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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-04-29

Sen. Claude Pepper declared In
Miami Tuesday that the South
would permit nothing to impair
white supremacy and expressed the
belief that; despite Mondays Su-
: preme court decision, the Demo
cratic primaries in Florida could be
kept white"
The people of the South, the
Junior senator from Florida con-
tinued, will not "allow matters Pc
culiar to us to be determined by
those who do not know and under
stand our problems"
I'VE will work the matter out so
as to save the South" he said. "We
always have; we always will"
Pepper said he believed the Flor
ida law on voting in primaries was
different from the Texas law, in
volved in the United States Su-
preme court decision Monday that
negroes could vote in the Demo
cratic primaries in that state.
Under the Florida primary cleo
ton statute, he pointed out, it is
provided that the party and not the
state determines the qualifications
of members of the party.
LAW CHANGE SEEN
eff there is any question about
the form of our statute" Pepper
said, sit can be altered and the mat.
ter left exclusively in the hands of
the party of determining who may
vote in the Democratic primary.
"This can be done and the Demo
cratic primaries kept white under
the decision of the Supreme court"
Before leaving for Key West late
Tuesday for campaign speeches
there, Pepper sent wires to both
Governor Spessard L. Holland and
Chairman Tom Conley of the State
Democratic Executive committee,
offering to meet with them and
other Democratic leaders ito work
the matter out so the white Demo
cratic primary in Florida shall be
assured and unimpaired," in case
Attorney General j. Tom Watson
should rule that the Supreme court
decision affected Florida primaries
Peppers comment had added sig
nificance because at least one of his
opponents for the Democratic nomi.
nation, Willard Conklin of Daytona
Beach, has charged Pepper with
being no supporter OF white su-
premacy.
POSSIBILITY FORESEEN
Aston Cockrell of Jacksonville,
another of Peppers primary OPP
ponentS, said that he had foreSeen
the possibility of such a Supreme
court decision as that made Mon
day, had urged the state legislature
in April, 1913, to adopt legislation
to forestall 1t but that the bill pre-
pared passed only the house Of
representatives.
The Florida senator's stand on
the question of white Democratic
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-04-29
News of St. Paul

Sunday, April 20. Sunday School
opened $50 am. by the Supt. Bro.
H. B. Ferguson and teachers.
HOO am. service.
The Junior Choir furnished the
music, with Usher Board No. Q in
charge. Hymns No. and 1913.
Scripture read by the pastor. DR..
Jackson, the Epistle Of Paul, the
Apostle to the Ephesians 81 II.
Prayer offered by Bro. Hilton.
Sermon, DR.. Jackson, text taken
from the Epistle Of Paul, the Apostle
to the Ephesians S:19.
A very touching and inspiring SER
mon this was.
Four new members were taken in
to the church. TOO pm. service.
Choir No. l furnished music and
usher board No. in charge.
Hymns No. 8 and 551. Prayer Of
fered by Bro. ]. Timmons.
Scripture read by Rev. S. Mat
thews, Gospel According to St.
Marks, 4:39.
Announcements made by Mrs. r.
j. Everett.
Attendance very good throughout
the day.
4 Stewardess Board No. 2 observed
their Sth anniversary pm. at the
church. DIR. j. B. Blackwell was
guest speaker.
Mrs. Julia Harrington, Pres.
Mrs. r. J. Everett, reporter
DIR. r. A. Jackson, pastor
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-04-29

The Rev. ]. DaCosta Hardwood,
d. d. and Mrs. Hardwood of Phila-
delphia, Pa. were visitors in Miami
on Monday. FIR Hardwood is Priest
in charge of st. Phillips Church,
Philadelphia. He is in Florida as a
guest of the Diocesan Convention
meeting this week in West Palm
Beach.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-04-29
Personal

Mrs. Hazel Lucas and Mrs. Elaine
Adderley. members of the faculty Of
Booker T. Washington High School
went by plane to Tallahassee on Fri
day where they were speakers at a
Home Economic Conference at the
f. A. and M. College.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-04-29

pan.
II believe that with q little more
education among other members Of
the Legislature on these two mea-
sures," Okell said. they will APP
prove them in the 1851 Legislature"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-10-16
Fairfax Church Group
Buys Trailer 10 Use in
Religious Education

