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The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1955-03-05

lains in the armed forces of
the United States?
That Benjamin Banker,
Negro astronomer, helped to
survey and plan the city of
Washington, d. c., in 1893?
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1955-03-05

Cardui each day helps build strength
so resistance may be greater each
month, nervousness and suffering less
and less. Look more natural-feel and
sleep better. Ask your dealer for
Cardui. (Say: "cdrd-you-cye").
MANY scientists estimate that at some
time during life I out of every acornen
suffers from monthly discomfort.
Evening star., 1955-01-24

monthly support since Septem-
ber Of last year. Can ! get an
alimony deduction even though
we are not divorced?
Answer - Yes. These pay
ments now qualify as alimony.
They are fully deductihle. AL
you need in order to get the de-
duction is q written separation
agreement executed after March
/, 1854. But it does not have to
be CONNECTED with a court
decree.
Question II was paid last
year for work done over the last
10 years. It seems cruel to tax
me as though ] earned it all
last year.
Answer-Yo You might be able
to cut your taxes by spreading
the income back to low-earning
years.
These classes of workers should
check this aspect with greatest
care: Authors, inventors. artists.
brokers, lawyers. executors. etc,
II you fit any Of these groups,
get expert tax advice on wnetner
you can save on taxes by spread
ing your income to prior years.
Tomorrow: Some more hints
on how to save on reporting in
come.
tcopyrisht. 1855. Post-HaIl Syndicate,
Evening star., 1955-01-24

or If you are in the hospital at
least one day.
Question: received payments
under workmen's compensation
last year. Do I have to pay tax
on these?
Answer-No. Payments from
workmenis compensation for
personal injuries or sickness are
not taxed. The same rule covers
State unemployment or dis
ability payments. and payments
becuase OF injury in military
service.
Question: was Ill for sew
eral months in 1854. But ]
received payments during my
illness from a health insurance
policy taken out by my corpora
ton. Are these payments taxed? !?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS you get
from health or accident insur-
ance are generally not taxed to
you when they come from an
employers plan; an employe as
ISOLATION: any other plan which
pays accident or health benefits
to employees.
Question - My wife and !
agreed to disagree in 1854. We
wanted to avoid publicity; SO
we, had our lawyer draw up
a separation agreement under
which I have been paying her
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weeks last year because Of ill-
ness. Am I taxed on what ] was
paid during this period?
Answer-You are not taxed
on wages Cor payments instead
of wagesD for the period you are
away from work because Of sick
ness or injury. But you cannot
get more than 500 a week tax
free for loss Of wages. Normally
you get this tax-free payment
only for the time you are out
after the first seven days. but
there is no seven-day limitation
If you are out because of injury
Evening star., 1955-01-24
McLuchlen Annuo! Report

More than So per cent of the
assets Of the McLachlen Bank
ing Corp. are in cash or Govern
ment and other securities, the
Gath annual report to stock
holders showed today.
The report said: Net income
after taxes and other reserves
and including homecoming in
come shows $132,319 compared
with $82. .642 in 1853, which is at
the rate of $22 per share on its
$50 par value stock. increasing
its book value from $167 in 1853
to $183 in 1854.
Time deposits were $5.240,576
compared with $5.309,294 in
1858. Other deposits were $l6,-
438.l56 against $16.426,102 the
prior year. Loans and discounts
totaled .$7,689,943 against ST.
180,216 in l953--up $507, 1877.
Total capital account at the
end Of 1854 was $1,099, ,235
against $l.0O5,915 the prior year
"a gain Of 500, 800. after reserve
Evening star., 1955-01-24
By WiIIiom A. MilIen

woodward & LotArop Is con-
sidering reincorporation under
the Districts new modern cor
poration act.
In letter to stockholders to-
day, Chairman Of the Board
John Tyssowski said special
meeting has been called for
Thursday. February 3, at 2 pm.
at Eleventh and F streets NV,
If approved by the required two
thirds vote, he said, articles of
reincorporation viii be filed and
the name changed to woodward
& Lothrop. Inc. But no change
in the capital structure is con-
templated, the letter said.
A recent board meeting rec
commended that the department
store reincorporate under the
new law. based on the model
business corporation law pre-
pared by the American Bar As
sociation.
THE sole purpose of the REIN
corporation is to place Wood
ward & Lothrop under the pro-
visions of a modern corporation
law" Mr.. TySsowski wrote.
Evening star., 1955-01-24

