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Anonymous Tip Raises Cry for Police Inquiry Wiley Thinks Letter Accusing Captain Has 'Ring of Authenticity' An anonymous letter detailing a police captain’s improved for tunes after his promotion is one of the reasons behind fresh demands for a congressional investigation of Washington crime, it was learned today. The letter was believed to come from a numbers writer. It was one "Fascination" Game at Ocean City Ruled All Chance, No Skill. Page A-S of the letters which Senator Wiley, Republican, of Wisconsin, said had a ‘‘clear ring of authenticity.” Senator Wiley, a member of the outgoing crime committee, has led demands for a full-scale inqury into crime and alleged corruption here. Little Encouragement Given. Senator Wiley apparently was referring to this letter when he commented on the wealth of cer tain law enforcement officers— ‘‘wealth which even on its very face is completely disproportion ate to the amount of income which they would have from their regular duties.” The agitation to ask some pointed questions on the basis of this and other anonymous letters, as well as on the revelations turned up by the Senat Crime In vestigating Committee in its Prince Georges County inquiry has met little encouragement so far. There are these developments: 1. Chairman Neely of the Sen ate District Committee said he would renew his appeal for $50,000 to finance a District crime in vestigation, but Chairman Hayden of the Senate Rules Committee, which has to pass on the request, l told newsmen: ‘‘The object of any hearing is legislation, not to put some one in jail, or get a newspaper head line. Senator Kefauver’s com- j mittee (the Senate Crime Investi gating Committee) held hearings and is now working on bills as the result of the hearings. What’s the use of more hearings to ac complish the same thing?” Case Wants Investigation. 2. After the House-passed Davis bill to curb District crime had slumbered in the Judiciary sub committee of the Senate District Committee for nearly three months, the subcommittee chair man, Senator Johnston, Demo crat, of South Carolina, suddenly announced he will open hearings on it Thursday. This coincided, with Senator Hayden telling newsmen he had asked Senator Neely: “Why do you want to investigate crime when you already have the bill passed by the House they have worked on two years?” Holding out for a new investi gation was Senator Case, Repub lican, of South Dakota, ranking minority member of the Senate District Committee. It was his original resolution, backed by sev eral others, that prompted the District Committee to decide last April that it would conduct a District crime investigation. The! unfulfilled request for $50,000 fol lowed. , Expects Republican Backing. Senator Case said he had talked with Republican members of the Rules Committee and felt certain most of the minority members would vote for the $50,000. Senator Case said it would be “naive” to think that Charles E. Nelson, admitted numbers backer and key figure in the Crime Com mittee’s inquiry, “could be operat ing that kind of game anywhere else nearby and not operate it within the District.” As for the projected public hearings on the Davis bill, Sen ator Case said they probably would be devoted to a discussion of changes ip the law. “It might take a new crime investigation to assure passage,” he added. “The smoking axle gets the grease.” Barrett Welcomes Probe. Meanwhile, Police Chief Robert J. Barrett said through an inter- ! mediary that his department j would welcome any investigation! of reported police tie-ups with gamblers. An aide, Lt. Lewis Peters, said Maj. Barrett, who is on leave at Virginia Beach, could be quoted as saying, “If any one of us has done wrong, there’s a grand jury and let justice take its course.” Maj. Barrett was quoted as say ing that anonymous letters mean nothing, that he gets them him self and keeps them on file and that if he were shown the letters he could come close to identifying them. The police chief, according to Lt. Peters, said he has offered to co-operate in the current District grand jury probe of gambling but so far his department has not been asked to help. The grand jury probe, which is centering on Nelson, is scheduled to resume tomorrow with eight or 10 more witnesses. Most of those called were mentioned in some phase of the Senate Crime Com mittee’s Prince Georges County hearings. Arlington Man Injured In Fall From Ladder A Washington dairy employe is in Arlington Hospital today with internal injuries he suffered when he fell from a ladder about 7 p.m. yesterday as he was painting near the top of his two-story