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Here there are four wide oaken
doors in the wall, motor entrances
for the garage, which is subter-
ranean. A row of trimmed Euro
pean linden trees rises another IS
feet from the earth above the ga
rage. The garden, thus upheld or
enclosed by the wall is one of lawn
and flower beds and trees that
would inspire Shelley to dash off
beautiful verses.
London Charge d'Affaires.
Mr.. Laughlin, member of a
Pittsburgh steel family, was charge
d'affaires of the American Embas-
sy in London during World War
I absences of Walter Hines Page.
He was later Ambassador to
Greece. His wife lives there dur
ing the winter months. She is a
daughter of the late Adrian Ise-
lin of New York, banker whose
family controlled textile opera
tons, coal mines and railroads,
and whose yacht was one of the
successful defenders of the
America cup against one of Sir
Thomas Lipton's Shamrocks.
Henderson castle is RACED and
only the wall along Sixteenth
street and the pedestals of the en-
trance gates remain. Mrs. Hen
derson built the embassy buildings
on the hill and rented or sold them
to foreign governments. She built
a house on Fifteenth street fac
ing the park and offered it to the
Government as a residence for
vice presidents. But Congress did
nothing about accepting it and it
became an embassy. She lobbied
the bill creating Meridian Hill
park through Congress and was
paid 100000 for the land.
Was Built in 1888.
Her husband, one of the great
lawyers of his day, was a Re-
publican Senator during the Civil
War years, and her uncle, Senator
Solomon Foote of Vermont, was
his colleague. The castle was built
in 1888 and torn down in 1949.
The swimming pool has been filled
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land risked war with Great Brit
ain by his brusque intervention
into the Empires border dispute
with Venezuela.
1t is now the home of Eugene
Meyer, chairman of the Boal0 OF
the Washington Post. Although
the trees in the former Hender-
son property below it have robbed
it of some of its view, most of the
city still can be seen from its up
per stories.
Operated on Grand Scale.
The house next to it. owned by
Mrs. Irwin Laughlin, is one OF
! the survivors among America S
grand houses. With more than a
dozen servants. it is operated on
scale that only a few of the very
wealthiest continue. Mr.. Laughlin,
who also was retiring from a dis
tinguished diplomatic career. had
John Russell Pope design this per-
! feet French mansion for him in
1922.
The house and the wall around
it are of almost white limestone
AS the we'll circumscribes the arc
of the ellipse. it is thing Of
beauty in itself. On the. Belmont
street, or doVnhill side, the wallis
function is to uphold the garden,
about Is feet above the sidewalk
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Tense Department and Red Cross
officials and enlisted the aid OF
neighbors.
On August 8, Mrs. Rollins
mailed a letter to her son. It
was returned September 2
marked deceased" with the sig
nature of LIT. William Sullivan
F.. A."
| Mrs. Rollins attempted to get
full information. The Defense
Department said her sons name
was not on any casualty list. She
called the Red Cross and through
their efforts, the Adjutant Gen
ERALS Office sent special inquiries
to Korea. A neighbor, Marine
1t. Col. C. w. Shisler, said he
wanted to help her and he at
tempted to get more information
from the Defense Department.
But all these efforts were of no
avail.
Finally, Mrs. Rollins received a
letter dated September 18 from
her son saying, I'm awfully lone
some, Mother, why don't you
Write?"
Mrs. Rollins said she was afraid
the deceased" report might be
true because she had not heard
from her son in almost two
months. Pvt. Showalter enlisted
after completing the ninth grade
lat Claude Swanson Junior high
school. He was a carrier for The
Star for several years. He arrived
in Korea in June.
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Interior Seeking Offices
For 1900 New EMPLOYEES

interior Department officials
SAID today they are looking for
additional space to house the new
employees the department will need
IN connection with the new duties
given it as part of the national
emergency program.
The officials declared that every
effort would be made to find adj
dltlonal space in WASHINGTON.
rather than moving some units
out of town.
The department expects to hire
| 200 to $500 new employees during
the next few months, but has not
yet started recruiting. Interior
officials said the department has
not yet received the funds au-
thorized by Congress for this pur-
pose.
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Sailors Injuries Fatal;
7 Others Are Killed
In Accidents in Area

The death Of Washington
sailor in Bethesda Naval Hospital
yesterday brought District area
traffic fatalities to three over the
week end.
The sailor. John M. Flynn, jr.,
25, of 702 Butternut street NV,
was injured in an accident Sep
TENDER % in st. Marys County,
Md. He was a petty officer third
class.
