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Evening star., 1960-04-20
Reservation Mixup Hits
200 Teen-Age Visitors

Last night was a night to
remember for hotel clerks, tour
managers and teen-age tourists
Misplaced reservations for
about 200 students caused a
general mixup. To handle the
overflow, the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad pulled in two Pullman
cars at Union Station and the
Shoreham Hotel converted q
ballroom into a dormitory fol
So boys.
The miXupS occurred at the
Roosevelt Hotel, 21Ol Sixteenth
street NV, and the Pierre
L'Enfant at 500 North Capitol
street.
One group of about 100 stu
dents from the Blue Island High
School in Chicago arrived in
town yesterday morning. While
they were sightseeing, it was
discovered their reservations al
the Roosevelt had been mis-
placed.
Girls go Pullman"
Charles Van Horn, general
passenger agent for the B&O
said two Pullman cars were
pulled into Union Station to
provide sleeping quarters for
81 girls.
They had a wonderful
time" Mr.. Van Horn said. 1--WE
had the cars ready by the time
they got back from sight
seeing"
Additional rooms for the
group were located in the
Meridian Hill Hotel and the
Gilbert Hotel.
Reservations Misplaced
Another group. "a students
from New York State, arrived
at the L'Enfant Hotel about
$50 pm. yesterday. After q
Evening star., 1960-04-20
RIA Presses
For Decisions
On Road Plans
Clearance Awaited
For Sturt of Work
In Northwest Area
By ALFRED ALIBRANDO
Star Stad Writer

District slum clearance Off
cialS will urge the Highway
Department to make basic
decisions on road plans in the
Northwest urban renewal area
so a limited project can be
started.
Gordon Howard, deputy di-
rector of the District Redevel-
opment Land Agency, said the
agency hopes to carry out some
projects to provide low and
middle income housing in the
Northwest area.
Mr.. Howard said after a
meeting of the RIA board that
the agency is seeking a meet
ing as soon as possible with
the District Commissioners in
an effort to bring a decision
on the highways.
So far the Highway Depart
ment has been unable to pin
down precisely a Route 24O
connection to the inner looI
or portions of the inner loor
within the Northwest Urban
Renewal Area.
AS a result, the Housing anc
Home Finance Agency ha.
warned the RIA not to make
any more commitments fol
planning urban renewal in the
area until the highway dilemma
is resolved.
The Northwest Urban Re.
newal area lies generally be.
tween North Capitol and Four.
teenth streets and Massachu.
setts and Florida avenues.
Mr.. Howard said that ir
addition to deciding on free.
ways, the Highway Department
also would have to make some
decisions on what streets coulc
be closed or kept open only tt
limited traffic.
Other Actions Taken
The RIA took these Other
actions today:
Completed, after a public
hearing at which there were
no objections, sale of land ad.
jacent to st. Dominics Catholic
Church for a priory.
Approved purchase of the
Southwest Boys Club property
on Sixth street, north of
street, and the historic Law
House at Sixth and N streets
which now houses the Hadley
Clinic.
Mr.. Howard said the BOYS
Club building may not be tori
down but may be reSold for g
community use.
The Law House, he said
definitely would be left stand.
ing and probably would be in.
corporated into whatever res.
idential development is decided
upon for that section of South.
west Washington.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
The
Rambler
Finds Frances
Flouts Him
By GEORGE KENNEDY

The anemone is a tiny
bloom on the oak-leaf car
pet of the Maryland woods.
The redbud is budding and
the dogwood is opening and
the hickory trees are in tiny
leaf.
The Rambler discovered all
this yesterday in a d delightful
hour or two in the woods
above the river near Poto-
mac, Md.
But the day was a disap-
pointment. He thought he
had a date.
1t seems that Frances
Powell Hill, a lady who has
been very successful in real
estate, telephoned and asked
II he wanted to see Block
House Point. When she de-
scribed it, he did indeed.
He was looking forward to
a sylvan foray or perhaps a
bucolic afternoon among the
green pastures of Montgom-
cry County.
But when he arrived at
her Office, he found that
Miss Hill had deputized a
couple of young men, Verlin
Smith and French Tram
nell, to guide him through
the woods. AS president of
the corporation that bears
her name, she had to tend
store.
Mr.. smith drove out River
road. We passed through the
vast wooded area owned by
the late Mrs. Stone of Stoney-
hurst Quarries, who in her
8Oth year used to sit at the
scales and weigh every block
on its way out. Once through
the woods, we came to the
white fence country, where
Mr.. Smith pointed out broad
acres owned by Mrs. Bazy
Miller Tankersley, H. Grady
Gore and Drew Pearson
among others, now worth
$4,000 or more an acre.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Humphrey Hits Charge
Of Rocism as Nonsense

