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Evening star., 1951-04-30

cago, Boston, New York and Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. Fowler's family once owned
all the area now known as Kenil-
worth. Her grandfather, David
A. Miller, owned a 100-acre farm
there. Her husbands parents,
James Marvin Fowler and wife,
owned a 140-acre farm.
A Maryland Family.
The Fowlers are a Maryland
family. The Millers came from
New York State-from East Au-
rora. south of Buffalo. David A.
Miller was a relative of William
Miller, the New York State lay
preacher who disturbed much OF
the Christian world with his COM
putation that the end of the world
'prophesiZed in the book of Daniel
was due in 1943. ..
David Miller had no intimations
of imminent doom, but he read
the Bible SO constantly that he
lived with the prophets. He came
here as a school teacher and after
the emancipation of slaves in the
District of Columbia during the
Civil War. he became superin-
tendent of the public schools for
Negro children started at that
time.
His daughter (Mrs. Fowler's
mother) was Miss North" in the
first Lincoln inaugural parade. It
came about like this: The parade
as planned emphasized military
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Clerk and Hacker
Robbed in HoIdups

A hotel clerk was robbed of $66
and taxidriver lost $26 in early
morning holdups today.
Frazer F. McDill, a clerk at the
Capital Hotel, 10l6 I street NV.
told police youth to whom he
was showing a room about 3 am
suddenly reached his hand in his
pocket as If he had a gun and
announced, This is a hold-up.'
The bandit searched Mr.. McDill' S
pockets until he found the $66.
then fed.
William T. Taylor, 81, of $50
East Capitol street, reported he
was robbed by two passengers who
hailed his cab at Sixteenth street
and Benning road NE, and asked
to be driven to Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. In the 900 block of
East Capitol street, ONE passenger
janamed an object against Mr..
Taylor's neck and ordered him to
stop. The other man rifled his
pockets of $26, Mr.. Taylor said.
The cabdriver reported he did
not see the weapon.
A representative of the Ken
lucky State Chamber of Com
merce, George T. Mascott of
Louisville. told police he forgot to
remove his wallet containing 5000
from suit he gave a hotel bell
boy to have pressed. When the
suit was returned, he said, the
wallet was missing.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Falls Church Firemen
Plan Safety Exhibit

The Falls Church Fire Depart.
ment will sponsor Fire in Nina.
ture," a demonstration of thu
hazards of fire, at pm. Wednes.
day in the auditorium of st
James School, Broad and Spring
streets.
The presentation will show how
fires start and how they can be
prevented. It will be given b,
the Liberty Mutual Fire Insur.
ance Co. and is part of the fire
departments public educationa
program. No admission will bs
charged.
Special invitations are being is.
sued to police and fire depart.
mentS in the area as we'll as civls
organizations and local govern.
mental officials.
The department also has urgee
the public to attend.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Bishop Powell Is Injured
In MARYLAND Auto Crash
By the Associated Press

FREDERICK, Md, April 3d.
Right Rev. Noble C. Powell, Epis-
copal bishop of Maryland, suf-
fered slight injuries in an auto
mobile accident yesterday on
route 40, between here and Han,
cock.
Police said the bishop told them,
he suffered a spell of dizziness
and drove into the rear of the
automobile ahead of him.
The driver of the other car, Miss
Helen Mock of Frederick, was un-
hurt. Her mother, Mrs. Herman
Mock, was cut on the face and
iarm.
Hospital officials said the bishop
would stay there a few days. He is
a former dean of the Washington
Cathedral.
He had been attending a chill
dren's day service at All Saints
Church in Frederick and was on
his way to another service at
Hancock.
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had begged down. The little girl
was introduced to the President.
But Lincoln remembered. I've
met this young lady BEFORE" he
said.
There" said Mrs. Fowler tri-
umphantly in recounting it Fri
day, "are two unpublished Lincoln
stories for you. And they're true.
They were told to me by my
mother"
Father Came From Maine.
Mrs. Fowler's father, Walter
Shaw. was from Maine, from an
island in Rockland harbor. He
lost his right arm in the battle
of SpotSylvania Court House. His
sister came down from Maine,
brought him home and nursed
him to health. Then he returned
to Washington. He learned to
write so we'll with his left hand
that he was appointed to the
Treasury as an amanuensis-a let
ter writer. There were no type
writer's then. He married David
Miller's daughter and in 1880
bought 80 acres from his father
in-law and moved to the east
bank of the Anacostia.
There is an aesthetic streak in
the Yankee as every summer tour
ist who has been through New
England knows. Mr.. Shaw sent
to Maine for a dozen hardy white
lily bulbs, the flowers he had
Evening star., 1951-04-30
About Civil Defense Program
Estimated to Cost $500 Billion

