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Evening star., 1960-02-29
Told of Mean Things"
County Manager Reese Expected
To Accept Offer Of Miami Post

ton, Pa. was graduated from
Stout Institute in Wisconsin in
1880. He took his masters de-
gree in personnel MANAGEMENT
and public administration at
the University of Wisconsin.
He came to the Washington
area in 1912 as assistant to the
executive secretary of the War
Production Board. He served
with five Federal agencies, and
at the time of his Montgomery
County appointment in 1855
he was director of the Office
of Administration for the Re-
negotiation Board.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reese have
lived in Montgomery County
since 1916, first on Norbeck
road near Rockville. then on a
farm near DarnestoWn, and for
the last two years on South
Glen road, Potomac.
They have two sons. Evan
81, a student at Randolph
Macon College and Thomas. 10,
a freshman at William and
Mary.
Two other men from the
Washington area have been
Miami city managers.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. E. A,
Evans. former head of the re-
serve officers organization here,
held the post from 1854 until
early 1859 He was succeeded
by Ira F. Willard, who was city
manager of Alexandria. Va,
from 1852 to 1856.
Mr.. Willard has resigned the
Miami post to become presi-
dent of a bank in Coral
Gables, Fla.
Evening star., 1960-02-29

final approval of the Montgom-
cry County budget, which has
an April IS deadline.
Under present regulations,
the Miami city manager re-
ceives S22.500 yearly with an
expense allowance of $2,500.
These were the terms offered
Mr.. Reese.
Mr.. Reese was appointed
county manager nearly six
years ago. coming to Mont
gomery County from executive
positions in the Federal Gov
ernment at a salary of Sl2 900
The county council granted
him several pay increases, and
he now receives $4,000 a year,
Mr.. Reese. a native of Halle
Evening star., 1960-02-29
The
Rambler
Meets
A Retiring Mon
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

ny OGOASOL hEANANED
It's the little mishaps of
day-to-day life that remain
in the memory long after
more important events have
faded.
The Rambler had this
impressed on him again yes
terday when he called on
William L. Dawson.
Mr.. Dawson is a tall, slen-
der, erect, white-haired man
who lives at 220 Missouri
avenue NV. and is a pillar
of the nearby Lewis Memo
rial Methodist Church.
At Ais pm. today he will
arrive from New York on the
Executive, one of the crack
passenger tr a ms OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
And there will be much
footing of locomotive whis-
ties and shaking of hands,
for he will have finished his
last trip as a conductor.
Mr.. Dawson is 65 and is
retiring after A years with
the railroad, 20 of them on
the New York run.
A years! With the excep-
ton of four years, two of
them in uniform during
World War l, he has been
with the railroad since 1912.
That goes back to the days
when railroad travel was
considered somewhat dan.
gerous. The New Haven line
and others were experience
ing occasional wrecks. UX-
oriouS husbands wired the
good news back home of
their safe arrival a few min
uteS after getting off the
train.
Evening star., 1960-02-29
Noyes School Larger,
Purt-Duy Units Fewer

A large new addition to
the NoyeS Elementary School,
Tenth and Franklin streets
NE, went into use for the first
time today. 1t contains IL class
rooms. a library. an assembly
hall and lunchroom.
The addition eliminates four
part-time classes, lowering the
city total of such classes to A.
When the addition to the
Cooke Elementary School, Sew
enteenth and Euclid streets
N W., opens in April, six more
part-time classes will be elimi-
mated.
Evening star., 1960-02-29
BY GEORGE WILSON
Star Stan Writer


4 Dawn cuts up the black
vastness of the railroad yard
with Streaks of golden track as
you hop aboard the freight
train.
You climb the steel ladder
leading to the door of the
locomotive and squeeze inside
the cab. There Engineer w
P. Salter is testing the air
brakes on the SIS freight cars
the Pennsylvarias $50 ton
electric locomotive will pull
from We 5hington'S Potomac
Yards to Philadelphia.
Engineer Salter sits on the
right of the engine. next to the
side window. Beside him. near
the left side window. sits the
most controversial man in rail-
roading today the fireman.
4 Railroad MANAGEMENT claims
it could save $3.50 million a
year if the unions would let
it eliminate firemen on freights
like this one. Management also
wants the right to take fire.
men of engines used in rail-
road yards to push freight
cars around. 1t says work rules
recurring it to carry f1remen
are obsolete in this day of the
electric and diesel locomotive
and should be changed.
The railroad brotherhoods
agree f1remen no longer tend
any fires, just as sailors nc
longer tend any sails. But they
add that firemen have new
duties today-inportant ones
key to Safety"
"Firemen are the key to safe
and efficient operation" of the
railroads, says H. E. Gilbert
president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen. He claims the fire.
man is the engineers copilot.
The fireman argumen
threatens to derail manage
ment-labor relations so COM
pletely that a strike may be
called over it. Negotiations be-
tween management and labor
on the fireman and other work
rules are expected to start in
Chicago next month.
The crew on freight trains
consists of the engineer, fire.
man, front brakeman, conduc-
tor and f1agman. Work rules
drafted about 40 years ago for
bid running a freight with few
er men.
Engineer Salter is ready tc
pull out of the yard. He eases
back on the throttle, sending
electricity from the wires over
head to the IL electric motors
which drive the wheels of the
giant locomotive. The trair
wakes up with creaking, snap
ping yawn.
Clear on this side, WILL
shouts Fireman w. J. Carlin tc
the engineer. Both men are
studying the track ahead tc
make sure no switches have
Evening star., 1960-02-29