Killed in accidents Saturday
were Elwood Baxter, Is, of 4911
T street, Bradley Heights. Md,
and Melvin E. Riggs, 10, of 5987
North Ninth street, Arlington.
IL Deaths in 2 States.
The three deaths were among IL
traffic fatalities reported in Mary
land and Virginia over the week
end. In addition two women were
in critical condition at District
hospitals today as result of
weekend accidents here.
Three servicemen and civilian
were hurt early today when their
car ran off Baltimore boulevard.
skidded 152 feet on its side and
hit a tree.
Maryland State Trooper Ernest
Hudgins and Leland Memorial
Hospital, Riverdale, reported the
injured as follows:
Corpk j. F. Belet, U. S. M. c.,
Quantlco, who suffered chest in
ternal injuries. He was admitted
to the Naval Hospital, Bethesda.
Sergt. Theodore r. Goldbeck,
%, Boiling Air Force Base, posi-
BILE broken nose. He was trans
ferred to the base hospital after
treatment at Leland.
Gustav Prieb, "a, Philadelphia,
student at the Northeast Auto
motive Trade School here, concus-
sion and cuts. He was released
after treatment at Leland.
Corpl. Robert Warren Painter,
"a, Fort Story, Va, head cut and
bruises. Released after treatment
at Leland.
Bus Is in Accident.
A bus load of Government girls
returning from service club
dance at Fort Belvoir escaped
serious injury last night in a &C
o;dart in A1oyo ndria
Pvt. Edward A. Miller, 20, Fort
Belvoir, passenger. was admitted
to the post hospital with face
cuts after treatment at Alexandria
Hospital, but was released today.
The driver, Pfc. Alvin Palmer,
Fort Belvoir, was not hurt.
Girls treated and released, &C
cording to Alexandria Hospital,
included Mildred Johnson, Meri-
dian Hill Hotel; Betty Jane NIFTY.
"a, of 3040 Idaho avenue NV;
Mildred McVey, 33, Of 237 Ninth
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street NE. and Dorothy Budding
ton. 20, of 1871 Franklin street
NE.
Brain Injury Fatal.
Mr.. Flynn died of a brain in
jury. He was hurt when a car
driven by Radiefnan &c Lindsey
Thompson. jr. ran off the road
and crashed on Route 235 near the
Patuxent Naval Air Station where
both were stationed. Mr.. Thomp-
son is still in Bethesda Hospital
in serious condition.
"A native of Washington, Mr..
Flynn attended Nativity School
and Gonzaga High School before
entering the Navy in 1912. He
flew 81 missions out of England
on a Navy patrol bomber. and re-
ceived an air medal with oak
leaf clusters. After World War II
ended, he attended Catholic Uni
versity where he was a member
of the Senator'S Club, and the
Washington School for Secre-
taries. He re-enlisted in the Navy
last April.
Parents Survive.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Flynn, ST.,
and a sister, Miss Jane M. Flynn,
of the Butternut street address; a
brother, Richard S. Flynn, who is
a seminarian at a Maryknoll SEM
mary in Glen Ellen, ILL.,, and an
other sister, Mrs. Evelyn F. Casey,
of San Antonio, Texas.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Wednesday at the Nativity
Church, 5000 Georgia avenue NV.
Burial will be in Arlington Gem
etery.
Mr.. Baxter was crushed to death
beneath his own automobile when
he fell out as it hit a culvert and
overturned at Sunset lane and
Silver Hill road in Suitland, Md.
His wife, Mrs. Mary Baxter, 26, is
in serious condition at Casualty
Hospital.
The Riggs youth was fatally in
jured in a tWo-car accident on
Route 1913 at Oakton, Va.
Mrs. Anna Henderson, IA, of
1916 T street NV, was in critical
condition at Georgetown Hospital
today with head injuries and a
fractured leg.
Police reported she was struck
by an automobile Saturday night
as she crossed the 100 block of
Wisconsin avenue NV.
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Raymond P. McAIeer Dies;
Retired District Fireman

Raymond P. McAleer, So, a re-
tired District fireman, who spent
his entire 24-year career with the
department at Engine Co. 80, died
yesterday at Emergency Hospi-
tai.
Mr.. McAleer, who lived at $40
Sheridan street NV, had suf-
fered a long illness.
