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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
disqualification
Benefits Raised
Blue Cross Extends
Time and Payments

More than 100000 Group Hos.
Ipitalization, Inc, subscribers viii
get additional disqualification
benefits under a more liberia
contract at no extra charge
Joseph H. Hines. president. an.
nounced yesterday.
The benefits. including exten.
sion of disqualification time al
full payment from 81 to 81 days
are the results Of the buildinf
Iup Of a 81 million reserve fund
Mr.. Hines declared.
Besides the increase in tht
number of full service benefit
days for each hospital conf1ne.
ment. benefits include:
/. An increase In the allow.
ance for the 1870 partial benefit
days from S. per day to SO pei
day.
2. Persons eligible under q
standard family contract for OBJ
stetrical benefits win receive the
greater Of $40 per day for
maximum Of eight days or .
minimum of $50, but not to ex.
coed the hospitals charge. For.
merly the allowance was 50 pei
day for maximum Of eight days
As before. full service benefits
will be provided for Caesarear
deliveries. ending Of ectopit
lpregnancies and MISCARRIAGE.
but for a maximum of 81 days
instead Of only 81 days.
Out-of- Town Benefits
8. Subscribers who are ad,
mitted to out-of-town Blue eros
participating hospitals will re
ceive the benefits Of those hospi'
tails plan for up to 81 day
instead Of 81 days. They viii
also receive up to $40 a day TO,
as many as $50 partial benefi
dae3 "a new out Of town service
4 Renewal of the subscriber
81 full benefit and 100 partia
benefit days will be made with,
out regard to time lapse If re
admission is for an unrelated
condition. Previously. more thar
80 days had to elapse. After Oh
days. benefit days will be full,
renewed. regardless of the con
dition.
Mountaineering Hospitals
S. Patients admitted to hospi
tails not participating in the Blu,
Cross plan will be allowed casl
allowances ranging from $2l TO
the first day of hospital care {,
a maximum Of 1894 for 81 day
"a maximum increase Of 500
II additional care is necessary
allowances of $40 per day vii
be provided up to $50 partia
benefit days.
The full benefit days includ.
hospital charges for semi-privatt
Accommodations, indications
meals and other services Offered
by the contract, regardless of the
hospitals charge.
Although the increased bene.
fits will go into effect March /
Mr.. Hines said it probably will
be the first Of June before the
new contracts are printed anC
sent to subscribers.
He pointed out that the nom
profit corporation has a reserve
Iof over 81 million and that nc
rate increase Is expected for the
next several years.
The increased benefits do not
go to persons holding preferred
contracts - they already have
these benefits and more-nor de
they 60 to persons enrolled
through certain experience rated
pr0IIDS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
The
Rambler
An OId-Timer
Behind the Wheel
By JACK JONAS

Somebody asked how come
Washington cab drivers find
so much to talk about.
Well, listen to Matthew
Jones, on a short spin from
the Armory to downtown
Washington:
81 been driving so long !
don't rem e m Der when I
started.
81 remember that first hack,
though. It was a 1912 Buick.
You could hear me coming
three blocks before you saw
me.
1.-THE speed limit was 10
miles an hour when I started.
I took the examination for my
license in the Old District
Building, on the second floor.
"They asked a lot of trick
questions in those days. One
was, What would you do if
you ran out of gasp Every
body knows the answer to
that one. I put down Stop
"Then they asked What
would you do if your brakes
failed?' I put down Head for
the nearest curb and pray
1T got my license, but after
the exam was over, I said !
wouldn't go through 1t again
for anything. My knees were
shaking.
after I got rid of the
Buick, I got me a 1915 Chand-
Ter, secondhand. Drove it all
through the first World War.
You could make real money
then-$40 or $50 a day. I
cruiSed around the willard
most of the time.
Then I got me a 1918
Chandler, secondhand again.
I had an Auburn after that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
Street Scenes -.

