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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Tentative Offers Made
On Two Park Sites

The Virginia National Capita
Park Authority last night was in.
formed there are prospects" that
it may be able to asquire two
park sites by donation or at 8
cost well below the market price
Matt C. Huppuch of Arlington
the chairman, said two property
owners have made tentative Of
fers to negotiate on the sites
both in Fairfax County, and in
cluding' "a few hundred acres
Mr.. Huppuch reported that
members of the authority, which
includes Arlington, Alexandria
Falls Church and Fairfax County
have made horseback surveys
of four potential park areas along
the Potomac River and two OF
three others along clean, we'll
behaved streams in Fairfax"
Mr.. Huppuch declined to give
the exact location of any of the
sites.
The authority acknowledged re-
ceipt of $500 from Alexandria and
the same amount from Arlington
for initial expenses and studies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Hearing Tonight on Bill
For Vets Slot Machines

A hearing on a bill to permit
veterans organizations to operate
slot machines will be held at
O'Clock tonight by the Prince
Georges County delegation in the
Maryland General Assembly.
The hearing will be held in the
delegation room of the State
House, Annapolis, and follows by
one day decision not to intro
duce similar legislation to legalize
slot machines throughout the
county. The delegation voted S to
2 against the general bill.
Tonight'S hearing had been set
earlier on a measure submitted by
Alexander Matthews of the Prince
Georges County posts of the Am.
vets and Veterans of Foreign
Wars. 1t would permit the veter-
ans clubs to operate any type oil
slot machines in their clubhouses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Arlington Voter,
|ndorseSchoo|
Bond Issue
6. O. P, Democrats
Back $4,875,000
Construction Plan

Arlington Democrats and Re-
publicans, in two independent
actions, last night Endorsed a $4,-
$4,000 school construction bond
issue.
County voters will decide the
question in a referendum April IT.
The Arlington County Repub-
lican Executive Committee gave
its Endorsement after which its
chairman, I. Lee Potter, said the
amount is about the same as that
previously advocated by the
G. o. P. following the defeat of
a SIS million bond referendum
last November.
Overcrowding Is Stressed.
The Arlington Democratic
Council requested the favorable
consideration of voters on the
question and said the School
Board had assured the council
that it would take the advice of
its Construction Advisory Com
mlttee in order to achieve econo-
mics in its construction program.
The Democrats further called at
tention to serious overcrowding in
schools.
In another action, the council
adopted statement of William
HaSsan criticizing a proposed tax
rate of $2.65 in the light of an
approximate IS per cent increase
in assessment values.
The Democrats said Mrs. Flor
ence Cannon. chairman of the
County Board, and County Man
ager A. T. Lundberg had indicated
there would be little, if any. in
crease in tax bills.
County Board Criticized.
Simple multiplication and
comparison. "Mr. Hasson reported,
will tell you just where you stand
on this question of increased
taxes.
Here is what it means in a few
sample places in our community:
Arlington Forest, $111.80 in 1910
and $141.51 in 1851, or 29.71 per
cent more; Lyon Village, $161.17
and $221.07, or $500 per cent
more; Country Club Hills, S196.57
and S263.94, or 67.37 per cent more
and residential land, unimproved,
$155.66 and $25758, or 1O1.92 per
cent more"
Mr.. Hassan concluded that sit
seems that the people can
hope for little or no help from
the so-called non-partisan major
lty on our County Board"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Lucky Number Program Called
Close to Lottery in Radio Suit

Persons reporting to WEAM
that they had the lucky number
were then advised to go to WWDC
Offices at 1927 K street NV. to
collect their winnings, the suit
alleges.
The offer is made over WWDC
II times a day, six days a week.
Judge Albert v. Bryan agreed
this morning to hear arguments
on whether temporary order
forbidding WEAM to broadcast
the numbers should be issued. II
the order is granted. Judge Bryan
said, full hearing will be set fol
April 9.
1t was enormously reported in
The Star yesterday that the Co.
lumbia Broadcasting Co. had filed
the suit. The Capital Broadcast
ing Co., operator of station
WWDC, was the complainant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Laurel Physician, 81,
Indicted on Tax Count

