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Evening star., 1946-02-03

1t must constantly be pumped
out and the fear has been expressed
that someday it will sink. Several
times it has sunk until it rested on
the muddy bottom of the Potomac
at the Water Gate. Since then,
however, channel has been
dredged into its berth so that any
barge moored at the gate must float
or else.
1t is kept on an even keel by
ballast, consisting of piles of bricks
stacked here and there, and ac-
commodations for performers are
woefully inadequate, he said.
Attended by 1000, 900.
The budget request has been
made, Mr.. Thompson pointed out,
because the concerts and other per-
formances at the Water Gate have
become increasingly popular since
they were started 10 years ago. The
park office estimated yesterday O.
100000 persons have attended them.
The National Symphony Orches-
ira has presented 1877 concerts. The
San Carlo Opera Co. has given 40
performances. The list of perform
ers includes such names as Jessica
Dragonette. Kristen Flagstad, Helen
Traubel, Paul Robson, Alec Tenn
pleton, Frank Sinatra, the Don Cos
sack Chorus and Mischa Elman.
The stage of the new barge could
be adjusted SO that symphony by
itself would play on stage. In case
an operate orchestra were to play
for a performance occupying the
stage, an orchestra pit of sufficient
dimensions would be used.
Since the money requested would
not be expendable until after July
/, 1916, it is doubtful if the new
barge could be built in time for this
summers programs.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Speedy House Action
On Hospital Sought

Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee yesterday plan
ned to seek prompt committee &C.
ton on revised version of the
Senate bill providing for construc-
ton of l,500-bed hospital center
here at cost of S20,000,O00.
A new draft of the measure was
submitted to the full committee yes
terday by the Fiscal Affairs subcom-
mittee, without recommendation as
to final financial provisions.
AS the measure now stands the
subcommittee has stricken the sec
ton proposed by the Federal
Works Agency requiring the District
Government to repay the United
States for one-third of the site and
construction costs, with interest,
over a period of 25 years.
The bill, passed by the Senate
last May, was sponsored there by
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, and Chairman Bilbo of
the Senate District Committee. The
Senate bill provided that ne-third
OF the original costs be repaid over
80 years, with interest at per cent
by the non-profit private hospitals
participating in the center.
Under either plan the private
would carry all mainte-
mace and operating costs. 1t has
been argued they would not have
the resources to repay third of the
construction costs. On the other
hand, the Commissioners have in
sisted the District Government can
not and should not be required to
assume this burden.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
|C. & 0. Canal Is Filled
BY Conduit Overflow;
Fish 10 Be Stocked

The ONCE of National Capita
Parks announced yesterday the
C. & o. Canal would be full OF
water today from Anglers Inn. near
Potomac. Md. to Washington.
Irving c. Root, Parks superin-
tendent, said water borrowed
from one of the Washington con-
duits has been flowing into the
canal since mid-week.
At the same time. it was an
nourced that the Fish and Wildlife
Service of the Interior Department
would stock the canal this spring
with large-mouth black bass and
blue-gilled sunfish for the sport of
canal users.
Water to fill the canal can be OBJ
tanned at this time, officials said
because Army engineers are clean
ing one of the conduits. A spillway
to divert water from the conduit is
located near Anglers Inn.
Formerly water was allowed tn
flow back into the Potomac River
from the conduit but this wear is
being sent into the canal instead
Since a certain amount of water
remaining in the stretch of canal
from Great Falls upstream to Lock
2S near Seneca, Md, the Wide
water section just below Great Falls
now remains the only portion of
the historic waterway not filed.
A flash flood in 1912 damaged
the Whitewater section. which
awaits major repairs before being
filled again.
Water for the entire stretch of
canal from Seneca to Lock 5
near Brookmont is ordinarily pro-
vided by a diversion dam at SEN
eca. To keep this water from run
ming back into the river through
breaches in the Whitewater area
embankments, stop-lock lust
above the breaks has been low
ered into place. A Golfer dam lust
below keeps water from the con-
quit from backing up and flow
ing through the damaged section
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Parks Office Plans to Double
Size of Water Gate Stoqe

