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A-20 Metro Area JMMfy i W'- wj] yfl vl IkV ,jt 1| V Jr JBbI kk. MMESMBfa* Oli . Br ■ a & w Y Si Maryland Gov. Tawes seems astonished at the distance he can squirt milk from Aggie Jewel, a prize Hdlstein cow, at the Montgomery Australia Gets Chancery Site ' Half-Acre Bought At Scott Circle Australia has bought a half acre chancery site on Scott' circle for $1,165,000. The transaction was handled by Orman W. Ewing of Ewing & Farr, real estate brokers, who had assembled and cleared | the bulk of the land for a New York real estate firm, Dworman Associates. This portion of the property makes up 17,090 square feet. The rest of the parcel. 4000 square feet with a four-story former residence building, was bought from the Catholic Daughters of America for $300,- 000 of the total purchase price. The property is located on the northwest side of the circle, with a frontage of 165 feet on Sixteenth street and 130 feet on Massachusetts avenue N.W. • Whfen the Australians pre • pare plans for the proposed chancery, they will have to seek a variance from the board , of zoning adjustment before can start. The site ' is in a “special purpose” zone, in which chanceries have in ' the past been approved by the board. The location is a block east of the present Australian chancery at 1700 Massachu setts avenue N.W. The transaction disclosed to day is the second major em bassy purchase negotiated by Ewing & Farr in recent months. It was also responsible for the sale of the Bonnie Brae estate in Chevy Chase as a site for a new Russian Embassy. Boy, 4, Drowns In Flooded Ditch A 4-year-old boy drowned yesterday after he slipped and fell into an excavation flooded by this week’s heavy rains. The boy, Joseph Bowlin of 116 Forty-fourth street N.E., was playing ssrith friends around an excavation near 4265 Ben ning road NE. when he slipped and fell into eight feet of water, police said. The victim was pulled from the water by members of Fire Department Rescue Squad 3 and pronounced dead at the scene. He was the son of Mrs. Hattie Jones. MEMO FROM THE EDITOR: The Star Presents POISE For Young Women Sunday THE FIRST ISSUE . . . FULL OF SURPRISES POISE, The Star’s new monthly magazine for high school, college and career girls leads off this Sunday with an exciting world of entertainment news . . . City and Country fashion views . . . and special features on hair-dos, make-up, family relationships and men. Is it myth or a matter of fact that social life is easier for men . . . or that men always go for a pretty face? That’s what “they” say . . . but are "they” right? POISE answers the questions uppermost on the minds of to day's young women and gives easy-to-follow advice on how to look prettier, dress smarter, feel more alive . . . and have more fun. For the poise men can’t resist, smart young women read POISE, starting Sunday with The Star. SMITHSONIAN CHUCKLES . . . Watching tourists at the Smithsonian Institution can be as interesting as viewing the exhibits. A cartoonist depicts comi cal visitor reactions to some bizarre items displayed at the famed museum Sunday in The Star's This Week Magazine. Phone Lincoln 3-5000 for Home Delivery THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C., Saturday, August 24, 1963 House Members Hit Urban Renewal Drift By LEE FLOR Star Staff Writer For a while yesterday, it looked as if Representative Dowdy, Democrat of Texas, had a small-scale mutiny on his , hands. For several months, Mr. Dowdy’s House District sub committee has been holding a series of hearings on local urban renewal practices. His subcommittee members generally have been quite critical about the alleged role of businessmen who may have received special privileges in the local programs, according to the subcommittee ! staff. But when Downtown Progress officials showed up yesterday for the first direct hearing on opinions about a bill to permit extension or urban renewal for downtown Washington, almost every member of the subcom mittee who was present had something to say about the general drift of the hearings. i The general conclusion of : their comments was that down . town urban renewal should be ••permitted, and that the investi -1 gation of urban renewel was > not a major obstacle to the i legislation. * , Sisk Starts Ball Rolling , Representative Sisk, Demo i crat of California and faithful • follower of the subcommittee’s ; activities, started it off when i he commented that the ques- • tion was merely "whether we should give Washington the ■ same privileges as the other . major cities in the Nation.” r The bill would permit urban . renewal in commercial areas > declared blighted. > Mr. McMillan, Democrat of • South Carolina and chairman of the entire House District Committee, replied that the; PATENTLY ODD Inventors Not Wacky, But— By JOHN SHERWOOD Star Staff Writer They snickered in 1901 when United States Patent No. 686,- 046 was granted to inventor H. Ford for his outlandish con traption called the “motor car riage.” So let it be known that Pat ent No. 3,100,492 was issued this week for a corncob ciga rette. Says the Government de scription: It comprises "corn- County Fair in Gaithersburg. Gloria King holds the cow’s head. The week-long fair ends tonight.