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Heumunn Elected
Head of Capitol
Accountants

Harland K. Heumann, ad-
ministrative assistant, Alexan-
dria Redevelopment & Housing
Authority. has been elected
president of Washington Chap
ter. National Association Of
Accountants.
Mr.. Heumann worked for the
Federal Government IL years
as an auditor with the Public
Housing Administration prior
to joining the Alexandria Re-
development & Housing Au-
thority in 1852.
Wilbur B. Tubs OF CheSa-
peake & Potomac Telephone
Co. and Robert P. Thome Of
the Washington Post were
elected vice presidents: Frank
lin K. Peacock, treasurer, and
Alice A. Emison, secretary.
Directors for the new year
are: Ralph L. Bailey, William
T. Barnes. John A. Cannon,
Robert s. Cell, Clayton s.
Hendricks. Alma w. Otto, Rob-
ert c. Ragan and A. T. Sam
uelSon.
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AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE
Sales High Low 400 Chg.
Sales HaEh Low 400 cAR.

EUraihd ne AssseIsssd
Cssnhs Explained Notes Following
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Butler buiIdines tor Business
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Real Estute
Boom Dying
BY SYLVIA PORTER

won't find it so easy to get out
from under.
Prof. Farley admits condi-
tons vary among sections Of
the country. but his conclusion
is clear: The general sellers
market in residential houses
is disappearing"
This wouldn't be q cause for
alarm were our residential
mortgage debt Of high quality.
but much Of it isn't. The aver
age maturity of VA and FLA
loans on new houses has risen
from about 20 years in the
early post-World War era to
lac years now, and o similar
trend has occurred in the typi-
cal maturity Of conventional
residential mortgages. There
has been q sharp increase in
the ratio Of loans to value
strengthening the possibility
of deterioration" In 1860 the
average loan-to-value ratio
topped 81 per cent for FLA
loans and was at 81 per cent
on VA loans.
Trends Disturbing
Already. disturbing trends
are emerging. The foreclosure
rate which has been extremely
low by all historical standards
for many years-has increased
from 1.96 per 1000 houses in
1857 to 2.35 per 1000 houses
in 1858, to ass in 1860.
The delinquency rate - re-
fleeing the failure Of Dor
rowers to make scheduled mort
gage payments promptly-be-
gan climbing rapidly in late
1857, and the economic ad-
vance which started in the
spring of 1861 "has not pre-
vented q further rise" This
rate, Farley underlines, pro-
vides sensitive and discrimi-
mating evidence"
Prof. Farley is saying trouble
about home mortgage debt is
on the way. Surely, the time
for all authorities to think hard
about what steps should bt
taken to avert such trouble al
this Is before 1t hits.
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4 Syndicate, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Wards Eastern Unit
To Move to Baltimore

NEW YORK, June 10 (AP),
Montgomery Ward & Co. will
move its eastern regional head
quarters from New York to
Baltimore. a company 'spokes-
man said yesterday.
The spokesman said that the
move would start next month
and continue through August
Personnel from the regional
office win be transferred from
New York. The company alsc
expects to hire additional per.
sonnet in Baltimore. the spokes.
man said.
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Another boom which has
been going on since World War
II is dying. Il is the boom In
real estate. and it indicates q
steep rise in foreclosures. de-
hnquencies, losses on sales Of
homes unless leaders In gov
eminent, finance and the hous-
ing field recognize the dangers
IN time.
There Is the unmistakeable
implication Of an investigation
Of the quality Of home mort
cages In the annual report Of
the National Bureau Of Eco
nomic Research. The study
was made by Professor James
s. Farley Of the University Of
Wisconsin.
Since the war-when terms
Of home mortgages have been
progressively liberalized to an
extent where there Is no doubt
that the quality Of home mort
gage debt has deteriorated-
Prof. Farley points out that
foreclosures and loss rates have
stood up very well" The rea-
sons have been q combination
Of favorable circumstances
high employment. relative eco
nomic stability, rising house
and residential land values. q
rapid growth in population, a
high rate Of formation Of new
families needing homes, gen.
eral initiation.
Situation Changing
As q result, Most straitened
borrowers have been able to
sell their houses for more than
enough to cover their indebt-
edness, and the holders Of most
defaulted mortgages have been
able to sen the foreclosed prop
critics without loss"
Now, though, Prof. Farley
stresses, There Is increasing
evidence that this favorable
combination Of circumstances
Is passing.
The rate Of family formation
has been declining recently
because Of the simple fact that
in the depression Of 1930s and
early 1940s, the birth rate went
way down, and so today, there
the fewer young folks to gel
married. This situation won't
be reversed until the war baby
crop reaches the marriage age
and that won't be for another
few years.
In addition, Prices Of exist.
ing houses in many areas have
ceased to rise or have even be.
gan to fan" This means over.
mortgaged families can't ex.
pect to be bailed out by price
j rises as In the past.
simultaneously, vacancy
rates. both on rental properties
and on homeowner units have
been climbing-from about 81
per cent in 1850 to SIS per cen
in the mid-1950s to about
per cent last year. Again, thi;
suggests hard-pressed families
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METALS

