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Evening star., 1953-03-13
NewPayMoveStarte
For Rent Office and
Substitute Teachers

Funds to pay the salaries OF
the District Rent Control Office
employees and substitute teach
ers soon will be requested OF
Congress in a budget estimate
now under preparation.
This was indicated today, after
the House yesterday rebuked the
Senate for pressing a bill to
make the rent funds available.
On motion of Chairman Taber
of the House Appropriations
Committee, the House adopted
resolution declaring it was the
opinion of the House that the
Senate action contravenes a Sec
ton of the Constitution and "is
an infringement of the privileges
of this House."
This action effectively killed
the Senate measure, which had
authorized $4,000 to be appro-
priated out of District funds to
carry salaries in the Office of
District rent administrator until
rent controls expire here
April 30.
ID. C. Officials Act.
District officials Immediately
made plans to request the ST.
900 fund in a budget estimate.
This figure is going to the Budg-
ct Bureau, along with some other
supplemental items of the Dis
trict Government.
The District supplemental re-
quests also will include $50, 900
the school authorities have been
requesting Congress to make
Evening star., 1953-03-13
Murder Of Two Girls
Re-enacted by Youth
For Police Cameras
BY the Assoeloted Press

NEW CITY, N. Y, Mar. 13.-
A dungaree-clad 16-year-old boy
slowly and calmly re-enacted for
State police movie cameras yes
terday the savage Staying of two
little girl classmates.
The boy, Carlton Mason, went
through the motions in a woods
in the wild Ramapo Mountain
area, Is miles from New York.
The murder scene was deep in
mud from an overnight rain.
Imprisoned Without Bail.
Then he was locked up without
bail on a f1rst-degree murder
charge-which carries a manda-
tory death penalty upon con-
viction in New York.
Hes as cool as ice water"
commented Rockland County
Coroner M. j. Moses.
The coroner said the little girls,
Esther Macy. 5. and Marjorie
Boudreau, 8. were ravaged by a
sodomite. Yesterday Mason
denied any sexual attack.
A tall. brown-haired lad with
a record for quiet, good behavior.
Mason is accused of stabbing Es-
ther to death and smashing Mar
jorie's head with a rock last Sum-
day.
He allegedly lured Marjorie
into the woods from a playground
by telling her a house father at
the privately financed Lakeside
School wanted to see her. Little
Esther was killed because she
insisted with childish stubborn
ness on tagging along. All three
youngsters boarded at Lakeside.
Mingled With Searchers.
ESther'S father in New York
swore eternal hatred for young
Mason. but Marjorie's father said
he couldn't bring himself to hate
the boy because of his age.
The teen-aged lad mingled
with a search party after the
slayings and pretended to hap
pen on Marjorie's body. He
helped others try to revive the
child and remove her body from
the woods. Esther's body was
found later.
Rockland County District At
torney John Skahen said Mason
admitted the slayings.
Evening star., 1953-03-13

prices may jump 10 to IL cents
a pound at retail.
Earl Gilbert. sales manager
for the Heurich Brewing Co.,
Washington's sole brewery, said
of beer:
II can't see where there will
be any increases at the whole
sale level. There might be some
adjustments in some few places,
but no overall change in the
general picture. Beer prices
have been below ceiling at the
wholesale level in this part Of
the country"
Retail Rise Discounted.
Hilliard Schulberg. executive
secretary. Washington Retail
Liquor Dealers Association, said {:
Assuming that the whole
salers and brewers do nothing,
the OPS action on beer will have
no effect in the District of Co.
lumbia. The retailers definitely
will not raise their prices in the
District"
Regarding heating oils, a
spokesman for the Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey declared he
does not anticipate any immedi-
ate increases. He pointed out
that ceiling prices on gasoline
were taken off and there has
been no price increase in this
area.
Among the other items decon-
trolled by OPS were instant
coffees. soy beans, animal feeds
and most chemicals. Products
decontrolled represent a total
annual sales volume of close to
$40 billion. officials said.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
Hollywood Doctor
Held in Shooting Of
Wife As Sons Look On
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. ia
$100.O00-a-year osteopathic ply
sician is in jail today following
the shooting of his estranged
wife in the presence of their two
sons.
DR.. Bernhart S. Schwartz, 80,
was booked at Hollywood police
station on suspicion of assault
with intent to commit murder.
His wife Ester, 33, underwent
surgery after the shooting yes
terday. She was reported in
critical condition. She was shot
once in the abdomen and twice
in the back.
The cries of their 9-year-old
son-"Daddy is trying to kill
mamma"-brought other oceu-
pants of an exclusive apartment
house to the scene. The boy.
Barry, said he tried to push his
father away. Police Capt. Bert
Jones quoted him:
MY daddy came up and he
had bag in his hand. He start
ed to beat up my mommy and
I tried to stop him. They were
fighting in the hall and they
went to the head of the stairs.
He shot her and knocked her
down."
Mrs. Schwartz collapsed near
the foot of the stairs and
sprawled on the lobby carpet.
Barry knelt beside his mother
and wept.
Another onlooker was the
couples other son. Dennis, 5la.
District Attorney S. Ernest Roll
planned to question both boys
and DR.. Schwartz today.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
B. PURE ORION

