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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
Man Shoots Self as Police
Probe SIoying Of Wife

An Alexandria housewife was
shot to death last night by her
husband who also took his own
life. police said.
Mrs. Bertha L. Taylor. IS, OF
80 John Roberts Homes, was
killed.
Her husband. Cecil. died later
in Alexandria Hospital from a
bullet wound through the head,
Police said they were called 10
the Taylor home about tO:4s
pm. by Mrs. Taylor's brother
Clyde Breedon. 46, Of ll9 South
Henry street.
Mr.. Breeder said he and mis-
sister we're sitting at a Kitchen
table in the Taylor home when
her husband came in. Mr. .Breeoen
told police Taylor sat down at
the table and they discussed a
trafiic accident in which Taylor
was involved.
Jumped Up and Shot Wife
Mr.. Breeder said that sud-
denly Taylor jumped up drew
the revolver from his trousers
pocket. and shot his wife Mr..
Breeder said he ran out OF the
house and went TO a cab stand
at King and Henry streets to
can police.
He met policeman there and
told him about the shooting.
Pplice forced open the door
ana found Mrs. Taylor lying on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
Commissioners
Promote Three

Three major promotions were
annouhced today by the District
Commissioners.
They disclosed plans to make
DR.. Moe Weiss. chief of medical
services at Glenn Dale Hospital,
superintendent Of the institution.
He will take over when DR..
Daniel l.. Finucane. the preser<
superintendent, succeeds DR..
Daniel L. Seckinger as director
OF public health when the latter
retires at the end of January.
The Commissioners also APP
proved the promotion of Assist
ant Budget Officer David p. Her
man to the job of deputy budget
officer. succeeding William G..
IWilding who will retire at the
end Of the year.
Procurement Officer
The third promotion was that
of Rexford G. Vessels, deputy
procurement officer. He will
succeed Roland M. Brennan,
who will retire as procurement
officer at the end of this month.
DR.. Weiss, 43, was born in
Brooklyn, N. Y. He is married
and the father of two sons,
Roger. IA, and Mark, IL.
He received a $500 award
from the District recently for
outstanding performance.
Mr.. Herman, AZ, has been
with the District government for
I26 years. His first jon vas as
a highway department checker.
Born in Portland, Me-, he
holds degree as Bachelor Of
Foreign Service from George
town University here. He is
married and is the father Of
twins. a boy and girl who will
be IA next month.
Promoted 10 Grade GS-15
The promotion boosts Mr.. Her
man from the civil service grade
Of GS-14 at $i0.76O TO oS-15 at
$l1.61O.
Mr.. Vessels. 81. is a native
Washingtonian who says he vas
born on the site Of the olo Fed
eral Supply Building at Seventh
and % streets S.W.
He attended the old Central
High School and George Wash
ington University and has worked
for the District since 1910. when
he was first employed as an
ambulance driver.
His promotion boosts him
from GS-l3 at S9.205 70 GS-i4
at slo.320. A resident Of Arling-
ton. he lives with his wife and
two children. q girl. 3. and a
boy, 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18

