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Evening star., 1953-06-23
Ford Can't Recall
Making Income Tax
Dea! With Dr.. Olson

Former Deputy Attorney Cen
eral Peyton Ford reiterated to-
day that he can't remember
making any deal to compromise
the income tax claim against
Olaf Olson, Minneapolis physi-
clan.
Thomas s. Sullivan. attorney
for DR.. Olson, told a House Ju-
dietary Subcommittee yesterday
that in 1948 he received a tele-
phone call from a man who
identified himself as Mr.. Ford.
The caller. Mr.. Sullivan said,
inquired whether DR.. Olson
would plead guilty to one charge
of income tax invasion and COM
promise the rest of the claim
Of more than 100000 for $685.
600. Mr.. Sullivan testified that
he replied that DR.. Olson would
not plead guilty, but would plead
nolo contendre-no defense.
Mr.. Sullivan said that was the
agreement eventually worked out
through a United States Attor-
ney who is now dead.
Mr.. Ford had told the COM
mittee earlier that he remem-
.bered no conversation with Mr.
sullivan before the plea.
II can't add anything to my
testimony" he tolC a reporter
yesterday. 1--WE wracked my
brain on this case and can't re-
member any conversation with
Mr.. Sullivan before the nolo
plea was entered.
IT think this is an honest
mistake by Mr.. Sullivan"
Evening star., 1953-06-23
News Of Music
By EIeno de Soyn

Although the name of Frances
Villaret. pianist. is prominent in
local music circles, she appeared
in the Phillips Gallery last night
for the first time. The excellent
quality of her playing is a de-
cided asset to the community.
Her performance was a combi-
nation of a natural talent with
virtuoso technique. a lovely
touch and a desire for self
expression:
It seemed that LISTS monu-
mental Sonata in B Minor" was
especially congenial to her.
There was just enough apprecia-
tion of the drama in it on Miss
Villaret's part to tint the work
with a variety of colors. The
sonata is orchestrally conceived
and places great demands on the
endurance and power of the per-
| former and on his ability to
! bring out it's dramatic and lyric
elements. The pianist's percep-
ton was clear and expressive.
The ominous measures in the
opening "Lento" were impressive
by their forcefulness. while the
transfigured reminiscence of
them in the closing phrases of
the work abounded in feeling.
She treated the singing passages
with delicacy and thoughtfulneSS
and showed a fine control of the
staccato in the fugato part.
taken at a brisk pace.
The artists virtuosity was fur
ther manifested in Barber's
Evening star., 1953-06-23

not exactly a work which stimu-
lates the imagination with trag-
edy and romance, but has in
tensity and drive. Miss Villaret's
type of playing is better suited
to Liszt or Ravel, whose Soma
tine" was played with poetry
and brilliance and in Chopin's S
encore given at the end of the
recital.
Evening star., 1953-06-23
Recital by Frances VNoret
Displays Talent, Technique

Sonata Op. 26" where her tech
nique had full play. She brought
out its vitality in the rhythmic
pattern, playing it's dissonant
chords with a bold freedom. The
will-o'-the-wisp effect in the
second movement came out with
an impeccable clarity, the last
Allegro" was alive with the
composers joie de vivre. It is
Evening star., 1953-06-23
Bible Class to Cruise

The Organized Bible Glass of
the District will hold it's annual
moonlight cruise at 8 o'clock to-
night aboard the Wilson Line S.
S. Mount Vernon.
Evening star., 1953-06-23

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The Nome nugget., 1953-02-25
Won Rundstedt, German General at Battle of the Bulge," Dies at "

HANOVER, Germany, IT, Field Marshal Karl Gerd Won Rund- stedt, stern Prussian officer who directed the big German offensive against US. lines in the Battle of the Bulge, died at his home here Tuesday. He was 77.
 The German offensive in the winter of 1944 was dying gasp of Hitler's armed forces and the third great battle of the war in which Won Rundstedt had the guiding hand. The others were the envelopment of Poland's main army in 1889 and Dunkerque.
 Won Rundstedt was among the high German officers long held by the Allies on suspicion of war crimes, but he never came to trial. He was kept in British custody for four years, mostly under hospital care. British authorities dropped charges against him because he was considered 9 too ill to stand trial.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-25
Daughter Gets Part But Mother Gets Jail For Embedding $25,OOO

