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Evening star., 1954-01-19

drove the holdup car. She re-
ceived eight years in the Mary
land Reformatory for Women.
He will be confined in the State
Penitentiary.
A Montgomery Circuit Court
jury took only 20 minutes to
convict them.
Mrs. Humphrey. 80. testified
she didn't know that he planned
to rob the Regional Finance Co.
Office in Chevy Chase when she
drove him there July IA.
The prosecution exploded her
story and Dickerson's defense
based on mental responsibility.
Through it all, the 30-year-old
paroled convict sat stonily. and
Evening star., 1954-01-19
Bill. Asks Life Terms
For 3-Time Losers

Legislation to provide that per-
sons convicted three times of a
felony in the District be SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment to-
day was before the House Dis
trict Committee.
1t was introduced yesterday by
Representative Ikard, Democrat,
of Texas. He explained his bill
is patterned after a law now in
effect in Texas and some other
States
Mr.. lizard said he wants to
know why many criminal repeat
ers here have not received heav-
ier penalties.
A law like the one he hopes
will be enacted here "scares
them to DEATH" the legislator
said.
Evening star., 1954-01-19
Nighfgown Catches Fire
As Woman Sits by Stove

A mother of five children
whose nlghtgown caught fire
last night while she was sitting
beside wood-burning stove
was in critical condition today
at Washington Sanitarium.
The hospital reported that
Mrs. Gladys King, 81, of 1904
Old Bladensburg road, Wheaton,
suffered burns over so per cent
of her body.
Montgomery County police
credited 9-year-old Teddie Wall.
ter, of 1901 Vernosia street with
quick thinking in rolling her in
a blanket to help smother the
flames after she ran outside and
rolled in the snow.
She is the wife of Walter C.
King. an employe of the Rock
Greek Cemetery. The family lives
in a converted school house.
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Leland Olds to Speuk

Leland Olds. member of the
Public Affairs Institute and
former chairman of the Federal
Power Commission. will speak at
a coffee hour at tbs pm. to-
morrow in international Student
House, 1925 r street NV He
will discuss the Republican ad-
ministration's public power Apol-
icies.
Evening star., 1954-01-19
Youth Charged
In 7 Ho|dups
OF Loan Offices
Loot in Robberies
In Silver Spring.
TotuIed $l,937

A 2O-year-old Takoma Park
youth has been charged with the
armed holdups of two Silver
Spring loan companies and is
being held as a suspect in the
attempted holdup of another in
Mount Rainier, police reported
today.
Alton George Wakefield Of the
200 block of Manor circle also
Evening star., 1954-01-19

tional Press Club: George Rau-
bicheck. secretary treasurer:
Alphonso zappiloni. in charge
of welfare; Frank Judge. inves-
legations: Leslie Matke. Marshall
Burton and Albert Baytay, sick
investigating committee, and
Dom Schmutzer. sergeant-at-
arms.
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ADA to Hear Gunther

The Americans for Democratic
Action will hear It's National
legislative representative. John
J. Gunther, discuss President Eli
senhower's legislative program
tomorrow. The group will meet
at $3.50 pm. in All Souls Uni
tartan Church, Sixteenth and
Harvard streets NV.
Evening star., 1954-01-19

