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Evening star., 1950-12-21
The Georgetown Advertiser
Michigan l2ll

A Christmas party given long age in
one of the most beautiful mansions in
GEORGETOWN, was the beginning of a
romance that has since fascinated the
world Of society. In the early 1S4Os
Baron Bodisce, the Russian Minister.
who lived on o Street, gave a gay
Christmas party for his awo nephews.
All the young men and women Of the
town were invited. Great bonfires
lighted the way; enchanting music.
beautiful flowers and lights gave them
a fairyland Of pleasure. Among the
guests was the sixteen-year beauty.
Harriet BealI williams, who became
the most famous girl who ever grew
up In GEORGETOWN. The Baron be-
came completely enamored of Miss
Williams and In spite of the fact that
he was neither young nor handsome.
they were married in June. 1919.
Among the distinguished guests were
President Van Buren,, Daniel Webster
and James Gordon Bennett. The bride
was given In marriage by Henry Clay.
The marriage. tho brief was p very
happy one.
Evening star., 1950-07-13
Won1en's Clubs
Mrs. Noyes Sees Advance in Aviation
If Women Overcome Fear of Flying

times she has addressed men S
groups on the subject of flying
safety, and had several of her
audience approach her afterwards
with the same comment: If my
wife could have heard your talk.
I know she'd let me fly
The Ninety-Nines president,
who is veteran of 81 years flying
experience, expressed the opinion
that education on the relative
safety of flying as compared to
other modes of travel, plus the
fact that so many women hold
pilots licenses, can do much to
convince the ladies-and in many
caSes-the men.
"As numerous as airplanes are
now" she declared, lit is still
surprising to hear. I'd fly if it
was a question of life and death. u
Mrs. Noyes voiced high hopes
for the future of private aviation
as evidenced in the yearly increase
of flying licenses. She expressed
regret. however, that no provision
has yet been made by Congress
this year to provide for adequate
air marking.
There are only about 1000
markers as compared to the 100,-
900 needed to adequately mark the
whole United States, she pointed
out.
Air marking is the most neces-
sary adjunct to the advancement
and safety of private flying" Mrs.
Noyes declared. I'm fact, in
hundreds of cases, an air marker
has saved a pilots life"
Mrs. Noyes was introduced by
Miss Carmena Raffaele. Miss
Judy Cox, president of the club
which is composed of aviation
employees, was mistress of cere-
monies,
Evening star., 1950-07-13
Dorothy
Dix

DEAR MISS DIX: I am mid
dle-aged woman and I don't know
whether I am just a victim of
self-pity or am plain "touchy''
about my friends. I have tried to
play square and have never failed
to help them in every emergency
/ am worried when they are in
trouble and put myself out to help
them. But am I popular? No!
Although I want to be in the swim
of things am just another woman
who fills in at luncheon or a
card game. I don't click. Is it
because I don't brag, shout,
scream, say complimentary things
to peoples faces and catty things
behind their backs? Tell me, does
it pay to be a hypocrite. or to be
true to ones ideals? I'd love to
be popular, but although I have a
few friends who are true to me, I
am never singled out or fused
over. Why is this? K. M. C.
ANSWER: If you have only one
friend on whose faithfulness you
= can depend, you are fortunate. If
you have two or three whose hands
you can reach out and touch in
the dark, you are rich beyond the
dreams of avarice. All of us have
many pleasant acquaintances, men
and women who are intelligent
and agreeable and whose society
We enjoy.
But these are fair = weather
friends, not the real friends who
ride out the storm with us and
on whose faith and loyalty we can
depend, no matter what befalls us.
Nor is this as unfair as it sounds.
Probably these people give us as
much in real liking as we give
them, they would do as much for
us as we would do for them, and
we are quits when we mutually
make life pleasanter and gayer
for each other. Think it over and
you will realize that you get lot
of fun and entertainment in going
to the luncheens and the bridge
parties Of women even if you know
that they have no profound affec-
tion for you, and that while they
might send flowers to your fu-
neral, they would never break a
date to attend it.
You ask if it pays to be a hypo-
crite. Certainly not if you mean
taking advantage of kissing a
sister to stab her in the back, but
1 have found that so often women
make the charge of hypocrisy a
blanket indictment to cover all of
the amenities of life. Perhaps in
trying not to be hypocritical you
lean over backward and antago-
nize people by telling them truths
which they resent hearing and to
which 1t is none of your business
to call their attention, anyway.
But the secret of popularity is
a mystery that none can explain.
Some fortunate individuals are
porn with the magic that draws
every one they meet to them. Every
eye brightenS at their coming and
every hand gives them a glad well
come. They may not be half so
good and kind and unselfsh as
those who are passed over. They
may not be half so good friends.
But somehow they get the affec-
ton that is denied their superiors
ana the attentions they do not
deserve. They just click, and
that's all there is to it.
Evening star., 1950-07-13

