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worker. named 81 persons ne
said he had met at Communist
meetings while a member of the
party in Baltimore.
Yesterday. Maryland Attorney
General C. Ferdinand Sybert said
that the bulk Of the information
brought out at that hearing had
been supplied by the unit Of his
office designated to enforce the
so-called Ober anti-subversive
law.
Edward r. Jeunette. one of two
special investigators in the anti
subversive unit. headed by AS
sistant Attorney General Walter
Clagett. said that Mr.. Miller
had been working with sour
office for 21a years prior to his
testimony last week."
Talk Before Council
Mr.. Sybert and Mr.. Jeunette
made their statements to the
legislative council, interim fact
finding arm Of the Maryland
Legislature.
They requested restoration Of
q $5.l25 cut in the Ober units
SIT. 900 budget for next fiscal
year-a cut Mr.. Sybert said
would destroy the antisubversion
program because it would elm
mate the units operating funds.
The council voted to send a
letter to the Board Of Public
Works. requesting restoration of
the $5.l25. which the full Legis-
lature slashed from the budget
less than two months ago. The
board. the only agency that can
legally add to the already ap-
proved budget. is expected to
take up the request at its next
meeting on May %.
Explaining the reversal. Sem
ate President Louis L. Goldstein
and other council members said
they were under the impression
that the anti-subversive units
had virtually nothing to do.
No Prosecutions
"They admit they have never
prosecuted anybody since the
Ober law was passed in 1919. :"
Senator Goldstein told report
ers. land they have always been
so secretive about their activi-
ties that we are just finding out
today for the first time what
they have been doing"
| Other council members said
they voted for the cut two
months ago because Of a ST.
preme Court ruling last year that
States cannot prosecute for SUBJ
version.
On this latter point. Mr.. Sy-
bert said that there are bills in
Congress seeking to amend the
Smith Act to restore the power
of States to prosecute for sub
version.
But even II the Smith Act
stands as is. Mr.. Sybert said
the State should keep its Ober
law unit lin case war breaks out
with Russia. because then we will
know right away who our enc
mics are"
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adopted directing the Public
Works Department. County
Health Department and building
inspector to deny any permit
that would result in further taps
to the plant.
A special grand jury session
already has been scheduled for
Monday to hear complaints that
the plant is a public nuisance
and health menace.
About 100 Homes
The privately owned plant
serves an estimated 100 homes
in Pimmit Hills. Edward Kipp
County Public Works director.
said he had been instructed a
week ago by the State Water
Control Board to issue plumbing
permits for is additional houses
in Pimmit Hills but had been
holding up the permits without
authority to do so. He explained
that the responsibility for de-
termining a plants capacity
rests with the Water Board.
This is another indication
that the locality should have
control over these connections. ;"
said Supervisor Joseph H. Free
hill. He said too many deci-
sions are being made on the
basis Of long-distance telephone
calls to Richmond.
Roger Dougherty. attorney for
Pimmit Hills residents, read q
letter from DR.. Harold Kennedy,
county health ofiicer. stating
that. in his opinion, foam from
the plant lis not only q nuisance
but is a public health menace" "
Mr.. Dougherty called the plant
"a most deplorable. unsanitary
condition"
Pond Also Protested
In addition to the protest
against overlooking the present
plant. residents also complained
that the Pimmit Service Corp. is
going ahead with construction
of a large oxidation pond for
eff1uent from the plant. A
warrant already has been issued
by the county charging that no
coming permit was obtained for
the oxidation pond.
George E. Offutt III. president
of Pimmit Service Corp, de-
clared. on Monday, that the oxi-
dalton pond is being built under
orders from the State Water
Board and the State Health De-
partment. He-said the pond will
serve to maintain a high degree
Of purity of sewage effiuent
before it is dumped into a nearby
creek.
Mr.. Leigh said the ultimate
answer would be for the county
to take over the private plant.
close it and pump sewage from
Pimmit Hills to the county's new
Pimmit Run treatment plant.
Mr.. Kipp estimated such a
pipeline would cost $4,000. The
supervisors asked County Execu-
tive c. c. Massey and Mr.. Kipp
to find out how acquisition Of
the private system, plus the pipe
line extension. would cost.
Mrs. Anne wilkins said the
county should be cautious about
its own plants. while cracking
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Red Revelations Nav
Save ODER Law Funds
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star stan CORRESPONDENT

BALTIMORE May 16.-Indrecty. the House Un- American
Activities Committee appeared today to have blocked legislative
attempt to cripple the Maryland antsubversve agency
The spotlight focused the Maryland agency the
result of spectacular hreeday hearing the House committee
held here last week.
