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MAY 1947 Entered as sctond-tlass matter 7nni Baltimore Post Office UUG 28 Pages 5 Cents Phone Strike Settled In 5 -Mi-West States Soviet 'Purge' Of Arts, The Sun Wins Pulitzer Gold Medal For 'Meritorious Public Service WAGE RAISES OF $3.50 AND Stalin's Words Conflict JEWS TO GET HEARING IN COMMITTEE Orders To' Russian Intellectuals Indicate Fear. Of Norton Has Varied Experience Ideas Of Western exvdictator's degradation at the hands of a mob in Milan. This is the seventh in a series of articles on conditions in Russia by Mr. Ward, trho has just returned from the Moscow conference.l By PAUL W. WARD Washington Bureau of.

The Sun! Nations' Liberalism our systems. One should respect the other system when approved by the people. If we start calling each other names, it will lead to no co-operation Gave Orders Ta Authors But Stalin is also the man who last August called the party hier archy plus leading Soviet authors, Ltheater directors and movie pro ducers to the Kremlin and ordered them to devote their pens, cameras and voices to the extirpation of "western influences." Stage, screen and press were to concentrate on exposing capitalist "encirclement' and" "imperialism" as threatening new wars. The systematic manner in which they were assigned their tasks sug gested that an ironic forecast the poet Mayakovsky made in the days of the first five-year plan had at last been fulfilled. lie had dared to wonder then if, the Communist party hierarchy would put the pen on a par with bayonets and Stalin be found giving the Politburo reports on the production of "pig iron, steel and poems." Depressing To Intellectuals The campaign launched by Stalin and his henchmen to re-establish Communist party ideological or thodoxy in literature, drama, the movies and music already has re sulted in the literary beheading of two of the Soviet Union's foremost writers and in the liquidation of one of its leading literary maga zines.

Naturally, it also ias produced cumusion ana depression among tne intellectuals, who find them selves damned for what, in war time, they were praised for doing. The campaign, which is being (Continued on Page 14, Column 4) U.S. HELD LIKELY TO AID RAMADIER Official Reports Preparations As Anti-Communist Step Paris, May 5 (if) A high-ranking American official, source said to night that the United States was preparing for possible increased aid to the French economy, provided Premier Paul Ramadier can hold together his new non-Communist coalition Government. The American source said top officials in the United States Embassy were drawing up a detailed report on what sort of assistance the French regime will need and how much could be expected from the United States. He said the information would be relayed to Washington in anticipation of fresh requests from the French to solve their food, fuel and industrial problems.

Decisive Factor Cited This source added Xhat a decisive factor in America's readiness to throw her weight into a new bulwark against icommunism in the West may be whether the French Socialists, Ramadier's party, want to become a vehicle for a new implementation of the so-called "Truman doctrine." The informant said that if the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) Howard M. Norton, whose series of articles on the Maryland unemployment-compensation system won for the Baltimore Sun the Pulitzer prize for the most disinterested and meritorious public service by an American newspaper in 1946, is a newspaper man of more than sixteen years' experience. A graduate of the University of Florida, Mr. Norton went to the Far East in 1933 as a foreign correspondent, contributing to such newspapers as the Kansas City Star, the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia the San Francisco Chronicle and the Portland Orcgonian. Joined Sunpapers In 1940 "He joined the Sunpapers in 1940 after his seven-year tour of duty abroad, most of which was spent in Japan and China.

a war correspondent for The Sun in the Pacific theater, he took part in the New Guinea and New Britain campaigns, landed with the 27th Army Division on D-day at Saipan, and was injured in a D-day landing with the Marines on Guam. In March of 1945 he was transferred to the Italian front, where he was the first American correspondent to report the execution of Mussolini and the first to send back an eyewitness account of the Daily News cartoonist, won the award "for a distinguished example of a cartoonist's work published in an American newspaper during the car." He was the only individual winner this year to have received a Pu litzer prize previously; his other award was in 1938. Shoemaker's winning cartoon, entitled "Still Racing His Shadow," depicted a workman labeled "New Wage Demands" racing furiously and pursued by a shadow called "Cost of Living." The award speci 2 Gunmen Strip Oregon Bank Of All Its Money Roseburg, May 5 (P) Two gunmen held up the E. G. Young Co.

Bank at Oakland, today a itd fled ii. an automobile with all the currency and silver in the cash drawers and the vault. Bank officials said the amount was between $30,000 and $35,000. The nun sped out of town northward. An alarm was broadcast within minutes, and State police blocked off all roads leading from the area.

