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Evening star., 1951-08-31

Idynel. CelaneSe is set to produce
|fortisan. Dow Chemicals offering
is named saran. And Virginia.
Carolina Chemical is making vi
cara.
All the above are past the ex-
perimental stage. Although they
will not completely eliminate ma
tural wool use. they will obtain
special results when made in
blends.
Great Britain's plan to price
support wool will not stop the syn
thetic from crashing the market.
Note that Australia, accounting
for a third of the worlds supply,
doesn't approve.
Textile-trade insiders say De-
fense Director Charles Wilson IA
vors increased output Of synthetic
wools. Economic Stabilizer Eric
Johnston acknowledges the pros
poets, but isn't anxious. He may
kill it, if he becomes Commerce
Secretary-as political tipsters say
he may.
Bank .creditmen expect q syn
Evening star., 1951-08-31
Synthetic Fibers May Threaten Future of Wool

thetic fibers output boom in 1853.
Foreign growers brought the new
trouble on themselves by keeping
the price too high. To consum-
ers, price is the prime factor.
Mills Not Worried.
Wool'S gradual demise isn't dis
turbing to mills and the clothing
trade. They'll handle it just as
they did when nylon took over the
hosiery market from silk.
Finished product manufacturers
like synthetic wool. They say the
pound will go as far as two of
the natural wool. 1t Is easier to
clean and wears longer. 1t is re-
ported wrinkleproof. waterproof,
mothproof and rotproof.
Another factor in favor of cloth
ing makers is that the producers
of synthetic fibers heretofore have
shown greater enterprise and in
itiative in advertising and pub
licizing their new product.
Synthetic woods are made from
coal, natural gas, petroleum and
other minerals Of which there
are large supplies.
Evening star., 1951-08-31
By Lou Schneider
Consolidated News Features.

The natural wool long-range
outlook indicates gradual decay
Synthetic fibers will do to WOO
what rayon did to silk.
Plans call for a United States
synthetic annual output of 100
million pounds by the close OF
1853. That's only 20 per cent of
this country's needs. Present out
put is million pounds. The new
output will be in privately owned
plants, not Government financed.
The Defense Production Admin
tstration is expected to permit
rapid tax amortization for firms
building such plants. Materials
priorities will be allocated as soon
as the defense program permits
late next year.
Acrylic fibers have the qualities
of natural wool. plus the advan-
tageS of being warm and having
strong wearing qualities and prime
resistance to abrasion.
Du Pont is making dacron and
orion. Union Carbide's product is
Evening star., 1951-08-31
WASHINGTON THE HEcHT GO. SILVER SPRING
NOW OPEN SATURDAY!
SILVER SPRING

Beginning you shop Saturdays again eeht
Washington Store o:30 The ht Silver Spring.
Saturday. 10 we'll 1890 $3.50 tonight Fido
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Basic Steps Outlined
To Solve Districts
Parking Problem

The job of the Districts Motor
Vehicle Parking Agency to pro-
vide parking for the city is sim
liar to asking a man to dig a
ditch with teaspoon, an Ameri-
can Automobile Association
spokesman declared yesterday.
Speaking at the monthly lunch
con meeting of the AAA's District
Advisory Board, in the Mayflower
Hotel, La Verne johnson, asso-
ciate director of the Traffic En-
gineering and Safety Department
OF the AAA, said members of the
parking agency have an impos-
sible job trying to carry on the
work without the necessary funds.
Outlines Basic Steps.
Mr.. Johnson outlined three
basic steps for solving the parking
problem:
/. Putting the parking agency
in business with staff and IA
cilities for working.
2. Deciding on an overall plan
calling for a specific project.
which could be taken to Congress
for funds.
s. Setting up an acceptable
method of financing the agency
He proposed the Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency be set UP as
separate agency with director
and be accorded the same status
as the Highway Department or
the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic.
"Must Go into Business"
I'VE would all like to see pri-
vate industry provide parking
spaces" he said, "but it isn't
being done rapidly enough. We
must 60 into the business at least
to the extent of assembling land
which could be leased to private
capital"
Mr.. johnson added the agency
must find provision for financ-
ing the organization, such as using
the revenue from parking meters.
"The Highway Department
needs the funds. but so does the
parking agency" Mr.. Johnson de-
clared.
The advisory board unani-
mously adopted a recommenda-
ton urging the Governor and the
Maryland State Roads Commits
sion to approve a plan for the
Kenilworth interchange of the
Baltimore Washington Parkway,
the Annapolis Freeway and the
Kenilworth Expressway.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Rockville Adult Glasses
Registration Thursday

