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Evening star., 1950-03-25
Suit Asks $105,000
In Loss of Fingers

The family of a four -year-old
boy yesterday sued Woodland and
Lothrop for $105,0 damages on
. claim that the child lost two
fingers in an escalator mishap.
The suit was filed by Louis
Hajimihalis, 1891 Fourteenth
street NV, on behalf Of his in
jured son. Victor.
Evening star., 1950-03-25

(HRYSLER Corporation offered today to
~ deposit $3OOOOOOO now in fund to back
its good faith, ability and willingness to
pay pensions for life to its employees as they
retire.
This sum would be more than sufficient
to fund pensions for ife at the time of retire.
ment, to people who retire in the next years
of pension contract. If the contract is not re-
newed, the remaining deposit would be used to
fund, as they retire, pensions for other en-
ployees in the order of their retirement on the
same terms as if the contract continued. If and
as social security benefits increase, the deposit
would be reduced accordingly. 9>
This proposal and what goes with it in i'm.
proved insurance and contract provisions make
it all the more senseless and inhuman for $4,000
Chrysler employees to be kept out of work for
any issues in this strike
Chrysler Corporation made it unmistak.
ably clear in its new offer not only that it is
willing to pay pensions comparable with other
industry plans and to continue to do so, but also
that it is willing to fund its pension plan on a
sound actuarial basis calculated to assure EN-.
ployees as they retire that they will get for life
the benefits proposed.
While the Company would thus provide
for funding the pensions of employees as they
retire, it would eliminate any unnecessary
"kitty" fund-one of the Onion demands that
caused the strike.
It is the hope of the Company that pen.
sion agreements under this plan will be an i'm.
portant factor to its employees for long time
Chrysler's new plan also provides for
joint responsibility with the Union on all mat.
ters related to eligibility of employees retiring
under this plan.
A joint Company and Union board would
be set up to administer and decide questions of
Evening star., 1950-03-25
CIRYS[ER WOULD PUT Up 30 MILLION DOLLARS NOW
TO FUND PENSIONS FOR LIFE AS EMPLOYEES RETIRE

eligibility, credited service, age and other re.
lated matters in accordance with the contract.
Chrysler Corporations pre.strike offer pro.
posed that there should be such joint handling
of these administrative matters, but as part of
the bargaining procedure.
In addition to the provisions for pensions
and for joint administration of pension bene.
fits-but not joint control of the fund-the new
offer liberalizes in important ways employee
eligibility for pensions and includes greater
insurance benefits and many amendments to
the previous contract desired respectively by
the Union and the Company.
Crysler Corporations new offer was
outlined by Robert w. Conder, director of labor
relations, when he met today with the Unions
bargaining representatives, in the presence of
Federal and State mediators.
1t will be recalled that prior to the strike,
Chrysler Corporations offer provided that
employees with Is years of credited service at
age IS would, when they retire, receive pay.
ments, including social security, of $1OO month
for life. Eligible employees who retire at age
IS but who have IS to Is years of credited serv.
ice would get proportionate payments. The
Company had also offered to back its pension
obligations with its full financial resources and
integrity.
This was rejected by the Union. The
Union at that time demanded that the Company
should deposit so many cents per hour in fund
and demanded that the Union exercise joint
control over this "kitty" fund. These two
demands caused the strike which was called
before the Company's representatives had an
opportunity to discuss and develop its original
offer in detail.
Today's offer would set aside S3O,OOO,OOO
to provide actuarially determined coverage as
regards employees retired under the plan as
they retire. In funding pensions as employees
Evening star., 1950-03-25

