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Evening star., 1953-07-20
House Starts Debate
On Bill 10 Drop Tax on
Movie Admissions
By Robert K. Walsh

The Federal tax on admissions
to motion picture theaters was
cast in a role likely to hold the
sympathetic but not speechless
attention of the House today.
A bill to remove the 20 per
cent levy comes up for debate.
It had favorable review by the
Ways and Means Committee
which overwhelmingly recon-
mended passage. 1t does not
have the backing of the Eisen-
hover administration fiscal di-
rectorS. Moreover it is viewed
without rose colored glasses by
some Republican leaders who
fear it will release numerous
other tax-cutting projections.
Its main sponsor. Representa-
tive Mason, Republican, Of Illi-
nOis predicts congressional ap-
proval before the August l ad-
journment. other advocates
note that almost so House men,
bers last April urged the Ways
and Means Committee to ap-
prove bill of this kind to ease
an especially acute situation in
the entertainment industry.
House debate may center
largely on how much the re-
moval Of the excise tax on movie
admissions would cost the Gov
ernment. whether movie-goers
would save money on tickets,
whether the tax ought to be
lowered instead of eliminated,
and whether the tax itself is
the real VILLAIN" in the motion
picture theater's plight.
Mr.. Mason estimates that re-
moval of the tax would result IN
a drop of about 500 million a
year in revenue. Treasury Off
cials say the loss would be closer
to 5000 million. Other admin
istrative or congressional author
tiles frown at the idea of looping
off that much income. especially
after the recent hard fight to
get an additional $500 million by
extending the excess profits tax.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Ex-0fficer Accuses
AGENT as Bust Valued
AtS15O,OOOv Ovanishes

New York police have arrested
a self-styled importer-exporter
accused of making off with a
$150,000 statue of the Dutch
philosopher Spinoza. the prop
erty of a Washington resident.
The man, David Ulman, SO,
was held on warrant sworn out
by 1t. Col. A. M. L. De LuXem-
bourg, a former Russian count
and retired United States Army
officer. He lives at 1929 Nine
teenth street NV.
Located in Museum.
Col. De Luxembourg charged
in his warrant that he had given
the bust to Ulman to sell but
both had vanished. He said the
bust was worth $150,000.
New York police located the
bust in the Jewish Museum in
New York. DR.. Stephen S. Kay
ser, curator of the museum. said
that Ulman left the bust there
to find out if it actually was
a likeness of the 17th Century
philosopher.
DR.. Kayser did not appraise
the bust. He said he had mo
reason to explicitly identify the
piece as a statue of Spinoza. ~
He said he had made repeated
efforts to get Ulman to take it
away.
Called Family Heirloom.
The retired colonel, who is
83, said the bust was a family
heirloom. He lives in a single
room on his Army pension and
said he wanted to sell the bust
to supplement his income.
New York police said Ulman
is currently out on bail pend
ing an appeal from a Sing Sing
prison sentence received in
1851 for grand larceny. Ulman
was to be arraigned today in
New York.
Evening star., 1953-07-20

A course for water and sewage
plant operators will open Sep
tember 9 in the main engineering
building at the University of
Maryland.
Some 100 persons are expected
to attend the three-day session
sponsored by the university, the
Chesapeake section of the Amer
lean Water Works Association
Evening star., 1953-07-20
YuuosIavia Eases Curbs
On Soviet Diplomats
BY the Assoeioted Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July
2O.-Yugoslavia now permits So
Wet diplomats free movement
throughout the country, except
in border zones.
The Soviet government recent
ly informed Yugoslavia that
Yugoslav diplomats in the USSR
would be permitted to travel
freely Oh Soviet territory, with
certain exceptions.
The Yugoslav Foreign Office
then ruled that Russian diplo-
mats here would have the same
freedom of movement as Western
diplomats, barred only in the 12-
mile zone along the border.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
HoIdup Rental Business
Interrupted by Police
By the ASSoeioted Press

NEW YORK, July 2O.-Latest
quotations on the underworld
rental market in Brooklyn: $25
rent for a gun worth no more
than $45; $5 rent for a get
away car worth more than 81 600
Police said yesterday they get
the figures from five men al
legedly involved in a $7,119 pay
roll holdup. Among the five
rounded up, police said. were
men who rented the gun and
the car to those who staged the
holdup Friday.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Young COP. Will Meet