Orion has a soft feel
and drape, yet is
washable. needs no
ironing. Resists
spots, moth and mil
dew, wrinkles.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
South CuroIiniun Heads
Congress of Surgeons

LOUISVILLE. KY. Mar. 13.-
DR.. j. r. Young of Anderson.
S. c., became president of the
Southeastern Surgical Congress
yesterday at the close of the or
ganization's four = day annual
meeting. He succeeds DR.. Harry
Lee Claud of Washington, D. c.
DR.. j. Duffy Hancock of Louis
vile was named president-elect
OF the congress yesterday and
will become head of the 12-State
organization at it's convention in
Birmingham, Ala, next March.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
C. NYLON & DACRON

One of the moSt-in-
demand blends-ny-
Ion and dacron is
strong, fast = drying,
needs no ironing -
has a rich look.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
d. PURE DACRON

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Wrinkle-reSiSt.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
Inside story
of Miracle
fabrics and blends

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A. ORION AND PIMA
Is almost iridescent,
has a luxurious
hand, drapes well.
Washable, orion and
pima needs little
~ pressing.
Evening star., 1953-07-27

Americans are the greatest coffee
drinkers in the world.
Maybe the following excerpt from
letter from r. c. C. of Fulton street will
interest coffee consumers. just because
they like good coffee:
I'm not one who writes letters to
columnists, but since I've started this.
I'd like to tell you that I've enjoyed
your daily sessions for some Is years.
when I was first married, and
driving downtown was not an en-
durance test, it was my pleasant habit
to drive my husband to his Office.
I'VE would stop for coffee and bun
at little lunchroom on Eleventh street.
THE man who poured the coffee told
me in awed tone one day that the gent
who fingered over his coffee each morn
ing was Mr.. Tracewell Of The Star
i've had an especial affection for
This and That and its author ever
since, as well as having been severe
but sympathetic critic.
"Eut I've never ceased to applaud
the fresh approach that you bring to
each days chore. There have been
many days, I know, when you have
thought that you couldn't grind it out.
But you have-Superbly. Thank you for
having made my subscription to The
Star a good investment"
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Not the Time to Tinker

The Eisenhower administration, supported
in greater numbers by Democrats than by Re-
publicanS, scored a genuine victory in recon-
mitment to the House Ways and Means Com
mittee of the Simpson tariff and import control
BILL The legislation provided for curbing I'M
ports of oil, called for new or higher duties on
several commodities and articles and modified
important provisions of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act. If enacted, it would have
nullified in substantial degree the 12-month
extension of the reciprocal trade law which
already has passed both branches of Congress
and is currently in conference.
Aside from the damaging impact which
mandatory Tightening of our foreign trade
restrictions might have on our relations with
other free nations and their economies there
was another important consideration involved.
A comprehensive study of our foreign economic
policy is to be undertaken soon by bipartisan
executive-legislative group. Presumably, the
definitive position of the Eisenhower admin
istration will be taken on the basis Of this
study and legislation to implement it presented
to the next session of the. Congress. Piece
meal tinkering in the meantime would produce
results difficult to measure in few months and
would hardly contribute to the creation of q
sound, long-term policy in the field of foreign
trade.
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Something Under Its Wing?

