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Evening star., 1951-03-14
City Heads Seek Views
On Plan 10 Ban Fireworks

The Commissioners are refer
ring proposal to ban all fire.
works in the District to the
Washington Board of Trade and
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
for their views.
The move has been suggested
by the Commissioners Regula-
tions Committee. The city al
ready prohibits firecrackers and
other explosives, but permits
such things as sparklers.
1t was pointed out, at the city
heads board meeting yesterday
that an estimated 1,4O0 small
businessmen here have supplies
on hand or on order.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Robert F. Kneipp reported that
fireworks constitute at least a
$150,000 year business in the
District, about a third of it profit.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Symphony Still $4,000
Short Of $4,000 Goal

The National Symphony Orches-
ira still needs $51, 900 to achieve
its sustaining fund goal of $780,
600 for next season.
A new total of $138,90 in sub
scriptions was reported at the final
scheduled report luncheon yester-
day at the YWCA. This is "a per
cent of the goal.
Chairman Millard F. West, ir.,
reported that more than $4,000
was raised in a special television
program last Sunday over The
Stars sta ation, WMAL-TV.
Luncheon speaker was Paul Cal
laway, music director of WASH
ington Cathedral and conductor of
the Cathedral and Washington
Choral Societies. He said the Ma
tional Symphony performs a val
liable service in providing musi-
clans for performances by these
two choral organizations.
The fund drive is continuing.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Trial Board Clears 7
In Minister'S Arrest

The Metropolitan Police Trial
Board late yesterday exonerated
two policemen who were charged
by the Rev. Merrill D. Booker with
acting in a manner unbecoming
officers when he was arrested on
two traffic counts.
Mr.. Booker. who is chaplain at
Freedman's Hospital and is asso-
ciated with the Washington Feder-
alton of Churches. had brought
three charges against Pvts. Joseph
R. Hyde. of the Traffic Division,
and Virgil c. Rautsaw, of No. 2
Precinct.
Mr.. Booker charged the police
men "did neglect and fail to be
discreet and courteous" did neg
lect and fail to maintain de-
corum and command of temper"
and Ibid neglect and fail to treat
a citizen with respect and civility."
During the hearing, which lasted
several hours yesterday, Mr.. Book
"a S~oVAAASA w. 44y0C Cdl1CU 1lllll
boy" when he told him to move
his car from a loading zone in the
900 block of New York avenue
NV, on January % and that the
policeman was unduly rough on
him when he was arrested.
He also testified that he was held
in a cell in No. Precinct Station
for about two hours without any,
one informing him he could put
up collateral and leave.
Pvt. Hyde told the board he did
not remember calling Mr.. Booker
boy" or any other name and that
he arrested him only after Mr..
Booker refused to follow him to
the station. Pvt. Rautsaw testi-
fed Mr.. Booker refused to answer
questions at the precinct station
and that he refused to put up
collateral, saying, "You don't dare
put me back in the CELL"
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Donohue Is DoubIy
Honored by Ad Club

District Commissioner F. Jo-
seph (Jiggs) Donohue was doubly
honored at the luncheon meeting
of the Advertising Club of Wash
ington in the Hotel Statler yes
terday.
Not only was the newly con-
f1rmed Commissioner presented
with desk set by the club but, in
addition, the luncheon consisted
of corned beef and cabbage, the
traditionally favorite food of Mr..
Donohue's namesake.
There were virtually as many
lawyers as advertising men at the
luncheon to honor the new Com
missioner, himself an attorney of
note. A number of past presidents
of the District Bar Association
were seated at the speakers table.
In a brief address, Mr.. Donohue
urged his listeners to spread the
word of Washington's beauty and
the merits of it's citizenry.
He branded recent book about
the Capital, Washington Conf
dential' as being a filthy docu-
ment" and declared that, after
seeing Paris, London, Brussels and
other capital cities, he preferred
Washington as far above the
others.
A moment of hilarity was
touched off during the awarding
of door prizes when bottle OF
bonded bourbon was won by Mu-
nicipal Judge Milton S. Kronheim
jr., whose father is a leading
Washington liquor distributor.
The judge was out of the room
when the award was made, anc
the bottle was accepted for hin
by his father.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
D. {. Drug Addiction
OF Youth Increases,
With Il Known Cases