Registration in adult education
courses in shorthand and tipping
at Rockville's Richard Mont
gomery High School will be held
Thursday, between and 8 pm,
the Montgomery County Board of
Education has announced.
The second-semester classes will
meet Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 7 to pm. beginning Feb
ruary 13. Students are expected
to supply their own books and the
registration fee is $3.50.
A new adult class sponsored by
the board for 16-year-olds and
over will be the clothing construc-
ton course offered in the Sunday
school room of the Calvary
Lutheran Church, 9845 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring. beginning
Thursday from 10 am. to 2:30
pm. Registration fee in the
course, open to all persons not
regularly attending a day school.
is $3.50.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
ADVERTISEMENT.
new DISCOVERY
ENABLES PEOPLE
TO SEE WITHOUT
GLASSES

Washington, D. C.-If you need
or wear glasses, you should be
interested in leading Contact
Lens firms offer of their newly
discovered fluidless corneal con-
tact lenses for only $49.95. Com
pare them with contact lenses
sold at higher prices. The reason
they are able to sell them at such
a low price is because they man
ufacture the lenses themselves in
their own large laboratories.
Budget payments are available.
These lenses are SO invisible your
own friends won't know you are
wearing them. Made of plastic,
they are so safe, football players
wear them. No impressions or
fluid are needed. They are tiny
about half the size of a. dime,
featherweight and tissue thin.
Call at once at D. G. Invisible
Contact Lens Service Co., sos
14th st. NV, Suite 203, Westory
Bldg. Phone Republic 1888. No
appointment is necessary. If you
prefer, phone or write for ap-
pointment or for Free Booklet.
Open 9 Am. to 6 PM, including
Saturday.
Evening star., 1951-02-07

over the measure developed
during the 81st Congress and re-
introduced in this session.
Representative Davis, Democrat,
bill of Georgia. has indicated the
bill may be whipped into final
shape without further public
hearings.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Crime Probers to Chart Future Program Here

The Davis subcommittee inves-
tigating crime will meet at 10
am. Friday to chart It's future
program on pending legislation
to strengthen law enforcement in
the District.
In closed session. the House
District subcommittee will go
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Gen. Hershey to Speak

BERRYVILLE, Va. Feb. !
{SpeciaD Maj. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, director Of Selective
Service. will speak at pm. to-
morrow in the Clarke County High
School here. His talk is being spon-
sored by the Clarke County Wom-
ems Club.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

Take it from the people who
will labor there, Washington's
new Federal courthouse is some
thing to turn judge into a poet.
With the building at Third
street and Constitution avenue
NV. promised for occupancy
early next year, the observation
OF one jurist seems to strike
the keynote for all:
This structure embodies the
functional, the utilitarian, as
well as dignity and beauty. Here
we have a lot of practical little
things that make a courthouse
more useful"
When the last piece of dust
repellent molding has gone into
place, Washington's long-sought
judicial center will be rivaled,
in terms of efficiency and size,
by only two other Federal
courthouSeS in the land-New
York and California.
The close attention to detail
that makes the building some
thing like ideal from the base
ment to the eighth-floor roof
has been the work primarily of
Chief Judges Harold M. Ste
phens and Bolitha j. Laws,
whose respective Court of Ap-
peals and District Court will
be housed there: Architect Louis
Justement and the staff at Pub
lie Buildings Service.
Anticipated Cost Cut.
Working from money-saving
standardized plans, which de-
tail even keyhole specifications,
PBS has been largely respon-
sible for keeping costs well be-
low the originally anticipated
$18.6 million.
What are some of the good
uoW1l-IO-edrGn 1ac1llCleS the TAX
payer is getting for his money.
Courtroom acoustics, aided by
cork-tile and asbestos. will be
far cry from the present echo
canyons, which present an
acouStical situation so bad that
even now, in two courtrooms,
a judge has wires strung from
wall to wall like clotheslines
on a desperate physical theory
that these will smash the Ca
roming sound waves.
All lighting in the courts
themselves will be artificial,
since all are inside" rooms.
Hence no glare in the eyes of
Evening star., 1951-08-09