A floating stage for summer pro-
grams at the Water Gate in West
Potomac Park, on which anything
from a one-man act to grand opera
can be produced, is being planned
by the Office of National Capital
Parks.
Harry T. Thompson, assistant
Mop superintendent, yesterday
made public plans for the new
barge planned to replace the con-
verted mud scow now used for per-
formers.
The 1947 budget requests that
$150,000 be appropriated for the
new barge.
Mr.. Thompson said yesterday the
new floating stage" would be about
twice the size of the present barge
Wings to Be Adjustable.
It's stage will have adjustable
wings so that it can be increased or
diminished to meet the needs of
practically any sort of perform
ance. In wings extending on both
sldeS Will be dressing rooms for per-
formers. There will be storage space
for props in the hold" of the barge
and carefully concealed amplifiers
In designing the barge the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, the
San Carlo Opera Co. of New York
and the Army. Navy, Marine Corps
and Army Air Forces Bands were
consulted, Mr.. Thompson said.
Conferences on the design of the
barge were held until all concerned
agreed it would meet the require
ments for varied forms of enter
tainment.
Present Barge Inadequate.
The present barge, Mr. Thompson
said, is in poor condition and never
has been adequate.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Senator Taylor to Speak
Before One World Club

Senator Taylor, Democrat, of
Idaho, will address a meeting of the
One World Club at $50 pm. tomor-
row at the clubs headquarters. 821
Sixteenth street NV. He will speak
on his Senate resolution calling for
creation of world republic.
Alfred>M. Lilienthal of the State
Department has been elected presi-
dent of the club, organized in Sep
tember l945. Other officers are 1t.
Comdr. George Elsey, vice presi-
dent; Simon Cottrell, treasurer;
Mary Bradshaw, secretary, and Anne
Blevins, assistant secretary.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Swiss Film to Be Showr
In Church Fund Drive

The Swiss moving picture, Marie
Louise" will be shown at 8 pm. to-
morrow at First Methodist Church
Bowen road at Alabama avenue Sc.
the Rev. Thomas B. Ehlers, pastor
announced yesterday.
The picture, to be shown in Wash
ington for the first time, has been
released to the church to aid in rails
ing funds for the people of Europe
1t will also be shown at pm Tues
day at Forestville (Md.) Methodist
Church.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Teachers Pay
Raise Cost Puff
AT S350,000
Budget Officials
Point Out Drain on
District Treasury

Proposed pay increases for teach
ers in the bill introduced last week
by Senator McCarran, Democrat. of
Nevada would add $350,000 to an
nual District expenses, according
to estimates of the District budget
office yesterday.
The bill, which calls for increases
OF from $100 to $500 per year, is
backed by the American Federation
OF Labor and the American Fedora
ton of Teachers.
officials had no comment on the
bill except to point to the estimated
cost increase along with several
other pending projects, carrying
large charges against the District
treasury.
Firemen's Bill Item.
These include the bill to estab-
lish the three-platoon system and
48-hour week fa.s District firemen
which would require 425 more fire.
men at cost, they said, of about
81 1896, 900: The measure was intro
duced by Chairman Mcmillan OF
the House District Committee at
the request of the District Fire
mems Association.
Should an II per cent general pay
increase be approved for Govern
ment employees, including District
employees, an additional $2,064 ,OOO
would be added to expenses, they
added.
The Commissioners went to the
Capitol last week to oppose assess
ing the District one third of the
cost of constructing the proposed
$40, 100000 hospital center for the
metropolitan area and are hopeful
that this financial arrangement
has been beaten. However. the bill
for a new Federal courthouse. under
which the District would have to
pay about S4,o00,0o is still pending
Warn of Deficit.
In their record breaking S81 sos
600 budget for 1947, on which hear
ings are due this month, the Com
missioners told Congress that any
additional expense to the city not
contemplated in the estimate would
result in deficit. None of these
items is called for, it was pointed
out.
The city heads are expected to
add these proposed items to their
list of reasons why the Federal
payment of S6,000,000 should be
substantially increased. The Fed
eral share in the expenses of the
capital has shrunk from one
time so per cent to a fraction over
7 per cent in the proposed 1947
budget.
The special tax committee of the
Commissioners headed by Corpora
tion Counsel Vernon E. West was
expected to submit to the COM
missioners shortly the names of
several citizens to be asked to work
with the committee in its review of
the District tax structure.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Citizens Federation
Requests School in
River Terrace Area