Drug addiction among young
people is on the increase, accord
ing to DR.. H. j. Anslinger, United
States commissioner of narcotics,
with 81 such addicts known to
Federal authorities in the District
during the past two years.
He told a House appropriations
subcommittee. during budget hear
ings released today, that such ad-
diction in "the District is very
high on a population basis" But
he emphasized, 'I think the situa-
ton is little better now"
ALI Under FL.
All of the 81 here are under 81
years of age, DR.. Anslinger ex-
planned. They were listed by the
Bureau of Narcotics between jan
uary l, 1949, and December 81,
1850.
You won't find a high school
student among these" he empha-
sized. however.
The commissioner said the in
crease in youthful drug addiction
throughout the country was
shown by an increase in the num-
ber of addicts under 81, at the
Lexington Federal Hospital. Three
years ago there were only three,
today there are 200.
Most Are HoodIums.
Most of these are young hood
lums," Dr. Anslinger said. THE
high school student is the excep-
ton. This increase has followed
in the wave of juvenile delin-
quency. 1t is due to the fact that
these young people have been as
sociating with criminals, begin
smoking marijuana and graduate
to heroin. These have to spend
$6 to SIS a day to maintain ad-
diction."
He called for enactment of Fed
eral legislation pending in Con-
gress to raise the minimum SEN
tenceS for peddlers convicted of
selling narcotics. For the first of
fense the sentence would be two
years, with possible suspended
sentences; for the second offense.
five years with no suspension, and
for the third offense, 10 years.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
One Of Two Charged
In Two Bank HoIdups
Changes Plea 10 Guilty

Leon MiSkin, one Of three &C
cused bank robbers charged with
the $50. 900 holdups of two Wash
ington banks, pleaded guilty to
one of the charges today in Dis
trict Court.
The slender 22-year old son of
a Washington liquor dealer with
drew his earlier plea of innocence
before Judge James w. Morris.
The guilty plea was entered to
the first count of a two-count
indictment charging the $35,755
holdup December 7 of the Forty
ninth street branch of the. Ma
tional Metropolitan Bank of
Washington.
This count, which is under the
National Banks Robbery Statute,
carries a maximum penalty of 20
years in prison The second
count drawn under the District
Code Armed Robbery Statute will
be disposed of when Miskin is
sentenced.
Judge Morris turned the case
over to the probation Office for
investigation pending sentence.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney John Conliff told the court
that the second indictment against
Miskin and his two alleged ac-
complies also will be disposed of,
as to Miskin only, when he is SEN
fenced. The second indictment
involved the $4,000 robbery in
February, 1850, of the Shepherd
Park branch of Hamilton Ma
tional Bank.
Defense Counsel Myron Ehrlich
announced the change of plea to
the court and asked leniency
pointing out that the youthful de-
fendant has no previous criminal
record.
Awaiting trial on the same rob-
berry charges are Christopher Tas-
SOS. "a, who was arrested in North
Hollywood, Calf, last December.
and Nicholas J. Carrigan, %, of
the 500 block of Eighth street NE
Evening star., 1951-03-14
ChiIdren's S Hospital Gets
81, 500 for Cancer Study

The Children's Hospital Re-
search Foundation has been given
a $500 grant for cancer research
by the Damon Runyon Memorial
Fund.
While research in malignancy
has been continuously in progress
at the hospital, all special funds
available have been related to
patient care.
Now, however. the foundation
will be able to support planned
and organized research on cancer
in children. 1t will employ a part
time pathologist to concentrate
on research aspects of cancer
treatment by co-ordinating and
supplementing the cancer services
provided by the hospital medical
staff and contributed services of
the hospitals tumor board.
Through the grant, the founda-
ton will also be able to investi-
gate leads developed from hospital
care of cancer patients, and per-
nit increased follow-up studies.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
OAR Convention Hears
Army Engineers Chief
By the Associated Press

OLD POINT COMFORT. Va,
Mar. 14.-The 55th annual State
convention of the Virginia Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution
began its second day here today.
Members attended dinner last
night at which the principal
speaker was Maj. Gen. Lewis A.
Pick, chief of the Army engineers.
Earlier the delegates had placed
"a wreath on the Victory Monu-
ment at Yorktown.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Retired Officer CoIIopses
And Dies at 18th and K