A lifelong resident of Washing
ton, Mr.. McAleer was educated in
the District schools. He Joined
the Fire Department in 1918 and
served as a driver and a pumper
operator before his retirement in
1912.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Daisy E. McAleer, and brother
Edward L. McAleer, 1855 Crest
wood drive NV, secretary of the
Equitable Cooperative Building
Association and past president of
the District Building and Loan
League. A sister, Mrs. Fred E
Ellison, lives in Redbank, N. J.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Wednesday in the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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to promote use of Meridian Hill
for evening recreation but en-
countered difficulty. A summer
theater group was allowed to put
on Broadway dramas. An actor
was arrested at one performance
for using profanity (Which was
in the script by one of Interiors
park policemen.
Chamber Music Concerts.
Before World War II some
chamber music concerts were
given in the park. Mr.. Peaslee
would like to see them revived. He
would like to have band concerts
there too. Anything to make the
park a JOY at night. which was
something very much in his mind
when he designed it.
Across from the park is the
Hotel 2400 which was built before
Americas entry into World War
I. and, for a time was the home of
Thomas G. Masaryk, the founder
of Czechoslovakia.
The pink palace" built for Mrs.
Marshall Field in 1905 with a ball
room on the scale Of Mrs. Astors S,
stands at 1900. She once enter
tanned there with musical eve
rings. 1t is now used by the
nter-American Defense Board.
Below the hotel are two little
streets, Crescent place and Bel
mont street which, with a short
block of Seventeenth street at
their western extremities, form
half of an ellipse. The Sixteenth
street frontage is unimproved, a
tangle of vegetation. Behind this.
within the ellipse, are two man
sions, both of which have their
entrance on Crescent place.
Grand House Survives.
The one nearer Sixteenth street
is a red brick Georgian mansion
which was built in the World War
I period by Henry White. a native
of Baltimore and a distinguished
diplomat. Mr.. White was born a
century ago and his career goes
back quite a way. He was secre-
tary of the American legation in
London at the time Grover Cleve-
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She was an ardent prohibition
list and the use of the castle as an
after-hours club more than a
decade after her death in 1881 was
ironic. When she died, press
association put out a story that
her will directed that the wine
cellar containing rare vintages
and Whistles worth almost ST mil
lion at bootleg prices be poured
in the gutter. Informal marching
clubs were organized at the bars
of New York and Philadelphia to
come to Washington and if neces-
sary sample the gutter. 1t was dur
ing prohibition. The anxiety about
the wine cellar was futile. She
had destroyed its contents in 1906
Mrs. Henderson was a food fad
dist greatly influenced by DR.. John
Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek.
Mich, to whose institution she
once willed her entire estate. She
changed the will a year later. She
did not eat meat or drink tea or
coffee. She abhorred tobacco. She
also abhorred short skirts and
made her servants wear them long
right through the fapper 20s.
Scramble for Estate.
When she died there was ter
rifle scramble among the poten-
tial heirs to her SIS million estate.
The will suits were finally settled
out of court.
When Henderson Castle was
torn down, many people concluded
that an apartment house would be
built on the property. But the
Thomas j. Fisher Co., which man
ages the property for the present
owner. says it is not on the
market.
The first Meridian Hill mansion
was built by Commodore David
Porter with prize money he re-
ceived for his victories in the
naval battles of the early 1905.
There is something fitting about
a sailor naming his place after a
meridian of longitude. At any
rate, that's how Meridian Hill got
it's name,
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"What is needed Is not merely
more enlightened legislation, i'm
portant as that may be; at least
equally important is more enlight-
ened administration"
DR.. Davies illustrated his de-
mand for a new way of handling
sex cases with an almost step-by-
step account of the investigation
and prosecution of the indecent
exposure charge against Robert
Snead Williams. jr.
Cleared of Charge.
Mr.. Williams, 46, a trustee of
the church, was exonerated of the
charge last week after District Of
ficials announced another man
had proved he was responsible for
the crime for which Mr.. Williams
was once convicted. The convic-
ton had been set aside and Mr.
Williams was awaiting a new trial
when he was exonerated.
DR.. Davies attacked the han
ding of the case by police, AS
sistant Corporation Counsel Clark
F. King, who prosecuted the case,
and Municipal Court Judge Au-
brey B. Fennell, who found Mr..
Williams guilty, and later ordered
new trial.
IF we could have assurance
that a misfortune similar to that
which befell Mr.. Williams is not
likely to happen to Others" we
might believe . that his suffer-
ing :. has not been in vain," DR..
Davies said.
mo Assurance" Now.
AT the present moment, there
is no assurance whatever that the
same thing will not happen to
Others" he added.
The minister said Mr.. Williams
had been the victim of an illegal
arrest. unlawful detention and
prejudicial Identification.
