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Evening star., 1953-12-17

gas heater went out during the
night.
Fraden told police he found
his parents bodies when he
dropped in for a visit. No sus-
picion attached to him when de-
tectives found the two glasses,
each with a few drops of
poisoned champagne, and the
poison bottle.
Wepman told Mr.. De Luca
that Fraden had been troubled
with Nightmares since his par
ents' deaths.
When Fraden was arrested he
was wearing bandagE on his
head. He had been hurt in a
fight with Wepman during the
early morning hours. Wepnnan
was quoted as saying he was
accustomed to staying overnight
at Fraden's hotel room, and that
the fight occurred yesterday
morning. when Fraden wakened
from a nightmare.
A hotel physician put Ia
stitches in Fraden's forehead,
but the fight was not reported
to police at the time, Mr.. De
,Luca said.
Authorities said they were
seeking today to learn how much
OF the wealth of DR.. and Mrs.
Fraden has been spent.
Mr.. De Luca said that at the
time of the discovery of their
bodies the deaths appeared to
be the result of a suicide pact.
but that he had kept the case
open.
The girl who gave the in
information leading to the break
IN the case was not held by
authorities.
Met About Year Ago.
Mr.. De Luca. in talking with
neWsmen, did not allege any
overt act by Wepman in the
murders.
Police said Fraden and Wep-
man met about a year ago, and
lived together in an apartment
until a week ago when the land
lord asked them to leave as
undeSirableS.
Police said they believed the
fight between Fraden and Wep-
man at the St. Moritz Hotel
occurred when Wepman asked
Fraden for money. Officers
giving a different version of the
fight than given by Wepman-
said Wepman struck Fraden with
blackjack.
Both defendants were calm at
the booking in police station
at 4:30 am. after all-night ques,
tioning, and Fraden sat in a
chair reading an anthology o1
poetry during much of the
procedure.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
First Ballot Fails
10 Select President
For French Republic
BY the Associated Press

VERSAILLES, France, Dec.
, 1.-THE first round of balloting
by the French Parliament today
failed to select a president for
the nation.
The first ballot was seen as
merely a test of strength and a
basis for bargaining in SUBJ
sequent rounds.
Eight candidates were an
nounced to succeed Socialist
Vincent Auriol in the seven-year
post of great prestige but few
real powers. There was a pos
sibility that several others might
enter the field, and also that a
voting deadlock might produce
other compromise choices.
BalIOting Process Slow.
Under Frances multi-party
system, none of the nine factions
holds anything like a majority
of the 946 seats in the National
Assembly and the Council of
the Republic (Senate). Since
each member must walk to the
rostrum singly to cast his vote,
each ballot takes about four
hours. Two a day is about the
maximum.
Parliament met in the As
sembly Hall, built in 1871 in the
open courtyard of the palace,
10 miles from Paris. Voting is
secret, the winner the first man
to get a majority of the votes
cast. There are no campaign
speeches.
Heretofore no more than two
ballots have been needed since
France started electing preSi-
dents under the Third Republic.
The second vote has been neces-
sary only four times.
This time, veteran observers
expected no decision before the
third, or possibly the fourth, vote.
8 Official Candidates.
These were the announced
official candidates:
Premier Joseph Laniel, right
of center independent; Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault, backed
by his Catholic Popular Repub-
lican Movement (MRP); Social
ist Marcel Naegelen. former Gov
ernor General of Algeria; Jean
Medecin, Radical Socialist Mayor
of Nice; Independent Jacques
Fourcade, a former president of
the Assembly of the French
Union; Yvon Delbos, former
cabinet minister and member of
the Rightist Radical Socialist
Party: Marcel Cachin, 84-year-
old Communist and the oldest
member of the National Assem-
bly,, and Senator Jean Kalb, put
forward today by the Gaullist
Union for the Republican Social
Action (URAS).
Another Radical Socialist cam
didate, Fine Arts Minister Andre
Cornu, withdrew last night.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

