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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-09
By ANNE II. CHRISTMAS
Star stan Writer

star Stan writer
Plastic raincoatS over
mink furs were the stand
ard formula for last nights
small but brilliantly CARRIED
audience at the opening Of
the six-day Washington In
ternational Horse Show at
the Armory.
A gully-washing rain across
most of the city brought
forth some odd combinations
of rainwear to protect eve
ming clothes for incoming
or departing visitors, and the
crowd at the International's
first night performance was
diSappointingly small,
Obviously Washington's Of
fetal and diplomatic society
was awaiting the Horse
Show Ball tonight and CLAM
our filled weekend sessions
mot to mention better Ar
mory-going conditions, speak
ing weatherwiSe) but last
nights contingent was made
of the Sterner stuff for which
horse fancierS are famous.
Although a large percent
age of the onlookers repre-.
sented the dyed-in- the-tweed
horse show enthusiasts, there
was an impressive cross sec
ton of society mixed in with
almost all of who's Who of
HorSedom." (Such a volume
actually doesn't exist but
its eligible membership is
screened as closely as the
Green Book.
Active for Jumping
Many late-comers keyed
their arrivals to be on time
for the justly famous inter-
national jumping COMPETE
ton. which last night went
to a United States color
bearer. Frank Chapot. The
hope of many Maryland on
lockers, Hugh Wiley, the first
stringer on the team who
halls from Towson, Md,
could do no better than
fourth place but his horses
appeared to be in sensational
form.
Wiley hackers, who gave
him a tremendous hand when
he entered the ring, looked
forward to bigger fences and
more difficult courses ahead
as the best chances for the
3 1-y e r-o1d Marylander's
mounts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Ca
fritz were on hand to watch
the thrilling jumping per-
formances, as were Mrs. Rob-
ert Guggenheim, Mr.. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-09
Tea Tomorrow

The Northwood Woman's
Club will hold a membership
tea at the General Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs head
quarters. 1747 N street NV,
tomorrow from 2 pm. until 4
pm.
Installation Of the new club
officers will be held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
RIA Seeking Solution
To Market StoIemote

District Redevelopment Land
Agency officials today said they
were desperately" seeking a
solution to a statement block
ing construction of a new
market center in Southwest
Washington.
Representatives of the agency
! and st. Dominic's Catholic
Church failed to reach an
agreement on location Of the
center in q meeting yesterday
in the Office of House Majority
Leader Mccormack, Democrat
of Massachusetts. The church
has objected to location of
wholesale produce houses across
from the church, in the block
between Fourth and Sixth and
E and F streets.
In earlier concessions to the
church. the RIA agreed not to
sell land directly across from
the church to a tire recapping
firm and moved all but one
produce merchant from the
area between Fourth and Sixth
streets to a tract between Sec
|ond and Fourth streets.
In yesterdays meeting, At
torney John Dillon Fitzgerald,
representing the church. main
tanned that loading and un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

loading of produce trucks in the
block across from the church
would create a hazard for
school children. RIA repre-
sentatives pointed out, however,
that the one produce merchant
in the block would be loading
and unloading a maximum of
seven large trucks only between
the hours of 2 am. and 6 am.
Eleven produce merchants
and a restaurant formed a cor
poration to build the new mil
lion dollar market center to re-
place quarters along Maine
avenue in the path of a new
expreSSway. The market GEN.
ter corporation has obtained
financing for its new buildings
and is ready to begin construc-
ton as soon as the RIA ap-
proves the site.
Others attending yesterdays
meeting were Representative
Rabaut, Democrat of Mich
igan. chairman of the House
District Appropriations Sub
committee. spokesman for the
Fifth Baptist Church, Six and
a Half and E streets; F. Joseph
Donohue, attorney for the mar
ket center corporation, and
Malcolm Burrows, RIA deputy
director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
100000 Escape
Reds via Berlin
Gruenther Says