A postman gleefully Tipping
letters between a pair Of locked
glass doors without mail slot
at a downtown Office build
A man pushing a lawn
mower along the sidewalk on
Michigan avenue NE. -.
An open mouthed boy
watching firemen scurry about
during a fire near Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Fourteenth
street NV.
An Eleventh street restau-
rant listing stake" at 40
cents on its outdoor menu. i.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28

then while both sides argued
whether to admit the evidence.
Ruled admissible. the testi-
mony was to be repeated today
with the jury present.
Marcionette. IT, of Falkland,
Md, is expected to take the
stand himself today. as he did
last night when the jury was
absent, to deny again that he
ever admitted stabbing the Uni
Iversity of Maryland student.
Marcionette is charged with
numbering Mr.. Gibson. 20, last
November IL.
The State says Mr.. Gibson
pursued him when Marcionette
stole the car of Mr.. Gibson's
brother in front Of the broth
ers' apartment, at 8106 New
Hampshire avenue. Langley
Park.
Brother Tells Of Chase
The brother, Robert. %, testi-
fed yesterday they caught up
with Marcionette, that Marcion-
ette abandoned the car. was pur-
sued on foot by Richard and that
Richard staggered back stabbed
mortally.
! Defense Lawyer A. Gwynn
Bowie fought unsuccessfully
against admitting into evidence
the blood-stained clothing and
dagger. which police testified
they took from the defendant
when they arrested him in q
Washington hotel shortly after
the killing.
Then Mr.. Bowie battled to
have the alleged admissions
thrown out. He attacked them
las lacking proof Marcionette
made them voluntarily. But the
Judge decided to permit the four
women and eight men jurors
Ito decide.
Suspicious Of Accord
The ~ stuck a knife in him"
quote. which all the policemen
agreed on, drew Mr.. Bowie's par
ticular fire. He said 1t is in
credible that the police can agree
on that particular combination
while unable to agree on other
Marcionette statements. He
said the very unanimity on that
quotation made 1t suspect.
States Attorney Blair H. Smith
fired back that Mr.. Bowie
couldn't be satisfied: that he
suspected the quotation and
would suspect any different
prosecution version of 1t.
Detective Joseph F. Longo, 9
District officer assigned to jul
venile work. testified Marcion-
cite told him:
II killed a man. Why don't
you put me in the chair? I de-
serve the chair. When some
body kills somebody they should
be killed"
The detective said he asked
Marcionette whether the killing
was accidental and the boy tolo
him Don't be making no ex.
cuses for me. I meant to do it
I aimed for his heart"
Conversation With Father
] He also testified he heard the
boy tell his father, Il killed q
man. Now let me go. I've
always been no good"
\ Mr.. Bowie concluded cross
examining the officer with, "You
have the memory of an elephant
|Mr. Longo.
Thank you." MIR. Longo said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28

1--WE DRIVEN about every
thing, I guess. Everything ex-
cept a Stanley Steamer. Some
of the fellows had Stanley
Steamers, and they wanted
me to get one. I was scared of
'em.s Afraid they might blow
up in my face.
Had this car here about
five years now. Only got about
$4,000 miles on her. My arth-.
ritis has been bothering me
bad the past eight or 10 years,
and / don't drive so much any
more.
Look at those kids there
jumping out into the street.
You got to watch out for kids
nowadays, and not only In
traffic.
They don't get discipline
like they used to. When I was
a kid. If I did something bad
in school, l got my knuckles
raped, and If I did something
at home oughtn't do, I got
whaled. They don't do that
much any more.
II was born right here In
Washington. Went to West
Virginia when I was a kid,
then came back again about
1908 as a young man. Been
here ever since.
"See that 10-Year Safe
Driving sticker on my card?
You don't see many Of them.
That's as high as they go, 10
years.
didn't mean to hit that
bump so hard. Seems like
they're always fixing up the
streets. Slow, too. I asked a
fellow works on one of these
jobs why it took SO long to
get a place paved. He said If
they hurried up with it they'd
be out of work before long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
BY GENE GOODWIN
star stan Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 20. - The
bill to provide a $400-a-year
increase in teacher pay mini
NUNS was halfway through the
Maryland legislature today. but
without the sales tax increase
that had been proposed 10 A.
nance the salary increases.
Actually. the Legislature does
not have to accompany the pay
raise measure with a financing
bill, since the proposed increase
in minimums would not take
effect until the 1957-58 school
year. But the House Ways and
Means Committee took the stand
that the legislators would be
stunning their responsibility If
they did not pass a revenue bill
along with the pay bill.
That contention apparently
was rejected by the entire House
last night, since the teacher pay
increase passed. Ill to 8, and
the proposed increase in the
sales tax rate from 2 to 3 per
cent was rejected. "a to SIS.
Goes to Senate
The pay bill now goes to the
Senate, where the sentiment Ii
strong for passing the teacher
pay issue on to Republican Gov
lMcKeldin without an accom-
Ipanying revenue plan. Many
Senators have said privately
they feel 1t Is the executive de-
partment's job to recommend
the method Of paying for the
increase.
Meanwhile, a Senate House
subcommittee recommended TO-
day that about $2.5 million OF
anticipated revenues from a pro-
posed increase in the horse
wagering tax be applied to State
aid to the counties for school
construction.
The subcommittee, specifically
proposed that State aid, under
the so-called incentive fund, be
Increased from $40 to SIS per
pupil. or half the amount pro-
Iyided for in the James bill We
|toed by the Governor last year
but overridden by the Legisla-
ture earlier in the session.
That recommendation is based
ion adding 20 more days at each
of Maryland's mile tracks
Bowie, Pim1ico and Laurel-and
raising the amount of the State
track take out of each bettor's
dollar from 10 to IL cents.
40-DayI Proposed Limit
That would give each of the
mile tracks 40 days each Of
racing every year. They now gel
1919 days apiece.
Under the subcommittee rec.
ommendation, subject to thu
approval of House Ways ant
Means Committeeman and Sen.
late Finance Committee members
the racing bill would take effect
in time for the racing season
this spring.
On last nights House vote
all six Prince Georges County
delegates voted for the sale'l
tax increase except Carlton r
Sickles, who said he "canno
subscribe to the argument tina
you can't have the teacher pa!
bill without the sales tax.
In the Montgomery delegation
Delegates Blair Lee III anc
Charles w. Woodward, jr., votec
for the sales tax, and the othel
four delegates voted against it.
On the teachers pay bill itself
all Montgomery and Primo,
Georges delegates, except Mr.
Lee, voted for the measure.
Mr.. Lee told the House tina
dreaming about State revenu,
SURPRISES as a means of financing
thu, teachers pay raise "is {
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
A Thnnglrt fnr Tnhay
Lenten Reflections on Fuvorite Stories
From the Bible by People You Know
BY BOLITHA J. LAWS

