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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-15
By BONNIE ALTMAN
Star Staff Writer

Two free performances Of
Humperdinck's fair y-tale
opera, "Hansel and Gretel, "
are a holiday treat this month
for vacationing area school
children.
The Washington Civic Opera
Association, under the direc-
ton Of Frederick Fall, will
stage the production at the
Roosevelt High School audi
forum at 8 pm. Saturday
and at $3.50 pm. next Sunday.
The cast is headed by Jane
Shapiro and Suzanne M.
Brock as the pair Of wander
ing moppets who find the
gingerbread house in the
woods. The witch in residence
there is portrayed by Carroll
NATION, and the children's
mother is June Paul. Men,
bers of Local ISL, American
Federation of Musicians, are
offering their services gratis
for the show.
CURTAINS DESCEND:
Two area universities wind up
productions today. The Ameri-
can University Players pre-
sent special student matinee
of Clan Carlo Menotti's
"Amahl and the Night Visi-
tors" at 8 o'clock at AUS
Clendenin Theater.
The final performance of
Pirandello's six Characters
in Search of an Author" will
be staged at 7::3O o'clock at
Maryland University.
STILL CURRENT: Theater
Lobby'S holiday double bill,
Christopher Fry's sleep of
Prisoners" and Dylan Tho
mas "A Child's Christmas in
Wales" continues at $3.50 pm.
Thursdays through Sundays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-15

Those attending additions
at the JCC headquarters,
Sixteenth and Q streets NV.
are requested to bring their
own dramatic or musical
materials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-15
LOCAL DRAMA GROUPS
Children Will See
HonseI and GreteF

The playhouse is at IL St.
Matthews court NV.
CASTING: The Little Thea
ter of Alexandria is set for
another comedy, this time a
cunning satirical offering by
GiroudOux, "Amphitryon SO"
Tryouts will be held at 8 pm.
tomorrow and Tuesday at the
LTA Playhouse, 800 Wolfe
street, Alexandria. Roles for
six men and five women are
open.
The production is set for
January 81 through February
8 under the direction Of
Vaughn Baggerly.
The Kensington Players
hope for a bountiful turnout at
tryout sessions scheduled for
8 pm. Tuesday and Wednes-
day-they must cast % roles
for their next production,
John P. Marquand's Point Of
No Return.
Those interested should
meet at the Mizell Cottage,
1O217 Frederick street, Ken
sington. Rehearsals, with
Church Showalter directing,
will get underway in January
for a late February opening.
Adults talented in acting,
interpretive dance, folk or
chamber music are invited to
additions at 8 pm. on Tues
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

lass cold.
In the last days before the
Civil War, Douglass, disillus-
ioned with the slow progress of
the anti-slavery cause, called
for slave uprisings. Sojourner,
sitting in the back Of the hall,
rose and shouted:
"Frederick, is God dead?"
Douglass later wrote that he
replied, "No. And that is why
slavery must end in bloodshed." !"
William Lloyd Garrison, who
was present, insisted that Dou-
glass could make no answer at
all.
After the Civil War, Sol
ourner Truth was active rails
ing funds to assist the freed
man and in the cause Of wom-
ems suffrage. She settled in
Battle Creek, but continued
travelling on lecture tours un-
til few years before her death
in 1883. She was about 85 years
J old.
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

Sojourner Truth was q for
mer slave who became a leader
in the battle against slavery.
Sojourner stood over six feet
tall, she was freed under New
York's gradual emancipation
act. Sojourner fought her bat
ties against slavery from the
lecture platform and in the
courts.
There is some evidence that
Sojourner gave help to slaves
escaping through. the Under
ground, but the only slave she
actually freed herself was her
son, and he was freed through
court action.
Her lecture activities brought
her almost instant fame. AL
though she was illiterate, she
had the power to captivate her
audience. Her whitening replies
to hecklers became legendary
though in one famous instance
she became a heckler herself
and stopped Frederick Doug.
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

