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Evening star., 1951-03-02
Evelyn Knight
Is Met by Cheers
At the Capitol
By Harry Macarthur

homicide detective entangled with
a rich dame who is working her
way through a series Of husbands.
The most recent of them comes
back to shoot her, gets shot him
self and Capt. Cullen. in a fl
of idocy you would scarcely be-
lieve if you saw this IL times
attempts to cover UP the mishap
Well, the day all this happens
Cullen's young brother John
DalD makes detective and goes
from a cops beat to homicide.
Seldom has a whole plot been
telegraphed such a distance. You
would never guess whose little
brother Is assigned to what as his
first case and gets real nosey and
uncovers clues which point to
whom, would you?
Still, Director Felix Feist has
made his chase moderately inter-
esting and the performances by
Cobb, Miss Wyatt, Dali and Liza
Howard are engaging ones which
make this easier to take.
X X X X
In addition to Miss Knight the
Capitol's stage bill has the most
wonderfully timed, If occasionally
earthly, comedy act in vaudeville,
that wild trio of hapless carpenters
impersonated by Willie, West and
McGinty. The others are Ken
Whitner, who combines comedy
with talent for playing a sur
prising variety Of musical instru-
ments; Berk and Hallow, tap
dancers. and Bob Knight, Wash
ington's steel guitar specialist.
Evening star., 1951-03-02
The Cast.

If Evelyn knight was nervous
about coming back to her home
town and appearing on the Capt.
tol Theater stage, she soon found
out yesterday she had small rea-
son to be. There were cheers and
whistles of approval mixed with
the solid applause that greeted
her songs. 1t was JOY to listen
to them as the memory went back
to that night when the gawky
little girl this slick one used to be
was picked as the winner of a
local talent contest and started on
her career.
The judges of that affair can
hardly claim any omniscience
because some changes, in vocal
technique and appearance if not
in frank and friendly personality.
were made before Evelyn Knight
became the success she is. Today
she is a masterful musician, a
stylist who knows what her voice
will do and won't do and Is WON
derfully adroit at using it to best
advantage at all times.
She wears better than q lot of
singers. too, because she is versa
tile enough to cover a wider va
riety of music than many attempt.
She can, as she did yesterday, go
from "Tura-Lura-Illra" into a
ballad like "A Woman Likes to Be
Told" from that back to Grand
fathers Clock" then skim through
a medley Of Powder Your Face
With Sunshine" dance With a
Dolly" and "A Little Bird Told
Me" and wind UP with the blues.
She has some trouble making
parts of est. Louis Blues" authen-
tic, of course, because there is
happy lit in her voice that just
won't get out of it. This is good
listening, anyhow, and it is good
to have Miss knight back home as
a headliner.
**&
The Capitols screen attraction
is a melodrama named THE Man
Who Cheated Himself" and, sure
enough, it is cynical joke about
a man who does just that. Capt.
Ed Cullen Gee j. Cobb is a
Evening star., 1951-03-02

I" THE ENFoRCER," a Warner pic ,
ture, produced by Milton Sperling. d. |
rected by Bretaigne Windust. written by |
Martin Rackin. At the Ambassador and
Warner
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ADJUSTMENTS.
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''oF MEN AND MUSIC" Twentieth
Century--Fox release of World Artists film,
produced by Rudolph Polk and Bernard
Luber: featuring Artur RubinStein, Jan
Peerce, Nadine Conner, Jascha HeifetZ,
Dimitri Mitropoulos, N. Y. Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra; directed by Irving
Refs; screenplay by Liam O'Brien, Harry
Kurnitz. John Raxton and David Epstein.
At the Dupont.
Evening star., 1951-03-02
African Tin Pan AIIey'

Through arrangements with
American publishing firms,
South Africa plans to have its
own Tin Pan Alley" with Afri-
can song-writers' music bein g
published in New York.
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Songstress
Approved

'TdE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF" :"
goth Century-Fox release produced by
Jack M. Warner. directed BY Felix e.
Feist, screenplay by Seton I. Miller and
Philip Macdonald, story by Miller. At
the Capjtol
Evening star., 1951-04-23
ID. {. Bridge Players
Win Tourney Honors

