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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-05
VIRGINIA
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

RICHMOND. - One of the
strangest phenomena at the
General Assembly is the
apathy Of Virginians toward a
tax program that would hit
their pocketbooks three times
within about five months.
In addition to the Federal
income tax due April Is. 1857.
the State would collect its
taxes on income for two full
years on December S. 1856 and
again on May /, 1857.
The Legislature seemed to be
assembling some sort Of de-
layed-action device of self-de-
struction.
Said Delegate Robert White
head of Nelson County, dur
ing House debate last week:
IF this bill isn't enough to
defeat at least rs members of
this body next year, then it's
less potent than I think 1t is"
Delegate Sam Pope Of
southampton said that moving
next years payment date UP
from December 5 to May !
amounts to a tax increase.
Revenge at Polls?
II want to warn everyone of
you" Mr.. Pope said, that
you're going to be held &C
countable at the polls"
The characterization plan
was recommended by Gov.
Stanley as a means of getting
most of the money he wants
for a SCI million capital i'm
provements program over the
next two fiscal years. By adj
vancing the 1857 tax date, two
payments would fall within the
same fiscal year. thus providing
a one-shot windfall.
1t is estimated that an extra
S49.5 million would be produced
by this method which also in
wolves repeal Of the Byrd auto
matte tax credit act and adj
vancing the payment date for
public service corporations
from october /, 1857 to June
!, 1857.
Mr.. Whitehead contends the
administration has under-esti-
mated its revenues for the next
two fiscal years by about $40
million. Consequently, he
argued, the speed-up Of in
dividual tax payments is un-
necessary.
AS originally introduced, the
administration bill would have
advanced next years tax pay
ment from December 5 to
April Is.
The House adopted an
amendment by Norfolk Dele
gate John r. Rixey to make the
date May /. The deadline for
Federal tax payments is
April Is.
Delegate Charles K. Hutch
ins of Newport News said the
acceleration plan creates nc
hardship for anyone"
One Of the chief criticisms
Of the present December S pay
ment date. Mr.. Hutchens said
is that 1t hits the pocketbook,
during the Christmas season.
II the Governors program
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MARYLAND
Mayor Seen
lnDeuI With
Mohoney
By GENE GOODWIN
Star Stan Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS. - What was
behind Thomas D'Alesandro's
withdrawal from the race for
the Democratic nomination to
the United States Senate?
He had never made his can
didacy formal. but just before
Christmas the peppery little
Mayor of Baltimore had con-
WINGED a lot of politicians that
he was going to run for the
nomination against George r.
Mahoney.
He told me, for example.
that he definitely planned to
file about January 20 after a
holiday in Florida. He had
made similar statements to
other newsmen.
But January 20 came and
went and George p. Mahoney
still stood alone as the only
major candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination.
Last week, Mayor D'Alesar-
dro found an excuse for pulling
out. 1t was the transit strike.
This is no time for me to
be thinking in terms of party
politics." he said in his with
drawaf statement.
His action stunned Mr.. Ma
honey's foes, who include some
of the biggest names in the
party in Maryland, They were
left without a candidate Many
Of them had never been too
keen about Mayor D'Alesan-
dro's candidacy. but they had
climbed on his bandwagon be-
cause 1t seemed to be the only
one capable of knocking of
Mr.. Mahoney.
Now these anti Mahoney
politicians are wondering just
how much Mr.. Mahoney had
to do with Mayor D'Alesan-
dro's change Of heart.
Early last fall. when jockey
ing for position in the sena-
torial campaign was just get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-05
Giont Battle Centers
On 3-Cent Nail by Air

