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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Tenant Slain
By Landlord
BeItsviIIe Man
Held for Murder

A 23-year-old man was fatally
shot by his landlord today after
an argument between the two at
their home in Beltsville, Prince
Georges County police reported
Police said the victim, Ray
mond @. Waskey, %, had become
involved in an argument with
the landlord over the alleged
attentions paid the latter's wife
by another man.
Held on a charge of murder
is Calvin c. Arbaugh, 80, a tree
cutter, who lives at Linden and
Walnut streets.
Mr.. Waskey. an animal at
tendant at the University of
Maryland's livestock laboratory,
was wounded by a shotgun blast
in the chest about 1870 am. He
died at 1857 am. at Leland Me-
mortal Hospital, Riverdale,
where he had been driven by
Arbaugh IN the latter's car, po-
lice said.
Detective John Wilding said
Arbaugh objected to the atten-
lions paid his wife by another
man. Arbaugh chased the man
from his home through a nearby
woods and then got into an ar
gument with Mr.. Waskey about
the incident when he returned,
police said.
Police Pvt. Yorke Flynn said
he found the murder weapon,
a 20-gauge shotgun. under a
mattress in the backyard of the
house
Arbaugh will be given a pre-
liminary hearing Monday in
Police Court, Upper Marlboro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
D. c. Heads to Ask
Congress for Aid
To Schools Here

The District Commissioners to-
day agreed to ask Congress to
include the Capital in pending
legislation to extend Government
aid to Federally impacted school
districts.
The city heads acted at the
request of the Board of Educa-
ton, which voted to seek Federal
aid yesterday.
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin said a written request
will be sent to the appropriate
committees.
A bill extending the Federal
aid program to 1858 already has
been approved by the House
Education and Labor Committee
and is due for floor debate
shortly. School officials said they
plan to ask both the Senate and
House for laSt-minute action to
prevent the city from losing out
on the program.
The Star disclosed Sunday that
the city apparently was letting
the chance slip by. Supt. Hobart
NJ. Corning yesterday said he had
tried to have the District included
in the program in three previous
years but I'VE weren't invited to
testify this year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03

States voted for Gov Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina
instead Of Harry S. Truman.
Plaquemines Parish is de-
scribed as perhaps the richest in
Louisiana. 1t has valuable sui
phur deposits and most of the
tidelandS oil is off its extensive
shores.
Thomas L. Stokes. writing in
The Star in August, l949, said
Mr.. Perez is heavy in OIL" and
continued:
He owns royalties all over his
Louisiana domain. He combines
business and politics in a way of
life that has made him both rich
and powerful. He runs a
virtual dictatorship which
puts other famous bosses-the
Hagues, Pendergasts and Crumps
in the shade -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Daylight Time Bill
For District Signed

President Eisenhower yester-
day signed bill extending day.
light saving time here for one
month to the last Sunday in
October.
The measure, recently passed
by Congress. would authorize the
District Commissioners to order
daylight time here until the rest
of the country goes off it.
The President. at Gettysburg
also signed a bill to exempt from
real estate taxes the property
of the Columbia Historic So
ciety here.
The impressive brownStone
castle-type building was for
merly owned by Christian Heu-
rich 1t is located at ll35
Twenty-firs street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Butch Leaves
Here;
Sure Happy
BY JAMES F. MOSER, JR.

Ten-year-old Robert (Butch)
Upton is going home today
after nearly seven weeks at
Georgetown University Hospital
His comment; I'm sure happy
But the plucky double amputee
will have to return in about two
or three weeks to Gontinue eX-
erciseS in preparation for fitting
him with artificial arms. He
lost his arms as the result of
touching a high-voltage wire at
his home at McConchie, Md, on
May 10.
Dressed in a white shirt. a
colorful tie and dark pants,
Butch left the hospital today
with the Rev. Wade Stafford
Episcopal Minister who baptized
the little boy at the hospital on
May 25-the day his arms were
amputated.
The two went to Station
WTOP-TV, where Butch APP
peared on the Mark Evans Show
and was given nearly $500 in a
fund collected by Mr.. Evans
Butch also was given a puppy
which he named Snookie-be-
cause its mothers name is
Shocks. The pup was given by
Sidney Mesher of $500 Thir-
teenth street NV.
Butch, who has been receiving
instructions on the use of his
feet and toes from Mrs. Grace
CleaveS Of Colmar Manor. Md
will continue to work along this
line as well as taking exercises
for his neck and shoulder
muscles while at home.
Meanwhile. money being sent
to a fund set up at the Munsey
Trust Co. here for Butch has
reached total of $4,000, while
at LaPlata, Md. another trust
fund for him totaled $2,12123 as
of June 30.
The LaPlata fund is expected
to swell tomorrow. a spokesman
said when an all-star benefit
baseball game will be played at
2 pm. at Glasva. Md, for Butch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03

