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Evening star., 1952-12-03
Grant and Mrs. Smith
Disagree on Majority
|0f Southwest Plan

Maj. Gen. U. s. Grant, Sd, and
Chloethiel Smith agreed
yesterday in support of the first
proposed Southwest slum clear
ance project, but differed sharply
on plans for making over the rest
Of Southwest Washington.
Addressing a District League of
Women Voters luncheon, both
speakers urged the group to ap-
pear at a District Building hearing
on December II to support plans
for redeveloping a 76-acre tract
bounded by E and I streets and
Fourth and South Capitol streets.
But Mrs. Smith urged that the
Commissioners reject a tentative
outline. submitted by the National
Capital Planning Commission, on
how to rebuild an entire 427-acre
Southwest area. Mrs. Smith is
co-author. along with Architect
Louis Justement of a plan to up
grade the character" of the South
west substantially more than the
NCPC proposes.
Gen. Grant, former NCPC chair.
man. warned that the city SHOULD
mot be seduced" or have the
gamblers blood in all of us
aroused by what he called "a
pretty picture"
He questioned that there would
be market for high income
dwellings enviSioned by the archi-
tects, and he said he believes the
city had as many such dwellings
as it needs. He contended the
NCPC proposals will improve the
area and meet proposals for de-
velopment of the entire city.
Gen. Grant also argued that the
architects have placed undue en-
phaSiS on esthetic values. A ma
jor problem facing the planning
commission, he said, is to provide
for present loW-inSome residents
of the Southwest without creating
SlumS elsewhere.
Mrs. Smith countered that pri-
vate investment will not be ready
to put money into the Southwest
for rebuilding if the emphasis is
on low-cost housing. If the South
west, with its advantages of ma
tural beauty and ready access can
not be developed for new uses, she
said, then no part of the central
city can"
In a prepared talk. she said
failure to take advantage of newly
available Federal funds for the
best possible use is a view of ''de-
featiSts who contrast sharply with
the men who started the Nation s
Capital"
1T is impossible to find out If
it is practical to rebuild the South
west as it should be if a plan
which would make such rebuilding
possible is not established first, "
she added. !
1T Is important to aim at the
best and then compromise only II
the best cannot be achieved. BY
starting at the lowest point, you
end up at the lowest point"
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Firm Given Day to Broee
Excavation or Fuce Fine

Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark F. King yesterday gave an
engineering firm until 1880 am.
tomorrow to get an excavation
properly braced or face fines for
not complying with District safety
regulations.
Mr.. King gave the order to the
Shapiro Engineering Co., which
is doing the work at 1914 K street
NV. He said the 15-foot exca-
vation hadn't been properly
shored, although the firm had
been warned by District building
inspectors. He added that an
alley running into the rear of the
pit also hadn't been properly bar
ricaded.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
District Refines Title
OF Repair Shop by
Lengthening Name

The District Commissioners
yesterday acted to add more
polish to the city government.
They changed the name of
the District Repair Shop to
the Division Of Repairs and
improvements"
The reason. according to an
official in the executive Of
flee: "It sounds more re-
fined"
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Randolph 10 Address
Chest Report Luncheon

Jennings Randolph, assistant
to the president of Capital Air
lines, will speak at the 1853 Com
munity Chest-USO Campaign re-
port luncheon Friday in the Hotel
Washington.
j. Leslie Ehringer of Capital
Airlines will receive an oscar"
award during the luncheon. Chest
officials said employees Of that
Organization have increased their
gifts $50 per cent, and that total
giving for the firm has doubled
from 81, 800 to $4,000.
Workers will report on progress
made toward the Washington
area goal Of $4,l50.000.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
New Trial Starts Friday
In Case Of Sleeping GI
BY the Assoeictsd Press

FORT MEAD, Md. Dec. s.
An Army court martial will con-
vene here at 2 pm. Friday to try
Pfc. Warren G. Mcconnell, 81
year-old soldier from Alloway.
N. j.. for sleeping at his sentry
post in Korea.
A previous court martial SEN
tenced Pfc. Mcconnell to 10 years
at hard labor and a dishonorable
discharge for going to sleep No
vember IA, 1851, while on guard
duty on the 7th Infantry Divisions
main line Of resistance.
He won q new trial on appeal
to the Court Of Military Appeals
in Washington.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Two Youths With Gun
Get $22 at Cos Stotion

