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flower world began blooming in
early autumn, lasting through
out the winter until warm
weather comes.
The Azalea Indica were i'm
ported in 1913; these, too. have
attained great size, some reach
ing q height of more than 20 IT.
The fame of Magnolia rests
mainly on these plants.
Misleading Name
Magnolia -on -the-Ashley took
its name from its many fine
specimens of Magnolia Grandi-
flora. The name Magnolia Gar
dens" is, perhaps, misleading, for
the garden (Which is open to the
public only from January to
May is closed before the Mag
nolia Grandiflora bloom. The
garden itself comprises Is acres
Cypress Gardens ION U. S
Highway 52) is at. once the
youngest and the oldest OF
Charleston's famous gardens
The expresses are centuries old
distant kin to the redwoods OF
California. The tall straight trees
with their pale bark. the feathery
canopy of leaves and the pale
lavender Spanish moss, the
mirror-like water dyed black by
acid from the cypress bark, and
the stiffness are the things which
make the gardens unique. The
expresses have been standing in
this same atmosphere for 300 OF
more years.
Yet. as a public garden. Cy-
press is % years old. The
azaleas banked along the walks
the daffodils and narcissi ano
1.-THE native atamasco lily that
edge the waterways and canals
the shiny dark leaves of camellas
and Of the native magnolia, all
were brought to this watery for
est by the hand of man. He
was Benjamin Kittredge. ST.,
father Of the present owner.
Mr.. Kittredge acquired Dean
Hall Plantation in 1906 and be-
came the third owner of what
had once been a famous rice
plantation. The area now used
as the garden wasa natural lake
built up as a reserve for flooding
the rice paddles during seasons
when the river water grew
brackish.
Inspired by Reflection
The younger Mr.. Kittredge
happened to be shooting during
the azalea season and was struck
by the beauty Of an old azalea
bush reflected in a patch of dark
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three Of them stin survive. AL
have reached a height Of more
than 20 feet. and the largest
of the three has a spread of 80
feet.
The camellia season begins in
November and continues to Feb
ruary, when azaleas take over
and achieve an even more spec
tacular display Of color. The
gardens are open to visitors the
year round.
Magnolia's Display
Magnolia Gardens has been
acclaimed by writer's. artists and
those who have travelled widely
as the most beautiful garden in
the world. Karl Baedeker, in
ternational information source
for travellers early in the CEN
fury. listed only three attrac-
tons in America that rated q
double star: The Grand Canyon
Niagara Falls and Magnolia
Gardens.
The gardens, few miles
northwest of Charleston. or
S. c. Highway 81, were the Gre
alton of the Rev. DR.. John
Grimke Drayton.
He began importing what ha:
now become the finest collection
Iof Camellia Japonica in America
Natives of the Orient. these
jaristocratic members of the
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Orleans famous French Quarter.
and Dock street, with the first
theater III the United States.
1t opened Ill 1876.
Add to that the shady quiet
of the marked paths which guide
you to these historic places and
the lifting speech of the Gullah
tNegro) caretakerS. Those are
sights and sounds of today, but
as you linger to look and listen
the wind may whisper a warn
ing not to be surprised if a lady
in crinoline. complete with para
sol, should stroll by with her
gallant young man.
/ There are many places in OF
around Charleston that you will
want to visit for a second and
third time. This is true of the
magnificent gardens of the Low
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-03

Do of history when you travel and yet
expect the comforts of modern mote hotels and resors Do
you like the ybeen-away" feeling of foreign vacation
and yet be close home and free of complicated plan
ming? Then Canadas Atlantic Provinces for you this year
You get all the peace and quiet you in lovely rural
seaside settings and when you're the mood for action,
there's riding, sailing gofng, swimming fishing and hunting.
It's easy make this different vacation budgeftng one,
and you'll like the friendly people and good food Come by
car, train, bus plane ship No passports needed.
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Super Highway Planned

MONTREAL.-A 29-mile, six
lane toll highway is planned for
the route between Montreal and
ISt. Jerome. Quebec, to carry ex-
banding traffic to and from the
Lourentians.
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NOVA SCOTIA

