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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
) Suspended Policemen
RESIGN in Alexandra

Three Alexandria policemen
suspended for conduct unbecoming
officers have been allowed to re-
sign from the force.
City Manager w. Guy Ancell
said he accepted yesterday the
designations of Pvts. Clifton G..
Ferguson. rs, of 314 Prince street;
Jack w. Holmes. 26, Of los East
Windsor avenue, and William J.
Vaughn, jr., "a, of 1923 Mansion
drive.
Ferguson and Holmes have been
on the force for three years and
Vaughn for year and a half.
Mr.. Ancell and Maj. Edgar Sims,
superintendent of police. refused
to elaborate about charges against
the three. They were given q
hearing before their suspension
and allowed to resign after MIR.
Ancell studied the charges.
In refusing to make public de-
tails of the charges, Mr.. Ancen
said he believed the adverse pub
licity the men already had re.
ceived was sufficient punishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Two Federal Pay Bill!
Al White House for
Truman Signature
By Joseph YOUNG

White House officials said today
that President Truman would sign
soon the legislation granting an
average $141-a-year pay raise to
the Governments classified en-
ployes and a fat $3.50 pay boost
to postal workers.
The Senate yesterday afternoon
approved the two pay measures
and sent them to the White
House. following the Houses ap-
proval the day before.
Nearly 100000 Government
classified employees in the WASH
ington area. including 1000 Dis
trict government classified work.
ers, will benefit from the legisla-
ton. Nationally. 885. 900 classified
and 100000 postal workers are
covered by the two pay bills.
The legislation will cost about
s239. 100000 a year.
Besides providing an average
Sal salary boost for classified en-
pfoyes. the pay reclassification
measure raises the present $10,-
$50 Federal pay ceiling to $4,000
The legislation provides that
not more than 400 employees may
be placed in newly created grades
IL, II and 10. Grade 16 has a
$4,000 maximum and 800 en-
ployes may be placed in this SAL
airy category. Grade II has a
$4,000 top. and IS employees may
be selected for this grade. The
top. grade 18. pays $4,000, and
only Is employees may draw that
salary.
The classified measure also pro-
vides longevity increases to en-
ployes at the top level of their
grades in the first 10 grades. In
order to be eligible for these in
creases. the workers must have
been in the same grade for 10
years and in the top step of the
grade for at least three years.
For every three years they have
been in the top step. they will
get a longevity increase, with
three such raises the maximum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19

Anthony Jackson. 20, colored, 1900
block of Ninth street NV. cob
bier: Amanda D. Garnett, %, col
ored, 100 block Sixth street NV:
Elena Frank, %, of the 1900 block
K street NV, waitress; Maurice
Hackney, %, of the 100 block
Eighth street NV. who gave his
occupation as actor; William Tay-
lor. 81. colored, 1400 block w street
NV, interior decorator.
Audrey Camphor. q. colored,
1900 block H street NV; James
Tillman. 40. colored. first block E
street S.W., laborer; Wilbur w.
Hawkins, 20, colored, 300 block K
street S.W.. laborer; Bernard H.
Hammond. 10, colored. 100 block
Sixteenth street NE: Odessa
Marie Madre. 40, colored, 100
block First street NV; James E.
Halsey. 80, 1900 block Marion
court NV.
Other Prisoners Charged.
Leon J. Bryant, 20, colored, first
block G street NV. presser.. Will
liam H. Coates, 40, colored, 1000
block Tenth street NE, laborer;
Spurgeon Anderson, SO. colored,
1000 block Seventh street NV;
Edward j. Matthews, Is, of the
1000 block Rosedale street NE:
Rudolph Fisher. 81. of the 100
block Virginia avenue S.W.; Nee
miah E. Clark, 80. of the 1900
block Florida avenue NV, laborer.
Lewis A. De Paepe, 80, of the
1400 block Oak street NV, a
salesman. was charged with forg-
cry of a narcotics prescription.
Charged with violation of the
Marijuana Tax Act were:
John Harold Tucker. 81, COL
.ored. 1900 block Ninth street NV,
a cobbler; William Taylor. 26,
colored, 400 block w street NV;
Andrew Norman. Is. colored. 1000
block Fifteenth street NV, brick
layer; Robert Neal, jr.. 80, colored,
1000 block Fifteenth street NV.
laborer; Alfred S. Mclean, 20,
TOO block N street NV. laborer;
Samuel Burtun, jr.. 81, TOO block
Second street NV. a student;
Peter c. Pogne, 40. colored. first
block r street NV, laborer.
Charged with violating both the
Harrison and Marijuana Acts:
Luther Merrill, 26, colored, 1900
block Fourth street NV, a letter
carrier; William H. Schmith, jr.
81, colored, 1000 block Fifteenth
street NV, a laborer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
House Unit 0ks $4,000
For Crime Inquiry Here

