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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
SERVICE SCENE
Reception Honors
Germdny's Dr.. Rust

Another. early arrival was
the popular Netherlands
Naval Attache. Rear Admiral
Bill" Koudijs. Asked about
the Indonesian situation. the
admiral was not the least hesi-
tant in saying that the In
donesians will be getting Q
liability" II they succeed In
their demands for possession
Of Dutch New Guinea. He
pointed out that 1t Is cost
ing the Dutch government
80 million guiiders a year 10
maintain. because the Is
lands poor soil makes agrt-
culture . costly proposition.
They'll have TO begin In the
Stone Age and work up" he
commented.
A. great many other COLI
leagues Of Gen. Won Tampel.
hof, who Is the chief Ger
man Representative TO the
NATO Standing Group, were
also on hand for the recep-
ton. including the United
States representative. Gen.
Leon w. johnson and Mrs.
johnson. the French repre-
sentative. Ii. Gen. Jean NJ.
Platte. and the head Of dele
cations to the NATO group
from Belgium. Canada. Dem
mark. Greece. Italy, Norway.
Portugal and Turkey.
Two former Army chiefs
OF STAFF and their wives. Gen.
and Mrs. Albert c. Wede-
meyer and Gen. and Mrs. J..
Lawton Collins. got q big well
come.
Writing Book
Gen. Wedmeyer, who was
q classmate OF Gen. Won
Tempelhoff's when he at
tended the German Stan
College in the 1906. said he
is now working on q book
about his World War II ex-
periences. Otherwise he's
being a fulltime gentleman
farmer raising Santa Cert
rudis cattle on his three
MONTGOMERY County farms.
So he can keep his cattle
brands straight. he said he's
named the farms Friends
Acres. Friends Advice and
Friends Aplenty.
Also on hand for the party
were the German Charge
d'Adaires Albrecht Won Kes-
sci. Col. and Mrs. NJ. Robert
Guggenheim. the Air Forces
Assistant Vice Chief OF Stan
Jacob z, Smart. Air Force
MAI. Gen. and Mrs. NJ. Z.
Bradley. the Army's Assistant
Chief Of STAFF for Intelligence
and Mrs. r. A. Schow. and
the Department Of Defense's
regional director for Europe,
Brig. Gen. John s. Guthrie
and Mrs. Guthrie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
INSTRUMENTATION

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert A.
Rushton Of Arlington. Va.
announce the marriage Of
their daughter Marion Louise
10 I'd 1t. Bruce Douglas
Richard UNITED States Army
Reserve. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George F. Richardson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
Zust-Seymour

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Thomas Seymour. sr.. an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Margaret Neil to
Mr.. Ralph Milton Zust. son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert +.
Zust. The wedding took place
January II in the Holy Com
forter Episcopal Church. The
couple win live here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21

Mr.. and Mrs. c. Z. Black
Of Sigel. Pa. announce the
marriage Of their daughter
Sara x. to Mr.. John S. Pom
eruy Of Denver. Colo. son
Of Mrs. Mildred Pomeroy Of
Bethlehem. Pa. and the late
Harold Pomeroy. The we'd
ding took place December 20
in the Chevy Chase Presby-
terrain Church. The couple
viii live in Denver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21

Mr.. and Mrs. wilfred Eli
OFT Winters Of Ottawa. Can
ada. announce the marriage
Of their daughter Joan TO Mr..
John Hall Simpson. son Of
Mrs. John Simpson and the
late Mr.. Simpson. The we'd
ding took place December %
In the First Baptist Church.
The couple will live here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
Anustosi-Hol

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul b.
Holmes announce the mar
riage OF their daughter Nancy
Marie 70 Mr.. Joseph Gabriel
Anastasi. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Anastasi Of Silver
Spring. Nd. The wedding
took place December 70 In
st. AIMS Roman Catholic
Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
.Simms-Bobbit

Mr.. and Mrs. Tn o m a S
Fleming Bobbitt OF Falls
Church. Va. announce the
marriage Of their daughter
Sylvia Anne TO Mr.. Ralph
Lloyd Simms Of Rock Point.
Md. The wedding took place
January s at Holy Ghost
Church In Issue. Md. The
couple will live in Rock Point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
BuumQurdner-Bolco

Mr.. and Mrs. Macario s.
Balco Of Mount Rainier. Nd.
announce the marriage OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-21
by RUTH DEAN
star staff Writer

A provocative conversation
piece at the party given last
night by German Mai. Gen.
and Mrs. Hans-0 eorg Won
Tempelhoff was the life-size
oil painting Of King George
] Of England. II dominates
one wall Of the German
Military Mission where the
reception was held.
But actually King George
] was q German. the first
Of England,s Hanoverian line
Of kings and spoke no Eng
lish. the host reminded Q
guest who inquired whether
the portrait was Of Frederick
the Great. The portrait is
part Of the furnishings Of the
old Ritter mansion which,
the mission rents.
The party honored DR..
Josef Rust. Germany's Dep
uty Secretary Of Defense.
He Is here in a quasi-oflc
capacity. on the State De-
partment's exchange of per-
sons program. Here ostensibly
for a months looksee at the
United States. particularly
from the industrial point Of
view, Or. Rust is also work.
ing in some ofiicial talks
with State Department and
Pentagon officials IN view Of
his position as No. 2 man in
the West German Ministry
OF Defense.
To Tour Factories
A lawyer. DR.. Rust was
formerly with the Ministry
Of Economic Affairs. There.
he directed details Of carry
ing out the Schumann plan
for setting up a European
iron. steel and coal authority
So he is looking forward par
tieularly TO inspecting this
country's industrial output in
such cities as Detroit. Chica-
go. Omaha. Schenectady and
Los Angeles.
Undersecetary Of the Army
and Mrs Charles c. Finucane
were early arrivals. on their
way TO the sl00-a-plate Re-
publican dinner at the Sher-
aton-Park celebrating Presi-
dent Eisenhower's NTH anni-
versary In ONCE.
Also on their way TO a
dinner were the Admiral Sir
Michael Denny and Lady
Denny. who were laushingly
describing the problems Of
moving into their new home
on Kalorama road q few
days ago. "Of course, as soon
as We moved In. the painters
arrived too for some last
minute touches" observed Sir
Michael. They always do, "
added his wife philosophic-
ally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09

The commission concluded that
the test laid down in the M'Nagh-
ten Rule was 70 defective that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09
Mr.. LINCOLN GOES ABROAD
BY JACK HARING
Star stan Writer

From Oslo to Hong Kong, Eng
disappearing people in foreign
countries will receive a Lincoln's
birthday present from the United
States in the form Of q broadcast
version Of the late Robert e. Sher-
woods play, ABE Lincoln in n
linois."
A score Of transmitters, some
carrying a million-watt push, will
carry the play Wednesday as part
Of the Voice Of Americas efforts to
acquaint other people with Ameri-
can culture.
The hour-and-a-half radio adj
agitation of the Sherwood play is
the third such offering presented
Jointly by the Voice Of America
and the American National Thea
ter and Academy.
II ABE Lincoln in Illinois"
proves to be the success that two
previous productions were. 1t will
set of q furry Of interest In Amer
lean authors and literature In all
parts Of the world where the
United States Information Agency
is attempting to bring about an
understanding Of American cul-
ture and peace intentions.
"We've found that our two pre-
vious dramatic productions spurred
students in q number Of countries
to ask for courses in American
literature and also caused runs on
works by the authors in USIA
libraries, said Leonard Reed.
in charge Of 1.-THE American The
alter Of the Air" series for the
voice.
The first in the series was
Thornton Wilder's Our Town"
It was broadcast last June and
brought requests for tape record
ings from % nations and prompt
ed a South American station to
prepare q Spanish version. Next
was Tennessee Williams THE
Glass Menagerie," broadcast in
December.
Although IL has q cast Of II
veteran performers, ABE Lin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09

coin in Illinois" viii cost only
about $1,000. This is possible be-
cause ANITA contributes its help
free and the performers. from
the stars to the two-liners. ac-
cept minimum union pay scale.
Rod Steiger, Of television and
the movies, will star in the play.
which deals with Lincoln's early
manhood and his development
into q national figure.
Others in the cast include
Lenka Peterson as Ann Rutledge.
the young Lincoln's FIRST love;
Ann Burr as Mary Todd. Lin
coins wife; Ed Begley, Chester
Morris and Philip Bourneuf.
For people who have been ac-
customed to Raymond Massey as
Lincoln" Mr.. Reed says, Rod
Steiger's warm and more emo
tional Interpretation may come
as a surprise.
But we like it and think others
will"
The impact OF ABE Lincoln in
Illinois" won't stop with Wednes-
days initial presentation. Tapes
Of the play will be made available
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09

to mathematical formulas which
will give accurate weather pre-
diction and possibly weather con-
troll.
DR.. Smagorinsky and his staff
believe that the factors in weather
changes can be expressed in equa-
tons and that those equations
can provide models" Of specific
weather conditions. Given certain
weather data, an electronic brain
they are using the IBM 704-
is able to describe specific weather
occurrence in the past and predict
future weather conditions. The
accuracy of the models of past
weather is easily checked against
the record, and results have been
successful enough to indicate that
extended or long-range weather
prediction is possible.
'Dynomic Prediction
This type Of forecasting is
known as dynamic prediction by
numerical methods. The GCP
will begin to use it in actual long
range weather prediction before
long. DR.. Smagorinsky expects
that in time weather forecasting
will become increasingly depen-
dent upon IBM 704 or an even
more complex form Of this ma
chine. which may be required by
more complicated calculations in
the future.
Most weather forecasting today
is done largely by long-range OBJ
servation of atmospheric condi-
tions plus experience in the form
of empirical and statistical studies.
Mr.. Namias believes that this will
not be supplanted by dynamic
predictions because mature is SO
vastly complex that the solution
may never come from q completely
theoretical attack" But DR..
Smagorinsky points out that the
computing machine already is
competing successfully with the
most experienced human fore
casters in short-range predictions
of winds at 10000 feet and is
doing this on a worldwide scale.
This information is vital to navi-
cation, aeronautics, fishing and
missile and satellite launching.
In q report released last week
the Committee on Meteorology of
the National Academy Of Sciences
listed research of the GCP type
FIRST among meteorological prob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09

the law should be changed. The
commission noted that the rule
could be expanded but preferred
getting rid Of it entirely and al
lowing juries to decide whether
to hold a man responsible for his
crime. Three commission mem
bers dissented, noting that Amer
lean witnesses. legal and medical
alike, recognized that q formula
was desirable.
AS a result Of the commissions
work, the British passed a law
greatly limiting the use of the
death penalty. But on the insan-
ity issue. the M'Naghten Rule was
preserved. The only change made
was a proviso that where the ac-
cused charged with murder was
proved to have such abnormality
Of the mind as substantially i'm
paired his mental responsibility,
he should be convicted Of man
slaughter rather than murder.
About the time the Royal
Commission ended its work. the
American Law Institute began to
draft model penal code under a
Rockefeller Foundation grant. The
institutes advisory committee in
cludes leading Federal and state
judges, prosecution and defense
attorneys. prominent penologists
and leaders in forensic psychiatry.
This is the institutes tentative
draft of a substitute for the
M'Naghten rule:
"A person is not responsible for
criminal conduct If at the time of
such conduct as result Of mental
disease or defect he lacks SUBJ
stantial capacity either to appreci-
ate the criminality Of his conduct
or TO conform his conduct to the
requirements Of law.
THE terms mental disease or
defect do not include an abnor-
mality manifested only by repeated
criminal or otherwise antisocial
conduct"
Thus the institute rejected the
idea Of including psychopathic or
sociopathic personality-the anti
social character in its test Of
criminal responsibility. It speci-
fically rejected both the Durham
rule and the Royal Commission
proposal to leave it all to the jury.
An Experts Opinion
The chief reporter-or drafter
and researcher-for the institutes
penal code project is Prof. Herbert
Wechsler Of Columbia University's
School Of Law and a former As
sistant Attorney General Of the
United States. Representative
Heating, Republican Of New York.
has listed him as an indorser Of
the Heating proposal for q House
Judiciary Committee study Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09

Federal laws governing the in
sanity defense.
The committee has ordered its
staff to investigate the pros and
cons of such q legislative inquiry.
Committee Chairman Celler has
raised q question as to whether q
commission rather than Q con-
gressional committee should do
the job.
Asked to comment on Q con-
gressional inquiry versus q COM
mission. Prof. Wechsler told The
Star:
Il think the whole subject has
been very fully explored in the
Royal Commission report, the Law
Institutes tentative foundations
and the opinions Of the Court of
Appeals Of the District Of Co.
lumbia.
II gravely doubt that another
commission could add very much
to our understanding Of these
problems, but q legislative investi-
cation would serve the purpose Of
presenting the issues to Congress
and enlisting congressional judy
ment as to what-if anything
should be DONE"
Four Arguments
He cited four reasons why he
favors a legislative inquiry:
First, the problem is not con-
fined to the District. Other Fed
eral courts are now applying the
MNaghten rule and II that rule is
unsatisfactory, as / believe 1t is. it
Is difficult to see why the law
should not be changed for the rest
Of the Federal courts.
Second, the other Federal
courts do not now have the au-
thority Of the courts Of the DIS
trict Of Columbia to commit per-
sons acquitted on grounds Of ir-
responsibility. It seems i'm
portant to me to consider whether
comparable powers Of commit
ment should not be vested in other
Federal courts.
Third, many other issues in
volving the presentation Of psy-
chiatric testimony and examina-
ton and cross examination Of ex-
pert witnesses offer possibilities Of
advantageous resolution by legis-
lation.
Fourth. the possible alterna-
tives to the Durham formulation
have been quite fully worked UuS
in reports Of the Royal Commits
sion and the American Law Insti-
tute. Whether Durham or these
alternative foundations consti-
tute q better substitute for the old
MNaghten rule seems TO be q
question that Il ripe for legislative
choice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09
WHAT IS INSANITY?
WHAT IS INSANITY?
Hill May Study Criminal Responsibility

every Federal circuit court where
defense attorneys have tried to
raise it.
In rejecting it in the Ninth
Circuit last year, Judge Stanley
Barnes commented:
Perhaps a revision Of the rules
Of criminal responsibility would
be forthcoming If the law felt
it could place greater trust and
confidence in psychiatry. The
spectacle not only of individual
psychiatrists in disagreement, but
also entire divergent schools Of
thought is not an inspiring one."
Changed Long Stonding Test
Long before Judge Bazelon's
ruling. medical and legal leaders
here and abroad were chaflng at
the rule Of criminal responsibility
laid down in England in 184S and
accepted throughout the United
States with one notable exception
New Hampshire. It was from
New Hampshire that Judge Baze-
lon drew his test.
The old test is known as the
M'Naghten rule-or in legal Short
hand, the "right-wrong test" I'm
der it, to establish an insanity
defense. "it must be clearly proved
that, at the time Of the commit
ting Of the act, the party accused
was laboring under such a defect
Of reason, from disease Of the
mind. as not to know the nature
and quality Of the act he was
doing, or, II he did know it. that
he did not know he was doing
what was wrong"
In England there have been
periodic efforts to devise q new
test but none has been accepted.
The most recent was by the Royal
Commission on Capital Punish
ment.
The Royal Commissions study
covered not only Great Britain
and the continent. but the United
States.
In England, the commission
found, when common sense says
the verdict should be guilty but
insane and the MNaghten Rules
say 1t should be guilty judges
and juries usually recognize that
common sense must prevail"
It found In the United States
that psychiatrists and the aca-
demic lawyers criticized the
M'Naghten Rule as obsolete and
inadequate. But the majority Of
judges and practicing lawyers sup
ported the rule as a good practi-
cal test.
Coils for Change
The commission concluded that
the test laid down in the M'Nagh-
ten Rule was 20 defective that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09

to USIA posts throughout the
world both for broadcasts by ma
tive stations and for use by USIA
post officers.
I'VE feel" says Mr.. Reed, that
the fact that these plays are pre-
sented in English is not particu-
larry q drawback. There 10 o po-
tential audience Of 200 million
English-speaking persons. exclud-
ing Canada and the United States.
Most Of the ofiicials and other
opinion-molders in foreign coun-
tries understand English, and
those are the people we especially
want to reach"
on Mr.. Reeds schedule are ION
Borrowed Time" by Paul Osborne
and o musical, perhaps annie
Get Your Gun" or "Oklahomal" :
Wednesdays production of ABE
Lincoln in Illinois" is not directed
at American audiences. but 1t can
be heard on shortwave radio sets
from 2 to 4 pm. on l7740 kilo-
cycles (l6 meter band) or 2l6i0
kilocycles tl3 meter band) and
from 5 to pm. on 1890 kilo-
cycles (lo meter band).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star Stan Writer

Congress has been asked to take
q long look at a problem brewing
for more than 100 years: What
yardstick should juries be given
to measure whether q man should
be held criminally responsible for
his act?
The pressure for congressional
attention has been highlighted by
such recent events as these:
. The release Of Dallas o. Will
liams, the bad Man Of Swami
poodle" because psychiatrists
called him sane though adding he
could commit murder.
.. The decision of st. Elizabeths
Hospital psychiatrists that a man
with q "sociopathic personality"
was mentally Ill although such a
type was formerly considered
merely anti-social and at odds
with the world. On that finding,
the accused was found not guilty
by reason Of insanity.
. Testimony in another case
which found one psychiatrist as
serting that a "sociopathic per-
sonality" was so close to normal
that the psychiatrist did not con-
slider him suffering from a disease
or defect, a second testifying that
it was q disease but not a defect
and a third saying it was a de-
feet but not a disease.
. The disagreement among the
appellate judges themselves as
reflected in their opinions.
. The growing series Of reversals
as District Court judges here fail
in their attempts to instruct juries
as the appellate court says they
should be instructed on insanity
questions.
1854 Ruling Was Concise
The District moved away from
the other Federal courts in 1854
when the Court Of Appeals an
nounced o new test to determine
whether q man should be held
responsible for his crime. In the
words Of Appellate Judge David
L. Bazelon, this Is the test:
1T Is simply that an accused
is not criminally responsible II
the unlawful act was the product
Of mental disease or mental de-
feet"
The Durham rule"-so called
because 1t was issued in the re-
versal Of a HOUSEKEEPING convic-
ton Of a man named Durham
brought these repercussions:
Warm praise from many psychia-
trists as the laws response to
psychiatric progress; criticism by
many legal authorities as too
broad and vague; rejection In
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lens Of current and potential i'm
portance." The report stated a..
it should be possible, with the aid
Of electronic computers, to formu-
late a purely physical theory Of
our present climate. This would
open the way to a rational study
Of weather modification -"
Another important achievement
of the GCP is that it is now pos
sible to account for large-scale
rainfall over a short period Of
time. This permits advance pre-
diction Of storm tides, hurricanes
and flash floods that would save
lives and property. This is of ire
mendous help to studies being
made to prevent hurricanes and
other such natural disasters.
Other nations engaged in re-
search on weather prediction by
the aid Of electronic computers
include Norway, Sweden, England.
Germany and Japan. AS far as
can be determined, Russians are
to date limited to the use of only
one computer Of the type Of our
IBM 704. We are ahead of the
Russians since our computing ma
chimes are being produced in
quantity, which widens the oppor-
tunitieS for research by scientists
in many parts of the country.
Modification Techniques
Moving to the area of weather
modification and control, one of
the most widely known techniques
is "cloud-seeding" to create rain
fall. Several attempts at cloud
seeding have been undertaken in
the past decade and in some in
stances have appeared successful,
so much so that it has encouraged
speculation about the use of
cloud-seeding to relieve drought
stricken areas. However, in areas
suffering from extreme drought,
seeding is impossible because no
clouds are present.
At this time there is no way
to make rain without clouds. On
paper it is possible. perhaps by
nuclear explosions, to push moist
air over a drought area and then
seed the resultant clouds. But
this would require such a fan
tastic amount Of energy that it is
not believed practical.
Ferguson Hall, meteorologist
with the United States Weather
Bureau and an expert on cumulus