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Evening star., 1953-09-08

employees would be permitted and
encouraged to represent their
constituents more effectively"
More than 1900 persons at
tended the mass, which was
celebrated by the Most Rev. Pat
rick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop Of
Washington.
High Officials Attend.
Among the labor leaders,
Government and diplomatic Of
ficials present were Secretary
OF Labor Martin P. Durkin and
AFL President George Meany.
Following the service Secre-
tary Durkin laid a wreath at
the statue in front of Sacred
Heart of James Cardinal Glib
bonS, one of the earliest de-
tenders of the labor movement
within the church.
During the ceremony, Secre-
tary Durkin characterized Cardi-
nal Gibbons a. man of great
vision (Whose) statements in
defense of mans right to form
labor unions :. marked him as
a champion Of the downtrodden. +"
He said it was especially fit
ting that the first annual Labor
Day Mass here take the form of
a tribute to the Cardinal.
Evening star., 1953-09-08
Chute Leap Injuries
Detroit Politician

DETROIT, Sept. "a para
chuting politician narrowly
missed serious injury yesterday
when he jumped from plane
over the Detroit River for the
second time in two weeks.
Don Taylor, Sc, who staged the
parachute leaps to add zest to
his campaign for Detroit Mayor
in this falls election, missed the
river this time and dropped on
the Windsor, Ontario, water
front. He suffered several cuts
and was shaken up when he
grazed wires and the side Of a
waterfront building in the neigh
boring Canadian city.
Last time Mr.. Taylor hit his
target and was fished out of the
river by friends and the Coast
Guard.
Evening star., 1953-09-08
300 Accused Of Plot
Seized in BoIiviu
By The Assoeioted Press

LA PAz, Bolivia. Sept. g.
President Victor Paz Estenssoro's
government disclosed today that
it is holding some 800 political
prisoners accused of plotting
against the regime.
But Interior Minister Federico
Forum told a news conference
the government isn't worried. He
said the alleged plotterS were
"only a small group who offered,
no threat to the government and
are dangerous only to them
selves" Mr.. Paz Estenssoro. he
added, has no fear of being
OVerthroWn.
Evening star., 1953-09-08
GEORGETOWN, Art Exhibit

Artists living in Georgetown
may show their works at an art
exhibit to be sponsored by the
Georgetown Presbyterian Church
on October 10 at the church,
Bis p street NV. For informa-
ton call Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
King, Dupont 7-0S59.
Evening star., 1953-09-08
/ 10000 Visit Fair
In Northern Virginia
On Opening Day

The Northern Virginia Fair
south of Alexandria rolled into
it's second day today still aiming
at a total attendance of more
than 100000 during it's six-day
stand.
+ It got off to a good start yes
1 terday despite a rain-caused de-
lay in setting up. An estimated
10000 people tromped through
the grounds at the Hybla Valley
Airport on U. S. Route /, 4
miles south of Alexandria.
Featured on today's schedule
are a floral exhibit and judging
of homemakers' displays. The
United States Marine Band will
play at 8 pm. today. =
Rains Delay Midway.
The fair opened at noon yes
terday. even though the midway
was nowhere near complete.
Heavy rains over the week end
had prevented the amusement
conceSSionaires from setting up
their stands and equipment.
They got them going in time for
last nights crowd, however.
| The tent exhibits of livestock,
shiny new cars and other civic
and commercial endeavorS were
ready for the opening crowds.
The livestock tent, as it always
does at fairs so close to large
metropolitan areas, attracted
many children and older men
children coming to see farm
animals for the first time and
oldsters remembering a day
when you didn't have to go to a
fair to see them.
BrOyhill Attends.
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican of Virginia's 10th dis
trict, and Barbara Holly, 49,
year-old queen of the fair, Off
cially opened the exposition and
helped judged its first competi-
tion--a kiddie's pet parade.
Bunny Baber, IA. of Groveton
won the $25 first prize in the pet
review. Bunny's pet is a hand
some mare named Juna. She
rode dressed as an Indian
maiden.
The fair will be open every
afternoon and evening through
Saturday. Daily attractions in
clude a high-wire act every day
at 4 and 1880 pm. and a fire.
works display at 8 pm.
The fair is being sponsored by
the Mount Vernon District Lions
Club and the Penn-Daw Volun-
teer Fire Department.
Cot, Asleep, Rouses Town
Villagers of HorSell, Scotland,
awakened by the sound of a
horn. found a cat sleeping
Evening star., 1953-09-08
Beautiful Motorists

knowledge of highway safety
rules was included in the list OF
attainments required of candi-,
dates in a beauty contest held In
Bioemfontein. South Africa.
Evening star., 1953-09-08