the taste Of the age, the Revo-
luton of the Word:
People have learned to process
words--words and the thoughts
and attitudes they embody; they
have learned to manufacture en-.
tertainment and uplift as eff.
ciently as they manufacture any
thing else"
Fall Into Low Estate
AS a result, Mr.. farrell said
the art of words has fallen int
a much lower estate than the
other arts today.
Music, ballet, architecture, thu
visual arts in general are flour.
fishing in the United States, h,
said. Modern art, he said, i.
found even in the homes of fac.
tory managers.
The abstract painting may moi
be on the wall, he said, "but
make 1t into a sofa and they will
lie on it,
In fact. Mr.. FARRELL said, "a
great many people are perfectly
willing to sit on a porcupine, If
you first exhibit it at the Mu-
scum of Modern Art and say that
| it is a chair. In fact, there is
nothing. nothing in the whole
world, that somebody won't buy
and sit in, If you tell him that
its chair.
But, literature, the art of
words in general, is degenerating,
said the 42-year-old bearded
poet, who is a prolific writer
himself, as we'll as an avid fan
of hi-fi. sports cars and tourna-
ment tennis.
Victoria's Day Cited
Think back half a century
or so, he said. to Queen VIC
toria and her world. "She hae
never heard Of a Bureau Of
Public Relations; she had never
seen, or heard about, or dreamed
OF an advertising agency; she
had never seen a pres:
agent; she had never seen a
photograph of a sex-slaying in
a tabloid.
Queen Victoria-think of i'll
had never heard q singing
commercial. never seen an ad-
vertisement beginning Science
says :"
The greatest American in
dustry, Mr.. farrell said, lis the
industry of using words. We pay
tens of millions of people t.
spend their lives lying to us. or
telling us the truth, or supply
ing us with nourishing medici-
nal compound of the two."
But, he said, the more words
there are, the simpler the words
get" He said "the professional
users Of words process their
product as if it were baby food
and we babies: all we have to
do is open our mouths and
swallow
Backed Up by Cliche
One might define literature
he said as "a wish modified by
a truth" This Instant Litera.
ture, Ready-Mixed Literature,
he said, sis a wish reinforced by
a cliche."
Instant MISUNDERSTANDING
it's soap opera, a comic strip
a Broadway play, or a historical
sexual best-seller-tells us al.
ways that life is. in the end
not only exactly what we wish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
Area B Project
Start Is Seen
Early in June
DeodIine Extended
For Syndicate to
Get FILA Booking
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE

Prospects for a start of actual
construction in the pilot Area B
Southwest redevelopment prof.
ect now appear to be early next
June. officials said today.
This was brought out as the
Redevelopment Land Agency ex-
tended from December 81 to
March 81 deadline for the New
York development syndicate of
Scheuer & Stevens to obtain an
FILA mortgage insurance COM
Imitment on construction of the
first part of the project.
The first block to be built in
Area B calls for 81 row houses
and q 400-unit elevator apart
Iment in the block between
Third, Fourth, G and I streets
|S.W.
| A contract between RIA and
|Scheuer-Steyens called for the
FILA mortgage commitment to
be obtained by December 81
on the first construction portion
the 81 row houses.
Subsoil Problems
N. S. Keith, Scheuer- Stevens
|consultant, said the application
for the FILA commitment has
been filed, but that 1t was de-
Ilayed several weeks because Of
extensive test borings that had
to be ordered when serious SUBJ
soil problems were discovered in
the block.
Allan Elliot, FILA official, said
he hoped the commitments could
be handled by March 81. SO the
RIA today extended the dead
line to that date.
Mr.. Keith said he feels con-
tstruction could start about so
days after the FILA commitment,
which would put the time near
the first of June.
At the same time, Mr.. Keith
said Scheuer-Stevens will apply
for an FILA commitment on the
Elevator apartment building be-
tween January Is and Janu-
airy 81.
The entire Area B project con-
sists of 80 acres of land to be
rebuilt in residential and light
industrial structures.
Other Action Taken
In other actions. the RIA:
/. Authorized Chairman John
A. Remon to sign a document
being worked out with the Dis
trict under which the city would
agree to build specific public
structures in the big 442-acre
Area C Southwest redevelopment
project. This city agreement is
necessary before the RIA can
obtain Federal funds to begin
work on the project.
2. Instructed its staff to con-
fer with the District on whether
the city should hold of enforce
ment Of insanitary building con-
defamation actions against struc-
lures in Foggy Bottom.
Such enforcement was held up
in the Southwest because officials
agreed there was no use requir-
ing expensive renovations in
homes that would be taken for
Iredevelopment. The RIA also
proposes a redevelopment project
in Foggy Bottom but officials are
undecided about whether the
plans are too tentative to war
rant such a moratorium on the
same basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
NOTE ON PUBLIC TASTE
FARRELL Bemoons Era
Of Reody-Mix Writing

Public taste in the of Press Agentry Public Relations
Ready Instant Literature bewaed night by the
Governments only paid poet. Randall FARRELL.
Mr. FARRELL making his first address since taking the
chair Of poetry the Library Congress-
invited audience at the library that revolution has altered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
Soot-Suits