District and vicinity Clear
and cold tonight. lowest about 18
in the city and II in the suburbs.
Tomorrow, sunny and cold.
Maryland-Clear and cold to-
night with lowest near zero in
the western counties and 1920
in eastern areas. Tomorrow.
mostly sunny but cold.
Virginia-Clear and cold to-
night with lowest near zero in
western mountain valleys and
Evening star., 1953-12-17

whether the poison would be
visible.
The deaths were unsolved un-
til an attractive brunette girl
friend of Wepman went to au-
thoritieS.
Wepman had told her of his
"complicity in this thing" and
she became worried about her
knowledge of crime.
The girl, whose name was not
revealed by authorities, first
consulted physician and he ad-
vised her to tell her story to
the authorities. She did so and
the case was broken yesterday
by the initial arrest of Wepman
at his apartment. He confessed
and Fraden's arrest followed.
Reduced Sons Allowance.
Mr.. DeLuca said he got this
additional information from
Wepman, who couldn't recall
whether he or Fraden first sug-
gested killing Fraden'S parents:
The murder plot began last
July after Fraden's parents re-
duced his allowance. Later Fra
den quarreled frequently with
his parents over his refusal to
get a job.
Fraden and Wepman discussed
various ways to kill the parents.
These included shooting them, on
the theory that death from an
apparently accidental gunShot
wound would warrant payment
OF double-indemnity on a $2O,-
600 insurance policy.
When the plot had reached it's
climax, s Wepman and Fraden
went to- the parents apartment,
q considerable distance from the
sons Manhattan apartment.
AS Wepnnan waited in the hall,
Fraden entered carrying a bottle
OF champagne. He had a small
bottle of potassium cyanide
mixed with water in pocket.
Mixed Drinks for Toast.
Fraden told his parents he had
gotten a job. and asked them to
wait in another room while he
mixed champagne cocktails" in
the kitchen for toast. He added
bitters to all three drinks-and
poison to two. DR.. Fraden, a
physician employed by the New
York City Department of Health,
stood in pajamas and bath
robe as he drained the glass.
His wife wore street clothes
They collapsed Immediately.
After the bodies were discov-
cred August 81, Fraden made a
good impression on detectives.
He appeared to be grieving over
the deaths of his parents, and
the deaths of an aunt and uncle
who died two weeks previously
from asphyxiation. Fraden quot
ed the poetry of Keats, Byron
and Shelley to detectives.
-Four deaths in the family in
two weeks-four deaths in the
family in two weeks" Fraden
kept moaning to police.
Mrs. Fraden's sister and broth
er-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Donner, died in a cabin at Mon
ticello, N. Y, when the flame OF
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Cord Is II Years Late

Frederick Walter Wimbush of
2441 Tunlaw road NV. reported
he has received a Christmas
card II years overdue. 1t was
mailed in Peoria, ILL.,, on Decem-
Der /, 1941. by his friend. Will
liam E.. Causey, Mr.. Wimbush
said. It arrived yesterday.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young


Administration officials today
told Federal employees that yes
terday's Federal court "test-
case" ruling will not irnperil the
civil service job protection rights
of most Government workers.
They said the decision by
Judge Richmond Keech, which
held that status employees trans
ferred to excepted Schedule A
or C jobs are not entitled to job
protection rights. would affect
only a small number of workers.
At the same time. the deci-
sion brought these develop
ments::
/. The Justice Department,
which was the winner in the
test suit involving one Of its
former attorneys, disclosed that
it would now seek a court test
Of its contention that veterans
in excepted Government jobs are
not entitled to job protection
rights.
Yesterdays ruling involved Leo
Roth, a $10,800-a-year Justice
Department attorney who was
summarily fired last June. Since
Mr.. Roth is not veteran, Judge
Keech's decision did not go into
the issue of whether veterans
in excepted jobs also are de-
prived of job-protection rights.
Civil Service Commission off,
cials said that veterans in ex-
cepted jobs presumably are still
entitled to the job protection
rights of the Veterans Prefer
ence Act until the courts rule
otherwise.
OfiGiaIs Meet Today.
2. csc officials met today to
discuss problems that have
arisen as a result of the court
decision in the Roth case. Among
the things that will be considered
is whether a new executive order
should be sought to give specific
job protection rights to civil
service status employees whose
| jobs are in excepted categories
or whose positions may be ex-
cepted from civil service in the
/ future.
3. Mr.. Roth indicated to COM
mission officials that he would
appeal Judge Keech's ruling to
the United States Court of Ap-
peals
4 The Justice Department
was expected to fire at least 100
or more of it's non-veteran at
torneys who were in the same
situation as Mr.. Roth, having
obtained status in their jobs be-
fore 1947 when the positions
were transferred to Schedule A.
A Justice Department spokes-
man, commenting on the court
ruling, said: Government en-
ployes now under civil service
have little to fear. The admin
istration, as well as the Justice
Department, is not planning any
raids on civil service. What we
are interested in is getting con-
troll of the jobs in excepted
Schedule A or c (the top
policy-making jobs), and the
right to remove some of the
people presently in those posi-
tions." s
Wholesale Transfers Possible.
All parties concerned agreed
that under the decision given in
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia, the Presi-
dent or Civil Service Commission
could conceivably now or in the
future transfer any numbers of
present civil service employees
to the excepted schedules as a
prelude to summarily firing
them.
However, both Justice and
CSC officials emphasized their
] firm belief that such things
won't happen.
Republican Civil Service Com
missioner George Moore de-
clared: There should be no
cause for alarm among the
Evening star., 1953-12-17
British Lord Chief Justice
Denounces Jury Proposal
By the Associated Press