Two youths flashing a rusty re-
volver took $22 and wrist watch
from filling station attendant
here this morning.
Charles Sims, II, colored, of
1890 New Hampshire avenue NV.
told police two colored youths
walked into his station at IT'S
Vermont avenue NV. about 2:45
am, asked If he was alone and
they took his money and watch
He could give the police q de-
scription only Of the revolver
rusty and long barreled.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Bethesda Survey Ordered

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil yesterday ordered a street and
grade survey of the Woodmont
Triangle in Bethesda as a "shot
in the arm" for commercial de-
velopment Of the area.
The council directed Public
Works Director Mason A. Butcher
to begin survey of a layout
of streets and storm drainage OF
the triangle. County Manager
Irving G. McNayr told the coun-
)cil the streets Of the triangle
the logical place for commercial
development Of Bethesda, are mar
row and without curbs.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Arlington Federation
Opposes Hotel zoninu

The Arlington Civic Federation
will oppose rezoning for a pro-
posed hotel at 2100 Arlington
boulevard when the application
goes to hearing Wednesday before
the County Board.
That was decided last night
after a federation committee re-
ported that the proposed hotel
would be another step Gin the de-
struction of the residential char
acter Of Arlington boulevard"
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Howard u. Lecture

s. Joseph Marek will deliver a
lecture on "Psychoanalysis and
Unitarian Thought" before the
Society for Dynamic Psychiatry of
Howard University tonight at 8
O'Clock in the Freedman's Hospital
auditorium, Sixth and Bryan
streets NV.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Space Ships and Atomic Guns
Top Sonto's S Modern Toy List

Santa Claus must have spent a
few months at the White Sands
Proving Grounds in New Mexico
before returning to the North Pole
to design this years crop of Christ
mas toys.
At least he's picked up some in
formation on space ships and ray
guns somewhere, and they test
rockets at White Sands.
At one department store you
can buy big and little rocket srips
AND even space boots. With space
boots strapped on, you can bounce
around on springs and spoil the
pull Of gravity. Another store fea-
lures a space gun. This gun is
unique in that it has an attach
ment called the ray adiuster. "
With the adjuster and imagina-
ton in use. one could "ray-gun"
somebody in the kitchen while
standing in the living room.
Brings Parking Solutions.
Santa also discovered the park
ing problem. With each minia-
ture gas station, he's included
ample parking space for tootsie
toys.
Another store is very proud Of
its tiny, English-made copies Of
famous figures. The collection
includes Napoleon with his hand
in his coat and King Henry the
VIII looking very gruff.
German toymakers make the
best mechanical toys. one store
official said. The wind-up col
lection Of toy automobiles includes
a foreign-looking roadster with
gear shift attachment. It goes
slow. fast and backward.
Germans have also come out
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Drainage Meetings Cleared

Montgomery County Manager
Irving G. McNayr was authorized
by the County Council yesterday
to set up a conference Of gov
ernmental agencies to do some
thing about the increasing storm
drainage problem in the sub
urban area.
To be invited to the conference
with county officials will be rep
of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
and the Maryland-National Cap
|ital Park and Planning Commits
sion.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Bond Meeting Scheduled

A special meeting of the Fair
fax County School Board will be
held at 1880 pm. Tuesday to
adopt a specific program Of
schools to be constructed under
the proposed new bond issue.
When a specific program is
adopted, architects will be asked
to estimate the total cost. Then
the board will insert the cost fig
ure In petitions requesting Cir
cult Court to call a bond issue
referendum.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Court Upho|ds
D. {. Inspection
Law on Milk
Embassy Dairy Loses
Suit to ReIux Rules
On Importation.

