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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-10
By EIeni
Fashion Editor


Spring may not have arrived
yet on the Champs Elysees but the
enchantment to come Is promised
in the many Paris designer i'm
ports American buyers are bring
ing back to our shores.
Spring Is to be colorful,
whimsical and flattering season,
or so the clothes seem to indicate.
Personally, we are always in
trigued with the way French de-
signers are able to inject novel
and unexpected designing twists
TO women's clothes. We do regret
the change that sweeps over so
many of the French originals after
they are copied here in America.
So much of the imagination seems
to get lost in the crossing.
Apparently as If in answer to
this, and largely in self-defenSe.
we're sure, French designers this
spring seem to be tanning down a
few of their design offerings.
Much as If to say to American
dress manufacturers, There's not
much you can do the wrong way.
to this design-we've made it
simple enough for you"
Goats and suits are truly
French in their tailoring. There
are a variety of si1houettes with
the vertical" a favored one.
There's Jacques Faiths too-short
Jackets with pagoda- like sleeves,
Schiaparelli's severe-looking tail
leur Of navy wooden, double
breasted with low revers, and
Dior's suits with natural looking
shoulders, small sleeves, and we'll
accentuated hiplines.
Sleeves are Importantly stressed
as are offerings without sleeves.
Many have jutting fullness COM
ing right below the shoulder drop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-10

good teacher gives his best to the
whole group; tries to reach the in
dividual pupil to bring out his best
qualities. He should not be made
to feel himself a failure because he
happens to have a couple of pupils
whose minds are closed to the
appeal of his subject.
Averaging the marks of a pupil
makes no more sense than averag-
ing class marks. A pupil is tops in
arithmetic and bottom in gram
mar. Add the two marks together
and you get-what? He is still
bottoms in grammar. It's like tell
ing good lawyer that because he
can't cook he is below average.
He's no cook. but he is a good law
yer and that is all he need be.
Parents should not be troubled
too much about averages. 1t Is
the individual child and his indi-
vidual qualities that matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-10
By Betty Miles

Washington homemakers with
television sets now can settle
themselves in the modern equiv
alent of great-grandma's rocker
and learn old-fashioned sewing
skill with atomic-age ease.
Being offered by the Depart
ment of Agriculture is a series of
shows designed for this purpose.
AS far as the department can de-
termine, this is the first time that
sewing has been taught by tele-
vision in the District.
The series, Lets Make a
Dress" will begin officially Tues
day, March 81, at 3 pm. on NBC
and will present double program
that day. The week following,
snd from then through the last
week in April, a 12-minute show
may be seen twice a week, on Tues
day and Thursday, at 3. This
coming Tuesday. March IA, pre-
hninary discussion of pattern Sc
lection will be conducted.
Although the USDA show is
part of the color test shows being
conducted from to 4 daily by
RCA, almost all viewers in the
area can view the show in black
and white on their regular sets.
The show is made possible
through cooperative arrange
ments between USDA and the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
Young and attractive and tele-
genie Shirley tombstone, clothing
specialist for the departments
Bureau Of Human Nutrition and
Home Economics, will conduct the
show and do the entire teaching
Job. A member Of the staff for
i've years, Miss tombstone has
worked on design of functional
clothes.
Sewing techniques to be taught
are those which both the novice
and the experienced sewer may
find helpful. It Is hoped that
even women who have never
sewn before can complete the
series with a creditible product,
while women who already have
mastered the basic techniques will
find interesting the programs
Evening star., 1950-09-04

