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the standard and novelty shapes her heart desires-using just one
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l-lI2 cups sugar l teaspoon vanilla
4 teaspoons double acting 34 teaspoon orange extract
baking powder ttartrate III teaspoon almond extract
powder, 5h teaspoonsl 2f3 cup Homogenized Spry
teaspoon salt egg whites, unbeaten
liz cup less / tablespoon water
Sft first a ingredients into mixing bowl ... Add water, milk,
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, 1955-01-13
N o TICE

The annual meeting Of the
st. Croix Republican Club
will be held on Friday, Jan
uary 81, at the District Court
Room to elect office for the
coming year.
, 1955-01-13
ORDERS FOR
MRS. SOLOMON

While in Frederiksted she
was the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Latimer and in Christian
, 1955-01-13

sted she was the guest Of Miss
Clarissa Lockhart and her
, 1955-01-13

The West Indies Investment compunY
announces tie appointment Of
MRS. v. 6. rHAYEn u.
IS the Special Representative
i he West Indie. investment Company
Appointments for Information concerning
the new tax exemption law, pertaining to
bonds and securities may be made at
THE WEST INDIES BANK and TRUST COMPANY
Frederiksted
VEST INDIES INVESTMENT COMPANY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-19

These prices effective untIl close
Of business Saturday. October
~. 1855, Ia Washington, ID, @.
MARYLAND. HilicRest Helghts,
Bethesda, Silver Spring. TAkomA
Park. BlndensbuPe. Coral Hillss
HyattsviIle. Remington. Brent-
wood, Chevy Chase, Coluar
Manor, Wheeton, Mount Raj.
nier. Coilege Park. Berwyn,
h h:Hss 1 vTRSiN R:.s caSis.
M cnean. Annandaie. No SAILS
no DEALERS, WE RESERVk
TME HIGHT 10 LIMIT GUAM.
TITLES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
II Pieces of D. c. Realty
Sold in So Million Deal

the Ethelhurst, 1925 Fifteenth
street NV, sold to Norman
Bernstein Syndicates and Leo M.
Bernstein & Co.. representing
their new syndicate, Realty Fund
of America; the Knowlton
Apartments. 1927 Twentieth
street NV; the Woburn, 1910
Kalorama road NV; the Fern
wood, 1883 Columbia road NV:
the Melwood, 1903 Biltmore
street NV; the Woodley, 1851
Columbia road NV, and the
Woodside, 1900 H street NV,
and a large estate at 5133 Broad
Branch road NV, with 10 adj
joining acres of land.
The Schneider investment and
property management corpora
ton has been in the hands Of
the family since Mr.. Schneider's
death in the late 1930s.
The identity of the members
of the new investment groups
was not disclosed. Mr.. Luchs
said the negotiations for the pur-
chase and the forming of the
local investment indicate were
handled by himself and James
F. Salkeld, with the assistance
of Col. Julius Goldstein and
Stanley w. Norman of Shannon
& Luchs. Settlement of the
transaction was completed yes
terday, Mr.. Luchs said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
City Heads Void Firing
Of Policeman in Split Vote

recommended that he be put on
probation for one year.
After objections by Police Chief
Robert v. Murray, the Commits
sioners sent the case back to the
Trial Board for another SEN
tence.
On reconsideration, the Trial
Board recommended his dismiss
sal on March "a, with Inspector
Charles j. Sullivan dissenting.
Chief Murray, however, in
dorsed the sentence contending,
Il will not put man on the
street in police uniform with
sidearms if I cannot have" con-
fldence that he will be sober,
honest and reliable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

The big brownstone Heurich
mansion at New Hampshire ave-
nue. and Twentieth street NV.
was given today to the Column
bia Historical Society to be a
future home for the society and
a memorial to the late Chris
tian Heurich, Washing 20 n
brewer.
A deed to the property was
presented to Maj. Gen. U. S.
Grant III (USA, retired, pres
ident of the society. by Mrs.
Amelia L. Heurich, widow of the
brewer, in a ceremony in the
house.
Mrs. Heurich will continue to
live in the house. The society
will not occupy the property
until after her death. The So
ciety has never had a perma-
nent home.
The Heurich mansion, which
took two years to construct, has
long been a landmark in the
Dupont Circle area. 1t has a
romantic tower reminiscent of
castles on the Rhine, an impos-
ing port cochere entrance and a
large conservatory. The date on
the cornerstone is 1892.
Records Missing.
Christian Heurich, jr., son OF
the brewer who was present, said
that he had been unable to To-
cate the records of it's construc-
ton and the name of the archi-
tect. He said the property is
assessed at about $4,000.
Gen. Grant said that the arch
itect undoubtedly was influenced
by w. w. Richardson, the archi-
I tect of the John Hay and Henry
Adams houses. He said he hoped
the society would make the
house a public museum.
The society has many histori-
cal records and pictures among
which is the bullet that killed
Garfield. These might become
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04