II you were Ill last year and
continued to receive your salary
while absent. If you re-
ceived payments under health
insurance policy. -. If you and
your wife separated and you are
now paying her funds under an
agreement.
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= We see signs that both initiation
- and depression can be avoided!

= We see signs that both initiation
- and depression can be avoided!
Government agencies constantly watch financial
conditions and, by law, the Federal Government
has number of ways to help protect our hnan-
cial stability.
1t is like an insurance program with checks
and balances which when properly used can
keep our dollars "honesp-so that they will buy
just about the same amount of goods next year
or FIVE, ten or twenty years from now as
they buy today
Such honest dollars" with dependable pur-
chasing power are what we-you and Safeway
-need for planning ahead for planning new
homes and stores.
To Safeway, honest dollars" mean we can
60 ahead confidently building new and better
stores i. keep right on>reducing food distr-
button costs and passing the savings on to you,
our customers .. and with growing business
create more jobs for more people.
To you honest dollars" should provide
greater confidence in going ahead greater
confidence that you will have good job with
good income to pay for it
The Governments basic financial measures
are at work today
Since early 1851 our Federal Governments
checks and balances" have been used to help
Offset both inHationary and ,deAationary trends
:. have helped bring employment back up from
a downward swing ;. and have held the pur-
schasing power Of the dollar almost constant.
Evening star., 1955-01-24

field of vibration analysis. He
was associated with the United
States Naval Noise Reduction
program for four years. The IN
ternational Research q Develop
ment Corp. makes portable vi
bration analyzers and dynamic
balancing euuipment,
Evening star., 1955-01-24

II. Gi q q e y,
controller of
the currency.
disclosed to-
day.
A S S e t S
re e d a
peak Of ST.
44l.49 40 90.
c o m p q r e d
with $780,
1l5,000 on Oc-
tober Z, the
previous call
date, and were
5.4 per cent
ohaod nf Ef
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365. .358, 900 at the end Of 1858.
Outstanding loans aggregated
$50l $50, 900. compared with
$472, ,002 900 on october Z and
were 1873 per cent higher than
$446. .86l 900 a year earlier.
Commercial Looms Rise
Commercial loans of $l88.533.-
900 compared with $170.198. 900
on October Z and $149.5ll 900 q
year earlier. Real estate loans
of $l47.873,000 compared with
$146,010.00O on October Z and
$l35.893, 900 at the end of 1858.
Holdings of Federal obligations
increased to $505. 100000. in-
cluding both direct and guaran-
teed obligations. compared with
$5l9, ,535,000 on October z and
$497, ,80l 900 at the end of 1853.
AS previously reported. de-
posits rose to 1885, ,688 900 from
$1.285. 1888. 900 on October Z and
1926. .757 900 on December 81,
1858.
Capital accounts amounted to
$91 ,974, 900, compared with $92.-
$4,000 on October 7 and $87,-
$4,000 at the end of 1883.
Pledged assets totaled $1l3,l21,-
600 VS.. $l25, ,982. 900 on October Z
and $l02,574. 900 a year earlier.
Decades Growth Cited
In 10 years ended December
81 assets rose 58.8 per cent, de-
posts jumped SOL per cent,
loans increased, 1856 per cent,
while holdings of Federal obliga-
tions were Al per cent below
levels at the end of wartime
1914.
In Is years ended December
81 assets were up 342 per cent.
deposits 422 per cent higher,
loans UP I'll per cent and hold
ings of Government obligations
jumped 1,706 per cent.
Rounded to thousands Of dol
lars, totals Of assets, loans and
holdings of Federal obligations
at the end of various years are
compared below:
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Horrison Is Nomed

named to rep
re Sc mt the
In t ernational
r e S e arc n &
d e v elopment
Corp, Colum-
bus, Ohio. here
b e fore the
armed services
and the Gov
ernment gen.
orally.
A re tire d
naval officer.
Mr.. Harrison
is a veteran
engineer in the
Evening star., 1955-01-24

