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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

the william o. Dosh farm on
which, the Acc proposes to
locate. The land is strategically
placed because it is just at the
point where the Dosi Farm
touches on Middlebrook road.
The owner Of the land, an
elderly colpred woman named
Mrs. Mae Bailey, whose family
has held the property for gen.
erations. knew nothing Of the
Aces decision to build, Mr.. Gull
lum said. One OF her relatives
has since asked him to see If
the sale contract can be stopped,
Mr.. Cullum said.
The Landowners Association
unanimously approved a resolu-
ton welcoming the Acc decision
as "one of the most fortunate
and helpful happenings in the
history of Montgomery County"
The association said the cost Of
such county services as water,
sewers and roads was negligible
beside the benefits which will
accrue to the county.
Would Welcome Freeze"
1t resolved to do whatever 1t
can to produce the most con-
structive advantages" for the
new installation and to encourage
the establishment of other Fed
eral projects in the county.
E. Brooke Lee, president of the
association. said that landowners
should welcome a freeze" on
commercial developments within
a smile radius Of the new head
quarters if the Acc indicates
it would like such action.
The association also said it
will let stand a much-delayed
lawsuit against an up-eounty
coming ordinance. The suit asks
an Injunction against the or
dinance approved last fall by the
County Council, but has been
put off because the ordinance
itself has been postponed sew
eral times and the present coun.
Gil is now working on a draft
of a substitute ordinance.
Mr.. Cullum, one of the four
sponsors of the lawsuit, has
asked to withdraw from the
suit because it is now in the
nature of a nuisance suit" he
said. He said the association
should await the formulation Of
the new ordinance and not
hold a gun" at the County
Council by continuing the suit
against the old ordinance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
Pentogon Lagoon
Swimmer browns

A Washington man drowned
late yesterday while swimming
in the Pentagon lagoon.
He was identified by Harbor
Police as Thurman J. Butler. 81,
colored, of 325 Eleventh street
S.W.
Police said he was swimming
shortly before 8 pm. and &C
cording to witnesses, got out of
breath and sank before he could
return to the sea wall just off
the Pentagon boat docks.
The body was recovered about
an hour later by Harbor Police
Pvts. Lawrence Halstead and
Marion Kendall.
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Additional Paid Firemen
Urged for Montgomery

have been the direct cause of
unnecessary fire losses" He said
the county, instead Of having a
central fire alarm system and
paid fire departments in the
suburban part of the county, has
some Is fire departments and
fire-tax areas.
Fire protection" he as
serted, has been jeopardized
by insufficiently manned fire de-
partments and by men from such
departments responding to rou-
tine ambulance calls, when other
means Of taking care Of such
calls exist" -
7-Step Plan Outlined
A 7-step set of recommended
tons in the report calls for the
establishment Of a County Fire
Department as. part of the Di-
vision of Fire Protection and the
use OF paid captains and men
supplemented by volunteers
where available. working under
a merit system. .....
The report also recommends
that the county adopt master
plan of fire houses and a uni
form tax rate, and that portions
of the county code on fire de-
partmentS be amended to in
clude provisions that county fire
department budgets be submitted
to the County Council for public
hearing.
The report recommends that
Incorporated fire departments
be required to give up their char
tiers under pain of being denied
tax monies" and that fire houses
and equipment be turned over to
the county. If necessary. the re-
port adds, the county should re-
sort to condemnation powers.
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Plans Pushed
For Courthouse

Plans are in the works for a
large-scale expansion and re-
modelling of the Arlington court
house:
The County Board yesterday
authorized the filing of a request
for Federal advance planning
funds and for preparation of
preliminary plans and cost esti-
mates for the project.
Plans submitted by County
Manager A. T. Lundberg call for
razing the old three-story center
section and substituting a struc-
ture of at least six stories there.
Addition Proposed
Mr.. Lundberg also proposed
adding third floor to the south
wing, air conditioning the entire
building, and purchasing a park
ing lot.
The county manager said
after the board meeting that an
estimate of the cost. was not
available.
Mr.. Lundberg said a referen-
dunn would be needed to pro-
vide the money for the project
and that the time needed to
complete the preliminary plans
and cost estimates would be
about one year.
In addition. he said, the time
required for a referendum and
construction would take at least
another 10 months. Last fall,
residents voted dawn a $500, 900
bond issue for a new courthouse
site.
Rent Increased
Mr.. Lundberg told the board:
AS time goes on 1t becomes
more apparent that the re-
modelling and addition to the
courthouse is a necessity in
order to provide facilities to
carry on the operations of the
county government.
Arlington has been paying
mounting rent for auxiliary
office space and parking areas.
This year the cost will be about
$4,000. In 1850 the figure was
$1,000.
Funds advanced by the Fed
eral Government for plans
would have to be repaid at the
time the project was under
taken" Mr.. Lundberg said,
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Board Seeks
Schools View
On Bond Vote