will have plenty of shelf space
for the tones he will have to
study, standing or sitting.
Jurors will have an assembly
lounge replete with telephones,
sofas. reading and work tables,
and center to relay incoming
personal messages. Panels stuck
for overnight deliberations will
have sleeping quarters isolated
on upper floors and obviating
the necessity Of housing them
in hotels.
While the judges have their
own lunchroom, a spacious cafe
terra will cater to the courthouse
crowd in the basement.
Chances for escape of prison.
erS from the new courthouse
will be remote. A prisoner
would either have to jump one
floor straight up, then batter
down two metal doors screen
ing the prison van elevator;
or, he could negotiate a couple
of barred doors and rush the
marshals' main guardroom, or
he could spirit himself out of
an upper-t1oor courtroom cell
block and whistle his way
through the throngs to the
ground floor.
Extensive Alarm System.
Officials, further, point to the
barred elevators leading from
the main cellblock to all the
upstairs cellblocks. There will
be an alarm system at every
key point to flash immediate
warning to the guardroom.
The marshals, moreover, will
have a Soundproof. virtually
accident proof pistol range to
practice for any potential
eScapee.
Instead of courtrooms now
scattered over the city. all the
many arms of the court will at
last be brought under one roof.
From the top floor of the
Standard Oil Building-a branch
of the court known unfondly as
the "gas station"-will come the
Jury Commission, the Domestic
Relations Commission and two
judges courts. From the Munic-
ipal Court Buildings will emerge
the marriage license bureau and
three judges courts and cham
bers. From two Federal agency
buildings, three judges cham
berS and one courtroom.
Migrating from points just
Evening star., 1951-08-09
D. {. Retailers Praised
For Compliance With OPS

Washington retailers are almost
100 per cent in compliance with
an OPS regulation requiring them
to file a pricing chart on such
items as furniture, clothing, radio
and television sets, District Stabil-
ization Director Vincent A. Holmes
said last night.
Mr.. Holmes said an extensive
check of all known District retail
ers disclosed only five stores had
not filed the required pricing
chart.
The District OPS Office is
greatly pleased with the whole
hearted cooperation of the 1000
Washington retailers who sell
furniture, clothing, shoes, jewelry
and other items on the regulation
list" Mr.. Holmes stated in radio
interview over Station WCFM.
He pointed out that while other
local industries are cooperating
with OPS, none has attained such
q high degree of compliance.
This is an amazing record of
the busineSsman's cooperation
with his Government" he added.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

west of Judiciary Square will be
the auditors Office and the Of
f1cial court reporters. From
points Just south, the Mental
Health Commission and the
United States Commissioner,
who finally gets a bona f1de
bench and court" of his own.
The United States Attorneys
Office will be able to uncoil from
its cramped end scattered semi
public Offices to expand into an
entire-f1oo layout. This will in
clude big office for the chief
prosecutor and rooms scaled
down in size according to the
rank of his deputies in the chain
of command.
Even press reporters will get
hot and cold running water and
soundproof work booths with
telephones.
Some Gingerbread.
And while the emphasis will
be on the functional and the
dignity through simplicity"
idea, the new building will not
be without its gingerbread.
Big granite fountains will
flank the Constitution avenue
driveway entrance.
A 23-foot trylon depicting the
guarantees Of the Bill of Rights
on each face will adorn the
front walk. These high-relief
sculptures also will spell out ex-
cerpts of the Constitution and
the Declaration of independence.
At the southeast corner of the
site, old Blackstone, the legal
professions oracle, will peer
pompously down, moved at last
from his longtime temporary
quarters in the lobby of the
present Appellate Court Build
ing.
Inside, bronze plaques depict
ing number of national holi-
days and events will feStoon the
courtroom doors. In the ap-
pellate courtroom, in bronze,
low-relief will be an unblind-
folded lady of Justice" and
AUTHORITY. the sword d-hearer
There will be low-relief busts
of four revered lawgivers-King
Alfred and the same Blackstone
of England and Justices John
Marshall and Joseph Story of
the United States and four
statues of lawgivers of still
earlier times-MoSeS, Hammura-
bi, JuStinian and Solon.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
'Quantico Marine Dies,
Four Others Hurt in
Virginia Accidents

