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Evening star., 1953-12-22
Detective Watches
Streetcar Dip Job,
Grabs 7 Suspects

Detective Sergt. Bernard w.
Best, a man with practiced
eye. knows the earmarks of rob-
berry even if the victim isn't
aware he is being taken.
While riding in a police cruiser
up Seventh street NV, in the
TOO block. he glanced into a pass
ing streetcar. He saw two col
ored men joStle a third and then
get off the car. They also tossed
something into the first con-
venient doorway.
Wallet Discarded.
Checking the discarded item
the detective found it was a wall
let, empty of cash and identifi-
cation. He placed the two men
under arrest.
Less than a hour later the de-
tective received a call from the
second precinct. It was a COM
plant by Robert Dent, 40. of 613
New Jersey avenue NV, that
his pocket had been picked, on a
Streetcar, he thought.
Getting Mr.. Dent and his wal
let together was a simple matter.
He identified the pocketbook,
saying it had contained SO.
50 Found on Suspects.
{ A search Of the two suspects
turned up exactly that amount.
Reginald Adams. q. Of the
1900 block of D street Sc, had
a IS bill in his possession. Rob-
ert F. Norwood, 81, stopping in
the 1900 block c street Sc. had
four 81 bills. The two were
booked on charges Of robbery.
Evening star., 1953-12-22

A man under arrest on a speed
ing charge today escaped from
the old Fairfax County Jail. by
running out an unlocked door
of the Jail kitchen.
Sheriff John Taylor identified
the fugitive as Raymond Eppard,
%, of the 1900 block of Third
street NE.
Sheriff Taylor said Eppard
was taken to the jail's kitchen
by Deputy j. r. Llewellyn to
make a telephone call at 8:45
am. When MIR. Llewellyn
reached into a box to give Ep-
pard some change the prisoner
made a dash through the kitchen
door. The Jail telephone is on
the kitchen wall.
Deputy Outdistanced.
Mr.. Llewellyn ran after Ep-
pard, but the prisoner outsdiS-
tanced him.
Sheriff Taylor said Eppard
had been picked up by Fairfax
town police on "a charge of driv-
ing IS miles an hour in a 40
mile zone at $50 am. today. He
was taken to the Jail when he
couldn't produce $25 collateral.
Falls Church police. mean
while, had obtained a warrant
against Eppard earlier today
accusing him of failing to pay
for 10 gallons of gasoline at a
service station. Police Capt. E.
H. Howe said Eppard drove off
Evening star., 1953-12-22

Mr.. Stone emphasized the lack
of segregation between offenders
of varying degrees of seriousness,
the lack of medical isolation IA
,ilities with the consequent threat
of epidemic, the inadequate Sc
curity offered by an 8-foot chain
link fence.
When he said the Welfare De-
partment had asked for funds to
enlarge the place but he didn't
know if the Commissioners had
left it in the budget, Chairman
Henderson told him:
II assure you we'll make a pub
lie inquiry about that. Well
pursue it. If there's one need
I've seen here, it's the need at
your institution"
Mr.. Shea, like DR.. Wexbllrg,
emphasized the need for a public
facility here 10 house emotionally
disturbed children needing "a
hour psychiatric care. He urged
the subcommittee to support his
need for more staff for the de-
partment's protective services as
a means of preventing delin-
quency.
Pointing out that no PSYCHE
artists are now employed by the
Welfare Department, he said that
20 per cent of the departments
wards are in need of regular
psychiatric service and most of
the rest would be aided if case
workers could consult with psy-
chiatrists about them.
Details of tOday'S delinquency
hearing appear on Page AID
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Tax Plans Discussed

The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors discussed legislative
needs yesterday with the coun-
tvs three representatives in the
State General Assembly, which
convenes in January.
One recommendation offered
would give the county permis-
sion to have a special census any
time the supervisors believe
there has been a $4,000 popula-
ton increase. The State would
be required to recognize results
Of the census in distributing tax
money among the counties and
cities. Such a measure would
provide more revenue for Fair
fax.
The supervisors, without en-
thusiasm, also asked to be in
cluded in local sales tax legis-
lation in case it is adopted for
other Jurisdictions in the 10th
congressional district.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
The Psychiotric View:
Need of Biqqer Stoff

