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Evening star., 1952-09-26
Plastic Desk Tops
adding New Color
ToFederoI Offices

Government workers are coins
to find their workday lives made
more colorful.
| Desks heretofore finished IL
dark walnut or oak are beginning
Ito bloom with new tops Of various
light colors.
General Services Administration
believes the new desk tops will
make Offices more cheerful. Also
Lit is looking forward to saving the
taxpayers some money.
/ GSA runs a furniture repair
Ishop at its warehouse at Seventh
land D streets S.W. One Of its
biggest jobs is repairing the
standard 34x36- inch desk. It has
|cost $50 In labor to refinish q
ldesk, half Of it chargeable to re-
doing the top. But now the old
ltop Is ripped on and q new one
lot plastic Is put on. It costs $40
adding o dollar to the recondi-
ltioning price. However, the new
top is expected to last much
llonger.
/ It is so hard it can't be
scratched. A cigarette makes nc
lburn mark. Ink or pencil marks
can be wiped on.
/ The tops are blond. pale green,
cream. light blue or rose. But No
red.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
|ScuIptress Visits
Suffrage Memorial
On Tooth Birthduy

Mrs. Adelaide johnson, the
sculptress Of the suffrage move.
ment. observes her l06th birthday
today by placing a wreath on her
statuary group Of three suffrage
leaders in the crypt Of the Capitol.
She carved the group Of heads
rising from single block Of stone
in Rome years ago. She had
known the three in life, Lucretia
Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady and
Susan B. Anthony.
After placing the wreath this
afternoon she win hold open house
for her friends at 1875 c street NE.
She says she hopes to 60 back
to her birthplace at Plymouth.
Ill. to revisit the studio in Rome
where she worked Is years and to
attend the coronation of Queen
Elizabeth. Her main hope is to
raise enough money by public sub
scription to make her former
studio at $50 Maryland avenue
NE. into q museum showing her
sculptures Of early American
women.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Corning Gets Ideas
For School Offices
On PhiIodeIphiu Visit

Supt. Hobart M. Corning
has some new ideas for the
school administration build
ing he's hoping to build.
DIR. Corning reported today
he and other school officials
yesterday inspected Philadel-
phia's modern nine : story
school headquarters.
Ideas cleaned from the trip
will go into preliminary plans
to be started soon here, he
said. The new building is
planned for Thirteenth and
Upshur streets NV, but only
planning money is available
now.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Democrats in Arlington
Delay Board Selections

Prospects of bipartisan slate
OF candidates for the Arlington
County Board gained momentum
today.
The Arlington Democratic Exec
utive Committee last night de-
ferred action on nominating three
Democrats for the seats. Leonard
o. Hilder, committee chairman.
said the delay is contingent on
similar action being taken by the
County's Republican Executive
Committee Monday night.
The bipartisan candidates-if
the G.. o. p. and Democrats get
together-would oppose a slate of
non-partisan Office seekers nomi-
mated at a town meeting last
night.
MIR. Hilder said his group hopes
to induce three outstanding citi.
zens" to run for the board seats.
He said this group is headed by
Basil M. De Lashmutt, a Demo-
crat and former County Board
chairman.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Granddaughter Of Grant
Joins Eisenhower Campaign

Nine. Cantacuzene, grand
daughter of President Grant, to-
day accepted appointment as a
member of the executive commit
tee of the won1en's division of the
EiSenhower-Nixon Campaign Club,
the club announced.
Mrs. Howard A. Cof1in, women's
division chairman, said she will
help promote hundreds of small
birthday parties to be given all
over the city October IA to mark
Gen. Eisenhower's birthday. Each
party is to be a fund raising
affair.
Also announced today was ap-
pointment of Leonard p. Walsh to
head the lawyers division of the
lcity-wide committee of the club.
Mr.. Walsh will form committee
|of lawyers to canvass the legal
profession here for contributions
to permit adequate planning of
radio and television time for the
future.
The club has headquarters with
the Republican Absentee Voters
Bureau in the Cafritz Building,
1925 ] street NV.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Teachers
Added 10 Negro
School Staffs
20 New Ones on Job
With rs More Due:
Shortage Continues
By Jones 6. Deone