The recent admission by the Air
Force that secret tests of a new aerial
flare had been responsible for several
of the flying saucer" reports of the
last few years, deserves more public
discussion than it has received. It may
be recalled that in 1852, at the height
of the Nationwide wave of saucer
sightings, the Air Force issued the fol-
lowing official statement:
1.-The Air Force has stated in the
past, and reaffirmS at the present time.
that these unidentified aerial pheno-
mena are not a secret weapon, missile
or aircraft, developed by the United
States. None of the three military de-
partments nor any other agency in
the Government is conducting expert
mentS, classified or otherwise, with
flying objects which could be a basis
for the reported phenomena"
This statement has since been re-
peated in the form letter routinely
sent by the Air Force to inquirers for
flying saucer information.
1t is obvious that the admission
about the aerial flare experiments con-
tradicts, and therefore renders null
and void, the 1852 Air Force statement
quoted above. This means that the
following key question still lacks an Of
fetal answer:
HAS any United States Government
agency conducted any experiments or
test flights with any circular or spher-
ical rockets, guided missiles, or air
craft, in open view anywhere within
the United States since 1882"
Analyst.
Evening star., 1953-07-27

record lends ample support to him. It also
lends support to warnings that Macs China,
given the Korean armistice, will now replenish
its weakened power and prepare for new ad-
ventures elsewhere-a possibility that could
lead to what the President has called "un-
toward developments" of the gravest kind in
places like embattled and strategically vital
Indo-China.
Considered against such background, the
Korean truce obviously must be judged with
great deal of non-jubilant reserve. Although
it has put stop to the bloodshed and although
it may possibly represent vastly beneficent
development in the effort to prevent third
world war, it leaves many crucial questions un-
answered Dr. Rhees pessimiStic assessment of
it ought not to be ignored After all, while
hoping for the best, we need very much to
remember that this agreement does not actually
settle anything basic Indeed far from averting
a global conflict, it may merely have postponed
it to time when the grim win-or-lose odds
may be much less in our favor than they are
now. AS the President has warned, it is there
fore still as imperative today it was yester-
day for the United States and its allies to re-
main on guard and go forward with their COM
mon defensive build-up without let-up or va
ciIlation
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Supplying Red Chino

Perhaps one of your readers can
explain this paradox: A Senate sub
committee issued a report stating that
strategic materials are still reaching
the Red Chinese in increasing amounts.
Shortly thereafter the House Appropria-
tions Committee voted Is per cent
cut in export control funds, on top, OF
recent, previous cuts. Does it follow
that if goods moving in the China trade
are increasing. we should decrease our
efforts to stop it?
The Office of International Trade.
the agency which conducts our cam
paign to keep strategic goods from
reaching Communist China, and ulti-
mately North Korea, has already been
rendered harmless by reductions in
force and clumsy pumping" regula-
tionS.
There can only be two answers: Cd
Our Congressman approved the cut in
accordance with what seems to be their
chief occupation on The Hill - box
Office appeal to constituents at the ex-
pense of this country. Or (2) maybe
this Government of big Business" has
forgotten how the Japanese shot our
scrap metal back at our GIs only few
years ago, and would like to cash in on
this trade Is there an answer to this
riddle? If there is. try and explain it
to the mothers of our more than
100. 900 Korean police action" casual
ties. V.M.
Evening star., 1953-07-27
A World Trade Drouqht

There are disturbing although not really
surprising implications in the world trade
analysis recently published by the Secretariat
The study, placing great emphasis on COM
pariSonS between 1929, the best prewar year, and
1851, peak postwar year, reveals that the
trade volumes for those two years were roughly
equal in terms of adjusted prices but con-
siderably different in terms of natural flow of
trade which prevailed throughout the world in
the predepression period. A significant part of
the answer was found in the fact that approx
matey 10 per cent of the postwar trade was
financed by United States economic aid-not
including that attributed to military assistance
rather than through the direct interchange of
goods.
The tendency of many governments in the
postwar period to turn to trade controls as a
means of seeking self-sufficiency is cited as a
basic explanation for the present-day story, but
the GAIT report warns that these devices can
no longer be considered temporary phenomena.
Among them are not only the familiar tariff
and customs barriers but an enlarged complex
of import-export restrictions, balance-of-pay-
ment controls to protect currency reserves and
regulation of exchange of strategic materials.
While the GAIT analysis does not provide
any answers for a problem that is basic to the
search for world peace and prosperity, it does
set up in statistical form comprehensive pic
ture of the trends and their causes. If answers
can be found at all, they must emerge from this
type of study
Evening star., 1953-07-27
By Charles E. TroceweN