and Maurice Fox, thought the
resolution ought to specify
Langley because they believe it
is the only site in the county
that CHA wants.
1.-THE Langley site would cost
the county less than any other"
said Mr.. Fox. II think we are
losing valuable time while other
Jurisdictions are working hard
to get CHA. We know CHA wants
Langley. Let's invite them
there"
G. Wallace Carper, chairman
of the board, said he understood
from Representative Broyhill,
Republican. of Virginia, that
CHA will not locate in Fairfax
County unless it is on the Lang
ley site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04

A SO million sale involving IL
pieces of District property was
announced today by Frank j.
Luchs, executive vice president
Of Shannon & Luchs.
The sale, which includes the
Cairo Hotel, two residences and
eight apartment houses, was de-
scribed as the most difficult and
involved real estate negotiations
in District history.
The properties. owned and
managed by the T. F. Schneider
Corp, have been purchased by
a group Of Washington investors
and corporations, Mr.. Luchs
said. The Shannon & Luchs
firm handled the negotiations
and will manage most of the
properties. No immediate change
in the use of the properties is
contemplated, Mr.. Luchs said.
The History Cairo Hotel, 1915
@ street NV, the tallest pri-
vately owned building in the
District, was sold to the Cairo
Hotel Corporation. The transac-
ton also included the Tilden
Hall. 3945 Connecticut avenue
NV, which was sold to a newly
formed corporation known as
the Tilden Hall Corp.
Other properties involved are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
Foirfox Now Invites GA
With 'No-Strings' Bid

Fearful that the Central In
telligence Agency might choose
a site for its new Office building
elsewhere, the Fairfax Board of
County Supervisors today gave
the agency a most cordial" in
vitation to build anywhere in
Fairfax County-even Langley.
The supervisors previously had
gone on record favoring location
of the proposed new $50 million
CHA building in the county, pro-
vided the Government put up
the necessary funds for new ia
cilitieS.
The new resolution welcomes
CHA with no strings attached.
1t assures the agency that Fair
fax County Stands ready to CO.
operate fully in all matters un-
der its own responsibilities"
Two supervisors, c. B. Runyon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04

The District Commissioners, in
a 2-to-1 vote. have reversed a
Trial Board sentence to fire Pvt.
Claude H. Anderson of the
Fourth Precinct.
With Commissioner Samuel
Spencer voting to uphold the
Trial Board sentence of dis
missal, the Commissioners Or
dered a fine of $500 instead.
The colored police officer was
found guilty of "malingering or
feigning illness or disability in
order to evade performance Of
duty" on three occasions during
which he worked for Lans-
burgh's department store.
The Commissioners also re-
duced from 5000 to $500 the fine
recommended by a Trial Board
against Pvt. Robert F. Lesley,
who was found guilty of absence
without leave when he oversight
after an off duty party.
The city heads also referred
to the corporation counsel the
appeal of Pvt. Harold E. Jones
OF the ninth precinct, who had
been sentenced to dismissal.
This was done to determine Pvt.
Jones rights under the Veterans
Preference Act, upon which his
case was based.
Pvt. Jones was found guilty of
charges involving drunkenness on
March Is and the Trial Board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
Heinrich Mansion Given
To Historical Society