More than 100000 Germans
have escaped from Communist
controlled Germany across the
Berlin line, Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther said last night.
He said most of them have
made their way right through
Berlin. About 2,100 university
and school teachers, 900 doc
tors and one college president
are among those who have es-
capped, Gen. Gruenther said.
His remarks came at the first
of the Francis c. Nash me-
mortal lecture series at George
town University.
Gen. Gruenther said this
constant flow of Germans to
West Germany has been a
continued source of humilia-
ton" to the Soviet Union.
At the same time he warned
that if the United States fails
to convince underdeveloped
countries that our aspirations
are baSically the same as theirs,
we are in serious danger.
A Georgetown UniverSit y
graduate, Mr.. Nash taught in
the univerSity's law school be-
fore World War II. Later he
served as an Assistant Secretary
of Defense, and on various
United States delegations to in
ternational conferences. He was
vice president of the American
Council on NATO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
20 Years Added
To Robbers Term

A 20-year prison term fol-
robbery was ordered yesterday
for a District man already serv-
ing a f1ve-year sentence for an
other attempted robbery in
Prince Georges County.
The prisoner, Clayton c. Gill
liam, "a, of the 1900 block OF
Maryland avenue NE, received
20 years for the $3.50 holdup OF
Brenner'S Liquors, 1900 block
of Rhode Island avenue, Brent
wood, last March 81. He also
was given a three-year term,
to run concurrently, for assault
and battery on a clerk during
the holdup.
The sentences to the Mary
land Penitentiary were ordered
by Prince Georges Circuit Court
Judge Phillip H. Dorsey.
Gillian was sentenced last
october to a f1ve-year term in
the House of Corrections fol
assault with intent to rob the
operator of Haywood Liquors
1900 block of Varnum street
Mount Rainier. The operator
was seriously wounded by gun
fire during the incident last
July "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

the hospital before paying her
taxes"
"She wasn't nearly as bad as
the woman with the fur coat, "
said another agent. This short,
stubby woman with a diamond
on each finger came in with her
husband, who was carrying
three shopping bags full of can
celled checks" he said.
"she had this long fur coat
either sable or mink-that
she kept stepping on, and
after we got finished figuring
her tax, it developed she had
/ S725,000 worth Of capital
gains.
The 1lth-hour taxpayer is
far from a rare bird, since In
/ ternal Revenue reports that one
out of four District and Mary
land citizens had failed to file
by the closing of business last
night.
Perhaps the most distin-
guished late entry was Vice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Tax Agents Playing 1t Cool

President Nixon, who is re-
ported to have mailed his on
the way to the office this
morning.
Agents agreed that the fe-
male of the species is more
deadly than the male.
Zone woman today kept
shopping around from agent
to agent, trying to ge the an
swer she wanted" Mr.. john
son said. Finally she came
up to me in disgust and said
at think you won't let me
have that deduction just be-
cause you're tired you're
all just tired out
Although today is a reaI
nightmare for the taxmen il
was not the worst.
Monday was just unbeliev-
able" said Eugene Travers
chief of the division here
People do most of their really
serious worrying on the last
week en- dbefore the deadline
and then come in and let US
have it."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

Pity the poor tax man
somebody must.
Amid the jangle of a hun
dred telephones at the Internal
Revenue Service today, harried
agents were carrying on with
the bleak patience of teachers
trying to impart the MULTIPLE
cation tables to a class of not
very bright balloons.
The classroom, complete
with charts, desks and in
structors is called the Tax
payers Assistance Room, and
to find it one had only to fol-
low the crowd to Twelfth street
and Constitution avenue.
This one woman kept try
ing to get to the head of the
line" said Edmund Johnson
the supervisor. When one OF
the agents asked why she didn't
wait her turn. she told him that
her husband was outside under
an oxygen tent and she had to
get him to the hospital. The
tax man said if he was that
sick, she'd better take him to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
TODAY
CONVENTIONS

The Associated Retail
Bakers of America meet in
the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
Closing a four-day con-
vention, the National Clay
Pipe Manufacturers Asso-
citation holds final sessions
in the Shoreham Hotel.
B'nai Birth Women's
Supreme Lodge continues
its Statler Hotel conclave.
The Daughters of Ameri-
can Colonists end a three
day Mayflower Hotel gen.
eral assembly.
The National Society of
Daughters of Founders and
Patriots Of America meets
in the Shoreham Hotel.
Ending a three-day con-
vention, the National hide
pendent Diaries Associa-
ton is headquartered in the
Willard Hotel.
This information supplied by
the Washington Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