home. v He is William Corder, 37, of 2029 North Taylor street, Arling ton. ' * Members of the family said Mr Corder fell when the ladder slipped. FASHIONS—READERS' CLEARING HOUSE SOCIETY—AMUSEMENTS Tighter Election Laws Sought By Senate Unit Group Will Consider Control Proposals at Hearing Next Month Public hearings to consider a general overhauling of election laws to curb objectionable cam paign practices and reduce the cost of running for public office will be held by a Senate subcom mittee next month. The hearings were announced today for September 13 and 1$ by Chairman Gillette of the Sen ate Elections Subcommittee, which investigated the controversial Tydings - Butler campaign in Maryland last year. The subcom mittee also is planning an inquiry into the I£so Ohio campaign. Senator Gillette sent identical letters today to Guy Gabrielson, chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee, and to William Boyle, chairman of the Demo cratic National Committee, ask ing them to testify on September 13 and aid the subcommittee with any suggestions they may have. Without mentioning by name the Maryland campaign in which Republican Senator Butler de feated former Democratic Senator Tydings, the Gillette letter said: “Our own investigations of the recent election indicate real need of amendatory legislation dealing with the expanding use of de famatory or scurrilous literature in a campaign and also the rapid ly mounting cost of conducting elections to these Federal offices which, if allowed to continue, may well prevent candidates of mod erate means from presenting their candidacies to the electorate. “Our studies will certainly ex tend into the field of possible amendment to the Corrupt Prac tices Act and all legislative mat ters pertaining to elections for the Federal offices referred to.” Senate Crime Croup Submits Last of Bills The Senate Crime Investigating Committee today prepared its final findings for Congress after submitting the last of 23 bills aimed at making things tougher! for big-time gamblers and racket- j eers. Committee aides said six bills! introduced late yesterday byi Chairman O'Conor, in behalf of the five-man committee, wind up the committee's legislative pro gram. The last half-dozen bills would: 1. Put on the books a definite law to cover the present practices of serving subpoenas for congres sional committees. This is to pre vent the subpoenas being chal lenged later for lack of law. 2. Authorize the sergeant at arms of either House to call on Federal law enforcement agencies for help in catching persons known to be ducking subpoenas from congressional committees. 3. Stiffen the provisions in the Internal Revenue Code to im pose enforceable penalties on those who file inaccurate returns along with their “occupational taxes” on slot machines and liq uor. 4. Give Government prosecutors the right to appeal *to a higher court when a judge grants a mo tion to suppress the evidence at the outset of a criminal trial. 5. Attack what the committee j has described as a S2O million lot-: tery operation in Pennsylvania by making it illegal to publish, dis tribute or sell lottery tickets based on information, appearing in offi cial Federal publications. 6. Strengthen existing laws dealing with interstate liquor traf fic into States where its sale is; prohibited. 1 Dog Days and a 500-Pound Blue Marlin Hit Our Ocean City Correspondent Editor’s Note: The dog days of August do strange things to people. Small boys are warned to leave off swimming in stag nant pools, dogs go mad. Our Ocean City correspondent writes about 500-pound blue marlin. By » Summer Resident Prom Washington. OCEAN CITY. Md.. Aug. 20 (Delayed).—Sporting circles in this Oceanside resort are agog over reports that a party aboard the Ella Ex, Capt. Ovid Little strom, recently hooked a blue marlin. This big fish was on the line some six hours. Capt. Littlestrom estimated its weight at about 500 pounds. This is not large for blue marlin, as they run as high as 1,500 pounds. White marlin run from 40 to 140 pounds. Only two blue marlin ever have been caught off Ocean City. Your correspondent located D. Hamilton Barnes, who had the Ella Ex under charter when the exciting event occurred, and se cured for himself an exclusive in terview. Mr. Barnes was enjoying an after-breakfast pipe on the porch of the Vamardel Hotel and graciously talked at length about the spectacular experience. "I own a dairy farm up near Gophersburg in Frederick County," he said. “This is my first trip to the ocean, although I have been fishing on the Potomac and on the bay a few times with Harvey Jones, Howard Drake, Dave Col laday and that bunch