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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19
Yours,
Junior Leoeuers Hold Annual Luncheon
At Chevy Chase Club; Hear Kruse Talk

!. Chic, charm and good inten-
tons abounded at the Junior
Leagues annual luncheon yester-
day. The Chevy Chase Club was
overlooking with the attractive
women-mostly junior, some sem
ior-who contribute so much to
the Capitals welfare agencies. OF
the 1856 active members of the
Washington League. 311 are doing
volunteer jobs. Another 2l0,
which includes some of the associ-
ate members, serve on boards Of
league projects.
AS always cocktails were served
before lunch when every one
moved about greeting every one
they hadn't seen since heaven
knows when. This was the time,
too, when looking for the snappi-
est fashions. you couldn't help
noticing Lisette Beauregard' S
short blond hair-do, close fitting
gold velvet cloche that pulled
down on one side, and Cecilia
McGhee's absolutely dreamy ap-
pearance in a soft green suit and
beige felt off-the-face hat with
an old-fashioned buster" veil and
single rhinestone, like a glisten-
ing tear, under her left eye.
Fall Fashions
Agnes Burke looked beautiful
and chic in a brown tailleur with
furs and sans chapeau. Pat
Sterrett, fresh from the clubs
tennis courts, was in hunters
green from top to toe. Mary
Huidekoper was smart as always.
Glimpsed in the big drawing
room or the inclosed porch were
Mrs. Edwin Tribble. Mrs. David
Karrick, Mrs. Willard West. Anne
Carter Green, Cecil Jones. Sally
Van Allen. Peggy Gesell, Frida
Winslow and Jeanne Reside.
Ruth Sewers White was greeting
loads Of friends. Back in Wash
ington to live after two divine
years in Florence, Italy, she re-
ported that her sister, Dodie Ag-
new, had a little girl last month.
Barbara Freligh was looking
after the new transfers to the
league and introducing around
Mrs. Carleton Coon Of Boston,
whose husband has just entered
the Foreign Service; Mrs. Malcolm
McFarlane Of Harrisonburg. w.
Va, and Mrs. Pierre Boy of Sche-
nectady, N. Y.
Rose Fales, league president.
smart in a grey flannel suit with
black velvet trim, was chatting
with Arthur H. Kruse. guest
speaker at the luncheon. and
Helen Austin, who, as chairman
of the Education Committee, was
responsible for him being there.
One Male Present
Mr.. Kruse, the lone male in
the whole gathering, is the execu-
tive director of the United Com
munity Services who was ap-
pointed to that job over a year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-19

Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver Irwin Lewis of
Alexandria Of the engagement of
their daughter, Wendy Lou, to Mr..
Floyd Norton Daugherty, son of
Mrs. Floyd Norton Daugherty and
the late Mr.. Daugherty of Clear
water, Fla.
Miss Lewis attended George
Washington University and the
King Smith School Of Creative
Arts. Mr.. Daugherty. who will be
graduated from George Washing
ton University in the spring, is a
member of Alpha Chi Sigma Fra
ternity.
The wedding will take place the
early part of June.
Evening star., 1949-10-08

The more than 165 exhibits at
the third annual Armory home
show starting today cover wide
range of new equipment, serv-
ices and appliances. and also
include displays having educa-
tional significance.
| Sponsoring Home Builders AS
sociation officials said they believe
this years show has greater va
riety and balance than previous
ones held here. Products range
from attic fans to furnaces. from
roofing material to wall paper.
from plumbing to fences and are
said to include examples Of vir-
tually every item used in home
building and home furnishing.
Primarily designed to interest
Evening star., 1949-10-08
165 Exhibitors
SET 10 Display
Latest Products
Talent Contest
Scheduled for
u. S. Workers
By Robert J. Lewis
leol Estote Editor OF The Ste