The Arlington County Board
has voted to ask the school board
whether it plans a bond issue
referendum in November. School
Board members have indicated
that the County Board will have
to wait at least until school opens
for the information.
The County Board in Its re-
quest voted yesterday. wants the
School Board to outline its ex-
pected classroom needs in 1856
81 and 1888. and to indicate
if a bond issue referendum will
be required this year.
The action was taken on a
motion by Robert A. Peck. who
declared II don't think we should
allow another too-little, too-late
crisis to be thrown up against
us again"
Data Declared q Need
Mr.. Peck said the County
Board should have the informa-
ton to make plans for financing
such projects as sidewalk con-
struction at the schools.
Emphasizing that he was not
proposing that a school con-
struction referendum was nee
essary. Mr.. Peck declared that
ii one is necessary it should be
voted on in the November cleo
ton.
Asked to comment, School
Board members DR.. Erwin r.
Draheim and DR.. Barnard Joy re-
piled that a study to determine
classroom needs has not yet been
completed. The school board has
already announced that o bond
issue will be needed sometime
within the next year. Officials
have estimated that $40 million
is needed.
The major projects that would
be covered by the $40 million
figure are the construction OF
Yorktown Senior High School
and Gunston Junior High School
and the completion of Kenmore
Junior High School.
DR.. Joy said, additional bond
funds will be needed to take care
of an expected enrolment ex-
ceeding $4,000 in 1860.
However, enrolment may
reach a peak in 1860 or shortly
thereafter. A very thorough
study is in progress to determine
precisely as possible the exact
amount Of space needed at var
ious locations. Determination OF
the exact amount and the date
of the next bond issue will not
be made before the completion
of the study"
DR.. Joy said that data on en-
rollment in September 1855 is an
important aspect OF the study
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County Seeks End
To Blind CROSSINGS

The Montgomery County
Safety Board has begun a cam
paign against intersections where
a motorists view Of cross traf-
fic is obscured by high shrubs.
w. L. Robinson. board chair
man. warning that such places
cause accidents, said civic
groups of the county have been
asked to identify hazardous cor
ners and to seek voluntary re-
moval of shrubs by property
owners.
If action is not taken, the po-
lice will be informed Mr.. Robin
son said.
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HyottsviIIe Legion
Elects Officers

Robert W. Fey of 1902 Ham,
ilton street. has been elected
commander of Snyder Farmer
Butler Post, American Legion.
Hyattsville. He succeeded Nor
man B, Belt.
Others elected were: Harry E
A!dridge. first vice commander;
Leland G.. Worthington, ST.. sec
ond vice commander; Hugh T.
McClay. adjutant; Harry B.
Cogar, finance officer; John L.
Bassford, chaplain: Robert G.
McCartee, historian, and Clar-
ence e. Mann, ST., Sergeant-at-
arms.
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AEC Doubts New SITE
Will Boom Montgomery

