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Evening star., 1949-08-25

con meeting of the American Vet
Grams Committee. said the AVG
and other such liberal groups
made an error in opposing the
transfer of the pools to the Rec
reation Board.
He explained that Interior Sec
retary Krug was ready to give
control of the six Interior Depart
ment pools to the local body un-
til liberals started putting pres
sure on him to maintain his anti
segregation policy. He has since
turned down a Recreation Board
offer to operate two Of the pools
on an inter-racial basis, Mr..
Wender pointed out.
It was through the Recreation
Evening star., 1949-08-25

Board that the best chance for a
gradual change to inter-racial use
of all play facilities was possible,
Mr.. Wender said.
He explained he was for inter-
racial use of all play facilities. as
soon as it is practical, and that
the Recreation Board is pledged
to this end. But it is not a thing
that can be done with a flip of
the wrist" he added.
Mr.. Wender said he understood
the Anacostia pool, closed in July
after racial disturbances there
would remain closed the rest of
the year.
He described himself as a
middle of -the-road liberal also,
Evening star., 1949-08-25

but said he was tired Of fellow
liberals criticizing him without
trying to find out what his in
tentions were.
He said he was like. the little
sparrow, sitting on a telegraph
wire, bedraggled. torn and with
feathers dropping. When asked
what the trouble was, the sparrow
said he was just swooping here
and there and before he knew
what was happening, he "got into
the damndest badminton game
you ever saw"
But I'm not going to get out
as long as I think I represent the
majority of the people of Wash
ington," he declared.
Evening star., 1949-08-25
MATS Heads Map Plans
To Resume Air Routes

Key leaders of the Military
Air Transport Service, with head
quarters at Andrews Air Force
Base, today are formulating plans
for normal resumption of the Or
ganization's program Of air trans
port over its 10000 miles Of air
routes throughout the world, fol-
lowing reduced operations of the
Berlin Airlift.
Those engaged in the planning
are Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter
commanding officer of MATS;
Evening star., 1949-08-25
Liberals Here Blamed
By Wender for Tieup
OF Swimming Pools

Middle of -the-road liberals In
the city must take much OF the
blame for the present deadlock
between the Interior Department
and the District Recreation Board
over the swimming pools here
Harry s. Wender, Recreation
Board chairman, declared yester-
day.
Mr.. Wender, addressing q lunch
Evening star., 1949-08-25

Rear Admiral William G. Tomlin-
son, commander, Pacific Division
Honolulu; Maj. Gen. Bob E. Now
land, commander Atlantic Divi-
sion, Westover Air Force Base
Mass; Rear Admiral John P
Whitney, MATS vice-commander
and Brig. Gen. Archie ]. Old, jr.
commander of the Continental
Division, San Antonio, Tex.
Evening star., 1949-08-25

Just as the weather station at
Stuttgart, Germany, was about to
issue storm warning, lightning
struck its telephone exchange and
put it out of commission.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
By the Assoeiuted Press

CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini-
can Republic, Mar. 19.-The cap
tain of a United States Navy ship
apologized to Dominican police
today for mob violence stirred up
by three tipsy American sailors.
The actions of the men ashore
so infuriated a crowd of civilians
last night that they fought police
and the United States shore patrol
in an attempt to seize the Seamen.
One of the sailors was accused of
trying to molest a Dominican girl.
AS police held back the mob,
the shore patrol placed the sailors
under arrest. The crowd then
proceeded to the harbor where
the visiting United States naval
vessels Burdo, Burke and Mt.
Olympus are anchored.
The captain of the Burdo sent
two officers today to the office
of Col. Luis Arzeno Colon. Ciudad
Trujillo police chief, to present
his apologies. Col. Colon preyi-
ously had visited the Mt. Olym-
pus, flagship of the visiting squad
ron, to urge that all United States
Evening star., 1949-03-20
; Pieces Of Lost Plane
Found on Bay Island

