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Evening star., 1950-10-23
By George Kennedy

Washington has a vitality that
is unique among American cities.
1t does not grow away from itself.
Washington real estate men at
tend their national conventions,
hear about that contemporary
curse of cities called urban
blight" and come home dutifully
determined to do something about
it.
They find that the citizens al
ready are doing something. Mod
ern store fronts are being con-
.structed in old retail areas that
in other cities would be a prob
lem to the tax collector. Rental
properties in older residential Sec
tions are being improved with
fresh paint and modern household
equipment. Newcomers with an
eye to the possibilities of a Fed
eral doorway and sound brick
walls are buying century-old
houses.
This is the situation in old
Southeast near the Capitol, an
area of brick homes interspersed
with white clapboard cottages on
broad avenues lined by huge elmS
and sycamore trees with notified
trunks now, bearing sere and yell
low leaves.
The fall of the year is the time
to stroll the old Southeast streets
as the thinning foliage reveals
rows of houses that haven't
changed since President Grant
rode by in his open carriage.
Sousa Came From Southeast.
In the old days residents OF the
area near the Capitol did not put
the initials "S.E." after the street
numbers on their stationery; they
put Capitol Hill And those
further east indicated their loca-
ton by adding to the street and
number, Navy Yard. Washing
tom
East Capitol street was Sum-
day promenade for the citizens OF
East Washington and the Marine
Barracks at Eighth and I streets
Sc. was the heart of the COM
In the days when every
Sousa march used to lead the hit
parade with the tWo-Steppers "a
dance that was popular at the
turn of the century, John Philip
himself used to direct the Wednes-
day evening concerts of the Ma
rine Band on the steps of the
Capitol. The great band leader
was a Southeast boy. His father
was a member of the Marine
Corps band and John Philip was
brought up in the house at 636
G street Sc, which still stands.
He married the daughter of
neighbors.
When Maj. Pierre lEnfant laid
out the city, it was inconceivable
that it should ever fill the Dis
trict of Columbia 10-mile square.
The space reserved for the Presi-
dents house was the geographical
center of the District. But l'En-
fant made the hill reserved for
the Capitol, the center of the
city. AS the city grew over the
entire District area north of the
Potomac. more than one half be-
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Lutherans Re-eIect
Rev. Paul |. Reaser in
Eastern Conference
By Cospor Names
Stor Stoff Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Oct. %. The
Rev, Paul L. Reaser, pastor of
Atonement Lutheran Church,
Washington, was reelected today
as president of the Eastern Con-
ference of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synod of Maryland.
Mr.. Reaser was chosen at the
annual meeting of the synod,
which is being held today at the
Redeemer Lutheran Church here.
More than "a Lutheran ministers
from the Washington area are
attending.
The Rev. Samuel j. Miller, re-
tired minister of Baltimore, was
reelected secretary. A. B. Hard
wick of the Reformation Church,
Baltimore, was elected treasurer
Plans for establishing a new
Lutheran congregation in the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. area of
Maryland are now underway, DR..
j. Frank Fife. president of the
Baltimore synod, revealed. DR..
Fife said steps are being taken to
buy property in that area for a
church. He added that the synod
hoped to start building during
1851.
DR.. Fife told the meeting that
the Maryland synod has been
establishing congregations at the
rate of one every three years dur
ing the past 80 years. He pointed
out that all congregations estab-
lished since 1900 have been in
suburban or city areas.
DR.. Thomas L. Cline told the
gathering that approximately l.
900 of the 1900 eligible pastors
of the United Lutheran Church
have indicated their intention OF
joining the new insurance plan
approved by the church at the
recent national convention in Des
Moines. This plan provides fol
Evening star., 1950-10-23

are always scholars as we'll as
members of Congress among the
guests at the two hotels in this
New Jersey avenue block right
behind the House Office Buildings,
the old George Washington Inn
and the new Congressional Hotel.
Inn Built in 1917.
The George Washington Inn
was built in 1917 but looks much
Older. Hugh Phillips. the man
who built it. used materials OBJ
tanned in the wrecking of some
of Washington's grand old houses
in its construction. Two mantel
pieces in the lobby came from the
two houses built by George Wash
ington on North Capitol street in
an area now part of the Capitol
grounds. Where Mr.. Phillips OBJ
tanned the splendid pillared por-
tico over the New Jersey avenue
entrance is unknown to the
present owner of the establish
ment.
The Congressional Hotel acros.
the way is as modern as tht
Statler. One wall of its dinine
room. called the Caucus Room. il
all plate glass overlooking a gar.
den. There is also a Veto Room
and the tap room, decorated by
enlargements of the cartoons Of
the late Clifford Bergman of The
Star, is called the Filibuster Room
AS the hotel is hidden by the Ole
House Office building to those
passing the Capitol on Indepen-
dence avenue, it is probable thai
most Washingtonians. have never
seen it.
The hotel might be called the
only new thing in Southeast with
the exception of some schools, the
Library of Congress annex and the
Folger Shakespeare Library al
Second and East Capitol streets
Through purchase from the SAC
million dollar fund left the library
by its founder, one of Rookie
fellers associates in founding the
Standard Oil Co.. the Folger
library is now a great storehouse
OF 10th and 17th century English
publications. University professors
are moving into Southeast so they
can spend their retirement or
sabbatical years there.
Evening star., 1950-10-23

