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Evening star., 1952-12-26
By jones 6. Deone

WnaCS happened TO MarSnall
Heights?
Three years ago the District was
thwarted in its hope to make
Marshall Heights the city's first
major experiment in slum clear
ance. The residents asked to clear
the slums themselves, and the city
handed them the job. Now it's
turning its own attention to the
Southwest.
In three years, Marshall Heights
has improved. But the climb is
proving slow and painful.
Feared Dispossession.
Congress killed ambitious Mar
shall Heights plans because the
homeowners feared they would be
Idispossessed and couldn't afford
to buy. homes elsewhere.
Everett L. Edmond, president of
the Marshall Heights Civic Asso-
citation. told officials then:
"The people are ready and eager
to start on a vast building program
that will add greatly to the value
and beauty of the city and also
will increase its revenue by way of
taxes on new homes"
Mr.. Edmond's prophecy has not
yet been fulfilled.
In three years, 81 rickety houses
have been condemned and torn
down. Not quite as many new ones
have been built. Half the areas
homes now have plumbing, COM
pared to only a fifth in January
1850. A third of the streets have
been graded and surface-treated
(gravel and oiD. The number OF
sewers and water mains has ap-
proximately been doubled.
$18O,000 Expended.
The District has spent about
$3.50, 900, and residents have in
vested an amount no one has
counted.
Marshall Heights shows the
difference. But it's doubtful that
lit yet adds greatly to the city's
value and beauty. And it still is
Ia serious headache for the city's
health and building inspectors.
Marshall Heights is at the east
|ern tip of the District, on a fine
|hilly site overlooking the city. It
occupies 180 acres in a triangle
formed by East Capitol street,
Benning road, and the line diyid-
ing the District from Prince
Georges County, Md. It has per-
haps 600 homes and $500 inhabi-
tants, virtually all Negro.
Has Backward Appearance.
The area is surrounded by
paved streets and substantial
houses, but itself looks like coun-
try. Almost no streets have hard
pavement, curbstones or sidewalks.
Some houses perch on hillsides.
Others hide in gullies. Nineteen
|street-corner hydrants still pro-
vide q third of the dwellings with
their only water, so that mothers
carrying kettles and buckets are
part Of the scenery.
Three years ago a number Of the
dwellings were flimsy structures of
old boards. tar paper, bits of tin
and similar haphazard materials.
One house incorporated some dis
carded phone booths, another
some piano cases. Most of those
dwellings now are gone.
But 20 houses currently bear
red condemned" signs. Thirteen
Of those still are occupied.
And other homes, unfinished
three years ago, still are incom-
plete, although some show evi-
dence Of recent work. Most work
Is done by the owners themselves.
According 10 william II. Cary.
Evening star., 1952-12-26

director OF Cne dealCn OepdTL-
ment's Bureau of Health Engi-
neering, there still are perhaps 15C
houses that either ought. to have
drastic work done on them OF
should come down.
And some Of the new ones ought
never to be finished. according to
Mr.. Cary.
Frustrating Job.
Rebuilding of the area actually
is turning out to be a frustrating
job all around.
From the Districts standpoint
there are two main problems
money and enforcement.
In 1850 city officials estimated
it would cost $2.5 million of the
taxpayers money to give Marshall
Heights streets, water and sewer
facilities up to minimum stand.
ards. That estimate has now beer
raised to $2.87 million.
The city already is up to it:
ears financing priority improve.
ments elSewhere-such as on the
dangerously overloaded Rock
Greek sewer line. Money for com.
pleting facilities in Marshal
Heights isn't in sight.
Harold A. Kemp, District sani.
tation engineer, says he can't ado
more sewer lines until a $910,00(
storm sewer system is installed
and without sewers, 225 Marshal
Heights homes can't have water
either. Water and sewer lines 81
far have cost about $100,000-s
fraction of the ultimate total.
The Highway Department i
reluctant to finish streets unit
water pipes are in, because i
would mean tearing up pavement
Major Job Necessary.
Street rebuilding is a major jol
itself. Some of the streets arr
hardly more than hill-and-dal'
cowpaths. Bulldozers must cut
away hillsides and fill in valley
to remake them.
So far. 80 of about 80 blocl
lengths of. street have been i'm
proved, at a cost of $4,000. Tn
bill eventually will mount II
100000. Eventually will be !,
long time. Meanwhile. in rain!
weather some of the streets still
are impossible. ....
Nobody. of course. argues tina
necessary public improvements
shouldn't be made. Marshal
Heights, like any other section, il
entitled to them. Providing then
just happens to be bigger, more
complicated - and tardier - jok
than usual. Some residents criti.
cize the city for not starting many
years sooner.
The city, Of course. purposely
lput off any action while the sec.
tion was considered slum clear
ance project site.
Lack Of Money Is Key.
The enforcement problem Il
more vexing. It's root is poverty.
A couple Of statistics indicate
its scope. Sewer and water mains
now are available in all but IL
street blocks. But 81 homeowners
have failed to connect sizeable
81 per cent Of those who could
And. another 73 connected only
under orders from health authori-
ties.
The reason, which city officials
recognize, is that installing plumb
ing is expensive. Sewer and water
connections cost the homeownel
probably $500 in assessments. In
terror plumbing may cost $1,000
Sidewalks and curbs also would
cost the homeowner something
LOT course.) s
Everyone out there wants Il
Evening star., 1952-12-26
Ex-FBI Man Named Officer
Of Railway Express Agency