A $4,000 trailer for use in re-
ligious education work has been
purchased by the Fairfax County
Association of Churches.
In Arlington, students in the
fourth. fifth and sixth grades are
being enrolled in a religious train
ing course under sponsorship of
the Arlington Council of Religious
Education.
The Rev. William A. Wright,
of Merrifield, president of the
Fairfax association, said the trail
er is being furnished and will go
into operation after a teacher has
been employed. Courses will be
taught on school property after
school hours.
Religious training courses were
offered in Fairfax schools until last
year. They were discontinued in
view of the Supreme Court de-
cision in the McCollum case.
The Arlington classes are held
when school is dismissed early for
teachers meetings. Each school
has a different schedule for the
faculty gatherings, so that re-
ligious training is going on at one
of the schools almost every day.
A four teacher staff is headed
by Mrs. w. B. Davidson. All were
by the Religious Edu-
cation Council.
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By George Kennedy

George Washington wanted the
10-mile square authorized by
Congress for the District to en-
brace the two little tobacco ports
at the headwaters of the Potomac
Alexandria and Georgetown. APP
parently it was decided that the
one way to do it was to stake out
the square in the diamond posi-
tion-that is, with its corners at
the four points of the compass.
The north-south line bisecting
this square is the Washington
Meridian, II degrees, 2 minutes
and 1872 seconds west of Green
wich. At one time Thomas Jeffer-
son hoped that it would replace
Greenwich. 1t runs right through
the White House and up Sixteenth
street. That is how Meridian Hill
gets its name.
The top of the rise in Sixteenth
street is not only the location of
Hotel 2400 and the Meridian Hill
Hotel (for women, it is also the
site of one of the most successful
bits of formal gardening in Amer
lea, Meridian Hill Park, and some
of the finest houses in Wash
lngton.
1t will long be remembered as
the site of Henderson Castle which
was RACED last year. The whole
area is a memorial to the most
remarkable real estate promoter
in the history of a city which has
not lacked in this respect, Mrs.
John B. Henderson.
Sixteenth street, which Mrs.
Henderson made Embassy Row
and hoped to make the Avenue of
Presidents, is now traffic artery.
Few of the thousands who use it
daily committing to work have
any idea of the beauty of the park
or of the existence of the two
beautiful mansions behind the
tangle of locust and honeysuckle
across the street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-10-16
MacArthur's Physician
Is Awarded Silver Star

Col. Charles c. Canada, per-
sonal physician to Gen. Mac
Arthur, who formerly lived at
2015 North Kenmore street, Arl-
ington, has been awarded a Silver
Star medal in connection with the
mchon-Seoul fighting.
The Associated Press dispatch
from Tokyo reporting the award
did not say what it was for. Col.
Canada has been in the Far East
nearly four years, and was listed
among members of Gen Mac
Arthur's staff at Wake Island for
the meeting with President Tru-
man.
Col. Canada's brother, Comdr.
Robert Owen Canada. is in the
Navy medical department and
stationed at the Bethesda Naval
Medical Center. He lives at 1913
Oberon street, Kensington, Md.
Both received their medical
degrees from the University of
Virginia and are natives of Grot-
toes, Va. Col. Canada, 40, has
been in the Army since May IL,
1912. His wife and 11-year- old
son are in Tokyo.
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The Meridian Hill area.

1t is now the home OF Eugene
Meyer, chairman of the Board of
the Washington Post. Although
the trees in the former Hender-
son property below it have robbed
it of some of it's view, most of the
city still can be seen from its up
per stories.
The house next to 1t, owned by
Mrs. Irwin Laughlin. is one of
the survivors among America S
grand houses. With more than a
dozen servants, it is operated on a
scale that only few of the very
wealthiest continue. Mr.. Laughlin,
who also was retiring from a dis
tinguished diplomatic career, had
John Russell Pope design this per-
feet French mansion for him in
1922.
The house and the wall around
it are of almost white limestone
AS the we'll circumscribes the arc
of the ellipse, it is a thing of
beauty in itself. On the Belmont
street, or downhill side, the wallis
function is to uphold the garden,
about Is feet above the sidewalk
Here there are four wide oaken
doors in the wall, motor entrances
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-10-16