came located in the northwest
quarter" The majority of the
population including it's weather.
elements lived in the big quarter.
Conformity with the majority thus
increased the Importance of the
initials NV" after an address.
Teacher Changed Trend.
There are newcomers to Wash
ington who are convinced this
has even less Importance than the
supposedly tremendous difference
between least side, west side" in
New York. One of them is Mrs.
Mary McIver Girard who has
taken the house at 1872 C street
Sc. Coming back after 20 years
in France, she lived here and she
lived there and she was lost. :"
Then. according to her testimony,
she moved into Southeast and
VOLTA, was home again"
Capitol Hill is experiencing a
ferment of restoration comparable
to spiritual rebirth. 1t started
when a school teacher convinced
the businessmen of Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. that so many people
were moving away from the area
that something would have to be
done.
The teacher was Mrs. Henry
White Draper, principal of Hine
Junior High School at Seventh
and C. She found businessman
who welcomed help for the COM
munity in Charles S. Gum of the
Mahoney Paint & Wallpaper Co.
Two $1,000 jack pot prizes-each
including a weekend trip to New
York and a television set-were
offered for those who did most to
improve their homes during the
summer. The contest closed on
Labor Day and the judges are
now looking over the changes it
has wrought.
The interest Mrs. Draper started
at the Hine School graduated to
Eastern High School where a
Student Committee for the Res
toration of Capitol Hill was Or
ganized. Sarah Kittinger of d23
Eleventh street Sc. is its chair
man.
Students Give Demonstration.
The students called on every
resident of the Capitol Hill area,
white and Negro, and talked about
the Importance of improving ap-
pearances by paint or planting.
Then they put on a demonstra-
ton. The members of the E Club,
Eastern High School athletes who
had won their letters. painted six
brick row houses, 1904 through
1914 G street Sc. The merchants
supplied the paint and equipment,
and the owner, Frederick de Moll,
of 6627 First street NV, who
allowed his houses to be used in
the experiment, was very sur
prised by the result.
The students painted the six
houses in 100 minutes in pastel
tints of blue, yellow. green and
gray. with two white houses
among them. The color scheme
was arrived at by Allan Marsh,
IT. of 1900 R street NE, an East
ern High School art student. He
Evening star., 1950-10-23

The Districts communications
chief said today he expects to ,use
every type of radio equipment in
civil defense from Civil Air Patrol
planes flying over the city to taxi
cabs touring the streets.
Herbert A. Friede, communica-
tions superintendent, said emer-
gency frequencies on which the
civil defense system will operate
are expected to be assigned soon
by the Federal Communications
Commission.
Mr.. Friede added that he had
applied for the frequencies only
three weeks ago and expected no
difficulty in getting them. Usually,
he said. it takes six to IL weeks
even for routine police frequency
to be approved but he expects
earlier action than that.
3 Frequencies Requested.
Mr.. Friede explained he has
applied for three special frequen-
cies for these purposes:
One would be the channel for
setting the public alarm system in
motion, alerting the counties in
the Metropolitan Area and COM
municating with these counties
for mutual aid.
A second would connect the
command center-the headquar-
ters manned by the civil defense
director and the chiefs of the vari-
Gus services-with control centers
in four different sections of the
city. Over this channel would go
messages co-ordinating the emer-
gency labors of the Police and
Fire Departments, Health and
Highway Departments and other
civil defense forces.
The third channel would be the
means of maintaining communi-
cations with portable units in the
field.
Supplements Phone System.
Mr.. Friede said the radio COM
munications would supplement
telephones. He pointed out that
telephone lines at a central loca-
Evening star., 1950-10-23
'Considerate' Bandit
Robs 7 Hotels Here,
Leaves Third in Huff