ALMOST FORTY YEARS
OF:
"All aboard. All ABOARD!
Watch your steps ladies and
gentlemen, watch your step"
Then the wave of the arm,
or the lantern, that sent the
long luxurious caravan slid
ing across the landscape at
speeds that averaged a mile
a minute.
Sixty miles and hour! This
despite the slow roll through
railroad yards in cities en-
route.
There children living close
to the tracks would look en-
viously from their supper
table in the kitchen. Only a
few feet away, behind the
windows of the dining car,
the wealthy were eating in
splendor.
Almost 40 years of the con-
slant clicking of the wheels
going over the rail joints,
an occasional blast from the
whistle. a blast that sounded
lonely and mournful when
heard at a distance.
Almost 40 years of unfail-
ing courtesy to passengers
and constant vigilance
against giving a free ride to
a beat locked in the mems
washroom.
Funny thing! Mr.. DaW-
sons employment in the
Pennsylvania system started
as a crewman on the SIS
Anne Arundel, one of three
ships the railroad operated
between Washington an d
Baltimore.
The Anne Arundel would
leave Washington Saturday
afternoon at 4. She would
make all the landings. She
would wait patiently while
the long line of yokes of
oxen hauled their hogsheads
of tobacco on board and she
would get into Baltimore at
7 O'Clock Monday morning.
"lt was a nice trip" he
said. All the stateroomS
were usually occupied"
He had another unusual
experience. He worked on
the P&O paris and Or
leans. That was during
World War 1. He was rail-
road soldier in the AEF, and
his general was w. w. After
bury, president-on-leave OF
the Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1960-02-29

Virginia State Police today
gave a lie detector test to a
Spotsylvania sawmill worker
who confessed the Staying of
the Jackson family and then
repudiated his story.
The 21-year-old suspect was
driven to the Culpeper Barracks
of the State Police this morning
from Fredericksburg. where he
was arrested last night on
charges of drunkenness, breach
of the peace and destroying
private property.
FBI agents and polio e
questioned the suspect further
about the quadruple Staying of
the Louisa County VA family.
The man was arrested at 730
pm. yesterday in a downtown
Fredericksburg street. Police
said he had broken a car radio
aerial and kicked over a city
trash can.
Told of MEAN Things"
At the Jail. police said. the
suspect asked to see a psychia-
trist. remarking that he had
done a lot of mean things in
my life" Then he told a story
of Staying the four Jacksons
Evening star., 1960-02-29

DCCll ltlG OkJSll' 1IICy dloO SllCSh
signal lights.
Engineers View Blocked
Standing with them in the
cab you see the engineer is par
TALLY blind on his left side. The
long nose of the locomotive
blocks his view. 1t is like driv-
ing your car with half the
windshield covered.
Look" Engineer Salter says
Il don't care what they say
about not needing fireman.
need those eyes over there. ]
can't see what's on his side
especially going around a
curve
The engine is a double lender
1t has identical cabs at each
end. Sitting in the engineer s
seat at the hind end at the
moment is the front brake
man. T. J. Wood. He looks out
the windshield and side win
dows at the string of freight
cars rolling behind him. He is
the engineers rear-view mirror
Management says the fire.
man and front brakeman
should be one man instead oi
two. There is a passageway con-
Meeting the front and real
cabs, so a man could move
from one station to the other
How about combining the jobs;
Engineer Salter still says no
He contends the fireman anc
front brakeman are both need.
ed, especially in backing a Ions
train of cars into a siding
When this happens, the fire.
man walks PARKWAY down the
train and relays hand signal!
passed up the line from the
front brakeman and the conf
ductor farther back. The con.
ductor signals from the last
car being backed onto the sid.
ing.
Last Car Out of Sight
/ Brakeman Wood walks dowr
the track while the freight
train is stopped on a curve. HI
throws down this challenge
"SuppoSing you are standins
here. You tell me how you arr
going to get signals from some.
body riding on the last carp
The last car is out of sight
But if you need three men tt
divide up the train and pas!
signals up to the engineer wher
cars are being backed into {
siding, why not use the flag
man? Jack Paulson says HI
could not leave his post to dt
this.
1--WE got to stand back here
and guard the rear of thi1
train" he claims. Whenever
we're stopped like this 1 wall
down the track to make sur,
nobody runs into the rear o.
the cars left on the mair
track"
/ Freight cars are arranged SC
that the ones closest to the
engine can be left off on sidings
first. The cars to be left off are
Evening star., 1960-02-29
Witnesses Support
Death Penalty Bill
Senote Probers Told Judges
Should Have Final Discretion
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Stan Writer

