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Evening star., 1952-12-10
BY the Asseeisted Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.--Wil-
liam K. Kelly. %, a cab driver for
|only three months. is about 500
richer today and his faith In his
fellow man confirmed.
But veteran cabbies around
town shuddered at this story Of
IAN unusual fare" which took
him nearly 1000 miles round trip
from Baltimore to Jacksonville.
IN. c.. on trust.
Mr.. Kelly picked up q Marine
at Pennsylvania Station late Sun
day night. The Marine asked to
|be driven to Jacksonville, near
Camp Lejeune.
However, the Marine did not
have money and offered to write
Ia check.
Mr.. Kelly checked with his dis
lpatcher. who okayed the trip. but
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Eisenhower Likely to Abandon
Use of Yacht williamsburg
General Prefers Fresh-Woter Fishing
And Golf to Selling; Moy Pick Ropidun

Iginia might fill the bill-or some
place similar. He doesn't want
anything fancy.
| President Truman preferred
Key West for his vacations ano
he liked to have the WILLIAMSBURG
around for weekend cruises from
time to time.
The Williamsburg has a crew
of more than 100. and like al
yachts, it costs a lot to run. No.
body knows just how much be.
cause in Government bookkeep.
ing it's a training ship for the
Navy.
Flagship in War.
The yacht was sold to the Gov
Iernment by Hugh Chisholm. head
of the Bath Iron Works, and was
used in World War II as convoy
flag ship in the North Atlantic
It was converted as White House
yacht in 1916.
It has some air-conditionec
quarters, elaborate furnishings
and will comfortably sleep at least
la couple of dozen guests.
But Gen. Eisenhower always has
shown a preference for mountains
rather than the sea and the Navy
may have to find some other use
for the Williamsburg.
Other than Rapidan, another
possibility for Gen. Eisenhower is
the Shangri-la retreat in the
Catoctin Mountains of Maryland
rs miles north of Washington. II
was built by Franklin D. Roose-
velt as his hideaway in World Wal
II, and is maintained and operated
by the Navy.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Gun Comes Apart
In Hands of Nervous
Baltimore Bandit
BY the Asseeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 10.-The
would-be bandit who entered an
East Baltimore grocery last night
became so nervous and shook so
violently that his revolver came
apart in his hand and the lone
bullet fell to the floor.
Mrs. Fannie Beall, clerk in the
grocery, told police the gunman,
a colored man about 81 years old,
walked into the grocery, pulled O
gun and demanded money.
The bandit, already visibly
trembling, became more nervous
when Mrs. Dorothy Jones, an
other clerk, let out a scream.
AS the gun seemed to disin-
tegrate in his trembling hands
the bandit got down on his hands
and knees to retrieve his bullet
At this point, Mrs. Beall
charged the man with a butcher
knife and he fled-without the
money, his bullet and parts Of Ais
gun.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Truman Is Due Back
From Missouri Toniqht

President Truman is due back In
the Capital at 8:25 o'clock to-
night after the f1ve-day trip tc
Independence, Mo-, to attend the
funeral of his mother-in-law, Mrs
David w. Wallace.
Mrs. Wallace. 80. died at the
White House Friday, and was
buried Monday.
Accompanying the President
were Mrs. Truman, Miss Margaret
Truman and his brother. j. Vivian
Truman.
The party left Independence at
6 o'clock last night.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Muusdum and Tunker
Collide; 6 Feared Lost
BY the Associated Press