DR.. Leopold E. Wexburg, chief
Of the Health Departments
Mental Health Division, declared
that to do a decent job" in
child psychiatric treatment his
staff should be increased to three
or four times its present size.
DR.. Wexburg said that, in
cluding Public Health nurses
who do psychiatric work. the di-
vision has staff of IL profess
sional workers. He added that
the bureau had not been granted
any staff increase in recent years
and that Federal aid has been
cut from $4,000 to $4,000.
DR.. Wexburg told the subcom-
mittee that there is now a delay
OF about eight months for chill
dren who apply for treatment
at the Child Guidance Center.
He said he understood there is
a waiting period of about one
year for Catholic University's
child center.
The Districts Child Guidance
Center. DR.. Wexburg said, had
423 active cases on June 80. This
included 125 on the waiting list
for treatment.
In answer to a question by
Senator Kefauver, Democrat, of
Tennessee, DR.. Wexburg said he
would not Recommend that
children be kept from reading
all comic books and watching
lurid television shows, although
he had listed them as q "signifi-
cant" factor in delinquency.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Beer License Suspended
For Sale 10 Minor

The light wines and beer
license of John N. Ballos, owner
of the Takoma Park Garry Out
Shop, $50 Carol street NV, has
been suspended for 81 days for
selling wine and beer to a boy
under 18. The suspension begins
at 10 am. January 4.
Mr.. Ballos' license was sus-
pended for IA days last Septem-
ber 81 on three charges of SELL
ing beer to boys under 10.
At hearing yesterday before
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board testimony was given that
the young man bought q case Of
beer and two bottles of wine for
party given by teen-age boys
and girls in a park in nearby
Maryland. Maryland police
raided the party and the ABC
Board was notified.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
The Schools View:
More Staff Needed

A picture OF overcrowded
classes, principals chained to
their desks with clerical detail,
too few special classes for re-
tarded children and insufficient
psychiatric help was drawn by
school officials.
DR.. Norman j. Nelson, assist
ant superintendent of schools,
told the subcommittee that
teachers are too preoccupied
with administrative and clerical
detail to devote as much time as
they would like to potential de-
linquentS.
Asked by Subcommittee Act
ing Counsel Herbert Beaser why
school Fairgrounds were locked
after school, DR.. Nelson said
there was no money for a super
visory staff. He agreed the
needed appropriation would be
small.
DR.. Nelson Joined police and
welfare officials in complaining
about the lack of information
from Juvenile Court. Without
knowing that children are on
probation. he said, teachers
might put a child into a situa-
ton where he would commit the
same offense that got him into
trouble the first time.
Sees Information as Help.
He said he had attended a
conference with Juvenile Court
Judge Edith H. Cockrill at which
she was urged to notify the
schools Of all cases she received
affecting pupils. He added that
he had seen no change in policy
since that conference.
II feel" he said. that we are
educated to deal with children.
I feel if we had all the informa-
ton we could attack these prob
lens better"
Mrs. Bessie Cramer. director
Of special services in the white
elementary schools, reported
noting an increase in the num-
Der Of school children showing
emotional disturbances at q very
early age.
Asked how many children
needed psychiatric examination
and treatment, she said she was
getting two cases . week Of chill
dren in emotional trouble and
they frequently needed psychia-
trio care.
She reported that she had re-
viewed $50 Of her most serious
cases to find the main cause in
each case. OF the $50, she said.
parental neglect or indifference
was the chief cause in 81 cases.
Emotional problems in the home.
ranging from q neurotic father
to a parent now in st. Elizabeths.
was the main cause in 80 cases.
The mothers alcoholism was
the main cause In q cases. OF
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Police Boys Club Bond
Will Visit Hospitals

The Metropolitan Police Boys
Club Band will make Christmas
Day tour Of hospitals. homes and
other places, Deputy Chief Of
Police Howard v. Covell an
nounced today.
The first stop will be at Mount
Alto Hospital at 7:15 am. Other
stops will include the homes Of
Police Chief Robert v. Murray
and Commissioners Camalier,
Spencer and PrentiSS. The band
will wind up its tour with q
concert at the Fourteenth. and
F street entrance of the Willard
Hotel at 1885 am.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Trash Collection Holiday

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission has sus-
pended its garbage and trash
collections and operation of its
incinerators for both Christmas
and New Years Day and the
Saturday following each holi-
day.
The commission said all pos
sible steps would be taken to
assure that collections viii be
up to date before the eve Of
each holiday.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
NeWWitnessesHea
In Move 10 Reindict
.Carper and Taylor

