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Rambler
... Meets Waiter
And Architect
By GEOKGE KENNEDY
“It teems that as long as
It’s far enough back, every*
one enjoys having some ras
cals on the family tree."
George Howe was talking.
He Is tall, grizzled and eo.
(Looks 55). Writes and draws
with his left hand. He's an
architect. Been designing
houses here for 25 years. His
office Is at 1636 Connecticut;
his hope on a stud farm In
Fulton, Md. (Howard Coun
ty) 25 miles from Washing
ton. \
But that’s not what we
were talking about. He has
written a book about his an
cestors—not his Immediate
ones—both his grandfathers
were Episcopal clergymen.
One was a bishop, Mark A.
De Wolf Howe of Pennsyl
vania.
The boqk is about the man
after whom the bishop was
named. Mark Antony De
Wolf, who settled in Bristol,
R. 1., about 1750, and his
descendants, smugglers, pri
vateers (whose activities bor
dered on piracy) and out
and-out slave traders. Several
of them were millionaires.
“Nathaniel Hawt horn e,”
said Mr. Howe, “took pride in
the fact that one of his pa
ternal ancestors was one of
the Judges who sentenced
Salem citizens to be hanged
for witchcraft.”
MR. HOWE IS ONE of the
increasing number of writers
who use the dictating ma
chine.
“Broke my leg in 1949," he
staid. “Was laid up here in
Emergency Hospital. Decided
to write a book, a World War
II spy story. . Spent hours
dictating to the machine.
“Used my home town, Bris
tol, as the background just as
Nathaniel Hawthorne used
Salem. You remember, he
was customs collector there
and in his introduction to
*l%e Scarlet Letter,’ said he
came upon the story in old
papers in the Ouetoms House
attic.
“The spy story was a tre
mendous success. It was en
titled ‘Call It Treason.’ It
won the Christopher Award,
$15,000, biggest sum, I be
lieve. that ever went with it.
And it was made into a movie
‘Decision Before Dawn.’
“That started me thinking
about my home town. The
background of the spy story
was merely boyhood memory.
For this book I went in for
research.
“It’s wonderful what you
can do here in Washington
at Archives and the Library
of Congress.
“For-four years, at every
opportunity, I have been go
ing back to Bristol for the
week end.
“I combed through all the
histoorical records available
in Bristol. When I finished
I had 90 hours of dictation
on discs.
o
“BUT THE BEST FIND I
made was right here, in
Washington.
“You see, when I was a
boy the idea that the family
had been in the slave trade
was just rumor. It’s not
rumor now.
“One day in the Library of
Congress, while reading a
Rhode Island newspaper of
1791, I came upon a report
that Capt. James De Wolf
had been indicted for mur
der by the United States
grand jury. He was charged
with jettisoning a slave girl
who had come down with
smallpox on a voyage from
Africa.
“Capt. James was one of
eight sons of Mark Antony
De Wolf. He also had seven
daughters. Same wife.
“Five of the sons were in
the slave trade for various
periods, I found.
“I went to Archives. They
said they had a man who
specialized in records of the
Department of Justice. In a
week the man sent me from
Boston a photostat of the
original pen-written indict
ment.
“For four years the United
States marshal reported
semiannually that Capt. Jim
could not be found. At first he
was probably at sea in the
•lave trade. But in the fourth
year, before the indictment
was quashed, he was United
States Senator for Rhode
Island.”
This unusual bit of ances
tor worship is entitled
“Mount Hope.” It is pub
lished by Viking and is in the
bookstores for $5.
Women's Features, Pages B-4-8 ♦ Qii Local and Suburban News, Pages B-l-3
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River Bend
Storage Plan
Held Essential
House Unit Hears
Engineers Discuss
Future D.C. Water
By JOHN W. BTEPP
sur SUIT Writer
Preservation of the River
Bend area of the Potomac
River for possible water stor
age to supply Metropolitan
Washington was declared to
day to be imperative.
