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sumably win be made, the aide
said.
The Matthias bill is rooted in
a community movement Of late
last year. In December, the
Citizens Advisory Council heard
80 Of 80 witnesses at a hearing
favor legislation for a nom
voting delegate to Congress to
be elected every two years.
Four Groups Opposed
Opposition came from only
three individuals and four or
ganiZationS-the Metropolitan
Washington Board Of Trade,
the Association Of Oldest In
habitants, the Chevy Chase
and the American University
Park Citizens Associations.
The Board Of Trade wanted
a delegate with voting privi-
leges. Creation Of this office
would require a constitutional
amendment, to be considered
by the Senate Constitutional
Amendments Subcommittee at
hearings scheduled May 10.
The Matthias idea would be
to put a delegate on the floor
with the right of debate. He
would have to be IS years old!
have lived In the District at
least three years and continue
10, live here during his term Of
office.
A significant benefit in i'm
mediate passage, in Mr.. Ma
thias' view, would be an active
District electorate. Two-year
elections would stimulate polit-
ical party activity. And by their
votes through the years, Con-
gress could come to know the
real desires Of Washington
citizens, now mystery to most
Representatives.
Another feature adapted
from Rn idea Of Sturgis War
ner, a District lawyer and suf-
frage buff, would keep regis
tration rolls current. The bill
would require automatic strik-
ing Of registrants who had not
voted in the last two successive
elections.
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ArIingtonTox ak
IncreuseLess
Than 2 Pct.

Inc ArungUon real estate ta1
viii 60 up next year, but by
less than two per cent.
County Board members, who
had advertised a 19-cent in
crease, last night Tentatively
agreed to enact one Of five OF
six cents.
The raise will be one of the
lowest in the Washington sub
urbs. Personal property anC
other levies will remain un.
changed.
The real estate levy last wa
raised in 1860. when it jumpec
from 1884 to the present ratl
Of $3.81 per 500 assessed valu,
alton. The personal property
tax Of $4.35 and other leviel
viii remain unchanged.
Board members, who havt
predicted that within a few
years Arlington will have the
lightest local taxes in the
Metropolitan area, had hopet
to avoid any new ones curing
the IL months beginning July /
They were necessitated
though, by about $300,00C
which the board itself added to
the SS8.3 million budgets pre-
pared by County Manager A. r;
Lundberg and School Supt. Ray
lReid. I
The spending program, ap-
proved subject to minor modi-
fication next Saturday, viii
provide county government
employees with salary increases
averaging about 8 per cent
Police, firemen and workers In
lower pay classifications, will
receive more.
More money than In previous
years also is allotted for land
ACQUISITION, libraries and books,
The budget raises the pay Of
beginning teachers from $4,5Oc
TO 4.700 and authorizes pro-
portionate. increases for more
Experienced instructors.
Il falls short, though, Of what
the teachers and many school
patrons sought.
The reason Is that Arlington
once a paee-setter in teacher
salaries. is abandoning across
he-board raises and adopting
. policy emphasizing rewards
to the outstanding. ~
A suggestion by board MEM
der Roye Lowry that the
county decrease the personal
property levy and compensate
for resulting loss Of revenue h
adding to the real estate tax
was not accepted. However, ii
may be considered next year.
The budget informally ap-
proved last night Is the highest
in county history.
Mr.. Lowry and Thomas Rich
ards wanted to make 1t still
larger by allocating more
money for land and street
improvements. Ralph Kaul
tried to cut It so that no more
taxes would be necessary.
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earth on the north side Of
Canal road near the entrance
to GEORGETOWN University's
Med Donough Gymnasium. The
water quickly flooded most of
the roadway in the $500, 3700
and $500 blocks of Canal road.
Witnesses said the water
level rose higher than the re-
tanning wall separating Canal
road from the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal and overflowed into
the canal. The influx Of water
then raised the level Of the
canal to q point where it
seemed on the verge Of over
flowing into the Potomac River.
However, Water Department
workmen shut off the main
above and below the break at
Key Bridge and at Macarthur
boulevard and Elliott place
at 6:15 am. and the water level
slowly dropped.
But Canal road was buried
under tons of dirt and silt,
bringing out crews Of the Dis
trict Highway Department to
clear it.
The knocked-out section Of
Canal road created q rush.
hour traffic problem for police
and motorists. Extra policemen
were dispatched to the scene
by Inspector Charles T. Wright
to divert traffic around the
break.
Traffic Uses M Street
Inbound traffic from vir-
ginia on Key Bridge and west
bound traffic on the White
hurst freeway was directed
eastward on NJ street in
Georgetown. No left turns onto
Canal road were permitted.
Washington-b traffic on
Chain Bridge was diverted
from Canal road onto Arizona
avenue and then TO Macarthur
boulevard and Reservoir road,
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WATER
WATER ss.
SO Extro Policemen Sent
To UntongIe roffic Tieup
Continued From Page Al


