankers.
The. Law requires the private
owners to raise 87.5 per cent Of
the cost of each such tankers.
The builders have been insisting
and Senator Magnuson says
they are right-that unless the
Government will write mortgage
insurance for the full amount
OF such loans, they cannot raise
enough capital to start building.
Up to now Senator Morse's
agency has held they are en-
titled under the law to get mort
gage insurance on no more than
80 per cent of their share of the
cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
Magnuson Raps
Maritime Board
By tn. Associated Pres.

Senator Magnuson. Democrat
of Washington said today the
Maritime Administration 'has
put roadblocks in the way of q
defense-vital shipbuilding pro-
gram" ordered by Congress.
Senator Magnuson called Clar-
ence C. Morse. Maritime admin
istrator, and other witnesses to
testify at a public hearing today
before a commerce subcommit-
tee on the Merchant Marine. He
heads the subcommittee.
In advance of the hearing
Senator Magnuson said he will
tell Mr.. Morse the Maritime Ad-
ministration should remove the
toadblocks and read the law as
it is written"
Program Outlined
Congress last summer ap-
propriated $44.5 million for con-
struction of six passenger YES
sells. $50 million for five bigger
and faster Navy tankers, and set
up a special mortgage insurance
program for construction of Is
similar tankers to be built by
private owners and chartered to
the Navy.
Senator Magnuson said he
wants the Maritime Administra-
ton to explain why no contracts
have been let for the passenger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

announced by Chairman John
ston Of the full COMMITTEES.
Former Senator Guy W. Gillette
is the subcommittee's general
counsel.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Archie
c. Edwards has been elected
president Of the Civil Service
Commission branch of the Fed
eral Employees Union No. 2, Ma
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes. Others elected were Har-
ley NJ. Williams and John n,
Buckingham, jr., vice presidents;
Homer Tatum, secretary-treas-
urer; and Mrs. Ellen e. Man
chester, recording secretary.
The following officers of Federal
Employees Union No. g.. NFFE,
have been elected to the execu-
tive council: Myron E. Andrews,
Commerce: Archie C. Edwards,
Civil Service Commission; Glen
E. Gordon. General Accounting
Office: Grace M. Picking, Vet
Grams Administration: Charles
w. Prisk. Public Roads of Com
merce DEPARTMENT. Albert M.
Reising, Navy; and Myron E.
Andrews. Commerce, trustee. s. /.
Undersecretary of Treasury
Marion Folsom will address the
Society Of Personnel Admihistra-
ton at noon luncheon on Tues
day in the Burlington Hotel. !.
The Military District of WASH
ington has job openings for
electronic specialists, $4,000 a
year; architectural engineers.
$7,040; shorthand reporters,
$4,205, and engineering drafts
men, $3.795. Apply to Room
1913. Building TT, Gravelly
Point, or call the Pentagon, Ex-
tension 7610i. The Army's
Carlisle Barracks at Carlisle, Pa.
needs library catalogues at
$4,205 a year. Write to the per-
sonnet Office at Carlisle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
Clash Marks Opening
Of Wards Meetinq

side of the main floor near the
stage.
The main event was the vote
by stockholders. At stake were
all nine positions on the Ward
Board of Directors. Each side
offered a full slate of nine can
didates-one headed by Mr.
Avery and the other by Mr.
Wolfson.
Majority of Five
The side which wins a ma
jority-five or n1ore-of the di-
rector posts will control the COM
pany.
The counting of the votes will
be done in Ward headquarters.
1t may require three weeks,
Mr.. Wolfson, Florida and New
York financier, has been cam
paigning to take command of
Wards for eight months.
He commended that Mr.. Avery
has been dragging his feet dur
ing high-speed economic
cycle. Nj. Wolfson stated that
he aims to expand the company
and increase sales and profits.
Mr.. Avery has declared that
the company is in excellent
shape. He asserted that Mr..
Wo1fson is attracted by Wards
liquid assets 1927 million in
cash and Government bonds.
Mr.. Avery, a successful BUSH
ness executive for more than a
half century, has been the boss
of Montgomery Ward 81 Co. for
almost "a years.
The most dramatic episode in
his stewardship took place dur
ing World War II, when he was
involved in a dispute with CLIO
union and the War Labor Board.
The Government called out some
troops and seized Wards prop
erty April 26, 1914. The next
day the adamant Mr.. Avery was
carried out of the company's
headquarters by two soldiers.
Ward Employs $4,000
Montgomery Ward & Co.,
founded in 1872. embraces nine
mail order houses, 265 catalogue
Offices and 568 retail stores in
46 States. It has $4,000 en-
ployes.
Wards sales last year added
up to 87.336,812, down more
than 500 million from the pre-
vious year. Net profits dropped
more than S. million to $685.
232. 900.
Ward has approximately 3d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

