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Evening star., 1949-07-05
Man Who Helped Cripple
In Fiqht Held in Stabbinqs
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. July 5.-A man
who came to the aid of q cripple
being mauled by two brothers
faces charges for stabbings which
resulted in one death.
Police said Charles Hefiin, 20,
a laborer, was to be arraigned to-
day. Both the brothers were
stabbed with a screwdriver. and
one died in University Hospital.
The cripple. Richard Rickles. 10,
told police he was standing in a
doorway when the brothers came
up and one asked:
Where is he-or where is she?"
Then they dragged him into
the street and began beating him,
Mr.. Rickles said. At that point
two unidentified men came along,
the cripple said, and one threw
himself into the fracas.
Police said the intervener fatally
stabbed Richard Earl Smith, 81.
and wounded his brother, Ernest
Smith. "a,
Evening star., 1949-07-05
By the Associated Press

WINTER HAVEN. Fla, July
5.-A 17-year-old high school
junior was near death today after
shooting himself despite frantic
pleas by telephone from his teen
age girl friend.
Winter Haven hospital attend
ants said William c. Rackley was
in very critical" condition with
gunshot wound in his right side.
The shooting took place at the
Rackley home last night while
the girl, 16-year-old Betty
Thrasher, was listening on the
telephone at her home in Eagle
Lake, 6 miles away.
"He called about 7 o'clock and
told me I'd better keep talking as
this was the last chance I'd have ~
she told Policemen Ross I. Robert
son and j. A. Turner.
Il begged him not to do it. Twice
I heard the hammer click but the
gun did not go off.
HE told me to hold the phone
he was going to play a phono-
graph record. I could hear faint
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Youth, u, Shoots SeIfWhi|e Girl
Pleads With Him on Telephone

music but could not Identify the
song.
There are just 80 seconds left
to CO." he said, andsthen I heard
the explosion"
Police found young Rackley on
a bed in his home, the gun and
telephone by his side. They said
they knew of no motive for the
shooting.
The youth, who was a member
of the high school band, and Miss
Thrasher finished the sophomore
class together. The young girl
said they had been out a few times
but had not gone together regu-
1ar1y
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Richard Biggs Installed
By Mortinsburg Rotary
Special plspoieh to The Stal

Special Dispoieh to The Sfar
MARTINSBURG, w. Va. July
5.-Richard A. Biggs was installed
yesterday as new president Of the
Martinsburg Rotary Club. He sue
ceeds F. E. Straw.
Other officers installed were
Hugh s. Byrer. vice president; J.
Arthur Hopper, secretary; Dudley
Harley. treasurer, and Louis Ko-
gelschatz, sergeant at arms.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Wife Kissing Husband
Sends Them to Hospital
Nv the Asxocioted Press

ATLANTA, Ga, July 5.-Mrs.
Melvin E. Cook leaned over to kiss
her husband on the cheek yester-
day and landed in a hospital.
Mr.. Cook was driving home from
a holiday trip to Savannah. He
lost control Of the car and 1t
turned over twice.
Mrs. Cooks shoulder was frac-
tured and her husbands scalp
split.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
SOCIAL Security Plan
To Treble Payroll Tax
In IS Years Reported
BY the Associated Press

Congressional drafters of new
social security legislation were re-
ported today to have agreed ten
tatively to let payroll taxes treble
in Is years. They also would
bring about 100000 more per-
sons under old age insurance.
Definite decisions had not been
made. but the House Ways and
Means Committee was understood,
after weeks of closed sessions. to
have drawn a rough draft of legis-
Iation which would:
/. Let the payroll taxes, now l
per, cent against employees pay
and employers payrolls alike. in
crease January !, 1850, to 112 per
cent on each, and on January l.
1852, to 2 per cent each. This is
now provided by law. The new
proposal would add provisions for
an increase to 212 per cent in
1860 and to 3 per cent on each
in 1865.
2. Add 10000 to the approx
imately 10000, 900 persons already
covered by old age and survivors
insurance. President Truman re-
quested that coverage be extended
to 10000, 900 more. The commit
tee appears willing to extend COW
erage to the self employed-such
as doctors, lawyers, business men
to household workers and sew
eral smaller categories. But it
has not put farm operators and
farm workers among those to be
blanketed under the insurance.
8. Boost benefits under the in
surance program. probably by
more than so per cent, to meet
increased cost Of living. Pay
ments to insured persons over SIS
now average about $25 a month
This probably would jump to $40
or more.
4. New disability insurance pay
ments. meaning that insured per-
sons who become totally and per-
manently disabled would draw
benefits just as though they had
reached the retirement age.
Some 100000 self-employed
persons may be required to pay
social security taxes one and one
half times greater than other
classifications Of covered employees
A new social security bill may
be presented by the committee to
the House within two weeks, but
there is little, if any, prospect that
Congress will act on 1t before
next year.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Five ThoiIond Burglars
Killed by Policemen
By the Assoeioted Pres!

