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Evening star., 1955-02-05
Druggists Warned 10 Pay
Sales Tax on vitamins

Washington druggists were
warned yesterday by the District
Commissioners to collect and pay
the city's new ! per cent grocery
tax on vitamin sales or face
prosecution.
The Commissioners acted on a
recommendation of Tax Assessor
James L. Martin. who charged
that eight drug companies here
had refused to pay the tax, which
went into effect last August. All
but one, he said, have since been
paying taxes on the vitamin
sales.
The one holdout, Mr.. Martin
said, is 2. D. Gilman, Inc, of
which DR.. F. Royce Franzoni is
president. He also is chairman
of the city's Pharmaceutical
Board. In a memorandum to
the Commissioners, Mr.. Martin
called Dr.. Franzoni "the moving
spirit of any violations which
have occurred"
Before the Commissioners ap-
proved Mr.. Martins plans to
send out a letter Of warning, Mr.
Camalier made it clear that the
pharmacists are contending that
the vitamins are drugs rather
than food and therefore not SUBJ
ject to tax.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Arlington Woman
Dies After Fall

Mrs. Florence Solomon, 81, an
Army employe. died today at
Arlington Hospital after a one
story fall last night down steps
at the rear of her home at 2717
North Twenty-third road. Ar
lington.
The hospital said Mrs. Solomon
was admitted about 1880 pm.
with a head injury and died
about 1880 am.
Mrs. Solomon and her hus-
band, Albert, a civilian employe
of the Air Force at the Pentagon
were to leave on a Florida va
cation today. Mrs. Solomon
worked for the Military District
of Washington.
A son, Albert H. Solomon, jr.,
of 406 West Alexandria avenue,
Alexandria, is a special agent for
the FBI. Another son, DR.. Joseph
A. Solomon, is a Navy physician.
The hospital said Mrs. Solo
mon slipped on the back porch
and fell down concrete steps to
the ground.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Family Hit Twice by Trains
At Same Crossing in One Day

when she was thrown from the
car. Doctors said her condition
also was critical.
Mr.. Mcdaniel had leg injuries
and was not seriously hurt.
The car of Hubert Mcdaniel,
the father, stalled about $50 am.
on the same crossing and was hit
by the morning Hagerstown-to-
Baltimore passenger train.
The eleder Mcdaniel was able
to jump free before the train
hit the car and was not injured.
The elder Mcdaniel lives near
the crossing. His son and family
live at Union Mills, Md.
Leroy Day, city policeman, said
the younger Mcdaniel apparently
tried to stop his car about 40
feet before reaching the tracks.
But the crossing is at the foot
of a hill, the street was slippery
and the car slid into the path
| of the train.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Professional Engineers
Exam Passed by 16inD. {.

Sixteen candidates have sue
cessfully passed the Districts ex-
animation for professional engl-
neer given last December 10, the
Board of Registration for Profess
sional Engineers has announced.
They were:
Harold Boericke. jr., 1922 Six
teenth street NV; Stuart H.
Bouchey, jr., 1907 Patterson road,
Falls Church; Rex E. Cheek, 852
North Greenbrier street. Arling-
ton; Charles E. Dysart, 819 Mid
land road, Silver Spring; An
thony H. Flores, 1904 Sixth
street, south, Arlington; Harold
A. Head, 742 Brandywine street
Sc; Robert L. Huck, 2317 Leon
ard drive, Falls Church.
Also Brian r. Jessop, 1905
Longbranch parkway; George w.
johnson, jr., 290l Gainesville
street Sc; Raymond M. Jones.
5212 Fourth street NV; Robert
c. Meleney, 720 Mills Building;
Haaren A. Miklofsky, 1896 Four
teenth avenue, Hyattsville; Will
liam E. Peugh, 5708 Davis boule-
ward, Camp Springs, Md; Frank
+. Rosenberg, $3.50 Newton street,
Hyattsville; Maurice D. Starr,
500 Eighth street NE, and
Wayne'K. Watkins, 4640 Thirty
first road, south, Arlington.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
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Evening star., 1955-02-05
Burns Prove Fatal
To Fireman Injured
In Clinton Auto CrasI

