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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Z Children Injured
As Day Camp Bus
SwerVes Into Tree

Twelve boys and girls were in
jured, one critically and three
seriously, yesterday when a pri-
vate day camp bus crashed
headon into tree on Route 240
about two miles south of Rock
vile, Md.
The bus. owned by Camp
Waredaca, swerved off the high
way and plowed into the tree
at about 4:30 pm. tying up traf-
f1c on the Rockville pike and
nearby Old Georgetown road for
more than an hour.
Ten of the injured were camp
ers between S and IA. The other
two were teen-age counselors.
Montgomery County police
said the 17-year-.old driver, Will
liam S. Stanley. jr., of SOIL
Greenway drive, Bethesda, was
unable to explain how the acct
dent happened. Young Stanley,
a counselor at the camp, was
treated for shock at Suburban
Hospital, then released.
Critically Injured.
OF the eight children taken to
Bethesda Naval Hospital, the
four most seriously injured were:
John Coffey. IL, of 49O8 Earl
ston drive, Wood Acres, Md,
conclusion and head cuts, condi-
ton serious.
Marcus Day III, S, of 5127 Til
den street NV, compound frac-
tured right leg, condition serious.
George Lombard, 8, of GLIB
Wynnwood road, Bethesda, rup-
tured liver, critical.
At Suburban Hospital, doctors
Cancelled a previously scheduled
operation and rushed in Chris
tine Weihe, 6, of 4801 Dexter
street NV. for removal of a rup-
tured spleen. Her condition was
as good.
Others Taken to Hospital.
Others taken to the Naval
hospital were:
Richard Lamb II, of 5201 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, broken
collar bone, condition good.
Richard Cook, 10, of 6108 We'll
born drive, Wood Acres, con-
cuSsion, cut head and bruises,
condition good.
Margaret Goldman. IS, of Alto
Upton street NV, fractured toe,
cuts and bruises, condition good.
Wilma Tulman, IA, of 42O1
Massachusetts, avenue NV,
fractured ribs and cuts
and bruises, condition good.
Robert Groom, 6, of 1914 Clos
ter road, Bethesda, multiple cuts
and bruises, condition good.
To Suburban Hospital.
Others reported taken to SUBJ
urban Hospital were:
William Kleh, z, of 7214 Old
Chester road, Bethesda, head
cuts. condition undetermined
pending X-ray.
Miss Beryl Everett, 10, of 9711
Bellevue drive, Bethesda, a coun-
selor, cuts and bruises, treated
and released.
Miss Everett, who told police
she was sitting on the middle
bench in the bus, said lit hap
pened so quickly 1 was stunned
before I knew what happe ned"
The day camp, operated by Mr..
and Mrs. Rufus Butts. is located
at Unity, Md, north of Olney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Paint Fumes Overcome
Silver Spring Resident

David L. Barrett. %, of 1912
MILFORD road, Silver Spring, was
overcome by fumes while paint
ing in his home last night,
Montgomery County police re-
ported.
The Silver Spring rescue squad
answered the call and revived
Mr.. Barrett with oxygen. He was
treated at the scene and sent to
his family physician.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Youth Hurt, Parents
Believed on Trip Here

Washington police have been
alerted to locate Mayor E. P.
Grigsby of Martin, KY, and Mrs.
Grigsby, whose son is in st.
Mary's Hospital, Huntington,
w. Va, after an auto accident.
Representative Perkins, Demo-
crat, of Kentucky, notified police
yesterday of the accident. He
said the boys parents are be-
lieved to be on a motor trip to
Washington. The boys condition
was listed as improved" from
critical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Correeidor Memorial
Bill Passes Senate
BY the Associated Press

The Senate passed and sent to
President Eisenhower yesterday
a bill to create a commission of
nine members to plan the cree
ton on Corregidor island of a re-
plica of the Statue of Liberty
as a World War II memorial.
Three Senators, three House
members and three private citi-
zens would be named on the
group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Scent Transit Fare Rise
Requested in Baltimore
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July 28.-The
Baltimore Transit Co. went be-
fore the Maryland Public Serv-
ice Commission yesterday to re-
quest a Scent increase in fares.
This would make the fares 20
cents.
The company estimated higher
rates would boost annual reve-
nue. by $2,925.000.
The only hitch-$2. 003, 225 of
that amount would have to go
for taxes. Only $921,775 would
be kept by the company, its ex-
hibitS said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
College Park Rotorions
To Hear Police Aide