BY the Associated Press
BANGKOK, Siam.-It's fatal to
get caught red-handed in burg
larry in Ihailand. An informer
tipped off police, who rushed to
the house near the Rama vi
Bridge where five burglars were
at work. In the ensuing strug-
gle all five were shot to death.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
British Chiefs See
.Schuman on GROWING
Crisis in Finances
by the Associoted Press

BY the Associofed Ffesx
LONDON, July 5.-British gov
ernment leaders conferred pri-
vately with French Foreign Min
ister Robert Schuman yesterday
on Britain's financial crisis. Fur
ther conferences are scheduled
this week with Secretary of the
Treasury Snyder.
Meanwhile, London newspapers
estimated Britain's dollar and gold
reserve had dwindled to $780,
0o0, ,00o-a figure s4O0, ,0o0, 900 be-
low what is considered the dam
ger level.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
Mr.. Schuman came to London for
talks with Foreign Secretary Bevin
on undisclosed Germany problems
and organization of the Parlia-
ment of Western Europe which
meets at Strasbourg in August.
Schuman Sees Cripps.
An official source. however. said
Mr.. Schuman also talked with Sir
Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the
Exchequer. He said Sir Cripps
brought Mr.. Schuman up-to-date
on Britain's dollar and gold crisis.
From Paris came word that Mr..
Snyder conferred yesterday with
w. Averell Hartman, Marshall
Plan Ambassador. who is expected
to accompany Mr.. Snyder to Lon
don Thursday for talks with
Sir Cripps.
Britain's financial losses will
not be announced by Cripps
until tomorrow, when he is sched-
uled to speak in the House Of
Commons.
The press saw Britain lapsing
into even harder times, with fewer
dollars being spent for gasoline,
tobacco, food and raw materials
for industry.
Sales to U. s. Held Solution.
Treasury experts see a solution
in increased production and more
British sales to the United States.
A 10 per cent increase, they say.
would tip the scales. But Britain
faces stiff competition with Amer
ican prices.
Some American observers sug-
gest devaluation Of the pound.
Mr.. Snyder is said to favor this
move. But Treasury officials hold
that devaluation would not aid
production.
The British press suggests that
the United States give dollar aid
to backward areas, opening them
up to trade with Europe; replace
Marshall Plan aid with long-term
support Of European currencies
until 1860, and take over the cost
Of defense Of Britain and Europe.
Government Asks More Money.
The Labor government made q
surprise request to Parliament
today for Ell, ,338.894 ($85, 1886, ,576)
more spending money.
The supplementary budget es-
Inmates came three months after
the cripps. in a "hard labor
budget speech, called for a whop-
ping f3,82e, 100000 ($15, ,304 ,000,-
000) to run the country until next
March 81.
Today'S added requests surprised
members of the House Of Com
mons who recalled that Cripps'
budget speech had warned that
only in special cases. such as
major changes Of policy" would
supplementary estimates be sub
mitted.
Most of the new estimates were
earmarked for use in British
colonies. The biggest single item
was f10,000,000 ($40, ,000, ,000)
sought to repay British-owned
companies in Burma for losses
In the war and later fighting there,
Among requests or money for
domestic use was plea for
FL 100000 ($4.000,0 ,00O for dent
lists in Britain's socialized medicine
scheme. The money is needed
said a Treasury white paper, to
nav dentists whose earnings ,,nd>y
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Plan Studied 10 Give
johnson Most Extra
Unification Powers
BY the Associoisd Press

