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Evening star., 1948-03-06
House Group May Broaden Probe Of D. c. Area Housing

tempted in this area before,
: Washington builders say.
May Built 1,40o.
Harris Construction Co., the de-
veloping firm, expects to build
from 1000 to 1,40o houses on the
site.
A spokesman for the House
Committee Of which Representa-
tive Hoffman, Republican, of
Michigan, is chairman, said there
was no disposition on the part of
the committee to prejudge the
development.
"All we're interested In is get
ting the facts" he said.
Both the Veterans Admins
tration and the Federal Housing
Administration have approved
the selling price of $8,700 for
financing purposes.
An FHA spokesman said, 1--WE
used the same method of COM
putting costs for this project as
for all the others" A VA spokes-
man said a panel Of five ap-
praisers unanimously agreed on
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1882 MuIti-FomiIy Rental
Housing Units Approved byFHA

total OF 1882 multi family rental housing units have been ap
the Federal Housing construction
the District it reported this week.
That disclosed today with that units
have been approved.
Up now projects
Evening star., 1948-03-06
By Robert J. Lewis
Reol Esfafs Editor of The Sfar

N0Ni hstSfS A0uSt W tue Si6t
An investigation begun this
week by the House Expenditures
Committee to find out how good
value veterans are getting for
their money in the huge Viers
Mill Village housing development
may spread to other projects in
this area, it was learned today.
A committee spokesman, how
ever, said the Viers Mill Village
investigation would be pushed
first, before complaints against
other projects are acted on.
He said that, up to yesterday,
only one veteran had filed a COM
plant against the project out Of
about 275 who have bought homes
there.
But many other veterans who
have bought houses in other de-
velopments have filed protests
with the committee about their
own houses, he said.
Would Return Deposit.
A Viers Mill Village spokesman
said existing purchasers merely
have signed contracts and paid
a small deposit, and that any de-
posit will be returned to,any con-
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tract purchaser Immediately on
request II he wishes to relinquish
his contract.
The committees investigation
Of the Viers Mill project was
launched at the request of Repre-
sentative Beall, Republican. of
Maryland, after he received a let
ter from Brooke Johns, Mont
gomery County commissioner.
who has been critical OF the pro-
ject, committee spokesmen said.
The Viers Mill development is
one of the largest housing pro-
jects planned in this area. 1t is
the only project in the metropoli-
tan District where houses are
being built in volume to sell for
less than $4,000.
(The price is $8,700, with the
houses approved for 100 per cent
financing by the Federal Housing
Administration and the Veterans
ADMINISTRATOR -
The owners have a 335-acre
tract of land on Viers Mill road
near Wheaton, Md. Plans call
for production of 40 or more
houses a week when the weather
opens up, a company spokesman
said. Nothing quite like this
speed of operation has been at
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Attic to Cellar
Choose Lomps
With Care to
Improve Rooms
Rv Rotkv TravIar
By Betty TrexIer

Lamps should be more than just
something to light up our homes
They are important accessories
just as important as the jewelry we
wear to complement dress-and
should be chosen with care.
The lamps in room should 60
well with each other and tie in with
the other furnishings.
Formal, ornate lamps are fine for
the home furnished with Victorian
or Empire pieces, but they definitely
don't belong with the Cape Cod
type If your room is fairly dark,
choose light lamp shades. If it's
full Of patterns in slipcovers, rugs,
drapes, ETC., better choose the plain
est possible lamp shade.
J In fact, one well known decorator
believes all living room lamp shades
should be absolutely plain and that
(See TREXLER, Page B-2)
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Permits Of $4,000 or more:

! Permits Of $4,000 or more:
Mass as sss States Meter GsEss..
owner: william p. Lipscomb Co, Inc,
woodward Building. builder; Porter and
Locke, Metropolitan Bank Building, archi-
street NV; to cost $500 900.
FiYer Terrace Co., s4ss Bsnnins road
t' aIes tWosoIs ssFfst feE FM snd ssss os
SE SSxEs' se cost sel SSS Ana'0s'ia avenue
& 3 Inc, 1892 H street NV,
owner and builder; M; L. Bagley, Chevy
brick and cinder block apartment, 16
uni units; o 446-51 Burbank street Sc; to cost
Group Of Dwellings.
Walter Valentine. s25 New York avenue
NV, owner, builder, and architect; to
Sc: to cost $4,000.
Walter Valentine, 925 New York ave.
nue. NV, owner. builder and architect;
s. Socf erect awshs sh ai9ry to 1Fk 5S nS snass
syssr ,aa F. 1Pis lsss gssss ssisss ah%
ehsss Md erect sght 65ss Es
Louis LOUIS R An Montasae, nj que 4tssIS0g 1910 New Hamp-
sh5s SaasF ssa
sslnss nue. NV; e cost s5s oSe s'a'nuse''s ave-
Builders. 4sob Rhode hs island avenue. a
asehteSs t9 erect thsss 2
(see PERMITS, Page BID
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Building Permits in District
For Week Rise to $884,814
CLASSIFIED ADS

Building permits issued during the Dayis
District inspections director oad jump Of ss2o04 over
the total for the previous week !.
Of 100000. y [ ~
Evening star., 1948-03-06
HomeGodgets-
New Fixture
> For Fireplace
Saves Heat
By HiIson Munsey

Snow is lovely to look at and
pleasant to behold when you are on
the inside looking out and exposed
to the cheerful warmth of a roar
ing fireplace.
Unfortunately, when you stand
before an ordinary fireplace and
are nice and warm, you often feel
a chill hitting your back. It is be-
cause the fire causes the air in
the room to rush into the fireplace
and up the chimney, taking with
it good share Of heat from your
home.
A modern fireplace fixture for
wood, coal or gas f1replaces elm
mates this condition and radiates
an even heat that remains in the
room. It is a guaranty against
smoke, SCOT, dirt and dust and also
enhances the beauty. Of the home.
1t is finished with crystal clear,
heavy, heat-treated glass panels set
in strong door frames that swing
all the way open on piano hinges
and give full vision of the fire.
The entire frame is in brass fin
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the $500 appraisal for LOAF
purposes.

the $8,7OO appraisal Ior loan
purposes. 80
FHA Inspector ON Site.
FHA estimates the necessary
current replacement cost" Of the
houses at $8,806 for those located
on corner lots and at $8,706 for
those located on inside lots. It
has agreed to insure mortgages
of $7,700 on q first group Of SIS
houses, based on full FILA in
spections during the course Of
construction. An FILA inspec-
tor is stationed at the site.
VA has appraised the houses at
q fiat. $8,700 for loan guaranty
purposes when fully completed,
on a basis Of FHA'S compliance
inspection approval, and q
further inspection by a VA ap-
praiser, q spokesman said.
This means, said a VA official
that in case a veteran does not
want to make q down payment
in cash, VA will guarantee a
(See LEWIS, Page Bed
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mortgages have been approved.
Latest to receive approval, accord
ing to the Washington FHA Office,
was the Chatham Apartments to
be built at Merrimac drive and
University lane, Prince Georges
County by New Hampshire Estates.
They will be financed by the
Metropolitan Mortgage Co. with an
FHA-insured mortgage of $316,800.
= ALI such apartments are for oc-
cupancy by veterans of World War
TT
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(See CADETS, Page B-2.)
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District Rental
Housing Picture

A total Of 1850 dwellings this
week were listed for rent with the
District Housing Center, 1400
Pennsylvania avenue>N.W. A spokes-
man said some of the dwellings are
available now and others will be-
come available later.
Applications during the week to-
tailed 1852, of which 735 were for
dwellings and 27 were for rooms.
Reported housed during the week
were 432 families.
Applicants were classified as fol-
lows.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
Genuine Politics Get Involved
In Montgomery Pupil Voting

