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Evening star., 1960-05-20
Officer Facing Action
In Rape Case Resigns

One of four Washington po-
licemen. acquitted of rape and
sodomy charges against a 81
year-old woman, today re-
signed from the force. The po-
licemen were facing trial board
action.
Pvt. Graham B. Pennington,
"a, submitted his resignation
to Deputy Chief Lorraine T.
Johnson. Two others were at
police headquarters for ques-
tioning as a board of three
ranking officers prepared d
charges against them for trial
board action.
Police officials indicated q
resignation, such as Pvt. PEN
nington's. ends any action the
department might have con-
templated. 1t is not known
whether the other three plan
to resign or face the trial board
on charges expected to be
along the general lines of con-
duct unbecoming officers.
Man Also Acquitted
The other officers, all at
tached to the ninth precinct,
are Pvt. Bobbie R. Campbell,
80; Owen w. Cunningham, 80,
and Raymond F. Vernon, jr.,
80. The policemen, all white,
are suspended pending trial
board action.
Meanwhile, a rape charge
against a man, accused by the
same woman who had said the
four Metropolitan police officers
raped her, was dismissed today
at District Court on Govern
ment motion. The policemen
were acquitted yesterday on a
directed verdict by Judge
George L. Hart. jr.
The man involved in today's
action is William H. Smith, 81,
of the 4700 block Of Alabama
avenue Sc. Both he and the
woman are colored.
Evening star., 1960-05-20

The move for dismissal was
made by Assistant United
States Attorney Arthur j. Nc
Laughlin before Chief Judge
David A. Pine, who granted
the motion.
Without mentioning the po-
licemen, at whose trial the
woman testified, Mr.. Laughlin
told of her having testified al
another trial"
No Force Indicated
He said that during the
woman's testimony at the
other trial" she did not indi-
cate at any time that Smith
had used force or that she had
made an outcry or that Smith
had a weapon.
Also, Mr.. Mclaughlin said a
physician found no bruises and
that at no time was it indicated
that her act with Smith was
not voluntary.
Yesterday, Judge Hart grant
ed the directed verdict for the
four policemen on grounds that
the testimony of the woman
would not warrant the officers
convictiont
The woman had told police
that Smith was raping her in
an automobile when officers ar
rived on the scene last Feb
ruary. The woman had claimed
the four policemen also had
raped her.
Evening star., 1960-05-20
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diagrams and tips on how you do the same thing
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Evening star., 1960-05-20
The
Rambler
Gets to
PimIico
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Tomorrow will see the s4th
running of the Preakness, a
Maryland event comparable
to the spawning of the shad.
The Rambler got to Pim-
lico yesterday, and at this
writing Ton a borrowed type
writer in the press box on
the roof Of the grandstand)
he is filled with a confusing
accumulation of the facts of
the past and no idea about
the future.
Except for one thing: Bally
Ache, the cofavorite, will 60
to the post at a disadvantage.
Last week he was sold for
$1.25 million.
Don't ever think that
horses are entirely unaware
of such important things as
change of ownership and
any optimistic ideas of their
value.
Although this horse has
earned $543, ,527 chats gross,
not nett in the first year and
a half of his racing career,
it is hard to understand how
he is worth a million and
more.
His IriSh-bred sire never
won a race longer than six
furlongS three-fourthS of a
mile). But his American
mother has brought him one
distinguished ancestor: He is
a great-grandson of Man O.
War.
An interview with Bally
Ache was not encouraged,
and that's understandable.
The Rambler is inclined to
talk too much.
Evening star., 1960-05-20
Safe Driver
lnsurunceFee
CutApproved