Senator Humphrey said he
believes the election of Mr..
Reeves would be a contructive
force on the Democratic Ma
tional Committee"
If Mr.. Reeves is elected, he
will be the first Negro to serve
on the Democratic National
Committee.
Deploring racial discrimina.
ton, Senator Humphrey said:
America needs all the talent
that it has. We can't win the
cold war-the struggle between
good and evil-by tying one OF
our arms behind our backs"
After his speech to the Po-
liceman'S Association, Senator
Morse was asked if he had any
comment on a charge that by
accepting a $500 speakers fee
from a TeamsterS Union group
he had been guilty, in effect,
of "condoning the worst prac-
ticeS in the labor movement"
This charge had been made
by w. John Kenney, chairman
of the D. c. Committee for
Humphrey.
Morse Replies
Said Senator Morse:
ITS not who I talk to but
what I say there that counts
When I spoke to this Teamsters
group, I was making an anal
ysiS of the Kennedy-Landrum-
Griffin bill. I am not interested
in the officers of the Teamsters
Union, but I am interested IN
the rank and file.
People who know Wayne
Morse know he can't be bought.
The fee I received was my
standard fee. I repeat that if
were a delegate to a Team
Sters convention I would not
vote for James Hoffa CTeam-
Sters Union PRESIDENT.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Unbalanced Lanes Seen
For 3 Virginia Roods
Area Traffic Council to Study
Plan for Speeding Flow of Cars

Traffic officials considering establishing unbalanced
traffic lanes three major Northern Virginia arteries to help
the flow of during peak rush hours
subcommittee of the Metropolitan Area Traffic Council
has been asked to make study Columbia pike
Davis highway and the George Washington Memorial parkway
Evening star., 1960-04-20
School Bond Voted

RICHMOND. Va, April 20
CAP) Chesterfield County
voters yesterday approved a
S6 million school bond issue
by a vote of 4.0eA eU 1874.
Evening star., 1960-04-20

FIRST I'm going to show
you the ruins of the stone
cutting mill at Seneca" said
Mr.. Smith, who halls from
the Great Smoky Mountains
of North Carolina and has
been with Miss Hill IA years.
"Then we will double back
to Block House Point. Some
of the stone used in the con-
struction of the Civil War
fortif1cation on the point
came from the quarries at
Seneca Creek"
The stone walls of the cut
ting mill are still standing
red sandstone, the same as
was produced here before
the Civil War for the con-
struction of the Smithsonian
Institution. There were the
remains of two large build
ingS.
The roof is gone and huge
timbers lie aSkew, but they
still testify to the skill of
the artisans who joined them
with dovetails and oaken
pegs 2 inches thick.
II am told that the stones
were cut by water power with
vertical-not circular-saws
and that it took an hour to
cut through an inch," Mr..
Smith said. Water was con-
stantly poured on the saws
and the stones to reduce
heat at the point of contact.
THE stones were sent to
Washington on C&O Canal
barges by mule power"
Evening star., 1960-04-20
House Votes Funds
For New Hospital
OKs $40 Million
Vet Project in
SeesuW Bottle
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star Staf Writer