An emergency appeal to the
public for donations of used cloth
ing, furniture, books, toys, blan-
kets and household furnishings
has been issued by the Providence
Hospital Economy Shop at 1916
Twentieth street NV.
Up to now. the shop, which
opened last fall, has depended on
donations from the board, COM
posed of several hundred wives of
physicians and other local busi-
ness and professional men.
The emergency appeal was is
sued by the board, headed by Mrs.
j. Raymond Raedy, because the
summer lull has lessened the
Evening star., 1950-07-13

BY encouraging air travel, wom-
en- can exert a large influence On
the advance of aviation in this
country. But first, they must over
come their fear of flying, Mrs.
Blanche Noyes. chief of the Air
Marking Section of the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, declared
last night.
Mrs. Noyes, who is national pres
ident of the Ninety Mines, In
ternational Women Pilots, spoke
before the second annual banquet
of the Women's National Airport
Club.
The speaker labeled as "old
fashioned" the concept that "f1y-
ing is dangerous" declaring that
women holding this attitude are
responsible for their husbands
and sons avoidance of air travel
Mrs. Noyes recalled the many
Evening star., 1950-07-13
Hospital Shop Asks Donations

number Of donations to the point
the stores stock is all but de-
pleted.
Donors have been asked to bring
their contributions to the shop
which is open from 1890 am. to
$50 pm. daily except Sunday
Evening star., 1950-07-13
.Zionists Elect

Mrs. Violet Zitomer has beer
elected president of Masada, loca
Zionist youth group. Other new
officers are Erwin Sha1owitZ, first
vice president; Sid Becker, sec.
ond vice president, Albert Cohen
treasurer, and Miss Helen Ershler
secretary.
Evening star., 1950-02-16

! tEutGOI NOCC. ftCo 10 tftC
| fourth OF IL articles explaining
Uho must do Dhat and hoW
| about 1949 income tar returnJ
| BY the Assoeioted Press
Be sure in filing your 1949 in
come tax return, that you're get
ting all the deductions to which
you're entitled.
Deductions for personal eX-
penses-like hospital bills and
charitable contributions-are sub
tracted from your income before
what's left can be taxed.
You have no problem If your
income was under $4,000 and your
deductible expenses were less than
10 per cent Of your income. You'd
make your return on Form 1040-A
or the 1040 short form. Every one
using either Of those forms auto
matically is allowed a deduction
of about 10 per cent.
10 Per Cent Deduction Automatic.
That deduction already is taken
care of in the tax table used to
tell the tax Of any one using either
Of these forms.
But If your income was less
than $1,000 and your deductions
actually were more than 10 per
cent. you'll lose money by using
Form 1040-A or the 1040 short
form. Use 1040 long form.
No one using form 104O-A or
the 1040 short form can claim any
more than the approximately 10
per cent deduction explained
above.
BY using the 1040 long form you
can claim your deductible ex-
penses in full.
True, in such a case you'll have
to itemize your deductions on the
l040 long form to prove you had
them. but you can claim them in
full.
If your income was $4,000 or
more, you can use only the 1040
long form, where you can still
choose between a standard de-.
duction" and claiming your ac-
tual deductions.
A single taxpayer in this group
is allowed a standard deduction
that is, he doesn't have to itemize
or prove anything-of 10 per cent
of his income up to a limit of
1000 deductions.
Long Form More Difficult.
He just knocks 10 per cent of
his income before applying the
tax to what's left Remember:
Those using the 1040 long form
must figure out their own tax.
He doesn't have to itemize his
deductions unless they're more
than 10 per cent. But by item
izing, he can claim them to the
full extent.
Examples: Mr.. Smiths income
was $1,000. He takes, without
itemizing, a standard 10 per cent
deduction, or $500. Mr.. Browns
income was S1U,OUU. He takes the
10 per cent deduction or $1,000
without itemizing.
But what about Mr.. Jones whose
income was maybe $4,000 or
maybe even $4,000? He still can
claim, without itemizing. only 10
per cent up to a limit of $1,000,
no matter how much above $1O,-
600 his income was. So Mr.. Jones
total deduction, without itemizing,
even though his income was $780,
600, can be no more than $1,000. 4
II Mr.. Jones deductions actual
Evening star., 1950-02-16
1919 Deduction Is Automatic
But Others Must Be Itemized