Judge Matthew F. Mcclure to-
day ruled that milk and cream
can be brought into the District
only from farms approved through
permits issued by the District
Health Department.
His ruling upheld a 1925 law
which, requires q permit from
the department to bring milk
into the District.
In his ruling, handed down in
the U. S. District Court for the
District Of Columbia. Judge Nc
Guire dismissed a suit brought by
the Embassy Dairy, Inc, which
sought to continue to bring milk
in from a Maryland source with
out a permit from the District to
do so.
The Commissioners recently re-
fused to extend beyond last Mon
day relaxation of the law through
which they had permitted the
dairy and other professors to i'm
port milk here without a local
permit.
Memorandum Opinion Cited.
In a memorandum opinion
Judge MCGUIRE, in referring to the
law, said:
"The whole purpose of this act
is made very plain from an ex-
animation of its terms. It was
to make certain that the fluid
milk market in the District of CO.
lumbia would be restricted to a
high quality standard, with milk
only from stringently supervised
sources being permitted to be pro-
duced or shipped into this area
"The highly perishable char.
acter of fluid milk and the poten-
TALLY fertile field it offers for
bacterial growth alone demon
strate without argument the nec-
essity of such regulation" COM
mented Judge Mcguire.
Elsewhere in his opinion, Judge
MCGUIRE asserted:
For it is a fact that it is only
necessary for milk from one dis
eaSed cow to be mingled with that
OF healthy COWS to do the damage,
The epidemic of milk-borne dis
ease, bringing in it's train death
and illness of disabling charac-
ter, are too well known to the pub
lie generally to need but to be al
luded to-"
Dairy Case Cited.
Judge MCGUIRE took the case
under advisement after hearing
arguments week ago. Counsel
for the dairy at that time argued
that the portion of milk brought
in by the dairy from a source not
Officially approved by District au-
thorities was of high grade. The
dairy's attorney, Robert E. Lynch,
said the milk in question has been
coming in from Maryland, where
it has been approved by the State
authorities, as we'll as by the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Edward A. Beard argued that the
law requiring a permit is clear.
In answer to a question asked by
Judge MCGUIRE at the time of the
hearing, Mr.. Beard declared that
actually the Commissioners had
no authority to suspend the pro-
vision of the law for the length
of time they did.
The suspension was to help take
care of an emergency in connec-
ton with milk supply both within
the District and elsewhere
Attorneys could not be reached
Immediately to determine whether
they intend to appeal from Judge
McGuire's ruling.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Federation Asks
Board 10 Halt
Teacher Shuttle
Members, However,
See No Chance of
Avoiding Shifts
By james 6. Deone

The Federation of Citizens
Associations has asked the Board
of Education to halt a scheduled
shuff1ing of District school teach
ers this week. Two parent-teacher
associations have made similar re-
quests.
Board members today threw
cold water on the move, however.
A majority told The Star they
saw no chance of avoiding the
shifts.
Officers of the citizens feder-
alton made their request in let
ter to Board President C. Melvin
Sharpe yesterday. They asked for
an immediate public hearing.
Mr.. Sharpe said he might call
a special board meeting, but cnly
if a majority favored the action.
This appeared to be out of the
question.
Shifts to End Before Meeting.
Without a special meeting the
citizens first opportunity to be
heard would be at regular COM
mittee meetings next week. The
shutting presumably will be fin
ished by then.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
is merging two classes in each
of eight white grade schools and
switching II senior high coun-
selors to classrooms. The shifts
are to provide teacher salaries for
understaffed colored schools.
The citizens federation op-
posed the shifts on the ground
they are disrupting classes, up
setting hundreds" of children
and undermining teacher morale.
The Janney Elementary School
PTA opposed the shift at meet
ing last night. The Anacostia
High School Home and School As
Sociation also has asked the
school board to halt it.
Parents Complain of Move.
The school board gave DR.. Corn
ing authority last September to
make the transfers. At that time
IS other white teachers were
shifted to lower grades and two
temporary teachers were laid off
Six more probably will be laid of
in the current move.
Mrs. Edward B. Morris, fedora
tion secretary, said numerous par
ents have complained about the
shifts. A main objection is that
they are occurring in mid-term, she
said
Janney is one of the eight ele-
mentary schools directly affected.
The others are Burroughs. Buch-
anan. Powell. Bryan, Tyler, Ban
croft. and Kimball.
Janney's PTA last night urged
long measures to head off
future teacher shuff1ing. Pro-
posed were:
l. Reduction of the grade school
class-size standard from 36 to 80.
2. Provision of a more flexible
school budget.
3. More adequate teacher SAL
ary appropriations.
The District Congress of Par
ents and Teachers will be asked
to support these proposals.
The group also proposed crea-
tion of a citizens committee by
the PTA congress to consider a
possible change in the method Of
appointing school board members,
now selected by District Court.
Evening star., 1952-12-03
Prosecutor Quizzed
By Turner Defense
On Lie Detector Test

