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FURNITURE MART

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24-hr elevator. tvitchboard Rates
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

2I5 King 81, Alex, va, XII. S-H3UN
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
Woods Are Divided
Into Tone Groups

To take advantage of the nat
ural color tones of wood when
planning interior decoration or
cabinet finishing, you have to
know the various shades that are
natural to each species of wood.
Twenty woods fall within the
range of light to medium natural
colors. They include ponderosa
pine, southern pine, douglas fir,
Idaho pine, sugar pine. engel-
mann spruce. west coast hemlock,
Sitka spruce. white ash, birch,
black gum. blackberry, hickory,
pecan, magnolia, soft maple, hard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06

to erect one one-story dwelling, 25i2
Thirty-sixth place Sc; cost, $4,000.
Pete e. Kalavritinos, owner, 200 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV; Kalavritinos
Realty Co., builder: George r. SAINT
myers, architect; to erect one three
story. 16-unit apartment. 1910 Rhode
Island avenue NE; cost, $50, 900,
s. M Badian, owner and builder, 2607
Ross road. Chevy Chase, Md; Joseph
Selple, architect; to erect two lR-story
dwellings, 26l1 and 1923 Moreland
place NV; cost, $4,000.
MT. and Mrs. Allen Kander, owners.
5000 Sixteenth street NV; builder not
selected, Brown g. Wright, architect:
70 erect one one-story dwelling, $3.50
Williamsburg lane NV; cost. $40, 1000.
Beth Sholom CONGREGATION, owner, $40
shepherd street NV; builder not Sc
lected; Dammit g. Sargent architect; to
erect one three-story church. 1880
Eastern avenue NV; cost, S350,OO0,
Gulf OIL Corp. owner. 15I Locust
place, Philadelphia Pa: John A. Schiebel,
builder Earl Won Reichenbach. archi-
tect; TO erect one one-story gas station
l2Ol H street NE; cost, $4,000.
Tremarco Corp, owner, 65 Broadway,
N. y; John A. Schiebel Inc. ruilder;
Earl Won Reichenbach, & George nj
Ewing, associate architects: to erect one
one-story gas station, $500 Minnesota
avenue NE; cost. $4,000.
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maple, red oak. white oak end
yellow poplar.
Eleven woods run from me-
dunn to dark in tone. These are
western red cedar, southern cy-
press, California redwood, larch,
brown ash, butternut, cherry
chestnut, red gum. American
walnut and mahogany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
District Permits Issued
For NCHA Dwellings

The District has issued build
ing permits to the National
Capital Housing Authority for
construction of the 612-unit
Arthur Capper Dwellings in
Southeast Washington between
Second and Seventh streets and
M street and Virginia avenue.
Hilyard r. Robinson is archi-
tect of the project. Standard
Construction Co. will build the
project. which is to cost
Sc. 1885,
Other recent permits issued by
the District include:
c. Kaplan and A. Bennett, owners,
1OlO vermont avenue, NV; Standard
Moore, architect; to erect one History
othce building, 1000 Connecticut avenue
INV; cost, 81 million.
Peoples Drug Stores, Inc, owner, n
2 street NE; Skinker a. Garrett, builder:
Russell o. kluge, architect; to erect one
slx.story addition. n P street NE;
Episcopal Church Home. owner, 725
Fifteenth street NV; william P. Lips
comb Co. builder; Horace W. Peasiee,
architect; to erect addition, also general
SSespaa d oao S124 Q street NV; cost,
Horace and Ruth Drury, owners, $500
Sprucetree avenue, Alta Vista, Md: Har-
lvey Construction Co, builder Edmund
NV. DreyfusS, architect to erect one
two-story store. 1884 Wisconsin avenue
NV; cost. $35, 900.
| W. c. g. A. N. Miller DEVELOPMENT Co.,
owner and builder, 1925 Forty-ninth
street NV; E. r. Spano, architect; to
erect one two-story dwelling. 1850 Fifty
second terrace NV; cost, $40, 900.
Stephen j. Barabas. owner l24S
Thirty-sixth street NV; builder not
selected; Almirall & Coughlin, archi-
tect; to make addition and repairs to
store l24S Thirty-sixth street NV;
A, s. Willoughby. owner, 141O Cedar
lcrott road, Bethesda, Md; builder not
selected; Warren Shoemaker, architect;
70 erect one two-story dwelling. 30O5
Tennyson street NV; cost $4,000
E. W.. Beck, owner and builder, 29i4
Akron place Sc; L. w. Giles, architect;
70 erect one one-story dwelling. 25nS
iThirty-sixth place Sc; cost, $40. 600
| Z. w. Beck. owner and builder. 2g14
Akron place Sc. L. w. Giles. architect
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DAVID LAWRENCE
Why the Armed Services Feud?

