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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
CRIME AND MYSTERY
BY BETTY MILES
star star writer

The 87th precinct trilogy, the
first three books about Steve
Carella and his fellow ON
GERS. is first rate. With their
real-as-life characters, the
stories are enhanced by being
presented together. The tricks
Of her trade Mrs. Rinehart
used are mercilessly revealed
when four Of her works are
offered under, one cover, Yet
she remains q writer who
understood the meaning Of
the word mystery. and gave
it In full measure to her
readers.
THE EXPLOITS OF TOM
MY HAAlBLEDON, by Man
ming Coles Doubleday:
1885,. Three fine stories
"A Drink to Yesterday"
"a Toast to Tomorrow"
"Alias Uncle Hugo"--of the
adventures Of the former
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

port. (Ballantine; 35c.)
Twelve terrifying tales
about men who made pacts
with the devil.
FATHERS AND SONS. BY
ivan Turgenev. Bantam:
50c.) The 10th century
conflict In Russia between
the traditional and new as
characterized by father
and son.
GUN CODE. BY Philip
Ketchum. (Signet; 25c.)
A western Of revenge.
LOVE ME LITTLE. BY
Amanda Vail. CBantam;
35c.) A light hearted story
of q young girls determi-
nation to learn about love
-f1rst-hand.
NO TINE LIKE TOMOR-
ROW. BY Brian Aldiss.
(Signet; S5c.) Sciences
fiction.
MADISON AVENUE, U. s. A.
BY Martin Mayer. Pocket
Books; 50c.) A 1858 best
seller about what really
goes on In the advertising
business.
THE RED AND THE BLACK.
BY Stendhal. (Bantam;
75c.) A new translation by
Lowell Bair.
THUNDERBOLT. BY Robert
S. johnson with Martin
Cabin. (Ballantine: 50c.)
The amazing account of the
United States seth Fighter
Group which shot down
over 1000 Nazi planes dur
ing World War II.
TOMORROW TIMES
SEVEN. BY Frederik Pohl.
(Ballantine; 35c.) Seven
short stories dealing with
outer-spacemen, by the
author of "Slave Ship"
THE TRANSCENDENT MAN.
BY Jerry Sohl. (Bantam:
35c.) A weird account Of
people who roam the earth
seeking to destroy 1t.
GETTING ALONG IN SPAN
ISH. BY Mario Pei and
Eloy Vaquero. (Bantarn:
35c) A Holiday Magazine
language book.
THE HUNGER AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Charles
Beaumont. (Bantam: 35c.)
A collection Of violent hor-
ror stories.
ICE PALACE. BY Edna Fer
Der. (Bantam; 5Oc.) A re.
print OF the 1858 best
seller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

her In THE Grand Ma
demoiselle" and now v.
Sackville-West has studied
her anew In DAUGHTER OF
FRANCE Doubleday: s4.e5).
Miss sackville-W who Is
a distinguished stylist. adds
no. new information about
the famous old maid. But
she writes Of her with q
woman's sympathy and q
woman's chattiness that
makes her book highly en-
joyable.
Anne-Marie. for all her
resounding eligibility. did not
attrack fiocks Of suitors. She
was no beauty. and she had,
despite her pedigree. the
temperament Of o poor rela-
ton. She was fatuously con-
scious, Of her rank and as
geneclogy- c onscious as o
OAR. She was kind, but
she lacked grandeur. And
she was, I think. brighter
than Miss Sackville-West
fondly makes her out TO be.
Sought Fulallment
At one time. Anne-Marie
was proposed to marry
Charles II Of England. but at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE,
BY wilfred Feinbursh

NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE.
BY wilfred Feinbursh
tHarper; $500.
This novel is . portrait.
devastating In effect. Of q
politician who Lives only for
himself and his ambition.
It happens 10 describe 4
member Of Parliament In
England, but 1t could apply
as well TO an American poll
tician or to one from any
other country.
II II not 50 much q story
Of politics. though the ways
Of politics necessarily are
detailed, Is an account OF
an Individual politician who
loves only himself and cuts
his principles to suit the
pattern Of his Advancement.
Tragic Loss
As such. It's . soaring,
memorable narrative. The
author. like his protasonist.
Johnnie Byrne. was the SON
Of q millworker. grew up In
Yorkshire and had . distin-
euished army record In World
War II, rising from private
to major. Wilfred Edinburgh
was Q Labor member Of Par
lament from North Islington.
London, from 1881 to 1858.
unfortunately-for he Is Q
distinct loss to English lit
erature. not to mention public
life-he was killed in an
automobile accident last year
1t the age of 80 while still
serving in the House Of Conn
mons. His death occurred
shortly after he completed
this novel. his iirst.
johnnie Byrne Of the story
grew up in an atmosphere Of
trades unionism and social
ism. His parents were prom
inent in the labor movement.
They were what is called
in England-nonconform
and strict teetotalers. Johnnie
and his fiancee taught Sum
day school, and. when he re-
turned from the war, Q dec
Grated captain. they were
married, and he ran for Par
lament and was easily
elected.
Selfish Interest
johnnie was q brilliant
speaker. but he never cared
about the causes he espoused
except Is steps in his own
career. His wife, who was
cold and somehow sensed
what johnnie was really like.
drifted farther to the left
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
,HuckIeberryFinn
Mark Twoin's
Finest Creation

Point Of view can be an
important phase Of an au-
thor's skin. rs John c. Ger
Der points out in an essay
on Mark Twain, one Of q
symposium, STYLE IN
PROSE FICTION columbia
University Press: 50
After Mark Twain had ex-
perimented with many var
iations Of the point Of view.
he found an ideal one in the
first perron narrative OF
Huck Finn. Mr.. Gerber be.
lieves. BY having Huck de-
scribe everything, deadpan.
often without seeing the
humor inherent in situa-
tons, the author made the
boys adventures more eff
fective than they would have
been If detailed in the third
person. the critic contends.
This almost magical
blend of the casual and the
poetic" Mr.. Gerber adds.
(which avoids fiatness on the
one hand and hammered in
tensity on the other. Is easier
to illustrate than to de-
scribe"
This. perhaps. is one rea-
son "Huckleberry Finn" is
Mark Twain's masterpiece. q
book about q boy strictly for
adults.
style in Prose Fiction" Is
edited BY Harold c. Martin.
Contributors include Richard
M. Ohmann, Albrecht B.
Strauss. s. F. johnson, g.
Armour Craig and Charles
r. Grow. &C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
Fine New I oIent Found
In CoIorfuI First Novel

the author manages to sketch
out the colony and q few
other characters - Gino's
malformed younger brother.
for one-with more feeling
than he showed for his hero.
All In all. it Is o rewarding
novel. The authors sec
ond novel. now under way.
might well establish him as q
coming writer.
-ARNALDo oTERo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

Top" look like q vicarage
tea-party." That 1t does, but
Is that enough?
Mr.. Sillitoe's principal
character Is Arthur Seaton,
& thorough going young
tough who makes Studs
Loniean sound like . char
aeter In Proust. A factory
worker with O taste for fine
clothes ana married women,
Arthur Is an unrepentant
liar and cheat when we meet
him and when we leave him,
much the same except he Is
about to be married to Q
whining slumnower named
Doreen.
A Lively Time
In the interim he courts
the married sister OF MS
married mistress. helrs the
latter to rid herself Of an
unwanted child. does his
army reserve training, at
tends the Goose Fair, gets
beaten up by the army COM
rades Of one Of the sisters
husbands, celebrates Christ
mas with his Aunt Ada and
courts poreen.
These experiences confirm
his philosophy: Born drunk
and married blind, misbe-
gotten into Q strange and
crazy world, dragged up
through the dole and into
the war with q sas-mask on
your clock. and the sirens
rafting into you every night
while you rot with scabies In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
Other Books Of the Week in Brief