The third and last prosecutor
in the Randolph (Catf1sh) Turner
narcotics conspiracy trial was
called today as a defense witness.
He is Robert Ackerley, who with
United States Attorney Charles
M. Irelan and Thomas A. Wad-
den. jr., is prosecuting Turner and
eight others on charges they op-
Grated the Districts biggest dope
|peddling syndicate.
Mr.. Ackerley was questioned
about a lie detector test given
Herbert (Bucklejaws) johnson
and his girl friend, Mrs. Nellie
Leach, dope peddlers turned in
formers.
Defense Attorney James ].
Laughlin asked if the young
prosecutor gave the polygraph
tests because he doubted the
veracity of the informers.
Mr.. Ackerley answered that he
did not doubt the truthfulness Of
Bucks and Nellie's" information.
II wanted the tests made be-
cause they implicated 1t. Carper,
a prominent member Of the Police
Department and an officer with 26
years experience. I felt I should
take every precaution before re-
leasinng any information concern
ing their statements. I don't be-
lieve in trial by implication"
1t. H. H. Carper, former head
of the Police Narcotics Squad, and
his principal aide, Sergt. William
L. Taylor, are awaiting trial under
indictment on charges of bribe-
taking and conspiracy to violate
narcotics laws.
Their case is due to be heard
in the U. S. Court for the District
of COLUMBIA on December Is.
Radio Device Revealed.
Mr.. Walden called as a defense
witness yesterday, astounded the
Seven-man defense battery with
his testimony about a little
known radio device capable of
broadcasting conversations in
side a building to a truck parked
outside.
The prosecutor testified that
both johnson and Mrs. Leach had
been threatened by Turner while
talking to the latter at the Turf
Club, a u street night spot, last
March IA.
They told me that Catfish said
to them, If you testify against me
at this trial. you will get the same
thing Arnold Schuster got,'" Mr..
Walden said.
Schuster was shot to death in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on March 8 for
tipping off police to the where
abouts of gangster Willie '(the
Actor Sutton.
"Just who besides these two
informers," Mr.. Laughlia asked.
"can corroborate their statements
about a threat?"
"Mr. James Cross and Mr..
Thomas Andrew 1.-TWO Federal
narcotics agents." the prosecutor
said.
DO you mean they were in
the club?" the defense lawyer
asked.
Listening Via Radio.
why. no. They were outside
in the radio truck, listening in"
said Mr.. Walden.
At mention of radio truck Mr..
Laughlin looked incredulous.
I had sent johnson and Mrs.
Leach up to the club to get In
formation about Turner, who had
just been released on bond" Mr..
Walden explained.
"She had small device in her
purse, and he had one hidden un-
der his coat. Everything that
was said was transmitted to the
radio car. where Cross and An
drew were listening with ear
uh0roc0
Evening star., 1952-09-28
Iouchdown Nay! b Jomes u Astns 28Q4 FouFsee1tf 4e

ESE the winners for the fourteenth week of The Stars
1852 Amateur Snapshot Contest There will be
page weekly winners Sunday and the following Sunday
the winners of $25 in each of the four
classes will be published The classes N Babies and Chill
dren (B) Young People and Adults Co Scenes and Still Life
and Cd Animal Life.
The $25 winners will be entered in the l4th annual News
paper National Snapshot Awards judged Monday october
49, in Explorers Hail. National Geographic Society," Sixteenth
and streets NV There they will compete with entries from
IS other newspapers for prizes ranging from $25 $1,000
There will be 344 snapshots entered in these finals.
Judges for the national awards will be- Robert Boyd preSi
Photographers Association Haeck
Finley weknown Photographic ILLUSTRATOR Stevan Dohanos
illustrator leading magazines Anthony Stewart
senior staff photographer National Geographic Society and
Kenneth W. Williams of the Photographic illustrations
division of the Eastman Kodak Co.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Ao+Orin1 From M/ocb;11+ox,. MovIonds Seaside
!. O~o1 0;+,
By Wolter W. Hubbord
American Automobile Assoeiotion

While the 280-mile round trip
to Ocean City, Md, can be made
in one day. the family would
never forgive you if more time
were not allowed to stay at the
seaside.
Take Defense highway through
BladenSburg, Landover and Lam
ham to Annapolis and, if time
permits, pay a brief visit to the
grounds of the United States
Evening star., 1952-05-11