vLAARD1NGEN, The Neither
lands, Dec. 10.-The Holland
America liner Maasdam collided
with a German tanker here today
Six members of the tanker's crew
of IL were believed lost.
The MaaSdam, en- route from
Rotterdam to New York with soc
passengers, was slightly damaged
but continued on her way. Harbo1
circles said the 15.000-ton Mas
dam struck 760-ton tanker Ellen
land turned 1t over.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
.Gunman and s Others
Shot Down in Battle
In Times Square Area
Fight Storts When Pair
Planning to Rob Tovern
Enters Another Dispute
By the Assec;o,ed Pres.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Sever
men were shot down today as q
staggering Cleveland gunmar
fought q furious running gun
battle with police through the
Times Square area.
The Negro gunman, Clarence O.
Sims, finally spun to the pave
Iment. badly wounded by q coolly
firing patrolman, just as he was
about to make his getaway. Three
policemen were seriously wounded
Three passersby. frantically hunt
ing cover in the hail of bullets
were nicked.
Police said Sims has triggered
dozens Of holdups in the New
York area during the last year
Cleveland police want him on ar
armed robbery charge. He told
police here he heads the shot
gun gang" there.
One of his pals was arrested In
the melee that made Eighth ave-
nue. as dangerous for while as
a rampaging frontier town on q
Saturday night.
Here Is What Happened.
This. police said, is what hap
Ipened:
| At 4 am. Charles Mason, g
30-year-old Negro of Denville
N. j.. got into an argument in
an Eighth avenue bar near Forty.
second street with Richard Lin.
quist of Queens. They wrestle6
to the pavement.
Patrolmen Roy Cahill anC
Frank Colasonno pushed through
a crowd of watchers and arrested
them.
Then Sims and Cecil Johnson
a 25-year-old Manhattan Negro
swooped up in a snappy conver.
tible and staggered through the
crowd.
Patrolman George McAuliffe
So, drove up in his radio car al
that moment. Some one in the
crowd told him Sims was loaded
that is. heavily armed.
At first McAuliffe thought Sim.
meant to try to rescue the two
arrested men. Later police Learned
that he and Johnson had planned
to rob the bar where the fight
occurred.
Drawing his revolver. McAuliff.
prodded Sims to a wall to search
him. But at that moment Patrol.
men Robert Knox. 80. and Richarc
Conlon, "a. pushed through tht
crowd.
Patrolman Is Shot.
McAuliffe glanced toward then
for a moment. In his momentary
lapse of vigilance, Sims whipped
a AS pistol from his belt ane
whirled, firing from the hip.
McAuliffe plunged forward
wounded in both legs and one arm
Sims shot Conlon's nightstick from
his hand as Conlon came in swing
ing.
The shots split the crowd o.
(See SHOOTING. Page A-6o
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Virginia Professor
In Line at $50 for
Segregation Hearing
BY the Associated Press

Mrs. Helen w. Hobart, a Vir-
ginia educator. made sure she
would hear today's Supreme
Court arguments on racial segre-
CATION in public schools.
Mrs. Hobart, dean of women
and associate professor of psy-
chology at Roanoke College, ar
rived at the Supreme Court
building at $50 am. to become
No. l in line.
Mrs. Hobart said she waited
in line all-day yesterday, but
failed to get into the courtroom.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
By Don Whitehead
Associated Pres. Foreign Correspondent


ABOARD U, s, S, HELENA
Dec. 10.-It looks as If President
elect Eisenhower's passion for golf,
Ifresh-water fishing and frugality
in government will leave no place
for the ocean-going yacht. the
Williamsburg, as a presidential
retreat in the next four years.
The chances are. friends say,
that Gen. Eisenhower will try to
find a mountain retreat some
where near Washington-one with
a small golf course-as his hide
away from White House duties.
And they say his plans rule out
the Williamsburg not only as being
too expensive a luxury but one
not suited to his ideas of recrea-
ton from the burden of work that
will be his after the inauguration
January 20.
Would Like Altitude.
The ideal summer White House
in Gen. Eisenhower's book would
be a mountain retreat at about
$500 feet altitude, not too far
from Washington. Good fishing
water would be a must and also
the golf course.
It would have to be close to the
White House because the general
might want to sneak away on
Fridays and not return until Sun
day night. Some say he has
thought that maybe former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover's old retreat
at the Rapidan River in Vir-
Evening star., 1952-12-10

l
meeting yesterday. when nearl!
200 citizen-leaders rnohilized arlt
named a nine-member organiza'
Itional steering committee"
From city officials and theil
chairman, John A. Reilly, the citi.
zens got the first rundown or
details of the plan and some o1
Its stumbling blocks. They Wer'
told that, in large measure, theil
job will be to convince Congress.
lit would only meet an obligation
in helping to finance the plan.
They also heard warnings that
unless the city improvement plar
lis successful, Washington's pros.
Iperity, as well as its health ant
general welfare, is endangered.
Members Named.
AS members of the steering
committee" Mr.. Reilly proposed
and the group named:
Mrs. Lloyd Luther, president o1
the District League of Womer
Voters; Francis G. Addison. jr.
president. Security Savings anC
Commercial Bank; H. Randolph
Maddox, president, Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co.; Robert v
Fleming, president, Riggs Nationa
Bank; Charles H. TompkinS
president. Charles H. Tompkin'
Co.: Charles B. Dulcan, sr., vict
chairman of the board, Hecht Co.
Woolsey w. Hall. former president
of the Federation Of Civic Associa'
tions; Clement F. Preller, pres
lident. Washington Central Labol
| Union (AFL), and Joseph A
Kaufman, attorney, and presi'
dent of the Federation of Citizens
Associations.
This committee, probably within
the next two weeks. will meet Il
select a permanent executive com
mittee. The latter group. repre-
senting diversified city interests
will in turn name subcommittee
These groups will review specific
projects in the 1919 million pro
gram, as proposed by an earle,
committee headed by Mr.. Addison
Other Committee Heads.
Mr.. Reilly also appointed:
Mr.. Addison, to head a bulge
committee for the program.
Mr.. Fleming, to head finance
committee to raise funds for th'
campaign by business-firm sub
scriptions.
Urging that businessmen sup
port the campaign. Mr.. Reilly
STRESSED that money contributed
to meet expenses will be really
an investment in the future o1
Washington"
Mr.. Reilly. president Of the Sec.
Iond National Bank. said no paic
lobbyists will be hired. But hi
said he hopes to recruit "all the
talent possible" to help convince
Congress it should lend the Dis.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Picture on Pose AZ

