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Evening star., 1953-09-30
u. 5. Emp|oye Cuts
Drop Transit Income.
Witness Testifies

A cutback in the number of
Federal Government employees
has had its effect on Capital
Transit revenues, company
witness testified yesterday.
The hearing on the transit
company's petition for fare in
creases resumed today with Gill
man Smith, New York transit
consultant retained by Capital
Transit, on the witness stand.
AS the session was in progress
two officials of the Federal Medi-
alton and Cancellation Service
visited District Commissioner
Samuel Spencer to discuss the
long smoldering transit strike
threat.
Mediation Resumes.
Martin j. O'Connell, regional
director of the service, said that
he and Federal Conciliator D.
Yates Heafner paid the Com
missioner courtesy call" to
remind him of the resumption
of mediation efforts at II am.
Friday. The last mediation ses-
sion held in an effort to bring
the company and the union to-
gether in their dispute on pen
sion benefits was held laSt
June 80.
Transit spokesmen today indi-
Gated that the company is still
adamant in its refusal to expand
pension benefits for it's employees.
Capital Transit will be rep
resented at the mediation ses-
sion, to be held in the Tariff
Building. by j. Godfrey Butler,
personnel and labor relations
director: Attorney Edmund L.
Jones and probably by ]. A. B.
Broadwater, president. Union
President Walter j. Bierwagen
will sit in for the employees.
Decline in Passengers.
Mr.. Smith testified yesterday
that the Government-employe
economy program, as we'll as in
creasing use of private means of
transportation, caused a. decline
in the numoer of passengers just
after Capital Transit filed it's
petition for fare increases last
April
Lloyd B. Harrison, counsel for
the District Public Utilities Com
mission. contended that it was
the fare increase petition itself
that caused the passenger slump.
The fare boost request - for
abolition of the weekly pass. 20
cent cash and tokens five for 35
cents-was made last April 8.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Inspectors Named to Heed
New Setup of Police Districts

Police Chief Robert v. Murray
today named five inspectors to
head the recently-created five
city police districts.
Heading the various subdivis-
ions will be Inspector Anthony
Richitt, District 1; Inspector
Charles Sullivan, District Q; In
spector Irving H. limbaugh, Dis
trict g.; Inspector Robert Che
nault. District 4, and Inspector
Lorraine johnson, District S.
Increasing the number Of dis
tricts from three to five was
made possible with the recent
appointment OF a new inspector
and enlargement of the force.
Inspectors Richitt. Chenault
Evening star., 1953-09-30

and Sullivan had served as dis
trict inspectors under the old
subdivision, with Inspector John
son filling in as one of the re-
lief men.
The new plan goes into effect
at midnight.
District will include the first
and second precincts and the
Women's Bureau; District 2, the
third, seventh and eighth pre-
cincts; District 3. the fourth
fifth. 11th and harbor precincts;
District 4, the sixth. 10th and
18th precincts, and District S,
the ninth, 18th and 14th pre-
cincts.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Montgomery Editor
Suffers Heuft Attack

Philip j. AuStensen, editor Of
the weekly Montgomery County
Sentinel and for many years a
reporter for the washington
Post, is in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, today as a result of a
heart attack.
Mr.. Austensen, who lives at
1913 Worth avenue, Silver
Spring, was stricken yesterday
while at work in his Office in
Rockville. He was placed in an
oxygen tent at the hospital.
where his condition today was
described as satisfactory al
though serious.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Peterson Opposes
Southwest Project;
Cites Peril in Attack