must be prepared to fight a
war tomorrow morning and
not when certain weapons now
on the drawing boards are A.
nally tested and manufactured
in quantity. Nor do the ex-
ponents of one type of war;
fare explain to the public that
air power requires land bases.
and that overseas bases are
vulnerable from a political
angle.
Does this mean then that
only intercontinental bombers
should be built and overseas
bases abandoned? To do so
would mean to disarm the
United States and weaken it
in a smaller war or in those
geographical areas where sup
Elementary or flank action
might be contemplated and for
which the larger interconti-
mental bombers could not be
spared.
Certainly land bases are
politically vulnerable and
might be denied us. but the
United States must support
and equip them just the same
and maintain those of key i'm
portance, no matter what else
can be done by the interconti-
mental bombers if the bases
are lost. Certainly also air.
craft carriers are needed for
certain military functions that
they can do best. Logically,
also the Army should have
some effective air force of it's
own for tactical operations.
The number of things needed
might be multiplied, but the
essentials are a matter of judg-
ment for the combined mill
tary and civilian chiefs in the
executive branch of the Gov
eminent. If these men are not
doing their duty, they ought
to be removed.
But the fact is, each service
wants more money and more
effectiveness, and there's a
limit to what can be allocated
each year. 1t is not the BUSH
ness of the armed services or
the defense contractors to
make that decision. When it
Is made by the Commander in
Chief and his aides, Congress
ought to scrutinize the final
result carefully, but not en-
deavor to substitute its own
Judgment for that of the men
with the military responsibility
for fighting the war that could
begin this year or next, and
not in 1860 or beyond.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Trial of Suit for Funds Spent Before u. S
Cancelled Contract Not Due TM'57

the DiXon-Yates contract for
many months, the administra-
ton Cancelled it, saying that
the city of Memphis, Tenn,
had made Dixon-Yates power
super1uous by deciding to
build its own power plant.
Then the Government re-
fused to recompense Dixon
Yates for money it had spent
on plans, ground breaking,
etc, because. it said, a conflict
of interest was involved in the
activities of Adolph Wenzell.
Wenzell is the utility finance
expert whose name was miss
ing from the chronology of the
Dixon-Yates contract which
President Eisenhower ordered
from the Bureau of the Budget
and the Atomic Energy Com
mission after the contract
came under fire in Congress.
Senatorial investigation
showed Wenzell acted both as
a part-time consultant of the
Budget Bureau and as a con-
fierce with his old firm, the
First Boston Corp, which
specializes in utility financing.
In the midst of the contro-
versy, First Boston announced
it would not take a fee for it's
services in the financing of
Dixon-Yates but would con-
slider that 1t had performed a
public service.
One Of the many curious
aspects Of the Dixon Yates af-
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THOMAS [. STOKES
Florida Not Excited Over Primary

