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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

ply the motoriSt under scrutiny
lis crazy.
1.-THE purpose would simply be
to find out why he did the IRA
tional things he did," Mr.
Keneipp explained.
Among other points made by
Mr.. Keneipp in his talk:
l. The District has done a
very, very poor job" of making
motorists observe pedestrian
rights. Eleven pedestrians were
killed and 302 injured at I'M
controlled street intersections
last year. he said.
Il hope Washington will wit
ness the most intensive pedes-
trian protection campaign in its
history" he asserted. Its long
overdue"
2. More familiarity with traf-
flc regulation should be required
of drivers. He said he opposes
regular re-examination of all
District motorists, but that re-
examination of chronic violators
is strictly in order.
3. Legislation which died in
the last session of Congress de-
spite support by District Off
Gals should be enacted estab-
fishing that is of / per cent
of alcohol in the blood of a
motorist is prima facie evidence
that he is driving while under
influence of intoxicants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
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
Palisades, Dana and sherrier place, NV
Park View, Warder and Otis streets
Riggs. Riggs road and Madison street
KaloTams; Nineteenth and columbis
Bundy, Fourth and o streets, NV
Sherwood, Tenth and G streets. NE.
Burrville, Division avenue and Haye'
R's siIssi.: M. rii''-'hird and Blaine
Payne, Fifteenth and C streets, Sc,
Draper. Wheeler road and Walter place
Fcrt qreble, Nichols avenue and chesa.
peake street, s.W.
Arlington County, $40 pm.
N. GUSTS. 712 South third
Tuckahoe $3.50 North Twenty-sixtf
street
Prince George. County, $50 pm.
University Park Elementary school
Queens Chapel road and UnderwooC
street, Hyattsville.
District Heights Elementary school, sol
County road, District Heights.
Montgomery County, $3.50 pm.
North -Four Corners, Old BladensburI
and Royalton roads. Silver Spring.
Montgomery Blair Stadium, Dale drivl
and Wayne avenue, Silver Spring.
Hillcrest Playground Aberdeen street
West End, Rockville
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Fuirfux Schools
Set Registration

Registration for the fall ses-
sion Of the Fairfax County pub
lie schools will be held Monday
and Tuesday from $3.50 am. to
$3.50 pm.
Registration will take place
in each Of the elementary
schools for new pupils in grades
one through seven. New pupils
in grades eight through IL will
register in the high schools
Eighth-grade pupils who were in
the county elementary schools
last session are automatically
registered in the respective high
schools.
Students unable TO register
Monday and Tuesday may reg
lister the week Of August 20 to "a
during the same hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

are on record favoring compli-
ance with the Supreme Court
segregation decision by some
method. The district voted
against the Gray Commission
plan designed to prevent forced
indignation, and most of the
Tenth District delegates to the
recent State Democratic Con-
vention voted against strong
resolutions protesting the Su-
preme Court edict.
Circulate Throughout District
A spokesman said hundreds OF
the petitions are being circu-
lated in Arlington and Fairfax
counties and the cities of Alex
andria and Falls Church.
The petition reads: I'VE the
undersigned residents and voters
of the 10th congressional dis
trict of Virginia do hereby petit
ton the members of the General
Assembly to enact appropriate
Legislation to preserve our Sys-
TEN of segregated public schools. -
The General Assembly will
meet in a special session Au-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Teen-Aeer Blinded
In One Eye While
Playing With Gun

An Arlington teen ager was
blinded in one eye yesterday
when gun he and another boy
were playing with was dis
charged.
The two 16-year-olds had put
a 80 caliber cartridge in a .38
caliber revolver and fired the
weapon, causing the cartridge
casing to shatter.
Robert Bullock, Is, of 1852
Lee Highway. was struck in the
right eye by piece of the cas-
ing, police said.
He was listed in critical con-
dition today after having under
gone an emergency operation
last night.
Lieutenant Jack Cuttings.
head of the Arlington Juvenile
Bureau, said the ownership of
the revolver still was under in
vestigation. He declined to
name the other boy involved but
said the youth would appear in
Juvenile Court today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Charges Dropped
Against Virginiun
I'm Mothers Death

