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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS , WASHINGTON NEWS D
WASHINGTON, D. C. ' FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1948 ^
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Plans Rushed
For 22-Million
GAO Building
Contract May Be Let
In Late Fall; Structure
To Mouse All of Staff
By Nelson M. Shepard
After year* of delay, the new
$22,850,000 home for the General
Accounting Office actually will be
gin rising in the next few months
out of the huge fenced-in crater dug
before World War II at Fifth and
G streets N.W.
Completion of this modern struc
ture for the world's greatest auditing
house, officials pointed out today,
will bring about a march of prog
ress to a somewhat blighted area
within a few blocks of Union Sta
tion. The building will occupy all
of the square bounded by G, H,
Fourth and Fifth streets N.W., ex
cept the northwest portion, where
St. Mary’s Catholic Church will be
left undisturbed.
Commissioner W. E. Reynolds of
the Public Buildings Administra-1
tion is rushing plans and specifica- j
tions to completion. He expects it!
will be possible to let the construe- i
tion contract in late fall or early j
winter. The GAO building, which
will accommodate the widely scat-,
tered staff under one roof, will be
a PBA project from start to finish.
Nearly 1,000,000 Square Feet.
The 995,600 square feet of usable
office and filing space provided in
the plans should be sufficient for
about 8,000 employes. The addition j
ot such a large population load to
a neighborhood already crowded is
going to present formidable auto
mobile parking problems for Dis
trict officials.
Plans for the new building include
a basement garage for 800 cars.
That fvill go a long way toward
caring for the GAO personnel, espe
cially if ft “share-the-ride'’ program
is instituted. The new building,
however, is expected to create a de
mand for additional services in the
neighborhood, and PBA officials
predict a small business boom.
The District Motor Vehicle Agency
is fully aware of the situation that
will be created when the GAO build
ing is completed and is making
studies o£, the area, with a view
toward working out the parking
troubles.
The project is one of the largest
the PBA has undertaken in some
years. Mr. Reynolds and Maj. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming, administrator of
the Federal Works Agency, have
been working on it for years. One
obstacle after another was en
countered.
Triangle Site Considered.
For awhile it was thought the
building would be erected in the so
called Northwest triangle in the
vicinity of the Munitions Building.
Finally, in 1941, the project had ad
vanced so far that Congress au
thorized its construction on the
present site, and sufficient funds
were appropriated to draw up pre
liminary plans and dig the huge
hole. In the seven years a number
of fairly good sized trees have growm
in the crater, and the fence has
become delapidated.
PBA, in planning for the building,
was careful not to interfere with
St. Mary s Church, which has stood
there for years. The building will
be seven stories high, with a large
penthouse, and will be built of lime
stone. It will extend 638 feet on G
street, 470 feet on H street, 388 feet
on Fourth street and 170 feet on
Fifth street, where the church is.
Without Wings or Courts.
Designed without wings or inner;
courts, it will be the largest single
block-type building in Washington.'
On one side it will front the his
toric Pension Building, now hous
ing part of GAO’s operations.
The site had been purchased,
cleared and excavated for the new
building when preparations for war
i aused auspension of the project.
For a while it looked as if the
new Federal Courts F-uilding might
oe erected there, but GAO's prior
right, to the site was „^held by
Congress.
Mr. Reynolds said the block-type
ouilding was decided upon for two
mam reasons: First, to get the max
imum usable floor area within the
limits of the site, while conforming
to the restriction upon the height
of buildings in Washington, and
second, to provide large open areas
inside required to accommodate
voluminous filing equipment and
business machine operations.
Two Main Entrances.
The building will be supported on
a pile foundation. The latest meth
ods of fluorescent lighting will be
installed. All office space will be
acoustically treated. The main pub
lic entrances will be on G and H
streets. Each of the entrance lob
bies will be served by elevators and
escalators.
