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Evening star., 1955-06-25
Hits
Jury Laws
|InMoryIund

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. JUNE
I25 (R.-Circuit Judge Stedmar
Prescott Of Montgomery County
told the State Bar Association
last night juries in Maryland
criminal cases are not competent
to interpret the law.
The 9Th Judicial Circuit judge
who is retiring president of the
bar association. urged repeal Of
Maryland'S constitutional pro-
vision that such juries shall be
judges both of law and the facts
He told the second day session
the unique constitutional require
ment violates the fundamental
concepts of trial by jury"
Judge Prescott noted the sys-
tenn has been discarded or re-
pudiated in every State where il
has been tried and he contended
"it has retarded the growth OF
our substantive criminal law
I'm my humble judgment,
Judge Prescott added, ''it is ar
chaic, outmoded and atrocious
III I had to speak disparagingly
of it in a light vein. I would say
our fair State has had a slight
case of judicial iaundice' for the
last 104 years, and while the
bench and bar by judicial inter-
probation and rules of court have
done much to relieve her pain
and suffering. the time is over
ripe for her good people to vote
her a complete recovery
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Navy Won't Get
Housing Project,
.BroyhiII Is Told

Chinquapin Village, a war
housing project in Alexandria
will not be transferred back to
the Navy July !, according to
Representative Broyhill, Repub-
Ilican, of Virginia.
He said Charles E. Slusser,
commissioner Of the Public
Housing Administration, has
promised that no action will be
taken on the @roject until an
opportunity has been given to
all parties concerned to discuss
lit.
Albert NJ. Cole, administrator
of the Housing and Home Finace
Agency, recently refused the re-
quest of the Alexandria City
Council to continue use of the
project for low-rent housing op-
Grated by the Alexandria Re-
development and Housing Au-
|thority.
Alexandria officials have pro-
tested the transfer of the hous-
ling units because they claim the
city needs the project for its
own citizens and because it
would displace many veterans.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
SENATOR ASKS USE
or GUARDSMEN FOR
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC

BALTIMORE. June IS up.
Philip H. Goodman, Dem-
ocrat, of Baltimore, yester-
day asked Gov. McKeldin to
use the National Guard over
the Fourth of July week end
to help State police enforce
traffic laws.
Mr.. Goodman pointed out
that Michigan. which has
one of the lowest accident
death rates in the country.
uses its Guard for traffic
work on holiday week ends.
"The sight of Guardsmen
at busy intersections and
dangerous crossings will
serve not only to caution
motorists to give more heed
to their driving but they
could be utilized to assist
regular law enforcement of
flcers," said Mr.. Goodman.
Ten persons were killed on
Maryland highways over the
Fourth of July period last
year.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Youth, IS, Held
In $4,000 Fire

A 15-year-old District welfare
ward was held today by Mont
|gomery County police on charges
that he set the $4,000 barn fir,
which swept the Albert j. Cissel
farm near Jamestown, Md, latt
Wednesday.
Police said the colored boy
who had worked on the farm a:
a hired hand for several months
told them he had been thinking
about firing the barn for tive
days and "just wanted to see q
good blaze"
Montgomery County police of
f1cers Guy B. Lewis and Louis
Kelly said the youth joined the
crowd watching the fire and was
arrested the following day after
he questioned neighbors about q
five-gallon fuel can found when
the fire began.
The youth is being held for
juvenile trial on July 18.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Alexondriun Held
|On Girls CHARGE

"A 30-year-old Alexandria man
was held for grand jury ac-
tion yesterday on two charges
4 of raping a 15-year-old girl
while she was baby-sitting last
February.
Ernest Thacker, a television
Irepairman of the 100 block of
West Reed avenue, was arrested
Thursday on the complaint Of
the girls mother. The mother
said her daughter. who is three
months pregnant, did not tell
her about the alleged assault un-
It'll this week because she was
afraid"
The mother told police her
daughter said the defendant en-
tered the house where the fam
lily formerly lived on West Reed
avenue on two successive nights.
Thacker was held in Jail in
lieu of $4,000 bond set by
Juvenile Court Judge Irene Pam
coast.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
CreekSewage
Permit Granted

