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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
Veteran Upheld
In Dual Appeal

The Civil Service Commission
had no right to refuse to hear
an appeal Of a World War II
veteran from q job firing because
the veteran also sought to APP
peal at the same time to the
head Of the Veterans Admins
tration. according to q ruling at
District Court.
The ruling was handed down
last week by visiting Federal
Judge A. Sherman Christensen
in the case of Daniel Berlon of
Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr.. Berloff was
fired in 1858 from his Veterans
Administration job in New York
as a contact man.
He appealed to the admins
traitor Of veterans affairs and
also sought to appeal to the Civil
Service Commission. According
to court papers, he was told,
however, by a regional director
Of the commission that he would
have to elect which to appeal to,
that he could not appeal to the
commission If he had appealed
to the administrator or intended
to appeal to him.
Judge Christensen ordered the
commission to give Mr.. Berlon q
full hearing on appeal which the
Judge said had been denied with
out justification. On this score
Judge Christensen said:
There is no law which pur-
ports to authorize the defendant
commissioners to impose any
such condition or require any
such election as that which the
aforesaid regional director i'm
posed and required Of plaintiff. /"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

provisions Of the purchase con-
tract legislation applying to
Southwest. it would be required
to demolish temporary Office
buildings totaling the same
amount of floor area as the new
buildings. The provisions also
provide for a 30-year repayment
period instead o. a maximum
Is years over which GSA may
repay investors with interest for
financing all other purchase con-
tract projects, officials asserted.
Under the lease purchase
program, the Federal Governs
ment would pay the contractor
who erects the building money
amounting to rent, but which
would, over q term of years,
wipe out the Governments debt.
This would then bring the build
ing into full Federal ownership.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
Doctor Indicted
On Sexual Charges

A doctor was indicted today
on carnal knowledge and rape
charges involving a teen-age
girl and a 28-year-old woman
The two said they had been at
tackled while patients in the
doctors Office.
The physician is DR.. Thomas
e, Simmons, 46, colored, with an
office in the 500 block Rhode
Island avenue NV. The indictr
ment charges him with rapins
the woman last April. The
carnal knowledge charge involv-
ing the girl accuses him of COM
hitting that offense in March
1858, when the girl was Is
Both the woman and girl are
Icolored.
Assistant United States At
torney John c. Conliff, jr., said
both compliments said they
were attacked after being adj
ministered a sedative which put
them to sleep.
The indictment was returned
by a grand jury before Judge
David A. Pine Of District Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

foot, according to Mr.. Martins
figures. Under the higher valua-
tons placed for fiscal 1857 the
central area average square foot
value will increase approximately
Is cents.
This is the section bounded by
Fifth, Nineteenth and N streets
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
The area, while representing
only 1.9 per cent Of the city's en-
tire taxable area, nonetheless
produces 1914 per cent of the
city'S real estate tax revenues.
The finance officer said that
while he intends to recommend
a higher real estate tax rate, he
will urge retention of the present
50 personal property tax rate
which applies to the equipment
and such used by businessmen
in the course Of their activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

revenues to be produced by an
almost certainly higher tax rate
of $3.50 will be $44.6 million on
the basis of the real estate valu-
atoms.
Mr.. Martin estimated real es-
tate revenues for the current is
cal year ending July / will be
$42.3 million. This estimate is
on the basis Of the present rate
of 1920.
The city heads are expected
to approve the new and higher
real estate tax rate at their board
meeting Thursday. Mr.. Martin
has already recommended the
increase to help supply the city's
dwindling Golfers.
The highly productive tax area
Of downtown Washington in
fiscal 1856 had an average as
sessed value of $16.49 per square
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
Court to Suspend
Civil Jury Cases

Chief Judge Leonard P.
Walsh Of Municipal Court yes
terday announced that civil jury
cases will be suspended during
the month of July while other
branches Of the court will con-
tinue to function.
At the same time, it was an
nounced that the three-judge
Municipal Court Of Appeals will
cut its normal summer recess in
half to keep abreast of its
docket.
District Court here will recess
during August. one Judge re-
naming on call for criminal
trials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

