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Evening star., 1949-07-30
Ground Breaking Set
For Jewish Center

Ground breaking ceremonies for
a new Jewish Community Center
for residents of Montgomery
County and Northwest Washing
ton will be held at $3.50 pm. to-
morrow at the building site, East
West highway and Meadowbrook
lane. Silver Spring.
The two-story brick building
will include IA classrooms, two
large meeting rooms and game
rooms. A synagogue and gymnas-
ium are to be added to the
structure later. Completion Of
the $4,000 project is expected in
about five months.
Officiating at the ceremony will
be Myer Freyman. who has been
president of Montgomery County
Jewish Community, Inc. since its
formation two years ago.
Rabbi Henry Tavel of the Office
of the Chief of Chaplains, United
States Army, will deliver the in
vocation.
More than 400 families con-
tributed to the building fund.
Max Barth and Norman Kertz-
man were architects.
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Corby Tract to Be Auctioned;
Site of Proposed Luxury Hotel

firm announced plans to build a
/ ,0O0-room hotel on the tract, as
we'll as a golf course, tennis courts
and a swimming pool. In May,
1916. the property was rezoned to
permit erection of the proposed
hotel with the provision that the
land would revert to its original
residential A classification if cen
struction did not start within 30
months. ....
Construction never did get
under way and the land is now
zoned for single-family detached
homes.
Under terms of the auction, the
purchaser is to pay all cash, with
a $4,000 deposit required at the
time of sale. The balance must
be paid within five days after the
sale is approved by Circuit Court.
Trustees in charge of the sale
are Robert Peter. Rockville attor-
ney, and William K. Copenhaver,
president of the Suburban Title g.
Investment Corp, 925 Fifteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Falls Church Opens Bids
ION New Wafer Tank

The Falls Church Council has
received bids on construction Of
,000-gallon water tank near
Seven Corners.
The tank. with a pumping sta
ton at the same location, will in
crease the water, supply to the
Leesburg pike and Lee boulevard
areas west of the city and also
will serve an adjacent section Of
Arlington.
The tank will be built just east
of Wilson boulevard and Wilston.
apartment project now under con-
struction near the Arlington
County line.
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.
of Pittsburgh, submitted low bid
of $33,990 on the elevated steel
tank.
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Soil District Supervisors
To Meet at MARYLAND U

The supervisors of Maryland S
% soil conservation districts will
meet at the University of Mary
land next week for their annual
conference.
The one-day affair will be held
Thursday in the new agricultural
building.
Speakers include William A.
Minor, assistant to the Secretary
of Agriculture, and Kemp Leavitt,
president of the National Asso-
citation of Soil Conservation Dis
trictS.
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Arlington Church Of Air
Announces Broadcasts

The Arlington Church OF the
Air will broadcast the morning
services of the Arlington Church
of the Nazarene and the Westover
Baptist Church at II am. tomor-
row.
The Rev. w. Barker Hardison
of the Westover Baptist Church
will be in charge of that broad
cast over Station WARL, and the
Rev. v. w. Littrell will conduct
the Nazarene Church broadcast
over Station WEAM.
Th Rev. Dana johnson of Res
direction Church will broadcast
at 8:45 am. each day next week
over Station WARL, and tn Rev.
j. William Hough of Walkers
Chapel Methodist Church will
speak at 1915 each day next week
over Station WEAM.
Evening star., 1949-07-30

The 120-acre Corby tract on the
Rockville pike near Bethesda, once
the proposed site of $4,000, 900
luxury hotel, will be sold at auc-
ton at 4 pm. August II in front
of the Montgomery County Court
house in Rockville.
= The sale was ordered because OF
the failure of Diplomat PROPERTIES,
Inc, New York, which bought the
land about five years ago. to make
necessary payments on its mort
gage.
One of the firms members was
Benjamin F. Fields. who figured
in the congressional investiga-
tions of Murray Carson. Howard
Hughes and former Representa-
tive Andrew j. May.
The property is located at the
intersection of the Rockville pike
and the Garrett Park road. dag
onally opposite Georgeton Prepar-
atory School,.
After it was sold in the fall of
1914 for slightly more than $780,
| 900 to Diplomat Properties, that
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Bar Practice
Curbs Lifted
In Montgomery
Lebowitz Suit RuIino
Allows D. c. Lawyers
To Appear in County