of the Inter-
national &C.
neva ASSocia-
ton. .
T h e group
of hotel. res
taurant & n d
club men is
celebrating its
50th year in
the Uni t e d
States.
Other new
officers a r e
Jack Madden,
head barten-
der 0f the Ma.
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has been charged with the hold
up yesterday of a Takoma Park
flower shop and with a stabbipg
in the same community Thurs
day.
Wakefield was arrested last
night in a Silver Spring barber
shop after being recognized by
Silver Spring fireman. Eugene
Helbert. as a man described in a
police lookout.
Charges Listed.
Wakefield is charged with:
Armed robbery of 81 OPT from
the Allied Finance Corp. 8025
Georgia avenue. Silver Spring,
last November IL.
Armed robbery of S81O from
the Fair Loans. Inc. ,S79O6 Geor-
gia avenue. Silver Spring, on
December 81.
Armed robbery and grand lar
ceny in the theft of $25 and a
panel delivery truck from the
Hilkrest Flower Shop, 1921 Lau-
rel avenue, Takoma Park.
Assault with dangerous
weapon by hitting the owner of
the flower shop, LIE Roy M. Ru-
bottom. A.. on the head with an
iron pipe during yesterdays S
robbery. 81 tt
Assault with dangerous
weapon by Stabbing Forrest D.
Gossage, 20. of 705 CLANCY drive,
Takoma Park, Thursday night.
Mount Rainier Case.
A detainer also was to be
placed against Wakefield in the
dramatic attempted robbery of
the Household Finance Co., 1926
Rhode Island avenue. Mount
Rainier, on December 80, police
said. They reported employ es
and witnesses have identified
Wakefield as the lone gunmal'
who fled after holding two en-
ployeS there as hostages.
a Last night. the Silver Spring
fireman spotted Wakefield and
called Montgomery County po-
lice PvtS. Walter KurfeeS and
Jack Hall. who made the arrest
Takoma Park police said Mr.
Rubottorn's wallet was found on
Wakefield.
Bond Set at $4,000.
So far, bond has been set al
$4,000 for Wakefield. who was
undergoing further questioning
by County Detective Sergt. Har-
old A. Treadwell and Detective
Ronald j Loomis.
Wakefield, according to Ia
koma Park police, was given a
5-year suspended sentence in
Virginia last year for obtaining
money fraudulently from banks
in two cities.
At the time. he was held on
false pretense charges in Har-
risonburg and Lexington, Va,
after police said he rigged a
scheme to raise money to repay
5000 given to him by his father
under the assumption he would
return to Fishburne Military
School. Police said he deposited
money in the banks, then wrote
checks for more money than
he had deposited.
Evening star., 1954-01-19
Capital Transit Cites
Legal Grounds in
Arbitration Refusal
By Don S. Worrcn

Spokesman for the Capital
Transit Co. today stoutly MAIN
tanned the company was legally
correct in refusing to submit to
a board Of arbitration an issue
over improvement Of the COM
pany's pension plan raised by
the transit workers union.
Edmund L. Jones, general
counsel of Capital Transit, out
ined legal arguments at length
today before the Payne subcom-
mittee of the Senate District
Committee as it opened its last
set or public hearings In its in
vestigation of Washington's mass
transportation problem.
The discussion was inconclu-
sive. although it provoked some
sharp debate between the COM
pany witness and Senator Morse,
independent. of Oregon. a SUBJ
committee member who is vet
eran in labor agreement dis
putes. The Oregon Senator was
a member of the old War Labor
Board and has served on the
Senate Labor Committee.
Sees Legal Grounds.
Mr.. Jones maintained that the
company was quite correct from
a legal viewpoint in refusing to
submit the pension issue to ar
bitration,. and said if the COM
pany were compelled to let this
60 to arbitration "this would be
compulsory arbitration under
another name"
He made the point that Ber-
nard Cushman, counsel for the
local and international transit
union of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, had also declared
his union was opposed to com
pulsory" arbitration.
j. A. s. Broadwater, president
of Capital Transit. in a brief ap-
pearance before the subcommit-
tee, said he did not think what
arbitration awards had been
made in other cities was at all
pertinent to the case of his COM
pany. Senator Morse retorted
that while the witness was en-
titled to his view, that he (Morse)
as a member of the subcommit-
tee thought that was the prac-
tice or pattern in an industry
and it did have its weight in the
local issue.
Broader Obligation Held.
AS the morning hearing ended
Senator Morse said he was in
clined to believe that under sec
ton two of its agreement with
the union Capital Transit had
undertaken "a much broader OBJ
libation" to arbitrate than had
been displayed so far in the
hearingS.S
The question of hiring Negroes
as streetcar and bus operators
came up briefly. Senator Morse
suggested that the company
Ought to get busy and hire Ne
groeS."
He continued: "Then let's
have this showdown, if it is
going to be a showdown"
Both the company and the
transit union have insisted they
have no discrimination or racial
segregation policy. The only
reason given why Negroes have
not been hired as platform oper-
ators has been the declared fear
that If this is done individual
members of the union would
cause work stoppages.
Senator Morse said there
would be a tremendous public
reaction If union members went
on a strike over such an issue.
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Who's to Run 1t?
By Froncis P. Douelos
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-The
Washington Transit Authority
suggested in the Wolfson pro-
posal for unification under Gov
ernment ownership Of the WASH
ington area transit lines is de-
scribed in that plan as similar
to those in Cleveland and Chi
cago.
The similarity is slight.
The plan advanced by Louis
E. WolfSon, chairman Of the
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B'nui Israel PTA Meets

The B'nai Israel PTA will meet
at $3.50 o'clock tonight in the
Sisterhood Room of the Syna-
gogue. Sixteenth and CritteAden
streets NV. -
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Hotel Restaurant Group
Elects Moss as President

