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Evening star., 1951-12-11
District Pushes
Drive on 1949
Tax De|inquents
$4,000 Notices Are
Mailed; Estimated
$4,000 Did Not File

The Districts machine fooled
drive against an estimated $4,000
residents who failed to file local
income. tax returns for 1949 today
was picking up speed. with 10000
delinquency notices already in the
mails.
The crackdown-aided for the
first time by card-punching busi-
ness machines-reached the mail
ing stage about month ago. The
notices already have covered all
names from A to c.
r. J. Dunham, assistant super
intendent of the income franchise
tax division, said the present drive
is being carried out by use Of
IBM machines.
The project is known about the
tax office as Delinquent 40"
It's Biggest Project.
Half of the tax staff of As is
concentrating exclusively - and
.overtime-on Delinquent 49," the
largest project the division ever
had. Mr.. Dunham said. Reason Is
that. while employers have sent in
more than 100000 information"
returns on their workers earnings,
less than 10000 tax returns have
been filed by taxpayers themselves
for 1949.
What complicates matters, Mr..
Durham said on the basis of past
experience. is that if a wage
Garner was delinquent in 1949,
he was probably delinquent in
prior years That leads to fur
ther back checking.
And, of course the 1850 and
current tax years must be checked
and prepared for concurrently
with the l949 operation
Repentent Form Queue.
Every day now long lines Of
repentent tax non-payers of 40
queue along a District Building
corridor. Each is helped by a staff
OF about II examiners, and each
interview takes from 10 to 20 min
utes, according to Richard s.
Morgan, supervising examiner.
The machines make mistakes.
Then there are irate telephone
calls. Sometimes the calls are
from people who filed their '4s
returns but got a DELINQUENCY
notice anyway.
/ These, We hear from first off"
Mr.. Dunham said. I'VE try to
explain that some mistakes ara
inevitable with all the returns
were handling.
\ He explained that most mistakes
stem from conflict between
nome addresses listed on the en-
ployers information" returns
ana the taxpayers returns.
Want to Correct Errors.
I ms discrepancy shows up on
the card-punching machines and
unless the mistake is deteced by
human checkers, a delinquency
notlce goes out.
naturally. We urge every one
who gets a notice when he
shouldn't to notify US at once so
we can straighten things out, +"
Mr.. Dunham said.
But the tax official pointed out
mat section of the District code
mat makes willful failure to file
DlStrlct tax returns a misde-
meanor punishable by a maximum
OF one year in jail and a S5. 600
fine,
we also urge people who really
are delinquent in their returns tn
come see us" Mr.. Dunham added
! pleasantly, but pointedly.
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dependence from their home in
N. Mex. Mr.. Wallace
is Mrs. Truman's brother.
Mrs. Truman'S other brothers
and sisters-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
George P. Wallace and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank G. Wallace, who live in
independence. will join the family
circle for Christmas Day.
Mrs. Truman plans to return to
Washington early in January.
Evening star., 1951-12-11
Coll-up Of Physicians
For Army Postponed
By the Associated Press

Selective Service has postponed
again-this time until February
the Gallup of 485 physicians for
Army duty. They originally had
been scheduled to be inducted last
August and September.
The Defense Department re-
quested the new delay, explaining
that there are enough volunteers
to meet present needs.
Evening star., 1951-12-11

can take possession OF a man and
that beautifully restored 18th
century brick house is a collector S
item indeed.
Tour Proves Eye-Opener.
The other evening, after a tour
of the disputed zoning areas, this
reporter and several leaders of
the Old Town Civic Association, a
new organization. were enter
tanned in the bachelors apart
ment. There was Jacob C. Myers,
a Navy captain on active duty
who is president of the associa-
ton; his wife who has been COL
lecting data on what restoration
of old buildings has meant to Alex
andria's commercial establish
ments, and Mrs Mangum Weeks
who with her husband, was one
OF the pioneers among the Social
Registerites entering the old part
of Alexandria.
The tour was an eye opener. No
driving around in old Alexandria
can give you an idea what has
happened there-much of it since
the war. You have to get into the
garden spaces behind the houses
You come upon large brick car
riage houses that have been con-
verted into comfortable dwellings
Evening star., 1951-12-11
Churchill Uses CubIe
To Honor Wireless
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 11.-Prime Min
lister Churchill will send President
Truman good will message to-
morrow marking the 50th ami
versary of the first trans Atlantic
communication by radio.
In order to make sure that
static does not interfere, Mr.
IChurchill's message will travel by
cable.
Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian
inventor. sent the pioneering wire
less message on December IL. 1901
from Poldhu. Cornwall, to st
Johns, Newfoundland.
Evening star., 1951-12-11
Ex- Countess Now Mrs. Neove, Becomes u. S. Citizen