Montgomery County Circuit
Court yesterday rescinded it's six
year-old rule restricting practice
before the court to members of
the Montgomery bar.
The order, signed by Judges
Charles w. Woodward. Stedman
Prescott and Patrick M. Schnauf-
fer. has particular significance for
Maryland attorneys who have Of
fees in Washington.
Under an old rule, these attor-
neys, if qualified before the Mary
land Court of Appeals. could ap-
pear in Montgomery County Cir
cult Court only if they were asso-
ciated with a Montgomery bar
member.
To be eligible for membership
in the Montgomery bar, a Mary
land attorney must maintain a
bona f1de Office in the county and
spend a reasonable part of his
working days" there in the prac-
tice of law.
Rules in Lebowitz Suit.
The courts ruling yesterday
was on suit brought by Louis
Lebowitz. Prince Georges County
and Washington attorney.
Mr. Lebowitz's action, filed last
May, grew out of the refusal Of
the court clerk to accept his ap-
pearance in a civil suit for $40, 900
damages. He argued the rule was
unconstitutional and restrictive.
In place of the old rule, the
court ordered its clerk to receive
no suits unless they contained the
names and addresses of the per-
sons filing them as we'll as the
names and addresses of their at
torneys. This, it was explained.
would enable the court to serve
necessary papers more easily.
Purpose Recalled.
In their decision, the three
judges recalled that the purpose
VI IllC uIC was " IldNC SOlIlC OllC
within reasonable reach" upon
whom papers could be served. thus
avoiding delay and inconvenience
to other parties involved. A SINH
lar rule now is in effect in Dis
trict Court. the judges noted.
They explained, however, that
their rule is no longer necessary
because of a rule adopted in No
vember, 1947. by the Maryland
Court of Appeals, which requires
the person filing a suit to fur
nish his address and the name
and address of his lawyer.
This is Statewide and drasti-
cally changed the former prac-
tice in Maryland" the Mont
gomery court declared. 1T cor
rects nearly all of the deficiencies
this court had in mind when it
adopted this rule"
Evening star., 1949-07-30
You and the D. G. SuIes Tax
Merchants Must Keep Accounts
On Taxed Sales, Report Monthly
lSepenth of a SerieS.J

@. In most cases, will vendor!
be put to much extra trouble OF
expense keeping sales tax records;
A. Some sales tax officials be-
lieve the average business car
absorb the extra booking ant
auditing work without expanding
its office force.
@. What if the customer re-
fuses to pay a sales tax in ac.
cordance with legal requirements
A. The merchant has the same
recourse at law as he would have
for any collectable debt.
! @. What is the procedure fol
registration of chain stores?
A. Each unit must register
separately, but the returns for al
may be treated jointely.
Semi-Public Institutions.
@. Must semi-public institu.
tions register?
A. Yes. even though the trans
action for which the institutions
were founded are tax-eXempt
they are required to register te
cover any other type of retail
sales.
@. What is a semi-public insti.
tuition
A. 1t is any corporation, COM
munity chest, fund or foundation
organized exclusively for religious
scientific. charitable or educa.
tional purposes, Including hospi-
tals,> no part of the net earnings
of which inures to the benefit
of any private shareholder or in.
dividual.
Peddlers Must Register.
@. Are hucksters and street
vendors required to register?
A. Yes. Even peddlers who drop
in only for a few days, following
circuses and the like, must have
registration certificates.
@. Must street photographers
register?
| A. Even though their product is
not taxable to the consumer
photographers must register, for
there is tax on the materials
they buy for their work. This tax
may be passed on to the consumer
in the price of the commodity.
@. A tradesman leases booth
in retail store. Does he register?
! A. Yes. he should file for a
registration certificate, even
though, through some arrange
ment, the store pays his tax bill.
Tomorrow: The regulations
as to installment and lay-a1Day
| buying and other problems.)
Evening star., 1949-07-30