Witnesses today supported legislation eliminate the
quiremen that criminals convicted in the District of first
murder automatically the electric chair
The proposal supported unanimously by judges pros
ecutors and city before subcommittee
Evening star., 1960-02-29
Jackson Case Suspect
Gets Lie Detector est

because, he said. he was angry
at the way their car passed him
on the highway.
This morning. the suspect was
taken before Municipal Court
Judge A. w. Embrey, jr., on
the three misdemeanor charges
and was given 80 days in Jail
and a $50 fine. The fine will
be suspended if he pays for
the damages.
Carroll Jackson, %, his wife.
Mildred, q, and their two
blond daughters, Susan Ann, S,
and Janet. Is months, van-
ished on the road between
Buckner, Va, and their home
at Apple Grove on the night of
January II. Their car was
found abandoned near Mineral,
eight miles from their home
next day.
Last March 4. the bodies of
Mr.. Jackson and Janet we're
found under a pile of brush
near Fredericksburg. On March
2l, two boys found the bodies
Of Mrs. Jackson and Susan
buried in a shallow grave near
Gambrills, IL miles west Of
Annapolis.
Mrs. Jackson had been
strangled, apparently with a
stocking, and Susan had been
bludgeoned to death. Mr.. Jack
son had been shot and Janet
had been struck or the head
but probably died of exposure,
police said.
Search Recalled
Police also have been looking
for a sawmill worker. since the
bodies were found near rural
sawmillS in both cases.
Chief Robert w. Coble of the
Fredericksburg police, who
Joined FBI agents and State
Police investigators in ques-
tioning the suspect last night.
said, AS in the case of a thou
sand other suspects in this
case, the mans story will have
to be checked out" And 1t.
C. C. Brennan SAID the ques-
tioning had produced nothing
promising"
officers said that. among
other things, the suspect told
them he shot Mr.. jackson. a
feed truck driver, and used a
stocking to strangle Mrs jack
son. After recounting the story,
police said, the man fell TO
pieces in what appeared to be
a fit" He was taken to a hos
pital and it was there he
changed his story and denied
any part in the slayings.
After examination by a ply
sician. the man was returned
to police headquarters for fur
ther questioning. Police SAID
his original story included no
information which had not
been previously published about
the case.
The suspect lives in a low
rent apartment in Fredericks-
burg, but at the time the jack
son family was slain he lived
near Louisa County line IN
Spotsylvania County at the town
of Alsop.
Evening star., 1960-02-29