—Photo by Ed Mervis. Nation’s Capital represented a different case. Constituents of both Congressmen wanted to know what was going on in Washington, he said. Mr. McMillan said he wanted the bill also, and pointed out that he was the House sponsor for the bill. Mr. Sisk respectfully said he didn’t want to disagree with his chairman, and then went on to comment that Congress in 1954 has established a na tional policy of providing funds for downtown urban renewal. Dowdy Clarifies Point Mr. Dowdy explained that ' the District urban renewal law passed in 1946, did not permit urban renewal in commercial areas. Representative Whitener, Democrat of North Carolina,! : said th< he questioned many said many of the issues raised by the Dowdy subcommittee seemed to be missing the main question—“should Washington have urban renewal in the downtown area,” Mr. Whitener isaid. Representative Huddleston, Democrat of Alabama, said the subcommittee shouldn't “spend our time going into the merits of the entire urban renewal i program.” cob, and a combustible sheet of material surrounding said 1 corncob, said corncob being the material that is smoked.” Now, lest we forget, they also • laughed at Alpheus Myers and his memorable invention, the! ! tapeworm trap. Attached to a . string, the baited trap was to . be swallowed after fasting so . that the worm w'ould be hun gry. When it bit, down went the tiny trap door to imprison the creeping one. Others suffered as did Al- , pheus. Socrates Scholfield tried to market his schematic me chanical device that "proved” , the existence of a divine be ing. Inventors offered plans for an automatic hat tipper, a butter-churner attached to a rocking chair, and an electric chair for flies. This week nearly 600 more patents were granted and il lustrated in the weekly Official Oazette of the United States Patent Office. Everything from' a "Method for Making Ar-Poly (Hydroxymethyl) Diphenyl Ethers” to a bed pan, tooth brush, cleat cleaner and a com mode for pets. The Pet Commode, Patent No. 3,100,474, is described in Government gobbledegook as "comprising an enclosure hav ing an open top and upstand ing sides, one of said sides hav ing an opening therein, said one side having a horizontal slot therein of a length greater than the width of said opening. ...” And so on. The imagination of inventors has changed somewhat from the innocent years of the early j 1000 s that found Miss Natalie Teeple fed up with "rude and flirtatious mashers" on crowded public transportation. She saw men actually pressing their knees against the knees of their "feminine neighbors!" Horrified. Miss Teeple invented a powerful spring-like device that was attached to the petti coat and shot out a sharp spur Gov. T awes Goes to Fair, Milks a Cow Milking a cow, admiring a young lamb, and dining on some of the fried chicken for which Maryland is famous were all part of the visit of Gov. Tawes yesterday to the Mont gomery County Fair. The Governor, and State Controller Louis L. Goldstein arrived at the Gaithersburg Agricultural Center at 5 p.m. to pay their annual visit to the six-day event, which ends to night. Gov. Tawes’ expert, milking brought forth much good na tured advice, and in return he promptly aimed some milk directly in the eye of Mr. Gold stein. • “Look at that, Louie—right in practice!” the Governor laughed as the controller wiped away traces of the free sample. The gubernatorial party also met the traditional pretty girls for which county fairs are fa mous— Farm Queen Becky Schaeffer, 17, of Germantown, and 4-H Queen Nora Lee Wil liams, 17, of Bethesda. After their tour of the fair grounds, they adjourned to the dining hall to sample fried chicken, crab cakes, sugar corn and fresh tomatoes prepared by the women of St. Martin’s Church, Gaithersburg. While relishing the fried chicken, the Governor compli mented the expert cooks and acquired some valuable culi nary information. He was told that the secret of this particu lar fried chicken was brown sugar, added to make the outer portion crisp. if the masher’s knee came too close. The inventions of today,! however, are mostly of a highly! technical nature, and the Com merce Department’s Patent Of fice has become a popular j training ground for young pat ient attorneys. But in this day of great sci entific and technical achieve ments in the field of inven tions, the very newest patent granted this week; No. 3,100,- 895 was