retire, Chrysler's proposal is comparable with
the steel plan that brought about settlement of
the steel strike.
More liberal retirement provisions are
also included in Chryslers new proposal. An
employee may retire at age IS. AS against the
original proposal that retirement at 68 would
be compulsory, employees with Company con-
sent may work beyond the age of g. Employees
may retire early as age 80 if they have Is
years of service, with pension payments reduced
proportionately.
The Company's offer also includes pro.
posals dealing with past service which had not
reached the discussion stage prior to the strike.
Past service would be credited on either senior.
ity or accumulated service, whichever is
greater, provided there had been no break in
accumulated service of more than two years at
one time Future service would be based on
one years credit for 1900 hours of work instead
of 1900 as in the pre.strike offer, and those
working less hours would receive proportionate
credits.
AS regards sickness and accident insur.
ance, the Company offered to increase weekly
payments from SIS to S28 Employees could
carry their full insurance as long as they are on
the payroll instead of only until age IS. The
employees get more insurance for less money.
Free insurance would be provided after
employees had retired as follows: $1,000 for
life for those with 25 years of credited service;
$3.50 for life for those with 20 to "a years of cred
tied service; and $500 for life for those with
Is to 19 years of credited service.
The complete cost of the pensions would
be paid by Chrysler Corporation and the EN-.
ployees would have to pay only part of the cost
of insurance substantially less than previously.
The Company's proposed contract also
includes adjustments of some of the so.called
inequities in rates requested by the Union.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Intruder Binds Woman, 10,
Escapes Police After Chase

A woman resident of the Devon
shire Courts Apartments told po-
lice she was bound, gagged and
blindfolded today by an intruder
she found in her apartment when
She returned from the store.
She is Mrs. o. P. M. Brown, 70.
who told police she discovered a
man behind the door when she
entered her apartment at Ais
Wisconsin avenue NV. He bound
her with belts and her slip and
locked her in the apartment, she
said.
Mrs. Brown worked her hands
free and summoned help by yelling
out a window. Police arrived in
time to see a young colored man
wearing a blue suit, white shoes
and straw hat, leave the build
ing.
Pvt. David Paul of No. 8 pre-
.cinct chased him several blocks
before losing him. Mrs. Brown
was united by Pvt. John w. Kemler
of No. 8, who entered with a pass
key.
Apparently nothing had been
taken from the apartment.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
4 Polio Cases Raise
Total in Area 10 AZ

Four new cases of polio have
been reported in Washington and
Prince Georges County, bringing
the total number of cases to AZ
in the Washington area this year.
The new victims are a 7-year-
old boy of the 2600 block of
Southern avenue Sc. who was
admitted to Children's Hospital
Saturday, and an 8-year-old boy of
the 500 block of Lancer place,
Hyattsville, who was admitted to
Children's Hospital yesterday.
Others are a 3-year -old boy of
the 1900 block of First street NV,
admitted to Children's Hospital
Friday, and an 8-year-old boy of
the $500 block of Broad Branch
road NV, admitted Saturday to
Children's Hospital.
Washington's total number of
polio cases this year is "a, COM
pared with six at this time last
year, according to the Health De-
partment. The Prince Georges
County Health Department lists a
total of six polio cases.
The Virginia State Health De-
partment has reported 80 polio
cases in the State, an all-time
high for this time of year, accord
Ing to the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
StaIemate Seen in Test
BY Appeal Of Old D. {.
Anti Segregation Law

The city's legal officers feared
today they had reached a stale
mate in their test of the Districts S
78 year old anti discrimination
laws. ruled void in Municipal
Court recently.
The city had hoped to carry the
case, involving Thompson's Res
taurant at 725 Fourteenth street
NV, to the Municipal Court OF
Appeals through a special agree
ment with defense counsel.
Ringgold Hart, attorney for the
restaurant, has informed city ctfi-
cials. however, he will not sign a
proposed stipulation, which would
have facilitated the appeal
ShoIl's Not Involved.
This decision, according to Lof-
ton S. Wesley of the legislative
committee of the Washington
Restaurant Association, has no
connection with Mondays Incl
dent at Sholl's Cafeteria, 511
Fourteenth street NV.
Police arrested 13 persons, white
and colored, who asked to be
served at the cafeteria during the
lunch rush. Told that company
rules forbade the serving oi
colored persons. a spokesman fol-
the group said they would remain
until served or arrested.
Effect Of Stipulation.
The restaurant association pre-.
viously had been reported pre-.
pared to stand behind Thomp-
sons in helping to get a fina
court test of the so-called lost
anti-Segregation law passed by thu
short-lived Legislative Assembly.
The proposed stipulation woulc
have been to the effect that Judge
Frank H. Myers, in ruling thai
ThompSon's violated no District
law when it refused to serve three
Negroes last February, had rulec
on a motion to dismiss, rather
than on the merits of the case
This would have avoided placing
the restaurant in double jeopardy
Mr.. Hart said yesterday, how.
ever, the record would not sup.
port such a move.
Evening star., 1950-07-19