Congress recently placed a limita
tion of $22,850,000 on the cost of the
building. That cost is exclusive of
shout $2,000,000 already spent for
the land, excavations and prelimi
nary planning. Before the war. the
building probably could have been
erected at half the cost.
PBA has about $5,000,000 in hand;
to spend on the building. A provi
sion in the bill prohibits drawing
funds above that amount until be
ginning of the 1950 fiscal year.
ROUGH ON AN OFFENDER, BUT USEFUL TO MPs—Instruction in use of the .policeman’s club
is demonstrated by Pvt. Conrad Strahley, 8402 Queen avenue, Silver Spring, Md., on Pvt. Jose
Yglesias, 1753 Sheridan street N.W. First Lt. Charles E. Sagner, 215 Oakwood street S.E., is mak
ing a correction, while Pvts. Robert Turnure of 321 Adams street N.E. and David Burke, 1331
Rittenhouse street N.W., looTt on.
The Browning automatic rifle is part t>f the equipment of MPs, particularly when doing
duty in the forward combat areas. Here Corp. Lester C. Osti, 604 Fifth street N.E., and Sergt.
William Feeney, 233 Seventeenth street S.E., are demonstrating the workings of the gun to a
class of recruits and explaining some of the details of use in operations in the field during combat.
All are members of the 163d Military Police Battalion, District National Guard.
D. C.'s First Resident
Of Year to Succumb
To Polio Is Boy, 8
The death of an 8-.vear-old boy.
who was admitted to Children's
Hospital Wednesday night with polio
and died about 24 hours later, was
reported by the Health Department
today.
The boy. Robert Warren, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jossie E. Warren, 1416
R street N.W., was the first District
resident to die from the disease
this year. He was the second polio
victim to die here this year, how
! ever, as an Alexandria man suc
j cumbed to the disease Tuesday.
There were no deaths from polio
teported in the District last year
until September 30, but three per
sons from Washington and one from
the nearby area died before the
year ended.
The Health Department also re
ported another polio case today.
This victim, a 6-year-old boy who
lives in the 2800 block of Terrace
road S.E., was treated at home and
already has recovered.
This brings the total of polio
cases in the District to 36 this year
and to 37 for nearby areas that have
been treated here. Last year at
this time there were five District
cases and eight nearby cases.
Mr. Warren, a drug store employe,
said funeral arrangements for his
son were being made today. The
boy was the Warrens’ only son.
Funeral services were to be held I
today for William D. Shisler, 20, of
3407 Commonw’ealth avenue, Alex
andria. who died of polio Tuesday.
The services were to be held in St.
Rita's Church. Alexandria.
A new case of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever also has been dis
covered, the Health Department
said. A 4-year-old boy, living in the
400 block of Adrian street S.E., was
admitted Sunday to Children’s Hos
pital and was reported a victim of
the fever today.
• So far this year, four District resi
dents and 12 from nearby areas have
been stricken by this disease. Last
year at this same time, six District
residents and 11 non-residents had
succumbed.
Education Board Approves
Resignation of Dr. Willis
The resignation of Dr. Earl T.1
Willis, assistant principal of Ana- j
costia High School, was approved!
today by the Board of Education.
Dr. Willis, who lives at, 3650 Min
nesota avenue S.E.. said he was
leaving the city school system to
accept a position with the State
Teachers' College at Towson. Md.,
in the social studies department.
He has been teaching here for the
last 10 years.
The board approved his request
in a special poll as it does not meet
during the summer. The effective
date of Dr. Willis' resignation is
August 31.
Maryland Tax Office Set Up
In Downtown Washington
An office to help Marylanders
pay their sales and income taxes
will be opened Monday in rooms
901 and 902. International Building,
1319 F street N.W.
Maryland State Controller James
J. Lacy, in announcing opening of
the office, said it is expected “to
facilitate the payment of taxes from
business firms and individuals of
Montgomery. Prince Georges and
Frederick Counties.’’
The staff of the Washington office
will be composed of personnel from
Annapolis and Baltimore who have
been working in the vicinity of the
District.