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High
School students will vote tomorrow
on issues which are to be settled by
their parents in the general elee-
ton next Tuesday.
Preliminaries to the mock elec-
ton, held as a part of the schools
social studies program, already have
provoked a genuine controversy be-
tween Montgomery County Commits
sioner Wesley I. Sauter and Board
of Education officials.
Mr.. Sauter, opponent of a pro-
posed charter form of county gov
ernment on which a referendum
will be held Tuesday, described as
"reprehensible" the passing out OF
procharter sample ballots to stu
dents. His son, Wesley, jr., received
one in his classroom yesterday. The
commissioner said charter propo-
nents seemingly will stop at
nothing. - ="
But E. Merritt Douglass, assistant
county school superintendent, de-
'clared: This is another case of Mr..
Sauter issuing a statement when he
doesn't know the full story"
Mr.. Douglass, along with Thomas
w. Pyle. principal of the school, ad-
mitted the pro-charter sample bal
lots were distributed with their
knowledge. So too, they said, was
campaign literature for presidential
candidates.
"The school will be closed election
Evening star., 1948-10-26
Funeral Set in Falls Church
For Mrs. EIenore Scott, t02

Funeral services were to be held
at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Pear
sons funeral home, Falls Church,
for Mrs. Elenore Minerva Scott, who
died Sunday at her Merrifield home
at the age of 102 Burial was to be
in National Memorial Park.
Mrs. Scott, who was born in Fau-
quier County, was the mother of
10 children, eight of whom are liv-
ing. She lived for many years near
Fairfax Courthouse, where her l1us-
band. Robert B. Scott, operated a
farm. He died 40 years ago. Two
years ago she moved to Mortified
to live with a daughter, Mrs. Ethel
Reedy.
In addition to Mrs. Reedy Mrs.
Scott is survived by seven other
children living in Washington and
Northern Virginia. They are Charles,
Ernest, Henry and Leamon Scott,
Mrs. Annie Strickland, Mrs. Minnie
Costello and Mrs. Nellie Kidwell.
Evening star., 1948-10-26

Miss Lois Agee, a determined
young lady from the hills Of West
Virginia, is person who makes
the best Of a situation-and ther
improves on 1t.
Several months ago, when she
took a job as a secretary with the
National Rifle Association, 1906
Rhode Island avenue NV, she
hardly knew a rifle from a walk.
ing stick.
For a girl who thought muzzle
was merely something you put or
a dog, this, she thought, was d
most incongruous situation. So she
learned to shoot, and, although she
isn't winning any trophies, she car
shatter a target in a highly pro-
fessional manner.
But, as she knelt on the range
training rifle at a target, she was
conscious of an acute feeling of dis
comfort.
Mems Jackets Not Suitable.
The bulky shooting jackets, de-
signed for men, were not only un-
comfortable, but definitely not
stylish. The patch at the elbow was
rough, and protruded like a blister
on a secondhand tire tube.
Lots of women enjoy rifle shoot
ing as hobby" she thought. why
not shooting jacket designed
exclusively for women?"
Yesterday. at the Shoreham Ho-
Evening star., 1948-10-26
High Court in Virginia
Says Fur Union Sent Il
Dominating Wires
By the Assoejoted Press

