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Evening star., 1952-11-07
Estate Of P. T. Wire
Valued at S46O,284

A Washington real estate broker
and builder, Preston E. Wire, 40,
left an estate of $460, ,284, accord
ing to his will filed today for
probate in the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Wire, who lives, at 1925
Loughboro road NV, died October
% in a Miami Beach hospital.
Although well known in Wash
|ington as home developer and as
the builder of the Wire Building
at Vermont avenue and K street
NV, Mr.. Wire left no real estate
holdings in his own name. Prac-
tically his entire estate was COM
posed of securities.
One quarter of his holdings was
left to his widow, Mrs. Eda E.
Wire, of the Loughboro road ad-
dress.
The remaining three quarters
were placed in trust with the
earnings going to Mrs. Wire for
her lifetime. Upon her death the
trust will be split into thirds and
then dissolved for the benefit of
the Wires three children when
they reach the age of 80.
The children are Mrs. Jean Wire
Murphy, 3069 University terrace
NV; Mrs. Joan Myrl Wood Of
Miami Shores, Fla. and Preston,
jr., 16, who lives with his mother.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
.zoners Refuse
.ToDrop !RuIeon
Building Heights
Bourd Action Follows
Hearing for Builders
And ReuIty Interests

The District Zoning Commission
today refused to eliminate from
existing zoning regulations q
clause specifying the number of
stories allowable in the District,
The ruling came after a hear
ing several months ago in which
real estate and construction in
terests sought to remove story
references from the code. This
would have allowed builders to
increase the number Of floors per
building by one or two.
Chief immediate sufferers under
the ruling are the owners OF
the new Wyatt Building at Four
teenth and H streets NV. AL
though limited by the regulation
that permits IL stories in a 130-
foot building height. the structure
was built with 13 stories. The
building inspectors Office subse-
quently refused use of more than
one-third of the thirteenth, or top,
floor because of the story limit
regulation. Under today's deci-
sion the ruling must continue.
A spokesman for the zoning
commission explained that it
would not be in the public inter-
est to increase the population
desnity of Washington buildings
by permitting extra stories within
given height categories.
These categories are IL stories
per 130-foot height, 10 stories
per 110-foot, eight stories per 90
foot, Ave stories per 60-foot and
three stories per 40-foot.
In another action, the commits
sion approved a request for zon-
ing change that would permit
Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co.
to expand it's Office building a:
Louisiana and New Jersey ave-
nues NV.
Under plans now ready to be
executed, the company would
build a new section, 100 foot high
in the rear Of the present build
ing on the east side Of First street
NV. The addition would more
than double the company's pres
ent Office space. The area previ-
oHsly had been limited to a 90
foot height.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Parties Replaced Franks
On Halloween, Police Say

The Police Departments Hal
loween ounce of prevention paid
all-tlme high dividends, Police
Chief Robert v. Murray an
nounced today.
It was the quietest Halloween in
the memory of veteran police off,
cials. a letter to Washington news
papers from Chief Murray and
Executive officer Howard v. Covell
said.
'The plan to keep the boys oc-
cupied on Halloween was very sue
cessful." the letter declared. It
pointed out that $4,000 children
attended parties held by the vari-
GUS Boys Clubs of the Metropon-
tan Police Department.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Manor Dogs
10 Face D-Day on
Fee Issue Tuesday

