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Evening star., 1959-10-09
3 Youths Accused of Setting Fire
At Alexandra Judges Apartment

Three youths believed mott
waited by revenge were charged
today with setting a fire with
gasoline last Sunday night out
side the apartment of Judge
Irene L. Pancoast of the Alex
andria Juvenile and Domestic
Relations Court.
The oldest of the three,
Lloyd James Conner. 18, of the
200 block of Adams avenue,
Alexandria, was arrested at his
home at $50 o'clock last night.
Today the others, one II
and called the brains" of the
trio, and the other IA, we're ar
rested at Hammond High
School.
Police said the younger two
had been plotting since school
opened to "get revenge" for a
conviction before Judge Pan
coast growing out of a May 9
burglary of an Alexandria store.
Both were placed on probation.
Detective Sergt. George
ThodoS and Detective Roy
Canard, who broke the case
after painStaking work, gave
this account:
The younger boys decided
october 4 would be a good time
to strike, since they believed
Judge PancoaSt would be al
church. Meanwhile they pro-
voked the interes, of Conner
who attends Geotge Washing
ton High School, and also hac
been in Juvenile Court.
Evening star., 1959-10-09

watch outside the apartment,
the 14-year-old donned mask
and gloves, carried a quart
bottle of gasoline into the hall
and doused the door and mat
of the Pancoast apartment He
put up the signs, one reading
"a Nazi did this-catch me If
you can," dropped a match and
fled with the empty bottle.
Firemen extinguished the
fire after minor damage and
the Pencoasts, who are not
Jewish, put no credence in the
signs. but believed it the work
of disgruntled juveniles.
Charged with statutory bur-
glary and arson, Conner waived
preliminary hearing before
Judge Neville Hall in Police
Court and was held for the
grand jury.
Juvenile charges of two
counts of conspiracy and pro-
baton violation were placed
against the 17-year-old boy
The 14-year-old was charged
with arson and probation vio-
lation.
The guns, knives and ammu-
milton stolen from the store
last Sunday were recovered
from some bushes $50 wards be-
hind the store. The rifles bore
the property tags police hac
tied on them when they wert
recovered after the May
burglary.
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Survey Warns
Smoking Mothers

LONDON, Oct. 9 (AP)-Ex-
pectant mothers who smoke
cigarettes are likely to have
smaller babies, a British doctor
claimed today.
DR.. Charles Lowe of Birming-
ham University reported that
children of smoking mothers
averaged 6 ounces lighter than
those of non-Smokers.
Writing in the British Med
ical Journal, the doctor said
he investigated the smoking
habits of more than 1000
women in six Birmingham hos
pitfalls.
Almost all the mothers who
had babies weighing 9 pounds
or more we're non-smokers. he
said. In extreme cases, he be-
lieveS, the mothers smoking
may cause the baby to weigh
less than 5 pounds.
DR.. Lowe suggested that
smoke absorbed into the moth
er,s bloodstream may have a
dfSsct effect on the unborn
baby in the same way that ii
reduces appetite in the adult.
Evening star., 1959-10-09

The night of the planned
foray, the 17-year-old pre-
vailed on Conner to slip into
the Alexandria Surplus Co.,
2501 Duke street. This is the
store the two younger boys
had burglarized Of eight rifles,
II knives and two hatchets
May 9.
Conner was given a set of
anti-Jewish signs like the ones
later pasted in front of the
Pancoast apartment, and told
by the 17-year-old to leave
them in the store.
Conner also was told to get
a metal box which the IT.
said belonged to him
and had been. taken by police
when they recovered articles
from the May 9 burglary. Ac-
tually no such box existed.
After Conner had stolen
three rifles, three knives and
some ammunition, he was
urged by the 17-year-old tc
join the 14-year-old in the raio
on the Pancoast apartment
The 17-year-old supplied the
other two with masks, glove;
and the defamatory signs, anc
then went home to sit it out
Unknown to the youths
Judge PancoaSt was at home
with her husband, Aiexandris
Vice Mayor Joseph "a Pan
coast.
! While the older boy stool
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Steel Shortage
CurtuiIs Work on
NucIeur Carrier

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Oct.
g (AP).-Work on the nuclear
carrier Enterprise is being cur
tailed because of a shortage of
steel. AS a result about 600
workers can expect to be laid
of by the Newport News Ship
building & Dry Dock Co.
William E. Blewett. jr., presi-
dent of the company, said yes
terday::
"If the steel strike were
settled today, it would still take
at least eight weeks for the
shipyard to receive delivery of
this steel, and it is obvious that
the present working force on
the aircraft carrier cannot be
maintained during the balance
of this year."
The, yards steel shortage is
limited to certain grades and
types of steel needed to COM
plete the carrier.
Evening star., 1959-10-09
SpikeHeeIst Be Illegal
As Mobile SofetyMove