A man identified by papers on
his body as Harry John Smith,
81. a retired Army officer. COL
lapsed and died this morning at
Fourteenth and K streets NV.
Police said Mr.. Smith lived at
410 johnson road, Tyler Park,
Falls Church, Va. According to
police Mr.. Smith had just left
the Tower Building when he fell
to the street.
He was pronounced dead at
1920 am. by Health Department
DR.. Stanley Chernish. The body
was taken to the District Morgue.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
DayCare Fund
Reported Cit
From D. {. Bill
$50, 900 Requested
To Operate Centers
Closed Since 1850

A House committee was report
ed today to have deleted a $50, 900
appropriation for the Districts
child day care program from the
pending District supplemental
appropriation bill.
Representative Bates, Democrat,
of Kentucky. chairman of the sub
committee handling the bill, re-
fused to comment on the report,
but did not deny it. The bill as
drafted would provide the District
with total Of $1,143,99O for va
rious purposes.
Indications were that requests
for other District government
functions were granted. Included
among these was an item of
$21 $50 to meet operating costs of
the District rent control Office
whose 20 employees have been
without pay since February /.
Centers Closed in December.
The six city day-care centers,
where working mothers can leave
their children, have been closed
since December when current
funds were exhausted. The Com
missioners failed to submit a re-
quest for supplemental ap-
preparation until December, too
late for consideration in the last
Congress. Under needing from
the White House the Budget Bu-
reau resubmitted the request as
a part of the current national
supplemental appropriations bill.
Among witnesses before the
subcommittee today was F. Joseph
Donohue. newly appointed Com
missioner. Mr.. Donohue told re-
porters he had attended the closed
hearing "just for the ride" to
meet the members of the sub
committee.
Extension Bill Pending.
Robert F. Cogswell. District rent
control administrator, who also
testified, explained that the $21,-
$50 earmarked for his office was
intended to cover operations for
February until March so, at which
time the rent control law e: pires
However, a bill to extend controls
until June 80, now pending before
Congress, would require an addi-
tional $34,350. he said.
The largest item in the district
money bill is SOS, ,267 for refunds
due to banks on gross earnings
taxes since 1945. The Board of
Tax Appeals ordered the refunds
last summer.
Other items include small
amounts required by the offices
of the Corporation Counsel and
District collector of the courts and
st. Elizabeths Hospital, and settle
ment Of claims and suits against
the District.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Blair House Protection
Ample, Secret Service
Chief Tells Congress

The Gordon of Secret Service
agents and police thrown around
President Truman now is ade-
quate to protect him, even in the
Exposed position" of Blair House,
Congress was assured today.
U. E. Baughman, Secret Service
chief, told a House Appropriations
Subcommittee no legislative au-
thority for more personnel is
needed now.
| He testified, however, in hear
ings on the 1852 budget, disclosed
today, that he needs funds to
retain the so extra Secret Service
agents added after the attempted
assassination of the President last
fall.
SO Metropolitan Police.
About SO Metropolitan Police
are included in the forces pro-
tecting the President, Mr.. Baugh-
man told the committee. These
officers are paid by the District
and are assigned by Maj. Robert
j. Barrett, superintendent of
police.
The White House force now is
short AZ men, Mr.. Baughman
fexplained. The deficiency is filled
by the Metropolitan Police De-
partment, now also short of man
power. When the White House
force can be built up to its full
strength, the District will be re-
lieved of the cost of paying for
city officers at Blair House, Con-
gress was told.
Some citizens organizations
have urged that the city should
not have to pay for protection of
the President, since this is a Fed
eral function.
Asked when Mr.. Truman ex-
poets to get back into the recon-
ditioned White House, Mr.. Baugh-
man said, II understand, unoffi-
cially. about November /, of this
year"
To Trim Police Guard.
The city police now supply an
average of So men on a 24-hour
basis, Mr.. Baughman explained,
or about IL men for each eight
hour shift.
This complement OF men will
be gradually reduced" he added,
'as the men are replaced by White
House policemen, with the excep-
ton of a few posts which will be
covered until the President and
his family return to the White
House."
The city police. Mr.. Baughman
explained, also provide additional
protection for the President when
he is outside Blair House or the
White House, "such as when he
attends official functions and
when he meets dignitaries on their
arrival in Washington"
Chief Baughman was warmly
commended by Representative
Garfield, Republican, of New Jer-
sey, ION the additional security
precautions that were taken
around the Capitol when the
President recently addressed a
joint session of the Congress.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Falling Of Plaster Closes
1A Street Kodak Store