for a folding kite. Another section of the Offi cial Gazette lists designs that were patented. In the August 13 Issue there is a necktie de signed by Tsuneo Horil of To kyo; a lady's one-piece gar ment, a mop-squeezer plate, a piggy bank, a game board (but no game to go with it> and an ordinary looking jug, as well as a submarine and 19 micro phones (all designed by the same man). Trademarks "published for opposition” include such non descript items as : "Hykaf,” "Formaldaglas,” “Tuk - Lok,” “Yummy-Kiss,” “Snuff A Que,” "Na - Zdrowie," and "Minifo cusedlog." The Patent Office receives some 350 patent applications a day. Its “search room” is a 2‘/a acre jungle of packed shelves and narrow aisles containing millions of copies of specifica tions. And in one of these shelves is the plan for a delightful glass tombstone, invented in 1860 by one Thomas Windell. It would be easier to carve a farewell inscription in glass, he thought, so on the page op posite his text is an illustra tion of the gravemarker with 1 the following epitaph: "Here lies Windell An inventor by trade, This monument you see Is an invention he made. A curious fact. It has sometimes been said, Is that he made it while living, ' But enjoyed it while dead.” Tawes Urged For National Committee Brewster Sees Governor as Logical Choice OCEAN CITY, Md„ Aug. 24 (AP). Senator Brewster, Democrat of Maryland, says Gov. Tawes is a logical choice to become Maryland Democratic national committeeman. The influential post has been held for the last seven years by Michael J. Birmingham who was defeated last year in the election for Baltimore County executive. Said Senator Brewster: "I think the Governor- is entitled to it, deserves and should have it,” Visiting Seashore Senator Brewster and many other prominent Maryland Democrats were visiting the seaside resort today for ap pearance at meetings of the United Democratic Women’s Clubs of Maryland and the County Commissioners’ Associa tion. More than 200 commis sioners and officals from 21 counties are attending. Gov. Tawes is prohibited by the State constitution from running for a third term when his present term expires in 1967. Political observers say the na tional committeeman post I would provide Gov. Tawes with an opportunity to maintain an active interest in politics. Gen. Rinaldo Van Brunt, U. S. A. (Ret.), told the county commissioners today that the State has made substantial progress during the past year in improving civil defense pre paredness. Progress Reported Gen. Van Brunt, head of the Maryland Civil Defense Agency, cited progress in establishing and stocking shelters and in obtaining public support for civil defense. He said thou sands of Marylanders have re ceived civil defense training. The general said the State has licensed shelter space for: 320,000 persons and supplies have been stocked for 126,000 1 persons. He said 54 packaged emergency hospitals, each con taining 200 beds, have been pre positioned in the State. Gen. Van Brunt said 4,782 person in the State have taken i the course in civil defense i medical self-help. In addition, 7,366 have taken a 12-hour course in survival techniques and 3,029 persons have been trained in rescue and radio logical monitoring. Marine Corporal Killed in Crash, Sergeant Hurt A young Marine was killed and another injured early this morning when their small for eign sports car ran off a de serted country road in Prince William County. Virginia State Police reported that Corpl. Dillard D. Weaver, 21, who was stationed at the Marine Corps Schools in Quan tico, died of a fractured skull after being thrown from the car in which he was a pas senger. The driver, identified by police as Sergt. Russell Anthony Seveney, 28, also stationed at Quantico, suffered undeter mined injuries and was hos pitalized at the Marine base. The accident occurred on a curve on Route 619 about eight miles west of Triangle, Va. at 12:55 a.m. Police said that because the road is seldom traveled late at night, the Marines were not discovered until almost 3 am. i Corpl. Weaver, a native of i Okemar, Okla., was the hus band of Mrs. Ella Mae Weaver of Takoma Park, Md. A Marine Corps spokesman said that Sergt. Seveney, whose home is in Fort Smith, R. 1., did not appear to be critically I hurt. ail • Jk >s nH . Jbß CRASH IN ARLINGTON Police comfort Miss Louise Chandler, 25, after the car in which she was riding was struck by another on Arlington boulevard early today. Miss Chandler, of 4433 South First place, Arlington, suffered cuts and a broken arm. Police said the accident occurred after another car turned eastward into a westbound lane from Court House road.