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Evening star., 1952-06-29
College Park Student
Heads Sciences Group

Fred SCHNEIDER. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin w. SCHNEIDER, Of 1904
Hopkins avenue, College Park, has
been elected president of the
Washington Junior Academy of
Sciences. He attends NorthweS-
tern High School, Hyattsyille.
Other officers include Vernon
j. Michel, Kelly Miller Junior
High School, vice president: Stan
ley Platnik, of Roosevelt High
School. treasurer. and Mary
Jeanne Kreek, Woodrow Wilson
High School, secretary.
The group has been newly
formed as an adjunct of the
Washington Academy of Sciences,
to encourage youths showing abil-
ity in the sciences.
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Catholic Aid 10 Korea Totals
s. Million, Cleric Reports

American Catholics gave more
than $5 million in food. clothing
and medicine to Korea in the past
two years, the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
George Carroll. Maryknoll Mis-
sioner to Korea, reported here on
a visit. ..
Msgr. Carroll was in Washing
ton to consider new plans for
feeding South Korean refugees.
Msgr. Carroll, director of
Korean Civilian Relief Aid for
War Relief Services - National
Catholic Welfare Conference, con-
ferred with Miss Margaret Mealey,
executive secretary, National
Council Of Catholic Women, on
the project.
Communist guerrillas working
behind the lines in South Korea
are chiefly responsible for the
present rice famine" he said.
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Capital Transit Says
Earnings Are Running
46% Under Year AGO
By DonoId B. HodIev

Pointing to it's failure to get
more than a 10-cent increase in
it's weekly pass rate in January,
Capital Transit Co. last night
reported sharp declines in earn
|ings compared with year ago.
Net income for the first five
months this year, it said, totaled
only $412,817, a drop of nearly
46 per cent from $762,919 a year
earlier.
Net income for May was $127,-
118, a decrease of "a per cent
from $193.204 in May. 1851.
This again reflects the fact
that the 10-cent weekly pass in
crease has failed to produce the
additional revenues which the
Public Utilities Commission esti-
mated when the increase was ap-
proved" stated the company's
monthly report.
Passengers Also Decline.
While the company stressed
fares, a continued decline in pas
sengers, plus an increase in op-
Grating expenses, also were major
factors apparent in the report.
Passengers in the first five
months of this year totaled 139,-
098,617. a drop Of 2.8 per cent
from a year earlier. Those for
May aggregated only 28,415,691
which widened the year-to-year
decline for that month to 5.3 per
cent.
Both totals were around 20 per
cent below the same 1949 periods
before Louis E. Wolfson and his
associates took over the lines, and
around 40 per cent below the same
periods of wartime 1945.
The report also showed further
cuts in the number of miles over
which street cars and buses were
operated. A May mileage of 1928
1874 was per cent below year
earlier and around IA per cent
below 1949. Five months mileage
Iof 16,054,748 was 1.8 per cent be-
low a year earlier and around II
Iper cent behind 1949.
Operating Revenues OFF.
Despite the 10-cent increase ir
lpass rates, operating revenues fol
the five months totaled only $12,-
074,575, compared with the $12,-
130,577 year earlier. May op-
Grating revenues were only 81. .492.-
499. compared with $2,566,027 ir
May. 1851.
Five months operating expenses
climbed to $9,49O.203, a gain Of
per cent from $8,707,710 a year
earlier. May operating expenses
rose to $1,909.778, an increase ol
3.8 per cent from $1,839,44l last
year.
Five months taxes of ST, ,129, ,228
however. were 81 per cent below &
year earlier and May taxes ol
$259, $50 were down "a per cent
Depreciation charges in five
months were down 2.5 per cent
and for May were AZ per cent
lower.
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calls for study in regard to the
status of the civil serv-
ice retirement system, the Lesin-
ski measure goes much further
and provides for a study of the
benefits as well. The Senate
approved measure that the House
committee okayed provides that
the study be made by the Director
of the Budget Bureau. the chair
man of the Federal Reserve Board
and the Secretary of the Treas
ury. The Lesinski bill would add
the chairman of the Civil Service
Commission and a President
ial appointed member to this
group.
Be sure to listen to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast each Saturday at
6:15 pm. oUer WMAL.)
Evening star., 1952-06-29
By Hermon F. Schoden
Stor Stoff Correspondent

