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Evening star., 1951-03-16
Paris Transit Strike
TangIes Street Traffic
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS, Mar. l6.-Traffic was
snarled hopelessly at some Paris
intersections this morning as the
city tried to carry on its business
without bus or subway services.
| Striking transportation workers
seeking wage increases paralyzed
the city's surface and underground
lines. First reports said the tie
up was complete. Only a few
scattered subway trains were run
ming by mid-morning.
The government modified some
1.150 military trucks and private
buses to get key governmental
employees to their jobs. Private
firms also used special bus fleets
for their help.
Bicycles. much in evidence in
Paris in normal times, increased
10-fold, adding to the traffic con-
fusion.
Sidewalks were jammed with
thousands who were determined to
get to work even If late.
Many government Offices and
businesses were operating with
half of their stats because Of
the strike.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
A. h. Berding Is Director
OF Information for Wilson
BY the Associated Press

Andrew H. Berding, deputy in
formation director for the Mar
shall Plan, today was appointed
director of information for Charles
E. Wilson. head of the Office of
Defense Mobilization.
Mr.. Berding, for 13 years an
Associated Press correspondent
and for five years chief of the AP
Bureau in Rome, will serve with
Mr.. Wilson on loan from the
Economic Cooperation Admins
tration.
Mr.. Berding is a veteran news
! paperman, having worked on the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
and the Times-Star before join
ing the AP bureau in London.
After his AP service in Rome he
Joined the Buffalo Evening News
in 1910 as editorial writer and
foreign affairs columnist.
After Pearl Harbor he Joined
the Air Corps but was moved to
the Office of Strategic Services.
Upon his discharge as lieutenant
colonel in 1946 he was recruited
by former Secretary of State Hull
to write Mr.. Hulls memoirs. He
spent two years on this assign
ment.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Manufacturers Tax
Is Urged by NAM
By the Associated Press

The National Association of
Manufacturers came out yester-
day for Federal manufacturers
tax on virtually everything ex-
cept food. mentioning possible
rates running up to 20 per cent.
While the association made no
direct recommendation about the
size of such a tax, it said that
excise tax revenue should be
built up "to level approaching
that derived from the individual
income tax"
The Federal budget estimates
excise taxes will bring in $8,240.-
100000 this year and individual
income taxes S22. 2.309, ,OOO, 900. Thus
indirectly, at least, NAM ap-
peared to be recommending a
boost of more than $14 billion in
Federal taxes on goods and serv-
ices.
In lengthy printed recommend
ationS filed with the House Ways
and Means Committee, the manu-
facturers' organization estimated
that 10 per cent tax would pro-
duce $3.50, 100000. Is per cent
rate $14.500.00O,0 and a 20 per
cent levy $19,356. 900, ,00O-apply-
ing the same uniform rate to
manufactured articles and serv-
ices coming under the suggested
tax.
The association asked that no
greater tax load be laid on cor
porations.
Evening star., 1951-03-16

cuSed him OF striking her, 1t. Earl
Alber said.
A lone patrolman was assigned
as an escort. but before the trouble
ended, reserves from the first and
fourth precincts and most of the
Detective Bureaus rowing cruisers
had been rushed to the scene.
Mr.. Vaughan was taken to
Emergency Hospital with a pos
sible skull fracture, several frac-
tured ribs, a knife wound that
severed a tendon in his left wrist
and severe bruises to his face,
head and body.
Pvt. John w. Brown of the
fourth precinct said several men
jumped him and Vaughan just
after they stepped in the doorway
of the F street house. The police
mans arms were pinned behind
him and his nightstick was wrested
from him and used to belabor Mr..
Vaughan.
Mr.. Vaughan finally broke away
and fed out rear door. At
Evening star., 1951-03-16

