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Evening star., 1948-07-16
Gales School Reconyersion
To Start in Three Weeks

The Old Gale School, Massacnu-
sets avenue and G street NV, will
submit to face lifting beginning
in about three weeks for its con-
version into q District health center,
Municipal Architect Merrel A. Coe
disclosed yesterday.
The program was set back early
last month when fire broke out in
the abandoned building, causing
about $500 worth of damage. Mr..
Coe said a $106,000 contract has
been awarded to w. Jennings Jones
Evening star., 1948-07-16

l. o u l s v Ill e q
Nashville Rail-
roads.
Treasury Sec
retary Snyder
said yesterday
President Tru-
man h as ac-
cepted the res
ignation M r .
Virgins ten =
dered the White
House IN q let
ter d a t e d last
Friday.
Mr.. Snyder
said Mr.. Tru-
man has named
Evening star., 1948-07-16

Cream
O o v p A v o

gives a touch Of salts
faction. Reeaptures
that soft, tender skin
d yosth.
Wss. Pksa, rseh< SssN
Evening star., 1948-07-16

and added that the conversion will
take about eight months.
Under the Hill-Burton National
Hospital Construction Act of 1916.
one-third of the necessary funds
win be provided by the Federal
Government.
Evening star., 1948-07-16

took over incubation of the eggs
after the idea palled on the mother
turkey. There are half a dozen OF
the turkeys in the Zoos birdhouse
Evening star., 1948-07-16
A. Lee Wigeins Quits
Treasury 10 Head, ACL
And LIN Railroads
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

A. Lee M. Virgins has resigned
as Undersecretary of the Treasury
to become chairman of the board
of both the Atlantic Coast Line and
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Largest Transport
To Fly Here on Test

The worlds largest passenger
plane-Navy's Lockheed Constitu.
tion-will make its first cross-coun-
try flight Sunday and settle down
at National Airport for two OF
three day display and formal COM
missioning.
With a capacity of 180 passengers,
the double-deck transport swill leave
Moffett Field near San Francisco
and fly nonstop to the Patuxent
River Naval Air Statiom The
Navy's announcement estimated the
flight will require about 10 hours.
The flight, the Navy said, is part
of a long-range test program on
the big craft conducted jointly by
Lockheed and the Bureau of Aero
nautics. Long-range cruise control
fuel consumption and other dis
tance characteristics will be tested
on the California to Atlantic sea
board hop.
1t is expected to cruise at about
$50 miles an hour at 10000 feet.
Weighing 90 tons, the Constitu-
ton was first flown in November OF
1916 and has been flight tested
more than $50 hours. 1t has a wing
span of 189 feet, is 156 feet long
and has 50-foot tail and is pow
cred by four 3,50O-horsepower Pratt
q Whitney engines.
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Purolyzed Former Sees
Brother and Son Drown
1y HE Asso<icied Pfe,s

|. BURLINGTON. w. Va, July "a
"A sparalyzed farmer had to stand
helplessly on a creek bank yester-
day while his brother and l0-year-
old son drowned.
William s. Barber, jr. told police
Evening star., 1948-07-22
. IT'S
{. AN OLD
. Story!

When you give folks some
thing that they like, g some
thing that they truly enjoy,
they'll ask for it over and
over again. That's how it is
with our Mariners Platter
Every Friday night, people
who like their sea food good
and fresh, gather at the Hot
Shoppes to enjoy such delica'
cies as crisp fried shrimp,
tender fillet of sole and cool
tuna fish salad. It's the same
old story and what a
GOOD story! =
Evening star., 1948-07-22
By W. H. Shippen, Jr.
Stor SioH Correspondent