DR.. Napoleon B. Steward, a
Laurel physician and former
member of the Maryland Legisla-
ture, yesterday was indicted by a
Federal grand jury at Baltimore
on charges of evading $15,637 in
income taxes.
The 62-year-old physician is
accused in the indictment of un-
derpaying his taxes by S2,736 in
1914, S6,653 in 1915 and $6,248 in
1916.
In all, the indictment charges
that he underestimate his income
by a total of SAL, 722 for the three
years. One year, the indictment
states, he reported only S4,34e
income when it actually exceeded
$4,000.
DR.. Steward is director of the
Citizens National Bank of Laure
and is one of the towns mos
prominent citizens. He was 6
member of the seven-man Prince
Georges County delegation to the
Maryland General Assembly dur.
ing the 1947-49 sessions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Police Car Damaged
In Nichols Ave. Crash
.Iaxicab Victim Dies

An 18th precinct scout car was
badly damaged and a policeman
cut about the face last night in
collision at Nichols avenue and
First street Sc.
Police said car driven by
Thomas L. Wilson, %, a real
estate salesman. of 1915 Barnaby
terrace Sc, was making a left
turn into First street when it COL
lided with the police car. driven
by Pvt. Hugh A. MacNeil. %, OF
SIG Raleigh street Sc
Pvt. John D. Cain, 30, of 3106
Parkway Terrace drive. Suitland
Md, who was riding in the police
car, was treated at Casualty Hos
pital for cuts about the chin and
mouth. Mr.. Wilson also was
treated for cuts and bruises.
Damage Extensive.
Damage to the police car was
set at S4OO and 5000 damage was
done to Mr.. Wilson's car.
Police charged Mr.. Wilson with
failing to yield the right of way
to vehicle, failing to secure Dis
trict tags, failing to change the
address on his permit. and driv-
ing with an expired inspection
sticker.
Meanwhile, the death of TO-
year-old Boston woman yesterday
was listed as a traffic death by
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
but the fatality will not appear
on the Districts traffic death
record.
DR.. Macdonald said the death
of Mrs. Christine Nickerson, who
died at Emergency Hospital of a
cerebral hemorrhage after being
thrown to the ground March IL
while boarding a taxicab at Union
Station, was the result of the &C
cident. However, he said. since
the accident occurred on private
property. it will not be counted in
the National Safety Council tabu-
lation of traffic deaths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21

An attorney for Radio Station
WEAM argued in Federal Court
Alexandria. this morning that Sta
ton WWDC's Lucky Numbers
program is CLOSE to being a lot
terry"
WEAM is defendant in a suit
filed by WWDC charging that the
former station has been "pirating'
a program of the latter. The
Lucky Numbers program gives
its listeners a chance to collect
500 if their social security num-
Der or drivers permit serial con-
tains the same digitS as a num-
Der that is broadcast.
The suit charges that as soon
as the lucky number was broad
cast. the same number would be
given out over WEAM, which
would advise listeners to call that
station for information about col
lecting the $100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Leland Junior Hiqh
Concert Tickets Ready

lnvitotions for the 48th Neiehbor-
hood Concert by the National
Symphony Orchestra. conducted by
Or. Howard Mitchell, to be held in
Leland Junior High School OF 9 pm.
Monday. March rs, ore now ready for
distribution.
The inyitotions, issued without charge
by The Evening Stor, sponsor Of the
concerts. moy be obtoined at Leland
Junior High School, Bethesda Chevy
Chose ond Montgomery BIoir High
Schools and at the business counter
in the lobby Of The Evening Stor
Building.
The entire concert will De broadcast
by Stotlon WMAL, The Evening" stor
Utotion. A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Assembly 10 Get
Home Rule Bill
For Nary|andU.
Measure Provides
1852 Referendum
On Brood Proposal
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Mar. ala
bill proposing home rule" for the
University of Maryland was pre-
pared for introduction today ir
the General Assembly.
1t has the backing of the uni
Iversity's Board of Regents and
President H. C. Byrd, jr., who
called it move to ease present
restrictions" on the university
The bill calls for submission to
the voters in 1852 of a constitu-
Itional amendment setting forth
in broad language the powers of
the Board of Regents.
Chairman Wilkinson of the
House Education Committee is
sponsoring the bill.
Gives Power to Regents.
1t will give the regents the pow
er to:
Exercise with reference to the
University of Maryland and with
reference to all departments of
same all the powers, rights and
privileges which go with the re-
sponsibilities of management, in
Guiding the power to conduct or
maintain such departments or
schools in said university and in
such localities as they may from
time to time deem wise"
An it specifies that:
Said board shall not be su-
perseded in authority by any other
State board, bureau or commission
in the management of the uni
versity," with certain exceptions.
There were indications the home
rule plan will be one of the ex-
plosive issues of the last 10 days
of the 1851 session. Final adjourn
ment deadline is April 2, but lead
ers are setting their sights on a
March 81 finish.
Part of Organic Law.
Mr.. Wilkinson said in state
ment the bill provides that the
board of regents of the University
of Maryland and the university
become a part of the organic law
of the State. and as such be free
of the restrictions which, accord
ing to university authorities
hamper the university in its op-
!erations both from a standpoint
Iof efficiency and economy"
He contended that Maryland sis
now subject to restrictions to
which no other educational in
stitution of similar character is
subject"
The bill. Mr.. Wilkinson said
leaves final control of the univer-
sity. through financing, in the
hands of the legislature"
The board would have to submit
its requests for appropriations to
the State budget director in detail,
and the appropriations to the
State budget director in detail,
and the appropriations would be
a part of the Governors budget
bill.
All of the university's income
would be deposited in the State
Treasury and the State controller
would make an annual audit of
the institution hooks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Mrs. Werner TO Speak
For Council Against
/ Tawes Bill al HEARING