eligible to vote in next Tues
days presidential primary.
There are varying reports as to
what they are likely to do.
Some experts surmise that
many will go into the primary
to vote for Senator Kefauver
in the effort to head off Ste
venson, whom most Republic
cans seem to regard as the
most formidable foe in Novem-
Der This was done by many
Republicans in Minnesota.
Another group, in which
there is the potential of swing
ing the balance in next Tues
days primary, are the elderly
folks who live in retirement in
Florida. They are not retired
from their political RESPONSE
bilities, which many take very
seriously.
The competition for their
support is hot and heavy. For
example, as previously re-
ported. Stevenson directed a
major speech to them at st.
Petersburg when he first re-
turned to the State for the
Windup of his CAMPAIGN.
Senator Kefauver likewise is
making a strong bid for their
votes and will return this
week end to the st. Petersburg
area where so many of the re-
tired elderly live.
These flyers heaped high
praise on Senator Kefauver
and accused Stevenson of act
ing unfavorably on an old-age
security measure while he was
Governor Of Illinois.
Stevenson took notice of the
pamphlet in the course of his
speech in st. Petersburg Sat-
urday night, branding the in
ferences as false and citing in
detail his own record on legis-
lation for the aged. The PEN
sion bill that he vetoed pro-
yided no appropriations to pay
the pensions. and he returned
it to the LEGISLATURE without
his approval for that reason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

A very crestfallen French
Premier returned to Paris Sun
day, unwilling to admit as yet
the failure of his mission to
Moscow.
Guy Mollet and his foreign
minister, Christian Pineau,
went to the Soviet capital with
high hopes that the old
French-Russian alliance could
be revived on a mutual assist
ance basis: The Soviets would
agree to withdraw their hand"
from Algeria where they are
supporting the Arab nation
alists more or less sub rosa;
and the French leaders in turn
would further liberalize their
government by including a
number of Communists in the
cabinet and thus become the
USSR's pacemakers in West
ern Europe.
This was regarded by the
French team as a sure-f1re
agreement with Moscow, ac-
cording to aut horita ii v e
French sources to whom this
reporter spoke in Paris last
month. Under pressure of the
left-wing elements inside and
outside the National Assembly,
the French government and
particularly Pineau wanted to
get rid of the American
tutelage."
And since Frances leaders
feel the country cannot stand
on its feet internationally, they
looked again to dear Russia"
They believed she had aban-
doned the Asiatic mentality of
Dictator Stain. French sources
told this reporter they were
being encouraged to a limited
extent by Washington itself to
become a solid bridge between
the SovietS and the Western
world.
These dreams of Mollet have
now collapsed like a house of
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MolIet Hears the Reds Say 'Nyet

tary leaders expert in guer-
rilla warfare. Thanks to the
active support of the French
Communists and fellow trav-
elers. Soviet and Czech arms
were smuggled into these
Arab territories.
In order to preserve the
myth the Muscovites have
created that they were the
only champions of the down
trodden people in the fight
against Western colonialism
and Imperialism" it is clear
to anybody who did not hide
his head in the sand that the
Russians would never swap
this position of strength for
Frances friendship even if
Mr. Mollet agreed to have
Communist leaders join him
in the cabinet.
The present Soviet policy
appears to American students
of Red tactics to be one Of
gaining to their side COM
pletely the Arabs in the Near
and Middle East. This would
eventually deprive the West of
its vital oil resources as well
as important bases for its
strategic bombers.
This failure of a goodwill
mission intended to enlist the
support of the USSR for les
sening world tension is being
looked into carefully by the
other Western powers. 1t
shows that the Soviet Union is
agreeable to making gestures
meaningless as to substance
but useful from the propa-
ganda viewpoint, such as the
recent phony reduction of
strength of its ground forces.
Military and political an
alysts in the government who
have, however. no voice in poll
icy making, point out factually
that so far all the Russian
smiles" are intended exclu-
sively to weaken the Western
determination to resist their
goals and at the same time
continue to increase the West
ern nations difficulties in the
strategically vital Near and
Middle East.
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DORIS FLEEsON