The Atomic Energy Commits
sion does not expect to cause any
great commercial or industrial
development in Upper Montgom-
cry County as a result Of its
decision to build its new $40
million headquarters near Ger
Imantown, Md.
Nor does it anticipate any sud-
den demand for new housing in
the area, the Acc said, since
fewer than 300 of $500 employees
Ipolled on the question have in
dicated they wish to move closer
to the new site than their pres
ent homes.
The Aces forecast Of the i'm
pact of its building program
comes from a letter to the
County Council, written Wed
nesday. and conversations with
members Of the Upper Mont
gomery County Landowners AS
ISOLATION, which held a directors
meeting Friday.
Points to Other Units
At the directors meeting, Dyke
Cullum, owner Of a 405-acre
farm near the Acc site, said he
had talked several times with
George H. Christensen. Acc
project engineer. Mr.. Christen-
sen explained that the agency
has found in building installa-
tons in other parts of the coun-
try that little change has been
wrought in surrounding territory
when the Acc moved in.
He said that the new building
due to get underway next spring
and scheduled for completion in
the fall of 1857, will have its
own cafeteria, parking for the
estimated TOO cars which, en-
Iployes will drive to work, and its
own sewage treatment plant.
Speculation Reported
New Route 240, which is just
east Of the building site. is due
to be extended down to the Dis
trict by the time the new head
quarters is ready for use. Access
to the superhighway would be
through Route lib to the north
and Middlebrook road to the
south.
Despite the Aces assurances,
however, Mr.. Cullum said that
evidence of land speculation is
already to be seen. He said that
Tuesday a Germantown mer-
chant contracted to buy a 2 or
3-acre tract of land adjoining
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Maryland Teachers
To Attend Workshop

TOWSON. Md. Aug. 6 (P.--
Fifty teachers of economics in
Maryland high schools will come
here tomorrow for a 3-week
workshop on how to make their
courses more meaningful to
pupils.
1t is the second year for the
workshop on economic educa-
ton sponsored by Goucher Col
lege, Johns Hopkins University,
the University Of Maryland,
Western Maryland College and
Loyola College.
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Chairman Named

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 6 (P.
Charles B. Allen. a former Air
Force major, now partner in
"a Baltimore engineering firm.
today was named chairman of
the State Aviation Commission
by Gov. McKeldin.
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Rockville Carnival

The Rockville tMd.) Volunteer
Fire Department will hold a
carnival from Monday through
August 20 on the Rockville pike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
BEVERLEY NAMED AIDE DE CAMP

BEVEKLE7 NAWED AIDE De IAWF
Former Alexandria Mayor Marshall Beverley asked to quit
the Democratic Party last week. reads the commission he
received yesterday "ade de camp" on the military
staff of Vrginas Democratic Gov Stanley Mr. Beverley,
who organizing Democrats for Eisenhower movement,
asked to resign from the party state Senator Charles
r. Fenwick Of Arlington.
Evening star., 1955-05-11
Eisenhower Seen Falling for Tricks
OfReds in Accepting Big Four Talks

four-power conference under
Klieg lights but Q direct two
way conversation Of an init
mate character in Moscow,
after which the allies were told
that Austria had agreed to the
treaty. Such changes as were
made later were worked out by
Ambassadors, and the only
thing that remains now to be
done is for the Foreign Minis
tiers of Britain, the United
States, France and Soviet Rus
sia to meet at Vienna and sign
on the dotted line.
All this is to be reversed
now. The heads of the four
States are to meet-presum-
ably in Switzerland-and, with
out any agreed-upon list of
subjects or a formula for world
peace, they are to talk briefly
and then leave it to the For
eign Ministers and the Ambas-
sadors to work out.
What does this mean? 1t is
part of a clever game designed
to influence public opinion to
veer more and more toward
making the concessions which
would permit Soviet Russia to
chase American troops out of
Europe and dominate the con-
tinent and give Red China a
free hand in Asia. It's the
same old game that Hitler
tried in the '30's which came to
a climax in the Epochal ap-
peasement at Munich in 1888.
Today Soviet Russia is putting
the West on the spot and,
curiously enough, though off,
cials of the West know it is
a game of deception, they do
not venture to denounce 1t,
openly and to insist on taking
the initiative themselves.
President Eisenhower has
been caught in the maelstron
Of political currents at home
and abroad. So he is going to
the conference in an effort to
Evening star., 1955-05-11
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Eisenhower Is Not Quite Enthusiastic
About Pitfol-Loden PorIey in Europe

