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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
House Puts Off
Transit Action
Senate Will Take Up
Own Bill Next Week

The House as we'll as the Sem
ate has postponed until next
week any action on how to solve
the Districts transportation
problem.
The House was to take up the
transit bill tomorrow, to act on
the recommendation of its
Interstate and Foreign Com
|merce Committee to restore the
franchise to the Capital Transit
Co. with tax and other conces-
SionS.
The farm problem, however.
moved into the picture late yes
terday and upset the schedule.
The Rules Committee gave the
green light to a new agriculture
bill and Chairman Cooley of
the Agriculture Committee said
he would seek to call it up for
House action Immediately fol-
lowing the House bill on appro-
priations for the Commerce De-
partment.
It looks certain that the new
farm bill would hold the stage
tomorrow. Some House leaders
therefore said it seemed likely
that the House transit bill for
the District would go over until
next week.
The Senate yesterday post
poned until Monday its consid-
Grafton of an entirely different
bill dealing with the District
transit problem. This is the one
recommended by the Senate Dis
trict Committee to create an
interim" public transit author
ity to take over the services here
August is when the franchise
of the Capital Transit Co. dies.
The Senate postponed this &C
ton because leaders decided that
on Thursday there would be no
business except for the adoption
of a resolution expressing sorrow
over the death of Senator Bark
ley. The plan is that the Senate
then would adjourn out of re-
spect to the Kentucky legislator
and postpone all business until
next Monday.
The public authority bill is
the pending business on the Sem
ate so it is expected to come
up for action Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Mount Vernon PTA

The Mount Vernon High School
PTA will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow
at the school. DR.. Arno J. Jewett
Of the United States Office OF
Education; w. w. Rich. Arlington
County secondary supervisor, and
w. Harold Ford. supervisor OF
instruction of Fairfax County
will participate in a discussion
on 1.-THE Junior High School, It's
Problems and Special Require
ments."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

long time before that, too. Its
attendants estimate it might be
around rs years old.
That wouldn't be long for a
Galapagos, either. One still lives
on st. Helena, where it repeatedly
arrived the same day Napoleon
landed there. And another, a
gift to the King of the Sandwich
Islands. has been hanging on for
some $50 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Baltimore Transit
Ends Seizure Suit

BALTIMORE. May 2 (R.-The
Baltimore Transit Co. yesterday
withdrew its Federal Court COM
plant challenging the validity Of
the State utility seizure law
passed by the 1866 Legislature.
Hearings were to have begun
on the suit yesterday.
The BIC challenged the Law
after the State seized its buses
and streetcars to end a 39-day
strike last March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Cool Weather Retords
Virqinio Small Grains

RICHMOND. May 2 (P).-Cool
weather last week retarded
growth Of pastures and small
grains and delayed planting Of
corn and cotton. the Virginia
Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service said yesterday.
The service said that despite
the slow growth Of small grains,
prospects for wheat, barley and
oats are favorable and rye has
begun to head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
St. EIizubeths
Cast to Give
Show Tonight

Like traditional good troopers
the st. Elizabeth's Hospital
Dance Group will stage its own
presentation of the Skitzofrolics
of 1850 tonight, despite a last
minute walkout of the stage
manager.
The stage manager was a pa
tent, too, like every member OF
the cast. In a moment of anx-
iety he backed out during yes
terday's final rehearsal, and for
a moment there was a question
Of whether the show would go on.
Thanks to genuine group CO.
operation. the assistant man.
lager stepped in. and the curtain
will go up as planned at 8 pm.
in Hitchcock hall. The public
is invited.
Satire on Hospital Life 4.
The show. written by one OF
the patients. is a satire on life
at the mental hospital. It's GEN.
trail figure is Psyche Phil. the
cartoon figure who appears in
the patients weekly newspaper.
Around Phil has been built a
series Of skits backed by a
chorus of IL. Twenty five patients
make UP the cast, and there are
eight stage hands.
Miss Chace Directs Group
The patients are all volun-
veers. and from the start they
handle the planning themselves.
Ready to offer any advice asked
is Miss Marian Chace, director
of the therapy group.
She was particularly gratified
yesterday when the performers
were able to persuade the as
sistant stage manager that he
was big enough TO handle the
job when the stage manager
Withdrew.
Given a vote Of confidence by
the cast, the assistant soon got
into the swing, and the rehearsal
moved smoothly.
They are real excited about
It," said Miss Chace and AL
ready are talking about what
lshow TO do next"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Virginia Allotted
More SuIk Vaccine

