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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
OLD CANNED FOOD
MAY OFFER AID
TO ATOMIC AGE

If you lavr any CID c nned
food dating back before
l945. the Government woult,
like to have it.
The Food ard Drug Ac-
ministration is starting a
survey to see whether atomic
tests and other uses OF
atomic energy change the
radioactivity of food.
First step is to get some
food canned before 1916
which was Year One" of
the atomic era-to establish
a base for radiation meas
urements.
So look on the pantry
shelves. but be sure you can
give evidence of the age of
the canned food before Of
fering it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Tests Seek Cause
OF YeIIow-Tinted
Water in Homes

TIE Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission has beer
conducting tests to find out what
causes the yellow tinted tap wa.
ter which has plagued half
dozen homes in Bannockburn fol-
more than a year.
The affected residents, who
have prodded the sanitary utility
to do something about the faint
ed water. appealed Wednesday
for Montgomery County Council
intervention.
Mrs. Robert E. Pates. OF 1904
Glenridale. road. submitted d Jar
Of the Saffron-colored water 70,
council inspection. The council
agreed to investigate.
Sanitary Commission engi-
neerS, however, have conducted
extensive tests but have oeen
unable to eliminate the yellow
water. The condition affects resi-
oonces near the end of water
line on Glenriddle drive. plus
one home on River road near
Glerriddle.
The c.. II CT the water. accord
ing to Charles B. Ellsworth of
1916 Glenriddle road, stains
clDt..cs put in the neighborho0o's
VI sne.s.
One remedy which provided
temporary relief. he said, was
the utility's opening OF a hy-
dram. However. when the nv
drant flow is shut of. the yellow
ish water soon returns to the
pipes, Mr.. Ellsworth said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
HOLDUP VICTIM
DIES; POLICE SEEK
MASKED GUNMAN

BALTIMORE. (Pl.-Police
TO-DAY searched for clues to
the lone bandit who stole
S2.457 in payroll money from
a construction company. The
owner of the firm dropped
dead while awaiting the ar
rival of police.
Harry F. Benham. 82-year-
old owner of the Chesapeake
Construction Co. and one of
two persons accosted by the
gunman yesterday. collapsed
and died on the pavement
outside his Office a few min
utes after the holdup.
Mr.. Benham and his ac-
countant. William s. Miller
hao been forced TO lie on the
floor of the Office while the
Negro holdup man took Al
tan payroll envelopes from
the Office safe.
The holdup man was de-
scribed as between % and %
wears old and wore a white
handkerchief over his face.
He carried a snub-nosed re-
volver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Two Die in BIuze
At FederuIsburo

FEDERALSBURG. Md. Jan
5 (P.-A mother and her child
burned to death when fire caused
by an exploding gas cook stove
destroyed their frame home or
the River road. less than a mile
south of fredericksburg. today.
Fire Chief Thomas McCrea
identified the dead as Mrs. Ale
thia Hall, 81. and her daughter
who was about 2.
The father of the family. Nose
Hall. escaped when the fire broke
out but had 10 be restrained By
firemen from rushing back into
the burning building to find his
wife and daughter. Chief McCrea
said.
Seven other persons in two
other families also escaped.
The one-story building had
been converted from a church
into three apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

the entrance to the exhibit, lis
istors may push outton anC
hear minute nd-a-hali orien-
tation talk on early American
settlements: jamestown Plym-
outh, New Amsterdam and Sa-
lem.
Treasures Unearthed
Other buttons, placed outside
the period rooms, permit the
visitor to view the displays as
they look by daylight or by
candlelight.
The Smithsonian unearthed
many stored treasures for the
first time and put them on dis
play in the hall.
A selection OF American glass
from the gift of w. Daniel
Quattlebuam includes a rare en-
eraved -Amelung bowl. The
Greenwood silver collection is
matched by the valuable silver
collection of Arthur S. Michael.
Installation of the project was
directed by c. Malcolm Watkins.
associate curator of cultural his
tory at the Smithsonian. Exhib-
its were arranged by John Ang-
lin. chief of exhibits. and ROLAND
Q. Hover. supervisor of the ex-
hibits laboratory in the Natural
History Museum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
McKeIdin Names
E. E. Lone, Negro,
To Peoples Court

BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (P).-
Gov. McKeldin today appointed
Magistrate f. Everett Lane to the
bench of the Peoples Court Of
Baltimore City.
Mr.. Lane is the first Negro ever
to serve as a Judge OF a court OF
record in Maryland.
He succeeds JUDGE Thomas
Henneean. who died une3-
pectedly about two weeks ago Of
a heart ailment
Mr. Lane 81 was recon-
mended both b. the Baltimore
City Bar Association and Ire
Monumental Bar ASSOCIATION Of
Baltimore CITY The latter is
an all-Negro group
Born in Baltimore he obtained
a law degree from Howard Uni
versity in Washington, in 1922
He was appointed magistrate
Of Northwestern Police Court in
l952--the second Negro magis-
trate in the clty's history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Cause Of Bus
Crash KLINE 6
Undetermined

LEXINGTON. Va, Jan. 5 fP)
There was no official explana-
ton today for the crash last
night of a double decker Grey
hound bus into the rear Of a
parked tractor-tYailer tnat
claimed six lives, including one
Washington resident.
State police said U 6. la
heavily travelled, dual-laned.
divided highway through Vir-
ginia S picturesque Shenandoah
Valley-waS DRY when the bus
plowed into the heavy truck
loaded with iron pipe.
In addition. State Trooper
S. w. Talbert quoted passengers
as saying the bus ran over warn
ing flares put out by the driver
of the truck after his vehicle
broke down The truck was
parked partly on the roadside
and partly on the pavement.
Trooper Talbert said he was told
Besides six persons dead, the
crash which sheared off most
of the front Of the bus. en- route
from Memphis. Tenn, to New
York-injured "a persons. There
were ~ passengers aboard the
bus. Only two escaped injury.
The Washington victim was
Kenneth Tyacke. 40. of Quebec
House, 1901 Quebec street NV,
an equipment maintenance man
for the American Telephone g.
Telegraph Co.
Others killed were Scherer S.
Sutliff, 48. OF Roanoke. Va. the
bus driver; Col. Milton Barbee
Rogers. 81. of Rockbridge Coun-
ty, Va. former assistant general
manager of Studebaker Corp. of
America; and the three members
of one family - Mrs. Regina
Marie Bell Jackson. 81, of Scran-
ton, Pa: her three-week- old
son. Edward E. Jackson. jr and
her mother-in-la Mrs. Joe S.
jackson. OF Wytheville, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Bill! on Hopscotch
Annexinq Revived
BY a Star star Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS. Jan. 5.-Dele-
gate Carlton R. Sickles, Demo-
crat of Prince Georges County
plans to reintroduce his bill to
ban so-called "hopscotch" an
nexation by Maryland munich
palities.
The measure would prohibit
annexations such as the one
made by Hyattsville year ago
when ii reached across the lush
HeUrich tract to an appropriated
9-acre piece of ground about a
mile from its boundaries. The
smaller tract. now site of a small
housing development, lies on the
other side CT Northwestern High
School from Hrattsville.
Mr.. Sickles introduced the
same bill in the 1856 session
but withdrew it when it was held
to be ineligibl' for consideration
in that 30-dav emergency legls-
lation" session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

and basing it's recommendation
on long range goals rather thar
immediate pressures could func-
ton successfully" under the
Prince Georges County govern.
ment as 1t now exists.
1t charged that there is little
understanding of the need fol
professionally qualified person
mel" in county government. Sal
aries have been so low that there
have been permanent vacancies
and high turnover, the state
ment added. 1t also attacked the
lack of merit system in county
government.
Financing Attacked
THE idea of long-range plan
ming of the county's capital i'm
provements and their financing
has not been accepted in Prince
Georges County," the league said
For example. there is no capital
budget and the operating budget
does not reflect the programs to
be administered by the various
departments.
Furthermore. the county de-
partments operate semiautono-
mously with only intermittent
supervision by the county COM
missioners. There is no formal
organization for administration
OF county government and no
provision for professional SUI
pervision.
Under the present bi-county
planning setup, the league said,
joint financial support enables
the commission to pay "suffi-
GENTLY high salaries" to attract
well-qualified professional peo-
pie"
The group estimated 1t would
cost the county $4,000 more a
year in tax money to operate a
separate agency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