Numbers Evidence Spills at Feet
Of Police Seizing Three in Raid
Evidence practically fell at the;
feet, of vice squad police yesterday J
they said, during a raid on a place
in the 3300 block Georgia avenue
N W
They had asked Edward Stafford,
*3. colored, of the 3600 block Eleventh
street N.W., for identification, they
said. When he pulled out his wal
let to present his credentials, police
reported a quantity of betting slips
came out of his pocket with it and
flitted to the floor.
Izella Hockett, 28. colored, of the
600 block Keefer place N.W., police
said, also was found sitting with a
pile of numbers slips right in her lap.
Another man, Joseph Robinson, 43,
colored, of the 1400 block S street
N.W., ran out of the back door as
an undercover man started to arrest
him, it was said, but he didn’t figure
on the presence of a deputy United
State* Marshal until he was in his
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arms. Police said they found *374
on Robinson's person.
In another raid yesterday, police
arrested James Seawall Tasker. 48.
colored, in the basement of a house
in the 1700 block Euclid street N.W..
where he was listed as living. Ac
cording to detectives, a large quan
tity of numbers slips was seized.
Bessie J. Fields. 30. colored, was
arrested in a house in the 1100 block
Sixth street N.W., where she occu
pied a front room on the first floor.
Vice squad officers said an under
cover man had been there previously
and had placed numbers bets with
her.
All those arrested appeared before
United States Commissioner Cyril
Lawrence and were placed under
*1.500 bond each on charges of
operating a lottery and possession
of lottery slips. Their hearings were
continued until next Thursday. ,
Major's Son Is Held
In $500 Bond in Theft
Of Carbine at Armory
David B. Harwood.: IS. son of
a Regular Army major and member j
of the District National Guard, to- j
day was under $500 bond awaiting
a hearing on a charge that he stole
a carbine at the Guard Armory
here.
The youth, son of MaJ. Francis
M. Harwood, stationed in the Penta
gon, appeared before United States
Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence
charged with larceny from the
United States Government. His
hearing was set yesterday for Au
gust 25, the same date set earlier
for one of two other youths charged
with grand larceny of two M-l
Gar^nd rifles from the armory.
The latter cases involved Chester
C. Courtland, 19, of the 2500 block
of Twenty-fourth street N.E. and
a 16-year-old juvenile who was ar
rested Wednesday. The younger
boy awaits Juvenile Court action.
Policeman F. G. Egbers of No. 12
precinct reported he arrested Har
wood yesterday in the recent theft
of the carbine and two GI wrist
watches. The weapon, taken from
the Armory rifle room, was recov
ered in another room in the building,
while the watches were found in
Harwood's home in the 1400 block of
North Utah street, Arlington.
Young Harwood is a private In
the District Guard and also is em
ployed as a laborer at the Armory,
according to police. ,
Policemen Charles Mackie and
George Cardona arretsed the other
two youths near the National Train
ing School for Boys not far from
the spot where the two M-ls were
recovered hidden under buishes.
Police reported that while investi
gating complaints of rifles being
discharged, they saw the boys walk
ing in the vicinity and arrested them
after questioning. Courtland is un
der $500 bond to reappear before
Commissioner Lawrence.
Clegg Held on Charge
Of Beating Up Wife
Julius Willie Clegg, 27—whose ac
cusations that he had been mis
treated while under arrest sent
three policemen before a trial board
last winter—was being held by po
lice today on an assault charge
brought by his wife.
Clegg, who is colored, was ar
rested last night after his wife,;
Gussie, swore out a warrant for
him. The warrant claimed that;
Clegg knocked his wife down with
his fist and then kicked her at
their residence in the 1900 block of
Q.osedale street N.E.
He was scheduled to appear In
Municipal Court today to answer:
the charges.
The accusations against the po
licemen grew out of Clegg's arrest
last August near Thirteenth and
E streets N.W. on suspicion of mo
lesting a woman.
