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Evening star., 1960-08-10
John Currudine Files
Bankruptcy Suit

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10
(AP).-Actor John Carradine
filed suit for bankruptcy
yesterday, listing his assets at
$3.50 and his debts at $23,021.
The tall, thin Shakespearean
actor also described himself in
his bankruptcy petition as a
director and lecturer.
Most Of the debts, he said,
are in New York. Many are
to restaurants.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Nogosoki Observes
Dute of A-Bombinq

TOKYO, Aug. 10 (AP).-
Nagasaki yesterday marked the
18th anniversary of its atomic
bombing by the United States
in World War II.
Church bells toled, sirens
walled and ships noored in
the harbor sounded their
whistles at HOP a.m., the
moment when the A-bomb ex-
ploded.
Hiroshima. the first Jap
anese city to be hit by an atomic
bomb, marked that anniversary
Saturday.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Attorney Battles
Man Blasting
Area With Gun

A Falls Church man was
jailed today pending a sanity
hearing after police said he
fired at a car, shot two tires
of a fire truck and threatened
to kill a Fairfax attorney.
The attorney, Frank v.
Swart, of 6 Mode street, Fair
fax. said the man asked him
to meet him near the fire house
on Mechanic street in the town
of Fairfax.
While he was talking to the
man, Mr.. Swart said, the man
fired at a passing car. swung
and fired two shots into two
large tires Of a fire truck and
fired twice into the fire house.
Then, Mr.. Swart said, the
man grabbed him and marched
him down the street.
Il started pleading" Mr..
Swart said, begging him not to
shoot. He was nervous. shak-
ing. and the gun was against
me-"
Mr.. Swart said he grabbed
the gun and both held on to it..
Then I started shouting for
help. I shouted, Somebody's
got a gun on me. trying to kill
me! At this. several people
walking by ran in the other
direction"
Then. Mr.. Swart said, the
man began to shout that the
attorney was crazy and trying
to kill him.
Finally I swung around and
put my thumb in front of the
hammer and wrenched the gun
away" Mr.. Swart said.
Fairfax town police arrived
shortly afterward and jailed
the man pending a hearing.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Report Shows Rise
In D. C. Juvenile Crime
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star staf Writer

The Districts already overloaded Juvenile has been
hit sudden sharp juvenile crime courts
terly report showed today.
Juvenile Court Judge Orm Ketcham commenting on the
AprJune report said veteran court officials already
him the violations referred to the court dur
Evening star., 1960-08-10
IS on Probation

OF the repeaters, 112 we're
under social study when they
were referred again to court,
76 were on probation. Ct were
wards Of the Welfare Depart
ment and one was a ward of
the National Training School.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

ing the spring was the greatest
they ever had seen here.
He said there were not only
more cases but also more
serious cases.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star stan Writer

Almost hidden in the middle
of the Smithsonian Institutions
latest annual report. between
articles on American Indian
Exhibits" and The New Eng
land Porringer," is a formula
for turning children into
geniuses.
1t contains three essential
ingredients: a high degree of
attention" from parents and
other adults; particularly in
intensive educational meas
.ures; isolation from other chill
dren, and an intense cultiva-
ton of fantasy.
Such are the childhood pat
terms which 20 recognized
geniuses - including Goethe,
Voltaire, Pitt and Coleridge-
had in common, according to
DR.. Harold G. McCurdy, a Uni
versity of North Carolina
psychologist.
In his contribution to the
Smithsonian's report, he adds
this warning: public education
today is "a vast experiment on
the effect Of reducing all three
of the factors to minimal
values. and should, accordingly.
tend to suppress the occurrence
Of genius"
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Meeting Set Here
On School Issue
In Prince Edward

A Negro women'S leader ha:
called an emergency confer.
ence here on Saturday, Janu-
ary l6. to discuss the Prince
Edward County school crisis in
Virginia.
Miss Dorothy I. Height, pres
ident of the National Council
of Negro Women, issued a cal
Tor national women's organiza-
tions to meet that day from 10
am to 5 pm. to consider the
situation.
The meeting will be held in
the Community Room of the
Washington Post Building
1915 L street NV.
Public schools in Prince Ed
ward County were closed last
September to avoid a Federal
court integration order.
Purpose of the meeting is to
get full information on the
crisis and engage in "co-ordi-
mated thinking and planning
Of what must and can be done
to resolve it" Miss Height said
Evening star., 1960-01-06