LIE ldIIluOuSe was lnS glIt o.
the late DR.. and Mrs. Arthur NJ
Greenwood. who also gave the
Smithsonian an extensive collec-
ton of American antiques. most
of which will be on exhibit in
the new hall.
In addition, the hall will dis
play a paneled parlor of 1854
from Springfield, Mass, another
paneled room from Sussex, Va,
a stenciled bedroom of 1900. as
well as an 18th century school,
room.
50 Exhibit Cases
The corridors in the hall are
lined with So exhibit cases show
ing various phases of Colonial
life-silver. pottery, tools and
cooking equipment as veil as
primitive toys and dolls
Creation of the new nall was
stimulated by the Greenwood
gifts. To provide a setting, arch
Biological exhibits were displaced
and a new 1870 by SIS foot exhibit
space ripped out in the building.
The project marked several de-
partures from traditional mu-
scum decor.
Walls and ceilings are painted
in bright pastels. with colors
shifting to indicate different as
poets of the exhibit.
Sound is introduced. 700. At
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Women Voters Support
Bi-Countv PIonnino Unit

The Prince Georges County
League Of Women Voters an
nounced yesterday that it sup
ports retention of the present
bi-county setup Of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
The organization. in a state
ment of its position" released by
It's president, Mrs. w. Sterling
Ament. said planning and coming
controls should be extended
throughout all of Prince Georges,
but with greater provision for
local control Of the planning
commission.
THE League has indicated
that il would support a proposal
providing for the appointment of
a local planning board in each
county by the county commits
sioners in Prince Georges Coun-
ty and by the County Council in
Montgomery County, with BIZ
county planning decisions to be
made by the two boards sitting
jointly as a bi-county planning
commission" the statement said.
Similar Plan Backed
The plan Is similar to that pro-
posed by the Montgomery County
Council and recently supported
by a group Of Montgomery and
Prince Georges County civic
leaders.
The MONTGOMERY County
League of Women Voters, how
ever, has been among the or
CARNATIONS in that county lead
ing the fight for abolition OF the
present planning commission
and creation Of separate plan
ming agencies in each county.
The Prince Georges league said
1t docs not believe that a COM
petent planning staff dedicated
to serving the public interest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Missing Man, AZ,
Found q Suicide

A 48-year-old man, missing
from his Greenbelt Md home
since Thursday, was found shot
to death in a small building near
the Beltsville Experimental Sta
ton late yesterday.
He was Wilbur o. Rock of 2-J
Eastway road, Greenbelt.
DR.. John T. Maloney, Prince
Georges County Medical Exam
liner, said the death was : suleloe.
The body was found about 1880
pm. by State Trooper I. M. Col
Inns. He said Mr.. Rock had a
head wound from a 80 caliber
pistol.
A note. indicating Mr.. Rock
was respondent because of Ill
health. was found on the body,
Trooper Collins said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

The highest increase was to and
from Prince Georges County.
Traffic on streets within the
District also spiraled during the
l0-year period. but at lower per-
centage rates than at the Dis
trict lines. Total daily traffic
crossing a Gordon around Wash
ington's central business dis
trict for example, jumped from
472.536 in 1916 to 716,726 in
l955--a little more than so per
cent.
Critical Periods Analysed
The critical traffic periods, Of
course, are the morning and eve
nlng rush hours. More than a
fifth of all the 24-hour traffic
crossing some crowded Potomac
bridges. for example. is TANNED
into the 2-hour morning peak
alone.
AS traffic has grown toward
street saturation, many motorists
have left the major streets to
seek other routes downtown,
lesser used a decade ago. Some
have left for work earlier in the
morning, and returned home
later in the evening. spreading
out the peak travel hours. Many,
with ever : heavier congestion
downtown. park outside the CEN
trail area.
Along with actual street i'm
proyements. city officials have
turned more and more to one
way streets and. during rush
hours. TO unbalanced traffic lanes
on streets like Connecticut ave-
nue..
These steps. however, officials
say, are leading toward an even
tual use of all the capacity of
streets. In the downtown area
during rush hours. for example,
officials estimate that streets dur
ing rush hours can stand an IN
crease Of only between 20 ard
rs per cent before their capac!-
ties will be completely saturated.
At that time, the alternatives
appear clear. either increased
numbers of persons to the small
downtown core must be discour-
aged. or they must come in by
some means other than autos.
Money Seen Top Factor
During the last 10 years. the
District Highway Department
has spent about $44 mIlhon on
its street Improvements. The
bulk of this money has gone into
relatively few proiects-the new
Fourteenth street bridge over the
Potomac. the South Capitol and
East Capitol street bridges over
the Anacostia. the Whitehurst
freeWaY and the Dupont circle
underpasS.
The common reason highway
improvement has fallen so far
behind the demand throughout
the Washington area, of course,
is money.
Today. both the District and
Maryland have huge expansion
programs under way. Virginia.
clinging to its pay-as-you-go
highway financing formula, still
hes dim prospects
All three Jurisdictions, how
ever. are banking their main
hopes = and largely building
their new highway programs
around-the huge new Federal
highway aid act, which will
make billions of dollars available
throughout the nation to i'm
prove roads
The prospects Of each will be
examined IN subsequent articles.
Tomorrow: Wrcng Traffic
GuPSSpS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

