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Evening star., 1958-05-02
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK

Few homicide cases in mod
ern times have attracted more
attention than that involving
IA year old cheryl Crane,
daughter Of movie star Lana
Turner. Cherry has become q
/. prominent national figure In
recent weeks after stabbing and
killing her mothers one-time
boy friend. Johnny Stompa-
nato. with a butcher knife.
Hardly had the news OF this
event been released before
Jerry GieSler. well-known Hol-
lywood attorney retained by
Miss Turner, announced that
the Staying amounted TO justi-
liable homicide - an opinion
with which a coroner's jury
later agreed.
But what Is justifiable homi-
eide and how does it differ from
other killings?
-Four Types Of Killings
Without going into detail OF
the many variations in the
way different jurisdictions view
the matter, 1t is probably cor
rect to say that justifiable
homicide is the rarest OF the
four basic types of killings.
In law. these are generally
murder, manslaughter, excusa-
bic homicide and juStifiable
homicide. The major legal divi-
sion is between the first two
types, which occur as the re-
suit Of some evil intent, reck-
lessness or unlawful act, and
the latter two. which involve
no culpability on the part OF
the killer.
Further Distinction
But there is further distinc-
tion between excusable and JUS
tifiable homicide.
Evening star., 1958-05-02
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
ArterioscIerosis and Long Life
By Or. PETER J sTElNcRoHN

/. For example, the first doctor
said that you had hardening OF
the arteries. You went to
pieces. The second. after a
complete examination. said that
you had a normal circulation
"for a person of g." I suppose
he implied that you had arteri-
osclerotic changes. He put il
nicely so you wouldn't be
frightened unnecessarily. Yet,
what happened? You came
away without reinsurance.
Arteriosclerosis Oet's throw
out the term hardening of the
arterieSO is in store for all OF
us who want to live long. Let's
learn to live with 1t and accept
it and be thankful that we have
been given long life. 1t is true
that abnormal arterioSclerosis
in the thirties, forties and flftieS
can bring us severe circulatory
ailments. However, when it is
diagnosed in our sixties and
seventies, / believe we need tc
become philosophical about it
In your case, Mrs. H. D.,
can only guess. ] would say that
your symptoms are not due tC
arteriosclerosiS or any other
disorder of the circulation. YOU
have a multiplicity of com.
plants. I have heard similar
stories from people in theil
teens and twenties in whom
you will agree. arteriosclerosis
played no part.
Therefore, / suggest that YOU
dismiss (if you cam all thought.
Of arterioScleroSis from youl
mind. Probably your doctors
have prescribed some sedatives
Most likely they, too, have tried
to reasSure you. Believe them
and me-or you will continue tc
go through life forever CON
cerned about your arteries.
released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc. ]
Monday: Aftereffeets Of hyster.
ectomV,
Evening star., 1958-05-02
Optometric Group
To Meet Sunduy

The Maryland optometric
Association will hold its an
nual spring meeting Sunday
at the Indian Spring Coun-
try Club, Silver Spring, Md.
DR.. Joseph B. Margolin, re-
search director and chief
psychologist at the Mental
Health Study Center of the
National Institute for Mental
Health in Silver Spring, will
be the principal speaker at a
luncheon session.
More than 200 persons are
expected to attend. Officers
will be elected at a business
session.
Evening star., 1958-05-02

