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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Justice VS.. Law BATTLES Judge in Zoning Case

/ put into effect. The store was
in a residential district. Mr.,
Hart couldn't get a license to
operate.
While dust settled on the
counters and the stock became
more and more out of date, he
argued with the coming authori-
ties, the Commissioners and any
one else who would listen.
His last fruitless application
for a license was in 1927. Since
then he has kept the store and
contents intact-under an ever
heavier layer of dust. 1t was
his only support for the conten-
ton that the store was really
store all the while He kept
living in the back rooms.
1.-THE land is for you to live
on apd it's no good to have land
if you can't live on it," he said.
God made land AND God made
man and He made man to live
on land"
Twenty-Five years went by with
Mr.. Hart making a living selling
coal and building and mutter-
ing about "that coming foolish
ness" The store and stock
stayed as they were--exhibit A
in Mr.. Harris argument.
AS late as 194S, he wrote the
/ Commissioners, asking for q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
By Fronk SortweII, Jr.

A 30-year- old dispute between
an elderly District man and the
coming laws turned up in Mu-
nicipal Court yesterday to battle
Judge Andrew j. Howard. jr.
Marcellus Hart, colored, who
sports a grandiose pair of mus
tachioes and admits he is past
70, began his story in 1911. when.
with his own hands, he built a
store at 1116 Forty-Seventh
place NE.
This is what the neatly dressed
old man told reporters:
The area was rural then, and
Mr.. Hart sold kerosene lamps.
stove polish and such useful
items. as well as groceries.
It cost him, he said, 81, 800 to
build the store, with two rooms
in back in which to live.
In 1917 Mr.. Hart gave up his
store and went to Indian Head,
Nd, as a civilian employe of
the Navy. The store was rented.
but the woman who ran it
stopped paying the rent after a
year or so. Mr.. Hart closed it
down.
He worked at Indian Head
until 1922. when he came back
to start again. Two years be-
fore, however, zoning had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Small Boy Suspected
In ChiIIum Fires

Arson investigators in Prince
Georges County got another case
late yesterday afternoon. And
they think juvenile suspect in
this new blaze may be implicated
in two other fires.
The latest outbreak was in the
Chillum Terrace Apartments.
The fire was touched off in mail
boxes. Mount Rainier firemen
said damage was minor.
The boy suspected in the mall
boxes fire ''is a mighty likely
suspect" in two fires the night
before, said Mount Rainier Fire
Chief William Freeman. The
boy. however, has not been ar
rested.
One of the fires was in the
Chillum Elementary School and
caused $4,000 damage to two
classrooms. The other was in a
storage shed in Chillum Heights
Manor, a block from the school.
The school, closed yesterday, will
reopen Monday.
Meanwhile, Montgomery Coun-
ty authorities are continuing
their investigation Of the fire
that threatened all Of Poolesville
early yesterday.
Charles Howe, jr., the county
fire marshal, said today the
Poolesville fire origin hasn't been
labeled definitely as arson.
But it appears to be the work
of a firebug, he said. He added
that there have been other ques-
tionable fires in the town in the
last two months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Court Farley Seeks
Better Housing for
.CriminaIIy Insane

Preliminary steps were being
taken today by court and Fed
eral officials to end dangerous"
housing conditions for Washing
tons criminally insane.
The move was outlined by
District Chief Judge Bolitha j
Laws, following a closed session
in his Office, called to alleviate
the badly overcrowded situation
at st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Attending the session were
members of the District bench.
several Federal Security Admin
lstration agents. psychiatrists
and Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Ralph Quinter.
Because of crowded conditions,
Judge Laws explained, he and
fellow judges have been forced
to send men believed insane to
the District Jail. The statement
was backed up by DR.. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent of st.
ElizabethS.
Dozen Now in Jail.
The psychiatrist, who attended
yesterdays meeting, said a dozen
such prisoners are now housed
in the Jail instead of the hos
pital, where they should be
undergoing treatment.
The iurist described the prac-
tice as dangerous. But he ex-
pressed doubt that any other
facility than crowded st. Eliza
bethS exists for persons who es-
cape trial by reason of insanity.
An immediate study of all
such institutions has been prom
ised by FSA experts. Judge
Laws declared. He added that
FSA lawyers will try to deter
mine whether judges here could
legally commit insane prisoners
to such facilities, if there are
any.
| Ordinarily prisoners suspected
of insanity OF who plead such
are sent first to Gallinger Hos
pital for a mental examination.
This can take UP to month.
| GaIlinger Not Suitable.
If found to be insane and I'M
! able to stand trial. they are
transferred to st. Elizabeths
until adiudged cured. They can
then be brought to trial.
It is this latter group. Judge
Laws asserted. that make up the
bulk of prisoners crowding into
Gallinger and st. Elizabeths
Hospitals.
Judge Laws and DR.. Over
holser agreed that the long
range solution is the conStruc-
ton of more facilities at st.
Elizabeths and Gallinger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Notice Of Suspension
Given Dupree in
Rent Office Pay Case
By William A. MiIIen