A proposed $4,000 appropria-
ton for expenses for the House
District subcommittee investiga-
ton Of crime and its punishment
in the District was approved today
by a House administration sub
committee.
The full committee was being
polled early this afternoon and it
was expected that the measure
would go directly to the House
floor for action late today.
The funds were requested by
Representative Davis, Democrat,
OF Georgia. subcommittee chair
man, for employment of a general
counsel, two investigators and a
stenographer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
fFourth OF a Serie

q SeTleSJ
such a peculiar twist-leaving
some areas with uncrowded
schools and others overf1owing.
Since Georgetown has become
popular and fashionable residen-
tial area. the colored population
is being bought out, reversing the
normal shift of white to colored
|neighborhoods in the city. Devel-
opment of much commercial prop
|erty and the influx of well-to- do
people who don't have as many
children as lower Income groups
have contributed to the school
population picture also. A further
factor is the large enrolment OF
pupils from this area in private
schools.
No major school construction is
planned for this section of the
city. School officials, in the 1851
budget. asked only for money to
renew the floor in the boys gym
at Western High School and to
renovate the stage lighting equip
ment.
The white elementary schools
are: Corcoran, 1873 pupils fewer
than the building could handle;
Fillmore, 80 under capacity;
Hardy. 112 under; Hyde, ST under;
Jackson, los under; Key, 1872
under: Mann, II over capacity,
and Stoddert. 26 over capacity.
The two colored elementary
schools in the area are Phillips,
which is 80 under capacity, and
Wormley. which is 119 under
capacity.
The only junior high school in
the area, Gordon Junior High. is
for white students. 1t Is 532 under
capacity, nearly half empty.
Western High School, the only
high school, is for white students
also. 1t is more than half empty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Traffic Injuries
Take TwoLives;
Driver |sHeId
Trucker Faces Hearing
In Fairfax Death of
Pedestrian on Route !

Two Washington area resi-
dents died today as the result
of injuries received in traffic &C.
cidents.
Oscar Cook, SO, of Ingleside,
Va, died at am, three hours
after he was struck by a trailer
truck as he walked along Route I
near Fort Belvoir. The driver Of
the truck, James Bruce, 20 of
Brunswick, Ga, has been charged
with reckless driving. He was re-
leased in $500 bond pending a
hearing in Fairfax County Trial
Justice Court November II. Mr..
Cook died of internal injuries, ac-
cording to doctors at the Fort
Belvoir Hospital.
The other victim, identified by
police as Truss Mack, 70. colored,
1929 D street NE, died this morn
ing at Casualty Hospital OF in.
juries received October 13.
Hit-and Run Case. .
Police said Mr.. Mack was found
lying unconscious in the street
with childs coaster wagon
crushed beside him. The acci-
dent was listed as hit-and-run.
It was the 56th District trafiic
death of 1949, compared with So
at the same time last year. OF
that number. 40 have been Pc
destrians, and 18 have been more
than so years old.
Meanwhile. the police Traffic
Bureau today launched an in
tensive drive to keep down traffic
accidents, with particular empha-
sis on the protection of aged and
young pedestrians. Inspector Ar
thur E. Miller held a meeting Of
all police captains this morning,
stressing the seasonal hazards Of
driving at this time when falling
leaves make the roads slippery.
Truck Overturns.
Virginia State police said Mr..
Bruce told them he "dozed mo-
mentarily" and lost control Of
the vehicle. He was unhurt when
the truck left the road. overturned
and burst into flames.
A truck driver escaped with face
and leg cuts this morning when
his tractor trailer overturned on
the Rockville pike about 2 miles
north of Bethesda, pinning him
in for about 40 minutes. The
driver, Robert E. Williams. 81,
Cincinnati. was admitted to Su-
burban Hospital. Police reported
he told them he fell asleep at the
wheel. A companion, Leo E,
Sebree. 80, Covington, KY. was
admitted to Bethesda Naval Hos
pital with possible internal in
juries. Condition of both was
described as good. ,.....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Witness SaysBurgman
Likened Broadcasts 10
Victory for Germans