NEW YORK, June 10 (AP).-spoi
pn9nferrous metal prices today. Cooper
Lead Ga cents 3 pound, New York
Foreign silver 1,0lh per troy ounce
New York. Pittsburgh scrap steel No. /
heavy was quoted today BY Iron AgC
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OVER COUNTER

Following prices furnished by the Ma
In Washington represent lie range within
which locally active securities could
have been bought or sold at pm. Tues
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Tobacco Is Busy

Tobacco products cross retain
counters more often than any
thing else except money.
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his old home is Just the place
for Sewell. He is handed a
ready-made plot when a local
woman tells him that six of
the towns most respected
elder citizens are corrupting
her mentally retarded IA
year-old daughter. When his
attempts to blackmail the six
pillars of society fail, Seward
perSuades the girls mother to
bring the matter to court.
On the night before the trial
the young victim pays him a
call, and the melodramatic
revelations that follow re-
solve the fate Of the whole
wretched crew.
There is a most appealing
line in this book early in the
proceedings, when Sewell's
publisher, embarrassed by
critical reaction to his au-
thor's CHASTITY second novel,
dissolves their contract for
the third. Your Sort" he
says, usually has one book
in him, two at the most, then
the pool, artificial to begin
with, cutters with rubbish
and becomes unfit for use"
Now there was a discerning
publisherI
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SCIENTIST PUTS US
ON MOON AHEAD
OF THE RUSSIANS

AM RIGA ON THE
MOON. By Jay Holmes
Oippincott; $4.950
Mr.. Holmes, a consultant
in the Information Re-
search Division of the Ma
tional Aeronautics and
Space Administration, has
written an account of the
accelerated space program.
He appears eminently sat-
iSfied with the way Amer
ica's end Of the space race
Is being run.
The factual information
in his book is complete and
correct except for minor err
rors, mostly of carelessness.
The conclusions to which
Mr.. Holmes comes-par-
ticularly that we are now
well girded for the task
are open to serious debate.
His apparent belief that
come what may, America
will out-enthuSe the Rus
slams and emerge on top
bespeakS q faith that is
beautiful, but one that I
am unable to share.
WILLIAM HINES.
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framed by q clever criminal
Is complemented by q back
ground Of pleasant domes-
ITCHY and deceptive country
innocence. An appealing book
and q fine puzzle.
-
A BODY TO SPARE. BY
Maurice Proctor. (Harper e.
Bros, $500 Even Dixie Co.'S
tello Inspector Martineau's
own Moriarty-would find it
hard to match the cunning
of the amateur who surprises
himself with one daringly
improviSed scheme after an
other to protect a payroll he
and his confederates stole.
The story starts when Mar
tineau Is called to investigate
an extra body in the morgue.
What better place to hide a
surplus corpse? Granchester's
Martineau is just as impress
s1ve as London's Gideon in a
story Astounding in adventure
and characters, including a
beautiful and courageous
dancer named Cleo Patra.
FIRST COME, FIRST
KILL. BY Richard and Fran
ces Lockridge. q. B. Lippin-
colt Co., $2.95.) To the Lock-
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simple undisputed facts
statements about Jesus which
are both dubious and contro-
versial: That the world to
him was "a matter of indif-
ference" and that his purpose
was mot to improve the
world, not to reform men
and their institutions, but to
show all those who hear and
see him that the Kingdom
OF God is at hand" page 75).
Thus Jesus ethoS should
not be taken as a system of
prescriptions for action in
this world" page 49,; that
he had -four brothers and
several sisters (and)
preached a life of indiffer-
ence to the world His
friends regarded him as a
mailman" page 81; that
He founded no cult and
he established no organiza-
ton, no congregation, no
church" page $50.
Apparently it is as easy for
Jaspers to throw away those
portions of the Gospels with
which he disagrees as it is
to reject Aristophanes. More
over, Jaspers is not even con-
sistent with his own inter-
probation of his selected evil
dence, for on page SO he says
IF Jesus was not an active
political leader Qike the So
called zealotS) If he desired
no social revolution; If he
did not seek a martyrs death
as proof Of his message :,
his conduct becomes hard to
understand" Yet two pages
later we read: HE was not a
political leader aiming to
overthrow one state and
found another" Mr.. Jaspers'
views on Jesus, which can be
tested by anyone who looks
at the New Testament evil
dence as a whole, is bound to
raise doubts in the mind of
any reader as to the relia-
bility of the Jaspers version
of other thinkers of the past.
CARROLL QUIGLEY.
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These Tactics
Could Be
Pure Fiction
GIVE ME TOMORROW. By


