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Evening star., 1950-08-17
-Four Speakers to Address
First Business Session

BALTIMORE, Aug. II R.-
Four speakers topped today's pro-
gram as the Maryland Depart
ment of the American Legion
opened it's annual State conven-
ton with more than 1000 dele
gates attending.
Scheduled to address session
were Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro
of Baltimore, Senator O'Conor
Democrat. of Maryland; National
Legion Comdr. George N. Craig
and Lee r. Pennington of the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Last night Legionnaires heard
their Department Commander
Kenneth r. Hammer, call fol
adoption of resolutions favoring
universal military training, ad.
vocating Nation wide mobilization
of manpower and resources; en-.
dorsing the United States en-.
trance into the Korean war; con.
demning boarding and demand
ing assurance that rationing anc
price controls would be estab.
lished when necessary" backing
the Mundt- -Ferguson-Johnson bill
to control subversive activities
supporting an adequate civilian
defense program, and assuring
servicemen that the Legion will
advocate and prosecute all Serv.
| ice claims.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Postal Delivery Bill
Goes 10 Senate, but
Faces Trouble There

With enough votes behind it
to override Presidential veto. a
bill ordering two city mail de-
liveries a day moved to the Sen
ate today. 1t may die there OF
neglect.
The bill would set aside Post
master General Donaldson's order
of last April cutting city mail
deliveries to one a day and cur
failing other postal services. The
curtailment, an economy move,
was ordered in response to a
House Appropriations Committee
suggestion in which the House
tactily concurred last May.
Although the Senate Postofnce
Committee has approved unani-
mously a companion bill, the
Senate's leadership has not seen
fit to put it on the program for
debate. There we're indications
that the bill would not be given
a go-ahead, but would be allowed
to wither away in the Senate.
The bill cleared the house by a
264-to-108 vote after opponents
chided it's hackers for demanding
economy one day and voting
against it on another. They
claimed the postal service cuts
would save up to $40 million an
nually.
The bills supporters insisted
that the postal order was not true
economy. They said it was hurt
ing business and interfering with
morale of troops who wants their
mail from home as quickly as
possible.
The 264 who voted for the bill
in the House included 158 Demo-
Gratis, los Republicans and one
That is more
than enough to override a veto If
the bill reaches President Tru-
man and he disapproves it.
Since the bill would cancel an
order by one Of the Presidents
cabinet officerS-and since the
order presumably was issued after
White House consultations veto
would not surprise Congress.
House members opposing the
bill included II Democrats and
81 Republicans. The bulk Of the
Democrat opposition came from
Southern States, whose members
frequently oppose bills the Presi-
dent backs. Their opposition was
attributed in part to the fact that
much of the South is rural and
farmers get only one mail deliv-
cry anyway.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
4 Burned When Sprayed
With FIaminq Gasoline

Four men were burned severely
today when they were sprayed
with flaming gasoline which had
ignited as it was being poured
into a truck in the Hessick Coal
Yard. Fourteenth street and
Maine avenue S.W.
Injured were Harry Sheetz, Al,
Of 2809 Buena Vista Terrace, Sc:
David McGuffie, "a, colored, of 48
Cullinane Court S.W.; John Pink
ney, IS, colored, of 4908 X street
Sc. and James Hill. 40. colored
of 927 Liberty street S.W. AL
were admitted to Emergency Hos
pital with multiple burns on theil
bodies.
The men were gathered around
the motor of stalled coal truck
One of the men was pouring gasn-
line in the carburctcr v'hc1 tho
fluid caught fire.
The fire spread to nearby shec
but was extinguished after caus.
ing only slight damage.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Marine Pilots Send
Greetings to Reds
On Sides of Bombs
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Aug. 17.-United
States Marine Corsair pilots
are delivering special greet
ings to North Korean troops.
They're bombs, marked
Compliments of the Corps"
They are dropped on targets
along with regular bomb
loads.
Capt. Jerry Smith of Cliff
ton, Tex, dropped one on a
partially completed under
water sandbag bridge across
the Naktong River. He said
he made a direct hit, demol-
ishing one end of the bridge.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Severe Hurricane Moves
Toward North Bahamas
By The Associated Pres,