RICHMOND, May 2 (R.-vir,
ginia has been allocated an adj
ditional 1886 doses of Sail
polio vaccine, DR.. Mason Ro'
maine, director Of the Stat,
Health Departments Bureau o.
Communicable Disease Control
said yesterday.
He said the additional dosel
raised the total of shots undel
the Federal program to 802.l30
The ALLEGATION, the gath tn,
State has received under tn,
Federal program. was part o.
the release Of 3,353,274 dose
released nationally Monday By
the United States Public Health
Service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

heutuCkyS Oe1dCOT 6dFkley, CLley
were postponed to 2 o'clock to-
day. Later they were resched-
uled for next Monday.
One Of the most pressing prob
lens is what to do about the
teachers needed for the growing
school population next school
year. The Commissioners con-
ferred on the problem yesterday
afternoon and may have other
meetings before the hearings
start Monday.
City Position Unchanged
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin announced yesterday
after the meeting with some OF
his experts that the position OF
the District Commissioners had
not been changed. that it was
based on the same philosophy
they held before as to the ratio
of pupils and teachers.
This left some doubt as to
what might be recommended
when the city officials appear
before the Stennis subcommit-
tee.
District officials indicate that
other major changes in the Dis
trict financial picture for the
fiscal year beginning July / will
await the submission of another
supplemental appropriation bill.
This has been planned all
along to take care of public
works programs which could not
be financed by the District until
Congress passed the new reve-
nue. bill. The supplemental bill
will call for $40 million to $13
million more in public works
projects. now covered by the
new revenue law.
More Police Sought
At that time, some city Off
cials suggest, Congress will re-
ceive requests for funds to pro-
vide for a step-up in the Metro
Ipolitan Police Department to
$500 men. This would be about
$50 men more than now on the
force. The officials feel this
should go first to the House in
stead of being added to the
Senate bill.
Likewise, the increase in the
Federal payment from $40 mil
lion to $23 million, authorized
in a new revenue law, also would
be covered in the supplemental
appropriation submission.
Therefore, when the Senate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Admiral Says Marvel
WAS Doomed by Blow

tirely possible that the most sea-
worthy vessel would have foun-
dered under comparable condi-
TONS"
That testimony was given by
Admiral Richmond to the House
Committee on Marine and Fish
cries at a hearing on the bill to
expand jurisdiction Of the Coast
Guard over vessels carrying pay
ing passengers.
The Marvel sinking brought
attention to the Coast Guard
regulation requiring inspection
of sailing vessels only if they
were over 700 gross tons. The
Marvel was less.
Bill Sent to Congress
Congress on Monday sent to
President Eisenhower a bill re-
quiring the Coast Guard inspec-
ton of vessels which carry more
than six passengers for hire.
A 19-year-old plumbers helper
from Deale. Md. testified yester-
day at Meckling'S trial that he
heard radio distress signals from
the Marvel.
The testimony by Thomas G.
Marshall rebutted that of several
prosecution witnesses, who con-
tended the radio was imperative
Mr.. Marshall said he heard
the MAY Day." international
distress signal, on the short wave
band of his, radio at his home,
about 10 miles up the coast from
where the schooner went down.
But he didn't know what MAY
Day" meant. he told Federal
Judge R. Dorsey Watkins, hear
ing the case without a jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
BIBLICAL SOURCE
FOUND IN DYING
WORDS OF BARLEY
BY the Associated Press

The final words uttered
by Senator Alben Barley,
Democrat of Kentucky, be-
fore he collapsed and died
Monday we're:
II would rather be a serv-
ant in the house of the Lord
than to sit in the seats Of
the mighty"
The phrasing had a Bib
lical ring. But the source
of the quote couldn't be pin
pointed. 1t may have been
a Barley paraphrase of the
10th verse of the Saith Psalm
in the st. James version of
the Bible, which says:
II had rather be a door,
keeper in the house of my
God than to dwell in the
tents Of wickedness."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Evunswood Citizens
Back Hospital Plan

