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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN

Part of New York avenue, be-
tween Nineteenth street and
Virginia avenue NV. will be
closed when the new Civil Serv-
ice Commission building is con-
structed there. the General Serv-
ices Administration said today.
But meanwhile. the site of the
new $22 million building bounded
by Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets and New York avenue
and D street NV. has beer
turned into parking lot fol-
nearby Government employees
The old World War I Temporary
Building No. 2 has Just been tori
down to make Way for the new
program as part of the North
west Rectangle development. The
site has been resurfaced for the
new parking lot
A steam line that brings heat
to adjoining Federal buildings
has been relocated on the ole
temporary building site SO con.
struction of the new Civil Serv.
ice Commission building will moi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen begins a two
day meeting in the Willard
Hotel.
The American Association
of Medical Clinics opens a
three-day convention in the
Msyfiower Hotel.
The Confidently Of
Christian Doctrine begins a
three-day meeting in the
Mayf1ower Hotel.
The Eastern Conference of
Transfers ends its sessions
in the Mayflower Hotel.
The American Institute Of
Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers conclude T. cir
parley in the Sheraton Park
Hotel.
The International Associa-
ton of Bridge, Structural
and Ornamental Iron Work
ers continues in the Hotel
Statler.
The Association of the
United States Army contin-
ues in the Sheraton Park
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

arbitration to issues involving
less than 100000. with a recog-
milton of his claim for the right
to make a 6l2 per cent profit,
plus other restrictions.
Yesterday, the three-man
"blue ribbon" panel set up by
the Federal Mediation and Con-
Citation Service conferred sepa-
rately with union and company
officials. After the sessions, re-
sumption of face-to-face nege-
tiations at 10 am. today was
scheduled by R. w. Donnahoo,
Philadelphia regional director.
His fellow mediators are James
A. Holden of Washington and
Gilbert r. Lee of Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
Adventist Officials
To Preach in Area

Presidents and other officials
of the Seventh-day Adventist
overseas mission divisions will
occupy the pulpitS of Is Wash
ington' area Adventist churches
tomorrow at IL am. services.
They are among the 500 dele
gates and official representatives
attending the denominations au-
itumn church council meeting.
which began last Tuesday and
will end next Tuesday. The ses-
sions are being held in the Ia
koma Park Md Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
The speakers will talk about
advances made in Adventist mis-
sion work overseas during the
past two years. They represent
more than l million Adventists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

Board of Commissioners, urged
that the Presidents power to
appoint members of the Plan
ming Commission be shifted to
the District Commissioners.
This. he said, would relieve
the White House of involvement
lin local planning problems and
that many controversies would
gravitate toward" the commits
lsioners for settlement.
He also suggested that the
commissioners take over the
presidential appointive power
for the National Capital Hous-
ing Authority and the Redevel-
opment Land Agency. The coun-
Gil postponed discussion on
! NCHA and RIA.
| Councilman William J. Smith
Endorsed the Spencer suggestion
He recalled that Anacostia resi-
dents feel the NCPC is top
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
BY HECTOR MCLEAN

D. C. Transit System and
union negotiators went back to
the bargaining table today seek
ing to avert the strike author
lied for midnight next Wednes-
day.
They resumed sessions at the
Labor Department at the call OF
Federal mediators after a one
day break in negotiations yes
terday following a Stool strike
vote by the transit workers
union.
Despite the authorization for
union officials to call a walk
out, issues standing in the way
of agreement on a new labor
contract have been sharply re-
duced.
This resulted from the last
minute package deal" for &
three-year contract offered by
o. Roy Chalk, president of d. C
Transit, Just before the unior
mass meeting Wednesday night
Union officials. howeve
warned that the outstanding
differences, centering largely OF
arbitration and wage increases
were vital. They stressed tina
while the contract would b,
effective as of last August Is
when Mr. Chalk bought out thu
old Capital Transit Co.. the frs
of three proposed wage boost
would not go in effect until mex
April.
Mr.. Chalk offered to MAKE
permanent the present 2-cent
ian-hour wage increase received
by employees since last July as |
/ cost of living premium. Also. h,
proposed an additional scent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

heavy" and cited their fight to
shift the route of the proposed
Anacostia freeway westward to
the shore of the Anacostia
River.
However. he said, the National
Park Service. which lis repre-
sented on the NCPC, won't give
a square foot of park property.
The Commissioners have no al
tentative if their planning
doesn't square with that OF the
Park Service. so Wen never get
that highway moved"
Dir. Garnet C. Wilkinson, am
other council member, warned
that a change in NCPC appoin-
tive power might not change the
problems of the District Gov
eminent and that our investiga-
Ition ought to go into basic poll
lcies."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
.FOggy Bottom
Hit

