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Evening star., 1951-09-30
Donohue Urges Law
On Charity Racketeers

Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue said last night a licensing
law is needed to curb the charity
racketeers.
In his weekly Report to the
People" over Station WWDC, the
Commissioner said thousands OF
people are induced to give to what
they think is charity, but that the
funds actually go into the pockets
of racketeers.
He pointed out that in 1941 the
Commissioners asked Congress for
providing for licensing
of solicitors for charities. The
measure passed the House but was
defeated by single objection on
the Senate floor.
He asked the people to express
their views to the Commissioners
on the need for Congress to re-
consider the charity racket"
issue. And he urged his listeners
w 4CPOAt GA NOAllPldlllIS VII SIlduy
charity solicitations to the Police
Department.
Questioned by Reporters James
G. Deane of The Star and Rich
ard L. Lyons of the Washington
Post on the advisability of having
only one big fund drive, Commits
sioner Donohue said it would be a
good thing from the standpoint
of the giver but certain national
organizations might object.
THE people would be more
generous and would give more if
they could budget their charitable
contributions into a single lump
sum-" he added.
Commissioner Donohue urged
the people to give generously
to the forthcoming Community
Chest fund drive.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Women's Group to Give
$310 to Hospital Fund

The Women's Society of Chris
tian Service of Mt. Olivet Metho-
dist Church, Sixteenth and North
Glebe road, Arlington, tomorrow
will present a check for 1910 to
the Arlington Hospital addition
fund.
The money was raised by bene-
fit dinner. Mrs. Walter E. Rich,
president of the society, will pre-
sent the check to hospital officials.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Parf Of N St. Restricted
During Widening Project

NJ street between New Hamp-
shire and Connecticut avenues will
be restricted to one-way west
bound traffic after the morning
rush hour tomorrow. Highway
Director ]. N. Robertson has an
nounced.
The street is being widened
from 40 to Sc feet. 1t will be
kept one-way until the work is
finished on the south side. This
is expected to take about three
weeks.
L street is now permanently
one-way eastbound.
Evening star., 1951-09-30

OF the commissions price fixing
powers, Judge Harold F. Snead
said the question of interstate
commerce had not been fully ex-
plored during the trial. The jusist
asked for further evidence on that
point.
Last August, the Arlington legis-
lative delegation asked the COM
mission either to withdraw from
the price fixing field or that ad-
ditional consumer representatives
be named to the commission.
The new request is to be made
at a hearing to be conducted by
the Virginia Milk Commission at
10 am. October 8 in the George
Mason Hotel, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
What Noise? Shouts Majors Family as BoInq Planes Roar
BY Harry Lever

The noise of low-fying air
planes, so annoying to residents
of Alexandria and Fairfax
County, Va, is nothing short of
lullaby to Maj. John c. King and
his family.
And he ought to know, because
he lives at 1893 Chesapeake street
IS.W., which former tenant
thought was just about the noisi-
est house in Washington.
Maj. King, adiutant at Boiling
Air Force Base, is the son of for
mer Senator William H. King of
Utah, long time chairman Of the
Senate District Committee. The
major now occupies the former
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Bockovac. The Government
bought the pretty brick bungalow
in February, 1948, for $44, ,245. The
Bockovacs had contended for IL
years that it was dangerous and
noisy place because of planes fly
ling over it at an altitude Of so
feet.
District Court ruled the Bocko-
vacs were entitled to receive the
sum, which was the higher of two
figures set by a condemnation
jury. The jury had found that
the value of the property de-
pended on whether the flights over
| it were to be taken into con-
sideration. The jury said the
fair market" value of the prop
erty, disregarding the flight of
aircraft, was to be the sum decided
upon.
The property was long an issue.
In 1946 Congress directed the
Army to buy it. Mr.. Bockovac
who now lives in Montgomery
County, "far from airplanes,'
turned down an offer which pre-
ceded condemnation proceedings
The house now is designated as
an officers quarters. Building
No. T-80." 1t was occupied for q
short time by an Air Force War
rant officer, Frank Weirbaugh anc
his family.
1 1t may be because Maj. King is 9
pilot that he and his family don't
mind the noise. When they moved
in the beginning of the year
Maj. Kings wife, Marie, thought
she wouldn't like it. But now Shf
agrees with her husband that the
planes are mo worse than a bus
going by"
In fact Maj. King has beer
awakened two or three times bS
buses but only once by a low-fyins
plane, and he said, "that was ir
bad weather when it was flying 9
little lower than usual"
The three King children, Will
liam, 6, Richard, 3, and Stephen
2, aren't especially bothered by the
aircraft. Once in a while, Richard
gets little excited when he is in
the rear yard alone and trans
port comes in to land on nearby
Runway 35 at Boiling.
The house is not always sub
jected to the noise. It's mostly ir
/ the spring and fall, for a period o1
7 several weeks each season, that the
!, planes use Runway IS.
4 The officer said he is willing te
buy the house if the Government
. will sell. For one thing, he con-
tinued:
!. MY kids might grow up to be
.Igood airplane spoilers"
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Arlington Hospital Fund S
Model Home Opened

