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Evening star., 1953-03-14

was assigned to the case but
nothing has turned up so far.
Police point out that it is a
misdemeanor. A policeman must
see the poison being placed in
order to make an arrest, or the
owner of the dogs must have
enough information about the
culprit to swear out warrant.
Police frankly admit there
isn't much they can do except
keep sharp lookout.
Strychnine apparently is the
poison being used. A veterina-
rian identified that as the cause
of the illness of one dog he
treated. The residents are wor-
ried also because of the pos
sibility that a child might pick
up a poisoned bit of food in
tended for a dog.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Woman Died Of Stroke,
Not Injuries, Official Says

An elderly woman at first
thought to be a traffic fatality
died of a stroke after an automo-
bile accident Thursday.
She was Mrs. Berinda Will
liams, Sc, of Ills Twenty-third
street NV. A car in which she
was a passenger was in a COLI
liSion with a truck at Ninth and
@ streets NV. She died shortly
afterWard at Freedmen's Hos
pital. An autopsy disclosed death
was due to natural causes. not
as a result of the accident. ac-
cording to Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald.
The District traffic toll now
stands at IA, compared to eight
traffic deaths at this time last
year. Twelve Of the IA victims
lWere pedestrians.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Arlington Board Gets D. {. Traffic Problem
Proposed Budget Of AImosfBeyond Hope,
S17.1 Million for 54 Keneipp Suggests

A proposed Sill million budget
for the year beginning July l.,
which would require a Accent
increase in real estate and per-
sonal property tax rates, today
was before the Arlington County
Board.
Expenditures for general
county services recommended by
County Manager A. T. Lundberg
yesterday. totaled $9,876,83O.
Combined with the proposed
school budget of $7.285.955
recommended by Supt. T. Ed
ward Rutter. a total budget of
$17.162.785 would set new
record of county spending. The
combined budgets represents an
increase of nearly $2.5 million
over the current years budget.
The budget must be adopted
by May Is. If the budget is ap-
proved in it's present form, the
real estate tax rate would jump
from $2.81 per $100 of assessed
valuation to $3.50. The rate on
personal property would jump
from $3.10 to $3.50.
The School Boards proposal.
an increase of nearly SIS mil
lion over current expenditures,
would require an additional 80
cents on the real estate and per-
Sonal property tax rates. The
proposed general county budget,
an increase of about 81 million,
would require an additional
16 cents.
An increase of 4 cents in the
water consumption levy. raising
it to 80 cents per 1000 gallons
also is proposed.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Cafe Liquor License
Suspended II DAYS

The liquor license of the GAO
Cafe, 702 Fifth street NV, has
been suspended for II days for
violation of the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control regulations, the
ABC Board announced today.
The suspension begins at 8 am.
next Friday.
James Anagnos and James
Mantzoues, proprietors of the
cafe had been charged with l3
violations of the regulations, but
after a hearing this week, two
counts were dropped.
Most of the charges were for
permitting disorderly persons to
remain in the restaurant and
selling to persons under the in
duence of alcohol.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Teen-Age Bandit Gets
$2o in Store HoIdup

A teen-age bandit last night
robbed a High store of $29 at
1910 Eleventh street NV. by
holding his right hand in his
pocket as though he had gun,
police were told.
He told the clerk, Mrs. Lillian
Hulin, %, colored, of 1909 K
street Sc, to put the money
in a bag, and fled. The police
lookout said he was colored,
about 18 years old, wearing a
gray felt hat and topcoat.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Woman, II, Attacked
By Intruder in Home

The attempted criminal as
sault on a 72-year-old woman
was reported to police early
today.
The woman told police she
was awakened by a colored man
in her bedroom about 10 pm.
She said she was dragged into
the living room, where the man
threw her to the floor, struggled
with her and then fled.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Broudcuster to Speak

Norman Woodwork, Frank"
of the radio team of Frank and
Ernest" will speak at pm. to-
morrow in Pythian Temple. 1912
Ninth street NV. His talk is
sponsored by the Dawn Bible
Students Association of Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Red Cross Fund
Tops 26 Pei.
With $411,O14
Gen. Hershey Calls
For Blood Donations
As Well as Gosh