William Crawford. &c. P,
Putnam's Sons; $3.50
While it is obvious that
writer Crawford served with
the Marines in Korea and
appears to know a great deal
about how it was to be in
combat there, his novel
misses being either very good
or very interesting.
Some of his diversionary
tactics detract seriously from
what otherwise might have
been q fine, factual account
Of life along the Main Line
Of Resistance.
Punitive Action
For one thing, the reader
may well be annoyed by two
incidents related by Mr..
Crawford. One Of them is
the punishment meted out to
a young Marine by his mates
because he had written a
Boosting letter to his girl
friend Of some mythical in
cident of heroism and the
letter had gotten into the
hometown paper.
There is no point in going
into what the punitive action
was but I cannot imagine
two Marine officers looking
on while such a disgusting
deed was performed. There
have been moments when
Marine recruits at boot camp
have been handled with
something less than kid
gloves but such incidents, at
very least, would have to be
characterized as very rare in
a combat situation.
The other diversionary
item concerns the experiences
of the hero. I'd 1t. David
Rivera Martin, on a hospital
ship. If Mr.. Crawford's novel
is based on truth, Naval In
telligence was sleeper than
I think it is in the case of
the Succor. The writer tells
of women sending hundred
dollar money orders home
every week, cooks selling food
and other evils that would
surely have brought duller
organizations than ONI down
on the ship.
In Combat
Mr.. Crawford does his best
work when he sticks to the
combat situation. He was
wounded twice and twice dec
GRATED and should know what
he Is speaking about on this
ground. The reviewer found
it difficult to believe the
Succor incident and even
more so the kangaroo court
scene.
y. OIL, Jr.
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The Bell RetoIIs
THE PASS. By John Slim
ming. (Harper's; $3.50