The House today reversed
tits Appropriations Committee
and approve dS2O million for a
new veterans hospital 10 be
built at the Soldiers Home.
The action was taken in a
2l8-to-l55 roll call vote. Dis
trict area Congressman lined
up for the project. Also ap-
proved was another veterans
hospital to be built in Cali
fornia.
The action followed an un-
usual seesaw yesterday in
which $3.50 million for the two
hospital projects first was
added to, then Subtracted from,
the bill, Representative Thom-
as, Democrat of Texas, chair
man of the Appropriations SUBJ
committee handling the bill, an
independent Offices spending
measure. strongly opposed the
additional money.
Yesterdays support for the
hospitals was almost entirely
Republican, but a sizable group
OF Democrats crossed party
lines to Join in today'S favor
able final vote.
Support Extra Funds
Representatives Foley and
Lankford, Democrats of Mary
land, supported the added
funds from the start. Repre-
sentative Broyhill. Republican
of Virginia, yesterday also
made strong floor plea. Rep
resentative Smith, Democrat Of
Virginia, also voted for the
projects today.
Mr.. BrOyhill took issue with
statement by Representative
Thomas at a recent hearing
that the hospital should be
delayed five or 10 years for
economy reasons.
Mr.. Broyhill complained that
the project already has been
delayed Is years since it was
first authorized. He called
Mount Alto Hospital, which the
new one would replace. out
moded and a firetrap. He also
disputed a committee conten-
ton that other veterans hos
pitalS are within range Of
Washington.
Mr.. Foley challenged a COM
mittee assertion in rejecting
the project last week that the
hospital plans are too fancy.
Mr.. Thomas, however, charged
that the plans call for making
the hospital the most exben-
sive thing in the United
States and blasted it as AM
economic waste"
Mount Alto Cited
Defending continued use of
Mount Alto, he declared:
You've got a nice hospital out
there"
He added that "of course it's
old" but said there is none
finer in the Nation,
Representative Evins. Demo-
crat of Tennessee, a member
of the Thomas unit, backed his
chairman, contending the Dis
tricts saturated with con-
Struction."
The ranking Republican on
the Thomas subcommittee,
Representative Ostertag of
New York, said there is a
need for the hospital but
agreed with Mr.. Thomas on
the high cost.
At the urging of Majority
Leader Mccormack, Democrat
of Massachusetts,, final voting
on the bill was put off until
today.
Evening star., 1960-06-27
HOMES

Continued From First Page
sci Robert Kneipp testified that
District officials had felt some
thing was wrong in the home
improvement industry for years,
but the recent newspaper pub
licity had focused attention on
the evils. He referred to the
"Homeowner Beware" series in
The Star, which Senator Beall
ordered inserted in the record
Of the hearings.
Mr.. Kneipp noted that the
District Council on Law En-
forcement had recommended
licensing and bonding of con-
tractors several years ago, that
the Districts Licensing Com
mittee had recommended regu-
lation of the home improve
ment business last year and
that the Better Business Bu-
reau had reported that COM
plants against home improve
ment contractors had risen
from sixth place to third place
Evening star., 1960-06-27
EISENHOWER
tISENF1UWEK
President, Returning From Far East,
Reodies TV Report on Trip Tonight

Continued From First Page
Eisenhower will stress a be-
lief the trip was valuable in
strengthening United States
des with the allied countries
he visited.
The Presidents return yes
Eerday came exactly two weeks
often he set out on the trip
which took him to Alaska, the
Philippines. Formosa, Korea
and Hawaii.
He was to have visited Japan
as the climax Of his tour be-
ginning June 10 but Prime
Minister Nobusuke Kishi with
drew the invitation when left
wing and Communicated riots
against a new United States
Japan security pact caused him
to decide he could not guar
antee the Presidents safety.
Stepping jauntily down the
ramp from his jet airliner at
nearby Andrews Air Force Base
yesterday, Mr.. Eisenhower ap-
peared tanned and rested after
six days Of golfing in Hawaii.
"How was your trip. Mr..
President" a reporter asked.
"Oh. pretty good" Mr.. Eisen-
hover replied.
Mr.. Nixon and Mr.. Herter
headed a group Of Cabinet and
other officials. as well as for
eign diplomats, who welcomed
him home.
The President told Mr.. Nixon
and Mr.. Herter he wanted to
get the Cabinet together. They
replied they would pe ready to
meet any time, but he said that
first he must get some sleep.
He had about AZ hours Of
sleep during the 10-hour flight
from Hawaii, broken by one re-
fueling stop at Travis Air Force
Base in California.
Evening star., 1960-06-27
REACTION

Continued From First Page
ever of checking the nuclear
arms race for at least a year.
1t could mean a further in
classification of the cold war.
Mr.. zorin had repeatedly &C.
cused the United States and its
allies of stalling in Geneva.
He had insisted that they
must accept Russia's proposal
as a basis for negotiations and
had repeatedly refused him
self to accept any Western
proposition even for serious
discussion.
Mr.. Zorin'S tactics led to the
belief here that Mr.. Khru-
lshchev intended to apply tc
Geneva negotiations the line
he took in torpedoing the
summit conference - that II
Evening star., 1960-06-27
By EARL HI. VOSS
Star stan Writer