noted, would prevent before
hand any law suit contesting
the councils legal right to take
action in less than a three
month period after an election.
Councilman Lee M. RhoadS
suggested that a possible alter
native to the charter commit
tee proposal would be to con-
tinue the September begin
ming of council terms and de-
fer school board appointments
until the first council meeting
in September.
The council informally agreed
that the result of any refer
endum initiated by a petition
should be only advisory for the
council.
The charter committee rec
commended that Falls Church
citizens be permitted to force
a referendum by petition if the
council fails to act. The COM
mittee plan. however, did not
spell out whether the results of
the referendum should be bind
ing on the council.
City Manager Lewis 2.
Johnston raised the questioned
whether a on-binding refer
endum would be worth the
more than $1,000 a legal elec-
ton cost. He suggested that
a straw vote" referendum
might be more feasible and
much cheaper.
A formal public hearing and
final council action on the
charter changes is scheduled
for January IL. Revisions
adopted by the council must
receive final approval by the
state general assembly.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Falls Church Official
Questions Chorter Shift

Falls church City Attorney
Philip N. Brophy last night
questioned the advisability OF
city charter change proposals
aimed at ending lame duck
school board appointments by
the city council.
Mr.. Brophy stated his posi-
ton as the council met in
special session to discuss more
than dozen charter changes
recommended by the charter
revision committee. No final
action was taken by the council
Included in the recon-
mendations was a plan to
shorten from three to one OF
two months the gap between
the election and swearing-in OF
new council members. The new
council would then fill school
board vacancies, previously
named Just prior to the June
local election.
The city attorney stated that,
in his opinion, the council
change was mot unconstitu-
tional." However, he said, it
would in effect be a retroactive
law in that it would cut two
months of the terms of pres
ent council members and other
elected city officials. "Any
recommendation of this kind
if retroactive is contrary to the
basic legislative concepts of
this country" he stated.
Mr.. Brophy advised the coun-
Gil, if the change is made, to
enter a "declaratory Judgment"
suit in the circuit court and to
request a hearing on the suit
by the State Supreme Court of
Appeals. Such measures, he
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Sailor Fined,
Denoted for
Staying Wife

QUANTICO. Va. Jan. G
tAP).-A special court-martial
has denoted and fined a Navy
dental technician found guilty
of negligently shooting and
killing his wife at this Marine
Corps base last September %.
The court-martial, which met
in December, sentenced Harry
S. Marrero. 81. to be denoted
from dentalman to dental re-
cruit, and to forfeit SIS a
month in pay for three months,
the base public information
Office said today.
A sentence of three months
at hard labor was suspended.
Marrero was put on six months
probation.
The information Office quoted
Marrero as saying the fatal
shooting occurred after an ar
gument In his trailer home. He
said Mrs. Marrero picked up a
loaded .45-caliber automatic
and in the struggle that fol-
lowed the weapon discharged.
Mrs. Marrero. the former
Janice A. Baumb of Minneap-
oils. was shot in the left side.
She died two hours later at the
naval hospital here, where she
was taken after Marrero called
an ambulance.
The Marreros were married
here last February.
Marrero. who has since re-
turned to duty at his hospital
post. draws Sl05 a month plus
allowances in his reduced rank.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Child Formula Tells
How to Grow Geniuses

He admits, however, that not
all youngsters can, under the
best Of circumstances, become
geniuses. 1T is upon a ground
work of inherited ability that I
see the pattern operating" he
writes.
DR.. McCurdy's study of the
20 geniuses in any case raises
doubts about the desirability of
following in their footsteps.
Only specifically is genius IAN
enviable piece of luck" he says.
1T is actually a fatality which
exacts tribute from the possess
sor."
Some of the penalties include
broken health, isolation from
contemporaries and an abb
normal family life.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Cor, 2 Men
Sought in
Roqon Death

