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Evening star., 1954-01-08

from the suitcase in the church
restroom.
Police questioned the truant
girls about the church thefts
and said they admitted taking
ST from a box in the rear of
Grace Church, and $102, three
rosarieS. two pairs of gloves and
three prayer books from St
Rita's.
The older girl said she and
her companion went to the
churches because I'VE thought
we'd be safe there"
I'VE were going to hook the
silver cross and go to North Car
olina," she said.
The girls took the money be-
cause they were hungry and the
gloves because her hands were
cold, the 15-year-old said.
The 15-year-old is a student
at George Washington High
Schol in Alexandria and lives
with her parents. Her case was
turned over to Alexandria juve-
nile authorities.
The l3-year-old girl is a stu
dent at Arlington's Wakefield
Junior High. She lives with her
great-grandmother. Her parents
are dead. Her case was put in
the hands of Arlington juvenile
authorities.
Evening star., 1954-01-08

Two Washington newspaper
executives appeared today be-
fore the Commissioners Advi-
sorry Council and urged that the
council meetings be opened to
the public.
At the same time, the council
received indirect word that
Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee also favors
the opening of council meetings,
which in recent months gen.
orally have been held behind
closed doors.
Case FavOrs Move.
James Russell Virgins. man
aging editor of the Washington
Post, informed the councilmen
that Senator Case authorized a
statement to this effect:
That open council meetings
would be much more likely to
be truly representative of the
people" and minimize the dan
ger of the council becoming a
rubber stamp"
For his own part. Mr.. Virgins
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Home Rule Committee
Halls Suffrage Comment

The Presidents reference to
District suffrage in his message
yesterday was hailed by the
Washington Home Rule Com
mittee as stimulus toward
enactment of pending self
government legislation.
In a statement issued by the
committees co-chairmen Frank
r. Jelleff and Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman, congressional leaders
were called on to respond to the
Presidents plea for action.
ANY realistic effort to honor
the platforms of both the Re-
publican and Democratic Parties
on District suffrage and to
respond to the Presidents state
of the Union message. said the
statement. requires that con-
certed action by Republican
leaders be made early this
winter. Delay will only lead us
into the month just prior to the
coming elections when measures
of immediate appeal to voters
tend to crowd out appeals from
this voteleSs Capital city"
Evening star., 1954-01-08
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Photo.

+ thing more in keeping with
| the spirit of the American
Revolution"
| No one is disputing Mr.. Han
sens contention that the monu-
ment is ornate. 1t is profusely
outfitted with sculptured shields,
| laurel leaves. stars, flutings,
eagles and 13 sculptured ladies
in a dance. plus elaborate in
scriptions on the base.
The designers were three
John Quincy Adams Ward, noted
sculptor, who did the bronze Of
Gen. George H. Thomas at
Thomas Circle. the Gen. James
A. Garfield monument on the
Mall here. and the statue of
Poetry in the Library of Con-
gress; Richard NJ. Hunt, designer
of the base of the Statue of Lib
erty, and Henry Van Brunt, one
time president of the American
Institute of Architects. They spe-
cif1cally rejected simplicity as
meaningless and bald"
Hansen Unimpressed.
Mr.. Hansen, who rates ~ lines
in the current Who's Who, is i'm
pressed by all this not at all.
The statue is short several verte-
brae in back, has one leg too
long and a head which is out
size. he said.
AS for the ornate pillar. he
terms it a victorian relic built
so poorly the forces of nature
practically have destroyed it in
less time than a frame cottage" "
The officials. in a way. are
sympathetic with Mr.. Hansen's
aesthetic feelings. Mr.. Wirth
called him an excellent sculptor
and said he and his associates
all respect his artistic judgment.
But Assistant Secretary Lewis
pointed out that the sculptor had
known what the monument
looked like when he signed his
contract. He didn't raise the
question until last February
when he raised the doubts about
the shafts safety, noted Mr..
Lewis.
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Open Advisory Group Sessions
Urged by Newspaper Officials

