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Evening star., 1952-01-01
40 Million 10 Start Paying
Social Security Tax in 1852

About 4.6 million small busi.
nessmen must start paying socia
security taxes for the first tim,
lin 1852.
They are the self-employed. TIL,
Census Bureau says that in :
poll 1t took it found that about
Itwo-thirds don't know they are
subject to the new tax, or have
the idea that the tax is optional.
1t is compulsory for virtually
all self-employed persons earnine
$400 or more a year, except:
l. Farmers, including farm ten
ants as well as farm owners.
2. Doctors, lawyers, dentists, ar
chitects. osteopaths. optometrists,
naturopathS, veterinarians, chiro-
practors, Christian Science practi-
tioners, licensed or registered ac-
countants. certified public ac-
countants, funeral directors and
professional engineers. Persons
in these professions are exempt
since they frequently do not retire
at 65 and thus feel they do not
need Federal old age and survivors
insurance.
3. Clergymen and members of
religious orders. Many Of these
take an oath of poverty and have
no taxable income.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Bethesda Janitor Appeals
Term for Kissing Girl, 9

A janitor accused of assault anc
battery because he allegedly kissec
a 9-year-old Bethesda girl is fret
on 81 200 bond today after his at
torney appealed his conviction ir
Bethesda Police Court.
William T. Ward, So, colored
janitor at 6523 Clarendon road
Bethesda. was sentenced to two
years in the Maryland House OF
Correction yesterday by Judge
Oscar See. Attorney Joseph v
Morgan, jr.. Immediately noted an
appeal to Montgomery County Cir
cult Court.
The little girl, who is white
testified that on December 9 when
she was showing Ward where he
could pick up old newspapers
stored in the basement of her
apartment house. he kissed her on
the cheek.
She ran home, she said. The
next day, Ward approached her
IN front Of a grocery store and
asked her to meet him in the base
r1ent the next day, she added.
Her mother then reported the
two incidents to police and Ward
was arrested.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Penny Postcard Goes Up Cent;
$720 Million Yield Expected

The penny postcard, like the
good scent cigar, today became
a fond memory.
AS midnight bells rang in the
New Year, the biggest 1-cent bar
gain in the Nation disappeared.
Now, any one wishing to arouse
a fond ones envy with the mes
sage, wish you were here-X
marks my room," will have to pay
Uncle Sam 2 cents-or the card
will be returned.
The increase in postcard rates
is part'of general boost in postal
charges designed to yield the Post
Office Department an additional
$120 million a year.
Old Cards Restamped.
At the City Post Office here
employees were busy today rum
ming 5,250,O00 old-style penny
postcards through machine
which stamped an additional
penny charge on them.
The increase will hit hardest al
mail order firms that buy post
cards in huge quantities.
Congress in enacting the new
postal rate law went out of its
Evening star., 1952-01-01

The 23-year-old Marine officer
is a 1850 graduate Of the Naval
Academy. In Korea, he was as
signed to the 1st 90-millimetel
Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the
#lst Marine Division.
After graduation from the Naval
Academy, 1t. Still was stationed
at Quantico. Va, for nearly a
year. During that time, he and
his wife Lucy lived at 317 Briland
street, Alexandria. They have a
6-month-old daughter, Sally. Mrs
Still is with relatives in Nor
folk. Va.
Pfc. Kenneth L. Lam, son oil
Mr.. and Mrs. Louie A. Lam, o1
LOG Funk street, Strasburg. Va.
was among Army personnel an
nounced as killed in action.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
|Cabbie Says Two Men
Robbed Him, Took Car

A taxi-cab driver last night
was robbed at gunpoint by two
Fcolored men who took his wrist
watch and wallet, total value SIG
and also his cab, but later aban-
doned it, police said.
The pair hailed the cab, driven
by Ira Kern of Arlington, Va
at Sixteenth and P streets NV
police reported. They directed
him to drive to Wisconsin avenue
and Grace street NV. and or
arrival, both pulled out pistols
and robbed him of the wrist
watch and wallet, according tc
the police report.
The driver was ordered out OF
his cab and one of the men got
behind the wheel and both ban
dts drove of. The cab was taken
to Thirtieth and K streets NV
and abandoned there, police said
The taxi driver gave this de-
scription Of the pair: one tall and
light skinned, wearin.. q field
jacket; the other shorter, very
dark skinned and wearing a blue
Jacket
Evening star., 1952-01-01
100000 Flyers
On Snow Traffic
To Be Printed