An Interstate police look
out was broadcast in the Wash
ington area today for a car and
two men sought in connection
with the murder Of Mrs. Hen
rietta Ragan in Leonardtown
Nd. last month.
The lookout seeks a 1e4s
black Plymouth. The car re-
portedly bore Tennessee tags.
Also sought are two men with
crew haircuts. The lookout de-
scribed one as tall with blond
or light hair. and the other as
short. 1t said both had a
rough appearance" and were
wanted for Investigation o.
homicide"
st. Marys County Sheriff
Robert Miedzinski said the
lookout was put out on the basis
of information received from
several persons about a car seen
in the Leonardtown area.
The sheriff said there is no
evidence yet whether the men
were responsible for the mur-
der, but said it was zone of
the new leads" that have de-
veloped in the month-long in
vestigation.
The body of the 44-year-old
widow was found strangled in
bed.
Sheriff Miedzinski said well
over 100" persons have been
questioned without producing
any real solution.
He added that the car sought
in today's lookout is not the
one seen parked in front of
Mrs. Ragan's home about 2 a m.
on the day her body was dis
covered. That was a light
green Ford. 1t has not been
located. the sheriff reported.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Man Ruled Insone Here
Is jailed in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 CSpe'
ciaD An escaped mental pa
tient from st. Elizabeths Hos.
pital in Washington who haC
been ruled insane in Distric1
courts was given a 10-yeal
sentence here yesterday fol
bank robbery.
Sentence was imposed on 40.
yeaH-old Charles P. Watts BY
Judge Anselm Sodaro. He
ruled that the defendant was
sane now and at the time oi
the robbery last October 2 un-
er Maryland's definition oi
sanity.
The court was told Watt,
had ground privileges" at st
Elizabeths and lad been drink
ing and using barbiturate'
prior to his escape.
Cites Hospital Security
Judge Sodaro commented
that jurisdictions which Judge
insanity by different standards
should provide mental hospi-
tails with sufficient security tc
protect neighboring jurisdic-
tions from escapes.
Under the Durham rule
test applied in the District, 9
defendant must be acquitted
by reason of insanity if hi,
act was the product of a menta
disease or disorder. The rule
resulted from a District Court
Of Appeals decision in the rob-
berry trial Of Monte Durham.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Modest Rise
In Taxes Seen
In Arlington

Arlington County Board
Chairman Herbert L. Brown
jr, has predicted a modest"
tax increase viii be needed
next year to finance a proposed
county improvements program
Additional funds will be re-
quired, he said, to help pay
for a recommended capital i'm
provements of more than $6.6
million.
Mr.. Brown told members of
the Arlington Civic Federation
last night he could not predic;
how much of an increase In
taxes would be necessary since
the proposed operating budget
has not been completed.
County Manager A. T. Lund-
berg said the capital improve
ments budget recommendation
probably will call for $l,142. 900
from current expenses and in
addition at least a SIS million
bond issue will be needed.
Referendum Urged
Mr.. Brown said he hopes q
bond referendum can be held
this summer to determine the
public's wishes on the proposed
improvements. If it cannot be
done by that time, he said, il
could be held in conjunction
with the November general
election.
There was no increase in
taxes in Arlington this year.
Arlington's r e ON m e n d e q
capital improvements program
includes roads, sidewalks, fire
stations. branch libraries, storm
sewers, parks, schools and other
projects.
Mr.. Brown said the program
would be financed over several
years both with annual pay
as-you-go" ALLEGATIONS, such as
the $l.l million recommended
| for next years budget. and with
bond money.
In preparation for the coun-
tvs improvements program, a
committee of county and school
officials recently completed a
fiscal study that showed Ar
lington can afford to spend
about $50 million during the
next 10 years. OF that amount,
SIS million would be included
in the budgets and $36 million
would come from bond issues.
II Per Cent Increase Seen
The study forecast an over
all TAX increase OF II per cent
during the next decade accom-
plished in small annual raises.
which would pay for the i'm
proved county service.
County Board member DR..
Lucas Blevins, who also spoke
to federation. said he favors
the capital improvements pro-
gram but is concerned with
the amount of taxes that will
be necessary to finance it."
He suggested more revenue
can be derived from allowing
more high-rise apartments to
be built in the county and by
re-zoning more land for COM
mercial usuage.
Evening star., 1960-01-06

meeting Of its executive COM
mittee last night.
Mr.. Kern today sent a tele-
gram to Earl Williams, traffic
engineer for the Montgomery
County Department of Public
Works. asking for replacement
of the signs. which were re-
moved from many intersections
in the Wyngate area on the
theory it is safer without them
The telegram declared:
I'm view of alarming in
crease in accidents and near
accidents resulting from your
stop sign experiment. in part
due to lack Of any prior notifi-
cation to area residents, the
Executive Committee of Alta
Evening star., 1960-01-06