Civil defense leaders have in
formed Senate committee thai
full-scale preparations for an
atomic attack would require dis
persal of all industry and popula-
ton concentrations at a cost OF
$500 billion, it was revealed today
The estimate, given in testimony
Ibjefore the Senate Appropriations
Committee, came from Federal
Civil Defense Administrator Mil
lard F. Caldwell, jr. Mr.. Cald-
well indicated that the program
would be undertaken if sufficient
funds could be made available.
Civil defense leaders appeared
before the committee to plead
for a much more modest begin
ming for a national civil defense
program. They urged that the
Senate committee restore drasti,
cuts made in a requested $403
million appropriations pill by the
House Appropriations Committee
Ferguson Questions Cost.
At one point, however, Mr.. Cald-
well was asked by Senator Fer
guson, Republican, of Michigan
what plans he would make, iii
you could get all the money you
needed on this thing"
Mr.. Caldwell replied:
Senator, a full civil defense
program of ultimate capacity
would cost $500 billion. This
would include relocation and dis
Ipersion of virtually all important
industry and concentrations o1
populations. which is not contem-
plated at this time"
Mr.. Caldwell declined to esti'
mate the number of casualtie!
which might be saved by such 6
program.
Ideal Unattainable.
He added that, in his opinion
this country cannot exlSC unoel
ideal civil defense conditions, be-
cause (production) plants have
got to move, and they-the work
ers-cannot run every time we
get an alert. :"
For the first time at the hear
ing the civil defense spokesman
indicated that plants for evacuat.
ing congested areas ahead of ar
atomic attack were under consid-
Ieration.
Deputy Administrator James j
Wadsworth spoke of the possibil-
| ity of long-term strategic alert
which would make it possible tc
move people out of the central
areas of cities"
The witnesses emphasized
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however, that such advance warn
ing would be highly unlikely un-
der the present defense system
Their principal statement before
the committee urged the restora-
ton of funds which would permit
matching local appropriations
for shelters and fire-fighting
equipment, stock-piling medical
supplies and conducting research
programs.
Original Estimate SIashed.
The officials testified that theil
original estimate of costs for tht
program for the coming veal
amounted to $732 million. Thi!
was reduced to $403 million b.
the Budget Bureau, and finally
slashed to $186 million by tht
House Committee. Of the fund!
approved by the House, only $8l
million would be available fol
actual operating expenses. $1O(
million being reserved for a post
attack emergency fund.
Speaking before the Senate
group, Mr.. Caldwell declared:
This thing that happened ir
the House was a severe blow be.
cause it left the country feeling
that Washington does not regarc
this as being important"
Committee Chairman McKellar
was expected to release the re.
port on the measure later today
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Short Change Artist
Walks Out With $50
IOf Hotels Money

A distinguished looking" short
change artist last night finn
fiammed a hotel cashier out oil
$50 in a confusing 15-minute eX-
change of bills and conversation.
Miss Bernice L. Grant, 80, of
3114 Sixteenth street NV, a
part-time cashier at the Raleigh
Hotel, still doesn't know what
happened, except that the man
came out $50 ahead.
She told police the shutting oil
money went something like this:
She gave him two $50 bills in
exchange for a $100 bill. He then
returned with a $50 and asked
for change, which she gave him
after questioning the authenticity
Iof the bill. He then offered to
return the $50 change. laid il
out on the counter, took back
the $50 bill and asked for a $1OC
bill, putting out another $50.
More shutting of money and a
running conversation continued
for another five minutes, until the
man, apparently satisfied with the
transaction, left.
Miss Grant said she called to
him to wait while she counted her
money, but he went on.
That's when I discovered ]
was short $50," she said.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Suicide Ruled in Death
Of Handyman in River

The body of handyman whe
wrote note saying he was afraiC
he was losing his mind before
jumping into the Potomac River
was found by a fisherman yester-
day.
Police said the note, only read.
able in part, was found on the
body of George E. Allen, SIS, COL
ored, of no fixed address. The
note. written in ink. added hi
wanted ito be put away so I car
die in peace"
The body had been in the river
about a month, according tt
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
who issued a certificate of suicide
Police said Mr.. Allen formerly was
a janitor at an apartment house
at 226 Thirty-f1fth street NE.
A key in Mr.. Aliens pocket was
identified as belonging to Real
Admiral Garret Schuyler, retired
of 1906 Thirty-fourth street NV.
who told police Mr.. Allen once
worked for him.
The body was hooked by
Michael Cohtee, jr., 9142 Twenty
fifth street NV, who was fishing
from Riverside drive dock near
Virginia avenue NV.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Smithsonian Reports
Painting by Woman
Stolen From Exhibit

