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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1953-03-19
This and That from WASHINGTON
BY Congressman Frances p. 6okon-

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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1953-03-19

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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1953-03-19

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Evening star., 1953-12-16
D. {. Employees Get
Two HaIf-HoIidays

Living up to expectations, the
Commissioners today granted
District government employees a
halliday holiday on Christmas
and New Years Eve.
They issued their order in ac-
cordance with President Eisen-
hower'S decree of halliday holi-
days for Federal workers.
All but those workers whose
services cannot be spared from
municipal institutions will be
entitled to the time off. Those
who must work will be paid at
the customary double time rates.
This cost. which will be abb
sorbed by the various depart
ments concerned, will total
about $4,000 for both half
days.
While they where about it.
the city heads formally extend
ed best wishes Of the season to
their civil servants and express
ed appreciation for their loyal
and devoted service.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Widow Is BHked
OF $1,000 in Old
FHm-FIdm Game

A 65-year-old widow was
bilked of $4,000 by two women in
a "flim-flam" game conducted on
a downtown Washington street,
police were told today.
Mrs. Jennie Sinfons, of the
Bellevue Hotel, a retired General
Accounting Office clerk. told po-
lice the two women accosted her
separately on Tenth street NV,
between F and G about 10 am.
yesterday. She was offered a
share of $4,000 in money, one of
the women was supposed to have
found.
"They said I would have to
prove 1 was not pauper so I
went to the bank and drew two
$1,000 bills from my account to
show them" Mrs. Simons ex-
planned to police.
One of the women sent Mrs.
SimonS to her boss" at an Office
building two blocks away, after
the other woman took her $4,000
to show the "boss."
Il was supposed to see this
man and get my $4,000 plus some
of the money that was found ~
Mrs. SimonS said. "But when ]
went to the place she told me
about it was the Civil Service
Commission building and they
didn't know anything about the
woman or her employer" she
added.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Ancient Fire Engines Compete
For Shelter in Alexandria

It's getting so an old fire en-
glne needs priority to find shell
ter in Alexandria.
The city's old Champion steam
pumper has been moved from the
Friendship Firehouse to make
room for even older fire equip
ment that the city soon expects
back in it's fold.
Friendship is being prepared
to receive the original fire engine
that George Washington gave
Alexandria in ITS. Alexandria
Mayor Marshal j. Beverley plans
to bring the George Washington
engine back from Baltimore on
February %.
There also will be room at
Friendship to display another
piece of fancy antique fire appa-
ratus which the city hopes to get
back from Hudson, N. Y. 1t is
currently being exhibited at the
f1remen's home there. Yankee
troops captured it in Alexandria
during the Civil War and Mayor
Beverley has asked for its re-
turn.
With so much old equipment
in the offing, the Champion
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Businesses Warned of Dancer
In 'AIcohoIiduys' Parties

killed and 205 injured as a di-
rect result of drinking, it notes,
and drinking was a factor in
hundreds of other traffic acci-
dents.
National Safety Council fig
ureS indicate that in % out of 100
fatal accidents in the United
States during 1852. the driver or
the pedestrian had been drink
ing.
THE Christmas and New Year
holiday season is traditionally a
period of good will and gaiety, :"
wrote Mr.. Keneipp. But he
added. unfortunately. it is also
a period of 'alcoholidays.'"
He pointed out it takes max
imum alertneSs to stay safe in
today's hazardous traffic, while
alcohol slows reactions and i'm
pairs judgment. reducing alert
ness.
Mr.. keneipp appealed to Dis
trict residents to protect them
selves by making arrangements
beforehand for transportation to
and from parties where they will
be drinking. He urged those
planning Office parties and other
large gatherings to be especially
careful to make provision to pro-
vide transportation If alcoholic
beverages are to be served. A
Evening star., 1953-12-16
National Symptoms Program
Tonight to Live on Records

The orchestra recently played
the world premiere of the third
Creston symphony in Baltimore.
Preliminary plans for the
record-making were disclosed
last week end. The orchestra
will use the Jessie Moon Holton
Gymnasium at Holton Arms
School for the sessions, which
are scheduled over four days.
Westminster Recording Co., of
New York, is doing the recording.
Julian Olevsky, 26-year-old
violin soloist on tonight's con-
cert. will record the concerto.
Appalachian Spring" is being
played tonight in memory of
Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,
The piece was commissioned by
the Coolidge Foundation in the
Library of Congress.
The concert, at Constitution
Hall. will start at $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Woman Crushed Trying
To Start Stalled Car