Edwin D. Dupree. jr.. general
counsel of the Office of Rent
Sterilization, has been notified
he will be suspended on Monday.
This is an outgrowth of So
employees receiving a total Of
95,100 cash for their accumu-
lated annual leave and then
being hired back Immediately as
temporary employees in June.
1850.
Announcement of the suspen-
sion notice was made yesterday
afternoon by Acting Director
William G. Barr, who takes over
officially Monday. James McI.
Henderson, the director, an
nounced his resignation some
time ago, effective Sunday. He
has been out of town on an in
spection trip. He was not in the
agency in June, 1850, having
| Joined it in September, 1852.
| Two Others to Go.
Mr.. Barr announced one Of his
| first official acts will be to sus-
pend three top employees. The
others, previously announced,
are John j. Madigan. deputy di-
! rector for administration, and
Mrs. Linda Matteo, personnel
director. They are all charged
with participating in the CASH
for-leave program.
The agency's new head, in an
nouncing Mr.. Dupree's forth
coming suspension, said the post
of general counsel is one Of
great responsibility. Because Mr..
Dupree participated in the plan
it is necessary to suspend him in
the interests of good government,
Mr.. Barr said. He added that Mr..
Dupree's action set a bad ex-
ample for subordinates.
Mr.. Dupree would say only:
81 feel / have done nothing
wrong"
Mr.. Dupree, AZ, has been with
the rent control organization
since August, 1912. He is a ma
tive of Arkansas and came to
| Washington in october. 1914. He
lives at 1908 Oak Crest drive,
Alexandria, Va.
1854 Payment.
A table placed in the Congress
sional Record on Wednesday by
Senator Williams, Republican. Of
Delaware, who brought the mat
ter to the Senate's attention.
showed Mr.. Dupree received So
654.75 as his lump sum payment
for annual leave. He has GS-
Is grade, and his salary was
$10.750.
Mr.. Barr disclosed that he will
appear at 10 am. Tuesday at a
hearing called by Chairman Phil
lips of the House Subcommittee
on Independent Offices Appro-
priations.
Meanwhile. the Senate Gov
eminent Operations Committee,
headed by Senator Mccarthy,
Republican, of Wisconsin is
quizzing individually the 80 en-
ployes Of the So still left on the
agency'S payroll.
General Accounting Office In
vestigatorS are comforting with
employees and searching records.
The Civil Service Commission
has also been called into the
/ case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Two Men Get S73S
In Northeast HoIdup

Police today were looking for
two holdup men, one of them
armed, in the $738 robbery of a
Northeast liquor store.
William Pappas, "a, Of the
Eagle Liquor Store, 81 H street
Me- said the pair entered short
ly before 8 pm. yesterday.
One brandished what looked
like a German Luger while the
other emptied Mr.. Pappas' pock-
cts and cash drawers. He told
police the man carrying the
Luger "roughed me up a bit"
for not promptly opening the
cash register.
Both men were Negroes wear
ing tan coats and hats.
In another case, Louis CHASER.
81, owner of a market at 1901
Third street S.W., told police two
Negro youths took $40 from his
cash register. He said one Of
them carried a pistol that may
have been a toy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Virginia Welfare ChiseIine
Believed al Minimum

