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South Korean Spearhead Racing
Yanks to Capital of Red Korea;
War's Last Big Battle Seen Near
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U. S. Tanks Pace
Rapid Advance
On Pyongyang
By Reiman Morin
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
TOKYO. Oct. 16.—Two Allied
spearheads smashed today toward
the flatland approaches of Pyong
yang in an armored race for the
Red Korean capital.
The last major battle of the war
may be close at hand. There was
Five D. C. Areo Men Killed in Koreo;
One Dies of Injuries. Page A-5
a growing belief in Tokyo mili
tary circles that the war would
end in a few weeks. But a long
mopping-up period may follow.
Racing for the Red capital were
the United States 1st Cavalry Di
vision—the first into Manila in
World War II—and the South Ko
rean 1st Division.
Americans Push 16 Miles.
The Americans battled through
stubborn resistance in a 16-mile
thrust into Sohung, 42 air miles
and 60 highway miles southeast of
Pyongyang. On a parallel second
ary road 20 miles north of Sohung,
the South Koreans, paced by
American tanks, reached Suan, 40
air miles southeast of the Com
munist capital.
Both forces .were thrusting
through North Korea’s mountain
backbone which shields Pyong
yang on the south and east. But
it was a torn and dented shield.
Field reports indicated the Red
remnants were crumbling rapidly.
Resistance was fierce in spots, but
sporadic.
Associated Press Correspondent
Jack MacBeth. with the South
Koreans, said they “broke into a
run” for Pyongyang after charg
ing into Suan.
The United States Cavalry
troopers ran into their toughest
fight 2 miles north of Namchon
jom, about 10 miles southeast of
Sinmak and 12 miles north of
captured Kumchon.
Fight Along Winding Road.
Although the South Korean
column was closest to Pyongyang,
it was fighting along a winding
mountain road. The 1st. Cavalry
wras banging up the longer main
rail and highway route. Its next
main objective is Sariwon, 35 miles
south of Pyongyang.
Two other columns were driving
toward Pyongyang from more
distant points. The United States
24th Division hit from the south
and the Republic of Korea 3d
Division from the eaSt. The ROKs
moved along a road twisting
across the peninsula from Wonsan
on the east coast.
It was the first time the 24th
Division had been reported in ac
tion since it swept up “Heartbreak
Highway” from the old Pusan
beachhead to recapture Taejon, in
South Korea.
Units of the 24th Division, flown
to Korea from placid occupation
duty in Japan, were the first
Americans hurled against the Red
juggernaut aftar the June 25 in
vasion of the South Korean Re
public. The 24th fought a series
of bitter withdrawals. It bought
valuable time with blood.
The 24th Division entered Yo
nan, just south of Parallel 38 and
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)
Friends Say Dead Marine
Had Only 54 Hours'Training
By the Associated Press
HAVRE, Mont., Oct. 16.—Rep
resentative D’Ewart, Republican,
of Montana said he had been in
formed an 18-year-old Marine
private “was sent into combat
and killed after only 54 hours’
training” after being called to ac
tive duty.
The information, he said last
night, came in a petition from
residents of Fairfield, Mont., the
youth’s hometown. The petition
ers asked an explanation and re
quested assurance reservists would
be given better training.
The petitioners identified the
dead youth as Pfc. Gene Lease of
Fairfield. They said he had at
tended two 10-day summer train
ing camps and twice-monthly re
serve meetings before he was
called to duty August 8.
He arrived at Camp Pendleton,
Calif., August 12; sailed August
27; arrived in Korea via Japan
September 17, and was killed
September 26, the petitioners re
ported.
Late News
Bulletin
Embezzlement Charged
Daniel J. Imbs, 34, of the 3400
block of Tenth place S.E., today
was held by United States Com
missioner Cyril S. Lawrence on
a charge of embezzling $6,000
from the Navy Yard Credit
Union of Washington of which
he was cashier. Imbs, who dis
appeared from his job August
18, surrendered to the FBI to
day. He had been in Cuba, the
I said.
End of Conflict Within Weeks
Predicted by Officers in Tokyo
Major Fighting Expected to Cease With Fall
Of Pyongyang; Long Cleanup Seen Likely
By Russell Brines
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
TOKYO. Oct. 16.—Military cir
cles here believe the Korean war
will be over in a matter of weeks.