from Wash ington. The way I happened to come down here was that my daughter met a fellow named Joe something at college and he lives down here at Berlin. So nothing would do but the Mrs. and I must come down to Ocean City. We’ve been here about a week. “Well, the other day this Joe \ ; Si lmL **lk Jwm ipalM gjPjj m m 4rl WhM fITJB Bar. oßelm Sir jH Ww rlflPMr _ fljWry ' Wii- B A Iff! IHW Jslw. Wisßgt note Iff B f j, 'Hi f ■ < THEY PICKET FOR FREEDOM—Fifty to 60 American Czech refugees form a grim line as they walk up and down in front of the White House, in an appeal to President Trurpan to refuse to accept the credentials of the new Czech Ambassador, Dr. Vladimir Prochazka. The sol emn line were protesting Red injustices to themselves and their countrymen. In front are Eva Josko, 11, and Eliska Hasek, 10, refugees who escaped through Austria to this country from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1948. Eva is the daughter of Josko, former member of Parliament and undersecretary of finance who escaped from a Red jail to follow his family. —Star Staff Photo. Commissioners Name Martin to Succeed Dent as Tax Assessor Deputy Assessor James L. Mar gin, 55, today was named district assessor by the Commissioners, to succeed Edward A. Dent, who re tires September 30. Mr. Martin, who entered District service in 1914 as a $2.50-a-day stenographer with the Public Util ities Commission at the age of 18. was named deputy assessor last year. Previously he headed the per sonal property tax division as an assistant assessor for eight years. , In his new position his salary goes from SB,BOO to $11,200 a year. In 1917 Mr. Martin served with the Army overseas and saw service as an ambulance driver in the front lines. He returned to the District in 1919 t as a stenographer in the Engineer Department. He then was named assistant secretary to the Board of Commissioners, at the same time serving as secretary to the Engineer Commissioner. From 1927 until 1930 he was research assistant to the People’s Counsel. He then became an | accountant with the PUC and j later executive secretary, a posi tion he held until 1940. Mr. Martin left the District and went to California in 1940. He Was with a theater chain there until he came back to the District in 1942, serving briefly as a special investigator in the budget office. Married and the father of a son, Mr. Martin lives at 4501 1 Garrison street N.W. and my Mary came and said, ‘Pop, you gotta go marlin fishihg! I didn’t want to go but after we had an argument, Mary began crying and it seems she wanted to go but the Mrs. wouldn’t let her with just Joe along. Finally, of course, I i said I would go. So Joe made the arrangements with Capt. Little strom. "We had breakfast along about sun-up and went down to the dock. The Ella Ex is a tidy little boat, about as long as from here | to the edge of the boardwalk. It had a cabin and an open deck, ' with four of those little swivel ; chairs fastened to the floor at the hind end. It had a radio and all 1 the fixings. The captain and an other young fellow made up the ' crew. Out Through the Inlet. - “We took off and went down the , bay and out through the inlet i into the ocean. . “ ‘lt’s a grand day,’ Capt. Little ' strom said, ‘almost a perfect one. , Not a cloud. And the ocean is per „ fectly calm, just a slow ground swell.’ ‘Yea,’ says Joe, ‘just like the country up around your farm, 1 Mr. Barnes.’ "Personally I thought it was a : little hot, as the sun got high up. 1 But we were coming back about 1 one or two o’clock, so I relaxed and settled' down to sit it out. i They rigged up a tackle for each of the three of us, and a couple or three hours out we put them cjver Wit ffoening flfaf mm ■fey , JAMES L. MARTIN. New tax assessor. i 4M ! District Will Invite Bids On Work at Blue Plains The Commissioners today ap proved advertisements for bids on erection of a new infirmary and laundry at the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains. The construction will cost about! $3.4 million. One month will be, allowed from the date of adver tisement to the date for receipt of bids. The building program will take about two years, and when it is finished some 200 senile patients now at St. Elizabeths can be moved there. The home now has a popu lation of 460. The new building will replace a 45-year-old two-story structure at Blue Plains, which probably will bfe used for recreation purposes. board and took our seats in the swivel chairs to see what would happen. “There were a number Os other boats out, perhaps a dozen, and we all went round and round and to and fro in a great circle. The cap tains * talked to each other