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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04

Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of
the Vice President. opened the
National Capitol Flower and
Garden Show today, as hundreds
waited to crowd into the Ma
tional Guard Armory to see the
displays Of flowers and flower
ing plants.
Mrs. Nixon was presented a
bouquet of yellow roses and as
she cut a ribbon to open the
show a multi-colored fountain
began playing water into the air.
Before the shows opening,
five silver bowls were awarded
by The Star in the Garden Club
section competition.
Star trophies went to the
Town and Country Garden Club
for its best foot forward display:
the Belle Haven Garden Club of
Virginia for it's kitchen door
garden and the New Scotland
Garden Club of Georgetown for
its quiet rock garden.
Mrs. Sidney L. Manson, jr., of
the Belle Haven Club won a Star
trophy for the best arrangement
in the show Her arrangement
was in the Audubon print class.
The fifth trophy went to Mrs.
Edgar Hutton of Chambersburg
pa Garden Club for a con-
temporary living room arrange
ment.
The Star also has arranged
this year for w. H. Youngman,
the papers garden editor. to be
available in The Star booth
each night to answer questions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04

some of the sight she was los
ing She tried contact lenses,
but eventually they began to
fail. r.s
IF my mother walked by me
on the street, I wouldn't have
recognized her." she said today
at the Walter Reed Eye Clinic.
Last July her husband, an
Army captain, was sent overseas
and Mrs. Jones came to Walter
Reed. In July the cornea from
an Air Force colonel's eye re-
moved because of a tumoD was
placed in Mrs. Jones right eye.
Last January, the cornea of an
Army sergeant (also removed be-
cause of a tumoO was placed in
her left eye.
Cornea transplants-uSing cor
meas from donorS-are done
quite frequently. according to
doctors. But it is rare for both
eyes to get new corneas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Burglar Takes Records
From Clubs luke Box

An after-hours club, burglar
lied last week, was broken into
again yesterday by a thief who
likes popular music.
The before-hours visitor en-
tered the Jestors' Club. $3.50 Tux
edo road. Tuxedo, between IL
am. and 6 pm. yesterday, Prince
Georges County police reported.
Loot included $34.25 cash and
300 coupons from a cigarette
machine, as well as IS juke box
platters.
The stolen records included
tits a Sin." Till They've All
Gone Home" II Got Ideas" and
you're Pooling Some One"
Police reported 20 of the rec
ords were found later in Trash
can at the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Rare Double Corneo Operation
Puts Patients World in Focus
By John MeKelwoy

The detail in each leaf, the
way snow falls and clings to
each tree-those are the things
which deeply impress a woman
of 40, now seeing the world in
a different light.
And Mrs. Sam B. Jones will.
some time this fall, see her hus-
band clearly for the first time
when she joins him in Germany.
Doctors at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center have completed
two apparently successful opera
tionS on her eyes. Corneas-the
clear, window-like covering over
the eye-were taken from eyes
removed from two Army men,
then transplanted in the eyes of
Mrs. Jones. Her vision, once
murky and hazy. now is clearing
up. Doctors feel, with glasses,
she'll have 1920 vision in time.
AS a child in Augusta, Ga,
she was afraid to admit she
couldn't see things like, writing
on a blackboard. And as she
grew older. even the blackboard
was even fading.
Mrs. Jones. as Army doctors
explained today. had a rare
condition. The corneas were
gradually degenerating and
forming into coneS-with the
point outward. She could feel
the points when she closed her
eyes. The condition is called
"keratoconus."
Several operations were per-
formed in her youth to restore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Gift Carlton 10 Be Put
In West Potomac Park

A 49-bell carlton. gift of people
of the Netherlands to America in
gratitude for aid during and since
World War II. will be unloaded
in Baltimore tomorrow.
1t will be trucked to Washing
ton and set up in West Potomac
Park, at the south end of the old
polo field near the inlet bridge.
A permanent tower to house
the bells will be built later at a
site not yet determined.
The carlton will replace a
temporary one-"a baby" by
comparison-now set I'D in Me-
ridian Hill Park.
May 5 has been set for the Of
fetal transfer of the big carlton
to the United States. Neither
lands Ambassador j. II. Van
Roijen will represent his govern
ment at the ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Raw Sewage Pouring
Into Anacostia River
Due 10 Pipeline Break