Clegg, an employe of the Wash
ington Post, accused the three po
licemen of illegally arresting him,
detaining him 34 hours, and mis
treating hit) while he was being
questioned by sex squad detectives.
The policemen were acquitted by
a Police Trial Board when the case
finally was heard five months later.
They were De^ctive Sergt. Alex K.
Kapsol. Davb^ppEnnis, special in
vestigator mr The sex squad, and
Pvt. John J. Gibboney.
East Central Civic Group
Seeking 1,000 Members
A drive for 1,00 members is under
way by the East Central Civic Asso
ciation with 100 members making a
house-to-house canvass of 100 blooks
in central Washington.
The campaign, launched last night
at an Executive Committee meeting
in the home of Prank D. McKinney,
president, at 108 P street N.W., is
headed by Dr. Mary V. Waller. The
area extends from Third street NJE.
to Seventh street N.W., between
Florida and Pennsylvania avenues.
Canvassers will report at a special
meeting September 7 at Mr. McKin-:
ney's home and the drive will end
with the first association member
ship meeting at 8 p.m. September
21 in the Bundy School, 429 O street
N.W.
'lolanthe' to Be Given
At Sylvan Theater
| The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
I “lolanthe'' will be presented by the
Columbia Opera Company at 8:30
o’clock tonight at the Sylvan The
ater on the Washington Monument
Grounds.
“The Mikado" will conclude the
two-day festival at 8:30 pjn. to
morrow. Tickets for chairs are
available at $120 at the company's
I office, 819 Thirteenth street N.W.
This field training takes a little heavier diet than that for
football, and these three members of Maryland University’s
eleven are enjoying a well-earned meal after a tough grind on
the field. They are Pvts. Edward Uodzelewski, halfback; James
Molster, left tackle, and Chester Gierula, right tackle.
—Star Staff Photos.
Bantamweight MP Guardsmen
At Meade Learn to Toss Heavies
By William J. Wheatley
Star Staff Correspondent
PORT MEADE, Md.. Aug. 20 —
Washington's National Guard mili
tary police approached the end of
the first week of their two-week
field training period here, with hard
ened and limbered muscles and an
acquaintance with personal combat.
They are taking their instruction
in such a serious vein that light
weights are throwing the heavies
with the ease with which a fisher
man makes a cast.
More than one-third of them are
downy-faced youths of draft age
who came into the 163d Military
Police Battalion within the past few
weens.
Their enthusiasm for personal
combat sent two of them to the post
hospital in ambulances earlier in
the week. One of them recovered
quickly and was returned to duty.
But the other, Lt. Joseph Censabella,
601 Eighteenth street N.W., was
forced to remain in the hospital for
observation after suffering a badly
wrenched back.
Lt. Col. John B. Manley, senior
Regular Army instructor at the
camp, said the battalion has settled :
down rapidly into its training sched
ule and that the men, particularly'
the Tiew ones, are taking it in fine
spirit. ,
He asserted they have all their
equipment, except that, in a few
cases, the men did not have combat
shoes to fit. But the 2d Army has
made arrangements to exchange the
boots issued to the men for those
that will fit.
Lt. Charles E. Sagnef, jr., 215
Oakwood street S.E., an in
fantry combat veteran of the Eu
ropean and Pacific theaters, showed
the trainees how to protect them
selves in personal combat. First,
he gave them exercises to limber
up their muscles, so the lightweights
could take care of much heavier
opponents. Then he told each to
choose an adversary from among
their comrades. After a' demonstra
tion pair showed how it was done,;
he told the group to move in. In
a flash 200-pound veterans were'
flying over the heads of bantam
weight youths.
After a hard morning of this and
a hearty lunch of chicken fricassej
potatoes, carrots, celery, lemonade
and doughnuts, they went back into
the field for their first "gas at
tacks.” Tear gas was used, but the
men were given a comprehensive
lecture prior to the “kickoff” on
how to protect themselves against
all kinds of gases.