RICHMOND, Feb. Z R.-The
State Welfare Department says
less than $1,000 in Federal pub
lie assistance funds has gone to
ineligible persons in Virginia in
the last Is years.
Richard w. Copeland, director
Of the department, made the
comment in reference to testi-
mony before a Senate commit
tee Tuesday that chislers might
be getting as much as 500 mill
lion a year of such funds.
Mr.. Copeland said a system of
double checking by State agen-
cies and a continuous audit by
Federal agents made it virtually
impossible for chislers to go un-
detected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Board Offers Plan
To Collect Tolls on
Four Proposed Roads

A proposal that tolls be estab-
lished on four of Maryland's pro-
posed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
two directly serving the WASH
ington area-has been sent to the
Maryland Legislature by the
State Roads Commission.
Commission Chairman Russell
H Mccain said special consult
ants estimate the State could
meet about $40 million worth of
highway costs through the new
toll plan.
Toll Plans Detailed.
The proposal calls for tolls on:
/. The Washington Annapolis
expressway from the District line
to Annapolis. Toll revenue is
calculated as high enough to re-
tire $13 million worth of 3.5 per
cent bonds in 20 years.
2. The Washington National
Pike, from the District line to
Frederick - with tolls reducing
$13.5 million in 3.5 per cent
bonds in % years.
8. The Eastern Shore Express
way from Queenstown. near the
eastern end of the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge, to Warwick on the
Delaware line-enough toll traf-
f1c to pay off $23.5 million worth
of bonds at 3.5 per cent interest
in % years.
4. The Baltimore National
Pike from Pine Orchard, west
of Baltimore, to Hagerstown -
$31.5 MILLION worth of bonds in
% years.
The new proposals were sub
mitted to the Legislature by the
Roads Commission and its adj
visory council as a supplement to
its 12-year, 1858 million highway
construction program.
Earlier Estimate Raised.
As first submitted, the plan
estimated $50 million worth of
the cost could be met by charg-
ing tolls on certain, undesignated
highways.
Mr.. Mccain said the new
specific proposals, prepared by a
firm considered the best in the
country on present and future
traffic volumes, raise the eSti-
mate to a $40 million fund re-
covery. +"
The new plan was submitted to
the General Assembly in letter
to John Wood Logan, chairman
of the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Works Program
Farley Brings
Optimistic Note
Financing Methods
Expected to 'JelI'
By Next Week End

District government and civic
officials discussed the $3.50 mil
lion public works improvement
program for three hours yester-
day. and a note of optimism
emerged from the session.
Schuyler Lowe, District Gen.
eral Administration, director.
said he believes a breakdown of
proposed expenditures and
financing methods will be ready
by next week end. This will be
close to the February is dead
line of a timetable set previously.
John A. Reilly, chairman Of a
special citizens committee
formed to review the works pro-
gram, participated in the con-
ference. He was joined by
Richard Dunn, finance subcom-
mitteeman, and six District OH
Gals. including Budget Officer
Walter L. Fowler.
Forecast Huge Dench.
Mr.. Fowler two days ago, at
the request of Chairman Case
of the Senate District Commit
tee. submitted to Congress a
statement of his views on budg-
etary matters. His position was
that, 10 years from now. the city
will face a 500 million deficit
on the basis of normal expendl-
lures and revenues alone.
The Commissioners, without
whose knowledge Mr.. Fowler's
statement was given, fastened
to notify the public. that their
budget officers computations
had no direct bearing on the
public works program.
Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
Engineer Commissioner, denied
that Mr.. Fowler was subjected
to any censure yesterday. Mr..
Lowe pointed out that the budget
officer has attended all the pub
lie works discussions so far.
Different Set of Assumptions.
Whereas Mr.. Fowler based his
figures OH one set of general as
sumptionS, Gen. Prentiss said the
Reilly Committee is discussing its
own cost-revenue assumptions.
And. he added. 'we are proceed
ing on the hard ground that
businessmen concur on"
Further meetings on an almost
daily basis are to be held in Or
der to come as close to the dead
line as possible, Mr.. Lowe said.
On that score, he said at the
close of Yesterdays session. i
am more optimistic tonight than
at anv time heretofore"
Another committee studying
municipal hospital construction
needs is due to file its recon-
mendations on. Monday. These
will be analysed, in turn. by the
Peilly COMMITTEES and CONSOLE
dated with the city's overall pub
lie works needs figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Clerk Found Unconscious
With Bottle Of Poison Dies