Forty million gallons Of raw
sewage which normally goes
through the Blue Plains sewage
treatment plant is being dumped
daily into the Anacostia River
because of a serious break in a
main sewer line.
Young j. Wright. head of the
Sewer Division. described the
break. in the east side inter-
ceptor on M street just west of
Tenth street Sc, as lone of
the worst we've ever had"
And. he added, it may be just
the beginning of a series of
serious difficulties. Cracks in
the masonry have been found at
various scattered points else
where along the line.
The damage is to the 6-foot,
3-inch line which serves a large
area bounded by M street, the
District line. the Anacostia
River and North Capitol street.
Repair work has necessitated
blocking that line of and divert
ing the sewage flow into the
river.
Repairs will cost nearly $15,-
600.
Emergency work crews have
begun digging what amounts to
a "a by Is by 81 foot mine
shaft" to reach the break. The
city has ordered 100000 pounds
of 35-foot long steel braces
which must be driven into the
ground to shore up the sides.
While sewer repairs are under
way on M street Sc. traffic Of
this heavily used thoroughfare
will continue to be rerouted
along Potomac avenue between
Eight and Eleventh streets Sc,
the District traffic department
annnlInced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Welfare Department
Scrapes Bottom
To Make Payments

District welfare officials, scrap
ing the bottom of the financial
barrel to keep payments at even
rs per cent. received temporary
help from the Commissioners
today.
They agreed to permit Welfare
Director Gerard M. Shea to use
$4,000 accumulated in the child
welfare branch for welfare pay
ments during April.
But to find funds permitting
the continued 70 per cent pay
ments during May and June,
they sent Schuyler Lowe. direc-
tor of management, on a search
for District money which may
legally be used.
If more money Is not forth
coming, the welfare department
will have to ask for a supplement
tai appropriation of $4,000 for
the two months.
welfare payments originally
based on 100 per cent of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
February, 1858, cost-of living
index, recently were cut to 70
per cent because of diminishing
funds.
Mr.. Shea said the number of
relief payments have increased
gradually during the last seven
months and that a continued
increase during May and June
will run the required total to
$50, 900 per month";
The department now has 7,434
registered cases and expects
1900 by the end of the fiscal
year June 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04

closer dealings with Municipal
Court on the fixing of fines and
collateral ranges, efforts to re-
establish fringe-parking lots and
more effective removal of illegal
ly parked vehicles from arterial
highways.
The discussion was confined
almost entirely to possible i'm
mediate steps that can be taken
to alleviate traffic and parking
ills. This was at the request of
Senator Payne, Republican, of
Maine. chairman of the investi-
eating subcommittee. Mr.. Will
liams included several long
range projects in his report. such
as building rapid-transit sys-
tenn and establishing a transport
authority to oversee the city's
mass transit operation.
Among those sitting in on yes
terday's session were Henry
Barnes, traffic engineer, and Ed
win Kahoe, transit co-ordinator.
both on loan from. the City of
Baltimore. Mr.. Barnes, who has
studied the Williams report with
the utilities commissioners, is
prepared to testify before j the
Payne subcommittee. If called.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Gen. Dean and Wife
Arrange to Donate
Eyes After Death

Gen. William Dean. hero
of the Korean war. and his
wife have willed the corneas
of their eyes at death to
those whose sight might be
restored. it was learned to-
day.
According to Army eye
doctors at Walter Reed. Gen.
Dean was so impressed by
recent advances in eye sur
gerry he decided to give his
eyes to Eye Bank. Inc, of
New York. Mrs Dean,
blinded in one eye several
years ago by a golf ball. also
gave permission for removal
of the cornea of her eye at
death, the Army doctors said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Health Center
Backed
By HouseUn
District Would Get
$500, 900 Yearly for
Survey, Construction
By Harold. B. Rogers

