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Evening star., 1949-07-31
(See WEATHER, Page A-3.
President CooIs Off in Pool
AT Mountain-Top Retreat
BY the Associated Press

President Truman yesterday
spent an hour and a half in or
near the cooling waters of his
mountain top swimming pool at
Thurmont, Md.
The White House reported that
Mr.. Truman arose at 6 am, took
walk befor breakfast and then,
after reading the papers, headed
for the pool, which is a special
attraction at the presidential re-
treat in Western Maryland.
The President Is scheduled to
return today.
Evening star., 1949-07-31
Probers Quiz MaragoT,
On Financial Dealings,
Source Of His Income
Questioned Third Day
In Row in Inquiry Into
Five Percenters' Here
MEN WITH know Who" To Be
Target OF Senate Five Per
Center" Probe. Page Al.

Senate Investigators inquiring
into the operations of influence
peddling five per centers" are
scrutinizing the financial trans
of John Maragon. Senate
sources disclosed last night.
Mr.. Maragcn. whose friends
extend from Capitol Hill to the
White House, has undergone
three days of secret questioning
by the committe but has revealed
only that his personal affairs
have been under question.
One of the members of the
Senate Investigations Subcommit-
tee which has been delving into
the activities of Washington
agents who sell influence rather
than ability disclosed that Mr.
Maragon has been questioned
about his bank accounts, fees, ex-
pense accounts, income tax re.
turns and financial dealings.
Asked Source of Funds.
Another committee source sale
MIR. Maragon has been asked how
much money he has accumulated
and where it came from.
For years, Mr.. Maragon. a Sc.
year-old Malta born ex-bootblack
has been a familiar figure at the
Capitol. He calls dozens of Sena-
tors by their first names. He re-
portedly held a White House pas.
and parking privileges until Pres.
ident Truman heard about it.
But, as one committee member
put it, no one seems to know what
he does for a living and no Other
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Evening star., 1949-07-31
Roosevelt Granddaughter
Expects Child This Week
By the Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore, July 3d.
The birth of the first great-grand-
child of President Roosevelt is ex-
pected next week.
Van H. Seagraves, husband OF
the former Eleanor (Sistie) Dahl,
disclosed his wife expected to en-
ter hospital here then.
It will be the first child for the
couple, who met while attending
Reed College here. They were
married last year.
Mrs. Seagraves is the daughter
of Mrs. Anna Eleanor Boettiger.
AS children, she and her brother
Curtis (Buzzie) Dahl, were White
House favorites.
Evening star., 1949-07-31
National Guard Plane
Toxis Into AirIiner
With % PASSENGERS
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 80. - A
taxing National Guard train
er plane rammed a loaded
American Airlines DC-6 at
the Chicago Municipal Air.
port tonight. No one was in
jured.
Both the military plane and
the big transport, warming up
its four engines, were slight
ly damaged.
The % passengers on the
DC-6, Americans Flight 13l
bound from Chicago to New
York. took off later in An
other ship.
Evening star., 1949-07-31
Kefauver CHALLENGES
City Heads Objection
To His Home Rule Bill
Full House DC. Committee
May Have to Decide Issue
Of CopitoI Government
By Don S. Worren

Belief that the Washington
home rule issue would be sent to
the full House District Committee
for decision. rather than be bot
tied up in its Judiciary Subcom-
mittee, was voiced yesterday al
the Capitol.
This prediction of some kind OF
subcommittee action, from one
usually well-informed House
source, came as Senator Kefauver
Democrat, of Tennessee, author Of
the Senate-passed bill. challenged
four major objections raised by
the District Commissioners.
The Kefauver bill, passed May
81 by the Senate. is one of severa.
measures for an elected and re-
organized city government here
pending before the District Ju-
dietary Subcommittee Of the
House.
On the House side. there was
no definite promise Of action at
this session.
Consideration Possible.
But the optimistic view taken
by one Capitol source gave rise to
new hope that it still might be
possible for the District suffrage
issue to 60 to the House before
the end of this session.
What is to be done is to be
considered one day this week by
the Judiciary Subcommittee. Rep
resentative Harris of Arkansas,
subcommittee chairman in charge
of the suffrage bills. yesterday
tentatively scheduled an execu-
tive meeting of his group for
Wednesday.
Il hope it will be possible to
meet on that day." he said,
With public hearings ended last
Wednesday, as he had scheduled
the course of public debate, he
withheld any personal comments
or predictions as to what might
happen, or when.
In answer to questions as to
what action might be taken next,
he said he would have no state
ment at least until he had con-
suited with other members of
the Judiciary Subcommittee. A
majority of the seven members OF
the group is reported to have
been opposed to any plan for an
elected city government.
Kefauver Reply Noted.
The Kefauver reply, like the
city heads criticisms, is to be
inserted in the official record of
the Harris Subcommittee hear
ings.
Senator Kefauver, attacking ar
See HOME RIT.E Page A-2)
Evening star., 1949-07-31
5 With Shotguns Bias
Dance Hall Attacked
By Slain Radioman
Commentator Asserted
Texan Who jailed Self
In Murder Owned Place
By the Associoied Press