A Quantico Marine was killed
and four other persons were in
jured in Virginia traffic accidents
yesterday.
Corpl. John Thomas Elm, %,
stationed at Camp Barrett, Guam
tico, was killed instantly, State
police reported, when his car
Skidded on a curve and hit tree
on Route II, between Opal and
Bealeton, in Fauquier County. He
was from Pittsburgh.
Five-year-old Shirley Mae Lans-
downe. colored, of Route 2, Fair
fax, was critically injured when
struck by an automobile on Lee
boulevard near Fairfax Circle.
Fairfax County police said the
child had just been led across the
highway by an adult. When she
reached the roadside, police said,
she turned and started to go back
across the highway to grass
dividing strip where some friends
were standing. =
The car that struck her was
driven by Ernest j. Boyer. 20, Of
3703 Adams drive, Silver Spring,
Md, police said. He was charged
with reckless driving. The girl was
admitted to Arlington Hospital,
where her condition was still criti-
cal today.
Three persons were injured
when their automobile ran into
the rear of a concrete mixer on
Columbia pike near Lake Bancroft,
Fairfax County.
Thomas Ellis, 66, of 615 Sixth
street NV, was admitted to Ar
lington Hospital with head in
juries. His wife, Mrs. Amy Ellis,
Al, and their daughter, Paris Ellis,
S, were treated at the hospital and
released.
Fairfax County police said the
automobile was driven by Mrs.
Ellis son, Jack P. Dillon, 10, who
was uninjured. He told police his
brakes failed to hold.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

satisfied gals, who find housework
nothing but drudgery and monot-
ony, was this lady with a law
degree, who sees household chores
as merely a means to a greater
end.
Il find" she declared, "that
if I keep my sights on the larger
objective, that of making a pleas
ant home for my husband, which
will enable him to give his best
to his career, and of raising our
son to be healthy useful citizen,
I am inclined to feel that this
career of homemaking Is prob
ably the most important, as well
as the most satisfying, to which
woman can aspire"
Mrs. Dennis, who lives at 1925
Hawthorne street in Kent Village,
said she was frankly surprised at
the high percentage of happy
homemakers her research turned
up because most of the popular
and scientific literature she had
read on the subject pointed to a
contrary conclusion.
Income Above Average.
Mrs. Dennis thesis pointed out.
however:
Conversation with the local.
elementary school principal indi-
Gates that Kent Village is re-
garded as upper middle class
with respect to income"
Her study, made this past win
ter and spring, deals solely with
full-time homemakers having at
least one pre-school child.
Women with the least fofsAal
Evening star., 1951-08-09
dc. Retail Food Costs.
Remain SteadyDespite
Nationwide Increases

Washington failed to follow the
rest of the Nation this week in
food price advances on major din
ner table items.
Nationally, retail prices of pork
chops and roasts. top grade eggs
and several fresh vegetables ad-
vanced. But here, prices re-
mained fairly steady.
The Nationwide pork increases
averaged 6 to 10 cents a pound
and reflected higher ceilings
granted by the Office of Price
Sterilization last week on lean
pork loins. Washington was one
OF the few marketing areas which
failed to post higher prices.
This is National Fresh Vegetable
week and scores of bookstore
chains, along with grower organ
lzations and the Department of
Agriculture, are cooperating to
promote bigger consumption of
vegetables during their mid-sum-
mer abundance.
But reduced shipments caused
by rains and increased consumer
demand brought by cooler weather,
have boosted fresh vegetable prices
a little.
Food price declines were few and
far between, confined mostly to a
few abundant produce items like
potatoes, celery, blueberrieS, dew
berries and honeydew melons.
The Dun & Bradstreet food in
dex showed that wholesale food
prices advanced for the third week
in a row.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Revised Plan
On Home Rule
To Get Airiinq
Taft Among Score
To Address District
Unit Tomorrow

More than score of witnesses
are scheduled to testify at hear
ing at 10 am. before Senate
District subcommittee on the re-
vised plan for an elected Wash
ington city government.
One of these is to be Senator
Taft, Republican. of Ohio, who
has joined 81 other members of
the Senate in sponsoring the
compromise bill introduced today
by Senator Case. Republican. of
South Dakota.
At the time he agreed to act
as co-sponsor, the Ohio Sen
ator let it be known he had reser-
vations about some of the pro-
visions of the new bill, but he is
expected to urge its passage,
probably with some changes.
Another witness is expected to be
Philip Willkie, son of the former
Republican standard bearer, now
on the staff of the Senate Sub
committee on Ethics in Govern
ment. One of the opposition
witnesses is to be Edward F. Cola
day, counsel to the Board of
Trade.
The new bill, already approved
by the Senate District Committee,
but subject to the additional hear
ing because of the new "compro-
mise provisions" calls for an all
elected city council of IS members,
nominated by wards but elected by
city-wide voting.
Also it provides for a Mayor as
chief city executive, to be ap-
pointed by the President and con- i
f1rmed by the Senate; an elected
flve-member board of education,
and an elected, non-yoting Dis
trict delegate in the House.
Under the new plan the council
could enact all local legislation,
including taxes, without any sub
mission to Congress, and its acts
would become law. unless Congress
voluntarily stepped in to override
the council
Co-sponsors of the new bill, in
addition to Senator Taft, are
Democratic Senators Kefauver,
Nicely. Pastore. Murray, Lehman,
Humphrey, O'Conor, Magnuson,
Benton, Moody, Kilgore and Doug
las. and Republican Senators But
Ter of Maryland, Hendrickson. Nix
on, Duff, Smith of Maine, Smith of
New Jersey, Morse and Ives.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

