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Evening star., 1953-01-13
District Catches Cold;
Rate Called Normal

The District is sniveling, not
In epidemic proportions, but at
a rate described by Health Off
Ger Daniel Seckinger as the "sea-
sonal" normal in winter colds
DR.. Seckinger, in announcing
the increase of colds, pointed to
an absenteeisrn in Government
figure of 2 to 4 per cent-nor-
NAL for this time of year.
The colds have lasted about
two to three days and have been
accompanied, in some cases, by
upset stomachs. They are of
the mild but miserable" variety.
The health officer said he
could not predict whether the
number of cases would rise over
the seasonal" normal, but added
the high incidence was still far
from epidemic. The doctor ad-
vised residents to keep warm
and dry, get plenty of rest and
avoid overeating.
Sunday saw the Medical So
ciety's switchboard flooded with
calls. Theodore Wiprud, execu-
tive director Of the society, said
they had more calls Sunday
than at any other time this year.
People wanted help with their
colds.
But the small fry seemed
healthy. DR.. Richard L. Desaus-
sure, director Of medical inspec-
tion for schools. said there had
been no undue" amount Of alb
senteeism among school children
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Sutton Asks 10 PET. Raise
For Districts Firemen

A plea for a 10 per cent salary
increase for District f1remen-
whose present salaries compare
unfavorably with those of truck
drivers''-was made last night
by Fire Chief Millard H. Sutton.
Chief Sutton spoke at meet
ing of the Mount Pleasant Citi-
ZenS' Association.
The association also passed a
resolution praising Police Chief
Robert v. Murray for the excel
lent manner" in which pre-
holiday traffic was handled by
the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment.
The meeting was held in the
Mount Pleasant Library, Six
teenth and Lamont streets NV,
and was conducted by Wallace II.
Rhodes, president.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
School Cafeteria Menu Protest
Brinqs Back q la Carte Food

Mrs. Margaret r. Merritt. Taft
Junior High principal and mem
ber of a cafeteria advisory COM
mittee, today called the menu
changes very good action.
Many boys bought an extra
sandwich yesterday to supple
ment plate lunches, she said.
She also commended the price
cut on the sandwich plate.
Mrs. Adelaide Reynolds. caf-
eteria manager at Wilson High
School. said she made up so in
dividual tuna fish salad sand
wiches yesterday and sold all SO,
II probably could have sold
more" she said.
Principal Hugh Smith Of JEFF
ferson Junior High said he will
protest another change ordered
yesterday, however. This was a
1-cent increase in the price of
milk, formerly Z cents a half pint.
Milk is a staple" said Mr..
Smith. II feel we ought to sac
rif1ce somewhere else. if neces-
sary, to sell it at the bottom
rate"
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Professional Buyers
Play Shrewd Game al
Realty Tax Sales
By Hermon F. Schoden

The annual sale of delinquent
tax property attracted a small
but enthusiastic following to the
District Building board room to-
day.
Around the table in front of
auctioneer Samuel j. Kidd's
bench sat % buyers, most Of
them familiar faces to the man
who has been swinging the gavel
for a dozen years.
Professional buyers. they play
a fascinating game of swapping
up property for the amount of
taxes due, plus whatever sum
they choose to bid
They gamble that the owners
will redeem the property within
the two years prescribed by law.
in which case the tax buyers get
back their investment and one
per cent interest per month from
the date of sale.
High Percentage Redeemed.
It's a good gamble, says Tax
Collector Guy w. Pearson, for
96 per cent of the property will
be redeemed, most of it in a year.
Like horse players, the profess
sional buyers play the form
charts. They study the records
and decide whether the property
is not too encumbered for the
owner to redeem. Then they
draw up a list that appeals to
them and sit back for the auc.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Stamp Mixup Spurs
Study for New Way
To Tax Liquor Here