TO SEE. The highlands Of Cape Breton
...Working oxen -. Lovely Margaree Val.
ley. Historic Louisbourg Fortress. The
Annapolis Blossom Festival e. The Gaelic
Uniacke Museums. e. .Evangelines Shrine
at Grand Pre-.
TO DO. . Go swordhshing of Glace Bay or
get yourself a giant Wedgeport tuna.
Drive over Handicapped Cape Smoky or
enjoy lawn bowling and Switchboard. ..
Don't miss the superb views from Green
Hill Look-OH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-03

CdANLES 1ON, .. Gins
industrialized city of modern
not dimmed the light of her r
beauty of the famous gardens.
Tourists on their journey
picturesque city of yesteryear.
churches. the quaint homes,
towering live oaks shrouded with
Spanish moss, historic sites and
the gardens.
Where else in the United
States will you find within walk
ing distance of a modern hotel:
a slave market where vegetables
are now sold. inspiring churches
with 18th Century graves, thick
walled homes where pirates hid,
wrought iron gates and fences
which rival even those of New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-03
TRAVEL

MAINE Vacation
WhAuuNG Planning XII
Tells all about Maine seacoast,
beaches, lakes, mountains. resorts,
picturesque towns. Plan your vaca-
ton in Maine now. Write for Kit,
today! Maine Vacation Service,
Gateway Circle, Portland, Maine. $40
=. MAINE DEPT. OF IND. & coMM.--
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ChorIeston's 3 Gardens
Bring Return Visits

Southern seaport has become an
times. but this development has
romantic history nor marred the
! South visit and revisit this
They marvel at the centuries-o old
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Inspired BY Reflection

The younger Mr.. Kittredge
happened to be shooting during
the azalea season and was struck
by the beauty of an old azalea
bush reflected in a patch of dark
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She was wheeling Ruth Ar
lene in the carriage and the
other children were following
Fireman s. j. De Falco OF
the Chicago-to-Cleveland New
York Central train said he
saw the mother struggling with
the carriage as the train APP
preached at 80 miles an hour
He said Mary Ann was stand
ing away from the track when
he first saw them, but in the
confusion Just before the &C
cident, she ran to her mother
and was hit, too. The other
three children ran to safety.
Mrs. Balls husband looked
up when he heard the screech
Of the trains brakes, but there
was nothing he could do.
The railroad tracks cross the
level street at right angles ano
there is good vision in all d.
rectionS. The crossing /:
guarded by wig-wag signals
which we're working.
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7 Youths Held
In Monfgomery
Thrill Fires
Police Soy Sons
Of Good Families
Dynumited Houses

Six juveniles and an 18-year-
old youth have been arrested
by Montgomery County police
for the thrill burning of at
least four unoccuped houses
and a series of dynamitings.
The youths. police said, come
from well-to-do families. The
Juveniles, 16-and-17-years-old A.,
have been released in the Gus
tody of their parents.
Police said the 18-year-old
was Dennis Riley, of Rockville,
ordered held in $1,000 bond
pending a hearing Monday in
Silver Spring Police Court. He
is payroll clerk for a Baltimore
construction firm.
The house burnings date
back to February IL. and re-
suited in more than $4,000
property damage, police said.
First Loss $4,000.
The first house burning took
place on MuncaSter Mill road,
between Norbeck and Redland,
and caused damages totaling
$4,000. On May IL, another
house in the same rural area
was burned. And on May II,
dynamite charges were placed
in a dwelling on Cashell road.
The dynamite never went
of. however. so the youths set
fire to the place. police added.
That same night. a series of
dynamite blasts shook we'll
built homes in the fashionable
Manor Club area, and caused
CONSERVATION among residents,
investigators reported.
Later a fourth house, on
Georfia avenue near Aspen
Hill road. was fired, re-
sulting in $4,000 damage,
police said.
Many Youths Questioned
Detectives, who repeatedly
received a tip on. the fires and
the blasting early this week.
questioned a number of youths
before arreSting the seven.
Three Of them attend q lead
ing preparatory school. Others
are area high school students.
Probers said the crimes usu-
ally took place on week ends.
They said the youths appar-
emily acted lust for kicks"
In firing the houses, police
said the seven usually poured
ATRIAL of gasoline through the
various rooms, concentrating
the liquid at strategic points,
then dripped q fuse out of
the dwelling.
When they lit the gasoline
trail. the houses went up in
flames quickly.
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Has Compromise Plan
I roinHits BubyC Carriage
Stuck in Tracks, 3 Die