An official of the Potomac
Plaza project has protested any
change in the west leg of the
way plans that would affect the
big residential-office building
development.
Royce F. Ward, vice president
lof Hegeman-Harris Co., the de-
lveloper, said he was concerned
Chiefly about reports that a
change in thewest leg of the
inner loop" expressway system
was under consideration by the
National Capital Planning Com
mission.
Present plans for the west leg
approved year ago by the
planning commission, would
route the road east of the Poto-
mac Plaza area, which lies east
of the Potomac River between
Virginia and New Hampshire
avenues.
Two months ago, however. the
planning commission staff ques-
toned whether the route might
be moved to parallel the river. II
was contended that this coulC
provide a better site for a civic
auditorium, in the event the
District Auditorium Commission
decided on a Foggy Bottom loca-
Ition.
Mr.. Ward said such a rerout-
ling, however. would ruin much
Iof our development" since the
road would cut through part OF
Ia site earmarked near the river
for a $50 million hotel.
Mr.. Ward said he registered
his concern in a letter to District
Engineer Commissioner Thomas
A. Lane. He asked to be advised
|of any meeting that might con-
slider a change in the road plans
Actually, however, there has
been no firm indication of senti-
ment in favor of changing the
road plans by planning COM
mission members.
Gen. Lane, in a reply to Mr.
Ward. said that as far as he
knows the presently approved
route of the road is the mos
suitable for the expressway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
Transit Contract Talks Resumed,
Removal of Strike Threat SOUGHT

IAN hour boost in April. An addi-
tional raise of S cents was pro-
posed for the following Noyem-
her, with a third scent boost oil
November /, 1858. The contract
would expire August IA, 1859.
Union officials. fighting hard
for an agreement to arbitrate
Iunresolved difference in future
contract renewals, questioned Mr.
Chslk's insistence that he favors
arbitration provided that rea-
sonable ground rules are nego-
tiated between the company and
the union for the character, con-
duct and scope Of future arbitra-
ton proceedings"
Mr.. Chalk has sought to limit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
Navy Day Showto Star
The John Paul Jones

The USS John Paul Jones tied
up today at the Naval Gun Fac
tory for her first visit to Wash
ington. The destroyer is one of
the Nations newest, fanciest and
Understanding.
1t is one of four bottoms in
town for Navy League celebra-
ton of Navy Day.
"Open house" will be held
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

ThaddeuS M. Nosek. assistant
Engineer Commissioner and act
ing director of the District De-
Ipartment of Buildings and
Grounds, is being transferred to
another Army post, he disclosed
today.
The Engineer Corps officer,
who has been assigned as an as
sistant Engineer Commissioner
here since October /, 1858, said
the Army had obtained permits
sion from Congress to increase
the strength of its officer corps
by 1000. Col. Nosek said he will
serve as a member of a board
to pass upon candidates for the
new officer commissions.
He is to report for his new
assignment January 2. and sale
he probably will leave his Dis
trict government position in
mid-December.
He has been serving as head
Iof the Building and Grounds
Department since the late Victor
T. Givotovsky. deputy director
was taken to the hospital shortly
before his death. Mr.. Givotovsky
had been serving as acting di-
rector since the death of Archie
G. Hutson in July.
The Commissioners have ap.
pointed James Blaser. Colorado
Springs. Colo, engineer, to heac
the department. Col. Nosek saiC
Mr.. Blaser is to report on No
vember 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
Private Corporation
Would Own Hospital

