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Evening star., 1953-07-31
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new-car condition: priced at only
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Evening star., 1953-06-19
Judge Admits Error
In Ice Revue Suits
BY the Associoied Press

BALTIMORE, June 10. -
Judge John T. Tucker admitted
yesterday he had made q mis-
take and that the Sonia Henie
Ice Revue, Inc, should be liable
for any damage in the collapse
of a grandstand.
The judge upset part of a jury
verdict which had held that
neither Miss Henie personally
nor her corporation is liable.
Judge Tucker said in his re-
verSal that the corporation ques-
tion should not have been SUBJ
mitted to the jury.
He didn't interfere with the
Jurors decision that Miss Henie
herself is not personally subject
to suit. The jury had put all
liability on Edwin p. Coronati,
a contractor who erected the
bleachers.
About $50 suits seeking IS
million are pending as result of
the bleacher collapse at the
Fifth Regiment Armory March
6, 1852.
Judge Tucker had reviewed
the jury decision at the request
OF lawyers for those seeking
damages. In holding the ice
revue corporation equally re-
sponsible with the bleacher con-
tractor, he said the duty of pro-
viding a safe place for spectas
tors could not be delegated.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Stores May Ask License Fee
Boost to Defeat Sales Tax

Alexandria merchants may pro-
pose an increase in their own
business license taxes as a last
resort to ward off the city's pro-
posed two per cent sales tax.
This proposal and others are
to be considered at a special
meeting called by the Alexandria
Retail Merchants Association
for 10 m. Tuesday in the George
Mason Hotel.
The new meeting was arranged
by the merchants yesterday, as
they gathered to lay plans for
fighting the sales tax. Members
of the city council for and against
the sales tax will be invited to
speak at Tuesdays session.
Armistead Boothe, counsel for
the retail merchants, advised
them yesterday that a 70 per
cent increase in business license
taxes, plus extension of that tax
Evening star., 1953-06-19

to cover landlords, probably
would raise enough revenue to
ward off the sales tax.
Mr.: Boothe told the merchants
their best argument against the
sales tax is that Fairfax and
Arlington counties do not have
one.
The 2 per cent sales tax has
been recommended by City Man.
ager Ira Willard and indorsed by
four members of the city council
to help finance a record $7.3 mil
lion budget for the fiscal year
beginning July /. The other three
members Of council have pre-
pared a $6.8 million budget that
requires no sales tax.
Both budgets have been ad-
vertised for public hearing at
7:30 pm. Tuesday. The city
council is expected to take final
action on the budget at that
time.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Fairfax Civic Federation Votes
ToB0r 7 ToxSurveyInve

Fairfax County residents don't
want any strangers poking
around in their furniture or their
closets, a group of them told a
Would-be investigator last night.
DR.. Gerald Brannon explained
to meeting of the Fairfax Civic
Federation that he only wanted
to make a survey of homes to
find out if the county's personal
property tax is unfair. But the
federation would have none of it.
DR. Brannon, an economist who
also advises congressional tax
committees, has been appointed
head of a special group by the
Fairfax Board Of Supervisors to
study the fairness of local taxes.
He wants to start, he says. on
a favorite bogeyman, the per-
sonal property tax. It is q tax
for which citizens assess the
value of their property them
selves. DR.. Brannon wants to
see if they are playing fair.
Sounds Out Interview.
He asked the federalism. IT,
the members would admit into
their homes an interviewer who
said he wanted to check the
value of their furnishings.
No one objected.
Would they also tell the in
terviewer how much they had
declared the furnishings to be
worth on their last tax return?
Confidentially. Of course.
Then the rumbling began.
I'D be reluctant, frankly"
said one delegate. I've seen this
confidential information get
into the wrong hands before"
Evening star., 1953-06-19
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Evening star., 1953-06-19
Maryland Man Held
On CHARGE Of Assault

A 20-year-old Boyds (Md.)
laborer yesterday was ordered
held without bond for the Mont
gomery County grand jury on
a charge Of assault with intent
to rape.
He is Earl C. Gravely, who
was charged in an assault on
a 12-year-old Silver sSpring girl
last Thursday in a wooded area
near -Four Corners, Md. He ap-
peared yesterday before Rockville
Trial Magistrate Walter H. Moor
man.
Graveley. who has only one
leg. was arrested by Detective
Ronald ]. Loomis. The man was
an employe of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission. 4
Evening star., 1953-06-19