A 27-year-old Portuguese count
ess, who gave up her title and
chose disinheritance by her
wealthy, patrician family in order
to marry the man of her choice
and become an American citizen,
today received final naturalization
papers in District Court.
The countess, Maria Carolina di
Patricinio Ferrollo Neave, now
proudly plain Mrs. Neave, is en-
ployed as a secretary at the
Brazilian Embassy here. She lives
at 1000 Connecticut avenue NV.
Mrs. Neave met her husband.
John Wallace Neave, a civil engi-
neer and a 1850 graduate of the
University of Maryland, when the
latter was serving as lieutenant
in the Merchant Marine in 1916.
Met Husband in Hospital.
She was a medical student at
that time and was called on to
help her uncle, a physician, per-
form an operation on a shipmate
of Mr.. Neave in a Lisbon hospital.
1t was there she met her future
husband.
Romance blossomed and they
were married in 1916.
Mr.. Neave is now in Monrovia,
Liberia, where he is helping in
stall a water system.
Glad to Give Up Title.
"I am glad to give up my title,''
she told reporters. Il feel a new
freedom as an American citizen
For the first time in my life I feel
I am not a burden to any one
and I am no longer dependent on
my family"
To two other attractive young
women today, the winning of final
popers meant that they would be
able to join their husbands over
seas for Christmas.
Mrs. Thomas B. Crisp. %. OF
1924 Greenvale road, Chevy Chase
a blond native of Vienna, Austria
will fly to the Azores, where her
husband, an Air Force major is
stationed.
AS an alien, she would not have
been allowed to make the trip.
Mrs. Crisp met her husband in
Vienna in 1949 when she was en-
lployed at United States Army
headquarters
The second woman, Mrs. Evelyn
Dagmar Van Dusen, %, of 2010
Kalorama road NV, is the wife
of Navy Comdr. Charles Van
Dusen.
A native of Esthonia, Mrs. Van
Dusen came here in 1916 from
Germany She met her husband
while she was employed as an edi-
torial assistant in the Library of
Congress. They were married last
October.
Evening star., 1951-12-11
Changes in Planning
Sci Up for DC. Backed
BY Committee Of 100

The influential committee of
100 on the Federal City yesterday
"wholeheartedly" Endorsed the re-
vised draft of the bill to reorganize
the National Capital Park and
Commission and to Gre
ate a Regional Planning Coun-
Gil in the Metropolitan Area.
Action followed a general dis
cussion of the bill, now before the
Budget Bureau for study and ap-
proval, at meeting of the COM
mittee in the Union Trust Co
Building. A score of members at
tended.
Assurances were given that the
bill adequately protects the right
of the planning commission to be
called in as a consultant on the
preliminary, as well as final. plan
ming stages of District highway
and other construction projects
both in and out of the city.
Chairman C. Melvin Sharpe, fol-
the Committee of 100, said The
legislation and safeguards arr
necessary, since this great Ma.
tional Capital cannot continue tt
develop orderly without proper
coordination of planning"
JTndernaSS Cited.
The lack of such coordination
of planning and consultation will
NCPPC in the early stages O.
developing the much criticized di
lrection of the Dupont Circl,
lunderpass was cited at the meet
ing by various members.
Reported changes affectin,
land acquisitions under thu
Capper-Cramton Act, said to b.
involved in plans for reorganizin,
the District government, came I'll
for attack at the meeting. Thl
committee took a firm position OF
a four point policy proposed b,
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, retired
a former chairman of NCPPC.
Earlier, Harry Wender of tn,
Recreation Board had said ther'
apparently is "a severe threat II
the independence" of that boart
in matters of land acquisition
under reported plans for Distric
government reorganization. HI
asked if the Planning Commits
sion's own bill in any way trans
Ifers the authority of NCPPC t,
the District Commissioners. HI
was assured it does not.
/ Four Points Opposed.
! At Gen. Grants suggestion, tn
COMMITTEE of 100 went on recorl
as opposed to four reported rec
concentrations in plans for re
organizing the District govern
Iment. Included was opposition t
transfer of the United States Par
Police.
The committee:
Held that the purchase of rec
reation land should not be trans
ferred to the District government
but should remain lodged witt
NCPPC.
Insisted that no lands purchases
under the Capper-C -Cramton Act fo
school and playground purpose
. should be made available for an
other kind Of use without NCPPt
approval.
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antiquarians are protesting the
change.
Industry Protection, Too.

