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Evening star., 1953-06-08
High Court Opinion UphoIdino
Validity of Lost D. C.. Laws

facilities serving a public func-
ton is within the police power
of the States. See Railway
Mail Assn. v.Corsi. 326 U. s..
SO. 1894; Bob-Lo Excursion
Co. v. Michigan, 1913 U. S. %,
"a. It would seem then that
on the analogy Of the delega-
ton of powers Of self-govern-
ment and home rule both to
municipalities and to terri
tories there is no constitutional
barrier to the delegation by
Congress to the District of
Columbia of full legislative
power. subject of course to
constitutional limitations to
which all law making is sub
servient and subject also to
the power of Congress at any
time to revise. alter or revoke
the authority granted.
There is. however. a sug-
gestion that the power of Con-
gress ito exercise, exclusive
legislation" granted by Article
I, Section 8, clause II of the
Constitution is non-delegable
because it is exclusive" But
it IS clear from the history of
the provision that the word
exclusive" was employed to
eliminate any possibility that
the legislative power of Con-
gress over the District was to
be concurrent with that of the
codinU CtatnS
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Woman, IS, Is Killed
In Sanifarium PIunqe

An 85-year-old woman pa
tents body was found yesterday
40 feet below a second floor bal
cony at the Washington Sani-
tarium. The county medical ex-
aminer issued a certificate of
suicide.
Takoma Park police identified
the victim as Mrs. Anna Draper
Ocheltree, who lived with q
daughter at 1118 Dale drive, Sill
yer Spring.
Police said Mrs. Ocheltree
plunged from the balcony to q
concrete pavement.
The body was discovered be-
fore dawn yesterday by a night
watchman. He said he noticed
nothing when he passed the spot
on his rounds one hour earlier.
Mrs. Ocheltree was admitted
to the hospital Thursday.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
81. Georges Episcopal
Holds First vestry Election

Members of st. Georges
Episcopal Church, which was
constituted an independent
church at the Diocesan Conven-
ton last month, held its first
vestry election yesterday.
John F. Edwards was elected
senior warden and Raymond
Montgomery, junior warden.
Vestrymen chosen were Mil
ton s. Bush, Louis B. Dodson,
William w. Duncan, Simuel M.
McClennon, Paul c. Venture,
Leonard E. Marshall, Robert w.
Marshall and Garland Mackey.
The rector, the Rev. A. A.
Birch, has been with the church
since it was started as q chapel
in 1890. The parish now has
ATS members. st. Georges
Church is at Second and U
streets NV.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Two-Car Virginia Crash
Hurts Pair, Two Soldiers

A New York photographer and
his wife and two soldiers were
injured this morning in q two
car smash-up on Route l just
inside the town limits of Stat
ford Court House. Va.
Three ambulanceS and Vir-
ginia State police raced to the
scene after the collision at about
$3.50 am.
All the injured, in undeter-
mined conditions, were taken to
Mary Washington Hospital in
Fredericksburg. State police
identified the two occupants Of
the Southbound auto as Stan
Stanley, 80, of 753 Ninth avenue,
New York. and his wife Ellie.
Police did not have the names
of two young soldiers, also in
jured, who were In the other
car.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Jewish Appeal Gets
S2OMi||ion for Crisis;
Drive Ends June 80

A fund Of $2O.3s1 900 was re-
ported yesterday at the final
session Of an emergency two-day
National Action Conference of
the United Jewish Appeal.
Edward M. w. Warburg, gen.
eral chairman Of the appeal,
announced the response to a re-
cent plea for a special $25 mil
lion cash fund to meet emer-
gency needs in Israel, Europe,
Moslem countries and the United
States.
It was voted to set the end Of
June as the date to complete
the special drive. The emergency
program includes:
Establishment by July 30 of
SO new agricultural settlements
in Israel as major step toward
overcoming food shortages.
Stepped-up movement to Is
rael of Jewish refugees from
Iron Curtain countries.
Increased transfer to Israel of
Jews facing the threat of op-
preston in MoSlem lands.
d. C. Produces 100000.
Washington produced $780,
900 of yesterdays cash fund.
There was $50 million from
New York, $1,250,000 from Chi
cago and 81 million from Phila-
delphia. Contributions of $780,
600 or more came from % cities.
The conferees, who met at the
Mayflower Hotel, called for con-
tinued campaign activity this
summer and fall to help meet
in full the appeals total 1853
requirements for the United
Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution
Committee and United Service
for New Americans.
Israel Ambassador Abba s.
Eban, in an address to the con-
ference, scored Arab efforts to
restrict and mutilate" the new
states sovereignty. He charged
that the Arab states have
masked refusal to negotiate a
peace settlement with Israel
through Slogans" alleging fear
Of Israel aggression"
War Responsibility Denied.
THE Arab states" he said.
''have made war upon Israel, not
we upon them"
He went on to say that Israel
wants peace, but he added that
it would not be forced into a
settlement which would modify |
its full territorial integrity and
political sovereignty"
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Citizens Federation
To Replace Mclaughlin

