davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1959-12-04
By J, THEODORE CROWN
Star STAFF Writer

A Washington policeman who
arrests a member of the Ma
tional Capitals large popula-
ton of foreign nationals has a
lot to think about.
Is the person on the State
Departments "blue list" or the
white liSt?" If he is not on
the "blue list" is his father, OF
some other relative?
Does he have any connection
with the United Nations, the
Organization of Americ a n
States, or the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization?
Or is he a foreign consular
officer?
All Of these possibilities must
be weighed, because each is
treated in great detail in the
Metropolitan Police Depart
ment's voluminous General Or
der No. "a, an eight-page doc
ument with a one-page amend
ment on the subject of car
Irests-Immunity of Foreign
Off1cials-Aliens."
And in the back of the ar
resting officers mind is Sec
ton 112, Title 18 of the United
States Code, quoted in full ir
the order, which provides q
$1,000 fine, three years in jail
Evening star., 1959-12-04

drafted in July, 1857. by the
National Conference of Com
missioners on Uniform State
Laws. Virginia officials have
the model statute under study.
School Vehicle Hearing
In other action, the committee
asked the Commissioners to
hold a public hearing on pro-
posed uniform safety regula-
tionS for all school vehicles
operating in the District.
Mr.. England's subcommittee
also had recommended that the
city adopt these regulations.
which would include uniform
colors, flashing lights and q
stringent examination for the
driver.
The proposal would be aimed
primarily at private school
vehicles, but also would apply
to the buses operated by the
District public school system.
According to Mr.. England. the
safety regulations would apply
to any school vehicle which has
a capacity of nine or more
passengers.
Evening star., 1959-12-04

had it not been for his per-
sonal efforts"
He added, I'm all for the
hospital. don't misunderstand
me. But I feel the people don't
fully understand what Mr.
wilkins has done for the
county. I think he should get
a vote of thanks"
DR.. Thompson said the hos
pital mo longer is the COM
missions responsibility" He
predicted that the action Of
the Board Of Supervisors ir
firing Mr.. wilkins would delay
further the development Of the
$6 million facility.
He said D. K. Smoot, the
Arlington attorney named
Tuesday to replace Mr.. wilkins
on the five-member commits
sion, will need much time tc
get oriented.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
Judge Rops
CoIored Men
On Crimes

District Judge Matthew F.
MCGUIRE today charged that
young colored men" are COM
mitting too much crime in the
District and declared that the
courts are sometimes too leni-
ent.
The jurist's blast came as he
sentenced a 19-year-old youth
convicted of unauthorized use
Of an auto, to an indefinite
term under the Youth Correc-
tions Act.
Judge MCGUIRE noted that
the defendant had completely
stripped the car, even remov-
ing the engine head and all
the wheels.
Under the sentence imposed,
the defendant, Edward John
son of the Gum Spring area of
Fairfax County, Va. can be
held at a youth detention CEN
ter for up to six years.
After hearing a plea for len
iency by attorney Milford
Schwartz, Judge MCGUIRE as
serted: There is too much oi
this business by young colorec
men. I don't know if it il
caused by economic conditions
or what"
He continued, People CAM
go out on the street without
fear of being put upon
without fear of molestation.
Violators must learn, he said
you just can't do this type o.
thing"
He said that sometimes WI
are too lenient" and stated tha'
"a balance must be struck" fol
the protection of the public.
The jurist said that the ides
was not one of punishment
This, he said, was a function
of a power higher than that O.
the courts.
But" he said, there arr
sanctions for disruption o
public order and tranquility
which the courts can assess.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
Record Award Made
In TuIIer Plane Death