A former Federal Bureau of In
vestigation official has been ap-
pointed vice president Of the Rail-
way Express Agency.
Evening star., 1952-12-26

Defense Fund Held Ample.
Senator Bridges said the Eighty
third Congress should work to
balance the budget before consid-
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Dispute by Engineer, Fireman
Preceded Wreck, ICC Finds

The ices report summarized
the findings as follows:
The fireman on the lead loco
motive testified that as the train
approached the curve at high
speed. he reminded the engineer
OF the required showdown. The
engineer closed the throttle and
on second suggestion by the fire.
man made 9 temporary brake
application.
The fireman said he then told
his superior the trains speed was
not being properly controlled and
that the engineer replied ne would
operate the locomotive, and there
upon released the brakes and
opened the throttle.
The fireman ATTEMPTED to reach
the controls. he said, but was
physically prevented from doing
so.
Other trainmen said an auto
matte speed control twice stopped
the train during the run and the
engineer of the second locomo-
tive came forward to make in
quiries. This engineer said the
lead engineer "acted as though
ne was sick" and that he offered
10 take over the trains operation.
The lead engineer replied that he
did not require assistance. The
second engineer said he became
satisfied that the other engineer
was not ID and returned to his
own unit.
& The accident occurred shortly
afterward.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
|Morgoret's S Earl
Shoots With Kinq
|As Clan Gathers
BY the Assoeiused Press

LONDON, Jan. l5.-The red
haired Earl of palkeith rested a,
Sandringham last night after q
shoot" with the King and the
Duke Of Edinburgh--an excursion
some gossips think might lead te
announcement Of his engagement
TO marry Princess Margaret. &.
By the time the three men had
popped away at their last bird
some court and society gossips
were so sure the Immensely
wealthy Earl and the Kings
younger daughter win shortly an
|nounce their engagement that
|tney were speculating on the size
of her engagement ring.
There was little definite news
from the Kings country retreat al
|Sandringham. but there were in
|dications in London society circles
that signals are set for another
royal romance riyaling that OF
Princess Elizabeth and young
Philip in 1947.
Observers in touch with the
court point out that the. young
earl alone-of all in Margaret's
big circle of vO11thflIl friends. n1alf
and female--Was invited to Sand.
bingham this week end.
What's more, his arrival brought
him into a stispiciously full gath.
|ering Of the royal clan. The King
the Queen, Princess Elizabeth ant
her husband all were there. Sc
was the Kings mother, Queer
Mary. % ~ '@.,e,.:.@ VA
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Social Worker Is Found
Unconscious In Parked Cal

A social worker yesterday was
found unconscious In his car,
parked in q civil War gunpit at
Fort Hunt.
Park Police said i garden hose
was running from the cars ex-
|haust into the front seat.
The social worker. identiied as
Matthew solomon, 10, of GO
South washington street, Alex
|andria. was found by John Cur
ran. q maintenance crew foreman
for the National Capital Parks,
who went to the area TO get some
tools. Mr.. Curran pulled MIR,
Solomon from the car. A few
moments later. police said, PARK
Policemen "A. G. Thomas and i. G.
Schleig drove. by. The two ON
GERS immediately gave artificial
respiration.
MIR. Solomon was taken tf
Alexandria Hospital by the Alex
|andria Rescue Squad. and later
transferred to ST. Eiizabeths HOS.
lpital. where he was held for men
tai observation. Police said q
note TO Mr.. Solomon's wife was
found in the front seat of the
lear. %z
Evening star., 1952-01-15
New York Imports Butter