A model house was opened for
a three-weeks public inspection
yesterday to benefit the Arlington
Hospital building fund.
Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of
the commanding general of the
Air Force, cut the ribbon at the
door of 2719 North Norwood street.
John Wright, builder, then
turned over the key to Mrs. Guy
Ramsdell, president of the Arl-
ington Hospital Ladies Auxiliary
which will provide hostesses dur
ing the three-week inspection
period.
Voluntary contributions for the
hospitals new building fund will
be accepted. The model home is
to be open daily from l to pm.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Arlington Delegation to Ask
Curb on Milk Commission

Arlington County's legislative
delegation yesterday announced it
would appear before the Virginia
Milk Commission October and
ask that it withdraw from price
fixing activities in the Alexandria
Arlington area.
Delegate ]. Maynard Magruder,
who said he was speaking for
State Senator Charles r. Fenwick
and Delegate George Damn also,
declared that they would base
their plea on grounds that most
milk consumed in the area is OBJ
tanned by out-of-Sta firms, and
therefore is a poduct of interstate
commerce.
In q recent Richmond court test
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Naval Reserves on Cruise

Members of the Organized Naval
Reserve from the Washington area
will embark this morning for two
weeks training cruise to Bermuda,
1t. Comdr. Charles E. Napier, OF
% Galveston place S.W., will COM
mand the destroyer escort Robert
F. Keller, and 1t. jg) Alpert P
Ross, OF Bangor, Maine, will COM
mand the patrol craft 1853.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Frederick Clears Debt Incurred by Gen. Early Raid
By George Kennedy
Stor Staff Correspondent

FREDERICK, Md, Sept. %
Final payment was made today
on the debt which Frederick City
incurred during the Civil War to
save itself from the torch of Con-
federate Gen. Jubal Early.
Unfortunately that's not the
last we are going to hear of it.
Frederick's Board of Aldermen,
assembled this morning in solemn
session, voted unanimously to ask
the Federal Government to COM
pensate the town for the payment
|of 5000, 900 plus interest that had
Irausomed the supplies of the
Union Army stored in the town
at the time as well as the town
itself.
There was bit of levity to the
proceedings. Mayor Donald B.
Rice couldn't restrain himself
from laughing as he concluded the
meeting. And Joe Eisenhauer,
executive secretary, said:
"Gabby gets a great kick out
Of these things"
The "gabby" he was referring
to was standing nearby. He is
Harry w. Herman. a reporter for
the Frederick News-Post who has
kept the Jubal Early story alive
in Frederick with pomp and
pageantry.
Early Invades Frederick.
The story is this: On July 8,
1864, 1t. Gen. Early who had de-
feated the Union. forces in the
Shenandoah Valley and crossed
the Potomac at Harper's Ferry
arrived at Frederick on his way
to Washington with 10000 men.
He was going to burn Wash
ington but he was willing to spare
Frederick for payment of sup
plies to the value of 100000.
While the mayor of the day,
William c. Cole, was trying to
find that much flour and bacon,
Ia stronger note came from the
general demanding 100000 in
cash.
The mayor and the common
council passed resolution that
night that the town should de-
mand this amount from the five
local banks according to their
several capitals"
The Banks Produce.
/ Banks in small cities would have
hard time coming across with
100000 in cash today but that
was before the check book. The
banks produced and the money
was carried to the City Hall in
baskets and given to Gen. Early's
quartermaster
! Frederick was prosperous then
as now and the banks continued
to operate despite the loss of the
cash. For 18 years the only pay
ment the city made was to waive
tax collections on the bank. which
hardly met the interest. In 1882
the city had a small surplus and
paid $1,000 on the principal In
1885 the city decided to borrow
money for water improvements
and q So5n mn hond iccIIe moe cold
A part OF this money was used to
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Psychiatry Tests
For All ParoIees
Again Urged
District Board Asks
For Appointment Of
FuII-Time Examiner

