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Evening star., 1947-08-10

The main building of the Library of
Congress is the Ioreest and most costly
Iibroy building in the world It occupies
3A ocres Of ground ond contoins over TO-
OOO. 900 cubic feet. The building is con-
structed in ItoIion Renaissance style, with
exterior woIls Of white New Hampshire
oronite. 1t wos first opened in 1897.
Evening star., 1947-08-10

The work OF Helen Gotch Durston, an
ortst who hos mode specially Of interpret
ing the Washington scene. is weiI-known to
reoders who admired her eopitol scenes
when they appeared weekly in The Evening
Stor few yeors oeo. This view Of the ven
eroble LbroY Of Congress is onother
"portrot Of ploce."
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Insurance Rate Rises
SET in D. E., Maryland

Premium rates on new policies is
sued by most life insurance COM
panies here and elsewhere in the
Nation will rise after Wednesday, a
District government official reported
today.
One insurance man estimated
rates on new policies will average
nearly per cent higher than those
on existing policies.
The District official said, how
ever, that rates will vary with indi-
vidual companies. Some companies
are holding to their present Sched-
ules.
The increases in most cases are
caused by the decrease on returns
of invested assets of insurance COM
panies.
Rate schedules on file with the
Maryland State insurance commits
sioner showed new premium rates
going into effect in that State after
Wednesday also.
Under a Maryland law passed in
1943, life insurance companies have
until Thursday to revise their sched-
ules on non-forfeiture values, such
as cash surrender or extended term
insurance. These new rates are to
be based on the standard ordinary
life table of mortality of l941.
In this connection. the District
official pointed out that Washington
was the only area not operating
under the 1941 mortality tables. A
bill to this effect passed the House
in the last session but did not get
through the Senate
Evening star., 1947-12-29
| Bullet in Brain
to Woman
706 Days
bv the Asxocioted Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.-Western
district police said an 18-year-old
Baltimore seaman would be charged
today with causing the death OF
Miss Vivien Grove, "a, who had
amazed doctors by living l06 days
with a bullet embedded in her brain
Miss Grove died yesterday in
University Hospital, where she had
been in a coma since she was shot
three and one-half months ago
while sitting in a downtown res
taurant with friends.
At one time, doctors. while mar
Yelling that she was still alive, gave
her fighting chance" of recover
ing.
She became gradually weaker
however, and doctors could not
operate to remove the bullet be-
cause of her condition.
Herbert Deboissiere walked into
Central Police Station a short time
after she was wounded and sur
rendered He had been held without
bail on a charge of assaulting and
shooting. At preliminary hearings,
police described him as a rejected
suitor.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
|Disti||er Out 10 Make
Amends for Wafer
Sent Here as Liquor

Several thousand half pints Of
water that came into the District
disguised as whisky were bottled
quite unintentionally by distillel
who is making every effort to rectify
the error, an Internal Revenue Bu-
reau official said today.
An investigation by the Alcoholic
Tax Unit of the bureau disclosed
that the water came out of pipes
from which water had not beer
drained after a tank-cleaning job
"It was done completely mad
vertently on the part of the distillel
and he is trying to make restitution
wherever possible" the official said
An official of the Alcoholic Bever
age Control Board here said he be-
lieved $500 half-pints of water
carrying Government stamps, hae
been shipped into the District.
The tax unit official said he die
not know how much was in the
District, but believed the entire lot
run off at the distillery woulo
amount to less than 100 cases
Fewer than 100 bottles have beer
detected here.
He added that the tax unit had
fulfilled its responsibility at the dis.
tillery and was not 10 blame. Ordi-
narily a Government gauger at the
distillery tests the flow of liquor as
it comes from the tanks by periodic
spot checks 1t would be possible
for several hundred gallons to rur
through between checks, it was
said.
1T is a slipup that happens ir
the best regulated distilleries,' was
the way the tax unit official sizec
it up.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Boy, II, Carried 10 Safety
From Apartment Blaze