THE PASS. BY John Slim
ming. (Harper's; $3.50
An icy mountain pass at
the northern tip Of the Bur-
meSe border is an escape
route for desperate refugees
from Red China. An English
newspaperman, sent from
Singapore to check the pos
sibilities Of q picture story,
becomes deeply involved in
their pitiful situation through
his love for the beautiful
Kachin girl who is his guide.
The girl herself has already
made the journey and is now
waiting for the escape Of her
family. The blood-chilling
details Of their flight and Of
the narrowing conditions on
the Chinese side Of the noun
tainS are based on true stories
told to the author in Burma.
He follows the progress Of his
refugees with intense emo
ton, but the rather routine
fictional background for the
story does not integrate effec-
lively with the factual ma
terial.
At several points in the
story the reader will have a
vaguely haunted feeling of
having been here before,
Can encounter in a sleeping
bag, for example; and a final
holding off Of the enemy by a
lone gunner with only one
chamberful Of bulletsO One
wonders whether the author
retolls these particular bells
by way Of tribute or coinci-
dence.
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philosophers" falling into
four classes: (A) "the para
digmatic individuals" ISoc-
rates, Buddha, Confucius,
JeSus); OBJ "the great think
ers;;" and Co the philoso-
pliers of special fields (such
as aesthetics). Glass B, which
includes almost all the names
commonly recognized as phi
losophers, is divided into four
sub-groups: ID "the seminal
thinkers" of which there are
only three plato, Augustine,
and KANT; (2) the "intel-
lectual visionaries." including
Heracitus, Plotinus, Spinoza,
Lao-tzu, Anaxagoras, Democ-
ritus. Bruno, Origen, Hobbies,
Leibniz, and others; 90 the
great disturbers," including
Abelard. Descartes, Hume,
Pascal, NietzSche and others;
and "a "the creative order
ers," including Aristotle,
Aquinas, Hegel, Chu Hsi, etc.
UncOnvincing
Such an arrangement is
based on little more than
personal whim. 1t remains
unconvincing even in the few
cases where Mr.. Jaspers at
temptS to justify it. 1t ignores,
in most cases, the influence
of various thinkers on each
other as well as the historical
context in which each thinker
lived and thought.
Even if we accept Mr.. Jas
pers' principle of organiza-
ton, his judgment is bad in
many cases. The "paradig-
matte individuals" he says,
taught men how to live. On
this basis, zoroaster or Zeno
the Stole are more deserving
of inclusion in this class than
Socrates, no matter how we
interpret the "Socratic prob
lem" Marius Aurelius and
Montaigne continued the
Stole teaching centuries after
Zeno, while zoroaster influ-
enced untold multitudes Gin
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ridges and their friends,
animals are as personal as
people. With the Norths, it's
cats. With the Heimrichs,
dogs. Indeed, Colonel, the
Heimrichs' dog, is treated
by a murderer like a human
being when he comes too
close to a clue. Old Tom, who
dies on the Heimrichs' drive,
is a tramp and, as it turns
out, a missing New York Su-
preme Court judge. Have his
criminal associates caught
up with him? Or. as an
intinerant gardener, did he
discover something about a
Heinrich neighbor? Capt.
Merton Heinrich of the New
York State police looks to
Toms past and present for
the solution. Top flight.
THE CASE OF THE
BLONDE BONANZA. BY Erie
Stanley Gardner. civilian
Morrow & Co., $3.50 Any
woman with a good figure
who is trying to gain weight
is a mystery. Della Street
asks her boss, Perry Mason,
to visit her at a vacation re-
sort and meet the phenome-
non involved. Not one of
Perry Mason's most dramatic
cases, but an interesting one,
with a surprising but sound
solution.
LITTLE DROPS OF
BLOOD. By Bill Knox.
doubleday g. Co., $500
A smart policeman who reads
in drops Of blood at a high
way death clues to murder,
not accident, sends Glasgow
police on a trail that leads
to racing car fanatics and a
cleverly organized stolen car
racket. Mr.. Knox has a gift
for taking readers along on
the investigation, through
convincing, careful police
work to an extraneous,
though spectacular, chase in
the Highlands.
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in the world of Mr.. Biswas
human relations are about as
subtle as a fire-cracker under
a tin can! The adventures
and misadventures by which
Mr.. BiSwas finally attains his
lifelong ambition-a home of
his own-are explored with
leisurely humor and affec-
ton by a distinguished young
West Indian writer.
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FICTION

TALES FROM THE WISE
MEN OF ISRAEL. BY Ju-
dith Ish-Kishor. Oippin-
colt; 81 A collection Of
Jewish folk tales.
THE OTHER I: A Novel by
Yael Lotan. (Bobbs-Mer-
rill; $3.50 The study of
an incestuous relationship.
IN PRAISE OF GRATITUDE.
By Robert Reynolds.
(Harper's; $500 Mr..
Reynolds, q novelist, calls
this an invitation to trust
In life. It Is q companion
volume to his This Choice
to Love-"
A GOD FOR TOMORROW.
BY Martin Diner. Double
day; $3.50 A novel Of
intrigue about the search
for the son Of Hitler.
THE NIGHT OF TREES.
BY Thomas williams.
Macmillan; $4,000 The
story of a man and his
son, set in and about q
hunting lodge in the New
Hampshire mountains.
CRANK. By Robert Paul
Smith. Morton; $500
Robert Paul Smith, author
of the best-selling memoir
of childhood, Where Did
You go2" "Out." what
Did You Do?" Nothing"
now turns his attention to
the adult world.
NO OTHER HARVEST. By
r. L. Hardman. Double
day; $4.95.)
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A Rank Amateur
In the Footsteps
Of Suzie Wong
THE FEVER TREE. BY Rich
ard Mason. (World; $4.95.)