1.-THE Organization and Func-
ton of the County Police De-
partment" is the topic of a
speech to be given before the
College Park Rotary Club at 6:15
pm. tomorrow.
1t. Roland B. Sweitzer. di-
rector of training of the Prince
Georges County Police Depart
ment, will be the speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Commission S
Auditor 10 Give
Data on Fares
Aeency's Testimony
Being Presented in
Capital Transit Case

The Capital Transit Co. rate
hearing was to continue today
with testimony by the Public
Utilities Commissions executive
accountant and auditor, j. Will
liam Falk.
The commission staff yester-
day began presenting evidence
in the proceedings, through
which the transit company seeks
to increase fares to 20 cents cash.
tokens five for IS cents and aboli-
ton of the weekly pass.
Fred Kleinman, an official of
the Illinois State Public Service
Commission retained by the local
commission to look into the COM
pany's rate of return. testified
he considered a fair rate would
be from 6 to GA per cent.
Seeks 7.74%c Return.
The company says its rate
during the last years period has
been Alb per cent. Through the
proposed fare increase, it seeks a
return of TIA per cent. An ear
lier expert witness presented by
the company held that 10 per
cent would not be unfair.
Mr.. Kleinman said that with
6 per cent return, the company
could earn $1,515,000 on his val
uation figure of $25,250, 900 in
physical assets used in the trans
portation operation.
Earlier yesterday, Commission
Chairman Robert E. Mclaughlin
granted permission for limited
intervention in the base by a
Howard University department
head on the contention that the
company's failure to hire colored
operators boosts fares.
Cites ColOred Patronage.
The petition of DR.. Harry j.
Walker, head of the social SCI
ence department of Howard, said
that as a colored transit rider
he represented the interests of
a group composing about 81 per
cent of the Districts population
and about so per cent of the
daily riders of the public transit
system.
Dorsey E. Lane, a law pro-
fessor at Howard, who repre-
sented DR.. Walker. declared sub
Stantial overtime wage payments
by the company would not be
needed if the company's dis
criminatory" hiring policy did
not result in insufficient person.
mel
Permission for the interven-
ton was granted over objections
of the transit company counsel
that the commission had no au-
thority to decide the employs
ment policy of the company. and
that the petition did not comply
with the time rules.
Recalls Strike Threat.
Attorney F. G. Await pointed
out also that testimony in an
earlier hearing showed an at
tempt by the company to en-
ploy colored operators brought
the threat of a strike. He added
that whenever the matter has
come up since, there have been
indications of similar reaction.
In admitting the petition, Mr..
Mclaughlin said it would not
be permitted to broaden the is
sues'at stake. Company lawyers,
however, commended that it did so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Eduerton Named Head
Of Export-Import Bank

President Eisenhower today
nominated Glen E. Edgerton,
now president and chairman of
the Board of Directors of the
Export Import Bank of Wash
ington, to be managing director.
the title he assumes under re-
organization of the agency.
At the same time, the Presi-
dent nominated Lynn U. SIAM
baugh to be deputy director.
Mr.. Stambaugh is a member
of the Board of Directors of the
bank which Is abolished under
the reorganization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
PROGRAM for Toniohf

Programs presented by The
Evening Star through the CO.
operation of the District, Arling-
ton County, Prince Georges
County, Montgomery County and
Alexandria Recreation Depart
ments and the Film Center of
Washington:
Washington, at Dusk.
Lafayette, Oliver and Broad
Branch road NV.
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth and
Taylor streets NV.
Turkey Thicket. Tenth street
and Michigan avenue NE.
Davis, Forty-fourth place and
H street NE.
Jefferson. Eighth and H streets
S.W.
HillcreSt, Thirty-second and
Denver streets Sc.
Park View, Otis and Warder
streets NV.
Bundy. 429 o street NV.
Carver, Nottingham and
Lane streets NE.
Barry Farms, 1880 Sumner
road Sc.
Arlington County, $3.50 PM.
Walter Reed. 1914 North Nc
Kinley road.
Four Mile Run, Four Mile Run
drive and South Sixteenth street.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 PM.
Fairmont Heights Playground.
6003 Jost street, Fairmont
Heights.
Muirkirk, Muirkirk.
Montgomery County, $3.50 Pm.
Cabin John, TAPS Macarthur
boulevard, Cabin John.
Ritchie, Richie and Geneva
avenues, Takoma Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Acting Director
Of New District
Agency Named
Col. Evans to Head
Inspection and
License Setup