Cot, Asleep, Rouses Town
Villagers of Horsell, Scotland,
awakened by the sound of a
horn. found cat sleeping
peacefully on the handlebar
horn of a motorcycle.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Torch Burglars Burn Into Safe,
But ST. ,50OLo MoyBeSinged

operation, one Of the thieves
crawled through and opened
double back doors. The thieves
pulled the safe from behind the
prescription counter and tumbled
it down stairs to the basement.
They took an alarm clock from
a basement kitchen, set it on
the floor beside the safe, and
went to work. The thieves ap-
parently used water to cool the
safe occasionally, Sergt. Tram
nell said.
But the policeman said the
water probably did not keep most
of the money from burning. Po-
lice found a penny and a nickel
fused together. They also found
a badly charred money bag.
Several other money bags,
which contained receipts from
yesterday, were missing. Pvt.
John Sanders, walking his beat
at 4::30 am, checked the back
door and found nothing amiSs.
At 5:45 am. a cruising police car
noticed the door standing wide
open.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
10th Century Photography
Records PAGEANT of History

Authorities explain it as Artist
Brumidi's whimsy.
The frieze shown here in four
panels was photographed by a
commercial photographer on a
single negative and produced on
single strip print by the Naval
Photographic Laboratory.
To do it, the camera was CEN
tered and leveled on scaffolding
in the exact center of the ro-
tunda, it's lens equidistant from
all points of the 300-foot circle.
Because there was slight sway
at the top of the 65-foot scaffold,
four guy wires were used to
steady it for the electrically re-
volved camera.
More than an hour was re-
quired to get the camera in
proper location and leveled. The
photographing could be done
only at night to insure uniform
lighting by electricity.
After 80 minutes on the first
try. the film was developed at
the Capitol. Several more ex-
posures were made with in
creased lighting. The final re-
suit was printed by the Navy.
Evening star., 1953-12-11

Clock-watching SafecrackerS.
at least one of whom was tall
and thin, used an acetylene torch
to cut open a half-ton safe at a
Northeast drug store, but may
have burned most of the $500
loot in the process, police re-
ported today.
The thieves used a torch
stolen from a nearby garage to
crack the safe at a Peoples drug
store at 1919 H street NE. De-
tective Sergt. A. F. Trammelle
said the job apparently was done
in an hour and a half.
Police said the safecrackers
stole ladder, the torch. ham
mer and other tools from the
Northeast Auto Body Works.
1889 H street NE.
They used the ladder to climb
to the drugstore roof, then
hauled the ladder up after them.
They removed a ventilator from
the roof and forced apart thin
bars over the opening to a dis
tance of less than a foot.
AS police reconstructed the
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Fairfax Votes 10 Use
Annex as School for
Handicapped Pupils

The old annex of the Fairfax
Elementary School is to be con-
verted into a special school for
handicapped children.
The School Board voted last
night to establish the school for
handicapped in the four-room
annex. Glasses for handicapped
children now are held in two
rooms of the Crossman Metho-
dist Church in Falls Church.
School officials estimate the
annex can be ready for handi-
capped classes by February. The
annex was used for regular school
classes until this fall, when
completion of the new Westmore
Elementary School and the Fair
fax Elementary addition made it
no longer necessary. It still is
being used for Fairfax Ele-
mentary Band rehearsals.
A third teacher for handi-
capped children will be hired
after classes begin in the annex.
The School Board instructed
Supt. w. T. Woodson to seek
approval from the State Depart
ment of Education for using
double shifts at Fairfax High
School next fall until the new
Annandale High School is COM
pleted. The double shifts prob
ably would be accomplished by
shortening the time for each
class period. instead of reducing
the number of periods.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Fairfax FreehoIders Charge
Bond Issue Would Boost T ak