The Justice Department has
been refurbishing a number of
used issues for the campaign,
including civil rights, but there
is one it does not expect to find
time for until 1857. 1t is Dixon
Yates.
Chairman Clinton P. Ander-
son and the Congressional
Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy recently instituted in
quirieS about the suit filed
against the Government last
year by the Dixon-Yates inter-
ests. The private power syndi-
cate wants back the several
million dollars it spent before
the Eisenhower administration
Cancelled its contract to build
a power plant in the Tennessee
Valley area.
Senator Anderson, Democrat
Of New Mexico, was informed
that the Justice Department
"hoped" to file its answer to
the Dixon-Yates suit next
month. 1t did not expect the
trial to begin until about a
year from now.
Suggestions by the legal tall
ent of the joint committee
that the Government move for
a summary judgment, as no
genuine issue against it was
involved. were coldly received.
The Justice Department would
not be rushed. said It's spokes-
man.
After tenaciously defending
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Moscow Is Seen Goining More by Siding
With Algerian Arabs Instead of France

cards. 1t did not cost the So
Wet directorate anything to
put on a big show when
Messrs. Mollet and Pineau ar
rived in Moscow. 1t was easy
for Comrade Khrushchev to
kiss the two French leaders on
both cheeks and gulp glasses
of champagne, instead of his
beloved vodka.
But when it came to making
a public announcement which
would have doused the en-
thusiasm of the Algerian
rebels. it was another matter.
The Soviet response was not
only the traditional "nyet." 1t
went further. At the farewell
reception in the Kremlin,
Comrade Khrushchev made a
speech which actually encour-
aged the AlgerianS to continue
their fight. To observers who
have followed the antics of
Khrushchev and Bulganin,
this was not surprising. The
Arabs are far more valuable to
the Soviet policies of aggran-
dizement at the expense of the
West than France will ever be.
The continuation of the war
against the guerrillas in AL
geria will, so the Kremlin
reckons. further undermine
the national unity and the
political power Of France. The
French Communist Party has
been relatively well behaved
since Mollet became Premier.
1t can be expected now to start
moving again to create troubles
and disSensions within the
country. Economic and f1nan-
cial troubles as well as the dis
content of the people with
their ever : changing and in
competent governments will
likely be exploited to Moscow's
advantage.
The Muscovites have left no
stone unturned to promote
militant Arab nationalism.
The Moroccans, Tunisians and
Algerians were provided with
military equipment and mill
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DORIS FLEEsoN
The Dixon-Ydtes Issue Up to Date

fair is that First Boston is not
involved in the suit which is
pending in the Court of Claims
nor has it ever protested, SO
far as is known, against the
Governments action. Yet
Wenzell was its man, not an
employe of Dixon Yates.
If the Government is correct
and Wenzell's activities were
wrong, then First Boston must
be said to be on the defensive.
Despite the pounding it took,
Dixon-Yates is not asking for
damages from the Govern
ment, but only for expenses it
incurred after the contract
was signed.
Senators never were able to
trace the full course of the
contract through the White
House. Nor do they know just
what influence prevailed upon
the Atomic Energy Commits
sion to make a contract for the
production of power the Acc
was not itself intending to use.
1t was this apparent use of
Acc as power broker which
gave the issue its steam, with
Acc members protesting its
interference with Aces vital
primary mission.
Presidential Assistant Sher-
man Adams refused to testify
about the contract before a
Senate committee on the
ground of the separation Of
powers. Trial of the Dixon
Yates action in the Court of
Claims may develop a court
test of that claim, depending
on how the case is pushed
there.
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There could be a searching
inquiry into the reasons why
feuding by the armed services
has come out into the open
lately. but it isn't likely to be
the kind Congress would mi
tate or pursue.
For, just as in the old days
Of the battleship and armor
plate Hobbies, there are vested
interests today to whom agita-
ton for this or that weapon is
beneficial. Likewise, just as
in the old days those States
with Navy yards found the
Senators or Representatives
sympathetically taking up the
cudgels for them, so today
there are large military con-
tracts or installations in the
States and districts of mem
bers of Congress who seem to
be active in the new contro-
versy between the armed
services.
Why, it may be asked, do the
armed services feud and why
is it that certain causes are
championed in Congress by
certain representatives of the
areas where there is definitely
an interest in one of the armed
services?
Everything comes under the
head of national defense, and
1t Is assumed everybody is
patriotic and is concerned only
with getting the maximum
value out of the taxpayers
dollar. But it does seem
strange that the armed serv-
ices nevertheless try to tell
each other what they should
do with their weapons and how
The appropriations should be
divided.
Years ago the armed service
chiefs paid attention only to
their own establishments and
naturally tried to get as much
money as they could from Con-
gress for each particular serv-
ice. But today the three armed
services often are represented
in print as telling each other
what they should do and what
money they should have from
Congress. The flow of conflict
ing statements and claims for
this or that weapon and con-
troverSy over missions and
roles is bewildering to the
average citizen. On top of it
all. there are partisans in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
They Can't Beat Ike Is Comment
On Stevenson-Kefuuver Contest

