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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Retail Centers Pace
Montgomery's Growth

Mill road and Georgia avenue
the center is being planned fol
two major stores, and some IS
other stores.
(. In tune with the auto age, the
center would occupy an 80-acre
tract that Mr.. Sherman says
would have parking for $500
cars.
An even more emphatic H.
lustration of the outward COM
mercial movement is the work
being done on the proposed COM
munity shopping center at Aspen
Hill.
Lying four miles farther north
on Georgia avenue, the center
is proposed on six acres of a
20-acre site, at the future inter-
section of Connecticut avenue
and Georgia avenue.
Georgia Conn. Corp. is plan
ming 30-store layout on the
tract with parking from 1900 to
1000 cars, according to David
Scull.
The housing boom that almost
has filled the area bounded by
Georgia avenue, Viers Mill road
and Aspen Hill road, has pro-
vided the incentive for exploiting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28

Retail business construction
in Montgomery County is NOV
ing ahead simply on the basis
that the county has an expand
ing economically stable popula-
ton.
Much proposed and actual
commercial construction is in
outlying suburban sections.
For example, sewer connec-
tons recently were completed
for a proposed 50-acre shopping
city on the Rockville pike.
A $40 million shopping center
Is proposed by the Congressional
Shopping City. Inc, on the site
OF the county'S only remaining
alrfield, Congressional Airport.
o-shrdlu shrdl cmfw m m nm
Arthur C. Hyde. president of
the corporation proposing devel-
opment of the center, hopes to
provide facilities eventually for
70 concerns on the airport site.
Across Rockville pike, several
new light industrial plants and
big furniture store and SUPER
market already have located.
Simon Sherman. spokesman
Tor the Wheaton Plaza Regional
shopping Center also expresses
optimism for plans for a big
new center off Georgia avenue.
Proposed for a site at Viers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28

commercial possibilities in these
areas.
Actual commercial growth has
been widespread.
Silver Spring and the Bethes-
da- Chevy Chase areas have been
getting a big share.
Silver Spring. which in 1854
accounted for 500 million of
the county's total retail sales of
S238 million, continues to grow
impreSsively.
The Hecht Co. last fall opened
big new addition to it's subur-
ban store. The nearby H. l..
Green Co. also added to its space.
Across Colesville road, the J. C.
Penney's Co. is constructing an
addition that will double its floor
space.
Recently opened was the Silver
Spring Building at Georgia ave-
new and Cameron street. In this
building is $4,000 square feet of
office space.
The Perpetual Building Asso-
citation, has acquired a tract
opposite the Silver Spring Build
ing for construction of a dupli-
cate of its five-story building put
up in Bethesda.
Near the District line, in the
area bounded by Georgia avenue,
Thirteenth street and Eastern
avenue. proposals for three
motor hotels are said to be near
ing the construction stage.
At the District line on the
western side of the county,
construction continues on the
Chevy Chase Center.
There, a new Office building
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28

with 10000 square feet of space
is near completion. Some "a
stores. including branches of 9
number of downtown establish
ments, are either in operation
or about to open in the center
Across the street, Woodward
Lothrop's is expanding its
successful suburban store.
Woodie's recently rebuilt and
enlarged its Bethesda store far
Their north on Wisconsin avenue.
Jelleff's also is expanding its
Bethesda operations.
Much of this expansion in
the older business centers is
being helped along by a business
street improvement program fl
nanced by the county.
The county is in the midst of
a three-year program that will
see $1.8 million spent in each of
the Bethesda and Silver Spring
shopping areas. Much of this
money is tabled for widening
of streets to improve loop traffic
movement around the main
business thoroughfares and in
tersections.
The county-through its public
parking lot district laws now
copied in other communities
has put more than SO million
into off-Street parking facilities.
In Silver Spring alone, some
5000 spaces have been provided.
giving the center more than
1000 parking spaces. Bonds
floated to finance these projects
are paid for by a special tax on
business concerns only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Beds of Gravel
Replace Cutters

Houses built with fair-sized
overhanging caves need not have
roof cutters to prevent erosion
and "Splash-back" onto walls
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency suggests.
In a research report. the agen-
cy says a coarse gravel bed, about
2 feet wide and 3 inches deep
running the length of the caves
will do the trick in stopping soil
erosion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
PerryIond Has
IS Scheduled