A painting by a Vienna (Va.)
woman has ben stolen from an
exhibit at the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
The oil, done by Mrs. Aimee
Adams Green, was among 81
paintings and other art work be-
ing shown under sponsorship of
the Potomac Appalachian Trail
Club.
Entitled, Familiar Symbol, y
the Green painting was removed
from the frame, which was left
hanging on the wall. It's value
was not announced.
Smithsonian officials said the
loss was discovered after the
building was opened this morning.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Lily Ponds Give Ken|woh Its Deserved Reputation

bottom lands for flood control
and future park areas.
Maj. Brehon B. Somervell. ~
she said referring to the man
who later became a general and
built the Pentagon, "sent a lieu
tenant over one day with lease
for me to sign. The lease gave
me continued possession of the
property for the next 10 years and
then it was to be surrendered to
the Government without pay
ment. I went to see my lawyers.
They told me there was nothing
to do but sign it. but I refused"
The Governments contention,
according to Mrs. Shaw, was that
the land had always belonged to
1T, because it was land within the
high water mark of a tidal es-
tuary of the Potomac and the Po-
tomac by royal grant had become
the property of Lord Baltimore
then of Maryland until the Sec
ton within the District was
decided to the Federal Govern.
ment in 1890. 1t was up to her
she was told, to recover from the
District the taxes on the lane
the family had paid during the
past so years.
1t was the water lilies that savec
her. A man across the Anacostis
IN similar situation brought sui
to establish title to his land. HI
used the foreman of the Shaw
Aquatic Gardens as witness. The
years of cultivating lilies on tht
flats established that it was above
the high tide mark. The lille.
cannot live in tidal waters. In the
end Mrs. Fowler was paid $100, ,0O(
for her place.
Barn Converted Into Studio.
Mrs. Fowler now rents the ole
tenant house from the interior
Department. She has converted
the barn into a studio where she
paints flowers - something she
took up at so.
| She is no Grandma Moses
There is nothing of the primitive
in Mrs. Fowler's work. She ha.
instead an infinite capacity fol
taking pains in working out tech.
nical problems such as the ras-
sage of light through a glass vase
She does exceedingly well. just a.
her father did when he took ur
writing with his left hand
How Kenilworth got its name
i can tell you that, too," Mrs
Fowler said. About 1895 a rea
estate man named Allen Mallory
bought a large area of the Miller
and Fowler farms. He started &
subdivision, and his wife, vino hac
been reading Sir Walter Scott.
'Kenilworth,' thought that woule
be good name for the develop
ment.
The streetcar line was ex.
tended out Kenilworth avenue al
about that time. but it's charter
only called for service at 40.
minute intervals. I have alway!
thought the subdivision woulC
have been much more successful
if the cars had only run at NOR,
frequent intervals"
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Gen. Armstrong Nominated
As Army Surgeon General

President Truman today nomi-
mated Maj. Gen. George Ellis
Armstrong for appointment as the
Surgeon General of the Army.
Other nominations were Oscar
B. Ryder OF Virginia for reappoint-
lment to the United States Tariff
Commission for the term expiring
June Is, 1857.
Roswell L. Fitzpatrick of New
York as Assistant Secretary of the
Air Force. He will replace Harold
&c. Stuart, who has resigned.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
BY the Associated Press

WINCHESTER, Va, April 3d.
Highlights of the program for the
Path annual Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival to be held here
Thursday and Friday were an.
nounced today.
The apple blossoms will not be
lat their best during the festival
according to DR.. A. B. Groves
plant pathologist with the Vir-
Iginia Agricultural Station at Win
chester.
He said the blossoms were at
their peak yesterday, when thou
sands of visitors turned out to
view them, and that although
there will be some blossoms left
by Thursday. they will be def.
Initely on the downgrade."
Miss Curl Lie, daughter o1
United Nations Secretary General
and Mrs. Trygve Lie, will be
crowned as Queen Shenandoah
XIV at 2::30 pm. Thursday by
Secretary of Defense Marshall.
The first Of the pre-festival
events is a joint civic clubs
luncheon on Wednesday. Henry
u. Taylor, radio news analyst,
will speak.
The annual pageant, "Our Heri.
Itage." in which some 1,700 schoo
children and adults participate
will be in the Handley High School
bowl at 8 pm. Thursday anc
Iagain at 1890 am. Friday.
On Thursday evening, the an
nual f1reman's parade will be held
with Sports Announcer Harry Wis
mer as parade marshal. A dance
will follow.
Feature Of the Friday program
Evening star., 1951-04-30
By George Kennedy