Herbert j. Burgman claimed
that one of his wartime propa-
ganda broadcasts did as much
damage to America as would a
Nazi naval victory, a prosecution
witness testified in the District
Court treason trial today.
The witness. Mrs. Use K. Hoff-
man, former radio technician
with the German Broadcasting
Co., told the jury of seven men
and five women that the 53-year-
old defendant made the boast
after she had finished recording
one of the Station DEBUNK"
broadcasts he is accused of MAX
ing.
Burgman said, Mrs. Hoffman
related, that millions of Americans
had been influenced by his re-
marks on the condition of the
New York Stock Exchange, and
that the American economy had
been seriously impaired as a re-
suit.
Says Others Were Present.
Under close cross-examination
by Defense Attorney James j.
Laughlin, Mrs. Hoffman testified
through an interpreter that sew
eral others were present during
the conversation, probably includ-
ing Charles V. Sitter, another
Station DEBUNK" broadcaster
who also is waiting to testify for
the prosecution.
Hammering away at the wit
ness detailed memory of the Incl
dent, MIR. Laughlin established
this was the only thing she could
remember of all that Burgmau
ever said to her.
Mr.. Laughlin was rebuffed by
Judge Alexander Holtzoff as he
tried to raise a question as to why
the Government is not prosecuting
either Charles Sitter or his BROTH
er Edward for their part in the
broadcasts.
Mrs. Hoffman had denied that
either OF the Sitter brothers told
her to testify about the alleged
conversation with Burgman.
Attorney Cut OFF.
Judge Holtzoff cut off the de-
tense attorney after he declared
that Edward Sitter is an Amer
lean citizen like Burgman and
that Charles Sitter once was one.
But" Mr.. Laughlin argued, "it
one OF these men told this witness
what to say here. manufacturing
evidence against this defendant
We have a right to know that"
Mr.. Laughlin," Judge Holtzofl
said quickly, the court suggests
that there is no basis for the
statement you have just made in
open court"
Earlier, District Court Judge
Holtzof granted motion to bring
Mrs. Burgman, wife of the treason
trial defendant. to Washington
from Austin, Mimi, as a defense
witness.
The defense asked yesterday
that Mrs. Burgman be produced
in court at Government expense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Property Owners Hit
Proposal 10 Rezone
Northeast Section

The District Zoning Commits
sion heard strong protests today
against destruction of real estate
values which property owners
commended would result from pro-
posed rezoning along Seventh and
Eighth streets.
The area concerned includes
property on Eighth street between
H street NE. and East Capitol
street, and on Seventh street be-
tween B street NE. and A street
Sc. and between D and I streets
Sc. The plan would rezone the
property from commercial to resi-
dental use.
Loud applause followed the
argument of Attorney Roger j.
Whiteford, who spoke in behalf of
the Electrical Construction Co.,
which owned property at 22l
Eighth street NE.
Proposal Followed Survey.
Mr.. Whiteford asserted that
the coming commission that will
wholesale fashion" destroy values
Of this sort has infringed prop
erty rights.
Il hope there is some court
yet alive that will agree with
me-" he added.
The change was proposed after
a survey by the commission staff
last August indicated that of the
nearly % acres involved. only
about IA per cent is used COM
mercially, while the rest is I'M
improved or used residentially, the
hearing was told.
The change was favored by
one witness with respect to the
600 block of G street Sc, site
of "yardville" neighborhood re-
Mobilization project. Mrs. Don.
aid J. Detwiler, chairman of the
yardville committee, urged resi-.
dental coming of the block In
furtherance of the object of the
neighborhood project.
Citizens Oppose Project.
Among the many who ap.
peared in opposition to the prof.
ect was William j. Bartle, who
presented a petition from the
Northeast Citizens Association.
He presented several witnesse.
who testified about anticipated
declines in property values rang.
ing from 80 to 40 per cent in the
event of the change. He pointed
out the property had been zorNo
commercially for many years.
Another opponent was Arthur
Hanson, attorney for the Safeway
Stores, Inc, which has an estab
lishment at 1214-1216 Seventh
street NE. He pointed out his
client holds a 40-year lease which
began in 1910, and that rehabili-
tation and expansion is planned
but the rezoning would prohibit a
proposed parking lot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Mrs. Voqt to Give Talk

Mrs. Juana A. Vogt Of the
Public Affairs Overseas Staff for
American Republic Affairs, State
Department, will address a meet
ing of the Business and Profess
sional Women's Club of All Souls
Unitarian Church at $50 o'clock
tonight in the church, Sixteenth
and Harvard streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Dr.. Wilson to Speak