Chief Judse o Columbia
My Lenten thought today turns to the amazing impress
sion Christ made upon the leaders of His day. At His
modest BIRTH came wise to worship Him; mighty
King Herod troubled fantcaly sought to destroy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
BY RICHARD RODGERS

The murder case against Marcionette resumed to-
day with his jury hearing statement police said he made
admitting he killed Richard Gibson
The same testimony heard by his two Prince Georges
circuit Judges last night kept of the courtroom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-28
Transit Seizure Bills
Killed in Maryland
Morcionette Tells Court
He Didn't Stab Gibson
BULLETIN

Vincent Edward Marcionette testified today ne did
not stab Richard Gibson He said he had the knife out
fearing Mr. Gibson twas going to kill me" and "he run
into it." Marconette the first defense witness after
the prosecution rested
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
California Has Worst Record of Traffic Deaths

LOS ANGELES, R-California, proud of it's fine holiday weather and magnificent super highways, today had to live with the worst record in the nation for traffic deaths over Christmas.
 The state led all others with at least 72 fatalities.
 Death was indiscriminate in the Golden State. It took infants, servicemen, old persons-e n orphaned children as they waited at home for the annual gift-giv- ing to commence.
 Friends of William and Mary Mckay didn't want to tell the couples five children when they woke up Christmas morning that their parents were no longer alive.
 Mckay, an airport employe at Blythe, and his wife were return ing home from a Christmas Eve party when their car plunged into a canal.
 On Christmas Day, a car con- taining a Palmdale family and a couple visiting from Minneapolis rounded a curve on the new An geles Crest Highway above Pasa- dena. Only seconds before, two large boulders had failed onto the scenic roadway from slope above,
 The car hit one of the boulders and plunged into a 500-foot-deep canyon-killing Kenneth McRae, 33; his son Bruce, 8; and their house guest from Minneapolis, lArs. Elsie Beelow, 54.
 Seriously injured were Fred Beelow, 58. Richard McRae, 59; and Mrs. Martha McRae. 58.
 A crew which rescued the in jured found gay Christmas pack ages strewn about the bodies.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Yugoslav and Russian Newspapers Exchange Verbal Shots on Policy