The Evanswood Citizens As
ISOLATION of Silver Spring last
night Endorsed a proposed So
million bond issue in the Whea-
ton district for the construction
of the Silver Spring Memorial
Hospital.
The group also elected Ray G.
Bergstrom, president; Homer
Duffey, vice president; Arley
Caudill, treasurer; Mrs. Carl
Roeder, secretary, and Mrs. Mary
Marston, corresponding secre-
tary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

THE HOUSE was built by
Mrs. humans grandfather,
Admiral Franklin, and she
shudders to think what he
would have said about his
home becoming a kind of
crows nest.
IT investigated hiring pro-
fessionals to get rid of the
pigeons. One estimate was
$500. The lowest estimate was
$3.50, but even that was too
much.
$50 I got this idea about the
feather busters. I got two of
them, made with black turkey
feathers, and put them on one
Of the lodges that seemed a
particular favorite with the
pigeons.
They haven't been on that
ledge since I put the busters
up. The feathers wave in the
slightest breeze, and that
seems to scare the pigeons.
The rain doesn't seem to have
any effect at all on the
feathers.
$50 I went right down and
got six more. The roofing man
is going to string them up on
a wire across the roof.
Sometimes I think the
pigeon, instead of the eagle,
ought to be the national bird.
There are so doggone many Of
them in Washington.
"The busters don't look very
pretty, but they seem to do
the job all right"
They do add a bit of color,
though, with their robins egg
blue handles of plastic. And
they attract a lot of attention.
The curious have been flock
ing around like - well, like
pigeons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
The
Rambler
Lody Gives Pigeons
Bit Of q Brushoff
By JACK JONAS

Mrs. Theodor Lurman, a
lady with ideas, says she has
perhaps the only building in
Washington with a fringe on
top.
Her building, once the
family home but now contain
ing two apartments and two
storerooms, is at 1888 Nine
teenth street NV, just of
Dupont Circle.
The reason for the fringe
made up of prosaic, 76-cent
feather dusters-is the awful
pigeon problem.
II tried everything to get
rid of those BIRDS" Mrs. Lur-
man said. "They were perch
ing all over the building,
running the roof, messing up
the Lodges and walks.
"Just a few days ago I was
out front and an egg fell be-
side me. I wondered who
might be throwing rotten
eggs at me. But it was Just a
pigeon that had dropped an
egg"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

BALTIMORE. May, 2 (R.-
Vice Admiral Alfred c. Rich.
mond. commandant of the United
States Coast Guard, confirmed
his opinion today the "mosi
seaworthy vessel would have
foundered under comparable
conditions" which wrecked the
Levin j. Marvel.
The sailing schooner sank
August IL during Hurricane
Connie with the loss of IA lives
|of passengers on a vacation
cruise in Chesapeake Bay.
John H. Meckling, owner and
overator of the vessel, is or
trial on charges Of negligence.
Admiral Richmond was asked
today by Capt. Meckling's de-
Tense if testimony he had given
Ia congressional committee earlier
this year was correct. He SAID
it was.
Statement at Hearing
At that time he said:
ut is true that unseaworthi-
ness contributed (to the ship
wreck but am by no means
convinced that if this vessel had
been inspected and was the
Soundest vessel in the world, in
the unfortunate position he was
in, you might have still had the
same casualties.
THAT does not mean that
feel he was justified in taking an
unSeaworthy vessel to shore, but
the Marvel was in a very bad
position If it had been a
power-driven boat, the engines
would have failed It is en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Street Scenes .

A driving school auto halted
on Logan Circle by a motor
cycle cop, who was handing
the driver a ticket. =.
One of those cone-shaped
drinking cups, half full of
water, abandoned with its
point stuck in a bolt hole in a
manhole cover in front of the
Ben Franklin Post Office. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

HER ATTEMPTS to shoe
off the pigeons were as frus-
trating, for a long time, as
the Governments efforts to
disperse the starlings.
II tried putting cutouts of
black cats on the roof to
scare them away" she said.
'But the next day the pigeons
were perching on the heads
of the silhouettes.
"Then I tried those little
green snakes - the toy kind
that come in sections and
stretch out. The pigeons
ignored them.
81 tried imitation owls, but
the pigeons sat down beside
them like they were old
friends"
Mrs. Lurman even consid-
cred for a while throwing a
sort of cocktail party for the
birds.
IT thought I'd get some
wheat or some corn and soak
1t in gin-that's cheaper than
bourbon" she said. "And you
know what that would do.
Then, when they dropped
over, I'd just go out and scoop
them up.
"But what would I do with
them after I caught them? I
know it's against the law to
shoot them, and I thought it
might be against the law to
kill them any other way, too.
At any rate I didn't want to
take the chance.
"They were getting to be ex-
pensive, running my awnings
and things like that. I had to
buy new awnings to put up all
over the building"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

