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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

Ichased in 1929, would become a
permanent retreat for Presi-
dents.
But succeeding Presidents
had other ideas. AS Lawrence
Richey, President Hoover's sec
rotary, notes, President Roose-
Welt preferred Shangri-la.
President Truman the yacht
Williamsburg, and President
IEisen h over the Shangri-la
camp in Maryland which he
renamed Camp David.
President Hoover himself
turned down a site at Blue
mont, Va, for which President
Coolidge had Congress appro-
pirate money to construct a
permanent presidential vaca-
ton spot.
Army Engineers and Marine
guards helped improve the
rough trail leading to the
mountain wilderness, where
the 10000 camp was COM
lpleted in 1929. 1t included a
large cabin for the president,
guest cabins. a community
center, a mess hall and SER
voy.tes rtiortarS
President Hoover frequently
hurried to the camp on week.
ENDS, beginning in early spring
riding in the White House
Pierce Arrow. Frequently there
were as many as 80 guests
who would gather evenings
around a large outdoor stone
fireplace, where six-foot logs
sent up high flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Transit Tax Relief Bill
Approved by House

existing law. the funds would
be cut off by the end of 1859.
Representative La nkford d,
Democrat of Maryland. assured
the subcommittee a hospital
fund drive is doing we'll Some
$740. $40 has been raised by the
Greater Southeast Community
Hospital Foundation. Its goal
is So million from public dona-
tons. Another million is ex-
pected to come from founda-
tons and loans.
With the Federal money, Sc
million could be used for the
250-bed hospital on a site al
ready available at Thirteenth
street and Southern avenue Sc.
The subcommittee also rec
commended authorization for
the American Society for In
ternational law to establish a
national headquarters at 2223
Massachusetts, avenue NV. The
property is zoned residential.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
BY CARL IRVING
star Stan Writer

They are tearing down Her.
bert Hoover's old camp in Shen-
andoah National Park.
Twenty-one of the rotting
pine lumber buildings in the
cobwebbed ghost town are
coming down within 80 days
They win be sold as scrap for
1881 by the Park Service.
Three others, all that will re-
main, are going to be restored
as a memorial to the four-year
period that began 80 years ago
when President Hoover worked,
rested and entertained at the
200-acre site by the headwaters
of the Rapidan.
The buildings are under a
mass of spruce, hemlock, oak,
maple and pine in a hollow
about six miles below the Blue
Ridge Parkway. Only a few
fishermen and mixers saw the
cluster this year. The Park
Service has blocked the two
dirt roads which the Boy
Scouts used until they, too
left the camp last year.
It is high time that Camp
Hoover disappears. noted Park
Superintendent Taylor Hoskins
The foundations in most Of the
buildings are sagging danger
ously and the dampness of the
hollow is damaging the struc-
lures beyond repair. he said.
President Hoover had hoped
that the area. which he pur-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

The House today passed a
bill to free Washington area
transit firms from all District
taxes that Congress already has
ruled d. C. Transit System,
Inc, does not have to pay.
Beneficiaries would be the
Alexandria, Bancroft & WASH
ington American Bus Line, Inc:
Atwood Transport Lines. Inc;
the Gray Line. Inc: the SUBJ
urban Transit Co.; Washing
ton, MARLBORO & Annapolis Co.
and the Washington. Virginia
g. Maryland Coach Co.
Estimated loss of revenue to
the District would amount to
about $4,000.
In a busy day for the District,
a House subcommittee also re-
ported favorably a bill to make
Federal matching funds avail
able up to SO million until 1861
for the proposed Southeast
Washington Hospital. Under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Most of Hoover's Ropidon Camp
To Be Torn Down by Park Service