Kurt Moss, headwaiter of the
Embassy Room in the Hotel
Statler. has been elected presi-
dent of the Washington branch
Evening star., 1954-01-19
Blue Ridge Parkway Film

Illustrated films telling the
story of the Blue. Ridge Park
way will be shown by Natural
iSt William g. Lord at pre-
gram Of the National Park Serv-
ice at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
Interior Department auditorium
Nineteenth and c streets NV
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The lost Of three ortieles on the Chicoso
and clevelond troasit authorities.
written in the light Of the proposal
for Government ownership Of tronsit
facilities in the Washington oreo
under q Washington Tronsit Authority.
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board of the Capital Transit Co,
(but not advocated by him. he
says). would mean control OF
the proposed Washington au-
thority by the present owners
This would last until a 30-year
bond issue was paid off.
The control would be exer-
cised by the present owners
through the appointment OF
eight of the IS directors of the
authority. The present owners
would continue to operate the
lines, receiving a fee for man.
agement. This also would last
as long as the bonds were not
retired.
Cleveland and Chicago ac-
quired their transit facilities
outright. In each case the oper-
alton is entirely by the local
government.
The features in the Wolfson
plan are derived from proposals
by Col. Sidney H. Bingham. gen.
eral manager of the New York
Transit Authority. He advanced
them in a speech on the diff
culties of private operation Of
transit facilities. which he made
in July, 1851. .
Both in Cleveland and here,
the boards named to run the
properties are the keys to the
success of the respective sys-
TENS. They appear to have the
confidence of the people of their
communities.
Originally the board of the
Cleveland Transit System was
composed of three members. The
City Council kept tight hold
on the board. The councils ap-
proval was necessary for any
capital expenditures of more
than $500.
When Cleveland arranged fol
a $29.5 million Reconstruction
Finance Corp. loan. the RFC at
tached some conditions. AS a
result, the board was increased
to five members. They are ap-
pointed by the mayor with the
approval Of the council. and nc
more than three members may
be of the same political party.
Council Strings Weakened.
Also, the strings held by the
City Council were almost COM
pletely severed. The RFC stip-
ulated that the five-membel
board should have complete
supervision, management anc
control" in all phases of opera.
ton of the property. The voter:
of Cleveland approved this.
About the only restraints nov
on the board are that it may
not mortgage or sell the prop.
erty without approval of the
Council.
Both the Cleveland board anc
the board of the Chicago Transit
Authority are charged with set.
ting fares at levels that will covel
all costs and charges.
That this can be done prompt.
ly is an element of strength ir
operations. It is also necessary
to protect the credit of the au.
thorities and to make it possible
for them to borrow money. There
is no need to obtain consent oi
a regulatory commission.
In Chicago. inability to obtair
a fare increase consent from the
Illinois Commerce Commission
crippled the privately owned
companies.
Capital Transit also has suf.
fered in recent times from delays
in obtaining fare increases after
costs have gone up.
Three Named by Governor.
The Chicago board consists oi
seven members. Four are ap-
pointed by the Mayor Of Chicago
with the approval of the City
Council. These members also
must be approved by the Gov
ernor of Illinois. Three members
are appointed by the Governor
with the consent of the State
Senate. They also must be ap-
proved by the Mayor.
The first chairman was Philir
Harrington. an engineer who had
been city commissioner of Local
transit. Out Of his planning came
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Bonds Sold in Market.

Both in Cleveland and here.
when the properties were pur-
chased, the money was raised by
the sale Of the bonds in the
market, instead Of the bonds be-
ing turned over to former
owners. as the Wolfson plan
coAtemplates.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
Pontificdl Commission Says =.
French, Italian, US.
Movies Hit New Lows

VATICAN CTTY-(Radio. NC
French and Italian films released
in 1858 were of exceptionally low
grade morally. even by compari-
son with recent years, Msgr Al
bino Galletto. secretary of the
Pontifical Commission for Motion
Pictures, has reported.
In an article prepared for pub
lication in Italian Catholic news
papers, Monsignor Galletto stated
that it had become evident from
an objective examination of the
reports of the Catholic Film Cen
ter in Rome during 1853 that ''the
moral crisis of motion pictures is
growing ever more acute.
In his article, fhe norsisnor
called upon Italian Catholics TO
emulate Catholics of other coUn.
tries who exert an influence on
movie production by means of
organized and systematic evslvs-
tions IT films from the Christian
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
Rosary Holy Name
Group Readies
Variety Show

