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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Mitchell Lauds
Democrats on
Labor Efforts

Secretary Of Labor Mitchell
today credited the Democratic.
controlled Congress with max.
ing O sincere effort to enact
union reform legislation.
Last year. Mr.. Mitchell &C.
cused the Democrats Of playinl
politics and torpedoing a clean.
up bill. But this year. he tolt
a press conference today, "l
have the feeling that Congress.
is more serious"
He said the Senate Labor
COMMITTEE Is working assidi.
ously" to get q bill in shape
and the House Labor Commit.
tee is pursuing hearings "in q
fortnight way"
Expressing more than {
hope" for enactment of a gooc
reform bill. the Secretary sale
public opinion. seems to favol
the administrations proposals
rather than either the "inade.
quate" Kennedy Erwin bill OF
the punitive" measure spon.
sored by Senator Mcclellan
Democrat Of Arkansas.
Questioned closely about un.
employment compensation, Mr.
Mitchell said he supports Pres
ident Eisenhower's policy that
the States. rather than the
Federal Government, have the
primary responsibility for rails
ing benefit payments and in
creasing their duration.
However, he refused to say
whether he is going along with
the Presidents decision "hap-
ply" It is understood that Mr.
Mitchell recommended admin
istration support Of Federal
standards.
THE President has made the
decision" Mr.. Mitchell said.
and I agree with the Presi-
dent"
Mr.. Mitchell reiterated his
plea for both management and
labor to consider the public
interest during Forthcoming
negotiations in the steel indus
try. Any wage increases, he
said. should bear some rela-
tionship to productivity"-al-
though other factors also must
be considerable prevent in
tiationary price increases,
The Secretary stood by his
forecast that unemployment
will decline from the ,urrent
AZ million to "the neighbour
hood of 8 million" by October
or November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24

terror over Jefferson Parish,
getting open and active help
from deputies on Mr.. Coci's
staff.
Tells Of Terror Reign
Mr.. Kohn told Of "a FIVE
hour reign of terror" in which,
he said. Marcello gangsters
shot up a restaurant and sys-
tematically smashed it to bits
In 1852 or 1858 because the
owners wouldn't knuckle to
their demands.
He said two pairs of deputies
who walked in on the demoli-
ton job recognized the goons
doing it. spun on their heels
and walked away.
Mr.. Kohn described a rags
TORCHES rise by Marcello, who.
he said. now owns a $4,000
home and is reported to be one
Of Louisiana's richest men.
The committee primarily is
seeking evidence Of gangster
collpsion with labor union Of
1cials to run extortion rackets
against operators Of jukeboxes
and other coin-operated ma
chimes. Mr., Kohn. however, said
Marcello's men not only didn't
need help from any unions. but
discouraged the union move
ment around New Orleans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Two Women Killed
In DriverIess Cor

CAMDEN. N. j., Mar. "a
(AP). Two Camden women
were killed yesterday when q
driverless automobile in which
they were sitting suddenly
rolled downgrade, careene d
wildly across q lawn and
crashed through the basement
wall Of an apartment. The VIC
tins were Mrs. Elizabeth M.
Hardy. II. and Mrs. Helen NJ.
Davis. SO.
They had just been assisted
into the car by James Waters,
80, Camden. a friend Of Mrs.
Hardy'S son who was taking
them on a shopping trip. Mr..
Waters was walking around the
rear Of the car when it leaped
forward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24

records as q result Of news
stories dealing with nepotism
and payments for ONCE rent In
home districts.
House officials agreed with
Mr.. Livingston that his action
is legal. House records were
opened for public inspection
by a resolution adopted in 1892.
This. however, has generally
been interpreted as applying
only to the 72d Congress and
the clerk or the Speaker could
decide at any subsequent time
to change the policy unless told
otherwise by the House itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Harmony Concert Set

The Harmony Heritage Sing
ers, members of the Society
for the Preservation and En-
couragement Of Barbershop
Quartet Singing in America,
Inc. will sing at 7:3O pm.
Thursday in Howard Hall. st.
Elizabeths Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Accused MobsterWon t 7 ak
In Southern Rockets Probe
syth. Associated Pres.