MIAMI, Fla, May 22.-For
an election that means so
much to two men-Adlai
Stevenson and Senator Estes
Kefauver = and perhaps also
to the Democratic Party.
the approach of the May
20 presidential primary finds
proportionately little excite
ment among the folks in
Florida, or so the politicians
and political experts report.
For this, various reasons are
assigned, chief among them
that people here were literally
"wrung out" by the tense
gubernatorial primary May 8,
won by present Gov. Leroy Col
Inns. Excitement in that cleo
ton ran high. rising to noisy
and often noisome pitch with
injection Of the segregation
issue.
Somewhat pale after that is
the contest between two gentle
men who live somewhere else
and have been here so often
In recent weeks that they are
no longer exactly in the celeb
rity" category. But, beyond
that. you often hear a question
when the coming primary is
preached which may give an
other reason for the apathy, to
wit:
why get excited? What
does 1t all mean? Neither one
OF them has a chance to beat
Ike"
Democrats naturally don't
like that. and you can't blame
them. But 1t must be reported
that the complacency this
question denotes and the
satisfaction with the symbol
IKE" are widespread as of
today here-which also seems
TO be true elsewhere. al
though 1t could, OF course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

change between now and the
November election.
In short, the crop of Essen
hover Democrats down this
way is large.
Champions of the two DEM
ocratic presidential aspirants,
as we'll as regular organization
Democrats, were hoping that
the televised debate between
the two staged in Miami last
night would whip up in
terest and bring out a bigger
turnout for next Tuesdays
primary than is now forecast
by most politicians.
The latter's estimates run
from 100000 to 100000 votes,
which compares with $4,000
in the hot governorship pri-
mary two weeks ago and esq.,
348 in the presidential primary
here in 1852 when Senator
Richard B. Russell of Georgia
defeated Senator Kefauver.
There are 1,162,409 voters
registered as Democrats in
Florida.
Whatever the size Of the
vote. and especially if it is
small, two groups are expected
to be influential in the out
come in this State, which has
such a diverse population that,
in effect, it is a little United
States"
One of these is composed Of
the many citizens who are
Republicans but register as
Democrats in Florida so they
can vote for Governor and
other State and local Offices in
the Democratic primary, which
is the real election in this
State. Actually enrolled as Re-
publicans are only l62.409 OF
the l,447,374 registered voters
OF the State.
Republicans who maintain a
Democratic registration are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Stevenson and Keauver debate TV from Florida It's
impossible for Kauver bring up issue which Steven
son doesn't have strong doubts.
The United States drops H-bomb in the Pacific One
thing about the Eisenhower teams foreign policies They
not be the best in the world but they're the loudest
Southern Congressman attack the Supreme Court again
Dixie legislators complain that the court has forsaken the law
and substituted its pejudces those of Congress
Harry Truman in Italy calls Americans to support Ikes
foreign policy The feeling between Ike and Harry meow in
direct ratio to the distance between them.
More layofs in the industry The trouble is
that lot of Republicans trying their old last
as long as they say Eisenhower prosperity will.
The basic difficulty with the twopary system is that
can never vote against than at time.
New Yorks Gov. Hartman enters the hospital for minor
operation Hartman had to step It's
for candidate to stand his
hospital record