Robert E. Mclaughlin, new
chairman of the District Public
Utilities Commission. is sched-
uled to be replaced tonight as a
member of the Public Utilities
Committee of the Federation of
Citizens Associations.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said a success
sor would be elected at a meet
ing of the Kalorama Citizens AS
Sociation tonight. He said he
had not resigned the citizens
post earlier because he wanted
to await the association meet
ing, but that he had not at
tended the last couple of COM
mittee sessions.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Sib|ey zoning
Viewed as Bar
TO More Nurses
Court Fight Opens
On Building Hospital
At American U.

An attorney for Sibley Hos
pital today told a Federal Court
judge that a zoning board ruling
.hwarted Congress and hospital
officials in their attempts to help
solve the Districts nursing
shortage.
The statement came as the
hospital and American Univer-
sity opened a court fight for the
privilege of building an So mil
lion. 250-bed hospital and a
nursing school on a seven-acre
plot at American University.
The two Methodist institutions
are seeking to prevent enforce
ment Of a coming board ruling
which would bar construction of
the hospital.
Location Held Handicap.
Paul Cromelin, attorney for the
hospital, told Judge Alexander
Holtzoff of the U. S. District
Court for the District Of Colum-
bia that the hospital is strug-
Cling under handicapS at its
present location at 114O North
Capitol street.
Judge Holtzof earlier had said
he would limit the case to q
question of whether the zoning
board acted properly in chang.
ing the American University area
zoning from residential A to
residential A. restricted.
Mr.. Cromelin told the court
Congress had appropriated funds
for hospital building with the
intention Of helping solve the
shortage of an estimated $40
nurses in the District.
Residents Protested.
The zoning ruling was made
after residents of the area pro-
testd the plans to build the hos
pital there and petitioned the
zoning board to make the
change.
Main contention of the own
ers Of expensive property in that
area is that building a hospital
SO near would decrease the value
Of their property by an esti-
mated 50 million.
Judg Holtzof indicated earlier
in the proceedings that he would
visit the American University
campus to INSPECT the proposed
hospital site at lockwood park
way and Glenwood road.
Evening star., 1953-06-08

The tolloWing is a tert of
that part OF the Supreme Court
opinion holding that Congress
can grant home rule to the
District and that the so-cdlled
"lost" ordinances of 1872 and
1873 are still vGlid in the Dis
trict::
The power of Congress over
the District of Columbia re-
lates not only to national
power" but to "all the powers
of legislation which may be
exercized by a State in dealing
with its AFFAIRS Atlantic
Cleaners & Dyers v. United
States, 286 U. S. 427. 435.
And see Stoutenburgh v. Hen
lex, supra, p. lat. There is
no reason why a State. if it
so chooses, may not fashion
its basic law so as to grant
home rule or self-government
to it's municipal corporations.
The Court in Barnes v. Dis
trict of Columbia, 81 U. s.
$40, 544, in constituting the
Organic Act of February 81,
1871, the one with which we
are presently concerned,
stated:
"A municipal corporation, in
the exercise of all of its duties,
including those most strictly
local or internal, is but a de-
partment of the State. The
Legislature may give it all the
powers such a being is capable
of receiving, making it a
miniature State within its
locality"
Evening star., 1953-06-08
D. G. Woman Ordained
At Stuten IsIund Church

Miss Miriam B. Eckard,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
D. Eckard, of 1857 Newton street
NV. was ordained yesterday at
Park Baptist Church. Staten
Island, N. Y.
Miss Eckard is former MEM
ber of Central Presbyterian
Church here. She is a graduate
Of Central High School, and
holds bachelors and masters de-
grees from the University of
Maryland. She graduated last
month with a bachelor of di.
vinity degree from Union Theo-
logical Seminary, New York.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
7 j. ). Army
Spies Given
Prison Terms
Ponger and Verber
Sentenced After
Pleas Of Guilty
By Howard |. Dutkin.

