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Evening star., 1953-08-05
Restaurant Emp|oYe Held
In Second EmbezzIement

The manager of a Georgetown
restaurant obtained an embezzle-
ment warrant yesterday for an
employe who had been accused
in a somewhat similar case last
March.
John Pollock, jr., 81, Of the
HOO block of Twelfth street NV.
was charged with embezzling
between 81 900 and $4,000 while
an employe of Billy Martins Car
riage House Restaurant, 1898
Wisconsin avenue NV.
The warrant was obtained by
Junius c. Stiller, manager of the
restaurant.
Last March, police said. Pol
lock was booked on charge of
grand larceny while he was as
sistant manager of a Hot Shoppe
at TOT Fourteenth street NV.
At the time it was said that
Pollock had inserted dummy ma
terial in coin wrappers which
contained real coins at either
end.
When the trick was discovered,
Pollock was accused of taking
$3.50 from the company. Pol
lock made restitution and the
company dropped the charges,
police reported.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
By John w. Stepp

Washington has never been a
victim of that classic Snafu,
whereby gas or sewer mains get
tied into the water system.
But to look at the inside of
some of the city'S water pipes,
you might wonder whether the
sewer division has been up to
some tricks over the years.
1t hasn't. The appearance of
the inner surface of cast iron
water mains is merely rust that
forms after years of constant
passage of water and oxygen.
The condition is known to
water-works men as "tubercula-
tion," the formation of rust bliS-
ters. Years of this chemical
change-and much of the Dis
trict's water pipe dates from pre-
Civil War days-can seriously in
terfere with the water flow. AS
an illustration, officials in Nor
folk, Va, recently stared in hor-
ror at one of the city'S old "a
inch mains. differentiation had
narrowed the passage to IL
inches in many places.
d. C. Project 10 Years Old.
Washington'S water division
began doing something about the
same problem 10 years ago. This
was the period when the wartime
sudden population increase out
stripped municipal facilities, not
the least Of which was the water
system.
Because of metal shortages,
water pipe was hard to come by.
And the cost of installing addi-
Evening star., 1953-08-05
School Bus Driver
Faces Court Action

A 17-year-old driver of a pri-
vate day school bus. which
crashed into a tree July 81 on
Route 240, has been turned over
to Montgomery County juvenile
authorities for action. county
police reported yesterday.
He is William S. Stanely. jr..
of the 5000 block of Greenway
drive, Green Acres. Bethesda,
Md. An eX-Capitol page, he was
the driver of the panel-type bus
in which 10 children and a
counselor were injured.
One of the children, George
Lombard, 8, of Glib Wynnwood
avenue, Bethesda, died Friday in
Bethesda Naval Hospital as a
result of the injuries received in
the accident.
One of the injured children,
Kristin Weihe, 6. of 4801 Dixon
street, Bethesda, is still in Subur-
ban Hospital. She suffered a
ruptured spleen.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Fire-PoIice GROUPS
Warned 10 Adhere
To insurance Laws

The District Commissioners
yesterday ordered five retirement
and relief associations operated
for police and firemen here either
to dissolve or comply with in
surance laws.
The action was taken on the
recommendation of Albert F.
Jordan, superintendent of in
Surance. For the last year, Mr..
Jordan, with the help of the
Corporation Counsel's Office, has
been looking into the operation
Of these groups.
None" Mr.. Jordan concluded,
appears to be strong enough
to meet even the minimum
standards which the statute re-
quires of insurance companies. !"
He reported. moreover, that the
plans offered by the associations
are Speculative and illogical"
For example, one outfit prom
ises a $50 return on every $50
invested by a member-"a most
unusual and hazardous under
taking" the superintendent de-
clared. Another pledges a $50
return on every $24 premium
paid. None of the five associa-
tions involved maintains reserves
required of insurance companies.
The fact that these associa-
tions are run by members of
Government agencies, Mr.. Jor-
dan said, puts the District in
the position of taking action
against private citizens for doing
something which District en-
ployes are not prevented from
doing"
The associations are:
Metropolitan Police Relief AS
sociation of the District of CO.
lumbia. Inc, Metropolitan Police
Retiring Association, Inc. Fire
mems Relief Association, Fire
mems Family Relief Association
and the Firemen's Retirement
Club of the District of Columbia
Fire Department.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Complaints Pour In
Of Sharp Rent Rises
Since Controls End

