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a period Of several hours after
their disappearance. he said.
Perhaps Murdered at Grave
Chief Wade said Mrs. Jack
son and Susan Ann may have
been murdered at the graveSite.
The family had been to
Richmond visiting relatives
the day they disappeared.
Their automobile was found
abandoned on a road near
their home.
The first break in the mys-
terry came 10 days ago when
two Fredericksburg men started
to gather sawduSt from the
lumber mill pile in Virginia. 40
miles from Mineral, and I'M
covered the bodies of Mr.. Jack
son and Janet.
Girl in Fathers Arm
The strapping 6-foot. 800
pound father was beaten and
shot while trying to protect his
daughter. police believe. Janet
was found cuddled in his arms
in the woodland grave. 1t is
not known whether she died of
exposure or Of a blow to the
head.
Mrs. Jackson had been stran-
gled with one of her stock
ings. There were two knots in
the stocking. police said, and
it had bitten deeply into her
neck. Susan had a fractured
skull inflicted by a crushing
blow to the forehead with a
blunt instrument. according to
DR.. Fisher.
The mothers blue kid shoes
were missing and her other
stocking was found in the brush
near her grave. Otherwise she
was fully clad. Her dress had
been pulled up around her head
but she had not been sexually
molested.
Chief Scott pointed out that
Washington appeared to be the
geographical hub of many re-
cent unsolved murders with
characteristics similar to those
of the Jackson family.
First on the list was the APP
parently senseless killings of
two Lane Manor (Md0 girls,
Marie Shomette, 16, and
Michael Ann Ryan. IA. in North
west Branch Park near their
homes on June Is, 1855.
The girls were riddled with
.22-caliber rife bullets as they
crossed the park on their way
to school.
A year later, Mary Elizabeth
Fellers, Is, Of Beltsville, Md,
and Shelby Jean Venable. 16,
of North Laurel, Md, disap-
peared after they were picked
up the evening Of June / at a
bus stop on U. S. Route / in
BeltSville by scar-faced youth
in a blue Ford.
Eight days later. the nude
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Landlord to Fight Cut
Made in Parkway Fund

Representative Landlord,
Democrat of Maryland. said
today he intends to seek res
toration Of 81 million slashed
from the Interior Department
appropriations bill to help ac-
quire rights Of way for the
proposed George Washington
Parkway extension from the
District line to Fort WASH
ington.
Mr.. Landlord, whose consti-
tuency includes Prince Georges
County where the parkway is
planned along the Potomac
River, made the disclosure
while testifying in favor of an
other bill to establish the
Chesapeake & Ohio canal area
rs a National historical park.
The Marylander was the
first witness before the House
Interior Public Lands Subcom-
mittee. The group expects to
hear witnesses through most
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doing any good" Mr.. Hill said.
Because he is a diabetic there
is some danger that the events
Of the past weeks will send
him into shock.
you can't imagine the re-
lief we feel in knowing they
weren't tortured or starved or
raped" Mrs. Hill said to the
group clustered around the
pot-bellied stove. ITS been SO
long to fret and worry"
Sunday School Issue
All at once, a young woman
said to Mrs. Hill that the muir
derS had come up in Sunday
school. THE lesson concerned
the cruciflxion Of Christ. A
pupil wanted to know II those
who tormented Jesus would be
forgiven. and then another
asked II the man who butch
cred your family will be for
given. -"
"Why not?" Asked the
grieving mother, who goes to
church in all sorts Of weather
every Sunday. Didn't He say:
Forgive them, for they know
not what they do?'"
"Just a minute" Mr.. Ballard
broke in. Before he gets a
chance to answer to his Maker,
the FBI's going to catch him
and he'll have some punishment
right down here. They've
just got to catch him. No
one in the country will be safe
until he's caught"
"All that doesn't matter to
me-" Mrs. Hill said YEARLY.
They're going to bring Mil
dred and Susan back and well
lay them to rest in that little
graveyard down the road next
to Carroll and Janet.
Then all four will rest In
peace"
The bodies Of Mrs. Jackson
and Susan Ann are still in
Baltimore City Morgue, pend
Ing word from relatives as to
when they should be sent home
Mr.. Jackson and the other
child are already in their flna
resting place.
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House Group
Probes Rent
OF Offices

