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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04
Deficits $72MHIion
More T han Forecast,
McKeIdin Declares
BY the Assoeinted Press

JESSUP. Dec. IA State
deficit Of $50 million was
confirmed today by, Gov.
McKeldin in q speech at the
opening Of the new Patuxent
Institution here.
During the campaign"
the Governor said, "my OPP
ponents said there would be
an $18 million deficit. But
they were just pikers-it's.
$50 million. -
Either new taxes will be
needed to balance the budget
or the State will have to cut
its services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04
Prince Georges
Turns Down
Hackers Pleas
Refuses to Review
New Regulations
For Taxi Operators

A delegation Of District cab
drivers who live in Prince,
Georges County were turned
down yesterday by the county
commissioners in q request for
reconsideration Of new county
taxi regulations.
The new regulations include q
prohibition against any opera
ton of cabs registered by Dis
trict residents inside the county
after May /. 1855. The District
Commissioners have limited that
they may retaliate. causing an
estimated 1000 District cab
driverSwho live in Prince Georges
to move their homes across the
District line or give up, their
jobs. members Of the delegation
said.
C. A. Sturla, jr.. president Of
the United Cab Drivers Cooper
ative Association. Inc, o newly
formed organization Of District
drivers. won one point, however,
by Qualification of language in
the new county cab rules.
Point Cleared.
Mr.. Sturla told the commits
Sioners most Washington hackers
understood the language of the
regulations to mean that District
residents could not be licensed
as cab drivers in Prince Georges
County. AS explained to him by
County Attorney C. Calvert Lam
caster. however. the regulations
block District residents only from
registering taxi vehicles in the
county. Drivers identification
cards can be issued to any one
who meets the license require.
ments. Mr.. Lancaster declared.
The regulations make it i'm
possible to register the same
vehicle in both jurisdictions,
however, Mr.. Lancaster said, al
though the-owner may hold both
District and Prince Georges
driver I. D. cards. X
The new regulations were rec
commended by a special commis-
sioners' tax advisory committee
after county cab operators COM
planned of "a wholesale invasion
of our territory" by District cab
fleets. In effect. the regulations
which will be formally adopted
as an amendment on Tuesday
shield county cab companies
from District competition.
| Coop Pleads Case.
Curtis v. Barr, a cab coon
official. said Prince Georges is
the only jurisdiction bordering
the District which has not en-
tered into a reciprocal agree.
ment between the District and
nearby Maryland and Virginia
areas. He told the commissions
ers "the easy and fairest solu-
ton" would be to join in the
agreement.
The so-called "tri-State agree
ment" permits foreign" cabs to
cross over freely between WASH
ington and Arlington and Mont
gomery Counties to answer calls.
But cabs are permitted to cruise
and pick up fares only in their
own jurisdiction.
Commission Chairman Thomas
E. Latimer turned down the
drivers appeal. We've been
hashing and rehashing this thing
over and over again since last
summer" he said. 1--WE set up
a committee and adopted their
recommendations and I do not
feel that now is the time to APP
point another committee and
start all over again"
The regulations may be
changed by the incoming Dem
ocratic commissioners, who take
over on Tuesday, just after the
traditional luncheon in their
honor given by the departing
Republican commissioners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04
Democrats Victory Boil

Montgomery County Demo-
Gratis will. celebrate the recent
election victory at a dance at 8
o'clock tonight in the Indian
Spring Country Club. Silver
Spring. Md. Tickets will be
available at the door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04

Answer 8 is correct. The
Traffic and Motor Regulations,
Section SO. states:
The driver of a vehicle shall
not follow another vehicle more
closely than is reasonable and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04

Another in series Of joys for logging
memories Regarding District troffie
laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04
Do You Really Drive Well?

Motorist A comes to a sudden
stop after spotting an elusive
debtor hurrying by on the side
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-04

walk. Motorist b slams into the
back of his car. Who is at
fault?
/. Both drivers.
q. Motorist A.
3. Motorist B.
Evening star., 1954-10-08
Television Today.