The Holy Name Society of Holy
Rosary Church will present Var
iety Show in Rosary High School
on Feb. IL and II at 3 p. m. Pro
ceeds will be used to sponsor a
closed retreat for the high school
seniors at the Shrine of the Little
Flower.
Featured in the cast are Frank
Sinacola, vocalist; Tom De Marco,
guitariSt; Oracle Hardgrove and
Barbara Kessler, dancers; Fred
Gomez and his marimbs; the Holy
Name Hippo Chorus and the st.
Xavier Clee Club.
Tickets at $l.00 each are avail
able from members of the Holy
Name Society and the Parish Coun-
ell. Ralph Smithberger EV. 77l6,
and Mrs. Theodore Hinterschied,
IA. 9284, head the ticket commit
tee
Others on the committee are
James Devaney, FA. 1885; Joseph
Fallon, EV. 1863; Robert Franz, EV,
O820; Francis Howard, FA. 1927;
Walter Huffman. EV, 1921; Jam
es Hughes, EV. 8940; Paul Ritchey,
EV. 5179; James Sheeran, FA.
1859. James Sullivan. FA. 1926;
William Underwood, IA. 7247: l..
P. Vacin, EV. 4948. and Arthur
Van De Walle, EV. 1909.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
Social Security
Bill Would Make
Clergy Employees

WASHINGTON - (NC) - A bill
introduced in Congress would re
gard clergymen as employees" of
churches or other tax exempt or
CARNATIONS. in order to include
them under the provision of the
Social Security Law.
The designation as employees"
has been opposed by some minis
ters of religion.
A measure introduced by Repre-
sentative Daniel A. Reed of New
York provides that, ii a church or
organization makes waiver of tax
exemption for the purpose of max
ing the employers contribution TO
the Social Security tax, clergymen
then on the rolls of the church or
organization could elect to be COW
cred under the Old Age and Sur
vivors' Insurance program. Any
clergymen ordained after h s
church signed the waiver would
automatically be covered.
The bill specifically excludes
clergvmen who are members of re-
ligious orders that take the vow of
poverty. Having no income at all,
such clergymen are unable to make
the employe contribution TO the
Social Security tax.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29

zenty, Primate of Hungary; Thorn
as Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of
Peking, China, and Aloysius Car
dinal Stepinac, Archbishop of Tag
reb, Yugoslavia.
Other statistics of the new
Yearbook show there are in the
world today 10 residential pat
riarchsteS, five titUlsr Pstri-
archates, 293 residential metro
PoIitan sees, AZ srchiepiscopsI
sees, Ss2 tifUIar metropolitan,
srehispiseopaI or episcopal sees.
10 prelafures and abbeys nUllius
and II apostolic administrations.
The statistical table further
shows that there are 18 prelates of
the Eastern Rite having ordinary
personal and territorial jurisdic-
tion. 232 vicariates apostolic, 135
prefectures apostolic, and eight
Independent c'sui iuris') missions.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
us. Support
of Tito Called
Big Mistake

Los ANGELES-(NC) ~ The
United States will eventually say
that its support of Tito was one
of the biggest mistakes it ever
made" declared DR.. Anthony But
kovich, Croatian-born educator and
lecturer in an interview here.
Giving five reasons why he
thinks Tito will be useless to the
us. in the event of a war with
Russia, he said:
First Of all the Croatian people.
as we'll as other Yugoslsv racial
groups. hate Tito too much. They
have fought for hundreds of years
for independence-and Tito has
given them slavery.
THE people within Yugoslavia
are deeply religious. Forty per
cent of the country is Catholic
Tito's persecution of the Church
shows them he is not one of them.
Too" he continued, Tito
has completely shattered the SO
ciaI-eeonomie structure Of the
country, q structure that has
been collapsed by failures in col
lectivizsfion Of agriculture and
industry.
Another reason Tito would be
of no use to the West is because
of the poor geographical position
of the country. position strate-
gically impossible to hold. Major
Yugoslav cities are within few
hours from Russian tanks and
planes: the harbors are too small
to land troops or supplies. while
the mountain roads leading from
the sea to the cities are too small
for military vehicles.
Or. Butkovich concluded:
CAS- for Tito as an effective
guerrilla fighter, this is imposs-
ible. He would have to have more
support than simply a hard-core
military force, and he is so de
tested by the peasantry for what
he has done to them that they
would never go to his aid.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
presses here.