/ Some IS homes are to occupy
the Forest Grove Homes de-
velopment on Belvedere poule-
ward in Silver Spring, a spokes-
man for the builder said today
Perryland Corp. 1880 Belve-
dere boulevard. is the builder OF
the 16-acre development, where
some As of the homes already
have been sold.
The builder has been operating
in the Washington area for about
10 years, and during that time
has built approximately 400
houses and Is apartment units.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Rockingham
Plans 80

About 81 houses already have
been sold in Forest Estates. sec
ton 2, at Dennis avenue and
Julep street, Silver Spring, a
spokesman for the builder said
today.
The builder, Rockingham
Builders. Inc. of the same adj
dress. plans total of 80 houses
for the 27-acre development, he
added.
The building firm. which has
been constructing homes in the
Washington area since l947, has
built more than 300 houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28

, Laundry chute in moster
bathroom
, ChrysIer Air-Temp, heot-
ing unit ducts adaptable
for OR conditioning
} Decorative wrought iron
rolling on balcony and
stoirwoy
} Loree, completely sodded
and londscoped lots
} Full concrete drivewoy
, Bedroom closets with built
in dresser
, Shopping center neorby
} Lorge ottlc storage spoee
,525 50. II. OF living spoee
exclusive OF basement
} Public and high schools
within walking distance
|, Transportation OF your door
} Recreation foeilities inside
the project
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28
Plus These Exciting Features .

. Natural birch wood kitchen
coblnets and broom closet
with recessed fIuorescent
lights under cobinets
De luxe Cos range with
stainless steel hood and
double Nu-tone blower
ton, gloss oven, clock and
timer.
Beautiful picture gallery
overlooking living room
los Gu. II. Hotpoint re-
trioerator
Four-too, bamboo door sep
Grating kitchen from din
ino-fomiIy room
Ceramic tile moster bath
room with Formieo vonity
and Sonitos
. Full-sized 4o-foot bose
ment with painted walls
and asphalt tile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-28

Wheaton TO Weller Rood,
turn left on Weller Rood,
following direction signs TO
furnished model homes OF
53lo Weller Rood, or out
Georgia Avenue TO Viers
Mil Rood, left on Viers Mill
Rood 10 Connecticut Avenue
Estotes, right OF enttonee
ord follow dlreetionol signs
10 Weller Rood and fur
nlshed homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
LAW IN THE NEWS
Observers of Fe|onies
Are Required to Report

failed to report what he saw.
in all probability he, too, would
have been guilty of a crime.
This is a crime with the
somewhat unlikely name of mis-
prision Of felony.
1t occurs when one who wit
nesSes a felony, i.e., a major
crime. fails to report what he
has seen. At such times the
uncommunicative witness is said
TO be guilty of misprision of
felony and he may be punished
II caught. Misprision itself is
usually misdemeanor and is
subject to relatively light fines
or Jail sentences of less than
one year.
In any event, if you are stand
ing on a street corner, minding
your own business while waiting
for a bus. and happen to see a
felony committed-such as a
murder. a robbery, bank theft,
a hit-and-run accident, etc
in most Jurisdictions you are
under a legal duty to report
what you have seen to the police.
This is not at all the same
thing as being an accessory be-
fore or after the fact, though
there may seem to be a tenuous
similarity. Being an accessory
implies some kind of assistance,
however slight, to the felon who
commits the original crime
Misprision implies knowledge
of the crime mainly through
chance observation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
More Care Urged
In Selecting Troops
For FOREIGN Duty

ROME. Aug. 4 (R.-Informa-
ton officers from United States
military units and embassies in
Europe agreed today there should
be more emphasis on selection
and indoctrination of American
troops sent abroad.
A group of 80 public informa-
ton specialists ended a three
day meeting at the American
embassy in Rome, with the spot
light focused on the CT Situa-
ton in Germany, where a series
of incidents involving American
troops brought a rash of hot
editorial criticism in German
newspapers.
Comdr. James S. Dowdell of
Miami, Fla. was chairman of
the session as chief of informa-
ton of the United States Eu-
ropean command in Paris.
Comdr. Dowdell said the group
took note of the necessity of
carefully screening personnel
sent overseas to eliminate, inso-
far as possible. those persons
who by their records would not
fit into European community"
He added that the meeting
also considered increased en-
phasis on indoctrination," in
expanded information on
the countries to which troops
are sent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
LAW IN THE NEWS
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK

In Chicago the other day
Arthur K. Besley. superintendent
Of the Norwegian-American Hos
pital there, picked up a pair of
binoculars and casually began to
scan the lakeshore.
Mr.. ,Besley was in his apart
ment Is floors above ground, so
he hada good view.
Most newspaper readers, of
course, remember what he saw:
. muscular swimmer who crept
from behind toward a woman
sunbather. cast his shirt over
her head. and dragged her into
the nearby brush while beating
her about the head with a rock
Mr.. Besley ran from his apart
ment, summoned a police officer.
and together they raced to the
scene. Upon their arrival they
found the woman bather, who
turned out to be a North Side
beauty salon operator, dead of
the attack. At last reports her
assailant had not been identified.
Certainly the situation itself
was highly unusual, but it also
has an unusual legal angle.
For Mr.. Besley, though he
happened to witness the macabre
drama through pure accident,
did no more than he was ac-
tually required to do by law.
In other words. had Mr.. Besley
gone about his business and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
Capt. E. T. CuIuhun
Heads Cost Guard
Public information

The Coast Guard has assigned
Capt. Emmett T. Callahan as chief
of its public information division
at headquarters here. to succeed
Capt. o. A. Peterson, now chief
OF staff in the 9th Coast Guard
District at Cleveland.
Capt. Callahan. a., and a ma
tive OF Denver, has been COM
handing the cutter Wachusett,
based at Seattle. He was gradu-
ated from the Coast Guard
academy and commissioned an
ensign ia 1888. In World War II
his ship was on North Atlantic
convoy duty. Later he was as
signed TO the training division OF
the headquarters here. He won a
Letter Of Commentator for his
wartime duty as chief Of train
ina.
Capt. Callahan and his family
live at 44o6 Walsh street. Chevy
Chase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
1st Marines Elect
Keutinq President

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (R.-
Brig. Gen. James j. Heating,
retired, of Washington, D. c..
today was elected president of
the LIST Marine Division Asso-
citation.
The election took place during
the annual reunion Of the asso-
citation here. The LIST Marine
Division had a heroic record in
World War II and is best known
for its storming Of Guadalcanal
Island.
Others elected we're:
Col. Robert G. Balance, USING,
Los Angeles, first vice president;
M. /Sergt. Donald F. Ball. USMC,
Arlington, Va. second vice presi-
dent: Vice Admiral Warwick T.
Brown. USN, retired. Washing
ton, D. c., third vice president,
and Maj. Thomas H. Barry.
USING reserve, Chicago, fourth
vice president.
Chief Warrant officer Edward
j. Schroeder, USING, Baltimore.
secretary, and Rabbi Edgar E.
Siskin. Glencoe. H., chaplain.
1t. Col. Walter H. Cuenin,
USING. Springfield, Va, was re-
elected treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
Malaria Cure
Seen Soon by
British Doctors
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug.
4 GA cure for malaria may
be effected in the not too distant
future, two British doctors said
today.
In separate papers presented
at the first International Con-
gress on human genetics, they
told of the discovery of a new
type of hemoglobin, one that is
hereditary and in certain paris
of the world has resulted in a
20 per cent immunization against
malaria mortality Hemoglobin
lis the respiratory pigment in
red corpuscles.
DR.. A. c. Allison of oxford
University reported:
Blood cells are normally cir
cular and somewhat fiat in
shape; but at certain oxygen
lpressures, the hemoglobin gran
ulars pull together and collapse,
thus forming a Sickle-Shaped
cell. These cells are often her.
editary and, If the gene which
dictates their existence, is held
by two parents and passed on
down to their offspring which
Iinherits the two genes, the COM
bination will prove fatal in early
life and the child will die"
Through a quirk of nature if
only one of these genes is inher-
tied by the child it will increase
his chances of not dying of ma
laria by 20 per cent. This is of
particular Importance to chill
dren between the ages of 5
months and years, in which age
group malaria can be most COM
plicated and often fatal" re-
ported DR.. H. Lehman of st.
Bartholomew Hospital, London.
Delegates here have explained
that there are four types of ma
laria and that the disease is more
evident in warm climates. How
ever, the incidence of those re-
ceiving protection through hav-
ing sickle-shaped cells has been
especially noted in work done
in East and West Africa. DR.. ALI
son noted:
"A certain amount of environ
mental Importance is attached
to this built-in immunity, for
we. have found that Negroes who
went from West Africa to North
America many years ago have
lost -95 per cent of their i'm
munity to malaria"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
Florence Renumes
Bird-Lover Mayor
Because of Ace

