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Evening star., 1953-11-19
Another Te|ethon SET
For DYstrophy Fund

The local chapter of the Mus
cular Dystrophy Association an
nounced today that another
"telethon" will be staged this
year in connection with the an
nual fund drive.
The show will be held on Tele-
vision Station WTTG Saturday
of next week beginning at 10
pm. and ending at noon on
Sunday.
Last years telethon netted
about 100000 and resulted in the
establishment of a muscular dys-
trophy clinic at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital-the first clinic
south of New York City designed
for treatment of the crippling
disease.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
will stage a two-hour show for
the benefit of muscular dyS-
trophy over Station WMAL-TV
at II am. next Wednesday. The
program will be broadcast from
Hollywood.
Richard B. Woods, president
of the local chapter, also an
nounced that the Metropolitan
Letter Carriers Union will CO.
operate in the telethon by con-
Quoting a "Postmen's March" in
the evening of November 80 to
collect pledges and contributions
for muscular dystrophy.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Autoist Forfeits $50
0n6-CarC Crash Count

A Capitol Hill elevator me-
chanic today forfeited $50 COL
lateral on traffic charges after
his car went out of control and
damaged five other automobiles.
Charged with failing to give
full time and attention to driv-
ing. and unreasonable speed was
Robert w. Simms. 25. of Att
South Seventh street, Arlington.
Simms was driving north on
Twenty-ninth street NV. about
2 am. when he made a left turn
onto Olive avenue NV, police
said. His car struck a parked
automobile. owned by Herman
Sheskin of 101 M street NE.
the accident report said. The
SheSkin vehicle was knocked
against another car, owned by
Waldemar Dietrich of 1890
Twenty ninth street NV.
Simms' car then Swerved to
the opposite side of the street.
colliding with a small English
automobile whose owner was
unidentified, police said. The
impact knocked the small car
ten feet against a car owned
by Silvio j. Amoroso of 1920
Olive avenue NV. which in turn
struck the parked car of Mar
tina Jane Renfrew of 2916 Olive
avenue NV. More than $3.50
worth of damage was done to the
six cars.
Simms told police he was chas-
ing another car but had lost it,
the report states.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
; Schoolgirls Hurt as Car
Knocks Taxi Into Them

Three Prince Georges County
schoolgirls we're injured while
walking to school today when
struck by taXicab which had
just been hit by another car.
The cab driver is the father of
one of the victims.
The girls, all f1fth-grade STU
dents at Bladensburg Elementary
School, were taken to Leland Me-
mortal Hospital. Riverdale, where
two were admitted.
They are Virginia Myers, 10,
of 5001 Fifty-sixth place, Rogers
Heights, and Sandra MCGEE, 10,
of 5002 Fifty-sixth place. The
third girl, Nancy Foreman, 9, of
5006 Fifty-sixth place. daughter
of the taxicab driver. was treated
for bruises and released.
The Myers girl, daughter of
the Rev. j w. Myers, Presby-
terian chaplain at the University
of Maryland, suffered a deep
head cut and possible internal
injuries. The MCGEE girl re-
ceived head injuries.
Police said the cab driven by
Edward M. Foreman, AZ, was
struck from the side by the other
car at the intersection of Fifty
sixth avenue and Emerson street.
The impact hurled the taxi across
the intersection into the three
girls. Mr.. Foreman told police
he had slowed down to offer the
girls a ride to school.
Mr.. Foreman was treated at
the same hospital for cuts and
bruises. The driver of the car,
Albert B. Parks, 43, of 5432 Var
mum street, Bladensburg, was
not hurt. Mr.. Foreman was
charged with failing to yield
right-of-way. Mr.. Parks was
charged with reckless driving by
colliding.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
City Heads 10 Ride
Big Bus Before Voting
On Georgetown Issue