HOLLYWOOD, R - Jill Hol- lingsworth has won a movie role, chance which cost her doting mother a long term in jail.
 Jack Broder, an Independent producer, said Monday night he signed the 18- year old Detroit girl for a part in picture, Steel Bayonets," on which production is scheduled to start March 4.
 The film will star John Ireland and Lon McAllister, Broder said Miss Hollingsworth's part may run only four or five minutes but will be the principal feminine role. She will play the part of WAC in canteen scenes.
 ''She may earn only about $500, but she'll be getting chance" ," Broder said. 'I'm Detroit theater operator, too, and because I've heard about the background of her case I wanted to give her a break.
 Jill's mother, Mrs. Beatrice Hol- lingsworth, 47, last Friday was sentenced in Detroit to 5 to 14 years in the house of correction for embedding $25,OOO from Detroit manufacturing firm for which she was a bookkeeper.
 Mrs. Hollingsworth said she took the money to take her daughter to Hollywood and groom her for "a chance in show business I never had" The judge, in sen tencing her, scolded her severely for "child-doting" and for len toying the notoriety you received"
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-25
Pacific NV Timber Interests Safe, Says State Department
By FRANK w. VAILLE

WASHINGTON, tR - Japanese plans for tapping Alaska's timber would not shut the Japanese mar ket to Pacific Northwest timber and pulp interests, State Depart ment spokesman says.
 "We are certain that as in for mer years, the timber and pulp producers of Oregon will have an opportunity to compete on an equal basis for their share of the large Japanese market" Thurston B. Morton, assistant secretary of state, said in a letter made public Tuesday by Rep. Norblad R-Ore).
 The letter was in reply to a strongly worded protest from Nor blad against the announced plans of Japanese interests to set up a sawmill and eventually a pulp mill in Alaska.
 Norblad had written that many northwest mills are now operating irregularly or have closed because of a slow timber market. To per init the Japanese to cut timber in Alaska would aggravate the situ- ation further, he said.
 Morton also sought to set at rest Norblad's fears over the wis dom of letting any foreign gov ernment gain a foothold in the development of any US. or terri torial resource.
 ". The United States govern ment has not agreed to allow the Japanese government the right to construct and operate lumber mills or pulp plant in Alaska" !" he wrote Indeed, the Japanese government has never requested such permission"
 Because today, more than ever before, the Department of Defense looks upon forest reserves as a resource which can strengthen that important link in our nation al defense, a stable civilian popu- lation in Alaska" Morton said the Japanese inquiries received care ful consideration by the Depart ments of Defense, Interior, Agri- culture, Labor, Commerce and State.
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The Nome nugget., 1953-02-25

There are 7,5OO varieties of American apples but not more than 50 varieties of commercial importance.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-25
From faraWay places more
 oil for you

In SUmofro back in 1924 Standard geologists began mapping possible deposits of oil But not until last did Samaritan wells start adding to available oil supplies This operation, costing $62 million to date pioneered by Standard It is carried jointly with The Texas Company under the name "Caltex."
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Car Strikes House,
Moves Il Four Inches

An auto out of control crashed
into an Alexandria home today
and moved it 4 inches off its
foundations. Alexandria police
reported.
Damage to the house, a frame
building at 625 South Alfred
street, was estimated at $500.
Driver of the auto was listed
as Albert H. Whitehurst of the
400 block of Pendleton street.
Alexandria, stationed at Fort
Belvoir. He was charged with
reckless driving.
Police said Whitehurst told
them he was turning left about
1:15 am. from Franklin street
into South Alfred street when
he lost control of the car and
struck a corner of the house
after knocking down two 8-foot
trees.
Damage to the auto was eSti-
mated at $500.
The house was that of Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Reed. col
ored, and their three teen-age
boys. None were hurt.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Mer'-' Examination
Asked for Watson in
|Attack-Murder Case

Counsel for Clarence e. Wat
son, jr., 19-year-old colored boot
black, charged with murder and
rape, late yesterday filed motions
asking for a mental examination
of their client and a change in
venue if he is brought to trial.
The motions were filed in the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia by Attorneys
James c. Toomey and Thomas
A. Walden, jr.
In the motion asking for q
mental examination, the two de-
fense attorneys say Watson's
family have indicated that, in
their opinion, he has suffered
from mental illness for many
years. They also expressed the
opinion that Watson is mentally
unable to assist counsel in his
trial.
The motion for a change in
venue contends he could not re-
ceive fair trial here because Of
Evening star., 1953-09-15

