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Evening star., 1955-07-12
District Air Guard Jets
Get in Action at Trovis

Squadron. This group, together
with the 104th Fighter-1nter.
ceptor Squadron of Baltimore
and the 142d Fighter-Intercep.
tor Squadron of Wilmington
Del. comprise the 113th.
Sergt. Richmond's job imme.
diately on arrival was to get the
II Sabrejets of the 121st ready
to 60 on the numerous gunrery
missions. He reported yester.
day: Everything is in first -class
shape. The airplanes have all
arrived. and the gunsights are
ready"
One of the district ships, he
reported. had a forced landing
at Pope Air Force Base, N. C..
when it developed minor flight
instrument trouble. 1t also
landed because of the heavy
thunderstorms which have beer
prevalent all along the Eastern
coast.
The smooth workings of the
maneuvers, as several staff Off
GERS have pointed out, reflect
credit on the enlisted men, who
are in two classes, the expert
enced "elders," and the traihees
who average from II to % years
in age. Typical of these in
structor-ofiicers Is Capt. James
H. Bowen, SO. OF Turkey Branch
Parkway, Rockville, Md. the
113th's maintenance officer.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Guord Storts Troininq
With Anti-Aircroft Fire

ing mechanism on one Of the
guns so yards away.
simultaneously a horn on the
weapon viii sound to warn the
crew.
Actual firing of the 120-milli-
meter rifles viii be handled by
members of the Guards $40 and
$50 AAA battalions.-
When 1t. Warner wishes the
Iartillerymen to cease fire he will
push another button. A red
light blinks and the firing mech-
aniSm locks.
Meanwhile. radar scanners
trace the speeding shells on two
screens.
Served in Korea
/ 1t. Warner, a full-time Ma.
Itional Guard employe. said hi
gained his electronics knowledge
while serving with the regular
Army during the Korean con.
f1ict.
During an inspection trip yes.
terday with Col. George Latimer
Ia judge of the United States Mill
tary Court of Appeals, Maj. Gen
William H. Abendroth, praised
regular Army and civilian work
ers who readied the range fol
Guard use. He said their worl
has enabled the Guard to test
fire their guns three days earlier
than last year.
The time saved will be utilized
by extra firing, Gen. Abendrotf
said.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation
with the Film Center of WASH
|ington and the recreation de-
|partments of the District and
Alexandria and Arlington, Prince
Georges and Montgomery Coun-
ties.
In addition to the movie pro-
gram. Jim Gibbons, WMAL-
Radio and Television star will
make a personal appearance at
Congress Heights Playground.
Savannah street and Randle
place Sc, at 8 pm.
WASHINGTON, at Dusk
Lafayette, Oliver and Broad Branch
:. Twin Oaks. Fourteenth and Taylor
,,iSid.Sy Turkey : j. Thistes ns! Tenth street and
Stead, P street between Sixteenth and
s'yssif:atS %af:PtSons. streets Sr;s NV and street.
Hayes. Fifth and X streets. NE.
carver, Whittingham and Lane
streets NE.
Hine, Seventh street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc.
Fort STANTON. Seventeenth and Erie
streets Sc.
ArlinEten County, $50 Pm.
Walter Reed. 1914 North Mckinley
Four Mile Run, -Four Mile Run drive
and South Sixteenth street.
Prince GEORGES County. $50 Pm.
Clinton tSurrattsvillel Elementary
School. Clinton Manor drive, Clinton.
Berwyn Hefghts Elementary School.
Ruatan street. Berwyn Heights.
Mentgomery County, $50 Pm.
drive, Bethesda. 'I u
North -Four Corners, Old Bladensburs
and Royalton roads, silver Spring.
West End Elementary School, Besll
avenue, Rockville.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

