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Evening star., 1953-05-13
Case Awaits Position
OF Administration on
D. {. Public Works

Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee said today
he hopes to learn very soon"
the administrators position on
the Commissioners $685. million
public works program.
The city plan now is before
the Budget Bureau for study.
The bureaus position, Senator
Case said, will play a major part
in his decision as to whether he
will propose a substitute proposal
to finance needed improvements
in the city's public facilities.
The South Dakota Republican
said he agrees such a program
is needed. But he made plain
he did not yet want to say wheth-
er an alternative plan will be
necessary
He said he hoped the admins
tration's position would be clear
by the time joint District fiscal
hearings begin on Capitol Hill
It was disclosed Sunday that
a proposal for tax increases for
the District is being put into
tentative form by the Senate
committee staff.
Senator Case said it's i'm
mediate purpose, however, is to
match city revenues against I'M
provement needs in order to get
a clear picture of all possibilities,
The Commissioners have op-
posed tax increases as a means
of financing the vast city i'm
provement program. Their pro-
posal called for about $108 mil
lion in Federal grants, plus a
similar amount in interest-free
loans to finance the bulk of the
public works needs over a six
year period.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Our Planes Were Bombing Continuously

There concentration of Communst) troops the
and airpanes bombing strafng almost
continuously They four five strikes week. hit
ting the railroad yards and the townamoSt everything in
sight could bombs hitting in towns less than two
miles away Sometimes they that would
shake mud off the walls.
We asked the Koreans to make sort of red
white and put to mark the site the air.
planes would know there But they did it.
We always thrilled when heard those planes
over. We got didn't really whether were
bombed not We just wanted to be of those
SOBS killed.
We got Of the war; but could tell how things
going the allies pushing them back the Chnks
would around and mutter in Chinese Americans
good You could te by the they talked and acted,
whenever the Reds gaining ground somewhere. !
At the time they forming the permeter and fighting
around Seoul they told they had retaken Seoul and
everything which found out later they hadn't But they
had gained quite bit of ground down there and these
Chinks just over-optmistic about it.
They'd by and tell us things like that trying to
break morale. OF course, we didn't believe it.
But the fellows mighty low and everybody did what
he could to help the others We tried to keep minds of
the families back home and worries like that We talked and
planned for the future-about what going to eat
when got back and how much. Things Of that Sort
Tomorrow: The GI prsSners die OF. one BY one
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Man on Roadside Crushed
When Truck Overfurns

A Washington man was
crushed to death today when a
milk van overturned on him at
Langley, Va.
Zebedee Wyatt, colored, 80. of
1400 Trinidad, avenue NE, was
pinned beneath the truck about
10 minutes. Members of the
Mclean Rescue Squad hailed a
passing bulldozer to pull the
truck off Mr.. Wyatt.
The rescue squad said Mr..
Wyatt was working close to the
side of the road when the acci-
dent happened. The truck driver
Thomas Pinnion, 10, of Sterling,
Va, told members of the rescue
squad that he applied his brakes
because another car stopped in
front Of him. The truck jack
knitted and overturned. Mr.. Pin
Mon was taken to Arlington Hos
pital for treatment for shock.
The accident occurred on Chain
Bridge road near Langley.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Ex-Embassy Aide Gets
Term on Morals Charqes

Milton Carl Lee, 80. was SEN
fenced yesterday to serve three
years for moral offenses involv-
ing teen-age boys.
Lee of the $500 block Of Land
over road, Landover Md, was a
supply clerk in Prince Georges
General Hospital last November
when police arrested him.
Lee was tried In Upper Marl-
boro on three counts Of contrib
.uting to the delinquency Of
minors by perverted sex acts.
Circuit Court Judge John B.
Gray. jr., sentenced him to serve
three consecutive one-year terms.
At one time, Lee was an assist
ant butler in the French Ep-
baSSy.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Catholic Churches PIun
Ascension Duy Masses

Catholic churches in the down.
town area have scheduled extra
masses tomorrow to accommodate
expected crowds for the Feast of
the Ascension. holy day Of
obligation.
The feast commentaries the
ascension of Christ into heaven
40 days after rising from the
dead on Easter Sunday.
st. Patrick's Church, Tenth
and q streets NV. has sched-
uled Is masses throughout the
morning. Mass will be said at
poon at the Pentagon, Signal
Corps Auditorium. Room 5A1e60.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Special Board
Named 10 Hear
Bullock Case
Non-PoIice Panel
Picked Since Affair
Involves High Officer