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, R- The official newspaper of Presi- dent Tito's Communist Party says Pravda deliberately hides certain facts from the Russian people.
 Borba, the Yugoslav party's or gan, replied bluntly Wednesday night to an attack by the Soviet Communist Party's paper on a speech by Yugoslav Vice Presi- dent Kardelj on the Hungarian crisis. Earlier, the government controlled Yugoslav radio called the Pravda article malicious and tendentious.
 Kardelj told Parliament Dec. ' that Soviet intervention to crush the Hungarian revolt was aimed at preserving the balance of pow CT in Europe rather than at sav- ing Socialism Communism in Hungary. He repeated Tito's own view opposing in principle all military intervention.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
+Hungarians Will Replace Japanese
 In Siberia Camps

MAIZURU, Japan. R-Deport- ed Hungarians will replace Jap anese prisoners of war in Siber- ian camps, a Japanese repatriate today quoted Russian officer as saying.
 Yoshimichi Nakagawa said a Russian officer at the Khabar- ovsk camp told him "Many Hun garians are to come to Siberian camps after you've gone"
 The Soviet Union has denied shipping Hungarian rebels out of their country. The West claims thousands of Hungarians were deported to Russia.
 Nakagawa was one of 1,025 Japanese who returned home here today after II years in So- viet prisons.
 The Welfare Ministry says at least 10000 more. are still missing somewhere in the Soviet Union the last of the soldiers and civil ians caught when the Red army came crashing down through Manchuria II years ago in the last seven days of World War II.
 The repatriates arrived from Siberia aboard the white-hulled Koan Maru. One hundred seven ty were i'll, 35 requiring immedi- ate attention.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Pan Am May Lose Support in Plan For Seattle Ston

SAN FRANCISCO, R-San Francisco's Public Utilities Com mission may rescind it's support of a plan to include Seattle as a stop on Pan American World Air ways projected great circle route to the Orient.
 Commissioner Edward G. Bar on said last night he has changed his hind. He voted with the ma iority Monday when the com mission passed a resolution, 3-2, supporting Pan Americans bid for stop in the Pacific North west.
 Baron asked for special meet ing before the Friday deadline for filing the city's brief with the Civil Aeronautics Board.
 Joseph Martin Jr., PUG chair man, said he would arrange the special session.
 A CAB examiner has recom- mended a great circle route from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Tokyo-without mail or pas senger stops at Portland or Seat tie. Pan American argues that a Seattle terminus would make pos sible seven flights week. With out it, Pan American said, it could make only two flights a week.
 Martin argued that Pan Amer ican's plan would encourage trav- elers to take off from Seattle in- stead of San Francisco.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
LIBRARY ACQUIRES NEW MYSTERIES AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The xxx Library has recently acquired the following books.
 Books for children:
 Come Be My Friend, Irmen- garde Eberle; Cabin Boy, Vincent Dempsey; Animals in Fur, Clar- ence J. Hylander; Nature Games and Activities, Sylvia Cassell; Balboa, Finder of the Pacific, Ronald Syme; Mrs. Wappinger's Secret, Florence Hightower; How Old Are You?, Leonard H. Kirk patrick; Hinkeldinkle, Frank Ju- DO; A Cow in the House, Mabel Watts.
 Mysteries and detective stories:
 Murder in Haiti, Vondercook; Prisoners Base, Stout; Gedeon's Day, Marie; Widows Web, Cur tiss; A Shot of Murder, Iarns; The Case of the Talking Bug, Gordon; FOB. Murder, Kitchens; A Key to Death, Lockridge; Basil Ex- press, Coles; Broken Shield, Ben- son; False Colors, Powell; The Evil of the Day, Sterling; Cuckoo Line Affair, Carve; Never Bet Your Life, Cox; Deah of Coren- theon, Louham; Schirmer Inheri- tance, Ambler; Burnt Offering, Lockridge; Death Has a Small Voice, Lockridge; Deadly Climate, Curtiss; Singing Sands, Icy; In invited Guest, Cox; Widows Plight, Fenisong; Silver Cobweb, Benson; Scales of Justice, Marsh.
 Other recent additions:
 Land of the Silver Spruce, by Wonderful Flight to Planet, by Cameron; Cloud Catcher, Crist; Cowboy of the Pampas, Greene; Stormy Summer, Harrington; Julie's Se- cret Sloth, Jackson; Hearth in the Snow, Jones; Mystery Trail, Lane; Let's Dance Story, Mace; Raf- ferty Red, Merwin; Treasury of Plays for Children, Moses;
 Lost Hurrah, O'Conner; Story Parade Mystery, Parker; White Elephant Mystery, Blue Herring Yellow Cat Mystery, all by Ellery Queen; Wild Flowers of The Enchanted School House, Sawyer; Carrier Boy, Tay- Tor; Mystery of the Old House, Wallace; Rock River Ranger, Young.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
HALF A LOAF