Tenants continued to complain
to House and Senate District
Committees of increases in rent
since controls expired last Fri
day.
Most of the new complaints
have arrived at the Senate Dis
trict Committee to be added to a
thick file that was compiled be-
fore the end of rent control.
One of the newest complaints
from a woman charged her rent
had been increased by nearly
81 per cent"
The records show that most
leading organized labor groups
have filed pleas to have rent
controls continued. These in
clude the American Federation
of Labor and Congress of Indus
trial Organizations.
Pleas From Local Groups.
On the local level. pleas for
more rent control have come
from the American Federation
of Government Employees, the
American Veterans Committee.
the Washington Building Trades
Council, the Washington Gen.
trail Labor Union, the CIO Coun-
Gil of the District, and others.
Several letters showed ten
ants had been given an order to
vacate or pay higher rent. Some
of these wrote that they could
not afford to pay the higher
rent and did not know where to
go.
Other Increases Reported.
One Government worker, who
said he had been dismissed June
80 and had been unable to find
a job, reported his rent had been
increased from $5898 to $69.50
a month.
Another at a Connecticut ave-
nue. address reported a raise
from $113 to $178; another from
$99.66 to $125.
Still pending in the Senate
District Committee is a bill by
Senator Nicely, Democrat, of
West Virginia, to extend District
controls to June 80 next year.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
By Fronk SortweII, Jr.

If you have an owl who is out
of a job and looking for a good,
If temporary, position, search
out the National Symphony
Mystery Voice Contest.
Representatives of this good
cause, lightly humming a madri-
gal, came to The Star yesterday
to place an advertisement, to wit
and to whoo:
"OWL WANTED. Will rent
bird for one week, with option
for additional services. and pay
owner $40 per week. Condition
of plumage immaterial. but owl
must be full-grown and be able
to hoot hearty "who-o-o" when
directed. Bring Gagged owl to 720
Fourteenth street NV. for inter-
view between 1890 and IL noon
any week day before August g."
The Mystery Voice Contest. if
you're wondering, is intended to
make money for the National
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Weston Will Take Oath
For Utility Post Tomorrow

Robert M. Weston, newest ap-
pointee to the District Public
Utilities Commission, will be
sworn in at the District Building
at 4 pm. tomorrow.
Chief Judge Cayton, of the
Municipal Court of Appeals, will
administer one of the required
oaths to the new attorney men,
Der. Chief Deputy Clerk Robert
M. Stearns, of the U. S. District
Court for the District of Colum-
bia, will administer the other.
Mr.. Weston will participate in
the remainder of the Capital
Transit Co. rate hearing. which
is scheduled to resume Au-
gust 18.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
LandoVer Hills Woman
Stabbed, Husband Seized

A Landover Hills (Md0 woman
was stabbed three times early
today and her husband was
charged with assault with intent
to kill.
Joseph Leonard Simmons, A,
of 4400 Seventy-second avenue,
attacked his wife, Grace Eliza
beth, 40. with a butcher knife in
their home following a quarrel.
Detective Sergt. j. P. Kearns of
the Prince Georges County Po-
lice said.
Mrs. Simmons was reported in
fair condition in Prince Georges
.Geenral Hospital.
The husband was released on
81 900 bond.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Knows His 'Who-o-'
ToBoIIyhoo Symphony Contest

Symphony Orchestra. You en-
ter by sending your name, ad-
dress and Is words about why
you like music to Symphony. Box
447, Washington, D. c. You in
clude 81 or more for the SYM
phony's fund drive.
If you write well and like
music for the correct reasons,
the people running this will call
you in due course to ask the
identity of the mystery voice.
If you know-and clues are
readily available on the radio
you win an automobile, a mink
stole, records, a piano or a
freezer Good luck.
Back to the owl. He must
speak on the radio and not want
the automobile, stole, or what
ever. because. as an employe
of the contest, he will not be
allowed to enter.
AS luck would have 1t, few
owls will get a chance.
Evening star., 1953-08-05

tional pipe to make the water
system capacity adequate would
have been staggering. The water
division decided to start a pro-
gram not only of cleaning exist
ing mains but of lining~them
with concrete to deter further
corrosion.
This program, which involves
only pipes ranging from Is inches
upward in diameter, now is
nearly completed. It has saved
taxpayers money-the cost of
cleaning. and lining is as low as
10 per cent of the cost of laying
new mainS-and has lesSened
the demand for hard-to-get pipe
and has spared citizens the in
convenience of torn-up streets.
MOIe-Like' Operation.
Where the laying of new mains
necessitates major surface op-
erations, cleaning and lining is
completely mole-like in execu-
ton.
The cleaning is actually moth
ing more than a king-size ream-
ing project. A circular head"
of metal fringed with steel
brushes is adjusted to fit the
interior size of the pipe. The
water is turned on. It's force
pushes the head whose scraping
edge grinds the rust 'barnacles
from the pipe as it moves along.
The residue is later flushed out.
Sometimes the reamer has to
be run through two or three
times, if the corrosion is espe-
cially bad. One 7,000-foot
stretch of 24-inch main pro-
duced 26 truckloads of rust.
Evening star., 1953-08-05