Twenty new teachers now are
lon the job in the Districts Negro
public schools and officials hope
to hire another "a by next week,
Assistant Supt. Harold A. Haynes
said today.
Money for the teachers came
from q staff cut in the white
schools. DR.. Haynes disclosed that
|one teacher salary has been with
held temporarily by the white
division. but the colored schools
hope eventually to add that one
las well. making a total of As new
teachers. w
Still q Shortage.
The Negro division still will have
"a shortage Of at least IS. however.
"a deficiency appropriation request
may be made to cut that down.
Spingarn High School, newly
opened, still hasn't its fun staff,
Evening star., 1952-09-26

said, in regard to the agreements
I'VE think it was a fair settle
|ment IN the interests Of both par
ties, taking into consideration all
circumstances"
A spokesman for the hotel meu
said the new contract will mean
|at least a 6la per cent Jump in
hotel payrolls for the next year
the equivalent of $500.000. This
he said, would be due to the gen.
eral wage boost plus the premium
pay.
Seniority Rights.
Extra employees, as well as regu-
lar ones. will receive the 5 pei
cent pay raise, it was said.
There were several other items
in the contract which the union
men will garner. The main one
which does not involve monetary
gain, is seniority rights. These
rules now will apply to days of
and vacation times.
The new contract is for years
duration.
In addition to Mr.. Mills, the
other Federal mediators who aided
in reaching the agreement were
James A. Holden and Henry G,
Baker, jr.
Last year, District hotel workers
received a pay boost OF 10 per
cent. They also received an equal
raise in 1850.
Membership In the four unions
comprises bartenders, walters,
maids, elevator men. telephone
operators, mattresses, bellmen,
laundry workers, kitchen en-
ployeS and mattresses.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
McGranerY Addresses
Workers on Chest Drive

Attorney General McGranery
yesterday called on Justice De-
partment employees for earnest
consideration of the Community
Chest United Defense Fund Cam
paign.
Some 2,000 Justice employees
met for the talk. F. A. Andretta
administrative assistant attorney
general, reminded his fellow
workers that 1853 pledges can be
paid in installments. j. r. PAT
German, chairman of the Century
Speakers Club, spoke on the
significance of the campaign ir
Strengthening the community.
Aaron Goldman, chairman OF
the Advance Gifts Unit, spoke al
Ia luncheon in the Washington
Hotel yesterday. He urged his
200 workers to start Immediately
and finish their $500 personal
calls by the first campaign re-
port luncheon October IA.
All advance gift results will be
reported again through the Gov
ernment. Business and Special
Solicitation Units.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Fire Destroys interior
of Tukomu Park House

Fire Of undetermined origin last
night burned out the interior OF
a vacant two-story frame house
at 8l06 Flower avenue. Takoma
Park.
The Takon1a Park and Silver
Spring Fire Departments re-
sponded to the alarm shortly be-
fore midnight. Firemen said the
blaze was discovered by a neighbor.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Hotel Unions Meet to Rutify
Contract With so Poy Boost

With the threat of a strike elm
mated, 5000 hotel workers today
were engaged in ratifying an
agreement that grants them a
per cent general increase and cer-
tain other benefits.
Federal Mediator Cyrus s. Ching
last night announced that agree
ment was reached between repre-
sentatives of the four AFL unions
and negotiators for the % Wash
ington hotels involved.
The strike was settled after q
6R-hour session in the Wardman
Park Hotel. which climaxed seven
days of mediation effort.
. Following the expected ratifica-
ton of the agreement by the
unions, new contracts will be
drawn up and then submitted to
the Wage Sterilization Board for
its approval.
Overtime for Cooks.
Although smooth sailing from
now on is anticipated, Mr.. Ching
pointed out the agreement is
tentative pending ratification.
Under the new contract, which
is retroactive to last Sunday, about
800 hotel cooks will get time -and-
a-half premium pay after 40 hours
of work per week. Many Of them,
however, will continue to work six
days a week because of the short
age of experienced help, it was
pointed out. A spokesman said
this will mean they will get the
equivalent Of a 1873 per cent raise.
Clyde Mills. assistant director
of the Federal Mediation Service,
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Burleiths Opposition to Building Plans
Puzzles and Hurts Nuns at Good SheDherd