The test of insanity applied
in Maryland courts is whether
a defendant knows the diff.
ference between right and
wrong.
Alcohol Problem Admitted
DR.. Winfred Overholser, su-
perintendent of st. Elizabeths
Hospital, acknowledged today
that some patients get access
to alcoholic drinks and this
has been a problem at the
hospital.
Liquor can be brought in by
patients having city privileges
or by visitors. When violations
are discovered patients lose
their privileges, he said.
Although he has no knowl-
edge of any incidents involving
barblturates, he said, it is con-
ceivable some could be SNUG
gled into the hospital grounds
in the same way.
DR.. OverholSer noted that all
patients acquitted of criminal
charges by reason Of insanity
are first housed in maximum
security facilities. Watts was
placed in security quarters
when he entered the hospital.
However, upon improvement
the patients are given more
freedom as part of their reha-
bilitation, he said.
Accused of d. c. Holdup
Watts. a former paratrooper
from Caroline County, Va, was
charged with staging a $3,l0O
bank holdup in the District
after fleeing from st. Eliza
beths in September, and with
robbing branch bank in Balti-
more of $4,l35 several days
later. He was tried here yes
terday on the Baltimore charge
District authorities have
placed a detainer against him
for the holdup of the Bright
wood branch of the Bank Of
Commerce.
Watts was committed to st,
Elizabeths in 1858 after his
acquittal by reason of insanity
on a series of bad check charges.
Watts attorney pleaded in
sanity for the defendant, as
serting the prior insanity ruling
in Washington showed Watts
to be suffering from alcoholic
psychosis."
DR.. Evelyn Nelson Of the
Baltimore Medical Department
testified that Watts is a "Socio-
pathic personality" but legally
sane under Maryland law.
Judge Sodaro said he was
not criticizing st. Elizabeths
Hospital. but urged that juris-
dictions using the Durham
rule provide sufficient security
to prevent persons from going
to neighboring areas.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
DC-7 Lands SufeIY
Alcohol Problem Admitted

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (AP)
- An Eastern Airlines DC-7
passenger plane with SO per-
sons aboard made a precau-
tlonary landing at Langley Air
Force base in Virginia early
today after one Of its four
propellers went out of control,
the airline reported.
The airliner was en- route
from Miami to New York.
Evening star., 1960-01-06

Vista -Wyngate Citizens Associ-
alton on January 5 unanimous
ly agreed to request you to re-
instate all stop signs in their
former positions without delay
pending further study and ex-
planation of the project"
Evening star., 1960-01-06

Dining carts roll down the spacious aisle at
meaItlme 2 hostesses, stewards staff every
TOT IntercontlnentaI flight.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Allied Civic MEETING

The Montgomery County AL
lied Civic Group will hold a
special meeting at 7:45 pm.
tonight in the Perpetual Build
ing Auditorium, 871O Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring, to dis
cusS the county school boards
budget, revision of subdivision
regulations and conflict of in
terest" proposals.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
Jurist Has Operation

NORFOLK, Va. Jan s (AP)
u. S. District Judge Walter
E. Hoffman had a kidney stone
removed yesterday in DePaul
Hospital.
He is expected to return to
the bench early next week.
Evening star., 1960-01-06
End Sofety Test, Return
Stop Sign, County Told

citizens asked today that stop signs be replaced
without delay in the Bethesda subdivision where they
removed in test aimed greater traffic safety.
The from John K Kern president of the Alta
Wyngate Terrace Citizens Association after special
Evening star., 1960-01-06

The test of insanity applied
in Maryland courts is whether
a defendant knows the diff
ference between right and
wrong.
Arizona tribune., 1960-01-22

Homemade pork sausage is a
sure hit at every breakfast table.
1t can now be, yours in a few
moments notice. Here's how
Take fresh pork trimmings,
pork shoulders or loins and cut
into small cubes, mix about IS
fat trimmings with 2s lean
trimmings. To make a mild fla
vored sausage, use 1 OF. of Sau-
sage Seasoning to A pounds of
meat, for more highly seasoned
sausage use l OF. of Sausage
Seasoning to 3 pounds of meat.
Three level tablespoons equal 1
OF. of Sausage Seasoning. After
the meat and Sausage Seasoning
have been thoroughly mixed, put
the meat through meat grinder,
using either a 3/16th or a 1/8th
hole plate, depending on whether
a coarse or fine textured sausage
is desired.
Sausage meat may be made
into rolls, placed in the refrig-
orator and, when chilled, sliced
into patties as needed, or it may
Arizona tribune., 1960-01-22
How To Make Your Own Pork Sausage

be stuffed into castings.
Morton Sausage Seasoning is
complete mixture, which con-
tains the finest spices, sage, pep
pers, and other seasoning in
gradients blended with salt in
exactly the right proportions to
make the most delicious sausage
you ever tasted. 1t is ready to
use just as you receive it.
You do not have to guess, mix
or add any ingredients. Sausage
Seasoning that is prepared for
you, is easier to use, it saves
time and disappointments, and
enables you to get the same orig
inal delicious f1avor-the same
tempting taste every time.
Sausage Seasoning is packed
in 10 OF. cans. 1t may be pur-
chased at your local meat curing
products dealer, or if unavail-
able locally, it may be ordered by
sending one dollar, check or Mon
ey Order, to the Morton Salt
Company, Box 781, Chicago 90,
Illinois.
Arizona tribune., 1960-01-22
The Picture Of Health
BY Robert A. Arens. ND.
the PUBLIC, THE DOCTOR AND x-RAY