said their building operations
will begin on the eight-acre
block bounded by Fourth and
Third streets and G and l streets
SW. They will construct an
eig ht-Story aforementioned
apartment building, which will
contain 400 units.
There will also be 80 row
houses and duplex apartments,
each with private garden space
Mr.. Scheuer said even the row
houses will be air-conditioned.
The redevelopers said provision
will be made for off street park
ing and for recreation facilities
including swimming pool
solarium and other outdoor ia
cilities. The development cost OF
this block is estimated at IS mil
lion.
Actual construction is ex-
pected to begin by February,
and the first buildings are ex-
pected to be completed by early
1858. The rest of the project
in the 29-acre residential area
will be carried on by stages with
|2l2 years estimated for COM
pletion.
1920 Dwelling Units
The whole project will mean
the construction of about 1920
dwelling units. Construction will
be handled by Hegeman-H Harris
Co. Inc, general contractors.
The architects are Satterlee and
Smith.
A number of Federal and
District officials and members of
the Federal City Council were
present at the ceremonies in
the Cabinet Room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
School Board Approves
Retirement for Five

The retirement of two assist
ant principals and three teach
ers has BEEN approved by the
Board Of Education.
Miss Freda D. Egbert. assist
ant principal at Eastern High
School. and Miss Lettie E
Stewart, assistant principal at
Roosevelt. will retire on August
81.
Retired Saturday were Miss
Ella A. Handft. teacher at Cool
idge High School; Mrs. Thel-
ma P. Kettering, teacher at
West School, and Mrs. Anna B.
Kenef1ck, teacher at Wheatley
School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Zoning Body MAP
Lewis Plan Revision
Committee OKs
Groom Policy
Without Dissent
By GEORGE BEVERIDGE

The Commissioners Citizens
Zoning Advisory Committee has
set up machinery to try to work
out an acceptable version" Of
the controversial District coming
revision proposed by consultant
Harold M. Lewis.
In doing SO: the official citizen
group turned aside demands
from some business organizations
that the Lewis proposal be
Junked, and a new revision
started from scratch.
The committee policy was set
by Chairman Thomas j. Groom.
in statement to the groups
executive committee yesterday.
Some executive committee mem
bers are among the bitterest crit
les of the Lewis proposal When
Mr.. Groom asked for comment
on his statement, however, there
was no dissent.
Three Steps Outlined
Committee procedures pro-
posed in the statement follow
these steps:
J.. AS quickly as possible,
Groom subcommittee are to sub
NIT reports on every phase of the
controversial coming proposals,
suggesting specific changes where
desired.
g A new subcommittee, form
ed yesterday, will wrap these
suggestions into one report, to
be acted upon by the executive
committee and then forwarded
to Mr.. Lewis.
g. After MI. Lewis reviSes his
proposal, the full Groom Com
mittee will file a formal recon-
mendation with the District
Commissioners.
Mr.. Groom, president of the
Commerce Bank, said he felt
this machinery would serve the
purpose of getting all viewpoints
of the citizen group before both
the public and Mr.. Lewis by
September l. in as forceful a
manner as necessary.
Noting that he had attended a
series of 10 public meetings held
during the last two weeks to
discuss the Lewis proposal, Mr..
Groom said he was aware of its
many controversial angles"
Not for Junking 1t
But. frankly, I am not one Of
those who feels. to use express
slons heard at the meeting,
that the whole thing should be
thrown in the waste basket or
the whole thing should be torn
up
"On this committee, we have
the best available talent on zon-
ing problems. We can criticize
the Lewis report and, no doubt,
there are many phases which
should be criticized. But if we
criticize, let us make recommen-
dationS where corrections or
changes should be made. This is
our opportunity to perform a
real community service"
Mr.. Groom named James C.
Wilkes, attorney and coming spe-
icialiSt, chairman of the group to
consolidate the various Subcom-
mittee reports. AS other men,
bers he appointed Maj. Gen. U. S.
Grant, Ill. Thornton w. Owen,
Mrs. Walter Tobriner and Fred
j. Halter.
The executive committee took
no action on a proposal that the
National Capital Planning Com
mission should perfect a city de-
velopment plan, covering such
factors as population, downtown
development, mass transit and
general use of city land, before
an effective new coming code can
be written,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03