Washington bridge players took
the majority of honors in the
spring duplicate bridge tourna-
ment held over the week end al
Ingleside Country Club in Staun-
ton. Va.
Winners in the team of four
class were j. G. Stone, C. c.
Lovenberg and Mr.. and Mrs. G
L. Kathen. Runners up were
Wallace Ashby, Michael Michaels
Mrs. Doris Bosburgh and Mrs
Florence Millspaugh, the Asso-
ciated Press reported. All are
from the District.
Results of the open-pair event
showed Miss Kathleen McNutt OF
Washington and David Strasberg
OF Memphis, Tenn, as winners
Runners-up were David Murray
of Washington, and Herbert Gerst
of Norfolk.
The American Contract Bridge
League sponsored the tournament
which was directed by Pavl Gold.
en- Of Washington.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Military Real Estate
Bill Passed by House

The House today passed and
sent to the Senate a bill setting
up the House and Senate Armed
Services Committees as a So
called watchdog" over big real
estate transactions by the mill
tary agencies and the Federal
Civil Defense Administration,
Under the measure the heads
OF these agencies would be re-
qulred to come into agreement
with the Armed Services groups
before closing any real estate pur-
chases where a fee title is in
Volved and also where the Gov
ernment leases private property
OF more than $4,000 annual
rent.
The committee in its report to
the House recalled that the Gen
eral Services Administration
originally proposed to lease two
big apartments here for use by
the military establishment. The
Armed Services Committee OBJ
Jected and the project was post
poned.
The House also passed and sent
to the Senate a bill to authorize
the Secretary of the Navy to con-
struct two installations for tenn.
pOrary housing and trainino 70
clllties Fat the Quantico Marine
Corps Schools totaling $4,147, 900;
and a Marine regimental combat
team camp. $1o.159,6o0, at the
Naval Air Station in Oahu,
Hawaii.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
|G| Feared Drowned
Below Great Falls

Montgomery County police to-
day are organizing search parties
for a 21-year-old Forth Mon
mouth, N. j., soldier believed to
have drowned in the Potomac yes
terday while swimming below
Great Falls.
Pvt. James r. Trast, of Cleve-
land, who was visiting friends
here while on leave, was swept
down the river by the swift cur
rent after plunging in from the
Virginia shore.
With him in the water was Cliff
ford E. Wall, %, of 1922 Sixteenth
street Sc, who also was caught
by the current but was thrown up
on the Virginia shore unhurt.
Two other companions, Frank
Charles, q, of 2413 Eighteenth
street N. W., and Kenneth Chris
tiansen, 81, of 1741 Thirteenth
street Sc, were on the shore when
the other two dived off rocks
They said the swimmers dW p-
lpeared around bend.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Hospital Staff 10 Fight
Political MeddIinu'

Medical staff members of Prince
Georges General Hospital will
meet with Maryland State Med
ical Society officials tomorrow and
Wednesday to seek aid in fighting
political meddling in hospital af-
fairs.
A committee of hospital doctors
met with more than 80 prominent
county residents and physicians
yesterday to fight the sudden
custer of Hospital Supt. Harry w
Penn by the County Commission
.erS.
This hospital cannot be q
political football" DR.. Waldo
Meyers, committee chairman, to1c
the meeting.
He explained that the commits.
sioners had suddenly fired Mr.
Penn ano replaced him with &
Laurel Republican, Harold T
Rice, who is to take over the
superintendent's Office May IS.
DR.. Meyers said the medica
Stairs fight against the commits
sioners was not a personal defens,
of Mr.. Penn nor an attack OF
Mr.. Rice, but a struggle for tn
principle of keeping the hospita
out of politics. He added that /;
large addition to the hospital nov
is under way and that change il
administration would hamper thi
project.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Dean Sayre Delivers
Cathedral Sermon

The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre,
jr., grandson Of Woodrow Wilson,
delivered his first sermon as dean
of Washington Cathedral yester-
day.
Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson were among the 1,500I
worshipers to hear the new dean.
Francis B. Sayre, an American
representative with the United
Nations, and Mrs. Sayre, were also
In the congregation.
Mr.. Sayre will be formally in
stalled as dean of the Cathedral
on May 6. He will rank next to
the Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
Of Washington. among Episcopal
clergy here. He came here from
Cleveland, where he was rector
Of st. Pauls Episcopal Church.
The new dean, who spoke on
st. Mark, told the gathering that
without the evangelist's example
II would not have dared to begin
my ministry in this place."
The 36-year-old clergyman is
married, has two children and
will live at 3515 Woodley road
NV.
Evening star., 1951-04-23

