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Pan American
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ture of the colorful Olympic
fashioned program will be the
classic PriX De Nations. or
equestrian obstacle race. in Uni
versity City's enormous stadium.
With practically everything
else settled, main interest was
centered on the Olympic swim
ming stadium today. On the
agenda were finals in the 200
and 100 meter butterfly for men
and women, respectively; and
finals in the 400-meter free
style for women and 800-meter
relay for men. plus the 400
meter medley relay for the girls.
Two double-croWn winners
were registered yesterday.
Mrs. Pat Mccormick. Cali
fornia's world champion, added
the 10-meter platform title to
her 3-meter championship. and
Mexico's Joaquin Capilla did the
same, repeating exactly his 1851
Pan American triumph off both
boards.
In rapid fashion, the United
States clicked off victories in
the 100-meter freestyle. with
Clarke Scholes. the Olympic
sprint king, hitting :57,7 to break
his own meet record of ;58.03
set in the prellminaries last
week; and the girls 400-meter
relay team cracking another rec
ord.
Wanda Lee Werner of Bethes-
da, Md. and Judy Roberts of
Washington. D. c., both men,
bers of the Walter Reed Swim
Club. swan legs on the four
some that splashed to victory
in Abb, bettering the old mark
of 4:37.l set in 1851 by another
American team. Swimming with
them were Gretchen Kluter and
Carolyn Green.
The other United States TIL
umph was a one-tWo finish by
Mary Lou Elsenius and Mary
Jane Sears in the 200-meter
breastroke. Miss Sears, from the
Walter Reed Swim Club, came
from behind to edge favored
Beatriz Ronde of Argentina for
second place. and Marie Gillette
of Walter Reed was fourth. The
winning time was 3:08.4.
Shelley Mann of Arlington,
Va, another Walter Reed SWIM
mer, finished fourth in the 100
meter backstroke as Leonore
Fisher OF Ocean Falls, British
Columbia, and Cora Lee O'Con-
nor and Cynthia Gill of the
United States placed ahead of
her in that order. Miss Fisher
posted a time of 1857. beating
her own record of 1:l6.8 in the
preliminaries.
Evening star., 1955-03-25
0uantico Five Plays
CoIoradoans Tonight
In AAU SemifinaIs
BY the Associo,ed Press

DENVER, Mar. 25. - The
three-year reign of the Peoria,
Ill, Caterpillars as champions of
National AAU basketball crum-
bled last night in a 70-67 loss to
senior members of the University
of Colorado team that won the
Big Seven Conference this sea-
son.
The Colorado collegians led
three other teams into tonight's
semi finals of the 48th annual
AAU tourney. Along with them
are the Phillips Oilers of Bartles-
vile. Okla, who won the Ma
tional Industrial League cham
pionship. Phillips was the pre-
tourney favorite here.
The Marine Corps champions
from Quantico, Va. are matched
against the University of Colo
RADIO players. The Oilers meet
the San Francisco Olympic
Club. a talented collection of
West Coast college players.
Burdette Haldorson, 6 foot 7
center. drilled in 33 points in
leading the Colorado team. play
ing under the colors of Luckett-
Nix of Boulder, past the three
time champions from Peoria.
San Francisco Olympic Club
played one of the best brands
of ball in the tournament to
sink North Carolina State, 1890.
Five San Francisco players hit
m double figures, led by Jim Los
cutoff's 10. Ron Tomsic had 16.
Ken Sears and Bob Matheny IL
each and Russ LaWler IL. Ron
Shavelik. 6-foot-9, paced the
losers with 20.
The Marines never Jagged after
going in front of the Los Angeles
Kirby Shoes team at 31-3 with
4:45 left in the first half. The
Marines built up a 14-point lead
midway of the second half but
Los Angeles whitfield it to 71-66
with four minutes left.
Philips had the softest assign
ment in the quarter finals. The
Oklahomans hardly worked up
sweat in diSposing of Greeley,
Colo, Gregory Clothiers. 56-44.
Arnie Short of BartleSville
topped the scoring with Is points.
Evening star., 1955-03-25
Rocca Booked by Turner S
For Feature Team Match

Antonino Rocca, the bare
footed wrestling star from Ar
gentina, has consented to make
one of his few appearances in
a team match when he joins
Ruffy Silverstein against Mr..
Motto and Brother Frank Jares
in the feature Wednesday night
at Turner's Arena.
The team of Mr.. Moto and
Jares is one Of the roughest in
the wrestling game. Rocca and
Silverstein figure to be in for
a busy evening in attempting to
dispose of them.
Evening star., 1955-03-25
By Dick Sloy