(Aarper & Brothers; $4.)
How to know your inter-
viewee, by Q psychology
professor at Baruch School,
City College Of New York,
and the. editor of the man
agenent division. Research
Institute Of America.
EXTRAORDINARY WITH
CHILDREN. BY Clark E.
Moustakas. (Harper: So
THE TATT0OED MAN. BY
]. c. Meredith. (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce: 49, The
true story Of Horace
Holden and what hap
pened to him on q far
Pacific island in 1881.
RAILROAD TRANSFORM.
TION AND PUBLIC Poll
ICY. BY James c. Nelson.
tBrookings: $7.50) A look
at why the railroads must
be preserved for the public
welfare.
HOW TO REMOVE THE
COTTON FROM A BOT
TIE OF ASPIRIN. BY
RUDE Goldberg. Double
day; $l.50) A collection
Of humorous cartoons by
the Pulitzer Prize winning
cartoonist.
HUMAN NATURE AND
CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE.
BY William p. Wylie. CAS-
ISOLATION Press; $2.50.) A
priest Of the Church Of
England. Mr.. Wylie, dis
cusses the place Of sex In
Christian marriages.
A SIMPLIFIED GUIDE TO
COLLECTING AMERICAN
COINS. BY Hugh McCown
Knight. Doubleday; $685.
PAPERBAcKS
THE BANKERS DAUGH-
TER. BY Vladimir B. Grin
ion. pyramid: 35c). A
humorous novel that
laughs at Russia, originally
entitled Tale Of q Whis-
ting Shrimp
BLUE DENIM. BY james
Leo Herlihy and william
Noble. Bantam; 35c.)
Adapted from the movie
version Of young teen-age
love.
CREATIVE POWER: THE
EDUCATION OF YOUTH
IN THE CREATIVE ARTS.
BY Hughes Mearns. tDo-
yer; $l.50)
DEALS WITH THE DEVIL.
Edited BY Basil Daven-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

schoolmaster turned British
intelligence agent. The first
two are set In Germany
(World War ] and Nazi eras.
respectively. The eecond
takes place in present-day
Russia. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

an air-raid shelter. Slung
into khaki at 10. and when
they let you out, you
sweat again In q factory,
grabbing for an extra pint.
doing women at the weekend
and getting to know whose
husbands are on the night
shift. working with rotten
CUTS and an aching spine and
nothing for it but money to
drag you back there every
Monday"
Din and jungle
Thus Arthur in q rare mo-
ment Of compassion. having
flung back a fish he caught.
Mr.. Sillitoe creates compel
lingly the din OF the factory
and the jungle Of the London
streets. And there Is no
question about the anthem
ITCHY Of his portrait Of the
young animal. But his book
is long on sensations and
short on emotions. And his
lapses into overwriting (Sam-
pie: Violent dialogues fiayed
themselves to death in his
mind. ~ adds to the
generally unrewarding quail
ity Of his book.
The angry young men
kicking against the country
club gates are nice lads COM
pared to Arthur, who hasn't
even got q legitimate social
protest to recommend him.
IN. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

the moment. he was without
q throne. and FrenchwomAn
that she was. she did not
relish the thought Of giving
up her riches to what ape
peared TO be q lost cause. So
Mademoiselle sought fulnil-
ment In the martial life. She
played o spectacular II some-
what comic role in La Fronde.
that frivilous rebellion Of the
French mobiles who rose UP
against Queen Anne's hated
Premier. Mazarin.
But what makes Mademoi-
selle immortal is, alas. o
ludicrous love affair which
came late IN life and to o bad
end. At 43. Mademoiselie
was utterly smitten, by q
passion for an unworthy adj
venturer named Baron Lau-
gun. He was o lizard to her
giraffe. and the story Of their
unequal struggle-she all
loving and giving. he all con-
niving and cruel-makes
painful reading 800 years
later. Louis XIV briefly app
proved the marriage. then
suddenly forbade 1t and
jailed the reluctant BRIDE
groom. Mademoiselle spent
the rest Of her life between
tears and efforts to liberate
him. Naturally. Lauzun de-
spised her for her trouble. +
Court Life %
Miss Sackville-West paints
. uveiy picture OF court ute,
Of its endless plots and.
amours. She does particular
Justice to Mademoiselle,s
father. Castor. Q perndious
wretch, whom Mademoiselle;
q pillar Of virtue and loyalty
In that aInoral world, loved
faithfully in her blundering
way.
Mademoiselle was in short.
o nice woman who had Q lot
Of hard luck. Miss Sackville-
West will make you like her
as much as she obviously does
herself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
Of Ungrocious Living
In the Welfare State