The Commissioners today
named Assistant Engineer Com
missioner Giles L. Evans, jr.. to
be acting director of the new
Department of Licenses and In
Spection created under District
reorganization.
The designation of Col. Evans
Is effective August Is, pending
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Joseph Campbell Takes
Oath as Acc Member
BY the Associofed Press

Joseph Campbell was sworn in
yesterday as a member of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Rear Admiral Ira Num-, judge
advocate general of the Navy,
administered the oath in a cere-
mony at the Acc Building.
Mr.. Campbell, SO, left the vice
presidency of Columbia Univer-
Sity to take the post vacated
by T. Keith Glennan, who re-
signed last November.
, 1953-11-18

which means that every time an article is handled from
importer to the ultimate consumer this increase will be
added and passed on.
() The provision that in mo occupation, business or INDUS
A@ try shall there be established minimum wages or work
mo conditions lower than those fixed IN said occupation,
business or industry by the laws in any Municipality or
Of the United States, or a maximum OF working hours IN
excess Of that established in said laws may be con-
strued as meaning that the same minimum wages being
paid in the Continental United States shall be paid here.
Wage scales in force in the United States are deter
mined by arbitration rather than legislation and a mini
mum amount of work of a specified quality is guaran-
teed. This bill fixes wages by law with no guarantee to
the employer that he will receive fair return for the
wages paid
fcl The power vested in the Board to. appoint its own per-
s@nnel allows it to determine its own size and payroll
6) This bill also sets up a board with personnel who must
he reid by the taxpayer without any 1ndlcauon OF
where the necessary fundsswill be obtained.
WORKING A BILL
are opposed to this bill as written for the following
reasons:
1) The paragraph dealing with closing Of business esta-
blishments as provided by law is indefinite and confus-
ing.
b) Continual reference IS made to collective labor agree
ments or contracts. We believe such terms used in legis-
lahve hills are nreiudicial and lmWa1ranted.
(l The placing of responsibility Of payment OF wages upon
tthn. csvnel al ner on for wien work 3 doae g Con-
tractor, suscontracfor. foreman, AGENT or ren'eeenta-
tive Of the emrlover utilities the essence of contractu-
raj or bonded responsibility.
(d1 This lin exonpts 6rsToye-s Of the Insular Government,
Municipal Government or the agencies and instrument
talitaes of said Government. With this exemption plus
the employees Of Federal Government and its agencies
or instrumentalties, this bill will be applicable to the
minority Of employees in the Municipality and makes
it a discriminatory measure.
EXCISE TAX BILL
Realizing the need for increased revenue, the Chamber
is not opposed to efforts to increase income through taxation.
But, we feel that the proposed Excise Tax Bill as written,
will be detrimental to the economic welfare of the comrnu-
nifty.
The following points have been found Objectionable:
() The ~ gross receipts adds a burden of taxation upon
the ultimate consumer, far IN excess Of the 1@ speclfled.
nv this tax each time the goods progress through the
, 1953-11-18
WEDNESDAY,, NOVEMBER 10, 1858
CORRESPONDENCE;
sT.CRoK CHAMBER POINTS OUT FLAWS
IN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BILLS
RREsPoNDENcE

The following ietter-dated November l6. 1858 was sent to
the Hon. Walter i M. Hodge, chairman of the Legislative
Assemble Of the VIRGIN IaandsnoW N session u stslhomas.
After careful study and discussion Of the bills before the
present Assembly, The StCroix C~hanberof Commerce feels
that it might be helpful if we communicated to you the sen
timent of the Chamber regarding bills which we feel are con-
troversial. Specifically the Rent Control Bill Minimum
Wage Board Bill Working DaysBills Excise Tax Bill and.
Real Estate Bill Nc
lent CONTROL BILL
We are opposed to this biHtfor the following reasons:
(( Section1yby s~ettsngthe base period for rents as July lst,
1850, takes no cogntzance Of the fact that labor costs
were increased 33-1I3@ in July 1852, and continues to
increase, and t%hatimport taxes were increased from z
to so during the past year and sanitary requirements
have now been added: all these factors contribute to in
crease of maintaining property without consideration
for increasing income.
trols in an endeavor to give private enterprise more OPP
Lortunty, we believe that if IS i'll advised for the Virgin
Islands to enact legislation in direct opposition to esta-
blished and announced Federal Policy
(c) The limitation Of rents tt 10% Of the invested capital will
tend to discourage investment in new buildings and
make it virtually impossible for owners of buildings
purchased IN a low market to maintain and operate
these buildings.
ID This bill sets no a new office and Commissioner, the ex-
pense for which must be borne by the taxpayer without
any visible source Of revenue.
MINIMUM WAGE BOARD BILL
We oppose this bill for the following reasons:
(a) The rrovieion for an Annual vacation and Sick Leave,
with ray, fills to take into account the fact that labor
costs las differentiated from hourly wage) in st. Croix
are already high. These provisions will increase the
cost ,oT labor, wherever and whenever used by 12%
t4#saMs#m
, 1953-11-18