The Eastman Kodak Store at
GOT Fourteenth street NV. was
forced to close today after a sec
tion of plaster about 10 feet square
fell from the ground story ceiling
at the rear.
r. E. Kincaid, assistant man
ager of the store, said no one was
injured. He said the only damage
was to Photographic albums.
Mr.. Kincaid said the store will
probably be open tomorrow.
Evening star., 1951-03-14

street and Constitution avenue.
Fifteen desks are lined up and
overhead there's a string of bright
lights. At each desk is a coll
4ector-and at each a citizen get
ting the bad news.
And every day this week it's
been that way all day long.
There are a total of 100 coll
lectors-and according to bureau
officials, they're all experts.
But there also were nearly 1,700
citizens who trooped in yesterday
And they were back $50 strong
Evening star., 1951-03-14

at $3.50 o'clock opening time this
morning. (Some were there at
$500 Only a beginning.
The grand total this year is now
nearly $1,000.
The line runs for blocks.
And while the center corridor
desk line may make things move
faster, it's a hazard to citizen
morale.
It's the first thing the late
conner sees as he starts to wait.
It looks a few feet away.
But it's really four blocks.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Gold and Jewel
Sn1ugg|ingAired
In House Report
Customs Official Ties
In Shipping Of Metal,
Receipt Of Diamonds

An international conspiracy to
smuggle gold out of the United
States and smuggle diamonds in
has been reported to Congress.
Information to this effect was
given to a House Appropriations
subcommittee considering the
annual budget for the Customs
Bureau, according to hearings
made public today.
Several sensational seizures of
both gold and diamonds by Fed
eral agents were reported to the
subcommittee by David B. Stru-
binger, Assistant Commissioner
of Customs, in the belief that
they were probably connected.
Declared on Increase.
Asked by Representative Can
field, Republican, of New Jersey
if smuggling is increasing to
large extent" Mr.. Strubinger
replied: +
"Yes, we have very definite in
formation that there is a con-
spiracy by a gang, or number
of gangs, operating to smuggle
gold out of the United States
and to bring diamonds in"
How the conspiracy operates
apparently was explained to the
committee in a discussion which
at this point went off the record
It was learned from official
sources, elsewhere, however, that
the gangs are believed to be tied
up with an International syndi-
cate that probably is operating
a "multi-million dollar racket.
The smugglers, it was said, buy
gold here at $35 an ounce, take
it out Illegally and get from $65
to $40 an ounce for it abroad
Profits are used to buy diamonds.
which are smuggled into the
United States for a big profit
here.
About $50 pounds of gold bars
recently were seized on a New
York pier, fastened under the
tenders Of a car, which a pas
senger had arranged to take
abroad. The gold was confiscated
and the passenger was arrested
He now faces trial.
The House subcommittee was
told that such smuggling is among
the tremendous number of new
problems, now facing the GUS
toms officers.
Four Seizures of Diamonds.
Mr.. Strubinger said there have
been four seizures of diamonds
within the last six months.
THE first one at New York" he
said, amounted to $275,000 worth
of diamonds. They were found in
the heels of the shoes of a per-
son
The very next day, the witness
said, woman came into Idlewild
Airport with diamonds concealed
in her shoes that were appraised
at $243,000."
At Miami Airport, in January, a
man was arrested carrying $119,-
600 worth of diamonds, the assist
ant commissioner recalled. And
in Philadelphia, a man was caught
carrying diamonds worth $131 900.
Smuggling of drugs, such as
heroin, opium, morphine and
marihuana. also has increased,
the witness testified. Instead of
getting a few pounds of mari
huana, as in the past, Mr.. Stru-
binger said, 1--WE are now getting
IS. rs. and 100 at one crack"
Evening star., 1951-03-14

Now they're interviewing the
taxpayers right out in the hall
ways over at Internal Revenue.
It's got to do with March Is,
OF course-which happens to be
tomorrow. The citizens are lining
up hundreds deep and the tax
collectors just don't have room
enough to greet them.
Collectors and their unwilling
public have overflowed out into
the center corridor of the Dis
trict tax headquarters at Twelfth
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Who'll Be Next
In Tax Court,
Gamblers Ask
SIopping Of U. S. Liens
On Beurd and Warning
Cause Nervousness