The Washington Home Build
ers' Associations big home show
is all set for an expected attend
ance of 125,000 District area resi-
dents in the next nine days.
Opening ceremonies were sched-
uled at 1:30 pm. today at the Dis
trict National Guard Armory, with
the doors to be opened right after
the ceremony. Daily and Sunday
hours thereafter will be to 1920
pm.
This will be the third annual
exposition to be sponsored ky the
home builders association here to
show the latest products for home
building, home furnishing and
home equipment.
Two Acres of Space.
The show will continue through
October Is in the huge almory at
Nineteenth and East Capitol
streets Sc. Displays viii! cover
more than two acres of floor space.
Exhibitors this year will humber
l65, about 40 more than the year
before. James w. Pearson, eXecu-
tive director of the home builders
organization, said.
Features will include a talent
contest for Government employees
to be held every evening, a fashion
show to be held each afternoon,
a "television queen" contest to
be completed Tuesday evening
and home makers sweepstakes"
contest which home show officials
said will not require purchase of a
ticket, or attendance at the show,
to enter.
In addition to displays of home
equipment, the exposition will in
clude dahlia show sponsored by
the National Capital Dahlia So
ciety, $4,000 model railroad
exhibit and other special features.
The opening ceremony was to
have as main speaker, Frederick
P, H. Siddons. president of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Other speakers were to be VIII
liam S. Banks, home builders
association president, and T.
Girard Lee, home show chairman.
Mrs. Banks was to cut a ribbon at
the end of the ceremony to open
the Armory doors.
District and Government offc-
ials were among those invited to
witness the opening ceremonies.
Music was to be furnished by the
257th Army Band, which was also
to provide a guard of honor.
The executive director of the
home builders group said the show
tSee LEWIS, Page B-30
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Expect Attend Nine Day Amo Home Show Opening odoy
Church Building
Tops LIST Of
Week S Permits
Bureau Authorizes
New Construction
Valued at $496,575

Building permits issued during
the last week by the Central
Permit Bureau, Room 108, Dis
trict Building, had total valu-,
alton of $496,575.
Largest permit was for the con-
struction of a church building at,
cost of $120.00O. =
Among permits we're the follow ,
ing: :
Second Church of Christ Scien-
tist, owners; Foster Engineering
Co., Ltd, architect, Indianapolis. :,
Ind; to erect one 2-story mason
ry, concrete-and-steel church,
3160 Pennsylvania avenue Sc; to
to cost $120,000.
Georgetown Development Corp.
owner, II Dupont Circle NV;
John r. de Sibour & Co., builder.
II Dupont Circle NV; Howe &
Foster, architect, 1886 Connecticut
avenue NV; to erect four 2 and
3-story brick -cinder-block
dwellings, 1683-85-87 Thirty
fourth street NV; to cost $50, 900.
Stohlman Chevrolet, Inc, owner,
3311 M street NV; G. Morris
Steinbraker, builder and architect,
3207 Grace street NV; to make
one 2-story brick and concrete
addition to building, 3311 M street
N. w.; to cost 100000.
J. B. Tiffey & Son. owner and
builder, 143 Kennedy street NV;
Berla & Abel, architect, 1886
Connecticut avenue NV: to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder-block
apartment, eight units, 4410
Second street NE; to cost 100000.
Elmer B. Young. owner and
builder, 833 L street NE; George
T. Santmyers. architect, 2209 L
street NV; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder-b block apartment.
four units, 521 Seventeenth street
NE; to cost $4,000.
DR.. L. L. Marion, owner, Bethes-
da, Md; builder not selected:
Warren Shoemaker, architect.
5000 Wisconsin avenue NV; to
erect one 2-story brick dwelling,
4515 Linnean avenue N. W.; to
cost $4,000.
/ Armand D'Aprile, owner, 1905
Eye street NE: D'Aprile Bros.
builders, 1905 Eye street NE:
Milton j. Prassas, architect, 1877
| Harvard street NV: to erect
one 1-story masonry and frame
lSee PERMITS. Page BID
Evening star., 1949-10-08

his attention that he didn't know
which way to turn next.
"I got to the point where all I
could do was stutter," Mr.. Pearson
said.
Had to Move Offices.
Complicating the problem this
year was the fact that in the
midst of the heaviest volume OF
work, Mr.. Pearson had to move
his Offices from the Investment
Building to the Beacon Building
The day after the association
moved, someone bent on robbery
broke into the new Offices. Further
adding to Mr.. Pearson's problems
was a temporary loss Of hearing
resulting from q cold.
Evening star., 1949-10-08
| Star Presents
|CoIor Movie
AT Home Show