These and others. in moderation.
soothe the hectic pace. Here again it is
impossible to be sure where the effect
comes from, let us say, in good cup
of coffee. Perhaps it is nothing more
than "time out" a slowing down, a
sested interlude.
The old-time greeting, Come and
set down." had more to it than poor
grammar.
Many mems lives are from chair
at home to a chair at the office, to a
chair at a restaurant, and back home
to the favorite overstuffed chair by the
dining room window.
If they get a cup Of coffee each
place, their way through life is soothed
to that extent, and their work is
better, and their relations with their
fellowmen (to say nothing of their fell
lowwomen) is at peak of something
or other.
Coffee is also diuretic and is especial
ly good for older persons. In fact, there
was a physician in this city once who
was nicknamed Coffee" which he
regularly prescribed for his getting
older r-and-older patients. 1t is only fair
to say that most of his fellow physi-
clans did not share his enthusiasm for
this particular drink. at least they did
not believe it was as helpful as he did.
But maybe he was right. Who can
doubt it when the coffee is good2
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Food Handlers

It's time The Star or some other in
f1uential paper took a look at the
health departments of our Metropolitan
Area in regard to food handling.
Restaurants want to assure their Gus
toners of the finest in food and serv-
ice. The only weak spot is in the
health examination of new employees.
Quality of food purchased and quail
ity Of food preparation are on high
plane in most restaurants, hotels and
other food-serving establishments.
But when a new employe comes to
work, he or she can actually handle
food for a couple of months before
physical examination is given in the
District! In Virginia, the situation is
worse; and the same goes for Maryland.
The logical thing to do is to have
an employe get health certificate be-
fore reporting for work. The Health
Department says it does not have the
facilities or the money to do this. So
an inspector goes around three or four
times a year to eating establishments
and checks the employees. The en-
ploye must, sometime between hiring
and inspection, get a card certifying
Evening star., 1953-07-27
This and That

Coffee was once called "the intellec-
tual drink"
It was supposed to sharpen the mind,
and heaven knows that most of us can
do with bit of that.
What is not usually realized is that
coffee brings forth kindness, too.
The above letter is good example
of that, if any were needed. but most
persons can think of many in their
personal lives.
We do not believe that any one has
ever been murdered over a cup of
coffee, or fallen to the floor after drink
ing one, or struck a child or kicked
dog.
There is something relaxing about
good coffee, and let the good" be en-
phaSized.
The person about whom the above
was written has, in 80 years. drunk
enough cups of coffee in that place
to float two battleships of the largest
size.
This computation was the result OF
several idle moments over the cup.
How much of the effects OF coffee is
due to the caffeine, and how much to
the warmth, is any ones guess, but
probably it is the former.
It is an odd fact that so many OF the
worlds favorite narcotics came from
the New World.
Coffee, cocoa, tobacco
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Chance the Ballot?

In the interest of accuracy, would
like to suggest that on all future cleo
ton ballots, the designation Repre-
sentative" and Senator" be changed to
Investigator Recent hearings win
dicating" a high-placed churchman
were recessed to permit legislators a
few moments to vote in the congress
Sional chambers.
Furthermore, voters should re-evalu
ate the qualifications of their elected
representatives who, until recently,
were presumed to have merit as states
men. Investigators, in the new fashion,
should be wolf-mouthed, shyster law
yers with bent for prosecution, head
lines, the neat perverted phrase and a
lack of good taste plus the lack OF
conscience that will murder regulations
because ultimately some "juStify1ng"
Communist will be unearthed.
One Mans Opinion.
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Peace Cross Flood Plan

Senator John Marshall Butler, Repre-
sentative Frank Small. the American
Automobile Association, and the Army
Engineers Corps deserve credit for the
last-ditch fight they have been marking
to secure adequate appropriations to
relieve flood conditions at Bladensburg
Peace Cross.
This area, where U. S. and U. S. so
meet, is one of the most travelled
in the Nation and yet, for third
of a century, nothing of a lasting
improvement has been made to al
leviate the condition.
The area should be abridged, and
good place to do it would be from a
point few hundred yards east of the
Peace Cross to point similar distance
to the west. This would not only
bridge over the high-water mark of
the Anacostia River at that point but
would span the railway just to the
east of Peace Cross, so that railroad
grade crossing would also be eliminated.
Walter w. Hubbard.
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Rurul EIeqy