riage pressure on me. All
heard was get married, get
married" from everyone. I was
finally introduced to the daugh-
ter Of a friend Of my mothers.
1 thought she was a nice girl,
but l wasn't in love with her,
My mother said 1t wasn't SO
important. that n was time to
marry and this girl would make
"a good wife.
About a week after ! got en-
gagged / met a beautiful divor-
Gee. For the first time in my
life I feel I really care about q
woman. I must break my en-
gagement. but my mother says
I'm out Of my mind.
Mrs. r. TIA fine son I have
He waits 35 years to fall in
love and then finds a divorcee
the week after he gets engaged
TO a lovely girl who adores him
! feel Ne is just trying to spite
me. This divorcee is older thar
he is and out for money. Harold
doesn't even know If she woulc
take him seriously II he pro-
posed. Yet he is all set to break
his engagement.
II Harold breaks this en-.
gagement don't want to have
anything more to do with him
He has disgraced himself anc
me by the awful way he ha:
acted, The girl / picked for him
is pretty and well educated anc
corIes from a fine family. Hell
~<er find a more desirable
wife. He's making a fool oi
himself.
THE COUNCILS VIEW
There does seem to be some
connection between Harold,
getting engaged and falling ir
love for the first time-with 8
different girl. 1t is not being
at all farfetched to suspect the
purpose of the "love" is to breaI
the unwanted tie.
Some happy marriages havt
been made by reluctant bride.
grooms. but we think they arr
the exception rather than tht
Evening star., 1958-05-02

new airport at Chantiliy, Va,
was recommended by PreSiden-
tial Assistant Elwood r. Que
sada. 1t has been long and vio-
lently espouSed by the Mary
land delegation on Capitol Hill
and has the unofficial blessings
OF the Civil Aeronautics Board.
StipulatiOns for Bid
The Combined Airlines Ticket
Office Committee, made up OF
representatives of airlines Serv-
ing the Washington Baltimore
area. in its invitation for bus
service bids, stipulated down.
town Washington terminal
point to Friendship with off,
street loading facilities.
o. Roy Chalk, president OF
d. C. Transit, proposed such a
surface link with Baltimore last
fall, including a terminal SIM
liar to that sought by the air.
lines.
Jet service to the Washington
area through Baltimore may be
here before the first of next
Evening star., 1958-05-02

TO be forced 10 nee the Com
munists again when Soviet
troops arrived.
A stay Of several years in
Austrian displaced persons
camps ended happily for Mrs
zarechnak when she was able
TO come to the United States
seven years ago. She sat hap
PLY in Federal District Court
today as speakers drew the at
tention Of the Nation to the
system Of jurisprudence that
guarantees our freedoms.
Mrs. zarechnak exercises her
freedom in a very specific way
as a librarian at the National
Library Of Medicine here.
Evening star., 1958-05-02
FoIies Bergeres Stur
Better After SIushind

PARIS. May 2 (P.-Folies
Bergeres star Yvonne Menard.
who was found semiconscious
in her apartment with one
wrist slashed, showed some i'm
provement yesterday after blood
tranSfusionS.
Doctors said she was still in
serious condition.
Friends said the 28-year-old
singer and dancer had been
respondent because of the Paris
critics sharp words about her
latest revue. She took her role
in the current revue last March
after a tour of the United
States and Italy.
Evening star., 1958-05-02
FEATURE Rcz
LAW IN THE NEWS
CheryI's Case Poses
Unusual Legal Angle

ExcuSable homicide, which Is
more common. Is q killing COM
mitted by one doing q lawful
act without intention 10 hurt:
a motorist. driving lawfully.
who strikes and kills a drunk
who Unexpectedly stumbles into
his path might be an example,
Excusable homicide also in
cludes killing In self-defense.
Justifiable homicide Is a kill
ing committed as an unavoid-
able necessity In pursuance of
(a) public justice or tb) the
prevention OF some atrocious
crime being or about to be at
temped by force. Usual ex-
amples are the acts Of an
executioner in putting a con-
demned criminal the death. or
those Of a policeman who is
forced to shoot someone TO
stop a felony.
No Punishment
In the United States no guilt
or punishment attaches to the
one who kills either excusably
or justifiably. And some juris-
dictions now distinguish kill
ings mainly as felonious ones
murder and manslaughter) or
nonfelonious ones TALL others
In any event. the "justifiable
homicide" aspects Of the Crane
Stompanato affair were pretty
unusual. since the great ma
jority Of killings fall into the
categories of murder, man
slaughter, accident or self
defense. And most justifiable
ones are by public officials
acting in line af duty. The
ordinary citizen who kills
"juStif1ably" doesn't come along
every day.
Sunday: Fees based on "obiIitV tc
Evening star., 1958-05-02
Bill Drafted to Create
Independent Air Unit