The following ietter-dated November l6. 1858 was sent to
the Hon. Walter M. Hodge, chairman of the Legislative
Assembly, of the VIRGIN I~slandsnoW in session in StThomas.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25
By LEE METCALF

Even though President Eisenhower
recommended it in a special message
to Congress, it didn't look as if we
were going to get legislation to lib
eralize, extend and improve our So
cial Security system.
Dan Reed of New York, Republi-
can Chairman of the House of the
Ways and Means Committee, turned
all legislation on this subject over
ordered to study the whole program
The special subcommittee is headed
by an avowed enemy of the Social
Security program.
| felt better after learning that
Mr.. Reed has predicted that his COM
mittee will act quickly next year to
broaden and strengthen" the So
cial Security program.
He suggested three specific re-
forms in the system which now pro,
vides government death or retirement
benefit coverage to bout 65 million
Americans. They include:
First, to extend the system to COW
err million not now covered. (Mr.
Eisenhower has proposed extend
ing coverage to about 101a million
doctors, lawyers, farmers and 9TH
ers.)
Second, to increase the present
$25 monthly minimum retirement
benefit
Third, to increase the amount
beneficiaries may earn without los
ing their social security benefits.
| was pleased to see Mr.. Reeds
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25
METCALF ENCOURAGED BY PROPOSALS
TO IMPROVE SOCIAL SECURITY

statement. Our Old Age and Surviv-
ors Insurance program has been one
of the soundest and most business
like operations of our Federal gov
eminent. 1t has meant income and life
to millions of Americans over 65.
True, it has faults-but let's not tear
down the house because the roof
leaks.
For up to Is years, workers, en-
ployers and self-employed have been
contributing to OASI. If contributors
wish to retire under the present law
after reaching age 65, they receive
monthly checks ranging from S25 to
$1,000, depending on how much
they earned while they were paying
into OASI.
Behind OASI is reserve fund of
SIS billion earning interest. This
fund was built up by the present
excess of contributions over bene-
fit payments. The fund, together
with the interest it earns and the
regularly increasing contribution
rate, is needed to support benefit
levels over the long run.
There are those who would re-
place this sound program with what
they call ''pay-as-you-go" system.
This system would exhaust the re-
serve fund; pay only $25 month
to retired persons; change our con-
social insurance program in
to a charity and relief system sup
ported by higher taxes with the bur-
den greatest on low income groups.
1t would make the States responsible
for assistance, abandoning our we'll
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25

established program in which Federal
funds go to the States to aid depend
ent mothers and children, crippled
children. the blind and disabled.
Those who would make this change
propose to freeze" social security
contributions at their present level
of 11a % and to roll back the in
crease to two per cent effective next
Jan. 1 as Savings" to the worker.
To so argue would be the same
as a wife saying to her husbands:
Let's not pay your insurance
premium next month. Think of the
money we'd save"
What happens if the contribution
rate doesn't rise on schedule? Bene
fit payments will begin to exceed con
tributions plus interest on the fund
as early as 1856 and the reserve fund
will be on a hand-to-mouth (pay-as-
if you prefer basis and your
benefits would depend not upon your
but upon Congress,
which would have to appropriate the
each year.
This is not the kind of Improve
nent" President Eisenhower wants
n social security Nor is it mine.
Nor, fortunately, is it the wish of
some of the key members of the Re-
publican party in Congress.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25
PRIVATE POWER DAM
COSTS TAXPAYERS MORE
THAN SIS MILLION