The Commissioners Advis-
ory Traffic Board has come
up with novel idea to help
perplexed motorists abide by
the new regulations for snow
storm emergencies.
The board will print 100, 900
flyers, listing the SIS streets on
which traffic will be restricted
when the regulations are in
voked. If space permits the
board also will offer some
sound advice about driving on
icy pavements.
The flyers will be distrib-
uted through gasoline service
stations. Drivers will be asked
to keep them in the glove
compartments of their cars,
so the information will be
available for ready reference.
Evening star., 1952-01-01

way to break down the old eco
nomic adage that it's cheaper to
buy wholesale.
Under the new law any one
buying more than 40 postcards at
one time will have to pay % cents
Ifor them. Forty-nine or fewer
cards will be sold for 2 cents
each.
No Complaints Heard.
Representative Hagen, Repub-
llican, of Minnesota, pushed
through the surcharge on post
cards in quantity because he
wants to get the Government out
of the postcard printing business
He figured the 10 per cent sur
charge on postcards in bulk
would encourage commercial
printers to go into the business of
printing them.
The City Post Office said NO
complaints against the new rates
had been received because very
few persons were buying stamps
today. The few who appeared at
stamp windows seemed too much
IN a fog to protest anything, post
office clerks said.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Two Men Shot al U Street
And Florida Avenue NV.

Two men were shot early this
morning by an unidentified man
at Florida avenue and U street
NV. police reported.
Samuel D. MCGEE, colored, AZ,
of 1868 California street NV,
shot in the stomach. was taken
in taxi to Freedmen's Hospital.
The second victim, Harry H.
Deskins, colored, 25, of I'LL
Columbia road NV, shot in the
right thigh, was also taken to the
hospital in the taxi and released
after treatment.
Police said the shooting oc-
|curred about ITO am. after an
argument. The unidentified as
|sailant. a dark-skinned colored
man, % to 80 years old, S feet
Is inches in height, weighing about
l60 pounds, escaped.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Youth Who EIuded
Police Trap Sought

Prince Georges County ane
District police today were con.
tnuing to search for an. 18-year.
old Fairmount Heights (Md. ]
youth who eluded a police dragnet
yesterday.
Subject Of the search is Brock
Davis, colored, who is wanted ir
the county for questioning in the
shooting last Saturday Of another
Paramount Heights colored mar
and for questioning in the District
In connection with a robbery.
Two county officers, Pvts. David
F. Dudley and Allan A. Murray
said they saw Davis in q car al
Sheriff road and George Palmer
highway in Prince Georges yester-
Iday. A 70-mile-an-hour pursuit
enSued.
After about a mile, Davis aban-
doned his car at Sixty-fifth street
and Sheriff road and fed into the
dense thicket nearby.
During the chase, the two off,
cers radioed for help and nine
other county officers and two
cruisers from the District closed
in on the area.
PvtS. Dudley and Murray
plunged into the woods after the
suspect with pistols drawn. They
saw the fugitive only once, but
were never able 10 get close to
him. Search of the area proved
Ifruitless.
! County police said Davis is un-
tder bond on two assault and
robbery charges and is wanted in
connection with the shooting and
wounding of Henry C. Mills, 81,
lof 1113 Sixty-fourth avenue
'Fairmount Heights.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
|Dr. Seckinger Reports
Heart Disease Still
No. | Killer Here

Heart disease is still the No. l
killer in the District, DR.. Daniel
IL. Seckinger, diector Of public
health, has reported in his sum-
mary of the District Health De-
lpartment for 1851.
Heart disease deaths totaled
l2,997 for 1851 for a death rate OF
1922 per 100000 population, as
compared with 3,253 in 1850, for
rate of 405.5.
Cancer and other malignant
growths were second in causing
deaths in the District, with a
slight reduction from these the
year before. In 1851, there were
1.471 deaths from cancer, while in
1850, there were 1,431.
Decline in tuberculosis Toll.
A significant decline in the
number Of deaths from tuber-
culosis also was noted in 1851,
DR.. Seckinger reported. There
were 800 deaths from tuberculosis
in 1851, as against 388 in 1850. 1t
was not only the greatest reduc-
tion in the number of deaths over
la 12-month period. but was the
greatest decline in major causes
of death in the District.
Accidents caused 384 deaths in
the District, as compared with
1888 in 1850.
| With a birth to resident
mother occurring every 261a min
utes and a death to a resident
occurring every GA minutes, there
was a natural increase of 1855
persons in the District last year
There were 81 births and 22.4
deaths every day, making a total
Iof 1878 births and 8,217 deaths
for the year. Nearly 1000 more
births were recorded in the Dis
trict in 1891 than in 1850.
757 Infant Deaths.
The infant death rate for 1851
approached the previous low rec
ord OF 1948. In 1851 the 757 in
FAINT deaths gave a rate of 24.9
per 1000 live births. while in 194s
the infant death rate was 23.9.
In the past year there were
only 10 deaths owing to child
birth or its complications.
Among the communicable dis
eases. there were no deaths again
last year from scarlet fever, diph-
iberia or measles. Only four
deaths were caused by poliomye-
litis in 1851. as against IT in 1850.
The number Of deaths caused by
influenza and pneumonia was
smaller in 1851 than in 1950-19e
against 223.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Press Plate Breaks
And Delights Critics
|Of Virginia Paper
BY the Associated Press