BALTIMORE, June Is (P:-
The Maryland Board of Health
brushed aside a threat of court
action by protesting Prince
Georges County property owners
yesterday and granted a modi-
fled permit for the Brandywine
Utilities Co. to discharge treated
sewage into Piscataway Creek.
The action was taken at the
boards monthly meeting after
the threat of court action was
disclosed by Harry Poth, attor-
ney for the utilities firm and
the r. & S. Construction Co.
The construction firm plans to
build 1000 homes in the Hoff-
man City development, the board
was told.
Health officials earlier had
given the utilities company per-
mission to discharge sewage from
the first 1000 homes into the
creek after the sewage was
treated at a plant to be built
upstream from the protesting
property owners.
A yesterdays meeting this was
limited to sewage from the first
500 homes.
There are about IA owners
along the affected creek area.
After the development en-
braced more than 1000 units.
sewage would have to be disposed
of through underground pipes
feeding into the Potomac River.
This permit was protested by
a delegation of property owners
along the creek at the boards
meeting last month. They con-
tended the creek frequently dried
UP during periods of little rain.
and sewage would thus create a
health hazard.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Navy Vale Area
IFiremen Elect

Residents of the Navy Vale
|and Pender area near Herndon
Va, have elected officers and di-
lrectors of a new volunteer fire
department they are organizing
At a meeting In the Navy
Community Clubhouse Thursday
the organizing members elected
the following:
James M. Gleason, president:
Ray Thompson. vice president;
Owen w. Clark. secretary: Rich
ard Seymour. treasurer, and
Cecil NJ. O'Bannon, fire chief
The board Of directors will con.
sist of the officers and Leroy
Sloper and z. j. Moore.
The group, to be known as the
Navy Vale Volunteer Fire De-
partment. has received offers Of
q fire station site and building
materials for q IRE house.
Evening star., 1955-06-25

COUNTY DIRECTIVE
EASES cHAIRMAN's
PARKING cHORE

A new parking directive
for Prince Georges County
personnel working in Upper
Marlboro has the hearty
Endorsement of Jesse S.
Baggett. chairman of the
Board of Commissioners.
This morning I had to
leave my car way out back
by the trash can." he said.
IF they decide to burn the
trash my car is gone.
II just can't manage to
get here at 6 in the morning
to find a parking space"
The directive, addressed to
all department heads, viii
: ask early arrival employees to
use the 30-car lot adjacent
to the voting machine stor-
age shed.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
Chr Sunnau Star

Choose The Star on Sunday When You HGue a Choice
CALLING ALL PARENTS-In This Week Magazine be
to read crooner Eddie Fishers feature, entitled
"It's Tough to Be TeenaAger"-The idol of United
State kids reminds you of some problems grownups
too often forget
PRIZE-WINNING SNAPSHOTS-For a look at the
first weeks winning photos in The Stars Amateur
Photo Contest be sure to check The Star Pictorial
Magazine. Also, Brian Bell brings you up to date
on Louise Corder local junior high school girl
of 10 years ago, now successful leading lady in
"The Seven Year Itch"
LIMITED" NUCLEAR WAR-In an exclusive interview
in the Editorial Section Senator Mike Mansfield,
Democratic, of Montana tells why he opposes the ad
ministration'S Limited nucear war; theory. The
Senator reveals that Senate foreign policy watch
dogs" are operating in vacuum in this atomic age.
YOUNG MAN WITH. A. MESSAGE-Dr. Ralph e. Lapp
is telling Americans It's time to be scared And more
and more Americans are listening to the artcuate
young nuclear scientist who doubts that there is any
longer place to hide Read Mosby Grants profile
OF DR.. Lapp in the Editorial Section.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR WOMEN-In the Women's Section,
Betty Beale comes up with party facts on how the
good old social traditions are slipping; the first
woman director of motion pictures who lives quietly
in Georgetown talks her memoirs with reporter
Harriet French and Patricia Simmons passes along
valuable tips to thrd-class tourists how to sight
see Europe on thin purse.
Phone Sterling $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Store Worker Burned

A Silver Spring chain store
Iemploye suffered first and Sec
Eond degree burns to the face
and eyes yesterday when paper
he was stuffing into an incin-
|erator in the basement of the
store 1ared UP in his face. Mar
win Smith. 81, of 1922 Kilmer
street, Kentland. Md, was taken
to Washington Sanitarium by
the Silver Spring Rescue Squad
treated and released.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Marion MoseIey's Escape
Undeterred d by Fences