The Young Republican Club
of Washington will meet at pm.
today at the Sheraton Park
Hotel to name committee chair
men, Ned Pendleton, newly elect
ed club president. announced.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Maryland U. to Have Water Plant Course

and the Maryland Delaware
Water and Sewage Association.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Greenbelt Meetinq
Hears Candidates
Present Platforms

Seven candidates for the five
City Council seats in Greenbelt,
Nd, last night met face to face
at town meeting, where each
presented his platform.
Jury duty prevented one of
five incumbents, James N. Wolfe.
from attending.
Polls for the city-wide election
will be open from Z am. to 7
pm. in the Fire House on Tues
day.
In addition to Mr.. Wolfe, those
seeking reelection are Mayor
Francis j, Lastner. A: Benjamin
P. Goldfaden, 40; James Smith,
40; and Thomas j. Canning, so.
The challengers are Robert w.
Hurst, 80; Harry M. Zubkoff, 80,
and Allen D. Morrison.
Mr.. Morrison and Mr.. Cam
ming are former Mayors of the
city.
The two-hour meeting pro-
duced more accord than discord.
ALI eight candidates announced
platforms calling for a reduc-
ton in Greenbelt'S 4.2 cents tax
rate, passage of an up-to-date
traffic code, a retention of the
city's community services to tax
payers, economy and a program
to encourage the influx of in
dustriaf enterprises.
The present council will hold
the final meeting of its two years
in Office at 8 pm. Monday.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
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Evening star., 1953-09-11
By Frank SortweII, Jr.

The devil materialized in
Washington yesterday, but he
was promptly exercised by the
Metropolitan Police Department,
which fears not man, beast or
birthstone.
Regrettahly, there was little of
the supernatural involved.
It seems Elder Lightfoot Solo,
mon Michaux is staging 1.-THE
Devils Funeral" Sunday night
in Griffith Stadium. Wise to the
uses Of publicity, the elder sent
out a subsidiary elder, one
James Taylor, so, of Hampton,
Va, garbed as his satanic
majesty.
Elder Taylor, disguised in red
tights, red socks over his shoes,
red satin cloak, sequin-studded
horns and a rubber devils mask
(but an unfortunate lack of a
pointed taiD, set forth to bring
the message to the erring
citizenry.
The mask made it impossible
for him to communicate by
speech. But he had, in a suit
case, a collection of posters ad-
vertising Elder Michaux's spec
tacle.
Elder Michaux did not under
estimate the value of comic re-
lief to such dread parsonage
as the devil. The posters carried
such messages as:
MY Position as Legal Counsel
to the Communist Party Keeps
Me Here"
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Reply Due Monday
On Arlington Bid for
State Bond Purchase

Arlington County hopes to get
a decision Monday on whether
the Virginia State Retirement
Board can pull it out of a finan-
cial hole by purchasing $2.8
million in school bonds.
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick, Democrat, of Arlington,
went to Richmond yesterday to
persuade the State Treasury
Board to recommend purchase
of the bonds by the retirement
board. That recommendation is
necessary before the sister board
can act, Mr.. Fenwick said.
The retirement board pre-
viously had announced that it
was interested in purchasing the
bonds if the necessary recon-
mendation came from the treas
ury group.
Board Sympathetic"
Mr.. Fenwick said the treasury
board was "very sympathetic" to
Arlington's dilemma, and that he
hopes for a favorable decision
when the retirement board
meets Monday.
Arlington is seeking State pur-
chase of the bonds because liti-
cation against the county school
board has prevented their sale
on the open market. Bond firms
will not buy as long as litigation
is pending.
The litigation in question Is a
suit filed by Arlington Attorney
John Locke Green seeking to
oust members of the school
board who are Federal employees.
Mr.. Green already has carried
one such suit to the State Su-
preme Court once and lost. Now
he has filed another suit with
the same goal and has said he
will appeal to the State Supreme
Court from an Arlington Circuit
Court decision Wednesday dis
missing his action.
81 Million in Debt.
The school board, meanwhile,
is about 81 million in debt to
school building contractors who
have been working on credit, Mr..
Fenwick said.
With Mr.. Fenwick when he
made his plea to the treasury
board yesterday we're Delegate
George Damn, Democrat, of Ar
lington, and Harrison Mann,
Democratic candidate for Dele
gate from Arlington.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Court Rules Against
Arlington Objection
To Shopping Center
BY q Staff Correspondent Of The stor


