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NH%aA4oA
directed o study of the system
and appropriated $500. 900 for 1t
Mr.. Hyde introduced the Com
|missioners' bill. He explained
however, he did so in order tina
lit might be considered by thl
District Committees jointly. A
proposal that this be done wa
turned down by Chairman Nc
MILAN Of the House Distric
Committee.
Hits Drastic Measures
Mr.. Hyde said he believes
nothing drastic should be don,
about the transit situation a
this time. But he added wha
should be done about the tran
|sit strike is something else. Tit
House District Committee shoult
|get some guidance from Mon
days meeting about how to dea
with the strike. he said. III
advanced the opinion that un;
certainty over what Congress!
intends to do Is tending to pro.
long the strike. For that reasor
he urged q prompt decision.
Senator Mcnamara, chairman
|of the Senate District subcom.
|mittee considering transit leg.
islation. said the subcommittee
probably would get together
some time Monday.
. He said the members woulc
consider the various proposals
for lifting the company's fran
chise, for authorizing seizure OF
alternately authorizing the Com
missioners to provide transit
service by contract or otherwise
Expects Report
He said he expects the SUBJ
committee would submit a report
on legislation to the full COM
mittee. If the full committee
reports proposed legislation te
the Senate, he said. he would
expect that the Senate woulc
approve it.
He declined to speculate or
what the House might do. Asked
about the chances for q Senate
bill ultimately becoming law.
he said "that is pretty hard to
estimate"
One of the witnesses befor,
the House Committee Monday
is expected to be Edward r
Carr, president of the Board o,
Trade. He is preparing testi.
mony which, the trade boart
said, would reflect the concensu'
of the 80 directors who me-
yesterday.
Another witness is expected tt
be Edward r. Carr, president o.
the Board Of Trade. He is pre-
pairing testimony which. tn,
trade board said, would reflec
the concensus Of the 80 director,
who met yesterday.
After that meeting Mr.. Car
announced the appointment Of {
three-man fact-flnding board
+ The board consists of thu
Right Rev. Msgr. Philip M. Han,
nan, chancellor of the Catholi,
Archdiocese of Washington
Richard p. Dunn, president O
julius Garflnckel & Co., ant
William E. Leahy, attorney.
That board will get to worl
next week and will report to tn,
public.
Evening star., 1955-07-23

long BEACH, Calf, July %
R. - Miss Sweden, a Grace
Kelly with muscles, today is Miss
Universe, chosen as the worlds
most beautiful woman.
The judges, true to form,
picked a blond, blue-eyed. 81
year-old Hillevi Rombin.
Miss Ell Salvador, blond Mari
bel Arrieta, was only a few
points behind. The other run
ners up were Ceylon, Germany
and Japan.
For Miss Sweden-one of the
biggest girls in the contest at
1870 pounds-the title means a
host of prizes, most important
of (which is a S250-a-week con-
tract at Universal international
Studios.
Monday she will start work ir
1.-THE Benny Goodman Story
atIU-L When told of this, sht
exclaimed:
II think that's wonderful. be-
cause I've always collected hi
records"
Hillevi is a college gradual,
and halls from the town Of Up
Evening star., 1955-07-23
|Kidnap-SIaying.
|0f Girl Charged
TO TB Victim

BERKELEY. Calf. July % Up.
Burton w. Abbott has been
formally charged in the kidnap-
Staying Of 14-year-old Stephanie
Bryan, but authorities said today
there are still many loose ends
in this strange case.
In q brief preliminary hearing
yesterday, Municipal Jud g e
Louis ]. Hardie continued the
|arraignment of the one-lunged
accounting student to July %.
The 29-year-old Abbott, who
lis tubercular. has denied from
the outset that he knew any
thing about the disappearance of
the Berkeley high school girl last
April 28. Now, under instructions
from his lawyer, he has stopped
talking.
He was arrested Wednesday
might after the girls decomposed
body was found near the Abbott
family's cabin in Trinity County
200 miles north of Berkeley.
j. Frank Coakley, Alameda
County prosecuting attorney,
yesterday filed a murder COM
plant against Abbott. The COM
plant was signed by Stephanie's
father.
Abbott's wife and brother talked
to him briefly today at the hear
ing. The brother, Mark, is an
efficiency expert at the Alameda
Naval Air Station.
Mark contends-as does Bur-
ton Abbott's wife, Georgia-that
Burton is too weak physically toI
have done the violent things
that Stephanie's killer presum-
ably did - oyerpower her in
Berkeley, take her 200 miles
north to Trinity County, bludg-
con or strangle her and then
haul her body 335 feet up a steep
ridge and bury her in a thicket.
Burton Abbott is still under
treatment for a tubercular con-
dition which several years ago
cost him one lung and seven ribs.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
Policeman Faces
Drunk Churqes