The new proposal conforms to
the National Capital Planning
Commissions official Project
Area C redevelopment plan, Of
ficials explained. This plan has
been evolved since GSA's orig
inal submission.
GSA'S new plan would revamp
the original proposal sent last
July to the Senate and House
Public Works Committees. It
would increase the construction
program by about IS million and
provide for 972,2 ESQ square feet
of new Federal Office space in
Southwest, instead Of $4,000
an increase Of nearly 100000
square feet. Construction would
be under lease-purchase legis-
lation.
Commissioner of Public Build
ingS F. Moran McConihe made
the announcement, explaining
the Budget Bureau sanctions the
new program. The estimated
cost, he said. is a maximum Of
SIS, 100000 for the three build
ings, sites and construction. The
original proposal provided al
maximum cost Of $20.2 million
for two buildings.
The new plan calls for three
6-story units and is offered as
one project. Two Of the build
ings would parallel the proposed
Mall north Of Maryland avenue
and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The third building would be on
the west side Of the Mall, south
of Maryland avenue, facing the
entrance Of the projected
L'Enfant Plaza. Mr.. McConihe
said. The buildings would be
air conditioned.
"As the project has been
planned to provide space for
Federal agencies in temporary
ONCE buildings. the proposal car
ries no specific ALLEGATION of
space to agencies" said GSA.
The space would be assigned
upon the completion Of the
buildings"
BY prior action, GSA has pro-
posed another Federal office
building in Southwest. This pro-
poSal was sent to the Senate
and House Public Works Com
mittees in March, following
Budget Bureau approval, with
an estimated maximum cost Of
$l6,276,000. 1t would provide
$4,000 square feet Of gross floor
area. The exact site Of this has
not been announced.
GSA explained under special
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
Librorion Gets Award

Miss Norah Albanell MacColl,
head reference librarian of the
Columbus Memorial Library of
the Pan American Union here,
has been awarded the Melvil
Dewey Medal "for creative pro-
fessional achievement Of a nigh
ORDER" at the 18th Annual Con-
ference of the American Library
Association in Miami Beach.
The award was given for her
completion Of the translation
and essential adaptation into
Spanish Of the 18th edition of
the Dewey Decimal Classifica-
ton, which was published last
December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

withdrawn. She didn't do well
at school last year, although she
is a bright little girl. She has
been losing weight, too.
Everywhere she goes her fear
goes with her--her mother is
dying.
It's been a bad year in every
way. Not only does her mother
have an incurable disease, but
her father has been i'll. too, and
there has been practically no in
come. With several children in
the family, this makes even get
ting enough to eat a problem.
Lonely Summer Ahead
Treatment at a mental hygiene
clinic has helped Mile live with
her problem. But there remains
q summer to be lived through
that will add loneliness to the
tragedy before her.
There are no children her age
nearby, and no pool where she
might get together with others.
Now that schools out, Mile will
have even more time to brood
about the future.
Her mother wants her to 60
to camp. There she can get away
from the scene of her morbid
fear, and maybe leave some Of
the fear behind. Around other
children who don't have her
burden, it will be easier to forget
for a little while the thing she
lives with constantly at home.
With days full CT interesting
things to do, guided by coun-
sellers who understand Mile
can have two good weeks that
will be a tonic to her in every
way. II will save her from a
somber summer, and viii help
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
The
Rambler
Builders Polite
Over Name Ceiling
BY JACK JONAS

If you get into a taxicab
in a few years and ask to be
taken to the Universal Build
ing, there'n be no confusion.
You can depend on it, UNI
less you get one of the very
few ignorant hackers in
Washington.
Both the Cafritz and Tomp-
kins people, who plan a Uni
versal Building at Connecti-
cut and Florida avenues N. w.,
and the Bakers Union, which
plans a Universal Building at
Sixteenth and X streets NV,
agree that eventually there
will be only one.
But whether your cabbie
will take you to Connecticut
and Florida or Sixteenth and
X remains to be resolved.
Right now, if you ask to
be taken to the Universal
Building site, your cab driver
might reasonably be expected
to inquire which one?" There
are signs up at both places
pointing out that Universal
Buildings are being con-
Structed.
The one at Connecticut and
Florida-on Temple Heights
has been incorporated as
Universal Building, Inc. The
one at Sixteenth and X has
already signed some leases
for space in the Universal
Building.
Confused? Small wonder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
D. {. .BoysCIub
Seeks Reversal
OfOuster Ruling
Letter Asks Schools
To Drop Ban on
Segregated Unit