HURON, Ohio, Aug. 10 (R.
"A baby carriage wheel got
stuck in a railroad track yes
terday and a speeding mail
train killed an 8-week-old girl
in the carriage, the infants
3-year-old sister, and their
mother, who had been pushing
the carriage.
The woman's husband and
their three other children saw
the accident.
The dead were Mrs, Ernest
Ball, AZ; Mary Ann, 3, and Ruth
Arlene, 8 weeks, all Of this Lake
Erie resort and fishing town.
I'VE figure that when she
(Mrs. BalD heard the train,
she tried to turn the baby car
riage around and the wheel
got stuck in one Of the crossing
planks," said Police Patrolman
Sylvester Duty.
Mrs. Ball was taking her five
children across the six-track
crossing to where her husband
was helping a friend wash his
automobile.
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Picture on Poss A-3

Picture on Poee Alb
~-~-~-~-~-~-------
at the more than 100 police
men who ringed the home
There were no injuries.
The three gunner took
refuge in the home of Homer
Fenstemaker at nearby LOUIS
vile after robbing a grocery
and shooting a policeman. When
police discovered that the Fen
stermakers we're held captive
by the robbers they surrounded
the house,
The bandits Threatened to
kill 9-year-old Peggy Lou
Fenstemaker If police Aired
on them. One telephoned the
sheriff's Office at Canton with
threats that the women in the
house would be harmed. None
was injured.
After a two-hour seige the
bandits surrendered.
1t was an armored car that
convinced them. Canton police
backed their shielded car up to
the house and shouted an ulti-
mot1in. II worked.
4 Just before the surrender one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-10
Mrs. Eisenhower
Continues to Gain
BY the Associated Press

The White House said today
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower con-
tinues to progress very salts
factorily" from her operation
last Tuesday.
Mrs. Ann Wheaton, associate
press secretary, relayed this
word to reporters from Mai.
Gen. Howard Nice. Snyder, the
Presidents physician.
Mrs. Wheaton said Mrs. Eli
senhower had a good nights
sleep. She added that doctors
expected her to sit up in a chair
several times today as she did
yesterday.
The President, who played
golf early today, was expected
to make his daily call at WAL
ter Reed Army Hospital later
in the day. He visited his wife
last evening.
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Parkway Crash
Kills Motorist
Speeding Cor Hits
Tree; One Hurt

A car police said was travel
ing from 80 to 100 miles an
hour crashed into a tree on
Oalecarlia parkway at West
moreland circle NV. early this
morning, killing its driver, Will
liam A. Brown. 30, of 1874
Whitehaven parkway NV.
A passenger, Joseph Potter,
26. of 2l27 Wisconsin avenue
NV, suffered a fractured left
leg, fractured left arm and
fractured ribs and was taken to
Emergency Hospital.
A red provisional permit,
which means it previously had
been revoked. was found in Mr..
Browns wallet.
Lost His Permit
Police said that he had lost
his drivers permit in 1855, at
tended Traffic School and
graduated in January, 1856,
with a grade of 95 per cent.
They added that he had a con-
tinual record Of traffic viola
tons ever since he learned to
drive.
The accident occurred at
2:55 am, police said. Mr..
Brown was driving north on
the parkway, missed the turn
into the circle, struck a tree
and practically demolished his
car. He was pronounced dead
See WRECK, Page AS
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3 Give Up After Holding
Is Hostage for "a Hours