The Vatican Press released some
of these statistics as the first IS
ue of the Yearbook was presented
to His Holiness Pope Plus XII. Ac-
cording to long-standing tradition,
the copy was presented on the
Feast of st. Peters Chair at Rome
The presentation was made by
Msgr Giovanni B. Montini, Vati-
can Pro-Secretary of State.
The Pontifical Yearbook has
been published in about its pres
ent form for the past SO years,
though it has not always borne the
same title. It's origin goes back to
1716. Then it was known simply
as ''Notizie, an Italian word mean
ing news or information.
The Yearbook is the work of the
Vatican Secretariate of State and
is printed by the Vatican Publish
ing Office.
The statistical data OF the new
Yearbook shows that the Col
lees of Cardinals has IFS full
complement OF 70-fhe same as
last year.
The Vatican Press Office re
lease states that the new Year
book shows a notable increase in
the number Of prelates who are
imprisoned or impeded in their
duties behind the Iron Curtain.
Among them the Yearbook lists
His Eminence Stefan Cardinal
Wyszynski, Primate of Poland
the fourth cardinal to suffer from
communists. The others are Their
Eminences Josef Cardinal Minds
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
.IndOnesidn ENJOY
Receiued By Pope

VATICAN CITY - Radio, NC)
- The Indonesian minister to the
Holy See, accompanied by his fam
lily. was received here in private
audience by His Holiness Pope
Plus XII. Minister Djoemhana
Wiriaatmadja has been serving as
his country's representative here
since April, 1852.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
New Organ Dedicated

MINERAL CITY 49, Members of
st. Patrick parish recently dedicat-
cd their new electronic organ. Serv-
ices ended with Benediction eele-
brated by Father Edward KeSsler.
The organ was given to the church
by three families of the parish,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Casey, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Crum and Mr.. and
Mrs, Edward McVann.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
HOW
YOU
CAN HELP
SPREAD
THE
CATHOLIC
VIEW

As regular reader of our newspaper you know
what We mean by 'Only the Catholic Press Gives
You the Catholic View"
But many of your fellow Catholics do not because
they read only the daily newspapers.
So. here's what YOU can do during Catholic Press
Month. 10 help spread the Catholic view.
Look around you. Single out just one Of these
Catholics-friend, relative or neighbor
Show him this issue Of our newspaper When
YOU do point out the kind of news stories and
editorials that you find helpful or interesting
But be sure to glpe him this issue to read.
In other words. be salesman during Catholic Press
Month-for Catholic literature, for the Catholic
view and for the newspaper you enjoy most
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
Social Studies Institute
Established In Bilbao

BILBAO. Spain ~ (NCl ~ An
Institute of Social Studies has been
founded here by Bishop Casimiro
Morcillo of Bilbao TO help spread
knowledge OF the Church's social
teachings.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29

The Catholic Press unites Catho-
lies throughout the entire world.
Renew your subscription to your
diocesan newspaper, The Catholic
Times.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29
Holy Father Gets First
Copy OF '54 Yearbook

VATICAN CITY = Radio NC - There has not been
death the College of Cardinals for year Eleven met
ropoltan created during 1858
These two facts hghght the statistical data contained in
the 1854 Ponca Yearbook Annuaro Pontcio just off the
nrpsSe
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29

The moral balance sheet of the
movie industry is far in the red
and the responsibility rests chief
ly on film magnates, producers and
directors, Osservatore Romano,
Vatican City newspaper, declared
in a front-page editorial.
Actors. even directors, by and
large find themselves in sub
lection to the financial and admin
istrative end of the industry, the
paper said, citing the fact that two
well-known actresses had rebelled
against "the moral prostitution 10
which the merchants of this new
slavery forced them, although with
good pay"
The actresses were not named.
Osservatore took issue with what
it said was the claim made by
film financiers, namely that since
IT costs great deal to produce a
movie, they have to be sure that
II is what the public wants.
"The attraction of shameless
portrayals and dialogue. or of plots
threaded through with 'SpicineSs,, "
the paper said, does not compare
with the success of famous produe-
tions in which both good narrative
and excellent acting have combin-
ed triumphantly TO present even
sacred themes"
Besides condemning the immoral
tendency of the film industry, Os-
Seryatore asSalled beauty contests
in which, il said, 'the grace of a
face, the beauty of a person, or
Of elegance or attitude are insult
ficient, but there is also required
anatomical comparisons, measures
and proportions of physical al
tributes. as If they we're dog or
horse shows
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-01-29

Form Catholic Action Crou
B0GoTA, Colombia (NC) - A new
organization for young Catholic
Actionists has been formed here,
the National Council for Young
Men of Catholic Action.