A bandit who was willing to
turn his gun in another direction
because room clerk didn't like
looking down its barrel. robbed
two hotels here early yesterday.
AT third, he left dejectedly
when two employees barricaded
themselves in an Office and re-
fused to come out.
After taking $50 from the
Martinique Hotel, 1911 Sixteenth
street NV, and S125 more from
the Parkside, 1886 I street NV,
the muddy-shoed bandit left foot
prints in the lobbies. Detectives,
so impressed with the muddied
condition of the shoes, asked
shoe-shine and repair shops to
be on the lookout for an excep-
tional cleanup job.
Bandit Left in Taxi.
The man entered the Mar
Unique about $40 am. demand
ed cash from Night Clerk Will
liam P. Duff, 81, of 3447 Oakwood
terrace NV. Shortly after he left
with the $50, a party of eight per-
sons entered the hotel and, in
formed of the holdup, reported to
police they saw the bandit enter
a taxi.
Less than two hours later, the
bandit walked into Parkside and
informed Night Clerk Myron H.
McMath, At. of 9O5 Roanoke ave-
nue., Takoma Park, that this is
a holdup. Don't do anything and
you won't get hurt"
CajOlcd Clerk Out of Hiding.
Mr. McMath went over the
front desk and hid behind a pillar.
Finally tiring of the chase, the
unmaSked man cajoled Mr.. Nc
Math into coming out of hiding
by promising to turn the gun in
the other direction. With that
promise. the clerk handed over
$125.
Things turned for the worse at
the Hamilton Hotel, Fourteenth
Evening star., 1950-10-23

Admission to the library used
to require correspondence and ap-
proval of ones scholarly attain
ments. But the new director,
Louis B. Wright, has thrown the
front doors wide open and has
allowed the little Elizabethan
theater within it to be used for
Shakespearean productions.
Elms Shade Parks.
There are some fine houses in
First street, south of Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The one half a
block south, at the corner of Car
roll place. is owned by Charles S.
Dewey. former member of the
House from Illinois and now a
vice president of the Chase Bank
of New York. Carroll place, a
short street between First and
Second streets. is a delight. Ex-
cept for an occasional automobile
parked at the curb, it looks like
the London of Thackeray's Vanity
Fair.
The area has two beautiful
little parks shaded by large elms,
Garfield Park, between Virginia
and South Carolina streets, where
the railroad ducks into a tunnel,
and Marion Park. in front of the
nth precinct at Fifth and E
streets.
One of its institutions is Provi-
dence Hospital, at Third and D
streets. The Sisters of Charity
nursed Civil War soldiers in quar-
tiers rented in the neighborhood
The present structure was begun
IN 1868. Providence Hospital soon
will have new home in the
Catholic University area in North
east. where land has been &C
quired for its construction. The
neighborhood leaders hope the
Sisters of Charity will continue
to operate clinic and othe,
services in the old building.
Houses Near Lincoln Park.
The Marine Barracks at Eighth
and l streets is a surprise to an,
/ Washlngtonian who enters it fo,
the flrst time. While of differ,
ent architecture, the colonnadt
along the east side of the parade
grounds is remindful of the Uni.
verslty of Virginia campus. The
commandments house, a big man.
sard-roof mansion, is an excellent
example of that French style.
| One of the most interesting bits
OF Washington mid-19th century
architecture is near Lincoln Park
This is the line of 16 three-story
houses with arched doorways
called Philadelphia Row. They
are on the east side of Eleventh
street in the first block south of
East Capitol street. Identical in
architecture but varied in color
and use of window blinds, they
have the charm of the old streets
Iof the Quaker City.
1--WE don't expect that South
east will become a GEORGETOWN or
a Greenwich Village" says Mrs.
DetWiler. But we do have hopes
that many more interesting and
attractive people will find that
Its wonderful place to live"
Evening star., 1950-10-23

and K streets NV, five minutes
later.
When he walked in, the bandit
said somebody's going to get
killed, according to Detective
Capt. Otto P. Fuss. Thereupon.
Cashier Theodore Reed, %, of
1841 Columbia road NV, and
Clerk Allen Pattee, "a, of 1888
Thirteenth street NV, ran from
behind the desk into a back office.
The holdup man left. Their
best description, other than the
muddy shoes, was that he was
wearing a gray checked overcoat.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Cathedral Fund 10 Hold
Report Meeting Tomorrow

The Washington Cathedral
Fund will hold its second report
meeting at 1890 pm. tomorrow
in Barker Hall in the Y. w. C. A.,
Seventh and K streets NV.
Mrs. Frederick Thompson, exec
utiVe secretary of the National
Cathedral Association. will de-
scribe the campaign being carried
nationally. A. Lloyd Symington.
chairman of the local campaign
will preside. The first report
luncheon listed contributions to-
falling $11, ,495. or about % per cent
of the local goal of $4,000.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Thomas Bones, Jr., 40,
Former Golfer Here,
Dies at Perry Point