"The Star Goes to Press" a
color movie that tells the behind
the-scenes story of how The Eve
ming Star and The Sunday Star
are published, is the main attrac-
ton at The Stars booth In the
Home Show. which opened at the
National Guard Armory today.
The film takes the viewer on a
Commute trip through the I'M
portant newspaper operations in
volving the gathering OF the news
the setting of type. the running
of the presses and the home de-
livery of The Star. The MIN Is
scheduled for continuous showing
during the Home Show.
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(See PERMITS, Page B-2)
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(See LEWIS, Page B-3.)
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1See EXPOSITION, Page B-3D
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Planning. organizing and put
ting a home show together such
as the one opening today at the
National Guard Armory is a job
that harried home show officials
say they would not want to have
to undertake more than once
year.
You must have a good dis
position for this kind of work. u
said James w. Pearson. home
builders executive secretary. who
has, as he explained it, lived with
this nightmare since last April.
There were several hectic last
minute occasions when Mr.. Pear
son had so many things claiming
Evening star., 1949-10-08
DC. Home Show Exhibits Cover
Wide Runqe of New Products

the general public the show also
will include demonstration-type
displays and entertainment booths
A gallery Of homes also will
be part of the show. 1t will con-
sist of photographs and floor
plans Of recent homes built by
members of the Home Builders
Association of Metropolitan Wash
ington.
Among exhibitors are the fol-
lowing:
Acacia Mutual Life Insurance insurance. GS.
American Aluminium specialties' Inc: :;
American Home Improvsment c.; AGfhol Gsan
Automatic Equipment Sales Co, BarbeG \
Ross. Bertram's. Blanchard Co. Ihs
Burke Water Conditioner Co. Cancer
: (See EXHIBITS, Page BAD
Evening star., 1949-10-08
Handling Shows Last t-Minute Details Makes
EXPOSITION Officials Life a Nightmare

But none of the handicaps kept
him away from the job until all
the details were worked out and
the show was put together sue
cessfully today.
MIR. Pearson and his staff
worked under the general direc-
ton of the associations Home
Show Committee, of which T. Cir
ard Lee is chairman. Mr.. Lee
spent the last week at the Armory.
and will remain there through
out the home show period.
In the planning stage. the big
question involved what kind OF
features should be arranged for
to draw crowds. Then came the
1See EXPOSITION, Page B-3J
Evening star., 1949-12-11

Visiting Kingston, Janaieas
Cartagena. South America;
Cristobal. Panama Canal
Zone; and Havana. s9xns,
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Facilities Increased
In Borrego Valley,
Near Palm Springs

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. 10
San Diego County's desert resorts.
located in colorful Borrego Valley
in the Great ANA Desert, have
opened for their 1949-50 season
with additional accommodations
and entertainment facilities. Bor-
rego Valley lies about 30 miles
northeast of San Diego. 1t is
directly south of Palm Springs and
ITS miles from Los Angeles.
Hoberg's desert resort at Bor-
rego has redwood cottage accom-
modations for 200. The cottages
are adjacent to the central lodge
building, which fronts on beau
tiful swimming pool.
The Borrego Desert Lodge, an
other of the valleys attractive re-
sorts, opened with expanded facil-
tiles. A new swimming pool has
been built. The lodge can &C
commodate go guests.
Elsewhere in Borrego Valley are
numerous motels and apartments
which cater to winter guests.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Caribbean Islands Preparing
For Big Vacation Influx

shop. The principal reason for
this was lack of accommodations
on shore. Except in Nassau,
Havana and Jamaica. there were
few good hotels. Most Of them
did not know how-or did not
think it necessary-to cater to
the tastes and desires OF Ameri-
can travellers.
With but very few exceptions.
there has been a vast improve
ment all along the line. AS every
where else in the world, a tre-
mendous effort is being made to
lure the Yankee dollar. In Puerto
Rico, the new 30O-room. air-con-
ditioned Caribe- Hilton Hotel has
just opened its doors. The old
Candado Beach Hotel, one OF the
early Biltmore chain houses built
in the fabulous '20s, has been re-
furnished and a new wing added.
Leading, not to say showing the
way in all this modern hotel build
ing In San Juan, is the meticuous-
ly operated Pan American Guest
House, one of a number of up-to-
date small hotels operated by Pan
American World Always IN sew
eral countries and islands.
The ultra modern Jaragua Ho-
tel in Trujillo City, capital OF
the Dominican Republic, has
brought Generalissimo Trujillo
more favorable publicity than any
other activity in the little country
over which he rules with an iron
hand. The Jaragua. overlooking
the sea and cooled by the trade
winds that sweep out Of the South
Atlantic, is Latin American in
novation in fine cuisine and serv-
ice.
It has become so popular that
the general has had constructed
a smaller but equally modern and
luxurious inn at the picturesque
mountain town Of Jarabaco.
21a -hour drive over new. paved
highway from Trujillo City.
Havana's American operated
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Mississippi River
Queen to Cruise
To Madri Gras