A move to do away with the
liquor tax stamps now required
of liquor dealers here and sub
stitute another form of taxa
tion was begun by the District
Commissioners today.
The matter came up when
Guy Pearson, District collector
of taxes, asked for action Of the
city heads on a mixup involving
the Hiram Walker Distiliers.
Wrong Stamps Used.
It seems the distil;er made a
mistake and put some 5000
stamps designated for fifths Of
liquor on half-pint bottles.
When they discovered the mis-
take, they tried to remove the
stamps but damaged a great
many of them. The company
asked for a refund for the DAM
aged stamps.
The Commissioners ruled it
was illegal to give a rfund. They
did authorize Mr.. Pearson to
exchange the damaged stamps
for new ones, however.
Cites Inequities.
Then, Commissioner F. Jo-
seph Donohue commented there
were many inequities in the Dis
trict's liquor stamp method Of
collecting the liquor tax. He
said the stamps were not used
in 81 States.
The city heads then asked Mr..
Pearson to make a study and
recommend some simpler pro-
cedure. The thinking was that
a direct tax of some sort could
be substituted without any
trouble.
Local wholesalers now must
purchased the stamps from the
District, then send them to the
distiller, who puts them on the
bottles.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Mother Held in Death of Son
Awaits Arrival of Stepson

Thursday and questioned after
police received medical report
ON Wallace's death.
A grand jury to be called
later this month will be asked
to indict her on the murder
charge, Commonwealth Attor-
ney Howard w. Smith said.
ELIMINATION Decision Due.
City authorities are still con-
sidering whether to exhume the
bodies of her husband and
youngest son.
The husband, Pope r. Payne,
died in April. 1850. and is buried
in Newberry, s. c. Death was
attributed to a cerebral hemor-
rhage.
In January, 1851, the young
est son Marshall died when he
apparently strangled on a mar
bic. Marshall and Wallace are
both buried In Mount Comfort
Cemetery. in Fairfax County,
near Alexandria.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Court AbsoIyes Teacher
Whose Car Hit Z Boys

A young. school teacher was
cleared Of blame yesterday in a
hearing on q traffic accident
that injured two boys.
She is Miss Theresa J. Corbin.
%, colored. of 1876 Oates street
NE, who teaches at Oak Grove
Elementary School in Prince
Georges County.
The accident happened on
December 10 in the 7500 block
of Central avenue, Seat Pleas
ant. Miss Corbin's auto struck
Charles Woods. 9. and Charles
Avery. IL, both of 7611 Walker
Mill road. District Heights. They
were not seriously injured.
The teacher was found not
guilty in Upper Marlboro Police
Court after another motorist
confirmed, her testimony that
the children darted in front Of
her car.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Municipal Officials Hear
Maryland City Proposal

Mayors and other municipal
officials Of Prince Georges Coun-
ty will hear the Maryland City
proposal discussed at 8 pm.
Thursday night.
Charles Callow and Harry
Boswell. jr.. officials of the coun-
ty Chamber Of Commerce will
be the principal speakers. The
plan will be talked over at a
meeting of the county chapter
of Maryland Municipal League
in the Mount Rainier city hall.
The Maryland City plan calls
for merging all cities and towns
in the county's metropolitan
area into a single city. 1t would
be the Free States second larg-
est city in population.
At a recent session, the cham
ber supported a resolution to
put the plan on an election ref
erendum.
Evening star., 1953-01-13

Mrs. Gladys Payne waited
calmly in Alexandria City Jail
today for the expected arrival
from Korean waters Of her STEP
son, Earl. @
Mrs. Payne. ~, has insisted
she does not want an attorney
to defend her against q charge
Of giving her 7-year-old son,
Wallace, a lethal dose OF sleep
ing potion last November.
At the jail yesterday. Mrs.
Payne sent a telegram to Earl,
who is in the Navy and was
scheduled to land on the West
Coast over the week end. asking
him to fly home Immediately.
Called Model Prisoner.
She has been a model prisoner
since police placed the charge
against her Saturday. jail OIL
cials said. Her attitude toward
her situation is one Of unconcern,
they said.
Mrs. Payne was arrested
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Man, 81, browns in River;
Passerby Reports Leap

A 67-year-old colored man
drowned last night after a
passerby reported to police he
had seen the man Jump into the
Washington channel.
The man was identified by
police as David Reed Of 922 F
street S.W.
The body was recovered about
IS minutes after Emmett Woody.
colored, of the 800 block of
Eleventh street NV, told police
he saw the man jump from the
seawall near the bicycle con-
cession in Potomac Park.
Efforts to revive Mr.. Reed
failed and he was taken to the
District Morgue.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Smith Firm Of Sfaunton
Was Victim Of Safe Theft

About $500 in cash and checks
was stolen from safe In the
Arlington office of the Smith
Transfer Corp. Of Staunton. Va,
Arlington police reported yester-
day. The Office is located at 3225
South EadS street.
Through a misunderstanding
between police and reporters,
newspapers incorrectly reported
that the theft occurred at the
Smith Transfer & Storage Co.,
which has offices throughout the
Metropolitan Washington Area.
Arthur Clarendon Smith. jr..
vice president of Smith Transfer
& Storage Co., said his firm fire.
Quently is confused with the
Stanton company, as well as
with Arms with similar names
In Alexandria and Baltimore.
Evening star., 1953-01-13

Kidd called out the property
through a microphone hooked
around his body.
A desirable Offering would
draw a response of babbled
voices. Each bidder was calling
his own name, signifying he or
she would pay the actual amount
of taxes due. More than one
response required bidding. which
might ascend a dollar at a time,
or 50 to $50 for a choice morsel.
Auctioneer Kidd seemed to
know every bidder by name. In
front Of him were rubber stamps
with the names of each. He
would stamp the correct name of
the successful bidder.
Some Risk Involved.
The heavy bidders were run
ming an extra risk should the
property not be redeemed. In
that case, he would be stuck with
the property. However, if it is
restored to the owner. the tax
sale buyer is returned the sur
plus he paid above the actual
taxes.
Twenty-three persons also sat
in the benches of the hearing
room. They were local buyers
with an interest in perhaps only
one piece of property. Those
who sent their names to the auc-
tioneer were given some prefer
ence over the professional buyers
This years list of delinquent
properties numbered only 2,50(
pieces, about 1000 of which will
be bought. and yield the buyers
an average of about $100 per in.
veStment. ......... ...... .....-...
Washington, with the Nation &
highest paid-up real estate tax
rate of 1895. is not fat pickings
for delinquent tax buyers.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
By james 6. Deone

District school authorities have
capitulated to protests against
their new cafeteria menu.
Separate sandwiches and sal
ads were restored to the menu
yesterday. They had been
dropped since the introduction
of new plate lunches last month
Students had complained that
the new plate lunches, minus
extra sandwiches. left them hun
cry. Principals also went to bat
for the a la carte items.
Cafeteria Director Aleta Logan
also revised the combination
lunches yesterday. The price OF
sandwich plate lunch was cut
from 81 cents to Is, and a 25-
cent lunch featuring an egg -and-
lettuce cup was dropped. The
egg-and-lettuce repeatedly was
unpopular.
Also dropped was a 35-cent
sandwich plate. The remaining
lunch, at 35 cents. features q
hot meat dish.
Some revision of the menu
had been promised by Supt
Hobart M. Corning, but school
officials hadn't indicated it would
come so soon.
The action followed a request
by a Junior high principals
committee for several changes
in the new lunchroom setup. Be-
sides the menu the principals
have been concerned about late
food deliveries, added paper
work, pay cuts affecting some
workers, and a managerial reor-
ganization.
Food deliveries were reported
still tardy today at several
schools.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Archduke Otto to TuIk
On World Security

Archduke Otto. pretender to
the throne of Austria Hungary.
will speak on Europe and World
Security" in a public lecture
sponsored by the Charles Car
roll Forum at 8:15 pm. Friday
in the Mayfiower Hotels Will.
liamsburg room.
Now in exile, he has recently
returned from Europe where he
made a study Of the current
situation relating to Commu.
nism and European defense.
Tickets may be secured at the
door.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
District Heads
See No Need for
Case Proposal
Oppose Senator's
Plan to Add Two
New Commissioners

Chairman Case Of the Senate
District Committee and all three
District Commissioners today
were at odds over his proposed
increase in the Board of Com
missioners from three to five
members.
F. Joseph Donohue, board
president. last night joined his
two colleagues in opposition to
adding two more Commissioners
to make way for appointment OF
a woman and Negro.
In program over WMAL-TV,
Mr.. Donohue said such appoints
ments were possible on a three
member board. Neither sex nor
color should be a barrier to pub
lie office" he declared.
Engineer Commissioner Louis
w. Prentiss reiterated a some-
what similar position on the
same program. He repeated his
statement earlier yesterday that
the three Commissioners should
represent all the people and that
an increase in the board was not
needed.
Seeks No Controversy.
Gen. Prentiss emphasized that
he was not trying to enter into
any controversy with Senator
Case, but had frankly stated his
views when asked for them.
Senator Case, who had urged
an increase in the board as a
vital part of his seven-point leg.
islatiye program published Sum
day, said he was reading with
great interest" the statements
of the Engineer Commissioner.
He referred to the generals re-
marks recently that one of his
problems was "how in the world
to find time to find out what his
duties were"
Senator Case added: He
might have overlooked that one
OF my purposes in urging a larger
Board of Commissioners was to
permit dividing up the many
duties Commissioners have. such
as appearing at hearings and
official functions"
Interested in Remark.
The legislator further called
attention to the Engineer COM
missioner's reported remark that
his major mission" as he saw
it was to "pry more money out
of Congress-"
II am sure" the Senator con.
cluded, that the faithful read.
ing of the new Engineer Com
misisoner's statement will be
very helpful to me and all other
members of Congress"
Earlier yesterday. Commits
sioner Camalier said that it
would be more effective to give
each of the two civilian Com
missioners two assistants, rather
than to increase membership Of
the policy-making body.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
William QuinIan Named
To County Appeals Board

William A. Quinlan, Washing
ton attorney, today was named
to the Montgomery County
Board of Appeals to fill out the
unexpired term of Louis A.
Gravelle ending next September.
Mr.. Quinlan was named to the
post by the County Council after
it had sworn in Mr.. Gravelle as
its new member. He lives at 8649
Broad Brook drive. Bethesda.
Mr.. Quinlan has been a county
resident for a number of years.
He is married and has three sons.
Evening star., 1953-01-13
Chapman Urges
Trip|ed Federal
Share for DC.
Outgoing Secretary
Pluns to Discuss
Natter With Mckay
By Colt hendIeY. Jr.

Interior Secretary Chapman
today said the Federal Govern
ment should pay two or three
times what it does toward the
District Budget.
Mr.. Chapman made this esti-
mate Of the Federal share of
running the District as he held
his last press conference before
leaving Office. He said he called
the conference only to allow re-
porters to take a last pot shot
al him.
Last month Mr.. Chapman sent
to President Truman a report
saying the District has been
maneuvered into a financial i'm
passe and it was up to the Fed
eral Government to recognize it's
growing responsibility to bear
an adequate share of the cost
Of the Capital.
The Federal payment current
ly is about $11 million. The Dis
tr1ct budget runs more than $130
million.
Out of His Jurisdiction.
$50 many people have been
critical Of my report on the
grounds that I waited so long
to make it," Mr.. Chapman said.
He pointed out the District
was out of his Jurisdiction. He
said he had been thinking about
the city's financial difficulties for
some time, as he saw it develop
over his 20 years service in the
Federal Government.
Il had some reluctance to
make recommendations on some
thing out of my Jurisdiction, p"
he commented. He added:
But I felt it almost a shame
to go out of Office without put
ting into a recommendation my
feelings the District budget was
out of balance"
Az lam WIN MChdys
Mr.. Chapman said the District
was different from any other
area under the American flag.
1T isn't treated as favorably as
the Territories" he commented.
Mr.. Chapman said he intended
to discuss the problem with In
terror Secretary designate Doug
las Mckay later this week.
In summing up his service as
Interior Secretary, Mr.. Chap
man said he was proud of the
progress made in the establish
ment Of national parks and mon
uments, in reclamation work &C
complished and in the strides
made in public power.
He said 20 years ago there
were only 47national parks and
monuments which were visited
by three million people. Now
there are lat. he said. and last
year 40 million people visited
them.
Plans to Open Law Office.
He said he knew nothing about
President Truman's plans on the
tidelands oil question. Stories
have been circulated Mr.. Tru-
man will place the tidelands oil
in the Federal oil reserve by ex-
ecutive order before leaving
Office.
Mr.. Chapman said he recon-
mended that action three years
ago and nothing has happened
to make him change his mind.
Mr.. Chapman said he planned
to open a law Office in Wash
ington and Denver but make his
home here most of the year.
Evening star., 1953-01-13

outside buyers. for the home
towners resent the intrusion.
It sounded like a glorifled
bingo game when Auctioneer
Evening star., 1953-01-25