ALICE. Tex. July 30.-Five
men blasted a dime-a dance pal
ace with shotgun fire before dawn
today, less than "a hours after
w. H. Mason, crusading radio
commentator. had been slain.
The dance hall was unoccupied
at the time.
MI. Mason had criticized opera
tion of the establishment in radio
broadcasts and stated it was owned
by Sam Smithwick, 60-year-old
deputy sheriff.
Smithwick is in jail. charged
with murder in connection with
Mr.. Mason's death. Smithwick
jailed himself after the shooting
yesterday.
Public feeling ran high in this
South Texas oil and cattle town
near the great King Ranch. Three
Texas Rangers patrolled the COM
munity to preserve order.
Son to Continue Program.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Masons o.
year-old son. Burton Mason, said
he hoped and planned to continue
his fathers program. Bill Ma
son Speaks" over some radio sta
ton. possibly one in Corpus
Christi, Tex.
Young Mason said the program
would not be on station KBkI in
Alice where his father spoke since
the management had said it
seemed inadvisable at this time.
The son said he was leaving his
own program on KBKI. "Duval
Doings," to carry on his fathers
work.
"Ihe good done would be un-
done if the prog gram is not con-
tinued," he said. Then, so many
people have said they want it."
Rangers Call for Order.
The raid, by five men in two
automobiles. occurred early this
morning, Ben Kruger. a ranger,
said.
Mr.. Kruger and Rangers Tully
Seay. Carrizo Springs, and Joe
Bridges, Falfurrias, issued stern
warning this afternoon, calling for
public order.
The three have been patroling
Alice since last night. Rumors
continue that Smithwick will be
moved to another city.
District Attorney Sam Reams
said Smithwick had made no at
tempt to obtain his freedom.
Mr.. Reams added dryly: Il
think if I were Smithwick. ]
wouldn't mind staying in jail a
few days"
Mr.. Mason. 81, who officers said
was unarmed, was shot yesterday
as he sat in his automobile on
the southwestern edge of Alice, in
an industrial section.
Mr.. Mason was the program
director of KBKI and veteran
newspaperman who had worked
on newspapers throughout the
United States. He. had joked
often on his daily broadcast about
threats he said he received fire.
quently by mail and telephone.
Officers, recalled another Incl
dent, five months ago. involving
Evening star., 1949-07-31
12-Degree Drop
In Hour Here
Follows Squa||
Storm Is Forerunner
Of Cooler Weather
Promised Today