the Georgia avenue hill to the
BrightWood heights in high. Now
motorists hardly notice the grade.
c. L. Osborn. whose father had
a feed. store on Georgia avenue
remembers delivering hay to the
Brightwood track, at Colorado
avenue and Sixteenth street. 2
half mile harness racing course
which was laid out before the
Civil War. In the days before the
all-bearing bicycle wheeled sui
kies, Nominee owned by w. A.
Brown paced the mile on it in 2:15
and trotted the mile in 2:19.
Mr.. Osborn also remembers de
livcring hay to the car barns Oh
Fourteenth street for the horses
who drew the cars, the corduroy
road on the old Seventh street
pike and the toll gate where Mis-
souri, avenue now crosses Georgia
avenue.
A guide to the area would show
the tourist where the modern
Brightwood started - also on
LongfelloW street two houses
built about the turn of the CEN
tury by Harry Wardman. They
are on the corner of Ninth street.
Wardman, the English carpen-
ter who used to cycle to work with
his tool box on the handlebars
started his great real estate for
tune in Brightwood and died while
trying to make a comeback in
the SAINT section.
Built by Wardman.
Wardman built Brightwood
That was long after the first
houses. He went back to Bright
wood after he had built dozens
of apartment houses. the Ward
man Park and the Carlton.
As Thomas Bones, one of his
associates tells the story, Herbert
Hoover, then Secretary of Com
merce, called meeting of Wash
ington builders after World War ]
and told them that if they didn't
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Walter Reed Patient Kills
Self in Downtown Hotel

A certificate Of suicide has been
issued by Deputy Coroner Chris
topher j. Murphy in the death Of
a 32-year-old Walter Reed patient,
whose body was discovered yester-
Gay in a downtown hotel.
The dead man, M/Sergt. Fenton
Rogers, committed suicide by
drinking acid, police said. He had
been undergoing psychiatric treat
ment, authorities reported. He had
been out of the hospital on a week.
end pass and checked into the
Empire Hotel, AIS Ninth street
NV. about 1880 pm. Saturday.
Police said the body was found
about pm. yesterday by William
Clay. Al, desk clerk at the hotel.
who was summoned by a maid
when she was unable to open the
sergeant's door.
The victim was lying on the
bed with water glass and 1-ounce
vial which had contained the acid.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Marine, 70,
Is Missing in Korea

Marine Pvt. Bernard Ulrich
Stavely, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry w. Staveley. 6112 Forty
second place, Hyattsville, has beer
listed by the Defense Department
as missing in action in Korea.
The 20-year-old youth is the
youngest of five Staveley sons. In
enlisting in the Marines in 1948.
a month after he was graduated
from the Hyattsville High School.
he followed a family tradition.
Mr.. Stavely, ST.. was a Marine
in World War I and the four
boys who were old enough Joined
the corps in World War II.
Pvt. Stavely was sent overseas
in June.
Casualty list No. "a, released
by the department today, also re-
ported Corpl. Elbert o. Markham
of Troutville, Va, killed in action
Listed as wounded were two
Virginians. Capt. william A.
Cunningham Of Mendoza, and Pfc.
Douglas e. Debusk Of Abingdon
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Husband Given
Continuance in
Staying Of Wife
Police Soy Anderson
Admits Shooting in
QuorreI in Auto =

William j. Anderson, SO, ac-
cused of shooting his wife to
death Saturday morning as she
sat in her parked, car, was brought
to Municipal Court on a murder
charge, today. but the case was
continued pending a coroner's
inquest later this week.
Judge George D. Nelson ordered
Anderson held without bond.
Anderson, clad in white shirt
and brown trousers, appeared
calm during the brief hearing.
His son. William j. Anderson, jr.,
stood beside his father. The son
told Judge Nelson he had no OBJ
lection to a continuance.
Capt. jeremiah FIanerty, head
of the Homicide Squad, said An
derson has admitted shooting his
wife, Mrs. Laura Mae Anderson,
47, of 1886 Eighteenth street NE,
while they sat in her car parked
at Eleventh and c streets NE.
Anderson said they had been
quarreling about money, accord
ing to Capt. Flaherty.
The homicide squad chief
quoted Anderson as saying he was
Evening star., 1950-09-04