A 46-year-old woman clerk fol
a bottling company, found un-
conscious in her apartment late
Thursday. died today in Gal
linger Hospital.
She was identified as Blanche
Knapp of the $500 block OF
Champlain street N. w. Capt
Richard Felber Of the homicide
squad said a bottle containing
20 tablets of a poison was found
beside her. Both wrists, police
reported, had been slashed.
Miss Knapp told police before
she died that she had been SUI
fering from an ailment for rs
years and could not longer stand
the pain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Case Calls WaIkout
Bad Education for
Payne School Pupils

Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee said yester-
day the Payne School strike is
bad education for the children.
The school has 500 pupils reg.
istered, but only 166 showed up
for morning classes yesterday and
Isl for afternoon classes. Par
entS have kept their children at
home as protest against over
crowding in the colored school al
Fifteenth and c streets NE.
Law Requires Attendance.
cit is bad education to let chill
dren think that the way to COR
rect d situation is to violate the
law" Senator Case said. "The
law says children must attend
school.
ut is unfortunate that chill
dren get the suggestion this early
in life that a strike is q weapon
to be employed to correct a sit
uation without full use of other
methods of protest. &
Facilities there are better
than in some other places in the
country. and probably better
than the parents had.
kids ought to go to school
and parents ought not to spon-
sor a strike. But still there ought
to be some way to correct the
conditions which produce the
situation" Senator Case said.
No Decision Yet.
The Senator said he has come
to no final decision as to what
Congress should do in the dis
pute.
He said basically it is a mat
| ter for the Board of Education
to handle. His interest is to gel
the facts on overcrowding and
the cause Of the strike. he add
ed, while the trail is still warm
so we can determine what is the
responsibility of Congress.
/ Superintendent of Schools Ho-
bart NJ. Corning said yesterday
he will have the entire truant
officer force on duty Monday to
check on absent Payne students
III they are not back in class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
New School Budget
Urged for Use if
Segregation Is Barred

A substitute public school
budget should be prepared for
immediate use if the Supreme
Court bans racial segregation.
according to the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The association also has called
for immediate creation by the
Commissioners of citizens ad-
visory committee to study steps
in indignation.
The suggestions we're made in
response to the Board of Educa-
TONS invitation to civic groups
in preparation for Forthcoming
PUBLIC hearing, not yet set.
Bi-RaciaI Faculties Urged.
The NAACP's Washington
branch suggested that under in
tegration every school must have
a bi-racial faculty, pupils must
be assigned on the basis of resi-
dence and employment status of
teachers and other school en-
ployes must be protected. Also
urged was a revision of the long
range construction program so
as to use all buildings fully.
The entire school system
should be integrated at one time
including merger of Miner and
Wilson Teachers Colleges in the
present Roosevelt High School
the NAACP said.
Hiring OF a race-relationS ex-
pert to advise school officers was
proposed by committee of the
Garfield Turner PTA and Doug
las Heights Civic Association.
Workshop Suggested.
The committee suggested a
workshop program and required
courses on the subject for teach
erS, bi-racial student activities.
creation of a teachers advisory
committee to help in teacher
reaSsignmentS, and a complete
school census to help pupil re-
assignments.
Also urged We're a new high
school and a new Junior high in
the AnacoStia area and addi-
tons to the Garfield and Doug
lass Elementary Schools.
The Washington Ethical Soci-
ETY. urged a special citizens
committee to aid the school
board.
The Bloomingdale Civic Asso-
citation said parents should be
encouraged to work together on
projects of common interest,
particularly projects having
nothing to do with race.
The school board will accept
written suggestions on the
mechanics of segregation until
February 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Sanitation Aide
DeniiesPo|Iution
Charge byLong
Auld Says He Knows
Of No Effort to
Blame Virginia