convinced Burle1th has q wrong
idea about what the home does.
The home now cares for 65 girls
and adult women. It isn't a prison
Its q home. About half of the
wards are between 40 and rs years
old; grown women who, for one
reason or another, can't adjust
their lives to the outside world.
The other half Of the homes
population ranges from IL to 18
years. Some of them were sent
to the home by their parents, some
oy guardians, some by the Dis
trict's Board of Public Welfare and
some came in by their own request.
Not all of these youngsters are
delinquents. Some are victims of
broken homes and others are waits
whose impoverished parents can
not care for them. Nor are all
OF them Catholics. A third of
them belong to other faiths.
The kids go to school much like
more fortunate children. TIL e
home operates sixth, seventh and
eighth grades and there are extras
during and after that.
Some Are Delinquent.
Some Of the girls are delinquent
and some Of the older, wards are
former delinquents. But they're
not girls who've been put away at
the Good Shepherd to be dubbed
into the path of Righteousness.
They are people who have had
tough luck.
The place is largely a charitable
institution, but it's supported by
donations. legacies and gifts from
its own friends, rather than
through the agencies of the Com
munity Chest.
It also helps pay its own way.
It's laundry. the mother superior
says, has as non-home customers
some IS Georgetown University
faculty members and about 200
Georgetown undergraduates.
As for the bakery
It's a cubbyhole devoted entirely
to producing altar bread sheets
Of waters that go. through a
punchpress which slmacks out thin
discs for Holy Communion. The
dough is no more than watered
flour and is cooked on tiny grid
dies, like those in short-order
restaurants. Dough becomes a
baked sheet in about a minute.
There's no smoke at all. The
sheets are subjected to the little
press, and emerge as checker
sized Communion tablets or-from
a slightly larger press-as the
larger waters priests use in
the tranSubStantiation ritual.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Miss Belle Scott, 70,
Gets GuIIutin Award

Miss Belle Scott, 10, of Land
over. Md, has resolved the Gall
latin Award for meritorious serv-
ice.
She is retiring next Tuesday
after 81 years of Government
service. Miss Scott is clerk in
the Interal Revenue Bureau of the
Treasury Department.
A native Of Landover, she also
was educated in this area.
The Gallatin Award is given
to those who have at least 80
years Of meritorius service in the
Department.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Set Out the Vote
How to Register
Montgomery

Office Of Election Supervisors
215 Montgomery avenue, Rock.
vile.
Between 8 am. and 4:30 pm
Monday through Friday and alst
tomorrow and October 4.
Night registration between
and 10 pm. next week through
Saturday.
Deadline for registration is
October 4.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Disabled Veteran Saved
By Policemen in River

A disabled Navy veteran was
under observation in Gallinger
Hospital today after being res
cued from the Anacostia River
last night after plunging from
the Eleventh Street Bridge.
The veteran. Mariana Floresca,
43, Of 806 Xenia street Sc, was
pulled out by Police Pvt. Harry
B. Dunn. 81, Of the 18th pre-
cinct, who swan out with a So
foot rope and tied it around the
fioundering mans waist. Passersby
helped in the rescue.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Kiwonis Club to Invite
|HospitaIized Veterans

The Kiwanis Club of Washing
ton will invite hospitalized Korean
veterans to its regular weekly
meetings. it was announced yes
terday.
President e. K. Morris said the
club hopes the plan will contribute
to q greater recognition Of the
wounded veteran.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
District 10. Restore
Some Phone Service
To Public Schools

The District agreed today to re-
store some of the public schools
,curtailed phone service.
But city officials postponed un-
til after a survey any commitment
on a further restoration, Associate
Supt. John M. Riecks reported.
Mr.. Riecks today complained to
Herbert A. Friede, District elec-
Itrical chief, about a ban on outside
calls imposed on many school
phones. The ban. ordered in July
to save money, also applied to a
majority of city phones elsewhere.
Can't Handle. Calls.
The school system has its own
separate phone network, in addi-
ton to city lines, but these aren't
able to handle all outside calls,
Mr.. Riecks told the electrical chief
The Commissioners cut dial "9''
service for outside calls after Con-
gress slashed the electrical budget.
Mr.. Riecks said it hasn't been de-
termined whether Mr.. Friede's Of
flee or the schools will have to
pay for restored service.
In any case, the restoration will
cost money.
Cost $4,000.
Mr.. Riecks estimated the schools
would have to spend $4,000 to
install new lines and phone ex-
tensions of its own if service isn't
restored.
The school attendance depart
ment-where truant officers work
will get immediate restoration of
some phones, Mr.. Riecks said.
Asked whether the schools would
balk at accepting only partial
restoration, he asserted:
"I'me sure Mr.. Friede won't
restore it all. = Well have to see
how the limited service will work.
On the present basis. it isn't
WORKING"
Evening star., 1952-09-26
BY Richard Rodgers