The cream of last years in
augural tournament plus four
other Catholic high school cham
pions from the East come to-
gether tonight in the first round
of the Washington Catholic In
vitational basketball tournament
at Ritchie Coliseum.
Defending champion st. AIMS
Academy, which finished third
in its New York league this sea-
son; runnerup West Catholic,
again the Philadelphia winner;
Benedictine of Richmond, and
Gonzaga return to play in the
middle two games tonight.
West Catholic is rated a cut
under it's strength last year
while Benedictine has improved
immeasurably to win both the
Richmond City and Virginia
Catholic title, making their game
a toSS-up.
st. AIMS Heavy Fayorite.
But St. AIMS will rule heavy
favorite to dispose of Gonzaga.
The Eagles, runnerup to St.
Johns in the Washington Cath
olic League, will be minus two
of their first-line men.
Also, Ronnie Bennett, ALL
Metropolitan Washington selec-
ton and the only all-tourna-
ment player returning to the
WCIT, has not recovered as we'll
as hoped from a severe ankle
sprain suffered two weeks ago.
Tom McCloskey, who Clipped
in 81 points against st. Johns
last Sunday, and Denny Flynn,
6-foot-2 center, have been de-
clared ineligible because of de-
ficient marks in the classroom.
That leaves Tony Natoli, Hank
Buchanan, Frank Vita, Bill Shee-
han, John Farrell and a "hob-
bled" Bennett to carry most of
the load against the very tall
New Workers, who won 81 Of
their 26 games this season.
O'DOnnell, Perkins Move Up
Coach Tommy Nolan of Con-
zaga says he will move up Jim
O'Donnell and Dennis Pekin into
top reserve spots, admitting that
his chances now are darker than
ever.
"McCloskey played the best
game by far last Sunday of any
of my boys" Nolan stated.
1906 when the superior rights of
water traffic was indicated. In
1906 there were 100000 pas
senger cars and 10 million trucks
use in our country. whereas now
there are some 46 million pas
singer cars and 10 million trucks
the relative Importance of
waterborne transportation has
diminished"
Boatmen, lacking any national
voice in such matters, only hope
the boom won't swing too far
the other way in this whole dis
pute.
Ironically, it would come at a
time when boating has become
a major form Of recreation and
| the boating industry reaches
close to $1-billion-a-year oper-
/ alton.
Evening star., 1955-03-25
FORE AND AFT
Rv AnlroIra | nnohoYne Ir

ment report on bridge clearances
over naviga sable streams has
brought into the open a long
standing dispute between high
way and railroad groups on one
hand and waterway forces on the
other. The report is only the be-
ginning of what promises to be
hot debate for some time to
come.
Final arbiter in all likelihood
may be Congressa What it decides
could sharply affect boat owners
in all parts of the country, in
Guiding the Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay area.
With the ADMINISTRATORS $l01
billion proposed highway pro-
gram as a backdrop. State high
way officials, road builders and
others are vitality interested in
keeping down costs, particularly
for bridges over rivers and coves.
For many years the Army Engi-
neers have had the final say on
bridge clearances over water
ways.
There has been a move by
some groups, meanwhile, to have
Congress shift responsibility for
bridge clearances to the Com
merce D. >partment which some
feel would be more friendly to
highway people-perhaps at the
exepense of waterway traffic
While the Commerce study re-
frains from making any transfer
proposal, the Hoover Commis-
sion task force on water re-
sources headed by Admiral Ben
Moreell has been looking into
this and other problems. Its
report is due to go to the full
commission next month, and the
commission to report to Congress
in early May.
1t is of interest that the
Engineers would not support the
key recommendation of six pro-
posals made in the Commerce
report. Commerce would have
Congress set up new categories
of what is a navigable stream,
Under the lowest category would
come waterways now deemed
navigable but of questionable
value for navigation" Obviously
this would include many rivers
and waterways used by yachts
men and fishermen.
Commerce suggests a solution
for craft using these waterways
Hinged mastS, radars and stacks
What this would cost boa.men
no one ventures to estimate.
|, Boat owners have an ally ir
this respect. too. A report from
the Treasury Department tob-
viously prepared by the Coast
Guard) states that it may not
be practical or safe for masts to
be unstepped or collapsed, aid
besides, such alterations might
violate both international ano
inland rules on carrying Of ndvi.
CATION lights.
The Commerce study also dis
closes that Defense Secretary
Wilson does not go along with
the Armt Engineers on the neac
for additional legislation in de-
fining the new categories oi
waterways.
The American Association ol
State Highway Officials, which
has been active in this whole
field. has summed up the argu.
ments for the land forces ir
this way:
I'VE are not opposed in any
way to reasonable and justif1ablt
clearances and navigation re-
quirements. but the relative i'm
portance of waterborhe and au
tomotive transport has not re-
NAMED static over the year,
since the action of Congress il
Evening star., 1955-03-25
TrioIs for Little Leuquers