race oppressed which would
have come from million
throats could they have been
articulate and have been heard"
This became the most widely
| discussed book yet written by
q Negro.
Two increasingly radical edi-
tions followed Walkers first
APPEAL. He wrote 1--WE colored
people Of these United States
are the most degraded, and sub
ject set Of beings that ever liv-
ed since the world began" He
stated that this was the result
Of slavery and not Of racial in
feriority as (Thomas) Jeffer-
son had said in his NOTES ON
VIRGINIA. 1.-THE white" said
Walker, in the third edition of
his pamphlet, want slaves and
want us for their slaves, but
some of them will curse the day
they ever saw us as true
as the sun ever shone in its
meridian splendor, my color will
root some of them out Of the
very face of the earth :. They
will have enough Of the blacks,
yet, as true as God sits on His
Throne in Heaven"
After the publication of his
APPEAL, Walker was not per-
mitted to live in peace. The
governor of Georgia requested
Mayor Harrison Gray Otis Of
Boston to suppress the book
let. Otis, a strong advocate Of q
free press, refused to do so. A
group of men in Georgia then
offered $1,000 for Walkers
head and $4,000 for him alive.
In 1880, three months after the
publication Of the third version
of the APPEAL, Walker died
mysteriously in Boston. Rumors
that he had been poisoned were
persistent enough to make a
martyr of him. After Emancipa-
ton, his stature as hero in
creased and thirty-six years
after his death, his son was
elected to the Massachusetts,
Legislature. Walkers APPEAL
was again published in 1848 by
Henry Highland Garnet togeth-
er with Garnet's own appeal for
every slave to cease work and
walk away.
Historians now attach great
Importance to his contribution,
especially because Of its timing.
Walker left a legacy of raging
hatred for slavery, for the de-
gredation, wretchedness and
ignorance of his people. It was
onto this stage that NatTurner
strode.
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09
David Walker
The John The
Baptist" Of The
Anti-SIavery
Crusade

1.-THE John the Baptist" Of the
anti-slavery crusade, as David
Walker came to be known, was
born free in Wilmington N. c.,
In 1875. To Walker, this slave
holding community was oppre-
sive and degrading. He said, eff
remain in this bloody land, I
will not live long AS true
as God reigns, ! will be aveng-
ed for the sorrows which my
people have suffered. This is not
the place for memo, I must
leave this part of the country
Go, Must"
He travelled extensively in
the South during his youth and
finally worked his way to
Boston where he became the
proprietor of a secondhand
clothing store. 1t was during
this time that Walker first
learned to read. He read widely
in the literature of human slav-
cry, sleeping himself in the
history Of resistance to oppres-
sion.
In 1928 he made his first
public appeal against slavery. A
year later, he published Walk
er's Appeal. The pamphlet,
which marked the transition
from the earlier period to the
militant anti-slavery movement,
exploded with shattering force.
Into his slim volume Walker
poured the accumulated bitter
ness and disgust of his people.
He scornfully dismissed the
slaveholding Christians Of "this
Republican Land of Liberty!
u and urged slaves to cut
their tomentors' throats from
ear to ear Kill, or be kill
ed" he wrote. WALKERS AP-
PEAL struck fear into the
hearts of the Shareholders. Ben
jamin Lundy condemned it as
injIring the anti-slavery cause,
even Garrison said it was in
judicious.
Walkers mind was neither
trained nor disciplined. Accord
ing to historians, this is what
made his APPEAL one of the
greatest pieces Of anti-slavery
literature. It was, in historian
Dwight Dumonds words, "a
primitive cry of anguish from a
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

One of the leading fighters
against slavery was Harriet
Tubman.
Harriet Tubman is credited
with. leading some 800 slaves
to freedom on the Underground
Railroad.
Born a slave in Maryland,
she escaped when she was a
bout rs years old. Not content
to have won freedom for her.
self, she returned to the South
at least 19 times to lead
others to freedom in the North
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

and Canada.
Rewards of up to $4,000
were offered for her capture,
but she was never taken, nor did
she ever lose a passenger on
her Underground Railroad.
During the Civil War, Miss
Tubman served as scout for
the Union Army.
After the war she settled in
her Auburn home, which had
frequently been used as a way
| station on the Underground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Coast Guard Unit
AfIoot Is Opened