Opposition by the Montgomery
County Council to a bill thai
would kill the county's beer mo.
|nopoly system was to be carried
to the Maryland Legislature il
Annapolis today.
The council, meeting in Rock
vile yesterday. directed Mrs
Stella B. Werner to appear before
the Senate Judiciary Committee
today to present council argu
ments against the Democratic.
sponsored measure.
Leader in Fight.
Although Mrs. Werner is one o.
two Democratic minority member
on the council, she has led the
fight against both bills introduced
in this legislative session to elimi.
nate the county owned and op-
Grated beer retailing set-up. Tht
first bill was introduced by Sena.
tor Dewitt S. Hyde, Republican
of Montgomery, but he later with.
drew it in the face of public pro-
tests. Then State Controller Mil
lard S. Tawes had virtually the
same bill introduced last weel
with Democratic blessing.
| Mrs. Werner also was author,
lied to express council approva
in principle of three pending bill!
to abolish the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Capital Park and Planning Com.
mission and set up two separat,
county commissions in both Primo,
Georges and Montgomery with {
bi-county commission to int
crate their activities.
Nesbitt's Resolution.
The decision to send Mrs
Werner to Annapolis was mad.
after the council unanimously APP
proved a resolution drawn up b,
George F. Nesbitt. The resolution
urges defeat of the bill becaus,
there is no public demand TO
such legislation. it would deprive
the county of from 100000 tt
$150,000 in annual revenues and i
is proposed as a general law ever
though it affects only Montgom
cry County.
Councilman Hall Hammont
said that if the Tawes bill i
passed, the lost revenue woul,
be equivalent to an extra 4 and
cents on the present county ia.
rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
5 VA Offices in Maryland
To Remain Open, Gray Says

Senator O'Conor. Democrat, of
Maryland. has received formal
notice from Veterans Administra-
tor Carl R. Gray, jr., that five con-
tact offices in Maryland will re-
main open though they once were
listed to be closed.
Mr.. Gray informed Senator
O'Conor that it had been decided
to continue Offices east of the Mis-
sissippi River where the number
of visits does not fall below $50 a
month over a four months period.
Senator O'Conor's Office said
this means that the contact offices
in HagerstoWn, Frederick. Annap-
oils. Cambridge and Salisbury will
remain opsn. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Pointer Sentenced to Jail
For Check Forgery

Robert Edward King. 40, of the
900 block of Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV, an unemployed painter
yesterday was sentenced to six
months in Arlington County jail
after he pleaded guilty to forging
a check for $40.
Assistant Commemorative At
torney Edward o. Poole said Kine
had signed the name of his
Iestranged wife to the check. Sen
tence was imposed by Circuit
Court Judge William D. Medley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Hit-Run Car Kills Woman
IOn Baltimore Boulevard

BY the Associated Press
ELKRIDGE,- md, Mar. 2l.-An
unidentified woman between 60
and 70 years old was killed by hit
and run driver on Baltimore
boulevard near here last night.
State Trooper Thomas Lynch
said her body was found on the
highway after a second car ran
over it and the driver stopped to
investigate.
The body was taken to a flu
neral parlor at Ellicott City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Custonedu to Visit Stounton