The Arlington Trust Company
Little League baseball club will
stage its first tryout at 3 pm.
tomorrow at Greenbrier play
ground in Arlington. Boys 8 to
IL in age are eligible to report.
Evening star., 1955-01-31
Three-D vFW PorIey'
To Open Here Feb. l3

A three-day mid-winter con-
ference of top-ranking national
and State officers of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars will open
at the Statler Hotel on Sunday.
February Is.
Commander in Chief Merton
B. Tice of Mitchell, S. Dak., will
preside over the conference, ex-
pected to be attended by more
than 200 VFW leaders from all
parts Of the Nation.
A congressional dinner. at
which the Gen. Omar Bradley
Gold Medal Award for distin-
guished service will be presented,
will climax the sessions, honor
ing members of Congress who
have served In the armed forces.
Evening star., 1955-01-31
Pasiore Hopes Quiz
VIII Show U. 5. Leads
Reds in Atom Race
sy N. A..osis..d Pres.

Senator Pastore. Democrat. of
Rhode Island. said today he
hopes a new series Of hearings
on peacetime atomic energy
progress will show we are win
ming the race with Russia We
must win. /"
Called on to open the hearings
before the Senate House Atom
ic Energy COMMITTEES were Chair
man Lewis L. Strauss and other
members of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
The hearings are to continue
for two weeks, partly in secret
and partly in open session, and
then viii be recessed while COM
mittee members go to Nevada
for a new series of atomic weap-
ons tests. ).
VIII Deal With Growth.
Senator Anderson. Democrat.
OF New Mexico. of the joint COM
mittee, said the hearings win
deal with the development,
growth and state" of the peace
time atomic energy industry.
Senator Pastore, a committee
member, noted that the hearings
viii involve the first Inventory
taking on progress in nuclear
power since the atomic energy
law was revised last August.
Main Purpose Of Law.
A main purpose of the 1854
act was to encourage private de-
i velopment of peacetime uses of
atomic energy by permitting
business firms to own and oper-
ate reactors and to obtain rlu-
clear materials for them under
Government license.
Senator Pastore said in an
interview 1t is just as important
for this country to outstrip Rus
sia in nuclear power development
as in the military uses Of atomic
energy.
He said he hopes the hearings
will show whether SUFFICIENT
progress has been made since
passage Of the act last year and
what "roadblocks" might be in
the way.
Evening star., 1955-01-31

. Bsekiashen, Arlington. Va.
glebe ~. snd Pershins Drive
2 seseroft, Ariisstoa, Va.
i7f4 Coiuinbia Pike
Open . 70 Q Daily
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2 Belle view Shoppins Center
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Evening star., 1955-01-31

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2 74oi Annapolis Resd
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New Nembshire Ave. and Unisefslty
Lane Open 3 - D.
Evening star., 1955-01-31

. 304I Naylos Reed s.E.
Open % e--fhsrsdsy, Friday and
SATURDAY
: issh and ceismbis Road
0pen . V . Daily
. SOTO New Hampskirs Ava. NM.
0Den . 70 5---Kfiday and Saturday
Michigsn end Ecstern Aves. NE.
0pen Q 10 o Daily
Evening star., 1955-01-31
Ssea Mok&9 depeaitt at:.. UNlpN TRUsr

This modern housewife knowsge banking
venience She Banks BY Mail NJnon Trust
This that she makes checking and savings
her desk her hdmedurns her leisure time.
That's exactly the way she pays b tooh the help Of the
posman There's walking Waiting line delay for her
Union Trust offers both Regular est for balances SOO)
and Popular or smaller baanc checking And your
savings 2T.
When you open your supply Bank Mail deposit
slips envelopes for your futfe needs Its
Union Trust Visit offce-a cordial welcome
awaits you.
Evening star., 1955-11-22
MARYLAND-VIRGINIA NEWS
Cheap Woy Seen to End
Power Plant River Threat

An investment of few thou
sand dollars" by the Potomac
Electric g. Power Co. can pre-
vent damage to the Potomac
River from PEPCo's proposed
steam plant. Maryland scientists
say.
Researchers of the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory yesterday
suggested to the Maryland Board
Iof Natural Resources that water
from the plant be run. through
Ia relatively simple" filtration
and cooling process before being
returned to the river.
Washington District Army En-
Igineers have estimated that the
steam plant, planned at a river
side site in Loudoun County, Va.
win raise the temperature Of the
water 10 degrees in summer and
Evening star., 1955-11-22
Creek
Sewage Plant
Work Ordered