Two plans that could save
some District motorists up to
nearly 80 per cent on their car
insurance have been approved
by the District Insurance Super
intendent and will go into ef-
feet June /.
A similar plan will go into
effect in Maryland on the same
date.
c. w. Harris. deputy insur-
ance commissioner for Virginia.
said his Office is interested in
the plan but there are many
problems we have to work out
first before taking definite &C
ton"
Ratings Proposed
One plan calls for a rating
system for careful drivers. If a
motoriSt kept a clean slate for
three years his insurance pre-
miums would be trimmed about
Is per cent.
Under the other provision, a
single limit package coverage
policy. including liability, COL
lision, and comprehensive, could
trim premiums up to IA per
cent.
The plans were developed by
the National Bureau of Cas-
ualty Underwriters and the
National Automobile Under
writers Association, two ma
tional rating organizations.
Albert F. Jordan. District in
surance superintendent, said
any of the 22O companies affili-
ated with the two rating or
ganizations who write insur-
ance in the District could use
the plans.
Extent Uncertain
He said he was unable to say
how many motorists it will af-
feet because companies are not
obligated to use the plans. He
also pointed out that many
companies who write auto in
surance in the District are not
affiliated with the two organi-
cations.
Mr.. Harris said the major
problem in Virginia is the cost
and administration of handling
drivers accident records which
would be required under the
plan.
I'VE just don't have the
money nor the space to handle
all that paper work now. But
we aren't giving up hope" he
said.
Evening star., 1960-05-20

proper police action after he
was shown the pictures.
Scheduled to sit or the-board
under the chairmanship of
Deputy Chief Robert S. Bryant
are Capt. Dan B. Kennedy of
the seventh precinct and Capt,
karol L. Kratochvil of the
sixth precinct.
Inspector Layton said Pvt.
Merward was single at the time
he met the strip-tease dancer
at the motel. The policeman
has been married about a year,
he said.
Evening star., 1960-05-20
Officers Ousted, Front Royal Local
Fiqhts Union Ban on School Aid

I for transfer to all-white ele-
mentary school classes.
At present, the Negroes. who
made their applications on
forms supplied by the National
Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, are
pondering a directive from the
School Board that the requests
must be re-filled on State pu-
pill placement forms.
| The other new development
is the coming election of a new
Front Royal Mayor and selec-
ton Of two new Council men,
berS.
On June IA, citizens will
vote in an election that cannot
help but have some school de-
segregation implications, al
though few admit this openly
at the present time.
Candidates for Mayor
The three candidates for
Mayor are:
Hugh d. Mccormick, q pres
ent council member and presi-
dent of the Warren County
Educational Foundation, the
group that operates the private,
segregated high school.
w. Douglas Blanton, a de-
partment store owner, who says
he's strictly impartial" be-
tween the private school and
the public high school.
IF I'm elected, I wouldn't do
anything to hurt either one, "
he said.
Forrest Swanson, a speciality
advertisement seller, who is an
avowed segregationist. He says
it would eliminate all the
trouble" If the Negro students
would quit attending the pub
lie high school.
There are six candidates for
the two council seats. The list
includes persons said to have
many differing opinions on the
school question.
A leading backer of the pri-
vate school said some of his
associates are eager to get into
the election race but haven't
done so yet.
I'm afraid we might pick up
more enemies than friends if
we did," he said.
Evening star., 1960-05-20

in an education. have elected
to attend the public school"
Enrolment at the public
high school is increasing.
School Supt. @. D. Gasque said
593 students will attend the de-
segregated school in September.
In addition, he said. so per
cent of the 7th graders plan
to move on to the high school
next year. compared with 43
per cent last fall. About 40
pupils now attending public
schools outside the county will
return in SEPTEMBER, he said.
Athletic Program Due
Other changes at the public
high school this fall will in
clude restoration of athletic
programs on a voluntary basis.
Mixed social activities, also
h allied when deSegregation
came, are still a long way of.
At the private school, pre-
registration has showed that
virtually all the students elig-
ible plan to attend again next
year. Mr.. Sunderlin said.
Private school hackers hope
to have the new building ready
for them.
H. H. NARROW, president of
the corporation formed to build
the private academy, said the
loss of the union funds will not
hold up construction, scheduled
to start next week.
He said the corporation al
ready has received $85,000 from
bond sales. While the building
will cost $3.50. 1000 in all, private
school hackers plan to start
construction with what they
have.
New IntegratiOn Sought
Residents in Front Royal
don't mind talking about the
union battle or plans for the
new private school, but are
close-mouthed about two other
developments that could burst
into hot controversy at any
time.
One is the recent application
by II new Negro students for
entry into the schools. Four of
the requests are for transfer to
already-desegregated Warren
County High School. Seven are
Evening star., 1960-05-20
IT WAS WONDERFUL to