ALBANY. N. Yin New York
State 10 out Of every 20 pounds of
butter consumed are imported
from other States. The States
dairy industry gets So cents from
butter out of every $l00 Of in
come. ....
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Glover Park Group Praises
Carlton House Bell Music

In the middle of grippe session,
the Glover Park Citizens Associa-
tion last night moved to. COM
mend the owners Of Carlton
House. recently erected apartment
building for the program Of bell
MUSIC beard twice a day in the
area.
More in the general spirit of the
session was a complaint OF one
member that, This is the darkest
neighborhood In the city" This
climaxed objections that lighting
in the area is old-fashioned.
The Glover Park group joined
three other associations in a reso-
luton favoring continuation of the
cadet corps in local high schools,
The Army has announced it will
withdraw support of the program
in June, If at least 100 corps mem
bers are not enrolled in each
school.
Charles Yates was appointed by
Carl II. Hamrick, association pres
ident. to a committee for study
of laws governing local milk pro-
duction and distribution.
The meeting was held in Stod-
dert School, Thirty ninth ane
Calvert streets NV.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Advertising Trust suiI
Ends in Consent Decree
sy ths Asseeiated Pres.

The Justice Department sale
today a civil antitrust suit againsj
the Mansfield lohio) News-Jour,
nal has been ended with accept.
ance by the newspaper of a judg.
ment regulating its advertising
policies. ,5',s@
Attorney General AGcGfath sale
a consent decree was entered this
in Federal Court al
Cleveland. s,,.e.e, ~
The department said that it en-.
joins the publishing compan,
from: ~ ~.
/. Refusing to accept advertise.
ments where the reason for re.
fusal is that the advertiser use.
or proposes to use another adver-
tising medium, in this case a radio
station. 49,
2, Accepting advertisements or
the condition that the advertiser
shall not use another advertising
medium. tE :
3. Canceling any advertising
contract for the reason that tht
advertiser uses or proposes to use
another advertising medium.
The consent decree followed
unanimous affirmation by the Su.
preme Court: December II of ar
antitrust judgment against thu
Lorain -tOhio) journal Co., which
is under the same ownership a.
the Mansfield newspaper.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Sawyer and PaiInan
Quarrel Over Agency
For Small Business

Secretary Of Commerce Sawyer
and Representative Patman
Democrat, of Texas tangled today
over the question of who should
be the champion Of small business
in the present defense emergency
Mr.. Sawyer was a witness be-
fore the Joint Committee on the
Defense Production Act and re-
ported on what his departments
ONCE of Small Business had ac-
complished. He said he, saw nc
reason for duplicating its efforts
through the Small Defense Plants
Administration which Congress
set up at the last session.
Mr.. Patman, however, asserted
that he never knew any organiza-
ton representing both large and
small business. as the Commerce
Department does. which did not
decide conflicts of interest In
favor of big business.
Dispute Over Call.
Mr.. Sawyer said he is doing
more than anyone else in the
Government, including the agency
in question itself, to make...the
Small Defense Plants AdEHinistra- J
tion work. # ssss
There was q dispute over
whether Mr.. Sawyer telephoned
Mr. PatmaTs Of vice versa. and
Mr.. Sawyer finally declared it was
Mr.. Patman who Initiated the
call and who asked him to trans
fer employees OF the Office OF
Small Business to the new agency.
MIR. Sawyer said he replied he
did not intend TO eviscerate THE
Commerce Department to set up
q, new agency" But he said also
that he had transferred nine OF
his employees to agency ana while
they are still carried on the Com
nerce payroll they are doing most
OF the work at the agency.
Says House Is Determined.
Mr.. Patman said the House is
determined to maintain the
agency.
i At one time, in the exchanges
Mr.. Sawyer tended of, an inter-
Iuption by Mr.. Patman by saying,
I''You made a speech. now let me
make one"
The discussion began when Sem
ator Robertson, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, brought up plans of the
agency to set up regional offices
Including one in Richmond where
the Commerce Department already
has an Office. Senator Robertson
remarked that the director of the
new Office will have an office, q
telephone and a typewriter just as
the Commerce Departments pres.
Fent regional director has.
Mr.. Sawyer said 1t was more
probable that the new regiona
director would have two tele.
phones and two typewriters.
Capehart Breaks Tension.
The Sawyer -Patman dispute
ended when Senator .Capehart
Republican, Of Indiana, broke thu
tension by asking innocently, "Mv
Secretary. how do you feel about
the so-called Capehart amend.
|ment?"
In the laughter that followed
Secretary Sawyer asked to be ex.
|cused from answering that ques.
ton.
Telford Taylor. Small Defense
Plants administrator. testified to.
day the House Committee or
Small Business that his organi.
|zation is moving ON two fronts tt
channel Government business Il
small plants. t2s # ,t5'f fs&.3
He said it is drafting a proposa
spelling out the specific circum.
stances under which price defer.
entails may be paid to small bust.
nesses and it is asking the Con.
troller General to rule that q con-
tract need not be given to the
lowest bidder in response to ad.
vertisements for bids.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
By ihe Associated Press