divided 1t into 83 tracts. Twenty
have already been sold. AS the
average investment of purchasers
lis better than $4,000 when they
have finished their houses, the
total investment in the subdivi-
sion will exceed 50 million when
f, it is completed.
! Mr.. Wright's house is the only
one on the cliff. 1t is a long low
stone affair with picture windows
Chest Ward has a home over.
looking the gorge a little further
up the river. 1t has a small
swimming pool and a garage with
plate glass walls. 1t is now oc-
cupied by Comdr. and Mrs. Will.
liam Blenman.
/ But the finest view of any house
on the Potomac is probably that
of Mrs. William N. Doak, widow
of President Hoover's Secretary
of Labor. 1t is on little hill al
the Virginia end of the Chair
Bridge, right across from the little
store where fishermen gather.
Alpine Climb to House.
| Few motorists notice it as they
turn to the right to Langley OF
Great Falls. It is between the
Langley road and the river. The
Evening star., 1951-04-23

along the heights for property
with a view.
DR.. J. Bay Jacobs, an obstetri-
clan, bought five acres from Mrs.
Bailey 10 years ago and built a
stone castle overlooking the Po-
tomae with a tower reminiscent
of the chateaux of the Loire.
Just above Peakleigh are the
attractive homes of DR.. Ernest S
Hendry and Miss Nancy De Lash
mutt, both overlooking the river
DR.. Hendry's home is on the site
of Fort Smith, one of the Civil
War forts surrounding the Capt.
tai. He shows visitors the moat
and the cannon emplacements.
Developer Subdivides Area.
First of the many fine homes
which undoubtedly will be built
on the cliffs as the new macadam
roads are completed is that OF
John c. Wright, Arlington real
estate developer. In November
1914, Mr.. Wright entered the bid
ding for 48 acres which had been
assembled for future development
by Miss Ruby Lee Minor. A bank
mortgage had been foreclosed. He
got it for 81. 100 an acre. He added
! IL acres to it since. He has sub
Evening star., 1951-04-23

carried the canal across the river
on which the canal boats loaded
with coal from Cumberland we're
toWed to Alexandria. And she
remembers the defeated hero of
the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee,
calling on her father.
Her father. Thomas Benoni
Dawson, from Jacksonville, Md,
built the house in 1859. 1t has
been occupied without Interrupt
ton by the family since, even
through the Civil War, when 1000
Union soldiers were camped on
the Dawson farm and neighboring
farms.
Castle OverloOkS River.
She married the single sculls
champion of the Potomac whose
father had owned Bailey's Beach
lat Newport. r. l., famous bit
of real estate but one which did
not bring much money to the
family.
The Dawson family still has two
acres of wooded river-view prop
erty behind the old farmhouse and
lit is on the market. 1t is being
held for a $4,000 offer-which
is about what is being asked all
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Health Insurance Backers
Attack ANA Name CaIIinq

The Committee for the Nation S
Health, a group supporting ma
tional health insurance, today de-
manded the American Medical
Association cease its policy of
"name-calling" against its critics.
In a letter to DR.. Elmer L. Hen
derson, ANA president, 80 officers
of the committee protested a re-
cent ANA journal article by DR..
Henderson in which he charac-
terized the committee as having
"pinkish fermentation" and COM
posed of "thwarted, unhappy ad-
vocates of socialized medicine"
The committee asked the ANA
to publish the protest letter, and
asked space in the journal to pub
lish a statement explaining the
committees position on national
health programs.
Among the letter -signers were
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Will
liam Green, president of the AFL;
Philip Murray, president of the
CIO. and Bishop G. Bromley
Oman.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Federation Names Three
To US0 Committee Here

Appointment of three delegates
to represent the organization on
the newly reactivated Washington
USO Committee was announced
today by Herbert P. Leeman, pres
ident of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations.
The three are: Mrs. Franklin G.
Sartwell of Metropolis View Citi-
zenS' Association, John A. Remon
of the Cathedral Heights -Cleye-
land Park Citizens Association
and Olen c. Shaw of the Chillum
Heights Citizens Association.
Mrs. Edward B. Morris, fedora
ton secretary, said the committee
will hold its first meeting at 4
pm. Wednesday at ting Community
House, 1101 M street NV.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Public Welfare
Changes in Staff
AreExpected
Boord to Announce
Shokeup Of Positions
At Meeting Tomorrow