High on a hill next to Western
High School the House of the
Good Shepherd looks over the ad-
Joining Burleith section. The
home is cooled by breezes sweep
ing off the lower, surrounding
ground, and is stirred by Burleith's s
opposition to its building program
For 81 years the institution has
been there: more than twice as
long as Burleith's homes.
Now the homes nuns want to
make their place a modern one,
and Burleith's Citizens Associa-
ton is fighting them.
>"We're sure it's a misunder-
standing" said Mother Superior
Mary Veronica, head of the Good
Shepherd home.
Her domain occupies a city
block. It stretches along Reser-
voir road from Thirty-sixth to
Thirty-seventh street NV, and
on those last two streets from
Reservoir road to r street.
Saving for 30 Years.
The nuns have been saving for
about 80 years for a better home.
They're ready to begin. Their
architect has drawn up a plan for
a four-story structure which will
give the sisters and their wards a
better place in every way.
People planning to build must
have their projects approved by
coming commissions. The Catho-
Ilic sisters of the Good Shepherd
have submitted their drafts to the
Districts Zoning Readjustment
Board and that's where the issue
rests now.
The Burleith neighbors object
ed, at length and with vigor.
/ Burleith is good" section OF
Washington.
/ It's residents who banded against
the home said they feared their
property would be hurt If the home
got permission to build. They
cited the homes laundry. It's a
nuisance, they said. They pointed
out that it does outside work as
well as its own laundry. They un-
derstood that the Good Shepherd
also operates bakery, and they
wanted to know how much out
side. work the bakery does.
Called "Thorn in Flesh"
The House Of the Good Shep-
herd. the Burleith lawyer declared,
"has been a thorn in the flesh Of
the neighborhood for many years. y
If the home gets approval to build,
he went on, Burleith will be hurt.
The nuns are already hurt.
They're also puzzled. And they're
Evening star., 1952-09-26

DR.. Haynes said. The school
opened with about four -fifths OF
its teachers. This should be cor
rected next week, the assistant
superintendent said.
Eleven Of the new teachers
already hired have been assigned
to junior highs, six to elementary
schools and three to senior highs
The delay in the new hirings
has been caused by processing
procedures, rather than any short
age Of applicants. DR.. Haynes ex-
planned.
Thirty-five white teachers were
shifted to lower grades and some
vacant positions closed out to
make the teacher money available
Enrolment Tops Prediction.
Supt. Hobart M. Corning dis
closed today that enrolment ir
Negro junior highs has topped ad-
vance predictions, meaning the
teacher shortage there will be
more serious than expected. Pupil
total now is over $4,000, whereas
1883 was predicted. More may
enroll.
IN both Negro junior highs and
grade schools classes are over the
standard size. Or. Corning report
ed. On the other hand. Negro
senior high classes average two
pupils under the standard. This
is based on last weeks enrolment
count.
The superintendent said the sit
uation may be changed by another
enrolment check next week.
Kindergartens are crowded in
nearly all schools, and most have
waiting lists, the superintendent
reported.
Assistant Principals Asked.
Meanwhile, the Executive Com
mittee of the Elementary Princi-
pals Association has voted to ask
school officials to hire aSSistan!
principals or counselors for three
white elementary schools.
In letters to Mr.. Coming and
Associate Supt. Carl r. Hansen
the group asked for the new aides
for all white grade schools hav-
ing 1000 or more pupils. There
are only three at present-S Simon
Patterson and Stanton.
Only secondary schools now
have such aides. The school bud.
get request for next year includes
IA clerks to aid elementary prin-
cipals. A similar request this year
was denied.
School officials said they favor
adding assistant principals OF
counSelors to all large grade
schools. No action on the matter
ever has been taken. however.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
New Law Would Rule
Existing 1enements
Too, Davis Declares