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. TIA severe
hurricane, with winds up to 14O
miles an hour, surged westward in
the Atlantic today, threatening the
Northern Bahamas.
After lying almost stationary
throughout the day. the gigantic
hurricane started q slow west or
west-Southwest movement last
night At 1880 am. (EDT) today
it was about 800 miles east of
Nassau, Bahamas, and 480 miles
east of Miami.
1t grew in intensity and size as
1t began drift westward. Velocity
of winds around the center in
creased from 100 to 140 miles an
hour in little more than four
hours.
This is severe hurricane and
ships should avoid it," said Cecil
Gentry, Miami weather forecaster
Caution is advised for interests in
the Northern Bahamas"
The center of the storm at 1880
am. was near latitude 25.6, longi-
tude 73, moving west at about
10 miles an hour.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
200 Chicago Police
Restore Order After
Racial Disturbance
BY the Assecieted Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE NOV
ing of two colored families into .
white neighborhood on the South
Side last night stirred up a racia
disturbance which was quelled by
200 policemen.
Six persons were seized by the
policemen who used A police We
hicles, to block OF the area ano
restore order. All those seized
are white. Five were charged
with disorderly conduct and the
sixth, a 12-year- r-old girl, was held
for juvenile authorities.
Bricks and bottles were thrown
at an apartment house at 1924
st. Lawrence avenue, the new
home of the colored families. 1t
was the first movement of Negroes
into this block although colored
family is living at 1852 st. Law
renee avenue. a block away.
Lights Black Out.
During last nights disturbance
two blocks of the barricaded area
were plunged into darkness by a
short circuit in the street lighting
system. A dispatcher said he be-
lives the blackout was not con-
nected with the disturbance.
AS the night and early morning
wore on the force of police was
reduced. BY 2 am. it was cut tt
80. Police spotlights. trained or
rooftops across the street from
the building, we're turned of
shortly after midnight. A few
neighbors remained on theil
porches; only a few homes wert
lighted.
Similar Disturbances Before.
st. Lawrence avenue has beer
the scene of occasional similar
disturbances for more than a year
William Gremley, a member o
the Mayors Committee on Human
Relations, said the outburst las
night introduced what he callec
a new tactic.
This he said, was the crowdint
of front, open porches across thu
street from No. 1924. He said many
porches were packed with NOR,
than a dozen persons each" wht
def1ed police to order them inside
contending this is private prop.
erty."
The building into which the
colored families have moved is 6
two-story brick apartment bull
in 1888. 1t has five rooms on the
first floor and six on the second
Most of the buildings in the
neighborhood are old, well-kept
two story homes and apartments
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Bunk Tax
Continued From First Page,

tanning real estate from which
they derived rentals.
On these issues, the board up
held the assessor.
On the other hand, the boarC
held the assessor had wrongly in
cluded among gross earnings re-
endorsement by borrowers under
FHA-insured mortgages of pre-
miums which the banks paid to
the Federal Housing Administra
tor for mortgage insurance.
The Districts Board of Per-
sonal Tax Appraisers made the
6 per cent assessment beginning
with the fiscal year 1945. Before
that-since 1904-national banks
and trust companies assessed at
6 per cent and State-chartered
banks at 4 per cent Of gross in
come less the amount deducted
as interest to depositors.
In a ruling in May, 1949, the
United States Court of Appeals
held that all banks should be
taxed at the lower rate. But il
said that so long as District tax
ing authorities imposed the 4 pei
cent rate on the State-chartereo
banks, the national banks which
have interest-bearing savings
should be taxed in the same
manner.
District authorities drew the
assumption from this that if they
tax all banks uniformly they are
removing the discrimination com.
plant. They had allowed the 4
per cent rate for fiscal 1945, the
year for which Hamilton Nationa
had appealed, but assessed at
per cent for the years after that
Evening star., 1950-08-17
White House Contract
Awarded for PLUMBING

The White House today an
nounced that the Commission on
Renovation of the Executive Man
sion had let a contract for
S561,110 for heating, plumbing
and air conditioning for the
Presidential quarters.
The work will be done by Reu-
ben L. Anderson, Inc, of st. Paul
and Carlson Bros, of Detroit.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Final Approval Is Due
On Measure 10 Widen
Social Security Setup
BY the Associoted Press