NORFOLK, Va, Oct. 26.-Tele-
grams of rather dominating" tone
were addressed by union officials to
the State Supreme Court of Ap-
peals at It's meeting in Richmond,
October 4, to consider, among other
matters, one phase of labor dis
pute at Luray tannery, it was
disclosed yesterday.
Originators, in some instances,
demanded" a decision favorable to
employees of Local 265, CIO Inter-
national Fur and Leather Workers
Union.
The union and 26 employees were
fighting contempt proceedings for
alleged violations of an injunctive
order issued by the Circuit Court
of Page County.
The kilograms received by the
Supreme Court were often rather
urgent and rather dominating" &C
cording to Chief Justice Edward w.
Hudgins.
Messages Thrown Away.
At his Chase City Office, Justice
Hudgins told a Virginian Pilot re-
porter the kilograms had been
thrown in the waste basket"
Signers, he said, included union
oficials in Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
The tone Of these kilograms, for
the most part, were believed to have
been similar to some received by
Judge Floridus S. Crosby of the
18th Judicial Circuit.
Sitting for Judge William v. Ford
in the Page County Circuit Court
proceedings, Judge Crosby had di-
rected tiiat the union post a $4,000
bond and certain employees $1,000
each pending a hearing on the con-
tempt charge.
Court Refuses Writ. .
It was understood Judge Crosby
had received 20 or more kilograms
and perhaps as many as so post
cards sympathizing with the strik-
ing union.
The court refused to grant the
union a writ of prohibition that
would have nipped contempt pro-
ceedings in the bud.
Accordingly, the matter came up
yesterday before Judge Crosby in
Page County Circuit Court with the
likelihood that the proceedings will
take at least several days.
The proceedings spring from the
failure Of Virginia Oak Tannery,
Inc, and Local 265 to agree on terms
of a collective bargaining contract.
The tannery employs about 265
persons. It obtained an injunction
restraining union members from ex-
cessive picketing of the tannery's
Luray plant and threatening work
ers in the plant.
Later, it was alleged this order
had been violated, and the contempt
proceedings were instituted.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
Lane Names Mrs. Walker
To State Education Board

Mrs. Curtis Walker, 4713 Drum.
mond avenue, Chevy Chase, was ap.
pointed to the Maryland State Boarc
OF Education yesterday by Gov. Lane
Mrs. Walker succeeds Harry Y
George of Brunswick. She was an.
pointed for a seven-year term.
The new board member was pres.
ident of the Montgomery County
Board of Education last year, and
Is serving her second six-year term
on that board. She is the mother
OF two sons who attended Chevy
Chase schools. and has been presi-
dent Of the Chevy Chase Elementary
Parent Teacher Association and of
the Leland Junior High School Par
ent-Teacher Association.
Mrs. Walker also has served as
treasurer of the Montgomery County
Mental Hygiene Society, and as a
director of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Recreation Center.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
School 5egI 5gation
Called Big Problem

A major problem confronting
Maryland lawmakers is preservation
OF the States segregated schoo,
system, Majority Leader Leroy
Pumphrey Of the Maryland House
OF Delegates told the Prince Georges
County Chamber of Commerce last
night.
Speaking at a dinner meeting al
the Prince Georges Golf and Coun.
try Club, Mr.. Pumphrey warned
that last years Supreme Court rul.
ing that States must provide equa
school facilities for white and col.
ored students would require large
expenditures If the present system
Is to be retained.
Mr.. Pumphrey, Democratic dele.
gate from Prince Georges County
Is member of the State Legisla.
tive Council. which, he said, wa.
studying the problem.
Perry o. Wilkinson, chairman o,
the Prince Georges County delega.
ton in the House of Delegates. dis.
cussed several proposed amend.
ments to the State constitution
which will appear on the ballot.
November 2.
Evening star., 1948-10-26

day." Mr.. Douglass said, 80 students
will hold their election tomorrow
AS a part OF the their training ir
government, they will vote on all the
questions that will be voted on next
week."
Mr.. Pyle said the school does moi
have voting machine.
Il wish we had.' he said
Machines will be used in the
County elections.
ITO my knowledge" the principa
added, "the only printed literature
on the charter question Is in favor o1
the charter. We have circulated
views opposing the charter by means
of newspaper clippings"
The principal took pride in the
fact that of about 1000 students ir
the upper three grades, approx
mately 800 have registered and quail
ified to vote.
This is better than the national
average" he said.
Mr.. Douglass said the proposed
election by students had the full ap-
proval of the schools parent teacher
association and school officials.
Teachers are supported by the
taxpayers-both opponents and pro-
ponents of a charter-and should
not be drawn into this political
ISSUE" Mr.. Sauter said. This only
shows what steps charter pro-
ponents will go to, to win support for
their scheme"
Evening star., 1948-10-26