Three pieces of a Navy jet plane
which had been missing since last
Monday were found yesterday on
Adams Island in Chesapeake Bay.
q spokesman at the Patuxent
River Naval Air Station said last
night.
1t. Comdr. John @. Carter, pub
lie relations officer, said a crash
boat had been dispatched to the
island and a search would be
made at daylight.
The plane, one Of the Navy's
newest fighters, was identified as
a Cutlass. 1t disappeared on a
test fight between Andrews Air
Force Base and the Patuxent sta
ton. William H. B. Millar, chief
test pilot for the Chance Vought
division of the United Aircraft
Corp, which built the plane. was
plotting the single-seater craft.
Comdr. Carter said the three
pieces were found by fishermen
who notified a Coast Guard boat.
Adams Island is about 20 miles
southeast of Patuxent. The Coast
Guard radioed a serial number
on a piece of the plane and this
made the identification positive,
Comdr. Carter said.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Senators Map Searching Inquiry
Into Atlantic Pact, Especially
Plans for Aiming West Europe
Allies Prepare Unified Defense
To Meet Threat of. Major War
u S. White Paper Sees Peace Assisted
By DispeIIng Soviet Misconceptions

cussed by the foreign ministers of
the participating nations when
they gather here early next
month to sign the treaty.
The plan obviously would be for
defense against a possible attack
by Russia--the only power out
side the alliance capable of wag-
ing a major conflict-although
the State Department paper did
not specifically name Russia in
this connection.
The pact itself does not attempt
to spell out in detail what specific
defense arrangements are to be
made, but provides for creation of
a council and a defense commit
tee" to work out measures for
implementing the alliance.
The clear intention of the
parties to the pact to take united
action. coupled with the prepara-
tion of the means to do so. should
remove the danger of miscalcu-
lation by any potential aggressor
that he could succeed in over
coming them one by one." said
the State Department document.
It added that Soviet leaders
now have serious misconceptions"
Continued on Page AS, Col. 81
Evening star., 1949-03-20
VA May Give Up Plan
To Use Nevius Tract
For 5O0-Bed Hospital
New Opposition to Site
Reported on Capitol Hill;
Other Areas Considered
By GEORGE Beveridqe

The Veterans Administration
may abandon the 81 100000 Ne
vius tract in Arlington as the
site for Washington's proposed
500-bed veterans hospital, The
Star learned last night.
DR.. Paul Magnuson, VA medi-
cal director. said in answer to a
query that it is by no means cer-
tain the Is acres adjoining Arl-
ington Cemetery will be the hos
pitfalls eventual location.
In fact" he declared, II
haven't heard anything for some
time about either where or when
the hospital IS going to be built" d"
Site Picked BY Bradley.
This is the latest in a series
of on-again- again develop
ments that have ragged around the
controversial site since it first was
selected more than two and a
half years ago by Gen. Bradley,
then Veterans Administrator. for
what was to have been a 750-bed
hospital.
Medical authorities already have
examined other sites in the city
and at least one is known to be
under special consideration. New
opposition to the Nevius selection
also has been reported from Capt.
tol Hill.
Chief points of opposition, it was
learned, revolve around the tracts
nearness to the cemetery and the
fact it is directly under widely
used air routes for planes landing
(See NEVIUS, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1949-03-20
By Gornett D. Horner

North Atlantic Treaty powers
intend to develop common stra-
tegic plan" to integrate their mil
ltary strength in case of a major
war, a State Department White
Paper disclosed last night.
The department published the
6,000-word document as part Of
it's campaign to promote wide pub
lie understanding Of the terms and
implications of the pact propos-
ing to bind the United States,
Canada and key Western Euro
pean nations into an historic COL
lective security alliance.
1t pictured the treaty as "re-
ducing the chances of war" by
helping to dispel Soviet "miscon-
ceptions" about the unity and
strength of the democracies.
The pact is designed, the White
Paper said, to give assurance that
in case of a major war there will
be co-ordinated defense in which
the actual military strength and
the military potential of all the
members will be integrated into a
common strategic plan
Preliminary steps toward de-
veloping such a plan may be dis
Evening star., 1949-03-20
u. S. Apologies to Dominicons
After Tipsy Sailors Rouse Mob

sailors be kept off the streets to
prevent further disorders.
All three vessels still were in
port tonight.
Dominican police gave this ac-
count of what happened:
A sailor from the transport
Burdo tried to molest girl. Two
companions were with him. They
had been drinking. The girl fled
to nearby house and crashed into
a glass door. cutting her arm.
A mob formed and pursued the
sailors. A shore patrol picked
them up and took them back to
the Burdo as police held back the
crowd.
More police and army detach-
ments were rushed in to protect
other sailors on the streets. An
other street fight started not long
afterward. the result of row be-
tween two American sailors and a
restaurant cashier over payment
of a bill.
Police said the mob at the dock
was led by the girls father, who
tried to stone the sailor who al
legedly attempted to molest his
daughter.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Polar Bear Seizes Boy,
Claws Him in 81. Louis
By the Associated Press