over their short wave radios. But no body had any strikes. “ ‘There must be something scaring these fish,’ said Capt. Littlestrom. Along about noon we ate our lunch, but still no bites. “It was about an hour later that I began to notice that the cucumber sandwich I had had for lunch must not have been real fresh. Things don’t usually dis agree with me, but stfle vegetables like cucumbers are sometimes not so good for me. And it was about the same time that I became con scious of that slow ground swell. I don’t know if you ever noticed it or not. It’s a long, slow up, then a long down, then slow up, then down, slow up, down, up, down. And the skyline at the horizon wobbles a bit. Like Train Hitting a Calf. “That was when it struck. My bait was out about 50 or 75 yards, I guess. Well, if the Capitol Limit ed had hit a calf on a down grade, it couldn’t have been more sudden or stronger hit. My line began to run out, and my reel sang. Mary and this Joe began to yell and holler. Everybody screamed and gave me advice. As a matter of fact, there was nothing to do. He was running and that was that. After a while he semed to stop and I began to reel in. The captain turned the boat toward the fish. I reeled in. Then he began to run. All of a'sudden he jumped out of the water. What an animal. He was as big as a Hereford heifer. The captain began to yell ’he’s a blue, he’s a blue’ You gotta blue!’ Well, if that was a blue it was ■c Girls, 10 and 11, Lead Pickets In Protest Against Red Czechs A parade of pickets milling around the White House this morning when Dr. Vladimir Pro chazka arrived included a pair hardly old enough to carry a pick et sign, and yet old enough to remember the grim privations of Comrpunist terrorism. , The new Czechoslovakian Am bassador to the United States drove his big black limousine* through a line in which a 10-year old an an 11-year-old girl carried signs proclaiming: “We are the victims of Commu nist terror.” The girls smiled grimly as the new Ambassador drove into the White House grounds in a big, black limousine. Leading the picket line, Eva Josko, 11, of 1850 Monroe street N.W., and Eliska Hasek. 10, of 2800 Porter street N.W., were proud to hold their signs. Recalls Flight From “I’m glad I can help my coun try somehow,” Eva said. She re membered her flight from death, or enslavement, from her home in 1948. and how long it seemed before “papa” was able to escape from prison. The children were followed in the line by two older men who carried a sign asking, “Are you going to show Truman the list of your slave camps?” Eva’s “papa,” MateJ Josko. for mer member of the Czech Parlia ment and undersecretary of finance, was proud, too. He’s part of the Council of Free Czechoslo vakia which, with the American Sokol, a free Czechoslovak party, sponsored the protest today the biggest one I ever saw. I have caught some good-sized blues chumming down in the bay with Harvey Jones and A1 Lee and the boys. “But it seems that the cap tain meant a blue marlin, whereas the marlin they catch l\ere are white. Such excitement you never saw. It was like we had hooked a tarpon in the Potomac River. “I g*ve Mary the tackle to handle for a while, but after I got rid of that cucumber sand wich I felt batter. That was about 2 or 2:30 o’clock. We followed that beast around and around, and to and fro, all over the ocean. The other boat captains were chattering like mad over their short wave. It seems that only two blue marlin have ever been caught off Ocean City. They get to be 1,500 pounds in weight sometimes. Capt. Littlestrom and this Joe boy were near crazy with excitement. Round and Round for Hour. “Round and round we went for another hour. By that time I be came conscious of that half canta loupe I had had for breakfast. When that was gone I began to feel sort of bad and laid down in the little cabin. That slow ground swell la not just up, i;against the new Ambassador pre senting his credentials to Presi-' ■ dent Truman. Eliska’s father, Josef Hasek.! . also a former member of the! Czech Parliament, is a nexport importer here. And Eliska was | f just as proud—“Oh, yes. If this help 6, I’m glad.”