Thomas P. Bones, jr., 40, one
of Washington's outstanding
amateur golfers in the late 192Os
and early 3Os. died Saturday at
Perry Point Veterans Hospital
after long illness. b..
One of the Districts best south
paw golfers during that time,
Tommie Bones began playing as
a youngster at Columbia Country
Club. On one occasion he qualified
for the National Amateur golf
championship held in Chicago.
MI. Bones, an accountant for
the Charles H. Tompkins Co..
builders, before his illness two
years ago, lived at 1921 Bradley
boulevard, Bethesda.
A member of an old GEORGETOWN
family, Mr.. Bones was the son of
Thomas P. Bones, ST., real estate
man, and the former Eloise Cissel
The Clssel family owned the flour
mills now belonging to the
Wllkins-Rogers Co. at 1851 K
street NV. His mother died in
August, 1949. His father lives at
the Wardman Park Hotel.
Prior to World War II, Mr..
Bones was an accountant for
several years with the Raymond
Concrete Pile Co. A Navy veteran,
ne served for two years in the
South Pacific during the war.
Mr.. Bones, who was divorced,
also leaves a daughter, Miss Bar
bara Bones, student at Brown
University.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow at the Pumphrey
funeral home, Bethesda. Burial
will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Maragon Fails
To Win Appeal
0fConviction
Defense Arguments
On Conduct of Trial
Can't Alter Decision

The 8-to-24-month perjury SEN
tence of John F. Maragon i'm
posed in District Court was af-
firmed today by the United States
Court of Appeals.
The 58-year-old Greek Ameri-
can. once an intimate in White
House circles, was convicted by a
jury last April of telling two lies
about his bank accounts under
questioning by a Senate sub
committee investigating IS per
centers," the previous summer.
Judge Jennings Bailey imposed
the sentence
Two Points Raised.
Maragons lawyers raised two
chief points before Appeals Court
Judges Henry w. Edgerton, E.
Barrett Prettyman and James M.
Proctor One involved Maragon' S
denial that he had more than one
bank account during 1945 or 1916.
The Government established that
at that time he did have second
substantial account in a San
Antonio CTeX) bank as shown by
bank records, cashiers checks and
Maragon's own subsequent admis-
sions made to the Senate subcom-
mittee.
His lawyers argument that the
absence of witnesses to testify
specifically on the existence of
the Texas bank account rules out
a conviction on the strength of
the other evidence was rejected
by the appellate court.
The court also turned down
the defense claim that Judge
Bailey gave an insufficient charge
to the jury on the element of
willfulneSS in perjury case.
The court held that the trial
judge gave a clear and correct
meaning" of the requirements of
the perjury statute, and added
that it could find no error in the
record on other defense appeals
for reversal.
Once Shined Shoes.
An immigrant from Greece,
Maragon came to this country as
a boy. He once shined shoes in
Kansas City, Mo. Later he worked
for the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road on job that gave him ex-
tenSive acquaintanceships in the
Government. He evolved into a
Washington man-about-toWn.
At the trial the Government
pictured him as a man who tried
to put pressure on Government
employees in business deals for
private firms. 1t contended he
used the name of Maj. Gen. Harry
Vaughan. aide to President Tru-
man. and let it be understood in
Government dealings that he came
from the White House.
Gen. Vaughan once called Mar
agon a lovable little fellow, but
later said he ought to be fumi-
gated.
Maragon's attorneys argued that
he was a peanut vendor among
princes" They said he just did
favors for people and did nothing
wrong in business deals.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
1000 Bird Entries
In Show Include
Pink Conories

Pink canaries, finger tanned
birds and an Indian myna that
whistles at pretty girls are to be
among about 1000 entries in
bird show sponsored by the Cage
Bird Society of washington at
the Annapolis Hotel, Eleventh and
H streets NV, this week.
Proceeds from the show, to be
held from 10 I'm. to pm. Friday,
Saturday and next Sunday, will
go to the polio ward of Childrens
Hospital.
Entries from Florida, Califor-
MIA, New York, Connecticut and
Maine will include domestic pet
birds as well as wild species and
parakeets. Five experts will be
the judges.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Party at Wheaton

The Wheaton (MdD Chamber
of Commerce and the Wheaton
Citizens Association will sponsor
an outdoor Halloween party for
children and adults at 7 pm,
October 81, in the Wheaton Food
Fair parking area, Viers Mill and
Kensington- Wheaton roads.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Arlington Woman Heads
Negro Colleges Alumni

