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The
Rambler
Stony Silence
On Statuary Issue
By RICHARD RODGERS
With all this who-struck-
John over the Suez, farm
prices, bomb tests and other
campaign issues, Senator
Kefauver and Vice President
Nixon are suspiciously silent
on a matter that screams for
a stand.
This is the conundrum over
what to do with the marble
Jack Janai, who ragularly write! The
Rambler, it an vacation.
Indians on the Capitol’s east
front.
Speak up. Estes! Talk out,
Richard! Do these white
stone Redskins grace or dis
grace the place?
Once the inauguration Is
out of the way, workmen can
proceed to push that front
farther east. Do the statues
stay or go? One of you two
will have to vote on it. How
say you?
The final decision over
whether to retain the statues
will be up to the five-man
Commission for the Extension
of the United States Capitol.
Besides the Vice President,
the board includes the Speaker
of the House, minority leaders
of both chambers, and the
Architect of the Capitol.
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THE MARBLE GROUP to
the north is the one that
raises the most ire. Indians
have denounced it as “a
gratuitous insult." Congress
men have submitted bills to
have the carving “removed,
ground to dust and scattered
to the four winds.”
Called “The Rescue," the
group depicts a frontiersman
about to clobber an Indian he
Interrupted as the ignoble
aborigine prepared to give a
pioneer madonna a coif with
a tomahawk. The woman is
crouching, clutching her babe.
Tribal spokesmen have
shouted that it represents the
Indian in too savage a light.
But long ago, friends of the
sculptor complained that the
grouping wasn’t savage
enough. They said the ar
rangement of the figures was
all loused up. Instead of the
woman being to one side as
she is, she was supposed to
have been directly in front
of the warrior, they said.
Their way, the scene would
have been more gripping.
The sculptor, Horace Green
ough, died before he could get
around to supervise the plac
ing of his figures, thus the
mixup.
THE OTHER STATUES, on
the south side of the steps,
are supposed to show Colum
bus with a globe in his hand,
explaining the mysteries of
the planet to a squaw.
Indian critics complain be
cause the squaw is undraped,
having forgotten to'put on a
petticoat, brassiere, gloves or
much of anything else. What’s
more, she is cringing at the
feet of the Admiral of the
Ocean Sea.
The critics have a point.
The scene suggests a high
school coach barging into the
girls’ shower to demand “who
let the air out of this volley
ball?”
Greenough got into trouble
with Congress on another of
his statues. He did an outsize
job of Washington, showing
the Father of His Country sans
shirt. The howls were so loud
over that bare-chested error
that the lawmakers finally
kicked the stone George clean
out of the Capitol and into
the Smithsonian.
Each group has had its
defenders. There is one point
for which this corner has
found no logical explanation,
though, much less defense.
The group with the white
and red men wrestling in
cludes a dog. This trifling cur
apparently had some reason
to be there, since the disagree
ment is degenerating Into a
dog fight, but his Intent is not
clear. Nor is it plain who
owns him.
Will the Senator from Ten
nessee go pro or anti on the
statues if he wins next
month? And, if Mr. Nixon
hangs on to his job, what are
his feelings on this Redman
issue?
Come on, men! Say.
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STRIKE UP THE BAND
The National Symphony Orchestra went into rehearsal for
its 26th season today. Here Conductor Howard Mitchell
and some of his men are swinging into action.
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Helen Coffman, wielding her cello bow, is one of the
attractive proofs.
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IT GOES ’ROUND—The symphony even has a
lady hornist, Patricia Larkin. Tuesday’s opening
concert will £e her first. (Story on the orchestra s
season plans on Page B-ll.).—Star Staff Photos by
I Paul Schmick.
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Women's Features
Society—Clubs
flic ftoening
WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1956
PIER'S INSPECTORS
GET QUICK ANSWER j
BALTIMORE — En
gineers got a prompt answer
today when they inspected
a railroad pier to see if it
could be saved.
It fell into the harbor mo
ments after they stepped "
off it.
An old 100-yard section of
! the Pennsylvania Railroad
pier seven collapsed.
There was no rail equip
j ment on it at the time.