The Star, in story on Octo.
Der Is concerning a proposed
hospital for Silver Spring. gave
an erroneous impression about
ownership of the hospital.
According to the story, Clarke
l.. Fauver. president of the Silver
Spring Hospital Association, sale
that the operating corpora
ton would have use of the
building under contract anc
that title to the property woulc
remain in the county.
A bill providing for the pro-
posed hospital states, however
that the hospital would be owned
and operated by the Silver
Spring Hospital Association, 9
private corporation.
The Star regrets the error.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

aboard all four from 1880 to
4:30 pm. Sunday. The public
visiting hours tomorrow are:
John Paul jones' to II am.
and 1880 to 4:30 pm.
USS Traverse County-1:30 to
.4:30 pm. The Traverse County.
an LIST, is also berthed at the
Gun Factory.
USS Zellers and Huntington.
g to IL am. and 1870 to 4.30 pm.
These two destroyers, here on
,operational visits, are at Pier 5
on Maine avenue S.W.
Receives Key to City
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin presented the key to
the city today to Commander r.
w. Hayler, jr.. skipper Of the
John Paul Jones, at ceremonies
upon its arrival.
/ The super-modern ship is the
+ second in the Forrest Sherman
class. She is Alb feet long.
weighs 1880 tons and packs four
3-inch twin mounts, three 5-inch
single mounts.
I The John Paul Jones has come
long way from the classic old
tin can. 1t has air conditioning
in all the battle, working and
living spaces.
Her superstructure is con-
structed of aluminium, reducing
her weight and adding to her
speed.
( The living compartments are
floored in green tile. Each space
has its own library and piped-in
radio programs. The mess spaces
have sponge-rubber seats COW
cred with plastic.
Individual Lockers
! CreWmen have individual
lockers in the shaving heads"
which are done in stainless steel
with fluorescent lighting.
The air conditioning is so eff
'cient that crewmen slept under
blankets this past summer.
I The John Paul Jones is the
fifth Navy ship to carry that
name.
I Her wartime compliment is
337. She now has Is officers
and $50 enlisted men. Three
Washington area men are sta
toned aboard her. They are
FT3 Mortier d. Harris, 7077 Liv-
ington road. Prince Georges
County: MM3 George K. Kersh-
ner, 1915 p street Sc, and 1t.
/ 0.g.) Ronald F. McDevitt. 1920
Dale drive, Silver Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
IiceHuntino
TV Find Dope:
TWoSentenced

/ A man and his common-law
wife were convicted yesterday of
possessing narcotics, which po-
licemen found while searching
for a television set stolen in
Alexandria two days ago.
John Dominic Book. %, and
Mary Doreen Caruso. alias Mary
Book. %. we're picked up in then
apartment in the TOO block oil
K street NV. on warrant from
Alexandria police for the stoler
television set and were sentenced
to a year each within several
hours.
Policemen searching the apart
Iment for the TV set turned up
narcotics paraphernalia and
three capsules of heroin in a
closet, Capt. Karl d. Mccormick
of the Narcotics Squad said.
The couple told the arresting
officers they sold the television
set.
The arrests were made about
$3.50 am. by three Narcotics
Squad detectives, who went along
with the detective from Alex
,andria. and two members of the
General. Assignment squad. 1t
was explained the narcotics Of
ficers knew the couple and went
along to identify the two.
The man and woman were
taken into Municipal Court al
l11:30 am. and were sentenced
by 2 pm. after pleading guilty to
a possession charge. Judge John
d. Burnett sentenced them and
suggested the time be spent in
the United States Public Health
Service Hospital in Lexington
KY, after they had asked to be
sent there.
Alexandria police kept de-
tanners on the two on the grand
larceny charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

Step into the tropics for a
moment.
Don't worry about wild
jungle beasts. The widest
things around are a couple
of red macaws, and their
dander is really up.
They're indignant because
they've been banished to the
basement and a wire cage.
The reason they're there is
that they insist on out-Shout-
ing almost any chairman of
almost any meeting, and a
meeting was scheduled for a
room above their roostS.
Ordinarily, they inhabit
the tropics-like patio of the
Pan American Union Build
ing, an out-of -this-north-
world setting in the building
at Seventeenth street and
Constitution avenue.
But the only macaw on this
particular day was Davida,
a multicolored nonagenarian
that knows how to keep his
mouth shut. Davida has
learned his manners we'll in
the as years he's inhabited
the patio-ever since the
building was dedicated in
1910.
The others-a couple of
Juans-com e-lately-are young
upstairs, only about six years
old. They've been there Just
since last Pan American Day,
when they came as the gift
of the President of Guate-
mala.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