The District Commissioners
are going to take a ride on a
king-Size Capital Transit bus.
They decided on the trip after
receiving a report from their
Advisory Council today oppos-
ing the Capital Transit Co.'S re-
quest to run the big buses
through Georgetown.
Objections at Hearing.
The council held a hearing on
the subject October 80, when
witnesses maintained the heavy
vehicles would damage their
houses by vibration.
The large buses already are
used on six routes, including Six
teenth street. Capital Transit
wants to run them also on the
Glover Park-Trinidad and P
street-Le Droit Park. lines.
The council voted yesterday
against the request, which the
Commissioners had referred to
it for recommendation.
Camalier in Favor.
In discussing the councils
recommendation today, Com
Renah Camalier said
he had ridden the big buses and
of them. He expressed
the view they did not shake
building foundations as much as
the old buses. Moreover, he
went on, the new buses have
better maneuverability.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
said he had not yet read the
record. and wished to do so be-
fore making a decision. En-
gineer Commissioner Louis w.
said he would set up
a trip for the three Commits
sioners before their vote on the
subject. All three agreed.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Eviction Appeal
By Pianist Fails

The Municipal Court of Ap-
peals yesterday upheld a lower
court contention that Mrs. Eliza
beth Nowinski's piano playing
at the Dorchester House violated
her lease.
The building owners had
charged that Mrs. Nowinski vio-
lated a section of her lease which
forbids her to use her apartment
in a way that would disturb the
tenants . or be offensive to
any occupant of the building"
They also declared in their
suit that the way she used the
apartment-by her piano play
ing-constituted a nuisance.
The lower court said the own
ers were right on both counts.
The appellate court, while agree
ing that the use of the apart
ment might be disturbing and
offensive to other occupants, de-
clared that the question of
nuisance has now become moot, "
since the District of Columbia
Emergency Rent Act expired last
July 81.
When the appeal was argued,
Mrs. Nowinski's attorney, Denis
K. Lane. said:
"It's a matter of principle.
She wouldn't mind leaving the
Dorchester House, but she
doesn't want to be declared a
nuisance"
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Danaher 10 Take Oath
As Appeals Court Judge

Former Senator John A. DAN
aher, Republican. of Connecti-
cut will be sworn in at $50 am.
tomorrow as a judge of the U. S.
Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Mr.. Danaher takes the place
of Judge James NJ. Proctor, who
died last September.
The oath of Office will be ad-
ministered by Chief Judge Har-
old Stephens in the ceremonial
courtroom of the Federal Court
house.
The judges of all the courts
in this Jurisdiction have been
invited to attend the ceremonies.
Also invited are the District
Commissioners and members of
all bar associations here.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
N Industry Denies Crime
In Shows Is Bad Influence

The television industry de-
Tended itself today against critics
who have complained there is too
much crime being fed to the
Nations youngsters by television.
The National Association of
Radio and Television Broadcast
erS pointed to a letter from a
Texas judge who said he believed
he, had helped steer a group of
youngsters back on the right
track by playing a transcription
of a crime program in his court
room.
The association said juvenile
cases have brought "at least one
police charge that the large pro-
portion of crime fare on radio
and television, in newspapers
and comic magazines is respon-
sible." The association made no
mention of Police Chief Robert
v. Murray, but the chief had
made such charge during a
talk Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
SeIectiVe Service,
Other Units Attain
Chest Drive Oscars

The Selective Service System
was scheduled for Red Feather
honors at today's report meeting
of the Government Unit of the
1854 Community Chest USO
Campaign in the Washington
Hotel.
Selective Service, reporting
100 per cent of a $1,000 goal,
has an average gift of $6.83.
Last year it reached 1915 per
cent of a $1,974 goal, with an
average gift of $6.57.
The Government Unit as of
the latest report had reached
85.06 per cent of it's $1,674,712
quota.
The overall campaign stood at
81.89 per cent of it's 81 million
goal.
Scheduled to be honored at a
simultaneous luncheon meeting
by the Business and Professional
Unit at the Washington Hotel
was the Shoreham Hotel, which
has reported a 300 per cent in
crease in employe giving as COM
pared with last year.
Other Red Feather Oscars"
will be awarded the Riggs Ma
tional Bank, the International
Bank, and Lewis & Thomas
Saltz. Inc.
Business has reported 78 per
cent of a $1,643,562 quota.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Federal Tax Take
In Virginia Climbs
During October
BY the Assoeiafed Press

