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The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-01-16
SOCIAL

Continued from Page Three
Ruth w. Coles visited them
last weekend and reported
mother and son doing nicely !:
The Deaconess Club of
Mt. Zion Church met Sum
day afternoon, January 10th
at the residence of Mrs.
Emma Morris on 9th Street,
N. w. A very inspiring
meeting was had and many
good plans for the New
Year were setup. The fol-
lowing officers are to be
installed for the group on
the 18th Sunday this month.
Pre- d mt Mrs. V.
K. Brown; vice president,
Mrs. Hattie Carter; secre-
tary, Mrs. l.. R. Robinson;
assistant secretary, Mrs. E.
l.. Winston; treasurer, Mrs.
Emma Morris and chaplain
Mrs. Hattie Kimbo.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-01-16
Crozet Jottings

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Walk
er, of Charlottesville, Mr..
Robert Payne, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Maupin, mo-
tored to Washington, D. c.,
last weekend where they
visited the Rev. and Mrs.
Edward Jones. Mr.. and
Mrs. Maupin also visited
Mrs. Thomas l.. Hardman.
n
Miss Evelyn Brooks, of
Waynesboro, visited Miss
Jennie Mae Coins on New
Years Day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
New Revenue for D. C..

The District Commissioners
and the Senate District Com
mittee in their frantic search
for additional income are casting
enviouS and speculative eyes on
the nearby suburbs and are Won
dering how they could get some
taxes out of the thousands of
Maryland and Virginia residents
who work in the District but do
not contribute to its support"
The thousands who work in the
District but live elsewhere do
contribute to the cost Of main
tanning it by the sales tax they
pay on every item they buy.
When you consider clothes.
furniture. and other miscellane-
Gus items, that runs into a stable
sum.
Has it ever occurred to the
Commissioners and/or the Senate
District Committee that they
could get q nice little sum out
of District residents by lowering
the ridiculously high personal
income tax exemption? There
are thousands of District resi-
dents earning just under the
$4,000 ceiling who have never
paid an income tax in their lives.
I suggest that the Commission
ers sight their guns on this large
untapped source Of income.
M. Z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Area Woman Shares
In Blaine Fortune

A Washington and Chicago
society matron has inherited q
one-third share of her grand
mothers S35 million grain
reaper fortune.
Probate of the will of Mrs.
Anita Mccormick Blaine,
daughter of Cyrus H. McCor-
mick inventor of the reaper, in
Chicago yesterday disclosed the
bequest.
Principal beneficiary and only
direct descendant of Mrs. Blaine,
was Mrs. Anne Blaine Harrison,
who maintains a home here at
1856 Macomb street NV, and
one in Chicago. She is the wife
of Gilbert A. Harrison. founder
of the American Veterans Com
mittee.
In addition to the award to
Mrs. Harrison, 100000 was left
to Mrs. Eleanor Gooding Law
renee, widow of Emmons Blaine
jr., Mrs. Blaine's only son, who
died in 1918.
The rest of Mrs. Blaine's for
tune was donated to unspecified
charities. The only definite
charitable bequest listed was one
of $330,000 to the Yenshing
University in China, for estab-
lishment of a memorial to Mrs.
Blaine's mother. Nettie Fowler
Mccormick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
SENATOR LANCER.

making up my mind?" said Sem
ator Watkins.
Welker Assails Charges.
Senator Welker, Republican, Of
Idaho, declared he was not in
terested in any FBI report on
Chief Justice Warren.
GAS a former resident of Call
fornia, I'd like to testify under
oath before this committee that
the first five charges against the
Chief Justice are completely
false" Senator Welker said.
Finally, Senator Eastland, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, moved to go
into executive session, and put
an end to the controversy. At
first, Senator LANCER voted no on
this motion, but he changed his
vote as Senator Eastland's mo-
ton was merely to go into execu-
tive session to determine proce-
dure.
After more than half an hour
in executive session, a recess was
taken until today at 1920 am.
Senator LANCER and other mem
bers of the committee said that
no action had been taken in the
executive session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Novy's Pogo Stick