made six points. District resi-
dents, he said. have a right to
know how and why their taxes
are spent; open meetings guard
against any improper transac-
tions" and protect honest Of
flcia,s from imputations of dis
. honesty: public access to the
meetings in effect enlist the best
brains of the whole body of citi-
zens" enable the body to dis
cover errors in fact of judgment
and amount to continuing
process of educating and en-
Tightening the civic body.
Mr.. Virgins questioned the
councils ability to express the
sentiment of citizens when it is
isolated from them in executive
sessions. He said that in his opin-
ion it should be only rare oc-
casion when the council members
hold executive sessions.
Councilman Woolsey w. Hall
tended to discount the i'm
portance of the councils advisory
function. Pointing out that "the
woods are full of advisory COM
mittees that have been created
over the years." Mr.. Hall de-
clared, "it's my impression that
this council has become an ante
room research committee"
Lacks Representation.
B. M. McKelway, editor of The
Star. declared that he favored
open meetings for the good of
the council and the good of the
citizens" He said he meant that
all but those sessions devoted to
budget and personnel discussions
and those periods when the
members deliberate should be
free for public attendance.
He added:
II don't feel that the council
represents the people of the Dis
trict. It doesn't represent me.
I see it as a representative body
of citizens on which the Com
missioners call for advice"
Mr.. McKelway added a warn
ing:
"Once the council assumes to
speak for the people of the Dis
trict it will get into a type of
hot water that will destroy it."
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Woman Is Fined $500
For Shooting Up W Set

A woman who fired two shots
through her apartment floor.
smashing a television set down.
stairs, was fined 5000 in Munich
pal Court yesterday.
Mrs. Eunice Davis, 38, colored.
of the 1400 block of Fairmont
street NV. said she was showing
a friend a pistol Thursday night
when it accidentally went off
twice.
One bullet struck the TV set
and the other splattered into the
floor near the feet of James Car
ter, SIS. ..
Judge Milton S. Kronheim re-
fused to note the plea Of "acci-
dental" After looking at Mrs.
Davis two-page police record he
fined her for illegally discharging
f1rearm.
Evening star., 1954-01-08

base stone, ooth WITHIN the last
year.
Opposes Repairing.
The Sculptor's contract pro-
vides that he make certain re-
pairs in connection with install
ling his new statue, but he said
he is not prepared to make the
extensive ones he considers
necessary and he doesn't think
repairing the shaft is practical
anyway.
II don't think it's safe to put
men up there" he declared,
adding that he has been unable
to arrange for workmen's COM
pensation insurance even for the
job of installing his statue.
Mr.. Hansen is particularly
cauStic about what he claims is
the Governments reversal of its
own admission last summer that
the shaft is unsafe.
The sculptor cited letter
from Conrad L. Wirth. Park Serv-
ice director, last May which said
officials had decided to have the
shaft reinforced with metal
rod to be run through it from
top to ground as a precaution
against having the monument
blown over by wind. The rod
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Soop Box Derby Suit
Reinstuted by Court

The U. S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia today
ordered re-instated a damage
suit against the Evening Star
Newspaper Co. and the General
Motors Corp. brought by the
mother of a boy-spectator who
was injured in the 1947 Wash
ington Soap Box Derby.
The boy, Herman Watford.
now 13, was struck by a racer.
His mother. Mrs. Ruth john
ston. sued for $26,500. A jury
IN the U. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia brought
in a verdict in favor of the de-
PENDANTS.
The appellate court today or
dered a new trial on the grounds
that the jury had been i'm
properly instructed.
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was also intended to be a light
ning-protector.
This plan, which would have
meant dismantling most of the
shaft in order to drill a hole
through each of the stones, was
suggested by Daniel Kessler,
former chief building stone ex-
pert at the Bureau of Standards.
who was hired by the Park
Service as conSultant.
Change Mind on Rod.
The officials-and Mr.. KesSler
later decided the internal rod
wouldn't be needed after all.
They say they discovered better
mortar had been used than at
first believed. Plans now also
include an external, ribbon-type
lightning protector. which ac-
cording to officials won't be
Objectionable, although it will
be visible. Mr.. Hansen is sup
posed to install it.
The cracks. according to the
officials. are only superficial" "
Mr.. Kessler says it would take
a 150-mile-an-hour wind to blow
the monument down. He called
chances of such an occurrence
pretty remote" So did an
expert at the Weather Bureau.
Mr.. Hansen isn't content with
these decisions, however. Only
one Park Service engineer has
ever climbed up the shaft to
inspect it--on scaffolding erected
at Mr.. Hansen's request for this
purpose last April-and the
sculptor says he considers this
inadequate
There should be an in
vestigation by experts indie
pendent of both of u.s." he said.
MIR. Wirth-backed by Paul
Miller. Park Service chief engi-
neer, and by Assistant Secretary
of Interior Orme LeWis-is salts
fled with the present decision.
Mr.. Hansen also Is as con-
cerned about the monument S
appearance. He calls it ornate,
Victorian and very ugly" He
wants it supplanted by some
Evening star., 1954-01-08

