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Evening star., 1955-03-03
Liquor Board Seeks
100 Added Licenses
For Prince Georges

The Prince Georges County
Liquor Board will seek authority
to issue 100 new licenses. it was
reported today by Ross g. Porter.
board attorney.
These would be added to the
353 existing licenses.
Mr.. Porter said the recommen-
dation, which followed confer
ences with county liquor dealers.
will be sent to the county's leg
islative delegation in Annapolis,
which is weighing liquor legis-
lation.
The board believes, he said.
that the increase would end the
traffic in liquor licenses. which
have been frozen at 353 since
1949. Some licenses repeatedly
have been sold for as much
as $4,000.
Aid Populated Areas.
The move also would allow the
opening of liquor outlets in
heavily populated areas which
now lack them.
The board and the dealers were
unanimously opposed to the
complete removal of the ceiling
The boards recommendations
were based on a review of legis-
lation introduced in the General
Assembly in 1853 but not en-
acted. That legislation provided
for an increase of only seven
licenses. The new proposal
would give the board the power
to allocate the various types oi
licenses.
Opposes Church Limits.
The board opposed the sugges-
tion that liquor places be barred
within 1000 feet of a church or
school. 1t said a 300-foot limi-
tatio1 was sufficient. At pres
ent there are no such restric-
tions on taverns or package
stores. The board ruled out
Sunday sale of whisky and also
the sale of miniatures. It op-
posed also the automatic revo-
cation of a license for three
convictions of a licensee.
The board will ask the legis-
lators to boost the salaries of
members from $1,000 to $4,000;
the chairman salary from 81, SOC
to $2,400 and the board attor-
ney's salary from $1,000 to
| $4,000.
No legislation on county
liquor laws has been introduced
at the current session of the
General Assembly.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Fairfax Supervisors
Iqnore Master Plan
In ; Rezonings

Fairfax County's proposed
master plan emerged battered
and bruised today, after a series
of rezoning actions by the Board
of County Supervisors.
In three rezoning cases before
the supervisors yesterday, they
voted contrary to recommended
tions of the $150,000 master
plan.
The master plan, in it's pres
ent form, represents only the
views of the planning consuitant,
Francis Dodd McHugh. and his
staff who prepared it. The
planning commission and the
supervisors have not yet adopted
it.
But in each of the three cases
yesterday, the supervisors checked
to see how the proposed re-
zonings jibed with the master
plan recommendations - then
they went ahead and acted con-
trariwise.
Fox Votes With Plan.
Only Supervisor Maurice Fox
voted each time in line with the
master plan recommendations.
Votes Of the other supervisors
varied in each case. Here are
the three rezonings involved and
how the voting went:
/. A parcel containing 146
acres on. the north side of
Pohick road, between No. high
way and the r. F. & P. Railroad
tracks. was rezoned from agri-
cultural to suburban residential
to permit a 450-home subdivision
on 10.000-square-foot lots. Vot-
ing for it was Supervisors c. B.
Runyon, Stuart DeBell, Arthur
Shaffer and c. B. Jett. Opposed
were Supervisors G. Wallace
Carper, Mrs. Anne Wilkins and
Mr.. Fox.
The master plan envisioned
this area as an industrial site,
and it is we'll within a section
of the county wherein the mas
ter plan proposes no residential
development on lots smaller than
three acres. The applicants,
Alexander Hassan and Joseph
Andelman. who were represented
by Attorney Armistead L. Boothe,
agreed to reserve a school site
and a 150-foot right of way for
a proposed new highway.
Shirley Highway Motel.
2. Eighteen acres at the north
east corner of Shirley highway
and Franconia road were re-
zoned from agricultural to gen.
eral business on application of
Vernon M. Lynch e. Sons to
permit construction of a motel
and shopping center. The vote
was the same as in the previous
case.
8. Commercial rezoning of eight
acres on the south side Of Fran
coma road at Rose Hill SUBJ
division was denied, retaining the
present suburban residential
classification. Votes against this
application were by Supervisors
Jett, Shaffer, Wilkins and Car
per. For it were Supervisors Fox
Runyon and DeBell.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
F0A Woman EmpIoye
Fined as Drunken Driver