CHICAGO. April % (P).-
The crucial annual meeting Of
Montgomery Ward & Co. stock
holders was plunged into debate
today, when a supporter of Louis
E. Wolfson registered a loud
protest against permitting vot-
Ing by stockholders while dis
cussions were under way.
David Goodkind, a stock
holder from Woodmeer, N. Y,
said wide publicity" over the
battle between Mr.. Wolfson and
Ward Chairman Sewell L. Avery
for control of the $721 million
company had left a great deal
OF confusion in the minds of
stockholders"
Mr.. Goodkind demanded that
discussions be held first and
that voting follow.
Asks For Accounting
He told Mr.. Avery that the
shareholders want IAN account
Ing of your stewardship" His
statement brought applause.
However, John Barr, Wards
vice president and secretary, re-
torted that voting would require
considerable time and that the
voting and nominations should
start before debate ended. But
he added:
mo stakeholder has to vote
until the discussions are COM
pleted."
A little more than half of the
seats in Medina Temple were
occupied.
The meeting was 10 minutes
late in starting. A disgruntled
stockholder, obviously pro-Wolf-
son, grumble, This is not the
first time the company has been
behind the times"
Get Round of Applause
When Mr.. Avery and other
Ward officials came forward.
they received a good round of
applause and whistles. There
were no boos. Mr.. Wolfson sat
quiet, looking serious, adjusting
his tie.
The 8l-year-old Mr.. Avery is
chairman of the company, oldest
and second largest mail order
house in the Nation. He ap-
peared in fine physical condition.
Mr.. Avery, as chairman, en-
joyed the prerogative of presid-
ing on the stage. Mr.. Wolfson
and his associates were assigned
to spectator seats on the right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
forget Shooters
Skim Police Chief

MYSTIC. Conn. (Pl.-Bullets
whistled over the heads of two
men when two youths engaged
in random target shooting in
the woods.
The men, Groton Police Chief
Peter Donahue and fish and
game conservation officer, Louis
M. Bayer, collared the young
sters. both under Is. and took
them home for a lecture on gun
safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

at least an SO per cent raise and
possibly one of 9 per cent.
Although the Senate also has
approved a 10 per cent classified
pay raise bill, indications are
that most classified employee
leaders would settle for a Z per
cent pay raise, which is likely
to be approved by the House.
1t remains to be seen whether
the Democratic leadership in
Congress will agree to enact
classified pay raise legislation
before the postal pay issue is
resolved The postal groups
swing lot of weight on Cap
itol Hill and might try to hold
up enactment of classified nay
until their own pay bill becomes
law.
APPROVED The House
civil Service Committee yester-
day approved HR-4778 to pro-
vide free surety bonds for postal
workers and HR-3948 to extend
$100-a-year uniform allowance
benefits to Federal workers who
wear uniforms but who were not
covered by last years law. The
measures now 60 to the House.
SECURITY PROBE APP
CONTINENTS - Richard w.
Lawrence, former FBI agent
and liaison representative for
FB1 Director J. Edgar Hoover.
has been appointed chief in
vestigator of the Senate Civil
Service subcommittee Investigate
ing the administrators employee
security program. Mr.. Lawrence
also has been a private investi-
gator and consultant for the
State Department.
The subcommittee also ap-
pointed Paul e. Hadlick of Blue
Earth. Mimi, as a legal con-
sultant. The appointments were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
No birth Of Suspects
To Match Pictures

Police in Rome learned re-
Gently that a wanted criminal
was hiding in a provincial town
in Italy.
The chief sent to authorities
in the town six detailed photo
graphs Of the wanted man. Lat
er Rome police got a telegram
from the local official. They had
detained four of the fugitives,
they said, and hoped to nab the
other two shortly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