Twelfth street and Maine avenue
S.W. he encountered Pvt. Fritz
Pasquett and collapsed. Most of
his assailants fled when their vic
tim got away.
Pvt. Brown reported he grabbed
William j. Fry. about Is. of the
1900 block of Fourth Street S.W.,
when his arms were freed and led
him to the patrol box. He or
dered Miss Yerby. described as a
friend of Fry, to- accompany him.
At the patrol box, Pvt. Brown
reported. Fry threatened him with
switch blade knife. The officer
said he drew his gun and dis
armed Fry. Witnesses telephoned
the precinct that a policeman was
in trouble and the reserves were
dispatched.
Fry was charged with assault
ing a policeman, assault with a
dangerous weapon and carrying a
concealed weapon. Miss Yerby
was charged with disorderly con-
duct and released under $25 col
lateral.
Later police arrested Fry's
brothers, David and Charles, also
of the 1900 block of Fourth street
S.W., and charged them with as
sault with a dangerous weapon.
Joseph S. Chillori. 10, of the 500
block of F street S.W. was charged
with assault with dangerous
weapon and assaulting a police
man. @
Earlier in the evening fourth
precinct police had been sent to
the F street address in response
to a report that a woman had
been beaten there. 1t. Alber
said Miss Yerby told them Mr..
Vaughan had struck her, but she
did not want to prosecute him.
Mr.. Vaughan telephoned the
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Virginia Hill Lands
Hoymoker on Jaw
OF Woman Reporter
b. the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 16. The
former Virginia Hill. one-t time girl
friend of slain mobster "Bugsy''
Siegel, swung a haymaker and
landed yesterday on a newspaper
woman leaving the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee hearing,
the reporter said.
The 36-year- old Virginia, now
married to Hans Hauser, an Aus
trian skier, had just finished tes.
tifying before the committee.
Marjorie Farnsworth of the
New York Journal american sale
the blow struck her on the jaw
She did not require medical at.
tention.
Miss Farnsworth and a man re-
| porter said they were in an eleva.
tor and trying to question Mrs
Hauser. She baked and the
neWspaperman asked:
will you talk to this nice gal?'
Miss Farnsworth said Mrs
Hauser spat out:
You're just a dirty little
bum and struck.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
New Chief of Federal Reserve
Shrugs Off Boy Wonder Toq

William McChesney Martin, jr.,
named to head the Federal Re-
serve Board, has been too busy
doing man-sized jobs in national
and world finance and in private
banking to worry about being
called a hoy wonder"
| More than % of his AZ years
have been spent in those fields,
except for a four-year Army serv-
ice that stretched from private
to colonel The hoy wonder
term gained currency in his ca
reer almost 13 years ago when he
became the $48,00O-a-year presi-
dent of the New York Stock Ex-
change. Since 1949 he has been
Assistant Secrtary of the Treas
ury.
Although not born with the
proverbial silver spoon in his
mouth, Mr.. Martin had fiscal at
tachments from early childhood.
His father organized the Federal
Reserve Bank in st. Louis in 1914
and was its chairman until re-
tirement in 1941.
The elder Mr.. Martin, now 76.
still practices law in St. Louis.
He likes to recall how he literally
carried the Reserve bank project
in his pocket or in valise during
its formative period. He also re-
mains nationally known for the
part he took with the late Car
ter Glass and Nelson w. Aldrich
in drafting what eventually be-
came the Federal Reserve Act.
Mr.. Martin, ST., at one time was
a member of the Federal Reserve
Board here.
Graduated From Yale.
William. jr., was born in st.
Louis on December II, 1906. got
his A. B. at Yale in 1928, and be-
came a statistician with the St.
Louis brokerage firm of A. L. Ed
wards & Sons in 1929. Two years
later he was that firms New York
partner. He held that job until
1888.
Meanwhile. the tall, thin young
man, who combined keen sense
OF humor with responsibility and
energy. lost no time in attracting
attention on the New York Stock
Exchange.
Failure of the firm of Richard
Whitney & Co. had set off an
internal drive for reform of the
exchange. Mr.. Martin served as
chairman of the Constitution
Committee and secretary of a
committee to reorganize the ex-
change.
Exchange governors passed over
q list of 200 prominent bankers,
educators, businessmen and law
yers to select him as the first
paid president in 1898. He acted
as chairman of the board and
president pro tempore for a few
months before starting in the new
position with a promise ito make
the stock exchange a public serv-
ice institution" instead of gen
tlemen's club"
Commended by Douglas.
Among commendatory messages
he received as time went on was
one from William o. Douglas, then
Securities and Exchange Commits
Evening star., 1951-03-16