Victor R. Hirsh. 3641 Kanawha
street N.W., and George Cottman,
207 Vi E street N.E., each with a
week of service, said the food had
been uniformly good and plentiful
since they came into the camp last
Sunday.
The mess is in charge of Lt.
James H. Graham, 4306 Knox road,
College Park, Md., and his prin
cipal assistant is Sergt. Eugene P.
Wemple, 4306 Third street N.W., a
chain store manager.
In the late afternoons the men
are urged to participate in super
vised athletics. Lt. Col. George O.
Weber, commanding the unit, has
provided three silver cups to be
awarded to each of the leaders in
volley ball, track and softball. An
honor streamer will be awarded
at the end of the encampment to
the best all-around unit in pro
ficiency during the training period.
The unit has a total of 300 men
in camp, 22 of whom are officers.
A third of the enlisted personnel
are new men, one-third combat
trained veterans and the remainder
have come into the Guard at vari
ous periods since its activation in
October, 1946.
Lf. Gen. McLain to Head
Army Chest Drive Here
Lt.. Gen. Raymond S. McLain,
chief of information of the Army,
will serve as chairman of the Com
munity Chest Federation campaign
solicitors in De
partment of the
Army offices, it
was announced
yesterday.
Gen. McLain
was appointed
by the chair
man of the Gov
ernment Unit of
the Red Feath
er drive, Assist
ant Secretary of
the Interior C.
Girard David
son.
Approximately
20,000 volunteers
Gen. McLain j
will seek a goal of $4,509,170 in the
Washington area for 1949 operations
of more than 100 health, welfare and
recreation services.
Gen. McLain, 58, is a veteran of
the Meuse-Argonne offensive of
World War I and commanded com
bat troops in the Sicilian, Italian
and Normandy campaigns of World
War II. He was named chief of in
formation for the Army in Decem
ber, 1947.
General chairman of the Red
Feather campaign is Chauncey G.
Parker, director of administration
of the World Bank.
Argument Over Change in Store
Nets $35 for Police Boys' Club
The Metropolitan Police Boys'
Club, which has received donations
from many and sometimes surpris
ing sources, today was *35 richer as
the result of a clerk-customer wran
gle in a downtown store.
The story was told in the United
States Attorney's office in Municipal
Court after a hearing between the
antagonists and Prosecutor Edward
Carey, who refused to give the names
of the principals.
According to the story, a customer
of the store came into Mr. Carey's
office protesting that she had been
short-changed by a sales girl in a
store on Seventh street N.W. She
claimed she gave the clerk a *10
bill for a small purchase, but got
change for only « *5 bill.
The sales girl was equally positive
she had been handed a *5 bill.
The customer arrived at the final
solution. She said she would con
tribute the difference in the dis
puted amounts to charity.
The store manager, a woman who
accompanied the clerk, said she
would go the customer several dol
lars better than any amount the
customer named, since the dispute
had become a "matter of principle.”
The customer wrote a check for
*10 to the Boys’ Club. The ink on
her check had hardly dried before
the store manager, borrowing Mr.
Carey's pen, wrote a check for *25.
The women left Mr. Carey's office
with "heads raised high,” he re
ported.
*V
D. C. Awaits Veteran's
Answer Alter Filing
Charges in Shortage
By Jerry O'Leary, Jr.
Robert A. Cornelius, 34. who
makes $2,644 a year and draws 20
per cent disability pay from the
Veterans’ Administration for wounds
he suffered in Germany, stood re
vealed today by the Commissioners
as the District tax collector's of
fice cashier, who staged a 24-hour
disappearance Monday with $570 of
the city's money.
Cornelius, who lives in the 2800
block of Fifty-first avenue S.E. with
his wife and two children, has until
noon Monday to reply,to charges
filed by the city heads yesterday,
preparatory to dismissing him. As
a veteran, Cornelius cannot be dis
missed without formal charges.