the county are confident there
will be enough sewer customers
to pay of the entire issue with
service charges and connection
fees Financial advisers recon-
mend the revenue-type, tax
backed bonds. however, because
they feel the county can get a
lower interest rate on them than
on a pure revenue bond issue.
Mr.. Massey last night ad-
dressed the Herndon Lions Club
and the Poplar Heights Civic
Association, explaining details of
the proposed bond issue. 1t
would provide an additional 199
miles of sewers.
County Sanitary Engineer
Harry Hale outlined the sewer
program to the Mount Vernon
Citizens Association, which al
ready is on record in support OF
it He exhibited maps showing
the proposed new sewers in
Mount Vernon District. One
area, now known as Sanitary
District No. 6, cannot finance a
sewer system of its own without
passage of the $20-million bond
issue, said Mr.. Hale.
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Montgomery Route 28 to Get
Long-Needed Repairs Soon

from Darnestown to the county
line, the agency has earmarked
$4O5, 900 for construction costs
and $1,000 for engineering. in-
cluding the bridges. The Fred
erick County portion is set at
$92, 900, $4,000 of which is for
construction. The Rockville end
is estimated at total OF
$4,000.
When complete. it will mark
the end of a face-lifting pro-
gram for Route % that began
some years ago. Last January.
the commission finished a dan
gerous mile stretch between
Hunting Hill and Darnestown. It
Strengthened out number Of
nightmarish curves and hills at
a cost of some $250,000.
State Route %. besides its use
for farm traffic, provides an
alternate to Frederick, via U. S.
Route Is. Route Is, going south,
crosses the Potomac River at
Point of Rocks. Md.
Evening star., 1953-12-11

A pictorial history Of the
Americas. 76 years in the max
ing, has been completed in the
Capitol rotunda frieze.
It's 18 sections depicted in
fresco circle the 300-foot rotunda
in continuous panel eight feet,
three inches high-the work of
three artists.
The first was Constantine
Brumidi, who designed the first
Is panels and actually executed
six and part of the seventh
from 1877 until his death in 1880.
The seventh was completed
and the other eight done on the
Brumidi design by Filippo Cos
taggini from 1880 to 1888. The
final 80 feet of the frieze, COW
ering the Civil War, the Spanish
American war and the birth of
aviation in the United States,
were designed and executed by
New York artist Allyn Cox in
1952-1953.
Viewers Of the finished frieze
have remarked on the similarity
of the two panels on the Plym-
outh colony and the Pilgrims
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Quantico Boy, 9 Months,
GuIps Aspirin and Dies

A 9-month-old boy died yes
terday at Children's Hospital Of
an aspirin overdose.
The victim was Joseph r.
Tucci. jr.. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. F. Tucci of Quantico, Va. Vir-
ginia State police said the boy
swallowed too many candy
favored aspirin after his mother
had given him a proper dose.
Joseph was rushed to Chill
dren's Hospital by his parents.
but died soon after reaching the
hospital. Police ruled the death
accidental.
DR.. Richard Rosenberg, deputy
District coroner, certified that
death was caused by the aspirin
overdose.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Pepco 10 Continue
Higher Rate Pending
Commission Review

Further court action seemed
likely today to determine if the
ruling which blocked the $2.6
million rate increase granted the
Potomac Electric Power Co.
means that the company cannot
continue to charge the higher
rate pending review by the Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
A spokesman for Pepco said
the company intends to continue
the increased charges unless a
change is definitely ordered.
A spokesman for the Cap
ital Transit Co., which is dis
putting the rate increase, said he
believes the ruling yesterday
voids the rate rise which was
granted by the commission in
1851.
1t seemed probable that some
action will be taken to try to
get judicial ruling on the issue.
Lower Court Reversal.
The U. S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia re-
versed a lower court ruling
which upheld the utility COM
missions grant.
The appellate court, holding in
general that the findings in sup
port of the specific rate rise were
insufficient, directed that the
whole matter be remanded back
to the commission. But the
court did not spell out whether
the rise is actually voided at this
time.
The court also held that the
commission made insufficient
findings to back up the reason
ableness of a 51a per cent rate
of return granted Pepco on the
base rate.
Court DiSagrees.
On this point the court split
with Judge Charles Fahy holding
the return had sufficient basis
for approval while Chief Judge
Harold Stephens and Judge Will
bur K. Miller ruled the findings
in support of the grant we're in
sufficient.
Judge Stephens declared that
it Is necessary in reaching a de-
cision as to a reasonable rate of
return under the prudent in
vestment theory of rate regula-
ton to make findings upon
the return necessary to service
the outstanding funded debt
Of the utility. the return neces-
sary to service its preferred stock
the return necessary to at
tract investors in common stock
and similar financial factors.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Race Relations Study
Urged by AIexundriun
By the Associofed Press

