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of flats and the aims of the ma
ton call for even heavier con.
'centration of such dwellings.
At present, he said, the So
viets appear to have bitten off
more than they can chew with
the skills and materials they
have available But he also
thinks they are not planning to
devote a sufficient percentage of
their national production to
housing in the future.
Deterioration of residential
construction will also be a big
problem to the Russians in the
near future, Mr.. Boswell predict
ed. He said they are neither
built with enough attention to
lasting qualities nor do they give
very good maintenance to the
buildings after completion.
He found a number of Soviet
building techniques he believes
worthy Of study with a view to
possible adoption in this country.
Principal among them is the pre-
casting of large concrete sections
which are used in the construc.
ton of apartment buildings.
He noted there is a strong
contrast between such advanced
construction techniques and the
poor quality and in some cases
nonexistence of certain snail
tools commonly used here. ;e
reported seeing not a single
wheelbarrow on construction
jobs during his visit but found
the Russians using a barrel on
poles which required two men to
carry it.
Mr.. Boswell. whose visit cnin-
cided with the early stages Of
the Soviets' current five-year
plan, said he would like to re.
turn in four years and see
they have reached their
goals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for TONIGHT

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation
with the Film Center of WASH
ington and the recreation de-
partmentS Of the District and
Arlington, Prince Georges and
Montgomery counties.
Washington. at Dusk
fourth ana Thirty-fifth streets NV
Iakoma' Fourth and Van Buren, streets
Edsewood, Third and Evarts streets NE.
Happy Hollow Eighteenth and Kalorama
Thomson, twelfth and L streets NV.
Lanesten, 2210 H street NE
Male. Ftftieth and streets Sc.
0iv sser Terrace Blaine street and Anacos-
JEFFERSON. Eighth and n streets SW
congress pS Heisnts: Savannah street and
Hillerest. Thirty-second and Denver
ttreets Sc.
Arlington County, $50 PM.
Halls Hill. 1900 South Dinwiddie street.
l40l South Walter Reed drive
FRINGE GEORGES County, $40 PM.
Lane Manor Playground. West Park
:. drive, West HyattSville.
Hollywood Elementary school Forty
ninth and Edgewood streets. coliege
Park
: MentGomery County. $50 Pm.
kensington Elementary school, Warner
and Detriek streets. Kensinston.
Place on Old Georgetown road.
Ma Ps'pis0 Elementary crsnb av,nu, ma
Macarthur drive. Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Last Jobs LET
OnROad Project
KeniIworth Avenue
Near Completion

The last two major contracts
on the huge Kenilworth avenue
NE. highway Improvement prof.
ect have been awarded, District
Highway Director John N
Robertson announced today.
The awards, totaling more
than 81 million. are for the con-
struction of a traffic interchange
at Kenilworth and Eastern ave-
nues and for four pedestrian
IoverpasSes at various locations
along the throughfare.
The interchange which will
lead Kenilworth avenue over
Eastern will be built by Hum
Iphrey's & Harding. a contractor
with Offices here, at an estimated
cost of $770,518.
The pedestrian overpass con-
tract was awarded to another
local firm. Heman Ward. Inc,
which submitted a construction
bid of $406,872.
The interchange bid was IA
per cent below the department
estimate and the overpass bid 2
per cent above the Office esti-
mate, Mr.. Robertson said.
The entire Kenilworth project
which will link such major
Maryland highways as the Bal
timore parkway, the Annapolis
freeway and Edmonston road
with the District is expected to
be completed by April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Russian People Found
Friendly by DC. Builder

A Washington builder, just re-
turned from a month-long visit
to the Soviet Union, said today
he found less hate toward Amer
leans as individuals than would
be expected from reading head
lines in the Communist papers.
Harry Boswell, jr., who toured
with a delegation of
the National Association of Home
Builders, found a lively hangover
among the people he talked to
Of the friendly attitude that ex-
listed during World War II.
During his visit Russian papers
the alleged violation
of Soviet borders by American
aircraft. Mr.. Boswell said these
headlines seemed to make no
difference in the attitude of the
people he met on the streets.
Discussing Soviet housing
construction, he said the ma
jority of it runs to large blocks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Boot|eggerGets
1S-Month Term
CIemency Denied
To Maryland Man