He attacked Judge Fennell's &C.
ceptance of the identification of
Mr.. Williams by the two. 14-year-
old girls who were the principal
Government witnesses, over testi-
mony of two adults who placed
Mr.. Williams downtown at a time
which apparently would have
made it impossible for him to have
reached the scene of the act in
time to have committed it.
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tangle of locust and honeysuckle
across the street.
The park is gem. Most Amer
lean parks are rustic. The trend
was set right after the Civil War
when Frederick Law Oimsted. ST.,
designed New York's Central Park
and later did the landscaping of
the United States Capitol. The
gardens of the kings were re-
jected. America would have none
of Versailles. Instead it would
create hauntS for Rousseau's nat
ural man.
Like Foreign Spots.
Meridian Hill Park derives from
Pincin Hill, part of the Borghese
gardens in Rome. The cascade of
terraced pools is based on the
Villa d'Este at Tivoli, above Rome
The equestrienne Joan dare
above the cascade is a copy of
the statue by Paul Dubois which
stands in front of the Cathedral
of Rheims where Joan succeeded
in having the Dauphin of France
crowned Charles VII.
The trees of Meridian Hill park
for the most part were planted 80
years ago and are now at their
best. The vista of greensward
flanked by straight lines Of trees
in the upper garden is a delight
to anyone who steps into the park.
Horace w. Peaslee. who. fresh
from Cornell's school of architec-
ture, designed the park in 1914,
feels that it is unfinished. 1t
should be lighted at night, he says,
using f1oodlights if necessary. The
fountains should play day and
night. The cascade Of pools should
be steps of brilliant water after
shutdown. And there should be
music on the hill in the cool of
an evening. That seeming rec
tangle of green in the upper
garden was designed for concerts,
he says.
Difficulty Encountered.
The Interior Department which
has custody of it along with the
other Washington parks, has tried
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Drowned Girl Found
Below Great Falls
After S-Day Search

| Canoeists directed to the scene
by search airplane yesterday re-
covered the body of 13-year-old
girl who was swept to her death
below the Potomac's Great Falls
eight days before.
The victim, Roberta Gilbert,
daughter of Metropolitan Police
| Pvt. w. K. and Mrs. Gilbert, 3018
Massachusetts avenue Sc, slipped
from the rocks about 200 yards
below the Falls October IA. She
was last seen grasping for hold
on the slippery rocks before the
rapids tugged her away
Object of a newly intensified
search by land parties, boatmen
and aircraft yesterday, her body
was spotted about 3:15 pm. by a
Civil Air Patrol plane from the
Fairfax Falls Church Herndon
squadron which had had planes in
the air since 8 am.
It had been washed out of the
water and wedged into small
rock island several miles below
the point where she was last seen.
Flying at only 20 feet above the
water, plane piloted by Robert
Hickernell, a Falls Church me-
chanic, and carrying Glen AL
brecht of Vienna, Va, as observer,
motioned to another radio
equipped CAP plane piloted by
Sergt. Cecil Brown of the Fairfax
County police.
Sergt. Brown. commander of the
CAP squadron, reached police
by radio and a canoe was headed
toward the scene from Sycamore
Island.
An hour before the plane sighted
it. the girls body was spotted up
stream by Montgomery County
Policeman Robert L. Cosgrave, of
the Bethesda substation, who was
watching with binoculars from
high cliff on the Virginia side.
He notified a search center on
the Maryland side by radio. but
before boats could be put out,
the body had been lost again in
the Swirling water.
DR.. Horace H. Gusts, 66-year-
old Agriculture Department chem
list, 1925 Worthington street NV,
and John G.. Loehler, 48, a con-
sultant engineer, 698 Rollingwood
drive, Chevy Chase, both veteran
canoeists. began the treacherous
river trip to get the body.
Fighting Longboat Chute, one
of the most dangerous stretches of
water below the Falls, the two
men had difficulty extricating the
body from a wedge into which the
fast current had forced it. !
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This is onother in q series Of or
ticIes on Washington neiehborhoods.


Meridian, II degrees, 2 minutes
and 1872 seconds west of Green
wich. At one time Thomas Jeffer-
son hoped that it would replace
Greenwich. 1t runs right through
the White House and up Sixteenth
street. That is how Meridian Hill
gets its name.
The top of the rise in Sixteenth
street is not only the location of
Hotel 2400 and the Meridian Hill
Hotel (for women, it is also the
site of one of the most successful
bits of formal gardening in Amer
lea, Meridian Hill Park, and some
of the finest houses in Wash
ington.
Site of Henderson Castle.