jured in tWo-car accident on
Route 1913 at Oakton, Va.
Woman, IA, Is Injured.
Mrs. Anna Henderson. IA, of
1916 T street NV, was in critical
condition at Georgetown Hospital
today with head injuries and a
fractured leg.
Police reported she was struck
by an automobile Saturday night
as she crossed the TOO block of
Wisconsin avenue NV. The
driver of the car was identified
as Jack P. Loesberg, 10, of 2505
K street NV, a Western High
School student.
Also in critical condition was
Mrs. Corine Jones, At, colored,
of Philadelphia. Police said Mrs.
Jones was injured Saturday night
when the automobile she was
driving struck a bridge abutment
in the $500 block of Bladensburg
road, Colmar Manor, Md. At
Freedmen's Hospital, her injuries
were listed as head injuries,
broken ribs and broken pelvis.
A 21-year-o old sailor was in
jured last night when the car
in which he was riding alone
hit concrete bridge abutment
on the Grain highway, 2 miles
south of T. B., Md.
State police said he was John
T. Kidwell. jr., of 602 Sligo avenue,
Silver Spring, Md. He suffered
arm and leg fractures and possible
internal injuries. He was taken
to Casualty Hospital by the MARI
boro Rescue Squad and trans
ferred to Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Three Firemen Hurt.
Three Alexandria firemen were
injured in a collision at Braddock
and Russell roads yesterday while
they were going to a fire. Pvt.
Charles Lyons, %, of III South
st. Asaph street, was admitted
to Alexandria Hospital with face
cuts and bruises. Assistant Chief
Charles Sampson, IS, of 108 South
st. Asaph street and Pvt. Melvin
Harrington, 20, of $40 East Wind
sor avenue, were treated at the
hospital and released. Police said
they were riding in Chief Samp-
sons car on their way to a fire in
the $500 block of Circle Hill road
when they collided with a Car
driven by Frank Kuhn, %, of
1870 Chinquapin Village. who was
not hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-10-16
Eight-Doy Search Locates Girl
Drowned Below Great Falls

day yesterday He had been
making a dawn to dusk search
since her disappearance.
More than 200 persons, includ-
ing civilians from Braddock road
led by Game Warden Fred Brown,
were securing river banks and the
water most of yesterday. Vol
unteer firemen from Vienna, Glen
Echo, Bethesda Chevy Chase and
Arlington were on the scene.
1t was the first search and res
cue mission for the Civil Air
Patrol Squadron, which was or
ganized last March, and at least
so members of the group, some of
them ground crewmen who serv-
iced the planes at the Falls
Church Air Park. took part.
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) Traffic Deaths
Mark Week End
In District Area
Sailor, Hurt Sept. u,
Dies at Bethesda;
Two Others Killed