A Federal jury here yesterday
awarded a record negligence
judgment of $350,000 to the
widow and two children of a
man who died in the 1854 crash
of kim airliner at Shannon,
Fire.
Recipients of the award we're
Mrs. Gertrude Owen Tuller.
1901 Wisconsin avenue NV,
and her daughters, ages 8
and 13.
Mrs. Tuller's husband, DR..
William Tuller, a vice president
of the Melpar Corp. was drown
ed after the airliner crashed
into the River Shannon shortly
after taking of from Shannon
Airport.
The award set a record fol
negligence cases in the Wash
ington area, according to Attor-
iley Murdaugh S. Madden. Mr.
Madden with Attorneys John S
Chapman and eodore E
Wolcott represented Mrs. Tuller
The Melpar executive slipped
from the plane to which he had
been clinging and disappeared
beneath the waters as he waved
to rescuers approaching in a
boat.
The verdict indicated that
the jury found kim and Sa-
bena. Belgian corporation
which operates its control tow
ers at Shannon guilty of willful
negligence.
Federal Judge Matthew S
MCGUIRE had ruled that the
case must be tried under terms
of the Warsaw Convention
This was a treaty signed in the
1920S by Western European
countries and the United State:
which provided for an $500
maximum death award in case.
of air crash fatalities unles.
willful negligence was shown
In the latter event the aware
could run to any amount.
Attorneys for Mrs. Tulle,
Evening star., 1959-12-04
GSA Seeks
Building for
War Records

The old Pension Office Build
ing at Fifth and F streets, the
Nations first Veterans Admin
istration. may go military
again.
The General Services Admin
istration yesterday asked the
National Capital Planning
Commission to turn the TO-
year-old build into an archives
Of military records. The COM
mission approved the recon-
mendation.
The action helps clear the
way for the three-story struc-
ture of Is million bricks to
rejoin the military. The PEN
sion Office Building was con-
structed in 1888 at a cost of
100000 as a memorial to the
veterans of the Civil War.
From 1885 to 1926 the building
was occupied by the Bureau
OF Pensions which sent out
checks to veterans of every war
since the Revolution. It now
houses the Civil Service Com
mission.
In a sense, the Pension Of
flee Building started out as a
military archives. The architect
inserted in a number of the
buildings columns documents
inclosed in metal cases to pre-
serve them, as he said, against
time, or accident. or hostile
violence" For some years it has
been a question whether the
records and the rest of the
building would be protected
from the wrecker's hammer.
The GSA said the building
would provide 100000 cubic feet
of storage space for military
records, enabling the National
Archives Building to store ad-
ditional documents for another
25 years.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
BOLTING is BETTER and

BOLTING is BETTER and
safer and probably cheaper,
Ivy said. He told some horror
stories about rivetS. You
know, they are thrown red
hot by the heater to the
riveter. The riveter wears
q leather apron-for protec-
ton. This riveter, standing
on a 10-inch steel beam,
hundreds of feet above the
street, didn't expect another
rivet.
He turned and just then
he got another one, a red
hot bit of metal, from the
side. It went under his
apron. 1t was burning him
about at his navel. He in
stinctively put his hand on
his apron over the spot and
pressed the hot m e t a
against his innards. But he
didn't lose balance. And he
lived after a tough siege in
the hospital.
It was Plutarch's story of
the Spartan boy concealing
the stolen fox against his
belly and giving no sign that
1t was eating his vital or
ganS until he fell dead. It's
the same story-but greatly
improved.
We went out to the struc-
ture and met the Indian.
His name is Alex Gabriel.
mo" he said, "I'm not a
Mohawk. I'm a Blackfoot
from the Northwest. And
I'm only half Indian. My
mother is Irish!"
Oh, well, half an Indian
is better than none.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
AB&W Granted
New Bridge Route