AS pretty as ever in the harsh
light Of early morning, Miss San
dra Stahl, Washington's hope in
Atlantic City's Miss America con-
test, was off to seek higher honors
today.
At the New Jersey resort, she'll
join SO other beauty-talen win
ners from 46 States, four cities,
Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico in what the Associ-
ated Press calls a "cloistered
week."
Also aboard All America Air
lines Flight 122 were two other
beauties. Joining Miss Stahl here
for the final leg of the journey
were Miss Rowena Taliaferro OF
Winnsboro, La, a music and voice
teacher, and Miss Maxine Cothern
Miss Alaska, an employe of the
University of Alaska Extension
School in Fairbanks.
Each is ChaperOned.
Each is chaperoned by her
mother or some other woman
acting as. duenna. Not even their
fathers can visit them in their
hotel rooms.
Miss Stahl, selected in the
Washington contest sponsored by
Radio Station WWDC and the
Junior Chamber Of Commerce,
Evening star., 1950-09-04
House Candidate Pledges
To Lead Fight for Parkway

w. Prescott Allen, Democratic
candidate for the House from
Maryland's 9Th District, last night
promised, if elected, to lead a
fight for action on the proposed
George Washington Memorial
Parkway.
He said one of his first steps
would be to fight for additional
appropriations for the parkway.
Authorized in 1880. it will cover
both the Maryland and Virginia
sides of the Potomac River for
about Is miles north of Washing
ton to Great Falls and Is miles
south to Fort Washington and
Mount Vernon. The Government
is still engaged In purchasing the
rights of way.
Evening star., 1950-09-04

joins the others in registration to-
day, bathing suit photography and
arnera-posing in other apparel.
The rules are rigid.
They can't be seen in a cocktail
lounge. They can't smoke in pub
lie. They can't engage in conver-
sation with anyone other than
their chaperones and talk among
themselves.
They even have special police
detail just to make sure
Preliminaries Wednesday.
The first preliminary is ssched.
uled for Wednesday night. By
Friday night, each girl will have
competed in the three sections
Fifteen will be selected as finalist!
Saturday night and judges will
choose one as Miss America by
midnight.
A panel of judges that include.
educators, artists, musicians, anc
theatrical experts make the de.
cision. For the winner there i!
a $4,000 scholarship, a new auto.
mobile, several modelling and act.
ing contracts, and an opportunity
to earn something like $4,000 ir
the next year. For IA runners-uI
there is a jackpot of $4,000 ir
scholarships to be shared, plus
Evening star., 1950-09-04

"My father and the White fam
lily owned all the property that is
now Brightwood at some time. in
the past"
The three White sisters are sur
vivors of II children. The sisters
are Mrs. Fannie Somerville, who
lives with Miss Ida May, and Mrs.
C. H. Breshear, who lives nearby.
While they have nephews and
nieces they are all from the distaff
side. Miss Ida May is the last of
the name.
Across Georgia avenue and a
block further up the hill, little
boys with air rifles are hunting
in the scrub oak that has over
grown the summer place of Mat
thew Gault Emery, the last mayor
of Washington. He was elected
in 1870. He was a stone mason
and contractor who built many of
the mid-19th century Government
buildings. He cut the cornerstone
for the Washington Monument
in 1848 and lived to see it COM
pleted SO years later. The District
has purchased the property and
torn down the tall pillared house
with the mansard roof that was
so long landmark. It is to be a
recreation center but it is doubtful
that modern playground equip
ment will supply the fun the boys
now are getting out of the woods.
Brightwood's great historical
relic is at the northern end of the
hill that dominates Georgia ave-
nue--the old Seventh street road.
This is Fort Stevens, where Lin
coin was under fire and where
young Capt. Oliver Wendell
Holmes said to him, Get down,
you fool"
The WPA restored it in 1885
and the small fry Immediately
realize its possibilities as they
peer out it's timbered ports and
unloosen their holsters. Here
Evening star., 1950-09-04
6 Montgomery Police
Hunt for Pistol in
Stambaugh Staying