The Metropolitan Police Boys
Club has asked the Board of Ed
Iucation to rescind its planned
custer Of q club unit from quar-
tiers at the Brookland Elementary
School.
Board members disclosed to-
day that Thomas @. Carney, club
president, made the request in
a letter sent last week to Board
President C. Melvin Sharpe. The
board on March 20 ordered the
louster unless the Brookland unit
drops a ban against Negro mem
bers by June 30.
The matter is due for consid-
Grafton at a board meeting to-
morrow.
Mr.. Carney said today the
Brookland club quarters will be
vacated if the board does not
rescind the March action.
Questions Legal Basis
He said the club is not seeking
Ia deadline extension. It has
been given two previous extern
Sions.
Mr.. Carney said he questioned
in his letter to Mr.. Sharpe the
legal basis Of the boards basic
custer action.
The letter expressed doubt
that the board has q competent
legal opinion" that the use of
quarters in Breokland by the
boys, club "contravenes" the SUI
lpreme Court anti-segregation
ruling affecting schools.
The Supreme Courts order
affected only educational use of
school buildings. which doesn't
involve the boys club. the letter
commended.
Parliamentary Horseplay"
Mr.. Carney's letter also &C.
cused the school board Of ''par-
liamentary horseplay" at the
special March 20 meeting at
which the custer deadline was
set. The letter labeled the custer
move incorporate" and COM
planned that some board mem
bers had acted "in a punitive
spirit"
The board split 3-3 on the
March action, with Mr.. Sharpe
breaking the tie. The three Me-
gro board members voted against
extending the deadline.
Mr.. Sharpe said today he un-
derstood an opinion has been
prepared by the corporation
counsel's Office on the legality
of the boards stand.
WithhOlds Opinion
The board president declined
to say what position he plans to
take on Mr.. Carney's request. He
said he wants to hear what other
board members say first.
Mr.. Carney said the club prob
ably will rent quarters for stor-
ing play equipment If the custer
goes through.
He added that 1000 boys are
using the Brookland facilities.
The clubs board of directors
has been resisting proposals that
it drop race bars on all units, ar
guing that this would jeopardize
Embarrassing campaigns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

TODAY

The American Electro
platers Society meets in
Hotel Statler.
The American Association
Of University Women con.
tinues its Presidents Con-
ference in the Sheraton
Park Hotel.
The American Society Of
Heating and Air Condition.
ing Engineers continues its
sessions in the Shoreham
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out check or money
order to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund. Mail
1t to The Evening Star,
Washington 4, d. c., or
bring cash to The Star
cashier.
The cost-$36.40 for IL
days, 1920 for six days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

her store up strength for the
future.
Measure Of Help
You can't save Miles mother.
You can't spare Mile the grief
to come.
But you can help her keep her
head above water emotionally by
seeing to 1t that she goes to
camp this summer the most Inn
portant summer Of ell for her.
Your contribution to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
can make certain Mile goes.
The following contributions
are acknowledged today:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
GREENHOOT FISCHER, a

GREENWOOD FISCHER, q
real estate man and agent for
the bakers, pointed to the laby-
rinth involved in the care and
feeding of a name. When his
group started out some time
ago, it had a list of 20 posi-
BILE titles for the building at
Sixteenth and K.
1--WE checked every source
we could think of to make
sure there wasn't another
Universal Building in WASH
ington," Mr.. Fischer said. I'VE
looked through all the tele-
phone directories. We checked
various offices at the District
Building.
I'VE consulted with officials
at the Post Office Department.
The Post Office Department
even scheduled a meeting with
some of their men SO we
could discuss it.
"By then, we had narrowed
it down to five names. We had
our pick of international,
Presidential, Executive, Fed
eral or Universal.
1.-THE experts at the Post
Office pointed out that Inter-
national might become con-
fused with some of the build
ingS occupied by international
groups here, that Presidential
might be confused with the
Presidential Apartments, that
Executive might be confused
with the Executive Mansion
and that Federal-well, that
might be confused with any
number of buildings in WASH
ington.
'They agreed that Univer-
sal was the least confusing
choice, and that as far as
they knew, there were no
other Universal Buildings
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