ly ran more than 10 per cent of
his income-and this is true Of
any one with more than $4,000 in
come-he can claim them in full
but then he'll have to itemize
them.
It's different with a married
couple whose income was $4,000
or more. If they file a joint return
on the 1040 long form, even
though the wife had no income,
they get a standard deduction
Evening star., 1950-02-16

just like the unmarried man-of
10 per cent up to a limit Of $1,000,
without itemizing.
But If one of them files sepa-
rately, or both file separately
there's a limit of $500 in deduc-
tions on the return filed. Example:
Mr.. Smith had $4,000 income,
his wife had none, they file joint
ly. They get the standard 10 per
cent deduction of 5000, without
itemizing.
But suppose this same Mr..
Smith-with $4,000 income and
wife who had no income-flles
a return alone because his wife
fails to file jointly with him.
In that case his standard de-
duction Is only $500, The Smiths
Evening star., 1950-02-16
threatened Nation wide telephone

threatened Nationwide telephone
strike.
A retraction was demanded
Monday by Mrs. Margaret Weiss.
head of the Maryland telephone
operators union. She charged some
of the statements, particularly
figures about wages, were in error.
w. G. Morrel, company vice
president and general manager,
replied yesterday.
1.-The advertisements and press
releases have been used to refute
erroneous and misleading public
statements regarding employees
wages and working condition
made by national leaders Of the
CIO-Communications Workers of
America, of which your division
Evening star., 1950-02-16

have lost on that deal. And-if
he files alone and his deductions
actually were more than $500,
he'd have to itemize them all to
prove them, although he could
claim them all.
Tomorrow: More on deduc-
tionS and untaxable incomes.)
Evening star., 1950-02-16
{. & P. Refuses 10 Retract
Statements About WaQes
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Feb. 16.-The
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. of Baltimore. yesterday de-
clined to retract statesments pub
lished recently concerning the
Evening star., 1950-02-16

is an integral part. The state
ments and figures are factually
correct"
Evening star., 1950-02-16
Your Income Tox

Editors Note: This Is the
fourth of IL articles explaining
Dho must do Uhat and hoW
about 1949 income tar returnJ
Evening star., 1950-07-28
Autopsy Is Held in Death
OF Government Ex-CIerk

An autopsy was performed to-
day on Andrew Chotvacs, Al, of
IA Denbury street S.W., former
Government clerk, who resigned
his job few days ago.
He died at 7 o'clock last night
after being found unconscious is
minutes earlier on a bed in the
front room of his apartment.
DR.. Christopher ]. Murphy,
Deputy Coroner, said an empty
box, with its label torn off, but
which was marked in pencil "sleep-
ing pills" was found nearby.
The Coroner said he was told
Mr.. Chotvacs left a note saying
he was in i'll health, and telling
about the resignation. Results of
the autopsy await chemical tests.
Mr.. Chotvacs was pronounced
dead by DR.. William F. Simpson.
148 Danbury street S.W. The
body was taken to the District
Morgue.
He is survived by his wife, Diana.
Evening star., 1950-07-28
District Crime Probe
Hearings Planned as
Counsel Is Cleared