A bill to create an independ-
ent aviation agency, responsible
only to the White House, is
being prepared on Capitol Hill,
Senator Monroney, Democrat of
Oklahoma, said today.
In an address on the Senate
floor. Senator Monroney, chair
man of the Aviation Subcom-
mlttee, looked back at the re-
cent midair crash of a United
Airlines plane and an Air Force
jet fighter over Las Vegas, New,
examining conditions contribut-
ing to the accident fatal to 48
persons.
I'VE have reached the point
In this air age when dual con-
troll of our air space is inviting
disaster" he declared, both for
the military ATTRACT and civil
ian aircraft of our Nation"
Divided Control Blamed
Divided control, by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration sys-
TEN and the military, caused
the Las Vegas crash, Senator
Monroney charged.
He said one half of the air
traffic is military; the other
half is civilian and , the left
hand does not know what the
right hand is doing.
Such a situation is almost
as dangerous as a busy inter-
section at which the red lights
were supervised by one agency
and the green lights by an
other"
The new bill will propose an
independent agency which
would not be a subordinate,
back -office branch of Govern
ment Office whose primary duty
has nothing to DO with avia-
ton.
AN agency of such stature
must have the right to control
the air space so that both mill
tary and civilian traffic car
move with certainty and safety
once they are given assigned
attitudes and flight plans with
out danger of midair collision.
Help To Be Asked
Senator Monroney said the
help of committee staff and the
aviation industry would bt
asked to draft suggested legis-
lstion creating such an agency
reporting directly to the Presi-
dent"
I'VE contemplate the agency
Evening star., 1958-05-02

will have representatives of the
military aviation branches as a
part of it, but that it will have
a single civilian administrator. "
Senator Monroney has been
one of the leaders in such a
move for at least three years,
but the plans have never
reached bill stage.
Evening star., 1958-05-02
Jet Crush in France
Kills Z Americans

WIESBADEN, Germany, May
2 (R.-Col. Walter E. Clarke,
AZ, of Las Vegas, New. and
Capt. Billy j. Perkins, 81, of
Los Angeles, were killed yester-
day in a jet trainer crash in
France.
Col. Clarke commanded the
United States air base at Phals-
bourg, France.
Evening star., 1958-05-02

The FomiF Council consists Of o Judge.
o pVehiotris,. three elersymsn. o
nswspopsr editor. o vomsn's editor
and two writers. Eoeh article Is .
summary Of on oetuol eoss history.
The council reports on problems
thet hove been dealt with BY
responsible sseneiss and eounsslon.
Evening star., 1958-05-02
DC. Moves to Utilize
Flights Into Friendship

First positive step toward Washington Of Baltimore
Friendship airport is being taken.
Anticipating the beginning commercial jet
this 10 anes serving Washington are asking for
BIDS on bus transportation to the Baltimore facility
Use of Friendship pending completion of Washingtons
Evening star., 1958-05-02
FAMILY COUNCIL
Man Shuns
Girl Chosen
By Mother

HAROLD TT must break
the engagement.
MRS. r. TIE has dis
graced himself and me.
THE DETAILS
Harold TIL am IS years old
and engaged 10 one girl and
in love with another.
II all happened because
everyone was putting this mar
Evening star., 1958-05-02

Sunday: Fees based on "obiIity to
poy."
Evening star., 1958-05-02

ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1958-05-02
TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES by wah Disney
THE GHOST
THAT SWIMS

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SALMON REAl-LH
NLAS NO BuSlhE66
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Evening star., 1958-02-03
Youth, IS. Found
Frozen to Death
On Virginia Rood