The Interstate Commerce
Commission yesterday author
lied AB&W Transit Co. of AL
exandria, to operate passenger
buses over the Woodrow Will
son Bridge being built across
the Potomac River.
The new span, scheduled to
be opened for traffic in late
1861, is located in Southeast
Washington.
A special hearing board COM
posed of representatives of the
District of Columbia and the
Virginia and Maryland Utility
Commissions recommended ap-
proval of the operation several
weeks ago. ICC said no excep-
tions to their report have been
filed.
Evening star., 1959-12-04


ton and reappointed last year
for another term, said his rea-
sons for quitting are twofold.
My primary reason for re-
signing Is in protest Of Don
wilkins firing, and secondly the
result of political involvements
in the development Of the hos
pital."
Mr.. wilkins was ousted by the
Board of County Supervisors al
a meeting Tuesday.
DR.. Thompson said Mr.. Will
kins was "a man who had
given a tremendous amount OF
his time, effort and knowledge
to the development of the hos
pital without pay. 1t is my own
personal feeling that this hos
pital would not be this fal
along by any matter of means
Evening star., 1959-12-04

charged willful negligence in
that the radio operator aboard
the airliner failed to fasten his
seat belt, and as the result, it
was said, he slipped from his
seat and could not send out
an SOS call in time.
Other acts of alleged negli-
gence also were charged to the
airline and to Sabena.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
College Park Club
Honors Richurd BeuI

The Mayor Davis Award fol
the most outstanding boy ir
the College Park Boys Club was
given last night to Richard
Beal, IA, Of 4615 Drexel road
College Park, at the clubs an.
nual banquet at the University
Of Maryland.
Richard, who plays baseball
and football for the club, i.
president of the Student Coun.
Gil at Hyattsville Junior High
School. He is a Star carrier.
Evening star., 1959-12-04


ing Committee will go to the
Comm oners. Legislation
would be needed to put the
regulation on the books.
The proposed implied con-
sent" statute, which would take
the form Of an amendment to
the city's present alcoholic
chemical test law, would be
similar to laws now in force in
New York and eight other
States. The theory, officials
said, is that driving is a privi-
lege and not a right and there
fore a motorists permit carries
with it an implied agreement
to submit to a drunk-driving
test.
England Heads Sub Group
George England, head Of the
Department of Motor Vehicles
who headed a subcommittee
which recommended the law
said a driver would be required
to take the test if a police Of
ficer had reasonable grounds
to believe he was driving while
drunk.
The law which the advisory
committee wants adopted wa;
Evening star., 1959-12-04
ZOO LOSES KITTY,
GIRAFFE, AT ~

The Washington Zoos
22-year-old female giraffe,
Kitty, is dead.
Zoo Director Theodore
Reed said the animal died
of natural causes, mainly
old age. GiraffeS have a
normal life span of about
20 years.
The death leaves the Zoo
with three giraffes.
Evening star., 1959-12-04

so HE STOPPED IN the
Bethlehem Steel trailer Of
fee on First street S.W. and
met the superintendent, a
deceivingly jolly man named
Ivy Shook.
We've got one Indian
here" said Mr.. Shook, "but
I don't think he's q Mohawk.
New York is far enough
south for them.
my name? I'll tell you.
My first name is the sur
name of our preacher in
Newton, N. c. The denomi-
nation? (He asked his clerk)
That's right, Baptist. My
mother wanted me to Pc
come a preacher, and you
can see I came awfully close
to it. I became a structural
iron worker.
Back home the kids gave
me a nickname that has
stuck, Poison Ivy I'm
afraid I deserved it. Bridge
men-that's what they still
call the structural ironwork-
er-were pretty tough in the
old days, and I'm afraid l
was a tough boss.
But I'm softening, I'm sc
and having a little trouble
with my legs. Circulation
trouble. The machine is
wearing out"
Bill Roup, his assistant
and a superintendent in his
own right, came into the
trailer.
$50 you're surprised he
hasn't a gray hair in his
head" said Bill. well I'm
not. He uses shoe blacking
Puts it on with a tooth
brush.
"This is supposed to be
his last job; but l doubt it
He was to retire at IS ano
he asked for one more job
This is it. He can't retire
This is his life"
There was some converse
ton about bolting-that's
it, nuts and bolts-which is
replacing riveting.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
The
Rambler
Finds
Half on Indian
By GEORGE KENNEDY

