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Evening star., 1950-10-02
Husband Is Indicted
In Staying Of Wife

William J. Anderson, SO. a for
mer employe at the Supreme
Court Building, was indicted today
on charge of first-degree mur-
der in the fatal shooting of his
wife, Mrs. Laura M. Anderson,
September 2.
Mrs. Anderson, At, of 1856 Eight
eenth street NE, prominent in
Eastern Star activities, was fatally
wounded as she sat in her auto
mobile at the busy intersection of
Eleventh and c streets NE.
The couple had been estranged.
In other indictments, a 81
year-old man was accused of rob-
bing man he had accompanied
from a tavern of his automobile,
a watch and $24 in cash and, in
addition, of trying to run down
a policeman with the automobile.
The defendant is Ralph B.
Mullis, of the 1900 block of street
NV. The robbery victim was
Harold Dotterer. Of 306 Elm street,
Chevy Chase, Md.
A separate indictment accused
Mullis of assault with a danger
Gus weapon (the autornobile) for
allegedly trying to run down
Police Pvt. Romeo F. Cara of No.
/ precinct July II.
Evening star., 1950-10-02

Four goth Century Presidents.
Taft, Wilson, Harding and Hoover
have lived in Kalorama. Chief JUS
tices Hughes and Stone lived there,
too. The place is still studded with
what both the news and society
departments of newspapers agree
on as names"
Across from each other where
Twenty second street goes up a
flight of steps to get to 8 street
live William r. Castle and Wayne
Chatfield Taylor. Mrs. Marcella
M. DUPONT lives just below in
Twenty-second street and the
Washington home of William Ran
dolph Hearst, jr.. is just around
the corner in Decatur place. John
M. Cabot lives across from Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson. Gustave Pabst,
jr.. lives up the block in Twenty
third street. Senator Leverett Sal
tonstall and Eliot Wadsworth live
in Tracy place. Mrs. William
Carr, widow of the former Assist
ant Secretary of State, and Rep
resentative Frances Bolton live
across from one another at
Twenty third street and Wyoming
avenue. Clarence A. Aspinwell
lives on Kalorama road near the
French Embassy.
On Kalorama Circle. which is
different from other circles in that
its center is filled with 100000
houses, is the Lindens, the home
of George Maurice Morris. This
house once stood in Danvers,
Mass. and was reconstructed stone
|by stone, on the banks Of Rock
Creek. Nearby in Belmont road.
one of the big houses has been
taken by the Soviet Embassy for
It's military and naval missions.
In recent years the embassies
have been as willing as the veal
thy to locate off the main ave-
nues. Beside the big French EN-
bassy there are more than a dozen
diplomatic establishments in Kali
Drama including two new ones
caused by the breakup Of the Brit
ish Empire. Pakistan and Ceylon.
Holton Arms School.
The Holton-Arms School for
girls is one of the larger proper
ties in Kalorama. A gymnasium is
now being constructed for the
school at Twenty-third street and
Phelps place where a curious octa-
gon-shaped house stood until this
year. Another Kalorama institu-
ton is st. AIMS Infant Asylum at
California and Twenty second
streets. 1t moved there in recent
years from Washington Circle.
| The vie wthat moved Mrs. Lock-
wood to panegyrics in her visit to
Kalorama in the sos. is enjoyed
today by the fortunate tenants
whose upper-story apartments on
Kalorama hill have southern ex-
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Youth Hurt in 3O-Foof Leap
off Building Guard Rail

A 15-year- -old boy who last night
leaped 80 feet off brick guard
rail around the Federal Security
Building while being chased by
his playmates, was still in unde-
termined condition in Emergency
Hospital this morning.
The youth, who remained un-
conscious for several hours in the
hospital, was identified as Theo-
dore Grenette, 1910 Third street
Sc.
Friends chasing Theodore in
fun said the boy thought he was
making a short Jump onto a grill
on the building side of the rail,
where there is no grill. He was
removed by Rescue Squad No. !.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Boy Critically Injured
BY High Tension Wire

