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Evening star., 1953-04-15
City Heads Approve
Move 10 CentraIize
District Purchasing

A move to centralize the Dis
trict's purchasing activities was
approved by the District Commis-
sionerS yesterday upon recon-
mendation of the Citizens Advis-
ory Council.
The latest step in the general
reorganization of the District
Government will set up pro-
curement Office to take over the
personnel and functions Of the
purchasing Office.
No jobs are added or abolished
it was said, and the new Office
will be in charge of Roland M.
Brennan, the present purchasing
officer.
In the future, Mr.. Brennan can
approve purchases up to $25, 900
without referring the items to
the Commissioners. The present
limitation is $4,000.
The plan provides for appoint
ment of special contracting Of
f1cer and the establishment of a
Contract Appeals Board and a
Contract Advisory Committee.
A staff of about six specialists
who opened all bids will be trans
ferred from the Enginere's Of
flee to the new procurement Of
flee.
The old Automobile Board,
composed of department heads
with responsibility for the Dis
trict'S fleet of vehicles. will be
abolished, and its duties of pre-
pairing specifications will be
turned over to the new office.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Arlington Man Held
In S|ashing Of Wife
An Arlington man was charged

An Arlington man was charged
with assault and battery last
night after he allegedly cut his
wife's throat and slashed his
own wrists. The couple was re-
ported in good condition at
Arlington Hospital today.
Police said Elmer F. Collins,
25. slashed his wife, Genevieve,
%, while she was using a neigh
boris telephone in the apartment
building where they live in the
5700 block of North Tenth road.
The attack occurred about $3.50
pm, police said.
Collins returned to his own
apartment, police said, where he
slaShed his wrists and then fled
to a woods behind the apart
ment building. Police found him
a short time later sitting on a
picnic table bench in the woods.
Police said Collins used safety
razor blade to slash his wrists
in the hallway of his apartment.
Written, in blood on the floor,
police said, was the message, II
love you, Nom and Dad" Also
written was the name Eve.
Only one child was at home at
the time of the incident, police
said, but authorities said neigh
bors reported the couple have
five children.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
More D. {. Taxpayers
File Returns on Last Day

Last-minute filers of 1852 Dis
trict income tax returns today
were out in greater numbers than
last year, but no jam-up de-
veloped in the District Building
Virtually all available tax
examiners having been pressed
into service, the customers"
were processed at the rate of
about 100 an hour from $3.50 am.
through noon. The tax Office,
in Room 100, was to remain open
until 4:45 pm.
In all, tax officials have pro-
cessed between $4,000 and 10000
individual income tax returns,
mostly submitted by mail. An
estimated 100000 total is ex-
pected, according to Robert j.
Dunham, head of the income tax
section. The majority of re-
turns is expected to show up in
tomorrow's mail and these must
be postmarked before midnight
tonight, when the penalty sets in.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
By Tom Kelley

In the basement of an old
school building at Twenty-third
and M streets NV, a woman is
painting a picture of a tropical
scene. 1t looks like the work of
a professional artist.
There are men working with
wood and with modelling clay,
and two women who appear to
be just scribbling on large pieces
Of drawing paper.
They are alcoholics.
These people are patients par
ticipating in one of the occupa-
tional therapy activities of the
Districts Alcoholic Rehabilitation
program.
Occupational therapy has long
been prescribed for invalids and
persons recovering from injuries,
but it's therapeutic value in the
treatment of alcoholics is a rel
dL4NC4y 4ACW OAoNOFCAJs AA4C Ill OU
time it was used anywhere was
in the summer of 1851, when the
Washington rehabilitation clinic
decided to adopt the program.
Three Basic Benefits.
The art program benefits the
patient in three ways:
l. The act Of creating is sat-
isfying.
2. The end product can be a
source of satisfaction.
3. A work of art provides a
permanent record of the patients
personality and thoughts which
can be analyzed by doctors to
determine the symptoms of his
basic troubles.
In some cases the patient is
too shy to try to paint if he feels
he has no aptitude for art. How
ever, reluctant artists are encour-
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Small Boy and q Boil Game Help
Make 1t q Light Week in Court