Tuesday looms as D-day for
about Is dogs at Suitland Manor,
Md.
It will be decided then. accord
ing to one landlord. whether q
$25 monthly fee will be placed on
dog owners. Last week, rent no
tices said a $25-a-dog penalty
was Contemplated"
I'VE hope to meet Tuesday night
to decide the question" Roy
Huckleberry, president Of the
Suitland Manor Owners Associa-
ton, said today.
"We have about IS dogs out
here, and the apartments are en-
tirely too small to keep dogs in
But I want to emphasize this
We don't want the money, we just
want to get rid of the dogs.
Every month the residents COM
plain Of the dogs. Mr.. Huckleberry
said. "And to add to that" he
went on. "they chase our MAIN
tenance men and bark at night.
"We had swaI1ns Of dogs out
here when the development first
started, "Mr. Huckleberry said
I'VE got rid Of them. Now we're
trying to get rid of q few more
dogs or a few more tenants"
Mr.. Huckleberry said the leases
contained dog-barring clauses. but
that the clause hadn't been en-
forced. He said the move to get
rid of the dogs started after rent
controls were dropped in late Sep
tember.
Residents today seem to favor
the dogs situation.
why, they don't bother us, !"
said one mother. MY kids love
dogs. And if they bark at night
I wouldn't know it. I'm so tired 7
don't hear anything"
Another resident Of Suitland
Manor said she was concerned
with the nightly visit Of collec-
tion Of stray cats.
I'D like to see somebody get
rid Of them" she said.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Two Manassas Men
Charged With Slipping
Saw Blades Into Jail

Two Manassas men have been
arrested on charges of smuggling
hacksaw blades to one of three
men who sawed their way out of
Prince William County Jail yes
terday, the Office of Sheriff Tur-
ner D. Wheeling reported today.
Arrested were James Fox, "a,
and Herman Perkey, 80, brother
OF one Of the prisoners who es-
capped.
There have been no reports on
the trio since their flight. Usually
after an escape, the sheriff said,
he received a number of calls that
the prisoners have been seen and
recognized.
Believed to be the leader of the
convicts is Pvt. John E. Sullivan,
27. of Sussex, DEL. formerly of
Fort Belvoir. He was awaiting
sentence for kidnapping a Ma
nassas policeman. The kidnapping
occurred after Sullivan had
escaped from the stockade at Fort
Belvoir.
Sheriff Wheeling warned that
Sullivan should be approached
with caution.
Caution Urged.
The other two escapes are
Virgil Lee Perkey, IS. of Manassas
who was waiting to be transferred
to a State prison crew. and Lester
Blackwell. 36. colored. Of Nokes-
vile. Va, who was awaiting trial
on several charges Of housebreak-
ing and larceny. the sheriff said.
Perkey had been sentenced to
two years and two months on
charges Of hit-run driving. drunk
driving and driving without a
permit.
Pvt. Lawrence M. Hynson. %
also from Fort Belvoir, was in
the same cell with the three but
did not join in the break. Hyn-
son, formerly of Hyattsville, Md.
was with Sullivan when the po-
Iiceman was abducted and. was
convicted as an accessory after
the fact. Hynson was sentenced tc
a six-month term.
Found Not Guilty.
The Star reported enormously
yesterday that Hynson was con-
victed on a charge of attempted
murder. His attorney, William A
Moncure of Alexandria, said his
client was indicted on the at
tempted murder charge but was
found not guilty Of that charge
Sheriff Wheeling said the men
had sawed four bars loose from
the windows of the old Jail.
Sullivan abducted Police Sergt
Gene A. Colbert Of Manassas last
August after the policeman hac
stopped them for speeding. They
took his gun, fired one shot al
him and then forced him to ac-
company them on q wild ride
over back roads.
Evening star., 1952-11-07

Washington's afraid warning
system is to go into a two-week
test period soon, residents were
advised today by John E. Fondahl.
director of Civil Defense.
The tests will involve sounding
|of both the ''red" alert and the
"all clear" signals at frequent in
tervals, but each test will be pre-
ceded by a voice announcement
that it is merely a test.
The tryouts, designed to elimi-
mate mechanical defects, will be
Iof 30-second intervals.
IF the actual alert should be-
come necessary during the test
periods. 1t will be sounded without
being preceded by the voice an
|nouncement and the signal will
be sounded for 3 minutes, -
Director Fondahl's announcement
Explained.
This statement follows:
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Foce-Lifting Project at Library
Turns Up Much New Space