I do not feel that your news
paper. the Associated Press, or
any one associated with the pic
ture can take pride in a job of
good reporting when you took it
upon yourselves to make the
photograph Of the Nays Pogo
Stick" development which was In
your paper recently.
I do not understand how any
newspaper man can feel that he
Is excepted from the obligation
to keep his country's secrets only
because it is unlikely that he will
be prosecuted for giving them
away. If newspapers feel that
they must, to do q complete job
OF reporting, ferret out informa-
ton Of value to our enemies and
which our people responsible for
our safety have decided the
enemy should not have, then !
feel that our concept Of freedom
OF the press should be re-evalu-
ated.
was a newspaper photogra-
pher at one time, and I am not
proud Of It today.
Philip r. McCray.
editors note: There was no
violation Of security in publica-
ton OF the photograph of the
engine Of the Nays new vertical
plane referred to as Pogo Stick. "
The Navy itself tried to release
. story and pictures Of this plane
last month but they were held up
BY the Defense Department for
policy Yeasons.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Personal Property Tex

While discussions are going on
about new taxes for the District.
now is the time, it seems, for
citizens Of the District to bring
up all artillery, side-armS and
bombs to end the life of the per-
sonal property tax. Certainly
there is no tax more obnoxious.
It gives so-called appraisers the
privilege of rummaging through
ones posSesSionS-often acquired
after much hardship and denial.
There is no use to attempt to
refuse this privilege" for. as I
have heard some remark. 1.-The
man has a gun" 1t is perhaps
the nearest thing we have to q
local gestapo.
And now that we have the
sales tax, this personal property
tax amounts to a felony. One
buys household equipment. pay
ing q big sales tax on it, and
then each year must pay an
other tax to continue to own it!
SOrta Angry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
'PostuI Fees and Toxes'

Your recent editorial on Postal
Fees and Taxes" was surpris-
ingly one-sided in advocating an
increase in postal rates at this
time.
It would seem only fair to point
out that the staggering annual
postal deficit" and operating
losses Of the Post ONCE Depart
ment" have at various times in
cluded the cost Of handling the
tremendous quantity Of franked
mail, air-mafl subsidies. and the
free delivery of county newspa-
pers.
Carrying the Government mail
free accounts for almost one
half Ct the so-called deficit. There
is strong evidence that q large
part of the remaining deficit
could be wiped out by improving
and making more efficient the
department itself, without any
increase in rates.
If the Post Office Department
is to be required to follow the
business principle Of making GER
tain classes of mail service pay
their way. it should also follow
another business principle of
eliminating those parts Of its
operations which do not pay.
This would probably mean dis
continuing more than one-half
the post Offices in the United
States because they do not pro-
duce enough revenue to pay the
cost Of maintaining them. even
If postal rates were doubled or
tripled.
Increasing flrst-class. third
class and parcel post rates as has
been done in the past and as
presently proposed places the
burden of maintaining postal
service to small. non-paying COM
munities on present large users
Of the mail service.
Therefore, higher postal rates
would be another tax" Fur
thermore, it would be an unjust,
discriminatory tax on those in
dividualS and businesses who
conduct their operations pri-
marily through the mails.
If the present philosophy un-
DERIVING the Post Office Depart
ment, Of having it operate for
service to all. is to continue, then
its cost must and should be borne
by all taxpayers generally.
H.. E. L.
Editors note: The Post ONCE
Departments deficit no longer
includes the cost Of "free mail"
for other Government depart
mentS and agencies. All such
mail now is charged the regular
rates. with the departments con-
cerned bearing the COST
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

Senator quick $5-bion income
This antreceSoN The less of your
takes-the friends borrow
Secretary Of Dulles will the Nation
Big He'll progress When the Demo-
power the Russians walked out Now they
and everybody goes nowhere together.
Republicans convincing No do they
confidence in the future than folks rush of to Kentucky
look for
Ike shoots 81 against Golf Champion Ben Hogan. Re-
pubcans This time years
Harry trying music crtc-and the entire
Marine Corps
Democrats feel frustrated. Every the
parment unemployment figures they have to resist
a strong temptation to applaud.
White House eides the firing
proves tolerate divided oyatyespeciay when it's
divided between John Bricker and William Mckinley.
Republican Representative Mason calls White House
Sherman Adams "ppsqueak" Mason the wrong
pipsqueak fellow whose squeaks aren't worth squawkng
about.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
What This Country Needs