But we have nothing to do
with the tax-enforcement peo-
ple," said DR.. Brannon. 1--WE
just want to make a survey"
Its a touchy business" said
another delegate. Everybody
resents this tax, and naturally
most people try to figure their
own tax as low as possible"
Compromises Offered.
I'VE don't have very much
privacy left" said another. I'D
Just as soon keep what I have"
Dr.. Brannon offered a COM
promise Suppose" he said, 1--WE
didn't ask you how much you
paid last time, but how much
you really thought your prop
erty was worth?"
Another member said, "Mr.
Brannon, the very fact you're
conducting this survey indicates
to people that you doubt the
veracity Of their returns"
: Dr.. Brannon replied mildly
that "it seems not unreason-
able"
Another delegate made his
point briefly: "The whole busi-
ness Is obnoxious.
DR.. Brannon tried once more.
Suppose we took no names at
all and afterwards mixed your
form with a lot Of other forms
in your presence. How many Of
you would permit the interviewer
to come in?"
The federation voted on it.
The result-three out of four
wouldn't even let the man in the
house.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
CotIett Criminal Assault Case
Slated for Decision Thursday

She asked what time the bus was
due. I talked to her on the bus.
She told me she would come by
my place. I didn't drag her or
anything. I never threatened,
or forced her. She was willing
to do what I wanted her to do.
She didn't try to resist in any
way"
Catlett said he had been
drinking at the time-I drink
to settle my nerves."
Catlett testified he was drafted
but never saw any action. He
said he was discharged because
of nerves soon after he was sent
overseas to Ireland. He said
he went as far as the fifth grade
in school and worked off and
on as a painter. He is un-
married.
Assistant Commemorative At
torney Ralph Louk prosecuted
the case. Catlett now is serving
so days in Alexandria on charges
of disorderly conduct and OBJ
structing justice.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
McKeIdin 10 Get Award
For Work With Youth
BY the Assoeioted Press

DENVER. June 19.-Presen.
tation Of a Distinguished Serv-
ice Citation to Gov. McKeldin
Of Maryland will highlight the
forty-second convention of the
International Christian Endeav-
or Society here next week.
The meeting opens Monday
evening and continues through
Friday.
The award being presented to,
Gov. McKeldin is for outStand.
ing work with youth. The pres
entation will take place next
Thursday evening at Denver's
city auditorium.
Convention speakers include
DR.. Daniel Polling, president Of
the World Christian Endeavor
Union; DR.. Louis Evans, pastor
Of the First Presbyterian Church
Of Hollywood, Calf. and DR..
Ernest r. Bryan Of Washington.
president of the International
Christian Endeayor Society.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Send a Kid TO Camp
$H Can't Buy Luxuries, Such
As q Vacation for Bobby

A year ago Mr.. Brown left his
wife and children. He hasn't
been heard from since.
Mrs. Brown moved in with her
former landlady. The children,
Bobby. 8. and Louise. S. went
with her-for total room-and-
board cost of $25 a week.
It wouldn't be possible in many
places. jolly Mrs. Pimsoll makes
it possible because she loves the
kids. She has other persons liv-
ing with her in her frame house
in Mount Rainier. Md.-the
mother of a boy in trouble with
the law. and a rooming couple
with two children.
Five adults, four children, four
dogs and four parakeets live in
the house. It's a rollicking sort
of group.
Everybody's pretty happy. and
pretty happy-go-lucky. They
have a good time.
The $25 a week Mrs. Brown
pays comes out of her $50 a week
salary. She works behind the
counter of a drug store.
That $11 left over doesn't
provide many luxuries. The
landlady helps with clothes for
the children. A social worker
chips in shoes. The landlady's
nieces also help with the clothes
and even provide dancing lessons
for the little girl. But there isn't
much money.
There's no money to send
Bobby to camp, of course. He'd
like to go-to play baseball on
grass and to swim in a big pool.
Mrs. Brown can't send him.
Even Mrs. Pimsoll can't send
him. But you can. Contribute
to The Star Summer Camp Fund.
The following contributions
are acknowledged today:
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Montgomery Reports e
First Polio Case Of Year