| A shakeup in the Department
of Public Welfare is expected to
be announced at meeting of the
Board of Public Welfare tomorrow
A new assistant director is
scheduled to be appointed but his
name has not been made public.
He is, however, said to be en-
lployed by a Federal agency in
Washington.
The position of principal as
IsiStant, held since March, 1914. by
Raymond F. Clapp, will be abol-
|iShed. as will the position of Paul
=. Kirby, assistant director who
has been with the department
about "a years. Mr.. Kirby will be
retired.
Frank M. Gray, administrative
Officer. probably will be retained
in the department in some ca
Ipacity. AS a result of these
changes in top positions several
other officials of the department
will undergo change of status.
According to the proposed re-
organization. Gerard M. Shea,
director, is expected to retain his
position. Under him will be an
executive secretary and an as
siStant secretary. The assistant
director also will have a secretary
A research and statistics direc-
tor-probably Mr.. Clapp-is ex-
pected to be appointed. He will
have a staff of assistants. The
new setup also provides for a Ii
cenSe officer and an attorney
The Office of administrative as
sistant now held by Mr.. Gray is
retained in the new setup but
will have additional functions
Under this Office a personnel Off
Ger is provided with projects
assistant and other clerical help
No request for funds for Mr.
Clapp's job as principal assistant
was carried in next years budget
estimates because the House Ap-
preparations Committee last yea1
said there was no need for two
assistant directors.
Without a shift in positions
therefore, Mr.. Clapp would have
been out of the department
June 80.
Evening star., 1951-04-23

scribed to the same general in
ternational views"
One of Mr.. Moody's proudest
possessions is an autograph of
President Truman, mounted on his
library wall along with a story
written during the 1948 election
campaign in which Mr.. Moody
noted strong evidence of Tru-
mans popularity" The Detroit
News printed the story in full, but
one Of the editors fired a telegram
back:
THAT was a nice. long limb you
just climbed out on"
After the. election, Mr.. Moody
obtained a copy of the telegram
and framed it. along with the
story, on a placard autographed
by the President.
"He's a busy man." is the way
an associate described Mr.. Moody
He files a fabulous amount o.
copy out of Washington" HI
added that the new Senator still
follows an athletes regimen, sci.
dom drinks and never smokes.
HE just doesn't have time fol
hobbies" Mrs. Moody said. "Oc.
casionally we get outside for {
little sunshine during the weel
lends. but that's about It,"
Mr.. Moody has three sons, tht
eldest, Blair, jr., %, a second.
year law student at the University
of Michigan, by his first wife
The first Mrs. Moody was granted
an absolute divorce in March
1910. Six months from the di.
vorce date. he married his present
wife, Ruth.
The Moody's two younger sons
Christopher, 8, and Robin, 4
weren't on hand today for com
ment on their fathers appoint
ment. Both were busy in school
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Gandew of Potomac Palisades to Give Way Highway Blasting

entrance is at the turn into the
Langley road and it is an Alpine
climb to get to the house. From
Mrs. Doak's living room one can
look down the gorge of the
Potomac almost to Washington.
On Saturday the herring were
running in the Potomac in the
rapids under the bridge. Every
dip of the net brought up one or
two. Colored men with ice boxes
at the road side were selling the
fish just-out-of-water, Is cents a
pound for the males, 65 cents for
the females heavy with roe. Shad
are expected later.
The Doaks selected their place
on the river in 1926. Mrs. Doak
on two occasions, in 1886 and 1912,
has looked down from the safety
of her pinnacle and watched the
waters of the Potomac rise until
they went over the roadway of the
bridge - which Is apparently at
such a safe height above the
stream.
1t is 4 miles from Key Bridge
to Chain Bridge. The houses
mentioned are just about all those
with river view in that long
stretch. There is plenty of room
for more and doubtless many more
will be built in the next few years.
Architecture Demands Views.
There are a lot Of houses-very
substantial houses costing $4,000
or more-under construction a
short distance from the river
along Military road and Lorcum
lane. The whole area is being
developed in a most attractive
way. The new houses are bring
ing the, roads and sewers, tele-
phone and light lines to where
they can be extended to the river
front at no great cost. The new
architecture with its plate glass
windows almost demands views
The Potomac will supply them.
The number of mail boxes and
new entrances on the right hand
side of the road to Great Falls
would indicate that there are
more river-front houses on the
Virginia side Of the river above
Chain Bridge than below it. The
biggest place is the Madeira
School where the gorge cut!
through unspoiled wilderness.
The gorge Of the Potomac end!
Cor begins) at Great Falls. Abov,
that the river is tame-not nearl,
as spectacular. The falls will b.
disappointing to the newcomel
to Washington if he expects :;
Niagara. But they never disap
point the native pilgrim who goe
at least once a year to see tn,
river rush downhill in marrow
chutes between the great rocks
Last week workmen were clean
ing up the park and repairing tn
j. picnic benches for another sea
son. The merry-go-round Wi
/ soon be revolving and boys reach
ing for the brass ring as it
mechanical band wheezes out tn
strains of I'm the Good Old Sum
mer Time"
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Mrs. Moody Scared as New Senator'S Wife