A manslaughter charge against
an Irvington (VaD man, filed
Saturday after his mother died
when he struck her, was nolle
pressed today by the Prince
Georges County Assistant States
Attorney.
Thomas r. Brooks said the
State could not prove man
slaughter since an autopsy of the
50-year-old victim, made after
the charge was placed, showed
death was due to natural causes,
a cerebral hemorrhage, and not
by the blow on the head.
william c. Christopher, 81,
told police he struck his mother,
Mrs. Edith ". Dawson, when
she reached over from the back
seat of the car and pulled his
hair as he was driving to Balti-
more on Route 301 near Hall.
Detective Sergt. Ralph Bond
quoted Christopher as saying
both his mother and stepfather,
B. I. Dawson, So. had been drink
ing before they left Irvington
and during the trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Roads Commission Picks
Jones for Special Aide

Roland E. Jones, Maryland
State Roads Commission district
engineer for Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties since
August /, 1858, has been elevated
to a new post as special assistant
to the chairman Of the commits
sion
Mr.. Jones, 81, who lives at 7l08
Maple avenue. Takoma Park,
Md, reported for duty on Mon
day at the commissions head
quarters in Baltimore.
Commission Chairman Robert
% Bonnell announced in Balti-
more yesterday that Mr.. Jones
was taking over some OF the
duties formerly handled by Al
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bert S. Gordon, executive as
slstant to the chairman.
The chairman said Mr.. Gordon
will continue as executive as
sistant but also has been given
the duty Of liaison man between
the commission and the Bureau
of Public Roads in Washington.
There was no announcement
about who was succeeding Mr..
Jones as district engineer. The
latter's Office iS in Laurel. L. E.
McCarl. assistant district engi-
neer. has been designated acting
engineer.
Mr.. Jones, a commission en-
ploye since 1924, attended Johns
Hopkins University School Of
Engineering in Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

iOl U1lc 4lOIlS CIuU JCSICIudy III
the Washington Hotel.
The traffic director pointed out
that the National Committee on
Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordi-
nances, meeting last week in
Chicago, changed the uniform
vehicle code to increase the rec
commended speed limit in urban
districts from Is to 80 miles an
hour. The uniform code is used
as guide for the States in de-
veloping traffic regulations.
5 Streets Listed
Five streets he will list in his
recommendations, along with the
proposed speed limit changes,
are:
South Capitol street from
Suitland parkway to Nichols
avenue Sc, from 80 to IS miles
an hour.
Dalecarlia parkway NV. from
80 to IS.
Hardwood road between Mich
igan avenue and Taylor road
NE. from Is to 30.
Western avenue from Forty
first street to Westmoreland cir
Gle, from 25 to 80.
South Dakota avenue from
Twelfth street to Riggs road
NE, from 25 to 80.
Safety Factor Studied
Mr. Keneipp pointed out that
on the basis of radar checks,
some streets have good records
of traffic safety even though
motorists consistently exceed the
speed limits here. This indi-
Gates, he said, that these streets
could stand higher speed limits
without danger.
He said that his department
is continuing radar surveys to
determine if speed limits on
other streets should be revised.
Local traffic speed limits have
not been revised for IS years,
although safety devices have
been introduced in car manu-
facture, he said.
Clinic Studied
The possibility of establishing
a pSychiatric clinic here to de-
termine why normally rational
people frequently resemble mad
men once they get behind a
steering wheel was raised also by
Mr.. Keneipp.
He said he favors at least an
experiment with such a clinic.
Subject to clinical examina-
ton would be those motorists
whose driving permits were
either suspended or revoked be-
cause of traffic violation records.
Inquiries would try to find the
reason for the drivers tendency
to break speed laws.
The traffic" director called the
C m m on motorists m a la d y
pressure driving"
Cites Pedestrian Deaths
=. Pressure driving" he said,
makes a lot of nice, normal
people crabby and short-tem-
pered the minute they step into
their cars +"
He emphasized that use Of a
psychiatric clinic would not i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
'Most-Wunted' Man
Sought by Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS. Aug. 9 tR.-The
seventh man on the FBI's most
wanted criminals is being sought
by Anne Arundel County police
in connection with a tavern
shooting.
Chief WILDER c. Wade said %
year-old William j. Hall of Ell
Paso. Tex, is believed staying in
a hotel or motel in the Baltimore
area.
Hall is believed to be one of
the four persons who were seated
at a table with Otis C. Tanner
in an Annapolis tavern July 20.
An argument broke out and
ITanner was shot in the thigh.
The four-two men and two
women-fled in a car registered
to Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Federal Service
Called 10 Aid
Transit Talks
Possibility Of Strike
Worries D. c. Heads
As DeudIine Neurs
BY HECTOR MCLEAN