The death of Washington
sailor in Bethesda Naval Hospital
yesterday brought District area
traffic fatalities to three over the
week end.
The sailor, John M. Flynn, jr.,
IS, of 702 Butternut street NV,
was injured in an accident Sep
TENDER % in St. Marys County,
Md. He was a petty officer third
class.
Killed in accidents Saturday
were Elwood Baxter, Is. of 4911
T street, Bradley Heights, Md,
and Melvin E. Riggs, 10. of 1887
North. Ninth street, Arlington.
IL Deaths in 2 States.
The three deaths were among IL
traffic fatalities reported in Mary
land and Virginia over the week
end. In addition two women were
in critical condition at District
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CanOelStS directed to the scene
by a search airplane yesterday re-
covered the body of a 13-year- old
girl who was swept to her death
below the Potomac's Great Falls
eight days before.
The victim. Roberta Gilbert,
daughter of Metropolitan Police
Pvt. w. K. and Mrs. Gilbert, 3018
Massachusetts, avenue Sc, slipped
from the rocks about 200 yards
below the Falls October IA. She
was last seen grasping for a hold
on the slippery rocks before the
rapids tugged her away.
Object of a neWly-intensified
search by land parties, boatmen
and aircraft yesterday, her body
was spotted about 3:15 pm, by a
Civil Air Patrol plane from the
Fairfax Falls Church Herndon
squadron which had had planes in
the air since 8 am.
Body Wedged in Rock.
It had been washed out of the
water and wedged into a small
rock island several miles below
the point where she was last seen.
Flying at only 20 feet above the
water, a plane piloted by Robert
Hickernell, Falls Church me-
chanic, and carrying Glen AL
brecht of Vienna. Va, as observer,
motioned to another radio
equipped CAP plane piloted by
Sergt. Cecil Brown of the Fairfax
County police.
Sergt. Brown, commander OF the
CAP squadron, reached police
by radio and canoe was headed
toward the scene from Sycamore
Island.
An hour before the plane sighted
it, the girls body was spotted up
stream by Montgomery County
Policeman Robert l.. Cosgrave. OF
the Bethesda substation, who was
watching with binoculars from a
high cliff on the Virginia side.
He notified a search center on
the Maryland side by radio, but
before boats could be put out,
the body had been lost again in
the sWirling water.
DR.. Horace H. Gusts, 66-year-
old Agriculture Department chem
list, 1925 Worthington street NV,
and John G. Loehler, 48, con-
sultant engineer, 698 Rollingwood
drive, Chevy Chase, both veteran
canoeists, began the treacherous
river trip to get the body.
Father Among Searchers.
Fighting Longboat Chute, one
of the most dangerous stretches of
water below the Falls, the two
men had difficulty extricating the
body from a wedge into which the
fast current had forced it.
The little girls father, who for
the first few days after she
tumbled into the water. still held
hope she would be found alive,
was with search parties ashore all
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The park is a gem. Most Amer
lean parks are rustic. The trend
was set right after the Civil War
when Frederick Law Olmsted. ST.,
designed New York's Central Park
and later did the landscaping of
the United States Capitol. The
gardens of the kings were re-
jected. America would have none
of Versailles. Instead 1t would
create haunts for Rousseau's nat
ural man.
Meridian Hill Park derives from
Pincin Hill, part of the Borghese
gardens in Rome. The cascade of
terraced pools is based on the
Villa d'Este at Tivoli, above Rene.
The equestrienne Joan dare
above the cascade is a copy of
the statue by Paul Dubois which
stands in front of the Cathedral
of Rheims where Joan succeeded
in having the Dauphin of France
crowned Charles VII.
The trees of Meridian Hill park
for the most part were planted 80
years ago and are now at their
best. The vista of greensWard
fanked by straight lines of trees
in the upper garden is delight
to anyone who steps into the park
Horace Peaslee, who, fresh from
Cornell's school of architecture,
designed the park in 1914, feels
that it is unfinished. 1t should be
lighted at night, he says. using
f1oodlights if necessary. The foun-
tains should play day and night.
The cascade of pools should be
steps of brilliant water after SUM-
down. And there should be music
on the hill in the cool of an eve
ming. That seeming rectangle of
green in the upper garden was
designed for concerts, he says.
Difficulty Encountered.
The Interior Department which
has custody of it along with the
other Washington parks. has tried
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to promote use of Meridian Hill
for evening recreation but en-
countered difficulty. A summer
theater group was allowed to put
on a Broadway drama. An actor
was arrested for using profanity
(Which was in the script by one
of Interiors park policemen who
hailed from North Carolina.
Before World War II some
chamber music concerts were
given in the park. Mr.. Peaslee
would like to see them revived. He
would like to have band concerts
there too. Anything to make the
park a joy at night, which was
something very much in his mind
when he designed it.
Across from the park is the
Hotel 2400 which was built before
Americas entry into World War
I. and for a time was the home of
Thomas G. Masaryk, the founder
of Czechoslovakia.
Below the hotel are two little
streets. Crescent place and Bel
mont street which, with a short
block of Seventeenth street at
their western extremities, form
half of an ellipse. The Sixteenth
street frontage is unimproved,
tangle of vegetation. Behind this,
within the ellipse. are two man
sions, both of which have their
entrance on Crescent place.
Grand House Survives.
The one nearer Sixteenth street
is a red brick Georgian mansion
which was built in the World War
I period by Henry White. a native
of Baltimore and a distinguished
diplomat. Mr.. White was born a
century ago and his career goes
back quite way. He was secre-
tary of the American legation in
London at the time Grover Cleve-
land risked war with Great Brit
ain by his brusque intervention
into the Empires border dispute
with Venezuela.
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for the garage, which is subter-
ranean. A row of trimmed Euro
pean linden trees rises another IS
feet from the earth above the ga
rage. The garden, thus upheld or
enclosed by the wall is one of lawn
and flower beds and trees that
would inspire a Shelley to dash off
beautiful verses.
Mr.. Laughlin, member of a
Pittsburgh steel family. was charge
d'affaires of the American Embas-
sy in London during World War
I absences of Walter Hines Page.
He was later Ambassador to
Greece. His wife lives there dur
ing the winter months. She is a
daughter of the late Adrian Ise-
lin of New York, a banker whose
family controlled textile opera
tions, coal mines and railroads,
and whose yacht was one of the
successful defenders of the
America cup against one of Sir
Thomas Lipton's Shamrocks.
Henderson castle is RACED and
only the wall along Sixteenth
street and the pedestals of the en-
trance gates remain. Mrs. Hen
derson built the embassy buildings
on the hill and rented or sold them
to foreign governments. She built
house on Fifteenth street fac
ing the park and offered it to the
Government as a residence for
vice presidents. But Congress did
nothing about accepting it and it
became the Spanish embassy. She
lobbied the bill creating Meridian
Hill park through Congress and
was paid $500, 900 for the land.
Was Built in 1888.
Her husband, one of the great
lawyers of his day, was Re-
publican Senator during the Civil
War years. and her uncle, Senator
Solomon Foote of Vermont, was
his colleague. The castle was built
in 1888 and torn down in 1949.
The swimming pool has been filled
in
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Tense Department and Red Cross
officials and enlisted the aid OF
neighbors.
On August 8. Mrs. Rollins
mailed a letter to her son. 1t
was returned September 2
marked deceased" with the sig
nature of LIT. William Sullivan,
F.. A."
Mrs. Rollins attempted to get
full information. The Defense
Department said her sons name
was not on any casualty list. She
called the Red Gross and through
their efforts, the Adjutant Gen
erals Office sent special inquiries
to Korea. A neighbor, Marine
1t. Col. C. w. Shisler. said he
wanted to help her and he at
tempted to get more information
from the Defense Department.
But all these efforts were of no
avail.
Finally, Mrs. Rollins received a
letter dated September 18 from
her son saying, I'm awfully lone
some, Mother. why don't you
Write?"
Mrs. Rollins said she was afraid
the deceased" report might be
true because she had not heard
from her son in almost two
months. Pvt. Showalter enlisted
after completing the ninth grade
at Claude Swanson Junior high
school. He was a carrier for The
Star for several years. He arrived
in Korea in June.
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Top Property Owner
In Area Alexandra
Seeks Joins City Suit
By Mary Lou Werner