United States planning for
disarmament conferences has
been ''perilously casual" and
dependent on "unseasoned per-
sonnet" the National Planning
Association asserts.
A special Committee on Sc
curity Through Arms Control,
including several men who
have worked on presidential
panels dealing with disarma-
ment, made the charge in a re-
port released yesterday.
Appointment of "unseasoned
personnel" to head planning
and research projects and to
conduct negotiations was la
beled as one of the principal
defects in the American dis
armament effort.
Eaton Cited
The National Planning Asso-
citation group singled out Fred
erick Eaton, the present United
States negotiator at the To-
nation disarmament conference
in Geneva, as a special example
of the "unSeaSoned personnel
selected by President Eisen-
hover.
For the delicate job of steer
ing through the dangerou.
waters Of the actual confer
ence." the report said, "tht
United States has selected Mr.
Frederick Eaton, a man who
has demonstrated brilliance a,
a private lawyer, but who ha.
never before dealt with disarm.
ament, who never before repre-.
Sented the United States as 6
diplomat, and who never
worked in any Of the Govern.
ment departments concerned.
European foreign offices
accustomed to disciplined ano
highly professional diplomatic
services, must be excused il
they discern inefficiency or per.
haps devious intention in what
is really a lack Of expertise."
The report also attacked by
indirection the practice of put
ting disarmament planning anc
research in the hands Of mex.
lperienced private citizens.
No Amateurs Game
Arms control is not an am
ateur's game" the report said
THE only continuous fea
lures of our efforts in the dis
armament field have been ,
lack Of continuity in top per
sonnel and paucity of planning
and research efforts"
The pattern of American
Evening star., 1960-06-27
U.S.. Arms-To Plans
Scored as I 90 Casual

disarmament delegations, the
NPA group reported, follows
a pattern.
The head is a distinguished
citizen recruited from private
life. the report said, who "usu-
ally leaves his business at con.
sid cradle personal sacrifice
about a month or two before
the conference. While he pre-
sides over a crash program oi
policy formation, he receives q
quick briefing on past policies
and events, and makes the &C.
quaintance Of the government
officials in his working groups
In the course of a lengthy
conference he will learn a great
deal about his staff, about dis
armament, and about the ne
gotiating process in general
When he returns, he will be or
his way to expertiSe. But when
the next conference takes
place, someone else will heac
the delegation"
Contrast to Russians
In contrast, NPA said, "tht
Russian teams are composed
of men who have had long ex-
perience in both arms contro
and American affairs, who are
veterans of other irternationa,
conferences, and who are vel
grounded in languages, weap.
ons systems and previous dis,
armament negotiations"
The NPA group suggested
establishment OF a permanent
disarmament planning staff
but left open the question o.
whether the staff should op.
crate in the Presidents Office
at the State Department or ir
some other executive depart.
ment.
Evening star., 1960-06-27

would not be possible to reach
any agreement with the United
States so long as Mr.. Eisen-
hover remained President.
Attest Talks Seen in Peril
No resumption of negotia-
tons, therefore, can be for
seen until after the change in
administrations next January
and until an additional few
months during which a new
United States Chief Executive
and new Secretary of State
will figure out their policies
all together, at least a year
from now.
Collapse of the disarma- =
ment talks, which had been
deadlocked from the moment
they began, raises serious ques-
ton as to whether negotia-
tions among the United States,
Britain and the Soviet Union
| for a treaty banning nuclear
weapons tests will not also be
called of.
If that happens it will raise
one of the most serious prob
lens of any of the series of
crises which has followed the
failure of a U-2 spy plane flight
over Russia May /, and the
subsequent breakdown of United
States-Soviet relations.
Since the nuclear tests talks
began, 18 months ago, the
United States, Britain and Rus
sia have all refrained from ex-
ploding nuclear devices even
underground.
But there is a strong pres
sure within the Government
here to start up testing again,
the argument being that under
the protection of its secrecy
system the Russians already
may be testing.
Evening star., 1960-06-27

