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Evening star., 1951-09-09
Design Of New Bridge
Expected 70 Be Ready
For Study This Week

The District expects to have
the preliminary design for the
new East Capitol street bridge
ready for final presentation to
the National Capital Park anc
Planning Commission this week.
The commission will hold its
monthly meeting Thursday and
Friday.
The j. E. Greiner Co., consult
ANTS on the proposed crossing OF
the Anacostia River, is preparing
to go into the second phase OF
the project, preparation of de-
tailed drawings on which the city
can buy steel and let construction
contracts.
These drawings, should be fin
ished by the first of next year,
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
C. H. Whitesell reported.
Highway officials hope that in
the case of the new bridge and
the proposed New York avenue
overpass of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road and of South Dakota avenue,
they can show sufficient defense
Importance to obtain the neces-
sary steel. Both projects will tie
in with the Baltimore Washing
ton parkway.
So far, the department has
not been halted on propectS for
lack of steel, although deliveries
are slow, officials say.
If it cannot get all the steel n
needs, the department can leave
reinforcing steel out if it's strOAl
pavement. This was done to some
extent during the last awar. The
pavement can be redesigned with
a plain concrete base and asphalt
surface, Engineer of Streets S. R.
Harrison added.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Protest Authorized
By Arlington Board

A protest against fare increasI
requested by the Arnold Bus Line
has been authorized by the Ar
lington County Board.
The bus line. also known as tht
Washington. Maryland & Virginia
Coach Co., has Interstate Com
merce Commission permission tt
eliminate tokens.
G.. L. GlaSsman, technical as.
sistant to the County Public Utili.
ties Commission. told the bcarc
yesterday that the commission
does not believe the proposed rate
increase is warranted.
Mr.. Glassman said the company
contends the increase is necessary
to Offset the effect of a recently
granted raise in employe wages.
He said:
"An analysis of the company's
earnings during the first half of
1851 shows that, after adjustment
for the full effect of the wage in
crease, present rates would yield
a return on an annual basis OF
over 18 per cent. Annual return
on the investment by the owner
will be about 81 per cent, and this
would be in addition to an $4,000
yearly salary now received by the
owner.
IF the owners salary is conSid-
cred as part of the return on in
veStment, the return on the in
vestment will be 70 per cent. This
72 per cent return does not take
into consideration a so-called ga
rage rental fee of $4,000 per yeal
received by the owner"
The board then authorized tht
test.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
7 Crashes Tie Up
Highway Bridge

Two accidents within 80 min
Iutes on Highway Bridge tied UP
traffic for over an hour yesterday
1t all started when an Arnold
Line bus going north hit the rear
of another car, driven by Harry
Noland. 81. of 260 Temple Trailer
Village, and damaged it about $50
worth. Police charged the bus
driver, Albert Elwell, 30, of 1016
Beachwood lane, Falls Church
with following too closely.
AS traffic began to pile up be-
hind the first accident, Richard
G. McCool. jr., of 802 Janneys
street. Alexandria, stopped his car
suddenly. William A. Methvin, 35
Iof Twenty-fi first and H streets
NV. hit the rear of Mr.. McCoors S
car.
Two other cars piled up on top
OF them. Miss Mary Loving, So
colored, of 3008 South Eighteenth
street. Arlington, hit Mr.. Meth
wins car, and Henry F. Hughs, OF
Ill Thirty-second street Sc, hit
Miss Loving's car. Nobody was
hurt.
Evening star., 1951-09-09

craving and Printing and the
Government Printing Office.
Some departments which have
GSI cafeterias. such as the Gen.
sus Bureau and Post Office De-
partment, ban snack bars. They
keep the cafeterias closed dur
ing all but meal hours. too.
But most agencies, like many
private employers; say employ
eS respect the coffee privilege.
The Army Adjutant General
made a quiet survey last year,
and found the privilege wasn't
abused.
The Civil Service Commission,
afraid the coffee hour might get
out of hand, also made a sur
vey. The longest time any
worker spent at a stand was IL
minutes, checkers discovered.
But because of time lost in tram
sit, CSC officials suggested one
person get coffee for a group.
A similar request has been made
at the Pentagon.
Washington stores of such
nationwide chains as Sears
Roebuck g. Co.. allow employees
to stop for coffee twice a day.
The Riggs bank. largest in the
city. permits one employe from
each section to get across the
street coffee for fellow workers.
The coffee hour habit in this
country got a big boost from
employe morale programs in
war plants, when everything
Evening star., 1951-09-09
By WoIIoce {. cIoyton