This does NOT mean that our government at
tempts to manage our economy all the time. 1t
does mean these financial checks and balances
are used only occasionally, when the need for
them is clear, to help keep all segments of our
economy on an even keel.
Perhaps you'd like to know more about what
these checks and balances" are and how they
work how they are helping to take the IF"
out of our plans for the future. For free copy
of the booklet Our Governments Financial
Checks and Balances" mail coupon below
SAFEWAY STORES INCORPORATED
Evening star., 1955-01-24
Woodward & Lothrop Studies
Plans for Reincorpordtion

for dividends paid January Is.
1855.
Controllers to Meet
The regular monthly dinner
meeting of the District Control,
Controllers Institute of America.
viii be held at 6 pm. tomorrow
at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel.
Arnold W. Frutkin, managing
editor of Contract Bargaining,
Negotiations and Contracts, will
be guest speaker. His topic:
Fringe Benefits Today and To-
morrow"
Horrison Is Nomed
r. E. w. Harrison. president
of Harrison Engineering Service.
Seventeenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, has been
Evening star., 1955-01-24
Old Dominion Elects

Edwin r. Holland, president
and chairman of the board OF
the Old Dominion Bank, Arling-
ton, Va, announced all directors
were reelected. After the stock
holders meeting. all officers were
also reelected.
The directors are: Mr.. Holland,
C. E. Simmons. vice chairman of
the board; Harry w. Cuppett.
Cameron r. Dye. Caldwell G.
Kendrick, william E. Robey, j.
H. White, jr., and Herbert Il.
Wilson.
Evening star., 1955-01-24
Your Moneys Worth
How You con Save Money on Your Income Tox-x
By SyIyio Porter

The 1854 tax law made vital
changes IN the taxation Of per-
sons in such categories. These
questions and answers viii guide
you.
Question-My corporation pays
employees their wages win they
are i'll. I was away for three
Evening star., 1955-01-24
Whaf kind OF an income can ne expect
L in the years ahead?


Safeway Elves" on an income just as you do.
Yours may be salary, wages or dividends. Ours
is sales of our products.
For both of US our future income must be
steady and good That will determine whether
we can keep up the payments on the new homes
or plants we buy now.
We at Safeway think the income picture for
the future-ours and yours-looks bright
For one thing, America is expanding at fast
clip. Our nations growing population should hit
17s,000,000 by 1860 and a food of new inven-
tons and discoveries is rolling in. With more
things to make and sell - and more people to
buy our whole standard of living can be one
third higher in 1860 than it is now.
This kind of growth can mean steady jobs
and good incomes for you And with more Gus
toners with more money to spend it can mean
good and steady income for Safeway, too.
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Assets Of DC. Banks
Rise 10 New Record
OF S1.4 Billion
BY Donold 8. HodIey

Assets, loans and deposits Of
II Washington banks and trust
companies reached new highs on
December 81, a report from Ray
Evening star., 1955-01-24

-four pee at Saayh h +
ireh ego through apply h people
dmp yo h o problem
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HoU good nil oar money be
in the tisfnre?