tumbled temperatures here IL
degrees in an hour last night and
was the forerunner, the Weather
Bureau promised, of at least two
days respite from Washington
heat wave. after six steaming days
OF temperatures in the COS.
Yesterdays high was 96 at :
pm. 1t was not a record but it
was not far from it. The top for
July 80 is 81 degrees. recorded in
1913 and again in 1881.
At 7 pm. the thermometer had
grudglngly given way to 80 de-
grees-and then came relief.
The breeze shifted from south
to northwest and became a wind
OF 80 to 35 miles an hour. There
was fair amount of rain in
downtown Washington and heavier
falls elsewhere in the area. There
was 4 downpour with hail at
Gaithersburg, Md.
sunny and Less Humid.
BY 7:30 the temperature had
dropped to 81, and it slipped an
additional three degrees by 8
o'clock.
The forecast for today and to-
morrow, less humid and with the
highest temperature about s6. The
lowest tonight should be about
66, according to the forecaster.
Relief came last night after q
day which saw four more deaths
listed as probably caused by the
heat. There were five deaths in
which the heat was believed to
have been a contributing factor.
Seven heat victims were taken to
hospitals, four remaining for
treatment. On Friday, 20 per-
sons were treated at hospitals
here for heat exhaustion.
Wires Blown Down.
When last nights wind and rain
arrived, several trees were toppled
over and wires blown down. A
wire blown down at Foxhall road
NV. and the Cabin John trolley
line put part of the Spring Valley
and FoXhall areas in darkness.
At Bladensburg there was
power failure during the storm
when an automobile hit a pole
carrying high tension wires. A
couple of feeder lines were knocked
out Of service.
The expected cooler weather to-
day and tomorrow would be the
gift of the Midwest to the Sea-
board. Cooler air has been spread
ing over the upper part of the
Nation, working its way gradually
east.
Last nights relief was attributed
to the rain and the northwest
wind was expected to bring the
cooler air today.
Last Death Just Before Drop.
Yesterdays last heat death
came just a short time before the
temperature drop.
Mrs. Carrie E. Du Vail, 10, was
found unconscious in her apart
ment at 1910 Sixteenth street
NV. by her son, Edwin L. Du Vail. -
She was pronounced dead at
Emergency Hospital. The hospi-
tai said her death probably was
caused by the heat.
Joseph w. Green, so, 1000
Girard street NV, a Premier Cab
Co. employe. was found uncon-
scious in his bedroom early yes
terday and died shortly after he
was taken to Gallinger Hospital.
Simeon F. Denty, 65, colored,
1903 Fifth street NV, was found
unconscious at the Yale Laundry,
437 New York avenue NV.
where he was employed as .
watchman. He was dead when an
ambulance arrived.
Earl Lucas, A, colored, of 258
Division avenue NE. died early
yesterday at Gallinger Hospital
and Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald said his death was caused
(See WEATuEP poo. Ao1
Evening star., 1949-07-31
|2Pct. Sales Tax
Goes IntoE Effect
AT Midnight
Some Confusion Likely
As Merchants Begin
Collecting Pennies
BY Hermon F. Schoden


The sales tax comes to Wash
ington at midnight tonight, intro
ducing enough new subject mat
ter to relegate even the weather
to second place among topics OF
conversation.
Like the weather, the sales tax
will be felt by all. 1t will take a
2-cent slice out of every mans
dollar except those spent on non
taxed items.
In a full years time enough
tax pennies will have dropped into
the till to register $13,5O0 900
which. with other new taxes being
imposed tomorrow, will give the
District $18,000,OOO with which to
balance its budget.
Other New Taxes.
Besides the 2 per cent levy on
sales, with the notable exceptions
OF food for off-the- premises con-
sumption and drugs, these other
taxes will be levied for the first
time tomorrow:
l. One cent on a pack of 2C
cigarettes: 3 cents on boxes of SO.
and S cents on boxes of 100.
2. Two per cent excise tax Oh
the fair market price of any auto
mobile at time title is obtained.
8. Fifty per cent increase in
liquor licenses, which with other
new burdens, will increase bottle
costs from 5 to cents. On top
OF this will go the sales tax.
But there's one touch OF good
news to tint the bad. Although
there has been no official declara-
ton. most observers believe the
sales tax is deductible on Federal
income tax returns and the Dis
trict assessor is studying the same
applicability to the District in
come tax. ~
Third Of Applications In.
If the confusion tomorrow fol-
lows the pretaxation trend of the
past two months, the Sales Tax
Division of the Assessors Office is
in for a rough day.
On the basis of Board of Trade
figures, about 10000 retailers and
others classed as vendors under
the act were expected to apply
for registration certificates.
At the close of business Friday.
9,293 applications had drifted i'll.
During the day the Sales Tax Of
flee mailed out the first of the
certificates. some $500 merchants
getting them.
Regardless of whether they have
applied for registration OF have
received their certificates, all re-
tailers selling taxable property are
expected to begin collecting the
tax from their customers at mid
night.
Won't Invoke Filing Penalty.
BY the same token, all dealers
buying from suppliers for resale
must present some kind of memo
randum in lieu of the required
resale certificate, exempting tie
dealers from paying a tax. In
every case. when the dealer is
assigned his certificate number. he
should forward it to. the supplier
for his records, sales tax officials
said.
Failure to file registration ap-
plication by midnight tonight
technically carries 500 fine, as
penalty.
But because of the apparent
confusion and because the Sales
Tax Act did not allow sufficient
time to process applications, Sales
Tax Director Allan F. Brooke said
the penalty would not be invoked
at this time.
However, he warned retailers to
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(See MASON, Page A-4)
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Radio Programs, Poee C-8
Complete Index, Pose AZ
Evening star., 1949-07-31

(See B-36, Page A-21
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iSee ARMS, Page A-3D
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See FIVE PER CENTERS. Pg. A.
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(See HOME RULE, Page A-2D
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(See CRASH, Page A-50
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Weather Forecast