BEDFORD, Va, Jan. LIN
spite of the trouble, the staff of
the Bedford Bulletin blandly
continued with the press run for
the December q edition of the
weekly newspaper.
Calamity struck when the press
run was half complete-the
"e-t-i-n" broke off the press plate
and there wasn't an extra plate
to substitute.
Half Of the papers subscribers
received a paper with the mast
head Bedford Bull"
For many years some of our
friends have dubbed us just that, u
said Managing Editor Keith Har-
vey wryly. "but it became a
reality with this ISSUE"
Evening star., 1952-01-01

He is the son
|of Mrs. Grayce
S. Frayel. 3410
North Fifteenth
street, Arling-
ton. She said
Lit. Still was
reported mis-
sing on Deem
Der 81, three
months a + t e r
ne had arrived
in Korea. and
that the notifi-
cation reached
her the next
day. December
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Cyanide Silver Polish
| Kills Granddaughter
0f Gen. Donovan 4

Sheila Donovan, 5, grand
daughter of Maj. Gen. William J.
wild BilD Donovan, died yes
terday at her home near Berry
vile, Va, after swallowing a small
quantity of silver polish contain
ing a deadly poison.
The child's death threw a pail
over the usually gay New Years
Eve Blue Ridge Hunt Club Ball,
Only Intervention of members of
the Donovan family, who urged
that the dance go on, persuaded
members of the ball committee
not to cancel the affair which
was held on the Allen estate neal
Berryville.
DR.. Frank Tappen, Clarke
County coroner, issued a certifi.
cate Of accidental death after in.
lvestigating the tragedy. He sale
Sheila had been playing with
other children outside her parent.
home when she went into thu
kitchen to get a drink of water.
How the little girl happened tt
drink the metal polish could MOI
be determined, DR.. Tappen said
The polish contained cyanide o1
potassium, one of the deadliest o,
jail poisons. She became uncon.
Iscious almost Immediately.
Her parents rushed her to thu
hospital at Winchester, IL mile.
from their home, but she was deae
when they arrived there. She wa,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
David Donovan. Her father op.
crates the Battleton Transfer Co
in Berryville.
Besides her parents Sheila leave
five brothers and sisters, Patricia
Deidre, William, David and Mary
Funeral arrangements had no
been completed this morning, bu
tentative plans called for buria
in Arlington.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Montgomery 10 Open
|S1,25O,OOO Junior
High School Thursday