airlines. They claim they are
losing from So million to 90
million a year because of the
Scent airlift."
The loss results primarily
from non-use of certain rail-
way post Offices which the rail-
roads are required by law to
supply and maintain. These
cars are ordered run by the
Post Office Department accord
ing to need, and the railroads
are paid by the Government on
the basis of so much per car
per mile operated. Admitted
~, the claimed loss is not a big
percentage of the annual $40,-
million-plus paid to the rail-
roads for handling first-class
mail. But the railroads point
out that the loss Is not evenly
spread over the industry; it
applies mainly to about half q
dozen lines and is serious to
them.
The airlines, also quite nat
urally, are nodding approval
of the obvious good sense of
the Post Office Department in
trying to speed and improve its
service to the public. Incl
dentally. the airlines are paid
by the Government for flying
mail according to weight. They
get about 40 cents per ton mile
fcg regular mail and between
Is and 20 cents for the ''exper-
mental" first-claSs mail.
There is little, if any. total
cost difference to Uncle Sam
in experimenting with the s.
cent airlift.
Roilroods Go to Low
The immediate upshot of the
squabble is a lawsuit referred
to as the Santa Fe case"
The Santa = Fe, Southern
Pacific. Union Pacific, Great
Northern and Northern Pacific
Railroads are seeking to en-
join the Postmaster General
Arthur, E. Summerfield, from
continuing his experiments"
with the Scent airlift. The
Federal District Court went
along with the railroads and
said the Post Office Depart
ment has no authority to carry
out prolonged" programs Of
this sort. The United States
Court of Appeals reversed that
decision in December, inter-
preting the law In favor of Mr..
Summerfield's programs. The
whole thing has now been
pitched into the lap of the
Supreme Court which has not
yet indicated If 1t will review
the case.
Meanwhile, the Post Office,
on the basis of the appeals
courts decision, considers that
it has full legal authority" to
operate the Scent airlift and
is even considering expanding
1t. The department has not.
however. indicated that 1t
would request authority to
make the programs permanent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-05
By HECTOR MCLEAN

Close observers of the WASH
ington transit snafu are won
dering II they haven't detected
overtones Of Maryland poll
tics in the air.
This arises from speculation
about the motives Of former
United States Senator Willard
e. Tydings, Democrat Of Mary
land, In his persistent espousal
Of a rejected plan to take over
the city's transit system.
Mr.. Tydings, representing
a group of substantial Balti-
more investors, started out as
the hottest of six applicants
for the dying Capital Transit
franchise.
As such, he was the only
one to make a case good
enough to satisfy the District
Public Utilities Commission
that 1t was worth considering
at a public hearing.
As the hearing opened, how
ever, he Withdrew. He said
this was necessary because his
hackers could not get a signed
and-sealed assurance of future
labor costs from the union OF
Capital Transit Co. workers.
Mr.. Tydings wanted a two
year extension of tire unions
labor contract with Capital
Transit, which will die with the
company on August IA. He
pointed out that, under the
contract, the union is due for
one more wage rate increase,
and said his hackers would as
sumo the contract at that level
and carry 1t on.
Only Two Contocts
1t turned out. however, that
his group had made only two
contacts with the union.
The first contact, according
to union spokesman. was
merely a get-acquainted visit
from the potential president Of
the Tydings company. They
said the other session, the only
one at which the labor contract
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-05
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK

Do you think you know what
"air man" is?
II so, you can perform an
Invaluable service by sharing
your information with a lot
Of influential folks who are
diligently seeking an answer
to Just this question.
Included are such interested
parties as the United States
Postmaster General, officials
of American railroads, most OF
the Nations major airlines,
the Federal District Court
here, the United States Court
of Appeals, members of the
Senate and House Post Office
Committees, and perhaps even
the august gentlemen of the
United States Supreme Court.
For all of these institutions
have, to greater or lesser de-
gree, become involved in a
grade-A rhubarb over the au-
thority Of the Post ONCE De-
partment to send regular
flrst-class Scent mail by air.
The railroads say this pro-
cedure is illegal. According
to them the law allows only
"airmail" to go by air and "air-
mail" means only such matter
as the sender is willing to
stamp at the going air rate OF
6 cents an ounce. To give
wings to the garden variety
3-cent letter is not only un-
fair to the railroads, it is
statutorily taboo-so charge
the champions of the iron
horse.
The Post Office Department.
however, says that about any
thing it wants to ship on a plane
is permissible "air mail" and
that so long as all Scent mail
goes by air and receives priority
handling it makes no difference
If some surface" mail also
goes that way on a catch-as-
catch-can basis.
Hefty Air Lift
Regardless of LOCALITIES. the
Post Office has been and is
shipping quite a lot of 3-cent
mail by air: and the airlines
are finding room (thus far) for
all it wants to send. Just this
week a House appropriations
subcommittee disclosed testi-
mony by Assistant Postmaster
General Siedle that 81 900 tons
of regular Scent mail are now
going by air each year. This
is about 10 per cent of all nom
local first-class surface mail,
and it results from a number
of experimental programs" in
augurated by the Post Office
Department in September,
1858. and continuing to date.
Quite naturally the railroads
are objecting with vigor. par
ticularly the Western roads
which feel most keenly the
pinch Of competition with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-05