acts on the pending regular ap-
preparation bill, if the present
plan carries, it will have before
it only the recommended $40
millionaire highest under the
former revenue law, which was
approved in full by the House
when it passed its version of
the District supply bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Advisory Posts Held
Open to u. S. Aides
Foirfox Attorney Cites Clause
On Eligibility to County Boards
By MARY LOU WERNER

Fairfax Commonwealths Attorney Robert c. Fitzgerald
advise the Board of Supervisors that
Federal employees eligible to boards
commissions which aren't set by the State Constitution
Mr. Fitzgerald said he convinced after studying the
ton that Federal EMPLOYEES barred only from positions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
DC. Budget Hearings
POSTPONED Until Mondoy
By DON s. WARREN

Senate hearings the Districts 1857 appropriation amount
ing nearly million again posponed-ths
to 10 m. Monday
The hearings before the Stenns subcommittee of the
Appropriations Committee originally scheduled this
morning Yesterday because of the funeral services here for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Press Group to Meet

The Montgomery County Press
Association will have a luncheon
meeting at 1890 pm. Friday at
Montgomery Blair High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
18th Street Leads
Again in Accidents

Accident prone Fourteenth
street was again in front, TO,
the fourth consecutive week
Deputy Police Chief John ]
Agnew, in charge of traffic, re.
ported yesterday.
The section from the Four
teenth street bridge to Missouri
ave. NV. led by two accidents
over a stretch of Pennsylvania
ave. from Washington circle
NV. to Thirtieth street Sc. Ac-
cidents on Fourteenth street to-
tailed 10.
Massachusetts, ave-, from Bel
mont I'd. NV. to North Capitol
ST., and Florida ave-, from Twen-
ty-first st. NV. to Fourteenth
st. NE, tied for third. Twelve
accidents OCCURRED on each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
3 Sentenced in PLOTTING
Loan on Another's Home

A man and two women were
sentenced yesterday for con-
spiracy to commit false pre-
lenses to obtain a s6,3S1 loan
on the home of the mother of
one of them without the
mothers knowledge.
One of the women was placed
on probation, and the man and
other woman appealed their
convictions.
Eddy D. Nupen. A, formerly
of the $500 block of Connecticut
avenue NV, was given SEN
fences totaling from l to 4 years
on the conspiracy charge and q
charge of false pretenses in
actually obtaining the loan.
The two women, who were
tried and convicted on the con-
Spiracy charge only, are:
Mrs. Frances c. Melvin, 33, OF
the 1000 block of South Twenty
seventh street. Arlington, Va,
who was sentenced to serve from
7 to 81 months, and Miss Merle
LaViscount, 20, of the $500 block
OF First street NV, who was
given a suspended sentence OF
from 9 to 81 months and placed
on probation.
Sentences were imposed by
Judge Burnita Shelton Mat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03

and perfect ensemble, but they
nevertheless seemed to have lit
tie stylistic comprehension Of the
masterpieces with which they
began their concert.
The wonderful Schubert F
minor Fantasy, a four hand piece
written during the last year of
the great composers life, is per-
hapS the most satisfying Of all
his duets. Intensely poetic in
content and style, it is a true
fantasy. lacking a definite theme
to act as motto and to bind the
separate sections closely together.
Its effectiveness depends ON
the haunting opening theme
which reappears several times
throughout the work and finally
in the coda. giving a needed
sense Of cohesion. This theme,
Dougherty and Ruzicka equipped
with a case of the blind stag
gers, distorting it to the point
where it was more of an annoy
ance than pleasure to hear.
Very little better was the
Mozart C major four-hand
sonata, which was played-as
was the Schubert-at two pianos.
The first two movements were
unaccountably rushed in tempo,
while the last, in which the
tempo was right in feeling. suf-
ifered from the teams inability
to play through a simple phrase
without interrupting it's even
if1ow in one way or another.
Fortunately, MesSrs. Dougherty
and Ruzicka more than made up
for their capricious readings of
Schubert and Mozart with
outstanding performances of
Schoenberg and Stravinsky
After the brilliance of the last
piece. the audience demanded
and got an encore. an unusual
circumstance at the Coolidge
Auditorium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
NEWS OF MUSIC
Duo-Pionists Build Up
TOT tremendous CIirnox