The warning came from Col.
George B. Sumner. District
Engineer of the Washington
Engineer Office of the Army.
Col. Sumner was the sole wit
ness testifying in today’s ses
sion of the House Interior Pub
lic Lands Subcommittee hear
ing proposals to establish the
C&O Canal as a national his
torical park.
One of the main considera
tions in the pending legislation
is whether to include a pro
vision that would bar any park
development along the Poto
mac from River Bend 35 miles
upstream to Brunswick, Md.
The restriction would last at
least until after the Army En
gineers complete their survey
of all the water resources
needs of the Potomac water
shed.
Storage Safeguard Vital
Col. Sumner testified the En
gineer Corps would be satisfied
with the C&O legislation
only if the water storage safe
guard were included. He said
he fears that if the national
park is created without that
safeguard it might be all but
impossible ever to build a water
storage dam in the River Bend
vicinity regardless of the needs
of metropolitan Washington.
“A lot of people would think
we were very, very mean, and
even un-American, if we were
ever to recommend flooding
out an area that had been
designated a national park,"
Col. Sumner told the subcom
mittee.
Under questioning by sub
committee members, the en
gineer testified his office is
almost certain that a water
storage resevoir of “major size”
some day must be built on the
Potomac. The River Bend
vicinity, about two miles up
stream from Great Falls, is
probably the most desirable site
‘on the main stem of the Po
tomac, he said.
Saylor Raps Survey
Representative Saylor. Re
publican of Pennsylvania, a
strong champion of park in
terests. derided the Engineer
Corps for its last comprehen
sive survey of the Potomac
basin in the early 19405.
Col. Sumner said that the
emphasis in the current study
j has shifted. Under congres
sional directive, the engineers
!are giving top priority to the
water supply and pollution
abatement needs. Fifteen years
ago. Congress ordered a study
that placed first consideration
on flood control and hydro-elec
tric power generation.
More Funds Vital
Chairman Pfost. seeking
more detail on the progress of
the current comprehensive sur
vey. indicated concern over
delays that have been brought
about by inadequate appropria
tions in the last three years.
She elicited from the engineer
that in order to complete the
survey according to congres
sional schedule. Congress must
appropriate $500,000 for the
year beginning July 1 and
$601,000 the following year.
Mrs. Pfost also seemed a bit
incredulous that in appropriat
ing $200,000 for the current
year portion of the study. Con
gress saw fit last year to re
strict it to that part of the
watershed upstream from Har
pers Ferry, W. Va. This fore
stalled carrying the investiga
tion into the River Bend por
tion of the Potomac as well as
the Shenandoah River Valley.
Presidential Weapons Exhibited
At Rifle Association's Meeting
A $2 million collection rang
ing from Zachary Taylor's
sword and Andrew Jackson’s
pistol to a replica of a SIO,OOO
rifle made especially for the
Shah of Iran was opened to
the public today.
It is part of the 88th annual
meeting of the National Rifle
Association at the Sheraton-
Park Hotel. The antique gun
show is being put on by col
lectors from all over the United
States The modern firearms
have been placed on exhibit
by manufacturers.
The 100-booth display of an
tique and modern flrearms.
shooting accessories, reloading
machines, cartridges and fire
arm oddities was opened to the
public at 1 p.m. It will be open
tomorrow from 11 a m. to 5:30
p.m.
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air
Force vice chief of staff, will
speak at the association's an
nual banquet tomorrow night.
Gen. Taylor's sword was
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PUPILS ARE BUGS ON BUNNIES
Sharon Fuller, 6, a kindergarten pupil at the Glen Haven Elementary
School in Silver Spring, Md., appears a wee bit dubious as she offers a
carrot to her pet rabbit in the schoolroom. The Glen Haven youngsters
are studying animals this week before Easter.
