davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Omaha guide., 1956-11-09
A PLeo To Be Needed

IF interested IN survival State whose potential for
development scarcely been tapped must discard the short
sighted which has engaged virtual civil water
which vital the development Of all parts Of the State
fortnight declaration made before meeting of the agrcu
California State Chamber Of Commerce. by
State Kbwood with which every civic
minded Californian lives and works heartily
North SOUTH and west the problem Of water with
solved by all sections working together for the
mon good There is no other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Association
of Home Builders winds up
its spring directors meet
ing in the Mayflower Hotel.
The National League Of
District Postmasters con-
cludes its Tri-State Conven-
ton in the Hotel Washing
ton.
The National Conference
on Weights and Measures
continues in the Willard
Hotel.
The American Gynecolo-
gical Society concludes a
two-day session in the
Shoreham Hotel.
The Equitable Life AS
surance Society of the
United States winds up its
meeting in the Hotel Statler
The National Association
Of Retired Civil Employees
continues in the Raleigh
Hotel.
The Civil Air Patrol goes
into its second day of meet
ings in the Hotel Statler.
THE National Accounting
and Finance Council of the
American Trucking Associa-
ton continues sessions in
the Hotel Statler.
The Amaleamated Cloth
ing Workers Of America
meet in the Sheraton-Park
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Inventor of Mail Meter
.Aqrees to Settle Tax Bill

A Washingtonian, inventor of
automatic mail metering equip
ment, has agreed to settle his
$67,10 Federal tax bill for $45,-
1913, plus accured interest. the
Internal Revenue Services said
today.
He is Walter H. Bowes. 1858
p street NV. who receives a
$4,000 annual pension from
Pitney-Bowes Inc, New York
City, which manufactures the
equipment, officials said.
John Potts Barnes. chief coun-
sci. IRIS, who approved the set
tlement, said its terms involve
paying installments $4.l60 an
nually, with an option to pay
cash of $28,37l at any time in
lieu of the remaining INSTALL
ment payments. The S45. 1873
income tax deficiencies of S27.-
692 and penalties totaling ST.
435-arises from alleged failure
to pay proper Federal taxes in
the calendar years l945-1950,
officials said.
Mr.. Bowes retired during the
early 1940s from the corpora
ton, which then agreed to pay
him $4,000 annually If he did
not engage in any comparable
business. But this contract
ended November. 1850. and in
January. 1861. the corporation
agreed to continue the pension,
If he met certain conditions.
Now, IRIS pointed out, this
pension is purely voluntary on
the part Of the corporation. 1t
will be suspended "if any acts
of his are inimical to the corpor-
atoms best interests. the latter
Including any telephone or tele-
graphic communications with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Elections Board
Is Commended by
Commissioners

The District Commissioners
today presented the Board Of
Elections with certificates Of
commentator for its work In
the primary elections.
Singled out also for praise ano
a certificate was Sturgis Warner
adviser to the board. The board
members are Newell w. Ellison
chairman; Arnold Levy and West
A. Hamilton.
Commissioner Robert f. Nc
Laughlin lauded the four men
for carrying out their jot
splendidly at great personal sac
rifice. 1t is the best example OF
public service / have seen since
/ have been in District govern
ment," he said.
The board meanwhile is still
tabulating registrations and votes
on precinct-by-precinct basis
The members also are studying
procedures with a view 10 i'm
provement By the time the next
primary rolls around.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

any officers or employees of the
business regarding funds"
Mr.. Bowes is in poor health
and indications are he has "a
negligible net worth" IRIS said
1t declared his only source of in
come is the corporation pension
So it is considered unlikely that
he will be able to take advantage
OF the cash payment terms of the
settlement and wipe the slate
clean, officials said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
CLEANING UP FOR CURTAIN TIME
Hundreds Of BurqIories
Charged to Robin Hood