A Foreign Operations Admin
istration woman secretary
pleaded guilty to a drunken
driving charge and was fined
$3.50 in Municipal Court today.
The woman, Mrs. Mary Ellen
Hopkins, 81. of the 5000 block
of Forty-third street NV, was
involved in a three-car acci-
dent January 20 in which four
persons were injured, according
to police.
A charge of driving on the
wrong side Of the road was
dropped by Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Clark King.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Bill 10 Speed Up
Annual Assessments
Nears Enactment
By Gene Goodwin
Star SsuH cersspen5snt

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-A bill
to put Maryland real estate as
sessments on an annual basis
this year instead Of next was
within one step on enactmet to-
day.
The Senate, after weeks Of
stalling on the measure, yester-
day voted II to II to accept its
Finance Committees favorable
report and then voted 18 to 10
against an amendment to ex-
empt nine counties from the bill.
Senator H. Winship Wheatley,
jr., Democrat, of Prince Georges.
was one Of those attempting to
put off the annual assessment
system until July. 1856. The
bill approved yesterday and al
ready passed by the House would
make the effective date of the
new system next July.
School Aid Cut Cited.
Senator Wheatley said his
county commissioners have taken
q stand against the bill. He
said it would increase his
county's assessable base by
about $34 million and would
thereby cost Prince Georges
$272,000 in State school aid from
the equalization and incentive
funds.
The effect of the bill would be
that Baltimore City and the
county could put on their tax
books. a year sooner. property
reassessed since January /. 1854.
AS it is now, local assessors are
working under a law that says
that third of each county be
reassessed each year since
January /, 1854.
Under the three-year assess
ment cycle law, which went into
effect at that time, counties
may not put re-assessments on
the tax books until the end of
the three-year cycle on January
/, 1857.
Exemptions Flayed.
Senate Majority Leader John
G.. Turnbull, who led the fight
for the bill, said the move to
exempt nine counties from it
would result in a 'hideous
inequity."
Everyone of the exempted
counties would be dipping its
hand into its neighbor's pocket
because it would not be paying
its reasonable, fair. honest share
of the cost of State government"
he argued.
A special State tax commission
study two years ago showed that
assessments in Maryland ranged
from an average of Is per cent of
market value in Calvert County
to more than go per cent in
Baltimore City. Small counties
like to keep the assessments low
so they can qualify for more
State aid.
The annual assessment system
would help to equalize assess
ments within individual counties,
but would not necessarily equal
ize assessments among counties.
The other counties, besides
Prince Georges, which would
have been exempted from the
bill under the defeated amend
ment were Calvert, Queen Annes,
Garrett, st. Marys, Anne Arundel,
Somerset. Cecil and Charles.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Eustover Merchants
Select Officers

The newly formed Eastover
Shopping Center Merchants As
sociation have elected the follow
ing officers:
Miss sue Ann Grossman, presi-
dent; Sam Tauber, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Woodrow Miller. Sec
retary, and Harry. Breitback.
The shopping center Is on
indian Head highway. Just across
The District line.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Witnesses Cite Cost
OF Relocating Lines

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3 (SpeciaD i.
The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission will have
to spend an estimated $2.7 mil
lion to relocate its water and
sewer lines to make way for prof.
ects in the Maryland 12-year
roads program unless present
law is changed.
That was argued before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee yesterday by Arthur c.
Keefer, general counsel to the
commission. He and Chief En-
gineer Harry B. Shaw testified
in favor of a Montgomery
Prince Georges bill to require
that the State Roads Commits
sion pay the cost of relocating
public water and sewer lines
which have to be moved for road
projects.
Spokesman for county and
munlclpal water ana sanitary
commissions around the State
also appeared to back the bill.
The officials of the State Roads
Commission sent word they
could not make it yesterday and
will be allowed to testify against
the bill next Tuesday.
Mr.. Keefer said residents OF
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, How
ard. Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, which are
most affected by the relocation
bill. now pay about 40 per cent
of the gas taxes that go to
finance the 12-year roads pro-
gram. They also are being
asked to pay for relocation Of
water and sewer lines, (which il
nothing but double taxation,
Mr.. Keefer contended.
The Legislature defeated sim.
liar bills in 1851 and 1858.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Six Prince Georges
Bills Pass House

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 8 (Spe-
ciaD Six Prince Georges Coun-
ty bills passed the House Of Del
egates and were moved across
to the Senate yesterday.
They included the measures
to abolish the county Depart
ment Of Finance, authorize the
county commissioners to estab-
lish an accounting department
and a department Of inspections
and licenses and require semi
annual financial reports from
agencies and organizations re-
ceiving county funds.
Evening star., 1955-05-19