$500, WTOP f9)-Mama: Peggy
Wood supports daughter
Rosemary Rice speaking at a
rally for women's suffrage.
$3.50, WMAL "a - The Ray
Bolger Show: Ray enrolls in
a dramatic school in order to
expose it.
900, WTTG (5)-The Stran-
ger: A husband waits almost
too long to decide not to
have his wife murdered, in
Torpedo" starring Anthony
Ross. Dorothy Jolliffe and
Robert Carroll.
900, WNBW (4-Big Story:
Police are put on the trail
of a killer through the efforts
of Reporter Victorine Be-
lander of the Baltimore
NeWS-PoSt.
900, WTOP (9) - Playhouse
of Stars: The effect a
wounded killer has on his
wife and the owner of a road
side diner is portrayed in
1.-THE Net Draws Tight" star
ring Edmond O'Brien.
$3.50, WMAL (7)-The Wise:
Invention of a new machine
leads to crime and retribu-
ton in "Set to Murder, "
starring Clifford Evans and
Honor Blackman.
$3.50, WTOP t9) - President
Eisenhower: The Chief Ex-
ecutive and Vice President
Nixon deliver special politi-
cal speeches from Denver.
1000, WNBW (4)-Sports Caval-
cade:: Light = heavyweights
Harold johnson and Billy
Smith in a 10-round fight at
Philadelphia.
1880, WTOP. (9)-Person to Per-
son: Visits to Eugene Or
mandy, conductor of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, and
Actress Janet Gaynor and ner
designer-husband Adrian.
Evening star., 1954-10-08
Radio and TeIevision HiqhIiqhts

10:45, WNBW (4)--Moments in
Sports: Guest is Frank
Boucher of the New York
Rangers.
1880, WNBW az - Tonight:
Count Basic and his orchestra
visit.
Rodio Todoy.
500, WTOP-Crime Photogra-
pher: The program is heard
at a new time, with Stats
Cotsworth and Jan Miner
investigating a protection
racket.
800, WRC-Friday With Gar
roway: Music and guest per-
sonalities are featured on the
program starring Dave Gar
roway.
9:15. WGMS-Literary Review:
L. Quincy Mumford, new
Librarian of Congress; DR..
Henry Grattan Doyle and DR.
Elmer L. Kayser of George
Washington University on
Dante's Divine Comedy"
$3.50, WRC, WWDC-President
Eisenhower: The Chief Exec
utive and Vice President
Nixon deliver special political
speeches from Denver.
1000, WRC - Boxing: Light
heavyweights Harold johnson
and Billy Smith in a 10-round
bout in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1954-10-08
TeIevision Tomorrow-sotu,doy October 3, ,9s

6I6VISIOU ] IUnnUIIUW- Saturday October g. I954
wHsM-, Mere.
(4) Review FsshH.
WIFE, Of Saturday
Isl shsw-"Thsuk
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1890 WnN
and
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Horse
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Arthur Garfield Hays Dies;
Noted Civil Rights Lawyer
Death Of Attorney
Comes z Days After
His 73d Birthday
sy The Associated Press


NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Arthur
Garfield Hays, who won fortune
as a corporation lawyer and
fame as a civil rights fighter.
died today at New York Hos
pital.
His death came two days after
his 73d birthday. The cause was
not given,
An associate said Mr.. Hays
had entered the hospital some
time ago for a rest.
Arthur Garfield Hays made
million as q shrewd defender OF
corporate wealth, but the tang
of salt" Of his life came from
his passionate crusades for civil
liberties. No other phase of law
and he explored virtually the
entire fleld---so fascinated him
AS counsel Of the American
Civil Liberties Union starting in
the early 1905 and continuing
for many years. he played an
important defense role in some
of the Nations most sensational
courtroom ases-the Scopes
evolution trial in Tennessee, the
Scottsboro Negroes trial in
Alabama, the murder trial of the
Boston radicals. Sacco and Van
zetti. and many others.
In the interludes. he fought
civil liberties battles for Com
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Radford 10 Visit Formosa
Soon, NationaIisfs Say
BY the Assoeioisd Press