An shop Thursday evening however the
habits the deciding stores VIII stay open he 1oo"
...... q. A.. a..;... -, 80. ing Saturday.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
House Unit Blocks Funds
For GA BUILDING Here

called Casey tract behind the
Bethesda Naval Hospital" and
Suitland. Md.
Whether any final decision has
been made as to the site was
not disclosed by the transcript
because much discussion on the
site was of the record and
did not appear In the printed
document. There was more dis
cussion. however. about the
Langley site than any other.
The committee was told by
Lawrence K. White, deputy 6iA
rector. that if the Langley site
were authorized and selected the
State of Virginia had agreed 70
make one of its roads lea ting
to the place a four-lane road to
join up with the proposed George
Washington Memorial Parkway
extension.
The CIA building was author
lied by the big military construc-
ton bill recently approved by
Congress and sent to the White
House.
Funds Not Authorized
This measure, authorized, but
did not appropriate funds for the
job. It recommended construc-
tion of the building at cost,
including access roads, not to
exceed $54.5 million. OF this
amount, the authorization bill
said. not more than $8.5 million.
would be available for extending
the George Washington Memo
rial Parkway upstream to the
site, which now is occupied by
the research station Of the
Bureau of Public Roads.
The Smithsonian Museum was
given the requested sum of $2.-
2S8, 900 to complete the planning
and design already authorized
by Congress.
The big Southwest Federal
building, to be constructed under
a lease-purchase contract, is one
of number of new such projects
for which the Appropriations
Committee approved SIS million.
The Weather Bureau, Coast
and 'Geodetic Survey and Geo
logical Survey building also
were given a green light by the
committee under the SIS mil
lion for planning and site ac-
QUESTION.
Other Area Projects
Among area projects recon-
mended in the bill were Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, $5,-
557, 900; Fort Belvoir. Va. $4,-
608, 900: Fort George G. Meade.
Md, 1923, 900; David Taylor
Model Basis, Carter Rock, Nd.
$l4,302. 900: Photographic In
depreciation Center. Suitland.
Md, $2.345, 900: Naval Academy.
$l82, 900; Naval Station. Annap-
oils, Md, 1907 900; National Ma
wal Medical Center. Bethesda,
Md. $350.000.
Also Naval Research Labora-
tory. D. c., $4,000; Andrews
Air Force Base Reserve, $l.022,-
900, and Andrews Air Force Base
Military Air Transport Com
mand. 81 ,098. 900.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
By JOSEPH B. BYRNES
Star stan Correspondent

BETHANY Del, July a.
Working doggedly to stay three
days ahead of schedule. the Dis
trict's National Guard prepared
today to FIRE its 100 millimeter
anti-aircraft guns.
The weapons. set up on the
sand dunes. viii be test fired. at
airplane -towed sleeve targets.
At the same time. a new batch
Of shells to be used later on
radio-controlled robot targets
will be checked for muzzle
velocity.
Part of the operation will be
controlled by 26-year -old 1t
Pat Warner of 4216 Nichols
avenue S.W., "a fire control Of
ficer,
Track Shells by Radar
From his 1925, 900 air-condi-
toned trailer-truck, one of hall
a dozen here. 1t. Warner and
his 17-man crew will track the
shells by radar.
The guardsmen's Office is Q
maze of equipment that includes
two radar devices, a PIX switch
board, an electric brain" COM
putor and host of red, green
and yellow warning lights.
When everything is set. 1t
Warner will push one of a dozen
buttons on a panel near his right
hand. A green light will flash
automatically unlocking the fir
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Hotels Protest
Housing Code