An 1l-year-old boy was carried
to safety early today as firemen ex-
tinguished an apartment kitchen
fire at 1888 Kenyon street NV.
The blaze sent occupants of two
second-foor apartments fleeing
from smoke and refrigerator fumes
The fire centered in a refrigerator
in the apartment of Charles Paugh
and the refrigerator and kitchen
partitions we're damaged.
Jerry Paugh, II, excited and pos
sibly suffering slightly from effects
of smoke and fumes, was Gained by
Pvts. H. A. Via, 1922 Fourteenth
street NV, and G. R. Pilling
Vienna, Va, and was carried down
ladder from the rear of the apart
ment house while other members
of the family made their way out
through front stairs.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Bulgarian Minister
PAYS Call on Truman

DR.. Nissim Judasy Mevorah, Bull
garia's first postwar minister here
presented his credentials to Presi-
dent Truman today and reported
that the President told him he
hoped there would not be any more
wars.
DR.. Mevorah replied with firm
mo, no." when asked if he believed
the Greek situation might lead to
war
He told reporters he had pointed
out to the President that Bulgaria
was a comparatively young country
whose development had been handi-
capped by several wars during its
70-year history.
The President replied, he said
that he hoped there would be no
more wars to interfere with the
normal development of all countries.
I'm announcing resumption of dip
lomatic relations with Bulgaria
three months ago, the State Depart
ment emphasized that the step was
taken because of interest in the well
fare of the Bulgarian peoplesbut that
it did not reflect "either approval
or condonation" of recent actions
of the Communist regime in
Bulgaria.
Donald R. Heath was named
some time ago the American min
lister to Bulgaria,
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Street Is Still Lined With Goods
Removed From Empire Building

New York avenue still was lined
with unclaimed furniture and
household goods today near the
corner of Ninth street NV, where
the Empire Building collapsed
December 16, killing 4 persons and
injuring IL.
While workmen continued to re-
move debris and other goods from
the wrecked building. it was not
determined what would become of
the articles or when they would be
removed from the street.
Police said they knew nothing
of an order attributed Saturday
to George Papanicolas, brother of
the buildings owner, Nick Papa
nicolas. that all the possessions
would have to be of the street by,
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Man Held in $500 Bond
On Huir-Snippinq Count

A woman who told police a jealous
man shipped off a sizable hank of
her hair in a downtown movie
theater pressed an assault charge
today against the man before
Municipal Court Judge Thomas D.
Quinn.
In a warrant sworn to last week
Mrs. George Brown, 80, colored,
4400 E street Sc, accused John
Henry Lane, 46, colored. who lives in
the same apartment house, of cut
ting off some of her hair after an
argument. Lane was placed under
$500 bond and granted jury trial
on January % after pleading not
guilty.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Welfare Board Studies
Child Care Center al
Stuart Junior High

The reopening of a child day
care center in the Stuart Junior
High School annex at Fifth and
D streets NE was to be con-
sidered by the Board Of Public
Welfare today.
This move follows the closing Of
a center at Grant Elementary
School, Twenty-second and G
streets NV, on Christmas Eve
because of low enrolment. Only
13 children were taking advantage
of this center The Carberry Center
at the Stuart Junior High School
is designed to replace the Grant
Center.
Parents of the children using
Grant Center have determined to
fight the closing of the center
which is the only one serving that
section of the city. Attorney Claude
A. Thompson, who has been retained
by them, has filed complaint in
District Court in an attempt to
enjoin the Board of Public We'll
fare from closing the center. A
motion for preliminary injunc-
ton against the board will be
heard next week, he said.
Action Is Explained.
Raymond F. Clapp, acting welfare
director. explained the move as an
attempt to place the few centers
for which funds are allotted where
they will do the most good.
There are five centers in the Dis
trict, three for colored children and
two for white children. The white
centers, he said, are at the Trues-
dell Elementary School, Eighth and
Ingraham streets NV and in the
300 block of D street Sc
Mr.. Clapp said there was nc
question but that the closing of the
Grant Center will inconvenience
some parents" but he added that
by reopening the Carberry Center
about three times as many children
could be cared for.
"We just don't have enough funds
to maintain four white centers," he
declared
Congress Cut Funds.
Last year, II centers were in op-
Grafton until Congress cut the ap-
preparation for the system.
Mr.. Thompson said the closing oi
Grant Center was arbitrary" and
there was nothing in the law which
gave the Board of Public Welfare
the right to close center because
of low enrolment He also charged
that the board was unlawfully re-
moving INDECENT parents from pub
lie assistance rolls by compelling
them to place their children in the
centers and seek employment.
Mr.. Clapp explained that the re-
lief rolls are overburdened now and
that one way to ease the situation
was to encourage parents capable
of working to get jobs. To do this,
their children must be taken care
of in the centers, he added.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