LONDON, July 22.-The frs
west -to-east crossing of the Atlantic
by jets was completed at Oldham
Field near here yesterday afternoon
by 16 F-80s manned by top gunnery
and combat veterans.
This modern offshoot of the war.
tested 56th Fighter Group was ir
familiar air when the squadron
swung south from Stornoway, of
Northwest Scotland, and crossed
over London before landing at an
Raj base about As miles from here
The flying time was 10 hours and
40 minutes on the 4,288-mile North
Atlantic route from Selfridge Field
Mich. to England via Dow Field at
Bangor, Me-; Goose Bay, Labrador:
Greenland, Iceland and the Outer
Hebrides of the British Isles.
The flight was called a routine
mission to test the feasibility OF
using jets along the World War II
bomber route to the United King
dom.
~ SchiCu plOUdplc tudG tIle uSNt-
ers will cooperate on training mis-
sions over Germany with the largest
number of heavy bombers from
America to arrive here since the
end of World War II.
News men accompanying the jets
IN supply, rescue and weather re-
conaissance airplanes saw the Sup
efforts at more than one base as the
bombers moved eastward to Europe
This bombardment training mission
was classified at the time, although
the arrival of the B-29s here last
week end was freely discussed in the
British Press. Reporters speculated
that at least 80 had arrived.
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Numbers Game Suspect
Gets Case Continued

A 40-year-old man. charged with
operating lottery and possession
of lottery slips, had his case con-
tinued to Wednesday yesterday by
Judge George D. Nelson of NUM-
clpal Court.
The defendant, Ollie E. Green,
colored. of the 100 block of Adams
street NV, was freed under 1,5OO
bond.
According to 1t. Roy Blick. chief
of the police Vice Squad, Green
was arrested Tuesday at Fifth and
K streets NV, after undercover
men reported they had made num-
bers game plays with him, using
marked money. Green had about
$500 in change and a quantity of
numbers slips on his person when
taken into custody, 1t. Blick said
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Expert Engineering
OF Mayans in yucatan
DiscernibIe in Ruins
By Jack Kofoed
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor ond
the Chieoqo Dolly News

MERIDA, Yucatan, July 22.-
Mexico, always a draw for tourists
archaeologists and just people who
like to see something colorful, has
in its state of Yucatan, something
Specialize Mayan ruins.
Not to be different we started out
for Chichen TIA, little more than
mile from this state capital. on a
day already hot at am. to see
some repeatedly particularly inter-
esting ones.
But what we saw between Merida
and Chichen Itza we found equally
interesting-Indian villages with
their dirt floors and thatched roofs
furnished with hammocks, chairs
and scanty battered houshold gear
At this hour of the morning the
village cantinas seem to do rous-
ing business. And rooms are already
filed with men in garb that looked
like white pajamas and big straw
hats and women in what looked like
double nightgowns.
Dogs Are Plentiful.
There seems to be at least one
NANCY, hungry looking dog for each
human inhabitant, and every one,
including dogs, prefers the middle
of the road to any other place in
the village Fortunately, there is
little traffic or casualty lists would
compare with those of London dur
ing the blitz.
Every woman either carries a. pot
Of beans on her head. baby in her
arms, or both. The birth rate ap-
pears to be high, but the mortality
rate also must be high, for the
population shows no startling
growth.
AS for the Mayan ruins, We agree
they are something every one should
see. They are amazing in them
selves, and even more startling when
you consider how people without
machinery could have lifted 20-ton
blocks of stone up to such great
heights.
Ball Court Is Striking.
Being an old-time sports writer,
the ball court struck me most of
all the buildings. The field between
the high walls and temples is prob
ably ITO yards by IS. Here athletes
played a game called tlachli, with
a rubber ball The captain of the
losing team had his head cut off
by the captain of the winners.
In addition to moving great weights
without machinery, the Mayans had
us on another count. We use micro
phones to carry the voice over any
considerable distance. So perfect
are the acoustics, you can stand at
one end of this ball court. and hear
a persons voice at the other.
There's only one thing I hold
against the Mayans, and that's the
way they build their steps. Straight
up. It's as easy to climb them as
a ladder, and lot. tougher coming
down.
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Jets Spent Less Than II Hours
In Air on Michigon-London Trip

On landing here. 1t. Col. David C
Schilling, squadron Commander, ex-
pressed the belief that it is entirely
practical to fuel, supply and fly pres
ent type jets along the wartime
route. With improvements in navi-
gational aids and nlaneuverability
new jet models should be able to
make the jump in matter of hours
instead of days. it was said.
The jets. like B-29s here, are
commanded by Gen. George C.
Kenney, chief of the Strategic Air
Force, who will soon move his head
quarters from Andrews Field near
Washington to a base near Omaha,
Neb. The move would put Gen.
Kenney nearer the center of the
kind of defense perimeter which
could be thrown out by the long
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Expediter Urges Housing
LEGISLATION al Session

