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Evening star., 1953-03-22

point in their contest for Wash
ingtonianS' favor. Butter was
purchased by TOT per cent of
families questioned in 1851, 65.6
per cent in 1852. 64.5 per cent
now. Margarine-buyers were 67.6
in 1851, "a per cent in 1852, rs
per cent now.
Sweet-tOOth Increasing.
Washington's sweet-tooth has
increased notably. Slightly more
than 43 per cent purchased
candy in boxes in 1852; SIS per
cent did so this year.
The ever-handy frozen product
also continued its steady climb
in Washington favor. Frozen
vegetables, frozen poultry, frozen
fruits and frozen orange juice
all gained over last year, the sur
vey showed.
Washington beer drinkers
have added q few to their num-
ber-58.3 per cent drank beer
in 1851, SO per cent in 1852, g. z
per cent in 1858. Slightly more
than 80 per cent of all families
questioned for 1858 also buy soft
drinks for home use.
General level of Washington
prosperity is shown in figures
for autos, television sets, home
ownership, vacation travel and
income. Sixty-three per cent own
their own cars, and of these 36.4
per cent are used cars. Seventy
two per cent own TV sets, a
majority preferring the 17-inch
screen. Home ownership is 44.6
per cent, the majority making
payments Of $75 per month or
over. Seventy per cent vacation
away from Washington, most
during June, July, August and
September; and 17.6 per cent
have an income between $4,000
and 5000; 1876 per cent between
$4,000 and $4,000: 22.8 per cent
between $4,000 and 5000; and
17.2 per cent between $1,000 and
5000. The remaining 25.8 per
cent are below and above these
brackets,
Evening star., 1953-03-22

Washington is still a weekend
shopping city. the survey shows.
with most buyers preferring to
visit the grocery on Friday and
Saturday However, a slight rise
has been recorded in the per-
centage Of those who also like to
shop during the first part of the
week. particularly Tuesday. An
increasing number are also buy
ing housewares. toilet articles
and cosmetics at the grocery
store: Houseware buying is 38.4
per cent as compared with 1854
for 1882. toilet articles and cos
meticS purchases have risen to
asa per cent as compared with
400 per cent last year.
Instant Coffee Gains.
The battle between regular
and instant coffee, the survey
reveals is tipping slowly toward
the instant brands. Where SO
per cent of families questioned
in the 1851 survey bought coffee
in packages and tins, 86.9 per
cent did so in 1852 and 1873 per
cent are doing so now. But where
only 1914 per cent bought instant
brands in 1851, it was shown
that 47.6 per cent did so in 1852
and SAG per cent are doing so
now. A percentage Jump from
los in 1852 to 1873 for 1853 was
also recorded for another in
Stant-mix product, powdered or
dry milk.
Margarine and butter seemed
to have reached a leveling- off
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Truck Drivers Held
After Collision Fatal
To 10 in One Family
By the Assoeio1ad Press


WASHINGTON, N. j., Mar. 81
"A Pennsylvania truck driver
was arraigned today on a charge
Of causing death by auto after
a household Of 10 persons was
wiped out in a head-on collision
on a rural two-lane highway
last night.
John Scarantino, Of Scranton,
Pa, the driver, was under 5000
bond. and Lawrence Butler. OF
Dunmore, Pa, who gave up the
wheel to Scarantino shortly be-
fore the crash. was under 81 900
bond as a material witness.
Neither of the men in the
truck was injured.
Bond was set this morning at
an arraignment in Port Murray.
Passing Coal Truck.
State Police said the big
tractor-trailer came around a
curve at the foot of a hill and
was attempting to pass a coal
truck when the driver saw the
approaching headlights Of the
Matlock car.
With the coal truck at his
right. Scarantino swerved to the
left shoulder of the road in an
attempt to avoid the collision,
State police said.
The southbound car turned in
the same direction, Butler said,
and they crashed.
Clarence Matlock, operator of
a 60-cow dairy farm in Silver
Lake, was killed outright as
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Senators Call Baruch
On Price Freeze Plan
For Emergency Use
By the Assoeiaied Press