Police Pvt. Carl M. Hurley, SO.
of No. 5 Precinct, was suspended
late yesterday on a charge Of
being under the influence Of in
toxicants while on duty.
The suspension was invoked at
I5:45 pm, by 1t. w. w. White
more when he observed Hurley
at his traf1ic post at Eighth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. A trial board proceeding
will be set at a later date.
Hurley was appointed to the
police force May /, 1948.
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he had been gullible and had
been used as a "dupe" by Mr..
Basiliko. Mr.. Basiliko, he said.
had given him many tips in the
past about real estate transac-
tionS and development that saved
the roads agency considerable
amounts Of money.
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ROADS
Continued from First Page

came out in Montgomery County
and took that money away"
The attorney said there was
mo evidence to indicate Mr.. Du
Pre- got lone red cent" in the
land speculations" while a
great many dollars went to
those in Washington"
Mr.. Du Pre- in charges filed in
his suspension was accused of
passing information on new
highway locations to Gus Ba-
siliko, Washington real estate
man whose name cropped up
frequently in testimony on land
speculation along the new ma
tional pike in Montgomery.
Had Denied Deals
Assistant Attorney General
Norman P. Ramsey dramatically
confronted Mr.. Du Pre- with
seven documents involving the
Spaulding Heights property
after he had repeatedly denied
having any personal business
transactions with Mr.. Basiliko.
Each time he was confronted
with one Of the transactions Mr..
Du Pre- under Mr.. Ramsey's
questioning denied any further
connection with the property
Some Of the deeds were blank
when he signed them, Mr.. Du
Pre- said.
The roads employe said the
original deed dated March /
1851, for the four lots was drawn
UP by Mr.. Basiliko, who had usec
his own property to back a loar
for Mr.. Du Pre- from a r. Harry
TuShek. Mr.. Du Pres signature
appeared on a mortgage to MI.
Tushek for $2,598.
On August go. 1852, his sigma.
ture was found on a mortgage or
the property held by Max Often.
berg for $1,500. That mortgage
was released last May 20. just
three weeks before Mr.. Du Pre-.
suspension.
Lies In Road Area
The property. which Mr.. D,
Pre- admitted lies in an area O;
a proposed dual highway from
the District line to Route 30l
was transferred without ia,
stamps to Murphy Properties, 6
corporation in which Gus Basi'
liko is listed as an officer. 1t ther
was transferred to John M
Swagart and wife, relative Of MIR
Basiliko. Mr.. Du Pre- said he die
not know whether the route la,
in the path of the proposed road
Mr.. Du Pre-. Mr.. Ramsey said
was obligated by the mortgag,
Ito Mr.. Offenburg at the time h,
was arranging settlement of al
acquisition for $50. 1000 Of prop
erty from Mr.. Offenburg in th'
Gaithersburg area. Mr.. Du Pr,
opposed unsuccessfully the prop
erty's being subdivided, thereb.
increasing its value, at a Cath
ersburg town council hearing.
Mr.. Du Pre- wept quietly as hi
resignation letter was read b.
his attorney, Walter r. Tabler
ljr., tn the personnel commits
sioner. The resignation will no
be accepted by the commission
until it studies the testimon.
produced at the hearing.
MIR. Du Pre- testified he though
Evening star., 1955-07-23
7 Tronsit Union Studies
New Moves in Strike
Continued from First Pas.