been set for November 16. II the
jury fails to convict Watson or
to recommend the death penalty
on the rape charge, he viii be
brought to trial promptly on the
charge. of numbering Miss Tag
gart, Mr.. Smithson said last
week.
In the motion asking for trial
Of the murder case first, the de-
tense counsel declared Watson
"iS ready, willing and able to
prove his innocence" in both the
murder and rape cases. The de-
tense also asked the court to
allow them to inspect any writ
ten confessions"
It was recalled that defense
counsel have said they would
fight WatSon's confession in the
murder case on the ground that
he was held nearly II hours be-
fore he signed a confession.
The defense attorneys also
asked that the prosecution be
required to furnish them with a
bill of particulars, setting forth
in more detail the charges in the
Taggart murder case.
Would Inspect Records.
The defense attorneys ask the
court, in another motion, to sup
press as evidence several articles
Of Watson's clothing they con-
Evening star., 1953-09-15

tend were illegally seized at his
residence. Another motion asks
for court authority for Watson's
attorneys to inspect grand Jury
records to determine how many
grand jurors voted to indict
Watson.
The indictment charging Wat
son with the flrst-degree murder
of Miss Taggart accuses him Of
hitting her about the head with
a blunt instrument. Other
counts accuse him of killing her
while perpetrating a housebreak-
ing and while attempting to rape
her.
The indictment accusing Wat
son Of rape last May also charges
him with breaking into the air.
line hostess apartment and
stealing $40.
In addition to these two in
dictmentS, Watson is named in
other indictments on charges in
cluding housebreaking, robbery,
theft and assault.
Evening star., 1953-09-15

prejudice resulting from Gin
fiamatory publicity" which it
charges the Government manu-
featured" in the murder case.
In the event Watson is tried
here. his attorneys seek to have
him tried first on charges of
numbering Miss Alyce o. Tag
gart last July 5 in her room in
the SCOTS Hotel for Women.
They charge that "only after
he lWatSon) has established his
innocence as concerns Miss Tag
gart's death will he be able, as
a practical matter, to procure a
fair and unbiased trial" in the
rape case, involving an airline
hostess.
Last Friday, the prosecution
elected to try. Watson first on a
charge Of raping a 23-year-old
airline hostess last May / in her
apartment in the TOO block of
P street NV. Assistant United
States Attorney Frederick G..
Smithson. who is assigned to
prosecute Watson, said he will
ask the jury to recommend the
death penalty on the rape charge.
A rape conviction carries the
death penalty only when recon-
mended by jury. Otherwise
the maximum penalty is 10 to 80
years.
Trial on the rape charge has
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Man browns in Fall
OFF Annapolis Dock
BY the Asseeia'sd Press

ANNAPOLIS. Sept. 15.-Jesse
Brady, 80, drowned off the city
dock last night, police reported.
Patrolman Richard Johnson
said Mr.. Brady was sitting on q
bench at the foot of the dock
street. when he fell into the
water. His body was recovered.
Police said the victim has a
daughter living in Seat Pleasant,
Md, and she has been notified.
Evening star., 1953-09-15

vorced her fourth husband. He
is Alexander de Rostaing, Ital-
lan-born one-time Marquis of
San Fernando and at present
in charge Of an automobile
agency service department here.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
4th Husbund Is Divorced

Los ANGELES, Sept. IS (R.-
Mrs. Harriet M. de Rostaing
widow of New York speculator
James Livermore, yesterday di-
Evening star., 1953-09-15

WED 50 YEARS-Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Gingell, $50 Bal
timOre avenue, College Park,
Md, recently observed their
golden wedding. They have
two daughters, Mrs. Macon
Inman and Mrs. Patrick Tur-
ner, both of Frederick. Md.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. GingelI
were born in Potomac, Md.
Mr.. GinEell has been in the
automobile business in the
District for IS years.
Harris Ewing Photo.
Evening star., 1953-09-11
Big GOissgs-Oss
At The Mechf Co.!