The guests included q Brit
Iish prime minister, Ramsay
Macdonald. in 1880.
President Hoover flShed in
the Rapidan and the streams
which formed it. He particu-
larry enjoyed the blooms which
include mountain laurel, dog
wood and many kinds of wild
flowers.
After he left Office, the camp
was donated to the State OF
Virginia, which turned it over
to the new national park in
December. 1885.
The National Capital Area
Council of the Boy Scouts took
it over in 1948 and operated it
as a summer camp for ten
years.
President Hoover has never
forgotten the camp. He re-
turned in 1854 to take an
other look. His camp furniture,
which has been stored in the
Park Service warehouse for
years, will be returned to his
cabin when restoration work
on the three remaining struc-
lures begins this summer.
In addition to the cabin
which he and his wife used. the
Park Service will restore a
Ineighboring one where Prime
Minister Macdonald stayed
and a third used by White
/ House staff members.
A plaque will be erected to
| tell about the tree shrouded
! remains Of the camp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Coop Appeals
EmbassYRuIing
Asks High Court
To Outline Law

The Maryland Virginia dairy
farmers cooperative, appeal
ing a court ruling that it must
get rid of Embassy Dairy. today
asked the Supreme Court to
outline an agricultural Coop
erative's exemptions from pros
ecution for restraint of trade.
The coop in a brief filed
with the court. said a decision
by District Court Judge Alex
ander Holtzof ''raises Ques-
lions of substantial Importance
to the growth and legality of
the agricultural cooperative
movement in the Unite d
States"
Judge Holtzof last Novem-
Der ordered the coop. now en-
gagged in a fight with its big
gest customer, Chestnut Farms
(Sealtest) Dairy. to give up
Embassy. He held that the CO.
ops purchase of the dairy in
1854 was in violation of anti
trust laws since it tended to
lessen competition substantially
and create a monopoly in the
Washington milkshed.
Counsel for the coop said
the case raises a question OF
how far the antitrust laws
allow a farmers cooperative to
go in purchasing in restraint OF
trade and still be exempt from
prosecution.
The coop was brought to
court by the Justice Depart
ment on a civil anti-trust
action, which charged, among
other things, that the co-op's
purchase of Embassy eliminated
the dairy as an outlet for
farmers who were not MEM
bers of the association. The
coop controls about 80 per cent
of the Washington milkshed.
In the brief. counsel for the
coop pointed out that the
Secretary Of Agriculture had
advised the Justice Department
the dairy purchases were prop
er. Funds to purchase EN-
bassy were borrowed by the
coop from a Federal agency
under the Agricultural Market
ing Act, the brief said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

the Department last year.
The administration pinned
its hopes for action on the fact
that Howard University has
now spelled out in detail ex-
actly what benefits Freedmen's
Hospital employees can expect
after their transfer.
Reinforcing the benefits
agreed to by Howard are spec
cific assurances from the Cow
eminent on the points not
covered by the legislation itself
nor by the Howard agreement.
Union Protested
The legislation was held up
last year after the union repre-
sSnting some of the Freedmen's
employees protested that the
employees would lose the bene-
fits assured by their civil serv-
ice status.
In submitting the proposed
legislation to Congress again,
Mr.. Fleming said:
New clinical facilities for
Howard University's medical
teaching program and for the
proper care of patients at
Freedmen's Hospital are ur-
gently needed.
"The disproportionate short
age of Negro medical and allied
personnel makes Howard Uni
versity's medical teaching pro-
gram a matter of national i'm
portance."
Last month, DR.. Mordecai
johnson, president Of Howard
University, sent the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare q 76-page report COW
Iering 81 areas of employe bene-
fits.
He said the Howard board OF
trustees had agreed to continue
the present benefits enjoyed BY
Freedmen's employees but could
not guarantee that they would
get the pay increases that Gov
eminent employees may receive
through some future legislation
He also raised a question
about the discrepancies in sal
airy between the Freedmen's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
D.C.Tax Exemption
Asked for 70 More
AUTO INSURANCE RATE
HEARINGS OPEN TOMORROW

RICHMOND Cap. The State Corporation Commits
sion opens hearings tomorrow proposed Statewide
average lat per cent Increase auto liability insurance
rates.
The insurance industry has asked the rate increase
effective July l. The National Bureau of Casualty Under
writer's and the Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau said
they would show rising costs-such higher Jury
awards and more frequent accidentsare forcing pre-
mlums UP. The sec has reserved two days for the
hearing.
would have 10 pay increases ranging from $40 to SIS
depending the age Of the drivers and the of the
automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