Continued from First Pag'
month. The company described
this as its final offer.
The union has been asking
wage increases Of IS cents an
hour, plus more liberal pension.
and other benefits. Up to ths
strike the company's only ofiel
had been to extend the expiring
labor contract by six months
The company has claimed thu
cost Of the unions demands
would be 81 million q year. Tit
union has challenged that.
The three District Commits.
|sioners-Samuel Spencer, Robert
IL. Mclaughlin and Brig. Gen
Thomas A. Lane-conferred fol
nearly two hours yesterday with
Representative Broyhill. Re.
publican, Of Virginia. Tht
Commissioners said they re.
|quested the meeting.
Mr.. Broyhill said afterwardl
that he urged ON the Commis.
sioners the advantages Of hi,
latest bill. It would provide fol
the injunction and fact finding
procedures Of the Taft-Hartley
and Railway Labor Acts. A 180.
day cooling Off" period would be
provided. coupled with q fare in.
crease to cover a suggested To-
cent pay raise.
The Commissioners, however
have submitted a bill for the can.
ceiling of Capital Transit's fran
chise, coupled with authority fol
the District Government tc
operate the property pending the
ending of the franchise in a year
The House District Committee
is to hold hearings Monday on
the various transit bills before 1t
The commissioners and company
and union officials are expected
to appear.
PUG Meeting
The Public Utilities Commis.
sion met today at the District
Building.
The commission will resume al
10 am. Monday its hearings or
the transit company's application
for higher fares.
Gen. Lane, member of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission as well
as of the District Board of Com.
misSioners, said yesterday he
would attend Mondays House
District Committee hearing. HI
explained he could designate ar
assistant to sit for him at the
utilities commission hearing.
Meeting with the three utilitie.
commissioners today was Col
Thaddeus M. Nosek, an assistant
to Gen. Lane, who will represent
him at the fare hearing Monday
The Commissioners bill tx
cancel the franchise and per.
init taking over the company
will be one of the measures con.
sidered by the District Commit.
tee.
Representative Hyde, Repub.
lican, of Maryland, said he doe.
not believe the bill should b.
adopted at this session.
He said such action would bt
premature and that it would b,
almost silly" for Congress tt
take any drastic action in con-
nection with the transit system
Evening star., 1955-07-23

filed claims totaling $89:,864
against manufacturers and esec-
tors of prefabricated bins ir
connection with 1949 and 1a5O
purchases. So far, he said, il
has collected $4,000.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
Small Business
Office 10 Close

The 13 employees of the Small
Business Administrations COM
pliAnce and security Office have
been given unofficial" notice
that their jobs will be abolished.
George v. McDavitt, Office di-
rector, called his group to a
meeting early yesterday morning
to advise them they soon would
get 30-day notice of dismissal.
Mr.. McDavitt, whose handling
of loyalty-security cases has been
questioned by a Senate Civil
Service subcommittee, did not
tell the workers what would hap
pen to his job.
About a half of the work of
the Office is checking on loan ap-
plicants. This work, the en-
ployes were told, is to be abol-
ished as far as the Office is con-
cerned. Presumably it will be
taken over by another Govern
ment agency.
Work Transferred
The balance of the Offices
work is on loyalty-security cases
That work is to be transferred te
the Office of the general counsel
Mr.. McDavitt said.
The first meeting was held al
$3.50 am. The workers were eau.
toned not to talk about the
unofficial warning they received
A couple Of hours later they
again were assembled and eau.
toned not to talk about the abo.
lition of their jobs.
Meanwhile, word spread aroune
town of the action.
In the afternoon, Mr.. Davitt
again called in his employees.
Somebody in here is q dirty
squealer," he declared.
SBA's official position this
morning was that mo orders
have been issued to close the
unit"
Arthur Hachten, SBA infor-
nation director, added that
whether abolishment of the unit
"is in the wind or not-I have
been told not to comment"
During Senate subcommittee
hearings, Mr.. McDavitt was &C.
cused by subordinates Of having
instructed them to provide onlS
"derogatory" information or
persons under investigation. The
hearings also developed testi-
mony concerning an alleged
"liaison" of Mr.. McDavitt with
q German girl whose emigration
to the United States he sponsor
ed.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
Fills in for 81 Years