The face-lifting project under
way at the Districts Central Lii
brary is going to bring a lot Of
changes in the old building. Here
are some of them:
Basement, east wing.-Two
oversize music listening rooms. a
staff dining room and two COM
bined and conglomerate admins
tration offices have been elimi-
mated and partitions torn down.
The resulting spacious room will
have brand-new bookshelves all
around the walls, and eight 7-foot-
high display bookcases projecting
into the room from the east wall.
This will be the consolidated busi-
ness economics technology divi-
sion.
Basement, lobby.-Where the
two stairways formerly opened
into the center Of the lobby. they
now follow the walls all the way
down. This releases central space
for ultimate use for administrative
offices. Directly opposite the
stairs will be a large listen
ing booth for phonograph fans,
as well as mounted picture dis
plays and files Of the art division
Behind the lobby, what once was
"a large kitchen is being converted
into a kitchen and dining room
Wall booths for diners and wall
cabinets for the kitchen help con-
served space here. The original
marble steps Of the stairway, in
cidentally. were inverted, worn
side face down, to get better sur
faces at lowest cost.
Basement, west wing. - Tech
nology and business will leave in
favor of music and art. Where
the wing is now a large single
room, it will be partitioned by
Ia long Seven-foot-high bookcase
In the music section, six phono-
graph record head-set setups will
be arranged along one wall. Art
books and reproductions will be
placed in cabinets as well as in
three bookcaSeS-Same number
as in the music section, and To-
Gated at the west end of the
wing.
First (main) floor. east wing
Formerly the general reference
|room-with scarcely more than
wall shelves for book storage-has
already been converted to two
|unpartitioned sections. biography
geography and history-govern-
|ment. Nine floor-area bookcases
seven feet high jut into this room
from the east side. Against the
west wall. just inside the entrance
are two new Offices formed by lin
ling up more movable bookcases.
First floor, lobby-The return
registry and charge-out counters
have been rearranged and con-
solidated. One set Of back rooms
Inow used as Offices, will be con-
verted to general reference and
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Feust to Aid Firemen

The Cottage City (Md. Fire De-
partment is sponsoring a shrimp
feast from z to II O'Clock tonight
to help raise money for a down
payment on q new $4,000 fire
truck. The affair, to be held at
the firehouse at Bladensburg road
and Thirty-ninth street, includes
dancing starting at $ o'clock.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
'GW.High Yearbook
Wins National Rutinq

The George Washington High
School yearbook, the Compass,
has been awarded q first class
rating by the National Scholastic
Press Association. The Alexandria
publication, entered in Nation
wide competition. was graded on
it's quality, design, contents and
school events coverage.
The staff was headed by Jacque
Stratton, editor in chief.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Library Nears
End Of Biggest
Renovation Job
Alteration Increases
Books in Open From
40, 900 to l.2S. 900

Within another three months.
the District Central Library will
be big step closer to a public
librarians dream-getting all his
books out on open display.
The project has been under way
about IA months. It involves such
renovating and rearranging as
probably never before has oc-
|curred in the 50-year history Of
the dignifled but space-yasteful
House That Carnegie Built in
Mount Vernon Square.
The number Of books to be
brought out of closed stacks and
placed on public display will be
raised from 10000 to $4,000.
This is being made possible by
changing the entire plan Of
basement wing, relocating part
of two stairways. shifting Offices
and reading divisions and by
augmenting existing wall-book-
shelves with $4,000 worth of
bookcases to be placed on open
floor space.
100000 Still "In Hiding"
That still leaves 100000 volumes
in the stacks Of Central-not to
mention future book acquisitions
according to District Public Lii
brarian Harry M. Peterson.
But library officials like to dream
and plan for the day when the
building itself may be expanded
to liberate the closed stacks. They
have requested a 1854 budget
appropriation for detailed plans
for a structural addition that
would I'LL virtually all the Square.
Aside from the bookshelf funds.
which have accumulated in the
last five years. the renovation is
costing nearly $35,000. OF this
amount, $1,400 materialized as
result of heating fuel conserva-
ton in the entire library system.
To Reach Open Shelf Limits.
Once the present reorganization
is complete, installation Of taller
wall-shelves will remain. This
done, the Central Library will
have gone about as far as it can
with respect to open-shelf ca
Ipacity.
/ Getting library stock out in the
open is the foundation of modern
library theory, Mr.. Peterson says.
Readers should have immediate
; access to as many volumes as
possible, thus avoiding long waits
when attendants must go into
lclosed stacks to look up the de-
| lsired material.
q And not only will shelf space
lat Central be increased under the
) present project. but the book-sub-
A ject divisions will be reshuhled to
. bring related subjects physically
closer together.
Il Much of this already has been
|, accomplished. In fact, 100000 Of
128, 900 books to be moved into
the open are on the display
!, shelves now.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Dromo Group to Present
PIuv in Bethesda School

