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Evening star., 1950-05-06
Gordon Docks at MuniIu
With China Refugees
BY the Assoeioted Press

MANILA. May 6.-The liner
General w. H. Gordon arrived
today with 800 of the 735 foreign
ers brought out of Red China
earlier this week still aboard.
The liner first called at Hong
Kong after picking up the for
eigners from Shanghai at Taku
Bar, off Tientsin. The ship sails
at midnight for Yokohama.
Among those landing here were
four American Consular employees
and their families. The employees
will begin a tour of duty in the
Philippines. The Gordon brought
out the last United States official
personnel from Red China.
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sewers, sidesWalks, and street
pavements are all available and
well maintained.
Under the plan for redevelop-
ment the worst buildings would be
either rehabilitated or demolished
Alley dwellings would be elimi-
mated. The area will be developed
with play courts and open green
spaces within the blocks. Portions
Of existing streets would be closed
to develop four super-blocks from
the present nine squares.
The plan was prepared after a
careful field study of the entire
area by the Hole staff. A health
center, recreation court, neigh
borhood center, junior and ele-
mentary schools, and a large park
are available within few blocks
The proposed Randle Recreation
Center, nearby would be bounded
by First street and South Capitol
street.
Possibilities Illustrated.
The blighted mid-city area plan
illustrates the possibilities for i'm
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program would expedite by years
the Commissions earlier planned
decentralization of the Govern
ment, with view to leveling off
Federal employment in Washing
ton at about 100000.
Planning for the redevelopment
program will go ahead under q
$172,000 fund from the Housing
and Home Finance Agency. The
money clears the way for the ap-
|pointment of an executive direc-
tor and staff for the District Re-
development Land Agency, now
long overdue. That body, in turn,
will give the Planning Commission
$27 900 to make a technical sur
vey of three areas proposed for
the program. These are in the
Southwest, the Southeast and the
mid-city area in the Northwest,
previously announced.
Tied in with this program are
the initial projects planned by the
National Capital Housing Author
ity in carrying out a long-range
financing of 1000 low-rent dwell
ings. Until the new public housing
program is well under way, the
sole source of w-income housing
will come from release of exist
ing structures by higher income
Sroups moving into new buildingsI
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ton and assessed valuation were
started.
The most famous institution as
sociated with tile town was
"Jimmy's place" the gambling
house of the late James A. La
Fontaine at Bladensburg road and
the District line. Asked why they
did not do something about 1t,
Mount Rainier citizens would pa
tiently explain that Jimmy's place
was just outside the towns eastern
boundary, which is the Baltimore
g. Ohio Railroad. It was up to
the county authorities to close it
Jimmy Was Courteous.
Jimmy was we'll liked. AS one
of the county policemen once ex-
planned to the writer. HE does us
the courtesy of closing down in
April and October when the grand
jury is in session"
Jimmy died on November 81
1949, leaving $2.245.4 .430. of which
$1,818,763 was in cash. It is be-
lieved that more than 81 million
was concealed in the modest
house at 470 Maryland avenue
S.W. he rented for more than
so years.
Today the big green fence
around Jimmy's place is broken
An automobile truck went off the
Bladensburg road and crashed
through the fence at one place
exposing the house to public view
Jimmy had no eye for architec-
ture in enlarging the building
He made a fine old southern
plantation house into a factory
like box. 1t is surrounded by a
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their walking distance to Fed
eral employment centers and their
conspicuous locations.
The Southwest area, consisting
of approximately 35 acres, is
bounded by Delaware avenue,
street, Fourth street and E street.
1t also was the object of a special
study in 1912 by the Home Own
ers Loan Corp. Present struc-
lures in this area consist of rows
of four, five and six-room sub
standard but structurally sound
brick houses interspersed with
decrepit frame houses and q few
vacant lots. Many buildings in
the area lack bathroom and
kitchen equipment. Sanitary IA
cilities are installed only in the
backyard in some cases. The
block interiors contain alley
dwellings OF miscellaneous ac-
cumulations of storage and trash.
But the area has some advan-
tages. The streets are wide and
well shaded, thus making them
useful in redevelopment. Water.
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Holiday Post Office Hours
Announced in Silver Sprino