tel exhibit OF the National Rifle AS.
sociations first annual convention
Miss Agee's creations were displayed
for the first time.
Miss Agee, who lives at 34l1 Thir.
tieth street NV, has designed q
svelte, two-toned jacket for hel
feminine compatriots. Nodded to the
hips, it then flares in the best new
look" style. Two pleats in the back
hide zippers. When unzipped, the
jacket hangs free, so the wearel
won't be cramped during prone
shooting.
Elbow Is Cushioned.
THE best feature of it, think, Is
the elbow rest" said Miss Agee, who
does some professional modelling ir
her spare time. Instead of layers
of leather, the elbow patch is cush.
ioned with sponge rubber"
The new jacket will be on dis.
play, along with the other latest
developments in rifle and pisto
shooting circles today and tomor.
row at the Shoreham.
The NRA's convention conclude.
tomorrow night with a banquet ant
dance, although members are in.
vited to remain and attend a dem.
onstration at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground Thursday morning.
The NRA's national rifle and pis.
tol championships are being helc
at Quantico in conjunction with tn,
convention
Evening star., 1948-10-26
S2O,913,392 Building
Plan for Maryland U.
Explained by Dr.. Byrd
By the Assoeiofed pyess

BALTIMORE, Oct. 26.-The Uni
versity of Maryland laid a revised
building expansion program before
the State planning commission yes
terday, program which would cost
$40, 1882.
DR.. Harry G. Byrd, university
president; explained that it calls for
sl6,543, 1892 in State appropriations
and $4,,460, 900 from other sources.
Last summer the University put a
s19.716,000 program before the plan
ming commission. The increase of
81 zoe, 900 is accounted for by higher
construction costs and additional
facilities.
Calls Need Immediate.
DR.. Byrd said the university has
an immediate need of all of them.
In the past 20 years, he said, the
enrolment has increased from 1887
to 10,719 and the faculty has ex-
panded from 131 to 750. Yet, some
of the departments still are working
with the same facilities they had
in 1928.
The $4,46o,00o worth Of projects
from other sources are virtually all
"self-liquidating projects" the uni
versity president explained. They
are to be paid for by fees collected
from the students principally.
He said he would suggest to the
Legislature nxet year that it set up
some kind of State authority that
could borrow money for such self
llquidating projects. It would be
similar to the system by which the
State is using tolls to pay off the
cost of bridges 1t has built or is
going to build.
II such an arrangement could be
worked out, DR.. Byrd said, the
university ought to build five mems
dormitories, three women's dormi-
tories, a laundry, a students union
building, IL fraternity and sorority
houses at College Park and a stu
dent and faculty center In Balti-
more.
Projects Outlined.
The plan he presented calls for
ss,615,792 worth of buildings at Col
lege Park to be financed with State
appropriations.
1t also calls for:
A 100000 seafood technoloeical
laboratory and a $4,000 tobacco re-
search farm at Crisfeld.
Poultry, livestock, and horticul-
tural projects at Salisbury costing
$129 900.
A $s4.5oo animal husbandry farm
IN Howard County.
Capital Improvements worth $3,-
1oo, 600 at Princess Anne College.
Projects In Baltimore worth 81
$4,000.
The cost of the Princess Anne
project in the earlier plan was S.
450,000. wv
Evening star., 1948-10-26
S. Angus Bring SIS, 900
At Worrenton Sale