LONDON. Dec. II. The
House of Lords last night heard
Britain's Lord Chief Justice
threaten to resign if juries were
ever given power to decide pun
ishment in murder cases.
Rather than take part in
such a performance as that,
said Lord Goddard, II would re-
sign my Office
Britain's highest jurist de-
nounced the proposal of the
Royal Commission on Capital
punishment involving murder
cases when there are "extenuat-
ing circumstances"
Evening star., 1953-12-17
maryland
and
Virginia
Foirfox to Regulate
Nursery Schools
News in Brief

Taking note of recent nursery
school tragedies in Montgomery
County, Md, Fairfax County,
Va, is preparing to regulate
these institutions.
The Board of County Super
viSors yesterday appointed q
committee of county officials and
interested citizens to prepare a
nursery school ordinance. County
officials said these schools now
operate in the county with no
regulations.
Mrs. r. E. De Butts, a men,
ber of the committee. said there
are 81 nursery schools, accom-
modating 1928 children, operat-
ing in the county. She said most
of the schools would welcome an
efficient licensing procedure.
X y X \
Shopping Center Planned
The Prince Georges County
commissioners yesterday cleared
the way for a large, regional
shopping center, planned for
construction on 26-acre tract
in the Suitland area.
The commissioners approved
heavy and light commercial Zon-
ing for the land, located south
of Marlboro pike and west of
Silver Hill road. A syndicate of
Washington and Maryland busi-
nessmen are backing the project.
X X 4
Circle Alterations Protested
Groups Of Alexandria, Va,
citizens have appealed to Fed
eral park and highway agencies
to halt proposed alterations to
Memorial Circle on Mount Ver-
non boulevard, north of the city.
Letters protesting the altera-
tions say the circle. memoralizes
Alexandria's war dead and seven
Presidents who were born in
Virginia.
Last September City Manager
Ira F. Willard was authorized
without protest to start negotia-
tions to cut the bulevard through
he circle. The land is owned by
the Government.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Farm Bureau Refuses
To Seek Extension
Of Price Supports
BY shs Assoeiased Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE an
nual convention of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation to-
day rejected proposal that the
organization seek extension of
present mandatory high-level
Government price supports for
major crops through the 1856
crop year.
These supports-at 80 per cent
OF parity for corn, cotton, wheat,
rice, tobacco and peanuts-are
scheduled to expire at the end
Of the 1854 crop year.
Rejected by Voice Vote.
The proposal was offered from
the convention floor by the Ten
nessee delegation as an amend
ment to a resolution urging that
high supports be allowed to ex-
pire as now scheduled. The re-
lection was by a voice vote.
The resolution favored intro
duction of a flexible support plan
beginning with the 1855 crop
year.
In resolutions submitted to
the convention, a Resolutions
Committee today proposed that
the convention call for a Fed
eral farm-aid program that
would stress crop Salesmanship
as means of making farmers
prospectiouS.
Wants to Regain Markets.
Less dependence than under
present programs would be
placed on Government price sup
ports The committee said tax
payers would not finance for
any extended time price guar
antee programs that would pro-
vide farmers a satisfactory
standard of living.
So, the committee declared,
farmers and Government must
join hands to regain lost for
eign markets and develop new
ones to provide outlets for
American agriculture's expand
ing productive capacity.
That, the committee said,
means the opening of doors to
increased imports, SO that other
countries might get into a posi-
ton where they could buy more
United States farm products.
Tho convention opdS todov
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg
Visits Eisenhower
BY the Assoeiassd Press

Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, an AS
sistant Secretary of Defense in
the Truman administration, Wis
tied President Eisenhower yes
terday. She said it was "just q
social call"
Asked whether she was think
ing about going back into Gov
ernment service. Mrs, Rosenberg
laughed and replied:
Nov listen, have a heart. I've
had enough of that"
Evening star., 1953-12-17
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