Tighe Woods, Federal Housing ex-
|pediter, urged last night that
Congress enact emergency housing
Legislation during its special session
which starts on Monday.
Mr.. Woods stressed the necessity
of such action during an address
before the District Young Demo-
Gratis in the Carlton Hotel.
He said emergency legislation is
necessity, since it is apparen,
the supply of living quarters has
not met the current demand, de-
spite construction records being
broken.
Moreover, he added, the Taft.
Ellender- Wagner housing bill woulo
set up long-range program and
something should be done to pro-
vide immediate aid.
Evening star., 1948-07-22

his son, Russell Edward Barber.
foundered while wading in Patter-
son Creek. Philip James Barber.
IS, brother of the paralyzed farmer
and uncle of the boy. jumped to the
rescue.
william Barber said both disap-
Ipeared. Then he saw them floating
down the creek. The farmer sent
another son. 8 years old. to summon
Ifiremen who recovered the bodies.
Evening star., 1948-07-22
Rites Set for Paul KIaesius
MARYLAND Draft official
BY the Associated Press


BALTIMORE, July 22.-Funera!
services will be held tomorrow for
Paul Klaesius, 48, former Maryland
selective service and Veterans Ad.
ministration official.
He died at Fort Howard Veterans
Hospital Tuesday night after suf-
fering a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr.. Klaesius was discharged from
the Army April /, 1947, as colonel
He became vice president of a vend
ing machine agency when he re.
turned to civilian life.
Mr.. Klaesius was a supervisor of
occupational deferment during the
World War II draft and later served
as veterans Unemployment officer.
Survivors include the widow, two
sons, two sisters and two brothers.
Evening star., 1948-07-22
| Democrats in Hawaii
See Gains in Goodness
0fG.0.P. 10 Statehood

HONOLULU, Hawaii. July %
(CDN .-Hawaii's Democrats are
feeling cheerful these days-for the
same reason as the South's Republi-
cans. o.,
The COP garrison in the South
counts on peeling off votes from the
civil rights revolt against President
Truman. Hawaiian Democrats, a
lonely holding force in a Republican
archipelago, plan to build up their
party on a recent plunder by their
opponents.
The blunder was the failure of
the Republican platform drafters
to write a strong prostatehood
plank into the COP program.
Democrats See Labor Support.
The Democrats not only promised
immediate" membership in the
union for Hawaii, but hammered it
into the platform. Republicans put
the ardent islanders of with "even-
tual" statehood. {.
The Democrats aim is to- nail
Hawaii alongside Mississippi in
the permanent Democratic Column
Even if this fails, the Democrats
feel they have an indestructible
argument which can give 20 years
of trouble to the sugar and pine
apple industries and Republican
newspapers.
The Democrats see a chance to
broaden their hold in the labor
unions into something more like
mass support. What they may lose
in Federal appointments from a
Dewey Warren regime, before state
hood, they figure they can make
back again in proving that their
party wanted statehood more than
The Republicans.
Republicans Map Plans.
The Republicans, alarmed. are
getting together countermeasures.
Oe plan is to cut down the Demo-
cratic advantage by having Gov
Dewey and Gov. Warren put
guarded proposals for statehood in
their speeches. g
The Californian already favors
statehood. The New Yorker can
easily back statehood, too, without
offending anybody but Senators
Lodge and Millikin, who put the
rickety stick in the Republican
creed. Senator Lodge thought Ha-
waii was too far off the coast and
Senator Millikin claimed Hawaii's
labor was Communist inf1ltrated.
The Millikin view.has some support
here, but the Lodge attitude is
unanimously considered out of date
Evening star., 1948-07-22

Jamaica Havana Merida
3. Guatemala City and Mexico
City. Excursion rate is only 5j722o
from Washington.
Coll Your Trsvsi Agent or
Republic 500
Ticket Office: Hos cennse,ieu. Ave,
All fares subject to tax.
Evening star., 1948-07-22
u. S. Lengthens Air Strip
In Reich for Newer Planes