spend a few weeks in the woods
this year. She is thfilled to
death. She knows that she and
her Woodworking husband, cab
driver. could never get enough
money together to send him
themselves.
She feels camp would save her
boy from too much of the quick,
crowded city pace.
1t hasn't been easy, but Mrs
Browning has been another in a
long line Of Europeans who have
found the American dream did
not betray them. She wants her
children to have the best of both
worlds. Camp will not only be a
good experience for her CITY,
bred boy. 1t will give him a
glimpse of the pastoral environ
ment she remembers.
Would Have Memories
She probably will never be
able to afford to take him to her
village in France. But his men,
cries of camp will make it easier
for her to share her memories
with him.
Your contribution to the Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will be another sign for her
that. in spite of occasional
loneliness and grief, America is
good place to live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Rambling

Bernard L. Grossman of
Arlington noted these two
paper-back books on display
practically side by side in a
store there: Build My Gal
lows High and Don't Hang
Me Too High
A motorist on Virginia
avenue parked his car to
watch the result OF horse
back riders attempts to force
his mount to so beneath the
railroad underpass. 1t took
five tries, the motoriSt reports,
before the skittish horse went
through at a gentle walk. >.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Fairgrounds Open

The Fairfax County Recrea-
ton Depart IN ent yesterday
opened 38 community summer
Fairgrounds and six teen-age
centers for a five-week program
lasting until August 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Indignation Foe Slated
To Be School Quiz Aide

and an opponent of school inte-
grafton. as chief counsel to
House investigators of the Dis
trict schools. is expected to be
announced Thursday.
The District schools investi-
cation is to be made by a
House District subcommittee.
The subcommittee announced
aims are to look into juve-
nile delinquency and lowered
standards in the schools.
Mr.. Davis said in Baton Rouge,
La. today that he heard he was
being considered for the sub
committee counsel post and had
talked about it by telephone with
Representative Davis, Democrat
of Louisiana. He said he is not
candidate for the job, but if
l can be of service I'll con-
slider it."
Mr.. Davis said today he does
not want to make any statement
about Mr.. Perez appointment
until after the subcommittee
meets Thursday.
Read of Problems Here
Mr.. Perez said he had read of
tine problems of school integra-
ton in the District. but had
not investigated them himself.
He said couple of months ago
he asked someone who had
been recommended to hlm-he
said he did not recall the name
TO make an investigation of
the school situation here. He
said he had not received a re-
port.
Asked about his interest in
the matter, he said:
Everybody is interested. This
is an innovation in govern
ment, the first time in history
an attempt is being made to
use the coercive powers of the
Government to force integra-
ton.
Mr.. Perez is district attorney
in St. Bernard and Plaquemines
Parishes (counties) III Southern
Louisiana. He was formerly
head of the States rights move
ment in Louisiana.
Primises Open Mind
He said that if he is appointed
to the post here he would keep
an open mind in the finding of
facts on which conclusions could
be based.
The State Legislature is in
session at Baton Rouge and Mr..
Perez said that is the occasion
for his visit there. He added
that he intends to visit Wash
ington and would testify before
the Senate Judiciary Committee
in opposition to the civil rights
bills.
Mr.. Perez has been described
as the lone remaining political
boss in Louisiana and a benevo-
lent dictator with st~.oo on
dictator" - in his bailiwick,
Plaquemines Parish.
He also has been called a
wizard when it comes to bring
ing about the results he wants in
politics. He is rated one of the
most able constitutional law
yers in the country. One de-
scription is that he is a fiery
man of strong likes and dislikeS
and in nowise lacking in cour-
age.
known as "the Judge"
In Louisiana when you refer
to the Judge" only one person
is meant-Mr. Perez. He was
formerly judge in the district
which includes st. Bernard and
PlaquemineS Parishes where he
is now district attorney. In st.
Bernard. however. his rule is not
absolute; he has to divide it with
competitor.
He has been described as the
brains behind the tidelandS oil
fight, and that covered the ma
tional effort as we'll as that in
Louisiana. He is also said to
have master minded the Dixie
crat fight of r948 when four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03