A New World robin Hood"
and one of his merry men idled
in District Jail today while a
whole posse to Sheriffs itemized
hundreds of burglarjes charged
to them during the past couple
Iof years in Washington and
nearby areas.
The total loot of the pair
Joseph Franklin (Robin Hood
Wright, IS, of the 600 block of
i street S.W., and Bernard Cole
man little john White, 81, OF
Fredericksburg, Va.-will reach
into the tens of thousands of
dollars. police said.
Capt. Joseph Shimon said the
two have admitted IS house.
breakings in the District alone.
involving loot which may total
$50, 900.
"Stumble-Bum Operators"
Capt. Shimon called them
stumble bum type operator"
who picked up anything and
everything on random occasions.
They operated only IN expensive
homes and got their nicknames
of the famed storybook char
acters because they gave much of
the loot to friends.
They were known to steal a
rug from one home but ignore
the pad, and then pick up a pad
from another home. Capt. Shimon
said. On another foray they
would only raid refrigerator
for all available delicacies, he
added.
Loot from Chester, Pa, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, Arlington
and even farmhouse at Boones-
boro. Md, has been recovered.
Scores of HOusebreakings
Also charged to Wright and
White:
Montgomery County-48 rob-
berry cases in Silver Spring, AZ
in Bethesda and one in Rock
vile, estimated loot, $4,000.
About $1,000 worth of loot has
been recovered.
Prince Georges County-58
houSebreakings which Wright
said "only scratched the sur
face" Victimized communities
included chillum, Hyattsville.
Mount Rainier. Woodlawn, Belts
vile, Parkway Estates, Forest
Heights, Southlawn, Oxon Hill,
Fort Foote and District Heights.
Arlington-About Is cases al
ready charged to Wright. in
volving about $4,000. Today
he will take a ride with detec-
tives to point out other VIC
timized homes.
Fairfax-20 or 80 cases rang
ing from Great Falls to the
Arlington County line.
Detective Capt. Thomas Woods
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
d.. {. Hospitals
etFord Funds
Foundation Reveals
I'd Phose Of Program

District hospitals will receive
grants totaling $185, 450 from the
Ford Foundation, which an
Inounced a second group of bene-
Ificiaries today. In addition, other
hospitals in this section of the
country will receive grants.
This is a part of program
under which 1000 hospitals ma
ltionally will receive $31,072,1 5C
Through current gifts. This is
the second phase of the Ford
Foundations million pro-
gram to help hospitals improve
and expand their services to To-
cal communities. The individual
hospital will determine how best
the funds can be used. officials
said.
Washington hospitals in to-
days group are:
Columbia Hospital for Women
SAT, ZOO; Hahnemann Hospital
l$l0,450; Providence Hospital
SGT, $50; Washington Sanitarium
and Hospital. operated by the
Seventh Day Adventists, $59,350
Maryland hospitals: Anne
Arundel General Hospital, Ann.
Iapolis. $26,450; Montgomer
County General Hospital, Olney
$4,000; Leland Memorial Hos
Ipital, Riverdale. $12,350.
Virginia: Mary Washington
Hospital. Fredericksburg, $31, $50
Ford Foundation officials sale
today that by the end of JULY
all of the approximately $500
participating hospitals will have
received payments. These rep.
resent one-half of the individual
grant and the other half will bt
paid next March. Grants range
from $4,000 to $250.000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

our staffs," Mr.. Kelly said.
Park police formerly used a
system whereby juvenile offend
ers were screened before they
were sent to court. An order
by Chief Stewart April 81, how
ever, did away with the screen
ing system.
Under the new order all juve-
niles were referred to Juvenile
Court regardless of the nature
of the offense. The order came
about, Chief Stewart said. be-
cause Of a furry of publicity
growing out of a melee at Fort
Dupont last month.
One day after the new order
went into effect, Park Police
made mass arrests of Juvenile,
at the Strate's carnival al
Oklahoma avenue and BenninE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

Of the Alexandria police force
said he plans to question Wright
and White on five recent house
breakings in the Beverley Hills
area of Alexandria.
Arlington police said Whites
downfall came when he made
the mistake of burglarizing the
home of an FBI agent, and leav-
ing a glove there. White is ac-
cused of taking about $500 worth
of articles from the place. In
April he was arrested in Fred
ericksburg, pleaded guilty anc
was given a one-year suspended
sentence.
At least four other persons
including a girl who helped dis
pose of the loot, are being sought
to complete the roundup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Park Police to Overhaul
Juvenile Cases HondIino