BERLIN. July % (PD.-The United
States Air Force disclosed yesterday
that its base at Wiesbaden was be.
ing heightened to handle newer
type planes with hotter takeoff and
landing speeds"
The announcement did not identify
these planes, but jets might be
meant. American Jet planes now
arriving in Europe will operate out
of Germany at various times.
The runway is being heightened
from $500 to 1000 feet. The work
will be finished in day or So.
Evening star., 1948-07-22

rhythms of Cuba. Return via Me.
rida, Mexico (ancient Mayan ruins
nearby and New Orleans. Only
1850 round trip from Washington.
Evening star., 1948-07-22

range supsrforts and their success
sors.
The jets blew in ct Oldham I'M
mediately after the Raj had ended
a spectacular air show In honor Of
| the Shah of Persia.
The shah was ushered from the
field q few minutes before the 1e
fighters from America buEzed the
control tower In formation.
Perhaps the international flavor OF
the Raj show was responsible, but
the fact remains that an unusually
large number Of military observers
attached to foreign embassies here
remained for closer scrutiny OF the
jets.
Included were representatives o1
Turkey, Sweden. France, Holland
Iraq, Italy, China. Argentina ano
Yegoslavia. The jets were on display
They had come across the Atlantic
armed with eight .50-caliber machine
guns and ammunition used for rou-
tine training missions.
The fighters also carry 10 rockets
each under their wings.
Among the cameramen today was
the representative of a Southern
European country taking closeup
pictures of the jets from all angles.
The Yankee pilots, most of whom
are combat veterans with experience
in Europe, Africa and the Near East
only grinned at this character vast
ing his country's film on a plane al
most obsolete.
Lockheed, the manufacturer, al
ready is turning out an advanced
model to compete with others being
developed for the Air Force and
Navy by rival companies.
Evening star., 1948-07-22

There were skeptics abroad last
January. The Shoreham Hotel was
busy preparing a new cocktail and
supper room. 1t was to be the ulti-
mate in such rooms, the handsomest
to be found anywhere in the coun-
try Sure. said the skeptics, but
what does the Shoreham want with
q new room, even one that tops all
the others. The Shoreham already
has the Blue Room and a cocktail
lounge. 1t needs another room like
q hole in the head. They should
have kept the swimming pool. All
they'll do is increase their overhead
and divide up their business.
That's what the skeptics said, but
when the Palladian Room opened
on January %, 1t was everything
handsome that had been promised.
1t had fine music by Safhde Williams
that was suitable for dancing with
out interfering with conversation
and 1t was launched with an i'm
pecabble opening night. The de-
tractors sat by to see what would
happen.
What happened. somewhat to the
surprise OF the Shoreham manage
ment and greatly to the surprise of
others in the hotel business around
town. was that the Palladian Room
got off to a fine start and instead OF
hurting the Blue Rooms business,
increased 1t.
During q Blue Room engagement
Of the De Marcos. probably the top
box ONCE attraction to make Wash
ington 4 regular stop, the Blue
Room had its best Saturday night
in five years. That didn't surprise
any one, but during that same en-
gagement the people who check up
on such things looked at the books
one night and discovered that the
Palladian Room had served more
suppers than the Blue Room during
the evening. Things were fine at
the Shoreham.
They continued fine Until Wash
ington's heat descended and every
one not bound tightly to the town
fed for cooler climes. Even then
they remained better than at lot
of places where the walters were
Evening star., 1948-07-22

want 10 exercise On ne dance hooa
to the Barnee music.
4 =
Portrait Of Man With Foot In Mouth
"a play In one act.)
Cast: Stanley Livingston, man
ager Of the Roger Smith Hotel;
Sammy Seymour, leader of the
orchestra at the hotels Starlight
Roof.
Livingston: Who won the ball
game?
Seymour: The Mats tonight, but
that was sure a tough one to lose
last night. They lost q lot of close
decisions.
Livingston: Oh. I don't know
Cleveland lost some close decisions
too.
Seymour: They ought to. the
Evening star., 1948-07-22