antiquarians are protesting the
change.
Industry Protection, Too.
Philip B. Hall, the city's plan
ming engineer, points out that in
dustries have to be protected. too.
A change in definition is causing
the sheet metal shop to be listed
as industrial. The printing shop
already was. Mr.. Hall says that
while they could continue in busi-
ness no matter how the block is
zoned. if they had a fire it might
be illegal for them to rebuild if
they were zoned as other than
industrial. 1t probably would be
illegal for them to expand. Fears
that Objectionable industries will
locate in the block are unfounded
in his opinion.
One of the most interesting res
torations of old houses has Just
been completed in that block at
206 King street. This is a three
story brick building which two
years ago housed an establishment
which renovated mattresses on
the first floor. The windows of
the upper stories gaped at the
street with broken panes. This
house was built in 1893 by Col.
George Gilpin who served as an
Evening star., 1951-12-11
John B. Gordon Heads
Sons of the Revolution

John Boyle Gordon last night
was elected president of the Dis
trict of Columbia Sons of the Rev.
olution at the groups annual
meeting at the Chevy Chase Club.
Also elected were Martin M
Marston, Joseph H. Newell and
Charles T. Tittmann, vice presi-
dents: Dion S. Birney, chancellor
James B. Platt, jr., secretary; w
Perry Doing, treasurer; Victor v
Martin, registrar; the Rev. Rich
ard Williams chaplain, ane
Franklin w. Hynson, marshal.
Evening star., 1951-12-11

One handsome brick colonial
gentleman's residence in the rear
Of the row buildings was an ice
house few years ago.
These people feel that Alexan-
dria is superior to Georgetown be-
cause only few of the houses
restored there were built before
1900. Many of the "old town
houses were. Not as much money
has been spent in gardens as in
Georgetown, but there are some
impressive jobs. Two of the re-
stored residences now have pri-
vate swimming pools.
ShOpkeeper Surprised.
Mrs. Weeks said that when she
and her husband moved into their
house at 219 North Royal street in
1881 she went 10 King street
store to open an account. The
shopkeeper expressed surprise at
the address.
mo Alexandria lady would be
seen in that block" he said.
The first pioneers were the late
Mrs. Charles R. Hooff. Col. and
Mrs. Charles Beatty Moore and
the late Ward Brown, an architect
who did much of the restoration
work.
These people talk about the
Evening star., 1951-12-11
By George Kennedy

Two viewpoints over Alexan-
|dria's future are meeting head-on
as the city prepares to adopt a
new master zoning plan.
The debate involves several
blocks in the historic area and
the waterfront district.
Residents who have restored
Colonial homes in the downtown
area would like to prevent COM
|mercial and industrial properties
from creeping closer to them.
They hope to see industrial ex-
pansion along the water front pro-
hibited, so there would be no more
waterfront industries when the
present ones cease to exist.
Planning Commission View.
The Alexandria Planning Com
mission takes different view. It's
members and a special committee
that prepared the new zoning plan
feel they have cared for the
city's historic heritage by pro-
viding a special residential zone
for the downtown area. They
think the several commercial and
industrial extensions recon-
mended for the downtown area
are justified and moderate in view
of a persistent trend for business
to expand.
The planners also disagree with
the idea of removing industry
from the water front. They believe
industry is important to the city's
economy, and declare that many
of the big industries were thriving
when people started moving into
the old houses nearby and re-
storing them.
The City Council, which has
final say, begins voting on the
new zone plan tonight.
Certainly. the planners job of
drawing lines separating indus
trial, commercial and residential
areas in the old part of the city
is an unenviable one.
For instance, when the master
plan was revealed it was found
that some property owners had
succeeded in getting the south
side of the 600 block of Cameron
street listed as commercial. That
would allow the construction of
stores right across from the house
at Gil where Robert E. Lee lived
as boy.
Changed Back After Protest
Public protest led the planning
commission to recommend that it
be changed back to residential.
Protection of historic buildings
in the old part of the town, the
blocks just off the river, poses a
good deal of a problem because
most of the old buildings have
some history.
One of the problem blocks is
the 200 block of King street, the
block between Lee and Fairfax
streets. This block contains the
Ramsay House. Alexandrias old
est structure (circa 1749). 1t also
printing establishment
and sheet metal shop. 1t was
zoned as commercial. This is being
changed to industrial and the
Evening star., 1951-12-11

