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the rest. Total estimated cost of
this section of the Inter-American
is $26 million but it probably will
run much higher.
Amos Claims Credit
On existing highways all over
Guatemala today are billboards
telling the people that the liberia
ton government of Col. Carlos
Castillo Armas is making good its
promises to knit the country's
broken terrain with good roads
the primary requisite for the Ma
tons development in every other
field.
Using the best Madison avenue
saturation technique. his signs re-
peat over and over that 1.-The
Communists made promises-the
Liberation movement is delivering"
There is no arguing with his
logic as it pertains to the Inter-
American highway.
A visit to the tapon, or gap, in
the road through the Americas was
one of the highlights of the re-
gional conference of the Inter-
national Road Federation held
here late last month. Engineers
and public works officials from
all the Central American states
sat down around q conference
table to talk out problems relating
to simplified and uniform entry
and exit permits, jointly operated
customs and immigration facilities
at border points and great fiexi-
bility In Interpretation Of regula-
tons at the frontiers. They also
heard an optimistic report that
a feasible route has been found
to cross the towering peaks and
dense jungle in southeastern Pam
anna to connect with the South
American system in Colombia.
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DISTRICT
BY HECTOR Mclean

A District Christmas story in the
o. Henry tradition concerns a
chapel that isn't built.
Whether it will be built is up
to Congress when it gets around
to approving the District budget
for the fiscal year which begins
next July l.
The chapel, funds for which were
approved by the District Commits
sioners in sending the District budg-
ct to the Federal Budget Bureau,
would be located at the main gate
of the District Reformatory. That
institution at Laurel, Va, is actual
ly a penitentiary. And, the chap
lainS there have complained, the
place was not even trying to
live UP to its name as a reforma-
tory-at least as far as facilities
are provided for the reforming in
fluence of religion.
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THE NETWORKS ARE STEWING
Gables Back and TVS Got Him!

even brief communion with tele-
vision set that there is more time
than there is good program material
to fill it. Why shouldn't the net
works welcome this new source of
entertainment good enough that
people once paid to see it?
Advertisers Love Them
Viewers like feature films and
they attract stable audiences.
For this reason. advertisers like
them.
Advertisers also like them be-
cause they mean less work and far
fewer problems than live shows.
Hollywood feature movies do not
beat their wives or get arrested for
drunken driving and not one of
them has shouted 20 minutes be-
fore air time that this script has
to be changed. Sponsoring a fea-
ture film is nice, clean, simple
operation.
But from networks point Of
view, these bargains come too dear.
For one thing, Hollywood movies
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DISTRICT
The Story Of the Prison Chapel

Kreutzer and Father Carl ]. Brett
Teller have plans drawn and even
a prison. constructed model which
Father Breitfeller used to persuade
the Commissioners to override the
recommendation of their Budget
Office that the chapel not be built
next year.
The chapel design has been APP
proved by Archbishop Patrick
O'Boyle of the Roman Catholic
Church, by Bishop Angus Dunn of
the Episcopal Church and by Of
ficials of the Washington Fedora
ton of Churches.
1t has been described as unlike
anything else in the country. The
scale model, which took some 500
hours to construct, is shaped like
a large l. with two halls coming
together at the angle, where per-
manent altar will be located.
The ends OF the two halls can
be closed of with accordion pleated
walls, which will run in back of
affairs recessing into the floor on
hydraulic lifts. Thus, the building
can be divided into three chapels
for simultaneous use by different
faiths. Also, the floor level rises to-
ward the back of the halls in g.
inch steps SO everybody may see the
ceremonies.
Offices, guard room, confessionals
and choir loft are in a third Sec
ton of the building between the
two arms of the l., as is basement
for plumbing and heating equip
ment.
Inmate labor, 1t is estimated, will
make it possible to construct the
building for $4,000, as compared
to the 100000 which would have
to be spent under a private con-
tract.
Architect in Confinement
Designing Of the building has
been done by an inmate. and this
alone is estimated to have saved
the District some $4,000 He is
Farmer j. Thomas, convicted a
year and a half ago in the District
Of counterfeiting 500 bills.
At the request of the chaplains,
he was assigned to their Office and
given a drawing board. He would,
Father Breitfeller said. produce a
plan and invite the chaplains to
tear it apart" Then, after they
had suggested several changes,
Thomas would redraw the plans.
When they finally were complete,
he and another inmate. Ronald
Jeter. started constructing the
scale model, which is laid out as
it will appear on its site only few
feet from the reformatorys No.
guard tower. The model is COM
plete. even to the departmental in
sigma painted on the model trucks
show in the area.
The two most amazing features
OF the project. however, are these:
Thomas learned architecture
through correspondence course
at San Quentin Penitentiary in
California. And he has never been
in church in his life.
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The Inter-Americon Highway Inches
Through GuotemoIo's Wilderness