1920 elsewhere. Tomorrow
sunny but cold.
Winds - Northwest at 10-15
miles per hour tonight and di-
minishing gradually tomorrow,
River Report
tFrom U. S. Engineers
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
READINGS WASHINGTON National Airport. J
Yesterday Pct To-day Pct
Noon -- As Midnisht - AZ
I pm. IS 8 am. - 81
: pm. 50 10 am. 81
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Tide Table,
The sun ana Moon.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in Il
.apital tcurrent month to datel.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Circle Alterations Protested
County Fights Delinquency

The Prince Georges County
Commissioners have been asked
to provide adequate recreational
facilities in the county if a
fight against juvenile delin-
quency.
A special committee, named by
the commissioners to study the
juvenile problem, also said court
procedures should be changed. a
Big Brother league formed and
community resources should be
fully utilized.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

Record Temperatures This Year.
Hiehest. 100 on Aug 81 and Sept. 2
Lowest. 20, on December IL.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, ~. at 1::30 pm.
Low. 20, at am.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Polio Drive Was
Big Success Here
Quota Of $1,000 Expected TO Be
Exceeded Substantially

The 1853 polio drive is headed for
"a successful conclusion, Laurence
G. Sharp, chairman of the local
Embarrassing campaign, announced
this week. While final figures are
not yet in, he said that he expects
the total to exceed the $4,000 quota
set for this community, when the
volunteer workers complete their
assignments and turn in their col
lections.
Mr.. Sharp pointed out that dona-
tons will be accepted all through
the month of February, and that if
any person wishing TO make con-
tribution who has not been con-
tacted will call him, he will ar
range to collect the donation.
He expressed his thanks to the
Coolies and Cootiettes who collect
ed over $3.50 with there ''AIile Of
Dimes" contest on Walnut street
last Saturday afternoon. He also
wished to thank all the workers
who helped In the drive, and asked
that they finish their work and
make their returns during tae next
week or two.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Quarterly
Conference
At Houston
DR.. Oler A. BARLEY, De-
yer District Superinten-
dent, Presided Over
Meeting Which Was
Preceded By A Cover.
ed Dish Supper.

The Fourth Quarterly Conference
Of the Houston Methodist Church
was held last Monday evening. A
covered dish dinner, served by the
ladies Of the w S. c. s., preceded
the meeting. A good number of the
officials and members of the church
attended.
DR.. Oler A. BARLEY, Dover Dis.
trict Superintendent, presided. DR..
BARLEY held a brief devotional
service before entering into the
business Of the evening.
Reports for the year were read,
showing much improvement and
good work done during the year to
date. The Church School, the Meth
odist Youth Fellowship, the Junior
Choir, all gave glowing reports.
The w. S. C. s., of which Mrs.
Frances M. Parvis is president,
gave a fine report, showing much
done by that wonderful Organiza-
tiOn of ladies.
An excellent report was read by
Robert Yerkes, president of the
Board of Trustees, showing an ac-
tive Board of Trustees and the
work of the Church during the year,
The Four Commissions ordered
by the Discipline of the Methodist
Continued on page two)
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Senate Has
Confirmed
First Boggs'
Appointments
Miles Frederick, State
Development Head, Re.
named; Eddie Knight,
State Custodian; An
drew d. Christie, Legis-
latiVe Bureau Head ;
Magistrates Named.

The State Senate's stamp of ap-
prOval on Wednesday was placed
on nine appointments made by Gov
ernor J. Caleb Boggs.
Among the names confirmed by
the upper house in a short execu-
tive session were thOge of six JUS
tices Of the peace-fOur from Sus-
sex and two from New Castle
County.
And the Senate gave its appro-
val to the reappointment Of Miles
L. Frederick Of Wilmington as di-
rector Of the State Development De-
partment.
Mr.. Frederick originally ap-
pointed during the Democratic ad-
ministration Of former Governor
Elbert N. Carvel-will serve "at the
pleasure of the GovernOr"-the
same type of appointment that he
held under Mr.. Carvel.
Legislative Reference Aide
Another indeterminate appoint
ment approved Wednesday is that
of Andrew ID. Christie, also Of viii
mington, as executive director OF
the Legislative Reference Bureau
in Legislative Hall. Mr.. Christie
has been functioning in that capac-
ity since the opening of the pres
ent session Of the General Assem-
bly, last month.
The rest Of the appointments are
for fOur-year terms, including that
Continued on page sikh
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
National aIVFW Week
Brought To 4 Close
Local Veteran Organiza-
tiOn, It's Auxiliary And
Atfiliates Sponsored A
Full Week Of Activities
eliminating In ''Mile
Of Dimes" Drive.