Shoes" the commissioners said
The shoe ordinance, to be
adopted Tuesday unless the
commission gets cold feet, was
prompted by approximately so
injury lawsuits against the
city in the last two years.
The commission blames the
high. thin spike heels for wom-
en- falling on sidewalks. causing
broken arms, skinned noses,
twisted legs and loss of dig
nifty" The narrow spikes tend
to get caught in joints of ce-
.ment on sidewalks and streets.
Gratings also present a special
hazard.
So here it is, girls-no heels
more than one inen high that
are less than one inch in diam
'eter.
Evening star., 1959-10-09

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 9 (AP).-
Women who "hobble down city
streets in heels three and four
inches high and no larger than
a cigarette" will practically
have to flat-foot it around town
under a proposed city ordi-
nance.
The three male city commits
sioners who thought it up en-
tertain no illusions about their
ability to deal with an aroused
female citizenry.
Enforcement Of the S. fine
provided for violation will be
lax-let's say, extremely lax.
I'VE don't expect to make any
arrests. The purpose of the law
will be te 1ake women respon-
sible for accidents which hap
pen while wearing the illegal
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Eisenhower
GreetsMateos
Mexican President
Hailed by Crowds
Nv I0HN " HORNER
By JOHN V. HORNE
Star stan Writer

President Adolf Lopez Mateos
of Mexico, arriving at noon to-
day for a four-day state visit,
was welcomed warmly by Presi-
dent Eisenhower and acclaimed
by thousands of Washingto-
mans as he drove into the city
from National Airport.
In receiving the 49-year-old
chief of state, President Eisen-
hover declared that there is
much more than geographical
proximity in the relationship
between this country and
Mexico.
He said the two countries
live by the same values and
that both are interested in hu-
man rights, human freedoms
and the protection of the rights
of citizens.
In his reply President Lopez
Mateos said the people of Mex
leo appreciate and admire the
great people of the United
States, whose immense spirit
and high moral virtues they
fully recognize"
Friendship Called Clear
II am convinced, Mr.. Presi-
dent" continued Mr.. Lopez
Mateos, that between us there
are no secrets. This conviction
is based on the facts that the
friendship between Mexico and
the United States is crystal
clear and that no problem ex-
lists or can exist between our
governments capable of weak
ening of jeopardizing this
friendship"
The visitor then said no two
countries as large as the United
States and Mexico, with a
common boundary of more
than 100000 miles and with
so many diverse contacts, can
fail to have problems.
Some of these" he said,
"are intrinsically difficult and
others are made difficult by
the conflicting interests in
volved.
Il am ready to talk about
these problems and about all
matters which our advisers
may consider appropriate to
bring to our attention"
Growth Capacity Cited
Without specifying to what
he referred, Mr.. Lopez Mateos
then said the most important
subject always will be the re-
lationships between the United
States and Mexico. capacity for
growth and the places of the
two countries in the world.
AS a gesture of friendship
Mr.. Eisenhower requested that
Miss Eva Lopez Mateos. IT.
year-old daughter of the Mex
lean President, ride with them
See MATEOS, Page A.,
Evening star., 1959-10-09

of revenue that would lead to
the development of public sup
port of the balanced budget" !"
The council, however, ended
its session today by recon-
mending the increase Of SAT-
million over the budget Offices
recommendations to finance
the spending proposals of seven
departments.
The departments and the
amounts the council recon-
mended be restored were:
Health, $2.3 million; schools,
81 million; welfare, $435, 900:
Juvenile Court, $50. 1000; recrea-
tion, $275,000; Zoo, $4,000,
and vocational rehabilitation
$4,000.
The Commissioners have
heard appeals from Is depart
ments for a total of $12.6 mil
lion in restorations. The budget
Office cut a total of nearly $24.5
million from all department re-
quests.
Evening star., 1959-10-09

