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Spectacular

The "spectaculars" have
been tanning them in for
weeks at movie houses all
over town, vying with one
another for length Of movie
and height Of suspense and
panorama.
While this was going on,
. small group gathered one
night last week to watch the
granddaddy Of all spectAcu-
lars At the Library Of Con-
gress-a showing Of ID. w.
Grifhth's Intolerance" put
on by the Library's Welfare
and Recreation Association
for its members.
This movie, filmed 40
years ago, Is credited with
launching the Spectacular"
technique. II included, In
addition to camels, ele-
plants and thousands Of
extras" such stars as Liz
liam Gish, Mae Marsh, Con-
stance Talmadge, Eric Won
Stroheim, Colleen Moore and
Eugene Palette.
Even DeMille seldom has
been as spectacular.
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Goofed

A retired Army lieutenant,
now . physicist for = private
laboratory, was taking some
treatments recently at Wal
ter Reed Hospital. While he
was there, he let il be
known that he'd like to 20
to the Army-Navy football
game.
Never ones to ignore the
/ wishes Of its disabled vet
Grams, officials at Walter
Reed found a pair Of tickets
for the lieutenant and his
wife-right in the presiden-
I tial box.
They called the Iieuten-
ants home and the wife
answered. She was gra.
ciOuS enough, but turned
down the offer.
But" she explained later
to her somewhat wrathfuI
husband, 1--WE already seen
an Army-Navy camel"
They're back on speaking
terms again.
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Name

Why do they call it Takoma
Park?
That section was founded
in June, 1884, by Benjamin
Franklin Gilbert. Casting
about for a suitable title for
his subdivision, he picked
the Indian name "Takoma,"
meaning IAN exalted place."
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Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03

has Joined the sales department
Of A. John Chapman & Son.
Real Estate. 6s7s Lee highway.
Arlington.
Recent Real, Estate Commits
sion license approVals were as
follows:
Real Estate Broker
Earl Wiener
Samuel Blanken. trading as Sam
Business Chance Broker
Samuel Bianken, trading as Sam
Real Estate Statesmen
Laurence D. Miller with James Car
Eunice r. Jablonsky with Hugh T.
dTsta 9. Keys. with LeEum and Ger
Mahsboob Ben Ali with B, sydner
Edward L. Gilmore with Leon Ack-
Maurice Goldman with Daniel Diener
Louise Moss with Kennedy Realty
Louis L. Rosenthal with Daniel Diener
Co.. Inc.
Margaret SNYDER Darby with Shan
non g. Luchs Co. Of washington, Inc.
Jack Rosensky with Sindler Realty CO.
Dolores Ann Hvisdock With A. R.
Dora D. Springer with Reach Purcell.
Zaccheus B. johnson with Sindler
BUSINESS Chance Statesmen
Dolores Ann Hvisdock with A. r.
SeelVE
Dora D. Springer with Keach Purcell.
n y X
The American Institute OF
Real Estate Appraisers will hold
its annual regional conference
March 16 and II at the Siberia
ton-Park Hotel. The meeting will
include six courses in realty APP
praisal under L. w. Ellwood OF
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REALTY REVIEW

Joined The Trust Note Exchange.
according to Max S. Kraft. vice
president.
+ +
A mortgage-clinic meeting of
the Washington Real Estate
Board is scheduled for pm.
Monday, March IL, in the Statler
Hotel, Board President Harvey
II. Jones announced today.
John Austin. Houston. Tex,
will be the principal speaker.
Committee chairman George w.
IDeFranceaux said a panel dis
|cussion on the local financing
picture will follow Mr.. Austin's
address. Panelists will be w. H.
Dyer, executive vice president,
Perpetual Building & Loan
Association; Harry P. Bergman,
Riggs National Bank vice presi-
dent: Julius c. Thormeyer, real
estate department manager of
Massachusetts, Mutual Life In
surance Co.. and Martin r. West,
jr., Washington Mortgage
Bankers Association president
and vice president Of Weaver
Bros.
X X y
The 10th annual real estate
sales clinic, sponsored by the
Washington Real Estate Brokers
Association. starts at 8 pm.
Wednesday in the National
Housing Center Auditorium,
1925 L street NV. The IL weekly
two-hour sessions will be directed
by Arnett G. Lindsay, association
secretary treasurer.
\ y Y X
Maurice L. May, vice presi-
dent of Real Estate Service, Inc,
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Sew York. regional vics pred-