judge or jury studying the art
full dodging of q witness.
Wall and furniture holdings
throughout the buildings are to
be flush or contoured so as to
catch a minimum of dust. A
central vacuuming system will
permit the charpeople to plug
their cleaners into a wall and
suck floor leavings into vents.
1nswinging windows will facili-
tate all pane-washing from the
interior.
These maintenance aids, in
cidentally, are viewed by PBS
officials forever concerned over
the high cost of cleanup and
upkeep.
Closets for Coats, Hats.
For jurors and witnesses, coat
closets will replace the rickety
hat-racks. long a tottering hall
mark of the old courthouse.
Jurors will save wear and tear
on their knuckles. Instead of
rapping on the jury room door
when they reach a verdict, they
Will simply push a buzzer to
arouse the marshal outside.
Lawyers at the bar will sit
in rotating chairs so they can
rotate with their arguments.
Architects have seen to 1t
that spectators still must sit
in a modern version of the tra-
dltional Straight-backed. hard
bottomed pew, designed to de-
feat such basic spectator aims
as sleep and getting in out of
the rain.
The latest type of air-con-
ditioning will purr throughout,
a distinct improvement over the
devices that now rattle in court
rooms.
In the district courtrooms, wit
ness chairs will be faced so that
judge. jury and counsel have
equal opportunity to hear. In
the appellate courtroom, a curv-
ing bench will place all nine
judges equidistant from the at
torney'S lectern.
Carpeted Footrests.
This latter is an advantage
not enjoyed by the Supreme
Court itself, whose quarters, one
appellate judge recently re-
marked with some disdain, are
"a Greek temple with a mod
ern office building showed
through it,"
Carpeted footrests beneath
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Praise of McCorron
BY Senators Marks
His 18th Anniversary

Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, Of Nevada, was praised
on the floor of the Senate to-
day on the occasion of his
18th birthday anniversary,
Actually, yesterday was his
anniversary but there was no
session of the Senate and so
the tributes were paid today.
Senator Wiley, Republican,
OF Wisconsin, the ranking
minority member of the Ju-
dietary Committee of which
Senator McCarran is chair
man. led the speakers and
was followed by Majority
LIE a der Mcfarland, and
Minority Leader Wherry. Re-
publican, of Nebraska. They
all spoke of the Senator's
record as a lawyer and q
judge in Nevada and his sery-
ice in the Senate.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Prgrams presented through the
cooperation of the District
Arlington County, Prince Georges
County. Montgomery County ane
City of Alexandria Recreation De.
partments and the Film Center OF
Washington.
Washington, at Dusk.
Stoddert, Thirty ninth and Cal.
vert streets NV.
Barnard, Fifth and Decatur
streets NV.
Powell. Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV.
Sherwood, Tenth and G streets
NE.
Garfield. Second and F streets
Sc.
Fort Greble. Nichols avenue and
Chesapeake street S.W.
Cook, North Capitol and F
streets NV.
Rose Park, Twenty-seventh and
o streets NV.
Kelly Miller, Forty-ninth and
Washington place NE.
Syphax School, Half between
N and o streets S.W.
Arlington, $3.50 pm.
Kemper School, 2035 South Lin
coin street.
Alexandria, $3.50 pm.
Parker Madden, 500 North Fair
fax street.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 p.m.
Paramount Heights Playground,
6003 j street.
Montgomery County, $3.50 pm.
Bethesda Chevy Chase, Wiscon-
sin avenue at end of Norwood
drive.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Baby Found Unconscious
In Crib Dies in HOSPITAL

Acting Coroner Richard M
Rosenberg today will talk with the
parents of an infant girl, who
died last night at Boiling Air Force
Base Hospital. to see whether an
autopsy will be performed.
The baby, month-old Judith
Ann Curran, died at the hospital
a short time after she was found
unconciouS in her crib. She was
the daughter of Staff Sergt. and
Mrs. Dcnald Curran, 31O6 Park
way terrace drive Sc.
Sergt. Curran is stationed at
Andrews Air Force Base.