With the advent Of spring the
hypothetical belief that q high
way parallel to the old Chesa-
peake & Ohio Canal would ben
eft nature lovers merits atten-
ton for its absurdity and threat
to a nearby recreational area.
The high rejection rate of citi-
zens found unfit by. mental or
physical standards for military
service points to the need of ade-
quate recreational areas ada
cent to large cities and the prop
er use Of such facilities by city
jewellers. From q health stand
point, q one-lane towpath would
be Of more benefit than q four
lane highway. The canal and its
adjacent recreational areas be-
tween Cumberland and Wash
ington are now available to any
nature lovers who wish to travel
by foot, boat. train or auto.
One look at poor Homo sapiens
during cherry blossom time.
crawling in their mechanical
adult baby carriages from the
Tidal Basin to Hams Point. too
decrepit to walk and too bored
to stop, look and enjoy some
fresh air and sunshine. and you
can imagine the mess created by
. highway parallel to the canal.
Fill the canal with water and
let tourists paddle their own ca
noes-they will look better, feel
better and the area win have
FEWER military rejectees. As it is,
nal1 OF the Army spends half Of
lts time taking care Of the other
half that col1apses from . too
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20

found you could not pay all your
taxes and your grocery bill, too?
If you were a big taxpayer. and
you knew you could settle for
half Of what you actually owed
if you made a deliberate mis-
take" that was discovered later.
would you be tempted to try it?
In the light of the foregoing
questions. do you think doubling
the number of collectors would
improve taxpayer morale. or
would it help more if the Gov
eminent prosecuted the big fell
lows to the hilt regardless of the
financial cost?
Do you think all debtors. large
and small. should be pressed to
the hilt? Should the Govern
ment start with the big fellows
or hit all at once if they can?
Do you admire the French, who
despise all governments and sell
dom pay their taxes?
Sucker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20

region. the South Atlantic
States and most of the Ohio
Valley.
Rain and thunderStorms were
reported over the Mississippi
Valley. But snow and colder
weather appeared in prospect
for Northern Midwest areas.
Blizzard conditions were predict
ed for the Eastern half of Ne
braska with a snowfall of 6
inches. Snow also was forecast
for Minnesota. parts of South
Dakota. Iowa and Wisconsin,
with from 2 to 5 inches in Min
nesota.
Generally mild weather con-
tinued in most of the Eastern
States while temperatures were
around seasonal levels in the
West. There was light rain in
the coastal sections of WASH
ington and Oregon with showers
and snow f1urries in the North
ern Rockies. It was cloudy in
the Pacific Northwest eastward
into the Northwestern Great
Plains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
SENATOR WATKINS.

dishonest persons as judges and
thereafter elevated them"
Some of these charges were
contained in a letter written by
Roderick j. Wilson and trans
mitted to Burr McCloskey at 3
Tennyson avenue, Detroit, Mich.
In his letter to Mr.. McCloskey,
which was in turn approved by
McCloskey and forwarded to the
committee, Mr.. Wilson said: 1T
is my considered opinion that
one of the most dangerous mis-
takes that can be made by the
United States Senate is a con-
firmation of this individual (the
Chief Justice) without careful
inspection of his qualifications
and record"
Mr.. Wilson also recommended
that a subcommittee of the Sen
ate come to California and hold
hearings on Chief Justice War
rem.
When questioned as to Mr.
Wilson's identity, Mr.. Smithey
was unable to give his address
He said the letter had come in
an envelope postmarked LOS
Angeles" However, a letter from
Mr.. McCloskey praised Mr.. Will
son as a fearless investigator and
former newSpaperman.
When the hearing began. Sen
ator Knowland urged the
subcommittee to report ia
vorably to the full commit
tee the Chief Justices NOM
ination without further delay
and letters were read from Sem
ator Hendrickson and from for
mer Democratic Senator Her.
bert r. O'Conor of Maryland,
chairman of the American Bar
Association Committee. also urg-
ing prompt action.
Lack of Experience Charged.
A letter was read by Mr..
Smithey signed by Max L. Rowe
of Chicago, charging that the
Chief Justice lacked sufficient
judicial experience.
Mr.. Smithey said this was just
one of a number of such COM
plants. He did not know just how
many, he said.
Mr.. Rowe, in his letter, COM
planned bitterly that the courts
had been filled during the last
two Democratic administrations
with politicians who had no pre-
vious judicial experience.
Senator Watkins complained
because an FBI report had been
asked on the Chief Justice. He
pointed out that the only mem
Der Of the committee, under the
regulations imposed by the JUS
tice Department who would be
allowed to see such a report was
the chairman.
What good would it do me in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
D. {. Air Guard 10 Train
On Cape Cod June 1875

