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Evening star., 1953-11-19
Police Seeking
Man Who Knew
.Se|ph' S Routine
Facts in Case Show
SIoying Was Swift,
Carefully Planned

The slayer of Thomas N,
Selph. jr., moved with the swift
ness of man who knew exactly
what he intended to do and was
well aware of his victims rou-
tine, police theorized today.
Information cleaned thus far
by homicide squad detectives in
dicateS the 23-year-old loan
company messenger was slugged
unconscious. taken from the
District, robbed and killed and
his car abandoned within SIS
minutes after he left his office.
Mr., Selph. messenger for a
Mount Rainier loan company,
vanished October 9 with more
than $4,000 in cash.
Bullet Hole in Head.
His body, a bullet hole in the
back of the head, was found in
the woods off Highway PA. S
miles west of Davidsonville, Md,
Tuesday.
Mr.. Selph left his Office at the
American Finance Co., 1908
Rhode Island avenue, just across
the District line in Maryland,
with $4,000 in checks and
money orders.
He went to nearby post Of
flee, cashed the money orders
into a check and deposited the
check at the Hamilton National
Bank branch in the 1000 block
of Rhode Island avenue NE.
There he cashed another check
for $3.16929, planning to return
this to the loan company.
Got Cash at Bank.
The slayer knew that the mes
senger carried no cash until he
left the bank, police said.
How the gunman got into the
Selph car is still a mystery.
but homicide men said if he had
been shot in the car more blood
would have been left. The blood
grouping matched Mr.. Selph's.
they said.
Within SIS minutes from the
time he left his office, a National
Capital Parks employe spotted
the abandoned, blood-stained
car in Barnard Hill Park. few
blocks from the loan company.
Report Two Days Later.
The employe did not report
the matter to police until two
days later when he read of the
messengers disappearance.
Two known hoodlums are be-
ing sought in the case.
Homicide Capt. Richard Fell
ber said one suspect might be
the same man who got $1,000
from two employees of the Allied
Finance Corp, 8025 Georgia ave-
nue. NV, last Thursday.
Another police are seeking for
questioning, although not either
of the two mentioned by Capt.
Felber, is Thomas E. Dickerson,
80, an Ohio parolee who was
indicted and jailed for an Ar
lington holdup and then escaped
from a mental hospital.
In Maryland, Capt. w. C.
Wade of Anne Arundel County
police, was leading a search for
clues in the woods where the
body was found.
Found by Cab Driver.
The body was found by a
part-time taxi driver and Gen.
eral Services Administration en-
ploye, Elmer Basinger, 54, Of
600 Fifty-seventh street, Cap
itol Heights, Md. He had stopped
his car en- route to Shadyside.
Md, he told police, and gone
into the woods.
Positive identification was
established late yesterday by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
through fingerprints made when
Mr. Selph was a naval air cadet.
No trace was found of the
cash the victim carried, the bag
he carried it in or his wallet.
Two rings were found on the
hand, however.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