ST. LOUIS, Mar. ia polar
bear dragged 13-year-old Donald
Carey into the bears pit today,
clawing and biting the boy seri-
ously.
The boy had climbed a fence
at the st. Louis Zoo and was Sit
ting on the edge of a moat sur
rounding the pit.
The bear. SNOWFALL, weighing
1000 to 1900 pounds. grabbed
Donald's leg. -Four other children
who were with young Carey ran
for help.
Guards rushed to the pit with
rifles and called to Donald to
stop struggling. When he did
that, the bear and his mate.
Frisky, began to lick the boy.
The keepers brought automo-
biles to the pit and began honk-
ing horns and shouting. The noise
frightened the bears back into
their den and young Carey was
rescued. -~
He was reported in serious con-
dition at City Hospital with cuts
and bruises on his thighs. chest.
body and arms.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Hormones to Be Used to Save
Cherry Blossoms for Festival
Trees Expected to Bloom About Friday
Unless Freezing Weather nteNenes

hormones will be sprayed on the
Yoshino and Akebono single-blos-
som trees around the Tidal Basin
this week.
What will happen after that will
be strictly up to Mother Nature,
according to the scientists of the
National Capital Park Service.
If the hormones work, Horace
D. Wester, plant pathalogist of
the National Capital Parks Serv-
ice, said the blossoms will remain
on the trees with their beauty
undiminished for an extra week
or 10 days. Even after that their
blooms will cling to the trees for
maybe a week or two, but by then
the blossoms will be faded" and
they won't be very pretty to look
at," Mr.. Wester said. The bios
SONS usually drop five days after
blooming.
Mr.. Wester used a few quarts
(See BLOSSOMS, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Pyramid Clubs Tie Up Phones,
Start Near Riot in Apartment
IAN. Guests and Tipsy Strangers
Bring Some Members to Shudder Stage

If you couldn't get a dial tone
on your telephone last night or
ran into a tipsy stranger in your
apartment hall. don't fuss. It's
just the Pyramid Club in full
swing.
AS any Pyramid Club member
will tell you, "It's Just wonderful
meeting so many new people"
Actually, some of the former de-
tenders of the Pyramid Club have
reached the shudder stage. That
comes when 500 people come to
call-some of them at 4 am.
While the city waited for a
District grand jury to decide
whether it thinks Pyramid Clubs
are illegal. these were some Of the
late developments:
Telephone operators were
plagued with complaints from in
nocent bystanders who couldn't
Evening star., 1949-03-20
picture on Page A-21J
By james J. CuIIjnone

The scientific might Of the Gov
ernment will mobilize against ma
ture this week to save" the Cher
ry Blossom Festival.
The Japanese cherry blossom
trees around the Tidal Basin show
every indication of blooming about
Friday unless caught in day and
night freezing weather. The Wea-
ther Bureau said last night that
while it will be cool this week it
will not be freezing during the
day and there will be sunshine
most of the week.
The Cherry Blossom Festival is
scheduled for April /, 2, and 8. If
the cherry trees bloom this week,
their fragile blossoms would be
vanishing at the time Of the festi-
val.
So thousands Of gallons Of plant
Evening star., 1949-03-20
S50-Unit Apartment
Approved, Is Largest
OF Type Since War
Two-BuiIding, Eieht-Story
Quebec House Project
To Be East of Broudmoor
By Robert J. Lewis
p.,I E.+o+. EJitor of The SfoY