in and tied rope to Mr.. Briere'S
feet. Mr.. Briere was hauled out
feet first.
Another time he was in a "a
lncher, lying on a fiat pushcart,
when the city (not Washington
suddenly turned on the water
in his line. The bullet workmen
got the first warning. All that
Mr.. Briere knew about something
being wrong was his being pre-
cipitously yanked out of the pipe
by rope that had been tied to
his cart.
Again, on a project, Mr.. Briere
emerged from a pipe outlet,
looked around and saw his
escape hatch just filling up with
water. He hadn't even known
the water was being turned on.
Hiring Is Not Easy.
Hiring men, skilled and other
wise, for this type of work isn't
easy, according to o. C. Finders,
a superintendent for Centriline.
Although the job is cool in sum-
mer and warm in winter inside
the pipes, it also is damp and
dirty. he said.
There also is the Specter of
claustrophobia-fear of confined
spaces.
Not long ago a new employe
went to work inside a 30-inch
pipe, Mr.. Finders recalled. "He
got about a hundred feet in, and
then began hollering like he was
nuts. Another guy inside with
him tried to quiet him down but
never did until he socked him"
the superintendent said.
when he came to, he quit"
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Officials Move
To Control Use
OF Cooler Units
Air Conditioners
Overload Wiring,
Pose Fire Huzurd

District authorities are form
ing a committee to recommend
control measures for the use Of
'plug-in" air conditioners on
electric circuits not heavy
enough to carry the added load.
Sales of the units are running
three times as high this year as
last.
Director of Inspection Robert
H. Davis is organizing the COM
mittee to include representatives
of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., the Electric Institute and
spokesmen for distributors, in
stallers and building owners.
They will meet soon with
Frank Stetka, chief electrical in
spector, and E. B. Setty, District
electrical engineer, to discuss
measures necessary to cope with
the rapid increase of sales in
the air-conditioner field.
District officials have received
several suggestions for tighten
ing the code governing the load
which can be placed on electric
distribution lines.
One recommendation is that
each new unit must be reported
to the electric inspection de-
partment, along with informa-
ton as to the power required,
and the capacity of the feeder
line and safety fuses.
Another recomme n d a ton
would require the licensing Of
installers in view of the fact that
carpenters, as we'll as qualified
electricians, are setting up the
units IN windows throughout the
District.
Sales of the plug-in air-condi-
tioners in the Metropolitan Area
jumped from some 4,700 in 1949
to more than 10000 last year,
and this years total probably
will be at least three times the
latter figure. officials say.
Asks 10 New Inspectors.
AS a result, Mr.. Stetka has
asked for 10 additional inspec-
tors to enforce the District code
in this field. The code limits the
load which can be placed on
various types of wiring and the
sizes of safety fuses.
Mr.. Stetka explained that
overloaded distribution circuits
represent long-range as we'll as
an immediate fire hazard. Over
taxed wires heat Up in varying
degrees, causing short circuits
or a progressive diSintegration
of the insulation.
The insulation may fail under
the plaster or in other hidden
places, sometimes years after an
overload has been placed on the
wiring.
Much Wiring Inadequate.
A vast amount of residential
wiring was installed in the Dis
trict to meet minimum require
ments which did not include air
conditioning.
A number of electrical fires
have resulted. mostly in fireproof
apartment buildings, Mr.. Stetka
said. There have been other in
stances where consumers in
stalled fuses heavier than those
designed for safety, with the re-
suit that transformers were
burned out.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