Top-name Wool Suit Sale
for Misses S----------$33
Sale Of Imported French
Handbags - S.95 plus tax
It's Kroehler Week Featuring
the Newest and Finest in
Modern and Traditional
Furniture at Budget Prices!
Evening star., 1953-09-11

Modern at It's comfortable goodlooking best! Famous
Dunlop "Pilo-Foam" seee has everplump 42inch thick
aircooled foam rubber cushion Seats as sofa bv dav
sleeps one in reabed comfort night Handsome tweed
cover zps off for easy cleaning Black wrought iron frame
and legs give custom modern look Grey and black tweed
Buy pair for a grouping
The Hecht Co, Fourth Floor Washington
PARKtngton; Third Floor, SIuer Spring
Evening star., 1953-09-11

A combination that really
rings the value bell! For one
low price you get a mahogany
finish 7-drawer kneehole desk
with antique brass hardware,
heavy plate glass desk top,
and sturdy ladderback chair
with eggshell Duran plastic
seat.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Metropolitan Scene

Despite some published re-
ports, there's almost no likeli-
hood that Secretary Oveta Culp
Hobby of the new Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare Department
will try to transfer st. Eliza
beths Hospital to the District.
The rumor was prompted by
Mrs. Hobby's testimony re-
Gently before a House Appro-
priations subcommittee headed
by Representative Busbey, Re-
publican of Illinois.
Reasons why the transfer
isn't likely to develop include:
/. St. Elizabeths doesn't want
it. The hospital has a high rep
utation nationally and hence
has been able to maintain
standards of care and staff it
would find impossible to main
tain as a local institution.
2. District health officials
don't want it. They say they
have enough trouble trying to
get appropriations for the hos
pitals they now have.
3. Welfare officials also are
cool. District patients at st.
Elizabeths now number $500
out Of a total of 1900. They
are paid for out of the welfare
budget and the annual tab is
more than SO million.
X y y y .....
Lote for Supper
Some parents have been
complaining to recreation de-
partment officials that their
Evening star., 1953-04-26

exclude. those of tender
years."
"The only conceivable bene-
fit the defendant might have
been deprived of by the order
of the court in this case" the
jurists said. was the presence
in the courtroom of a crowd
of adult aping loafers whose
morbid curiosity would lead
them to attend such a trial
and the consequent en-
barrassment and annoyance
their performance might cause
to the unfortunate girl who
was called upon to testify to
the story of the defendants
crime and her shame"
The court doubted that de-
prival Of that benefit" hurt
the defendants case.
A view directly opposite to
that of the Alaska court-also
one quoted widely in recent
cases-was that handed down
in a 1917 train robbery case
in Federal Court in Oklahoma.
The appellate court reversed
a conviction even though the
judge who cleared the court
room allowed members of the
bar. law students, members of
the press and friends of the
accused" to remain in the
room.
There was bad blood be-
tween the man on trial and
some of his relatives who were
attending the trial, both as
witnesses and as spectators.
There had been some open
display of this emotion, in
cluding the slapping of a wit
ness (outside the courtroom)
with a newspaper. The judge.
fearing violent outbreak in
the courtroom, ordered most
of those attending barred from
the room.
When the case was ap-
pealed. the appellate court
sent it back for a new trial,
pointing out that "the sixth
amendment provides that in
all criminal prosecutions the
accused shall enjoy the right
of public trial. Nor can (cer-
tain) classes be taken as the
Evening star., 1953-04-26

living off the land Of Northern
Burma. If Nationalist China
exercises any control over Ii
Mi-wnich is denied-the hold
is tenuous indeed.
But Gen. LIS Salvation Army
long has been a thorn in the
side of the Burmese. So much
so, in fact, that earlier this
month Burma asked the
United Nations to declare
Nationalist China an aggressor
because of the depredations Of
Ii & Co.
The matter came to a head
on two fronts last week:
. The Fighting Front. Chi
nese soldiers from Thailand
poured across the border into
Burma, not far from the locale
of Rudyard Kipling's poem,
THE Road to Mandalay."
With them. they brought Bur-
mese rebels of the Karen tribe,
who had been giving the gov
ernment of Burma a bad time
since the end of World War II.
Far to the north. other Chi
neSe were fighting the Bur-
meSe army. AS many as H.
900 troops were reported raw
aging the eastern part Of
Burma.
Q The Talking Front. Burma
demanded an end to the fight
ing, but saw little chance Of
getting the United Nations to
declare Chang Kai-shek's For
mosa government an aggressor.
The Soviet bloc, which would
have liked to blacken not only
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Open and Closed rioIs
Judges Can Find Plenty Of Precedents for Either;
In Courts Here, Only Juvenile Cases Are Closed