uncoupled from the main train
and the engine backs them onto
the siding. The other cars re-
main on the main track. with
the caboose at the tail end.
When the engine returns
from the siding. it recOupleS
with the cars standing on the
main track and proceeds up the
line. Fla gman Paulson and Con-
ductor William E. Jones ride in
the cozy caboose toward the
next stop. But they deny life is
a featherbed between stops.
Keep Trouble Watch
I'VE have to watch for hot
boxes and sticking brakes as we
go along" Flagman Paulson
says. when we go around a
curve on my side, I go UP in
the gig tower and look over the
train. He goes up on the other
side when the curve is on his
side Mr.. Paulson says one man
could not work both sides be-
cause of the swaying of the
train. Brother, if there were
$50 cars on here-like there is
lots of times - instead of IS
cars, you couldn't stand up in
here"
The gig tower is the window
ed space above the upper hunks.
The freight gets rolling again
and Mr.. Faulson climbs into
the gig tower dons goggles and
looks over the train rolling
ahead of him. "All black on this
side" he yells. "Hi-ball." "
shouts Conductor Jones when
the curve comes on his side
Both messages mean all is we'll
No journal boxes (where the
ends of the axles ride) are
smoking.
Concede Changes
The freight clicks on and on
monotonously. Mr.. Paulson be-
comes philosophical about
working on the railroad as you
chat in the comfort of the
caboose. He comedies the day OF
the snorting Iron Horse is over,
that changes are coming, that
men like himself cannot hold
back machines.
But a railroad is like q
ball team" he says. Every
body has got to work together
Sure, there's going to be
changes. But there has to be
give and take on both sides" -"
This plea was typical of those
expressed again and again by
men who operate the trains.
They are incensed over the As
sociation of American Rail-
roads anti-featherbed cam
Ipaign. They charge it has por-
trayed devoted employees as a
bunch of loafers.
The association represents
the management of most of the
Nations railroads. 1t has been
protesting firemen work rules
in its anti-featherbed cam
paign.
Management asserts the rules
requiring f1remen on all of its
runs are clearing the track for
bankruptcy. The owners of the
roads admit their proposal to
eliminate firemen on freight
runs and in yards work would
cost $1,000 jobs. But they prob
ably would accept a union pro-
posal to keep current firemen
employed but not replacing
them when they retire or re-
sign. The owners contend saw
ings through modernized work
rules would actually protect
jobs because the money could
be ploughed back into the busi-
ness.
AS for the contentious of
Engineer Slater and his COL
Evening star., 1960-02-29

sidering legislation to abolish
mandatory capital punishment
here.
Witnesses agreed judges
should have final discretion to
impose the death penalty. They
disagreed over procedures to
be followed by judges and iuries
in reaching decisions on SEN
tencing.
But they were united behind
the aim of pending bills.
Chief Judge E. Barrett
Prettyman of the United States
Court of Appeals spoke for the
judicial Conference of the Dis
trict. United States Attorney
Oliver Gasch represented his
staff of prosecutors and Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Irving
Bryan testified on behalf of the
District Commissioners.
Keating Bill
Senator Heating, Republican
of New York, introduced legis-
Ilation demanding a death sem
Itence for defendants convicted
of f1rst-degree murder unless
the jury recommends life i'm
Iprisonment. With that recon-
mendation in hand, a judge
may impose a life sentence,
under the Keating language.
Judge Prettyman and Mr..
Gasch pointed out that the
Supreme Court had held that
a judge, with a similar recon-
mendation, received in a New
York case, also could impose
the death sentence. Thus, they
reasoned that the discretion to
be handed the judge by the
Heating bill was not limited by
the language.
As an alternate, Judge Pretty
man and Mr.. GaSch asked that
the bill define the punishment
as imprisonment for life un-
less the jury shall add a
recommendation in the words
with the death penalty"
Prettyman'S View
Their alternate would state
that then the judge could sem
tence the defendant to life i'm
Y,,,eo,oyoo,,t ~ Jooth D.;o,, to
Evening star., 1960-02-29

the sentencing, the judge would
be required to hold a hearing.
In answer to questions Of
Senator Hartke, Judge Pretty
man agreed that such a sem
tence by a judge would make
the punishment fit the criminal
more than the crime.
"A proper sentence is the
component of a good many fac
tors" Judge Prettyman said.
Il believe there is no sentiment
among our Judges that SELL
tence necessarily should be
tailored to fit one offense.
Yet. it may be that one
particular crime is so offensive
as to merit a death penalty
imposed by the jury" he the
oriZed.
Senator Hartke. seeking to
compromise the Heating and
the Judicial Conference ap-
proach, asked why juries should
not simply return guilty or not
guilty verdicts and leave sem
fencing entirely up to the
judges.
Suggestion Rejected
A study committee of the Ju-
dicial Conference considered
this idea and rejected it after
a summers study. Mr.. Gasch
said. Committeeman preferred
that juries. composed of COM
munity representatives, have a
say in death sentences.
No witness wanted death
penalties completely abolished.
Present law in imposing death
penalties for first degree MUIR
der convictions extends that
penalty to % premeditated
murder, ~ homicides occur
rino during the commitment Of
such felonieS as housebreaking,
robbery and rape and 49, &C.
cesSories to either premeditsted
murder or to those felonies If
accompanied by homicide.
Thus. a man who aids in a
housebreaking during which a
person is killed is subject 10 a
mandatory death penalty in the
District now Judge Prettvman
explained. I'VE feel this pen
atty is too severe"
Evening star., 1960-02-29
Prettyman's View