A detail of six Montgomery
County police today combed a
heavily wooded section of Silver
Spring searching for a .45-caliber
pistol believed used in the slay-
ing of Donald j. Stambaugh, 81,
Of 400 Fourth street NV.
Held on a murder charge in
Rockville jail is Lee Edwards.
20, Of 4911 Fourteenth street
NV, who continues to deny all
knowledge Of the Staying on a
lonely road early Saturday about
half a mile from Piney Branch
and Old Bladensburg roads.
The victim gave police a
description of his attacker as he
lay dying of a bullet wound in
the stomach and spinal cord and
head injury. He died an hour
later at the Washington Sani-
tarium.
Shells Found on Scene.
Capt. G. w. Linthicum, chief OF
county detectives, said three ex-
ploded .45-caliber shells and one
unexploded shell were found at
the scene. On Edwards arrest at
his home, police found a partially
filled box of .45-caliber shells
shells which Edwards told police
were souvenirs" of his Army serv-
ice.
Mr.. Stambaugh told investiga-
tors he met his assailant Friday
evening in Lafayette Park and that
they went for a drive.
Capt. Linthicum said he talked
again yesterday with Edwards in
his cell after the young man had
been visited by his father, but that
Edwards stuck by his story given
police after his arrest Saturday
Went Riding on Scooter.
Edwards said he went riding on
his motor scooter Friday night
and ran out of gasoline around
1880 am. He said he took a cab
to the Takoma Park home of a
girl friend and left there around
5 am, according to police.
But the girl, Jean Burroughs,
told police Edwards arrived at her
home around am. and asked to
use the phone to callsa cab. She
said he explained that his scooter
had run out Of gasoline.
Capt. Linthicum said the boys
father, o. M. Edwards, visited his
son at the jail and returned later
with Attorney James Pugh, for
mer States Attorney. Mr.. Ed
wards told The Star he planned
to confer again tomorrow with
MIR. Pugh, who was out of town
today, about retaining him as the
lawyer.
Meanwhile, a hearing in the
case was scheduled in Silver
Spring Police Court September 10.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Sofety Poster Contest
Will Be Held by AAA

The American Automobile As
sociation will hold it's seventh
National Traffic Safety Poster
Contest for elementary, junior
and senior high school students
this fall. Prizes will be certificates
and $2.275 in 81 cash prizes in
cluding a $3.50 grand prize in
tended as one-year scholarship
to an art school. Winning posters
will be distributed to thousands Of
classrooms each month, George
r. Hammond, safety and educa.
ton director Of the association.
announced.
Evening star., 1950-09-04

the one who called police to re-
port the shooting after he had
walked around the block once
and found no one had come to
his wife's aid.
Wrapped Gun in Paper.
Anderson also said he borrowed
q piece of newspaper from a man
he met while circling the block,
wrapped the .38-caliber gun used
in the shooting in the paper, then
tossed the weapon in the front
seat of the car when he returned
to the scene.
Capt. Flaherty said Anderson
told him he bought the gun sew
eral months ago from an un-
known man.
Anderson, a former Supreme
Court building engineer, was ar
rested early yesterday in a South
east park by fifth precinct Pvts.
Charles c. Mahoney and H. A.
MacNeil. He readily admitted his
identity to the policemen, who
arrested him on the basis of a
lookout flashed on the police tele-
type and radio.
Separated Two Years.
Mrs. Anderson, secretary at
the Federal Communications
Commission and worthy. matron
of the Bethlehem Chapter of the
Eastern Star, apparently was
killed instantly by a single shot
which entered the back of her
head and lodged in her brain.
She had been separated from
her husband about two years
neighbors said, but saw him oc-
casionally.
They were married about 25
years ago. Their son is % years
old, married and lives in Decatur
Heights, Md. -.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ander-
son will be held at pm. Wednes-
Aay at the Deal funeral home
4812 Georgia avenue NV, with
the. Rev. Edwin F. PieploV
officiating. Burial will be il
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
District Bible Group
Will Elect Officers
AT Conference Today
By cospor Names
Sfcr Stcff Correspondent