Charles w. Cross, SO, of 4649
Davis avenue Sc, fireman at
National Airport. died in Cas-
ualty Hospital early today of
burns suffered Thursday night
when the, car in which he was
riding crashed into a utility pole
and burned.
The accident occurred on
Route 5 near Clinton. Md, when
the car skidded on ice, left the
road, hit the pole and over.
turned.
Driver of the car was reported
as Army Sergt. David Hyman,
who suffered only minor in
juries.
Fire Chief Ellsworth Webster
of Clinton said Mr.. Cross was
out of the car but SemiconScious
and badly burned when the res
cue squad arrived.
Mr.. Cross, a former fireman at
Andrews Air Force Base, had
been at National Airport about
three years.
He is survived by his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cross, of
Brandywine, Md, his wife and
two children, June Marie II, and
Barbara Ellen. 10; three sisters,
Mrs. Joseph E. Carroll of Bran
dywine, Mrs. Francis hewitt Of
Alexandria and Mrs. Melvin Ellis
of Brandywine, and four BROTH
ers, George c. Cross of Forest
vile, Md. Wilson Cross of Baden.
Md, Frederick Cross of Meadows,
Md, and Austin Cross of Camp
Springs. Md.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Trade Beard 10 Hold
Annual Dinner TONIGHT

The Washington Board OF
Trade tonight will hold its 36th
annual midwinter dinner in the
ballroom of the Mayflower, with
nearly 1000 members and guests
attending.
The $50 o'clock black-tie
function is entitled Fun in the
Tropics" Hugh P. Flynn Is gen.
eral chairman.
The guests will include the
District Commissioners. members
of the House and Senate, Fed
eral and District government
officials, and heads of profes-
sional and business organiza-
/ tions throughout the city. Theme
for the fun-f1lled evening will
be the traditional good food
good entertainment and ne
speeches"
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Equitable Life Buys
Baltimore Skyscraper
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Feb. 5.-The 34-
story Mathieson Building, tallest
on the Eastern Seaboard south
of Philadelphia. was sold to the
Equitable Life Assurance yester-
day for $5.5 million.
Fidelity Baltimore National
Bank. which has owned the build
ing $3.50 with Olin Mathieson
Chemical Corp. since 1949. leased
it back from Equitable Life for
IS years.
Olin Mathieson leased from the
bank for 10 years all the space
its Baltimore headquarters cur
rently occupies.
The Mathieson Building, 495
feet tall. was completed in 1928
at cost of about $66 million. II
has changed hands half a dozen
times,
Evening star., 1955-02-05
State Halls Cremation
OF Mystery Doctor;
Police 10 Quiz Wife
Star STAFF Photo.
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 5.-Police
today interrupted plans for the
cremation of Edward James
Phillips, mysterious New York
figure who died under strange
circumstances here Wednesday.
DR.. Russell S. Fisher, State
medical examiner. said he would
not allow the cremation until
police had talked with Mrs.
Dorothy Phillips and she had
made a positive Identification OF
the body.
officials at a funeral estab-
lishment said Mrs. Phillips ar
ranged for the cremation yes
terday after identifying herself
with a marriage license certifi-
cate.
Vague on Background.
They said she explained she
had been married to Phillips
about three years and did not
know much of his background.
Mr.. Phillips, identified by New
York acquaintances as doctor
and Army brigader general, was
found dead in a hotel here
Wednesday. Preliminary results
OF an autopsy showed he died
of barbiturate poisoning.
No listing for DR.. Edward
James Phillips could be found in
medical directories and the
Army said it had no officer by
that name.
A funeral home where the
body was transferred said Mrs.
Phillips and a few other persons
held a memorial service for him
last night.
She Declines Comment.
Police said they had not
reached Mrs. Phillips. She ds-
clined to discuss the case with
reporters in New York.
Mrs. Phillips earlier told in
vestigators she got a call from
her husband from his Baltimore
hotel room at 12:42 last Wednes-
day morning.
DR.. Erna Gutenstein, New
York dentist and friend Of Mr..
Phillips, said she got telegram
dispatched from Baltimore at
1925 am, announcing Mr.. Phil
lips was dead. Police have not
been able to find the Robert
Ritter" whose signature was or
the wire.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Symphony TO Play Concert
| For Tiny Tots Tomorrow