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chick conduct a face-to-face inspection. The youngsters carefully tended v
to the eggs and they hatched, appropriately, just before Easter.—Star
Staff Photos by Ranny Routt.
50% Parks Budget Cut
Is Passed by House
An Interior budget stripped of half the spending sought by
the National Parks Service for the Washington area today was
sent to the Senate by the House.
Service director Conrad L. Wirth asked for $9 million in
area projects for the year beginning July 1.
Cut outright by the House yesterday was $2 million to
; benefit the area. Besides the
Prince Georges County strip of ,
the George Washington Memo
rial Parkway, deletions included
$500,000 for 917 acres of park- 1
! way right-of-way in Fairfax
County; $157,500. Fort Wash- i
ington repair; $158,000, Dain- i
I gerfield Island seawalls; $165,- '
000 Palisades Parkway; and <
$35,500 for a proposed water <
sports center across from Theo- 1
dore Roosevelt Island on the
; Potomac. 1
Senator Beall, Republican of , 1
Maryland, today promised to 1
fight in the Senate for $1 mil-1 1
lion to buy land for the Prince
Georges County stretch of the <
parkway.
“Congress has a moral obli
gation to provide $1 million.” <
Senator Beall declared. “Mary
land has agreed in good faith
to match the (l million.
His Maryland colleagues. <
Demo cratic Representatives
Lankford and Foley, failed to
convince the House yesterday i
of the economies of prompt :
action.
| The Park Service was also :
| banned by language in the
House bill from spending some
! $3.4 million proposed for park
' ing areas by the planned
part of a Texas gun collector’s
exhibit. The sword was pre
sented to the former President
by the State of Virginia.
The Potomac Arms Collectors
Association exhibited Andrew
Jackson's Kentucky pistol with
loading horn.
Another big exhibitor was the
North-South Skirmish Associa
tion, which has an annual
competition of cannon matches
of Civil War vintage at Fort
Meade, Md. The next compe
tition will be next month.
The Virginia Gun Collectors
Association has on exhibit a
collection of Confede \te sabres
and the Maryland Arms Col
lectors Association features a
flag of the third / yland in
fantry, which replaced the regi
ment’s banner when it was
damaged in the Battle of Cow
pens in 1780.
A miniature Kentucky rifle,
lone-third regular size, is also
,on exhibit in the Texas booth.
WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1959
national stadium, to be built
beside the Anacostia River near
the Armory.
Also noticeable to area offi
cials for its absence was a $1.2
million request to acquire Civil
War battlefields, among them
Gettysburg, Antletam, Fred
ericksburg. Spotsylvania. Har
pers Ferry and Manassas.
The House granted $5 6 mil
lion for the Brea, however, vir
tually assuring congressional
approval of the following proj
ects:
Anacostia Park, $218,700;
Catoctin Mountain Park, Dis
trict of Columbia. $38,200; East
Potomac Park, $30,000; Gen
eral District parks, $993,000;
Rock Creek Park, $254,400;
Mall, $1 million; George Wash
ington Memorial Parkway road
construction, $2.6 million.
Also parkway extension from
Langley, Va., to Cabin John
bridge. $62,000: Fort Hunt,
$72,000: Great Falls facilities,
$12,000; C & O Canal area,
$22,500; Greenbelt Park, Md.,
roads and trials, $224,000, and
Maryland and Virginia stream
valley acquisition, $150,000 in
each State.
It required 400 hours to make.
The largest collection of min
iature guns accompanies it.
George W. Hyatt of Wil
mington. Del., has a booth
containing what the associa
tion officials call the finest col
lection of Kentucky rifles in
the country, some of them dat
ing back to 1760.
Weatherby’s, Inc., of South
Gate, Calif., is an exhibitor of
custom-made rifles. One of
them is priced at $13,000. The
firm is the one that manu
factured the special rifle for
the Shah of Iran. Another new
rifle is the Winchester magnum
rlmfire, which has a substan
tial increase in muzzle velocity
and energy over the regular
Winchester .22 caliber.