Montgomery County's largest
Junior high school, the new East
ern Suburban, will open Thurs
day morning.
The $1,250.000 structure is the
largest school ever built at one
time in the county, according to
school officials. The building is
on a 17-acre site at Franklin
avenue and Old Bladensburg
road in Silver Spring and has
80 rooms including % classrooms,
IA of them for elementary stu
dents. Only junior high students
win attend Thursday, however.
Architect Ronald S. Senseman
said the quadrangle design of
the red brick building will elm
mate traffic congestion in corri-
|dors. Each room has a different
color scheme and all classrooms
and corridors have continuous
fluorescent lighting, Metal shelves
and cabinets line the outer wall
of each classroom.
Can Accommodate 1900.
The school was built for a nor
NAL enrolment of 800 students
according to the architect, but
can accommodate a maximum OF
Il 200.
Some students who have been
on part time schedules at Takoma
Park and Montgomery Hills ju-
nior high schools will be en-
rolled at Eastern Suburban
When elementary students are ad.
Imitted, probably sometime next
week, according to Asst. Supt. ot
Schools Richard E. Carpenter
most of them will come from
Oak View.
Builder of the school was John
Tester & Sons of Washington
Construction was started on Au-
gust 16, 1850.
Appointed as principal is Rob-
'ert Gibson, formerly on the fac
ulty of Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School.
In addition to the % classrooms
the new school contains two shop
areas, two home economic areas
a cafeteria with a seating ca
pacity of 400 students which will
also serve as a multi-purpoSe
room, a gymnasium which will
double as an auditorium ano
rooms for music, art, a library
offices and clinic.
Can Be Expanded Easily.
Mr.. Senseman said the build
ing was constructed SO that il
can be expanded easily to in.
Iclude an auditorium and 16 ad.
ditional classrooms.
A considerable saving of money
resulted, the architect said
through elimination of an over.
all ventilating system and sub.
stitution of a system using g
combination of fresh and re-
circulated air in each room.
Floors, except in the gymna.
sium, are asphalt tile. Class
rooms walls are painted cindel
block. Railways have a ceramic
tile wainscoting, with plaster
running to the ceiling. Through
out the building, ceilings are
|acouStical tile.
Exterior doors are formica-
covered and windows, above cleal
glass, are glass block to elm
mate glare.
The quadrangle can be used
as an outdoor dining area and
also as a student lounge, the
architect said.
Cost of the site was $62, 600
The building cost $1.1 million
and site development and equip
ment added $l5O.000.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Heads Fraternity

CHICAGO, Jan, R.-Doug-
las G. Grafflin, principal in the
public school system of Chappa-
qua. a suburb of New York, yes
terday was elected president of
the Professional Education Fra
aernity Phi Delta Kappa.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Frederick Tux Rises
FREnERICK M

FREDERICK, Md, Jan. / (P.
Frederick County's property tax
rate went up cents yesterday to
$1.40 per 500 valuation. Cts the
first increase since 1916.
Evening star., 1952-04-06

cutlery. In this way. you
create a table setting rich in
textural harmony and con-
sistent in quality and mood.
If you are not sure whether
your dinnerware Is china or
earthenware. hold a plate to
the light. If you can see the
shadow of your hand through
it. it's china; If no light comes
through, it's earthenware.
Color, carefully chosen and
combined, is the distinguish
ing feature of today's table.
Modern cloths and place mats
Evening star., 1952-04-06

and china, one must be
subordinate to the other. If
there is much pattern in your
cloth, all other accessories
must be plain and simple.
Otherwise, you will have a
very busy table.
If you use a fine china plate
on the table, you should conf
bine it with equally fine
glass, linens and sterling
silver. If you use earthen-
ware, couple it with more
picturesque materials, rougher
textures and bamboo-handled
Evening star., 1952-04-06

literally exhaust the color
palette. Brilliant high" COL
crs like eggplant purple,
cherry red. lemon peel, hot
chocolate, cerulean blue.
French lilac, citron green and
nasturtium orange are popu-
lar, as are grays, browns and
blacks. And, as a result of
the color wave. there is an
increasing trend toward fine
white china, which has not
been so popular since the mid
Victorian penchant for white
ironstone.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Labor Backing stevenson.

Chairman Tucker takes a very
different view Of the situation. He
flatly predicts that Harris County,
instead of going for Gen. Eisen-
hover, will give Gov. Stevenson a
25,0o0 majority. Gov. Stevenson,
he says. viii do well in other cities
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Data Released on Truman Fund
In 1914 Vice Presidential Race

raised after it was learned Sen
ator Morse owed money for ex-
penses Of the 1914 campaign. Mr..
Sammons said the fund was re-
ported at the State Capitol, as
required by Oregon law. The re-
port since has been destroyed,
also as required by law.
Mr.. SammonS said he felt it
would be better to put up a few
dollars and have Morse on the
job in Washington representing
his constituents than to have him
away from the Senate trying to
pay of his campaign debts. It
was on that basis that ap-
preached businessmen"
Mr.. Sammons also said there
was no questioning Senator
Morse's financial honesty, adding
that the Senator did not handle
the fund himself.
Senator Morse, reached by tele-
phone in Washington, said, "I've
never handled my campaign
money. I don't know how much
it was. That's what bothers some
Of those fellows out there. They
can't give me money and so they
can't tie me up. The reason these
guys haven't been able to handle
me Is that they haven't been able
to get me under obligation to
them"
Evening star., 1952-10-16
BY the Assoeioted Press