in volume Of complaints to the
Better Business Bureau in the
last five years.
Mr.. Kneipp pointed out that
bonding and insurance require
ments as provided in the bill
would protect home owners
against losses from unscrupu-
lous contractors.
Gasch Submits Statement
United States Attorney Oliver
GaSch submitted a statement
declaring that the need for the
legislation was amply demon
strated by the many complaints
coming to his Office concern
ing fly-by-night contractors
who victimized the public.
While his officers have been
able to prosecute successfully
in some cases. he added, there
have been other cases where
little could be done to help the
victims.
Leland S. Mccarthy. man.
aging director of the Better
Business Bureau of Metropoli-
tan Washington, said that
complaints to his bureau
against home improvement
contractors have increased by
40 per cent in the past year,
and he said there were prob
ably many other people who
had been defrauded who never
sought help from the Better
Business Bureau.
John H. Haas, executive sec
retary, Metropolitan Associa-
ton of General Improvement
Contractors, said his associa-
ton had tried to handle the
abuses in the home improve
ment industry through volun-
tary methods but had found
they were not effective. He
said the association now urges
Congress to adopt the pro-
posed legislation.
"FOolprOOf Method"
Mr.. Haas called bonding "a
foolproof method of establish
ing control" over contractors
and statesmen. He emphasized
his belief that not more than
per cent of the contractors
are dishonest.
Endorsement for the bill also
came from J. J. Sullivan, a
home improvement contractor;
from Homer S. Davis, repre-
senting the Home Owners Co
operative Organization, Inc,
who raised a qestion about the
cost to the homeowner of bond
ing, and j. E. HunSberger, a
research engineer, who said
that contract violations were
f1agrant in termite extermina-
tion in home repair.
Henry Strong. a professional
engineer, said that number
of other cities were now con-
sidering home improvement
bills and he urged deliberation
because the decision in the Dis
trict will affect action in the
other cities.
Evening star., 1960-06-27

that Russia was walking out
Of the talks and turning the
matter over to the U. N. had
long been regarded as the
most likely ultimate conclusion
to the talks. But its sudden
ness today clearly caught the
Western delegations by sur
prise.
Mr.. Zorin's announcement
dealt a blow to the conference
which first opened on March
16, and recessed for six weeks
before and after the abortive
summit meeting in Paris.
Gave No Hint
AS Mr.. Z5rin staIKed into the
session to make his dramatic
announcement, he met Mr..
Eaton, who returned from
Washington Saturday.
Mr.. Eaton told him his trip
had been very useful" He said
he was discussing the new pro-
posals with his allies and might
have something to put before
the conference later this week.
Mr.. Zorin replied merely that
in his view the conference had
not been very profitable thus
far, but gave Mr.. Eaton no hint
that he was about to break up
the talks.
Mr.. Zorin's prepared speech
ignored the new Western pro-
posals but charged repeatedly
that the five Western delega-
tions-the United States, Brit
ain, France, Italy and Canada
had refused to discuss any
genuine disarmament measures.
Mr.. Zorin charged that the
Western powers had used So
Wet participation in the con-
ference as a screen to conceal
their own armament.
He disclosed that Soviet Pre-
Imier Nikita S. Khrushchev had
sent PERSONAL messages to
President Eisenhower and the
government heads of the other
four Western powers, asking
them Ito consider in all seri-
business that in the situa-
ton obtained through the
Western powers fault, the par
ticipation in the donation
committee of the Soviet Union
whose sincere desire for an
agreement on disarmament is
well known-is used as a screen
covering the arms race un-
leashed by the West, and for
deceiving the peoples"
Mr.. Eaton told the confer
ence that Mr.. Zorin had tor
pedoed the disarmament meet
ing in that sam way that Mr.
Khrushchev torpedoe d the
Paris summit meeting.
The United States delegate
said that as the Soviet bloc
delegations we're determined tt
break of the talks, there wa:
nothing the West could dc
about it. But he stressed that
Mr.. Zorin had advanced "falss
and flimsy grounds" for thi.
action.
New Low in Relations
The Communist walkout
marked a new low in East -Wes'
relations, increasingly strained
since the Summit collapse.
After refusing to negotiate
with his Western colleagues il
Paris, Mr.. Khrushchev said tht
Geneva disarmament talk
should nevertheless resume a.
scheduled on June 7.