On approaching the Maryland
State Reformatory for Women
lat Jessups, Md, one nigh
Imagine he is entering tn,
campus of high-grade country
school.
The modern brick building.
are attractive and neatly
grouped. There are trees ane
shrubs and a convenient place tt
park the car.
There is just one forbiddina
sight. This is a series of small
signs which warn:
mo visitors beyond this point.
You quickly get the idea. Out
lsiders are not welcome.
| 1t develops, however, that
these are one-way signs. They
do not caution inmates against
going outside.
| No Armed Guards
The women's reformatory Is
what penelogists call an open
system institution. It has no
fence at the boundary. Nc
armed guards stand around the
premises.
| This is the reformatory from
which Marion Janice Moseley
took her leave yesterday.
The 16-year-old child bride
had been serving a sentence be-
cause she strangled to death
her helpless 6-year-old half
sister,
Although a murderer and the
victim of occasional mental dis
turbances, Marion enjoyed as
much freedom as most of the
ITO females detained at Jessups
for lesser violations of the law.
"You just can't lock a girl
like that in a cell and get any
where with her." explained
Harold E, Donnell, superintend-
lent Of Maryland prisons.
| After breakfast yesterday
Marion walked with a group of
inmates from her dormitory
cottage toward the reforma-
tory shop building. They were
assigned to sewing chores.
Go .Unescorted
Miss Alice M. Blum, the super
lintendent, said the inmates were
unescorted but supervisors
Evening star., 1955-06-25
SEND AKiD 70 CAMP
BoyCouId lave Holiday
From Do-WithoutHome

/ Stretch. sacrifice and do with.
lout."
That's the way to raise a fam
lily of five children on a $118.75
a month welfare check.
A Washington area mother has
Learned this in the 21a years her
husband has been in a mental
institution. She pays $35 a month
rent on "a ramshackle house in
a nearby county.
The porch leans to one side,
and the floor boards are giving
way. but it provides shelter. She
buys groceries at the cheapest
lplace she can find. The money
runs out sometimes toward the
lend of the month. She borrows
food from more fortunate neigh
lbors.
The budget can't allow much
in the way of clothes for the
three girls and two boys. Sum-
mer is good time by compar-
ison-no fuel to buy, and few
CLOTHES needed. The children
don't mind torn places, mends
or ragged hand-me-downs.
| There is nothing to provide
any extra fun for the family.
But the oldest boy, 10. can
spend two weeks in camp this
summer If you provide the cost.
His mother would like that,
mot only because it would tighten
lher load for a time, but because
Eit win help the boy.
1T would be a good expe-
Irience," she said. Hes never
lbeen before. He could mix with
1.-THE other children and learn
labout life for himself"
| Your contribution to The Eve
lining Star Summer Camp Fund
Twill help make sure. he gets to 60
Evening star., 1955-06-25

waited at the shop to check
them in.
Before the women covered the
800 yards between buildings
Marion slipped out of line anc
ran towards a wooded area. Sew
eral women tried vainly to catch
her. She vanished from sight
Although wearing the yellow
garb of the penal institution
she tagged a bus and eventually
made her way to a community
near Rockville, close to the scene
of the murder she committed last
November. There she was de-
Itected and arrested.
Miss Blum said Marion Is very
impressionable. The superin-
tendent surmised the girl de-
cided to flee because another in
mate escaped from the reforma-
tory last week.
But escapes are rare. the SUI
|perintendent declared. Except
for Marion's and the one last
week, only one other inmate has
taken French leave In the past
year. The latter returned vol
unfairly the next morning.
Lacked In at Night
Miss Blum said inmates are
locked in their rooms at night.
"a woman officer - unarmed-
superviSes the 40 or so prison.
'ers who occupy each cottage.
The outside doors are locked,
too. An armed watchman patrols
the grounds at night.
After her arrest Marion was
returned to Jessups, where she
was subjected to a psychiatry
examination. She will be taken
to court later on an escape
charge.
In the future, said Miss Blum,
the girl will be surrounded with
greater protection.
Mr.. Donnell said some women
at the reformatory are kept un-
der closer confinement than
Marion has been.
But in operating the OPEN
system institution. Mr.. Donnell
said Maryland is doing what
practically all of the States" do.
Anyway, he added. it's often
easier to deal with murderers
who committed their crimes on
impulse than with prisoners held
on lesser charges.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
SynodicuI Society
Elects Officers

FREDERICK, Md, June q
R.-Mrs. Archibald Smith o1
College Park yesterday was re.
elected president of the women:
Synodical Society of the Pres.
byterian Church's Synod of Bal.
timore.
Others named officers of the
women's group included:
Mrs. George j. Riester of Bal
timore, Mrs. s. Norris Pilcharc
of Salisbury and Mrs. Lewis H
Russell of Washington. D. C.
all vice presidents: Mrs. Truman
II. Hienton Of Hyattsville, Sec
retary, and Mrs. Warder D. Jen.
kins of Chevy Chase, treasurer
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Young AffackeI
Must Die,
Sentencing SET
For Tuesday for
Assault on Woman