BALTIMORE, July 25-(Spe-
ciaD. = Federal Judge Dorsey
Watkins today rejected a strong
plea for clemency for Ebert
'Ignatius Hayden, Leonardtown
cleaning establishment operator
and sentenced him to serve Is
months in jail for possessing I'M
taxed liquor.
The judge said he was i'm
pressed by Hayden's good record
as cited by his attorney, Philip
H. Dorsey, jr. Mr.. Dorsey is UNI
opposed for circuit Judge in st.
Marys County in the November
election.
Judge Watkins said, IT can
not send a still operator and a
still worker to Jail and then per-
NIT a man supposed to be a still
hacker to stay free"
Father of 10 Children
The judge said that Hayden
could be eligible for parole after
serving six months of his SEN
tence. A Jthree-year Jail SEN
tence on a second count, charg-
ing a similar offense, was sus-
pended by Judge Watkins, who
placed Hayden on probation for
that length Of time after his Jail
term ends.
Mr.. Dorsey said the defendant,
father of 10 children, is a man of
high standing in his home COM
munity and runs a 60-acre farm
as we'll as a cleaning shop.
A double-tax penalty of 1924
was assessed against Hayden on
the untaxed liquor.
Hayden, 81, was arrested in
September, 1855, by revenue
agents who detected "the dis
tinctive odor of non-tax-paid
liquor" through sealed mason
jars inside a closed truck.
Guilty Plea Entered
Hayden had pleaded guilty be-
fore Federal Judge Watkins, who
rejected the defendants plea
that the search and seizure were
unlawful. Sentence was deferred
until today.
Judge Watkins held that
agents had reasonable grounds
for suspicion" that there was un-
taxed moonshine in Hayden's
truck, parked behind a Leonard
town dry cleaning establishment.
Agent Wilton M. Kiefer testi-
fled that:
Illicit liquor made in the
woods under crude conditions
has a distinctive odor that can
best be described as that Of nom
taX-Daid linilor -
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2 Indian Villages
.Remuins Are Found

WILL1AMsPORT, Md, July
rs Especially Remains of two
Indian villages have been uu-
covered at three and six-foot
levels beneath the bed where
Conococheague Creek joins the
Potomac River here.
The discovery was made by
Nicholas Yinger and Ralp Fout
of Frederick. They said bone
needles, fish hooks. arrow heads,
tomahawks and beads were
found at both levels.
In the excavation at the SIX
foot level were found the COM
plete antlers of a deer, and an
entire fireplace filled with char
coal and wood ash which Mr..
Yinger said would enable them
TO determine the exact time the
Indians lived.
He said the discoveries are
being made available to the
Smithsonian Institute at WASH
ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
.GSA to Take Over
Southeast Hospital
Old Providence
To House $50
U. S. Workers