Baseball and the powers of
persuasion of a 10-year-old boy
have upset Federal Judge James
r. Kirkland'S court schedule for
the third time this week.
On Monday, he promised to
let the jury hearing the Clovis
D. Walker conspiracy case off
at l pm. because one of the few
rights the average Washing
tonian has is the vested right"
to see the opening game.
Rain Cancelled the contest with
the Yankees until tomorrow, but
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia jurist re-
fused to go back on his word.
He said he will recess the trial
at l pm. tomorrow, too.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Three New Officials Win
Senate Confirmation

The Senate today confirmed
President Eisenhower's appoint
ment of Raymond Blattenberger
of Pennsylvania to be public
printer.
The Senate also confirmed the
appointments of Guy O. Holly
day of Maryland to be commits
sioner of Federal housing and
Kenton r. CravenS of Missouri
to be administrator Of the Re-
construction Finance Corp.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
GO. P. Economy Delays
5 Howard u. Projects

Howard University's construc-
tion program is being threatened
with delay by an Eisenhower
Administration economy move
Howard has been planning five
projects totaling $6,727,O0O for
the fiscal year starting in July.
All construction has been
blocked at least temporarily by
Federal construction freeze Or
der, university sources said to-
day.
The projects are new phar-
macy, law school and admins
tration buildings, a combination
biology greenhouse structure and
alterations on the present sci
ence hall.
Howard is administered under
the budgetary control of the De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare, formerly the Fed
eral Security Agency. and is
partly supported by funds ap-
propriated by Congress.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
SunteImunn Honored
By Mckinley Students

1t. Col. William F. Santel-
mann, leader of the Marine
Band and newly elected presi-
dent of the American Bandmas-
ters Association, today was given
a distinguished alumnus award
by students at Mckinley High
School.
Col. Santelmann graduated
from Mckinley in 1920. Band
instructors from each of the
senior high schools of the Dis
trict and from Wilson Teachers
College attended the presenta-
tion ceremonies at student as
sembly. The Marine Barracks
Drum and Bugle Corps presented
a special program.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Payne Subcommittee
Expected 10 Approve
7 District Measures

Favorable reports are ex-
pected to be made by the Payne
subcommittee of the Senate
District Committee on two bills
considered at a public hearing
yesterday.
One is a small size "home
rule" measure to give the Com
missioners power to raise or
lower the fees of 16 licensed
businesses or professions to
meet expenses of the license
boards and so avoid the need
for congressional action.
The other would revise a sec
tion of the Districts Life In
surance Act to simplify and
make more uniform with modern
State laws provisions covering
health and accident insurance
policies.
Both Supported.
Both were supported at the
hearing, with no opposition
being registered.
An old contest was revived,
however, over a third bill to ex-
tend the scope of the District
boiler inspections to include
"loW pressure" vessels not now
subject to District inspection.
The bill was supported by
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West and H. Kenneth Kugel,
head of the boiler inspection
division. Opposition was voiced
by Charles j. Bauer for the
Building Owners and Managers
Association and by Francis j..
Ortman for the Master Plumb
erS' Association.
Accidents Cited.
Mr.. Kugel warned that Seri-
Gus accidents have occurred from
improperly maintained low-pres-
sure boilers. He said in recent
years two persons here had been
killed by explosions of such
boilers. Last January 8, a child
was calded in such an accident
and is still in a hospital.
Opposition witnesses demanded
reports on these cases, suggest
ing that lack of annual inspec-
ton may have had nothing to
do with the explosions.
Chairman Payne, Republican,
of Maine said he wanted to hold
action until his group could
study the record.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Clay Modelling and Painting
Aid in Theropy for Alcoholics