Senate supporters Of a pro-
posed 90-day freeze on prices.
wages and rents, for use in an
emergency, expect to get strong
backing tomorrow from Bernard
M. Baruch.
Mr.. Baruch, veteran mobili-
zation expert and adviser to
presidents, is to testify before
the Banking Committee on bills
designed to protect against leap
ing prices if all-out war should
come.
He strongly advocated an
across-the-board freeze when
the Korean war started in June,
1850. It was not done. however,
and he later told Congress the
Government and consumers lost
many billions Of dollars as q
result.
Wilson Asked to Testify.
Several cabinet officers have
been asked to testify in open
session later in the week, in
cluding Secretary Of Defense
Wilson and Secretary Of Com
merce Weeks.
Chairman Capehart, Republi-
can. of Indiana, said he does not
know whether these or other ad-
ministration witnesses will sup
port the freeze bill. He indicated,
however, that their testimony
would not be unfriendly to the
measure.
Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Weeks and
Secretary of State Dulles ap-
peared at a closed-door session
of the committee a month ago
when it opened hearings on the
question.
Afterwards, Senator Capehart
said he had heard nothing to
indicate there had been any
lessening of international ten
sion or that q sudden war crisis
could not develop at any time,
Two Bills introduced.
The committee chairman has
introduced two bills on the sub
ject. One is a simple 90-day
freeze bill giving the President
power to slap on a hold-the-line
order in an emergency.
The other is a comprehensive
standby controls bill which
would permit the President to
put into effect an emergency
system of controls much like
the present Defense Production
Act, which expires April 80. This
second measure would keep a
skeleton staff on hand, to be
ready if needed.
Some committee members ex-
pect Mr.. Baruch to support the
standby bill in preference to the
freeze measure.
However, both Senators Cape
hart and Robertson, Democrat,
of Virginia, said yesterday they
consider the standby plan dead.
They said only a freeze bill
would have q chance in this
Congress.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

were his wife, Alma; three
daughters. Esther, 10; Joan, S,
and Rosemary. aga son, Clar-
ence, jr., one year; Mr.. Matlock' s
mother. Elizabeth, rs. and his
two sisters, Grace, 48, and Mary,
so. Another son.. Raymond,
died later in Warren Hospital,
Phillipsburg, on his eighth birth
day. The Matlocks were bound
from their farm for their weekly
shopping trip in Washington.
It was "the greatest number
Of people ever to be killed as
occupants of a single passenger
automobile" the National Safety
Council in Chicago said its rec
ords indicated.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Power for Women Police

Dublin, Fire. is to have more
women police and they may be
given uniforms and the power of
arrest, which they never yet
have had,
Evening star., 1953-01-22
combat respiratory diseases wal
reported In st. Louis.

combat respiratory diseases wal
reported In st. Louis.
Fire Department Hit.
Although no widespread schoo
closings were reported in Ne.
braska. the Omaha Fire Depart
ment was hard hit and had tc
shift manpower to keep its COM
panies fully manned.
Iowa reported a fairly heavy
incidence" Of mild type Of flu
evenly distributed over the State
Schools were closed in several
western Wisconsin towns because
Of abnormally high absenteeism.
The Kansas Board Of Health
reported 6,574 fiji cases so far
this year. with 6.217 coming In
the week ended January II.
Virus infections were blamed
for school absenteeisms in parts
Of Idaho. California, Kentucky
and Colorado.
There were indications the
outbreaks had passed their peak
in parts Of Illinois. Indiana,
South Carolina. Colorado, Utah
Oklahoma and Missouri.
The Baldwin Superior Court
at Milledgeville. Ca, was unable
to convene yesterday because
court officials were i'll.
Evening star., 1953-01-22
Rebel ConVicts Offer
To Exchange Hostage
For Another Guard
By the Assoeiofed Press

BELLEFONTE, Pa, Jan. ga
Rebel convicts at Rockview
State Penitentiary, holding six
guards as hostages, offered today
to exchange one of the hostages
for another guard, but there
was no sign of an end to the
four-day mutiny Of 325 pris-
oners.
An ominous calm hung over
the prison with the convicts sit
ting tight in their barricaded
cellblock.
More than 100 heavily armed
State policemen and 80 prison
guards stood ready to storm
that stronghold should State Of
flcials decide that action is nee
eSsary.
One of the rebel convicts
called the prison office over the
telephone communication sys-
tenn and offered to exchange any
Of the guards they held as host
ages for another man. He said
the prisoners had heard Of the
situation on their radios.
Gordon c. Lewis, the prison
cashier who took the call, re-
ferred it to State officials on the
scene. They took no immediate
action.
Offer Made by Guard.
The standout convictS got in
touch with the prison Office after
William c. Chandler, so, a prison
guard, offered to replace Paul
Ishler. 40, one of the six guards
seized by the prisoners when the
riot broke out Monday night.
Mr.. Chandler said he made the
offer because Mr.. Ishler's wife
was suffering from a nervous
condition. June Ishler, a daugh-
ter of the hostage guard, asked
prison officials to inform her
father there was nothing Seri-
ously wrong with members of his
family. Mr.. Chandler said he
and Mr.. Ishler had been like
brothers" for years.
The State troopers and prison
guards, ready to move on orders.
were armed with submachine
guns, tear gas. small arms and
riot sticks.
Showdown Expected.
State Attorney General Robert
E. Woodside, acting on direct
orders from Gov. John S. Fine,
has been in charge of the efforts
to dislodge the convicts in Cell
Block A, center of the original
outbreak Monday night. He has
refused to confirm or deny re-
ports that a showdown may de-
velop today by sending the
troopers and guards into the
cellblock.
The convicts are in the un-
usual position of controlling the
storeroom containing canned
foods. thus assuring them and
their hostages at least seven
days supply Of food.
Evening star., 1953-01-22
sY the A.sOeiassd Press

Flu-or what feels like fiu--
has spread into more than half
the 4S States. but the outbreaks
so far generally have been mild.
The bulk Of the cases are in
the central part of the Nation.
Texas reported from 200, 900 to
250;000 cases. Arkansas had the
greatest number of cases of up
per respiratory infections in its
history The disease was reach
ing the epidemic stage in Ten
neSsee.
The Eastern and Western
States were comparatively free
Of outbreaks, although Florida
reported some schools closed to
prevent further spread Of an in
fuenza- like disease.
Flu Shots Given. I
The Jones & Laughlin Steel
Corp. announced it is giving flu
shots to its $4,000 employees in
Pittsburgh, Aliqulppa, Pa, and
Cleveland mills. at it's New York
and Michigan ore mines and at
various fabricating plants
throughout the country. The
treatments are voluntary.
Ohio State University is
planning a voluntary immuniza-
ton program to run through
next week.
Vaccine also was administered
at the Syracuse IN. " School
for Mental Detectives and at the
Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Reports indicate at least one
type flu "bug"-a-prime-is re-
Sponsible for some of the OUT
breaks. Some health authori-
ties believe several types Of
minor infections are involved in
school shutdowns or heavy alb
Ssnteeism in several parts Of
the country.
Df. A. M. WaShburn, head Of
the Communicable Diseases De-
partment of the Arkansas Board
Of Health, said the outbreak
Evening star., 1953-01-22
FIuHitsMore ThonHoIfofU
But Outbreaks Are Called Mild

definitely is an epidemic" in
that State. He added it is diff
f1cult to determine which cases
are true influenza.
George Cox, State health Of
flcer in Texas, said the outbreak
in that State is the worst since
World War I.
DR.. r. H. Hutcheson, Tennes-
see Health Commissioner, said
2.127 cases were reported last
week and that all sections of the
State are affected.
A mild form Of influenza was
widespread over Minnesota. Ala
bama reported more than 1000
cases last week, compared with
100 in the like period of 1852
The Louisiana Health Depart
ment estimated $4,000 persons
i'll with flu in the four hardest
hit parishes (counties) in the
northeast part of the State.
A shortage Of some drugs to
Evening star., 1953-01-22
Robbers Toke $48, 8,S57
From Kansas City Bunk
By the A..ceio,ed Pres.

| KANSAS CITY, Jan. 22.--Four
armed men robbed the Rosedale
State Bank of $48,857 yester-
day after forcing Is persons into
the vault.
The bandits, armed with auto
matte pistols and wearing tan
corduroy hunting caps, scooped
up the money from tellers' cages
after forcing \ 10 customers and
six bank employees into the vault.
Evening star., 1953-01-22
Recruit Drive FuiIs

England's drive for a Home
Guard of l75.000 persons is
termed a failure. with but 10000
recruits obtained over a nine
month period.
Evening star., 1953-01-22
Mediums Tip No Good