Strdiohten the tangled curIS as she lies
dead;
Bind some trail bit of green about her
head,
Some sprio of prairie bloon-myrtle
tDiH do;
She loUed the ploinest leaf that eper
gTe1D.
Bring any foWery thing hot plains can
yield,
Epen dusty fern out of the feld
Lay the leaves tenderly here on her
bToU.
She tDould be happy to see herself not1!
Pray that her spirit laughs sUl,ile the
tDind 0rieueS.
One day she hoped to tUeGr bright
laurel leGUeS!
Edna Moy Ewert
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Virqinio Eyes Toll Roads

Virginia, properly proud of its free, modern
highway system, may be forced by increasing
traffic needs to depart from its traditional
policy against toll roads. Although in earlier
years the State had number of privately
operated toll roads it has never built one itself.
But, attracted by the success which PennSyl-
vania, New York, New Jersey and few other
States have had with the pay-as-you- turn
pixies, State officials have been giving serious
thought to the subject. Favorable action may
result from report just submitted by consult
ing engineers in support OF State-bu1lt toll
road between Richmond and Petersburg.
The financially attractive plan recon-
mended by the technical advisers to the State
Highway Commission was announced while the
commission was worrying over backlog of
highway needs and a shortage of funds with
which to supply them The volume of traffic
has been increasing in recent years faster than
new roads could be financed and built. Road
costs have scared since World War II, but
revenues from gasoline taxes have not kept
pace. AS the financial problem has become more
acute, the idea of collecting tolls to defray the
cost of expensive new limited-acceSs express
ways has grown in favor.
The proposed Richmond Petersburg turn
pike would parallel U. S. /, roughly, for the
35-mile distance. The engineers suggested
two possible routes, one cutting through parts
of the two cities and the other bypasSing them
through rural regions. The former plan was
preferred by the consultants, but special act
of the Legislature would be required. Under
the present law the State Highway Comnis
sion could build a toll road through rural areas
but not through any cities. A legislative COM
mittee also is studying the toll-road plan in
its Statewide aspects and will make recon-
mendations to the next General Assembly. 1t
would not be surprising if Virginia becomes the
next State to adopt the toll system for certain
alternate main routes. Unless this policy
change is made, the State may find itself falling
behind in it's efforts to keep it's fine roads
abreast of rising traffic demands.
Evening star., 1953-07-27
By J. Edaor Hoover
Director. FsdsruI BOrsoU Of Investigation

DHectoIs FOoeboI buteou OF tnreSU9oIion
THE following is reprinted from
the Boston University CGmpus.)
VOU. the college student. whether or
i not you realize it. are the rich
earth which the Communist conspirator
hopes to till. Your mind is the soil in
which he hopes to implant alien seed
Your subsequent acts are the products
whose growth he strives to direct. The
harvest which he seeks is the destruc-
ton of our democratic processes of gov
eminent.
What then, can you, the college stu
dent. do about communism? AwarenesS
of danger is the first requisite to COM
batting that danger. First, then, know
your enemy That necessitates learning
what communism really means, not
what its apologistS say it means.
How is one to separate truth from
propaganda? can only say, "Set your
self the task of developing free mind
a mind which seeks facts" Such mind
accepts neither the minority version
nor the majority version; it seeks and
considers evidence. 1t is not satisfied
until irrefutable evidence points out
the road which leads toward irrevocable
truth.
When you have learned everything
possible from the experience of those
who escaped from "Utopia"-where
they learned the bitter difference be-
tween promise and reality-then steep
yourself in the history of America. Go
back to the heart and soul of its
origins. Read the documents, books.
and letters of the immortal giants who,
with faith and prayer and idealism,
shaped and nodded a form of govern
ment which is continuous expression
of faith in the individual. There you
will learn that true Americanism is
an act of faith-an overwhelming belief
that the individual man, with Gods
help. is an intelligent being capable of
self-rule. That faith is essential to the
continuance of the American form of
government.