Kaldi. the Arabian goatherd,
didn't know what he was start
ing when he ate a few berries
from an evergreen bush in $50
AID.
1t wasn't the forbidden fruit
Kaldi was introducing to the
world. But a lot of present-day
employers wish the discovery
had been forbidden-during
working hours. at any rate.
Because, according to legend,
it was a coffee tree he found.
Kaldi, the legend goes, was SO
exhilarated after eating the ber-
ries that he rushed off to tell
his friends about the new sem
Sation.
The word spread.
In the United States last year,
16.1 pounds of green coffee beans
were used for. every man,
woman and child.
It's A Habit.
And the twice day habit Of
knocking off work for a cup
OF coffee has become to Ameri-
ca what tea time is in England.
Most employers either admit
the coffee hour privilege is as
vital to employe relations as the
eight-hour day, or turn the other
way when the stockroom clerk
slips across the street to Joe's
Diner.
Some large Government build
ingS here have installed coffee
bars, so too much time won't
be lost.
The $1,000 workers at the
Pentagon consume about $4,000
cups of coffee each working day
in the sprawling buildings nine
snack bars. four cafeterias, three
dining rooms and outdoors re-
freshment stand.
This adds up to about $780, 900
cups a year-or 269 cups per
employe.
Pentagon coffee klatches have
drawn the ire of RepreSentive
Brown, Republican, of Ohio, who
contended ''the people would
be shocked if they could visit
the Pentagon coffee bars and
see how much time is wasted
there"
And, according to Represen-
tative Bender, Republican, of
Ohio, Government buildings at
coffee time ''look like recess time
at school-the boys and girls
dash off for coffee as if rehears-
ing for a fire drill"
10 and 3 O'Clock.
Coffee time" it is generally
conceded, is about 10 o'clock in
the morning and 3 in the after.
noon.
Government workers served
by snack bars and cafeterias of
Government Services, Inc, drink
about 80 million cups a year.
GSI has 46 cafeterias and snack
bars. GSI installations are in
all major buildings except the
Pentagon, the Agriculture De-
partment. the Bureau of En-
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Alcoholic BEVERAGES
Swell D. {. Revenue
by SS61,3O5 in Year

The alcoholic beverage trad,
was brisk enough during fisca
1851 to swell the Districts net in.
come from taxes and license fee
by 1851 .305 over the previous year
the Alcoholic Beverage Contro
Board has reported.
The boards annual report to tn.
Commissioners put total receipts
for the year ended June 80 a
1855, ,399,953. This compared with
I$4.535, ,720 in fiscal 1850.
Taxes from the sale of beer in.
creased $75,105 for a total O.
$601 ,051. Revenue from other al
Icoholic beverages went up $799, "A;
for a total of $3,612,159.
License Fee Receipts Drop.
The receipts from license fees
however, dropped from $1,197, ,05T
in fiscal 1850 to 81, 1876, ,742 in 1851
The board counted 1902 regular
manufacturers, wholesalers anc
retailers licenses in effect on JUNE
80, 1850, and 1877 on June 80
1851.
Mrs. Agnes Mason, ABC board
member, said the increased rev.
enue from alcoholic beverages doe:
not necessarily mean correspond
ing increase in consumption here
For one thing, the 1850 receipts
do not represent a whole years
take under legislation increasing
license fees, doubling beer taxes
and boosting liquor taxes by so pei
cent. This was effective August
u, 1949.
Also, the board has no way oi
knowing how much of the liquor
bought here was consumed outside
the city by persons who find prices
more attractive here, or how much
represented stockpiling.
S74,315 For Rehabilitation.
The boards cost of administra-
ton was 500, ,485. as compared with
$96,558 for the previous fiscal year
as a result of salary increases, the
report said.
Reserved for the alcoholic reha
bilitation program from 1851 re-
ceipts was $74,315.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Serviceman Prisoner
Hurt in Hit-Run Crash

A prisoner in custody of tht
Armed Service Police was criti-
cally injured and two other mer
were hurt last night when a hit.
and-run driver struck and over
turned the patrol wagon in which
he was riding.
Corpl. Wade r. Richardson, at
tached to the 1102d Maintenance
Squadron, was taken to Walter
Reed Hospital after preliminary
treatment at Emergency Hospital
The patrol wagon was crossing
Twelfth street at M street NV.
en- route to tavern at Fourteenth
street and Florida avenue NV.
to get other prisoners, when q
pickup truck bearing Maryland
tags struck it.
Corpl. Richardson, witnesses
said, was thrown 10 feet into the
air and landed 20 feet from the
patrol wagon. He suffered a pos
sible skull fracture and an in
jury to his left ear. Driver OF
the patrol wagon, Sergt. Frank
A. Spruill, 25, colored, and a
Navy man riding with Sergt
SpruilI, Cooks Steward 1/c New
ton M. Smith, were treated al
the Naval Gun Factory dispen-
Sary.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Women Are Offered
Free Vocational Courses