Washington's gambling frater-
nifty waited nervously today for
further moves from the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue in it's tax prose-
cution campaign against big time
gamblers.
Sam Beard and Emmitt War
ring, allegedly two Of the city's
biggest professional gamblers, al
ready have been slapped with tax
liens by the bureau and their as
sociates today are wondering
who's next?"
Today a House subcommittee
set hearings for March 81 on tax
policies with respect to gamblers,
racketeers and "other members Of
the criminal class"
Schoeneman to Testify.
Representative King, Democrat,
of California, chairman of the
group, said the first witness will
be George j. Schoeneman, COM
missioner of Internal Revenue.
This will be closed session to
find out what the bureau has
done and is doing about income
tax returns of gamblers.
Beard, whose tax debt for
four-year period totals $4.167 1923.
according to the bureau, was in
dicted by a Federal grand jury in
Baltimore yesterday for willful
evasion of taxes in 1914. Addi-
tional indictments will be sought
against Beard for undertaking his
income in 1945, '46 and AT, ac-
cording to United States Attorney
Bernard j. Flynn.
Seeks Indictment of Warning.
Mr.. Flynn said he also is pre-
pairing to ask the grand jury for
an indictment against Warning.
The bureau filed a $159,917.89 tax
lien against Warning yesterday
and turned his 1947 income tax
return over to the Department Of
Justice for criminal action.
The bureau charges Warning
ewes $95,239 on 1947 income
which he failed to report plus
$47,619 in penalties and S17,048
in interest.
The charges against Warning
developed from an investigation
which uncovered $250,000 in cash
in his safe deposit box at a Wash
ington bank.
Contends 1t Is Savings.
Warning, accompanied by his
attorney, Charles E. Ford, volun-
tarily opened the cash box for
Treasury investigators and con-
tended most of the money rep
resented savings from prior years
on which taxes had been paid.
Warning, who lives at 5000 Ma
comb street NV, is known as the
numbers game boss of George
town. In 1889 he was sentenced
to 26 months in jail for income
tax evasion and jury tampering.
At that time the Government con-
tended he operated a $2-million-
a-year gambling syndicate.
In testimony before the House
Crime Committee last year, Mr..
Ford disclosed that Warning has
two Associates" in his business
whose names have never been
publicly linked with gambling.
Associates" May Be Named.
1t appeared likely that the
identity of the mysterious "as-
sociates" would be disclosed if
the Bureaus case against War;
ring reaches criminal court.
Warning, in his appearance be-
fore the committee. refused to
answer questions about his busi-
ness on the constitutional grounds
Of Standardization. He said he
could not discuss any phase Of
his occupation during the past
20 years without danger of in
eliminating himself.
The Bureaus tax liens have
frozen the assets of Warning and
Beard in Washington and Mary.
land.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
Frederick Pastor to Retire

FREDERICK, Md, Mar. IA (P).
The Rev. DR.. j. Franklin Haas,
pastor of Calvary Methodist
Church here for seven years an
nounced yesterday he will retire
about June ] because of i'll health.
Evening star., 1951-03-14
x-Roy Survey Planned

Plans for an X-ray survey in the
Bethesda-Chevy hase-Friendship
area will be made at pm. to-
morrow in the Office of the Mont
gomery County tuberculosis AS
sociation, 7 Wilson lane, Bethesda
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1951-10-01

DETROIT-On an average day,
at least one out of every three
adults in the United States uses
q passenger automobile for some
essential purpose such as riding
70 work, conducting business or
going shopping.
This and some 10000 other
facts about how the American
family car is used were revealed
In a nationwide survey recently
conducted by the Alfred Politz
Research organization.
1t was learned that SO million
people over the age of Ia ride in
automobiles on an average day.
This represents more than half of
the U. S. adult population. Nearly
half of these individuals use a car
in connection with earning a liv-
ing during a typical day, while
almost one-fourth of them go
shopping by automobile.
! About 40 per cent of all rides
taken in motor cars, and nearly
one-half of the total passenger
miles Travelled, are for livelihood
purposes, the survey showed.
Shopping accounts for another II
per cent Of the rides and II per
cent of the passenger mileage.
! These indications of America S
growing dependence upon the
Sanity car for essential transport
fation are borne out by automo-
pile and population statistics of
fshe past 10 years. While our popu-
fst ton has grown 10 per cent since
40 ar ownership has increased
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1951-10-01

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LIBERTY

hrs II. Harper Of Meridian is Wis
ting ID us a few days, during our
revival 1T Cedar Grove Church. She
viii nit her daughter, Mrs. Louise
Grimm It, a teacher a. hampton
High chool, Columbia, before re-
Wlin home on september %.
us. Dora Carter reporter