The first of the Hungarian refugees to set foot in America under the special authorization of PreSi dent Eisenhower welcomed at Camp Klmer NJ, by an Army band playing Brahms, flowery speech by Secretary of the Army Wilbur Brucker, prayer by Army chaplain, and an listen Horza" (Welcome) sign over the camp gate
 A young Hungarian in horn-rimmed glasses who had spent the long hours of the flight from Vienna rehearsing his speech the response He thanked the greeters and all Americans for Operation Mercy and said; We have brothers at home, still suffering under tyranny"
 To receive and these hapess people may soothe American consciences But there still broth CTS at home' who are still suffering under tyranny And the number of those whose sufferings will have ended; through slaughter starvation are growing larger.
 In failing to help the Hungarian freedom fighters, Ferenc Nagy, former Hungarian Premier (but no
 closed session of the House Un-Anerican Activities Committee that the West lost chance to seriously weaken the Communist empire
 At the beginning of the revolt, he said, the free world should have demanded the withdrawal of Soviet armed forces and backed up the demand with "a show of force Such action rather than observation sym pathy MT. Nagy felt, "could well have been the beginning of the end of the world Communist move ment"
 Whether or not such action might have plunged us into World War H. the Nagy views do not help much now-except as they may help us to face up to the facts they exist; to consider how we will implement Cuba's IN resolution demanding the re- of the Hungarian patriots deported to Siberia or what we will do if similar struggles should break out in Poland, East Germany Bulgaria
 Should we, or can we, do no than give asylum to some of the fortunate who able to escape the massacre? !
Evening star., 1956-08-28

Of the Export Import Bank
and Mrs. Samuel Waugh, Mr..
and Mrs. James P. Kendrick,
Senator Theodore Green, Un-
dersecretary Of the Army and
Mrs. Charles Finucane, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State
and Mrs. Roderic O'Conner.
Others from the State De-
partment were Mr.. Jacob
Beam, Mr.. Frederick Merrill,
Deputy Chief of Protocol and
Mrs. Victor Purse. the Stephen
Dorseys on their way to a
farewell party being given by
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Thomas
Kelly in honor of the new
United States Ambassador to
Greece and Mrs. George Allen
and the new United States
envoy to Egypt and Mrs. Ray
Hare, and Mr.. and Mrs. Fran
els Williamson, who've just re-
turned from Rome where he
was Counselor of the United
States Embassy.
Two newly wed couples at
tending were Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Blake tshe's the former
Sylvia Whitehouse) and Mr..
and Mrs. Stuart Rockwell (she
was Rosalind Morgan before
her MARRIAGE.
From the embassy row were
the acting dean of the diplo-
matte corps. Nicaragua's Sevil-
la-SacaSa; Austria's Ambassa-
dor Gruber. Australians Sir
Percy and Lady Spender, who
hopes to take a trip home in
October.
Evening star., 1956-08-28

Bunker. former Ambassador to
Italy.
It's his first trip to America
and has been a worthwhile
one. for he's met and talked
to all the important figures in
both political parties.
Today he was to lunch with
Deputy Undersecretary Of
State Robert Murphy at the
Sheraton Carlton Hotel and
tomorrow Signor Fanfani will
entertain a group Of Amer
ican friends at the Metro
politan Club. He leaves for
New York and Italy tomor-
row night.
Some 300 guests came to
meet Signor Fantani yesterday,
and at the same time they had
a chance to look over the newly
refurnished Italian Embassy.
The building has just been
aforementioned throu g h o u t;
there's a new coat of paint on
all the first and second stories
and I'm told the kitchen has
just been completely modern
ized.
Homer Gruenther of the
White House staff, just back
from a trip to Europe, was
among the guests and told how
he and his wife gave away
hundreds of IKE buttons
abroad. He said he's glad he
took along a good supply, for
wherever he went people saw
the buttons he and his wife
were wearing and Immediately
wanted one.
Also there were President
Evening star., 1956-08-28
Meeting Plonned

The Capital Chapter Of the
American Medical Center at
Denver will hold its opening
fall meeting on September IL
in the clubroom at 1901 Geor-
gia avenue NV.
Among their other activities
is a fashion show and card
party at the Silver Spring
Hecht Company Auditorium
on September 10.