MADISON. Va. Feb. 3 (P).-
The frozen body of 15-year-old
James Garfield Broyles of
Madison was found beside a
country road near Syria yes
terday.
Madison County Sheriff C. E.
Lillard said an autopsy will be
performed to determine the
cause of death.
The youths body was found
by his father, Osbey Broyles, in
a ditch alongside State Rt. 643
about three-quarters of a mile
from the Broyles' home at
Syria, eight miles northwest OF
here.
Sheriff Lillard said there
were no marks of violence on
the body. The sheriff said he
could not tell how long the
youth had been dead.
The youths father told po-
lice he last saw his son about
5 pm. Saturday and did moi
know when he left the house
He said he missed the boy
about 5 am. yesterday and
went to search for him. He
found the body at Sis am.
Young Broyles was a ninth
grade student at Madison
County High School.
Evening star., 1958-02-03
Mclaughlin Hits Move
To Retain Streetcors.

gers, in effect, Mr.. Mclaughlin
said.
Transit officials have dis
puted the city's cost-per-mile
analysis. insisting that since
the streetcar facilities already
are on hand streetcar costs are
comparable to those Of buses,
Mr.. Mclaughlin said on the
program that sizable tax sub
sides given Mr.. Chalk in his
franchise were granted because
he promised to convert to an
all-bus system.
Asked If he would urge with
drawal Of the tax exemptions
II Congress let's streetcars stay,
Mr.. Mclaughlin hesitated.
This will have to be a yes
or no answer, Mr.. Commits
sioner," said the City Side
commentator. who noted the
time on the 30-minute program
was running out.
Mr.. Mclaughlin answered,
"These things can't be decided
on a moments notice"
Engineer Commissioner A. C..
yelling said traffic loads could
be Increased on Wisconsin av-
enue NV. tremendously" as
soon as streetcar tracks were
liftSd there.
Evening star., 1958-02-03

Robert E. Mclaughlin, presi-
dent of the Board of Commits
sioners is on the record today
as opposed to any move in Con-
gress to let d. c. Transit Presi-
dent o. Roy Chalk retain
streetcars here.
Law now requires all street.
car lines to be retired in six
years.
But District Committee
chairman. Representative Nc
MILAN. Democrat Of South
Carolina. has promised to in
troduce legislation to keep
streetcars running.
The District Building argu-
ment against streetcars is just
as valid today as it was in Au-
gust. 1856. when Mr.. Chalk
bought the company, Mr.. Nc
Laughlin said yesterday on the
WTOP-TV program, City Side,
This argument is that street.
cars cost more to run than
buses. City officials contend the
cost-per-mile figure-bigger for
streetcars than buses-imposes
a higher fare level on all riders.
Bus riders are subsidizing the
comfort Of streetcar passen-
Evening star., 1958-02-03


majority of the States election
registrars had obeyed the no.
application form ruling and
used only blank paper, although
he understood applications were
still used in many of the larger
cities. He added, however, that
registrars have always been
free to advise applicants what
Information they should write
when they apply for registra-
tion.
Meanwhile, the Woman's
Democratic Club of the 10th
congressional district yesterday
protested Senator Gray's blank
paper registration bill.
This bill is a punitive meas
ure directed against registrars
who attempt to make registra-
ton a reasonable process for
any citizen" Mrs. Lois Van Vail
kenburgh of Alexandria. club
president said.
The 10th district is one Of the
areas where printed forms are
used.
Evening star., 1958-02-03
Missionary PorIey
Slated at Vienna

DR.. John Dunkin, dean Of
the Baptist Bible Seminary,
johnson City. N. Y. will speak
at the annual missionary con-
ference to be held Wednesday
through Sunday in Faith Bap-
tist Church, Vienna. Va.
Services will be held at 7:30
pm. each day.
Other speakers will include
the Rev. Lloyd Price Of Elyria,
ohio. and the Rev. Floyd
Kester, missionary recently re-
turned from the Belgian Congo.
Faith Church is a member Of
the General Association of
Regular Baptist Churches.
Evening star., 1958-02-03
SIuin Man Found
In Trunk of Cor