I asked them if they would mind
coming out and helping us fry an
egg on the sidewalk.
The women looked down their
noses and walked on in silence.
Finally we stopped attractive
Mrs. Annette Hanna. %. who
works in the Office of Senator
Baldwin, Republican, of Connec-
ticut.
Yes, I'll do it," she said. But
if I'm arrested you'll have to bail
me out. This sounds a little
risky" I pooh-poohed this idea
and we got in the car.
Egg Slithers Away.
We drove until we found a
midget car. The top was as hot
as anything in town, and it was
low enough for a good picture
Mrs. Hanna posed and then broke
our last egg. The flash bulb
popped. Our faces fell as the egg
slithered from the roof and to the
sidewalk. Mrs. Hannas hands
were covered with egg and more
of it was added to my handker-
chief.
We needed more eggs. so we
drove to a market and bought hall
a dozen. The place was crowded
and hot, and I had to wait II
minutes while thirsty customers
bought soft drinks.
It was Mrs. Hanna's birthday
and her good spirits helped us
stick to the task at hand. We
agreed that nothing in town could
be any hotter then a manhole
cover on the sidewalk on the east
side of the Capitol. We sweltered
in the heat. The cover was just
hot enough to make you not want
to keep your hand on it. BY this
time the temperature was 95.
Mrs. Hanna broke two eggs in
the center of the cover. We stood
back and waited for two fried
sunny -side-up.
~. Policeman Vetoes Idea.
Up walked Pvt. Bob Wallace. a
Capitol policeman. We edged away
from the eggs.
What are you doing?" he asked
"Oh. we thought we'd try to fry
an egg on the sidewalk" I replied
Well. think you'd better not
do that" he replied. mopping his
brow. He walked off without
noticing the eggs. We drove off
The eggs had been in the un.
bearable heat for fully half ar
hour. We looked at them as We
drove by.
A few bubbles had formed ir
the still gooey eggs. There was
one consolation, however.
Those bubbles mean that the
eggs are at least warm" said Mrs
Hannah, an experienced housewife
Editors note: Although the
egg uithstood the heat, Mr..
Mcdonnell didn't. He phoned
the city editor today he
couldn't report for ,Uork. The
heat had him.
Evening star., 1949-07-30

pm. in a field off Good Luck road,
about ee-quarters OF mile
from Schrom Airport, Greenbelt.
Both men were thrown clear OF
the plane and we're killed in
stantly, according to Prince
Georges County police.
Gas Tanks Empty.
Policeman Lee Humphrey said
there was no fire and a check OF
the crafts two wing tanks showed
both were empty. He said the
plane, believed to have been pl-
loted by. the sailor. was en- route
to Greenbelt from Hyde flelo'
Clinton. Md.
Mr.. Pumphrey quoted George
Jackson, a nearby tenant farmer, !,
as saving he saw the Fairchild
PT-23 when it was about $50 feet
in the air. He said Mr.. jackson
told him the plane suddenly "dived
straight down." with the right
wing striking the earth first.
Mr.. Yanka. civilian machlnSt
at the Naval Ordnance Labora-
tory, White Oak. Md. had a pilots
license for about three years. the
policeman said. He added the
sailor was a student pilot and
formerly lived at 2016 Sixteenth
street Sc.
Served in Germany.
Mr.. Yanka, a native of WASH
ington, served during the war as a
combat infantryman with the 7th
Army in Germany TO rabout a
year.
He had lived in Greenbelt since
his Army discharge three years
ago. and had been taking flight
training under the CT bill to OBJ
tain an instructors license, his
family said.
Mr.. Yanka is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Frances Yanka; two
children, Joseph K, jr.. 7, and
Robert, 6, and his mother, Mrs.
Cecilia Yanka. 1927 Van Buren
street. University Park. Md.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed. !;
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Evening star., 1949-07-30
By Ted Mcdowell