STAUNTON, Va, Mar. 81 (P).
Maj. Gen. Mariana N. CaSta-
media, chief of staff of the armed
forces of the Philippine Republic,
will visit Staunton Military
Academy Friday, it was announced
here. D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Virginia Young Farmers
Plan ORGANIZATION Talks
BY the Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va, Mar. 21.-F. B.
Kale, State supervisor of educa-
ton, will meet here Friday and
Saturday with about 275 young
farmers to discuss the formation
of a State young farmers organi-
cation.
Instructors, division Superin-
tendents and delegates from each
high school in the State that has
formed young farmers club
since March ! will attend the
meeting,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-21
Hinge Confirmed

Ernest F. Klinge of zoos Fair
view road. Silver Spring, Md, was
confrmed by the Senate as as
lsistant commissioner of patents
There was no opposition. [
Evening star., 1951-08-09
BY the Associated Press

Tax payments to Federal, State
and local governments came to an
average of $500 last year for every
man, woman and child in the
country, the Census Bureau re-
ported yesterday.
This $50 = a month average
showed the per-person tax burden
as more than doubled in period
Iof eight years. The annual av-
erage was $171 as late as 1912,
the bureau said.
OF the $3.50 per-person collec-
tions of 1850, the Federal Govern
ment got $248, or about 10 per
cent of the total. The States got
$50. local governments $50.
Overall collections Of the Fed
eral, State and local governments
set record high of $54, ,626, 900 900
in 1850, the bureau said, nosing
above 1948's previous record of
$54. .495 .000,0 900.
This Year to Be Larger.
But not even that all-govern-
ments total will hold candle to
collections of the Federal Govern
ment alone in the present fiscal
year, which began July /. Esti-
mates for Federal receipts in this
period range up to $61 billion.
The Census Bureau said the
per cen. gain in tax collections in
1850 as compared with 1949 re-
suited from 7 per cent gain in
State taxes (frpm $8,349, ,000, 900
to $8,940,O00.OOO) and an 8 per
cent gain in local taxes (from
STAT, 900 900 to $4,000, 900 ,O00.
Federal collections in that peri
cd, it observed, decreased Slight
lily from $37,81O, ,000, 900 to $37, 1884,
1000 ,00O."
Grants Alter Figures.
i The bureau observed that col
lections on each level of Govern
ment do not jibe exactly with
revenues the particular Govern
ment has for it's own direct spend
ing, since the Federal Government
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Voice Of Democracy
Contest Under Way in
Nation S High Schools

The Voice of Democracy Con-
test was underway today, with
the distribution of contest man
uals to the Nations high school
system.
Contestants must write and de-
liver a five minute broadcast on
the topic II Speak for Democ-
racy." Judging of the entries,
which last year numbered 2.3 mil
lion, will begin November IL on
the municipal and State levels.
Four national co-winners will be
selected next January, and will
visit Washington during the week
of Washington's birthday.
The judges for this years finals
contest will be Senator Fulbright,
Democrat, of Arkansas; Senator
Margaret Chase Smith, Republi-
can, of Maine; the Right Rev.
Angus Dun. Episcopal Bishop of
Washington. Philip Murray,
president of the Congress of In
|dustrial Organizations; Seymour
N. Siegel, president of the Ma
|tional Association of Educational
lBroadcasters; Wayne Coy, chair
man of the Federal Communica-
tions Commission; Mrs. Hiram
Cole Houghton, president of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs; Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
Air Force chief of staff; Joseph B.
Chaplin. president of the National
Association of Secondary School
Principals, and Miss Jan Geister,
winner of the 1947 Voice of De-
mocracy contest.
Sponsoring the contest are the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, the National Association of
Radio and Television Broadcasters
and the Radio-Te1evision Manu-
facturers' Association.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Sociology on a Raft
Is Under Way Again
BY the Associated Press

MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, Aug
9.-Four young adventurers-two
bachelors and two unmarried
girls-were floating down the
Ohio River again today in what
they call an experiment in soci-
ology.
They showed off on their raft
Lethargia yesterday, hoping tt
hitch rides all the way to New
Orleans. The voyage was inter-
rupted two weeks ago when the
raft turned over near here and
the four had to swim for their
lives.
Mary Ellin McGrady, 24-year-
old sociology student from the
University of Michigan, is skipper
of the II by 20 foot raft. She
describes the trip as an expert
ment to find out how people ad-
just themselves to living in a
small space.
Others on the floating labra-
tory are Geraldine Garcia. %,
Boston artist; Milton Borden. 30,
New Bedford, Mass, and Don
Brown. "a, Detroit, another Uni
versity of Michigan student.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Taxes Tapped Every American
An Average of $3.50 Last Year