BALTIMORE. Feb. 8 (R).-
Baltimore police today investi-
gated the death of a mar
whose body was found last
night stuffed in the trunk Of
a car.
Papers taken from the mans
clothing bore the name Roose-
velt Nicholson and listed a
Baltimore address. The colored
man appeared to be about 25
years old, police said.
A traffic officers investiga-
ton of the illegally parked car
led to discovery of the body
Police said the man apparently
had been struck over the head
with a blunt weapon. Inside
the car a bloodStained hammer
and hat were found, officers
said.
The car was traced to a Bal
timore woman who told Police
she had lent it to Roosevelt
Nicholson.
Evening star., 1958-02-03

El1lOII, "a, Ills DrOCQef ALBERT
L. Elliott, l8, and Therium M.
Briscoe, 81, all Of 1907 Eye
street NE.
During the getaway. the
grocery store owner, Linn K,
May, 40, of $50 Eleventh street
NE. grabbed his .32-caliber
pistol from under the counter
and fired four times. He said
he was certain at least one shot
found Its mark. because he saw
a bandit fall and others help
him to a waiting car.
Like a Western
Mr.. Mays craftsmanship
seemed affirmed, Squad Cap
tain Nunzio Bonaccorsy said,
when the quartet was captured
at the l street address yester-
day.
Detectives Orville Erfert,
David Gould, and Vincent
Antonelli, comprising the posse,
found all four unarmed and
one of them. Walls, lying face
down on a living room couch.
He had been shot from behind,
and the bullet was still in him.
you know" Walls told po-
lice, they tried to take it out
just like they do on those old
Westerns on television.
They got the whisky, they
got a razor blade, and they got
the Instruments"
Walls said every time the
pain would become unbearable,
the amateur surgeons would
give him more whisky.
Patient Suffers
He said he became badly
mutilated and rather drunk,
but the bullet stayed in. It
finally was removed at D. C.
General Hospital.
None of the four would tell
police where they got a surgical
kit, found in the house, and
Evening star., 1958-02-03


Mr.. Mann and all other citi-
zens. At Saturdays board
meeting I recorded nine votes
in favor Of the Sunset Hills
site and two against it. One
of these two votes was cast
by Mr.. Talbot.
"The statement attributed
to Mr.. Mann is disappointing
and comes with i'll grace from
a man who as recently as No
vember and December was
giving us disparaging COM
ments on the Ravensworth
tract which he now favors with
such fanatical zeal" 4.
Evening star., 1958-02-03
Beaten BODY
.OfWidow,4o
lis lsDiscoyered

LADYSMITH, Va, Feb. 8 up
l. The body of a 49-year-old
widow, apparently beaten to
death with sticks of firewood,
was found in her home about
q mile south of here in Caro-
line County early today.
Sheriff R.. Garnett Brooks
4said two men who live across
Route l were held for question:
ing.
The body Of Mrs. jeanette
M. Griffin was found in a seated
position on the kitchen floor
about 2 am. Sheriff Brooks
said the discovery was made
by the victims 14-year-old son,
James. y
Sheriff Brooks said blood was
found on the clothing of one
of the men. whom he described
as a 23-year-old "drifter" from
Alabama, and that a button
matching those on the mans
clothes was found in the home
He and State Police Investi-
gator E. M. Lloyd said the
woman apparently was beaten
to death with sticks of fire.
wood. Four bloodstained
pieces of wood were found on
top of a small kitchen stove.
Scene of the Staying was a
small building formerly op-
Grated by Mrs. Griffin as the
snack bar. She had moved to
Alexandria but had returned
to the Ladysmith location after
the business was closed about
six months ago, Sheriff Brooks
said.
He said several men spent a
portion Of last evening watch
ing television with Mrs. Grif-
fin.
Sheriff Brooks said nothing
appeared to have been taken
from the home and that there
were no signs that Mrs. Grit
fin had given her assailant
much of a struggle.
Evening star., 1958-02-03

Robert Elliott denied Walls
story.
But the evidence was there"
declared Capt. Bonaccorsy, who
said the doctors" used perox-
ide as a local anesthetic.
Police also recovered a Is
caliber pistol in Robert Elliott's
car, which they said was used In
the holdup of Mr.. May. The
four were implicated, after
questioning, in three other
holdups during January. W
And in a lineup, Robert Ell
lott was named by a young
woman as the man who at
tackled her in the street Janu-
ary rs. striking her in the head
and knocking her through a
plate-glass window. Elliott also
denied this charge. but all four
admitted taking part in the May
robbery. Capt. Bonaccorsy said.
Evening star., 1958-02-03

Doaro members who voted in
favor Of the Ravensworth site,
near Springfield, which Mr..
Mann advocated.
The Board Of Visitors voted
go Saturday in favor the Bow
man tract. although the four
Northern Virginia jurisdictions
had indorsed the Rayensworth
location. =
Mann's Statement
Mr.. Mann blasted the action
and said:
while a public official rep
resenting Northern Virginia
was not given a hearing, the
attorney for these real estate
liquor interests promoting the
Sunset Hills development (who
offered the Bowman tract )had
dinner with the rector of the
University at Pennington
Country Club on the night be-
fore the Visitors meeting"
Mr.. Talbot said Mr.. Mann's
suggestion was too low to
merit the dignity of a reply, ["
but Mr.. Berkley said:
Il must deny emphatically
the outra g eous insinuation
credited to Harrison Mann by
Sundays Washington Star that
the rector of the university,
Frank Talbot, jr., of Danville
was influenced in favor of these
real estate-liquor interests" by
the fact that he dined Friday
evening with an attorney who
favored the Sunset Hills site
for the university's Northern
Virginia college.
Recorded Minutes r
"Mr. Talbot's dinner COM
panionS are no concern of
mine, nor does his fair minded
and honorable name need any
defense by me. It is my re-
sponsibility. however, to record
the proceedings of the Board
of Visitors. The minutes are
a public record, available to-
Evening star., 1958-02-03
Mon Wanted
Is Found
Shot to Death

The bullet-riddled body Of q
man believed to be wanted fol-
larceny in Silver Spring tMd)
was found in a Kansas City
apartment yesterday.
1t. Wayne Gibson of the
Homicide Bureau of the Kansas
City Police Department said the
man has been tentatively iden-
titled as Richard H. Miller from
rent receipts and check blanks
found in his apartment.
A Richard Harry Miller, q,
is wanted in connection with
the theft of $911 worth of cam
era equipment from Charles
Studio. Inc, at 9517 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring, in mid
December.
A check on the dead mans
car showed Maryland tags that
had been issued to the name
Richard L. Miller at a Wheaton
Md address which, police
said, was that of the owner OF
Charles Studio, where Miller
had been employed before the
theft.
A pickup order was issued in
Kansas City for a blond woman
and two children who had been
living with Miller. The man was
shot twice in the head and
twice in the chest.
Charles r. McInturf, owner
of the Silver Spring studio, saio
a check book also was taken
from his shop and that Miller
has been leaving a trail oi
forged checks behind him.
He said the check book was
recovered in Wichita County
Kans., about mid-January.
Mr.. McInturf said Miller had
been living with a woman
named June Vessels Of Trappe,
Md
Evening star., 1958-02-03
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Retired Rail Man
Dies of Wound

A retired railroad worker died
yesterday of a gunshot wound
at Arlington Hospital, police
said. -
He was George K. Prettyman,
70, of 5611 North Washington
boulevard, Arlington.
His wife told police she found
Mr.. Prettyman about noon, ly-
ing on the floor of the laundry
room of their apartment house,
according to Detective Sergt.
George Coppage. A .32-caliber
revolver was nearby, she said.
Mr.. Prettyman, a retired
Southern Railroad employe,
died about three hours later at
the hospital. A death certifi-
cate has been withheld pending
an autopsy.