A 36-year-old woman was
crushed to death early today
while trying to start her stalled
auto, police reported.
Estelle v. Jackson. colored. of
1860 California street, NV, was
killed in front of her home about
2:30 am. She was crushed when
her car hit three parked cars.
Police said the victim had ap-
parently pushed her car on a
slight downgrade and was trying
to get into the drivers seat when
the car veered to the left.
The woman was crushed be-
tween her half-closed door and
the door jamb as her car struck
the parked cars. Her death was
listed as a pedestrian accident
and brought the Districts traffic
death toll so far this year to 81.
Last year traffic deaths totaled
IS.
Evening star., 1953-12-16

Traffic Director George E. Ke-
neipp is cautioning District buSi-
ness executives about the traffic
death and injury potential of
"alcoholidays."
He suggests, in some $500 let
tiers being sent to business lead
ers, that they can do much to
encourage sensible behavior at
office parties given by their en-
ployes in the ChristmaS-New
Year season.
The letters urging the slogan,
Don't Crash the Christmas
Party" are being distributed
with cooperation of the Wash
ington Board of Trade, the jun
ior Chamber of Commerce, the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association. District Trucking
Association, Federation of Busi-
ness Mems Associations and
other business groups.
IF any one doubts the truth of
the equation. Drinking plus
Driving equals Disaster I in
vite them to come down to my
department and look at the rec
ords," said the traffic director.
Last year. IL drivers were
killed and 322 were injured as
a direct result of drinking while
driving. the department reports.
In addition, two pedestrians were
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Purchase of School Buses
Authorized in Arlington

The way was clear today for
purchase of six new buses by
the Arlington School Board.
Authorization was given last
night in resolution approved
by the County Board. The board
however, declined to approve
the method of financing pro-
posed by the school board to
meet the estimated cost of about
$4,000 to buy and operate the
buses for the rest of this school
year.
The school board had asked
that $4,000 be taken from ex-
cess funds in the instruction
budget and that the rest be
transferred from unbudgeteo
surplus-money received in ac-
cess of expected collections.
The $4,000 transfer part was
backed by the county board, but
it said, in effect. that the school
board should take the remaining
$4,000 from its contingency
fund.
Evening star., 1953-12-16

Tonight's National Symphony
Orchestra program is going down
to poSterity.
Conductor Howard Mitchell
and his 86 musicians are to rec
ord the contents of the concert
in sessions starting next Sunday
the orchestra's first recording
venture in some years.
Programmed tonight are the
Brahms violin concerto, Aaron
Copland's appalachian Spring"
and the first symphony by the
Russian composer, Dmitri Shos-
takovich.
Slated for recording also are
five works not being played to-
night - the second and third
symphonies by the American
composer Paul Creston, Cop
lands Dances from Billy the
Kid" and lei Salon Mexico" and
Shostakovichss "Age of Gold"
ballet music.
Evening star., 1953-12-16

built in 1863-just didn't stand a
chance.
Mayor Beverley declared, how
ever, that the Champion would
be carefully cared for in storage
until Friendship can be expanded
to make room for it.
The Champion currently is be-
ing kept at the A. B. & w. bus
yards. 1t was to be covered today
with a. large tarpaulin to protect
1t from the weather.
The Champion was bought by
Alexandria in 1871 and was the
first engine of the old Columbia
Company which still exists as
No. 4 Company.
1t won the title Champion
with repeated victories ovel
other steam engines in fire fight
ing contests of its day.
An old Firemen's Journal says
that the Champion had the best
record of any steamer in the
world around the 1900's.
For many years, the Champion
rusted in a shed in Alexandria
Some ten years ago it was re-
paired by Fort Belvoir soldiers
Since then it has been displayed
at Friendship.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Hearing SET for Monday
On Curbing Board Fences

The Districts Slum Prevention
Committee yesterday put the
finishing touches on proposed
regulations outlawing dilapidated
sheds and high board fences
here.
The recommended rules are
slated for public hearing at 10
am. Monday in the District
Building. g,
One provision requires that the
owner of property having a fence
condemned as a health or fire
hazard could never build an
other like it. The committee
plans to amend this by specify
ing that a new owner could build
a replacement fence as high as
the one destroyed.
The concern over old high
board fences stems from officials
view that not only are such
structures fire hazards in them
selves. but they conceal trash in
yards.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Grand Jury 10 Get
Findings in School
Transportation Probe