A 9-year-old boy was critically
injured today when he touched q
II ,000-volt wire while playing on
a boxcar at the Pennsylvania
Railroads team tracks at Twelfth
and D streets S.W.
The boy, Joel Howard. colored
of 1929 Second street S.W., was
knocked 20 feet to the ground
Found unconscious and severely
burned, he was removed to
Casualty Hospital.
Police said several playmates
apparently were frightened by the
accident and ran away.
Evening star., 1950-10-02

avenue, the new Embassy Row, and
sixteenth street, an older one. But
those whose acquaintance with
Washington's best residential Sec
tions is limited to motoring
through Massachusetts, or Connec-
tlcut avenues or Sixteenth street
have missed a lot. Some of the
finest houses stand in solitary
grandeur on wooded knobs over
looking Rock Creek valley. Others
are on quiet adjoining streets.
Many of these off-the-avenue
mansions are on the hill between
Florida avenue and Rock Creek
known as Kalorama. the name of
a show place of the early 1800's
which overlooked Washington
from that eminence.
Most impressive of them is the
American-style Norman mansion
designed by the late j. Henri de
Sibour for w. w. Lawrence, the
lead king, and purchased shortly
thereafter by John Hays Ham
mond, the multi millionaire min
ing engineer of South African
fame. It is now the French EN-
bassy.
The mansion was built in the
tradition of the Vanderbilts. One
of its two great gates bears the nu-
merals 2221-its street number on
Kalorama road. It's f1ag-stone ter
races and walled gardens in the
rear overlook forested Rock Creek
Park. Gardeners and servants pre-
serve the pristine elegance of the
place but. even with the repre-
sentative of a great power in resi-
dence, the old days are gone. On
Saturday Ambassador Henri Bon
net was seen taking the wheel of a
station wagon at the entrance and
driving about the neighborhood to
call on friends.
Georgian Row.
One of the finest off-the-avenue
residences In the area is the house
at 2300 S street. one of a row of
splendid Georgian buildings by
John Russell Pope. who designed
the National Gallery of Art for
Andrew Mellon. 1t was the Wash
ington home of Herbert Hoover
when he was Secretary of Com
merce. It is now owned by Walter
Schoellkopf, whose grandfather
bought a Niagara Falls grist mill
with all American water power
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Summer Sneezers Relax
As Pollen Count Drops

The worst is over for the hay
fever sufferers.
So said the District Medical
Society and the American Acad-
emy of Allergy today after the
latest ragweed pollen count. It's
ragweed, as any hayfever victim
knows, that causes a good share
of the late summer sneezes.
The scientists reported the pol
len count virtually down to zero
Yesterday they found less than
one grain of pollen per cubic
yard of air. The 1850 peak was
recorded on September when
i55 grains were counted.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Star Staff Photo.

steamboat. He died in Poland try
ing to make contact with Napo-
leon on a diplomatic mission in
the fatal year of 1912 when the
French dictator had to retreat
from burning Moscow.
Barlow was not the first owner
of the property but he and the
architect Latrobe were responsible
for the beauty of the place which
made Mrs. Lockwood so enthusi-
astic. 1t was part of the original
land grant to John Langworth in
1864 that had the fascinating name
of "The Widows Mite" Anthony
Holmead built the first home on
the site. He called it Rock Hill
Col. William Augustine Washing
ton bought it from Holmead and
sold it to Barlow for $4,000. The
tract was then about 80 acres.
4 Presidents Lived There.
In the Goth Century. due to very
intelligent real estate promotion,
Kalorama became fruitful field
for the work of the leading domes-
tic architects. It is a Mayfair dom
mated by studied arrangements OF
brick walls and ivy. and doorways
f1anked by urns of Attic shape
and fair attitude"
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Cigarette Companies
Offer Free Samples
At Medical Assembly

How a doctor looks at to-
bacco could depend on what
room he happened to be occu-
pyine at the Hotel Statler
today.
In one room, DR.. Geza de
TakatS was explaining how
smoking prevents. successful
treatment of a blood vessel
disease.
In another room nearby,
two large cigarette companies
were giving away free samples
of their wares as part of the
commercial exhibit at the Dis
trict Medical Society's scien-
tif1c assembly. One such COM
pany urged doctors to compare
their brand with others for
mildness.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Johnston Asks Study
OF Living Costs Here
To Prepare U. 5. Raise