He predicted that the pro-
posed bill, sponsored by Sena-
tor johnson, Democrat of
South Carolina, would cost the
city at least 100000 year if
it chose to pay for insurance.
Mr.. Norman suggested as an
alternative that Congress SIM
ply legally free city employees
Iof personal liability. Senator
Beall asked for a draft bill
along this line.
Other Bills Presented
Legal officers asked approval
of two other bills. One would
permit previously tax-exempt
property to remain so W lille
in the hands of the District
Redevelopment Land Agency.
The other would give the
city power to appoint special
policemen for the Federal Gov
eminent. Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Robert Kneipp
said this bill would help to
prevent the establishment OF
islands of police jurisdiction
such as the Supreme Court
and the Library of Congress,
where the Districts regular po-
lice now can act only on invi-
tation.
Spokesman for the Associa-
ton for Childhood Interna-
tional asked for realty tax ex-
Iemption. The city opposed the
request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
South Norfolk Schools
Rehire OnIyOne Negro

will be needed in the public
schools in September.
Mr.. Story, who also is n MEM
Der of the State Board of Edu-
cation, said indignation could
cause white pupils to withdraw
from school and he does not
intend to employ more teach
ers than may be needed. He
indicated white teachers may
be assigned to teach in the
Negro public schools If there
are not enough classes left in
white schools to occupy the
white teachers.
At present, South Norfolk
has So Negro teachers. The
board has until September to
approve teacher contracts, but
Mr.. Story indicated that he
expected to know by June or
July the number that will be
needed.
There has been no move for
indignation in South Norfolk.
but the neighboring city of
Norfolk has had six integrated
schools since February. A num-
Der of white students from
Norfolk have been attending
public schools in South Nor
folk.
| Mr.. Story's remarks we're
directed to a delegation from
the Parent-Teacher Associa-
tlon Of the Negro George
Washington Carver High
School in South Norfolk. Del
egation spokesman Herbert L.
Skinner pleaded with the
school board for some assur-
ance that Negro teachers win
have jobs in September.
School board members in
dicated they were leaving the
matter Of hiring teachers up
to Mr.. Story. Later at the
same meeting. the board APP
proved new contracts for l22
white teachers and the lone
Negro contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

NOW I'M WRITING about
trees because she gave me a
telephone call and it was
only to ask a question.
whats a live oak?" she
asked. 81 thought all oaks
were live"
That was a question the
Rambler could answer. When
he was in Richmond in Feb
ruary last year during the
session of the General AS
Sembly, he became curious
about a tree growing in front
of the Roman Catholic
Church near the StatehouSe.
1t was bearing leaves. He
telephoned the rectory to ask
what it was. The assistant
priest and the pastor under
Standably more interested in
the salvation of souls than
botany, referred the ques-
toner up to the auxiliary
bishop who was in residence.
tits a live oak" he said.
ITS called that because it
keeps its leaves all winter.
It's the giant oak of the
South that is feStooned with
Spanish moss. You probably
noticed that its leaves are
not serrated like the white
or red oak. They are more
like the leaves of the willow
oak but are shorter and
wider.
I'm told that ours is the
northernmoSt example of the
species"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Teacher Firiinu
Rules Studied
District Officials
Planning Revision

An effort to make it easier
for District school officials to
remove incompetent teachers
was undergoing further revision
today.
School officials and board
members are at work rewriting
the rules of the board and the
section dealing with the sus-
pension of teachers.
Yesterday, the suggested
change was ordered revised
further after Mrs. Ruth Spen-
GER, member of the board, said
the new rule would give school
officials arbitrary authority
to fire a teacher. She also OBJ
jected to the withdrawal Of
the right of appeal from 9
temporary or probationary
teacher.
Mrs. Spencer was skeptical Of
another change which woulC
give School Supt. Carl F. Han.
sen the power to appoint g
board of review, made up OF
teachers and school officials
which would hear disciplinary
cases. She said members of the
board of review should be
chosen from a panel. selected
by various educational organ
izations.
Speaking in behalf of most
of the proposed changes, Wal
ter N. Tobriner, president OF
the board, said that member
ship in the District teaching
corps must be made difficult
to obtain"
1--WE must" he said, 'be able
to weed out incompetents with
relative ease"
He said it was his hope for
the future that the District
school system would have an
"elite corps of teachers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Lists Training Benefits