New York. regional VICE pred-
dent.
Brokers, appraisers. builders.
property managers, mortgage
men. bankers. assessors and
others interested in appraisals
are invited. The program will
conclude Saturday afternoon,
March II. with talks by Assist
anta Attorney General Perry w.
Morton and c. T. McGavin,
technical director of the National
Parking Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03

Raymond j. Glass, formerly
with Thomas j. Fisher & Co., has
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A beginners course in Real
Estate Principles and Practices
will be offered starting at z pm.
March Is in the Washington
Lee High School. Arlington.
The series will cover real estate
lawns. ethics and contracts. APP
praising. financing. listing. sales
and closings. Ira o. Beatty.
Arlington broker. will instruct
the six weekly two-hour sessions.
The course is sponsored by the
Northern Virginia Center of the
University of Virginia. 1912
North Quincy street, Arlington.
| 4 ~
Thomas p. Coogan, of New
York, has been elected board
chairman of the National Hous-
ing Center, which has its head
quarters in Washington. Richard
G. Hughes of Pampa, Texas, was
elected vice chairman. Leonard
Frank of HickSville, N. Y, was
appointed to the board to replace
Edward r. Carr. president of the
Washington Board OF Trade.
James E. Lash, former San
Francisco redevelopment direc-I
|toT, has been appointed director
of the American Council to I'M
prove Our Neighborhoods. Mr..
Lash has been serving as chief
of the West Coast Offices of Har-
land-B Bartholomew and Associ-
|ates.
The second of a series of four
mortgage servicing clinics. spon-
sored by the Mortgage Bankers
Association Of America, will be
held March II in the Hotel Stat
Ter here. The discussion will be
devoted to operating problems of
the industry.
X X \ X
John Steffey, president of the
Maryland Real Estate Associa-
ton. will speak at a dinner meet
ing Of the Prince Georges County
Real Estate Board at 7 pm.
Thursday in the Prince Georges
Country Club.
4 X 4
Raymond j. Glass. formerly
with Thomas j. Fisher & Co., has
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FIRST OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES HOME AND oFFicEs-No
MORE PARKING OR HeH-RENT PROBLEMS HERE -6ooI
NEVADA AVENUE kW.-oPEN SUM-, z 6-compIsis
block Blessed $50 500
fianenns Neb right Nssodo Aysi
LEFT home
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK-BEAUTIFuL NEIGHBoR-
HOOD CONVENIENT FOR SPRING VALLEY SHOPPING AND
ALL THE cITYs BEST PUBLIC. PRIVATE AND PARocHiAL
SCHOOLS. 1873 BUTTERWoRTH PLACE NW-oPEN SUN,
6-ns FOUR bedrooms, bois second
avoy floor Kitchen with tobe Groundsvs
svtn Slots roof Excellent of
Nice 2s 500 Deeions Moss Ave 46h ST. right TO sutworfh
left 10 home
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DIRECTIONS

DIRECTIONS
Out Georgia Avenue through Wheaton to
Weller Rood. Turn left on Weller Rood,
following direction signs TO furnished
model homes ct 1910 Weller Rood, or
out Georgia Avenue to viers Mill Rood,
left on vers Mill Rood to Connecticut
Avenue Estntes, right at entrance and
follow direetionaI signs to Weller Rood
and furnished homes.
FURNISHED MODEL HOME OPEN
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $50 AN. TO 8 Pm.
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08

Beaumont, TeX.-State Off
Gals last week put a stop to
picketing at Lamar State Col
lege, but pro-segregationistS lat
er got together to discuss other
means of keeping Negroes out
of the previously all-white
school.
Picketing started at the school
Oct. and flared into violence
as law off, cials did practically
nothing to protect the 26 Negro
students who we're ordered ad-
mitted to the college by feder-
al judge.
Patt Smith of Kilgore, mem
Der of the State Association of
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
CITY ANNOUNCES JOB
OPPORTUNITIES

The city OF Phoenix is accept
ing applications in the following
fields of Job opportunities -po-.
lice patrolman, health educator
and mechanical inspector II.
Filing dates are open through
Nover1ber 2s. Apply at the Per-
sonnel Department at City Hall.
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
STORY OF A SOUTHERN WHITE
WOMAN DEFYING KU KlUX KLAN