The National Symphony will
put on a "tiny tots" concert with
an international air tomorrow at
the Statler Hotel.
Costumed children from the
Embassies of Belgium, Holland
and Greece-countries visited by
Conductor Howard Mitchell on
his trip last month-will join
Washington youngsters in at
tending.
To accommodate the numbers
expected, the orchestra will actu-
ally put on two concerts in the
hotels Presidential Room - at
2:45 pm. and at 3:45 pm. Both
are sponsored, for the third year,
by listeners to radio station
WGMS.
Tiny tots" are children be-
tween 3 and 7 years old. The
concert is open to anyone OF
that age, and accompanying
adults, on payment of a con-
tribution at the door. Radio
donors to the concert have al
ready been mailed tickets.
WGMS listeners last year con-
tributed more than $500 to the
orchestra, paying for three con-
certs in addition to tomorrow's
show.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
BY me Assoeioted Press

WESTMINSTER, Md, Feb. S.
Twice yesterday the Hubert T.
Mcdaniel family was involved in
accidents with Western Mary
land Railway trains at the West
George street crossing and three
wound up in the hospital, two
in critical condition.
The more serious of the two
ACCIDENTS was about $3.50 pm.
when Rudolph Mcdaniel, %,
stalled his car at the crossing
and it was hit by the afternoon
Hagerstown- Baltimore pas
Senger train.
Mrs. Greta Mcdaniel, his IT.
year-old wife, received severe
head injuries and was described
as in critical condition at Uni
versity Hospital in Baltimore.
Their 6-month-old daughter
Lois, was knocked unconscious
Evening star., 1955-02-05
BeIvoir Soldier Dies
After Route ! Crash

A Fort Belvoir soldier died last
night at the station hospital of
injuries received in an accident
Thursday on Route l at Hunting
Creek, just south of Alexandria,
He was Corpl. Joe Sanford, "A,
colored, of Young's Village, Fort
Belvoir.
Virginia State police at Grove
ton said the soldier was a pas
senger in a car that skidded on
the icy pavement and smashed
into a tree.
The driver of the car was iden-
titled as Sergt. Charles P. Brink
ley, %. colored, of the 200 block
of Fifteenth street Sc. He also
was stationed at Fort Belvoir.
He was treated for knee injury
at the hospital.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Press Club Votes to Admit
Loutier, First Negro Member
Unusual Referendum
Fuvors Newsmun
Bv BIT to 281

The National Press Club has
voted, 377 to 281, to admit its
first Negro active member.
The decision came yesterday
in day-long. record ballot
without precedent in the clubs
47-year history.
1t points the way to the elec-
ton Monday by the clubs Board
of Governors of Louis R. Lautier,
Sc, Washington correspondent
of the Atlanta Daily World and
the National Negro Press Asso-
citation.
The issue of admitting Mr..
Lautier, who applied January 6.
brought out 70 per cent Of the
Gil active members to vote.
OF these, 81 per cent voted
to accept Mr.. Lautier as a full
f1edged, voting member.
Many Members Turn Out.
The club did a land Office bus
mess. Luncheon tables were
crowded and dozens of in-arrears
members paid up their dues so
as to be eligible to vote on the
question.
Mr.. Lautier. the first Negro
admitted to the Senate and
House Press Galleries and to the
White House Correspondents AS
ISOLATION. appeared delighted
when informed of the vote, but
said only, II am very grateful
for the support I received from
my sponsors and those who voted
for me-"
He was sponsored for member
ship by columnists Drew Pear
son and Marquis Childs and Lee
Nichols of the United Press.
His application tentatively was
approved, 6 to 4, by the 12-man
Board of Governors, and then
was posted on the club bulletin
board for Is days as the rules
require for all potential mem
berS.
Floor Fight Avoided.
The resulting controversy
came to a head at the annual
membership meeting while MIR.
Lautier's name was still on the
board.
Then, to forestall floor
fight over a proposed amend
ment to the bylaws which would
Evening star., 1955-02-05
House Passes
CD Seizure Bill
AT Annapolis
Measure Authorizes
County Directors to
Tuke Over Facilities
BY Gene Goodwin
Ssor StoH Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 5.-Legisla-
ton giving county civil defense
directors power to seize equip
ment and facilities needed in
case of an emergency was half
way through the Maryland
Legislature today.
The bill. sponsored here by
Delegates Blair Lee, Democrat.
of Montgomery. and Orlando B.
Blades, Democrat. of Caroline,
was passed by the House of Dele
gates, $50, yesterday and sent
across to the Senate.
Used Car Bill Passed.
The bill had been sought by
State civil defense officials. who
want county directors of civil
defense to be able to act quickly
if war should come suddenly.
The House also approved
without dissent a bill aimed at
blocking some of the unsafe
used cars dumped in Maryland
from nearby States with in
spection systems. The measure,
which now goes to the Senate,
would resuire that cars coming
in from States with inspection
systems could not be titled in
Maryland without an up-to-
date inspection sticker.
The Senate yesterday passed
and sent to the House measure
which is designed to facilitate
prosecution of bad-check artists.
The bill would permit trial mag
istrates to hear cases involving
worthless checks of less than
$l0O. Now all bad-check cases
have to be prosecuted In circuit
courts.
Would Kill Car Tag Rise.
Meanwhile a Baltimore City
delegate announced he is pre-
pairing a bill deleting provisions
for higher auto registration fees
from State law. Delegate Sol j.
Friedman, Democrat, made his
statement as Gov. McKeldin was
signing into law bill deferring
a scheduled increase in auto tag
fees from this year to next.
The bill signed by the Cover
nor merely defers the IS and 81
increases for passenger car Ii
censes and the larger boosts for
truck tags. The increases are
still in the law and unless an
other change is made by the
Legislature, will go into effect in
1856.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Hearing on Pay Increases
For D. c. Judges Called