Park Police methods of ham
ding juvenile offenders will UNI
dergo complete revision as a
result of a meeting today among
Edward j. Kelly, superintendent
of National Capital Parks, Park
Police Chief Harold F.. Stewart
and Juvenile Court Judge Edith
H. Cockrill.
The meeting was scheduled to
iron out procedural difficulties
encountered last Friday when A
Juveniles, charged with disorder
lily conduct, swamped Juvenile
Court.
Mr.. Kelly said he hopes soon
to confer with Inspector John
E. Winters. head Of the Youth
Aid Division Of the Metropolitan
police. I'VE hope to be able to
arrange cooperation between
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

road NE. About two-thirds OF
the youths who were brought to
court were dismissed by Judge
Cockrill because, she said, police
presented insufficient evidence To
hold the juveniles.
Mr.. Kelly pointed out that the
Park Police have too few person
mel assigned to youth work to
approximate the results achieved
by the year-old Youth Aid Divi-
sion headed by Inspector Winters
He said the mechanical opera
tions Of the Reconstructed screen
Ing system have been worked out
and that no new personnel will
be hired TO implement the
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

an AGVA official said about the
Manhattan showing.
} Picketing Here Forecast
Mr.. Burke said the two unions
pickets have not hurt attendance
to any appreciate degree. The
unions say the picketing, sure
to be continued here, has hurt
attendance very much.
The AGVA, according to Mr.
Burke, claims it represented more
than half of the 278 performers
Ringing management says the
, union had no more than 25 card.
carriers at the outside.
Emmett Kelly, probably the
best-known clown in history, lee
a walkout before the New YorE
opener that included the No.
J and No. 3 clowns, Otto Grieblina
and Felix Adler. They are still
away.
Mr.. Burke says the unior
pickets hurt attendance to some
degree. But he said the show
is going to do better for the
stockholders this year than ir
1855. considered the best veal
, of all for Ringing.
1.-TWO weeks ago, the Clyd,
Beatty Show, which was the onl,
, Other circus travelling by rail
: road. went broke" he said. II
went back 10 the barn"
Mr.. Burke said he could no
discuss salaries of entertainer
!. because Of circus tradition. Il
is an established fact that per
formers conceal their incomes s.
they can negotiate better will
future employers
He did say the non-perform
ing workers were getting NOR,
: money this year than before.
With North in OSS
: Mr.. Burke, former All-Amer
5 lea football player and sport
writer, won the Silver Star anC
Navy Cross for his World War /
exploits with the Office of Stra
, tegic Services. He met his boss
John Ringing North. when the,
worked for the OSS in Italy.
Later Mr.. Burke was hired a
} special adviser to Germany
| United States Commissioner -
after a stretch as contract anC
free-lance writer for the movie,
+ and radio.
Yesterday he said he wanted
to emphasize that the circus has
a new admission price formula
Last year the circus charged
! SITS for children. Later, as
it continued its route, the price
! went down.
When the tent show arrive.
on Thursday. the admission fol-
children at all performances will
be 81, and adults who have chill.
: dren with them will pay thu
children's price. providing thu
] grownupS sit in the so-calleC
special reserved seats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Deny Plea to End Run

RICHMOND. May % (P.-
The State Corporation Commits
sion yesterday denied the Chesa-
peake g. Ohio Railway permits
sion to discontinue existing ex-
lcursion service between Rich
mond and Buckroe Beach for
the 1856 summer season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Reese Budget Calls
For No Tax Boost
Lobor-T roubIed Big Top
Won't Fold, Chief Says
BY RICHARD RODGERS