Chicago.-MrS. Dorothy Dan
ner DaPonte, a wealthy, white
Southern aristocrat of Mobile,
Alabama, who is defying the
Ku Klux Klan in a courageous
attempt to rear g Negro girl like
a -fledged American citizen,
is featured in the December
EBONY.
The child, 12-year-old Carrie
Mae McCants, whose mother
once worked for Mrs. DaPonte,
was taken in by the childlesS
woman when her parents split
up six years ago. At first Mobile
whites paid little notice to the
Negro child when she moved
into the widows homie. They
took the position that what Mrs.
DaPonte did was her business.
When the white mother and he"
Negro daughter" went to Eu-
rope for two years, the case was
forgotten.
While Carrie and Mrs. Da-
Ponte were abroad, the Supreme
Court banned segregation in
public schools. When the widow
read about it she made the
decision which has brought the
wrath Of The South upon her.
She decided to enroll Carrie in
a white school.
This year she asked the Mobile
County school board to admit
Carrie to a white school near
her home and the request was
denied. Immediately band of
100 Ku Klux KlanSmen burned
a 10-foot cross in her driveway.
Mrs. DaPonte and tho child hid
in a friends home but the Klan
hunted them down and burned
another cross. Threatening
phone calls and letters poured
in. Former friends ostracized
her. Some of her blood relatives
stopped speaking to her. Her
father left town..
At present, alone and almost
friendless, Mrs. DaPonte is
thinking of sending Carrie North
to be tutored privately while the
case is ligated. She told EBONY
that she will stay in now
hostile Mobile to fight in court
for her daughters" conStitu-
tional rights.
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
ORGANIZE COUNCIL

The mass meeting voted un-
animously to continue the boy
colt which had already .envelop-
ed the city. The committee was
dissolved and the Inter Civic
Council elected to lead the pro-
test movement, including Rev.
C. K. Steele, president; Rev. K.
S. Dupont, vice-president; Rev.
J. Metz Rollins, treasurer. At
that meeting the basic machin-
cry was moved into gear. Cars
were registered, lists of drivers
drawn up, a car pool dispatch
ing headquarters organized, and
funds collected.
On Wednesday, May 80, police
charges against the two co-edS
of placing themselves in posi-
ton to incite a riot" were drop
ped. But the boycott continued.
One of the leadears said: "It'S,
a matter of principles, not per-
sonalities."
(To be continued next issue)
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
Picketing Ends AT
Texas College

Citizens Councils, said: The
picketing was ended because it
was something that we never
wanted and that will be aban-
dcned so we may enter another
phase of activity
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
The ST0 RY OF
TALLAHASSEE

spirit or the proud 1lgnCerS 1oT
full and equal rights. The next
day a flaming cross was burnt
in front of their residence.
Florida A & M students called
a mass meeting for Monday,
May %. Out of 1900 students
at the university, 2300 attended.
Broadus Hartley, president of
the students council said the
arrests "were the latest in a
series of incidents in which we
have been humiliated by bus
drivers"
Following this mass meeting
the students formed a human
Gordon around the first bus to
pass the university and tbereby
announced the boycott in effect.
The Tallahassee Democrat, May
%, reported that the first bus
after the boycott went through
the campus empty. Students
cheered There was no vi
olence."
The weekly Tuesday noon
meeting of the city's Negro min
listers organized in the Min
isterial Alliance, was expanded
to include student and civic or
ganization representation be-
cause the boycott was the sole
business on the agenda. From
interviews with. participants at
this meeting, I learned there
was a clash between those who
wanted to extend the boycott
by rallying the Negro communi-
ty into a solid organization, and
those with a ''let's-wait-and-See"
program, who were wary of mass
meetings, desiring only to dis
cuss with the white leaders
about amicable relations within
the segregation pattern.
The session was inconcluSive.
A nine-man Inter-Civic Com
mittee was formed to sound out
the city administration and bus
manager. The call for a mass
meeting that very night was
proposed. In the meantime by
word of mouth, the mass rally
was organized. Rev. Steele told
me: "Our people kept calling,
wanting to know what we were
going to do"
Bv 6 pm. Rev. Steele's Bethel
Baptist Church was jammed,
with over a thousand people
crowded in.
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
PROUD STUDENT FIGHTERS

ATallahaSSee's challenge to the
southern pattern = popularized
as eff you're white you're right,
but if you're black get back
was spanked when two Florida
A g. M co-eds were arrested Sat-
urday, May 26, after demanding
a refund of their fare rather
than bow to segregation by va
eating their seats. These two
young students represent the
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
Editors Note-The first install
ment of the Tallahassee Bus
Boycott Story.
BY Henry GitanO.

