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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-29

Committee chairmen for the
|22d annual dinner Of the Touch
down Club, to be held Saturday,
January IL, at the Sheraton
Park Hotel. have been an
nounced.
The chairmen met yesterday
to map plans for what John
IO'Brien, general chairman, be-
lieves will be "the finest dinner
in the clubs history"
O'Brien named Edward Hickey
as chairman of the selection
board which will choose recipi-
Ients of the annual Touchdown
Club awards from among top
players and coaches in the
country.
Dutch Bergman was selected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

Two juveniles were held for
police court action Monday on
petty larceny charges after re-
ceiVing "a severe reprimand from
Alexa1adria Juvenile Court Judge
Irene Paiacoast for wrecking a
detention cell at the police
station.
The boys. aged 16 and IA. were
accused of taking $3.50 from a
newspaper coin box in an Alex
andria restaurant Friday night.
Police said after they were put
in the detention cell they dug
a. hole in the wall. burned ini-
tialse In the ceiling and marked
up the newly painted walls.
"We, can't help you anymore
here" Judge Pancoast told the
youths. who had been before her
court several times. What was
done to that detention room was
a crying shame. When the city
spends money to paint and make
a decent place, I have no pa
thence with someone who tears
it up." the judge said.
Another boy in the court was
accused Of participating in the
coinbox theft but was not for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15
Cairo Letter
Discounted

LONDON, Feb. Is R.-The
Foreign once last night dis
counted the importance Of q
mysterious letter found in Cairo
that mentioned renegade British
diplomat Donald Maclean.
Newspapermen had suggested
the letter indicated q possible
spy link between Maclean and q
member Of the American EN-
bassy staff In Cairo.
The Foreign Office said:
There is nothing in the letter
to justify the inference that
Maclean was receiving secret
United States documents from q
contact In the American En-
bassy in Cairo, or that its author
was engaged in espionage"
The statement said the letter
was found In the library Of the
British Embassy In Cairo. where
Maclean once served as a men,
Der of the staff.
The Foreign ONCE said 1t was
from an address in the United
States to a third person, clearly
not Maclean."
In Washington a State Depart
ment spokesman said United
States officials are looking into
the matter" Spokesman said
the department had no official
information on the letter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15
Man and Youth
Tried in Murder

A man and a teen-age youth
are being tried before a District
Court jury on charges of first
degree murder and robbery in
connection with the fatal beat
ing of a liquor store deliveryman.
The two are Leo Griffin, 81,
of the 1400 block of Harvard
street NV, and Leroy James,
jr., II, of the 1900 block of Mon
roe street NV. Both are colored
They are accused in the death
of Maceo c. Leatherwood. Sc.
colored, of the 1000 block of
Monroe street NV.
Five Accused
Trial testimony began yester-
day. Originally, there were five
defendants accuse d. However,
after the jury had been sworn,
one of the other fen dan t S
pleaded guilty to the lesser
charge of manslaughter and also
to robbery. At the same time,
robbery and murder charges
against two others were dismissed
on Government motion because
of insufficient evidence.
The defendant, who pleaded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15
Juvenile Court Gives Up
On 2HeId in $3.50 Theft

,mally charged. Judge Pancoast
postponed his hearing until a
relative could appear with him.
She warned him to get rid of
his "ducktail" haircut before he
came back.
The 16-year-old previously
was in the Maryland Training
School for Boys. Since his family
moved to Alexandria last sum-
mer he has appeared in Juvenile
Court on two speeding charges,
an auto theft charge and has
another traffic charge pending.
His mother asked the Judge to
be lenient because she was plan
ming to move out of the city
soon. She also said she wanted
her son to join the Army.
mo matter where you are, he's
got to learn to stand on his own
feet" Judge Pancoast said.
you've protected him all along
and If he's going to be a man
and live in freedom. he's going
to have to learn how to behave
in society. II he's not working
out here, he won't work out in
service either"
The 14-year-old has been be-
fore the court previously for auto
theft. ransacking autos, throw
ling q lighted paper in an apart
ment hallway and for being in
corrigible in school.
YOU'RE awfully young to be
getting . criminal record In the
other court. but I don't see how
we can do any more for you
here" Judge Pancoast said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

dSSOCldGlOAl 1AdAAdSNA " AAAAAAA ~
have no effect on the price paid
for milk by either purchasing
diaries or the consumer.
He said no increase in the
prices now paid the farmer
would be sought. The action was
taken because association MEM
bers felt a Federal order would
make price-setting a more or
derby process in this area, he de-
clared.
Such agreements. Mr.. Hooper
added, are in effect in approx
mately IS fluid milk sales areas
throughout the Nation.
At present approximately 1900
dairy farmers ship milk into the
Metropolitan Washington mar
ket serving some 2 million per-
sons.
Milk produced in Virginia al
ready is regulated by the Vir-
einia State Milk Commission at
both the produced and retail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

level, but there are no controls
on milk prices in Maryland. The
prices set by the Virginia COM
mission, however. customarily
have set the pattern for the
Washington area. although sew
eral diaries sell milk retail slight
ily cheaper in the District and
Maryland than Virginia.
The Virginia commission,
while losing control over farm
prices, would participate in Fed
eral hearings on prices if the
proposal is adopted, Mr.. Hooper
said.
If the Agriculture Department
approves the application, it
probably will take Is months be-
fore the order can be put into
effect. An economic study of
the market will take that long,
he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

i1S cans Of beer. The second
count charges them with robbery
only. The murder count charges
the two beat him fatally with
their hands and fists.
The defendants are being pros
ecuted by Assistant United
States Attorney Thomas A. Flan-
merry. Griffin is represented by
Defense Attorney Robert I.
Miller. Attorney John Mcdaniel
represents James. Judge Alex
ander Holtzoff is presiding at
the trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

guilty to the manslaughter and
robbery counts, is Henry Patter-
son, 81, colored, OF the first block
of H street NE.
The two against whom the
charges were dropped are Sheri-
Charles wayne, 16, of the 3400
block of Sherman avenue NV,
and Charles Payne, Is, of the
1900 block of Biltmore street
NV, both colored.
Trial on Two Counts
Griffith and James are on trial
on two counts. The first count
charges they killed Mr.. Leather
wood while robbing him of $40
in cash, a bottle of whisky and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15
Milk Producers Ask
Federal Price-Fix Here

Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association today
asked Federal Government to act for the Wash
ngton mikshed.
Proposals filed by the association asked the Department of
Agriculture regulate the price paid the farmer only accepted
association Manager William Hooper said the proposals would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

It's easy to register and
qualify as a District voter. Go
to registration headquarters
on ground floor of the District
Building and sign up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-15

It's time to register as vOt-
ers. The place is the District
Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Burglar Is Sought
In $1,000 Theft
Of Rare Guns

Fairfax County police are
seeking a burglar who stole
nearly $4,000 worth of rare guns
from the real estate Office Of
Manning Gasch, near Great
Falls.
Police said the collection in
cluded is guns valued from $50
to $1,000 each.
The Office was broken into
Wednesday night, police said. A
State police message has asked
that all pawnshops in the area
be checked.
The collection included two
shotguns worth $1,000 each anc
two other. shotguns worth $500
each. Also included were an
antique blunderbuss, a flint
lock musket and a percussion
cap horse pistol.
Mr.. Gasch is president of the
Fairfax Citizens Council ano
was the founder Of the Fairfax
chapter of the Defenders Of
State Sovereignty and Individual
Liberties. an anti-integration or.
ganization. He differed with the
State defenders on policy mat
ters and the Fairfax Chapter
a citizens council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Steel Crisis
Schools

The time schedule for con-
struction projects at three Ar
lington elementary schools has
hit a snag because of the steel
strike,
The school board last night
deferred action on bids after
learning that the lowest offers
were about twice that of budget
estimates.
For one project, new heating
system at Marshall, the thre,
bids submitted ranged from
$43,500 to $54,S25. The bulge
estimate was $4,000.
In addition, the contractor
also declined to commit them.
selves on a delivery date for {
boiler at Marshal, board mem
berS were told.
The steel strike was similarly
reflected in bids submitted fol
construction of a kitchen a
Cherrydale School, it was re-
ported.
Acting on a suggestion b!
Richard Tonigan, an aide tt
Assistant Supt. E. j. Braun, tn,
board deferred action until thu
architects and engineers coulC
study the situation.
The board also agreed to post
pone the bidding on a thirC
project-a new heating system
at Gusts = until the problem
at the other two schools ar
Strengthened out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation
with the Film Center of WASH
ington and the recreation de-
partments Of the District and
Arlington. Prince Georges and
Montgomery counties.
Washington. at Dusk
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sloye Fourteenth and Jackson streets
Brigs,s.M ont,somery,. Twenty.s
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Watts Branch. sixty-seeond and Banks
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Lanham Elementary School. Lanham
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Forest PARK Prince georges and Elm
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Montsomery County $50 pm
Pineerest Recreation center So.
Lawrence drive and Cherry Tree
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adjacent to Firehouse. Silver Spring.
Rockcrest Playground. Edmundston AZ
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
WSSC Puts Ex-Chief
On Payroll at $4,000

man during most of that time
From 1941 to 1851, Mr.. Duckett
was general counsel to the COM
mission, stepping down wher
Republicans took control of the
agency after the 1850 elections
Democrats regained control Of
the commission in the 1854 cleo
tons.
Willard A. Morris. a Mont
gomery County Democratic
member of the commission, SAID
Mr.. Duckett is also doing a
research job" for the commits
sion relating to bond issues
which requires legislative author
ization.
Hiring Mr.. Duckett will save
the taxpayers money in the long
run " Mr.. Morris said. Nobody
knows more about the opera
tons of the sanitary commits
sion than Mr.. Duckett."
Mr.. Duckett is chairman of
the board of the Suburban Trust
Co. His law partner, Nicholas
Orem, jr., is general counsel to
the commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27

T. Howard Duckett is back on
the payroll of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission,
of which he was once chairman
and general counsel.
Mr.. Duckett, we'll known
,Hyattsville banker and lawyer,
has been retained by the pre-
sent commission to draft pro-
posed legislation and represent
the agency before the Maryland
Legislature next winter, The
Star learned today.
The commission is paying him
$4,000 for his services. 1t voted
to retain him on April 8, 1856,
records show.
Mr.. Duckett is often referred
to as the father of the sanitary
commission, which provides
water and sewer services to
nearby Maryland. He drafted
the law by which the commits
sion was created by the Legis-
lature in 1918, and served on
the commission from its incep-
ton until 1941. He was chair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Workmen 'sPa\
Law Signed

District employers face i'm
mediate increases in cost under
the Workmen's Compensation
Law liberalizing the national
Longshoremen's and Harbor-
workers Act. The President
signed the measure yesterday.
The act raises the maximum
weekly benefits from $35 to $54
and the minimum from $12 to
$18. In addition. the waiting
period is reduced from seven to
three days, and there are other
more liberal features in the new
law.
The District workmen's COM
pensation program is tied to the
LongShoremen's Act ecaust
years ago House and Senate
conferees could not agree or
the terms of the proposed Dis
trict statute.
District employer groups haC
been fighting for years for 9
separate District law, so that the
rates here could be determined
solely on conditions in this area
rather than being affected by
those on the East and West
Coasts and in the Gulf and Lake
regions.
The House District Committee
recently reported a separate Dis
trict bill but it was withdrawn
from House consideration be.
cause of opposition from labor
and other groups.
President Eisenhower also
signed yesterday a measure that
would permit more lawsuits tc
be handled in the Municipal
Court instead of in the United
States District Court for the
District of Columbia.
This bill would permit the
certification from the Fedora,
Court to the Municipal Court Of
casese where the award would
not exceed $4,000. The present
limit is $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
HYDE Plans Final Move
.ForPEPCO BiIIAction.

Representative Hyde, Republic
can of Maryland, said today he
would make one last effort to
get the House to act on his bill
authorizing a dam across the
Potomac River near Dickerson,
Md, to provide water for cooling
generators of the proposed big
power station to be erected by the
Potomac Electric Power Co.
Expressing slight hope for
actual passage by the House,
Mr.. Hyde said nevertheless he
would explore the possibilities OF
trying to get the bill called UP
under suspension of the rules
If this should be done. it would
require a two-thirds vote of the
House for passage.
The bill has been objected tc
by Representative Smith, Demo-
crat of Virginia, who has favored
a PEPCO power plant ir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Gray Group Opens Door
To Segregation Proposals

the commission issued this state
ment:
Resolved, that counsel be di-
rected to examine and report to
the commission upon all pro-
poSalS before the Commission
including the Governors pro-
posals, and report with bills car
rying same into effect, to the
executive committee and the
full commission not later than
August %, 1856"
That date falls in the middle
of the Republican National Con-
vention in San Francisco. There
are two Republicans on the Gray
Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
BY a Star stan Correspondent

RICHMOND, July H. The
Gray Commission is leaving the
field wide open to all proposals
submitted to it during the last
two years dealing with public
school segregation.
The commission yesterday
directed counsel to draft
bills covering the various plans
sion not later than August %.
This is only five days before a
special session of the General
Assembly called by Gov. Stanley
to handle the racial problem.
Among the proposals, it was
learned by The Washington Star,
is a compromise plan to one
offered by the Governor on
Monday.
The Governor had rejected
one portion of the Gray Commits
sion report Of last November
which would allow assignment of
pupils to schools without regard
to race. This would permit a
degree of integration.
Instead, Gov. Stanley asked
for outright authority to with
hold public funds from any To-
cality where schools are inte-
grated, either voluntarily or un-
der court order.
1t was learned from a reliable
source yesterday that commission
members who were holding to
the original Gray plan have
agreed to permit the Governor
to withhold the funds only if
an investigation shows that mix
ing Of the races threatens the
continuance Of schools in that
locality or there is a danger of
disorder there.
The compromise plan also
would retain the pupil assign
ment plan which has been Bit
terly opposed by commission
members and Congressman from
Southside Virginia's 'black belt"
After meeting nearly Ave
hours in secret session yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27

Loudoun County, Va, instead of
the one near the site of the dam
proposed by Mr.. Hyde.
The Hyde bill was blocked
when called up on the floor dur
a call of the calendar yesterday.
Later last night the House
passed three District bills and
sent them to the White House.
They would make permanent
traditional arrangements made
every four years during the in
auguration period relating tt
protection of life and property
vendors and so forth; exempt
from real estate taxes the his.
toric Octagon House, property o.
the American Institute of Archi.
tects; and make it easier fol
adults to present gifts to minors
without the present cumbersome
methods of control under present
law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
SUNDAYS BEST READING
Start a Career at G.?
This Man Dared and Did

ROOKIE RECTOR-The Rev. DR.. Albert H. Lucas was
an ex-Marine ex-Archdeacon of Maryland and
headmaster of boys school for 20 years. yet at 81 he
launched clerical career. Read "a Rookie Rector at
81" in The Sunday Star Magazine by Smith Hemp
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ELVIS SHOULD THANK CRITICISM TeleVue Maya
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series writes about stately Glengye Estate near
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for hunt country sportsmen
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The District Council of Law
Enforcement is going into court
decisions narrowing the time
police can hold prisoner before
Arrangement.
The question arose most re-
Gently in the case of Clarence
Watson, whose conviction of the
murder of Alice Taggart at
SCOTS Hotel was set aside by
the United States Court of APP
peals on the grounds that police
should have taken Watson for
arraignment at 8 am.
Since his written confession
was made after 9 am, the court
ruled it out.
The prosecutions request for
a rehearing in the Watson case,
or a Qualification of the courts
decision was denied. At this
point, both police and prosecu-
tors say, they are not sure what
constitutes unreasonable de-
LAY" in arraigning a prisoner nor
how far police can go in their
Investigation without running
the risk of the case being thrown
out of court
:. Slated on Major Project
George L. Hart. jr., who was
re-elected chairman of the Con-
gresSionally-created council, al
Ia council meeting yesterday
made it clear that the study OF
the interval between arrest anc
arraignment in use of evidence
obtained during that interval
will be the councils major
project for the coming season.
Two previous council project;
"a study of narcotics laws last
year, and of laws covering the
defense of insanity the previous
year-resulted in major legisla'
ton. Mr.. Hart said whether
recommendations for new leg.
IiSlation come out of this inquiry
will depend on the councils
findings.
He said much of the legal re-
search-including abstracts o.
Federal, State and British court
decisions-will be done by thu
Junior Bar Section of the Dis
ltrict Bar Association. James j
Bierbower, chairman of thu
Junior Bar Section, has told Mr.
Hart his council had agreed tt
assist the law enforcement
council in legal research.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Boys Check Fire
With Garden Hose

Fire caused an estimated
$4,000 damage early today in a
vacant house at Goodloe and
Fernhill roads. Viers Mill VIII
lage.
Kensington firemen said that
when they answered a call at
ITO am. they discovered that
the fire. had been confined to a
kitchen by two teen-age boys us
ing a garden hose.
The house is owned by the
Ryan Realty Co. The Montgom-
cry County fire marshal's Office
was reported to be investigating
the possibility of arson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
Law Council to Study
Arroignment Procedure,
Time Prisoners Con Be Detained
Without Churqe Is Subject of Inquiry

In addition to this research,
Mr.. Hart said, police, prosecutors
and defense attorneys will be
interviewed on the results of the
various court decisions affecting
the length of time police can
hold prisoners.
Balance Is Sought
1--WE want to find out" he
said, whether these rulings af-
feet the balance of interest be-
tween the accused and the pub
lie. If they favor the accused
over the public or the public
over the accused, we will recon-
mend changes.
Police and prosecutors have
contended that both the accused
and the public suffer by the
court-conceived requirements to
rush the prisoner before a COM
hitting magistrate. On the one
hand, they argue, the accused
is not held long enough fol
police to determine whether he
is the guilty party. On the Other
hand, it is contended, police are
unable to question him about
his accomplices or have him re-
construct his crime before the
compliments.
In other action, the council:
/. Revived it's Narcotics Sub
committee, under the chairman
ship of District Corrections
director Donald Clemmer tt
determine what type of con-
finement and treatment is mos
likely to result in the rehabilita'
ton of drug addicts jailed Of
hoSpitalized under new Distric'
drug laws.
Mr.. Hart said the group woulC
study the relative merits o.
treatment at the Federal mar
cotics hospital in Lexington, KY.
at a penal institution or at
not yet established narcotic
farm. He said this study nigh
lead to recommendations fol
more facilities.
2. Elected United States At
torney Oliver Gasch as vict
chairman of the council and re
, elected Walter Bramhall. clerl
of Municipal Court, as secretary
8. Elected two new members
George B. Parks as representa-
tive of the Washington Bar AS
, ISOLATION and James F. Splail
the new United States commits
sioner.