Legislation extending the Social
Security program to about 10 mil
lion more persons and boosting
old age benefits for those already
covered was due to receive final
congressional approval today.
Chairman George, Democrat. OF
Georgia, of the Finance Commit
tee planned to call up for Senate
action a compromise version work.
ed out by a Senate-House COM
mittee after the two branches
passed varying bills. No major
opposition was in sight.
The House approved the COM
promise yesterday, 374 to /. Sen
ate approval thus would send the
measure on to President Truman
who has urged extension of Social
Security and increased benefits
but objects to one provision o.
the present bill.
Main provisions of the bill woulc
add about 10 million to the ap-
proximately 35 million Americans
now in the old age benefits pro-
gram; raise pensions of those now
on the rolls by about 77Ha pei
cent; approximately double pay
ments to those retiring in the flu
ture; raise from $4,000 to $500
the amount of annual salary taxec
for benefits and increase gradu.
ally, starting in 1854, the present
112 per cent tax on worker ane
employer to 3A per cent.
1t was in the Senate that thu
provision to which Mr.. Truman
objects originated, so no extended
debate on the point was foreseer
there.
Administration leaders in tn,
House lost, 1873 to 1876, after max.
ing a determined fight to have the
bill sent back to Senate House
conferees with instructions to de.
lete the controversial section.
1t sharply restricts the authority
Of the Secretary Of Labor to with
hold unemployment compensation
funds from a State when he finds
that its jobless insurance program
does not come up to Federal
standards.
The provision, written by Sena-
tor Knowland, Republican, of
California, would block any action
by the Secretary in such circum-
stances for a period Of 80 days in
which the highest court of the
State involved determined whether
the States program was really out
of line with Federal rules.
Representative Lynch, Democrat,
of New York, questioned whether
such a court ruling would lie
forthcoming in 80 days. He said
it is more likely that about tour
years would be required.
Representative Reed, Republi-
can, Of New York, senior Repuoli-
can on the Ways and Means group.
retorted that those trying to
knock out the Knowland amend
ment were making "a drive for
centralized power for Washington
bureaucrats.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Washington Catholics Get
First Chinese Clergyman

Washington's first Chinese
Catholic clergyman has assumed
his duties at st. Mary's Church,
725 Fifth street NV.
He is the Rev. v. A. Wong
Yuen Sang, 80. a native of Can
ton. He came to Washington at
the request of Archbishop O'Boyle.
Father Wong said there are
approximately so Chinese Catho-
lies here. He now is getting ac-
quainted with them. They are
very busy" he said. Many work
in laundries and are so busy it
is hard to see them"
He held his first service at the
church Sunday.
The author of a 70,000-word
Chinese dictionary, he has
preached in Europe, Malaga,
Indo-China and Indonesia. He
was ordained three years ago in
Nanking.
Evening star., 1950-08-17

Herbert Leeman. president OF the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions; Arthur Clarendon Smith.
District Democratic leader and
officers of various citizens associa-
tions.
Mr.. Driscoll, who lives at 2651
Woodley road NV. is president
of the Mid-City Citizens Associa-
ton, head of Draft Board No. 2
and a member of the District
board of public welfare. He Is
citizens association editor for the
Times Herald.
BY the As1oeioted Press
Evening star., 1950-08-17

didn't shoot for fear of giving his
position away"
The North Korean left mo-
ment later.
Corpl. Rudd then heard Amer
lean soldiers and called for help
The lieutenant in charge of the
mortarmen was taken prisoner
with them, but escaped yesterday
morning, Corpl. Rudd said, by
asking to go to a latrine. When
one guard fell asleep the lieuten-
ant, Jack G. Hudspeth of Win
Salem. N. c.. slipped away
He had not been heard from early
tonight. .....
He was a great leader. I hope
he gets through" said Corpl. Day
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Population Increase
| OfHoIf Million Noted
| Since 1850 Census
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The country's population
has risen more than half a
million since the 1850 census
was taken, and is now above
ISL million.
The census Bureau said to-
day it's monthly estimates
show a rise of $4,000 since
April l, the date of the pre-
liminary report on the 1850
census. The population then
was 1908 million.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Ignite Deposit Found

CIUDAD TRUJILLO-A million
ton deposit of Ignite, fuel half
way between peat and coal, has
been found in Samana Province
of the Dominican Republic by
Dominican Bureau of Mining
geologiStS. This find is expected
to open new possibilities for the
production of electricity and syn
thetic gasoline,
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Italian Holiday Toll Hits AZ;
IS Are Victims Of Liqhtninq
BY the Assoeiaied Press