TallahaSSee's mass trial on
Oct. II, marks the climax of deS-
perate attempts by city officials
to smash the heroic bus boycott
by 14.400 freedom fighters. This
massive. struggle was touched
off when two Negro co-edS of
Florida A g. M University were
arrested for sitting in the
white" section of a bus on May
26.
\ Among the % who will face
the bar of white-SupremaciSt
Justice" will be the entire lead
erShip of the Inter-Civic Council
set up to direct the protest, as
well as operators of service sta
tionS and drivers working with
the car pool. The leaders were
arrested, Oct. 4, for operating
IAN illegal transportation sys-
tenn" The Council as a whole
was also indicted on this count.
At the same time, records of
service stations said to be sup
Splying the car pool have been
subpoenaed. Officers of the
Council were ordered. to bring
all records dealing with their
organization to court.
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08
CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Rev. G. <. Steele, Council pres
ident said last week that he is
considering asking President Ell
sanhower and the FBI for an in
vestigation of civil rights viola
tions during the boycott.
II was in Tallahassee during
the boycott's first week. A for
mer rider of the buses told me:
"I wouldn't ride the buses, even
if they give in to all our de-
mandS." The mass protest had
put an end to his being an indi-
vidual helpless victim of the
raciSts. Now, in solidarity with
14,400 other fighters, there was
pride and Confidence purpose
in life. AS another expressed it:
"This is the best thing that ever
happened to Tallahassee. It's
Ang overdue. Now we're all to-
gethcr."
Don Meiklejohn, a reporter for
the daily Tallahassee Democrat
said to me: tits just fight be-
tween the bus company and the
Negroes. If it wasn't for these
out-of towners sticking their
noses into it, it would have been
all over with. There's no tension
here; we've always gotten
along" The widely touted "lack
Wf tension" was actually the
silent suffering of insults and
degradation for decades.
Arizona sun., 1956-11-08

Il GOOD newspaper and the
Bible IN eUery house, a good
schooMouSe IN every district,
and q church IN euery neigh
borhood all appreciated us
they deserve, are the chef
support Of vlrtue, morality,
c1uil liberty, and religion
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Chink in Iron Curtain
KEEL. Germany. June 21

KEEL, Germany, June II (P).
ham radio operators
have been permitted to make a
chink in the Iron Curtain. Hans
Hansen, manager of the German
amateur radio club, says four
German hams have made con-
tact with Russians in recent
weeks. He assumed this meant
the Soviets have lefted their s.
year-old ban on exchange with
radio amateurs in. the West.
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Iof New Orleans. but has been
baked so far in attempts to
extend his rule to New York and
other East Coast ports. Mr..
Reisel said Mr.. Bridges had
worked through Mr.. Kibre. Mr..
Velson and others in his efforts
to gain control of the East
Coast docks.
you think that If we trace
the activity Of Harry Bridges
in the various ports that we
would have a good idea Of what
Communist activities on the
waterfront are?" asked Robert
Morris, subcommittee counsel.
"Of course" replied Mr.. Reisel,
who described Mr.. Bridges as "a
champion Of Communist and
Soviet causes"
Sugar Workers Organized
In his interview with the sub
committee staff, Mr.. Riesel said
Mr.. Bridges is able to block the
port of Honolulu by calling wa
terfront workers out on strike,
and that he did SO on one occa-
sion.
He said Mr.. Bridges union also
has organized the workers on Ha-
waiian sugar and pineapple PLAN
tations and could not only shut
the port but close down the en-
tire (territoriaD economy by
calling an agricultural strike
Mr.. Riesel said Mr.. Bridges has
begun to take government work.
ers into his union, adding ut is
now quite probable that he will
have the same influence in gov
eminent Offices that he has
amongst the waterfront and
plantation rank and file"
The labor writer also said that
as part Of Mr.. Bridges so-far
unsuccessful effort to throw
weight on the Atlantic docks, his
union sent thousands upon
thousands of dollars to certain
elements on the East Coast"
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|MGM Planning
.Tv Invasion