The District today struck back
at Virginia officials charge
that the city has shielded itself.
while placing blame for Potomac
River pollution on the State.
Deputy Director David v. Anld
Of the District Sanitary En-
cheering Department declared
that this contention, by Ray
mond v Long, former chairman
of the Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin, is "mis-
leading" and without any basis
in fact"
Mr.. Long, who is director Of
the Virginia Planning and Eco
nomic Development Commission,
made his criticism Thursday. He
charged that Washington fails
to assume its share Of RESPONSE
bility of pollution abatement in
the Metropolitan Area, while
blaming Virginia communities
for making insufficient progress
IN that field. '
Says Sources Known.
II am unaware Of any effort
by the District to place the prin-
cipal onus for Potomac River
pollution on the neighboring
Virginia communities" Mr.. Aud
countered today.
On the other hand, he stated,
pollution sources in the area are
well known to all authorities
concerned and corrective meas
ures "have been proceeding CO.
operatively for several years"
Particularly CALLING to the
District sanitation official was
Mr.. Longs charge that the city
is backward in its attitude"
toward pollution abatement. Mr..
Long, according to Mr.. Aud,
has evidently chosen to ignore
facts, which, in his position,
must be known to him."
Mr.. Auld pointed out that
WaShington's sewage treatment
plant now removes about 80 per
cent of pollution from the nearly
200 million gallons of sewage it
handles from the city and nearby
Maryland. Although sewage
treatment plants now are being
either planned or built in the
nearby Virginia areas, virtually
all the waste now flows un-
treated, or only slightly so, into
the Potomac.
Despite financial problems in
recent years, Mr.. Aud went on.
great progress" has been made
toward providing complete sew
age treatment-removal of 70
per cent Of pollution.
Credit Given Commission.
Meanwhile, Edwin r. Cotton.
director of the Potomac Com
mission, said today the Potomac
River in the Washington area
would be a sinking cesspool"
if it were not for commission
efforts to raise the water quality
here.
Referring to . a commission
committee report that the river
is degrading" in the Metro
politan Area, Mr.. Cotton said
that x,,h;lo okahoynao,,t xarn;naf-
have not kept pace with de-
mands, the commissions efforts
have prevented the river from
becoming a nuisance and .
health hazard.
He said abatement projects
now in the planning stage or
being constructed will bring a
vast improvement In this area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
House Group to Probe
Rudio Entertainers
Rx ,hs Assoeioted Press

Representative jackson, Re-
publican, of California, said yes
terday he will direct a House
Un-American Activities suhcom-
mittee probe in Los Angeles next
month.
Mr.. jackson, aided by staff in
vestigators. proposes to question
persons formerly in the movie
industry and presently engaged
in radio and ,television enter
tainment about any connections
with subverSive organizations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Nurserymen to Meet

RICHMOND, Feb. Z (R-A
public horticultural show will
open the annual convention of
the Virginia Nurserymen's As
ISOLATION here tomorrow at the
John Marshall Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07
Helen Smith Gets Post

Helen F. Smith. press bureau
member of the General Confer
ence of Seventh-day Adventists
here. has been named director
of the bureaus New York Office
at Woodside, Long Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-07

A-22 THE EVENING STAR
SAA Washington. D c.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY !, 1853
Evening star., 1953-05-24

Inrecent years, no ballyhoo, no fanfare. This
has been of his own choosing He has granted
none but the most perfunctogy catch-as-catch-
can interviews.
The fact that he is stalking his career now
on remake of one of his early successes,
RED Dust, Z which is being filmed anew
under the title Of ''Mogambo," " has provoked
fresh interest in him. How is the old gentle
man bearing up? Can he match his earlier
smash hit? What happens to him when his
long contract with M-G-M comes to an end,
which Is matter Of months now? How long,
in brief, can he keep it up?
had met him on occasions through the
years and even written pieces about him. But
the guy never talked at length about himself.
Was he willing to do 50 now. aware that an
era was ending with him? There would never
be another Gable. He owed it to Hollywood
history to do some talking.
The negotiations for an interview were as
delicate as if one were seeking an audience
with royalty instead Of a movie star presm-
ably IN need Of publicity There were pre-
iminary discussions with royal equerries.
agents and intermediates before the King Of
Hollywood could even be approached.
,'1Esss He Il EngIand"
AND then, in the simplest way in the world,
Gable agreed that if / would meet him in
England, where he was putting the finishing
touches On ''Mogambo, . he would give me as
much time as wanted.
MlG-M seemed surprised and little awed