ANNAPOLIS, July 10 (AP).
- The Coast Guard commits
stoned a new waterborne sta
ton here yesterday with an
assist from Gov. Tawes and
Mayor Joseph H. Griscom, ST.,
of Annapolis.
The station, located on a
houseboat which sleeps 10 men,
is the prototype of a unit that
may some day be in general
operation by the service. An
other is to be commissioned in
Florida soon.
The house boat, so feet long
and 20 feet wide, consists of
two decks of living quarters, an
office and radio room, and
storage facilities. Two patrol
boats will operate from it.
The houseboat is moored at
the Coast Guard pier in the
Eastport section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Driving Charges
Cost Man $500
In Prince Georges

An Elkridge MD man con-
victed Of speeding and reckless
driving yesterday was SEN
fenced to $500 or five months
In jail by Prince Georges
County Peoples Court Judge
William H. McGrath.
Warning that this kind Of
driving will not be tolerated
in Prince Georges County, I"
Judge McGrath imposed the
sentence on Stanley Lee john
son, 81. ....
State Police Corpl. Wilbur
Wells testified he paced John
son on Route 301 at speeds UP
to IS miles per hour while the
car "zig-zagged three or four
times across the lanes"
Judge McGrath found john
son guilty of exceeding 70
miles an hour and reckless
driving. The defendant indi-
Gated he will appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Man in Argument
Totally Stabbed

A man was shot at and then
fatally stabbed during an argu-
ment in the Capitol View COM
munity off Kenilworh avenue
in Prince Georges County last
night.
County police said James B
Bond, 81, who lived in Capitol
View. died at Prince Georges
General Hospital at 1888 pm,
about an hour after the stab
bling.
Detective E. G. HuSk said
the victim, a laborer, was fired
at by one man and then stabbed
in the chest by another near
his home.
One suspect was picked UP in
the District by Metropolitan
Police about 8 am. and turned
over to county police. Detective
Husk identified him as Lionly
Junior Witherspoon, 81, a jan
itor, of the 5000 block of Thayer
street NE, and said he was the
man who fired a pistol at the
victim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
DC. Job Agency Curbs
Are Sought by Morse

agency industry informed the
committee last year that II
would take the necessary steps
to bring its own house in order
However, I would like to call to
the attention Of the Senate =.
that there has been no evil
dence to this hour that any
action has been taken by the
industry to curb or curtail the
malpractices which have de-
veloped in the industry in the
Nations Capital"
District officials have said
that the existing law covering
regulation of employment
agencies needs to be strength
ened in order to maintain eff
fective supervision over these
agencies.
One major provision ir
Senator Morse's bill calls for
establishment of an advisory
board to the District Commits
sioners. The legislation would
authorize the Commissioners to
outlaw, by regulation, the al
legged malpractices Of agencies
such as Misrepresentation OF
jobs, false advertising and fee
splitting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Montgomery Tops Area
InAverogeH House Value

Iof properties surveyed came to
$2,324,612,000.
In nearby Maryland, the
gross assessed value is: Mont
gomery County. $1,160,14 900,
and Prince Georges. $753,124,-
900.
And in nearby Virginia, Fair
fax County leads at $3.50, 200,-
900. Arlington is next at 1884,
121, 900 and Alexandria at
$170,251, 900.
Another finding in the report
is that nationwide. local real
estate assessments made up 76
per cent Of the general property
tax bases. local valuations of
personal property Is per cent
and State-set valuations the
remaining 8 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
2lS HAVE RECORDS
Foirfox Study Cites
Danger of PeddIers

to-door statesmen to register
with police us worth absolutely
nothing" because no investiga-
tons are conducted before
permits are issued, Supervisor
Anne wilkins said. f'r
I'VE need some protection for
the housewife" Mrs. Wilkins
said. She said she had received
complaints about door-to-door
statesmen from q number Of
residents.
Mr.. Massey said the county
discontinued its practice of
issuing cards to registered
statesmen because residents in
terpreted the cards to mean the
statesmen had been investigated
by the county.
The situation is q definite
hazard to the citizens" Mr..
Massey said. He suggested that
police investigate statesmen Ito
determine their fitness before
permits are issued" The board
voted to ask Mr.. Massey to
draft an ordinance providing
for investigations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

will be held for them in the
main ballroom of the National
Press Club.
At 9:45 am. Wednesday,
President Kennedy will receive
the delegates at the White
House.
After the reception, the boys
will attend a luncheon at Le-
gion National Headquarters,
1903 K street NV. James E.
Powers Of Macon, Ga, ma
tional commander of the Le-
gion, will address the group.
The boys will stay at Hartford
Hall on the campus of the
University of Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