H. Stewart Merriman, chairman
of the road federation, told the
conference that today I'VE have
reached the point where we can
definitely see the vista Of an open
road running from Alaska to
Southern Chile"
1t Will Be a ReoIity
Fifteen. ten and even five years
ago, despite intensive effort and the
best Of good will, this could not be
seen as certainty" he said. TO
day we can say the Pan American
highway system viii be a reality
and that realization of our efforts
to achieve a hemisphere land
route Is assured. At the moment
$50 miles of Pan American highways
are under construction in Central
America and Panama"
Delegates also made a field in
spection trip to the Atlantic high
way from Guatemala City to the
Caribbean. Heretofore there has
been no road from the country's
main port to the interior, situa-
ton that has given the privately
owned railroad a freight monopoly
that has kept prices high. There
already has been talk Of a rs per
cent reduction in railroad freight
rates although the highway is still
q long way from completion.
To reach the spot where the
Nello L. Teer Co., q North Carolina
construction firm, is blasting
through solid rock to create q high
way one can drive along without
even shifting into second, requires
a trip surefooted mule would re-
gard with trepidation. It cork
screws through towering noun
tains, plunges into ravines, and
generally gives the impression it is
sliding into infinity.
At the end is a modern camp
with American food, TV and the
equipment to do the job at hand.
This project, too. is being financed
with United States money and a
World Bank loan. At present. the
contract to the Teer company alone
amounts to 81 million.
The third major project under
way here at present is the Pacific
Slope highway. which passes
through the fertile land of the Pa
cific coastal plain. It will afford an
alternative connection with Mexico
and FL Salvador. The central
stretch Of the highway, now largely
completed. has been financed two
thirds by the United States and
one-third by Guatemala.
Americans living in Guatemala
are optimistic. They feel that the
money being spent is helping Keep
communism out Of the Western
Hemisphere.
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AOCNCl al OlblCO anu OOullblCO Ol1Cl GU
proposals but group in Norfolk,
spurred by editorials of James M.
Thomson, editor of the old Norfolk
Dispatch, finally outbid the others.
After several drives for private
subscriptions. appropriations by the
Virginia General Assembly and
Congress, the opening day arrived
on April 26. The two principal ex-
hibition buildings as well yas sew
eral smaller ones. still were incom-
plete. The grounds, including Ra-
leigh square, were mudholes.
Nevertheless. 20 warships from
Great Britain, Argentine. Chile,
Germany, Austria, Mexico. Uruguay
and other foreign nations as well as
our own. provided a thunderous
opening with their salutes for Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt, the Sec
rotary of the Navy and the Gov
ernors of Maryland and Virginia.
The President delivered an OPEN
ing address clicked at one hour.
He then pushed gold button
officially opening the exposition
that in fact had been open all day
whenever facilities were sufficiently
completed to put in operation.
President Roosevelt held a recep-
ton, shaking hands with more than
5000 visitors, "but he went at the
task so vigorously that he concluded
one hour before the affair was
scheduled to start" This was big
disappointment to many who held
invitations for the reception sched-
uled at pm.
That evening, President and Mrs.
Roosevelt were due to attend din
ner at the home of former Repre-
sentative Harry st. George Tucker.
head of the exposition. Instead.
they went to the home of Barton
Myers, member Of the exposition's
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MARYLAND
What Kind Of Reception
Will Mr.. Duckett Get?