aged just to scribble. One patient
started scribbling and finished
with a picture of, snake. GER
tainly not an unusual thing for
an alcoholic to be thinking about.
But after several weeks of treat
ments the same patient started
scribbling aimlessly and produced
crayon drawing of a swan glid-
ing through a peaceful scene.
Later the same patient moved
on to painting and his first pic
ture showed an armless man
standing helplessly in a barren
desert broken only by a leaf1ess
tree from which a Christmas
tree ornament hangs. The pa
tient has painted many pictures
since. His most recent one shows
a shadowy man complete with
hands and arms capable of &C
ton in a scene filled with light
and living plants beginning to
appear.
Understood Them Later.
These pictures not only helped
the psychiatrist to understand
the patient but, as the man who
painted them said, Painting
helps me understand myself. I
drew these pictures very quickly
and only understood them later
when I studied them at leisure"
Painting has also boosted the
alcoholics self-esteem, as in the
case of the Clinics recent art
show in the Georgetown Branch
of the public library. The pic
lures not only received the COM
pliments of local art authorities
but, some Of them were sold at
the8shcw
The clinic Is operated by the
District Health Department and
financed by the funds from the
alcoholic beverage tax.
Evening star., 1953-04-15

The ebullient judge then told
the jury there will be yet another
short day, with court being re-
cessed at I pm. on Friday.
In a moment of weakness and
while reading the paper" he
explained, he had promised to
take his 10-year-old son, Bill.
and some of his buddies" to
the ball park Friday afternoon.
You all know the powers of
persuasion of a 10-year-old son."
the judge said. They are more
powerful than judges, the Su-
preme Court, the Army and the
Court of Appeals. Especially,
when those old devil Yankees
are here. My boy thinks we will
beat them, the same as I do"
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Commissioners Seek
White House Nod for
HugeWorksProgran1

The Commissioners hope to
get a conference with White
House aides to seek a vote
of confidence in the city's pro-
posed $685. million public works
improvement program.
A final check of the vast pro-
gram was made by the city
heads yesterday. They expect to
send 1t to the Budget Bureau
tomorrow.
eve would like to discuss it
in advance with the White
House because we want it to
carry blessings of the Budget
Bureau in accordance with
policies Of the administration, "
said Engineer Commissioner
Louis w. Prentiss.
The material to be sent to the
Budget Bureau will consist
mainly Of q letter of explana-
ton and a proposed draft of
legislation to be submitted to
Capitol Hill. The proposal does
not ask for money in excess of
regular budget projects for the
next fiscal year. but rather asks
Congress this year to approve
a broad formula for financing
the improvements.
1t calls for Congress during
the following six years to ap-
prove large grants and interest
free loans, along with interest
bearing loans to the city.
In approving the program pat
tern yesterday. the Commission
ers made no changes in the basic
financial formula. The Fedora
ton of Businessmen's Associa-
tions had urged that efforts be
directed toward a higher annual
Federal payment by Congress as
the best means of financing.
The Commissioners disclosed
yesterday that District officials
had trimmed about 50 million
from an original 1887 million
cost figure.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Murray Orders
Beach, Bullock
ToFace Board
Asks Speedy Action,
On Charges Growing
From Senute Inquiry

Police Chief Robert v. Muir
ray decided today that suspend
ed Inspectors Albert I. Bullock
and Beverly c. Beach must face
trial board on charges growing
out of a Senate District Crime
subcommittee investigation last
year.
Just what the specific accu-
sations will be is left up to the
corporation counsel, to whom
Chief Murray referred the cases
with a request for speedy action.
Chief Murray's trial decision
followed by a few hours a di-
rective by the District Commits
sioners for him to determine
what action, if any, should be
brought against the top-level
policemen.
Seek Source of Income.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
told reporters after an hour-long
closed session yesterday with
Chief Murray and assistant cor
poration counselS that city Off
cials were interested particularly
in sources of income the inspec-
tors failed to satisfactorily ex-
plain before the Senate inveSti-
gators.
Today Chief Murray said he
looked for the charges to be
completed within two or three
weeks and the trial board as
sembled soon thereafter.
''No More Delay"
"I feel there should be no more
delay in this matter" Chief Muir
ray said. "I think it is up to
these officers to explain their &C
tions to the trial board, and time
for the Police Department and
taxpayers to know what it is all
about"
Chief Murray was repeating
an opinion expressed after a
grand jury reported last Friday
without taking action against the
policemen on perjury present.
mentS.
Inspector Earl Hartman, chief
clerk of the Police Department,
will assist the corporation coun-
sells Office in drafting charges.
Bullock Filed Suit.
Only yesterday Inspector Bull
lock filed suit in the U. S. District
Court for the District of Colum-
bia demanding restoration to
duty, and then retirement from
the Police Department.
The petition called the in
spector'S suspension arbitrary,
capricious and without author
ity of law" and said that retire.
ment after reinstatement would
entitle him to half of his 7,100
annual pay.
Inspector Bullock has been
suspended since last May. Un-
der the regulations, he would be
entitled to back pay for the en-
tire suspended period, as well
as pay for accumulated annual
leave.
Evening star., 1953-04-15