The District would receive
100000 annually through the
fiscal year 1857 for surveys or
construction of four types Of
health centers under a bill re-
ported out by the House Com
merce Committee.
The measure is an amendment
to the Halliburton Act, under
which the District now is receiv-
ing 100000 annually through
1857 for surveys or construction
of hospital facilities only.
The new bill authorizes the
grand total of $50 million an
nually for the whole country. Of
which the District would get
100000.
President TO Ask Funds.
President Eisenhower in his
budget message said that if the
new legislation for such health
centers becomes law. he will send
a supplemental appropriation bill
to Congress.
If the funds are made avail
able. they would raise the annual
Federal aid money for hospitals
and health centers here to $780,
600 annually through 1857, when
the Halliburton Act expires.
Under provisions of the Hill
Burton Act. the District, to re-
ceive the Federal aid funds, must
put up local matching money.
Under complicated formula
the Districts share could vary
from one-third to two-thirds Of
the Federal sums.
Four Categories Involved.
The four categories for which
the money is authorized for the
District are: Diagnostic and
treatment centers. 100000;
chronic disease facilities, $780,
600; rehabilitation facilities,
$4,000. and nursing homes,
$50. 900. for total of 100000.
The new bill was approved and
reported to the House yesterday
by the House Commerce Com
mittee after hearings lasting
about a month. It was an adj
ministration bill to carry out
President Eisenhower's proposals
for Federal aid to the health of
the American people.
Under the bill, Maryland would
receive a total of $745.736 and
Virginia S1.744,0O8.
POpulation-IncOme Formula.
The setup is based on a for
mula including the population Of
the area and per capita income.
The District would have received
less, based on this formula, ex-
cept for the fact that the Hill
Burton Act has a minimum fig
ure below which no Jurisdiction
will be cut.
The District is one of several
States and Territories which
would receive the fiat minimum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
President Renumes
Geodetic Survey Head

President Eisenhower today
nominated Robert F. A. Studds
of 5605 Thirtieth street NV. for
reappointment as director of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey for a
four-year term beginning May IL.
The President also sent to the
Senate nominations Of Brig. Gen.
Carl S. Day for promotion to
major general, and Coils. John d.
Macklin and Bertrand T. Fay for
promotion to brigadier general in
the Marine Corps Reserve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Man Critically Burned
By Exploding Drum

A construction worker was in
critical condition at Freedmens
Hospital today from burns suf-
fered when a fume-filled drum
exploded.
The victim. William Mitchell,
20. colored, 1922 o street NV,
has burns over about 80 per cent
of his body, the hospital said.
Police reported Mr.. Mitchell
was pushing the empty drum,
which had contained an inf1am-
mable thinning compound. in the
1000 block of Third street NE.
He passed close to a burner used
for melting tar and fumes in
the drum exploded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Officials Consider Offer
For Civil Service BuiIdine

The Budget Bureau has re-
quested the Commissioners to
report on the proposed plan to
sell the Civil Service Building
between Seventh and Ninth
streets md between F and G.
streets NV. to a private concern
for off-street parking.
Commissioner Renah Camalier
said there were many Govern
ment buildings here that were
more unsightly and that the
building itself had an interest,"
ing history. Commissioner Sam
uel Spencer suggested that no
action be taken at today's meet.
ing because Brig. Gen. Louis w.
Prentiss was not present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Delinquency Fighters
Are Warned on Peril
OF Being |nformers

If area committees on juvenile
delinquency are going to be-
come "informers." they might as
well disband their efforts to pre-
vent juvenile delinquency. the
Commissioners Youth Council
was told today.
The warning was given by
Ferdinand v. Grayson. executive
director of United Community
Services. during a discussion of
committee report of a rumor
that some older boys were fore
ing money from younger boys.
Capt. John Ryan. of the po-
lice juvenile squad, declared that
the law requires every citizen
to report to police when he
knows a felony is being COM
mitted. or be subject to a three
year Jail term.
There is too M1lch of this 60
ing around the mulberry bush
about crime in the District" the
police official asserted.
Could Be ExtOrtiOn.
He said that the instance men
toned. no matter how small the
amount involved, could be extor-
ton. and he demanded, What
are you paying your Police De-
partment for if not to investi-
gate crime?"
Ferdinand Grayson. executive
director of United Community
Services, warned, however. that
IF the area committees start re-
porting cases that come to their
attention and become informers,
in terms of a preventive job.
they might just as well disband."
He added. however, that the
public interest was to be consid-
creed, land where it is involved,
I am sure it will be served. even
II it means an occasional IN
forming"
The discussion began when
Maurice Love, chairman of the
Pilot" Area P, raised the queS-
ton about whether there was a
slight tendency to stifle free ex-
preston" presented by the pres
ence of the press at committee
meetings.
He referred to the possibility
of committee members who rep
resent official organizations be-
ing quoted in statements which
might be in conflict with the es-
tablished policy of the organiza-
ton that they represented.
What to Do?
In the same connection, he
brought up the reports of older
boys forcing money from young
er boys, asking what should be
done about the older boys.
The council took no specific
action on the question of in
forming" but Mrs. Henry Graf
ton Doyle, council chairman, said
on the subject of open meetings
that the council needs the sup
port of the newspapers and has
been glad to have reporters
present. She said she felt "keen-
ly" the advantage of having the
press attend meetings and that
lin the long run. it pays Off"
The council will present a re-
port of its progress to date at an
open meeting at 8 pm. March ID,
in the District Building to be adj
dressed by Commissioner Samuel
Spencer, Mrs. Doyle announced.
1t was reported today that one
third of the area committees pro-
posed now have been organized
and that another third are in
the process of being organized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Mrs. Nixon Opens Flower Show
As Crowd Waits to See Exhibit