—Photo by Pete Schmick. Wagner's Presence In March Protested Broyhill Hits 'Pressure' for Leave on 28th Kennedy Is Told Os Action Against U. S. Employes Representative Broyhill to day charged that Government workers here are being pres sured to take annual leave Wednesday, the day of the civil rights demonstration. The statement was made by Mr. Broyhill, Republican of Virginia, in a telegram to President Kennedy. The Representative who re peated his request that Fed eral employes be given the day employes be given the day off Wednesday, without being charged annual leave, said: 1. Workers in the Army’s Supply and Maintenance Com mand, “I” Building, who have refused to take annual leave, have been told they must sub mit a special written report of their work on Wednesday. 2. Interior Department offi cials have informed employes that there will be no public bus service to their agency, no parking space, limited cafeteria service, no snack bar, and that soft drink machines would be “made inoperative.” 3. The Veterans Benefits of fice, located in the old Muni tions Building, has issued a memorandum “encouraging” leave requests. The memo tells the workers that those who do not take leave should expect long delays in getting to and from work. Many other agencies are issuing similar orders and 1 memos, he said. Mr. Broyhill said: "The pressure being applied to force employes to take leave shows the urgent need to keep Federal employes out of the city on the 28th. . . . Admin istrative leave is the only way to give fair treatment in this situation. It is especially ag gravating and morale destroy ing to the employes when they observe the massive efforts be ing made to extend every right to the 100,000 demonstrators.” CONVENTIONS The 16th International ’ Congress of Zoologists meets for the fourth day at the Sheraton-Park, and Shoreham Hotels. Youths Attack Man, Flee Neighbor's Rifle About six teen-agers dragged i a man from the front door i of his home in a quiet North Arlington neighborhood early i today, but fled when a neigh- i bor came to the man’s aid, ; police reported. The neighbor, carrying a rifle, was charged i with discharging a firearm. The victim, Emerson W Myers, of 2301 North Trenton street, told police he answered 1 the front door about midnight 1 and let the youths in ’ after he asked to talk to 1 “Buddy, your son.” One of the others on the doorstep asked for a beer. As < Mr. Myers a tempted close 1 the door the boys outside dragged him into the yard, ac- 1 cording to police. Robert L. Thomson, 43, who 1 lives at 2306 North Trenton i street, heard Mr. Myer’s shouts 1 and came to his aid, carrying < Brooklyn Unit of CORE Alleges 'Un-Civil' Rights Action by Mayor By CLARENCE HUNTER Star Staff Writer The Brooklyn Chapter of CORE has questioned the par ticipation of New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner in Wednes day’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. “It is not the intention of Brooklyn CORE to embarrass or create any disunity among the march organization,” said OUver Leeds, president of the Brooklyn unit. “We did send a telegram to the March Com- —— mittee indicating that the Mayor had committed un-clvil rights activities.” Mr. Leeds said Brooklyn CORE sent the wire to indi cate its vigorous objection to the fact that Mayor Wagner ordered civil rights pickets out of City Hall. Mayor Criticized “We are questioning the right of the committee to invite Mayor Wagner to join the march in view of his arresting of sit-inners at City Hall and his failure to do anything to resolve the matter of job dis crimination in the New York City construction industry,” Mr. Leeds said. “We are wholeheartedly in support and 100 per cent be hind the March on Washing ton, though,” Mr. Leeds em phasized. “Our telegram is not to be interpreted by anyone in any way that we are in dis agreement with the purposes of the march. We will send 16 busloads of people to Wash ington.” Mayor Wagner has an nounced he will close his office to join the demonstration. New York City employes have been given the day off without loss of pay or leave time to partici pate in the march. Farmer to Be in Jail James Farmer, national di rector of CORE, will miss the big demonstration he has helped to plan. Mr. Farmer will remain in jail at Donaldsonville, La., where he has been since his arrest last Monday following his participation in a civil rights demonstration at Pla quemine. Gordon Carey, CORE’S na tional program director, said that Dr. Bertrand Tyson, a Plaquemine Negro physician, will read a speech Mr. Farmer is writing in jail. Some of the 230 Negroes ar, rested in demonstrations at Plaquemine have been released on S3OO bond each, but Mr. Farmer has chosen to remain in jail instead of posting bond. Chairmen Disagree This fact has caused division among the national chairmen for the march. They discussed this at their final N6w York meeting. Some of the chairmen think that Mr. Farmer should post a rifle. The youths fled, dis obeying Mr. Thomson’s orders to stay until police