Kurt L. Ponger, former CT
who pleaded guilty to espionage
for the Soviet Union, today was
sentenced to serve S to Is years
in prison. His confederate, Otto
Verber, a former Intelligence
lieutenant in the American Army
who also entered a guilty plea,
was sentenced to serve 3 years
and months to 10 years.
The sentences were imposed
by Federal Judge Alexander
Holtzoff in the U. S. District
Court for the District of CO.
lumbia. The judge accepted the
recommendation of Attorney
General Brownell as to the ex-
tent of the sentences. Verber
received the maximum sentence
for the crime to which he plead
ed guilty-conSpiring to transmit
defense information to unau-
Cnorlzed persons.
Ponger's offense- -conspiring to
pass on defense data to Soviet
agents-was the more serious
legally and he faced a maximum
Of up to 20 years. The Govern
ment dismissed one additional
count against each Of the de-
PENDANTS.
Both Born in Austria.
Both men are Austrian born.
Ponger is 80 years old and Ver-
ber 81.
Named in the Indictment as a
co-conSpirator, was Yuri v. Novi-
kov, former Second Secretary of
the Soviet Embassy here. After
the indictment. the State De-
partment declared Novikov un-
welcome here and he returned
to Russia.
The indictment charged that
the three maintained a con-
Spiracy aimed at obtaining secret
information on Air Force install
lationS, troop dispositions, and
conditions at defense factories
during June, 1949, until late in
1851, in Europe and this country.
Called Persecution Victims.
Both men were portrayed by
their attorneys in mercy pleas
today as victims of Nazi anti
Jewish persecution who turned
toward communism in the belief
that the Reds were the most
militant force opposing Hitler
ism abroad.
Attorney Roger Robb, repre-
senting Verber, told the court the
defendant. who is married to
Ponger'S sister, was the father of
two children and had an excel
lent war record.
Attorney James Toomey, plead
ing for Ponger, told the court
his background was similar to
that of Verber'S. Ponger, he
said, suffered in Dachau and
Buchenwald concentration camps
in 1887 and 1888.
Under espionage statutes,
crimes similar to those charged
to the dependents which are
committed in time Of war may be
punishable by death. While
technically a state of war still
existed with Japan in 1949 since
the peace treaty had not yet been
signed, the Government did not
press this point against the de-
pendants.
The prosecutors were Assistant
United States Attorney william
Hitz and Special Assistant to the
Attorney General Oran Water
man.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Theory Underlying
Home Rule Provision

This is the theory which
underlies the constitutional
provisions of some States al
lowing cities to have home
rule. So it is that decision
after decision has held that
the delegated power of mu-
inequalities is as broad as the
police power Of the State.
except as that power may be
restricted by terms of the
grant or by the State con-
stitution. See McQuillin. the
Law of Municipal Corpora
tions (3d ed. 1949, s16.02 ct
seq. And certainly SO far as
the Federal Constitution is
concerned there is no doubt
that legislation which pro-
hibitS discrimination on the
basis of race in the use of
Evening star., 1953-06-08
D. {. Woman Killed
And Two Hurt as Auto
Skids and 0verturns

Weekend traffic accidents
largely attributed to wet wealth
er, accounted for the death OF
a Washington woman and in
juries to several other persons
Mrs. Violet Virginia Martin
Al, of Alb Seventh street NV
was killed when a car driven
by her husband skidded on wet
pavement l mile south of Stat
ford Courthouse, Va, about 11:40
pm. Saturday.
Two other passengers were
found injured in the car after II
left the highway and turned over
several times. Admitted to Fred
ericksburg (Va.) Hospital were
Charles F. Martin, 81, of Lam
caster, suffering head injuries,
and Mrs. Florence Martin, 40,
of Baltimore with back injuries.
Husband Charged.
The dead woman's husband,
10y Franklin Martin, Al, who
was driving the car. was charged
with involuntary manslaughter.
Police said he was attempting
to pass a truck. Bond was fixed
at $3.50 for appearance June Is
in Stafford County Trial Justice
Court.
Slippery roads also figured in
the slight injury to four persons
when a Washington bound
railways bus slid off Lee high
way near Courthouse road in
Arlington early Sunday. The bus
was coming from Charlottesville.
Injured but released from
Arlington Hospital were William
McNeill, Al, of New York; Alvin
L. Rodenhizer, 81, of Madison.
Va; Theresa Easter, %, Of
Bridgeport, Conn, and Iva Sex
ton "a. of Athens, w. Va.
Pedestrians Hurt.
Several pedestrians suffered
serious injuries in Washington
weekend accidents.
Mrs. Lorence Jones. Sc. of
9051a Ninth street Sc, was in
critical condition in Gallinger
Hospital. She was struck at
Eighth and I streets Sc. by a
car police said was driven by
George Peay, 38. colored. of 314
East Capitol street. He was
charged with failing to give a
pedestrian the right Of way. Mrs.
Jones suffered fractures Of both
legs and a possible skull frac-
ture.
Gallinger Hospital listed the
condition of Samuel w. Fowler,
18. of 226 East Capitol street,
as fair" He was struck by a
car police said was driven by
Marshall Baldwin, 81. colored,
of 225 Oates street NE. The
accident occurred last night in
the 100 block of independence
avenue NE.
In Good Condition.
Mrs. Mary E. Healey, So, of
927 E street NV, who suffered
head injuries, was reported in
good condition at Casualty Hos
pital. She was struck at Third
and F streets NV, by a car, po-
lice said. was driven by Allen
H. Garland, 80. of 933 Randolph
street NV.
John M. johnson, IS, of 1905
Fifteenth street NV, head
waiter at the Hotel Statler, was
on the critical list at Emer-
gency Hospital. The car he was
driving struck a tree after first
colliding with another car Satur-
day night.
James r. Huddle, 80, of vi
emma, Va, was seriously injured
yesterday in q fall from his mo-
torcycle. He was taken to Airing
ton Hospital.
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Exporter Payments
Defended as Trial on
Bribe Charge Opens