Dr me AssoeIoted PresS
ROME, Aug. 17.-Lightning
killed Is persons during the mid
summer August holiday in Italy
and burned as many more, the
Rome Messaggero reported today.
Most of the lightning deaths
occurred in Southern Italy.
Nine more were killed when
bombs in a fireworks factory, hit
by lightning, exploded.
Traffic. mountain climbing and
marine accidents brought the toll
to AZ dead-one of the highest
ever recorded for the holiday.
Evening star., 1950-08-17

M a j. &c n.
Lewis B. Her
shey. selective
service director,
noted that Mr..
Driscoll served
on draft boards
in both world
wars. Othe e r S
who spoke in
c u d e d j. A.
Kamerow, pres
ident of tn e
American Busi-
eSS ASSocia-
ton. sponsor of
=.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
Griffith Postpones
Virginia Legion Talk;
Speaks Tomorrow

Paul D. Griffith, Assistant Sec
retary of Defense, was scheduled
to address the 32d annual con-
vention of the Virginia Depart
ment of the American Legion in
Alexandria today, but will speak
tomorrow instead.
Mr.. Griffith, who is past ma
tional commander of the Legion
was unavoidably detained. He was
to speak on the Korean situation
Officers of the 40 and 8 So
ciety, the Legion's fun organiza-
ton, and its ladies auxiliary, the
8 and 40 group, were elected yes
terday. They included two near
by residents. Harry w. Detrick
of Alexandria was named grand
commissaire intendant of the
mems group and Mrs. Lydia
Forne. Arlington, lie demi chapeau
deuxieme of the ladies organiza-
tion.
COldwell Is IndOsed.
Late yesterday the 40 and 8 in
dorsed Fairfax County Attorney
Rufus G.. Coldwell for the society's
second highest national office.
Mr.. Coldwell's name will be
presented to the national con-
vention in October at Los Angeles
for the Office of Sous Chef De
Chemin De Fer. He is a mem
ber of the Alexandria Voiture 934
of 40 and 8.
Other speakers at the session
first of the four-day meeting
included Mayor Franlin S.
Backus and Representative Smith,
Democrat, of Virginia.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, will speak at II am. to-
morrow. He will be introduced by
Gov. Battle.
Evening star., 1950-08-17

Bolivar Films, Venezuela's only
full-length movie producer, COM
pleted a feature film last year
which has proved very success
full there.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
5 Billion Tax Boost Bill.
Due for Approval by
Committee Today
by the Associated Press

President Truman's $5 billion
FIRST installment" tax increase
bill, expanded in Congress to put
the Nationals tax system on vir-
tuaIly a wartime footing. was set
for formal approval by the Senate
Finance Committee today.
With Republicans joining Dem
ocrats in support of the emergency
measure, the committee may send
it to the Senate with its unani-
nous blessing.
Before acting finally on the bill,
the committee expects to write
in a specific exemption, relieving
GIs fighting the Korean war from
paying income taxes, and reduc-
ing the tax burden of their Of
ficers. 1t already has approved
this idea in principle.
The measure increases individ-
ual income taxes by about IS
billion a year, and adds SIS billion
a year to the payments corpora
tions make to the Government.
1t will bring tax collections from
individuals near their wartime
peak.
Measure Is Expanded.
In a move to encourage produc-
tion to arm America against Com
munist aggression. the commit
tee yesterday expanded the scope
of the measure. to restore a sys-
tenn used in World War II.
Under this plan, facilities built
or acquired for emergency pro-
duction would be given special tax
treatment. They could write on
in five years-20 per cent a year
the entire cost Of the facilities
as deductions from gross income
before computing income taxes.
Under present tax law, normal
depreciation for such facilities
might take 20 years or more.
The idea of the special tax
treatment is to encourage industry
to get quickly into the business OF
producing whatever the armed
forces need.
Truman Would Name Board.
Emergency amortization would
apply to facilities, land, buildings,
machinery or equipment, or any
part thereof, the construction,
erection, installation or acquisi-
ton of which was completed after
December 81. 1949, and which was
certified as necessary for the ma
tional defense during the emer-
gency.
President Truman would ap-
point the certifying authority. In
World War II the War Produc-
ton Board was the certifying
agency.
The committee also worked out
special corporation tax rates for
1850 income. 1t said that on all
of 1850 corporation income, the
tax rates will be:
On the first $4,000 of income
-23 per cent; on all over $25, 900
AZ per cent.
Treasury Would Get 500 Million.
The committee previously had
voted to boost corporation rates
to rs per cent of income up to
$25, 900, and As per cent on in
come over $4,000, with the higher
rates applicable to one-half OF
1850 income. These rates will still
apply to all income beginning in
1851.
The special rates for all of 1850
income are intended to remove
the confusion in trying to apply
the higher rates to one-half OF
this years income. Committee
spokesmen said the Treasury
would get about $700 million ex-
ira from corporations in 1850,
either way.
Present corporation rates are
81 per cent on the first $4,000;
% per cent on the next $4,000;
25 per cent on the next $4,000;
SO per cent on income between
$25. 900 and $4,000, and 38 per
cent on income above $50.000.
Evening star., 1950-08-17
A. J. DriscoII Honored
AT Testimonial Dinner