Carlos Marcello. branded In
Senate Rackets Committee tes-
timony as a Mana mobster run
ming police-protected rackets in
the South. invoked the Fifth
Amendment IS times in Is min
utes today.
The alleged baron of the New
Orleans underworld refused to
answer question about his oc-
cupation, sources Of income and
associations with William Coci,
the sheriff Of Jefferson Parish,
La. The parish includes part
Of New Orleans. but is separate
from the city's government. No
one has accused any New Or
leans city officials Of wrong
doing.
Marcello,s lawyers. Jack Was
serman and David Gardner. de-
handed that the committee
cross examine Aaron Kohn.
managing director Of the
Metropolitan New orleans
Crime Commission, who had
denounced both Marcello and
Sheriff Coci in testimony yes
tkrday.
The lawyers requested that
Mr.. Kohn be asked whether
he has any personal knowledge
that Marcello is linked with the
Malta, a secret society of GRIM
inals, or has bribed either Mr..
Coci or the parish's former
sheriff. Frank King) Clancy.
Mcclellan Ruling
COMMITTEE Chaircan McClel-
Ian. Democrat Of Arkansas,
ruled that some of the ques-
tons would be appropriate"
but said they would be asked
only If Marcello agreed to an
sWer questions about them.
This Mr.. Marcello refused to
do. pleading that answers
might tend to incriminate
me"
s"You don't want to testify"
Senator McClelland snapped at
Marcello. But you want others
to testify. Do you want to be
fair? Are you willing to tell
the truth?"
I'm willing" Marcello blurted
out. then announced he was !
willing to consider it after
Kohn is cross-examined."
Then you'll have to consider
ii a long time" Senator Nc
Clellan retorted. He instructed |
the committee counsel. Robert
r Kennedy, to pursue the queS-
tiOning Of Marcello.
Cohen Summoned 4
The Rackets Committee also
Summoned underworld figure
Mickey Cohen Of Los Angeles
in its quest for evidence Of an
interstate racketeering con-
spiracy. Cohen insists he has
broken with the crime world
and can't imagine why the
committee wants to see him.
The committee left unan-
swered for the time being the J..
Question Of whether it also : :
would call in Sheriff Coci. de- /.
sofibed by Mr.. Kohn as o one :
time reform candidate who has :
since led "a very aggressive .
government move Z
nient." :
witnesses swore that In JEFF
'erSon Parish Mareello has =
'ound a haven from trouble :
With the law while building a =
'aekets empire that extends :,
MO Alabama, Mississippi, :
Texas and Arkansas. :
sMarcello was named by the -
Did Senate Crime Investigating =
Committee in 1853 as one of
the Nations principal crimi-
nails with a record of many
but few convictions
because witnesses feared to e
testify against him. The Gov +
eminent is trying to deport C
him as a convicted big-time {
in mariiuana. I
Mr.. Kohn said Marcello and I
his mobsters WELD a rule of Z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29

Yankees as well as Johnny
Rebs viii serve on Arlington
County's Civil War Centennial
Committee. the county board
chairman said yesterday.
In feet. the county may re-
store O Unien fort to celebrate
the occasion-even though the
guns were pointed toward Rich
mond. the capital Of the Con-
federacy.
Board Chairman David Krup-
saw named Arlington's elder
statesman Frank l.. Ball. at
torney and former State SEN
ator, to head the committee.
II hope we can have at least
one significant project. perhaps
the restoration Of one Of the
Civil War forts-Fort Ethan
Allen, for instance. even though
1t was occupied by Federal
troops and the guns pointed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
Parents to Urge
Pre-SchooI Plan