District hotel operators told
the Commissioners yesterday
that presently proposed restric-
tions under the new housing
code would seriously injure their
business if applied to hotels.
One proposed regulation to
which the hotel association OBJ
Ijected would require 70 square
feet of floor space for one person
i'm a room and so square feet for
each of two or more persons.
Attorney Norman Glasgow told
the city heads survey of 13
typical hotels disclosed that, of
8, 1886 rooms measured, only 1896
rooms meet the requirements
and more than so per cent of the
rooms fail to meet the proposed
standard.
The association suggested the
regulation set a minimum Of 10
square feet of floor area in a
sleeping room, but set a mini
mum of 80 square feet for each
occupant in multiple occupancy
rooms.
Mr.. Glasgow pointed out that
the hotel business is already a
highly regulated industry and
that there are substantial COM
pensating factors in hotels as
distinguished from other hous-
ing which more than offset the
problems of dense occupancy
with respect to health, safety
and public morals.
Another section of the pro-
posed code would require sep
arate bath facilities for each
six persons. The association
suggested that the number be
changed to 10 persons per bath
In addition, the hotel group
declared that proposed screen
ing requirements were unnec-
essary for hotels, where rooms
are used primarily for sleeping
mot eating.
Robert d. Blackstone, owner
Of the Plaza Hotel. pointed out
that some 100000 school chill
dren visit Washington each year
and spend more than IS million
in local hotels.
He said the schoop group bust
ness has grown because hotels
have designed their operation To
meet the financial requirements
of school children and that it Is
"a satisfactory business. But he
said the proposed housing code
does not At hotel operation.
Bourbon A. Dawes said the
Federal Reserve District has esti-
mated that nearly $3.50 million
is spent annually by visitors to
Washington and that hotels re-
ceive about 20 cents Of every dol
lar spent.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
said that consideration would be
given to the problems outlined.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
House.Group
Rejects Burke
Airport Plan
!. okoys S2.6 Million
For Expansion of
Facilities at National

The House Appropriations
Committee today voted down a
proposal by Representative
Flood, Democrat of Pennsyl-
vania. to revive the stalled con-
struction of the authorized
Burke fva.) airport. but ap-
proved $2.6 million for projects
to expand facilities at Washing
ton National Airport.
MI. Flood made a fight in the
full Appropriations Committee
after losing a similar battle pre-
Viously at an Appropriations
subcommittee hearing on De-
partment of Commerce esti-
mates on airport funds. He re-
Gently said he would carry his
fight to the House floor to get
money for the second Washing
ton airport to take care of the
congested air traffic at National,
Calls It "Only Means"
The committee recommended
the full amount requested by
the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration, declaring. This pro-
posal appears to be the only
means Immediately available to
provide adequate airport facili-
ties for the Nations Capital to
meet this serious problem"
The committees action Is
based on assurances received
from the administrator of the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
that aviation safety will not be
affected by this further concen-
tration of air traffic in the vi.
|cinity of the Washington Ma:
tional Airport.
Criticizing the fees paid BY
airlines using the Washington
terminal, the Appropriations
Committee recommended that
they should be increased.
Favors Higher Fees
The committee said i'm its re-
port it believes the airlines using
the Washington terminal are not
paying adequate fees to cover
the cost of maintaining and op.
Grating its facilities"
The committee said the CAA
administrator should take i'm.
mediate steps to increase all fees
especially landing fees, to the
maximum allowed under con.
tracts in effect with the air.
lines"
1t also believes that such fee.
should be increased to the level.
in effect at the major airport.
serving New York City as soon a,
possible.
The airport construction none,
was sent to the House floor a!
part of the big supplemental ap'
preparation bill for many agen,
.cies to be considered THURSDAY
by the House.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