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission said today a dispute be-
tween an engineer and d fireman
immediately preceded the derail-
ment OF q fast Chicago, Indianap-
oils g. Louisville Railway passen-
ger train at Monon. Ind, last
September II.
The commission said the acci-
dent, in which the engineer was
killed and II other persons were
hurt was caused by speed Of .64
miles an hour when the train left
the tracks on q i5-mile- e-per-houl
curve.
There were two diesel locomo-
tives pulling the train. In the
lead engine were Engineer Herb
Dickerson Of Lafayette, Ind, who
was killed, and Fireman Charles
Henriott. Roy johnson was the
engineer on the second locomotive
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Fish VuIue Declines

PROVIDENCE. r. I.-value Of
the f949 New England fish catch
was less than in 1948 because of
more worthless fish caught. The
1949 catch was larger than in
1913, however.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Former NeWsman Named
CSC Information Chief

Philip w. Schultz, a former st
Paul and Minneapolis newspaper
man. has been appointed informa-
ton chief of, the Civil Service
Commission, 1T was announced to-
day.
For the past four years Mr.
Schultz has been the commission's
veterans Federal employment rep
resentative in its eighth regional
Office in St. Paul.
Previously, he worked for the
Minneapolis Star-Journal and the
st. Paul Dispatch. where he was
labor editor.
Mr.. Schultz. 40, also worked for
the War Production Board and the
War Manpower Commission. He
served In the Army during the last
war. ...
Mr.. Schultz will assume his
duties February /. /. He succeeds
Carson c. Hathaway, who retired
recently.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Tears Force Acceptance
OF Piggy-Bank OFFERING

Pvt. Dave Wollett of the 9th
precinct-campaigning for the Po-
lice Boys Club-got a pleasant
surprise and a double contribution
yesterday.
Pvt. Wollett was enrolling Mrs
Alvin Dulcan as a club member
at her home at 1892 Barnaby
street NV. Mrs. Dulcan's daugh-
ter Karen, 3, entered the room
and offered her piggy bank to the
officer.
When Pvt. Wollett told the child
she'd better save her money, she
began to cry. The officer hastily
accepted, counted the money, and
found $3.50. The contribution was
la surprise to Mrs. Dulcan, too.
II thought she was asleep" she
said.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Denmark Builders Copy
U. 5. Methods, BerIa Says

Julian E. Berla. Washington
architect Just back from, Den-
mark, says the Danes are eager
to copy some Of the mechanisa-
ton used in the American huild-
ing trades,
Mr.. Berla told the washington
Building Congress yesterday that
the Danes especially admire thu
power hand tools American con-
struction workers use. Mr.. Berla
on a two-month trip no
made to Denmark as q building
consultant sponsored BY the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administers.
ton.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Civil Service Official
Sees Scandals Aidinq
Federal Merit System