an accidental blaze" The fire
broke out about $3.50 am. in
the convent, which had been
securely locked when the nuns
retired.
Nuns there said Sister VIII
liam Marie was awakened when
she heard young male voices"
from outside the building. One
said hurry up" they reported.
Sister William Marie arose,
looked out her window, and saw
lat least" two teen-age boys
pass under the garage spot
lights and into the nearby
woods. She awakened the
other nuns, and they left the
building.
Marshal Wolff said Soggy
newspaper and a plastic bag
piled on the tile floor near the
|cinder-block wall had burned,
causing the smoke which filled
the building. Damage was
estimated at $50.
More than a dozen teen-age
boys were questioned last week
after a fierce blaze ruined the
inside of st. Demands Church.
Three boys had been reported
seen fleeing the church grounds
Just before the fire was dis
covered. No arrests have
been made.
Nuns reported that about
three weeks ago intruders broke
into the adjoining school and
stole some 800 photograph
records. The same night. they
said, a priests car was broken
into.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

employees to be transferred and
the Howard employees doing
comparable work.
Mr.. Flemming, in his letter
transmitting the new bill,
said that while it is not auto
matte that the transferred en-
ployes would get future Gov
eminent pay raises, the Gov
ernment has followed a policy
of providing pay increases for
Howard employees when Gov
eminent workers have gotten
them.
AS for Howard employees max
ing less than comparable work
ers at Freedmen's, he said the
Government recognizes the dis
crepancies, already has taken
steps to raise Howard salaries
and is embarked on a policy of
continuing this effort until the
discrepancies are eliminated.
500 Beds Planned
The proposed legislation
would authorize appropriation
of funds, estimated at about So
million, for new construction
and for remodeling existing
buildings to provide a teaching
hospital of up to 500 beds.
Transfer of Freedmen's, now
administered by the Public
Health Service, to Howard Uni
versity would take place about
a month after the start of new
construction.
Annual appropriations would
be authorized for the partial
support of the new teaching
hospital, but the hospital would
be expected to become progress
sively self-supporting to the
extent consistent with sound
medical teaching practice.
The legislation provides spe-
cifically for continuing the
lFreedmen's employees present
retirement and group insurance
coverage. Employees who don't
want to remain at the hospital
after the transfer would be
given extended time to get
other Federal jobs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Board Queried
0nPIdcennents
Court Questions
Alexandria Action

Federal District Court Judge
Alfred v. Bryan today ordered
the Alexandra School Board to
state its reasons for rejecting
four recent Negro applicants
who sought admission to two
Ipredominently white schools.
The judge directed the school
board to file its reply within a
week.
He also granted a motion by
attorneys representing the four
children to join their case with
one that resulted in admission
Of nine Negro children TO white
Alexandria schools last Feb
|ruary.
The school board. meeting in
a secret session April rs, re-
fused to allow the four chill
dren, who moved from WASH
lington to Alexandria. April 20,
to enter william Ramsey Ele-
|mentary School and Francis
Hammond High School.
Instead, it assigned them to
Lyles Crouch Elementary
School and Parker-Gray High
School, both of which are at
tended exclusively by Negroes.
Attorneys Otto L. Tucker and
Frank D. Reeves on April 80
asked Judge Bryan to override
the school board and order inn
mediate admission of the Negro
children to the schools they re-
quested to enter.
Judge Bryan last year issued
an order forbidding the Alex
andria School Board to make
assignments based on race.
That order is still in force.
The two attorneys today
urged the Judge to rule as soon
as possible on their request be-
cause of what Mr.. Reeves called
"the emergency situation"
Attorney John Barton Phil
lips, representing the school
board argued today that the
children could obtain an ade-
quate education in the schools
to which they we're assigned
and that the hearing on their
request should come up in the
normal course of court business
After the school board in
forms the court specifically why
the children were rejected.
Judge Bryan will set a date TO
consider the request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