A House Manpower Util-
ization subcommittee today
launched an investigation oil
the rental of plush quarters in
Arlington Towers Apartments
near the Potomac to train
military officers.
THE well appointed quarters
Of the school are not just first
class" Representative Gross
Republican of Iowa, and a SUBJ
committee member, declared
"They may more appropriately
be described as luxurious"
He said he was especially i'm
pressed with the coffee bar and
lounging area.
Subcommittee Chairman Da-
Wis. Democrat of Georgia, said
he was particularly concerned
that the instructors hired by
a private contractor were for
mer military officers. This
could amount to a dodge Of
dual compensation laws.
Officers at Arlington Towers
have been run since June 5,
1858 by the American Institute
for Research Of Pittsburgh, Pa,
a non-prof1t psychological test
ing organization. The Defense
Department awarded a $247,l36
contract to the institute to
renovate space and in August,
1858. signed another contract
for the institute to operate a
training school for 100 officers
a month for II months at a
cost Of $333,115 plus $17,723
fee.
Fourteen officials in charge
of the school presumably are
paid on a cost plus basis by
the institute. The subcommit-
tee was informed they all were
recently retired military off,
GERS drawing retirement pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-23

BY MICHAEL MOK
Star stan Writer

The murderer stopped, paid
his toll and drove over the
bridge to Maryland with two
dead passengers.
His other victims, Carroll
jackson and daughter Janet
stayed in Virginia. where the
killer had hidden them under
branches near a sawdust pile
outside Fredericksburg.
This timetable was pieced
together late yesterday by DR..
Russell s. Fisher. Maryland
medical examiner. who has been
studying the bodies Of Mildred
Jackson. 81, and the Jacksons'
elder daughter Susan Ann. S,
since they we're found in a
shallow grave near Annapolis
on Saturday.
DR.. Fisher said his examina-
ton indicated that Mrs. jackson
and Susan had died just a
short time after Janet, IL, and
her father were murdered. The
most direct route from Frede-
ricksburg to the spot IL miles
west Of Annapolis where Satur-
days grisly discovery was made
is via the Potomac River
Bridge at Morgantown, and no
one can cross the bridge with
out calling attention to himself
unless he pays a 81 toll.
Boys Tell Story
II think they were trans
ported over the bridge, right
through the 'oll gate" the
pathologist said.
Only ranoo.h chance helped
two little boys named Johnny
find the bodies on Saturday.
Thirteen-year-old John Rus
sell Paddy had finished the
mornings chores once the trash
was emptied and the wood
brought to his house. He then
went over to the home Of his
best friend. John Bolin. and
they flew a kite so high the
string broke"
Tired Of this, they took their
BIB gun, which they had
Clipped in to buy from another
boy for $50. and went to pink
at tin cans in the patch OF
woods which lies between Their
houses and about a quarter OF
a mile from each.
I'VE thought maybe we'd find
some lizards or something" IA
year-old Johnny Bolin said.
I'VE went into the piny woods
and climbed on this ram
shackly. falling down old house,
Johnny saw something that
looked like a rats nest and he
shot and then I shot," young
Bolin said.
Then we went down to look
and found this hair Johnny
scraped away some of the sand
with the butt Of the BIB gun
and saw the back of someone's
head, looked like-after another
moment I could see clothes
:"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-23