YA Architect
Gets D.C. Post j
; The District Commissioners
1 today appointed Roy E. Guard
chief of the Veterans Admin
istration Architectural Division,
as Supervising Architect in the
District Department of Build
ings and Grounds.
He will succeed Merrel A. Coe,
who will be 60 on October 19 and
who will retire November 30. Mr.
Coe's last day of duty will be
November 2 and he will be on
leave until the end of the month.
Mr. Guard, 62, lives on Route
3, Fairfax, Va.
Mandatory retirement age in
the District government is 70.
The Commissioners may grant
year-to-year extensions. Mr. Coe
said he is retiring at 60 after 30
years of service because he wants
to do so. ✓
With VA Since 1934
Mr. Guard has been chief.
Architectural Division, Design
Service, Veterans Administra
tion, since 1934, according to
Col. T. M. Nosek, acting de
partment director.
Col. Nosek said Mr. Guard
has been responsible for the
architectural design, site plan
ning and landscape design,
’structural design, estimating and
color design of VA hospital con
struction.
Col. Nosek said Mr. Guard
now has the civil service grade
of GS-14, which pays a top
salary of $11,395. In shifting
to the District Government he
gains a one-grade promotion to
GS-15, the starting pay of which
is $11,610.
Will Start This Month
Mr. Guard is to start work
for the District October 22 to
permit Mr. Coe to acquaint him
with the job.
The new supervising architect
was born in Wilkes Barre, Pa.
He has been president of the
Association of Federal Archi
tects, a panel member of the
Civil Service Review Board and
a member of the Architects-
Engineer Selection Board of the
Veterans Administration.
Mr. Coe, who lives at 1221
Van Buren street N.W., is mar
ried and has two children and
four grandchildren.
Legal Aid Service
Gives Free Help
To 3,664 in D. C.
The legal aid service of the
District Bar Association gave
free legal help to 3,664 needy
cases in the year ending last
June 1, an increase of nearly 50
per cent over the previous year.
Association President Thomas
M. Raysor said the record shows
the service is becoming increas
ingly more valuable to the com
munity and those in need of free
legal advice and representation.
The service is provided through
12 staff attorneys of the asso
ciation. The program is con
ducted by the organization’s
legal aid committee which ar
ranges for stationing at least
two lawyers daily in its Munic
ipal Courthouse office.
Mr. Raysor gave special praise
to Charlotte P. Murphy, former
committee chairman, for last
year’s record.
SUNDAY'S BEST READING
Teen-Agers Speak Out
On Education and Drinking
YOUTH AND WASTED OPPORTUNITIES—See the sec
ond part of a revealing Nation-wide youth survey
series by This Week Magazine and learn why our
teeners feel they are not educationally equipped to
face the challenge of adult living.
YOUNG PEOPLE ON DRINKING-According to Gil
bert’s “What Young People Think” there is a growing
indication that hit-the-bottle is replacing spin-the
bottle as a diversion among our young people. Read
his report for some surprising views of teen-agers on
drinking.
A LAUGH A DAY—Enjoy the hilarious antics of Amer
ica’s newest comic family, “Hi and Lois,” beginning
Sunday in The Star and continuing daily in The
Evening Star ... a seven-day mirth treat that
breathes of modern living at its funniest.
EYDIE HEADS FOR THE TOP—In TeleVue Magazine’s
cover story, Bernie Harrison writes about fast-rising
TV Songstress Eydie Gorme, a star of enviable non
chalance who has set a target date for success in the
big time.
LETTER TO A GRANDSON—A drama critic with sl3 35
in his pocket advises a successor 6-year-old of the
same sex of a sure way to make a million dollars.
One doe* this, Jay Carmody says, by entering the
theater or films through a wide, side door.—Drama
Section. '
Choost The Star on Sunday When You Have a Choice
Phone STerling 3-5000 for Home Delivery
Board Supports i
Long-Term Loan
Jo Add Schools
Pay as You Go
Fails in Crisis,
Corning Argues .