REQUESTS for construction of q
school building in the River Terrace
area and an addition to the Ann
Beers School, Thirty sixth street
and Alabama avenue Sc, were
made last night by the Federation of
Citizens Associations.
The Federation also approved a
report of its Education Committee
calling for the Board of Education
to appoint full-time librarian for
each of the city's junior high
schools
Children Walk a Mile.
The Education Committee stressed
the River Terrace areas need for
immediate construction of a school
building. The nearest school avail
able is the Benning School, Mime
sofa avenue at Foote street S.E.
Some children must go IA miles to
reach it, the report said.
Another factor stressed was the
constant increase in the number of
children in the River Terrace
section.
Overcrowded conditions at the
Ann Beers Elementary School were
cited by the committee in urging
an addition to the structure. It
asked at least four more classrooms,
an assembly hall or auditorium,
lunchroom and a library.
Annual Dinner Set.
In calling for full time librarians
in Junior high schools, the Educa-
ton Committee pointed out that
teachers spend part of their free
time serving in the school library
The committee stated under this
type of arrangement, libraries "are
not sufficiently or properly used"
James A. Crooks, chairman of the
Federation's Dinner Committee, an
nounced the annual dinner will be
held at 6:45 pm. Thursday, Febru-
ary %, in the Presidential room of
the Statler Hotel He said leading
members of Congress and District
officials have been invited to at
tend.
Walter F. Wasson, first vice presi-
dent, presided at the meeting in the
District Building, in the absence of
Wilbur S. Finch, president.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
The Job in Brief

Qualifications: For Red Cross
Gray Ladies, women between
the ages of 81 and SIS, American
citizens with a high school edu-
cation or its equivalent. Must
have three references, signed
certificate of physical fitness
and suitable temperament for
hospital work.
Training: Ten or more lee
lures in Federal and civilian
hospitals, examination and cer-
tification, "a hours probationary
work before yelling. Glasses
will start as volunteers are re-
cruited to fill them.
After training: Minimum of
$50 daytime hours per year in
Washington hospitals.
Where to register: Gray
Ladies Office, OAR Building,
Seventeenth and D streets NV,
Monday through Friday from
10:30 am. to $3.50 pm. For ad-s
ditional information. call Re-
public $500, Extension 290.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
1rumans Will Attend
Woman Writer'S Dinner

President and Mrs. Truman will be
present at a dinner Saturday honor
ing 10 American women who have
been chosen by the Women's Ma
tlonal Press Club for their achieve
ments last year in making news and
promoting progress, it was an
nounced today. The dinner will be
held at the Mayflower Hotel.
Those receiving citations at tbs
dinner will be Agnes de Mile, Vir-
g1nia Gildersleeve, Mary Norton, I.
A. r. Wylie, Ruth M. Leach, Georgia
OKeefe, Anne OHare Mccormick.
Margaret Webster, Margaret Cuth-
bert and DR.. Esther Loring Richard
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Bureau Of Standards
Experts Return Here
After A-Bomb Work
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