With his eye on a salary raise
for Government workers, Chair
man Johnston Of the Senate Civil
Service Committee has asked the
Budget Bureau and the Civil
Service Commission to study the
effect Of the rising cost of living
on Federal employees.
Senator Johnston recently prom
ised to look into the need for
pay raises for Government work
ers. He made this pledge during
a speech before the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees in
convention last month in Los
Angeles.
A spokesman for the Civil Serv-
ice Commission said today officials
would make preparations imme-
diately for the study and go ahead
as rapidly as possible.
Report Due in January.
Senator Johnston, in a letter
to the two agencies, asked that
they watch the trend of living
costs, and their effect on Federal
salaries especially, between now
and January.
A report will be expected on the
matter, he said, the first week in
January.
Senator Johnston said he was
sure the new Congress will receive
many letters from Federal workers
asking for increased pay.
Meanwhile, an appeal for a
wage increase was filed today
with the United States Inter-
departmental Wage Board by the
Allied Reproduction Trades Union
on behalf of their 5000 members
employed by the government.
No Raise Since July, 1949.
c. Edward Upton, union presi-
dent, said these Federal employees
were removed from the Govern
ment classified service in July,
1949, and had not received an in
crease in pay since. Their salaries
now are under jurisdiction of the
Wage Board, he explained.
The appeal for an Increase
ranging from 8 cents to IL cents
an hour. for varied kinds of
work-was made. Mr.. Upton said.
as a result OF. a wage survey con-
Quoted in the last month among
shops during reproduction work
in private industry here.
The employees involved include
several types of employees, such
as those operating monographs,
multilith machines, multigraphs,
offset presses, collating machines,
cameras and others. Also included
are stencil cutters and plate
makers. This union does not in
clude printers who belong to a
different union.
Evening star., 1950-10-02

the school, which has four class
rooms, be shut down.
| The six pupils there happen to
be of different ages, so that all
six grades must be taught. Mrs.
Flora L. Hill, the teacher in
charge, has reverted to the meth
ods of the old one-room school,
houses.
A. Kiger Savoy, associate super
intendent in charge of colored ele-
mentary schools, said parents of
the six pupils will be given a
choice of other schools.
The nearest colored elementary
Evening star., 1950-10-02

posure. The view is not as sylvan
as the one she described but it has
been made more interesting by
such recent additions as the Fed
eral Triangle buildings and the
Pentagon.
The Kalorama Citizens Asso-
cations president is David B
Karrick, who has one of the fine
houses. of the neighborhood al
California and Twenty third
streets. He succeeded Fletcher S
Tilton. who could not serve an
other term because of the asso-
cations constitution. The associ-
alton represents not only the Kali
Drama hill area but also Meridian
hill west of Sixteenth street. In re-
cent years the association sue
ceeded in getting the District gov.
ernment to establish the Kalo.
rama playground at Kalorama anc
Columbia roads. and a branch
Postoffice in the 2400 block ol
Eighteenth street.
In the Cleveland Park article
last Monday the association rep.
resenting the older part of thu
area was enormously referred tt
as the Cleveland Park Citizens AS
sociation. 1t is the Connection
Avenue Citizens Association
Members have objected to state
ment in the article that 'Nev
Dealers took over" the association
They point out that Government
officials during the Roosevelt ad.
ministration are small part O.
their membership and there is nj
conflict among the membership
along political lines. Joseph L. Mil.
Ter, a labor relations consultant tx
management. mentioned in the ar.
ticle is a former reporter of tn.
Associated Press and not forme
employe of the Department O.
Agriculture as stated. The Chimes,
Ambassador is DR.. v. K. yelling
ton Koo and not T. v. Soong a
stated in the article.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
New Traffic. Light
On Tomorrow at
10Th & Virginia
| Motorists See Tieups;
Signal Installed to
Protect Students

Motorists using Virginia avenue
and Rock Creek parkway will find
new traffic signal slowing their
progress after 2 pm. tomorrow.
That's the time a light goes on
at Twenty-sixth street and Vir-
ginia avenue NV. The signal will
be in full operation from 6 am. to
/ pm, and during the remaining
hours will flash red on Twenty
sixth and amber on Virginia.
Traffic Director George E. Ken
eipp said the light was installed to
permit pupils at Briggs -Montgom-
cry Elementary School on Twenty
seventh street to cross safely, and
to provide a much-needed oppor-
tunity for motorists to cross Vir-
ginia avenue west of Twenty third
street.
Protective Crossing.
He said the light will give mo-
torists the only protective cross
ing between Rock Creek parkway
and the Twenty-third street un-
derpass.
Twenty-sixth street is a truck
route connecting with K street
and the Whitehurst freeway.
| Virginia avenue is a busy street.
fed by one-way morning rush.
hour traffic flowing from George
town, Connecticut avenue and
Massachusetts, avenue.
Some motorists predicted the
new light would back up traffic
for blocks.
mo Serious Delay"
Mr.. Keneipp said traffic would
be slowed, since the light is the
first encountered by cars leaving
the parkway. The showdown will
be caused by cars moving into the
right traffic lanes, he said.
However. since the signal has
been synchronized with other
signals on Virginia avenue, east
OF the location, the delay should
not be serious" he said.
Some OF the downtown bound
traffic flows into Fourteenth street,
where a new signal light was
installed at D street S.W. last
month, and precipitated a con-
troversy over its merits. Motorists
using the Fourteenth street bridge
complained of a bottleneck.
In the evening, Virginia avenus
traffic is one-way from the city,
Evening star., 1950-10-02