ELIZABETH, N. J. R.--When
William H. Schmidt went to work
back in 1888 he was told the Job
was temporary. Schmidt, IS. is
still working for the same COM
pany. ~
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his picture. News Is Made al
Night"
Seems that people wanted 70
see Mickey Rooney after his Jelke
case publicity. At any rate, his
Tv show rating zoomed 3la
points. Debbie Reynolds told
q friend not to be too surprised
II she comes back from Europe
with q Mrs. Eddie Fisher pass
port.
Joe Di Maggie decides soon
whether he's going into TV OF
juvenile-d delinquency work.
Joke of the year will be when
Jimmy Durante tells the opening
night crowd before Liberace's
first performance at the Riviera
in Las Vegas: Lee can't make it:
he got cramps in his fingers
saw them under the oxygen tent
Shelley Winters has been
signed to do ''Portofino" in Italy
with Anthony Quinn. but Tony
will not sign the contract until
he sees the final script. Shell may
get to see her ex-husband, Wit
torio Gassman,> there. And he
may get to see their cute daugh-
ter
Jane Russell called to say that
she was heading for Durango
Mexico for her picture. 1.-THE Tall
Men," But it won't be too lone
some there because my husband
tBob Waterfield) will come to
see me-" Bob will be looking for
location sites for their indepen-
dent Wagon Mound" in which
Jane does not appear.
BY the way, Stan "Ghost
Riders in the Sky" Jones is busy
writing another hit tune, for
1.-THE Tall Men," which he hopes
star Clark Gable will sing. Stan
has also turned writer and re-
Gently sold three scripts to Pre-
ston Foster for his Waterfront
series.
Ralph Edwards Is heading for
truth or consequences, New
Mexico (the town is named after
his show for three days Of festi-
vities. and will do his This is
Your Life" from there. Ralph
has the best long-term contract
in TV-five years straight with
NBC, and his Truth or Con-
sequences" program is set to GO
on for 208 performances, So
week for 4 years.
Claudette Colbert will learn
from this column that she will
be offered the starring role in
1.-THE Smash Up" by Producer
Director Vincent Sherman. It's
about an automobile collision,
and seeing 1t will make us all
drive Slowly or give up driving
Fernando Lamas turned down
the Ezio PIMA role in South
Pacific" for Dallas. However,
Fernando is anxious to do the
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part In the movie. Cesar Romero
may play the plum part IN Dallas.
80
The biggest feuders IN Europe
are Gina Lollobrigida and Sophie
Loren. They're fighting for the
crown Of queen Of Italian
Movies" and you'd be surprised
how many people are betting on
Sophie. You'll see her In AM
thony Quinn's ..Attila." Also
Gold of Naples"
And. in the same eternal city:
Bruce Cabot is giving his old
friend Enrol Flynn. the works In
court, but no one believes hen
be able to collect anything. !.
While Mara Lane. who was called
the British Marilyn Monroe when
she came to Hollywood last year.
broke her leg. skiing. And Is
being comforted BY Prince Dado
Ruspoli. :
tReleased By N.A.N.A.t
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HOLLYWOOD
By SHEILAH GRAHAM
Studio Leery of Lama Film

=
debut on the II Love Lucy
show. i. Terry Moore. evidence
ing no desire to return to Hol-
lywood, reports she will keep an
apartment In Manhattan all year
round. Ethel Norman will
board. BUS Stop" at 10th Gen.
tury-Fox.
+ = 4 i
Bing Crosby, who wanted to
forget about the Oscar awards,
just got q bill for $275 for those
p-flippy tails.
Gene Tierney and DR.. Ed Lo-
gan visiting out Of : the way
places. Gene is returning to Man
haitian after a quiet visit here.
/. Producer Bert Friedlob told
me he needs eight big stars for
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HOLLYWOOD.

s7'f' = HOLLYWOOD.
There's a strong rumor around
town that Warmers will cancel
Mario Lanza's "Serenade" they
daren't take a chance after the
costly experience with Judy Gar
land In "a Star Is Born"
Charlton Heston quipped. after
the singers Las Vegas cancella-
ton: mario LAMA gets laryn-
gifts and the public becomes
speeches."
Red Shelton, one Of our incest
gentlemen, is having occurrences
Of his old serious tumnny trou-
BILE. So, he's made reservation
at the Mayo Clinic.
Richard Widmark, who never
does" television, is making his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-11
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
MY SECRETARY. AFRICA.
SPEAKS: Dear Boss: In those
early days when you gained en-
trance to the Port Chester nick
elodeon for five cents. the reign
ing king of the movies was cow
boy hero William S. Hart; the
queens of the movies were Pearl
White, Mabel Normand. Mary
Pickford and Theda Bara. OF
these femme stars. Mary was
beguilingly sweet. Pearl had no
equal in adventure series, Mabel
was delightful hoyden and Theda
was a slinky siren. Long before
Cecil B. DeMille discovered Cleo
patra, Theda had claimed her
for her own. And now Theda has
died at 81, reminding some Of US
that as our memories grow
longer and movies grow better,
we also grow older. ;. The Louis
Jourdans named her Dominique.
:. Red Kelly, Detroit Red Wings
star. viii wed an ice show eyeful.
Newsreel audiences cheering
Churchill. CARLOS Camille"
reached the 100000 mark. at
the Normandie. Coast col
umnist Norman Winter marrying
Marion Jukkala. May %. Rita
Moreno and Richard Egan in
high gear. Bob Mitchum con-
sidering Clark Cables role 10
the remake of 1T Happened One
Night" opposite June Allyson. !. j.
Buff Cobb-Mike Wallace divorce
final, May /. :. Elizabeth Miele,
Eddie Dowling's production man
ager for a dozen years, now OPP
Grating Patio Bruno. Julius
La Rosa's Pennsylvania gas wells
proving q smart investment.
The Mickey Spillane stork due in
June. Warmers expects Lee
land Hayward's film version Of
"Mr. Roberts" to be one of their
top groSsers. Hollywood de-
lighted at how congenial Marion
Brando has become. Ella
Kazan to Europe.
y y III
The $305, 900 bank heist looks
like the work Of Tony Curtis in
"Six Bridges to Cross" VII
VEGA Lindfors is suffering the
miseries from a sprained back
.. Geraldine Brooks and Orson
Bean an item. Southern ac-
cent used by Barbara Bel Geddes
in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, !"
resulted from coaching by Mar
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ED SULLIVA AN
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
Movie Cheers for Churchill