The old Providence Hospital
building, Second and D streets
Sc, will be leased by the Gen.
eral Services Administration to
permit the demolition of tempos
IN connection with the State
Department expansion program.
Daniel w. ODonoghue, attor.
ney for the hospital, which last
spring moved to its new plant at
Twelfth and Varnum streets
NE, disclosed that negotiations
are under way with GSA to pro-
vide space for $50 Federal
workers.
He declined to say how much
money was involved.
GSA said the hospital will be
leased for the specific purpose Of
housing State Department work.
erS until construction of the new
State Department Annex-for
which Congress granted con-
Struction money this years
finished.
House $50 Workers
The situation is that construc.
ton of the new State annex
west of Twenty-third street and
north of C street NV. will re-
quire early demolition of three
tempoS, which now house about
$50 State workers. So new space
must be found for $50 State en-
ployeS. although those who oc-
cupy the three tempos might
move to Providence.
After the State expansion is
finished. Providence will be
needed no longer. So the GSA
plans no major alterations or
repairs to the old hospital, Of
f1cials said.
No lease has been signed yet.
But negotiations are for a five
year lease. with a 9O-day can
collation. clause after three
years, GSA said.
Mr.. ODonoghue declared the
hospital had hoped originally to
set up out-patient facilities and
"a clinic in the old structure. but
that it would have involved pro-
hibitive costs"
Decision Made Reluctantly
The hospital administration, he
said, did not want to leave
Southeast in a vacuum of hos
pital services, but was forced to
make the decision because of the
old building and the money in.
IVolved.
He pointed out that the new
Providence Hospital building was
built under the 1852 amendment
to the Washington Hospital Gen.
ter Act which permitted the hos
pital to put up so per cent of
the cash needed and retain the
old plant.
Under the original act, the
three hospitals involved-Emer-
gency. Garfield and Episcopal
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat-will
turn over their old plants when
they move into the center on
Soldiers Home grounds.
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any not go through the COM
misSioners are empowered to
grant the franchise to any other
satisfactory buyer of the prop
erty.
Capital Transit's stockholders
also will vote on August
whether to continue the COM
pany under an amended certifi-
cate of Incorporation and with
the name of The Universal Corp.
Tax Advantages
What business activities this
company would conduct have
not been disclosed if they are
decided on. But it has been
pointed out to the stockholders
that the new company would
start of with valuable tax ad-
vantages, the expectation being
that it could Offset $l5.981, 1868
losses in the last two years
against profits realized through
1861.
Senator Frear, Democrat OF
Delaware, indicated on Monday
that this situation was disturb
ing him. He told the Senate
that he believed the Attorney
General and the Internal Reve-
nue. Service may have an in
tereSt."
1t appeared, he said, that
there may be an investment
company set up out of the old
etc shell and, therefore, there
will be no capital gains tax
realized by the Government on
the sale of the assets of the
old corporation"
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senate passed the Dill. IL grants
a 20-year franchise to the new
company.
D. C. Transit System is a
wholly owned subsidiary of
T. C. A. Investing Corp, which
Mr.. Chalk heads. Last July 7,
Mr.. Chalk signed a contract
with Capital Transit whereby
T. c. A. is to buy all of Capital
Transit's assets for $13,540, 900.
The next hurdle is approval of
the sale by Capital Transit's
stockholders. A special stock
holders meeting has been called
for August 8. TWo-thirds of the
shares must be voted in favor
of the sale to ratify it.
Approval Seen
If the deal goes through-and
expectations are that it will
the purchasers will pay 500 mil
lion in cash and give 15-year, s.
percent notes for 1894 million
The notes are to be secured by
the real estate the new company
will take over from Capital
Transit.
A mass of technical and legal
details must be gotten out of
the way before the new company
can take over from the old.
If these are not completed in
time for the new company to
start running the buses and
Streetcars on August is, there
are provisions in the legislation
for the District Commissioners
to extend temporarily Capital
Transit'S right to operate.
Should the Chalk deal eventu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Senators Ask $350,000
To Start Medical Library

A, fund of $35O,OOO for the
preparation of plans for the
National Library of Medicine
authorized by Congress has been
recommended by the Senate APP
preparations Committee in its
action on the final funds bill OF
this Congress.
The item was included in q
$2.3 billion measure the COM
mittee sent to the Senate last
night and which is scheduled for
Senate action today.
Site Left Open
Congress yesterday completed
action on the bill authorizing
the library when the Senate ac-
cepted House amendment leav-
ing the determination of the site
of the library to a board of
regents which is to be appointed.
Earlier, the Senate had decided
that the library should be built
in or near Washington, but
members of the Illinois delega-
ton in Congress persuaded the
House to strike the specific
designation and to leave it to
the regents. There have been
predictions they would recon-
mend a site here because the new
library is an outgrowth of the
Armed Services Library already
here.
The final supplemental appro-
priation bill will be sent to con-
ference with the House since the
Senate added 1863 million to the
House figure.
Outlays Charted
In the Senate bill is an extra
appropriation of 100000 for the
hire of additional agents for the
Bureau of Narcotics of the Treas
ury Department to carry out the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25

Their exhibit in the Shore
ham Hotel is open to the public
1t features an invention Of Mr.
Miller which even he cannot
outwit; a manipulation proof
combination lock.
Yesterday he demonstrated
his proficiency atopening safes.
In 9 minutes and Z seconds he
got into a safe by fiddling with
ii until its clicks told his trained
ears and fingers that 1t coulG
This is by no means
a record. At a recent Midwest
convention Of law officers he dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Delinquency Session