Campaign for
the Washington
area, the Dis
trict Chapter of
the Red Cross
announced to-
day.
In making
the announce
ment, j o h n
Clifford Folger,
chairman. said:
THE Red Cross
is most fortu-
nate in having
the outstanding
Loo of
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Commissioners
Take Interestin
School Strike
Hear Board Members
Donohue, Hayes Will
Attend PTA MEETING

The District Commissioners to-
day stepped into the stalemated
strike OF parents that has kept
300 colored pupils out of class
at the Payne and Webb Elemen-
tary Schools since last Thursday.
AT the invitation of Commits
sioner F. Joseph Donohue. the
Board of Education and School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning confer
red with the city heads this morn
ing. School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning, c. Melvin Sharpe, presi-
dent of the Board of Education,
and Albert E. Steinem, board
member, attended the conference.
To Attend PTA Meeting.
Mr.. Donohue said the Commits
sloners got full report on the
strike situation and decided to at
tend a PTA meeting on the strike
tonight.
He said that Col. Thomas j.
Hayes III, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner, would go with him
to the Payne-Webb PTA session
at 1880 pm. at the Payne School
to talk to the parents.
He said it would be "a fair in
ference" that if the PTA allows
him to speak at the meeting. he
Will take the position that they
are not doing right by themselves
and the children by striking"
He added: eve have no control
over the operation of the schools,
but we do have a certain respon-
slbillty in the matter"
The PTA meeting was sched-
uled as the striking parents gave
up further attempts to arrange
an immediate conference with
school officials. DR.. Corning yes
terday told the parents he and
Mr.. Sharpe had agreed no confer
ence would be held until the chill
dren were returned to class.
10 Return to Glasses.
DR.. Corning said he was not
planning to attend the meeting
although the parents asked him
to be present.
All but 10 of the 800 pupils at
the two schools stayed away again
today, the strikes fourth. Parents
again were picketing. Mrs. Cath
crime w. Jones, PTA secretary.
said it will be up to the meeting
tonight to decide whether they
return tomorrow.
Yesterday the parents sent a
telegram to President Truman
asking him to please come to our
rescue" There has been no indi-
cation of Intervention by the Pres |
ident. however.
The telegram declared that "Dr.
Corning and the Board of Educa-
ton refuse to give adequate school
facilities to Negro children in
Payne area. DR.. Corning refuses
to meet with the Executive Com
mlttee OF the PTA because we are |,
on strike in protest to a recent, I
unfair. inadequate decision of the /
Board of Education"
Corning Declines Invitation.
Dr. Corning was invited to to-
nights meeting in another tele-
gram yesterday. But he already
had sent a letter to the striking
parents informing them he would
be glad to see them after your OBJ
legation to send your children to
school has been met"
Parents called the walkout in
protest against a Board of Educa-
tion decision to shift Madison
School from white to colored
pupils. In connection with the
shift, many Payne Webb pupils
would be transferred to another
school, Maury, which the parents
consider too distant.
Evening star., 1951-12-11
aide to Gen. George Washington
during the Revolution.
Restored by 3 Bachelors

oieiC W 1Cll. 1cOisC w dSIllIls lOll
during the Revolution.
Restored by Bachelors
The house was restored by three
bachelors. H. j. Knapp of New
York, Edward E. Graft and Wesley
Wilson. The last two are in resi-
dence there and expect Mr.. Knapp
to join them next year.
The first floor houses an at
tractive gift shop with an 18th
century front of white panels and
bow windows. The apartment on
the second floor, furnished with
antiques. is occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. James Samuel Patton. A
founder wing in the rear-prob-
ably an older building which was
incorporated in the house, is now
an apartment occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack NJ. Fox. The bachelors
apartment is on the third and
fourth floors. Dormer windows
were cut in the roof to make living
quarters of the fourth-f1oor attic.
Mr.. Graft is from Ohio: Mr..
Wilson from Indiana. A large
steel engraving of Robert E. Lee
hangs IN the hallway.
When you talk to Mfr. Wilson.
who is As, you begin to realize how
completely the antiquarian hobby
Evening star., 1951-12-11
Judge Noyes to Speak