retary by a former juvenile de-
linquent to point up "just how
deadly serious is the nature of
our work."
2. DR.. Martha Eliot, chief of
the Children's Bureau, told the
Investigators that the services
needed by young delinquents are
grossly inadequate" but par
ents share the blame. too.
8. Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby,
Of Health, Education and We'll
fare, sent the subcommittee
statement warning that more
than half of the young people
appearing before juvenile courts
today go on to commit one or
more serious crimes as adults.
4. Herbert J. Hannoch, the
subcommittee chief counsel,
promised shocking revelations in
the sale of black market babies.
S. Judge Thomas Gill, Juve-
nile Court judge for the State
wide Juvenile Court system in
Connecticut, told the subcom-
mittee that punishment had not
proved itself as a deterrent to
juvenile crime and people should
be more patient with probation
and corrective methods.
Senator Hendrickson launched
the hearings by reviewing the
case of Wilbert A. Green. The Is
year-old colored man has admit
ted shooting Miss Elsie Lemke,
secretary to Senator Johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado, during a
purse -snatching a few blocks
from the Capitol Saturday night.
The chairman said he brought
up the case to illustrate that
lone can never tell when the
problems of juvenile delinquency
will strike any of us as indi-
vidualS."
Pointing out that Senator
Johnson's Office lies across the
corridor from his own, Senator
Hendrickson said he was certain
he had passed Miss Lemke many
times in the hallway and nodded
and smiled to her. Miss Lemke
was critically injured in the
shooting.
Stabbing Case Cited.
BY an odd coincidence. Sen
ator Hendrickson brought out, a
subcommittee consultant was
Green's probation officer in Ju-
venile Court. The consultant is
Lawson Veney, superintendent
of Boys Village at Cheltenham,
Md, on loan to the subcommit-
tee.
Green, said Senator Hendrick-
son, was a juvenile delinquent
in 1914 when, at the age of 16.
he broke into home, seized a
butcher knife and stabbed a
woman when she awoke to find
him in her room.
That was not Green's first
brush with the police nor his
last. Senator HendrickSon said.
He reviewed the record, show
ing that Green was involved in
a bicycle theft at the age of IL,
made his first unlawful entry a
year later and followed that with
many house breakingS.
The chairman emphasized that
he was not judging the current
case but "the facts reveal that
somewhere along the line his
community failed Wilbert Green
and he failed to help himself u
Slum Area Product.
Mr.. Veney, he said, found that
at the time of the 1914 stabbing
Green had been reared in a
Slum area without proper family
supervision and free from any
restraining influences for good
The chairman made it plain
he was not trying to say these
factors alone contribute to ju-
venile delinquency, but he said
(See DELINQUENCY. Page A-60
Evening star., 1953-11-19
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Nov. ia
Federal Jury today recon-
mended death for the kidnap
killers of little Bobby Green
lease.
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady. the
41-year-old alcoholic, smiled
slightly as the verdict was read.
Carl Austin Hall, 34-year-old
wastrel, did not change express
sion.
Bobby's multimillionaire father,
Robert C. Greenlease, leaned
forward on his chair to watch
Halls expression. Mr.. Green
lease merely nodded his head in
apparent approval of the verdict.
The jury announced Halls
verdict first.
Verdict in Hour, I Minutes.
1t took the jury of IL men
one hour and seven minutes to
give U. S. District Judge Albert
L. Reeves authority to send the
pair to the gas chamber. Judge
Reeves had told the jury the
two were cold-blooded murdererS
and there were no mitigating
circumstances for their crime.
Judge Reeves, veteran of 80
years on the Federal bench,
spoke extemporaneously as he
told the jury the issue before it
was simple:
Should Hall and Mrs. Heady
pay the supreme price for their
confessed crime?
The case was turned over to
the jury at HAS am. (ESTO.
Judge Reviews Case.
The judges instructions were
short but clear as he carefully
reviewed the case, point by point.
Judge Reeves made it clear the
jury was not assessing the pen
atty; that that was his function.
But under provisions of the
Lindbergh kidnapping law, he
said, it was necessary that he be
cloaked with this authority if
the maximum punishment is to
be leveled against the couple.
The judge paid particular at
tention to Halls efforts yeSter-
day to shoulder the full respon-
Sibility for the planning of the
kidnap killing. He said that
under law any one who aided in
carrying out such a crime was
equally guilty regardless of the
extent to which he or she par
ticipated.
Full Participation.
However. he said, in the case
of Mrs. Heady there was MO
question that she had partici-
pated fully. The very fact that
her hat had been found in the
stubble wheat field in johnson
County (KanSD gave substance
to the possibility that she was
doing more than simply going
after her dog when Hall was
shooting Bobby to death.
"Reprehensible as is the crime
of kidnapping" Judge Reeves told
the jury, they still did commit
-blooded, heartleSs, cruel
first degree murder.
I'm studying this testimony I
fail to find one line of justifying
or mitigating circumstances for
this crime.
rs it conceivable that the
Congress could, in enacting the
Lindbergh law. have conceived
of a more mercileSS, more horri-
flying crime than was commited?"
Watches Judge Closely.
Mrs. Heady, dressed neatly in
the same brown outfit she wore
on the second day of the trial..
followed the judges words close
ly. She kept watching him as the
gray-haired jurist spoke with di-
rectnesS and clarity to the jury.
The elder Greenlease; his
Continued on Page A-4. Col. 81
Evening star., 1953-11-19