Fourth and South Capitol streets
and E and l streets.
With Sherman Adams, presi-
Dental assistant. sitting between
them at the cabinet table. the
papers were signed by Roger L
Stevens. New York and Detroit
financier. and John A. Remon
chairman of the Redevelopment
Land Agency.
Heads New Corporation
Mr.. Stevens is president of the
First National Capital Redevel-
opment Corp: recently formed
to undertake the southwest pro-
gram. James S. Lanigan, New
York attorney and secretary
treasurer of the corporation, also
signed. Signing with Mr.. Remor
was John R. Searles, jr.. secre-
tary of the Land Agency.
Present with Mr.. Stevens wa
James H. Scheuer, New Yorl
housing developer. who is vict
president of the new corpora
ton.
Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Scheuel
said their objective is to breaE
ground and begin construction
at the earliest possible date con-
sistent with perfecting "SounC
plans for a fine new residential
neighborhood in this former
Slum area.
400-Unit Apartment
Mr.. Remon expressed hi.
qualification at bringing thu
plans to point which promises
to produce something above
ground"
Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Scheuel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03

TODAY

The Seth Armored Cavalry
B Troop Reconnaissance
Squadron winds up its meet
ingS in the Hotel Washing
ton.
The International New
Thought Alliance meets in
Hotel Statler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Broque

Mrs. Robert Whitney I'M
brie, erstWhile of Boston, was
having some work done in
her apartment on Sixteenth
street, where she's lived for
some 80 years.
She told the repair man to
just look around, find what
needed to be done, and do it.
DO you come from Beacon
Hip" he asked
Mrs. Imbrie, surprised, in
formed him she went to
school on Commonwealth
avenue there, and asked him
how he knew.
Gould tell by the way you
talked" he said.
sAnd that, Mrs. Imbrie went
on, reminded her of the story
about her father, riding
through Ireland in one of
those little carts.
Are we from Boston?" the
driver of the cart asked.
Mrs. Imbrie's father said
he was, and asked how the
driver knew.
Il knew We by your brogue, +"
the driver replied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
400-Unit Apartment
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Mother Eager for Son
To Know the Woods

Mrs. Browning has never for
gotten the Countryside in her
native France.
A war bride, she loves her
adopted country and proudly
regards her children as young
Americans.
But the modest apartment in
which the family live in a
crowded part of the city is
very different from the life she
knew as a little girl. Then she
lived in a large, comfortable
house in village. She finds it
hard to adjust to city life.
Mrs. Brownlng's memories of
her homeland we're intensified
recently by the death of her
mother. She knew her mother
was i'll probably dying, but a
trip to France was out of the
question for lack of money. So
her mother died and was
buried thousands of miles away,
and Mrs. Browning was not
there.
Her distress deepened into
depression, and her state of
mind soon affected her children.
Their mothers tension in re-
cent months has made it hard
for them.
Helped at Clinic
However. treatment at a men,
tel health clinic has helped
tremendously. Although still not
completely on her feet again,
she is planning ahead for her
boy and girl.
The best news she has had in
a long time was the word that
her son, who is 10, might be able
to 60 to camp.
She has been telling Johnny
about what it's like to live in the
woods. A lively, active boy
Johnny can't wait to go tc
camp. He expects it to be just
plain fun. and. more than any
thing, he wants to learn how tc
swim.
Mrs. Browning didn't dream
her boy might have a chance tc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Paris Opium Den Found