Their alternate would state
that then the Judge could sem
tence the defendant to life i'm
prisonment or death. Prior to
Evening star., 1960-02-29

Tomorrow; The l0o- mile doy.
Evening star., 1960-02-07
GIamor Not Preferred
BY HAROLD STERN

appears as marx Twain IN an our american
Heritage" drama Shadow of a Soldier" based
on the life of Ulysses s. Grant This purportS
to be historically accurate.
Currently, and full time Mr. Douglas stars
as Griffith P. Hastings who everyone knows is
really Warren G Harding in the Broadway hit,
The Gangs All Here" This play does not claim
to be historically accurate but it has frighten-
ing ring of authenticity about it as it deves into
one of the most dSgraceful periods in our
Nations history.
In the play, Melvyn Douglas gives a stun
ningIy brilliant performance, which after all
is what we've come to expect of him in any
role There's reason to believe his interpre-
tation of Mark Twain (which has already been
taped by NBCD will be anything less than perfect
According to Douglas, The Gangs All Here"
isn't an historical play, its a play about an
nept man who became President.
It's play about the size of the presidency"
he went on. And the tragic consequences which
can happen when the feet that fill the shoes
aren't big enough. The potential of the Stua-
ton applies to all officeS-peOple filling impor-
tant jobs without knowing what's going on
about them and unable to control the people
they work with
Il prefer a play or a movie that is in some
way a comment" Douglas continued. 1T doesn't
have to be a political comment, but find that
my attention isn't Immediately engaged by
play that has nothing to say
Changed Directions
During recent years, Douglas has starred in
such plays as his current one, Inherit the
Wind lin which he played Clarence DarroWl
and on TV in such meaty items The Plot
to Kill Stain" and The Nuremberg Trials
Considering the string of dramas with social
conscience in which he's appeared, it's difficult
to remember that at one point his work was
confined primarily to light comedy He credits
GITo fbo yTtb inn q
opportunity to change career directions.
But once I appeared in that play, began
getting offers to play old lawyers or old diplo-
mats Now l suppose III be getting offers to
play Presidents. It's funny the way the minds
of those people run Look at what's happened
to Ralph Bellamy. Since Sunrise at Campo
bello, all he gets are offers to play Presidents.
Douglas, who some time ago appeared in a
series called Hollywood Ofbeat" claims it would
tak awful lot considering before he'd
Evening star., 1960-02-07

you agree to do series, you start working in
the factory. l might feel differently if l were
considerably younger, but not at my age!
Sponsors Too Sensitive
"On a shot" he went on, you can hit
hard and fast and make an impact On a series,
you don't dare. Even One-ShOtS, it's impoS-
sibe to be really creative under the silly restric-
tonS much of TV imposes
II have never done a TV show he said
emphaticay, which didn't have something
which had to be dropped or cut or changed be-
cause of sponsor sensitivty. The most ridiculous
was in The Nuremberg Trials, where the word
gas tin connection with Hitler'S gas chambers
was deIeted because our sponsor "a gas COM
panyD didn't want any reference to gas which
made it look any way but benevolent.
The worst people in televiSion are sponsors
who are afraid of offending anybody or any
thing! Their hypersenSitivity makes everyone
uneasy and often works against them"
Evening star., 1960-10-13

restaurant. however, it becomes
more difficult legally to make
a case under the Interstate
Commerce Act.
The Supreme Court has held
that the provisions Of this act
bar a carrier from discrimin-
ating against an interstate
passenger, the key to its rul-
ing ending segregation on in
terstate trains or busses. The
carrier would be linked more
clearly to the discrimination
against Mr.. Boynton If its part
ownership of the terminal
were in the record.
Walter E. Rogers, special
counsel for the State of Vir-
ginia, argued yesterday that
the restaurant had a right to
refuse service to Mr.. Boynton,
who has since graduated from
Howard. He also defended the
action Of Richmond police in
arresting the student under
Virginia's trespass statute.
Mr.. Boynton's conviction and
$40 fine were upheld by the
Virginia Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1960-10-13
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

no State sanction of segrese-
tion-as through the trespass
statute under which Mr.. Boyn-
ton was arrested-in any res
taurant open to the public. Su-
preme Court agreement with
this sweeping premise would
overthrow many of the convic-
tions of Negro sit-in demon
strators charged with violation
Of trespass or other State or
local laws.
But Mr.. Marshall. who argued
the school desegregation cases
before the Supreme Court and
has represented the NAACP on
almost every other major legal
test of Negro rights in recent
years. obviously felt the Boyn-