Federal Civil Defense Admin
istrator Val Peterson said yes
terday he opposes apartment
projects in cleared slum areas
and cited the Southwest program
here as an example.
Mr. Peterson, after his address
to the National Association of
Insurance Agents at the Hotal
Statler. told a reporter he has
recommended against the South
west redevelopment. Asked how
he made his opposition known
officially, he said he had made
recommendations to the Ma
tional Security Council.
The District Redevelopment
Land Agency said that so far as
it knows, Mr.. Peterson has no
legal authority to halt it's plans.
John r. Searles, jr., the agency's
executive director, said he had
not heard of any opposition,
either from Mr.. Peterson or from
the National Security Council.
No Big Apartments Planned.
Anyway, Mr.. Searles declared,
his agency does not propose to
erect gigantic apartments and
will, in fact. reduce the popula-
ton density in the Southwest.
A council spokesman said to-
day that organization would not
ordinarily concern itself with a
specific project. He explained
the council deals only with gen.
eral policy of defense and for
eign affairs. He said he has
not heard of any protest by Mr..
Peterson on the Southwest pro-
gram.
Mr.. Peterson told the conven-
ton of insurance agents it is
necessary to avoid large apart
ment projects in the center of
cities, the target areas, and also
cited the need for dispersal of
hospitals to outlying areas. He
declared it would be shame to
clear slums in the heart of a
city and substitute large apart
ments,. the tenants of which
would be condemned to certain
death in the event of attack by
an enemy from the air.
Mr.. Searles declared the best
authority on the problem is a
publication Project East River"
prepared by the National Secur-
ity Council and a group of dis
tinguished citizens. He said this
study sets desirable patterns of
population densities in cities. but
that the Southwest project is
well within these limits.
Calls Apartment Area Small.
Plans do call for some apart
ment buildings in Proect B,
bounded by Fourth, I and South
Capitol streets and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad tracks along Vir-
ginia avenue, Mr.. Searles pointed
out. But he said these would
cover less than 10 per cent of
the acreage.
In Project B, there will be a
reduction from the present
I $50 families to 900 families, he
said. There are rs acres in the
entire area, which works out to
an average density of II fam
lilies per acre. Even if streets,
parks and roads are taken out
of the reckoning, r. SearleS said,
the population density would be
only 35 families per acre.
That compares with more
than 100 families per acre in
some parts of Washington, he
declared, while New York goes
up to 800 and 400 families per
acre. In the District, Mr.. Searles
said, apartments can occupy
100 per cent of the land area
involved. But in the South
west project, he explained, in
Project B, the apartments will
occupy less than 10 per cent of
the land area in each lot.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
District 10 Ask
Bids Soon for
New Firehouse
$230,0OO Station
To Be Ready in
About 9 Months

The first new firehouse to be
built in the District since 1943
will be advertised for construc-
ton bidders early next month.
Giddy, perhaps, at the thought
of the long-awaited $3.50, 900 ap-
preparation, the Fire Department
suggested that its newest sta
ton, at Central avenue and For
ty-ninth street NE, be entirely
air-conditioned.
Archie G.. HutSon, city direc-
tor of construction, disabused the
department of this idea, how
ever. Mr.. Hutson thought of a
number of other city ofhces-oc-
cupied by less hardy a species
Of civil servant than firemen-
which require air-conditioning
first.
Mr.. Hutson did concede that
the new building could decently
be allowed a one horsepower air.
conditioning unit in each of two
small rooms. What is more,
radiant heating has been pro-
vided for the big domitory that
will house the -off1cer fire
fighting force.
Less Blocking of Traffic.
From the public's standpoint,
a more important new feature
will be added. Rear entrances
and a side driveway will be pro-
vided for the station. This will
enable returning vehicles to roll
along the driveway and through
the back entrance to face for
ward for the next call. Other
District fire stations have only
front entrances so that the ap-
paratus must turn and back on
public streets. thus blocking traf-
fic for short spells.
Until the new fire station can
be puilt, about nine months from
now, the Benning area will con-
tinue to be served oy only one
engine house, about mile away,
and truck companies from 4 to
6 miles distant.
A one story brick structure,
the new firehouse will face Forty
ninth street on about an acre
of property. It will have these
accommodations:
A fire vehicle or apparatus
room for two $4,000 bumpers
and a $4,000 truck. 1t is hoped
that the available appropriation
will permit laying the floors in
quarry tile. much easier to clean
than concrete. Some day an
ambulance may be added. .E
DormitOry for 20.
Dormitory, 45-by-27-feet to
bed down nearly 20 firemen on
two 12-hour shifts, with lava
tories, gang" shower and locker
room.
Quarters for six officers; the
chiefs and the company's Office
(the two aforementioned rooms)
and a combined living dining
room, with kitchen attachment,
and three small property rooms.
The additional personnel to
man the new station will be
white in a predominantly COL
ored neighborhood. For an esti-
mated 38 new jobs, or promo
tions in existing jobs, about
$150,000 will have to be appro-
priated in the fiscal 1855 budget.
Another $4,000 will have to
be provided for equipment, such
as communications, in the sta
ton itself.
The new station will be desig-
mated Engine No. 30 and Truck
Evening star., 1953-09-30
CoIesviIIe Church Fair