calling his championship of a
home rule bill on the floor of
the House in the Both Congress.
he declared he could "see no
reason why residents of the Dis
trict, like all citizens of the
country who pay taxes and bear
arms. should not be enfran-
chised."
Support by Neely.
Senator Neely. Democrat, of
West Virginia, declaring he long
had been for home rule, said he
favored two Senators and rep
reSentation in the House.
Senator Barrett. Republican, of
wyoming: II very much want to
see national representation for
the District"
Senator Lennon, Democrat. of
North Carolina. subscribed only
to the right of District residents
to vote on the national level.
Representative Earl Wilson
Republican, of Indiana, chair
man of the Appropriations sub
committee on the District budget,
opposed home rule.
I wouldn't object to a vote
here for President and Vice Pres
ident. since the President ap-
points the District Commission
ers. This would give people here
some voice indirectly in their
own government" he COM
mente0.
Other Comments.
Among House District Com
mittee members, these were some
comments:
Representative Davis, Demo-
crat, of Georgia: "It looks like
they are trying to outdeal the
New Deal The trouble is, if they
get the national suffrage they
will want more and I'm not 60
ing to let them get foot in the
door,"
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican, of Virginia, favored
national representation, but
wants to separate the issues of
a vote for President from cleo
tion of House representation.
Representative Mcmillan, DEM
ocrat, of South Carolina, said he
favored national representation
but opposes home rule.
Representative Harris, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas. was for ma
tional representation, but not
home rule.
Evening star., 1954-01-08
By jones 6. Deone

n SeCOlu DaCCle OF YOrK-
town" is being waged over the
mutilated remains of the statue
Of Liberty at the Virginia battle
ground where the army of Corn
wallis surrendered to George
Washington.
Eleven years ago a lightning
bolt struck the 100Ka foot tower
which since 1884 has held Lib
erty aloft over the Yorktown
battlefield. The unpatriotic bolt
callously decapitated Liberty and
severed her outStretched arms.
For three and a half years
now, new Liberty has been TAX
ing form, chiseled from a 10000
pound block of granite. The
sculptor. 61-year-old Norwegian
born OSkar j. w. Hansen, is
nearly finished with the job.
Replacement Issue.
Mr.. Hansen has the RESPONSE
bility, under a contract. for not
only executing the new statue,
but installing it atop the tower.
For this combined task he has
been promised $4,000.
But Mr.. Hansen is baking.
The sculptor wants to replace
the entire monument, which he
has branded unsafe and ugly.
The Federal Government-which
owns monument and battlefield
is not of the same mind. It's
officials consider the monument
sound. Its artistic caliber they
won't discuss because, they as
sert, they have no money to re-
place it. And they have told
Mr.. Hansen to get on with his
assignment.
Mr.. Hansen hasn't said he
won't. But the scheduled April
IL completion date is approach
ing and Liberty still is unfin-
ished. In the face of rebuffs by
lower officials, the sculptor now
intends to put his case directly
before Interior Secretary Nc
Kay. who has consented to see
him January 19.
He would prefer. the sculptor
now says, to refund the approx
imateiy $4,000 the Government
has paid him to date out of the
$4,000 and keep shis statue,
rather than see it astride the
present shaft. He has threat
ened, in such a case. to give the
statue to South Korean Presi-
dent Syngman Rhee. of whom he
speaks admiringly as symbol
of freedom.
The sculptor's 24-year-old son.
Pfc. Oskar j. w. Hansen. jr..
served as an Army medical
corpsman in Korea and is now
in Japan.
Hoover Dam Sculptures.
Mr.. Hansen came to this
country at l9. Now a citizen, he
was an Army officer in World
War l. He did the massive
bronze sculptures at Hoover
formerly Boulder Dam in Colo
RADIO, also for the Government.
Mr.. Hansen's objections to
Yorktown'S present monument
began taking shape. he says. even
before his 14-foot. lotion Lib
erty. He has been cutting away
with diamond saws and other
costly tools at his hand-picked
block of North Carolina granite
since a few months after he
signed the contract offered him
by the National Park Service in
October 1949.
So far, the sculptor says. the
$4,000 contract, rather than Civ
ing him any profit. has put him
in the red 100000 because Of
rising tool costs and overhead.
His home and studio are on Pan
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top Mountain about four miles
east of Charlottesville, Va, land
which he says once was owned
by Thomas Jefferson.
The sculptor insists. however,
that it is not because of any de-
sire for additional money that
he is advocating a complete re-
building of the monument. His
share in that, he says. would be
only the designers commission
Of IS per cent.
Varying Estimates.
He has obtained an estimate
for a new shaft of less than
100000, although officials say
the cost would be at least $685.
900 and more likely close to
$500,000.
Mr.. Hansen says. in effect,
that he didn't know what he was
getting into. He says officials
failed to show him the original
plans for the monument until
after he signed his contract. And
it wasn't until then. he asserts.
that he found out why. on July
90, 1912, the monument was
struck by the lightning bolt.
This. he found, was because
the builders had inserted a 12la-
foot gunmetal core, three inches
in diameter. in the upper part
of the massive granite shaft. 1t
was not grounded, he added, and
there was no lightning protec-
ton built in.
ANY one would know" the
sculptor said, lit was bound to
attract lightning. which it did. "
The reinforcing rod extends
upward into the shattered statue.
and this was something he had
not been prepared to cope with
when he accepted the contract,
he added.
More serious from a safety
standpoint, according to the
sculptor. is the condition of the
granite shaft itself. This. he
asserted. has numerous visible
cracks. New cracks have ap-
peared since 1949, he said.
Another disturbing sign, he
said. is some movement which
has occurred in one of the
stones in the monuments base,
and an actual split in another
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Urbon League Elects Two