on garden problems. Mr.. Young
man will be available for con-
situations from 7 to $50 pm.
Information on Roses.
The Potomac Rose Society also
will have an information booth
at the show, and the Garden
Club League will conduct
garden therapy" booth. where
horticulturists will be on hand
to answer questions.
One of the most outstanding
displays this year will be that
of the rose society. In an area
near the center fountain. the
society will have a garden of
nearly 400 roses in full bloom!
These roses will consist of
hybrid teas. f1orabundas and
tree roses and a group of $50
miniature roses. All have been
forced into bloom for the So
ciety by A. Guide nurseries, and
all are varieties recommended
by rose experts for growing in
the Washington area.
A rose garden by the Conard-
Pyle rose growers, just across the
fountain from the society's gar
den. will include many of the
newest rose varieties now on the
market.
The show, sponsored by the
Allied Florist Association of
Greater Washington and the Ma
tional Capital Club League. will
remain open until IL pm. today.
and will be open from II am. to
IL pm. each day through next
Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Park Director
Hits Delay in
Road Funds
With Asks Senators
To Speed Money
: For 7 Porkwoys

It will take until the year
1000 to complete seven major
parkways now underway at the
present rate Congress is appro-
priating money, Conrad L.
Wirth, director Of the National
Park Service, declared today.
Mr.. Wirth testified before q
Senate Public Works subcom-
mittee. The subcommittee is
considering national Federal
aid-to- highways bill.
Actually the National Park
Service has eight parkways on
its hands. But funds for COM
pletion Of the 19.5-mile section
of the Baltimore-Washin
Parkway under Federal jurisdic-
ton have been appropriated.
Land Not Included.
Mr.. Wirth's figures on the cost
OF completing the other seven
parkwayS did not include acqui-
sition of land. This would add a
substantial amount to the total
cost.
The seven uncompleted park
ways are:
George Washington Memorial
parkway. from Mount Vernon to
Great Falls on both sides of the
Potomac River. Cost of remain
ing construction totals $18.5 mil
lion for another 1913 miles. AL
ready completed are 15.2 miles,
which includes the Mount YER
non Memorial highway.
Suitland parkway, from WASH
ington to Andrews Air Force
Base. A total of SIS million Is
needed to make the entire park
way a dual highway.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
parkway, from Great Falls to
Cumberland. Md. No construc-
ton has started and it will take
$21.3 million for the l68-mile
stretch. not counting land &C
QUESTION.
Colonial parkway, from James,
town to Yorktown. Va. About
IL miles have been completed
or are under contract, leaving
9.5 miles to be built at a cost
Of $3.1 million.
Three Others.
The other three are Blue
Ridge parkway, from Shenan-
doah National Park to Great
Smoky Mountains National
Park: 'Natchez Trace parkway.
from Nashville to Natchez. and
Foothills parkway in Tennessee
from Chilhowee to Button.
Mr.. Wirth's testimony showed
construction costs alone for
these seven would cost another
$187 million. He said at the
present appropriation rate of
about SAL million a year it
would be 1000 before the park
ways were completed.
Mr.. With made a strong plea
for more road construction
funds for the park service. He
said the parks were years behind
in the development and main
tenance of their road systems.
He said the problem was get
ting worse and cited the increase
in visitor attendance to Ma
tional parks from / million in
1925 to over as million in 1858.
The House Public Works Com
mittee approved a similar bill
earlier in the week carrying
total of $875 million for each
of the fiscal years 1856 and 1857
to be allotted among the States
and the District. Under this
bill the District would receive
SAT million each year in high
way aid; Maryland would get
$8.6 million each year, and Vir-
ginia, $15.3 million each year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Arlington Lawyer to Talk