Scarf terrace, Beacon Hill, Md.
DR.. Donnelly, on an emergency
call to George Washington Uni
versity Hospital, said he
thought there was only a large
puddle in the middle of Canal
road and tried to drive through
it in his Opel compact car.
There was q truck in front
of me when I noticed the
water" he said. "It was up to
my hubcaps and rising fast.
= didn't see the water main
torrent until ! was into it.
Then the car stalled"
The doctor said the truck
ahead Of him got through and
q panel truck behind his car
passed him.. The driver, he
said, looked atAme plaintively
but he didn't stop. I Just sat
there. Eventually the car be-
gan. to float. It went about
20 feet and turned around.
Finally the water got up to seat
level and I got out"
The doctor waded through
waist-deep water to higher
ground, where, he said: "The
first person / met was the tow
truck man." IS
Or. Donnelly completed his
trip to the hospital in a police
car.
Mrs. Donnelly said her hus-
band called her from the hos
pital about Z am. and said,
Honey. wake up. I mean really
wake UP. My car floated away
"Uh, huh," Mrs. Donnelly
replied.
She said he finally convinced
her the adventure had actually
happened.
Two Trapped IN Truck
The two men in the truck
also were trapped momentarily@
in the flooded street. Erneron j.
Bolster, ~, Of Waldorf, Md.
and George W. jackson, IS, Of
35l8e Stanton road Sc. were
manning q 2 211z-ton colnmissaryi
truck for Government Services, |
Inc.
Mr.. Bolster calmly removed
his trousers. Then he and Mr..
Jackson Waded through the
chest-deep water to safety.
Both men were given dry
clothes ana another truck and
continued making their rounds
Of Government cafeterias.
Mr.. Aud said the water In
the main travels from Dale
carlia Reservoir to supply thei
central part Of the city as well |
as the Pentagon, and Is under
so pounds of pressure per
square inch. That's a lot of
he said.
When the main broke, the
geyser of water quickly chewed
a 12-foot-acroSs hole in the
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PANAANAAoANC AAOAAC Iu4C R6CAHHG
included the delegate feature.
The Maryland Republican
became convinced that Con-
greSS could no more be talked
into home rule this year than
in the past. The issue never
has reached the House floor
for q test vote.
Yet, q delegate bill with
strong Republican support
could win attention this year
and possibly q floor debate, Mr..
Matthias reasoned. The delegate
idea was backed publicly by the
major strategiSts Of a tagging
home rule movement in the
House.
Representative Udall, DEM
ocrat Of Arizona, said he would
support q delegate bill. But he
did not see 1t as an alternative
to home rule.
II imagine the delegate
could gain more support than
home rule, however" he said.
Two Bills in Committee
Privately, he was understood
to be considering an attempt to
talk Mr.. Matthias out of
introducing the delegate bill,
The Arizona Democrat has
maintained since q home rule
drive was shaped that Repub-
licans must be active, perhaps
to the extent Of calling the
plays. in O successful House
campaign.
Two home rule bills are be-
fore the House District Com
mittee - one sponsored by the
bipartisan group and the other,
calling for Q larger city council,
introduced by Representative
Schwengel, Republican Of Iowa.
Some ~ House members have
written District Committee
Chairman Mcmillan, requesting
hearings. They have received
no reply. A spokesman for Mr..
MCMILLAN said today the chair
man had asked for comments
on both bills from the District
Commissioners.
Upon receipt Of Commission
ers' reports, a decision on
whether to hold hearings pre-
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appears to have more strength
in the metropolitan areas.
Thus, the metropolitan areas
Of Baltimore and Washington
may find themselves wooed
heavily during the final two
weeks Of Ghe campaign. So far,
Gov. Tawes has made one brief
swing through Montgomery
County, home county Of Blair
Lee III. candidate for the
United States Senate on the
Mahoney ticket.
The challenge to Maryland's
unit vote vas filed after a three
Judge FEDERAL court last week
threw out Georgia's unit sys-
tenn which also gave rural voters
lopsided control Of primary
elections.
Won't Delay Primary
Mr.. Scalan said the court
action would not cause q delay
in the May Is primary. He
pointed out that the unit votes
are not cast until two weeks
after the election. thus making
1t possible to rule out the unit
system after the election as
well as before.
As an amendment to the
reapportionment suit, the unit
vote challenge will come before
Judge o. Bowie Duckett in
Anne Arundel Circuit Court.
Judge Duckett has been Or
dered by the Maryland Court
Of Appeals to decide whether
there is an "invidious discrim-
nation" against urban area
voters In the alignment of
seats In the General Assembly.
IL he finds this so. he could
throw out the sections of the
Maryland constitution which
sets up the present alignment.
Royce Hansen, president Of
the Committee for Fair Repre-
sentation said that since the
unit vote Is so closely related
TO reappoEtionment, it was de-
cioed TO challenge the unit
system in the same suit.
Injunction Sought
Under the unit system, each
county and the six legislative
districts Of Baltimore have a
unit vote equal to the number
Of members it has In the Gen.
eral Assembly.
MIR. Hanson said Judge Duck
EFT is being asked to issue an
Injunction to prevent the cast
Ing Of the unit votes at the
convention which Is held after
The primary election. He said
this would not interfere with
the actual election. but would
only mean--if the committees
contention is upheld-that the
would be elected by
popular vote rather than unit
votes.
Mr.. Hume called on Gov.
rawes today to call an i'm
mediate session Of the General
assembly to reapportion seats
d view Of the unit vote chal-
enged. He said there may be
} cloud over the elections If
something isn't done.
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"You mean Warrington
avenue In Miami Beach?,'
asked the cabbie.
"No. I mean Washington
D. c." Mr.. Move told the cab
bic.
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The
Rambler
Is Really
Impressed
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Washingtonians have no
idea Of the magnificence of
a structure approaching COM
pletion 80 miles west of the
Capital.
Several months ago the
Rambler viewed 1t from a
helicopter.
1t looked like a temple on
q plain, a temple the likes of
which no one had ever seen.
Yesterday he drove out.
Like a great ship, the
terminal building at the
Dulles International Airport
has to be approached in a
small craft, an automobile,
before its colossal dimensions
are appreciated.
When he realized the size
Of the tilted uprights of re-
inforced concrete that sup
port the great canopy under
the sky, he felt like those
18th century Europeans ex-
plorers Of the Nile when they
first entered the great hall
ct Karnak and saw the mon
olithic pillars $50 feet high,
turned from one piece of
stone).
It's a long way out there.
He drove to Fairfax Court
House and on toward Win
chester on the road that is
so straight that everyone be-
heves G gorge Washington
surveyed it.
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No-Vote Delegate
Is Proposed in
Bill by Matthias
Maryland Republican Offers
Alternative to Home Rule
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Representative Matthias, Republican Maryland today
sponsored legislation to give the District nonvoing delegate
in the House Of Representatives
He presented the bill positive
This represents break for Mr.. Matthias from group of
bipartisan of territorial government here This
Evening star., 1962-05-01