the nucleus of collection of ex-
hibits, he said. But most of all,
he said. he would like to see the
house preserved just as it is
when there were people who
were not afraid to live in the
grand manner"
Mrs. Heurich was delighted
that the Gen. Grant" desk used
by her late husband was at last
going to a Gen. Grant. A huge
object more than 10 feet high
with roll tops, a bookcase and
secret cabinets. it was made for
President Grant. But the Pres
ident never got it. The man ;sho
made it went bankrupt while
waiting for Congress to buy it for
the President and Mr.. Heurich
gave him $500 for it to enable
him to get back to Montana.
Arnior and Oak
Mrs. Heurich showed visitors
through the place A figure
wearing a complete suit of armor
guards the hallway. The dining
room has a fireplace mantel and
buffet, both of golden oak with
hand-carved figures, which go
up to the ceiling. The big gas
chandelier with imitation candles
is of sterling silver.
Some of thesrooms are baroque
like the dining room with 10th
century paintings of the Munich
and Dusseldorf schools. Others
have the light French Louis XVI
touch with slender gilded furni-
ture.
The conservatory has a beau
tiful modern fountain, a me-
mortal to a daughter who died
in childhood.
Mr.. Heurich was born in Sax
ony in 1912, came to America
after the end of the Civil War
and started his brewery here in
1871. He was busy constructing
the big brewery building in Foggy
Bottom at the same time he was
constructing the house. He lived
until 1945, more than 102 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
Smoke Routs Workers
At Commerce BuiIdino

A short circuit in a panel on
the fifth floor of the Commerce
Department Building caused
smoke that routed some workers
there today.
Little damage was reported as
f1remen extinguished the blaze
with chemicals. Building cleo
tricians cut off the power. EN-
ployes of the Civil Aeronautics
Board and Trademark and
Transportation Offices were af-
fected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-04
Speech on India

DR.. George F. Donovan,
cultural affairs attache of the
American Embassy in New Delhi,
India, from 1882 to 1853, will
speak on intellectual Life in
India" at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in
the Lima Library on the Catho-
lie University Campus.
Evening star., 1955-02-03
Delegation Asks Roads Chief
ToWidenLittIe River 7 turnpike

A delegation Of Fairfax County
and Alexandria local government
officials was to call on Virginia
Highway Commissioner James
A. Anderson in Richmond this
afternoon urging the widening of
the Little River Turnpike (Route
236) in the construction program
for the next fiscal year.
omer L. Hirst, Fairfax County
member of the House Of Dele
gates. was to head the group.
Mr.. Hirst also was scheduled
to confer with Gov. Stanley to-
day on the problem of regulating
private water companies. Fair
fax County now is exploring the
possibility of furnishing water
service to its residents.
In the delegation to appear at
the Highway Commission were
City Manager Ira F. Willard of
Alexandria, Mayor Jack Ward Of
the town of Fairfax, Carleton
Massey, Fairfax County execu-
tive; William Eberhardt, super
visor of transportation for the
Fairfax County School Depart
ment; Ralph Townsend, execu-
tive director Of the county Cham
ber Of Commerce, and Edwin
Lynch. former Delegate from
Fairfax.
Latest reports from the State
Evening star., 1955-02-03

Highway Department show that
Fairfax leads all other localities
in Virginia in the volume of
traffic. The figure is 1,059.014
vehicle miles per day. The Sec
ond highest, Norfolk County. has
ST. 900 miles q day.
Fairfax is second only to Ar
lington in density Of traffic, the
figures being 15.714 vehicles a
day for Arlington and 1885 for
Fairfax. The report covers the
1884 fiscal year.
Mr.. Hirst said Route 236 has
one of the highest accident rates
of any road in the State. The
delegation will attempt to have
the highway widened into four
lanes.
Mr.. Hirst sought to have water
companies investigated during
the last session of the General
Assembly, but his resolution was
killed in the Senate after pass
ing the House.
The subject assumes major sig
nificance for his area now, he
said. inasmuch as Fairfax may
purchase privately owned water
companies in the county.
Evening star., 1955-02-03

Railroad main line. The spurs
will permit food handlers to un-
load IL refrigerated produce
cars, 6 refrigerated meat cars
and 10 grocery box cars at one
time. In addition, shipping bays
along the Bladensburg road
frontage will be able to handle
80 truck-trailers at once.
The center will have more
than $4,000 cubic feet of re-
frigeration for meat handling,
including a special meat aging
room; 10000 cubic feet of re-
frigerated boxes for produce,
delicatessen products and fish,
and a banana ripening room of
$4,000 cubic feet. It will have
the latest equipment for me-
chanical handling of the prod
ucts.
General Offices for Giant Food
Stores will be in the building,
with accommodations for the
company's $50 employees. It also
will have snack bar and terrace.
Construction will be of steel
frame and reinforced concrete,
with automatic sprinkler system
for fire protection.
Evening star., 1955-02-03