Special holiday hours will be in
effect at the Silver Spring Post
Office from Thursday through De-
cember "a, Postmaster William E.
Bowman announced this week.
The main post Office on Georgia
avenue will be open from Z am.
to 9 pm. Mondays through Satur-
days. 1t will also be open on
Sunday from 9 am. to 5 pm.
The Blair, Wheaton and Wood
moor substations will give window
service Mondays through Fridays
from 8 am. to 8 pm. Saturday
hours will be 8 am. to S pm. and
Sunday, 9 am. to 5 pm.
Mr.. Bowman suggested mailing
packages before 10 am. and be-
tween 1870 and $3.50 pm. when
the offices were least busy.
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Two Redeyeopment Projects Proposed in Mid City Area

Large scale redevelopment
projects to provide sanitary hous-
ing, shopping centers and recrea-
tional space in two neglected resi-
dential-commercial areas in the
decaying heart Of the Capital
were proposed today by Federal
planners.
Outlined in the 30-year Com
prehensive Plan for Washington,
the projects would include nine
blocks of a problem area in the
Southwest and the obsolete core
of the old Mid-City area in the
Northwest. In the latter, only
one-half acre of park area is
available now for an estimated
$4,000 residents.
When the controversial Mar
shall Heights and Barry Farms
projects were abandoned as out
lying redevelopment areas, the
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission turned it's at
tention next to the central slum
area. Preliminary studies of two
selected areas follow the pro-
posals contained in the new
monograph of the Comprehensive
Plan dealing with Housing and
Redevelopment."
The "go" signal on any one of
these alternative schemes depend
on ALLEGATION of survey funds and
eventual certification by the Re-
development Land Agency. The
Mid-City area so marked for pos
sible revision is tied in closely
with the boundaries approved by
the District Commissioners on
November % on which the Ma
tional Capital Housing Authority
will erect public housing for low
income families.
Fortunate Selections.
The two redevelopment areas
under study are fortunate anec-
tions, it Is believed, becauaY of
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house to house ringing doorbells
They started campaigning
March /. Election day was in the
first week of May. On March 81
George Morris Fay, United States
Attorney for the District, con-
Quoted his widespread raids or
gambling establishments. Two
big places in Prince Georges
County were knocked off; the
Snags Lewis establishment ir
Bladensburg and the State Wide
Sports News Distributors in Col
mar Manor. None of the places
raided was in Mount Rainier.
Fay Issues List.
But the next day Mr.. Fay issued
a list of places which were sub
scribers to a race wire ticker
service. The Star carried the list
on Page /. Six of the spots were
in Mount Rainier.
Mr.. Reichelt feels that this was
the turning point of the cam
paign. He was elected by 480
votes, a wide margin, considering
that only a few more than 1000
votes were cast.
But one Of his running mates
lost. MI. de Lozier was beaten in
the 1St ward by few votes,
It looked as though Mr.. Rel
chelt and Mr.. Thompson were
going to be a minority in the
council in which three members
had been reelected, two of them
without opposition.
It was then that some of tht
merchants tried to bring pressure
on Mr.. Reichelt not to do any.
thing drastic. The gambling fra.
ternity had been good customers
Like Tweed Days.
1t was similar to the situation
in New York in the 70s wher
Samuel j. Tilden had the leader
of Tammany Hall, William Marcy
Tweed, on the spot. Jay Gould
and other businessmen tried to
come to Tweed's rescue.
The first order of business when
the council met after the election
was whether the chief of police
should be retained. Two of the
reelected councilmen voted to re-
tain him. But the third. Robert
Merson of the third ward. voted
with Mr.. Reichelt and Mr.. Thomp-
son. Chief Plumer was out. He
now operates a filling station in
Mount Rainier.
John w. Wise, a retired detec-
tive sergeant of the Washington
Metropolitan Police Department,
was made chief of police. The
gamblers went out of business or
moved to adjoining Prince Georges
communities. Whether they will
be able to continue to operate
there is doubtful. The same
movement that elected Mayor
Reichelt in Mount Rainier caused
an overturn Of the county gov
ernment in the election last
month. One of the first acts of
the Republican county commits
sion was to replace Ralph Brown,
chief of the county police.
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Glascock were former councilmen
and employees of the Federal Gov
ernment In Washington.
Almost a Native.