Oakland is a town of approximately 500, located 15 miles north of Roseburg. One of the gunmen wore a mask and scooped the money into a black leather case. The other wore a gun belt and carried a revolver. Much Ado' About The Wrong Dog Denver, May 5 (JP) Policemen, firemen, a humane officer and a 19-year-old girl worked two and a half hours yesterday to free a dog wedged between two houses. When their efforts were fruitless, Norman Miller, humane officer, decided pooch would have to be shot.

Rose Stevens identified the dog as her pet. Crackers, and made a tearful plea that another attempt be made to save the animal. Miller and firemen went into the basement of one of the houses and tore out enough bricks in a foot-thick wall to reach the dog with a noose. Miss Stevens's tears of despair changed to tears of joy. Then she took another look.

"That's not Crackers," she said, "I never saw that dog before." BACKS GOP Upper Body Cuts Funds By $103,415,959 Under Budget Bureau Figure By GERALD GRIFFIN Washington Bureau, of The Sunl Washington, May 5 The Senate, voting for the first time this session on a major appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning next July 1, gave Us overwhelming approval late today to the economy program drawn up by its Republican leaders. It overrode a long series of Democratic-sponsored amendments and passed, by a voice vote, a supply bill for the Labor Department, NLRB and Federal Security Agency. The Senate's total was $8,383,700 less than the amount provided by the House, and $103,415,959 below the sum requested by the Budget Bureau. The difference between the Senate and House bills will be adjusted by a joint conference committee. Some Items Increased While the Senate trimmed the overall figure approved by the House, it increased several important items.

On one issue it disagreed completely with the House, which had voted to deprive Edgar L. Warren of his job as chief of the United States Conciliation Service. The Senate, following the recommendation of Senator Knowland (R chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee which handled the bill, voted an additional $120,000 for the Conciliation Service and made it'clear that it did not accede to the House plan for ousting Mr. Warren. In addition, the Senate approved increases Cover the House bill) of $1,376,000 for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and $941,000 for the NLRB, and restored the House-deleted items for the Division of Labor Standards in the Labor De; partment Committee Backed But the Senate declined to go further than its committee in increasing those items, despite the dogged efforts of Senator McCar-ran Neb.) to boost the figures to the amounts proposed by the Budget Bureau.

Mr. McCarran offered eight separate amendments to raise the figures approved by the Appropriations Committee, and he was beaten down each time. A roll-call vote, taken on the Nevadan's first amendment to increase the fund allowed the Secretary of Labor set the pattern for the others. This motion was rejected 57-23. How Vote Was Divided Twenty-one Democrats and two Republicans Langcr (N.D.) and Morse (Ore.) voted for the amendment.

Forty-three Republicans and fourteen Democrats, including Senators Tydings and O'Conor, of Maryland, voted against it. Substantially the same lineup prevailed throughout the afternoon and evening as the Senate voted down succeeding amendments and remained in session until 7.36 o'clock to complete action on the bill. Senator Knowland. in opening the debate, emphasized that by its action on the major appropriation measures the Senate would determine whether the Federal budget was to' be reduced from its wartime proportions. Terms It Only Way "There is no other way to demon strate to the American people that the vast Federal system can be cut down to a normal size." he asserted.

While he acknowledged that in most instances the items in the pending bill were less than the Budget Bureau had sought, he emphasized the point that the totals were still substantially above the prewar figures. Senator McCarran and several other Democrats argued that, never theless, the committee had cut too deeply into present functions, and Senator Myers Fa.) advanced the point that Senator Knowland and his associates had made reductions without determining specifi- (Continued on Page 2. Column 8) On Other Pages London Bureau of The Sun writes about stoppage in the coal mines of Britain Page 14 Proposed revision of armed forces unification bill seeks security for Marine Corps. Page 15 United States proposes Tanama defense plan to be administered jointly Page 5 Supreme Court upholds legality of search made on mere arrest warrant 2 ECONOMIES AGREED TO 17,500 Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Employes Affected St. Taul, May 5 (JP) The strike of 17,500 employes of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Comptny in five mid-West states was settled tonight, Cov.

Luther W. Youngdahl, of Minnestoa announced shortly before midnight. The governor said an agree-' ment had been signed calling for $3.50 and $4 weekly pay raises, with the increase averaging $3.60. Washington. May 5 (JP) Stand ing firm on its wage demands with the nation-wide telephone strike in its fifth week, the National Fed eration of Telephone Workers to night mapped disciplinary action against two Chicago affiliates which accepted $4 weekly increases.