A BEAUTIFUL day for a
drive in the country. Never
have the blossoms, dogwood
and redbud and lilacs, been
more profuSe. Perhaps the
cool spring has something to
do with it.
Ahead the varying skyline
Of the Blue Ridge was blue.
He began to doubt he was
on the right road. Surely
Chantilly could not be so far.
Then he came upon it, a
cross roads, two gasoline sta
tions, a few stores and a
house or two.
He turned to the right on
q new highway. Soon q wire
fence extending for miles
and the runways Of the new
airport and the terminal
building were on his left, the
last at a distance and on the
horizon.
At the gate a policeman,
or uniformed guard, asked if
I had been cleared by the
Federal Aviation Agency.
When I said no he was Quite
decent about it. He asked for
credentials, which we're pro-
duced, and then let me
through.
For understandable reasons
(during my tour of the
building an empty nail keg
fell from the roof and land
cd 10 feet from mel the pub
Lie win not be allowed in
until the airport is opened
this fall.
But, believe you me, when
1t is 1t will be one Of Wash
ington's top tourist attrac-
tions.
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THE NEWLY PAVED high
ways inside. all dual, are q
little puzzling, But ! followed
trucks on overpasses and
underpasses past q beautiful
artificial lake with . circu-
lar island In 1t and arrived
at the terminal.
I parked the car (there
was plenty of rcom) and
stood looking up at it for q
time. The analogy Of a tenn
pie again suggested itself, z
temple Of transportation, of
the supersonic Jet transpor-
tation Of the immediate fu-
ture.
Then I climbed two ladders
to get to the main floor OF
the terminal, almost 40 feet
above. This huge rectangular
floor has only one upright
and that Is the great pipe
that drains the root, which
is concave rather than con-
yex.
They are Just starting to
place the steel sash between
the pillars that viii enclose
the room with glass on all
sides, affording a view OF the
Chantilly plain where Stone
wall Jackson tried to destroy
Pope after his defeat at
Second Manassas and Gen
Phil Kearny was killed.
This building will be one
Of the many memorials to its
designer, Architect Zero
saarinen, who died shortly
after it was started,
What the members of the
Fine Arts Commission think
of it may never be known.
It was not submitted to
them.
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Stuart was no monarch, ex-
cept in her sway over the
imaginations of her contem-
poraries. She had, as her
cousin said, something sub
lime in her speech and bear
ing"
Delicious Comedy
Dame Edith has a mar
velous range. She conveys the
magnificence of the royal
courtships which Elizabeth.
relished for most of her life.
The account of Catherine de
Medici's attempts to mate
first one son, then another,
both almost 20 years younger
than the great Queen, to the
throne of England, is de-
liciouS comedy.
She quotes literally from
contemporary accounts Of
that period, which gives her
book a pungent SAVIOR. Her
description of the dying Eliz-
abeth is most affecting.
THE Queens and the Hive
is a kind of historical tone
poem for readers who share
Dame Edith'S infatuation for
the most remarkable age and
the most remarkable queens
that history has yet seen.
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sailors on deck. They patron
ize him and ridicule him and
his own fear and ineptitude
on board the boat are not
helped by his constant long,
ing for the girl he has left
behind, and whose memory
keeps him from the import
pleasures of the sailor.
The book is weak in de-
velopment, but strong in
style. Even as a very young
writer, Lowry was a master
of description and feeling for
locale, and his interior mono
logueS, although they may be
disproportionately frequent
in a medium-length novel, are
as good as any since Joyce.
Thus the overall value
OF the book is uneven. Ad-
mirers of Under the Vol
cano" will all want to read
it at once. Others would do
well to start with the later
book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-11