Free courses for women inter-
ested in practical nursing or in a
variety of other skills will be
offered again this year at the Bur-
dick Vocational High School with
the opening of District public
school tomorrow.
The practical nurses course is
accredited by the National Asso-
citation for Practical Nurse Educa-
tion and includes II weeks of pre-
clinical training followed by eight
months of practical experience at
q Gorge Washington University
Hospital. During the hospital
training, the students receive $25
"a month.
Other courses open at Burdick,
in addition to the regular studies
for any woman interested in fin
ishing high school, include secre-
tarial training, dressmaking and
d esign, retailing, cosmetology.
nursery assistants, Office machines
and foods.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Star stan Photo.

he's going to keep me in the
Office because he hasn't come in
yet, he has another think COM
ing"
Another secretary analyzing a
recent date: He was just try
ing to get me drunk"
Futile, Navy Learns.
The futility of fighting the
habit was seen by the Navy De-
partment after it banned the
coffee break near the end of
World War II.
File cases became hiding
places for hotplates, and can
of drip grind was as much a
part of Office equipment as a
pencil sharpener. In Offices
where the files were crowded.
$40-a-week secretaries and top
brass came to work with ther-
mos jugs under their arms.
In Chicago, police have COM
planned that Loop traffic is al
most stalled at coffee hour by
the crowds of Office workers.
And one Midwest plant, located
far from restaurants and re-
freshment stands, found seri-
Gus absenteeism problem solved
when management started serv-
ing coffee to workers at their
machines and in their offices.
Some Congressman will peri
odically protest, and some en-
ployers will continue to fume.
but the coffee hour is here to
stay.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
d. {. Near. It's 0rigina|
Flood Appeal Quota;
Added Funds Urged

The goal in the Red Cross flooc
appeal here is being reached, buI
the original target will have to
be surpassed. John Clifford Fol-
ger. chairman of the District
chapter, said last night.
THE damage caused by the
flood is far greater than first esti-
mated" he said. 1T is necessary
that we exceed the quota as
signed"
To accomplish this, the Nation
wide f1ood-appeal program will
be continued. so the Red Cross
can give aid to all needy victims.
Only S1,4OO Short.
Mr.. Folger said contributions
here total $4,000. only $1,400
short of the previously announced
goal. Included in the total is a
donation of $2,430.06. given by
theater patrons and employees.
The check was presented by A.
Julian Bryalowski, president of
Motion Picture Theater Owners
Association of Metropolitan Wash
ington. A partial contribution of
$1.700 was received from Capt.
Paul G. Linaweaver, representing
the Potomac River Naval Com
mand.
Contributions may be sent to
the District Red Cross, 1880 E
street NV, or to nearby Red
Cross chapters.
The Red Cross also announced
last night that its Regional Blood
Center has distributed 908 pints
of blood in the District and in
communities covered by the
Bloodmobile in Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia.
$50 Pints Here.
In the District, 800 pints of
blood were distributed. Virginia
got 1874 pints, West Virginia 40,
and Maryland 205. Other areas
received 79 pintS.
The Bloodmobile are to make
these visits this week:
Monday. st. Georges Episcopal
Church, 908 North Nelson street,
Arlington, 10 am. to 4 pm;
Wednesday, Teen Canteer. Hill
wood avenue, Falls Church, 2 to
8 pm, and Friday, the Pentagon,
10 am. to pm.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Maryland Women Outnumber
Men For First I ime Since 1910

ratio of men to women here is
I89.1 to 100.
In the last 10 years, Maryland S
total population grew by 521, 1,757
or 28.6 per cent, the census-t takers
reported. But children under
increased even more-121,539 or
88.9 per cent. the biggest increase
in any age group.
Non-white and white segments
|of the population increased at
about the same rate. The white
population increased from 1,513,-
481 in 1910 to 1854. .987 in 1850;
the non-white from 302,763 to
388.014.
The total 1850 population was
2.343,001. while in 1910 it was
l ,821,244. The new total of men
is 1,166. .603.and of women 1,l76.-
398.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Liberty Loan Building
Would Be Removed in
New GSA Tunnel Plan