Mostly sunny. less humid and cooler
today and tomorrow with highest tenn
perature around 86 in the afternoons and
lowest tonight about 66.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
vitamins and soap the next" she

vitamins and soap the next" she
recalled.
Starting '.Buy-Lines'' really
was a three-way selling Job. First,
Miss Sasser lined up her news.
papers. which wasn't too easy
But they were a breeze, compared
to the national advertising agen-
cies. Advertisers, it seems, just
weren't interested in being the
"bellwether of a new medium" /"
as one Of them put it. when
you get started, come back and
let us know" they would say.
It was then that Miss Sasser
learned about such things as
financial credit" She got a call
one day from Dun & Brad
street representative, who said
they'd had requests for her finan-
cial statement. I'D be delighted
to give it to you," Miss Sasser re-
piled. But just what is a financial
statement? And what is Dun
g. Bradstreet?"
The third selling job Of Buy
Lines" of course, was making
women buy the products it ad-
vertised. And the style Of the
column has inspired a good many
readers to write letters to Miss
SaSSer.
"One of our most amusing re-
quests came from a woman who
wanted to know if We could tell
her where to find nightgowns
Evening star., 1949-09-29
By Frances Lide
Womuns Club Editor

A North Carolina girl who made
good in the national advertising
field with q column Of chatty,
over er-the-back-fence type of copy
told her success story yesterday
to the Women's Advertising Club
OF Washington.
She is Nancy Sasser. author of
"Buy-Lines," which started out as
a local shopping column before it
was developed into a national ad-
vertising medium.
Miss SaSser warned her audi
ence that asking her to talk about
"Buy-Lines" was like asking a
mother to talk about her child.
"An '8-year-old child. in fact, for
it's celebrating its 9th anniver-
|sary this month";" she pointed out.
The column appears in 88 daily
and IS Sunday newspapers, in
cluding The Star, and is making
its debut in the October issues of
two national magazines, the Sat-
urday Evening Post and Ladies
Home Journal.
Launched in September. 1941.
Evening star., 1949-09-29

DEAR MISS DIX: My husband is
getting along well. but has not yet
reached the goal he has set for
himself. I have pleasant posi-
ton, doing just the sort of work
love and we are both wonderfully
happy, but my relatives feel that I
am disgracing myself and reflect
ing on my husbands ability to
support me because I 60 to busi-
ness. They claim that I am keep
ing some girl out of a position
who needs it more than I. claim
that my husband comes first, and
that it is my duty to help him all
I can. Also, that the more money
we earn, the more we can save
and the sooner we can afford a
family. Am I right?
MRS. S. T. G.
Answer: I consider that you are
perfectly right and that the way
a wife helps her husband is her
own affair. II she can help him
more by earning money than by
doing his cooking and washing
and ironing. she should keep on
with her job.
1t used to be that men had false
pride about their wives working
outside the home. But husbands
have come to take the modern
viewpoint and realize that there
is no more shame in a woman's
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Women's City Club
Give Card Party

The women's City Club will
give its first large card party Of
the season tomorrow at Z pm.
and 8 pm. at the clubhouse, 1888
I street NV.
The entertainment will be the
first Of several events planned to
raise funds for repairs, improve
ments and additions to the club
house.
Mrs. Donald s. Buck Is general
chairman, and Mrs. Ruth B.
Brooks. co-chairman Of the party.
Hostesses in the afternoon will be
Mrs. Lawrence Fortune and Miss
Lottie Anderson and evening
hostesses will include Mrs. Robert
j. Bates, Mrs. Ruth H. Snodgrass
and Mrs, Anne McDreW.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Dorothy Dix
Men Would Be Unfair to Ask Wives
To Give Up Successful Careers

making money to buy the bread
for her family than there is in
her making the bread itself. Also,
husbands have come to see that
there are many women born with
talent for some line of work, and
that it is not fair to ask such
women to give up the careers in
which they are successful to do
labor for which they have no turn.
There are many reasons why a
woman should keep on with her
work after marriage if she de-
sires and her husband is willing.
The main one Is, of course. that
1t enables young couples to marry
who would otherwise have to wait
until the bloom and freshness had
worm off their romance. For the
average young man can no more
afford the luxury of a wife than
he can a yacht, but with both
working together. they can marry
and not only live comfortably but
save toward buying a home. or
starting in business for them
selves.
AS for the contention that .
woman should give up her job
when she marries because some
other girl would like to have 1t,
that is as silly as saying that
every man should stop work as
soon as he is assured Of an income
that would provide him with
bread and butter.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Author Of 'Buy-Lines'
Tells Its Success Storv