The largest elevator-type apart
ment development in the Wash
ington area since before World
War II has just received approval
for FHA financing, it was learned
last night.
The development will occupy
most of a 9-acre site at Porter
and Quebec streets NV, just east
of Connecticut avenue and will
provide $50 apartment units in
two 8-story buildings.
This is so more units than are
planned in a single building,
FHA-approved development which
is expected to be started soon at
4701 Massachusetts avenue NV,
on the former Villa Rosa estate.
And it is SIS more units than will
be in the Hunting Tower apart
ments, proposed for construction
adjacent to Jones Point, Alex
andria.
Work to Start May l.
The newly y-disclosed project will
be known as Quebec House. Own
er will be Quebec House, Inc.
Builder will be the Ajax Con-
struction Co. Architect is the
firm of Edwin Weihe and Kather-
inc Gibbs, with Harvey Warwick,
architect for the Westchester
Apartments. as consulting archi-
tect.
Construction will begin about
May l, a spokesman said.
The District Office of the Fed
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Bandits Escape in Car;
One Armed With Shotgun;
Coptives Free Selves
TEACHERS play play call to
police nabs holdup suspects.
Page Az

Two men. one armed with a
sawed-off shotgun, yesterday rob-
bed Northeast liquor store of
nearly $1,000, then forced the
owner. an employe and two Gus
toners into a storage icebox al
ready crowded with cases of beer.
Washington police broadcast a
lookout to Maryland and Virginia
police for one man about % years
old and the other about 81. They
were believed to have escaped in
an old coupe, bearing out-of town
license tags.
While the gunman stood guard
Just inside the entrance to the
Montello wine and liquor store
at 1901 Montello avenue NE, the
second man rifled two cash reg
listers and took the billfold of
Herman Herbst, 80. of $500 Piney
Branch road NV. co-owner who
estimated the total loss at nearly
$1,000.
Woman Customer Warned.
During the holdup, Miss Mar
garet Donnelly. 1886 West Vir-
ginia avenue NE, entered the
store and the gunman warned her:
Don't move, lady. Keep quiet
and you won't get hurt" Miss
Donnelly told reporters later:
That's one time a woman kept
her mouth shut"
The two men then forced the
employe, Julius A. Curry, "a, COL
ored. of the 1900 block of Montello
avenue; a second customer. Oliver
Harris. 26. colored. 1881 Corcoran
street NE; Mr.. Herbst and Miss
Donnelly into back room.
Noting large refrigerator
there. they ordered the four in
side, warned them not to leave
and slammed the door. The four
were forced to Chamber on beer
cases piled inside. Fortunately
the box was equipped with an in
side handle. and Mr.. Harris who
was nearest the door opened it
after several minutes.
BY then the holdup men had
disappeared.
A second furry of excitement
came a short time later when a
motorcycle policeman phoned
that he believed he
lSee HOIDUP. Page A-4.l
Evening star., 1949-03-20

make a call because the lines were
jammed.
Four telephone exchanges re-
portedly were overloaded. They
were the Atlantic. Franklin. Lud-
low and Lincoln exchanges.
There were all kinds of claims
of profit from pyramids; but the
people who live at 4801 Connect
cut avenue NV. tell this sad
story.
It seems that a mother and
daughter. living there together,
reached the top of the Pyramid
Club ladder the same night.
At about 8 pm. a crowd started
forming in the spotRss foyer.
They jarnmed the elevators and an
elevator broke down between floors
Fifteen Pyramid Clubbers spent
See PYRAMID CLUBS. Page A-8
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Standard Cuts Fuel Oil
Eiqhf-Tenths Of a Cent