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.
Gallinger. F and Twenty-sec-
ond streets NV.
Takoma. Fourth and Whittier
streets NV.
Edgewood. Third and EvartS
streets NE.
Sousa, Thirty-seventh street
and Ely place Sc.
Thomson, Twelfth and L
streets NV; also checker tour
nament at 7::30 pm.
Congress Heights, Savannah
street and Randle place Sc.
Howard, Fourth and w streets
NV.
Cardozo, Tenth and R streets
NV.
Thomas, 800 block Of Ana
costa road NE.
Lincoln, Sixth and L streets
Sc.
Arlington County, $3.50 pm.
Patrick Henry, TOO South Fill
more street.
Fort Barnard, South Oakland
street and Walter Reed drive.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 pm
Wildercroft Elementary School
6700 River road, Eastpines.
Lakeland Elementary Schoo
Lakeland road, Lakeland.
Montgomery County, $3.50 pm.
Takoma Park Recreation Gen.
ter. Grant and Darwin avenues
Takoma Park.
Colesville, Colesville pike
Route No. /, Colesville.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Company's Boycott
Defers Hearing by
Transit Fact-Finders

Still frustrated. if not ham,
strung. by Capital Transit Co.'S
unwillingness to cooperate in
the proceedings. the act-flnding
board working on the local tran
sit dispute has postponed hear
ings until tomorrow. ..
Clyde M. Mills, assistant di-
rector of the Federal Mediation
and Cancellation Service, an
nounced the session is now due
to start at 10 am. tomorrow in
the Labor Department. 1t had
been scheduled for today.
Mr.. Mills announced the delay
late yesterday, after a three
hour meeting Of Federal media
ton officials, the fact-fiinders
and the District Commissioners.
Company Resists Efforts.
In a brief prepared statement,
the mediation officer pointedly
added:
Every effort is heing made
(by the Commissioners and the
mediation Service) to persuade
the company to change it's po-
Sition and participate in the
hearing scheduled to commence
tomorrow"
The reaction of transit execu-
tives to this was the same as
before: Our position is still un-
changed.
There was still strong doubt
in official quarters whether the
three-member fact-finding board
appointed by the Commissioners
will be able to proceed at all
unless Capital Transit joins in.
Pensions Involved.
While none would comment
publicly. at least one top 60
between the company and union
disputants was understood to be
pessimistic over the prospects of
going ahead with hearings based
only on evidence submitted by
the union.
At issue is the transit workers
demand for greater pension ben
efits. A strike was barely
averted last month when the
Commissioners won union agree
ment to hold off while the fact
finders conducted their research.
Capital Transit wants no part
Of fact-f1nding, contending that
such undertakings are for the
purpose of determining "how
much" rather than whether
union members benefits should
increase.
Workers Resent Delay.
Meanwhile, union members are
expressing resentment at the
fact-f1nding boards delay, ac-
cording to Walter j. Bierwagen,
union president. He said about
$50 members of the organization
attended the regular meeting last
night at the Pythian Temple.
Mr.. Bierwagen said the men,
bers, in effect, asked, What are
we waiting for?" He said they
adopted a resolution directing
the officers to remind the fact
finding board and the District
Commissioners that the union
accepted the fact-finding pro-
cedure and withheld a strike on
the understanding that action
toward resolving the issues would
be expeditions.
Evening star., 1953-08-05

The concrete lining is applied
by an electrically driven machine
that rolls along inside the pipe.
This machine has a whirling
gadget that sprays out the con-
crete by centrifugal force. At
tached troWels, that look like
fiat feet at the end of skinny
legs, smooth the concrete as it
is applied.
This concrete mortar-"mud," !"
the workmen call it's wheeled
laboriously through the water
pipes in small rubber-tired mud
buggies." 1t is loaded into the
lining machine by hand a buck
etful at a time. The narrower
the pipe, the harder it is on the
backs of the crouching workmen.
Narrowing Experiences.
In pipes that range in diam
eter from .16 to SO inches the
machine operators work on their
stomachs. This can be tedious
and sometimes hair-raising.
Raymond A. Briere of Haskell,
N. j., an operator for the Cen
triline Corp, which does much
of the Districts contract pipe
lining, is one who has had his
share of narrowing experiences
in the underground tubes.
II was fiat on my belly 200
feet inside a 16-inch pipe one
time when I got a cramp in my
arm," Mr.. Briere said. when
I tried to back out, my rubber
jacket pushed over my head. I
got scared. I was afraid to move.
I yelled my head off"
At the pipe outlet, other work.
men heard his yells. One crawled
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Peasant Party Mass

The Croatian Peasant Party
will commemorate the 25th ami
versary of the death of Stjepan
Radio, founder of the party. with
a mass at 10 am. Saturday in
the Franciscan Monastery. 1400
Quincy street NE. Another
special observance will be held
at 7 pm. Saturday in Pierce Hall,
Sixteenth and Harvard streets
NV.
Evening star., 1953-08-05
Raise Forces
37VaCanciesi in
Teacher Staff
Transfer. Of 81
Others to CoIored
Schools Planned