Fear thou not, for am NTH thee be not diSmayed:
tor am thy God; ,0iH strengthen thee; yea, wiH
help thee; yea will uphold thee Dith the right hand
Of my righteousness.
We are indebted to Isaiah for this message of hope
which is undmmed by the passage of the centuries.
Its effectiveness depends upon willingness to acknow
ledge the faith which it demands The prevalence Of
tension is our admonton to supplement our best efforts
with such faith.
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hearing have been made In
the past few days that "some-
thing certainly will have to
be done about it."
Mr.. Steed is chairman Of q
subcommittee Of the House Sc
lect Committee on the Prob
lens Of Small Business which
has been concerned primarily
with the dairy industry. His
subcommittee already has is
sued a report on milk price
wars 1t investigated in Texas,
Kansas, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Many Issues Involved
This situation here is unique,
Mr.. Steed said. The case in
wolves matters of interstate
commerce, antitrust laws, the
special status of the District of
Columbia and a lot of other
things.
"Of all the milk price wars
I've looked into, this one is q
doozie." he added.
The subcommittee has been
asked to look into the current
fight by a number Of dairy
farmers in this area. Mr.. Steed
said. THE requests were made
to the chairman of the full
committee and he contacted me
about it," he said.
The chairman of the full
committee is Representative
Patman, Democrat Of Texas.
Welcomed by Producers
William B. Hooper. general
manager of the Maryland-Vir-
ginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton. which controls 90 per cent
Of the milk produced here, said
I'VE would welcome an investi-
cation Of this Sort"
He added. however, that his
group has not made any formal
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TRUE" said the Rambler,
"but let's take Manassas
Gap, on Route SIS, the road to
Front Royal and the Sky
Line drive. Remember that
little railroad that parallels
the road and crosses it &C.
casionally? That enabled
Stonewall to arrive unex-
pectedly at the field of Bull
Run, or First Manassas If
you will, with dire results to
the invaders of Virginia.
Panorama on 211. That's
Thornton's Gap on the road
to Luray and Newmarket.
And some of the most beau
tiful scenery is from Rock
fish Gap on Route $50 from
Charlottesville to Waynes-
boro. When Early's defeated
army used 1t to get out of
the valley and back into the
Virginia piedmont, that was
the end. Appomatox had to
follow and did shortly after.
"And as spring burns into
summer, which is usually
does very quickly hereabouts,
we will motor east to witness
the blue-water beauty of the
bay and its tributary rivers
and the ocean-green Of the
ocean itself"
The Rambler slept late
Saturday and missed the blue
sky. 1t was warm but cloudy
when he got up. A cold front
Nme over the mountains
Saturday night.
Oh well, there1l be other
week ends.
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request for a congressional in
vestigation. He said the farm
ers' coop would open all our
books and records and make
available any other data we
may have" for investigators.
I'VE operate in a fish-bowl
anyway" he added.
A decision whether the SUBJ
committee on the dairy indus
try will hold hearings will be
made within two or three more
days." Mr.. Steed said.
Meanwhile Montgomery
County Manager M. L. Reese
said the County Council will
consider at a meeting tomor-
row in Rockville a proposed Or
dinance requiring that all milk
sold there meet the District
standards.
He added, however, that final
action could not be taken al
that meeting.
Public Hearing Needed
"The Council could not pas:
such an ordinance without hold.
ing a public hearing" he ex-
planned, even If the matter
was ruled an emergency"
Mr.. Reese said he doubts
therefore, If any Council actor
will be forthcoming prior to q
meeting of the Washington
Metropolitan Regional Confer.
ence steering committee Friday
in the District Building, wher
the milk question is expected Il
be aired.
Mr.. Reese said there was only
an outside chance that The
County Council would arrange
a public hearing before Friday
He said the proposed ordinanc,
probably would encounter SOM
Opposition on the Board.
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THAT NIGHT after a
frugal lenten dinner (African
lobster tails that cost less
than so cents each), he got
out the road maps.
From now on, my dear"
he suggested to Mrs. R., I'VE
ought to plan some weekend
trips.
Just one-day trips. In the
spring there's nothing more
thrilling, after noticing with
pleasure the red bud and the
incipient blooming of the
dogwood, than to sight sud-
denly a magnificent vista of
the Valley of Virginia while
going through one of those
gaps so important in Civil
War days when Stonewall
and Early and Sheridan were
campaigning there.
What stories those gaps
could tell-Snicker's Gap, on
Route 9, that's the road to
Charles Town, where horses
race all winter; Clark's Gap,
that's where Route z crosses
the Blue Ridge on the way to
Berryville and the orchards
of Harry Flood Byrd, and
Ashby's Gap, that's on Route
so, the road to Winchester. "
Here he was interrupted.
Don't try to make out you
are so smart" said Mrs. r.
you are using a Civil War
map as well as the AAA
map"
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events over which we really have
no control.
We are bound up in a COM
pick society of which we are
small parts making our contri-
button, but whose destiny is be-
yond our command. While we
may often feel that tensions are
peculiar to our modern age, this
feeling of anxiety is as old as
man himself. 1t existed in the
time of the prophet Isaiah.
The perceptive Isaiah re-
vealS a message from God in
which we can find much COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-23
Central Relocation
Service Is Pushed
Investigation
Of Its Need
Is Promised
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star stan Writer

