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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-13

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40. bondable. high school education
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INSURANCE
CLAIM
ADJUSTER

Excellent position for qualified in
dividual with claim experience: sal
airy open. All inquiries confidential
WARD ADJUSTING CO., AID. 4-3375
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INTERVIEWER

Evening COLLEGE student, age ~
25, to handle once inquiries in
claims department Of fast-growina
insurance company. 5-day week,
to. 4'30: SAB minimum starting
salary.
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SALESMAN

Inside. outside sales. for man 20
to 40 years Of age. with car Lib.
eral car allowance and draw against
commission. Permanent position for
the one who qualities
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
s455 cOLESvTILE RID.
SILVER SPRING. ND,
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HELP-MEN
.IANITOR

Colored. sober. honest, married. no
children, for new apt. house; livins
quarters only. Prefer man Who has
z 5-day week job. Apply Boz 2S4-R,
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Government Employees

@AAo 80 eSAA(C W.
l4TH a. L SITS. NV.
Apply s AM. to 2 PM. at L 81
Entrance
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$4,000 TO START
Opening for personable. reason
ably aggressive young man. Local.
permanent; car necessary: COLLEGE
background desirable, Must be avail
able for training at once. Inter-
view by appt. NE. 1886.
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Real Estate Salesman
REAL ESTATE SALESMAN

Plenty of opportunities to earn
substantial income from sales OF
project homes and general brokerage
homes. Cali Mr. Boletchek or Mr.
Henry. ia $4,000. T. N LERNER
4 CO, 2054 N. l4th st. Courthouse
Suuare IR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13

BROWNIE CAMERA OUTFITS
l-Eoch, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday
&c KITCHEN CLOCKS
l-Eoeh, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday
JET RACERS
l-Eueh, Tuesday. Wednesday,, Thursday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
Special Grand Jury Called
In Cor-Wosh SIoying

Evidence against three sus-
poets in the April 90 holdup
Staying Of Arthur E. Chyatte,
Silver Spring car-wash owner.
will be presented at a special
session of the Montgomery
County grand jury on May 8.
County Circuit Court judges, at
the request of States Attorney
Aleer Y, Barbee. today ordered
the March grand jury to recon-
vene. The jury is also scheduled
to consider a murder charge in
the Pooks Hill strangulation
Staying on April 10.
States Attorney Barbee also
said the preliminary hearing in
the car-wash murder, scheduled
for today in Silver Spring, has
been transferred to Rockville. A
new date for the hearing was not
set and it is believed the case
will 60 directly to the grand
jury.
Charged with murder in the
case are Eddie Lee Daniels, %.
accused by police of firing the
fatal bullet; Richard Leroy Sim
mons. 90. and James Arthur
Sullivan, 90. All are colored.
The trio is accused of staging
the Sunday afternoon holdup at
the car-wash Office. 8808 Old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
Union Assai|s
Transit Bill