GlaScock were former councllmen
and employees of the Federal Gov
eminent in Washington.
Almost a Native.
Mr.. Reichelt, a Democrat, had
lived in Mount Rainier since 1910
when he was 2 years old and his
parents moved there from Wash
ington. His father was a plumber
He attends Trinity Lutheran
Church in Mount Rainier, where
his parents were members.
The decision to run was not
easy. He knew he would make q
lot of enemies among people whom
he considered his neighbors and
friends. All the residents of the
old part of Mount Rainier know
each other.
The campaign was not to be
against the incumbent mayor, but
against Gene Plumer. the chief of
police.
II went to school with Plumer's
younger brother" said Mr.. Reich
elt, telling of his campaign. II
knew Gene and liked him. I think
he had the best interests of the
community at heart. He had done
a lot of things for a lot of people
in the town. But over the years
he had been % years in the police
department-he had become the
real political power of the COM
munity. And he had not cleaned
out the gamblers.
Campaign Cost $100.
J. Robert Sherwood, treasurer
of the Prince Georges Bank &
Trust Co., an institution with total
resources of $25 million, became
treasurer of his campaign. Mr..
Reichelt thinks that total cam
paign expenditures did not exceed
500.
Mount Rainier had four wards,
each of which elects a councilman.
Mr.. Reichelt ran with two can
didates. Gurney Thompson, a limo
typer on the Washington Post,
and Carlyle de Lozier, real
estate man.
Mr.. Reichelt did not make a
single speech in the entire cam
paign. He merely went from
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High School Class Plans
To Reorqunize Alumni

The 1850 class of Frederick
Sasscer High School. Upper Marl-
boro, Md, will meet at 8 pm.
tomorrow in the school to re-
organize the local alumni asso-
citation.
The class hopes to be the
nucleus for an organization that
will embrace all members of the
former Marlboro High School
Alumni Association. Although
only members of the 1850 Glass
have received announcements OF
the meeting, other alumni are
urged to attend the session
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proved living conditions in this
big neighborhood.
The site chosen is bounded by
major streets-New York avenue,
Rhode Island avenue, Seventh
street and New Jersey avenue. 1t
is adjacent to the Central Public
Library. One prime value is the
proximity of the area to Federal
employment and business centers
The report said the high land
coverage and poor building ar
rangement characteristic of the
area are apparent. Almost half
of the land is used for streets and
alleys. 1t provides only half an
acre of park.
Under proposed plans, the pres
ent population density of the
whole area would be maintained
Ample light and open spaces would
be provided through use of ap-
propriate groupings of eight-story
apartment buildings and three
story single family dwellings of
the row or group type or COM
binations of these. Even though
population density would be rela-
lively high. "fine living condi-
tions" could result. the report said.
Planned as q Unit.
The new area would be planned
as a unit. It's center would be a
Ineighborhood park and additional
elementary school facilities devel-
oped around the existing Bundy
School and playground.
The proposed "inner loop" ex-
pressway passes along the eastern
edge and has been incorporated in
the design. Certain existing streets
important in the traffic circula-
ton pattern have been retained.
OFF street parking has been pro-
vided for commercial uses along
Seventh street. Both schemes con-
form generally to the present
zoning map.
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Attorney General Forms
New Medals Committee

Attorney General McGrath to-
day announced formation of a
Young Americans Medals Com
mittee, to work out methods of
selecting minors worthy of re-
ceiving medals from the Govern
ment for bravery and outstanding
service to the country.
The 81st Congress authorized
the Justice Department to set up
such a committee. Appointed to
the committee are Philip B. Perl
man, solicitor general, j. Edgar
Hoover, director of the FBI, and
Mrs. Grace M. Stewart, executive
assistant to the Attorney G., heral
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Parents Meet Teachers