| Thursday evening, however, the
stores will stay open the follow
ing Saturday.
Decisions of Stores
This is the list of stores open
i for business on Saturdays while
the transit strike lasts:
Large stores-The Goldenberr Co,
The Hes5s fo fRosesb KaSsrassbes KaSn sGns co
Woodward g. Lothrop.
Mems clothing storesLLewis & Thos.
lSaltz, Inc.
Furniture stores-House & Hermann
Furniture Co., VIM. E. Miller Furniture
Co., Eighth and PENNSYLVANIA avenue Sc:
Hub Furniture, Julius Lsnsburgh Fur
niture Co.
Jewelry stores-A. Kahn, Inc, Shah
g. Shah. Inc, and r. Harris & Co.
Oth3r stores--Brewood, Inc, Button
Shop Cohen's and Kilt Music Co.
The following downtown stores,
in addition to their regular week.
day hours will remain open on
all Saturdays. regardless of the
Capital Transit strike:
Women's clothing store---Brooks, Inc;
Lerner, Shops, Knickerbocker Fashions,
born. the Princess Shop. Rizik Bros,
Mortons.
Children's clothinE-The Esther Shops.
INC; oths1 saa MSIsSns' sSpes of .tere.-Becser's
Leather Goods Co. Magruder. Inc. and
Peoples. Drug Stores. Inc.
Furniture stores-Colony House, Inc,
scates, Inc 41sI Thirteenth Street
NV, Major Masterpieces Natioanl Fur
Initure Co. and Peerless Modern House.
Department stores-Ida's, 5601 Geor-
ga ga aXsnue IslI stores5 SW. and Sears A0e0u'k q
Jeweiry stores--casteIberg's Franc
Jewelry Co.. Inc: Kay ,Jewelry Co, the
i'0s Shoe stores0JosepS peYoung, Vim.
3. Rich's Sons.
Limited price variety stores-,7o. C.
Mems clothing stores-A. & N. Trad
Fogers, George g. Co.. Herzog's. Inc;
Bruce 6 Kan Kanp ne 1nc rvnFs &, sgSs ESts sS
National Shirt Shops, Plaza Sport shop,
SaltzsF Street. Sport Center, the Suit
Shop; 295 Pennsylvsnis avenue Sc;
Shop.
The following downtown stores
will remain closed on Saturdays
during July and through August
10:
Large stores---Julius darfinckel a. Co.
and Frank r. .Jelleff, Inc.
Mems cl0thing--Goldheim
Other types Of stOres-Geo. r. Muth
co'' Inc; Hugo Worch Piano Co.; Chas.
Co. and Mutual Purchasing Associat tion.
Women's clothing-Saks.
yeweiry stores-GaIt d. Bros, Inc.
townl Thompson Bros, 1920 Good Hope
road Sc, and Curtis Bros, GOAL Nichols
avenue Sc.
Fur stores---Jandel, VIM. Rosendorf,
Saks and Capitol Fur Shop
The association said no change
in suburban store hours had
been reported to 1t.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
National Gallery Adding
Rooms for Kress Gifts

plays for the new bronzes GAL
lery, to be opened March II, 1856
The exhibition cases are main
ly of plate glass and will permit
viewing both sides of the articles
on display. In the center por-
ltion of the new area the larger
Istatuettes and group compost
tions will be installed.
Dancing Faun Shown
First item in the working title
list of the Dreyfus material is
Ia Dancing Faun by Andrea Yer
|rocchio (l435-1488, believed to
have been the teacher Of Leo
|nardo da Vinci. The list closes
with a gold excelente coin Of
Spain, minted under Ferdinand
and Isabella Q469-1504), show
ing the crowned shield Of Leon
and CASTLE. quartering Aragon
and Sicily.
Persons pictured on the med
ais range from Andrea Matteo
III d'Acquaviva to Viglius van
zuichem and include: Anne of
Brittany, Antoninis Plus, Flea
nora of Austria, Beatrice of ST.
ena. Giovanni Boccaccio, Lu-
crezia Borgia, Charles the Bold,
Baldassare Gastiglione. Charles
", Dante Alighieri, Albrecht
Durer, Isabella d'Este and Ales-
sandro Farnese.
Also Francis I and II, Henry
II and w. Louis XII. XII and
XIV Of France. Henry VIII of
England, Popes Innocent VIII
and Leo x, Mary Stuart, John
Huss. Petrarch and his Laura,
all the important de Medicis,
Gonzagas, Sforzas and viscountis
and many other notables of the
Renaissance.
Often Unidentifiable
The artists responsible for the
bronzes did not always sign their
creations and often are unidenti-
fable, but the roster nevertheless
is distinguished, numbering
among its celebrities Bertoldo di
Giovanni (1420?-1491), the mas
ter of Michelangelo: Bartolom-
meo Bellano a(1434-1497O. a
pupil of Donatello; Riccio Of
Padua Q486-1570), Pier Jacopo
Alari Bonacolsi, Jacopo Sanse-
vino, Danese Cattaneo and Gio-
vanni of Bologna (l524?-1608)
sculptor Of the Mercury in the
National Gallery rotunda foun-
tain.
Mr.. Cott. in his survey Of the
Dreyfus material, calls attention
to the power Of medal designing
to attract artists Of other, alien
categories. The great Flemish
painter. Quentin Metsys l460-
1530), he points out, was mot q
medallist by profession" yet "his
noble medal of Erasmus Of Rot
terdam =. ranks in the purity Of
its outlines and the nobility Of
its conception with the great
portraits Of the world" Bronze.
itself not a particularly precious
metal, thus becomes equal m
value to gold or platinum at
their purest and best under the
touch Of q master, Mr.. Cott says.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Will Discuss Fures
Decisions of Stores