CINCINNATI, Dec. 1o.-A Mardi
Gras cruise Is scheduled to leave
Cincinnati February II with 81
fun-f1lled days on the Mississippi
River. The steamer the Delta
Queen will stop en- route at quaint
old river towns and in New Or
leans 1t will be used as . hotel.
Among the features under the
auspices OF a special celebration
hostess will be Southern cooking.
a grand Mardi Gras ball, special
party nights, with old-fashioned
river dances including the Paw
Paw Patch.
At New Orleans arrangements
have been made for cruise mem
.bers to enjoy the carnival spec
tacle.
Seen en- route are Louisville and
Paducah, KY: Memphis, Natchez,
of ante-belum homes and garden
pilgrimages: Baton Rouge. Vicks-
burg and the Acadian coast Of the
Evangeline country.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Liner to Be Added

LIVERPOOL. Dec. 10.-Another
transatlantic liner will begin
plying the sea lanes next May
when the Canadian Pacific Steam
ship Co.'S Empress of Scotland
makes its first postwar voyage
The reconverted luxury liner, for
merly with the lines Pacific fleet
will cross the Atlantic between
Liverpool. Greenock and Quebec
City every three weeks, beginning
May 10. Its passenger capacity
has been reduced from a prewar
total Of LIS to 663 to provide
more spacious and luxurious ac-
commoda tions.
Evening star., 1949-12-11

Hotel Nacional, with its acres of
parks and gardens and its several
swimming pools. one of them al
most lake size. is continually
crowded, winter and summer, in
spite of its high prices. But 1t
will soon have stiff competition
when the new Hotel Varadero In
ternacional at Varadero Beach Is
completed, probably next March.
Cubans insist that this new edi-
flee will be the islands most mod
ern and luxurious hostelry. A pri-
vate beach, as well as pool. a ritzy
cabana club, several bars, restau-
rants and a night club will be
among the chief features.
In Nassau, the famed British
Colonial, the Fort Montagu Beach
and the Royal Colonial Hotels are
still well run and popular. But
q number of new clubs and beach
resorts will be ready for business
early in the year. The finishing
touches are now being made to
Balmoral Club, S miles from Mas
sau on Cable road. Balmoral Club
will have IA Georgian style
houses, each consisting Of three
bedrooms. with private baths, a
living room. sun porch, dining
room and kitchen. Vacationers
may rent an entire dwelling or
simply a room and bath. and dine
at the central clubhouse. In ad-
dition to restaurants, the club
house will have the usual bars
and shops.
A similar but smaller club will
be inaugurated on Eleuthera Is
land in January. Known as the
Three Bays, it will have an 18-
hole golf course. bathing and
sporting facilities, including a spe-
cial fishing cruiser which will take
guests to the schooner Gays on
fishing parties.
But perhaps the most unusual
tourist project now taking shape
in the BahaSaaS is William E. But
Inns Vacation Village atWest End
Grand Bahama. On this tiny is
land, 10 miles due east from Palm
Beach. Fla. and reached by plane
Evening star., 1949-12-11

The Ell Rancho is 1000 feet above
the sea and overlooks the great
sugar-cane plantations Of the Cul
de Sac Plain, as well as Port Au
Prince and the Bay Of Gonave.
The Virgin Islands are at last
enjoying a hotel building boom.
The 125-room Virgin Isle Hotel on
st. Thomas, up in the hills from
the island capital of Charlotte
Ama]ie. is scheduled to open in
March. It's spacious dining and
dancing terrace, swimming pool
and other features will make it the
first luxury hotel In these Ameri-
can possessions. The well-known
Bluebeard Castle Hotel and others,
built in the early days Of the
Roosevelt New Deal" are being
reconditioned.
Trinidad and Barbados, most
southerly of the British West In
dies, have long attracted winter
visitors from the British Islands
and some from the United States
and Canada. More and more Amer
leans are visiting them each win
ter, although they have made less
progress in providing new and
modern hotel facilities than either
Jamaica or Nassau. The air-con-
ditioned Piarco Guest House in
Trinidad is another in the chain
of Pan American Anyways hotels.
Located near the Piarco interna-
tional airport, 20 miles from the
city Of Port Of Spain, it has be-
come crossroads for air travellers.
The comparatively new Hotel
Avela in Caracas, Venezuela, built
by Nelson Rockefeller, is one of
the outstanding hotels on the
South American continent.
Evening star., 1949-12-11