STAUNTON, Va, Sept. IL
The way was clear today for the
erection of shopping center at
Williamsburg boulevard. North
Sycamore street and Little Falls
road in Arlington after a State
Supreme Court decision uphold
ing it commercial zone classifi-
cation.
In one of 81 opinions sub
mitted before it adjourned yes
terday, the court ruled in favor
Of the Community Shopping
Center Corp, John E. Payne and
Mary E. Duffln that the tract
was legally classified as a C-1
commercial zone.
Albert j. Ciaffone, William l..
Sugg and Macmillan Ware. who
own adjoining property, had
appealed an Arlington Circuit
Court decision upholding the
commercial classification in the
residential section.
The court held that even
though the properties of Mr..
Ciaffone and Mr.. Sugg are BIZ
sected so as to classify a part
commercial and a part resident
ial, the coming ordinance is not
void. Furthermore, their prop
critics, along with that of the
Community Shopping Center,
was all part of a single large
undeveloped tract and owned by
one person at the time the or
dinance was enacted, the court
said. The court agreed that the
boundary of the commercial zone
had been shifted somewhat be-
cause of the subsequent extern
sion of Williamsburg boulevard,
but said this does not invalidate
the classification.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Nursery School Head
Found Guilty, Fined
For Spanking Boy, 4

A nursery school operator yes
terday was found guilty of as
sault for spanking a 4-year-old
boy left in her charge.
She is Mrs. Dorothy S. Brice,
colored, of the 1900 block of S
street NV, who runs the Lin
coin Temple Nursery School in
the TOO block of Eleventh street
NV.
She was sentenced to pay a
$25 fine or serve five days in
jail. ="
According to a complaint
brought by Mrs. Willie Mae
Bates, 1914 Thirteenth street
NV. Mrs. Brice spanked Mrs.
Bates son, Christopher j. Rob-
inson, on May is.
A physician, DR.. Alonzo
Smith, 1915 New Hampshire
avenue NV, testified he had
examined the boy and had
found eight to 10 bruises on his
legs"
Mrs. Brice denied that she
had spanked the child and tes-
titled no corporal punishment
is used at the school.
However, Municipal Cour t
Judge John j. Malloy said that,
in the light of the doctors tes-
timony, he would find her guilty.
He said parents who bring
their children to nursery schools
expect to have them well treated
and added
IF they, the nursery school
operators, cannot treat a child
in a humane manner, they
shouldn't accept him."
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Devil Gets Taste. of Districts S
Legal Birthstone From Police

I'm Making Washington My
Headquarters"
At Seventh street and Rhode
Island avenue NV, the devil
was spied by Pvt. Louis B. An
derson and a couple of hun
dred other God-fearing citizens.
Walking slowly until good au-
dience had been built up, Elder
Taylor stopped at Seventh and
r streets to make his poster pitch.
Pvt. Anderson saw his duty,
and he did it. Grasping the devil
firmly by the arm, he steered
him to the nearest call box,
while the crowd cheered this
victory over its traditional
enemy.
Whisked to No. 2 Precinct sta
ton, Mephistopheles was unable
to produce any permit to hold
a parade"
(The Elder Michaux, as
careful with laws as with pub
licity, had gotten one but neg
lected to give it to his red
garbed friend. Anyway, by the
time Elder Michaux turned
up, the police had released
the devil with a warning.)
Elder Michaux, meanwhile,
had called The Star to spread
the tidings. Then he brought the
devil to The Star Office to be
photographed and give a first
person account through the i'm
penetrable rubber mask.
A Star elevator operator
summed it up neatly when, with
the devil aboard, she frightened
a young male employe by saying:
"Going down. watch your
Step."
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Meeting on Rockville
Wafer Problem SET
For September 2o