noon today. There was no deadline
for removal as far as they knew,
police said.
Murray Shipp, head of the COM
pany clearing the building, said he
was removing the goods with the
assurance he would be paid by the
building owner.
All identified articles are left on
the street. Those taken from ruined
apartments and not identified are
removed to the police warehouse.
Articles taken from unchanged
apartments are being placed on the
street for owners to remove.
Mr.. Shipp estimated it would be
almost a week before the building
is braced sufficiently to open nearby
streets to traffic.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Church Urges Continuance
OF Whisky Making Holiday

The First Congregat tional Church
last night called on all American
churches to ask Congress and Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson ito
continue the holiday on whisky
manufacture and to see that the
grain thus saved is sent to starving
people abroad"
The resolution was introduced by
the Rev. Carl Heath Kopf, pastor
of the church, during the weekly
Sunday evening service at Tenth
and G streets NV.
Several members objected, saying
a whisky holiday would cause wide
spread unemployment among dis
tillery workers. Others believed that
extra grain sent to Europe would
be sold on the black market.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Court Hears Attack
On Arlington Law for
Elected School Board

The county manager form of gov
ernment in Arlington is not en-.
dangered by the suit challenging the
legality of the elected school board
attorneys for the incumbent ap-
pointed board said today as hearings
of the case got under way in Airing
ton Circuit Court.
Attorney George Allen told Judge
j. Garland Jefferson that the act
which permits popular election of
the school board in Arlington could
be declared unconstitutional with
out affecting the county manager
form of government because the act
actually is an amendment to the
entire Virginia code and not to the
statutes setting up the county
manager plan.
The suit was brought by members
of the incumbent board who seek
to retain their posts after Thursday,
the day the board elected in Novem-
ber is scheduled to take over.
Constitution Cited.
Mr.. Allen told the court that the
act permitting the popular election
resulted in a situation under which
school boards are appointed in 80 o.
Virginia's 100 counties and electec
only in Arlington. He said this
violated the constitution because II
set up a. special law for the conduct
of elections, contrary to section 6:
of the constitution.
The suit, in the form of a motion
for a declaratory judgment, names
the county's first elected school
board.
The elected school board, which
will hold its organization meeting
Friday despite the suit, is rep
resented in court by Edmund D.
Campbell, former County Board
member; State Senator William
Medley, who sponsored the ques-
toned legislation, and Frank L.
Ball. ST., former State Senator and
commonwealth attorney.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs are
Mr.. Allen and Ralph T. Catterall,
both of Richmond.
Douglas and Rucker Enter Case.
The county's interests in the case
will be looked after by Common
wealth's Attorney Lawrence w.
Douglas and the commemorative S
attorney-elect, Denman T. Rucker,
who entered the case on direction
of the county's governing body.
The County Board voted to inter-
vene at the request of the Arlington
Civic Federation.
County School Supt. Fletcher
Kemp announced Saturday that he
will recognize and cooperate with
the new board and will make rec
ords available to its membership.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Haiti Foreign Minister
Arrives Here Tomorrow

Edne Manigat, Haitian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, will arrived in
Washington at 9:15 am. tomorrow
by plane to attend reception at the
Haitian Embassy January /, cele-
brating the nations independence
day.
He will be here for eight days,
staying at Blair House, 1853 Penn
sylvania avenue NV, State De-
partment residence for visiting
foreign officials.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Nay|or Gardens
Sale Hit Before
Congress- Unit
Tenants Association
Opposes Purchase Of
Project by Coop