A public hearing on legislation
to raise the salaries of judges of
Municipal Court and the Munich
pal Court of Appeals by $500
each will be held by the full
House District Committee at
1890 am. Monday.
Witnesses invited include the
District Commissioners and
spokesmen for the Board of
Trade and the District Bar As
sociation.
The bills were introduced by
Chairman Mcmillan of the Dis
trict Committee and by Repre-
sentative O'Hara. Republican, of
Minnesota.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
i. Lee Beun to Head
Zonine Appeals Boord

I. Lee Bean has been named
chairman of the Arlington Coun-
ty Board of Zoning Appeals,
succeeding Lawson Wimberly,
the board announced today.
Fred Windridge was elected vice
chairman, succeeding Mr.. Bean.
The terms of the five members
of the board expire March g..
Annual election of officers at
this time Of year Is required.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Three Marines Get
Three Years in Fatal
Beating Of Sergeant

Three Marines convicted OF
manslaughter in the fatal beat
ing of a husky Marine sergeant
last November II after a Silver
Spring drinking party yesterday
were sentenced to terms not to
exceed three years in the Mary
land Reformatory.
The sentences were imposed
by Chief Judge Charles w.
Woodward in Montgomery Coun-
ty Circuit Court on Corpl. Raul
Coronado. %; Corpl. Armando
T Estrada, 81, and Pfc. Pedro
A. Molano, 20.
The three were convicted in
the death of Sergt. Henry T.
johnson, %, of johnson City,
Tenn. Their terms began last
November IL. They will be eligi-
BILE for parole on recommended
ton of prison authorities.
Judge Blames Liquor.
johnson hadn't done a thing
to you Liquor inf1amed your
minds you didn't intend to
kill MIN You killed your
superior officer You kicked
him when he was down d.. You
we're not trained to do that in
the Marines" Judge Woodward
declared
The sentencing was delayed
Yesterday for several hours after
Judge Woodward heard the rec
ords of the three Marines de-
scribed as very good" and "ex-
cellent." The delay was called
so that the jurist could hear the
record of the dead Marine which
he said was equally as good" as
the records of the trio.
All three Marines asked the
court for mercy and another
chance" None had been ir
trouble before in civilian OF
service life.
Anniversary Party.
Sergt. johnson died on 6
Silver Spring street after a party
celebrating the 179th anniversary
of the Marine Corps.
Testimony was that the SER
geant had stopped his car
opened the back door and yankee
out Pfc. Genaro Cano. %, ant
the other Marines came out O
the car fighting him. He wa
knocked down and kicked durinl
the brawl.
Sergt. johnson was 6 feet
inches tall and weighed 25I
pounds. He was sergeant Of tn
guard at the Naval Receiving
Station at Anacostia and som
of the men were in his unit.
Pfc. Cano still faces a trial ol
murder indictment. His tria
was removed to Washington
County.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Markers Urged
For Fatal {. U.
ICrosswaIks
Coroner Will Query
Keneipp on Scene
OF Traffic Deaths

District Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald said today he will
ask Traffic Director George E.
Keneipp about the possibility of
marking pedestrian crosswalks
on Michigan avenue in front of
Catholic University, where a 67-
year-old woman was killed last
Wednesday.
DR.. Macdonald raised the point
yesterday at an inquest into the
death of Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan,
of 1918 Perry street NE.
Police records show Mrs. Sui
livan was struck by a westbound
auto as she was walking south
across Michigan avenue to a
streetcar platform. She was
knocked into the front of an
eastbound streetcar and died of
the injuries.
Orders Driver Held.
DR.. Macdonald ordered the
driver of the automobile, Elvin
A. Davis, 26, a District fireman.
of 1901 Jefferson street, Hyatts-
vile, Md, held for negligent
homicide.
DR.. Macdonald read to the
jury a letter he wrote to Mr..
Keneipp following the death of a
nun in 1851 on Michigan avenue
in a similar accident.
The letter requested cross
walks be in the middle of the
block, where pedestrians must
cross to get to streetcar loading
platforms. Mr.. Keneipp replied
such crosswalks actually increase
the hazard to pedestrians unless
they are controlled by traffic
lights, because they give pedes-
trians a false sense of security.
Dr.. Macdonald told the jury
he intended to write another
letter to Mr.. Keneipp, making
the same request in view of the
new fatality.
Keneipp Explains.
Mr.. Keneipp told a reporter
today the only mid-block cross
walks in the city are controlled
directly by traffic lights are near
schools. Those, however, are at
points controlled by officers or
schoolboy patrols during school
hours.
As far as traffic lights are
concerned, Mr.. Keneipp said,
the only one in the middle of
a Washington block is on Wis
consin avenue near the Sidwell
School, and that is operated
mechanically.
Uncontrolled crosswalks, Mr..
Keneipp said, are opposed by
most municipal traffic engineers.
Los Angeles tried such markings
last year. he said. but they have
proved so dangerous that traffic
officials in that city now OPP
pose them.
Mr.. Keneipp said he would be
glad to reply to any letter he
gets from DR.. Macdonald, how
ever, and that he also would
order a study of the incidence
of accidents in the Michigan ave-
nue. area.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
Thief Gets S2O9. in Till
AT Southeast Market

A can of luncheon meat last
night cost the owner Of Winer's
Market, 532 Eighth street Sc,
5000, she reported to police.
Mrs. Sarah Winer, So, owner
of the store, said a man entered
the store about 1880 pm. and
asked for the can of meat. The
man described as colored, 20 to
Is years old. 5 feet 8 inches tall
and weighing about $50 pounds.
reached into the till when her
back was turned and grabbed
the bills.
Police reported that a man
answering to the description was
last seen running in the 800
block of q street Sc.
Evening star., 1955-02-05

have permitted an absolute
blackball of an applicant by any
10 members, the clubs peace
makers won approval of plans
for yesterdays referendum.
The votes serves only as ad-
vice to the Board of Governors
on the feelings of the member
ship, but that body is committed
by a majority of nearly two
thirds to abide by the results of
the referendum.
Evening star., 1955-02-05
How they hear the truth
behind the Iron Curtain

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Catholic School Program
To Aid Exceptional Child

The Catholic schools Of the
Archdiocese Of Washington next
fall win begin a program Of spe-
cial education for exceptional
children" Msgr. John s. Spence,
director Of education. announced
yesterday.
Exceptional children In this
area are those with physical or
mental handicaps.
A survey of parochial schools
in the Washington area shows
843 such children enrolled.
Msgr. Spence said $50 of these
have very low intelligence quo
tients. SO are physically handi-
capped. So have both of those,
48 have serious emotional prob
lens and 81 are listed as mis-
cellaneous.
Two nuns of the Notre Dame
de Namur order will study at
st. Colletta's. an institution near
Madison, Wis, this summer,
Msgr. Spence told a meeting of
the Commissioners Youth Coun-
Gil yesterday.
When the fall semester begins.
one of the nuns will open a
remedial reading clinic at Trim
ity College with the help of
graduate students.
The second nun will operate
a program in one of the parish
schools designed to train Is of
the most seriously handicapped
children. That is the largest
number. Msgr. Spence said, that
can be handled at one time if
the children are to benefit.
Two more nuns will study at