Washington's only little red
schoolhouse" which has an en-
rollment of six pupils-all in diff
ferent grades-probably will be
closed soon.
It is the Reno Elementary
School, Howard and Fessenden
streets NV, just north of the
Woodrow Wilson High School.
Reno School has been serving the
declining Negro population in that
area since the turn of the CEN
tury.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corn
ing will recommend to the Board
of Education on Wednesday that
Evening star., 1950-10-02

school. however, is the Military
Road School, about miles away
at Missouri avenue and Thirteenth
street NV.
Mr.. Savoy said he would ad-
wise parents to send their chill
dren there because cross-toWn
buses will take them just a block
from the building. The Military
Road School has about so pupils.
Mr.. Savoy said the Military
Road School situation is similar
to that at Reno. Fewer colored
families are living in the area
and enrolment has been drop
ping.
Evening star., 1950-10-02

up smoking once and for all, but
very few of the patients are able
to stop for any length of time.
The disease he described in
wolves a thickening in the lining
of blood vessels supplying the feet
and legs, thus impeding blood
supply. 1t is relatively, common,
1t was explained, particularly in
men over As.
5000 Expected.
DR.. de Takats' speech was one
of a series to be given during the
three-day scientific assembly. More
than 1900 doctors had registered
this morning and 5000 were ex-
pected.
The convention theme, 'Medi-
cine at Mid Century, is carried
out in the host of special exhibits
which fill several banquet rooms
at the hotel. One of these, dealing
with eye accidents, is presented by
the District Society for the Pre-
F6IltlOI1 O1 bllIlUIlGSSs
The eye exhibit points out the
accidental causes of blindness in
children five months to 16 years
of age. The greatest cause, ac-
counting for 33 per cent of the
accidents, is blows by sharp and
pointed objects. Other causes ac-
counting for from 20 to per cent
are blows by stones and other
blunt objects, burns, flying par
ticles. weapons, falls and fire.
works. The society, pointing out
that more than 200 such accidents
occurred here in 1949, urged par
ents to keep dangerous articles
out of children's reach, and urged
quick treatment to avoid eye loss.
Other Exhibits.
Other public health exhibits are
being presented by the District
chapters of the American Red
Cross, American Cancer Society,
Diabetes Association, tuberculosis
Association. the District Health
Department, American Medical
Association, American Hearing
Society, Crippled Children's So
ciety and several Government
agencies.
Color television programs of op-
erations in progress at local hos
pitals will be shown each day at
the assembly
Another of today's speeches
outlined successes in the use of
the drugs ACTH and cortisone in
the treatment of skin disease.
DR.. Louis j. Softer of Columbia
University said the drugs were
used successfully on 18 patients
suffering from the disease, some
of whom were about to die.
Declaring that these new drugs
have been beneficial in a number
of other diseases, he emphasized,
however, that they "are not with
out hazard, more so in some dis
eases than in Others"
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Tax Collector S Mail Light;
People Bring in Returns

Members of the Districts tax
collecting department can thank
good weather in September for
the fact that they are not working
overtime today.
Usually, the deadlines for pay
ments on real estate and personal
taxes, which passed Saturday,
brings in mail by the sack full.
This morning, however, Tax
Collector Guy Pearson, said the
mail volume was no heavier than
usual for the first OF a month. He
said most people apparently took
advantage of good weather last
month to bring their payments in
person.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Joseph {. Grew Calls
For National Support
of Freedom Crusade

/ Former Ambassador Joseph c.
Grew today called for a mobiliza-
tion of American citizens behind
the newly launched Crusade for
Freedom to defeat vicious Com
munist propaganda, and get the
truth behind the Iron Curtain"
Speaking of recent peace talk
by Soviet leaders and the circula-
ton of Moscow-inspired peace
petitions, Mr.. Grew said:
Let's get this straight. The
only Stain offers is the peace of
prison, the peace of the tomb"
| Mr.. Grew was principal speaker
at ceremonies held in front of
the District Building at noon,
marking the opening of a cam
paign to sign up 100000 District
citizens on the Crusade's freedom
scroll.
He explained that the Freedom
Crusade is a Nation-wid effort
to break through the Iron Curtain
with new Radio Free
Europe" The nom Government
station is already in operation in
Western Europe. supplementing
the State Departments Voice of
America broadcasts, he said.
The ceremony, which followed
a parade by patriotic groups and
Boy Scouts, led by the Marine
Corps Drum and Bugle Corps, was
climaxed by the ringing of a 10
ton Freedom bell.
The bell is being displayed
throughout the country.
Mr.. Grew said the bell will be
used as the symbol of the Euro
pean underground like the "V"
sign was in the last war.
This year, behind the Iron
Curtain. members Of the resist
ance movement in Eastern Europe
will scrawl the outline of the
Freedom Bell on sidewalks and
walls" he declared.
The peace scrolls when COM
pleted will be taken to Europe with
the bell and set up as permanent
monument in Berlin. Mr.. Grew
said together they will constitute
a kind of 'airlift' which will bring
hope and sympathy to the captive
peoples under Communist domina-
ton"
The scrolls which will be circu-
lated together with appeals for
support of the program bear the
following inscription:
II am proud to enlist in the
Crusade for Freedom. I am proud
to be a signer of this declaration
of freedom, and to have my name
included as part of the permanent
freedom shrine in Berlin"
Evening star., 1950-10-02
New Infirmary Dedicated
By Masons OF District