The Naylor Gardens Citizens As
sociation today carried to congress
sional committee its fight against
the proposed sale of the Govern
ment-owned $4,500,0O0 Naylor Gar
dens housing project to the Veter-
ans Cooperative Housing Associa-
ton.
More than 200 persons, including
mothers with babes in arms, crowded
the big hearing room of the House
Ways and Means Committee as the
proposed sale was debated by
spokesmen for the opposing groups
Each side claimed to have a large
representation in the audience.
After a spirited morning session
Chairman Hoffman of the House
Subcommittee on Expenditures in
Executive Departments recessed the
hearing until after lunch.
Contract Protection Asked.
Spokesman for the citizens associ-
alton protested that provisions OF
the contract under which Defense
Homes Corp, now owners OF the
project, could sell to the veterans
cooperative failed to include pro-
visions for the sufficient protection
of about 500 tenants who did not
become members Of the cooperative.
William A. Roberts, counsel for
theveterans group, insisted that the
contract would protect the tenants
from eviction so long as Congress
continued rent control in the Dis
trict. This control expires March
81 unless continued bys Congress.
Paul A. Porter, former OPA ad-
ministrator and now counsel for the
citizens association, contended that
the cooperative had not met the
provisions of the contract of sale
because it did not yet have 300 men,
bers who are occupants of Naylor
Gardens. He testified that only
about 21O residents there have signed
up to purchase their individual
apartments
Cite Fear of Eviction.
In reply, Mr, Roberts contended
that 430 persons, including more
than 200 who reside in the apart
ments, have joined the veterans CO.
operative and paid money toward
apartment purchases.
Citizens association witnesses ex-
pressed fear they would be evicted
because they had not joined the
veterans cooperative. Mr.. Roberts
al Df hn
pointed, in reply, to the contract
which protected tenants during the
life of rent control.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
By George Kennedy

Add this to postwar reSumptlOr
items: Washington's model railway
club is operating again in Union
Station.
What they are working on is a
scale model engineers dream. They
have been building it since May
with a summer vacation lapse They
hope to have it finished in April.
The club had a scenic line in
operation in one of the upstairs Of
fees of the station before the war
They had to tear it down and get
it out of there due to wartime de-
mand for space in the terminal
This year they asked B. R. Tolson
who manages the station, for an
other room. He gave them one on
the third floor of the west end of
the building.
Plans for Two Systems.
AL Schultz, who is in the Munich
pal Architects Office, has drawn
the plans for two new railroad sys-
TENS on mountainous terrain built
on benches more than 80 feet in
length. Mr.. Schultz built a model
railroad in shed in the backyard
of his Georgetown home for less
than 500. Model railroaders came
from all over the East to see it.
Now with a budget of about 81 500
he Is planning things that have
never been done before The new
system will not be the biggest model
railroad. Rivalry in size with the
model railroad in the abandoned
New Haven Railroad station in Pei
ham Manor, N. Y, built by wealthy
model railroad fans of that West.
chester County community, has
never been contemplated. But in
many respects, the Washington en-
thusiasts feel, this will be the best
model railway in existence.
Mr.. Schutz's idea is to lay out a
functional railway which will have
most of the operational problems
Of a railway In combined urban
industrial and mining area in hilly
country.
Industrial City Terminal.
Its terminal is a small industrial
city where an electric streetcar sys-
tenn brings workers to the factories
and passengers to the station from
city homes and from small suburb
The terminal yards will have a
turntable, switch engines. car shops
loading cranes. coal hoppers and
grain elevators. Its passenger sta
ton will have baggage trucks and
taxicab ramp. Its freight terminal
will have raised pavement so that
the tailboard of the model automo-
bile trucks will be flush with the
floors of the box cars.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Postal Clerks Bail Set
At ST, 900 in Mail Theft

Samuel j. England, 36, temporary
mail clerk hired at the City Pos
Office for the Christmas rush, was
held for the grand jury under ST.
900 bond today on a charge of theft
from the mails.
England, who lives in the 800
block of Maryland avenue NE. ad.
mitted before United States Com.
missioner Needham C. Turnage thai
he stole an envelope containing -four
81 bills while sorting Christina.
mail. He said he wanted to waive
grand jury indictment and pleae
guilty in District Court.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
District Fans Clearing Tracks
/ For 2-System Model Railroad