The AFL Transit Union, which
lis about to draw up new demands
for wages and working condi-
tons. said today the bill pro-
posing continued operation of
Capital Transit Co. does not
insure uninterrupted service
through arbitration of all dis
putes."
Walter j. Bierwagen, president
of Division 629's 2,700 members,
called the bill seriously defec-
tive in that it does not provide
for peaceful employe relations
which will save the community
from facing another prolonged
dispute over wages and working
conditions after August H."
1t is then that Capital Tran
sits franchise will expire unless
the bill of the House Commerce
Committee, scheduled for debate
this week, wins approval of Con-
gress. The bill would restore
the transit company's franchise
and allow the company certain
new advantages.
THE bill, while it grants tax
relief to the company. does not
even mention means of lnsuring
uninterrupted service through
arbitration of all disputes" Mr..
Bierwagen said.
He expressed disappointment
in the failure Of the House COM
mittee to hear the unions side
of the story after indicating it
would do so. Mr.. Bierwagen said
the committee conferred only
with the Wolfson company rep
resentatives.
Mr.. Bierwagen added that,
from a union standpoint, a Sem
ate bill proposing an interim
transit authority, would be pref
cradle at least to the extent it
does set up arbitration proce-
|dureS.
Tomorrow the union member
ship holds 10 am. and 8 pm.
meetings at 401 Third street
NV. to discuss changes they
wish to propose in the wages and
hours contract.
Mr.. Bierwagen said the men
probably would ask for a wage
increase. but he could not guess
what amount. Increases in other
cities have mostly ranged be-
tween 6 and IL cents an hour
this year, he said.
1t was a 52-day strike over
wages and other demands which
caused Congress to revoke the
Capital Transit franchise last
year. Capital Transit operators
now make So an hour, which will
be increased by S cents after
July /.
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Bladensburg road. Daniels,
charged with the actual hold
up and murder while the two
other men allegedly waited in a
parked automobile. was captured
Wednesday by District police in
Prince Georges County.
Police said the holdup killer
escaped with more than $500 in
cash after shooting the 56-year-
old victim. The holdup occurred
as Mr.. Chyatte, his wife Sophie
and his partner. Meyer Klein,
were counting receipts in the
car-wash Office.
Charged in the Pooks Hill case
is Lloyd o. Burnett, %, of the
900 block of H street NV, who
police say murdered Lonnie j.
Bailey. SO. of 1921 Leland street,
Bethesda.
The Staying victim died of
strangulation in the Pooks Hill
apartment of Ralph A. Mckee,
40.
Police said the three men had
been drinking. Burnett, who is
also accused of robbing Mr.. Nc
Kee, an interior decorator, was
caught in the District after a
Joint investigation by Montgom-
cry County and Metropolitan po-
lice.
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; Youths Held
In Car Thefts

Three teenagers today we're
accused of four auto thefts after
police acted to break up a high
school ring which stole cars and
took them to Maryland to sell
the accessories.
The boys, all Is years old, were
caught yesterday by Washington
Auto Squad Detectives Delmar
Reid and William Clark. They
launched a day-long investiga-
ton when a group of youths in
Prince Georges claimed they had
been buying accessories from a
Southeast area gang.
The detectives had only three
to go by. They
checked the police departments
juvenile file and located one boy.
He led them to the others.
The accessories in Prince
Georges were taken from a car
owned by Irving Sappler, FOG
Trenton place Sc, which was
later found near Accotink, Md.
A radio telephone and all re-
movable accessories were miss
ing.
Later, Joseph Bacher of 3245
Twenty-third street Sc, was
surprised to learn that his car
was carrying tags taken from
Mr.. Sappler's car. The boys had
switched tags.
-Four cars were recovered and
some accessories were discov-
cred in the youths homes.
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Father 5 Killer
Gets IS Years

A Jamestown Md youth,
who pleaded guilty to a second
degree murder charge in the
drunken Staying of his father
last December, today was SEN
fenced to Is years in the Mary
land House of Corrections.
Bonnie Lee Slack, 10, was SEN
fenced by Montgomery County
Circuit Judges Stedman Pres
colt and Kathryn j. Lawlor.
The judges deferred sentenc-
ing Slack for his part in a jail
break attempt January %, when
the youth and three other Rock
vile jail inmates attacked their
guards, but were captured on
the Jail roof.
The farm youth was tried for
the December Is shotgun murder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
Student Killed
In AutoCrash

A 16-year-old Takoma Park
schoolboy was killed and another
youth was injured seriously yes
terday in an automobile acci-
dent on East-West highway near
Riggs road in Prince Georges
County.
Arthur j. Caputo. jr., Of 1901
Hopewell avenue. died of a frac-
tured skull. crushed chest and
other internal injuries.
John Eugene Waters, 81, Of
Drum Point road. Deale, Nd,
was admitted to Washington
Sanitarium with head injuries
and a broken arm. He was re-
ported in good condition today.
The two were in Mr.. Waters
car, but police said they had not
yet established who was driving.
According to Corpl. C. e.
Schaefer. the car skidded on
East-West highway, jumped the
curb and smashed into a utility
pole about 4 am.
Young Caputo. a sophomore at
John Carroll High School. had
gone TO the movies Saturday
night with several friends, his
father said. After the show they
went TO a teen-age center at the
firehouse. Mr. Caputo said he
believed Arthur met Mr. Waters
at the teen center and went
riding with him.
Arthur is survived by his par.
ents, two sisters, Antoinette. IA,
and Patricia, 10, and by a
brother. Ronald, 8.
Funeral services will be held
at 9 am. Wednesday at Our
Lady Of Sorrows Catholic
Church. Burial will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
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The
Rambler
One Nature Note
Leads to Another
By JACK JONAS