Ttiey expect that major fight
ing will end after United Nations
forces drive into the North Ko
rean Communist capital of Pyong
yang.
A slow and' perhaps lengthy
cleanup campaign to eliminate
holdout fragments of the North
Korean Red Army probably will
continue after the close of the
main military operation.
Tokyo circles have been opti
mistic as to a quick end of the
fighting since the September 15
landing at Inchon drove a wedge
into the Communist Army. This
opinion has been voiced repeatedly
by field commanders who have
said the North Koreans definitely
are beaten.
Pyongyang is considered here
to be the last major military and
political objective of the United
Nations overland offensive. But
its expected capture probably will
not mark the highwater mark of
the Allied drive northward.
Army commanders have said
often that their job is to destroy
the North Korean military force
(See WAR. Page A-6 > _
Armed Force for U. N.
Opposed by Nehru as
Move Toward War
Indian Leader Criticizes
Crossing 38Hi Parallel,
Bar to Seating Red China
By the Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 16.—
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
voiced Indian opposition today to
an American proposal for the
raising of special armed forces to
serve at United Nations direction.
Such forces, Mr. Nehru told a
news conference, were more likely
Revised Droit of Plan to Strengthen U. N.
Up for Study Today. Page A-3
to lead to a world war than to
discourage one.
The United States proposal,
part of a seven-nation resolution
now being debated by the U. N.
General Assembly in New York,
calls for U. N. members to ear
mark part of their armed forces
for use either by the Security
Council or the Assembly to meet
threats of aggression.
Such armed forces, Mr. Nehru
said, are “likely to produce an
atmosphere and psychology of
fear.” India, he continued, would
object to any part of its army
being put under any control but
its own.
Criticizes Crossing Parallel.
India’s attitude on the United
States anti-aggression plan is con
sidered of vital importance be
cause of the nation’s position as
a leader in Asia.
The Indian leader also criticized
the crossing of the 38th Parallel
by U. N. forces in Korea, an action
which the General Assembly au
thorized in a resolution adopted
October 7. India abstained in the
voting on the resolution.
To cross the Parallel without
making an effort at a peaceful
solution “appeared to us to be
wrong and to involve grave risks
of conflict on a much wider scale.”
Mr. Nehru said.
He conceded in answer to a
question, however, that the risks
of such consequences resulting
from the crossing of the Parallel
appeared much less now than they
had two weeks ago.
Mr. Nehru vehemently de
nounced efforts to keep Com
munist China out of the United
Nations.
Text of Statement.
Following is the text of Mr.
Nehru's news conference state
ment.
“As there has been some mis
apprehension about our policy sa
regard to Korea and the situa
tion in the Far East, I should
like to make this clear.
“First of all, I would like to
(Continued on Page A-18, Col. 1.)
Truman Flying Back
To Coast for Speech
On Foreign Policy
Speculation Continues
On Significance of
MacArthur Meeting
By th« Associated Press
HONOLULU, Oct. 16—Presi
dent Truman flew back to the
mainland today to report on his
meeting with Gen. MacArthur.
World capitals still puzzled over
the significance of the rendezvous
on Wake Island.
The President left Hickham
Field at 6:28 a.m. (11:28 a.m.
Unprecedented Issues Are Raised by
Victory over North Koreans. Page A-2
ESTt. The flight to San Fran
cisco takes nine hours.
Aides said the President is de
voting extraordinary time and
care to the major foreign policy
address he will make in San Fran
cisco at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow (11:30
p.m.. EST.)
While he will preface his talk
with a reference to his conference
with Gen. MacArthur as a move to
help the Far East find peace, there
has been no indication that the
President will elaborate greatly on
the Wake Island statement.
The statement, signed by the
i President and initialed by the
! United Nations supreme com
mander, followed their less than
three hours talk.
Actually, the most important
phase of it was the hour Mr. Tru
man and Gen. MacArthur spent
alone in the living room of a
quonset hut.
No Hint of New Decisions.
The statement gave no hint of
any far reaching new decisions
Such as many had speculated
| might grow out of the spectacular
14,000-mile round trip flight.
In fact, one top White House
policy adviser said Mr. Truman
primarily “wanted to talk to Gen.
MacArthur face to face” about
Far East problems.
Mr. Truman will complete the
final draft of his talk at the Fair
mont Hotel in San Francisco to
night.