A 7-year-old boy who lives in
the $4,000 block of Georgia ave-
nue., Wheaton. Md. yesterday
became the first Montgomery
County polio victim this year.
the Montgomery County Health
Department reported.
Health officials said the boy
was admitted to Walter Reed
Army Hospital Monday.
The United States Public
Health yesterday reported 305
cases Of polio throughout the
Nation last week. as compared to
$50 cases reported the previous
week. y
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Fee Considered !.
kindergartens
Councilman GroveIIe
To Ask $50 Levy at
Budget Discussion

A $50 fee for kindergarten pu.
pills will be proposed by Mont
gomery County Councilman
Louis A. Gravelle during closed
budget discussions of the County
Council next week.
Montgomery is the only coun-
ty in the State having free kin
dergartens in the public school
system.
Mr.. Gravelle said his proposal
would become effective in Sep
tember. 1854.
The councilman conceded he
did not anticipate any rosy re-
ception for the proposal even
from his fellow councilmen who
are seeking to hold down the tax
rate without hurting the school
program.
Suggested at Hearing.
DiScontinuance of kindergar.
tens was recommended by q
number Of persons at public
hearings last week on the
School Boards requested SIS
million operating and: capital
budget.
One witness. william Wilder
Evans of Rockville, scored the
kindergartens as "public-sup-
ported baby sitting"
The county has had. public
kindergartens for about IS years.
school official said. Many resi-
dents admittedly have moved
into the county because Of the
Kindergarten program.
Mr.. Gravelle explained he did
not oppose the program. He
added he felt ''kindergartens
were a good place for children
to learn to work and live to-
gether and were a needed STEP
ping stone to the elementary
school,"
The $50 fee, he added, was
simply one suggestion for de-
velopment of an overall program
to relieve the tax burden now
being carried almost solely by
real estate property owners.
The money. If it is collected.
would be earmarked for schools,
he added.
$500 Expected.
This year the county had n
teachers assigned to kindergar.
tens. Some 5000 pupils were
handled with each teacher car.
ing for two shifts.
The school board anticipates
about $500 children in kinder
gartens next fall.
During the last General As
Sembly session Prince Georges
County-now minus kindergar-
tens-was authorized to establish
a program on a cooperative tu-
ition basis.
Any community in which the
parents of 80 children want
kindergartens can petition for q
class. The parents then will
share in the cost. Estimates are
that this project will cost no
more than 500 year per pupil.
Montgomery County's program
has been criticized principally
because of the shortage of class
room space for elementary and
high schools.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Montgomery Court
Studies VFW Appeal
To Keep Clubhouse

The Montgomery County Court
of Appeals today again has un-
der consideration a request from
the Silver Spring Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post No. 1862 for
permission to operate a club
house at 2425 Hayden drive.
Some II residents of the area
turned out yesterday to protest
continued operation of the club
located there since 1916.
Permission to operate the club
was denied without prejudice"
by the board last April. A special
exception to the zoning ordi-
nance is needed to operate in
the residential area.
Renews Charges.
Theodore H. Freter, spokes-
man for the opposition, renewed
charges of late parties, noise
and unsightly premises and
added the VFW had continued
operating despite the boards de-
nial two months ago. He said
he saw no sign of a change.
Spokesman for the post, how
ever, presented to the board a
detailed set of regulations the
group had drawn up to police
itself. Closer supervision was
promised and establishment of
a grievance committee to handle
complaints has been set up, Post
Commander David r. McCann
said.
Consider Phone Branch,
The board yesterday also took
under consideration a request by
the Connecticut Avenue Estates
Civic Association to continue q
hearing on establishment of q
telephone dial exchange build
ing at Connecticut avenue and
Viers Mill road.
The Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. asked for permis-
sion to construct a two-story
brick building on eight lots in
the area.
L. T. Needs. the company's
plant extension engineer, said
the project would cost about $1.4
million and would be in opera
ton by 1865. He said the build
ing would be stated by only
eight or 10 employees and that
service would be improved in the
area.
Also taken under advisement
was a request for establishment
of golf driving range at Georgia
avenue and Manor Club drive
road. The application was filed
by Manor Club Properties, Inc.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Arlington Chest X-Ruys