Parents tomorrow night viii
urge the Montgomery County
Council to establish a pre-
school program patterned
after that conducted by the
District.
Representatives Of the Com
mittee for Pre-Schools in
Montgomery County will pre-
sent their requests to the
council when it meets to con-
slider the budget for the Rec
reation Department.
Mrs. Victor Poor Of Rock
vile. q spokesman for the
committee. said yesterday that
the proposed program for chill
dren under 5 would cost about
$32. 900 q year. 1t also would
require employment Of an es-
timated 20 part-time workers.
Under the plan outlined by
Mrs. Poor, two-hour sessions
would be conducted daily at
parks and Fairgrounds under
the auspices Of the Recreation
Department.
Parents clubs would be
formed to assist in the opera
ton Of the schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
RESTORE UNION FORT, TOO
Rebs, Yonks to Serve
On Civil War Unit

the wrong way" the chairman
said.
II am surprised you can keep
q straight face when you pro-
pose restoring q Union fort. "
chuckled Ralph Raul. q board
member.
Mr.. Krupsaw. o native Of
Washington. countered: II hope
Senator Ball can find some
good Yankees as well as rebels
to serve on the commission to
help salve the wounds made so
long ago."
Surely you want to strike
that term rebels and insert
Confederates." unused Leo DR.
banske, who also Is on the
board.
mo sir, the jaunty rebs were
proud Of that name" replied
Mr.. Krupsaw. II used that
term affectionately. with malice
toward none." he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
Reserve Center
Contract Given
A S44s. 63s contract has been

A SAC. 636 contract has been
awarded the Nicholas 8.
Stavrou contracting arm, Of
Washington. to erect q new
Army Reserve Center in River
dale, Md.
The award was announced
yesterday by the Washington
District once Of the Army En-
gineer Corps. which viii SUI
pervise the Job.
The center will be on o six.
acre tract adjacent to the
Baltimore boulevard on land
formerly occupied by the Cali
vert Homes low-cost housing
development.
Seven Washington area OUT
flts will be served by the CEN
ter, which will have q capacity
Of 1000 reservists.
Construction will be of con-
crete and brick. The architects
for the project are Elliott 81
MacIntire. Of Silver Spring.
Completion is expected
within q year. ,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
Science Fairs
Are Scheduled

Hundreds of scientifically
minded youngsters will compete
this spring in science fairs
throughout nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
The second part Of the North
erns Virginia Science Fair will
be- held from Saturday through
Tuesday at Washington-Lee
High School. The fair is ex-
pected to draw close to 400
entries from Arlington and
Falls Church students. The
Alexandria Fairfax division OF
the fair was held a week ago.
Fourteen secondary school
fairs are scheduled to be in
Montgomery County in April as
follows:
Bethesda Chevy Chase. April TO;
Belt. April z; Broome. April s and o;
Gaithersburg, April and 10: Leland,
sSDr Notth an set fe SeT XS4 s A1F and
Also, Northwood, April $40; Pooles-
vile, April q and q; Richard Mont
gomery. April 9 and 10: Sherwood
April y and 10; Sligo, April z and d.
and Wheaton. April 8 and 8.
The all-county science fair
will be held in Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School April 1917,
In Prince Georges County,
high school fairs were held dur
ing March. Future elementary
school science exhibits in the
county will be held on the fol-
lowing dates:
April 7-Bladensburg. College Park
Forest Heights. Green Valley and West
Lanham Hills April 10--Brooks road
April l6-Dlstrict Heights and So
journer Truth April Is. 10--Adelphi
April %, 26-Carole Highlands, April
28--Hyattsville and Aver Road. May
5-Brandywine, Clinton Grove. Oxor
Hill, Lanham, Orme, Parkway and
Sandymount May ll-Columbia Park
May I2-Beaver HEIGHTS. june. B.
Lincoln. Lewisdale and Bradbury
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29