The Rambler went hunt
ing Indians yesterday-right
here in Washington.
There is a perennial fea-
ture story in New York
and a very interesting one
about a tribal group of
the MohawkS who live on a
reservation between the New
York State line. and Mont
real. They very SenSibly
spend their summers on the
reservation in that wonder
full vacationland, and are
very profitably employed,
winter spring and fall, as
structural ironworkers.
With their pigeon-toed,
catlike walk, and their alb
solute lack of fear, they are
unexcelled in walking a 10
inch I beam TOO feet above
Fifth avenue, or catching
red-hot rivetS at that height
and with that footing.
The new, new House Of
fee Building that is arising
southwest of the Capitol is
one of the largest, if not
the largest, steel-frame
building to be erected in
Washington. 1t is a big job
$1,000 tons of steel-and
that's big even in New York
where they run them up so
stories or more.
The steel frame is now
being erected. Bethlehem
Steel has the contract for
the structural steel work.
McCloSkey of Philadelphia is
the general contractor.
There might be some In
dianS on the job. Perhaps
the last of the MohicanS.
Evening star., 1959-12-04
BiIIWouId Require
.Drunk-Driver Test
Advisers Ask Chemical Analysis
When There Is Valid Suspicion

District law which would require motorists suspected OF
drunken driving submit to chemical alcoholic test was
recommended today by city traffic advisory group.
the present law the chemical test cannot be given
without the consent of the driver.
Todays recommendation by District Traffic Co-ordnat
Evening star., 1959-12-04
Thompson Quits Bourd
Over Firing of Wilkins

The custer of Chairman Donald wilkins from the Fairfax
County Hospital Commission has prompted another commits
sion member to quit in protest
81 plan my resignation in this end Acors
w. Thompson declared today. fs
Dr. Thompson Of commission since incep-
Evening star., 1959-12-04
WeapOnsPIant
Job Halt Hit
ByTradeBoard
Group Asks Fate
Of $40 Million
Cancelled Order
BY JOHN A. GILES
Star STAFF Writer

OAAC NAVY ~ Wdo OAot1CooO0 d4l0
confused" to learn of cancella-
ton of some $40 million worth
of work at the Naval Weapons
Plant here.
In a telegram to Navy Sec
retary William B. FRANKIE,
President E. K. Morris of the
board demanded to know
whether the work Cancelled at
WashingtonS' largest industrial
complex would be transferred
elsewhere.
Landlord Inquiry
The boards inquiry followed
a similar telegram yesterday
from Representative Lankford,
Democrat of Maryland, in which
he also asked when and why
this sudden change Tin plans
for the plant) was made"
Meanwhile, Senator Beall,
Republican of Maryland. de-
manded a report on the abrupt
cancellation Of the work.
He said that many workers
had relied on the telegram of
last october Gin their planning
for the future and I am sure
they will find it difficult to
see, as I do, how a statement
as definite as the one in the
October telegram could be
changed so drastically within a
little more than a month"
On October %, Mr.. Lankford
was advised that "the Navy
has no plans to transfer any
work which has been planned
for the installation.
Congress Advised
But on Wednesday. Rear Ad-
miral John S. Mccain, jr.. the
Navy's Chief of Legislative At
fairs, advised Congress that
works on fire control systems
for guided missiles allotted the
installation had been Cancelled
because Of the necessity to "re-
program available funds for
items of higher priority"
Mr.. Morris telegram follows:
after assurances previously
received from the Navy De-
lpartment we are distressed and
confused to learn Of the can
cellation of the manufacture oi
guided missile fire control sys.
TENS at the Naval Weapons
Plant here.
Subsequent to our letter ol
May 90, 1858, reviewing thu
economic impact of the plan
on this community we received
oral and written assurance.
that for some time to come suf'
flcient work has been assigned
to the plant to insure a con-
tinuation of approximately
present levels Of operations.
Pursued RumOrS
I'VE have been investi.
eating rumors for some months
that transfer of the guideC
missile fire control systems t.
another installation was undel
consideration, but inquiry o.
responsible officials of the Nav
Department treasured us tha'
this was not true. Would yol
be good enough to advise us i
this work or some portion of i
will be carried on elsewhere, o,
if the decision to- cancel i
means that the program ha'
been completely eliminated"
ALLEGATION of additional worl
to the plant, which has 500
employees and an annual pay.
roll of $34 million, followed {
tcommunity-wide campaign tt
save the Naval Gun Factory
which was the installation
former name,
A committee COMPOSED O
business, civic and labor lead.
erS was formed to press tn,
campaign. That committee i
scheduled for reactivation at {
meeting at 8 pm. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1959-12-16
BY ARNALD0 OTERO
star stan Writer