at alternate revenue possibil-
tiles before approving recon-
mended increases in seven taxes
and to override the budget
Office on a total of about SAL
million in cuts of seven depart
ments' spending requests.
In its action on the police
item, the council hedged on
taking a firm position.
Votes for S77O,6OO Item
The council, in adopting q
subcommittee report, voted in
favor of az additional $770 60C
to hire 100 extra men and pay
for the equivalent of so mer
in overtime.
In its report. the council
agreed to make no recommen'
dation on the additional 40C
policemen which the depart
ment has requested above the
budget Offices proposal.
On the question of revenue
for the proposed budget. tht
advisory group urged that 81
million of the surplus money ir
the motor vehicle parking funC
be transferred to ease the city's
general spending needs. In ad'
dition the council recommended
that the Commissioners add S:
million to the budget Office
recommendation for SIS mil
lion in Federal borrowing.
The effect, after a bookkeep
ing maneuver involving tn
Highway Department, woult
be to add $4.3 million to tn,
general fund. and leave tn
highway fund revenue at tn,
present recommended level.
Seeks Other Revenue Source
On the matter of revenue
the council noted that the pro
posed tax increases had draw
criticism at last Tuesday
budget hearing. Expressing
sympathy for this criticism, tn,
advisory group urged the Com
missioners to make every eff
fort to discover other source
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Red Boss Seen
WantingPeace
u. S. Officials Cite
Stand on Jumming
BY CHARLES B. SEIB
star Staff Writer

American officials appraising
the words and actions of Soviet
Premier Khrushchev during his
visit here are convinced that he
sincerely and almost desper-
ately wants to avert the danger
of World War III.
They believe further that he
wants to achieve a true peace
soon-while he is strong and
healthy and while the United
States and Russia can still call
the turns.
These opinions are based on
a careful study of reports by
those who came in close con-
tact with the Soviet leader dur
ing last months tour.
1t also is known now that Mr.
Khrushchev is ready to enter
into an agreement to discon-
tinue the jamming of the radio
broadcasts the West beams to
the Soviet Union and her satel-
liteS.
He is said to recognize that
jamming is a sign of weakness,
in addition to being very eX-
pensive, and is ready to admit
all sorts of programs, including
political debates. He would ex.
clude only exhortationS to the
people to rise against their gov
ernmentS.
Unhappy at Arms Outlay
Repeatedly during his visit
here the Communist leader ex-
pressed his feeling that there
is a real danger the world will
slide into war even though no.
body wants it. He made it cleal
he was unhappy about the fact
that a large part of Russia'S
productivity is channeled into
arms, seriously impeding his
efforts to raise the Soviet
standard of living.
Mr.. Khrushchev convinced
many of those who came in con.
tact with him that he is eager
to have his people and the
world accept him as a man fa1
different from Stalin-a peace
maker and a brlnger of the
good life and greater freedom
They senSed a recognition
that, at IS, he does not have
many more years in which he
can work at his present pace-a
recognition which may have
been deepened by the fatigue he
showed privately if not publicly
during his American tour.
Further underscoring the
See KHRUSHCHEV, Page A-14
Evening star., 1959-10-09
CANOE BEST WAY
TO SEE POTOMAC

THE INCEST way to see the
upper Potomac River. now thot ou-
tumn eolors ore in the cir, is by
swift, light and costly moneuVerobIe
eonoe, soys ChorIes CovelI. The
Stor's outdoor editor. See Pose D-5.
JUST BECAUSE you have dark
wood ponelins, your rooms need not
be gloomy. Dorothy Draper, the in
terror decorator, gives tips on Poss
CT
Evening star., 1959-10-09
9 Co-eds> Professor Killed
In Fiery Bus-7ruck Crash
II Girls Hurt
On Trip in
New Jersey

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N. j..
Oct. 9 (AP) "A professor and
nine Trenton State College CO.
eds were burned to death today
when a tank truck rammed into
a bus taking them home from q
theater party in New York.
Eleven girls and the truck
driver were injured, some Of
them seriously burned, in the
flaming disaster in rain and fog
on Route /.
The bus carried 40 students.
a driver and DR.. Ernest Sixta,
40, professor of history at the
college, who was killed. A native
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he was
graduated in 1852 from the
University of London where he
had been a Fulbright scholar.
They were part of a two-buS
caravan which was Is miles
from it's destination when the
bus stopped for a traffic light
in the rain and fog.
The truck smashed into the
back of the bus.
Gas Tank Expl0des
The gas tank in the rear Of
the bus exploded, probably kill
ing Prof. Sixta Immediately. He
was seated in the rear with his
wife.
The bus driver said the girls
panicked and he had to throw
them out of the vehicle. Eye
witnesses said they came tum-
bling out the front door and the
rear emergency door which the
driver wrested open.
II just pushed out the front
door and ran," said Polly Turn
er, a 19-year-old sophomore.
"The moment it happened, SO
quick, / just pushed, They were
like a bunch of animals"
The flames spread to the cab
of the truck, where Driver Ros-
coe Poe. 54, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
was hanging out the door
| pinned by his ankle.
Truck Driver Rescued
Don't let me die this way"
he screamed at approaching
Firemen Henry Reilly and Vim
cent Regan of New Brunswick.
The firemen worked with
wrenches and crowbars to free
Mr.. Poe, who cried over and
over: THANK God you're here.
oh my God. thank God you're
here. Help me, save me-"
Just after Mr.. Poe was
dragged away, the flames
reached the huge tank trailer.
which held no fuel but was full
of fumes. The tank exploded
and demolished the truck.
The scene of the fiery crash
is opposite the farm of the Rut-
gers University Agriculture COL
lege. North Brunswick is 80
; miles southwest of New York
+ City.
The bus driver, Carmen Mini,
: 40. of Trenton, said he ap-
e preached the traffic light at S
: miles an hour just before / am.
When the truck hit the impact
knocked the bus into the next
lane, he said. His gas tank blew
t up at once.
Girls damned Door
j Mr.. Mini said the terrified
= girls jammed up at the front
r door. He threw them outside,
t tossing others out as he could
S reach them. He worked his
o way through the flames to che
S rear emergency door and opened
t See BUS, Page AS
Evening star., 1959-10-09
DC. Tax Plan
Hit as Illegal
Levy on Services
Seen Facing Suit
BY SAM EASTMAN
star stan Writer