More than 200 door-to-door
statesmen in Fairfax County
have criminal records ranging
from convictions for being
drunk in public to quite sub
stantial charges" County Ex-
ecutive Carlton C. Massey said
today.
A police investigation of The
1927 statesmen who are regis
tered with the Police De-
partment disclosed that 218
have criminal records. Mr..
Massey told the Board Of
County Supervisors.
The law which requires door,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Maryland Legion
Backs School Prayers

BALTIMORE, July 10 (AP)
The Maryland Department OF
the American Legion has ap-
proved a resolution supporting
a proposed Constitutional
amendment to permit voluntary
Bible reading and prayer in
public schools.
The LegionnaireS, attending
their 45th State conven-
ton, also approved resolutions
supporting increased pay and
benefits for service personnel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Report Backs
KennedyPIon
For District

The Senate District Com
mittee defended President
Kennedy's revenue program for
the city in q lengthy report
filed today in the Senate.
A flexible payment and loan
formula gearing Federal aid to
tax values was substituted by
the committee for lump sums
cleared by the House.
The Senate bill would yield
a payment of $50 million and
a loan ceiling Of 1929 million
next year. The House figures
are $45 million for the pay
ment and SITS million for the
loan limit.
IF experience of the past is
any criterion Of the future fis-
cal needs of the District, then
we can expect expenditures to
rise inexorably in the years
ahead" the committee report
said.
Expenses Of the District gov
eminent have risen through
the last decade at a rate about
) per cent annually, the COM
mittee noted, while revenues
have been rising S.5 per cent
AS District population de-
clined by 10000, school age
population increased % per
cent and the aged % per cent.
So, the committee reasoned
that the cost Of services the
community must bear has in
creased substantially, although
the number Of working, adult
taxpayers has decreased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

summer. The program here
runs through July 81.
The boys will study the basic
operations OF the Federal Gov
eminent and operate q simu-
lated Government of their own.
Operating as a Senate, they
will elect a president and vice
president and organize a cabi-
net. They also will discuss and
vote on two bills now pending
before Congress.
The first bill proposes Fed
eral contribution to the cost of
election campaigns of candi-
dates for Federal office and the
second calls for creation of a
cabinet-level urban affairs and
housing department.
At noon Tuesday, a luncheon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Cor Toe Postage Fees

Maryland motorists are re-
minded by John r. Jewell,
Commissioner of Motor We
hicles, that a new State law
requires that postage fees be
included with applications for
new license tags. The postage
fees are IA cents for trailer
tags, s cents for motorcycles,
and 26 cents for automobile
and truck plates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
Trucking Aide to Talk

Robert L. McHale, public re-
lations representative for
American Trucking Associa-
tons, Inc, will speak at a
luncheon meeting of the Ser
toma Club of Washington at
1915 pm. Tuesday in the Will
lard Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

To the surprise of no one in
Montgomery County, the aver
age value Of houses there is
the highest in the Washington
area, a Census Bureau report
shows.
The average value Of houses
in the county was $23, 400 dur
ing q six-month period In 1861,
when the Bureau undertook its
1862 Census of Governments
released today.
This puts Montgomery among
the dozen top priced counties
in the country with a popula-
ton Of $4,000 or more, a Cen
sus official said. Greenwich
Conn, leads counties through
out the country with houses
selling at an average $37 800
The second most valuable
property in the area is in Fair
fax County, Va, where the
average selling price Of a home
is $4,000. Arlington follows at
$4,000.
Alexandria After d. C.
In the District, the Census
shows, houses average $4,000
Next in order in the metopoli-
tan area are Alexandria, at
$17,400 and Prince Georges
County at $16,400.
The census, taken every five
years, also reveals that real
estate values in the United
States rose by about 80 per
cent over the previous Bureau
count.
Valuations officially "as-
sessed" by local government
officials on taxable realty were
considerably less, averaging only
about 80 per cent Of the cur
rent market value. On the total
real estate value, assessments
totaled only about 1882 billion
for example.
Gross Assessed Values
In Washington, the Census
shows, the gross assessed value
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19