Remington is exhibiting what
it calls a completely new con
cept in flrearms engineering.
It has combined structural
nylon and ordnance steel to
provide a .22 'autoloader). It
weihs only 4 pounds.
NO COOLERS?
Police Told
To Whack
Expenses
The Washington Police De
partment, threatened with
sharp congressional cuts in ap
propriations, was launched to
day on an austerity program
which does away with manv of
life’s small comforts.
Banned throughout the force
for the duration of the emer
gency is the use of air condi
tioners, electric fans, and hot
plates in the precinct houses.
Building heat must be kept “at
the lowest level consistent with
. . . health ...’’
All supplies, including paper
towels, printed lorms, station
ery and gasoline “shall be con
served to the fullest possible
extent.”
The restrictions were con
tained in an order from Police
Chief Robert V. Murray in
which he outlined an “emer
gency program to create sav
ings . .
The appropriation cits, if not
restored, could mean that some
500 policemen and civilian em
: ployes must be furloughed. Dis
trict officials have said.
| Even if some funds are re
stored, Chief Murray’s order
pointed out, “it appears this
department will be required to
absorb some reductions through
forced savings.”
The order also said no elec
tric lights would be left burning
in occupied rooms during the
day unless designated “ab
solutely necessary" by the unit’s
commanding officer.
No official telephone calls
will be made if they can be
“reasonably avoided,” the order
stated.
Unit commanders were told
to appoint someone on each
shift to make sure the order
was carried out, and officials
were told to submit written re
ports to the chief on anyone
! caught violating the economy
I measures.
Police units at headquarters,
Third street and Indiana ave
nue N.W. are housed there by
the District rent free, with
utilities—such as air condi
tioning—included.
CONVENTIONS
TODAY
The Association for Asian
Studies, Inc., continues its
meetings in the Sheraton-
Park Hotel.
In its fifth day, the
National Rifle Association
holds convention sessions in
the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
Thin information supplied by
thr Washington Convention and
Visitori Bureau.
Montgomery Sets
Milk Code Hearing
District Steps Up Drive
On Charity Registration
Agencies to Get Letters Outlining
Requirements for Solicitations *
The District moved today to step up its drive for registra
tions under the new charitable solicitation law.
Under the plan, the Department of Licenses and Inspec
tions is due to mail letters outlining the requirements under
the law to- several hundred organisations that have not yet
registered.
This move was agreed upon today at a closed meeting of j
the Charitable SoUcitations Ad
visory Council. |
Walter F. Chappell, council ,
chairman, said that many
groups are not aware that they
must obtain registration cer
tificates in order to solicit in
the District.
155 Groups Registered
A total of 115 groups have
registered so far. Mr. Chappell
said that he believes at least
200 more groups may be re
quired to register. No figure
was available as to the total
of the fund goals of the 115
organizations. Mr. Chappell 1
estimated that the total for the
organizations covered by the}
soliciation law will be between
$8 million and $lO million this
year.
The council chairman also i
said that the Department of
Licenses and Inspections have I
agreed to change its reporting
system so that only the local i
BUDGET
Pastore Skeptical
On Some Requests
Continued From First Pace
curtailment of essential ser
vices.
It was considered likely that
Mr. Thomas, who predicted
Congress would not force any
severe service cut, would agree
to at least a awpromlie.
Civic leaden yesterday visit
ed Mr. Rabaut and other con
gressional leaders to ask for
help on the fund crisis. Organi
zations representing city teach
ers, police, firemen and other
employes also sent spokesmen
to the Capitol and took steps
to make their concern known
to as many legislators as pos
sible.
Senate Hearings Open
One group, it was reported,
decided to send telegrams to all
House members urging them to
be present and vote in behalf
of a restoration.