BALTIMORE, June 28.-This
is the story Of a transit strike
that took 10 days. 50 million and
the threat of a special legislative
session to settle.
What happened last January
in this city of l million had much
the same beginning as the strike
threatening Washington tomor-
row midnight.
After it was all over. and the
street cars and buses rolled
through along the streets again,
the big question still remained:
Who, if anybody, was the winner? ?
Did the union win?
The AFL Transit Workers
Union walked out January 10 de-
manding Is cents more an hour
for 3,100 operators and main
tenance men, and about 80 other
concessions. This was a last
minute come-down from a "a
cent demand.
Workers Sit 1t Out.
For the next 10 days the work.
ers sat it out while the company
and union wrangled and bartered.
Their income for that period was
SIS each in strike benefits. But
the rent and grocery bills went
on, and so did doctor bills and
clothing costs. E#
Finally, they ratified a new
contract giving them 9 cents
more for one year, 6 cents ad-
ditional the next year, and an
other 6 cents the third year. This
added up to a 21-cent boost for
the third year.
But simple mathematics revealed
that the average transit employe
had to work 48 weeks at his
new scale to make up the $127.80
loss each suffered in the layoff
During the strike, the employees
lost a total Of $39, $50 daily.
Discord hit the union after the
strike. Clayton G. Perry. the man
who organized it in 1941. and
perennially served as president,
was ousted in a close election. In
the growing factionalism, the
Perry forces repeatedly have de-
manded a new election.
Company Lost Revenue.
Did the company win?
Baltimore Transit Co. went into
the strike $1,635, $3.50 loser over
the past five years. For years
before that it had been a handy
whipping boy for everybody
union, public, stockholders, transit
commission.
Pointing to it's empty Golfers
IB. T. C. made a top pre-strike
offer of 4 cents Immediately and
an additional 3 cents provided
the Public Service Commission
granted a rate increase.
The Baltimore union refused to
go for an increase based on a
possible rate boost-the same
complication that has snarled
Washington negotiations with
Capital Transit Co.
So the offers and counter
proposals see-sawed for nearly
three weeks while Baltimore
Transit lost $1,178,000 in badly
needed revenue.
Company Officers Quit.
A week after the settlement
Transit President August B. Han
exc and 10 directors Withdrew
from the company. Mr.. Haneke
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out much earlier. For in the end,
the company dropped its insist
ence that part of the wage in
crease be based on higher wages,
and the union gave up any cost of
living benefits.
Right after the settlement, the
Public Service Commission met
and Immediately granted the COM
pany the right to charge 2 cents
extra for transfers. The tempo
rary relief measure was expected
to yield $500, 900 annually, enough
to meet the higher pay rolls.
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Senate Votes Extension
OF Insurance Firms Tux
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

oy me ASSoctofeo PTeSS
The Senate yesterday passed a
bill taxing this years earning of
life insurance companies at the
same rate they paid in 1851.
Senator George, Democrat of
Georgia, said it would prevent a
$50 million loss in Treasury
revenues. The insurance COM
panies ordinarily are taxed under
a formula worked out in 1912, but
Congress temporarily has revised
that formula the past two years.
Senator George got the Senate to
extend this method.
The extension. already approved
by the House, now goes to Presi-
dent Truman for expected ap-
proVal,
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Coupon Book Racket
Brings Headaches,
But No Paying Trade

What looked like a first-rate
method of making customers and
influencing trade has turned into
a full-scale headache for some
small businessmen.
It began last winter when an
out-of-town advertising agency
moved in to revive the old coupon
trade book racket. The scheme
sounded fine the way the adver-
tising men put it:
Books of coupons would be sold
to the public at nominal rate
Each coupon would entitle the
bearer to free goods or services
from each of the merchants par
ticipating. New customers would
flock in, buy other commodities,
and eventually become regular
customers.
Many merchants got the idea
the books would be distributed
only in their immediate trade
area. But the advertising agency
had bigger ideas.
5000 of Books Sold.
It set up a battery of telephones
and got busy. Lucky you!" the
prospect was told in effect.
you've just won a coupon book
emitting you to 5000 in trade.
Well send it right out"
When the mailman came, he
brought a collect-on-delivery book
costing $298 plus 10 cents in
stamps.
In it were tickets for free auto
grease jobs. television repairs.
restaurant meals, laundry. dry
cleaning. doughnuts. hair dressing
and various other goods and
services. Even at $298, 1t looked
good.
In all, about 5000 of them were
sold, and to some merchants. it
began to seem more like 10000.
People came not only from the
neighborhood, but from all over,
even distant points in Virginia
and Maryland.
Gifts Cheerfully Accepted.
And most of them cheerfully
accepted their gift and never re-
turned. A Southeast barber al
ready has counted $50 free hair
cuts, some babies getting their
first shearing. Only three people
returned for a cash cut. Now he's
had to restrict the free trimmings
to four hours a day, and none on
Friday or Saturday. Overhead
goes on, you know"
A neighbor, operating Chinese
restaurant, is even more demon
Strative:
Not accepting any more cou-
pons," reads a sign. Its stop
May II, 1882" That's beating the
deadline by considerable, for the
tickets are to be honored until
October 10.
A little late, the merchants have
taken their case to the Better
Business Bureau. Some complaints
have come in from customers, too.
The Post Office Department also
wants to know whether lottery
laws were violated by the promise
of prize, which turned out to be
a coupon book, costing $298.
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79-Doy Baltimore Bus Strike
Proved Nobody Is the Winner