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. BY Alan Sill
ntoe. (Alfred A. Knopf: $3.50.
England seems to gone quietly mad this story
OF ungraccus living in the Welfare State 1t won Authors
Club Prize for the best FIRST novel OF 1885, and one OF the
critics was rood enough to it Room at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
A Grand ModemoIseI lie
And Her Lively Times
BY MARY McGRoRY
star star Writer

Anne-Marie. Duchess de Montpenscr, understandable
fascnaes historians and biogaphers Granddaughter Of
Henry Nv. kinswoman Of Louis KIN and Louis XIV pos
SCISSOR Of string Of titles and Of property she seemed
destined for exalted marriage other kind Of
She achieved either Francis seeemuer about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16
fIcTIoN

4~A S0AAs NA~9A0ACNAAye Q0sNOsy
Short stories about the life
Of the American Negroes in
World War II, and In New
York City and the South.
YES, MY DARLING DAUGH-
TIERS. BY David Duncan.
Doubleday: $3.50 A hui
morous novel Of teen-age
daughters who try the
patience Of father.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
FREE ASSOCIATIONS. BY
Ernest Jones. Basic
Books; So Memoirs of q
10th century Welsh psy-
choanalyst and associate
Of Freud.
WHAT NEXT. DOCTOR
PECK? BY Joseph H. Peck,
M. d. Prentice-Hall;
$500 A personal account
Of o doctors struggles with
bandits and wild horses on
the desolate Utah salt fats.
WOLFE AT QUEBEC. BY
Christopher HILBERT
(World Publishing; $4.5OJ
A biography based on
hitherto unused diaries and
letters Of the British victor
at the Plains Of Abraham.
GENERAL
PASSIONELLA AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Jules Feif-
fer. (McGraw-Hill; $1.75)
Cartoons by the author Of
Sick, Sick, Sick
AMERICAN HERITAGE, Vol.
x. No. s ($2.05, bookstores;
$3.50, a years subscrip-
tion.)
THE EXECUTIVE SECRE-
TARY. BY Marylin c.
Burke. Doubleday: $3.50
Instruction where secre-
tariaI school left on.
HOW TO HELP YOUR
CHILD IN READING,
WRITING AND ARITH-
METIC. BY Frieda z. Van
Alta. Brandon: $4.950
Home drilling lessons to
help your child's school
work.
LITERARY HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES.
Edited by Richard M. Lud-
wig. macmillan; $e.50.) A
photography Of noted works
dealing with our heritage.
THE EXECUTIVE INTER-
VIEW. BY BENJAMIN Balin-
sky and Ruth Burger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-16