Appointment of full time psy-
chiatrist to examine prisoners up
for parole was urged again by the
District Parole Board in it's annual
report released yesterday by the
Commissioners.
Col. Campbell C. Johnson, CHAIR
man of the board, declared:
ut is our feeling that every
prisoner who is eligible for release
on parole should be given a psy-
chiatric examination as a routine
procedure and the results of such
examination should be available to
the Parole Board at the time of the
parole hearing"
The psychiatrist should be at.
tached to the Department of Cor
rectionS, the report said. 1t pointed
out that at present it is possible,
If the Parole Board or the Depart
ment of Corrections suspects men,
tai disorder in prisoner. to re-
quest a psychiatrict examination
by Gallinger Hospital.
Present System Hit.
This procedure was described as
mot very satisfactory" by the
board.
1T is our opinion that neither
we nor the members of the staff
of the Department of Corrections
are capable of detecting evidence
OF mental disorder in every case
where it exists and that a proper
diagnosis could be made only by
a trained and qualified psychia-
trist."
The board reported that during
the II months ending last June 80,
hearings were held in 821 cases.
These included 585 applications for
parole; "a re-hearings on applica-
tions previously denied or con-
tinued; two for requests for reduce
ton of sentences; 81 for good be-
havior releases and 49 parole viola
ton cases.
Parole Violations Higher.
During the period, the board had
under supervision 523 PAROLES. 1t
was necessary to issue 81 war;
rants for violations of parole for
a IL per cent failure rate. This is
an increase of per cent in failures
over the previous year.
A total of 631 cases released
for good behavior was under super
vision. OF these. lis failed to live
up to the bargain for an 18 per
cent failure rate. a decrease Of
3 per cent from the previous
year.
In addition to prisoners re-
leased from local institutions on
parole. the board also had under
supervision 149 prisoners released
in other Jurisdictions but living
here.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Sanitation Report

The importance of establishing
new land fills where the trash Of
the city can be dumped is Of
growing Importance now that the
outlying sections of the city are
being built up, the Division Of
Sanitation reported to the Com
missioners in its annual report.
The Kenilworth fill. which Is
the principal dumping place.
gradually is being filled and the
burning of trash constitutes a
nuisance to the surrounding
neighborhood which cannot be
avoided until adequate incinera-
tors can be built.
The District collected a total Of
1,956,601 cubic yards from house.
holders and in addition CONNER
cial establishments and Govern
ment agencies dumped 2,789,373
cubic yards of trash. The house
hold trash collection decreased
due to the paper salvage CAM
paigns, but the commercial and
Government collections increased
II per cent.
Traffic Hampers Work.
Although last winter was a mild
one, it cost the District $70,810.93
to clean the rs inches of snow
which fell and preparation for
snow removal when storms were
predicted, but did not require any
removal work. There were 26 sep
arate days in which snow fell last
year. the largest one was on De-
cember 10 when 2.3 inches fell.
The cleaning of the streets is
being hampered by the large VOL
ume of traffic and parking Of
automobiles on streets.
| The department also collected
49.909 tons of garbage during the
fiscal year. which was a reduction
of 1926 tons from the previous
year. This was probably due to
the high cost of living and the
subsequent conservation of food,
and the installation of garbage
disposal units in homes.
/ Other Divisions Report.
In another division of the Sani-
tary Engineering Department, the
sewer division serviced l.424.44
miles of sewers and used mosquito
control measures on 33,107 basins
and 521 miles of streams.
| The water division of the de-
parmnent with its three pumping
stations, five large reservoirs and
four elevated tanks serviced l.
163.09 miles of water mains and
FURNISHED 54,611 .401 900 gallons of
water to the residents of the Dis
trict. In addition they supplied
Virginia with 4,643, ,230. 900 gallons
OF water and Maryland with 991..
$4,000 gallons. Plans are being
made to construct additional trunk
mains and study is being made
OF the use Of water in ir-condi.
Itioning installations.
The Washington Aqueduct. the
supply division of the District
water system, under the control
of the Secretary of the Army
through the chief of United States
Engineers reported expenses Of
$2.s2S.705.26 for the year.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Safety Talks
Prince Georges Pupils
To Hear Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, direc.
tor Of The Stars School Traffit
Safety program. will give his IA
nous Safety Circus" chalk talks
at the following elementary
schools in Prince Georges County
this week:
Monday: Bowie Demonstration
$50 am; Bowie Colored. IL am
Tuesday: Wildercroft, $50 am
Ardmore. II am.
Wednesday: Landover Hills
$50 am; Cheverly, II am.
Thursday: Mullikin, $50 am
Mt. Nebo, II am.
Friday: Langley Park, $50 m
Cottage City, IL am.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
U. S. Decorotes Beieiuns