was replaced by Douglas M. Pratt.
long associated with the National
City Lines, Inc, of Chicago, a
holding company owning 30 per
cent of the Baltimore stock.
Mr.. Haneke said he quit be-
cause he could not see through
a cycle of experimentation re
quiring different management
philosophy" The union charged
the holding company wished
to dump the transit property onto
the public at inflated prices.
The day after the strike ended,
the company found it had lost
Is per cent of its riders. 1t has
taken quite a while to WOO them
back from the car pools.
Did the public win?
Baltimore knew the strike was
coming, and prepared the best it
knew how. Car pools were formed,
policemen worked 12-hour shifts
Some companies chartered buses
to carry their employees to and
from work. Parking regulations
were suspended on side streets
and leniency granted motorists in
restricted zones.
AS result there were % major
traffic jams the first day, as cars
flooded the city. But workers got
to their Offices with more facility
than ever, thanks to car pools.
Cab Drivers Lose.
Expecting q small bonanza, cab
drivers found business 10 per cent
of the first few days, and always
miserable at night.
For the first few days, down
town stores reported more clerks
than customers. At one time
business was off 40 per cent, and
the average for the 10 days was
80 per cent under par.
II just stayed open through
force of habit" sighed one small
shopkeeper.
Theaters, almost empty at first
picked up later on, but nobody
was happy" said one manager
Even the Enoch Pratt Library
lost-$2, 300 on fines which il
granted a moratorium on.
The telephone company's busi-
ness picked up 10 to 20 per cent
but 100000 went for buses to
haul employees, and more went for
additional operators.
The public learned something
about getting to work more pune
tually, but that was about all.
If anything at all beneficial
came from the strike, it was the
novel three-year contract.
The company first suggested II
eight days after the strike began
offering a $775,000 package
amounting to IL cents an hour il
paid all in wages. The company
also offered cost-of Living in
creases the next two years. The
union said it would accept the
offer for a year only.
Assembly Call Threatened.
The union later offered a three.
Iyear-plan of it's own, which finally
was modified to the strike-settline
formula. But not before Gov
McKeldin threatened to call the
General Assembly into special Ses-
sion did the disputants get dowr
to brass tacks.
The three-year contract was
urged by the company as a pre-
Iventive measure against yearly
strike threats. 1t was a compro-
mise that might have been worked
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time = delaying
House = Senate
conference on
the m e a S u r e,
the House COM
mittee approved
the Senate bill
W i t h out any
changes. Thus,
if the House
this week ap-
proves the bill,
it would then
be cleared for
t h e w h / t e
House and Pres
ident Truman'S
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With only a week remaining,
the most important factor is the
time element.
There does not appear to be
enough time left to go through
the regular legislative channels
whereby approval must be OBJ
tanned from the House Rules
Committee before the measure can
come up for a House vote. Not
only isn't there enough time, but
the extremely conservative rules
group might not vote its ap-
proval.
Suspension Procedure.
AS a result, the only course left
to the bills sponsors is to bring
the measure up under the Sus-
pension of rules procedure, where
by bill must obtain a two-thirds
maj jority vote in order to pass the
House.
The bills supporters believe
they can get the Democratic lead
ership to schedule the bill for ac-
ton this week under this pro-
cedure. Representative McCor-
mack, Democrat, of Massachu-
sets. the House majority leader
supports annuity increase legis-
lation and can be expected tc
schedule the bill for action If al
all possible.
Once the bill is scheduled, its
sponsors are confident they will
garner far more votes than the
Itwo-thirds majority needed fol
approval.
FUTURE PLANS-In approving
the Senate-passed bill on Friday
the House Civil Service Committee
made it plain that it regarded the
measure only as stop-gap to take
care Of Federal employees already
retired.
To emphasize its feeling, the
committe at the same time ap-
proved another retirement bill
that provides for a complete study
of the civil service retirement sys-
tenn. Also, the measure sponsored
by Representative Lesinski. Dem
ocrat, of Michigan, provides for
increases for survivors of retired
Federal employees who have died.
Further Change Ahead.
The Lesinski bill does not have
any chance for enactment this
year. But the House committee
approved the bill to serve notice
that next year it plans further
liberalization in the civil service
retirement system.
Committee members said the
Senate bill was approved because
it was the only one that has a
chance of passage this year and
that they wanted to do nothing
that would jeopardize the chances
of retired Federal employees from
getting a much-needed annuity
increase.
But the members are disturbed
over the fact that the bill does MOI
provide increases for widows ane
orphans of retired employees wht
have died, nor does the bill pro.
vide for survivorship insuranc,
increases for present Fedora
workers and their families. Also
the bill does not increase the an.
nuities of present employees whel
they retire.
The Lesinski bill as approved
by the committee contains a pro
vision for a full-scale investiga.
ton of the various retirement sys
TENS for Federal employees and ,
comparison between civil servic,
and social security retiremen
benefits. ......
While the Senate-approved bill
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Wins Speaking Contest