RICHMOND, Nov. 10. Fed
eral tax collections in Virginia
last month ran about 81 million
above collections for September.
Hoke Murray, director Of Inter-
nal Revenue for Virginia, said
yesterday.
The social security tax third
quarter filing period for employ
ers is in october. Mr.. Murray
said the payment of these taxes
accounts for most of the differ
ence between the October and
September totals.
Total collections amounted to
$73, ,260,064 in October, and
$72.224.752.04 in September.
Tobacco taxes led the field
both months, accounting for
$33, 3,125,128 in october and $780,
321,253 in September.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Man Found Hanged
In Rooming House

A Post Office Department en-
ploye was discovered hanging by
a plastic clothes line from base
ment pipes in rooming house
at 118 w street NV. early to-
day, police reported.
Detective Sergt. Clarence
Winemiller identified the dead
man as James H. Moore, 81.
colored, of the $500 block Of
South Nineteenth street. Arling-
ton. He said Mr.. Moore was en-
ployed in the maintenance divi-
sion of the Post Office Depart
ment.
According to Sergt. Wine
miller, Mr.. Moore had lived at
the rooming house at one time.
Last night he went there and
received permission to spend the
night, the detective said.
His body was found about 4
am. after residents of the house
were awakened by a noise and
went to investigate.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

him the guidance he didn't get
as a boy.
He hasn't been in a fight for
four years. He has come to
realize that if some one on the
job says something he doesn't
like, it may not be intended
personally.
People Friendlier.
'I've grown out of the attitude
I had toward people," he says.
Nov I can walk along the street,
and some friend will holler
across from the other side, Come
on over and talk They used to
almost cross the street to get
away from me. They acted like
I was a bully and a ruffian,
which is just exactly what was" !"
This hasn't, all come at once.
It's been a long pull, as is any
other growing-up. Mr.. Hall
slipped sometimes, but the slips
came at longer and longer in
tervals.
He had to go back to the
agency for help at times, but he
tried hard to avoid it-aS an
adolescent comes to rely less and
less on his parents.
The way ahead is still hard.
and Mr.. Hall may well need more
help.
But with your Chest dollars,
you bought something that can't
be measured in dollars-a man
.instead of a boy at the head of
a family.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Mexico Pays SIS Million
On U. 5. Property Claims

Mexico today paid $2.5 mil
lion installment under an agree
ment concluded IL years ago for
settlement of certain property
and other claims of United
States citizens.
Mexican Ambassador Manuel
Tello presented the SIS million
check to John NJ. Cabot, Assist
ant Secretary of State.
This payments brings to $36
million the total paid so far on
the original $40 million debt. The
remainder is to be paid of in
the next two years.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Byrd Successor
To Be Named
December IS
University Regents
Soy They Will Pick
Acting President
By the Assoeiosed Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 19.-Uni-
versity of Maryland regents said
they will name an acting uni
versity president December 16
and continued to shop around
for a permanent successor to DR..
H. c. Byrd-who likely will be
a candidate for Governor.
Judge William P. Cole, jr.,
chairman of the Board of Re-
gents, said after yesterdays
meeting he didn't know if the
temporary president might be
man now on the university staff.
Desires Relief by January.
DR.. Byrd announced last
spring he would like to be re-
ieved by January l. 1t is gen.
orally supposed he'll run for the
Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor in the primaries next June.
He has said he'd be glad to
stay on at the university in some
capacity until about January l
of 1855. That would be a few
days before the gubernatorial in
auguration.
Judge Cole said a special COM
mittee of regents reported yes
terday its inability to recon-
mend" a successor and the COM
mittee felt it would oe in the
same position until after Janu-
ary l.
Cites University Savings.
Dr.. Byrd told the regents
thousands of dollars are being
saved under a construction plan
he worked out and they ap.
proved. Under it, the regents
serve as their own contractor,
hiring various firms to do diff
ferent types of work and employ
ing a consultant to manage the
job.
DR.. Byrd said the plan will
save at least $50 900 in the con-
struction of a So million student
union and activities building now
nearing completion at College
Park. And he reported there is
the prospect of saving more than
S5O0,000 on construction of So
million worth of new dormi-
tories.
OF big new library, DR.. Byrd
said the preliminary cost figures
were found to be $287, 900 too
low and that the total is now
put at $2,637,82O.
Judge Cole said a university
budget for the fiscal year start
ing next July was adopted in
tentative form yesterday and re-
ferred back to the budget COM
mittee. He declined to discuss
its details. The current operat-
ing budget is $22 million.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Woman Found Dead,
Notes Point 10 Suicide