sion head and now a Supreme
Court justice.
| Mr., Douglas referred to Mr..
Martins courage and ability to
bring about expeditions action to-
ward the objectives which must
be jointly ours and yours"
Mr.. Martins presidency proved
satisfactory to the exchange gov
ernors who had appointed him to
serve at their pleasure. They
repeatedly renewed the appoint
ment until Mr.. Martin had an
appointment with his draft board
in April, 1941.
In a "valedictory" speech at a
special meeting of exchange mem
bers Mr.. Martin urged drastic
changes in the exchange admin
istration. He declared the ex-
change should be guided by pub
lie interest rather than efforts to
court political favor"
He also had some criticism
for Government administrators
Shrinkage in stock exchange busi-
ness to the smallest in its history
resulted in part from "unintel-
llgent administration" of the Sc
curlties and Exchange Act. He
also charged that Federal control
too often was exercised by men
fundamentally ignorant of the
basic conception of markets"
Army Was Not So Bad.
Drafted as an infantry private,
Mr.. Martin took basic training
at Camp Croft, S. c., and report
ed 1T was much less of an ordeal
than I thought it would be-" The
35-year-old soldier found it para
doxlcal to be called an "old man"
who wore spectacles, when only
a short time previously he had
been criticized as too young" to
head the stock exchange.
But his early interest in ath-
letlcs-at one time he took part
IN the national tennis tournament
at Forest Hills, N. Y.-stood him
in good stead. His corporal said
he was the best soldier in his
squad"
During most Of the war he was
stationed in Washington at the
war College and in the Services
OF Supply. His superiors said he
did not ask to be sent here and
ne never sought preferential treat
ment. He became a lieutenant in
FEBRUARY. 1912, and came out in
August, l945, as a colonel.
Soviet Protocol Secretary.
Since the war Mr.. Martin has
served on the Board of Directors
OF the Export Import Bank, of
which he became chairman in
l946. and was an assistant to the
Munitions Board and a secretary
OF the Presidents Soviet Protocol
Committee.
While he has oeen Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury in
charge of the Office of interna-
tlonal finance, he also has served
as an executive director of the
International Bank for Recon-
struction and Development.
In April. 1912, at Baltimore
he married Miss Cynthia Davis
a daughter of the late Secretary
OF War Dwight Davis of st. Louis
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin have a son
and daughter and live at 1851
Woodland drive NV.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
5th Avenue Pavement
Gets a Coat of Green
For St. Potrick's Day
BY the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 16.-
Fifth avenues pavement was
dressed in green paint today
for St. Patrick's Day.
The center dividing line
usually white-was a real
shamrock green.
I'VE paint the lines three
or four times a year." a Po-
lice Department spokesman
said. They needed repaint-
ing. Tomorrow's St. Patrick's S
Day and therell be a big pa
rade up the avenue. So, we
painted the line green"
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Accokeek Fireman
Injuries CoIIurbone

An Accokeek (Md) volunteer
fireman was injured today when
he fell as he responded to a house
fire.
He is John Kenyon, 80, who
suffered a badly bruised collar
bone. Members of the Oxon Hill
Rescue Squad took Mr.. Kenyon
to Casualty Hospital for treat
ment.
Evening star., 1951-03-16

precinct about 1890 am. ano
said he was afraid to go home
alone. Pvt. Brown met him in the
HOO block of F street S.W. ario
walked home with him. After the
trouble started. the policeman re.
ported. at least two men were
on his back until the fight
broke up.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
OPS Sets Specific Ceilings
On Cattle Hide Prices
BY the Associofed Press

The Office Of Price Stabilizatior
last night set specific price cell.
ings on cattle hides.
OPS officials said the genera
effect will be prices approximate.
ly' the same as now. They de
not expect the order to result ir
changes in price of shoes.
The order establishes ceilings or
cattle hides. kips and calfskins al
the average levels of last Novem-
ber. GA kip is the skin of ar
animal that is no longer a calf
but not yet full grown
The order revises a freeze-type
regulation issued January 2s
which rolled back hide prices to
each individual sellers highest
levels of November.
OPS officials said that under
the uniform price ceilings some
sellers ceilings will be lower and
others somewhat higher.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
$4,000 U S. Damages
Asked in FutuI Fire

Representative Smith. Dem
ocrat, of Virginia, has introduced
a bill for Federal payment of
$4,000 to the estate of Miss Cor
nelia Mayr, a Government worker
who died of burns from a fire in a
Federal dormitory.
The measure was referred to the
House judiciary Committee.
Miss Mayr was fatally burned
April S, 1947, in a fire IN Alcott
Hall, near the Lincoln Memorial.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Federal Reserve Post
For Martin Spurs
New Senate Probe
BY the Associated Press