The children at the Naylor Road
Nursery School were thrilled to
discover month-old boy on their
doorstep when they arrived for
classes this morning.
The boy, a healthy 8-pound
child with dark hair, was found at
Ills am. by Mrs. Benis Richards,
a teacher. when she and 10 pu-
pills arrived at the school, 1905 r
street Sc. He lay in half of a
suitcase. gurgling. A note read:
Please be good to him. He is
healthy. I tried hard but I Just
couldn't make it. He is a fine boy
and sweet. He only cries when
he is hungry"
The baby was clad in diapers,
and cap. Besides him
was a shopping bag containing
six folded diapers, a bottle of
formula milk, a can of condensed
milk, bottle. of orange juice and
a baby blanket.
The nursery school pupils were
fascinated. They quickly gave the
baby name, Terry, after the IA
son of Mrs. Richards.
The owner of the school, Mrs.
Winifred Stebbing. said she would
like to keep the abandoned baby.
but knew that was impossible. She
called police, but said that if the
mother would return. she would
give free nursery school care to
the child from the age. of to 6.
The pupils went very quietly
about their school duties so they
wouldn't disturb the baby.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Falling Board Kills Worker
At Apartment Project Here

A labor foreman was killed in
Stantly today when a scaffolding
board fell from an History con-
struction job and struck him on
the head.
The man, Oreste Ciarrochi, So,
of 4019 Thirteenth street NV,
was standing on the ground when
the accident happened, police said.
Eleven men were passing the IA
and 16-foot boards to the ground
by hand when a board slipped.
Mr.. Ciarrocchi was pronounced
dead on the scene by an Emer-
gency Hospital doctor.
Mr.. Ciarrocchi, native of Italy,
had been employed since 1912 with
the James Kane & Co. plastering
contractors, who were working on
the new Berkshire Apartments at
<201 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Public Support for Symphony
Urged as Rain Piles Up Deficit

their first Washington appear
ances. Tonight has been labeled
British Night"
The concerts to date "have been
so washed out or partially washed
out by thunderstorms and by rain
that both the Sesquicentennial
Commission and the orchestra
itself are facing a sizable deficit, ~
the symphony announcement said.
THE public is urged to demon
Strate by its attendance at the
remaining concerts it's loyalty to
the orchestra"
Besides tonight's program. the
series includes an italian Opera
Night" on Friday, featuring three
opera stars and a guest conduc-
tor; program with Evelyn Swar-
thout. Washington pianist, as
soloist Sunday; the annual
"Gershwin Memorial Concert"
next Wednesday and the appear
ance of John Charles Thomas,
baritone. at the last concert on
July %.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
District Guardsman Faces
Trial in Traffic Fatality
BY q stuff Correspondent of The s.ar

Dr Sfotf correspondent or The Stor
FORT MILES, Del, July 19.-
District National Guard Pfc. Mel
win L. Harrington. today was
charged with manslaughter in the
traffic death of Wilmington
Oel0 man near here July 9.
Pfc. Harrington, 81, of 1701 D
street Sc, also faces two charges
of assault with a dangerous
weapon-the Aston tractor-trailer
he was driving-in connection
with the same accident.
Thomas B. O'Toole, Wilmington
banker and real estate man, was
killed when the automobile in
which he was riding collided with
Pfc. Harrington's truck as Ma
tional Guard troops moved into
camp July 9. Injured in the same
crash were Mr.. O'Toole's wife
and Robert j. Wilson, their
chauffeur.
Court-martial proceedings are
expected to start Friday night.
Twenty witnesses have !, been
summoned.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Crews Putting Final Touches
On 76-Acre Amphitheoter