THE MACAWS, with their
brilliant plumage, add an
other exotic touch to the
exotic atmosphere of the
patio. The guide obligingly
took Davida down from his
perch.
Does he bite?" the visitor
asked.
NO" the guide answered.
The visitor extended a hand.
He bites only strangers,
the guide added.
The visitors hand was
hastily withdrawn.
Other things tropical and
South American abound in
the patio. Center of interest
is the Georgian pink marble
fountain, pentagon-shaped
and bearing on its shaft fig
ureS of an Aztec warrior, a
woman who Symbolizes the
future and the Indian as he
vas first found by the white
man.
Aztec, Magyar and Zapote-
can Indian art is featured on
the fountains center basin,
and the feathered Serpents
which Spew water are enough
to brighten even a macaw
into silence.
The plants around the
patio'S edge furnish a bower
for the fountain.
Of to the right is a banana
plant. This plant, out of its
element, doesn't produce too
well. The last time bananas
grew on it, there were only
about nine sickly ones on the
stalk.
There's a coffee tree, too
and a jipiiapa palm. That
last can be translated into
Panama hats. There's a
rubber tree, date palm and
pandanus palm - producing
rubber, dates and basket
fiber, in that order-finish-
ing off the more recognizable
foliage.
Then there's the monestera
delicioSa, a vinelike plant
that produces fruit that
tastes like something between
a banana and a pineapple.
But the tree that's pointed
out most specifically and most
often is the Peace Tree" a
combination fig and rubber
tree planted by William How
ard Taft during the buildings
dedication in 1910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

OVER ALL of this tropical
wonderland is a huge, movable
skylight, closed in winter to
shut out the damp chill and
opened in summer to let in
the damp warmth.
The macaws don't fit
through this foliage. They're
kept on their perches by the
simple process OF clipping
their wings about once a year.
But there's plenty of fit
ting, nonethelesS. It's done
by sparrows-Davids beside
the Goliath macaws-that
manage to slip in every day,
even when the skylight is
closed. Sometimes as many
as 80 OF them add their
soprano cheep to the raucous
bass OF the macaws. A pigeon
or two waddles in OCCASION
ally, too.
The patio's open to visitors,
any time they want TO step
into the tropics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
D.C.Citizens Group
Has Planning Quiz
Study of NCPC Started With
Invitation for Chairman Bartholomew

The District Citizens Advisory Council today began study
the National Capital Planning Commission by inviting NCPC
Chairman Harand Bartholomew to its meeting
The council acted at the request Of the District Commits
oners who had the recommendations at
Trade dinner April II by former Commissioner
Spencer
Mr. Spencer ending three-year role president of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
RombIinas

An Arlington service sta
ton truck bears this legend
on its side: Invite us to
your next blowout.
The driver of one OF those
fancy sports cars, apparently
tired OF questions from the
curious, has written in chalk
on the sleek side OF his auto
TIE make and the year. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26
The
Rambler
Bit Of Tropics
North of Border
BY JACK JONAS

Step into the tropics for a
moment.
The Nome nugget., 1956-08-15
56-Ship Flotilla Breaks Through Ice Barrier
 With DEW Line Supplies

SEATTLE, lR - The Military Sea Transportation Service office here said Monday that the 1856 Arctic supply mission to the Dis tant Early Warning line has broken it's way through an ice barrier to clear waters east of Point Barrow.
 Several ships. in the 56 . ship flotilla received minor damage breaking through the 75-mile ice barrier, MSTS said, but are now in a position to land supplies to DEW line stations along the northern rim of the continent,
 The 56 ships and the $500 men they carried left Seattle between July Is and July 20.
The Nome nugget., 1956-08-15
Hartman Backers All But Admit Defeat By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
 and JACK BELL