of the robbers handed a roll OF
bills TO Connie Fenstemaker
IA. 1t proved to be $306.
Here, take this. We won't
need it," he said.
The money was part of the
proceeds of $500 holdup at
a grocery store late Thursday,
In fleeing from the grocery the
robbers shot and seriously
wounded Louisville Patrolman
Harris Lille. A. Then they
took over the Fenstemsker
residence.
AS they drove up. one man
jerked the door open and
ordered, sit down and be
quiet"
1t was just over "a hours
later when the surrender came
All the while the men listened
to radio reports. apparently
worried whether Patrolmar
Lille was going to die.
The hostages were Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer Fenstemaker,
their daughter Connie, two
sons. Dale, IL, and Russell. and
their granddaughter, Peggy
Lou. Russell is Peggy LOUIS
father.
Roadblocks had been set up
throughout Northern Ohio ano
a manhunt had been organized
to capture the fleeing bandits
later identified as William
Rhodes. 25, of Anderson, Ind;
Robert L. Kline. 20, of Phoenix
Ariz.. and Walter J. Miller, %
Of Los Angeles. Calf.
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special inks and rebranding
equipment.
Mazzuka was indicted in
June by a Bronx IN. " grand
jury for conspiracy to commit
grand larceny in the tube
operation. Bronx Detective
Kenneth S. Shields brought the
indictment and a warrant to
Fairfax County police on
Wednesday.
Detective Shields had been
searching for Mazzuka for two
months. he said. Information
received by police in New York
pinpointed his address here.
Then, with Fairfax Detective
Robert E. Harrison, who had
a fugitive warrant and a search
warrant. he went to Mazzuka' s
home and arrested him. The
house, two-story brick struc-
ture has been occupied by MAJ
zuka and his wife and two chill
dren since last fall, police said.
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Earlier. MasSuka's headquar-
tiers had been in Brooklyn,
Bronx police said.
The detectives searched the
house and found the rebrarding
equipment in the basement. in
Guiding a machine for washing
the markings off tubes and an
other for applying new brand
stamps and code numbers.
MaZzuka was arraigned and
bond set at $4,000 Wednesday,
1t was reduced to $4,000 the
next day. He is free on bond
pending a hearing in Fairfax
County Court September IL
He refused to sign extradition
papers.
Bronx District Attorney DAN
iel " Sullivan described MAJ
zuka as "the largest rebrander
operating"
The racket, which has
See TUBES, Page AS
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Four Rescued
In Boot Crash
AtAIexundrio

Four persons were taken of
a 34-foot cabin cruiser that
struck hidden piling in the
Potomac of Alexandria last
night.
The boat was operated by
William H. Splitter, 39-year-old
Arlington real estate man, who
said he was heading into the
Smoot channel across the river
from Alexandria when the
craft struck the submerged
object.
Mr.. Splitter. a veteran of
Potomac waters, said the
cruiser came to an abrupt
stop. took in water through a
hole in the bow and then went
into a list of 80 degrees.
Mr.. Splitter, his wife and
another couple were conducted
to safety by the operators of
two cupboard motor boats and
a boat operated by Art Saffell
of the Alexandria Marina.
The accident occurred about
8:45 pm.
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New Million Hospital
Planned in Arlington

There has been no final deci-
sion on the size or design of the
proposed hospital and nursing
home. the spokesman said.
The hospital corporation has
an option on the land
The irregularly shaped parcel
is a few blocks from the Fair
fax County line. and lies be-
tween Arlington boulevard and
Columbia pike.
The land has a residential
classification and, under county
regulations. does not need to be
rezoned. However, the county
board may either approve the
project or reject 1t through ac-
ton on the use permit request.
Construction would begin in
about one year.
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Other developments since
yesterday we're:
/. Representative Celler,
Democrat of New York. in
charge Of the bill, made public
the text of the compromise
jury provision he is ready to
propose when the opportunity
arises.
2. Representative Heating of
New York. ranking Republican
on the com mittee which
handled the bill, insisted the
House should send the bill to
conference and said he does
not subscribe to the belief that
going to conference would
mean no bill this year.
3. Representative Smith,
Democrat of Virginia. chairman
Of the Rules Committee told
reporters THE only conclusion
! have reached is that / don't
want a bill"
4. Senator O'Mahoney, DEM
ocrat Of Wyoming, a co-author
of the Senate jury trial pro-
vision. accused the Department
of Justice Of trying to create
confusion instead of under
standing" about the Senate
jury trial amendment.
S. Democratic Leader john
son told the Senate today back
room politicians" are trying to
kill the civil rights bill rather
than accept the Senate's YER
sion.
Senator johnson said Repub-
lican National Chairman Meade
See RIGHTS, Page A-3
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A group of Northern Virginia
doctors plan TO build a hos
pital and convalescent home in
South Arlington.
Plans call for a hospital of
between 100 and 200 beds and
a 75-bed convalescent build
ing. Total cost of this project
is estimated at between $2-and-
s. million.
The site is a 13-acre tract of
South Carlyn Springs road. be-
tween Fifth and Sixth roads,
owned by Francis StetSon, an
attorney.
An application for a use per-
NIT covering a hospital and
nursing home has been filed in
the Arlington Planning De-
partment. The request for
permission to build was made
by the Northern Virginia Doc
tors Hospital Corp, headed by
DR.. Robert A. Rounds
A spokesman said the group
of l6 doctors is planning to
give the public a privately run,
general hospital" which would
operate at a profit for the
stockholders.
None of the stock in the
Northern Virginia corporation
has yet been sold to anyone
other than physicians.
The administration of the
hospital and nursing home
would be in the hands of the
physicians. The spokesman
said the corporate structure is
being patterned along the line
of Doctors Hospital in Wash
ington.
If plans are carried out, Ar
lington will have two general
hospitals. The 250-bed Airing
ton Community Hospital is To-
Gated on the north side of the
county. in the 500 block of
Sixteenth street. Also in Ar
lington is Anderson OrthopediO
Hospital, on Army-Navy drive.
In Fairfax, funds are avail
able for a county hospital. to
be built near Fairfax circle.
Alexandria has the only other
hospital with general facilities
in Northern Virginia.
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nndoSoCIluScLIcS, want the Dill
sent to a joint conference
committee for consideration of
all differences between the
House and Senate versions.
Meanwhile. the bill is rest
ing on the Speakers desk and
will remain there until the
leaders obtain a special rule
to place the issue before the
House for action.
Needs COP Votes
Mr.. Rayburn admitted yes
terday he will need the votes
OF some Of the Republicans on
the Rules Committee to get
the kind of rule that would
enable the House to accept the
Senate bill, or a compromise.
without going to conference
Presumably. he does not have
those votes now. because no
steps have been taken 70 get
a rule and informed sources
say no action is likely before
Tuesday or Wednesday.
If the Democrats get the
votes to approve a compromise
jury trial provision, the bill
would go back to the Senate
And If the Senate concurred
in the compromise the bill
would go to President Essen
hover.
Has Compromise Plan
If the Republicans succeed
in getting the bill into con-
ference it may take some time
to reconcile the various diff
ferences, Of which the jury
trial provision is only one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-10
Raiders Seize
Biggest Still
in Years

One of the biggest illegal
whisky stills seen in WASH
ington in several years was
raided today in a house at II
Rhode Island avenue NV. by
Treasury agents and Metropoli-
tan police.
The three-story row house,
three doors from the Rhode Is
land avenue Methodist church,
was vacant when the raiders
entered, but a man arrested
Monday near the scene will be
charged with operating the
still.
He is Earl William johnson,
20, of the 1000 block of Marion
street NV. Observed entering
and leaving the Rhode Island
avenue house several times, he
was arrested and charged
Monday with possession of two
gallons of untaxed whisky. He
is in District Jail under $500
bond.
Wilton M. Kiefer, criminal
investigator for the Treasury's
Alcohol Tax Unit. led today's
raid. along with IL other men.
He called the set up bigger
than any I've seen in Washing
ton in several years."
The raiders found a 275-gal-
Ion steel still fed by a high
pressure steam boiler, 81 gall
Ions of pure alcohol. so gallons
OF moonshine whisky and 78O
gallons of mash. Agent Kiefer
said the still was a very
elaborate" one and was capable
OF producing 81 gallons of
whisky a day.
The house was under 24-hour
surveillance for the last two
weeks. and the raiders had
hoped to catch others inside
But the arrest of johnson APP
parently frightened the others
away.
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81 Prisoner Escapes

KUMAGAYA. Japan, Aug 10
(P).-Japanese and United
States military police today
hunted an armed 22-year-old
American soldier accused of
overpowering his guard, selling
his carbine and leaping from
the back of a weapons carrier
north of Tokyo Friday. The
CT, Pvt. Albert L. Marley,
Breckenridge, Pa, was being
taken to a guardhouse at Camp
Drake, Tokyo. for investigation
on narcotics charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-10

CANTON. Ohio, Aug. 10 up.
Three gunner surrendered
to police last night after a
barrage of tear gas forced
them from the house where
they held a farm family of six
as hostages for more than "a
hours.
Before they surrendered the
men fred several random shots
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States, while distressing, are not
of sufficient severity and magni-
tude to constitute a major dis
aster.
Sherman Adams, chief assist
ant to President Eisenhower,
sent kilograms to this effect to
Cows. Meyner Of New Jersey
and McKeldin Of Maryland.
The Governors had requested
a declaration of major disaster
by the Government to qualify
their drought-stricken areas
for certain kinds Of Federal aid.