The Government has begun
presenting evidence to a District
grand jury in it's efforts to re-
indict suspended Police 1t. H. H.
Carper and Sergt. William l..
Taylor on narcotics and bribery
charges.
Eight witnesses, two of them
new to the case, were questioned
yesterday by Assistant United
States Attorney Frederick Smith
son during a Six-hour session at
the United States Courthouse.
Mr. Smithson identified only
two of those appearing before
the panel. They were James
(Jim Yellow Roberts, a one
time narcotics big-wig, and Ann
Simcoe, also a dope peddler.
Told Of Paying Carper.
Roberts. appearing as a star
witness at the Senate District
Crime subcommittee hearings in
March. 1852. told Hill probers
he had paid protection money to
Carper. He is now serving a
term at Lorton Reformatory fol-
lowing a conviction for selling
heroin.
The Simcoe woman, also con-
sidered a key figure, lin the case
against the two suspended mem
bers Of the Metropolitan Police
Departments narcotics squad,
was returned here from Lexing-
ton. KY. She is serving a is to
so month term for narcotics Of
fenseS.
To Call 4 in Jail.
While Mr.. Smithson would not
state who else testified, he did
admit court orders have been
issued. calling for the return
here of four other underworld
characters connected with the
case and now in Jail.
They were for Herbert
(Bucklejaws) johnson, Paul R.
Robinson. Leonard Dixon and
Jessie w. Jeffers. jr. . All are
colored.
Carper and Taylor, the two
former ranking members of the
narcotics squad, were originally
indicted on May %, 1852, for con-
spring to violate narcotics laws
and bribery. The indictment.
however. was tossed out of court
last November "a, by Judge Ed
ward Tamm, of the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the District of
Columbia.
Deputies Stay Outside.
Judge Tamm ruled the true
bill was invalid because prisoner
witnesses were accompanied into
the grand jury room by deputy
United States marshals, who re-
mained there as guards while the
witnesses testified.
AT yesterdays session, the de-
putty marshals escorted the pris-
oners to an ante room just out
side the grand jury room and
left them there. They did not 60
inside.
Mr.. Smithson said he hoped to
complete presentation of evi-
dence early in January.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Maryland and Virginia
News in Brief

lation duplicates existing county
and State regulations and spe-
cifically exempted the Washing
ton Sanitarium. The ordinance
provides for fees ranging from
SIS to SIS and penalties from
$40 to $50 a day.
Evening star., 1953-12-22

Y M c A vice
president, Mr..
B r e u n i niger
succeeds Car
son P. Frailey.
who served as
president for
the last nine
years.
A District
real estate
ma n, Mr..
B re u n niger
lives at 2701
Foxhall road
NV,
Evening star., 1953-12-22
The Receiving Home
And Overcrowding

William j. Stone. superintend-
ent OF the Receiving Home for
Children, said the institution
was even more crowded than
when the Senators visited last
week. They saw 81 children in
q place designed for 43. Yester-
day, Mr.. Stone said, lot children
were in residence.
Evening star., 1953-12-22

W.,M.&A.Asks
More Workers
And New Name
Wants Six Suluries
Included in Figures
On Fare Increase

Leslie L. Altman, president
and general manager Of the
Washington, Marlboro & Annap-
oils Motor Lines, Inc, today
argued before the Public Utilities
Commission for additional en-
ployeS.
Under croSS-examination in
the within-the-District fare in
crease, Mr.. Altman declared the
company needs three additional
mechanics and three more super
visors in the transportation de-
partment. He wants salaries for
them included in calculating a
fare increase.
Commission Counsel Lloyd B.
Harrison conducted this morn
ing'S questioning, and developed
from Mr.. Altman that the COM
pany had net operating income
in four out Of the last six years.
For the commission to try to
decide the number of employees
needed in the operation is TAX
ing the prerogative from man
agement," Mr.. Altman told the
commission. 1--WE have done a
good job in the past with limited
personnel. We have long needed
additional personnel-and man
agement should determine how
many"
Sees No Direct Interference.
Chairman Robert E. McLaugh->
lin broke in to say to Mr.. Alt
mann:
"You realize you are arguing
the case now"
Under further questioning by
Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Altman de-
clared the commission has not
directly interfered with the hir-
ing OF personnel. The company
president declared that while
salaries for additional personnel
were set up by the commission
in the 1948 rate hearing, he was
unable to hire them because of
lack Of money.
Mr.. Altman declared the COM |
pany has never had sufficient
income for current expenses be-
cause of inadequate fare raises.
The company is now asking the
commission to permit 2O-cent
cash fare within the District,
and eliminate the 1125-cent
tokens. There are about IA mil
lion within-District riders an
nually, representing 38 per cent
of the company's passengers, the
commission advised.
Mr.. Altman said the company
had not paid dividends either on
its preferred or common stock
in the last seven years. He said
the last time the commission
granted it a fare increase was
October 81. 1948.
There has been q substantial
increase in the company's char
ter business, about $4,000, but
still that was not enough, Mr..
Altman said.
James A. Donovan, the COM
pany's attorney, this morning
presented a certificate of correc-
ton to the commission, to
change the company's name. It
would be known as the w. M. A.
Transit Co.
Mr.. Altman explained the
existing name, which has been
used for some 80 years. does not
properly identify the company
as a transit concern. He said
the words motor lines" in prac-
tically all instances indicate
freight carriers and they want
to get away from that. He also
pointed out the use of "Annapo-
lis" in the old name is confusing,
because service to- that city was
discontinued about 1929 or 1880,
but the company still gets
queries about it.
Mr.. Altman said that he will
take up the name change with
the Maryland Public Service
Commission and the, Interstate
Commerce Commission shortly.
Evening star., 1953-12-22