Santa Claus won't have
to worry this year about the
SCOT of WashingtOn's CHM
neys. If his bright red suit
gets sooted up as he slides
down the stack, he can go
right over to the Arlington
County Department Of Rec
reatiOn and suit up again.
The department says il
has three Santa Claus suits
on hand. They're brand
new, and any Santa Claus
who wants to borrow one
can do so II he gets his
reservation in In time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
Child Assured Real YuIe
|By Swift Welfare Action
The Welfar

The Welfare Department broke all
to get Christmas present to family in time.
Mr. and Mrs Willard Ware WOODBRIDGE and their two
children received 16-montod orphan Debbe
day in adoption proceedings in Domestic Relations Court
The Wares filed adoption papers Saturday They wanted
Debbie in the family by Christ -
she could whoop up unable to attend the ceremony
with their Bobby and He serving IN i,rv IN M
welfare uorkers r.had ~. This is the first
legal papers and character ref porant family
checks And this without him." his
ing Domestic Relations Judge wife told the Judge
Godfrey Munter signed the welfare official adop-
umen that Debbe to the tons usually
Wares and the Wares to Debbe six months Welfare
Then the Judge the baby lions and the trying
shiny silver dollar and thanked wherever possible
Mrs Ware providing orphans home for Christmas
for the child Mr.. Ware was the spokesman added
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The RexalI Drug Co. meets for
aAthird day in the Hotel ststler
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
The
Rambler
Customer Never
Taken for q Ride
BY JACK JONAS

Harry E. Stello, who has
been selling 500 or more by
cycles each Christmas season,
says he'd sell a lot more If
he weren't so honest about it.
Few people realize" he
says, that you have to have
the right sized bike. You have
to fit the kid.
1--WE lost sales because par
ents wanted to buy the wrong
size, and / wouldn't sell it to
them"
The Bicycle Association Of
America, he adds, recognizes
this problem. and puts out a
chart showing what sized bike
fits what sized youngster.
But SO per cent of my Gus
toners would buy the wrong
size If / didn't talk them out
of it," he says.
Mostly it's a tendency to
buy a wheel too large.
They buy them too big be-
cause they want them to last
longer. They figure the kid
will grow up to fit the bike, i"
MIR. Stello says. They don't
realize they can trade them
in. like autos.
kids have come in here
with bikes scratched up,
Spokes broken, tenders
smashed. They can get hurt
riding the wrong sized bike.
Il don't like to see that, so
! talk myself out of a lot OF
sales"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18

Inc businessman may find
he won't have to struggle
home laden down with fifths
of Scotch, pen and pencil
sets and fancy paper weights
in the future if this years
Christmas procedure of the
real estate firm of Shannon
g. Luchs catches on.
To the people it deals with,
the firm is sending this card:
I'm keeping with the true
spirit of Christmas we are
making a substantial con-
tribution to the United Givers
Fund of Metropolitan Wash
ington in lieu of sending ma
terial gifts to our friends and
associates.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
DR.. Sdbin, Jewish
Scientist. Develops
Orul Vaccine for Polio

CINCINNATI, (JTA) = DR.. Al
bert B. Sabin, a Jewish research
scientist, announced that he is
prepared to mass test a ive-virus
polio vaccine to be taken orally.
The Sabin vaccine has already
been tested on animals and hu-
man volunteers.
DR.. Sabin said that one dose of
the oral vaccine would produce
immunity against all three major
forms Of polio. He believes that
the vaccine will provide individ-
ual immunity and at the same
time be a safeguard against cpl
denies.
Tests of the vaccine will begin
next year in the United States
and four foreign countries. DR..
Sabine, so, was born in Poland
and came to this country in 1921.
He served in the U. S. Army in
World War II as lieutenant col
onel. A recognized authority on
virus diseases including the COM
mon cold, DR.. Sabin is associated
with the Children's Hospital Re-
search Foundation of Cincinnati.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
Emunuel Neumunn
Elected President
Of Z.O.A.