The 1858 Metropolitan Area
Red Cross fund campaign ap-
preached the halfway mark to-
day. with nearly IS per cent of
the 1881. 900 goal still to be
collected.
Contributions totaled $411,014
as of the fourth report luncheon
in the United States Chamber
of Commerce Building yester-
day. This is 26.8 per cent of the
goal.
Fund Director Randolph
Bishop said the accomplishment
so far lags 2.69 per cent behind
the progress at the comparable
report meeting last year. Kick
off for the month long cam
paign, however, was six days
later this year.
The luncheon heard Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey. director of
Selective Service, call for blood
donations as well as fund sup
port, and warn against any
showing of lack of concern at
home about the country's armed
forces.
"It is unthinkable," he said,
'that any one we have sent out
is going to be short of needed
blood"
More Wounded Saved.
He pointed out that in World
War I eight men out of each 100
wounded were counted lost. In
World War II that figure was
down to four, and now two out
of 100 wounded is the expected
margin Of loss.
Gen. Hershey also outlined
the other Red Cross services
which look to the welfare of
servicemen, veterans and their
families.
AS for the campaign progress,
he said: Let us not be discour-
aged at where we are, but let us
be firm on where we are going"
The Selective Service director
earlier in the meeting walked
off with first prize in a diaper
plnning contest, conducted by
the Red Cross Nursing Service.
The runnerup was Eddie Fisher,
who sang for the fund cam
paignerS.
Wins Diaper.
They and other volunteers, in
cludlng former Ambassador to
Ireland George Garrett, demon
strated their diapering skill
safely on dolls. Gen. Hershey
won with the fashioned
folded diaper. while Pfc. Fisher
took his honorS with a new cut
to-ordeT type.
The Selective Service director,
a grandfather, received a free
four month subscription to a
diaper laundering service. He
said he probably would just
frame it.
The Nursing Service was hon.
ored at the luncheon, not only
in recognition of the birth an
niverSary of Jane Delano,
founder of Red Cross nursing,
but because of the record year
of the service in the District
chapter.
The largest number of home
nursing certificates. $3.50, were
issued during the last year for
completion of courses in home
care of the sick and mother and
baby care.
For Defense Service.
The 4.140 certificate holders
In home care registered for civil
defense service in case of atomic
disaster. There were 1000 cer-
tificates issued in mother and
baby care. In disaster nursing
329 professional nurses are en-
rolled for disaster preparedness.
The campaign divisions now
stand as follows:
Government, $111,730, or 16
per cent of quota; general busi-
ness, $133.100, or 80 per cent;
residential, $47,224, or 80 per
cent; city, $28,681, or 43 per
cent; Alexandria, $9,236, or 81
per cent; Arlington, $16,688, or
38 per cent; Fairfax, $3.50, or
10 per cent; Montgomery, $8,703.
or IA per cent; Prince Georges,
$9,142 or 25 per cent, and Prince
Evening star., 1953-05-12
News Of Music
By Alice Eversmon

The Arlington Chamber Music
Society, which has been very
active in its own environment,
introduced itself in the District
last night with a concert in the
Phillips Gallery. The conductor
of the approximately 25-piece
chamber orchestra is Norman
Lamb, first violist of the National
Symphony Orchestra. The mu-
sicians, from all walks Of life,
are amateurs in the sense that
music and public performance
are not their main career. The
solidity of their training and
their musical knowledge, how
ever. are by no means of the
amateur status.
The performance throughout
was clean-cut, the intonation
good and the rhythmic security
we'll established. In slower move
ments, such as the largo of the
Vivaldi-Siloti Concerto in D
Minor" and the opening adagio
of Haydn's Symphony No. 1O1,"
the quality of tone was especially
fine, being pure and smooth. The
musicians personal enjoyment
was audible in the playing, which
had devotional and concentrat-
ed spirit.
FleXibility of shading was not
so notable in. for example, the
Menuetto of the Haydn SYM
phony or in some of the sections
of Tansman'S Variations on
Theme of Frescobaldi," for Strin'
orchestra. The ingenious charac-
teristics of the latter work were
we'll underlined in the main, and
the harmonic effects came
through with excellent precision
of pitcn. The vivacious finale
of the symphony and the con-
Guiding movement of the Vivaldi-
Siloti concert were played spirit
edly and with technical exact
ness.
Mr.. Lambs choice Of program
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Arlington Chamber Group Far
From Am0teurish in Concert

was of the best, and he disclosed
a real gift for leadership. The
good quality of material in his
musicians and their earnestness
and musical sense are being
directed in channels that showed
notable results last night. 1t was
music-making that gave real
pleasure to the good-sized audi
ence which was lavish in it's ap-
plause.
The program concluded with
Moore's Farm Journal" less
polished in delivery than the
preceding numbers, but played
with full appreciation of its
honey, warmly penetrating and
sometimes humorous elements.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Jets to Be Shown