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County Bans New Tie-ins
To Pimmit Sewage Plant

ban permits that would result in additional
necions to the Pimmt Service Corp. treatment
plant ordered by the Fairfax Board Of County Supervisors
the of Pmmit Hills residents
initiated action have the facility declared public nuisance
On motion Superysor A a resolution was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-20
MIDTOWN NEW YORK
Vaudeville, of All Things
BY ROBERT SYLVESTER

NEW YORK Our Town
came alive again last week and
things were jumping pretty
briskly for a change. The most
interesting Broadway event
was the comeback of old-fash-
Toned vaudeville. To everybody
surprise, vaudeville came back
with Helen Hayes and Noel
Coward, of all people. Miss
Hayes is co-starred with Rich
ard Burton and Susan Stras-
berg in an adaptation OF
Anouilh's "Time Remembered"
Miss Hayes in this reminds us
that she's always been a fine
Coincidence and this romp gives
her a series of vaudeville
sketches to be funny with. Sig
Arno, the veteran film comic,
also has a wonderfully funny
pantomine variety act and even
Miss Strasberg does a vaudeville
turn. She looks like Audrey
Hepburn and manages to SOUND
like a satire of Katharine Hep
burn.
Then Noel Coward came
along with another vaudeville
show, his own Nude With
Violin" In this both Luba Ma.
lima and Mona Washbourne d.
comedy singles and dear Noe
himself does a sort of mono.
logue. He has found one spo
on the stage which he love-
and he stands there all nigh
long. But, as usual. he's writer
some funny jokes.
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mans. in their ways. but not
necessarily useful.
= X X
Playing the teen-age daugh-
ter, the storm-center of the
action. Miss Wilsrud proves
again that she is a girl with
a glow. Her Damaris Ludeke
is the pathetic essence of the
adolescent with a headful of
dreams and a tahgle of glands
with no control over either.
AS the mother Of this con-
temporary fury. Mrs. Hammond
portrayS a more outWardly
subdued but equally dedicated
escapist, a woman too busy with
her own illusions for family
duties. The Immediately in
volved males are Mr.. Joseph
as the quietly desperate flute
player. Mr.. Coster as the gentle,
unwilling subject of the girls
hate and the mothers devc-
ton, and Clayton Corzatte as
the bumbling, boyish sutton
from next door.
Geraldine Rehrig as the al
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coholic seamstress and Charles
A. McRae as the newsman are
Arena newcomers, and clearly
welcome ones.
Dick Nelson designed the
setting of Answer the Flute, "
something of a miracle of using
space effectively, and Leo Gall
enstein did his usual artistic
job of lighting the play.
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wait on themselves. His music,
fragmentary and lusterless. has
still enough of magic in it to-
convince his teen-age daughter
that he is a great artist. She
dreams of their joint appear
-ance in Carnegie Hall, he as
soloist with the orchestra that
will play her ballet accom-
paniment.
Meanwhile, in the adjoining
living quarters. Mrs. Ludeke
lives her own private magic in
her dream of the man she did
not marry whose son is coming
to live as the family's paying
guest.
Now the lines of conflict are
laid. with father and daughter
arrayed against mother and
boarder, the latter apparently
the 22-year-old image of moth
er's sutton of % years before.
AS the most intense of the COM
batants, Mr.. Robins ha S
chosen wisely the daughter and
mother. a pair with savaeely
differing concepts of the ideal
man.
/ Thanks to Mrs. Fichandler's
direction and a couple of know
| ing performances by Miss
/ Wifsrud and Mrs. Hammond.
this daughter-mother feud has
its moments of illumination. It
has something to say about
channels of loyalty in family
relationships, but frequently
with a lack of decisiveness and
discipline that Undue AN
swered the Flute" with an
aspect OF dawdling.
AS relief from the feud, Mr..
Robins makes use of his corner
store to introduce the Ludeke's
neighbors. II is this group that
gives the play its most marked
resemblance to the works of Mr..
Saroyan, To identify some of
its members. they include the
deserted wife who keeps dream
ing her husband will come
home some day: the Negro
newspaper dealer ready to
share everybody's dreams; the
clean minded neighbor lad who
shares the adolescent agitation
of the Ludeke girl; and the kids
who drop in to buy candy.