with IS national advertisers signed
up for 13-week contracts, Buy
Lines" almost proved to be cas-
ualty Of the war. After the at
tack on Pearl Harbor. the con-
tracts for such items as electric
coasters were Cancelled one after
another.
leadership surveys, however,
showed it had an audience among
women. So Miss Sasser refused
to give up.
A large soap company was in
Producing a new product at the
time and the North Carolinian
managed to get a contract. But
that was just one account and
needed at least two," she said.
A vitanin company was inter-
ested but wasn't ready to adver-
tise. BY employing the unortho-
dox method Of telling the firm
that if they didn't advertise then,
there soon wouldn't be a Buy
Lines" Miss Sasser got her Sec
ond account.
For a long time after that the
column told about soap and vita
Minis one week, and then about
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Dance Will Honor
Miss Task Force

The Officers Service Club will
entertain at a dance tomorrow
night at the clubhouse, 1914
Twenty first street NV, In honor
of Miss Mary Lee Emerson, who
recently was crowned Miss Task
Force"
Miss Emerson, one Of the clubs
junior hostesses, Is, the daughter
of Comdr. and Mrs. S. D. I. Emer-
son and a great-granddaughter
Of Samuel D. Ingham. Secretary
of the Treasury under Andrew
Jackson.
Among those who have been
invited to attend the dance are
Capt. and Mrs. G. L. Cohr. Comdr.
w. E. Pomfrey and 1t. G.g) G.
York. About so members Of the
Naval Air Reserve Unit at Ana
costa also have been invited.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Wonnen's
Clubs
Soroptimists Hold
Advance Program on
Handicapped Week
By Frances Kuhn

IAN empty sleeve doesn't mean
an empty head" members Of the
Washington Soroptimist Club
were told yesterday in an advance
program on National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week."
William P. McCahill, assistant
to the chairman of the Presidents
Committee for the, observance
which will last through the first
week Of October, addressed the
club at luncheon at the Willard
Hotel.
Mr.. McCahill urged that there
be a greater public understand
ing of the problems of handi-
capped. "The American way of
doing things is to help others help
themselves" he stressed.
"Six million people in the
United States have physical han
dicaps." Mr.. McCahill declared.
'Ten per cent of them are looking
for work"
The speaker outlined the OBJ
jectives Of the physically handi-
capped employment program as
the promotion of employer ac-
ceptance Of qualified handicapped
workers, finding jobs for handi-
capped workers, safeguarding the
jobs they already have. promotion
Of rehabilitation and training for
jobs for handicapped persons now
unemployed, and informing all
such persons Of the services avail
able to them.
Those who come under the pro-
gram are disabled veterans, those
injured in industry. and in other
types Of accidents, persons dis
abled by illness and those who were
born with Affections.
Helping the disabled to get out
Of the "shadowland" and back into
active life, is one Of the primary
aims of the program, Mr.. Nc
Cahill declared.
"Seventy-f1ve million dollars
have been paid in taxes by reha-
bilitated people in the past five
years." he pointed out. "They are
an example of what can be done
with millions Of other handicapped
people"
Other speakers at the meeting
were Miss Aline Alcroft, president
of the Soroptimist Club of Lei
cester, England, and Miss Bep
Regeur Of Denmark. Both will
leave for their home countries
this week. In brief talks they ex-
pressed their deep appreciation of
the things they have learned from
the United States and the help
this country has given their coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1949-09-29

for little dogs" she recalled. I'VE
failed on that. But We had better
luck with the request for tea pots
that would play Tea for Two. "
Miss Sasser spoke at club
luncheon held at the Washington
Hotel. Guests included another
North Carolinian. Mrs. John s.
Graham. wife of the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Benefit Style Show

A benefit fashion show and
luncheon will be given by the
Hermione Chapter No. II of the
Daughters Of Penelope, Ladies
Auxiliary Of the Ahepa, at 1890
pm. Saturday at the Shoreham
Hotel. Proceeds will go to the
Ahepa health projects in Greece.
Mrs. Mary Kritsidimas is in
charge of tickets.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Named

Mrs. William H. Gridley. pres
ident of the Women's Auxiliary Of
Suburban Hospital, will address
the Chevy Chase group Of the
Washington A. o. Pi Alumnae at
a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at
the home Of Mrs. Frank T. Shull.
jr., 6631 East avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1949-09-29


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