He was taken to the base hos
pital where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.
Police said he apparently fell
asleep at the wheel. He was
alone in the car.
The accident occurred at 4:40
am, about 2 miles north of
Hollywood, Md, on State Route
235.
Corpl. Moore was born in
Capitol Heights. Md. He was
graduated from the Seat Pleas
ant High School in 1850 and
enlisted in the Marines in March,
1851.
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Three Police Officials
Will Retire on May |

The Commissioners yesterday
ordered three Metropolitan po-
lice officials retired, effective
May /, for physical disability.
They are Deputy Chief Lloyd
E. Kelly, SIS, on the force "a
years, to retire at $334.76 month
ly; Third Precinct 1t. James l..
Rockford, 81, with 80 years. serv-
ice, and Headquarters 1t. David
McCutcheon, Sc. with 80 years
service. Both of the latter will
get $213.97 monthly pensions.
Evening star., 1953-04-15

C1 dSILCu 11AOO d
parked truck.
State police
said he was
Corpl. Jesse
Irwin Moore
of 1861 Tucker
road, OXon
Hill, Prince
G e o r G e S
County, Md,
stationed at
the PatuXent
River Naval
Air Base. He
was the son of
Mrs. Blanche
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Marine Killed in Maryland
As Car SWerVes Into Truck

A 22-year-old Marine was
killed early today when his car
swerved across a st. Marys
County road in Maryland and
crashed into a ............... ............,.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18
Techricofor Music al Showing Sunday

The Belle of New York with Fred Astaire and Vera Ellen IS on at the Orpheum tomor row and Monday. The MGM Technicolor musical also fea- lures Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn.
 Several popular songs are in the film and Astaire does some spectacuclar dancing.
 Tuesday and Wednesday Laurence Oliver and yennifer Jones star in the movieSCarrie. Miriam Hopkins has an impor- tant role in the picture.
 The picture is based on the famous novel Sister Carrie and was written by Theodore Dreiser.
 Thursday a cowboy picture named Smoky is showing. It is Iii Technicolor and stars Fred McMurray and Anne Baxter.
 Robert Cummings and Bar bara Hale portray a young couple who go from 'frater- nifty pin to a maternity ward In one hilarious honeymoon.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18
NOTICE

The Informal Group of Christian Scientists meet for Sunday services in the main floor of the Bank Building every Sunday at Il am.
 Sunday School ;held at the same hour.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18

at the next regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Last meeting he told of his
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18

Marshall Crutcher. presi- dent of the Bank of Kodiak, will be the principal speaker
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18

work at Juneau to promote new territorial banking legis. lation.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18

Crutcher spent several weeks in Juneau during the last session of the legislature.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-18
NOTICE

Don't forget the Sunday morning breakfast at the Elks Club.
Evening star., 1953-04-26

dustrial base and sever her tenu-
Gus supply lines from the Soviet"
Gen. Macarthur said.
Like the Taft and Bevin for
mulas, MacArthur's was not on the
Panmunjom agenda-and for the
time being at least, any discussion
of a post-armistice peace is a
matter Of the cart before the
horse.
The big fact about Panmunjom
easy to overlook, but big none
theleSs-is that under the terms
of the agenda, the only thing now
standing in the way of an armi-
stice Though not a peace) is cur
rent disagreement on the ex-
change of prisoners of war. The
rest - unification Of Korea, the
question of other wars In Asia,
even the future of the world
are political matters far beyond
the authority Of the men at Pam
munjom.
Evening star., 1953-04-26