The District Bar Association
president said today the pro-
posed extension of a city busi-
ness tax to personal services
income probably would be chal-
lenged in court.
Under the proposal, the un-
Incorporated business franchise
levy would be widened to cover
income of self-employed pro-
feSsional men and others offer
ing personal services.
Frederick A. Ballard, the
association president, said he
believes someone will file a court
suit if the tax proposal is
adopted.
Emphasizing that he was
speaking for himself, and not
the bar association, Mr.. Ballard
predicted that the tax revision
would be thrown out on the
grounds that it is discrimi-
nstory.
Elimination of exemptions to
the 1947 business tax is one OF
seven tax increases proposed by
the Commissioners staff. The
recommended increases are in
cluded in a proposed $248.2
million budget for the next
fiscal year.
Exempted CategOries
Now exempt are businesses
or trades which "by law,
custom or ethics" cannot be in
corporated. Also free of the
levy are those where more than
80 per cent of the gross income
comes from personal services
by the owners of the business
At last Tuesdays budget
hearing, representatives of
three professional organiza-
See TAX, Page Ala
Evening star., 1959-10-09

investigators have turned up in
their four-day inquiry into
television quiz scandals.
Speaking in soft, subdued
tones, Mr.. Felsher said he had
lied to a New York grand jury
in saying that he had never
provided assistance to Tic Tao
Dough contestants. He reap
peared before the grand jury
last April to recant this testi-
mony but his full disclosures
had never been known until
today.
Mr.. Felsher also disclosed to-
day that he had advised about
30 Tic Tao Dough contestants
to give false testimony to the
grand jury.
No Word on Van Doren
The subcommittee turned to
the Tic Tao Dough inveStiga-
ton after receiving no word on
whether Charles Van Doren. a
big money winner on the de-
funct Twenty-One quiz show,
would appear to testify. Mr..
Van Doren was suspended by
the National Broadcasting Co.
last night from his job as a
$50.000-a-year consultant and
performer.
At the end of the morning
session Chairman Harris an
nounced that the subcommittee
would hold an executive meet
ing during the lunch period.
He refused to say whether the
subcommittee might then issue
a subpoena for Mr.. Van Doren's
appearance.
The nighttime Tic Tao Dough
show was one of the biggest OF
the television quiz programs in
terms of prizes and popularity
with a Nation wide audience.
Mr.. Felsher first produced
daytime Tic Tao Dough but
moved up to the nighttime show
in mid-1957, serving as its pro-
ducer until 1858.
When the nighttime show
went off the all he returned to
the daytime program. He was
discharged last Friday after he
refused to give NBC a sworn
statement that he had not pro-
vided contestants with assist
ance. The daytime show is still
on the air.
Cleared With Owner
He testified today that Dan
iel Enright, a key figure in the
scandal wracked Twenty One
show, had full knowledge that
Tic Tao Dough was also rugged.
Both Twenty-One and Tic Tao
Dough were Barry -Enright pro-
ductionS.
Before giving advance infor-
nation to contestants on Tic
Tao Dough, Mr.. Felsher said he
cleared the arrangements with
Mr.. Enright. Mr.. Enright and
Jack Barry, who served as mas
ter of ceremonies on Twenty
See QUIZ, Page At
Evening star., 1959-10-09
College Gets Letters
Of jefferson Davis

LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. 9
(AP) A grandson of Jefferson
Davis has donated the Con-
federate presidents prison let
ters to Pennsylvania College,
which Davis attended from 1921
to 1924.
Davis wrote the letters during
his Imprisonment at Fort Mon
roe, Va, after the Civil War,
The 25 letters, donated by JEFF
ferson Hayes-Davis of Colorado
Springs, Colo, cover the period
from August, 1865, to May, 1866
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Conservatives
Win Majority
OF 100 Seats
Previous Margin
Was So; London
Stocks Soar

LONDON, Oct. Q (AP).-l
Harold Macmillan's Conserva-
tive government returned to
power today with virtually a
doubled majority in the House
of Commons. A landslide vote
of confidence gave the Conserv-
atives a third term and sent
London stock prices soaring.
Nearly complete returns this
afternoon showed the Conserv-
atives had taken more than
20 seats from the Labor Party
in the 630-seat House of Com
mons.
The Macmillan party, the
nearest approach in Britain
to a free enterprise party,
rode a wave of prosperity to
victory. Dealers were besieged
at the opening of the stock
exchange by brokers wanting
to buy shares in British COM
panies. Shares of steel con-
Germs, safe for the time being
at least from Labor threats at
naturalization, led the parade.
Six Districts UnrepOrted
The Conservatives majority
stood at 100 when counting
stopped for the afternoon with
only six districts still to report.
Mr.. Macmillan'S majority in
the previous House of Com
mons was SO.
The latest tabulation gave
the Conservatives 1862 seats, a
net gain of %, all won from
Labor. The Laborites held 257
seats and the Liberals five.
The Conservatives counted on
past performance to give them
three of the outstanding seats,
to one each for Labor, Liberal
and an Independent. That
would make the final Conserva-
tive total of seats 365 against
265 for the combined opposi-
ton This majority of exactly
100 would be a gain Of AZ seats
for Mr.. Macmillan's forces.
40 Per Cent of Popular Vote
Returns from 81 per cent
of the districts gave the Tories
49.7 per cent Of the popular
vote, about the same as in the
1855 election.
Labor's popular vote was
down to 43.8 per cent from 46.3
in 1855. The Liberals share
of the vote in 1855, 81 per cent,
was about doubled this time.
The popular vote in itself,
as in the United States, does
not determine the election. The
result is on the basis of how
many of the nations $50 dis
tricts a party can carry.
The party winning the most
seats forms the government,
Voters had a chance to ballot
for Mr.. Macmillan directly only
in his own district at Brom-
ley. There 27,055 voters IA
vored Mr.. Macmillan, II ,603 the
Labor candidate. His majority
of 1882 was 2,313 ahead of
his margin last election. q.
Hopes for Era of Peace
Nov I look forward to the
next periodic times of pros
perity for all the people," he
told his constituents today.
I'VE are one people, whatever
our party and creed. May we
seen an opening for a new era
of peace in the world"
While the crowd sang For
He's a jolly Good Fellow" Mr.,
Macmillan waved and headed
back to Downing street to con-
tinue conducting the govern
ment.
Labor has shown a steady
decline in popularity since its
landslide victory of 1945, when
it emerged with a 186-seat ma.
jority. That was the election
that turned Sir Winston
i See ELECTION, Page A:
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Quemoy SheIIed Again

TAIPEI, Formosa, Oct. 8
(AP).-The Chinese Commu-
nistS Shelled the Quemoy
Islands today for the first time
in four days. The Nationalist
Defense Ministry said the Red
guns fired 68 rounds in 10
minutes before dawn.
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Citizen Council Fovors
100 More D. c. Police
Rejects Departments PIeu for 500,
Uroes Hunt for Revenue Besides Taxes

The District Citizens Advisory Council after study OF
the ctys proposed $24S2 million budget for the next fiscal
year. today declined back the Police Departments re-
quest for 500 additional Instead it supported the budget
offices recommendation for 100 men,
It also urged the Commissioners to take close look
Evening star., 1959-10-09
Fired TV Producer
Testifies He Gave
Advance Answers
Helped Most on Tic Toc Dough;
Probe Hears Nothing on Van Dorer
BY CECIL HOLLAND and ROBERT E. CLARK
star stan Writers

The former producer of the nighttime teeviSion quiz
show Tic Tao Dough testified today that approximately
per cent Of the contestants given advance questions and
answers that permitted them to win prize money
Howard D. Fesher fired last week producer of the
daytime version of Tic Tao Dough- gave the startling test
mony before the House Subcommittee Legislative
Oversight.
1t the most damaging evidence the congressional
Evening star., 1959-10-09

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