When RlngllngS Dig top ar
arrives here on Thursday, the
storied tent show will be saddled
with labor troubles and persist
ent rumors that the Greatest
Show on Earth cannot last
through the summer.
The source of the rumors has
not been uncovered.
John Ringing North owns
Ringing Brothers g. Barnum
81 Bailey Circus But a Wash
ington man says, Il run the
circus"
He is Michael Burke, 38, of
1889 Twenty-ninth street NV.
Since one year ago March he
has been executive director of
the circus. He has been an Old
Georgetown homeowner only a
little over a year.
Mr.. Burke holds to rosy claims
for the shows future. He says
this will be its fourth best year
Last year was tops, two boom
World War II years are in Sec
Iond and third places. and, ac-
Icording to him, this is going to
be next best.
There is disagreement about it
The Ringing show is arguig
with two labor unions. One is
the American Guild of Variety
Artists, the other the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters
Disputed by Two
Yesterday spokesman for both
crafts took issue with Mr.
Burke's predictions that the
Ringing extravaganza is going
to set any sort of profit record
at all this year.
Samuel (Rube) jacobson, the
AGVA's Baltimore Washington
branch manager, said his union s
agents were sure the circus is
hurting.
But we don't say it is going
to fold" he added, land we don't
want it to. There would be nc
sense in us having it go out OF
business.
Harold j. Gibbons. speaking
for the teamsters' union here
said his union is not at all Salts
fed with the shows operation
Mr.. Gibbons denied, however
that the teamsters ever predict
ed the last remaining circus or
railroad tracks would be unable
I to finish the season.
7 Mr.. Gibbons even praised Mr.
Burke.
Hes frightened up" the unior
man said. Hes been a rea
asset to the circus"
Last Years RumOrs
/ Mr.. Burke says he does moi
want to boast but wants it known
/ he is responsible for cutting
costs and instituting up-to-datt
business Office methods he say:
were long overdue.
! In the trade the talk goes or
that Ringing is going to have
to shut down soon.
1T was the same last year,
said Mr.. Burke. 81 don't know
where the rumors start. l car
tell you this. We amt going u
quit. This looks like the fourth
best year so far. And as far al
profits are concerned, l think
this year is going to be better
than last year."
I He said the stay in Madison
Square Garden in New York was
surprisingly good, considering
the picket lines by AGVA anc
the teamSters.
And in Boston the net take
was up 9 per cent over 1855,
he said.
Spokesman for the teamsters
and performers say their agents
in those two cities tell a differ
ent story.
Some nights the show hac
1000 in a house seating $4,000,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Rambling

Sign in an E street show
window: Wanted: Men With
Drivers Permits to Hang
Awnings"
One man to another at Sew
enth and F streets NV: THE
first day on the job, l worked
four hours and took four hours
of. l haven't been back since.
The job was too tough for
me"
Mrs. Fred Alvey says her
parakeet, Peaches, has been
laying eggs continuously since
August, 1854, and the total so
far is 1913. Mrs. Alvey thinks
that's something of a record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
The
Rambler
Some Emotional
Spots in Traffic
By JACK JONAS

Two things that seem some
how related, although they are
miles apart, were in the news
a few days back.
One concerned the opening,
come Friday, of a bridge con-
Meeting the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania turnpikes. This
will make it possible for a mo-
torist to go all the way from
New York to the Ohio Indiana
border without hitting a traf-
fic light or grade level inter-
section.
The other was a proposal to
set up a psychiatric clinic for
Washington traffic violators to
find out who is too emotional
ly disturbed to cope with traf-
tic situations.
Well, that might be all
right, as far as it goes, but it
seems there will have to be a
few Sub-clinics scattered
around to handle the emo
tional disturbances of the
rush hour.
One good spot might be
Fourteenth street between
Pennsylvania avenue and F
street NV. Another, the Lin
coin Memorial. There ought to
be one somewhere on Thirty
fourth street between Massa-
chusetts avenue and Reno
road, and at the Washington
side of all of the bridges.
South Capitol street is a
natural.
Then the psychiatriStS would
be right there handy, ready
to observe the motoriSt with
his emotional disturbance at
its height, brought on by all
those traffic lights and grade
level intersections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Alphabet

A fellow attending a House
Banking and Currency Com
mittee meeting the other day
said he kept hearing things
that sounded like I'VE feel
that Fanny Macs basic pur-
pose should be to exert a
maximum effect toward mort
gage market sterilization"
and while we are naturally
anxious for further improve
ment in Fanny Mae -
He was curious, he says,
about who this lady might be,
and during a recess, rushed
up to check the prepared
statements.
Fanny Mae, he learned, was
no lady at all. The speakers
had been talking about F'NMA
the Federal National Mort
gage Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
NeiehborIy