The Virginia State Water Con-
troll Board today authorized
Fairfax County to go ahead with
construction Of a primary sew
age treatment plant on Little
Hunting Greek. provided the
planning and construction Of
secondary facilities is started
without delay"
The county viii open bids at
Q pm. Friday for the primary
Little Hunting Creek plant, one
of three plants the county is
building in its $40 million sewer
improvement program.
Residents near the little Hunt
ing Greek plant site had asked
the water board to require sec
ondary treatment facilities, and
suggested a construction time
table.
The Board Of County Super
visors had agreed to put In sec
ondary facilities as soon as
possible" but decided not to hold
UP construction of the primary
plant.
While the water board did not
adopt the strict time table rec
commended by residents near the
plant site, 1t approved the pri-
mary plant conditioned on the
owner county proceeding with
out delay with the planning for
and construction of secondary
facilities
A water board spokesman said:
IF the county daWdles. we can
call them in at any time and
make them go ahead with sec
ondary facilities"
Primary facilities provide
about 80 to 40 per cent treat
ment. while secondary facilities
give 30 to 95 per cent treatment.
Engineers assured the county
primary treatment would be suf-
f1cient at first on Little Hunting
Greek, but the supervisors agreed
with residents after inspecting
the creek that 1t should have a
secondary plant.
Evening star., 1955-11-22

Mrs. lie Bre went to the tele-
phone to call a doctor and Mr..
Le Bre took the two unconscious
children out in the hall.
While he was in the hall. he
heard the telephone drop to the
floor. He rushed back and found
his wife lying unconscious on
the floor.
BY now 1t was 1880 am. Three
Of the family were unconscious.
MIR. LIE Bre managed to tele-
phone police and the local res
cue squad. Squad members ad-
ministered oxygen to the family.
All were sick at the stomach
but none was seriously affected.
according to DR.. Stephen Jones,
who examined them.
Workers from the Washington
Gas Light Co. were unable to
find any gas leaks in the apart
ment building. But gas COM
pany workers said they found
a bottom door on the basement
furnace open when it should
have been shut.
They speculated that a back
draft let poisonous exhaust
fumes into the air-circulating
system.
Evening star., 1955-11-22

harm downstream fish and plant
life.
After hearing the report, the
Maryland board voted to recon-
mend to the Department Of Ge-
ology. Mines and Natural Re-
sources that it win assurances
from PEPCO tnat the plant op-
Grafton will have no harmful
effects on marine life.
The department, which holds
jurisdiction over the use of Po-
tornac River water, has not yet
acted on a request from PEPCO
to take water from the river.
PEPCO announced last month
it would file such a request. but
held up It's application after the
Loudoun site drew protests from
Washington and Maryland in
terestS.
Maryland claims ownership of
the Potomac and its waters.
Evening star., 1955-11-22
School Contract Okoyed
By Montgomery Board

The Montgomery Counts
Board Of Education last night
approved q contract for con-
struction Of an elementary
school on land it doesn't own.
Chairman Willard q. McGraw
said the board hopes to acquire
within so days. a tract at
Georgia avenue and Aspen Hill
road for the 24-room Aspen Hill
School, which, when completed
viii be the biggest elementary
school In the county.
A condemnation suit now is
pending IN Montgomery County
Circuit Court The construction
contract, which must be signed
within 80 days. win be awarded
to the H. o. McAllister Construc-
ton Co., whose $469. .493 base bio
was the lowest Of 10 submitted
Total cost Of the project is esti-
mated at $545.l08.
To Speed Construction
The chairman explained that
the unorthodox contract pro-
cedure was intended to pave the
way for actual construction as
quickly as possible.
The new school Is intended tc
relieve overcrowding at the We'll
Ter Road, Wheaton Woods, High.
land and Connecticut Avenue
Park schools, which face double
Evening star., 1955-11-22
New. .S5 Million Hospital
Approved for Alexandra

ing the project. Mr.. Hopkins
said.
A new hospital has been under
study for several years In Alex
andria. It was pointed out at
last nights meeting Of the di-
rectors that construction Of .
new hospital would be more eco
nornical than expansion Of the
present building and would per-
nit additional facilities.
Mr.. Hopkins said that among
the new medical services would
be facilities for psychiatric care.
care for convalescents and facili-
ties to meet q growing need in
the field Of care for the aged.
Charles M. Cot, hospital ad-
ministrator, said the present ca
pacity Is 1856 beds. He said the
hospital load frequently exceeds
this capacity and beds must be
placed in the halls,
Evening star., 1955-11-22
CONVICTED SPEEDER GOES TO JAIL
TO BACK UP HIS CONVICTIONS