his county school board to make
purchases up to $1,000 without
competitive bidding.
Senator Northrop's amend
ment, which he said has the ap-
proval of his local school board.
would exempt Montgomery as
we'll as Baltimore county from
a $1,00 ceiling.
Legislation to increase the
home rule powers of the Prince
Georges County commissioners
and to whittle down the author
ity of the county treasurer's> Of
flee will be introduced soon.
That was agreed on here last
night in a three-hour meeting
of the Prince Georges legisla-
tive delegation, the county COM
misSioners and the two county
attorneys.
Other Plans Studied.
The officials, all first-term
Democrats, also talked about a
bill giving the county board
power to regulate water, sewer
and storm drainage projects in
the rural areas of the county
not under the jurisdiction of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
The bill increasing the home
rule powers of the county COM
would amend what
has frequently been called the
old Sothoron Act or the Lillard
Act. 1t would give the commits
sioners the additional authority
to establish departments OF
county government and prescribe
their functions.
1t also would give the county
board power to invest surplus
county funds in short-term
United States Government obi
cations or in banks.
Evening star., 1955-02-03

his campaign pledge to keep
kids out Of jail" The Arlington
Juvenile Shelter has been estab-
lished in separate quarters from
the jail at the courthouse.
Mr.. Fischer has been in the
Revenue commissioners Office
since 1899. He was appointed
commissioner in March of 1851,
after the death of Harry K.
Green. and was elected to a full
four-year term that fall,
Mr.. Fischer. SO. was born i'll
the District and has lived in
Arlington since 1912. He is mar
ried and lives at 1911 North Din
widdie street.
He is president of the League
of Northern Virginia Commits
sionerS of Revenue and a vice
president of the State organiza-
ton. He is a member of the Ar
lington Kiwanis Club and a vice
chairman of the Arlington Dis
trict Boy Scouts.
Evening star., 1955-02-03
LaFontaine's Casino
To Be Burned Down
For Food Warehouse

The one-time gambling casino
of the late Jimmy LaFontaine
will be burned down Saturday to
make way for construction of a
50 million distribution center
for Giant Food Stores.
The torch will be applied at
10 am. as part Of a training ex-
ercise for the Cottage City Volun-
teer Fire Department.
Ruined by vandals, the former
casino at Bladensburg road and
the District line is only shell.
It is on part Of 10-acre tract
on which the Giant stores will
erect a 800 by 800 foot ware
house.
The center, designed by David
Baker, Washington architect,
will be linked by three railway
spurs to the Baltimore & Ohio
Evening star., 1955-02-03
133 Acres Rezoned
To Permit Houses
Near MI. Vernon

Three tracts near Mount Ver-
non totaling 1873 acres have been
rezoned by the Fairfax Board of
County Supervisors for housing
developments.
The applications were ap-
proved yesterday for Sudbury
Estate, Inc. for property north
of Mount Vernon of Fort Hunt
road.
The new classification permits
construction of homes on lots
with an area Of 1880 square
feet.
Counters Master Plan.
Mrs. Anne wilkins, member of
the board, said yesterdays re-
coming brings to 21l acres the
total of property approved for
suburban residents district in
opposition to recommendations
of the master plan. The super
visors have seen the master plan
but it had not yet been made
public.
In other business, study Of a
proposed retirement system for
county employees was authorized.
James o. Yarger Of Manassas
will make the study. Only
county policemen now are COW
cred by a retirement plan.
Protest to Railway Head.
The supervisors also voted to
ask the president of the South
can Railway System, Harry A.
DeButts, to overrule railway Off
cialS on their refusal to allow
the county to install a new
sanitary sewer line. In a letter
to be sent to the company presi-
dent, the supervisors said they
were extremely surprised and
disappointed" to find that per-
Evening star., 1955-02-03

mission had been refused for the
county to replace near Spring.
field about 1900 feet of existing
33-inch line with q proposed
42-inch line.
Replacement of the sewer is
necessary. the letter said, to ac-
commodate a new trunk sewer
now nearing completion along
Backlick Creek. A contract for
the work has been awarded, the
board said, and the contractor is
ready to proceed.
Evening star., 1955-02-03
3 Arlington DEMOCRATS Seek.
denomination to Their Posts
Hosson, Fischer
And ToyIor to Run
In July Primary