Parents of the children at the
Oxon Hill Elementary School in
Prince Georges County will meet
the teachers" at 8 pm. tomorrow
at the school when the Parent
Teacher Association holds its De-
cember meeting. After meeting
the teachers, the parents will join
in discussion of problems of the
school.
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only financial interest was in
pickles.
John Keleher. a gentlemanly
gambler of the old school. had an
Office in Mount Rainier. Keleher
and his wife became involved in
counter divorce suits in Washing
ton and his wife made continued
allegations that the Office was a
gambling headquarters.
Then there was the poker game
at the American Legion club
shouse. Mr.. Reichelt. just back
from a World War II cruise in
the Navy which took him as fan
as Pearl Harbor, was a Legior
member.
The game had just been a little
friendy one. But pretty soon il
became so hot that the ordinary
members could not participate
They watched with great interest
Mr.. Reichelt was one of the OBJ
servers. If there was any con-
test among the hands, the 20,
would go to more than $1O0. Ev-
erybody realized that the players
were professional gamblers just
having a little fun.
Reformers Tap Reichelt.
In February of last year several
citizens came to Mr.. Reichelt and
asked him to run for mayor on q
reform ticket. He had turned
down similar suggestions in 1947
At that time he had just built
his Maryland Grill, which faces
on the triangle where the Rhode
Island avenue cars turn around
at Thirty-fourth street and pas
sengers transfer to buses which
carry them to Prince Georges
County communities.
He was also trying to make
something of his law degree which
he had obtained in night courses
at Columbus University.
But last year the proposition
appealed to him. The men who
asked him to run we're Oscar Har-
low. fuel merchant, who is on
the board of the Mount Rainier
Methodist Church: Joseph Boze-
man and the late Chauncey Glas.
cock. Both Messrs. Bozeman and
Evening star., 1950-12-11
By George Kennedy

The old battle cry, Turn the
rascals out!" is being heard again
across the land.
Politicians among the "outs" are
tanning moral indignation against
the "ins"-a return to a political
technique that was practically
abandoned during the depression
when economic promises became
paramount.
Revelations Of the corruption
caused by big gambling operations
have been followed by designations
of law enforcement officials In
New York. Chicago and Miami.
An interesting example Of the
reform campaign. with most of
the classic manifestations. is to
be found in a small municipality
on the northeast border of the
Capital-Mount Rainier. Md.
In Mount Rainier. Herbert
Reichelt. AZ. lawyer and lunch
room proprietor. was elected
mayor last year on his promise to
drive the gamblers out. He sue
ceeded in making his promise
good.
Mount Rainier has a population
of about 10000. About half of its
citizens live in the apartment de-
velopments of Haywood Gardens.
Queens Manor Gardens and
Queenstown Apartments. The
other half live in the small houses
and bungalows of the old street.
Car suburb which was started in
an oak forest at Rhode Island
avenue and the District line in
1902.
Washingtonians Named 1t.
The original subdivision was
surveyed by Army officers who
came from the State of Washing
ton and they named it after the
famous mountain which DOM
mates the skyline of Tacoma.
They succeeded in establishing the
name but not the pronunciation.
The mountain is two syllable
word with the accent on the Sec
ond syllable. AS most Washing
tonians know, the Maryland town
is pronounced as a three syllable
word with the accent on the
rain"
Before the Civil War the land
was owned by the Clemson family
who founded Clemson College in
South Carolina. John C. CAL
houn's daughter married Glenn
son and it is said he lived for a
time in the Clemson house which
stood just north of Bunker Hill
road between Thirty-first and
Thirty-second streets in Mount
Rainier.
Incorporated in 1910.
Mount Rainier was incorporated
in 1910. Perry Boswell, whose
real estate Office is in a former
bank building at Thirty-fourth
street and Rhode Island avenue,
was appointed a clerk for the first
election. He served as mayor
from 1917 to 1921. His admins
tration put in a water and sewer
system.
For years the dominant politi-
cal issues in Mount Rainier elec-
tions had to do with the tax rate
and public Improvements. The
town grew slowly but surely until
just before Pearl Harbor. Then
the big apartment developments
which have doubled it's popula-
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Montgomery to Form
10Th Division Group