The Standard Oil Co. yesterday
announced a price cut of eight
tenths of a cent per gallon on
fuel oil in the Washington area.
The reduction will be effective
tomorrow. The current price Is
1873 cents.
John Chapel. Wasnlngtoii
sales manager for ESQ Standard
Oil Co., also announced a reouc-
ton of eight tenths of cent per
gallon on kerosene ana olesei on'
Similar price reductions will go
into effect in the Baltimore area
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
New Red Constitution Two Rob Liquor Store
Drives Wedge Deeper Of $1,000, Lock -Four
In Partitioned Reich In beer-Fi||ed |cebox
Western Powers Prepare
To Gust Soviet Currency
From BIockoded Berlin
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BERLIN. Mar. 19.-Eastern
Germany neared the status OF a
separate nation in the Soviet or
bit today
The Communicated Peoples
Council approved unanimously a
constitution for the 10000, 900
Germans in the Soviet zone and in
the Soviet sector Of Berlin who
are cut off from their Western
brothers by the Iron Curtain.
The constitution still must 60
through the formality Of approval
by the 2,000-man Peoples Con-
gress, which ratifies DEGREES Of the
council. The date for the congress
meeting was not fixed.
The Councils ratification of the
constitution. which would set up
rival to the Western German
federation being formulated at
Bonn for the United States, Brit
ish and French occupation zones.
came "a hours after announce
ment of the terms of the North
Atlantic treaty.
Communists assailed the treaty
as aiming at a new war;
Currency Shift Prepared.
Meanwhile, the Western pow
ers prepared to make the West
mark the only legal currency in
blockaded Western Berlin.
Authoritative sources said the
new move in the currency war
will be announced tomorrow. Ber-
liners went on a buying spree to
get rid of their Soviet-backed
East marks, which have been cir
culating legally in West as well as
East Berlin.
Allied financial officials said
the revision is aimed to put the
bankrupt West city government
on its feet. The government has
had to pay all its expenses in
West marks, although it had to
accept East marks for revenue.
The East mark is worth only one
fourth as much as the West mark.
The West mark, officially pegged
at 80 cents, was declared illegal
in the Soviet sector Of Berlin last
summer. Germans found with
West marks were subject to pros
ecution.
Before rushing through the East
German constitution, the Peo-
pies Council appealed yesterday
to Western German leaders to
meet them next month in IAN all
German unity conference" The
appeal got a cold reception.
Appeal Seen As Maneuver.
The Communists obviously did
no believe the appeal would be
accepted. It was regarded as a
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Democratic Leaders
In House Will Back
Sales Tax Revival
Hope for Decisive Action
Held as Opposing Sides
Prepare New Proposals
By Don S. Warren

House Democratic leadership
support for passage of a revived
District sales tax was promised
last night as the citys embattled
finance program faced a week
bristling with possibilities.
Latest developments all pointed
to wish for a clear-cut decision
by the House at its next District
day session, week from tomorrow
on what is to be done about city
revenues.
A promise of leadership support
for a sales tax came from Repre-
sentative Priest of Tennessee. the
Democratic whip" or assistant
floor leader. He said he would work
for a passage of the sales levy
because he could see no practical
alternative.
Hint of Compromise.
While there were some hints of
a compromise. sponsors and op-
ponents of the sales tax plan were
busy preparing conflicting pro-
posals as to how to meet a pros
pective $18.000.O00 city fund Short
age.
Members of the House elected
with labor and liberal group sup
port were pushing for a broad in
come tax as a substitute for any
sales levy. Supporters OF the sales
tax were repeating predictions
that the House never would pass
a city income tax that would hit
the army of government clerks
living here but claiming domicile
in their homes States.
A variety of proposals is ex-
pected to be offered this week by
opposing factions as the House
approaches a final decision. The
problem will be not only whether
the city is to meet its bare budget
costs next year but whether it is
to get an extra $10,0o0,000 re-
quired if city employees are to be
given the $3.50 COST living pay
raise already won by Federal
workers.
Decisive Vote Sought.
Both sides on the sales tax
fight seemed in agreement that
there should be a second and de-
cisive vote in the House on the
issue of a sales tax or broad in
come levy. Last Mondays rejec-
ton of the sales tax plan by a
vote of 176 to 166. and the defeat
of the substitute plan for a broad
ened income tax by vote of 10
to so both were put down as
really settling nothing"
Bates DenOunces "Fiasco."
In this vein, Representative
Bates. Republican, of Massachu-
sets, ranking minority member of
the House District Committee, last
night sharply denounced the city
finance f1asco. He called the
Continued on Page "A, Col. 81
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Quirino's Foe Enters
Race for Presidency
By the Associoted Press

MANILA, Sunday. March 90
Jose Avelino. powerful political
boss and foe of President Elpidio
Quirino, today formally announced
his candidacy for the Philippine
presidency.
Mr.. Avelino is chairman of the
dominant Liberal Party, of which
Mr.. Quirino is a member. Mr.
Quirino also is a candidate.
The Liberal leader was removed
from his Senate post month ago
by a coalition of Liberal Party
senators loyal to Mr.. Quirino and
senators from the minority Ma
clonaliSta Party.