/ Possibility of tunneling a road
way through the old Liberty Loan
Building on Fourteenth street be-
tween the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing and Maine avenue
/ is being studied by the General
Services Administration officials.
/ The building, occupied by the
Treasury Department. stands in
the way of District officials plans
for smoothing the traffic flow at
the District end of the Highway
Bridges.
Building Would Be Removed.
The design of the Fourteenth
street overpass at Maine avenue,
when approved would involve
eventual demolition of the Lib
erty Loan Building, and construc-
ton of cloverleaf connection in
the northwest quadrant of the
intersection for westbound traffic
on Maine avenue wishing to go
southbound on Fourteenth street
| Construction of this roadway
now, District officials said, would
eliminate the confusion and con-
gestion caused by westbound
Maine avenue traffic turning left
across two heavy traffic lanes to
go southbodnd in the park road
way toward Virginia.
1t also would further the Dis
trict's plans to increase the ca
pacity of the northern approaches
to the twin Highway Bridges.
Called Impossible.
At conference last week with
wv. E. Reynolds, Commissioner of
Public Buildings, and members Of
his staff, District officials were
advised the building could not
be demolished at this time.
It was decided, however, that
GSA would collaborate in study
to determine the feasibility and
cost of running an arcade through
the building to carry the road
way.
Evening star., 1951-09-09

Maryland's women now out
number Maryland'S men.
The Census Bureau last night
said it's 1850 count showed 99.2
males for each 100 Maryland fe-
males. or numerical majority
iof 9,795 women.
1t was the first time since 1910
that women outnumbered men
and compared with a ratio of 101
males to 100 females 10 years ago
1t proves Maryland's right in
step with the rest of the Nation
Women also are in the majority
nationally now.
The biggest part of the margin
lis in the most marriageable age
groups-15 to "a. But the Free
State still plays second fiddle to
the District in this respect. The
Evening star., 1951-09-09

the first united Chest t-USO cam
lpaign here since World War II.
"All of us in the Community
Chest Federation, Mr.. Duffield
said." are extremely grateful that
Mr.. Owen is to lead us.
people in the National Capital
area and servicemen and women
throughout the world are depend
ing upon us. I am confident that
under the leadership of Chairman
Owen and his colleagues, we shall
not let them down"
The combined campaign for
1852 will seek $4.050.000. OF this,
So, $780, 900 will be for local needs
of 100 member Chest agencies and
the disqualification Fund, and
1920, 900 for the USO and other
United Defense Fund services to
Armed Forces members.
Cabinet Announced.
Members of Mr.. Owens Cam
lpa1gn CABINET include:
Government Unit-Mrs. Georgia
Neese Clark, United States Treas
urer, chairman: Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, Selective Service di-
rector, vice chairman.
Business Unit Joseph S. Bald
win of the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Co., chairman.
(Firms with more than Is en-
Iployes)
Business Unit II-William j.
Haggerty of the Occidental Life
Insurance Co. of California. chair
man. Firms with less than Is
employees and professional Offices
Special Solicitation Unit-Mrs.
Donald c. Beatty, chairman.
Advance Gifts Unit - Aaron
Goldman of the G. B. Macke
Corp, chairman.
Alexandria Unit-Col. Allen B.
Hicklin, chairman.
Arlington Unit-Leon Logan,
NlldA III AldIls
Fairfax Unit = Paul Reiber,
chairman.
Montgomery Unit-David Scull,
chairman.
Prince Georges Unit Walter L.
Green. chairman.
German Is Named.
j. r. Pat German, jr., will be
chairman of the Century Speakers
Club and Solicitor Training, and
George T. Titus of the Times
Herald will head a special COM
mittee on campaign and publicity
in cooperation with the Washing
ton Advertising Club.
Mr.. Owen, a Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology graduate, is
proprietor Of the Thos. j. Owen &
Son, real estate auctioneerS and
appraisers.
He is vice president and direc-
tor of the Perpetual Building As
ISOLATION. and a director of the
American Security and Trust Co.,
the National Mortgage and Invest
ment Co. and the Acacia Mutual
Life Insurance Co.
Mr.. Owen also is a director of
the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club, and a trustee of the Landon
School for Boys, the Washington
City Orphan Asylum and the
Community Chest Federation. He
was general vice chairman of the
Chest Federation campaign last
year. He lives at 4460 Hawthorne
lane NV. with Mrs. Owen and
their two sons.
The campaign will open on Red
Feather Sunday" October IA.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
z Falls Church School!
Put Off Openings in
Dispute Over Safety