The Citizens Transit Improve
ment Association will discuss the
latest developments in its battle
against further fare increases by
the Capital Transit Co. at a
meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in
the community. room ofe the
Washington Post and Times
Herald, 1915 l. street NV,
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Fomi|yShopping Decided
Open-Soturdoy Policy

An intensive survey of shop
perss habits was the deciding
factor in the decision by most
big downtown stores to open
their doors on Saturdays for the
duration Of the transit strike.
This Saturday will be the first
day Of the new policy, announced
last week end.
The survey was conducted last
Thursday night. Store officials
took a close look at the night
time shoppers to find which peo-
pie were filling the stores.
If the bulk Of the shoppers
had been working people, stay
ing downtown after Office hours
to make their purchases. the
stores would have concluded
there was not sufficient demand
FOR q Saturday opening.
Family Shoppers
4 But they found that the great
majority of shoppers were fam
ily groups. Furthermore. sales
were very brisk in heavy goods, "
such as furniture, appliances and
rugs The shoppers came in
couples and family groups. OBJ
viously making a special trip
from home, rather than just
stopping in after work.
So the big stores decided
and many smaller stores fol-
lowed suit-to open on Satur-
days. They reasoned it would
be a convenience for strike
bound housewives who were
marooned at home all week
while their husbands took the
family car to work.
As q result, the stores expect
this Saturday to be a big shop
ping day.
Other Hours Unchanged
Apart from the Saturday
opening, store hours will remain
unchanged. Store employees who
during the summer get Satur-
day OF will 60 back on their
regular work schedules-work-
ing q flve-day week, with days
Of distributed throughout the
week.
Suburban stores will not
change their schedules. Almost
uniformly they have been doing
boom business ever since the
strike started. Some are open
five days q week and some six,
but almost all are open on Sat-
urdays.
When, and II, the strike ends,
stores will 60 back to their reg
ular summer schedule-closed
on saturdays until August ~.
II the transit buses and street
ears get rolling before Friday in
any week, stores will close down
the next Saturday. If a strike
settlement comes later than
Evening star., 1955-07-12
BY HARRY LEVER
Star Stah Correspondent