InCeInoI KeVenue 10 keouCe FoICe mere
by About 200. Poee AZ
Young declared that the admin
istration will not hesitate to act
when it finds career employees
who are not dedicated to the
spirit of the career service or
whose removal would promote
the efficiency of the service"
At the same time, the COM
mission chief emphasized. the
administration is dedicated to
protecting the merit system and
employees in career jobs.
Must Control Policy.
AS for policy-making Jobs, Mr..
Young said the administration
must control them "in order to
give effect to the will of the
American people" This can be
done, Mr.. Young declared, with
out injury to the Government
career service.
Translated into action, the
policy means that we are making
a clear distinction for the first
time between the political ap-
pointment area and the career
service area" Mr.. Young said.
1--WE are providing an orderly,
logical means of placing in
policy-making positions persons
who are sympathetic to the
policies of the administration.
At the same time we are remov-
ing the career service as far as
possible from political interfer-
ence," he added.
Mr.. Young said that thus far
the csc has placed ITO jobs in
the new political schedule c
category, while rejecting 852
such requests from agencies.
Job Cuts Ending.
Turning to the Governments IS
reduction force program, Mr..
Young said that most contem-
plated reductions have been
made and that only $4,000 more
jobs are to be abolished be-
tween now and June 80. Most
of these can be taken care
of through attrition-not filling
vacancies-he said. It was es-
timated that the reduction of
Federal jobs in the Washington
area between now and June 80
would not exceed 1000.
Mr.. Young's remarks on pol
icy-making jobs in Government
came as Senator Carlson, Re-
publican, of Kansas revealed
that the Civil Service Committee
he heads has been urged to look
into complaints that the Civil
Service Commission is failing to
open up such positions to Re-
publicans.
Senators Press Pleas.
The KanSan said many COM
plants and requests for such an
inquiry had come in, some from
G. o. P. Senators. But he de-
clined to say whether the COM
mittee would undertake such an
investigation when Congress
comes back in January.
Last week, Representative A. L.
Miller, Republican. of Nebraska
called upon Mr.. Young to re-
sign as chairman of the Civil
Service Commission, citing the
same reason Senator Carlson
said had been raised.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Don't Play Politics.,
Career Employees
Warned by Young
Carlson Reveals Pleas
By Irote Republicans
For Civil Service Probe

Federal career employees were
cautioned today by Chairman
Philip Young of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission mot to let their
personal politics interfere with
their doing an efficient job for
the administration in power"
In a Boston speech before a
group of Federal executives, Mr..
Evening star., 1953-11-19
McCahhy's Witness
Says Reds Had Cells
AT -Four GE Plants
Uprour Ends Session;
Secret FBl Agent
Points Out Communist
BY the Associated Press

BOSTON, Nov. 19.-An up
holsterer. who testified he was
an undercover FBI agent while
a member of the Communist
Party since 1941, told a Senate
investigating subcommittee to-
day he had worked in General
Electric plant in Fitchburg,
Mass, and that there we're Com
munist cells there and in GE
plants at Lynn and Everett,
Mass. and Schenectady, N. Y.
William H. Teto, So, of Ashby,
Mass. created a sensation in a
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televised hearing conducted by
Senator Mccarthy. Republican.
of Wisconsin, when he pointed
out man in the hearing room
as a Communist member at a
Lynn GE plant.
The man pointed out was Nat
Mills. Senator Mccarthy said
Mills refused yesterday at an
executive session to say if he
was a Communist. He refused
again today.
The hearing ended in disorder
when Mills and Gabriel Kantro-
vitz. an attorney, were removed
by Deputy United States mar
Shals on Senator McCarthy'S
order.
Both shouted that they were
being deprived of their rights as
Americans, as some of the spec
tatorS in the crowded courtroom
let go with cries of throw 'em
out"
Mccarthy Bans Speech.
Senator Mccarthy said he was
familiar with the tactics of "these
Communist boys" that he wasn't
going to allow them to make
speeches.
-Four other GE workers were
called to testify. None would say
whether he ever had been a
Communist. The men are Rob-
ert Goodwin, Lynn; Henry Arch
deacon, Boston: Donald Morrill,,
Lynn, and Witulad Pierkarski,
Lynn.
Mills was denied the privilege
of cross-examining Teto. Sen
ator Mccarthy said at one point
I'D like to see some Communist
with the CUTS to admit it and
not hide behind the Fifth
Amendment of the Constitution.
Tells of Hardships.
Teto, married and father of
three, said he was a recording
secretary with the Communist
Party; that he had attended
(See MCCARTHY, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1953-11-19
GreenIeose Boys sNdnopKi||ers
Sentenced to Die December 18|
After Jury Asks for Execution
Judge Fixes Dute
IS Minutes After
Recommendation
BULLETIN