The Heeht Go.
Silver Spring, Nd.
MA. $500
Lonsbursh's
Lonoley Park, Nd.
MA. $4,000
oInsy Electric
OIney, Nd.
WI. 6-66o6
Oliver Redie b Appl. Co.
Inc.
7oo8 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, Nd.
oliver 4-2l60
Ralph Graves Auto Store
1851 Old Blodensburo Rd.
Silver Spring, Nd.
10. 4-o452
Suburben Kitchens
57l6 Boltimors Ave.
Hyottsvllls, Nd.
UN. 4-3352
| Weshinston ~ B AppI.
| 9425 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, Nd.
! Juniper 9-0282
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Nehru Due Dec. Is
For 4-Doy Visit

Prime Minister Nehru of India
plans to come to Washington on
December Is for a four-day visit
with President Eisenhower, the
White House announced today.
After his visit with the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Nehru will go to New
York on December 20 and later
will visit Canada.
White House press secretary
James c. Hagerty said details Of
the visit have not been worked
out yet. The President and Mr..
Nehru probably will confer in.
formally at some place outside
Washington.
Mr.. Nehru oriRionally had
planned to come here last July
but that visit was postponed be.
cause Of Mr.. Eisenhower's ileitis
operation.
The White House announce
ment today said:
THE President Of the United
States has renewed his invita-
ton to the Prime Minister Of
India to pay visit to the United
States and the Prime Minister
has accepted. He proposes 10
reach Washington on the 18th
of December and will proceed TO
New York on the 10Th"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
u. S. WORKERS DUE
TO GET CHRISTMAS
FOUR-DAY HOLIDAY

Uncle Sans employees here
probably will have four days
OF for Christmas.
The holiday falls on a
Tuesday and Federal work.
ers are practically assured Of
being of from Friday night
to Wednesday morning.
Chairman Philip Young Of
the Civil Service Commission
says the long holiday is vir-
tually decided. although II
isn't formally agreed on yet.
Chances are strong that
Government employees would
not have to make up the
Monday Of Christmas eve.
That would normally be a
working day.
Mr.. YOUNG said II Is still
uncertain whether another
Saturday through Tuesday
holiday viii be granted for
the New Year week end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Rudolph Haley, 43, Dies;
Crime Probe Counsel

Rudolph HALEY. 43. attorney
who became nationally known
as counsel for the Kefauver
Crime Investigating Committee.
died today in Mount Sinai Hos
pital in New York.
He had been at the hospital
since October is, under treat
ment for pancreatic pseudo
cysts, an acute inflammation Of
the pancreas.
After service with the Senate
Crime Investigating Committee
under the Craftsmanship Of SEN
ator Kefauver. Democrat Of
Tennessee. in l950-51, Mr.. Hal
ley was elected TO a term as
President Of the New York City
Counsel.
At the age Of 81. Mr.. Haley
yaulted from relative obscurity
TO one Of the best known figures
in America. The reason was that
television Of the Kefauver COM
mittee hearings became a must"
in pre- stically every living room.
and Mr.. Haley was one Of the
shows stars.
Looking almost owlish behind
his thick. horn-Timmed glasses,
the eyen-spoken committee coun-
sci won the respect Of millions Of
Americans for his tenaciousness,
Examining some Of the eoun-
try's top racketeers. including
such a. Frank Costello and Frank
Erickson. Mr.. HALEY proceeded
quietly. But he could be tough
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19

store. is q violation Of Virginia
law.
Capt. Baber said the tea par
ties have been held for several
weeks in the Magnolia Room. Al
though some of the customers
last night protested it was a
private affair for tenants, at least
half Of them lived elsewhere, he
said.
Last nights raiding force of
six uniformed policemen and
two plainclothesmen linked UP
with the two ABC investigators
inside and:
Charged Herbert N. Rapson.
3S. Of the $500 block Of Damas-
Gus street, North Springfield,
identified as the manager OF both
the Magnolia Room and the
apartment restaurant, with aid
ing and abetting the sale OF
whisky. allowing dancing in a
place where alcoholic beverages
were sold and obstructing an Of
ficer.
Charged three other persons
with aiding and abetting the
whisky sale. They are Louella
M. Gallyer. ~. a waitress. Of the
200 block Of Belleview boulevard.
Alexandria: Richard H. siegfried
81. a Hunting Towers bartender
and resident. and Bernard
Baruch Story Of the 400 block
Of Seventh street S.W.
Charged Joseph P. Fee, IS. OF
the $500 block Of Farragut street.
Hyattsyille. with selling whisky
without a license" The charge
involves q nice point. the police
men conceded. since what Mr.
Fee actually sold TO the Gus
toners was the chips
Mr.. Rapson vas released on
81 900 bond and the others on
$500 bond each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Fowl in Zurich;
rip Complicated