Meanwhile, Federal conciliators pinned their hopes for a settlement on new wage offers they expect Bell System companies to make. The NFTW policy committee gave no details, of the proposed disciplinary action beyond saying that it was To Recommend Expulsion However, Joseph A. Beirne, president, said he would recommend to the June convention in Miami Beach, that the heads of the two unions be expelled. They are Richard W. Long, president of the Federation of Telephone Clerks of Illinois, and Edwin R.

Hackett, president of the Commercial Telephone Workers Union. Beirne declared the strike Is as strong as ever." He added that "the fact that some people signed agreements and then had the audacity to cross picket lines and call themselves union leaders does not dent the solidarity of the NFTW." In Chicago, Long said in a state ment: "For three weeks the Fed eration of Telephone Clerks, of Illinois followed Joe Beirne up the blind alley of national bargaining and last weeK he puDucly an nounced that all unions could bar gain locally with their own Beil companies. "Fed Up With Bungling" "We did so honestly and above board as he directed. We arrived at a settlement on a local basis. The membership accepted.

Now, we are traitors, frankly, we are ted up with the amateur bungling President Joseph Beirne with the lives of 300,000 telephone workers." Hackett was not immediately available for comment. The NFTW seeks a $6 weekly pay- increase. The Federal conciliators hoped for new offers from two key com panics of the Bell system. One, they expected, might be made by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company long-lines division at a night conference with the American Union of Telephone Workers. Another was promised by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company on condition that its negotiations with the Southwestern Telephone Workers Union be shifted from here to its headquarters in St.

Louis. A decision on the shift was pending. Henry Mayer, attorney for nine of the unions affiliated with the NFTW, predicted in New Yorle that the strike would be settled "by nightfall." But this was before the long- continued on Page 2. Column 5) A-Bonib And Cross Defense Formula Indianapolis, May 5 (JP) Senator Edward Martin Pa.) recommended tonight that the United States go its way "with an atomic bomb in one hand and the spirit of the cross in the other." "Our fathers settled this land with a rifle in one hand and the Bible in the other," Senator Martin said in a speech at the banquet of the American Legion's national executive committee, which opened a three-day meeting today. "There has never been a better formula for national defense," Martin said.

"It is just as good today as it was then." the effect that some 30 Democrats would oppose the measure and go along in support of any amendment designed to cripple the program. Most of this group are iden tified with the left-wing branch of the party in the chamber. But the bulk of the opposition is expected to come from mid-Western Republicans, While the members making up the GOP leadership are personally behind the measure, the organ-(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) Award Made For Scries Of Articles By Norton On Unemployment Com pensation New York, May 5 IP) The Balti more Sun today was awarded the PuLtzer prize for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year. The gold medal award was given for a series of articles by Howard M. Norton, Sun staff corre spondent, on the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland which resulted in the conviction of 93 persons and brought about numerous changes in the Maryland unemployment- compensation law at a recent session of the State Legislature.

A veteran war correspondent, Mr. Norton wrote a series of eight een articles on the impact of peace on Maryland's unemployment-com pensation system. They aroused widespread discussion. Award For Eddy Gilmore Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press foreign correspondent who is chief of the Moscow bureau, won the award for distinguished telegraphic reporting in international affairs. Four awards were made in the field of literature and one in music.

No prize was given for a play, the judges apparently feeling that no production last year met the criterion of an "original American play, performed in New York, which shall represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Professor's Novel Selected The prize for "a distinguished novel published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life," went to "All the King's Men," written by Robert Penn Warren, a professor at the University' of Minnesota. The novel tells of the rise to power of a Southern political leader. Vaughn Shoemaker, Chicago STASSEN, CRITICAL OF POTSDAM PACT Minnesotan Blames Moscow Deadlock On Agreement By DEWEY L. FLEMING Washington. May 5 Harold E.

Stassen attributes the lack of, accomplishment at he recent Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers primarily to the "vague, confused and mistaken" terms of the Potsdam agreement of July, 1945. And he thinks President Truman, Marshall Stalin, of Russia, and Prime Minister Attlee, of Great Britain, are mutually re sponsible for that agreement. Mr. Stassen former Governor of Minnesota, former captain in the Navy, an American delegate at the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was born, and currently an avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomi nation rendered these observations today at his first extended press conference since returning from a tour of sixteen European countries, including Russia. "Truman Policy" Criticized He also mildly criticized the so- called "Truman policy" in foreign affairs for its "negative" characteristics, although he said he favored the Greek-Turkish loan proposal as amended by the Senate.