RICHMOND, Oct. 23.-The Vir-
ginia Inter alumni Council of the
United Negro College Fund was
organized here yesterday by rep
resentatives of the 80 Negro COL
}eges which participate in the
fund.
Miss Willie Coles of Arlington
was elected president.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
Lions Club Plans Porty

The Hyattsville Lions Club will
hold a Halloween masquerade
party at 7 pm. tomorrow in the
Prince Georges Country Club. 4
buffet dinner will be followed by
dancing and other entertainment.
Evening star., 1950-10-23
.Cross-Examination
OF Pepeo Resumes as
Rate Hearings Drag On

Cross-examination Of Potomac
Electric Power Co. officials was
resumed today as the Public Utili-
ties Commission hearing on the
company's request for a rate in
crease dragged on.
Herbert F. G. Main, Pepco rate
engineer, again was on the stand.
He underwent questioning by at
torneys for the Capital Transit
Co., which is fighting Pepco
efforts to increase its power bill
by SO per cent.
The power company is seeking
an overall 92 per cent increase
in electric rates to bring in an
additional $3,379,000 annually.
Pepco says it needs the additional
revenue to attract investors so it
can proceed with substantial ex-
pansion program.
Daryl Myse, transit attorney
questioned Mr.. Main on details of
how Pepco arrived at the Capital
Transit Company's proposed bill.
The new rates would add $557 900
to the transit company's present
bill of $889,000 annually.
The PUG hearings, which were
opened August 21 and recessed
from time to time, may be COM
pleted this week. After the transit
company completes it's cross
examination, the PUG staff will
present recommendations on how
much additional income should be
allowed Pepco.
Cross-examination of the PUG
staff will follow. Then the COM
mission hopes to wind up the
hearings with testimony of sew
eral citizens who asked to be
heard.
death benefits for the families of
ministers.
DR.. L. Ralph Tabor of Luther
Place Memorial Church, Washing
ton, was to outline some of the
actions taken at the national
meeting in q talk this afternoon.
Evening star., 1950-03-24
BY the Associated Pres,

ATHENS, Greece, Mar. "a
The Liberal Party's Sophocles
Venizelos headed new centrist
Greek government today, but its
life depended on the Premier's
traditional foe, Constantin Tsal-
daris, Conservative Royalist.
The government, sworn in last
night, anticipates support from
145 Deputies in the new 250-mem-
Der Parliament elected March 5
But of this bloc, 60 Deputies are
members Of Mr.. Tsaldaris' Popu-
list Royalist) Party, traditional
political opponents of the anti
royalist Liberals.
Mr.. Tsaldaris thus can collapse
the new government any time he
wishes. The uneasy accord of the
Evening star., 1950-03-24
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

oy inc AsSoCio.eo rFeSt
BUCK HILL FALLS, Pa, Mar
24.-United States members OF
the World Council of Churches
will. be asked to raise an emer-
gency appropriation of s591 ,0oC
for the aid of churches in Europe
and Asia.
DR.. Robert c. Mackie, associate
general secretary of the council
from Geneva. Switzerland, told
80 delegates attending the final
session of the United States coun-
Gil yesterday that the money is
necessary to "forestall the collapse
OF cooperative aid to churches
In Europe and Asia"
A report adopted by the dele
gates said that unless the funds
were raised within the next nine
months the er-church aid pro-
gram might have to be abandoned
Evening star., 1950-03-24
New Greek Premier to Ask Confidence Vote

long time political opponents ap-
pears based chiefly on a mutual
fear and suspicion of Gen. Nicho-
las Plastiras, whose leftist Nation
al Progressives ran second only
to the Populists in the general
election.
Mr.. Venizelos said last night he
would ask the Deputies not only
for a vote of confidence but also
that they adjourn for three
months. The new Parliament
meets first March 80 and is ex-
pected to adjourn then until
April IT. after the Easter holidays.
Up for its approval will be a
government drawn, with one ex-
ception, from the Liberal Party.
The non-Liberal is Deputy Pre-
mier and Defense Minister Pana.
Evening star., 1950-03-24
Cicognoni Will Bless
New Arlington Chapel

The new Immaculate Heart oi
Mary Chapel, 1851 North Twenty
first street, Arlington, will be
dedicated and blessed at 10 am
tomorrow by The Most Rev. Am
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos-
tolic delegate to the United
States.
The chapel. recently completed,
is at Misconduct, headquarters
OF the Immaculate Heart Mis-
sion Society.