Jacob Seidenberg, executive di-
rector of the Presidents Com
mittee on Government Contracts,
and DR.. George w. Snowden. ad-
visor to the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration have been elected to
the board of the Washington
Urban League.
Evening star., 1954-01-08

fore the automobile and of Lon
don during World War II.
Mr.. Mallett's appearance COM
memorates the 60th anniversary
of the Burton Holmes Travel
Lectures. The films will be
shown at 4:45 and $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1954-01-08

toni G h t in
ConStitut i o n
Hall.
Robert NAL
lett, traveller
a n d foreign
corr espond-
ent. will COM
ment on the
historic films
which will in
clude moves
of the erup-
ton of Mt.
VeSuviuS in
1906. scenes
Of Paris be-
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Rate Rise Ban
Peri|s Service,
Pepco Asserts
Tells Appeals Court
Expansion Plan
Is Threatened
By Howard [. Dutkin

If the Potomac Electric Power
Co. were barred now from COL
lecting at the increased rates
granted in 1851, a needed axpan-
sion program for this year would
be imperiled. the United States
Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia has been told.
The claim was made by Pepco
in a legal document answering a
motion filed with the court by
the Capital Transit &C recently
Capital Transit had asked the
court to clarity" an opinion
rendered several weeks ago which
blocked the rate increase and re-
manded the issue to the Public
Utilities Commission for further
findings.
Asks Raise Be Voided.
In addition, Capital Transit
had asked the court to declare
the $2.6 million increase void i'm
mediately: to order Pepco to re-
turn to the transit company
$500,000 representing. it was
said. charges at the increased
rate: to forbid Pepco from con-
tinuing collections at the in
creased rate and to impound any
monies collected above the old
rate pending final determination
of the issues.
In its answer. Pepco said such
action by the court would make
an empty gesture of the further
administrative proceedings (PUC
action) that this court has de-
clared to be necessary"
Execution should not precede
judgment" the answer declared.
THE court may strike down
final review if of the opinion that
the commission has transgressed
the limits of its power, but it
should not strike down before
reaching the merits while the
administrative proceeding is still
in progress. :"
Cites Fair r-Return" Plea.
The document continued:
"AS a regulated utility. the
company has no means of in
come except through it's rates.
If its income is insufficient, it's
stockholders are denied a fair
return.
"The law is concerned to
safeguard a fair return. not
only in fairness to them be-
cause of the investment they
have made. but also to inspire
confidence in other prospective
investors and thus make pos
5ible the continued procurement
Of capital when needed for pub
lie service"
The electric company de-
clared that demand for service
is increasing so rapidly that the
utility must add new facilities.
Claims Handicaps.
The company asserted that
the lengthy case consuming, it
said, two and one-half years,
has handicapped procurement
Of new equity capital"
1t contended that the present
status of the case requiring
further proceedings is in itself
a big obstacle to further financ-
ing.
ITO discontinue the collection
of the present rates during the
further proceeding would be so
destructive to the company's
standing in the capital markets
that no one could be sure of it's
ability to proceed with 1854 con-
struction -" the utility as
serted
Evening star., 1954-01-08
Potomac River Hike