VANCOUVER, Wash. -(CNS)-
There's one that hasn't cost you g
cent in taxes" screams a power com
pany ad in GOLFERS November II.
It pictures Washington Water Power
Company's big, O,OOO-kilowatt Cab
met Gorge hydro electric dam on the
Clark Fork river in Idaho.
But it's all a "big lie," says Gus
Norwood, executive secretary of Pa
cific Northwest Public Power As
ISOLATION. Through a fast tax write
off, Norwood, says, WWP is getting
50 million interest-free loan from
the U. S. treasury during each of
the next five years-$10,181,1 95 in
ALTO build the DAM
Washington Public Service Com
mission rulings entitle any electric
utility to normal SO profit on it's
investment. Assuming that WWP
makes only the so profits guaran-
teed by the state agency, the federal
tax privilege will mean S55.8 mil
lion to WWP over the 40 years it
would normally take depreciation on
the dam, Norwood says.
This assumes corporate income tax
rates don't drop; if they should,
WWP's bonanza will be even greater
If WWP uses it's interest-free loan
from the taxpayers so as to make
more than so profits, again the $558
million is underestimate.
Meanwhile" says Norwood, "tax-
payers will pay interest on that part
of the national debt occasioned by
the indulgence granted WWP. Be-
yond that, Cabinet Gorge dam would
ut be feasible without federal con-
5truction of Hungry Horse dam to
provide upstream storage.
cts an affront to public decency
for WWP and 125 other firms to
sponsor this ad. While lodging mil
ions in taxes, these firms make their
helpless customers pay for such prop
Uganda as the GOLFERS ad."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25
LETTERS TO The EDITOR

! This is because socialist economy fol
| raising living standards does not re
| Quire war for foreign markets, MOI
| preparation for war for artificial mar
l1ets at home. Not that Communist:
are any better Christians than we OF
Capitalist economy
Instead of seven years ago, as the
strongest power on earth, meeting Rus
STA then weak from the Hitler inva-
sion, on what the most and the best
people of all the world want,-com-
plete disarmament-we put on an arms
race.
Any totalitarian nation, other things
being equal, can win an arms race
against a capitalist nation.
BY complete totalitarianism under
Woodrow Wilson, we won War 1. BY
the same complete Recommendation und-
er Roosevelt we won War II. Now
Churchill and Bidault we'll know that
we are distanced so far in the arma-
ment race that we cannot catch up.
France is about to renew her his
toric alliance with Rusais
Why? The Western Alliance has
about 1000 fighting planes in Europe.
The Soviet Union has 10000. In sub
marines Russia vastly outnumbers us.
Russia has the Hydrogen bomb besides
the atom bomb. We have been beaten
in Korea. France is willing to turn
her seven years war in Indo- China over
to Mike Mansfield to fight from now
on, (after his success for Chang Kai-
Shek).
In spite of Mccarthy, Britain, France,
Scandinavia, South America are trad
inng freely with China, Russia, and all
other Communist countries. (Our mer-
chants are doing the same thing-on
the anticipating commissions to mer-
chants in Amsterdam and Hong Kong)
If France wants to go Communist,
we can do nothing about it. Guata-
mala on the Gulf of Mexico has gone
Communist. Saskatchewan, North of
Eastern Montana, is quite nearly so.
The President should have offered
complete disarmament, not the COM
promise of a Suppliant
Churchill and the French at Ber-
muda were right clever. They realized
that France and England are helpless,
and America is beaten in the same
race, so they induced the President to
present the case of Suppliants.
The longer it goes, the further be-
hind we will get in the armament race,
in the friendship of the rest of the
world for our power.
We are already suppliants. We may
become beggarS if we lose prestige
and power in the next five years as
fast as we have in the last five
Let the President omit half way
and offer outlawing of all
aerial bombs, atomic, Hydrogen, and
any others that may be invented*. The
Communist nations and other rulers,
except Franco, Adenauer, Chang Kai-
Shek and Syngman Rhee would agree
by airmail special delivery.
Then Eisenhower would be the great
name for a thousand years
Franklin d. Roosevelt would have
done it if he had lived a year longer |
Adlai Stevenson, however, is not that
zig. He might join Knowland, Mans |
'ield, Mccarthy in Indo China
4OWNDES MAURY, Butte
And, how about ALL OTHER weap- |
ms of war?-EDITOR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25
Too Little and Too Late

President Eisenhower's address to
the United Nations, just after his meet
ing with the more seasoned diplomats
from Britain and France that every
member that has any Atomic supplies,
contribute some to a pool for use of
atomic power industry, is headlined by
our daily Press as an offer of peace to
the Communist half of the world.
This offer should have been for com
plete world disarmament
Since the old League of Nations, the
Soviet Union has sought complete dis
arma ment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-25

Three out of four people in the
U. S. feel their best hope for peace
is United Nations. Two-thirds of these
prefer to have the Soviet Union re-
main in the world organization. These
were the findings of a nationwide
Elmo Roper opinion poll, made pub
lie December IA. The survey showed
only go of the people willing to
withdraw from all information ar
rangements.