The Arlington County Tuber-
culoSiS Association has an
nounced that over $4,000 chest
X-rayS were made during the
first week of Arlington's free
chest X-ray campaign. The
project is sponsored in co-opera-
ton with the State Health De-
partment and the Arlington
Health Department. 4
Evening star., 1953-06-19

Fairfax Circuit Court Judge
Arthur w. Sinclair will hand
down a decision next Thursday
in the rape case of Hampton
Catlett.
Judge Sinclair, who heard the
case yesterday without a jury.
postponed a verdict until that
time so Catlett's Army medical
record can be presented to the
court. Catlett testified he was
discharged from the service be-
cause of nervousness.
Catlett, 80, currently of the
300 block North Columbus street,
Alexandria. is charged with at
tacking a 57-year-old grand
mother at Groveton, Va, last
February Is.
The woman, who has IA grown
children and a number of grand
children, testified Catlett grabbed
her by the arm just after she
got off a bus near her sons
home on Lee street in Groveton.
Il had never seen him before, "
she said of her assailant. He
said he would walk me home.
1 said didn't need any help" p"
Dragged to Cabin.
Catlett kept a hold on her
arm, she said, and started to
guide her off the road after they
had walked a short distance.
She added:
Il tried to get away. I said
I didn't go that way. I fell down
or he showed me down. can't
recall. Then he pushed and
dragged me half block to this
cabin he said was his home. I
tried to grab a tree to pull away
from him, but I couldn't
reach it.
II was crying. I couldn't help
but cry. He pushed me up to
the door and held me fast be-
tween his knees while he un-
locked the door," ~
The victim, short, plumb.
gray-haired woman, said Catlett
attacked her twice when they
got inside the house.
She said Catlett walked from
the cabin to the street with her
after the attack and warned her
not to say anything. The wom-
an testified she went to her sons
house and called police.
Under cross-examination by
Defense Attorney Paul L. De-
laney, the woman said she saw
lights in nearby houses but was
afraid to scream for help.
Did you actually make any
physical resistance?" asked Mr..
Delaney.
Il tried to resist him." the wit
ness said. II was scared. He
said he would kill me. Anybody
would be scared. What else
could I do?"
The witness said she had only
partial use of her left arm be-
cause of stroke. She said two
of her ribs had been cracked in
a bus accident a month before
the attack.
Catlett Found Asleep.
Fairfax police testified Catlett
was asleep in his cabin when they
arrested him after the woman
called. They said he told them
he had been asleep in the cabin
since 6 pm. The attack occurred
between $3.50 and 9 pm, police
said.
Two witnesses. however, testi-
fled they saw Catlett get off the
bus behind the woman around
$50 pm. They were the bus
driver, Marvin Sweeney, and the
manager of a nearby tourist
court, John Robert Smith.
Testifying in his own defense,
Catlett said he could not recall
telling police that he had been
in his cabin all evening.
He told the court he met the
woman in Alexandria where they
both were waiting for a Grove
ton bus. He declared:
"She started talking to me.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Rescue Squad to Dine

The rescue squad Of the For
estville Fire Department will
sponsor a fried chicken dinner
from 2 pm. to 8 pm. tomorrow
at the Grange Hall in Forestvillc,
Va. Proceeds will help pay for
a recently-purchased ambulance.
The public is invited.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Liquor Board Defers
Action on Protests
By Capitol Heights