SOMEWHERE IN KOREA,
Sept. 20. (P).-The Belgian bat
talon was presented the United
States Presidential Unit Citation
today by Gen. James A. Van Fleet
for repelling Red attacks on the
IImjin River line, April 20-26.
Evening star., 1951-09-30
Mrs. Werner to Speak

Mrs. Stella B. Werner. Dem
ocratic member of the Mont
eomery County Council, will give
talk on county government at a
meeting of the Young Democrats
at pm. tomorrow in the Lyn-
brook Community Center, New
dale drive. Bethesda.
Evening star., 1951-05-17
NJ Arthur Debate Stirs
Call for Firm Policy,
News Writers Agree
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May 17-Several
top newspaper and radio person.
Ialities largely agree that the great
debate stirred up by the ousting
of Gen. Macarthur has led the
American people to demand a more
Vigorous Far East policy.
A foreign policy discussion was
held last night at the 18th annual
dinner of the Overseas Press Club
Iof America at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel.
Taking part in 1.-THE Press Looks
lat United States Foreign Policy"
were:
Barry Bingham. editor. the
Louisville Courier journal and
Times; Hal Boyle, Associated Press
Icolumnist; Edwin D. Canham, edi-
tor. the Christian Science Moni-
tor; Robert Considine, Interna-
tional News Service; H. v. Kali
tenborn, National Broadcasting
Co.; Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid, pres
Iident. the New York Herald Tri-
bune; Quentin Reynolds. editor,
United Nations World; and
Gideon D. Seymour. executive
editor, the Minneapolis Star and
Tribune.
Sees Administration Change.
Commenting on the Macarthur
dismissal, Mr.. Kaltenborn said the
principal outcome of the debate
on this issue has been that the
administration already has ac-
cepted some of Macarthur poll
cies."
Mr.. Considine said the admin
istration has come around to
MacArthur's thinking very vivid
ly," and added:
Three or four hundred thous-
and words have been said and
the boys have talked themselves
into the same point Of view"
Mr.. Boyle said he regarded the
great debate as "a good thing"
MIR. Canham declared the ad-
ministration had not taken any
of the steps proposed by Gen.
Macarthur which 1t felt would
risk the danger Of spreading the
Korean conflict.
The dinner also served to honor
seven persons who were presented
with the clubs 1850 awards for
outstanding foreign coverage in
the fields of press, radio and
photography.
Seven Are HonOred.
The awards went to:
Homer Bigart. New York Herald
Tribune, for best consistent press
reporting from abroad.
Mr.. Boyle, for best war report
ing (press. radio and television).
David Duncan, Life Magazine.
for best picture reporting judged
from its interpretive quality.
Marguerite Higgins, New York
Herald Tribune. the George Polk
Memorial award to foreign corre-
Ispondents for courage, integrity
and enterprise above and beyond
the call of duty. The Polk award
was esta blished in honor Of George
Polk, CHS correspondent murder
ed in Greece in 1948.
Erward r. Murrow, Columbia
Broadcasting System. for best
radio and televlsion Interpretation
of foreign news.
James Reston, New York Times,
for best press Interpretation of
foreign news.
Howard K. Smith, CHS, for best
consistent radio and television re-
porting from abroad.
Evening star., 1951-07-29

o: At ,paat age are your reac-
tionS the quickest?
A: University studies show that
your physical reactions speed up
with each passing year - until
you reach your middle 20's, then
slow up. BY the time you are 60
you respond to things with just
about half the speed that you did
when you were 25. In other words,
it takes twice as long for your
brain to transmit an impulse and
your body to act on it.
That's one reason why oldsters
are more subject to accidents.
They see danger coming, but their
physical reaction to it is frequently
several split seconds outside the
margin of safety.
A young man hears an autos
horn and is out of the way al
most at the same time the
drivers hand touches the but
ton. An older man hears the horn
at the same time - but his re-
f1exes are less instantaneous.
In VIEW of sciences findings,
picking the best years OF your life
is not easy. The advantages and
disadvantages of each age tend to
almost offset each other.
Some of our faculties and abili-
ties function better as we grow
older; with others the opposite is
true. Science can put the attributes
of each age under the clinical
microscope, but it takes a Solomon
to add up the debts and credits
and decide which of the years of
your life are the best. The End
Evening star., 1951-07-29