SOUTH NORFOLK, Va,
April IS (APl.-Only one
Negro teacher definitely has
been rehired to teach in pub
lie schools here next year.
School Supt. William J Story,
an advocate of massive resist
ance to racial integratlon, said
at a school board meeting Mon
day night that new contracts
will not be offered Negro teach
ers, with one exception, until
he knows how many teachers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Bond Concert Slated

The George Washington
High School Senior Band of
Alexandria will present its
spring concert at 8 pm. to-
morrow at the school. The
program consists of classical
and march music under the
direction Of J. Frank Barr, ir.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
The
Rambler
Should
Climb q Tree
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Many persons seem inter-
ested In trees.
The other morning, the
Rambler was walking In
front Of the new Star Build
ing with Albert Farmhouse.
Mr.. Barnhouse's assign
ment is to guide F street
merchants In their approach
to a fairly prosperous market,
lie. Tor that Isl the readers
Of The Star.
In other words he's an adj
vertising man.
THAT" said Mr.. Barn
house, pointing to a grace
full confer that had just been
transplanted to a favored
position in front of the
building, lis a Dawn Red
wood, a member of the larch
family"
When this was called to
the attention of a couple of
his colleagues the next
morning, they said:.
"He read it in The Star"
That could be. But Mr..
Farmhouse is interested in
trees. He has confirmed the
Rambler's idea that the tall,
symmetrical trees now in tiny
leaf on our (The Stars lawn
are tulip poplars.
1t is not insignificant that
the second most popular
poem written In New York
was about a tree. There can
be no doubt about the most
popular poem. 1t was writ
ten by DR.. Clement Moore
who lived on West Thirty
fourth street and it was en-
titled, 1.-THE Night Before
Christmas"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Union Denies
Racial Bias
IBEW Says Color
Is Not Job Factor

An electrical workers union
official today told the Districts
Council on Human Relations
that race is not a factor in its
job referral procedure.
The council met with union
officials to discuss alleged racial
discrimination practices of the
International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers Local 26.
The councils goal is to see
that non-discrimination clauses
| in District government con-
struction contracts are OBJ
served. The group had charged
that in some cases contractors
are unable to carry out these
| provisions because some unions
refuse to admit Negro members.
Today, c. F. Curtin, financial
secretary Of the electrical local,
admitted that his union has no
Negro members. although two
applied last June. They are
awaiting their turn for a mem
bership vote by the union, he
said, and asserted that the
union leaders are not concerned
with the question of race.
N0nmembers Referred
However, Mr.. Curtin said,
neither race or union member
ship has any bearing on who
gets an electrical construction
job. Qualified electricians, he
said, are sent to the contractors
from a referral Office, whether
they hold union membership or
not. The man at the top of the
list has the first opportunity for
the job opening.
Mr.. Curtin, along with Fred
B. Irwin, representing the presi-
dent of IBEW. emphasized that
winning union membership and
applying at the job referral Of
flee are two different things.
Under a ruling last year by
the National Labor Relations
Boards general counsel, Mr..
Irwin said job preference can
no longer be given to union
members.
DAILY UncOnvinced
A Negro member of the
Council on Human Relations,
Victor r. DAILY, appeared I'M
convinced that a qualified
Negro electrician would have
an equal opportunity for a con-
struction job. He said he had
taken the two Negro workers to
the union last June to apply
| for membership and nothing
had been heard on the matter
since. Mr.. Daily said that no
one had mentioned to him any
thing about a job referral list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

giveaway" at the taxpayers
expense.
Mr.. Norman testified before
a Senate District fiscal affairs
subcommittee on a bill backed
by District police and firemen
which would require the city
to buy liability and property
damage insurance for city
drivers or pay any damages
awarded in accident suits.
1t. Edward H. Ring, presi-
dent of the Policemen's Associ-
alton, said policemen have long
been left holding the bag" in
damage cases arising from nom
duty accidents.
Rates Increasing
Police now pay for their own
insurance coverage, but 1t.
Ring complained that the rates
have been spiraling and that
the District government should
carry the cost as he said private
businesses do.
Mr.. Norman said, however,
the proposed remedy of CITY,
paid insurance would amount
to a gift of free insurance" to
protect city workers against
negligence for which the city
itself under the law is not re-
Sponsible.
He also noted that the Dis
trict provides lawyers to de-
fend its employees when they
are taken to court. He told
Senator Beall, Republican of
Maryland, Who conducted the
hearing. that city workers have
been sued for accident dam
ages in only a handful of cases
in the last 80 years.
Many Cases Settled
He said the District leans
over backwards" to settle cases
out of court when there has
been apparent negligence on
the part of the driver. Thou
sands of such settlements have
been made, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