BALTIMORE. July rs tR).-
The newly-formed State COM
mission on prevention and treat
ment of juvenile delinquency
was scheduled to meet today at
the office Of Judge T. j. S. Wax
ter, commission chairman and
director Of the State Welfare
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
.BRITISHER APPENDS
HISTORY FOOTNOTE
TO OFFICIAL FORM

Mrs. Mary j. Childs.
Alexandria personnel direc-
tor, wrote for information
on an Englishman who
sought a job with the city.
The British bureaucrat
gave his man a ringing
recommendation. He also
gave Mrs. Childs a bit Of
an argument:
Il still say George WASH
ington was born in Durham
County. England and was
only on lend lease to you
people he wrote in a note
on the margin Of the printed
personnel form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25

mayed the spectators by OPEN
ing their strongest safe in 4
minutes. 80 seconds.
1T is done by sound. feel and
sight," he said. His own mani
pulation-proof lock, however, is
milled TO such close tolerances
it does not transmit perceptible
clicks, jiggles or bounces. He
has a standing offer of $1,000 for
anyone who can manipulate it
successfully without the COM
bination.
For years Mr.. Miller had a
lock maintenance company in
Fairfax County. He did much
OF the Governments safe work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Sofecrockers Planning Instruction
On What They Can and Can't Do

Harry C. Miller and compan-
ions, law-abiding safecrackers
all, opened show here yester-
day to demonstrate why Jimmy
Valentine would hate them.
Mr.. Miller is boss of the Sar-
gent and Greenleaf Co., a Roch-
ester, N. Y, lock manufacturing
company. He is also one of the
country's best openers of safes.
His company executives are also
skilled at getting into locked
strongboxes. They are planning
to open a course here August 6
to teach others how TO open
safes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Pustore Will Direct
ltuIiun-Americun Drive

The Democratic National
Committee announced yesterday
the appointment of Senator
John o. Pastore of Rhode Island
to direct the presidential and
congressional campaign activi-
ties among Americans of Italian
descent.
Among those assisting Senator
Pastore as co-chairmen will be
Representative Fascell, Florida,
who is of Italian descent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25


and Geodetic Survey. to be built
under the Federal lease-purchase
program.
In rapid fashion, the Chavez
committee yesterday ironed out
problems which had threatened
to hold up two other lease-pur-
chase programs. and approved
l, A $22.2 million headquarters
for the Geological Survey. The
committee made its approval
conditional on building loca-
ton to be- selected within Wash
ington. and Chairman Chavez
announced this was satisfactory
to the agency. The Geological
Survey initially had asked for a
location in suburban Maryland.
2. A $27.5 million Federal
Office building in the block
bounded by Pennsylvania ave-
nue., jackson place, Seventeenth
and H streets NV. This APP
proval was conditioned on the
provision of new space within
that block for the United States
Court of Claims
$196.5 Million Total
Approval of the House and
Senate Committees is the only
action needed to permit the GSA
to enter contracts for the con-
lstruction of buildings under the
IleaSe-purchase program.
Yesterdays action means both
committees have cleared seven
Of the eight lease-purchase prof.
ects proposed this year by the
General Services Administration
for the Washington area. Con-
Struction of the eight would have
total ceiling cost" of $196.5
million. In addition, planning
or construction money has been
voted by Congress for $189.8
million worth of other Federal
construction here, which would
permit demolition of nearly all
the tempoS.
All these buildings make up
the first stage" of a long-range
GSA program to provide per-
manent Office space for all Fed
eral Government needs in the
Capital.
The key question in today's
Senate committee consideration
Iof the Weather Bureau Coast
and Geodetic Survey installation
revolves around whether the
cies testified on the matter yes
agencies need a suburban loca-
ton.
Sought Suburban Site
The two agencies have asked
for a suburban site, but Senator
Chavez, Democrat of New Mex
leo. deferred action last week
pending a review of available
Washington locations. The
Senator has voiced sharp con-
Germ about such moves. unless
needs cannot be met within the
city.
He said officials of the agen-
terday. but were told to come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25
Two Reuppointed
To Optometry Unit