highway betw en- Lorton and
Woodbridge.
The ALLEGATION of Virginia
highway funds for 1860. an
nounced in Richmond last
week. also provided money for
Improvement Of many primary
and secondary roads in nearby
Virginia. improvements are
under way or scheduled for
Lee highway Route 29-2lD
Glebe road. Little River turn
pike tRoute 1850, Leesburg
pike (Route y, and Route 1913.
A vast amount Of highway
work is underway or pro-
grammed for the near future
in Maryland. Among the most
important are:
George Washington Parkway
(MaryIand). - Grading now
completed from near Chain
Bridge to Cabin John. 1t is
hoped that eventually the park
way will connect with WASH
ington's downtown Inner Loop,
via the Potomac expreSSway.
Route 4.-Construction Of 9
new dual highway from the
District to Andrews Air Force
Base in Prince Georges County.
| to be completed by December,
Sixteenth Street.-A 81 mil
lion dual highway will extend
Sixteenth street and link 1t TO
Georgia avenue two blocks
south Of Seminary road. IN
Montgomery Hills. Also Inder
construction is the Arson street
tie-in with Georgia avenue.
The project is to be completed
/ in 1860.
ROUTE ga new dual high
way now under construction
will be completed late this fall
from Four Corners in Silver
Spring to White Oak, near the
Naval Ordinance Laboratory.
ROUTE 240-This important
heavy duty highway. connect
ing Washington with the Ma
tons pricipal east-west high
way, Route 40, at Frederick
Nd, Is now a limited access
dual highway from Frederick to
Pooks Hill, above Bethesda
District, Maryland and Federal
highway builders are trying to
find an acceptable corridor
through the Bethesda area and
into Washington's inner loop.
1 These are the roads which
will carry traffic in and out Of
Washington. But what about
new arteries to siphon OF the
daily avalanche Of cars once
they hit downtown Washing
ton? The answer Is the big
gest highway building program
in the Districts history. Among
the most important projects
are:
ANACOSTIA WAY
J The freeway will connect with
the Circumferential just east Of
the Jones Point Bridge. The
entire freeway. from the Cir
cumferential to the Baltimore
Washington parkway, is to bt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
State Action
Due Soon on
Perrow Data

RICHMOND, Mar. 20 (AP).
-Virginia's General Assembly
will resume It's special school
session Tuesday but Is not ex-
pected TO come to grips with
the Perrow commissions top
secret proposals for another
week.
It appears virtually certain
the Assembly merely will 60
through the Formally Of meet
ing at noon Tuesday and then
will recess again until April 6.
This will permit printing Of
the education commissions
proposals and give the legis-
lators O chance to delve into
Just what the commission and
the Governor want them to
enact as new legal deterrents
to classroom Indignation Of the
races.
Capitol sources said there Is
doubt the commission recon-
mendations win be ready for
distribution to the Assembly
Tuesday - assuming the 40
member commission gives its
final approval to the report at
its meeting Monday afternoon.
Clerks Of both the House Of
Delegates and Senate advised
members Of their temporary
legislative stats living away
from Richmond they would
not need to be present Tuesday.
The few exceptions included
key aides to the clerks.
It still appears the commits
sion will not recommend any
action on repeal or amendment
Of the constitutional section re-
quiring the State to operate q
public school system. Instead
informed sources say the rec
concentrations will be geared
to some form Of local option
in coping with desegregation.
When the Perrow commits
sion-appointed by Gov. Al
mond and headed by Senator
MoSby q. Perrow jr. Of Lynch
burg-launched its assignment
early in February: it generally
was expected to come up with
some proposal to give localities
an escape from the require
m emit Of operating public
schools as now required by the
constitution.
AS the commission met al
the State capitol during the
past week, it became apparent
thinking was against any con-
stitutional change in the i'm.
mediate future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29