A three-member special trial
board today was named by the
District commissioners to hear
the city's misconduct charges
against Albert I. Bullock. sus-
pended Metropolitan police in
spector.
After a long conference with
their legal staff the city heads
appointed:
Robert F. Cogswell, District
rent control administrator; 1t
Col. Harry F. Hansen, second
assistant Engineer Commissioner
of the District, and Donald
Clemmer, District director OF
corrections.
Mr.. Cogswell in an attorney
Col. Hansen. whose military serv-
ice has included duty in COM
bat zones, has served in his
present capacity for about a
year. Mr.. Clemmer is the city's
top penologist.
No Connection With Case.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
explained that the non-police
board was decided on in view of
the fact that the case involves a
high-ranking police officer. Mr.
Spencer pointed out that while
the board members are city Off
cials they have had no connec-
ton with the Bullock case and
their Offices are mot too close" tt
the Police Department itself.
The last special trial board
served last year, hearing wire
tap charges against Police 1t. Jo-
seph Shimon.
Specifications Listed.
Trial board action against In
spector Bullock is scheduled for
June 9. These specifications
against the police official will be
prosecuted by Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Robert D
Wise, who aided Police Chief
Robert v. Murray in the latest
department investigation of In
spector Bullock:
/. Refusal to answer a direct
question involving his testimony
before Senate District Crime
Investigating subcommittee last
year. This inquiry had to dc
with Inspector Bullock's refusal
to explain more than $4,000 in
come over and above his police
pay during the years 1946-48.
2. Refusal to explain to the
Senate subcommittee the source
of this additional income.
8. Failure to file District in
come tax returns during the
period in question.
4. Refusal to answer other
questions by the Senate sub.
committee.
May Receive Back Pay.
If the inspector should bt
exonerated by the trial boare
he will be able to apply. and NJ
doubt successfully, for immedi.
ate retirement with pay as HI
has sought to do for more thar
a year. Hhe also will be entitled
to receive back duty pay from
May %. 1852. when his suspen.
sion went into effect.
Meanwhile. two auditors arr
studying Inspector Beverly c
Beach's testimony before a Sen
ate committee to determine wha
police trial board charges will bt
f1nel against him. Chief Murray
said today.
Chief Murray said he hopee
the investigation will be com
pleted in time to set the tria
date before the fiscal year endl
June 30.
The police executive is anxious
to clear the boards regarding
both Inspector Beach and In.
spector Bullock, he said, point
ing out that the department ha.
been operating minus the two
suspended top-ranking officials
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Waters Tells of Misery
In Cold, Filthy PW Camps

This is the second of series of stories by Sergt John
L. Waters recountig his hardhps prisoner of the
Reds in Korea for 20 months The 37yearod soldier is
the first District to be repatridted in the POW
change NouD patient at Walter Reed Hospital he tells
his gripping story exclusively for The Star.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Ritenour Heads Lions Club

Otis H. Ritenour, vice presi-
dent of the Washington Gas
Light Co., was installed as pres
ident of the Washington Post
Lions Club today at a luncheon
in the Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
An Outcost CIoss-Put There to Die

We were less outcast class They just put
there to die And all did but and other fellow.
We had guard directly u.s. although Korean
officer and two lowergrade soldiers in charge of
They fed less regularly with breakfast
daylight They'd bring cracked barley milet
little basket and split it evenly among
got seasoning at all for the food.
At night, anywhere from to o'clock got another
basket of chow think had rice maybe eight times
over the whole four-month period.
We didn't have much water to drink. We used to boil it
II we had fire, which didn't always. The water
out of well which other people using figured it
probably all right for One of the boys had tablets
which helped purify water and dropped them quart
of water from time to time
guess washed my hands average of once week.
We used for that-reached outside the get
shaving haircuts, nothing. I didn't shave
months and dirtier than miner got
Of there.
In fact it took about six baths in the river after got
away from that place. to get all the filth and dirt my
that had been ground into the skin
OF had toilet in the shack and couldn't
get around The boy with his calf torn off took
he could.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
By Seret. JOHN l. WATERS
As Told to John v. Horner

Newspaper
The Chinese had moved IS American prisoners to
the railroad center in North Korea early in December 1885,
The POWs who could walk separated from the
who litter We put in a small mud
shack
had idea then what misery in store for the next
four months.
We were in a railroad center MsR-main supply
route-for the Communists.
The shack had three rooms but there windows.
There the entrances and it almost
cold inside outside So had rice bags hanging where the
doors had been to keep the wind out bit.
The kitchen had fireplace. But it all bombed up
didn't heat the other two These built
up higher than the Kitchen inches and rocks had been
put in there The heat from the fire supposed to
through kind reach the But the system
torn up, and no heat got there.
To keep had to sit right top of the fireplace,
which was really like little old camp fire.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Slept on Floor Without Any Bedding