600 shareholders and they own
6,703,932 shares of stock.
The bulk of the shareholders
voted by mail. Others marked
their ballots at Medinah Temple
today.
Each share of stock is entitled
to nine votes-one for each d.
rector post. If s million shares
are voted. the total number of
votes will be 81 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
.TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Fair to-
night with low around Sc. Fair
and continued warm tomorrow.
Maryland-Fair tonight with
low $3.50 in west and in the SOS
in east. Considerable sunshine
and warm tomorrow.
Virginia-Fair tonight with
low $3.50 but 1882 in the
mountains. Some cloudiness
tomorrow but mostly sunny and
warm.
Wind-North to northwest be-
coming westerly 10-15 miles per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
Token Sales Sour

ST. PAUL. MINI. (Pl.-Sales
on tokens from a defunct out
of-town busline zoomed when
collectors" found they resem-
bled the ones used in st. Paul
buses. The Twin Cities Tran
sit Co. said $3.50 worth of the
spurious tokens showed up in
its coin boxes one month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

hour tonight. West to south
west 1918 miles per hour to-
morrow.
5-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity. April 1921.
Temperatures will be four to
eight degrees above the normal
high of SO and low of At. Warm
over the week end. cooler Mon
day and Tuesday, warmer We'd
nesday. Showers likely Monday
totalling one-fourth to three
fourths inch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

General Joseph Campbell whic
sick and administrative leave
in the postal service.
The committee called atten-
ton of all other Government
agencies to the findings of the
report and asked them to tighten
up their rules regarding use OF
sick leave. The committees re-
port was fled by Chairman Tom
Murray, Democrat, of Tennessee
Committee members said the
Controller General had been
asked to investigate leave use in
the Post Office Department and
that the report represented his
findings. They also declared the
committee expects all other
Federal agencies to review their
own leave programs and to take
steps to end abuses by employees
If and where they exist.
| The Controller General found
that. in some post offices, en-
ployes used an excessive amount
OF sick leave. In one post Office,
substitute employees used any,
where from So to 104 per cent
of accrued sick leave. In other
words. the report said, some
postal workers were permitted to
use sick leave they hadn't even
earned.
The Controller Generals re-
port also charged there have
been large grants of sick leave
Immediately before retirement,
Instances were given of sick
leave advanced in amounts
greater than the employee posi-
bly, could have earned before
separation. The report also
criticized instances in which adj
ministrative leave was granted
regular employees on State or
local holidays. and substitute
employees were used to process
the mails.
Findings Of the Controller
General were submitted to Post
master General Summerfield by
the House group. with instruc-
tons to report back to it on the
action taken to tighten up con.
troll.
PAY-The House Civil Service
Committee has asked the admin
istration how much of a pay
raise for classified employees
President Eisenhower will sign
into law.
The committee will meet in
closed session next Thursday to
report a classified pay raise
bill. Chairman Murray yesterday
asked the Civil Service Commits
sion to report as quickly as pos
sible to the committee on the
pay raise acceptable to the Pres
ident so the committee can re-
port the pay bill next Thursday.
The administration previously
supported a S per cent raise for
classified workers, but there are
indications it would not object to
6 per cent or even slightly higher.
Representative Broyhill. Re-
publican, Of Virginia, plans to
try to persuade Mr.. Eisenhower
to go for a 712 per cent CLASH
fed pay increase. Incidentally,
Mr.. Broyhill and Representative
GubSer, Republican, of Califor-
mia, were among the leaders in
the successful move to have their
colleagues on the House Civil
Service Committee agree to &C
ton on the classified pay bill
next Thursday.
Mr.. Broyhill argued that Con-
gress Immediately should approve
classified pay raise legislation,
regardless of what happens on
the postal pay bill. Administra-
ton officials say there is no
doubt in their minds that the
President will veto any postal
raise higher than ~ per cent.
Since the Senate has APP
proved a 10 per cent postal pay
bill and the House has passed
an 8.2 per cent bill, this would
point toward a presidential
veto. House-Senate conferees
on the postal bill will agree on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Committee Asks Halt
On Sick Leove Abuses
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