Mutual Defense Chief w. Aver
ell Hartman reported yesterday
the free worlds strict export con-
trolls have slowed down the rate
of arms production in Russia and
her satellites.
Mr.. Hartman told Congress
Russian agents are now bidding
frantically in world markets, Of
fering up to 10 times the normal
price for strategic items barred by
the West.
He summed up the first six
months results Of the admins
tration's new export control pro-
gram in report which said:
There is substantial evidence
that the Soviet military buildup
has been slowed by the operation
Of these controls"
Mr.. Hartman. as foreign aid
director, is responsible for admin
iStering the law in which Congress
specifically barred 285 categories
of strategic items from the Com
munist bloc and ordered President
Truman to cut off foreign aid to
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Putnam Exempfs Wages
Less Than 81 From Curbs
By the Associuted Pres,

Economic Stabilizer Roger L.
Putnam yesterday exempted from
wage controls all wages of less
than 81 an hour.
Mr.. Putnam acted after study
ing a Wage Sterilization Board
resolution which was based on
congressional action last summer.
Congress wrote into the new
Defense Production Act an
amendment freeing hourly wages
at a rate of 81 per hour or less"
from anti-inflation wage rules.
Mr.. Putnam's regulation pro-
vides that salaried workers or
those paid on a piece, per unit.
incentive, mileage or commission
rate are entitled to benefits of the
amendment.
Now any employe whose average
straight-time hourly earnings are
less than 81 may be raised to 81
without board approval, subject
to certain technical considerations
spelled out in the regulation.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Herbert Hoover to Make
Rudio-TV Talk SATURDAY,
BY the Assoeioted Press

Republican national campaign
headquarters yesterday announced
that former President Hoover will
make a national radio-TV address
Saturday night.
Mr.. Hoover Will broadcast over
the combined CHS television and
radio networks between $50 and
10 pm.
The announcement said Mr..
Hoover's address will examine
the record of the Republican
Party from its inception. spelling
out its leadership in launching
and maintaining the true liberal
movement in the United States. -
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Hartman Says Export Controls
SLOW Reds Arms Production

any country which violates the
legislation.
He acknowledged some business
men are continuing to smuggle
strategic items to Russia. Some
times by trans-shipping goods
through as many as five countries.
The United States, for example,
has cracked down on more than
200 American companies and in
dlvidualS in the past four years
for violating controls.
Russian agents. in a desperate
effort to acquire such items as
machinery, electronic equipment,
spare parts, copper and non-fer-
rous metals. have used every de-
vice. he said.
Russia, because it is now being
pinched by Western trade con-
trolls, he said. has started a day.
and-night propaganda campaign
aimed at convincing the world it
wants to trade with the West on
a gigantic scale.
This tactic, he said, is particu-
larly aimed at countries with un-
employment problems and those
having difficulty selling all their
products to the West.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Southern Maryland
Fair Draws Record
Crowd With Pageant

The Southern Maryland fair
shifted its centers of interest to-
day to women's club displays and
dairy cattle after a vicarious re-
turn to:
"The days Of old. the days Of
gold, the days Of 40"
Gwynn Park High School stu
dents yesterday presented the
pageant Westward Ho" before
more than 5000 persons, a rec.
ord attendance.
Representative SaSscer and Mrs.
Helen Welch, general manager of
the fair. officially opened the an
nual event when they crowned
Walter Meinhardt and Blanche
Smith, both 17-year-old residents
Of Brandywine, as king and queen.
Vozar Directs Pageant.
Kalman Vozar, principal of the
Southern Prince Georges School,
directed the pageant. His chief
assistants were Mrs. Adelaide
Burgner, the schools music teach
er. and Mrs. Isabelle Martin,
|eighth-grade instructor.
The performance was preceded
by a luncheon in the race track
clubhouse for State and local dig
|nitaries. Afterward. the crowd,
most of them school children on
holiday, scattered through build
|ings filled with farm, home and
All exhibits.
Turnstiles at carnival attrac-
tions. operating between rows of
new farm machinery, clicked
merrily throughout the warm
afternoon.
More Entries.
Mrs. Welch said the number of
entries in all departments is
greater than ever before. A total
of lit beef cattle. 129 dairy cattle
and 1900 poultry specimens will
share $21 900 in prize money with
other departments.
All exhibits other than livestock
were judged before the fair opened
to the public. -
The sweepstakes winner for the
best samples Of 1852 tobacco was
William F. King of Lothian, who