CHICAGO, R-Adlai Steven son, picking up important support from New Jersey and Michigan, today all but clinched the Demo- cratic presidential nomination. A remaining hazard was possible battle over a suggested civil rights platform plank saying the Su- preme. Courts decisions against racial segregation had brought consequences of vast importance" to the nation.
 Stevenson scored his gains de- spite a bitter 11th hour battle that former President Harry Truman was waging for Averell Hartman.
 Truman called news confer ence and characterized Stevenson as a candidate who 'lacks the kind of fighting spirit we need to win" He said he'd support Harri- man until the last dog dies" But even as Truman was punch ing away, the New Jersey delega- ton caucused and voted to give all of it's 36 votes to Stevenson on the first ballot tomorrow night.
 Earlier, Gov. Mennen Williams of Michigan had thrown his sup port to the 1852 nominee, and a poll of the 44-vote Michigan dele gation produced 331s votes for Stevenson.
 When word of New Jerseys move reached them, some mem bers of the Truman team agreed the fight was all over.
 The whole drive had been con- centrated on keeping enough "fa- vorite sons" in the field to pre- vent Stevepson's nomination on an early ballot.
 Altho Truman said yesterday Stevenson couldn't win if nomin- ated, he backtracked on that to- day. He said Stevenson could win with help from "the old man from Mountaineering himself.
 Stevenson's own reaction to the news as to Jersey and Michigan was a smile and the comment:
 Things are breaking very we'll"
The Nome nugget., 1956-08-15
Alaska Delegation Voted
 Unanimously To Support Stevenson For President

CHICAGO, R - The Alaska delegation to the Democratic na- tional convention voted unani- mously Monday to support Adlai Stevenson for the presidential nomination.
 Ernest Gruening, former gover- nor of Alaska and chairman of the 6-vote, 12-member delegation, said the delegation also voted un- animous support to Sen. Estes Kefauver for the vice presidential nomination.
 "The Alaska delegation takes this stand not merely because it considers Stevenson and Ke- fauver supremely qualified, but also because both have demon strated their firm faith in the most basic American principle = that of government by the con sent of the governed-and have, accordingly, pledged all out sup port for immediate statehood for Alaska" Gruening said.
The Nome nugget., 1956-08-15
Capt. Dynamite Blows Self Up In Coffin He Made

WATERLOO, Iowa, R-While 1000 spectators watched, Captain Dynamite climbed into his wood en "coffin" last night and deto- mated the eight sticks of dynamite attached to it.
 As usual in Captain Dynamite's thrill show act, the explosion shattered the coffin into splinters.
 But this time Alfred R. Baken, 24, Jacksonville, Fla, didn't arise from the debris to take his bow. Captain Dynamite was dead.
 The crowd at Tunis speedway didn't know that Baken had been fatally injured. But a close friend quickly summoned an ambulance and the show went on.
 "He never knew what hit him, " the friend said.
 Baken had been doing the act for three years. Officials of the show said they did not know what went wrong. Baken always built his own coffin and attached and wired the dynamite. His method was his own trade secret.
The Nome nugget., 1956-08-15
Platform Drafters Ask Pledge for Immediate Statehood for Territories

CHICAGO R-The Democratic platform drafters asked their na- tional convention yesterday to pledge immediate statehood" for Alaska and Hawaii.
 The stand was included in a catchall plank on government operations.
 "We condemn the Republican Administration for it's utter dis regard of the rights to statehood of both Alaska and Hawaii" the tentative plank stated, adding.
 "These territories have contrib uted greatly to our national eco homie and cultural life and are vital to our national defense.
 "They are part of America and should be recognized as such. We of the Democratic Party, there fore, pledge immediate statehood to these two territories. :"
The Nome nugget., 1956-08-15
Nasser Will Accept International
 Suez Supervision
Wants a Peaceful
 And Happy Solution

LONDON, R-Pakistan's for eign minister said today President Nasser of Egypt told him that he would accept international super vision over. the Suez Canal but insisted "it is the sovereign right of Egypt to run the canal"
 Foreign Minister Hamidul Haq Chowdry, arriving for the Suez Canal crisis conference from pri- vate talks with Nasser, told re- porters at the airport:
 "The Egyptian President wants peaceful and happy solution to the problem.
 "He is not adverse to the setting up of a body representing the users of the canal to advise the organization which he has set up to manage and administrate it. He still believes it is the sover- eign right of Egypt to run the canal"
 A few hours earlier, Secretary of State Dulles arrived for the conference opening tomorrow. He expressed hope for solution "so vital to the preservation and we'll being of the entire world
 Britain, France and the United States are insisting on interna- tionalizing the vital l03-mile waterway under guarantees more binding than the system envis- aged by Nasser.