A night-long watch at a mur-
der scene was without result for
Paris police, who maintained the
guard on the advice Of a me-
Gium.
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Evening star., 1953-10-30
PIasma Use Effective
Against Bed Sores
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 30.-Two New
York doctors reported striking
results today in treating bed
sores with dried blood plasma,
They used a mixture of plasma
and Peruvian balsam, a mild
antiseptic, on II patients with
spinal cord injuries suffering
from severe bed ulcers.
Healing was swift in all in
stances. they reported in the
Journal of the American Med
ical Association.
Malnutrition has long been
recognized as a definite deter
rent to healing, they pointed out.
One cause of bed sores is pre-
sumed to be a temporary def
cheney of blood and consequently
poor nutrition to the part af-
fected.
The doctors said that in addi-
ton to supplying healthy nutri-
tional environment for the ulcer.
the blood plasma also ap-
'parently contains an engine
that digests dead tissue in the
sore, further promoting healing.
The report was made by Drs.
"A. Bernice Clark and Howard A.
RuSk.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Clerk >Retires Today
After 81 Years on Job

# Reuben M. Lynn, a clerk in the
executive office of 20 Boards of
District Commissioners, retires
today at the age of 10 after 80
years of. service.
A licensed podiatrist as we'll as
a civil servant, DOC" Lynn, as
he is better known, plans to de-
vote his retirement to the prac-
tice of his speciality.
Mr.. Lynn was appointed mes
senger-clerk to Board Secretary
Daniel E. Garges on July l,
1921, by Commissioner Cuno H.
Rudolph.
Washington-born Mr.. Lynn
worked for the American Red
Cross before joining the District
government.
The Commissioners yesterday
gave him personal congratula-
tions on his long and devoted
service and presented him with
framed certificate of merit,
Present for the ceremony was Mr..
Lynn's 28-year-old godson, John
w. Franklin, jr.
Mr.. Lynn lives at 1889 Seven
teenth street NV. He is men,
ber of the Holy Name Society OF
st. Augustine's Church and OF
the knights of st. John.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Tenants Committee
Wins Better Terms
In Apartments Sale

A tenants committee set up
by residents of the WeStchester
Apartments, which is now being
offered for cooperative sale, said
today the owners had agreed to
make certain concessions regard
ing terms of the sale and that
the committee is hopeful of OBJ
tanning Others"
A mass meeting of tenants last
night was It'd the owner had
agreed:
l. To provide $125,000 worth
of capital improvements in the
form of electric wiring and ex-
terror caulking for the property
at 1000 Cathedral avenue NV.
2. To allow member-occupants
to elect a majority of the coop
board of directors.
3. To make any repairs to in
dividual apartments that previ-
ouSly were promised.
4. To extend the deadline from
November l to November Is for
present tenants to buy perpetual
occupancy.
Held 10 Meetings.
The tenants committee of 13
members is headed by Attorney
Alvin NeWmeyer. It has had 10
meetings and there have been
two mass meetings of tenants, a
spokesman said.
Meredith M. Daubin, also an
attorney and committee men,
ber, said that further conceS-
sions tenants hope to obtain in
clude:
l. Agreement by the owners
that the coop board have the
right to consider and ratify all
commitments by the owners
prior to the establishment of the
coop organization.
2. Agreement by the owners
that the coop board have the
right to determine the amount
to be spent on maintenance, and
to apportion the expenses be-
tween the member apartments
and the owners commercial
areas. which will be retained by
the owner and not sold to the
coop.
Don't Challenge Rights.
"The committee recognizes
that the owners can do as they
wish with this property and sell
it in any way they WISH" a
spokesman said. I'VE do not
challenge that, and our purpose
is merely to educate the tenants
and to obtain as favorable con-
ditionS for them as we can.
The owners have handed a
package. We'd like to see what's
inside the package"
THE owner is the Realest
Corp. of New York. which is, in
turn, owned by the City Invest
ing Co., also of New York.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Cotton Growers See
Machine Techniques
BY the Associated Press