The District Commissioners
today reappointed two members
to the Board. of Optometry.
Named to serve two additional
three-year terms were DR.. w.
Earle Leese, who has Offices at
1755 K street NV, and DR..
Amiel Francke, with Offices in
the Washington Loan and Trust
Building.
Both men were endorsed by
the District Optometric Associa-
Ition.
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purposes of the new Federal drive
against drug addiction.
The measure also carries $780,
600 to plan a dental research
building and a general Office
building at the National In
Stitutes of Health.
The National Stadium Com
mission would receive $4,000 to
cover its expenses in planning a
memorial stadium in Washing
ton. The bill carries $4,000 for
the District Government to cover
a claim against it.
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The Senate committee also
had held up action on the
Geological Survey proposal to
move out Of town, but that was
solved yesterday when the sur
vey agreed to pc housed at an
unknown location. within the
city.
New Court Of Claims
A major factor which had held
up approval of the big lease.
purchase project north of Penn
sylvania avenue and west of La
fayette Square, was location of
"a new Court of Claims building.
The court now occupies the old
Corcoran Art Gallery building on
the northeast corner of Seven
.teenth and Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Court officials have plugged
for a new building at the same
location.
That problem was solved by
requiring that space be provided
for the Claims Court in the same
block. This is in line with a bill
approved by the Senate yester-
day to authorize a Court of
Claims location on the northwest
corner of the block in question.
at Seventeenth and H streets
NV.
GSA, it was understood, has
proposed that the Veterans Ad-
ministration occupy most of the
space in the big Pennsylvania
avenue project. There also have
been proposals that space in that
location be used for expanded
White House activities, although
no such commitment exists.
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The
Rambler
GA Receivers
After q tumble
By JACK JONAS

The Central Intelligence
Agency can rest easy.
Its smoke screen is intact.
its secret is kept, despite a
masterful booboo of the kind
that can happen only in
Washington, where nobody is
sure who is telling what to
whom.
The CHA is, with good rea-
son, extremely sensitive about
itself! 1t would just as soon
the public didn't know how
many employees it has or Just
what they do. So the number
is not bruited about.
But some people like to put
two and two together, and Just
by looking at the middle word
OF the agency's name, it is
obvious they, too, have at
least a few people around who
are experts at putting two and
two together.
Not long ago, during an APP
preparations hearing, Senator
DworShak asked CHA Director
Allen Dulles for the number
of employees he had.
That's classified informa-
tion,p Mr.. Dulles said.
The Senator obviously was
not happy about the response,
but it stood firm, and the
Senators didn't hear how
many people the CHA has
working for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-25

THEN, RIDING to the res
cue-although he didn't know
it at the time-came Mr..
Dulles.
In his testimony before the
Appropriations Committee, the
CHA director said:
Our plans are based on
average net Office space of
approximately 89.5 square feet
per person"
And, in the GAS figures to
justify the budget it sought,
there was the sum of 1,135, 900
square feet required as its
total space.
Someone got out a pencil
and did some quick long d.
vision, and came up with the
figure of 1882 CHA employees
here. The amateur spy had
a slight oversight in his calcu-
lations, however, and so his
figure was vastly different
from that in the GSA an
nouncement.
Now there are two figures
out in the open, there for the
experts at putting two and
two together to hassle over.
Confusion reigns once more,
and the CHA ought to be pretty
happy about that.
Street Scenes
A truck driver, leaning
against the loading platform
at a brewery warehouse here,
drinking a bottle of soda
pop.
A store in the 1400 block
of Wisconsin avenue NV,
with a Santa Claus motif in
its show window, ready for
the Christmas trade.
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Chalk Transit Franchise
Approved by Eisenhower
Transfer Now Awaits August 3
Vote on Deal by CTC Stockholders

President Eisenhower yesterday signed the bill granting the
transit franchise for the District to the headed by
Chalk of New York.
The action another hurdle in the way of D. c.
Transit System nc taking job providing
Washington Capital Transit franchise expires
in three weeks.
Congressional action was completed Friday when the
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Chavez Group to Confer
I odoy on U. S. Buildings
BY GEORGE BEVERIDGE

The Senate Public Works Committee today may approve the
final project in the big replace Washngons Govern
ment tempos with 1886 million worth of Federal
here by 1860.
Chairman Chavez scheduled final ac-
ton on proposed $50 million combined headquarters the