The new inf1rmary at the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home,
5000 New Hampshire avenue NE,
was dedicated Saturday amid
ceremonies conducted by District
Masonic organizations.
Marvin E. Fowler, grand mas
ter of Masons of the District of
Columbia, called on all Masons
to support the Government in its
fight to defeat the powers that
threaten this country's way of life,
Masonry, he said, cannot be
compatible with a theory which
places government above human
life.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Rep. Harrison 10 Make
Tour Of Six Counties

Representative Burr P. Harri-
son. Democrat. of Virginia's 7th
district, will tour six counties to-
morrow. Wednesday and Thurs
day to discuss Federal Govern
|ment issues with constituents.
He will make 80 brief stops al
post Offices in Frederick, Warren
Shenandoah. Rappahannock, Page
and Clarke Counties and at county
|courthouses in Front Royal and
Washington. Va.
Evening star., 1950-10-02
Auto Accidents xiii
Two in Montgomery;
One Driver Charged

Two persons were killed yester.
day in separate accidents in Mont.
gomery County.
Miss Cecilia Agnes Dalton, 80
OF 7037 Strathmore street, Chevy
Chase, a Public Health Service
analyst, was killed instantly wher
her car was involved In a head
on collision with a tractor-traile1
on the Rockville pike at Corby'.
Hill. about 3 miles beyond Be.
thesda.
Montgomery County police sale
James c. Fowler, 81, of Newton
N. c., driver of the truck. TOLD
them he saw Miss Dalton's cal
coming toward him on the left
side OF the road. Mr.. Fowler said
when he swerved to the left to
avoid a collision the car swerved
to the right. and the two We
hicles collided headon.
A technical charge of man.
slaughter was lodged against the
truck driver and a hearing is
scheduled for October 8 at Be-
thesda.
Did Research in War.
Miss Dalton, whose family lives
in Smithtown Branch, Long Is
land. had been in the Washington
area since she was graduated from
New York University in 1885. Dur
ing that time she had worked fol-
the Public Health Service.
During the war, Miss Dalton die
research work at the School OF
Public Health at Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore. She also
was active in the Red Cross Motor
Corps. She was a member Of the
Army Medical Library Association
OF the District and Our Lady OF
Lourdes Church. Bethesda.
Survivors include her twin sis
ter, Mrs. Clarence johnson, Brook
lyn; her father, Walter w. Dali
ton. and another sister, Mrs. Paul
Carroll. both of Smithtown
Branch.
Funeral services will be held in
Smithtown Branch.
Truck Careens Into Post.
Leroy Bowie. %, colored, of
Boyds, Md, was killed in an ac-
cident on Route % about 8 miles
west of Rockville at II am. yes
terday. Montgomery County DO
lice said Mr.. Bowie was a
passenger In a truck that ran
OF the road, struck a telephone
pole and careened into q brick
post.
Mrs. Ruth Weisel, 55-year-old
Government worker, of 1925
Rhode Island avenue NV, was
killed instantly Saturday when the
car in which she was riding hit a
guard rail on Highway 80 near
Bedford, Pa.
A Washington couple narrowly
escaped death on the Baltimore
boulevard near Elkridge, Md. yes
terday when the tractor of a
truck overturned on the hood of
their automobile.
State police said Mr.. and Mrs.
AL Collector of 1920 r street
NV. were driving toward Balti-
more when a tractor trailer trav-
cling in the opposite direction
jack-knifed. causing the tractor
to crash across the hood of the
Collectors automobile.
Wife Suffers Rib Fractures.
Mrs. Collector, Is, was admitted
to University Hospital, Baltimore,
with several fractured ribs and
face lacerations. Mr.. Collector,
80, was treated at the hospital
for minor injuries and released.
Police said the gas tank of the