By JAMES G. DEANE
Plans of District school off!-,
cials to seek a long-term school j
construction loan have the back-’]
ing of Board of Education
bers.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corn- i
ing won approval for the plan !,
from the board’s finance com-j:
mittee yesterday. Other board
5 members present also indorsed
I the idea.
■j Dr. Corning said present pay
-as-you-go financing cannot meet
; the city’s needs for new class
. rooms.
The school chief said the city:
. has a tremendous backlog of
l needed construction. He ascribed
■ this partly to enrollment growth i
; and population ■ shifting and
l partly to restrictions on con»
. jstruction during the Korean hos
tilities and World War 11.
j Caught by Rising Costs
He also noted that the
t construction budget has been
: overtaken by rising costs.
) Dr Corning said it is “not
s fair to expect the present tax
-1 Payers to bear the entire burden
for needs which have accumu
lated ever the years, particu
• larly when we consider that the
1 useful life of a school building
■ exceeds 50 years.”
’ Future generations should
■ bear part of the cost, he said,
adding a borrowing program
J would accomplish this.
: Dr. Corning told board mem
bers he has instructed the as
j sistant superintendents in charge
1 of the various school levels to
" study and report on all expected
construction needs up to Sep
tember, 1962. He said a cost
' estimate on these projects will
l be completed soon.
’ A number of school-building
: projects are included in the
city’s long-range public works
program, but Dr. Corning said
j "experience has shown” that
additional financing is necessary.
Advocated in 1947
He noted that he advocated
a borrowing plan as early as
1947 but that this and later ef
forts had not been fruitful.
The school superintendent said
he was willing to have either a
Federal Government loan or a
public bond issue considered.
Deputy Supt. Charles N. Zellers,
who directs school business af
fairs, has advocated a Govern
ment loan, however.
On other matters yesterday,
board members tentatively ap
proved a proposal by Dr. Corning
for increasing the school system’s
supervisory staff, and another
for enabling teachers with spe
cial qualifications to qualify for
extra pay. (
The superintendent asked per
mission to divert any extra funds
that may be made available by
retirements and resignations to
hiring additional supervisors for
the elementary schools.
New Teachers a Factor
The added supervisors are’
needed because of the school I
system’s large number of new
and temporary teachers, he said
The lack of an adequate super-,
visory force was cited in recent
congressional hearings by Mrs.
’ Bessie W. Cramer, elementary
instruction director.
On the salary matter. Dr
Corning suggested that a set of
rules be drawn up under which
some teachers could qualify for
premium pay now allowed for
those with master’s degrees plus
30 additional hours of college
credits. The teachers would be
able to qualify through equiva
lent experience, rather than the
formal course credits, he said
Firm's Irregularities'
Hit by SEC Examiner
School Budget Advisers
Hintat Federal Loans -
The Citizens’ Advisory Council i
j has hinted that Congress should ’
!be tapped for Federal loans as
well as the full authorized S2B l
million Federal payment to meet i
deficiencies in the District’s 1
public school construction pro- I
gram in the fiscal year begin- i
nmg next July 1.
The’ advisory body .took this 1
position late yesterday in filing
its over-all budget recommenda- ’
tions with tHe District Com- 1
missioners.
For the most part, the ad-J
visers went along with the'
recommendations of the munici
pal budget office for proposed l
construction and operating ex
, penses in the 1958 fiscal year.!
Under the proposal of the budget j
staff, the District's total budget
would be $203 million.
The advisory council, how-:
ever, confined its attention to
those items that would be paid
for out of the so-called generals
fund. This according to calcu
lations, should provide no more
ithan $153 million for such l
operations as schools, health and
welfare.
1 , Fails to Specify
On the subject of schools, the
council failed to specify which
construction projects it felt
should be undertaken.
Whereas the school system
initially requested nearly sls
million for new construction
alone, the budget office cut this
by nearly one half. In addition,
$3.1 million requested increases
over the 1957 appropriation for;
school operating expenses was
recommended by the budget
I office to be tut by nearly two
thirds for a total estimate of.
$34 million.
On operating costs, the coun
cil announced its support of the
Board of Education program to
bring the average pupil-teacher
ratio from 35.1 to 32.5. To help
bring this about, the members
urged retention of a budget item
to provide 178 additional teach
ers. The group offered no sug
gestion as to where the money
for these teachers would come
from.