Chairman Robert Ramspeck of
the Civil Service Commission pre-
dicted today that the current
Government scandals will result
in the strengthening of the merit
system.
In speech In New Orleans
before that city's Federal Busi-
ness Association, Mr.. Ramspeck
said the current scandals will
result in many Federal jobs now
subject to patronage being
brought under the competitive
civil service system.
1T now appears that many of
the Government positions still
outside the competitive civil serv-
ice will be brought In by the
present session of Congress, in
response to popular demand" Mr..
Ramspeck declared.
Truman's Plan Cited.
Noting that President Truman
has proposed a reorganization
plan to place all internal reve-
nue. positions except that of the
commissioner under civil service.
Mr.. Ramspeck said he thinks it
would be still better if the reye-
nue. commissioners job also was
placed under the merit system.
The i fewer jobs there are
outside Of civil service, the. fewer
people we will have beholden to
individuals and political parties" !"
MIR. Rannspeck declared.
ITO insure that those serving
the public shall recognize their
primary allegiance to the Public,
and not to some individual or
political party, we must extend
the merit system to cover all
positions, except those at the
policy making level" Mr.. Ram
speck added.
Recalls Birth of System.
He .likened today's .'spontane-
GUS tide of feeling" among the
public for Government reform to
the strong popular demand for
reform that led to the birth Of
the Federal Civil Service Act
nearly 10 years ago. following
President Garfield's assassination
by q disappointed Government
job seeker. +
There is an important lesson
to be learned from these parallel
situations. as we begin observ-
ance of National Civil Service
Week." Mr.. Ramspeck declared.
National Civil Service Week is
sponsored annually by. the Amer
ican Federation of Government
Employees (AFLy in cooperation
with the Civil Service Commits
sion, -
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Federal Loyalty Inquiry
A Disgrace, BiddIe Says
BY The Assotiaied Press

RICHMOND, va, Jan. 15.-
Former Attorney General Francis
Biddle told the Richmond Public
Forum last night that he, thinks
loyalty review programs are a
disgrace to free nations.
Mr.. Biddle said they were dam
gercls because they violated con-
stitutional provisions for fair
trials. -
The World War II Attorney
General also cracked out against
those who are prone to find per-
sons guilty by association. !"
Consequently, he added. Ameri-
cans are becoming fearful of the
things they heretofore have
cherished the moStfreedom of
speech. association and thought.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
Miss Bentley 10 Tell
|0f Reds Pipeline
10 U. 5. Before War
BY the Assoeiated Press,

Elizabeth Bentley, wartime Rus
sian spy courier, was called by the
House un-American Activities
Committee today to trace Mos
cows alleged secret pipeline" to
United States Communist agents
before World War II.
Miss Bentley was to testify with
Louis Budenz. former managing
editor of the Daily Worker and
recanted Communist, in connec-
tion with the activities of Max
and Grace Granich.
Published ''voice of China
The Granichs, now living In
Wilmington. VT, have been iden-
titled in. committee hearings as
propagandists for the Communist
Party in China in 1861 when
they published the Shanghai
Voice of China"
Committee aides said they
hoped. to obtain from Miss Bent.
ley and Mr.. Budenz testimony re-
lating to the United States &C.
tivitieS of the. Granichs in the
late l930'S and since.
It was during this period that
the American Communist Party
publicly divorced itself from Mos
COW. But the committee expects
to establish that directives and
information originating in the
Kremlin nonetheless were relayed
secretly to United States Commu-
niSts.
Secret Shanghai Files.
|, Activities of the Granichs In
Shanghai-as alleged Communists
|propagandists in China--were re-
|vealed in secret Shanghai police
files turned over to the committee
by Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willough-
by, former intelligence odlcer fpr
Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
Direct testimony relating to
the publishing venture - some-
times with State Department pro.
tection-was given last week by
John Carter Vincent, State De-
partment career officer, and Clar-
ence E. Gauss former United
States Ambassador to China ane
formerly Consul General in Shang.
hal. I. s,s.s.. 's' 7
Morris L. Appelman Of Denver,
admitted former Communist, tes-
titled the United States Commu-
mist Party sent the Granichs to
Shanghai to foment internal dis
|turbances.
Evening star., 1952-01-15
St.5kilIion in Refunds
Due for MaryIanders
BY the Assoeiated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 15.-About
$4,000 Maryland taxpayers have
q SIS million refund coming from
the Federal Government.
An official in the Internal. Rev.
enue Bureau here said the money
represents tax refund checks
which have not been claimed in
the Maryland district since 1913.
The tax collecting office. said
mostgof the checks are unclaimed
because the taxpayer moved and
didn't take steps to see that his
mail would be forwarded.
If a taxpayer is not at the adj
dress given on the tax return. the
refund check must be returned to
the collectors Office. Government
checks are not forwarded.
The largest number of checks
are holdovers from 1914, a war
year when many transient work.
ers were employed in the State.