A. j. Driscoll, 81-year-old civic
leader was honored at a testi-
monial dinner last night in the
Dupont Plaza Hotel.
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HOLIDAY TRIAL
Continued from Page u
ly groomed sat in the prison box.
Not to be denied any part of

er of five children and the wife
Of Francis Grayson, one Of the
condemned men, brought her plea
directly to the White House gate
in hope that President Truman,
Atty. Gen. Howard McGrath, or
some of the senators or congress
men would take some action to
save the life of her husband.
She was joined in this plea with
Mrs. Rosalee MCGEE, the mother
of four children and the wife of
Willie MCGEE who was also sche-
duled to die in the electric chair
in Jackson, Miss, on Thursday,
July 81. MCGEE was finally grant
ted a 90-day stay by Supreme
Court Justice Harold Burton, un-
til a petition for a writ of GER
tiorari is disposed Of by that
court.
President Truman received a
cablegram from Hongkong, China,
on Tuesday asking him to take
some action in the MCGEE case.
The wire was received at the
White House while the wives of
the two supposedly innocent con-
demned men were trying to get
an audience with some member of
the White House staff to register
a plea for the lives Of their hus-
bands.
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Thus it argued that the deatI
penalty has been reserved special
ly for Negroes contrary to the
equal protection doctrine.
Martin A. Martin, the MAC
P attorney handling the case took
the plea to the Richmond Hastings
court, Part II, late Wednesday af-
ternoon. Immediately after Sup
rene Court Justice Harold Burton
had granted a 9O-day stay of ex-
ecution for Willie MCGEE who was
charged with the rape of Mrs.
Troy Hawkins Of Laurel, Miss.
Four Of the seven Martinsville
were scheduled to die Friday, July
%, and the other three on Aug.
a. The first four on the death
list were Joe Henry Hampton,
Frank Hairston Jr., Booker T.
Millner and Howard Hairston. The
other three were Francis DeSales
Grayson, John C. Taylor and
James Luther Hairston.
Death sentences were given to
these seven men for the alleged
rape of the 31ryear-old white wo-
man in January, 1949. The con-
viction of the lower court was up
held by the Virginia Supreme
Court Of Appeals, and in May the
U. S. Supreme court refused to ,
the case.
Atty. Martin A. Martin and a
number of Negro and white citi-
.ens of Virginia appealed to Gov.
aBttle on July 7, asking that he
the sentence from death
to life Imprisonment.
Gov. Battle
Conscience
In a lengthy statement handed
down by the Governor last Mon
day, he definitely rejected the
counsel's plea. After reviewing
the evidence he said, 81 have
searched the records and my own
conscience without finding any
circumstances upon which l could
rely in setting aside the findings
ofthe court in any of these cases.
| have no course, therefore, other
than to deny the prayer of the
petition"
The day following the announce
ment of the governors decision,
Mrs. Josephine Grayson, the moth
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the proceedings, your reporter
went direct to Prosecutor Heck's
office, and asked him. GLOW much
longer do we wait for the DISPOSE
ton of the Holiday case, and
Continued In Next Issue
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JUDGE GRANTS

concluded FROM page IL
on the petition. The petition con-
tended that the seven men were
denied equal protection of the law
under the 18th amendment to the
U. S. Constitution.
It contended that the State of
Virginia had consistently sentenc-
ed Negroes to die for the rape Of
the white women, but had never
invoked the death penalty against
white men convicted of rape.
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