CHICAGO, June % (P).-James
Wallace of Little Rock. Ark, today
won the oratorical contest at the
annual convention of the Key
Club International, a youth organi-
zation sponsored by Kiwanis In
ternational.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Maryland and Virginia-Some
cloudiness. hot and humid today
with high about 80 near the coast
and in low or middle COS in the
interior. Tomorrow, partly cloudy
and continued hot.
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SECTION {.
4 AAuarkieinn

District and Vicinity - Some
cloudiness but mostly sunny, hot
and humid today, highest around
"a. Tomorrow, fair and continued
hot.
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tribunal for the
last seven years,
will take over
his new duties
T u e S d ay. He
will fill the post
vacated by the
retirement of
Arthur B. Shell
ton, who held
the Office for
more than ~
years.
Previo u S ! Y
Mr.. Pryor was
a t t a C h e d to
A.
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CabeII Pryor New Clerk
OF u. ). Customs Court

Cabell N. Pryor is the new clerk
Of the United States Court Of
Customs and Patent Appeals.
Mr.. Pryor, assistant clerk of the
Evening star., 1952-06-29
CoWon Named AAA Official

James H. Cowan, of 1101 South
Twenty first street, Arlington, has
been named manager of the inter-
national travel department of the
American Automobile Association
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trative Office of the United States
Courts. He had also served in the
Justice Department.
Mr.. Pryor lives at 1921 Clagett
road, University Park, Md. He is
a native of Amherst County, Va.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Senate Confirms Murdock
BY the Associated Press

The Senate has confirmed
President Truman's nomination
of Abe Murdock for another Ave-
year term as a member of the
National Labor Relations Board.
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The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Bockers Expect Pension Rise
ToBe Enacted in Final Week
By Joseph Young

Sponsors of the bill to increase the annu Of retired Govern
employees feel the legislation will during
weeks session of
The is by of the but its
reasonably confident it will become year.
The twoyear temporary $50 to 1924 already
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has been approved by the Senate.
1t won the approval of the House
Civil Service Committee Friday.
To expedite action and avoid a
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Record Temperatures :

Highest. 1O1, on June 20.
Lowest, 10. on January 80.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High. "a, at 4:l5 pm.
Low. "a at & m
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River Report.