The fading sound Of an old
and noisy trolley car was
recorded for posterity last
night.
With a cling and a clang and
"a dozen Of streetcar buffs
armed with a tape recorder
aboard, a 1918 made car
growled its way over rails
marked for removal.
Members Of the Washington
Electric Society feel that with
the abandonment of streetcars
here, the sound of wheels over
rail will disappear.
There are only a couple of
recordings Of the sound of a
streetcar and they are very
Evening star., 1959-12-16

taken from the athletic locker
by another boy.
About six boys then went
into the washroom and created
a disturbance. When =, Mr..
Lantz went to investigate, the
boy with the bat his him over
the head.
Keys Didn't Fit
1t. Daily said the ringleaders
took the guards keys and
managed to leave the orienta-
ton room in which they were
congregated at the time. How
ever. they could not get out be-
cause none of the keys that
Mr.. Lantz had fitted the door
leading to freedom.
One Of the boys lost heart
and told a guard that a break
out was in progress. He sum-
moned help and more than a
dozen guards were rushed to
the building to quell the escape.
Police said that, in addition
to losing his keys, Mr.. Liant
was robbed of his wallet.
School officials said the boy
Evening star., 1959-12-16

There, in the darkness, the
trolley that roared up connec-
ticut avenue in the '20s was
at its best.
New notes.-the buzzers, the
bells and the operator calling
the stops-were introduced as
the car churned its way on
the Cabin John line.
The Cabin John route, to-
gether with Friendship Heights
and the Georgia and Alaska
lines. will be discontinued on
January 3.
The recording crew then
opened windows, doors and
floor boards to get the pitch of
the motors sound. presumably,
in summertime Washington.
With all the sounds on the
magnetic tape, the car was
returned to its berth at the
old barn until its next tour.
At least one of the passen-
gers aboard old 766 last night
this one-after assimilating
its noises, is willing to let
by-gones be by-gones.
Evening star., 1959-12-16
Dying TroIIey's Moons
Recorded for Posterity

poor" said Richard Kehm, who
arranged the recording.
But If the tape captured all
the noises that filed old car
766 last night, there is a faith
full reproduction on hand now.
The magnetic tape started
turning the minute the trolley
was mounted on the transfer
table at the barn near the Navy
Yard.
Making its way up Eighth
street Sc. at a 10-mile-an-
hour clip, the streetcar coughed
into the microphones as much
noise as a fast-moving subway
train.
For a new sound, the oper-
ator. William C. Hutchinson.
put the car through the PAGES
under the Capitol Hill tunnel.
Evening star., 1959-12-16

in Providence Hospital, suffer-
ing a severe skull fracture.
The detectives said Mr.. Lantz
was clubbed after a day of ten
sion at the school in which an
earlier attempt to overpower
the guard was abandoned be-
cause the youth chosen to club
him "chickened out"
Plans Formulated
The inmates told police their
plans to get out were formu-
lated about a week ago when
they began talking about "go-
ing home for Christmas"
A 16-year-old boy, recently
Evening star., 1959-12-16
Steel Settlement
Culled Hopeless