SOLDIERS OF THE SEA.
BY Col. Robert D. Heinl, jr.
UNITED States Naval In
Stitute; $14.000
This is not the first history
of the United States Marines,
nor will it be the last about
Americas bold and conf
dent Leathernecks. However,
it is as good as any and better
than most, largely because
Col. Heinl is a most knowl-
edgeable man in Marine af-
fairs, and a top-notch writer
into the bargain.
Now chief of the Naval
Mission in Haiti, Col. Heinl
has been a Marine since 1887
and it is clear the association
has been mutually pleasing.
Although the actual work on
this 700-page volume took five
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-11
BY A ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHER
AMorine 7 ellis Tito You
In Striking Detail

years. Col. Heinl displays
here both the facts and the
dedication that he has alb
sorbed over his entire career.
AS a career officer, it is
natural that Col. Heinl is de-
voted to the Corps but he
does not overlook mistakes
and occasional blemishes. No
historian, the writer admits,
can be neutral. Col. Heinl
definitely is not that.
The book contains 1877
photographs. AZ maps and an
imposing photography rang
ing from the first recruits
who signed up at Tun Tavern
to the present day. 1t is a
handsome volume, well-suited
for the bookshelf of any Ma
rine or admirer of the corps.
JERRY OLEARY, JR.
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EVERYONE BUT THEE AND
ME. BY Ogden Nash. (Lit-
file. Brown. 81 Q5)