That's the really big question. Even if you have
good income, imitation can cut down your pur-
chasing power so you can't buy as much That
hurts Safeway too, since it raises our costs and
cuts down our income
If there is depression, your money may buy
more. But lust as likely YOU II have less money
or no income. Safeway viii suffer along with you
as you buy less of iterks we sell.
Evening star., 1955-01-24
Mutual Funds

NEW YORK. Jan. "a lP.--National
(Noon Ouotations,)
Evening star., 1955-01-24

THers,s what Safeway plans to build
this year
We expect to build $50 new supermarkets. and
more than 100000 square feet of new pro-
ducing and distributing facilities. This is only
part Of long-range expansion program on which
we will spend s00,oO0,ooo this year alone.
Evening star., 1955-01-24

sAFEWAy STORES. INCORPORATES
Dept D, Posi- Office Box $50
oakand =. California
Pleuse send free copy Of avsrused beckett
Our covsnmsnts FnoncioI Checks ond Bol1ncss- io..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-07-07
CRELLIN

] T---.-.-l -
Mr' ana MIS-. A'ihu, IIcn ,I..' any
son Larry NlsiI'V WITS sl.l'''''
FRIEND al 4 il'lluSIld'. 7uIu9N'
Mr.. ana w. Marvin M'lis' OF
WeIIlnaJoo. ONO, spent ,llc "e H,,
enc WIN .i't l'l, or : p,'l Gus ~ W.
H,'" Gb,,la. MN rnt,.,.,ad witb
tEo,1 i f"r ~ ,iIi, ''''7 ''' ''' '''
M IL, and 1I.. ch,rloe Cr,b,p,
waebiroton n r ~arc oncgts If
relatives DURING the Weekend.
GEORGE Friend was a Sunday Wis
itor of MIR and Mrs. William Bow
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week with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
SWeitzer and other relatives.
, Mr. and Mrs Alvin Sisler and
son, of Shinnanhonning Pa, visited
the formers parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilbert Sisler over the weekend.
Robert Shaffer, USN. Washing
ton. D. G.; and Mr.. and Mrs Gayle
Shaffer and family, of Rockville.
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer Shaffer. Mrs. GAYLE
Shalfer and children remained for
a weeks visit with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Cullers. near Cor
mania, W. Va
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Carskadon
spent Wednesday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Shank and son.
at Pleasant Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Ashbv and
family. Clarysville, visited Mi and
Mrs. T. F. Colaw and daughter
over the weekend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-07-07
GORTNER

The Sunday School contributed
July's special offering, SIG. to help
pay for painting the Union Church.
Harold White gave an interest
ing report on Sunday of the Broth
rem conference recently held at
Grand Rapids. Mich He attended
as a delegate.
Marjorie SWartzentruber attend
ed a birthday luncheon for Mar
garct Englander, Of Oakland, on
Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Kidd and Mrs
Arthur Jeffres, of Clarksburg
were visiting Ross Lichty. They
and Ross became friends in Johns
Hopkins hospital
MIR. and Mrs Earl Hanger, of
Gary, Ind, are visiting the Welches
Mrs. Willard SWartzentruber and
three children accompanied her
parents Mr. and Mrs Ohio Friend,
TO Bedford, Claysburg and SOmer-
set, Pa. one day last week
Mrs. Orpha Compton, Mt Lake
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-07-07
BROWN THRASHER
(TOrOstOmG q'ufltml)

RANGE: Breeds mainly from
south Alberta and north Michigan,
Quebec, Maine and south to Gulf
States; winters on Atlantic Coast
in North Carolina southwards;
common in Maryland throughout
the summer.
DESCRIPTION: Length about 70
inches including long tail; female
smaller; sexes colored alike. Upper
parts, tail and wings are rufous,
underparts white or buffy streaked
with black or cinnamon.
BREEDING: Nest usually built
with twigs, sticks and leaves in
brush, on ground, or low shrub
berry; lays SO white or greenish
eggs dotted with reddish-brown;
one brood annually in Maryland,
possibly 2 or 8 farther south.
HABITS: Frequents hedgerows,
shrubbery, borders of woodlands,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-07-07