Health Left Alone
Meanwhile, the Commission
ers, who spent the afternoon
going over the city-wide budget,
revealed they have finished
screening all the department op
erating expense requests except
’those of schools and public
health. School operating costs
will be taken up with educa
tion officials on October 22. Cap
ital outlay requests of all the
HOW YOUR DOLLARS HELP ;
Late Years of Couple n
Brightened at Home
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Siegel, |!
whose ages total 160 years, now ’
live at the Hebrew Home for the !
Aged after a lifetime of service
in the community.
Before his retirement, Mr.;
Siegel was teacher and sexton, 1
at the Kesher Israel Congrega- 11
tion, 2801 N street N.W., for 23 :
years. A Talmudic scholar, Mr."
Siegel has continued his studies 1
at the home. He reads Hebrew, j
Jewish and English.
Can Pursue Interests
The dignified couple have
ample opportunity to continue .
their interest in their faith at the
home at 1125 Spring road N.W., i
which is an Orthodox institution.:
Mr. Siegel attends services daily <
at the synagogue there, and also
participates in the study classes
which are conducted weekly.
Residents of Washington for ’
35 years, Rose and Joseph Siegel i
have long been active in com-|i
munity and charitable endeavors;
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STILL TOGETHER—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Siegel, residents
of Washington for 35 years, now make their home at the
Hebrew Home for the Aged.—Star Staff Photo.
Local News
Suburban
departments will be screened
Wednesday.
The advisory group, aside from!
probing the school question, de- :
voted its principal attention to i
health and welfate needs. While <
the members were plainly sym
pathetic with a number of the ’
requests made by these depart
ments, their only suggested solu- ;
tion was to let the agencies (
"make do” with the allotments
recommended by the budget of- (
flee unless—by something ap- j
proaching a miracle—fund sur
pluses develop during the year.
Among the needs that ap
parently gave the council most i
concern were the provision of
more social workers for the Child
Welfare Division and more at
tendants for the retarded and
delinquent juveniles at the Lau
rel Children's Center.
Members further agreed that'
i restoration of a $428,538 request
from District General Hospital
to reclassify all jobs in the nurs
ling service "stands at the head
of the list.” The council agreed
that additional employes should
be provided for the hospital’s
psychiatric unit and $228,486
should be restored to staff and
operate new hospital facilities,
such as the psychiatric building,
the upw operating suite and ex
panded admitting the emergency
service.
"Unless these items are added,”
the council stated, “it will not
;oe possible to operate the new;
buildings to their fullest ca- ’
parity. We feel it a short-sighted '
policy to construct a new build- 1
|mg and then have a portion of;
I it stand idle for want of per
-1 sonnel and operating funds.”
Qualification Added
The report then gave the
council's big qualification:
l “But in view of the austere
1 budget situation, the Commis
’ sioners should give serious con
-1 sideration to reinstating the re
-1 quested funds only if a surplus
’ is forthcoming.”
In similar vein, the council
surveyed other health depart
’ ment requests, agreeing to the
! need for at least two mental
health clinics and more public
health nurses for such duty as
handling the follow-up treat
ment of narcotic patients dis
charged from hospitals.
Among other lesser budget
items, the advisers agreed with
the budget office stand that
$292,000 to build an underground
command post for the Civil De
fense Department should be de
leted “because of constantly
changing conditions with respect
to Civil Defense.”
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here. They came to America
after their marriage from their J
native Russia, where Mr. Siegel’s '
father was a rabbi.
Sunny Room t
Since giving up their apart-!*
ment, they share a large, sunny !
room in the home. An infirmary I
and medical services are avail-!
able there if needed, and meals *
are cooked with attention to *
any health problems that exlst.il
A library and opportunity for ‘
recreation add variety to the
day. . t
The Hebrew Home for the
Aged provides security and com- f
fort for the Siegels, as others 1
now serve them after the many 1
years in which they served, 1
others. 1
Such care after a long, useful 1
life is made possible by thought- .
ful citizens. Your contributions
to the United Givers Fund will
guarantee that the home can
continue to offer a haven for
! the aged. .