Despite its romantic name,
Kenilworth is one of those turn
the-century trolley suburbs
that failed to go over. To this day
there are vacant lots along Kenil-
worth avenue, which was to have
been a suburban Main street.
Kenilworth is in Northeast-you
cross the Benning bridge. pass
1.-THE big Pepco plant. then turn
to the left on Kenilworth avenue
which runs north and finally
crosses the District line. Kenil-
worth is the area on both sides of
the avenue between the Anacostia
River and the Pennsylvania rail-
road tracks.
1t shoulud not be confused
with Kensington, the quaint rail-
road suburb in Maryland at the
end of Connecticut avenue or
|Kenwood-also in Maryland-the
plush real estate development
where the cherry blossoms bloom
in the spring.
The Northeast community is
part white. part colored, part in
dustrial and part Government
built low-cost housing. The Kenil-
worth Junk Co. almost spills its
collection of wrecked automobiles
onto the sidewalk Of Kenilworth|
avenue. The area is too near
the railroad to have coming pro-
lection.
Kenilworth, like most of Wash
ington. is booming. Houses on the
avenue are being used as stores,
groceries, beauty parlors and a
drug store without the addition of
the conventional plate glass store
fronts.
Yet Kenilworth has a reputa-
tion-and a deserved one-as a.
beauty spot. 1t is the site of the
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, the
famous lily ponds known to water
flower enthusiasts the world over.
Lilacs in Bloom.
A visit to the lily ponds at
this time assures one that spring
has really arrived. The hlacsI
around the old farm buildings are
in bloom and the willows that
screen the river in full leaf. Bull
frogs sound incredibly low notes
and water snakes ripple the sur
face of the ponds as they slither
between the lily pads.
Employees Of the National Capt.
tai Parks are busy transplanting
tropical water flowers from the
greenhouses to the ponds. The
lilies will start blooming in June
and the ponds will be in full flower
in July and August.
Near the greenhouses, in a little
shingled house that used to be
a tenant house when KenilworthI
was a farm. lives Mrs. Helen
Fowler, daughter of Walter B.
Shaw, the man who started the
lily ponds. Mrs. Fowler, who is
II, developed the gardens into
a big commercial operation ship
ping roots and bulbs all over the
world and sending cut flowers to
the carriage trade florists of Chi-l
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Dispute on Bondsman
Argued for Third Time
Before Appeals Court
The United States Court of Ap-

The United States Court Of Ap-
peals today. for the third time
took under advisement the John
w. Carter bondsman license dis.
.pute between themselves and tht
judges of District Court.
Seven members of the appellat,
court thrashed out legal point
with opposing counsel for more
than an hour Two judges
Bennett Champ Clark and Georg.
T. Washington-did not partici.
Ipate in the zen banc" all-present
session. No reason was given.
The appeals judges are recon
sidering whether District Court
properly refused to renew the col
ored bondSman's business licens,
when it expired last year.
Three of the appellate judge
last January held, in a split de.
Icision, that the lower court hae
deprived Mr.. Carter of his right
to study evidence against him ir
open hearing on his qualification
Dissenting Judge E. Barrett
Prettyman argued that District
Court acted within its discretion
Solicitor General Philip Perlmar
argued on behalf of the Distric1
Court judges.
Secret Sources Protected.
He declared that if the lowel
court were required to reveal 1T
sources for evidence derogatory tx
a bondsman applicant, ''its ave.
nues of confidential information
would be Immediately closed"
An FBI investigation of Mr.
Garter had figured in the Districi
Court decision of his application
Mr.. Carter complained that these
results were placed in a sealee
envelope and that he never wa.
informed of their nature.
Mr.. Perlman argued further
that the appellate court lacked
jurisdiction to hear the. Carter
appeal.
Called Mandamus Action.
He said the bondsman shoule
have used mandamus and injunc-
ton proceedings against District
Court Judge Alexander Holtzof
who rejected Mr.. Carter's renewa,
application.
Attorneys George E. C. Hayes
and James Cobb stated the "only
conflict" was whether Judge Holt.
zof could reject the application
in the light of the appellate
courts characterization of Mr.
Carter as a qualified bondsman.'
"It is our position that a Dis
trict Court judge cannot disre-
gard the appellate courts ruling
on that point" Mr.. Hayes de-
clared.
In 1947, when the Carter case
was first appealed. the appellate
court unanimously decided that
District Court had no right tc
revoke Mr.. Carter's then-existing
license, after having granted it a
few months previously.
Evening star., 1951-04-30
/ Commentator to Address
Silver Spring Group