Cornelius last night would not
discuss details of the case with a1
reporter.
”1 received the Commissioners'
charges today,” he said, 'and there
is nothing more to say.”
Charges Sent to Fay.
Meanwhile, United States Attor
ney George Morris Fay acknowl
edged that his office has received a
copy of the charges. He said, how
ever, he has not had a chance to
study them. The Commissioners
sent the details of the case to Mr.
Fay, without recommendation, for
possible prosecution.
A check of District personnel
records late yesterday revealed that
Cornelius, who comes from Davis,
W. Va., was hired as a temporary
clerk and assistant cashier in Jan
uary, 1946, at a starting salary oi
$1,900.
He had served in the Army as an
enlisted man from March, 1944. to
December, 1945, the records showed
and was wounded in action in Ger
many with the 9th Infantry Divi
sion. As a wounded veteran, he has
been receiving about $27 a month
for his 20 per cent disability.
Three Salary Raises.
In his two and a half years with
the tax collector’s office, according
to the records, Cornelius had re
ceived three salary raises. In June,
1946, he was appointed a bailiff to
collect nickels from parking meters
; at $1,954 a year. He was raised to
$2,394 in February, 1947, and to
$2,644 in August, 1947.
i Cornelius, according to the Com
missioners. disappeared from his of
fice in the Municipal Center early
Monday, without authorization,
shortly before auditors discovered
i about $570 was missing from his
‘cash box. He went to the home of
Deputy Tax Collector George H.
Kirwell, 629 G street S.W., at 7
a.m'. Tuesday, Mr. Kidwell said, and
offered to return the money then
and there.
Mr. Kidwell said he refused to
discuss the matter with the cashier
in the early morning meeting but
told the man to return to the Dis
trict Building later in the day and
make restitution there.
Makes Full Restitution.
Cornelius thereupon went to the
office of Assistant Auditor Robert L.
Mudd on Tuesday afternoon and re
turned all of the missing money in
the presence of Mr. Kidwell and
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Ralph D. Quinter. Asked for an
i explanation, Cornelius reportedly
j told the officials:
“I don’t know, I just took the
, money.”
He has been placed on annual
leave, pending outcome of the
charges.
Under the law, Cornelius is en
titled to file a-written answer to the
charges, with affidavits, before'noon
Monday. The Commissioners will
consider the reply and render a
written decision.
In their message to Cornelius yes
terday, file Commissioners declared:
"In view of the serious nature of
the foregoing charges, the Commis
sioners have determined that your
continuance on active duty will be
detrimental to the interest of the
District government and of the gen
eral public.”
| Star Movies |
Community movies, sponsored by
The Star in co-operation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 9
o'clock tonight. Programs of comedy,
sports, cartoons and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers.
Ft. Davis, Pennsylvania and Alabama
avenues S.E. ,
Rearat. Thirty-seventh end Tliden
Jefferson, Eifhth and R streets 8.W.
Kinsman. Fourteenth and B streets N.E.
New York Avenue, First and New York
*TTnlesdeU. Ninth and lncraham streets
N W
Randall. Flrat and I street* 8 W
Shaw. Seventh atreet and Rhode Island
avenue N.W. . . .
Blow School. Nineteenth atreet and
Benninc road NX ^ _ _ . „
Stevens. Twenty-flrat an<| L streets N.W.
Two Maryland Men
Die, 3 Saved as Boat
Capsizes in Potomac
Two Maryland men drowned yes
terday when their motor boat upset
in the Potomac south of Leonard
town, Md.
Their three nearly exhausted
companions, including the son of
one of the dead men, were rescued
by fishermen after clinging more:
than four hours to the bottom of
the overturned boat and a life pre
server.
St. Marys County Sheriff Willard
B. Long identified,the drowned men!
as George Sanford, 35, of 4527;
Temple lane, Temple Hills, Md., a
bus driver for the Washington,
Marlboro & Annapolis Co., and;
William Henry Clifton. sr„ 42, of
Silver Hill, Md., a truck gardener.