1t will long be remembered as
the site of Henderson Castle which
was RACED last year. The whole
area is a memorial to the most
remarkable real estate promoter
in the history of city which has
not lacked in this respect. Mrs.
John B. Henderson.
Sixteenth street, which Mrs.
Henderson made Embassy Row
and hoped to make the Avenue of
Presidents, is now a traffic artery
Few of the thousands who use it
daily committing to work have
any idea of the beauty of the park
or of the existence of the two
beautiful mansions behind the
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hacArthur's Physician
Is Awarded Silver Star

Col. Charles C. Canada, per-
sonal physician to Gen. Mac
Arthur, who formerly lived at
= 2015 North Kenmore street, Arl-
ington, has been awarded Silver
Star medal in connection with the
Inchon-Seoul fighting.
The Associated Press dispatch
from Tokyo reporting the award
did not say what it was for. Col.
Canada has been in the Far East
nearly four years, and was listed
among members of Gen Mac
Arthur's staff at Wake Island for
the meeting with President Tru-
man.
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Democrats Face
Real Fight in
Calvert Race
Party Has Edge Over
Republicans in
Vote Registration
pV MEX n. TSSIUH
Star Stoff Correspondent

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, Oct.
16-Calvert County Democrats
admit they have real fight on
their hands but they don't agree
on which Offices are involved.
Democrats have the edge with
a registration of about $3.50 to
3,400 for the Republicans. They
hold seven of the local Offices to
be filled November while their
opponents hold six.
Four years ago Gov. Lane won
the county Democratic primary
just as he did this year against
George P. Mahoney by about 800
votes out of total of approx
mately 1900. But Gov. Lane
lost the general election here in
1916 to his Republican opponent.
Theodore r. McKeldin, who faces
him again this year.
COP Is Hopeful.
Republicans are pinning their
hopes this year on friction caused
by three primary contests held by
their opposites-particularly for
the State Senate seat of Louis
Goldstein. The Republicans had
no primary.
Senator Goldstein, a Prince
Frederick attorney, won renomi-
nation. 1872 to 1912, for John
B. Morsel, popular county agent
for about 20 years. Republicans
say they will get much of the
Democratic farm vote. Their can
didate is Herbert Ireland, Plumb
Point farmer, who served in the
House of Delegates during the
administration of Gov. Nice.
Mrs. Carita Kerney, one of Gov.
Lanes co-chairmen during the
primary drive, believes the bitter
Goldsteln-Morsel contest left it's
wounds in her party but she says
Gov. Lane will carry Calvert along
with the State Senator. She says
Republicans will win no more
than one-third of the local Offices.
Not So, Says Democrat.
Not so, says Wilmer Colt, Demo-
cratic State Central Committee
chairman for Calvert. In his
opinion, the races for county COM
missioner, States attorney and
sheriff are the main Democratic
contests.
The Democrats had primary
races for all three Offices.
The Solomons Island laboratory
has been injected into the
gubernatorial as we'll as the State
Senate contests. A new laboratory
is being built at Crisfeld on the
Eastern Shore and the COP holds
the Lane administration respons-
ible for closing the one here.
/ Catholics are said to be in the
minority here and most observers
feel there is no division on religious
grounds alone but the Republicans
are attacking Senator Goldstein
for bill he sponsored two years
ago providing public school trans
portation for parochial school
students. 1t carried a referendum
clause, however, and the plan sub
sequently was defeated decisively.
About so per cent of Calvert's
population are Negroes. About IS
per cent of the Republican regis
trants are Negroes. Yet, at last
weeks rally for Mr.. McKeldin and
the COP slate at the courthouse
here. Negro stood at the door
giving out cards and bookmatches
boosting Senator Goldstein.
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street, arlington.
Another Marine officer, Maj
John I. 10y, of Falls Church, Va.
also has been named to the Law
Review staff. He. too, is studying
under the same program as Maj
Hearn.
Four lieutenant commanders in
the Coast Guard studying under
similar program are among the
new staff members. They are K
N. Ayers of 463 Hampton court
Falls Church; Edward c. Allen
jr., 1922 South Twenty-eighth
street, Arlington; Joe L. Horne,
429 Knollwood drive. Falls Church,
and r. r. Russell, 327 James
street, Falls Church.
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Red Ships Captured

TAIPEI, Formosa, Oct. 16 P.-
Chinese Nationalist officials said
today two captured Chinese Com
munist ships had been brought to
Formosa. They identified the
ships as the Fukien and Fuyuan,
tonnage not given. They were
captured October 9 in Formosa
Strait near the Chinese mainland.