Cites False Data
On Stock Sale of
Coastal Finance
By FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS
A Government hearing exam*
iner ruled today that there were
grave irregularities and a willful
disregard of honesty in connec
tion with the sale of $160,000 in
stock of the Coastal Finance Co.
Hearing Examiner James G.
Ewell of the Securities and Ex
change Commission rejected as
“not entitled to any weight” the
contention that Frank B. Bush
did not know of the irregulari
ties and misleading statements
in the circular offering the
stock. Mr. Bush was president
of Coastal.
The examiner recommended
that the company’s exemption
from a full registration of the
stock under the SEC Act be
permanently suspended. The
stock was sold in August, 1955.
Bush “Stood to Profit”
The examiner’s ruling said
Mr. Bush stood to profit from
the false information in the
stock circular.
Mr. Ewell said there was no
evidence at the hearing held by
him that any individuals except
Mr. Bush "who were involved
directly or indirectly in the Ir
regularities found, received any
benefit therefrom, other than
the hope of future reward at
the hands of Capital’s manage
ment." He continued:
i "Bush, though, because of his
substantial stock ownership, po
sition of control and perquisites
’of office, stood to profit directly
from the company’s expan
sion which, of course, had
been promoted and facilitated by
the falsely optimistic financial
information contained in the of
fering circular.”
Trustees Run Business
The Coastal company operated
a dozen small loan offices, some
of them in Silver Spring, Ta
koma Park, Arlington, Alexan
dria and Baltimore. The busi
ness is now being conducted by
a trustee appointed by the
United States District Court at
Baltimore. The court has or
dered a reorganization plan to
be filed by October 29.
Mr. Ewell’s recommended de-
Icision goes to the SEC. The
commissioners will make a final
determination.
Mr. Ewell said the record re
veals “a sorry parade of human
frailty.” He said the gravity and
willfullness of the circumstances
leave no alternative but to make
the recommendation he did.
Fictitious Loans
Mr. Ewell cited testimony that
fictitious loans were discovered
by accountants in the Arlington
office of the company August 16.
1955. There was also testimony,
the examiner said, that irregu
larities existed in 11 of the 12
offices of the company.
Mr. Ewell said the testimony
established that Mr. Bush knew
of the irregularities at least two
weeks before the August 5 date
.of the circular offering the stock.
|Furthermore, the examiner said,
| the evidence justifies the infer
jence that he had knowledge of
them almost from their incep
ition in the fall of 1954.
Mr. Bush is described as going
to extreme lengths to "dress up
the financial report of the com
jpany and boost the reported in
come.”
In Business 30 Years
Mr. Bush had been in the
small loan business for 30 years.
Mr. Ewell said. Mr. Bush's tes
timony indicated complete famil
iarity with all phases of the
business, the examiner said, add
ing:
“Thus . , . his denial of any
knowledge of the irregularities
that had taken place for more
than six months in his organiza
tion is simply not believable."
Mr. Bush was criticized also
for falling to disclose that he wax
trustee for $16,000 in stock of
the company owned by Mr*
Virginia Dallam. Mrs. Dallam
is the wife of John W. Dallam,
then deputy administrator for
Small Loan Companies In Mary
land.
The company’s firm of ac
countants also was criticized as
negligent in falling to make an
adequate examination of the ac
counts. It was also stated that
the accountants’ certificate to
the company’s financial state
ment was misleading.
Riot Inciter Gets
l-to-5-Year Term
Clarence Jackson, 18, colored,
who had been convicted of in
citing a riot and of assaulting a
policeman with a knife, today
was sentenced to one to five
years in prison
The sentence was imposed by
Federal Judge James R Kirk
land in U. 8 District Court.
Jackson was given one to five
years on each charge, the sen
tences to run concurrently
The charge* grew out of a mob
brawl last April 2 in Fort Dupont
Park during which United Sto'es
Park Police Pvt. John J. Con lin
was struck in the belt by a kr.lfe
and his horse cut by another
thrown knife.
Jackson lived in the 3700 block
of Orant street NX
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