His only comment on domestic affairs was concerned with pend ing labor legislation. He said he thought President Truman should initiate conferences with the Re publican leadership in Congress. in which he would tell them what kind of measure he would sign and what kind he would not sign. Mr. Stassen's disparagement of the Fotsdam agreement, which he suggested was the prime cause of the stalemate at Moscow on the German and Austrian treaties, was voiced as he was being questioned about his interview with Marshal Stalin," the transcript of which was made public yesterday.

Fears For U.S. Influence He was asked if he did not con sider Stalin's profession of willingness to co-operate with the United States in the light of his record of nonce-operation somewhat of a rebuke to Gen. George C. Mar shall. Secretary of State; James F.

Byrnes, former Secretary of State, and even to President Truman. The Minnesotan said he die not interpret the statement as a rebuke to the foreign officials of any government. He added that there was some danger that the United States would wrap "a cloak of excessive self-righteousness" about itself and thereby lose much of its influence throughout the world. Speaks Of Conference Then, speaking directly of the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers, he remarked: "The issues that primarily caused failure at Moscow were present be cause of the vague, confused and mistaken terms of the Potsdam agreement, for which the Tresi-I dent of the United States must (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) Mr. Norton later went to Ger many to report occupation activities of the 29th Division in the Bremen -Bremerhaven district.

He returned to civilian newspaper work late in the Summer of 1945. He -has also served at various times as Washington correspondent for The Sun and The Evening Sun, as behind-the-news editor of The Evening Sun and as foreign editor of The Sun. His eighteen articles on the operations of the Maryland unemployment compensation system were printed in The Sun from June 26 to July 14 of last year. Changes Made In Law Subsequently, the Legislative Council of the Maryland General Assembly began a study of the UCB as a result of the Norton articles and Mr. Norton appeared at a number of public hearings conducted by the Legislative Council.

Numerous changes In the UCB law were made at the recent session of the State Legislature on the recommendation of the Legislative Council. Mr. Norton, who is 35, is married to the former Marjorie Anderson of Miami, Fla. There are two chil dren, Howard 5 years old, and Martha, 1. The Nortons live at 6 Oak Grove avenue, Catonsville.

fied" that the whole body of the artist's work in the year was con sidered. The prize for "an outstanding example of news photography" went to Arnold Hardy, Georgia Tech student and amateur photographer whose dramatic picture of a woman leaping to death in the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta last December was purchased and distributed by Ihe Associated Press. Other journalism prizes included: "For Distinguished Corre-(Continued on Page IS, Column 2) HOUSE GROUP CUTS ffll FROM BUDGET 3 Departments And Judiciary Lose $163,593,515 By RODNEY CROWTHER. Washington Bureau of The Sun! Washington, May 5 Wielding its economy ax with unabated vigor the House Appropriations Committee today recommended to Congress slashes of almost 25 per cent in the combined budget requests of three Government departments and the Federal courts. It proposed for the State, Justice and Commerce departments and the Federal judiciary total appropriations of $535,028,008, or less than President Truman requested in his January t-dgct message.

The State and Commerce departments, both of whose spending ac tivities were vigorously criticized. were cut heavily. It was estimated that close to 6,000 Federal em ployes would face dismissal as a re sult of the -fund slashes. $60,419,565 Below Request The su.n recommended for the State Department was $219,128,058, or $60,419,565 less than the President requested. This slash of 22 per cent cut off all funds for the information and cultural activities of the department, including the "Voice of America" daily broadcasts to 67 foreign countries in 25 foreign languages.

For this war-born activity President Truman had requested a total of $31,381,220, but the House committee denied it in whole on several grounds one. that not authorized by Congress" and, sec-(Continued on Page 2, Column 2) House Appropriations Committee later this week, also laid to rest several rumors. In his letter, sent out Friday, General' Bradley let VA's 225,000 employe's in on his plans for the VA budget, which alone almost equals the entire cost of the Government in 1939. "As far as expenditures for veterans are concerned," he said bluntly, "the war has only begun. It would be folly for the American people to anticipate anything other than a period of unprecedented high expenditure for veterans for half a decade or more." Admitting that a $7,000,000,000 expenditure "presents incredible dangers of waste," General Bradley pointed out that scrutiny was a duty of Congress and that he would agree to whittling costs and personnel where they are shown to be inflated or needlessly high.