The mystery in the item
here the other day about the
man who lost the envelope
containing his mail bank
deposit, then learned it got
to his bank anyway, has
been solved.
1t was found and dropped
in the mail by Mrs. E. p.
Eisenschmidt, of Riverdale,
Md. Mrs. Eisenschmidt
called to say she found it
in her front yard, and was
unable to reach our friend
by telephone, SO just dropped
it in the mail.
And our friend says he
must have dropped the en-
velope when he stopped in
Riverdale to pick up some
tomato plants from a neigh
Dor of Mrs. Eisenschmidt'S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Name

Why do they call it Duke
street?
1t was the fashion, in
early Alexandria before the
trouble with the crown, to
name streets for royalty.
The duke in this case was
William. Duke of Cumber-
land, third son of George ii.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Specialists

This is the age of specialists,
all right, a lady who works at
a place in the 400 block of
Fourteenth street NV. re-
ports.
She says the District dug a
hole in the street near her
Office. The hole, she says, is
about three feet wide, four
feet long and no more than
six inches deep.
First, she says, man with
an air drill broke up the pave
ment. Then another man came
along and showed some of the
debris aside. Then a man with
a shovel arrived. She was so
fascinated by this time that
she began counting. Before
the three-by- four-foot, six
inch deep hole was finished,
she reports, % men had
worked on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Record Outlay
In Montgomery
Recommended
BY CHARLES HOFFMAN

Montgomery County Manager
M. L. Reese today recommended
retention of the present general
county tax rate of $2.O3 per 500
of assessed valuation asserting
it would support record-break-
ing $45.7 million operating and
capital improvement budget.
The recommendation came as
a surprise inasmuch as a tax
Airport, New Buildings. in Montgomery
Budget. Page AIS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
Retail VaIue,s1oo

Get as many place mats as you want For each,
simply send the top Of Crab Cake tin plus the
labels from any two DulGny frozen vegetables to
Dulany. You'll receive your place mats by return
mail. You'll want to own a whole set Of 'em.
They're so colorful- of special Oriental
wood. Use 'em every day or for company. They
dress up your table, protect it. too. Start on your
set Of place mats today. serve Dulany Crab
Cake Dinner tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

cafeteria. There, too. he was
introduced to and shook hands
with many Of the patrons. Then
he drove out to three of the
cities beaches and stopped at
a large out-of-town shopping
center. In each place he went
through his handshaking rou-
tine. the perspiration running
down his face.
Final Drive Due
Following a television appear
ance last night he boarded a
plane to take him back to Miami
for his final campaign drive in
the State.
Representative Robert L. Skies,
Mr.. Stevenson's Florida cam
paign director, Used a statement
last night demanding that Sen
ator Kefauver repudiate a "scur-
rilous and distorted" pamphlet
being circulated in Florida by
his supporters in an effort to
discredit Mr.. Stevenson's record
on old-age assistance. The peo-
pie Of Florida are strongly con-
scious Of the old-age pension
issue. The pamphlet, Mr.. Skies
said, was circulated in st. Pc
tersburg where Senator Kefau-
yer spoke Saturday. 1t attacks
Mr.. Stevenson's record as Gov
enor Of Illinois on the old-age
pension issue.
This pamphlet, Mr.. Skies con-
tinued, had first been circulated
in California, printed by the Ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

is able to land a large share Of
this vote, so much the worse for
Mr.. Stevenson.
Mr.. Stevenson took an oppor-
tunity. however, to register his
friendliness to the Negro voters
when he visited a large cigar
factory in Jacksonville yester-
day. In one section of the plant
only Negro workers are en-
ployed. Mr.. Stevenson went
through that section shaking
hands and waving to the work.
ers. and he was given a smiling
and enthusiastic reception.
Jacksonville's population is about
40 per cent Negro, and the Ne
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

NCling peaches from California are stand
bys at our house." Mrs. America says. II
serve them chilled or in hot dishes, as