A popular writer not long ago
devoted himself to the subject of
x-rays and the family in one of
the national magazines. He made
the point: if you need x-rays,
your best assurance of safety is
to have them made by a specialist
in radiology, a physician trained
to use all the safeguards.
Another point: x-rays to be
made of the young, who are still
to have children, should be done
with special care to protect the
reproductive organs from avoid
able radiation. (There is always
the possibility of a genetic change
which, if it's bearer married some
one with exactly the same genetic
change, might be passed on to
descendants. 1t could-once in a
while-be an Improvement, but
since the chance is random it
most likely would show up as a
greater predisposition to illness,
a slightly shorter life, or the
like.)
A third point the writer might
have made, but did not: since a
sensible amount of x-ray is nec-
essary for proper medical dag
nosis, it is now more important
than ever to limit and control un-
necessary radiation from indus
try and other man-made, non
medical sources.
The doctors responsibility for
using the potent and necessary
tool of radiation is to do the very
best job for the least exposure.
particularly genetic exposure OF
the young. Sometimes that medi-
cal effect is in the diagnosis of ill
ness, illness which could be far
more dangerous to the patient
than small amounts of radiation.
Sometimes the desired end is the
treatment of disease by radia-
ton. Always the doctor must
weigh the predictable good to be
done against possible hazard.
And the patient must realize, as
he usually does, that it is a pre-
dictable, often a life-saving, good.
Arizona tribune., 1960-01-22

= D AA
Something to think about:
The number of times an
average teenager says no to
Temptation is once weakly.
Evening star., 1960-09-28
Driver Killed
As Auto Burns
In MONTGOMERY

Samuel c. McFann, 20, was
killed and a companion in
jured last night when a car
overturned and burned on the
Spencerville road near Burtons-
vile in Montgomery County.
Mr.. McFann, who lived on
Mink Hollow road, Howard
County, was listed as driver Of
the car which, police said, went
out of control on a curve al
Peach Orchard road.
Miss Louise Hill, IT, of Brook
vile, a passenger in the car
was admitted to Montgomery
County General Hospital al
Sandy Spring in fair condition
with undetermined injuries.
Police Pvt. George Fusco sale
James Gessford, %, of Laurel
another occupant, was stunned
in the accident but recovered ir
time to pull Miss Hill from thC
wreckage before the fire spread
Mr.. GeSSford was treated a
the hospital and released.
Evening star., 1960-09-28

the Interior Department. At
one point. a spokesman said
the department could not go
along with the statue idea be-
cause of the feeling that
Washington was being turned
into a cemetery of statues to
great men.
But when the professor ex-
planned what was behind the
move-the attempt to Offset
Moscow's manner of remem-
bering Shevchenko-he got the
needed approval.
In the House, Representa-
tives Bentley, Republican, and
LesinSki, Democrat of Michi-
gan, and Representative Jones,
Democrat of Missouri, worked
for the bill. In the Senate,
groundwork was handled by
the two Republican Senators
from New York, Javits and
Heating, and Senator Green,
Democrat of Rhode Island.
During the adjournment for
the two conventions, DR.. Do
briansky worked up some ma
terial on Shevchenko for men,
Evening star., 1960-09-28
President, Herter
Praise Police for
Job During U. N.

NEW YORK, Sept. % (AP).
Some foreign leaders may
not like the way New York po-
lice, are handling security ar
rangementS during the United
Nations General Assembly seS-
sion, but others do.
President Eisenhower and
Secretary Herter, to name two.
In separate letters received
yesterday by Police Commits
sioner Stephen P. Kennedy.
Mr.. Eisenhower and Mr.. Herter
praised the police for doing a
good job.
The letters were in marked
contrast to complaints from
some of the visiting world lead
ers, mainly from Communist
countries and Cuba.
The President complimented
Mr.. Kennedy on "the splendid
arrangements" made by police
for his first visit here last week.
He said he marveled at the way
his visit was so efficiently
handled"
I'm my opinion" wrote Mr..
Herter. your officers have been
scrupulous in carrying out the
obligations which this country
has to provide for the safety of
U. N. delegates"