KANSAS CITY R.-The
kidnap killers of little Bobby
GreenleaSe were sentenced to-
day to die December 18 for
their crime. U. S. District
Judge Albert L. Reeves passed
the death sentence on Carl
Austin Hall, "a, and Mrs.
Bonnie Brown Heady, Al,
within Is minutes after a jury
of IL men recommended that
they pay the supreme penalty
for their confessed crime.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Red Hunters Plan
Many More Probes
In Coming Months
Communism Held Sure
Election Issue Despite
Eisenhower's Hopes
By Cecil HoIIond

Plans of Congressional Red
hunters offer scant promise for
President Eisenhower to realize
his hope that the issue of COM
munism in government will be
settled before next years elec-
tlonS.
While Gen. Eisenhower's at
titude expressed in news con-
Stories Related to Probe of Spy Ring
and White. Poee AS
Evening star., 1953-11-19

and White. Poee AS
ference yesterday was being ap-
plauded in many quarters. Sem
ate and House committees went
ahead today with plans for more
and more Investigations.
With the boost they received
in Attorney General Brownell's S
sensational charges in the Harry
Dexter White case, they seem
certain, from what Congressional
sources said. to carry their find
ings we'll into 1854 and possibly
beyond.
A spokesman for the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
headed by Senator Jenner, Re-
publican, of Indiana, indicated
it would take weeks and weeks
to pursue an investigation of
matters related to the White
case.
Probe to Take Time.
1t was before this subcommit-
tee that Mr.. Brownell appeared
to document his charges that
former President Truman pro-
NOTED Mr.. White from a Treas
ury position to the International
Monetary Fund despite FBI re-
ports indicating the officials
connection with Soviet espion-
age ring.
While politely refraining from
any comment on the hope ex-
pressed by Gen. Eisenhower, the
subcommittee spokesman en-
phasize there is no long-range
plan, but said each aspect of
the White case will be taken up.
He added that it would take time
to see what direction the inves-
tigation will have to take.
Again Seek G0uZenkO.
Meanwhile, a State Depart
ment spokesman said the depart
ment is transmitting to the Can
adian government today a Sec
ond request from Senator Jenner
that Igor Gouzenko, Soviet EN-
basSy code clerk who helped
break up a Russian ring in Can
ada a few years ago, be made
(See PROBE, Page A-5O
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Lemke Shootinq
Cited at Heariinq
On Delinquency
Senator Describes
Capitol Area Attack; !;
DR.. Eliot Testifies I
By Miriom Ottenbero

Senate proberS of Nation wide
juvenile delinquency opened
their investigation today with
sharp look at a Washington
crime and a survey of what
causes such crimes across the
country.
There were these highlightS:
l. Chairman Hendrickson cited
the shooting of a Senator's sec
Evening star., 1953-11-19

Internal Revenue to Reduce Force Here
by About 200. Pose Az
Evening star., 1953-11-19

Two Week Delay Seen in Selecting Leod-
ers Of Pilot Youth Project. Poee AS
RecreotionoI Groups Urged to Seek Out
and Help DeIinquents. Poee AS
Spencer Sees Serious Increase in Crimes
by Younger Children. Poee AS
Evening star., 1953-11-19

Continued on Page A-4. Col. 3
Evening star., 1953-11-19

(See DELINQUENCY. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Weather Forecast

Clear tonight with lowest around AZ.
Tomorrow. mostly sunny and continued
mild. Full report on Page A-2)
Temperatures Today.
Evening star., 1953-05-24
By Sheiloh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

Two years ago, ingenue Mitzi
Gaynor was the bright hope
of the younger set at goth
Century-Fox. She had made
a hit in a bit in a Betty Cradle
picture-in fact, almost took
the movie from Cradle, you
may remember. This was my
Blue Heaven" in which Mitzi
was the dancer. In those days
she was misty eyed all the
time and very much engaged to
Dick Coyle, a lawyer, who,
with his mother, lived with
Mitzi and her mother. all cozy-
like in a big apartment here.
So they starred Mitzi in
Golden Girl" a musical
meant originally for Cradle.
This developed into a lucky
let-out for Betty and it nearly
cost Mitzi her promising ca
reer. A real floppola.
Mitzi then took a leave OF
absence to star on the stage
in a light-it proved too light
-operetta. "Jollyana." and
after the breakin at San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, 1t nearly
broke Mitzi.
Here Mitzi showed her re-
silence. Feeling some dras-
tic action was needed, she
promptly broke OF her engage
Evening star., 1953-05-24
On the Air