/. For Mr.. Schoenberg, the piece
lis quite approachable. In some
of the later variations, a sort of
grinding tumult is generated, and
despite the unrelieved violence
Iof the dissonant patterns. the
work leaves one with the feeling
lof towering grandeur and frenzy
Mr.. Dougherty's version is skill
full and idiomatic, making full
use Of the black-and-white con-
Itrasts Of the two-piano combi-
nation. Because of its extremely
taxing nature, it is doubtful that
other duo-pianistS will hasten to
include it in their repertoires,
but it is nevertheless well worth
hearing.
In the light of the Dougherty-
IRuzicka distinction in projecting
these unusually complex modern
works. their comparative failure
with Schubert and Mozart was
quite surprising. There can be
no denying the fact that they
are a team of superlative skill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03

thews of the u. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
Both Nupen and Mrs. Melvin
Immediately appealed. Mrs. Mel
vim was released under $1,000
bond, pending outcome of hel
appeal. Nupen. however. was de-
MED appeal bail both by Judge
Matthews and by the u. S. Court
of Appeals for the District Of
Columbia.
The defendants were convicted
last month by a jury. Mrs. Mel.
win is the daughter of Mrs. Ruth
C. Shepp. 1902 Good Hope road
Sc, on whose home the loan
was obtained by Nupen. Mrs
Shepp testified last month she
had no knowledge of the loan
until notified by a building ano
loan association that a $50 pay.
ment on the loan was overdue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
NEWS OF MUSIC.
By IRVING LowENs

CeIius Dougherty. vincenz Ruzicka,
duo-pianists At Library of Congress.
Program: Fantasy in F minor, Opus
1913. Schubert: Sonata III c, X SCI.
Mozart: Variations on a Recitative,
Opus 40 tfirst American performance.
Schoenberg- DouRherty. Concerto for
Two Solo Pianos. StravinSky.
Last nights Library of Con-
gress recital by duo-pianists
Celius Dougherty and Vincenz
Ruzicka gained in excitement al
it progressed, reaching a climax
with a tremendous performance
of, Igor Stravinsky's fiendishly
difficult but uncommonly Vita
concerto for two solo pianos.
The Stravinsky concerto &C.
cupied the entire second half OF
the program, oyershadowing the
first American performance OF
Mr.. Dougherty's two-piano ar
rangement of Schoenberg's va
riations on a Recitative, COM
posed on commission in 1910 for
the American organist, Carl
Weinrich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
Syrian Group Dunce

Three Washington affiliates O
the Syrian Lebanese American
Federation Of Eastern States
the Syrian-American Club. tn,
Arabic Club and the Syrian
iLebanese American Club - will
sponsor a dance at 8 O'Clock to-
night in the American Legion
Hall, Third and E streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03

the Royal Thai Embassy. 1900
Kalorama I'd. NV. The meet
ing is beign sponsored by the
Washington Friends Of Buddh-
ism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
Lecture on Buddhism

Mrs. Olga Logofet. lecturer Of
the Theosophical Society of Bos-
ton and Washington, will speak
on Buddhism as a Road to
Peace" at 4 pm. tomorrow in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
Chuuffeurs to Dance

The Private Chauffeurs' Benev-
client Association will hold its
29th anniversary ball tonight in
the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1956-11-25
SUNDAY

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Hospital, Seottle, Wosh. This
unusuoI chiIdren's hospitol feo-
tures ooy muroIs pointed on the
wolIs ond Peter Robbit room.
4:45
9-Pro Football SeoFeboaFd.
Dan Daniels.
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"Whot Determines the ReoI
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7-Bishop Sheen.
A new series featuring dromotic
norrotives obout world-fomous
and Iittle-known personalities.
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A rebroodcost of the deeply NOV
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dromo on nentol illness. The
medical narrator is Or. Willior
c. Menninoer.
$50
4-copt. GoIIont. Adventure.
THE Third Person." GoIIont
goes to the did of O French
octress who is being held for
lorqe ronsom.
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