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (AP.-
Settlement of the steel dispute
before the back-to-work court
order expires looks awful hope
less" a Government conciliator
said today.
Robert Harris Moore, Fed.
eral Mediation and Concilia.
ton Service deputy director,
said industry and United Steel
workers negotiators will be
called to resume meetings in
Washington next week.
Negotiations to end the strike
began July IS were re-
cesSed December 10 so union
leaders could engage in con-
tract talks here with the alu.
minum industry.
Evening star., 1959-12-16


sent to the school, they said
had been chosen to hit Mr..
Lantz with the head of a push
broom. However, he refused
to carry out his assignment.
This incident, 1t. DAILY said,
took place about 3 pm, when
the boys staged a fake fight to
attract the guards attention.
Three hours later. a 15-year-
old. who is over six feet tall
and weighs nearly 200 pounds,
managed to get his hands on
q baseball bat. 1t had been
Evening star., 1959-12-16
Bobby DriseoII Freed
On Narcotics Churoe

Los ANGELES, Dec. lo
(AP)-Bobby Driscoll, onetime
child actor, has been freed of
a charge Of possession of para
phernalia for the use Of mar
cotics.
A judge acquitted him yester-
day after a sheriff's deputy tes-
titled he was unable to say
definitely that a paper sack con-
tanning a hypodermic needle
and a syringe fell from Mr..
Driscoll'S hands.
The judge noted that others
stood nearby when Mr.. Dris-
coll, %, was arrested October
IL. Mr.. Driscoll did not testify.
Evening star., 1959-12-16

who refused to hit the guard
was from North Carolina and
had been at the school only two
weeks. The l5-year-old, an in
mate for about a month, had
been sent there for assault and
auto theft.
Evening star., 1959-12-16

New Showing Heed for cIsssr,
More Comfortable Shavins.
You get speed end sIossnsss
with ssnilsns's found snIy
N this slssunf shcvsrl
Evening star., 1959-12-16
Boys BIudgeon Guard
In Mass Escape Try

National Training School bludgeoned with
baseball bat and critically injured last night during abortive
escape attempt by Sc juveniles
Homicide Squad Detectives 1t. Edward DAILY and sergt
LOUIS Sms said Charles LanZ a. of 1870 North Sixteenth
street Arlington senior guard at the institution
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-02-26
Tower Line
Law Passed
By Council

The County Council Tues
day unanimously passed an
amendment to the coming code
controlling construction of
overhead power transmission
lines and gas transmission
pipelines.
The new regulation goes into
effect July l. 1t will require the
Potomac Electric Co. to get per
mission to build high tension
tower lines in some residential
zones from the Board of Zoning
Appeals.
The tall steel towers now are
permitted uses in all parts of the
county. The new regulation
makes them special exceptions in
all residential zones from ROC
10000 square feet down to RIO
PEPCO and other utilities will
have to pay So each for their
building permits. While each
tower structure will require a
permit, a gas line company will
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-02-26
Price-Fixing
OF Milk Hit
By Stephens

A bill that would create a
three member commission to con-
troll the price of milk has been
introduced in the General AS
sembly.
The measure, similar to that
operating in Pennsylvania and
Virginia, was introduced by Dels.
Joseph H. McElwee, of Washing
ton County, and William l..
Hodges of Baltimore.
Immediate opposition wa S
registered by c. Y. Stephens,
president of Highs Dairy Prod
ucts Corporation of Washington,
D. c., who called the bill "irre-
sponsible" and "ill-conceived.'
Stephens predicted t h a t crea-
ton of the commission woul d
result in unnecessarily high milk
prices.
He said that, due to the exist
ence of the commission in Vir.
ginia, prices are as much as 20
cents a gallon higher there than
in neighboring Maryland.