A special Arlington grand jury
will convene next month to hear
results of an investigation of the
county school transportation
system, Commonwealth's Attor-
ney William j. HaSsan said yes
terday
The former head of the bus
system, William C. Vest. 80, faces
trial January 4 on two charges
OF embezzling public funds, and
on January on two counts of
grand larceny. The charges were
contained in indictments re-
turned by the grand jury that
completed it's work yesterday.
Vest, through his attorney
Griffin T. Garnett, jr., pleaded
not guilty to all charges when
he was arraigned yesterday be-
fore Circuit Judge William D.
Medley. Bond was set at $1,000.
Vest will be tried by Judge Wal
ter T. Mccarthy without jury
He is accused of putting to his
own use $66 paid by the Airing
ton Optimist Club for chartering
two school buses.
The grand larceny charges
stem from accusations that Vest
sold IL school bus tires.
Earlier. Vest had pleaded gull
ty to illegal use of State vehicle
inspection stickers, and was fined
$100.
Mr. Hassan announced after
Vest was arrested by Detective
Walter Kadel on November 80
that full investigation would
be made of the school transpor-
tation system.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
County Parking Provided

Montgomery County residents
visiting the new multi-million-
dollar County Office Building in
Rockville soon may find parking
spaces provided for them-but it
will be limited.
The County Council is consid-
ering an ordinance which will
earmark 81 of the 228 parking
spaces outside the building for
the public. The rest will go to
county employees who will get
special stickers for their car.
Under the proposed ordinance
taxpayers who get in the wrong
space would be subject to a
maximum penalty of $40, pay
able within 48 hours at the near
est police station, and impound-
ing of his car to insure the pay
ment.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
$40 Million Fairfax
Sewer Bond Voted,
.2,714 10 2,2O9

The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors was to make prep
arations today for sale of the
$40 million sewer bond issue
which voters approved by a vote
of 2.714 to 2,209 in yesterdays
referendum.
The bonds are to be sold over
a f1ve-year period to finance an
integrated sewer system for all
the areas of the county that
need it. The money is expected
to provide the county 199 miles
of new sewer lines, three pump
ing stations and three disposal
plants.
Mrs. Anne Wilkins, supervisor
from Falls Church District and
one of the principal campaign
ers for the bond issue, said at
torneys would be asked at to-
days board meeting to prepare
the necessary papers for sale
OF the bonds.
Some Plans Completed.
Mrs. Wilkins said final plans
are ready for some of the prof.
ects to be financed with the bond
money. Construction can begin
as soon as the bonds are sold
and construction bids are ac-
cepted, she said.
The total vote in the referen-
dunn was only 5,023. Fairfax
County has more than $1,000
registered voters.
The majority given the bond
issue in the urban areas was
sufficient to overcome the strong
opposition in the rural COM
munitieS.
Under the old district setup,
only two magisterial districts
Falls Church and Mount
Vernon-gave the bond issue a
majority. The other four dis
trictS, Lee, Centreville. Dranes-
vile and Providence, went
against it.
First Rural Vote.
1t was the first time rural areas
had been asked to vote for a
bond issue that will finance prof.
ects principally for their urban
neighborS. The rural voters ap-
parently were not persuaded by
the supervisors promise to pay
off the entire bond issue with
sewer service charges and con-
nection fees, without resorting to
taxes.
Previously, the county has
financed the few sewer facilities
it has with bond issues within
special sanitary districts. Only
those residents within the dis
trictS voted.
Passage of the $40 million
bond issue. however. will allow
the county to eliminate the Sani-
tary district method Of providing
sewer facilities and a single uni
fed system,
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Rail Ticket Seller
Held on Charge Of
FaIsiiying Record