Park, Sam and Lena Slabach, Mr..
and Mrs Albert Sisk, visited Mr..
and Mrs. Julius Slabach at Mt.
Grove, near Thomas, Sunday.
Sam Roth and family of Cleve-
land, Ohio, were weekend guests
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
SChlOSnagle.
Mrs. Fred Swartzentruber, of
Ohio. returned to Simon Swartzen-
truber's from Oakland hospital ON
Saturday afternoon. She contem-
plates driving back to Ohio on We'd
nesday. She and her five children
and home folk were recent Aurora
visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed White. of Bal
timore, spent Saturday and Sun
day at Harold Whites.
Mr.. and Mrs. jerome Meyer and
son, Harvey. of Ohio, visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
SwartZcntruber.
Pastor Dunson, of Terra Alta,
has been helping the Lynndale con-
gregation transform the school into
a church the past two weeks They
are ready to paint the interior this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crist CARRIER had
as Sunday dinner guests Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Yoder and daughter,
Edna, Jonas PeterSheim and Noah
Zook and family.
Eli Beachy and Edwin Beachy
and families visited Elmer and Dan
Beachy and families on Sunday.
Alton Yoder, Glen Schrock, John
Burkholder, went to Lancaster, Pa,
on Monday.
Mrs. Robert Twigg and son and
Mrs. Adam Teets, Flintstone, Mr.
and Mrs. Joni Miller, Laura Gar
Der, Mr.. and Mrs Albert Sisk and
Mrs. Fannie Stutzman spent Mon
day evening with Noah Schrock's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Schlossnagle
and daughter, Janet, spent Monday
evening with Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Lichty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Harsh enter
tanned the following over the holt
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and thickets; generally mounts a
high perch to deliver his attractive
songs; in some places is called
"sandy mockingbird." Feeds almost
entirely on insects, including grubs
beetles, army worms, grasshoppers
and wasps; less injurious to small
fruits than catbird and robin.
MANAGEMENT: Protection dur
ing nesting season by supplying
good cover is helpful. The depreda-
tons Of dogs, cats and hawks, are
reduced where weeds, brush, thick
cts and other concealment is
preserved.
VALUE: The brown thrasher's
delightful songs and his incessant
war on injurious insects make him
one of our valuable bird agri-
cultural assistants; the danger to
fruit is negligible in comparison
to the good accomplished.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Adams.
Frank Graham is visiting his
brother Troy Graham, at Albright.
MIR. and Mrs. Wade Rice and
family, Hyattsville; Col. and Mrs.
James Porter, Arlington, Va. spent
the weekend with Mrs. Lester
Yutzy and Mrs Bertha White. Mrs.
Rice and children remained for an
indefinite time
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Mersing and
family, of Valley Point. w. Va,
were Sunday visitors of relatives.
Mrs. Della Dewitt, of Sunnyside,
spent Monday with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs John Dewitt, and
daughter Evelyn.
MIR. and Mrs. Glen Blauch and
family spent the weekend holt
days with relatives in Pittsburgh
Pa.
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Mrs. Elmer Soldiers and daugh-
ters Vivian and Margaret, Mr.. and
Mrs Virgil Stone and son Virgil
Allen, of Red Oak, spent Saturday
with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sims.
MIR. and Mrs Stanley Savage and
son and Mrs. Walter Holler and
son were recent visitors of Mrs
Virgie Shaver and family, at Mon
arch. Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Dewitt and
family. Of Hagerstown, were Sun
day visitors of Mrs John Dewitt
and family
Dixie Junkins, who had been a
patient for the past several months
in the Veterans hospital in Martins
burg, w. Va, returned to his home
last week.
Miss Lynn Adams, student nurse
at the Springfield hospital at
Sykesville, Md, was a weekend
visitor at the home of her parents
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days: Harold and Gladys Harsh,
Mr. and Mrs William Anderson of
Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. George
Berkeley, Junior Berkeley and fam
ily Indiana Pa. William Yankee,
Cleveland. o.. Mr. and Mrs. Ray
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George. Waterman, Pa Ray Mos
ser and family and Mrs. Sadie
Roth.
Guests of Mrs Anna Bittinger
were Mrs. Marie Edmiston, Mrs
Olga Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa. and
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Twenty-seven million persons in
us. still have no access TO a local
public library
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Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Bittinger
Baltimore
Evening star., 1955-02-18