TAIPEH, Formosa, Dec. IA
Admiral Arthur w. Radford,
chairman of the United States
Joint Chiefs Of Staff, will visit
Formosa the week after Christ
mas, Chinese Nationalist officials
said today.
Official quarters professed no
knowledge Of the purpose.
Unofficial sources indicated 1t
will concern the island bases
held by the Nationalists of the
Red China coast.
Under the recently signed de-
fense treaty. the United States is
committed only to the defense
of Formosa and the nearby Pes
cadores.
Evening star., 1954-12-14
u. S. Rejects Trade of Flyers
For Chinese Detained Here
State Department Rules Out Swap
Hnted in Peiping Broadcast

will accept his offer to go to
Peiping to plead for the flyers.
U. N. officials said Mr.. HAM
marskjold had derived encour-
agement from the fact that
Peiping radios two blasts against
the airmen in the past two days
had made no mention of his pro-
posed visit or to the Assembly
resolution denouncing their jail
ing by the Chinese.
Mr.. Hammarskjold was be-
lieved working through neutral
Sweden and India-both have
diplomatic missions in Peiping-
in his efforts to arrange talks
with Chinese leaders.
Reports also persisted that, If
these avenues produced nothing,
the Secretary General might ask
Soviet Russia to use her power
full influence with Peiping to
free the airmen.
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Gift Gun Blast Kills Woman
As She Wraps YuIe Presents
Police Are Probing
Freuk Accident in
Arlington Apartment

An attractive 23-year-old
brunette employed by the top
secret National Security Agency
was found shot to death last
night among the Christmas pres
ents she was wrapping in her
third-f1oor apartment of the
fashionable Arlington Towers
Apartments.
Arlington Detective Capt. Dud-
ley H. Rector said 1t appeared
the woman, Miss Sallie Wood,
was the victim of an almost i'm
possible freak accident involving
shotgun she had purchased as
gift.
But police and security agents
were investigating every angle
A Signal Corps officer visited the
apartment to remove any papers
of a security nature Miss Wood
might have had in her possession
Capt. Rector said 1t appeared
Miss Wood died in the accidental
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Star Publishes Most
Rental Won't Ads

During the month OF November, The
Stor published more rentoi won't ads
thon the other Woshineton news
popers eombined-4.637 more thon
Woshinston's second newspaper.
II you ore presently oportment or
house hunting be eertoin to cheek the
mony rentol kstinss in the big Star
Classified section todoy--no doubt
you'll find just the place you've been
looking for.
On the other hond you noy have
on apartment to rent out. Find q
tenant quickly BY telling ii to the
long established audience Of The Star
readers. Phone Sterling s-5Qo0 and
osk for an ad-tokeE.
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Eisenhower Names
Joseph Campbell as
Controller General
Recess Appointment
To Ex-AEc OfficiuI
Faces Senote Fight

President Eisenhower today
gave q recess appointment to
Joseph Campbell as controller
general Of the United States.
The President early last
month nominated the former
member of the Atomic Energy
Commission for the $17.500 post,
but the Senate adjourned De-
cember 2 without taking any ac-
ton after opposition to the Sc
lection was apparent.
Indorsed Contract.
Objection to Mr.. Campbell
was voiced by several Senators
who oppose the controversial
Dixon Yates private power con-
tract between the Acc and the
Tennessee Valley Authority. Mr..
Campbell, an accountant by
profession, was one Of two Acc
commissioners who originally in
dorsed the contract.
Under the law, the President
must resubmit the nomination
within 40 days after the Senate
meets in the new Congress. Re-
gardless of what action the Sem
ate takes, Mr.. Campbell may
serve until a decision is made
though not beyond the next ses-
sion of Congress. In the event
of an adverse decision, he could
not be paid for more than the
first 40 days.
Responsible to Congress.
The controller general is head
of the General Accounting Of
fee and is directly responsible to
Congress. The GAO's job is to
see that every dollar the Treas
ury spends is spent the way
Congress intended.
Mr.. Campbell, an associate of
Gen. Eisenhower when the lat
ter was head of Columbia Uni
versity. will be sworn in at the
White House this afternoon.
Evening star., 1954-12-14
lraq Will Seek Treaty
With Britain Like Eqypt's
By the A,soelo,ed Press