Cason of the University of Wis
consin made study of over
thousand subjects, aged 10 to 80.
He found that middle-aged people
(4O to 60) were more easily an
noyed than any other age group.
Young people were the least irri-
table, but each year that brought
them closer to middle age found
them more easily upset by trifles,
and more inclined to be peevish
and impatient.
But after middle age is passed,
the psychologist found that peo-
pies dispositions tend to become
more serene.
Evening star., 1951-07-29

age from 10 to IS years. He found
that for the overwhelming major
ity of people, sensitivity to pain
decreases progressively with age.
His study showed that young
man of 20 is, on the average, %
per cent more sensitive to pain
than a person of over as. Moral:
avoid getting hurt when you're
young - it feels worse then.
O: At scIsGt age are people
most irritable and hardest
to get along tCith?
A: To find out the answer to this
question, Psychologist Hulsey
Evening star., 1951-07-29
WHICH ARE YOUR
BEST YEARS?
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ceptibility of both sexes tends to
wane until they reach their 40's.
Then it takes a sudden upswing -
particularly among women.
o: At tCItGt age is a scOna0n
the most beautiful
A: The National Institute Of Pub
lie Opinion conducted a nation
wide survey, in which men and
women of every age and walk of
life were asked to vote on this
question. Most people considered
that a woman reaches the peak of
her beauty in her early 20's. Less
than one person in five considered
the late teens the most beautiful
age. Indeed, the bloom of youth
and innocence as typified by the
l8-year-old was esteemed even
less by voters in the upper-age
brackets. And only about one in
eight subscribed to the view that
a lady is more fascinating when
she reaches 80.
o: At ,chat age are you most
sensitive to pain?
A: If you hit your thumb with a
hammer when you're 40, it won't
hurt nearly as much as it would
have if you were only 20. The
noted psychiatrist William P.
Chapman tested the pain reac-
tons of 200 persons, ranging in
Evening star., 1951-07-29

TW 1881
Evening star., 1951-12-23

production had been selling Litho-
fold printing jobs to whisky makers
whom he supervised.
Meanwhile, subcommittee of the
House Ways and Means Committee
was working on Internal Revenue
shenanigans and broke that august
bureau open from Boston to San
Francisco with revelations that still
are not complete.
The result of the House inquiry
and simultaneous probes by In
ternal Revenue itself were a rash of
dismissals and designations which
Mr.. Truman said were about nor
NAL in number but which the record
indicated were at least twice as
numerous IS in previous years.
It was this group, headed by Rep
resentative King of California,
which recently paraded before the
public an amazing troupe of per-
formers - discredited Federal Of
ficials, ex-convicts in the influence
business, a gangland lawyer {.
even slick chick with lustrous
black hair and double address:
Chicago and Miami Beach.
Evening star., 1951-12-23
Federal Corruption Is Old Story Jackson Had His Troubles Too

Corruption in government is not
new in the United States At inter-
walls, the country has been rocked and
shocked by scandalous revelations. In
some cases the rumors were not SUBJ
stantiated. but nevertheless left in
delible scars, Cabinet officers, judges,
members of both House and Senate
have been involved. No charge of
personal venality on the part of a
President ever has been given wide
credence. But one Vice President was
aSsailed as corrupt.
James Russell Lowell. in discussing
the proposed centennial celebration
In Philadelphia commemorating the
signing Of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, wrote poem that began:
Columbia puzzled Dhat she
should display,
OF true homemade on her Gen.
tennidl Day,
Asked Brother Jonathan: He
scratched his head
Lowell, still in verse, had Brother
Jonathan listing long series of cor
rupt acts, and depicting the notorious
Boss Tweed as the country's --latest
style in martyrs"
Plenty Of Inspiration
Lowell had plenty Of inspiration.
The public after the Civil War, was
aroused by the Credit Mobilier scam
dals. the Whisky Ring frauds. the
gold conspiracy (of 1859 by the pic
ture Of Secretary of War charged
with receiving thousands Of dollars
In @kickbacks from q post trader at
Fort Sill. by the so-called congress
sional salary grab." and by charges
OF Irregularities in the Interior and
Navy Departments.
Corruption among government off,
cials was nothing new even then. The
first American to earn the dubious
distinction of stealing million Gov
ernnlent dollars was Samuel Swart-
won't, Tammany politician who was
named collector of the New York port
by Andrew jackson. Swartwout stole
ufldetected for several years and his
peccadilloes did not finally come to
light until after Jackson had retired
from the White House and Swartwout
had skipped to Europe. A congress
sional investigation unmasked Swart-
won't aS speculator who used Gus