AS many times as reporters nave
tried to fry eggs on the sidewalk
you'd think it would be an easy
job. especially on a day like yes
terday.
With the mercury dancing ir
the COS. everyone thought it woulo
be an easy job. That's what they
thought.
A photographer and I started
out at 1890 pm. when the tenn
perature was 90 degrees. I got
two eggs from the lunchroom or
the ninth floor of the Star Build.
ing. They looked fresh and just
right for frying on hot sidewalk
We drove to the Senate Office
Building in search of an attractive
girl to break the eggs for the pho.
tographer.
I'D better take the eggs intt
the building. You take your cam
era, too," I said to photographer
John Horan. Then people will
KNOW we dTeQ klUUlIlS.
One Egg Eliminated.
I put one of the eggs in my
pocket and started to crawl ou'
of the car. Just as I Strengthened
up the door swung shut. There
was a crunching sound in my left
coat pocket. Egg white soaked
through to the outside of the
coat. I reached into the pocket
and pulled out a crushed shell
and the yolk. I picked up the
remaining egg and carried it in
my hand.
We continued on our mission
and entered the aforementioned
Office building. Soon we spotted
three women, any one of them
capable of the egg-breaking role.
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Third Winchester Case
OF Polio Reported
SpeeiaI Dispatch TO The Star

WINCHESTER, Va, July 30
A third case of infantile paralysis
has been reported to the CITY,
county health unit, according to
DR.. J. w. Still, health officer in
charge. Mary C. Hodgson, IL
year -old daughter of I. S. Hodg-
son, has been removed to the
Medical College of Virginia Hos
pital in Richmond for treatment.
Two previous cases developed
last week just beyond the city
limits here The earlier cases are
also at the Richmond hospital.
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Virqinia Power Workers
Ask Contract Discussion
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 30-The
Utility Workers Union has asked
for a meeting with Virginia Elec-
trio & Porwer Co. officials on Au-
gust % to discuss changes in a
contract expiring September 80.
The proposed revisions affect
Office, clerical, technical, profess
sional and scientific workers con-
nected with the unaffiliated union.
Copies of letters to power COM
pany officials from Brodie S. Hern-
don, union secretary. we're received
today by Gov. Tuck's office.
Evening star., 1949-07-30

Consolation seeking sales TAX
payers should consider the plight
of the merchant. He not only will
pay the tax as a consumer. but
he must set up the bookkeeping
necessary for filing monthly and
annual returns on the 2 per cent
gross receipts levy.
Even though sales tax officials
are allowing wide latitude in
systems of accounting, enough
confusion already has developed
to assure a heavy aspirin sale
before the machinery is working
smoothly everywhere.
1t is the vendor against whom
the sales tax actually is directed.
He is responsible for turning in
2 per cent of his gross receipts
on taxable sales. But the law also
requires him to collect this tax
from the consumer.
Law Requires Registration.
Every person engaged in selling
taxable property and services is
required to register with the as
SCISSOR, under penalty of fine. Sales
tax officials expect more than
that. They intend that even
wholesalers should register on the
assumption that all such dealers
sometimes make retail sales to
friends or business acquaintance.
Both by their neglect in filing for
registration certificates and by the
questions they are asking, many
retailers are exhibiting an igno-
rance of the new law. These
questions and answers may be OF
help both to, them and the gen.
eral public:
@. Must out-of town businesses
apply for registration?
A. Any business outside the Dis
trict that deals in taxable trans
actions inside the District must be
registered.
@. How often should sales and
Iuse tax returns be made to the
District assessor?
A. A monthly return must be
made by the goth of each month
for the preceding months busl'
ness. An annual return must be
filed by the 3Oth day after the ap-
plicable tax year.
Forms Mailed.
@. How does the retailer obtain
tax return forms?
A. They are mailed to him the
first of each month by the Asses
sor. They are not furnished in any
other way.
@. What information is required
on the returns by the Assessor?
A. The vendor needs to make
only three entries obtained from
his books: % His gross receipts
for the month, less tax returns,
90 cost of property acquired sub
ject to use tax and 90 a total OF
exempt and taxable sales.
@. What records must the re-
taller keep to show his gross re-
ceipts and sales tax deductions?
A. Any system desired, so long
as it will support and prove any
element of the return to the salts
faction of sales tax officials.
@. When is the first tax return
due to be filed?
A. The first return is due Sep
tember 20. Retailers should make
their tax payments by check or
money order, payable to Collector
of Taxes, District of Columbia.
@. The consumer pays no tax on
purchases under IA cents. How
does the retailer compute this
bracket in his returns?
A. He must include items from
to IA cents in his total gross re-
ceipts and pay tax on them.
Cannot Pay Tax.
O. Can the vendor advertise
that he is paying the tax for the
consumer?
A. No, it is unlawful to advertise
or to grant such concession.
Each offense is punishable by a
$500 fine, six months in jail, or
both.
Evening star., 1949-07-30