can accomplish these objec-
tives by means other than
force.
The promptness with which
the Kremlin agreed to a peace
treaty with Austria is taken
by the optimiSts as tangible
proof Russia desires to give
no further trouble.
Under these circumstances,
the optimists say. why not
take advantage of this new
frame of mind prevailing in
Moscow and have a palaver
which. although it may not
solve the world tensions. might
serve to dilute" the cold war.
These views are fully shared
by the British and French
governments. They all believe
that economic coexistence with
the Communists is feasible and
there would be less risk Of
war if the trade barriers be-
tween East and West were
further relaxed after a po-
litical conference at the top.
The realists insist that the
leopard has not changed its
spots. The Moscow Peiping
axis is even more effective
than the Berlin n-Rome- -Toyko
axis which precipitated the
last war They say the role of
the two Communist powers is
better defined. While the
U.S.S.R. may harp on peaceful
coexistonce, the far more ag-
greSsive Red China is deter
mined, with RusSia's help, to
establish herself as the domi-
nant power in Asia. The de-
feat of the United States and
its removal from the concert
of world powers is still their
main objective. Only the
strategy for accomplishment
of this goal may vary accord
ing to circumstances.
The realists recall that in
January. 1854, we went to
Evening star., 1955-05-11
Row Over Doctor
Thut Threatened
War Is Solved

THORSHAVN, Faeroe Islands,
May II (P).-Rebellious Bordo
Islanders accepted last night a
compromise settlement of their
dispute with provincial authori-
ties over the islands doctor.
The acceptance ended a state
Of defiance in which the island
ers mined their harbor and
threatened a shooting war with
120 Danish riot police dispatched
to remove the doctor by force
if necessary.
Members of the Town Coun-
Gil of Klaksvig. Bordo's chief
town, and the Faeroe provincial
government worked out the
compromise. The Danish govern
ment'S trouble shooter, Finance
Minister Viggo Kampmann, ap-
proved the solution.
Klaksvig authorities cabled
government officials here they
would accept the temporary ap-
pointment of two Danish doc
tors to succeed DR.. Olaf Halvor-
sen, who had held the Bordo
medical post illegally for two
| years.
The compromise calls for DR.
Halvorsen to leave Office and be
given the opportunity later to
apply for the post on an equal
footing with other applicants.
Evening star., 1955-05-11
Collins to End
Wet Nam Tour
Next Saturday

Gen. j. Lawton Collins will
wind up his temporary job as
President Eisenhower's special
representative in Wet Nam next
Saturday.
The White House announced
this last night. The announce
ment said G. Frederick Rein
hardt, career diplomat who was
confirmed by the Senate last
month as new American Ambas-
sador to Wet Nam, will arrive in
Saigon next week to assume his
duties there.
Gen. Collins has been acting
as the Presidents special repre-
sentative at Wet Nam since No
vember 2. He has concluded ar
Evening star., 1955-05-11

President Eisenhower has
accepted with a marked lack
of enthusiasm the proposal Of
our British and French allies
to meet with Soviet Premier
Bulganin in some neutral Eu-
ropean country this summer.
Mr.. Eisenhower still insists
that the Foreign Ministers who
are arranging the details of
such meeting carefully pre-
pare an agenda to avoid the
pitfalls of wandering all over
the complex international field.
Neither the President nor
Secretary Dulles was anxious
for such a top-level confer
ence under present world con-
ditions. While there are no
particular clouds in Europe
now, the situation in the Far
East continues threatening.
Both considered a meeting Of
Foreign Ministers adequate for
the present purposes. But they
yielded to the pressing demands
of Sir Anthony Eden who be-
lieves that a top-level con-
ference may take away many
votes from his Laborite oppo-
nentS.
Three of Mr.. Eisenhower's
predecessors stubbed their toes
badly at conferences of heads
of state. Woodrow Wilson's
brilliant reputation as a states
man was somewhat tarniShed
by the conferences he attended
personally in Paris in 1919.
And the regulations of Presi-
dents Roosevelt and Truman
suffered severely because of
the Teheran. Yalta and Pots
dam meetings.
The experiences Of these
Presidents confirm the belief
of many Americans that this
country always wins wars on
the battlefields and loses them
at the diplomatic table.
Policymakers in Washing
ton are divided into two
groups--the optimists and the
realists.
The optimists say that there
are definite indications that
the top men in the Kremlin-
all elderly men-are more in
terested in maintenance of the
Soviet system at home and in
the satellite countries than in
new adventures. Russia's ex-
pansionist period in the West
is temporarily halted. Internal
conditions in the U. S. S. R.
and her European satellites
are bad. The Red armies could
win initial victories in Europe
but they do not have the
necessary industrial capabil-
tiles to carry such military
successes to final victory. And
nobody knows this better than
the four marshals-Voroshilov,
Bulganin, Zhukov and Konev-
who hold responsible positions
in the Soviet government. The
present saber rattling is mainly
for the benefit Of the home
folks.
Washington optimists con-
cede that while the ultimate
aims set forth by Lenin and
Stain - world domination -
have not been abandoned, the
Soviet leadership believes it
Evening star., 1955-05-11