River Report.
(From o. g. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Hsrpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
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Monthly precipitation in inches In I
CApttal (current month to datel:
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IU.S. WEATHER oUREAU MAP
nsaartr,ses of cemmerea
Evening star., 1952-08-13
Break Kin Is Charged
To Boy Given Term
lin Detention Home

A 15-year-old boy who was
waiting to be taken to the Juve-
nile Detention Home at Richmond.
Va. last night was caught inside
a Fairfax County grocery.
Fairfax police said the boy who
is colored, had broken into the
Shirley Food Store in Culmore
Shopping Center near Bailey's
Cross Roads. Police, summoned by
neighbors. saw a light in the store
and found the boy hiding in the
basement.
Just one week ago. the boy was
committed by Fairfax Trial Jus
tice Robert Fitzgerald to an in
definite term in the Juvenile De-
tention Home at Richmond. He
was accused that time of breaking
into a restaurant at Fairfax.
Judge Fitzgerald released the
boy in his parents custody until
transportation to Richmond was
available. Police said a bus from
the Detention Home comes to the
county once or twice a month to
pick up juvenile delinquents who
have been committed.
Police said this time the boy
probably would be kept in custody
until transportation to the home
lis available. Fairfax has juve-
nile lookup facilities at the Grove
ton police substation.
Two other boys are being
sought in connection with last
nights break-in. Police said the
others apparently fled in a car
when the police cruiser neared the
scene.
Evening star., 1952-08-13
British Sailors in Japan
Choose Appeal Lawyers
BY the Associated Press

KOBE, Japan, Aug. 13.-Two
British sailors whose jailing has
ruf1ed relations between Japan
and Britain today asked that
private lawyers handle their ap-
peal from a 30-month sentence
for beating and robbing a taxi
driver.
Two government-appointed law
yers filed an appeal for the sailors
yesterday in Kobe district court
for retrial by the Osaka higher
court. Their tenure expired when
the appeal was made.
Kyodo News Agency reported
the sailors, Derek Smith and
Peter Simmer. then asked they be
allowed to name their own private
lawyers. They chose Toshijiro
Kudo and Mitsuo Hayashi. The
latter had been one Of the two
government-appointed lawyers.
Britain contends the sailors
should have been turned over for
trial by her own military courts
but Japan claims Jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1952-08-13
Two Children Learn
7urpentine Isn't
For 'Cuttinq' Teeth

Two Montgomery County chill
dren learned the hard way that
turpentine, a paint cutter, is not
to be used for cutting teeth.
Claud Johnson, 19-month-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. John
son, 1869 Goodloe road. Silver
Spring. was taken to Suburban
Hospital about noon to have tur-
pentine pumped from his stomach.
He was sent home after treatment.
About two hours later Robin
Kutner. 22-month-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Kutner, 3503
Randolph street, Wheaton. was
brought to the emergency room
with a similar complaint. His
stomach was pumped out and he
was sent home in good condition.
Evening star., 1952-08-13
Mattress 150-Pound Doc
Worth 1850 Is Slain
By the Assoeiated Press

SAN PEDRO. Calif.-A San
Pedro waitress, who says she
often has gone hungry to feed her
three giant dogs, reported to po-
lice recently that she's fighting
mad.
Somebody shot one of her huge
Bouvier des Flanders ANIMALS to
death. The dog weighted almost
$50 pounds and was valued by
Mrs. Dorothy Wander Pol at
$500.
She said the Netherlands police
use the breed to catch criminals,
and there are only about so of
the animals in the United States.
Evening star., 1952-08-13
Dam Removed Forbidden

LOS ANGELES.-A sign atop
Shasta dam in California says,
l"Government Property DO Not
Remove" The dam weighs about
i12 million tons.
Evening star., 1952-08-13
Islum Busis for Pukistun

NEW DELHI. Pakistan was
created by the British government
on the basis of the Islamic faith
of its IS million people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-08-07
A Sensible Finding

The action of the State Department In
revoking the status of diplomatic immunity
enjoyed by Chauffeur Hook Is demonstration
of common sense.
Mr. Hook is an American employe OF the
Saudi Arabian Embassy. He was arrested last
Friday on Baltimore boulevard after allegedly
violating the speed regulations. An examination
of his record disclosed that he had been involved
in other incidents of alleged violations-while
not on official embassy duty.
In the opinion of the State Department,
after investigating the case, Mr.. Hook has
abused the privilege Of diplomatic immunity and
in so doing has created hazard to the safety
of the lives of others. For this reason, the
department has revoked his immunity. The
question now under study is whether he can be
prosecuted for actions which occurred while ne
was still on privileged status.
The practice of granting diplomatic immunity
is reciprocal courtesy, now embodied in inter-
national law, for the purpose of facilitating
the work of accredited representatives of foreign
governments. While 1t has been applied generally
to families and to servants, the principle is
being stretched when q diplomatic employe
resident in his own country is granted immunity
from its laws. To take advantage OF this
immunity in studied and repeated action Is to
discredit the principle entirely.