People like Jack Benny and
Amos m Andy used to be the
types over whom NBC and
CHS battled but the networks
have come up in the world.
Now it is Queen Elizabeth II
and her coming pageant, the
coronation. They are tossing
money around as if it were
only money.
This is one case. a truly rare
one, when the program de-
partments will be ahead of
science. The boys will be down
to old-fashioned piston -engine
airplanes in some stages of the
great Transatlantic Corona
ton Air Derby on June 2.
Televlewers will have seen
several sets of pictorial reports
on the coronation before that
Tuesday is over. The first will
be still pictures. shown while
the audio half of your TV set
is carrying the radio report,
This will start at $50 am. on
June 2.
CHS has obtained a series OF
pictures executed by an artist
to show every phase of the
coronation to those taking
part in it. BY televising these
in proper sequence it is hoped
that they can be matched
closely with the verbal de-
Scription.
NBC will bring To-day" on
Evening star., 1953-05-24
By Harry Macarthur

earlier on coronation day,
starting at $50 instead OF 1880
am. Here the coronation re-
port will be linked to still pic
lures flashed across the Allan
tic by radio-photo facilities.
BY joining the radio-photo
equipment and a new Brit
ish facsimile receiver called
Mufax, a half-hour will be
clipped off the usual time re-
quired to send a picture across
the ocean this way. NBC says
it hopes to have coronation
pictures (still, not moving) on
the air three to five minutes
after they are taken in London.
The conclusion of the coro-
nation will signal the start OF
the big air race between CHS
and NBC. Kinescope record
ings of the coverage by the
British Broadcasting Corp.
(Which has sole rights for tele-
vising the ceremonies) will be
flown by the RAF, in Can
berra jet bombers to Goose
Bay, Labrador.
From Goose Bay the net
works will be on their own.
NBC has hired Paul Mantz,
three-time Bendix Trophy win
ner, to speed the films from
the Labrador base to Logan
Airport, Boston, in a souped-
Evening star., 1953-05-24
The Passing Show

The trouble with this job.
we'll, one of the troubles with
this job, is that it allows so
little time for reading.
The writing on which a
drama and/or movie critic
must concentrate is the kind
that is acted. There is a lot
of this acted writing, so much
indeed that one might assume
it would occupy others in the
theater as fully as it does re-
viewers.
This is not the case, how
ever. 1t has come to be that
a man cannot leave the drama
desk long enough to see a play,
or a movie. that the book de-
partment does not send down
another volume for the atten-
ton of the drama people. A
book. per Sc, is a fine sight. It
is trim to look at; promising
to contemplate.
But the real fascination of
any book is discovering what
is inside of it. It's inability to
find time for this is what
illustrates drama departments
and puts hurt looks on the
face of the book editor when
the two meet on the elevator
or in the corridors.
His Cose Is Good
Right now, these last few
weeks to tell the truth, the
book editor is justified in
feeling he has a better case
than usual. One of the drama
bookS-on which a number of
later volumes have been piled
is the work of a drama
columnist. If HE could find
time to write a whole book,
why can't this one Of his
colleagues find time to review
It? This is a good-no, en-
barrassing-question.
Still, not the most embar-
RAISING during the weeks the
books have been piling up.
That one was asked with no
intent to embarrass by Eva
lie Gallienne when she was
here a few weeks ago with
IAN Evening With viii
Shakespeare"
Did they (the publisher)
send you my book?" she asked
graciously.
They did. they did, indeed;
and so did The Stars book de-
partment," she was told.
"And have you read it?" she
continued.
Evening star., 1953-05-24
The New Mitzi Goynor Is Sophisticated

ed above and below, tres decol-
lette in the evening-gown de-
partment. She'd like to cut
her hair, very, very short, but
Daryl Zanuck says moi" She
goes to every party and every
premiere locally, and no fash
ion lunch seems right with
out her. And Mitzi's hep in the
conversation department. She
acts like a woman who has
lived.
So I had lunch with Mitzi
at goth h-Fox, and right of the
bat she says, "Sheilah, every
chance you have. say Why
don't Mitzi Gaynor and Don
aid O'Connor do something
together?" Don was original
ly set to be her guy in
There's No Business Like
Show Business" with Dan
Daley and Ethel Norman.
But O'Connor is too busy with
TV and other commitments.
Mitzi's option at goth has
just been picked up, and she
doesn't know whether to be
glad or sorry. Il had an offer
for three pictures in Europe
one with Jeanne Grain. 1t
would have been fun to travel.
but there's nothing like that
old weekly pay check"
She works hard. Il have no
(Cont. on Page E-2, Col. 81