Senator Hartke, Democrat OF
Indiana. today promised to in
vestigate the need for a CEN
trail relocation service to aid
families displaced by District
construction projects.
An estimated 4,267 families
are due to lose their present
lodgings through 1868 because
Of new highways. housing code
enforcement, city building and
condemnation, according to es-
Inmates of the District Urban
Renewal Office.
Senator Hartke raised the
question of how such families
will be relocated at a Senate
District subcommittee hearing
on a bill to adjust land acquisi-
ton procedures of the National
Capital Housing Authority.
The Authority is faced with
the prospect that many dis
places will qualify for public
housing. Yet, sufficient sites
have not been found. And the
only operating service to help
families works with those dis
placed by the Authority itself
and by urban renewal pro-
grams.
Thousands Must Move
Untold thousands more will
be forced to leave their homes
by city projects apart from
urban renewal, Anna S. Miller,
executive director of the WASH
ington Housing Association.
told Senator Hartke at the
morning hearing.
She said city officials should
set up a central relocation Of
flee to handle family problems
created by all District pro-
grams, including urban re-
newal. Otherwise, persons who
must move because of highway,
housing or condemnation pro-
grams will move into slum
areas or overcrowd decent
houses until they, too, become
slums. she testified.
Then you will simply be
increasing your slum problem
in your attempts to eliminate
sums Senator Hartke COM
mented. He ordered William
Gulledge, Committee counsel,
to furnish him all data related
to relocation problems of the
District.
This revives a long simmer
ing conflict between the Hous-
ing Association and the Dis
trict Government over the need
for central relocation service.
Recommended in 1857 by the
Urban Renewal Council, the
idea was rejected by former
Engineer Commissioner Lane.
Studying Central Agency
Gen. A. C. yelling, present
Engineer Commissioner, said
today his Urban Renewal OPP
erations Committee was study
ing the question of a central
service for all displaced persons
as opposed to use of the relo-
cation services of the Redevel-
opment Land Agency for urban
renewal programs.
His best estimates place the
number of urban renewal dis
places through the next five
years at 4,276 families. This
figure would be doubled by the
estimated number of families
by separate municipal projects.
Before the subcommittee was
legislation to remove from cur
rent law q requirement that
the House Authority pay not
more than 80 per cent above
assessed valuation of property
for land acquired by direct
negotiation. Now, the authority
must start condemnation pro-
ceedingS if it cannot get land at
that price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-23
The
Rambler
/, !. Shakes Off
His SchockIes
ny GEORGE KENNEDY

just before dawn Friday 1t
was SO. Another cold night
was ending. BY noon 1t was
so and by mid-afternoon
The temperature was u, q
high for the year and q
welcome eve to the first day
Of spring.
What had caused the quick
change?
AS Jack Winner, one Of
the District forecasters ex-
planned 1t:
ION Thursday there was q
violent low over Oklahoma.
1t caused warm air from the
west to move this way with
the prevailing westerly
winds. At this time Of year,
when the direct rays Of the
sun are crossing the equator
on their way north, the con-
trast between the cold air
masses and the warm ones Is
quite marked in our latitude"
On his way home Friday.
the Rambler noticed q saucer
magnolia in bloom at the
Oscar Straus Memorial on
Fourteenth street. Near home
he heard a note like that Of
the blue Jay, but much
sweeter, from a tree on a
neighbours lawn. He walked
under the tree and looked
up. 1t was no blue jay. 1t was
Mr.. Mockingbird and he
had a long repertoire that
slid from the whistle of the
cardinal to the bell note Of
the wood thrush, with much
joyous twittering in between.
Clearly the mocky had got
the word.
The Rambler began to get
the word himself.
TOO long" he thought,
shave I been imprisoned.
"The bars, it is true, have
been psychological, but
nevertheless hard to saw
through.
This winter hasn't snow.
bound anyone hereabouts.
The roads have been free Of
ice. And winter landscapes
with leafless trees concealing
nothing can be beautiful even
without snow.
'But, no. We wait until the
weather Is warm to sally into
some Of the worlds most
beautiful microscopes"
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Dr.. Shirley to Speak