revived proposals to abolish 1t In
favor of two separate county con-
trolled planning and zoning au-
thoritieS in Montgomery and Prince
Georges.
It is not clear yet just what the
planning commission expects Mr..
Duckett to do for his fee. Some
have suggested that he might be
able to dampen the zeal for abol-
ishing the planning commission.
particularly among some Of the
Prince Georges lawmakers.
Whatever his precise mission,
Mr.. Duckett might pause to con-
slider the reception that Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges legislators
have given to other politically in
fiuential legislative counsel in re-
cent sessions.
The first that comes to mind is
former Representative Lansdale g.
Sasscer, Upper Marlboro attorney
and Democratic leader, whose most
recent trip to Annapolis as a legis-
lative counsel came in the 1856
session when he represented the
Carvings beer people in their fight
against a bill which would stop
them from opening a big new brew
cry in Maryland.
Opposition Dropped
Most OF the Montgomery and
Prince Georges legislators voted as
Mr.. Sasscer wished. but the rest Of
the legislature didn't. However,
Gov. McKeldin vetoed the measure
and since the Maryland breweries
have now decided TO stop insisting
on such a law. the veto apparently
will be upheld by the 1857 Legis-
lature.
Two other less successful exam
Piles involve L. Harold Sothoron.
chairman Of the Prince Georges
County Democratic State Central
Committee. and Montgomery Coun-
ty States Attorney Alger Y. Barbee.
also a Democrat.
Mr.. Sothoron represented the
Washington Gas Light Co. in its
vain attempt last year to obtain
legislative permission 10 condemn
land for the underground storage
OF gas in Southern Prince Georges
County.
No more successful was Mr.. Bar
bee two years ago when he repre-
sented groups interested in LIBERAL
izing Montgomery County liquor
laws.
In all three OF these cases. par
ticularly the latter two. II seemed
that the local legislators we're hesi-
tant TO cater to the special repre-
sen.atiyes IN question for fear that
they would appear TO be toeing
the mark for purely political con-
siderations
II is for this reason that some
observers are wondering whether
Mr.. Duckett's political position will
accomplish as much for his BIZ
county clients ~ they perhaps are
ANTICIPATING.
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BY SIDNEY EPSTEIN

GUATEMALA CITY.-Ollie Ham
mer is 70 and he had been an
explosives man for so years. He's
Norwegian born but is an American
citizen and has home in Redwood
City. Calf. His job is to blast away
the mountains that are blocking the
route of the Inter American high
way as it inches its way through
Northwestern Guatemala toward
the Mexican border.
Wiry and weatherbeaten, Ollie
looks 20 years younger than his
age. He's alive today because he's
fast on his feet. A few weeks ago
he and a group of his drillers and
dynamiters were standing on a
temporary roadway at the base of
a towering cliff ready to set of the
charge that would topple the over
hang into ravine hundreds of feet
below. Without warning the whole
side gave way-500 cubic yards of
rock. Ollie Hammer jumped for
his life. Three Of his men were
buried where they stood.
In addition to the tragedy of los
ing three men, the slide had set
back the timetable for construction
of the road. Because of slides and
flash floods American engineers are
reluctant to make firm prediction
Of when the road will be open. The
best guess is that by January l,
1858. an American tourist will be
able to drive, with safety. from
Texas, through Mexico, to Guate-
mala City. Finishing touches will
require another six months.
Six United States firms have
contracts for the nearly 200 miles
of road at cost of over $18 million.
The United States is picking UP
the tab for two-thirds Of the
project, with Guatemala paying
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VIRGINIA
By ALEX r. PRESTON