Protesting Capitol Heights
(Md) citizens yesterday ap-
peared before the Prince Georges
County Liquor Board for the
third time but were met with
another continuance in the case
Of liquor licensee whose busi-
ness, they contend, creates a
public nuisance"
The Mayor of the community,
individual residents and spokes-
men for civic groups succeeded
at least in having their objec-
tions finally put on the record.
The Liquor Board, meeting for
the first time with it's two new
Republican members, had or
dered Mrs. 1sadore Rose, holder
of a class D beer license for
Roses Delicatessen, 10 Sixty
first avenue, to show cause why
the license should not be revoked
or suspended
The two new board members
are Ernest D. Fairall. chairman.
and Joseph A. Wyvill, jr. The
third member, Brooke Kerby,
Democrat, was reappointed.
Counsel Again Absent.
Last month, Ignatius j. Keane,
counsel for Mrs. Rose, was unable
to be present at a board hearing
of the matter. Earlier in May.
the board had renewed the del
icatessen's beer license but had
told oposing residents the mat
ter would be re-opened on May
81, the day Mr.. Keane was first
unable to appear.
Yesterday Mrs. Rose was again
without her attorney. An asso-
ciate of Mr.. Keane told the board
the attorney was i'll and unable
to attend.
Before voting to continue the
matter at the next regular meet
ing, in July. the board heard \
these opinions voiced by resi-
dents: ,-..
Traffic, especially on Sunday,
is hazardous and congested along
Sixty first avenue in front of the
d e icatessen," Joseph Gamer,
mayor of Capitol Heights, said.
Mrs. william T. Fitzgerald,
who lives at 18 Sixty-f1rs ave-
nue., in the same block as Mrs.
Roses store, told the board that,
on Sundays, in her block, motor
lists drink there and throw beer
cans in, the yards"
Thomas H. Grieg, spokesman
for the community's PTA of
some 800 members, declared that
most of the beer-drinking
patrons who create traffic con-
gestion and constitute a nuis-
ance come from the District,
which is only a block away.
The board also:
Transfers Approved.
Approved transfer of a Glass
B license (beer, wine and liquor,
on sale) to the Romano Inn Inc,
operating at 3705 BladenSburg
road, Colmar Manor.
Approved transfer Of Class !
B license to Murray Charles |
Warren for use at Strick'S Res
taurant. $3.50 Naylor road, Silver
Hill, Md.
Approved transfer of a Class
B license to Paul Lewis Amberger
for use at Charles Tavern, 5445
Annapolis road, Bladensburg.
Md.
The board directed its counsel, ,
Woodrow A. Shriver, to order |
the holder of a Class A license
(beer, wine and liquor, off-sale)
to show cause why his license
should not be revoked. The Ii
censee, Philip Kraus of 1907 |
Rhode Island avenue, Mount
Rainier. has been convicted of
selling an alcoholic beverage to
a minor, according to Earl H. |
Wilkinson, board secretary.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Fuirfox Drive Leader

Robert 9. McCurdy Of 81l
Park avenue, Falls Church, has
been named chairman of busi-
ness solicitation for Falls Church
in the annual Fairfax County
Community Chest fund drive.
Evening star., 1953-06-19
Comp Fund Facts
HOW to send a kid

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out check or money
order to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund. Mail
to The Evening Star. Wash
ington 4, DC.
Or bring cash to The Star
cashier.
The cost: $35.72 for IL
days, or $17.86 for six days.
The Star will acknowledge
your gift.
Seward seaport record., 1953-06-26

Mar 3. 1927 GA Stat. 1884, 4S use. Section 46D, Anchorage Serial No. as Lot No. 5. Section IA, T. N, R. 12 w., Seward Meridian, containing 6.02 acres, and 1t Is now in the files of the Land Office. Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the aforementioned land should file their adverse claim in the Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days there after. or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes.
 VIRGIL o. SEISER,
 Manager Date First Publication June 19, 1853 Date Last Publication July IT, 1853
Seward seaport record., 1953-06-26
LEGAL NOTICE
U. s. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Notice is hereby given that Hilary R. Hoerb has made application for a homeste under the Act of May 26, 19St GAS Stat. S09). Anchorage Serial No. 020604 for tract of land de- scribed as Lot 7 in Plat of U. S. Sur vey No. 2526. Cooper Landing Group of Homesites on left bank of Kenai River about A mile SW of Cooper Landing, Alaska. Latitude 60o 29' 49" N. Longitude 1490 49' 30" w., con tainiug 4.99 acreS and 1t is now in the flies of the Land Office, Anchor age. Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- Verscly any of the aforementioned land should file their adverse claim in the Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days there after. or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes.
 VIRGIL Q. SEISER,
 Manager Date First Publication June 19, 1853 Date Last Publication Aug. II. 1858