of advice. He informed the other
ministers that they would find
it easier to get aid from the United
States-aid needed to maintain
their NATO commitments-if the
European Defense Community
treaty is ratified promptly. The
treaty, which would bring German
army units into European army
to serve under NATO, has been
stalled in the French and German
Parliaments. Only England has
ratified. Italy, Belgium, the Meth
erlands and Luxembourg are watt
ing for France and Germany to act.
Star Staff Correspondent Crosby
s. Noyes reported from Paris that
the Dulles advice doubtless would
irritate the European allies. Many
continental leaders feel the EDO
plan is impractical. Furthermore,
they resent American prodding.
However, the entire council voted
to recommend early ratification of
the EDO treaty. There was no
public grumbling. There also was
no public or private optimism
especially in view of the action Of
the upper house of the German
Parliament. It voted 20-18 to
postpone action on the treaty.
Evening star., 1953-04-26

THE MAN WHOSE picture DOM
mates this page has just
stepped from slavery into freedom.
This moment Is probably the
happiest In his nfe-or so 1t viii
seem when he has had time for
reflection. Right now, however,
there is no Joy in his face. There
is only the expression Of numbness
that comes with sudden release
from q long period Of tension and
anxiety. At this moment he Is
nearer to tears than to laughter.
He is a very ordinary young man
just one of . hundred-odd ordi-
nary young Americans who stepped
through the Iron Curtain last week
after absences varying from weeks
to years.
This particular man is no victim
of outlandish atrocity. He is
nothing but a repatriated prisoner
of war. There are several thou
sand like him behind barbed wire
in North Korea and China. They
are the less fortunate men, the
ones who must wait for the truce
that will come in Korea, maybe
next week, maybe next month,
maybe never.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Refugees

Since World War II, 415,744 dis
placed persons have been permitted
to enter this country without re-
gard to usual immigration quotas.
The last wave of war victims, which
entered under 1850 law, was ex-
pected to include almost all refu-
gees still needing a new homeland.
But since then, thousands of
persons have fled from Iron Cur
tain countries and are now scat
tered through Europe. Most are
East Germans, but every Com
munist country has contributed to
the swelling total.
Last week President Eisenhower
asked Congress to approve another
displaced persons bill. He recon-
mended that 100000 be permitted
to enter over two-year period.
He left details of the program up
to Congress.
The Eisenhower proposal was
similar to that made by President
Truman in March, 1852. Mr.. Tru-
man recommended that 100000
persons be admitted. Congress
ignored the proposal then, and last
week showed little more enthu-
siasm for the Eisenhower plan.
Evening star., 1953-04-26

ment about Gen. Eisenhower'S
April 16 peace formula.
In a word, the Soviets were for
it. They would, the Prada state
ment said, deal with the West for
friendly settlement Of difficult
questions" either within the United
Nations or outside it.
There was no doubt that this
was an encouraging note. It was
also a possibility that was not
overlooked by Gen. Eisenhower in
his speech. I'VE care nothing for
mere rhetoric" he said. I'VE care
only for sincerity of peaceful pur-
poSe-attested by deeds"
For the present, at least, the
Soviet actions dncluding PrGOdG's
front-page play) were still In the
realm of rhetoric.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Executive

ANE OF GEN. EISENHOWER's
" major campaign promises was
better Government for less money.
One of his first moves after elec-
ton day was to name a commits
sion, headed by Nelson A. Rookie
feller, to find possible improve
ments in the organization OF the
executive branch.
The Rockefeller group has
brought in its first recommends
tions, and last week President
Eisenhower showed them to Sen
ator Taft, Speaker Martin and
other congressional leaders at a
White House meeting. No deci-
sionS were made. The President
indicated, however, that he would
put the Rockefeller recommended
tions into reorganization bill form
and send them to the Capitol for
approval.
Some of the major recommen-
dationS were these:
. Take operating" agencies away
from the State Department and
confine State to 'policy" forma-
ton.
. Create an independent United
States information Service to SUI
pervise the Voice Of America, In
ternational Press Service, Inter-
national Motion Picture Service,
International Educational Ex-
change Service and International
Information Center Service, all
Of which are now in the State
Department.
. Put the State Departments
Point Four Administration under
the Mutual Security Administra-
ton.
. Strengthen the National Secu-
rity Council-the group whose
effectiveness as the top Govern
ment planning and o-ordinating
board the Republicans have criti-
cized.
Q Specify that the Secretary Of