The Senate got into the
budget crisis for the first time
yesterday. The Senate District
Appropriations Subcommittee,
opened hearings on the city’s
next budget which are ex
pected to last through tomor
row.
Today, Senator Pastore spoke
up for a District money bill
that suffered a $lO million
spending eut and a $7 million
Federal payment reduction in
the House.
"I am here to help you,”
Senator Pastore told District
officials pleading for budget
restorations this morning. “To
do that, I must be fortified by
sensible arguments.”
Wants No Quibbling
The Senator was confronted
with conparatively minor re
quests. And he said repeat-1
edly, “Don’t make me go into
a Senate-House • conference
quibbling over SI,OOO. I have
big items to fight for.”
Led by Robert E. McLaugh
lin, president of the Board of
| Commissioners, local govern
ment officials asked the sub
committee to restore SB,OOO for
a survey of historical buildings
in Georgetown; SI,OOO for the
IGnttat (Thmtgljts
My Favorite Bible Character
And His Significance Today
By LEONARD T. KARDY
Montgomery County Btite’» Attorney
The great lesson to be learned from the Apostle
Matthew, my favorite Biblical character, is that Jesus
by choosing a member of the hated class of publicans
as one of his apostles, demonstrated that Jesus had
come to serve not only the fa
vored few but all mankind— | '
even the the
It was in defense of Mat
thew’s guests that Jesus, in W 'm
answer to the protests of the 'P|£jJ}k .Jm
Pharisees against the presence M t
of sinners and publicans said: § £
“I am not come to call the B
righteous but sinners to re- RJ9|K
pentance.” 'Matt, ix, 10-13.) B V'
It is this lesson—just as
timely today as it has been in
all of the centuries since then
—that is often forgotten. The r. a y
inspiring exarAple of the giorious success story of
Matthew is one that ever offers hope to the sinful, the
unpretentious and the humble.
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goals, and not the national fig
ures, will be listed.
Other Members
In another move. Mr. Chap
pell set up a subcommittee to
work out an education program
for the public on details of the
new law.
In addition to Mr. Chappell,
the subcommittee members are
Leland McCarthy of the Better
Business Bureau, and Randolph
Bishop of the Red Cross.
The law. which went into
effect six months ago. is de
signed to provide information
jfor the public on solicitation
groups. Credentials are issued
to the registered organization.
I One category which is ex
empt is comprised of groups
that have a goal of less than
$1,500, provided that all of the
money raised goes to charity
and none to paid workers.
District share of financing
Washington metropolitan con
ference activities; $15,000 for
a survey with the business
community of the downtown
area; SIO,OOO to hire an en
gineer to co-ordinate the city
public works program; $4,000
to staff the Board of Appeals
and Review: $13,000 to handle
S registrations for the 1960 elec
tion of presidential convention
delegates, and SIO,OOO to plan
for the White House Confer
ence of Children and Youth
in 1960.
Skeptical on Some
Senator Pastore appeared
unconvinced that the District
needed the metropolitan con
ference. downtown survey and
public works co-ordination
money. *
“I am not saying we should
foresake the SI,OOO for metro
politan co-ordination, he said.
“But please do not argue about
items we don’t really need when
we are faced with a deficit
budget.”
He said the survey to pro
tect central Washington from
decay was a job of “tremendous
magnitude,” and questioned
whether a “token” request of
$15,000 made sense.
The Senator lectured Engi
neer Commissioner A. C. Well
ing for asking for a new public
works co-ordinator.
"You have 200 good engineers
in the District government,”
Subcommittee Chairman Pas
tore pointed out. “Why can’t
you take one of these good men.
put him up next to you and
say, ’Let’s co-ordinate this.’?"
Gen. Welling said he was un
aware that he could create
administratively a co-ordina
tor’s position, without congres
sional authorization. Senator
Pastore said he foresaw no
problem in getting that per
mission if it would eliminate
a SIO,OOO new position.