IT WAS WONDERFUL to
get away from persons
aghaSt at the collapse of the
summit and mingle with
throngS of optimiStS holding
81 win tickets.
Pimlico will never be the
most beautiful track in
America. 1t will never COM
pare with Saratoga or Della
ware Park. But it was at its
beautiful best yesterday.
The recent rains had the
infield and the turf course
in emerald hue. There are
groves of splendid trees in
new leaf outside the fence,
as well as row houses and
SupermarketS.
Baltimore has grown up
to and around this second
Oldest American track. (Sar-
atoga is the oldest..)
It doesn't matter. The old
club house is an important
mid-19th century American
antique. Unlike its contem-
poraries, the Grand Union
and United States Hotels at
Saratoga, which have been
razed, this relic of the
"gilded age" will be pre-
served.
The cupola is crested with
a weather vane-a jockey on
a horse, of course. One of the
traditions of the PreakneSs
is that the colors of the
winning owner are painted
on the jockey.
Evening star., 1960-05-20

FOR YEARS-A MAN
named George Dragoo has
been up there during the
running of the race with all
the necessary colors' for the
silks of all the jockeys in
small paint pots hung on his
belt.
Before the announcer calls
the result Official" Joe has
the winners colors on the
weather-vane jockey. Hasn't
he ever had to repaint? No,
because in the 83 runningS
of the PreakneSs no claim of
foul ever has been lodged
against the winning horse.
A notebook for press, radio
and TV, prepared by Charles
Johnson, the tracks very
able and very youthful pub
licity man, contains a wealth
of information about the
race. The Rambler found
himself converting into the
familiar figures of auto
mobile speed-miles per hour
the remarkable record run
of Nashua in the PreakneSs
of 1855.
Pimlico is a mile track.
Nashua went around it in
1:35 and 35. That's only two
seconds slower than the
world record mile held
jointly by Swaps and, Inten-
tionally. A one-minute, 30
second mile is yet to be run.
That would be 40 miles an
hour.
No one in his right mind
would want to drive his
automobile around the tight
turns of the Pimlico track
at 40. Yet the horses are
going almost that fast. It
will give you an idea of how
difficult it must be to hold
the rail and not swing out
and give horses behind an
opportunity to come through
on the inside.
After that near-re record
mile, Nashua still had 3/16
of a mile to go. He speeded
up and made those last three
sixteenth poles, so help me,
at a rate of almost As miles
an hour.
Evening star., 1960-05-20
Arlington ReIaxes
School Fund Curbs
Gets Assurance
Kindergurtens
Will Be Opened
By JOHN BARRON 3
Star stan Writer