A bill to regulate private EN-
ployment agencies In the Dis
trict has been introduced by
Senator Morse, Democrat Of
Oregon. --e
A similar measure was re-
ported out last year by the
Senate District Committee. The
bill, however, failed to clear
the Senate during the final
days Of the session.
In introducing the bill yes
terday, Senator Morse said:
THE private employment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-19
100 Teen-Agers Due
ForLeqion Boys Nation

hundred teenage delegates the Boys Nation
OF the American Legion arrive in Washington today
their National Government study program.
The delegates high school juniors and who
tended American Legion Boys State programs earlier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
COrpOrdfeList
Gains,FederaI
Bonds Steady

NEW YORK CAP)-Corpo-
rate bond prices turned upward
last week after months of indie
cision.
Not since the week Of June
1921 has the Associated Press
average of so issues traded on
the New York Stock Exchange
posted an overall increase. It
did this week although none of
the advances was spectacular.
Government bond prices
ended a three-week rising trend
to close mostly unchanged in
some Of the dullest trading in
months. In fact, activity was
so light on Wednesday and
.Thursday that dealers de-
Scribed the market as at a
standstill.
These two days conceded
with the first and second
games of the World Series In
New York and many market
regulars were away from their
desks during the hours of the
games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK (AP). The following bid
and asked quotations, supplied by the
National Association Of Securities Dealers,
Inc, reflect prices at which securities
could have been sold or bought:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK (AP)-over the Counter
US. Government Treasury bonds, weekly
high, low and closing asked prices, the
net change from the previous weeks
ba1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

Win bankruptcy or receivership or
being reorganized under the Bankruptcy
Act, or securities assumed by such com
panies. XXX interest. ct-Certificates
St Stamped. f-Dealt in fiat. x-Matured
bonds, negotiability impaired by maturity
nd-Next day delivery. xw-Ex warrants
fn-FOreign issue subject TO proposed
interest equalization tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

Unless otherwise noted, rates of dividends In the
foregoing table are annual disbursements based on
the last quarterly i-annual declaration Special
Ior extra dividends or payments not designated as
regular identified in the following foOtnotes.
a-Also extra or extras 6-Annqal rate plus STOCK
in 1858 plus stock dividend ePaid last year f-Pay-
able in stock during 1885, estimated cash value on
exdvidend or redistribution date g-Declared paid
so Ear this year h-Decared or paid after stock
dividend or split up k-Declared paid this year,
an accumuative issue with dividends in arrears. p
Paid this year. dividend omitted, deferred or no action
taken al last dividend meeting. DECLARED paid
in 1852 plus stock dividend. t-Paid in stock during
1862, estimated cash value, on ex-dividend or ex
distribution date.
cld-CaIied Xxx dividend y-Ex Dividend and
sales in full x-dis-Ex distribution xxx rights.
Without warrants. ww-With warrants. wd-When dis
tributed wi-When issued nd-Next day delivery.
Win bankruptcy or recevership being reor-
ganzed under the Bankruptcy Act, securities as
sumed by such companies nFOreign issue subject to
proposed interest equalization tax.
Navajo times., 1963-05-09
Military Invites
Nuvuio's To Show

Special to Navajo Times--The
Armed Forces have extended
special invitation to members Of
the Navajo Tribe to attend the
Armed Forces Day public open
house Saturday, May II at Kirkland
Air Force Base in Albuquerque.
Navajos who attend the open
house, which begins at nine in the
morning and ends at four in the
afternoon, will see the largest
military shoWinS Southwest history.
There will be no charge to at
tend Armed Forces Day