makes grants to the local Govern
Iments.
Taking account Of such inter-
governmental transfers, the Fed
Ieral Government had 63 per cent
Iof total governmental revenue in
1850 for its own purposes, local
Governments % per cent, and the
States "A per cent" the bureau
said.
Individual income taxes were
the biggest revenue raisers in
1850. bringing in $16,472, ,000, 900
Ior 20 per cent of all governmental
revenue. The yield was up two
per cent from 1949, but well below
1948's record of $19, ,000, 900.
On a per-person basis, invi-
vidual income tax payments
amounted to $109, with the Fed
eral Government collecting about
95 er cent of it.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Col. Whitaker Assumes
Army Post in Baltimore
BY he Associatad Pres.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 9.-Col.
Reginald Whitaker, native of
Marietta, Pa. has taken over as
head Of the Baltimore district Of
the Army Engineers after more
than three years in Germany.
where he figured in the airlift
that broke the Russian blockade
of Berlin.
Col. Whitaker succeeded Col.
A. c. yelling as district engineer.
Col. yelling, engineer here for
nearly three years, was trans
Iferred to the Office of Chief of
Engineers in Washington. He
heads the organization and
training division, military opera
tions.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Service on Demand

NEW YORK (R.-Lacking a
prescription for morphine tablets,
a drugstore patron here used a
revolver instead. At gunpoint, he
forced the proprietor, Jacob
Blatt, to give him a whole bottle
full of the pills.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Afqhonistun Signs Pocts

NEW DELHI, India. Aug. 8 up
The Kabul radio, monitored ir
New Delhi, reported today thai
Afghanistan had signed treaties
of friendship with Jordan
Lebanon and Syria.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

The principal areas Of red soils
are in Africa. South America.
Southeastern Asia. the Pacific
Islands. and Southeastern North
America.
, 1951-10-24
Youths To Help
Milk Production

Thirty-two white and colored A.
H club youths of the Tupelo, Miss.
area have been aided in the pur-
chase Of $4,000 worth Of purebred
COWS to help increase milk pro-
duction in the region, says Mrs.
Hattie L. Gray, District Exten-
sion home agent, in a report last
week to the u. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Each of the clubbers, says Mrs.
Gray, has received a loan ranging
from $3.50 to 1926 to purchase
registered Jerseys. All plan to sell
milk to pay for their cows, help
finance their education, and to
, 1951-10-24

show other farm people of their
communities the advantage of
dairying as a sideline enterprise
to supplement their cotton income.
W. J. Pernell, the white county
agent, decided several months ago
to try to find a way to help Lee
county increase Mississippi's milk
production. The State now pro-
duces only one and a third billion
pints of milk a year, while a dairy
State like Minnesota produces over
eight billion pints Of milk annual
ly and Wisconsin, over Is billion
pints.
In seeking ways to help his
farmers produce more milk,
County Agent Pernell discovered
that many farmers is the county
| either had no cows, or had only
, 1951-10-24
Violated Driuers Lau

Robert L. Jackson, TAG Weak
ley ST., was fined the cost of court,
($8.60) and given a suspended
sentence of 30-days for violation
Of the drivers license law. Jack
son pleaded guilty to charges Of
driving a car while having only
a temporary permit without a Ii
censed driver with him.
, 1951-10-24
Freeman To Address The
South Side Civic Club

Andrew Freeman, President of
the frontiers Club will be guest
speaker for the South Side Civic
Association, Tuesday, at 8 P. NJ,
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bradley, 1902 Tampa
Avenue. Mr.. Freeman will speak
on smoke abatement.
A special movie also will be
shown. Fred Bowers, President of
the group will give a report Of the
progress for rezoning the area.
, 1951-10-24

by the policy of the Soviet govern
ment."
Congress declared war ON Ger
many on Dec. II, 1941, four days
after the japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. This followed a de-
claration of wal by Germany
against the United States.
, 1951-10-24

In a special proclamation, the
president put into effect the law
enacted by congress as OF that
date.
Mr.. Truman pointed out in the
proclamation that it was "consid-
cred desirable to bring the exist
ing state Of war with Germany to
a close and to remove Germany
from it's present enemy status thus
eliminating certain disabilities af-
fecting German nationals"
He pointed out that it has been
the constant policy of The United
States to try to conclude a peace
treaty with a united and freezer
man government, but "afforts to
this end have been frustrated and
made impossible for the time being