Sometimes got to sleep in the kitchen-on the dirt
floor No bedding at ALL Fortunately still had sleeping
bag with me. managed to keep warm that way.
But the shack be pretty crowded few days
the Chinks kept bringing in one, two three CT
prisoners There wasn't for everybody in the
kitchen We had many IL in one
We close everybody couldn't lie down at the
same time. You'd have to sleep sitting up then.
Some of the guys brought in hurt than
And couldn't walk at all. hadn't been feet since
wounded November g. That morning burp gun fire
caught the left leg twice the
groin. Then another Chink lying the ground
He up and shot me through the stomach I think
would died there before my capture blood
clotted in the awful cold.
During the four months in the mud shack, had
total of "a wounded GIs. Only boy could get
ALL his leg off, but he waited
the rest of the prisoners
Nobody got any medical aid There wasn't any.
Evening star., 1953-11-09

lines, and all the rest of these
enterprises into which the Gov
ernment has poured some $40
billion in the past two decades. :"
Mr.. Mason also contended that
proper taxation of certain kinds
of businesses that now pay little
or nothing" would offset revenue
losses that would result from
some of the tax revision pro-
posalS being sudied by the COM
mittee.
'There is neither rhyme nor
reason in permitting co-opera-
tives to do $40 billion of busi-
ness in competition with taxpay-
ing business without paying the
same tax themselves, or in per-
mitting building and loan asso-
Citations and credit unions to do
a nearly complete banking busi-
ness on what still amounts to a
tax-exempt basis. There is 81 bill
lion at stake in this item alone"
Evening star., 1953-11-09

If you haze difficulty sticking to
a diet but still 1Udnt to reduce,
every Uord here concerns you
AS long as man has been on earth, overweight has
plagued him-yet only in recent years has science
determined the full extent of bodily harm that
excess pounds can infict
Today doctors know that overweight is primary
cause of heart trouble high blood pressure diabetes,
kidney disease arhrS and other serious ailments In
terms of human lives insurance company statistics
veal that overweight people have death rate varying
from 22% to 74% above normal
Why, then, do 25,ooO,ooo overweight men and
women ignore these dire warnngs-defeat their own
chances of popularity happiness job sucoess-continue
to eat their way into early graves?
Evening star., 1953-11-09
CHECK YOUR cHlLD'S COUGH

and bronchial irritation Of colds.
Lessons tickle, loosens phlegm.
Soothes, eases. So pleasant tasting.
81. JOSEPH e0UaH SYRUR E0R eMILDaEn
Evening star., 1953-11-09

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1953-11-09
s. Billion Sales Tax
For Manufacturers
Urged by Legislator

A manufacturers sales tax to
raise SIS billion a year and re-
place excises on practically
everything except liquor and to-
bacco is the key provision in a
bill being drafted by a high
ranking Republican on the House
Ways and Means Committee.
Representative Mason of Illi-
nois today outlined the measure
he plans to introduce in January.
This bill and other tax legisla-
ton he advocated differ from
some views of the Eisenhower
administration. They also go
farther than proposals expected
to be made by the Joint Commit
tee on Internal decentralization.
Lists Major Points.
The veteran Illinois member
listed the following five major
points he believes the committee
should recommend to Congress:
Eliminate double taxation of
corporate dividends.@
Repeal present excise taxes on
such goods or services as electric
light bulbs. baby oils, toilet
articles, kitchen refrigerators,
women's handbags, rail and air
transportation, movie admissions
and automobiles.
Tax present tax-exempt busi-
ness organizations that compete
with taxpaying organizations.
Vote for a tax ceiling on in
dividual and corporate income
taxes, in line with a proposed
constitutional amendment urged
by Mr.. Mason for several years.
Enact a fiat national manu-
facturers' excise tax "in place of
the hodge-podge, inequitable ex-
ciseS now on the books"
Sales Tax Doubtful.
The joint committe and Treas
ury experts plan to submit a
general tax revision bill as soon
as Congress reconvenes. Com
mittee members have indicated
that the revision bill, or separate
measures, might provide for
elimination or reduction of some
excise taxes, end double taxation
of dividends, and give several
other types of tax relief. It is
believed highly doubtful that it
will propose a Federal sales tax
of any kind.
The sales tax urged by Mr..
Mason would be a fiat 5 per cent
levy on all manufactured articles
except food and medicine. This
would bring in SIS billion and
thus permit repeal of all excise
taxes except those on liquor and
tobacco, Mr.. Mason said.
Another way to get additional
revenue. Mr.. Mason believes,
would be to sell the Tennessee
Valley Authority to private busi-
ness SO that it could be taxed
On its earnings. President Eisen-
hover said several weeks ago
that the Government has no in
tention of selling IVA.
Cites Other U. S. Business.
"We can pick up at least
So billion a year in tax revenue
if the Federal Governments So
cialistic business enterprises are
sold to private. taxpaying COM
panies," Mr.. Mason said.
I'm not talking alone about
IVA. have reference also to
the Armys coffee roasting
plants, the Navy's rope factory,
the optical factory in st. Louis
with branches in Okinawa, Ko-
rea and Honolulu; the paint and
box factories, the Panama Rail-
road. the tugboat and shipping
Evening star., 1953-11-09