given two tests. but the ofticer
would not reveal the results.
However, he said st. Ber-
nard's School pupils would be
given the day of tomorrow
while police and fire investiga-
tors conferred with the nuns
who teach there.
Sergt. Pearson said one lie
test was administered last
night while 10 boys were being
questioned about the latest
blaze, which caused ii nuns
to ee the convent adjoining
the church.
He emphasized that all lie
tests we're administered with
the written permossion of the
boys parents.
In Fairfax County, mean
while, Fire Marshal Alfred Savia
labeled suspicious" a fierce
blaze which caused several
thousand dollars damage to st.
Michael's Church in Annandale
about $50 o'clock last night.
Amos Cornell, 20, of 1902
Peyton Randolph drive, Falls
Church, and James Porter, rs,
Of Annandale, both of the An
Mandate Fire Department, suf-
fered minor injuries while
lighting the blaze. They were
treated at Arlington Hospital
Marshal Savia said there
was no immediate evidence OF
arson, but so far no other cause
has been found. The heat was
so intense it twisted steel
beams. he said.
In the latest st. Bernard's
fire. County Fire Marshal Woltz
said, there was no cause for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

1T WAS A BEAUTIFUL
Indian summer day. Despite
this. the writer, as he opened
a package OF Egyptian Deities
(s5 cents), suggested going
to the Hippodronle Billiard
Academy, a luxuriously APP
pointed room, for a few
games of Boston (rotation
pool.
But Mac said that he was
going down town to see the
King. With that supercilious-
ness that only youth can
attain, the writer said he
couldn't be bothered; he'd go
home and take a nap.
On his way he met his
mother, hurrying to the Elm
wood avenue streetcar. she
and Father had been
appointed to a committee to
greet the King and Queen,
but he had telephoned that
he couldn't make it.
Determined that she was
going to meet the royal cou-
pie, Mother had started out
alone. She looked over her
son, all 6 foot 2 of him and,
to her relief, found him to be
dressed presumably.
"Come on" she said.
We were presented to the
King and Queen at the Ter
race, scene of a little well
coming ceremony, and then
we were ushered into an open
car right behind them LOT
the parade.
We stopped momentarily at
Eagle street near the old
City Hall, and there at the
curb within hands reach was
Mac. He would wiggle his
way through.
Hello" said the writer,
nonchalantly.
Mac was fiabbergasted at
his friends sudden advance
ment. All he managed to say
was:
ttTJi -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
THE VISIT OF KING

THE VISIT OF KING
ALBERT and his Queen in
October, 1919, caused a ire
mendous stir. They were
the first crowned heads to
come to this Republic.
Fountains from fireboats
and a blizzard of ticker tape
greeted them in New York.
stories were banded about
concerning American gau-
cherries. Mrs. John F. Hylan,
wife of New York's Mayor,
was supposed to have re-
piled to her royal majesty,
queen, you said a mouthful.
A canard. Convent-educat-
ed Mrs. Hylan followed pro-
tocol as well as most.
It had been announced
that the royal couples tour
would go beyond New York
and washington and that
the Queen City of the Lakes
was one Of those to be favored
by their presence. Delaware
avenue society figures were
practicing curtsies with full
genuflection.
It was a period Of idleness
for the writer. He was 20
wears old and finding hinn-
self" He had lunch with his
friend Don MCGUIRE at Char
lie Cans saloon, roast beef
cut from a huge round at the
end of the bar, the slices
placed on the lower half OF
4 kummelwick tcaraWay-
seeded bun) and the upper
half dipped in the pan gravy
before it was placed on the
sandwich.
one sandwich and one beer
were an ample lunch and
cost Is cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11

The black, yellow and red
flags on the lampposts are
the national colors OF Bau-
douin, the youthful bachelor
King OF the Belgians who viii
arrive here today.
This morning the Rambler
stopped In the State Depart
ment TO see the display set
up for the Nations guest.
The Rambler met Vernon
T. Lyon, co-ordlnator; Fern
leigh r. Grenninger, chief OF
the visual service division,
ana william Ticknor, project
manager.
Pictures showing the rich
ness Of Belgian fields and
Belgian architecture we're on
a large panel In front Of the
elevators. There was a blank
space In the center.
"That win be filed with a
color photograph showing
President Eisenhower greet
ing the King at the airport"
said Mr.. Lyon. The King will
see 1t when he comes here
tomorrow.
THAT seems to impress
the distinguished visitors the
most. American enterprise or
something The President
autographs it and sends it
to the guest. Makes for good
international relations"
The Rambler viii stop in
this afternoon at the Shera-
ton-Carlton, where there will
be a royal reception for
communications personnel,
including the press.
Previous experience at sim
liar affairs suggests that he
will be able to shake hands
with the King but won't have
time to tell his majesty how
he met his grandfather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Boys Given Lie Tests
In Church Fires Probe