in use by 1868. It will give
the growing suburbs south Of
Alexandria and east Of Shirley
highway in Virginia fast, easy
access to downtown Washing
ton, via the Jones Point Bridge.
Inner Loop Work is well
along on the Southwest free
way, a leg Of the expressway
around the periphery Of down.
town Washington. The South
west freeway is under construc-
ton from Fourth to Half street
IS.W. The balance. from Fourth
street to Maine avenue, will be
started this summer.
The Southeast freeway will
be started late this year and
will be completed to Sixth
street by the spring Of 1862.
The remainder, to the Eleventh
street bridge, will be completed
by 1864. The west leg. in Foggy
Bottom, is now being designed.
Glover ArchboId Parkway
Construction is to start this
summer on two 26-foot road
ways through the park. The
District Highw.v Department
hopes to complete the parkway,
from the proposed Potomac
freeway to Upton street, near
Massachusetts, avenue, by late
1868.
X Street Expressway - I'm
provement Of K street, from
Twenty-fifth street to Connect
cut avenue NV, is scheduled
to get underway in July. The
project will include an under
pass at Washington circle. now
one of Washington's worst
rush-hour bottlenecks. The K
street expressway eventually
will connect with the west leg
Iof the Inner Loop. west OF
Twenty-sixth street. providing
q direct route to the heart OF
the downtown area.
Military Road - Widening
and improvement Of this i'm
portant east-west highway
through the upper reaches OF
Rock Greek Park-from Thir-
teenth street to Nebraska ave-
nue-will be completed this
summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
Safer and Faster Travel Promised
By 1862 on New Area Highways
BY ALFRED ALIBRANDO
star star writer

star star Writer
New highways will soon de-
molish one Of the old criticisms
Of Washington area suburbs
that II imposes O kind Of isola-
ton on its inhabitants.
For instance. it's still quite o
chore for q Bethesda resident
to visit q friend In Springfield.
Va. In rush-hour trafiic, the
trip may take more than an
hour and involve q lot Of ago
nizing stop-and-go. bumper-to-
bumper driving.
Three years from now 1t will
be possible for the same Be-
thesda motorist to make the
trip In half the time, travelling
most Of the distance on the
nonstop Circumferential high
way.
It will provide safer travel,
too, Opposing lanes Of trafic
WIZ be separated by median
strips or dividers. There will
be no cross streets. stop signs
Or trafiic lights.
Bulldozers at Work
Even now bulldozers are cary
ing out the route in Fairfax
County. Va. And a bridge TO
carry the 22-mile Virginia por-
ton of the highway over the
Potomac River into Prince
Georges County Is now under
construction at Jones Point in
alexandria.
? Recently announced reduc-
tions in the Virginia ALLEGATIONS
for interstate highway con-
struction do not jeopardize
presently programmed work.
Some $18 million in Federal
highway construction money,
temporarily declined when Viz
ginia allocated more for Sec
orldary and primary roads. may
be obtained anytime before
July /. 1862. To receive this
Federal aid, Virginia must put
UP about 10 per cent-or $l.8
million-for the projects to be
covered by the Federal grants.) I
Another Bridge Planned
Maryland's 36-mile portion
Of the Circumferential highway
also includes a bridge. q Poto-
mac River crossing at Cabin
John. Representative Broyhill,
Republican of Virginia, an
nounced recently that con-
struction of the bridge would
begin next year and be COM
pleted by early 1862. about the
same time access roads in his
State are finished.
At least two sections of the
Circumferential - one from
Georgia avenue to Four Cor
ners in Montgomery County,
the other from the Potomac
River to Indianhead in South
ern Maryland-are expected to
be placed under contract this
year.
The entire 58-mile Circum-
ferential, a six to eight-lane
superhighway girdling the
Washington area six to ID
miles from the center of the
city, is expected to be COM
pleted by late 1862.
Three new Potomac River
bridges. in addition to the two
on the Circumferential, will
help bring distant points closer.
They are:
Theodore Roosevelt (Consti-
ta1ti0n avenue) Bridge - Con-
struction is scheduled to be-
gin next year on this six-lane
crossing. It will connect WASH
ington's Inner Loop, north of
the Lincoln Memorial, with
the George Washington Me-
mortal parkway on the Virginia
side. To be completed in the
latter part Of 1862.
Fourteenth Street Bridge
a new structure costing about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
GNU Medical School
Joins Defense Unit

The George Washington Uni
Versity School Of Medicine has
Joined the Medical Education
for National Defense program,
Dean John Parks announced
yesterday.
The purpose of the program
is to bring to the attention of
medical school stats problems
involved in military medicine,
and care Of mass casualties.
Each of the SIS participating
schools plans its own approach
to the subject.