Transit labor negotiators met
today at the Offices of the Fed
Ieral Mediation and Cancellation
Service.
They did so with only six days
of assured transit service re-
naming for Washington.
Developments yesterday raised
the possibility of a complete
stoppage of service next Wednes-
day when Capital Transit Co. is
scheduled to lose its franchise
by act of Congress.
The union, which staged a So
day strike last summer, was
stalled on it's demand for arbi-
tration of contract renewals,
and called in a Federal mediator
Meanwhile, o. Roy Chalk. who
is scheduled to buy out all the
property of etc next Tuesday
said he has not closed his various
deals with the Capital Transit
Co., with the Chase Manhattan
Bank of New York to finance
the purchase or with the union.
d. C. Heads Watching
The District Commissioners,
seriously worried about the pos
sibility of such a stoppage of
service. were watching the situa-
ton closely. Under the recent
ly-passed law giving a 20-year
franchise with tax relief to Mr.
Chalk's D. C. Transit System,
Inc, they can "authorize" any,
body (even Capital Transit, If
the Chalk deal falls through to
provide service.
AS they did last year to end
the strike, they can also negoti-
ate a union contract and grant
! fare increases to finance it.
James A. Holden, one of the
two commissioners of the Fed
eral Mediation and Cancellation
Service assigned to Washington.
moved in on the negotiations be-
tween the transit union and Mr.
Chalk at $3.50 pm. yesterday.
Two-HOur Session
Two hours later. when the ses-
sion in Mr.. Chalk's Mayfiower
Hotel suite broke up, Mr.. Hol-
den announced the two parties
would meet at 10 am. today at
his quarters in the General
Accounting Offices building at
Fifth and H streets NV.
Mr.. Chalk is scheduled to
close his deal to buy out all
CTC property starting at 10 am
next Tuesday. The agreed or
price is $13, $4,000. He has put
down 100000 as an evidence
of good faith, which he could
lose If the deal falls through
and is to pay the balance of a
$9.6 million down-payment that
day. The rest would be financed
over is years with annual in
terest of 5 per cent, secured by
the real estate being sold by CTC
If his deal should fall through
the Commissioners can give his
franchise to any other satisfac-
tory buyer. The franchise, al
though granting several kinds
of tax relief, would freeze fares
for one year. In the absence
of such a deal, the city heads
could authorize" service and
raise fares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

gust 81 to consider the race
problem.
The petitions in Alexandria
are available at the Office of
James M. Thomson, Alexandria
delegate to the General Assem-
bly,.
Originated in Fairfax
Mr.. Thomson said he did not
originate the petitions but that
he was asked to make them
available in Alexandria. Mr.
Thomson, an neutrality-suspicious.
said he had been asked to pre-
sent the petitions to the General
Assembly. He said the petitions
originated with a group in Fair
fax County.
Russell Holcomb, another Of
the persons circulating the petit
tons. said "weuwant the Assem-
bly, to know we are not all 'squir-
rels' up here"
Squirrels" is a term used BY
some neutrality-suspicious. to de.
scribe Northern Virginia's more
liberal residents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Mrs. CobIenz Named
Graduate School Head

Mrs. Constance G. Coblenz
now with the Bookings Institu-
ton, will become registrar of the
Agriculture Departments Grad
uate School, it was announced
today.
Mrs. Coblenz will join the
Graduate Schools staff Septem-
Der /, and will succeed Mrs
Louise Sullivan Malone as reg
Istrar when Mrs. Malone leaves
after the fall semester opens
Mrs. Coblenz has been with the
Bookings Institution since 1916
and has been administrative Of
nicer in charge of the monthly
publication Current Develop
ments in United States Foreign
Policy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Carroll Boy browns
In Putupsco Branch

WOODBINE, Md, Aug. 9 (P),
Larry Twenty, Is, of Mount
Airy drowned near this Carroll
County community yesterday
while swimming with a COM
panion in a branch of the Pa
tapsco River.
The companion. Skippy Grigss
by. said the victim failed to come
up after diving into about IL
feet of water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
The
Rambler
Peace Monument
Marks Noisy Spot
BY JACK JONAS