Judge Alfred D. Moves of Mont
gomery County Juvenile Court will
Address the Bethesda Civitan Club
at 1915 pm. tomorrow in the
Dinner Bell. Bethesda.
Evening star., 1951-12-11
Garrett Will Head
D. {. Red Cross Drive

George Angus Garrett. former
Ambassador to Ireland, has ac-
cepted general Craftsmanship of
the 1852 American Red Cross
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DIG RED, the dog you see flying
Id about on these pages, is Chesa-
peake Bay Retriever. His ancestors
we're carefully bred to improve their
duck-fnding and fetching instincts.
Big Red has added new talent. Maybe
it's because he lives on stud farm
covered with fences, but he's become
one of the jumpingest dogs around. He
takes to the air whenever he gets
chance. In the summer he combines
this with swimming.
Reds owner is Wilson Pinn, an ex-
jockey who now trains horses for Mrs.
George L. Howe. Mrs. Howe's Fulton,
Md, farm is a maze of fences designed
to discourage the wanderlust in horses,
cows and sheep. Sometimes Big Red
has to jump 10 fences to get anywhere.
photographs BY Hy Pesltin
The guardian., 1951-07-21
LABOR OF PATRIOTISM

1t is always peasurabe experience to meet ana talK
with of good seeds and doer of good deeds and
especially the of VIII is able to keep patient and
cheerful about the selmposd tasks The benevolent citizen
dropped Office for ust word with the editor
but rewarded US with refreshing chat publcsprited
woman who works for upright and able aspiran to public
Office works for community beterment works for civil
rights works make democracy work For desired results
she said there often long wait Moreover the laborers in
the same vineyard where she works comparatively few
but she says all disturbed by that because every
reform every advance for the nation has had but
small number Of earnest and haruggng promoters while
the sdene crowds gathered TO cheer boo the
struggers and others remained aoof unconcened either
way, complacent comprising the great majority.
At parting agreed that of the stubbomest
roadblocks national progress is the peoples compacency
Eosv developed becomes epidemic of apathy that is
extremely difficult to Danish One could think that the body
polite would be ioed to constructive activity by the sneers
and eers Of European critics who ridcule failure to
perfect democracy even the seat of III Federal Govrnment
century and threeouarers Of national existence But
such criticism if noted at all here has apparently been
shrugged off only by the citizens at large but by those
who have the direct power make real democracy function
Perhans only great nationwide catastrophe in which
all suffer and suffer alike hasten the DAY when all will
equally enjoy the rights and freedoms vouchsaed to all when
the nation was instituted The real patriots however not
the fac wavers but the and whose deeds prove
their love of country will continue their labor to make
democracy work although advancement slow even after
long and heavy TOLL since genuine patriots they are led
and sustained by faith in the American ideal
The guardian., 1951-07-21
HONEST ELECTIONS

Ii isn't the Banks case Nor it the Sullivan case IL
the peoples Nobody charges the Election COMMISSION
with dishonesty but there is something seriously wrong with
III election booth system when is possible to tamper with
ballots double ballots and cause confusion such as
surrounds the Councillor election in Ward Nine
The fraud there uncovered only because the contest
was so close justify recount When fraud or ms
scot occurs in any section the city how we to know
that other sections escape and corruption Indeed
how IS anybody to that his vote will be tabuated
and counted the candidate for whom ne took the time ana
the trouble to trudge'to the polls and vote?
The PEOPLES votes should be handled with at least the
same degree Of honesty and accuracy with which banks
handle the peoples money.
To restore assurance the electorate there is need that
the the polling places be selected solely on the
basis Of integrity and competence Furthermore might be
well to have certified expert accountant present to super
wise the counting of the votes.
The possibility Of subversve action in elections shoulo
be DESTROYED at The ballot should be regarded as
sacred Ii is the only the people have to enforce
sef-government