If things like this keep on,
we may find ourselves sur
rounded by a Sequoia forest in
another couple of centuries.
A brief note here a few
days back about a man who
has a Sequoia tree growing in
his yard has brought a letter
from Bernard l. Smith of
Leonardtown, Md.
Mr.. Smith was surprised to
learn that there was another
Sequoia growing in this area.
He has a dozen himself. And
now the word comes in that
there are still others growing
here and in the suburbs.
MIR. Smith says agricultural
experts all advised him that
Sequoias wouldn't grow in this
area. But they're like the
bumblebee, which, according
to all the rules of aerody-
namicS, can't fly but does.
They're thriving - the trees
and bees, too.
Mr., Smiths trees are the
Sequoia gigantea, the kind
which at maturity in their
native West have reached IS
feet in diameter-big enough
to drive even a new car
through.
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70 Youths Seized
At Carnival Ground

Park police arrested % ju-
venileS and three adults Satur-
day night at the Carnival
Grounds, Oklahoma avenue and
Benning road NE, in an effort
to head off a repetition of mob
disorder there the week before.
Chief Harold E. Stewart said
the 81. all colored, were arrest
ed in small groups wherever dis
turbances broke out. They were
charged with disorderly conduct.
The adults were to face NUM-
ciple Court arraignment today.
A week ago, a youthful crowd
overran some of the concessions,
upsetting stands. Selling mer-
chandise and taking over some
of the rides. Such vandalism was
averted Saturday, Chief Stewart
said, by the prompt arrests.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Chamber Of Com
merce of the United States
meets in the Hotel Statler
and the Chamber OF Com
merce.
The Life Insurance
Agency Management Asso-
citation meets in the Shore
ham Hotel.
The Association of Ameri-
can Battery Manufacturers
continues its sessions in the
Shoreham Hotel.
The American Geophysical
Union opens a three-day
session in the National
Academy of Sciences Build
ing.
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In Bus Beating

Two 19-year-old youths were
charged with robbery today as
Washington police continued to
round up suspects in the Satur-
day beating and robbery of a
Capital Transit Co. bus driver.
Bond of $4,000 each was
asked for Willie Wright, of the
700 block of Forty-ninth street
NE. and Donald E. Morgan, OF
500 Blaine street NE. The two.
both colored, faced Municipal
Court arraignment later today.
Two other suspects. one 10,
and one 16, were being grilled
intensively by police, while at
least 10 others both boys and
girls, were being brought to
headquarters for questioning.
All are colored.
The bus driver. William H.
Hall, SO, father of two children,
was beaten and slugged into
|semiconsciousness as he sat in
his bus just after midnight at
Fiftieth and Grant streets NE.
He had pulled his empty bus
up at a loading stop there. only
to have a mob of more than 20
youths, some of them girls,
swarm aboard and assault him.
They took his wallet from his
pocket and $5.85 from his change
carrier.
Bus Door damned
Some of the crowd held the
bus motionless during the 10
minute melee by jamming the
rear door open. Police for two
days have secured the Northeast
area in an attempt to round up
all those responsible.
Wright did not admit any part
in the fracas, but was identified
by the driver as the ringleader
Of the tough-talking crowd.
Another 19-year-old being held
by police admits smuggling the
driver once, but denies taking
part in the robbery. police said.
They said the youth contends
he struck the driver because "he
called us Names"
The third 19-year-old under
questioning denies being any,
where near the scene, but police
were not satisfied with his ex-
PLANTATION. The 16-year-old,
brought in by his father this
morning after police had visited
his home and found him absent,
admitted being in the crowd but
denied taking part.
Two Witnesses Found
In addition, police said they
have two 16-year-old boys who
witnessed the affair and can
identify some of the partici-
pants. One of the two said he
entered the bus when it pulled
up. paid his fare and sat in the
rear with his girl friend.
He said he watched the beat
ing but was afraid to move until
he heard the driver plead for
someone to shut the rear door,
so the bus could move. The boy
said he attempted to close the
door but found it damned. He
said he went outside and kicked
the door shut, and the bus then
pulled of before he could board
it again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
District Work Iniurv
Measure Is Pushed
Compensation
Bill Approved
ByHouse Group
BY DON S. WARREN