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Evening star., 1953-11-09

here is probably the most important and encoura
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Evening star., 1953-11-09
Wake Up
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Nagging backache, loss of pep and energy,
headaches and dizziness may be due to slow
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health. When some everyday condition, such
as stress and strain, causes this important
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Doan's give happy relief from these discom.
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Evening star., 1953-11-09

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you can make your oven bright
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Evening star., 1953-11-09

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ache, neuritiS
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e a s y = t o =
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Evening star., 1953-11-09

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Evening star., 1953-11-09

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Evening star., 1953-11-09

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Evening star., 1953-11-09

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Evening star., 1953-11-09
The Truth about Diet Failure

The main for unwingness to diet is that diet
ing, until today, has required iron wllpower that
most mortals do not possess Even granting that diets
supply sufficient calores for normal health require
ments the plain anatomical truth is that they fail to
furnish the Uoume of food essential satisfied feeling
Hence the stomach, unaccustomed to lower food
intake reacts with hunger pangs shortly after the start
of diet In most cases, these pangs followed by
jumpy nerves. insomnia and what laymen frequently
refer to as starvation blues
Thus vicious cycle is set up. IF the dieter wants to
relieve his discomfort he is forced to 60 off his diet
and exceed his caoric limitations IT, on the other hand
he sticks to the diet then his discomfort apt to be-
come even more severe
To people who have been trapped in this dilemma
but still recognize the necessity of dieting to lose weight
Evening star., 1953-12-17


the mimi mum reuurements
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-06-27

with the alleged crime.
Sgt. Burns, Pvt. Dennis and an
other Negro serviceman, Calvin
Dennis. were held and turned over
% the civilian authorities on jan
uary 7, l949. They were subjected
10 continuous questioning, were
beaten and denied food. Almost
month later they were returned
"a the military and held in Gus
.ody 81 more days before being
officially charged with rape and
murder"
The men were put in death
cells and were not permitted to
consult with anyone until one day
before they faced court-martial
in May, 1949. Burns attorney had
just one day in which to prepare
MS case. The three men were
convicted and sentenced TO death
II three separate trials.
An appeal to the military re-
viewing authorities for a hearing
Nas made by the NAACP lawyers
Jut denied. Later, a motion for a
new trial was submitted to the
Judge Advocate, Whish, too, was
1enied.
NAACP attorneys then filed a
iii of habeas corpus in the u. S.
> st~ict Court on the grounds that
ne convictions Of the men were
= complete violation of their
institutional rights. They point
ID out that important evidence
was suppressed and that the
whole atmosphere of the trials
vas one of hysteria and violence"
The writ of habeas corpus was
denied and an appeal was made
= the Court of Appeals in the
District Of Columbia, which af-
.irmed the District Courts de-
cision. The u. S. Supreme Court
was asked to review the case,
which took place on February 4,
past.
NAACP attorneys indicated that
a petition for rehearing would be
led.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-06-27
AFRICANS
BATTLE POLICE

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(ANP) - Serious fighting broke
out between White policemen and
Negroes at Luderitz in former
German South West Africa last
week. The trouble started when
police entered Negro quarters at
a fish canning factory to arrest
the ringleaders of striking Ne
groeS.
A police sergeant who attempt
ed to arrest one man was sur
rounded by approximately 200
Negroes and struck on the head
with an iron bar. Other police
men fired at the Negroes. About
50 were arrested when reinforce
ments arrived
After the brief Skirmish the
/ Negroes were still on strike. One
African died from bullet wounds
and four were placed in the hos
pital Seven policemen were in
iured. One White policeman was
flown to Capetown for emergency
treatment.