They are all agreeable hu-
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Regrettably, it is reminiscent
of SO many other plays by SO
many other playwrights. the
first of these to come to mind,
William Saroyan.
Like the latter, Mr.. Robins is
a man of compassion. He is also
gentle, understanding. and
wistfully humorous. Neverthe-
less. answered the Flute
would be a better play for
somewhat less of these unde-
niable virtues which can be
protracted to the point Of
tedium.
The Ludekes of Baltimore,
Mr.. Robins family. come of as
more theatrical than dramatic
! in the production directed by
Zelda Fichandler, their excess
:. of moodiness inclined to arouse
a combative one on the part of
the spectator.
In the sum total Of the eve
: ning's emotions, of course,
, there are some rewarding rev.
Citations of Arenas well known
acting prowess. These are the
work Of Astrid Wilsrud and
Nick Coster. the company's
bright new youngsters. and by
Dorothea Hammond and Allen
Joseph as the heads of the
house of Ludeke.
K H
Mr.. Robins, a voluntary exile
from Baltimore boyhood, To-
Gates his three-acts slice OF
life in one of those combined
notions store-houses that dot
humble neighborhoods.
Here, Mr.. Ludeke stands be-
hind the store counter playing
his flute while the customers
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The way this town is grow
ing, there's always room for a
new restaurant and last week
we got a great big new and well
come one: a place called the
Luau at 400 East Fifty seventh
street. The Luau is on the lines
of the famed Trader Vic's on
the West Coast, featuring food
which / guess ought to be called
Polynesian. Aside from the ex-
otto dishes. the management
has hired a bevy of Pacific type
beauties. including Momokai,
the Hawaiian dancer who was
with Arthur Godfrey for years,
There is a pretty gal named
Saduko Feinberg and another
See SYLVESTER, Page BPS
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WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Arena-"Aiswered the Flute;
$50 pm.
National - 1.-THE Country
Wife; ESQ pm. and $3.50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - The Tin
Star: 1:25. 1925, SOS. 1925
and 9:25 pm.
Apex - "Escapade"; /. 2:45,
APO. $40, sos and 9:55 pm.
CapitOl-"Zero Hour; ll:45
am. 1850, $50, $50, 1850 and
9:55 pm.
Columbia Midnight Story;
HAS am. las. 3;45. 5:45, 7:45
and GAS pm. '
DupOn4-"Perri"; l, ESQ,
4:40, $50, $40 and 1905 pm,
Keith's-"My Man Godftey'
11:45 am, las, 3:45, $50, 1850
e. and 9:55 pm.
Neutrality-suspicious. in the
Psrlor":: $50. 8:15 and 10 pm.
metropolitan. THE Tin
Star: l1:25 am, lbs. 1925,
$50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
OntariO-"Raintree County"
i 2 and $3.50 pm.
/! Palace-"Baby Face Nelson"
Ills am, 1855. 2;40, 4:25
6:l5, 8 and $50 pm.
Nights OF Ca
biria";; 1l:15 am, lbs, 800
/. SOS. 1870 and 9:35 pm.
Plaza-"And God Created
Woman; 1880 m, 1870, $50
$50, 7::30. $50 and 1880 pm
{ Trans-Lux pal joey
1910 am, 1880, 3, $40, 7:2(
and 9:40 pm.
UptOwn-"Around the WorlC
In o DAYS: and $3.50 pm.
Warner-"Seven Wonders o.
the World: ? and $3.50 pm.
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THE PASSING SHOW
New Play at Arena
An Emotional ReveI
BY JAY CARMODY

Arena Stage embarks, upon sentimental journey in
answered Flute play by Sam Robins which opened
q four weeks last night.
very sentimental journey, indeed Mr. Robins leads
the way through the travail of simple family which
makes the dreaming life instead of living it,
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ANSWERED THE FLUTE" q drama
in three acts by Sam Robins, produced
BY Zelda Fichandler, directed by Mrs.
son. and lighting by Leo Gailenstein.
At Arena Stage
The Cast
Mrs. Chandler Geraldine Rehrig
sydney Ludeke Allen Joseph
Boy Larry Crowley or David Woods
Martha Ludeke Dorothea Hammond
Man John Hager
Damaris Ludeke Astrid Wilsrud
Newton Chandler Clayton Corzatte
Jerry Charles A. McRae
Paul Ormos Nicolas Coster
House Painter Tom Bosley
Woman Customer Lois Alexander
Mr. Smith Ed Preble
Susie Bohbie Cokinos or Cas- Ecker
Joe George F. Vogel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
WEEKS REVIEW

dicted that the 36-hour week will
prevail throughout labor within the
next decade.