At another juncture he warned (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) U.N. Votes Compromise, Bars Appearance-Before Assembly New York, May 5 (P) The United Nations Assembly by over whelming majorities late today denied the privilege of its floor to the Jewish Agency for Palestine, but ordered its key political com raittee to give the agency a hearing The special Palestine Assembly capped four days of wrangling on Jewish representation with these decisions: l. voted, 33 to with seven abstentions and one absence, to reject a Russian-backed proposal slanting the agency the right to present its case from the floor of the Assembly. Directions To Committee 2. Voted.

44 to 7. with three ab stentions and one absence, to di rect its Political Committee to hear the agency "on the question before the committee," and to send to that committee for its decision other communications received from or ganizations relating to Palestine, Lester B. rearson, of Canada, chairman of the Political Committee, immediately called his group to meet tomorrow at Lake Success to begin actual work on setting up a committee of inquiry on Pales tine. The Assembly's action resulted from a compromise move by a com bination of Slav and Latin Ameri can countries. Book Of Documents Filed The Jewish Agency had no com ment.

However, it made its first presentation by distributing a book of documents which the agency said related "to the estab lishment of the national home for the Jewish people" from the Bal four Declaration in 1917 down to the present. The Balfour Declaration was the first promise of the British to use thejr best endeavors to facilitate the creation of a national home for Jews in Palestine. The voting began at 4.12 P.M. after the Assembly by 32 to 12 beat cown an attempt by the Arab countries to continue debate. Would Speak For Arabs Simultaneously, the Arab Higher Committee officially requested per mission to speak for the Arabs of Palestine.

The Assembly adjourned its morning session after nearly two hours of debate, with President Oswaldo Aranha imploring the authors of five separate compromise proposals to get together on cne resolution. White Russia. Yugoslavia. Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, which had tossed similar resolutions before the Assembly, then drafted their joint plan during the lunch recess. The compromise came after the Russians were understood to have acknowledged they could not put through the Assembly the Polish-Czech resolution calling upon the Assembly to hear the Jewish Agency from the Assembly rostrum.

United States Recedes The United States has receded considerably from its first opposition last week to hearing any nongovernmental organization in any part of the Assembly or committee. The United States championed a resolution for the Assembly to leave to the Political Committee a decision whether to receive communications from the Jewish Agency and other organizations. Then this morning the United States let it be known that the principle of the compromise was acceptable. Its Cup Of Coffee Bothers Britain London, May 5 UP) The Labor Government confessed today that the British do not know how to make coffee for foreign palates. Dr.

Edith Summerskill. parliamentary spokesman for the Food Minister, said under a barrage of questions in the House of Commons: "I appreciate that coffee, as prepared in tnis country, is not to the liking of overseas visitors." Members of Parliament had expressed concern because of the expected influx of American tourists. Laborite Tom Driberg had asked her if she wouldn't instruct the nation's cooks in the fine art of brewing coffee. The smartly groomed Dr. Sum-Snerskill referred one and all to the ministry's widely circulated "the A of cooking," which gives lour ways of making coffee.

One is called the "warm jug" method: "Warm the jug. Add coffee and salt. Pour in boiling water and ptand in a warm place for about fifteen minutes. It is a good plan to stand the jug in a saucepan of boiling water. Stir the coffee and ft it settle again.

Strain if necessary, but do not boil. For straining, use a very fine coffee strainer a piece of fine muslin." Washington, May 5 Current de velopments in the field of Russian arts and letters contrast sharply with Generalissimo Stalin's pro fessions to Harold E. Stassen about Russo-American co-operation and with Vyacheslav M. Molotov's May Day assertion that he and his fel low Bolsheviks are "full of belief in our strength." Visitors to Moscow these days find the Soviet intellectual world which includes playwrights, actors, poets, novelists, movie producers and musicians rent by a bloodless purge" based on: 1. Patent fears that the ideas and institutions of Soviet authoritarianism seem less vital and attractive even to young Russians than the ideas and institutions oL western, or "capitalist," liberalism.