The opening tomorrow of two
Falls Church schools was post
poned last night while in Prince
Georges County authorities dis
closed new complications because
only seven of an expected 81 new
buses for the new school year have
arrived.
The two Falls Church schools
involved in a current controversy
will open Wednesday unless other
wise announced, the City School
Board said.
The schools, in remodeled resi-
dences, were declared unsafe by
city inspectors last Wednesday
School authorities Immediately be-
gan work to correct the structural
deficiencies and provide adequate
emergency exits.
A statement issued last night
declares that all city students ex-
cept those in the first, 10th and
18th grades will report for classes
on opening day tomorrow.
Council Agrees to Inquiry.
The two temporary buildings
are formerly private homes. One
is at North Washington street
and the other at Seven Corners
and Sleepy Hollow road.
The school boards plan to use
these two buildings figured in a
series of charges levelled at the
board by the Falls Church School
Emergency Association. The as
sociation demanded an investiga-
tion of the school administration
and the city council agreed to con-
duct the inquiry.
Tuesday night the school board
must report to the Madison School
auditorium where the council, in
public session, will inquire into
the charges.
Metal Shortage Blamed.
The buildings were leased by the
board when it became evident that
two new schools, one a junior
high, the other an elementary
would not be completed in time
for the fall telSn. The school
board attributes the delay to CON
fusion in the building industry,
and particularly in the critical
shortage of metals occasioned by
defense production.
Grades two through six will be-
gin classes in the Madison School
and grades seven thorugh nine
will attend in the Jefferson annex
to the Madison School. Twelfth
graders are attending the Fairfax
owned Falls Church High School.
Prince Georges School Supt
William S. Schmidt said the
County's lot available buses will
make more than the usual num-
ber of trips so that all routes may
be covered. but they probably will
be behind schedule on some
routes.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Spinster Killing Charged
To Driver of BuIIdozer
BY the Asseeiated Press

DURHAM, N. c., Sept. B.
Orange County Sheriff Sam Latta
said today that a formal charge
of murder has been filed against
la bulldozer driver in the killing
of 71-year-old Chapel Hill spin
|ster.
Hobart M. Lee. 33, of Burling-
ton, has been held by officers since
Thursday in connection with the
bludgeon Staying of Miss Rachel
Crook. who ran variety store
and fish market.
Sheriff Latta had said previous
ly that he didn't expect to file
charges against Lee until early
next week after he had studied
findings in three important lab
oratory reports. He didn't indi-
cate why he changed his mind.
Evening star., 1951-09-09

u o m m u n ! I y
C h e S t : USC
C a m p a i G n,
1T W a S a n :
'nounced er {
yesterday.
Hugh K. Duff
field. president
of the Commu-
nifty Chest Fed
e r a t tion, Ma
tional Capital
a I e a, S a l d
Mr.. Owen will
h e a d 10000
Red F e a t h e +
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Chapman Flies to PorIey

NEW > YORK, Sept. 8 (P).-
Oscar Chapman, Secretary of the
Interior, left by plane tonight fol
Caracas, Venezuela, to attend a
Pan-American oil conference
aimed at promoting increased
production of oil in the Western
Hemisphere.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
|Sufety TuIks

Inspector Richard Mansfield
The Stars safety director, viii
conduct series of safety "chalE
talks" at the following three
schools this week:
Tomorrow. ST. Johns School
Kensington. 10 am.
Wednesday, st. Bernardette';
School, Silver Spring, 10 am.
Thursday, John Nevins An.
drews School, Takoma Park, 9:3(
am.
Evening star., 1951-09-09

total of $648,000 for the year. The
department institutions also cared
for some Federal prisoners. aver
aging lit during the year, for
which the Federal Government
was billed $172,152 at rates aver
aging $2.66 per man per day.
The latter figure is the depart
ment's average per capita cost for
the care of inmates. In 1850 that
figure was $3.50; in 1949, 1854;
in 1948, $2.64, and in 1947, .$2.48,
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Truck Struck by Train
On Shirley Highway

A tractor trailer was struck By
"a train at the Washington & Ole
Dominion Railroad crossing or
Shirley Highway, Arlington police
reported yesterday. No one was
injured, police said, and damage
was not serious.
Driver of the truck was listed
as Lester Smith, 25, of Glenrock
Pa.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Planning Group Meets

The Upper Montgomery County
Planning Commission will hold its
next open meeting at pm. We'd
nesday in the Gaithersburg Fire
house. 1t will be the fifth in a
series of sessions being held by
the commission in the rural area.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Seed Directory Available

BLAcKSBURG, Va, Sept.
P).-The 1851 certified seed direc-
tory is of the press and available
through the Virginia Crop I'm
provement Association at VPI.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Owen 10 Direct
Red Feather
1852 Campaign
Drive to Seek Funds
For Both USO and
Community Chest

Thornton w. Owen, immediate
past president of the Washington
Board of Trade, will be general
chairman of the 1852 Combined