A 50-year-old woman was
found dead in her hotel room
yesterday with a nearly empty
bottle of pills in her hand, police
reported.
Two notes, both pointing to
suicide, were discovered near
the body of Mrs. Marguerite P.
Garrison in her room at the
Cairo Hotel, according to homi-
eide detectives.
Police were told the dead
woman had been a member of
Alcoholics Anonymous and had
spent some time at a District
rest home.
An autopsy was to be per-
formed today at the District
Morgue.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Wife Of Cuban President
Studies Health Work Here

Sonora de Batista, wife of the
Cuban president, today planned
a visit to the crippled children's
ward at the District General
Hospital as part of her study of
the Health Department here.
She began the day with a visit
to the department Offices in the
Municipal Center. Other stops
at Health Department division
Offices were to follow. A tea will
be given Sonora de Batista at S
pm. at the headquarters of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, 1884 N street NV.
Tonight she will attend a din
ner at the F Street Club given
by Sherlock Davis, adviser gen.
eral to the United States Cuban
Sugar Council, and Mrs. Davis.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Suburban Hospital
To Open Drive Jan. Is

Suburban Hospitals annual
membership campaign and fund
drive will be held January Is
through February 8. Paul L.
Banf1eld. president of the Board
Of Trustees. announced today.
Mrs. Kenneth Donaldson, of
Chevy Chase, win serve aS chair
man, and Mrs. Frederic p. Lee,
Of Bethesda. vice chairman. Of
the drive.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Mail Box Becomes
Suggestion Box on
D. c. Public Schools

Mrs. Frank S. Phillips,
Board Of Education member,
says she'll be glad to get
anybody's suggestions about
the Districts public school
system.
Mrs. Phillips recalled to
her colleagues yesterday
that her own suggestion for
school suggestion boxes did
not get anywhere a while
ago.
Perhaps I can use my
letter box as a suggestion
box" she declared. Sugges-
tions, though, should be 'for
the good of the system" she
added.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
On the Radio Toniqht

Listen at 10:45 o'clock to-
night as Mr.. Hall tells his
own story to Bryson Rash
over WMAL, The Star Sta
ton. Community Chest Cam
paign Chairman Aaron Gold
man will make a special
statement on the program.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Board Urged toCut
Physical Education 10
7 Glasses Weekly