Adventure Theater, a Mont
|gomery County adult drama group.
will present Jack and the Beam
stalk" at Q pm. tomorrow at Le-
land Junior High School in
Bethesda.
Mrs. Judith Frosn is the pro-
|ducer Of the play and Stanley
|Raiff Of the Washington-Lee High
School stan Is the director.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Western Maryland
Seeks to Abandon
Passenger Trains
By the Assoeiated Prsss

BALTIMORE, Nov. THE
Western Maryland Railway an
nounced yesterday it would ask
the Public Service Commission
for permission to get out of the
passenger train business.
The railroad said the service it
maintains between Baltimore,
Hagerstown. Cumberland and
Union Bridge Is costing $3.50 .000
per year more than it produces.
A hearing before the PSC will
be sought within q week or 10
days, it was announced.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
City 10 Finish Distribution
OF Sand Boxes Next Week

The placing of sand boxes
throughout the city and in the
parks for use when snow falls is
expected to be completed next
week William Xanten, superin-
tendant Of sanitation said today.
The Sanitation Division will
place ITO sand boxes throughout
the city. principally on hills. In
addition, the Sewer Department
will place about 80 boxes. the
Highway and Water Departments
about 35, the Park Service about
IS and the Capital Transit Co.
about As.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Bus Union viii Test
Law Aimed al
Public Utility Strikes

Striking A. B. & w. busline
employees have decided to test con-
stitutionality Of .Virginia's anti
strike public utilities law.
More than 800 strikers meeting
at the Pythian Temple yesterday
gave their leadership authority to
initiate the legal test of the law
under which the State seized op-
irrational control of the company.
Now in its seventh day, the i'm
passe has crippled service to about
as. .000 daily riders between Wash
ington and nearby Virginia points.
State Runs Line.
Under Virginia law, the State
steps in to operate struck utilities
after settlement measures fail.
Forty-five Highway Department
|employes have arrived in Alexan-
|dria for brief training courses be-
fore assisting with the operation
|of buses. starting probably Mon
day.
At the present time, supervisory
employees are managing to get
about so buses on the streets be-
tween 6 and 10 am. and 2 and
pm. The company hopes to
nearly double this number when
the Highway Department officials
become bus drivers.
Members Remain Out.
officials of the union, Division
I1131. Amalgamated Association OF
Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employees of America. say
none Of their members have re-
sponded to an Invitation" of Gov
Battle to return to work.
In voting overwhelmingly yes
terday to test the public utilities
seizure law, the union put the case
into the hands Of the Labor Bu-
reau of the Middle West. an inde-
lpendent labor relations group
The possibility of a long battle
through the courts was foreseen
No immediate meetings were
scheduled between company and
union on the strike questions, re-
volving around wages. The union
has asked an increase Of % cents
an hour over the next three years
and the company has offered %
cents.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
'Canaries and Others
Keep Hall A-Twitter
All Cage Bird Show
Not all birds go south for the

Not all birds go south for the
winter.
The proof was at the Hotel An
napolis today. The hotel is host
to the National Cage Bird Show
and things at midday today were
definiately all a-twitter.
Around 800 canaries and budg-
ereegahs and one sulphur breasted
South American toucan hoped
about their cages anxiously await
ing the judges, who were due to
start picking prize-winners this
afternoon.
Contributions Welcomed.
Judging continues tomorrow and
the show will remain in the hotel
through Sunday with admission
free, but contributions welcomed
for Children's Hospitals new polio
ward.
Malcolm Davis, curator of birds
at the Zoo. is the show director
He's taking three days leave for
the job. He's not exhibiting any
birds himself, thought wouldn't t
be proper, he averred.
Mr.. Davis was too busy seeing to
the laying out of bird cages this
morning to talk much. But early
bird exhibitors were quite ready
to expound.
Mrs. Rhodes Brown Of 1902
Westmoreland avenue, Takoma
Park. was busy unpacking %
cages. She has been raising
canaries for Is years and owns
about IS at present. Many have
been prize winners. too.
Il got the Governor of Mary
lands trophy for best bird in the
show at Baltimore last Sunday"
she said. "The same bird also got
a cuckoo clock she added, "but
so far he hasn't had much use for
the clock"
This particular bird is a salmon
pink canary. Mrs. Brown has
them in all eolors. 4
Mrs. Brown said she wouldn't
have" a budgereegah. But Mrs.
Lillian Martin, 4813 South Dakota
avenue NE, who was placing
some cages nearby, quickly came
to that breeds defense.
Budgereegahs, to you, are a
type of parakeetS. Mrs. Martin
is exhibiting 80 of them, and some
of them are prize winners, too.
"It's the coming bird" she said.
'It can be hand-trained. and it's
so nice for an indoor patient"
Mrs. Martin said she also has
one home that talks, but most of
those in the show can't. Judges
frown on talking birds-the CAB
is too distracting. Takers are
restricted to a special section and
judged by themselves.
Not all the exhibitors are wom-
en-. Maj. Walker Evans, provost
marshal at Walter Reed Medical
Center, showed up with six ca
naries this morning. He said it's
his third year raising them.
MY mother -in-law does most
Of the work." he said.
Policeman Enters Birds.
Another uniformed exhibitor
walked in just before noon. He
was Pvt. Edward G. McAmiS of
1917 B street Sc. a park police
man. He said he's been a police
man two years and a bird fancier
l. for four.
lone of my sky blues won q
prize last year." he said.
Maj. Evans disclosed the bird
fancier's biggest problem-to tell
the boy and girl birds apart.
Even the experts sometimes
miss" he said. This year I put
Evening star., 1952-11-07
virqiniu Motor Fuel Tuxes

RICHMOND, Nov. Z (P.-Vir.
|ginia collected $5,017. .905.23 ir
taxes on 83,621, ,121 gallons Of mo.
tor fuels sold in September. the
Division of Motor Vehicles re.
ported yesterday.
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Hospitul Director Named

Two new directors have been
elected for Alexandria Hospital.
it was announced today. They are
Chisman Hanes and Malcolm
Matheson, jr. Mr.. Hanes viii
serve until April, 1858, and Mr..
Matheson until April, 1855.
Evening star., 1952-11-07

two together which I thought were
a pair. A canary never lays more
than four or five eggs. One day I
found eight eggs in the cage. I
knew then it was two hens"
Evening star., 1952-11-07
Dinner in Silver Sprina

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Sill
yer Spring Volunteer Fire De-
lpartment will serve a spaghetti
dinner from 6 to 8 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1952-09-04
Furniture Reduced

I Modern Style coektail Table.
driftwood finish ---------
! Drop Leaf Extension Toble.
mahogany veneer, three-pedes-
tai style --------------
I-z4" Single brewer Chest OF
maple wood. block lacquer fin
1-z4" MopIe Wood Chest
with natural finish. Block mo-
sonite sliding doors --------
8 Outdoor Plastic Chair Covers
! Pembroke TsbIe, mohooony
veneer with gold hond-tooled
leother top -------------
5 Siesto choirs in white enom-
eIed hardwood, green convos
seat and bock
I Lawson Style Soto, three-cush-
ion, eroy cotton UPHOLSTERY
I Center Choir, modern style
oroy eottonupholstery. ormless-
! Wrought Iron Cord TobIe.
eloss-topped, oquo finish -
Z Old English Corner Cabinets.
mahogany finish. sliding gloss
I NOBLE Chine Cabinet, dinette
size -
3 MopIe PedestoI commodes :
I Buffet and Huteh Deck. ma
hoeony veneer, white finish
! Double choise Pad, cortridge
style in yellow plostic -------
I-36" Three-drower Chest,
maple wood with noturol and
block locquer finish -------
I Drop Leaf TebIe, gate leg
style, solid mohooony-----
I MspIe Drop Leaf Table, gate
leg style --------------
7 Mehosony Arm cheirs, toost
finish
! Maple Refectovy Toble ----
3 Teble Pads, brown, white and
oft-White
Z Side cheirs, white enomel,
hardwood ---------------
I Modern Style Sofa, two-cush-
ion, dark wine upholstery ---
I Wrought Iron Console Teble,
stotuoy bronze finish $500
! Wing Choir, rubberized hair.
fuchsio cotton cover -----
I Wing Chair. florol linen
cover -
I Lounge Chair, coroi cotton
cover -----------
Z Step Tables gold tooled
leother top ------------
W6L-Furniture. Sixth Floor
Evening star., 1952-09-04
Tots Clothing Reduced

We're $50 to 3.15
Group Of wearing apparel for small girls and
boys including shirts, blouses, shorts. bothins
suits, sweoters and cops. Sizes 70 6x.
W6L-Juvenile Apparel, Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1952-09-04
Summer Hats, 1875
Were 3.95 to 6.95

IS in group. Piques. linens. straws in several
styIes-profiIe. visor, shell, pillbox. Colors.
bosies-white, black. nevy, beige.
so SoiIors-pique, linen, cotton Ieee. White.
block. nevy, noturoI. Were 3.s5. Now, soc
WGL-MneY, Second Floor
Evening star., 1952-09-04

We're 6.95 to 7.95
Cotton pique striped cotton blouses with
mondovin neekIines, White. pink, light blue,
novy and green. Wee neck, tie silk sweater
type bIouses in poIka dotted print included in
group. White with red or blue dots. Sizes 81
to 36.
Were Now
20 Cotton BIouses. Trimmed
with eyelet embroidery, pa
lenqth sleeves White. Sizes
IA to l8 ---, 5.o5 SIS
IS comisoIes. Embroidered cot
ton oroondy, with long sleeves.
White. Sizes z to 6 ------ 1926 S.75
WGL-BIouses, Third Floor
Evening star., 1952-09-04
200 Boxes Stationery
Reduced-35c to 200

We're Csc to $50
Group includes white and color
ment Of sizes.
II Photos Of Washington. Suit
obIe for moilino or framing.
Pockooe Of 81 ---------
$50 Cord Toble Covers. Quilted
plostic covers for bridge or con-
osto. Conosto covers in green
or rose. Bridge covers in rose
36 Pepper Place Mot Sets. "a
TITUS - = -
~ Motehins Nopkin Sets -
so Bookshelves. Suitable for
school or home.
II Doodle Pods. Desk pad with
qiont memo sheet -------
WGL-StotioneY, First Floor
Evening star., 1952-09-04

" ere I1.90
"a shortie toppers in bosketweave wool. Red
or yellow. Teen sizes 10 to l6.
Were Now
II Tenn-ose Suits, navy wool
oobordne or checked woolens.
Sizes 10, y, l6----------- $500 l4.S5
80 Jerkin Suits, navy wool flon-
mel, suitable for school uniforms.
Sizes s. 10, II, IA, l8, 20 1925 1925
20 Wool Cordison Sweaters in 5.9ot to
assorted colors. Sizes "a to 40 1875 3.95
WGL-Teen-ooe ApporeI, Fourth Floor