District school officials plan to
keep 81 teaching positions va
cant in the white schools this
fall and to transfer another 80
positions to the colored schools.
The move is necessary to save
enough money to pay mandatory
salary increases for which Con-
gress did not appropriate funds
and provide additional colored
teachers, according to Charles
ZellerS. assistant superintendent
in charge of business administra-
ton for the public schools.
In the maneuvering of the
salaries, some 25 teachers in the
white high schools will be trans
ferred to junior high jobs. Simi-
lar moves last year created much
hard feeling among the high
school teachers.
Custodians of the school sys-
TEN also will be affected by the
lack of funds to pay salary in
creaseS required by law.
rs CustodiaI Vacancies.
A total of rs custodial jobs
will be left vacant also. This
means the cleaning and upkeep
of the schools will suffer even
more.
Mr.. Zellers said the upkeep of
the Districts public schools is
already we'll below the Govern
ment standard. He said that
standard is to assign not more
than 10000 square feet of floor
space to one man.
I'VE have few buildings where
a custodian has less than 16,-
600 square feet to handle" he
commented.
The freezing of the jobs will
not save enough money alone to
pay for the salary increases,
Mr.. zellerS said. School officials
will have to depend on normal
turnover of personnel to save
even further sums.
Replacement Savings.
For instance, when a person
retires or resigns from a top
salary bracket, the replacement
hired starts at a lower salary.
The saving will be used to pay
the salary increases.
The transfer of the 80 white
teaching positions is in accord
ance with an edict of Congress.
Congress ruled that surplus white
teachers salaries must be shifted
to the colored schools where
there is teacher shortage.
Since the greatest surplus of
teachers is in the white high
schools, these are the positions
that will be transferred.
$177,6OO Teacher Saving.
Keeping 81 teaching positions
vacant in the fall will give school
officials $177,600 to start with.
The 26 empty custodial positions
will save $4,000. Further ad-
justments may be necessary by
mid-term.
The budget for the fiscal year
beginning next July l, which the
Board of Education sent to the
Commissioners yesterday, also
contains no requests for money
to pay the mandatory salary in
creaSeS.
Mr.. ZellerS said this was in ac-
cordance with a directive of the
Commissioners. The city heads
told school officials the salary in
creaSes again must be found in
savings made by keeping jobs
vacant.
Evening star., 1953-11-26
20 Million in Andhru

NEW DELHI. = India's new
state, Andhra, is the seventh
largest in area and population.
It has an area of 63,608 square
miles and a population Of 20,-
sos, 900.
Evening star., 1953-11-26
on the Air

THE BARD WINS-There are
problems in all trades, but some
rather special ones in the busi-
ness of translating operas into
English. Suppose. for example,
you were going to do Verdi's
Macbeth" as the NBC Tele-
vision Opera Theater is next
Saturday at 4:30 pm. If you
do it in Italian, you have no
problem. If you decide to do
it in English, you face a serious
decision.
Do you. the question is, trans
late the Piave libretto which
matches the Verdi score? Or, do
you try to match the score with
Shakespeare's version of the
story. which represents Mac
beth" to most Of your audience?
1t isn't simple because there
are sections in the Piave libretto
not in the Shakespeare play and
other parts of the play omitted
in the Italian opera. Producer
Samuel Chotzinoff and DR.. Peter
Herman Adler. musical and ar
tistic director Of the NBC operas,
decided in favor of Shakespeare,
however.
1t required quite a Juggling
job on the part of Translator
Giovanni Carde1li. If you are a
Shakespearean, you'll find lines
turning up where they don't be-
long, simply because the ibret-
tist did that in the Italian work
and the Verdi score must be
matched by the English words
The witches incantations, for
example. come along in Acts III
and Nv in the play. Piave had
them do their incanting in what
Shakespeare set down originally
as q brief opening scene.
But it's Shakespeare. And DR.
Adler promises that much Of the
text will be clearer when sung
than when spoken.
\ X II Il
AIRBORNE-Mel Allen could
floor that Where Was II" panel
Evening star., 1953-11-26
Curb for Dance Halls

Ireland's Bishop Of Galway is
proposing that all dance halls in
his diocese be forced to close at
IL midnight in winter and ! am.
in summer, except on some holi-
days.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-06-10
TROURIF

Chasing d woman is fun. The
trouble begins when you catch her.