The jamestown Exposition Of
1907 was q far cry from next years
celebration Of the 350th anniversary
of the first permanent English
settlement here.
The gaudy extravaganza Of so
years ago. opened before half of
its exhibit buildings were ready.
It closed seven months later when
1t was ready to start. It ended up
financial flop. more than SIT
million in debt.
Elsewhere in today's Star is an
account Of the plans for the cele-
bration next year. It will be known
as the jamestown Festival-not Eek
position" - and is programmed
along more conservative but his
torically significant lines.
The site of the 1907 jamestown
Exposition has become the worlds
largest naval base at Norfolk. It's
opening was in a blaze of glory
with battleships from many foreign
nations firing multiple gun saluteS
in Hampton Roads.
For an account Of some Of the
trials and tribulations that beset
the affair Of so years ago, the
writer is relying on an eyewitness
account Of George w. Rogers, taken
from the files of the Richmond
NewS-Leader.
The Association for the Pres
ervation Of Virginia Antiquities
launched the tercentennial idea
with resolutions approved in 1900.
One suggested that the Virginia,
General Assembly hold the cele-
bration in Richmond.
Norfolk Won the Bidding
Gov. j. Hoge Tyler sought bids
from various localities. together with
ideas for financing the observance.
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Red Hungary:
The Iron Hand

The Soviet-backed Hungarian
government Of Janos Kadar moved
harshly last week to end the con-
timing strikes and slowdowns in
the nations industries. In a decree
recalling the worst days OF Stain.
the political police we're empowered
10 arrest without warrant and hold
without trial any person who dis
tlnbs the public order and es-
peeially production"
The repressive Law, similar to one
IN eject under the regime Of the
nCw-deposed Matyas Rakosi. pro-
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are slicker entertainment than most
television shows. Far more time.
money and care has been spent on
their production than is spent on
any but few TV shows.
In television, 100000 is an as
Economical budget. If you make a
movie for that price you may get
Marty" It is more likely,
though. that you will get a movie
like those we've already seen time
and again on TV.
Many Of the pictures now re-
leased are big ones. Those from
MGM, for instance, can give a
sponsor such audience bait as Greta
Carlo, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable
and SO on and on. In a competition
with the average TV show there is
almost no contest.
OFF to the Movies
These newer movies creeping into
television seem to be doing some
thing else that frightens some tele-
vision people. They are reminding
viewers how fine the Hollywood
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BY GENE GOODWIN

- It will be interesting to see how
7. Howard Duckett fares with the
Legislature this winter in behalf
of the two bi-county agencies he
helped create-the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission and
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
- Mr.. Duckett recently has been re-
tanned as special legislative counsel
by both commissions. The sanitary
commission is paying him a $4,000
fee, and he's scheduled to get $4,000
from the planning agency.
In addition to being a lawyer,
real estate man and chairman Of
the Suburban Trust Co., Mr.. Duck
EFT is a Democrat Of stature in sub
urban Maryland whose financial
contributions often have provided
plasma for local Democratic organ
izations.
The fact that all but one of the
~ members Of The General Assem-
bly, from Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties are Democrats OBJ
viously played some part in the de-
cision of the two commissions to
hire Mr.. Duckett to shepherd their
legislative programs, which are Of
more than routine importance this
year.
One Of the key planks in the
drastic 17-point legislative program
that Mr.. Duckett has helped de-
yelop for the sanitary commission
IS the proposed abolition Of the So
called front-foot benefit assessment
system by which suburban Mary
land property owners now pay in
annual installments almost all of
their lives for the lines that brought
water and sewer facilities into their
homes The commission proposes
to make developers pay in cash for
the cost OF new water and sewer ex-
tensions.
Drofted Original Low
Mr.. Duckett often is referred TO
as the father of the sanitary COM
mission since he drafted the law
under which the agency was found
ed in 1918. He was an oficial Of
the commission for more than 30
years.
And although he has not been
ofncially active in the commission
since 1851, he has continued his
obviously genuine interest in the
agency He has been consulted on
many important commission mat
ters and personnel appointments
even during the years from 1851
20 1855, when Republicans we're in
control.
Mr.. Duckett also PLAYED an I'M
bOrtant role. along with Mont
g0mery's E. Brooke Lee. in the
creation in 1927 OF the park and
planning commission.
The planning ageney's chief In
terest In Annapolis this winter VII
- IN saving It's neck in the face Of
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revealed that Poland won a veto
power over Red Army movements
and would hold Russian soldiers
accountable TO Polish civil law.
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Chaplain Knox Kreutzer has de-
clared that I'VE have been con-
Quoting our services in the at
mosphere of a burlesque house"
Services are being held in the
prison auditorium where movies
and stage shows are presented. The
equipment, says one corrections
department official, came from the
old Poll Theater. including hang
ings and chandeliers. The theater,
which was located at Pennsylvania
avenue and Fifteenth street NV,
where one veteran Westinghouse
recalls attending Gilbert and Sulli-
van operettas, was torn down in
the early 1930s as land was cleared
for the Federal Triangle.
The Plans Are Ready
The prison chaplains have been
campaigning four years for a suit
able chapel. Now the Rev. Mr..
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The Nixon Mission