The White House came through
today to give Mrs. Blair Moody
the first official word that her hus-
band had been named the new
United States Senator from Mich
igan.
Earlier, Mr.. Moody, Washington
correspondent for the Detroit
News. had called from Lansing to
say the appointment was expected
momentarily land to tell me to
prepare myself"
Minutes after the press wire
services picked up Democratic
Gov. G. Mennen Williams ap-
pointment, the phone started jan
Cling in the Moody's home at 5006
Tilden street NV.
zone of the first of them" Mrs
Moody told reporter, was from
Joe Short (the Presidents press
secretary at the White House
He gave us his congratulations
and said he was very happy
about It,"
An hour later, while congratu-
lations continued to pour in, Mrs
Moody still wasn't sure how ii
would feel to be a Senator's wife
I'm so pleased for Blair" she
said. There's no question in my
mind about what kind Of Senator
he will make. I'm little scared
for myself. 1t just doesn't seem
real"
Mrs. Moody said it wasn't un.
til last week end that we heard
anything definite" about Gov. Viii.
liams' consideration of MIR. Moody
to take the Senate seat vacated
by the death of Senator Vanden-
berg. Her husband went to Mich
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Fulls Church Benefit
For Police Set Thursdn,

The annual Falls Church po-
lice benefit dance will be held at
9 pm. Thursday at the Club
Nightingale, on Route /, south OF
Alexandria.
Part of the proceeds will be
used for activities of the Falls
&hurch Police Boys Club.
Evening star., 1951-04-23
Grand Jury |ndicts 28
Additional Defendants
On NarcoticsCharqes

A Federal grand jury today in
dicted an additional % defendants
netted last month in one of
Washington's largest series of mar
cotic raids.
The charges returned in Dis
trict Court raised to 80 the num-
Der of indictments as a result
of the raids. More than 10 per-
sons were arrested.
Principal among those named
today were two men charged with
illegally transferring more than
8,700 grains of marihuana to Fed
eral undercover agents in January
and March. These men were
listed as Jesse Smith, %, colored
OF the 5400 block of Grant street
NE, and George B. Broadus, 25
colored. of the 900 block of Fifty
ninth avenue, Fairmont Heights
Md.
Broadus and Smith were ac-
cused jointly of transferring
nearly 1000 grains of the drug in
a one-pound package to a Federal
agent on March Is. Smith was
accused of transferring about zoo
grains illicitly on five different
dates in January. A brother oil
BroaduS was sentenced to serve
four and a half years last Apri
for peddling narcotics at Andrews
Air Force Base.
Others Indicted Today.
Richard A. Lightfoot, of tht
1900 block of Ninth street NV:
James F. Copeland. IS, colored, o1
the 600 block of Delaware avenue
S.W.; Elaine M. Thorpe, of the
100 block of Corcoran street
NV; Edward G. Betz, colored
of the 900 block of T street NV;
Charles o. Robinson, Dunbar Ho-
tel; Mary L. Palmer, colored, o1
the 1400 block of Sixth street
NV; Robert Rucker, "a, colored
and Hoyt Few, jr., 20, colored, bott
soldiers of Fort Eustis, Va; anc
Nathan Bolden, no address avail.
able.
Additional Defendants.
Also, William E. Patten, no ad
dress available: Walter r. Jack.
son, 18. colored, of the 900 blocl
of M street NV: Herbert w
johnson. 33. colored, of the l70(
block of Eighth street NV; Mar
ion F. (Sugarfoot) Green, colored
of the 1000 block of Fifteenth
street NV; John M. Buchanan
36, colored. of the 400 block of
street S.W.; Clarence L. Butler
81, colored. of the first block O.
Blagden court NV; Arthur E
Kelly, 26. colored, of the 140(
block of v street NV; Winston
Gorham, 80, colored, of the frs
block of street NE; George T
Smith. "a. colored of the TOO blocl
of Thirteenth street NV; William
M. Nick, jr.. colored. of the 140(
block of T street NV.
And Paul R. Robinson, colored
of the 400 block of v street NV;
Joseph A. PiStone, 10, of the 150t
block of Oak street NV: Roose-
velt Long. 40. colored. of the 800
block of L street Sc; Ardella o
Banks, 90. colored, of the 1906
block of Monroe street NV;
Leonard A. Tozzolo, %, of the
5000 block of Hanna place Sc;
James A. Curry, "a, of the 460C
block of Thirty eighth street NV.
and Thomas J. DuBey, 20, of the
1st block of Kennedy street NE