John Chapman eager is of conviction in more
than
He was convicted in Fairfax Trial Justice Court yes
terday Of speeding Because of his personal conviction
that the charge not proved he elected go jail for
81 days rather than the $2375 fine assessed
against him.
According to the 34-year-old bachelor who works as
radio technician in Washington and lives in Baltimore,
Fairfax police charged him with travelling miles
in 40 mile zone on Arlington Boulevard Sunday
Mr.. eager told Trial Justice John Rothrock he may
have been going faster than 40 but denied that he
travelling so.
Mr. GagerS attorney Miss Susan Hendershott OF Rock
ylle paid the fine and costs but Mr. eager instructed
her to get the money back
Evening star., 1955-11-22
Fumes Fell 3 of FomiIy
In Rockville Apartment

A Rockville tMd.) family oi
five was all but overcome by
escaping furnace fumes in theii
apartment today. Three Of them
were unconscious by the time
rescuers arrived.
They are MIR. and Mrs. Victor
j.. lie Bre and their three chill
dren, Lucy Diane. S; jeanette,
3, and John Steven. /, Of SOC
Blandford avenue, Rockville. Mr.
lie Bre is a salesman for a Dis
trict Photographic studio.
Montgomery County Police
Pyts. Louis Kelly and Leonard
Cook gave this account:
About 6 am. the baby awoke
and began crying. Mrs. LIE Bre
prepared a bottle and was feed
ing him when the second child
jeanette, began to cry.
Mr.. lie Bre told the child moi
to make a fuss. He became sus.
Ipicious at hearing jeanette fall
silent so quickly.
He returned to the children's
room and found jeanette uncon-
.scious. While he was trying to
revive her. the other girl, Lucy
got up and tried to walk to the
kitchen. She collapsed at the
kitchen door.
Evening star., 1955-11-22
AIexondriu Police
Yield to u. S. on
Two Rood Signs

The Alexandria Traffic Con-
troll Department had to beat a
hasty retreat in a dispute with
the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads over two signs at Shirl-
ingtUn Circle.
Last Monday the city erected
two yield right Of way" signs
on Quaker lane leading into the
circle and on a road leading out
of the circle onto Shirley high
way.
Three days later, police re-
ported the signs mad been re-
moved. Traffic Director Ken
meth Smith did some fast check
ing and found that the Bureau
of Public Roads had taken them
away without advising the city.
Yesterday, Mr.. Smith con-
ferred with public roads officials.
Today he said the city was ap-
parently assuming jurisdiction
we don't have"
Evening star., 1955-11-22

The Alexandria Hospital Corp.
has unanimously voted to build
q new sOO-bed hospital estimated
to cost IS million.
Ray c. Hopkins. president Of
the hospitals board Of directors,
SAID today the new hospital win
not be at the same location as
the present Alexandria Hospital
but another site has not yet been
selected.
Mr.. Hopkins said that the first
step toward getting the new
building would be an application
for Federal aid under the Hill
Burton Act which matches funds
raised locally for hospital con-
struction. After this will come
selection Of i site, drawing Of
plans and specifications for new
buildings and plans for financ-
Evening star., 1955-11-22

sessions next September unless
the Aspen Hill facility is COM
pleted about December !. 1856.
The board, which a week ago
heard Representatives Of the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancementof Coiored People and
its supporters press for a stepped
up program of integration,
scheduled special session for
December Q to hear spokesmen
from groups opposing a faster
integration timetable.
Tentatively the session is
planned at the Wheaton High
School. Among groups to be
heard will be the Maryland Pc
tition Committee. the Montgom-
cry County Farm Bureau and a
group known as We the People.
The board also slated a closed
door session on December IA for
IA review Of integration problems.
Earlier Budget Sought
On the motion of Wylie Bar
row. the board voted to ask the
County Council to set up a ref
in November. 1866
which would ask voters to ap-
prove the advancing Of adoption
of annual budgets by three
months.
Under the present system, the
school budget must be submit
ted to the County Council by
May Is. and adopted by June 30
The board wants these dates
shifted to February Is and
March 80.
Mr.. Barrow said this would
permit earlier ALLEGATION of funds
so that the board could sign con-
tracts with teachers for the next
school year before the end oi
June. speed up school construc-
Ition and buy school equipment in
time for September delivery.
The move is strongly backed
by the Montgomery County Edu.
cation Association, which says
teacher recruitment would be
made easier II teachers knew in
early June what salary to expect
the following September.