CAIRO. Egypt. Dec. 14.-Iraqi
Foreign Minister Moussa Sha-
bander said last night his nation
would seek to renegotiate its
treaty of alliance with Britain on
a basis similar to the recent
British Egyptian agreement COW
ering evacuation of the Suez
Canal Zone. The treaty expires
in 1856.
In an interview, Mr.. Shaban-
der said his government would
offer to let British troops return
to air bases in Iraq IL any Arab
state or Iran were attacked.
Britain now occupies two air
bases in the country.
The British-Iraq treaty, drawn
up in 1880 while Britain still held
a League of Nations mandate
over the Arab nation, provided
for the bases and gave Britain
the right to maintain armed.
forces In their vicinity.
Iraq has been pressing for sew
eral years for the revision or
abrogation Of the pact.
Evening star., 1954-12-14

SAN DIEGO. Calf. Dec. IA
P.-The United States Mine.
sweeper AMS-144, a new 144-
foot, wooden-hulled, non-mag-
netic vessel, will be turned over
to Japan in a formal ceremony
at the naval station here Thurs
day. 1t is the first ship from this
area to be presented to the Japa-
neSe government under provi-
sions OF the mutual defense
assistance program.
Evening star., 1954-12-14

munists, labor organizations, pa
cifists, birth control advocates.
religious sects and for dozens
of individuals. including Tom
Mooney, Harry Bridges and
George Burns Of Il am q fugi-
tive from o chain gang" fame.
His sympathies for those he
considered victims Of persecu-
ton took him to Germany in
1888 as . defense attorney for
four Communists in q case that
attracted worldwide attention
the trial Of i've men accused Of
burning the German Reichstag
Building. +
Ha was denied permission to
(See HAYS. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1954-12-14
japan to Collect War Dead

TOKYO. Dec. il (R.-An 18-
member delegation was selected
today to collect the bodies Of
Japanese war dead in South Pa
cific islands. The, group will
visit New Guinea, Guadacanal.
New Georgia. Bougainville and
Admiralty and New Britain
Islands.
Evening star., 1954-12-14

met to begin debate on the issue,
the New Zealand delegation cir
culated a resolution providing
that the problem be dropped
without discussion.
The New Zealand move was
understood to have the backing
of many delegations. which had
been working behind the scenes
trying to patch up the differences
between the two traditionally
friendly countries.
The United States had made
it clear to the Greek government
that it would not support even
a mild resolution on the Cyprus
question. Greece wants the
U. N. to pronounce itself in ia
vor of the principle of self-de-
termination for the people of the
Mediterranean island. while Brit
ain contends the U. N. is not
competent to deal with the prob
lem.
Before the New Zealand pro-
posal was tossed in, Greek Dele
gate Alexis Kyrou had been
ready to open the debate with a
10,000-word speech.
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Senator'S Reported
Easing Charges on
Housing Programs
Worst Scandal Label
And Billion 'Windfull'
Believed DeIeted
BY the Associoted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
Charges that irregularities in
Government housing programs
constituted the worst" scandal
in United States history and
yielded builders 81 billion in
"windfall" profits repeatedly
have been stripped from Senate
Banking Committee report now
awaiting publication.
Sources close to the commit
tee said this was done after
banking group Democrats baked
at signing the report as origi-
na1ly written.
But these informants also said
that, despite agreement by Re.
publicans to tone down certain
portions of the long report. at
least some Democrats probably
will insist on filing a separate
statement spelling out their dis
agreement with other majority
findings
Tomorrow Is Deadline.
Democrats have been given
until tomorrow to offer addi-
tional proposals for altering the
report which now is scheduled
for public distribution next Mon
day. 1t was understood the
Democrats have had a draft Of
the report for a month.
AS originally written, the re-
port on the committees eight
month investigation Of certain
Federal Housing Administration
operations repeatedly opened
with a fiat charge that wind
fall" profits reaped by builders in
a postwar apartment program
totalled 81 billion.
The opening paragraph also
was said to have declared no
previous scandal. including that
Of the Teapot Dome In the Hard
ing administration and the Re-
construction Finance Corpora
ton scandals during the Truman
administration, approached the
housing irregularities in scope.
Started Last April.
The Banking Committees S
housing probe - paralleled by
similar Investigations by the
Justice Department and py
FHAs parent, the Housing and
Home Finance Agency-began
last April.
The alleged irregularities In
volved both the apartment con-
struction program and nome
Improvement program, both of
which utilized Federal insurance
OF private loans.
The home improvement pro-
gram still Is In operation. but the
apartment building program
ended during the Truman ad-
n1inistration. The Banking Com
mittee probe centered for the
most part on the apartment pro-
gram.
Revised by STAFF Aides.
The Banking Committee re-
port was said to have been re-
vised by staff aides after long
distance telephone consultation
with Senator Capehart, Republi-
can. Of Indiana. committee chair
man and ranking Democrats.
The latest version Of the re-
port, 1t was understood, does not
attempt to estimate the full
extent Of windfall profits. but
simply lists more than 100 spe-
cific cases. out of a total of 1000
In the apartment program, in
which sponsors or builders got
insured loans $149 million greater
| In all than construction coStS
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Safety Lost