BALTIMORE, May IL (R-
Some of the Air Forces top
fighting planes will be exhibited
at Friendship International Air
port Saturday and Sunday in
observance Of Armed Forces Day.
Among those to be viewed are
the BAT Stratojet and the F-86
Sabrejet.
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Evening star., 1953-02-22

In the theater page Of The Star for
February 81. 1903. Maude Adams was
mentioned as leaving for
Theoter Europe to consult James M.
Notes Barrie about q new play.
Cecilia LOTUS had left e. Fl.
Sothern's company for fortnight'S
rest. Kyrle Bellew was giving up n1elo-
drama for comedy. Clarita Vidal had
announced that she was leaving The
Silver Slipper" to join Elsie DeWolfe
in Cynthia" Marie Tempest was COM
ing from London to play "The Marriage
Of Kitty" in New York. william Inger-
soil had married Sadie Arbuthnot in
Pittsburgh. George Richardson. . Bos-
ton newspaperman, was the author OF
the book Of '"The Rainbow ChaSerS."
Johnston Forbes Robertson had made
q sensational success in THE Light
That Failed" in England and was ex.
pected to bring the production to the
United States. Kellar the illusionist
was billed ct the Columbia, E. 8. VIII
lard In Barrie's Professors Love Story"
at the National
Washington's birthday was celebrated
at Falls Church. Va, In 1908 with ex-
erciseS ct the public
folls Church grade school. Prof. 3. G.
CeIebrotion Sine. principal. presid-
ing. Speakers included:
the Rev. r. A. Dawson. Presbyterian
Church: the Rev. w. F. Miller, MethO-
dist Church: the Rev. w. r. Woolfe,
M. E. Church South: the Rev. A. w.
Graves, Baptist Church; the Rev. Ed
ward Eellss Lewinsville. and Judge J. s.
Riley. The children sang America" ."
''The Star Spangled Banner" "Colum-.
bia, the, Gem Of the Ocean" rThe
Young MUSICIANS and "The shell
song Similar Observances were
staged IN dozens Of other towns and
villages on the perimeter Of the Na-
tion,s Capital.
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Fifty Years Ago in The Star -.

Front-page space in The Star of Feb
ruary Is. 1908, was used to announce:
by a vote Of l57
New Union Station yeas to 90 nays. the
FinoIIy Assured House Of Repre-.
sentatives today
receded from It's disagreement with the
Senate on the union station bill. The
result Of this action clears up all dis
agreements between the House and
Senate and the bill can now go to the
President for his signature. BY accept
ing the Senate provisions. which were
in the agreement, the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore and Ohio railroads will
each receive $1.500, 900. The House had
contended for cutting this amount down
to $1,0OO,000 for each Of the roads"
This money was to be applied to the
cost Of elevating tracks leading into the
new terminus.
The Star. on February IS, 1908. pub
lished q letter to Herbert Putnam,
Librarian Of Congress.
Jockson's dated February 20. 1908.
Popers and saying in part: I'VE in
herited from our father. the
late Montgomery Blair. q collection Of
papers and manuscripts consisting pri-
marily Of official and personal CORE
spOndence Of Andrew Jackson. also
memoranda and reports written by An
drew jackson and others relating to his
times and various incidents in his ca
reer. It occurs to Us that these papers,
relating as they do to personages and
events so important IN our national
history. should be In permanent place
Of deposit where they would be wen
cared for, properly classified. indexed,
fled, and with the aid Of experts be
made accessible TO historical investiga-
t0rs. The Library Of Congress. being the
national library and having an abso-
Mtely sale buil1ing with ample accom-
Evening star., 1953-02-22