exclusive representatives of the
public"
The appellate court quoted
an early decision that a trial
court should be public in the
ordinary acceptance of the
term the doors of the
courtroom are expected to be
kept open the public are
entitled to be admitted ;"
and said that it agreed.
District Rules
In the District, the public
can attend any trial or any
part of a trial, with the excep>
ton of juvenile cases. A 1850
Municipal Court ruling by
Judge Aubrey B. Fennell has
not been challenged.
Judge Fennell, after first ex-
Guiding the press and public
from the trial of an indecent
exposure case, later ruled that
the press, as representative of
the public, has an inherent
right" to attend all criminal
trials.
Attorneys for the man on
trial wanted their client pro-
tected from any bad publicity.
AS it turned out. public dis
cussion of what was revealed
at the trial later led to clearing
him of the charges. Judge
Fennell first complied with the
attorneys request to clear the
courtroom. 1t looked for a
while as if the ruling would
stick. Testimony of two wit
neSSes was taken behind
closed doors.
Then, on the second day of
the trial, reporters for three
newspapers walked into the
closed courtroom. They didn't
want to be contemptuous. they
said, but they felt they had q
right to be present during the
trial. Judge Fennell halted
all proceedings, and the next
day handed down his decision
that the press had as much
right in the courtroom as the
attorneys for both sides.
No Appeal
This was handled in the
lower court without appeal. as
was another case in recent
months which took the op-
posite course. In Lynchburg.
Va, Corporation Court Judge
S. Duval Martin. turning to
the theory on what the public
ought to hear. cleared the
court during testimony of a
victim of a man accused Of
rape. If newspaper reporters
had been allowed to attend,
Judge Martin said. they
would have broadcast every
word she said"
This argument about open.
partially open, or completely
closed trials can be expected to
rage on indefinitely. Actually,
in the long run. a certain
amount of play" in the
: speedy-and-public trial sys-
tenn could well be the perfect
formula for keeping the level
of justice on the generally
high plain that has been main
tained in this country.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Continued From Page A-25..

N~SAASAAANA$A = SA4A \ SS0S "A SVe<
running far behind schedule.
Only q few of the minor money
bills have reached the Hill, and
they have been based on the
Truman budget.
But the House has gone to
work on what it had. Early
results Of House action re-
minded observers last week of
the old sawing-a-woman-in-
half trick. The leading per-
formers claimed the victim
had actually been sundered,
but the wiseacreS In the gal
leries hollered that the trick
was done with mirrors.
How 1t Is Done
Here is what happened.
The House first went to
work on a bill providing money
for % independent agencies.
President Truman had recon-
mended they be given $1,172,-
444,190. When the House was
finished, the bill carried only
$451 ,020, ,493-a saving Of more
than so per cent, according to
the economy bloc. But Demo-
Gratis claimed that 5000 million
Of the saving was just fancy
bookkeeping. The money was
whisked from the Independent
Offices measure, but it would
show up later in other bills.
The bill was passed on voice
vote. however. and sent on to
the Senate.
Philosophical Thrift
In the meantime the Appro-
priationS Committee had re-
duced another bill, for the
Department of Interior, from
the SCOT million recommended
by Mr.. Truman to $404 mil
lion. The committee cut the
measure $50 million even from
what Mr.. EiSenhower'S Secre-
tary of the Interior thought he
needed.
Most Of the saving repre-
sented q change in philosophy.
Power projects were SlaShed,
with the committees admoni-
ton that from now on the
Government should perform
only the jobs that private in
dustry was unable to tackle.
Many Of the savings seemed
genuine, provided the commit
tee was not wrong in it's esti-
mates Of which projects would
be taken over by industry.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
view Of The Week: Inquiries, Wars, Elections

other conservative parties for
the "a extra votes he'll need
to be elected Premier when
the Diet reconvenes in May.
Betting is that he will be able
to get them. but that the
margin will be so shaky he
may be forced to the polls
again before the end of this
year.
The Yoshida setback was
interpreted as an indication of
a mild slump in American
popularity. since the Premier
has been known as a friend of
the United States. Other con-
servatlve parties friendly to
America also lost strength. The
Left Socialists, who often are
indistinguishable from Com
munistS, gained 16 seats and
now have 72, not enough to do
much damage. The Right So
cialists gained six seats for a
total of 66. The ProgressiveS,
second largest conservative
party, took 76 seats, 13 less
than previously. This is con-
sidered a blow to the political
aspirations of Mamoru Shige-
mitsu, signer Of the surrender
aboard the Missouri and one
Of the Glass A war criminals
convicted by an allied court.
The only alternative to an
other Yoshida- headed govern
ment would be a coalition Of
the Progressives with dissident
Liberals and the Left and
Right Socialists, considered a
highly unlikely prospect.