GERS elected are Judge Benjamin
H. Littleton and Charming S.
Walker, vice presidents; Henry
w. Fisher. jr.. secretary; Alfred
H. Lawson, treasurer; E. c. Gid
dings, assistant treasurer. and
James c. Wilkes, counsel.
New board members elected
are Richard A. Norris, Leon
Chatelain, Clyde D. Garrett. Har-
ry L. Merrick. j. Morrison Smith,
Claude w. Owen and Maury K.
Heartfield.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Nursing Home Code Set

A new ordinance will go into
effect in Takoma Park. Md,
January 1. requiring licensing
and regulation of child-care CEN
tiers, nursing homes and similar
institutions.
1t was adopted last night by
the Takoma Park City Council
after a public hearing. Opposi-
ton came from a group of nurs-
ing home operators represented
by attorney Joseph B. Simpson,
jr. They contended thf legis-
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Health, School and Welfare Needs Listed

The Districts unmet needs in
its fight on juvenile delinquency
filled the hours of the Senate
investigators into the situation
here yesterday.
A parade of witnesses appeared
to stress how much preventive
work could be accomplished if
there were only enough people
to do it.
The emphasis was, successive
ly, on:
/. Health.
2. School.
z. Welfare
Evening star., 1953-12-22
County Workers Off

County Office workers in Prince
Georges will have four consecu-
tive days of for Christmas. The
courthouse in Upper Marlboro
and the County Service Building
in Hyattsville will shut down
after work tomorrow and will be
closed until Monday.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Glasses Forecast
Here for Witerute
Teen-Age Pupils

Mrs. Bessie Cramer, direc-
tor Of special services in the
white schools, told the Sen
ate Juvenile Delinquency
subcommittee that children
who have never learned to
read are coming into Dis
trict schools from other
States.
Before long" she pre-
dicted. I'VE will have to have
classes for teen-age illiterate
children"
Evening star., 1953-12-22
GI Prisoner Pulls Ruse,
Escapes at Fl. BeIvoir

An Army private awaiting
court at Fort Belvoir,
Va, for going AWOL feigned
foot trouble today and then
walked off from the post hos
pital.
The soldier, Pvt. Stuart T.
Reid, 20, of Sealston, Va, had
been confined to the camp stock
ade since being caught at his
home for going absent without
leave from Camp Gordon, Ga.
He slipped off to freedom after
going on sick call at 1920 am.
today.
The Army notified police who
broadcast a lookout for Pvt. Reid.
describing him as g. feet l inch
tall, weighing 100 pounds and
with red hair and blue eyes. He
was wearing Army fatigue clothes.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Fuirfux Concert TONIGHT

The Fairfax High School Band
will present its annual Christ
mas concert at 8 o'clock tonight
in the school under the direction
Of Phil Fuller.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Breuninger Named
Washington " Head

Lewis r. Breuninger was
elected president of the Young
Mems Christian Association of
Washington last night. A former
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Prisoner Held as Speeder
FIees Fairfax Jail Kitchen

from the Columbia Service Sta
tion, 455 South Washington
street. at $40 am. without pay
ing for the fuel. Falls Church
police then flashed Eppard's
license number over the police
radio.
Fairfax County is preparing to
open a new jail building. At
present, only minor law Offend
ers are kept in the old jail. while
the county's more serious law
breakers are being held at the
Arlington Jail.
Evening star., 1953-12-22

Details of tOday's delinquency
hearing appear on Page AID
Evening star., 1953-12-22

critical cases
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Constantine Brown:

Georgi Malenkov, the Red
ersatz dictator, Is known to
the leaders of the Western
governments to belong to the
war party within the Kremlin.
For several years the
Politburo was internally di-
vided into two groups. One
advocated a continuation of
the cold war; the other urged
a military showdown with the
Western world.
Those who favored the cold
war believed that the United
States, the handspring of
resistance of the free countries,
would eventually succumb
under the burden Of heavy
expenditures for military pre-
paredness.
They were convinced that
so long as Russia continued
her saber rafting and hot-cold
policies toward the West.
America would have to tax
her resources to such a point
that a major economic crisis
would paralyze us. Then the
Kremlin would establish its
world hegemony without firing
many shots. The principal
opponents of this policy were
Marshal Voroshilov, Lazar
Kaganovich and Anastas
Mikoyan.
The second group is said
not to believe in this long
range strategy. It fears that
time is working against the
Soviet plans and that the West
will eventually pool its re-
sources and unite in a work.
able confederation. 1t is wor-
ried lest time work against
Russia's interests. Recent de-
fections of Communists in
Western Europe and the adj
vent of conservative govern
ments from Washington to
Athens and Tokyo are con-
sidered by this Russian group
as unfavorable omens.
The war in the Far. East.
waged by the Kremlin's prox-
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Tolerate Chaos and Confusion
Based Operations to Date New Administration Should
Be QuoIifed-Confusion Already Achieved at Home

over our Government as a re-
suit of the recent election.
Confusion, we got it. Chaos
may be on the way.
Confusion is to be found in
all levels of the Government,
from the highest almost to the
lowest. It hasn't yet reached
the very lowest levels. Chair
man Clare Hoffman of the
House Government Operations
Committee, in discussing what
he favors doing about the
Federal Security Agency, says.
I'D leave the charwomen and
janitors." This must produce
quite a lot of confusion in the
. Office of Education, the Public
Health Service, the Food and
Drug Administration and other
parts of Mrs. Oveta Culp
Hobby's large and important
domain.
Other departments and agen-
cies have cause for the uneasi-
ness that results in confusion.
Civil service seems to be under
the most serious attack it has
had to meet since it was in
troduced into the Government.
Andrew Jackson's brave slo-
gan. TO the victors belong the
SpoilS," is being adopted in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

AMES, Iowa. - Apart from
the Atomic Energy Institute in
Iowa State College, I was i'm
pressed with the colleges TV
station, and with its home eco
Monies department.
This college, situated in a
small town, has the only TV
station operating over a large
section of Central Iowa. While
most of our States are dis
cussing-and probably turning
down--legislation which would
necessitate appropriations for
TV educational programs, Iowa
State sought and received a
grant from the Ford Founda-
ton for adult education and
went to work. It is budgeted
at $35O,000 a year. which is
more than covered by network
commercial programs, and it
has already paid off it's con-
Struction costs.
Like the Atomic Energy In
stitute, a great deal of the
work is done by students-both
technical work and script
preparation. although formal
scripts are seldom used. The
actors are the native IoWans
from farms, towns and villages
who are TV-filmed in the high
ways and byways, their speech
tape recorded, and the show
then reconstructed in the COL
lege studio. Before TV, towns
people debate their problems
whether or not they shall build
a hospital or have a CONSOLE
dated school, and the debate is
genuine, not staged.
Via the college TV, Iowa cit
liens have been taken into
State-supported Institutions
mental hospitals, orphan asy-
lums. etc., and shown just what
is being done. Three times a
week live demonstrations of
agricultural processes and
problems are made for farmers,
with agriculture students and
faculty aiding. No TV shows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Intelligence finally report out
Molotov for Stains ob-Mooov refused sell his
At Stains funeral Georg Malenkov advocates the
full coXstence Of and capitalism The capitalists
have part of the world they Malenkov
is the other seven eighths.
Secretary of State Dulles Stains death enhances the
chances for word Match, there's Communist
Supreme Court upholds the legality of certain types
union featherbedding The didn't dare against
the idea of getting paid for workng-t would
whole Federal Government
Lewis Strauss White House assistant in
charge of atomic Ike will have to give his golf
tce the White House awnhe getting many assistants
around he won't have room to swing his club.
Republicans get 448page book listing jobs they
fill by politics. Now the G. O. Ps only problem is to find $1,000
The Supreme Court the $50 gambling stamp
stituona The Supreme Court takes dim view of
people gamble with their veSWhich explain none
of the eight Democratic Justices has offered to resign.