A jury late yesterday rec.
commended the death penalty in
convicting 20-year-old youth
OF raping a 3S-year-old married
woman in April, 1854, in the
basement of a building where
she lived in the 1900 block Of
Twelfth street NV.
The defendant is Andrew r.
Mallory, colored. who was 10 at
the time Of the attack. At the
time. he lived in the janitor,s
quarters of the building where
the victim. who is white, lived,
The jury in the United States
District Court for the District of
Columbia deliberated about 41a
hours in reaching its verdict.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff, who
presided at the trial, announced
he will sentence Mallory next
Tuesday.
First in Years
The death penalty was the
first recommended here by a
jury in several years in q rape
case. The maximum penalty
for rape without the recorn-
mended death penalty is 10 to
30 years Imprisonment.
Shortly before returning It's
verdict the jury had sent Judge
Holtzoff a note asking If it could
be assured that Mallory would
receive life Imprisonment If the
panel failed to recommend
death The jury resumed its
deliberations after Judge Holtz-
of explained the maximum pen
atty, without the death recon1-
mendation, is 10 to 80 years.
After the jury returned its
verdict Judge Holtzoff told the
panel:
This has been a difficult case.
You have had a heavy response
bility, but that is a part Of the
administration of justice"
According to trial testimony,
the woman victim was using q
washing machine in the base
lnent when Mallory grappled
with her and attacked her.
Insanity Issue Raised
Defense counsel contended
was of unsound mind
at the time of the attack. Two
examined Mallory
about four months after the at
tack and reported he was Of
mind when they ex-
amined him.
One of them testified et the
trial he also believed Mallory
was Of llnsound mind at the time
Of the attack. The other was
quoted as not having an opinion
rs to the defendants condition
1T the time of the attack.
Other psychiatrists, who ex-
amined Mallory later. expressed
the view he was of sound mind
at the time of their examina-
lions. Mallory never was ad- i
Judged in court to be Of unsound
mind. Before his trial. however, /
he was adjudged, at q court :
hearing. to be mentally compe.
,ent to stand trial,
Police testified, at the trial,
hat Mallory appeared to be of
sound mind when they ques-
Toned him about the crime.
Mallory was prosecuted by AS
'istant United States Attorney
Arthur j. Mclaughlin.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Col. GIotterer Given
Military District Post

The appointment Of Col. Mill
ton S. Glatterer. 46. as assistant
chief of staff for supply in the
Military District of Washington,
was announced today by Mai.
Gen. John H. Stokes jr.
A veteran Of World war II,
Col. Glatterer lives in presiden-
tial Gardens, Alexandra. He is d
1882 graduate of West Point.
Evening star., 1955-06-25

coffee so she would be ther,
when police arrived.
! mo, thank you. ! have plent,
lof money" she answered, &C,
Icording to Mr.. Stansill. Never,
Itheless, she went back, smoked
land had more coffee, he added.
When apprehended, the CIR
was wearing a yellow divided
skirt and blouse, the uniform al
the institution. She had a pacE
Iof cigarettes with her name
written on it and so cents.
1 Supt. McAuliffe said the cir
told him she had caught a bu,
to Viers Mill Village, about 2K
miles from her former home
She also said she had faller
into a creek.
Miss Blum said Marion rar
into the woods and escaped hel
fellow prisoners, who had giver
chase. Authorities at Jessups
and State police had beer
searching the woods for her, but
mo general lookout had been is
sued when she was caught. A
telephone call from Rockville tc
the institution was the first in.
dication police had the girl had
run away.
AS she was being led from the
County Building in Rockville by
Miss Blum and another reform
Iatory employe. Marion wrenched
her arm free from the employees
grasp.
Assistance Declined
Police offered to assist in TAX
ing her to a waiting car for
the return trip, but the employee
said:
I'm taking you out of here
either vertically or horizontally. I"
The girl earlier had denied she
knew the institution employe.
Marion's escape was the Sec
ond in the last week from the
institution, which has no fences.
The other girl is still free.
Miss Blum said Marion had
been doing we'll but had had
little periods of nervousness.
During her trial. Marion in
sisted she had ablacked out"
and could not remember tying
her half-sister to an upstairs
doorknob after dressing her in
one of her party dresses.
She escaped once before from
the Spring Grove State Hospital
before her trial but returned
later. She said she had run away
"just to show she could do it,
officials there said at the time.
Her stepmother said the girl
had Dragged she could escape
from any place.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
CAMP FUND FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out check or money
order to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund. Mail
to The Evening Star, WASH
ington 4. D. c.
Or bring cash to The Star
cashier.
The cost: $l7.86 for six
days, S35.72 for IL days.
Any size contributions. how
ever, are acceptable.
Evening star., 1955-06-25
Slayer Of Half -Sistef, s,
Escapes, Then Gives Up
By CHARLES L. HOFFMAN