THE NEW YORK POEM
second in popularity was
written by George Pope
Morris in 1880. 1t went:
Woodmdn, spare that treel
Touch not a single Dough!
In youth it sheltered me
And I'll protect it non.
As the story goes, the poem
saved the tree, which in the
goth century was identified
as an elm at Ninety-eighth
street and West End avenue.
Doubtful!
The Rambler remembers
seeing the elm in Cambridge,
Mass, under which George
Washington took command
of the Continental Army.
But it was a lifelesS stump
surrounded by an iron fence.
One hundred years is a long
time for an elm.
All this tree-talk was set
off by a telephone call yes
terday morning from Mrs.
Arthur E. Sweeney of 4915
Twelfth street NE.
Mrs. Sweeney is a valued
contributor to this column.
Every time she makes a Sug-
gestion, he has to write
about it. He has never met
her. Just enjoyed her cheer
full voice over the telephone.
There are several unusual
things about Mrs. Sweeney
which he will try to state in
order of aScendancy. One,
husband is a policeman. Two,
they have seven children.
Three, they are Protestant.
Four, her husband is of Ger
man descent.
Now don't get me wrong.
Sweeney can't be anything
but Irish. Just like HenneS-
sey of cognac fame or the
Third Napoleon'S Marshal
Mcmahon. But apparently
the same trouble that sent
the HenneSSeys and Nc
MahonS to France sent other
Irish to Germany. And
when this Sweeneys ances-
tors came to this country,
they had no brogue, their
language was Germ an.
Policeman Sweeney has met
several persons with Irish
names and the same ancestry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15

the FBI crime laboratories and
close cooperation with FBI
agents.
Mai. George j. Panagoulis.
superintendent of Prince
Georges County police, pointed
out that the investigation of an
abortion ring started in his
county, moved into Washington
and then into Arlington and
Fairfax Counties with full CO.
operation of police forces all
along the line.
Mai. William L. Durrer, chief
of Fairfax County police, cited
the uniform setup for exchange
OF information on juvenile Of
tenders throughout the Metro
politan Area.
Col. James S. McAuliffe, SUI
perintendent of the oMntgom-
cry County police, said his men
worked closely with FBI agents
particularly in the field of
stolen cars, and that, through
his FBI training, he had
learned where FBI jurisdiction
begins and ends.
Chief Samuel A. Foster of
Takoma Park, Md, told of the
use of the FBI crime labora-
tories in examining soil found
in the killers trouser cuffs in a
fatal stabbing on University
boulevard.
Death Gun Pictured
Maj. Durrer, also emphasiz-
ing aid from the FBI crime
laboratories, said that in the
Lorton killing of a grocer the
FBI not only identified the
gun used, but provided a pic
ture of it so police would know
what to seek.
Chief Panagoulis said that
although it has now been four
years since the Shootings of
Michael Ann Ryan and Nancy
Shomette, the FBI crime labo-
ratories are still checking on
all rifles of the type used in
the shootings.
Others visiting, with Mr..
Hoover today were Maj. Rus
sell A. Halves, Alexandria SUI
perintendent; Chief Harold
Stewart of the United States
Park Police; Chief Silas Ed
ward Dennis, jr., of HyattSville.
Md, and Maj. William G..
Fawver, chief of the Arlington
County force. The last two are
attending the current session
of the academy.
Others Trained
In most of the area depart
mentS, men besides the chief
have gone through the academy
courses. Graduates below the
rank of chief include an in
spector, four lieutenants and
two detective SergeantS in
Montgomery County; two cap
tains, one lieutenant and two
sergeants in Alexandria; one
inspector, three captains and
one lieutenant in Prince
Georges County; one inspector,
one sergeant and an investi-
gator in the Park Police; one
inspector, two captains and one
lieutenant as well as a private
attending the current session
| in the Fairfax force; a corporal
lin the Hyattsville force, and an
assistant chief, a captain and a
lieutenant in the Arlington
County force.