PARIS, July 3 (P). vice
squad of the Parish police force
has discovered an opium smok.-
ing den in the fashionable quar-.
ter of the Arch of Triumph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Lease Signing Clears Way
For Areo B Construction
By FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS

The finally cleared building Southwest
Redevelopmen Area with signing of
terday at the White House.
This marked the beginning of mulmilion dollar
development for which discussion planning have
stretched decade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Name

Why do they call 1t the
MatOmic Building?
When this big, compare
lively new office building at
I'LL II street NV. was de-
signed by the late Matthew
H. Lepley he sought to
make it the most bOmb-re-
Sistant structure in Wash
ingtOn, with the thickeSt
walls of any modern build
ing.
Jerry MaiaticO built it,
and the name MatOmic was
MIR. Lepley's play on words
TO combine Mr.. MaiaticO'S
initial with the buildings
nature.
II was intended as a tenn
pOrary name until more
suitable title could be
found. But no more suit
able name has turned up
since it was opened a couple
of years ago, and SO it has
remained the Nation C
Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
The
Rambler
Lost and Found:
A Lody's Purse
BY JACK JONAS

Mrs. o. K. Williams is con-
WINGED that the people in her
Nations Capital are not so
faded, after all, by the talk
that goes on here about
spending millions.
They can get concerned
about even S183.
Mrs. Williams, who lives
down yonder in Tennessee,
drove through Washington
recently on her way back
home after a trip. She got to
Culpeper, Va, before she
noticed she no longer had
her purse with her. She re-
membered having it last at a
filling station in Washington.
She stopped in a Culpeper
service station operated by
Stewart Crane and told him
her plight. He got, on the
telephone and called the
American Automobile AsSoci-
alton office here.
The AAA dispatcher began
doing a little telephoning
himself.
He began calling the Serv-
ice stations on the route-No.
29-Which Mrs. Williams had
taken through the city. He
struck pay dirt when he hit
No. on his liSt-a service
station in the 1900 block of X
street NV.
Sure the operator said.
I just found a pocketbook
herewith $193 in it,"
Mrs. Williams drove back
and picked up her purse.
Gone
Where are the orators of
yesteryear??
That question is spanked
by a news release from the
Library of Congress which
quotes part of a speech
made to the Senate May 5,
1880, by Senator Daniel w.
Voorhees, of Indiana. In
pleading for adequate Ii
brary facilities, Senator
Voorhees, told the Senate:
The physical man must
grow old, his hair must
whiten, and his face bear
the burrows of years; his
step must falter and his
hand grow feeble. Not
necessarily SO with the in
tellectual man. The mind
fed at the crystal fountains
of accumulated knowledge
will continue its youth, its
growth, and its expansion,
until it makes its final tran
tiOn to a sphere of endless
and unlimited develop
ment. ;"
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1956-07-07
YE EDITORS NOTEBOOK
TALLAHASSEE BUS BOYCOTT SUCCESSFUL

Negroes in Tallahassee seeking desegregaton on
buses by boycott have the first round The buses
might not be desegregd but the boycott has put the bus
company out of business temporarily at any rate They
ceased operation on July 1.
Now there comes another grievance. The Rev. G. K.
Steele president of the Negro Council says that
since the bus boycott the police deliberately ntim
dating Negroes Seemingly they wanted to them out
of the downtown area.
Here is what the Rev. Mr.. Steele says:
1T seems that they don't recognize that we are in
town not to break laws but to pay bills and to give bust
ness and patronage to stores that friendly there
eff they continue their police intimidation it will
finally become necessary for to stay out of town and
make other arrangements We may have form
cursons to other cities to spend what little money we have
to spend However would rather spend money to
help the growth ond expansion of our businessmen
and CITY,"
It would be too bad Negroes had to go out of town
to do business Here is concrete evidence that Negroes
should business We have been able to succeed
in the insurance business why not enter other fields in
big you able deliver the goods and give sat-
isfactory service, you will succeed