Tcture on Poee Az
shrouded bus stops. waiting in
vain for one of the l30 buses which
normally would be plying the
routes to pick up the rush-hour
traffic.
T. N. Fletcher of Warrenton.
Va, an investigator for the State
Corporation Commission which
took over operations of the line,
said there would be no service to-
day.
Buses, manned by State High
way Commission employees, will be
on the routes for rush. hour traffic
only beginning tomorrow morn
ing. They will end their WASH
ington-bound trips at Rosslyn
Circle, where connections can be
made with temporarily expanded
Capital Transit service.
Drivers Urged to Cooperate.
Meanwhile, the Arlington Pub
lie Utilities Commission today
urged a share-the-ride program.
A spokesman suggested that
home-bound commuters stand at
the regular bus stops and that
drivers pick them up.
State seizure came simultane-
ously with the strike-an action
provided for by Gov. Battle last
month-but it couldn't get into
operation quickly enough to get
even single bus back into serv-
ice today.
The bus company's official cars
roamed the Arlington and Fair
fax County routes several hours
after the strike began, informing
waiting passengers of the stop
page. Company switchboards
were swamped with calls and early
radio programs carried announce
ment of the halt in service.
Shut Down Comes Quickly.
The strike call went out shortly
after 5 am. Several buses were
on routes at 6 o'clok, but when
word OF the strike reached drivers,
they returned buses to the ga
RACES. .-
1--WE knew nothing about q
strike until 6 o'clock" a company
spokesman said.
Basic issue in the dispute Is
wages, but union officials said the
Immediate motive behind the
strike was "the company's refusal
to arbitrate.
"As soon as we get an arbitra-
ton agreement, a union spokes-
man said early today. well 60
back to work. We regret we have
to do it. We realize it works
hardship on the public. But we
have hardships. too."
800 Men Involved.
involved are about 800 drivers,
maintenance men and mechanics,
members of the American Fedora
ton of Labor's Amalgamated AS
sociation of Street, Electric Rail-
way and Motor Coach Employees Of
America. The striking local is
No. 1919.
Available union members went
into meeting at Q an. If strike
was in the air. it had not been
made public. Even as late as
yesterday afternoon, announced
purpose of the meeting was to
consider a new wage offer made
by the company.
This was proposal for about
Ia Scent hourly increase now and
an additional scent boost next
year, which would bring Arnold
drivers up to the scale now re-
ceived by another commuter line,
the A. B. & w. The A. B. & w.
drivers went back to work last
month after a nine-day strike in
which the State seized and oper-
ated the line.
Their settlement, wage-wise.
was for a 13-cent hourly boost
and an additional 5 cents to be
added November /, 1858. Fringe
benefits were included in the new
two-year contract.
Basic pay for the men who
walked out this morning on the
Arnold lines is $1.67 an hour for
driver with one year experience.
Their contract expired Novem-
ber "a.
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Ponyushkin in Tokyo