ZURICH. Switzerland, Nov. 10
CP.-Egypt's Foreign Minister
Mahmoud Fawzi and his staff
made it as far as Zurich last
night on a complicated, round
about journey to New York.
They still nave no idea when
they will reach their destination.
Mr.. Fawzi and his aides trav-
eled from Cairo to Rome yester-
day with U. N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold, also bound
for U. N. headquarters in New
York.
But Mr.. Fawzi changed planes
because all Rome New York
flights we're stopping in Paris.
He said he feared the French
government would arrest him.
The Fawzi party flew to Switz-
lerland only to find they could
catch no fight TO New York last
night and that all today's planes
put down in Paris.
So today they fly TO Amster-
dam. But it's not known when
they can start from there to New
York or whether they can get a
flight that doesn't touch British
territory.
Mr.. Fawzi doesn't want to see
any part Of Britain either.
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Egyptians had modified their de-
mand for speedy withdrawal OF
all foreign troops and station
ing Of the U. N. forces only al
points on the old l94S armistice
line between Egypt and Israel
Comdr. Sabry said Egypt expect:
the withdrawal to begin during
the coming week if possible
without waiting for the U. N
troops to take over.
One of the British French
conditions in agreeing to the
cease-flre was that the u. N.
police force should be competent
to secure and supervise" re-
opening of the canal. They have
made clear they expect the U. N.
troops to take over occupation
of the canal when they pull their
own forces out. The British and
French hold the northern third
of the waterway.
Europe Feeling Sting
The blocking of the 103-mile
artery linking the Red Sea and
the Mediterranean already has
begun to hurt Western Europe,
which got much of its oil through
the Suez before fighting broke
out. Forty-seven ships were sunk
in the canal before British and
French paratroopers landed there
November s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Crime Experts to Direct
District Parole Study
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

A group of judges and proba-
ton officials, aided by a Senate
counsel. will oversee the Com
missioners' big investigation to
determine whether the answer
to the city'S overcrowded prison
facilities is more prisons or more
probation and parole, it was
learned today.
The Commissioners, according
to a letter from Commissioner
David B. Karrlck to the potential
committee members, have de-
cided to put their investigation
into the hands of the authorities
directly concerned with the
problem.
c. Aubrey Gasque, counsel Of
the Senate Judiciary Subc0r1-
mittee on Improvements in the
Federal Criminal Code, has been
made available by Chairman
Eastland of the full committee
and Chairman Daniel Of the sub
committee to direct and CO.
ordinate the fact-gathering ac-
Invites of the various agencies
participating in the study.
Other officials Invited
Invited to serve on the COM
mittee Ito oversee and exercise
policy direction in the conduct
of this important study" are:
Chief Judge Bolitha j. Laws
of District Court; Chief Judge
Leonard P. Walsh of Municipal
Court; Juvenile Court Judge
Edith H. Cockrill; Col. Camp
bell c. Johnson, chairman of
the District Board of Parole;
Edward w. Garrett. chief pro-
baton officer of District Court;
Irving Cooper. probation direc-
tor of Municipal Court; Donald
Clemmer, director of the Dis
itrict Department of Corrections,
and John j. Larkin, Juvenile
Court director of social work.
Commissioner Karrick, who
has done the preliminary or
ganizing for the commissioners,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Alexandra Tea Porty
Ends as Police Pour In