DR.. Frank T. Wilson. dean Of
the School of Religion, Howard
University, will address a meeting
Of the Churchman'S Luncheon
Club at noon tomorrow in the
Twelfth Street Branch YMCA,
1916 Twelfth street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19

cent of the known narcotics traf-
fic here, said 1t. H. H. Carper,
chief of the Metropolitan Police
narcotics squad.
More than $4,000 worth of CO.
caine and marijuana, and a
large assortment of administering
paraphernalia was seized.
Boyd M. Martin. district super
visor of the Bureau of Narcotics
and co-ordinator of the raiding
forces, expressed satisfaction with
the results.
I'VE believe we have some peo-
pie here who are big to the bust
ness" he said. They are i'm
portant peddlers. major violators.
They don't just sell a few capsules
They're big"
At one Of the houses police
found Odessa Marie Madre,
colored. 100 block First street
NV. who went on trial on an
other narcotics charge today. She
also was identified as an i'm
portant witness in the recent
grand jury indictment of gambling
suspects resulting from United
States Attorney George Morris
Fay's campaign.
A jury was being selected fol-
her trial early this afternoon, with
Judge Richmond B. Keech pre-
siding. She is being prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorney
Arthur j. Mclaughlin.
Seven Persons Released.
She and II others were charged
with violation of the Harrison
Narcotics Act. Seven were charged
with violating the Marijuana Tax
Act and two with breaking both
laws. One man was charged with
forgery of a narcotics prescription
Seven other persons picked up ir
the dragnet were released.
In all, six women were amone
those hauled into police head.
quarters.
Planning for the raids began
last March when Federal ano
District narcotics agents started
their undercover work. The raid.
were of the type staged in all bis
cities from time to time and wer.
ordered by H: j. Anslinger. United
States commissioner of narcotics
Participating were eight Fed.
eral narcotics agents, IS deput,
United States marshals and X
Metropolitan Department detec.
tives.
Raid Leaders Listed.
At the head of the groups were
Mr.. Martin and Thomas w. An.
drew, in charge of the Washing.
ton narcotics Office; United State
Marshal Bruce Matthews and hi
first deputy, Charles Ward, ane
Detective Chief Robert S. Bryant
and 1t. Carper.
Mr.. Martin said marijuana Gig.
arettes were being peddled at 81
cents each, bits of cocaine from
$3.50 to $3.50 and pound package.
OF marijuana at 5000 to $500.
The raided locations were giver
by police as 1910 Marion cour
NV, 1903 Eleventh street NV.
1925 Seventh street NV, 1412
street NV: 1913 G street S.W.
1913 c street Sc, 1927 Wyli,
court NE, 1719 First stree
NV, 1925 Central avenue NE.
1888 Eighth street NV, 121.
Fourth street NV, 1903 Ninth
street NV, 744 Girard stree
NV. and zoos Fourteenth stree
NV.
Charged With violation of tn,
Harrison Narcotics Act were:
Robert Miller, 80, colored, 20(
block Clark court S.W.; Harole
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19

Some schools in Georgetown and adjacent neghborhoods
are half empty White elementary schools Corcoran
90 Fillmore 80 Hardy "a Hyde, 81 Jackson, Key
Mann and 80 Stoddert Coored elementary schools
Phillips and 0) Wormey The white junior high
is d1 Gordon and the white high school is 12) Western
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29
UPWARD TREND IN SALES

Four points indicating long-term up
ward trend of the consumer market are
discussed by J. r. Davis, believer in
the art of salesmanship and advertising,
who says that the economic factors indi-
cate that an upward trend can be main
tanned.
Mr.. Davis, who is vice-president of
the Ford Motor Company, says that in
the last eight years, the number of fami-
lies in this country has increased by
twelve million and the labor force has
grown by twelve million. ~ +
In addition, the backlog of individual
savings is three times greater than it was
in 1910 and present savings of S207 ,OOO.-
100000 are two and half times greater
than our national income in 1940
The present consumer debt is but
thirty-two per cent of savings, whereas in
1941, the ratio to savings was about sixty
three per cent
Adjusting figures to a 1914 standard,
comparisons show consumers have four
times as much money for discretionary
spending" as they had in that year.
Giving additional facts to encourage
statesmen to get out and sell, the sales
expert pointed out that $4,000, 900 Ameri-
can families are without cars 5000, 900
homes with electricity and without elec-
trio refrigeration, two-thirds of all farm
homes without running water, four out of
five farm ihomes without modern bath
rooms and more than fifty per cent of the
farms without tractor = ~.
We doubt if there can be successful
answer to Che needs pointed out by Mr..
Davis but there may be some doubt as to
the amount of discretionary" funds
available to the buying public. Moreover,
1t should be understood that need does
not create market. Without adequate
funds with which to buy what one wants,
there will be no sales increase, regardless
of need. This was amply demonstrated
in the depression of the Thirties.
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29
CANCER OF TAXATION !