EAST ST. LOUIS. H.. Dec. IA
R.-Joseph Herbers glanced up
to read.a billboard urging traffic
safety while driving through East
banged into the rear Of another
auto. No one was injured.
st. Louis yesterday and his ear
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Art q Feature of
Pageant of Peace

RELIGIOUS ART sHoW-The Keith
Merrill collection Of religious art Is
On unusuoI feature Of the current
Poseant Of Peoee eeIebrofioa. De-
tails Of the exhibit oppeon on poss
AIS.
Evening star., 1954-12-14
Warning Jury
Gets Filth on
Numbers Game
Gamblers Attorney
Disputes Agents
Outline Of Operations
BY jack Jonas
Ssur Sfoff Correspondent

BALTIMORE. Dec. IA Fed
eral Court jury got a thorough
brieflng today on how the num-
bers business operates as the
members listened to testimony in
the income tax evasion trial Of
Washington Gambler Emmitt.
Waring.
Washington Lawyer Charles e.
Ford, one of Warnings counsel.
questioned an internal revenue
agent sharply about his descrip-
ton of the racket. and. terming
himself an expert, disputed sew
eral points of the agents de-
scription.
Warning Is on trial in the
U. 8. District Court for the
District of Maryland on charges
that he evaded $4,000 in in
come taxes in 1947.
The agent, Samuel w. Ford, a
key witness in the trial, gave a
10-minute outline of the num-
bers business as he was ques-
toned by United States Attorney
George Cochran Doub.
Says Bet Melted $4,000.
Under cross-examination, At
torney Ford disputed his state
ments that "K-books" still are
used to record numbers bets,
and that there is a third middle
man between the runners, or
pickup man, and the backer.
Agent Ford explained that the
man he termed controller actual
ly was a pickup man who
checked on. other pickup men.
Attorney Ford also brought out
publicly for the first time an ad-
mission by Warning that he had
won $4,000 on a $40 numbers
bet-placed on number 203 on a
hunch, the number of his safety
deposit box-made with another
Washington numbers man, VIII
liam "Snags" Lewis.
Attorney Ford described clay
off" bets as bets made with COM
petitors when one numbers
backer gets too heavy a play on
a certain number, but empha-
sized that the $40 bet made by
Warning was a personal bet,
made on a hunch."
Judge Interrupts.
did you say competitors"
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut asked
in an incredulous tone. "That
sounds like reinsurance to me. "
Yesterday. Agent Ford outlined
In detail the counting Of $780,
600 found in Warnings safety
deposit box six years ago.
He told how it was checked
against figures entered in War
rings little black record books,
in which the gambler recorded
his take each day, along with the
winning number.
The Government contends
that. unless more adequate rec
ords are produced, the $3.50 900,
minus about $127,000 shown in
Warnings record books for the
first five months of 1948, rep
resents earnings from gambling
during 1947.
Hint Of Divided Ownership.
The defense contends that the
cash was accumulated over sew
eral years, and limited strongly
that not all Of it belonged to
Warning.
Agent Ford testified that he
talked with Warning at the lat
ter's home at 5000 Macomb
street NV, Washington, on
July 2, 1948.
He asked Warning for his rec
ords, he said, and was given
several small account books, and
noted daily entries of cash bal
ances, and, II was surprised to
| (See WARRING. Page A-5.)