Refugees from the workers para
disc continued 70 nov across the
Austrian border last week. and their
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Gov. j. Hoge Tyler sought bids
from various localities. together with
ideas for financing the observance.
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Southern Editor Lists
Administration Reasons

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (P.-F
ers oppose deSegregation of the
entitled THE Southern Case Ae
uary issue of Harper's Magazine
The author, Thomas r, v
IS. c. News and Courier, sal
Negroes and white which cause
white parents to oppose having
their children mingle with Negro
children.
Differences that most immedi-
ately come to the mind of white
parent, he said, are:
l. Health. THE incidence OF
venereal disease, for instance, is
much greater among Negroes
than among whites.
2. Home environment. "Slav-
cry is so long in the past that
nobody thinks about it any more,
but the master and servant, or
boss and laborer. relationship be-
tween whites and Negroes is still
the rule rather than the excep-
ton"
3. Martial habits. ION the
average one Southern Negro
child in five is illegitimate'
4. Crime. For many years
crime in the South has been
more prevalent among Negroes
than among white people.
Conservative, law-abiding people
are deeply fearful that hatred
and bloodshed would increase
without separation of the races.
S. Intellectual development.
united States News and World
Report-the fairest nationally
circulated publication / am &C.
Quainted with in it's treatment
of the race issue-has reported
that in Washington colored chill
dren are about two grades be-
hind the whites in attainment.
This discrepancy. l believe. is
about par for other commu-
mites"
After listing these factors. Mr..
Waring said:
Some advocates of indignation
say the way to cure these differ
ences is to let the children min
gle so that the Negroes viii learn
from the whites.
THE trouble with this theory
is that even if it works, a single
generation of white children will
bear the brunt of the load.
While they are rubbing of white
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list Germans Arrive
For Army Courses

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 up The
first German soldiers to come to
the United States in uniform
since World War II arrived here
by plane yesterday to study at
United States Army schools.
The 38 officers and enlisted
men from West Germany's new
army will be here from three
to six months.
1t. Col. Herbert Reidel. leader
of the group. said the Germans
were grateful for the oppor-
tunIty of learning what you have
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said Mr.. Warnings views were
far removed" from theirs. but
they felt the article should be
published and widely read.
In an editorial the magazine
editors said the Nation should
understand the state of mind
that Mr.. Waring reflects. They
added: so far there has been
almost no national discussion
between the men Of good will on
each side of the issue. Until
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civilization onto the colored chill
dren, Negro culture will also rub
off onto the whites"
Mr.. Warren. a member of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, said practically all the
national press has an almost
entirely one sided" attitude to-
ward race issues. The metro
politan press almost without ex-
Iception has abandoned fair and
objective reporting of the race
story" he added. For facts it
frequently substitutes propa-
ganda.'
Because of this, MIR. Warning
said, readers outside the South
May find it difficult, if not inn
possible. to believe that he is
reporting the facts" of South
ern public opinion.
The editors of Harper's, in a
note at the head of the article,
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such a dialogue can be stated
the angry men will dominate the
field"
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NEW YORK, JAM QF9-Five why white Southern
oppose deegiegation article
entitled The Southern Against Desegregaton in the
uary issue of Harper's Magazine.
The author Thomas Waring editor of the Charleston
S Courier, there differences between
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developed here during the past
10. years"
I'm sure we viii need this
experience in building up our
new defense army" he added.
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Pointsfor Purents ., ss,'A rAe"s. ws'as'

Mother-Ill help you arrange
the clothes you are going to wear
tomorrow. And anything you
have to take to school we will
put right here, tonight.