OIlIlISQIIVu ] VIVID
BY the Asseeioisd Press
Secretary of Defense johnson
probably will get most-but not
all-of the power he has asked to
stop family fights among the
armed forces.
Members of the House Armed
Services Committee said today
they are working out compro-
mise under which Congress would
keep a close watch on military
goings-on while giving Mr.. john
son much of the extra authority
he says he needs.
Mr.. johnson will return to Cap
itol Hill tomorrow for more COM
mittee questioning on a bill to
tighten up the 1947 unification
law and give the armed services
q single civilian business manager.
The Senate passed the bill more
than a month ago.
Three Changes Expected.
House members said the bill as
passed by the Senate probably will
be modified along these lines:
/. A section will be added CIV
ing the Secretaries and Chiefs OF
staff of the three services clear
ly stated right to take their trou-
bIes to Congress. Mr.. johnson
told the committee last week he
has no quarrel with that SO long
as "they don't go behind my back" !"
2. The Joint Chiefs Of Staff,
plus a permanent chairman to be
picked from one of the services,
would be the principal military
advisers to the Secretary and the
President-not the chairman
alone, as in the Senate bill.
3. The Secretary would be re-
auired to report to Congress twice
q year on progress in his depart
ment. He now reports only once
. year.
otherwise, these House COM
mitteemen said. the bill probably
will not be changed much.
Will Control Policies.
The Secretary will get the di-
rect control he asked last week
over policies of the three services.
Herbert Hoover, who headed a
commission studying reorganiza-
ton of the executive branch OF
the Government last year. told
the committee the Secretary
should have more direct authority
to make the unification law work.
The present National Military
Establishment, including the three
services as military departments,
will be changed to a single de-
partment. Mr.. Hoover and Mr..
Johnson recommended this. but
Ferdinand Eberstadt. who made
the armed forces study for Mr..
Hoover's commission, did not. He
told the committee last week 1t
might lead to a single military
chief of staff.
Chiefs to Have Chairman.
The Joint Chiefs will be given
q chairman. but he will not have
military precedence over the Joint
Chiefs. Mr.. Hoover said such a
provision, now in the Senate-ap-
proved bill, would have the effect
Of establishing a chief of staff in
everything but name.
The bill probably will contain
q fiat ban on the transfer of per-
sonnel from one service to another.
The bill now would permit such
transfers if the services, and the
individuals concerned. were will
ing
This ban will be put into the
bill, House members said, to make
sure the Marine Corps cannot be
swallowed up by the Army and
naval aviation by the Air Force.
Mr.. johnson has said he does not
intend to make such transfers, but
the House committee wants to
make sure.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Inaugural Unit TO Seek
Low Tax Payment

The 1949 Inaugural Committee
will continue its efforts to obtain
an advantageous tax understand
ing with the Bureau of Internal
Revenue in order to provide a
maximum contribution to the
Community Chest Federation from
the committees expected surplus
The committee will file a tenta-
tive admission tax return Febru-
ary % to avoid penalty liability,
Chairman Melvin D. Hildreth said.
The final reckoning of the COM
mittee's accounts will be post
poned until March IA, when the
Finance Committee will meet
again.
In the meantime, Mr.. Hildreth
said, Robert V. Fleming, chair
man of the Finance Committee
will continue to go over the ad-
missions tax matter with repre-
sentatives of the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue.
Mr.. Hildreth has said the COM
mittee expects to show surplus,
which will go to the Community
Chest Federation, but the amount
depends largely on whether the
committee will have to pay admis-
sion tax on a large number of
inaugural parade seat tickets
which were distributed free to
officials and persons engaged in
news coverage of the event.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Speeial Dispatch TO The Sior

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. ia po-
lice commissioner charged today
that horse race bookmakers are
running wide open" in Anne
Arundel County and gave a re-
porter a list Of names and tele-
phone numbers he said would
prove the accusation.
The. charges were made by z.
Garner Jones. one of Anne Arun-
del County's three police COM
missioners. They climax what Mr..
Jones said was a long standing
dissension between himself, the
other two commissioners and the
county chief of police.
widespread. illicit gambling
activities are going on in Anne
Arundel County" Mr.. Jones de-
clared, land no one seems to want
to do anything about it but my
SELF -.,,.s,t SET
Reporter Gets Response.
Asked whether he could back
up his charges, Mr.. Jones said:
Here, call these numbers and
see for, yourself" 1r - -2'
A reporter did. } OF = the six
numbers Mr.. Jones said were
those of bookmakers, two accept
ed bets ranging from 81 to $40.
three said the horse named had
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Parents Regain Custody
Of Child With Broken Lea