He is leaving immediately after
his talk so he can be back in
the White House Wednesday
morning.
U. N. Talk October 24.
Mr. Truman was reported
anxious to build up strong Amer
ican support for the spending
necessary to keep defense ap
propriations moving after the
Korean emergency ends and „o
rehabilitate and reconstruct Korea
as an example to all the Far East
that the United States and Its
(Continued on Page A-2, Col. 1.) j
Oklahoma Lady Says 'Yank'
Is Bad Word With Shady Past
By Arthur L. Edson
Associated Press Staff Writer
A lady down in Cache, Okla.,
thinks newswriters and news
casters should stop calling the
United States troops fighting in
Korea “Yanks.”
Miss Juanita Adams, a re
searcher of history, and politics,
wrote the Associated Press she
thinks the word “Yankee” has a
shady past.
She says it started with the In
dians. They were trying to say
“English,” or its French equiva
lent, “anglais.”
When the Colonies were break
ing away from Britain, the English
called the Colonials “Yankees” in
derision. And so from the start,
Miss Adams says, “Yankee” was a
bad name.
The Encyclopedia Brittanica
agrees.
But that old word worrier, H. L.
Mencken of Baltimore, has a dif
ferent idea.
In his book, “The American
Language,” Mr. Mencken says
"Yankee” comes from the Dutch.
It’s a corruption of “Jan” and
Kees.” Or John Cheese, as an
Englishman is John Bull.
But he, too, agrees that “Yan
kee” came up the hard way.
It was applied to early New
Englanders, as a sign they had
more cunning than they had
scruples.
During the Civil War, “Yankee”
bobbed up again. The Southern
ers hurled it at the Northerners,
but there’s no evidence any one
was wounded by it.
One researcher in the word
wilds of Arkansas came out with
the information that at least
some of the natives used it as a
verb. “To yankee” meant “to
cheat.”
All right. We rule out Yan
kees. What do we call the troops
then?
Doctors Sign Up
For Draft at 10
Hospitals Here
Confusion Marks
Effort to Comply;
158 Register Early
By George Beveridge
The first step in the Nation’s
new medical draft law was marked
by considerable confusion today,
as young District physicians, den
tists and veterinarians signed up
at temporary registration centers
in 10 hospitals.
The all-day registration started
slowly. By noon, the hospitals
reported, 158 men had signed reg
istration cards and received selec
tive service and Defense Depart
ment questionnaires which must
be returned within five days.
10 Years After Registration.
Today’s registration date, Octo
ber 16, was exactly 10 years after
the first selective service regis
tration of the millions of men
called up for service in World
War II.
The confusion about today’s
medical registration existed in the
minds of the professional men,
who wondered whether they were
eligible for the first registration.
To be on the safe side, it ap
peared most of them were giving
draft officials the benefit of the
doubt.
Doctor, 88, Appears.
Undoubtedly the oldest would
be registrant was Dr. G. M. Brum
baugh, 88, of 1954 Biltmore street
N.W., who had reported to Doctors
Hospital Saturday, thinking that
was registration day. Back at the
hospital today, he was told he
wasn’t eligible under the law.
Registration is required of those
who received training in Army or
Navy medical programs, or other
wise were deferred during the war
to continue their education, and
who served on active duty for
less than 21 months after their
training was completed. Reserv
ists. active or inactive, need not
register.
Young interns and residents at
large teaching hospitals, like
George Washington, Georgetown
and Gallinger, seemed well in
formed as to whether they face
an induction threat.
Many Clearly Exempt.
At other of the temporary cen
ters, however, many who came in
to register clearly were exempt
fro mthe first, limited call. Dis
trict draft officials also reported
a large number of telephone calls
j this morning asking about re
jquirements. Most came from re
servists or men deferred during
the war for other reasons than to
| finish medical educations. Both
groups should not register,
i At Doctors Hospital, one of
the first registrants was Dr.
Theodore R. Coleman, a 49-year
old general surgeon w'ho wasn’t
trained in the military programs.
“Sure,” he commented to a re
porter, “I’ve been out of school
for 24 years.”
Mrs. Isabelle Coen, registrar at
the Doctors Hospital center, said
Dr. Coleman’s registration card
would be sent to draft headquar
ters with a notation that “he
shouldn’t have registered.”