RICHMOND, Dec. 11.-Dele-
gate Armistead L. Boothe of
Alexandria said yesterday he
hopes the 1854 General Assem-
bly, will establish a commission
to study race relations in Vir-
ginia. ....
The legislator was not ready
to say whether he would offer
legislation to create such a group.
He said he would refer to the
group "all phases Of the prob
lens Of race relations" Mr..
Boothe unsuccessfully sponsored
q similar proposal in 1850.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Father Of 4 Dies Of Polio;
Wife ParaIyzed in Hospital
BY she A.soeieisd Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. lid
ward p. Robertson. 34-year-old
telephone worker from Hagers-
town and father of four children.
died yesterday in Baltimore City
Hospital after a month-long
battle with polio. His wife also
is hoSpitalized with polio.
Mr.. Robertson. maintenance
repairman for the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co., was
stricken November II.
His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Rob-
ertSon, is at Washington County
Hospital, with most Of her body
paralyzed.
The four children are staying
with relatives in Hagerstown.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
.YuIe Seal Buyers
Warned Against
Collector at Door

Racketeers may be trying to
cut in on the money raised by
Christmas Seal sales to fight
tuberculosis.
The Better Business Bureau
reported today that at least one
phony house-to-house collector
has attempted to collect Christ
mas Seal money in Northeast
Washington.
The District tuberculosis AS
sociation emphasized that it has
no solicitors working on house
toulouse basis. Seals are sold
only by mailing them to citi-
zens. or through So booths scat
tered among the city's banks.
theaters, hotels. post Offices and
department stores.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Guilty or Not?
Mt All Depends on
Where You Stand

A woman charged with reck-
less driving turned out to be q
passenger not even able to drive
a car. in a misunderstanding
cleared up in Hyattsville traffic
court yesterday.
The defendant was Mrs. Lillian
Goodman, Akron, Ohio. The day
after Thanksgiving she was in
a friends car involved in a
three-car accident in Berwyn
Heights.
AS nearly as any one could
figure out in court, Mrs. Good
man was charged along with the
three other drivers, merely be-
cause she was standing with
them when they put up collateral
with a justice Of the peace in
HyattSville.
Evening star., 1953-12-11