from the Florida coast. Mr.. Butlin
is converting a sleepy old fishing
town into an 100000 island
playground. Vacation Village will
cater principally to the $50-to-
$100-a-week vacationers among
the white collar workers, or those
who cannot afford the higher
priced resorts. It will have ac-
commodations for 1000 guests.
Mr.. Butlin, who also owns and op-
crates the Fort Montagu Beach
Hotel in Nassau, is famous for his
holiday camps in the British Isles,
where hundreds Of thousands Of
London clerks and other profess
sional and Office workers enjoy in
expensive outings and vacations
each summer.
Next to Nassau, the British COL
only of Jamaica offers the best
hotels and vacation facilities of
any of the British possessions in
the Caribbean. The spacious old
Myrtle Bank in Kingston and the
Casa Blanca and Sunset Lodge
at Montego Bay and others are
well known for the comfort and
atmosphere of British elegance.
But one of the newest is the Tow
er Isle Hotel, a complete resort
within itself. It Is located SIS miles
from Kingston, just off the main
highway to Montego Bay. 1t has
accommodations for 160 guests
and will eventually have its own
golf course and other recreational
facilities.
The Island Republic Of Haiti, in
anticipation of the influx of visi-
tors to its 100000 Interna-
tional Exposition in February,
lis readying a number of small
modern hotels. The Roosevelt
g miles from the heart of
Port Au Prince, on the bayshore
drive. is expected to open in jan
uary. It will accommodate 10C
persons.
The Ell Rancho. built by United
States and Haitian interests. will
open January / under American
management. Only part Of the
rooms will be ready at that time
but it is planned for 100 guests
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Spseioi Dispofeh 10 The Sior

KINGSTON. Jamaica. Dec. 10.
Next to Florida and Mexico the
islands and countries of the Carib-
bean are experiencing one of the
most intensive winter resort build
ing booms in history. Upward of
$l00, ,000. 900 worth Of new luxury
hotels, beach clubs and other va
cation spots recently have opened
their doors or are being rushed to
completion.
Winter tourist travel to this
area was already becoming popu-
lar before the war, but it was
largely a cruise-ship travel. Peo-
pie spent most Of their time on
board and went ashore in the
various ports only to sightsee and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-02-08
GENERAL APPEAL

Can man who has lost in an election
tell other men how to win? Let us consider
Key West, for instance. Assuming we had
an active Democratic organization here
and it had scheduled a meeting to consider
plans for a determined campaign, would
we invite as the chief speaker man who
had been defeated in the last election? The
probability is we would look to the winners
for inspiration.
But that is not what the Republicans
are doing. They have arranged for meet
ing tonight in Washington, and have in
vited Governor Thomas E. Dewey as the
chief speaker. And the subject on which
he will speak will concern the winning of
the next presidential election. He will tell
his co-Republicans what he thinks is the
better or best way to conduct campaign
to assure victory at the polls in 1862.
Probably the Republicans reason that
man who is defeated may be in better
position to tell them how to win than man
who had been elected. Dewey may explain
to them the causes he thinks brought about
his defeat, so that Republicans in 1852 will
avoid making mistakes similar to those
made last year.
The trouble with the Republican
party, as some of its younger leaders have
pointed out, is that it needs modernization.
Too many of the older influential Republ-
cans are living in the past, some of them
still sticking to ideas that Mark Hanna
used successfully SO years and more ago
The Republicans have not abandoned the
notion that the people of the United States
should be divided into segments or classes.
and that the main appeal should be made
to that class composed of monied men. The
leaders don't stop to think that the vote of
poor man counts just as much as the vote
of rich man. Any party that succeeds to-
day must offer planks in platform de-
signed to appeal to all voters.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-02-08
$5,000-A YEAR FOR JUDGES

Federal judges, who received a paw
increase in 1916, would receive flat S.
600 annual increase under the terms of
bill now being considered in Washington.
The argument is that fixed salaries"
have been diminishing over a long period
OF years, so far as purchasing power is
concerned and that, consequently, the
jursists are entitled TO additional compen-
sation.
While we think there is merit in the
suggestion, the question arises whether
the pay increase, once granted, can be
subsequently eliminated Certainly. the
proposed $40, 000-a-year is not too much
more than the $1O,00O-a-year that the
judges received some years ago. At the
same time, if there is widespread recess
sion and prices GO down, the increase will
represent considerable amount
The question arises because judges on
the Federal bench hold tenure for life and,
upon retirement, continue to draw their
annual salaries until death. If the addi-
tlonal $5,000-a-year is to become perman-
emily part of the salary of judges, it
might be wiser for Congress to accomplish
the present purpose by providing the
judges with $4,000 expense account.
which, if conditions change in subsequent
years, could be eliminated.