so A SIGN was made, at MIR.
Fischer's direction, pointing
out that the Universal Build
ing was to be put up at Six
teenth and K streets NV,
where houses once occupied
by such illustrious Washing
ton personages as William
Howard Taft and Admiral
Dewey had been torn down.
I'VE got a lot of compli-
ments on both the name and
the sign" Mr.. Fischer said.
Then one day the Cafritz
people called and requested
us to discontinue using the
name Universal.
We've been discussing it,
and there's only going to be
one Universal Building in
Washington, but the final de-
cision on where it will, be is
yet to be made" Y
The Cafritz- Tompkins group
put up a Universal Building
sign, too, at Connecticut and
Florida, and made public an
architects sketch Of what is
expected to be one Of the
largest Office buildings in
Washington.
Spokesman for the Cafritz
people said they had been
planning to use the name
Universal for their building
for some time.
There will be only one Uni
versal Building" one spokes-
man there agreed. "The only
question remaining is Which
one?'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19

One young man on a bus
said to another: boy, does
that stuff knock you outl
After three drinks l didn't
know where ! was. BY the
way where are we at
now?"
Warren Blair writes to in
form the lady who had a verse
painted on a wall near her
garden on N street that the
author was Arthur Gutter
man, who died in 1913. d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
GSAAdds New BUILDING
To Southwest Proposal
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN

The General Services Administration prepared
Capitol Hill today approval revised million
construction in Southwest providing for three rather
than two buildings.
They would line the proposed Tenth Street Mall When
built additional temporary Office buildings here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
WEsT POINT AT FORT BELVoIR
D. c. Realty Valuation
Set at $l,944,086,593

District Commissioners approved assessed real
valuation $1940S65sS the beginning
July l.
valuation, by District Assistant
sos $4Ss2S65 higher than that fiscal 1856 bowling
District Finance Officer James l. Martin estimated that 1857
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Must Little Girl Stay
Where Death Hovers?
Her mother is diving. and Millie knows n

Her mother Is dying and Mile knows It.
Mile has known for several months The nightmare
when she found out about accidentally nghbor
Since then Mile who g. has been herself sick with
fear and dismay
Always shy child the trouble has made her more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-19
CAMP FUND FACTS

BE at home has made her more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09

and years, has never given up his dance
practice. He was trying out a routine
in the rehearsal hall when Barbara
Stanwyck stuck her head in the door.
'Hey, sweetheart" said Cagney.
Try out a few steps with me?"
Barbara, who makes no secret of her
gray hair, was game. And so the new
dance team got started. They're at it
all the time now, between scenes, doing
the Charleston, the tango. Black Bot
tom, maxixe and others.
Somebody figured out that it would
cost M-G-M a half-miIlion dollars to
get them to strut their stuff on the
screen. And these crazy cats are doing
il for free! LOUIS BERG
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09
Help your dog to new health and Vigor
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Rim Tin Tin burns up plenty of energy in the
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provides every food element dogs are known
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BY the makers Of MILk-6oNE,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09

ne million-dollar dance team of
Jimmy Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck
is the hottest thing in Hollywood. Last
time they rocked and rolled, an appre-
ciatiVe audience kept them at it until
Barbara dropped from exhaustion.
Maybe you've never heard of Cagney
and Stanwyck as dance team. It's not
your fault. Until they were signed for
MONS These Wilder Years" they
had never even appeared in picture
together. Moreover, the script doesn't
call for any dancing. The fancy steps
you see here we're performed strictly
for an audience of studio technicians.
II happened this way: Cagney, an
ex-hoofer, despite his increasing girth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09
The casney-

couple Hollywood oIdters show the they've
still got rhythm least, while 7arbaras feet hold out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
May Designated
Cerebral Palsy
Month in District