A Union Station ticket seller
was held for grand jury action
today by United States Commits
sioner Cyril Lawrence on a
charge Of falsifying railroad
records.
Bond for the man. Thomas A.
Mobley, 40. of the 400 block of
Fontaine street, Alexandria, was
set at $500.
Army Pvt. Paul r. Babbin of
Boston, Walter Reed Hospital
patient. said he purchased a
ticket from Mobley on Novem-
ber %. Clyde H. Freed. the ter
minal's ticket agent, who testi-
fed later that Mobley had failed
to record the sale on his tour"
sheet, a record of all transac-
tions for the day.
Mr.. Freed explained that In
terstate Commerce Commission
regulations require such entries.
Asked to Identify Seller.
Pvt. Babbin said he was
stopped at the station gate
when he attempted to use his
ticket. He said a railroad de-
tective asked him to identify the
seller.
The soldier said he was in a
hurry to board his train and
purposely gave the number of a
ticket window picked at random
to the detective, 1t. John Cas-
sidy.
Bought Another Ticket.
After his return to Walter
Reed, he said he was given $40
on December l and told to pur-
chase a second ticket at the
window at which he had pur-
chased the first.
The second ticket, according
to testimony. also went unre-
corded and was not stamped
with the sellers number as re-
quired by law.
At today'S hearing, the Gov
ernment prosecuted only on the
ICC record regulations. No allie
cation that Mobley pocketed the
money for the tickets was made.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
H. {. BIunck Heads
Hotel Association

Herbert c. Blunck, general
manager of the Hotel Statler,
has been elected president of the
Hotel Association of Washington
for 1854.
H. c. McColgan, MANAGER of
the Dodge Hotel. was elected
vice president, and Marshall H.
Jones, manager of the Hay
Adams Hotel, was elected treas
urer. Joseph C. McGarraghy
was named general counsel.
Mr.. Blunck, chairman of the
1858 Community Chest drive,
succeeds Frank E. Weakly as
president of the hotel group.
The association elected as di-
rectors Robert Blackstone, r.
v. Bryce, John Cost, George
johnson, William H. Joyner.
Stanley C. Livingstone, C. j.
Mack, Gardner Moore and Hud-
son Moses.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Equal Teaching
Stdffs Urged in
Each Division
Mrs. Butcher Hits
Bourd of Education
For 'ImbuIunces'

A Board of Education member
has called on her colleagues to
order class sizes in the city's
white and colored schools equal
lied" by February /.
Mrs. Margaret j. Butcher, in
a letter sent to the eight other
board members, yesterday also
called for an immediate effort
to get funds for a pre-School
census and for switch of COL
ored Armstrong High Schools
students to Mckinley High, now
white.
Mrs. Butcher, professor at
Howard University and one of
the School Boards three colored
members. criticized School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning for what she
termed 'imbalanceS" between the
two school divisions. She also
spoke critically Of the board
itself.
OlVeS F1gufeS.
Asserting that the white
schools have a surplus of 1885
teachers compared to a colored
shortage of SO, the board men,
ber accused the superintendent
of approaching the problem
from the point of view of what
can be spared" by the white
division when actually. she de-
clared. the two teaching stats
should be equalized according to
a uniform standard.
1T is unlawful and immoral
for the superintendent and the
board to maintin less burdened
teaching staffs in Division l
than in Division 2, on the ground
that transfers from the former
to the latter will create made
quacies in the white schools.
Those inadequacies are now i'm
posed chiefly upon Negro stu
dents. who are actually paying
the salaries of teachers for white
pupils in excess of the number
authorized by the board" Mrs.
Butcher asserted.
Hits at Kindergartens.
The board member charged
that equalization never has been
the objective of the school ad-
miniStration. She also sharply
criticized the failure to enroll
more colored children in kinder
gartens.
Kindergarten facilities are
provided in a most unequal, dis
criminatory manner" she de-
clared, asserting that 456 Negro
children now are on kindergar-.
ten waiting, lists compared to
only 81 white. Colored kinder
gartenS also are more crowded,
she added.
With respect to Mckinley
High School, Mrs. Butcher said
the board ought either to order
the transfer of the school to
Armstrong pupils or integrate
the colored pupils into the white
school. If an appropriation is
needed to transfer the school,
it ought to be sought, she added.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
City Heads Reject PIeo
For Parking Survey

The District Commissioners to-
day turned down a request by the
District of Columbia Division of
the American Automobile AsSo-
citation to conduct a survey of
downtown parking facilities.
The Commissioners pointed
out in a letter to the AAA that
the District Motor Vehicle Park
ing Agency already is working on
program to alleviate parking
problems. For this reason, it
was stated, the suggested joint
parking survey "is not desirable
and would be an unnecessary
expenditure of public funds"
Under the AAA proposal the
District would have to pay a
portion of the cost of the survey.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
LYnchburg Bank Elects
|. D. Horner President
By the AssoeIaied Pres,