lngton, first President of the
United States. laid the corner
stone of the Capitol Building.
The new State Department
Building will cost $57.4 million
When II is completed in 1860. il
will be the largest Office building
in the District. second in sizt
only to the Pentagon in the
Washington area.
Symbol of Responsibilities
Secretary of State Dulles sale
the Presidents Middle East ad-
dress shows "how greatly have
grown the interests and respon-
sibilities of the United States.
And the new State Department
Building, he told the President
symbolizes the departments de.
termination to be more re.
sponsive to those responsible
ties w."
About 1000 persons gathered
at Twenty-second and c streets
NV. to witness the ceremony
With Mr.. Eisenhower and Mr.
Dulles on the platform were
Chief Justice Warren and As.
sistant Secretary of State Her.
bert Hoover. jr. Congressional
leaders. other cabinet member.
and diplomatic officers were
among the audience, includins
Russian Ambassador Georg
Zaroubin.
The new building will be joined
to the present State Department
headquarters at Twenty first
street and Virginia avenue NV
more than TRIPPING its size. 1t viii
cover four city blocks. bounded
by Twenty-f1r Twenty-third. {
and E streets NV.
Dulles Makes Pledge
1t will house the department:
$500 Washington employees. who
are now scattered through Is
different buildings in the city
Secretary Dulles pledged to dedi-
cate himself and his department
to the ideal defined by President
Washington at that cornerstone
laying 164 years ago:
To make the Nation an exam
pie to the rest of the world Of
"a people always guided by ar
exalted justice and benevolence
Before the mortar was applied
Mr.. Dulles dropped a copper boz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

into a niche beneath the corner
stone. The box contained several
dozen historic State Department
documents, including a Cancelled
United States passport (the only
one in existence valid, before its
cancellation, for travel to Red
China. as one irreverent by
stander Observed. speeches of
the President and Secretary
Dulles and microfilm copies of
Washington newspapers of yes
terday
Mr.. Eisenhower then slath-
cred a little mortar over the base
of the stone and Mr.. Dulles laid
on some more mortar with a
half dozen souvenir trowels
which will be engraved and pre-
sented to officials taking part.
Operator Had Practice
Then the f1ve-ton granite
block. suspended from a large
mobile crane. was lowered gently
into place on its base. The crane
operator. Moses Ingram. of SITS
Newton street. Cheverly. Md.
had practiced the ceremonial
lowering the day before and
didn't make a slip.
The block itself is already out
of date. Beneath the chiseled
names Of Mr.. Eisenhower, Mr.
Dulles. other officials and the
architects and builders, the
block is inscribed 1856"
The Right Rev. Angus Dun.
Episcopal Bishop of Washington
gave the invocation and the
Most Rev. Patrick A. OBoyle.
Catholic Archbishop of WASH
ington. pronounced the benedic-
ton. Both prayed for world
peace.
Fronting south on c street. the
8-story monolithic structure will
look down gentle hill to the
Lincoln Memorial and the Poto-
mac River.
1t will have parking space for
800 cars in the basement, a
three story-high entrance hail
and huge state dining room
and a heliport on the roof.
The architects are Graham.
Anderson. Probst and White of
Chicago and Harley, Ellington
and Day of Detroit. John Nc
Shain is the builder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Red Cross to Hold
ife-Suvinq Course

A senior life-saving course,
sponsored by the District Chap
ter of the American Red Cross,
will begin classes at 7 pm. to-
morrow at American University
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
President Lays Stone
For New Stote BuiIdino

WELDING historic rowel President Eisenhower yesterday
laid the cornerstone of the Departments mammoth
headquarters building.
Then he travelled to the Capitol present far-reachng
Middle East program to Congress 1t there that the
handled silver trowe first used in 1893
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Smithsonian Will Open
New Hall Jonuory27
By GEORGE FLYNN