FLORENCE, Italy, Aug. 4 (P.
Controversial Giorgio La Pira
has been reelected mayor of
Florence by a margin of one year.
That's right. The loving
Christian Democrat, sometimes
called 1.-The modern st. Francis, :"
was named to the Office by the
city council because he is So
one year older than his opponent.
Socialist Raffaello Ramat.
Thrust into a deadlock by local
elections two months ago, the
council gave 81 votes to Mr.. La
Pira and 81 to Mr.. Ramat. Under
italian election law, the older
man in such tie gets the job.
The scholarly. self-effacing
Florentine, who lives in a monas-
terry and gives his belongings to
the poor, first was elected mayor
in 1852.
A member Of the left wing of
the Christian Democrats, Mr.. La
Pira has shocked conservative
italians, including members of
his own party, by requisitioning
but unoccupied villas
and turning them over to the
poor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
GOING LIKE so
Helen Keller
Has Lesson
ForAII

AS we grow older and acquire
additional disabilities from time
to time, we are inclined to feel
sorry for ourselves. But Helen
Keller, who has been blind and
deaf since childhood and is now
rs years old. remarks: II often
feel deeply grieved for those who
suffer from self-pity instead OF
looking around for new things to
keep them busy.
I'D like to give them a shove.
she says playfully. and adds,
"Use your eyes as II tomorrow
you would be stricken blind"
She advises us to seek new
interests. new ways Of making
life richer and new means Of
helping our fellow men as she
herself has done
prepared by Committee on the Aging.
limited Community Services
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
Group Nears
1O,OOOth Pint
Blood Donation

National Research Laboratory
personnel are aiming for their
0,000th pint-of-blood donation
Friday. according to the District
chapter of the American Red
Gross.
Lab employees have given
1868 pints since the first group
of donors contributed 1873 pints
to the Red Cross in December,
1850, the chapter said.
Navy Capt. P. H. Horn. labora-
tory director, and George w.
Wells, jr., chairman of the blood
donor program there are head
ing the drive for the 331-pint
goal. A Red Cross Bloodmobile
unit will be at the research
installation, 4555 Overlook ave-
nue. S.W.. from 9 am. to 3 pm
Friday.
Collections for the week end
ing last Thursday were 436 pints
short of the needed supply, the
Red Cross announced. To meet
essential quotas. $50 pints must
be collected at the Red Cross
Chapter House, 3025 E street
NV, or on bloodmobile opera
lions in the area, the chapter
said.
Other bloodmobile visits this
week are scheduled as follows:
Tomorrow-Prince Georges County
Andrews ALB, Bldg. T-3-79, from 1885,
IN. TO $3.50 pm; Arlington Chapter
Bldg. TT. Gravelly Point from 10 am
to pm.
Tuesday-D. c. Chapter, Main Navy
Constitution avenue, Room 254l from
$3.50 am. to $3.50 pm: Warren Coun-
w. Textile Workers Union Hall, Front
Royal, Va, from 1915 EST.
Wednesday ID. c. Chapter, Pentagon
Room. 4A750, from 10 am. to 4 pm.
Berkeley County. interviewer Mill, Kins
street entrance, Martinsburg. w, Va
from 9-12 am. and Ia pm; D. c
Chapter Port McNair Service Club
FJurth and P streets S.W.. from $3.50
am. to $3.50 pm
Thursday-Mineral County. Keysel
High School, keyser. w. Va. from II
am to pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
TODAY IN MEDICINE
New Arthritis Cures
Branded as Quockery