The House Civil Service Committee called on Federal
agencies to take immediate steps leave abuses by
employees
The committee filed with the report by Controller
General Joseph Campbell which charged widespread abuses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Generaly fair weather is
forecast for tonight Eastern portion of the country
from the Plains to the Atlantic widespread area show
ers or thundershowers will the Pacific Coast States
most OF the Rocky Mountain and extend into the
Northern Great Plains Warmer weather in the Northern
Pans Will be the only important temperature change with
very warm weather continuing the Southern Plains and
Lower Mississippi valey.-AP wirephoto Map
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

Record Temperatures This Year
Highest 50, on April 10
Lowest. 10. on February 3.
High and Low Of Last 81 Hour, ,
Hlsn, % at 4:20 pm.
Low, rs, at 5 am.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast a,
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The Sun and Noon

Ane sun and Moon
Sun. today 5:3S s StsS
Sun. tomorrow $50 AKA
Moon' today $3.50 500 am, 1:36 n m
49, Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hah hour after sunset N
Precipitation
Monthiy precipitation In inches in the
CAPITAL tcurfent month IN dafal. '~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-22

River Report
tFrom U. s. Enaineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-01

Bright and swirling, sheath and SHIN
mering fashion-fi Holiday styles in
rayon, taffeta, faille, silk and acetate
crepe, rayon linens or tweeds Some
samples in the group. Seasons mer-
riest colors, bright or dark. Sizes g.
Is, 141a-2412, 1920.
Evening star., 1955-02-25
star stan Photo.

as Undersecretary Of Commerce
for Transportation was approved
in Washington yesterday by the
Senate Commerce Committee.
In a speech prepared for the
Boston Chamber of Commerce.
he said a $400 million program
of shipbuilding and repairs,
initiated a year ago. is begin
ming to put new work into the
shipyards.
Saying the Government itself
will soon start building three
new types Of merchant ships, Mr..
Rothschild described them as
prototypes of ships Essential to
mobilization plans" Two desig-
mated as freedom" ships. would
be freighters, each with the same
hull design.
He said one would have a
speed of 16 knots and would be
designed as the wheelhorse Of
any future military emergency.
The other would be higher
powered and suited for use as a
naval auxiliary.
The third type, Mr.. Roth
schild said, would be a 20-knot
tanker, to be the first Of a new
pipeline" class Of tanker, "ex-
tremely valuable to the Navy"
as a fast big carrier Of petroleum
products.
Evening star., 1955-02-25
Dean Sayre Charges
Privilege Wie|ders
Oppose Home-RuIe

The Very Rev. Francis Sayre,
dean of Washington Cathedral,
last night charged that the
real opposition to home rule here
is not based on racial grounds
but on pipelines to privilege
and power through congress
sional committees who do not
want to relinquish It,"
Dean Sayre was among many
speakers who appeared at a din
ner in the Sheraton Carlton Ho-
tel, in honor of the SIS freshman
members of the House of Repre-
sentatives. Thei host group was
the Washington Home Rule
Committee Philip L. Graham.
publisher of the Washington
Post and Times-Herald, was
chairman.
Seen as Pressing Problem.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, CO.
chairman. said:
"Since Washingtonians can
not elect their own local govern
ment, they must rely on the
members Of Congress who serve
as their city council. We believe
the new members Of Congress
have a real interest in the prob
lens Of the city. One of the most
pressing Of these is home rule" :"
Rear Admiral Neill Phillips,
USN, retired, said the matter is
"a problem in the House" but
that he feels the Senate will
pass the current bill for home
rule.
j. c. Turner of the Central
Labor Union tAFLg told the $50
persons at the dinner that citi-
zens here are frustrated in every
community effort because the
Government is imposed from the
top"
Glenn Watts. chairman Of the
Industrial Union Council (CIO),
reaffirmed the position of his
union for home rule but sug-
gested that national representa-
ton be delayed for as long as
seven years, so that home rule
can be more easily achieved.
Doris Fleeson's Advice.
Doris Fleeson, columnist, sug-
geSted that I'VE should annoy
people" as the only way to get
home rule because "the politi-
clans are not moved by senti-
ment."s
DR.. Charles Bish. principal Of
Mckinley High School, said
Evening star., 1955-02-25

home rule is certain to come. ="
John Hayes, president of Radio
Station WTOP. said there is no
sense Of community responsibility
here because Of the lack Of the
vote.
Other speakers were Douglas
Sager. real estate man: DR.. Ed
ward Mazique. Howard University
professor; Patrick Hayes, who
conducts a concert bureau;
Samuel Biddle and william j.
Flather, both insurance men;
Ganson Purcell. chairman Of the
board of the Washington Home
Rule Committee; Aaron Gold
man, a co-director of the Ma
tional Conference Of Christians
and Jews: Walter Washington,
attorney. and Rabbi Henry Segal.
Evening star., 1955-02-25
S.P|ans New Types
OF Merchant Vessels
BY the Assoeiutsd Press