TRAVIS FIELD. Ca. July IL
The F-86A Sabrejets of the
District Air National Guard had
no trouble getting into action
during the groups maneuvers
here today, but four men ran
into perplexing complications
involving everything from a
newborn baby to a pair of
trousers.
However. everything has been
ironed out during this fourth
day of aerial firing exercises
over the Atlantic Ocean by the
men of the 113th Fighter Inter-
ceptor Wing. whose jet fighters
are charged with defending
Washington. They are partici-
pating in the annual two-week
exercise.
The pants incident befell 1t.
Col. Robert E. Terrill, Haymar-
ket. Va, wing director of op-
erations and training. While
flying B-26 light bomber over
North Carolina, somebody acci-
dentally pressed the bomb-bay
door button. and the bay flew
open. A pair of Col. Terrill's
pants in the immediate vicinity
flew out, carrying his car keys
a wallet and other articles.
Interference by Stork
The baby interfered, in much
happier fashion, with the dutie.
of S/Sergt. Chester L. Hash, OF
6246 Livingstone road, Oxon Hill
Md. Within an hour after ar.
irving here on a troop train. h,
received a. call that his wife whit
was expecting their first chile
was in the hospital. Sergt. Hash
Immediately was flown back tt
Washington in a Lockheed T-3:
jet trainer. He'll be back at th'
maneuvers as soon as possible.
Even Col. Willard w. Millikan
18th commander, who lives a
3346 Martha Custis drive, Alex
andria, Va, had his troubles. HI
piloted his own North American
F-86A to Travis Saturday, with
a CAT courier plane, containing
all his uniforms. preceding him
but crew chief failed to UNLOAD
the bags. The courier then flew
back to Andrews Air Force base
This was on Sunday. The air.
craft then was weathered ir
overnight. 1t finally got here yes
terday, but for three days all
Col. Millikan had to wear was
his flying suit.
Maj. Leo Eff 1929 East-West
highway, Silver Spring, Md, wing
staff dental officer, was scheduled
to arrive by troop train on the
main-body move, but failed tc
show until "a hours later. He
thought a troop train bound te
the Marine Base at Quantico
Va. was the air guard train.
Busiest man at Travis at the
moment is M/Sergt. James A
Richmond, 35, of S72 Yuma
street Sc. flight line chief oi
the 12lst Fighter-Interceptol
Evening star., 1955-07-12
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT

Dy JAMES "AADO r AWOE i j
The National Gallery of Art
anticipating the 18th anniversary
Iof its opening next March II
has launched a program of ex.
Ipansion in its building at Con-
istitution avenue and Seventh
street NV.
Under the direction of the
architectural firm of Eggers anc
Higgins, New York. five new
rooms on the main floor are
being constructed to house paint
|ings contributed by Samuel H
and Rush H. Kress, frequent
donors to the gallery.
Contractors also have been at
work on three new rooms on the
ground floors, which have beer
brought into one series by pull
ing down intervening walls OF
what formerly had been portions
of the Gallery library. 1t will re-
quire nearly six months to con-
struct and furnish the new
rooms
When completed, these units
will be, in effect, a gallery with
in a acknowledgements of al
other exhibition spaces of, the
overall structure.
The area will house the world.
famous Gustave Dreyfus collec.
ton of bronzes of the Renais.
sance. epoch. This magnificent
accumulation Of statuettes, med.
ais and plaquettes was pur.
chased in 1910 by the Kress
brothers from Sir Joseph Du-
veen, who had acquired it from
the Dreyfus heirs in 1880. II
represents the major enterprise
of the life of an eminent con-
noisseur who, between 1870 and
his death in 1914 was celebrated
throughout Europe for his taste
skill and critical judgment.
For Dreyfus Collection
Dreyfus himself also was
noted for absorbing the talents
of earlier collectors. Many OF
his prize acquisitions came from
the cabinets of the French
painter Charles Timbal, who
brought the best of chem from
Italy between 1851 and 1870.
The collection, when bought
by the Kresses, consisted OF
l ,306 objects. 1t ranks with the
bronzes of the Bargello at Flor
ence, the museums Of Vienna
and Berlin. the Louvre in Paris
and the Victoria and Albert in
London.
Dreyfus never catalogued his
treasures, but he furnished data
for several definitive articles
about them written for Les Artes
magazine, Paris, by Jean Cuff
frey, Paul Vitry and CASTOR
Migeon of the Louvre staff in
1907-8. Seymour de Ricci and
George Francis Hill then made
catalogs in 1881 which are being
used by Perry B. Cott, assistant
chief curator Of the National
Gallery. in arranging the dis
Evening star., 1955-07-12

SKY Beach DeThe District National Guard
l2O mlmer pointing
sea- The gun crew LETT right cp William Innnbrogger 9 street
liam Clark ss5 Constitution NV Maj Gen William Abendroth
ta Court Appeals for inspection and cewStar Staff Photo