The charming. respectable
rascal that Dorothy Sails
bury Davis created in Death
Of an Old Sinner" was well
worth . curtain call. In fact.
q resurrection for "OLD SIN
NERS NEVER DIE" (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $2.95) takes
US back to an earlier episode
in the life Of Gen. Ransom
Jarvis (USA), the old sinner
himself. Good as 1t Is to
have him around again. along
with his Congressman son. we
found the plot disappointing,
complete with wet-firecracker
ending. The action takes
place when one Senator
Fagan's cries Of Communists
and other undesirables In
Government have left ofiicial
Washington paralyzed. The
generals gift for compromis-
ing situations-verbal and
otherwise-is not an asset at
such q time.
? 80
KILLER ON THE CAT
WALK by Judson Philips
Oodd. Mead; $2.s5). A
basically practicable plot is
enhanced by interesting
characters. an occasional sur
prise and the charm Of q
theater setting. Broadway
Producer Chance Tempest,
who lives upstairs in the
theater he owns, finds murder
done under his roof. In
vowed Is his unloved lady
star, and her thwarted son
and sister, stiff -necked father
and amazing grandmother.
Who is done In is as intrigu-
ing as who done it. It would
have been interesting to see
the plot developed that way,
back to front, with the puzzle
the murderee.
THE SAPPHIRE CON.
FERENCE, by Peter GRAF.
Gives Washburn: S2.95.) The
Observation-Disclosures poi
son ivy in the groves of
Academe is exploited beauti-
fully by Mr.. Graf. When q
nasty but talented nuclear
scientist gets murdered after
stirring up the animals on
all sides. Supt. Hebden does
the investigating, assisted by
his friend Joe Dust, an
American private eye living in
England who has risen above
his past. Reasons personal
and political are possible
motives for murder.
= y 4 =
COME DIE WITH ME. by
William Campbell Gault
Random House; $2.95l.
When Brock (the Rock Cal
lahan agrees to look into an
heiress' unpleasant Jockey
husbands association with q
gangster, the expected and
unexpected occur. He makes
an enemy Of the gangster
He, of course, gets involved
In murders-two. But he
also stumbles on a story from
the past that offers q sur
prising and credible solution.
Usual delft dialogue, fine
pace, good job.
= = 4
Two omnibus volumes THE
S7th PRECINCT. BY Ed Nc
Balm. (Simon g. Schuster;
$3.95) and MISS PINKER-
TON. BY Mary Roberts Rine-
hart (Rinehart q Co., Inc;
$S.s5) are worth pursuing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Four Are Injured
In Head Crush

A rush-hour accident on Ar
lington boulevard near North
Columbus street last night sent
seven persons to Arlington
hospital, but police said only
four of them were injured and
one admitted.
Mrs, Cecilia Snyder, 30, of
Wyandanch, Long Island, N. Y,
suffered fractured left hip,
internal injuries, and cuts and
bruises and was in serious con-
dition.
She was riding in an east
bound Ger driven by her hus-
band Leroy Snyder, %, and
also occupied by her mother
ana two children.
Police said the Snyder car
was struck head-on about $50
pm. by another driven by
Lester Thompson, go, of Fair
fax Station, Va. Police charged
him with reckless driving.
Mr.. Thompson and a passen-
ger, Rufus z. Inman. 81, of
Fairfax, suffered minor in
jurieS, as did Mr.. Snyder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
2 Policemen
Have Same
UnhoppyLot

Two police officers from the
18th precinct suffered broken
bones in their hands last night
within a flve-minute period.
At 1910 pm. a 26-year-old
man being locked up as a drunk
swung at Pvt. Edward L. Butts.
%. In self-defense the officer
swung back-and fractured his
right hand.
The blow hit the prisoner,
William j. Turner, of the 1900
block Of Biltmore street NV.
on the forehead. But he was
unhurt.
At 10:15 pm, Detective Ohio
j. Thomas. 40, slipped and fell
on the greasy surface of a gas
station in the 1400 block of u
street NV. while chasing three
teen-age suspects in a pocket
book Snatching. His right hand
was broken.
1t. Milton C. Reed, who re-
ported the incidents, said Pvt.
Butts was treated at Washing
ton Hospital Center and De-
tective Thomas at Freedmen's
Hospital.
The pocketbook snatching
suspects were apprehended
later and turned over to juve-
nile authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Plan for Lowyer-Interns to Defend
Indiqents Draws Mixed Reaction

Universities. The interns would
not compete for cases with law
yers practicing regularly in
Municipal Court.
Chief Judge Leonard P.
Walsh called the idea a very
beneficial" one for needy de-
PENDANTS. At the same time, he
emphasized his continuing sup
port of the legal aid plan
bill currently before Congress
which would establish a COM
mission to determine whether
defendants qualify as indi-
gents. The bill would provide
for a staff of three or more
court-employed attorneys to be
retained solely for defending
indigents.
Judge WalSh's main con-
Germ over the internship pro-
posal was on the length OF
time interns would spend at
Municipal Court.
I'VE would hope they'd be
here at least two years in
order to be even more bene-
fetal to the court" he said.
He stressed that the interns
should "feel interested in these
types of cases" and not work
under any sense of "compul-
sion" from their law schools
in defending indigents.
Judge Walsh also urged that
the interns stay on at Munich
pal Court and advise other in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Garfield Tract
Gets HEW Bid