Georges County police said today they have given
lie detecor three boys in their efforts to dis
100000 fire St Demands Catholic Church in
Riverdae Nd last Tuesday and smaller blaze in the adoin
ing early yesterday
Dettecve Sergt Richard Pearson boy has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Transfer of Freedmen
ToHoword u. Pushed
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
star stan Writer

The administration today launched push to get
action delayed transfer Freed
mems Hospital to Howard University and construct new
teaching hospital
Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Femmng sub
mitted to Congress similar to the recommended by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-11
Officers Chosen
For Fixed Terms
Would Benefit
BY GRACE BASsETT
star stan Writer

Leglslatlon 70 Tree ~ more
appointees from
District income taxes today was
reported TO the House District
Committee by a subcommittee
headed by Representative
Smith. Democrat of Virginia.
Current law exempts some
l79 presidential appointees who
serve at the pleasure Of the
White House Included are cabi-
net officers, assistant and un-
dersecretaries and such officials
as the Librarian of Congress,
the public printer, chief exami-
ners Of the Patent once and
director of the Selective Service.
House Majority Leader Me-
Cormack said his new bill would
give the same tax treatment TO
officers chosen by the President
for fixed terms.
Most Not Paying
Most of these people have
not been paying income taxes
anyway, William Mcleod,
committee clerk, pointed out at
a subcommittee meeting this
morning.
Though required by law to
file returns. indications are that
they simply do not"
Asked if the top-level Federal
policy-makers would be prose-
cutel for failing to file returns.
Mr.. Smith said that was a ques-
ton for the District Govern
ment to decide.
District officials, queried by
telephone, said the Federal
employees could not be sepa-
rated as a class from other
District residents who fail to
pay taxes. Constant efforts are
made to find persons who owe
but do not pay municipal lev
les. they said. Questions Of
residence and domicile affect
tax eligibility of Federal en-
ployes, as we'll as the fact Of
presidential appointment.
Exemptions Breakdown
If cleared by Congress. the
Mccormack bill would free
from local income tax members
of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion, five persons; Civil Aero
nautics Board, five; Federal
Communications Commission,
seven: Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corp, two: Federal Home
Loan Bank Board, three.
Also the Federal Power COM
mission, five; Board of Cover
nors of the Federal Reserve
System, seven; Federal Trade
Commission. five; Interstate
Commerce Commission. IL, and
the National Labor Relations
Board, six.
The National Mediation
Board, three; Securities and
Exchange Commission, FIVE;
Subversive Activities Control
Board, five. and the United
States Tariff Commission, six.
Simple justice requires that
officials serving in capacity
requiring appointment by the
President and confirmation by
the Senate should be treated
equally" Mr.. Mccormack testi-
fed.
Receipts Decline Hit
Representative Wier, Demo-
crat of Minnesota. said he was
concerned that committeeman
knocked off 5000 to $4,000
in taxes almost every time
they met. He asked Mr.. Me-
Cormack If he planned to get
a job on one of these commits
sions when he left the House.
OF have told two former
Presidents, Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Truman, that ] am inter-
ested in only one job in Wash
ington and that is the one I
have" Mr.. Mccormack said.
Then, / only have to worry
about my enemies back home.
/ don't care about them here"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-25
Bomber Shot
At Satellite
Fails to Fire
BY the Associated Press

The Air Force was reported
today to have been blocked by
technical troubles in an attempt
to launch a ballistic missile
from o bomber in flight and
put 1t close to the orbit of the
Paddlewheel satellite Explorer
vi.
A source close to the expert
ment said the missile was car
ried high over Florida during
the early morning hours but the
launching was called of after
half an hours flight. The only
immediate explanation wa 8
technical difficulties"
The plan was to make the
effort around 4::30 am. when
the satellite was at the low
point of its orbit over jackson
vile.
The source said the trial was
put OF indefinitely, with no in.
dication when 1t might be re-
scheduled.
There was no suggestion that
the experiment had been called
OF permanently.