Assured by the school board
that kindergarten programs
would be started this year, the
Arlington County Board last
night reversed its decision to
appropriate money expressly
for them.
The county board acted after
the school board in a separate
meeting hurriedly passed a
resolution promising inaugura-
ton Of kindergartens.
The county board voted 4 to
l to spread the $277 900 needed
for kindergartens over several
categories in the $14 million
school budget.
In adopting a $31.9 million
combined county and school
budget Wednesday night. the
board made IL specific alloca-
tions of school funds. One was
for kindergartenS.
This method of appropria-
ton, which never has been in
voked before, requires school
authorities to use money only
for the purpose designated.
In its resolution last night,
the School Board said:
Creation of a special appro-
priation category for kinder
gartens would unnecessarily
segment and complicate ac--
counting procedures and
constitute an undesirable prec-
edent -.
THE School Board wants to
and will inaugurate a kinder
garten program in 1960-61 if
the cut in its operating budget
does not exceed $l50,000."
Keep IL CategOries
The county board disregarded
another School Board plea that
all funds be appropriated only
according to three broad cate
gories. as they have been in the
past. Following advice of Com
Attorney William
j. HasSan, it kept the other IL
specific categories.
Chairman Herbert Brown
contended that the 18th should
be retained.
"At no time has the school
board Internationally guaran-
teed that the kindergarten
it recommended would
be put into effect" he said.
Il think it is fair to infer
that the action of the county
board last night provoked the
action of the school board to-
night.
Il have no desire to run the
schools or interfere in their
administration. But I think
when there is talk of the re-
sponsibility of School Board
members, it is quite appropriate
to talk of the responsibility Of
County Board members"
1858 Law Cited
Dispute about how to make
school appropriations produced
prolonged dispute among board
members Wednesday.
Mr.. Hassan, after a con-
ference with Attorney General
AlbertiS Harrison, told the
BOARD that in accordance with
\ 1858 law ALLEGATIONS should
De made by category.
Ernest Wilt and DR.. Lucas
3levinS on Wednesday adopted
The position that the board
had no choice but to comply
With Mr.. Hassan's interpreta-
ion of the law and aligned
themselves with Mr.. Brown.
They changed their votes
asst night with regard only to
he kindergarten category.
Evening star., 1960-05-20
BY DANA BULLEN
Star Stan Writer

| SNeA SeNA "AAReA
FRONT ROYAL, Va, May 20.
Textile union members in
this Virginia community re-
main stymied today in their ef-
fort to give financial aid to a
private. segregated school.
With its funds frozen and
its officers relieved by the Tex
tile Workers Union Of America,
Local 37l is virtually powerless.
The controversy concerns the
locals attempt to buy $4,000 in
construction bonds for the pro-
posed Front Royal Academy.
The local. which has $50 Negro
members, has been a steady
hacker of separate schools ever
since Warren County's school
desegregation crisis began.
At a closed-door hearing yes
terday at the union hall, local
members battled charges that
their actions violate the TWUA
national constitution.
Hits Interference
Charles E. Leadman, presi-
dent of the local for Is years
and its spokesman at the hear
ing, took issue with a national
union policy that favors racial
integration.
1--WE consider that what's
good for the union in New
York may not be good for the
union in Warren County" he
said.
Mr.. Leadman said the TWUA
constitution does not give the
union the right to interfere
with the manner in which we
spend our money"
Local 371 repeatedly sends
half its income, about $35, 900,
to the national each year. It
wants to decide for itself how
to spend the other half of the
money, officials said.
This is a right that we be-
lieve we have" Mr.. Leadman
said.
Wesley w. Cook, TWUA
regional director, disagreed.
He argued that the locals ac-
tions were a diversion of union
funds for nonunion activities.
Victor Canzano, national vice
president, who presided at the
hearing, said the ruling would
be up to the TWUA Executive
Council, which meets in Chi
cago on Monday.
He said the council should
act on his report by the end of
the week, in time for an appeal
to the national convention
which opens May 80 in Chi
cago.
May Go to Court
Mr.. Leadman said the local
will press its protests as far as
possible within the union and
perhaps go to court if neceS-
Sary.
Observers said the union
clash in Front Royal could
have widespread repercuSSions.
Nearly a third of the member
ship of the giant textile union
is in the South. The Front
Royal local alone has almost
1000 members.
While union leaders argued
back and forth, students from
the private school waited out
side the union hall. They
weren't interested in the de-
bate; they wanted to finish
decorating the hall for their
junior senior prom tonight.
Sixty seniors are to be
graduated June Is. About a
dozen of these hope to go to
college, according to Glenn E.
Sunderlin, principal of the
private high school.
In comparison, desegregated
Warren County High School
will graduate 46 this year. OF
these. q are planning to go to
college, school officials said.
There are no Negroes in the
graduating class.
Claims Finer Students"
Robert Wood, principal of the
county high school. said the
figures are indicative of what
we have felt all along. that the
! finer students. those interested
Evening star., 1960-05-20
Festival at Spingorn