Billy w. Keith, jr., 18-month-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Billy
w. Keith, 10000 block of Self
ridge road, Viers Mill Village, Nd,
yesterday was returned to his par
ents custody by the Montgomery
County Juvenile Court.
The court. following closed
hearing at Rockville, directed that
the child be returned home under
the supervision of the County
Welfare Board. Judge Alfred D.
Moves reported he also had sug-
gested to welfare authorities that
psychiatric treatment be given the
24-year-old father, a Silver
Spring stock clerk. who faces as
sault charges in connection with
the baby's broken leg.
The child, in a foster home un-
til yesterdays hearing, was ad.
mitted to Children's Hospital
about 10 days ago with the broken
leg and bronchial pneumonia.
County police charged his father
with two counts of assault and
battery in connection with the
broken leg, contending it was
caused by beatings. The father
will face a hearing on these
charges in Silver Spring Police
Court at $50 am. March !.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Staying of Rookie Policeman
In Alexandra Solved by Tip

turned and fired again at point
blank range. This time the rifle
discharged and the officer fell,
crying for help.
Hunter, police said, confessed
that he then ran to a nearby lum-
ber yard and climbed to the roof
of a shed, remaining there until
9 o'clock that night, when he de-
scended and returned to Washing
ton by bus.
Indicted in Two Sayings.
He was indicted by a District
grand jury late last year in con-
nection with two slayings here
which resulted from a holdup out
side the Rosalia Theater, 218 F
street S.W., on October 30. James
E. Washington. So. colored, man.
ager of the theater, was shot twice
in the abdomen with a rifle. Her.
bert Smith, 25, colored, of the 1900
block of, Seventh street NV. was
killed by a rifle bullet. Accord
ing to police, the gunman ther
exchanged fire with two officers
while fleeing the scene. Three
other colored ,, youths = were
wounded. Hunter was captured
in the chase that followed the
holdup.
Detectives Woods and johnson
were commended by Maj. Sims
for their work in the case. Dis
trict Detectives Crandall ano
Clarke also were cited for theil
cooperation by the Alexandria
police chief,
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Wide-Open Gambling Charged
By Anne Arundel Police Official

been scratched and one refused
to accept bet.
Those who agreed to take the
wager said they would collect later
in the usual manner" The re-
porter used a fictitious name as
no attempt was made to settle or
collect bets.
Asked whether he had taken
the matter up with the county po-
lice. Mr.. Jones said tnat ne had
but Il am not getting action"
Chief Won't Comment.
Police Chief John H. Souers re-
fused to comment on the Jones
charges this morning but said he
expected to make a statement
later in the day.
Police Commissioner Earl H
Moore was reported on the East
ern Shore and unavailable for
comment, and the other commits
sioner, DR.. James. S. Billingslea,
refused 10 comment.
II have, without any one even
thinking I was doing so. made in
vestigations of gambling and graft
in the county in every case where
that was possible Mr.. Jones said.
MIR. Jones said members of the
county Police Commission. who
draw a salary of $500 a year each,
had held only one meeting in 1913
Evening star., 1949-02-17
WoodIawn Estate Goes
ToFoundation Monday
With $4,000 Down

The WoodlaWn Public Founda-
ton, Inc, plans to assume owner
ship of the Woodlawn estate in
Fairfax County Monday with an
$4,000 down payment.
A foundation spokesman said
nearly all the 100000 required for
a first payment had been raised
and would be turned over to the
Fairfax County Circuit Court. The
foundation plans to assume for
NAL title to the estate at 3 pm.
Tuesday at a ceremony at the
estate. Attorney General Clark
will be the principal speaker, the
foundation announced.
The key to the estate will be
presented by a representative of
the estate of the late Senator
Oscar Underwood of Alabama, to
George Maurice Morris, president
of the foundation Board of
Trustees.
The $4,000 will include about
$50, 900 donated by Paul Melons
philanthrooic organization, the
Old Dominion Foundation, a
Woodlawn spokesman declared.
After the down payment, the
Woodlawn foundation will con-
tinue to raise funds to pay off the
remainder of the $4,000 pur-
chase price and interest on the
mortgage.
The WoodlaWn Public Founda-
ton, Inc, plans to operate Wood
lawn as a national shrine in
memory of George Washington
who planned the Georgian man
sion. Tuesday will be the 150th
anniversary of the marriage of
Nellie Gusts, George Washing
tons adopted daughter, who re-
ceived the estate as wedding
present for the first President.
Woodlawn was to be sold to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Mission Society, Inc, last fall
when the Woodlawn foundation
was formed to purchase the es-
tate. The Belgian mission So
ciety planned to use the estate
as it's American headquarters, but
agreed to hold up its plans until
February 81 while the foundation
sought funds for the purchase.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
TeIevision Banned
For Car Drivers by
|NewMoryIondAct
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. IT,
Watching a telecast as you steer
your car over Maryland roads is
virtually a thing of the past. well
before it became a thing of the
present.
The senate yesterday passed and
sent to the governor house-ap-
proved measure to outlaw such a
practice.
Screens may not be mounted in
a car where the driver seated be-
hind his wheel could watch the
show. Not even if he had to crane
his neck.
The bill has no objections to
television for passengers.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Society 10 Discuss Plan
To Improve Accounting