Two Dentists Sign Up.
It also appeared the first two
dentists who showed up at Doc
tors shouldn't have.
One, Dr. G. W. Drumwright, 26,
of 106 Hamilton avenue, Silver
Spring, Md„ said he registered
for the draft in 1944, but was
turned down for physical reasons.
He also registered under the 1948
draft.
The other. Dr. Edward J. Bu
kowski, 34, of Rockville, Md., was
an Army Air Corps pilot during
the war, and took his dental
training at Georgetown Univer
sity after he was discharged, he
(See DRAFT, Page A-4.)
Southern Florida Alerted
For Hurricane Off Cuba
By th« Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 16.—South
Florida was alerted and Cuba and
the Bahamas warned against a
hurricane containing winds up to
125 miles an hour today.
The hurricane is centered in the
Caribbean Sea 140 miles south
southwest of Camaguey, Cuba,
and 480 miles almost due south of
Miami.
Northeast storm warnings are
flying from Palm Beach to Key
West. Small craft warnings are
on display from Palm Beach to
Charleston, S. C.
Gale force winds swept Miami
all day yesterday but died down
temporarily today.
Meanwhile, another hurricane
was blowing in the open Atlantic
about 550 miles northeast of Ber
muda.
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Aliens Indignant at Detention
At Ellis Island Under New Law
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Resent Questioning
On Membership in
Totalitarian Groups
By L. Edgar Prina
Star Staff Correspondent
ELLIS ISLAND. Oct, 16.—Aliens
who were once members of a “to
talitarian” organization are being
detained temporarily at Ellis
Island under the new and contro
versial Internal Security Act.
What are their reactions to in
terrogation and detention? How
are they being treated?
Answers to these questions may
be had by studying the case of
This is the second of two articles on
Ellis Island under the current enforce
ment at the new anti-subversive law.
Richard Gutermann, a silk thread
manufacturer from Zurich. Swit
zerland, who, with his wife, ar
(Continued on Page A-7. Col. 4.1
Ferguson Charges
Politics in Handling
Of Security Act
Senator Ferguson. Republican,
of Michigan yesterday suggested
that high Government officials
charged with enforcing the new
internal security act are giving it
“an extreme and strained inter
pretation for political purposes.’’
Attorney General McGrath de
nied the accusation.
Senator Ferguson was a sponsor
of the new law designed to bar
aliens who ever have been mem
bers of the Communist “or other
totalitarian’’ parties or affiliated
organizations.
He said “confusion in admini
stration" of the act is “utterly un
necessary.”
Mr. McGrath replied:
"There has been no effort what
soever on the part of the admini
stration to subvert or undermine
(See ALIENS. Page A-6.)
Old-Fashioned Thrift
Will Hurt Prosperity
Of U. 5., Banker Says
Lehman Partner Defends
Installment Buying as
Aid to Price Reductions
By th« Associated Press
BOSTON. Oct. 16.—A New York
banker said today that a return
to strict, old-fashioned ideals of
thrift would be “disastrous” to
prosperity and the American
standard of living.
Paul Mazur, a partner in the
Lehman brothers banking firm,
New Credit Curbs Begin Todoy; Auto
Dealers Upset. Page A-4
defended installment buying as a
major factor in mass production
that brings down the price of
many products.
He told a group of,the Nation’s
business leaders at the 22nd Bos
ton Conference on Distribution
that a return to “economic Puri
tanism would do unlimited dam
age to the great mass of American
men and women.
Not Urging “Profligacy.”
Mr. Mazur emphasized “Spar
tan living” might have to accom
pany a war economy to divert
products for armaments—and he
pointed out, too, that he was not
preaching “profligacy on the part
of the individual who is already
on his uppers."
But, he explained, “our stand
ard of living . . . must quicken
its pace of improvement if we
are to maintain a prosperous;
economy on a peace-time basis.” i
President Truman sent a mes
sage in which he said “we have;
learned that communism, like
older Tyrannies, seeks to put the
world in chains.” And he warned
that “hope and work for peace
and liberty are fruitless unless
tyranny is stopped."
Wants Economic Preparedness.
“You know,” he told the busi
ness men, “that our fighting men
have first call on all the Nation’s
resources, including its distribu
tion facilities. In addition, we
must make sure that our economy
is geared to keeping the whole
country well and strong.”