A New York exporter accused
by the Government of bribing
a Commerce Department official
was pictured today as merely
paying the officials wife a COM
mission on business she sent his
way.
The exporter Is Martin E..
Violin, a tinplate exporter. He
and two companies he heads
went on trial today before Judge
Albert v. Bryan in the U. S. Dist
trict Court at Alexandria. An
indictment charged Violin with
giving $6,877.23 in bribes to
Henry c. Bennett and his wife.
Mrs. Twila Bennett of 1904
Milan drive, Alexandria.
Bennett was formerly require
ments and licensing officer in
the Office of International Trade
in the Commerce Department.
The Government charges Ben
nett issued licenses to Wolin's
two companies, Martin e. Violin.
Ltd, and the Chel Steel Corp. Of
New York. They were for the
export of 60 tons of tinplate.
Two Plead Guilty.
Joseph A. Lowther, Justice
Department attorney, told the
jury of three women and nine
men that the Government would
prove the payments were made
for the purpose of bribing Ben
nett.
Both Bennett and his wife
were named in the indictment
returned last July. They plead
ed guilty in that same month,
but have not been sentenced.
Mr.. Lowther said the Govern
ment intended to prove that
Violin entertained the Bennetts
at the Hotel Statler here, took
them to see a play, "The Moon
Is Blue" and to Sardi's Restau-
rant on a visit to New York and
gave Mrs. Bennett various
checks. One of the checks, for
1892, was used to buy a new
Chevrolet car in New York in
September, 1851, when the Ben
nettS were there on a visit.
Venezuelan Mentioned.
Armistead L. Boothe of Alex
andria, one of Wolin's attorneys,
told the jury the case revolved
around one Carlos Pardo, rep
resentative Of certain tin manu-
facturers in Venezuela.
Mr.. Boothe described Violin as
a small. big-time guy" He said
in the second quarter of 1851.
Wolin's business had fallen off
to nothing and he was looking
for business. not licenses.
Mr.. Boothe said Violin came
to Washington, had dinner with
the Bennetts and presumably
paid the check, and remarked
he needed business.
Later, he said, Mrs. Bennett
telephoned him and said she
had met a man who wanted tin
plate, and sent Mr.. Pardo to see
him. Violin contracted to sell
Pardo tinplate.
On another visit to Washing
ton, when the Bennetts and Wo-
lin dined together, Mr.. Boothe
said, Mrs. Bennett remarked:
Don't you think I ought to get
some commission on the sales to
Pardo?"
Deny Husbands Link.
MIR. Boothe said Violin replied
Sure" and said he would pay
her S. a ton. Whereupon Mrs.
Bennett was quoted by Mr..
Boothe as saying: THAT will help
me buy q new Chevrolet"
Mr.. Boothe said the payments
to Mrs. Bennett were by check
and not cash and were for her
services and not for anything
her husband did.
Violin is represented by Thur
man Arnold, former Assistant
Attorney General, and William
w. Kooptz of Alexandria, in ad-
dition to Mr.. Boothe.
Representing the Government
are Mr.. Lowther and A. Carter
Whitehead, United States Attor-
ney at Alexandra.
The jury was selected this
morning with little delay from
Evening star., 1953-06-08
Comp Fund Facts