A current Government-w wide pro-
gram to improve accounting and
financial reporting will be discuss
ed at a meeting of the Society for
the Advancement of Management
at $50 o'clock tonight in the
YWCA at Seventeenth and <
streets NV.
Four speakers will participate in
the panel discussion. They are
Walter Frese. chief of the ac-
counting systems division of the
General Accounting Office: How
ard w. Bordner, chief of the Office
of accounting policy, Office Of the
Secretary of Defense; Willard L.
johnson, budget officer of the
Treasury Department, and Harry
Kurth, associate director of the
Bureau of Federal Supply of the
Treasury.
Chairman will be Edward r.
Bartlett, fiscal assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Gloucester Election
Sought on Bonds for
-Four New Schools
By the Associofed Press

GLOUCESTER, Va, Feb. IL
The Gloucester County School
Board today released a resolution
calling for an election on a $780,
900 school issue.
The move if the latest step
in a wrangle between Gloucester
School officials and Negro pa
irons over equalized educational
facilities.
Last year, four school officials
were cited by Federal District
Court Judge Sterling Hutcheson
for contempt for not taking sub
stantial steps to equalize Negro
and white schools as ordered in
his injunction. They must face
the court for imposition of pen
alties in April.
Under the program outlined by
the board, one new high school
would be built on or near the
present site of Hayes Elementary
School (white) and another at
Botetourt at Gloucester Court
House. The combination elemen-
tary and high school would be
constructed at the present site
of the Gloucester County Train
ing School for Negroes.
A new Negro elementary school
would be built on Route II near
Ark. north of Gloucester Court
house.
In addition, two white high
schools-Botetourt and Achilles
would be converted to elementary
schools.
This action was the outcome of
a special meeting of the school
board Monday night called by
Chairman Stanley Gray.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Bethesda Suit Delays
Shopping Center

Plaintiffs in a Montgomery
County Circuit Court suit which
seeks to nullify commercial zoning
at Old Georgetown and Greentree
roads, Bethesda. yesterday were
told that no shopping center will
be erected there until the case is
decided by the court.
The promise was made by Sam
uel E. Bogley. Bethesda real
estate man who owns the prop
erty and whose application for
rezoning for commercial use was
approved by the former Mont
gomery County Commissioners
last December 81.
Mr.. Bogley is co-defendant in
a suit filed by owners of nine
homes in the Huntington Terrace
and Sonoma subdivisions of Be-
thesda. Also named are the
County Council, which succeeded
the Commissioners, and johnson
s. Eaton, county zoning inspector,
at Bethesda
A demurrer filed by the defend
ants was the principal develop
ment yesterday. Mr.. Bogley made
his promise at that time to delay
building the $4,000 shopping
center until the issue is settled
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Tax Assessment System
In Montgomery Argued

The legality of Montgomery
County's tax assessment procedure
was questioned yesterday in argu-
ments before Circuit Judges
Charles w. Woodward and Pat
rick J. Schnauffer at Rockville.
Four attorneys representing Be-
thesda property owners argued
that the system used is unconsti-
tutional.
Assistant Attorney General
Richard w. Case of Maryland de-
Tended the procedure. Attorneys
for the Bethesda group are James
r. Miller. Charles w. Prettyman,
James c. Christopher and 10 v.
Morgan. Both sides have IS days
to file briefs.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Leap Out Closed Window
Results in Cut Face

A man last night jumped
through a second-story window
without opening it, according to
police, and landed on the ground
in the rear of his home at 405
Columbia road NV.
Police said Russell Swing, Is,
colored, had been drinking, and
jumped without reason. He was
taken to Freedmen's Hospital by
his landlord, Mckinley Denmark.
He was admitted for observation.
His injuries were a cut face and
bruised right little finger.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Siam Declares Emergency

BANGKOK, Feb. II (P.-The
Siamese government today de-
clared state of national en1er-
gency, and Premier Phibun Song
gram said Siam will not tolerate
an influx of Communism. The
Premier said the Communist doc
trine was sweeping neighboring
countries.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
COLLEGE Club to Heur Tobin

Secretary of Labor Tobin will
speak at a dinner-meeting of the
Providence College Club of Wash
ington at Z o'clock tonight in the
Mayflower Hotel. Senator Nc
Grath, Democrat, of Rhode Island
will be the guest of honor.