Canada's minister of trade and
commerce, C. D. Howe, told the
conference “it will take more
than guns and ammunition to
stop the rising tide of commun
ism.’
“Economic preparedness,” he
said, “must go hand in hand with
military preparedness.”
Korea to Mark U. N. Day
TOKYO, Oct. 16 Iff).—'The Re
public of Korea will celebrate a
new national holiday, United Na
tions Day, October 24. ‘
Thomas' Opponent
Hurls Red Issue Into
Utah Senate Race
Bennett AccusesHim
Of Having Sympathized
With Communist Fronts
By Gould Lincoln
Stor Staff Correspondent
SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. 16.
—Utah's senatorial race, pit
ting Democratic Senator Elbert
Thomas, a favorite of organized
labor, against Wallace F. Bennett,
; 1949 president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, is
still a horse-race with three
, weeks campaigning to come.
As if the conflict between labor
bosses and the NAM and between
Democrats in Calvert Admit They Will
Have Real Fight ot Polls. Page 8-1
Truman fair deal and conserva
! tive Republican forces were not
enough, the “red” issue has been
thrust into the campaign.
Senator Thomas is being
charged—not with being a Com
munist but with having given aid
and comfort to Communist front
organizations.
Mr. Bennett said today that he
did not believe that Senator
Thomas was a Communist, but
that he did believe Senator
(Continued on Page A-'9, Col. 1.)
High Court Vacates
Miami Segregation
On City Golf Course
Won't Review Attack
On Atlanta Censors'
Ban on Race Film
The Supreme Court today va
cated a Florida Supreme Court
decision upholding a Miami law
that prevented Negroes from using
a city golf course with white
players.
The Negroes were allowed to
use the municipally owned course
only on Mondays. The Florida
court dismissed a petition by sev
eral Miami Negroes and held that
the restriction did not unconsti
tutionally discriminate against
colored people.
In a brief order, the Supreme
Court sent the case back to the
Florida courts for action “in the
light of” a decision last June in
a racial segregation case from
Texas. In that case, the high
court ordered the University ■».
Texas to admit a Negro to its all
white school of law.
Atlanta Case Refused.
In another case involving racial
segregation, the Supreme Court
today refused to review an attack
on an Atlanta (Ga.) ordinance
under which the motion picture
“Lost Boundaries” was banned in
that city. Its showing was banned
by the Atlanta Censorship Board
on a claim it would “adversely
affect the peace, health and
morals and good order of the
city.” The court gave no reason
for its denial of the review.
The court also refused to recon
sider its recent decisions that the
Federal Government has para
mount rights to rich oil lands
under marginal seas along the
Texas and Louisiana coasts.
State Flea Rejected.
The court issued two brief or
ders turning down petitions from
the two States for reconsidera
! tion.
Justices Jackson and Clark took
no part in consideration of the
cases.
The marginal sea areas—often
called tidelands — have been
leased in part by Texas and Lou
isiana to private oil companies.
The high court’s decisions were
announced last June 5. In 1947
the tribunal had ruled that the
Federal Government had para
mount rights to California tide
lands.
Although refusing to reconsider
the decisions, the Supreme Court
took no action on requests from
the Justice Department that;
Texas and Louisiana be required
to give an accounting of money
they have received for oil taken;
from the lands.
Case Against Refugee Dropped
To Avoid Bar to Citizenship
Charges of assault against a 44
year-old German refugee were
dropped in Bethesda Police Court
today because conviction might
have, deprived him of his long
awaited chance to become an
American citizen.
The man who learned today’s
lesson in American justice was
Rudolf Aron of 4526 Stanford
street, Bethesda, operator of
Rudy's Newsstand.
He was accused of striking an 8
year-old boy who pulled aside the
tarpaulin covering his newsstand
to look at a comic book during a
heavy rain storm.
The boys’ parents. Dr. and Mrs.
S. R. Bauresfeld, swore out a war
rant against the newsstand op
erator and on October 2 Bethesda
Trial Magistrate James R. Miller
took the case under advisement
after hearing testimony.
"I find you guilty,” Judge Mil
ler told Mr. Aron this morning.
Then Attorney Walter H. Moor
man stood up to tell of Mr. Aron’s
i approaching chance at citizenship,
pending nearly five years.