The Supreme Court, on February "a.
1908, heard arguments in the case OF
Kaoru Yamataga VS..
Joponese Girls Thomas M. Fisher. i'm
ApneoI migrant and Chinese
inspector. We're Cold
thwaite appeared for the appellant, .
japanese girl, 16 years of age, who had
landed at Seattle from the steamer
Kaga Maru. July IL, 1901. "At the time
Of her landing. Kaoru." It was argued.
did not belong to any class OF aliens
forbidden entrance into the United
States by the immigration laws passed
by Congress" She did not. come into
the country surreptitiously. Two weeks
after she landed she was arrested and
imprisoned and her deportation ordered
on the charge that she was pauper.
Her attorney contended that she had
enough money to pay for her education.
A lower court allegedly had acted on
Information that was erroneous"
p. w. Dorsey Of I.aytonsville. Mont
gomery County. Md, was cited in The
Star for February 81.
Rock Greek 1903, as believing that the
Source source Of Rock Greek was
"in the yard Of my
mothers home about two miles
south Of Laytonsville.n The county sur
veyor, it seemed, was the speakers
authority. THE spring. = he explained.
.is quite large one. and is situated
at the foot of q hill. between three
large elms considerably over q century
old. The water Of the spring Is the
sweetest. coolest and purest one ever
tasted and flows. out Of the solid rock.
In the recollection Of the oldest
inhabitant the spring has never rum
dry, and tradition has it that 1t was
In existence when AL the region IN
which It Is situated was yast wilder
ness and inhabited BY Indians"
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Spires Of the Spirit
A Cargo Of Cork

Among those who 60 down in ships
to great waters, the slain Of the sea
has been many during this tempest
swept winter. Those with deep in
sights always have seen mirrored in.
the haunting dangers Of navigation
the hazards of life's tempestu0us voy-
age. With all the ingenious safety de-
vices now provided. nothing has made
obsolete the poignant petition, 20 hear
us when we cry to Thee for those In
peril on the seal" No wonder that
mans extremity, beset by an angry
ocean when round the ship in tempest
hell appears, and every specter mutters
up more direy' has ever been parable
of divine opportunity and test Of
faiths reality.
A wel1-known literary figure has re-
lated the tale Of his personal experience
aboard a ship In q terrifying storm. We
will let him tell the exciting story:
1.-THE riskiest and most uncomfortable
journey I ever made was across the
midWinter Atlantic, In q freighter
loaded with cork. That boat sped al
most as fast as the wind behind her.
and danced like debutante. But
everything about her was smashed and
she narrowly escaped laundering"
That ship and all on board were ex-
posed to dire danger because. in wild
seas, she carried too light load. To
make room for the commercial COM
modify in her hold, most Of the usual
ballast had been eliminated. She had
naught but cargo Of cork. After q
narrowing voyage, arriving safely at
the desired haven, the literary man
turned preacher as, diagnosing the
chief weakness Of his own generation,
he declared: 1--WE invited many of our
misfortunes when we threw overheard
much of the cargo (codes and stand
ards) of behavior we had accumulated
on the long journey from barbarism.
We lightened the ship. But ships and
hearts may become too light for safety.
We have gone lightly and swiftly
through recent years, but we. too.
have narrowly escaped laundering"
That man Of the pen was warning
those who are all in the same boat
that there is a certain amount Of
fundamental ballast 1t is essential to
carry for survival, for strength and for
safety.
Is this not basic truth that goes to
the very depth of today's personal and
living together problems? Is not our
day too often endeavoring to weather
the most tempestuous seas that, per-
haps. humans ever have faced, with q
minimum of faith? We have thrown
over the weighty ballast of belief. We
are endangered by a cargo Of cork.
Aboard the ship in which we battle the
fierce storms Of this mid twentieth CEN
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Anti-Communist Finland