DR.. Emanuel Neumann of New
York was unanimously elected
president of the Zionist Organiza-
ton of America at the closing of
its 59th annual convention.
DR.. Neumann, a member of the
Jewish Agency Executive, served
as ZOA president in the two year
period from 1947-1949. He is also
now head of the Herzl Institute,
the Agency's cultural center in
New York. A lifelong Zionist, the
newly-elected president is among
the top ranking figures in the
world Zionist movement.
At its closing session, the con-
vention voted Gin the interest of
a more efficient and effective con-
duct of the organization" to con-
solidate the National Executive
Committee and the National Ad-
ministrative Council into a single
body to be known as the National
Executive Council. Abraham A.
Goodman of New York was elect
ed chairman of the newly formed
Council and Rabbi Max
of Hollywood, Associ-
ate Chairman.
DR.. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleve-
land was elected honorary presi-
dent Judge Simon E. Sobeloff of
Baltimore and Morris Weinberg
of New York, honorary vice presi-
dents.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12

ing in subtropical waters, an es-
pecially large amount of deck
space has been provided, in part
by increasing the breadth of the
upper deck.
Almost all the public rooms are
on the boat deck and a majority
are equipped with air-condition-
ing. In addition to the lounges,
reading and writing rooms, smok-
ing rooms and children's play
room, there is a synagogue, a
movie theater, a shopping center,
an art gallery, a library, swim
ming pool and many other ameni-
ties, including laundry and a
garage for passengers. The kitch-
ems have been so arranged as to
vouchsafe strict observance of
kashruth. The crew of 1872 will all
be Israelis.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
CITY OF FRANKFURT
DECORATES LEADER OF
LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITY

FRANKFURT, (JTA) = The
Honor Plaque of the City of
Frankfurt has been awarded to
Max Meyer, in recognition of his
role as the principal figure in the
rebuilding of the Jewish commu-
nifty here after the collapse of
Nazism. Mr.. Meyer, a 72-year-old
native of nearby Limburg, has
lived in Frankfurt for more than
half a century. For number of
postwar years he served as presi-
dent of the Jewish community
and now is the senior member of
its three-man executive board.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
EISENHOWER MAY TOUCH
ON ISRAEL ISSUES DURING
SPEECH IN NEW YORK

WASHINGTON, (JTA) = Po-
litical sources predicted here that
President Eisenhower may touch
on the Israel issues when he
makes a political appearance in
New York City in late October.
The Presidents intention to ap-
pear in New York for campaign
purposes was made known by
White House spokesman James
Hagerty following a call on the
President by Jacob K. Javits, Re-
publican candidate in the New
York Senate race.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12

The women, and Jewish ply
sician who had once been en-
ployed as prisoner-doctor in the
Auschwitz concentration camp,
described the injection treatment
which sterilized the women and
left them in continuous pain. The
court appealed to more former
inmates of notorious "block ten,' -
where sterilization guinea pigs
were kept, to come forward and
testify. The witnesses were ship
ped to the death camp from
Greece and Belgium"
Later, another victim of sterili-
zation Experiments" by DR..
Clauberg came forward to testify
before the president of the Tel
Aviv district court. The victim, a
young woman, explained how she
was brought to the Nazi death
camp as an adolescent and given
injections which destroyed the
possibility of her ever having
children. One result of these ex-
periments she said, was the
breakup of her post-liberation
marriage. She testified that a
number of other women who
were human guinea pigs" for DR..
Clauberg died following injec-
tions. She still feels pain even
now, the woman said.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12

Constructed for Israers Zim-
Shoham Lines under the repara-
tions pact and equipped to carry
$50 passengers, the new liner
should be ready for service in
March of next year. She will be
assigned to the regular three-day
run from Haifa to Marseille, via
Naples, but during part of the
year is expected to be used for
tourist cruises to South America
and the Bermudas.
Measuring 488 feet in length
and IS feet in width, the ''Theodor
Herzl" can reach speed of near
ly 20 knots. Almost all passenger
accommodations are in modern
and comfortable outside cabins,
166 in number, that range from
air-conditioned luxury staterooms
to multiple berth simplicity. AS
the vessel has been designed for
the Mediterranean and for cruis-
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12

This hundreds of agricultural settlements which have been
established Israel during the five and halt with the assistance
proceeds derived from the sale of State of Israel Bonds Israel Bond capital
has helped Israel the production Of such fi
wheat barley dates tobacco bananas olives bring
Introduction Of commercial such be and
The annual value Of aes production has
$988OOOOO in 1850 approximately $l80O0OOOO in 1855
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
German Court Seeks Testimony from
Jewish Women Sterilized by Nazis