buns. They ought to lose all de-
cisions. They're no good.
Livingston: used to live In Cleve-
land. Followed that ball club for
years.
Seymour: I wonder whose orches-
ira opens here next week.
+ +
Rumor and Answer Department:
Rumor: That the Sazerac Room
OF the Old New Orleans was going
to take summer hiatus. Answer,
from Owner Nick CASTOR: ITS the
first I heard about it. Oh, the way
business is everywhere. I suppose
could save money by closing for a
month. but I like Bob Simpsons
orchestra. II I closed for a month
Evening star., 1948-07-22

I'd have to get new band when
reopened."
Rumor: That the Madrillon has
new chairs. Answer: True. Con-
firmed by sitting on one Of them.
Very comfortable.
Rumor: That the Mayflower Hotel
management has q new night club
room in the ofi1ng. Answer: The
Mayflower's press department has
not heard about it, if it's true, so 1t
probably isn't.
Rumor: That the Shoreham's Blue
Room Is to be redecorated before
reopening in the fall. Answer: Call
to Shoreham not returned by press
time
Evening star., 1948-07-22
After Dark
Palladian Room Vacations
After q Successful Season.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

going snow-blind in July from look
ing at unsullied tablecloths.
The Shoreham has been quite
happy with its Palladian Room
experiment, all right. The skeptics
can't say Il told you so' just be.
cause 1t is closing after Saturday
night. either. The closing is a tenn
porary thing, Of the summer only
Come autumn, the Palladian Room
will be back with us. So, too, mas
be Sande Williams, his 25-week en-.
gagement having been = highly
successful one.
Meanwhile There is still the Ter.
race, probably the towns finest
summer rendezvous, as long as the
weather co-operates. Also starting
next week, there's to be dining on
that part of the veranda over
Barnee's head, for those who don't
Evening star., 1948-04-06
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home and b.yr:-old child: NO cooking ito9II ioI
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after Q o'clock dinner; reference. EN-. 6626
MAID. part time. e-day week; 3 in family
must be good cook; ref. and health card
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MAID. neat. reliable, s;h.x.. care ] child
cent city references and health card. ia
MAID. g.hw- and laundry: no cooking
thoroushly experienced; references re.
MAID-Must be good cook: g.h.w.: live in
nice room, private bath; good references
necessary: $50 wk. EN-. 25ST. 5
MAID, E.hw.: fond OF children; must live
in. 1900 9th ST. S.w., RE 1888. IS
MAID q INV, experienced, take care ol
child. live in: Thursday afternoon OF AND
every other Sunday: $50 . week; refer
MOTHER'S HELPER, to live in; private
room with radio: hare Bendix and iron
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aft. and every other Sun. on: have othel
help; city refs. req.; $26 wk. EN-. 1919
WOMAN FOR G.H.W. and care Of 2 chill
dren; must live in: good pay. ST. S643
Evening star., 1948-04-06
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CHMD'S NURSE. white or colored, age e5
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EMPLOYED husband; good references. EN-
COOK colored. live in; excel
salary; u day Thur. and every other Sun.
on; other help empl.: local refs. REQ. EN-
COOK of children, no
ironing. live in: large bright rni. with
closet and full bath: S25 wk. WI. 7054
COUPLE, white or eolored. thoroughly ex-
perienced with housework: woman must be
excellent cook: only those with excellent
ana s sassens ..s a:ss 'psa
CoUPLE. man and wife, COOK, chamber
eneed. working together; small family. at
tractiye living quarters, DO laundry, no
sns:d: Ho rssal sse ss Dsl sa
SfSERSs az EliRsSls' sasoSbsEwoKkER, experienced ms
apartment: fond of children; light laun.
dry; local references. ia s43b.
CIV. and assist with 2 children: nc
cooking, no heavy laundry or stay soms
nights: $3.50 week. Ia. S526.
G.H.W., experienced. with city references
good cook: full time; permanent position
SIS week; call Wednesday, between 10 anc
G.H.W. from 11:30 until after dinner
small apartment; references. Apply Apt
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cooking: health card and city refs: 81
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