Because the china tinkled sus-
piciously like glass, an over.
sized Alexandria tea party was
brought to sudden halt by po-
lice last night.
The raised-pinkie affair was
bubbling merTily in the Mag
nolia Room Of the fashionable
Hunting Towers Apartment
when the officers declared the
whole thing illegal.
They said the drinks con-
tanned whisky. not tea. despite
what ITO party goers may have
thought.
Everyone in the place had a
ticket printed with the words,
Hunting Towers Tenants Tea
Party" police said. But two OF
the ticket holders turned out
to be State Alcoholic Beverage
Control investigators.
The admission tickets. which
cost 81 each. we're only the first
step in the tea party's special
protocol. Once inside the Mag
nolia Room. patrons were offered
chips for sale.
Each chip cost 81 and was
good for three drinks at the bar,
police said. To get past the door,
each arrival had to buy two
chips.
The drinks available at the
bar included almost everything
except tea, according to Police
Capt. James Baber. He said most
Of the partygoers accepted cock
tails without any show Of dis
appointment.
/ Adding TO the Eaiety was 4
four piece orchestra. which
played for dancing. Dancing in
place where alcoholic bever-
ages are sold ls contrary 10 Alex
andria law And Just plain SELL
ing Of whisky. except 10 q State
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will represent the Commits
sioners on the committee.
In his letter of invitation to
the committee members. Com
missioner Karrick recalled that
the Commissioners approved the
investigation after being urged
to undertake it by the Wash
ington Criminal Justice Asso-
citation.
Effective System Sought
Commissioner Karrick said
the Commissioners want to find
out whether it is inevitable
that we make a huge capital
outlay to build an additional
penal facility, or as practical
alternative, whether this can
be averted or even postponed
for some years by expanding
existing probation and parole
facilities and by somewhat al
tering current policies govern
ing probation and parole for
certain categories Of offenders. I"
In this connection, and quite
apart from the financial aspects
of the problem" he went on. I'VE
are anxious to determine
whether certain groups of Of
tenders might not be more effec-
lively corrected and rehabilitated
by some methods other than i'm
Iprisonment and. therefore. more
readily returned to productive
self-respect in the community.
Foremost in mind are such
categories Of offenders as nom
support. intoxication, traffic vio-
lation and perhaps some other
carefully selected types Of cases. "
Advice to Be Sought
He said the Commissioners
have agreed that a committee OF
officials directly concerned and
widely experienced would in
sure a hard factual report Of the
manifold problems involved and
also substantial and practical
Continued on Page AS, Col. z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Rail Freight
To Ports Halls
Embargo Is Ordered
In Dockers' Strike

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (P).-All
movement of non-military rail
freight to East Coast and Gulf
ports was halted today as no
signs of break appeared in the
four-day longshoremen's strike
which has tied up shipping from
Maine to Texas.
The Association of American
Railroads in Washington ordered
the embargo at the request of the
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to prevent a snowballing
accumulation of overseas and
IcoastWise freight at the idle ports
About 700 carloads day nor
mally pour into New York alone.
West Coast Activity Cut
Meanwhile, West Coast water
front activity dwindled to about
% per cent of normal today as
cargo operations alongside about
100 ships were halted by long
shoremen Stop-work meetings.
The move by Harry BridgesV
international Longshoremen' s
and Warehousemen's Union
kept stevedore gangs off the Job
except where military or perish
able cargos were involved. Only
% work crews were dispatched
to San Francisco by the ILWU
this morning, compared to a
normal Monday of about 100.
The ILWU called a 24-hour
work stoppage obStensibly to
consider its own contract talks
with the Pacific Maritime Asso-
citation. nWU spokesman did not
deny. however. that the East and
Gulf Coast strike figured in their
plans for the 24-hour strike.
New Talks Slated
The West Coast union has
already staged a sympathy
tie-up Of 10 ships in San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Coos Bay,
Greg. and Bellingham, Wash.
The union refused to work ships
arriving from or leaving for At
lantic and Gulf ports involved
in the lila shutdown.
Picketing was resumed along
New York's piers as union and
management negotiators pre-
pared to return to the conference
table. They did not meet yes
terday. an idle day in most ports
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Wet Nam Typhoon
Ruins $1,000 Homes

PARIS. Nov. 10 PA Wy
phoon which hit South Wet Nam
last week was reported today 10
have destroyed $4,000 homes and
left 20 or more persons dead or
missing.
The French News Agency,
quoting a report from the Wet
Nsmese Red Cross. said the ty-
phoon was a true national ca
tastrophe" which left hundreds
Of thousands Of people home
less
The hardest hit area vas i25
miles southwest Of Saigon. where
10000 homes and 80 per cent Of
the crops we're said 70 have been
destroyed. Another $4,000
homes and 50 per cent Of the
crops we're reported destroyed IN
an area IS miles southwest Of
Saigon.