LYNCHBURG, Dec. 16.-L.
David Horner. jr., was named
president of the Peoples National
Bank of Lynchburg at a Board
of Directors meeting yesterday.
Mr.. Horner, vice president and
trust officer of the bank since
1947, will succeed Scott Nesbit
whose resignation as president
becomes effective December 81
Mr.. Horner. So. a native of
Lynchburg and a graduate of the
School of Banking at Rutgers
University, will assume his duties
January l. He has been asSo-
ciated with banking here for 26
years.
His brother, John v. Horner,
is a reporter on The Washington
Star.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Late Low Bid
Costs NCHA
Extra $4,000
Bond Sale Gives
Permanent Financing
To Properties

The National Capital Housing
Authority on paper lost $91 900
yesterday, because the agent Of
banking syndicate was IL min
utes late with an offer for $11 AZ
million of it's bonds.
The bids were opened at 2 pm.
But the agent went to the wrong
building, officials were told. He
got to the authority's headquar-
terS, 1929 New York avenue NV,
at 2:11 pm. Officials refused to
open his bid, holding it did not
meet the time terms.
The single successful bid was
an offer by a syndicate headed
by Phelps Fem & Co. of New
York, to pay 212 per cent in
terest and premium of $75,257
on the 30-year bonds.
S166.617 Premium Offered.
Later, the authority was ad-
vised unofficially by the Bankers
Trust Co. of New York. that the
syndicate it headed had offered
a premium of $166,617.
William r. Simpson. jr., the
authority's general counsel, ex-
planned that the bond sale puts
all the completed low rent prop
critics under permanent flnanc-
ing
At a meeting of its board. the
authority later in the day voted
to accept the bid of the Phelps
Fem & Co. syndicate.
Joining with Phelps Fem &
Co. in the syndicate are these
New York financial houses: Leh-
man Bros, Goldman, Sachs &
Co., Hartman, Ripley & Co.
Inc, Smith Barney & Co., Shields
& Co, the First Boston Corp
and R. w. Pressprich & Co.
Mr.. Simpson explained the
bonds are issued against 2,258
dwelling units here. They are:
James Creek Dwellings, Parkside
Dwellings. Barry Farm Dwellings,
Lincoln Heights Dwellings. STAN
ton Dwellings. Highland Dwell
ings Addition and Richardson
Dwellings.
First Sale Since 1943.
All these properties were built
under provisions of loan con-
tracts between the authority and
the public Housing Administra-
ton. The sale of authority
bonds was arranged by PHA in
coordination with larger offer
ing in which numerous public
housing authorities in other
cities are participating, officials
explained.
James Ring, executive director
of NCHA, pointed out this is
the first sale of bonds by his
organization since 1943.
Mr.. Simpson said his new n
nancing will pay off temporary
loan notes and PHA advances
and put the authority's fiscal
affairs on a sounder long term
basis
At the board meeting, with
c. Melvin Sharpe presiding, a
new member, John A. Remon,
was sworn in. Another new
member is expected to be ap-
pointed next month.
Board discussion turned to un-
collectable accounts of ex-ten-
ants. The board was told that
over the last 10 years, $89, ,00O
was in this status. 1t empoW-
cred Mr.. Ring in the future to
write off these accounts, with
the proviso that a quarterly re-
port be submitted to the board
on the situation. Staff members
explained that every effort is
made to collect the money,
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Miss ClearY Promoted
To New Treasury Post

The White House late yester-
day accepted the resignation of
Miss Catherine B. Cleary. as as
sistant Treasurer of the United
States so she could take new
position as assistant to the Sec
retary Of the Treasury.
Miss Cleary. Of Milwaukee,
Wis, in her new job will advise
Secretary Of the Treasury
Humphrey on technical matters
relating to bills pending in Con-
gress. the White House satd.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
Purty at Firehouse

The Civil Defense Emergency
Firemen will hold a Christmas
party at Z pm. tomorrow al
Engine Company 10. 2813 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc. Regular
members of the District Fire De-
partment will be honored. Speak
ers will include Chief Millard H
Sutton, Chief Instructor Clarence
Quick and Battalion Chief joe
Best. A