Although the JAW rank and file
has a reputation for independence
and vigilance over the activities of
its officers, the convention set UP
a public review board" to police
union funds and keep an eye on
union trends. The board, composed
OF prominent citizens outside labor.
also will be sort Of appeals court
for union members charged with
breaches of JAW discipline.
The convention, in addition to
re-electing Mr.. Reuther to a seventh
term, also voted to increase his
modest-as union officials salaries
eo-salary OF $4,000 to $4,000.
Meanwhile, Chairman John
Mcclellan of the Senate committee
that has been investigating labor
racketeering, said public hearings
will resume Tuesday in Scranton,
Pa. where 1t will look into activities
OF Teamster and building trades
unions.
On the same day. the executive
board OF the Transfers Union will
meet in the sunshine Of Galveston.
Tex, repeatedly to decide whether
the union should defend AFL-CIO
charges that 1t is dominated for
the most part by corrupt influences.
The AFL-CIO has set May 6 as the
date for hearing the charges.
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rate hotel, the members don't in
tend that he shall accustom him.
self to the same standard Of COM
fort as the employers or even the
government officials with whom he
deals.
Roises Recruiting Problem
This traditional attitude has in
the postwar years markedly re-
duced the appeal of union Office
to able young workingmen. Union
organization has particularly suf-
fered at the local level. Workers
earning $50 to 500 week aren't
interested in local union salaries
of $33 a week. 1t is widely believed
that unless salaries and expense
accounts are revised to meet the
rising cost of living. the caliber
Of trade union leadership is likely
to deteriorate. despite the impulse
for service.
A start towards an upward revi-
sion may be implicit in the raising
of union dues in line with the
general imitation. For example, the
Transport Workers this year in
creased their weekly contribution
by so per cent to IA cents a week
just double the 1899 figure.
How are the funds of the lead
ing unions invested? The Anal
gamated Engineering Union. with
the largest resources, had in 1855
assets of IL $3.50, l46 pounds of which
nearly half consisted Of government
securities. Loans and mortgages
on members houses amouted to
3.352,2l2 pounds. and cash 2,0l4.-
489 pounds.
The financial statements OF other
big unions reveal an equally high
proportion of funds invested IN
government and municipal bonds.
There are no legal restrictions on
union investments, however.
The major trade unions in Brit
ain have since 1913 maintained
separate funds for political pur-
poses towards which those men,
beers who wish may contribute.
Nearly z million union members
contribute an average Of about
20 cents q year. These resources
are listed separately from the in
dustrial funds In the publicly fled
statements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
Arab Refugees, Healthy but Hopeless,
Are the Middle Eost's Key Problem

ture they can see is a jobless one.
with dependence on the bounty
of the U. N.
Each side in the controversy
over the refugees adamantly re-
fuses to bulge an inch.
Israel insists that the continued
despair of the refugees is ascrib-
able to Arab politics. No real eff
forts, Israel says, have been made
by the Arab states to aSsimilate
the displaced Palestinians. Instead
they are being used. say the Israelis.
as lever on world public opinion.
Israel also charges that the refugee
camps make a fertile recruiting
ground for the hit-and-run fed
ayeen guerrillas whose border raids
served largely as the provocation for
the Israeli invasion of Egypt last
October.
Arab nations, on their part, stand
pat on their claim that the refu-
gees have been deprived of their
homes and livelihoods by the "ag-
erosion" of Israel. In the Arab
view. the state of Israel is an arti-
fetal Jewish nation carved out of
territory which had been Arab for
centuries. In the doing, say the
Arabs. the new state pre-empted
for its own growing immigrant
population the hearthsides and
farms of families whose claim
rests on the usage Of generations.
With the increasing awareness
in the West OF the explosive menace
Of the refugee problem. prospects
for an eventual solution may i'm
prove. But as of now absolutely
nothing is being done toward a
settlement of the basic Israeli
Arab conflict which spawned the
refugee tragedy.
In the meantime. UNRWA con-
tinues to face daily the task of
housing. feeding, and providing
basic medical care for displaced
persons who make UP 54.6 per cent
Of the local population of Jordan.
and a staggering z2l.2 per cent
OF the local population of the GAIA
Strip.
Despite a surprisingly low ex-
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cover annual operating expenses.