At one point, Walter L.
Fowler, District budget officer,
interrupted testimony to state
that “somebody ought to do
something” about loopholes in
unemployment compensation.
Rigid Standard
Proposed in
New Ordinance
The Montgomery County
Council today set a public hear
ing for April 17 on a proposed
milk ordinance which would re
strict the Importation of milk
from out-of-State areas to
farms approved by the county
health officer.
A hearing will be held at 8
p.m. in the auditorium of the
county building at Rockville.
The regulations would follow
closely those of the District of
Columbia except for latter’s
more rigid requirements as to
air space and equipment loca
] tions in dairy barns.
Dr. William J. Peeples, coun
ity health director, told the
council, "We think the elbow
grease that goes into keeping
the barns clean is more im
portant than prescribing dis
tances, the amount of air space,
and so on.”
County attorney Alfred H.
Carter described as the “heart”
of the ordinance a sec-on
which requires any person who
produces milk for sale within
the county to obtain a permit
from the health officer.
While agreeing on the hear
ing date, the council post
poned until later in the day
an agreement on the final
wording of the ordinance to
be advertised. This was to
give Dr. Peeples time to work
out a schedule of inspection
fees to be based on actual
costs.
Dr. Peeples told reporters
the ordinance would allow any
dairy to sell milk in Mont
gomery County, “providing it
meets our high standards.”
At present, Chestnut Farms
MSealtest* Dairy has been im
porting out-of-State milk, not
inspected by the District but
which meets Public Health
Service standards, for sale in
Montgomery County.
Bacteria Count
The proposed code would be
, twice as rigid as the Maryland
i I law and identical with District
regulations with respect to
maximum bacteria count.
An outright prohibition
against the sale of raw milk,
cream or raw milk products
for human consumption would
be written into the law.
Dr. Peeples said there is only
one producer of raw milk in the
county and that is a small
scale operation.
The ordinance was ordered
prepared two weeks ago when
Stella B. Werner, council
president, declared the county
should have the same high
standards that the District has
for its supply.
Dr. Peeples told the council
he would need three or four
additional men to inspect
dairies.
Cottage Cheese Milk
Meanwhile, Washington
dairies were casting about for
new and cheaper sources of
manufacturing milk to put into
their cottage cheese product.
In the latest phase of the
milk war, Chestnut Farms an
nounced it was seeking about
20,000 gallons of such milk
from outside the Maryland-
Virginia Milk Producers Asso
ciation.
Edgar N. Brawner, Chestnut
Farms manager, said he un
derstood the co-operative will
be charging $5.95 per hundred
weight <46 quarts) for such
milk after April I—the same
! price as will be paid for top
grade milk.
Too Costly to Compete
“At that price, we would
not be able to compete with
jthe cottage cheese sent into
this area from New York. Bal
timore, Pennsylvania and other
points,” Mr. Brawner said.
He figured it would cost 16
to 18 more cents a quart to
produce the cheese product at
that price for milk. Mr. Braw
ner pointed out that the co
operative, from which the
dairy now buys all its manu
facturing milk, now charges
$3.12 per 100 pounds.
Other dairies, including
Thompson's, also are looking
for a new supply of manufac
turing milk in Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
The battle of Chestnut Fai'ms
and Thompson's for a revision
in strict District milk regula
tions has gained some support
from William H. Cary, the Dis
trict Health Department's food
safety director.
Mr. Cary revealed he has
asked Corporation Counsel
Chester Gray's opinion on
whether changes can be made
in the 1925 code without re
pealing the entire act.
But before any changes are
made, a public hearing should
be held on the issue, Mr. Cary
added.
Bank Expert to Speak
Lester A. Pratt, a specialist
in banking, will speak on “Em
bezzlement Controls for Busi
ness Enterprises’’ at a meeting
of the National Capital Opti
mist Club at 12:15 p.m. tomor
row at the Willard Hotel.
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