!; The scattered atom bomt
workers of the Bureau of Standards
men who did some of the earliest
work which made this devastating
weapon possible-have returned te
Washington with their families.
Altogether seven bureau families
were uprooted by the Manhattan
Project. At Los Alamos, N. NJ, with
their households were DR.. Edward
Wickers, DR.. Chester Snow, DIR. C. L
Gordon and DR.. Irl C. Schoonover
At Oak Ridge, Tenn, were DR.. Henry
P. Wenzel and DIR. j. R. Coe. AT
Columbia University were DR.. T. I
Taylor and his family and DR.. r. ]
Britton.
1t is a bit of unrecorded atom
bomb history that some of the first
and most essential work was done
at the bureau under the direction of
DR.. Lyman j. Briggs, long before the
start of the Manhattan Project.
Publication of Graphite.
One of the major jobs accom-
plished here was the publication of
both uranium and graphite, two of
the essential ingredients of the bomb.
Without relatively pure forms of
these elements, it would have been
impossible to build the plutonium
piles which constituted the major
step towards the most devastating
weapon in history.
Building of the new element plu-
tonium depended on interaction of
two forms of uranium-the ordinary
U-238 and the isotope 235-in a
matrix of graphite. 1t was found
early that any available sample of
graphite was full of impurities which
captured" the neutrons released by
the explosion of U-235 atoms
After months of work, the Bureau
of Standards physicists were able
,, to eliminate from the graphite all
traces of other elements. Inability
to do this, it has been rumored, was
a major factor in discouraging Ger
man work on the atomic bomb.
Bureau Purified Uranium.
1t also was necessary to have alb
solutely pure uranium. In nature it
is contaminated with many other
elements. At the time the Bureau
of Standards men started work on
the problem, uranium metal-some-
what like the softest forms of steel
in appearance and easily tarnish-
able-was laboratory curiosity.
Practically nothing was known of its
physical behavior 1t had never been
used in industry except in minute
amounts for manufacture of certain
types of steel.
Due to the work of the Bureau
of Standards, it became possible to
make it literally by the ton. Even
at the start of the project, the melt
ing point of uranium stated in phys
les textbooks was 500 degrees Fahr-
enheit in error.
All the Bureau men with families
took them to their new stations
when the Manhattan project got un-
derway. They were able to estab-
lish homes with few inconvenience
although social life was limited al
most strictly to the stations.
For example. Los Alamos work.
ers and their families could 60 to
Santa Fe, about 80 miles away, but
were forbidden to form social con-
facts among the population, They
were accused at first of thinking
themselves too important to mix
with common people" They were
absolutely forbidden to visit the
nearest large city, Denver, because
of the fear that spies might be
congregated there.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
National University Adds
Two Teachers to FocuIty

DR.. Milton A. Kallis, 1913 Fourth
street NV, and DR.. Reginald
Parker, 8507 Mayfair place, Silver
Spring, Md, will join the faculty of
National University's School of Law
tomorrow, according to George P.
BarSe. chief judge of Municipal
Court and chancellor of the school,
Dr.. Kallis will teach courses in
the, law of evidence and DR.. Parker
will instruct in labor law.
Judge Barse said an unexpected
mf1ux OF students made expansion
OF the faculty necessary. A large
proportion OF the new students are
veterans who are seeking education
benefits under the CT 4ill of Rights.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
J. 6. BIundi to Address
Federal Bur Group

Joseph G. Blandi, Washington at
torney, will address the Federal Bar
Association at 7:30 pm. tomorrow
in the auditorium of the South Ag-
riculture Building. His topic will be
Pension Trusts and Profit Sharing
Plans"
Mr.. Blandi's lecture will be the
10th in series of 80 to which the
public is invited.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
A Job To Be Done

'e Who Want to Tighten the City
find place for his visit.
ing family 80 stay.
A young soldier asked a Gray
Lady to buy a complete outfit for
his baby sister-everything from a
blue dress to hair ribbon to
match.
A discouraged veteran felt that
Evening star., 1946-02-03

The Norfolks were married in
June, 1943, and in November, Will
lam Joined the Marines. He won
two battle stars at Two Jima and
Guam with the Sd Marine Division,
was discharged as corporal two
weeks ago. For year in the Paci-
flc. he carried the picture of the
baby with him.
He was to have returned to his
job as a machine operator at the
National Labor Relations Board to-
morrow. Instead, he will attend
the funeral services for Dwight at
2 pm. in their home The Rev. John
Sorrell, pastor of Kendall Baptist
Church, will officiate. Burial will
be in Glenwood cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Vest Heads Citizens

Doren D. Vest has been elected
president Of the Decatur Heights
| Citizens Association.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

Miss Martha Crimson will leave
tomorrow for Richmond, Va, where
she has accepted a position in the
history department of Glean-Allen
High School.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Mrs. Billy Johnson
Recent Bride, Feted