BOSTON,. Feb. 25.-Maritime
Administrator Louis S. Roth
schild said yesterday his agency
expects to start work soon on
three new types Of merchant
ships.
He said the agency hopes
private shipping lines will build
five others now on the drawing
boards as q new generation"
Of modern, high-powered mer-
chant vessels.
Mr.. Rothschild's nomination
Evening star., 1955-02-25
Oil Drilling Costs Soar

DALLAS.-The cost Of finding
oil in the United States today is
about six and one-hah times as
great as it was during the period
from 1935-l939.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-05-13
FAMED HAMPTON LODGE
IN WATERliLY IS SOLD

The famed Hampton Lodge, ma
tionally known haven for duck
hunters, located at Waterlily in
Currituck County has recently
been sold by it's owners, Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell A. Griggs, who now
live at Kill Devil Hills. The Lodge
was bought by Henry d. and
Evelyn NJ. Woodall. With the deal
went So acres of land, interest in
a hunting island, a boat and the
name of the Lodge.
The Griggs recently sold their
Croatan Hotel at Kill Devil Hills,
but will reside in their adjacent
cottage. The fame of Croatan
Hotel, has developed into a great
asset for the Dare Coast during
the past II years. 1t was built
and operated by Mr.. and Mrs.
Griggs until this season.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-05-13
WE'VE GOT TT HERE AT HOME

A fellow sees so many fascinat
ing articles illustrated in color ir
magazines these days he gets to
hankering to visit far off places
before he knows it. catch myself
signing to motor through Maine,
or to view the lakes of Wisconsin
or the wheatfields of Kansas, etc.
before / suddenly remember that
pictures of those places don't look
a darn bit better than do the pic
lures of our own region when re-
produced in the same magazines.
No matter what is offered you
long way from home, we have
something just as good right here.
The chattering streams and the
plunging waterfalls of our noun
tains, the long miles of our sea-
shore, and the beauty of our tree
shaded small towns, and our level
green fields, rival anything that
any other section has to offer.
I never ride through North
Carolina, and it's Coastland in
particular that l don't get a thrill
from the view before me. l have
never visited towns large or small
that are more beautiful than our
coastland towns. Manteo is a town
that excels in appearances because
of it's well-painted and well-kept
homes and yards; its clean streets,
and particularly those streets that
have trees now filling out in all
the glory of summer foliage.
For a country town on the high
way, few may rival Swan Quarter,
with its long tree-shaded street
dividing rows of we'll kept homes
which range from the old to the
modern. This street runs the
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-05-13
VANNOTE TO PARTICIPATE
VETERANS SCHOOL PANEL

j. M. Vannote, Dare County
Veterans Service officer, of Man
teo, is scheduled to participate, as
a member of panel, at the State
wide Veterans Service Officers
School, sponsored by North Caro-
lima Veterans Commission, to be
held at Hotel Robert E. Lee,
Winston-Salem, May 1924, 1866,
it was announced by J. M. Cald-
well, Director, North Carolina
Veterans Commission.
The frontiersman., 1955-03-24
SKI CLUB ELECTS
 l955-56 OFFICERS

Harry, (Buddy) Campbell, Jr. was elected president of the Ma tanuska Ski club for the 1955-56 season during the clubs annual meeting, held March 23. Serving with him during the forthcoming year will be Ralph Farnsworth, vice-president; Rene Nielsen, sec- retary- treasurer, and Joseph Gallant, Ray DePriest and Elmer Urban, board members.
 Although club members have not been able to operate tie ski tow the past few weeks, skiers are still going to the Little Su- sitna ski area, enjoying cross country jaunts and hill climbing The unusually heavy snowfall this year caused several slides in the ski area, blocking the ap- proach road above Little Susitna Lodge.