TOKYO. Dec. 10 (R.-Peiping
radio said today that A. s. Pan
yushkin. new Soviet Ambassador to
Red China, arrived by plane from
Moscow yesterday. He replaces
Ambassador Roschin. recalled.
Evening star., 1952-12-10

|
The program" he declared
will be national in scope and
we hope to have the competent
advice of the top executives in the
public relations and advertising
fields.
I'VE have been assured Of the
support of newspapers and will
enlist the help Of magazines
radio and television stations, anC
the theaters. We viii explore
every medium available to reach
the members OF Congress in d dig.
nifled and constructive way"
Mr.. Reilly said the full Citizens
Committee on Public Works
which may exceed $50 members
will make policy decisions. The
subcommittee. he said, will ht
concerned mainly with contro.
versial projects in the 1919 mil.
lion proposal.
Brig. Gen. Bernard L. Robin
son, engineer Commissioner, said
he realizes "sone matters are
controversial" but that they care
minor when compared to the
whole problem.
1.-THE Board Of Commissioners
has indorsed none of the pro-
gram" he asserted, "and desires
the assistance and recommenda-
tions Of the Reilly Committee be-
fore it takes action"
Outlines Campaign.
Gen. Robinson outlined this
two-step method of getting the
program to Capitol Hill:
A one-package bill, exclusive o1
current public works operating ex.
penses. will be drafted to seek
authorization for the big program
and get general acceptance o1
the financing proposals. The pro-
posals call for increased water
taxes and q new sewer tax to sup
plement the tax revenue normal.
ly expected. OF the remainder
Congress will be asked to provide
half in a grant and half in 9
50-year, non-interest loan.
After the authorizing legislation
appropriations will be sought tc
get the individual projects under
way.
Mr.. Reilly said increases in
population, drops in Federal con-
tribution to the District and "anti-
quated pay-as-you-go" practices
are chiefly responsible for public
works which are obsolete and ir
many instances =. deteriorated
to q point that endangers the
health and general welfare >
Coverage Held Necessary.
He said the Districts problem
parallels that Of industry in avoid
ing pay-as-you go expansion pro-
grams, and added:
1T cannot survive unless it has
the courage to take the risks in
volved in expanding and borrow
ing whatever may be necessary to
do the job now"
MIR. Reilly cited studies to show
that District residents, while pay
ing high income taxes, receive
very little in Federal grants .
He said this fact is one of the
major points to be made before
Congress, along with emphasis on
Federal uses made Of the city.
In the final analysis, the chal-
Ilenging task before us is to con-
vince the Congress that the Cap
Iital belongs to all the people OF
America. Each citizen of this
country has . moral responsible
Iity to bear his share Of the load.
Commissioner r. Joseph Dono-
hue, meanwhile, cited past ex-
amples Of Congress inertia
toward the District. He referred
to pressures put on those who
devoted too much time 10 interests
Of the people here.
Our hope for success" he de-
lclared. ''is In selling this pro-
gram not to q few members Of
Congress, but to all the MEM
hers"
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Arnold Bus Line
Shut Down by
Flash Strike
Thousands Stranded
In Virginia; State to
Take Over Tomorrow

A strike stalled all Virginia COM
muter service on the Arnold lines
today and even State seizure will
have only partial service restored
tomorrow.
Thousands of early-morning
workers were stranded at fog
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Citizens Open AN-Out Drive
For 1919 Million Public Works
All Seements in CopitoI Join in Move;
First Tosk Is to Sell Plan to Congress
BY George Beveridee

A citizen movement, unprece-
dented in scope and encompass
ing all segments of community
life, was under way today to re-
view and seek Congress partici-
Ipation in the proposed 1919 mil
lion public works program.
The campaign was set in mo-
ton at a District Building mass
Evening star., 1952-12-10

Public Works Spesrhead Group Embrace.
Wide Experience. Pasa A-33
Evening star., 1952-12-10

CONTINUED on Page A-3, Col. q
Evening star., 1952-12-10

(see EISENHOWER, Page AS
Evening star., 1952-12-10

(see SHOOTING. page A-so
Evening star., 1952-12-10
Help Avoid Phone Jam

Advertisers can help avoid jam of calls
at The Stars switchboard on Saturdays by
ordering their Sunday classified ads earlier
In the week. Don't wait until the noon
Saturday deadline nears. Phone Sterling
$4,000 now to advertise in Washington's
No. / classified medium.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25

ROBERTS OFFICE SUPPLIES
and EQUIPMENT
l26 Duval Street Phone ESQ
Valentine Cards for the
Family
Stationery Bridge Cards
Portables Sheaffer
Parker Esterbrook Pens
Rentals Repairs Re-
qisters Adding Machines
and Typewriters
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25
Betty Hutton
Is Divorced
Citizen Staff Photo

HOLLYWOOD R - Betty Hutton
is footloose and fancy free.
She obtained her final divorce
decree Thursday from Ted Briskin,
Chicago camera manufacturer.
Her interlocutory decree was
ganted Jan. l6, 1851 on gounds
of cruelty. "a
Betty has been reported engaged
to- Film Dance Direct Charles
o,Curran, bxf they mar wait a
while, as Betty feaAE told
friends he wants to posspohe mar
riage until he gets d Better foot
hold in the industry.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25
Stassen Wants
Attack On Reds