findings has been received from
Palermo.
Mr.. Bagby and Mr.. Holpuch
said they recently sighted again
the same family Of objects. This
time had a party of 10 other
observers on hand to check their
observations.
Still more recent observations
found the objects crossing the
moon ION schedule" thus virtu-
ally laying to rest the possibility
that they might be the sporadic
passing of migratory birds or
telescope meteorites.
Mr.. Bagby and his associates,
now sufficiently confident Of
their calculations as to the pas
sage schedule. viii train their
instruments during the next OBJ
servation period on q height of
200 miles, posting telescopes in a
triangle pattern. If the objects
are pippointed at that level or
some similar other precise alti-
tude, they explained, the evi-
dence will be virtually conclusive
that they are in fact satellites of
the earth, probably natural ones.
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Tiny Moons Reported Found /.
Only 475 Miles From Earth

ninth planet. Mr.. Tombaugh
said last December that for q
year he had been hunting for
just such satellites as Mr.. Bagby
has reported. The project was
under United States Army aus
pices and was to continue
through 1855.
s:.It's strange" |" Mr.. Tombaugh
said. that with all the thousands
Of years that man has been stu
dying the heavens, he has almost
ignored space right around the
earth. What I'm doing is ex-
ploring this unknown area be-
tween the earth and the moon"
Mr.. Bagby began his observa-
tons two years ago. when
another amateur. Richard Hol-
puch Of Wauconda. H., reported
that he had noticed small spots
crossing the moon singly and in
small groups.
Mr.. Holpuch had participated
In the international tabulation
Of telescopic .meteors and the
migratory bird census. He was
struck by the fact that the OBJ
jects conformed to the patterns
Of neither. The procession con-
tinued for an hour and a half, !
he said, with more than so OBJ
3ects being tabulated. Some
giowed duh red occasionally. he
declared.
First Seen . Year Ago.
Last February Mr.. Bagby
made his first observance of the
phenomenon. Turning to the
worlds astronomical literature. |
he found reports of minor satel- |
lites almost negligible. Over the |
years. however. they had trickled |
IN virtually unnoticed from OBJ
servatories at Palermo, Naples, |
Mexico City, Magdeburg and |
others. Detailed questionnaires
have been sent to all of them. |
A report confirming Mr.. Bagby's
Evening star., 1955-02-18
Japan Insists Russia
Send Formal Note
BY the Assoeiafed Press

TOKYO, Feb. ia Foreign
Office source today said Japan
still was awaiting a formal dip
lomatic reply from the Soviet
Union to Japan's February 5
note proposing New York as the
site for Japan-Russia peace
talks.
The Foreign Office, with sup
port from Prime Minister Ichiro
Hatoyama, apparently was ignor-
ing a note delivered to Mr..
Hatoyama Wednesday by Andrei
I. Dominitsky, head of the un-
recognized Soviet mission here.
Japan wants an answer
through Ambassador Reno
Sawada. United Nations OBJ
server in New York, the source
said. It was Mr.. Sawada who
delivered Japan's note suggesting
peace talks there to Soviet
U. N. Delegate Arkady Sobolev.
The source, said Japan still
wants New York as the meeting
place.
But Russia apparently con-
siders Mr.. Dominitsky message
enough-for Moscow radio to-
day prodded Japan for an an
swer, saying bluntly. Japan still
has not replied to the Soviet
note"
The Russian answer was de-
hvered in a highly unusual man
ner for an important diplomatic
communication.
MIR. Dominitsky. former Soviet
trade representative and now
head Of the dozen-man mission.
took an ordinary taxicab to Mr..
Hatoyama's home and went in
through the back gate.