Would Oust "Alien" Ideas 2. A determination, accordingly, to rid Soviet literature, drama and music of all "alieri influences" and, besides making them ideologically pure, convert them into instruments of propaganda warfare against the western democracies. Stalin and his Foreign Minister, Molotov, share responsibility for this Campaign, which began as World War II ended. Bothare members of the Communist party hierarchy, the Orghjiro, which is superintending the purification of the intellectuals, and Stalin, kingpin of both the party and the Gov ernment, personally initiated the process. He is the man who on April 9 told the Republican presidential aspirant from Minnesota that "I am not a propagandist but a busi nesslike man, professing faith in the possibility of Russo-American co-operation." "Let us not criticize mutually BRITISH GO TO FAIR, BUT NOT AS BUYERS Most Articles Found Marked 'For Export Only' By LEE McCARDELL London Bureau of The Sunl London, May 5 Britons today went to another fair to look at things they could not buy.

"For ex port only was the sign on many exhibitors' stands. It was the British Industries Fair, a prewar annual trade exhibition being held for the first time since 1939. The heavy industries section of the fair is at Birming ham, ihe rest of it Is here in Lon don. More than 3,000 exhibitors, most ly manufacturers, showing every thing from steam engines to silk worms, have bought up all avail able floor space. Foreign buyers from 65 countries are expected to attend the two sections of the fair where guides and interpreters speaking thirteen languages are at their service.

No Special Formality In the absence of the roval fam ily, which usually opens such shows, the first spectators were ad mitted at half past nine this morn ing without any formality beyond unlocked turnstiles. The British knack at staginn spectacles Miowed off to good ad vantage both here in London where the fair is housed partly at the Olympia and partly at Earl's Court, two of the largest exhibition buildings in the world, and at Birmingham where it occupied the Aero drome buildings at Castle Brom- wich. Baby Carriages Shown The architectural theme at the Olympia was that of an old English fair with striped awnings and tented pavilions filling the main floor. Exhibitors stands overflowed what is known as the grand hall, about thelze of the 5th Regiment Armory, it to two smaller halls. Toys, games and baby carriages, important divisions of British industry, occupied the second and third floors.

There was everything at the Olympia from a 4,000,000 candle-power light, to replace one removed by the Germans from the lighthouse in Norway, to engraved calling cards in all languages. Tex tiles, tne largest single section of the fair, filled the ground floor at bans Court with color. Some Orders Taken A pure business proposition, the fair includes no midway. Its most popular attractions seem to be the Court of Color at Earl's Court, a draped textile display banked with flowers and brilliantly illuminated, and the upstairs fashion theater where mannequins parade in 95 models of suits and evening gowns. While much of the goods on exhibit, even that for export only, is available only in limited quantities, manufacturers' representatives said delivery prospects on most lines being shown range from "reasonable to good." In some cases orders were, taken without any prices being quoted.

Group Would Delay Greek Aid Until UJS. Has Chance To Act Bradley Hits Al Buck-Passing, Calls For More Efficiency In VA By ROBFRT W. RUTH Washington Bureau of The Sun By WILLIAM KNIGHTON. 3X1. Bureau of The Sun Washington.

May 5 Onnonents of the $400,000,000 Greco-Turkish-aid legislation in the House aD- peared today to be rallying behind a move to force a postponement of the program until the United Nations decided whether or not it will take jurisdiction. If the international organization declines, then it is expected that the group will propose that the whole matter be reconsidered by Congress. The proposal is likely to be sub mitted to the lower chamber in the form of a substitute to the present bill, and "Truman Doctrine" backers claim its adoption would be tantamount to killing Debate Delayed In House The House was scheduled to start debate today on the important and controversial subject of halting the spread of communism, but it adjourned after a short time out of respect to Representative Charles L. Gerlach who died this morning. But the Democratic leadership did not allow the day to be wasted.

Area "whips" were counting noses for and against the legislation and attempting to swing those who were on the fence over to support ing tne program. Washington, May 5 Gen. Omar N. Bradley, disturbed at buck-passing and incompetence within the Veterans Administration, today put his top deputies on notice that a new high-production period has just begun under which negligence or inefficiency will not be tolerated. In addition, he asserted he would ask Congress for $7,000,000,000 for the next fiscal year, when 20 cents out of each Federal tax dollar wili go for veterans' benefits.

In a message to all assistant and deputy adninistrators, the VA chief declaled that his agency has just arisen from its "emergency growth" during which speed in dispensing assistance to veterans was given priority over "penny-wise administration." Says There Was "Some Waste" In consequence, he remarked, there Mas "some waste, some inefficiency, and some extravagance." The veterans administrator, who is scheduled to' appear tcfoxe the A preliminary estimate was to.