GADSDEN, Ala, Oct. 30.-Ma-
chimes that have all but replaced
hoes, mules and manipulating
in cotton fields were demon
strated today.
Delegates to the belt-wide Cot
ton Mechanization Conference
went to nearby Crossville to see
new techniques in planting, cul-
tivation and harvesting of DiXie's
No. l crop.
The demonstrations were held
at the Sand Mountain substation
of the Alabama Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station.
H. C. Sanders, Louisiana
Agricultural Extension Service
director. said smaller and less
expensive machines were the
biggest need in mechanizing
cotton production.
Speaking of the investment
required for complete mechani-
zation, he said, 1--WE may be ap-
preaching an era where only
corporations, those who inherit
large amounts of agricultural
capital or who acquire capital
by some fortuitous circumstance,
will engage in cotton produc-
ton"
Evening star., 1953-10-30

written orders last August Is re-
leasing him from the service
but on the day before he was
to leave the orders were orally
rescinded.
The Air Force contended 1t.
Morris had applied for special
training in an aircraft observer
school and completion of the
course carried with it a commit
nent to remain in the service
for three more years.
1t said the written orders 1t.
Morris received directing his re-
lease were the result of IAN ad-
miniStratiye error"
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Virginions Count Blessings
Blame Boy Playing Hockey

the belongings, Mrs. Shropshire
drew the line.
A telephone call to her huS-
band and his call to police soon
turned up three youngsters in a
house across the street-already
telephoning for another de-
livery.
The 11-year-old ringleader of
the trio, police said. had played
hockey from school yesterday
while his mother worked and
even had answered in a woman's s
voice when his teacher called to
check on his absence.
AS a matter of fact, police
said, changing his voice is only
one of his accomplishments -
he's also skilled amateur ven-
triloquist.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
BY the Associoted Press

DANVILLE. Va, Oct. 30.-It
couldn't have been a quiz pro-
gram jackpot, Mrs. Van Shrop-
shire decided, because she hadn't
participated in one.
But there was q truckload Of
coal in front Of her house. She
sent it away in time to have the
bakery deliver a Sc birthday
cake-except none of the Shrop-
shire family was having a birth
day.
Then came a "happy ami
versary" cake - but no ami
versary. 1t was followed by q
large supply of groceries, seven
cases of soft drinks and two
bicycles. When a couple stopped
by to rent the house and two
moving vans arrived to cart off
Evening star., 1953-10-30
sy The Assoeiatsd Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
Oct. 30.-The executive vice
president of the National Asso-
ciation of Real Estate Boards
said yesterday the Federal ad-
ministration wants to sencour-
age home building and construc-
ton of all kinds"
Herbert U. Nelson of Chicago
and Washington, in an address
to the Colorado Association OF
Real Estate Boards, said:
"We can expect a report of
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Block Purty Scheduled

Free prizes and refreshments
will be given children in the 4400
blocks of Eads street NE. tonight
between 8 and IL o'clock during
a block party given by the Gen.
tral-Northeast Civic Association
in cooperation with No. IA po-
lice precinct.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Washington Area Gets
Third N Channel

The Federal Communications
Commission yesterday opened
the way for another Washington
commercial television station by
assigning a new ultrahigh fire.
quency channel to the area.
It is the third UHF channel
to be assigned here. The others
are Channel 26, reserved for
educational television, and
Channel 20, a commercial sys-
tenn.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
U. S. Seen Encouraging All Kinds Of Construction

the advisory committee of 81
to President Eisenhower on De-
cember 3. It is believed it will
be very encouraging. Payments
will go for a down payment of 10
per cent on new homes. with a
80 per cent FILA guaranteed
mortage."
He said the proposed new field
emissions 10 million new homes
There are now so million homes
in the country, he added.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Airman Loses Court Fight
To Gel Out Of Service
By the Assoeioied Press

TOPEKA, Kans., Oct. 3O.-An
Air Force lieutenant who con-
tended he was being unlawfully
retained on active duty has lost
his Federal court fight for an or
Ger directing his release.
United States District Judge
Delmas C. Hill yesterday ruled
lst 1t. James S. Morris, Law
renee, Kans., was not entitled to
the habeas corpus writ he sought.
1t. Morris said he received
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Colombo Censorship
OFF During Protest
BY fhe Assoeioted presI

BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 80.
President Rojas Pinilla last
suspension of the press censor
ship which has been in effect in
Colombia since the end of 1948.
The president said he was
doing this as a friendly gesture
toward $50 newsmen from vari-
Gus parts of the country now
meeting in the first Colombian
national congress of newspaper
men.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
New Air Route to Tahiti

South Pacific Airlines now ex-
poets to inaugurate it's initial
service between Honolulu and
Tahiti via Christmas Island,
about the end of this year, Sgd
ney reports.