WASHINGTON Up - Harold E.
Stassen wants the United States
to wage "a brilliant offensive"
against Communism with a propa-
ganda effort 10 times as powerful
and 100 times as effective" as the
Voice of America.
Stassen, an avowed candidate for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation, said Thursday night the
present VOICE should be taken out
lpf thesState Department and made
an Independent agency. He said
experts agree this is the only way
the program can be strengthened.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25
MacARTHUR'S NAME
TAKEN FROM BALLOT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. tR - The
name of Douglas A. Macarthur
was removed from the Illinois Re-
publican presidential primary
Thursday after an official request
from the general. Macarthur said
his name had been entered without
his knowledge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25
.BigBusiiness
Profits Are
Greatest Ever
Tax Increases Will
Cut Net Profits I'm
Most Cases Though
First Reports Show
Nv GAIA nAWc0M
By SAM DAWSON

NEW YORK tB-America's cor
porations had their best none,
year on record In A1951-before tn.
| tax collector came along. Ate
that, their net profits show a droE
but not as much as many have
predicted.
The first flash flood of earning
statements indicates that sales anc
gross earnings were at RECORD
level in the year just ended. After
federal, state and local tax col
lectors dipped into gross earnings
however, net profit is running be
hind 1850 totals in most manufac
turing companies, as expected. Sc
far, profits are tagging by only
0.6 per cent, however.
Also as expected, the profit pic
ture-on the basis of the first re
turns--is spotty. More utility com.
panies, for example, show gains
over 1850 than show declines. Oil
companies are expected to fit into
that side of the ledger, too, along
with some steel products, packers
and most airlines and aircraft
builders.
Early profit statements, like
first election results, show only
the trend, not the final result BIZ,
he Presidents Council oh Econp ii
ic Advisers is on record M s,
Inmates for 1851 earnings VI )
whole. Its guesses are Record
earnings before taxes of $44 800!
DOC, 900, whitfield down 60 per cent
by taxes. Corporations will have
SIS, 10O, 900, 900 left after they settle
with the taxman, the council es-
Inmates. That is $4, zoo, 600, 900 less
than they netted in 1876.
Utilities are among the first TO
report, and the prosperous year for
many of them colors the overall
picture at the start. OF the first
IL prominent utility companies re-
porting, ! had larger net profit
in 1851 than in 1850. OF the first
26 prominent companies outside
the utility field to report net prof
its, Is made less in 1851 than the
year before and IL made more in
spite of higher taxes.
Taken together, the first 43 COM
panies sampled broke almost even
Ri gaining and % declining. Most
changes weren't large either way.
But eight companies lost ground
sharply, while four companies reg
istered strong gains.
Their total 1851 net profit of
1927 ,5S3 ,032 was only o.6 per cent
lower than their total earnings of
$631 ,655, TIA the previous year,
thanks largely to the profit assist
Of the utilities, communications,
and aircraft makers.
The percentage of decline from
1850 is expected to rise as more
returns come in--aS more of the
industrial giants report, particu-
larly in those industries hard hit
by raw material curbs or customer
indifference.
Nevertheless, the dividend pay
ments to stockholders last year
held remarkably high. Directors
Of many companies were inclined
to keep the dividend rates high
and retain less of the earnings in
the business, in spite of the large
demand for cash to finance a vast
industrial expansion program.
Dividends paid on common stock
issues listed on the New York
Exchange declined in 1851 by only
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25
(P Wirephoto

Stephen Foster, who popularized
F'orida's Suwannee River in song,
never saw it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25

Extensive shipbuilding activities
have been resumed in the port OF
Leghorn, Italy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-25
Patterson Will Be
Buried Today

WASHINGTON R - Former Sec
rotary of War Robert P. Patterson,
killed in Tuesdays plane crash at
Elizabeth, N. j., will be buried
today in Arlington National Gene
terry.
President Truman planned m at
tend Episcopal services at Wash
ingto National Cathedral at 3 p. m.
Patterson, who was so, served as
secretary of war between 1945 and
1947.
OIL per cent from 1850 they paid
out SIS, 466, SOC, 900 in dividends last
year, and S5,470, 244 900 in 1850.
Evening star., 1952-11-21

THANK HEAyENSi Most attacks are just acid
indigestion. When it strikes. take Bell-ans
tablets. They contain the fastest-acting
medicines known to doctors for the relief of
heartburn, gas and similar distress. 25f.