Growing of a queen, dane
ing and a variety show will be
features of a festival which
will be held at 8 o'clock to-
night at Spingarn High School,
twenty-sixth and Benning
road NE.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Big International Trade Fair
To Open in Japan Next Month

the displays are breathtaking.
Tenjin Festival July IS at
Osaka: This is a river carnival,
with fireworks heralding more
than 100 boats floating down
the river through the city. They
are decorated with flags and
colorful dolls and carry mu-
sicianS.
Bean Throwing Ceremony:
Each February 4 people visit
temples and shrines and then
throw beans at house entrances
and at dark corners of each
room ITO cast out the devils"
Cherry Blossom Season: Each
spring, when cherry blossoms
appear, nature lovers by the
thousands crowd areas noted
for the trees and stage delight
full ceremonies.
Buddha's Birthday, April 8:
Highlight Is the pouring of
sweet tea prepared from n.y.
drangeas on images Of Budda.
Emperors Birthday: On this
day, April 20, and on New
Years Day, the public may
enter the Imperial Palace in
Tokyo by way of the Nijubashi
Bridge and write their names in
a visitors book.
Grand Festival of the Tos-
hogu Shrine at Nikko: Each
May IT there is gala parade
of more than 1000 persons
wearing helmets, swords, and
spears and carrying banners.
Lantern Festival of the Ka-
suga Shrine at Nara August Is:
Some 5000 lanterns are lighted,
with a picturesque result.
Tourists can determine which
festival will be underway during
their visits and make plans to
attend. Reference books list all
major attractions by dates and
give interesting background
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

largest and gayest of the year
The "Shiman-R okusen-Nichi y
or the $4,000 Day Service OF
the Kannon Temple in Tokyo:
The people believe that visits
made that day to that temple
viii earn them the same reward
as If they attended for $4,000
days.
The Naomi Matsuri," OF
Horse Festival, July lib:
More than 1000 horsemen, clad
in armor and helmets, escort
shrine palanquins along a long
pine-tree avenue. Then they
scatter on a wide plain and vie
with each other in attempting
to catch three shrine flags shot
up into the air.
The Feast of Lanters, July
13-l5: This is observed Dy
Buddhists in memory of theil
dead and in the belief that they
will revisit them at this time
Lanterns flicker throughout the
ceremonies and a welcoming
fire is set up before the house
ITO guide the guests home"
The Gion Festival at Kyotc
July 1924: This dates from the
9th century and features gor-
geous floats.
The fireworks display on the
Sumida River in June: At night
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

Visitors from all over the
world are expected to travel to
Japan this year to visit, among
other things, the international
Trade Fair, held every other
year in Osaka. This years fair,
the fourth held, win be the
largest ever staged in the East.
II is scheduled to open next
month.
Among features of the Fair
viii be opening of the Perman-
ent Exhibition Hall and utiliza-
ton of the Municipal Athletic
Field for display purposes. An
other feature is opening of
Dojima Fair Grounds to be
housed in the five-story build
ing of the Osaka international
Trade Center. The Center was
founded by the collaboration of
influential manufacturers, ex-
porters and industrialists in the
Koba-O saka-Kyoto area.
Visitors to the Trade Fair
will find every day is festival
day in Japan. For example,
there are the Peiron boat races
at Nagaski in June: The boats
look like ancient whaling YES
sells, and beat gongs and drums
as the crew pulls on the oars.
The Sanno Festival in Tokyo
June 14-16: This is one of the