Another provision is that a
man accused by q woman or
girl would go free if he could
prove the female was a prosti-
tute. A prostitute. under the
model code. is defined as a pro-
miscuous woman, whether she
accepts pay or not.
Other phases of the code
would make a misdemeanor in
stead of a felony actions of that
nature where no bodily injury
or pregnancy resulted.
To Consider Insanity
Saturdays session will be de-
voted by the lawyer delegates to
consideration of insanity and
the law.
The model code suggested for
Nationwide adoption would pro-
vide that:
"A person is not responsible
for criminal conduct, if at the
time of such conduct as result
of a mental disease or defect he
lacks substantial capacity either
to appreciate the criminality of
his conduct or to conform his
conduct to the requirements Of
law"
The philosophy. in effect for
nearly two centuries, is known
as the "right-from wrong" doc
trine. It is opposed to recent
holdings by the U. S. Court of
Appeals for the District Of Co.
lumbia.
Evening star., 1955-05-19
Greyhound Strike
.Wuoe Offer Made

CHARLESTON, w. Va, May
10 P.-Atlantic Greyhound
Corp. made a wage offer yester-
day to its TBS bus drivers who
have been on strike since April
6 in the company's 10-State
system.
A letter signed by President
George S. Engle said the offer
would increase drivers earnings
by a total of Is per cent over
the base rate paid before the
walkout last month.
An increase of 8.5 to IL per
cent, the company said, would
become effective on resumption
of service. An additional boost
of 81 to 3.9 per cent would be-
come effective January l, 1856.
The union, Division 1,493 of
the AFL Motor Coach Employees,
was given one week to accept
or reject the new offer.
Daniel v. Maroney, jr., of
Evening star., 1955-05-19

cause "it is inadequate and be-
cause of the way in which 1t was
presented"
The strike has affected all or
portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Kentucky. Ten
nesSee. North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida and the
District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1955-05-19

Charleston, president of Divi-
sion 1893. said union negotiators
received the offer Monday, verb
ally from Federal Conciliator
Joseph Wright and have received
no copy Of the letter.
He said the offer already has
been rejected, after a vote of the
AFL negotiating committee, be-
Evening star., 1955-05-19
Legal Experts Debate
New Sex Offense Code

troversy, especially from church
and family organizations. 1t
holds that relationships between
unmarried adults should be ex-
cluded from criminal law.
The third faction agrees with
much of the thinking of the
second but feels public accept
ance of such advanced views is
impossible to obtain. They say
they will vote along with group
No. l.
One of the principal changes
in crimes involving sex actions
is that the model code suggests
reduction in the age from 16
Gin the District of Columbia) to
10 years for seduction as a first
class felony.
In cases where consent was
granted, the model code would
classify the offense as a felony
only if the male offender was
at least five years older than
the victim, provided she was
older than 10 but less than 18.
In any event, no prosecution
could be instituted if the Of
fense was brought to notice of
public authorities more than six
after it was committed.
Evening star., 1955-05-19
Nv JOSEPH B. BYRNES

Members of the American Law
Institute were ready today to
enter into a hammer-and -tongs
battle ovel Endorsement of a
Nationwide code governing SEX
ual offenses.
The first order of business of
the institute. holding its 32d
annual convention in the May
flower Hotel, was to be an analy-
sis of the fourth tentative draft
of a model penal code.
The draft is devoted primar-
lily to the problem of bringing
order out of chaos on two legal
points: Sex offenseS and crimes
committed by the mentally ire
sponsible.
Three Views at Issue
At issue, so far as sex crimes
are concerned, are three diver
gent views.
The first is backed by the old
line members, who feel the status
quo should be maintained with
minor changes.
The second, and most radical,
Is certain to cause much con-
Evening star., 1955-05-19

THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ABS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08

Possibility of new construction
to enlarge the west wing of the
White House to provide adequate
Office space for the President
and his staff is being studied.
the White House disclosed today.
An official announcement said
the Cleveland consulting firm of
Robert Heller & Associates has
been retained to make a thor
ough and objective study of the
present and probable future
space requirements OF the presi-
dency as an institution.
Asked if the study covered the
possibility of a new building OF
new construction, White House
Press Secretary James c. Hagerty
said THAT is one phase of the
study"
He emphasized, however, that
the study had not gone far
enough to indicate what pro-
pOSalS WOuiQ De IOrCnCOmlng.
Conference Room Needed
One of the problems being
studied by the Heller group, Mr..
Hagerty said. is the need for an
adequate conference room in
which the President could meet
with large groups of visitors
and hold his press conferences.
Asked if there was any idea
that more space could be pro-
vided while President Eisenhower
still is in office, Mr.. Hagerty said
he thought he had taken care
of that by emphasizing that the
study under way considered 1.-THE
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FORECAST:
NO RAIN, HIGH IN
MIDDLE SIXTIES