What was undoubtedly the most
extensive observance of National
WV Week" anywhere on the Del
marva. Peninsula was brought to
"a successful conclusion here last
Saturday with the staging by Mil
ford Coolies and Coolies of a ben
eft bake and a mile Of Dimes. .
Saturdays events served to drop
the curtain on a lTll week sched-
ule of events that included obser-
vances of Religious Freedom Day, -
''VFW Hospital Day" and youth
Welfare Day." along with induction
Of a special class of VFW "re-
cruits," presentation of citations to
seven Of the cOmmunity's Organi-
cations and business concerns; pre-
sentation of a Cub Scout Flag to
Milford Cub Scout Pack No. 1O1,
and an "Open House" at the Post
Home.
Local observance Of National
VFW Week" got underway on Sun
day, January 25, with veterans OBJ
serving Religious Freedom Day.
/ by attending services in the var
iOus churches of the community
On the evening of Monday, Janu-
airy 26, Hospital Day. was Observ-
ed with presentation of VFW cit
tation to Cootiette Club No. 49S, in
recognition of the latter organiza-
tion's outstanding and Rll-year.
around program of hospital work
the citation to the COotiettes was
presented at a regular Cootiettes
meeting with Blue Hen Post Junior
Vice Commander Charles Mulhol
land making the presentation anC
Mrs. Lynn Jones accepting on be-
half of Club No. 498.
On the afternoon of Tuesday
January q, Blue Hen Post Senior
Vice Commander Walter Querini
presented a VFW citation to tn
IL. D. Caulk Company, with Vic
| President Leslie 1. March ascent
ing the award on behaif of the lo
Continued on page eight
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Rules On Earning
For S. S. Recipients
Those Under IS Can Get
Benefits And Earn SIS
A Month

People under rs who are receiv-
ing Old-age and survivors insur-
ance are permitted to earn up to
SIS per month and still accept their
monthly benefit checks, under the
amendments to the Social Security
Act, which became effective Sep
tember 1, 1852. There are no re-
strictions on earnings for people
over rs.
The law used to require the sus-
pension of benefits for any month
in which the person receiving old
age and survivors insurance earn
ed over $50; and since this was less
than one weeks work at $3.50 an
hour, not many companies could
employ these people even on a part
time basis. However, with the bene-
ficiaries now permitted to earn up
to SIS per month, many companies
can now place many people in reg
ular part-time employment Tor
short periods each week, or to aug
CONTINUED on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Local OAR
Has
"A Birthday
Fourth Anniversary OBJ
served By Membership
Of Captain Jonathan
Caldwell Chapter Last
Saturday Afternoon.

The Captain Jonathan Caldwell
Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. celebrated the
fourth anniversary of it's founding
on Saturday with a birthday lunch
con, attended by the members,
who brought guests to the affair.
1t was held in the social hall of
Avenue Methodist Church and was
presided over by Miss Catherine
Downing, it's organizing regent,
who is still it's regent. Present for
the luncheon, served at one o'clock,
was Mrs. Glenn 8. Skinner of New
ark, in whose term as State re-
gent the local branch was organic
ed. Mrs. Skinner spoke briefly to
the members and guests Lovely
spring flowers in the traditional
cOlOrs of red, white and blue. were
arranged in antique containers for
each of the six tables. Miss Down
ing greeted the guests and then
spoke, in a humorous vein at times,
of the early years OF this country
and of the ancestors, some good,
some otherwise, who had gone on
before but whose traditions have
descended to the present members
of the OAR. Mrs. j. Raymond Ben
nett was presented as chairman of
the afternoon program. She con-
Quoted group singing which pre-
faced the solos by Peter SalOmeto
a third grade DuOil, and the mem
bers of the High School choir, un-
der the direction of George G.
Messick, which gave four numbers
delighting their audience by the
rendition of each. Mr.. Messick in
troduced the Tuli sisters, three in
number, who are we'll known tC
radio audiences and who gave two
songs. Their numbers were GLOW
worm" and ~ Went To Your Wed
ding. The choir sang 81 Heard A
Continued on page twO)