TEL AVN. (JTA) of German court the
Tel Aviv district court took testimony from Jewish
living in Israel who serzed camp
The testimony will be used
clan who experimental Jewish inmates methods of
inducing sterity.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
ISRAEL'S FASTEST LINER
LAUNCHED TN GERMANY

HAMBURG. (JTA) The s0o0-ton "Theodor Herz largest
for Israel and fastest major
flag. slid down the Of German
while hundreds of and spectators
chez
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
Squirt in Aid to Latin Americans
Is Aftermath of Panama Meeting

Export Import Bank is considering
numerous requests for aid to Latin
America. Just as Mr.. Dooley's SUI
preme Court read the election re-
turns, some say, so the Eximbank
reads the news from Panama.
Dollars Start to Move
Dollars already have started to
stream south. Both Argentina and
Brazil have had financial missions
in Washington, visiting and enter
tanning officialdon1; and the Export
Import Bank, prodded by export
minded Senators, has made liberal
commitments. Brazil. which cannot
meet the terms of a 100000, 900
1853 loan which were once previ-
ouSly eased, is getting an additional
relaxation on its repayment, $751;
100000 of new money and promises
of still more Argentina is next in
line for Eximbank money and is
hopeful of United States support
for additional sums after it joins
the World Fund and World Bank
later this year.
The Organization of American
States including the Inter-American
Economic and Social Council and
other subordinate groups has been
studying and debating for years the
economic, financial, social and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
IS YEARS AFTER PETER MCGUIRE
Washington Is the Nations Labor Capital

L'Enfant, who drafted the grand
plan for Washington.
Still q labor landmark in WASH
ington despite the rise Of newer
and more pretentious buildings, is
the sedate headquarters Of John L.
Lewis independent United Mine
Workers at Seventeenth and I
streets. It was once the University
Club. The UNIV also uses several
other buildings in that area.
Plans for new buildings here in
clude . home for Labor" the pub
LEGATION of q number Of railroad
workers unions. Formerly situated
on independence avenue on Capt.
tol Hill, Labor" now occupies space
in the four-story building Of the
Milk Drivers Union, Local GAG, at
401 Third street NV. This struc-
ture on Courthouse. Square is an
enterprise Of local unit Of the
International Transfers.
Labor" plans to erect its edi-
tor1al and production plant on land
1t has acquired at First and d
streets NV, adding another labor
citadel to the Plaza-Capitol Hill
fringe.
Hold Carriers to Build
A few hundred feet up Sixteenth
street from the AFL-CIO building
soon will begin to rise the seat Of
the International Hold Carriers
Union. This group has just an
nounced plans for an 8-story lime
stone building at the corner Of
Sixteenth and I streets to cost be-
tween SIS and So million.
Another big union, the Inter-
national Bakery and Confectionery
Workers, has begun an 8-story
headquarters to be known as the
Solar Building, another block fur
ther on Sixteenth street across
from the Hotel Statler. The bakers
organization will move all of its
operations from Chicago to occupy
the Solar Building, it hopes. by
January /, 1858.
This same downtown Sixteenth
street neighborhood will be the
scene, if plans remain firm. Of dedi-
cation october / by the Interna-
tional Union of Operating Engineers
of their six-story building on Sew
enteenth street at De Sales street.
The 81 million project will have a
two-stcry facing Of Georgia marble
in keeping with the architectural
elegance that seems to be a labor
pattern here.
Out in the northwest reaches of
the city the Amalgamated Electric
Street Car Workers-whose local
unit has been prominent recently
in daily news-plan to dedicate their
new national headquarters. $780,
900 enterprise at Wisconsin avenue
and Garrison street NV, on Sep
TENDER Is. This is another union
transferring its national business
operations to the Capital. 1t was
previously located in Detroit.
Labor organizations with prop
erty suitable for future building
here include the powerful United
Steelworkers. with main head
quarters in Pittsburgh. but with
offices here at 1901 Connecticut
avenue. The steel union has for
a number of years owned property
at Seventeenth and F streets and
has acquired the tract in the 100
block of New York avenue now &C.
cupied by the Allies Inn.