The Smithsonian Institution will the public jan
ury u its Hall OF Everyday Life America first
large-scae exhibit of its type up Washington
Cenerpiece of the hall, third the Natural
History Building. is the fourroom Massachusetts, Colony
House, built in the late l600s in what Everett Mass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
OUR TRAFFIC CRISIS
Con Big Rood Program
Resolve DC. Dilemma
BY GEORGE BEyERIDGE

The Washington this gearing for tremendous
highway construction progTamthe biggest in its history
How much good will it do?
Almost certainly, it will solve Wahingons total
traffic problem"
Some experts in fact believe that the may worse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

IIdIIIC pTUUItW III 70 years
even assuming construction OF
millions upon millions of dollars
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-06-28
Mrs. Anna Thomas
Celebrates Her
84th Birthday

Saturday, June % was a day Of
good fellowship for Mrs. Anna
Thomas, 1909 Olson Highway as
she celebrated her saith birthday
with a group Of friends who help
ed to make the celebration a
happy occasion.
Greetings were received from
her son, John Thomas and family
Of Geneva, Switzerland and from
her grandson, James Breeder, a
theological student in New York.
James is spending his summer
vacation in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, with the Student Chris
ton Movement, (S.CM.)
Mrs. Thomas was showered with
an array Of beautiful greeting
cards and many gifts from her
friends.
Sharing honors with Mrs.
Thomas was her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Pleasant
C. Breeder, who celebrated their
25th wedding anniversary, which
was June rs, in conjunction with
their mothers birthday celebra-
ton A family dinner was enjoyed
Guests who were friends of
long standing, wished Mrs. Thorn
as many happy returns of the day,
The evening was spent socializ-
ing and refreshments were enjoy
ed.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-06-28

Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chi
cago, Lawrence f. Spivak. direct
or Of the radio program, Meet
The Press" Rabbi Jacob J. Vein.
stein noted scholar, Or. Andre
peVries from Israel Louis FINE
berg and julius Ginsberg, in
charge Of raising half Of the
Si4o5oO the project viii cost and
which is expected to come from
Jewish and Negro friends, were
among the speakers.
The Kupat Holm, the medical
department OF Histadrut, Israers
Federation Of Labor, has pruvid-
ed the rest OF the money. The
modern building is already in use
Tributes to Or. Lawless for his
remarkable professional achieve
ment, his business acumen and the
widespread philanthropy which he
has bestowed, came from every
voice raised from the dias where
20 distinguished Chicagoans sat.
A considerable part OF the fab
ulous dermatology practice which
Or, Lawless carries on comes
from all over the nation and from
Jewish people. He is to visit the
institution early this fall TO OBJ
serve the installation Of the de-
partment treating skin diseases
and II is hoped win travel to Is
rael occasionally to observe its
work.
The theme Of cooperation be-
tween two races who both suffer
prescription, ran through the
meeting and Or. Lswless, as he
accepted the beautifully engraved
scroll which was presented at the
close OF the banquet, pointed 10
the great service which the Jew
iSh people had contributed to the
world.
He spoke OF the Bible which
sprang from them and traced the
people who moved through its
pages from laughter TO tears and
hoped for the day when divisions
OF race and color would be no
more and the rivalries OF nations
and dictators will have ceased
while we become a world Of broth
ers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-06-28
Roll Our Red
Carpet For Sailors;
And JimcFow Too

Norfolk. Va amp - Vir-
ginia rolled out the red carpet for
It's visiting guests of IS nations
for the International Naval Re-
view in Hampton Roads last week,
but there were evidences in some
places Of race prejudice and segre-
cation.
Segregation signs were posted
on the entrances to toilets for men
and women at the Carolina Trail
way station in Norfolk Though
Negro passengers are permitted
now 10 sit in the white waiting
room, very few use the room and
whites use II exclusively as they
did before the court decision a
gainst segregation at bus termin-
ais and trains The segregation
signs were posted on the doors to
toilets for colored men and white
men and those for colored and
white women.
The segregation notices were
written in French, Spanish, Dan
ish, Portuguese, Italian, and three
other foreign languages, There
were no signs In either English or
Cprnnan but care WAS talren IN
use the language of sailors and
Naval officers from countries with
dark skinned people or integrated
naval groups.
The public gave the dark-slSin-
ned visitors a warm welcome, but
the Trailway Company which has
been a bitter foe OF indignation,
sought to keep the races separate
In the use OF its facilities,