The District school system
may cut back it's high school,
physical education requirement
to two classes week.
Board of Education Member
Robert R. Faulkner yesterday
proposed ending the present FIVE
days-a-week physical training
which was introduced during
World War II.
Mr.. Faulkner said it is time
to revaluate the physical train
ing program, and he suggested a
return to the old two classes a
week. The other three periods
can be used profitably for aca-
demic work, he declared.
The board voted to take the
proposal under study.
There has been talk of such
cutback since the board took
a look at the high school coach
ing situation recently. At that
time, the board was told the
schools were having a hard time
handling both coaching and reg
ular physical education because
coaches are not paid extra for
their after-school work and
there are not enough men for
both jobs.
Athletics VS.. Drills.
Supporters of the high school
Cadet Corps long have been un-
happy about conflicts between
athletics and drilling periods.
They have wanted to get cadets
excused from some physical edu-
cation classes to encourage
cadet recruiting. This practice
once prevailed but hasn't been
allowed lately.
Mr.. Faulkner pointed out that
the old two-periods-a-week
physical training program was
increased under wartime pres
sure from military authorities,
who wanted physical fitness
improved among prospective
draftees.
The board also decided to look
into legal requirements as to a
school census. Mr.. Faulkner con-
tended one should be made every
year covering the entire city, but
Supt. Hobart M. Corning said
there never has been enough
money to do it.
Brief on Issue Asked.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Mar
garet j. Butcher, the board voted
to ask the Corporation Counsel
for copies of the brief to be
presented on the boards behalf
in the forthcoming Supreme
Court arguments on school race
segregation. The board members
are defendants in one of the
suits attacking segregation.
Ordered retired on November
80 were Mrs. Lillian M. Berry,
principal at Carver Elementary
School; Mrs. Marion c. Lowe.
teacher at Hine Junior High,
and Mrs. Bessie H. Thompson,
secretary at Bell Vocational
High.
H. Clay Espey, a Wilson High
School parent, gave the board
some suggestions for improving
the Cadet Corps. The schools
ought to excuse boys from mem
bership only after parents have
been fully informed of the corps
advantages, he said. He also
advocated ending the use of
printed excuse forms.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
How You Con Lend Hand
Growing Up Was a Slow Affair
Until People Started Helping

Five years ago, at the age of:
%, Harry Hall had a wife, two
children and the emotions of q
7-year-old boy.
You, through the Community
Chest, brought him up, emotion
ally.
Mr.. Halls mother died of tu-
berculosiS when he was 4. His
father was killed in building
accident when he was 5. He
lived for brief periods with a
sister and a brother, but he was
too heavy a burden for them.
Maryland placed him, as an
orphan, on a private farm. Mr..
Hall remembers the things that
helped. in his own words, to
stunt his maturity.
Work and Beatings.
There was no comforting help,
no care. Only work, and beatings.
Once, for example, he threw a
rock at bird, and, fantastically,
hit it. The man who ran the
farm ("I never knew he was so
tnderhearted," says Mr.. Hall
grabbed a bean pole, broke it
across his knee and beat the
youngster almost to DEATH"
He was beaten, Mr.. Hall re-
calls, with blacksnake whip,
pieces of firewood and whatever
ready-made clubs came to hand.
He was afraid to tell his brother
about it.
Finally, at IA, he ran away. |
He walked the % miles to Wash
lngton, where his brother lived.
The brother, when he heard the
whole story, went to the farm
and beat the operator.
Itching for Fights.
Mr.. Hall, himself, was en-
barked on similar course. He
carried a chip on his shoulder
and would take no insult, real or
fancied, from anybody. He began /
hanging around in the lower
saloons, ready and willing to
join any fight that might de-
velop, and able to start quite a
few on his own.
He couldn't keep a job. The
chip on his shoulder rocked dan
gerously whenever a supervisor
said anything out of the way
such as correction of Mr.. Halls |
way of doing things.
II thought nothing of crack
ing him on the jaw, saying, To
hell with this job,' and walking
off,"
For husband and father that |
course inevitably led to poverty, |
recriminations at home, more
anger and more violence.
Five years ago, Mr.. Hall struck
what was probably his luckiest
blow, although he thought just
the opposite at the time.
A vicious right, thrown at an
opponent in a brawl in an all
night coffee joint, missed. 1t
struck the plate-glass door, shat
tering it. The broken glass al
most tore Mr.. Halls middle
finger off. Nineteen stitches |
were required to sew it on again.
Brought on Poverty.
That threw him out of his
work, driving a dry-cleaning
truck at $40 a week. for a long
time. The children, three by |
that time. and his wife and
himself, lacked food. clothing, |
rent money.
A doctor sent him to Family
and Child Services. supported by |
the Community Chest.
There he got badly needed A.
nancial help, enough to tide the
family over that particular |
rough spot. But he got much |
more than that.
A trained worker sat down |
with him and told him how to
reason things out, as he puts it.
She convinced him, during a
series of talks. that everybody |
wasn't against him. She gave