The House District Committee
by a very solid majority vote to-
day approved the Mcmillan bill
TO give the District a separate
law of its own providing COM
penSation for injuries or death
suffered by workmen of private
employers here.
The measure will be reported
to the House in a day or two
and Is expected to come up for
House action at the next Dis
trict day, next Monday.
District Committee spokesman
said the measure was approved
by voice vote and that only one
objection was heard.
Workmen's compensation in
the District now is a part of the
Longshoremen's and Harbor
Workers Compensation Act set
up primarily to meet the require
mentS of dock workers and other
harbor employees on the East
and West Coasts and other ship
ping points. The District was
tied into that act % years ago
because House and Senate Dis
trict Committees at that time
could not agree on terms of Q
separate District law.
Boosts Applied Here
Consequently, anytime there Ia
a boost in benefits to the long
shoremen in far distant ports,
the rates placed in the national
act are automatically applied to
private employers here.
Currently District employers
are facing big stepup in their
costs for workmen's compensa-
ton because the Senate last
summer passed a bill to boost
the benefits and last week the
House Education and Labor
Committee brought out q still
more liberal measure.
Under the Senate bill the max
imum weekly benefits would be
raised from $35 to $50 a week
and under the House Commit
tee bill the maximum would 60
to $54 a week. The minimum
payment would be raised in both
bills from $12 to $18 a week.
District employers have pro-
tested that present rates for the
District now are higher than
those in Maryland and consid-
erably higher than those in Vir-
ginia.
Under the pending Federal
bills this disparity between the
District and the adjoining States
would be made much greater.
Competitive Situation
District employers have warned
that there already is serious
economic competitive situation
between the District and the adj
joining areas and that the new
IlongShoremen's bills would raise
District costs by some millions Of
dollars.
They emphasized also that all
of the 48 States, as well as Ha-
wall and Alaska, have their own
workmen'S compensation laws
and that the District should have
its own. They contend that arI'
adjustment of benefits in the
District should be based on con-
ditions in the District and should
not be affected by conditions on
! the East or West Coasts.
House District Committee
hearings were held on the bill
of its chairman, Representative
Mcmillan, Democrat of South
Carolina, in March of last year,
but action was deferred until
today.
The Senate District Commit
tee does not have bill to set up
a separate District law. How
soon 1t might act on the McMil-
Ian bill, if it is passed by the
House. has not been indicated as
yet. The Mcmillan bill would re-
peal the District section of the
| T0nochnroynoY1'c Act
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of Robert Slack, As. The elder
Slack was a tenant farmer at
the Sumner Wood estate near
Jamestown. Police said the
shooting occurred after the son,
while intoxicated, had terror
lied the estate owners family
with a shotgun.
Robert Slack was killed when
he tried to take the gun away
from his son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30

THE MAN whose Sequoia
was mentioned last week is
NielS j. Hansen, a horticul-
turist who gained fame in this
area as developer of the
Chevy Chase Rose. His tree is
a Sequoia sempervirens-the
redwood - even less hardy
than the gigantea, but thriv-
ing nonetheleSs.
BY the rules, Mr.. Smiths
trees should be the biggest
around when they're full
grown, but Mr.. Hansen's, by
the same rules, should be the
tallest by a few feet.
Mr.. HanSen'S was planted
about Is years ago, grew as
tall as the house, then was
knocked down when a tree
being felled next door fell
the wrong way and hit the
Sequoia.
Mr.. Hansen thought that
was the end of his tree, but
shoots came up from the
roots, and now the Sequoia is
almost as tall as the house
again.
Mr.. Hansen says it gets a
little brown during rough
winters, but so far has always
recovered. It's well protected
for its brittle youth by tall
trees around it.
He's anxious to get hold of
a gigantea shoot, to see what
he can do with that. And his
son has been Fostering him
for a shoot to plant at the
sons home in Virginia.
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BY GEORGE FLYNN