The largest property owner in
the area Alexandria seeks to an
mex from Fairfax County is join
ing the city in its suit because
he wants to build a 3,500-unit
apartment project on Shirley
highway.
This was announced today by
attorneys Armistead Boothe and
w. w. Koontz. who represent
Mark Winkler, owner of $50 acres
in the vicinity Of Seminary road
and Shirley highway They also
represent Paul T. Stone, of the
Shirley Hills Development Corp,
who owns 80 acres in the same
area. The Winkler and Stone
holdings comprise all land bor-
dering the west side of Shirley
highway between Holmes run and
Leesburg pike. This is within the
boundaries of the 712 square mile
area that Alexandria wants.
The attorneys said the two
property owners believe their land
is suited to urban development.
They said city control of the area
would afford them better plan
ming, schools, police and fire pro-
lection and other benefits for
large-scale development.
Mr.. Winkler has plans for an
apartment unit of approximately
$500 units, to be known as Fair
fax Forest. 1t would cover 300
acres of his property on Shirley
highway between Leesburg pike
and Seminary road. Some of his
land at the Seminary road-Shirley
highway intersection would be-
come a shopping district. Mr..
Winkler has offered approximately
Is acres to the Federal Govern
ment for a new Social Security
building.
Mr.. Boothe and Mr.. Koontz
noted that 500 residents of Fairfax
County have signed a petition OPP
posing annexation. They said,
however, that some of the resi-
dents changed their minds since
signing and would ask the court
to remove their names when trial
of the suit begins. Mr.. Bottle said
a number of property owners in
what is known as DoWdon's terri
tory have gotten up a petition ask
ing to be included in the annexa-
ton area. The proposed boundary
line passes through the middle of
DoWden's territory.
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SJTeeJ, hIllIlS JOlI.
Another Marine officer. Maj.
John I. 10y, of Falls Church, Va,
also has been named to the Law
Review staff. He. too, is studying
under the same program as Maj.
Hearn.
Four lieutenant commanders in
the Coast Guard studying under
similar program are among the
new staff members. They are K.
N. Ayers of 463 Hampton court.
Falls Church; Edward c. Allen,
jr., 1922 South Twenty-eighth
street, Arlington; Joe L. Horne,
429 Knollwood drive, Falls Church,
and R. R. Russell. 327 James
street, Falls Church.