Three Democratic officeholders
in Arlington today announced
they will seek denomination in
the party primary July IL.
They are Commemorative At
torney William J. Hassan, Sheriff
Carl Taylor and Commissioner
Of Revenue George D. Fischer.
Mr.. Hassan, 43. was elected
to his first foW-year term in
1851.
He is a former president of
the Arlington Democratic Club,
former member of the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee. and
is a member of the Arlington
Bar Association. Mr.. Hassan
and his wife and four children
live at 5806 North Ninth road.
Defended License Taxes.
The commemorative attorney.
since he took Office in 1852, has
successfully fought legal attacks
against the county business
license and auto license taxes.
Loss of these suits, he estimates,
would have resulted in loss of
more than 81 million year in
revenue.
Among the criminal cases
prosecuted by Mr.. Hassan was
that involving John Clay Ken
singer, who was electrocuted for
the murder of a Takoma Park
cab driver.
10 Years in Office.
Mr.. Taylor has served 10 years
in the sheriffs Office, including
six years as a deputy before his
election to a full four-year term
in 1851. He is Al and lives at
5049 North Fifth street.
Mr.. Taylor said he had kept
Evening star., 1955-02-03
Kostik Quits County Job

Resignation of Assistant Com
monwealth's Attorney Peter j.
Kostik was announced today by
Arlington Commemorative At
torney William j. Hassan. Mr..
Kostik will return to private
practice February IA.
Evening star., 1955-02-03
Fire Auxiliary to Meet

The Ladies Auxiliary Of the
Prince Georges County Volun-
teer Firemen's Association will
meet at $3.50 pm. today in the
Educational Hall of the First
Methodist Church, Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1955-02-03
Bill Would Bolster
Prince Georges Move
To End Bottle Clubs
By Gene Goodwin
Sfnr Staff Cafraspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 3.-Prince
Georges County legislators here
were agreed today on introduce
ton of a bill aimed at stamping
out after hours bottle clubs in
their county.
The measure, which probably
will be introduced in the House
tomorrow, would strengthen the
State law under which Prince
Georges States Attorney Blair
H. Smith has raided the Lyre
after hours club at Hillside twice
In four days.
The bill was worked out here
yesterday in a conference be-
tween Prince Georges members
of the Maryland Legislature, Mr..
Smith and County Sheriff j. Lee
Ball. All were elected last No
vember as Democrats captured
all county Offices on a platform
that promised action against
the bottle clubs, which crept
into the county after a district
breakdown in 1858.
Fails to Restrain.
An effort by the owners of the
Lyre Club to obtain an injunc-
ton against further raids until
charges resulting from the first
two are disposed of. has been
denied by Circuit Court Judge
Charles c. Marbury.
Other developments at yester-
days session of the legislature in
cluded:
The House of Delegates, on
voice vote, adopted a Prince
Georges County resolution call
ing on Congress to appropriate
funds for plans and construction
OF the JONES Point bridge across
the Potomac River from Alex
andria to Prince Georges Coun-
ty, just south of the District.
The House Judiciary Commit
tee conducted a hearing on the
bill of Delegate Burlington, Dem
ocrat, of Baltimore to substitute
either the gas chamber or the
electric chair for the gallows in
Maryland.
Warden Urges Gas.
Warden Vernon L. Pepper
sack of the State penitentiary
recommended the use of the gas
chamber because it would be
publicly more acceptable
A special House subcommittee
assigned to study a bill for COM
pulsory auto inspection in Mary
land plans to seek advice from
officials of Pennsylvania and
Delaware, which have two diff
ferent systems of inspection.
The system proposed for
Maryland is very similar to the
one used in Delaware, where
motor vehicles are inspected by
State inspectors in State-owned
and operated garages. Pennsyl-
vania has a system of inspection
from private garages, licensed
and supervised by the State.
The private garage inspection
system was tried by Maryland
before World War II but was
abandoned as a failure when
people complained that some
garagemen were making a racket
out Of it.
80 Held Too Few.
The subcommittee was named
yesterday by the House Ways
and Means Committee, after
Delegate Blair Lee III, Democrat,
of Montgomery County, pro-
tested that 80 inspection stations,
as proposed in the bill here,
would be grossly inadequate for
the entire State.
Under the bill, Mr.. Lee said,
Montgomery County would have
only two inspection stations.
State Senator Edward S. Nor
throp, Democrat, of Montgomery
County said today he is offering
an amenment in the Maryland
Legislature which would allow