nAA 0A0SOAA' NVOAAAb S1soS'(
Those writers Of the world
who collect rejection slips as
a philatelist collects stamps
can take cheers from THE
Fever Tree" because If Rich
ard Mason can find a pub
Usher, anyone can.
Mr.. Mason found the magic
ingredient for modern liter
airy success in his trivial
novel, THE World Of Suzie
Wong" merely by setting his
scene in Hong Kong and
creating q winsome prosti-
tute to be his heroine. Holly
wood reacted to "Suzie" by
making a movie Of it as
fast as the cans could be
filled. They were the wrong
type Of cans.
Now, Mr.. Mason has de-
livered himself of The Fever
Tree" in which his improb-
able heroine is an Indian
married woman who trails
her British lover from New
Delhi to Nepal to perform as
an amateur the deeds that
were Suzie Wong's profession.
Even so, Lakshmi is more
believable than Ronald Bir-
kett. the soldier of fortune
who wears a British mustache
and walks with a British
step and is so British in
every way that it will make
your teeth itch.
The plot can be told in
one sentence: The villainous
hero plans to arrange the
assassination Of the King of
Nepal and diverts himself
with Lakshmi as the plot
Sickens.
In short, this Is a thriller
without suspense and with
out merit. But that won't
keep Hollywood from buying
1t. JERRY OTEARY, Jr.
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MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Even the Authors Name
Can Spell Surprise
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

How does Andrew Carve do itp Every book different
He never repeats plot setting hero Other writer's
names on book jackets often guarantee atmosphere as
PORTABLE as friend. Garve's means surprise In
PRISONERS FRIEND (Harper g. Bros, $500 he tells
OF Robert Ashe an extroverted pleasant stubborn man who
veterinarian and prison visitor Ashe helps former
convict who served time for with violence get started
again The sky falls in when the youth accused of murder
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LINCOLN AND THE NEGRO.

BY Benjamin Quarles.
(Oxford University Press;
$6.50O
While a young man, the
story goes, Abe Lincoln took
a trip down the Mississippi to
New Orleans. He happened
upon a slave auction. where
a beautiful mulatto girl was
up for sale. The manner in
which the girl was handled
and inspected by prospective
buyers made him flush with
anger. It also led him to
make an eternal vow.
IF I ever get a chance to
hit that thing I'll hit it hard"
the future emancipation is
supposed to have muttered
as he walked away.
The story, like so many
concerning Lincoln and the
Negro, is apocryphal. But in
the mythology which has
grown up around the mar
tyred President, Lincoln re-
mains always the tolerant,
kindly, selfless and noble
hero Of the minority. To the
Negro masses especially, Lin
coin became a saint.
Actually, as Benjamin
Quarles shows in his instruc-
tive book, Lincoln's convic-
tons on slavery are hard to
trace. He had only limited
contact with the race he was
destined to affect so dra-
matically. AS a Congressman
from Illinois, he seemed, in
Mr.. Quarles' words, ito blow
hot and cold" on the over
riding issue Of slavery.
No Part in Debate
Although he had submitted
a plan Of his own for promot-
ing freedom in the Nations
Capital" Mr.. Quarles writes,
Lincoln took no part in the
heated discussion and bitter
debates over slavery. When
Neutrality-suspicious. were aroused
by the recapture Of 80 slaves
who had escaped from a
steamer locked at George
town, Lincoln was among
those who voted to shut off
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Guiding Socrates and Plato),
including millions who never
heard his hame.
Some Excellent Sketches
Turning from the question
Of organizations to the indi-
vidual biographies, we might
say that the sketches of the
three seminal thinkers are
excellent Especially Angus
tines, while those Of the
four "paradigmatic individ-
tails" are mediocre. In all the
sketches, Mr.. Jaspers' own
personal opinions are an OBJ
Stacle to exposition of the be-
liefs Of the men themselves,
but this appears most OBJ
viously in the first four,
where dogmatic judgments
reveal the personal bias of the
author. Two examples may
show this.
Of the three chief sources
Of information on Socrates
AristophaneS, Plato and
Xenophon), "the Clouds" of
Aristophanes is on a much
higher level of reliability
than the others because it
is contemporary, it was pub
lie (spoken) and was known
Immediately to everyone who
knew Socrates himself. If the
playwright'S protrayal of Soc
rates as a Sophist and a
natural philosopher" in 423
BIC. had been false, it would
have been instantly rejected
by all who heard it. It
was not, and we can be
almost certain that Socrates
was as Aristophanes por-
trayed him in 423 (when
Plato and Xenophon were
small children). Yet Jaspers
calls 1.-THE Clouds" page 21)
an "astonishingly false pic
ture."
Portrait of Jesus
This inability to evaluate
historical evidence critically
is most evident in regard to
Jesus. JasperS gives us as