Every Friday night in Bethes-
da. Md, the Montgomery County
police stage another act in the
continuing drama, THE Teen
Ager and His Automobile"
Set in a courtroom, the cast of
so juveniles is a slice of life lifted
out of Juvenile Court records.
This is the county's Traffic
Safety School, where police in
structors strive to teach the
frightening potential of hur-
ting ton of steel on wheels.
They're relaxed, the instruc-
tors. and so are the gangling
loose-shirted students. most of
them present" by direction of
the court because they once
overlooked a traffic law.
The cast changes as students
graduate after six hours Of in
struction, pass an examination,
and return to Juvenile Court for
final disposition of the charges
against them.
School Methods Used =
1t. Paul o. Alexander, the
schools director, employs the
teaching methods with which the
teen-agers are familiar in their
high-school claSsrooms.
He breaks up the two-hour
Friday night sessions into a lee
ture on traffic law and accident
causes, a training film. black
board illustrations on accident
Iresponsibility-and a "get-it-off-
your chest" forum.
The last part Of the program
is the most popular with the
students, and the most revealing
to the policemen.
Listen" veteran police Of
ficer advised as the students be-
gan to shoot questions at a
panel OF three police experts.
They want to learn how far
they can stretch the law with
out breaking it.
Typical Questions
These we're typical questions:
Can a park policeman arrest
you on a county road or county
policeman on a park road?" Yes,
in both cases.
Can you speed to a hospital If
you've got a sick, person in the
carp" With caution, yes, a po-
liceman answered, adding that
police are alert to cases Of
feigned illness to avoid speeding
charges.
Can you follow an ambu-
lance taking an injured buddy
to the nospital?" No, If you
mean at high speed.
Can they get you for circling
the Hot Shoppe so times a night
just slowly?" The expert said
county police could stop such a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
.1O3 Candidates
In Primary
BackHomeRuIe
Hart and Lamb Favor
Step. Garrett Dubious
About Current Bill

One hundred and three candi-
dates from both Republican and
Democratic parties running in
the Districts primary election
have Endorsed home rule, the
Washington Home Rule Com
mittee said today.
The group polled each of the
lis candidates by letter and dis
covered that 70 out of the IA
Democrats favor home rule and
81 out of Al Republicans favor it
George L. Hart. jr.. candidate
for the Republican State Com
mittee and presently chairman,
a former opponent of home rule,
came out in favor of it. George
P. Lamb. candidate for Repub-
lican National Committeeman,
running against Clyde D. Gar
rett, present committeeman, also
supported home rule.
Mr.. Carrot wrote that he, too,
favored home rule but was mot
certain" all necessary amend
ments to the home rule bill had
been suggested.
DOnOhue in Favor
F. Joseph Donohue, manager
of the national presidential
campaign for Senator Estes
Kefauver, declared he is in
favor of home rule. Mr.. Donohue
is running against Melvin D.
Hildreth-another home rule
Supporter-for Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman.
Woolsey w. Hall, candidate
for the Democratic Central Com
mittee, and one of the early
founders of the home rule drive,
said he had supported it "for a
time whereof the memory of
man runneth not to the con-
trary."
Of the 10 Republicans who did
not join the list in favor of home
rule four preferred to take no
position on the issue, the COM
mittee said. They were Miss
Ruth Brown and Mrs. Emory
Wheeler, both candidates for
delegate, and Mrs. William P.
Mac Cracker, jr., and Mrs. Will,
liam B. Mason. both candidates
for the Republican State Com
mittee.
Mrs. MacCracken's View
However, Mrs. MacCracken
told The Star she had informed
the Home Rule Committee that
her view on home rule was
whatever the President favors,
I'm 100 per cent for"
Clifford H. Newell, candidate
for the State committee, opposed
home rule. Adelbert w. Lee, an
other candidate, did not answer
the poll.
David Lynn. jr., an independ-
ent Democrat running for the
Central Committee, said District
residents should have a right to
vote for President and Vice
President and should be repre-
sented in the Senate and House.
But he said that since Wash
lington is the National Capital,
he believes the President should
select some officials of the city.
The committee said Joseph
Benedict Musumeci. an indie
pendent Democrat. could not be
reached.