the last row of seats. 145 feet
above the stage.
The stage itself, rs feet across
at the apron and IS feet deep ex-
tends far out beyond the view of
the audience. With the two side
stages, action can proceed con-
tinuously.
The seats are a special feature.
Architect William NJ. Haussmann
said yesterday they were installed
in an inverted parabola," SO
desi"ned that everybody has a
good sight-line 20 the stage. In
other words, you won't have to
worry about the pc, son in front of
you (Mr. Haussmann says).
Nature comes back into her
own with the landscaping. A beau
tiful wooded area when the amphi-
theater builders arrived, the site
has been preserved so far as
possible. Tall trees surround the
arena on every side. To augment
them, workmen, under August H.
Hanson, park landscape architect,
are setting in from $500 70 5000
new trees and shrubs and other
greenery. They include quanti-
ties of laurel. dogwood. holly,
hemlock. rhododendrons, ivy,
pachysandra and even 24-foot
white pines.
Officials Inspect Work.
SeSquicentennial and park Off
cials conducted an official inspec-
tiof of the project yesterday and
indicated satisfaction with the
progress. Among those on hand
were Paul NJ. Massman, Sesqui-
centennial general manager: Ed
ward Boykin, special events di-
rector; Park Supt. Irving C. Root,
and Architect Haussmann.
A direct descendant of Martha
Washington was a special visitor
Miss Eleanor Parke Gusts Peter
18, of 2945 Upton street NV,
appeared in one of the Colonial
costumes she will wear in several
"bit" parts in the drama. which
will tell parts of the life of George
Washington.
Mr.. Green, who has spent most
of this year on the drama, also
was in the party. Calling the
amphitheater "the best in the
world" he declared:
1--WE hope the show runs 40
years."
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Child in Dental Clinic
Dies Under Anesfhetic

An 8-year-old patient at the
Children'S Hospital Dental Clinic
died this morning while under a
gas anesthetic for tooth extrac-
ton.
She was Betty Gay Moore, col
ored, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Augustus Moore, of 903 Fifth
street NE.
Hospital officials had no i'm
mediate explanation of the death.
The child had been given a routine
physical examination in connec-
tion with the use of the anes-
thetic, they said.
Homicide detectives began an
investigation for Coroner A. Mag
ruder Macdonald.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
D. {. Drops Request
For Funds 10 Shift
Golf Courses 10 Board

Withdrawal by the Commission
ers of a supplemental appropria-
tion request to permit District
Recreation Board operation of the
Interior Departments public golf
courses may delay the proposed
move until January. 1852.
Budget officials said the deci-
sion to drop a request to Congress
for 5000 was based on lack
of information about the financial
aspects of the operation.
The funds would have been used
to buy out S. G.. Loeff1er, now
operating the courses for the In
terror Department, and would
have constituted a loan.
Budget Officer Walter L. Fow-
Ter said the proposal will be taken
up again in September, when the
1852 District budget is prepared.
Recreation Board Chairman
Harry S. Wender expressed disap-
pointment at the withdrawal of
the request and hope that the
city heads would reconsider.
A proposed agreement. being
worked out with the Interior De-
partment, provides for operation
Of the courses on a calendar year
basis.
If the funds are not obtained by
next January /. the board can not
take over the courses for another
year.
Budget officials said that, while
under the Recreation Board pro-
posal the revenue collected from
the golfers would have been used
to pay back the $275 900, it wa;
not clear what disposition was tt
have been made of this money
after the loan was repaid.
Also, it was not decided how
much would be paid Mr.. Leoffler
Mr.. Wender said funds collected
on the courses would have beer
used to maintain them and even
tually. perhaps, to reduce prices
to the public.
He said no appraisal of the
facilities owned by Mr.. Leoflel
can be made until funds are pro-
vided for it.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight
Washington, $3.50 pm.

Chevy Chase, Forty-f1rst and
Livingston streets NV. Takoma,
Fourth and Whittier streets NV.
Turkey Thicket, Tenth street and
Michigan avenue NE. Ridge.
Ridge road and Burns street Sc.
Hine, Seventh and c streets Sc.
Anacostia, between Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue bridges
Sc. Howard, Fourth and w
streets. Happy Hollow, Eighteenth
and Kalorama road NV. Crum-
nell, Gallaudet and Kendall
streets NE. Lincoln, Sixth and
L streets S. E.
Arlington, $3.50 pm.
Shirley Homes, Twenty-eighth
and South Nash streets.
Alexandria, 8 pm.
Potomac View. South Lee street.
Montgomery County, 8 p.m.
Rock Creek, East Leland street
and Beach drive.
Prince Georges County, 0 pm.
Silver Hill Elementary School,
Branch avenue, Silver Hill, Md.
Evening star., 1950-07-19