The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare has in
formally added its bid to three
others for the old Garfield Me-
mortal Hospital tract.
HEW would remodel the hos
pitol buildings for temporary
Food and Drug Administration
laboratories pending the con-
struction of a new FDA build
ing downtown.
Other groups interested in
the property at Florida avenue
and Eleventh street NV. in
clude the Board of Education,
the National Capital Housing
Authority and the Gonzales
cent Hospital. Inc.
No formal applications for
the land can be made until the
General Services AdminiStra-
ton receives the actual title
from Garfield. The land is to
go to the Government under
terms by which Garfield be-
came part of the Washington
Hospital Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Arlington Girl, 6,
Who Took Shots
Has BuIbur Polio

A 6-year-old Arlington girl
has been stricken with bulbar
polio despite four shots of Salk
vaccine.
The girl is suffering from a
mild paralysis of the throat,
it was reported at Children's
Hospital, where she was taken
Sunday. The girl, Arlington
County's first polio case this
year, has fever and difficulty
swallowing, but was described
by hospital officials as a mild
polio case.
The girl received her fourth
Salk shot last September.
Arlington had three polio
cases last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

terms as they enter the pro-
gram.
Expects Opposition
Assistant United States At
torney Edmond DAILY said he
"liked the idea" in theory, but
questioned whether the plan
could work in practice because
OF the time involved in decid-
ing whether a defendant was
INDECENT or not.
There will be opposition to
it," he said, adding that
charges of discrimination" to
the detriment of court-ap-
pointed defense attorneys
might arise.
Defense attorneys themselves
were universally contemptuous
of the plan. They were ada
mant in condemning the use
of the courts as laboratories
for the graduate interns.
Laboratories are all right
for small claims cases." said
one attorney, "but not when
you're dealing with peoples
lives"
Another attorney bluntly
asked: How would you like to
have a graduate law student
defending you?"
Most of them agreed the plan
would never work because it
"jeopardized" INDECENT defend
ants by placing their fate Gin
immature hands"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
MuzzIeIouders
From Alexandra
Win in Skirmish

CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. IL.
-Muzzleloaders of the 18th
Virginia Infantry of Alexan-
dria, Va, smoked out all COM
petition at the annual national
North-South SkirmiSh here yes
terday.
Taking first place with 43
points out of a possible so, the
18th. nameSake of a famous in
fantry regiment during the Civil
War, bested its nearest compet-
itor, the 18th Confederate In
fantry, by five points.
Another rebel outfit, the Old
Dominion Dragons, took third
place with Is points.
Shooting against four mod
ern rifles (the MID an eight
man squad of the 18th and a
Yankee group from Ohio bested
the score of the modern rifle in
an exhibition match, firing at
clay discs.
On Saturday, the 18th had
taken a number of medals in
individual matches with pistol,
carbine and muSket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
DROWNING STIRS
SAFETY PROPOSAL

John F. McMurray, president
Of the Woodmoor Citizens AS
ISOLATION, today inspected two
swimming holes used by youths
in the Northwest Branch gorge.
He was accompanied by staff
members of the Maryland Ma
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Mr.. McMurray said he
thought both pools should be
removed by breaking the rock
and timber dams behind which
they have formed.
Accompanying Mr.. McMur-
ray we're F. Frank Rubin, as
sociate director of parks; Rob-
ert E. Copes. chief engineer:
and Thomas Burke, public re-
lations director.
Mr.. Rubini said that a survey
party would inspect Northwest
Branch downstream from the
Burnt Mills filtration plant to
determine the feasibility Of
making the area safer. In the
meantime, he said, signs would
be posted forbidding swimming
and warning that four persons
had been drowned in the area
in the last few years.