| Field training for the District
Air National Guard will take
place between June IL and June
26 at Otis Air Force Base, Cape
Cod. Mass. it was announced
yesterday.
/ Col. Willard w. Millikan, 3346
Martha Custis drive. Alexandria,
Va. commander of the Districts
18th Fighter-Bomber Wing,
said the decision to train at the
regular Air Force installation
in Massachusetts, was reached
after conference with National
Guard Bureau officials in the
Pentagon.
The District Air Guard orig
inally was scheduled to take its
annual field training at Spaatz
Field, Reading. Pa, from July
81 to August IA.
The 104th Fighter Squadron
in Baltimore. and the .142d
Fighter Squadron of Whining
ton. Del, which are part of the
Districts 18th Wing. will join
the Washington units at Otis
for the training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
TextiIe-Reseorch Plan
Is Approved in India

BOMBAY.-A plan drawn up
by the Bombay Millowners' AS
Soclation for a textile research
institute has been approved by
the cotton textiles fund, estab-
lished by the central govern
ment
It will cost $2.100,0o0 to set up
the institute, which will under
take research in all branches of
the textile industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20

have been made in the postal
service, why is it that a letter
sent special delivery and mailed
from Washington early in the
afternoon of one day is not de-
livered in New York until mid
afternoon the following day?
Also, why, with rare exceptions,
is an ordinary flrst-class letter
not delivered either in New York
or in Washington until the Sec
ond day after it has been mailed?
Mail can be sent to New York
by train in four hours. Why all
the delay? Perhaps If the Post
Office Department would stop all
Of this experimenting" with air.
lines in the matter of transport
ing mail and devoted more at
tention to the handling of mail
by train, as was done by previous
administrations, there might be
an improvement in our postal
service.
GAnr1e A Martin II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Clergy and SocioI Security

In The Sunday Star Of Feb
ruary z an article stated that a
bill was pending in Congress,
namely H. r. 2249. which aims
to place clergymen within the
ranks Of secular employees who
are under social security.
I am q retired clergyman Of
the Seventh-Day Adventist de-
nomination. and I certainly
would not want to come under
the provisions Of social security,
as I would get about two-thirds
less under Government social
security than I am now receiving
from my denomination, as social
security is now administered by
the Government.
But that Is not the main rea-
son why I am opposed to H. r.
2249, or any other bill that aims
to pay the salary of a retired
clergyman from the general tax
fund Of the people. My real
objection is that clergymen
should function and be supported
by the church or denomination
which employs them, and that
those denominations should
make ample provision for their
support both during active serv-
Ice and after retirement, instead
Of having the Government do it.
The fact that some denomina-
tons do 1t is proof that others
can do the same without throw
ing that responsibility upon the
Government.
The Apostle Paul says: ever
so hath the Lord ordained that
they which preach the gospel
should live Of the gospel" Cor.
TX, IA. Jesus Christ said: "Ren-
der to Caesar the things that
are Caesars and unto God the
things that are Gods" Nor is
Caesar to render to God the
things that belong to the church
and religion.
I see no difference in prin-
ciple between the Government
paying the salary Of q retired
clergyman or an active clergy
man. It Is a religious obliga-
ton Of q religious organization
to support its own employees and
its institutions. and it Ii wrong
under q government that has
completely separated church and
state to perform the religious
obligations Of the church.
G. 8. L0ngacre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Midwest Duststorms
Followed by Blizzard
In Western Kansas
BY the Associated Press