Mr. Sanford leaves a wife and five
small children.
Rescued after clinging nearly five
hours to part of a life preserver was
Mr. Clifton’s son, John Clifton,
about 18. He was reported to have
been picked up in a semi-conscious
condition several miles downstream
from the point where the boat over
turned.
T/Sergt. Frank Petrasek of Suit
land Manor, Md., and another man
identified as William G. Thacker,
Silver Hill, were picked up after
clinging about four hours to the
overturned boat. Sergt. Petrasek is
stationed at Andrews Field.
The tragedy occurred before dawn
several hours after the party of five
set out on a fishing trip. The 17- j
foot fishing skiff capsized some dis
tance off Whites Point during a
heavy storm.
Ray Bell to Head Branch
Of Advertising Agency Here
J. Raymond Bell, former Wash
ington public relations man, has
been appointed head of the newly
established Washinton office of the!
New York ad
vertising agency
of Donahue &
Coe, fnc.
Prior to join
ing the execu
tive stall of the
agency in New
York, Mr. Beil
was for five
' years public re
lations and ad
vertising direc
tor of Capital
Airlines here. A
former newspa -
perman. his
public relations
Mr. Bell.
work here also includes directing
publicity and promotion for Loews
Theaters and handling Easter pub
licity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pic
tures.
Mr. Bell is a member of the Dis
trict Bar. the National Press and
Variety Clubs and a former direc
tor of the Advertising Club of Wash
ington. He is a member of the
Board of Governors of the Public
Relations Society of America.
D. C. Area Is Searched
For Woman's Attacker
Police today blanketed the Met
ropolitan area with a lookout for a
man wanted in the reported rape of
a 32-year-old Southwest Washing
ton woman about midmorning.
The broadcast described the man
as a light-skinned colored man, 5
feet 8 inches tall, 155 pounds, wear
ing dark brown trousers and a
brown sweat shirt.
The woman was taken to Gallin
ger Hospital.
Parks Employes
Ruled Eligible
For Pay Raise
Increase Refused
Workers in Deeds
Recorder's Office
Controller General Lindsay War
ren has ruled that 164 employes of
National Capital Parks, who are
paid by the District Government,
are entitled to the $330 a year Fed
eral pay raise, it was learned today.
Assistant Budget Officer William
G. Wilding said the Controller Gen
eral’s decision was made July 30.
The 78 members of the Park Police
force stationed here are not affected
by the ruling, he said.
Meanwhile, the Controller General
ruled yesterday that the 61 em
ployes of the Recorder of Deeds
Office are not eligible for the pay
increase. The Eightieth Congress
rushed the $330 pay raise through in
the closing days of the regular ses
sion, grantnig salary increases to
Federal workers but excluding Dis
trict employes.
Since then, the Commissioners
have asked the Controller General
for rulings on whether 516 District
employes in various agencies, paid
in whole or in part by Federal funds,
are eligible.
The Controller General ruled last
month that 134 employes of the
National Zoological Park and 15
National Capital Park and Planning
CommissiOn employes, who are paid
from District funds, are eligible for
the raise.
Still being considered for possible
inclusion are employes ot such
'‘fringe" agencies as the Washington
Aqueduct, National Guard, Register
of Wills, the Probation System and
the Columbia Hospital and Lying-in
Asylum.
Arkansas Avenue Group
Holds Annual Picnic
More than 400 pet-sons, including
presidents of nine Northwest area
citizens’ associations, last night at
tended the ninth anniversary picnic
of the Arkansas Avenue Community
Association.
Frank Gauss, president, termed
the outing, held in the triangular
park at Thirteenth street and Ar
kansas avenue between Emerson
street and Delafield place N.W., "the
largest and best we ever had.” Danc
ing on Thirteenth street, to the
music of the Metropolitan Police
Band, followed a buffet supper.