President Truman's appoint
ment of William McChesney Mar
tin, jr.. to succeed Thomas B.
McCabe as Federal Reserve Board
chairman sparked a new Senate
investigation today,
Chairman Maybank said the
Senate Banking Committee can
be expected to look into a dis
agreement between the Reserve
Board and the Treasury over anti
imitation measures in connection
with Mr.. Martins appointment.
Senator Douglas, Democrat, of
Illinois said Mr. Martin will be
questioned about his views on
Reserve Board purchases of Gov
ernment bonds. a move Senator
Douglas contends is inf1ationary.
The Treasury has urged the FRB
to support the Government bond
market in the hope of keeping
interest rates low.
Mr.. McCabe resigned yesterday,
effective March 81, and President
Truman picked Mr. Martin, for
n1er head-at the age of 31-of
the New York Stock Exchange,
to fill his shoes.
End of Feud Sought.
Mr.. Martin has been serving as
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury for two years. His appoint
ment was regarded as aimed at
cementing an accord reached 13
days ago to end the feud between
the Treasury and the Federal
Reserve Board over fiscal policy.
The Treasury agreed to allow
the interest rate on some Gov
ernment bonds to rise to 234 per
cent instead of the prevalent 21a
per cent. The Federal Reserve is
understood since then to have
suspended bond purchases, al
though it stands ready to go into
the market again if there is any
significant break in their price.
Mr.. McCabe recommended Mr..
Martin, saying that he was STEP
ping out Of the Craftsmanship be-
cause a satisfactory understand
ing" had been reached between
the Treasury and the board. Mr..
McCabe. Philadelphian, will re-
turn to private business.
No Personal Opposition.
Mr.. Martin isn't too well known
In Congress but there was no ap-
parent opposition to him per-
sonally.
Senator Douglas called him "a
man of fine character and splen- |
did experience. in private busi-
ness"
THE only question I have is
whether, in view of his long serv- /
ice with the Treasury, he is firmly
welded to the Treasury conten-
ton that the Federal Reserve
Board should buy all the Treasury
bonds offered Senator Douglas
told reporter.
II he holds to that view, we
will have continued imitation.
That policy serves to increase
bank reserves and raise prices.
Il hope that, instead, he will
try to administer the reserve sys-
tenn with a view to controlling
the total amount of credit and
thus stabilize prices"
Was on Snyder's Side.
Mr.. Martin was on Secretary
Of the Treasury Snyder's side in
the dispute with the Reserve
Board. But he is not yes man"
Secretary Snyder added his
"full Endorsement" of the appoint
ment, declaring in statement !
that Mr.. Martin is ably equipped
for the position" /
Mr.. Martins acceptability on
both sides should enhance his
chances of achieving a full har-
mony between the two agencies
that the accord did not alone
insure, as Mr.. Truman himself
implied.
The President spoke of the ac-
cord as only an important step
toward finding a solution of the
problems which the two agencies
must meet together"
Evening star., 1951-03-16

| b e C a u S e he
feared tn e r e
would be trouble
when he got
home.
Mr. Vaughan's
apprehe n S i on
stemmed from
an afternoon
encounter a t
t h e rooming
house at that
a d d r e SIS in
which another
woman tenant
Shirley Anne
Yerby, 18. &C
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Elliott Roosevelt and Bride
On Cuban HONEYMOON
BY the Associated Pres.

HAVANA, Mar. 16.-E Elliott
Roosevelt and his new bride, Min
newa Bell Ross. left at TAO last
night for Varadero Beach on their
honeymoon.
The newlyweds arrived at pm.
from Miami, where they were
married yesterday They are &C
companied by Elliott's brother and
sister-in-law, John and Anne
Roosevelt.
The couple is expected to return
to Miami March 18.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Ut Was q Rip-Snortinq Donnybrook for While

John P. Vaughan. %. of 952 F
street S.W., certainly knew what
he was talking about early today
when he asked for police escort
Evening star., 1951-03-16

A 42-foot-long bull whip made
for London firm featured a
Leather Craft Exhibition at Sgd
ney, Australia.
Evening star., 1951-03-16

Two self-portraits by Rem
brandt have been sold at auction
IN Paris for $4,000 and $35. 900.
Arizona sun., 1951-12-21

down on your favorite number if
you know a writer. But, for the
most part, the bigshot bankers are
taking a vacation and have turned
over their work to smaller fry. The
writer's have gone underground.
All of the bet takers are scared
stiff. If they buy one of those $50
Federal occupational tax stamps,
they're scared the cops will arrest
them and charge them with violat-
ing the gambling laws. If they
don't buy the stamp, they're sub
ject to arrest by internal revenue
agents heavy fines and a long term
in prison.
So, that means that this Christ
mas the cash bonuses, presents,
turkeys and liquor, the hackers
have been giving to each other,
their pickup men, writer's, and
dolls won't be sent. Also, Santa
Claus will leave fewer mink coats
and diamond rings and watches on
rounds.
All of these unhappy folks could
be made happy next Christmas If
the Ghost of Christmas Past would
take Senator Estes Kefauver, OF
Tennessee, and his Senate Crime
Investigating Committee, on a visit
to the scenes in which some of the
hackers, pickup men, writer's and
their dolls were living before the
numbers game was invented.
Senator Kefauver would be shown
most of them in humble surround
ings, with little formal education
filling the ranks of the unemployed
shining shoes, plain hustling, living
Arizona sun., 1951-12-21
CAPITAL
SPOTLIGHT
BY Louis Lautier