. A big section of the Nation
presented a patchwork weather
picture today. with the colors
shading from dark brown to
white.
High winds kicked up heavy
duststorms over the Midwest
yesterday and were followed by
heavy snow in some areas last
night. Western Kansas. hit
hardest by yesterdays buster.
came in for a full-fledged bliz-
zard. After a day of zero VISIBLE
ity because of dust. the snow
moved in to knock out power
lines and stall transportation.
Communications with Is Kan
sas towns were reported cut of.
The highway patrol said all
roads and major highways in the
northwestern corner of the State
were blocked by drifting snow.
Scott City reported the heaviest
snowfall with 8 inches.
Passenger Trains Stalled.
At least eight passenger trains
were reported halted between
KinSley and Garden City, Kans.,
after automatic signal systems
were crippled by ice and snow.
Scores of automobiles were
ditched and abandoned.
Light snow still was falling
early today in the Wichita and
Hutchinson areas.
Dust piled up to 3 inches
in streets yesterday and as the
rain and snow moved in. mud
balls and broken snow fell in
some areas.
| A dust pail hung over all Of
Texas early today except for the
Western tip. Low visibility re-
ports included one-half mile at
ChlldresS and Wink: three
fourths Of a mile in the Beau
mont area and mile at Lufkin
and Houston.
S Hurt in Tornado.
Winds generally had abated
over Texas. although some gusts
up to 80 miles an hour were re-
ported. Near Hattiesburg. Miss,
at least five persons were in
jured early today when a tor
nado damaged a number of
homes.
The dust moved into Louisiana
last night. Shreveport reported
quarter-mile visibility.
Yesterdays blowing dust was
heaviest in Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, but also Tapped over
into sections of Colorado and
New Mexico.
Lamar. in Southeast Colorado.
was hard hit when 65-mile-an-
hour winds knocked down power
lines and an estimated two-thirds
OF the television anennas in
the city.
Winds In Colorado had died
and the outlook for the week end
was for calm, clear and warm
conditions.
In Oklahoma, visibility in the
extreme west and Panhandle re-
g1onS still was cut to a mile early
today as winds Of IS to As miles
an hour stirred heavy clouds of
dust. Gage, in Northwest Okla
homa. got 2 inches of snow and
the eastern section of the State
got about an inch of rain.
Precipitation Widespread.
The storm centered in extreme
northeastern Kansas caused
widespread precipitation in the
Midwest and much cloudiness
over most of the Eastern Gulf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Warren
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
He suggested that Senator Wat
kins should have known that
the session was to be opened.
One Accuser a Fugitive.
At one point in the proceed
ing, William P. Rogers, Deputy
Attorney General. told the COM
mittee that some charges had
been made by one man who was
a fugitive from justice and by
another who was q leading
Trotskyite.
He did not identify either by
name.
Mr.. Rogers said the FBI had
submitted a report on the Chief
Justice which was as full as
could be made in a short time.
II told you, Mr.. Chairman"
Mr.. Rogers said to Senator Lam
ger, that traditionally it was
not the custom to investigate
nominees for Chief Justice"
He continued that the chair
man had expressed a doubt as
to whether such an investigation
should be made. but that if the
committee wanted it. he would
ask for it. Mr.. Rogers said that
after they had been told to go
ahead with an FBI inquiry, the
department attempted to get
access to the letters containing
charges against the Chief JUS
tice. At first. he said, the chair
man had agreed. but that later
he had notified the department
that they could not have access
to these letters.
"The FBI followed up all the
leads we could" he said.
All Charges Analysed.
Mr.. Smithey said all the letters
and kilograms containing charges
against the Chief Justice had
been analysed and placed in two
groups. The first. he said, con-
tanned 10 charges which, if true,
the committee should investigate.
The other group contained %
charges which even if true would
not come within the purvieW of
the committee.
The charges were as follows:
l. That the nominee was at
one time under the domination
and control of a notorious liquor
lobbyist" arthur SamiSh).
2. That the nominee has had
improper connections with 1.-The
car of illicit enterprise in Cali
fornia."
3. That the nominee as At
torney General and Governor
permitted organized crime to
establish national headquarters
in California"
4. That the nominee, as Gov
ernor. wilfully protected corrup-
ton in his administration, and
visited reprisals upon those who
complained of such corruption.
S. That the nominee lacks suffi-
cient judicial experience.
6. That the nominee has a
100 per cent perfect record of
following the Marxist revolu-
tionary line"
z. That the nominee is biased
for the AFL labor monopoly"
8. That the nominee, when he
was State Attorney General, was
guilty of nonfeasance in failing
and refusing to bring about
prosecution in the case of more
than 1000 bookmaking viola
tons concerning which evidence
was presented to him.
8. That the nominee, while
Governor, owned and operated"
an escrow racket"
10. That the nominee. while
Governor, knowingly appointed