John H. Connaughton, president
of the Federation of Citizens’ Asso
ciations, was a special guest. Leaders
of Northwest groups present were
Mrs. Ernest W. Howard, Columbia
Heights; L. A. Meadows, Manor
Park; Harry C. Grove, Connecticut
avenue; Harvey O. Craver, Pet
worth; Dr. C. J. Fernald, Citizens’
Forum of Columbia Heights; Roy
L. Birge, Chillura Heights; Percy V.
Templeton, Brightwood; C. H Whit
beck, Takoma, D. C.; and Harry M.
Dengler, Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association.
Night Watchman Is Held
In Police Impersonation
A night watchman who police say
broadened his authority too far has
been charged with assault and will
face the grand jury on charges of
impersonating a policeman, the Dis
trict Attorney’s office said today.
In addition, his employer has been
warned that he can’t use his night
watchman service as a detective
agency unless he gets a license.
Arrested on the assault charge
was Irving A. Payne, 20, of the 1200
block of U street N.W., described
as the only watchman in Joseph
H. Gerone’s Superior Private Police.
Payne is charged with attempt
ing to arrest a patron he said was
not abiding by the sit-while-drink
ing regulations. He carried a
"Bango-O” cap pistol and a night
stick, police said; wore a gray shirt,
black tie, dark blue trousers and a
couple of badges marked "SPP.”
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Robert C. Chalfonte warned Gerone •
! he must stop distributing cards say
! ing he does private detective work—
I or get a license.
Dr. R. 5. Eccles Accepts
American U. Chaplaincy
Dr. Robert S. Eccles of the Yale
University faculty has accepted the
position of chaplain at American
University, Dr. Paul P. Douglass,
university president, announced
today.
Dr. Eccles also will serve as chair -
jman of the department of religion
and philosophy in the College of
! Arts and Sciences, Dr. Douglass said.
! He succeeds the late Dr. A. B.
Potorf.
The new university chaplain was
graduated from the College of Puget
Sound in 1934 and did graduate work
at Northwestern University, Garrett
' Biblical Institute and Yale Univer
sity. At American University he
will be provided with a center for
religious and student personnel work
to be known as Osborn House, Dr.
I Douglass said.
Old Fort Washington Exhibit
To Open to Public on Sunday
Visitors to old Fort Washington,
Md., this Sunday will have some of
its mysteries unraveled for them by
a museum exhibit that the National
Capital Parks office will open to the
public for the first time that day.
This is the first step in an inter
pretative program for this historic
fort, one of the earliest defenses of
Washington. An attendant will be
on duty at the fort museum from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. each Saturday and
Sunday. He will be a qualified ex
pert on the history of the fort.
The annual historical tour of Fort
Washington also is slated for Sun
day. Special chartered buses leave
1416 F street N.W. at 1:45 pjn.;
Persons driving private cars may
Join the party at the fort.
Fort Washington is located 14
miles south of Washington on the!
Potomac River and is reached via
Nichols avenue and South Capitol
street.
Digging for fossils in and around
Fort Totten Park will be arranged
v>
: for amateur geologists irom j to 5
p.m. Sunday. Hiking clothes are
I desirable. The group will meet at
Hawaii avenue and Allison street
N.E.
A camera stroll will begin at stop
39 on the Glen Echo carline at 9:30
am. Sunday. For nature lovers, a
walk through the woodlands of
Glover and Whitehaven Parkways
will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. to
morrow. The assembly point is at
Forty-first and Calvert streets N.W.
The Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens,
now in full tropical bloom, are ex
pected to attract many visitors to
morrow and Sunday. A naturalist
will be cm duty beginning at 9 am.
At the Rock Creek campfire at
8:15 pm. tomorrow, the feature will
be a movie and a talk, “From Rio
Grande to Panama,” a description
of the Inter-American Highway. It
will be presented by Edwin W.
James, chief of the Inter-American
Regional Office, Public Roads Ad
ministration. The campfire site is
at Sixteenth street and Colorado
avenue N.W.