Mrs. Billy Johnson, recent bride,
was honored recently with a mis-
cellaneous shower given by Mrs.
Evelyn Sneeden and Mrs. Robert
Hewlett at the home of the latter
in Seagate.
Games were enjoyed during the
evening and prize winners were
Miss Vivian Caps, Mrs. John
Hines and Mrs. j. W. Walton. An
ice course was served later in the
evening.
Guests included: Mrs. johnson,
hcnoree, Mrs. Andrew Meadows,
Mrs. William Hunt, Mrs. Frank
Hewlett, Mrs. J. C. johnson, Mrs.
Jack Pate, Mrs. John Hines, Mrs.
G.. V. Larson, Mrs. H. A. Mill
ken, Mrs. Minor Bishop, Mrs. A.
F. Williamson, Mrs. Bernard King,
Mrs. Linwood Rogers, Mrs. J.. W.
Walton, Mrs. David Porter, Jr.,
Mrs. W. c. Bennette, Miss Janet
Dexter, Miss Mamie Miller, Miss
Helen Brown, M Eleanor
Sneeden, Miss Audrey Waters,
Miss Vivian Caps, Miss Louise
Benson, Miss Grace Lee Bennette,
Miss Joyce Pate and Miss Betty
10 Sneeden.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

Miss Peggy Hall, who for the last
,y weeks has been vacationing at
0sonouit. Maine, will return to
tsr home on North 18th street,
today,
Ii. and Mrs. Frank R. Reyn-
olds Of Washington, D. c., are
Dending the weekend with their
PARENTS, Mr.. and Mrs. B. B.
REYNOLDS in the city, and Mr.. and
Mrs, Emmett P. Crow of Mason
boro Sound. 1t. Reynolds j. at
tsched to Walter Reed hospital in
Washington, D, c.
Miss Alma Fullwood, who re-
Gently underwent an appended
tomv at James Walker Memorial
hospital is recuperating nicely.
Mrs. C. D. Rivenbark and Mr..
and Mrs. Case have returned to
the city after visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde B. Case, Jr.. OF Aberdeen,
Nd, who accompanied them home
for a visit.
Miss Carolyn Peters Of Winter
Garden, Fla, arrived yesterday
10 be the guest of Miss Elizabeth
Hardwicke at her home, 40 South
Front street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford Doxey
and Miss Byah Thomson have
left for Washington, D. c., ano
New York for a short stay.
Miss Shirley Finkelstein has re-
turned TO her home in Forest Hills
from Los Angeles, Calf. where
sae attended the University OF
southern California for specialized
courses this summer. En- route
nome she visited San Francisco,
le-lowstone Park, Chicago and
New York.
MY. and Mrs. Charles Finkel-
VEN and family have moved from
,aelF cottage at Wrightsville
Seach TO their home in Forest
1t Col, Harry D. Griffin has re-
;aEaed to the city from Japan and
y spending his terminal leave
d 1ls home, 1921 Princess street
.Vao. Colonel Griffin was execu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Double Wedding
Held Al Acme

Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Long OF
Acme, announce the double we'd
ding of their daughter and son,
Mildred E.. Long and Jarvis Win.
dell Long. to John William Gore,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. Gore
of Leland, and Margie Ae!ene
Brooks, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Brooks of this city, August
IL, IN Conway, S. c.
Mrs. Gore was dressed in white
with corsage of red roses. Mrs.
Long wore blue and her corsage
was of white ~tuberoses. .
Mr.. Gore was discharged from
the Navy after serving four years
in European Theater and two
years in the South Pacific.
Mr.. Long served in the Navy
after serving over two years in
the South Pacific area
Both couples will make their
homes in Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

Mrs. H. V. Comfy, Miss Marie
Louise Comfy, and Miss Lucille
Comfy will return tomorrow from
Blowing Rock, where they have
been spending the past ten days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

III Co., Harry D. Griffin has re-
@laeo to the city from Japan and
. spending his terminal leave
d als home, 1921 Princess street
.vao. Colonel Griffin was execu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

pastor of Trinity church, perform
ed the ceremony in the presence
of the immediate family and init.
mate trends.
Mrs. Hodges was lovely in 4
dress of aqua crepe with silver
trimming. Her corsage was. Of red
roses and tuberoses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hodges will reside
at 1405 Wrightsville avenue.