With its counsel cleared by a
unanimous vote of confidence, the
House District subcommittee in
vestigating Washington crime to-
day started mapping plans to
pick up the threads of its inquiry.
Lack Of funds, plus a request for
an investigation of Hyman I.
Fishbach, the crime groups coun-
sci, had temporarily stalled the
inquiry into law enforcement here.
The House last week approved
$4,000 more for the committee.
Committee Chairman Davis,
Democrat of Georgia, said today
the group will start meeting next
week on its proposals for changes
In the law and the ways the law
is administered.
Public Hearings Planned.
Thereafter, the subcommittee
is expected to get into a new in
vestigation, featured by public
hearings.
After a session yesterday of
questioning Mr.. Fischbach, the
committee unanimously voted its
complete confidence in the New
York attorney and requested him
to continue on the job.
Mr.. Davis handed out this state
ment for the f1ve-man crime COM
mittee:
I'm the work of our committee,
it is necessary that our counsel
and staff be persons of the highest
integrity and ability. In organiz-
ing our committee, we sought and
employed counsel and staff on
that basis.
when the House Administra-
ton Committee approved the re-
cent resolution to make funds
available to our committee, the
acting chairman wrote a letter
to our committee, suggesting that
certain statements rejecting upon
the committee counsel, Mr.. H. I.
Fischbach, be investigated.
1--WE asked. through it's chair
man, that the Law Enforcement
Committee of the Bar Association
in Washington join us in this in
vestigation, and the chairman of
that Bar Association Committee
actively participated in inyesti-
gaating each and every allegation
regarding our committee coun-
sci.
Complete Report Made.
"A complete report of that in
vestigation was made to our COM
mittee on yesterday at an execu-
tive session. The report dealt
specifically with the statements
made concerning our committee
counsel, and the recommendation
which was made to our committee
on the basis Of that joint report
was that Mr.. FiSchbach's charac-
ter and ability qualified him in
all respects to continue his work
as counsel for our committee.
The representative of the Bar As
sociation COMMITTEES and the mem
ber of our committee who made
the investigation joined in the
recommendation that MIR. Fisch-
Evening star., 1950-07-28

but free tickets and lodging
service.
Provided in Wartime.
These things were provided dur
ing World War II. Then, there
were 16 USO centers. A daily
recreation bulletin was published
with $4,000 circulation. An entire
hotel was taken over and oper-
ated for servicemen on Union Sta
ton Plaza. A stage door canteen
was run by the American Theater
Wing at the Belasco Theater, COM
plete with Broadway and Holly
wood talent. In all, some $4,000
volunteers helped out in making
the boys feel at home.
The USO didn't manage all
these activities. The War Hos
pitality Committee, supported like
the USO by the Community War
Fund. had a large hand in the
picture. 1t still exists, on paper.
Some other agencies were useful,
such as the Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines Club. (The YWCA still
has dances and other functions
open to servicemen.)
ASAF. while not yet suggesting
it take over the whole job, would
be logical organization to
handle the new effort, in the view
OF leaders active in the wartime
program.
But it still has a long way to
go. Its own leaders concede it's
present program is just scratching
the surface. In the words of a
top Army officer here:
''The ASAF agencies are doing
everything possible, and it's a
Evening star., 1950-07-28
Home-DeIivered Milk
To Go Up Half Cent
In Nearby Virginia

Higher prices for home-deliv-
cred milk in the Arlington Alex
andria area will become manda-
tory Monday under a new order
issued by the Virginia State Milk
Commission.
The commissions order yester-
day raised the minimum retail
price of milk half a cent a quart
to conform with price boosts that
Chestnut Farms and Thompson's
Diaries have announced will go
into effect in the District Monday. :.
Under Virginia law, the milk
commission has authority to fix
minimum and maximum prices of
milk. It has never fixed ceiling
price.
The commission order provided
for a quantity discount to house
wives purchasing at least six
quarts of milk a day.
Follow District Prices.
Milk prices in the Arlington
Alexandria area normally rise
and fall with District prices. AL
though only two local dairies
have announced price increases,
other dairies are expected to boost
their prices to conform. The Dis
trict has no law controlling milk
prices.
Spokesman for Chestnut Farms
and Thompson's Diaries told the
Virginia commission that an in
crease in the price of delivered
milk was necessary to offset high
er operating costs resulting from
the contract won by organized
milk drivers following a strike
last month.
Milk Law Discussed.
Meanwhile, District Health Off
Ger Daniel L. Seckinger met with
representatives of opposing dairy
interests yesterday to discuss pro-
posed liberalization of the District
milk control law. Representatives
of the Red Cross and the local
medical societies attended. DR..
Seckinger refused to disclose what
was discussed.
Proposed amendments to the
milk control law would permit
chemical sterilization of dairy
farm equipment.
Evening star., 1950-07-28