patient: "Why suffer-" 1t de-
clared that metal innersoles.
which it sold, brought relief to
thousands of arthritis, lumbago
and rheumatism sufferers. Why
not you?"
There is, the ETC says, no
product which can be bought
over the counter by the public
capable of curing an arthritic
or rheumatic condition.
Salicylates-such as aspirin
can bring temporary relief.
Sun Tan Pills
Use of the much publicized
"sun tan pill" is still a dream,
the American Medical Associa-
ton warned.
Mrs. Veronica Conley, secre-
tary of the AMA's committee on
cosmetics. said in this months
Today's Health that although
the drug OxSoralen-hailed as an
oral Sunburn preventative-has
certain encouraging aspects, it
remains experimental.
1t has been used to treat GER
tain skin disorders but has some
toxic side reactions.
1t comes from the Egyptian
plant Ammi Majus Linn. which
is a second cousin to the domestic
carrot, and has been used by
Egyptians for centuries for viii
ligo, a skin condition.
Sometimes the Egyptians don't
survive the. SIDE effects which
include abdominal cramps, neph-
ritis, hepatitis and others. But,
when they do, the skin condition
seems to improve.
Vitiligo notifies the skin pig
mentation and Oxsoralen seems
to cause REORGANIZATION. This
is, Mrs. Conley reports, stimula-
ton for a whole new field of re-
search.
Walter Reed
Col. Benjamin H. Sullivan, jr.,
has been named chief of the
gaStroenterology service at Wal
ter Reed Army Hospital.
Col. Sullivan, who lives at the
Forest Glen section of the Wal
ter Reed Army Medical Center,
recently completed a two-year
tour of duty at the Letterman
Army Hospital in San Francisco.
He received his bachelor of
arts and doctor of medicine de-
Igrees from George Washington
University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
ISLAND HOUSING
FAMOUS STATUE
RENAMED LIBERTY
BIZ the Assoelated Pres.

BY the Associated Press
President Eisenhower's
signature has officially given
a new name to the island
on which the Statue Of Lib
erty stands.
The island. located in New
York Harbor, will hereafter
be known as Liberty Island.
Its most recent name was
Bedloe's Island. but from
aboriginal times. has been
known variously as MINIS
sails Indian for lesser is
land). Hore. Great Oyster,
Oyster Bedlco, Love. Ken
nedys. Corporation. Bed
lows and Bedloe's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
BY CHARLES G. BROOKS

False hopes induced by labels
on so-called medicines constitute
some Of the cruelest blows to
arthritis and rheumatism VIC
Tins
Indeed. the days of medical
uuackery and "cure-alls" are still
here.
The Federal Trade Commits
sion in the past 10 months has
clamped down on 10 firms for
claiming their products are effec-
tive against these maladies and
the accompanying pains.
These products often were ad-
vertised as amazing" new for
mulas or the results of the dis
covery Of amazing new ingredi-
ents."
Most Are Worthless
Only physician should pre-
scribe treatment for arthritis and
rheumatism. Old wives super
stitions and many of these
amazing" new discoveries are
worthless.
The ETC lists a few excerpts
from some of these advertise
monts:
AT last-just released" a
tablet containing IAN exclusive"
Ingredient, blessed pain
relieving element combined
with other medically proven in
gradients"
Victims Of Gripping arthritis,
rheumatism and neuritis pain
can take joyous new hope from
announcement of dramatic sue
cess with a new formula which
-ombines four drugs into one
tablet capable of relieving ag-
onizing pain. -
These are examples:
No pain Wastes"
Another firm advertised that
its tablets will erect a pain
block" at the thalamus, located
at the base of the brain, to keep
pain impulses from reaching the
brain. 1t added that the tablets
would "expel continuing pain
wastes"
But, the ETC charged, pain
does not cause pain wastes"
Another firm claimed its prod
uct as a treatment for con-
WILSON'S, rheumatism, erysipelas,
typhoid fever, heart trouble.
diabetes. ulcers, epilepsy and
asthma.
Another asked the arthritic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-05
Citizen Group Meets

The Carmody Hills tMd.) Cit
liens Association will meet at 8
pm. tomorrow at 1911 F street,
Carmody Hills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-09

the Fisher 1irm, said Boynton
Beach is an established COM
|munity, with shopping and other
municipal facilities already
available. It now has q popula-
ton Of 5000 persons. The de-
velopers expect to add $4,000
persons to this number within
the next i've years. he said.
Principals of the developing
group are N. r. Field, j. Walker
Field, r. E. Field, and Howard
w. Riley, jr.
Mr.. Farr said the area is the
largest land development ever to
be opened within an established
Florida city.
Henry G. Slaughter, national
sales director, said 300 homes
have been built in the develop
ment in the last year and-a-
half. and that the land will
provide for an eventual 5000
homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-09

Estate Board and of the Mary
land Real Estate Association.
Mr.. Heymann is a Washington
housing economist.
Other delegates, besides the
Messrs. Smith, Boswell and Hey
mann, are the following:
John r. Workman, Fort
Wayne, Ind; S. N. Adams, Hous-
ton, Tex; Thomas P. Coogan,