An auction sale and country
fair will be held at 10 am. Sat-
urday by the Colesville (Md.)
Methodist Church on the Coles
ville-G -Glenmont road near Route
90. Proceeds will go to the
church educational building
fund.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Hygiene Group to Meet

The Mental Hygiene Society
of Northern Virginia will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Arling-
ton County Health Department
auditorium, 1900 North Edison
street. Mrs. Frank j. Hollweck,
director of the volunteer pro-
gram at ST. Elizabeths Hospital,
will be the speaker.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Lyon Park Women's Club

The Women's Club of Lyon
Park will hold an open house
from 3 to 5 pm. Saturday at
the clubhouse, Ala North Fill
more street, Arlington, Va.
Guests will be teachers from the
Henry Clay and Fillmore Ele-
mentary Schools.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Sisterhood to Meet

The Sisterhood of the Con-
gregation Har Tzeon will meet
at 8:15 pm. Monday at the
Veterans of Foreign Wars post
home, 2425 Hayden drive, Silver
Spring, Md.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Boys Club to Meet

The Prince Georges Boys Club
will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the Ager Road Methodist
Church in Green Meadows, Md.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
John F. MouIden, 10;
Retired pepco fmpIoye

John F. Moulden, 70, who re-
tired six years ago from the
Potomac Electric Power Co, died
yesterday at his home, 1900
Riverdale road, Riverdale, after
a long illness.
Mr.. Moulden worked for the
District Government before he
Joined Pepco in 1918. He was
secretary of the Kilowatt Club
Of Pepco for nine years and also
edited the clubs newspaper.
Mr.. Moulden was born in
Washington. He. was a member
Of Pinkney Memorial Episcopal
Church in Hyattsville, and was
active in Riverdale civic affairs.
Survivors are his window, Mrs.
Blanche B. Moulden; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. M. S. McClarty, Louis
vile. KY; Mrs. H. B. Maris, jr.,
635 Emerson street NV; a son,
John, jr., 1107 Norwood drive,
Takoma Park, a Pepco employe,
and a brother. Lyman, of Mon
tana. His brother, DR.. William
r. Moulden, a surgeon here. died
last June.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the Deal
funeral home, 1912 Georgia ave-
nue. NV. Burial will be private.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Quakers Urge Removal
OF Trade Money Restraints

Removal of trade and currency
restrictions to strengthen world
economy was called for last night
by E. Raymond Wilson, execu-
tive secretary of the Friends
Committee on National Legisla-
ton.
Mr.. Wilson outlined a general
legislative program to be fol-
lowed by the Quaker committee.
The group is holding its tenth
anniversary conference at Mar
jorie Webster College.
Mr.. Wilson said the recipro-
cal trade program is only a min
imum of what the United States
should do. He called this a posi-
tive step in helping rebuild an
economically secure world.
Mr.. Wilson hailed the reSolu-
ton, sponsored by "a Senators
on June 3, to make comprehen-
Sive efforts for universal dis
armament. He called disarma-
ment possibly the most difficult
political transition in history"
Mr.. Wilson also urged con-
tinued support of the United
Nations, relief for refugees in
Korea and the Near East, re-
vision of the McCarran Act and
protection of civil liberties.
The meeting will continue
through tomorrow. Senator
Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois
will address the group at z
o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Seaway Foe Charges
Real Price Is Hidden
By the Associoted Press

An opponent of the st, Law
renee SeaWay project testified
today sponsors of the waterway
to link the Atlantic Ocean and
the Great Lakes have made
changes designed to put d
cheap price tag" on it. %
Gregory S. Prince, general So
licitor of the Association Of
American Railroads, told the
House Public Works Commit
tee the cost of the entire sea-
way would be far in excess of the
$50 million estimated as the
United States share for the
work in the International Rap
ids section of the st. Lawrence
River.
Mr.. Prince said $100 million
of the cost which was to have
been charged to. navigation is
being shifted to a companion
power project to be built by
Canada and an American part
ner to be designated by the Fed
eral Power Commission.
Meanwhile, the commission
heard argument on a ruling by
one of its examiners that New
York state should be licensed
as the American partner. Ed
ward Burling, counsel for Cam
ada, urged that the license be
promptly granted to New York.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Further Talks With Soviet
Are Opposed by Ex-Envoy

The United States should not
sit down to another meeting with
Russia, Arthur Bliss Lane, for
mer Ambassador to Poland, de-
clared last night.
Mr.. Lane spoke at a memorial
service for people of Estonia, Lat
via and Lithuania deported or
enslaved under the Russians.
The meeting, attended by some
800 persons, was held at Pierce
Hall.
The former diplomat said this
country has received only a "few
crumbs" from the SovietS, such
as the Korean prisoner exchange
and the release of William Oats,
Associated Press correspondent in
Czechoslovakia.
But what about the millions
who have been deported to ST.
IBERIA and elsewhere by the So
Wet Union?" Mr.. Lane asked. He
said the Western nations should
not rest until all enslaved peoples
are freed.
The service marked the day IL
years ago when Russia arrested
$4,000 men, women and children
in the three Baltic countries and
shipped them to concentration
camps. The day is known as
Baltic Genocide Day.
Edward M. O'Connor, former
member of the Displaced Persons
Commission, also spoke.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Harry E. Randall, Jr.,
Veteran Of IS Years
In Government Work

Harry E. Randall, jr., a Gov
ernment employe for 35 years
died Unexpectedly Friday at
Walter Reed Hospital. He be-
came i'll while driving to work
and was taken to the hospital
where he died a short time later
He had lived at 836 Sligo avenue
Silver Spring, for q years.
Mr.. Randall, a clerk for the
Army, had planned to retire at
the end of this month. He would
have been SIS years old on
Wednesday.
He was the son of Harry Ran
dali, sr., youngest licensed navi-
gator on the Potomac River, who
owned II boats and the hotel at
Colonial Beach, Va. His grand
father was Capt. E. S. Randall,
who established the Potomac
River sightseeing line.
Mr.. Randall was a typist for
the Southern Railway System
and afterwards worked for the
Justice Department. He was in
the transportation division of
the Army.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs.
Mary G. Randall, of the Silver
Spring address, and a brother,
Paul j. Randall, Easton, Md,
captain of the Maryland State
Police.
Funeral services were to be
held at 10 am. at st. Michael's
Catholic Church, Silver Spring,
with burial in Holy Rood Gem
etery
Evening star., 1953-06-15
S15O,OOO Fire Damages
Old Winchester Mansion
BY the Associated Press

WINCHESTER, Va, June is.
"A 30-room house, containing
$50,000 worth of Persian rugs,
was destroyed by fire here last
night.
The home belonged to H. Del
mar Robinson, ST., secretary
treasurer of a local ice and cold
storage firm. The Robinson
family was on vacation and no
one was in the house.
A relative estimated the DAM
age would amount to at least
$150,00O.
Firemen were able to save
some of the Persian rugs and
valuable antiques in the two
story brick mansion dating back
to 1870. But they were unable
to bring the blaze under con-
troll in time to prevent the
house being destroyed.
Evening star., 1953-06-15

serving with E Company, 1st
Marine Volunteer Infantry in
the Spanish American War,
A member of Dewey Camp of
the Spanish War Veterans, he
served as its commander in
1881. The following year he
was commander Of the District
Department. From 1885 to 1946
he was quartermaster general of
the national organization, re-
signing due to i'll health.
Active in Elks, Eagles.
Mr.. Callan was a past exalted
ruler of Washington Lodge No.
is of the Elks and a past presi-
dent of the Maryland-Delaware-
District of Columbia Elks' Asso-
citation. He also was worthy
president of Washington Aerie
No. 125 of the Order of Eagles
and as deputy grand worthy
president. He was one of the
early organizers of the Moose
and a member of the Military
Order of the Serpent.
Mr.. Callan operated q restau-
rant at Second and c streets
Sc. before prohibition. and was
president of the local Retail
Liquor Dealers Association at
that time.
$1-a-Year Man.
During World War I, he
served on a $1-a-year basis as
chief of the records section,
General Supply Division of the
Army Quartermaster Generals
Office.
A devout member of st. AL
oysius parish, Mr.. Callan at
tended mass there every morn
ing until recently.
His wife, Anna McHugh CAL
Ian, died 10 years ago. They had
no children. Several distant rel
atives in Portland, Me-, survive
him.
A requiem mass will be cele-
brated at st. Aloysius at 9 am.
Thursday. Burial will be in Ar
lington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
O'Conor Raps Einstein
For Advice on Red Quiz
By the AssoeIotsd Pres.

PHILADELPHIA. June 15.-
Former Senator Herbert R..
O'Conor of Maryland has ac-
cused DR.. Albert Einstein of
"unWarranted interference" for
advising American teachers, to
refuse to testify before a Senate
committee probing possible
Communist affiliations.
In a speech before the Penn
sylvania Railroads Holy Name
Society here yesterday, Mr..
O'Conor called the noted scien-
lists advice an "indefensible
incident" and IAN insult" to
the Senate Internal Security
Committee.
The Maryland Democrat,
former head of the Senate Crime
Committee, listed DR.. Einstein's
remark as one of three dis
turbing developments" which
warrant the attention of Ameri-
cans.
The other two, he. said, were
the desperate effort of British
trade representatives to increase
their dealings with Communist
China" and an announcement
from Burma. to the effect, that
1T will assume leadership in
seeking the admittance of Com
munist China to the United Ma
tionS."
Evening star., 1953-06-15
James Aiken, 81,
Beer Firm Official

James Aiken, 54, district man
ager here for PabSt Beer, died
yesterday at his home, 1924 T
street Sc.
Mr.. Aiken came to Washington
about % years ago and first
worked for Ballantine & Sons.
He had been with Pabst for IS
years.
Born and educated in Boston,
Mr.. Aiken formerly was in the
radio business in Kingston, N. Y,
and at one time lived in Harris
burg. Pa.
During World War I he was a
chief petty officer in the sub
marine service.
He was a member of the
American Legion and Board of
Trade here, the Masons in
Kingston and the Elks in Harris
burg.
Survivors are his widow, Hilda,
and four sisters and two broth
ers in Boston.
Funeral services will be held
at 1880 pm. Wednesday at Lees
funeral home, Fourth street and
Massachusetts, avenue NE. Bur-
ial will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
British Sub Travels
$500 Miles Under Ocean
By the Associofad Press

PORTSMOUTH, England,
June l5.-A British submarine,
Andrew. 3. with q crew of so,
reached England today after a
2,500-mile trip from Bermuda
made all the way under water.
1t evidently took about two
weeks.
The trip was only about half
as long as the 5,200-mile UNDER
water run by the United States
submarine Pickerel in 1850. That
trip was from Hong Kong to
Pearl Harbor in 81 days.
Both the American and Brit
ish submarines were equipped
with snorkel apparatus, a
breathing tube extending to the
surface. This apparatus was de-
veloped by the Germans during
World War II, from a Dutch
idea.
The Andrew is one of Britain's
latest "a" type submarines, built
in 1948 and designed for long
voyages. She is 279 feet long,
with a displacement of 1920
tons when submerged.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Clifton P. Walker, Father
OF APP Labor Reporter
BY The A.soeiossd Press

Clifton Pierson Walker, 81, of
Chicago and Anna Maria Island,
Fla, died unexpectedly yesterday
while visiting at the home of his
son. Norman Walker, Associated
Press labor reporter. 1043 North
Manchester street. Arlington.
The elder Mr.. Walker and his
wife had arrived in Washington
only five days ago on a motor
trip along the Eastern Seaboard.
He was stricken with a heart
attack.
Clifton Walker, a native of
New Orleans, was the son of the
late Norman Walker, long time
editorial writer for the New Or
leans Times-Picayune. While a
young man, Mr.. Walker went to
Chicago and became connected
with the Harris Trust & Saw
ings Bank. He later became vice
president of the National Bank
Of the Republic there.
He retired to Anna Maria Is
land four years ago.
In addition to his widow, the
former Andre Provosty of New
Orleans, and his son, Norman,
three other sons, Clifton, jr.,
Oliver and Richard, all of Chi
cago, survive.
The body will be taken to New
Orleans for funeral services on
Thursday from Holy Name
Church.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Dr.. Douglas Freeman
Is Accorded Tributes
From Many Leaders
By ths AssoeIoisd Press

RICHMOND. Va, June IS
Tributes poured in today for the
late Douglas Southall Freeman,
newspaper editor, historian and
Pulitzer prize winning biogra-
pher. He died Saturday of a
heart attack at his home here at
the age of 81. Funeral arrange
ments had not been completed.
DR.. Freeman, who spotted in
Gen. Eisenhower the qualities he
thought the country needed,
urged the General to heed the
call for political service.
Gen. Eisenhower said later
that his friend, DR.. Freeman, had
been "the first man in the United
States who ever got me to think
ing seriously about a possible po-
litical career"
DR.. Freeman was editor of the
Richmond News-Leader for "a
years, from 1915 to his retire.
ment in 1949.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz,
wartime chief of the Pacific
Fleet snd later Chief of Naval
Operations. said:
He has great intuitive pow
ers to divine what was in the
mind of the man about whom
ne was writing and a great stra-
tegic sense which appealed to
me as a military man. He was
the most outstanding historian
of our time"
Praised by Kent Cooper.
Kent Cooper, executive director
OF the Associated Press, said:
DIR. Freeman was one of the
great editors, not only of the
South but of the whole country.
Besides, he was an historian and
biographer par excellence. He
went all to soon and will be
greatly missed"
John j. McCloy, chairman Of
the board of the Chase Ma
tional Bank and former United
States high commissioner for
Germany, said:
THE Nation has lost a great
historian and a great man"
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-
dent of George Washington
University, commented:
With his death, there passes
a wise interpreter of the thought
processes of our democracy. Ed
ucation is indebted to him"
Senator Fulbright's Tribute.
Senator Fulbright, Democrat,
of Arkansas, former president Of
the University of Arkansas, de-
clared:
"Dr. Freeman was one of our
finest historical scholars who did
a great deal to present the truth
about the South to the rest of
the country. He was a man of
great intellect and will be widely
missed"