Tsas-
Taxes, because 50 many Of them are
hidden, sometimes creep up on you like an
insidious disease, cancer, for instance
you don't become aware of them till the
burden is almost crushing.
In extending the similarity further,
you are given only fighting chance to
counteract the ravages of the disease. The
people of Florida now have only D fighting
chance to stop increasing taxation before
it becomes unbearable /.
That is the view of the Florida Better
ment Association, of,which A.. II. Stafford,
Of Babson Park, isschairman. Mr.. Stafford
IN view of these facts, we We agree 4 ris with
Speaker Perry Murray taxation has
reached the saturation point" The facts
referred to are as follows:
The ad valorem property taxes
levied by Florida's 81 counties in 1910
totaled 27,287, 10. The 1948 total was
$73. 3.196,S01.
State government expenditures in
1910 totaled $57,S90,140. The 1948 total
was $204.522, ,52s.
Federal, state and local government
took approximately 21.3 percent of the
total income Of the people of Florida in
1910. In 1948 it took 34.4 percent
The cancer of taxation has begun to
eat into the marrow of thescountry's econ.
omy. or as Mr.. Stafford puts 1t: s
+,
Excessive government cost is wreck
ing our economy-we are. on the down
grade. Unless the trend is reversed, gov
ernmental revenues will be drastieallysre-
duced by the inability of the taxpayers to
pay the taxes levied" As for Florida, Mr..
Stafford adds:
O.. We are headed directly into re-
currence of the situation that existed in
the early '30's when SO percent of Florida's
land area was tax delinquent@and most of
Florida's counties and cities were virtually
bankrupt, for the simple reason that
property owners could not pay their
taxes
Going up, going up, that's what taxa
tion in Florida has ben doing since the turn
of the century. A similar condition has
been under way in almost every other
state. The time has come to call halt If
we don't, it won't be long before the can
Ger of taxation win destroy us econor1i-
cally. s ..s,, .gs.ss,.4s,
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29

WHEN AN ATOMIC BOMB BURSTS

There Il no point to a fearful, fantas-
tic viewpoint about life in an age of nu-
clear energy. declares Rear Admiral Will
liam 5. Parsons. director of Atomic De-
Tense In the office of the Chief of Naval
Operations. who admits that practical
reasons give US no prospect for absolute
security against an atomic attack short of
underground existence.
The Admiral thinks that the risk of
the new age viii have to be one of the
snaMmy compromises with fact" which
have % be made every day. He thinks
.thM city planners and architects will
have b continue their emphasis on the
urinary functions and uses of structures,
but with added considerations for the
dangers OF an atomic blast and radiation.
The naval offices gave some idea of
what one may expect in the event of an
niomie air burst, which. he says, would
render almost any above-ground struc.
tuHe useless for about half mile. Be-
'yond that range. he says, buildings which
are strong enough to resist tornadoes.
iHes and earthquakes will begin to re-
sia the blast wind, heat and shock pro-
dueed BY the bomb.
Those residing outside the fatal range
~ such blast will have perhaps min
u'e after the initial roar to seek shelter.
About an hour after the explosion, they
might be able TO move swiftly out of the
s.ne without catching a sickness" dose
"' radiation. II viii be about year be-
tefe military occupation of the area
seald be safely carried out and, even
men, there would be difficult Job of
pe communicating plutonium soaked
structures
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29
PROTESTS A SUBSIDY

Reporting a small deficit for 1948, the
Western Union Telegraph Company pro-
igHis against the fact that II must COM
pate with air mail service, which is not
only sax-free but heavily subsidized by
me Government
The President OF the Company, in his
ieiter 10 stockholders, complains of the
twenty-five per cent excise tax on tele-
Erama, which exceeds that applied to
'HiRht-elub checks, amusement admission
charges and other luxuries."
The question about the excise tax is
tehop with the need Of the Government
ioE. money. The complaint about the
subsidized air lines which carry air mail
y mere 20 the point. However, the air
Ane operators seem 20 have the private
enterprise "know-how" TO get financial
ssl.,snce from the public treasury.
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29

). Key West Development CO. i.sstse
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ARCHIE ROBERTs,
TAX COIsLECTOR-TREA
KEY WEST, FLORInA.
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29

The people of Key West would be sur
prised at what they could accomplish if
they just made up their minds to- accom-
plish something.
The Key West citizen., 1949-03-29

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