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
will hike along the Potomac
River from RoSslyn to Chain
Bridge on Sunday, beginning at
10 am. at the end of the Rosslyn
carline.
Evening star., 1954-01-08
2Oth-CenturY High|ights
To Be Presented in Films

The National Geographic So
ciety'S winter lecture series will
present filmed highlights of the
goth century this afternoon and
Evening star., 1954-01-08

base stone. both within the last
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-17

Let's Pnmsper Papa This Week End!
Day food needs and you'll not only set the
vhes-v uWovem me-
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Annapolis
By Rosemary Doyle

Maj. and Mrs. James Marshall
Petty. jr.. are giving a reception
this afternoon at their home,
Shelbourne House, Waterbury.
Mrs. Charles A. Buchanan
gave q luncheon and bridal
shower on Monday in honor of
the Misses Barbara and Jeanne
Ford, daughters of Capt. and
Mrs. Walter C. Ford. Among
the guests were Mrs. Isaac c.
Kidd, Mrs. Charles Adair, the
Misses Sirley Cook, Joan Harvey
and Linda LIE Hardy. Also Mrs.
Robert E. JaSperson, Mrs. John
D. Zimmerman, Mrs. Bernard L.
Austin, Mrs. Wade De Weese,
Mrs. Eliot H. Bryant. Mrs. Fred
w. Walton and Mrs. Louis M.
LIE Hardy.
Mrs. Theodore r. McKeldin
entertained Tuesday at the
Governors Mansion for the
YWCA membership to climax
the membership drive. Mrs.
Emily B. Winters supplied the
music during tea.
Capt. and Mrs. John F. David
son were guests Of honor at a
dinner party Wednesday eve
ming in Baltimore given by Mr..
and Mrs. William II. Moore.
Capt. Davidson is head of the
Department of English History
and Government at the Naval
Academy.
Mrs. Bryand D. Virgins and
Mrs. James H. Chapman were
co-hostesses on Wednesday at a
luncheon at the Officers Club
Evening star., 1954-04-25

families. Recreation, meals
and lodging are provided at
minimum cost.
Persons will be invited to
subscribe from now until May
Is. Defense Day. Admission"
contributions start at So and
may be sent directly to the
Soldiers, Sailors. Marines and
Airmen's Club at 1015 L street
NV.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

for wives Of the Naval Academy
Glass Of 1947.
1t. Gen. Floyd L. Park,
U. S. a., Commanding General
at Fort Meade, visited Annapolis
on Wednesday and took the
review at the Midshipmen's Full
Dress Parade on Worden Field.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

be ke-believe. the cause for
which it is publicized is very
real indeed.
Dedicated to the enlisted
men of the armed forces. this
club has become a symbol of
home for visiting servicemen
in Washington.
Since its beginning in 1898,
the club has been owned and
operated by officers wives and
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Vineyards Leave

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Wingard
and their three children left
Tuesday for Guam for a two
year tour of duty with the Navy
Department. Fhey were resi-
dents Of Greenbelt, Md.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Enlisted Mems
Club Benefit

Subscriptions are now being
solicited for the Phantom
Band Concert presented an
nually to benefit the Soldiers,
Sailors, Marines and Airmen's
Club.
While the concert itself may
Evening star., 1954-04-25

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