—to join the pro . test against communism. >i Dr. Josko used to be a journal ist. “But I left the paper in 1939,” ■ he recalled. “I couldn’t be a Nazi i either.” Went Into Politics. The war years, he said, were hard for him and his family, but : when his country was liberated he :!went into politics. “And then,” , and he shrugged his shoulders, "the Communists put me in prison, i Luckily, my family escaped to ; Austria.” ■, Another spokesman for the 50 ‘•to 60 free Czechs, who picketed ithe White House for an hour, said; jthey wouldn’t work like the Reds 'force citizens to work in the old, ’ countr>. “In Czechoslovakia,” he said, ! “the Communists force people to I picket the American Embassy. But ,;we won't picket their Embassy here.” The reporter had to walk around 1 the long circle with him as he l 1 said: ! ‘We’re quiet and serious heije. We want Otis freed. We want the church freed, the forced laborers . freed. W want a nw, dmocratic ■ Czchoslovakia.” Ex-Envoy Looks On. ; Watching the demonstration • was Dr. Juraj Slavic, Ambassador 1 from Czechoslovakia here until the . Reds usurped power. Although he r and his wife did not take part in land then slow down, like a slow elevator. The boat tips every time. Front up, tail down, thefT front up, tail down. Over and over. And side to side, too, a sort of slow roll. “Mary and this Joe took turns handling the rod, with the cap tain giving advice. Twice they got that fish up'close to the boat, al most close enough for the captain to whack at it with that hook he has. I go up each time to see him. Then the fish took off again, fresh as a daisy. “You know they say that mind controls matter. But I doubt if that is true. My mind was fully persuaded that after so much there was no more movable material in my insides. But the fool muscles in my throat and stomach disagreed with that and just kept on trying. That got pretty tiresome and along about 5 o’clock I suggested that we go home. Well, this Joe almost had a fit. He said we just couldn’t give up a blue marlin, it was an event in all our lives, nobody except a couple'''©! big sports from Phila delphia and New York had ever caught a blue marlin here, and so on and so on. He was pretty mad at my suggestion and so was the captain. So I laid down again but I was not feeling so good. Wanted to Be Buried. “Along about 6 o’clock I called Mary over to me and told her to tell her' mother that I had thought of her. and that I wanted to be buried in the Methodist graveyard at Damestown. Mary just patted me and said I was only seasick. But I guess I knew how really bad off I was. I was pretty close, to the border, I tell you. This Joe, he laughed and said, ‘For Heaven’s sakes, be a sport. Tomorrow you’ll be okeh, and you can brag on hooking a blue WASHINGTON NEWS—COMICS—RADIC TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1951 Alexandria Hospital Forbids Adoptions Through Third Party | The Alexandria Hospital Board of Directors voted last night to ban all "third party” adoptions of tobies born in the hospital. The action means any mother, j hospitalized there, who wants to place her child for adoption will have to go to the city’s three licensed agencies—the Public Wel fare Department, Catholic Char ities of Northern Virginia and the Children’s Home Society of North ern Virginia. Heretofore, there have been many instances in which doctors or lawyers arranged for the adop tion while the mother was in the hospital. As a result, the licensed agencies have complained their adoption programs have been hampered seriously. State law requires adoptions to be handled by licensed agencies, except that a mother may do so directly with a prospective foster : parent. The Alexandria Bar Association .will be asked to consider reports of illegal placement of babies for adoption by third parties at its. September 6 meeting. The Arling-1 ton Bar Association already has appointed a committee to study similar reports there. the picket line, they watched grimly. The group, which carried out their demonstration in an orderly way. failed to attract more than the usual number of onlookers. A few policemen on special duty there had nothing to do, as the picketers broke up quietly after Dr. Prochazka left the White House. marlin. So they all refused to go home. - “Round and round, to and fro, slow up, slow down, front up, tail down, tail up, front down, this side down, that side down, they went for another hour. Every once in a while that animal would jump out of the water, and they yelled. I was getting pretty weak, by then. I could just barely raise my head. “Then when I happened to roll slightly more than usual, after holding my head over the side for the thousandth time, my hand happened to hit a small penknife I carry in my left pants pocket. Faint and exhausted though I was, I studied the possibilities care fully. Finally I gathered all my remaining strength, and sat up. Then I stood up and walked back to one of the swivel chairs. “I said to Joe, who was holding onto the rod, ‘Well. I am feeling better. Let me handle him for. a while.’ We argued a little but he gave in, and Mary went with him into the cabin. I carefully slipped my penknife out and opened it. That big brute of a fish jumped out of the water. “I cut the Mr. Barnes said. . Extra Police Pay On Holidays Gets Senate Approval 6 Other D. C. Bills Passed, One Going To White House The Senate yesterday passed seven District bills, including one to pay extra compensation for po lice and firemen working on holi days. The measure would apply to members of the Metropolitan, White House and Park Police forces and the District Fire De partment. It would provide that a man se- I quired to work six hours or more ! on holidays would receive an ex i tra day’s pay in addition to his regular day’s pay for that work. One of the measures approved by the Senate had been passed previously by the House and now goes to the White House for the President’s signature. It would transfer, from the Controller of the Currency to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, jurisdiction over building and loan associations here. Others Go to House. I The other bills, including the pay bill for police and firemen, went to the House for considera tion. Among them were measures to:’ Authorize the District Commis | soners to redeem cigarette or alco \ holic beverage tax stamps that had i been spoiled or destroyed before i they were used. \ Authorize the cancellation or settlement of claims of the Dis | trict against the estates of recip \ ients of old-age assistance. | Amend the boiler inspection act \ to delegate to the District Com- II missioners the power to determine, after hearings, the classes of bail ers that should be subject to in spection. Memorial to Olson. Designate the triangle bounded by Connecticut avenue, Q street, and Twentieth street N.W. as a memorial to the late Floyd B. Olson, former Governor of Minne sota. Transfer from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Maryland-Na tional Capital Park and Planning Commission 32 acres of land to be used for public park, parkway and playground purposes. The prop erty is part of the former animal disease station of the Bureau of Animal Industry and would be in cluded in the proposed Little Falls Branch Parkway. ( The measure was approved by | the National Capital Park and . Planning Commission as “entirely justifiable, particularly in view of .! the fact that the population in i'crease has been greatly acceler ated by the recent establishment |of the National Institutes of Health and the National Naval \ Medical Center in the Bethesda ’ area.” . Four bills of local interest were : blocked by objections from the [ floor when called up during con sideration of the Senate calendar. School Purchase Debated. Provoking the most debate and finally delayed by objection of Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee was proposed purchase of the Longwood School, now being rented for the Federal Civil Defense Technical Training School. Senator McKellar made his objection while presiding over ] the Senate. Other bills also blocked and held on the calendar for future consideration would: Provide home rule for Wash ington; objected to by Senator Ellender. Democrat, of Louisiana. Permit charitable institutions to invest in preferred stock; objected to by Senator Chavez, Democrat, of New Mexico. Provide for medical tests of alcohol in persons involved in traffic accidents. The long pending resolution by Chairman Neely of the Senate District Committee to discharge the committee from consideration of the nome rute bill was finally removed from Ml calendar, since the unit has approved the bill and placed it elsewhere on the calendar. Radar and Guns Encircle District in AA Drills Units of the 45th AAA Brigade were moving into radar and gun stations around Washington to day for a repetition of the field training obtained during “Exercise Metro” last fall. The brigade, which is based at Fort Meade. Md., is rimming the city with 90-mm. and 120-mm. guns, along with communications and radar networks. Air Force units will simulate bombing runs over the area to give the ground defenders practice in spotting, aiming and “firing.” Free Star Movies Playground Film Program for Tonight Programs presented through the co-operation of the District of Columbia Recreation Department and the Film Center of Washing ton. Washington, at Dusk. Georgetown. Thirty-fourth and Volta place N.W. Twin Oaks, Fourteenth and Tay lor streets N.W. Turkey Thicket, Tenth street and Michigan avenue N.E. Benning, Burns and C streets S.E. Jefferson, Eighth and H streets S.W. Hillcrest, Thirty-second and Denver streets S.E. Parkview, Otis and Warder streets N.W. Bundy, 429 O street N.W. Carver, Whittingham and Lane streets N.E. Barry Farms, 1230 Sumner road S.E. > B ***