The National Symphony Or
chestra's current Watergate con-
cert series is faced with a large
deficit because of rainy weather,
Frank r. Jelleff, vice president.
announced today.
Mr.. Jelleff appealed for public
support of the remaining five
concerts in the series in order to
reduce this deficit.
This summers series is being
given under Sesquicentennial
Commission auspices. The COM
mission has underwritten the
costs up to $4,000.
Mr.. Jelleff's announcement said,
however. that both the commits
sion and the orchestra itself are
faced with a deficit. indicating it
may climb over the $4,000 mark.
The next concert in the series is
scheduled for $3.50 o'clock tonight,
when Clarence Raybould, guest
conductor, and Leon Goossens,
noted oboist, both from England
will be featured. Both are making
Evening star., 1950-07-19
Capital Transit Official
Tells Hearing Of Rise
In Taxes and Costs

High taxes, increased cost of
carrying passengers and falling
revenues are among the reasons
the Capital Transit Co. needs
more money. the Interstate Com
merce Commission was told today
in the Pentagon fare increase case.
j. E. Heberle, company vice
president and controller, testified
the company's anticipated tax bill
for the year ending next May 81
will be $2,747,713.
He predicted the cost of trans
porting each passenger will in
crease. He said he doubts that
the company's revenue bill will
reach the total anticipated for the
coming year by the Public Utilities
Commission.
Tells of Revenue Decline.
Mr.. Heberle pointed out that
the annual normal rate or revenue
decline since the war has been 60
per cent. He said that during the
summer of 1949 and in January
and February of this year the de-
cline was as high as 9 per cent.
Capital Transit wants Is cents
of a proposed 30-cent joint fare
ticket for riders from the District
to National Airport, the Pentagon,
Navy Annex and Arlington Farms.
The joint ticket is used by riders
on CTC and one of the Virginia
bus lines serving the government
installations.
Attorney S. Harrison Kahn,
representing the Alexandria Bar
croft & Washington Transit Co.,
brought out in cross-examining
Mr.. Herberle that CTC does not
have an ICC certificate of con-
venience and necessity for its Dis
trict operations.
Court Ruling Is Cited.
The lawyer contends that un-
less CTC secures one, it will be
operating in violation of the law.
Mr.. Kahn told Examiner H. C.
Lawton, who is presiding. that the
Supreme Court has held that CTC
is engaged in interstate COM
merce, even when operating
wholly within the District.
Attorney Daryl Myse told a
reporter later that under the
Merger Act of 1888 CTC has a
charter from Congress to operate
in the District as we'll as the sur
rounding area. The company has
not found it necessary to secure
an ICC certificate for it's District
operations, he said, although it
does have those for charter serv-
ice and operations between the
District and Maryland.
Evening star., 1950-07-19
By james 6. Deone

Nature won't recognize herself
when the workmen finish re-
modelling her at the 16-acre site
of Rock Creek Parks new outdoor
amphitheater.
Part of the transformation
the 4,059-seat concrete and stone
arena itself-already is at the
stage where rehearsals are NOV
ing in for the pageant for which
it was built-''Faith of Our
Fathers" by Paul Green. First re-
hearSal there is scheduled tenta-
lively tomorrow night.
What the cement mixers haven't
wrought, the landscape artist and
road-builderS are busily attend
ing to; and some of their work
will go on during the daily re-
hearsals in order to finish the last
touches by the August 4 opening
In some respects, man is doing
his best to counter nature. For
permanence, for instance, he has
built sloped concrete floor on
the hillside and bolted wooden
chairs to it. Below, also of con-
crete, he has fashioned a huge,
curtainless, backless stage, and on
either side of it, two smaller,
shallower stages. Above, at the
back of the chairs, he has erected
roof 260 feet long and 25 wide
as shelter for some $500 first
comerS against rain.
Parking for 800 Cars.
Tanning out toward nearby
civilization, on Kennedy and
Sixteenth streets and Colorado
avenue, bulldozers are busy push
ing mud and gravel along broad
roadways cut through the trees
and others are leveling two large
parking lots, which will have a
capacity OF 800 cars. This is
preparatory to paving.
Painters also are working, down
in the under stage dressing rooms
for the Faith of Our Fathers
cast of 149. Electricians are busy
on two 45-foot steel towers bear
ing 10000 watts worth of spot
lights, to be controlled by light
ing director in a booth below
Sound engineers are preparing tc
install a powerful public address
system to carry every word OF
Green's historical drama back to