Frank L. Ball, ST., Arlington
attorney and former State SEN
ator. will address the County
Democratic Club at 8:15 o'clock
tonight at Lyon Park Commu-
nifty Center. Mr.. Ball, who is an
attorney. will discuss. Horse
and Buggy Arlington"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04

on garden problems. Mr.. Young
man will be available for con-
situations from 7 to $50 pm.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
BY the Assoeiosed Press

GENEVA, May 7.-Huang Hua,
an official Red China spokesman,
said last night three Americans
seized more than a year ago in a
yacht off the China coast. are
being held on charges of "vio-
lating Chinese law"
The three are Donald Dixon
of New York, a correspondent for
International News Service;
Richard Applegate of Medford,
Greg, a former United Press cor-'
respondent in Korea and an en-
ploye of the National Broadcast
ing Co. at the time of his capture,
and Ben Krasner Of Brooklyn, a
merchant marine captain.
The spokesman refused to
elaborate on the charges nor
would he say where the three
are held.
The three Americans were
captured March %, 1858, while
en- route in Mr.. Applegate's
yacht from Hong Kong to Macao,
Evening star., 1954-05-07

Buy Feeders 1a,Ton Unit
At This Easy Budget Price!
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Veteran Gets Death
In Staying Of Girl, IS,
In Pennsylvania
BY the Asseeiated Press

DOYLESTOWN, Pa, May Z.
George L. Capps, a 22-year-old
Army veteran, was convicted of
f1rst-degree murder - with a
death penalty recommendation
last night in the Staying of a
teen-aged neighbor girl.
A jury of nine men and three
women deliberated less than two
hours before returning the ver-
dict. Capps had admitted
shooting 15-year-old Marta Glib
bons through the head, but
maintained he was intoxicated
and temporarily insane.
The girls frozen and partially
clad body was found by the edge
of a lake-several miles from her
home in the new community OF
Levittown-last January 25. She
had been missing for 48 hours
Capps maintained on the wit
ness stand that he and the girl
had been intimate in the rear
of his automobile with her con-
sent. He said they later argued
and he shot her. The State con-
tended he acted in fear she
would tell his wife, who was ex-
pecting a baby at the time.
Marta was baby sitting with 6
younger sister when she was last
seen alive. Her stepfather wa;
visiting her hospitalized mother
at the time.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Underwater H-Bomb Blast
Most Dangerous, Reds Say
BY the A.soeIated Press

MOSCOW, May THE Soviet
army newspaper Red Star
warned the Russian public yes
terday that underwater hydrogen
bomb explosions are the most
dangerous of all. The details
given indicated the Russians
may have set off such a blast.
The newspaper described the
effects of the H-bomb under
water, high in the air, just
above the ground and under
ground.
The army newspaper. which
has been running a series of
articles informing the Soviet
public on problems of the
atomic hydrogen age. published
a new article by Prof. G. Pok-
rovsky. The article discussed
the physical effects of four diff
ferent types of hydrogen and
atomic bomb explosions.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Chinese Admit Holding 3Americans. Seized in '53

a nearby Portuguese port in the
China Sea.
The United State delegation in
Geneva said there were no spe-
cific plans yet for any direct
moves with the Chinese at the
Geneva conference for release of
the three Americans.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Fist Fight Breaks Up
iran Parliament Session
By the Assoeioted Press

TEHERAN, Iran, May IA
session of the Mails dover
house, broke up in a fist fight
between two leading members of
Parliament last night after hot
exchanges between supporters
and opponents of ex-Premier
Mossadegh.
A deputy who declined to be
named said Speaker Sardar FAX
her Hekmat angrily walked out
of the Malls in protest as Dep
uties Hemdi Merashafri and
Shamsuddin Jezairi busily cuffed
each other in an aisle.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Eust Zone-Greek Trude

New agreements have paved
the way for annual trade Of
around $6.3 million between
Greece and the Soviet Zone Of
Germany, for. the first time,
Athens reports.