HOLLYWOOD, June 81 (P).-
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio
has announced plans for a full
scale invasion of television.
Some ITO feature films, cover
ing the studios output from the
advent of talking pictures to
1949, will be made available for
TV through a distribution or
ganization set up by the studio
itself, officials said yesterday.
In addition, some 900 short
films will be released for tele-
vision and the studio will pro-
duce new material especially for
the home viewing audience,
MGM also plans to acquire
ownership interests in TV sta
tionS.
The scope Of MGM's plans for
embracing television caught
Hollywood by surprise. Although
other major studios have dab
bled in TV and many films have
been sold for reissue on tele-
vision. veteran movie makers
still tend to look on the new
medium as an enemy.
MGM's action was announced
after a meeting of the board Of
directors of Loew's Inc, parent
company of the studio, in New
York.
Among the feature pictures tc
be shown on television are "Mu.
tiny on the Bounty" Goodbye
Mr.. Chips" Mrs. Miniver,
THE Wizard of o." Crane
Hotel" THE Good Earth,
1.-The Yearling," Easter Pa
rade," Meet Me in st. Louis,
"a Tale of Two Cities" Gas.
light" and Random Harvest.
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mitted by the subcommittee will
be placed in the record.
d. C. Witness Called
Mr.. Reisel, who writes a COL
umn for the New York Daily
Mirror and other newspapers,
has urged Congress to investi-
gate what he called Communist
and racketeering influences in
the labor movement.
Two of the witnesses called to
testify before the subcommittee
were listed as JEFF Kibre of
Washington and Irving Velson
of New York, both described as
waterfront union officials"
Mr.. Reisel said Mr.. Bridges
control over his union puts him
in a position to shut down the
ports of Honolulu and San Fran
cisco at will.
He testified that Mr.. Bridges
also has influence" in the port
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-21

group. The Government has
failed to deport him to his native
Australia.
Mr.. Riesel. a crusader against
labor racketeering, recently was
totally blinded by acid hurled
by an unidentified and as yet
inexperienced person.
Interviewed by the staff Of the
Senate Internal Security Sub
committee Tuesday in New York,
his sworn testimony was made
public prior to a public hearing
today to inquire into what the
subcommittee called Communist
activities on the waterfront.
The subcommittee last -'"'t
said the hearing today will be
held here instead Oh iii New
York as originally planned.
Mr.. Riesel will be unable to
appear as a witness but his
sworn answers to questions SUBJ
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Hunt for Bodies
In Plane Crash
UptoVenezueIa

NEW YORK. June 81 (P).-A
spokesman for the United States
Civil Aeronautics Board said to-
day that continuance Of sgrap-
|pling operations for the bodies
of the "A persons who died in
yesterdays airliner crash would
depend upon "the decision of
the Venezuelan government"
The Venezuelan four-engined
Super Constellation crashed 80
miles of the New Jersey Coast,
beyond the territorial waters of
the United States.
Although the accident occur
red outside the CABS jurisdic-
ton, the board quickly went in
to action, collecting what evil
dence it could and standing
ready to help.
Inspectors Due Tonight
But. said the CAB spokesman,
further graphing procedure
would await arrival Of Venezuela
an inspectors flying from Cara
cas-. officials of the airline,
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana,
said the inspectors were due to
arrive tonight.
The Coast Guard said it will
continue graphing operations
"if the CAB DESIRES"
The Coast Guard also said the
cutter Gentian and an amphib-
ian plane would start searching
the crash area later today.
Twenty of those aboard the
Inflated craft were Americans.
OF the Venezuelans "a were stu
dents in this country, ranging in
age from IL to 20. returning
home for summer vacations.
Others were French. Italian and
Spanish.
Pianist Team Perish
The victims ranged from a
lteen-age brother and sister team
of piano virtuosoS. travelling to
South America to launch con-
cert career, to a retired petrol
cum engineer, returning to the
home in Caracas where he had
spent much of his life.
The plane left Idlewild Air
port at 11:18 pm. Tuesday. Not
far from New York one of its
engines began spinning wildly
out of control. The big ship
swung around to return to Idle
wild.
On the way back the airliner
caught fire and crashed into the
Atlantic at 1882 am. yesterday.
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Star Education Writer
Wins journalism Award

James q. Deane Of The Star
has won one Of the five major
awards offered by the Education
Writers Association for out
standing achievements In the
field Of educational journalism
last year.
Mr.. Deane will receive an en-
graver plaque emblematic Of
outstanding day-by-day coverage
Of the educational field at the
associations annual luncheon
Tuesday at the Jefferson Hotel
In Atlantic City.
The Education Writers Asso-
citation is the national profess
sional organization Of education
editors and reporters.
Specialized Here
Mr.. Deane has specialized in
Washington area educational
affairs since 1852. He Joined The
Stars reportorial staff in 1947
following Army service.
During the last year. his extern
sive and thorough-going work in
cieded penetrating coverage Of
four principaI phases:
l. The need for special educa-
ton Of retarded children. in
which Mr.. Deane barred an almost
unknown situation. and was in
strumental in congressional ap-