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission today set
September 20 for discussions
with the Rockville Mayor and
council on extension of the COM
missions water supply lines to
the city.
Rockville officials said in a
letter to the commission Wednes-
day that they wanted to dis
cuss purchase of water in bulk
from the suburban Maryland
agency
The city is not interested in
turning its distribution system
over to the sanitary commits
sion, according to John G. Nc
Donald. city manager.
Rockville already is connected
with the sanitary commission S
sewage lines and pays for their
use on a bulk basis.
Dispute Over Curtailment.
The city has figured in a con-
troversy this summer over the
drastic curtailment of the use
of water there.
The city council long has con-
tended its water supply is not
short for normal demands. Mr..
Mcdonald said the city can pro4
vide 100 gallons of water a day
for every resident.
In preliminary discussions
with Harry B. Shaw, sanitary
commission chief engineer, Mr..
Mcdonald said consideration
has been given to extending
present commission water lines
from Wheaton City about Its
miles along Viers Mill road to
Halpine road.
Plan Suggested.
Mr.. Mcdonald said one possi-
bility would be for the city to
pay an estimated 100000 to
SIS, 900 for the cost of a 12-inch
line from the city to Aspin Hill
road, about one-fourth the total
distance.
The conference between the
commission and Rockville off,
cials will not be a public hearing
a commission spokesman said.
If the talks progress. the COM
mission later will decide when
and If a public hearing win be
held.
Evening star., 1953-09-11

mer, Inc, with Offices in Silver
Spring and Gaithersburg. He
succeeds A. H. Seidenspinner of
Riverdale, and will serve a four
year term.
Mr.. Ripley is member of the
National Real Estate Association.
He is on the executive council of
the realtors Washington Com
mittee of the national associa-
ton, and member of the APP
praisal Institute and the Ma
tional Institute of Real Estate
Brokers.
A charter member of the
Montgomery County Real Estate
Board, he served as its presi-
dent in 1948. He devised its
multiple listing system, and has
been active as a director and as
chairman of many committees.
Mr.. Ripley lives on Great Falls
road, Rockville with his wife
and two daughters.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Fl. McHenry Battle
Noted Tomorrowo on
Defenders Day

Tomorrow Is Defenders Day in
Maryland, a legal holiday COM
memorating the battle that in
spired The Star Spangle d
Banner.
It is celebrated every Septem-
ber IL except when the date falls
on a Sunday. Then it's observed
the next day.
Not many persons will get an
extra day off this year Schools
and most Government offices
are closed on Saturday. Banks
which operate Saturdays decide
for themselves whether to stay
open or shut up shop in tribute
to the resistance from Fort Nc
Henry and Baltimore towns
people against the British in the
War of 1912.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Fairfax County EnroIIs
24,253 in Public Schools

w. T. Woodson, Fairfax County
school superintendent, today an
nounced that 24,253 pupils are
enrolled this year in the county's
Is public schools.
The totals were based on at
tendance figures since schools
opened Tuesday. School author
tiles had estimated total enroll
ment would be $4,000.
Only II of the Al elementary
schools in the county are on
double-shift schedules and these
apply only to first and second
graders, the report said.
The number of students in
each of the county's four high
schools was listed as follows:
Fairfax High, 1,749; Falls
Church, 1890; Mount Vernon,
1889. and Herndon, 419.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
New Students Report
At Blair High Monday

New students planning to at
tend Montgomery Blair High
School, in Silver Spring. Md,
are to report to the gymnasium
at 8 am. Monday for room as
signments and schedules.
Old students will not join
their new classmates until 8 am.
the following day. Room as
signments for old students will
be posted.
Evening star., 1953-09-11