The House Armed Services
Committee has approved a pro-
posal to place two more retired
Army generals in the Immigra-
ton Service. Some committee
members, however, sharply criti-
ciZed the idea.
The committee yesterday ap-
proved Senate-passed bills au-
thorizing appointment of for
mer Maj. Gen. Frank H. Part
ridge and Brig. Gen. Edwin B.
Howard as assistant commits
sioners. The measures now go to
the House.
Commissioner Joseph NJ.
Swing, a retired lieutenant gen.
eral, told the committee nobody
in the department could hold
either" of the specialized jobs he
has in mind for the two men.
He said both have been acting
for several months as special ad-
Evening star., 1955-05-11
DOROTHY THOMPSON
War, Not the Soldier, Is Todoy's Beast;
Men Are Only Powns of Political Policy

No. they were absolutely diff
ferent. They meyer could be
trusted with a gun!
I never shared the general
view of the Germans as a
people. I know there are sad
istically minded killers among
all peoples, and that a gov
ernment bent on using them
for maniacal purposes such as
the wholesale determination of
an inferior race" will find
them. The original SIS Elite"
Corps were volunteers, willing
to assume the murderouS du-
ties assigned them, fitted by
exceptional hardness, arro-
gance. and cruelty for the job.
The ordinary soldier of ev-
cry army is trained to blind
obedience. He must not only
be trusted with a gun, but
trusted to use 1t, and if he
fails to do so, is subject to
court-martial. He is an in
Strument of political policies
the last, decisive instrument
and the day he exchanges his
civilian clothes for the uniform
of his nation, he relinquishes
his individual conscience re-
garding the rules, conventions,
and weapons of war.
The next war, we are as
sured, will be fought with
atomic weapons. Perhaps the
German cover-boy, who will be
marching then with u.s."
will be ordered to use these
weapons. Then how will his
face appear, in wartime photo
graphs, If he is ever captured
and photographed by the en-
emy? Or how, for that matter,
may his face have changed?
"A lace now so innocent?
The German young man de-
picted-call him Otto-is a
border guard. On what border?
Perhaps on the interior Ger
man border, where he faces
another young German, very
much like himself, maybe even
cousin-call him Hans. In
the Russian papers our cover
boy Otto will have his face re-
touched to look like the "proto-
type" of an "imperialist beast"
and in our papers Hans will
appear as the prototype" Of a
Communist beast"
But the beast is not either
lad. The beast is war.
Evening star., 1955-05-11
DORIS FLEESON

Nov you know what it was
like around here when Cool
idge was President" Capitol
veterans are explaining to
Roosevelt-vintage friends as a
dull legislative session enters
the home stretch.
They describe a situation not
expected when Democrats re-
gained control of Congress last
January. But somehow the is
sues on which Democrats
counted failed to achieve pop
ular appeal. There have been
no spectacular investigations;
even that tried and true scape-
goat, the stock market, escaped
unscathed from a probe of its
operations.
A change Of pace in the next
two months seems unlikely.
Routine matters like appro-
priations will predominant. A
few controversies are coming
up. including minimum wage
bill and an effort to free nat
ural gas producers from Fed
eral regulation. But the Brick
er amendment has had it, the
Presidents highway bill will
be abandoned in favor of the
old and tested methods and
the bill to re-establish rigid
farm price supports which
passed the House will get no
serious notice in the Senate.
All this suits the White
Evening star., 1955-05-11
House Unit Approves
Posts for 2 Generals

visers, at $50 daily, since Con-
gress last year did not complete
legislation necessary to allow re-
tired officers to accept civilian
jobs.
Representative Hardy, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, suggested that
there was "Subterfuge" in put
ting the two generals to work
before Congress approved.
Representative Rivers, Demo-
crat of South Carolina, told Mr..
Swing he could not expect "us
to believe that no one else can
handle these jobs"
Representative Kilday, Demo-
crat, of Texas, said other cases
of retired servicemen were more
deserving and should be settled
first.
Representative Molloh a n,
Democrat, of West Virginia. alb
sent on other business. filed q
statement opposing the bills.