Mr. Aron told the court some
of his background: A journalist
specializing in economics in Ger-1
many until Hitler came, then
seven years in France writing for;
a leading anti-Nazi paper, then
to America in 1940, where he as
sisted the Federal Government in
gathering information about Euro
pean affairs.
Judge Miller asked State’s At- j
torney Thomas M. Anderson if he
could drop the charges before
sentence was imposed, and Mr.
Anderson replied, although he
felt it was unjustified in view of
the charges, that “I don’t want
to stand in the way of his citizen
ship.”
And Judge Miller dismissed the
case.
“Any punishment I would im
pose would be trivial compared
with the indirect punishment of
denied citizenship that might fol
low,” said the judge. “Let’s let
him be the kind of citizen I feel
he hopes and wants to be.”
Tax Slash Asked
By Trade Board
And Federation
D. C. Budget Hearing
Gets Call for Increase
In Federal Payment
By Harriet Griffiths
The Federation of Citizens’ As
sociations and the Washir'' :on
Board of Trade today urged the
Commissioners to reduce the tax
load on District residents in the
year beginning next July 1.
The Federation, at the public
hearing in the District Building
on the city’s budget for fiscal 1952,
also called for Congress to return
to the plan of paying 40 per cent
of the District’s expenses from
Federal funds.
This plea was seconded by
Woolsey W. Hall, president of the
Federation of Civic Associations,
Inc. The Federal payment has
been a lump sum of $12 million
in recent years but has been re
duced to $10.8 million this year.
Both Herbert P. Leeman, presi
dent of the Federation of Citizens'
Associations and John A. Reilly,
chairman of the trade board’s Mu
nicipal Finance Committee, asked
abolition of the personal property
tax on household furnishings.
The citizens' federation also re
newed a plea for reduction in the
real estate rate from $2.15 per
$100 to $2.
Library Appropriation Asked.
An appropriation large enough
! to construct the proposed Cleve
land Park branch library and
community building was urged
by David R. Barbee, chairman of
the Library Committee of the
Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ As
sociation.
Mr. Barbee pointed out that
several years ago the association
raised $30,000 in its community as
part payment for the library site.
The association has a library trust
fund of $3,065 which is constantly
Increasing, and the Library Com
mittee has $1,708 in the bank for
; furnishing a memorial room in
honor of World War II veterans
from Cleveland Park.
He noted the Board of Library
Trustees has asked for a $275,000
appropriation for the building, but
he said he did not know if this
sum would cover the cost of the
building requested.
If it does not, Mr. Barbee said,
the sum should be increased suf
ficiently to provide the two-story
building first planned by the mu
nicipal architect. Those plans, he
said, were modified a year ago so
as to provide only a one-story
building with library facilities but
no community facilities. The as
sociation is opposed to the change
in plans.
Would Serve Wide Area.
He pointed out that the lot on
Connecticut avenue between Ma
comb and Newark streets provides
a location that will serve residents ,
i of the Shoreham, Wardman Park,
i 2800 Woodley road, the Kennedy
I Warren Apartments, Davenport
Terrace, The Broadmoor, Tilden
i Gardens, Quebec House, Cathedral
Mansions. 40 or more smaller
apartment houses and several
; thousand residences.
The project is indorsed by, be
sides the Citizens’ Association, the
Cleveland Park Community Com
mittee. Uptown Businessmen’s As
sociation, Federation of Business
men, Uptown Lions Club, National
Bureau of Standards, All Souls’
Episcopal Church, St. Thomas the
Apostle Catholic Church, Cleve
land Park Congregational Church,
Oyster and John Eaton Schools,
St. Thomas Parochial School,
Dumbarton College and Holy
I Cross Academy, he said.
There is no hall in Cleveland
Park now where every resident in
that area would feel free to come
together with his fellow citizens,
Mr. Barbee declared. The asso
ciation meets in a church base
ment and many members do not
attend meetings because of that
fact, he went on.
Mrs. Joseph L. Miller spoke for
a recreation area in Cleveland
Park on behalf of the Connecticut
Avenue Uptown Businessmen’s
Association, the Uptown Lions’
Club, the Community Committee,
the Cleveland Park Recreation
Council, the John Eaton Parent
Teacher Association and the Con
necticut Avenue Citizens’ Asso
ciation.
Need for this recreation area
was officially recognized, she
pointed out, 20 years ago when
the National Capital Park and
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