What proportion of the annual
expenses of a British union is
paid out in salaries? The 1855
report of Britain's largest union
the Transport and General
Workers with l.3 million members
shows expenditures of 2.727.597
pounds, OF which 670,334 pounds
were charged to salaries for 568
full-time officers. But of the total
for staff salaries, less than 10 per
cent was paid to national officers
and the central Office staff.
British trade union leaders have
always been paid modestly. even
on the basis Of the British wage
scale and cost of living. Only three
or four leaders in the entire Brit
ish trade union movement get more
than $4,000 a year, the salary Of
the General Secretary of the Trades
Union Congress-
The secretaries (chief perma-
nent officials) OF most of the large
unions would fall in the $780,
$5,600-a- year bracket. It's esti-
mated that the secretaries of Brit
aims two biggest unions with one
fifth OF all union MEMBERSHIP
Transport Workers and Engineer
ing-probably receive salaries Of
about $4,000 and $4,000, respec-
lively. And the Transport Work.
ers' secretary is actually Labor's
No / official. In fact the Nine
workers leader gets only about
a third more than the top earnings
OF a man in the pits.
There is a historic reason for
the modest salaries of top union
leaders. The British labor move
ment was voluntary in origin and
strongly influenced by principles
OF religious nonconformism. For
years labor organizers contributed
their services for the welfare OF
their fellow workers.
Labor leaders still don't think
1t right that they should earn much
more or live much better than the
rank and file. Nor would the work.
ers be agreeable to high salaries
paid out Of their dues.
Expense accounts are closely con-
trolled. While a national leader
isn't expected TO stay In q third
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Ldbor's Goals:
4-Doy Week

Ninety years ago, at the very time
that John D. Rockefeller was or
eanizing the company of Rockefeller
e. Andrews. w. II. Sylvis, an official
of the Iron Workers Union, called
together a group of reformers to
found the National Labor Union.
Its goals A workday OF not more
than 10 hours and a work week Of
not more than so hours.
Last week, Americans were given
a clear picture Of how far labor
has Travelled since the days OF their
grandfathers.
The United Automobile, Aircraft
and Agricultural Implement Work.
ers' union meeting in its goth con-
vention in Atlantic City, heard its
president outline the JAWS next
goals: A four-day work week with a
higher take-home pay, improved
pension plans, hospital and medical
insurance and supplementary un.
employment benefits
Walter Reuther. JAW president,
seemed to have no doubt that these
goals are obtainable for 1858. At
any rate, he felt there were some
formidable arguments in behalf
OF both economic gains and a
shorter work week for his union.
The auto workers, though well paid.
still are behind workers in steel, oil,
construction and coal when it comes
to pay. AS for the shorter work
week. the staff Of the Senate House
Joint Economic Committee has pre-
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penditure Of only $2.l1 per refu-
gee per month, UNRWA has been
able to get the refugees under some
sort of shelter-be it concrete or
canvas-and has provided a mini
mum diet of l.100-l 600 calories
per person per day. Special ration
allowances are provided for chill
dren, pregnant and nursing moth
ers, and the sick. Routine vaccina-
tons and other preventive tech
niques have cut heavily into the
appalling but long accepted NOR
tally rates.
Last year the natural increase
in the refugee population was 2.9
per cent. a heartening testimonial
to the efficiency Of UNRWA but
Of small comfort to the future
outlook, unless basic solution is
found soon.
Schools Are Provided
Besides providing for the iunda-
mental human needs Of these home
less people. UNRWA also looks
after their educational needs. In
this there is practically as well
as compassion. for the more refu-
gee families that can be made self
supporting. the easier the task will
be. Last year. 1874 per cent of the
refugee population was enrolled in
U. N. elementary and secondary
schools.
Self-support, in the severely lin
tied economic situation of the Arab
Middle East, has been the most
difficult phase Of the U. N. effort.
Without immense reclamation and
irrigation projects, the chance of
resettling refugee families on new
land sufficient to support them is
discouragingly small. The failure
to reach an agreement on the
Jordan River project was a major
blow to hopes of refugee resettle-
ment.
In addition to agricultural re-
Mobilization. vocational training
school. opened in the GAIA Strip
in 1854, is training selected young
refugees in trades and crafts. One
result has been the ability of
UNRWA-trained refugees to con-
tribute skilled labor to construction
OF refugee housing. the manufacture
OF tents. and the building of vital
irrigation works.
But the efforts of UNRWA, how
ever heartening, cannot solve the
increasingly dangerous problem of
these people. They are not without
food and shelter and care. But
they are without hope for the
future.