You apparently don't need
to worry whether your UNI
brella will match the Easter
f1nery.
In its five-day forecast
today, the Weather Bureau
sees no rain until at least
Wednesday. Temperatures
are expected slightly above
the normal high of SO and
low Of AZ and a slight rise
in temperature is expected
for tomorrow and Sunday.
Yesterdays temperature
range was from 81 to IS de-
greeS.
Today's sunny and mod
crate weather will be fol-
lowed by q drop to 80 de-
grees with frost in the WASH
ington suburbs tonight. In
Maryland temperatures are
expected to be near the criti-
cal level for orchard grow
ers-24 to 20 in the west
and 1885 In the eastern
part Of the State.
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SHOTS FIRED AT PURSUING POLICE
Three Ride Auto to Death
Over 1OO-Foot Precipice

they saw the car zig-zagging
down a street and started pur-
suit. Once during the chase,
they said. the patrol car was
crowded of a road. Later three
shots were fired from the youths
automobile. Officers said they
did not return the fire.
The chase finally led out wind
ing Straight Greek road. About
one mile from Pineville, officers
said, the pursued car hit a ditch
and skidded right and left for
about 125 feet. Turning side
ways. 1t skidded another 60 feet,
they said. and then plunged out
Of sight over the precipice.
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0fficiiaIsSfudy
Budget Snag
Hughes Promises
Full Consideration
Of Money Plight
BY HECTOR MCLEAN

Budget Director Rowland r.
Hughes today promised "sympa-
thetic" consideration of the Dis
trict's financial plight.
After an hour and 10-minute
meeting with District Commits
sioners Samuel Spencer and Col.
Thomas A. Lane and their top
financial experts. Mr.. Hughes
indicated there has been no
final decision in a city quest for
$13 million a year in additional
revenue.
The Commissioners had pro-
posed to raise the funds half and
half by an increase in the Fed
eral payment and a boost in
local taxes.
Refused Comment
Mr.. Hughes refused comment
on the meeting except to say,
I'VE will continue to work as
sympathetically with Commits
sioner Spencer and the other
District officials as we did last
year."
Last year, on recommendation
of the Budget Bureau. President
Eisenhower asked Congress sue
cessfully for SO million increase
in the Federal payment to $40
million a year.
Standing beside Mr.. Hughes.
Mr.. Spencer concurred in the
budget directors observations on
today's session and the outlook.
Today's meeting. second be-
tween District officials and
Budget Bureau officers, resulted
from the Districts search for
additional revenue to cover spi-
railing costs and prospective pay
raises which could cost the Dis
trict as much as SO million a
year.
The Districts budget for the
coming fiscal year, which be-
gins July l, shows a deficit of
nearly 81 million. Hearings on
this budget before a subcom-
mittee Of the House Appropri-
ations Committee are scheduled
to begin next Thursday.
Cutback Cited
Although it is anticipated that
this deficit can be absorbed in
the Districts overall SITS mil
lion budget, officials estimate
rising costs will put the Dis
trict SIS million in the red in
three years unless there is a
cutback in spending, or an in
crease in revenue.
Congress is now debating leg
islation which would give pay
raises to Federal and District
Civil Service workers. Political
observers expect that the pay
boost will fall between 712 per
cent and 10 per cent. The Dis
trict has no control over the
spending increase which would
result from passage of such a
bill.
Thus. they are seeking some
$14 million a year in additional
revenue. and have asked the
Budget Bureau to back them in
a plan for a sos million increase
in the annual Federal payment
for the cost Of running the Ma
tons Capital.
In addition, they are propos-
ing a $6.5 million increase in
local taxes, but have not de-
cided which taxes should be in
creased.
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PINEvLLE. KY, April 8 (F9.
Three young Bell County men
rode their wildly skidding auto
mobile to death over a 100-foot
drop early today at the end of
a high-speed police chase.
The victims were identified as
Franklin Middleton, %, Harold
Miller, 20. and Clarence Fuson,
10. all of Blanche. near Pine
vile.
The car dropped de-down
in a creek. Death was attributed
to drowning rather than crash
injuries.
Pineville city police reported
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Gunmon Sought
In Hacker Attack
Police TODAY sought a gunma,