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Evening star., 1953-01-25
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Evening star., 1953-01-25

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Evening star., 1953-01-25

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Evening star., 1953-01-25

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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11
; DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyright, 1858, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

While in Israel they are dig
Sing. hoping TO strike oil. I have
already done it. and you. too. dear
ader. may do the same. I have
entered a three weeks oil paint
ing course at the University of
Rhode Island. Don't let the fact
that you cannot draw or have
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Everyb0dy Can Strike Oil

never painted before. stop you.
The fact seems to be, from my
experience, that the thing most
necessary to be able to paint is
an inference. If you can draw an
lnference-and who can't-you
are qualified.
AT any rate. the children of
Moses are very numerous in the
class am attending. It is rather
surprising. The ancient Hebrews.
it has been said. did not go in for
painting because of the Com
mandment. Thou shalt not make
craven images. While the term
craven images" refers more spe-
officially to sculpture. it has been
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

construed to ban all forms of rep
resentational art.
It is not difficult to understand
the Mosaic position. 1t was very
difficult to tear the people away
from the worship of idols. Even
when Moses made his temporary
visit on Mt. Sinai, the children of
Israel insisted on fashioning an
image of a calf and worshipping
it.
A drastic measure was neces-
sarY. The worship of calves. bulls
the Egyptians even worshipped
cats-was not only repugnant to
the mind but was incompatible
with the rise of a religious ethics.
Ethics stands on the concept of
responsibility and cause and eff
feet. You simply cannot have an
ethical religion. if the cat is your
ideal or idol.
Perhaps even Moses in his day
would not have been opposed to
modern art, which tends to be
misrepresentation and abstract.
In religion, Moses was definitely
the father of the abstract idea.
Against the whole pantheon of
concrete m ages of a hundred
shapes, he projected the idea of a
monistic, invisible, universal Di-
vinity.
Be this as it may. Certainly
today. the Jews are well repre-
sented in the arts. In sculpture.
there are such men as Jacob Ep-
stein and Chain Gross. In paint
ing we have Chagall. Max Weber
and a host of other luminaries.
Picasso is partly of Jewish des-
cent.
When l was a boy, Max Lieber-
man of Germany was regarded
generally as the greatest Jewish
painter in the world and he was
to be a very witty man.
A Lieberman anecdote that I
recollect was of another painter
who went around boasting that
he was. in fact. responsible for
some of Lieberman's best works.
Lieberman was asked why he
didn't take some action against
this man. We'll" replied Lieber-
man. IF he wants TO say he paint
ed my works its okaY with me.
but if he ever dares TO say that I
painted his works. I'll sue him."
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-30
Gamer Charges Japanese Exceed Fishing Quotas

ANCHORAGE, R-J. H. Wake field, an Alaskan cannery owner, charged here Monday that the Japanese exceeded their treaty agreements on the amount of their take in Alaskan fishing waters.
 Wakefield is partner in Wake field Deep Sea Trawlers, the only American firm engaged in crab fishing in the territory.
 He estimated, in an interview, that the September catch in Bris- tol Bay this year was cut by about 50 percent due to Japanese fishing earlier in the year.
 For the last two years" Wake field said, "our crews had in av- craze income of $500 for the September catch. This year it was about $700.
 He charged the Japanese with failure to comply with the terms of a treaty set up last spring by the US. State Department.
 ''They agreed to take only 50,- 900 cases of salmon, but returned to Japan with 58,0OO cases," Wake field said. "The agreement called for a catch of 100000 crabs, but the reports from Tokyo said they took 1,995,OOO.
 Wakefield spent some time in April, and again last month aboard the Japanese factory ship Tokei Maru as an observer for the Fish and Wildlife Service.
 The Japanese told Wakefield it cost $4 to produce a case of 48 cans of crab.
 we can't compete with them in canning" Wakefield said. "Our crab is all fresh-frozen.
 A comparison of production costs, he said, showed that Japan csc crew members and factory workers get a base pay of $50 a month. American creWmen aver age about $1,000 a month.