men were killed
Dead are Jo-
seph K. Yanka
%, of~ 53-G
r i d ge road
Greenbelt. ano
John M. Brug
81, a Navy pho
t o g ra p h e r. S
mate sc, sta
toned at the
Naval Air Sta
ton, Anacostia
who was from
the Bronx, N. Y,
The crash oc-
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Senafe Unit Set
Combine Two
Federal Pay Bills
High Level Executives,
Classified Service
Measure Pending

mittee has virtually decided to
combine into one measure two
separate bills to raise salaries of
both high-level Federal executives
and the classified service.
Senator Long, Democrat, of
Louisiana, subcommittee chair
man, announced this tentative de-
cision at the end of a meeting of
his group late yesterday.
Another session of the subcom-
mittee will be held Monday morn
ing, he said, to take final action
and prepare a report for the full
Civil Service Committee meeting
Tuesday
Declaring he personally favors
combining the two bills, Senator
Long emphasized such an i'm
portant move must be a policy
decision to be reached by the full
committee.
Final Decision Not Reached.
| Other members of the subcom-
mittee said no final decision was
reached at the meeting yesterday,
but they indicated this was the
trend of thinking in the unit.
In Senator Longs opinion both
the high level bill and the classi-
fed bill deserve to be passed.
Carrying pay raises for the two
separate groups of Federal en-
ployes, he said there would be
disparity if the top bracket
bill were passed without the other.
For instance, he said, pay re-
visions in the high-level bill stop
at $4,000 minimum. This would
give increases to some Federal Off
cials but would leave without
raise other officials with similar
responsibility who are in The
classified service.
Cites Example.
An example of this, he ex-
planned, is the classified post of
commissioner of internal reve-
nue.. which now carries salary
of $4,000. But the commissioner
has jurisdiction and responsible
ity equal to that of some officials
in the top brackets. who would
get an increase to $4,000, Sena-
tor Long said.
1T is hard to draw sny line"
he said, so it would be better,
and fairer to put the two bills to-
gether"
Some opposition has come to
combining the two bills on ac-
count of the heavy expense in
volved. The high-level bill, on
which President Truman ard other
Administration officials have been
insisting, would cost something
over $1,000,000. But the larger
measure for the classified service
is estimated to cost around $780,
100000. Some economy aGvo-
Gates are expected to oppose COM
dining the two.
Discuss Salary Levels.
General discussions at the sub
committee meeting yesterday
leaned toward fixing the high
level salaries along this line.
Cabinet officers, and Paul Hoff-
man, head of ECA, $4,000.
Urdersecretaries in the cabi-
net. and the head OF the housing
and Home Finance Agency, $40
600.
Heads of the Federal Housing
Administration, Public Housing
Administration, and the Home
Owners Loan Corp. $4,000.
Heads of the RFC, Federal Re
serve Board. and Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp, $4,000. :.
Meanwhile, pending on the
House side of the Capitol. hear
ings are under way on classifi-
cation bill by a House Civil Serv-
f., ice Subcommittee. This unit will
resume hearings Monday morn
ing
Evening star., 1949-07-30
CAB officials Probe
GreenbeIt Air Crash
Killing Two Men

Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton officials are investigating the
crash of a two-seater plane near
Greenbelt last night, in which two
Evening star., 1949-07-30
Heating Plant Bids Sought

RICHMOND, Va, July 80 (P.-
Gov. Tuck yesterday approved
working drawings and authorized
call for bids for a new heating
plant at Mary Washington College
at Fredericksburg