The projected tenement housing
regulations here will be retroac-
tive, so far as enforcement is con-
cerned, Robert H. Davis, District
director of inspections, said last
night.
He was among speakers at a
session at which the regulations
were discussed by authorities. 1t
was sponsored by the Federation
of Citizens Associations, in the
Municipal Center. Practically
every section of the city was rep
resented by its own citizen group.
DR.. j. Ross Veal, who heads the
federation. presided.
Mr.. Davis told of the concern of
the Building Department for such
matters as ventilation. He said
building inspectors now may en-
force tenement housing regula-
tionS only at the time of construc-
ton Of the building or when pa
perS covering alterations are ap-
piled for. However, he added, un-
der the projected regulations, he
and his men will be able to inspect
tenements already in existence,
and when violations of the build
ing codes are shown to exist, can
order corrective procedures.
Right of Entry Hit.
The controversial "right-of-en-
try section of the proposed regu-
lations was again subjected to at
tack. This proviso gives the
District power to inspect tenement
houses to determine whether con-
|Struction and habitation require
ments are being complied with.
Abraham Chaifetz, a Washing
ton attorney and president of the
Takoma Park Citizens Association
charged that the entry regulation
lis unconstitutional. Assistant Cor
|poration Counsel Robert F.
Kneipp, who drafted the proposals
|countered, however, that the Dis
trict is only seeking to carry out
the mandate of Congress. The
legislators in 1947, amended the
District License Act so as to re-
|quire inspections, Mr.. Kneipp said
To that, Mr.. Chaifetz rejoined
that the amendment itself is SUBJ
ject to challenge.
Questions Answered.
Hearings on the proposed
regulations will be resumed on
October 20 when the public will
have its say. pro and con. These
hearings probably will be held in
the District Building.
Last night the committee of
District officials which drew up
the proposed regulations an
swered many questions from the
representatives of the 40 citizens
groups represented.
Capt. Thomas Rasmussen of the
Police Department said that,
under the projected rules. his de-
lpartment will thoroughly check
every person who applied for a
tenement license. on moral
grounds to make sure that tene-
ments will not harbor dope ped
dlers or become houses of i'll fame.
The manager of a tenement
house, the police official said, will
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Thomas Stone PTA Barbecue

A barbecue sponsored by the
Thomas Stone Elementary School
Parent Teacher Association will be
held from 8 to 1880 pm. tomor-
row on the school grounds, Thirty
fourth and Webster streets, Mount
Rainier. Md.
Evening star., 1952-09-26

The altar bread from the House
OF the Good Shepherd goes to
most Catholic churches in this i'm
mediate area.
Except for the waters and the
laundry, the home is supported by
tuition fees and sources mentioned
above. The District sends some OF
its girls there-those recurring
special Supervision-and the rest
OF the revenue comes from charity
donations.
The District has already noti-
ned the zoning readjusters that
the home meets "a very real need
F.. in the past years in terms of
giving stricter custody to older
teen-age girls than is available
under the present facilities of the
Industrial Home School. :"
Girls who have completed the
eighth grade take a two-year COM
mercial course. A number Of the
graduates hold responsible jobs in
the District now, including one
who's Supreme Court secretary.
In those cases where the girl
isn't suited to secretarial work and
the like, she gets home economic
courses and instruction in beauty
shop work. baby care and so on.
The home helps her get a Job.
No new graduate stays there after
reaching Is now. Lifelong occu-
pancy is out. after the present
ones. Eventually therel be no
women inmates who are old
enough to vote. Except, of course
for the Is nuns.
Oppose New Height.
When-and if-the new build
ing goes up, it'll replace the pres
ent buildings.
Opponents have complained that
the proposed building will exceed
lBurleith's restrictions on a build
ling's height.
This objection bewilders the
Good Shepherd sisters as much as
any other plant. The main build
ing they use now is in excess of
the height limit. The new one
will be built on a terrace closer
to street level and will be closer to
sea level than the one they have
now. The Burleith protest does
not stress the height angle.
The whole thing rests with the
Commissioners, who readjust zon-
ing. Their decision, in turn, rests
upon the arguments of each side.
The sisters of the Good Shepherd
are convinced that-once their
neighbors know what the home
does and how it helps unfortunates
the home will get a go-ahead on
its mission Of being a Good
Shepherd.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Cushing cump to Meet

The William B. Cushing Camp
No. 80. American Legion. and
Auxiliary No. 4 win hold q joint
meeting at 8 o'clock tonight In
the Washington Loan g. Trust Co.
building. Ninth and r streets NV.