Mrs. Marion Janice Moseley
16-year-old slayer of her 6-year-
old half sister. escaped yesterday
from the Maryland Reformatory
! for Women at Jessups. Md.
then surrendered to Montgom-
cry County police near her for
mer home.
The girl was apprehended
without a struggle about 1880
pm. at the Drug Town, Viers
Mill Village. after she had asked
store employees how she could get
in touch with police.
Miss Alice Blum, superin-
tendent at the Jessups (Md.) in
| stitution, said the girl fled into
a nearby wooded area about 7::5O
am. as she was going to work
at the sewing shop.
Memory Gone, She Says
Marion was unable to tell po-
lice where she was, where she
had been, or who her parents
were. She said she could recall
nothing at first, police said.
"She was either playing a cat
and-mouse game with me or else
|she could not concentrate enough
to recollect what happened" Po-
lice Supt. James S. McAuliffe
said, after questioning the girl.
Marion was given an in
definite sentence not to exceed
eight years, after a jury found
her to be legally sane. She had
garroted her half sister last
November 16 after an argument
with her stepmother.
Yesterday, when confronted by
her attorneys at the trial,
|she said she did not know
|either OF them. They are Bar
nard T. Welsh. and Walter H.
Moorman.
After questioning the girl, Mr..
Welsh. a severe critic of Mary
lands sanity test, disgustedly
walked out, declaring:
"And Montgomery County
jury found you to be sane"
MFR. Norman said he thought
the girl was completely dis
oriented as to time and place."
Marion appeared dazed when
she was in the drugstore, ac-
Icording to an employe, Tom
Stansill. who called police yes
terGay.
Mrs. Mary Roberts was the
employe whom the girl asked for
help in reaching police.
II asked her If there was some
thing wrong, and she said, Yes,
I'm lost" Mrs. Roberts told re-
porters.
Mrs. Roberts said Marion told
her she didn't know who her
mother was. "but ] live with
her"
Moved Through Fear
The girls stepmother, Mrs.
William Bannister. when she
learned of the escape, expressed
fear for her surviving child. She
said she and her husband sold
their Rockville home after the
and moved to Washing
ton, partly because of fear.
Her husband, reported to be
on vacation, left home two days
ago, Mrs. Bannister said.
Mrs. Ethel Stroud, a fountain
at the drugstore, recog-
nized Marion, Mrs. Roberts said.
She said Marion had come into
the store often before the mur-
der.
After he called police, Mr.
Stansill said, Marion started tot
leave the store, but he asked her
If she cared for another cup of
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-03-18
Montana Music Education associa,

Montana Music Education associa-
ton.
BY Nov. Is Mr.. Sanders, choir
director, was required to submit
to Bert Christensen the past his
tory OF the choir dating back to
1949, plus what the choir has done;
tours, tape recordings, copies OF all
past programs and pictures of the
choir for the past two years.
Tentative plans call for the A
Capella to sing the opening day
Of the conference, on the concert
hour. 1t was necessary for Mr.
Sanders to send a list Of ten selec-
tons which will be checked by
John Steen, who will be in charge
of the overall programs for per-
forming groups. It is Mr.. Stems
job to see that no repetition OF
numbers occur. Our program is
formed from the approved list.
A Capella is to help provide en-
tertainment for the gathering OF
all music educators from all the
five states being represented. Also
at the Northwest division of the
conference there will be the all
Northwest choir, band and Or
chestra, made UP of Individual stu
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-03-18
KolispelI Singers
Invited to Coast

KALISPELL-Flathead County
high school A Capella choir has
been selected as the only vocal
music group to represent Montana
at Northwest division of the Mu-
sic Educators National conference
in Eugene, Ore. April Is through
Is.
This invitation to the biennial
convention has climaxed extern
sive long range planning.
A Capella made a good showing
when they sang in Helena last
year before Bert Christianson
now president of Northwest divi-
sion of the conference.
There were many preliminarie.
to 60 through and regulations tc
comply with before the choir could
submit their application.
First, they had to secure Ter
mission from the Montana BoarC
of Control (the same board which
governs athletics) then it must bt
approved by Mr.. Hartsel, the state
music supervisor, and lastly the