WESTMINSTER, Md, Sept. 4.
The Organized Bible Glass AS
sociation Of Washington will elect
officers today at its 29th confer
ence. being held at Western Mary
land College.
The meeting, which opened
Saturday, has $4,000 members In
225 Bible classes from more than
125 churches. DR.. Page Etchison
has been president since 1881.
George E. Harris. chairman of
the associations Bible fund, an
nounced today that contributions
the past year have exceeded the
$4,000 goal by 1851.
Glasses Win Bibles.
Bibles were awarded to three
classes who made outstanding
contributions to the fund. First
place was taken by the Golden
Page Glass of Anacostia Meth
odist Church. which contributed
$134: second place, the Burial
Glass, Calvary Baptist Church,
$128. and the Philathea-Cru-
saders Class. National City Chris
tian Church, $109.
It was also announced today that
at the annual conference next
year the Sunday School student
who has had the longest record Of
regular attendance will receive a
special award. Entries for this
distinction must be received at the
associations Office, 1895 G street
NV. by July l, 1851.
Conference Closes Today.
The conference, which will close
today. was to hear several speak
ers during the morning and after
noon sessions, including DR.. Mont
gomery j. Shroyer of the West
minister Theological Seminary
and Mrs. Jesse B. Eubank, of Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church.
Or. Allen E. Claxton, pastor OF
the Broadway Temple Methodist
Church, New York, will continue
his series of lectures today. Yes
terday. DR.. Claxton told the gath
ering that communism has not
been able to obtain q firm folC
in any Protestant country" He
declared that this was due to the
emphasis on the individual ir
these countries.
"Our Nation can collapse Il
authoritarianism in any of its
forms is allowed to become domi-
nant," DR.. Claxton warned. Demo
:racy rests firmly upon the integ-
rlJy OF our individuals. We cannot
have democracy without the in
ltegrity of the individual vote and
of the individual voter"
Evening star., 1950-09-04
nq Bqhtwood Section Can Recall Rich Historical Past

do something to relieve the Wash
ington housing shortage the Gov
ernment would build.
"Wardman was a glib fellow"
Mr.. Bones said. "and close to the
Republican politicians. He never
quite lost his English accent.
When he would get excited he
would drop his aiches all oyer
the place. He accepted the chal-
lenge. He bought large tract in
Brightwood and built more than
500 houses.
"He wanted to build row houses
but he ran into zoning regula-
tions. So he built semidetached.
He didn't like being regulated.
The first ones we're singularly un-
attractive but solidly constructed.
The price was low. The five-room
houses were offered at $6,750.
Larger ones were priced at
$780,"
Purchasers of the Wardman
houses made good investments.
Some of the larger ones have
sold for $4,000 in the current
market.
With his string of apartment
houses and hotels Wardman's s
holdings totaled $50 million. Bur
ing the depression he lost every
thing. Again he went back to
building houses in Brightwood
and was still building when he
died in 1888.
Fortunes Still Being Made.
Morris Cafritz and the Dunni-
gans built up block after block
in Brightwood. While the section
is built up fortunes still are being
made there. Milton Eisner, who
lives in a modest home in the
area. is building row of $4,000
plus houses in Sixteenth street
But the big fortune has beer
made by Sam Fig. the Georgia
avenue grocer. When regulations
prevented him from opening q
liquor department in the grocery
he opened a separate liquor store
and with the profits purchased
large holdings in Massachusetts
avenues Embassy Row and in Sill
yer Spring. At present he is con-
centrating on a Silver Spring
shopping center, a 81 million ven-
ture.
Charles w. Ray, former presi-
dent of the Brightwood Citizens
Association. whose family fermed
in the Brightwood area for gen.
erations, is seriously Ill in q Mont
gomery County hospital. His sue
cessor is George r. Hess, a tele-
phone company employe.
The Brightwood association fig
ures it represents a population of
$4,000 living in the area between
Seventh and Thirteenth from
Hamilton to Underwood streets.
The Brightwod citizens are very
interested in their schools. When
the Board of Education passed
over the promotion of Miss Eleanor
McAuliffe, assistant principal of
Paul Junior High School in their
area. to the principalship of Sousa
Junior High School in the South
east. the association protested sc
vigorously that the board reversed
itself.
The association is strong fol
year-round cleanup campaigns
Brightwood is one of the cleanest
sections of the city. Their delegate
to the Federation of Citizens AS
sociations. Karl Cover, another
telephone company employe, be-
came chairman of the city-wide
cleanup campaign.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Democrats to Hold
RoIIy in BrunchyiIIe

The 21st District Democratic
Club of Prince Georges County
will hold rally at the Branch
vile fire house at 1880 pm.
Thursday.
Representative Sasscer, Demo-
crat, of Maryland, and candidates
for county Offices will attend, Le-
land G. Worthington, club presi-
dent. announced.