Eastern Shores largest town and
Maryland's second largest port.
Laid out in 1882, Salisbury fronts
on the Wicomico River. Visitors
will notice that it is altogether
untypical of other Eastern Shore
towns. The Poplar Hill Mansion
a magnificent Colonial residence,
was built in 1795.
Cambridge is especially in
teresting, because it was founded
in 1884 and many refugees ex-
PEELED by the British from Nova
Scotia in 1755 came here to live.
Many of their descendants still
live in Dorchester County. The
town is located on the south side
OF the Choptank River, about Is
miles from Chesapeake Bay. In
addition to being in the heart of
a rich. agricultural section, it is
the center Of the muskrat fur in
dustry of the State. The Old
Trinity Church, near Cambridge,
was built in the 16Qns
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Famous Oak on Route.
SUNMEK CAMFS.
Longport Summer Academy

Boys. o to IA. Longport, New Jersey
An exceptional 1O-week program In an ex.
cellent recreational atmosphere on Absecon
Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Cultural
programs and social activities encourage
the cultivation Of talent and abilities.
Episcopal Boy Choir. Optional academic
tutoring arranged according to individual
needs. All land and water sports. Board.
JAMES L. PALsGROvE. Sd. Director.
Box 449. PawlinG, New York.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
No Need to Tip Like Crazy
In New York, So They Say
By Horace Sutton

10 per cent is not enough. Mini
mum for walters is now 20 per
cent. more If you take up a lot
of table or a lot of time. Don't
forget the captains and the head
walters. too. Cabbies get
minimum of two-bits, even on the
shortest runs. and the pretty gal
in the hat-check room now shifts
at quarter"
Advice Differs.
Mr.. Mortimer's opinions are at
quite a variance with the New
York Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau. whose information clerks tell
inquiring tourists that 10 or Is
iper cent of the check is an ade-
quate tip.
"Our clerks would never advise
a visitor to tip a cab driver Is
or IS cents for a 25-cent ride
around the corner" an executive
of the bureau states.
Average New Yorkers still give
10 or IS cent tips. figuring that
the increased prices on the menu
will make a proportionately in
creased token for the waiter. We
give our cab drivers is cents for
around-the- corner hauls. 20 or
Is cents for the usual ride. AS
for hat-check girls. every one here
recognizes that the pretty gal"
gets flat salary while the tips
go to a concessionnaire. Average
folks here give IS cents to the hat
check girl in the ordinary place,
a quarter in the spiffiest of spots
and nobody does any shifting at
any one else.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

One Of series Of motor trips from Wosh-
ineton. Clip and save it for future
reference.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

walk. we'll over 2 miles long. has
an amusement zone.
A score of fine hotels, smaller
inns, cottages, tourist homes and
apartment houses provide accom-
modationS for the transient or
longtime vacationist. The city
can accommodate State or region
al conventions. and the summer
population sometimes hits well
above the 10000 mark.
Big-game fishermen find that
channel bass. tuna and marlin of
great size are caught 20 to 80
lEles off shore. Smaller power
boats take fishermen to the i'm
mediately ff-shore spots for black
bass, ling. weakf1sh, founder, cod,
seabass, mackerel and sea trout.
Surf casting is popular when the
fish are running.
States Second Port.
Alternate routes recommended
by the American Automobile AS
sociation include Salisbury, the
Evening star., 1952-05-11
RESORTS.
POCONO MTS., PA.
ONAWA news
Vol. l Mountainhome ii, Pa. No. z

During the Spring and Autumn
seasons, Onawa is especially popu.
lar with newlyweds, since every
effort is made to provide for a
memorable honeymoon. Every
newly married couple is welcome
during these seasons at a special
set-toðer party when each is
&iven an attractive gift by the
MANAGEMENT.
Having we'll appointed rooms
with and without bath, wonderful
meals, directed activities, courtssas
service, excellent recreational r..
cilities, and very reasonable rates
Onawa is always considered for
q Pocono Honeymoon.
During the day there is swim.
ming, tennis, shuffleboard, volley
ball, badminton, softball, riding,
cycling and hiking, while dancing,
hayrides, entertainments, and in.
formal games are popular during
the evenings. Memories Of q de.
liehtful visit here will alway be
cherished.