Route %, the farm -to-market
road through upper Montgomery
County, soon will get that long
promised repair job between
Darnestown and Route Is in
Frederick County.
The Maryland State Roads
Commission says bids will be
opened at Baltimore at noon
Tuesday for resurfacing of the
nearly 16-mile stretch.
Contracts also will be awarded
soon on two bridge projects
within the same stretch, one
near Beallsville and the other
across Great Seneca Creek near
Jacksonville.
The Beallsville bridge was
washed out during a rainstorm
last August, causing a 400-foot
detour.
Bids on it were received in
Baltimore on Tuesday, and the
apparent low bidder out of 10
was the Wright Contracting Co.
of Columbus, Ca, which offered
to do the work for $39.225. 1t
consists Of widening a box cul-
vert where Route % crosses Dry
Seneca Creek.
Bridge Too Small.
The Great Seneca bridge,
found to be inadequate when
heavy rains frequently send the
creek raging over its banks. has
been the scene of several acci-
dents in recent years. About a
year ago, three priests and their
car were swept off the bridge
and downstream. They managed
to cling to the car until res
cued by the Upper Montgomery
County Fire Department.
When the State Roads Com
mission announced the Route
% program, it was part of the
first four years of its projected
12-year master highway plan
which gets under way in 1854.
But according to District
Engineer Roland E. Jones at
Laurel, the project has been
given top priority. Instead OF
the first four years, it will be
completed by the end of the first.
Although bids on the resur-
facing are being opened next
Tuesday, the work won't be
started until after next March
Is. That is because it will be
bituminous surfacing and the
weather won't permit such work
before spring.
Different Situation.
The bridges will be a different
story, Mr.. Jones said. Work will
begin soon after the contracts
are awarded. to make sure that
both the road and bridges are
finished about the same time.
Mr.. Jones said the entire
project should be completed in
late 1854.
The resurfacing contract calls
for 13 % miles from Darnestown
| to the Montgomery County line,
and about 2.78 miles in Fred
erick County. Another portion
of the same contract provides
| for resurfacing of little over a
mile of Montgomery avenue
! through Rockville beginning at
alternate Route 240 and extend
ing to a point just north Of
Nelson avenue.
The whole thing will cost more
than $500. 900, according to the
12-year plan. For the portion
Evening star., 1953-12-11
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Forces opposed to Fairfax
County's proposed $40 million
sewer bond issue today warned
that it would saddle county tax
payers with too much debt, and
ultimately lead to higher taxes.
The proposed bond issue will
be voted on in a referendum
Tuesday. The county proposes
to pay OF the entire debt with
sewer service charges and con-
nection fees.
Opposed by Freeholders.
Statements in opposition to
the bond issue came from officers
and directors of the Freeholders
Protective Association, and from
Walter B. Jamison of the Fair
fax County Taxpayers Associa-
ton.
According to the Freeholders,
passage of the bond issue would
increase Fairfax County's debt
to "a per cent of assessed prop
erty values. The Freeholders
claim this is higher than any
other county in the metropolitan
area.
"It will become extremely diff
ficult to float bond issues for
schools and other purposes.
warned the FreeholderS. They
charged that the sewer program
would "only help a few large
developers Of substandard houS-
ing projects"
Sees No Loan Failure.
County Executive c. c. Massey
said future school bonds un-
doubtedly would become less at
tractive with passage of the
sewer bond issue. He said this
might result in higher interest
charges on future school bonds,
but he could not foreSee that it
would be impossible to sell adj
ditional school bonds when
needed.
The Freeh0lders recommended
that the county resort to one of
three alternatives: Enlarge Sani-
tary District No. l to take in all
adjoining districts that need
sewers, create a sanitation au-
thority to provide sewers, or
continue establishment of sep
arate sanitary districts to pro-
vide sewers.
Mr.. Jamison called the pro-
posed bond issue unavoidable
and unrealistic. He said the
county'S sewer problems re.
suited from poor planning and
ineficient CO ordination OF
county operations"
Mr.. JamiSon said he believed
it would be impossible to pay of
the entire $40 million bond issue
by levying service charges anc
connecting feeS-even if the con-
Meeting fees could be collected
He charged that advocates of the
bond issue are aware of this
weakness and for that reason
made it q unsupported bond
issue.
"This means" he said, "that
any deficiencies occurring in the
operation of the proposed prof.
ect can only be Offset by sub
stantial countrywide increase ir
already burdensome county
taxes"
Mr.. Massey defended the
supervisors promise to pay of
the bond issue with service
charges and connection fees
He said engineers employed by
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Group to Give PIoy

The Walther League Players
of Trinity Lutheran Church will
present arsenic and Old Lace"
at BIS o'clock tonight and to-
morrow in the Trinity Lutheran
School Auditorium, 3705 Long
fellow street, Hyattsville.-
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Ministers Elect

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Dec. II (SpeciaD DIR. w. p.
Watkins, pastor of the First
Methodist Church, has been
elected president of the Abe
marie Ministerial Association to
succeed the Rev. David Burr,
minister at the Charlottesville
PRESBYTERIAN Church.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Bond Picks President

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Dec. II (SpeciaD Martin A.
Gardner, second year college
student from Trenton, N. j., has
been elected president of the
University of Virginia Band.
Evening star., 1953-12-11
Class Holidays Announced

The University of Virginia
Center in Arlington announces
that its Christmas holidays will
begin at the close of classes on
Wednesday. December %. Glass.
work will resume on January 4.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
BUSINESS PROP. FOR SALE

SPECIAL BARGAIN, downtown. facing
lge. Govt. bldg.-lge. store, Q rms.
In rear; 2-car brick garage; B apis.
Bldg. rs #. by so IT, Rent. So 800
per VI. Priced to sell. Spectators
7-5216 p
Evening star., 1953-09-07
INVESTMENT & INSURANCE
$3.50 DOWN

Assume Az loan. balance with terms
3 hedrms, Many extra features
Large lot, beautifully Handicapped
Sep, dining rnl. All in excellent
cond, To inspect, call Mr.. LanSdale
LO. 4-7424; evenings. JU S-4371
Colonial Investment Co.