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Evening star., 1953-06-08

The Star today acknowledges
the following gifts:
Previously knowl-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-11-27
10Th Anniversary

closely with such social welfare
groups as the Arizona Council for
Civic Unity, National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, Urban League and Arizona
Council of Churches.
'"The program adds up to vast
undertaking, and its effects are
clearly visible" said Lewkowitz.
Outbreaks of violent prejudice are
infinitely fewer today. Discrimina-
ton in housing, employment and
education is increasingly coming
under the control of civil rights
legislation which, the League be-
ieves. is powerful force for edu-
cation in itself. Most gratifying, at
a time in national history when
cold war tensions might have Gre
ated confused. bitter people, look
ing for a scapegoat, Americans are
more united in inter-group har-
mony than ever.
"This unity of spirit and purpose
is our greatest strength in the
world. It also completely undercuts
the claim of Communists that they
alone have the answer to the prob
lens of minority groups. We have
the answer here, and our record is
getting better all the time"
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-11-27

Jewish community leaders. 1t Is
stated by 200 professional special
lists and clerical workers. It also
has a volunteer force of 10000 per-
sons organized in more than 1000
ADJ committees, and it spends
100000 year on program that
embraces every facet Of mass edu-
cation for developing inter-group
relations among the races and
creeds of America.
Recounting the gains registered
by ADJ in its 40-year history,
Lewkowitz said: ~
'"The Anti-Defamation, League
operated from the first on the the
ory that prejudice was usually
rooted in ignorance, not malice.
and that what hurts one minority
group hurts others and, in turn,
the entire nation. The League
fought all forms of racial and re-
ligious discrimination, whether
aimed at Jews or other minorities.
BY the end of World War I, by ap-
pealing to the good will and good
taste of Americans, ADJ helped
rid the nation of many of the more
fragrant and public abuses"
Joins With Other Groups
In Arizona, the League works
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-11-27
It Started With AVaudeviIIe Show
ADJ Celebrates

ton who brought the Anu-Defama-
ton League into being four decades
ago. Livingston was SpIrred to ac-
ton by an afternoon he spent in a
Chicago vaudeville theater. What
he found distasteful was the per-
formance of a dialect comedy team
whose act caricatured and reviled
Jews.
"I'll do something about this" he
resolved.
Livingston, who was a member of
B'nai Birth, prevailed upon several
of his fellow members to join him
in volunteer committee that would
try to counteract the defamation
Of their co-religioniSts. Outgrowth
of their effort was the Anti-De-
famation League. Livingston was
its first national chairman. He held
the post for 33 years.
% Regional Offices
Today the League has a New
York headquarters and % regional
offices in the us. Arizona's ADJ
is served by the Pacific Southwest
Regional Office in Los Angeles.
ADJ is governed by local and ma
tional boards of directors that in
volve the participation of 1000
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-11-27
(See editorial on page 4.)

(See editorial on page ~
The Anti-Defamation League OF
B'nai Birth observed its 40th an
niversary this week with celebra-
ton focusing in Washington as the
League presented its 1858 Amer
ica's Democratic Legacy Award to
President Eisenhower.
The ceremony, together with a
Rodgers and -Hammerstein review OF
40 years of American progress in
civil rights, was telecast to the ma
ton and viewed locally over
KPHO-TV (Channel 81.
ADJ has functtoned in Ari-
zona for many years and cur
rently works in concert with the
community relations committee OF
the Jewish Community Council.
The chairman is Burton Lewkowitz,
attorney, who also is temporary
chairman of the Arizona ADJ COM
mittee. .,.a.gs -.
ADL's work is devoted to fighting
discrimination against Jews and all
other minorities, educating for
democratic living and promoting
inter-group harmony in America.
Founded by Lawyer
It was young Bloomington, Ill,
attorney named Sigmund Livlngs-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-11-27
ASTHMA GROUP
HEADS RESIGN
IN POLICY ROW

TUCSON-AlmoSt the entire ex-
ecutive committee of the National
Foundation for Asthmatic Children
has resigned in a policy dispute
with the administration of the
foundation and it's school in Tue
son.
Raphael Brandes is director OF
the foundation and former presi-
dent of the Tucson Jewish Com
munity Council.
Members of the executive com
mittee said in their letter of resig-
nation that although we find our
selves in disagreement with the
present organization and policies
of the foundation, we are in accord
with the basic principles upon
which the foundation was estab-
liShed. 4
The only remaining member OF
the executive committee is A. A
Kalish Of Tucson.