wonderful job under the circum-
stances. But they're understaffed,
and short of money. It's strictly
a holding operation at present.
Ninety per cent of the job re-
mains to be DONE"
Special Baseball Tickets.
One step in the right direc-
ton has just been taken-the
Mats Clark Griffith has permitted
the printing of $4,000 special
tickets to the ball games. Dis
tributed on military posts and
at ASAF agencies at $1.45 each,
they will admit two servicemen or
women in uniform. They already
are being grabbed up, and leaders
hope to extend the practice to
football games this fall.
For another step, United Com
munity Services, which spends
Chest funds in Washington, now
is surveying the whole field of off,
duty recreation for troops in the
area and the resulting recon-
mendations are expected to in
f1uence community action on the
problem.
Mr.. Kaufman is convinced of
the vital necessity of action. He
also fears that $78,00O-assuming
it is granted by the Chest-will
hardly be enough to do the job.
"It has to carry us over 16
months-from this September to
December. 1851" he pointed out.
Il don't see how it can do it. The
job is just too big"
He doesn't have any doubt that
the community will shoulder the
task. however, as soon as war
makes it aware of conditions.
Evening star., 1950-07-28
Capitol Guide Investigation
Asked in Attack on Fee

Representative Brehm, Repub-
lican, of Ohio has called for an
investigation of the guide system
at the Capitol, with view to
abolishing the 25-cent fee now
charged each visitor for tours.
Mr.. Brehm called it a dis
grace" for taxpayers to be charged
a quarter to be shown through
their own Capitol. He introduced
a resolution to authorize a full
ana complete investigation" of the
guide program.
The inquiry would be made by
. the House Administration Com
mittee. 1t was referred to the
House Rules Committee for con-
sideration.
Evening star., 1950-07-28
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for TONIGHT
WASHINGTON. S.3O PM

Janney, Wisconsin avenue and
Albemarle street NV; Bright
wood, Thirteenth and Nicholson
streets NV; Edgewood, Third and
Evarts streets NE; Trinidad,
Trinidad avenue and Meigs street
NE: Thomson, Twelfth and L
streets NV; Anne Beers. So place
and Alabama avenue Sc; Hayes,
Fifth and K streets NE; Briggs
Montgomery, Twenty seventh and
I streets NV; Burrville, Division
avenue and Hayes street NE;
Randall, First and I streets S.W.
Arlington, $3.50 pm.
Lubber Run, Second and Colum-
bus streets.
Alexandria, 8 pm.
George Mason, Cameron Mills
road.
Montgomery County, 8 pm.
Pinecrest, st. Lawrence drive,
Four Corners.
Prince Georges County, 9 pm.
Glenarden. Town Hall, Glen.-
arden.
Evening star., 1950-07-28
Sesqui Events
Where to Go,
Whut to Do

This year marks the 150th anni-
versary of establishment of the
permanent seat of the United
States Government in the District
OF Columbia. The national Cap
ital Sesquicentennial Commission
has scheduled the following events
in observance of the city's 150th
birthday Gree of charge unless
otherwise noted:
Today.
At the Watergate, the National
Symphony Orchestra, Howard
Mitchell, conductor. in the final
concert of the current Sesquicen-
tennial series. John Charles
Thomas, baritone. will perform as
Soloist and narrator in Aaron Cop
lands Lincoln Portrait" $50
pm. Tickets IS cents to $2.40.
Continuing.
"The American Professional"
paintings and drawings recording
four centuries of American his
tory, at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Seventeenth street and New
York avenue NV. Guided tour of
the exhibit at 10:30 am. today.
American Horizons" 1867 to
1900.
Also, plan of Washington"
architectural exhibit at the Cor
coran Gallery. Gallery hours: 10
am. to 4:30 pm.
Makers of History of WASH
ington." paintings of great Ameri-
cans and their families, the Ma
tional Gallery Of Art, Sixth street
and Constitution avenue NV.
Picture of the week: Archbishop
Carroll, founder of Georgetown
University, by Gilbert Stuart,
famous painter of George WASH
ington. Picture of the week lec-
lures at 1890 and 2::30 pm. Gall
lery hours: 10 am. to 5 pm.
"MilestoneS in American Achieve
nent," an exhibit marking the
sesquicentennial Of the Library Of
Congress. as well as of the District.
1t the Library, First and B streets
Sc, 8 am. to 10 pm.