Peace Monument, getting
it's face lifted, looks down on
one of the most intriguing
pieces of real estate in Wash
ington.
The triangle-now a fiat
greenSward dotted by an
occasional tree or shrubbery
clump-is bounded by First
street, Constitution avenue
and Pennsylvania avenue NV,
with a bit of its apex at
Constitution and Pennsyl-
vania Topped off by Third
street NV.
Here was the famous Reser-
walton IL, the western part of
the triangle, cut off from the
eastern part by Tiber Creek.
1t contained l acre, l rood and
.04 of a perch, and when it
was sold originally to the Gov
eminent in 1894, it cost less
than 500.
In the middle 1830s, it was
the noiSest spot in the city
and attracted the most home
town sight-seers, for here was
the city'S first railroad sta
ton.
Two trains a day, beginning
in 1885, clattered in from
Baltimore, two hours away,
on the Baltimore g. Ohio
tracks.
Henry M. Morfit, Judge Ad-
vocate of the Navy, had built
a narrow, three-story brick
house on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. near Second street, and
later John Mount used it as
a boarding house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
CTC Sale OK d
In Maryland

BALTIMORE, Aug. 8 (P.-The
Maryland Public Service Com
mission yesterday approved sale
of Capital Transit Co. and its
wholly owned subsidiary, Mont
gomery Bus Lines Inc. to D. c.
Transit System Inc. for $13.540,-
1000.
The actual transfer is sched-
uled for midnight. August IA. It
already had been approved by
Congress and the Public Utilities
Commission of the District OF
Columbia.
After a Commute hearing
Commissioner Frank Harper, act
ing chairman. said the commits
sion will enter an order author
izing the transfer.
Queries New Firms Intentions
Although no group was listed
with the commission as opposed
to the sale and transfer. George
iSpiegel, representing the Allied
Civil group of Silver Spring and
the Prince Georges County Civic
Federation. doggedly questioned
witnesses about the new COM
Ipany's intentions and the "ac-
tual" amount of its investment.
Harvey M. Spear, special
counsel for D. c. Transit System
and assistant secretary of the
new firm, took the stand at the
request of the commission to
answer questions NJ. Spiegel
had directed to Capital Transit
witnesses.
Mr.. Spear testified Capital
Transit assets include 81 million
cash.
Mr.. Spiegel said D. C. Transit
System plans to pay SO million
in cash and make up the $780,
900 balance in 15-year notes. He
asked Mr.. Spear how much
actual cash D. c. Transit would
have to put up to complete the
transaction since it would be
receiving 81 million as part of
Capital Transit's assets.
Mr.. Spear repeated the terms
of the contract and said he did
not know how much money the
new firm actually has in the
bank at present.
Objects to Line
F. G. Await. counsel for Cap
Iital Transit, objected to Mr..
Mr.. Spiegel's line of questioning
and accused Mr.. Spiegel of going
on a fishing expedition"
"Are you contending the PSC
should not approve the applica-
Ition?" Mr.. Await asked.
commissioner Harper said Mr..
Spiegel did not have to answer
that and the hearing ended after
Mr.. Spear testified that the new
firm had no plans to pay a divi-
dend to stockholders in the
"Foreseeable future"
He had testified earlier that
d. c. Transit System planned to
maintain schedules and fares as
they now are.
Asked by Commissioner Will
mer Fell Davis whether the new
management expected any labor
troubles, Mr.. Spear said he was
not qualified to answer that. He
said he understood that matter
is pending"
Capital Transit's one-year
contract with its bus and street.
car operators and maintenance
men expires August IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Officials Indicate
Full Support
For Segregation
BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. g.
Loudoun County school officials
today indicated their complete
agreement with the action of the
Board of Supervisors to withhold
funds from any school in the
county that might be forced to
Iintegrate.
School Supt. o. L. limerick
said he did not care to discuss
the supervisors action further
than to reiterate a statement he
had made previously to the
board.
At that time, Mr.. limerick
said, he told the board they
could depend on full co-opera-
ton of the school board to pre-
vent indignation of county
schools.
He added that it was the
opinion of the school board that
Segregated schools in Loudoun
County would be to the best adj
vantage of both white and COLI
ored students.
Vote Was Unanimous
School Board Chairman James
H. Ashton also indicated agree
ment with the superintendent.
4 Mr.. Ashton said he did not like
to discuss problems that were
not before the School Board.
When we have the problem
before us" he said, I'VE will then
discuss it and take action"
The Board of Supervisors, at
the request of the county chapter
of the Defenders of State Sow
ereignty and Individual Liberties.
last Sunday voted unanimously
to withhold funds from any
school that might be forced to
integrate.
1t was pointed out by attor-
neyS that State law gives the
School Board authority to adj
minister the schools and that
only the School Board might
withhold funds, or close, any
particular school. The super
visors vote a blanket appropria-
ton for schools, and could, Of
course. refuse to appropriate any
money for any schools.
21% of Pupils COIored
School officials said that 81
per cent of the pupils in Loudoun
County are colored. They de-
clared that most of the tax load
for schools is carried by white
residents.
They added that if the school
system were closed it would
work to the disadvantage of the
county's colored pupils because
a private white school system
could be started again through
voluntary contributions at much
less cost than the present sys-
tenn including the colored
schools.
| Commemorative Attorney
Stirling Harrison, who heads
the county's Defenders chap
ter. said the vote of the super
visors was intended to serve
notice that Loudoun County
would not tolerate integrated
schools.
He said undoubtedly if the
schools are closed some system
OF schools would be started i'm
mediately for white children.
Mr.. Harrison said it might be
a good idea to close the present
system and start over again
since graduates from many
State schools cannot be accepted
into first-class colleges without
] first going to prep school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