One of the most pathetic situations
in this generally ''meSSed-up" world
was revealed in indignant newscastS
and headlines proclaiming: "Romanian
oil is being. transported to- Red China
In a tanker flying the flag Of Finland"
Before we draw haSty conclusions
about 'those Finnish CommieS," there
is probably no other country in the
world which has been single -handedly
so bitterly fighting communism within
It's borders.
This is also the country which has
been paying its World War debts to
the United States. Some Of our closer
cousins have not done SO much as
to attempt fulfilling these obligations,
but "howl for more" But then it has
been said that the mighty" Finland
has been trying to buy the friendship
of the United States"
Efforts of Finland to be seated in
the United Nations have been blocked
by Russian opposition and mere dis
interest of the So-called allied ma
tions." Russian opposition clearly in
dicates that Finland is not pro-Com-
muniSt country.
II E1IlIdI1O LdS du AOlA Cu1 Cn4AA, ~
is no more than a veil Of disinterest
set UP by the rest Of the world. who
felt, possibly, that country so little
was not worth bothering with. That
is the price paid by an independent,
Woodworking country with no world
wide political ambitions other than to
live at peace and to improve its own
internal conditions.
The Firms are not Communists.
They have fierce national pride, that
many Americans would do well to de-
velop. National pride is no shame.
The American born children Of Firms
are no less Americans than those who
can trace their forebears to the May
flower. The United States is real to
me because my parents were. In .
sense, pioneers.
Before we start using Finland as our
latest punching bag" let us try to
help restore some Of the dignity strip
Evening star., 1953-02-22
The Mightiest Name

few weeks after the death of George
Washington certain New England worthless
combined to publish a collection of eulogieS
and orations on his life and death. w. p. and
L. Blake. booksellers, and Manning and Loring,
printers with shop at 2 Cornhill Boston,
were associated in the enterprise The volume
opened with the oft-quoted eulogy Of Major
General Henry Qight-Horse Harry Lee, in
which Washington is described as "f1rst in war,
first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen" Other contributors included
George Richards Minot, Gouverneur Morris,
John Brooks, David Ramsay, Fisher Ames,
Timothy Bigelow, jeremiah Smith, Isaac Parker,
Charles Pinckney Sumner and Josiah Dunham.
Each of these collaborators devoted the
best Of his talents to paying Washington the
homage of fair appraisal; each wrote for
readers familiar with the story of Washington's
career; each risked sharp criticism Of any error.
The literary style of the time was fulSome, per-
hapS extravagant. Their audience expected the
authors to be poetical. The theme demanded
artistic treatment. But Washington could not
be spoiled by laudation. One eulogiSt after
another found himself confessing his own
inadequacy. Solely by faithful imitation, 1t
was agreed, could "the sincerity Of our grief,
the fervency Of our gratitude and the profound
veneration we feel for the character and
memory of this excellent person" be testified
Particularly stressed by all the eulogists
we're the moral qualities of the first President,
The entire book, now yellow and stained yet
still conveniently readable, anticipates the
verdict of Abraham Lincoln, set forth in 1842,
that Washington's "is the mightiest name on
earth-long since mightieSt in the cause OF civil
liberty: still mightiest In moral reformation"
His competent contemporaries saw him in q
religious light. The architect of the new Amer
lean Nation was pre-eminently an ethical and
social leader. He himself declared: 'Tis
substantially true that virtue or morality Is .
necessary spring Of popular government"
Those who paid him tribute Immediately
after as demise conformed to the view Of
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Mr.. Nehru's Strange Reasoning

For one who processes neutrality, Prime
Minister Nehru is taking a singularly one-sided
and myopic view in his criticisms Of American
policy and of our national leadership.
Obviously referring to President Eisenhower,
since the remark occurred during parliamentary
discussion of the Eisenhower state-of-the- Union
message, the Indian leader now feels that "this
intrusion of the military mentality into the
chanceries Of the world presents very great
danger" He processes to feel, also, that peace
is now being sought through war and he implies
that the principal aggressor and warmonger-
echoing charges which have been made from
Moscow-is the United States.
It is strange indeed II Mr.. Nehru has for
gotten that the Korean war was launched by
the North Korean Communists and that the
Chinese Communists later joined the conflict,
despite our meticulous care not to attack them
while they were preparing to attack us. It Is
strange, too, that Mr.. Nehru does not seem
incensed at Russian support for the North
Korean and Chinese Communists while he so
often deplores the conduct of the United Ma
tions- aided from India only by an ambulance
unit-in their defense of weak and relatively
helpless Asiatic country 1t is strange that he
does not seem deeply irritated at the fact that
only the Communists and their satellites re-
iected Indias own proposals for settlement Of the
deadlocked prisoner -of-war issue In the truce
negotiations while the Western nations where
the so-called military mentality allegedly pre-
walls accepted his country's platform
Perhaps the clue to much Of Mr.. Nehrus
thinking was found in his confession with re-
gard to the grave concern. he feels about
release Of the 7th Fleet from Formosa, when he
added: "It Is not clear to me even now what
the significance Of that decision was