Billy Repaid. radio commenta-
tor, will be guest speaker at the
May dinner meeting of the Silve.
Spring Board of Trade at $50
pm. Wednesday at the Indian
Spring Country Club. Mr.. Re-
paid will discuss "The Korean Sit
|uation."
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Tulk on BruziI Set

DR.. Alceu Amoroso Lima, chief
of the department of cultural af-
fairs of the Pan American Union
will speak on Religious Trends
in Brazil at 8:15 pm. tomorrow
in Mcmahon Hall, Catholic Uni
|versity. 4
Evening star., 1951-04-30
Civil Defense Topic Set

A civil defense program will
Feature a meeting of the McKen-
lney Hills Parent Teacher ASsocia-
tion at $50 pm. tomorrow at the
school on Hayden drive, Silver
Spring,
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Candidates TO Speak

The Is candidates for election
as Falls Church city councilmen
have been invited to speak at a
meeting of the North Greenway
Downs Citizens Association at
o'clock tomorrow night at Oak
Street School. q
Evening star., 1951-04-30
|HighIights of Apple Festival
AT Winchester Announced

is the annual Trail of the Pink
Petals" at 2 pm. All events are
scheduled on Eastern standard
time.
Another dance on Friday night
will bring the festival to a close.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-04-19
IF Need Timber Help
Contact (. P. Mcmillan

Mississippi portable sawmill
operators who are interested in
moving into timber areas dam
aged by last February ice storm
may secure information as to To-
cations and approximate amount
of timber available by communi-
eating with the Mississippi Forest
Service, it is announced by Area
Forester E. P. Mcmillan. There
are 80 sawmills in Holmes coun-
ty, "a of which the portable, and
may move into other counties be-
fore work here is finished.
Due to a shortage Ill the num-
Der of portable mills operating
in the state. it is desirable that
mills wishing work with dam
aged timber seek information as
to locations where cutting opera
tons are needed the worst.
Forester Mcmillan is making
a survey of damaged timber and
asks all landowners with dam
aged stands to contact him II
they wish help in removing the
damage.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-04-19
Holmes Student To
Give Voice Recital

On May 3 at 8 pm. in the mu-
sic auditorium Kathleen Bingham,
music major from Winona, will
present her sophomore recital.
Her program will include prob
ably two of the most celebrated
arias for mezzo : soprano voice
Mon Occur SQUIRE a ia Volx'
(My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice.,
from Samson and Delilah," by
Saint Saens and the gay "Haben-
era from Bizet's immortal opera
Carmen" A group of French
songs include "Obstinatian," "a
Resolve) by Fortenailles and
louvre Tes Yeux Bleus," oOper
Thy Blue Eyes by Masesmet. The
remainder of her program Will DC
composed of songs by BONN
Mana-Zucca, Schubert, Ball, D.
Hardelot, Strickland, Romberg
and Malotte. She will play
"Scherzo in B Minor by Boy
kin and will be accompanied by
her piano instructor On a due
piano arrangement of Silvers
"April Showers"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-04-19
Dist. Jaycees Meet
Sunday, Hotel Durant
% Guests Register
For Program Session

A Central District Regional
meeting of the Mississippi State
Junior Chamber of Commerce was
held at Durant hotel. Sunday,
April 8 at 10 am, with Dutch
luncheon speaker, Mayor Alton
P. Massey of Kosciusko. Subjects
discussed were Youth Activi-
ties" "Manpower Procurement
and Leadership Training
Thirty-three from this district at
tended.
From Holmes county were w
n. Clinton, Var L. Stew
art, N. c. Hatnorn, Deck Johnson,
Robert K. Ray, c. II. Blanton,
Jr., r. E. McNeer, Wilbur Reed,
James Mature, Henry Mckenzie,
Louis A.. Clements, end Clay
Gum, Durant; Mack Ellington,
| John j. Martin, DR.. NJ S. Melvin.
Tom A. Cothran, Walter D.
Smith, Lexington.
Out-of-county visitors were:
Frank Kennedy, Sam Culpep-
per, Meridian; Walter Christen-
sen, Otis Snipes, Jr, Marvin Co
hen, B. j. johnson, Cotton Cald-
well. Bud Parman Jackson;
George E. Abraham Percy L.
! Coleman, Abe E.. Abraham. Ellis
Bodron, Vicksburg; Mac NC
lnnis, Sid Durham, Collins, and
| Mayor Massey, of Kosciusko.