WARRENTON, Va, Oct. 26 (Spe-
ciaD .-Fifty-five top-quality, pure
bred Aberdeen Angus, s hui.., an. so
females. were sold for $4,000 at the
llth annual show and sale {. the
Virginia Aberdeen-Angus Breeders
Association here yesterday.
The average price was $1,O92, an
increase Of more than 500 over the
l947 average. The top price was
$4,000 received by John c. Calls
Amandale Fam. Upperville, for
Amandale's Bandolier 10th, a bull
sold to Arundel Farms, Suffield
Conn.
In the show which preceded the
sale. judged by j. Garrett Tolan
Pleasant Plains. ILL.,, a heifer con-
signed by Campbell Estates, Inc, La
Grange, Va. was chosen champion.
Her owner received the West Gal
way Trophy. donated by Mrs.
Charles T. Neale, Rocklands Farms,
Gordonsville.
The heifer was sold to Elerslie
Farm, Charlottesville, for $500, top
female price
The senior champion female
award was won by an entry of
Frank Armstrong of Haywood
which sold to Angus Valley Farm,
Tulsa, Okla, for $4,000.
LIE Baron Farm of Warrenton,
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Cot
nareanu, showed the grand cham
pion bull, which sold to Campbell
Estates for $3.100.
The animals came from 18 Vir-
ingia Angus herds and were sold
into five States.
The sale was managed by John G.
Gall. Kenneth Litton, B. A. Rucker,
jr.. and Dave Sutherland composed
the Sale Committee.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
Prince Georges Picks
3 New Supervisors
For County Schools

Appointment of three new school
supervisors in Prince Georges
County, including two to newly
created positions. was announced
yesterday by County School Supt.
G. Gardner Schugart.
John p Speicher, present prin-
cipal of Greenbelt High School, will
become supervisor of all senior high
schools. Miss Emma Bowman, prin-
cipal of the Beltsville Elementary
School, will take over as the county's
fourth elementary school supervi-
sor. Both appointments are ef-
fective Monday.
Both are new positions created
at this time because of the un-
precedented high enrollments in
our schools this year." Mr.. Schugart
declared. Attendance this year has
jumped nearly $500 pupils. An in
crease Of more than 5000 other
students is anticipated for next
year
Miss Mary A. Thompson, head
of the department of physical edu-
cation for women at Kalamazoo
tMich) College, will become super
visor of health education mot later
than February l." Mr.. Schugart
said. She will succeed Mrs. Leo L.
Quinn, who resigned.
Named to succeed Mr.. speicher
at Greenbelt was M. E. Hernick,
principal Of the Gwynn Park High
School. Bartlett Dorr, assistant
principal at Gwynn Park, will be-
come acting principal there. Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Long, a teacher at
the Greenbelt Junior High School
will replace Miss Bowman.
Mr.. Schugart said the salary of
the health education supervisor is
contributed to the school system by
the Prince Georges County Tuber-
culosis Association.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
Old MiddIehom Chapel
Marks 2O0th Yeor
BY the Associated Press

Prince FREDERICK, Oct. 90
Old Middleham Chapel, near Solo
mons, Calvert County, observed its
2ooth anniversary of continuous wor-
ship Sunday.
The building, built of brick shipped
from England, was paid for by the
landowners Of the area with tobacco
Inc communion service, a chalice
and pieces of silver still in use, were
given by Queen Anne Of England.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
School Segregation
Case Set for Feb. 7

A suit asking that equal educa
tlonal facilities be maintained fol
white and colored students in Ar.
lington County will be tried Febru.
ary in Federal Court at Alexan.
dria.
The trial date was set yesterday
after a pretrial hearing. The suit
was filed q year ago in behalf OF
Constance Carter, is, colored, 340(
block North Twenty-second street
Arlington, who told the court she
was denied admission to the coun-
tvs white high school. Washington
Lee. where she claimed, more courses
were offered than at the eolored
school.
Evening star., 1948-10-26
Christmas Seal Goals SET
In Alexandra, ARLINGTON

The Alexandria and Arlington
Tuberculosis Associations TODAY an.
nounced their goals for this years
Christmas Seal sale.
The goal in Alexandria has been
set at $4,000. Benjamin H. McEl.
Kinney, seal sale chairman in Alex
andria. said the figure was necessary
to carry on the associations 1949
health program in Alexandria
which includes the recently inaue-
urated plan of X-raying all patients
ADMITTED at the Alexandria Hos
pital.
The Arlington quota has been set
at $4,000, which was the sum raised
last year, according to Don C. Wo.
mack. Arlington seal sale chairman
The Christmas, Seal sale will begin
November %.