~ " GAS VINE DO 4 EhGG avn
ME. BY Ogden Nash. (Lit-
tie, Brown; $685.
Som eday Ogden Nash
might be strangulated
BY a sentence that refused
to be ma'Nashpulated
But, as Of now, Mr.. Nash
has survived 88 more Of his
own verses and tl-s world is
better off.
They have been collected
in a little book and some of
the poems can be read while
waiting for a light to change.
He has come dangerously
close to an ironic ending
again, however.
He barely got out of the
following alive, after attack
ing those who have debased
the language with poorly
coined words and sloven-
illness. He was moved to bid:
Farewell, farewell to my
beloved language,
Once English, now a vile
orangutanguage."
One must thank The Lord
that "orangutanguage" came
to Mr.. Nash at the last
minute.
There are other notable
close calls:
1.-The preoccupation of the
gourment with good food
is psychological,
Just as the preoccupation
of the White Russian
with Dark Eyes is bala-
Pathological"
Apart from these terrible
moments, Mr.. Nash also pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-11
Admiral Burke Saga
Packed With Thrills

Operations and member Of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Messrs. Jones and Kelley
have done a creditable job Of
tieing this highly successful,
action-packed career togeth-
err in Admiral Arleigh (31-
Knott Burke" Their descrip-
ton of the exploits of Com
modore Burke and his Little
Beaver Squadron of Destroy
ers CDeSRon 23) in gun-and-
torpedo battle against the
enemy in the South Pacific
is the highlight of the book
for this reviewer.
Occasionally. the prose,
sprinkled with exclamation
marks, gets a trifle purple.
For example, in reading Of
the last minutes of the fated
Japanese destroyer Yugiri. we
find this: I'm Just 80 sec
onds, the symbols of her
death were graved at evenly
spaced intervals upon the
endless dial of time by the
stylus of destiny"
In their book, which is illus
trated with % glossy photo
graphs, the authors present
a new version of how the Ad-
miral acquired his nickname,
"31-Knot." 1t came from an
officer on Admiral Halsey's
staff who sent a dispatch to
u Burke teasing him for being
80 slow" in the destroyer
USS Charles Ausburne, which
could roar along at "a knots
but which, because 1t was in
formation with a troubled
sister ship. was doing only"
81.
Mr.. Jones is an author, lee
turer and magazine writer.
Mr.. Kelley. a former Gov
eminent information special
list, heads his own news bu-
reau here in Washington.
L. EDGAR PRINA.
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ADMIRAL ARLEIGH (3I-

ADMIRAL ARLEIGH 81
KNOT BURKE. BY Ken
Jones and Hubert Kelley,
jr. Foreword by Neil Nc
Elroy. (Chilton Books;
$7.50.)
Arleigh A. Burke, one of the
most renowned and respected
naval officers of modern
times, was a thorough-going
fighting man, at sea against
the Japanese, ashore for the
organizational integrity and
individuality of his service.
The life of this Viking of
Swedish descent and the
Irish name has been a faSci-
mating one, from his boyhood
days in Boulder, Colo,
through the war in the Pa
cific, to the record-breaking
six years as Chief Of Naval
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-11

foreign policy since 1889,
when the United States be-
gan to emerge as a world
power. The contrast between
our very limited foreign re-
lations in the first century
of our existence as a nation
and the global vastness of
our foreign commitments and
responsibilities as the book
ends with the Inauguration
of President Kennedy is
startling.
First 100 Years
Of the 80 pages in this
volume the author devoteS
only SO to the first hundred
years of the republic when
our people were more con-
cerned with their domestic
progress and their internal
problems than with the world
around them. But he does
effectively depict the growth
of the major policies such as
isolationism, neutrality and
Monroe Doctrine.
After 1889 the narration
rushes the Nation into the
world, with the acquisition of
Hawaii, then the Philippines,
the freeing of Cuba with spe-
cial ties to the United States,
the Theodore Roosevelt me-
diation of the Russo-Japa-
nese war, the Open Door
policy toward China, the con-
struction of the Panama
Canal, our entrance into the
First and the Second World
Wars, and finally the dra-
matte surge of events that
followed with our member
ship in the United Nations,
our alliances and regional
pacts and our worldwide
struggle against Sino-Soviet
imperialism.
Prof. Leopold is moderate
and considered in his judg-
mentS. He believes that in the
long run the Korean War
hurt communism by hasten
ing rearmament in the West.
by bringing Germany and
Japan into new security sys-
TENS and by delaying indefi-
nitely the admission of Mao