DR.. Albert P. Shirley, pas
tor Of Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church, will speak
at the final lenten supper series
to be held at 6 pm. tomorrow
in the Central Branch YMCA,
1885 q street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-23
DEATH OF A FAMILY
Path of Jocksons' Killer
Retroced Over Toll Bndqe

Johnny Paddy broke in: 'He
began to shake so you wouldn't
believe 1t. Johnny was that
That's a real person, not a
doll or anything" the Bolin
boy yelled, and the youngsters
boited for the house. shouting
as soon as they thought Ralph
Bolin. Is. who was polishing
the family car in the back yard,
could hear them.
"Mommy. mommy. I found
a dead body" Johnny was hol-
lering." Ralph said.
IF you're kidding me I'm
going to smack you," his older
brother warned.
IF I'm wrong I won't mind
II you smack me-" Johnny said.
almost in tears.
when I saw how scared
they were, I began to believe
them" Ralph said.
Ralph walked down the hill
to look in the hollow for him.
self. The two boys led him to
the spot.
There was big sand circle,
and I dug with the stock Of the
BIB gun. When saw the little
girl I had mother Mrs. Dora
Bolin) call police and I took
them there.
Only Hair Showed
ut was easy to see the sand
had been disturbed. There
was a slight depression that
clearly marked the spot, but it
would have been pretty hard
to see it from the road-the
only thing that showed above
the ground was the little girls
hair.
when police dug them out,
the mother was lying face UP
with the little girl on top Of
her. The little girls feet we're
pointing toward the mothers
head" Ralph said.
When 29-year-old Mr.. Jack
son was found of the desolate
lovers lane two miles west of
Fredericksburg March 4, his
hands were bound in front of
him and he was wearing an
expensive wrist watch.
Graded in the crook of his
arm was little Janet. The
father had been shot through
the temples with a large-caliber
bullet. and the baby apparently
died OF exposure, although
there is a possibility she had
been Slugged like her sister.
The bodies, lying face down
under the brush, were discoy-
cred by a local man, James
Beach. who came to get saw
dust for his roses at an aban-
doned sawmill site.
Both at the Maryland and
Virginia Scenes-and on the
highways and bywayS connect
ing them-the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation is out in force.
Luck Needed
TITS going to take some luck,
because the trail is almost
three months old" the agent in
charge said, but we've gotten
lucky before.
And this will sound strange
to you. coming from an FBI
man." the agent said, but I
believe that in a case as vicious
as this. the good Lord wants
something done"
More than a little dependent
on Divine aid are Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin Louis Hill. Mrs.
tJackson's parents, whom the
murdered family had been
visiting just before they van
lshed January IL.
''The Lord must have led
those little boys to them" Mrs.
Hill said last night. "Oh, how
we prayed for an end to the
uncertainty of not knowing"
NeighborS streamed into the
country store at Buckner owned
by William Ballard, the hus-
band of Mrs. Hills sister Eve
lyn, to comfort the stricken
family.
Louis CMr. HilD, one wom-
an said to the 61-year-old
farmer. "have you had any
thing to eat today at alp"
Il couldn't .. but that
doesn't matter I'm wor-
ried because the insulin isn't
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House Unit Studying
Probe of Milk War
Many Complaints and Requests
For Hearings Reported by Chairman
BY GILBERT GINIBLE
Star star Writer

House act-ndng subcommittee that has made extern
investigations into milk price elsewhere in the Nation
today strongly considering similar investigation of the
current fight here.
Representative Seed Democrat Of Oklahoma told The
Star that complaints and requests for congressional
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-23
Erntrn TlrnuglrtH
My Fovorite Bible Character
And His Significance Today
BY GEORGE D. JOHNSON
General Manager, sheraton-Park Hotel

One of the most frequently used words in our mid
2Oth-century vocabulary tension tension,
racial tension, inner tension Much of this tension
is an outgrowth Of anxiety over the outcome Of