the boards request for $7.2 mill
lion in construction funds to the
81 million appropriation.
'If our request had not been
cut IN half" he said, I'VE would
have been pretty much caught
up by 1885,"
Mr.. st. Clair also emphasized
the double shift cloud this year
is only temporary and that most
of them will be abolished by
the middle of October.
The situation, he said, was
not caused by poor planning on
the part of the board. Delayed
construction caused primarily by
a steel strike several months
ago was the main culprit. he
explained.
Glasses Start Monday.
The construction supervisors
note Of warning was sounded as
school children in the county
began a two-day registration
period. Glasses are slated to
get underway Monday.
The county is expecting some
$4,000 pupils to enter school
doors with a bumper crop Of
kindergarten and first graders
accounting for about half Of
the elementary school popula-
ton.
Yesterdays all-day board ses-
sion saw the county make a
definite move to make effective
a law passed last May to put
the county in the insurance busi-
ness.
The self-insurance plan, for
which the council authorized it
self to issue up to $500, 900 In
certificates of indebtedness to
cover loss of buildings, is not
going to be as big a risk as
was anticipated.
The School Board, for a $685.
600 annual premium, is taking
out a so-called "catastrophe"
policy that will insure any build
ing for damages in excess Of
100000 and up to $50 mil
lion.
The policy. to be sold by the
Insurance CO. of North America
and five other firms, also will
cover several losses totaling over
100000. provided they are all
traced to the same cause such
as an earthquake or tornado.
The new policy will supplant
regular fire and disaster insur-
ance the school board has car
ried. It will mean a saving of
some $4,000 in the first year.
The savings will be placed in
a fund to cover future losses,
Wylie w. Barrow. school board
vice president explained.
All Teachers Hired.
School officials yesterday said
they have hired all the teachers
for which funds are available.
The recent increase in starting
salaries was provided, however,
by cutting from 100 to- ITO. the
new teachers authorized.
In other business the board:
l. Heard preliminary plans pre-
sented by Supt. Forbes H. Norris
for reorganization of the ad-
ministrative offices.
2. Learned that all purchases
except in minor amounts-will
be cleared through the controller
and Mr.. st. Clair.
8. Appointed a number Of new
and vice principals.
4. Accepted the Damascus and
Weller road elementary school
projects.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
County Faces
School Crisis
Next Year, Too
Montgomery to Have.
Halliday Shifts
Again in 1854

Montgomery County. facing
overcrowded classrooms that will
see some 1900 pupils on half
day shifts when school opens
Monday. is in for more of the
same next year. an official says.
''Next year we'll be in even
worse shape" Frank st. Clair,
supervisor of supporting serv-
ices told the school board yes
terday.
Relief may come, he said. If
the board is able to complete
construction of the entire $4 mil
lion worth of schools for the
county provided in the present
fiscal years capital budget.
Won't Bar Double Shifts.
But, he added, even this will
not bar double shifts in 1854 If
subdivision development in
creaSes.
The supervisor also took a slap
at the county council for cutting
Evening star., 1953-09-11
ChiIdren's S Home Society
Launches Fund Drive

The Children's Home Society
OF Virginia launched its 1853
fund campaign to raise $4,000
in the Washington area for ba-
bies to be put up for adoption
during the coming year. The
group met yesterday in the Penn
Daw Hotel. Alexandria.
Founded in 1900, the Child
ren's Home Society is an adop-
tion agency for Virginia babies.
The society does not run an
orphanage as such. but places
homeless infants in foster homes
where they live until adopted.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Deodline Tonight
For Sunday Want Ads

Tonight and every Friday night the
following deodlines ore in effect for
oeeeptonce Of wont dds to be pub
Iished in The Sunday Stor:
10 pm. by telephone.
9 pm. at lobby business counter.
8 pm. at classified broneh Offices.
Sunday deoth notices and lost and
found ods will be accepted until 8
pm. Saturday.
Please place your Sunday wants dds
as eury as possible. Just phone
Sterling $1,000 for prompt and eff
eient service.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Dance Series Opens

The Clinton (Md.) Volunteer
Fire Department will open it's
weekly series of social dances
tomorrow from 8 pm. to l pm.
in the FirehouSe. The dances
then will run through the
winter. Proceeds will pay for
fire equipment,
Evening star., 1953-09-11

sion, t h e
M o n tgonnery
Real Estate
B o ard an
nounced.
MIR. Ripley
is the first
member Of the
county real
estate board
to be named
to the State
commission.
The new ap-
poin tie e is
president of
RiDIey & R0-
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Driving's an Art,
So Teachers Must
Have A. M. Degree

District school officials
don't intend to see teacher
standards lowered.
School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning yesterday urged the
Personnel Committee of the
Board of Education not to
drop a master of arts re-
quirement for one category
of teachers. The committee
voted to keep the require
ment.
The teacher category: Au-
tomobile driving instructors.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Rabbi KrinskY to Speak

Rabbi Raymond Krinsky, spir-
itual leader of the Northeast
Hebrew Congregation, will speak
on Israel and the Nations" at
the $3.50 o'clock service tonight
at 4601 Eastern avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Crawford, PIuskett Reunion

The 18th reunion of the Gram
ford and Plaskett families will
be held Sunday at the Crawford
Memorial Methodist Church,
Lorton, Va.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Ripley Is Appointed
10 Real Estate Post

Ralph p. Ripley, Montgomery
County real estate man, today
was appointed by Gov. Nickel
din to the Real Estate Commits