Police today sought a gunman
Tho gave a cab driver some very
bad fneaaents.
George NRQrdos, 48. Of 1926 L
street N.W.,a driver for the
Diamond Cab Co., first was hit
on the head with an unidentified
object. The gunman then put a
.38-caliber revolver to Mr.. Scor-
dos head and pulled the trigger
twice. The weapon was either not
loaded or it misf1red.
Mr.. Scordos told police he
picked up the slender. 6-foot
colored man at Nichols avenue
and Good Hope road Sc. about
1890 pm, and started for the
2400 block of Alabama avenue
Sc. En- route, the fare changed
his mind, the driver said, and
asked for Langston place Sc.
The attack took place in the
2800 block of Langston place.
At no time, Mr.. Scordos said,
did the man give even the
slightest indication that he was
after money. The driver did noe
require medical treatment.
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SceIbo Back in Rome
After American Visit

ROME. April 8 (P.-Premier
Mario Scelba flew in to Rome
late today from a two-week
American visit,
The Premier was accompanied
by his wife, Foreign Minister and
Mrs. Gaetano MARITIME and a
number of aides. They left
Rome March "a. spent three days
in Canada and the rest Of the
time in the United States.
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Auto Abandoned
On B&O Track

A motorist abandoned his car
early today on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad track at River
dale, Md. after he smashed
through a barricade and went
down a steep embankment.
Prince Georges County police
said the car was removed shortly
before a freight train reared by
at 2:15 am.
Police said the badly damaged
car which was impounded was
registered in the name Of, an
Arlington resident.
The car was going west on
Riverdale road which turns
sharply to the right at the track.
The driver has not been caught.
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Bribery Jury
Still Striivinq
For Verdict
z Suspended Police
And Six Gamblers
Awoit Decision
BY JACK JONAS

"A Federal Court jury To-Day
continued elaboration of bribery
and conspiracy charges against
two suspended policemen and
six gamblers.
The seven-man, five-woman
jury went back into it's discus
sion at 9:15 am, after failing
to reach a verdict in nearly five
hours in the jury room last
night. The court convened at
10 am.
The jury went to lunch after
weighing the evidence for an
other three hours ana ufteen
minutes this morning. without
having reached a decision.
The case was handed to the
jurors at 4::25 pm. yesterday by
Judge Burnita S. Matthews of
U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia after she
had given them instructions
lasting two hours.
Then, except for a break for
dinner. the jurors weighed the
evidence until 10 pm, when
Judge Matthews told them they
would be confined to the Court
House during the night in spe-
cial rooms provided for jurors.
Entrapment Charged
A day and a half of final ar
guments closed the month-long
trial, with defense attorneys
basing much of their pleas to
the jury on an entrapment de-
tense - the theory that their
clients were trapped into vio-
lating the law by over-zealous
police officers.
Being considered are the fu-
lures Of Capt. John B. Monroe,
suspended head of the 18th
precinct; Probationary Detec-
tive George c. Prather, sus-
pended in the 18th precinct:
Roger w. (Whitetop) Simkins.
SIS, colored; Albert H. Smith.
IS; Curtis M. (Bozo) Taylor, 80,
colored; Charles (Geechie Char
he) Anderson. 40, colored; John
Lefty Winston, AZ, colored,
and Burnie King. 20. colored.
Each is accused Of conspiracy
in one count of the 19-count in
dictment against them. Convic-
ton on a conspiracy charge
carries a maximum prison term
Of five years and q maximum
fine of $4,000.
Various Bribery Charges
In addition, each faces var
ious charges of bribery. The
maximum sentence on each brib-
cry charge is five years. Capt.
Monroe was accused in six bride
incidents; Prather in four,
Anderson in five, Winston in
eight. King in seven. Taylor in
one. Simkins in four and Smith
in one.
The Government, through its
key witness. Capt. Todd o. Tho
man, jr., told the jury that more
than $4,000 in brides passed
through police hands from Oc-
tober. 1858. to September, 1854,
in an elaborate pay-off scheme
to protect the numbers racket
here from police interference.
In their final arguments to
the jury. defense attorneys made
no effort to conceal the fact
that their clients, aside from
the two policemen, were a part
of the Washington numbers
racket.
1t was because of this, they
commended. that police "enticed"
them into bribery setup. They
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