arrived, and he fired one shot as the car drove away, according to police. Mr. Myers was not injured, according to police informa tion? . Detective Capt. Dudley Rec tor said police a short time late arrested the 16-year-old boy who drove the car. There was a bullet hole in the left front door of the vehicle, he said. The captain said that police are still seeking the other teen-agers, one of whom they think might be injured. Mr. Thomson was booked at headquarters for firing his gun into the auto. He was re leased on his personal recog nizance in lieu of SI,OOO bond, pending a court hearing Mon day. bond and get out of jail so he can assume his responsibility for the march. There is a strong feeling that his presence and participation in Washington Wednesday is vital. Some CORE representatives at the meeting, however, felt otherwise. They thought Mr. Farmer should remain in jail to dramatize the civil rights issue. The committee agreed that the march organization would make no attempt to get Mr. Farmer to change his mind about leaving jail. Leaden to See Kennedy The committee announced yesterday that the march lead ers will meet at 5 p.m. Wednes ' day with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson at I the White House. At 9:30 a.m. that day they will meet with the congressional Republican and Democratic leadership. The 10 national chairmen of the march will attend both meetings to explain the de mands of the marchers to the President and legislative leaders. The mass march from the Washington Monument grounds to the Lincoln Me morial will begin at 11:30 a.m., a half hour earlier than orig inally planned, the committee announced. There will be a program from the Lincoln Me morial stage while the throng gathers. Names of the perform ers will be announced. The official program at the Memorial is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Each of the national chairmen of the march com mittee will deliver 4-minute talks. A. Philip Randolph, national chairman of the march and master of ceremonies for the Memorial program, will pay tribute to six Negro women leaders Mrs. Medgar Evers, Mrs. Rosa Parks, Mrs. Gloria Richardson, Mrs. Herbert Lee, Dianne Nash Bevels and Mrs. Daisy Bates. Mrs. Evers will respond to the tribute. Musical Selections There will be musical selec tions by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, the Eva Jesse Choir and the Freedom Singers, a group of Southern youngsters. The Most Rev. Patrick A. O’Boyle, archbishop 6f Wash ington, will deliver lhe invoca tion and Dr. Benjamin F. Mays, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., will say the benediction. A highlight of the program will be a civil rights pledge to be made en masse by the 100,- 000 or so persons at the rally. The pledge to continue the “freedom fight” in local com munities will be printed on wallet sized cards. A commit tee representative said the pledge cards probably will be passed to demonstrators during their journeys here, Speakers Listed The memorial speakers in clude: Mathew Ahmann, exec utive director of the National Catholic Conference for Inter racial Justice; Dr. Eugene Car son Blake, vice chairman of the commission on race rela tions of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Leadership Confer ence; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Co-or dinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, chairman of the American Jewish Congress; Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers union; Roy Wilkins, executive secre tary of the NAACP; Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League; and Mr. Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council and a vice president of the AFL-CIO. The committee listed Mr. Farmer as one of the memorial speakers despite the fact that CORE’S national program di rector insisted that his speech will be read by a representa tive. Entertainment at the Wash ington Monument begins at 10 am., featuring such personali ties as: Leon Bibb, Joan Baez, Odetta, Len Chandler, Abe Van Rock, Jimmy McDonald, and Bob Davis, all folk singers, and probably many Hollywood figures. I Injury Fatal To Driver Held After Car Crash A Washington man died of stomach Injuries yesterday, 10 hours after an auto accident for which he was arraigned in General Sessions Court. Cornelius McLean, 32. of 4509 Arkansas avenue N.W., had complained of stomach pains as he waited for his case to come up and the hearing was conducted ahead of all the others. He was ordered held in SSOO bond on charges of driving while drunk, reckless driving and passing a red light. As soon as the court session ended, he was taken to Casual ty Hospital in an ambulance but was pronounced dead soon after arrival there at 11:30 a.m. An autopsy at the Dis trict Morgue indicated he died of a ruptured duodenum (intestine). •