For the NNPA News Service
Perhaps there is no finer story
i'll the English language portraying
the spirit of Christmas than Die
ken's "A Christmas Carol" The
chief character is Ebenzer Scrooge,
a man who was as hard as flint
and who regarded Christmas as a
humbug.
Schooge was visited by spirits on
Christmas Eve and made kindly by
what they showed him of human
life.
There still are lot of Scrooges
in this world, who need to be Wis
tied by spirits and taught how to
observe Christmas by making other
folks happy.
This Christmas isn't going to be
too merry for the numbers hackers,
pickup men, and their dolls. The
numbers game has been shot to
pieces. You still can get bet
Arizona sun., 1951-12-21
MANY FALSE ALARMS
FROM BOXES

For the five months from July
through November the Fire De-
partment reports a total of "a
alarms from boxes, of which 27, or
1874 per cent were false. In the
same period there were 453 alarms
by telephone, of which only 13, or
2S per cent were false. This means
that proportionately about % times
as many false alarms originated
from boxes as from telephones. For
the. corresponding period last year
the record shows a relative ratio
of about % times as many false
alarms from boxes as from tele-
phones. Since the beginning of the
fiscal year two arrests have been
made for truning in malicious false
alarms from boxes. One was a
minor who was turned over to
juvenile authorities, the other, a
drunk, was found guilty and SEN
fenced in City Court.
Arizona sun., 1951-12-21

by their wits, or eking out bare
ex ;istence in some menial job.
Here is a porter at a club. He
hit the numbers and then started
backing them. He acquired bank
roll, a Cadillac and a wife. A bank
is in financial difficulties. He with
draws $4,000 from a downtown
hank and deposits it in the bank
having trouble.
Here is an ex-hip pocket boot
logger. He quits job as chauf-
feur and starts writing numbers.
When the bankers cut a number
after it is out, he pays off in full.
His book grows until it is almost
a $1,000 day. He contents him
self with his 80 per cent for writ
ing and 10 per cent for hits. He
goes into legitimate business, ac-
.quires property, and educates two
daughters.
Here is a bootblack, who got
lucky and started backing the num-
bers. His Horatio Alger success
story can be duplicated time and
time again. With success the guys
lost their inferiority complexes and
took On a veneer of respectability.
They want to be somebody in their
community They contribute to the
YMCA, the Police Boys Club and
the NAACP because they want a
Sanse of belonging.
It's human nature to gamble.
Rich men play the stock market.
Rich women play canasta and
bridge, as do the middle economic
classes Poker, blackjack, horse
betting and numbers know no eco
nomic lines.
Arizona sun., 1951-12-21
SHANE LAUDED

Technicolor officials in Holly
wood who have seen the first
rushes on George Stevens Shane"
for Paramount are in accord that
Shane" shows off the advantage
of Technicolor better than any pic
ture ever filmed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-11-08
Phone Company
Adds 11,OOO Units
Here in 9 Months

Although there are still $500
telephone customers waiting for
service in the Maryland Suburban
Area of Washington the telephone
! company said that ,'lring the first
nine months of 1851 there has been
a net gain in this area of 1897
telephones placed in service, or al
most 10 per cent Of the total num-
Der of telephones (122,844) in
service in the Washington Subur-
ban Area of Maryland at the end
OF September, 1851.
The telephone company said the
unusually large increase in the net
gain in telephones in this area has
been due to the installation of adj
ditional central Office equipment
and to the completion of several
Of the large cable construction
jobs which are in progress in the
area.
The company also emphasizes
that the work on additional central
office equipment and cable con-
struction is proceeding as fast as
the necessary material can be OBJ
tanned and prepared for service.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-11-08
WOnan's Club of
DarnestOlUn Holds
Annual Program

The Woman's Club Of barnes
town will hold its annual commu-
nifty program on November 10, a.
the Darnestown Presbyterian
Church. The program is sched
uled to begin at 8 pm.
Mr.. W. Kelley Rice, jr., Of Bal
timore, will show movie films u
travel in Florida as well as three
educational films on All Club work
in Australia, the Marshall Plan ut
work in Denmark and one on he
bombing and rehabilitation Of Hol-
land.
Mrs. Albert Cissel, educational
chairman Of the club, will be in
charge Of the program. Betty Lp1
Miles will lead the community
singing.
Mrs. Charles Clark is charm m
Of the Hostess Committee and IL
assisted by Mrs. Howard Cissel
Mrs. Maurice Ward, Miss Betty
Lou Miles and Mrs. James Broome.