| The railroad will have two di-
visions, a central division and q
mountain division. There will be g
distributing yard at the change
over point, where by operation OF
levers on the electric control board
freight trains can shunt some OF
their cars for the mountain di-
vision and keep some for the re-
mainder of the run on the central
division.
Power Plant to Cost $3.50.
The power plant of this railway
system alone will cost $3.50. 1t will
be an alternating current to direct
current transformer especially de-
signed for the system. There will
be a hydroelectric power plant on
the river in the valley which divides
the central division from the noun
tain division but that will only be
believe plant. There is some
discussion now as to whether a
pumping system should be installed
to keep water flowing down the
river or just to paint the river in
Along the right of way will be a
coal mine, large sawmill, and sew
eral factories. Each will have its
switches and sidings to enable the
loading of cars off the mainline.
The two divisions will be on the
H-O gauge line. An entirely differ
ent railroad will operate over the
mountains with it's own bridges and
trestles. This will be the O-gauge
line. The o gauge is a inch to a
foot; the HO (half o. is rs inch
to a foot. The HO gauge line will
be known as the Metropolitan
Southern Railway, the HO gauge
the Metropolitan Eastern Railway
Some model railroaders are O.
gauge builders and some HO. The
Washington Club, as have others,
has given up all hope of standard
izing on one.
The HO line will have 230 feet
of mainline, Sc feet of yard tracks.
81 feet of sidings, and 38 switches.
The o line will have ITO feet OF
track and l9 switches.
Emphasis Put on Freight.
The clubs name is the Metro
politan Society of Model Engineers.
Its members are interested in a
truly economic railroad. Therefore
the emphasis is on hauling freight
and not on passenger runs of trains
with fancy names.
Each line will operate its pas
senger trains, however, and the
freights will have to take to sid
ings to let them pass on schedule.
There will be more than 100 freight
cars, 20 passenger cars, Is loco
motives (steam and dieseD and two
wrecking trains when the rolling
stock is assembled
Evening star., 1947-12-29
98,053 ItuIions Emiqrute

ROME !P).-Italian emigrants in
the first six months of 1947 totaled
98,053, the Central Statistical In
stitute has announced. OF these,
l4,116 shipped out from Lombardy.
twice as many as from any other
region.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

NAYLOR GARDENS SQUABBLE REACHES CONGRESS-R
Nayor Gardens shown with their children at
hearing today the controversy between
the Veterans Cooperative Housing Association which at
tempting the housing project the citizens
opposing the SALE Left right Mrs L. King holding Bonnie
King White with Paul. II months and her two
other children, Charles Henry and Richard Francis g.
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1947-12-29


Hugh MaGrath. chairman of the
Arlington Chest Budget Committee,
pointed out that budgets of member
agencies we're set at the minimum
last spring and that normal oper-
ating expenses of several agencies
have increased materially since the
budgets were prepared.
This circumstance is now being
met, he said, by increased alloca-
tions from reserve funds held by the
Arlington Chest with the cer-
tainty that further increases over
budget estimates must be made for
1948."
I'm order to provide for the very
minimum needs of its agencies, it
will be necessary for the Arlington
Chest to utilize to the point Of
exhaustion reserve funds accumu-
late over several years and help to
meet extraordinary emergencies"
he added
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04
Deaths Reported

sTrom the 2. 6. Bursau Of Vital statistics.)
Wnliam Wright, 90, 1910 L st. NV.
Joanna Davis. 70, $50 Rhode Island ave.
Annie =. Brown. IT. aeas Brentwood I'd.
Hardee chamhliss. rs. .Takoma Park, Nd.
Lena L. Erbach. ~. 4317 Fessenden st..
Maade Peterson. Sc. st. Elisabeths Hos
Harry stotler. 90. $50 Mass. ave. ne.
Samuel p. Evans, CO.. 5017 4th st. INV.
Nathan g. Shreve, So, Alexandria, Va.
Edward r, Haskell, As, 1910 N st. NV
Carl Beach, 40, 2610 Garfield ST. NV
Thelma E. Mccall, 25. 617 Maryland ave.
Joseph r.. Kinder. 20. s13 Mt. Vernon pl.
Infant Espinesa. 4224 Albemarle st. NV.
Infant Cox, Maryland Park. Md.
Infant Mills. 121 9th st. Sc
George Swope, 83, 626 Columbia I'd. NV
Cora Brent, 80, 2719 ST. NV.
Joseph R. Dorsey. 81. 1891 South Capitol
st.
Lila 3. Leonard, 50. 1875 Irving at. ne.
Edward Wilson, ~. 1881 6k st. NV.
Rose M. Hardy. 80. 627 Irving st. NV.
Willie M. Coleman, 81. % Hanover pi NV
Infant Wilbur Gaines. 3072 L st. NV.