A Montgomery County Branch
Of the 29th Division Association
will be organized at a meeting OF
former members of the 10th Divi-
sion at $3.50 pm. Thursday in the
Silver Spring Armory.
All former division members
whether serving in World War
or II, are urged to be present.
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high burglar-proof fence with
sentry boxes, like those at Blair
House, at each end. But there
are no sentries in them.
Fighting Cocks Strut.
Game cocks with white and
buff hackles strut in front of the
house. Jimmy was a great fan of
the cock pit and these descend
ants of his birds are owned by a
nephew. They walk under the
stone benches. coffin shaped
stones from the burial vault of
the old place.
On one bench these words are
carved:
John C. Rives. founder of the
Congressional Globe, born May
"a, 1895; died April 10, 1854"
The place was built by Rives,
who was the partner of Francis
Preston Blair (who built Blair
House, in the publication of the
Washington Daily Globe. The
Congressional Globe, which Rives
founded, was the predecessor of
the Congressional Record.
Long after Jimmy's closed-and
it was closed some time before his
death-Mount Rainier was aware
that other gamblers were operat-
ing in Prince Georges County and
possibly within the city limits.
Boards Pickle Factory.
For one thing, Sam Beard, a
notorious gambler, had opened a
pickle works in the town. He was
distributing his products to bars
and lunch counters all over WASH
ington. But Mount Rainier citi-
zens were not convinced that his
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Montgomery Women Set
Meeting With Legislators

Newly elected members of the
State Legislature from Montgom-
cry County will attend a meeting
at 1915 pm. Friday of the Coun-
tvs League of Women Voters.
The meeting will be held at the
Glenbrook Recreation Center on
Rockville pike.
The county women's delegation
to the State Leagues Legislative
Conference November 20 at Carvel
Hall, Annapolis. will report.
Evening star., 1950-12-11

This is the second Of series of articles
on the pollution problem in the Wosh-
ington oreo.
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virginia-District
Deal on SEWAGE
Seen as Saving
Cost to Communities
Less Than Building
Of Several Plants
BY jones BirchfieId

Estimates by sanitary engineers
indicate that nearby Virginia COM
munities could make substantial
savings in sewage disposal prof.
ects by pumping their wastes into
the District plant at Blue Plains.
While no exact figures can be
given until detailed engineering
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The two redevelopment areas
under study are fortunate anec-
tions. it is believed. becaua4 of
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Color N Sent 200 Miles
From DC. by CoaxiaI Cable

Long distance color tests sent
television signals from Washing
ton to points in New Jersey and
Connecticut-more than 200 miles
the Radio Corp. Of America said
yesterday.
The signals went out from
MICS TV station in the Wardman
Park Hotel here over the regular
coaxial cable to WNBT in New
York and then went on the air.
They were picked up at RCA
laboratories in Princeton, N. j.,
about As miles from New York and
at the NBC experimental station
at Bridgeport, Conn.
RCA said all standard sets in
the New York area picked up the
program in black and white If
they were tuned to the proper
channel.
Evening star., 1950-08-08

ters in Greece, China, Sarawak.
Borneo. South Korea and Haiti
and Ethiopia. often laboring un-
der the most primitive conditions.
Nurses In Ethiopia found hospital
equipment SO limited that some
wards lacked washbasins and
pitchers. Nurses working in Eur
ope on anti-tuberculosis and anti
venereal disease campains travel
by raft, jeep and donkey or trudge
through the mountains, bearing
their medical supplies on their
backs. Others journey by horse
back through Algeria, Tunisia and
Morocco to fight TB.
The food and agriculture or
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ganizations have several women
nutritionistS in Middle Eastern
and Central American countries
helping devise plans to make
women more efficient homemakers
with better understanding Of nu-
triton. The international refugee
organization has women escort
officers and nurses on ships shut
ting displaced persons to new
homes.
Any husband who has ever NUT
tered about the extent of his
wife's luggage would rejoice to
see the U. N. women's travelling
kits. They are pared to absolute
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Jess Larson to Receive
Duouesne Degree

Jess Larson, head of the Cen
eral Service Administration, will
receive the honorary degree of
doctor of laws from Duquesne
University at Pittsburgh at sum-
mer commencement exercises on
Friday.
University officials said he was
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Oil BUYS U. S. Food

CARACAS.-Last year, with dol
lars earned from oil sales, Vene-
zuela bought nearly $40 million
worth of American foodstuffs and
$26 million in cotton goods.
Trade was on a cash basis.
Evening star., 1950-08-08

chosen for the degree because Of
his contributions to the efficiency
of the Government.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
H. NJ Women Workers Find Their Jobs Are Rugged Tasks

essentials but virtually every one
has space for extra nylons and a
lipstick.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
ADVERTISEMENT.

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Psrsiens Eeypfions
Arabians. They drink coffee with
meals, between meals, all the time
and any time. Arabian merchants
serve It to all their customers, too.