THE TIBER normally was a
gentle, comparatively shallow
stream flowing over a bed of
white gravel. There was no
protecting fence beside the
areaWay and the creek, and
occasionally someone fell in,
but, as one old newspaper
story said, lit being shallow
few fatalities occurred"
Occasionally the Tiber went
on a rampage, and in 1889 a
flood wrecked several houses,
Patrick Moran'S Jackson Tav-
ern and Foy's Hotel on nearby
c street.
George Sweeney was the
railroads first agent. With
his staff of six, he handled
200 passengers daily almost
from the first, and a thriving
baggage and freight business.
From the first day, when
the locomotives George
Washington" John Adams"
TT homas jefferson and
"JameS Madison" pulled four
trains into the depot ITO in
augurate railroad service to
Washington on August Is,
1885, it was favorite gather
ing place at train time. People
walked down from miles away
to watch the engines chug in.
The depot on Pennsylvania
avenue was used for l6 years,
until business increased so
much that it was necessary to
build a larger station at New
jersey avenue and G street.
Today there are no re-
minders OF the hustle that
marked Second street and
Pennsylvania avenue in early
Washington not even a
historical marker to point to
a once thriving section of the
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Rambling

A fellow we know reports
he cleaned out his stamp box
the other day and found a
note scrawled on the back Of
a match cover: lou: &c. !.
A man here says the movies
seem filled with pride this
summer, and as evidence he
points to The Stars theater
page of one day mentioning
such as THE Pride and the
Passion. The Proud and the
Profane, The Proud and
the Beautiful. and topping it
OF, The Proud Ones"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

THE RAILROAD bought
that house for its ticket office,
put up a small belfry and
rang the bell 10 minutes
ahead of train departure.
John Purdy, painter and
later president of the Patri-
otto Bank, had his house in
the same block. The alley
behind his home was known
for years as Purdy's Court.
Archibald Stewards grocery
was at First street and Penn
sylvania avenue, and nearby
were the coach factories of
John Dom & Son and Solo
mon and David Stewart.
1t was a favorite area for
Government workers, too.
Among the ones who lived in
the neighborhood were John
Foy, scotsman and gardener
at 3the Capitol; Lewis Club,
Senate messenger; Charles
Keller, Patent Office machin-
list; Richard Dement,, Post
Office clerk, and Ignatius
Wheatley, Capitol Waterman.
C, McCormick'S apothecary
was near the depot, at Third
and Pennsylvania. In the
block were several boarding
houses, H. v. Hills cabinet
shop and Benjamin Baily's
grocery.
The trains chugged in near
the Tiber, and between the
Tiber and the depot was an
areaway where coaches and
hacks picked up passengers
getting off the trains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Juycees Elect

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Aug. 9 (SpeciaD. = Bruce D.
Reynolds. jr., attorney, has been
elected president of the newly
organized Croze t-Greenwood
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Supervisors Backed
On Loudoun Schools
Segregotionists Circulate
Petitions in 10th District
BY PAUL HOPE

Petitions being circulated Vrgnias District
asking the General Assembly to segregation public
schools
One of the circulating the petitions they
designed to refute impressions that Northern Vrgnian will
accept indignation.
majority representatives from the Tenth District