guerite Lamkin. sister Of Louisi-
ana novelist Speed Lamkin.
Lee Cobb's ex-wife. actress Helen
Beverly. seriously Ill. Harold
Hayes, mag editor. weds Sue
Meredith, of Fanny" today. :.
The Bill (CBS) Warneckes
named him William Jr. :. Andy
Griffith. Carolina hillbilly who
played win Stockdale so hilari.
ously In the TV mo Time for
Sergeants," virtually set by
Maurice Evans and Emmett
Rogers for their Broadway pro-
duction of the comedy, opening
October 20. Drop a note to
Catholic News publisher Charles
Ridder at ,Lenox Hill Hospital.
Vacation travelogue on Broad
way marques: "To Paris With
Love-" zone Summer OF Happi-
ness" EAST Of Eden" Gin
erama Holiday" "Hit the Deck, +"
"Mr. Hulot's Holiday" and THE
Far Country" Yyonne De
Carlo and AL Mathes q twosome
.. Patty Andrews struck oil in
Wise County, Texas. Stanley
Kramer leaves for Spain on the
9th. Jane Wyman's ex, Fred
die Karger. getting around with
Philadelphia socialite Barbara
Barnes. Steve Allen staffer,
Louise Horowitz, weds BBDO's
Stanley Merritt. June 4. -.
John Huston to London to begin
final editing of "Moby Dick" He
has been in India, hunting tigers
with the Maharajah Of Cooch
Behar.
Phil Foster bordering a 81, 900
a-week offer from Las Vegas. ~
don't know If $1,000 will last a
week in Vegas!" Ethel Barry
more's son, Sam Colt. dating
Arthur Murray teacher Iris Eden.
;. Lewis Eskin; research editor
Of Ring mag. marrying Hildy
zitis, May 8. -. Hal March,
Imogene Cocoa's TV husband,
prefers Betty Ann Grove.
Meyer Davis conducts Boston
Symphony in birthdaying Sc
quence for brother-in-law Pierre
Monteux's 80th birthday.
John Patrick ("Teahouse, ("
Three Coins in the Fountain, %
etc.. did the screen adaptation
Of "A Many Splendored Thing, f"
and 'Teahouse of the August
Moon" For the stage, he's adapt
ing Dickens BLEAK House. !"
Cleveland Armory's 1.-THE Last
Resort" Ovid williams Pierce's
1.-THE Plantation" AMELIA.
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Evening star., 1955-01-30
MutuuI Funds

NEW YORK. Jan. 20 tR.--NationaI
association Securities Dealers, .Ine.: .
Evening star., 1955-01-30
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Jan. 20 P,.--cotton
futures prices moved higher this week
although the upward trend was not
without Interruptions.
Active futures contracts traded on
the New York Cotton Exchange scored
advances which ranged from II 70 81
points eco cents to S1.65 A hale).
Trade buying and short covering early
In the week were influenced BY develop
pect Of tight free supply situation
later in the season.
During the middle Of the week. prices
some selling attributed to the slowing
down Of loan entries and q picking up
Of repossessions In the week to January
BuIlisli sentiment was aided late In
crease u 50 points in tbs rid-JSnuary
parity price. which was renortad BY
the UEDA ct 1922 cents per pound vs..
34.72 cents In December and 34.72
cents in January Of last year. Although
numerous people In the trade had antic
ipated some increase in parity, this adj
vance. cas- ereater than had been ex-
The. Cotton Exchanges Service Bureau
says 1t now appears the guaranteed
minimum loan rate next season for mid
per pound. or the highest on record.
The bureau said that II factors en-
terinR into the determination Of the
loan rate were to be the same at the
close of the season as they are at the
moments, an average loan rate on mid
ding H-inch cotton Of 33.45 cents would
be In prospect next season. This also
Evening star., 1955-01-30
star stan Photo.

Health Department. It costs
81 1906 to care for the city's
INDECENT patients at private hos
pitals.
Perhaps the brightest spot In
the financial picture for hos
pitals is the widespread increase
in health insurance plans. More
people are able to afford some
form of disqualification.