The Commissioners have pro-
claimed May as Cerebral Palsy
Month and urged District resi-
dents to give generously to fight
the malady.
Commissioner Robert E. Me-
.Laughlin presented the procla-
nation yesterday in a District
Building ceremony attended by
Victor Orsinger. president Of
United Cerebral Palsy of Wash
ington; Mrs. Julio Heurtematte,
chairman of the Pan American
ball for cerebral palsy. and Mrs.
Kurt Smith, co-chairman of the
Citizens Walk"
The city heads noted that
cerebral palsy has afflicted some
100000 persons in the country,
including more than 1900 in the
District. and that an average Of
10000 babies are being born an
nually with the condition.
Thousands of persons have
been helped through the efforts
of the United Cerebral Palsy
Association. the proclamation
pointed out, and in the District
specifically, through the dag
nostic and treatment centers at
Children's and George Washing
ton University Hospitals. through
the K Street Center, the sum-
mer day camp for orthopedic
handicapped children and the
year-round recreation program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Paul D. Howard, u,
Massachusetts Official

DALLAS, April % (P).-Paul
D. Howard, 70. retired Massa-
chusetts attorney and former
State official. died at his home
yesterday.
He was deputy Secretary OF
State Of Massachusetts, from 1882
to 1916 He was born in Clinton.
Mass, and lived in Marblehead
and Newton Center in that State.
He was a graduate Of the Harvard
School OF Law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
U. S., Russia Back
Atom Power STUDY

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y,
April % (Rl.--The United States
and Russia have thrown their
support behind proposals for a
United Nations study on har-
Messing atomic energy for indus
try and agriculture.
The agreement virtually as
sured the Economic and Social
Councils approval of a resolu-
ton inaugurating the study.
Under the agreement U. N.
Secretary General Dag Hammar-
SKIOLD and his aides will prepare
surveys for An ECOSOC meeting
in 1857 to decide whether the
world is ready for another elobal
conference on atomic power
The Russians want a second
world scientific conference next
year TO search the potentialities
OF atomic power as an aid to un-
derdeveloped countries. The first
conference was held last summer
at Geneva.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Rev. J. A. Greeley,
Catholic Ex-Editor

NEW ORLEANS. April %
(R.-The Rev. James A. Greeley,
former associate editor of the
Jesuit weekly magazine Amer
lea" and dean of two colleges.
died yesterday after a long ILL
ness. He was 66.
At the time of his death,
Father Greeley was assistant
pastor Of the Immaculate Con-
Iception Church in New Orleans.
The Catholic writer was as
Sociate editor of America" from
l927-3l. He served as dean q
Spring Hill College in Mobile.
Ala, from 1926 to 1927 and as
dean of Loyola University at New
Orleans from 1881 to 1886.
A native of New York, Father
Greeley entered the Society of
Jesus in 1908 at Macon, Ga. He
was ordained in 1923 at George
town University in Washington.
He will be buried today at
Spring Hill College.
Survivors include two sisters.
Mrs. Jacob Sivigny of st. Peters,
burg. Fla, and Mrs. Joseph Nc
Carron of Middletown, N. j.,
and two brothers, Michael
Greeley. Newark, N. j.. and Hugh
Greeley. Rye. N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Mrs. l. R. Mccall,
D. 6. Color Artist

Mrs. Lucille Ross Mccall, who
was a color artist at Harris q
Ewing for As years, from the
opening of their studio in WASH
ington until her retirement in
1850, died here Thursday after
a long illness.
Mrs. Mccall was the widow
OF William King Mccall. A ma
tive Of Upton. Mo-, she was
the daughter Of the late Peter
F. and Elizabeth Ross. and the
sister Of the late Mrs. Nora Ross
Marshall. also Of Upton. There
are no immediate survivors.
A member of the First Congre-
lgational Church, Mrs. Mccall
was active in the work of the
church before her illness.
Services will be held at the
Lee funeral home. Fourth street
and Massachusetts, avenue NE.
at 1880 pm. Tuesday. Burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery.